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I started my company on my own years ago and now I'm at it again.

In my case I when I go without verbal communication for a while (like doing long days & nights of computer science),
my enunciation is compromised during the first few live conversations after that.

When I know an important phone call or personal appearance needs to be accomplished,
I will prepare by "warming up". For me, it helps to play some familiar vocal music and sing
along distinctly and loudly as a practice session. It warms up the voice for better quality
and gets the brain into more of the presentational flow that I know I am capable of.

It always helps the confidence and that flow is more easily carried into remaining conversations
for the rest of the day, once the brain has had some preliminary guidance along the path under
non-challenging conditions to begin with.

I might imagine you can probably sing along with the radio or your favorite CD without stuttering.

Or maybe read aloud from a familiar book or document. These can help.
It may be worthwhile to recite something that has been memorized, it's not essential,
but give it a try too.

With pop music or the printed word you do often end up uttering things that will not be part of
your regular vocabulary, and that is good.
When you are talking to people later on, your conversation actually becomes less of a stretch than the
practice session was, which makes it easier.

When I talk about my life's work, I know it's important and sometimes there is a lot at stake,
but I don't want to rehearse what I am actually going to say or it may be too "canned",
instead I just rehearse some vocals to get in shape, then wing it from there.

It's my life's work, and I do have more answers than anybody else on the subject.

Still I do look forward to having a representative and/or spokesperson once I get to be a CEO again.
A highly technical person needs this more than a regular technical person, if nothing else so I
can concentrate more on creating the science that no one else is doing.
I've already got a few anxious associates who would love for me to get funded so they can come on board.
It might be a good idea to start "recruiting" a strong spokesperson yourself, especially a close friend
who might make a good partner or associate later when you can afford to bring them on.
Until then it would be great to practice 1:1 with them when you can, concentrating on smoothness
of conversation yourself while letting them casually learn more about your life's work as you go along.

That way if you don't end up landing an investor on your own before too long, you will might be able to
have your "assistant" accompany you to a meeting or two and see how that goes.

hoppe this helps,
dano
SpaceX appear to have gone with failure tolerance. Their first stage is practically a raid array.
That's one way to keep your talent from being poached :)
RD-180 are being manufactured continuously last ~20 years. All new, not manufactured long time ago.

NK-33 - from which AJ-26 are made - aren't manufactured today. It's a question if the manufacturing will restart. There are a few tens of them in US. Orbital Sciences has that question in the middle of their table, or close to it.

Russian-American relationships in space trace back to at least 1975, deep Cold War. We're not at that state of affairs just yet. As somebody mentioned on The Space Review, ISS is a front-runner for Nobel peace prize, so let's not jump the gun too early. It doesn't seem to be too desirable for Putin to close that particular relationship.
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Whenever someone emphasizes Deng at the same time people are discussing Mao, you can tell that their are elements in the party that are trying to emphasize that China's way forward is more inspired by Deng than Mao. But this is because there are two factions in the party: the moderates (Deng-like) and the leftists (Mao-like); the moderates have dominated for a long time.
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One example: when the usb cable is yanked under macosx while a serial port is open, 50% of the time macosx crashes, and sometimes the crash occurs randomly up to 2 hours later.
Indeed. I suspect companies being started now will opt out of logging more and more. My companies employees work from home the majority of the time. We use Hipchat, Trello, Github, Google Drive, and Email for most of our communications. We limit what we log technically (auto deleted after X days email, no logging on most hipchat channels) and by corporate policy.

We made an active decision to not store / log Hipchat and Email for a few reasons. We have a specific logged Hipchat channels -- but the rest just keep 75 lines for context and that is it. We also never have logged (nor ever will) the 1 on 1 conversations. Employees in a physical location can go outside and rant about a boss, family issue or other random noise -- and this isn't unhealthy, it is normal. We want to encourage open communication and straightforwardness -- and having communications "forgotten" is an important part of that. It also had additional benefits.

1. It limits the nightmare of discovery if we ever get sued, ever word every employee ever said won't be painstakingly scrutinized. Because we want the legal protection, we clearly spell out this privacy in our corporate documents so it is crystal clear to our employees.
2. It allows stuff to be discussed in context and in time and not being picked apart or misunderstood at a later point by other employees. Which encourages honesty and "getting it done".
3. It creates a "separation" of ephemeral communication that have a lower signal to noise ratio (our Hipchat today had many pictures of new desk layouts)... the important data leaves email or Hipchat and makes its way to Trello, Github or Google Drive.
>>> I note that more than a few chip companies have created USB-to-serial bridges (with accompanying drivers). This is a sure sign of USB's technical failure. Which isn't to say that USB won't thrive.

