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Shouldn't be such a surprise to anyone. Nokia has always done well in Europe. It's a trusted, recognized brand, with lots of credibility, and they had actually just started to deliver again (Lumia 1020 & amazing lower end phones). The road-map for windows phone looks good too.

I will admit--I have owned Windows Phones (now a 1020) only because of Nokia, and I am content with them. Sure the 1020 doesn't have all the bells and whistles from a software perspective, but the hardware is amazing and WP8 has been out for only a year. Really interesting to see how things will go with the Microsoft buy-out in the next 1-2 years. Some key people leaving, etc.

PS. I have grown up with the legend of the "indestructible Nokia" that cannot be killed. Let's see if Microsoft can do it.
Love your attitude. If you can position yourself as the best alternative to Google's product it's not a bad place to be - they may expand the market. Good luck.
So think of it as gallows humour, then.
Because the Tea Party leaders are being budget terrorists? How is taking Grover Norquist's pledge mean you are able to compromise?
The red ink is from the military industrial complex and extreme over promises made to the entitlement systems (used to buy votes for decades and decades). The bills are coming due, and it has been obvious for decades that America could never afford to pay them.

And worse, this is all happening without the true cost of the US debt being taken into account. We're temporarily getting a free stimulus from hyper cheap interest rates on about $12 trillion of debt. That debt at a mere 5% to 6%, wipes out Social Security or the entire military.

Social chaos begins where the violation of the so called social contracts begin. That time isn't far into the future now. The American people are just as responsible for this mess as the politicians, if not more so. That middle class voted this mess into being over the course of many decades, either directly or by negligence and willful ignorance. If the American people aren't careful, they're going to get exactly what they deserve.
I keep wondering if the campers have to leave but the rangers aren't working, then how do they force them to leave?
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> Excessive taxes are something you can argue about

* I mainly took objection with the implication of your use of the phrase "you can argue about". To me, that phrase either implies that you're saying that I'm not allowed to argue some alternative position, or that somehow my position is the logical equivalent of 1 + 1 = blue.

* I don't have a problem if you disagree with my political viewpoint. In fact, I welcome interesting objections because I usually learn more about peoples' motivations and that helps open up my mind and sharpens my own positions.

* I don't fear a debate about the ethics of taxation and would gladly engage in one with you if you wanted, but I think that would be a further derail from this thread. My main point in posting my original statement was to point out how inaccurate the media is in calling this a shut down when many of the biggest parts of the underlying system keep on trucking.
Source? I worked for Netflix for two years and loved it. I left to explore working for smaller organizations. Most of the best engineers that I worked with are still there. The great engineers I know that have left, left on their own because the recent stock performance has enabled them to explore other opportunities. Netflix has the best engineering culture that I have experienced.
I thought the functions like MediCare and veteran's support program etc were still in effect because the yare paid out in advance. So doesn't that cover food assistance?
I'm looking to cook up a PoC on SVG rendering on Mobile devices. Any insights and/or information on the issues that you've faced would be super helpful
I stand corrected. I've updated my post to note more common federal positions.
Quite puzzling why they still haven't brought that app to Android.
I don't think tumultco would see ROI porting to Windows or Linux. Quite apart from the actual development effort, managing two or more codebases, dealing with Windows fragmentation and piracy... ugh.

Yes, you'd drastically expand your potential client base – but end up with worse revenue and higher support costs per customer.
You may want to try a different approach for domain hunting.
The Westminster conventions your Constitution derived from are younger than the US Constitution (and your Constitution is about half the age of ours), and your Constitution was not written by a generation that had just fought a war to free itself from a monarchy. The Presidency was deliberately neutered, and the concept of blocking supply as a tool to thwart already-passed laws was not well-established.
You're the one with a sense of entitlement. If you want to go down that road, you should only put your sites in pay per view locked-down kiosks, or something similar that enforces your perspective.
yep. another person that's completely bought into the media narrative of they're not playing nice, therefore it must be bad. I happen to think the popular narrative that this will end in financial disaster to be wrong. I think previous government shutdowns clearly show this narrative to be untrue. your certainty that I'm ignorant or that this is a certain disaster shows precisely how you don't get my point.
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You're incorrect.

The Fed made emergency loans totaling trillions to banks throughout Europe (including Germany). It took down the economies of Spain, Portugal, Britain, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, France, Greece and others. It forced China to implement trillions in unnatural and extreme stimulus, that has unbalanced their economy. It crashed the commodity markets, destabilizing all sorts of poor countries (and so did the prior Fed driven inflation of commodities, helping to cause food based chaos in the third world).

