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sure :) Thanks a lot.
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I hope you did things like disable firewire, and superglue the ram in the slots.

And I've done something similar with my iPhone. It reverse SSHs in to my server, and provides me a shell login. Something bad happens? I can rm -rf * to my iPhone.

And I can do bad things :)
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I looked into those, but the resolution was abominable - 1366 x whatever. I think this is a screen shot: http://www.vectronicsappleworld.com/collection/articlepics/a...
The thing that bugs me about the way Google retires something is that they do this:

1) Retire a feature

2) Offer a half-arsed work-around

3) Wait an indeterminable period of time

4) Release a new feature that covers the original use-case

That's crap, as users are stuck at #2 for ages and some of them migrate away to use other tools that cover this use-case. All this method achieves is to annoy every user that used the feature (even if they seldom used it).

Surely it would be better to:

1) Release a new feature that covers the original use-case

2) Wait a declared period of time (short or long)

3) Retire a feature

Which means people can immediately start using the new way. And if the new feature fully covers the use-case of the old one, then #2 could be skipped altogether.
Don't be. This is the same country in which the PM thinks it's ok to literally walk out of a Q&A session with the press regarding a widely disputed bill that's being rushed into law.
If the product is created in NZ that uses technology patented in US for example, would it still be legal for them to do business in US, like offering services?
looks great! Nice simple pitch, you'll do well.
> clitable

I'm sure im not the only one that misread that.
The point I was trying to make was that with a good, professional HR folks, your company will avoid stupid mistakes that can become very expensive when dealing with an employee who knows how to work the system to their advantage.

One of the folks who worked for me several years back had complaints filed against her by an employee whom she had woken up from a dead sleep during the day a few times. (The employee was working from 6-2AM as a night clerk at a hotel) The employee claimed that although the supervisor had 5 employees, she only checked his sleep/wake status, and did so because he was a member of a protected class. (Yes, really)

This nonsense required administrative hearings with the human rights commission/eeoc and untold gobs of paperwork. The HR people saved the day, and were able to use the good processes that they had in place to keep an awful situation from getting worse.
Yes, You can say as your have a start up with "XX" business.

As it is start up the word itself provides a better idea for a judgmental person. hope this helps.. :)
You can say as you have a start up with "XX" business.

As it is start up the word itself provides a better idea for a judgmental person. hope this helps.. :)
So, this is going to be the major release in a couple of weeks, but I'm going to share some stuff that should fit better the audience here on HN, and that are not part of the main announcement :)

First, this is a release that fixes some important architecture mistakes we've done in 2.0.x branch of VLC. I'm notably speaking of the lag in reactivity, notably on volume change (that was shared on the mpv thread) and seeking, but also some grave video settings propagation. I wish we could have fixed and shipped that earlier, but we couldn't (long release cycle).

Then, this is the first official release of libVLC that is LGPL for most of what you need as a developer, including the right modules. SDKs for Win32/64, MacOSX, iOS and Android are getting ready.

If you are a web developer, our VLC plugin now supports Windowless, to fill the gap between Flash and HTML5 (it should work on IE6,7,8 without too much work).

If you are on Mac OS, the interface is finally polished after the major changes of 2.0.0 :)

Finally, we decided, as a community that we will accelerate the major release cycle of VLC.
The fact that we needed 1,5 year to get the fix to some critical audio core and video settings issues out is way too much. We will move towards a 6-months schedule with LTS.

Sure, there are other very good players on each platform, but we are doing our best so that you can play everything everywhere for free :)
Here's another fun one, which was also posted here: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Firing-Offense.aspx
Or a recent job posting I saw for a Java tech lead:

Required:

Java

Open source technologies

Microsoft Visual Studio
I used to work for a company that writes and administers these tests. This company broke the cardinal rule.

#1 - Only give personality tests in their native language.

This is unacceptable, a personality test is NOT a language aptitude test.

Personality tests will have questions like this:

True or False I am happy when others are taking advantage of me.

Non-native speakers may not appreciate that "taking advantage" is a negative term and might read it as "I am happy when others are taking advantage of my abilities". Hell I WORKED for the company and had to double-triple take some of the questions.

Some of these personality tests are even written for English / UK-English because of the nuances involved.
Lifting weights doesn't burn that many calories, compared to walking, running, etc. You can also have substantial strength gains by doing it just 2-3 times a week.

"Resistance training" gives you muscle mass so you can live longer. It gives you strength so you can do more in your daily life--lift a heavy object and without injuring yourself, for example. Having good leg strength can help prevent knee injury when you're out hiking with your kids.