Here's my thought about those chips. I do a lot of simple prototyping, testing, data acquisition, and so forth. To these ends, I often build my own little gadgets that combine some sort of microcontroller with some analog electronics, etc. I wouldn't be insulted if you called me a hobbyist. Still, the stuff that I make works, and solves problems.

There are "USB microcontrollers" that contain a built-in USB port. Then you have to wade through each manufacturer's peculiar documentation, and hope that their demo code does what you need, or prepare to roll your own on both the embedded and desktop sides.

Or, you hook up a USB-to-serial bridge. There's nothing magic about serial, except that it only robs you of two pins, and setting it up is 100x easier. Also, the bridge chip runs independently, making it 100x easier to write real time code on the microcontroller.

If I went to any other kind of interface, I'd use the same approach of a "bridge" module plus a microcontroller. There are such modules for virtually every conceivable interface.

I've had the pleasure of watching my gadgets work on multiple platforms with no extra effort on my part. I think a platform needs to have at least one "people's port" and the FTDI chip meets that need nicely.
Not sure. I'm also one of the few that used A/UX on the 68k Macs.
Jurisdiction would be the pressing issue in that specific case. I do not believe bases were sovereign at that time, and as the parties are not military they would not be prosecutable under the UCMJ. I am not certain on the process to charge someone with a crime while in a different country and outside US jurisdiction.

I am not making excuses for KBR, but I do not know how else a corporation can protect itself from the actions of its employees in a scenario where jurisdiction is not enforceable in its host country. In other words what court would have heard this case, presumable it would have been Iraqi, in which case she would have had a much more difficult case.

Sorry if this was a ramble, but the issue is very complex and has little to do with arbitration requirements, and more to do with vague international prosecution policies inside a war zone.
You can see some of his artwork here:

http://historyofourworld.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/lebbeus-wo...

http://architizer.com/blog/lebbeus-woods-sfmoma/
With an attitude of "you will take I think you should like and be happy with it," I hope you work far away from anything related to user interface.

>Americans seem to prefer to put a blindfold on and act like animals arent killed for food

I am at a loss on how you possibly come to that conclusion about a country that, aside from Canada, has more hunters per capita than any other Western nation.
The link: http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html
Interesting. I've owned devices that are exclusively micro-usb for years now, and I don't think I've ever had a cable wear out on me. However, that may be because I lose them to quickly for them to wear out.

When you say the cable wears out, do you mean the plastic-encased wire wears out, the male connector wears out, or the point where the male connector is joined to the wire wears out?
When the full video of the talk comes out, you will see that Russ agrees with you. He lists the types of uses of goto. Various are used to make loops or elses, and he says those should not have occurred.
Sadly, asylums have a long history of abusing patients. Very few societies are willing to pay the cost of caring for the severely irreversibly ill.
I'm hoping you're just kidding. Would making a forum post really violate their TOS? I would consider this a "public statement," but I am not a lawyer.
> My relative does not accurately remember what parts of his brain was injured, so interviewing him would not yield much.

A decent battery of psychological tests (WAIS-R, NART, Stroop Test, PASAT - the latter two depending on the results of the first) will tell you a lot about his mental state and what parts of his brain are likely damaged. Source: worked with TBI survivors for several years and wrote a thesis on neuropsychological indicators of return to work capability.
'EAP' is not an acronym, it's an initialism.
FYI phabricator originated at Facebook, but the guys who wrote it left and founded Phalicity, who supports it full time now. Facebook did the world a service by open sourcing phabricator.

Review board and Gerrit are both awful in comparison
Well, it was great while it lasted.

I'm working on compiling a list of alternatives right now, and will edit this comment in the next few minutes.

Edit:

https://github.com/cjbarber/hipchat-alternatives
Tying up these servers impacts them, makes people start blocking them, breaking this service.
Don't forget what Disney has done to corrupt copyright law and government: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act
I usually keep a separate repo for PSD/AI files (completely neglected to consider them as binary files).

As for images, icons, fonts and similar, I just have a build script that copies/generates them, if it's needed.

I guess I've always been a little bit "obsessed" about the tidiness of my repositories.
Strange as it sounds, git-annex doesn't really do file versioning very well.
so if Facebook and Google got this bug ... or feature ... point one to another and boooom goes the internet!
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Beyond "for the fun of it", what is the purpose of this? So that hackers can run other hackers' games?

Why not spend that effort writing games for an open platform like the web, or for iOS/Android and have the possibility to make money?

I'm not trying to criticize bunnei's work, I'm just generally curious if this is a "because I can" hacker project, or if there is actually a demand in the community to write DS games.
Relevant - interesting article from a couple of days ago:
http://www.care2.com/causes/ways-school-bullying-can-affect-...

