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The 3.5mm connector is not a problem (excepting cases where it's been damaged, has environmental crud on it, etc). The problem I've noticed (the hiss) is from analog signals being generated either too far away from the connector, or without adequate shielding against ambient electronic noise.

One thing that hasn't been discussed is that of power. Does the Lightning connector have the ability to pass enough current to the external DAC to drive large over-the-ear headphones and generate respectable bass without distortion? Or will the headphones require it's own battery (AAA or rechargeable)?
That as well as contact info for your city councilors and example legislation on use of eminent domain for last-mile cables.
> follows the semantics of the Ruby language correctly;

Exactly, the compiled code follows the Ruby language correctly. It's also unusably slow.

It's possible to generated compiled code that also follows the Ruby language semantics by using knowledge of which portions of those semantics the actual program in question relies on. That program can be a lot faster.

In other words, if you haven't overloaded arithmetic operators, your program compiled to JS shouldn't pay the runtime penalty as if you had.

That's a compiler's job: preserve semantics but make the resulting code run as fast as possible by whatever means necessary.

If you've got a way to compile Ruby to JS that has tolerable arithmetic perf and doesn't do type analysis or generate a huge volume of code, I would definitely like to know more about it.
The Big Bang Theory got on my nerves until I started reading a biography of Oppenheimer. Sheldon is not an appropriate symbol of whatever all geeks are. He might be an Oppenheimer though. He is certainly a Sheldon. I can appreciate that.

The idea that some people are more technically focused than others works for me as a definition of "geek". Especially I like when people use the word in a way that accepts that some people are simply like that, and that that's OK for them even if it's foreign to a majority of the populace.

Like you, I'd prefer to consider "geek" a category with a permeable boundary. I'd argue however that there are many people who spend practically their entire lives inside the category and others outside the category.

Donald Knuth seems admirably sensible about many things, one of which is publicity. I see him putting himself before the public where he is thereby able to accomplish something that he considers worthwhile, profitable. So I think that there's a side we don't see and that the side we see should surprise us if we imagined that geek behavior is whimsically self-indulgent. Nevertheless the word "geek" fits his activity that we see. He concentrates his attention as much as he can in a delineated technical arena where he seems unlikely to meet with conflict. Look at the good that he does and the grace with which he does it. If that's being a geek, it must be a really good thing.
Netflix isn't "doing" anything to Comcast. Comcast's customers are demanding (and paying for) the asymmetrical traffic. If they have to redo the connection, so be it -- they promised their customers connectivity, and if that means installing new hardware to achieve connectivity so be it.
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I agree with you, but here is a weird idea: they will have to make room for a micro USB connector to comply with EU regulations. Adding a connector doesn't feel like anything Apple would do, and giving up lightning would be admitting defeat.

So, let's suppose they go this route: I think that an adapter could be ridiculously small. It needs to wrap that audio connector, hold it tighter than a lighting connector holds a lightning cable (should be fairly easy), add about half a centimeter for the lightning plug, and have room for some chip doing lightning-to-audio conversion.

A lot of speculation? Yes, but if it works, I can see them go that way. The main problem is the case of people who use a single headset with iPhones and non-Apple devices (extra weird idea: when do we see lightning in iMacs?)
In Lake Wobegon even the atheists are Lutheran.
Not that impossible. I listen to music on my iPhone while charging it when I'm on my secondary laptop and Internet connection is too slow for streaming music over iTunes Match.
Those stars on your skills section... I don't like to see ratings like that in general, but if you're going to put 5 out of 5 on something, be prepared to be called out on it. I'd expect you to have total expert knowledge of Bootstrap and Lavarel and Wordpress.

There's nothing I'd give myself a 5 out of 5 on after my 20 years of work.
You should probably say where you live if you are looking for a job. Also, if they said they would give you a particular portion of some pile of money as compensation, you might consider suing them for wage theft.

Also, why are you "evil"?
From gremlinsinc's profile, it looks like his resume can be found at http://resume.patrickcurl.com. From a quick glance the writing/grammar on the page does seem to be a bit off ("I've been designing web pages, back when geocities was popular(circa 1998)."), and as another user mentions having "KICKASS" in the first sentence of your resume is a bit questionable to me.
Good way to keep resources locked up in zombie companies unable to generate even 0% return, by letting them roll over loans despite destroying value.

