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I tried a number of distros recently with an eye to choosing one that works well on a range of low end hardware - with a focus on software development.

#! was my final pick by a country mile because (personal taste of course):
- beautiful fonts out of the box
- clutter free snappy desktop/environment
- tasteful defaults

Essentially a distro where there is no need for me to adjust much as the defaults match my tastes.
It's a great post, but I was a bit confused by the purpose of Mircrohaus and ventured on to the website. Unfortunately, I'm still a bit confused. Not confused by what it is, but by what the purpose is? I mean, why would people be attracted to this over other incubators? The application process, although seemingly informal, stil exists so I guess what I'm looking for is a sort-of pitch about Microhaus.
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I telecommute, and I can definitely relate to most of this post. There's something really refreshing about being able to step out at 1pm, run for an hour, hit a bar for lunch, meander back home, and settle back into coding again. It feels great, but especially in the winter months, the lack of daily social interaction catches up with you really quickly.
I use Xabber and I'm very happy with it:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xabber.and...

But if I can't talk with my contacts using a Gmail account, then is not that useful.
I'm pretty sure that when they give the name of a city, they include the suburbs as well. Paris is a huge metropolis with some cheap areas but it's small and overpriced if you exclude the suburbs.
You're right. Blindly following an advice taken literally is never a good idea. However as a general mindset I think it's really valuable tip for many people who unnecessarily limit themselves.
Microsoft actually did not want to open the .doc format. I believe they were forced to do it.
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I have a Windows Phone so I just tested some of these objections out.

> Allows users to download videos from YouTube

That was pretty cool, but I honestly don't need that. I can already download any video from anywhere online using Google Chrome and the curl trick.

> Prevents the display of advertisements in YouTube video playbacks

I never saw ads on the mobile web version of YouTube, but this could be a problem when Google wants to insert them.

> Plays videos that our partners have restricted from playback on certain platforms (e.g., mobile devices with limited feature sets)

This was great! I actually remember trying to play a video that worked on my laptop and failed on my phone. I just went back to that same video and it worked.

The overall mobile web experience of YouTube is terrible on my Windows phone (and on my iPhone). Since most of you guys are probably iPhone users here is an analogy. It's like trying to switch from a native iOS maps (Apple or Google made) client, to Googles web version of maps. Yeah it works and does everything, but the performance is crap compared to the native mobile application.
Admittedly, I've never forced the issue. Maybe I should.
That's funny. I've been a .NET developer since it's been a thing. I don't know anyone doing WPF. That's kind of why it's deprecated.
hummm... here at work it says "This Connection is Untrusted / yosee.com uses an invalid security certificate. / The certificate is not trusted because no issuer chain was provided."

I'll have to see it at home... (company security manager sits right in front of me :P )
But you do need to read the manuals to know which flags to use/need, and moreso than #!: it's the difference between knowing apt-get and knowing the command line at a much deeper level.

(I now use arch almost exclusively, but used #! until I switched. The rolling release system is the main reason I did.)
I cannot praise this enough. The greatest achievements in the world have come from a gathering of bright and passionate people, discussing and vetting their ideas together.

As deep thinkers, we tend to seek isolation to focus the entirety of our mental faculty on a particular problem. In this quest to make efficient use of our biological computing device, we forget that we are indeed humans forged through evolutionary processes, and that our very sanity depends on a positively reinforcing social foundation.

The most difficult task is finding like minded individuals, who would spontaneously coalesce as if by a force of nature but are held apart due to spatial or temporal separation. Once this initial barrier is overcome, such minds become inseparable and often go on to do great things. History is abound with examples such as Godel and Einstein, whose friendship began in the most extraordinary of circumstances but ended up changing our very understanding of the universe.

So good luck, and god speed!
That depends on what makes it grounds for firing.

Any sufficiently left-wing policy is indistinguishable from a right-wing policy, and the reverse is also true. Anti-pornography movements present one of the clearest modern illustrations of this phenomenon. The right-winger complains of personal morality, while the left-winger complains about demeaning and objectifying the subjects, but they wind up at basically the same conclusions. Alcohol prohibition showed something very similar around the turn of the century.
Quantum computers do exist. But it's hard to build large ones. The largest one so far was able to factor 143=11x13. http://phys.org/news/2012-04-largest-factored-quantum-algori...
So did I until I went to Uni. The "Crusty Old Unix Guy" who taught some of the smaller course modules would knock off a mark if you didn't refer to it as 'hashbang'.
There's a huge amount of creativity that comes from solitude - I've often felt that the biggest issue for me with having a "real job" is the fact that I can't carve out enough time to be truly alone with my thoughts. The grass is always greener... :)
"why would people be attracted to this over other incubators"

It's focused on developing you -as a person- rather than a product. Microhaus doesn't take equity in whatever you're working on.
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that depends on your definition of "we"

ozh fourth of ten, you've got glass installed, right ?
Very much so... but don't forget, you have to fish where the fish are. They collected in NYC, an environment which facilitates art collection- many artists move there. It also appears the couple had no children?

