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I'd imagine the people of the time would think this was some sort of negative sign from their sun god (Horus) and madly prostrate or panic. I think it'd be abnormal for people to stare it as they'd be too afraid but that's just conjecture.
Sid Meier gave a talk at the GDC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtzCLd93SyU
In it he explained how Civilization tested random negative events that could shape your world. He mentioned how this had a negative effect on the player experience and many times people would just grab a past save to avoid them IIRC.
I personally believe that networking, at its core, is an exercise in effective speaking. The goal of it being to convince the other party you're interesting enough to warrant further conversations.
I'd say the main areas of personal development to increase networking ability would be:
- Effective speaking
- Charisma
- Interpersonal communication
- Strong personal interests
This is all my opinion but I think with those four elements anyone can succeed at networking with enough effort.
I liked the definition here of the third item: http://www.pstcc.edu/facstaff/dking/interpr.htm
It's especially important to understand that a networking situation is a professional environment. I've networked with others before at events who immediately jump to some of the most inappropriate subjects and it just blows my mind. I think the prevalence of alcohol at these events leads people to that but it's just so unprofessional. I think if there's alcohol at a networking event people should just carry the same glass around all night. If you want people to listen to you being coherent and aware of social cues is key.
The last item is really just about having something to talk about. I was part of a coed business fraternity back in college and whenever we did pledge drives people would come to network with us to show their interest in joining. I remember how the ones who had the least to say seemed like they weren't doing anything outside of their subject of interest. Interests allow people to relate to others and gives them the ability to have something to say when communication has died down.
Again, just my personal opinion, and others may disagree which is fine. I grew up with social anxiety disorder which was so bad that I couldn't look at others in the eyes until late in high school without having anxiety attacks. I worked my way out of it by forcing myself into situations that made me uncomfortable and by looking into books like the one above to get ideas about how to communicate. The most important thing to do to become better at networking is to just go out and network -- nothing beats real experience.
Not sure if Amazon is just working through the remainder of their stock though if it is discontinued (they're listed as a seller on the right since some third part one is like a dime cheaper). I never was able to find the Microsoft dongle alone without the controller though so perhaps they did discontinue it.
Not a bad price for both the dongle and a controller though and always nice to have another one for when friends stop by for some Sonic Racing.
Also unless it's a club it likely would need to scan the person's ID and confirm whether or not the person was who the ID mentioned adding some complexity to the robot that otherwise wouldn't be required for just serving drinks.
The sysadmin person you mentioned could definitely take on that liability role in addition to anything else he needs to do to support the robot.
Employers pay 7.65% and you pay 7.65%. If you're on your own in addition to the income tax you have to pay you also need to pay the whole 15.3% of it. To compare salaries between a person working for themself and someone working for a company it should be taken into account since it's a big chunk of the money you're making.
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It says he wasn't on the original occupancy as he wasn't born when the paperwork was originally handled but was one when the building was finished and moved in. He claims when he tried to get on it in the past via his mother the coop stalled until she was dead.
If I release more popular opinions by the majority I'll be instantly accepted and have a chance to further join in conversations. From a gaming perspective the correct choice to better adapt to the system would be for me to always speak to the majority to increase my odds of being accepted until I am part of the elite caste of folks who can vote.
I'm someone who doesn't join in threads pretty often; I'll chime in if I find the topic to be something I'm interested in but my ignorance to most other matters leaves me from wanting to join into threads because of a fear of people piling on negative responses or "schooling" me in terms of the topic at hand.
I don't submit new articles because most things I'm interested in are discovered by more well connected individuals so I'm usually late the party so my score is relatively low despite how long I've lurked.
I'm fearful this new system discourages my participation further; if I don't add some insightful comment or my ignorance of a topic causes others to question whether my opinion is worth discussing I'll be kept from participating because I haven't built up a score. I won't even have the chance to join future conversations because my comments will be pending so until someone decides my opinion has merit I'll be censored from joining into other aspects of an article.
I may not be the most social of the HN folks here on the board but I do like to join into conversations when the topic is of interest to me. I guess this sort of system just makes me feel unwelcome because I'm being punished for not joining in earlier.
Even the most negative comments incite conversation; a person who may have an unwelcome opinion or whose ignorance prevents them from understanding a topic can learn from discussions based off their response.
I understand the reasoning for this and I think, for the most part, it'll help keep the comments section fairly civil. I'm just worried by solving this issue you're throwing away a part of the community who haven't had a chance to prove ourselves over time. I'm regretful I haven't spent time building up my karma in retrospect.
