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That experience doesn't invalidate what he says, in fact its right in line with it. I suggest reading his book to fully understand it. Here is my take on it (which probably doesn't explain things as well as the book does):

Your belief is that the Kinesis keyboard causes you no discomfort, but the Macbook keyboard does. You've conditioned yourself to react this way; and your subconcious mind is fully aware of what is going on and is orchestrating the reactions and exploiting your beliefs so that it can cause distractions. The distractions are to prevent repressed emotions from surfacing. The actual physical reaction is real (oxygen deprivation to the areas), it's not "all in your head", but the root cause is psychological. The mind is in control here.

There may be some physical component to it. It may actually be more strenuous to use the MacBook keyboard than the Kinesis keyboard. Or in my case, slamming my fingers down aggressively on an arcade-style game controller for an hour probably could cause some discomfort. But that doesn't mean it will lead to a long-standing injury or chronic pain. Your subconcious mind will use the knowledge of what you think causes discomfort.

Of course you should see a doctor to rule out things like multiple sclerosis. I had been to many different doctors and tried various alternative therapies as well (such as acupuncture), and tried different ergonomic changes (including the Kinesis contoured keyboard), all which did not help me. So I was in a position where I was open to trying anything that could help me, and this was the only thing that did.
Can we update the heading (to 21%) - as per the article:
"Thanks to the many readers who have pointed out my incorrect wording of the 3GS' performance improvements. The tables in the article have been updated to reflect the correct percentages. I appreciate the corrections"
Freenode sometimes accepts Tor connections. Other times they too are banned due to abuse. Of course you could sign up with their tor-gpg hidden service to get past that block.
We have issues with physics in our local high school. I've decided to apply for the job. If I get it, I'll be scrambling to keep up the biz; but it's a workload I feel I need to accept because we'll lose the kids if I don't.
I think there may be other forums where you can get more feedback. Check the XKCD forums (http://echochamber.me) maybe?

In general, though, your education is essentially irrelevant compared to the fact that you've been building websites. So I'd make the degree one line at the bottom of the resume, and put your portfolio front and center.

scscsc is right - you're getting a design job. Show off your own design skills.
Startups are marathons not sprints.

If you work 24/7 you will burn out and you'll write blog posts like yours.

Get a girlfriend, take up a sport, join a [non computer] club.

Do something that attaches you to reality. Nothing wrong with working lots, but do something else also.
I read about this in Terry Pratchett's "Making Money", but I never realised that it really existed.
IPhone Tethering in One Click With Safari
He made us think.
Seems perfect for a startup: a linux support group that supports all flavors and geared toward the newbie/non-hacker computer users.
You get to choose which details to ignore. Making the wrong choice will of course lead to invalid results.

No model is perfect, but some models are useful.
This is one thing I like about the design of the DataHand - there is no electrical contact to close. The keys have a magnet holding them onto the base, and when you press them you break the magnetic grip and push the key through an optical sensor.

There's no need to slam the keys until you hit a stop just to make sure they make contact. There's also not much chance you can push the key 'a bit' and have it not register, i.e. if you press it hard enough to move the key then they key moves past the sensor, otherwise it doesn't move at all.
Nice improvement but what I really want to know is whether overall responsiveness has also been improved? On all these smartphones there is a constant latency of about 1/4 second between touching the screen and the phone recognizing the action. It's not a dealbreaker but it feels nowhere near instant to use these devices. Instant would be the ipod clickwheel or old nokia phones. Instant is when whatever I drag is always under my finger, not lagging behind.
It thinks I'm in Bradford, about 60 miles from where I really am, on my home O2 broadband connection. At work, it just says "United Kingdom".

The geolocation on FF3.5 put me in a town five miles down the road at home. Very clever, considering my computer has no wi-fi!
"Lector, si monumentum requiris, Circumspice."

One I've always loved, inscribed above the crypt containing the grave of Christopher Wren in St. Paul's Cathedral. Translated as: "Reader, if you seek his memorial, look around you"

Think that would work equally well for Tim O'Reilly, to the point of a nice Latin pun ;)
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Welcome, cmpeters. It's always nice to hear from long time lurkers.

Sounds like it's time for you to kick it into high gear. Tell prospective employers and customers (I wouldn't rule out continuing your business) what you've told us here. Be completely sincere and open. Tell them what you already know (skills, languages) and more importantly, what you've accomplished. Provided links whenever possible. Let your work speak for itself.

Use multiple strategies to make connections. In addition to the usual job boards, start networking if you haven't already done so. Always carry copies of your resume and/or business card/portfolio. Follow up, follow up, follow up. If you don't get a positive response, find out why. It count be a hundred reasons; until you ask, you'll never know. Get additional feedback on your resume from those who you've given it to. Revise and rework as needed. And be prepared to write a one-off resume targeted for a specific job. That may help.

