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It's disturbing that some people need to be told to have hobbies and have fun. It also seems like a lot of CS oriented people don't realize how much fun can be had away from electronics. EE stuff, CS stuff, video games, pet projects, etc. are all great hobbies, but why don't more "nerds" spend their free time doing something less related to their day to day work?

Mountain biking, exercising, fishing, hunting, woodworking, metal working, art (sooo many different kinds of art), music, writing, philosophy, languages, reading, traveling (you don't have to trek through the Amazon, there are likely many beautiful and interesting places in your own country). The list f things you can do in your spare time is practically endless. Which is the reason why I can never understand how people can get bored.
Last I checked the policy, some went to Google but most to the producer. It's a pretty significant cut, some people make their living off of Youtube. Minecraft is very popular with many successful Youtube "stars", if Mojang were to take a cut there would be a lot of vocal dissatisfaction.
I get the accusation, I'm saying it's an unfounded one amidst much more valid complaints. I'm attempting to say that there's no need for such a thing.
“Hard work never killed a man. Men die of boredom, psychological conflict, and disease. They do not die of hard work.”

-David Ogilvy (from Confessions of an Advertising Man, 1963)
It has color coded upvote counts too! http://i.imgur.com/6NQyhPI.png

I take pull requests at https://github.com/etcet/HNES but I only have a few hours a week to work on it.
I would imagine that it would vary from license contract to license contract, but I'm not a lawyer, nor do I play one on TV.
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The money already goes to the uploaders.
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The interesting thing is that smartphones throw cellular tower triangulation into the mix to speed the fix, so in a sense, they are more complex.
All I could think was: "Come at me bro!"
My biggest gripe is that you really need DPI scaling to use some desktop apps at 1920x1080 on a 10" screen, but half the apps I use don't scale well or at all (I'm looking at you, Chrome). I still use the SP on a daily basis and it was a worthile purchase for a few things:

1) It's a great tablet when you want a tablet. With no keyboard attached, it's a joy to read reddit and play games on in bed.

2) I throw it in the car with me whenever I leave home. I'm always on-call if a site/server goes down. The SP is a full computer with a hard keyboard, so there won't be any situation I need to drive back home to handle, even if it takes several hours to resolve.

3) It's a suitable desktop replacement for anything but hard gaming. I stick it on my desk, plug in a big monitor, and pair a bluetooth mouse. Now screen size and DPI scaling don't matter, and the Core i5 has all the power I could need for compiling software, photo editing, etc.
Dual 22 inch monitors vs a 27 inch makes it less annoying.
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There are also plenty of people who are interested in people of two or more genders that you shouldn't erase. This is the kind of thing where, if you really can't figure out how to make it work with your current design, you seriously need to go back to the drawing board.
Just because something is Open doesn't mean it is worth supporting when most people don't care about or use it anymore.

Web Search Interest for RSS; down 78% from its peak in 2006:

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=RSS

Web Search Interest for XMPP; down 33% from its peak in 2010:

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=XMPP

As Bob Dylan once said: the times, they are a-changin'.
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I guess a clue is that male prostitute generally have male client, not female.
Money matters, but "safe" also means that it's not shown in inappropriate places or remixed with inappropriate content. For a family-friendly brand like Nintendo, that's a big deal. Advertisers care a lot about this, too, even though that's less relevant for Nintendo.

YouTube has a playback restriction feature for this very purpose, including domain white/black listing.
http://apiblog.youtube.com/2011/12/understanding-playback-re...
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He may have been asking a genuine question. Given the current thread is about how much you can do for very little money, comparing how a $100 Firefox OS device to a $100 Android one is perfectly valid (though not entirely fair as one of the two is still not officially production ready).
How about getting alerts on your watch, while your phone is in your pocket? Or syncing your watch with your iPad after taking a run, over bluetooth, automatically? Or talk into your watch while your phone is a camera?
It was on sale a while ago; 2 copy's for the price of one.
The concluding question—"What if programming notation were more like music notation?"—is an interesting one. Music notation achieves a pretty impressive information density when you think about it. And it offers an interesting way of describing concurrent processes. (edit: I should say it offers an interesting way of describing parallel processes) I suppose it would be closest to a declarative programming paradigm?

But there are going to be some inevitable problems when drawing comparisons to programming languages. One of which is that music notation occupies a kind of hybid position between a natural language and a machine language. Certain aspects of notation like pitch and rhythm are totally unambiguous (at least in the abstract) but others (volume, timbre, attack, phrasing) are more connotational and thus up to performer interpretation. Then there's something like tempo which may be a mixture of both: a metronome mark is unambiguous but an accelerando isn't.

