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maybe a video with few people playing bingo cards with an explanation of Bingo Cards Creator itself, will do it.
It's a big internet, and sometimes you gotta seek help where you're comfortable.
Submitted previously and rightly killed. Complete bollocks.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1347492
A couple of weeks back there were a few discussions on how to write a proper job offer. I ran across this randomly today and thought that that's just about perfect.

No silliness about rockstars or ninjas but no unrealistic bulleted lists either. Just a good description of the job, the tools, the environment and a clear call to action at the end.
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The main supporter of the global warming ... scam really, also charges thousands of dollars to crowds of people who want to give his talk to others. He is the manager of a hedge fund investing billions in "green" technology. He is one of the most powerful people in the world, even almost becoming president once. His talks are full of inaccuracies and in-congruent cause/effect relationships.

If he was serious about his cause, he'd be encouraging people to move away from coasts. Instead, he encourages them to invest in the products and companies he's already holding.
I just started using a 2.4ghz 13-inch mbp for work. My personal machine is a mid-2007 white macbook (2.16ghz, 4GB RAM). I do like the Aluminum case, but the machine really isn't noticeably faster than the old one. Not that the old one is slow by any means. I think I've decided to hold off one more generation (bought myself a magic mouse and wireless keyboard to get rid of some of the gadget craving).

For the guy who said he needs something faster to run lots of apps, none of those apps need to run in the background, so you shouldn't be CPU limited. Maybe you just need more than 4GB of RAM. I think your machine can fit 6GB...
That grandfathering requires paying the year upfront, though.
Can it be done sustainably? Can a complete ecosystem be established where the feeder fish don't have to be harvested from elsewhere?
If there's one thing I've learned from Apple, it's that innovation within a price point makes happy, comfortable customers.

It's a scary precedent to set by saying that every new feature Zendesk adds, they're going to charge you for. Innovation should be the baseline.
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It would be much better as an App. There's a lot of thought that goes into buying a case for expensive kit like an iPhone. I doubt Visa is going to be able to interpose itself like this.
When I read the title I was thinking in the US... I'm bootstrapping in Chicago but I'm actually from Madrid.

Anyway, the entrepreneurship community in Spain is small but tight and well-connected. I took the time to put together all blogs of Spanish entrepreneurs that I follow in a blog post here:

http://eduardolog.com/post/610275411/active-blogs-by-spanish...

If you are just going to read one blog, I recommend http://loogic.com

I also invited some Spanish entrepreneurs on Twitter to chime in here. I hope they have the time to say hi!
That wouldn't be so bad, forking is where innovation can happen. The really bad part is when it would have the "Webkit" label in the user agent string, claim complete compatibility, claim they are using the most popular rendering engine, but being broken or incompatible in some fundamental way.
Do my eyes deceive me or are companies with 20 employees at their help desk complaining that a thousand bucks is a lot of money?

I think we are seeing a later day MMORPG forum. At some point, it is easier to argue for a patch for your class than get 1 pct more stats, so you stop playing the game and start playing the boards. ZenDesk is the vendor most likely to drop prices by 1k for a single fauxraged posting, so start your keyboards.
That doesn't make much sense, if MS creates their messed up own fork of Webkit, how does that hurt you?

Your stuff will still break in IE.
Obviously there are many ways people process text, but my early efforts at speed reading (and speed listening) were much like yours. With practice, however, I reached a point where I could bifurcate input processing and ideational processing. It was almost as though my eyes were passively accepting information and throwing it at my mind in useful chunks, rather than my mind actively going out to get information and then churning it.

The best analogy I've found is Hofstadter talking about the process of becoming good at Jumbles (where you have to unscramble letters to find the word). Early in the process, he had to actively, at the forefront of his mind, rearrange letters and test them. As he got better, that active task was offloaded to some barely-conscious 'letter combining capacity' that would only toss up fairly plausible combinations. It might not be a real word, but it had a high level of salience, whereas his active thinking-about process would make bizarre, impossible combinations that would include letters not even in the jumble.

Similarly, the 'active' task of reading is, for me, a pretty passive process now, and I actually have more of my mind to devote to thinking about what I read while my eyes do the boring work of getting the input 'inside'.
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It would be interesting to see if in the companies that have a "culture of quitting", money is an additional motivator. $20k worth of crap isn't that exciting, but a year's runway is.

This might shed light on whether this is about a mistaken identification of money with value, or if people value the present that much more than the future. The latter would be more profound.

