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At first I liked the idea, and the app is nice, but when you think of it, what does my monitor and the document I am working on have to do with the color of the skies? You can adjust the room lighting that way, but not the document I working on at my computer, damn, that's even stupid! The monitor can adjust its brightness with the brightness of the surrounding environment, but that is the monitor's own business, and it's brightness adjustment, not the color scheme.
But we are the technical users. And we just found out a bad thing, that affects non-technical users. It's our responsibility to highlight this.
Have you tried Firefox? It's pretty darn fast on my Galaxy Nexus.
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It's basically impossible (or inadvisable) to learn proofs without understanding. Break the long proofs into sections like you might with a long function. Try to write summaries of the higher order steps. Try to uncover the intuition behind the proof or theorem.

My personal method for studying maths was to have latex versions of my notes. This is great because it makes lookup very easy (just ctrl f). I have a program that gets all the theorems and quizzes me on them and records how much I can recall. When it asks a question I rewrite the proof in full and only check back when absolutely necessary, then compare to the notes. Your quizzing program can focus on theorems that you did badly on.

It's important to focus your efforts. Pay special attention to the proofs that seem important or that a lot of other theorems depend on.
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Yes, and it's the third option that raises the question, does hmexx retain 50% ownership of the other 11 projects? If so, those founders are married to a disinterested partner with veto power.

If hmexx can conjure traction with $3k and little further effort, then entry into his incubator could make sense, even for a person with the resources to develop the project on their own, at least from the standpoint of logical possibility.

Is it good for hmexx's investment to structure a deal likely to produce problems for the counterparty after two months? I guess that depends on whether one believes that fast failures should be total and lead to abandonment or partial leading to adjustment.

A safe strategy for the counterparty to hmexx's incubator option is to produce a minimum MVP and go passive, letting hmexx do all the heavy lifting if he wants to move the project forward.

What I see is that a 50-50 incubator split doesn't align with the interests of either party. It disincentivizes the developer from seeking to raise outside capital, and should the developer choose to pursue outside capital, the developer must use some of his limited runway to do so.

It seems to me that the sorts of developers for whom hmexx's offer is most appealing are those less likely to raise additional capital on their own - i.e. if they were able to raise capital on their own, they might not need hmexx (a talent which conjures traction for $3000, aside).

If hmexx's role includes providing the additional capital investment after runway, then the deal is actually structured to give him majority control. If hmexx's role includes raising capital from third parties, then he is going wind up a minority shareholder anyway, so why not maximize the incentive for the active developer to develop?
The pieces are more awkward in shape. They're also a bit heavier, so I suspect that's a part of the explanation.
Actually, I want to say: what the fuck?! Nokia are you that stupid? This is no joke. I used to think that when I use HTTPS my data are encrypted right in the browser, and I send some really sensitive data via HTTPS connections. "We're just compressing stuff... It's ok..." Really? I mean, really? Are you that lame? I don't use anything Nokia's anyway, but I hope other companies are not that stupid.
You'd be surprised what sensitive details people send via Facebook messages, email and other insecure communication tools.
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Because this would only get the information for people who happen to be browsing to those services through specific Nokia phones.
No need to spend a whole load of cash if it's only personal.

Check out http://www.lowendbox.com/ for some dirt cheap VPS deals and guides on how to configure a limited resource server if you're new to it.

I currently use two providers I found from there, 3 containers in total. Having more that one allows me to simply switch if a host goes down.

(For a static site, it can be quite fun to see how much you can squeeze out of 64MB of ram.)
I've been working remotely for 10 years. Good ticketing system (Atlassian - JIRA and Wiki). Centralised source code repository and daily stand-up over Skype, otherwise known as a "Skype-up". Constant chatter on skype group chat. Shared screen sessions using Join.me.

The biggest issue for most employers is trust. "Is my employee just watching the TV?", is the first thought that pops into the employer's mind. As a programmer, the work is largely quantifiable, so the issue of trust is muted. My employer can see exactly what I produce. It is plain to see in every check-in to source control.

