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I agree. Some of the best poetry I've ever read has been about hardship. I think I would rather read a poem that was scrawled on the back of an unpaid utility bill than the musings of a comfortable millionaire.
I use highrise and for me, the email history is really the killer feature. Does anyone else know any other CRM systems that are so email centric?
Wow. A friend of mine had an Ilizarov frame for some 5 years at least (born with a shorter leg on one side, they were aiming for 4 inches I think) starting at age 10 or 11, and after seeing what an absolute mission that was for him, I'm staggered at the idea that someone would undergo that procedure for cosmetic reasons. It's seriously non-trivial surgery: installation was 13 hours, and he became far more familiar with various painkillers than any kid that age deserves to.
I really wish they had any information about the technical details behind this. Do they mirror your email on their exchange server or something?
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It doesn't have to be about distrusting a person as much as distrusting that the person is security aware. E.g., most non-technical people I know have no problem with logging into their Gmail from internet cafes. You may be 100% that your wife would never screw intentionally you over and yet not so eager to share your passwords with her for that reason. Sure, you can teach her not to login from random computers, and then the difference between http:// and https:// and what it means when the browser says that the certificate cannot be verified, but it can turn out to be a quite large project.
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One thing that I think 37s is great about (and I don't know this as a fact, but from the outside it seems this way) is that they definitely trust the people they hire to work for them. I'm not sure that many places would hire someone, and then as them to re-design their account screen in their main application in the first week. And trust them to do a good job!
The supply may match demand if the supply of doctors weren't limited by the AMA. And I wasn't speaking only of Russia, I was speaking in general and especially about the U.S.

I'm not arguing that we should stop the practice, just offering some legitimate reasons to limit this kind of practice.

It is true though, that if more doctors are performing non-health related procedures, there are fewer doctors to do health related issues.

The question is: How much should doctors be doing to make people better than normal, or intentionally abnormal versus doing things to make people not abnormal?

Plastic surgeons are already limited in what they can do. This article for instance: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2002/mar/11/health.lifeand... which talks about wings, horns, tails and the like, "If the medical-ethics board allowed it..."
How competitive is your market? Would your product rank in the,say, top 3? If we know the answers then, I believe, we can have a better discussion.
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I like the cancellation policy idea. Give the best options for both you and your customers. Just make it a push button cancellation.
Stable governments ruling over free societies are a relatively new invention. How long do you think it will be until you are at odds with your government? This seems like his main concern. For others, corporate espionage should be a significant concern.

(To the compilers of various watch lists: Peaceful odds. Peaceful.)
I see Mr. Dreamer in myself for sure. I have a billion ideas for what I'm going to do Some Day (TM) when I've got money to burn. However, I use it as a long-term goal to keep me going when the going gets tough, rather than letting it get in the way. Usually.
It's a funny idea. Take the lowest common denominator linkbait formula, the "top 10 list", and combine it with "startup advice". Bam, instant front page.

Quick, someone do a "Which founder are you" quiz.
Seriously. Jesus christ, write your private key file to a USB flash drive and give it to the lawyer/firm in charge of executing your will. Done. Oh, and he really knows nothing about cryptography if he thinks "splitting up the key" is a cryptographically secure way to encrypt your data. Having even part of a private key can hurt.
An open source self-hosted implementation of this would be terrific :) I too would not trust this service, it seems pretty fly-by-night.
Better yet, don't require "changing everything". Write a program that takes a password, and upon validation sends you an email. If you don't reply within a certain period of time (say, a week), then it will send your info to whoever you want to leave it to.

And make sure you can change the waiting period, in case you go on vacation or something.
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That's the first thing that I realized while reading this... these aren't necessarily people that you don't want in your startup, but rather characteristics you and others on your team want to suppress within. I think everyone can agree that most people have a little bit of all these Mr so-and-so's in them.
Indeed. I go to Northwestern University, but I know for a fact that our first lab in Intro to Computer Systems is the same as the one at Carnegie Mellon. Basically, you're given a C file and you have to implement about 20 instructions using only specific bitwise operations and only a certain number of them. The fun part is that the number of instructions you used is posted on a website, along with the "professor's" result so you can compete against other people in the class to do it in the quickest possible fashion, but also against the professor's score.

