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I disagree, actually -- according to speedtest.net we are both in the 1%. A 5Mbits upgrade to a 20Mbits connection is significant.

http://imageshack.us/scaled/landing/11/speedtestga.jpg
(edit: does anyone here have a faster connection to the place where he lives?)

(Typically its much slower (esp wrt latency, but throughput too, around 25ms/90Mbit/s down) though because for normal surfing I usually just use WLAN.)
Even then I'm not sure Office is as portable as Windows is. As far as I know it never moved outside x86.
Of course racism was prevalent at the time, but does that discredit all arguments against putting cocaine in soda? Can we say that the social ill-effects are completely imaginary just because at the time concern was focused on blacks? The article seems to be suggesting this, but stops short of saying "let's start drinking cocaine again". Is the journalist ultimately unconvinced by his own arguments?
I disagree on "quite effectively"; they don't let me see quite a lot of content from work because they think I'm not in the UK, even though I physically am a licence payer in London.

To add to the insanity though, I can't see this article either.
I am sure they aren't and I did not mean to suggest they are. When it comes to what backend to hook your static stuff to, it's just a matter of personal preference. All I am saying is that its harder in some parts of the world where Wordpress is still looked at as the cheapest, most viable option.
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> "if there's a larger point, it's that as an industry we have the collective memory of a goldfish on crack."

Which is probably more a reflection of our age-ism and the fact that 'hot new approach' is typically embraced as 'hot' and 'new' by people who were in primary school the last time it was popular.

That said, as long as people are throwing out 'the way' for something else, I think that counts as a revolution. Regardless of whether the new thing is actually new.

Neither democracies nor republics were particularly 'new' in the late 18th century. But their popular re-application was still a pretty big deal.
"Blackberry UK head, Stephen Bates sticks to his PR script. The script doesn't help him."

I love the segue back to the compere's...

Q: "What went wrong?"

A: "The boss wants to focus on what went right..."
Orwell learned about Big Brother when he worked at the BBC, that's where the phrase "Big Brother" came from.

http://www.corbettreport.com/episode-253-the-bbc-exposed/
I think the rest of the UK is different. iPhone ownership goes hand in hand with a certain level of disposable income and fashion sensitivity. Androids dominate the lower end of the smartphone market, but people commuting by tube are not in that bracket.

People who live in London and commute by tube automatically fall into an above-average income bracket. In my experience they're far more likely to have the disposable income to get an iPhone over a cheaper smartphone.
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when it works, it works great. I always get the checksum failure messages, or errors in unrar returning a non 0 status code... eventually after multiple attempts of rm -rf ~/.ievms

and re-running the script will "sometimes" eventually work... it is the best option i know of for sure, but still not as easy as at least never been easy for me here...
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i am doing CBT (not often though, busy travelling work schedule). I suffer from bipolar I, and while the medication was the one thing that just completely changed my life, CBT is there to help me to:

- figure out my mood. this is about keeping checklists on how long i sleep, how i feel, if i took my medication, if i ate correctly. this sounds terribly stupid, but it is very hard for me to even understand what i am feeling. seeing a little graph that tells me "you have been sleeping 16 hours a day for the last 2 weeks, and now you are barely able to sleep for 3 hours, something is going on" is very helpful.

- figure out what i need to do when certain patterns have been recognized. this is for example upping up on sports, being careful about diet, going out to see people when i'm in the down phase. and conversely cutting down on sports, going out, meditation (which makes me way too energetic and stimulated), stimulants when being too far up.

- figuring out my own personal triggers and signs for depression. this is starting to come along, and these are kind of "personal" things. if i want a new tatoo, or learn a new skill or programming language, i should be careful because this is what usually accompanies mania.

it also involves meeting with other people with the same illness, and just for a few hours every year feeling that you are not the only one in that mess.

an interesting thing about the mood graphs is suddenly realizing that a lot of these mood swings actually come out of the blue, or are more related to seasonal effects. it is my brain tricking me into finding causes and patterns and reasons. i don't want to commit suicide because nobody loves me, it's more i think nobody loves me because i am depressed because i haven't gone out for 2 weeks and missed out on my medication 3 days in a row. or because it is december.

i find CBT (at least with the practictioner i have) to be a very no-bullshit pragmatic approach to handling the psychological side of the illness.

but seriously (and in a way, thank god i have bipolar), medication works extremely well, and the one i take (lamictal) has almost no side effect.
The process of logging in with a third-party account takes about as much time as filling out a name, email address and a password into a form. Since I can even get my browser to auto-fill my name and email address and auto-generate a random password, creating "yet another account" (a couple of clicks, no typing at all) is actually less hassle for me than logging in with some other account and then going through a scary-looking authorization prompt. In fact, apart from Stack Overflow, I can't remember a single website where my identity is tied to another account of mine.
Tell that to my organization, which is still stuck in IE7 despite a paid-up ongoing IT services contract. They even managed to block out Google Chrome Frame somehow.
Sounds like you're thinking of "receptionist". Secrataries then did all the things you attribute to administrative assistants now.

