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I'm an American and I catch hell from other Americans when I say "lie-nux." Considering we pronounce Linus as "lie-nus" I really don't see the issue. The recordings of Linus pronouncing it in two non-English languages have a subtle "ee" in there and I don't expect my peers to say "leenux" - they'll drop to the short "ih" sound.
What must every entrepreneur working on a SaaS/B2B startup know?
This makes sense. By 'they', I meant governments. I always wondered why no mail/im providers support pgp or similar encryption. This means there never will be such a service, since the only master key would be with the end user.
Actually that is an excellent point. And if anything, Windows 8 cleans up Task Manager to make it easier to see what is running and in what context.

I think in summary Win8 provides more views of running processes than Win7.
More than once. Also, merge sort, heap sort, and some problem specific variations of these.
Same limitations as any asynchronously replicated system; if both nodes diverge during a partition, you'll probably have to drop one's writes.

http://aphyr.com/posts/287-asynchronous-replication-with-fai...
You should have seen HN when he died. It was that hell week of a bunch of early computer pioneers all passed away...
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Hahaha! It must have been awkward for him, no? xD

Well said dude. I agree with your other points too.
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after couple meals of deep fried bugs, you will see them as good as french fries.
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Thats cool... but i don't want to talk to my computer while in my cube. Useful in my car though.
Many times with startups, "having to wait" can be equivalent to "can't". Startups have limited runway and the time it takes to hire that A player may just extend past the end of that runway.
I am just thinking, why not solve this at the scm level, e.g. make a git plugin that will check out the sources indentation independent and only show changes to contents of the file not the indentation.

You could even make a plugin that works without collaboration by others: check out the file in your preferred style and transform the changes back into the original style.
Sigh.

Hit Counters: These served very little purpose. The social counters serve the purpose of encouraging the viewer to engage. Also, if a client makes a request and you refuse due to personal preference to the point of losing the client, that's not very professional.

Splash Page: So, CSS3 tech demos have replaced Flash intros? Where? I have failed to see any HTML5, CSS3, canvas, or whatever other new technologies have replaced the annoying Flash intros. The closest I've seen is creative gizmos in headers and footers that don't prevent me from doing what I'm there to do.

Best Viewed Badges: These originally served a purpose in that it was certainly possible that a website would not render correctly in one browser versus another during the browser wars. The modern equivalent of that is an effort to prevent that situation from happening again. Also, pointing to a technology showcase isn't exactly proof of the theory.

Although, I agree with the validation deal. In this day it's rather difficult to have a website that validates with all the third party people doing what they want in the space, I'm looking at you Microsoft. And others.

Cut and Paste Scripts: This one confused me, it seems there is praise and complaint at the same time. "Cleaner and easier to read than before." Too many HTTP requests but too much code not in an external file? Well, which is it then? Personally, I fail to see this as a big deal unless you are seriously abusing the head section of the document.

Marquees: The only difference between them, once you look at it, is design. Plus there is a bit of function difference there as well. As in modern equivalents often serve a purpose while the marquee element had little purpose because it was so limiting.

But I'll end the same way but expand on it, in no way are things as bad today as before. I made websites back then, things are much better today on a level that simply cannot be expressed.
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Because he wants to. That's the exact attitude I hate most about this industry.
While I agree with the thinking here, simply learning Photoshop and CSS doesn't make you a designer and learning programming doesn't make you a programmer. I'm a front-end dev who's more than competent in Photoshop and can write really modular, daresay good CSS but if I had to decide between using a designer or making my own design, nine times out of ten, I'm going to use someone who is, by trade, a designer and has an eye for crafting a beautiful UI, choosing colors, and for laying out type.

I'm slowly but surely getting better at design things but I choose to focus my energy on development rather than prettifying pixels (I say that with absolutely no intent of malice).

I agree that broadening my skills to include design would be helpful. I'd also be really great off if I learned how to treat my own ailments and fix my own car. I can't do it all though, so when I have the need, I partner with designers. I look through portfolios, gauge talent and ability, and hope for the best.
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You could also build it on top of Berkley DB which is another excellent embedded database with a long track record.
He also mentions TechShop. Maybe after an edit? They sell access to machine tools and such:

http://www.techshop.ws/
„do something that has not been possible 3 years ago“ so true
It can't be unethical. They have a legal obligation to their shareholders to maximise profits so they don't have a choice. They can't pay more in taxes.
Reminds me of Hallo.js, which uses the Randy js library if I'm not mistaken. I used it to make a blog for my elderly father. The goal was to make the posts easily editable.

