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Thanks for the advice! That original thread provided us with tons of much appreciated feedback.

Right now we're focused solely on mobile websites as it's a big pain point for most consumers that is largely unaddressed by most restaurants.

Agreed on the pricing tiers. I'm not totally happy with it at the moment, and I think it's something we'll have to adjust over time.
I tend to hold the Thoreauvian point that one ought to resist unfair laws. As I noticed, Child Protective Services are state agencies. If someone was falsely accused of child abuse/child porn, with no hope of winning the case whatsoever, how effective would it be to run away with the family?
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I'll try and explain.

"As was shown in the OA, in theory everybody is innocent until proven guilty. But in practice, especially regarding this particular issue, it's effectively the opposite."

This state of affairs is merely scary.

It is your blasé acceptance of this state of affairs that is terrifying.
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I don't think the OP said "rebuilding".

I took the OP to mean that at startup #1 they have an idea and a plan, and they need the OP to help execute on it.

To the OP >

IMO you will probably get a good rounded experience from #1, but it is the most risky. Also, if you cap yourself at 1 year and you're building from scratch, you'll probably leave just as things start to get interesting at startup #1. Right as they start to get traction etc.

I would go for #2. It sounds like the best place to get 1 year of valuable experience, honing skills that you already have on live products. I think that's the best use of a year, rather than trying to get experience on a bunch of technologies you might never use again a la #3.
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I have to agree that it's necessary. It is fscked up that people have to take that attitude, yes, but if you don't want to end up in a big mess, it's a legitimate position. People are hysterical about sexual abuse of children. I don't know what it is. They are all manipulated into it one way or another, I don't really get it.

I agree that this is sad. I agree that parents should be able to take pictures of kids running around and playing, even if the children are naked.

But the thing is, especially if you're taking these images to a third party for development, you don't want to give anyone any reason whatsoever to spring this kind of thing on you. Maybe someone at the drug store is best friends with your ex-wife's mom and they think that they can use this to finally put you out of the picture. Maybe someone at the drug store is just utterly unreasonable, as seems to have been the case here, and sees completely innocent photos in a bad light. If you take these on your digital camera and your disk gets confiscated in the course of a search warrant and the police find images of nude children, even if they are completely innocent images, do you think that they won't use that to help their case? Cops assume that they wouldn't be investigating someone if that someone were actually innocent and have a history of vindictiveness, dishonesty, and general nastiness that they justify by that belief.

So please understand that no one is advocating the position that you shouldn't be allowed to record images of your own children doing funny things/acting cute/whatever while naked. We are just saying that it's the best way to stay out of trouble here.
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IANAL, but in general, I think meritless cases like this one eventually get dismissed, though it's a lot of hassle and waste in the meantime. Even if your case doesn't get dismissed and your children are about to get taken away, running away with the children could only vastly, vastly aggravate the matter, as far as I am aware. In many cases you'll be able to get the children back. If you flee, that is much less likely. You'd be a fugitive and you'd be in serious, serious trouble, I think, even if the state's case was baseless to start out.

I think the best option is to do as the person in the article did and deal with it in a cooperative and respectful manner, as much as we may resent it.
Yes the hysteria in Europe is quite similar. I think that part of this has to do with the fact that whenever a case of child abuse arises, and it's shown that the social services did not do enough to protect the child from harm, there's a huge media circus, legal cases brought against the council, heads of department sacked and so on. So from the social services point of view false negatives can be prohibitively costly, whereas false positives rarely if ever make the headlines.
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I can only offer my experiences: If you have a merchant account it is relatively easy to sign up with a processing gateway and process transactions. The ones I've worked with had clients we installed on our servers, but I believe they were just wrappers for encrypted web services. The whole process is complicated by two things: regulations about user information (particularly credit cards), and international credit cards.

Storing credit card numbers - some countries have regulations around online transactions. Simply not storing the numbers (or only the last 4 digits, for auditing) was fine for us (Australia FYI). I think the alternative was a number of encryption schemes. We also had to do an expensive audit of our network/website security (because of our revenue? I can't remember).

