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I spent two years driving from Alaska to Argentina. My entire expenses were $1200/mo, which is pretty much what I was spending before the trip just going to work every day.

Not paying rent and cooking all your own meals is a great way to save money.

[1] http://theroadchoseme.com/the-price-of-adventure

Coldfoot is not the northernmost truck stop in the world. I drove another 250 miles North from there. http://theroadchoseme.com/the-dalton-highway-to-the-arctic-o...
Who's avoiding facts? The facts are that this happens constantly. Places change, sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse.. which is always a matter of individual perspective.

The only constant is that expecting conditions to never change in any material way remains a very poor bet.
I find that Seattle has most of those benefits (no income tax, better regulation, state and city with balanced budgets, lower cost of living) but also the benefits of living in a socially liberal state (gay marriage, access to family planning, sane regulation of pot).

Austin however wins on weather, unless you like to stay buried in your cave programming, like me. ;)
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None of those are DRM, all of those are unlimited free downloads (which pretty much every digital distributor provides).

The DRM is the fact that if you don't have an internet connection you have to hope that Steam successfully launches into offline mode or not have access to your games.

Similarly if Valve decides to ban your account, all 118 games become permanently unavailable to you.
I'm with you - I grew up in Texas, and never thought I'd end up here after college. Increasingly, I'm actually thinking that I'll never leave.

Don't forget FiOS when you are discussing internet connectivity options - they started their rollout in Keller, just north of Fort Worth, and still have a strong presence in many parts of Texas.

I really wish the lack of a statewide startup culture (and what could be done to fix it) could get more discussion. There's some notable activity in Austin, but - for a state that supposedly prides itself on entrepreneurship, business friendliness, "pulling yourself up by the bootsraps" and the like, there's not many startups here.
>Is this really such a hard problem to solve?

I must be misunderstanding because resizing an image, rotating it or many other basic operations consists of about 5 lines of .NET code and very little processing power. I imagine it's not any more difficult in other frameworks. I couldn't conceive of offloading that to an external service under just about any use case.

It seems like they plan to offer video editing via SaaS as well which is more valuable, but I would think the transfer time and bandwidth would kill any speed improvement over a massively parallel SaaS video editor as opposed to using a local open source library.
Watch out when people say "There ought to be a law/rule/regulation!". That's how CA got to where it is. One small rule at a time.

The speculators are here (in Austin) - houses are being sold within 24 hours of being listed, with offers $10k above the asking price. Just crazy.
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>You have 24 hours a day to work on your problems, the doctor has about 20 minutes. So if you're not an expert on your particular situation, then you're pretty well screwed.

That sounds reasonable enough.
My guess would be that most people working at a start up would be renting and thus would avoid the property tax.
MooTools on Bountysource
That'll get the votes for sure!
It's text... frozen in an image, to where it can't be copied/pasted except via OCR. Seems bad
Apple's dirty little tax secret [video]
When you have a small company like Double Fine, fighting for creativity and independence, and competing in a space dominated by giant game publishers and media companies, I vote to give them the benefit of the doubt. Even if it fails, I'm happy to support the effort.

Also, the documentary coverage that was part of the last Kickstarter already made that more than worthwhile for me. It provided a great inside view of the development process. The game is just a bonus at this point.
Snow and ice have different reflective properties than regular old asphalt.

The car uses LADAR.

Pretty sure it'll be able to tell the difference.
even with productive languages, there is such a thing as 'idiomatic'.. (I say to myself as I munge some legacy clojure)... I still prefer to work on old clojure code than new java code after a year and a half with it, even java written by 'experts'.
Computers understanding humans: PrettyTime (NLP) Natural Date Processing
Have a friend who lived in Texas for a while. Came back hating it. Said weather is pretty bad and there's no outdoors. The only thing going for outdoors is caving (normally we do hiking, mountaineering, climbing, kayaking, canyoneering, etc -- every adventure you could think of). What's good? "Well, if you like food, there are good restaurants". Pass.
I especially like the unit test documentation feature. In my opinion this is something other languages should steal.

