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Start writing a program! Make a simple CMS, CIRM, game or whatever you are interested in. When you don't know how to do something, use php.net, your favorite search engine, or Devshed (http://forums.devshed.com). A good IDE helps too, I personally use PHPDesigner (http://www.mpsoftware.dk/phpdesigner.php), but there are tons of them out there.

The most important thing is to understand your learning style and then exploit that. Take a class? Read a book? Dive right in? Reverse engineer? Teach? Only you can answer that question.

Have fun!

Do you think that more people are going to start encrypting their traffic because of events like this?

I don't understand why I was arrested for driving off with a new BMW that was parked in the street. It even came with a baby in the back! Lucky for me the keys were in the ignition and the door was open.

Isis

The horizontally opposed engine (aka flat N) is nothing new. More specifically I know it has been in Honda motorcycles since the 1970's. Cars and other devices likely too but I have no first hand knowledge of that.

Here they are giving it a new name and say they can reduce the amount of moving parts by 50%. There is no information on what "parts" they are removing which I would find to be the most interesting piece of information. The comparison of two and four strokes engines is also misleading.

After a quick dig: If you go to eco's website they specifically say this is a two stroke engine; the article linked has incorrect information.

They are reducing the amount of parts because they are using a two stroke instead of a four cycle.

It seems the only real cool part of this engine, to me, is that it is designed "modular," it should be more cost effective to add on additional cylinders instead of having multiple facilities dedicated to different configurations.

Flat configurations have been used in cars and motorcycles for decades.

People make fun of me all the time when I stop in the middle of what I (or we) am doing and say, "Holy cow man, look at what we CAN do! Look at what we ARE doing!" Dreams of 10 years ago became realities yesterday.

We have the ability to see things that are so small, you wouldn't even know they were there otherwise. We can compute Pi to millions (billions!) of digits before I can even say the first 4 out loud. [Mentioned in article] I live video chat with a friend in China, which is on the other side of the planet, thousands of KM and miles away. Millions (billions!) of people can all access information from their homes or their phones, in the middle of no where. We are communicating with a man made object that is over 20 BILLION kilometers away from us. We can store thousands (millions!) of books in a device no larger than a human finger. We can move several times faster than the speed of sound. We can...

Simply amazing. It is humbling to be able to work with technology every day and see what we can do. It is truly a blessing to know that even 5 years from now we, the human race, will be doing things that people are only beginning to imagine now. Here is to you technology, you make my pants shrink.

Nothing in there about planning and management? In big projects that usually seems to be the major downfall. A technology problem is not always specifically a technology problem.

Why did you do this as a batch job? Do you run batch jobs instead of resizing them when a user uploads the pictures? Thanks for sharing.

Do you mean virtual desktops? You could do it with a regular DSL/cable connection. I have users in India connecting to us in the States through a T3. It is actually pretty sweet; they can even do things like stream audio/video and it goes through just fine.

Can iP(ad/hone) not open PDF's?

http://www.wireshark.org Never leave home without it.

A lot of vendors have been predicting that we are going to start having more virtual desktops, in the home, not just the office. All mom or dad would need is a monitor, keyboard, Internet connection, and a small box that never has to be upgraded. While in the backend you could be moved to different hardware in the middle of the day and not even know it. When this happens and people trust it, you pay 15$ a month for a "computer service," have a lower chance of failure, and improved features to make computing even easier for the general mass.

The personal computer would be a niche then. But, it is a niche now, isn't it? Tons of companies are using virtual desktops. (Not to mention that a "PC" at work isn't really a PC most of the time since you can't do whatever you want with it. Hence 'workstation' ?) How many more are using laptops? How many others only need to use their smartphone? iPad? Even just your TV?

Glad you found something you are passionate about. It is an amazing feeling isn't it?

I ran in to something similar with web development (PHP, apache, mysql, and perl) and felt overwhelmed immediately. But, found that it was so much fun I stuck with it and just started small. "Ok, how do you get the data to sort this way?" "What is this md5 thing?" "How do I manage cookies and wtf are they?" etc. etc. etc.

Starting small, reading other peoples' work, take your time, don't get frustrated for more than 5 seconds, and find some online communities that share your interest.

Good luck and don't ever say "I can't" again ;)

At this very moment I am using "advanced" search from googles to find a couple of twitter accounts.

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=how+to+sear...

Just add "site:news.ycombinator.com" to the end of your search.

You have to admit that is pretty sweet. Come on!

Does anyone know if they are going to post the videos for this?

I wish you well and hope you become whatever you think is 'better'. People make fun of me because I talk to random strangers when in lines or waiting for someone at dinner. Yet the people with me are doing the same thing, just on their phones through text messages and super pokes. One of them made a comment today while waiting in line to order for lunch, "it is ok, most of my friends I really only talk to through IM anyways." We were discussing how difficult it was (not very apparently) to live out of your country. How awesome is that?

Thanks, ordered a print copy.

Gaia is a great product and the beta has been fun. The different maps you can use, offline maps, and just the all around ease of use is great. Hope others try it out.

Does this mean that the private message feature in facebook is not a social tool? IM is not a social tool? Going to work and talking with someone in the lunch room is not social?

Oh yes, most definitely. I was recently in the market for a new (to me) dirt bike and it was a pain switching around to different local cities and performing searches. And, because I was willing to drive for 2-3 hours to pick it up, some people would say they lived near a larger city to get more hits but when I called them up it turned out they lived like 50+ miles away from said city.

Do you mind explaining how email is not social?

Do people really run updates daily? I can't believe he recommended that. We have 3 environments, 4 if its a big project to push changes. Dev, QA, Pre-prod, production. A patch is never pushed without testing on dev and QA. Not to mention, with things like this: http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11532 Would you want to patch every day?

Mitsubishi = Client || Snap-on = Original Contractor || O'Neil = New Contractor ||

A database was made by Snap-on for Mitsubishi. Mitsubishi moved the work to O'Neil. Snap-on did not want to give up their work [data]. A log in was required to access the data. Mitsubishi and O'Neil discussed ways to get the data. O'Neil tried to covertly get the data and hide what they were doing, according to 'testimony'. O'Neil caused damage. Snap-on sued O'Neil.

I think this is a better summary than the linked site. Plus I did not have 500 paragraphs with 2 sentences per section. No information was given on the contract terms. It is not mentioned how accounts are created to access the data. It is also not mentioned who should or should not have access. The method of gathering the data was not discussed at all; no mentioned of an automated process, no mention of a script, no mention of using interns with a Firefox plugin.

How is this different than craigslist? It looks nicer, but you have the same feel of how to find things. Why can't I search all of the USA? Or a region. Or search a whole state? I hate clicking around to different cities to try and find something.

Posting is easy. Making an account is easy. Managing postings is easy. http://www.abtain.com/posts/manage has a field for price but I do not see a place to enter that in the posting.

Good work.

You believe this?

I have been here for about a year and only commented like twice, both in the last couple of weeks. HN is great. Prefer the stuff here as apposed to all the others.

Here is a pretty good list. Also, including some information in your profile can't hurt either.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1052950

Not available yet I guess?

Because Apple does not throw its own weight around? Ok.