I actually had a secratary at my first job out of school, albeit a shared one between a dozen of us. It was awesome. Think of it as having "The Internet", but with a flawless voice interface, combined with a service to take away every trivial nuisance unrelated to the core of your job.

You'd pick up the phone, say "I need to fly to LA on Wednesday morning, returning Friday evening", and a few hours later an envelope with airline tickets, hotel reservation and rental car details would appear on your desk.

Until you mentioned it, I hadn't thought about how much I miss having that.
Not long now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperloop
The vision was to have phase as the foundation for evolve.

We had some discussions as far back as mid-2010, at the time the feature was called LiquidHg. The first step was phase (differentiate between changeset states), and now it's evolve (make it flow).
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Even more irrelevantly, I'm rather impressed at how quickly Google has indexed this. When searching for that, rather splendid, phrase this page ranks top.
Technically under the directive, any storage of information on the user's system should have the full consent of the user, with the exception of information which is strictly necessary for the functioning of the service requested by the user (see 2009 amendment to the original directive[1]).

Consequently, it's not necessarily at the determination of a lawyer, but I think the ICO has acknowledged that this is a difficult proposition so is taking a softer approach to enforcement.

At the very least the distinction could very easily be drawn between cookies which facilitate the sharing of information on the user's usage of multiple sites, to cookies which deal solely with the user's usage of the site where the cookie is set.

[1] http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2...
That's not the correct way to analyze P/E. Looking at that number in a vacuum is nigh on meaningless. P/E is best analyzed as a relative measure within a given market (in this case, online retailers w/ no brick and mortar presence).

That said, there are exceptions to every rule. I'm not aware of any other companies that currently exhibit such a high P/E.
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I've been developing a tool in my spare time to help make finding student properties easier at my university.

One of the steps in making this a successful venture is to get the local estate agents on board. I have emailed one of them my pitch and got asked the question "Please could you let me know what sort of funding you would be looking for to develop this?".

How would you go about answering this question? initially the project was going to be B2C with a premium option however B2B is looking promising, but I'm stumped.
Yes, I wanted to keep it simple. The fact is that that proxy (the browser) is the problem, and is also where the solution lies, not in the subset people that Dutch law happens to apply to who make use of that proxy to obtain your keys.
What I don't understand is why WordPress would be cheaper than other forms of PHP software? Most smaller PHP frameworks such as Slim Framework or Laravel require even less memory than WordPress and could easily be installed on a small web hosting account.
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A cup of coca tea contains about 1/5th of a line of cocaine, apparently: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca_tea

EDIT: This drink sounds kind of interesting.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca_Colla
I agree entirely -- I've been telecommuting for ten years now, and this is easily the #1 reason the recruitment process fails with me (with small companies as well as large).
> The top job for American men, for example, is truck driver.

Really? I have trouble believing that. All I could find is articles like this: http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2012/10/31/employers-desperate-...
That's truly great!
Add versioning and ajax support to it and it's perfect!
Github does (read the terms of service) but I can't recall when they enforced it:

"One person or legal entity may not maintain more than one free account."

https://help.github.com/articles/github-terms-of-service Section A7
So, I have asked this question many times but never got an answer. Fellow HN users, please tell me:

>> What is the USP of BlackBerry?

I've met many people who use BB and I have no idea why. And all the answers were like this guy's answers.
Yes, but not that small. I used an old laptop previously and it was much larger, louder and used more electricity.
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Yes Coca-Cola used to have cocaine in it. Everybody learns that in middle school. Why is this on HN? Honestly. This would be a bad repost on reddit. Disappointed to see it so highly upvoted here.
Agreed, strongly recommended. My Mom's a librarian, and she's given it to dozens of people over the years; back in the 1990s she even bought a dozen paperbacks on sale and would mail them to friends who were having problems.
RIM seem to have form on this sort of thing...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/9456798.s...

