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Is it so hard to be away for 3 months?

Doing a startup instead of taking a stable job involves tradeoffs, like all choices. How much of a tradeoff you take depends on you. You can move your entire family to the Bay Area, with the tradeoffs that entails (uprooting family, more expensive housing). You can move to the Bay for 3-4 months with the intention of permanently setting up the startup back home, with its own tradeoffs (farther from investors, farther from mentors, 3-4 months away from family). Etc. etc. etc.

There is no false dichotomy. There is no free lunch. Stop making these narrow generalizations.
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Ah, that's interesting. I wasn't aware of this post at all, thanks for pointing it out.
You are dodging the point: since the PhD system was started under the academic guild system, when it started, you did not do a PhD to "make your own way". You did a PhD to become a scientist and enter the (metaphorical but real) Guild of Scientists spread throughout academia and industry, with steady, salaried employment as a Guild member reasonably assured.

People who were planning to make their own way got bachelors degrees, people who planned to teach got Masters degrees, and people who planned to research got PhDs.

Now, you can of course keep repeating "make your own way, you dumb ignoramus who doesn't understand market imperatives!" until the cows come home, but all that means is that you consider market imperatives to override guild structure.

Which they have! But a descriptive statement about how the system has come to work is not a normative statement about how it should be made to function. Certainly I would say the guild structure is malfunctioning when job qualifications have gone from "produce one masterpiece (a PhD) over a few years and you can get a job" to "produce two to three masterpieces (a PhD and one or two post-docs) over a dozen years, and then you're considered just about qualified to apply for a permanent job".

By the way, we're certainly not talking about my personal plans, since at this point I simply don't anticipate any currently-known career structure actually lasting. Even if nothing revolutionary actually happens on the political, economic, or environmental fronts, the continued subjugation of all institutions and enterprises to short-term market imperatives (the ones you support ;-)) means that job tenures longer than a few years probably just won't ever be available to me. I'm living in a world built by people who think Thomas Friedman has the right idea.

EDIT: It's important to note that if we really believed in fully and entirely replacing the Guild of Science with a scientific labor market subject only to market imperatives, it would mean taking a lot of funding from the university/lab administrators and tenured PI's, and using it to create a less-strictly-pyramidal career structure more like the tech sector has: bachelor's degree, junior-level researcher for a number of years at full pay and benefits, senior researcher at full pay and benefits with real job security, management and leadership.

In a real market system, you don't get to work people to the bone for years at a time for hourly wages less than those at Wal-Mart solely on the promise that they will someday have the opportunity to gain a 1/3 chance at a real job in their field. In a real market system, that is called an unpaid internship, it's illegal, and it ends in your workers unionizing and suing you.
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If doing it's job involves preventing vaccinations, the CIA should get a better job.

Your thinking is twisted. You've been voted down accordingly.
Seriously? I've lived in Prague for years and sometimes struggled with the taxis there (you have to use the right company, watch out for turbo which spins up the meter, etc.). I'm sorry but it's nothing compared to France. I don't know of a single local here who uses a taxi. I'm sure I could call the number to report each ride, but I'd just rather avoid it.
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Yes they are actually called generics in Java..

So this is just going to cause confusion, though I am very impressed with all the long words you used.
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I'd agree with all of that, very well put. Perhaps it would be worth extending point 2 to include health in a more general sense.
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Ah ok, theatrus2 was the only mention of MSP430 in the discussion under userbinator and in the absence of a "How about " in front of "MSP430?" I assumed you meant "What's a MSP 430?" in reply to theatrus2....but then I should've checked the comment times :)
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Feels better in my opinion. The jpg method seems too jerky.
For me, the best branching model is one that works well for you.

In my mind, version control tools like git and Mercurial are super flexible by their nature. As a result, looking for the "one true model" is a fruitless endeavour. It's almost a personal preference, based on how you like to work, and what you want to do with your project.

I've tried git-flow, and while I liked it many others haven't. It's similar to how I naturally work, but I can see why others feel that it is overkill.

If your stuff is in version control in the first place then it is unlikely that your source control methodology is going to vastly affect the project, and how things might move forward. History is good, but the joys of source control is that it doesn't dictate how you move on in the future.