Unfortunately, those companies either already basically pay enough (e.g. Google), or they're startups where giving employees more money than necessary is almost certainly the wrong thing to do.
Instead of upgrading the notebook, you may want to consider switching to a solid-state drive. In terms of real-world performance boost, an SSD simply can't be beat. It's like upgrading to 60 or 120GB of RAM for <$300.

I am not convinced that most MacBook users are CPU constrained. SSD FTW!
Do you really expect them not to complain when the month previous their bill was less than half of that?
I put them into a spreadsheet that shows a 4-level hierarchy of concept, sub-concept, sub-sub. Then i roll up the spreadsheet into strings, LOAD DATA INFILE to a mysql db, and index using Sphinx and SOLR/lucene.

All this is pretty easy using rails (or Django, PHP, or grails, I imageine)

(or write some memo's, use Google desktop to index them).

The important thing is describe your business plan/Cconcept in a way that you can find it using your search terms.
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This seems to be a good example for the idea of setting your prices at the right level from very early on. Much better to err on the expensive side then drop them later than significant rises like these. Or initially offer a special deal so people know it will eventually cost more.

Similar thing happens when going from freemium/ indirect revenue to charging. There was a big backlash when invision board did that, even though they could say there product was as good as the paid competition (Vbulletin). They had built a lot of their success on the back of a free product.
Thanks for the plug Paul.
They said later in the comments that it is possible to pay quarterly and still receive the grandfathering...
Yes, it is a pain to test pages in different browsers. But I would prefer to have competition in the browser front.
There will come a time when WebKit isn't innovating the fastest, just like the previous darling browser engines (IE included). A dominant WebKit engine isn't really any more desirable than a dominant IE.

I would much prefer that MS wise up about the special requirements of a browser engine and do as well as they can with their own. Opera is more than welcome to switch to Webkit though. :)
Oh sure, the community is about being successful, but the people it attracts want to be successful... there are a few people who hang out here who are already successful, but mostly it's aspirants.

If the community wasn't mostly aspirants, there wouldn't be so much posting about how to make yourself work, how to work more, how to attract VC, why not to attract VC, how much to charge, etc., etc., etc. Or so many people making elementary mistakes.

And all the time, they convince themselves they are the world's best empiricists.

Take the OP for example. He's choosing to focus on the revenue streams he can least control. I'm glad he's striking out on his own, taking the risk, but that last bit is not the wisest choice.

Did you click on my profile? I have 10x the karma you do. That's because I'm here helping people.

I see people here all the time making stupid decisions that keep them from earning money. And then I point it out.

Mostly, like you, they get their feathers in a ruffle at the mere insinuation that they might be mistaken (itself a counter-indicator of future success), but when they listen, I can go on knowing I was able to help somebody.
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Not sure what you changed, but I set WPM to 60, show 1, and read 1. This should refresh every second (1/60)*60, but it's updating very slowly.
You're right: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_large_numbers

I hope the intention was clear: with 400 million users, it is a certainty that a feature will be incomprehensible, unusable, etc., to some non-zero number of users.
It could be 20 third-world employees. A client of mine uses ZenDesk and staffs it out of the Philippines. $1,000 is a ton of money in that regard especially when the hefty increase comes out of the blue. It's also straight users so if you have part time people it adds up quickly. Especially so when you factor in management that have accounts just to check up on staff.

However I think the biggest thing is they didn't sign up for $1,000. They signed up for half that. Regardless of the figures no one likes seeing a 74% raise in cost.
Mostly that, but as a member of a family that hunts growing up in an agricultural region (SW Missouri) I also know that the process of converting to agriculture radically changed the environment, especially the fauna. By and large a lot of wild flora continued to exist on unfarmed land, but that provided a lot less cover etc. for animal species who's various requirements got zapped. Nowadays hunters work with farmers to e.g. leave enough quail habitat at the edges of fields.

Another thing that happened was that apex predators of domestic animals were suppressed and/or replaced by other predator domestic animals like the dog and cat. In general for lots of reasons the populations of humans grew substantially beyond what wild game could support.

Although deer in the US are something of a special case. They're really thriving, we could harvest quite a few more (and in a number of places desperately need to), heck, they're the most deadly animal in the US (through car crashes). This of course wouldn't happen in countries where meat was at more of a premium and/or where the population density was a lot higher.
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They certainly think it does.
I do exactly the same thing. So many projects I've finished to 80%, because I got the thing I set out to do achieved. That final 20% is documenting, finishing a UI, etc - and I'm not forcing myself to do (in my mind, the difficulty level) trivial, uninteresting things.

