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It would be absolutely revolutionary if Apple could do it, and it almost seems too good to be true. If that supply chain was opened to anyone else it would be like getting the power of an xBox 360 at $99, forget the raspberry pi.

Now I am not too keen on the video games industry and an insider might have differ, but I've tried to do my fact checking. In a way the device you described for Apple's target specs is what Nintendo did the Wii - and were hugely successful for. They sold 100s of millions of units, and it wasn't sold at a loss so they minted money. However, despite their huge shipments, only Nintendo enjoyed success. The people who bought the Wii, only bought 1 or 2 games (like WiiFit and WiiSports) and it became incredibly hard for third parties to market big budget games to them. Effectively the 3rd party abandoned Nintendo.

Secondly, if the system is not powerful enough, I believe gamers will reject your platform. I believe this is more important than the "No wireless" issue because gamers are the only ones who will spend $59.99 on a big budget game, and as a result 3rd party companies will suffer. You can't sell Call of Duty at 99 cents, and gamers don't want to play a Call of Duty that looks like it was made in 2002.

So the market, I believe splits into 2 groups -
1.) Average folk, who want the box.
2.) "Gamers", who want the software.

We can already see this today. There are Netflix Machines like the Roku (1.) and consoles (PS3). However I believe that the the console guys (Nintendo/Sony) will eventually win out, because they provided the hardware (the hard part) first. Its relatively simple to get the indie devs on your side - open up the platform. But to get the big budget guys on your side you have to convince them that they won't waste 50 million producing the next CoD because it will be drowned out by the likes of Angry Birds and Temple Run.

Lastly, I am not sold on the fact that Apple will be able to push the same numbers as Sony on Apple TV without "big boy" support. If EA is not going to support your system I don't think the Apple Box will sell as much. (the Apple TV only sold 2.7 mill while PS3 sold 10 times as much). While Apple is known as the company that can sell a brick to the masses, I am not sure they can sell 25 million consoles without some big franchise names at launch.
just eat some fungus you can find in the forest. It's natural, rarely dangerous, It'll teach you a lot, but it won't permanently change you unless you want it to.

If you don't know what you're eating, that's very dangerous. Foraging mushrooms without knowing what they are is a terrible idea, because some are deadly.

(I don't think that's what you meant, but in the rural US there are people who forage mushrooms, both for food and drug purposes. It's an awful idea if you don't know what you're doing.)
I totally agree that we need continuing education, such as your analogy of the surgeon, but the article specifically mentions scenarios where the side-jobs are completely unrelated to the primary job. I've witnessed this myself, had a guy working on side-projects while on our dime. He was lucky not to get fired on the spot, because pretty much every employment agreement strictly prohibits working a 2nd paid job while you're using company resources whether that's time during the working day, or the company copier/internet, etc. If you're such a bigshot that you can negotiate the ability to work a 2nd job while on-the-clock for your day job, then more power to you, but I'm sure that's extremely rare.

If you want to experiment with some new tech -- and you've been allocated the time for it by your superior(s) -- then by all means play around. But in my experience, there's typically at most only a few in each department whose formal role includes these types of projects, and they're always skunkworks-like projects that rapid prototyping or POC-like, and never a full implementation (unless you choose to go forward with it of course). This is the essence of R&D, which is there solely to make sure the business survives -- not you.
I believe it would be easier for someone to reply if she (you) can identify at least some areas she can be of value, has any type of experience or even interest alone.
Usually startups are about optimizing value each one adds to the total. For some ideas of areas/skills she could be helpful look this post from today: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5210184
Not that she (or someone else even) has to master all items listed there, but shows what some startups may be looking for (or need help with).
Comparing Box.com with Dropbox is like comparing apples to oranges in my opinion. I have a 100GB dropbox account for personal use and a enterprise Box.com account for work. They are two different service aimed at different markets. Box.com has always primarily been driven by its web interface where I can count the number of times I have used the dropbox interface on one hand.

In a business environment you cant ask your clients to install software on their computers in order to share files with you. First off it may not be allowed by corporate policies or security controls and even if it is allowed would you install software a vendor asked you to install to accommodate their workflow? Box.net is absolutely awesome in a business environment and has allowed me to get rid of insecure FTP servers and clients trying to use their web browsers as FTP clients and blaming us when they did not work. Box.com also allows project managers to create and manage permissions on their own client folders freeing up IT from that task.

In short I would not give up either account.
I think this whole article is a despicable example of the complete fucking subjugation of many in corporate life (the author seems to be a prominent member of this subset.)

Renting my time doesn't mean you own me. Either I produce sufficiently good work for you + you continue to employee me, or I don't and you do not. Beyond that, go fuck yourself.
When I did 2 hits of acid, I had the exact opposite experience of seeing God. The fact that such a tiny amount of a mere chemical could effect my "soul" so profoundly was proof positive that the soul is completely material.

