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Ask HN: What do you use to read RSS feeds (other than Google Reader)?
I used Bloglines forever because their mobile version worked great on my Sidekick, but then they had stability issues.

I switched to Newsgator Online because they had a good iPhone web version and the full web reader was comparable to Bloglines. Now it's being discontinued (http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2009/07/hearty-welcome-to-newsgator-users.html).

I don't want to use Google Reader because 1) it's tied to my Google account and I log in and out of Google accounts multiple times a day and I want to be able to check RSS without logging in all the time 2) the iPhone version is horrible.

Any alternatives out there I don't know about? I'd prefer to keep it all web-based (iPhone apps are too slow and I spend a lot of time on multiple computers and I don't like waiting for desktop syncing).
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Initially I'd focus less on your marketing and more on taking advantage of whatever network of contacts you've got. If you can build a client base from people that know you and trust you, that should serve as a source for continued work in the months to come. The idea is to build a base of clients that are satisfied with your work, with the hope that they'll recommend you to people they come in contact with that may need similar services. With every client you serve, think about how you can take the work you've done and re-apply that some effort towards future clients. If you're doing any type of development, and you retain the right to reuse that code, it'll save you time and money down the road.

I'd also recommend speaking with an attorney, or finding a basic contract from an online resource that you can use for jobs you accept.

You may also want to speak to an accountant to make sure you handle the tax-aspect of a business correctly. You can make some mistakes that wind up costing you a lot more in fees and penalties than a meeting with an accountant would cost.

Spend some time on the website Freelance Switch (http://freelanceswitch.com/). It is a good resource for somebody in your position.

Good luck. Working for yourself is rewarding, but it's also definitely a challenge.
To me, I'd just be suspicious of anything sold at those prices. You're a bottom feeder on the dregs of the food-industrial complex, and that can't be good.
The funny thing is, despite claiming to loathe the security industry, those who commit acts like this are its most effective promoters.
Sorry but this is not a new idea but close what China did for twenty years. For most of the PRC's history, Chinese currency was usable only in China with exchange rates closely controlled. Even today the currency is not fully convertible. Starting in the nineties, this situation worked well for them until things got so unbalanced that we have ... well, the situation that we have today.
I don't mean to make fun, but this sentence struck me as funny: "Relying on the centuries-old principle that white objects absorb less heat than dark ones"

As if before those "centuries" light and dark objects absorbed heat differently. :)
I believe it was an attempt at a Fight Club reference.
> If they do something great... the response will be "Meh".

I still think that there are too many externally motivated people going into science, rather than too few.
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Just order a few more and then split the s&h withe friends/family. (which is what I did). Plus it is a great gift.
How big is the Internet?
the main problem is that users still don't want to pay for these things

That's only a problem if your business model depends on users paying for these things - i.e. if your business model depends on scarcity that doesn't exist.

If they would only stop being precious for a minute, the newsmedia would recognize that they're already familiar with the idea of making money from sources other than the actual content consumers. After all, it was newspapers that popularized the revenue-from-advertising model in the first place, a model that allowed them to deliver newspapers very cheaply (sometimes freely) to their readers.

The smartest thing AP and other newsmedia can do is abandon their micropayment pipe dreams and start getting creative about new ways to leverage their assets for revenue.
Or go wash dishes/clean up the back of the house for a hour or so every day in a restaurant in exchange for breakfast and dinner. You'll eat a lot better.
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Wow, this is from 9 years ago. I'm sure most of it still applies though... You'll just get way more bang for your buck.
I use Google Reader for low-volume feeds that I care about (i.e., I want to read every post).

I set up a Planet Venus[1] page for high-volume feeds where I don't care if I miss some posts. It shows only the 100 most recent items, so if I don't check it for a few days they don't pile up. A cron job updates it every 6 hours, so I don't keep checking it for new items all the time. It's a static web page, and I included a simple version with no stylesheet for reading on my phone.

1. http://intertwingly.net/code/venus/
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Boy, did I ever misfire in my attempt at humour!
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Agreed, don't let a name hold you from making progress. That said, continually hunting for a "better" one is worth it.

Case in point: I have an app (an interactive, online programming notebook), and it was originally called http://knoboo.com. Over the first year or so I agonized over people's butchering of the name, and confusion over the meaning. Over time, I was able to find a better name, http://codenode.org, and I'm very glad I did.
By "externally motivated", do you mean money?
It's probably faster to serve them off your own server due to HTTP keepalive.

