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If you enjoy reading those articles so much, would you mind scanning through this pile of old newspapers I've got in my garage? I'll let you do it for $20.
I never had issues with an Apple big screen but they replaced my 13" MBA for a single dead pixel. And the Apple Genius was very surprised as he never saw faults on those.
Are these as good as the Apple Cinema Display? Still haven't found anything with text as crisp my ACD (waiting for ACD retina). I've seen better for graphics but not text. Dell Ultrasharps for example are awesome for graphics and yes better than ACD but for programming the anti-glare on Dells is annoying like looking at a vampire from Twilight in the sunlight.
If you wait for the right combination of discounts you can get the Dell U2713HM for $500 or so.

With their 3-year advance replacement warranty and non-glossy screen, you want the dell for $100 more.
Fair enough, and I agree with the other examples in the thread of why "programming is fun" literature has a positive effect, but it also has a very strong effect on people unlike us who aren't motivated by it and aren't ever going to be inspired to learn it, but are going to use it as ammunition. From a lot of my experience, that's the principal that a lot of business management is built on.
I wouldn't ever think of `document.write` as 'safe.' If it happens to be called after the DOM is ready, you'll purge the DOM and blank the page. document.write can be useful for dynamically inlining new <script> tags in a way that older versions of IE are kosher with (which is why it's common in advertising), but in almost every other case, using the W3C DOM methods (or innerHTML) is a better decision.
Interesting to see how low the standard deviation is. Compare that to K'NEX (I love K'NEX by the way) where a not-so-right angle is commonplace. Sometimes the rods have plastic bulges at the ends which prevent them from making a good connection in a female(?) piece.

LEGOs, however, have always fit perfectly, in my experience.
I fear it's never coming for 5.4, Stefan Esser seems to have moved onto ios security.
The output quality depends on the panel type. If it is IPS like these, then viewing angle doesn't matter but some other panels look awful even from a slight side angle.
Oops... I was distracted while reading and didn't read carefully enough.
The idea of "what exactly is a startup?" bugged me for a while until I read this PG essay:

http://paulgraham.com/growth.html

He eloquently explains that startups are different from "normal" businesses and VCs invest in them because of the possible rate of growth. This kind of business has only been very common in the last few decades in the tech industry. And has probably been amplified in the last two decades by the internet.
Also one thing that occurs to me. One real problem with a question of "would you pay $x for ___" is that it is usually way to abstract. It's not just a judgement/action gap issue, it's an issue where the individual does not have enough information to even make an informed judgement.

BTW, I do often start by asking "would you pay $x for ___ instead of paying $y for ____ or would you pay $y for ___ instead of paying $x for ____?" There is still a judgement/action gap issue there, but in my experience it tends to lead to more interesting discussions about value propositions and the simple yes or no is less interesting than the rest.
No. The second sentence indicates that althrough most group travel happens primarily offline through agents, it still represents a small portion overall of each travel agent's business. Non-group travel represents the bulk of most travel agent's business but Flights with Friends doesn't target that market, probably because it would then be in competition with sites like Kayak, Orbitz, Expedia, etc.
> By their very nature blog articles like this are reaching an audience of non-coders

are they? I always got the feeling it's preaching to the choir - those posts are popular on hn and so, and nowhere else. I don't know a single programmer who had to get convinced into programming by some random post. it's like you can't force someone into becoming an artist.
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This shouldn't be that much more difficult ... but it will probably require more horsepower for transcoding on the fly.
I don't know about your specific examples but see http://www.brickarms.com for one. Lego doesn't make guns so they filled that void. I believe it was originally just a guy in his home/garage.
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I don't make a salary. I'm just blowing off some steam here, I am a game developer by trade and I've watched my non-technical peers succeed at getting their designs made half a dozen times simply through this political manipulation of programmers. It's insane that it works and incredibly frustrating to me to watch it happen over and over.
I have to say, between FlightFox and AirBNB (both sites I learned about through HN) I've been an incredibly happy camper planning a recent group trip. FlightFox agents found us a ridiculously low airfare for our group -- in fact I don't think I'll ever buy a ticket myself again without checking with FF... and searching for places on AirBNB has been a blast.