Just take a look at the stimulus measures, interest rate policies, and growth rate of Britain since the crisis. Ditto France and Italy on growth and EU stimulus (two of the largest world economies obviously) - both are just a small slip away from a Greece style disaster on their debt, with zero growth to help it out and a rather stern (rightfully or wrongfully) Germany unwilling to be as loose as the Fed.
One thing I never understood about that movie -- If they have this deck of 'golden leads', why not use them right away?
yeah iPhone 4's have a line on top, while 4S's don't. Easy to see when someone is holding it in their hand.
Very awesome visualization work! Though it shows bars in the middle of nowhere (see France, UK...China too maybe), probably users that haven't mentioned any city.
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It is worth remembering that the framers of the Australian Constitution were informed by, among other things, the United States' century of experience with their Constitution. They had a chance to fix some of the bugs.
> It is an absolute disgrace that we are plunging this country deeper and deeper into debt.

You mean since Bush slashed taxes to create massive debt?
So I (and "we" in my posts upstream) are not the original posts JS hardware team.

(FWIW, on _our_ hardware, flipping the "dev mode" switch to "on", ssh-ing into your xmas tree lights, uncommenting the ARCH/ARM repos in mirrorlist, and running "pacman -S lua" should just work. The API for our compositor (which abstracts the fine timing details of controlling the WS2812 LEDs) is available and documented both on our dev site and on github (or if it's not today, it is scheduled to be up there by next week I think).
What, in your view, makes its engineering culture good?
Also NOAA: http://governmentshutdown.noaa.gov/
there are more rockstar web developers influencing VCs than any other kind.

ftfy.
In fact the "classic" no-confidence motion was a motion to amend the budget by an amount of 1 pound / 1 dollar.
"Maybe we can learn something from this experience."

squints

Have you been going back and editing/reediting your comments?

It may account for (some of but not all) of the things I missed from you.
I don't think it's Alice Springs. It's probably all users that wrote "Australia" as location + Alice Springs is actually a little northern that this bar.
Www.usa.gov is down?
There's nothing "hyperbolic" about it. The party that's in power during redistricting always does this. It so happens that this time around it was the Republicans, and they've set up the districts so that they feel safe in pursuing an unpopular agenda.

The actual hyperbolic conspiracy-theory angle on redistricting is that the long-term plan, funded by the Kochs and others, was to ensure that only the most extreme Republicans are safe, and that moderate Republicans will be in danger of primary challenges from extremists.
We've heard all their professed arguments every time the minimum wage has gone up, or emissions standards have been tightened, or safety regulations have been increased. Same talking points every time the government does anything, always wrong. It's not even a smokescreen, it's transparent reflex.

Meanwhile, Wal-Mart bumps 35,000 to full-time, and another 35,000 temps to permanent part-time. This besides the 55k seasonal they're about to add. So much negative effect on hiring!
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The firefighters in the Tennessee case you cited were city firefighters. There were no private firefighters or private firefighting companies involved.
Applied on a whim and got in. But being a student, the cost of travel from Atlanta is making me think twice.
You're ignoring opportunity costs, even in your meatworld analogy. There's real dangers to staying at home all the time, from social isolation to diseases of inactivity. Similarly, without using the web and visiting new sites, you're missing out on a lot of opportunity to communicate, learn, and yes, buy things. It may well be a lot less safe to avoid those things in the longer term.

Personally I block ads because I value my attention higher than advertisers value it. There is always an adversarial function built into ads; the advertising wants your attention, if nothing else, while I am interested in maintaining my focus. For similar reasons, I disable auto-suggest in Google search, animated gifs in the browser, and I use flashblock in all browsers that support it.

Anything continuously animated on the page whatsoever - no matter whether it's an ad, a subscription div popup, a "read next article" popup link, or a sharing toolbar - I block them all with element hiding helpers.

Because the greatest risk to me in browsing a random site is getting distracted and sucked down some rabbit hole. I use all the tools at my disposal to eliminate visual distraction.
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So here's the deal. I'm creating a web scraping tool which can be used to scrape whatever domain you point it.

It's goal is to be able to do an unsupervized web scraping of any website. Regardless of the website layout which differ domain to domain, it is able to survive page layout changes and does not need a proxy list as it constantly refreshes IP addresses.

It's also a web based URL api so for example one could potentially do this in the terminal or anywhere you can do a GET request (probably will be a POST with authentication token in the future).

wget http://scrape.it/scrape/seedydvdstore.com/"grab title, price, ratings, comments" alldvds.csv would result in alldvds.csv file on your file system containing those said column fields with thousands of rows obtained from seedydvdstore.com with navigating pagination links.

What do you guys think? Is this something you would sign up for?

I'm just trying to get the word out there early in the game so I can stay motivated and focus in the coming weeks to release a beta.

