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We are experiencing a chain of events, all intertwined in the most fundamental way. The way of life we have assumed was sustainable is in fact not so. We can't ignore production. We have to consider balancing incoming and outgoing value.

I don't believe we have seen the bottom of the market, but I'm hopeful that the American economy that emerges from our original mess will be much more rational & sustainable.

We must collectively recognize the need for long term economic vision or else repeatedly suffer the fickle repercussions of short sighted greed, and delusion. Our nation, all of its industries, all of our people don't exist in a vacuum. Each of our actions and individual productivity in aggregate results in shifts in our economic strength and resiliency.
Thanks. Great reply!

Weight is not really a problem for me yet (according to this BMI index I'm underweight, fwiw), but this year I lost muscle and gained weight (in fat). I'd like to reverse that. My problem is with exercise: when I feel like exercising I do it like I used to be able to. But then the next few days I can't exercise because my muscles are sore and weak. And generally I have a hard time getting into the habit. I used to cycle ~120 km per week to school but now I live closer to school...so I used to burn one day's food by cycling and I'm not eating less now.

I don't care about looks and muscles, but I'd like to get in shape to be able to run & cycle better again and feel fitter. What type of exercise do you recommend? How do you motivate yourself to exercise?
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in your portfolio really says something. But judging by "Smartronix Awarded FAA National Airspace System Modernization Program in Alaska" and "Smartronix Unveils the Rugged USB Hub", it looks like their specialty is enduring the government procurement process, not web publishing.

Which doesn't make me feel any better.
Or how about we take that 18M and fund a startup (or two) that could probably do recovery.gov plus a bunch of other public facing .govs

Not that I want the govt playing VC, just saying.
Zeke has his own blog too: http://blogs.msdn.com/freeassociations/default.aspx
It's referenced from the IEBlog at http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/12/06/file-uris-in-win...
The Seven Stages of the Programmer
You say that you don't have to tip and then advocate tipping 5-10% for bad performance in the same paragraph? Of course there is no legal obligation to tip, since if there was it couldn't be called a tip-- it would just be itemized billing. But the fact that in the US wait staff can be legally paid less than the minimum wage (before tips) provides an ethical argument for tipping, if not a legal one.
I've been calling 9K on the DJIA by September 1 since March. Also, as I said somewhere else in this thread, I wouldn't be surprised if the NBER says later this year that Q2 was the official end of the recession.
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Sadly the college my wife is currently attending is changing their system over to Outlook online, which can only be used via IE opposed to their current system that can be used by IE, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari.

Not only is their in-campus system horrific for non-MS fanboys, but now their out-of-campus system is becoming an MS whore too.
Misleading headline, go read the RFP. It's a major multi-year project that includes 24/7 support (for years!). They are funneling in data from thousands of sources and trying to automate it. Plus have it searchable in a very public way. Hosted in multiple data centers. etc etc. To make it sound like they want a new template is simply incorrect.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/16515421/RAT-Board-Solicitation

The bulk of the development work has to be done very quickly too, which vastly complicates things.
When I joined I never happened to fill out a profile. As I got involved in the community here a few people asked to contact me - as I was posting personal blog posts anyway (and so the link was trivial to most) I added an email adress to my profile.

It's resulted in a surprising number of amazing links with people I now count as friendly.

Right now I am happy to keep a contact email in my profile because, as I see it, there is a lot of people on here that are amazingly interesting and if they happened (for whatever reason) want to contact me then I wouldn't wish to miss out.
It usually takes a large established firm with a government contract record to get a winning bid. They in turn outsource parts to contractors (with preference to minority and veteran owned firms). They are most likely just the project coordinators.
I didn't mean to imply that I thought Amazon capriciously decided to remove this themselves. I was merely saying, in all honesty, how often is a publisher going to withdraw all online copies of a book? It's in neither the publisher's nor Amazon's best interest to make this a frequent occurrence.

I understand what happened here, but I honestly don't see it happening too frequently.
Getting More Out of Tcpdump
Inside the US. Prefer just using my Visa/Mastercard directly.
this has already been killed once:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=712061
honestly - I gve it 3 goes to see this site in action. AFter that I gave up - it's silly.

This works as a great example of how not to do a startup/website/any thing.
It's more whether they would bother to get in touch with you. I can reel off the school register from ten years ago, but I wouldn't actively seek out and send them all emails; seeing one name on Facebook led me to add most of the class and it's wonderfully voyeuristic (with a nice dollop of schadenfreude) looking at what they're all up to without the overhead of actually being friends.
"We will see state after state, company after company, country after country hit crisis and be bailed out."

