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>>avoids the psychology wherein no vacation is had, which is toxic

Define vacations, if its synonymous with going away(traveling) to some other place, I would say vacations are first world luxuries. Especially in the US, its easier for your guys because the basic thing required to travel namely food, travel prices and hotel accommodation are relatively cheaper. Also international travel is easy since you almost get Visa to any where if you are a US citizen. And for most US citizens dollar having a higher exchange rate is huge plus.

In most middle class families in India, you would be shrugged as a spent thrift for spending a lot of money while your peer is saving money to buy his own house.
It looks as if your HN posting is an other bad case of HN censorship. 17 points in two hours, but it does not show up in News or ask. So someone with power banned it.
Essay != fiction. Magazines publish excerpts from books that are about to be published, or have recently been published. In addition, writers try to sell their work, whether it's fiction or non-fiction.
Almost true. In most cases of stalking, you're right, because there is no evidence of mental illness.

To your point--no psychiatrist will institutionalize someone on your testimony, but a judge might. Depending on the state, a judge can send a person on a 72-hour court order to a psychiatric facility on the basis of an affidavit from a concerned party. If you can convince the judge, which in my state is apparently not difficult, the person wins a psychiatric admission.
If you feel guilty or pressured when taking vacation then perhaps you need to find a better company. The mind and body need breaks.
awesome project, wanna use this, thanks for ur hard work!
We need to think beyond mind maps. Not everyone is able to understand it.
Interesting idea. I think some engineering teams might pay for it too.
I think of him also as the first programmer to start a public blog (via his .plan files - http://floodyberry.com/carmack/plan.html)
FDIC says it is also a good internal control policy - force people to take a 2 week vacation as a means to mitigate fraud.

http://www.fdic.gov/news/news/financial/1995/fil9552.html
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Small claims has really low limits, here in NC it's $5000 dollars, and according to the text they're 8 months behind. Which would be a /really/ low rate to fit in small claims.

edit: Texas has higher limits at $10000. I still think it's likely that their owed debts exceed 10k.
Employers have used diplomas as a signal in the past, but signals can and do change, and I would argue is changing. I can't help but feel the recent UW announcement about allowing auto didactics to obtain a degree without the class time is their realization of this.
I have to admit I had the same feeling. In the book that inspired a movie based on a true story, Nareen is James Lasdun writing a memoir while stalking a student named Nareen.
The basic idea is that people who assume things will work out make better decisions. If you think you will be successful, individual interactions take on less importance, and you can execute in an efficient way.
I can't even believe there WAS a shopping cart patent.

I mean, what?

How else are you supposed to do it?

I mean.. seriously? They patented the concept of keeping track of things a customer intends to buy?

If no one had ever done this before, how many people would arrive a this solution tomorrow?

It's not hard to implement and absurdly obvious to even think of.
While he is completely correct, and I don't see this changing at all, I dislike that this is what app development has become.
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Ouch, I guess it was fun while it lasted.
As an aside, is it correct that John Carmack is a billionaire?
"And so all the software basically wants to be in the same place, and it wants to be in the place where all the open source software is."

This doesn't really make sense to me. I can use open source software from anywhere. I'm not convinced that there is some huge enterprise business out of that logic.
Why? App developers look to what's selling and do better at it? Isn't that the usual software ecosystem at work, just like biological evolution. This is always how software has evolved, it's just that now, we have tools that largely do a product manager's job.
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Basically, as Nasreen had discovered, you can pretend to be anyone you want when you forward an article, and she had decided to pretend to be my old program director.

Does the general public really not realise that this is true of any email?

Perhaps there's a need for some kind of campaign to remind the population at large that the From: address on an email is no more reliable than the sender address typed on the back of an envelope.
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I love the feature list at https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.0

Seriously, LibreOffice is starting to feel very advanced! I'm wondering how long it will take before it will surpass Microsoft Office!
What I think is more important than vacation time is the ability to take time off for a doc appt., dentist appt., go see the kids play at school, take a walk around, because you're sick.

Also, freedom from incompatible work environments would be nice. It is way too noisy where I work. At the very least they should provide nice ($300-400) noise cancellation headphones without me having to beg.
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Jonathan, thanks for the post. Did you do the Braid Linux version yourself by the way, or did you get some external help in order to produce it ? From there on, based on your sentiment, does this mean that your upcoming games will not support Linux, or that you will let someone else take care of it ?
Oh don't get me wrong, I completely understand why developers do it and completely respect them for going that route. I just wish there would be more of an incentive to create apps that are more innovative and complex than quick-to-produce addictive apps.
You are correct that if students were assigned in some biased manner it could invalidate any relationship between teacher quality and subsequent student performance.

