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I'm 18 and all of my friends use MSN. I'd never even heard of Facebook Chat until I saw your comment. Everyone I know uses MSN, except for my parents who use Yahoo messenger in addition to MSN but I think the Yahoo thing just comes from a different time.

It's possible that the reason MSN is so popular with my age group is that we grew up with it. MSN was completely tied in with hotmail which was the email service of choice for most of us when we were getting our first email account in the early 2000s (age 9+). Then again my 8 year old cousin also uses MSN.
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You can try my free book I'm working on:

http://learnpythonthehardway.org

Go through each less, spending a week or more on each one if you need to. Contact me any time if you run into problems (@zedshaw on twitter is best). I'm not totally done with the book, but you shouldn't run out of exercises for a while.
It's not simply a lack of money. Americans were poor for a long time and yet progressed. It's the poison of being surrounded by people who don't wish to progress for whatever reason: it threatens their place in the hierarchy, they lose control, it creates fear in them, they have self-doubt, they are envious of others, etc. Individuals can be plucked out of that environment and be given hopeful surroundings in which to progress. But any individual who doesn't want to change won't change despite all the help they're given. Try getting someone to give up drink or drugs when they don't want to despite the self- and other- harm they are creating. It's like that.
I know there's an apology for it in the article, but I just can't watch something if audio and video is out of sync. Makes my brain hurt.
Set deadlines and monthly targets. Also for the interns. If he meets them, everyone will see he is productive, no matter when he shows up and morale will not be affected.
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It wont.

This ruling (as I understand it) mainly has the effect of incorporating[1] the 2nd amendment onto state and local governments, and doesn't deal much with with actual interpretations of the amendment itself.

In fact according to the article

Alito said government can restrict gun ownership in certain instances but did not elaborate on what those would be. That will be determined in future litigation.

Alito said the court had made clear in its 2008 decision that it was not casting doubt on such long-standing measures as keeping felons and the mentally ill from possessing guns or keeping guns out of "sensitive places" such as schools and government buildings.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_of_the_Bill_of_Ri...

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If you are going to try to use it to earn money and you are looking for the shortest return on investment, JavaScript hands down.

If you just want to learn programming and logic for the pure interest of the subject, then personally I would go with C or assembly, and tinker with embedded stuff.

OO Java or Python.

So as you can see, it really comes down to what you want to learn it for. I am making an assumption that by mentioning LAMP and Ruby that you are looking for web languages? If that is the case then Ruby, Scala or PHP will suffice.

But, take note, with the way web apps are moving JavaScript is your best bet, as more and more people are dumping the server side web templating languages and implementing their view logic in HTML / CSS / JavaScript.

Personally if I where starting out, I would learn how to build the front end with HTML / CSS / JavaScript and then learn how to implement REST services to supply data to that front end, in one of the aforementioned languages.
This reads as if it were just written to troll HN. I sincerely hope so, for the sake of both hypothetical co-founders.
However, so far no efforts have been made to actually correlate the program's judgment with the mental state of the writers.

So, it's never been tested? Say what?
If traditional economics, specifically "Econ 101" (which is actually what he disparages in the article) applied, the poor wouldn't be so dumb with their money, wouldn't be the biggest buyers of lottery tickets, drop out of school disproportionately just for being poor, etc.

According to "Econ 101", people are supposed to pursue their rational self-interest and maximize utility regardless of their conditions. Which is a bit of a problem with all of economics, and a huge problem when it comes to applying it to the poor.

Does that make sense?

I read an interesting paper a few months back about the lottery ticket thing. This guy's theory was that it actually was rational, because many poor people don't have access to bank accounts, they just buy a scratch ticket every day and that's effectively a probabilistic bank account. Dunno that I buy it. But a neat thought.
Try an alternative browser like Atomic Web - you can change your user agent string to look like Safari/Webkit for desktop and get the full version of websites that try to reroute you to a mobile version.
Heller explicitly allows for such restrictions (without clarifying the boundaries), and this decision follows suit. It's still allowed by the court for State and Local ordinance to keep arms away from felons, the mentally ill, etc.

But I wonder what this will do to the overly-restrictive regulations of, e.g., NJ and CA. While NJ nominally provides for concealed-carry permits, in practice it's impossible to obtain one unless you're politically connected. Also, they routinely violate their own rules that guarantee that purchase permits be issued or denied within 30 days.
What do they mean by rendering in CSS3 instead of the DOM?
The switch to B.C.E. and C.E. is also because the year of Jesus' birth is debated. Some believe he was born in 4 C.E. At least that's what I recall from school many many years ago. Personally, I prefer "B.C." and "A.D." because those two are more different from each other (edit distance of two) than "B.C.E." and "C.E." (edit distance of one, unless you count periods).

