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Let's all give this man a hand!

I can imagine that some of his wares could be very... handy.

I'd give my left hand for that Tesla coil.

Let's hope he never hands off the business to an inferior designer.

You know, someone who can't quite put their finger on a brilliant design.

(Oh god I can't stop, there's just too many puns to make... at hand.)
By that standard you must also reject legislation that limits interest rates charged by payday loan shops? It is very much the same situation: What is a reasonable interest rate for a loan made to someone or some corporation under duress?
Well, to play devil's advocate against myself, food products are an area where you want unique IDs on things.

You want to be able to scan that head of spinach and have the reply be "PRODUCT RECALL: E.COLI CONTAMINATED".

But I don't think QR codes are really the answer here. I want it to be wireless so when I walk up to the fridge my smartphone starts going off with warnings.
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> like AOL did

FYI, AOL and Time Warner have no relationship at all -- they were spun out in 2009. Time Warner Cable is yet another separate entity from Time Warner as well (as of 2009). Totally independent.
Because the other stakeholder, the public, has no real effective representation on this issue. Most people don't understand copyright, don't really feel the problem of having culture and expression locked under a single entity for a very long time.
For what it's worth, there actually is an option to boot directly to Big Picture mode.
I made a lot of fireworks in my heyday. Mostly smokebombs, but sometimes improvisational stuff with other fireworks. I was 16 or 17 going into Home Depot looking for Potassium Nitrate aka Salt Petre aka stump killer :)

And I built most of a Tesla coil. I stopped short when it came time to solder together the capacitor bank. I read too much that made me think I'd kill myself or blow up the house if I shorted something out on accident. Used the transformer for a nice Jacob's Ladder though!
To an extent. I don't think it's either/or, though- I've heard plenty of people talking about their "HTC" or their "S3". I'm not sure that many people consider them Androids, as such.
Firefox now has a built-in debugger (which appeared in Firefox 15, released in August 2012). This uses a new debugging back-end built by Mozilla's JS and devtools teams, totally separate from the older Firebug debugger code. It should be more robust, and has new features like remote debugging of code running in Firefox for Android.

More info at https://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/07/debugger-responsive-design...
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No, this numbers are year by year change, so putting your efforts on Clojure seems the best option.
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Actually, the '=' character is allowed. [1]

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322#section-3.2.3
I think he is saying he's a Trello developer.
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I stopped at entering my name, company and position. Why can't I try this out anonymously? The stakes are too high for most people to willy nilly add their personal info to a conduit for recruiters.
Just because some professor says it is harmful doesn't mean boards don't have that as a priority.

And, the AIG CEO has publicly said his goal is to make his company as profitable as possible, and that may mean going to court.
Wealth is not revenue, it is income that comes about in abundance. To increase income either increase revenue or decrease expenses. It turns out that decreasing expenses is nearly risk free and is easier. Hence the Millionaires Next Door are good at that strategy. Not sure why this book is having a resurgence, but the other big point it made was the value of owning your own business versus working for someone else.

A close corrollary of the expense thing is to evaluate debt as an investment with a guaranteed return equal to the interest you're paying. Once you see it like that, it's very hard to argue against paying off all of your debt as quickly as possible. Those returns are hard to come by on the revenue side.
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Sometimes I fantasize about winning the lottery but never get around to buying the ticket. It's the perfect scam.
I am sure she's not the only one in the "market"

Obviously she couldn't count on customers' loyalty.
I have, in the past 3 months, been forced to work in a location where the only internet access is on machines with IE8 on them (and no ability to install Chrome Frame). The loss of Trello has absolutely FUCKING sucked. I'm sorry for the profanity, but it is an abysmally awful process to have to STOP using Trello and go back to emailing spreadsheets back and forth or shudder MS Project.

I think this huge drop in my productivity is a testament to just how awesome Trello is.
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I like to judge the awkwardness of their response. It helps you learn how serious they are. If they really struggle to find a price they probably don't think their problem is that painful.

