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> Apple at least has historically priced a number of their applications pretty high

This is incorrect. Apple has historically priced their software very low, and their hardware very high. Their office suite is very inexpensive compared to MS Office, for instance. Their OS is also very inexpensive compare to Windows.

On the mobile side, their $5 and $10 price points make it hard for others to justify charging that much for less complex software (a point corresation has also made).

Their software pricing agrees with the points Spolsky made on http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html .

Now of course they are giving away their mobile software, which I think helps both themselves and 3rd party developers, so I think it's one of the few steps they've taken to help 3rd party developers charge more. (Last time around it was the creation of a "premium" category.)
1) I started back in 1996 and taught myself HTML with books only. I went to a technical high school that taught the typical plumbing, carpentry, etc., but they also had an IT track in which I learned more about HTML and web design. I kept teaching myself via books and online tutorials through college, because college was not teaching what I wanted.

2) I started learning in 1996.

3) I started working professionally (part-time) my Junior year in high school for a dot-com business. I have been moving my way up the chain since then. Now I am a partner at MadGlory building custom large scale web apps and web properties for the gaming industry.
Firefox can be made set to do its DNS lookups over SOCKS:

http://support.vpnsecure.me/articles/ssh-tunnelling-proxy-tr...
The only thing this article from 2012 is good for is reminding me that it's been almost 3 months and we still have no explanation of Barnaby Jack's passing.
Every sci-fi ship ever in one mind-blowing chart
I'm a self-taught programmer. When I was 8 I would check out BASIC books from my school library and type them into our Apple IIe during recess. My parent's got me a programmable graphing calculator with BASIC to encourage me, and I was married to it for a few years.

Later my parents got a 486 and I got into the wide world of DOS/W3.11 gaming.

In high school I learned how to build computers and install linux. I bought C++ Primer Plus but I never made it past Chapter 4 or so. C++ was way too complex for me. I drifted away from programming.

When I was about 27, I got a job as an entry level Linux sysadmin and built all sorts of systems. I touched a lot of code and changed and wrote all kinds of scripts, rekindling my interest in programming. After I got canned, I ditched administration and poured my efforts into web development.

I impressed a web design freelancer enough to get him to use me on his bigger projects. We were going to start a business together but I got cold feet and pulled out. I've been bouncing around different web development jobs ever since.

I don't see much value in Computer Science and don't personally value such degrees very much. It might become useful to me at some point but every time I start to look at CS course work, my eyes glaze over and I want to just go build something. So much of it seems to just boil down to "be careful what you put in your loops".

What's going to get you jobs is being able to do stuff. Knowledge is secondary to action. Get out and do stuff. What's going to allow you to retain your sanity is knowing how to do stuff without adding unnecessary complexity. So go over every project and do a post-mortem, buying books to shore up your understanding.

You don't need someone to teach you how to program. You just need the drive to teach yourself.
Nice job, funny idea!

Mentioning Dreamweaver should be handled as an error rather then a notice. :-)
Wow. Who is to say every single professional athlete and musician and actor enjoys every single second of their career?

Athletes' bodies are taxed to the maxed. Most of the above are in the public light 24/7, they might feel unsafe and have to hire bodyguards. That's not something everyone is going to enjoy. These people work hard, sometimes long hours. They are on the road, sometimes away from their families for long periods of time. This might be an exciting life at first, but wears you down after a few years.

Your average working musician has a "day job" playing for weddings, churches, and corporate events anyway. Not the life of luxury you seem to imagine. They are spending their off time marketing, networking, and planning their next event.

Most actors don't "make it big" and spend most of their time auditioning for roles, networking, and spending time looking for more work. I know a actor. She actually quit and got a "day job" because of the unstable nature of the work. If you get a role, you're still working under a deadline, and you're still working under the authority of someone else. I've heard in an interview somewhere that TV actors can work up to 12 hours a day.

After all, while preparing for the Australian Open Serena Williams said "I don't love tennis today, but ... I've actually never liked sports."

What about the people who support the infrastructure that make your job possible? The people who get paid less than you. The people (probably immigrants) who work in farms and factories and slaughterhouses to bring you food? The cooks and servers in the restaurant. The workers in China who build your computer/computer parts.
Or a suicide
Lavabit didn't even bother refunding clients, why should we help them now ?
Of course we can leverage existing libraries and standing-on-the-shoulders-of-giants complexity pyramids. Slapping a webserver on them isn't necessarily a good approach though.
I rarely buy a cup of coffee (I buy beans). But when I do it's because I need/want it now and I have no alternative, for example at the train station. With apps that usually doesn't happen.
While I do agree that the App Store and the Play Store both trend toward the free apps being the most successful ones, I disagree with his mentality about the value of apps completely.

