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No, the post is a little oddly worded, but 6/7/8 support wasn't ever removed from the 1.x branch. Just important to note that the 2.x branch removes support for them.

One of my favorite interactive pieces from the NYTimes is a Rent vs Buy calculator which is very configurable:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/business/buy-rent-calcula...

It's important to realize that everyone has a different social contract for how quickly they expect responses across different channels. The better advice is to actually have open, honest conversations with those you work with most frequently and those with whom communication is important to define and understand how people are going to perceive those different channels and contracts.

Setting up social contracts for different communication expectations doesn't have to result in everyone having the same guidelines, but does let you know that Alice is okay with texts while Bob really prefers emails to be allow 8hrs+ for replies.

I've yet to have any of the Apple laptops that I've owned (or desktops for that matter) that have broken in that timeframe. In fact I'm using an MBP that's going on it's fifth year here, and the only thing that's changed is I popped in a new battery after about four years. Excellent track record for me. (Of course, YMMV.)

I work at a great mid-sized (300+ employees) company that has a transparent, set pay scale, with an even simpler formula than Buffer. Each inter-level promotion is a 10% bump, and a level promotion is 20%, all the way up. I love it.

A positive side effect is that promotions become more of a "are you performing at this level?" question rather than a politicking game, and responsibilities at each level become much more clearly defined. I think that many companies could benefit from adopting similar structures.

I think in many cases a good minimalist framework will get a core set of functions out of the way (in web for example: routing, autoloading, dependency injection, etc.). Grabbing something small that provides a proven but efficient backbone can let you focus on delivering core value, but then can easily be switched out later as the solution grows.

This is what the Internet is for.

Ah, very nice! Any commentary on if it affects the speed of Quick Look in general? (I've noticed Quick Look getting slower in the last couple generations of OS X, and don't want to dog it down any more.)

You don't even need an Azure account, just a Live account. It's very slick, I use it on my MBP frequently.

Neat idea Josh. So have you sold 26 hours then (at time of writing), for a total of $351? What happens when you reach market rate, people just start buying fewer hours? Seems like it might peter out?

Actually there are. And it would be great if there was just a checklist that you could go against, but the best we've got is this page [1] from the IRS and some legal interpretation. I agree that the positions could more clearly state that it was a contracting position, but it looks like more of an employer-employee type job board than an eLance type deal to me. So they just have to be careful.

[1] http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesses-%26-Self-Empl...

There are limits to how much you can do this as a US-based company, and if you overstep the bounds the IRS will come a-knockin'. I imagine it's much easier to hire someone as a real employee inside the US, and based on the size of many of the companies, they probably don't have the accounting or legal resources necessary to deal with real international employees.

Your local library system (or better yet, your university library system if you're a student) will be a very rich source for peer-reviewed papers. They're sometimes not the easiest things to navigate and search, but if you sit down with one of the librarians, they really can show you some great tips for finding what you want.

Two of the biggest providers that I've used frequently in the past are EBSCO Host and ProQuest. Both have subscriptions to large and sometimes overlapping journals. I found EBSCO Host a little easier to use if I wanted to browse an entire journal over the span of time. ProQuest had more flexible and reliable search results. Both will allow you to find tons of peer reviewed papers.

Also, if you want to explore who has cited who, and who wrote which papers, look to ISI Web of Knowledge. It has a cool citations explorer that lets you visualize citations and authors.

Finally, contact some experts in your field. If looking at peer-reviewed content, get a hold of a university professor in the field of interest, because they will be able to tell you which journals are A or B journals, and which ones to avoid. You'll likely want to target primarily A journals, and sometimes B journals, but filter out the rest.

Awesome. I wish/don't wish that my debugging was that exciting.

I've liked Shiller's opinions and seen them before, and agree with them. Just because it makes a "terrible investment" however doesn't mean it's a terrible thing to do. You look at your home as an essential element of life (shelter) and do the math for rent vs. buy, but you don't worry about making a huge return from it.

Use other investment vehicles for growing capital.

One of the biggest keys to this experiment is he notes that he will only be checking email at specific times. If you are in a position to do so, this can be one of the very best ways to get your email overload under control.

Love the experiment, and being explicit about this type of social contract would help many of us have better communication patterns.

I've read about this before. My primary question, however, is wouldn't this put some big dings in your credit rating? The average age of accounts would go way down, the credit checks would go up, and your allowed debt to income ratio would be all over the place. Or does none of that happen?

I really like Anonymous Pro and use it most of the time on my OS X machines. When not using Anonymous Pro, I also really like Adobe's Source Code Pro (free, and even on GitHub):

http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2012/09/source-code-pro.... https://github.com/adobe/source-code-pro

And on Windows? Either Anonymous Pro or Consolas. Having nice fonts for coding just feels so good. :)

The NSA facility is not in Provo, it is north of Provo by about 25 miles north near Bluffdale. Furthermore, Google isn't building out Google Fiber as much in Provo as it is simply acquiring the existing former municipal fiber. The article also doesn't mention the NSA. No news connection here, and the title here is misleading.

I helped a well known cancer center create an internal mobile app that allowed doctors to browse and filter a listing of all their current clinical trials. They had the information available in a database and exposed it via an (again, internal) API. However, I'm sure that talking with the right people would allow access to the list as well, so directly contacting research organizations would probably be just as fruitful.

I love Harvest because it takes that recorded time and pops it into an invoice. I wouldn't call it "a whole business management" solution, but it does a great job.

http://www.getharvest.com/ http://try.hrv.st/1nxt (ref link, $10 off first month)

Already up about $2.70 (8%) in pre-market trading. Looking to be very good.

I love it, thanks for sharing. Where did you get the original data from? (I thought chargemasters were relatively guarded secrets?)

And I used it for as a codename for a project I was tossing around here on HN a while back as well. I hadn't heard of the animal, but a nice little random project name generator suggested it and I thought it was fun. Cool word, cool animal.

Fascinating from a scientific perspective, but this line piqued my interest the most:

  The detection system used can process 20 Gigabytes of data per second.

Now I know that's not unheard of, but it certainly would be interesting from a technical perspective to know how it processes such volumes of data. (And also makes me think about a certain other party in current events that is processing vast volumes of data every second as well.)

Out of curiosity, how did the experience go for the non-technical Ubuntu user? Did it work out well?

I have been on the grand interwebs for a good long while now, and I don't think that I have ever once clicked to respond to a "help us improve our website" or similar surveys. And I'm usually a sucker for surveys. Maybe this will be different, but I don't think I'd see myself ever responding to this one either.

I wonder what Google's getting at here?

I think the real story here is the use of Kickstarter to remove the risk from further developments on the Android app. If you want to go ahead and create something, but are worried about it panning out, this starts to open up new options.

It's not the first time it's been done, but it's encouraging to see creators being able to deliver to those who want their products with less question marks in the process.

If you don't need to store anything on the filesystem and don't need a DB larger than 100MB, then AppFog is a great and free starter choice. Doesn't work in all cases, but a really nice choice if it fits.

https://www.appfog.com/

Some of the screenshots hark back to the good ol' days of homepages like iGoogle or Yahoo's customizable homepage. It's been a while since I ever had my browser go to one page when I start it up or open a new tab, so I'm guessing the integration would only be a complement to the main browser/card integration.