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> Deconstruction is not a method, and does not follow a formula, and pointing out the (numerous, outrageous) errors in this piece would take more time than I have.

C'mon, this is Hacker News, we don't say "This is wrong, but I won't tell you why" here. For what it's worth, I'd actually like to hear your perspective if you take the time.

The article provided a coherent explanation of deconstruction that jives with what my eyes see, which makes it the best thing I've seen on the topic. But if you see holes in it, why not take the time to point them out? I'd like to understand more since this style of academia seems to be influential in universities these days.
I'd also recommend a look at Flask: http://flask.pocoo.org/. It's quite new but more polished and easier to learn than Pylons, and comes with excellent documentation and handy extensions.

As you say, however, Django is a good place to start for a beginner - it has a larger community and ecosystem of apps for doing just about anything web-related (although the apps are of variable quality). It's also quite mature (5 years now) and has more job opportunities.
Care to explain why one is better than the other? I opened both in new tabs, and it took me a while to figure out which was your before and which was the after.

Moving the camel up makes the top line up better, but the rest of the changes seem pretty arbitrary (to my zero-design-sense eye). What are the improvements, and why are they better?
If you change your definitions you will very likely end up with different results.

I, as someone who hates arguing about definitions, will be the first to agree with you that there exists no “true” definition of sheep or, for that matter, humans. Definitions are just lists of properties and conditional statements to which we assign certain words. There is nothing true and nothing magic about them. They help us communicating and that’s that.

My statement about sheep is useful (true?) only if all the concepts I use in my statement are properly defined. I can’t just start to count pregnant sheep differently because then my statement isn’t useful (true?) anymore. Counting pregnant sheep differently wouldn’t help me tell whether or not all sheep are back in the pen at the end of the day and that’s the whole point of the statement. I’m not making a moral statement about whether or not unborn sheep count. That has got nothing to do with my statement and is very much beside the point.

It’s not that surprising, actually. If you change a statement which has proven to make good predictions by redefining one of its concepts, you will likely break the statement. It won’t make good predictions any more.
Facebook does appear to use SSL. If you look at the login form, they are submitting to: https://login.facebook.com/login.php?login_attempt=1
I wonder how much they would pay for some of the old Soviet diesel subs - they are properly to expensive to scuttle after one trip, but they can properly carry a lot more than these homemade ones, and they would be better at evading radar too.
I'm more in favor of skipping the logo and brand entirely if you can. Startups have become so cheap & nimble these days that it is worth waiting out on establishing a brand. Worry about branding once you get user traction. Once you have user traction, you know who your customers are, what they want & what kind of brand identity will appeal to them. Starting to worry too early about branding is just money down the toilet if you ask me.
I would guess the relative isolation of Iceland for a very long time is also a factor. While the French constantly mixed with pretty much all European peoples during medieval times, receiving an influx of things and concepts in need for a word, the number of people crossing the borders of Iceland was very limited, for practical reasons.
Wow, first time reading about this. Absolutely insane.
This page has blink tags, but oddly/sensibly they don't seem to work on my version of Chromium:

http://www.goer.org/htmlhorror/htmlhorror1.html
It reminds me somehow of "Deconstructing My Car at the Detroit Airport" by Howard S. Schwartz. Originally published in "Organization Studies" 1993, Vol. 14, pp. 279-281.
Link to the pdf of the publisher:
http://oss.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/14/2/279
But it also found elsewhere, e.g.:
http://nzmera.orconhosting.net.nz/deconstr.html
Man, Midnight Commander is still going after all these years? It certainly made it easier for me to transition from DOS to Linux, but I was quickly seduced by the power of bash for all my file-management needs.

Oh, a context link for people unfamiliar with Midnight Commander:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_manager#Orthodox_file_mana...
Except that in my experience good designers are already on 99designs as a way to generate sales leads for their own businesses.
How about choosing one that your team knows better? Your startup's app is not a good place to learn new technology, as proven by Reddit and Twitter, among others.
Seems to be on purpose on the Chrome/Chromium team's part. Fortunately, there's a userscript workaround! http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/74241
Couldn't the same thing happen though with people putting up out of town relatives or friends? The people coming through are temporary but your neighbours that are putting them up are permanent and should be in a position to set the rules.

I'd assume this has a lot more to do with hotels being undercut.
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"a shady shipyard in Shanghai"

Thank you for giving me the title of my next novel. ;)
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It will remove all your worries of paying any thing unless you get million hits per month!
It wasn't just blind conviction though, he was a professional soldier. It was war time, and his commanding officer sent him in to conduct guerrilla warfare in the jungles. He was expected to be there for a long time and operationally independent.