That is exactly what makes this study interesting. All the students were assigned randomly! Much like in a randomized medical study this allows the establishment of a causal relationship.
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> Throw away your sexy idea

While I doubt very much that this advice is bad per se, it does seem to run counter to the spirit of HN. It's true that there's no inherent tension between pushing the envelope and being successful (read: making money), but I imagine that most of those involved in the startup world are there precisely because making money isn't enough for them.
I love Löve as well, but yeah, the 3rd party library names are pretty infantile. It would probably have been hilarious when I was 12 though...
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> Apple, in particular, imposes a 30% cut in profits on everything that is run on their devices and decide what users are allowed to run or not!

Not to get too snarky here, but piracy is so rampant on Android that it's practically unprofitable to target as a platform unless you already have a well-known product or get extremely lucky. Granted, one could argue that those things are required to see a profit on iOS as well, but at least you have a reasonable enough guarantee that the vast majority of people using your app have paid you for it.

> Although the general population aren't necessarily aware of this, it has a huge impact on the trend setting enthusiasts and early adopters.

In what way is Apple's 30% profit cut having a huge impact on users and what is your source? I don't see how such a developer issue has any relevance to the general public. If you're referring to the control over what users install, I think you're greatly overestimating the technical prowess of the general public and their desire to install custom software on their cell phones. These are things only techies care about, and they are outnumbered by the people who just make phone calls and post to Facebook.

> The masses are not that clueless either. Just the other day I was talking to an non techy parametric, someone pulled out an iPhone and he went on a rant about how Apple controls their devices and takes away freedoms.

With all due respect, one person random about freedoms on their smartphone is hardly "the masses".
Personally, I thought evolution through natural selection was pretty intuitive and obvious, given the previous instruction on how DNA and chromosomes worked. If everything changed a little bit, and only the good changes stayed, then they'd all stack up and constitute a big change!

DNA and chromosomes were pretty unintuitive, but we have pictures of those, so that helped.

Also, I think Occam's razor applies even if you're a young person who hasn't heard of it yet: with no previous knowledge on the subject, I am wont to accept the simplest explanation that doesn't contradict reality without much skepticism.
"Our community can be somewhat insular and we forget the incredible value that higher education provides to the job market at large, and as unemployment rates rise, the disparity grows and makes education more valuable, not less."

Unemployment rates (or levels of income, for that matter) by education attainment are not particularly interesting, in my opinion. People who are smart and motivated generally go to college, so it is difficult to measure them against smart and motivated people who did not go to college.
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The spellchecker works better in OO. I would not write it off. Its a big world. There are millions of users.
Have you ever submitted a theme to ThemeForest? They require you to place the two licenses in your submission and will reject your submission if they're missing or altered.

Author certainly can do whatever they want; Themeforest will just reject the submission until the author does what they want.
Here's a link to a presentation Isaac did back in mid-November about the same topic. It'd be interesting to see how it has evolved since then.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3685/presentations/streams2/streams...
And then a lot of game programmers would disagree :)

I for one just learned to love doubles...
Can another tactic be employed in this battle against patent trolls?...

Public education programs targeted to residents of East Texas. Documentaries, billboards, sophisticated advertising campaigns, unsophisticated advertising campaigns on 7-11 cups, etc. Whatever communicates to the residents.

i.e. don't say "you hillbillies are stupid pawns", but use a marketing campaign that speaks to the residents. For example "people claiming to hold patents are destroying freedom -- they're like people trying to take away all your gun rights".

Whatever works to enlighten.

This tactic is not intended to be a silver bullet, but part of a no holds barred effort to battle this ridiculous patent nonsense. Weaken troll's ability to exploit the Eastern District of Texas (while more directed efforts to solve this problem continue).
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Ireland and the Philippines both stand out in recent events. Thankfully the influence of the RCC has been slipping in both in recent years.
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In the end, its a big washing machine, the good apps will inevitably rise above poor ones, but sometimes it just takes a bit longer. I felt he's just suggesting ways to remove some of the initial obstacles to selling an app.
How does this relate to startups, software dev or anything remotely related to what HN stands for?
Why isn't it important that you can't really sell games on Linux too well? Even for a free game, this affects popularity greatly.