Are you chopping and stacking wood at home? Lifting anything heavy (as trite as that sounds) at work? Or anything physically challenging that requires strength throughout the week? Chances are, like many of us geeks, the answer is no or very little. Lifting weights is a way to fix that. If you were working a physically demanding job, you wouldn't need to lift weights.

And anyway, don't interpret lifting weights too literally! Don't buy weights, use your body: pushups, pullups, etc. You can do pullups off the edge of a desk. Dips off the edge of a chair. Lunges and squats and "jumpy" versions thereof will give you plenty of leg and hip strength without any weights.
If you're going to call meditation a "scam," it's your responsibility to survey the field and know what you're talking about.
I prefer sarcasmobile.
But sometimes they don't care for the original use case, so there's no point in replacing it, just retiring
Why are people upvoting this submission? What's interesting about the fact that YT removed some insignificant and unused feature?
If screen size is important, another option is the ThinkPad X1 Carbon. I don't run Linux on mine, but I've read that most everything is supported. Headline price is quite high, but it seems there's often ridiculous discounts to be found.

Size and weight are basically the same. Some key differences:

+ 14" (1600x900) vs 13.3" (1440x900) screen, matte screen may be an advantage or disadvantage.

+ Stick mouse if you like such things

- Worse battery life, but charges in ~35 minutes

- X1C power brick is......a brick

At the same price, the MBA is probably a better choice. But if you can get a significant discount, it's a reasonable alternative.

EDIT: updated resolution
Estimations are that Jolla is going to produce a batch of 50,000 units. http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/21/jolla-closes-first-pre-sale...

So I think it's strange Canonical didn't make this happen.
I've been spoiled by the IPython Notebook. Once Julia has an equivalent/full support of the IPyNB and a Pandas equivalent, I'm all in on Julia.
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We have "radio-decay batteries" - RTGs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_gen...

They can be miniaturised, using the photoelectric effect, alphavoltaics or betavoltaics.

We do not use them because "Nuclear is bad, m'kay?", and the market just isn't there, so the R&D hasn't happened.
This is why developers make for great businesspeople
Wait, I see the problem! You've sorted by:

[hr_score, tech_score]

when you meant to sort by:

[tech_score, hr_score]
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Victory lap!
I used to pitch myself as a freelancer/entrepreneur/self-employed. Lots of women were not interested, and that was good. I found one who bought that that my status was cool, was supportive, and we ended up getting married after a few years. Just had our 25th anniversary.

Be who you are, and if women don't like it, they're not a good fit. Bullshit now comes back to haunt you later.
Very roughly - if the innovation to be patented (ie the software) is used to improve the operation of the hardware then it is patentable. So buffering code in a HDD chip is presumably patentable (-ed). However if its a new way to display email - probably not. Not a clear win, and apparently similar to UK case law.

(Cribbing off FOSSPatents links)
Nobody used that feature.
I've only ever seen one useful thing done with video responses: a kind of pseudo-playlist, where the next video is a response to the previous one, making it easy to click from one to the next. With YouTube's new playlist interface, even that's no longer useful. (And with the ten-minute length limitations lifted, the need for multi-part videos has gone down significantly, so only long-running series need them anymore, and those can easily create playlists.)

Now if only they'd bring back the ability to subscribe to a playlist rather than a channel. I still have some playlist subscriptions, but you no longer have the option of following a playlist without seeing all the other videos from that channel.
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"For developers, libVLC and most libVLC modules are now licensed under the LGPL" - interesting, is there a full list somewhere of which modules are/are not?
He wants to make some quick money - not release something risky.
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is it possible to trademark such type of words?
Yes. The list will be ready for the final release. But mostly DVD input, streaming output and visualizations (the later 2 will be LGPL in 2.2.0).
Another way to see things is that the US, and especially Silicon Valley, have ridiculously high salaries. I'd say that compared to the rest of Europe, developer salaries in London are probably on the high side.

The service prices (health, education, banking, communications, etc) are generally much lower than in the US, though, so it's hard to get an accurate comparison of cost-of-life.
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When you boot an MBA directly to a different OS - you lose multi-touch.
I went from a Nexus One to an N4, so obviously it was fast to me! Also had a 2012 N7 (JB prompted me to buy the N4). I just picked up a new N7 and so far it's perfect (none of the reported problems), but a little harder to hold. I bought B&M so that I could return it easily if necessary, and hand-picked the only July manufacture date out of 8 other Junes.
Glad you like it. Bandcamp is certainly a competitor at this point however we'll have to see how we evolve, more as a buying platform or discovery platform.

