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If you look at this way, you are almost definitely not going to get those big projects unless you are into some kind of a political game or are simply good enough and get your due chance.

You would have had a more accurate statement if you truncated it before the "or". Closed-allocation companies always have the most important work done by the politicians, not the people most adept at doing it. There are no exceptions.

In which he mentions a very important point- Always choose the most important problem to work on.

This will get you fired. It means that you are pursuing your own career goals (and benefiting the company, but not your immediate managers) rather than your boss's and you will be shit-canned as soon as he finds out.

You will someday find yourself working on most important problems in the world.

No, you will be long-term unemployed if you follow that strategy.

I have a lot of respect for Aaron Swartz, but look at what the fuckers in power did to him.
This makes me proud to be a New Zealand citizen and to be considering moving there permanently after many years around the world. A hearty congratulations to fellow global internet-using (or not) citizens, and to Kim: you all deserved this win.

Or as kiwi youth would nominally mumble: 'wicked cher bro'.
"On the regional jet I’m on now, even first class doesn’t have a tray big enough for the Surface." "In comparison, when I take my MacBook Pro or my iPad [...]"

http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3ufht1/
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But the year after that when they turn three they can play alone for a couple of hours and not need supervision. At least that's how all three of mine have been. So its gets even better.
How did I miss that Inky existed? Thanks for the link.

Good marketing bit there ;)
> Second, at least in New York or the Bay Area, no programmer gets to raise kids.

Now you are getting carried away :).
It looks like there could be a lot of interesting things on the horizon:

Watchfaces augmented with data from the internet
Remote controls for internet connected devices
Multi-player Pebble games
4sq/Facebook/Yelp Check-in Apps
Sports/Weather/News/Traffic tickers
Emergency beacon activator
Deeper sports integration (skiing, hiking, surfing, tennis, soccer score keeping)!
Bitcoin price trackers (most important watchapp?)
Good idea- thanks.
If you are talking about Office web-apps, maybe. But what is wrong with their hosted Exchange and SharePoint?
I don't know why I bother to post on HN... I said websites are the future of programming. So yes, JavaScript is the client-side portion of that in which I was referring to in my previous post that you had to retort in some manner. Of course, you can use JavaScript, Ruby, Python, PHP for the server-side, but regardless that is a moot point when the article is about client-side programming on OS X.
You can accomplish both of those with keyboard shortcuts. "e" archives it, "#" trashes it. They also work in the list view if you select the messages you're concerned with ("x" to select).
Google’s growing cloud just got a NoSQL database
There's pretty much nothing you can do in Objective-C that you can't in RubyMotion.

RubyMotion exposes 100% of the Objective-C runtime with virtually no performance penalty. They are very on top of new iOS releases (released full iOS 6 support within a week).

In fact, I think that the RubyMotion community adopts new iOS technologies faster since it's new and doesn't have a lot of legacy code.
> source: i love hookers.

Describe how you got here!
i think it's dumb.
Google Hangouts Community Manager: "SMS integration is coming soon"
Newegg's anti-troll stance is exactly why I bought 2 weeks ago I bought the majority of my desktop components from them, without even pricing checking on amazon/etc.
Google does not sell your data. http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
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Ultimately we all make the choices that make sense to us. I've travelled extensively in the US, Europe and South America conducting seminars and product demonstrations. I know the pain of carrying hundreds of pounds of equipment with you. Most memorable: picking up my large Pelican cases at Schiphol only to feel they were covered with yellow slime.

Anyhow, for business travel I would nearly always buy laptops in pairs. Really easy to clone them just before a trip and have true backup.

Two laptops and a Wacom are not going to be a significant departure from one laptop and surface. You can easily fit all of it in a laptop bag with room to spare. For convenience I eventually migrated towards wheeled laptop cases. You don't have to lug them around and they offer lots of room for gear and sometimes even a minimal overnight set of clothes, etc.

I am sure that eventually some tools will develop usable parallel touch UI's. I guess my point is that I can do everything I might generally have to do during a typical business trip on a ten year old notebook. Newer notebooks are far cheaper (I paid $3,000 for the Sony ten years ago) and far more capable. A tablet would be my absolute last choice as they are still really cumbersome and inconvenient to use.
And with SMTP down 80% from its top in 2004 or imap down 58%, the question of the op should seem perfectly legitimate to you.
Massive centralisation: information habits, social circles, spending patterns. Globally.

Where does the "not evil" part come in? It doesn't.
What? It adds +4.8 which seems to match what actually happened.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5710359
Now if someone would only kill off Rambus, a true scourage to our industry would be eliminated.
Vic Gundotra was the General Manager of Platform Evangelism in the 90s? That seems to explain a LOT of what's coming.