Who's gonna pay back the bailout?
Stage 8 here: you prove your program works before running it.
I loathe AT&T. It mistreats employees and customers. It overcharges and delivers astonishingly poor service. It makes regular billing "mistakes". It willingly, almost gleefully, assists in the violation of its customers rights and privacy. It is a paragon of inefficiency. It fights against progress to keep its anachronistic business model relevant. It uses the legal system as a club. And it ensures that any actions brought against it can at best be Pyrrhic victories.

In short, it is truly every bad thing Microsoft has ever been alleged to be and worse. I don't own an iPhone solely because I want less to do with AT&T than I do now.
I'm not sure exactly what the parents means, but In my opinion there should be a color bar that shows what the lightest color and darkest color on the board means, actually probably two color bars, one for each ring. This would be useful even if color is being used only as a relative measure not as an absolute "number of times loved".

Using color as an axis can be notoriously difficult to do properly/clearly (consider linear vs logarithmic mappings or using hue, saturation and/or value together to show one dimensional data) without even getting into aesthetic considerations.

Lest you think that I am being too critical, the fact that the graphic designer only modulated color value and not hue and saturation makes this chart better than some that I have seen.
SpaceX already got a large contract with NASA to haul cargo up to the International Space Station when the shuttles retire in 2010. So it seems that even the government admits that these guys can do it better for cheaper:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7800721.stm
The first stage of being a programmer is having heard of programmers but not being one yourself? In that case, I'm a first stage surgeon, concert pianist, and fighter pilot.
Crowdsourcing Works, When It’s Focused
Your startup is Not Field of Dreams
Wow, I just checked the voicemail on my iPhone and I had 12 (!) voicemails queued up with no indications that I had waiting messages.

AT&T service has been horrible since I got my iPhone (~ 1 year). I kept a blackberry on Verizon, which is my primary "phone" (the iPhone has been more for email/web). However, I have a VoIP # as my primary phone that rings my desk, vzw phone and att phone all at once. Apparently a good number of calls ended up in my att mailbox, with no indications.
No, that's stage 4.
I am not a native speaker so please forgive me for a silly question. Can the word "whore" not be used in English when referring to a male prostitute? What word would you suggest instead which would convey the same meaning without the misogynistic connotations? Thanks.
Zed seems to me to be using the word "whore" in a gender-neutral manner to describe anyone involved in this marketing campaign. On the other hand, I do find his derogatory use of the word "pussy" to be possibly misogynistic, but that's not so much a matter of his misogyny but a subconscious misogyny present in much of the male segment of American society.

As well, I think it's unfair to Zed to assume that any apparent misogyny present in this is a result of him being a misogynist as opposed to the possibility that it is intended to establish a tone that matches what he believes to be the feelings of the people involved in creating the marketing campaign he is ridiculing.
What do you mean by "Here in the UK phone companies have such a monopoly amongst themselves."?

There's a choice between voda, orange, t, o2 and others and it doesn't seem so bad. Of course O2 seems to have the same problems like at&t - not good enough infrastructure and not enough coverage to handle iphones properly (and now they will get Pre as well, unfortunately). And there are crappy carriers like Three which should DIAF long ago. But otherwise, many offers are sensible.

You're forced to go the 18 months contract route mostly when you're buying the cheapest stuff, which is fair enough. Otherwise, I don't think the situation is bad at all.
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I can only speak for myself, but I'm glad some of my taxes get spent of things like this, even if I were never to benefit, it's still an absolute good.
I "cancelled" my AT&T account a few months ago. Somehow the account is still open, but accumulating monthly negative charges (credit.) No script from their customer support can resolve this issue. Technical glitches can be fascinating and this company has no shortage in my experiences with them.
This write-up is nowhere near comparable to those works.

A Modest Proposal discussed in a frank tone the idea of selling babies as food for money.

1984 showed an ultra-totalitarian state through the eyes of someone used to it. Sure the torture scenes were ruthless, but not "shock" satire.

This is something that could've been written up by an angry fourteen year old and simply calls everyone either a dick or a whore. No eloquence, nothing subtle, nothing new.
As eggnet said, you avoid the overhead of context switches, but you also avoid the restrictions of interprocess communication. That is typically done with sockets and marshalling, which can be orders of magnitude slower and more difficult to program than simple function calls.
this is humor?
Google 'food bank shortage' and 'tent city' yourself; there are many mentions in many different parts of countries. Los Angeles, Texas, New York, etc etc.
The lack of evidence supporting Global Climate Conspiracy merely confirms the vast extent and incredible sophistication of the conspiracy.
Voting will not save anyone. A simple rant can now get to the top _and_ get unflagged. I don't get on HN to read about how everyone in Microsoft is a dick and everyone in marketing is a whore.
No, but it is your fault that you didn't learn about the value of backups after the first time.
This is also the company whose sales reps swear up and down, to this day, that they don't offer dry loop DSL "because there is no demand".