$30 monthly, 100 minutes, unlimited texts, unlimited data with the first 5 GB at 4G speeds.
I mean the 100 minutes bit is a bit nasty as all minutes are rounded up so even a 1 second incoming call I pick up counts against a whole minute. I rarely go over the limit though and usually just throw an extra $10 in the account to deal with it if I go over.
My fiance has the same plan and uses her tethering for her Apple TV Projector setup in the art class she teaches since her school wifi is pretty bad. You get a small amount of free tethering with the plan but it's only $15 for unlimited tethering in addition.
Here's a link to the filezilla forums where the dev team appears to be justifying its use: https://forum.filezilla-project.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3024...
http://sourceforge.net/blog/today-we-offer-devshare-beta-a-s...
To be honest I think better than any specific business resource out there would be to just get her on the path to building the core skills she'll use later on in life. She's already got that started with her vending business which is great. I think pushing her towards taking on some school activities may be great too. Things where she can help organize events and fundraisers and really contribute to a group.
As for my favorite books on business I would suggest for a 13 year old:
"Death by Meeting" The author describes a fictional company that is terrible at conducting meetings until the main character comes and helps address the issues. I know she's not really running meetings at the moment so this may be of less use to her until she has others working along side her. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0787968056
I also agree that "How to Win Friends and Influence People" is an excellent book. I grew up with social anxiety disorder and it was one of the books that really broke me out of my shell and gave me the confidence to really push past it. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0671723650
Another book I found pretty interesting was "Win the Crowd." While not a 'business' book, per se, it goes into how to really grab your audience's attention and hold it. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060742054
Lastly "Secrets of Powers Negotiating" is an interesting book I'd suggest she take a look at. There are endless applications to negotiation in business from sales to even negotiating your first salary. http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Power-Negotiating-15th-Anniver...
Just some ideas -- hope it helps!
Just an example of precedence (you'll need to copy and paste HN drops the trailing period on the URL): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harris_v._Blockbuster_Inc.
I'm not a lawyer just good to keep in mind that the validity of such clauses is in question in courtrooms in the country.
I'd imagine once she felt the HR department was capable of hiring the type of employee she personally finds to be exceeding she'll likely consider removing this restriction in favor of having those candidates take an active part in the hiring process. Also with her HR department trained on what candidates she considers good it'll make it harder for them going forward to settle on someone who fits the position but doesn't fit into Mayer's vision.
Who knows though -- I think it's a dumb idea but I'm also not the CEO of Yahoo with whatever knowledge she has on hand to justify this as an area of concern.
It's very easy to get the movies on my xbox, they cost about half as much as they would on itunes to rent, and they have a much better selection of movies I can see than Netflix since I can rent the ones I'm actually interested in seeing.
I joined in 2004 and remember how people always just wrote on each others walls myself (if you were an early user you probably also remember that people would have full conversations back to back on each others walls as you couldn't leave comments on wall posts). It's probably just a matter of people not recalling this was how Facebook used to behave.
So there's the chance of gaining access to other accounts as a result of the data leak... such as their bank accounts, etc.
It looks like homakov had a little fun with it (the guy who griefed github a bit half a year ago with their whitelisted attributes vulnerability and got the rails core team to put whitelisting on by default).
Yeah it was pretty tricky but once you get down the approach it's not too bad. Took me awhile to realize what was going on.
If you check out that review it shows that the product definitely needs to mature. I can't see the wacom one being used for professional purposes until they up the accuracy. I was going to buy one for my finance for her birthday (she has a cintiq but wanted something for the go) but decided it wasn't worth it.
On top of that inkling requires that device to help read from the paper which limits its usefulness some (for me at least).
Hopefully they improve on it because it's definitely an interesting approach to this problem.
I just made it to level 8 this morning and haven't a clue where to really begin with it.
It's definitely a lot of fun and has been an interesting journey for sure. Love little games like this.
If you just do a normal search for programming books the same exact list in the same order appears.
Still a cool feature if you want the most mentioned books on the web for a given subject.
The pro membership pays for itself back right away as you have access to the whole collection of pro and revised episodes he has released to this point.
The docs for ruby and rails both are really helpful too. http://corelib.rubyonrails.org/ http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-1.9.3/
The code in question is a configuration option for a third-party jquery plugin. There may be better plugins which expose their configuration options differently but I personally think that the benefits of using the library itself outweigh building something entirely from scratch for a more purist interaction. I've worked with some gross libraries before and I think that the benefit of using them outweighs a few comments for obscure settings.
