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On: Entry-Level Startup Jobs Are Now Mostly Dead Ends ...

[greetings]

I work in support. I love it. I graduated with a CS degree, but personally I get more value in life out of helping people

At my company we really to value our support team and are working to make it possible to promote within the team. Yeah sure we have people go to our doc and QA team and other parts of the company, but having people who are passionate about support is something that is extremely valuable to us and to me.

We try to hire people with the same attitude towards support and it shows. The level of support we provide because everyone really cares is awesome.

On: Lars Andersen: a new level of archery [video]

[greetings]

With heavy war arrows you can easily shoot through riveted mail and layers of gambeson. In this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ32VnjOQ28) you can see a war arrow going right through rived mail and 8 layers of gambeson.

This Guy is bowyer and historian, and will be presenting research about this very subject at a medieval studies conference this spring.

[tlear → greetings]

Have not checked HN in couple days, hope you notice this. I misspoke in my original comment I was referring to a jack not gambeson as arrow protection oops. And even bigger problem is that mail he uses is bad quality you can see from ring density and thickness. here is a great set of tests http://www.myarmoury.com/talk/viewtopic.php?t=11131&postdays...

On: Google Reader is dead

[greetings]

There are a few I have come to like:

These ones are all simple and much like google reader. Digg, BazQux and The Old reader all have pocket and/or similar services integrated and are all nice. I have decided that I will be using BazQux for my reader needs, it is fastest and seems to be nicely designed and is robust. It will also not be going away because it is currently profitable.

The Old Reader http://theoldreader.com/

Digg Reader(yes that digg) https://digg.com/reader

and BazQux reader https://bazqux.com/

Comma feed http://theoldreader.com/

On: Ask HN: Google Reader goes down in 11 days, which ...

[greetings]

Thanks, I missed that. Case (probably) closed.

On: We used to sleep twice each night

[greetings]

Interestingly the british english corpus has a fairly even reference to napping. Though there is a slight downward trend to the graph.

I have also included napping and siesta in the plot. These have a fairly constant use.

http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=nap%2Cnapping%2...

On: You're Distracted. This Professor Can Help

[greetings]

I did. It is a good read.

On: Apple’s iOS Is Looking Seriously Stale, But It’s S...

[greetings]

Yes. See any of the new generation of android phones.

[coldtea → greetings]

Yes. I can't avoid not to, in SE Asia.

They range from subpar to just slightly inferior to the iPhone.

Except if you mean screen real estate (with some 5 inch plus screens). In which case I wouldn't call that better, just more.

On: Google Glass: The Opposition Grows

[greetings]

And then after it is widely used they could discontinue it.

[silentOpen → greetings]

As they push their own walled garden to compete with the decentralized model that nurtured them into their power.

[kybernetikos → silentOpen]

Standards are the way that little players compete against near monopolies. They help the small companies and the consumers.

That's why it can't be too surprising that when a little player turns into the main player, they suddenly lose enthusiasm for standards.