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It varies a bit by field. It's more common in software to have irregular working hours with periodic "crunch time". I suspect part of this is just down to tech companies not being all that well managed on average, so they often mispredict staffing needs. Some of it may also be a culture that considers that the norm, or at least acceptable, so it's self-reinforcing. It's particularly prevalent in videogame companies.

At large engineering firms outside of software it's less typical. If you're an engineer at Lockheed, Exxon, or Dupont, the expectation is that you'll work a regular 40-hour week, barring really unusual situations. Many people even carpool to & from work, so you have relatively little flexibility in staying late even if you were tempted to: if your carpool leaves at 4pm each day, you leave at 4pm.
Seems pretty inexcusable to me. Nintendo was able to coast through the entire last-gen not doing HD games at all. Now they have to do HD on their new console, and it was perfectly clear they were going to have to do HD, and it's too much work for them to get games out on time??
I get your point, but really it's more like "Oh I have this guy in my basement I've been torturing for four years, I can't let him go now because he's going to want to kill my family who couldn't stop me from torturing this guy anyway".
You're getting a little bit of tunnel vision over deal structure here, which has nothing to do with the point the article is making.
Mobile-only? No web interface? God, I hate 2013.
Because you can.

Why does every choice need a 'business case?'
Looks really cool. Love the interface. FWIW, the first step of the demo had some elements offscreen and unreadable. I could also never make it to the editor.
How is your revenue? I just started iOS development and I finish my full time contract at the end of August at which point I will work on my own mobile iOS crafts.
This article is UK-specific, but I'm personally concerned about the same problem in the US. There's a limit to how many great startups can be built if they are dependent on M&A for exits/liquidity events, and the larger companies don't start buying more startups. Also, competition on the M&A end will lead to lower exit pricing, which will eventually impact valuation and early stage investment.

The improvements in early stage investment in recent years may just wind up throwing other parts of the system out of balance.
The general "meh" towards Blu-Ray makes me wonder.
"As for rest of the nonsense, any more or less authoritative teacher will tell you that it requires years of deliberate practice to attain very basic level of being continuously aware and in control of ones inner states. "

They say that because that is generally true, and people who come into this practice cold tend to have expectations of quick results that forms obstacles to the practice.

However, I have met, and have experienced on my own, various inner states that themselves motivated me to start up a practice of meditation. That happens too. It results from biology, though some of those very same authoritative teachers might have other views on this.

In any case, there is a reason that when teachers describe meditation to the mainstream, they will lower the standards to as low as it goes. 8-weeks. Sit for five minutes. Etc. Some sort of practice, no matter how watered down, has a beneficial effect, will tease out a tiny bit of self-realization for the person. As such, encouraging people to try it without talking about how enormous the task is, is itself a compassionate activity.
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Failure to communicate up front and in advance the likelihood and nature of this... "situation", is in some ways even more unacceptable.

Many/most parties could probably cope with it reasonably well -- if they were told in advance that it would occur.

Upgrade over the weekend. Let customers know your systems will be experiencing some planned downtime. Etc.

Come on, Google. You claim to be supporting businesses. Well, act like it! Among other things, this means communicate, before the sh-t hits the fan.

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P.S. This situation isn't even asking for a dialog. Just Google's communicating some information -- what's really gonna happen -- up front.

Sometimes, your marketing needs to take a bit of a hit, for the sake of your customer.

I've little doubt that most of the engineers there respect this. We have to deal with such situations every day.

If I were particularly direct, I might suggest one of them go over to marketing with his/her "stomping" boots on, until they come to understand this point.
Which is definitely something worth measuring, as a browser pull in lots of shared libraries, which often cause some of the gap between bare window managers and desktops to decrease, especially if the WM isn't using a UI toolkit in the first place.

Also, given the memory need of modern webapps, I wonder if even the delta between the two extremes amoutns to more than one or two opened tabs. Of course, if one or two tabs is all that your machine can handle, this is significant.
Totally tangential: I'm curious as to why the author included Shutterstock attribution links on all of the images.

Is the author getting some deal where they get images for free if they supply an attribution link?
Edited to clarify. Yesterday's Chicago mesh thread prompted a search that didn't turn up much besides darknet/meshnet which is why I posted it. I'm glad to see this update though– when I saw the title I was a little bit worried that it was going to be a project postmortem. (I was only tenuously aware of the project beforehand, but seeing the OTI affiliation made it much more clear.)
It's really a corrupted country.
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Prediction: this comments section will be filled with people claiming this is a load of hogwash (and I can already see it happening). My response: do the results really seem that crazy?

