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> I'm more disturbed by the fascination that we as a species have with gadgets.

It has always been this way. Humans like physical objects. Maybe your particular love is art. My Grandmother's was salt and pepper shakers. Some people love bikes.

Things with motion or reactions tend to grab more attention. Computers were amazing in this regard. The iPad and other touch tablets really blow the doors off. Sit down and talk to a car or motorcycle guy/girl about the time they got it working when no one thought they could....

I'm actually quite happy with it. It drives those people to build better things or use them in ways others haven't thought of. It drives us.

// these days, Steve Jobs's response is probably the best I could do, anything added would just sound wrong
I cannot believe these Cyprus-styled bank deposit levies in the Canadian 2013 Budget hasn't been more well publicized in major Canadian newspapers.
Sorry mate, it would be about one billion times more profitable to write a machine learning system to astroturf group discussions.
You can just assume I'm adding my two cents.
Tucson, Arizona uses sodium vapor lighting for all its street lighting specifically to allow the nearby observatories easily filter the light pollution.
"There was no Stack Overflow..."

I'm honestly very glad SO didn't exist when I was learning... SO needs to taken with a gigantic grain of salt: answers aren't interesting. They're "correct" but they're not interesting: the view of SO is myopic and so are most answers.

Not to mention that old deprecated answers. now that SO is a few years old, are already totally polluting the DB (Question: "How can I do X?" / Answer: "To do X you should use the lib / API Y and Z and do A, B then C"... Fine. Except that two years later there are much better ways to do that).

I started with reference book and magazines and talking with friends who were also programming. Then came my 9600 bauds modem and the BBSes. Then Internet and Usenet.

Usenet is the one true medium (and still lives).

Sadly devs nowadays aren't skilled enough to use a killfile and need something "simple" like SO. They're getting what they're asking for: a non-interesting Q/A DB containing formatted answer and lots of outdated answers.

Now I do use SO, but Usenet-style: I don't Google / search SO. I ask questions like I did on Usenet and use comments as if they were replies on Usenet and I "read between the lines" because I fully know that the answers have to be taken with a gigantic grain of salt.
I thought that was pretty interesting actually. Regardless of gun control stance. I wonder how much of an impact 3D printers will have in the coming years.
Didn't they meet randomly in an AOL chatroom?
love the target audience
After living in Alaska for several years, I don't really think that is how cities would look at all. With just stars and even the aurora borealis, it is incredible how pure darknesss looks. I really didn't know how much light pollution effected the sky until living there, but even in small towns and other less populated areas the light from various sources changes the skyline.
When it comes to speed, considering you are using nginx, the way to go is using nginx as an app server not just fastcgi frontend. Lua-nginx-module combined with proper database module (async with connection pool support like ngx_drizzle or ngx_postgres) can give you speed. OpenResty provides the simplified preconfigured way to try it and adds some features too. http://agentzh.org/misc/slides/libdrizzle-lua-nginx
Whew. I was wondering if I was the only one who has been out in the mountains and other rural areas, but have never seen a night sky like these.
not to mention go through your congested wifi network.
Which I would say qualifies as "publicly announced." Could be that this email has actually been floating around a little until now.
The problem with light pollution is that the light bounces off of water, dust, and smog in the atmosphere, and back down into your eye/camera. So when you look up, the sky isn't darker, it's a lot brighter! You would need a way to subtract the extra light.
My emacs automatically downloads and installs all my used packages on first startup on a fresh install. Literally all I have to do on a new box is clone my dotfiles and start emacs.
But he had to manually capitalize the second letter. iOS doesn't automatically complete "ok" with caps. (As evidenced by this comment.)

Edit: typos
YC has plenty of non-US residents. Visa situations get resolved on a case by case basis, but there are general guidelines.

Essentially visa problems cease to be a showstopper once you have money.
That doesn't sound right: 22 nm * 316 = 69 microns, giving 69^2 == ~4800 square microns; a transistor is larger than the feature size, and don't wires take the majority of the area? (Still, that's well under a square millimeter.)

