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Agile become this another layer of unecessary job creation for non-engineers
These aren't the voids you're looking for
jemalloc really improved my situation. Before it, I would run a study and then randomly get an out-of-memory error despite having relatively low number/size of GC objects... my FFI objects were snagging space from them. Switching allocations to jemalloc (which LDS makes easy to do) alleviated the problem entirely.

I've been eyeing SnabbSwitch for a while -- I use OpenOnload extensively, so appreciate what you are doing.
My father died at 38, from a cancer, and I just had some severely atypical skin removed. This story hits very close to home for me. My deepest sympathies go to everyone involved.
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The problem with agile was never engineering, it was non-engineerial management bs.
"A trick often used by iOS devs is to use the tag of a view to hold lookup information, such as offset in arrays. With Android you can shove the entire object into the tag; pretty useful."

Yes, but if it's something like a ListView, don't put offset in array there, because the views are recycled (when user scrols), so you're likely to end up with corrupted data. I got bitten by this in the beginning. You can go to great lengths to prevent this from happening, but it will be hard for a reason, because that's abusing the design principles.

I'd recommend reading up on the ViewHolder pattern in this context.

Long story short: cache all the references to all specific sub-views of the row view in the tag (so you don't have to retrieve them again and again) - that's good practice. Just don't store any position-specific data in it.

Watch http://youtu.be/wDBM6wVEO70?t=9m50s - very informative
You can get a pretty responsive emulator if you use an x86 ABI and HAXM[0].

[0] http://software.intel.com/en-us/android/articles/intel-hardw...
When empathy fails, there's always an irrelevant political statement to be found.
Labor also moves relatively freely in the US. Here in Germany, I get the impression that an employee is incredibly "safe" compared to the US -- is it the same elsewhere in the EU?

This has the double effect of probably making any one community more resilient to small market movements, but I have a hunch it also suppresses the volume of desirable candidates in the unemployment pool.

I'd wager that a robust, high-turnover unemployment pool (i.e. one where desirable folks end up for short periods of time that is always churning) is a boon for a new company that needs highly desirable employees in its mix.
Varsity level distance athletes I knew wouldn't run 12 miles a day 7 days a week all month, not even when training. They do more like 5-7 miles, for about 5 days a week during off-season (and something like 15-24 miles about twice about a month or so prior to a marathon event). So it's more like 40-60 miles a week, for a fairly committed athlete?

Not just that, your math indicates running for 30 weeks at 90 miles/week...not a month. That's 7 months =)

More realistically, a really athletic guy who has the comfort of nice running clothes and comfortable places to rest and has been training for a few years, would cover maybe 50 miles running and an additional 28 miles walking each week, and still take about 7 months.

You'll look less silly if you double check why people are impressed by something before dismissing it as trivial (by your tone that's what you seemed to do).
About all commenters making fun of you. You meant 7 months (33 weeks). Ultramarathon each day is beyond capabilities of any living (or dead) man on this planet.
$79 to $99. ~25% increase, but well worth it.
You would have to file for "operating authority" for an out-of-state corporation, which typically involves similar fees and paperwork to incorporating in-state. I think that's what the article is referring to.
The big irritant is his absurd claims about adult learning capabilities. When I...

You = personal experience of one.

Him = personal experience of one + research + more research + claims he's looked for counter studies

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Did Amazon Prime previously operate on a loss or are they just trying to make more money since it has gained enough momentum?
Yes, the idea that almost everyone considers themselves to be a better than average driver.

I've always wondered with that whether the problem is with the question. What it's really checking is whether someone will admit to being worse than average, which is a very different thing to thinking you're worse than average.
It seems like in the USA, gifts to a spouse are exempted from the gift tax[1]. I don't know about USA, but here (Finland) any unusually large gifts given just prior to death are considered a part of inheritance.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift_tax_in_the_United_States#N...
We actually have relevant history of that in Seattle. The 520 bridge opened whilst traffic was running back in the 80s, killing one.
> The paperwork really isn't hard.

Yes, it is. Many of my friends are business owners, most of them have some international business. I've been in touch with a variety of tax professionals in different countries through the years.

In the last 10 years or so, I've seen more than one business or partnership outside the US state in its charter that "shareholder may not be a US tax payer, and may not sell his shares to one, and will sell his shares to someone who is not if he becomes one", because of how complicated it makes things.

If you think US paperwork is sane or is not hard, it is probably because you did not have enough exposure to it, or alternatively, not had exposure to a saner system.

Objectively: US Federal Tax code is >71,000 pages (as of 2009 when I checked - probably longer now). And it applies to every american. NYS tax code is some 15,000 more pages; if you are doing significant business in NYS, that's about 10 times as many details to be aware of than in any other country that I'm aware of.
This is insane.

