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Work-related:

- Spoke at a conference for the first time (React.js Conf) [1]

- Released my first serious open-source project (an isomorphic React app server) [2]

- The project I've been building was demoed to some executives and put our team in a really good spot.

Other cool stuff:

- Started buying furniture and accessories to make my room feel like home. I've always been hesitant to own large items because I've moved pretty frequently since I finished high school. Buying a handmade hardwood bed is a big deal for me.

[1]: http://conf.reactjs.com/schedule.html#tweak-your-page-in-rea...

[2]: https://github.com/appsforartists/ambidex/
Very cool. Looks like it performs great from the comments.

How was developing a game in Swift?
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I really enjoy using Yii. It's not perfect, but it seems underrated to me.
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Is there any other fiction that explores the idea?

The Diamond Age spoilers follow.

One of many disappointments[1] for me past about 1/3 of the way in to the The Diamond Age was that the Primer didn't continue to exhibit new, interesting behavior. It seemed like the promise of the Primer at the beginning was that it would be a companion that grew with Nell and continued to react to what was going on around her, but past a certain point it's just a smarter-than-average interactive fiction edutainment game, so that the in-the-book scenes increasingly felt like digressions in to World-of-Warcraft-plus-math than anything really innovative (or narratively interesting for that matter), as they have less and less to do with Nell's immediate environment and don't change as she grows older, aside from the material getting more difficult. Even Nell often seems bored by it in the later chapters.

Maybe that's a subtle nod to how some video games have more resources put in to the first few levels to generate good reviews, then phone it in for the rest :-)

I'd love to see the idea of the nanotech educational book-companion (or similar) explored more fully. Those early scenes are so powerful.

[1] Oh man, that pages-long part near the end that exists solely for one character to tell us what another's motivations had been for the second half of the book, since there'd have been no way for the reader to guess otherwise. Closest I've ever come to punching a book.
Money is cheap these days. When money is cheap, mergers are popular. Better to borrow and acquire now than compete later (I suppose).
Ha, identical goal for me, except it's about shipping something rather than just apps each month. I've posted elsewhere with links, but good to know others are doing the same.

I'm thinking one months project might even be a platform to encourage others to do this in 2016...
The plumbing systems in a lot of older buildings in NYC (including $3 million brownstones) can't handle washing machines.
I'd be curious to see this replicated in other cities. I sort of suspect that there are cultural norms specific to New York at work here. For one, space is at a premium in a way that isn't really true elsewhere in the US, even in expensive neighborhoods, in a way that disincents owning your own washing machine.

Also, the wash and fold is a huge thing in New York, and lots of people use them. DC, where I live, probably has a few, but most people don't live near one, and I've never used one. For New Yorkers, by contrast, there's a different cultural expectation where paying someone to fold your clothes is much more accepted.

Those things together, I think, make laundromats in New York more likely to appeal to non-lower-class people there than elsewhere, and at least anecdotally, lots of laundromats here have closed as neighborhoods have gentrified, and at least a couple of now-affluent neighborhoods I can think of don't have any anymore.
> So we now effectively have an office supply monopoly?

We have a retail office supply specialty chain physical store monoculture, but actual retail sales of office supplies also take place at non-specialty physical stores, at non-chain physical stores, and, most significantly, online (both from specialized and general retailers), and for most transactions customers easily substitute among those groups. So a single-entity dominating the brick-and-mortar chain subcategory is hardly a "monopoly".
Have you ever been there during "back to school" season? Its a jam packed free for all.

They probably have a lot of seasonal business when all the grade school semesters start.
Pushed some major new features for enterprise clients of Emphatic (a website I run which provides subscriptions for handmade social media content for businesses - https://www.emphatic.co ) and made the registration flow easier to use.

In the real world, got a squirrel out of my attic. :-) Equally challenging!
Realistically the only way they can go is down. People just aren't even going to buying more of what they sell. The threat isn't Amazon, it's Apple. People are going to continue to use devices more and pens less right up until no one uses pens any more.

Also, bear in mind that you're quoting an article from 2013, and Staples stock fell by about 25% in 2014. They've picked up a little since then, but they're not going to get back to where they were. Their market is slowing disappearing.
Discreet and discrete are two very different words :)
Reminds of me of this (copying service/product before "original" gets released):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Prada#iPhone_controversy
My guess would be that the American washing machine market matured during the era when apartment living was seen as low-class, and thus the market concentrates on big machines for the big suburban houses that everyone who could afford a laundry machine lived in.