Basically, if you can't figure these out for yourself, I'm not sure you're a very good programmer.
This article lays out in better words than I could some of the reasons I'm not a big believer in the "real time" buzzword-du-jour.

Just a sampling of some of the reasons "real time" is not useful to me in its current form:

1- Too much data, no good way to parse through it. "Immersing" myself into "the stream" is only useful for entertainment, when that's what I'm looking for. Otherwise, what assurance do I have that I haven't missed a critical piece of information?

Example: It would be great to be able to know of all of my close friend's major life changes on Facebook, but this information flies by so quickly among all of the banalities I'm lucky to catch it. Spending my day monitoring the "stream" is not something I have time for.

2- Related to the above, primitive filters. Even with all of this data (such as who all of my friends are), existing systems are remarkably bad at showing me what's important to me.

The first thing that came to mind when the article mentioned "topic communities" was Hacker News, and how absolutely valuable it is as a filter, and how nothing else out there even comes close to matching the quality of filtering going on here.

3- As pointed out in the article, spam is just as much of a problem for "real time search" as it has traditionally been for blog search, which turned out to be plagued by spamming/gaming, and useful for certain situations, but not as useful as vanilla Google web search.

Those, among the other points raised in the article. Maybe it's because of my specific time constraints, but I tend to find little value in an unstructured "stream" format that flows by and then is locked up in some 3rd party's grips.
I have to disagree with the original article. They are not that funny. More like a "meh" kind of thing.
Look up C99 and stdint.h. You will be pleasantly surprised.
Hehe.. This is less because due to a stupid tech support dude, I lost about 100+ of the open tabs
Thanks, How then could you make math as lucid as possible to understand.

"Learning to read and visualize an equation is possible" - any tips on how?

sorry for the late reply - i wake up to the chinese sun.
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(With apologies to "how to determine the height of a building using a barometer"...)
Too bad you didn't have the stones to stand by your original claim. Most unit testing is a waste of time. A crazy orthodoxy has arisen around it: never question the value of massive unit testing, just do it! Test-driven development is cumbersome and frequently useless. If you're really doing trapeze acrobatics you need to work with a net, but most of us are just walking down the street, in which case rigging up a bunch of elaborate safety netting is just overkill.

Commence downmodding in 3, 2, 1...
"because... they're lazy... they steal... they're incompetent"

What about being trapped in a political system and/or culture that makes it impossible to live the life they imagine?

Every one of her novels touches (EDIT: focuses) on this. Anthem, We The Living, and Atlas Shrugged dealt more with the political, exhibiting characters who were unable to achieve their potential because of the political systems they had to endure. In The Fountainhead Roark spent decades suffering professionally and personally for living in a culture that values subjugation of the self to the interests of the crowd.

Also, Rand never promised that in her ideal society every individual would necessarily achieve whatever life they might imagine. Consistent with America's Declaration of Independence, it was the right to pursue happiness that she argued for.
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Ask HN:How can a non-technical guy find/screen mobile/tech talent
I know this is a variant on a theme but hoping you can suggest ways to screen technical talent. I am confident we can identify the fire in the belly, the passion and the raw curiosity that are important measures of success. I am less sure of our ability to discern true hacker talent for our start up. We are a modestly funded group of folks launching a db driven mobile app. We are ideally looking for someone locally, in the Puget Sound area and have found some great resumes but have not been able to find the right mix of passion and comfort with the other founders that this person can deliver the goods. Any suggestions (private responses welcome via the email in my profile as well).
You have to be careful about crab cakes. There are very few places in the United States where the crab is actually "fresh." Most of the blue crab in the US (which is usually in crab cakes, but not always) is caught in or near the Chesapeake Bay. As a native Marylander, my advice to most people is to usually stay away from the crab unless you're in the MD/VA area as it's probably not fresh. That said, if you've never been to a proper MD crab feast, you may not tell the difference. ;)
Doctorow is a professional writer. Is it too much to expect he write what he actually means?
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I agree that they are "meh" except for the last one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-9Mjm-Hohc

I would never have expected Microsoft to be the first browser vendor to admit that private browsing modes are for porn.
I suspect this feeling comes from the shoddy design. Throw a few rounded corners at in, and some glossy buttons, and people will be all "oohh Web 2.0".
I love reading this:

"Mr. CEO feels compelled to tell everyone that he is a CEO within 30 seconds of meeting him--even if his company is worth less than the paper on which his business card is printed."

