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That wasn't quite my experience.
No decent office suite, lack of support for many soundcards and modems, severe distro / package format fragmentation wars. Lack of staples like Flash. Instant messenger clients didn't support all features that the Windows versions did. No gaming to speak of.

Having said that I still preferred it to Windows on a number of axis but it was only practical to use on the desktop as part of a dual boot.
A friend of a friend once spent 20 minutes verbally beating me up for not knowing how to change the spark plugs in my car. I finally shut him up with: "I just upgraded my PC with a new HD and doubled the ram. When you're done I'm going to Fry's to get a new video board because the new Nvida chip is out and affordable".

I learned to have zero issues with the "man tasks" thing.
Not much. I saw a graph recently of fee paid to confirmation time. There was no correlation.

Eventually it will matter when mining dries up. There will need to be "transaction exchanges". Personally, I am designing a coin that never mines out, because I believe it to be a superior design.
Code size has no relationship to game world size. Interactions are the unit of size for games. If you pay attention to what is going on in this video, it is actually very "small".
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Until it is packaged, it is fairly easy to build yourself. You just need libevent and ncurses.
Well the easiest way is either to wait for it to appear in the repos or wait for someone to package it and put it into a PPA. However, it doesn't have that many dependencies, so building it yourself is another not too stressful option.
Uhhh... if you were around in the 90s everyone said "nobody will buy stuff online". Everyone. News articles, talking heads, books, etc. People scoffed at sites like eBay even years after it's launch.

It was very comparable to bitcoin. Everybody has been complaining about bitcoin while the entire time it's been growing and growing and growing. It's still growing and people are still acting as if it's nothing.
Follow the white rabbit... I love this fun way of showing people around your site. Plans to open source?
Successful launch and then a nose dive... where did things go wrong?
Kickstarter rejected my project on the basis of "home improvement". I am running my own crowdfunding platform especially after being inspired by Lockitron's story.

I hired a PR agency two weeks prior to the launch. No immediate results in that department as of late (probably takes more time before it gains traction).

The first week was very successful. Raised $4,000 in a week. Friends and families engaged in social media activities at rapid-fire rate.

There are influential bloggers making a mention of our website. I tweaked the website based on valuable feedback.

Pretty much did everything that the books told us to.

Entering the second week of the campaign, it took a nose dive... no one's pledging anymore. I'm getting comments about how my invention is "brilliant", "must have", "oh my god, why didn't I think of this before" and all that sort...

... yet no one is pledging anymore. I only have 35 days left in the campaign.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on my NeverFold website at www.neverfold.com and see if there are anything I am missing.
So, imagine the list of operating systems that you believe it makes sense to run Photoshop on.

I'd like to add Chromium to your list.

And your answer is... that... "vendor lock-in"?

I'm sorry, but you're making zero sense.
I wouldn't suggest a questionable .deb somewhere...so you best just download source and ./configure then make then make install as described in the README: http://sourceforge.net/p/tmux/tmux-code/ci/master/tree/READM....

You might need: 'apt-get install libevent-dev' as a prerequisite.
Losing keys should be fairly rare, to the point where one call in the middle of the night ever five or ten years should be OK... especially when the alternative is a monthly fee.
While I concur with most of your points, I must point out that there are four uberblocks, not one; a flipped bit will not impair the pool.

Let's argue that bits flip in all four uberblocks though, then ZFS will use the previous valid commit, which also has four uberblocks (ZFS is a CoW FS). And so on backwards for quite a few transactions. All these uberblocks are spread out at the beginning and end of each disk.

ZFS has a policy that the more important the data (and the top of the tree is most important), the more copies there are, although a user can also define how many duplicates there should be at the leaves of the tree.

Basically, you'd need a very trashed disk to render an entire pool dead. You're not going to recover from that, regardless of filesystem.
For the most part, this is a good list.

However, the addendum about performance optimization is (A) not even directly related to code beauty, let alone a requirement for it, (B) a goal that tends to, in practice, come with a price tag of uglier code, and most importantly (C) a call-to-arms for premature optimization.

