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Don't run in v8086 mode unless you have to (BIOS boot in Intel VMX). Just go directly to PE or LME as the new docs tell you. It may be interesting to look at the history though.

Also, while devs have to write portable code -- don't bother. It'll save you a bunch of time if you just write the IA32e specific asm code.

If anyone has any interest, I can also post my adaptation of an asmx86 vim syntax file I hacked up from something I found on Stack Overflow. It's not that great, but it does at least fix some of the register highlighting.
Needing some cash does not necessarily mean needing $3 x 500 cash. e.g. I drink about 2..3 espressos per day, 14..21 per week, that's $42..63 per week.

Unless, of course, I've badly misunderstood the intended meaning of needing cash. btw: Oddly enough, I seem to have gotten karma from your upvotes.
Where does he get the 45 mil iPhones/iPod Touch number from? The linked earnings call broke the numbers down as:

iPhone units: 5.2 million
iPod units: 10.2 million

I don't see the iPod touch vs "traditional" iPod breakdown anywhere.

(Also, people outside the US do buy apps!)
Care to share any stories?
Will android take over iphone?
Will Android eventually take over iphone and Blackberry? If you do think so how long do you think it would take for Android to make that happen?

I think Google would be able to make Android as good as the iphone OS and Android been open source and giving more control for developers would be able to close in on the huge number of iphone apps already available. The problem will always be from the side of Device manufacturers. some one from the Open Handset Alliance will have to deliver a product that can match the iphone.
Note that VIMScript has grown into a pretty nice extension language for Vim in Vim 7.2.
Taking another look at the linode site I can definitely see where the confusion might come in as it's difficult to find any indication that costs are calculated daily. However I did find the following, again from the FAQ:

Can I upgrade my Linode?

[...]

Removing resources pro-rates the balance of the month back to your account so you only pay for the time you've used them.

Edit: I've just gone into my linode account and the removal link does give you a figure for how much you'll get back. You pay for a month in advance but if you don't need the full month you can remove the linode and get your money back for the time remaining.
"if you do hide money someplace around the house, make sure that your significant other (or someone close) knows where your hiding place is."

Reminds me of the laptop that was cooked in its hiding place, the oven

http://www.luckywhitegirl.com/2005/11/medium_rare_ele.html
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A superb piece. I couldn't help reading the whole damn thing. The interplay between the scientific and human dramas is masterfully done. There are so many things I could say about this article that I'm not even going to try.

I didn't recognize the name John Colapinto, but it didn't take long to figure out that I've heard him before. He wrote a book about the infamous case of a boy who, after a botched circumcision as a baby, was forcibly raised like a girl to satisfy the pet gender theory of an unscrupulous psychologist. It was a tragic story. The boy grew up to courageously challenge the identity that had been imposed on him and lived as an adult male, but killed himself a few years after the book was published. I remember hearing a riveting interview with him and Colapinto on Fresh Air (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1111038).

So that makes two great pieces by John Colapinto. I wonder what else I've missed.
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LG revamps their very popular Chocolate line of phones with the Chocolate 3 that outperforms the other phones in every way possible. From the design of this phone to the features it houses, there is no doubt that this will be the most desired phone of the summer by people who need a reliable on-the-go cell phone.
Thanks for the comments on my blog post guys. This 45M isn't the # of devices produced. It's Apple's own number about the install base of app world. So likely it takes into consideration broken phones and people upgrading.

-Jonathan
The best way to record your thoughts and ideas and commit them to memory is to explain them to another person. Try it as often as the nature of your thoughts permits; it's really effective.
Amazing read. Rang true some many times with me.

I knew this was something special when it started out with an example of Enron's corporate values. Too many companies have corporate values printed on little cards, back of pamphlets or even "chiseled on the marble on the main lobby."

I think about two thirds the slides stressed on hiring the best talent possible, having high performers and keeping high performers. I have to agree. One of the most important things you can do, especially at a smaller company, is hire well.

One thing that is lacking is a reference to motivation. Compensating people well is important, but you also need a sense of impact and growth. See Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs (a little out dated but a great place to start):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslows_hierarchy_of_needs

I'd say pay is at the lower levels. At the higher levels:
-People need to feel appreciated (part of that is well compensated).
-People need to feel like they are making a difference. (Your job adds value)
-People need to like they're growing. It's not just about getting Sr. added to your job title but actually your learning something and self-actualizing.
Glad you liked my post! For the 45M figure, scroll down to 5:41 (or alternatively search the earnings call page for "App store in 77 countries, more than 45 million install base.")

Apple doesn't break out iPod Touch vs Traditional. So I used admob's numbers about the iTouch vs iPhone to arrive at the number of iPod Touch devices.