If you're looking for good, cheap art, try looking around in a town which has a small art school. They always have graduation show and students work very hard on those pieces. And if you're interested in the valuation of art, be sure to attend an art history class.
I always had the feeling that Microsoft is made up of two types of developers:
1) noobs like those who created the MetroUI and have absolutely no knowledge of the Windows history - they always introduce new and pointless features, and they also usually undo the work of the other type of developer:
2) geniues (this is not a pun), like those who improved Windows performance so much starting with Windows XP and who know both the history and the users of Windows inside-out
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this is pretty sweet
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good code
They have commits in the kernel just because they want to run Linux on Hyper-V and they need drivers to support it.

They we're later criticized for not maintaining the code and etc. But after that I think that MS improved the code and continued commiting updates.
I don't think you know enough about .NET, C#, or even web applications in general, to effectively comment on this subject.
There is an adiabatic factoring algorithm. http://phys.org/news/2012-04-largest-factored-quantum-algori...
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It's loading but pretty slow for me.
Interesting profile. Do you have a blog or twitter I could follow?
Yes, but GPS modules can't expect to have this information input into them. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoCom

You're right from the point of view of the aircraft/missile, where several pieces of information are put together (GPS, barometric, inertial, etc) for navigation purposes.
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Myles doesn't need an incubator. This is not about giving away a % of your company for advice/connections/financing/whatever. He (and others like him) just want to work in an environment filled with like-minded individuals.
Does no one see that this is an obvious transition to make a proprietary Android dev environment?

Sure, Eclipse can be a little buggy, but it's FREE.

I'd rather take a free, third party IDE over something that will just push Google closer to world domination.
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Oh neat, what'd you do at Thomson Reuters?

I notice your blog is filled with NLP related goodies. I've been meaning to screw around with Stanford NER lib, to see if i can train up some custom recognizers for particular document domains of any utility.
Thank you very much! We are thinking about Android and maybe WP next…

Yes, we are thinking about it, though people may be afraid of linking it to their social accounts, therefore we will continue to support our own login system.
Can I fork microha.us on github?

No seriously, I am currently thinking about renting office space, and this seems to be a great idea so I will think about using it for a microha.us session at the beginning.
Weird, but you're welcome to try at home. :)
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where does it say that the phone will retail for $50? The author implies it and refers to the phone as though he was actually able to obtain one for about $50..
What would actually stop you from building a language like Perl or Ruby from scratch?

Once you've parsed them (which is admittedly much more difficult than Perl), writing a relatively slow interpreter for the core language in C or similar wouldn't be that difficult.
Why was Mt. Gox shutdown but HSBC wasn't? The last thing the Fed wants is a currency they don't control and can't debase.
Not the same thing, but I feel like Bundler does a similar thing to git submodules (for Ruby only) but does it much better
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You can check Meetup.com and StartupDigest for Events happening in the area. If you're somewhat social, you can meet quite a few interesting people there. Also, I'd recommend stopping by Hacker Dojo. It's a great place to meet like minded hackers and get info on what to do and where to go. Will you be driving or using public transportation? SF is actually a good 30-45 minutes from the Valley, but a must visit place, totally different feel! There are quite a few interesting startups and hang out spots there as well.
For me I think the events based and angle has worked the best. I went to a couple of hot spots last time, pulled out my laptop and worked, as was everybody else. But quite frankly, I can do that at home too :)
the best newest social protocols.

Better known as "reinvention of shit that already worked because we want to lock you into our platform and monetize your eyeballs."
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I've used this method:

http://jasonkarns.com/blog/merge-two-git-repositories-into-o...

... in order to manage a communication protocol library specific to two programs. Originally there was three repos (Program A, Program B and the library), that I merged into a single repository. I can merge changes from the older repositories, that are still active.

It looks that this method is a close ancestor of git-subtree.
a company that inserts this type of response hook in their emails needs to register with google. the response interface looks clearly separated—its not in the body of the email—so there is no way that a phisher could fake it.

so it actually could help to SOLVE the phishing issue. especially if other mail providers sign on.
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Exactly. And even more - for business people is a bit easier to set the goals and deadlines what in case of developers is quite challenging (especially the deadlines).
Running a company has been one of the most lonely things I've ever done. I think it's one of the hardest parts of running a company. It's no wonder founders try to form social groups amongst themselves.