Instead of flushing out the stagnant resource pools, so they could be put to better use doing something less wasteful.
I am not talking about imbalance in U/D, but rather imbalance in destination (or source). If tremendous amounts of traffic is going to or from just a small handful of nodes, you need tremendous routers & pipes going to those nodes.
Netflix is saying that they have sufficient bandwidth on the other side, but that Verizon has a bottleneck in their connection to the backbone.
Any chance we could live stream this in Boulder?
In javascript, JSON is also much faster to deserialize than protobuffers.
Reword your resume (especially this part: "I've Spent a good decade just doing mostly freelance work, and installing apps") - otherwise it sounds like you're really good at installing/configuring stuff other people have written.

Also remove the $70K Salary Requirement.
I know plenty of people hate on freelancing sites, and they certainly aren't ideal, but...

If you are desperate for cash and have some skills, maybe try to pick up some ~$500-1000 jobs on:

Freelancer.com, Guru.com, Elance.com, Odesk, etc.
Please don't be put off by the harsh tone of this essay. It's important information and based on this post and the resume linked in your HN profile (http://resume.patrickcurl.com/), I think you would benefit from reading it: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pro...
It would be great if they could cast some insight into how they're parsing and rendering the PSDs, and if they wrote any code to do so, they posted it on GitHub.
Relevant Wiki article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tier_1_network
Is it only me who is annoyed by “JPG”? It’s JPEG. I mean, you don’t write “HTM” files, do you?
Unfortunately we're not doing any recordings -- it's hard to be candid and recorded for all history at the same time. :(
I see your point, but don't think it is quite as bad as that. For one thing, it would be cached etc., so it is about as bad as every site on the web using jQuery (that is, not great, but not horrible either).

Yes, it seems ironic to download a GC written in JS, when JS can do GC. But JS can only do SOME types of GC. For example, it lacks destructor callbacks, which things like Lua require. Some other language might need weakrefs which JS also lacks. So it is not quite that unreasonable to download a GC, as you can get the right semantics you want.

But I do agree it gets less clear when the semantics are very close to JS. I'm not sure if Ruby is close enough, though (CoffeeScript certainly is).
I'm not saying I endorse the system, I'm simply stating it's the system we live in.
I think the parent forgot to tag their </ sarcasm>
> Would you still have government assistance programs to subsidize workers at the low end?

Those are separable concerns; I see no strong reason to immediately change the status quo in that regard.

> I mean, you would expect wages for a lot of people to drop drastically, right?

No, I would actually expect wages for a lot of people to increase and the overall need for assistance to decline. But there's an important trick here that renders things a bit counterintuitive, which is that average wages would indeed decline - even though nearly everybody in the economy is being paid as much or more than they were before. This happens because you're adding new workers into the pool of people with jobs, and you're adding them at the low end.

If you just look at people at the low end who are currently unemployed, underemployed or illegally employed: without a minimum wage law they would find it much easier to get a legal first job, some transitional employment which gives them experience and references and training that makes it easier for them to get higher-paying later jobs. So THEIR reported income goes UP, both in the short run and in the longer run. But since they weren't employed before, their wage of $0/hour wasn't part of the "average wage" computation BEFORE, and their new wage of, say, $5/hour is part of the "average wage" computation after the change, so their improved salary drags the computed "average" down.

Now consider the rest of the economy: The existence of more people in the labor force who were previously unemployed makes the economy more productive, which enables even people earning far above the minimum to also get higher wages. When someone who is highly productive can hire other people to mow the lawn, empty the trash, do the filing or paperwork, that person can focus more of their own time and effort on what they're best at - more workers means more gains can be had from specialization of labor. Also, the fact that fewer people are entirely unemployed and more are rapidly entering the workforce means we need less government assistance which means tax rates could decline, again making the economy more productive and increasing standard of living.

(The case for getting rid of the minimum wage is actually quite similar to the case for open borders. Fully opening the borders to let people work wherever they want would by some estimates DOUBLE world GDP. Getting rid of minimum wage laws everywhere wouldn't have nearly THAT large an effect, but it would be quite positive.)
I do as well. I also listen to it while driving, and charge at the same time. I was being slightly sarcastic toward Apple, that they would scrap this functionality.
"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results."
Great use of responsivity. The cohesive nature of this site is holistically spot on.
> Your wireless network service is best effort.

