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I had fun at one place of work by saying each time someone brought up the moon landing, you mean 'the alleged moon landing.' One gent knew I was joking but the rest weren't sure, so the two of us had a good laugh.
Ask but as another has mentioned, ask what you can do to make yourself a better candidate for that type of position.

But realize that it is only one company and might not reflect reality in other companies. Better to ask many people what they are looking for in co-workers and employees.
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These are really valuable advices.

What is left out, in my opinion, is how specialization (even in the things you do just for yourself) inherently leads to stress and lack of happiness. And being a generalist makes earning a living in our society nearly impossible (for most of us).

Of course you have to love what you do to be good at it. But you can love many things at once.
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If Opera were significantly and wildly incompatible with other "popular" browsers like Firefox and Safari, you might have a point, but not much of one.

But the plain fact is that, these days, the only browser which incurs support costs high enough to consider cutting out is Internet Explorer. Stuff that works in any of the other browsers will, almost always, work in all of them.
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We gave up cell phones and this is exactly the solution we opted for. We got a Touch ($250) and a Skype number/subscription ($60) and saved over $1000 from our cell contract. Two drawbacks:

1) Skype doesn't push calls through the other iPod apps so you have to have Skype loaded and the device unlocked to receive a call. In reality, you just make outbound calls.

2) If you have a need for a non-stop wireless signal (and we don't - not now), this won't work but....The Verizon Mifi ($60/month plus $100 upfront) gives you your own personal wireless connection through their 3G network. The bonus is you can connect up to five wireless devices at a time. The only real downside is a maximum of 5 Gb/month in bandwidth. True, that's an extra device to carry/charge, but the flexibility seems worth it to me if we ever to need constant connectivity.

Basically, we get almost all of the iPhone's functionality for a lot less. Next year our total cost will be $60 (for the Skype services). I think this option can work for anyone who spends most of their time within range of a wireless network. In case our old car ever breaks down, we do have an emergency paygo cell. If we find we'll be out and about more often, we'll get the Verizon Mifi.

What's interesting is Verizon actually pushed us down this path. We weren't getting decent coverage in our home (and no provider would in our town), so they offered us their Network Extender which routes cell calls through VoIP...for another $200. You read that right. They unload capacity from their towers and through the internet and still manage to charge $200.
Without knowing anything specific, I'd venture to guess that the distance has something to say too.
Yes comments should be about intent, the implementation (code) should be obvious. Often when maintaining legacy code the most important thing is to understand what the original programmer wanted to do and why. Not that there aren't some complete idiots writing code - but you can't know that this seemingly stupid thing you see in your editor window wasn't the best decision at the time given some constraint that no longer exists now.
Oh yeah, it's a pig. But most anti-virus programs are pigs.

My experience: my XP computer got very slow over time: just booting Windows took 20 minutes.

I kicked off AVG and now it boots in about 2 minutes.

If that is not a pig, then I don't know what is.
I was just out there visiting and I was surprised by the same. Berkeley was less of an issue. It does seem like there are a lot of closed wireless networks in San Fran that you can buy a subscription to. That might be another option if you don't need so much connectivity to require the Verizon Mifi.
You do realize the WTC complex was shutdown a week before the attacks, all security turned off for about 36 hours and that the security team is headed by Marvin Bush. I don't know about the moon but 9/11 is here on earth and it was literally full of lies and problems of admittance.

Are you aware of the hundreds of thousands of hours of actual research done on this subject to say such a lucidly idiotic statement as what you just said. As if you know anything about what happened. There are thousands of people who have devoted considerable time, people who have lost relatives in the explosions, some who have devoted their lives to the subject, who would contradict you without a doubt. Kurt Sonnenfeld is a good place to start as he was a FEMA agent on on GROUND ZERO when no one else was allowed. Please look into this man and maybe read his book.

'Real questions go unanswered'. Are you joking?

ALL OF OUR QUESTIONS HAVE GONE UNANSWERED. The government has been caught in outright lies since the war started and it has answered none of the questions that literally 1000's of profession aviators, physicists, demolition experts, government officials, and many others have of the 9/1 situation. this list includes very prominent individuals that believe thermite or some like substance was used to melt the steel and turn the concrete into fine dust.