Of course, if you know the magic phone number, you can call the dry loop division directly, and they are as helpful as can be. I asked one once why they were so hidden... she answered: politics.
How about one of us create a landing page with a bullet lists of AT&T complaints? I don't care enough but we could all link to the page at the bottom of our websites just with the word ATT[1] and soon enough when people search for AT&T's corporate page, they will find a list of complaints. People will take note and thus AT&T will be forced to take note as well. On top of that:

- Update your twitter with your AT&T complaint
and give it the hashtag #ATT.
- Contact The Consumerist Blog, try to
get their awareness (is anyone connected to them?).
- Any other ideas?

Let's start a movement.

Stop complaining and start acting.

I already did my part, I'm no longer an ATT customer.

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[1] Based on http://www.google.com/trends?q=AT%26T%2C+AT+and+T%2C+ATT
I think "whore" has evolved somewhat to basically mean anyone who will do whatever it takes to get something. There is the term "man whore" but that's more used for males who are sexually promiscuous.

God I sound way too old writing that.
In 1930 we had yet to see a lot of the government policies that turned that recession into The Depression, including the Hawley-Smoot Tariff.

People always compare this to the Great Depression, but they never talk about the recessions and stock market crashes (e.g. in the 80's) that did not, in fact, lead to depressions.
What I get out of this is that it's best to avoid doing business with Apple's customers. (Nobody has ever filed a class-action lawsuit against Dell for using 6-bit LCDs instead of 8-bit LCDs.)

They are much more demanding than the average customer -- Apple makes AT&T provide special exclusive features, and then their customers hold them to higher standards. "There isn't enough bandwidth." "Torrents download too slowly!" "Everything is too expensive."

Not to sound like an AT&T fanboi, but the other providers are just as bad. The pricing is the same, you get locked in, and the bandwidth isn't even as good. (At least AT&T lets me use any GSM phone. Try that with Verizon.) The US just doesn't have the infrastructure to provide exceptional cell-phone service (like, say, Japan does; with millions of people in a very tiny space). With people constantly demanding more bandwidth for less money, I can't imagine there is much room in the budget to upgrade the 3G network in the middle of nowhere. Sorry, it's the reality of living so spread apart.
Agreed. I see this type of graph all over the place lately, along with versions that have lines connecting the slices.

If a story or insight doesn't immediately jump out from your graph, you are doing it wrong.
I don't get it. Why should Apple support the Pre if they don't want to? Palm is perfectly capable of developing their own software that syncs with an iTunes library, and Apple has done nothing to prevent that. (RIM and Nokia both have such software, and DoubleTwist supports the Pre.) Why is it offensive it Apple chooses not to let their competitors parasitically hijack their software? Why is that any different from any other bug that produces undesirable behavior?
I read that line as : "if you're not enjoying your experience at all, don't worry, it'll wear off after a few hours".

I don't think anyone will claim here that the worst drug abuses won't cause long-term damage, but it's not the point.
...Why we must reform the current system without involving the federal government.
Seattle ran out a tent city a few years ago, in the midst of the economic boom. There's always going to be homeless people.
Flagged for registration wall... even thought it's the nytimes. If someone wanted to write a synopsis and write a commentary about this article, that would be swell.
Summarised in code by this oldie-but-goodie: http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/helloworld.html
I think it's more of a spiral, where you get to stage 5-7 in one area, find out there's a whole new world you never knew about, then end up back at stage 1 in that new, broader world.

I wrote my first computer program, a text-adventure game in BASIC, when I was 10 (stage 2). Learned Pascal and C as a pre-teen and played around a bunch on a VAX in 8th grade (3). Started working on a MUD in 9th as I moved to a new school (4). Found out it was too hard, gave it up, and took up electric guitar instead (not quite 5).

Then when I graduated from high school, I got my first real programming job (stage 1 & 2). And found out I could write GUI programs in Swing and Java just like the professionals (3). Ended up doing the GUI for the beta version of our product - except the company never shipped it, and ended up going out of business six months later (4). I blamed the failure on a lack of engineering process, so I started learning all I could about design patterns and XP and rigorous engineering processes (5).