So we haven't quite reached the day Eric Drexler hinted at with "so-called microcomputers still visible to the naked eye".
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You lost me at Frank Kern... if you listen those characters then we are from the opposite sides of the business world.
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I was in high school and college in the ninties, that wasn't my experience at all. Pretty much everyone accepted e-commerce from the get-go. So my roommate and I are guessing how old you are currently, one of us says forty-five, one says sixty -- who won?
If you are OK to move to a totally new language with a weak interop story, you might as well just use C++ with asm.js. C++ has many many years of compiler optimization work behind it. I am wondering how the comparison would be like.

With that being said, I don't believe in anything with a weak interop story unless you are talking about utilizing legacy code, for which there is none for Dart but a lot for asm.js (and pNaCl, for that matter.) So I don't really see why Dart would fare better than GWT.
If you are looking for answer related to software. Yes, its effective. Try other subjects. You will not have such luck.
Good. If you make it clear that the business plan is to sell it to PTs then it's a selling point for me. I admit I am in a very weird Hacker News type demographic though, maybe normal people are just like "free is good".
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These are beautiful. I would love to have one of these framed in my house.
I would be so lucky to have cofounded a company like LS. My score so far is zero.
> So there's a lot more to questions like this than these vacuous answers. It's a psychological game, and if their offer was actually the minimum you were willing to accept, you have to ask what else you could have done, either now or in the past, to set yourself up in a position where you could have "tricked" them into paying more than you were willing to accept.

Yes, and that's what I meant when I originally wrote, "So why did you say yes? Pondering that question will reveal a lot about yourself and what you value, and it will also suggest what you should do if you're not happy with your current situation."

The point is that once you say yes, that's what you get. So think about why you said yes to a "low" offer. Was it because you didn't know it was a low offer? Then do some homework; get to know the market better. Was it because you did know it was a low offer but didn't know how to work up to a higher one? Then brush up on your negotiating skills or get an agent to represent you. Was it because you're not good at presenting yourself and have learned to live with lower offers? Then get some coaching or talk to a mentor.

Do you understand what I mean now? If you said yes to a "low" offer, it was only because you had reason to believe you couldn't do better. So identify that reason and do something about it.
That is so incredible.
> I expect you will have a very hard time finding any actively-maintained web service that does not periodically change parts of the user interface

...and this is one good reason not everything should be a web service. I like my core tools not to change until I decide to change them.
I mapped capslock to control, and I think I use it more than any other key.
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I don't see why the author would set the key to "No Action". I find Control to be a great replacement for Caps Lock.
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It's a reference to a TV show called Arrested Development.
I know that, but I was asking specifically about whether it's mainly a Pyglet issue, or the program itself, or both.
Escape is also a good choice, especially for vim use.
Compressed or uncompressed doesn't matter. The point is that the display device is buffering frames and then rendering them later (ideally imperceptibly later).
Just saw Kumare on Netflix & it's simply brilliant!
if there was no caps lock key, what would i remap to ctrl? =p
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Compressed or uncompressed doesn't matter. The point is that the display device is buffering frames and then rendering them later (ideally imperceptibly later).

Airplay definitely adds more potential bottlenecks but the principle remains the same.
I would have done that, but it is much easier to set it to Control (on OS X there is an option for Control, but not Escape).
In OSX, instead of setting caps lock to "no action", I set it to be another control key. I have never been able to hit the pathetic little excuse for a control key on Mac keyboards without also tapping fn or option.
I really like the MacBook feature where you have to press the caps lock key for some time (a bit longer than the accidental "tap") to activate it.
Alex, I am from the IsThisLost team. We hear you. The way we figured the economics is that according to a recent survey (see http://mozy.com/reports/lost-and-found/data-loss-cost/), a person is likely to irretrievably lose about $95 worth of stuff a year. With our observed 75% retrieval rate, you are getting about $70 value for $20 cost.