Also, looks like the post is getting heavily flagged and going down the front page rapidly.

Perhaps Google fans in the US west coast time zone woke up a bit ago and have starting flagging the story to make it disappear? Four different HN posts about the Youtube takedown notice got heavily flagged yesterday and this morning.
No, the "bad news" is not him humble-bragging about obsoleting himself. It's the fact that he doesn't have the opportunity to establish precedents with wins in court because he's out of cases and the trolls won't let it go to court.
Or you could use a component like my ABRouter (https://github.com/aaronbrethorst/ABRouter) or Joel Levin's JLRoutes (https://github.com/joeldev/JLRoutes) to connect your view controllers via API paths, and then just use one of those for deep linking.

To elaborate on this a bit, I originally wrote ABRouter for an iOS app I was building that talked to a RESTful web service. The app would register the relevant URL patterns, and the web service would hand back paths for each downloaded or navigable resource. When the user taps on a UI element that will show a new screen, the app tells the router to load the corresponding path. The router builds a new view controller that corresponds to that path, and the VC then gets pushed onto the navigation stack.

What's great about this is that deep linking and loading UI from push notifications becomes a trivial task, and your UI flows are no longer hard coded.
Yellow ... slime?

I know it's not exactly on topic, but please do elaborate.
Actually, it doesn't feel like the money from Minecraft's success is being use as fuel for game development. Sure Mojang released a few games in cooperation with other teams. But their real next game, 0x0001c (I can never spell it correctly), is in pause due to Notch not being motivated enough.
Startup time is more like 5-10s for me on a Core i5 iMac. Better than eclipse, not better than vim.
ToniVlaic, that's a very complicated question. There are extremely smart people who have spent a lot of time trying to answer that question, and they don't have simple answers.

I start with that, because the first reply is "what do you mean by 'works'?"

Do you mean that people will use what you've made? Find a small group of people who you think would use what you've made and see if they're still using it after X weeks.

Do you mean that people will tell other people what you've made? Check your stats on an invite system, or new signups, or whatever you need to answer this question.

Do you mean that you'll be able to market and convert customers at affordable prices relative to revenue? Will you average spending $20 on advertising to bring on a customer who buys $5? Or will you spent $5 to bring in $20 of business?

Do you mean "will the thing I made be interesting to the group I'm trying to sell to?" There are many instances where a company made something, found out it wasn't interesting to the group they were trying to sell to, but that someone else found it very useful.

Give us more details, and we can give useful answers.
It is fantastic while maintaining a server, I have instant notification of any alerts on my servers no matter if I am on my computer or have my phone on me. Also with the newest additions to the software it is really cool to have for exercising. battery life lasts a week for me and I love that I can change watchfaces when I get bored of one.
Nice article, thanks for posting.
I can relate to your feelings of solitude. I had similar difficulties coping with self-employment when my business was basically on autopilot. The fact is, just because I was able to quit my job everyone else still works M-F and finding ways to stay stimulated becomes a challenge.

My solution was to just get another job. I work a corporate job now, which is weird because I too had grand thoughts of the Tim Ferris lifestyle. It is nice to know that I do this job as a way to pass the time and remain intellectually challenged. I've already turned down a few promotions because I just don't want the responsibly. Also, if things change or my boss is a prick I have no problems just walking out and never looking back. He knows this and it has turned out to be a great manager/employee relationship because of it.
These talks are amazing and his app looks fantastic. While it's easy to be creative in code, it's still easy to lose a huge amount of what we were aiming for while coding. It's exciting to see someone like Bret Victor working on problems like this so explicitly.
Music notation does not express concurrency easily. It expresses parallelism easily.

It can do this each part can be played in isolation - in other words, they are pure.
The surface pro is intended to converge tablets and notebooks. That's why you'd put up with the sub par keyboard and touchpad. If you're going to consolidate to one device, then the battery life matters more than it does when you augment a notebook with a separate tablet.
I don't have it anymore. I sold it immediately, unopened. I was incredibly disappointed in the poor communication to the backers. I don't want to go into the discussion "backers are not customers", but regardless, the communication was poor and it turned me off from developing for the watch. When the SDK arrived, after very long silence, it seems to have contained what I had hoped for. But for me, it was too late.
Framer 2: Prototyping with Photoshop Integration
Ok love, they will listen to you and shut everything down. What else will make you happy? Motorola actually proving useful to Google?
How to Measure Page Load Time With Google Analytics
Granted, this may seem like, "who cares?", but I think this is a "hacker-ish" solution to a big need of small craft brewers.

As a casual observer, packing craft beers in either bottles or cans is an expensive investment - and being able to "out-source" this operation is really novel.
In my opinion the Microsoft SPOT watches from 5+ years ago were more aesthetically pleasing than the pebble.
You don't automatically get ripped without working out.