Yes, people outside the US buy apps :-P But it's useful to get a device penetration figure (8% of americans) and work with that to do market sizing for a vertical. You could obviously figure out the penetration figure broken down by each country, but that would be rather time consuming.

-Jonathan
Marketing can be done with prototypes, screen mockups, or less.

You are talking about a very specific type(ie. pitches) of marketing.

Majority of marketing is aimed to make you money. To make money, you sell something. To sell something, you need a product. For many on HN, their product largely consists of code.
Just saw it on ESPN, very cool!
Depends on the season. When it's time for loose jeans, I carry around a Moleskine. I only ever write, not draw/doodle, but actually putting pen[cil] to paper makes me more likely to sit down and brainstorm out a few other ideas while I've got it out. It's also helpful in that, when you later store the thought somewhere more permanent, you have the opportunity to reinterpret and rephrase it to fit with any additions or updates you pondered to it since.

When I have fewer pockets, I make do with my iPhone. Though most of my thoughts are ideas, not plans, I find [the iPhone app] Things to be quite helpful in getting them down and sorted away, even without a correspondent Mac.
I use Quotepad on my PC

http://quotepad.info/

It's a rebranding of Notesholder Lite

screenshot:

http://notes.aklabs.com/images/notesholder-desktop-sticky-no...
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I think most burglars would be after possessions over cash, since they're harder to hide and more likely to be left out. (I don't lock my computers up, and they are out in the open, though we do have 4 vicious-sounding dogs.)
When I'm within reach of my Emacs, I use org-remember to create an idea entry. Otherwise, I usually carry enough calendar sheets on whose backsides I can keep ideas fresh until I can enter them into a computer.
I use Evernote. It OCRs text out of photos I take on my iPhone. I try to take a photo of anything which gave me an idea, and usually looking at the note is enough to trigger the idea again. That text is searchable.

I take pictures of whiteboards whenever I've been doing design. It can't OCR my handwriting well, so I usually use the iPhone's text entry to tag it with a few words before I save the note.
Sure. Here's some banal stuff. If you have anything in particular you'd like to know, ask.

Good - A few days after I joined I decided I wanted a much bigger monitor and several gigs more ram. After hemming and hawing for a day trying to figure out how to justify it to my manager, I just asked. My manager said there was no reason to ask him, just file a ticket. No approval needed. This is true for anything I need (hardware, software, cell phone...).

Bad - Within my first week, I noticed three "good bye" emails, none of which were voluntary.

Great - I have free access to one of the largest sets of voluntary enjoyment decision data and lots of big machines. ML paradise.

Great - All of my coworkers are amazing. It's really satisfying to not be the smartest guy in the room.
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Not perfect. But they really mean it when they say "adequate performance gets a generous severance package".
It would be more effective if you rigged a harmless current to the latch to scare people when they tried to access it.
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I concur, it seems as simple as that. Android doesn't have the momentum, the sexiness, the tight hold on quality that the iPhone has. All of these contribute to its success, and, well iPhone got there first, that counts for a lot.
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Both are important: product development + marketing. Mr commonsense once thought that code was all-important, and now, it seems, makes the opposite error.

New technology can and does make a difference. Edison focussed on technical contribution, so did Hewlett Packard (once), and google began with technical innovation in a saturated market.

Though to be fair, it's the technology that makes the difference (the concept, the algorithm, the insight, the approach) not the code per se.
"Robots already make your toast, and consistently get it wrong."

Not really.

Any large group toaster (the ones that look like a pizza cooker) with the conveyor belt produces pretty consistent toast pretty quickly.

To use an old software excuse - the toaster is cooking toast exactly to the spec. Just because you put it down for too long - doesn't make it the toaster/robots fault.

// agree on almost all else though
Somebody already said this: wow.

Awesome.

One thing that stood out for me in that document was their analysis of how company growth forces the reduction of creativity in the workforce by the implementation of rigid processes.

Even more impressive is their solution to avoiding this problem: Just keep hiring more talented people.
This is a comic written during the previous bubble. There is lots of discussion of how the future is viewed from that perspective.
I find myself needing short term storage for ideas ("What should I try to do today?" "What needs to go in this class?") and long term storage for ideas ("Why does the screenshot on the home page link to an image which you have to close to continue interacting with the site instead of linking into to a conversion funnel?").

Short term ideas go in cheap little $1.50 notebooks. I hang on to them because I'm a packrat but I don't ever actively search in them. (I actually tried to prevent a coffee ring on my table the other day with a notebook, and realized that it had the feature list for BCC 1.0 in it.)

