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But surely you encounter women outside of Great Clips. Maybe there's even one or more living in the same household as you. The context is changed, but the women are still women. Why should the context dictate how sexist someone should be to someone else? (And I say someone rather than 'a woman' because men face the same thing in other industries that women feel in CS/IT.) A reasonable reaction is being surprised/shocked that a man is cutting your hair at Great Clips. That is not discrimination. Unreasonable and discriminatory is to then start to say derogatory things about him and his work in the context of his working in a majority female workplace and then tip him like shit afterwards. It's pretty fair to say the woman in question was encountering some of this at work.

My pull-out-of-my-arse statistics: there are lots of men in CS and IT that I've talked to, met in person, drank with, worked with, and even slept with some. Most men I know are really nice and reasonable, and in a good way (read: good friends!). A few of them are awkward, but again, in a good-to-acceptable way (making wrong assumptions or stepping on toes, but learning). But it's the few that I can count on my fingers that I will remember as treating me like complete shit that will be the reason why I'd want to switch careers altogether if I were to work with them regularly.

Some of these can be explained away by culture differences, age differences and more. But you know what. When you're sitting in a room with 5 other people and only one is female and she's the developer working on what all six of you met to discuss...and you outright ignore her when she's trying to talk to you...that's sexism, that's bullshit, and no amount of culture clash explains that away. And that and more is what I put up with once in a while, and most of that related to this industry even though programming is maybe half of what I do on a regular basis.

I've even got a story about a dev at one office that wasn't even an acquaintance that stared at my tits all day long and tried to grope me. :P Him I'd have to categorize as a general creep more than geeks-gone-stupid though, it doesn't happen often and it was probably just coincidence.

Anyway....it may be part of life, but it doesn't mean I have to put up with it more than necessary. It's pretty funny people explicitly mention other fields like bio-anything being women friendly and women heavy...chem and BME are some of my other interests, and I sure don't get that crap there. It's very tempting to go specialize/switch to something where I get less of this discriminatory behavior from others.
Switching when there is no effect is harmless, from the perspective of the product. It only hurts your takeaways, and if you're doing A/B, you're conceding that your previous takeaways weren't the final word anyway.

Now, if switching is expensive for some reason, and your A/B isn't as conclusive as you'd need, there's a pretty good chance your change resistance will catch that. So even then it's probably not a big deal.
Sorry I don't buy this. When it comes down to it, society in itself is coercion. If you don't like that you can go and live on the moon, but whilst you live with and near other people, coercion will exist.

The problem is to accept coercion and discover its most beneficent form, not eliminate it.
Also, even if we proved P=NP wouldn't we still have to discover a general algorithm for solving IP systems?
Yeah .. I have not faced this kind of wall until now but I get your point.

The whole scripting language issue is a complicated one imo..
People want to either use 100% scripting or 100% system (i.e., C), which is not alright.
Combine scripting & system according to your needs.
This is why I like Tcl the most:
It prevents you from using it where there might be
computational bottlenecks (e.g., in algorithms).
It is meant to complement C, not replace it.
Anyway this is a separate thread.
Microsoft wanted ppl to develop Win32/.NET apps, not Web stuff. So no reason to improve IE 6.
The big companies that already have treatments for diabetes (for example) definitely have an interest in not curing it, but a small startup would be happy to make millions destroying a multibillion dollar industry.
I agree, it lays out many economic concepts in easily understandable form for persons new to the subject.
Equally cryptic to perl syntax imo..
People upvoting this are dreamers as that industry costs a phenomenal amount of money to put something through trials.

Millions is a trivial amount on what you could throw down the drain and end up with no actual product. It's not vulnerable to a startup as a startup can't practically enter that market. You'd need to be producing something else first.

And small? Not gonna cut it.

Something that works on mice and even something that looks in the lab to cure the disease often doesn't work in trials and doesn't beat the placebo effect.
Ask HN: Paying commission on SAAS subscribers
Hi,

I have a SAAS website in the works. Someone with a business in the vertical I am targeting has suggested they could help us out signing people up. Send out an email to their mailing list for example, mention our product in their conference booths etc

Our service will cost customers between $30-$150 a month.