Same way, software doesn't become secure without being attacked.

It may seem pointless to you, but it makes the ecosystem stronger.
I get things done in all those cases on the setup I mentioned. Obviously if you're taking 8-hour flights then you need that much battery, but is that a common case?
Videos and music based on a NAS do indeed show up automatically. I just don't need that part - I need the music and videos when I'm on the road. (Streaming doesn't work on most airplanes.)
Ugh, look at the HN Rankings graph, that's a sudden big dip within five minutes. Sigh, Google fans continue have a veto power on the front page to silence any critical stories.

http://hnrankings.info/5717995/
Connections have an inverse property. The more work is involved in getting them, the less value they actually have.

Real Connections (capital-C) that can actually reshape your career are something you're born into.

What you work for are connections that make inevitable things happen slightly faster. You get a job (not a great one; just an average one at market salary) 2 weeks quicker if you know a software engineer "on the inside". But make-or-break career-altering connections are something that aren't worked-for; people are either born into that or not.
Google to Sell Its Own Version of Samsung’s Galaxy S4
This is a nightmare from a security perspective, of course

Well, only because you're trusting your hardware. Most people take that on faith anyway.

If you're willing to trust the hardware, I'm fairly sure software-based isolation and security is relatively doable.
To further clarify, only the entirety of Perl cannot be parsed perfectly. There are large subsets of Perl that can be parsed easily.
but even in a language that uses symbols for operators, one needs to be able to distinguish between values and functions

Which is the whole point of sigils in perl, and a different sigils to denote the different core types. They hint the type for the reader.

Some people are very adverse to the idea of sigils, but really it's like any other bit of syntax in a language, once you know what it is and can pick it out, you can then use it as a useful additional channel of information when reading and writing code (channel of information to future readers of the code, that is).
Perhaps the resubmission is due to the May 2013 update on the page.
Shocks to the brain improve mathematical abilities
NewEgg is worth giving your business to. In addition to all this, they have better filtering for electronics product-finding, an excellent reputation for customer service, and the most helpful reviews database I've ever found.

(Amazon is a close second on reputation and reviews)

Prices are usually very close from what I have seen- only a dollar or three different.
Headband Measures and Improves Your Focus During Any Activity
It's a problem everyone's encountered before: Just when we need to hunker down and focus the most — studying for an exam or completing a project, for example — our minds begin to float away, and our brains become mush.

A high-tech headband and mobile app aim to combat this problem by tracking and, in the process, helping users improve their focus by determining how it's affected by their environment.

Called the Melon, the headband is a wireless brain-sensing device that uses EEG to measure brain activity. It detects a user's focus, and based on that data, provides personalized feedback on how to improve.

"Melon is about taking invisible information — in this case from your brain — turning it into something visible, and helping change your behavior based on that," co-creator Arye Barnehama says in a video on Melon's Kickstarter page.

While engaged in any activity — from programming to painting and playing sports — the app tells users how focused they are.

So far, Melon has raised just over $77,000 of its $100,000 goal, with 28 days left in its Kickstarter campaign.

Would you use Melon? Tell us in the comments, below.
Also, I see this post being flagged a lot, stay classy, Google fans on HN.

Or, perhaps there are those of us who see the ensuing flame war on this particular stream of non-ending google vs microsoft cage match flame wars and don't want to see them any more.
Yes, you are right and this is definitely top priority.
The problem with Perl is not the syntax, it's the semantics, or more accurately the loose connection between the two.
As a musician, I would disagree heavily with the author's statement that "people learn to read [musical notation] fluently with a little training".

A few certain individuals can be musical without being musically literate but understanding musical notation definitely requires training. It's like literacy, it's not something you just pick up out of nowhere. It's intentional, it's practiced, and it is honed.
Concurrency is a prerequisite for parallelism.
(I guess comment edit option goes away)

CBC has this story and they mention it's zenon isotopes that are measured to determine the age of the water.

>The researchers estimated how old the water was based on an analysis of the xenon gas dissolved in it. Like many other elements, xenon comes in forms with different masses, known as isotopes. The water in the Timmins mine contained an unusually high level of lighter isotopes of xenon that are thought to have come from the Earth's atmosphere at the time it became trapped.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2013/05/15/science-o...
In the next tweet he says he almost did it.
Devil's advocate - I'd have a lot more fun, interest and open "head space" for doing those things if I didn't worry about having to make a living and pay the bills. Alas, I don't have a > $2,000/month successful MVP under my belt.
Oh, likely, but the duplicate detection is based on URL matching, not on newness of content. See the other submission at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5717674 and note that the referenced URL does not have the # at the end that this one does.
Some one has to throw the first blow to the trolls, now they lead and others will follow.
MPs challenge Google over UK tax reporting
I have to admit that I feel a bit ashamed that I split my orders between Amazon and Newegg based on price last month when building my machine :(
Indeed. It's still quadratic time but it's a significant step up.
Yeah! I feel like when in saving private Ryan the panzer at the last scene is blown by a mustang. Give'em hell!
Give me a break. How is requesting they remove a non-compliant youtube app a "bait and switch". Is this going to be the new "cool" thing to post now every time a submission involves google?
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I don't think they would kill SMTP, but I also didn't think they would kill CalDav.
It is not available in Hangouts, but it will continue to be supported "for the foreseeable future" in GTalk.
So, where I'm getting a bit confused is the difference between RubyMotion and MacRuby. I gather it's a superset of MacRuby functionality? Having a "stupid day".