And then the author's byline:

"Scott D. Gerber is Entrepreneur.com's Young Entrepreneur columnist and CEO of Gerber Entertainment, a brand development and venture management company that specializes in the entertainment, Internet, media and marketing industries."
Has it been entirely proven that the iPhone only checks IMAP accounts on a 15 minute interval? I've never stop watched it but I feel like it's much shorter. I've seem some speculation that it depends on wifi vs. 3G connectivity. It seems to me that messages show up in my desktop client (IMAP-IDLE aware) only a few minutes before they hit my iPhone. My gut feeling is the iPhone is probably 3 or 4 minutes behind my desktop client (IMAP-IDLE aware) Has anyone been able to confirm or deny the 15 minute interval or is it just my imagination and poor sense of time?

(I do have a separate MobileMe e-mail account account as well. Perhaps it changes the IMAP intervals system wide?)
Ask HN: Why Python over Ruby?
I would like to understand why Python is so much more popular than Ruby. Much of the software I've seen supports Python for scripting (e.g. Miro, OpenMoko, XBMC/Boxee), and people don't seem to care so much for Ruby. At the same time, people agree that Ruby is great for writing DSLs.

I don't want a flame war or religious arguments. I would like to understand what made Python win in this space. Thanks so much for commenting!
A little more info in the mailing list status update:
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Nice, that tech is getting close to render steadicams obsolete.
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There really aren't that many ways to say "I heard Jeff goldblum just died???". You could probably make a list of like 100 different ways and get good accuracy. In fact, question marks alone are a good indication the person didn't do any private verification.
I'm envisioning a 22nd century Geraldo moment..."now, using this self-aware quantum computer we can finally, after many years, see inside the encrypted hard disks of Cory Doctorow, a mystery ever since a meteor fell on his lawyer's office during the reading of the will and destroyed the keys to his encrypted data!

We're loading the files...it's a huge PDF! That was a popular 21st century file format, folks...let's read...hmmm....well, obviously this isn't as exciting as we had been led to believe...er...well, back to the studio!"
So, going through this guy's list pretty much eliminates everyone I know. What does that leave me with? Him?
"It is true though, that if more doctors are performing non-health related procedures, there are fewer doctors to do health related issues."

No, that's only true instantaneously. It's not true across a time span where the number of doctors can adjust to market conditions.
Is there a jailbreak way to modify the settings so it checks it faster than every 15 minutes?
I have to ask for a data source on that 10%. thanks.
You don't necessarily up/down people on HN because you agree or disagree with them. It's about contributing to discussion.
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Dyson seems to have a talent for engineering the (retrospectively) obvious. Every time I see the advert for that vacuum cleaner with the ball instead of wheels I feel like a complete idiot. His mild, avuncular gaze gently reproaches me for not solving the problem when I had so much free time available.
I'm always amazed by this stuff, but I wish more of it turned into available implementations...
"Where, in the first chapter, did your "lack of basics" manifest?" - in the towers of hanoi, there are several scattered equations(though Knuth starts with basics) with mathematical "syntax" that makes me impatient.
What makes me 'hallucinated' is that even after I read the clear explanations of Knuth, I can't relate to the math equation just below the para.
This service/app will fall apart as soon as Apple adds this feature.
Wine tasting?

In keeping with the Dude theme, I would suggest Belgian beer tasting instead. There are trappists, lambic, framboise, witbier, or my favorite, all of the above.
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This will still keep the professional conspiracy theorists in pizza and beer for at least a year. I suspect the documentary will play up the secrecy angle at the expense of the science :-/
It eliminates "pretty much" everyone I know, too. But not everyone... and that might just be the reality of the situation.
Not everyday that you get to see the last 2 years of internal works of the minds of 3 commiters on a major open source web framework. There's some crazy and amazing code in there. Going to take a good while to extract all of the awesome out, but it is bound to be one of the bigger contributions to open source in quite some time.
Agree, I would only go so far as reminding them 10 days before the trial ends, At any time during the free trial they should be able to upgrade to subscription, but still get the rest of their free trial. Anything beyond that is nagware at the least and a potential headache concern at the worst which won't win many converts.