I started a weekly coffee meetup in Madison, WI which has been great for reducing some of that loneliness. We also hired more people which has really helped as well!

Best of luck with Microhaus!
No SMS support, no XMPP support. The new "Google Hangouts" messenger will be the next Google+/Buzz.
Github supports some basic features: https://github.com/blog/817-behold-image-view-modes
Most meetings are just power-plays in disguise
This bizarrely reminds me of the SouthPark episode on KFC.
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This is usually done by generating different URLs for different emails. The URLs need to carry access token parameters. See https://developers.google.com/gmail/schemas/actions/limited-....
For a moment I thought I was reading a description of my life.
It's like Symfony2 is a gourmet restaurant in a town that finds McDonald's too expensive.

Nobody uses Drupal, or eZ Publish or Joomla. They just don't. There's good reasons for this, notably these are some really obnoxious platforms to build for, but that aside their impact on the PHP world at large is inconsequential.

PHP, by and large, consists of people slamming together applications from the ground up the same way they built them in the 1990s. It shouldn't be this way, and people should fix it through education and outreach, but I really don't see that happening on the scale that's required.

Also, if you think even a quarter of the PHP devs out there even know what a unit testing framework is, you're more of an optimist than I am.
Right, minor brain fart. I was thinking at the systems level, but the requirement is for the module to cut itself out, not have an external system do it.
There is something very strange about Japan maps. I couldn't get them to cache on Android, and Bing / Here maps wouldn't show them at all.
That is a very narrow solution space you are considering. I can think of a dozen non-violent proposals which would involve nothing more than fiscal policy changes. For example: flat tax and basic income for all, such that there is no special treatment of corporations over individual entities. No tax breaks, no loopholes.

This would work best if implemented with direct democracy and a program of lean government held liable to be fully transparent on all spending.

A blogger who goes slightly more in depth with a proposal of this idea can be found here: http://www.naturalfinance.net/2013/04/improving-economy-by-e...

Of course the currently vested interests would fight this to the grave, but there is a point at which the people will no longer suffer the reign of Feudal lords (I predict that to be about 40% unemployment, or 70% youth unemployment).
In at will employment states this will be close to impossible. Simple loophole -- hire her first, then fire next month due to "urgent restructuring" or "non-performance" good luck with that.
Same here; and it's not like it's hard. If you're running a web server and/or DNS, it's as easy as 'apt-get install ejabberd', tweak some well documented settings in the config file, add a few lines to the DNS config, and bam! I'm talking to my friends on GTalk via my own private XMPP server.
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I don't mean to jump on you personally, but your question is typical of something I don't understand: why do so many people seem to want to do desktop-type things on ChromeOS? It's not meant for that kind of work, and there are plenty of other OSs that are.
It's sourced. That's a reply to a thread based here, which starts by quoting email from Google which says point blank that "the new [hangouts] service will not support XMPP".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5714557
I am an avid fan of the Walking Dead comic books, but this is the #1 problem I have with the art: I can't tell the difference between the characters. Many of the characters look the same, especially the female characters, so the story gets confusing, especially when you only buy the trade paperback every few months.
I've never seen a better tool for rapid prototyping a working iOS app... and it plays nice with teacup, pixate, all the friends!

Reminds me somehow of Sinatra - e.g. Promotion : Cocoa :: Sinatra : Rails
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But of course: http://rudel.sourceforge.net/
I dont know how to make an index, and I dont trust Indec or private offices. Thats why I refute the claim that "now we have an inflation index" by the economist.

We dont.

Also, the economist had published an article called Gaucho "Blues" about the blue market in argentina, and it has been taken down. Thats a red flag.
It depends on how it came off. If it sounded like you were talking slowly as a way of talking down to them, I probably wouldn't want to work with you either. A lot of developers can come off as demeaning, and this can be compounded by insecurity by the interviewers (if they think you're a better developer then they'll be more sensitive to you being uppity).

Otherwise, it could just be that you seemed like you were too slow moving for a fast paced environment. If I pop my head into your door and say "Hey, how do you feel about XYZ?" (looking for a one or two word answer) and you take 10 minutes to answer, that's not ideal.
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> Did you completely understand what cyclomatic complexity was without following that link?

Seems confusing that answering "No" to this (meaning you did NOT know what cyclomatic complexity was) would be a net positive for refactoring?
Off topic, sorry, but just a question in general about this type of link on HN:

Why is the font on that page so big?