"You are absolutely forbidden to die by your own hand. It may take three years, it may take five, but whatever happens, we’ll come back for you. Until then, so long as you have one soldier, you are to continue to lead him. You may have to live on coconuts. If that’s the case, live on coconuts! Under no circumstances are you [to] give up your life voluntarily."
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If you are targeting restaurants (if not pick a good segment, small business is huge) then I would suggest going at off hours (very early or late), going in person, and talking to the owner face to face.

Most likely if its a small business restaurant the owner will be there. Even better is buy breakfast or dinner at the restaurant.

Then when you get a chance explain the problem you are trying to solve and a brief explanation on what you are doing, with the goal of getting feedback and their opinion. Only then if the owner is interested in hearing more should you follow up with an official pitch/presentation on what you can do.

It's a hard and slow process but no one said #startuplife is easy
More to the point, why not just make it work in every browser?

I realize we're not supposed to mention this here in the land of 60% FireFox and 35% Chrome, but most of the world still uses Internet Explorer as their daily browser.

If you want to make a product that people use, you have to make it usable by them. And that means developing for IE first and your browser of choice second.
Typical double standards by the AP. Great to see Woot having some humor with the matter.
And so you have no difficulty with this? I haven't been in your position, so I can't be certain, but I like to think that the first thing I would do if I was hearing voices would be to seek some sort of reliable independent corroboration, and failing to find it would be deeply troubling.
Hi, you are right thibaut_barrere. I was using Rank Checker by SEOBook, but it always gets me in trouble - Google refuses to serve any queries of mine at least half an hour after using it. Cheers. Kraz
Damn, Patrick, between this and the Quetyzcoatl post, I'm beginning to think that your real calling is as a screenwriter, and the Bingo thing is just an elaborate cover.
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wow.. really?
The main advantage to quicksort is that it's still the fastest average-case-in-practice of the common algorithms. If you want an O(nlogn) worst-case, introsort combines quicksort, which is fast on average but O(n^2) worst-case, with a fall-back to an O(nlogn) heapsort, with a guarantee that it'll never take more than O(nlogn) before it falls back, making it still worst-case no worse than O(nlogn). It'll of course be a constant-factor slower in those fall-back cases than if you had just used heapsort or something directly, but it'll asymptotically be no worse, and on average will get you the nice quicksort win.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introsort
Wow that really works: I got "neutral", and it said: "Your national identity is more important than your local identity, because you don`t really have a local identity." So true! Also: "Or maybe you just moved around a lot growing up." I did!
Don't forget PHP now has goto!
Should've been the default. Add a "Go Narrow" button instead.
> Any good physics book that I could look into? Preferably books that integrate physics with programming?

any game physics book would do that for you e.g. http://www.amazon.com/Game-Physics-Interactive-3d-Technology... also there is structure-and-interpretation-of-classical-mechanics (yes, by the same cohort)
The AP just act like the dinosaur they are, no wonder they're worried about going extinct
That sounds like philosophy. :]
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how about doing trials in countries with lax regulations where people would love to get paid to try medications they otherwise would never even be able to afford
I use it as a customer mainly to learn about places near me offering services I am interested in.

I rarely care about getting half off on a massage or kayak rental, but I do care about knowing that I can rent kayaks two minutes from here or get gelato one block from where I live, etc.

That said, I bought two coupons which were used as presents (they offered a 60% discount). I think that store will see some repeat business from me or those I gave the coupons to (and/or referrals from us), so they will likely recoup their initial loss — none of us knew about the place before I bought the coupons.
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"The Non-Designer's Design Book" by Robin Williams is the best introductory book I've read. As the title suggests, it covers the fundamentals - proximity, alignment, repetition and contrast - in a really approachable way.

It probably won't teach you to make a great design, but it will prevent you from making a bad one.
"Had there been no atomic bombs the world may have been a very different place."

That is true, but for reasons that have nothing to do with Japan. As far as Japan is concerned, the theories about how they would have fought for every house, etc. are false. The Japanese were trying to negotiate a surrender even before the first atomic bomb fell.
Yes, that's what the incremental map reduce indexes are used for. Each book would be a document, which you could query by any of those attributes. I'd store the fact that each user owns a book as it's own document, and then you can easily get a view of books by user, or of users by book.
Hi nostrademons, do you mind if I put this observation onto Wikipedia if it is not already there? I would add the cyclic/acyclic observation of sb's reply also. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_traversal is just a stub, it could nearly go there.
At the rent he's paying I highly doubt a hostel would be profitable in that area.
How can a website cost £35 million? You’d better ask the government
"life in a shanty town is not worse than death"

