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I am a T-Mobile customer and I see no compelling reason to switch. AT&T has matched T-Mobile by eliminating the contract, and allowing upgrades every year, and even the $45 unlimited plan, but T-Mobile still has better customer service, and free international roaming.
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>When a parent asks friends "look at this photo, isn't my baby beautiful?" the answer is information-free as everyone will say "yes, that is a cute baby".

One of my life goals is to always answer this question honestly.
I would like to point out that early in WW2 we were getting our asses kicked as we waited for the factories to come online things did not really start to turn until 42/43. Where to draw the line on what is production is needed to keep that from happening in future conflicts is beyond me.
Median income in the US is about $52k

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/22/us/politics/us-median-inco...
They used to be downloadable, now you can pay to listen at your leisure... or pirate it..
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I suspect that a closer analogy is the classification system on films - which as far as I know is in effect in the vast majority of the world. Governments long ago decided that certain things are far too extreme for (young children / older children / anyone) to see, and have been censoring or restricting access to video media ever since.

Now that the internet is becoming mainstream, and a powerful provider of videos / pictures, they will seek to install similar systems to censor or restrict access.
Agreed

I had a friend who was a contract lawyer, and pointed out several clauses in my wireless contract and my internet contract. It was pretty eye opening.

Needless to say, you'd be surprised what you agree to when you sign contracts:

"Please be aware that we may change your wireless device's software, applications or programming remotely, without notice."
I'm in the same boat, but there do seem to be alternatives which are popping up. The problem is that there is a big difference between the Twisted way of doing things (deferreds), and everything else. Once you start writing code in a twisted way it's hard to port it to anything else.
The justification is not obvious to me. Could you explain in careful detail?

Please start by listing any necessary moral premises. For example, collective guilt, individual freedom, and how to determine which collectives these principles apply to (assuming of course that these principles are what underlies your position). In the US there are 2^{300 million} possible collectives, but you seem to have it narrowed down to 1. How?

I didn't claim that it was self contradicting because it was non-libertarian. I claimed that it seemed contradictory without further explanation because early on she appeals to individualism (when it benefits women making her particular life choices) but later on appeals to collective responsibility (when it benefits women making her particular life choices).

There might be some consistent underlying principle and it might not be contradictory. I just can't figure out what it is, which is why I asked the question.
I research, build and fly "drones".

Great, maybe you can bring some information to the discussion.

For the type of drone you are best informed about, what is the maximum round trip flying range, assuming you adjusted the weight of batteries to maximise flying range and there was no wind and no worries about radio range or line of sight?

What about if you were carrying a 1 lbs / 0.5 kg payload in the outbound direction?

What would the round trip time and average flight speed be?

What would the retail cost of such a drone be, if I wanted to order a kit today?
How is TJ Holowaychuk is so insanely productive?
He's right, you are wrong. Modern color printers sold to consumers run image recognition on the images they print and refuse to print ones that contain features found in real money. Try it if you don't believe me.

They also add watermarks -- small almost imperceptible yellow dots that uniquely identify the printer in question.
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Does this mean more f 35s? Even a worse decision ! The NSA has compromised communication and political speech in the Domestic USA, and unchecked its a far worse threat to freedom around the world. The US military is thankfully strong enough that it does not act out of small d!@k syndrome, which is why it is the most respected branch of the us government. Its approval ratings are >70%, while congress is ~10s and the media is ~20's. Insecure beuracracies are typically the most evil entities on the planet. Just like insecure b-team middle managers at work.
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I may be mistaken or we may be both using different myths to justify our food based belief systems but I was under the assumption that at least the larger pre-Columbian societies were done in by European diseases.

At least some pre-Columbian societies nixtamalized their corn (think hominy and masa harina), which unlocks many nutrients, greatly improving its nutritional value and making it a much better staple than non-nixtamalized corn.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixtamalization
What's also missing here is differentiating between "dependencies" as other python libs or host apps with built-in python interpreters stuck to a particular version.

For example, VFX studios are generally stuck on 2.6.4 as that's what Maya 2012, Nuke 7 and other commercial software is using.

Lots of VFX studios have hundreds of thousands of lines of Python code integrating stuff across their pipeline. Until the host apps support Python 3 (some like Houdini support both 2/3 via different plugin proxies), it's a Chicken and Egg situation, as VFX studios won't port their python code to 3 until they need to, and the commercial companies making the software above aren't going to waste time adding Python 3 support until their customers ask for it.

So I'm assuming 2.6/7 is going to be around for a while...
well, that's part of it. When science hits PR, some of the accuracy gets dropped because it makes the story less sexy.
And I haven't purchased an EA product since.
Very nicely done. Whenever someone wants you to sign something they say is "meaningless", refuse. If it's meaningless, why would they want you to sign it?