Yes, there are plenty of apps on my iPhone/iPad that I rarely use, but there are also a whole host that I use every single day.

The author cites Clear as an example in his article. I use it every day to make lists and keep track of things for work.

There are also apps like Downcast (a podcast player) and Comic Zeal (a comic reading app) that I have gotten 10x the value of what I paid for them, since I use them so frequently.
The problem with this (and similar things like the "what did you do today?" emails) is that you eventually start filtering them out and ignoring them.

I'm a bad procrastinator, my bad habits have trained me to crave novelty in a bad way.
Others have addressed the issue of "pizza/beer/ping-pong" as code for "we want to keep you in the office all day" so I'll just add one little anecdote. Long before the internet bubble, it was Thinking Machines that set the standard for these kinds of benefits. In that timeframe (1995 or so) I went to interview at Kendall Square Research. They made a really big deal about having catered breakfast, lunch and dinner. Even my naive and hungry younger self was tempted to ask if that meant they had cots in the back too, for the expected all-nighters. They said no, but I've worked with many people from KSR since then and they confirm that yes they did. I doubt much has changed. Companies provide these benefits for a reason. It's not because they like you and want to know you better. ;)

Now, the real point: swearing. I think it's great when companies allow casual clothes and swearing and obnoxious music. It's a real problem when they expect those things. When someone puts that in a job posting, which seems more likely? What if the best distributed-systems programmer in the world happens to be a bit old-fashioned about such things? Why should they be excluded because of that, any more than if the company were traditional and they were all bro-ish? Hipsterism has become its own kind of PC.
I've often had "break for pizza and similar from 4-5 on fridays and then go back to work" as a pattern (I tend to get in at 11, so I'm not leaving at 5 anyway). Some chaotic interaction with co-workers tends to be a good thing.
I'd be curious to see how Typed Racket compared, too.
Funny they don't mention that starting Visual Studio 2005 time_t is 64bit on 32bit builds.
Sidebar Transitions Effect with CSS
Charge Your Phone...With Fire
> You believe it's a natural mapping from "ocean travel" to "space travel." This is frequent enough to be a trope at http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SpaceIsAnOcean

Uh, no. You posited a kind of analysis based on the analogy (implied by your invocation of various examples) and I poked a hole in it. Now you are trying to pass it off as mine. No analogies are required. Just look at energy/transportation costs.

I don't know if that was some kind of inefficient reverse-troll or an honest mistake.

> Your argument so far is essentially "Who controls Mars controls the industry of the Solar System."

...based on energy/transportation costs. You seem to have missed that there, then substituted a lot of fluffy logic in its place.
I've understood that after the page shows CAPTCHA, the bot either tries to solve it with OCR or then it just rotates to the next proxy. By rotating trough lets say 7000 proxies, by the time it has gone trough all of them the first ones do not display CAPTCHA challenge anymore.

One funny thing I remember of being told is that if the main site seems to hard to config, they just change to the mobile version of the site, which usually has less security.

For them it really is free porn besides of hobby, as I've seen logfiles of hundreds of subscribed accounts on them. Some people steal the credit card information attached to them while some just preserve a giant libary of porn accounts on demand.

When I noted this problem I coded a service which would have prevented all these attacks made by the tools they used. I contacted various of porn and filehosting sites, but none never replied to me. It's a pity that the site owners either do not care or can't address the problem.
Very nicely written. Funny and interesting. I liked the mention of the slightly less scrupulous side of Thoreau too - he also mentions dining with friends quite a lot; his financial figures don't add up; and his attitude toward the poor was not as enlightened as one would expect from an intelligent, educated, clever man.
Do you find that your creativity is stifled, or that your personality is very subdued because of the meds? Do you take weekends off the meds to be yourself? Or maybe one or two workdays off for creative stuff, and three days on for "nose to the grindstone" type work?

I haven't been medicated for years, but I'm struggling and thinking about looking into it again. I remember feeling like on meds I was an alternate personality - a different version of myself that I never felt comfortable as.

I keep thinking some of the advantages of ADD will give me an edge if I can just buckle down and get some real work done, but this has been going on for a while with far too little progress.
I once implemented a registration page that asked for year of high-school graduation (it was relevant to the site, and wasn't mandatory). After a couple of days, someone noticed that there were a bunch of registrations with something other than a year in that field (usually the name again), and I was told to check out if the form was messing up. It turned out that my form worked, but those were all spam-bots. It turned out to be a fairly effective way to filter for spammers.
Gradients rendering is a bit fuzzy
And has cheek to say:

"Cross-platform, cross-browser Works just about everywhere (except Internet Explorer, sorry about that) (Need IE support? Email for a price quote :-))"

Meh.
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You seem to be very interested in the notion of fault, and the assumption that blame must be assigned to someone. Sometimes someone is indeed at fault and sometimes not; in the former cases, sometimes arguing about who is a useful thing to do and sometimes it's not. "Not a good cultural fit" really means "this isn't working out, but let's not waste resources arguing about whose fault it is, when we could both be spending our time looking for better matches instead".
Useful service. Looks more simple than it is. :)
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Paul's Oven Cleaning Melbourne is a professional company. The latest service they offer is the kitchen cleaning. It's a comprehensive service, which is executed only by professional cleaners with years of experience in the field.
Lol, I wish you had looked at my comment history before you had said that. ( I too have been outed as a JUDEENRAT).

