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Sell your TV and make it a conscious choice to not look at a screen past say 7pm.

I've been reading a minimum of one novel a week and from one to three tech/design/cooking/misc/etc books a month over the past 16 years. Sure there are exceptions, for example reading Game of Thrones took me at least two weeks per novel and the third book took me a full month.

Also, get a kindle. I don't read much technical books on it but it's a godsend for novels and not accumulating a bunch of paperbacks. Unless you don't enjoy reading as a pastime, in which case don't waste your time because you can actually burn out reading too much.
Hopefully, the "best I've read all year" implies he was speaking rather tongue-in-cheek (since, you know, new year and all).
Also, insurance for actual rentals from Budget/Avis for Zipcar members.
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I've started to build boilerplate to make writing books for different platforms easier. It sits on top of grunt.js and pandoc to make different file formats (.rtf, .mobi, .epub) possible. It also helps for the publishing process on leanpub.com.
I was reviewing some old deeds that a relative had. A particular inclusion of land was expanded (they transferred some land to expand a township cemetery). The deed before the transfer is specified relative to survey markers and such. The deed after the transfer gives the corners as lat/long coordinates.

I guess there is some room to argue about the representational accuracy of a chosen coordinate system, but it would take quite a bit of a crazy to keep on pursuing it (especially in areas where public roads already impinge on things far more than an inch or two).

Of course it would still be pretty pointless to engage in a wholesale conversion of all that information (and I guess the lat/long stuff isn't really metric...).
It must be fun to live in a world where everyone who disagrees with you is a moron.
Computer craft, which uses Lua for scripting, is by far the most popular. There's a ton of tutorials available for it on YouTube.
Even if possible, for me I think this setup would be a very painful experience with a slower CPU, low resolution display, and only 2GB RAM compared to what at least I'm used to, which is a Dell M4500 i7 with 8GB RAM, granted it did cost five times as much a couple of years back.
Hi Amit,
If I understand your question correctly, you want to understand how much to pay for wrapping your web app into a native app. If this is correct I would say the following:

Firstly, the App Store have guidelines that disallow the acceptance of beta software into it's App store. If your software is not ready for prime time then you shouldn't submit it to the App store. Secondly, I would serious rethink your motivations for doing so, if your product is not ready to launch then there are plenty of services that can get you beta testers for a low price e.g. http://www.betabait.com. Lastly, if it's a web app wrapping it into a cocoa web view for example, severely limits your ability to rapidly iterate.

Regarding cost, it really depends on the complexity of your web app. But the cost should be low - probably hundreds of dollars not thousands.
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I think you're mistaken. Ben wrote one article, Michael wrote the others, except for the CodeIgniter one.
There's a difference between "A vs. B" and "A vs. Not A"
I waited to respond to stay away from the people here who hate religion, as well as get sufficiently off the front page as not to derail the general antivirus discussion.

Karma is simply that: action. Physical actions are just like how we accept Newton's Laws of motion as science (in Cartesian, non-relatavistic, non-high-gravity). It can be tested to a high degree of certainty, and therefore requires heavy proof to overcome.

However the distinction with karma is application of Newton's laws to also human behavior. That includes equal and opposite reactions to emotions, thoughts, and efforts. Those who followed Hinduism accepted this idea as Karma. Wiccans know this as the Wiccan Rede and the threefold rule. LaVeyan Satanism's "Rules of the Earth" have some sembelance of 'do no harm to innocents'. Even Jews discuss this very topic with the positive form in Leviticus 19:18, whilst not discussing the basis for it (it's usual for Abrahamic religions to give commandments).

I think every religion has developed a wording of the same principal of Karma, but with slightly different wordings due to language and culture.

Most seem to get the idea of inertia. People tend to go the direction they were already headed towards, even if it is ruin. I've seen this time and again with people. It doesn't matter if you tell them: something with as much force has to get in their way. And most people get reciprocity, or "you get what you put out". Seems awfully similar to "For Every Action, there is an equal and opposite Reaction".
> The Canadians officially have metric, try buying a 250x125 sheet of plywood. Everybody will look at you as if water is burning.

Really? I picked up a 1.5m^2 sheet of aluminium for a project fairly recently (Australia). I have literally 0 idea what that is in feet/inches/furlongs.
Agreed, and just one of many false assumptions.

He assumes an early startup CEO must always have a later stage startup CEO skills ("you must have all 4 magic unicorn skillz"). During the early period, you need product execution first and foremost and not a lot of cash to do it. An engineer-turned-CEO is well equipped to wear the many hats to build a product on a budget. Once the startup starts hitting revenue strides, the startup can tap into advisors to fill the knowledge gap (but more than likely, the VC will try to replace the founder CEO with a "gray hair" anyway).