I already believed this intellectually, but this experience solidified this knowledge into my very being. So personally, I would recommended experimenting with a psychedelic or two for those who wish to study Philosophy.

In my experience, LSD dosing is exponential, so I can't fathom what taking a dose thousands of times a typically heavy dose would do to you. People I know who occasionally did like 10 hit doses, never fully returned to reality, if you ask me. I might have an inkling of what it would be like from a few experiences with nitrous, but this lasts for a couple of minutes, not for hours and hours, which would end up making a huge qualitative difference.
Interesting... never seen gist's fall on their face before like that. Here is a direct link if you are still interested: https://gist.github.com/jgable/4091298
I completely agree with you here. If the company leverages everything they have to keep you compensated as low as possible to keep you, then you should in turn leverage all of your work against them and do as little as possible for them to keep you. That's the only honest way to progress society. Reward good business practices with good labor. You aren't doing anyone any long term good by pretending you owe your boss anything. Provide them with the labor they pay for and nothing more. Teach employers that payment can come in a huge variety of ways. From your standard monetary compensation, ranging all the way to simply respect and healthy work environments.
I don't think this is an either or thing here. Coderbits is different from github. Coderbits is about validating claims of proficiency by pulling data from various online sources, and github is one of those sources.

I would say Coderbits in in competition with [Coderwall](https://coderwall.com), and from first impressions, yeah I'd prefer bits over wall. And also in competition with Stack Overflow careers.
His dose was 100 micrograms IM. That's nowhere near lethal for an oral dose.
I figured you created a new account in order to berate PHP and praise Django without giving away your regular HN identity.
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What you are describing has already happened though, just the other way round. Nintendo convinced 100 million people to put hardware in their homes, and then with a simple update included Netflix. However just because people liked the first one, doesn't mean they would want more. The Wii U is selling as well.
Check your employment contract. Some stipulate that any IP you develop while an employee is owned by the company.
Yes.. I sometimes do.

- Steve Ballmer
How about: I co-founded eHome, the business in MS that created Media Center.
I think, essentially, he is saying that you end up spending time maintaining your template, losing much of the benefit of the template, depending on how often you start new apps. I have found this to be true at a certain threshold of complication in the app template. However, if you are indeed starting a brand new Rails app every month, as you said, you likely don't have the same cost, as maintenance to the app template happens on a more regular basis. Even as a consultant, I don't start new Rails apps that often, and side projects tend to involve experimentation outside of what I might consider my "stable" stack.
Employee and employer trust as of late has approached zero. There is noone outside of government that is going to work their entire lives at one corporation, that is ridiculous.

There is no telling if any of the big tech companies will be here in the same form in 15 years, let alone 50.

What if by 2028 POTUS goes standard-oil on google, ms goes bankrupt, apple merges with yahoo?

Stranger things have happened.
There's no shortcut to being an interesting and clever person. You gotta put the hours in.

Agree absolutely. My opinion is that "experience" is just a small part of being spiritual, at least on this side of death. It's nice, but it shouldn't be the primary goal. Experience without a larger context is just insanity.
The point you're missing is that the paid service is subsidizing the $200 price, much like my useless Good Vibes service subsidizes the $1 price. As both AT&T and Sprint indicate on their websites, the straight-up purchase price is $649.99 for an iPhone 5:

http://www.att.com/shop/wireless/devices/apple/iphone/5-16gb...

http://shop.sprint.com/mysprint/shop/phone_details.jsp?prodI...

If you don't want to pay the straight-up price, you can subsidize it with a minimum voice and data monthly plan. Then it becomes a bundled package. You cannot separate the phone from the bundle and say that the bundled price is the straight-up price.

For Sprint, their minimum plan (advertised online) is $79.99 a month. So for 2 years, that's a bundle price of $2119.75 for the iPhone 5 and service. If you don't want the bundle price, your only option is to pay $649.99 for the iPhone 5.

Also note that cell phone service is not a requirement. You can use the iPhone as a WiFi iPod and get an inactive SIM so that you can use the phone for 911 calls, to which the carriers must complete all calls even if you have no service.
"The site is based around how git works, and git is pretty old. It runs via the command line and has no fancy graphical user interface."

Wait, we're using software first released in 2005? Holy crap, we may as well be using quill pens.
(5) If you sell, God help whoever has to support that stuff in your new organization.

It would be interesting to know if an acquisition fell through because due diligence revealed something like this and the purchasing entity didn't want to deal with that mess or it conflicted with their culture.
That's an even better one, nice work.
That's an interesting post, and an equally interesting library. However, Walltime is more concerned with the displaying of dates than the detection of timezones.