You can also focus on how much a problem costs them in wasted time or lost revenue.
Any way in which you can record bits and pieces of your life now will most likely come in very valuable later on when you have children and grandchildren. You don't have to record everything, of course, but having a nice overview of each year with a few pics here and there with stories to tell is very cool.
That's what I get for only reading the first few lines....
I think the poster's point wasn't that there aren't any exclusives, but that the exclusives don't come down to the console hardware. That a capable team could recreate Killzone or Uncharted on the 360 and the average consumer wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
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They have to outgun Samsung on WP as well. On some metrics I have seen Nokia behind not only HTC, but Samsung for WP. Often when I go into an AT&T or other carrier store, way in the back away from the iPhones and Samsung Galaxy S3s will be a kiosk with some WPs, and Nokia sits next to the HTC and Samsung WP undistinguished - the sole representative of Nokia in a store filled with Apple and Samsung. They are a third rate player in a third rate operating system.

WPs market share is dismal, and brands like RIM (and Symbian!) have been losing market share, so it is certainly possible Microsoft can increase in market share. But I think every day that goes by, the chance of it becoming a dominant mobile player recedes. Apple took its place in the market years ago, and Android is now in an advanced state on many fronts - market share, ecosystem etc. Android is in a much more solid place then it was even a year ago, a hold which would be very difficult to dislodge.
Nice! Greatly resembles Stripe, which imo is a good thing. Look forward to using this next time I need ACH on a project.
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It's not that bad, really. Most people are using 5.3 and are either moving towards 5.4 or recently moved to 5.4.

Those on 5.2 are probably stuck there for reasons outside of their control. And 5.5 hasn't even been released, so you can completely ignore it for the most part.
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On the other hand, you have a better argument when the service goes down temporarily. They're more likely to respond quickly if they have paying customers.
We had Megadrive, SNES and Master System. That's three.

I'm not sure I agree that the market can't support a variety of ecosystems. We already have PS3/Xbox/Wii, millions of people still playing PS2, iOS, Android (yes, they count, and outnumber the console platforms), and PC gaming. That's seven different platforms all doing pretty well.
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I agree except that when you say "in China", what you actually mean is "in most of the world". You see, when we have less hegemonic mobile network operators (due basically to their inability to hunt down and nail people who reneg on long term phone contracts), we have a more heterogeneous system. In the end, everyone benefits. What we need is less authority, more internet.

Hopefully GSM will die soon and we can all use some kind of public, tor-rerouted, bandwidth-metered cryptophones over wifi. I'm sure the NSA will love that.
Huh, didn't know that. Thanks!
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Your buddy: “Oh, you need to have a Google Plus Profile or it doesn’t work.”

Me: Don't be a jackass. You know I don't use any google services apart from search and youtube. When those require a login I'll either stop using them or start registering a ton of throwaway ids as I've done for years now when someone sends me a paywall link.
I started tracking my finances much better about 3/4 months ago, it was fairly eye opening, I found I was spending: £40 a month on a cup of coffee each morning, £48 buying lunch rather than taking it in, £25ish on magazines to read on the train, and a whole host of random little buys that I never needed adding up to £300 a month. I decided I couldn't afford it anymore, dropped them, don't miss them.

I've also gone down the route of Netflix & Spotify, we have no TV subscription (cut-the-cord of that particular beast). It makes life much easier, and my house has never been less cluttered.

(I do like a lottery ticket though, I've won some trivial amount off them ~£30-40, mostly because it's £2 a week and it's a bit of fun)
> To this day I still come across PHP code that is vulnerable to serious, immediate SQL injection vulnerabilities and it isn't always old code. I'm not so sure that the PHP community is so quick in learning from its mistakes.

Do you not find that with other languages as well? I do.
> You completely missed the biggest benefit stated by the author: the protection from duplication by content farms. When someone Googles the blog post, the original blog is always on top, rather than some content stealing farm. How did you miss that?

So basically, Google are using their control of the search market to pressure people into moving their actual content under Google's control by offering to rank them better in search results if that content lives on Google's servers and helps feed Google's data-gathering engines. Remind me again, when did they change their motton to "Be Evil"?
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I'll second this; the books I've retained the most from are the ones I've done the exercises for. Hell, even PragProg had exercises! Effective C++? Nada. I'm lucky if I can remember enough from it to remember to look things up.
I think there is little risk of Trello being discontinued/FogCreek going out of business. They do a lot of hiring and have had a pretty vocal customer segment pleading for them to charge for it. I don't really understand why they haven't tho I'm sure Joel Spolsky has a plan.