Edit: s/Randy/Rangy/
Who funded the study? Is it some organization that would benefit from more charter schools existing? $10 says it is.
What a great idea; a lot less intimidating than doing it on your own or one-on-one. Interested in seeing how this plays out.
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They don't require a degree if you have significant experience, and a referral from a Googler helps.

(Source: don't have a degree, interviewed at Google)
You shouldn't have that attitude. Because since things will progress further in the direction you don't like, it'll be a shame to lose your voice once you quit the web.
The same students do better at charter schools than when they go to a public school though. So it's not just selection bias. Getting away from the masses that have no interest in education is just as important in some places.

Sure, that's something that a public school -- bound by law to include everyone -- can't do, but it's no reason to drag others down into the mess that is public schools.
He's using a custom font, Adele I think. Can't read shit unless it's blown up to 150%.
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Test scores and college-acceptance rates seem like odd metrics for judging the success of K-12 education - surely the goal is loftier than just slotting kids into a college. You can optimize a process for "winning" college admissions much more easily than you can optimize a process for developing a basic intellectual toolkit and the organizational skills and self-discipline required to apply it.

Maybe charter schools haven't been widely operating long enough for this, but is anyone aware of any studies - either completed or in progress - that compare charter/standard public/private school student life-outcomes on a longer time-scale?
What is more wrong with society, in my opinion, is that we interpret "the right to free speech" as "the right to say nonsense".

You can call his words whatever you want. I'm not signing a petition or going to war to protect Cammy Dee. This is not free speech.

I'll save my energy for Ai Weiwei,

EDIT: Thanx!
They also do in South Africa too, which is unfortunate.
I was going to write basically the exact same thing. The comparison isn't fair.

Public schools have to accept everyone, charter schools can be selective.

The ones with lotteries are self-selecting too, because you have to have an involved parent to even enter the lottery, which means only the kids with "good parents" go to that school, which again biases them towards greater success.
>managers and higher ranking people are paid by the day, so their hours are not counted

Do you have any more info on this? Are you basically saying that the law is ignored? Because AFAICT the French and EU (working time directive) are both quite strict and there don't seem to be any opt-outs.. their hours would just be logged as '7h' regardless of reality? (and if the employee were to kick up a fuss, they would no doubt win any case?).

(i've been interested in hiring in French jurisdiction, but put off by working time law)
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I generally agree with your point.

However, I live in a small Texas town and my wife's business deals with two private school. If these schools are typical, it is entirely possible for parents to put their children into a worse-by-design school that teaches young-earth creationism and inculcates habits and an anti-social orientation and which breeds awkward, dysfunctional people.

On one hand, the state and local governing bodies do mandate a level of quality that can be avoided by parochial schools and on the other hand it is entirely possible for people to actively choose standards poorer than the public ones.
Interestingly my guesses based on roads (when it was middle of nowhere) were all wrong. I always mixed Australia and South American countries. Cool game though.
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Selection bias. The poor performers that move schools do so because they have involved parents, and involved parents are the #1 indicator of success in school.
I recommend David Allen's Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology. I use it with OmniFocus, but there are a number of other tools available.

The process is straightforward (collect, process, organize, do, and review) but what I found most helpful was getting everything out of my head so I could stop worrying about forgetting anything.
"I got in over my head in deliverables"

vs.

"I totally flaked on talking with the client"

vs.

"I took his advance and blew it on hookers and blow"

Yes, it matters.
New idea. Fetch script that emulates lynx in page, fetch script that fetches text to display as plain text.

Plugin maybe?
Advice: Put some contrast on the page text even when not mouse-over'd. I shouldn't have to strain my eyes to read the main page text.
Sometimes I play with the "no-Google" rule, sometimes not. I am obsessed with this game. It's useful to study the Street View coverage map [1].

My best non-Google ever was being plopped down in front of a motel in Idaho City I'd stayed at; the second best was in front of the Miaoli train station in Taiwan. Both times, within 5m of the original location.

[1] https://support.google.com/maps/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ...
You're wrong. Charter schools do NOT get to select, at least not in Minnesota (and states that allow selectiveness are being dumb).

You are right, though, in that you're starting with a pool of students whose parents care enough to look for something better and take an active role in their children's education. You might have a problem with that. If so, I suggest you read Harrison Bergeron.
I dislike DRM as much as the next HNer, but:

>But not being allowed to control my own property is. And this is specifically what DRM is supposed to do, it prevents me to switch the bits in my RAM in the way I want to.