I have actually started renting my own office just round the corner from my home, so that I don't have to work from home anymore. I prefer the distinct separation of work and home life. My employer is in a different country if you were starting to wonder why I didn't just go to their office.
I'm working on an API that doesn't suck that will represent TV, Movies, Podcasts, WebTV, and other forms of media.

A stack-overflow inspired reputation system will reward community members to contribute translations, new shows, movies and corrections.

Background workers interface with EPGs, other APIs and streams of data from other sources.<p>An image proxy server means openmedia.io will do the heavy lifting delivering images in the dimensions that you want, backed by a speedy CDN.
16:9 are physically smaller and use less material yet able to maintain the same screen size specification as a 16:10 monitor. Hence such difference is often missed/ignored by the ordinary customer and hence manufacturers are able to get away with this. In other words, 16:9 monitors == higher profit margins
Poker or chess, it doesn't matter. They are both adversarial contests over a finite pie.

What makes YC successful is baking pies.
These are not alternative browsers. They are alternative UIs to the same browser engine (sometimes with a worse JS engine…). Just like Chrome on iOS.
Nokia Xpress is available for Lumia[1]. Just like Apple doesn't allow alternate browser engines on iOS, but it allows Opera Mini[2] because Opera Mini isn't a full web browser, it's a client for Opera's transcoding service. Nokia Xpress isn't a full web browser, it doesn't execute JavaScript, it is a client to Nokia's transcoding service.

[1] http://betalabs.nokia.com/trials/nokia-xpress-internet

[2] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/opera-mini-web-browser/id363...
I looked for United Kingdom, wasn't there. I looked for Britain, wasn't there, I looked for England, still nothing.

I was disappointed.
This is exactly the same thing Opera Mini is doing. Nothing shocking. The only (but crucial) difference is that Opera Mini is more transparent about it for the user (it explicitly warns the user when he's trying to access HTTPS sites), I bet Nokia will start do the same.

Nothing to see here, move on.
How do you find a right cofounder, If your social circle comes short?
Being involved in successful startups before, i can visualize my road to success and split the requirements into 4 departments. Out of these 4, i am pretty confident on 3 and kinda OK on the last one, but it is obvious that i cannot lift the whole weight by myself. Each component actually needs one cofounder in my opinion to run everything smoothly. But the people i know(in real life) are either not good enough or not reliable enough(for different reasons). How do you think i can proceed?<p>Can you help me hack my way up to realization?
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I am very serious about this post.

I am 30 now, left my job in May.

I have 1.6 million dollars.

I have no idea what to do with my life.

I am stuck at home, stressed out every day, probably very depressed, can't seem to stick with any positive habits that I start.

I get very overwhelmed with thinking about how I'm 30, and it may be until I'm 40 until I can start adding value to the world again.

I also think, surely there must be a shortcut for someone who already has this kind of money, but I have asked around so much, I think I'm on my own.

I have always enjoyed reading through this website, and I am an entrepreneur by heart, but I just have never actually done anything. I shoot everything down before I do it. Not scalable, too small, someone else has done it, I'm not smart enough to do that, etc...

This is probably such a stupid way to approach such a question, but I have been 'stuck' for 7 months now, and I am getting worse.

Suicide crosses my mind daily, but I'm not thinking about doing it, I just mention it because that's how hopeless I feel.

I feel like I'm going to burn through my money at some point, or the market will crash, and I will be done.

I have always had big dreams, but when I'm faced with actually doing them, it seems too big. Too grandiose.

I need something. If you can give me anything, I don't care what it is, I need some kind of direction to get started. I am ready and willing to do anything, because my other options are not looking too good.

Sorry for the depressing post, but if I do become successful, I will be paying it forward in a big way to the people here. You guys are special, and have already helped me get to this point, which was a big step from where I was. I know that sounds funny, but I was on a one way track to nowhere. Now I have some sort of direction, but I need more. I need to get out of being stuck.
...so why don't you try it? You can fork and perform tests...

You are right about what the spec sais and what happens in reality as far as "loading" is concerned. Modern browsers can open multiple requests to a webserver. However "Painting" and "Rendering" is another area which most developers miss its significance.

Script parsing is blocking to rendering.

Especially when scripts are included in the HEAD the delay becomes pretty apparent.