Disclaimer: I wish he was charging--I have a similar project I've been working on over nights and weekends. It is very hard to compete with free and difficult to position/market a product you have created to appeal to everyone. That being said--I love working on my project so it'll be around for a long time... Link: http://www.thetaboard.com
That's more likely a rule in legitimate customer service operations. This guy was probably following the principal that the longer you keep a customer on the phone, the more likely you are to make a sale.
And it's enabled by default in the current Aurora (pre-beta) test builds:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/19.0a2/auroranotes/
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I suspect there are people on HN who were introduced to computers at that age. I know there are people with children who have an interest. I've read about them. Invariably, their children become interested when that's what a parent is doing at home. Their interest lets them share their parent's time and passion.

If you want to make a difference in a child's life, take her seriously as a person. Bring the Estes model rocket kit. Go kick a soccer ball. As my son put it to me recently when I was taking one on one basketball too seriously, kid up.

The odds of a six year old getting anything out of programming class - and that's what is being considered - are orders of magnitude lower than the odds of an adult thinking that a programming class will make a difference in a six year old's life.
Could be that you know an above-average number of geeks.
It's a bit harsh judging the entire PHP community by the presence of yet another crap tutorial on the internet. You can bet that the people who go to PHP conferences etc (and who comprise the core PHP "community") wouldn't write example code like that.
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You might also enjoy the YouTube channel of 'Photonicinduction'.

(https://www.youtube.com/user/Photonvids)
This is a better link I think, it has the video of the film being aired in Japan.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/08/giant-squid-video-j...
See below (or above, if the comments move).

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5027040
There are some alternative data constructs in PHP, for example there are the SplFixedArray[1] and SplDoublyLinkedList[2] classes.

The SPL data structures are meant to be faster and leaner implementations of common data structures that are usually created ad hoc in plain PHP.

[1] http://ca.php.net/splfixedarray

[2] http://ca.php.net/manual/en/class.spldoublylinkedlist.php
Yeah forums and aggregators for geeks never get a diverse base.
So what's the key difference in the operating environments of mobile carriers in China (and much of the rest of the world), where choice of handset seems to be fairly decoupled from access to the network?
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More pictures and info here: http://www.polygon.com/2013/1/7/3849284/piston-valve-steam-b...

8 USB ports? Ha wow.
The non-geeks ignore the safety and die?

Chemistry is sometimes tricky, and geeks have an interest in chemistry?

Explosives involve an amount of "forbidden knowledge", and that's popular among geeks?

Explosives is on a continuum with arson, at the "more knowledge needed" end. Geeks blow stuff up. Non-geeks burn it down?

But, searching YouTube shows there are plenty of people who don't appear to be geeks who experiment with explosives and fire.
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That's basically thought-theft. You're stealing from the lottery without even realising it.

Go hand yourself in to the nearest police station right now!
> Movie at the theater: $12 (average)

> Popcorn and a drink: $13

> Or, Netflix/Amazon Prime, RedBox and spend $3 or $4 on the experience, plus whatever’s in the fridge.

Sure, if you have a room that is functionally a movie theater. And if the movie you want is on one of those services.

> People tell me all the time that they can’t afford something. But then I’ll watch their Twitter feed, or Facebook, or Instagram, and I’ll see the reason why not.

What they're saying is that they can't afford both thing A and thing B at the same time, and that they would rather have thing A.

Maybe they would rather have Starbucks in the morning than whatever thing they were discussing with you.
> If there's anything Microsoft learned is that hardware becomes eventually a commodity

Hardware becomes a commodity if you let it become a commodity. That's what happened with PC's and that's why all the sane manufacturers gave up their PC hardware businesses. But Apple is still making plenty of money selling non-commodity personal computers. Apple's margins on "commodity" hardware like Macbook Airs is 25%+.