I'm wanting (aiming toward needing) to learn Ruby but trying to justify the cost without actually knowing the language is a bit tough.
Clearly not, since SMTP and IMAP are still in far greater use than RSS and XMPP ever were. But do you think that question will never be legitimate? Will we still be using SMTP in 2113?

Google is planning to be around for a long time. What percentage of the resources of your organization do you devote to supporting old technologies in limited use?
Oh, I wasn't trying to make a claim that this would result in any noticeable performance degradation in the vast majority of cases, but as a means of making code more understandable this particular example suffers in comparison to a comment: less code is on the screen, it requires the reader's eye to jump elsewhere, and again that particular expression is simple and about as easily understood as the function name that replaced it. I think we agree on what to prioritize in writing code, but I don't think that example in the article was a good demonstration of those priorities in practice.
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No one should get to "full salary" on an idea. Investment money (which presumably is all you'll get on an idea) is to build the business, not pay you a cushy salary, if you're a founder with significant equity.

Full salary == market compensation, not "cushy salary". Considering that you're working 5x as hard as a typical checked-out corporate worker, you're actually taking an 80% haircut already.

I don't think a mid-career software engineer should take $750,000 per year out of his startup, because even though their work is arguably worth that-- of course, this is an expected value calculus because the realized value is zero or $10+ millions-- VCs wouldn't be able to make any money if founders demanded that.

I do think that it's not unreasonable for a decent idea to merit full salary. Again, "full salary" to me means a market salary, not "cushy"; it's not the half-million or more that a decent software engineer is arguably worth. It's the $100-150k that he'd be able to get on the market right now.

The difference would be that the entrepreneur is working 5-10x harder than anyone in a corporate job and only getting 1x what corporate denizens get. That's a hell of an improvement over 0x or 0.5x.

If you can't already tell, I fucking hate the VCs who earn $500,000+ per year and take absolutely no professional risk but get sanctimonious about "skin in the game" when a software engineer (intending to work 60-80+ hours per week) asks for the 125-150k he'd command on the market. That boils my fucking blood.
No, they wouldn’t be curious. No sane person wants to be in a plane crash. Nobody ever says ‘Best plane crash ever, 10 out of 10, would fly again’.
I have mine and I like it.

However, I don't think the communication was poor at all - they have sent out 39 project updates over a year, which is almost one per week. Yes, the production was delayed and it took me 11 months to receive my Pebble after ordering, but that's reasonable considering the fact that I was backing the development of an untested and over-subscribed hardware product.
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Wearables ought to ditch the attempted interaction.

The second I'm prodding at a watch to do more than triage notifications or cycle through a couple google-now-style 'cards', I might as well have pulled out my phone.

They should focus on data collection -- which they can be awesome at; notification triage -- which they can be legitimately more-convenient for, and some security integration [1]. And if they did some NFC-triggering, that'd be cool too.

Even supporting deeper interaction is going to relegate these things to 'calculator watch' territory.

[1] if my watch is near my phone, phone should only require the 'simple' unlock code (or none). if watch isn't around, require the full password. also: lock my workstation when the watch 'leaves' the presence of the PC.
Between Google Reader and XMPP federation, it's clear that Google is turning against open standards.
lunr.js looks pretty nice, seems very useful for tiny browser based stuff. For something a bit more heavyweight, I've used natural node[1] which is quite good - though not available in browser.

https://github.com/NaturalNode/natural
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I quite liked Kim. But lately he's been nothing else than a guy that's in media so much he becomes incredibly annoying (to hear news about him/her/them).

Something similar to Lana del Rey in music business, Julian Assange in politics, Messi in football and Ryan Gosling in film.

Meh.
I found ST3 to be only slighter faster at file switching. ST2 was really fast until I got a retina MacBook Pro, at which point it got very, very slow. Hitting cmd+T and typing stuff is noticeably laggy, sometimes taking nearly a second between each file. With ST3 it's very laggy, but it's not nearly as bad as that.