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John Locke said it best: "Vague and insignificant forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, they are but covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge."
If you have to ask this question, you're out of your technical depth.

The best thing you can do is promote the guy who's clamoring the loudest to steer clear of PHP to technical lead, and defer all future technical decisions to him.

The language is just a tool. Consider car racing. If you have a poor driver in the fastest car, it won't make a difference. No matter how fast the car is that he's driving, he's going to lose. And if you have a great driver in a slow car, no matter how good he is, he's going to be limited by the speed of his car.

If you have a poor technical lead, it won't matter what language you choose. You can give him a great language, but he will not understand and take advantage of its best features. If you have a good technical lead, but you choose a bad language, the quality and pace of his development will be forever limited by the language.

(And in the context of a team, the abilities of the team to make good technical decisions are limited by the technical direction your technical lead sets -- which is why you need the most talented guy in the position of technical lead.)

The guy on your team who is the most against using PHP is likely the one who best understands the ways in which PHP will limit your team. You do not have the deep technical understanding to make these judgments, and for that reason (without taking months of hard work to gain such understanding) you should defer to him.

Yes, some of the largest websites are written in PHP. But you do not have the same level of resources to throw at the problem that they have.

You're also starting your development at least 5 years later than any of the largest websites that you refer too. Frameworks/plugins/communities evolve quickly. There were more reasons 5-10 years ago to choose PHP then there are today. Companies that have already written millions of lines of code in PHP will find it very hard to switch to another language -- but you do not have to deal with the weight of such legacy issues.

As a small team, you need to look for every advantage you can get. Choosing a programming language that makes your developers more productive is an important part of that.

If you care about framework, community and plugins, Ruby is also a better language than PHP, and Rails provides these three things in spades. Assuming you don't have a good system administrator on your team, companies like Engine Yard and Heroku provide scalable managed Ruby on Rails hosting -- so you can outsource combating issues like down-time and data loss.
I would go to Estonia.
Take it in and get a replacement. Done.
Wow! You want to do US + EU!??

So, you're in the many $K in filing fees just to go via OHIM - Office Harmonization Interior Market, to get a EU - wide "passport", and a 1.5yr plus min time to registration, permitting zero challenges, which can be technical from the office, or from watchful competitors. "Watchful competitors" include big corps caring for the penumbra their rights cast.

So: nothing cheap.

If you have a VERY CLEAN application, which means you've thought this out a long while first and read up good, ATTORNEY FEES WILL BE THE SMALLEST COST FOR WHAT YOU ASK

Sorry for all the caps, but you see, you can negotiate simplified atorney fees - you don't want to miss on a minimum response time to a fill-in form question, do you, and you do want a service address for all this etc?

Where attorney fees are a big thing is where you've no clue as to the suitability of your trademark or the areas of business you wish to enter into of might apply that mark to. Then, it gets silly. Or alternatively, cheap only if you plan to scale past a little startup.

Oh, yeah, you do realize you have to actually DO business on record in these jurisdictions to keep your marks, and also to keep marks you have to protect them by fighting infringment no matter how silly, or you vacate your claim, don't you?

Basically, you asked about a commitment amount of money, maybe wondering if it's like registering a domain, which conveys zero rights (See Zappa decision for the very latest in a long list of stupid loosers).
> I haven't seen nearly the same level of shadiness on AirBnB in other cities

London, too.
your sysadmins should have taken care of this =)
Sounds like a bad iphone, not sure what the point of the article was. If you charge it overnight and its not full when you woke up, its broken. Not much more to think about.
Find out who your competitors' customers are (it's easy -- just look up the "Clients" page) and poach them via email first to gauge their interest, and then try to set up a phone call or face-to-face to get them to try your product. Your competitors' customers are as qualified as leads come.
Actually, they're presented in the book as Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, and Proximity.

Williams jokes in the early chapters that she wanted to find an easy-to-remember acronym for the four central concepts of the book - and boy did she pick a good one.

At least it's memorable.
/It's naive to believe that legalizing drugs will damage drug lords./

This is the most ridiculous thing I've heard in weeks on the internet, and believe me, that counts for something.

How can they flood the market with cheaper substances? There is little reason a kilo of cocaine should cost much more than a kilo of coffee (ok maybe 5 times more than that because of lower yield per square cultivated meter). Still, the profit in the drug trade comes directly from it being illegal - i.e. the premium that users pay is a risk premium for the producers, traffickers, whole-sellers and retailers. Making production legal would not only make the product much much much safer but it would also reduce profit margins by so much that the people currently employed in this economic sector would be pushed out of the business by regular pharma / foodstuffs companies almost overnight. Along with it, the corruption, assassination and many of the other externalities would disappear, at the same speed.
This i such a great article, I don't know where to begin.