Moreover, even if hardware becoming a commodity is the equilibrium result, it's not sensible to go from there to conclude there is no money in hardware. In the long run, in competitive markets, profits tend towards zero anyway. The trick is to make money during shifts from one equilibrium to another. The iPod cash cow seems to be dropping off for Apple now, but in the intervening decade they made boatloads of money on that product.
Joel himselft talked about the difference between vertical and horizontal products, applied to Trello : http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2012/01/06.html
"Hey, go `like' my status update," is less awkward?

Let's be honest: all new platforms and technologies are first used by geeks. Everything will sound geeky for a certain amount of time. Go back to 1980 and ask someone to "Google" you. Let me know how that goes for you.

Also, I believe the past tense of +1 is +1'd, not "plussed".
The rational thing to do is to spend money in a way that maximizes happiness. My favorite paper on the topic (actionable and based on science): http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dtg/DUNN%20GILBERT%20&%20WIL...
That may be fair. In this particular case, I can tell you we respond to Trello outages the same we'd respond to FogBugz or Kiln outages, so your concern should be minimal.
>From the manufacturers' point of view, virgin Android doesn't have anything to tie you to their brand. They're looking at the PC market, where Dell, HP, Lenovo etc. all have the same interface, consumers have no brand loyalty, there's fierce competition on price, and margins are razor thin.

But is there anything actually useful in these software additions? It looks like it's just skins, and maybe some clock and weather widgets. Do people actually say, "I want to buy another HTC/Samsung phone because they have that widget."? Manufacturers actually do add their own software onto PCs as well, but it's all shit and bloatware. The closest to useful software from a hardware vendor that I've seen (outside of the exception of Apple) is software for individual components, like EVGA video cards or ASUS motherboards.

It's like the hardware manufacturers usually don't think about the actual utility of the software they're putting on the PCs/phones, and the only point of it is some kind of brand differentiation. Which is absurd, when you think about it.
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At the same time, I assume a standard like that only applies to people designing drainage systems for sale within the EU.

Presumably if you are a corporation looking to design and sell drainage systems, £720 to gain access to the relevant standards is a relatively small cost in the grand scheme of things.
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The authorship information has nothing to do with hosting your content on Blogger. You can publish your work anywhere you choose and enable authorship by following the instructions here:

https://plus.google.com/authorship
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My dad was unlucky enough to be a victim of these guys. I was surprised, being a lawyer for so many decades, that he didn't realize that no one at Microsoft is that nice as to give you a call because your machine is slow.

Common sense people!
Except you're missing the trap and loop : )
Not if you're honest about what you're having the conversation about. They know you are doing research for a startup idea. You can even generalize the question... "What do you think solving this problem is worth to businesses in your industry?"
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I pretty much do what you do, although it often leads to a rabbit trail of backtracking to pick up prerequisite concepts.
That's a pretty awesome kicker to the question, I'd never thought of it in quite those terms.
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My partner recently bought a (backless) saddle-chair which I immediately mocked. Having sat on it for a few days though it has really grown on me.

I tend to favour the ergonomic kneeling chairs myself, and I'm on my second in ten years. This time it came from the local Argos store, fwiw.
> How did you miss that?

It's largely inconsequential. Google's search has progressed to the point that content farms are easily identified and penalized. I don't need to opt-in to a special club to bear the benefits of this. And my blog isn't a source of income, so I could frankly care less about who steals what.

> The point the author made was that it won't "force you down a path", rather it will lure you with capabilities.

But G+ is very clearly trying to force itself on everyone, despite the proclamations of this fellow. And _my_ point was that I'm NOT lured by these capabilities, despite the fact that the author seems to conclude that he's discovered some kind of universal truths with regards to web services.

> Anyone who refuses to enhance their capability out of sheer stubborness is someone I will NEVER do business with.

You will do what your clients require or go broke maintaining that POV; clients are stubborn by nature, and if you take the "my way or the highway" route then they will indeed take the highway. For the vast majority of us here, we are lucky to have clients -- not the other way around.

edit: I wish you people would comment if you're going to downvote. What was so patently offensive about this?
What still bothers me about PHP is the split personality between the old parts (global functions, bad defaults), and the newer OO parts. I want a proper string object that is natively unicode. I want methods on my primitives like in javascript.

I've done some experimenting with meta-programming that into PHP, but it should really be done at the language level.

(For anyone interested, this is my experiment: https://github.com/jsebrech/php-o )
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