Honest question: how do you know?
I think that I and the universe can do just fine without that single grain of sand :)
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Thank you! I must have missed that bit in the announcements.
That's actually one way in which I think Derrida did somewhat of a disservice to himself. Someone once asked him to explain what deconstruction was, and he answered something like: all of my books are an attempt to answer that formidable question. Okay, I can even buy the point that there may be some inherent complexity not reducible to a one-paragraph answer, but saying "sorry, the answer is all my books, taken together" is not too useful of an answer. Surely there is an admittedly oversimplified answer that can give people some vague idea of the general gist of it? I mean, when people do pop-sci writups of astrophysics, they aren't exactly explaining astrophysics, but a simplified version of it (sometimes very simplified), which hopes only to give people an idea of the kind of thing that happens, not to actually teach them how to do it in all its complexity.

I think Derrida would've been much better off, in terms of intellectual legacy, if he had a student who took him somewhat less seriously on that point, perhaps even against his wishes. Say, someone who was willing to write even a fairly difficult and technical book, but in straightforward, fairly clear prose, attempting to explain at least a version of the main ideas Derrida's works dealt with. Instead, he got people who sort of pushed him in the opposite direction, Derrideans whose prose was somehow even "more Derridean" than his own, and who didn't really do much as far as explaining his ideas to anyone who didn't already buy them. Put differently, what difficult but possibly brilliant thinkers need are clear and convincing expositors, not also-difficult-yet-mediocre imitators.
Indeed so, but I read they were considering surrendering to the Russians, which is something the US really didn't want.
Which means next to nothing if the page with the login form isn't encrypted. A man in the middle attack would just replace the Facebook login page, and the user would likely never notice.
It should be noted that dialect and accent are different aspects of speech; accent refers to the sound, and dialect to the vocabulary.
Are there prepaid credit cards yet? I've heard about them but I'm not sure if it's still vaporware for the vast majority of people.

That would solve those problems where paying with a credit card is almost a required practice. Actually getting credit is another issue but I would guess most people use credit cards as the medium for transactions and not for getting credit itself?
Wow props to Woot to sticking it to AP. The woot writers should write a book of all the funny comments that couldn't go on the front page. It must be pretty epic.
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My blocking issue is a hard one to beat: what guarantee do I have that this won't disappear within two years?

You can argue that there is a use case for simple, no-SLA services but if something is important enough for me to post, it's important enough that I'd be pissed off if it went away.
"O brave new world that has such people in it. Let's start at once."
contributing tons of plugins.

applications, not plugins
This is bad business advice. I'd down vote if I could.
Link for both please, and why? :)
name a country in the world, and he can perform every dialect in the region flawlessly

I'd believe that when I hear that - I'd be flabbergasted if he can convince me in more than one of the three main accents of Cape Town, South Africa.

Hollywood actors have tried and failed to do a convincing South African accent. the only one who came close enough was, surprisingly, Leonardo Dicaprio
As a dvorak user, I used to type "no" instead of ls (when I was learning dvorak), and I sometimes type "p;" on QWERTY keyboards.
You are exactly the type of person I would hate to live next to, the type who moves to a city from the suburbs and tries to keep all the benefits of both.

Cities are chaotic. Cities are loud. How about if you want peace and quiet, you move somewhere where they occur naturally, like the middle of nowhere?
It's true - you get what you pay for. How's business? Might be time to revisit your branding conversation.
> I think you're suggesting that PHP has somehow "arrived" because there's a LISP written in PHP.

Where do you read that ? He's not making any suggestion of the kind, he's simply happy that PHP is not always scoffed on, and this piece of code is a really good example of what you can do when you use PHP properly. That comment could apply to plenty of other PHP projects. HN has a bit of a history of ridiculing PHP and the people who program in it.

> I don't agree.

With who ? Your strawman ?

The LISP here is a neat little stepping stone, just like almost any other 'language X implemented in Y' it is not currently meant as either a high performance solution or a production ready environment, just a neat little hack, easy to understand.

If you're in front of a river and someone builds you a rope bridge across you don't complain about the fact that it won't handle 6 lanes of highway traffic, you're just happy someone took the time and trouble to build it. If you don't want to use the bridge then fine, if you do then it's great.

What's left to prove is that there is a wrongness in the attitude towards certain classes of languages. I think PG is partly to blame for this with his 'blub' classification of programmers and languages. As though those that program in language X are somehow better than those that don't.