International customers/cards - take this with a grain of salt (we were mostly targeting domestic users), but I believe this depended on your gateway and bank. I suspect it's because of the difficulty of identifying fraudulent transactions - it's much simpler if the pool is a single country.
I think joshu meant "when he was working on getting the code released."
It's terrifying because your position is that one shouldn't do something that is entirely harmless and innocent, for fear that you will be branded for life as something evil. It's even more terrifying because your position appears to be tacit acceptance of that situation.

Some things should not have to be worked around. Some things are wrong, and should be decried. A situation where parents are scared to photograph and document the growth of their families is exactly wrong, and should exactly be decried.
I remember reading something about how JavaScript has so many backwards-compatibility edge cases that it's extremely difficult to write a performant engine. Unfortunately I can't find my source.

Lua has the turtle's mindset. It's gone slow and steady, and its releases are anything but frequent. However, that just goes to show how stable of a product it is.

(Considering the context, maybe a turtle wasn't the best comparison...)
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No more than they could possibly be having plans for the iTouch (and by extension iPhone), which is billed as the answer to the Kindle.

Well, that's not true really. There's not a snowball's chance in hell Sony would ever LET them distribute a reader app, no matter how much Amazon wanted to.
> "get Paypal"

Do you realize that PayPal is not available in many countries, especially for receiving funds, and cashing them out?

There are, of course, workarounds...
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Besharov also said that the current law should be amended to grant immunity to those who in good faith deem a situation not to be child abuse or pornography. That way, those who report cases of abuse of questionable merit, simply to err on the side of mandatory reporting laws, might feel less pressure to do so. In our case, maybe the responding officer, who initially commented that he didn't find the pictures pornographic, would have dismissed the case at the drugstore and not reported us to child services.

This is the key takeway - and the thing that really needs to change.

In this case, like some many others, the process really broke down at that point.

But it is incredibly difficult, I imagine, to make such a call. If it later turns out you just let a child pornographer go free you will be proverbially screwed; both by the LE services and the media. We ask completely the wrong people to make these choices; inexperienced officers with a lot to lose if they make the wrong call.
I guess it's kind of a pain [..]

It would be 'kind of a pain' if the system worked so reasonably well that any remotely decent parent could trust to be acquitted within a week. As the system is, it's not just 'kind of a pain'. It's an emotionally wrecking experience, because you live in uncertainty for a long time, where the possible consequences are severe and you can't be sure of a positive outcome, no matter how decent you are. Kafka understood this.
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I'm coding for 15 years, I've met a bunch of of bright, skilled and motivated people trying to build "their own project": Nearly everyone of them had on some point the idea to build a startup, a small web project, a passive income business.

And mostly everyone, including myself, failed.

We've failed not because nobody wanted our product.
Or because of missing programming skills.
We've failed because we've lost faith in our product!

We may have started, wrote weeks of code, played with it.
And finally abandoned it without finishing it.

I'm not talking about "missing market"/lack of customer acceptance. We just were not able to finish it.

What I wonder: We're all intelligent enough to understand, that it probably takes some time to finish a product (SaaS app for example). We all now, that it takes some time to get a few beta customers and even more time and hard work to attract paying customers in the end.

And we are all aware of idiots bashing every new idea, tellung us things like "that will never be as big as facebook!" all the time.

We know that, before we start. But usually after two to four weeks, the project just fails. We've lost faith in it. A few weeks, months, years later we try another idea. Same thing.

To clarify: It's not a tool-problem! I know a guy doing really "low" PHP4 things, but he is able to deliver a MVP to the market, several times. For years. As a part time business besides his full time project management role!

So instead of talking about technology, finance, SEO and all the crap, we should imho focus to deliver. JFDI!

But how?
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And the .Net installer? If you're using the .Net standard library, it's reasonable to assume .Net is a prerequisite.