Isn't it better of everyone consistently uses the same font size for content, rather than some pages using a big font for articles while others use a small font? In the past these "large font" pages did not really exist, it's a recent phenomenon...
"Unit tests? SQL escaping? What are you? A snob?"

It's not snobbery. It's called doing your job like a professional. This is harder in PHP than it is in other languages.

The only language more cantankerous and difficult than PHP is C. Learning PHP properly is hard. There are hundreds of little things you will have to be very careful about because they are easy to get wrong and the cost of failure can be enormous.

If you can't see this, you're basically a PHP snob. You're holding your pet language to a different standard than others.
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will certainly do, it has nice feedback :)
> I imagine that Google wants to roll this out to Apps users before general Gmail users.

That'll be a first. Historically, Google has deeply neglected Apps users. My Apps account didn't get G+ until almost a year after it became generally available.
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To be fair, while the Office suite itself is pretty decent these days, Office 365 is terrible. Microsoft is still very much a software company and not a services company.
5 years Adwords support was awful. I was told by a rep that they wouldn't assign an account manager to you unless you spent $10k/month. If you didn't, you were pretty much up the creek. Now days, it doesn't seem nearly that bad. They're always pestering even my small accounts to try to "help".
Doing things like hosting Wednesday board game nights, weekend hikes, and Sunday brunches have kept me "sane" in this regard. They're all great activities to have conversations.
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Great post. Thank you for sharing this.

> Surely, I would fill my days with an eclectic mix of hobbies and spontaneous travel, funding the whole thing with the ultimate passive income stream.

Was this the original goal for not having a 'real' job?

> But for some reason I can't do that. I'm not good at using my free time for hobbies. I typically spend it thinking about work, or prototyping the 'next thing'.

This part was most attention-grabbing for me. Did you have many hobbies before you became so deeply involved in tech?

I like to think I'd be outside playing golf a few times a week, but that's something I used to do before getting a tech job in a city.
I'd like to see the HTML that is supported in e-mails standardised

Count me out. It wasn't even two weeks ago that we had the story here about how The Onion was hacked because somebody clicked on an obfuscated HTML URL in email.
but I still find it curious that they offer support for one and not the other

It's pretty simple. Without AdWords, Google would not exist. They could drop AdSense and nobody would really notice. I'm exaggerating, but AdWords really is Google, and AdSense isn't necessary.
Let me get this straight.

Your solution to feeling socially isolated, having no fulfilling hobbies outside of work, and your apparent unhappiness, despite your success, is to open a co-working space?

Folks, this is as clear as an indictment of the culture as you get.

I work out of a co-working space. They're great. I am slowly working my way up the informal foosball rankings. And I'm not particularly good at living life, but we're still working at the financial stability part.

There is more to life than work, even if you were blessed with huge natural reservoirs of motivation. Learn to paint. Learn to cook. Learn another language. Write fiction, investigate some non-fiction, learn how to take beautiful photographs (pro-tip: your iPhone is an amazing camera), READ BOOKS, start playing a team sport in an adult rec league, go camping, if you can afford it GO TRAVELLING, oh my god you have the money and total flex but you won't go travelling?, VOLUNTEER at the homeless shelter, at the library, at the office of a political cause you believe in, INTERACT WITH OTHER HUMAN BEINGS [in a setting outside of "lol tech startups" once in a while].
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Interac is actually the name of a payment services company (they license and operate point-of-sale plastic-handling machines), but the name is most commonly associated with the Canadian variety of debit cards. As in Europe, the cards are issued by the bank, but they're not generally cobranded with any credit card company and payments made with them draw funding directly from your chequing account.
Lunr.js does provide a way to pre-compile the index on the server side. Check out the discussion and implementation in progress of using the pre-compilation for Jekyll: https://github.com/olivernn/lunr.js/issues/26 .
When that happens, that government won't need Google to give them the information. Chances are they already have it. AT&T's secret rooms have been public knowledge since at least 2006.
The social life that comes with a typical office job is a false security. Your boss can take it away at any time. Never get so beholden to one person. You need to start going to Meetups, hanging out with different sorts of people, etc.

After you leave, you're lucky if you're in touch with one or two of your former co-workers. If your boss is sour about you leaving, or if he fires you in a piss-fit, he'll actually turn a lot of people against you.

It sounds like you're already coming to the right path. Generating a social life without an office context is harder, but it's a valuable skill because almost everyone successful has active out-of-office ties.
Microsoft is flagrantly violating YouTube's terms of service. Saying they would serve ads if YouTube had an API for it is like me using your obviously not public WiFi and saying I would pay for it if you let me.