Check those slides out: https://perf-metrics-velocity2012.appspot.com/#16 (move left/right with cursor keys).

The point of the article was to illustrate how DOM Ready is not needed when loading and executing scripts synchronously. I am not convinced that loading scripts asynchronously will result in a faster, absolute time of when the page is ready to be used by the user (events binded, complex ui that need JS are rendered.

And i am definitely not sold on the concept of polling every 5ms for the existence of elements in the DOM. Which is required for async loaded scripts if they want to be as fast as possible (and hoping that they were loaded before the elements are rendered). If I had that much a burden of manipulating an element right there and then when it was rendered, i'd plainly add a SCRIPT tag right beneath it.
It leads to a turtle.
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As a side project, I'm developing a gaming jobs board; pairing developers with game companies. I've narrowed my naming search down to three names:

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3) Gaming Careers

Any help deciding between these or other suggestions would be appreciated.
You must be kidding.
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A phone's 128MB memory is not same as PC's 128MB. Phones usually have execute in place (XIP) memories, which means the OS and apps share some space. Also each app is budgeted a certain memory (Phones use near real time OSs compared to usual OSs in PCs), so as not to exceed the memory limit anytime. There is no virtual memory to grow to. So the assumption is not correct especially for feature phones that do not use modern smart phone OSs which are more nearer (by no means same) to desktop counterparts.
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I'm curious how workers in different time zones get on with the rest of the team.

I work remotely most of the time but it has always been within the UK, I'd like to broaden my horizons internationally but keeping different hours to the rest of the team has always put me off.
I understand that there is an expectation for Nokia to resolve this concern in some manner, but why do endpoint sites not simply block requests from the proxy?

I mean if I was a bank it'd properly be in my interest to protect my customers from using a known insecure proxy (regardless of who manages it).
"It wasn't, it was a race condition bug in core Erlang. We only found the problem via code inspection of Erlang. This is a fundamental problem in any language that abstracts away too much of the computer."

Another way to look at this is that all languages which offer poor abstractions force you to write more code, by definition. Up front you will have to write much more code, but when the inevitable bug comes up, you will have the luxury of debugging code you authored. For some individuals and teams, this trade-off is a sensible one.
To add to this problem, some graphics cards (such as ATI/AMD's Eyefinity) only have two display clocks and cannot output over hdmi/dvi without a special active (non-passive) adapter.
I really miss the old Google. The purity of their vision and the frequent, crazy projects that came out of Google Labs. At one point it seemed like every good idea was coming from Google.

Ever since Larry Page's chat with Steve they really haven't been the same.
The lower end Asha 30X series has 32MB of RAM and 10MB of internal storage to play with. Squeezing a real browser with acceptable performance into that is probably non-trivial.

The second aspect is one of bandwidth. Pre-processed sites are a lot smaller than the full sites. Many people with these phones probably don't have data contracts with generous limits. And when you're paying pr byte and downloading over GPRS, every byte that doesn't have to be downloaded counts.
Switching to a dark theme and lowering the brightness also works quite good for desktops on UPS.
I tried a bunch of cheap DisplayPort -> Dual-Link DVI cables with my 27" Shimian, and none of them worked.

I gave up, splashed $100 on the official apple (active, USB powered) one, and it worked straight away.

It did work straight up with my PC desktop though (almost all decent new GPUs have DL-DVI output), so you don't always need to compromise with a wire purchase.
A better answer is C++ is a rudder-less windbag of horribleness of which STL contributed to and convinced sane people to not use C++
DHH calls HN a cesspool. What do you think? :)
I believe he is attempting to be a writer.
> What does it mean to be like epicyles or like ellipses?

Baaack in the day (hundreds of years ago) everyone thought the sun & planets went around the earth. And since Circle are Perfect (as lots of people thought), they must go around the earth in a circle. That's all nice and pleasing. However it doesn't match where you actually see the planets. The maths doesn't match what you see with your telescope! So people started doing complex "circles within circles" (epicircles) to try to get their maths to match reality.