It's a tough market right now. The jobs don't always go to the best candidate. Sometimes they go to those who get out there and take them. Go for it. Good luck and keep us posted.
Conveying insight is "doing". Here's some pointers to some stuff he wrote that wasn't snark-based: http://xach.livejournal.com/221433.html
This is not hacking. This is being a power user. These workarounds are the best you can do when you can't actually fix the system you're running on, and I agree that workarounds are helpful, but I'm hoping we can fix the system soon. :)
Maybe people who prefer fewer choices are much more likely to get cancer. ;)
Unless your resume is simply horrific, it should only really keep you from getting interviews at the large companies with a wall of HR before anyone technical will be aware of you. For most companies, you should pay much more attention to your cover letter, which will matter much more to alot of people than where you went to school and what your GPA was.

Also, this may not be the common experience, but I had much better results from the job boards of smaller tech sites than any major job sites. Better in terms of interest from both sides of the table.
A rule of thumb is that "instant" is about <100ms. Any higher than that and it will feel sluggish.
see the book "the paradox of choice" by barry schwartz. interesting read
I see what you're aiming at, but I'm skeptical. I'm happy it worked for you, though. The thing that helped me was http://www.triggerpointbook.com/
I don't have experience, but if I was in your place, I would build an Open Source software with few mates, this will demonstrate and proof your competence
Most people who call tech support do so in lieu of reading documentation, rather than because something they know how to operate isn't working properly.
Milton Friedman: How to Cure Health Care (2001)
how well do you know java? i know of an opening in nyc.
Most of the single-socket adaptors that come packaged with a keyboard or mouse just make the physical connector fit. The chipset in those keyboards is designed to talk over whichever protocol it finds on the wire.

As a pre-USB-era keyboard won't have these kind of electronics inside, the adapter that comes with most modern keyboards won't work. The double adapters that you can buy separately, on the other hand, actually have electronics inside to translate the PS2 signals from the keyboard and mouse into USB.
I've recently bought an Unicomp Customizer, At first I was slightly disappointed because, despite the sturdiness, it looks slightly cheaper than a Model-M in term of plastic quality. However, after using it for a while, I came to understand the reason for this cult. Now when I happen to use other keyboards, they all seem so horrible.

Also, my rate of typing mistakes has drastically dropped.

By the way, I also got a Model-M, for comparison. The feeling is slightly different, but they are both good.
A fine overview is over at zach's journal: http://xach.livejournal.com/221433.htm
the real surprise from this article is that it takes the palm pre a staggering 8.6 seconds to load google maps.
Fellow Penn Stater here. The IST program, in its infinite wisdom has its strengths and weaknesses. One issue that you may have acknowledged already, especially in such economic times is the lack of awareness about the IST program and its various tracks amongst the business circle that recruits from Penn State.

Since you graduated from the SysDev track, you need to moderately differentiate yourself from the other "consultant" crowd, to a level that exudes that you have sufficient skills to undertake CS related projects. Having Open Source contributions on your resume may also be beneficial, since people can gauge your technical prowess.

Lastly, I would advise that you use COMPASS (the internal job hunt site) and the Career Services on campus extensively. They are there to help you specifically in a situation like this.

[If you wish, you may send me a copy of your resume and I may be able to float it in my circle]
Once again, history repeats itself. Facebook users fell for it. Facebook advertisers fell for it. Facebook investors fell for it...

It's a terrible situation for everyone involved. It's the great lie of the internet. MySpace laid off 30%. Seriously, why does anyone think Facebook is immune?

It doesn't work people. It just doesn't work.
Ask HN: HN Timeouts Today?
Is HN being a bit sluggish today for you? I've experienced multiple timeouts all day today.
/ Could just be my ISP
I think he missed a big point. Lead them in with features, like they are bait, THEN only present 3 packages to buy (instead of 16). Software is different than jelly.
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don't cry, fanboy, RoR fans and developers are hardly the most mature group in the opensource world.
Fareed Zakaria: 'Fatal wound' inflicted on Iranian regime's ideology
Using Psychology To Save You From Yourself
Here's a description of him as a person:

http://thesubclassexplosion.wordpress.com/2009/06/20/erik-na...
Serialising a single number that way is indeed worthy of a dailywtf mention, however none of that has anything to do with xml,

json:
{number:9012853}
Yaml:
number: 9012853

It's bad code, no matter the language.
I hate to break it to you, but real liver problems can follow any serious course of hard core pharmaceuticals. The man had cancer. He took chemo drugs, which likely destroyed his liver.
O2, the UK carrier, has gone on record as saying that they'll disconnect or charge people who are caught tethering without the paid version:

http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobil...
IPhone 3GS review by Stephen Fry
I rarely can complain about this on my iPhone 3G, but if one is to believe Joe Hewitt (and why one shouldn't?), then it is indeed instant on 3GS:
http://joehewitt.com/post/the-%22s%22-should-stand-for-smoot...
8.6 seconds is HUGELY staggering. So staggering that I actually staggered in real life. Wow.
I tried sending them an email with a build.xml file, and a java src file. But they've sent me an email stating that the build failed, even though the build works on my machine.