Sure, making a new connection to google's CDN might be faster than making a new connection to your server, but it's definitely not going to be faster than sending a little more data over an existing connection. Not to mention the extra DNS lookup.
What you said is true, but what he is saying is about spending your resources. Time, money etc. You may be nice to everyone but due to constraints you may not be able to offer resources to everyone.
I have firstname@lastname.us and use Gmail. It's dead easy to set up, and free.
It's easy. You don't need to break a contract or lease to start it. You can learn how to cook which is a really valuable skill. And if you're not already cooking at home you will almost be assured to be eating better food (well once you get comfortable!).

I usually buy what protein is on sale and plan meals around that. It has a nice side effect of varying my diet.
That's a good idea, I'll try that. Thanks!
Android on the iPhone? Anyone?
Indeed. And from outside Red Hat, it's hard to see how you guys would even see this as a problem. RHEL is a for-pay product, it's not a free-as-in-beer distribution. So given that there's a market for free distros, clearly RH would prefer people use and target CentOS than Ubuntu or debian.
if you don't have them already: build-essentials, python, svn

Chromium is also a must.
No, you're just buying at the right time and in bulk. Grocery stores run tight margins and frequent loss leaders. Just because someone at the grocery store over bought and has to run a sale doesn't make you a bottom feeder. It's the same food everyone else is getting.
As far as I know, the 4chan /b/ (random) board is only moderated to the extend they're minimally required by law such us banning underage users (as it's an adult board) and removing child porn.
> Nutrition is a vast science.

It ought to be treated as a science but often it isn't. If you ask 100 nutrition experts how much protein a person should get in a day, you're not going to get a consensus based on empirical evidence, but drastically different answers and emotional passions bordering on the religious.
R&D in alot of different areas. Probably more famous when we were Bell Labs and came up with things like the transistor, coaxial cable, Unix, C++, Radar, Radio Astronomy (Echo of the Big Bang) etc but more recently research has been focussed on communications and networks.

My team reports up to the CSO for AT&T and are prototyping different tools and solutions that ICDS (The AT&T CDN) can offer their clients, we are building an application he can use for his virtual security conference at the end of the year. We also work closely with the Mobility Security Research team, they actually have a fully functional test cell site in the building which is kinda cool.

Most of the stuff my team does is not externally visible, but we did build this little site to start showing some of the decades of content AT&T has (Though its not primarily what we do). http://techchannel.att.com/ I like the Tech Icon series, good interviews with Bill Cheswick and Cliff Stoll.
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Bingo. Plus, there's always Scientific Linux as an alternative (full disclosure: I work for FNAL, but not on SL), if things completely fall apart in the CentOS camp. I'd have a hard time imagining a situation with CentOS that couldn't be easily resolved with a new domain and some debate over an organizational charter, though.
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Honestly, I don't really buy into the idea that getting your protein from a mix of beans and grains will somehow cause you to end up making up the cost difference in medical bills due to the amount of carbohydrates you're ingesting, given the huge number of people on this earth who do so and who appear to have perfectly fine results from this sort of diet. Just make sure you're getting some exercise (which you should be doing regardless of your diet).

That all having been said, tofu can be quite cost effective, low in carbs, and high in protein. Of course, you might tell me there's aggression issues associated with tofu ingestion, and that it contains chemicals that mimic estrogen. So, there's seitan, which is also high in protein, low in carbs, and can be made relatively cheaply from wheat gluten in bulk. Of course, there are lots of people who decry wheat gluten as well, not to mention people who're legitimately allergic to it.

So that brings us to meat and fish. Meat often comes along with saturated fats and often raises your blood's LDL cholesterol levels, not to mention all the health, environmental, and ethical concerns of factory farming. You could take part in a co-op for your meat, but that is not going to enable you to eat for especially cheap. Fish is generally better in the fat and cholesterol departments, but many carry with them mercury content that makes a lot of people nervous and the threat of overfishing. There are fish that avoid most of these concerns, such as tilapia, which fit most of the criteria, but is still not anywhere close to as price effective as dried beans.

If you don't want to get your protein from beans, that's fine. I personally advocate people pay a little more and eat a healthy, varied diet, including many (or all) of the above-mentioned dangerous foods. But this crap about "medical bills are expensive too" implying that somehow eating an incredibly traditional and largely vegetarian diet will send you to the hospital is just ridiculous.
I don't know how you could call the latest version of any of the major databases "traditional"

Oracle has done MVCC for many years, as has Postgres. The canonical paper on optimistic concurrency control for DBs is from 1981 (http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~zives/cis650/papers/opt-cc.pdf).

I didn't follow the rest of your comment, I'm afraid -- I was just saying that I didn't see how using append-only storage immediately makes concurrency control a non-issue. The comments from the RethinkDB guys upthread support that: not supporting concurrent writers makes your concurrency control much more straightforward.
Linux is only a reasonable desktop if you're only spending your time in a terminal, using emacs/vi/eclipse/netbeans/etc. Before moving to Mac OS X from Linux/BSD desktops, I failed to appreciate the value of polished, non-developer software.