At the very least, hold out for more money and a time limit. Ask them to keep you on salary for 6 months, and you'll agree not to disparage them for a year, or something like that. A 50% discount! Think of the burn rate!
I look forward to competing with you one day!

Seriously though, you contest the idea that an interface with interactions which hide complexity and have been shown to be pretty intuitive could be decisive in how users value a product?
Yes, it should be.

Instead, we see an example of chilling-effect created by surveillance.
It's not so much about skills (there are no skills that a 25yo hacking since 10 would have that a 55yo hacking since 40 wouldn't), but about selection: people who were more interested in computers than anything else at 10 -- and were spending all their time doing that, for absolutely no monetary or other reward, are going to be far better at doing programming (again, at any age) than someone who isn't that interested. And when there is an opportunity for such an interest to show, it would show early. Making sure that opportunity is there for most people would go a long way towards equalizing the gender ratios.
Is that a rhetorical question? I was curious whether they will correctly determine my OS. Frankly, I was expecting something like "you are not using Windows".
A place that I worked at two years ago laid off 2/3 of the company just 49 days after I'd joined. They weren't as brain dead as the federal legislature so they simply framed it as temporary for five months which falls under the requirements of "WARN."
Or an NSA watch list
Not.

See the NoPSD movement: http://thoughtworks.github.io/p2/issue02/continuous-design/
I thought you might like this too. Where China is addressed toward the end of this document: http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/george-soros-map...
You said it well:

"What I cited there are not "work" per say as coined in most people's mind as the dreary 8 hour work life."

And yes, I understand your point: work can be enjoyed to the point it feels like a videogame!

Anyhow, the words and the tone I choose maybe weren't the best to communicate what I mean.

Thanks for the feedback (and thanks for subscribing!).
I've been in a couple exit interviews where the terms were crappy.

One I didn't have a choice with: The company was shutting down, and while I was going to get a severance check I was going to have to wait a period mandated by law (because I was a protected class, being over 40 at the time). Fortunately there was money left in the bank when I was able to collect the check (the founders had deep pockets and had committed to paying).

The second was when a start-up tried to stiff me on vacation pay, which in California is yours. I just said, "This is unacceptable" and sat there. 20 minutes later, after some apologizing and attempts to justify it with "well, that was your sick pay, too..." they cut a check.
"I would hate to be your loved one."

Is there any need to be that mean spirited about it?

I think a sizeable quiet minority is underwhelmed by the work ethic philosophies discussions on HN. I don't think I'd go as far as the submitter, but I don't think I'd categorize it as "incredibly self-centered".

edit: to the submitter, I don't think it was bad english or your tone. Some people are unable to consume opinions they disagree with. My unsolicited advice: just continue to be true to yourself and write what you think, you can never keep certain people happy.
Even my Windows 8.1 computer is reporting as Windows 8.1!
the twitter reply says "this is an awesome video" when he says "this video is awesome", is that on purpose?
Studying philosophy teaches that questions like this need to be answered (or at least acknowledged) rather than ignored.
The wine was probably like $20, and the iPad (what, $400?) may easily have paid for itself in giving employees first-hand experience with a very popular/hot tech & ecosystem.
What about when the forever-non-disparaging clause is in the employment contract itself?

And what value does it have that the contract has a stamp "Confidential" on all pages? Would talking about it here be forbidden?
I would love to move to Python 3 as I have no technical dependencies. The only reason I'm still writing my code and open-source library in Python 2 is the ecosystem of my clients. Even if that was technically possible to migrate to Python 3, it might not viable business-wise. It would be considered as unnecessary expense for something that "just works".

I guess we just need to reach some adoption tipping point or end of support of Python 2. Whichever comes first.
The only reason they are living paycheck to paycheck is because of the lifestyle obligations they've chosen. They chose to sign a 1-year lease or worse, buy a mortgage. They chose to marry or have kids.

It is only the result of these choices that they 1) need paychecks and 2) have already spent those paychecks.

I have a friend that works on a fish boat for 4 months out of the year, and spends the rest of the year hiking.

I have a friend that teaches middle school, and spends the summer months travelling.

They probably make less money per year than the paycheck-to-paycheck person you have in mind, yet they have the time to travel because of their lack of obligations.
> Would you challenge that?

It was a question.
If this were 100 years ago, you could make the argument that by enforcing this contract, Congress made a law abridging the freedom of the press. I think that ship has sailed and failed, however, so it's too late now.

