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> My favorite pair of jeans gets worn 10 times more often than my other jeans. If I did away with the other jeans, I could afford to buy more of those things I really love.

This took me embarrassingly long to realise. Instead of buying clothes because they were pretty nice and on sale, buy only what you absolutely love, and pay full price. Instead of having "favourite underwear", get rid of everything that's not your favourite and make sure you only own favourites.

Yeah, it costs more at first. But over time you build up a wardrobe of high quality clothes you love. Quality over quantity, indeed.

> the screenshots from the "game" someone made

One person. They're obviously troubled. Are we really going to let the actions of one person change the frame of the whole discussion?

A game allowing you to beat up a woman is, I hope, repulsive to any HN reader. But its existence, especially when it's so easy these days, means nothing in and of itself. You could probably feed in any picture you like, man or woman. It's not a weighty factor in a discussion.

Dude, the banana suit isn't funny either. I'm sorry but someone has to tell you.

How about you make a good product? Then you won't need to pull these stunts. Or if you have one - promote it differently. Seriously.

Good luck though and I hope I didn't come across as mean. I wouldn't say anything if I didn't care <3 <3 <3

> Christian, husband, father, software developer. In that order.

Maybe this is a horrible thing to say but when I read something like that I just completely turn off. Religious fanatic sick? Their invisible space god can take care of them! I love how he put his stupid superstition not one, but two places ahead of being a father. That's really cute.

I donated to the Python programmer with ALS but I think I'll let Jesus help this guy.

This is pretty painful. Firstly, I'm sure such vote-buying is against the rules, or at least against the spirit of any such award. Secondly .. is this what it's come to guys? This? "Vote for us, not because you like us, but because we'll do pushups"?

These guys need to go home and rethink their lives.

> And if we end up winning the award, co-founders Alex and Chase will hustle for users on Main Street in Ann Arbor, Michigan wearing banana costumes

If that's helpful, they'd be doing it already. It sounds to me like a ridiculous idea. So why even suggest it? These guys are clowns.

> The horror of slavery was that you had no choice in life

Your argument is all just semantics. Fine, slaves had no choice, and a large segment of Japanese (and other) society have no meaningful choice. Happy?

Slavery is a concept, anyway. You don't have to pedantically compare every single use of the word to some pet historical incident. I think it's entirely reasonable to compare sections of the working class's lives to slavery, and your attempts to "ban" the whole topic are really misguided and inappropriate, IMO.

Wow, interesting, thanks for the research. I'm in Sydney too and I was surprised at how fast it was, but didn't think to look into it. Cool.

Unfortunately seems to be US-only:

> The server at encrypted.google.com.au can't be found, because the DNS lookup failed

thanks for the tip though, still going to go with this.

Actually, it seems a sale or something just ended and the qantas.com price is back up to 1800!

I'll edit to remove that.

But yeah, all Australian sites have to state the fully loaded cost. I can't stand sites that don't do that..

It's not even close to the world's best travel site. I've looked at it before - maybe it's good in America but outside the results are bizarre.

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OK, so I am thinking of going over to the old country, SYD-LHR mid october. That's a long flight, I want at least premium economy - wtf, I can't even specify that on hipmunk! Well, that search is over even before it begun. I am sorry but a travel site that doesn't know what premium economy is is literally useless.

I don't want to sound like a dick. This stuff must be hard. But World's Best Travel Site? Are you kidding? How about learning "chopsticks" before you claim you're the greatest pianist in history?

(edit - the sapporo price changed under me in the last few hours, rendering my comment pretty void, right now at least. What I said about no prem econ stands, though. I'm a tall guy, and I'll flat-out refuse an economy flight more than 8 hours. Business is very expensive if I'm on my own money. Premium economy is a lifesaver to me. It needs to be on the site, yesterday)

Sounds like if the hacker had just done it out of hours, perhaps when the person in question was asleep, they would have had uncontested access to the accounts and the hack might have been far more damaging.

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on" - Winston Churchill

It's not a new problem.

Maybe it means "remaining attention span"?

> at some point Samsung could simply say "no more"

I don't think it really works like that. Apple doesn't show up at the Samsung Shop every day and ask to buy the next day's components for their factory. They have long term contracts, a year or more in advance, often including huge co-investments in the factory toolings which will be involved in manufacturing them. Of course I don't know the details but I doubt Apple or the courts would look too kindly on Samsung suddenly declining to fulfil their multi-billion-dollar, multi-year supply contracts because they wanted to help their own competing products.

Samsung is very much wearing "golden handcuffs" in this situation.

This article is shockingly bad, from the very first sentence:

> There are only 3 enterprise-grade technology products I’ve ever seen that sell themselves. Two of them are from Apple

Huh? What "enterprise-grade" Apple product? XServe? Apple is nowhere in the enterprise, and thank god for that.

Here's some enterprise software that sells itself: Exchange. BES (well, used to). ProCurve. DRAC. Symantec Ghost. Did you see iTunes Group Policy Server anywhere in that list?