Go provides you with locks for those cases where you actually want to use a lock. And transactional balance logic absolutely screams for locks.
I think you are right on with my take on the article.

I can read multiple of dead languages BUT I can never speak any other language but English. I can read (non-modern) Hebrew, Classical/Konie Greek, Aramaic, Latin and somewhat (not dead) German. Thank you Theology Studies the Nerds great subject to learning language and history.

I now work with 250 students in Head Start (3-5 years old) and about 20% speak mainly Spanish and I can speak to any 5 or 6 year old in Spanish fairly well, but adults I sound like a 5 year old. I try to talk with the staff where 50% speak fluent Spanish and well they always go back to English and I never progress. :(
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this guy is a fake. i am polish and i can guarantee that there is no way in the world that one can speak the way he spoke in the video in just 1 hour of learning. polish is very hard to learn (ask my wife, she's an Aussie and after 10 years she still cannot pronounce my name/surname correctly). great PR stunt but hardly believable. i speak 5 languages but it took me 20 years to learn them (excluding polish) and it's not a walk in the park......definitely not 3 months......just ask any linguist or foreign language teacher. it's just like saying that you can read a programming book or watch a video tutorial and get a job hacking for google or facebook. what a load of bullshit! btw, i work as a programmer and used to work as a teacher
Having used both the iOS simulator and the Android emulator, I don't really see why people continue to complain. There are even x86 images for the Google APIs and at least on my MacBook with that the emulator feels comparably snappy.
Once again, this is about mismanagement rather than Agile or software development.

Besides the objections concerning throwing out the baby with the bathwater when it comes to Agile, I also object to the notion that non-technical managers cannot manage a software project.

True, 90% of all non-technical managers do not have the knowledge necessary to manage software development, but very little of that actually includes hard technical knowledge. As a tech manager with 25+ years of development experience, most of my work involves management skills, not technical skills. The technical insight needed can be taught to any smart non-technical manager.

Also, managing a software project is not about being "in charge" and micromanaging, but mostly about serving, protecting and coaching a team. People in the "no management" camp mistake management for hierarchy. Being the manager is a team role, just like being a back-end developer, and interaction designer etcetera.

None of this is about Agile or management, it's about two sides, old school hierarchical "programmers-are-codemonkeys" management and tunnel vision "we-don't-need-no-stinking-suits" developers, trying very hard not to understand each other.

And using Agile as a stick to beat each other with.

If Agile is dead, it's because it's been brutally murdered by two factions unwilling to face their own shortcomings.
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Upvoted. I think these are interesting questions considering the bigger picture.
Sure, if they are within range of a tower.

Many people don't understand that the phone will "ring" even though the other end might not be currently registered with a tower. Almost assuredly where the confusion lies.

Although, since it's a developing country it's barely plausible they haven't collected cell phone numbers from the family and run it up whatever law enforcement channels available to them.
Phone call metadata does betray sensitive details about your life
I think Prime has always been a money loser for them. There is no way that my shipping charges was less then $100 for the past 4 years.
I'd like to see this research. Does he have a paper published?
Ask HN: Best place to incorporate a startup?
There's a currently trending article of why one shouldn't incorporate in US.

I'm willing to find out other entrepreneurs' experience in online incorporation: where is the easiest/fastest to end the process with such a bank account that can be used for online payments (you can associate a sort of a merchant account with it) and can withdraw the money fairly easily (card, wire, etc.)?

I'm not interested in options allowing pharmacy, gambling or adult businesses, but a rather "normal" one.
I actually bought apple keyboards for work because i can't stand super high travel keyboards like the old 286 style PC's.

But to each his own, I think i'm just used to laptop style keyboard travel.
https://www.google.co.uk/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9...

World population. Up and to the right.
Android uses an emulator not a simulator.
For sales positions, it's not unreasonable to expect the candidate to show hustle.

For the most part, though, these explicit or implicit "personality tests" are just as well-thought-out as the dating advice from an issue of Cosmo. The candidate has to guess what the employer is looking for this month and try to match it.
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Most states requires a Foreign Corporation registration, or something to that effect. So, if you incorporate in Delaware, but live and perform services for that corporation in say Tennessee, the corporation would need to be registered in Tennessee as a foreign corporation (i.e. one not originally incorporated there) and pay a small registration fee.

Not a lawyer, but I think that's it, outside of paying the appropriate employment taxes and fees to the employee's state of residence/operation.

I'm guessing this is what the article's author is referring to, but the way he explains it sounds like someone advised him to incorporate wholly owned subsidies in the states where he had employees, which would be both unnecessary and more expensive.
Huge, "single culture" market (e.g. speaking single language) with a mostly familiar language and culture (thanks to Hollywood, and the fact that the US and the UK are responsible for the most recent technology revolution).

