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one of the better reads I've found on landing pages - http://www.seomoz.org/blog/announcing-the-seomoz-landing-pag... and yeah they say they do work like gold I could just never bring myself to be so sleezy

sleezy cause I think the reason they work is that they get you to read for 30 minutes, then you don't want to feel like you are wasting that 30 minutes by not buying.
In theory, signal gets upvoted and noise gets downvoted. If I get downvoted, my post was probably noise. I don't want to increase the noise level, and I accept that I may not be the best judge of my own comments' quality.

It makes sense to care about karma as an indicator of whether the community thinks my contributions are good or not.
Microsoft has always had a tendency to "not get it" on a grand scale, when it comes to stuff like this (advertising, social media, demo and marketing videos, etc.).

It goes back many years:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7107499611244156089

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZvhPGXrg0g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A_Kkb9w5bw

They're all pretty uncomfortable to watch, and are like a parody of someone trying to be funny.

However, I don't think Microsoft not getting it is sufficient reason for us to ignore them. They've done something really right somewhere along the way. I'm not sure exactly what it was, or if they're still doing it, but perhaps staring at it from multiple angles will help figure it out.
"To be honest, I think the recovery will be surprisingly fast"

How? Our manufacturing sector has been taken apart in the last 20 years. A large amount of baby boomers are retiring now, cashing out 401k/IRA/social security/medicare.
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Umm..generating 20K a month in revenue in 3 months isn't hard when you have actual customers and run your startup like a business, not like a hobby. If you're building something people are willing to pay for, 20K is really not that much. If you're building the next revolution in social networking 2.0 webapps and plan to support it with AdSense, 20k may not possible ever.
Yeah, but my point was that it's the same as being afraid to ask a question in class because the question may be viewed as stupid. There's no such thing as a stupid question. I think it's kind of silly to worry what people think about your question if it is a legitimate question.
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Steve Jobs might propose it is because they have no taste: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upzKj-1HaKw
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Our manufacturing sector has been taken apart in the last 20 years.

I'm American, and I'll say that this is a typical American thing to say. We live in a world economy now. Certain parts of the world specialize in certain sectors. We can come out of a recession without depending on manufacturing. What you're saying is the equivalent of saying that a place like Silicon Valley can never escape a recession because they don't have a huge manufacturing base like, say, Pittsburgh.
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Not all of this is applicable to non-fiction, however it's all interesting and good advice. This is obviously the authors own methods, which may not be applicable to everyone and every situation, however it would still be worth learning if only so you know when to ignore it.

#1 is the most important point. I've worked as a writer, and I'm currently working on several of my own projects, and I can say from experience that for certain projects 1,000 words can take much more time and effort than 20,000 words.

I'd say if you're looking to write from raw, find something that has a fast writing time (this will likely be something you have a passion for, but you'll often be surprised that it isn't exactly what you thought). Your first project isn't going to be your magnum opus, if it is is it really worth the effort?

I'd warn every person to not even attempt writing a book, it's really not a good idea. But if you're that particular brand of stupid that wants to isolate themselves, risk alcoholism (or various other addictions that prey on the terminally alone) and various other antisocial behaviours . . . however look at who I'm talking to, I'm sure most people here are that particular brand of stupid for wanting to be in start-ups and other lonely professions with late nights and no quitting time.
So the brain is, in a way, executing before the data is available (energy in this case). Oh Brain, your level of optimization never fails to amaze me

I am curious to try this on a group of coders/students. Have 6 groups (Water, Without Sugar Coffee/Decaf) where half drink it, the other just swish) and see how they perform. Can also do this with Water and Sugar water. This can possibly check if the brain control's thinking fatigue the same way it controls muscle fatigue (as the article talks about).

Starts swishing out my coffee. Unfortunately I think the placebo/nocebo effect on my self will screw up my personal results
At least the Ruby community didn't take the next positive integer and use it to name a pie-in-the-sky research project, condemning the production version to forever be "5".
I'm all for making the 0 page non-existent and to make it a processor feature rather than an os feature that the 0th address being referenced in any way will generate a hardware exception no matter what.

Otherwise we'll be playing null pointer dereference cat&mouse for ever.
Sure I agree...we manufacture debt, and the other countries buy them. Until they don't, since the whole world's making less money.