Instead Kepler came along and said "It's not cirlces, it's ellipses" (ovals). Turns out you only need one ellipse per planetery body. Then you get a nice simple mathematical models and it matches reality!
But JavaScript is executed on proxy server in Nokia and Opera Mini cases.
Comparing the deviation of wooden planks to Lego is meaningless. Planks have a heterogeneous internal structure, the structure of each plank is unique - we can even see the grain in the photograph - and wood is more dimensionally sensitive to changes in environmental conditions than Lego.
Is this a random walk through the store? Might be more engaging if it was weighted towards highly recommended books.

As it is, it seems to be a walk through the long tail of amazon's catalog. Interesting for a moment, but nothing I'm likely to read.
Anyone knows how's the power consumption of them? With such a big size I expect no miracles, must be eating a lot of watts.
"Citation" can mean "commendation" or a "summons to appear in court."[citation needed]

...Oh the irony
Please don't turn HN into Reddit and start karma whoring. This post belongs on the other one that made you go looking for this email.
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I can program for 30 minutes with it, but I get tired :) so if I am troubleshooting a problem that is going to take a while or a client indicates it is urgent, f.lux goes off.
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Prepay, I guess. Some examples would include prepaid cell phones, Twilio, MaxMind, 7Search, online gambling.
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What "chat" was this? (Genuinely curious.)
This is a silly question. iTunes makes tons of money while Safari is an OS X feature.
Add to that the warping of some of the larger "flat" pieces, the inevitable chipping that takes place when you store a lot of it together.
Why did Apple feel the need to make a web browser?
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There was also a great reply:

> On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Vadim Plessky also wrote:

>> It seems we are very close to take market share from Microsoft :-)

> Keep on dreaming ;). Btw, markets are for selling, KDE is on the next

> plazza giving software away for free to the poor, geeks and other

> nonconformists (/me ducks).

http://lists.kde.org/?l=kfm-devel&m=104205781123001&...
Wow, this is crazy because I'm working on a streaming music player of my own, also using HTML5, Backbone and Flask. (As well as Flask-SQLAlchemy and Mutagen, but those are obvious choices given Flask.) Congrats on shipping first. How long have you been working on this?

I might actually use yours until my take on this is done. It certainly looks superior to Subsonic in every way.

I'm still going to finish mine, because I have some different UI/design ideas. For instance, I want a visually-oriented player with cover art very prominently featured, whereas yours doesn't show art at all.

But on the technical side of things, the concept is rather identical. Have you tested it on a smartphone browser and does it work/look good? I didn't use Bootstrap like you, so I'll probably have to create a totally separate mobile interface.

Anyway, well done!
You are underestimating ideas.While I do agree with you in 80%-90% of cases, there are still excellent ideas that should stay under the radar.If you don't execute an idea doesn't mean it worths nothing.It means you don't harness it's power.It's kind of the same as having 1 ton of gold in your garage and keeping it there.
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Sorry I haven't tried one, just Dual-DVI to a Linux box.
Quake3 is written in C++
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What happened to KWQ? This looks like a great starting point when you want to port some KDE/Qt lib to native Cocoa. For example, I'm thinking about KDevelop, Amarok or others.
Stroustrup wrote a couple of books and papers about the history of C++, which discuss how it got the way it did. Its basically by being very pragmatic, focussed on speed, with a requirement to be C source compatible as much as possible.

Very worthwhile: http://www.stroustrup.com/dne.html and http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2283

Unfortunately, C++ is a language that fills a niche no-other does - the ability to write genericized systems programming code. For large systems (gcc-sized) it offers a lot of advantages over C (obviously, simplicity is not one of them). I say unfortunately because nobody can argue that C++ is beautiful, but until that niche goes away, C++ will always have a place.
For movies only (I understand that you service does more than just movies, but for my application this is currently irrelevant), are there key differences (benefits and weaknesses) compared to TMDb : http://www.themoviedb.org/

Or just scraping imdb
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> "My advice to young people is to figure out how to make something."

Problem: patents.

Good luck making things as a "little guy" with patents (software or otherwise) in the way. Patents and similar government-granted monopolies are all, by definition, obstacles to economic activity through an accessible and competitive market. They are also the most difficult to overcome for those starting at the bottom.

Want economic recovery? Break monopolies.