Would insurance cover the intangible value, e.g. pictures and docs that were not backed up, or an item of sentimental value. Also, have you factored the deductible?

I hear your argument well and will think about addressing those concerns. At the very least, I'll urge you to print your own tags and apply them to your belongings. Doesn't hurt, does it?
[disclaimer, I work on the Dart team]

While I do believe our Dart/JavaScript interop story will continue to be refined, I do want to point out that the days of javascript: URLs and eval are nearly over. The Web is getting a stronger security model through CSP [1] (content security policy). New restrictions put in place by CSP include turning off eval, new Function, inline JavaScript, and more. This is a very good thing, because it reduces the attack vectors for XSS and more.

[1] http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/security/content-secu...
> I can’t think of a single time when I’ve ever wanted to use it

That's because you know how to type. Watch your parents or someone that doesn't type often use a keyboard, you'll notice they only ever use one finger at a time; you can't use one finger at a time with SHIFT. Caps lock doesn't make sense for someone that can type well but makes perfect sense for people that can't. oh and also people with one hand.
You've never been angry on the Internet?
That's why I have it mapped to escape for vim
Hohoho, good find.
I read it as a brilliant and elegant hack, a sort of real-world magic. As Vi Hart said (referring to how she builds her comfortable-looking fast-cut accelerated videos of handwriting) it's "tricking your brain into seeing what was actually there."
Seriously, thank you. Plus there was literally nothing about college. Which I am at.
At the same time, I find this incredibly impressive. That "smallish kernel" wasn't reverse-engineered from a behemoth, and it doesn't need to satisfy the constraint that it needs to be fully compatible with said behemoth. Huge kudos to the Windows team.
For normal people that I observe, caps lock is used a lot. I get asked quite a lot where the "caps lock" is on the iPad on screen keyboard[1].

I could agree with the post if it was qualified for modern developers (RPGers would disagree).

1) push left and right shift at the same time
> To be successful (which I am not, don't get me wrong) you have to be very smart and technical, but you also need luck, good timing, and (most importantly) persistence.

Do you mean that you need these things be a cofounder in a successful startup? If so, I'd agree.

If you mean to define everyone's personal success on these terms, though, then I beg to differ. Zach's slides clearly state that the startup world is for him. Slide 27 ("You'll be filthy rich"--crossed out) even sets the tone that it's not something you do for the money.

There's a world of difference between various types of startups. Each will deliver different employee experiences. Consider whether the company is bootstrapped or VC-funded (even within VC-funded startups, is it Series A, B, or C?). Being employee (developer) #1, #5, #10 or #25 are all likely to be very different as well. Oh and of course, is the company already profitable or not?

> you have to be very smart and technical

This talk was given at Carnegie Mellon--I'm willing to bet the people graduating are both smart and technical.

> but you also need luck, good timing, and (most importantly) persistence.

I'm not sure why someone following his advice would need luck, timing and persistence. My interpretation of this talk is that he's encouraging people to work for startups, not found them. Github launched in 2008 and Holman joined in 2010. Github was operated profitably since the founders started the company [1]. As far as salary goes, Zach was probably looking at a comfortable--not handsome--but consistent salary.

[1] http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2486-bootstrapped-profitable-...
I do the same thing. This is a lifesaver for using Screen, which was frustrating as a longtime PC/Linux user - the crtl+a escape sequence becomes even easier to hit.
Here's an article on how to detect and measure the effect I'm talking about.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/183928/how_to_find_and_fix_in...

It's a consequence of using framebuffers in the display device. I mentioed Airport because it exaggerates the effect, but any digital display will likely introduce s little extra lag.
Ummm... I don't get it. What is wrong with caps lock?

What if I want to type, let's say, some longer name of a constant that are usually IN_ALL_CAPS_AND_WRITTEN_LIKE_THIS?