I'm not sure what exactly the "pain" is in group trip planning because half the fun is convincing people to join, throwing around ideas, & getting excited for the trip. Really my only pain point has been the cash shuffle, which is ameliorated by having honest friends.
Absolutely, hackers don't need degrees. In fact, we frown upon them.
No it doesn't cover it. If you're building a trivial software app in a week which costs beer money to get going and maintain via a cheap hosted service, then sure... you should just visit random.org and generate a number from 1 to 100 and charge that (per month, year, one-time, or whatever) because who cares.

But let's say you're building a non-trivial product and you've hired 4 engineers to work alongside you for 3 months to get the product off the ground to the point where you can start bringing customers onboard and billing them. These engineers come with a fully loaded cost of, say, $100K/year each. Maybe you're bootstrapping this venture via savings plus a second mortgage on your home to get to that stage and that's $100K you'll need to pay back to the bank plus interest.

As you bring paying clients onboard, you're going to need to hire support staff. What ratio of clients to support staff do you figure you will need? You will also need to ramp up your server instances to handle the load. Maybe you'll need to hire a full-time DBA. What is your marketing outlay for acquiring new customers and what's the conversion rate so that you can calculate your cost per acquisition? Do you have a sense of the lifetime value of each customer? Can you guesstimate the CPA and LTV to within a small multiple based on asking people in your network who are familiar with comparable services?

How do you factor initial sunk cost into the price? What sort of payback period on your second mortgage should you go with so that you're spreading out the costs over time rather than front-loading it all? How should you factor for continued growth, contingency situations, insurance, office space, potential legal risks, and a whole host of other factors to ensure that you actually are making a profit? There is a science to arriving at a price and having a certain amount of confidence that the price you chose will result in a profit. Saying "pick a number and ensure you're making a profit" does not help anybody in calculating whether there is profit to be had.
Ericsson gives 2,500 patents to maker of ancient wireless browser
I recommend you read the post I responded to. For someone who bought CDs in Germany through Amazon, their new service is of no help. However, if you bought music at Amazon's site in Germany, iTunes Match will serve you as well as Amazon's site does in the US.
This is a niche market and Flights with Friends does not address the primary pain point of group traveling: getting everyone to commit to the trip and pay. Organizing what to do and where to stay is the easy part.
Get the Asus PA248Q.

It's a calibrated IPS monitor, 24" 1920x1200 (i.e. 16:10).

I have one and it's great.
There must also be non-trivial cost to licensing certain brands such as Star Wars.
John Collins "The Paper Airplane Guy"
So will a cheap mini displayport -> DVI adapter like this: http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=104&c...

not work for one of these displays, coupled with a Macbook Air (2012)?
Love Flux. I've used it for months now and it's super helpful.
Meanwhile, Ubuntu still only has 2.6 as an available stable version.
This is a typical driving school. The curved tracks are not long enough to train police or test cars. You can only drive through it very slowly. And you can see there're parallel parking stains as well.
How does it work with the Apple Dual Link display adapter?
I agree about the elaborate predictions and sales pitch feeling. I've reconsidered my Kurzweil hate since the Google hire, because I trust that they have people who can evaluate his skills. Before that, I had to evaluate them on my own, and I drew similar conclusions to yours.

I also think it was elitist of me. A lot of it was just because he's published books that have been marketed as pop-sci trade paperbacks, but I never actually read any of them.
We've found that once people join the trip on Flights With Friends and one person books the others book as well. We notify the other members of the trip as soon as anyone books.
http://www.samsung.com/uk/consumer/pc-peripherals/monitors/g...

check these out
>once in 5 years that people make over $50M from their startup.