Thank you, and to email subscribers I will post some screenshots in the coming weeks, and videos demonstrating how it works.

Cheers,

umphetico.
Try this refresher on Risk and Uncertainty

http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2010/06/ris...
Windows Phone are actually very good if you want 'no apps, just phone'.
Not sure what sort of crack everyone else is smoking, but I generally base my decisions on how painless it is to develop for a new platform rather than one I already know. Other than that, if I don't know the language, but the environment really kicks ass, I'm going to learn the damn language.

Unless I'm really rushed and have 2 days to do a vast amount of work.
Heck, I've got a fairly decent graphics card in this not-so-cheap laptop (that's what I hear anyways; it's an Nvidia Quadro K2000m in a Thinkpad W530) and it has problems. Apparently that's due to the Optimus "stuff", though. Fortunately, like you, 95% of my time is spent using Firefox, a terminal, SSH, and mutt, so I don't need the higher graphics capabilities.

(Although occasionally it might be nice to watch a movie at higher quality on a long flight, though.)
those boards sound like all the bad parts of a beaglebone.

js only.

no linux access.

obligatory wifi battery sink.

...its fine to blink a led or do something "dumb" as a thermostat. try to do signal processing in js and i will be slightly more impressed.
Most VCs delegate diligence to 22 year olds that don't really try the site or startup of the startup they invest in.

This should not be surprising.

VCs deliver risk-adjusted returns way below the S&P 500Most

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2013/02/venture-capital-returns.html

http://www.kauffman.org/newsroom/institutional-limited-partn...

And VC's subtract value from the startups they invest in.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/11/vinod-khosla/
The part I was objecting to was the "safe" part. What we've seen over and over now is you never really know how resilient you banking sector is until you hit a real crisis.
Answer number one

Would you waste time while your boss watches you?

Get someone who would sit by you while you work. I convinced a friend to sit by me for 45 minutes everyday while I write a story. The friend does not write a word, I do all the writing and it’s been a about 3 weeks now and the book is about 15k words already.
Use this technique on one task at a time.

Answer Number two

Commitment contracts - get the book carrots and sticks. The most useful part is in the first section. It’s simple. Get a friend, your wife or anyone who you can trust with money. It worked for me in completing and editing a book I've been skipping for months.

I stay at Ghana and i’m a student with a monthly allowance about $100. I had about $100 in savings but used $50 from my savings in betting.

On Monday, I give 5 - $10 notes to a trustworthy friend. I chose the work I have to complete before the next morning. If I do it, she gives me back $10 from the $50. If not, she keeps the $10. It’s simple it’s worked for me.

Got the idea from the book carrots and sticks but from my explanation, you’ve gotten the fire you want. What better thing to light your ass on fire than the prospect of losing your own money?
My best suggestion is Adblock Plus combined with Element Hiding Helper in Firefox. Gives you a menu item that lets you select an element to hide, with a custom CSS selector. If you can find it with jQuery, you can probably hide it with that.
I don't think I've ever read such a poorly founded hit piece.
1) I learned coding in a big way by buying a $1500 Java library with my student loan without knowing Java very well in order to build a software without really knowing where to start. But this forced me to learn damn it, I worked so hard to try and recoup that $1500 and I ended up being shy about 70% of that amount. I open sourced it and well I can't even look at that code anymore!
In a lot of cases it's only functional in the sense that it performs a function. To me functional but ugly implies a certain sort of delusion that while it might look ugly, it is really efficient to interact with, so therefore, it doesn't need to look nice. This is often not the case though. A lot of these developer designed interfaces end up being confusing, hard to navigate, and ugly.
I don't know. I went to Europe for all of June and saw a lot more Windows Phones than I do in the U.S. Particularly in Italy.
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Agreed. Nokia always had a nice reputation in Europe – like Samsung has in S.Korea – and it just wasn't justified at all during the Symbian era. But trust from customers is still there.
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If you don't want apps, why are you paying more than about $30 for your mobile?
Making $$$!
I can't understand this. What is meant by Government Shuts Down? No law and order will be enforced?
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Well this is why I'm not surprised that WP is growing in share. For my friends it seems to be if they want to spend money on a "quality" phone they go for apple, if they want a cheap phone then WP. The only people I know with high-end androids are programmers and SEOs.
http://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/culture-1798664

This deck is an accurate representation of the Netflix culture. The company is big so you will have different experiences in different parts of the company, but I felt like leadership was very serious about encouraging the culture described in that deck.

That deck describes the type of culture that I am productive and happy working in.
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I imagine a Koch brother handing the other a single $1 over a bet they could shutdown the government like in Trading Places.
There's a difference between drinking beer at work and actively advertising that this forms part of your "culture" at work.