The example I give from the post explains it like this "... if I’m a user in Australia, and I want to post something at 3:00 AM Chicago time, where the majority of my followers are, how do I calculate that accurately with JavaScript and send it up to the server?". Or, if I'm a user in Australia, but I want to display all my dates on the site like I'm a user in Chicago, how would I do that?

Take a look at the github page description for more info about the type of problems it can help with: http://sproutsocial.github.com/walltime-js/
I agree! I was pretty pleased when Jordan Mechner found and posted the source to Prince of Persia

https://github.com/jmechner/Prince-of-Persia-Apple-II
> Imagine is Adobe, Oracle or MS had won the Flash/Flex, Java or ActiveX battles, where would we have been today?

I don't know what 'would have been', but I know that we would not be where we are today (in a positive sense) without those companies and the many many technologies and products they have provided us with (even though some of them can only serve as bad examples).
Depends on the state. Usually the "at will employment" is what your boss tells you is a great feature of a the state law "oh look you can quite anytime you want without question, isn't that great!?" -- that was how it was sold to me.

Usually it is a feature used by the employees to fire someone any time for any reason (yes, I mean _any_ reason, race, sexual orientation, shoe color, it will just officially be presented as "restructuring").
From what I see, anything in SO that doesn't have code in it and that attracts attention will eventually get locked.

I sometimes notice this pattern on other Stack Exchange sites: non-technical questions, with some rare exceptions, tend to get closed/deleted.
Actually, when koine Greek was first being critically examined, it was theorized that it was hardly Greek at all, but more of a hellenization of Aramaic. That was, of course, found not to be the case.

Yes, it is true that there is much structure in common between Koine and Classical, use of conjunctions, general grammar constructs. But for any real use of the language you quickly get into vocabulary domains that just do not intersect, or where they do intersect, the usage is quite different.
I know of a fair number of people in the "700 club" (700mg single dose, liquid, instilled onto tongue); seem to have lived productive lives to date.

What's two orders of magnitude more? :)
I am getting a 404 upon clicking that link but will defiantly check it out later
NTSB investigating dendrite theory of 787 battery failure
Reminds me of that part from Bret Victor's Inventing on Principle talk.

Those who have seen it will know what I'm referring to.
I don't understand the negativity in this thread... haven't taken LSD myself, but Steve Jobs was a fairly smart individual, and described taking LSD as a profoundly important action in his life. Perhaps there's something to it beyond the ramblings of "burn-outs" and "hippies."
Gargoyles was amazing. The movie (which shows the story of their "creation") and some of the early episodes can get surprisingly dark (but deep).

Another show along those lines is "Batman Beyond" (a dark "reboot" of Batman in which an aging Bruce Wayne enlists a young protege to be the next Batman in the near future).

In both shows (particularly Batman Beyond), if you ignore some obvious elements that point to them being shows for kids/teenagers, they almost seem like they were originally intended for adults, and then later rewritten to be targeted towards younger audiences.
I'll agree that they should have at least acknowledged their previous stance.
OP argues that more drivers cause cities to be less dense. That is a factor- e.g. if you are a small business and you know all of your customers have cars to visit you, you will lease the cheaper out-of-town real estate rather than the expensive stuff next door to them.

But it really works strongly the other way around. The closer you are to others, the less you have to drive to see them.

Things like zoning and parking minimums increase the space between buildings (and therefore people), which necessitates more driving.
It's certainly easier to say than than the "Information Superhighway". (For you youngsters, that was the metaphor that got the Internet funded. ;-)
As mentioned in the article, you could be in violation of the contract you signed with your employer with side projects. See an earlier discussion on this aspect: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2208056

In my case, I have gone full-time for my (yet to be defined) project to avoid this issue and be focused 100% on it.
More calmly:-

I don't advocate working on non-work stuff at work, it's not a fair or honest thing to do, and personally, it's not something I do. But the article goes further, it approvingly quotes:-

"When people get excited about things outside of work they end showing up to work and going through motions just to get through a day. Everyone loses. The employee loses and the employer loses. People are not going to give all of themselves as they focus on their new outside interest."

Which is getting into 'I employee you, so I get to tell you what you do everywhere'.

Fuck that.
>It would not be surprising if they put code that detected a VM in Win8 and Office 2013 some time in the future.

That would be really unfortunate. I run Windows 8 Pro in a VM with a valid license, mostly for the purpose of using Office 2013, which is also a valid license.
And all the full episodes are on YouTube!!!
LINK: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKbjh13l4YB9KHRCl5SjMs...
I did this through the path of meditation, but I know others who have used psychedelics to similar ends.