Does anyone have experience paying commissions for people to get you subscribers / members ?

Do the commissions continue as long as the sign up is a member ? Meaning, if you agree a 30% commission, would that be 30% every month for the life of the customer ?

What sort of commision percentages are usual ?

Any tips or guidance appreciated.

Cheers
Given that the neo-Keynesians are abjectly failing again (last time was the stagflation of the '70s) and that much of the world is now acknowledging this after trying 3 or so years of their snake oil remedies (e.g. note the recent G8/G20 fireworks, and it's been two decades for the Japanese), recommending that anyone read them as more than historical curiosities---important ones, I grant you---strikes me as fatuous.

(ADDED: OK, they're relevant today because they provide a convenient excuse for politicians to do something the latter love, to spend lots of money to get re-elected (see second paragraph of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1465384 or any of the Great Depression histories that break out where the New Deal money was actually spent (three guesses)) ... but then again, does a beginner need to know anything more than that they offer an excuse for borrowing lots of money to then spend?

OK, yes, there's a bit more: the US Stimulus bill isn't even proper neo-Keynesian economics because of how slowly it's being spent and where much of the money is going; the multiplier is almost certainly negative. That does help in understanding how we got to today's situation. But I'm pretty sure if you read very much Austrian economics this will be covered.)

The Austrians are still making sense in our "modern" situation (is it really very much more modern than when they developed it in the last century???) and are still worth reading and even potentially adopting as the school you'll follow.

Studying the Chicago/monetarist school is important, although I would put them second after the Austrians.
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Yes, Human Action is big, thick and highly recommended. You can find one or more earlier and still quite useful print editions on the net (as I understand it, the subsequent edits weren't heavy).
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So let me get this straight, you updated to 3.6.4 on Mac, had lots of problems with Flash and then decided at that time to switch to Chrome?
Hope that works well for you. I should mention though that the new out of process plug-in feature isn't in Firefox for Mac. The problem discussed here wouldn't have affected you. Any chance you were just wanting to advertise Chrome and thought this would be a good vehicle?
If you have been having trouble with Flash in Firefox on Mac for a while and upgrading to 3.6.4 didn't help, have you tried upgrading Flash itself? Do the Flash tabs inside Chrome sometimes crash or is Flash behaving differently there than in Firefox?
I use MSN as long as most people I know still login to MSN even if they aren't using it as their primary chat. I use hotmail for a lot of my emailing mainly because I've been using it for 8 years, so everyone has the email and a hotmail account works quiet well for MSN/ windows live mail integration.

Not claiming they are the best tools out, just that they get the job done for me.

You haven't met people using windows 7? Moving away from the tech crowd pretty much everyone I know is using one of xp/vista or 7.
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It's a "classic", at one time the classic, but I don't have much respect for an author who's glowing portrayals of the wonders of the Soviet economy were over the years quietly modified and then dropped as the truth became too well known to be ignored.
3.6.5pre has been in dev and testing and not all of the changes put in it were validated so it isn't ready to ship yet. Rather than pushing out code that wasn't fully tested, or releasing a version called 3.6.5 that included different code from 3.6.5pre, they branched around it and released 3.6.6 with just the one change needed. I imagine they'll retire 3.6.5pre and move everything over to 3.6.7pre where they will continue working on the next release.
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I would agree with this to, maybe it's an Australian thing?
Yeah but I can tell you other flash games makers had the exact same problem and did their own communication.

BTW: Thanks Zynga ;)
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Hi Zed,

Just want to give kudos to you for the book. I agree with your approach of teaching the language - the portion on argv, args was clearer than the tutorials I have went through so far.

Keep up the good work!
Do you have a link where they explain the behind-the-scenes details?
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Evolutionary pressure from http://redwinggreen7.livejournal.com/96599.html#cutid2-end, what else?
But the compiler recognizes the type of the variable as int*.
Popular in academia doesn't mean right, and at least one Austrian (Hayek) won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics; note that it's not a real Nobel and the committee's notorious practice of giving the award to so many people with radically and incompatibly different theories shows it's poor guidance about the truth (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Memorial_Prize_in_Economi... for a start).