To tie LISP and PHP together in this way shows that that argument holds no water at all, and for some that may change their minds, which is good.
The lesson here is that intellectual inbreeding is a terrible and sad thing if you're an outside observer. All fields of academic study should once in a while be faced with outside scrutiny because without it the discipline optimizes cleverness instead of actual intellectual content.
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Great follow-up!
If you think paying for a good logo is too expensive, just wait and see how much a free logo will cost you.
With PHP it will be much much easier to outsource parts of your project compared to python. There are more PHP developers and they are much cheaper.
The branding and logo development for each of these cost five to eight figures. Money well spent, because the average consumer recognize them instantly.
You can re-download stuff other than apps, but you have to contact apple. It's an open secret that they'll modify your account to let you re-download.
My mom's an Australian, but she's been in the US for 30 years. When people detect an accent, their first guess is always Boston.
The fact that you used them as a gift is particularly interesting. Obviously, the value for us is to raise our brand awareness, so the more people made aware by one discounted purchase the better.

I am lucky in that my product is almost always used in conjunction with half a dozen or more people besides the purchaser, so it has word-of-mouth built-in, but use as a gift stretches that one person further.

I am actually friends with the owner of a Groupon clone. She told me that she thought for most business owners it wasn't a great deal, but due to the "viral" nature of my product, it would probably come down on the positive side for us.
You are confusing logos and brands. Branding is not something that can or should be rushed. A branding process includes so much more than just a logo, and can cost thousands or millions.

The best comparison might be a white plastic yard chair and a vintage leather Eames recliner with matching ottoman. You can sit on both chairs.
This is great, but I'd love to see a Safari Extension version of GreaseKit [http://8-p.info/greasekit/], which works fine with Safari 5, but is still based on SIMBL.
Just because they are general they are not useless.

Where the article fails I think is that it takes intelligence to know whether you are giving up too early or not giving up too early. Also, an intelligent person would know or realise at some point whether they are spreading themselves too thin or thick, and do something about it. That is afteral what intelligence is for. Others however might not.Thus the people the article is speaking of seem to be perhaps not that intelligence. Thus "intelligent people" should be taken off the title as it applies more to all people.
Well no and no. After working for the man for 11 years, I started my own business. Some very good years and some lean years (15 years) later I was enticed to go working for someone whom I knew and respected. That was great. But then the business was sold and I didn't get on with the new owners so I took another job and lasted just 5 weeks. Quit and started up another business, now up and running for 6 years. Looking back, I am much happier being my own boss. If I see an opportunity I can go for it. Money is not the most important factor. Freedom is!
The problem is that you don't want more recreational drugs in your country. Alcohol is already a problem, so is tobacco, do we really want to add more?

It's naive to believe that legalizing drugs will damage drug lords. They will continue to sell different kind of drugs, because whatever you legalize, there's going to be a market for different kind of substances; and they will simply flood the market with cheaper, not health-approved, substances.

An example of it is illegal cigarettes smuggling caused by the rise of cigarettes prices.

There is an example of a country devastated by "soft" drugs, it's Djibouti (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djibouti) with Khat (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khat).

You really don't want your whole workforce getting just enough to buy Khat and spend the day stoned or do you?

No silver bullet.
I don't mind, but I'm guessing it'll get tagged with [citation needed], and I don't know what an appropriate citation for it is.
Put the word Apple in front iPhone 4 and iPad. This will help your search.
How is it much more applicable to you just because the title contains some word. I do not think an intelligent person would think oh yeah this guy is saying that this is about intelligent people, so even if the content clearly seems not to apply really, he must be right, I mean, he is on the internet!
I totally agree =) Woot should get a good pat on the back. I curious to see whether AP responds.
Startup in Europe?
We have all read Paul Graham's writings about why the USA and Silicon Valley are the best places to start business. I have no troubles believing him. But some of us are less lucky to have been born in Europe (although it could be far worse).
And I know it's possible to start an American company, even if I have no US passport, but still, that involves traveling to the USA (with all the hindrances like visas etc.). I live in one of the newer (cheaper) members of the EU and with the money needed for such a journey, I could easily live for months (and maybe even a year) while developing my product.
So I guess, I'll first try doing it here.

Could anyone suggest better (or less worse) European country for starting an IT company? I'm talking about the legal part only, not living there.
Do you have a source for this?

According to this blog, twitter's logo cost $10-15 and nike's cost $35:

http://www.logoblog.org/wordpress/cost-of-famous-logos/
Submitted in relation to my comment? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1490176 ;-D

It is a great example of logo design though. Another one I love is the Amazon logo, the arrow under the name both forms a cheeky smile and if pointing from a to z indicating that they sell everything from a-z.

This blog post has some others that are quote good as well: http://www.graphicdesignblog.org/hidden-logos-in-graphic-des...
Lest you listen to the "design is overrated" crowd below:

http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/000273.php
This list might help
http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonVsPhp
It's really not hard to do the search and registration yourself. You might need to do a bit of reading, and/or asking questions. But no more difficult than learning how to use the latest shiny thing properly.