It seems incredible that you would not even mention this for the entire post?
Except in Bangkok, where I live, the iPhone is still by every indicator the most wanted phone. You see iPhones more often, the iPhone 5 is the most predominantly advertised device by carries themselves, and the iPhone 4 is cheap enough that plenty of people I know have said they considered a cheap Android but decided to go for an iPhone 4 instead.

If Apple has any problem, it's that the iPhone 4 is good enough for many people.
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Absolutely agree. I worked pretty much non-stop for a 2 month period (being in grad school as well as a full-time SWE) last year. When I finally took a break (holiday shut down) I was surprised do discover how exhausted I truly was.
If you're on a mac try "Scrapple". I had the same issue and Scrapple is incredible.
Being able to simultaneously develop in an imperative language (C#) and also a functional language (F#) at the same time on a project can be very appealing depending on what one is doing. With .net or mono, it makes it pretty easy to switch between them.

Sometimes I like having the power to use a functional language for a certain task, but would rather not develop an entire project with one. C# does have functional abilities (Linq), but it's not quite the same.
Perhaps the random factor is which devices you have tried. I haven't had a problem with this for literally years, though I don't dispute that some people have problems, this is because of the state of the drivers for the specific device.

When Microsoft owns the vast majority of the desktop market forever, and vendors do not make it a priority to support Linux, it shouldn't be a surprise that new hardware is being sold which is not well supported on Linux.
I don't think there is a better and we need to stop thinking in such polarized ways. People are different. Some people excel with formal direction, other excel on their own, and some people excel with all kinds of combinations in between.
I would also add http://open.gl (OpenGL 3.2) to the list.
I've been impressed by the quality of these Airbnb talks recently...
Is this like Wired's infamous "Japan Hates The iPhone" story from three years ago? Both stories are based entirely on anecdotes and marketshare percentages, which are percentages of a total--it doesn't mean sales are going down.

Overall, a very weak article lacking convincing evidence of any sort of trend.
Hah hah. Ignorance like you display is a special skill, honed over many years and with much effort. I wondered how long it would take you to call me a racist for expecting black kids to learn what everyone else learns.

Are black kids too dumb to learn standard American English? Who is the racist here?
US medical education is provably inefficient. You can take a sufficiently intelligent 17 year old and give them a top notch medical education in five years. In Ireland and the UK Medicine is an undergraduate degree and takes five or six years depending on the university. If you got rid of summers off you could do it very comfortably in four. Making medicine a second entry degree is a giant waste of social resources.
"The actual people who run the world are uneducated, ignorant garbage, but I'll step over that issue for now."

Who are these people?
>Hell, even last week, I've upgraded a server on Archlinux and it totally broke my system without any warning. I really needed help so I went on #archlinux and I've been told that I should have read the archlinux news before tempting an update. Fair enough, I guess.. but I can understand that on a extremely tight schedule, games developers can't waste time on stuff like that. Compared to say, [next] [next] [finish] windows install where everything just Work.

I don't think Arch is a fair comparison to make. The Arch wiki describes it as:
"Arch Linux is an independently developed, i686/x86-64 general purpose GNU/Linux distribution versatile enough to suit any role. Development focuses on simplicity, minimalism, and code elegance. Arch is installed as a minimal base system, configured by the user upon which their own ideal environment is assembled by installing only what is required or desired for their unique purposes. GUI configuration utilities are not officially provided, and most system configuration is performed from the shell and a text editor. Based on a rolling-release model, Arch strives to stay bleeding edge, and typically offers the latest stable versions of most software." [1]

I use Ubuntu primarily, but use Windows exlusivly to use LabView for a local robotics team. I have had issues with both systems. The difference for me is that when the issue was with Ubuntu, I can norally get it back to a workable state withing 10 minutes, or if desperate do a full reinstall in under an hour after which point I have all of my same programs installed, and my configurations/user data restored. When my problem is with windows, solving it is a full days work (or more).
[1]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Linux
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To put it simply, in Android's current state, you will never see a competitive Garageband clone due to the latency and missing features of the audio technology in the OS.
What resonated with me was the sinking feeling you get when you're defending yourself to a third party, thinking or knowing that the stalker has already put in place some counter-evidence to your rebuttal.

It's important to develop a strong emotional instinct of conviction based on your own beliefs rather than the natural method of holding convictions viz. based on what is popular knowledge at that time.
I understand that the recent pattern has been that settling with one troll brings more out of the woodwork.

Once that becomes common knowledge, I think it has to change the calculation. Settling is no longer about how much the troll in front of you is asking for; it's about the unknown number behind them in line, as well.