Long term ideas go into searchable storage because if you can't find them you might as well not have had them. My blog works fine for my business, since I don't believe in competitively sensitive information and because explaining to 3rd parties sharpens my thinking frequently. At my day job, where they will not let me just stuff my work product on the public Internet, we use wikis. If you haven't done this before, try it for a few weeks, it will revolutionize the way you work. ("How do we set up the test server environment?" "Ask Bob." "Bob quit last year." "Awww shucks." -> "How do we set up the test server environment?" "Did you search the Wiki?" "Oh yeah. But it doesn't mention what version of the DB to use." "Well, when you find it out, Wiki it.")
I agree. Most people don't care about my drivel so I talk to EverNote's "voice notes" on my iPhone, then review what I was going on about on the desktop version later.
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iPhone OS 3.0 has a Voice Recorder built in that works pretty well. I've recorded 10 minute blog posts by just casually talking into the mike.
I tried lots of things and nothing beats the pencil and paper method. Notes on the concepts or high-level ideas go into a notebook, notes and sketches for an ongoing stuff such as UI designs, ToDo lists, random thoughts on current project - on separate sheets of paper. Latter are not meant for keeping beyond several weeks, and so they are shredded periodically.

(edit) Vectorized UI sketches are kept of course in the graphics editor files, backed up, replicated and what not.
tab completion also works for help: it cycles through all help keywords that contain the present text (not just suffixes, as in normal tab-completion). eg. try

:he lvis

and press tab.

I like the inline arithmetic:

CTRL-R=5*5

Note the "=" comes first. I just discovered that "CTRL-R5" inserts that line from your cut-and-paste history (or something).
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its pretty simple, corporate ownership/government fiat isn't the only way to protect investors that aren't willing to assume risk. you've done a good job of deconstructing most of this now just look at the pieces and see they are separate.
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One of my favorites when I was in college. I had the good fortune to graduate right after the bubble popped.
CTRL-R inserts from the register that follows it.

See :help i_CTRL-R
and :help registers
How long does it usually take to determine whether a person is only an "adequate" performer and given a generous severance package?
I've found that it's really useful for me to write down my thoughts. In the past I assumed that I would remember any worthwhile ideas, but I've found that's not the case at all.

When I'm not at my computer, I use iPhone Notes (about to switch to Simplenote) for short notes and a small notebook if possible when I want to do serious brainstorming. When I'm at my computer I usually use a personal MoinMoin wiki (MoinX). For todo lists I use Things on my iPhone and laptop.
I blog them. Seriously. Blogging is about explaining my ideas to whoever wants to read them, and thus it forces me to be clear and precise. It allows me to find flaws in my own reasoning.

I blog for myself: when I re-read my old posts, I feel like a stranger to them. It's hard to load the old ideas to my brain, so to say, but the fact that I wrote them in a way that would be clear to someone else allows me to understand them. If I didn't blog my thoughts, I would instead write a quick and dirty note on paper, and 2 years later when I found it again, I would have no clue what my original thoughts were...
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In graphical design I've heard this being mentioned as the "Pink Elephant", i.e. "obvious misses" that the client can easily clank down on. This makes it easier to keep the integrity of the overall design.
Drawing. I draw them and try to make them beautiful, not just throwaway squiggles. My thoughts come fast and translating them into words is like having to edit a paper at the same time as the idea is taking influence over my mind.

One day, a ladybug went to a caterpillar and said to him, "You have so many legs! How do you decide which leg goes in front of the other when you walk?"

He thought about it for a moment and told her, "Well it's easy, you just put this one in front of this one in front of this one in front of this one......." and while proudly demonstrating his abilities to her, he toppled over like a dumb ass!

Another alternative is I'll use my BlackBerry's voice notes to rattle something off and save it to make sense of later. :)
I have a text file on my desktop where I keep ideas.

When I come up with some off-the-wall idea, usually x264-development-related, I throw it into the text file; it rarely takes more than a dozen words. I'm not writing it for someone else, I'm writing it for myself--all I need is enough so that I remember what I was thinking when I have time to try the idea later.

I'll often do this when developing normally as well; I'm working on X, and my thought process with X produces some idea that applies to Y, so I throw it into the list and try it later rather than breaking my concentration on X.
I record quick thoughts with pen and paper on a small pad I carry with me everywhere.

For more intensive work I use mindmapping. Either on whiteboard, or using http://thoughtmuse.com (disclaimer: I'm the founder of ThoughtMuse)
I draw a "mindmap". It's a simple, star-like diagram, with lots of drawings. Try it out, it's worth it.
From the article:

Look at Shapira’s article, says Snyder. It’s missing 'anything resembling a point of view.' And that’s exactly what Nolan’s Gawker post provided.