But it is interesting to think of how the Constitution can become meaningless if the government is willing to create laws to allow others to take away your Constitutional rights.
I don't mind my children knowing about DP, but I'll be damned if I let them view felching videos!
I just said "meow" haha
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It's also really trivial to support both retina and non-retina so I don't understand the point at all..
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> I also think that it's very possible that unrelated "side effects" like surveillance and control of the internet "media" have always been an intended unstated goal.

It's not only possible, it's exactly what's going on. How long did the NSA monitor the whole world before it became widely known?
One thing to watch out for that a colleague actually ran into: a clause in the right-of-first-refusal that lets the company challenge the valuation that the third-party is paying by sending it to third-party, with you paying the bill for that third-party to go through the company's books to decide what the fair valuation is.
And even if it did, you don't have dangerous atherosclerosis until those clogs start to calcify. The interactions between calcium, magnesium, vitamin D, vitamin A, vitamin K, collagen, silicon, and boron also somehow affect this process, but the exact mechanisms are not yet fully understood by scientifically sound research. I do not know of any human studies planned or underway on the hypercalcemia hypothesis for heart disease.

The pop-science gurus claim that obstructive heart disease is primarily caused by consuming calcium in excess without attending to the other related dietary factors, and this causes the excess dietary calcium to harden arterial plaques rather than bones and teeth. They are usually pushing magnesium supplements or organic butter oil or some other purchasable product.
Ask HN: Designers, how would you redesign Amazon.com?
There's a lot of information, particularly text -- how would you simplify it or design it better?
+1.
I'm getting up to speed with Cocoa to the point where I might be faster than a designer with Photoshop... as long as we don't venture into wooden textures. :)
Yes, that's why I said use it as part of a set of tools. It is useful of course, but over reliance on it as a tool for designing is a continuing issue for development teams all over the world, right now.

People waste a lot of time iterating over pretty pictures and then pass all the hard work to front end engineers to sort out the cruft.

Worse still is when you then get a PM that wants the whole pixel perfect thing to jump through HTML5 hoops. With very little consideration to the time element of design, you are left with a lot of pretty images that you may as well start again with.

In browser designing is not an optional path to take. If it is going to end up in the browser it will have to be designed at some point in the browser, so designers should dump pixel perfect tools like photoshop as their main iterating tool.

Photoshop is still a pixel tool and getting old, Illustrator is now better for interface improvement IMO as it has pixel preview and can output svg too :).
Dying startups tend to do a lot of stupid things. Why risk it?
We seem to be talking about completely different things here. Where did this reference to BART and carrying 300,000-400,000 passengers daily come from? How is that local transport system anything like long-distance, high-speed infrastructure like the proposed Hyperloop system? They're completely different types of transportation, so your hypothetical scenario where one is somehow replaced by the other makes no sense. And how on earth did we get from talking about compulsory purchase/eminent domain to secure land for that kind of long-distance transport infrastructure over to talking about something to do with cars?

Even if we had been talking about BART, to build a new system like that today, with around 100 miles of track and dozens of stations in urban/suburban areas, you'd have to buy up huge amounts of formerly residential land if the area was already well-developed. That would inevitably displace many thousands of people who previously lived there, as well as divide and blight the communities that remained. The social and economic costs of forcing a new system like that on a mature city would be staggering, and it would be likely that much of any new system would be built underground to avoid the damage on the surface.
He suggests that it might scale logarithmically, not linearly.
First Amendment applies to governmental interactions only.
The best part is how, after the production runs are terminated, all of the specialized equipment needed to build those aircraft are also destroyed, so the lines can never be resurrected. This results in a new competitive bid for an all new aircraft design when the existing aircraft get too old. It takes a couple decades to bring a new modern aircraft from blueprint to regular production run. The F-22 program, started in a competitive process in 1981. It's literally the very best of late '70's mature technology with some very early 1980's hi-tech tossed in.

Another point, the South Korean acquisition of the F-35 (called the F-X 3 in the article) may be one of the dirtiest acquisitions that's ever been publicly reported. Before the competition was even let, Lockheed had greased enough palms and secured a sure "win". Unfortunately, South Korea put in place an independent agency (DAPA) and legal framework to control defense acquisitions and the Lockheed bid lost badly (overbudget, not enough extras to juice it, they were sure of the win why not gouge the customer a bit?).

The award went to Boeing and an all new custom variant of the F-15 that offered greater mission capability at a lower price, and involved significant technology transfer to South Korean industry (the aircraft would be majority built in Korea ramping up domestic expertise for future home-grown aircraft design). It was underbudget, more mature and featured several nice extras in the purchase package. There were so many positive points in favor of the F-15 acquisition that only an idiot would have turned it down and it would still be generations ahead of anything North Korea or China could throw at it. I believe they met every single one of the RFP requirements to the letter or better. I think they would have even gotten 20 more aircraft under the Boeing deal!