More elaborate blog post: http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/unittests.html
Economics - a company with Apple's cash pile might be able to look toward the future, but they still need to build things for today and tomorrow.
The process of creating a startup varies widely. And for some, a startup is part of a larger process, that of exploring (or capitalizing on) one's passions and curiosities and intuitions. The startup in this case is not the end, but one of many means. Who knows if the knowledge, pain, or relationships his project bears will result in a startup, or maybe even something more world-changing.
i came here to say something like this, albeit a lot less tactfully.

that said, i admit that i'm torn. on the one hand, we definitely need people to study history, language, writing, etc. the arts, and the liberal arts, are what help define a culture and help us develop that culture, those values, and pass them down and create a rich history. i wish our society valued that more, or rather appreciated what we have (and are at risk of losing).

the other side of it is the practical side. when i read that he had difficulty finding an internship at newspapers, that he had to push carts at home depot i thought "shouldn't that have been a sign to him that he's going to have difficulties in finding a role in the job market?" but the risk is that we, as a society, push towards vocational schools and away from developing thinkers, and that we stagnate because of that.

i'm glad he's writing about it and finding traction there, i assume he can use that to pay down his debt. that said not everyone - not by a long shot - can do that. the consumer marketplace just doesn't have that capacity.

this leaves me to wonder, then, about what roles we as a society have for the bulk of the people out there, and how to best serve them for education, expectations, and our future survivability. i am not creative enough to have any good ideas to help solve that challenge.
You'll be really pushing it to find a detached house in a safe area of Montrose for that price. You might be able to get a townhouse, though, which will come with huge HOA fees, so it's not as cheap as it sounds.

In general, though, Montrose and Midtown are actually two of the least safe areas of the loop to live in. They're gentrified party and bar areas for the most part--great when you're young and want night life, but they aren't generally seen as areas to settle down with a family. Eastwood, statistically, is actually safer than Midtown despite still looking very sketchy in some areas.

West University, a common place to settle down with a family in the loop, is twice as expensive, at least.
What an obnoxiously rude and unproductive comment. What personal offenses have you felt that led you to feel that way?
That's how it should be. That's actually a progressive way of doing things. People who can afford pay higher taxes do.
If you are not able to enjoy the present moment in your present place you can travel around the whole world and you will not find enjoyment anywhere, that's what sages have been repeating for centuries.
The onus is on the people who want to change the status quo to show that self-driving cars are safe, not the other way around. "The devil you know is better than the devil you don't."
Assuming your ordinary niche blogger (no celebrity, no New York Times author, no one with a dedicated Wikipedia page):
Is there a way to have a photo next to his or her search result if he or she doesn't have a Google account?
In most coastal states, it's difficult to do greenfield development in high-income cities because of some combination of laws preserving open space (e.g. California) and because greenfields have basically been developed to the limit of sane commuting distance (e.g. NY/DC). Moreover, with the interstate system built to completion, there are no new public works projects brining new greenfields within commuting distance of major metros, as had happened with the implementation of horsecars, streetcars, interurbans, commuter railroads, and interstate highways. Many areas have seen brownfield development, but such land is relatively limited and expensive to remediate.

At the same time, zoning laws make it difficult-to-impossible to build denser housing (even low- or mid-rise apartment buildings) to replace single-family homes on valuable land at any kind of scale.

This means the population of most of the most-productive American metros has become essentially fixed, or stuck growing at a lower level than American population growth. Instead those with the most money are bidding up the limited population supply, and those with less money <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/yglesias/2011/06/13/243972/the-secr... moving to Texas and other places where it's easy to build homes</a>.

And Silicon Valley (and the Bay Area in general), <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/05/03/silicon_valle... than building more housing during boomtimes</a>, is simply letting its housing prices increase to insane levels. Prop. 13, which insulates current homeowners from even having to pay higher property taxes on their ridiculously valuable homes, certainly doesn't help things.
I'm not sure how it would produce varying behavior if it satisfies the const contract, in regards to the object itself.

You're passing in a non-const reference, so wherever that came from would be expected to change. However the object itself would not change. Your object would be at StateA regardless of who gets the mutex first.
The facts are that the cultural character of the city, "live music" is getting pushed out by the same people touting that as a reason to move here. They move here from SFC and NYC and then set about trying to change all the things that supposedly drew them here.

Whatever, y'all are right, and I shouldn't have expressed my view that the things y'all think are here are not in fact here.
Without touching on the supposed political conservatism of Engines of Creation (I always read him as a liberal who'd been mugged by reality, specifically the total lethality (if you were lucky) of getting it wrong), Drexler himself doesn't agree WRT to Nanosystems ... I couldn't quickly find the specific essay(s) where he clearly laid this out, but for a start look at this one: http://metamodern.com/2010/09/24/out-of-the-memory-hole-a-hi...
Big cities without the big city real estate hyperinflation is very, very appealing.
Not much oil money. A lot of gas money. The Barnett Shale being one of the big cash crops http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnett_Shale
>> Can I have my photo next to my search result
Yes, you can. You can use Schema.org markup for organization logos (http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2013/05/using-sch...). You could probably use your photo as an organization logo of yourself.
I'm not sure Tesla's first-mover advantage here is really going to last. Ultimately, I think it's likely that existing gas stations will slowly start converting to electric charging stations. If they can match Tesla's charging tech, it will even the playing field fairly quickly.