From one extreme to another it appears!
The user doesn't have the same fine-grained control. In the case of HTTP cookies you can control whether session cookies are permitted independently of whether persistent cookies are allowed. I believe no such control exists in the domain of local storage.
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That's crazy! Maybe the most ridiculous drug-related story of all has to be the Opium Wars the British fought in China so they could continue to sell opium to the Chinese masses. True story. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Opium_War

(Ever see the portrayal of Marijuana's illegalization at the beginning of Pineapple Express?)
"...necessary use of cookies as a mechanic of the website [operation]..."

My shopping cart cookie that tracks you across multiple websites is necessary because it keeps my prices lower than my competition giving me the competitive advantage and my customers a better price on the things they want.

Your turn.
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Wait- the Dutch are their own race? It might be a cultural slur, akin to "paddy-wagon" but racism? I think not.
I think it really depends on what you are doing and how your company culture has adapted to that.

For example, my company's work in the biomedical space often necessitates us being in partner and customer labs to best understand workflows. While it's possible for us to have some elements of our development be remote, we strongly prefer keeping things local; we believe it's important for everyone on the team to have exposure to the domain we work in. This is a cultural choice we've made, but it does make remote work tricky.
Context:

HMV (a high street chain of record stores in the UK and Ireland) went into administration a few weeks ago, with most stores closing a few days later.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21021073
Possibly because we have beginner hackers amongst us :)

I think HN is a good place for hackers of all shapes, sizes and experiences.
It's all about trust. Can the employer trust the employee to work honestly and be dedicated to the company without having another job or occasional project on the side. When startup is small, every minute of focus counts.

Easiest way to make this work is to give developers enough equity, so they are motivated for startup to succeed more or equally as getting the paycheck. Eric's POV stands, but he's a co-founder, he has a significant stake in the success of the company.
I've been working remotely for 1 year and 3 months. The company I'm working for checks in once a week for about 20 minutes, other than that all communication is done through basecamp. I have to admit it's really hard for me and I just handed in my two weeks notice. I feel so isolated working from home and not being around other co-workers. I miss seing and interacting with other people. I'll be looking for a new job in New York next month and I'm really excited.

Why do you guys want to work from home? Isn't the isolation during the working hours hard on you?
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Does anyone know what the actual physiological effects of cocaine delivered in a syrupy soda are? I have to guess it was very small amounts to begin with, and maybe not all that bioavailable orally to begin with.

Whenever there are these stories about cocaine in original Coca Cola, I'm curious about how much the trace cocaine actually did in the original version of the soda.
Just a heads up - Since submitting this at around 730am EST, Politico has changed the article's title (which the submission mirrored).
"Doing business" is also complicated.

We're a Dutch not-for-profit, running under a US .org domain name, with some servers hosted in Germany, and our visitors come from everywhere.

Right now the decision is only to annoy Dutch visitors (based on IP), but I've been waiting to implement it until there is some clarity.
If $4000/month won't pay his rent, he's (or maybe you) are living in the wrong country/region.
A clustered signal processing application I previously worked on used custom middleware with perfmon2[1] built into it for collecting performance counter data across all MPI nodes the application was running on. The framework for multiple nodes is not all that difficult.

[1] http://perfmon2.sourceforge.net/
You are describing more of a receptionist/secretary type job. The secretary job that was common for a few decades and now rarely exists was essentially replaced by the PC. The required skills were things like typing, taking dictation, shorthand, filing systems.

That was back when inbox was next to outbox and sat on a desk.
"As a general point of cynicism (and that seems to be my mood today) - did nobody ever have a small, general purpose computer before the Raspberry Pi came along?"

Of course, but the Pi has dropped the price point considerably. The Beagle Board targets a similar market but is several times as expensive: http://beagleboard.org/
> This entire argument boils down to "if you don't want to get raped, don't wear short skirts in public".

This is a ridiculous comparison. Lets not go that way.

> Such activities require opt-in and informed consent, and standard browser functionality doesn't even come close to supporting that.

Yes, as I said that's where the problem lies, so that's what should be altered. This can either be done by education, or by making the browser more resilient (e.g. let the browser do opt-in for all cookies or at least cookies sent via stuff embedded in other web pages like Google analytics and Facebook like buttons). The current solution of forcing Dutch websites to display popups is a farce as I explained because (A) it doesn't actually protect your privacy in any meaningful way (B) it's annoying. By giving a false sense of privacy it actually makes the problem worse.

Privacy laws should be about protecting privacy in general, not about a specific technology like cookies. There are plenty of genuine applications of cookies (keeping you logged in to HN for example), and there are plenty of ways for Facebook to track you without using cookies that they would happily switch to if this law applied to them (but note that those methods cannot be used to keep you logged in to HN because they are not secure so that might give somebody else access to your account -- but Facebook doesn't care about 100% reliability for tracking purposes, 99% is enough).
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It works for some people and not for others.