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery,
it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all. — Michelangelo

I've always thought being a hard worker is the biggest talent of all. When I played icehockey there where a few guys who where extremely good; he scored maybe 10 goals every game and I remember how proud I was when I stole the puck from him once.

But he wasn't hardworking and from being considered a genius when he was a kid he became talented when he got older and now he's just average (this is also touched on within the article). This seems to transfer to whatever field you look, from programming to icehockey and painting.

Although the title has programming in it the article is more about self-improvement and learning than of anything else.

Kids who are labeled and praised because of their “innate capabilities”,
will often suffer from an overconfidence that will affect their ability to
challenge themselves through the depths of the unknown,
because they feel it would threaten their status. What if they fail?
It would mean, in their eyes, that perhaps they are not the smart person
they have been assumed to be all along.
We all have seen such kids failing here and there,
and quickly making excuses such as, “Oh, I wasn’t trying at all”.

This hurts so much because I've been exactly like this for a long time and I'm finally trying to break out of it. I was good at math but I didn't dare to challenge myself so I was content with being considered "talented".

It might also explain why I did so hilariously bad at french: Why try? I don't dare to fail...
"The guy on your team who is the most against using PHP is likely the one who best understands the ways in which PHP will limit your team. You do not have the deep technical understanding to make these judgments, and for that reason (without taking months of hard work to gain such understanding) you should defer to him."

sorry, what? the guy on his team who is most against using PHP could equally well be an idiot who is simply repeating stuff he has heard on the web by rote, using regurgitated puff to hide his complete lack of understanding of both the issues and the languages themselves.

Your willingness to entirely overlook that possibility and to make the kind of sweeping statements you have made in your post in the absence of any data causes me to doubt that you have the kind of experience and technical expertise that is required to make that kind of statement.
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I don't know. "beautiful" doesn't count for sure :).
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Sorry, to clarify, OHIM fees aren't that bad, but you do have to get a translator because you need 2 EU languages, say Eng / French, and again all that local service address stuff, and if you're a US Corp, registering your corp as trading in the EU, somewhere, someplace, and filing even blank tax returns.

What you really need is an Uncle of a friend who's in this business, and tel lthem you'll f=do the donkey work, but can you use their office and beg tricky questions. Network it. Be prepared for some of the snottiest put-downs though :)

That said, DO IT THE HARD WAY YOU'LL LEARN A F'N TON about business!
Yeah I'm getting nothing like this poor performance out of mine, it does sound as if something is actually wrong with the device :(
I don't know why you call him dumb. In his situation there are few ways to verify that Japan had indeed surrendered. If it really was an elaborate scheme by the Allied troops then he would have been called dumb for surrendering so easily.
> The United States never wanted to land invade Japan - the second option to bombings was a blockade to starve the army out.

I don't think that's correct. I've read that the alternative to the bombs was a huge invasion called Operation Downfall. According to Wikipedia: "The U.S. Navy urged the use of blockade and airpower to bring about Japan's capitulation...The U.S. Army, on the other hand, argued that such a strategy could "prolong the war indefinitely" and expend lives needlessly, and...supported mounting a large-scale thrust directly against the Japanese homeland...Ultimately, the Army's viewpoint won."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Downfall#Consideratio...
* The Wikipedia page is already flagged for sounding like an ad.

* The same article refers to the site as a website anyway

* Most of the features are 'information on...'
They're the bad guys, just like that other non-profit trade association, the MPAA. We can hate on them while still loving our newspapers and movies.
but a good developer can write good, clean code in either one.

Every language/IDE combination encourages a 'default' coding approach, I agree that the PHP 'default' coding approach tends to be to create a hopeless muddle of assorted, random crap.
OTOH, which would you rather have...a coder who is currently being 'forced' to write marginally better code in Python than he would in PHP because of the language constructs, or a coder who understands good code design and knows how to apply it?