Personally I think he was attempting to be impartial though towards the end it became apparent that he was more pro-BDS than peace (now you know how I feel about this).
Author here, feel free to respond with questions/comments.

Also, thanks to jamessan/rjeczalik for submitting PR's for Perl/Go. If there's another stack trace style you want support for, please open an issue including a sample stack trace. Assuming the file/line number are on the same line and can be extracted via a regex, it's really easy to add support for another style, so feel free to submit a PR yourself if you'd like.
A case to counter your argument: Magic: the gathering online. Many people are paying hundreds of dollars per year for what's essentially bits and a purely digital experience. That experience is just worth that much to them though.

The moral here would be: make something as good, market it accordingly, and see the money rolling in.
I think "ever" is an exaggeration. The ships from Elite aren't there for one.
The contents of e-mail hosted by third parties will always be subject to legal demand.

Even if Mr Levinson wins his action against NSLs, that will remain true. Non-NSL warrants conform to the Constitutional protections and will continue to be served and fulfilled.
Some kind of cloud sync would definitely be useful. On the other hand, there's something to be said for pure client-side. Note that the site is still up despite making the front page of HN. :-)
How I Develop - A Stream of Consciousness
I started teaching myself in the early 80s on an Atari 400 with Atari BASIC. At elementary school, I got some coaching from the librarian in Apple Logo. By sixth grade, I had participated in a few school district programming contests.

In junior high, I got involved in modeming and wrote a BBS for my Atari 130XE in Turbo Basic XL. When I got an Atari ST, I released my first public domain program, a VT52 "animation" editor, compiled from GFA Basic.

Afraid of the social stigma of being too involved with computers, I gave up programming for the rest of my teens, only picking it up again in my last years at college, when my curiosity about the expanding Internet led me to explore MUSHes, MOOs and HTML.

I found a job building static intranet pages from technical documentation and learned the basics of JavaScript, although at the time, it wasn't useful for much beyond client-side form validation.

Then I got a customer service job at a rising e-commerce site and began hitting the books in earnest, learning UNIX shell programming, regular expressions, Perl and SQL. I started writing command-line tools and CGI scripts and moved over from customer technical support to working on the customer service toolkit.

I hit a kind of plateau, though I didn't realize it at the time. Though I continued to crank out scripts, my efforts to become effective in compiled languages such as C and Java stalled repeatedly.

Eventually, largely through exposure to the work of experienced developers, I began to understand principles of computer science as well as practices of large-scale software design. As I became comfortable with a greater degree of abstraction, I branched out from reading books on specific programming languages to reading up on broadly applicable concepts and practices. I've been working in software for over 15 years, and I continue to read avidly.
Wait, so what exactly is the British government style of killing people?

If you assume the British government chooses to murder people, it also perfectly reasonable to assume that it does it using someone else style to cover its crime e.g. russian mafia style.
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> Also, usually HW RNGs include a firmware module that is constantly monitoring the entropy output and shutting off the generator in case of it sinking below a certain threshold to detect hardware failure and prevent it from causing predictable output.

This sentence reminded me of the recent revelation of some smartcards:

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/09/fatal-crypto-flaw-in...

Afaik the failure was exactly that there was insufficient HW failure detection.

edit:

> Even worse, the firmware includes a line of code that ensures that the "RNG" never outputs the same "random" number twice in a row.

Also this reminds me of another anecdote. In math/stats class teacher told us of a experiment where two people were to write a 100 digit random sequence of 0s and 1s on a paper. One person was to use a coin flip, an the other was to just make the bits up. Then the person administering the experiment would take the sequences and guess which one was true random (coin flipped) and which one was human-generated. The trick being that humans tend to avoid repetition, and the one with (iirc) 6 consecutive 0s or 1s was most likely true random.
A company and device that sells 6.8m handsets is dead?!

Rough number: (sell 6.8M handsets per quarter) / (expected $1B loss this quarter) = they're losing $147 on every handset.

They'll have to raise the price on the device (every device sold) some 33% just to break even. And that's assuming sales don't plummet as a result of a significant price increase.