Likewise, the big American laundry machine risked overflow and drew a lot of water and power that a lot of old buildings couldn't handle, so landlords banned them. Nowadays, even though laundry machines have evolved so that there are models that use less water and power and overflow less, the housing situation in cities like NYC and SF is so competitive that landlords don't really need to adjust their policies to get the tenants they want. And our minimum wage is very low, so labor-intensive services like laundry are relatively cheap for middle class urbanites to outsource.
The Benjamin button short story by F. Scott Fitz was 64 pages story and a 166 minute movie, yielding 2.6 minutes of film per page.
After a mastectomy last December, the docs are finally letting me work out so I'm going full bore to put a little muscle to compensate for the lost mass.

I've been trying to meditate for exactly five minutes a day. I'm not sure it's helping but I'm pushing on.

Almost landed my first Fortune 500 client for my one man startup, jQuizzy.

So far, it's heen s kind year.
Nice domain! Good luck, I am trying to start one project myself but so far I rely on my job, maybe latter.
Getting this error - "Package is invalid. Details: 'Could not load extension icon 'icon.png'.'"

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Just because idiots use an argument doesn't mean the argument is stupid.

30 seconds of Googling brings up this article [1] (a secondary source, primary sources are Bloomberg and Washington Post), discussing the impression that doctors are performing/suggesting unnecessary, yet expensive surgeries/treatments. Even if it turns out not to be true (after proper research), it's an argument worth considering in any situation that involves financial incentives not aligned with the desired outcome.

[1]: http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/unneces...
So there have been a lot of contenders to replace JavaScript, and it hasn't budged from it's market seat at all. Here's why:

You can do almost anything in JavaScript these days. The down side? You can do almost ~anything~ in JS these days. Including lots of stupid things.

Since JS works extremely well for user interaction, and is "good enough" for simple object-oriented programs, it will likely never go away in the foreseeable future in these realms. What I think things like SoundScript are for, is 1) for people who are used to strongly-typed programming languages to feel more comfortable on the web (which is actually pretty important), and 2) for larger OO or enterprise-style systems that really shouldn't have been written in JS in the first place (I'm looking at you Angular).

I wonder if it will end up like Go, though. An interesting language which never gets more than a niche market.
Looks nice! Found a typo:

Refund receipts are of course avaiable
Same here.

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As other's have pointed out in this discussion, Amazon and Walmart's Sam's Club are probably more than enough competition to keep prices in check in the office supply market.
My coworker knows some calculus. I doubt he knows linear algebra. The forward-active voltage for a BJT? Maybe one other person I work with knows that, I doubt he does. I did not when I graduated, but then I am not a EE. My degrees are in Engineering Physics and Fluid Mechanics. Almost by accident I have become a flight test instrumentation engineer with the official job title of "Senior Electronics Engineer". I have tried hard to remedy my EE related shortcomings through self-study, and will continue to do so. I would never call myself an EE -- just an engineer.

I agree with you, for the purposes of your argument, that degree should serve as a guarantee. It is an important signifier of mastered domain knowledge, and more importantly, a signifier of the ability to master new domains.

EDIT: That last sentence was a run-on, fixed it.
what about in the US? Is there such a fine?
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Nah, you can start gym/intense excercise anytime, I started about... 31? Major imporovement in about everything, including sex (you don't get tired so easily for example). There is no "too late" age.

As for losing muscles - our bodies run in "least necessary amount needed" mode, since muscles are nutritient-hungry to sustain if not needed. You need to constantly push them to even sustain your level of strength/endurance. If I stop all my activities for 2 weeks, you feel horribly weak when coming back. Marathon runner could write books about it :)
Most likely I would have failed fizz buzz, given that if it wasn't for HN I would have never heard of it.
Thanks for the comment. I have never worked with mybatis, I will definitely take a look at it. The reason I was drawn to JPA is because Spring seems to have made integrating JPA into your project very trivial.
This is what drew me to CS over math. I enjoy describing things with code or pseudo code, not difficult to understand equations and math symbols. Also, it is much easier to see the practicality of an equation when presented in code form.
Ah, congrats! I remember when my first patch was accepted to FreeBSD (systat -ifstat support), was a fantastic feeling (I was early 20s at the time). PHK was the one that picked it up too (guy behind Varnish and general contemporary wisdom, among other things), which was neat.

My number one piece of advice to college kids that want to differentiate themselves from the pack is to try get something substantial (i.e. new feature or tough bug fix, not just something small/cosmetic) committed to a prominent open source project (ideally in C or C++). From a hiring perspective, knowing that you were able to get a patch accepted tells me so much more about you and your technical competency than anything else on your resume (or your internships, or your GPA, or which school you went to, etc).
>put in a visitor's center, a children's playground, a cafe, and, of course, a gift shop.