Now if Tesla were to start selling their charging tech to existing gas stations, they might get an even bigger piece of the pie.
The original title said something negative about stock photos (but I can't recall exactly what).
wtf?

some1 snaps a few pics of his macbook air!

and boom is one top of the HN front page
New Kuler site is easier to use
Me too. Does anyone know if kipkay's method actually works?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1cgE2GaFko
Your Business Plan is Bullshit
Texas is just plain run well. The state barely had a recession because they had common sense regulations that stop the housing from skyrocketing in the first place. It takes days not months or years to get building permits. Texas is a perfect example of how the country should be run as a whole.
Define Your Expectations
in 2011 it broke 100f 30 days in a row in Austin. 2012 was a bit of a ball buster too, this year is predicted to break records (though it hasn't been too bad so far).

I assure you Austin does not win on weather.
The Economics of Yoga
Interesting how a lot of people in here assume this is a fraud to support their previous project. Why couldn't they honestly be starting a new project with a separate team?
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I used to have to tell people that California was full, and that they should stay in Texas. But, now Texans seem to be doing my job for me!
An objective point here...if enough NY & CA residents moved to Texas to swing it to a blue state then the Republican party would be doomed.
I hope Microsoft doesn't push this update back like they've done for every other one
As far as I know the whipworm infection is over relatively quickly. Usually the weight loss you see with parasite infections is due to prolonged illness.
Actually, it largely offset by just fucking it's citizens out of basic services.
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ECMAScript 5 / JavaScript API Cheatsheet all in one page, searchable without clicking around anywhere.

I got tired of looking up parameter order, especially on higher order functions.

Maybe someone else finds it useful as well.
I think he's trying to get at what happens if an operation becomes non-atomic. In the case of the long long, there could be two register loads, rather than one. Normally, you would expect calc(1) to return m1 at t0, or m1 at t1, dependent on when the change thread hits. However, if your operation requires two register loads (long long on 32), you would have a third value produced, which is neither m1 at t0 or m1 at t1.

This could be considered a non-thread safe operation.
> Watch out when people say "There ought to be a law/rule/regulation!". That's how CA got to where it is.

#12 out of 38 states by per capita income and GSP per capita, and #10 by median household income. Not exactly a bad place to be. (And, as that would suggest, much better than the US as a whole at all those measures.)
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So, exactly which fiat currency do you use that does not fluctuate in value?
Most of my friends seem to be bankers, on a board, or loan officers of some sort. This was not by intention. It just seems everyone is connected and has their fingers dipped in money. It is insanely easy to build connections. I had an oil company offering a huge contract for a simple mobile reporting app on pipeline issues.(Also, Seattle is a great #2)

Oddly, there is not actually that much competition. As I said, most of the people I knew fell into CRUD jobs around their original homes. From a typical perspective: Northrup Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Level 3, TI, etc are always hiring new people. There are many manufacturing companies here for the electrically/computing engineer inclined. Level 3 is scoping out people from our building on a daily basis trying to buyout talent.

As far as start ups, I figure your main audience is on the wire. It does not matter if you're in TX, CA, NY, etc. Mentor over the wire. Audience over the wire. Testing over the wire. Servers spread over the world on the wire.
Property taxes actually wind up being regressive a lot of the time. Having 2x or 10x income usually translates to a house that's less than 2x or 10x in value.
Not to mention they could just do lazy initialization; most youtube thumbnails will never ever be viewed, so you don't have to convert them until they are needed.
I think this is highly dependent on the individual. I despise the heat, and definitely prefer Seattle's weather to Austin's. But I know plenty of people who are the opposite.
Is there even a decent IDE for Go?

If you want a language which requires an IDE, I doubt very much you'd like Go - it is intentionally pared down to a minimum of what the creators consider essential features.

Having an IDE is almost required in a language where you have things like header files, namespacing, verbose function names, type hierarchies, a vast and complex standard library, etc. I've used a few IDEs, and prefer to go without where I can, though with some languages they're almost necessary - that's a personal judgement though, not a criticism of those who like IDEs or languages which require them. In Go, I can't imagine what I'd even use one for, save to organise the files in a project and do global searches, and perhaps trigger compiles/runs (I use a text editor for that), it's far closer to a scripting language in that sense. As to refactoring, it's really very simple and tools like gofix are there if you want to do something complex - to be honest that's really unnecessary for 99% of the refactoring I do, a search, check and replace does it very quickly.

So you might not like the language for the same reasons it doesn't require an IDE, but not having a decent IDE is not a valid criticism on its own.
yeah, I think the vitriol was all about the original title which was something like "I hated crappy stock photo sites, so I ..."
You are assuming that "the market" is one homogeneous mass, which it is not.