"I'm dead, I just haven't stopped moving yet." - Zaphod
Apple bumps Coca-Cola to become world's top brand
Classic Opera feature.

Select text, context menu, "Copy to Note".
What happens when your graphics library and your network library pick the same letter?
Here's a potential solution to this mess. We treat app store placement like it's a free resource right now since it doesn't take up any physical space. However, it does increase its users cognitive load. All apps that have ever been produced sit on the app store unless their creators explicitly choose to take them down. That's like a department store that houses every invention ever made no matter how antiquated or outdated. Apple could introduce a "property tax". If you want to take up shelf space, you've got to pay a yearly tax or make way for other apps that will more productively use that space.
This is the OP of thread 6455391.

The ranking history you linked to is not accurate because I watched the thread dropped from #8 to nowhere-to-find in a few minutes. The thread stayed on the first page for about 8 hours: as I remembered I submitted the thread around 12am CST, it got to the first page around 2am CST, and stayed there until 10am CST, then it just magically disappeared.

Also, my HN account "wenxun" seemed to be soft-banned: I can log in and can post new thread, but my new thread won't show up on the "new" page, meaning nobody can see it or reply.
Allow me to explain (my) hate.

I saw this while browsing from my phone at a coffee shop and thought to myself, "hey, bookmarks are a pain in the ass, let's have a look"

The product could be awesome, but it took so long to get to the point that I gave up, and when I did, my history was completely full of worthless slides that it was easier to close the tab than go back.

This presentation is a great example of bad design. It wastes the readers time by failing to convey useful information quickly. I am forced to sit through a seemingly endless stream of totally worthless transitions and effects.

A presentation like this reflects very badly on the product it represents. It assumes that it is more important than me, the person on the other end of the keyboard.
What is British style ? Hiding body in teabag ?
I think he wanted to leak and as MI6 don't let leaks he had to be eliminated.
Well, I highly doubt anyone would commit suicide by getting inside a bag.
> Do you find that your creativity is stifled, or that your personality is very subdued because of the meds?

Not at all. I am still me.

> Do you take weekends off the meds to be yourself?

No. I can be myself and still take the medication.

> I remember feeling like on meds I was an alternate personality - a different version of myself that I never felt comfortable as.

There are different types of medications. The only side effects I've experienced is less of an appetite and my mouth feels more dry than usual. I drink more water as a result. If the medication changes you, there are other kinds you can try. As I mentioned, I take medication that is not addictive (adderall is addictive, for example, and must be carefully monitored).

> if I can just buckle down and get some real work done

I remember that feeling before I knew what I had. I remember the drives into work, feeling excited about what I had waiting for me, and thinking over the problems. But when it came time to actually do it, I'd get easily distracted, and by the end of the day, have nothing to show for it.
Seconded.

It reminds me of a quote from Muhammad Ali:

“I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'.”

Now I'm not going to say that every athlete or musician is like that, which is part of the point; reality generally defies generalizations, but I will say that discounting the work professional athletes put in is a bit narrow minded, regardless of any perceived pay-hardwork or pay-joy ratio.
So yeah, props on managing to hijack a comment regarding unemployed, uneducated young males to tell the world how awesome and highly intelligent you are to be gainfully employed/entrepreneurial without a degree.

Self-absorption level: God mode.
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Inside Pfizer's Fight Against Counterfeit Drugs
The RDRAND instruction on the Intel chips has been a source of much uproar recently. (Concerns that it has been back-doored by the NSA, etc.)
He didn't say you should not get a college degree, he said you can get a (legitimate) degree in less time and for much, much less money if you study by yourself and only go to an actual brick-and-mortar college to take the final tests.
But then again if there is enemy A and enemy B, and you are enemy A with half a brain, you probably do your very best to let all the signs point at enemy B.
As long as the physical location of your microphone is secure...
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> I am going to go stoic on this and say that if you are successful despite ADHD, then that's you and you just need to accept it.

I do. It's just easier said than done.
>> "creating an app is not that hard"

How is this true at all? It depends on the programmer, what they are building and the tools they are using to build it. Apps are no different to building desktop or web software. In fact the constraints arguably make it more difficult.
Wait. You just typed long long. You're not allowed to do that.
Will you stay in bed for 70 days and get paid $18,000 by NASA?
Not sure how fit most of us are out there -- but for the fortunate ones, this looks like a great program.
Linters are normally used as style checkers, rather than as tools that enforce rules. So it's more useful to think of it is a "Hey, did you mean to do this? Would it be better another way?" check rather than as a sexism detector.

For instance, a sentence like "We're looking for guys and girls to join our development team" would get flagged by joblint. And that might give you pause, and realise that "We're looking for people to join our development team" is a perfectly good alternative to use instead.