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Not enough information, I think. But maybe what you're looking for are the stored value cards you can buy at grocery stores. You can hook up with the providers of these and the customer buys one of the cards and then loads credits into their account on your system. The card providers handle the backend of it and take a cut of the revenue. Several providers out there, but I've not worked with any of them, so I can't recommend.
It could be Layer II routed - then the intermediate hops won't show up in traceroute (a Layer III protocol)
- Bias against misspelling's. Idea that dumb-down writing tend's to indicate murky thinking. To draw bogus conclusion's.
We'll have one soon at http://iwantmyname.com

The only reliable way for domain checks is to query the registry database directly through a registrar instead of going through whois / DNS.
Yes, it's all fun and games until someone pokes an async's eye.
It would be interesting to create a Chinese-based programming language. Its concise wording would help the expressive department.
http://lesswrong.com/ to improve rationality
+1 for Django

BTW, The free online Django book for you to get started: http://www.djangobook.com/en/2.0/ and the brilliant documentations.
Are there any recent successful tech IPOs where the company wasn't turning a profit at the time? Tesla's the only one that comes to mind, but it's a somewhat unusual case. Everyone else I can think of in the past few years was turning a profit when they went public (e.g. VMWare in 2007, Rackspace in 2008, Skype filed just recently). On the other hand, it's possible YouTube could've gone public even while bleeding money if Google hadn't bought them, so perhaps Hulu's similar.
I think the Scheme and Racket communities would take issue with your claim that lisp-2 languages are more suitable for writing macros than their respective languages :)
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I think people discount how incredibly lucky Jobs was to have Woz as his partner to give him the momentum he managed to leverage. You can't compare the average technical co-founder to Woz. In fact, Woz is not the same Woz as he was back then, as the smart engineer with the right idea at that huge turning point in the history of microcomputers.

Woz + Homebrew Computer Club + Apple I + 1976 made Jobs.

Without Woz, I think there's a good chance Jobs would have ended up as another micro-managing charlatan at Microsoft.

edit: Don't get me wrong. I love Jobs. I've read every book that's ever come out on him (I think).
All the unemployed could, and probably should, be put to work building/restoring public infrastructure. None are now because that would be "socialism".

It is a fun/depressing exercise to imagine how you would improve the US if you had 14.5 million (http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t12.htm) people to order about.
Actually I don't know much at all about investing. I know what a stop loss order is, but I don't think I'd know how to use one effectively.
Yes it would be interesting. I would not want to be the person tasked with writing the parser. ;)
We can reproduce the issue. It doesn't happen with the default font settings. We are trying to fix the issue.
When you are an undergrad or recent graduate, you can do this.

When you are older, have a job, you need FU money generally. Or no life.
True, that is a definition. However, I think that in this circumstance we can all agree that freedom is a loaded word.
I find it pretty amazing that Japan was second for so long given the country's relatively small size and its 19th and 20th century history.
Unfortunately Jobs is just the guy to have an engineer prepare replies on his behalf and pass them off without attribution, too.
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Calling everything you don't like 'socialism' isn't an intelligent or responsible way to discuss borrowing or spending.

Pretty much every developed nation on the planet has decided that some level of "socialism" is a good thing. It's not always a bad thing, nor is it some magic elixir.

Kindly stop being a dishonest dickhead who claims everything bad is socialism, then pretends he didn't just say that when somebody points out that none of your examples were socialism.

Literally none. You're just a completely and totally fucking ignorant loser. And you're not enough of a man to own up to the fact that you know literally NOTHING about a topic, despite the fact that you hold extremely fervent beliefs.

You're just another ignorant fundamentalist. No different than the other religious crazies.
Kazan is the eighth largest city in Russia, for those (like me) who didn't know what country it was in.
The article seems suggest that academic institutions have over the last twenty years engaged in a scam of massively expanding their physical plant at the expense of students and teaching with the expectation that constantly rising tuitions and endowment investments would pay for it. This what's driven the other end of the "education bubble" and this is what has to stop.

Why the article veers off to combining the Columbia and NYU philosophy departments at the end, I don't know (though I could make, dark, knowing comments out of frustration).

I'd say that American society ought to take a complete U-turn and start valuing and providing the highest possible quality education to the most and the most qualified citizens, not as good sold to people but as an investment in the whole of society since an educated population is a benefit to everyone, not just the educated.

But that wouldn't fuel another massive ripoff, so it doesn't seem too likely...
This has absolutely nothing to do with threads, though, does it? It's messaging, plain and simple.

