tedshroyer

Is there some advantage for suing in Texas? Twitter was sued there by a Texas company which makes sense, but a Toronto company doing so as well.

If I went back or could start over, I would study two or more fields that interested me making sure that they weren't closely related. I'd do this because it's not enough to know how to make good tools for programmers. Knowing what programmers need lets us have bunches of good text editors, databases and programming languages. If you have domain understanding that isn't about coding and computers, then you have a chance to fill a void that no other coders can possibly see.

Also, I'd take some graphic design classes because user interfaces matter.

I'd be a farmer. I raise blueberry bushes as my weekend hobby right now and doing it full time I could get some animals.

This article is from May 2004. I don't see how dated information like this is relevant unless there is a follow up study.

My advice is to bill hourly whenever you can because the client won't express everything they want done initially. This is because they don't know everything they want until they have part of it. Just think about doing a job for yourself and how many times you realize how much more you need to do after part of it is finished.

Not accredited.

http://www.uopeople.org/ACADEMICS/Accreditation/tabid/200/De...

I've worked in the residential construction space several decades as a surveyor, draftsman and software developer. I tried with some friends to approach the whole workflow from customer contracts through plans, estimates and purchasing to finish product. It ended up being too large of a scope for a few people part time on it. I think picking a small piece of that workflow and improving it is a smart choice.

Agreed Snow Crash is very good. It along with Diamond Age are my favorite of his works. The Baroque Cycle is too long for what it is and might have crushed my spirit to read his work any longer. I advise avoiding it unless you are an avid fan of his.

I remember enjoying Neuromancer by William Gibson

I think you get free wireless for the entire lifetime of the device. Some of the cost must go toward that.

I don't know about everyone, but I have a limited number of hours that I can focus on any single task before I need to take a break. If I didn't have this, then I would find something else to distract me. It is a lot easier for me to pull away from HN than to stop playing chess games online.

"In order to help assure the security of your information, you may soon be required to change your password upon logging onto the site."

I wonder how Monster is going to verify that the person logging in and changing the password is actually the user who owned the account and not the thief.

I guess they could hope that the user's email hasn't been compromised and go through an email verification to change the password.

The Memphis airport, like many airports, is constantly under construction. Construction projects take years. For an airport that is cargo first, passengers second, they've done a good job of squeezing in passenger facing improvements. Baggage claim being the one thing that definitely needs to be addressed. It seems to be the same as it was when the airport was first constructed.

Also, FedEx didn't publicly call the guy out or try to punish him. An employee sent him an email and cc'd their director. The employee's email got leaked out somehow later.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/collaboration/?p=189

http://shankman.com/be-careful-what-you-post/

PR firms are supposed to spread sunshine. That's the market they're working to make money in. I think FedEx's message was don't hurt our image when you work for us. You should know that when you are the vice president of a PR company. A corporations base of operations is an important part of it's image and an important aspect for hiring and retaining employees, which is probably a big problem for them since they cut everyone's pay there within the last month.

I'm from Memphis and I used to work at FedEx. I'm really proud right now of the way that FedEx handled it. People need to realize that you can't know a city unless you live there for a long time. There are bad things about it, but there are some really great things about it too.

I think year round warmth makes you soft. I used to live in south Florida. I moved there in the winter and was wearing shorts when it was in the 60s while everyone else was wearing jackets. I laughed at a friend of mine for saying it was cold. The next winter, I got cold when it was in the 60s and my friend got to laugh at me.

Maybe it's because I've been up all night dredging through PayPal's api docs trying to figure out what version it's at, but as soon as I saw this I thought about a bunch of penguins ordering different things in a Baskin-Robbins. Linux... It's like ice cream. There's a flavor for you.

I haven't looked at this book in quite a while, but I remember being happy with the order in which it covered material. I seem to remember it doing digital electronics pretty far after covering transistors. I wish my college curriculum had followed that order. There was at least one lab where I spent the whole time guessing and interchanging parts instead of realizing that I had a CMOS chip that couldn't drive the TTL chips I had connected to its output.