Then in college, I found out about Lisp and functional programming (1). Many of the problems in that previous startup were because of too many bugs, so it had an immediate appeal to me (5 & 1). I wrote my first little programs in Haskell and Scheme (2), then started learning everything I could about compiler & interpreter implementation and wrote a little tutorial about how to implement Scheme in Haskell (3). Then I tried making my own programming language (4), which went nowhere, except I knew that (5) was not the answer. I'd like to think I've skipped to (6), though given that the programming language is still going nowhere, I'm not so sure about that.
Only works if you can be sure about the behavior and specification of all of your inputs and outputs (not to mention the compiler). Part of getting to stage 6 is realizing that this won't often be the case.
Slog means to "work hard and steadily." That phrase uses alliteration, not metaphor.

http://mw1.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slog
SpaceX already has things in place to provide the service and their bid was better (1/2) than the Russians' bid.
If we're going to be making up numbers like "How much is a human life worth?" perhaps we should first make up some less dangerous numbers like, "How much is a tiny little pill worth?" It isn't the free market that came up with "54,000" dollars--and if the government is gracing a company with patent enforcement (really, a price floor), it may as well grace it with a price ceiling as well.
Well, before getting too excited you may want to consider that what worked in one experiment may be a bad thing in the aggregate. Even if you could repeatedly and reliably fool your brain into thinking you drank something with calories in it, the subsequent draw on your body that did not actually get the calories could actually end up being a bad thing. You could end up with the crash-to-end-all-crashes.

(Whether or not you could sustain that illusion depends on how deep in the brain it is. If it's a learned response that comes from years of exercise, you might unlearn it very quickly. If it's actually a previously-unidentified instinct, you might actually be able to do it for a long time before the hindbrain got wise. This is speculation, of course.)
The Potato as Disruptive Innovation
Most of what you're saying also applies to the other carriers in the US.

Verizon has a history of crippling its phones. Sprint has horrible customer service. T-Mobile has very little coverage. There are no good carriers.
Did I just get told to look at the pretty pictures? And then boggle at the idea that they might be meaningless?

This site calls itself "scienceblogs.com"?

I'll admit to generally being a skeptic on the topic of global warming... but there are far better arguments for the standard model than "look at the pretty pictures"! I'll do the advocates of the standard model of warming the favor of pretending this was never posted.
Yes, they're highly overblown - I just made it through the hiring meatgrinder this week and I have a non-CS degree from a tiny liberal arts college. It was a nonissue. Plus, two years ago, they hired me as an intern after reading my resume and two phone screens. Now, that all said, I'm fairly active in OSS, but that's almost all of my "formal" training and/or experience in CS and SW Engineering.

The fact of the matter is that if you can get through the interview questions and appear to "fit" the culture, you probably stand a decent chance. Top tier schools help, but that's probably more a fact of the school having a big name and the brand of the school being more prized. Otherwise, they never would have even looked at me as an intern, much less an actual hire.
Intellectual property, all the uses you mentioned that are forbidden, is completely insane. if the only way you can make a profit off your product is to control how people use it after they purchase it from you then you need a new business model. people published books and invented things before we ever had copyrights and patents.
Ask YC: Is a laptop enough for development, or do you need a desktop?
Imagine: You are about to get a new computer for development.

You'd like to have a comfortable dev environment at home - dual screen.

However, laptops have come down in price alot. Is it enough to buy a laptop, or do you go w/ a trusty desktop system?
We've already seen how that works; the money is given to the shareholders of insurance companies rather than to the policyholders in need of medical care.

The government does not need to make a profit on healthcare, which is why people are turning to them. (Plus, we've seen this system work in other countries. The US will not be the first country to give everyone healthcare; it will be one of the last.)
It's debatable whether it was government policy that turned the 1930 recession into the Depression. Personally, I think it was because of the huge level of consumer debt racked up in the 20s. We have that feature in common with them.

The big difference between this recession and the 1973 or 1980 recessions, IMHO, is that the perception back then seemed to be that we were doomed. According to my parents and the books/news accounts I've read from then, people thought that American supremacy was permanently on the wane, the Japanese would kick our asses, and we just had to get used to a new era of austerity and lack of opportunity. While now, the mainstream news media seem to think a recovery is just around the corner, the worst is behind us, etc. Much like the 1930s.

In other words, we were not doomed then because we thought we were doomed and acted accordingly, and we are doomed now because we think we're not doomed.

Which makes sense in a perverse way, if you think of a recession as an economic signal to stop doing what you were doing, and find something new to do. Like how many young people in the 70s eschewed the corporate paper-pushing jobs and started playing around with computers.

Something similar could happen here, but it'll take more than social networking sites and fart-noise iPhone apps.
Good advise
Could be true. The question is: will you choose one of those paths?
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.

This may surprise you, but that's actually how much a phone costs. Turns out we haven't quite gotten them to grow on trees yet.

I can't think of any industry (other than video gaming) where someone gives you something for free so you'll use their service; count the one free phone every 2 years as a blessing. If you want the latest-and-greatest, you have to buy it, just like with everything else.
I'm not seeing Siegler acknowledge whether or not he had enabled TechCrunch's "safe" AT&T tethering hack, which is notorious for messing up voicemail. This despite multiple commenters asking him.

(I think TC readers may have another nasty surprise waiting when AT&T finally gets to running 'awk' on the logfiles those tethering sessions land in.)