The company I contract for has a bar in the office and has had beer in the fridge on Fridays for the last few months. This is not something they put in their job adverts.
Hey David,
I'm the head teacher of a language school in the Czech Republic (US ex-pat) and I'm currently evaluating digital language learning products to bundle with our face to face courses. Yours sounds interesting, shoot me an email (in profile), see if we can work on something like co-branding.

Lee
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Hi,

I wrote the multi-index code and got this release shipped so I guess my opinion might be worth something on it. The answers I read to questions like this normally strike me as very tautological. Things like "you need your team to be well oiled and to have very specific goals". It's not that that's false, it's just that we normally judge a team's well oiledness by how quickly it releases nice things. So I'm going to jump over that, our team is plenty well oiled and getting better all the time but let me tell you how I think we got there.

For us the secret was getting in repetitions. We started by building and releasing one thing we were really proud of, our process for doing it was adhoc and broke down in a million places but we slogged through. Then it came time to build the next version, this time we did some things better and a lot of things we didn't do better. This was our 10th major release by now it feels like we're doing a lot of things better. The most satisfying thing about it is that it's not totally clear to any one of us where all the inefficiencies went the knowledge of how to release quickly isn't stored in any single brain.

One thing I think is an absolutely crucial aspect of this process is making it discreet. During a release cycle I take our release process as absolute. I try as hard as I can not to even think about ways to fix it. Between release cycles I step back and look for ways to tweak the process and ignore 1st order feature development. I'm not sure what it is that makes a discreet process work better, it might just be that it frees up mental bandwidth, but if you find yourself getting bogged down in the process of releasing rather than actually releasing while you're trying to develop the product to release try shutting off half the equation. It's helped me a lot.

Also another way to solve this is to have separate people focus on each aspect. That can be tough at smaller companies because so much communication needs to happen between the 2 but it certainly can work.
Great work. I've thought about doing this before, but good for you for putting in the effort to make it work, instead of just thinking about it like I did.
Even in India startups are not putting any such restrictions. Right after my graduation I joined a startup where we used to play UNO cards, access facebook, hear songs, play guitar etc. But I guess it is just the opposite in software MNCs like TCS, CTS, Infosys etc.
I'm curious why you would want a "build now" button on every page. Isn't it easy to configure Jenkins to build on every post-push webhook from GitHub?
I've found NYC almost as bad. Just being able to afford the rent isn't enough. Here, yearly income 40x rent is standard, and sometimes even that's not enough.

Since I'm doing contract work and don't have a regular salary, one landlord told me outright that even though I had demonstrated I could pay, he wouldn't rent to me because he "wanted a more stable tenant".

It feels terribly insulting to be told that, and makes me long for a humbler city like Chicago or Minneapolis, where if you have money, a landlord will take it without nearly this level of nonsense.

Or Berlin. I looked at apartment prices there and began to feel quite jealous of the Germans :)
The US government is on partial shutdown. So many hundreds of thousands of US government workers will either 1. not be paid to work, or 2. be furloughed (not go in to work). This applies to non-essential workers (found a list here - http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2013/09/politics/government-s... ).

Retroactive pay will apply once things are worked out.
Political scientists have long said that there's not a lot of evidence for a change in macro outcomes due to gerrymandering. In most scenarios, if anything, gerrymandering makes sitting politicians on both sides more safe. It's really hard to actually tip the balance such that one side gets significantly more seats because if you spread your supporters out efficiently (51% your party) and then cluster the other party, you get a bunch of weakly held seats. However, if you want safe seats, you get fewer of them.
The skin is really nice. I'm a real jenkins hater (one of the reasons I started https://circleci.com) and while I think this makes Jenkins look really nice, I also think a superficial change like this doesn't really solve the major usability problems that jenkins has.

There's a huge amount wrong with Jenkins. My major gripe is that the world today has moved very much to "convention over configuration", also known as "usability". But Jenkins is firmly stuck behind. It's not wrong to say that nothing works out of the box, and you have to configure every little thing. CircleCI customers have told me they've literally spent 2 days configuring a jenkins box to even get it working, and are glad to be rid of it.

One example of jenkins' backwardness is a post from the Jenkins lead last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6434194. Actual quote: "The literate plugin adds an Action to all Free-style projects that allows exporting these XML configuration snippets in a .zip file for unpacking into your project's source control."

I don't mean to hate on this, just jenkins. This design is a real improvement, one that Jenkins has been unable to do in the entire 10 years it's been in existence.

[disclaimer: obviously I have a massive massive bias against jenkins, as part of CircleCIs mission is vanquish it and its awful usability]