May be you are trying to make a point but this statement is clearly NOT true. It all depends on how wide the area are you talking about. Are you talking about California or Kansas or entire US ?
One of the benefits of Flights With Friends is that no one person has to pay for the tickets. Each member of the trip can buy their own and the cash shuffle doesn't even have to happen.
I see it as people who are capable of being a one-man shop if necessary. Greenfielders with the ability to describe and select between different technologies and approaches.
We bought a refurbished KitchenAid mixer a couple of years ago. It's pretty big. I don't know the model right now. We made pasta for the first time last week. Threw a bag of semolina down on the counter; cracked some eggs on it and, with a very little water kneaded for a long time. It was very stiff.

We started making spaghetti with the meat grinder extruded attachment. Half way through the batch the mixer started making a grinding noise. Turns out we stripped every damn tooth off a 45deg gear in the box. Best pasta I've ever eaten!!!

I cleaned the gear box out and ordered new gears, gasket, and a ring. I'm putting it back together as soon as the grease comes in. I'm not sure how I'll make homemade pasta next time though.
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aka the previous stable version. 2.7 and 2.9 are dev branches, as will 2.11 be. 2.8 was only released in May last year, which is a little over halfway through the Ubuntu release cycle. It's probably safe to expect it in April's release.
Direct3D v OpenGL - How the battle really began
Non-TC link: http://www.flightswithfriends.com/
Yes, given these assumptions. But that person needs to be better than the other candidates (not JUST qualified for the position). I would also like to understand what he/she did after dropping out of school.
yes? unless I read that wrong he's saying he'd have to work 4.5 months for his post-tax savings to equal $5k...
These look the same as these no-brand korean monitors I got off ebay for $334. It's a great monitor. I've been using two of them for months.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-FIRST-FSM-270YG-27-LED-2560x1440...

There's a blog post about them here:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/07/the-ips-lcd-revolut...
Would automating Git be too slow?
When you say without the BS, what do you mean? Do you folow a certain religion (or not)? Explain, please.
Firefox OS Phones May Storm the Globe, Not Just Smaller Markets
This page was educational and interesting until it locked up my computer with the CPU pegged full. Force power off/on "fixed" the problem.
Out of curiosity, how much of a Finder's Fee do you typically offer on FlightFox? Would you use it for shorter trips, say LA to SF, or does it really only become worth it on longer, more complicated trips?
Depends on what kind of office. Is it the luxury office of separate private offices or the budget office of being crammed together in an open space with a lot of noise.
So you're in a position to actually write about it. Start your own blog and lead by example.
I am pretty sure all your calculations are covered by the word "Profit"...His point about testing prices is very sound. How you arrive at what prices to test, obviously requires more insight than picking a number out of your hat.
Though the 'twilio' gem does use HTTParty, 'twilio-ruby' doesn't. So just make sure to check your Gemspec.lock.
I think this is a real issue, but is separate from the original point of this thread. The same thing happens to a much larger degree to artists, musicians, and all sorts of creative types. It's a job that enough people enjoy that there's a large supply of employees and at least some of them are willing to accept hard hours or mediocre pay in order to do what they love for a living.
>> Are Ebay/alibaba retailers trustworthy?

I have had very good results buying from sellers with >99% rating. I have had fairly poor results with sellers having 98% rating or lower.

I think that most people don't give bad reviews even after a bad experience. You might expect a bad experience once out of 50 times with a seller having a 98% rating, but I have found it to happen much, much more often.
China decrees all new homes must have fiber connections
Figuring that 90% of startups fail in this manner, he has a 10% chance of hitting a jackpot. But then he's ruined 90% of the startups that didn't do so well in order to do it.

Let's say he funds 1000 startups that is $8M invested, he loses $7.2M in investment money due to a 90% fail. But 10% go on to earn him one million dollars in company stock each. That is a $100M earnings minus the $7.2M loss $92.8M in profits. But if he gets a Facebook Zuck IPO in billions, well he found a diamond in the rough, have won the startup lottery.

But you have to ask, why aren't more investors doing this?
Yes but once you do the initial marketing and it pays off, you can afford to hire the marketing firm to take it to the next level.
Impressive: an article about price without the word "demand" or "supply". Or about the standard for "expensive". This could have been interesting, but didn't quite get there.

