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Wouldn't lowering the minimum wage require raising taxes to pay for social services? The minimum wage is not a living wage in many parts of the US.
My first job coding was in Tcl/Tk. it was a vendor system for trading,accounting and only supported Tcl/Tk even for APIs. It was fun. I had never heard of Tcl before that.
Good point. I have also successfully experimented with this in the past.
i just tried this. it worked very nicely.

but i'm someone who still reads email via a terminal program and composes the message in emacs.

so for someone like me, this works great (and i was impressed by the parsing - i didn't try to make your life easy, but you extracted exactly the right data).

but i am not sure i have many uses for it. i suspect people that do have uses also care about branding crap, html mess and the like... but, again, for me, it rocks.
To me, this seems highly unlikely to be anything but hyperbole. Anyone else have a view on this?
This is cool and is way more than I could do; though, as a nitpick, when I see "Pure CSS3" I don't expect to find PNGs in the source.
Ask HN: What's the site name where you answer misc tweet questions?
That's a good point, but "Apple maps being bad" is not only experienced by users, but it's also a meme that's swept through the media as well.

Don't forget how valuable it is to be at the top of the "free apps" section in the app store, too. If/when people discover the app, they might like it more than the default app.
Specifically since this person mentions that he's "active, extraverted [sic] and social." Which is not to say that such people will always hate working alone, or that people who enjoy it can't be those things, but it seems from his description that working alone is something he probably should have avoided or, now that that's impossible, do something to change.

I think the coworking environment in another comment is a great suggestion in that vein. Having worked in one of them for the better part of a year, for people who really just want to be around others while working, that's pretty ideal (aside from the relatively minor expense, but if that's something that's going to make you significantly happier, it seems likely to me that you could find one with a cost that makes it viable and worthwhile).

Edit: I've also been working from home, alone (cue Macauly Culkin), for years and love it.
Except that every time they can, Amazon reduces their prices. Any investor who thinks that they will at some point increase margins doesn't listen to what Jeff Bezos says: we're good at running low margin businesses, and that's what we will continue to do.
I can definitely empathize. A few years ago, I co-founded a startup with one of my close friends - except he had relocated to Shanghai and I in Virginia living with my parents to save on rent.

We talked or IMed every day, but it definitely wasn't the same as working with a co-located team. There's no grabbing lunch together or the occasional drinks after work. It definitely got lonely, and led to some unusual behavior.

By the end of the second week, I'd stopped getting out of my pajamas - it wasn't like I was leaving the house, so why bother?

We have a dog, who isn't allowed in the house, so I set up a desk in the garage and worked from there. I'd keep the garage door open all day, for natural light but also to let the dog run around.

I distinctly remember one afternoon, where I'm cranking away in my garage/office. Some neighborhood kids were cutting through our yard to get to the local basketball court, and they definitely paused for a moment to stare at the unkempt weird hermit guy, still in his pajamas, a bathrobe, and slippers, hacking away in the garage of all places.

Good times!
> Since they use the FreeBSD userland

...let's be very grateful they didn't rewrite everything from scratch...
I'm calling bunk on this one.

In this picture they have someone underneath the 'invisibility blanket' which they claim bends light around the person being concealed. How would the invisibility shield know what is beneath the person if the person is laying on the ground?

http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/hypers...
Hey Dustin, is this you on a second profile? Just curious ;)
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+1 for co-working. I occasionally work from a co-location workspace or a coffeeshop with local friends and hackers and it satisfies my need for human interaction without being too distracting.
About a month ago someone showed HN his new project that was a Q&A site, where you are given random tweet questions and have a set amount of time to give answers? I can't recall it and too general to google...
Interested to see how people rock GTD with Trello in practice - does anyone have a non-sensitive task list they could share?

How do you manage contexts? Do you have one board for work & home? Do you map it 1:1 to your kanban board at work?

I love Trello but I use it for my 40 000ft view of projects — if a card requires multiple steps I tend to turn it into a project in OmniFocus.
I have to ask: Are there voting blocks on HN?

As usual, the information inside of the extremetech article is a POS when compared to the linkbait headline. So looking at the submitter, I see exactly one comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=Libertatea

From that one comment, I'd take a guess that Libertea is not a native english speaker (or at least, speller.) So then you take a look at the other submissions, and they're pretty generic: http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=Libertatea

So maybe the poster, who has been on HN for all of 39 days, chose an article of penetrating insight as reported by extremetech, but it sure smells fishy.
This post hit close to home for me. I have had very similar work experiences as the OP (having done both a startup with two co-founders and management consulting), and found that the biggest factor is whether you are introverted or extroverted. He notes that he's extroverted, which is likely why he hates this method of work.

