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Just counted...

I wrote 169,020 lines of code in 9,691.25 hrs over 4 yrs from 2007-11 for a part-time job while going to school.

That's 17.44 lines per hour or 0.29 lines per minute, not including code written for school or leisure!

When I saw "If this then that" I instantly knew what IFTTT was. However, when showing it to people I noticed they "got it" after seeing the recipe "If the forecast calls for rain tomorrow, send me an SMS message."

BTW, really really cool!

Hmm... I have 31 purchases from newegg and returned 25 of those purchases with 0 problems. That's 80% return rate with 100% satisfaction.

I'm glad we hold companies accountable as consumers, but why do we focus on one employee's action without forgiveness? The issue was resolved, get over it. I'm tired of rant articles being posted to HN.

> I bet this is the last Mac Pro. If you wanted to kill a product line, an “update” like today’s would be a good way to clear out parts and keep selling to a few desperate buyers for a bit longer without any real investment.

Apple's products build off one another. Apple is not going to kill the Mac Pro line because the iPad and iPhone would suffer.

How is Google Drive different from the way Google Docs is meant to be used? Seems like Google Drive is Google Docs with a new name and an intro video.

With Chrome you should block all plugins, not just Java. You will still be able to watch a YouTube video by 'right' clicking the plugin's element and choosing 'Run This Plug-in'. Steps:

Settings | Under the Hood | Content Settings... | Plug-ins -> Block All

If you selectively disable plug-ins in Chrome you won't be shown the Plug-in element and won't be able to select 'Run This Plug-in'.

Looks the same to me... maybe it hasn't rolled out to everyone yet?

What exactly has changed?

jimmyjazz14, I too worked for a large Fortune 200 company until moving to SV and working for a successful startup.

"working at a large company has meant I get to focus solely on the thing I care most about, programming"

There is a difference in just programming and efficient programming. You might be surprised how much time you spend doing unneeded programming that could be done more efficiently.

"plus I get a steady paycheck"

There's almost no risk at a successful startup. I remember people worrying about restructuring or layoffs at the large company... here everyone is too busy solving problems to worry about layoffs.

"It has also allowed me to learn a lot of new and interesting concepts (particularly dealing with scale) that one generally only finds in really large companies."

There are few large corporations where individual programmers actually deal with scale and if they do it's usually using old patterns. The successful startup I work for now has me dealing with(as a team) more 'big data' scale problems than I ever did working at a large corporation. I am also able to use newer technology and design patterns to solve those scale problems where the large corporation already had a standard outdated solution.

Bottom line, you don't have to settle for a large corporation to get job security and challenging problems when many successful startups offer the same benefits. I was a passionless drone working at a large corporation and since moving to SV I have never looked back.

The best part of the video in my opinion http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=e...

Right on! This should be titled "How not to sell software that costs under $1000 in 2012" because the do/don'ts obviously are wrong for non-cheap software.

Can't speak for anyone else, but I always run my browsers with Flash disabled or uninstalled so Flash cookies make no difference to me.

Tons of businesses cash checks without a bank account. Another concern is kiosk hacking: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSu8z3vrfcY

This is a duplicate post. Next time post this as a comment on the original.

See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3537323.

Here is a duplicate post that points to the slashdot story: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3537862

List of Anonymity Networks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Anonymity_networks

My Top 3:

1. .i2p Eepsites - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I2P

2. .onion sites - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)#Hidden_...

3. Freesites - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenet

Here are some of my friend's salaries. 1-4 graduated from the same school as me in TX in the same year, not sure where 5 went to school:

(1) $120k/yr - tester - Seattle area - large company - interned 1 yr at same large company as tester.

(2) $75k/yr - software dev - bay area - small company - interned 4 yr at different small company as software dev.

(3) $65k/yr - Java dev - Dallas, TX - medium size company - no internship experience, but competent programmer

(4) $60k/yr - software dev - Dallas, TX - large company - never wrote a line of code through University

(5) $110k/yr - M$ sharepoint maintainer - Dallas, TX - large company - n/a

$600-$1200+/mo for 1 room with room mates in SV $1200-$1900+/mo for 1 bedroom apt in SV $1900-$4000+/mo for a house with 2+ rooms in SV

... from my recent housing searches on CL

I'm using this version: http://bayimg.com/CalNEAaDP

good news! this reminds me of "Love and Other Drugs" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758752/

I was just using Gearman::Client and Gearman::Worker today... it's still used by at least me.

Relevant video from article comments:

Jack Abramoff: The lobbyist's playbook http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHiicN0Kg10

I read this as,

Money is speech because the fact that the government is forcing me to pay taxes is a violation of the first amendment.

Money is speech because the government telling me not to give money to terrorists is a violation of the first amendment.

8. drink caffeine

Been there done the Knockout.js thing... try Backbone.js instead: http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/

Not knocking Knockout.js ;) it's great for really small apps.

Sounds like your saying, "Don't use OAuth because it's bloated, create your own API auth protocol and make everyone use that non-standard protocol for my API". That forces developers to implement "custom" protocols per API that may actually be worse than OAuth.

You must not be developer. OAuth 2.0 is not bloated and pretty much 2 steps with a clause to never use it via HTTP. How could it be more simple?

Thats why OAuth2.0 protocol is limited to HTTPS and is said to never be implemented over HTTP.

Instructions for disabling Flash plugin...

in Chrome browser: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ans...

in Mozilla Firefox: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Macromedia_flash#Enabling_and_disa...

Really no reason to have it enabled anymore.

Correction, OAuth < 2.0 sucks. OAuth2.0 is actually easy to use and more secure.

> Whether the cars are automated or not won't drastically change that because there are still more cars than the roads can handle.

Automated taxi cabs + existing public transit would solve gridlock... go outside to your auto-cab, take it to the rail, get off the rail into a different auto-cab, arrive at work.

a sad day for internet users indeed