5 Ways School Bullying Impacts Your Life Even Decades On

"Following participants into midlife (aged 50), the researchers then tested for evidence of the known effects of bullying at regular intervals throughout the subjects’ lives, and participants were tested for psychological distress as well as their general health, with tests at 23 and 45. At age 50, participants were also tested in terms of cognitive functioning, social relationships, as well as for general levels of well-being (these were assessed using standard scales).

What the researchers found was that, even after accounting for things like IQ and socioeconomic status at the beginning of the study, bullying appears to have a significant impact on people’s lives for decades after the bullying has finished."
To quote John Siracusa (https://twitter.com/siracusa/status/302480597903884291): "You had one job."

Externally symmetric yet internally asymmetric connectors demonstrate a fundamental incompetence of their designers. It baffles me that multiple people must have approved the USB connector design and we still ended up with the abomination that lives on 'til now.
Leave default font-size alone and embrace the em
I don't know if you can blame Atlassian for being "anti user" here. In some businesses and government settings data retention is a regulatory requirement. It's not ideal. It doesn't fit human patterns of communication. There are obvious back-channels. So systems like that catch only the dumbest violators. But Atlassian probably has customers who are required to specify communication systems that can be monitored.
Safety and ease. Landing in the ocean they don't have to boost back which saves them fuel (so it's essentially trivial to just add a test onto an existing launch at no significant payload penalty), plus they get to run through most of the flight profile (especially the most important parts) without having any potential of hitting anything on land and with the expectation that the vehicle is going to be destroyed anyway. They have several (at least 4) more flights within the next year with sufficient payload margin to do more of these tests so they can spend time gaining confidence (at almost zero cost to SpaceX) and exploring the boost back trajectory (coming closer to land) before actually attempting a landing.
Basic Scala Template for Start a New Project
That's true, if you plug in a usb flash storage device, windows has the standard class driver locally and installs it without any requirement on internet access. Same with standard keyboards and mice.

But compare to linux. On windows, the first time you plug a particular model of usb device into a particular port, it takes 20 seconds to "install the driver" (and then it's almost instantaneous on future plugs of the same device into the same port). On linux, it's almost instantaneous, the first time and every time. New device, different port, still instantaneous.

It doesn't really make sense why it would take longer the first time, or need to happen again when plugged into a different port. silly windows...
This is actually the third time this has been submitted [1] (including once by the actual author of this post). There's an extra `/?` appended to the url so HN thinks it's a different link. Not sure why - just adding the slash and question mark doesn't change the target.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/#!/story/past_month/0/ddos%20facebook
DNSChain NSA-proof communication through almost any website
Gitter looks awesome - thanks
It doesn't feel like Shanley is shouting and random men, she is shouting at them. https://twitter.com/shanley/status/458817975500304384

Jeff called her out on it, making an unfortunately cliched reference to Letter from Birmingham Jail and people got heated again. His point has been constantly missed but he's not backing from it too much and in some places the meta discussion about the discussion has been somewhat enlightening itself. Jeff and I had a very good conversation on twitter about it with a woman saying we were tone policing, which I didn't even know was a thing people felt when talking but it is apparently.
If you took arbitrary fortran, especially with i/o, the results were an unreadable mess - but they compiled and ran.

For a project I had (in the early 90s iirc), I had to extensively modify the fortran and make multiple versions before the generated C was readable. Still, much easier than a rewrite.
> Bill Clinton cut some crazy deal with radical feminists in order to get reelected

I had no idea that radical feminists, or indeed feminists in general, had such immense power that they could affect an election where the incumbent won by 9%.
gcc has had auto under a different name (typeof) for years and years, though i don't think it got much use outside of programming competitions.
There's an episode of 99% Invisible about it: http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-66-kowloon-wal...
I have the same problem. For me it only seems to happen when I talk about things I'm passionate about, such as work. This is way I avoid the phone at all times. I have never met anyone who cared (or even mentioned it to me other than my wife). The problem with phones (for me) is that people can't see you. My stutter involves pauses which in a face to face conversation are pretty obvious that I'm right in the middle of trying to say something. On the phone these pauses are weird and when it happens it's not uncommon to hear on the other end; "Are you still there..?".

I can imagine that speaking to investors would be a major problem. Not so much that anyone would can about your stutter or stammer, but more about the frustration with yourself that you can't properly communicate your idea. You always find yourself having to compromise on what it is you're trying to bring across.

Unfortunately I have no tips or suggestions since I haven't been able to find any myself.
Glacier now costs the same as a Google drive, except drive has none of the restrictions

Only if your usage is exactly equal to the maximum usage from one of Google's pricing tiers.
Cheers for a demonstration of how debatable these claims are.