You obviously have a lot more homework to do before you can even consider yourself to be educated on the subject so why not start at

911truth.org

a bit more organized than the moon hoax there my friend.

The moon is one thing because it happened some time ago and there really is no hard truth either way as the controversy and the photos and evidence can be manipulated in many ways. Until we go back there will always be skeptics and for good reason. They are hiding at least something.

But with 9/11 there are hard facts and video footage from every angle here on earth and there is a war going on that is illegal in every way and 9/11 was our obvious way into this wholly illegal atrocity. Good day.
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I have a friend that uses made-up answers, different for every site, and keeps a (secure) list of all of them.

Her main concern wasn't that these were guessable, but instead that she doesn't like being required to give every little sign-up site more information than they need.
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This is an often quoted argument, but in reality it doesn't happen as much as you would think. Millionaires are people too, and they care about their friends and family living close by, the city they live in, etc.

If this were true we would have no millionaires in Denmark where we have a personal top tax rate of 65%. And we have quite a few. Even a few billionaires.
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"a product that makes a lot of money from its customers"

They make a lot of money from Google, not from you or me. Their job is to prevent Internet Explorer from gaining too much market share and to provide a usable browser on those platforms that wouldn't otherwise, have one.

Also, they work on limited resources. They have to prioritize. They are also human. You can get a whole lot more done if you just ask nicely.

They can't send their users packing, but I understand if they don't prioritize a fix that would be noticed by about half a dozen users (the intersection of the "Mac users" with "users who change default keyboard shortcuts") however verbal and vitriolic they are.
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Guy Kawasaki used to write good articles based on insight gleamed from his personal experience. But these days he seems to be more about just generating some content to get eye balls so that he can push alltop. He is losing credibility fast.
Wave is going to change comms.
I hope
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and yet they have so much whitespace in the chrome that they could have easily fitted a compact file menu in. Sure, make it look as good as you can, but whitespace is not as important as screen real-estate in browser chrome. I'm guessing these are designers not engineers - the same sort that go for unreadably small fonts to make things look slicker.
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Nice article. I find it strange however that although he considers school to be boring and a preparation for work, he goes on to say that work can be fun.

I am not so sure that school was boring for the architect, or the lawyer, doctor, teacher, the academic, and pg himself. I believe that the opposite of prestige happens in school, whereby school is seen as tedious when it isn't really because we all got to talk and have fun and then do the maths questions really quickly.

I think school is interesting if you let it be, hearing about past history, or biology like how the immune system works, or reading a literary story, not to mention the conversation and laughter with your friends. So to I think most jobs are interesting if you let them, especially the ones requiring our use of brain power as you get to continually learn something and also contribute to this world in whatever little way. So, maybe not many corporate lawyers would do their job for free, that is because they want that holiday to Maldives and that nice new car, but perhaps if they were asked whether they would rather work on something else they would say no. See, writing a novel is something spontaneous, but even J.K Rowling might perhaps want to be an archaeologist rather than write.

And it seems that this is where pg's essay seems to be heading, namely that there are a lot of interesting works so the chances are you will end up in doing them one day if you are true to yourself and keep in mind that work does not have to be boring.
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17M hashes overnight. :) Good luck.
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I am not a "good hacker" but I know a few, and they say it's filled with wannabes.
France has a 2.0 TFR, which is just barely sub replacement and it's been trending upwards since the early 80's. The UK's is 1.94. Both of these countries have heavy net immigration, so they're doing fine.
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= A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling =

For example, in Year 1 that useless letter c would be dropped to be replased either by k or s, and likewise x would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which c would be retained would be the ch formation, which will be dealt with later.

Year 2 might reform w spelling, so that which and one would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish y replasing it with i and Iear 4 might fiks the g/j anomali wonse and for all.

Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants.

Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez c, y and x -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais ch, sh, and th rispektivli.

Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.

Mark Twain

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"I don't feel like its that big of an expectation to want software that works well."

Define "working well". Firefox is far from perfects, but good enough is good enough.