Some people have experience with folks 'working from home' that are not 100% positive. Some folks (like me) have experiences working remotely that are not 100% positive.

And yes, casual, face to face communication is an important dynamic, even for tech workers.
Your point is taken, but it seems to me that if my employer can't trust me to work remotely, then they shouldn't hire me at all. How can you employ (or work for) someone you can't trust?
> Why do you guys want to work from home? Isn't the isolation during the working hours hard on you?

I think the ideal thing would be an office about a block away from where I live. I am pretty happy being back in an office myself, but hate the commute.
True, the games should be in moderation as well, but I have seen numerous instances of negligence on part of parents.
Your kid is 12, why let him play PG-13 games? A lot of people, need to be strict in this case.

this is indeed a very complex situation, like a algorithm, for which we know one of the 'possible answers' but not the answer as of yet.

On a second thought, I do think thats not the best possible example :/
They have Amazon.es too.
Fuck this shit.

We need to have sympathy. Not because we've diagnosed someone with a disease, but because they're a person.

Rates of depression are skyrocketing all over the developed world and whatever we're doing clearly isn't working. Personally, I think the most obvious issue is that a group of intelligent people have simply accepted the notion that what's relevant isn't someone's life circumstances, but some vague and baseless notion of "abnormal brain chemistry".

The idea of depression is a miserable cop-out, it's simply victim-blaming. We say that there is something wrong with their brains, rather than saying that there is something wrong with society. If someone is unhappy, we need to support them. It is a dismal failure of our humanity if we require the justification of medical necessity to show basic compassion.

Swartz had obvious reasons to be miserable and obvious reasons to want to kill himself. We failed him, we fucked up. He didn't die of a disease, he killed himself because he quite justifiably felt that the circumstances of his life were intolerable. We didn't do enough as a community to support him and protect him. He was a young and vulnerable man, bearing the wrath of a spiteful government. It's shameful for us to even consider for a moment that there might be something wrong with Swartz's brain, when our failures to care for him are so obvious.

If we need a scientific explanation for why we should care about each other, that's our problem. If we require a doctor's say-so to provide support for someone in difficulty, that's our disease.
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It depends.

There are workflows that don't need you to be in the office. There are workflows that need you to be in the office almost every day. And there are workflows in between.

Some people can't effectively work from home. After a while, they stop doing what they're supposed to be doing. Some people have no problems with that.

Every job is different, every person is different, every company is different. No one answer will fit every situation.
100% agree. I'm in a similar position. I will not move from where I live; I like the friends and hobbies I have here way too much. There is absolutely no reason in this day and age why the type of work we do has to be done onsite. The hundreds (probably more) companies working this way are a testament to this fact, and there would probably be even more companies doing it this way if it wasn't for inertia, tradition or just plain old CYA ("but if we do something different and fail, the shareholders will hold me accountable!"). To add insult to injury, I am easily measurably more productive when telecommuting, and I'm sure I'm not alone.

Conjure up any wishy-washy "reasons" or anecdotes why you have to be onsite, but I've yet to see any facts to back up the position that onsite all the time is better.
An excellent, cheap plan if you've never set up samba etc. before. To those rolling their eyes at a "toy" solution (and it's better than that), when you _do_ need a bit more performance and more discs I'd highly recommend one of these http://www.ebuyer.com/281915-hp-proliant-turion-ii-n40l-micr... which HP have been practically giving away for years (£89 after cashback!) - a bit larger & faster than a Pi, 1GiB RAM, four hot-swap drive bays and gigabit ethernet.
My IT shop tried working from home for a couple of years and the team fragmented, we lost a sense of teamwork, and we started wondering what each other are doing. A new CIO mandated working from the office and it has made for a much better culture and collaboration environment. There's definitely something you lose when you don't work in the office with your fellow team members.
Nope, you're still tracking someone without their consent, your reason is nothing to do with the technical operation of your website.

Keep trying though, this is entertaining.
@BudVVeezer you mean, you are trying to get into a physical office and the recruiters won't consider your 10y of telecommuting as real experience ?
we're 30 strong and 100% remote at dito. we don't have an office. it's pretty great. we live on google apps and other collaborative tools that make this an advantage, rather than a sacrifice. our employees are dedicated, work hard, and for the most part, love their jobs. we enjoy seeing each other in person at customer sites and during company events, but for the most part, we use things like uber conference and google hangouts to meet and keep in sync. not to mention google chat.
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In my case, the company I work for is based in California (I started out from there) but I now live in Connecticut. It's been over a year since I last saw them.
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