Edit: Wikipedia says Jesus was born in 5 B.C. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus)
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The Magic of Believing

> But the executive team made up for nonmastery of details with unwavering vision, which inspired the troops. At his San Bruno, Calif., office, YouTube CEO Hurley remembers his PayPal days as an education in business. When he arrived in California with a degree in art from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, building a successful company seemed like something other people did.

"You never think it could happen to you," says Hurley. "But seeing Peter and Max and the guys come up with ideas and seeing how to make things work gave me a lot of insight. You may not have a business degree, but you see how to put the process into effect. The experience helped me realize the payoff of being involved in a startup."

http://money.cnn.com/2007/11/13/magazines/fortune/paypal_maf...
Yea but the anti-gunners say that a whole lot of new cases will inundate our courts for the next 10 years...as if that's a bad thing. California passed AB 962 which bans ordering ammunition online, and requires a thumb print and ID when purchasing ammo in person. I hope that gets fought.
> their motivation for making IE more compliant has to do with selling more of their products and perhaps had little to do with making the best product.

If you mean it, Firefox should have supported H.264.

Mozilla/Opera aren't so innovating in the old days. I remember there was a HUGE ad in the toolbar area of Opera when it's still a shareware. I have to use a no-ad patch/crack.

Tons of innovating features exists before Mozilla, there were lots of thirdparty IE shell browsers like MyIE.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Internet_Explorer_shel...

They were quiet because there weren't so many buzzword or hype nor any marketing campaign backed by Google.
According to the OED, wrong as an adverb:

5. The fact or position of acting unjustly or indefensibly;

6. Not right or satisfactory in state or order; in unsatisfactory or bad condition; amiss.

7. a. Not adapted, according, or answering to intention, requirement, or purpose; not proper, fitting, or appropriate; unsuitable.

Any and all of which, but particularly #7, apply to the use of the term wrong in the tauday site.

Pi is [not adapted to purpose, not fitting].

See?
i dunno, i thought i would share this:
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It is a waste of time because we could do 20% more features in the time we waste to support a now 10 years old and soon unsupported software configuration.

In the end other end users with better browsers suffer in that they cannot get the full amount of theoretically possible features (we are a small company with limited resources) and our customers suffer because the have to pay more and wait longer because their customers (our end users) in turn are stuck in the past.
1.) If the utility function of the poor wasn't flat, they would make some effort to cure a few bee stings.

2) Tax policy should minimize impact on our utility because the goal is (in principle) to harm people as little as possible. This is why we consider it fair to take $1 million from Buffet but nothing from a poor person - the loss of $1 million will harm Buffet less than the loss of $50 would hurt a poor person.

If Karelis is right, taking $50 from a poor person won't hurt them at all - what's one more bee sting?
The majority justices in both decisions have clearly states that they do not preclude regulations about commercial sales of firearms.

Note, the Brady bill waiting period was automatically retired as each state implemented their part of the nationwide "Instant Check" system.

"A guy with a bunch of priors for beating his wife can walk in a buy a gun."

Nope, the "Lautenberg Amendment" (formally the Domestic Violence Offender Gun Ban) makes ownership etc. illegal for those convicted of misdemeanor domestic crimes.

WRT to all the above, most people who aren't part of the gun culture have no idea how highly regulated guns are in the US today.

WRT the Second Amendment's explicit restrictions, like the other parts of the Bill of Rights it doesn't get into the necessary details, and no one reasonable thinks ones like it are "absolute". E.g. you don't have right to shout fire in a theater (unless, of course, there really is a fire). That's not set out in the First Amendment but no one has trouble with that restriction.
I met my wife while on camping trip to the Himalayas. Of the 4 women in the group, 3 married people they met for the first time on that trip. Anecdote, rather than hard data, of course.
You could always claim that high-altitude made my wife's decision making suspect - hence she's saddled with me.
The governments of the world have had plenty of time since Keynes to spend themselves into insolvency, and they haven’t done so yet. The US debt-to-GDP ratio dropped steadily between the end of WW2 and the Reagan administration, and dipped again during the Clinton administration. The UK ratio dropped from the end of WW2 until around 1975, held steady, and then had another dip around 1985–1990. Canada’s ratio has been declining gradually since around 1995; the nominal debt has been pretty much steady, but GDP has risen.

So it looks to me like politicians are frequently resisting the temptation to borrow as much money as they can throw at their constituents.
> total rewrite of a lot of papers, including a lot of mathematical books.

Somebody at the textbook publishers is smacking their lips at the prospect of selling an entirely new edition with an incredibly minor change.
What are you talking about!!! You call yourself a startup, you call your partner a co-fouder and at the same time you are bashing him. This means things are not well at your end. If you are soo disturbed with his attitude then the best way would be to seperate yourself from him otherwise not very sure how good your startup is going to be at the end. I think co-founder is one of "the" most important factors in a startup and you should start only when you actually find one and finding one means being totally in sync with his behavior and not going mad over it.
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I'm pretty surprised he hasn't quit already judging by your tone etc.

