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The part that killed the FAFSA was a mutual fund that my parents committed to use only as a supplement to their retirement accounts. Based on the amount in the mutual fund (in combination with all the other factors), FAFSA estimated that my family could afford $40,000 a year on college, which was over half the household's yearly income and was patently ridiculous.
Variant: only show reviews for the same platform, the user wrote review from. E.g. iOS7 users will see their reviews, but iOS6 users will see theirs. And developers will still be penalized if they don't fix problems by the time of iOS7 release, because reviews now will be visible for many more users. So it still incentivizes devs to be quick, but does not pollute reviews with irrelevant for iOS6 users bug reports.
Jack of all trades, master of none? Generalists are great at impoverished startups where workers have to wear many hats, they don't work so well on larger projects with larger staffs where special skills become more appreciated. Being a generalist is usually a quick ticket to a PhB role.
> It is a job of the employee to be creative (talking about design, of course). But it is the job of employer and investors to make an environment that challenges the employer. If they are unable to do that then any really creative employer will (or at least should) leave.

Well, that sort of goes back to a common theme in software companies: Are the people being hired as creatives or are they being hired to implement someone else's vision?

My experience is that in most roles you're likely to be being hired for the latter - and having intelligence outside of the ability to do your assigned task efficiently is strongly discouraged in them.
Ok I'm ignorant on the subject. I watched the CNN video but the page just says read Wikipedia. Gupta says the suits are to protect you from gamma radiation (maybe not those exact words). Is that not an accurate way to describe the purpose to their target audience? From what I understand, there are radioactive particles everywhere near the reactor and you don't want these in or on your body, because they are emitting high levels of radiation. Correct me if I'm wrong.
I'm in the same boat right now. I quit my job and am on a "learning" sabbatical right now myself. Some of the reasons you stated where mine too..

maybe some of the lessons I've learned so far may help: http://amirrajan.net/meta/2013/07/14/rebooting-life/
Shareholder Value Theory became all the rage in the '80s, which generally coincided with the 'financialization' of the US economy and of major US corporations. Jack Welch, former CEO of GE, is famous for being a big proponent of this ideology. In his tenure at GE, he earned heaps of praise from Wall Street for cutting costs (read: lots of layoffs) and for transforming the company from a manufacturer into basically a financial institution, because the margins are so much better in the latter.

Welch had a very solid run, and accordingly, his theories and practices were seen to have been validated by his success.

A lot of interesting chickens came home to roost after he left, however, and in recent years, history is starting to look a lot less kindly on his track record, and on Shareholder Value theory in general. That being said, it's still the rule of the game in the F500, because it's an ideology very favorable to the financial institutions on the 'shareholder' side.
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BSD is NOT Copyleft... this article is terrible :P
And if you're content with JPEG only (I assume it's not RAW, though I have no real way to test it).

Though tbh I've begun recommending Flickr over Picasa. Better (significantly) 3rd-party app support, 1TB is more than the vast majority will use in a long time, and it's easy to default everything to private if desired.
I'm interested in starting a start up that deals with SMB. I think a lot of your advice is very applicable but you would change anything for a deal size that's between $4,500 - $6,000 per year?
Question 1... how do you feel about the "valley of death" pricing-wise? As a startup targeting enterprise, one of the things I am hoping for marketing-wise is to price under the departmental budget line, so individual managers can buy for their own needs without setting off defensive alarms. And the product scales outward, so I can start with one department as evangelists, and then rake in more money and bigger contracts as the product spreads.

But when I think of, say, $5000/year revenues, if it's too high, I have to fight the corporate financial immune system. But if it's too low, I'm leaving money on the table when there's a ceiling on how many customers can ultimately be acquired.
> but as a free OS, I accept that there's going to be some of that sort of thing happening

The vast majority of Linux distributions are free and include none of this sort of things, with some of them (e.g. Debian) having been in continuous existence for about 20 years. Whatever your opinion about this move by Ubuntu, you can't say that it's something that has to happen with free OSes and that you have to accept.
Maybe my wording was confusing. I didn't mean to say Schizophrenia is a mild side-effect by any means. Rather, the most dangerous side-effect we know of is a possible link to the development of Schizophrenia, and other than that, the remaining side-effects are rather mild. In a 65yr old patient with advanced-stage cancer, development of Schizophrenia just is not high up on the list of concerns.
The problem is all the diffing and stuff. You can get half a terabyte of storage for $3/mo, so glacier support isn't necessary, but getting accurate diffing is hard (there's a reason why rdiff-backup is as large as it is, and duplicating the entire thing doesn't make much sense).

I would much prefer to write a small layer to glue EncFS and rdiff-backup together (and I started doing just that: https://github.com/skorokithakis/encrups), but I haven't managed to find an elegant solution for the directory aggregation yet.
Obviously, because they live in flatland.