Now, I regularly tear my hair out trying to interact with Linux users. From diagram software (OmniGraffle/Visio) to accounting software (QuickBooks) to billing software (Billings by Marketcircle), Linux just doesn't have the solid, polished applications, and it interoperates exceptionally poorly in environments where Mac OS X and Windows get along just fine.

For example -- I can easily share diagrams with Visio users, but Dia is not a replacement for Visio/OmniGraffle and won't do the trick. How am I supposed to diagram with Linux users? Use dot/graphviz and create remarkably ugly diagrams?

If I had to assign blame for the lack of quality applications, I'd say that the APIs are unstable and inconsistent, there's no standard application API (gnome vs. kde/qt vs. straight qt vs. wxwidgets), the user market just doesn't exist, and that it's difficult to mix the GPL / free software world with expensive development that requires professional UI, design, and art work, and all the other components of a polished end-user product. End-users don't buy 'support'.

Of course, this is an unpopular opinion among free software advocates. As soon as you figure out how we can share diagrams that I want to place in my LaTeX documents, interact with artists producing photoshop/illustrator files, and modify complex word documents sent by lawyers without losing required document meta-data -- let me know.
I don't think I would ever eat lard, but some proponents of the low-carb diet surely would approve.
This doesn't have to be true. Purchasing mock meats and the like will probably get to be expensive. But cutting out meat and cheese are two of the very easiest ways to lower your monthly food costs and improve your overall health.

Rice, beans, pasta, and (frozen) veggies combined with different spices and sauces isn't a bad way to go when saving money and trying to stay healthy.

I'm much more skeptical of the health consequences from a diet including large quantities of eggs, cheap ground meat, and inexpensive cheese.

I also think the key to living this cheaply would be a multi-vitamin to help replace whatever you're invariably missing from your diet.

As a vegetarian who eats like a vegan 98% of the time (and for several years lived on no more than a $60.00/month food budget), you don't have to let budgetary constraints keep you from participating in a healthy and environmentally friendly way of eating.
Ditch the bacon and throw in rice and beans (since you can have more variety that way, while not spending any more).

Also, experiment with cheap veggies. I get sick of PB&J, so I stick things like cucumber slices or mushrooms in there, and it seems totally different to my taste buds. Cucumbers are dirt cheap, mushrooms less so, but either way, not breaking the budget. I also enjoy a zucchini sandwich (between buttered toast).

Another way most people could cut their budgets is to look seriously at their portion size. I realize this doesn't apply to you, but if one's definition of a 'meal' is what fills up a 15 inch dinner plate and involves at least four different colors, then yeah, it's hard to eat cheaply. Most restaurant 'meals' are really at least two.
The problem is that they have tried that. It doesn't work because web advertising is significantly cheaper than print advertising is, especially because you cannot guarantee that someone has seen the advert on the web. Which is why they're currently losing money. A full page ad in the NY times on the cover is 75,000$ or 100,000$ depending on the day, one could only dream of making that kind of money on web adverts.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/01062009/business/front_page_new...
I suspect it's the New York Times.
Yeah his Revelation Space universe deals with this. Read the 4 main novels (RS, CC, AG, RA) and make sure you read the short stories in Galactic North.
So. How well does Emacs work on a Mac these days? I'm strongly considering switching from Linux to Mac, because I'm sick of running Windows in VMWare just so I can use Microsoft's Office suite. I couldn't live without Emacs though.
Beans are not meat. But beans combined with many types of rice, bread, pasta, or oats can make a complete protein (the same as you'd find in an animal product).
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The Mac Mini is a cheaper development box.
several months of absence of a decision is also a decision.

It is funny that incidents like this highlight a fundamental difference between bazaar style foss on the one side 'closed' source and corporate style foss on the other (for instance redhat), the issues surrounding individuals would never shine through as bright in a corporate setting. The corporate identity shields to some extent the fact that it too is made up out of individuals.
It's also a great way to go to jail... I guess you could feasibly retire in jail.
Open source projects are harsh mistresses, lots of flack and fairly little return for it. You have to have a thick skin to be active at a high level in open source.
Traditionally, poor people who couldn't afford meat have been much worse off health-wise. And the biggest health decline in human history occurred when we switched from hunter-gathering lifestyles to farming (see Jared Diamond). Further, the Keyes hypothesis about the dangers of fats -- weren't you the one suggesting refined beans? -- are not well supported (see Gary Taubes).
this is pretty topical for me, as this started happening to us the other day after implementing a lightbox gallery javascript. good writeup.
in spite of all the trolling some of the very best stuff on /. is by ac posters. It's the one reason I still read it at -1 but I make sure I don't read it while I'm eating.
On a related note... Chasm City isn't strictly within the general story arc of Revelation Space, but it's a good background reading on what the universe feels like in that time/locale.
Sorry. Common problem in these kinds of forums, not entirely sure how to solve redundancy of content. I search before posting, but obviously it's harder to catch when it's similar but not identical. Thoughts?
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"The worst thing that could happen is that the Yahoos will be fired"