As an introvert, I don't mind long periods of alone time as long as it's occasionally punctuated by social events. However, I tend to avoid the local networking events like the OP described because I find them to be full of blowhards and vendors pushing a service (YMMV). Instead, I prefer smaller group gatherings with people I trust.

I'm trying to decide if my next startup is going to be solo or with co-founders, so this is weighing on my mind at the moment. I find that the biggest drawback of solo is the sense of loneliness, and I'm trying to balance that with the considerations of equity, creative control, etc.
For many years you could find thousands of SSNs on court and bankruptcy filings. The courts finally figured out that they needed to redact this stuff. However, in a lot of places the wrong part of the SSN is redacted. The last four digits are the digits that matter. The first 5 numbers are relatively easy to figure out if you have birth date and birth state.
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> Apple doesn't "owe" us anything.

That's the beautiful thing about BSD-style licenses. Once the code is out there, nobody ever has to reinvent the wheel for legal reasons again - only technical.
What's their ownership structure like? Do Jeff Bezos and friends control enough of the company that they can just go on, assuming that the profit will work itself out?
I switched recently and couldn't be happier. The bottom line is I find that Alfred is much faster. Other then that they're roughly equivalent.
Here is SICP author Hal Abelson's treatment of Tcl from yesteryear: http://philip.greenspun.com/tcl/

There are more legacy Tcl articles at "reddit.com/r/tcl".
Turing should be pardoned as a human victim of an unjust law, and his genius should have nothing to do with it. That said, there are more important fights for equality that affect living people right now than whether the British government officially pardons a dead man.
There will, I'm sure, be a lot of replies about how "I don't care about sports and you can't make me"- which is fair enough. This stuff is very subjective.

But the point made about disruption in sports is interesting- I've seen a ton of developers working on pick-up game organisers, and a few fantasy leagues, but nothing more significant than that. The locked-in nature of sports licensing makes it very difficult to 'disrupt' any sports franchise without the consent of the owner- I suspect that will continue to be a barrier.
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I should like sports because it could make me money. No thanks.
I guess many indie developers and freelancers with an office-work history have the same issue. If you have the time, an appropriate option might be to go back to school or do some postgrad studies.
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I use terminals, but not dumb terminals. I use terminal emulators on a modern OS on which I am able to install any editor I want. I have emacs/vim installed, but I use them maybe once every few months. There are better editors for what I do.
There is a difference between general human interaction and specifically having a peer working with with you on a common goal.
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Which 'german' style board games do you recommend for 2 people? It's often just my wife and I, and it seems like most popular eurogames are best with 3-4 people.
"We should assume that bigger pipes cost more money"

Why? The cost for running the fiber has already been paid.

"Cable seems to have no problem bringing movies through the old copper wires."

What companies choose to charge for old copper is irrelevant to how much of a profit one can make off of newer cable drops.
In the same vein, profit by itself does not give you a complete picture. Obviously, the reason some people are still investing in Amazon is because they believe (rightly or wrongly) that Amazon will grow in the future. There are some plausible reasons this might be true: Amazon has been spending heavily on long-term investments like the Kindle (sort of like the Xbox was for Microsoft, before the Xbox 360) and expanding cloud computing capabilities. Time will tell.
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For now, the original link is down, so check this out here http://tommy.authpad.com/don-t-copy-and-paste-other-people-s-code-write-it-out
Just out of interest... what was your successful startup? Why did that work and the others not?
They actually tend to like the Christmas rush. Temps, anyway. Gives a person without any alternatives on the market some decent cash, since this time has a lot of overtime hours available.
In this what Angel List does?
It's vaporware - and Photoshop
If newspapers were startups that were "pivoting" would you be as critical of their changes?
I think it's funny that Svbtle is both closed AND accepts 'kudos' points.

If the goal is to promote good quality posts, then it could be open, and only promote the top voted posts.

Or if this list of bloggers are so great at blog posts, why do they need these achievements adorning their posts?
What would keep me coming to this site?
Just for fun here are two charts.

(http://imgur.com/a/rUClo)

One chart shows the domains that have been posted by that user.

The other shows which users are posting that domain.