The Austrians deserve respect if for no other reason being one of the "last men standing". The stagflation of the '70s should have put a stake in the heart of the neo-Keynesians, but the lure of "borrow, spend (and then get reelected)" is obviously too strong for most politicians (Keynes' advice that you pay back the borrowing in good items was at best naive, although upon rare occasion it has been followed).

Paying much attention to the officially popular in academia after watching the last 3 years of failure of their nostrums (and two decades in Japan) just doesn't strike me as a good use of the time of a beginner. Better to study a school like the Austrians that hasn't been falsified by the real world multiple times.
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Thanks I will do some searching for that.
Cheers
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Indeed, that's the single best book to start with. E.g. the very first chapter, the "One Lesson" (on the Broken window fallacy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_window_fallacy) will right off explain to you why "Cash For Clunkers" was such a clunker.

(Ignoring the solid principle that accelerating future economic activity fails when the future inevitably arrives, something we're seeing right now in US residential real estate.)
That is not proof, just another statement that means nothing without supporting data.

Also, if GMail is such a successful use case for Closure library, one could wonder why did they build Google Wave client with GWT?
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I have been using his dough recipe (or my variant of it) for a while now. This guy definitely knows pizza. It's worth checking out if you like to make pizza from scratch.
Meh! This is just an overly complication of the right-left rule, which makes you think about "complex" 2D geometry instead of a couple of simple spatial pointers in the declaration you are trying to parse..

The easier, more useful version:
http://ieng9.ucsd.edu/~cs30x/rt_lt.rule.html
Despite relatively few exits and a large number of overall companies funded, what we have seen is that YC isn't all that far away from getting a positive return on their seed investments, a few mid sized exits or even one facebook like company and the whole thing is a roaring financial success.

I think this will ensure seed funding stays strong, the risk is relatively small with a large potential payoff with only a small fraction of companies making it big. As opposed to say a $5 million dollar VC deal which has a much larger risk attached.
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Ask HN: Rate my startup idea
The concept is live at http://karsa.co.uk
I've built a working prototype, it is a Flash video player which video publishers can use to monitise their videos.

The idea is like Megavideo for anyone.

This app and widget allows publishers to input a few details about where their content is and their paypal email and the widget then cuts off viewers after a set time (which they can adjust per video), it sends them to Paypal, which pays directly into their own accounts then back to the video where they can continue watching for the duration they sign up for (so they have 4 choices, 1 day, 1, week, 3 months, 1 year).

I'm not interested in design related points, like the site looks naff etc. I'm interested in what you think of the general idea and if you think it could be successful.

Here's the problem. Since announcing the idea to a few people and send it some traffic and love from one of my highly popular documentary site, it has had very little interest. I have some potential customers who have asked I develop extra features which I have about half completed but the problem I get is It just hasn't gotten the reception or enough feedback to tell me this is a real pain and there are enough end users out there for it.

The main problem I foresee is that publishers would have a fair bit of set up time to implement it, they would have to change all the Flash player widgets they currently use (though i don't think this should be a big deal?).

So I need to do another month or so development to get it finished and I'm asking for your input on the idea to tell me if you think it's a worthy project and if you think it can be successful.
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i would question the assumptions in this response.

valuation and investment terms are something to negotiate, rather than assume that they would be unattractive.

there are data points of folks raising money at significant valuations without working prototypes etc.

when opportunities come your way, don't shut them out just because you assume that they won't work out.

generally speaking, the first investor is the hardest to recruit.
it is possible for people to voluntarily cooperate. they can do so in matters of mutual defense and many other things. THAT is what civilization depends upon, as a matter of fact.

In fact, this is exactly how most people live their lives. They wouldn't think of using force against others, except when it comes to defending themselves and the people and things they care about from those who use force against them.