The src file is called hoppity.java. The build file compiles the class in the current directory, and copies the file in the same current directory.
Are you still in PA? I'll be no help there but we are looking for a junior software guy/gal. (Downtown SF - small consulting company) email in profile...
If so, save yourself the money of a degree. Buy some books and put the rest in your company.
Did you try job boards like 37signals job board, TC, ReadWriteWeb board, Mashable, etc?

Also, there was a recent post on HN about a sample resume template. It's here http://sampleresumetemplate.net/ (also there are some useful links in the comments here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=646277)

You could use that as a sample. Like everyone else suggests, it's always better to write your own. Each person has their own way of writing stuff. For all you know, the way you write/design your resume might be a lot better than using some other fella's template.

P.S: I don't believe in standard resume structures. I feel that's a bit stupid. The standard structure in my place has fields such as father's name, mother's name, religion and all the crap which your next boss doesn't have to care about.
the market just sucks now. Only 20% of college graduates found jobs this year, compared to 80% last year. So at this point there are 4 times more competition, than usual. And since most companies are firing instead of hiring you also have additional competition from older people who lost their jobs.

You need to expand your search,I bet right now you are looking for positions close to home. Forget that, you are young, you don't need to be tied down, send resumes all over the country. Also hit up your friend network, and have your parents do the same for you. When you are starting out, nothing really separates you from all other applicants, at least this way you'll get some additional consideration and might find out about jobs before others.

And don't put all your eggs in one basket, use your spare time to work on other projects which you can then add to your resume. Face it, experience is very important in today's market, having projects you can point to on your resume will put you ahead of your competition. + who knows maybe one of those projects will turn into a business.
This article is a pretty clear demonstration of what I dislike about popular economics (liberal and conservative) compared to hard science. Conclusions are drawn up based on ideological assumptions, then evidence is gathered, then public policy is changed. In any given case, several explanations are possible, but rarely is empirical testing done to prove that one is more feasible than the other. Instead they coexist as equals, gaining support based on random political futures. Perhaps this is a fundamental weakness in economics and cannot be overcome, but it seems to me that not enough pressure is being put on the field to make the ideas fully testable. As a engineer and numbers guy, I want to see my tax dollars spent (or not spent) only on ideas that have been rigorously examined and tested to be the most productive for society.
Milton Friedman scares me almost as much as this article. Friedman's ideas have failed the proof is 60% of the shares of GM is in the hands of US Government, and a mega zillion tax dollars spent in buying the banking system, all for the lack of regulation. Free markets degenerate into speculative short sighted machines of stealing dollars. It's time to find the sweet spot between free market and communism. And the US will either do that or lose relevance once and for all
Why isn't HN showing this as a duplicate link ?
The biggest companies take a lot more than that

Seems like in this case, the founders can "exit" into the new, big company that grew out of the seed they germinated and nurtured during their two years of insane coding and sacrifice. The seed grows roots, and the roots find purchase, and the leaves unfurl, and the thing grows like kudzu, and the founders (if they don't just want to retire) get to manage and shape the growth, and hire lots of people to help them, so they can stop sacrificing their existences so completely, and resume enjoying life.

A startup isn't really worth its exit.

Do you know this from experience?

I guess what I'm saying is that the steady state of "sustainable" work is unlikely to produce great startups; and the steady state of complete self sacrifice is probably a waste of one's consciousness. The real, productive, and fun dynamic may be in pursuing a set of punctuated equilibria -- brief epochs of spastic productivity, which punctuate longer spans of "sustainable" exploration of the results of the last round of spastic effort.

Then, when you get bored of exploring the ramifications of the last round of effort, get spastic again! Shake it up, and see what the new world you've made for yourself means.
I got downmodded when I commented on this post - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=667182 that I thought I had seen this post before on HN.

Well so I tried to post the same link again to see if it was some problem in HN, and to my pleasant surprise, it accepted this post with the exact same link. So why isn't this being flagged by HN as an old post automatically ?!
MSAs were expanded into HSAs in 2003. As of now there are some 8 million enrollees.

IMO the most interesting effect of the spread of HSAs is the emergence of clinics which forego the overhead of the insurance system altogether[1], dealing with patients directly in a more value-conscious way. These clinics tend to be both more available (longer appointments, weekend appointments) and more flexible (phone, chat, email communications w/ the doctor). They also tend to use technology to reduce overhead. Hello Health doesn't need any support staff for their doctors, rather than the 4-5/doctor average, because they use an online system for managing appointments, communications & billing.