One thing that bothers me about such claims is they hardly explain what seems to be a secularly rising homeless rate over the last thirty years. Sure, we haven't seen a brain injury epidemic during that time but certainly we've seen social and economic policy changes during that time.
HTC Designer Scott Croyle Exits Company to Work on Wider Range of Projects
Big Data (Alone) Won't Save You
That surely means Ant is make, only worse.
What do you need that isn't included in the free plan on Slack?
Because this isn't communist Russia/China. There is a certain level of implied freedom and privacy here in America. That's why I fucking care.
You don't understand.

It is one thing that I can configure whatever through patience and knowledge.

It is another being willing to configure stuff whenever some fool decides that they want to change a service around. I can dance but that doesn't mean I dance to someone else' tune.
This is a very good point. The Marvel universe is a "premium" brand, in it's own way.

I wouldn't be surprised if opening up this API was a non-unanimous decision with lots of internal dissent.
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> it sounds like some people are using "plagiarism" not to mean that he specifically stole words from her post verbatim, but to mean that he "rewrote" what she wrote without giving her credit. It's not how I'd use the term, but I think that's what people are getting at with it.

That's not plagiarism.
I occasionally feel like my waitress is pitying me when I eat alone. Poor guy eating alone. Or maybe she's just angling for a better tip...
Next post: using hacker news to DDoS any website.
Mount a torrent as a file system in real time
In my experience the emulator development community is driven in large part by the "because I can" mentality.

Developers do play games but mostly for debugging. Once an emulator is "done" they move on to a harder console. For example ppsspp was started by the same guy who started Dolphin. When I hung out on the ppsspp irc I found several other developers were present or former Dolphin devs.

The users tend to be very game-playing focused which is part of why the user&developer relationship is so strained.

Users are the pathological worst customers, the ones patio11 keeps mentioning, they are cheap and demand the sky. Meanwhile the developers are managing immense complexity and no one is getting a paycheck.

It makes everything much easier to understand when you hear of developers quiting. That anyone creates anything is amazing.
I actually bought a shaver once, from a retail store, that included an unannounced forced arbitration contract thay claimed implied consent by using the shaver. It's ridiculous.
Rereading my post, apologies if it came across harsh. I'm in pretty much the same boat. My kids are right about 5 and it is crazy how much I've managed to accumulate. I'm currently forcing myself to edit down pictures when I get a chance and paying for Amazon's cloud drive.

I certainly wish things were cheaper, but all of the "do it yourself" options have left me more than a little worried at my own lack of discipline working against me.
I arrived in Hong Kong in 1996, too late to see the KWC but I would certainly have taken the risk to experience it had it still be there.

Hong Kong is still filled with weird little wonders that you can only uncover by chance if you take the time to look around and explore. My favourite pastime is to lose myself in the city, taking every little back-alley, climbing stairs, slopes, paths, trails that I can find.

I'm always reminded though that these little hidden treasures have a tendency to disappear fast here, without a trace. Conservation of heritage is unfortunately not a big thing in Hong Kong, although it has gotten a little better.
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In real world robotic applications you would make a very strong point, but there is always an educational angle. I have been interested in learning Go for awhile and recently have been tinkering with robotics. With Gobot I might actually take the plunge and give Go a shot.
Interesting that the article doesn't have the question mark in the title, but the HN link does. It inverts the implied conclusion of the article.
eg section 802 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libor_scandal shows the value of logging private IM in a financial context.
I was there too. There were like 6 demos during the presentation--all of them were awesome! The first rule of presentations is to minimize demonstrations because things can go wrong, but all of there demos were amazing and went off without a hitch. I too thought Go was only a server-side language, but they showed it runs great on embedded devices.
What's the relative proportion of men in prison to women?
Whilst not arguing against your other points which I think are interesting, git has the submodule system which we use for shared libraries.
Release 3310 in smartphone world. With their strong brand they could create another indestructible phone in smartphone era that would sell for $199.

The specs could be weak, as long as it would be easy, durable and fast for regular users.

Nokia 3310 was phone for regular users. Phone that could drop, had few games, allowed you to download some ringtones.
Strong battery, good screen, water/shock proof. Put 8GB memory plus one SD slot, some ok-ish processor and 2GB ram (so it wont age after 1 year) + make put really good battery. No ridiculous screen resolutions, fingerprint readers etc - just durable smartphone for regular user.

With specs like that they might break even - but for sure they would steal european and growing APAC regions easy. Once they would get back they would release business versions that would help them to correct their profitability. Its not difficult for such a strong brand like Nokia. I was amazed how Scandinavian way of thinking (simplicity) vanished from the company.

If Nokia could deliver mentioned phone - I would use it for sure.