He ignore the fact there is an engineering scarcity. As the OP stated you can't "fake" being a CTO. You need fulltime engineering/product person focus throughout the startup's lifespan. However, once you are an established startup, even "experienced" CEO are a commodity. Contrast that to the dev landscape (OP already covers all the perks of an engineer's job because of said scarcity).

He assumes engineers who aspire to be founders are naive. The engineer background founders I know (ones who are actually doing stuff) are rarely disillusioned by how hard a startup is. If anything, they are overly risk-adverse being more inclined to make decision based on quantitative data.

What tickles me the most is the notion that engineers have had it so good and and are WAY too spoiled to become CEOs. Break out the violins.
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Not sure if House requires a runtime or not.

Deca has been... delayed by my continually having to revise its goddamned type system. Maybe if ECOOP says yes to me in February... or at least sends a rejection notice in which the reviews don't point out some unsoundness issue.
> the units allow for common use of integer multiples of simple fractions.

What does that mean? Isn't "use of multiples of fractions" a property of numbers in general?

> For some people, a simple fraction of a relatable unit really is easier to deal with than a base ten decimal

What's easier is what you're used to. That's the whole point.
I was an early and very active user of quora. I deleted my account when they mucked with privacy settings among other things.

I had a number of issues with the site: I think the UI is horrid. The site admins are complete dicks and they have a heavy censorship hand with no recourse. The ability to find various topics is difficult (it got better - but in the beginning it was abhorrent).

They are arrogant. They kept patting themselves on the back exclaiming how amazing their UI/UX was and effectively told people who didn't like it that they were too stupid to understand their methods.

I recently recreated my account to specifically ask Yishan some questions about reddit, and quora censored that post as well.

Personally, I think they are too arrogant and I choose not to participate.
Fair enough. This is being more or less mitigated by "file reputation" system though. It's pretty effective preventing user from accidentally running a suspicious file. This, and browser that sets the flag "downloaded from internet" on executable and ZIP files.
I've always been interested in having a cheap, replaceable and portable laptop like this as a dev machine, but the more I think about it the more I realize this is more like an iPad (i.e. for media consumption) than a dev machine. That is until we have some solid browser-based "cloud" IDE's.
done and thanks.
Road signs need to be very clear and instantly understandable. Adding a tiny delay to comprehension; a tiny bit of lack of attention to the road; could, when multiplied over the number of kilometres driven and number of drivers and time mean many deaths.

Whether that's acceptable or not is another matter, but it'd suck if "km/h KILLED MY FATHER" became a meme.

It is odd how some countries make massive national changes overnight. eg, Sweden:

(http://users.telenet.be/worldstandards/driving%20on%20the%20...)

> In 1955, the Swedish government held a referendum on the introduction of right-hand driving. Although no less than 82.9% voted “no” to the plebiscite, the Swedish parliament passed a law on the conversion to right-hand driving in 1963. Finally, the change took place on Sunday, the 3rd of September 1967, at 5 o’clock in the morning.

Leaving it until now has meant the UK would find it very hard to change.
That's an argument against counting in base 10, and it's a fair one. However, while we do count in base 10, metric is the way forward.

If you wanted, you could always count in 2 times, 12 times or 16 times the basic SI units.
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I'm broadly with you on this and upvoted both your comments, but I don't feel quite strongly enough to call him out. I find more and more that "hack" is used figuratively not only in the way you describe but also in the "hacking down a tree" or "hack writer" sense. Before everyone rushes in and says "this is Hacker News, we all know which version we mean", I'd like to point out how often the phrase "hacked together" is used to describe work in our field done in a somewhat scrappy or unpolished fashion that nevertheless gets the job done. If I'm to give him the benefit of the doubt, I think "I've hacked this productivity schedule quite a lot" is just about alright, but boldly describing it as "a hack" is a little too far.
I don't think that there is a need for the liberal use of swearing in a mathematics book ("shit" appears 5 times in your sample PDF alone, two of which are in the title). In my opinion, it makes it sound very amateur and unprofessional.

> "Check this shit out:"

Could be "Consider this example:"

> Now get ready for some crazy shit. Using your...