Presumably the browsers will implement it using threads, but they could just as well pass the messages off to another PC for all your JavaScript can tell.
The "How To Patent Your Idea" ad, along with the "Ads by Google" caption, on an article by the creator of Java about Oracle suing Google is slightly ironic...
Now that it is back up I am impressed! I was able to see it a while back- when it was hosted on your local box- but now, all I can say is great work.

I hope you fixed the code injection bug I had informed you of back then ;).
Your up and running! The only issue I see now is your search not letting me back into the home page.
Finally a post I can respond to on HN.

1. If you want decent wireless phones I think your budget might be a bit low, check out the Snom M3 http://www.voipsupply.com/sh-m3dect-basic, or the Aastra 57iCT http://www.voipsupply.com/aastra-6757i-ct. (Cisco's phones are not worth the money)

2. SIP trunks/hosted PBX will save you some money but you need a good connection
3. You need QoS if you only have 1 internet connection. If you are doing a lot of calls at once you might want to get your another connection http://www.bandcalc.com/

4. If you go with a SIP trunk might as well use hosted PBX onebox, ringcentral, toktumi are ones that I have heard of
5. If you need high reliability stay on analog lines and get a server with FXS, I have used Xorcom. Cost is around $1100.

6. Do you need fax? Some hosted services come with faxtoemail and emailtofax.
I don't think you can reduce things to "perform better" or "perform worse". For profit ventures can be many things very well. But one also has to consider what they perform.

For profit education is great for giving a single individual specific skills they need that will make them money.

For profit education is unlikely to be interested in giving a person a "wide liberal arts background". And the thing about a wide background is that isn't worth much to the individual in terms of money. They might look back on their lives as having been richer for it or they might not. But giving a person a wider background is worth more to society as a whole, in everything from life being more interesting to politics being less polarized.
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I agree, that part is slightly half-baked. We are working on the "tour" part of the site.

We are taking data from a reputed provider (as mentioned on paisa.com/terms/).
I have to suspect that Google's attitude toward customer service is "Machines scale. Hiring people doesn't."
what's not clear from this is scope. Does each worker have its own namespace?
Not sure the author understands even what he/she is addressing or that it even exists. Everyone involved understood that it wasn't using Java syntax/grammar that was the issue.
Hulu's special content relationship with old-line broadcasters is a blessing and a curse. That's powered Hulu's success so far... but might also cap Hulu's upside, because of the conditions content-providers impose, and the chance providers will defect to run their own web services. (The duration and details of current deals should be an interesting part of the IPO prospectus.)
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I don't really understand how's this different from events.

> and your web app still assumes that my browser can only do one thing at a time

Um, no it doesn't. What makes you say that?
I think that's an oversimplification.

People object to Dubai because the rise of the city was never based on any real economic activity. There was no real tourism, no manufacturing, little resource industry, nor a knowledge economy. It was all hype - in the same way that we frown and look down upon the unrealistic, borderline scammy dotcoms of yesteryear, we look on Dubai with some disdain for what we perceive as dishonest business.

I may disagree with the politics of, say, China, but one cannot deny that their economic rise to power was based on real growth, in real industries, providing tangible benefit to people.

Secondly, the objection to Dubai (and the schadenfreude you often see at its downfall) is fueled by the notion that much of Dubai's construction and service industry was built on indentured labor, if not borderline slavery; the labor abuses in Dubai during its hey-day would make a 19th century robber baron blush. Hell, if the reports are anywhere near accurate, labor conditions in Dubai makes a Chinese sweatshop a veritable paradise.

So, in short, the perception (whether or not reality jives with this will be answered by history) is that: Dubai was built on hype, no real substance, fueled by shallow people, upon gross human rights abuses.

It is far from as simple as making bad business decisions.
This line struck me as odd: "These people were granted anonymity because the discussions are still private."
Web Workers don't work on iOS do they? At least my iPad doesn't seem to support it - ran into this issue using Web Workers on my project
Also, make sure to read tons about how programmers feel about business guys / managers, and figure out how not to be like those people. There's tons of advice out there, and there may even be some good advice in the most offensive rants. Read those rants, feel the pain of those programmers, and see the opportunity to improve yourself so you don't inflict similar pain.

Some possibly helpful resources which you may have already seen:

http://www.amazon.com/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Teams-S...