A good coder will be a good coder in any language, the fact that a crappy coder can be made to look marginally better if they are forced to use Python just doesn't feel like much of a win to me.
Never use GIMP for anything, except, of course, for demonstrating how not to do UI/UX.
That was really the most annoying tag. Blinking text was schlocky but usually minor in the context of the page. Marquees were long and annoying by design.
1) on the actual reviews page you could probably save space by not displaying a whole row for an upvote with no text review

2) if users have the ability to add their own items to the list, you are going to need a way to monitor the lists for duplicates or items that are not specific enough - (example, iPhone) or items that are wrong (iPhone Blackberry). Since you are starting with a clean slate in terms of products, it will be most useful to you to ensure that the product names are kept as clean as possible, this will make it MUCH easier to integrate with a price service if you plan to monetize it that way in future.

3) I'm not sure what the 'revisions' button is supposed to do (not technically, I mean in terms of usefulness to the site). I was able to rollback someone else's review to a previous version.

4) Product lists can grow to be quite diverse and you will need a way to categorize the lists the same way that products are grouped into lists. For example, you may need an Electronics category where all PC's, cell phones and GPS's are listed. And futher on you may need to break the cell phone category into 'Smart Phones' and 'Cell Phones'. Advice for this is that if you do plan to monetize by connecting with a price service then map your categories to that of the price service because it will be easier to sync up your products later (unless they really don't match your categorization in which case you will need a way to match them up behind the scenes.)

5) Don't know how you would approach this one, but when I went to 'Blogs for Entrepeneurs' and clicked on 'Paul Grahams Blog' I could see that the response was positive so I would want to check out this blog. If I didn't know who Paul Graham was I would need to then google his name to find his blog. It would be nice for items like that if the person who creates the item could add some text or blurb about it. But I'm not sure how that would translate when adding an actual product that is not a blog.

Hope that was useful :) Good luck with it!

[edit: spelling]
I tried in another posting to respond, but I'll take another crack at it here.

Here are a few outrageous errors, taken at random:
"Deconstruction, in particular, is a fairly formulaic process"
"points are awarded on the basis of style and wit rather than substance,"
"Decide what the text says. This can be whatever you want,"

I try to be as civil on the internet as I am in real life. IRL, I'd say "Stop sneering and tell us something useful, or go away."

The useful something I would tell you is: don't assume that people making fun of something actually understand what that something is. Furthermore, don't assume that just because something can't be easily explained in a blog post, it is nonsense. And finally, don't be surprised when people who take a complex discipline seriously are reluctant to engage with dismissive outsiders with an axe to grind and no real desire to engage. (My brother-in-law is a professor of Shakespeare at Cambridge, and you should see the look on his face when someone at a cocktail party raises the "authorship" issue...)
It is somewhat ironic that this article is on www.theonion.com...
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Google's image search is a very different beast to their text search. It isn't continually updated in the same way, instead they seem to do an update every month or so. It's 1 month since wwdc when images of iphone 4 appeared, so it's possible that they just haven't done an update in that time.
Previously:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=961266

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1439403
Ask HN: What's your churn rate?
A question to web-application providers: what percentage of your clients quit your service every month? is the rate different for free accounts compared to paying accounts?

p.s. Any links to some stats?
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

You want to know the funny thing? He did exactly that.

One of Derrida's most prominent students, Geoff Bennington, wrote a book (with Derrida's approval and authorization) which attempted to summarize Derrida's work for the general reader. To make the game more interesting, he attempted to do so without directly quoting Derrida a single time. And, just to put a nice bow on it all, Derrida read the manuscript, and wrote a piece (which is published in the same volume) outlining briefly the parts of his philosophy he thought were excluded by Bennington's summary.
Err... They would simply use their billions to go legit? No damage, just making their business legal.

If I may, let's say there's no more illegal activity related to drug. Would that solve violence? Not really, life of crime is chosen because you don't have options. Only the top drug lords are wealthy with drugs, read Freakonomics for more info about it.

There was an interview from a crime lord who said something along the lines "when people have the possibility to get real jobs, it's very difficult for me to hire".

Drug is one end of the problem, it's also a health problem in itself. But making drug legal won't solve much of violence and misery in the world.
> Does that help at all?

It does, yes. Thanks for taking the time, that was really detailed and informative.
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What's with the buddhist bent YC? What does it have to do with hacking or business? I realize intelligent minds are attracted to buddhism and hinduism, but it's still pretty off topic, in addition to the idea of reincarnation being offensive to the scientifically inclined. At least feed the hackers some serious philosophy. We're smarter than this.
Absolutely!!!!
Why not just store the scripts in the safari.extension.settings or the local storage, and write the extension to load arbitrary ones? Add in an interface similar to UserCSS ( http://code.grid.in.th/ ), and I don't see what else you'd need. Though you could add install buttons to userscripts, and script auto-updating, and a whole mess of whatnots to it if you wanted.