Now for something even more interesting. Using your...
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Interesting because for me it is showing up as $324 and not the famous $250 price. I am definitely buying one of these when it comes back in stock. I think I'll replace my Asus Transformer with a Chrome book and a Nexus 7
Arizona has some signs in Kilometers. [http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/15/us/15highway.html?_r=0]
I'd like to second this. You just can't ignore the multiplayer aspect of Minecraft. It's huge. Imagine if you put all the young developers on the same server and gave them access to this. They could write scripts to coordinate builds and cooperate with one another. You would need to make some adjustments to it though. You can't just place blocks without the player being in range. It would need an entire toolset to move the player. Imagine writing a script to harvest and replant a field of wheat. Or maybe a script to navigate a cave safely, killing mobs as they appear. This would really open up a world of potential. Look into Bukkit.
we're 3 years into the decade. lets review in 7 years, ok?
> Wouldn't that make the arc-minute the practical unit?

Yes. However, the earth is not a perfect sphere. The nautical mile is an average arc-minute.
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Another Canadian here (Maritimer). With temperature I find many people talk about the weather in Celsius but the temperature of their homes/thermostats in Fahrenheit. Swimming pools also measured in Fahrenheit.

Gym weights, except in Olympic lifting competition, everyone talks lbs.

While in the UK I noticed everyone measures weight in stone (1 stone = 14 lbs).
Actually, that's the reason that most international trade is done in dollars.
Why not phase things in, by having both measurements put on, for all new signs?

Exit 14 - 1 Kilometer (.6Miles)

Then, as the old signs wear out, eventually all signs are replaced.
Me too ! I held out and held out and held out and I think they even threw in 200 quid credit into the deal too after the streetcar-> zipcar takeover. I am a family chap and we used to be a 2 car house but that was just due to the occasional time where the missus was using the main car for work and we "needed" a 2nd car. I only use zipcar 10 times a year but it works well enough for me (apart from the nearest car being 2 tube stops away). I don't think Avis can rescind on this ??? I hope not anyway...
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My point is that changing the units doesn't have to change how you measure it. You can measure in kg or L just as easily, it's literally a number conversion. Whether or not you change how you measure it is a much more localised form of standardisation.
Where I live, owning a car would cost $150/mo for parking, another $100/mo for insurance, maybe $50/mo for gas, and maybe $300-400/mo for the car itself. That's $600-700/mo TCO, and that's before maintenance and repair, and I only get one type of car at a time rather than being able to upsize and downsize as required. If you only go over that by $150 in one peak month, and you're usually under it, you're getting fantastic value. For me, I break even compared to parking and insurance alone
It must be unpleasant to assume that everyone who disagrees with you thinks you're a moron.
Pretty! I had wanted to make something like this, but one feature I thought of and you didn't do: For the entered regexp, generate 20 random matches and show them to me.

Use case for this feature: You encounter an undocumented regexp in someone else's code and want get a few quick examples of what it matches.
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Neither beautiful nor a visualization really.

For the uninitiated, there's an isomorphic relationship between regular expressions (not PCREs which are way more complicated) and finite state automata proving that if you have a regexp you can generate a FSA for it, and visa versa.

What we have here is a system that generates a graph of the finite state automaton for any given regular expression.

Neat project, misleading headline.

edit: let me add more constructive comments. What is useful about things like rubular (http://rubular.com/ ) is the ability to see how a Regexp behaves with a given input. Where a finite state chart can be useful is giving users a better impression of the internal workings of a particular regular expression. Where rubular can indicate where a match can be found, it would be cool to have a tool like this if you can show the path a particular input would take (and possibly fail out on) through a given regular expression.
That's really neat.

My only suggestion is that it would be nice to have each regex diagram be separately addressable, by either putting the regex as a query param and yielding a raw image/svg/whatever, or by using a shortened url like a gist after saving.

Very nice work.
Why didn't you rent from a conventional rental company that month?
Car2go just seems like a drive-it-yourself taxi to me. If you have any need for that sort of thing it could even be a complementary service to Zipcar, but I would never use it as a replacement.
The success of the Chromebook contrasts curiously with the death (?) of the netbook:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/dec/31/netbooks-de...

I never bought a "netbook" -- always had top-end notebooks for travel and desktops for home/office, so there never was a reason to consider a netbook for myself. However, I just bought three Chromebooks for family members this Christmas because, compared with tablets, Chromebooks are nearly as good for content consumption and far better for content creation.

Tablets, combined with popular online destinations and SaaS offerings, appear to have changed the market potential for newer netbooks such as the Chromebook.
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We are a small entrepreneurial team with solid financial backing and deep domain expertise. We have a long list of committed customers waiting for the beta launch of our product.

Our development process is collaborative and emphasizes sustainable coding practices such as domain-driven design, test-driven development, pair programming, continuous integration, and smart design decisions. We have state-of-the-art continuous integration and continuous deployment infrastructure.