The paragraph at the very end is a good example of when you should optimize for performance: when parts of your code base are unacceptably slow. It's the impact on user experience that's the problem, not something intrinsic to the beauty of the code.

The idea that your code cannot be beautiful unless you use system knowledge to optimize it "within an order of magnitude [of] the most performant possible code", before you even know there is a noticeable performance problem with it, is bad advice.
Sansa clip (a successful player for those of us who want really small devices to play music on the go, before it I still had a usb-stick/mp3 player combo) had ogg out of the box.
You should have switched a long time ago, but now is as good a time as any :P
This reminds me of when I introduce people to Linux and they insist that there must really be a C drive.
I think everyone forgets that Minecraft's big feature is not its graphics or its gameplay, it's the procedural content generation. Almost anyone could learn to do Minecraft-level graphics in a few weeks, and the level of interactions (combat, crafting, moving things) could be reasonably approximated, too. But its procedural content generation algorithm is quite complex. You're not going to make an algorithm quite as nice as Minecraft's without a lot of research, a lot of hard work, and a lot of tweaking time.
More detail: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=104939.msg1148889#ms...
I wonder if they are contracting with Blue Origin (Jeff Bezos's space company). They've been focusing on powered return from the beginning of their program.

http://www.blueorigin.com/updates/updates-2011-11-17-video-o...
Reputation and referrals are my lifeblood. I have been giving things away for 15 years - mostly information, insight, tips, etc. I have contacts who ask me for career advice all the time, even when not looking for jobs, and I always take the call and try to provide honest advice. When those people are asked who to use for search, they send business my way.

I now do very little marketing to new clients or candidates - I post some jobs on my site, but very little advertising and very few cold calls. The value of acquiring a set of very specific and useful information (market rates, info on companies, etc.) and providing that to your network when asked is rewarded down the road.
"As usual on HN, any submission about Bitcoin is met with concerned comments about its high volatility, present impracticality as a currency, disadvantages versus precious metals, current concentration of transactions in a single exchange (MtGox), potential for market manipulation by governments and/or speculators, etc."

So you're okay with a currency that has shifted a huge portion of its value in a day and insecure exchange after insecure exchange getting hacked (and thousands of dollars worth of Bitcoin getting stolen)?

Right now, Bitcoin is like the stock market before it had any regulations. I feel like the people that tell me not to worry about these issues are the ones that invested lots of money in it (and don't want to lose it).
It's the second paragraph of a NY Times article. Such things don't tend to embed supporting evidence along with claims, but it's usually a good indicator that there is supporting evidence.
I would pay for lessons in the context of design critique. Meaning, I have (attempted) to design something, you offer harsh critique bracketed by tailored lessons. I think you'd have a good market since a lot of devs try their hand at designing their apps.
As someone who is constantly losing things, I love seeing a business in this space. A couple things holding I don't like:

1) Your stickers don't seem very visible. Faded green and white? Put some neon orange on there or something.

2) I don't know what happens when someone puts in a code? I tried with some of the codes I saw in your slider but I got an invalid tag error. Maybe I put the wrong code in.

Here's what I would love:
I give you $10-20, you send me a bunch of stickers/key tags/cards etc with my picture, email, and phone number on it. I don't think a middle man is that much of a value add. Especially since I don't know who you are, and have no reason to believe you will still be in business in 2 months.