In Spain I lived in Granada, Oviedo and Gijón(north), Madrid(center) and Alicante, all of them near big mountains.

Every single time I took my bicycle, and I love it, I will have to go up or down 200, 400meters. I log it with the GPS.

Electrical bikes improve the issue, but it will take time until they are cheap.
This and other comments seems to assume "can regulate" means "can enforce 100% of the time".
Question 2 - How much resistance do you find to SaaS in the enterprise? SaaS reduces the support cost immensely, but a lot of businesses don't seem to trust SaaS.
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Finding passwords saved in Chrome is surprisingly easy
I Agree. Where are all the entrepreneurs doing 'proper' stuff. I don't want another way to connect to a niche group of geeks using a very specific app.

London is the heart of Finance, there must be someone developing advanced trading algorithms or something cool. Perhaps they don't spend their days on twitter advertising their services so much.
I still think the most moral "terminal" punishment is some form of exile. I wonder if by the time we have 500-1000+ year lifespan, we'd also have some form of exile available (long slow trips to far away parts of the solar system?). I think this has been the theme of lots of sci fi.
Great post Brandon! You should write the textbook :)
Yes, this possibility has been discussed. At this point we've got these meshbox things which are basically plug-and-play meshnet nodes, but they dont extend very far. For the sort of thing you're talking about it'll require local involvement, but it's definitely something that's been discussed at my local meshnet
Great blog post, lots of great information.

A few tips and tricks from my practical experience:

* Big companies still have cultures. If you understand how the culture works, it's easier to get things done. In the best enterprises, you can just straight up ask "how do things get done around here" or "What is the culture like? Who are the stakeholders on a project like this?". In fact, asking people in B2B works a lot better than B2C because often you'll get people revealing their actual painpoints

* Fear of loss is a more powerful motivator than potential gain

* Followups are everything; I can't tell you how many times I've called a company 12 or 18 months later and gotten a deal just by keeping in touch

* B2B is ridiculously personal. Be likable; send people candy on their birthdays, if they have kids send them gifts for their kids (we send/give away branded Kazoos, which also happens to be the name of our product). The sales process often comes down to (unfortunately) who the decision maker likes the most. This isn't actually a bad way of doing business (although it can be) because when the chips are down having an antagonistic vendor-client relationship is terrible.

My two cents.

Source: I'm currently managing marketing for a bootstrapped telecom company that just cleared 30 employees. We sell straight B2B and these are tactics that have worked over the last 24-36 months.
For anyone interested in the complexities of Super Street Fighter II Turbo, check out a recent tournament: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2gMAOPIHIo
If you are a front end programmer, do you think knowing how to sketch and design grids helps you implement good designs? Perhaps, but can you actually hire those people and have them be the best programmers at the same time? Much harder. Why would you expect from designers what you don't expect from designers? Keep in mind that good designers are as hard, if not harder, to hire than good programmers.

Designers do understand the domains they are working in, otherwise they aren't very good. The developers are not that far away, so there is interaction if the spec goes somewhere where they can't (hardware constraints for phone UI, for example). On the other hand, knowing how to program would help a designer check the dev's bullsh*t that something can't be implemented, and they are just being lazy or toxic.
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I have taken the view that helmets don't usually help much, but that people often perceive wearing a helmet as being the definition of safety, rather than obeying the rules of the road and paying attention to the road and what is going on around you. In my view, those are far more important than what you have on your head.

Personally, I haven't seen anyone saved thanks to a bike helmet, but I have seen people get into minor accidents because they were ignoring traffic rules and not paying attention to the road. Lots of people in the US seem to treat bikes as more of a kid's toy, to be cruised around the local neighborhood without a care in the world. They don't have the damage potential or expense of cars, but they are still vehicles that are many times faster and less maneuverable then you are on your feet, and so deserve your respect and attention.
…if you use a bank then why would it matter if your mattress caught on fire…
It would be great if Go could be used as a reasonable alternative to Java on Android. Or Clojure. Or Python. Or Lua.

You can already use all of these on Android, but any kind of visual programming is a pain in the ass since you have to do Java interop, and start-up is slow because of the apk unpackaging requirements.
It's unlikely that the end of prohibition would have a large impact on agriculture; growing weed usually requires an indoor or greenhouse environment to prevent pollination, it doesn't really lend itself to large-scale production, and the amount that people smoke is minuscule compared to tobacco/cigarettes. Of course, tobacco companies could roll out some industrial processing machines and drive the price of production down near to zero, but as long as the government uses taxes to keep the price high, people will demand the kind of quality that requires more of a greenhouse type of a solution.
Does Mobile Web App Performance Matter?
It's every large or multinational corporation.
Actually, why not?