To me, it seems as obvious as comparing two groups of exercisers and non-exercisers to see who are about to last longer on a treadmill. If you practice something enough, you're going to see benefits. Practicing getting past those negative elements of your psyche for 8 weeks is surely going to cause you to be a bit kinder to those around you.
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If you're really only using the frontend you don't care, you have an alternative if it stops working.

Using Google Apps, all factors considered, seems to be less reliable than the old free Gmail. (Since Google can't pull the plug on you like it does to its paying customers, like this case)
How do they perform this due diligence? Is there a way to tell if a number is a Google Voice number?

This seems like an insane way to vet potential developers, by the way. Someone who bases a hiring decision on what brand of phone service your employee/contractor has chosen is probably not looking at the right metrics.
An alternative explanation: a group of people were selected to participate in meditation training. This heightened their awareness of the supposed benefits/effects of meditation as well as its historical traditions. Perhaps some of them read a bit about Buddhism and compassion, or were freshly reminded of such things. This primed them to think of themselves as being more aware, compassionate, etc... and that self image would be in the foreground, since they'd just started meditation so recently. Hence, perhaps when they found themselves in a social situation that called for such things, their enhanced self image was able to override the bystander effect.

IOW: "I've been meditating lately and meditation is supposed to make you a nicer person, so I should do something!"

This would be in accord with lots of studies that show how you prime someone's thinking can affect how they behave. You could test the above hypothesis by studying people who weren't recently introduced to meditation, that is, whose self image had some time to return to some sort of base state. The trick would be to disentangle the actual effects of the meditative process from the aura of associations surrounding Buddhism in particular, and that might be impossible.

To clarify my question: is it the meditation itself that makes you more compassionate, or the engaging in a practice long associated with compassion that makes you more compassionate?
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I think uptake will be extremely slow. Most consumers won't be able to tell the difference when watching TV from a couch, my parents can barely tell the difference between SD and HD as it is.
I agree with you completely. I've encountered a lot of architects and recruiters who seem to put a lot of focus on knowing design patterns, to a point where they seem to forget that you don't always need to employ a well known design pattern.

A lot of people seem to think, for instance, that the GoF design patterns are the only design patterns. They just memorize the list, but fail to understand when and why (not) to use them. To me, any frequently employed construction is a design pattern, including but not limited to the classical examples.
I don't see what the ire or the attitude has to do with being downvoted.

That poster's comments and attitude is pretty typical for meditators along a certain stage of practice (in the insight cycles). Everyone will pass through that point eventually. Correction of this isn't something that needs to come from social pressure; it comes from continued practice on mindfulness. I commend this person for practicing and encourage him or her to keep going!
Hardly even feels like a real story, but I'm not unsympathetic to the client absent more details (how much of a premium does the author's charge, scope of the project in question, nature/timing of phone calls).

EDIT: has anyone noticed, "About the Author: Brian Morris writes for the PsPrint Design & Printing Blog. PsPrint is an online commercial printing company. Follow PsPrint on Twitter @PsPrint and Facebook." That trips some alarms for me, it doesn't sound like a freelancer's CV. It sounds like a social marketer's.
I believe you can no longer update an app's description without also updating the app itself.
Nah, the King tried to modernize his country which was not widely popular with the tribal culture that did exist. Hence while out of state he was replaced with a new government.

The Soviets only moved in later, the US much much later. However in that time anarchy did destroy much of what had been accomplished prior to 73
This is a great concept. I've been a long time user of PostmarkApp, which has served me extremely well, but requires a lot of coding time to create and deploy new emails. If you've ever created HTML emails, you know the pain I'm talking about.