"they seem to fall on deaf ears"

Developers have the right of assigning priorities when fixing bugs. You only feel this way because their priorities are not the same as yours.

I have a collection of old computers, mostly Unix workstations from mid to late 90's and several earlier Macs and Firefox support is somewhat sparse for them. You won't see me complaining 3.5 was not released for AIX 3 or MacOS 7 or Solaris 2.6. I assume, if they did, they would have one download each, from me.

"it doesn't even render content the same on Windows, Linux and Mac."

Here is an interesting point: you complain it doesn't "blend" into the GUI as native apps do, but you complain it does not render pages the same way on the three platforms you mention. All three platforms have different fonts and their users expect a different look (crappy from Windows, less crappy from X, good-looking from OSX) when they render text. So, would it be fair to break user expectations on one side and address them on the other? It's supposed to run on all possible platforms (and, mind you, there is Firefox for really tiny user-bases), not to be the same on all of them. Not even Webkit looks exactly the same on all browsers that use it. You will still have to test for pixel accuracy on your target platforms. That (and for doing internet banking for one of my accounts) is why I keep a couple Windows VMs around and a Mac on my desktop to the left of the Linux netbook I am writig this on.

"As to why I don't go and fix it myself? I don't use it. I'm happy with the browser I have."

So, if you are happy with what you have, please use it and stay happy. You don't _have_ to frustrate yourself with software that mis-behaves in some narrow (or, to be fair, not-so-narrow) corner-cases.

Everyone who uses Firefox has the right to inspect its code, to modify it, to improve it and, if they want, to release another browser based on that code. This far outweights the "blending-in" problem in my book. If someone feels so strongly about them, it's only a question of time someone will submit a patch that fixes it.
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well said, im disappointed by the misconceptions posted here about arch.

rolling release does not mean you have to upgrade to python 3 if you still want to use python 2.6. it is very trivial to configure pacman to ignore certain packages.
"There is NOTHING worse than a web browser that can't scroll correctly."

I seriously doubt your statement. I can easily think a lot of things far worse than a browser that doesn't behave the way you expect.
I agree the UI is a bit bland- but I'm not too hot on design. Glad you prefer it to Mafia Wars though

(I'm the developer btw)
yes. I always feel like javascript is never learned "the right way". I feel this way because when I first learned it, I was essentially trying to write java code.

I wonder why no one ever tells javascript noobies that functions limit scope, not {} ?
I think this is more of an indicator that Microsoft finally has the business sense to realize that GPL'ed software isn't just some fad for tree-hugging hippies. That also means that they may be starting to realize that they can't control the market just based on the fact that Windows is on 90% of all desktops.
The part about SMTP is true. It sucks terribly. I just wished we switched to some more connection-oriented protocol that would say things like message delivered or message not delivered because your professor's mail server is a jerk and thinks the mail is a spam because it is coming from gmail and jerkily decided to throw it away and not send a notice back.

</rant>
I've seen Google Wave in action at a BarCamp here in Sydney, and while it seems ripe with technical possibilities, I think the bigger challenges by far with its adoption will be social and cultural.

With email, there already existed norms which could be taken from real life and applied to the new electronic analogue. So the new technology dropped pretty neatly into an existing cultural structure - which then evolved.

But Google Wave knows no such existing cultural structure I can think of - perhaps there are certain etiquette rules that apply to multiple people talking in a group at a party while simultaneously writing on a single piece of paper. But if there are, I don't know them.

So adopters of Google Wave will face social challenges as well as technological ones, and I don't think Google has really thought this through as well as they've structured the protocols and technical infrastructure. Start to consider Google Wave being used in a corporate environment, and you've got legal and commercial challenges on top of that - I shudder to think how a contractual discussion could be conducted over Google Wave. You might answer that it won't be, we'll still rely on email, but if we do, then why add another communication channel?

We shall see - though it speaks of how deeply Wave challenges current paradigms of online communication that no-one - least of all me - is prepared to offer concrete predictions regarding how it will be used.
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Absolutely. To push some anecdotal evidence on top of the heap, my job has a Light side and a Dark side.