Also, although I agree that "people learn to read it fluently with a little training," I don't think it follows that they can write it correctly with a little training. It's actually an enormously subtle, complex mode of expression. Take just one example: enharmonic spelling. Even in a purely diatonic harmonic context, understanding when to use a g-sharp versus and a-flat requires a pretty extensive understanding of music theory. Take a bit of time to peruse something like Gardner Read's "Music Notation: A Manual of Modern Practice" with its 400+ pages detailing all the edge cases and tiny details and you'll see just how hard it can be to notate music properly.
I think it'd be cool as long as it doesn't reduce the amount of money that the video uploaders can make off of it.

It'd just be more cash to fuel game development.
Relevance to HN - "The crimes only came to light when the woman's employer ran a standard check on her instant messaging account, discovering 39 pages of conversation between the mother and the man she pimped her son out to."
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I'm seeing these issues currently inside of the management portal myself: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/support/service-dashboard/
> Can this guy get us to full salary on an idea alone

I'd like to pick this point out, I think it's worth discussing. 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. You get a nice salary from the business when it can be taken out of profit. Until then, you should be on "minimum to not be preoccupied with personal finances".

That last point is why I would be cautious going into business with someone who has significant personal outstanding debt.
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Starving the troll. :) Nothing lasts forever. I think this immoral money-making tactic is on its way out.
> we now favor instant gratification, quick results, getting started easily, all accomodating short attention spans.

This is not new. It is part of being human. Humans, being mammals, are inherently lazy and eager for shortcuts; it's why we have programming languages and computers to begin with. If you want industrious, look at the insects.
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This was a result of the antitrust case sun and novell brought before the EU comission. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_Microsoft_compet...

It got us windows without media player (which nobody used), the browser ballot (which everyone endured) and a requirement that all their server protocols be documented sufficiently for competitors to implement the same service (which we all benefited from to a large degree). http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-04-70_en.htm?local...
I'd argue that it's really hard for a single founder to creating a "scaling" startup. Evidence suggests the same (there are exceptions).
It's a myth that large companies have a lot of repitition tasks. They know how to automate. No need to tell them what they already do.

As my postings are focussed on the German market, I rarely see real Lean Startups that. It's still very common to build one thing big and to hope that it succeeds. So actually you don't start from scratch more than 1 time except some low profile developers messed it up.
Another feature I'm really looking forward to in 9.3 is native operators to query inside stored JSON documents. It works well in the dev build and will be a great addition to the NoSQL functionality in Postgres.
Yes, but then you're constantly switching magnification factors, font sizes, and such every time you plug into the desktop dock or unplug to hit the road?
>you have to constantly switch between input modes which is extremely annoying.

I never switch modes unless I am switching tasks.

Desktop tasks (writing code, workign with office apps) all mouse/keyboard/trackpad

Consumption tasks (news, video) all use touch with keyboard folded out of the way

Drawing and taking notes I use the stylus.

I see this as having the right input mode available for each of my tasks, not some sort of "nightmare".
You probably just want to rename variables because you don't like the previous developer's naming convention

If the last developer named his or her variables along the lines of 'a', 'b', 'c', you're damn right I have an issue with their naming convention and I'm going to fix it.
"I end up using the finger very often, and not to touch the screen, either".
Same here. I even live in the neighborhood.
Nonsense. If you do more work than you take in calories, you will eventually die of that work. If you work through injury, the injury will get worse and may well kill you.
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How could an anorexic starve at a buffet?
They can't hash SHA256 with this quantum computer, can they?
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Considering the rising popularity of Postgres, I'd love to see someone set up a kind of Kickstarter mechanism so the user community can fund large pieces of development work, eg partitioning , extending the work on DB checksums and so on as well as fill in any holes in the feature set like the ones you mention.
That's a fair point. I know 7Zip has this same problem; no matter which computer I'm using, I have to manually tell Windows that 7Zip is the program to use to open a .7z file.

It's possible for a program to not register file extensions.
Whether the service is free or not has nothing to do with the amount of support they provide. If they charged $0.01 per year, would that then change any argument in any way? What about $0.01 for life?

Google is monetizing the interaction in some way, either directly or indirectly (possibly even as a loss leader), otherwise they would not offer it. That is all that matters.

Once we can all get past the "free" concept, it turns into a rather mundane comparisons of price vs features, but price may not entirely consist of currency.
Love the landing page. I like the "Absolutely nothing will be published on your timeline..." bit.

I wonder how the Boy rate Girls is going to work for you guys. If you could blog about the stats you get that would be interesting as well! I know this is not the place for that but Lisbon, Taipei and Paris' girls come on top imo.
Step one for me was uninstalling all the default apps. Some of them have good replacements in the Market, others I just do without. The lack of quality is a serious issue. I'm not sure how they are going to fix that considering Microsoft themselves can't seem to make anything terribly impressive.
Looking forward to Mongodb vs Rethinkdb (no reply writes) benchmark.