Hell, I probably wouldn't want to do those last things for money, either!
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Regardless of who's side you fall on, I think this is a pretty good example of why allowing public comments is a bit of a dangerous move.

(Clearly the more dangerous move here was the price hike, but I do not know the internals of the company that led to the decision, or the interest that it was in, so I will not comment on that so much.)

It is tough to imagine them recoverving from the sort of mob-rule that has formed in that comment thread, even if they restore current pricing plans. So much doubt was created amongst the users, which of course spread to twitter, here, and others, and you can see the discussion clearly degrade from concern to rage.

Public interaction with users can be helpful to show a personal side of the company and try to show a strong effort for support/interaction, but do not forget that this risk exists. As with anything, use with caution.
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writing a comprehensible sentence would be considered a good thing i would have thought , pirate or no pirate.
A hacker who is "really fucking good at hacking" wouldn't wait for an answer to "what is the best way to make an impact".

He would have done significant things in one or more of (1) thru (5)(or even more options he thought of himself) and the doing will teach him more about the "best way" than any amount of abstract theorizing about an essentially unanswerable question.
Linux Mint is an Ubuntu based Linux distribution, aimed to be more user-friendly.
Nowhere did I mention my actual strategy. Nobody asked and I probably won't tell.

I am trying to do a lot of deals in order to build intuition. You cannot do this without making a decision and then being faced with the consequences. I have learned a lot that took more than a few deals to figure out.

I also have a keen sense of how portfolios of assets behave rather than a small number of bets.

I suppose this is what happens when people without a clue make assumptions about scant data.

And, honestly, it feels like you want to look down on someone.
I have worked in the banking industry. Building a better technology stack for a bank is possible. But you need to understand the current technology first, including how it got to where it is today.

You also need to understand the banking industry.

And you need to be focused on reliability. Twitter's reliability history is not adequate for a bank.

So do I think he can do this by himself? Not a flippin' chance. But I do think he could contribute some innovative ideas, if teamed up with people who have deep experience in the industry.
Relative to what they were paying, a thousand bucks is a lot of money. It's also a lot of money relative to what other companies are charging for similar services.

The definition of an "agent" is pretty vague for many places too. We, for instance, could probably have 40 "agents" handling help desk duties if we let our volunteer forum moderators help out with user support issues like I'd like to.
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We now that in the US the most used word is resume, but CV is widely used in the rest of the world.
He didn't really lose $10.3bn, he lost the opportunity to make it. These were options, not actual money or stock.
If there is one thing that I have learnt from "Predictably Irrational" book, it is that humans make their money-related decisions by having a reference point. Zendesk could have always been priced at thousand bucks and no one would have complained. But once you set the price, you provide your customers with a reference point which they are going to use. You can't run away from that.

For example, even though Microsoft Office probably provides a lot more value than what it costs, it they doubled their prices overnight, would you not expect any outrage?
I'm in deep enough shit as it is if my Droid is lost or destroyed. Smartphones are great in that they replace a lot of things I used to have to carry. "Wallet" is not one I want to add to the list.
Do something that I've heard of before they end up in touch.

Cold emails rarely turn into anything.
Probably right. However, the post outed his as an ideological opponent of government action (with a little fatalism thrown in). This would place him firmly in the denier camp according to the original article.
Not really, no. I like making things.
I can't help but think that this is completely ass backward. If you are worried about your privacy, close your FB account.

Facebook is not a necessity or a utility, it's still just a free service. I disabled my account years ago for privacy reasons. Unsurprisingly, I haven't lost a single connection or friendship that mattered to me. Facebook is not what facilitates relationships, its people. I'm really baffled by the extent to which people go to stick with this service when they clearly are concerned about what FB is doing to their privacy.
One of the things that IE is working on for IE9 along with Mozilla and Webkit is more rendering and layout-based tests, so when you specify things like "dotted line border", it will look identical in all browsers.

Things like this will serve the web better than "Hey everyone, let's all use Webkit".
Ask HN: Is there a viable business in this?
Hi all,

I just set up a new Windows installation and I had a thought about a new product:

When I set up a computer, I have to install somewhere around 40 programs to get everything back to where it was beforehand. I've been looking around for an automated solution, but it looks like most of the software out there is either partial (you can only pick certain programs) or custom (you have to set up a list of programs by hand). It'd be nice if I could pick from a comprehensive online list of software and get an installer that would set everything up.

I know I'd use it personally, but I probably wouldn't pay much for it. So I was wondering: Does anyone (particularly in IT) know if there's a business market for it? There are similar solutions (cloning, ninite), but nothing that I've found that quite does what I want...