The original officials who were bribed for their approval of the f-35 created all kinds of chaos and essentially overwrote the acquisition agency's legal award. They then setup a new "competition" and of course the award went to Lockheed.

I've been following the story for a while and it's interesting that now that Lockheed won the final contract, the previous dirtiness of it all is barely reported.

http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Latest-News-Wires/2013/092...

Boeing's F-15 Silent Eagle had been in the box seat to win the 8.3 trillion won ($7.7 billion) tender - as the only bid to fall within budget - but former military top brass and even the ruling party's lawmakers had criticized the plane as it lacked crucial stealth capabilities.
Nothing you've said backs up the claim that more days per year = more profit or output for the business, or that these so-called outliers exist. Never heard the adage "work smarter, not harder"? If I was going to take outliers it would be on the intelligence and creativity scales, not the physiological hardiness scale.

This idea of more work is better is intuitive only at a completely trivial level and one that's unlikely to bear out in an environment of any sort of complexity.

Sure, I suppose if you're talking about a widgit factories where people repeat a task and have quotes, maybe more hours is better. (Though even then maybe not if on the whole you have higher burnout rates.)

You appear to take this at face value without even doing much digging. There is a myriad of evidence to support the contrary to your claim. Heck try Googling: "Working more hours is more productive" and you'll only find articles supporting the contrary.

https://www.google.ca/search?q=working+longer+hours+is+more+...
Here's a simple thing to say to an employer that offers such a clause:

Define "disparagement".

If anything ever goes to court, from case law it seems to be all based on whether or not an action is "disparaging". So, define what constitutes disparagement in advance, and if that is acceptable to you, go ahead and sign.

Personally, I'd sign nothing for 2 weeks pay, and then make sure everyone knows that was the offered severance. Seems disparaging enough to me. ;)
One solution would be to provide the two in parallel. But then again this area is slowly moving. I just recently (early last year) wrote my last MEL code and moved fully onto python.
Sam Walton came from a family who weathered the Great Depression very well and married into a family which was able to lend him a significant sum of money for the period in order to "bootstrap" his business.

Walton, like so many other people who are incredibly successful, started out of the gate far ahead of most of his peers. As a result, he isn't what I'd consider a good example to use for the average person when it comes to work and balancing career with family.
Non-compete agreements may not be the best example for you. They can have large impacts on employees (http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/non-compete-agreements-10...) and far-reaching effects on entire regions (http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20071204/005038.shtml).
Hey, I noticed you mentioned that you were interested in having client library generation in Obj-C, Java, and Scala, yet all of the existing client lib support is for dynamic languages. I think you may find that some fundamental changes need to be made to support this, unless every datatype is just going to be a string.
And that's why a lot of people design using Flash

CSS and HTML? A Designer does not need to know that to produce a design.
This is one of the most absurd comments I've ever read.

How is free K-12 a subsidy to mothers? If anything, public education is a huge subsidy to employers.

Also, child support mandates in the U.S. are not high and in many cases don't come close to covering half the costs of child rearing.

Say the father makes $45,000/year (far above the national median individual income). His net income is Illinois is around $2,700 per month. His child support obligation is $540/month. That's $6,500 per year, or about half the annual average cost of raising a child in the urban midwest according to this calculator: http://money.cnn.com/interactive/pf/cost-of-children/?iid=EL.

That level is already a huge subsidy from the mother to the father. The mother and father pay half the expenses of raising the child, but on top of that the mother takes on all of the domestic work necessary to raise the kid, and also shoulders the full career hit that comes from having childcare responsibilities. As someone who has tried to outsource a lot of domestic childcare duties, let me say that the market value of the domestic labor provided solely by the mother in this example far outweighs the total income of the median male.
Why are you checking what Windows operating system you're running when you're on OS X?
Completely agree. Java collections and threads package well written code. Infact I ask interview questions based on API implementation
> But in societies that decide their federal system should be arbiter of its health care system, it makes no sense to argue when that government takes measures to act on information regarding the health of its citizens.

1) How did "society" decide that?
2) Why should the "federal system" be an arbiter of health care?
3) Why would it not make sense to discuss whatever the government is doing?
Of course we can oppose surveillance. We can build anti-surveillance systems, and then we can demand companies to support them. Companies like Google could even use data mining in a way that doesn't infringe on user privacy. But their thinking will be "why change the status quo?".

That's why it's so important to fight for such changes, and not get trampled by the corporations and governments wishes for complete knowledge of a user/citizen. If Google doesn't like it, too bad. We'll just have to start supporting privacy-focused companies, and let Google die. That's capitalism, no? Adapt or become a dinosaur and die.