Capital.

And, everyone is used to doing business with the US, so if you want to grow your business internationally, that's a better base than most.
There is also the excellent Genymotion emulator. http://www.genymotion.com/
This is a difference in culture between Europe and the US: Most US employers won't notice that, because if they employ people across the US and not in an office, they'd hire than as contractors rather than as employees. In Europe, this form of contracting is much less prevalent.

I'm not sure what the cause and what is the result here, but it explains why Americans don't usually see this problem.
Last I heard it was going to be 120. But for a 9 year old program going from 80-100 that's an overall pretty good deal I'd think.

I (a)buse prime shipping a lot so I tend to get a good bit of use out of it.
I do. Assuming that Facebook uses it in what appears to be the logical choice (auto-tagging photos), this would be a fantastic way to find photos of me that I don't already know about.
It's not his research, he just mentions it: http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone...
Coo, I feel better about not being at all athletic and still averaging 73km/45mi of (recorded) walking a week for 2014 (746km as of yesterday).

Not sure how long I could keep up 90mi/week though...
You can very easily replace "intelligence committee" in your comment with "herself" without interrupting your logic one bit.

> She can consider herself (the intelligence committee) to be in a special position on the basis of her own (its) oversight responsibility ..

I.e. you're not really saying much of anything.
I like Machete order, but if you're allowed to drop films from the series to improve it can't we go the whole hog and drop all of Episodes 1, 2 and 3?

Frankly I'm only leaving Jedi in there because it needs an ending...
I would call the system in UK, US more of an elected dictatorship than a democracy, as the politicians are not representing anyone other than their corporate buddies.
They are awake in Texas. We've been noticed :-)

https://d4l3.com/blogs/darthclue/entries/treasure-good-days

"At around 5AM, I awoke to the sound of Michelle crying while staring at her phone and mumbling incoherently. She eventually calmed down enough to tell me that she was being spammed with Give Forward donation notifications. It took me a bit to figure out that somehow, my 'Bucket List' had been posted to https://news.ycombinator.com/, aka hackernews, and was the number 1 result"
Dealing with remote employees is already something of an effort. It churlish to take the minority of companies willing to do it and complain that they aren't doing it enough because they want to stick with their native legal and social system.

(Can I let go of my remote employee in London? Do I need to "show cause"? How much will it cost me just to get a lawyer to answer that?)
Something you make meaning of yes, probably. The complete works of Shakespeare, no, probably not.

And no, that's not necessarily true with regards to Pi.
Some things I would note:

* Do not use getBaseContext() like he does when he created the new Activity. Use getApplicationContext for most things (unless an Activity is required) as this is guaranteed to be the same throughout the lifetime of your application.

* For log alternatives, checkout Timber by Jake Wharton (https://github.com/JakeWharton/timber)

* I would suggest using the Build.VERSION_CODES when making the check against which version of android the device is (http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Build.VERS...)
favicon still says "2048" ;-)
Don't forget putting your PIN number into an ATM machine.
To be fair, you're talking about a distant 4th place provider that most in the US understand will not work great outside of major population areas. I would understand if you had issues with one of the big two (VZ/ATT). Also to be fair, Sweden is about the size of California.
Right. I think this is what bothers me about this list. It's material driven. There's a saying that goes (paraphrasing) "don't wish for better circumstances, wish to be a better person."

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Mark 8:36 KJV.

Jonathan, you and your family must look to the Lord Jesus Christ. He is your judge. Through Him all things are possible.
This makes Newegg even more attractive with their $50 a year premier plan. If you mostly buy computers or electronics (which I assume most of HN readers do).
I found that in my team that agile worked brilliantly for us at first - we were working together to create features that customers loved.

Then support queries came in for the features we developed previously. At first a couple of team members would split off and work on the existing features while the rest of us carried on working on the new hotness. As we increased the number of (quite diverse) features, the more diverse the support queries got.

Now we're basically no longer a team, but a group of individuals working in different areas, who happen to be in the same stand-up each morning.

I am actively looking to fix this problem. I'm sure this must have been discussed already but I can't find it! Any suggestions?
You will get a faster emulator, but since x86 is used on like sub 1 percent Android devices, won't that be more like using a simulator, which would make it just as useless/useful as a simulator? Does the x86 image contain support for ARM, too?
Prime was famously a money loser. Since, as they point out, it's been the same price for nine years, it might well still be a money loser.
This really sucks! Does he not have any life insurance? I remember when I was working full time, I had a life insurance policy worth 5x my salary, which should cover the costs for the things he wants to pay off. After becoming a contractor, this was one of the first things I secured. I didn't want my family to be left with nothing when I died.
Call me jaded, but this is another "let's travel somewhere exotic/remote and post about it later because it's cool" doesn't get me anymore. But I don't get why he didn't just start walking from where he was. If you want to wander and just walk, start from there, no need to go to China. Like I said, a little bit jaded.
If it made you buy product you wouldn't normally have bought through amazon then they can still make a profit even if the prime membership does not finance the whole shipping charges.
Well, this just blatantly isn't true since