My recommendation is to read up on every source control workflow you see here, give them a try on some personal projects, and then pick what you like the most and go with it. They all have their good points, and by playing with them you'll see what works well and what isn't needed for you.
College didn't work out for everyone. There weren't enough jobs for all of us, now I am in my mid thirties, have no friends, and am unemployable. But you can rest assured that, yes, most people think that I shouldn't exist.
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I'd say most of the predictions are sound. No 10 goes a bit too far though. Anyway, what I can't understand is why this rumor of bitcoin being anonymous (No 4) is so persistent (maybe wishful thinking?). What's necessary here is not a further technical development but rather some PR work (outside and unfortunately also inside the community of bitcoin users).
Curious whether meditation might induce a state where the brain also cleans itself, just like during sleep...
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But aren't the ratings meaningless? I remember reading how Uber drivers were upset because a rating measurably below 5 out of 5 can get you fired. As long as that system prevails, a driver's rating won't tell you anything more than the fact that you found them on Uber did.
Thank you for the link. The licence value is the key reason why taxis are pissed. It is also the reason why they organised taxis scarcity, keeping the licence price up, and the service terrible. They kind of created the ideal conditions for alternative solutions developpment. But a proper way of recouping their investment should be provided to them rather than articially distinguishing the Uber businesses and taxis businesses. Its basically the same.
> They set fire to lorries full of live sheep.

Wow. I'd love to see that happen in the US, where Obama was criticized for swatting a fly in public.
Because the system is broken and people are heavily invested in the current system and it being broken...

What? What's the logical conclusion to that sentence in your mind?

Should we keep on running the war on drugs because there are so many people who make a living off of it? Should we maintain copyright law the way it is today because companies have invested so heavily in it? Should we maintain software patent law the way it is because some folks have spent billions acquiring patent portfolios?
The BitCoin Browser is going to be very significant. I hope someone 'good' emerges to capture that market. It'd be rotten if there were a "Microsoft Bitcoin browser" and an "OSX Bitcoin browser" ...
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Shame, because it's a good resizer. I happened to uninstall it back in November, but my co-worker is still (was) using it.
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> This law is disadvantageous both for the customer and the driver, so just how difficult would it be to even enforce?

Trivially easy. Just spend a few days every month booking rides, if they show up too early then they get fined or shut-down.
What's worse, you're not even able to "replay" a whole night in a moderate Twitter feed.

Simply put, I follow ~30 medium-activity accounts, I go to bed and when I wake up, I can't reach the same point in the timeline again as over 800 tweets have been posted.

Please, for heavens sake, allow the addicted to read their whole timeline. Thanks.
LinkedIn just sent me an email asking me to celebrate a friend's job anniversary
LinkedIn just sent me an email asking me to congratulate a friend as it's the 4th year anniversary since they started at their current job.

Wondering whether to send flowers.

Seriously, who thinks this stuff up.
I can't help but wonder how this would fare in a fast language with some optimisation and against real world spell check implementations...

Would we see the same performance increase in practice?
You can skip characters in a trie, at least towards the right-hand-end of a word, by recursing down every path. I've done so to good (and performant) effect, before.
On point 8 of this post, I would love feedback from HN users on my proposal for how to use the bitcoin network to transact in fiat currencies and other financial instruments. Thanks!

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It's not that it is only ever used for enterprise, just that it seems to be mostly used for enterprise. Think of the licensing costs for visual studio, sqlserver and windows server. Sure there is the Bizspark, but it runs out, and I think most founders would be squeamish with the potential business-technical debt that would represent.

At least right now, MS is still seen (although less lately) like the Big Bad, so giving them money to use what you can get for free or near-free elsewhere seems uncool and like bad business sense.