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/ (right sidebar has a ton of articles)

http://www.amazon.com/Facts-Fallacies-Software-Engineering-R...
I suppose you already looked at:

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_in_industry

Haskell is used for quantitative analysis and especially in the finance market. OCaml is also used in various "finance" companies.
The EU has $16 trillion yearly GDP. Wouldn't that make China #3?
(The Eurozone alone has ~$10 trillion yearly).

Don't come with the argument of, "oh they have all different governments and all different languages". State governments in the US hold a great fraction of legislative power (to the point where you're not a US lawyer, but a WA, TX or CL lawyer), and provinces in China have local languages (yes, languages - there's a point to using an ideographic writing system because you can use it for languages other than Mandarin) and not everyone speaks Mandarin.
You probably won't need it, unless you're doing something significantly more complex than the fundamental buy-and-hold index investing strategy.

I'd just use market orders all the time except I'm a little freaked out about momentary (on the order of minutes) market freak-outs as happened a couple months ago. Limit orders priced at the current price (or 1 cent higher) is pretty much just my way of enforcing a sane market order.
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I interpreted the comment that I replied to to mean that Dubai being a strip along the coastline meant that it didn't look like a real city. I would say that it's probably more of an indicator that it's got nice beaches than anything else.

Miami was the first strip like city that sprung to mind as a counterexample, but as you say, it is huge, so it probably wasn't the best comparison.
I think patriotism and business cannot go together in globalization and internet.
oh yeah I love couchdb and document databases in general, it's a wonderful and fundamental tech... it's just a certain amount of effort to stuff a particular problem into a btree format, so sometimes it's easier to work with something like postgres
Looking over this list, I think the problem with the "business co-founder" is clear: there's simply no such thing as "business". There's copy editing, user support, PR, HR, operations, accounting, legal, etc. And if you're going to work at a startup, everyone needs to be good at many of these things. Skill -- actual skill -- is at a premium. There's no room for the guy who wants to boss people around and think big thoughts and call it "business".

Too often, the guys who you run into at meetups and valley social events are what are best characterized as "useless douchebags"; they have no marketable skills or experience, but plenty of ideas that they'd like you to work on (typically for free). But real, valuable, "business" people have hard-won skills. Real business people are accountants, lawyers, salespeople with experience and contacts -- people who have something with more value than the ability to talk a lot and go to parties.

Thus, I don't think it's interesting to debate the question of the business co-founder, because it's not a useful categorization. If you're starting a business, you're a business co-founder, by definition. You might focus on code, but you're going to have to worry about a lot more than that if you want to succeed. It doesn't matter what you call the person sitting next to you, as long as they're contributing. And if they're not contributing, you're in trouble even if they're a hacker.
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Rich people and nerds. Makes sense. Well, hopefully somewhere in Texas will catch on: Cheap living, plenty of space, cheap housing, cheap power, has coastal area...

Then again, I think video conferencing, VoIP and presentations, etc., could substitute for this rich man mandating people move to work on the Internet. Why should programmers have to relocate?
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As I understand it (though I could be wrong), the port in Dubai is one of the freight hubs of the world, which is where the Emirate gets a lot of its wealth (it has little/no oil - Abu Dhabi has most of the UAE's oil). So there was some economic activity there at least.
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I'm not from the US. I gave a heuristic for their Strawberry Fields puzzle and had one phone screen. Any idea on what to expect in the subsequent rounds? Also, am I reaching too high? Is it as difficult as landing a job at Google, for example?
This and discovering water on Mars are my two all time déjà vu news articles.
I find it hard to see why anyone would view Hulu as a worthwhile investment, at least other then something to ride up post IPO and then get out quick. Its entire value derives from the content it offers - content that it will never own, and will forever remain beholden to the content providers for.

"Pssst! Wanna buy part of our company and share in the profits? But only a little bit of the profits of course, because you'll be using our content and have to license it from us. And we'll gradually squeeze your profitability down to a negligible amount over the years, because it's our content and that's what we've done in every market. And when the cable companies get pissed that people are switching to Hulu, we'll likely start blackouts/delays to keep them happy and devalue your service. Whaddya say?"
By the way, it seems highly unlikely that prime-factoring NP-complete, since it is in co-NP.
Definitely knowledgable, but Jobs is no implementer. Just very well informed and able to make low-level technical decisions.
Systems software research was irrelevant ten years ago when Rob wrote that. Thanks in part to his efforts, there's a great deal of relevant systems software research now: Golang, MapReduce, Hadoop, Tahoe-LAFS, Caja, Chrome (the browser), LuaJIT, seL4, Capsicum, the CLR, HotSpot, V8, Nitro, Tracemonkey, GFS, Sawzall, Pig, Redis, Puppet, Chef, Tor, HTML5, ...