Based on what I've read and observed, the people who get real benefit out of psychedelics are those who are already fairly meditative people, who use them in reasonable settings (with people they trust) and know what they are doing.

There clearly are people who are able to make good use of these chemicals, but they seem to be fewer and farther in between than people who succeed on other, less risky, paths. What seems to be the mainstream in psychedelic drug culture (although it's hard to tell what the mainstream of an underground, illegal subculture is) is just lazy.

The idea that one can pop a pill and have a spiritual experience (instead of context-free noise) is ridiculous. LSD seems to be a magnifying glass, so people who use it as part of their spiritual practice seem to get real benefit, but those who use it as a "party drug" are just magnifying crap and polluting their minds.
The only customers Google has are the ones that pay it to place ads. Everyone else is the product.

Even Android and all these devices are probably not directly making them that much money, they just want you to use the web more and use Microsoft and Apple products less.
Don't offer a figure. Try to do research on pay for similar positions (look in various locations around the country, possibly using glassdoor and a cost of living adjustment calculator) but this should be for your own comfort.

[1] sums it up, the essence is that they know better than you what they can afford and that by offering a number you only disadvantage yourself. If you're uncomfortable about negotiating an optimal package just make them make you an offer and if it exceeds a threshold take it...

[1] http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/
There is no finger. There is no moon. This is the fundamental Zen breakdown of the problem, at least. In Theravadan buddhism, the self is like a stick hut standing in a field: you can break it down and deconstruct it stick by stick, and thereby attain Buddhahood. In Zen, there is no hut. You are Buddha, right here and now.
I have met only one person who has taken such an amount. He has permanent tunnel vision as a result, so I find myself suspicious. Certainly not a practice I would recommend.
I'm not sure I'd call buyvm "stable". I experienced a hardware failure while I was with them that resulted in multiple days of downtime (with poor communication - I had to go into their IRC chat and ask to figure out what was going on. They didn't reply to my support ticket).

More recently, their network has been the target of DDOS attacks, etc. I'm guessing this is partly due to their clientele. Also, all of their Las Vegas servers went down earlier today.

The lack of backup options are making me consider switching to DigitalOcean. We'll see if their reliability lives up to the hype.
The image at the very top of the article is an excellent demonstration of the main vulnerability with this app -- you can always take a photo of the phone's display.
Yeah, it is rather odd to see people complaining that the first prototype of a project does not contain all the features from all of the future releases...
> But most people do not cancel their contract after one
> month; they just wait out the term because carrier quality
> rarely changes so quickly that it's worth eating hundreds
> of dollars in termination fees to switch.

In other words, most people are gambling that they will save money over the course of a contract. They're gambling that:

That they don't break or lose their phone during the contract.

That they don't go overseas for a trip and end up paying expensive roaming charges or not using their fancy new phone.

That they can't save money by switching to another carrier (and this can be unexpected: see T-Mobile refarm).

That their home (or office or other place they care about coverage) doesn't move somewhere where their contracted carrier doesn't have acceptable coverage.

And that their definition of acceptable coverage doesn't change (e.g. being comfortable with HSPA coverage at the start of a contract, but later wanting LTE coverage for their new LTE phone).

That they don't end up in a committed relationship with someone on another carrier (preventing them from saving money by consolidating to a family plan).

And, and, and...

Do plenty of people win the gamble? Absolutely. Do plenty of people lose it too? Absolutely.

But you can't pretend that the gamble is cost-free. There are plenty of costs and strings attached.
What is it with these administrations in recent years urging the Supreme Court not to do it's job?

I admit, I have not studied the history of such particular requests from the justice department, but I do not remember hearing so many of them from previous administrations. By "previous" I mean before Bush, since if memory serves, W did a lot of this as well.
>Anything with the phrase (paraphrasing) "but I must warn you, you must be surrounded by evolved people" sounds so incredibly condescending and pretentious it really shows how these people see themselves as superior to others

That's actually the complete opposite of what he said. Your paraphrase and the rest of your post was full of transference. I don't know what bad experiences you had with stoners and/or hippies, but please be more objective. You can be, since you're not high.

What he actually said was : "I must stress that I was in the company of very evolved and older people that made sure my experiences were optimal."

This is a general safety measure you'll see mentioned a lot among documentation that goes into LSD (I've never tried it, but I was curious enough to read about it). And one thing they never say is it's OK to only hang out with other people who are also tripping or be by yourself. They all say you should be among those you trust to have your best interest in mind and make sure your experience is positive and, above all else, safe. This makes it vitally important that at least one or two people in the party remain sober.
The author went to one of the coding bootcamps, so that's the context for this article. I haven't been to one, but I doubt they have time to get into computer science so much as coding.
Obama's executive order on cybersecurity
Try now, I changed it from http to https. Works for me
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