Looking for that "aspmx.l.google.com" entry in the MX record would let them know, with a high degree of certainty, that Google is the login authority for that particular email address.

Is there something I'm missing?
Because the shareholders generally aren't actually suckers. They will, in fact, get together and fire management if it strays too far away from manufacturing a good return on investment.
Sure, but unfortunately, most doctors don't seem to be able to distinguish the patient who's been reading alt med forums and maybe skimming some cherry-picked articles (perusing would actually be the correct thing to do with a study), from the patient who is scientifically literate and has a reasonable knowledge of pharmacology and the evidence regarding their own condition.

When your doctor is giving you opiates and not even trying to find a sustainable alternative, and you do a ton of research, find an alternative drug (with few side effects and no recognized potential for abuse) that has been shown to help people with similar conditions, and send that study to the doctor, only to have him say "Well, I've never heard of that drug being used for this, so no", it is... frustrating.
If you aren't going to quibble over semantics, what are you going to quibble over? Syntax?
No question it's a high bar. Then again, I would have never predicted the rate at which Docker has matured already. Color me optimistic.
If he can pay for it he has up to 18 months of COBRA coverage (you stay in the plan, but have to pay the full cost to the company).
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I had a ABS plastic printer on my desk. It was headache inducingly bad at times.

From a OSHA perspective, I believe abs printers at least should be externally vented.
I serve some gzipped content off of S3, you just have to do the zip yourself before uploading, which is pretty straight forward using most scripting languages.
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Feel free to read wikipedia as a starting point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classified_information

> Access is restricted by law or regulation to particular groups of people and mishandling can incur criminal penalties.

I'm sure someone could have tried to throw the hammer down about the Snowden leak, but they probably realized they would look ridiculous doing that over a few Powerpoint slides vs. thousands of diplomatic cables and other information which were released by Manning. Also note: Snowden is releasing specific information related to a specific crime. I keep repeating this because it is highly relevant to whistleblower protections && reporter shields etc.
Agreed.

- Spacey or dedicated lanes are a major requirement. And in my fantasies I'd like two kinds of lanes, speedy and casual. Riding around 25kmph for commuting can be dangerous if the lane thins out, people ride/run slow, kids play around.

- Also, secured parking spots. I refrain from riding when I don't know where I'm gonna park. Too easy to pick/steal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGttmR2DTY8 . Or a <20 bucks tagging device (in 2013 it's probably easy for many manufacturers)
I disagree. Cycling has become a lot more popular, and easier, in NYC in recent years and especially in recent months since CitiBike started.

I live by 1st Ave, where there is a physically separated bike lane from Houston up to the low 40s. It's a breeze to get uptown on it, and every morning I even see young women in fashionable clothing biking on citibikes to work in midtown.

2nd Ave also has a bike lane that goes in the opposite direction but it is not separated. However there are so many cyclists on it now that cars are aware. Honestly the real danger on 2nd ave is not cars, but the potholes and other road quality issues. If you're not watching the road (literally) you can hit some nasty snags and fall.

3rd thru 5th Ave are not great. 6th Ave has a bike lane but it's not as comfortable as 1st and 2nd. Further west and you can take the Hudson River path, completely separated and along waterfront, anywhere.

The biggest hassle is lack of bicycle parking in Manhattan. That's why CitiBike has been a boon to commuting by bike. They are having their own issues with keeping up with demand and poor hardware and software but hopefully they'll smooth it out.

They are improving cycling a lot in the city and I know the paths will improve.

And a not about the crazy NYC streets. Driving in this city is not something you can do half-asleep. I find drivers are not able to let themselves get distracted because you need to always be alert. Cycling is nuts sometimes in the sense that you've got so much stimuli around you and potential hazards everywhere. The result, though, is that everyone is pretty alert and cars know you're there, and cyclists are also extra careful.

So, as far as Manhattan goes, biking is the best and often quickest way to get around, weather permitting. I don't find it unsafe unless you let your guard down or ride recklessly. You have to remain defensive and you have to stay off certain roads (I don't bike on the major streets, i.e. 14th, 23rd, Houston). You have to be assertive; you can't be afraid to yell in a driver's face when he turns and cuts off your path without looking and you have to use the bell liberally around cars.
Who said it was? If anything, IRC is seeing a more widespread audience than it was 20 or even 10 years ago
Gas is expensive is a red herring. Gas is expensive everywhere compared to the US. Shorter distances make the price of gas comparatively irrelevant.

When choosing between car, public transport or bike, nobody in the Netherlands factors in the price of gas. It's not a consideration.
>The closer Bitcoin gets to being an accepted currency, the less useful it will be as a method of exchange.