Currently we are working out of Pivotal Labs NYC.

Our product is based on open-sourced platforms. We have done a substantial amount of open source work and are excited about future open source contributions.

You may be a good fit if you have:
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+1 for indicating what type of regular expression it is.

Also, this would be a very useful tool in a Formal Automata class.
I tried one at Best Buy earlier this month, since nobody else has one that you can actually put your hands on. They were sold out but they had a live demo model working in a display.

The keyboard just felt...odd. I don't know if it was because the keys were slightly larger and spaced farther apart than a similar low-profile Mac keyboard, or if it was the different placement of keys (no Alt key, but a large "search" key in it's place)

Anyone else have some opinions of the keyboard?
Cool. As a matter of fact, about a week ago I tried to do something similar by trying to integrate Python with Minecraft. I actually did expose the full Bukkit API to Python (easy enough to do), so all its commands are available.

I didn't really like the "type your code in Minecraft chat"-approach many similar projects were/are taking (i.e. "/js myCodeHere()" in chat) and wanted a proper interpreter window. To integrate the Java-based Bukkit API with Python, I used Jython. The result is something similar as shown here: http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Pi_Edition

I've yet to put up a blog post or something, but I've thrown together a quick video of me playing with it (it's a bit slow so feel free to forward) here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI3PfgCSI7Y

I think something like this could really help in getting kids excited about programming. Back in the day, I started learning programming with LOGO http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language) , a quirky adaptation of LISP, but where you could immediately see your results drawn on screen. It's cool to see Minecraft as some sort of modern "canvas" for programming.
It solves headaches that come from trying to project the not-flat earth onto flat charts.

As Wikipedia puts it:

"In most projections, scale varies with latitude, so on small scale maps, covering large areas and a wide range of latitudes, the linear scale must show the scale for the range of latitudes covered by the map."

"Mariners generally use the nautical mile, which, because a nautical mile is approximately equal to a minute of latitude, can be measured against the latitude scale at the sides of the chart."
Mobile First, Right Thumb Navigation
To be more thumb-friendly, why shouldn't we consider placing navigation on the right? Roughly 90 percent of the world is right-handed, so wouldn't this make more sense? The most easily swipeable area for righties resembles a rainbow starting from the bottom left arcing toward the top right of the screen. Below that rainbow is a thumb/palm blind spot, above that rainbow requires a user to shuffle the phone in the palm and a thumb extension to reach. The taller the screen, the larger that area above the rainbow becomes and hence more difficult to navigate. Even the smaller-screened phones such as the first-generation iPhone, have this less-reachable area.
RAID-6 is in no universe a RAID-5 successor. Simplifications of enterprise needs and risk tolerances and compromise acceptance is sophistry. It is telling enough that despite the bluster of some on Hacker News, major storage vendors (ergo - people who know much more than you) still make RAID-5 the default. Maybe they just haven't read the news.

Regarding the backup -- yeah, no kidding. That was the point. If the argument is "this is better because it can accept one more of countless possible failure modes", then "better" can continue indefinitely (why not 10 parity copies?) In the real world of compromise considerations there is a benefit return assessment that draws a line at a probability point.

It also sounds like many on here think you buy a box of disks and then make one universal logical volume on it (e.g. "if you have a spare why not just make it RAID-6?"). Because the spare(s) are usually universal, and you have many logical volumes encompassing RAID-10, 0, 5, 6, whatever the situation calls for.
My mom was recently diagnosed with cancer, shortly thereafter her house was burgled and someone stole her laptop and phone.

I bought her the chromebook off amazon and brought it to her. I had to create a gmail account for her as she was required to have one for this machine.

While the price was right, I was REALLY disappointed that the farking camera doesn't work in these yet! Neither does chrome Remote Desktop.

My mom has a tracheotomy right now and cannot speak, so doing Skype/FaceTime/video calls is important for her to see my kids.

Overall, I'd rate this machine a 4/10 based on the limited functionality, the limited storage and apps and the rather clunky UX.

The physical form-factor is really nice, but the thing, at half the cost of an iPad has maybe 1/100th the functionality. I can browse the web and create a google doc. That's it.
> That is exactly the problem with the imperial system. You have multiple units for the same thing, and when they are multiples of each other, it is in base 12.

That's when you're lucky, can also be 3 (yard to feet), 22 (chain to yard), 10 (furlong to chain), 8 (miles to furlong, and that's why a mile is 5280 feet), 5 (gill to fluid ounce), 4 (acres to rod, gallons to quarts), 14 (stones to pounds) and probably everything in-between.
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