I'd agree that extremetech is a lousy lousy source.
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I totally agree, though obviously has to be particular games. I think the whole 4-controllers-1-tv formula works best here. Games like Mario Kart, Super Smash Bros., Bomberman, Goldeneye, Mashed/Wrecked/Micro Machines make for great times, although they provide a much more energetic vibe than boardgames, which may or may not be a good thing.

Also, LAN parties :).
Isn't email just an example of a fundamentally threaded medium, with emphasis on quoting in responses?
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Not at all. Angel List is for companies and angel investors or VC investors. This is for people who invest in projects like the Tesla Museum on Indiegogo or the Android-powered Ouya console on Kickstarter
I think that everyone should make a computer program with pretty much the same approach.
'It's basically larger more sophisticated apps, which is great and I am learning a lot.' - Please describe the issue here..
Same here! And I'm an outgoing person with more friends than most at my age and happily get along with most people socially.

However, if I've got my head deep in the code and some berk interrupts me with inane crap it feels like a physical slap in the face. I actually, physically "jolt". And this happens all the time in an office. So working from home by myself all day lets me focus on my work with no distractions, and I just make sure I get outside and meet people when I'm not working.
Take a look at http://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/67262/near-perfect-2-playe...

edit: for what it's worth the game my wife and I end up playing most of the time when we have 45 minutes to kill is Carcassonne: Hunters and Gatherers, which isn't on the list.
Dominion is great for two players, and has excellent replay value.

Settlers of Catan can also work well for two people. You just have the two players control two colors each. This preserves the competition for resources needed to make the game fun.

Edit to add: Race for the Galaxy is also one of our favorites, but we've house-ruled it a bit so that the military strategy is not a guaranteed win.
Not to nitpick on a trivial point but extrAverted is an accepted spelling alternative to extrOverted. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraversion_and_introversion
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Investors who believe in their CEO and are optimistic about the future. Imagine that.
I love this part:
'Do you know what happens in art school? There is a lot of big talk about the art you made and the art you are going to make and the historical context and words like “derivative” get thrown out there (everything is derivative), but when it comes to painting there is very little instruction. '

After working with a lot of professional artists I have come to find that Art school and MFA programs are all about giving you the words and eye for great art but has little to do with the actual techniques.

The words and eye should not be understated though. When you come across something beautiful it is really really hard to describe it in words that do it justice.
Which is actually a good argument for coworking spaces, regardless of which you're looking for, as they tend to attract both a variety of people/businesses and people like the author who are just looking to be around other humans. Of course, depending on your priority, it'd be ideal to check out whatever's in your area and see if there are such spaces that would cater well to your particular inclinations.
So, I like the idea of a Svbtle-like blogging platform (and recently launched a closed beta of something vaguely like this, but not really very like this at all), but I think that there are a few cases where this misses the point.

I think the signup page asks for far too much. First name, last name, email are fine, but then it asks for profession, icon, bio and a network color. I don't even know what a network color is, and I don't see that anywhere that it is explained.

The admin panel has a few inconsistent UI choices and I think falls victim to the notion that a simple color palette = minimalism. The writing panel is cluttered in my opinion, and doesn't seem to have had much thought put into it aside from copying what Svbtle has publicized. That isn't necessarily horrible as an MVP of course, but this doesn't show any improvement or uniqueness. That also isn't a crime, but I think that the changes made for the sake of being different were just that, and weren't evaluated for placement or use case studies.

This may seem overly critical, but it isn't intended to be so, but I think this shows telltale signs of being a copycat without having given much thought to the reasons WHY Svbtle is so appealing.

To paraphrase somebody (perhaps Kevin Smith) -- the reasons that most (movie) sequels fail are because they're copying the wrong thing. Most people look at Jaws and see a shark and a boat, but in reality, there's a love story there, there are ties of camaraderie, a tale of obsession, yadda yadda. Remakes capture the bit about the shark, and not much else, and I feel that's where this is falling down.

That isn't to say that it can't be turned around, but I recommend to the author to watch how people use it and try to make some decisions that aren't based on the Svbtle screenshots.

It's a good-looking project that shipped, and I feel like a lot of the criticism here isn't terribly constructive, and I hope that this is (but maybe it isn't). Grats to the author and good luck, but I think that the path to success is maybe a little more involved.
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"routinely mocked in the political blogosphere for commenting on every issue under the sun"

My impression is the opposite. He's intensely disliked by the firedoglake set for being insufficiently liberal and by conservatives because they are batshit crazy and he said something insensitive after Breitbart died.