Whenever I bump into the financial info hostage model it reminds me of the BS "free 30 day" credit monitoring services or hardship insurance plans the credit card companies always try to trick you into when you activate a credit card. You don't want to be associated with that model. Because the next mental association from there is rape. No, means NO.
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Ask HN: Do You Worry about Patent Infringement when Deciding on Startup Idea?
Given the 'obviousness' (not in the legal sense) of many business process patents relating to the web, it seems that a new web startup would find that it stands a not insignificant chance at infringing on some intellectual property.

Has anyone done a patent search prior to developing a web startup? What did it cost?
One major problem with Ruby has been that the performance as been much slower than Python. This is no longer true with Ruby 1.9. I happen to have done a benchmark using a recursive Fibonacci algorithm yesterday, results: http://pastie.org/528717 source: http://pastie.org/528720

I wouldn't say Ruby has lost just yet.
What you're arguing for is management. So you contradict yourself. You do need some careful managerial oversight because managers have to figure out what sorts of people they need to accomplish a task.
I doubt it will for professionals, at least in lots of shots, the distortions would be considered fairly unacceptable in most movies. Those shots are dominated by static nicely edged structures, with the dynamic parts making up only a small part of the frame.

Still going to be a great tool and looks like a small enough iteration on current stabilisation that it will actually be implemented.
The ternary operators conflict with that. ?:
Yeah, I'd love to be able to add real push notifications to postfix.
One is not better than the other, and neither have "won".
As frustrating and annoying as Photoshop is, GIMP is massively worse usabilty-wise across the board

I can't agree with you on this one. I think you're guilty of believing intuitive means "what I'm used to". We all are to one degree or another, which is why I made a point of mentioning my many years of using GIMP vs. being a beginner with Photoshop. Nonetheless, the learning curve in Photoshop is very steep; I believe steeper and longer than GIMP. Yes, it's definitely a more powerful tool, which is why I bought CS4 recently despite being comfortable with GIMP/Inkscape and able to product most things I've ever needed to produce with just a few minutes of effort (except ai and psd files). But, nonetheless, even just doing basic image editing tasks, Photoshop is pretty hard to use.

I think the only real conclusion we can come to is that complex software is hard to use for beginners.
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I recommend using a lot of references, and looking for specific examples of projects the person has worked on. Find out exactly what they did for a project, and make sure they can speak about it well. If they aren't able to point to specifics look for another candidate.
Well, our product isn't launched yet. I like to think we'll be in the top 3 but it will take some time.
I haven't really looked at Ruby that hard, but from my perspective as a reformed Perl user I found Python's syntax to be very clean and well organized. On the surface ruby looks more Perl-like to me, more clutter, not as easy to read as Python.

Having found Python, I really don't feel a pressing need to learn another scripting language. Instead I'm working on Objective C.
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Speaking purely for myself, the only reason I switched from Perl to Python is I had a great deal of difficulty understanding the perl code (because I'm a poor perl scripter) I wrote after a day or so. That, and the language construct HashOfArrays and ArrayOfHashes is exceedingly difficult to do in perl without referencing a manual. The only (Edit: Alternative scripting) language really out there with mindshare in 2001 was Python. I was able to read my python code. I never had to look at a manual to implement complex data structures. As a bonus, I can type "help(command) or dir(command) within the python CLI. I've never really had the need to switch to another environment. Ruby might actually be 10x better and faster for my typical tasks than python for all I know.
Mark Cuban's argument about the economics of Free is much better than Anderson's original thesis or Gladwell's retort, which both rely heavily on convenient anecdotes and clever phrasing. I guess that's the difference between a successful businessman and pop-economics writers who sell ideas to the masses.
I don't think performance is holding ruby back I think that libraries especially mature and massive libraries, or lack thereof, is holding ruby back. Not to say people aren't working on it give ruby some time it will probably catch up especially with rails but just not right away.
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Nobody here finds it the least bit disturbing that these guys got a $7.7 million pay day for helping steal copyrighted works?

At a minimum, they've taken $7.7 million out of the pockets of programmers and artists.

These guys aren't heroes. They're selfish whores who discovered the secret to turning downloaders into their willing lemmings.
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yes, i remember doing this on the 1st gen iphone. just modify the plist for the mail settings and change the 15 to 5 or something else. i remember there being a plutil binary in cydia to be able to do this while ssh'd into the iphone.