Some people simply say that they are not a lawyer instead of feeling the need to prove it dramatically.
I wish they could give a dollar amount. I'm sure they do, too.
not sure why you got modded down, this is a factor with the resignation of any key person in any major enterprise. Surely CentOS is no exception to the rule.
Okay so say 600 + 200 + 100 + contract, still well over a thousand for what the kill you with on a contract.
I must not have been clear in my previous post: there is a difference between an objective confidence (such as from experimental measurements) and subjective confidence (such as my own personal confidence that something is correct). Objective confidences can be meaningfully quantified. Subjective confidences cannot.

For example, I am confident that special relativity is correct and that the speed of light is the unreachable-ceiling for the speed of matter with mass. A century's worth of observations and experiments support this. However, trying to quantify that subjective confidence is meaningless.
His definition of entrepreneur is different from what we normally think of tech startups, but even for tech startups, Portland surely ranks high. I've lived there and at one point was a late state startup employee. It's got the moxie and atmosphere for it, but it still doesn't have the surrounding ecosystem like Silicon Valley or even Boston.

That being said, in my list of best cities for startups, Portland makes a good case for 3rd place.

Quality of living is super high. Combined with a reasonable cost of living, it's a fantastic place to live.
My reaction is mostly personal: This is f'ing awesome. I've lived in NYC for most of the last decade after growing up in the northwest, and I've had the urge to move...somewhere.

Just in the last few days, I came to terms with the fact that while I didn't really want to move "back home," Portland is the ideal place. Decent-size place, nice climate year-round, plenty of culture, great variety of stuff to do within a day's drive or less ... it is kind of a mini-bay area without the tech tilt in many ways. I grew up in a mid-sized town several hours away, but many of the more interesting people I knew in high school have ended up there.

Added bonus: If you live in Vancouver, WA (north suburbs of PDX) and work from home (or just in WA), there's no state income tax.
When I was a poor starving student and worked in a supermarket the managers had to put all the expired cakes and cookies in the trash compactor to stop workers taking them. Not sure if this was so we would buy from the store instead or in case we sued if we got ill
I used to use RSSBandig (http://rssbandit.org/) before switching over completely to Google Reader.
Of course, it's desktop based, so doesn't fit your requirements. It does have a nice sync option with web-based readers - http://rssbandit.org/features/synchronizing-feeds-with-googl...
"First, it's mixing the weaknesses of Android with the weaknesses of the G1 hardware. There might not be a lot options available these days when it comes to buying an Android-enabled phone but it looks like this is going to change soon."

And when it does we can evaluate the new Android phone on its merits then and there. "It's available on only one crappy set of hardware" is a legitimate criticism of the Android platform.

"How long did you have to wait to get copy and paste working on the iPhone? Can you run multiple apps at the same time on the iPhone? Can you have widgets on the iPhone? What about the well known problems of the iPhone App Store we all hear a lot about these days?"

I've used copy and paste maybe once or twice, and I'm not convinced full-blown multitasking is worthwhile for the iPhone. And the first iPhone had an inconvenient headphone jack. And you can't replace the battery easily. Fair enough. But these are fairly high-level gripes. Basic shit you should get right to even compete with the iPhone--like music, mail, webbrowsing, and speed--are at the basis of his complaints.

I would much rather have a good, reliable keyboard, web browser, mail client, and MP3 player on my phone than have copy-and-paste or multitasking. I would rather have a sizable library of third party apps to choose from than not, even if the librarian arbitrarily bans books for stupid reasons.

Of course no one is perfect. But this guy is comparing Android to iPhone, one on one, and finding that Android falls short when it comes to basic functionality. That's a valid criticism.
What of the right to bear arms then?
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So you're saying your rate of code review is 6 lines every 10 seconds? ;-)
I totally thought this was going to be an article about the Morris Worm. Damn!
> I grew up in a mid-sized town several hours away,

Eugene? That's where I'm from.

> nice climate year-round,

Let's be honest, if it were, then it would be inundated with people because it is a nice place in so many other ways. It's not, though, IMO; it's gray and drizzly from October to early summer (and usually stops raining the 5th of July). If people don't mind that, it's a great place, though, although it does tend towards laid back rather than busy/active. IMO you could do a lot worse.
I've found the best way is just just `cat` all my js files together, and just include that one...
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