The third party code in question isn't terrible as you can assume it's the resize delay from its name. I think what made it terrible was the fact that since a magic number was used (16) it wasn't as apparent for a reasonable developer to grasp without questioning it. Yes, some people will know that 16 milliseconds equates to around 60 frames per second but I don't think it's reasonable to assume everyone who looks at it will. It was a bad example on my part, however, as with a constant as opposed to a magic number you don't need the comment at all.
The code smell I mentioned was wrapping a third party configuration in a function as a way to limit commenting. I think commented configuration options make it easier for other developer to grasp why something is configured that way -- especially for code that will be minified.
I don't think I explained well enough that the code in question was from a third party interaction, however, so could see how we may be on different wavelengths. I'm also by no means a purist when it comes to comments though so I'm sure we may have opposing views (although I agree with the general idea as you mentioned to annotate why not how/what).
I'd think about whether or not the market you're trying to make this product for both sees the problems you're addressing as problems (or can be convinced to) and is large enough to support the costs to build it and generate revenue.
While I get that ycombinator itself looks more toward the people than the ideas if you're alone on this and jumping into it it's something you need to think about right away. If you spend your time building a product for some niche market you may be wasting your time going that route as well (although the experience gained and the connections made through doing so may be beneficial).
Does your target market already have a product that does x? If so what are you doing that is better than than the competitors?
If so I'd consider putting aside my work and plunging into it if I could afford the dip in my income as you mentioned you could above. Otherwise I'd either work on my idea as a hobby/side project or over weekends (and some very long nights).
The actual business related activities like advertising and considering how you'd generate revenue itself can wait until you've shipped but if you're at it alone it's a lot harder to gauge when you need to re-evaluate and change your idea if it's not working or there isn't enough interest. We drink our own koolaid per se.
Note: I don't actually need you to answer these questions I more posted them as what I'd suggest you internally inquire about.
Also I get that there is a culture of build first ask questions later so my opinion may be of the minority. I do think though that calculated risks are the best kind and "No wind is favorable to a ship without a destination."
I have to say it's kind of like how PG goes on about how startups should have more than one founder so that they'll be able to carry the load together... I would not be where I am today without her continued support and I'd like to think vise versa.
That said I've dated other women who got mad if I didn't unplug for a weekend entirely and would go out dancing and drinking every night at a club. Honestly I don't know how things would have been if we had got married -- I think the relationship wouldn't be able to stand the pressures of life. It took me a long time (likely longer than it should have) to find the right person to counter balance my own weaknesses and encourage me to keep striving toward my goals.
The key isn't waiting for a time when life's pressures disappear but finding something who has the tenacity to tackle them with you.
Be good to each other and I think you'll be fine.
Next, imagine your sister/mother/fiance was the girl at the bar who got licked or had her crotch grabbed. How would that make you feel?
I'll never understand how anyone can defend this sort of behavior... I used to volunteer at the women's center on my college campus... if you heard half the experiences most of these women go through on a regular basis maybe you'd learn some empathy.
How would you feel if some guy started cat calling you as you walked home at night? How about while you walk to the store? Now imagine this happening on a regular basis.
Given what you're looking to do: Geocoding gem: http://railscasts.com/episodes/273-geocoder Devise gem: http://railscasts.com/episodes/209-devise-revised
The former uses the google maps api to handle geocoding but you could use it as well to figure out the distance between two points. You could also use the great circle formula yourself if you know the lat and long of both points (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great-circle_distance).
The latter is one of his pro episodes but if you don't mind watching semi-dated material and picking up the rest from docs you could watch the original episode.
I find the railscasts to be extremely helpful when it comes to understanding both what's available to the rails community (lots of gem coverage) and unique ways to deal with common problems.
Personally I would never use a service like this for anything that needs to be secure. That's nothing against you more my own paranoia and honestly if it was some password to decrypt my files I'd just give it in a letter to the person I trust not surprise her with an email after I die which she'd probably cry over for days.
I'd probably consider using it to just tell the people I love that I'd miss them and what impact they had on my life.
I really don't get the draw about sending passwords, life insurance policies, and other secure data when you're dead. Would my family and loved ones care about any of that if I was gone? Probably not and if the information I stored was useful to them I'd have given them a way to access it offline in the event something happened.
Not against the service I think it's a great idea just think for the non-developers out there they'd probably prefer something closer to the heart to be sent.
Note: I know you didn't really suggest people send super secret things on the site just saying it in response to what everyone else is posting.