I like doing things on the cheap so I think you should prototype your software on something of comparable size to the device you want and see if it's even usable before you dive into a bunch of hardware.

If you want to work with something you might have sitting around, you can do stuff with a Linksys Router. It won't have a touchscreen, but you could mock up some web pages for what you want and get a pretty good idea if it's going to work.

Here's a link with some info: http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/tutorials/article.php/3562391

Here's some other page that had some source code: http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato

The source there had a README that said I needed this: ftp://ftp.linksys.com/opensourcecode/wrt54gl/4.30.11/WRT54GL_v4.30.11_11_US.tgz

I think the number of widely published books on any subject is an indicator of how much money publishers think can be made more than how good the thing is.

I think because of the way import works, that a reload wouldn't update anything that the module you're reloading imports.

  $echo -e "def foo():\n\tprint 'bar'" > a.py
  $echo -e "import a\ndef bar():\n\ta.foo()" > b.py
  $python
  Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jul 31 2008, 17:28:52) 
  >>>import b
  >>>b.bar()
  bar
  >>>f = open('a.py', 'w')
  >>>f.write("def foo():\n\tprint 'changed'")
  >>>f.close()
  >>>reload(b)
  <module 'b' from 'b.pyc'>
  >>> # Notice that it imported from 'b.pyc' not 'b.py'
  ... b.bar()
  bar
  >>>reload(a)
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  NameError: name 'a' is not defined
  >>>#But I need to update a
  ...reload(b.a)
  <module 'a' from 'a.py'>
  >>>#That loaded from 'a.py'
  ...b.bar()
  changed
  >>>exit()

edit

  #You could have done it like this too
  >>>import a
  >>>import b
  >>>b.bar()
  bar
  >>>###Something changes a.py 
  >>>reload(a)
  >>>b.bar()
  changed

I've always felt that MMORPG companies really missed out on a market opportunity by not having auction sites tied to their game for the trade of goods. A 3% cut of $2 billion is a lot better than spending time trying to fight it.

One of my first experiences with letting a domain expire was with a domain called catbattle. I figured no one would pick up that name because it's stupid. It's been parked by the next person for 5 or 6 years now as a jump page for lots of cat ads. This sort of thing irritates me. I would rather have some kid get it and put a picture of his cat on it with some blinking text like "This is my cat! You are defeated!"

I suppose what I really want is for a group of people that are interested in creating useful web content to have a chance at before it expires. My ideal target audience would be the readership here or a similar group. Just having a list of unused domain names registered by people on this site would be a valuable resource to me. I could get all sorts or ideas from it, make a comment on one of the names that inspired the owner to do something with it, or end up with a chance to collaborate with the owner on a joint idea.

I don't have a syntax preference, but there are some things that I don't enjoy typing or reading.

->

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__ugly__

Exactly, it says that at the top of the paragraph.

"For nearly 150 years, the known fundamental passive circuit elements were limited to the capacitor (discovered in 1745), the resistor (1827), and the inductor (1831)... He proved that memristor behavior could not be duplicated by any circuit built using only the other three elements, which is why the memristor is truly fundamental. "

"Since no ISP can compete with free, omnipresent Internet access, this plan means that virtually all online users will be herded into the government-controlled Internet. And as the history of radio and television has shown, once the government guarantees ‘free’ access to a communications medium, ..."

I don't think his assertion is accurate given the number of DirectTV and cable users. There's a market for XM and SIRIUS as well. I think this shows that people pay for things that are better.

I thought the flippancy of the article was funny and being able to laugh a little at sad things makes them bearable. I've wondered quite often over the last few years if laughing at our problems is a good thing or not. Most of the people I know enjoy things like the Daily Show and the Colbert Report. On the occasions when I watch them, I find them funny. I think to myself that even if I can't change it, I can laugh about it and I have too much to do already. Maybe I would find it intolerable and do something about it if I couldn't joke about buyouts or our decaying education system, but I don't have to deal with it yet because I can still laugh at it.