Within America, due to taxes, etc.... possibly (marginally, arguably) true. America has many alternatives that are cheap or free and mostly reliable (paypal, google wallet, square, cash). In many other countries, and between countries? More legitimacy is purely a good thing.
Yes, if you're in it, any single singularity is "the" singularity.
Sorry, looks like it was a dupe with a different URL. Original discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6177768
Should legal codes be copyrighted? Let’s sue to find out
Great posts. Thanks for sharing them. Will definitely keep all of what you said in mind.
I don't think you are doing yourself a great service by playing the "it's not you, it's me" game with your ex company. This is nothing wrong with leaving after a short time and even writing about it. But significant accomplishments often take more than a year and have a lot of tedious and stressful intervals. Or to put it another way: opportunities that are certain to take less than a year and certain to not involve tedium and stress are rare.
I hope up next is MDMA. What a great drug with so much positive potential!

Everything can be abused, but that doesn't mean everything should be illegal. If anything should be illegal, it should be what's legal now: tobacco and alcohol. But we all know what happens when you make alcohol illegal! :D
It's amazing how much I find myself in your story. I am too in same shoes, working at a startup and I'm so burned out that i have neglected all of my side projects due to lack of energy or modivation. I havent quit yet, but every 6 months i go through re-evaluation of where I am and where I want to go. For now until the end of year, I keep pushing hard at work hoping for the best.
Resume maker with print quality output. LinkedIn integration would be helpful. Include a variety of nicely designed typographic templates. I'de pay a buck for a resume that self-updates as I update LinkedIn.
In tough times, in good times, anytime it becomes advantageous to do so. Isn't that what the "Lean" discipline boils down to?
Author here. That's an approach we considered as well, but we didn't want to have to use an emulator to play the game. Still, you could potentially get much richer information with that approach, and I'd love to see a demo based on it!

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If you are outside the U.S. then I understand your belief that osteopathy is quackery because outside the U.S., it is. Inside the U.S. though a D.O. is equivalent to an M.D.

You would know this if you bothered to read either of the citations I provided. You and the person downvoting me apparently disagree with the American Medical Association that says a D.O. is equivalent to an M.D.

For failing to read my citations before you replied to them and for providing no citations of your own other than "every experience I have had with a DO." you are currently in the category of Ignorant Fool. If you would like to provide a citation or two for what you say and perhaps if you actually respond to my citations instead of around them I might be able to upgrade you to Misguided Goof.

EDIT: Never mind, I see in another comment below you are saying that you are just as suspicious of medical doctors. I have no further desire to discuss this with you.
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Or they bring in outsiders to be "professional managers".
But then your content is going to require that support, returning gzip'd content with hard-coded headers even when not requested and unwelcome.
Teens these days with their 'smart' phones! This is interesting and something I'm just learning [from Wikipedia]:

For many years, Reader's Digest was the best-selling consumer magazine in the United States, losing the distinction in 2009 to Better Homes and Gardens...it reaches more readers with household incomes of $100,000+ than Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week and Inc. combined.

They've got the app market pretty well covered; http://www.rd.com/readers-digest-mobile/
Sorry--typo on my part (since corrected). We introduced the approach today, and will make the developer preview available on August 15.
It's not clear whether the schizophrenia induced is stimulated or just aggravated—i.e., was the person already a schizophrenic with a high threshold for psychosis that the weed lowered? I don't think we'll know for a long time.
Which OS, browser are you using?
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That's why the availability of insured banks to place some of one's dollars in mitigates the risk of mattress fires. Is there some part of "mitigate the risk" that wasn't clear to you?
Also, you know what I suspect _actually_ happened?

Gupta finally _actually smoked_ some weed, maybe like a few days in a row, maybe for a few month's worth of days in a row, only to discover: it ain't much of anything!!! Probably better not to smoke weed excessively and for no reason, but ask people who smoke a ton and almost all would say that smoking a ton does get old pretty fast.
I like idea of Persona, but the idea of requiring emails prevents me from ever implementing it. There are plenty of places where I need an identity system, but don't want to force users to fork over their email address.
Good tips here--enterprise sales can be... interesting...

Best book I've ever read on selling big ticket items: SPIN Selling by Neil Rackham. Engineers would love it (and it's short!)

Basically, you sell million dollar computer systems with the following process:

>> (S)ituation -- what are they doing now?

>> (P)roblem -- what is the problem with that?

>> (I)mplications -- how much is that problem actually costing them? -- as a number, it's always bigger than people think, particularly if it involves people doing some manual process somewhere

>> (N)eed Payoff -- Imagine your life if you fix this problem and imagine your life if you don't. Wouldn't you much rather lead the former?

The instant rapport quick close doesn't work in these cases (in fact, it hurts you)--you need to demonstrate real value, real ROI (as mentioned in the article) and you've got to do that by taking the problem and blowing it up really big, then offering two paths and letting your prospect make the obvious choice. Or something like that :-)