As to the advantages over Bandcamp, they are just a store, we help provide exposure as well, allowing artists to be discovered via various channels.
The X1 carbon resolution is 1600x900 (14") vs 1440x900 (13.3") on the MBA.
I am Italian and have been an entrepreneur myself, for this reason, I understand your difficulty.

However, before even trying to describe your lifestyle in a less defensive way, I would suggest to change attitude about your job.

Far from being a stigma, running a small business makes you a successful person if you enjoy what you do, if your business is stable, if it grows organically, if it allows you to employ people, if it leaves you time to live your life fully.

Saying "I am an entrepreneur in the <your business goes here> field" should be convincing enough if you feel strong about what you are doing.

After all, if you feel strong about your choices, anyone who kills the conversation at this point might not be someone you want continue dating anyway.
I have a 10yo G4-PowerBook17 still going with Ubuntu-12. However I'm running into a lot of driver issues. Some software is not even supported in that hardware.

I thought about replacing it and perhaps have a Linux laptop with a Windows VM for mobile development when I stumbled with http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/lenovo-ideapad-... . Or having a Windows laptop with a Linux VM =P.

It has the same workhorse heritage as the ThinkPads.

It's not cheap but well under the MBA price range. I only hope it's as long-lived as Apple. Btw, the best priced one was at the microsoft store.
If we're trading exercise experiences, I'll vouch for regular tennis. It's easy enough to learn as an adult, you do not have to coordinate a full team to play a match, the aerobic load is entirely dependent on the level of your sparring partner and, for me, it has the social aspect that guarantees I keep practising. Even when I don't feel like going, there is someone calling and challenging for a match.

The usual warnings apply: It is asymmetrical and, for God's sake, buy a good racket or you will get tennis elbow (good dampening of vibrations virtually eliminated tennis elbow, but only the good material does it right)
It is so easy to forget that HN has people from very different parts of the world. I guess that technique described above will not work in Finland's winter at all.
GPU-Accelerated FDTD Simulations for Applications in Photonics
Because Google. Similar thing happened to me when I could not publish a paper for a long time due to no interest in a subject... Until somebody published a similar thing with a Google affiliation. Then I couldn't publish it cause it was not original any more.
The template previews don't work for me: if I click on a template picture, I get a preview image of about the same size as the thumbnail I clicked on.
I know everyone has their own tastes. Certainly when I'm on the command line, I prefer Linux.

But for my money, the interface between me and the computer is drastically better for the MacBook Pro than it has been for any other computer I've ever owned. The trackpad is a joy to use, and the GUI is miles better than any other I've experienced. That makes me more than willing to put up with the added expense and sometimes balky performance.

And usually I've got multiple terminal windows SSH'd into a Linux box...
If you consider 'productivity' as generating financial wealth, yes, but GDP is not a material measure. Going solely by that, bankers would be the most productive workers on earth, and I'm sure lots of people would disagree.
They're like the Klingons from TOS -- we just don't talk about them.
It is right and good to kill things nobody uses. Come on with the bellyaching, on this one. Google Reader this wasn't.
This reminds me of a job posting I found around 2004, which had as requirement "at least 5 years of experience with C#"
I can see how the candidate conversation with his family was, afterwards.

- Did they hire you?
- No, mom, I bombed the psycho exam.
- But the developers, the liked you?
- Oh, yeah, the technical team was ecstatic with me. They even told me that I was their favorite candidate.
-So what happened? Did they change their mind?
- Oh no, mom. The HR person disagreed with them, so they accepted the judgment of the HR person and dropped me.
- And the developers, your supposed team, stayed silent through all this?
- Well, they asked HR if I could do the psycho exam once more. And that was that.
- Son, you don’t want to work in a place where they keep quiet and silent on things that matter to them. You are better off anywhere else.
That's a good thing to point out. The "reactive programming" in the course title comes not from the acronym FRP but from this:

http://www.reactivemanifesto.org
I'm either a 20 minute walk or a 6 minute bike ride to work. I used to walk because I figured it meant 40 minutes of walking five days a week, but I found it wasn't enough exercise to avoid becoming overweight. Now I cycle to work and go on a hard 45-minute bike ride during my lunch hour.
Thank you for giving it a try :) For the monetizing bit. Frankly we have no idea! we wanted people to LaTeX and make amazing resumes. We are thinking hard on how to keep this going. Premium templates, Paid publicly hosted resumes are some of the ideas we have. Not sure what way we will be treading.
I think the bigger injustice is that these sorts of tests are a sham. It is a bogus product oversold to HR managers for insane prices and no evidence of benefit. As far as I am concerned, if a prospective employer were to put one of these tests in front of me, I would lose interest in working for said company.
A relatively cheap alternative is taking 2 polarized pieces of glass and making them rotate one on top of the other - that way the amount of light they let through is variable. The main drawback is that it requires circular windows with mechanical rotors.