Freedom doesn't mean the right to coerce others. If Netflix offers you a certain contract (you pay their fee and accept their DRM, and in return they stream you content) and you want to enforce a different contract on them without their consent (you refuse the DRM and they still stream you content), you are not advocating for freedom.

You might as well say, "And this is specifically what murder laws do, they prevent me from projecting my bullets in the way I want to."
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We're a tiny team working to engineer the perfect night out with friends. What goes into that? So far we've built out matching algorithms, customer service AI, and a real-time collaborative email client that's better than Gmail.

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Who are you?

You're a world-class developer with a track record of shipping excellent products. You're comfortable hosting a brown bag tech talk. You're a fearless explorer - If there's something you don't know how to do, you'll figure out the lowest cost path to understanding it.

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If I could support myself with a three week project instead of spending all day sitting on malodorant trains and an office chair, you'd be damned sure I would do that
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No. You can't draw useful lines when there are no useful distinctions.
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The sentiment of your post is contained within mine.
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People are totally irrational about free soda/snacks. If you gave them a $50/month raise (to cover the cost of soda and snacks), they'd be offended. If you put out soda and snacks, well you're just the most awesome employer ever!
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Editing takes place before publishing, not after. A newspaper that prints a dozen retractions per day is not well edited.
Lessons learned: $15000 spent on guerrilla offline marketing and no impact
I agree: it's anticompetitive to give increased search prominence to sites willing to link to a Google+ profile.
They just want smart people in general. CS or not doesn't matter. It still baffles me that they ask algorithms and CS questions then sit in you front to Excel.
I've ended up replacing Google Reader with Twitter.

I follow all the people I care to read about -- they tweet their blog postings as they're posted. I follow Techmeme -- they tweet their river of news. I aggressively unfollow or disable retweets for any followed account with a poor signal/noise ratio.

I supplement that with an occasional glance at Google Plus (where the Android/Google-centric like to post updates). If I'm really behind, I just visit http://techmeme.com/river and catch up.
So why not give them soda and snacks? It's cheap and easy retention, if that's what they want. The author is right, getting rid of $10k in expenses isn't worth it if it costs your the core of your team.
>But it seems to me that a very effective fix would simply be to ask all JVMs to stop fiddling the variable ordering.

That would make the common case much worse. 99% of Java programmers want the JVM to optimize their field ordering for them, to the best of its abilities, so that they can put them in the order that makes sense in the source code and simply not think about whether a different order would be better. It's the kind of low-level implementation detail that Java is all about ignoring; if you want C++, you know where to find it.

I support an annotation-hinting approach; that would keep the common case the way it is today, while allowing people who really want to fiddle with these things to do so.
That depends, watching something on Netflix does not grant you owner's rights in that case. So, DRM is a fair deal in that contract.

As for a DVD that you purchased? That's a different situation. Personally, I agree with you on that one, but you agreed to the licensing terms that likely stipulate you do not own the content on the disc. Therefore, you get your DRM.
Just wondering, why Indiegogo? Pros and cons of other platforms?
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As a counter-point I'd just like to say that I wasn't distracted or confused about where you went with your comment and I enjoyed it. Not to pass judgement on whether or not it "belongs"; just saying.
Indiegogo allows Canadians to participate :)
Well, it is a Plan 9 extension. You made it sound like it was only a gcc extension.
Ideally we would help ALL students improve, but isn't it better that we give the kids with more involved parents a fighting chance by letting them opt into a more rigorous school?

Otherwise we create a situation that looks like this:

1. Parents who are involved fight a losing battle to help their kids succeed in a school that is simply not equipped to educate them.

2. Those students fail to achieve in traditional ways, reinforcing the idea that it's pointless to try.

3. Repeat until everyone suffers from an acute case of learned helplessness.
Yeah, the funny thing about all the data structures & algorithms quizzes is that the simplest solution is usually a recursive one, and the big-O performance is sort of irrelevant because chances are you're using a language that doesn't have tail-call optimization and you're going to blow the stack frame for any large value of n anyway.
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Was it an igloo, or a quinzhee? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinzhee

The latter is easier to build, and the whole process looks to be a lot of fun. I'll have to try it out.
I read it a lot, but I contribute zero. There is a lot of fun content like silly GIFs, but also amazing and creative music mashups, etc. I like Tumblr.
Yeah, why take a pay cut or cut something you as a board member personally care about, when you can just cut something stupid peon employees care about. Engineers in such an organization are right to leave, though granted it is stupid that they are getting upset about sodas.
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I'm always amused by how quickly drinks seem to go in order to save costs when the cost of drinks for an entire small department of developers is nothing compared to the salary of a single one of them, yearly.