But when people get together in a group, they suddenly feel they aren't bound by the same standards. They somehow acquire rights beyond simple self defense. And history is littered with corpses as a result.

coercion is not necessary to cooperate, to have a society. coercion IS necessary to take advantage others. that does take the use of force. people don't seem to go along with being abused willingly.
Ask HN: please rate my startup idea
The concept is live at http://karsa.co.uk
I've built a working prototype, it is a Flash video player which video publishers can use to monitise their videos.

The idea is like Megavideo for anyone.

This app and widget allows publishers to input a few details about where their content is and their paypal email and the widget then cuts off viewers after a set time (which they can adjust per video), it sends them to Paypal, which pays directly into their own accounts then back to the video where they can continue watching for the duration they sign up for (so they have 4 choices, 1 day, 1 week, 3 months, 1 year).

I'm not interested in design related points, like the site looks naff etc. I'm interested in what you think of the general idea and if you think it could be successful.

Here's the problem. Since announcing the idea to a few people and sending it some traffic love from my highly popular documentary site, it has had very little interest. I have some potential customers who have asked I develop extra features which I have about half completed but the problem I get is it just hasn't gotten the reception or enough feedback to tell me this is a real pain and there are enough end users out there for it.

The main problem I foresee is that publishers would have a fair bit of set up time to implement it, they would have to change all the Flash player widgets they currently use (though I don't think this should be a big deal?).

So I need to do another month or so development to get it finished and I'm asking for your input on the idea to tell me if you think it's a worthy project and if you think it can be successful.
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I love the book myself, but there's also an issue in our field of how you reduce the software development process to something you can propagate in franchise style (by book(s), face to face lessons, whatever). That's just beyond the current state of the art of management(/human nature) and software engineering.

However documenting and following procedures that you learn will work might still be useful. E.g. for face to face sales, not that the typical HN startup does those (see Joel's essay on why software tends to cost < 3K or > 50K (or thereabouts)).

Doing this sort of thing for your web site deployment process certainly would is useful. And a recent HN item talked about a company in which the internal communications was so bad it was in danger of losing a critical client because the programmers had never been told the client needed a major new release.

Anyway, all that said, there's still plenty of good advice in the book for any entrepreneur. Here's what I had to say about it in previous HN threads:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1021526

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1385190

and for other discussions you can try http://www.google.com/search?q=%22the+e-myth%22+site%3Anews....
Here is a very good reply to the arcitle from Puredoxyk:

http://www.puredoxyk.com/index.php/2006/11/01/an-attack-on-p...

Puredoxyk is one of the two (back then) college girls, who lived on the Uberman Sleep Schedule (and gave it its name) back in 2000. She is also author of the original E2 node about Uberman SS. http://everything2.com/node/892542

There is great discussion on the Google Polyphasic Group about this [Dr. Wozniak's] article: http://groups.google.com/group/polyphasic/browse_thread/thre...

Here is my quick summary:

1. There is not enough scientific data to backup either side (for/against polyphasic);

2. Dr. Wozniak has his own agenda - he advocates so called "free-running sleep";

3. Some of the "facts" [mentioned in Dr. Wonziak's article] are in contradiction with experiences of people who tried polyphasic sleep, like Puredoxyk ( http://www.puredoxyk.com ) or Steve Pavlina ( http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/10/polyphasic-sleep/ )
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I did say it's risky .. but for certain models of Belkin routers (atleast that's the only one I know), port forwarding doesn't work and putting the phone in DMZ was the only option to open the ports up.
Oh, your works fine? In that case, everyone else who has an anecdote about theirs not working fine doesn't really matter. Because if yours works fine, it must not be a problem.

I'm not sure why everyone is complaining about this BP oil spill, I don't see any oil washing up on the beaches near me in the northeast, so it can't be THAT big of a problem, right?
Is this really true in this case? I mean, insulin is fairly cheap, right?
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Here's the real article: http://www.isgtw.org/?pid=1002557

ADDED: the HN "blind alley" title is a mischaracterization of the article in question and the word "blind" is found no where in either articles.