When the Light side is in effect, I generally work 8-9 hours a day at my day job (basically until I feel my focus start to drift, or until I'm no longer involved in discussions). I then go home and exercise + relax + cook dinner for a few hours and then launch into my personal project. Every now and then, I'm able to spend a morning or an afternoon writing scripts or elisp programs that will be productivity wins over the long run. All told, I meet most of my deadlines in this phase.

When the Dark side is in effect (around twice a year, lasting for a month each time), I'm on an insane death march for a demo that is slipping. Sometimes it's my fault, sometimes I'm put on one that's already falling behind. My work days are 12 hours, I sometimes come in on the weekends, and I'm bitter 24 hours a day. My diet, exercise, and sleep habits slip. I spend much of the next few weeks refactoring the code that I write in this phase, because when the deadline is fast approaching, it matters a little less that you use a global variable to transmit state. To use a Jeff Atwood phase, I accumulate most of my Technical Debt in this phase: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001230.html.

In the long run, I'm not getting any more done in the burnout phase, but it definitely gives me a lower quality of life and a lower quality of software.
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Looking at the UI screenshots and hearing this person's experience, I imagine this will be used for awhile only by the elite digerati until they really streamline the interface and come up with a better metaphor of what this is. Also, until you can talk about solving someone's problems with it or why it's better than what they have now succinctly, it just seems like another cool toy cooked up "in the lab" and that's not necessarily a recipe for widespread adoption. Even now I've read a fair amount of the Google propaganda and other's posts about this and I'm not sure why I would suggest our team move away from the tools that replicate a lot of this functionality.
Was there supposed to be a link on that page???
I actually think he has a point. Google's motto may be "don't be evil," but they're extraordinarily powerful. And an evil entity that everyone thinks is good is a lot more dangerous than an evil entity that everything thinks is evil.

This is not to say that Google is evil, but if they were, we could all be quite screwed. I have a security minded friend (re: paranoid) that refuses to use any Google products at all, except for search. (The same friend was POed at YN for offering clickpass for this site. I got yelled at for using it.)
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Hi Chirag,

My cousin's child has severe Cerebral Palsy. He has a dedicated device[1] to help him interact.

Maybe you could include some ideas from these existing devices?

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BTW, well done on your implementation.

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I develop a mouse accelerator which makes moving the mouse a lot easier. When it is ready, I will post that onto HN. Your article has shown that the reception will be good.

It suits disabled people who have poor muscular control over the mouse.

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[1] MyTobii ::

http://www.inclusive.co.uk/cgibin/sh000001.cgi?REFPAGE=http%...

http://www.mytobiicommunity.com/
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We have a government spending trillions of dollars with plans to spend more and he suggests spending billions more on space travel? The real solution is to eliminate the regulatory barriers to private space travel and sell off NASA to interested private parties. The Moon might not be their first priority, but we would have a much more vibrant space program and the costs for larger missions would drop dramatically.
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Right, you can always lie, or give correct but misleading answers.
Wow! Psychology at its finest. Especially the last paragraph.

Have they ever studied what happens if they just start treating people with dignity?
I think that would count as a computer system.
"Apple should put some effort into investigating if someone had his apartment illegally searched and was illegally detained in their supply-chain."

No they shouldn't, that's a job for the police investigating the suicide, just as Foxconn should have called the police if they suspected wrong doing on the part of their employee.
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I never know what to write about unfair advantages or "why can only you guys do this"
So, basically they found... that money makes people feel good. Duh.

Dan Ariely has done a lot of (better) research showing all the weird effects money has on people. For instance, people experience more pain relief if they are told that the pill they took cost $5.00, as opposed to $.50. Unlike this study, at least it's relevant to life. (Seriously, they're not going to give $100 bills to kids in hospitals to count.)

Incidentally, it can have also have negative effects if used as a motivator. They asked people to a simple computer task, and people did a lot better at it if they were asked to do it "because it would help the researchers" than if they received $5.00. They did the worst if they were only paid $.50.

(He has two very good, albeit not very relevant, Ted talks: http://www.ted.com/speakers/dan_ariely.html )
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