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I don't agree that they made zero mistakes. Not exactly that I would call it a 'mistake'- that implies they were hiding from something from the start- but why, why were there photos of children drinking beer? Especially considering their children are 3 and 8 yo? Even in cultures much much more loose about alcohol, most don't give it to children in the single-digit age range. Hell, even if there were no laws and regulations on the stuff, I'd be extremely uneasy giving a child that young alcohol, unless it was just a taste. At 135lbs, half a beer can make me woozy if I haven't eaten. Small children are 1/2 to 1/3 of my weight.
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While Ajax has certainly caused headaches for me, it's probably the best thing that's ever happened to the web... and we can thank Microsoft for it.
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That's absurd; there is a distinct difference between seeing something that concerns you and becoming sexually aroused by said image. To suggest they are "consumers of child pornography" is just a bit rude...

For the untrained eye such photo's as in this case may have shocked him/her and prompted the knee-jerk reaction of calling the police. You are right in part; I think the main problem is that, absurdly, any images of naked children are starting to worry people. Part of that is founded in fact; you will find people with thousands of images of different children running around naked on beaches/parks/camping trips. But, clearly, in this case it is just a family camping trip and the clerk has either refused or is unable to process that.

I recall that a few years ago I was taking pics at a family wedding and happened, while taking shots of my cousins running round playing, to take a shot which included my youngest cousin doing a handstand with her skirt over her head. It was a completely innocent picture; and if I was ever investigated for CP it would never be flagged as CP - but my Aunt was absolutely insistent I should delete the photo.

And that is the sort of society we live in.
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but why, why were there photos of children drinking beer?

According to the article there was not - it was one of the children carrying a broken beer bottle.
Sometimes I'm pretty scared of the missing of common sense and disgusted by the people who are "just" doing their job,
without compunction what this might imply for other people.

It's a confession of failure for a society, if the determinant of acting is fear.
Yes. There's not nearly enough capacity on one of those tubesats for a workable propulsion system and any kind of payload.

A lot of the cost advantages of the tubesats (which, incidentally, have never been launched) come from their standard design.
Many years ago when I attended First Aid/CPR training from the American Red Cross, I was told that you can actually get in serious trouble for performing CPR without a valid license. They explained that it's quite common to break ribs while performing chest compressions and these broken ribs can puncture a lung. If the individual you're helping only had a very weak pulse that you missed, you might have just made things a lot worse, perhaps even killing them.

I was told having an active AMR license legally protects you from any such accidents - especially since you are obliged to assist - but if you're untrained and unlicensed you could be held responsible (manslaughter?). Is this still the case?
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I'm really excited about having a new search engine to try.

Give DuckDuckGo a try for a couple of weeks, you probably won't go back to whichever search engine you are using currently :-)
Aha! That makes more sense.

Yes, I confess, I did skim the middle/end a little bit.
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Yes, yes, yes. This is a wonderful place. I visited it when it was just a shack on Moffett Field and now it's in the old SGI building.

If you are in the UK and can't make it to CA then a substitute is the National Museum of Computing: http://tnmoc.org/ It doesn't have the depth of the collection seen in Mountain View, but it does have some wonderful pieces. And the staff worked on the machines that are on display. Got the opportunity to show my SO core memory the other day.

They are currently restoring WITCH to working order: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WITCH_(computer) WITCH used the coolest memory ever: the dekatron (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dekatron). Once WITCH is restored seeing those things glow and rotate is going to make it look like a computer ought to look.
This was a particularly clear cut case where the parents had done absolutely nothing wrong.

That is unusual (at least in my experience) and, yes, we need to avoid these cases.

But how do you treat the 8 year old who makes accusations about her father; how much do you have to believe before investigating him? How certain do you have to be that she may be lying before dropping the case? This is the main area of unjust investigations remaining (at least in the UK) and it is troublesome how to find the safe medium.
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You can crack jokes in the airport about bombing planes, and carry bundles of wire in your luggage, and fight the system. Jokes are harmless and innocent, and you should be allowed to make them. Stand up against the injustice.

Or, you could simply not do those things and get on your flight and on with your life.
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I think he meant mini computers.
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At least for machine translation a similar approach (Europarl parallel language set) has been tried. Google translate scores high against this set, afaik.
The title makes me wonder... I was an okay programmer before I learned about regexes. When the need arose, I learned how to use them easily. Should I have learned them before that?