Wouldn't intentionally throttling and/or not keeping up your capacity intentionally be a violation of this "best effort" doctrine? Not arguing, honest question.
AFAIK, in modern fractional reserve banking the commercial banks enjoy a special privilege for the balance that they hold at their central bank account. The balance at each bank's account is called its reserve, and for every euro the bank holds in reserve, it can actually lend out a far greater sum. Currently, for each euro at its central bank account, a commercial bank can lend out €100 to their clients (borrowers). (Interestingly, this extra money that the bank lends out materializes out of thin air.) So, the banks still have a great incentive to keep their money at their central bank account, because it's the only account that adds to their fractional reserve base.
I support this in principle, but I would bet a good portion of the buffering that happens for Verizon customers is due to issues with their own wifi network.
Exactly. The "equal traffic" concept totally fails for consumer last mile providers. In fact, it's technically more expensive for them to provide symmetrical service due to head end noise, but it also fits with their "you're supposed to consume content, especially ours, not supply it" attitude.

The latter is something that more people ought to be thinking about, consumers using Netflix are not just consuming more peak bandwidth, they're competing with the video offerings of all of the big last mile providers.

Although. AT&T doesn't actually offer U-verse video service to very many of their subscribers; don't know about Verizon's FiOS vs. plain DSL offerings (except that they're shedding small population states and markets as fast as they can), but the others are cable companies so they obviously do.
Don't know why this was downvoted. You should make your resume as to-the-point as possible, even keeping a spreadsheet of different versions of pieces of information to more easily taylor it to the job in question. Unless your intention it to work with something, drop it from the CV. Recruiters don't like anything unexpected. Don't surprise them.

Keep it objective. They don't care you think you are a kickass Rails developer and they will not react positively to what they can interpret as a big ego.
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Something that I can see happening eventually. Externally, the audio jack is the most constraining part of the iPhone. Removing it would mean slimmer iPhones, and makes sense with this trend of bigger screens and slimmer devices.
Financial news is clowns all the way down.
Small correction, it's "eight of the best countries to be atheist in", not "the most atheist countries".
I thought the reasoning behind JSON was that Javascript has a parser built in (eval), rather than it's incapable of being used to parse other formats?
I'd just like to point out that Adam Smith himself (the "Carl Marx of Capitalism") agrees with you for fire, police, and roads at the very least (I haven't read everything he wrote). If he were born today rather than in 1723 I suspect his list would look very much like yours.
You realize that to build such a tool you would really need to develop high level of programming skills, right? ;-)
Because the alternatives is basically to store reserves at the central bank or to store them in cash, and storing in cash is costly.

The reason for this is that banks within a banking regulation/currency area is a closed system - reserves are created when a loan is made, and cannot be removed from the system until that debt is repaid. A bank can store it in actual cash or in reserves in another bank, but that would simply move the problem to that bank. They need to be able to store their reserves, and they end up doing that at the central bank.
For one thing, it's pretty amazing to see Nick Kokonas writing about Alinea and Next as if they were "Lean Startups".

But another thing that sticks out to me: look how pretty and refined these ticketing apps aren't, even though they drive hundreds of thousands of dollars per month of revenue. And after you notice that, read how Kokonas talks about how easy and simple the system is for them to use? There's a lesson in there somewhere about the kinds of UX that matter to customers versus the kind of UX people believe should matter for customers.

As a restaurant customer, I think the ticketing system is great; I've gone through the process of getting an Alinea reso (if you want a real fun time in Chicago, try getting one for Schwa) and it was an opaque nightmare. The alternative to tickets for these places isn't a fair reservation system; it is basically "you don't get to eat there ever".
Yes. It's a decent implementation. However, binary data access (particularly DataView which is used by protobufjs) is embarrassingly slow in all browsers at the moment, so JSON (possibly gzipped if you're worried about bandwidth) is much better if you're going to be mainly targetting browsers.
Heh, this comes hours after I resorted to reinstalling brew from scratch (which works, too).

Does anyone know why they hardcoded the location of the interpreter like that?
>If carriers have to change their amortization patterns (more routers, faster) they have to change their financing which damages the value of the stock.

Welcome to the world of business. Change is constant, you can't just tell your customers, "Whoops we didn't plan for that."

I also disagree that its as hopeless as you make it out to be (in many nations 100mbps or even 1gbps unlimited internet is trivial to get). They can raise prices on customers, lower caps, throttle netflix users, etc if they're in such financial dire straits. Their competitors will love this as customers will migrate to them. Their competitors may have a more nimble management structure and can provide the data at this level.

What I don't get, assuming they really are in dire straits and not trying to monetize artificial scarcity, is why don't they just push out a notice, "Due to network limitations, we are throttling streaming video users to 4mbps which is enough for medium quality 720p streaming. The investment to support 1080p streaming is impossible for us. Love Verizon."