I don't want to hold shift on all these letters. I LIKE CAPS LOCK AND I LIKE IT A LOT.
Exactly. Mapping it to another key makes way more sense than just disabling it entirely.
Nice catch, in my haste I was dividing and should have been multiplying. Typical transistor size is 4x feature size. So 316 * 2 * .022 ~ 14 microns and squared its ~ 200 square microns.

That said, we are still talking about an incrementally small addition to a chip.
> “I’m doing a CEO search. It’s a Fortune 500 company. It’s in the consumer Internet space. It’s in Silicon Valley—you wouldn’t even have to move. It’s the perfect job for you. The board is asking for you by name. Are you interested? It’s Yahoo.”

Is this really how she got the call? What was the point of all the anonymity if the recruiter was just going to say "It's Yahoo" at the end anyway? All of that could've been reduced to four sentences:

1. I’m doing a CEO search.
2. It’s Yahoo.
3. The board is asking for you by name. (Maybe)
4. Are you interested?
Their definition of "free" is fun though.

Try some proxies and simulate visiting the site from different places .... yes, their prices vary based on from where you visit it, so they add the shipping to the basic prices.
On Linux it's possible to simultaneously map caps lock to both escape and control with xcape [1]. On short presses without any other keys depressed, escape is fired. On press-and-hold with other keys, control is fired. This is great for vim, emacs, and any other application with control shortcuts.

[1] https://github.com/alols/xcape
I use it for my password. A lot of muscle memory attached to it, though I'd like to retrain myself to use it as a Ctrl key.
I had tried this and though in certain scenarios it was very convenient, it was actually nuisance at other times i.e. I started to use it as my primary control key and then I started missing R and L controls. I was learning touch typing(still am :( ) at that time so I mapped it to "No Action" in the end.

Guess someday I will map it to something crazy for fun, it's useless anyway :-)
Theoretically, it would basically be just a matter of subtracting the "general" light background, and then apply a deconvolution to the remaining "signal" to reduce blurry areas of light into point-like stars.

However, deconvolution is one of those things that's great in theory, but almost impossible to pull off in practice, except under extremely controlled circumstances. And in this case, considering just how much dust/smog/etc. is in the atmosphere, and how it is non-uniform, I expect it would be simply impossible.
I am no Microsoft fan, but their tag generation is now free (http://tag.microsoft.com/what-is-tag/benefits.aspx). However, the adoption is almost nothing ... almost comparable to the slim adoption of their Azure cloud.

And their scanner does work on Android. Didn't find one for iOS though.
caps lock on iphone keyboard comes with double clicking the shift arrow. It should turn blue.
If you're using vi you can do something like this:

nnoremap <c-u> viwU

To use it just type the word in lowercase, hover your cursor over any letter in the word, and press Ctrl-U to highlight it.
Possibly pedantic, but this can't be described as reverse-engineered.
To enable caps lock on the iPhone (which only has one shift), use the 'Enable caps lock' option in Settings/General/Keyboard. Then you can double-tap shift to turn on caps lock.

I basically never use CL on a regular PC, since it's easier to just hold shift while you type the word most of the time. On an iPhone though, it's actually pretty useful at times.
I attended a conference in Tucson last fall and...being jetlagged, did a nice walk at 4AM in the desert behind our resort. It was really amazing, I hadn't seen shooting stars in decades.
It was sent literally a couple hours ago. Also: "This article is a work in progress, or documents a feature that is not yet released to all users. This article is unlisted. Only those with the link can access it."
Right! The whole “shelf” analogy is silly and unnecessary. It doesn’t make the interface familiar and obvious. Real people don’t actually have a shelf for books they want to read, are reading, and have read. We do get those concepts by themselves, so those states should simply be exposed directly, as what they are, no analogy needed. It’s an extra layer and extra mental work, for no benefit.

(Should also mention that the interface I am discussing is the one with which I’m familiar: their current iPhone app as-of 2012–2013.)
I wish all smartphones manufacturers would build a QR code scanner into the built in camera app.