This might interest you too:
http://www.asylum.com/2009/07/13/baby-pictures-are-key-to-ha...
Having a credit card on file is neither a necessary, nor a sufficient condition to have a better app ecosystem. But if you had two app ecosystems that were identical aside from the fact that one stored credit cards and the other did not, you would certainly expect a better app ecosystem with the stored cards. Having to enter your credit card is a source of additional friction that decreases people's purchase rates of apps, even if by a small amount (although my opinion is that it's by a large amount). Having an app ecosystem where people spend money and spend it more freely certainly seems to improve the ecosystem, if you take comparisons between the iPhone and Android app stores into account, especially in the earlier days.
pushd /tmp && \
wget 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/tmux/tmux/tmux-1.8/tmux-1.8.tar.gz?r=http%3A%2F%2Ftmux.sourceforge.net%2F&ts=1364579710&use_mirror=garr' && \
gunzip < tmux-1.8.tar.gz | tar -vx && \
cd tmux-1.8 && \
./configure --prefix=~/installs/tmux-1.8 && \
mkdir ~/installs && \
make && \
make install && \
popd
I think that's the OPs point -- recoverable gear could potentially make fuel a limiting factor. (Although I don't know if this is realistic: there must be a lot of personell and equipment involved with refitting and firing a rocket into orbit, even if the rocket itself is free.)
For sure, their entire "service" depends on APIs from ticketing services being open and accessible.

The code change needed to make this work (auctioning / dynamic pricing / after event start upgrading of ticket) would require the ticket provider to enable this, they might as well not even bother buying a startup if they have to add all this to their own system.
Maybe the railscast model could work for you.

The only issue I see is there is an inundation of YouTube tutorials in this area.
Well, to be honest, this point is also where one could beat Minecraft at its own game. The minecraft devs haven't put emphasis on world exploration in a long time, instead preferring more traditional game features (like "the end").

There are many features notch promised when the project first started that where never acted upon, and there's definitely still demand for those.
"Attrition is a group statistic. It doesn't apply to me."
You are painting here a picture between extremes.

There a millions of students who live on campus at a cheap dorm room, have no car and get around on a budget where $900/m sounds like a life of luxury. If you decided to life in one of the very few inner-city metro areas where this is the norm nothing forced you to stay there. This is your lifestyle choice, not a poverty choice.
Sure it will. Any proposal to reformulate gasoline blends will result in an increase at the pump for consumers, because it's easy to equate new legislation with a price hike.

Will the sulphur crackdown increase the cost to refine gasolines? That's a completely unrelated question.
You're going to open a big can of worms with that one ;). Tmux has quite a few more features than Screen, with Screen having a few features that are useful in edge cases[1]. It's hard to argue with tmux having bindings for vi/Emacs, as well.

If you're on a mac and use iTerm2, using tmux is somewhat of a no-brainer, thanks to the integration between tmux and iTerm2[2].

1: http://sourceforge.net/p/tmux/tmux-code/ci/master/tree/FAQ
2: https://code.google.com/p/iterm2/wiki/TmuxIntegration
Not technically SF, but if you are down in the Valley you have to check out Red Rock Coffee in Mountain View at least once. Great spot.
I find this interesting, especially since I'm not handy at all but am planning on changing that once my wife and I get a house.

One thing that I have noticed that may be a source of this insecurity is the significant other. I can't even count the number of times my wife has said "You're a man, you should be able to do that" before or after asking her dad to fix something or work on something. It doesn't bother me and I retort "You're a woman, why aren't you making my meals and doing laundry as well as cleaning", which are tasks I do myself and have no expectation of my wife doing those solely on her own. My point being is that gender roles are typically ingrained in both genders and while a male may be comfortable not knowing how to do something, there may be an discomfort generated by the response of the significant other.
I'd be willing to pay for a book (E or physical). I'm not a big video fan. Probably $40-60.