Actually, I know why they won't do this, because Comcast will pay for the router upgrades and steal all their customers once they find out. So they go around their customers' backs and try dirty dealings with Netflix and others. These guys being duopolies in most markets (substitute AT&T with Verizon in some states) just decided to not compete and simply change the rules at the FCC, which is pretty much a textbook description of collusion.
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It's incredibly hard to label any religion as "Christian" and have that label approved by other religions labeled as "Christian". It's an exercise in futility, which makes those kinds of charts mostly useless. This one on the other hand is pretty interesting.
Like I said, the system can be gamed. But that's not an argument against hiring foreign workers. It's an argument for improving the system to make it more robust.
You're talking about a government website and not recording? I am a little worried that you don't think you can be candid about what is being done with our tax money.
That's funny. I'm using a Roku as well and had pretty much the same experience except I rented a movie from M-Go. Of note, I'm paying for "Quantum" speeds 75/35.
Homebrew already fixed that, you can just do a git pull in /usr/local.
They did for ATT atleast: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7854446
Holding, and distibuting, physical cash is madly expensive.
I think the article misses the most obvious point: Apple wants to make phones thinner than having a headphone jack allows.
Oops, my bad. Rewrote my response.
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I think you're reading too much into the point being made. A resume is to get an HR person or hiring manager interested in you enough to interview you in person. You definitely need to write them towards that audience and their standards.
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Berlin has a number of great smallish tech-oriented companies that have been around for a while, like Native Instruments and Ableton AG.

It's interesting, and good for SoundCloud, but I don't think Berlin has any particular need for that kind of "startup" culture, where you create some internet service and sell it.
Hey, gremlinsinc..

There's a book to read "Winning Through Intimidation" by Rbert J. Ringer.

It is not a book about how to intimidate people, it's about not being intimidated by people.

One of the chapters addresses the issue of "promises".

We have an Algerian proverb that says "Ti9a fil wati9a". Meaning: Trust lies in the document. Which means: Make it clear, black on white, on a document.. Meaning: Get a lawyer. Meaning also: The only lawyer you have is the one you pay. (Don't assume the company lawyer is yours).

I was a kid when my brother had a company and built buildings based on word. Once he had a deal with some old man, very respectable and well known figure. I asked him why they didn't sign a contract and he said that the man is honorable, and I asked "What if he changes". He smiled to the child I was. He eventually got screwed by this very honorable man.

A lawyer also serves as a dissuasive measure taking out the sign on your forehead saying "I'm a pigeon".

Also, try oil or oil services companies. The pay is good (you're basically taken care of completely) and you don't need cutting edge tech. They also like to hire Junior people (they're like one of the few who actually massively hire people without experience because turnover is huge).
Pull out stuff like this from your resume webpage:

"Am I an expert? Nah - But I know where to get free access to developers, and devops, when I hit the inevitable brick wall(IRC CHAT) and I'm always focused on learning how things work."

Don't give people reasons not to hire you. Take that off, make the page about why you're awesome, not why I shouldn't hire you.

Also there are grammatical errors on the page, which don't look good. If you want I can proof read it for you. I'm (edit: not) the greatest at that, but I'll see if my wife can help. Also your resume... it looks cool but I found it super confusing to read. Recruiters often times are looking through massive piles of resumes, whatever you can do to make it easier to see why you're awesome you should do.

Finally if you are about to be homeless look into any emergency shelters in the area. I used to work in affordable housing it can be a wait sometimes to get into a shelter. I wish I could help more. Let me do some research tonight.
Agreed. Pure FUD. You can tell the author doesn't know what he's talking about because he misses the obvious comparison: HTC actually did this & it went nowhere, quickly.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/confirmed-t-mobile-g1-has...
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It is even worse when you see that followed by a 3-year gap.
Being an "evil coder" is just an expression that means they do pretty crazy things in their code that others might find questionable, but presumably having the skill to pull it off without causing bugs.
As promised— here's the article that covers that info:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-isola...

Let us know in the comments if you have any other suggestions :)
> you believe that normal, "buy-side" investors provide adequate liquidity

Well, of course that depends on how you define "adequate". What is all this incessant trading of stocks for? What value does it provide? For example, if I'm an investor (a "real" one, not a market maker, to use less imprecise language) with a long time horizon, something like 30 years, because I'm saving for retirement, how does HFT make me better off?
Reminds me of MML, but more general. I like it.
Does Netflix's ISP pay anything to anyone? If no why does linode make me pay for data transfer?

Thanks for replying
(Linode is just an example)
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That's backwards. Typically, reserves in excess of requirements pay a positive rate. Now, the ECB it taking a piece when you leave the money sitting around.
Maybe you should get better lawyers.
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