My only concern is the deliverability, but I'm intrigued enough to give it a try seeing as how there's a free tier.
It's true, they've pretty much owned portable gaming ever since the original Game Boy. But the problem they have there is that the portable gaming market is undergoing a huge shift from being about dedicated devices to being just another feature on smartphones. The 3DS' real competition isn't the Vita, in other words, it's the iPhone. And there's not a lot of evidence that Nintendo has a strategy to deal with this sea change.
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ConEmu is known for a good while for being the best app for anyone who is working with CLI in Windows.
I've never gotten eclim to fully work before. I don't do a lot of java nowadays but I just got back into a project where parts of the codebase are in java. So I might try it once again. What has your experience been so far?
I think the only console manufacturer, in this generation, that focused on ease of programming from the hardware side was Sony; to make up for the mistakes they've made in the past with resulted in PS3's Cell. That said, I didn't hear anything about Wii U having a weird architecture like PS3's Cell. The only thing I keep reading is that the Wii U's specs are actually even weaker than the Xbox 360's hardware.
> A number of “mindfulness” training programs, like that developed by the engineer Chade-Meng Tan at Google, and conferences like Wisdom 2.0 for business and tech leaders, promise attendees insight into how meditation can be used to augment individual performance, leadership and productivity.

Management fads rank right up there with parenting fads and diet fads in their ability to attract otherwise intelligent, and often highly intelligent, people to their inanity.
Drive by comment...

Looks neat.

Looks like no port to Mac yet...? That's cool. I''ll wait.

I'm a pretty basic user loving iTerm on Mac. One feature I really want is mouse positioning and selection of text (for the current command line). Arrow navigation is okay, but I'm a casual user not a power user.
amazing work! it would be even better if we could stream tv shows :)
Yep, can definitely see the problem going the other way. I suppose the underlying point is that there is no one way to master these formats. You can try, as there are benefits for various reasons, but to do things right for the user you need to properly consider each format separately. "Mobile first" is generally a terrible strategy in my mind as it polarizes the problem.
I see like 90% of positive comments...
10% of criticism is too much? without it, its easy to get lost into the "everything's great" and 6 month later everyone complains about their new kde4/gnome3/unity etc fiasco.

For example, personally, I believe the completion belongs to the shell not the terminal, and i'd rather not use the mouse on a terminal's displayed text except for copy/paste.
Doesn't mean its not cool.
Or you could have just booted to a console with no WM at all and wiped it?
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I haven't tried it on anything but rather small projects in C: 10-15 source files/modules, but I prefer vim and ycm to XCode for coding. As a matter of fact, all other code completion thingy's I use seem a bit crappy in comparision, with the excempt of bbautocomplete.

Time to install the new beta of vim, and check out ycm! :)
Utterly extraordinary. Watching my daughter play in my friends' gardens made me want to move out of the town and into the suburbs, so she can have space for a paddling pool. I'll buy a bigger, duller car for her and her impending sibling, without thinking twice about it.
Interesting indeed. I came to the same conclusion for my pet project (as of yet unpublished), a distributed content addressable data store is only useful if there are attack resistant trust metrics included.
Godwin's law fulfilled.

The difference is that you voluntarily offered google your data; those who were enslaved and slaughtered like animals by proxies of the state couldn't simply subsist under the duckduckgo regime instead.

If this were a matter of true evil instead of obscene hyperbole then people would actually stop using google instead of apathetically sojourning into your figurative google gas chamber.
We just launched for iPhone, and we would love to offer a web interface as well as an Android version as well :) We're a small team, and we didn't have the resources to build all three for launch.
I think the issue is that a larger number of people are becoming involuntary entrepreneurs. They don't want the long-term "lifestyle" business that delivers a high-but-not-stratospheric income for 20 years, because they actually aren't cut out for running businesses (or very interested in it). They want the 5-year plan to exit-- because they're not really entrepreneurs, but either (a) want to be rich, or (b) want autonomy that no longer exists in any corporate job-- not even R&D. They're involved in these red-ocean VC-funded get-big-or-die gambits because those are the only game in town for them.

In 2006, class (a) was working on Wall Street; but the pool of get-rich opportunities has dwindled. In 1975, class (b) was working in R&D labs on basic research. However, those options have dwindled too. As the few buttresses preventing the corporate world from falling under the weight of its own mediocrity give way, it's forcing a lot of the best people into one narrowly-defined class of entrepreneurship: VC-funded turn-the-crank franchise bids with a bit (ok, a lot) of random risk thrown in. It ends up requiring long hours, alternating unhealthfully between being over- and under-funded (relative to one's scope) and is generally unsustainable. Many of these people can't hack it for more than a couple years; that's why the acq-hires are so necessary-- turn the business over to something that can use it prophylactically before the founders burn out.
Vala is heavily based on C# syntax. It compiles to glib C code, so instead of .net-like garbage collection, it uses reference counting.
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Great tip. But I generally only use each reference once, so I'm not sure it would have been worth it in my case.