Not sure what I'd pay for one on one. If you were willing to look at my code and evaluate, I'd be more interested. Rather than something 'lecture' style. You could then do future posts/tutorials via my one on one. "This was the original code, it was good but XYZ was lacking. So we did THIS. Here is a before/after shot, etc".
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I recently updated my resume on linkedin and dice and I am shocked by the response. I haven't actively searched for a new job for about 10 years so I didn't really know what to expect both in terms of available positions in my geographical area, Tampa, FL, and salary. In the last 3 weeks I've received 5-10 phone calls and/or emails per day from recruiters with salaries that are all over the board, but higher than my current salary. I have several years of .NET experience, but switched to ROR about a year and a half ago. 90% of the available positions I am contacted about are for .NET, which I don't really want to go back to. However, this makes me wonder if the wise career move would be to go back to .NET and just keep ROR as my side project language. Any advice for someone not living in a start-up or technology hub?
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Yes and no. Clearly people were doing productive work on free platforms in 2001. But remember that 2001 was right in the middle of the era of MS dominance. Netscape had been mostly beaten at this point. Mozilla existed, but it was routine for sites to simply not work with it. Java was still alive and vibrant (.NET wouldn't arrive to kill it for another year), but it wasn't free software either and frankly worked rather poorly on Linux (and even, ironically, Solaris).

These were dark days. The light didn't begin to shine at the end of the tunnel until Firefox started to crawl up the usage charts in 2003-4, and the beginning of the Web 2.0 era brought developer focus back to free technologies that it enabled.

Eventually it became clear that Microsoft had fallen asleep at the wheel, so in hindsight 2001 doesn't seem so bad. But at the time, I was pretty scared.
The way I see things shaping up is that Bitcoin will be used as a virtual store of value, used to transfer money to one or more other virtual currencies that place a higher premium on transaction speed. Ripple.com could fill this role, or it may be another virtual currency that has yet to be invented. It is incredibly easy to transfer money from Bitcoin to Ripple (and vice versa) once you know how, and any other virtual currency would doubtless share this characteristic. As the Bitcoin "market cap" grows, it will become much less volatile, but will likely continue to increase in value.

Actual Bitcoin transactions on the block chain would only be used to refill the other currency for day-to-day transactions, or for large transactions that don't have to be instant, like buying a car or a house.

Disclaimer: I own Bitcoins.
Can they guide things that accurately without assisting it mid-flight? If so, that's a cool idea, dunno if it's actually practical.
But I LIKE the background! haha, just not behind the text that's all.

Edit: I added background-color: #26282a; to .bodytext and it's much more enjoyable for me :)
I lost a ZFS pool once. The cause ultimately turned out to be a slowly failing PSU. (It was an expensive OCZ PSU, too, which is why I didn't suspect it as quickly as I probably should have. OCZ did replace it under warranty without argument.)

It was a development machine, so it wasn't being backed up. I thought it was just one disk going bad; by the time it was clear that it was something worse than that, it was too late. Most of the important contents of the pool had been checked into the VCS, but not everything. I wound up grepping the raw disk devices to find the latest versions of a couple of files.

Any filesystem would have had serious trouble in such a situation, of course. But I can't help thinking that picking up the pieces might have been easier with, say, EXT3.

On the other hand, I think it speaks well for ZFS that a slowly failing PSU seems to be almost the only way to lose a pool.
I think something interesting and related is the ability to sacrifice personal activities for a project. I've tried working on projects with many friends that just could not sacrifice part of their weekends with their girlfriends to do work. Or they were "too tired" after their day job to work on side project but could play video games. Some people won't even sacrifice some sleep!
Agreed. My theory on this one was based on some large companies in my area that had engineers with 20+ years of experience making 150K, that were horrified to learn that they were worth only 100K based on their skills. They became 'valuable' to their own company, but didn't have that value to anyone else due to specific skills that didn't necessarily transfer (think proprietary langs and frameworks).

Long tenures can work both ways.
List of different versions of ZFS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS#Release_history
How's zdb different from fsck? Nobody cares whether the tool is called fsck, scrub or zdb. You just need to have a tool which can recover from corruption. And for very long the ZFS developers didn't think the end-users needed it. Maybe zdb was there all the time. But it wasn't advertised or documented. People were told their filesystem is FUBAR when it wasn't.
Very interested, but would have to be in-depth to be able to compete with all the free stuff on the web. For example, I'd pay for a tutorial that walks me through the design of a complete website app from start to finish, if it has video even better. Also, please don't exclusively make it subscription based. I'm willing to pay 30 - 50 dollars up front to learn something in depth (it's similar to paying for an e-book) than to subscribe monthly for something I may not have time to go back to. Offer both options.