>Does the market need a cheaper printer, or a better one?

Yes. Some are in the market for a cheaper printer as demonstrated by the popularity of this kickstarter. Some are in the market for a better one. There is plenty of room for both.
There is some logic to it. In my State (Washington) the legislature is currently looking at raising the gas tax rate to adjust for the fact that average fuel economy has gone up a whole bunch in the years since we set the tax rate.

http://www.nwnewsnetwork.org/post/backers-washington-gas-tax...

As we literally have parts of the interstate freeway falling into rivers at the moment, I think I'm OK with some more infrastructure spending.
One thing worth noting about Steam's DRM setup that I think a lot of people decide to ignore (for whatever reason) is that whether Steam DRM is enabled for a game or not is up to the publisher. There are a bunch of games that you can buy through Steam that don't have any DRM. They update just as all regular Steam games do and you can install them just the same as all other Steam games. A partial list can be found here, for example: http://www.gog.com/forum/general/list_of_drmfree_games_on_st...

GOG is unique of course in that it doesn't allow games to be sold with DRM on its storefront. But I do think it's a bit of a misnomer to say that DRM is the heart of Steam. That's just the thing that made publishers comfortable with Steam.
Because there is nothing controversial in that.
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california cops issue an obscene amount of fixit tickets. cops pull you over if they notice anything wrong and you have to go through a whole bunch of bullshit to get the fixes signed off.

however my personal theory on why CA doesn't have inspection is because californians take their car aesthetics very seriously and you won't find massive inspection stickers on peoples' windows (an inspection regime demands proof of inspection)

also, the dealerships don't put their own badges on the back of the cars, and parking passes are generally the kind that hang from the rear view mirror. we don't want that shit cluttering up our vehicles
"If you want your authorship information to appear in search results for the content you create, you'll need a Google+ Profile with a good, recognizable headshot as your profile photo."

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...
Why don't you change your icon to the icon of your program or something users associate with what they need? A face says "social" - which is great for your personal Google+ account but not great for your company. At least try it -- if everyone is like me it should increase the clicks.
Which is why families head to Katy and Pearland.

The schools out there are also fantastic.
I'm not sure how it got changed but this was the original title, "Hated expensive, crappy stock photos so I made this."
Why use Chef/Puppet over shell scripts?
Heh. This was my (unsuccessful) pitch for Startup Weekend Copenhagen three years ago. My own fault for not just building it, but always nice to have an idea validated.
How, exactly, do, real estate taxes (flat ad valorem, right?) do that better than progressive taxes on income?
I was pretty sure that was the kind of thing you meant, but just wanted to clarify. The API should certainly facilitate doing the kind of setup and management that this would require. But it doesn't currently provide a direct way to do the billing portion of things. So I think it could be a ready solution to open source self-hosted stuff, for instance, but you would have to provide your own billing stuff for commercially licensed things.
Well, obviously renting doesn't "avoid" property tax -- the owner just passes the cost of the tax on to the renters. That said, the cost of housing in Austin is probably still considerably less than, say, the Bay Area or NYC.
Research or taught?

Edinburgh, Cambridge in the UK have nice courses.
In the same way that you can't sell images of the Eiffel Tower at night without clearance. Someone owns those rights also.
You can't remove a post once it's over 2 hours old.

And what you say might be true, but what you did will always make people think it's just advertising. You need to make it clear why you think it's relevant, and not just post a link to something with no obvious connection to the community.

You've gone some way to make it clearer now, but why not actually write a post saying something like:

When I've had a tough day working on a project, and
I'm tired, frustrated, and have a headache coming on,
I prefer not to take an aspirin. Instead, here are
some recipes that I find invigorate and refresh me.

Or something.

Be part of the community and share your personal experience. Don't just post an unmotivated link to an unconnected page.
Yes, but now we're already comparing apples to oranges. Those suburban areas, with their huge commutes, aren't even remotely analogous to living in San Francisco.

For clarification, I love the fact that there are cheap suburbs outside of Houston. And I think for the vast majority of families here, they'd be much better off going out to such a suburb than blowing money they don't have on a small house in the Heights or Bellaire or West U. One of the great advantages of Houston over SF is that you have the option of getting affordable housing if you're willing to live out in suburbia.

I just think it's important to be clear that you're not going to replicate the SF city lifestyle in Houston for cheap. It's going to cost you a very considerable amount of money, though admittedly less than in SF. Downtown apartments in Houston are definitely cheaper than SF, though--my 1300 sq ft 2br apartment is $1950/month, and it is quite nice and in walking distance of my office. I could never buy a house in this area, though.