Is he really lazy in terms of productivity? Or does he just not behave in the way that you want him to? I'm betting it's the latter.

Developers rarely show up at 9. They often appear lazy. But guess what? While you're long gone, they're often working through the night.

It sounds like you just want a corporate worker drone developer who shows up in the office 9-5 and files his TPS reports.

You sound like an absolute nightmare to work with.
So maybe instead of teaching in terms of the unit circle, we should switch to the unit semi-circle, as that would be 100% as easy to understand?
even better: they could have use vector graphics so each layer must be correctly zoomed, overlayed and rotated to restore the original.
Well. We do have quite many users that upgraded to ie7 lately. And a small minority that went to 8, but both browsers are still far away from what you can do with all other browsers currently out there.

But yeah. Google Chrome frame is really interesting once the MSI installation becomes possible or they find a way around requiring admin rights for the installation (unlikely)
I think the point is more to test your ability to deal with having sucky camping abilities, without turning unpleasant under stress.
If someone teaches or uses Earth-centric physics, I am perfectly comfortable calling that "wrong". They shouldn't do it. They are at the very least incurring opportunity cost and at worst actively harming the student.
Poverty is the realization of the 2nd law of thermodynamics as applied to economics. The easiest way to become poor is to do nothing, it works almost every time.
There is another dating system which aims to get around this, by actually changing the numbers, which is called Before Present (BP). It sets 0 to be January 1, 1950, as an arbitrary date of the present. So, 1500 BP is 450 AD. I see it used most often it dealing with archaeology.
Lots of good advice already given. If you can't get over yourself, just pretend he is working a second shift.
Tested it on IE 6 and got: "Tests passed"
So I guess it works . . . :-)
Two weeks is the standard in the states. I wonder if it is different in other countries?
He was talking about converting a 7 or Vista license into an XP one which is AFAIK the only way how you can still acquire an xp license if you are not a hardware manufacturer needing it for a netbook
As an avid cyclist for nearly 16 years, and working in the start-up world as a team member or starting my own business, for the last 12 years, I've often thought about this connection, and why cycling is so popular in Silicon Valley (though I don't live there, I've biked there).

It's great to hear the perspective of someone with a business background and new to cycling.

Though I disagree with the challenges point. I find that in cycling, you look at a peak and think "i'll never make it up there", but then put in the effort, and before you know it, you're at the top.

I've dreaded developing certain features, thinking that the task would take forever, and then, in a few hours, it's done. I've also had the experience where you think something will be simple, and it takes days or even weeks to get through it.

The 'gears to conserve energy' point is interesting too. I ride a single speed mountain bike and live in the Coast Mountains. I don't have the luxury of conserving energy on a climb. You gotta give it all you got, and keep your momentum.

Similar to how I look at start-ups.
That looks like a great book. Thanks!
Well, states and municipalities could decide to observe the Constitution and preemptively fix their laws; 4 Chicago suburbs with total handgun bans including the notorious leader Morton Grove were defendants in the original lawsuits and 3 gave up rather than fight.

And who knows, the really bad states are also in the worst financial shape by and large (strange, that...), they're going to be under new management sooner or later (already are in NJ, the other big ones would be NY, MA, IL and CA).
Yay for new obscure geek holidays. Now we can act all smug and say: "pi day? no, I celebrate tau day, you ignorant you".
Agree with the concern of jobs going 'poof'. Make sure you've got a solid contract.
Chrome usage surpasses Safari
I don't think it's unreasonable. Quite to the contrary.

It's just that a significant share of our end users are running outdated software, so our customers and thus we have to support it.
The fact that one experiment went wrong does not a bad theory make... there are many variables to be accounted for in a complex system such as this.

I respectfully, but completely disagree with you on the fact that free market economics is morally defensible, there isn't really any conscience behind it, just an overriding aim (i.e. profit) ...

as for independently acting agents, I assume you mean various corporations, financial institutions, and government bodies... Again, I disagree, they all have a degree of interdependence and are centrally bound by regulations, and central banks, which exist whether we like it or not ...

As a disclaimer, I consider myself a liberal centrist with both libertarian and social democratic leanings.
I think you're taking the bee sting far too literally.

Although I do agree that the bee sting isn't exactly the best fit for an analogy, I don't agree the dishes in sink / car dents is any better.
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EDIT: followup - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1469271

Old post:

I think the OP should be thankful his dev doesn't walk. If I partnered up with some biz guy who demanded I show up early for no other reason than appearance I'd assume he's an empty suit and leave. (9am is early in this industry, I've never had a job that demanded I show up before 10:00).