Not to mention the whole "developers and loose change" not going together thing so we tend to value them as worth far more than we should.
It's a little more nuanced - things like this change the focus of the relationship from a 'we're in this together' approach to a more transactional one.
You're forgetting about transaction costs. The transaction cost of spending money (and therefore time) to buy a can of soda is much more than cost of that can.
The old discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1007750
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5727518
If you're familiar with stainless, Ti isn't that different. Go slow, listen to what your tools are telling you. Carbide tooling doesn't hurt, but isn't inherently requisite. Titanium is a wonderful jewelry material (biocompatible, low density, durable, polishes fairly well). It's only "downside" is that it's not expensive. Well-made Ti stuff draws the same attention as higher-Z materials.

I've made a number of Ti rings, but haven't set stones, as the You'll save a lot of time by starting with Ti tubing rather than turning the hole into chips. Depending on the size you need, relevant tubing isn't always available. Anodization is really fun.

I'd check into the biocompatibility of permalloy. Nickel allergies are real and can be acquired, sometimes from rings. Might rust/discolor fingers over the long term too.Laminating a Ti strip to the permalloy might help to attenuate the situation?

Chamfering the inside of a ring isn't hard to do with careful sanding on the lathe. Doing it wrong will amputate your finger or worse -- seek qualified instruction.

The article doesn't make mention of accommodating water/drainage. What happens if a little water gets beneath the stones after a hand-washing?

What a cool and inspired piece of work!
In considering the alternative, I found myself saying "Giraffe-ics" and giggled.
If the inventor pronounces it jif then it is pronounced jif, case closed.
Irrational? Yes, that can be argued.

There's more going on though. If soda/snacks are free (and always in stock), there is less mental effort involved for the employees. They feel reassured that the snacks are always there when they want them. They don't have to make decisions about whether or not to buy them... actually this is a whole 'nother discussion about micro-transactions, which haven't worked well for the Web.

If you give your employees a raise, that disappears into the general fund, and is no longer a separate benefit.
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c0 is the first pass (c to intermediate), c1 is the second pass (intermediate to assembly), c2 is the optimizer. c0 is built from files beginning with 'c0' and so on.
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Isn't Kyoto Cabinet GPL licensed though which makes it less useful for embedding?
A fair point, but as they learn to edit, they can't leave what they consider to be unsuccessful products in place either. Unlike publishing, product development isn't static.
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Why do sites like this deliberately break things? Even when the window has focus <SPACE> doesn't page down, breaking the way I work. Is there a reason? Or are they just out-of-touch with (some of) their readers?
It's a social signal, and it's rarely about the soda or snacks themselves but rather the social and hierarchical changes that are to come.
I will second it. I would also move it on the bottom right, as I didn't look at it except with my peripheral vision and thought it was an X/close button. When instructions said to click it, I went from "why would I click the close button" to "oh, it's actually a fullscreen button" before I clicked it. I never would have discovered it.
It's funny, to me, that the guy will sit in a meeting with a bunch of executives and VCs, all making significantly more money than he is from the software he's writing, and the major complaint he has is that they're cutting off free soda.
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Theres often a time at 6:15 - 6:30pm where if I can have a light snack I return to my desk to work peacefully in a half empty office. In the absence of any options to satiate my hunger I just leave for home. Wonder if there are more people out there who do something similar.
It's not irrational.

Is your goal wealth maximization? If so, you might understand that you're now getting an extra $50/mo for food purposes, but now you feel like you should hold it and not spend it.

Is your goal to suck down some minor pleasure to keep your brain mollified as you ponder some unsolved task? Well maybe the distraction posed by thinking of soda; thinking of buying a soda; thinking of buying a soda and wondering if you have the right change for it; thinking of buying a soda and wondering if you should really save that money to spend on a larger purchase later; etc... Anyway, maybe that distraction is greater than the distraction posed by grabbing a free soda.

People's different reaction to free vs non-free things, especially in the context of engineering work, does not strike me as irrational in general—only if you think that people maximize for present dollars does it seem particularly irrational.