There is also a patent that allegedly doesn't require rotation, but I have never seen it realized: http://www.google.com/patents/US6414790
Ok, I'll play the Grammar Nazi Troll (On topic, since native level English was relevant in the story :-) )

Interesting article, but you make a bad impression when you write with high school level grammar.

"Me" is a sentence object; "I" is the subject. You did it three times, which is more than just a slip.
I used it
Your post reminds me of this image:

http://joking.of-cour.se/files/2009/02/2393382.jpg
Where in Canada are you? I live in Southern Ontario and there are usually only a couple of days a year when the weather is too lousy to cycle.
Is there really still a market for paid general weather apps?
FullStack? seriously?
So why are companies allowed to just use the non-descript term "Natural Flavor" in a list of ingredients, instead of Castoreum? That seems to be the actual problem here.
What if you need to do something that touches both A and B?
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Companies should lose discrimination / disability / wrongful termination lawsuits. HR's purpose is to get businesses off the hook for these crimes. Maybe you're thinking about it as an actual or theoretical startup owner, where you don't want to get in trouble. I can understand that. But people are more important than businesses and any business that abuses people deserves to be shut down.
Why start with the interview? Try to find the job listing and submit a resume. Then ask yourself if that was a good use of your time. This part of the process is horribly broken for a lot of employers and they don't even know it.
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Yeah, this is wild... I have a Droid 4 and one of the two good features it has (other than the fantastic keyboard of course) is its rubberized back grip. The OG Droid 1 was extremely good, to the point where I could put it on my slanted car dash for GPS use without any accessories and it would just stick there.

This should be a feature of all phones. There's nearly zero number of times I want my phone to move from where I've placed it.
They're experimental. They're used for experimentation, not production.
No. But then, is selling software over a .nz web site to an US resident doing software in NZ or US?
Also to make an unfair point, that's Canada for you.
That comes from targetting Matlab users...
My supervisor recently asked that my compensation be increased; so I got a weird phone call from the HR person where she just wanted me to know that she and the senior management knew I had been arrested a long time ago. But she conceded that she did not tell my supervisor; because well I was found not guilty in court. wtf.
No more than any other business. It's just confirmation bias that makes it seem that way to you perhaps.
I think the Animation timing has to do with the Apps being Ready.
I.e While it is taking 0.5Sec of Animation switching, in that 0.5Sec it is trying to get the Apps Ready as if it was fully loaded. So user assume it really is Multi Task, When as a matter of fact it is resumed from a Pause State.

While this may not have worked, ( iPhone 5 still has a lag after the animation ), may be iPhone 5S could manage to do without the lag.
I don't know what country you are in, but in Germany, the Mittelstand is a quite respected part of the economy, and that describes what you do.
That is of course what I was referring to when I talked about logical vs physical data models. You define your LDM then selectively denormalize it when you create the PDM.

The MySQL guys are very into sharding too but of course without hash joins, you can't join big tables anyway, so this "optimization" is easy because it costs you nothing.
I completely agree. The N1 was a very ergonomic phone. I use my N4 one-handed; my wife uses hers like a small tablet (two hands). I don't have small hands, but I have to shift my grip to reach all four corners of the screen. Each shift is a chance to drop the phone, so it carries a higher cognitive load than a smaller 3.5" device. The narrow screen on the iPhone 5 is an almost perfect size for me.
'video responses' feature was not used a lot imo.

but for all startups this is a point of concern, after experimentation, which features to digg further and which ones to keep. user analytics definitely is a must.
The T series are all 1600x900 also. If you really want good resolution, then a retina macbook would probably be the best idea. I just can't recommend anyone get a pixel if you are concerned with money.
For a first project, well done. Keep at it!
Do whatever makes you happy is a lie
You'll take it from my cold dead hands.

... And keep using them.
FYI if anyone from Google is reading this, these small industrial design mistakes have convinced me not to buy this phone.

Hopefully the Moto X is better!
I find it notable that something that seemed so prominent on a very popular website like youtube only had .0004% click-through rate.
fair point indeed - the tests are highly weighted (and thus rather unsatisfactory - the skewing reduces the resolution of the test, if you like) for young people.
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I wish I knew the answer but PubMed (database from the National Library of Medicine) is a good source for further research on both the ingredient and policy behind it: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17365147