"[Dean Karnazes] ran 3,000 miles (4,800 km) across the United States from Disneyland to New York City in 75 days, running 40 to 50 miles (65 to 80 km) per day, 2011"
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Thats possible, but some people do learn languages a lot faster than other. Kato Lomb for example. That guy is also a polygloth, so I'm sure he would learn faster than I would (or another random person).
It's not like the radar systems tracking these things on a day to day basis automatically classify something as a certain type or even size of aircraft.

Even if it were tracked by something, in that area of the world I bet there are quite a few "unscheduled" flights and it perhaps became something of routine. Or some remote radar operator is paid to look the other way on some flights, and mistook this for one of those.

Most likely is that it simply wasn't tracked by anyone who cared, and especially not by anyone who recorded the data.
1 or 2 photos are enough for that accuracy. The 1000 photos were only needed in finding the right face representation.
Prime these days is less about fast shipping and more about the bundled streaming/media services.
Why the hell is this comment not at the top of the page?
On the next line, he did: "the most free market oriented non-postage-stamp nation on earth".
Prime is considered a marketing expense. Amazon absorbs hundreds of millions or even a billion dollars in shipping charges through prime. It's a huge reason they have a thin profit margin.
"Luddite news"
> Pay off our mortgage : $186,000

This is a little strange to me. Unless he was a freelancer, every tech job that I'm aware of has decent life insurance options that would easily cover this. If you add a few more dollars it covers college as well.

I definitely can't stress the importance of getting life insurance from a reputable company.
Yes. I am astonished that you do not already know that.

On 9-11, the combined maximal efforts of civilian and military aviation were unable to locate four airliners because their transponders were turned off. This occurred near the New York and DC metropolitan areas, some of the most carefully controlled air space in the world.

Without a transponder, an aircraft is just a raw radar return among, potentially, hundreds or thousands of other returns from civilian and military aircraft, weather, birds, balloons etc. Add to that glitches, ghosts and anomalies in busy air space and it is not surprising that a large aircraft without a transponder can hide in plain sight.
Amazon would almost be considered a money loser as their strategy has always been to go long ... very long (which urks many investors)
Sorry if i seem to be rude, but even if you're dying, you're still a human being and i will respect you. So, i won't be full of mercy and so on, i'm just going to be genuine. Your story is sad, as the story for million of people dying from this shit.
But, if i help you, maybe i'd be ok with my conscience but this won't change anything for the 999 999 people remaining.
If i choose to give money to fight against cancer, it would be for research and not for a particular case (even if it's sad).
That being said, i truly understand that emotion and love drive me to give you some money, but i have to stay efficient and fair.
Along the same lines, I would also recommend "Hacking" by Jon Erickson.
>for example a reaction motivated by religion or paranoia.

It's also possible they might simply want to quarantine Earth as wars, religion and poverty are still present, and they wouldn't want them to spread to the rest of the galaxy.
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I wrote my (personal) iOS app in Lua via Wax. A bit clunky but a lot quicker than learning Objective C at the time.
so STFU and die already
Doesnt matter for me the deal is still way worth it. I had 3 separate orders this week in my household and one package actually arrived within one day, not even 24 hours. At $99 it is still a deal for the customer if you order often enough.
This is nice but reading speed really isn't my bottleneck when it comes to do things.
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I also would have liked to know why he didn't leave from where he lived. I bet the slow change of lifestyle and landscape going from western Europe to Asia would have been really interesting to experience.
We (yunojuno) use the following (+ other stuff - https://www.yunojuno.com/colophon/)

* BitBucket (core app, private)

* GitHub (FOSS projects, public)

* Trello - tracking progress

* HipChat - IM

* Basecamp - dates, discussions, project type stuff

* Google - docs, shared calendars, Hangouts

* Screenhero - screen sharing

We've almost managed to remove email from our daily flow - I very rarely send / receive internal emails now.

HipChat + Trello have become our foundation tools - couldn't live without them. (The new Trello attachments view has plugged a gap, and made sharing designs much easier than it used to be.)

HipChat is brilliant once you move on to building stuff - plug in code commits, deployments, customer service (we have Zendesk alerts) etc.

I would absolutely agree with your last point - sharing links + discussions around links is the biggest problem by far - Google+ is a perfect fit, but (our) people just seem resistant to it. I've tried, and failed, several times to get everyone to adopt it. We have a bunch of iOS people and they often share direct from Flipboard, which may be part of it.