(not sure what'd be fastest / the best option, I'll leave that up to you to find out)
Some statistics show that left handed people are more creative. Does that mean you should only buy art from left handed folks?

Thats the argument in the article - central locations are good for communication and faster work. Hence you should only invest in centrally located teams.

But good startups can come from distributed work environments too. WordPress comes to mind.
Italia.it costed 45,000,000 of euros and was developed by IBM. The project was also a big failure.
Well, I just rewrote what grandparent said, subbing in that O(10^25) is linear.
New Array and Enumerable methods in Ruby 1.9.2: keep_if, chunk...
Thank you! For some reason I always take flak for this position, great to know I'm not the only one who feels this way.
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No, they tried to build the app with a technology they wanted to learn {Reddit : Lisp, Twitter: Rails} and then had to rewrite it (mostly) from scratch when that didn't work out {Reddit: Python, Twitter: Scala}.

Neither failed, because they were smart enough to know when to ditch. God knows how many startups failed because they didn't know that.
I think my use of the word logo in my comment contributed to the problem instead of a solution. Specifically, if you think of branding in terms of firing up Photoshop and trying out some cool fonts, then you are not seeing the big picture.

The specific reason that this thread has tweaked me so much is that it's just so typical for us developers to minimize the effort that goes into good design. It's like it's somehow incomprensible that a team of people with years of experience would spend weeks coming up with a brand strategy that works well across many mediums and tells a coherent story.

There's a really good article about the process of creating the FedEx logo on HN right now. He wasn't starting from scratch or doing a style guide and it still sounds like it took months.
I honestly wish I had the time to give it the explanation it deserves. (In addition to having 4 kids and my second start-up, I'm in the middle of a M.A. in Buddhist Studies, and have a paper due shortly, so when I said "I don't have time to fully explain", I really meant it.)

Continental Philosophy is a fascinating discipline, and I really don't understand why people who don't understand it feel the need to dismiss it via a caricature.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine_Cowboys is a good documentary on the drug trade that has an interesting portion on the use of submersibles in the drug trade. That documentary came out in 2006 and it showed how drug runners had already evolved past these vessels by using containers shaped like driftwood logs and attaching them by long ropes to fishing vessels. The driftwood containers had gps trackers on them so when the coastguard came close they would sink them with the rope attached and another ship would pick them up later. I think its available on thepiratebay.
For some reason most of the guys I want to uni with (Heriot-Watt) had "alias l=ls" in their .config. I've not seen this with guys I know who were at other unis or with anyone I currently work with. I know it clearly wasn't pioneered at HW (very little outside the area of brewing and distilling is), but I wonder why it had such a high penetration there. Perhaps we were all equally lazy, or a teaching assistant suggested it 1st year and it stuck?
You should change the button to "Go narrow" when in wide mode. Just a thought.

Also, disable the textbox resizing, or better yet, make the layout flow horizontally when there isn't enough space on the side after resizing.
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I have an irrational objection - every time I go there I think of Needle Nose Ned from the movie Groundhog Day. Bing!
Weird that it didn't get filtered out by the HN de-duping. Something to do with the > & <?
I concede on the example of Twitter; that said, I had no idea that was Twitter's logo. I thought their word mark was their logo, and perhaps this helps make my point regardless: did you know that Twitter's logo was a bird on a tree? That particular bird on a tree?

Anyhow, as I've said elsewhere in this thread my beef is with folks who think your logo is your brand, and that a brand is something you can do in Photoshop if you have some good fonts installed. It's not just wrong, it's damaging business advice.

I could also cop out and say that both Twitter and Nike have spent a lot more than $15 and $35 on their brand, regardless of the cost of their original logos.
Interesting, perhaps that would be a better place to start. I've attempted to read some Derridean secondary literature, and it has not been very enlightening at all; much harder to read than Derrida himself, actually. Two random entry points I've attempted, besides some miscellaneous journal articles, are through Paul de Man and Michael Marder (the latter because the idea of a realist reading of Derrida interests me), and both had such annoying prose that it was hard to get anywhere. It was like someone was parodying Derrida while writing about him or something.
> a statistically impossible theory

Oh, you're one of those types.

Well, as much as I respect you're right to believe these things (irrationally or not) it's worth saying you will find little interest in them here.