Also the secondary-indexes faq link is partially broken (doesn't scroll to the right part). (firefox is broken, chrome works)
You have no idea what Fascism is and are doing more harm than good to your side of this debate. People like you can get the whole group painted as historically illiterate idiots with nothing to contribute.

http://www.anesi.com/Fascism-TheUltimateDefinition.htm
Wow, glutten for punishment.

My primary development box is a fully loaded 17" laptop. Tablets are too small screen wise and performance wise when doing real work either in the OSS or Redmond realm. (I deal with tons of Data and run a few VMs as well.)
Looks nice but I'll stick to self-hosted readers now.
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mkrecny, forget about the haters, I think it's cool. At the end of the day we're just communicating on HN with abstractions based on less than a minute of thinking. A month with six cool people sounds like a blast.
I could have gotten them from Amazon for cheaper with free next-day delivery, but I bought my last set of parts from Newegg specifically because they shat on a patent troll's parade. I'm totally willing to pay a premium for that, I have not a single regret.
This line baffled me:

"I found myself in a co-working space the other day. I passed row after row of neatly ensconced workers and realized that I would be just as lonely working there, separated in that manner."

Ridiculous. People look like they're isolated when they're working. That's how you get work done. It's one of the great things about a coworking space, that it's still a coWORKing space: people are there to work.

But they're also there to be social, to work in the same space, go to lunch together, get to know each other, and generally have a structure to their lives and their work that's similar to a "real job" but still working on independent stuff.

And it works. I spent 9 months in a coworking space, totally stabilized my life/work/psyche, and made more friends than I could have imagined. Were they all tech people working on startups? Absolutely not and the better for it—it's great to have some diversity in your social interactions. Knowing such a wide variety of types and personalities of people is a goddamn blessing.

I just don't get it: why reject coworking and then go start a coworking space? This has an air of hipster entitlement that I just can't shake. I'm glad the author found a way to get out of his rut, and perhaps found an interesting tech incubator spinoff, but it could have been a lot simpler and less dramatic.
Thanks!
We will talk about some stats as soon as they're relevant.
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It's an opportunity for someone: start a company offering support for Google Apps.
I think they are trying to move more towards the long-lived conversations, where it shows you if the person is there and willing to be interrupted (the green bar), or they simply are not necessarily there to answer right now (because they are away from their computer, or they are in do-not-disturb mode). I realize that this is missing the middle "busy" state, but I don't really think that's a big loss. It used to be that when you sent offline messages it would end up as an email to them. Now when you send messages and they aren't in the online mode you can just assume that they'll see the message at the time of their choosing and respond then.
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Turbo C is still used in many colleges and schools especially in India. So we made a tool to generate the equivalent ANSI C code from Turbo C compliant code which can help people learn the difference between ANSI and Borland C implementations. It is under development and covers very less number of functions and header files at the moment.
“For what conceivable purpose would you want to compare average thickness?”

Along with length, width and depth, that’s what determines the volume of the object (=portability). The Surface Pro has 60% more volume as a MacBook Air 11". And yet, it gets hot, has loud fans, and has less battery life. That’s just bad engineering. As a replacement for a notebook and a tablet, it really should have at least as much battery life as an iPad. Given its volume, that would’ve been possible.

Surface Pro: 10.81 x 6.81 x 0.76" = 55.95 cubic inches

MacBook Air 11": 11.8 x 7.56 x 0.39" = 34.79 cubic inches

EDIT: in an earlier version I mistakenly wrote 'mass' where I meant 'volume'.
your handle describes your post perfectly. "regular job, regular world." I shall use that!
Why are you trying to work with files in the metro interface?

I'm having trouble coming up with a use case where I'd need the file chooser to do any of the things you'd want to do in the touch interface.

I can't speak to the music file thing because I haven't dealt with music files in years, it's always been an annoying and tedious experience for me (as is working with any large number of files with wonky metadata), so I switched to streaming and haven't looked back.

EDIT:
That said, videos on my NAS just show up in the metro "Videos" app and I can watch them without issue. I haven't tried it with music but I can't imagine why that would be any different.
> Like click and drag to select text, dragging and dropping of icons. double clicking.

All idiotic ideas.

> UNDO.

An obvious invention. Not one requiring much thought, only the resources to implement it.
True - but if you buy a ticket on a jetliner with only one engine working (and it says it on the box), people might be curious as to how it compares to the other airlines that also sell tickets on one engine jets…
Right, but there are good work-arounds via stored proces and triggers. I'm using this on a couple of projects and it works perfectly.