Yes, we make game/tv/movie/porn/internet. But notice that Asia is notorious at pirating them.
Okay. I was trying to have a serious conversation, but I see that you've decided to take things elsewhere.
Hammond won't hear the end of it...
Actually me and my wife worked it out for suburban Canada for one person. It turned out its significantly cheaper monthly to use taxi's for all work travel than owning even a cheap vehicle (not including tax, fuel, maintenance etc, we did solely the 0% finance price for the duration of the warrenty). Assuming the number of trips double after work, I think it just broke the 0% finance price for monthly travel, again not including anything at all.

However, bus prices are at least 1/3 as that for a taxi; her work is approximately $10 a trip, bus is $2.75 per trip. It works out to $20 a day for taxi ($25 on a bad day), $5.50 a day for bus.

I'd say almost everywhere, people buy cars for status and not convenience. I'd say it's a different matter when rural, but in the city it's certainly a status symbol. I frequently see people driving a $50,000 SUV on their own, yet I've been quoted $75 a day for a 7 seat SUV, which is pricey monthly, but dirt cheap in the long run if your vehicle is regularly a 1 person car.
Just as saying “no offense“ does not immediately render a comment inoffensive; stating that his comments should not be construed as misogyny, does not negate the fact his comments really are misogynistic.

I don‘t want to get all politically-correct here, but are we really going to pretend that the word “whore” has no gender related connotations? When you use a word, you have to take all the luggage that comes with it, that is just the way language works.
I'm not stuck with Windows, I dual boot Ubuntu, but I do not have a Mac. I know that's sort of a sin in the writing community, but then I'm not part of that community.

Thanks for the link!
How do those macros make life easier? From a look at the example code, it looks like they're hell to write! :(
Here's a greasemonkey script to use as a workaround: http://userstyles.org/styles/19590

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I'm not being facetious; read 'the walmart effect' on how walmart has encouraged the dismantling of our manufacturing sector. So what else do we produce? remember that we get our oil from middle east, our manufactured goods from Asia, our commodities from South America, cheap services from India, etc. Our GDP in the last several years were largely propped up by financial/construction sectors growth, which has mostly disappeared now.
I am fully cognizant that fiduciary responsibility is a guiding principle and not rote procedure, the point I am attempting to elucidate for those who throw the term around so freely here. Is that fiduciary responsibility is not a substitute for moral judgment, and too narrow a construal of it leads inevitably to a place where a strict by the numbers construction of what fiduciary responsibility is demands that you take actions that are so wrong that your company should be dissolved since it is actively harmful to society.
hmm, might not be the same thing then. I've sometimes been able to upvote the same article or comment twice, but when I reloaded the page the score was as it would be if I only upvoted once.
I think the key point here is that the cyclists have all consumed sugary sports drinks before. Their brain built up the association between taste and the future availability of energy. I know I feel the effects of morning coffee before my body has had the chance to actually be affected by the caffeine. (I haven't tried this with decaf.)

I have also noticed the effects of (mental) training mentioned in the article. Once you do something, it becomes easy.

A few weeks ago, I got a single-speed bike, and replaced my usual ride on a geared bike with that. Since there is no way to "be lazy" except to go really slow, I was pushed to work harder than I normally do. Going back to the geared bike, my average speed over my usual daily ride increased by like 2 miles an hour, and has stayed there. It's all in your head. (I don't really make an effort to train heavily, I ride my bike because it's a nice way to kill and an hour and not die at the age of 30 from a heart attack. I still seem to pass everyone else on the road, though.)
Just to name a few of the things we are producing in Ohio: solar power technology, advanced polymer technology, medical advancements, and biotechnology. Production no longer requires only smoke stacks.
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I think that's dead on. And that effect is not be too surprising if you consider some more examples: the smell of cooking bacon can get your stomach growling and your saliva flowing. Indeed, as Pavlov famously showed, even a ringing bell can get you salivating after the association is established.
/usr/bin/env is not in the $PATH

I don't think you mean this. When you specify an absolute name, $PATH is not even in the picture. (I do know that some systems put env in /bin. Those systems are misconfigured.)

Anyway, shebangs are flaky by design. I just run the correct interpreter directly, as in "/path/to/perl -Ilib bin/script.pl". There is no confusion that way.
It doesn't matter what you do with the zero page if the address is getting offset with an attacker-controlled caddr_t. I'm skeptical about NULL pointer countermeasures.
> Starts swishing out my coffee. Unfortunately I think the
> placebo/nocebo effect on my self will screw up my personal
> results

Perhaps this effect can actually partially explain the placebo effect--the brain has learned to feel better after taking pills and so is putatively up- or down-regulating certain hormones in expectation of this.
I'll give you that as history has shown that it is likely for unemployment to rise even after the worst is over, but we're certainly on the upswing now.