That's pretty standard. Most of those are profit centers as well. That 10 dollar turkey sandwich has a massive markup. Frankly, its weird to go to a tourist venue that doesn't have some level of merchandising. I don't see Bletchley as some holy ground where these kinds of things defile it. Perhaps people need to have more realistic ideas of what a tourist destination means.
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There's an interesting post on the motivation for this here, http://www.levitylab.com/blog/2011/06/geology-an-interactive... (note the post date).
I too wrote on this point. In my opinion you are creating a future headache for yourself if you use "Timestamp with time zone"

http://www.hydrogen18.com/blog/time-zones-and-databases-dont...
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I wonder if China's more lax regulations aren't a big win for Alibaba and improves their ability to go to market faster than Amazon will with drove delivery.
> So why not just <script type="application/soundscript">, at least if you want to use non-JS compatible type annotations?

That was my initial reaction too, but, without a primitive to detect browser support, it would create fragmentation either way.
I hope that is what it means, because the alternative would be bizarre.

That said, I think Nadella will do a good job, and that many ideas that Ballmer had were starting to show their promise.
It's awesome to see you guys embracing server rendering, but it's incorrect to say most server-rendered Flux apps can only render one request at a time. If you're designing an isomorphic architecture, it's certainly a consideration, but I doubt any production apps have this limitation.

A common pattern is to instantiate a new store for every request, to avoid collisions.
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>People are going to continue to use devices more and pens less right up until no one uses pens any more.

And what prevents Staples from adjusting their product offerings to lean more towards "devices", and less towards "pens"?

Amazon used to sell only books....
Don't succumb to the reductionist fallacy. The body is complex, and more than the sum of its parts, including its hormones. It's entirely possible that the process that produces testosterone naturally also has other effects that mitigate the downside of testosterone.
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NT source code was leaked ages ago, most people were surprised it was fairly clean code.
We're not pulling the data from the fed site, so there is no issue with the use of that data. We work with a group that maintains this data independently of the published fed directory.
We will probably become collared pets once "gene hacking" becomes a thing. The real aristocracy will use the law to make unauthorized genetic modifications a crime punished more harshly than unauthorized computer access, which is already sometimes punished more harshly than crimes like armed robbery.

Consider the ethical implications of the job they pay you to do. Always. Who will be benefiting from my work? Who might be harmed by it? Can I trust my employer to protect--or even just accurately represent--my own interests?

Do not take jobs that grant more power to the powerful at the expense of the weak.

My litmus test for human gene-mod technology will be whether I will ever be able to repair my phi-GULO pseudogene, to restore the mammalian ability to synthesize ascorbates (vitamin C) in the liver, without needing to get permission from anyone to do it, and without paying more than a year's salary or using more than one garage of space on the equipment. If I can do that, this particular genie cannot be re-bottled.

And you can bet I'd be selling CKGGRAKDC-GG-D(KLAKLAK)2 under the table, too.
You are missing the point.

All these great apps should come directly from Stripe, so not to leak sensitive business information to random 3rd party companies.
Awesome thanks TheMakeA! Just fixed that!
I just started this Coursera linear algebra course designed for software engineers, which looks really good: https://www.coursera.org/course/matrix

So far it tracks the matching textbook pretty closely. The first little set of lectures covered the first 62 pages.
I honestly had no idea. I would have figured new egg or Ann Taylor (based on how much my wife shops there on-line).
Assuming there are a significant number of men on here who hope to some day have a family, it's inportant to note that a significant side effect of exogenous testosterone administration is male infertility. Simplified, the excess testosterone in the blood stream sends signals that shut down the hormones essential for sperm production.
This may not matter if you are mid life or older and already have children, or if you don't plan on having any, but otherwise do NOT take exogenous testosterone.
Comparison by "price point", gotta love it. "This costs about the same as other $5000 scooters!"

Sounds a bit high to market in India to me.
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http://www.drugwatch.com/testosterone/side-effects/
Did we just find the secret of immortality?
This is a common problem with a lot of these kinds of technologies... I've worked with the .NET entity framework, as well as spring .net. What people fail to really realize is that they are large, complex platforms which add a lot of "magic" to your system, and often make them harder to debug and maintain. Combined with the often steep learning curve, there is often very little practical development speed increase in the long run.
Seeing that kind of thing in downtown Hyderabad made me want to cry.
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1. Go to meetups/hackathons/dev conferences.
2. Hire directly by talking to people you meet there. 3.Engineers have a strong aversion towards HR people and are more likely to pay attention to the founders or early hires.
4.Hire remotely ---> your talent pool increases dramatically
Yes, I've worked with Accuity before. They've very proud of their data, and charge an arm and a leg for it. We work with a group that maintains this data independently of the published fed directory.
I am freelancer I am working from home. So to feel good I just purchased 300 sq feet office from where I can work more efficiently.
>I have no idea how they keep the lights on.