Thanks!
It's not sensationalistic. You know damn well they're talking about edible fish that we're accustomed to eating now. You're just being intellectually dishonest.
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Ask HN: is it safe to recommend SaaS/API startups to clients?
I'm just wondering how those of you that build applications for clients view recommending startup companies to those clients.

I really like a lot of the startup SaaS companies that I see on HN. There is one in particular with a great API that I am considering recommending for integration into a project for a client.

However, I have noticed that there is often a strong emphasis among startups to try and get bought out as quickly as possible, and sometimes these buyouts include shutting down the original service or greatly changing its terms or pricing. This would have serious negative consequences for my clients if their sites were heavily integrated with these services. Someone would be on the hook for redoing the work and migrating their data, whether it is my client or me, the situation would be difficult.

What is the best way of dealing with this situation? Is recommending a small startup with a great service safe?

I've considered asking the founders directly if they're in it for the long-term or are just looking for a quick buy-out, but if I were a founder looking for a quick buck I'm not sure how honestly I'd answer that question.
It seems like the are requiring the grandfathered customers to pre-pay a full year because maintaining two monthly pricing structures is more trouble to manage.

But I'm curious what kind of blowback a company like this might face if existing customers were grandfathered into the old pricing plan for life. Would new customers resent existing customers? Without knowing Zendesk's financial situation, it's hard to know whether they're doing this out of necessity ... but it seems like the goodwill to the customers that made them what they are would be worth the trouble of managing two different pricing tiers.
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Perhaps they were linked by one of them obsessively googling the other. I've received bitter comments about a current girlfriend's appearance, occupation, and religion from an ex with whom I shared none of that information. I did a Google search and came up with exactly the information my ex had. The same ex had, when she was my girlfriend, researched my previous ex and obsessed about her appearance, occupation, etc.
"Nasa claimed that a software problem with the flight data system was the cause but Mr Hausdorf believes it could be the work of aliens.

This is because all other parts of the spacecraft appear to be functioning fine."

The display on my car radio no longer works, but the rest of the car appears to be functioning fine.

Film at 11.
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Why doesn't cloning do what you want?
Awesome! You can send me an email at gmail.com (same username)
I came across this site a while ago and have been trying to find it again for the past couple days. Thanks for the link!
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I find the fact the writer focused on the wrong thing - the devices being denounced as bad - and miss the message - that important information is drowning in a sea of distracting, enjoyable trivia - telling.

I too worry for this Facebook generation. I would be happier if they spent their time becoming smarter. We will need lots of smart people in the future.
> "In a perfect world Mozilla would adopt it as well, but I don't see that happening because they have too much invested in Gecko along with too many different projects using that particular engine. Maybe one day though."

Hasn't occurred to him that maybe MS also has invested too much in its rendering engine?
This is of course a political move. The Swedish general election is in four months and the Pirate Party's greatest threat is not getting enough attention. As the other political parties in Sweden doesn't really understand technology and won't actively engage in these issues. In the EP election last year, two unpopular laws had gone into effect the same year and also the Pirate Bay trial had just been held months before the election.

This time around technology related legislature seem to have been postponed and the continuation of the Pirate Bay trial has conveniently been placed just weeks after the election. If the Pirate Party's ISP now decides or get forced to cut off the Pirate Bay from the Internet, they will also censor the Pirate Party, which (of course) is a political party. Sparking a lot of outrage and controversy, which previously has shown very effective for the party.
Someone in the comments mentions Conque (http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2771) which makes it easy to run other applications (mysql, irb, etc.) in a split and send text from your current buffer to the other program. As the commenter mentions, this is sort of the opposite of what this vimcast shows, and for some people might be preferable.
Great news for consumers. Interesting news for Square.
They said "you can change your billing cycle to a quarterly cycle in order to extend grandfathering beyond July 1st billing cycle" - so one additional quarter, if you prepay for that quarter, followed by the increased prices.

The only way you get current prices for another year is by prepaying by July 1.
That would mean Google is publicly (albeit indirectly) exposing his family members' searches.
I think we've all heard the arguments against piracy, and we've all heard the arguments for torrenting over and over.

The main reason people download/torrent copyrighted material is because that's the simplest way to get it, and there's literally no risk to get caught.

In order to avoid downloading and torrenting, find a simpler way than downloading and torrenting, use a monthly subscription, or a mix of both. This works perfectly fine for World of Warcraft and Spotify, and they've taken people by storm. I dare say Spotify has made music torrenting unneeded and a thing of the past, because it's so great.