This constant focus on "jobs" worries me quite bit. It's not just you but politicians worldwide seem to operate that way. More jobs in the short term trump stability in the longterm. This results in painfully wrong tradeoffs being made left and right (billions pumped into dead auto-companies) which only drives up the bill that someone has to pay later.

IMHO jobs are not the main metric we should be looking at anymore. At least not without differentiation. I'm not from the US but as I'm told many americans already need multiple jobs to stay afloat. Over here in germany we have millions of people in subsidized "jobs" that don't quite deserve to be called that (mostly to keep them out of the unemployment statistics, afaik). All of that is is probably looking even less rosy in other countries.

I think much more interesting topics would be the overall concentration of wealth (e.g. along the lines of an improved gini coefficient) and the size of the "middle class" which seems to be shrinking everywhere. These are ofcourse just examples but I think this is the area where we should be looking for metrics, because the gap between "low-skilled" and "high-skilled" (or low/high income, low/high education) workers is widening so rapidly.
In Perl, the default build systems change the shebang on installed scripts to point to the perl that "compiled" them. So if you run "/my/weird/perl Makefile.PL && make install", your installed scripts are run by /my/weird/perl.

(We also have a generic way to get at installed data files without hard-coded paths; see File::ShareDir.)

Not sure why Python can't do this.
That's true. That would defeat such a check because the 0th location would never be hit.
The disadvantage with CPAN is that you need to know what you're doing (or check Perladvent and ask on Perlmonks.org).

How many DateTime modules are there? Which one is really used by everyone the last few years -- and when should you use the previous one?

CPAN is, afaik, better than anything else out there.
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That was my point exactly. I was merely giving the previous post a concession. There are numerous other signs that the economy is now on the upswing. Not all lights are green right now, but we are certainly in a better position than we were at the turn of the year.
I think that basically was the problem - there were so many things that could go wrong that eventually a bunch of them did, and then enough things went wrong at once that the economy couldn't hold up any more.

If you remember back to 2006, there were lots of things wrong with the economy that everybody loved to point out. A housing bubble that was about to pop. A consumer debt bubble and usurious credit card rates. A Web 2.0 Startup bubble with a bunch of dumb ideas. Anemic wage & job growth since the last recession. A derivatives time-bomb. Massive government deficit spending to finance the war on Iraq. High oil prices, partially caused by demand from China and India and partially because of speculation. A large current account deficit, and fears of dollar overvaluation. A student loan bubble where many students take out expensive loans for college and then can't find jobs afterwards.

The majority of these doomsaying prophecies turned out to wrong - by my count, the housing bubble, high oil prices, and the derivatives time bomb were right, and everything else either hasn't happened yet (credit cards, student loans, dollar devaluation) or turned out to be quite minor (Web2.0 popping). But just those three were enough to put a serious dent in the economy.

The 1930s were similar: people like to blame it on the Fed constricting the money supply, but it was really that, plus the gold standard, plus Smoot-Hawley, plus the Dust Bowl, plus the bursting of the stock market bubble, plus the bursting of the Florida real estate bubble. Any one of those might've been shrugged off, but all of them together was cataclysmic.
From a thread down: "Just to name a few of the things we are producing in Ohio..."

Yes, but in this worldwide recession, people only buy things that they need. Those things you mentioned are all advanced (want, not need) products, which has dropped severely in demand. Things we need (oil, cheap stuff, cheap services) are mostly manufactured by other countries.
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I'm a great fan of projects that are really pushing the envelope and came across Inferno. Pretty impressive what you guys are doing there, it is this kind of development that I hope will one day lift us out of the rut we are stuck in.
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Rents have gone down significantly here in California since the start of the year. That's a necessity...

For that matter, gas prices were like 50% higher before this crisis began...
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Perl is inspired a bit by natural languages. It is certainly harder to learn than some other languages.

The Perl Best Practices book is needed for all teams (it saves on long discussions; "this page list what we do different to PBP").
Things we need (oil, cheap stuff, cheap services) are all manufactured by other countries.

The middle part of the country grows a large portion of what we eat. I can't state everything everyone needs, but food is certainly one of those things. On top of that, I don't see how you can say medical advancements are something we don't need.
On the street in a very dry environment. Even if done on the street, in most every place in the US it would be treated as arson with a hate crime enhancement.