If you do go through this, please dedicate a large portion of time on your workflow and tools. Not enough programming, design books do this. For example, when I learned Python and Django it took me a while to figure out VirtualEnv existed and things like Vagrant etc.

Put up a landing page and ask users to leave their email, it will help you gauge interest.

Good luck!
>As an asset class it's far too volatile

Volatile, sure. Depends if you want to invest long term with it, and you understand the risk.

> As a currency it's too impractical and there are serious hurdles involved with turning central bank currency into Bitcoin and vice versa.

I found it pretty easy. Coinbase was lovely; getting verified on Mt Gox was a bit of a pain.

> We think Wall Street plays a rigged game.

Yeah, because it does. On a personal level I find the finance industry as a whole too difficult to gain any insight in to. I wouldn't know if my bank was collapsing or not, or if the housing market was in a true bubble. I can fully understand bitcoin. Maybe it's a false sense of safety, but I don't think it is.

> worry a Government or a big bank they'll simply manipulate the market.

Possible. We'll see how it plays out.

Most importantly though,

>I just don't understand the purpose it serves.

Very low fee, near-instant, world-wide monetary transfers. It serves a purpose.
Well, ZFS clearly didn't use the extra copies, nor did it try to use the previous uberbocks. Otherwise it would've been able to mount the filesystem, don't you think? And I disagree that the disk was very trashed, if all it took was to invalidate a few uburblocks to get the filesystem mounted again.
Good idea. This would be easy to sell as a package too - "For only $X, I will prepare a detailed feedback report on your site, and provide Y hours of training tailored to your needs".
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The problem is you have to account for the difficulty, which has changed. It looks like he was predicting a block per 78 hours, while it is now closer to 2/3 of a year.

Looks like 1.64 GH/s = $10.66 a day roughly, compared to a cost of $400 a day.
> People living in Kenya on 65 cents a day is a completely different situation than, say, a homeless person in San Francisco.

That's true, this is why we usually mention the Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) converted number -- for example, a billion people live on less than the PPP-converted equivalent of USD $2/day. That means they can afford to buy what we can afford to buy in the US for less than $2/day, which is to say almost nothing.

It's easy to look up the PPP ratio for Kenya, which is 0.5 -- i.e. $0.65/day in Kenya buys roughly the same as $1.30/day would in the US.

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/PA.NUS.PPPC.RF
Based on https://github.com/wesbos/aprilFools.css.

I wanted a way to have this kick in on it's own on 04/01 without needing root access. You can type 1 line into bash and install the hole thing.

Do this to someone while they are not looking.

Preview [http://cl.ly/NvQ5]
With reflowing text added to tmux, and giving that "Lots and lots of bug fixes, fixing memory-leaks, etc." the benefit of the doubt, then I would say that unless you have a specific use case of screen (and if you do, you know it) then you should be using tmux.
And leave everyone using MobileSafari out in the cold?
I've loved tmux since I switched a couple of years ago. Try it out for a few weeks. I think you'll like it better than screen.
I'm really rooting for Coinbase to take off. I hope they implement this, as well as a better iOS app.
I would have mentioned - http://www.uistencils.com - the new whiteboard tool is perfect for the non-designers to iterate fast.
Oh, this literally happened yesterday.

Someone sold off 5k bitcoins (~USD $450k at the time).

That's exactly what happened. Big sell off from 95 to 80ish, and then it sprang back to ~$90 today.

There's low confidence in it right now, but that's because most players are actual players. They aren't using bitcoins for groceries, like a bank reserve (yet). They're playing them like stocks.
Intel SSDs encrypt the contents of the flash with an AES key stored elsewhere. Once the key is overwritten, the original contents of the SSD are no longer accessible.

I'm not sure whether other SSD implementations do the same thing.
Don't see it as a dare. See it as reverse psychology.