Here in the U.S. I don't think any manufacturer (Apple, Samsung, etc) have done this? Maybe it's because of patents?

On a different note .. love this idea and good luck to you!
'Solution Architect' is one title that should actually scare more recruiters than it attracts, but that isn't always the case. I would discourage any client from using solution architect, enterprise architect, or anything architect as job titles. The architect title means well, but the implications seem to be mostly negative today.
Betas. Betas do the work for the alphas. Alphas mate.
Totally agree. We'll look into changing that policy. Is there a potential for abuse here?
> Frankly, the most valuable antidote to schlep blindness is probably ignorance. Most successful founders would probably say that if they'd known when they were starting their company about the obstacles they'd have to overcome, they might never have started it. -pg

I know its considered a bit tacky to quote pg, but I am not as eloquent as he.
They are, but you don't see it because they send cops undercover to police stations to impersonate police impersonating activists.
I get your argument about a person with one hand, but anyone who types with one finger can easily (and usually does) use their other index finger to hold shift.
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Well... the destined love trope came from a lot heavier, and older forms of literature than Hollywood. It's just one of the things that people have fantasized, experienced, and encouraged for ages.

Really, the article didn't convince me a bit. The stigma comes because the idea is quite distinct from what we've all been doing for several thousand years...
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For those people, we have sticky keys. On some OSs you can activate it by mashing a modifier key a bunch of times. Sticky keys solve the problem in a much better way than caps lock: you can make the key lock or you can apply it just to the next stroke, and you can use it for control / alt / command as well.
Though it won't help our eyes any time soon, something along the line
of "Adaptive Optics" [1] could possibly address at least some of the
issues you mentioned when creating images. Getting tech from the world's
beset telescopes into consumer/pro camera gear might be asking a bit
much at the moment, but eventually it could become possible. If it was
done, a big issue would be having countless people shining lasers into
the sky.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_optics
I've always wondered what it would be like if there is a total black out in a big city. Now I can see it in these pictures. If the blackout isn't exactly simultaneous, would the stars slowly emerge one by one? How cool would that be!
Not everyone who types with one hand has two hands.
> I know ZFS is cool, but while we were waiting for it BTRFS got pretty darn good.

My own anecdotal evidence is that btrfs is not ready for prime time. I ran a couple btrfs file systems from kernel about 2.6.30 to 3.4 and finally determined that my system was so slow because of btrfs. I switched to xfs and an operation that used to take weeks (literally) now takes hours.

Perhaps it's gotten significantly better in the last few revisions but I'd use caution if you want to use btrfs and still have good performance.
whoa! I've never noticed that before
My personal remap of caps lock is backspace. The usual one, which I hit a lot (y'know, we type, we make mistakes), cranks my wrist, whereas the capslock key, which lives on the home row, is zero stress.
This is the minimal response I would expect from anybody in the company. We shouldn't applaud this behavior as some kind of exemplary gift from the corporation.

Why? Because it normalizes the chain-of-command, rules-are-rules way that we typically see. It makes it seem OK that someone wouldn't grant this request.

In fact, he probably shouldn't even have to ask.
I'm not a twentysomething kid so I have to buy insurance — and at this point I'm now spending about $10k a year. I realize that doesn't sound like a ton of money, but if you're trying to self fund your own projects while living off the income of client projects and while paying office rent in NYC it's pretty damn painful.

Ten years ago I was spending at least half that amount, and what kills me is that I'm a single guy — if I was paying for a spouse or a family plan it would be about double the cost. And the sad thing is that my coverage from ten years ago actually gave me more coverage.

I'm happy to pay for coverage and be responsible, but the insurance companies at this point are pretty much on the level of racketeering mobsters. I had hopes for healthcare reform: But without a public option or killing the insurance companies I don't see much changing any time soon. I really hope that more pressure builds and people demand a real change.
An old joke: MY NEW KEYBOARD ARRIVED FROM AOL.