Many programmers seem to think that they possess just the right amount of knowledge. Someone who knows Unix utilities but not algorithm design will argue that Unix utilities are vital, but algorithm design is a random obscure topic; someone with the opposite skillset will defend it just as eloquently. I think programmers have no obligation to know anything. If you can do the job, I don't care how much you use Google.

I'm spoiled enough to think that boring things shouldn't be deliberately memorized. It's enough for me to know the mathematical concept of a regular language, which lets me recognize situations where regexes would help. For concrete syntax we always have cheatsheets. This attitude has its advantages: for example, I never needed to be explained why parsing XML with regexes is a bad idea.
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Similarly, a friend and I were up in the mountains (halfway between our houses) once late at night on the side of the road to talk about some heavy stuff in our lives.

Pair of police cruisers pulled over completely unprompted and confronted us, ran our registration and driver's licences, and gave us a lecture on speeding & racing.

I don't blame them, and in fact I'm happy they were doing that, especially as they weren't assholes about it. They are trying to fight the death rate up there, and as they can't be everywhere at once, they were just doing all they could to proactively prevent. I think it'd be totally unreasonable to get upset over that. Sure, it'd have been a bit nicer of an evening if the cops didn't pay us a visit, but we were giving off some warning signs (being there late in coupes) so they checked us out, end of story.
I guess that's proof positive that no good deed goes unpunished. What bothers me most about this story is that the organization that is nominally in charge of the welfare of children actually achieves the exact opposite by their behviour.

These people ought to be summarily dismissed for gross incompetence. I'm happy it wasn't me under investigation if there is one thing that gets my dander up it is abuse of power like that.

Kudos to you for keeping your cool.
> So everyone in the business management or legal side of Apple has an MBA or JD? Go figure...

Actually, that is significant. I studied undergraduate business and I can tell right away the difference between an MBA-run business and non-MBA-run type business. People with MBA's have a broad base of case studies, so they know how to handle some eccentric but important situations pretty well, but they tend to like formality, business plans, marketing plans instead of "screw it, let's mess around and see what happens" - not sure what the ratio of MBA to non-MBA in Google management is, but Google seems very much like a non-MBA culture. In fact, their CEO Schmidt has degrees in engineering and computer science. They probably have MBA-type people running Adwords, though, you'd almost have to.

Edit: chillingeffects.org and dataliberation.org are backed by Google, which is very much more a hacker ethos than an MBA ethos type move.
As a lazy programmer I wanted to find out if anyone had done something about it. It's a fairly obvious itch that I'm pretty sure someone must have scratched it already. ;)
>That's absurd; there is a distinct difference between seeing something that concerns you and becoming sexually aroused by said image. To suggest they are "consumers of child pornography" is just a bit rude...

What is absurd is a situations where natural actions (taking photos of your children) become, randomly, life ruining [1]. You say my suggestion is rude but this is in fact exactly what happened to the author of the story. If one of these two people (the author or the clerk) had to have their life ruined because of the chance that they might be dangerous I would pick the clerk as he/she is actually exhibiting bizarre behavior.

Further, having an extreme reaction to natural things indicates some kind of problem. I can't know if the clerk was sexually aroused by the photos, felt guilty and reacted extremely to fight against those feelings that he/she knew were wrong. I can only see the extreme action they took. I can't know what triggered it, but it's definitely a problem and more worthy of looking into than the random innocent by-stander who triggered this persons episode.

[1] If this were isolated it might not be such a huge issue, but it's happening quite a lot (relatively). Remember the recent case where photos of a 17 year old girl in a bikini were investigated as child pornography? What about the guy who was naked in his house making breakfast and was accused of being an exhibitionist? Couple this with the insane "child abuser register" the US has and things look pretty alarming.
If it's hurt adults or let children be hurt, I don't know if I can agree with you. Children are much more powerless than most adults, and the strong should always stick up for the weak.