Back-to-school season, teachers/schools and corporate accounts.
> maybe you took a calculus class in college but can you apply the Chain rule right now?

Even more than the chain rule, Taylor series approximations are what I constantly see applied in computer science and applied math.
I live in the UK but my company's head office is in San Jose and I should be visiting in the near future so I'll have to pop in!
Are they not reasonably common in the UK? They were a major plot point in Simon Pegg's movie The Fantastic Fear of Everything.
Doesn't Amazon also do business in China? Couldn't they do the same thing, under the same regulations?

(Unless what I'm hearing is true, and being a non-Chinese company is a big hindrance.)
PHP without Kahlan is like going to the office with no pants. It's been invaluable to improving our team's code reliability.
You're right; shipping something complete is the actual goal. I'm loosely defining the word app, and haven't seen how this will manifest entirely yet.

Additionally, I'm allowing myself to port a previous month's app to another language or environment; January was my first exposure to Node.js for example, but maybe later in the year I'll rework it in Go.
I'm not saying one can not or should not postpone the unavoidable, but rather questioning whether postponing it would make one less scared of it.
There's no indication than any of the substantive evidence (i.e. the evidence that tends to indicate Ulbricht is guilty) was manufactured. There is a strong argument to be made that the government's testimony as to how it came to obtain that evidence is fraudulent or at the very least incomplete* (which is not relevant to guilt, but would have been relevant to a suppression motion under the fourth amendment except the defense inexplicably procedurally defaulted on that question+.)

* See http://blog.erratasec.com/2014/10/reading-silk-road-configur... and http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/10/silk-road-lawyers-poke-ho...

+ http://ia700603.us.archive.org/21/items/gov.uscourts.nysd.42... (starting on page 6)
Good point though, not sure it applies well to this post though.
> benchmarks against using nginx and other common options as a proxy would be handy,

Unless I'm missing something that's not a possible comparison. Nginx is a reverse proxy, but this is a forward proxy.
It's network effects, that's why. They get all of these people who are then given an opportunity to compete to make the best service, all of those efforts which provide more real value for Stripe - and at practically no cost, except for creating a good API and providing good support.
Not super surprising. JS can be used for all kinds of stuff, and is hitting something of a critical mass. I expect there to be some JS fragmentation at some point, with more specific variants being used for different things (jQuery is one kind of example).
The site DOES have an SSL cert (https://bankdata.io). It doesn't force you over to https until you're on a page that actually requires it (signup, login, the API).
>My guess would be that the American washing machine market matured during the era when apartment living was seen as low-class, and thus the market concentrates on big machines for the big suburban houses that everyone who could afford a laundry machine lived in.

You can buy a washing machine in just about any size that you would need [1]. They offer stackable units to fit in small closets.

I visited friends in Europe before and they had to buy a dryer that you would empty the water manually because they didnt have a access to a dryer vent.

[1]http://www.amazon.com/Stainless-Dryer5-5-6-6lbs-Compact-Apar...
I'm guessing its a sperm count / motility test.
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I was a little scared by the heavy use of static method calls in Laravel 4. L5 has made the statics easier to ignore if that is not your thing.

But after understanding the Facade pattern that is widely used by the framework, I've concluded that the use of the static method calls is not an antipattern at all.
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I actually think this is addressing a known or implied strength of Google - data driven decisions that effect design.
Like the paperless office? Still waiting...
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Really cool, man! I like it :) good job.
That is such a crazy headline. The PR agent who got that wording placed will be dining out on that story for a while.
"Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."[1]

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines
Yes, I agree.

My point is that these business are a lot larger than people realize, and that the phase out is going to be a lot slower than people think because it's primarily enterprise recurring contracts that are powering their sales.

That said, I use the printer at my office maybe 1x/week, so I agree that it's not long-term sustainable. This is why consolidation is a good bet for short-term viability and the deal is a good one for Staples for right now.
What is different from what just said versus the following?

"Terrorists should be dealt with through our criminal justice system, including the presumption of innocence. If someone is a terrorist, I would be upset and want them to be prosecuted, but we don't need to call them names to do that."

All you are really doing is stating that criminals are not terrorists. The entire thread is arguing that the person in question is not a terrorist.

The thing everyone is ignoring here is that what you call someone is irrelevant. I could call you a terrorist, and it won't matter at all. It's just my personal statement and opinion. All that matter is the consequences.

What are the actual consequences of being added to the "terrorist watch list?" What I've always thought is that it means you cannot fly. Is there some other consequence?