What good would going to the reunion do to him? Speaking out about this, would on the other hand do him-- and others-- very well. Writing can heal old wounds.
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Some things are easier to predict on the long term, others on the short term. Some on the local level, others on the global level.
One of my favorite blogs:

http://newsfrom1930.blogspot.com

It publishes excerpts from the Wall Street Journal on this day in 1930. The interesting thing is that the stock market was at nearly the same place relative to its peak at this time in 1930, the newspapers were all saying the same thing ("The worst is behind us", "Look for a slow recovery in the fall", "Businesses report anemic earnings but the pace of decline has slowed"), and it seems unemployment was fairly similar too.

Make of that what you will.
Where do you live? Have you considered a private school or (if you're in the United States) home schooling?

Some public school districts also offer the ability to take the last two years at a local community college: this option would also be great in terms of preparation for going on to a university.

Here's a program many of my friends attended (and have ended up earning their Bachelors degrees at universities like Berkeley and UCLA):

http://www.fuhsd.org/MIDDLEcollege

Perhaps your high school district offers something like this, or could create a similar ad-hoc arrangement?
Looks like it's being done by http://www.smartronix.com

Let's hope it turns out better than their site, which doesn't look that great (to me), uses Flash, doesn't validate, and doesn't degrade gracefully when JS is disabled.
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It worked OK for me in Firefox. (3.5, on Windows XP.)
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"#1 is the most important point. I've worked as a writer, and I'm currently working on several of my own projects, and I can say from experience that for certain projects 1,000 words can take much more time and effort than 20,000 words."

Random thoughts:

I've written for books and magazines, and indeed there's extra work in being concise. But there's also great value in that, too, when done right.

If you don't already know if you like writing, then you probably don't like writing, or else you would be doing it and liking it.

Not all chapters are equal. The trouble is in knowing if your sample chapter is a proper sample of the book as a whole. However, if you find it hard or tedious, stop right away.

It's probably best to write about something you already know and love, but beware the pitfalls in explaining what you've by now internalized to some newbie. There's a good chance you've forgotten how odd or quirky many things are, and you really don't want to discover this at the point you are trying to explain it.

Good examples are hard. Most tech books have questionable example code. On the one hand, they need to be reasonably brief; on the other, they should not be contrived. I tend to prefer walking the reader though a longer code base spread out over chapters, as it will more likely match real-life code.

Very few authors make money off books. There's a good chance that for the time spent you would do better to wait tables. Be clear on why you are doing this, and realistic on what to expect. It can be fun and rewarding.
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"Long slow slog" and "hits a tipping point", to name two.
Incidentally, arstechnica has a detailed write up at

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/07/amazon-sold-...
honestly, this is the BEST TC post I have read in a long while. Extremely well written / crafted and contains serious, sensible points.

I’m so pissed off that I kind of want to call AT&T and demand that they call each of the people I missed calls from and personally apologize. Instead, I’m writing them this very public condemnation.

I would do the former. I really would. Here in the UK phone companies have such a monopoly amongst themselves.

As a consumer I feel regularly screwed. At the moment I am stuck with a shit 18 month old phone because it is out of warranty and upgrading to a newer model (despite being a 10 yr long customer of my current company!) is too expensive outside of the limited free upgrade time.

I sympathize heavily. No one hacks together a phone startup because it is such a closed business. Look how much awesome stuff developed when starting up on the web becomes easy - I hope mobile networks go the same way.
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Seems a bit ironic.
I think collapse is a very strong term.

The way see it is that the recession is going to be long, very long. But it wont be a collapse. We will see state after state, company after company, country after country hit crisis and be bailed out.

The crucial thing is this will happen in sequence rather than all at once.

We survived a major banks crisis earlier this year and can probably survive another similar crisis without the world going to ruin.

Im predicting 10 years to recover from this myself. Any other predictions?
Apparently that's a deliberate design decision to allow root to map 0, which is why the attack vector goes through pulseaudio.

Now why I haven't seen anybody screaming "WTF is a setuid program loading and running arbitrary code for?" is still a mystery.
And yet, great satire frequently seems to go for shock. See: A Modest Proposal, 1984, quite a few of Mark Twain's short stories, Chaucer, etc.
Ask HN: Why do you (or don't you) have contact info in your profile?
I quite often look at users profile to see who they are. Some have an e-mail, some have links to their startups or blogs, and some haven't filled in anything.

I was wondering why you put your contact info in your profile and what kind of communication you would approve of? Are you only interested in work-mail or don't you mind a friendly mail about how great your hair looks? Do you actively communicate with other users, or have you done so by shooting them an e-mail?

It would be interesting to shed some light on how many friendships/partnerships/random net acquaintances are made on HN.

So what's your story?