There are lots of libraries that could have made things more convenient. But a big part of this project was to learn as much as I could about coding, and the browser as an environment, so early on I committed to writing everything myself.

I'd be interested in hearing whether or not other people think this is a good strategy for self teaching.
My objection is that what they have "measured" had nothing to do with meditation as a practice of developing a habit of continuous, effortless self-awareness, and that the practice itself, by definition, has nothing to do with morality.
I'd like to keep them for completeness sake, but will try and make it more obvious that they should be avoided.
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That is true, and in other circles, there's a derisive term for such people called "fluff bunnies". While there are grains of truth to this, derisiveness, though, isn't compassionate awareness.

I remember a teacher writing about this, how Tibet used to have the same spiritual relationship to India as America now does to Tibet and India. This is a natural part of growing up, and of the nascent Western Buddhism flowering here. There's a long way to go, and it's fine.

I do find it interesting you got downvoted though. I don't think that should have happened, but it's a fascinating observation of karma (no pun intended). What would downvoting your "attitude" accomplish? This is between you and yourself on the cushion.
Agreed, any decent art won't require years of dedication to start getting its benefits. Unless there is some heavy obstruction, if people learn meditation from a good teacher, they should feel the benefits quite easily at the end of a sit, so much more after 8 weeks. In fact, people are generally so "confused" it's quite easy for us to get impressed with some minor improvements such as mood and concentration.

As for the article, take it at face value.
How's 720p and 1080p video at full-screen? That, to me, is the important question.
We'll build a treefort out back and eat candy for dinner every night, it'll be great.
You could say the same thing about most people who make money and achieve some level of fame -- especially artists, designers, many entrepreneurs, and entertainers (including sports stars). Many times, terrific results seem like they could have been "easy" to come up with.

That doesn't take away from the fact that they had the creativity to think of it, did it, and added to our collective knowledge as a result. Sure, the results seem obvious in retrospect, and the process doesn't seem too tough to put together. But I'm grateful for their work nonetheless.
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Ask HN: Is there anything interesting about social productivity?
We are working on a simple solution to work-life balance in college. Students sign up with their current schedules.

They are reminded of academic obligations (tests, assignments) via a shared class calendar. Students can also create social plans like ("Coffee with Tim and Sarah") with friends. They can check in for either of these so other students can see them and possibly join.

We've got great feedback. But I'm wondering, what's a good way to make "social productivity" seem more interesting?
UK (London). I have some friends (particularly financial industry) who work lots of overtime, but it doesn't feel like it's a "normal" thing, at least IME.
I think 4k will be a hard sell for most consumers kind of like 3D because 1080p is pretty damn good quality. I wonder when we will get to a point where it is good enough.
I'm interested. Sign me up for the Alpha/Beta/whatever!
Unless you're sitting within 7 feet of a 70" screen 4k is completely pointless:

http://carltonbale.com/1080p-does-matter/
As an aside, I never knew about Trinity[1] before this article...I am spinning up a VM to try it out on right now, as I always liked KDEs style, but disliked the bloat.

1: http://trinitydesktop.org/about.php
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What benefit does Warden have over just rolling your own code?
It's also possible that those inside the system have more information about what is going on and why.
HN is often working on a very worst case assumption when it comes to these stories whereas internal employees probably have a lot more context about what is actually happening.

They'll also probably being seeing the internal disfunction of their organisation, as every insider does. From the outside the NSA, GCHQ etc seem scary, omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent beings. If instead you know the people doing the work, the internal politics etc you might be less afraid that the rights of normal people are being infringed.
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The real problem with games on a phone are non-swipe controls. I still haven't played a platformer on a phone that had decent controls.
The code being a mess usually calls for refactoring not rewriting. As I understand it, the showstopper that made a rewrite necessary was that they had made the mistake (understandable since they were in a desperate hurry but mistake nonetheless) of using proprietary libraries.
Hows the Rackspace web mail interface?
Here is another guy who made a career out of doing touchy-feely 'social psychology' studies with catchy titles that resonated well with his target audience, like 'meat eaters more anti-social than vegetarians': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diederik_Stapel . Until it turned out he fabricated all of it, of course.
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I've heard from other ios developers that the added exposure tends to cause huge effects later on in sales though. So it might not be so bad for them?

From hearing about the free deals though it doesn't sound like it ends up a losing proposition. Can anyone thats done one of these free/featured apps on the store validate? I'm super curious now.
What wiki do you use?