The article starts off stupid and only goes downhill from there. This guy doesn't know what the hell he's talking about.

TL;DR:

HR at some no-name start-up gets it into their head that some kid can make all their programming dreams come true. They made a blog post to lure him.

Later, HR at some other no-name startup makes a blog post proudly announcing that the kid in question applied there first, also making some annoying backhanded compliments about how their standards were too high or some lame shit.

What next? Nothing at all.

He doesn't have enough karma to do that.

I don't think Nintendo could swing the $1 model anyway. They don't have a ubiquitous cellphone. They're just selling game consoles to people who want to play games.

Nonetheless, I would imagine there are an awful lot of (older) gamers for whom the retail price of the game is basically irrelevant compared to even one hour spent playing it. Bluntly, I want an excellent quality game that is going to richly reward the time I spend in it and I couldn't give a shit how much it costs. Doubly so when it comes to my family. Hopefully Nintendo (and the other console manufacturers) continue to cater to us!

It seems to me that Nintendo was somewhat blindsided by the rapid consumer adoption of HD televisions. They've really dropped precipitously in price over the last few years, and as a consequence the Wii has aged very rapidly, perhaps more rapidly than expected. I for one would probably be in the market for a Nintendo system but the chance of my buying a non-HD console in 2012 is approximately zero.

I'm sure they are rushing to get the new system ready and when they do it'll be back onto the gravy train for Nintendo.

I think you mixed up months and weeks. The period is actually 28.9 months, ie. almost two and a half years.

I think it's pretty attractive, especially considering updates will likely be automatically included in the subscription.

Too right. All those photo features are just bloating up Photoshop! In fact, not just the photo features. I use it exclusively for writing essays, so all those image functions are just useless.

To be fair, though, it does a better job with my novels than Autocad does with my taxes. You can be sure that piece of junk got a 1 star review on the App Store.

This video is fake, that has been established beyond doubt. But CGI, even "prosumer" CGI like this, is really getting better. Even at this level, people are relying on "hints" that a CGI transition has taken place - camera looks away, is obscured, or the picture is blurry.

Give it a couple of years and those distracting-from-transition tricks probably won't be necessary any more. Then what?

Thanks for your response. I didn't see it earlier, I try not to look at HN too often..

I've been to Singapore many times, and am fully aware of how much it costs to own a car. I live in Sydney, which if anything is more expensive than SG except for the car taxes. I do not consider Singapore to be expensive compared to Australia.

You refer often to appearances to others - investors, perhaps, comparing your costs of labour to other companies? What other oversight would you be experiencing?

Honestly I hadn't really thought about hiring cheap natives. Singapore is something of a hub for expats and I was thinking I would just invite anyone I needed.

If you have exeperience with running a startup style business in singapore I would love to hear about it.

I once read an account of an extended animal test of a toxic chemical compound on a number of monkeys. While most died, one demonstrated amazing resistance to the toxin and I remember being shocked when the result was simply noted as anomalous and the animal put to death without further investigation. It was only after I had read the whole thing did I finally realise the whole account was fictional. I can't find it now but that really opened my eyes to the suggestive power of authentic-sounding text.

Speaking of which, the Severed Heads' "Dead Eyes Opened" (1) is another effective example of authentic-sounding historical text.

(1) http://severedheads.bandcamp.com/album/dead-eyes-opened-94

What kind of business are you talking about? Your comment sounds very "labour vs. capital", is it relevant to the kind of start-up commonly discussed here?

If I started a business in Singapore (and I have been considering it) I would be hiring employees that I liked and respected, and I'd pay them fairly. I can't imagine that I'd fire them "at will" because I found someone a few bucks cheaper, or that they'd abandon me for a few bucks more. I can't imagine high-value knowledge workers playing these kind of games. Maybe discount supermarkets poach each other's check-out workers but rails programmers?

And even if you were hiring relatively blue collar workers, eg if you were setting up a factory, it seems to me that the fact of being in a hands-off regulatory environment would make employees respond even better to being treated well.

Just because in theory you can get away with acting like an asshole, doesn't mean you have to, or it is wise for you to do so.

But you still keep the cat, huh? That must be the parasite at work. Actually, now I have a whole new perspective on cat owners in general, and why they put up with their pets..

Wow, OK, sorry. I had no idea. Thanks for educating me.

Interesting username. Kind of reminds of me something... oh yeah, low orbit ion cannon, a DOS tool I have battled in the past.

Looking forward to your explanation.

Instead of dismissing people's optimism with an impossible-to-refute "argument from field experience", why not write up some of your hard-won lessons so interested people can educate themselves?

I'd be very interested in an account of real world PV solar costs and hurdles by someone who's been there, done that.

By this logic, it is impossible to evaluate any open source project, because all that ends up being evaluated is the reviewer's personal failure to implement whatever qualities they were looking for.