OP: You're a 2.5 man closet startup and you're asking your other half to be less productive for the sake of appearance. Are you sure he's the one with the problem?

All this talk of being "unprofessional" is a joke when it's two guys who just scrounged up enough capital to rent a cheap office trying to impress a fucking intern. Jesus Christ.

On second thought, I'm certain I'd bail if the OP was my "partner." The lack of thought put into this, the fact that you've considered trying to oust him instead of confronting him, the fact that you seem to lack the ability to look at your company critically (again: 2 dudes and some interns == 9-5 IS NOT A BIG DEAL) all shows a severe lack of biz sense or even common sense. You're obviously insecure (cares too much about appearance to some teenagers), ill-informed (does not understand developers or managing developers) and not equipped for a leadership position (talking to HN instead of the one person in the company who he should be talking to).

I hope the "partner" you're treating like an employee reads this thread and bails. You reached out to a forum instead of talking to someone who's your other half. I can't imagine how you'd run an actual company.

It sounds harsh but it's a harsh industry.
I think you need to reassess what is truly good or bad for morale. The "ass-in-seat" mentality belongs in mega-corps and does more damage than good in a small team. As a founder, your goal should be to create a culture that encourages highly productive, self-managed individuals. You want to create a team that does more with less which requires trusting individuals to manage their time (ie. working hours).

Your question is regarding your co-founder's motivation but based on your tone and concerns, I would question if you have the motivation (or DNA) needed to run a startup. Not to say you are lazy; it seems your "values" are more in line with those of Big-5 Consulting or a Mega-Corp manager.
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I really like this trend of Posterous-inspired web apps that don't require setting up an account, just emailing into a public email address. It's what changed my mind from "eh, looks nice, might try it later when it's more robust" to "oh why not, let me email something in and see what happens".

And now the demo of your web app generates a mailing list of potential future customers along the way. Smart.
Traditional economics characterizes the poor as having a very high discount rate. Thus, they assign a low value to events which might happen in the future - that is, a high paying job in 5 years is less valuable than using meth now.

In much the same way, I (a middle class person) would rather have $100 now than $102 in 50 years.

As for lotto tickets, traditional econ says the poor derive utility from playing lotto, not just from winning. Am I foolish and not obeying the laws of economics for buying video games, which have an expected payoff of $0?
Worth noting the Dolphin browser on Android can use your SD card for caching.
After the whole Mahalo issue a few months ago, this was a trending topic for a few days.

I like to think it depends on your character and that of your current boss or company.

If it is a situation where you think that the boss will be happy for you, and will want to get the most benefit of a smooth transition while you're still around, and you feel it is the right thing to do, then I'd let them know as early as possible. It's always good to keep things in the open if you feel comfortable doing that. Who knows what will happen.

If, you don't have a great relationship with your current employer or boss, and suspect that they won't keep you around or treat you properly, then I'd say the two week minimum is probably called for.
If they aren't respectable people, maybe they'll fire you, but you can rest assured that you've done the right thing, and you just got an extra two weeks for your move.
It would be nice to know limitations (by browser/version?)

I.e. maximum storage size, scope (global, 2nd level domain, any domain), life cycle (when is it cleared), etc.
If your only standard for be a professional is showing up, maybe you should reconsider why you started your own company instead of working for MegaCorp.

If you are the "business guy", It is your job to build the reputation, and his job to build the product.
I just tested. Like cookies, it also obeys domain-only visibility. So, all hopes for cross-domain user tracking are still doomed. sigh
There is nothing in your post that suggest he isn't doing a great job or getting a ton done.

Assuming there isn't a problem with performance - perhaps he enjoys working half of his hours when you are not there. So he can productively get through code without constant startup issues.

I mean this with no disregard to the importance of things other than coding - but from experience these issues can make it tough to stay on schedule and get through the mountains of coding necessary.

A schedule like his could balance these items out.
A lot of anti-gunners are afraid of guns or have been negatively impacted by some type of gun-related crime. Remember, criminals will still have guns and some argue that banning guns increases the crime rate.
Really? For ~$12/mo I get unlimited debit card uses, ATM withdrawls, online bill payment, and teller transactions. I can't remember the last time I paid service charges.
* To me, it is an absolute marvel that they don't engage in more mayhem.*

The way the gap (chasm, really) between rich and poor keeps growing makes me worry about more mayhem in the future. People who feel persistent despair and lack of hope (regardless of if that feeling is "right") don't operate in the same universe of "rational decision making". That behavior ranges the full span of self-destructive (what the article was about, mostly) to full on sociopathic.

This is not to say that I have any new or novel ideas on how to fix the problem.