I suspect too from my own extremely limited sample size that .NET developers make more money on average than the average of the other languages, so that is also a liability when looking for talent when you have limited cash.
You are just speculating, adds nothing to the discussion. If there is one country with a "misguided sense of patriotism" it would be the US. Spying on the entire world? Selling out every possible exploits to the governments? Implementing backdoors? This is just the tip of the iceberg and its citizens of the US who are carrying them out. Just the media using the terms "cyberterrorism" and "cyberwarfare" as you said, are just another trick to exploit the patriotism in the US, patriotism only benefits the government and not the people.
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I wasn't referring to the mafia infiltrating unions at all. I was referring to organizations who use violence against competitors, run protection rackets and corruptly influence politicians. In the US the Mafia was such an organization. In France it appears their taxi driver unions are.
At least Firefox extensions on Mozilla's add-ons site gets more thoroughly reviewed on every update.
The add-ons installed from outside of the add-ons site can be very dangerous, but Mozilla tries to block these too: List of blocked add-ons with reasons: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/blocked/
Mining: if we're to believe in free markets, fees will adjust to the amount of available CPU resources. I hope that it won't be profitable enough for people to dedicate farms to mining, but that companies with a lot of CPU power will rentabilise their spare CPU cycles by doing a bit of mining with it. This would be reassuring, as it would keep mining decentralized, which is important to maintain trust in bitcoins.
I may have misunderstood, but I think his point '8' is more akin to saying that Bitcoin needs it's killer app, kind of like how the browser was the killer app for the internet.
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Like many other verticals there are many technological innovations happening in photography too. This "smartphone attachable lens-style camera" is one of these recent innovations. I can't comment on quality of the lens itself but they must be far better than that of a standard camera installed on mobile phones. These lenses can be used both attached/detached to the mobile phone. They use NFC (if your phone is into that sort of thing) or create their very own Wi-Fi signal to connect with the phone.

I first read about such lenses and other similar products on http://photojojo.com/store/ . They have such products for both android and iphone.

Now, is it worth it? Depends on your requirements. If you don't want to get into professional photography but still want to improve the quality of your photographs you can use one of these. However, remember that these don't replace DSLRs.

1. Mobile Camera : average quality/almost zero creative control/very good mobility

2. Mobile Camera + Lens accessory : better quality/almost no creative control/good mobility

3. Point & Shoot Camera : decent quality/little creative control/good mobility

4. Hybrid/Zoom Camera : decent quality/very high optical zoom/decent creative control/poor mobility

5. Mirrorlesss/Interchangeable Lens Camera : Good quality/Good Creative Control/average mobility

6. DSLRs : Good quality/Good Creative Control/Poor Mobility

I personally prefer to keep [1] in my pocket & [5] in my bag(along with lenses). I also have an old Zoom Camera that usually sits in my home. I occasionally use it together with a teleconverter lens to take photographs of sun, moon & objects/people that are far far away.
> I really don't see why dynamic libraries couldn't be allowed per app, in a similar vein to other mobile OS.

Apple considers it a security issue, so presumably they have figured out attacks that exploit dynamic library loading.

In general though, "Because another platform does it" isn't always a good argument for a particular feature in a platform, particularly when that choice involves a tradeoff. Taken to an extreme, you would end up with a lowest common denominator of samey platforms that just copy each other's design decisions.

In this case Apple has decided that security is a top priority for them even if it comes at a price in terms of developer convenience. Other platforms are free to make different tradeoffs, and that gives users and developers a diverse choice of distinctive platforms available to them. This is a good thing. iOS doesn't have to become Android any more than Android has to become iOS.
The thing is just that it's ridiculously hard to make a Bitcoin client that works, is secure, and doesn't introduce completely nonsense quirks. Armory has been around since 2011 and still has major issues parsing the blockchain and making transactions that aren't padded incorrectly, MultiBit doesn't use change addresses and makes it painfully obvious how much money you have. There's not much margin for error and you certainly can't have a closed source (read Microsoft) branded client.
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> I hope that it won't be profitable enough for people to dedicate farms to mining

Maybe I misunderstand you but isn't that already happening?
I think if you had the identity of the driver (both before and after the ride) a lot of drivers would not behave like criminals. Instead of fighting UBER these companies would do better if they put the client on the center stage and perhaps start their own rating-identity service.
An Uber-style taxi service would certainly make the situation safer. You get a paper trail before you get into the cab showing that driver X picked up passenger Y at time T.
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Other than adding dozens of methods to NSArray/MutableArray for each "generic" you define and limiting my choice of collection to an array (rather than a set or dictionary), why would you use this rather than define your own collection class that keeps the underlying store encapsulated and enforces its own type-safety?

If type-safety is that important, a custom collection class will enrich your domain model and be more obvious.
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Digitizing 80 kilometers of archive to simulate Venice across 1000 years.