A lot of blogs that are second-hand reporting, what they usually add id their own opinion on the topic. They were interested (or disgusted) enough when reading the article to add their 2 cents to the topic. Sometimes that opinion is just as interesting (or more) as the original article.
Actually this is the opposite of what you're suggesting. Working for Netflix doesn't require that you sacrifice a work/life balance. Implicit is the agreement that you'll perform up to the standard that is expected of you, but from what I've seen, most people here can handle it admirably.
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Most of the times, I use the voice recorder on my mobile phone. Vocally expressing a thought is much easier and unconfined. Writing stuff down often results in me forgetting things in between.
Another technique I found works great is to "be wrong on front of an expert". Make uninformed but curious statements before knowledeable people and I will take the time to tell you how it really is.
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I wonder if the story Mac vs. PC will be all over again but in different market. We have one company with new, sexy and revolutionary device, we have another company—the market leader—that missed the moment and we have the third company that started by writing software for the sexy device and eventually released their own operating system: definitely not as polished but open so any number of hardware-oriented companies can release their devices with this new OS.
I usually email myself notes with some keywords attached. Since I use gmail, it's easy to search for them later.
I use jdarkroom on ubuntu/writeroom on mac.
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Its convenient that you picked tomatoes, try potatoes:

colories per gram pototatoes = 0.7866

colories per gram ground beef = 2.59

therefore colories per acre:

potatoes = 31,466

beef = 647.5

There we go, back to 2 orders of magnitude.
Most "true predictions" from 50 years ago are simply random likely occurrences given the number of "predictions" made. I use quotes around the word because most of these accounts aren't actually people saying they believe the future will be a certain way. Most depictions of the future are in fiction, and even fiction hailed as being quite accurate has many more inaccuracies that are simply ignored. If someone was really trying to predict was the future would be like, then it wouldn't be that impressive that they would get 5 or even 10 percent of their predictions correct, due to chance.
Protip: the less you think about this the better. Bics and napkins, your editor, whatever.
My guess would be a few months but I don't have any hard evidence on hand. Based on my limited experience, I wouldn't put the duration at more than a year.
But in doing so, you will violate so many copyrights that you'll forget about all the new ones you acquired.
One of the best things I ever did was drive cross-country. Seeing the West Coast, Rocky Mountain States, Midwest, South, and East over the span of a few weeks showed me a heck of a lot that I still go back and ponder when I meet someone from a place I passed through. Little tiny things are very different.

But don't underestimate international border culture shock either - especially non-Western countries. America was basically settled by and built on Western European traditions - England, Spain, and France mostly, with some Dutch and later the Irish, Italians, and other Western Europeans. But the ex-Soviet Bloc, Middle East, East Asia are lightyears different from America, and the culture shock is pretty supreme. Basically assumptions about how the world works and should work that I didn't know I had I had to re-check.

The craziest was the Japanese on work. Raised in America, I basically took for granted that doing work is something you don't like that you do for money. Okay, some really lucky people love their jobs, but they're pretty rare. And some people manage to have an "okay job", but all our media, movies, television, and culture ethos are that "work sucks and get it over with so I can get paid and do something else."

Japan? Not the case. People actually take pride in doing work, for working. We look at the Japanese hours and think Japanese people are bat shit crazy, and I mean, maybe they are, but they actually take pride and enjoyment out of working. Comparing an American employee at McDonalds to a Japanese employee at Mosburger or Yoshinoya, or even Japanese McDonalds is a head trip. Cross border culture shock, even. Words don't do it justice, seeing the expression and gesturing and presentation of people working in Japan really is something else, as are similar things in other very different places.
Yeah, I still vividly remember the TV ad that inspired me to use google for the first time and keep using it even though it's always been complete crap. Altavista's marketing just couldn't keep up ;-)

No, really, that blog post misses almost all the variables in the equation. What about making something useful or entertaining? What about making something cheaper? What about making something simpler? All of that is neither about marketing nor about code quality.

So everything he really says is that you need to let people know about your product. Who would've thought?
Makes me want to work there for a few years. Showing merely adequate engineers the door is high on my list of things to look for in my next position.
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Voted up for pragmatic clarity and a sense of affinity for your approach!
I understand what you say about motivation, but I don't think Netflix is about that. My belief is that they expect you to be intrinsically excited about working there - because you are a professional adult. You should already be learning on your own and already "self-actualized". Paying you well just validates what they believe you should be.

Not all companies are like that, and that's why working at Netflix takes a bit of a mindset re-org.