As far as being mocked I don't think I've seen much outside of his basketball posts which can indeed be lawlworthy.
Wow, sounds like real fun to work there :)
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Seems from the comments that coding is an activity particularly well suited to working alone.
> First, the amount of conflict rises proportionally with the number of interactions between people. This means larger societies have more (superlinearly more) conflict than smaller ones, more active economies have more conflict than less active ones, and heterogenous societies have more conflict than homogenous ones.

What you are saying is reaonable and might be true in a lot of places, but Japan has 1/50 as many lawyers per capita as the US. It's also much, much more homogenous than the US, but can that explain 1/50? There has to be more than that.

> Second, different countries use different mechanisms to accomplish the same tasks.

Yes, and that is completely cultural, not structural. The US has chosen certain mechanisms, as a result of that choice more lawyers are needed than elsewhere, but if that burden becomes too heavy, many americans might start choosing differently, might start resolving disputes in a cheaper way.

I'll give you that heterogenity and being the hub for international financial transactions increases the need, but I still think culture plays a large part as well, and, to get back to the original argument, that means that the American Bar Association and similar have to watch out, they can't assume the demand for legal services to be boundless in the same way as it is for medical services.
Right, and one of the things he stresses is timing. Opsware was famously founded before a crash and figured out how to survive to the next bubble.

http://bhorowitz.com/2010/03/17/the-case-for-the-fat-startup...
I have been working from home for almost four years now. I don't consider my self an overly social person, but it's beginning to take a toll on me.

I live in a small city (~80k population) with absolutely no tech industry and don't have any close friends that are working programmers with similar interests. I tend to have a lot of ambitions, which make it even worse when you have no feedback system to discuss those ambitions.

Lately I've been considering applying for jobs in the Bay area, but I'm not sure I'm qualified enough to get a job worth moving my family for.
I use TCL in a consumer app that I develop, to allow users to load and run scripts that control the behaviour of the app. Its for controlling cameras (smart shooter), and actually I usually end up writing the scripts for my customers. But its amazing what you can achieve quickly and easily due to how flexible TCL is, users are amazing when I email back a custom script for some fancy HDR photo bracket the same day they request it!

And I myself am surprised at how many photographers have managed to write their own scripts, even non-programmers. I've been thinking about adding support for python as the scripting language, but I can't justify it just for been fashionable.
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Slight caveat.. determining longitude wasn't so much one of the biggest scientific problems of the time, as it was an important problem the solution of which offered great utility.

Longitude is indeed a great read but I'm pretty sure even the author would say she wasn't doing history (provides a pretty good bibliography though). So, it is not really the history or the entire story of the subject but a very good "dramatic" telling. Falls easily into the trap of "Sole Genius Persevering" tradition.
Should be easy to do; create a temporary directory, hardlink the files there, run the file manager on that directory, then delete the directory and links when it closes.

Something like:

mkdir "$HOME/.virtualdirs" 2> /dev/null
tempdir=$(mktemp -d -p "$HOME/.virtualdirs")
for file in $*; do
ln "$file" "$tempdir/$(basename $file)"
done
thunar "$tempdir" #replace thunar with your file manager
rm -r "$tempdir"

Ok, now that it works, you just need the other 999.75 hours to make it into a real application ;)
You have to be similarly careful with shell scripts.

$ a=ec
$ b=ho
$ $a$b "Hello World"
Definitely join a Co-working space. They are designed for this.

You may not be working directly with the people you interact with, but you are all working toward something, and that fact alone helps me be productive.

The diverse community and productive environment of any good coworking space have untold benefits beyond the obvious. Try it out for an extended time before you make any assumptions.
Just because a team is valued at $2.2bil doesn't mean there is $2.2bil worth of money floating around to be made. Yes, there is money to be made in Sports & Entertainment, but that approach is misguided.

To give you a better idea. EPL clubs brought in £2.3bil last year[1] but lost £361m. These losses are largely due to wages: "In total, £1.5bn was spent on wages by the 20 clubs in 2010-11 (including Birmingham's £38m wage bill in 2009‑10). That accounted for 69% of the clubs' total income, slightly up from the 68% of income the clubs spent in 2009‑10 on wages." So if you can somehow improve efficiencies for the other 31% of the costs then you could probably make some decent money. Sports is highly irrational when it comes to business.

[1]- http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/may/23/premier-leagu...
There are a great many people who do know what they are doing, but do not know what will necessarily be successful.

The newspaper industry is currently in a situation nothing like anything it's ever seen. So there's a lot of experimentation- which, yes, includes some failures along the way. If it helps, I'll start referring to it as 'pivoting'.