I'm pretty excited about the spread of this system - in a month or two, Hello Health will be opening up their web platform to doctors across the country, which will enable them to more easily transition their practices and also provide a facebook/amazon for medicine. They claim they've been contacted by thousands of interested doctors.

If you're interested, take a look at HSA/HDHP plans (http://hsainsider.com/), or if you're relying on your employer for care and they don't provide an HSA option, it's worth bringing up, as the HSA option can be much less expensive (http://blog.jayparkinsonmd.com/post/70104332/high-deductible...), so they should be amenable. Even if you don't have a cash-friendly doctor in your area already, I predict most will by the end of the year.

[1] e.g. Hello Health in Brooklyn (http://hellohealth.com/), Qliance in Seattle (http://qliance.com/)
Yes. In fact, there's a whole section in the developer agreement (section 3.3.2) that explicitly forbids using (non-built-in) interpreters on downloaded files. This might be a nice app, and maybe the guy thought he could roll the dice and sneak it past, but this is the rare open and closed case of Apple doing exactly what they said they were going to do.
"Free markets degenerate into speculative short sighted machines of stealing dollars"

This would be unlikely, if ANY company were allowed to fail catastrophically.
Au contraire! I had many very good conversations with people in usenet who I have never met in person.
In case you didn't notice, the blog post is on how a group of friends can split the bill in an efficient manner. It has little to do with securities. Of course, if it had to do with securities, then your points would be right on target.

Thanks for the book suggestion, btw. It seems a good complement to Larry Harris' Trading & Exchanges :-)
Fair enough, but how would you rigorously test economic principles without ruining the lives of millions?
Like everything else in life you need balance. Putting in hundreds of hours is really not that more productive than putting in 50-60. You may think you are doing yourself a favor by working such long hours, but in reality you aren't.

At a certain point any additional "work" you do is non-productive, when you are tired, your mind will start to wander, and you'll start making mistakes. And then you'll spend all that time you "saved" fixing them.
I was at a client's once and their young daughter around 5 or 6 was having a fit in the late afternoon, wanted some candy and the mom said no that it will ruin her dinner. She kept pouting and whining... then said mom can I have some OJ? Of course, mom said yes. I didn't have the heart to tell her she just got played by her daughter who needed a sugar fix.
Is it possible that it's not fraud, but instead users accidentally clicking advertisements (which then register on facebook's end) but the user quickly realized their mistake and closes the browser (so it doesn't get registered on the owner's end)?
The most useful tool I've only started to learn is to focus on PRODUCTIVE hours of work per day, rather than total hours spent working. I assume everyone's different, but for me six hours of truly productive coding in one day counts as a big success (yes, I CAN get more in, but for how many days in a row?)

Realizing and accepting when you're no longer productive and switching tracks is one of the most useful skills.

Startup founders have a lot of things working against them - the flexibility to set your own work schedule can be one of the most powerful tools. If this involves taking a mid-day break to run around outside for an hour, or going out on a weeknight and sleeping in the next morning, or working throughout a weekend because it makes sense, then go for it. With the right balance of discipline, it'll keep you happier, it'll keep you sane, and it'll keep you more productive - per hour spent working - than anyone in a cubicle.
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The real question is: given any set of data, after the fact, what is the chance that a numerology detective can find some metric that will indicate suspicious activity? (Pretty much 100%)

I'm calling bullshit.
He comes out on the side of Medical Savings Accounts (MSAs) as a political expedient alternative to the elimination of Medicare, Medicaid, and the repeal of tax exemptions for employer-provided health care.

I can't see how this would help control costs. Sure, it might reduce the individual cost of healthcare (pre-tax vs post-tax), but in aggregate the supply of available funds would increase (at general tax-payer expense) and push the demand curve out, raising prices overall. What happens to supply in all this?
I would say that there's no such delay on the iPhone, either on the new model or earlier. Feedback to touch is instant, and dragging exhibits exactly the behavior you describe.
That's exactly my point, because for example if the US banking system collapses, it would mean the end of the US dollar based economy, so... certain companies can't fail, so democrats and republicans spend tons of money to keep the US powerful and relevant.
And the choice is reasonable, left to its own devices the free markets would have shifted power away from the US thus free markets would have failed the US.
The key is to regulate the minimum amount that will keep them honest yet not preventing innovation.
Because if friedmanomics are to be feared that's nothing compared to the powers that would raise if the US fall.
"It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes." (Josef Stalin)

Either if the elections are rigged or not, 49% of the population can not be subdued to the will of the ruling 51%

We need to change electoral systems, specially "winner takes all" ideologies, the tyranny of the majority.

We need to learn to live together and share power together.

And to separate if we can not. Nothing should be imposed.
Facebook advertising just sucks period, users just don't pay attention to it