Most of this, but not all, comes from the traditional academic and industrial-lab research context.
Yes. Also the Germans at least tried to balance their budget in the boom years. Britain ran a huge deficit even at the height of the bubble.
Do you not realize that you live in a country where slavery exists? Do you not find the expat culture in Dubai to be vapid and vile? If not, I'd be interested to hear why; everything I've read about Dubai indicates that is very much that way. If you do, then I don't know why you're surprised that someone might think less of you for choosing to live there.
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You might also check out the Racket->JS compiler:

http://planet.plt-scheme.org/display.ss?package=moby.plt&...

I used it just last year — the developer, dyoo, is super responsive.

I'm sure he'd be happy to talk shop with you: http://github.com/dyoo/moby-scheme
Old Media: "Newsflash! Certain categories of so-called 'New Media' remain unproven as business models!"

What are you trying to say, NYT? ;)
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I said 'just the guy to [do it]', not 'I know for sure that that's what he did'.

He is known for obsessing about his public persona, meticulously preparing his speeches to appear off-the-cuff (to the point that it has become an inverted joke), and 'posing' in every way imaginable (when he needed to).

See http://mixergy.com/steve-jobs-investment/
Independent invention (i.e. clean room) isn't a defence against patents.
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Leading content providers (News Corp, NBC, ABC/Disney) have stakes in Hulu. Therefore their incentives are aligned and it is unlikely that Hulu will be cut from the content. Quite the opposite, it can be given an exclusive content access (earlier, better quality, behind the scenes).

Your argument can be applied in the same way to other companies: Netflix (movies), Amazon (books). Being a distributor (and thus depending on producers) is not necessary a business killer.

Cable companies can not directly discriminate Hulu traffic due to net neutrality principle. And in the future most of the traffic will go through wireless carriers.
No. The Chinese realize their language is a pain in the butt to learn and that the writing system is terrible in comparison to any alphabet system.

As a native speaker of Mandarin Chinese, I think you are full of shit. No native Chinese speaker I know thinks English is easier to learn than Chinese. And I prefer the Chinese writing system myself if I have a choice.

It's true that many people are learning English, because today Chinese are producing and selling. When the day comes when Chinese become buyers and the rest of the world are trying to get sales from Chinese, they will start learning Chinese.
Pretty much everyone who should be going to college is going to college. The market is saturated. The for profit colleges are targeting people, largely, who shouldn't be going to college. They use misleading statistics to dupe unsuspecting people. People who think the college has their interests at heart. This goes on in the non-profit college sector but is much more pernicious and rampant in the for profit sector. Default rates for student loans in the for profit sector are higher than for the non-profits.

Non-profit, mostly, have standards for admission. The for-profits don't. They just want people to spend money. Faculty at for profit colleges get fired if their standards are too high. The for profit system is all about getting students in and making sure they never fail a course. Keep them paying. For profit motive in education as it currently exists is a disaster.
I've noticed a pretty good correlation between the deliberate use of 'um' and saying something stupid (with great conviction). You can apply it as a sort of internal filter - 'would I um someone with that?'. I think it's not mentioned in 'How to disagree'.
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I'm in the world of geekery and I switched from Linux to PC (coming from Amiga prior to that).

I've met a good number of people who have gone from PC to Mac and back to PC. Relatively few, if any, Mac to PC converts who have Mac users for 10+ years.
Interesting from a technical standpoint, but how is it different from/better than, say, google finance?
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Re: "What unique advantage does being from Africa give you?"

I am in Cape Town, South Africa and let me tell you it is one of the most beautiful cities in the world, with a university producing decent CS graduates (Mark Shuttleworth), beautiful weather, vineyards on our doorstep, plenty of African color and positive energy, terrific advertising talent, and the typical South African work ethic. South Africans love work.

To answer your question, what unique advantage does being from Africa give you?

Objectivity.
PHP might create a mess that is expenesive to maintain for _you_. It might even create a mess for a lot of people, especially newbies. Likewise with Perl.

That doesn't mean that creating maintainable PHP software can't be done - it's actually been done many times. While I agree that languages can make a big difference in maintainability, please stop blaming a programming language for your own mistakes.