Here is a discussion and answer in Stack overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1109198/1646663
I need to get out of this industry
I hope this isn't Metrowerks CodeWarrior all over again. Hopefully, there won't develop a significant "underclass" of developers who simply won't venture away from the parts of iOS that haven't been given a "Ruby-like" facade. Right now, Apple has a wonderful situation where over 90% of the devs and users adopt the newest versions of the OS. They should hate to lose that.

(I am all for choice, though. I wish Apple had a way of "blessing" frameworks and languages that have automated and/or inherent ways of absorbing additions to iOS, and was specific about this.)
This is the slippery slope fallacy. Don't fall into actually arguing for or against it. The NRA does the same thing when it claims all gun rules lead to a gun ban.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope
Working in the office is not working on the go. Working on the go is finish up stuff and send it before boarding a plane, or work on that same plane, or during your train commute.

If you're going from home to the office and back, I don't see the point in carrying anything other than your smartphone. Talking about the general case, obviously, there are justifications for bringing a medium-sized laptop.
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If you are trying to build spreadsheets on a touch device, you have an identity crisis, unless that touch device has a 42-inch screen. I would also throw demo-ing SQL server projects on a tablet in that category too.

Touch devices were not meant to replace laptops or desktops. In most cases, they were meant to fill a space that wasn't already filled.
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I'm seriously just waiting for the anti-trust cases to roll in. Isn't this just like the 90's with Microsoft?

Same shit, different names.
Hmm, the faq scrolls correctly for me, but I'll double check.

We're actually really excited now that we're at a point where we can do apples-to-apples benchmarks. I'm really looking forward seeing the results.
I love my pebble. It is exactly what I wanted from it.

Only problem? I need to turn the watch off during exams.
Minecraft was on sale the entire time it was in alpha/beta. I got it for $5, and bought a copy for my boyfriend later at $10.
To be fair they bought skype and haven't really changed it. Which is actually an improvement over the previous company that kept removing things.
You're right. Honestly. The problem is, I've had this device since day one and switching between input modes still gets in the way. It is not a fluid experience. That's all I was saying. I am an "artist", writer, coder, consumer, and gamer. I carry the pen in my pocket and use it regularly. I have the cool little bluetooth touch mouse and enjoy it when gaming/coding. The on-screen keyboard is actually pretty awesome and I can touch type on it with surprising accuracy. BUT... I still have to consciously determine which input method I want to use for which app. If I'm on the desktop, and my Twitter app goes off, I switch back to Modern. I can continue using the mouse somewhat clumsily, or I can switch to touch input which works great. Then, I switch back to desktop and every darn time I'm still trying to use touch. Maybe I'm dense. Maybe I'm just hoping that one day the transition will be seamless... but, for me, it's not, and that is annoying (even if only mildly.)
"doing stuff" with other people is so fun and rewarding. My personal favorite is organizing hikes for my group of friends (esp since some of them are dangerously out of shape and I want to do what I can to encourage -- but not force -- healthy habits in my friends), which I love for the exercise, the conversation, the views, and brunch afterwards :)
Weight and size are what determine portability for everyone else, not how much water it could hold if it were doubling as a canteen. That's not mass, it's volume, by the way. The MBA is longer, wider, taller and heavier -- yet you've contrived a way to label that as "more portable"... ridiculous on its face.

I'm not going to make this valueless discussion thread any longer, so to your reply: those numbers are made up. Larger screens make things less portable, not more.
It's basic game theory. A single company standing up to the trolls is unlikely to make any difference (or at least looks unlikely in the absence of an example like Newegg), and may incur costs far greater than if they simply folded. If everybody stood up to the trolls together, then everybody would be better off, but the better strategy for the individuals is to fold. Prisoners' Dilemma writ large.
Yeah, exactly the same here, but i managed to dodge that, my red only arrived a couple of days ago and its lovely.
Sorry—I was reading into it as an analogy outside the context of e-mail: I initially interpreted it as a slight on the entire HTML technology. Making more sense now, sorry for the confusion!
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I don’t see how it could be anything but snark, as there are no unsubsidized $100 iPhones.
Other companies that can afford the first six patent lawsuits necessary to build up a reputation? Maybe.

Other companies that can't even afford to win once? Hardly.
obsoleting oneself - the mark of the hacker ethos? :)
haha, everyone would like to kill URSAFF, but they are your life after your biological CPU has turned into a good old Pentium :)

And yes Limousin, may not be your startup hub of choice, but after all, it is probably cheaper than everywhere else. Probably good enough while you are in the coding phase, not that good afterwards for sure.

The language problem is real though, and I understand your move much better now.

We're in Toulouse, some other startups I know are in Paris. Ping me if you ever come down South (everything above Bordeaux is Great far 'beyond the Wall' North for us :) ).