As a consolation prize, I offer: http://gizmodo.com/5019797/everything-you-always-wanted-to-k... Also light on analysis, but full of fun trivia.
Wait 6 months to a year.

Try to use your digital copy.

It won't work - this is a useless disc.
Correct me if I am wrong, but this solves the YAML half of the exploit but not the XML part, right? This is not a complete patch against the exploits?
I'm a Bachelor of Arts. And I Lived to Tell
LEGO allows the BrickCase, with is a compatible iPhone case, so I would imagine at least an Arduino case that accepts LEGO would be fine.
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Many Programmers think all they can do to be a success is just to write code and nothing else. Those who think that fall victim to the startup shark. There is more to a startup than just writing code, otherwise you just have an Underpants Gnome business plan. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO5sxLapAts

Phase 1: Write Code

Phase 2: ?

Phase 3: Profit!
In case anyone doesn't know... Monoprice is an incredible site with high-quality, budget products and really good customer service. The fact that these cheap monitors are now backed by a company I trust makes a big difference. (Don't work for them... just a satisfied customer).
If you're interested in a program that does this + video check out Subsonic: http://www.subsonic.org/.
You mean like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs?
I have both an HP LP2475w (24" 1920x1200, IPS) and a 27" 2560x1440 monitor--the same resolution as mentioned here. (I didn't want to deal with potential dead pixels and scaling issues, so I forked over the $700 for the Asus PB278Q instead of buying the off-brand.)

Honestly, I hate using my HP now. It's a great monitor, but the 2560x1440 resolution on the Asus is amazing. Side by side, the Asus knocks the HP out of the park.

TLDR: It is not worth the downgrade in screen size and resolution just to get a 16x10 aspect ratio. You will never regret going for the 2560x1440 monitor instead.
OK. Correction: any 3D rendering illusion that requires con-focal ocular capabilities.
It is the difference between getting a useful definition and getting a useful definition surrounded by expletives conveniently packaged, in a sample sentence, forcefully ramming into some orifice.
Yeah but paying everyone and whatever else, very little remains as profit. 10% off just like that might wipe the profit.
great idea !

though my iPhone is higher than OS 5, so I don't have any idea about how to install it to my iPhone,

but I think , maybe if Apple sensed this, would the integrate this into iOS as new feature? just call it the Platform's feature
Very true. Additionally, you will get more out of hiring the marking firm by getting all the little nuts and bolts done first.

Honestly if I knew the guy personally and trusted him, the initial deal wouldn't be that bad. But I agree with the article that this smells worse than a three day old mackerel.
16:9 is a lot more tolerable when the "short" side is still 1440px tall. The aspect ratio makes a lot more sense at a 27" size than it does in a 13" laptop.

Sure, I'd prefer 2560x1600 than 2560x1440, but it really isn't a big deal.
Active exploit of Java 7 allows arbitrary remote code execution
http://www.intour.com.vn/du-lich-nha-trang.html
http://www.intour.com.vn/tour-du-lich-nha-trang-3-ngay.html
I really like 16:10, not sure why 16:9 is so much more common.
Ask HN: Do people build websites in Awk?
I've been reading through Classic Shell Scripting by Arnold Robbins and Nelson H. F. Beebe, it's a great book!

Seeing how full-featured the classic Unix/BSD/GNU/Linux etc. toolkit is has left me wondering why Perl, Python, and Ruby are so successful.

If there are absolutely no server-side applications that are made out of these classic software tools, it seems like there must be a reason why.

Are there web applications that are made out of Bash, SED, AWK and all that? Or for reasons of security, complexity or something else has putting all of these tools under one roof (first in the form of Perl, later Python and Ruby) won the day?
What do you mean by 'broken'? Can you point to an example image?
A vulnerability in the Java Security Manager allows a Java applet to grant itself permission to execute arbitrary code.