While it certainly sucks to have to bet your company to get these trolls to go away, if the alternative is for dozens of them to bleed you slowly dry, the bet may seem more worth taking.
I found some desktop versions of image processing software, but it doesn't seem like I can implement it online. Any more ideas?
We need more of this. A lot more. We also need to stigmatize law-firms willing to take-on patent troll clients.

Looking at the companies who got sued by these trolls one can only wonder why it is that these companies don't unite to create a legal and financial firewall of sorts to go against trolls each and every time they stick their heads out of the slime they live in. All you really need is for trolls to be summarily destroyed for a few years to create the conditions for change.

I have not bought anything from Newegg in a long, long time. Sometimes I almost instinctively just buy through Amazon. Now it will be different. Because I admire, respect and appreciate what Newegg did here I will do my small part and move whatever business I can their way. It's my own little way of saying "thank you" to a company that didn't just stand-up for themselves but rather for all of us.

Maybe if enough of us chose to vote with our cash more companies might be convinced to fight trolls rather than cave in.
I don't think that would work. When we set up our company handbook, we had to include an actual number of vacation days, even though we have an minimum-number-of-days policy. I think Trinet (HR-as-a-service) made us.
A mentally ill person - even one who is criminally so - is still a person, and not "the animal". Maybe you're just trying to hammer home the predator/hunt thing, but it still sounds really wrong to me. Whatever bad thing happened to you, don't let it corrupt your own sense of humanity.
> I've upgraded a server on Archlinux and it totally broke my system without any warning. I really needed help so I went on #archlinux and I've been told that I should have read the archlinux news before tempting an update. Fair enough, I guess.. but I can understand that on a extremely tight schedule, games developers can't waste time on stuff like that.

"Be careful with updates, they might break things" is common advice. "Let other people apply the service packs, and see what the problems are, before you go ahead" was (is?) common advice for people running some MS server stuff.
No, I have never submitted anything there. But it makes little difference: You can say whatever you want on your website, and give any license you like.

They have no say in the matter - they aren't getting an exclusive license after all. The author is free to provide a second license to anyone they like.
I would prefer that these were not titled "Airbnb Tech Talk: xxx." I always click on them thinking I'm going to learn about Airbnb infrastructure, which is not the case, and the title then feels like just recruiting/advertising for the company.
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I'm with you on the intent aspect of the law, but I think there is a chance that the switch from torrent files to magnet links might have some effect on a non-technical person's thinking. In one instance you're "offering files for download", in another you're "linking". The intent could be the same, the technology could be essentially the same, but it may change the perception.
No credentials? It's a bit of a throwaway list without that. I'd like to know what successful apps he's made using these specific recommendations.
I couldn't agree more. My startup, Nulu ( http://www.nulu.com/ ) , is focused on two big things: bringing people new and interesting content every day (we use news content as the basis for learning) and super high quality support (native speaker translation done at the phrase level, as well as professional voice artist audio for the whole story).

Check it out, and let me know whether it's useful to you! We do English for Spanish speakers and Spanish for English speakers right now, with many more languages to come.
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>I'm sure all $1 they'd be able to get for that property would really help boost their training budget...

From the article: "his mortgage-free property is worth more than $1 million."
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> The Zapruder film clearly shows Kennedy being hit from the front when approaching the grassy knoll.

No, it doesn't.

http://karws.gso.uri.edu/jfk/issues_and_evidence/zapruder_fi...

> And when the official government story has a single magic bullet making 7 injuries by going in all crazy directions

Another lie:

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/sbt.htm

> Well it was a conspiracy theory that become true, actually.

You're confusing the issue by bringing up an irrelevant matter. The phrase 'conspiracy theory' has a definite definition in English and it isn't just a theory that involves a conspiracy. It's a theory about a massive conspiracy involving many people over a long span of time. Words (and a noun phrase is a 'word') have meanings based on usage, not logic.
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I only recently warmed up to Podcasts, actually wrote a blog post with short "reviews" of my subscription list this weekend: http://neubertify.tumblr.com/post/41503145301/podcasts

I think of all online publishing media, podcasts are the hardest to execute well, harder than blogs, and harder than video. This might not be true for everyone, but while I can tolerate shitty writing and shitty video editing, I just can't stand bad audio production. Bad speaking, weird accents, breathing sounds, "uhm", each of those steal divert my attention from the content.

If you decide to start a podcast, please get some professional production help. One podcast I found that is not produced by NPR but still doing a good job (as well as being relevant to the HN crowd) is "This Developer's Life" (http://www.thisdeveloperslife.com).
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