Any web browser using the Java 7 plug-in is affected. The Java Deployment Toolkit plug-in and Java Web Start can also be used as attack vectors.

Reports indicate this vulnerability is being actively exploited, and exploit code is publicly available.

Solution: Disable Java in web browsers
http://www.intour.com.vn/tour-du-lich-thai-lan.html
Google Sued by Foundem in U.K. for Anti-Competitive Behavior
low-level code for operating systems that happened to have been written in C

You say that like it is an accident that just about every major OS today is written in C or C/C++
I'm working on something very similar. I'm making a 3D-printable LEGO-Technic compatible version called "Bitbeam". http://bitbeam.org/arduino-mounting-plate

I started the Bitbeam project because I was prototyping some things in LEGO, but when it came time to figure out how to make many of them, I wasn't too excited about the cost of LEGO... but I was happy with my LEGO design. So I decided to port LEGO dimensions to materials that are easier and cheapier to source myself.
'Don't Ask, Don't Get': How to Fix the Gender Gap in Salary Negotiations
"It's great that if I crave Ben&Jerry's ice cream, I can buy it and have it delivered in under 3 hours."

Every time I wanted ice cream, it was in my hands in a matter of minutes not hours :). Detergents, soaps, medicines etc can be bought via Amazon, Drugstore.com etc. Fruits and veggies...you actually want to see before buying them.

I don't think this will scale. Prices will have to be a lot more expensive than normal grocery shopping, so adoption will be limited. Even if it takes just one hour, the person doing the shopping has to be paid, instacart has to make a profit and that will jack up the price. I understand the convenience factor, but for the vast majority of people it's not a good tradeoff. That said, Instacart can become a niche player and still make money.

What's up with Instacart not letting you browse without logging in?
> failure of colleges and universities
> to teach modern development tools, environments, and frameworks.

They shouldn't. Universities should teach fundamental knowledge necessary in the field. I find it ridiculous that people go to universities and expect to be taught how to make websites and mobile apps. That's something you teach yourself over the weekend. You don't need to go to a university to learn that.
You need a simple narrative. Example:

Sally learns best by doing X, while Sam learns best by doing Y. (Show cartoon Sally doing X and cartoon Sam doing Y). Most apps will try to teach Sally and Sam the same way, but the TommyTeaches app is smarter than that! Tommy will be learning as he teaches. Tommy will learn which techniques are best for Sally and Sam individually, then tailor the lessons to... etc.
I remember that from my childhood - K'NEX were fun, but always took what seemed like a lot of effort to put together. Similar to pulling apart Lego pieces without a brick separator.
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Because of irritating query planner outcomes like these, I've always wished postgresql just offered an API where you hand it the query plan. It seems like the bulk of questions from experienced users of postgresql (and all other SQL databases, really) relate to how to express the query to the planner does what you wanted it to do in the first place. Seems easier to just hand it the plan when you know what you want.
I have never used gemsets, but I have had `Gemfile.lock`s that stopped working because gems were yanked. Would a gemset help in this case?
I personally prefer a big screen over multiple screens, if only for the ability to place windows anywhere I want on my screen real estate. Bezel space is thus secondary for me.
Here you go: http://werc.cat-v.org/

I personally think the standard unix tools are best used for static site generation - I wouldn't want to try handling arbitrary input with programs that tend to have semantics incompatible in the edge cases.
If you're into LEGO Technic, this is exactly why I started the Bitbeam project. http://bitbeam.org/pages/about
In that case, the entirety of the article, including the title, can be replaced with four words: "Try multiple profitable prices."

As an article titled "How to price something", I'm pointing out why it doesn't deliver.
Yes.

Then again, I'm biased.

A proven track record of being self motivated and being persistant with their goals are far more valuable traits in an individual than a piece of paper saying they went to some college or university for several years.
In my experience Mega Bloks fit, but don't hold together as well as LEGO.
I guess I didn't click through far enough through. I saw this Werc page yesterday and thought that it was an April Fool's post!

Thanks for helping me give the page a second look.