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tmux has been recommended frequently lately, but I have not tried it. This seems to be decent summary of the differences between it and screen:

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/549/tmux-vs-gnu-scre...
I can only speak of Japan, I'm biased all to fuck and I'm making crass generalisations, but my essential objection to their education system is that I've never seen a truly creative solution from a Japanese worker. If you need a lab tech or an equation plugger, the Japanese are great. If you need to make something 12% lighter or 8% more aerodynamic, they should be top of your list. If you need anything more than steady, incremental improvement, give up.

The Japanese make great hardware but abysmal software. To use a martial metaphor, they make terrific soldiers but appalling generals. They have been taught that in order to excel, they simply need to memorise the 'correct' way of doing things and then follow that prescription with maximum effort. Young Japanese dearly want to be creative, but by and large they are simply unequipped to do so. Some manage it, but most end up as shachiku (literally "corporate livestock") clogging up the innards of some vast corporation.

There are myriad social and cultural factors at work of which the use of kanji is just a tiny part, but Japan is in a truly dire predicament. We all know the massive demographic problems facing Japan, but the shocking part is the complete inability of the Japanese to seriously address the issue. The current trend in Japan of using robotics in elder care is a good example - it seems innovative, but in my opinion is a symptom of a factory-bound mindset that has no problem-solving strategy other than "fix it with engineering". Japan desperately needs immigrants in vast numbers, but is simply unwilling to do anything at all in order to accommodate them. To return to kanji, it is currently practically impossible for foreign nurses to get residence in Japan due to a language test which only three out of 1,112 candidates have passed - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07...

Education in my native Britain has rather gone to pot recently, but in defence of my home country we do have something of a track record of, well, inventing and discovering nearly everything. My poxy little rainlashed island (population 62 million) has five times more nobel laureates than Japan (pop. 127 million) and China (pop. 1.3 billion) combined. We educated Jonathan Ive, Heston Blumenthal, Norman Foster, Tim Berners Lee, Chris Curry, Frederick Sanger, Turing, Crick, Watson, Darwin, Dawkins, Faraday, Babbage, all the Dysons, Watt, Joule, Newton, Kelvin and quite a lot of other properly clever boffins.
> It's perfectly capable of performing character mashups or other mutations to create slang

Except that you can't just "create" new characters on a computer, as opposed to alphabetic languages, where creating a new word on a computer is trivial.
Too Few Women In Tech? Stop Blaming The Men.
For all my personal stuff, I use:

http://www.visualsvn.com/ for the server (there is a free version).

plus http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/ for the client.

It works very well for all of my personal project and doesn't really require too much setup. I also have openSSH installed to make it a little more secure.

This also comes in handy because I can tunnel through it when I'm on an open wireless connection and all my web traffic is encrypted (even DNS requests).
Barring the possibility of Apple ever laying down clear, comprehensive, stable and reliable guidelines for avoiding rejection (with many real, anonymized examples), it sounds like the MVP approach is the best way to go.

Rob's case is special, though, because his app was never actually rejected. I suppose if he'd been willing to submit a MVP and wait the same amount of time in limbo before putting any more effort into it, he could have saved himself all that hard work. But the aggravation of not getting an answer would have still sucked.
Chopin is my absolutely favourite composer. I hope I am not out of place in wishing for more such submissions (links) from HN (music-related ones, that is).
This is why you have a lawyer write the agreement. They're really good at covering this kind of stuff.
Same here. I've had both mail and phone contact with them on a few different occasions, related to contract paperwork technicalities over the years, and they were always pretty nice, clear, reasonable, honestly trying to be helpful, etc. Granted, I try to be exactly those same things to them, so perhaps that helps.
"The castle walls may be crumbling and decayed, but they invaders can be fought back and the walls rebuilt."

I want to think so. I really do. But all I see is the erosion continuing. More and more you can't photograph or videotape the police (regardless of what the law actually says). Why? For your protection. On the other hand, they and other government organizations can photograph and videotape you all they want and you have no recourse. Why? For your protection.

I have long held a theory that as freedoms erode, good men and women will not wish to be engaged in the violation of said freedoms. Therefore they will naturally not want to be a part of law enforcement. This means that, over time, law enforcement will be dominated more and more by those who don't give a damn about your liberty and will abuse it however they see fit.
off hand from just playing with tmux for the past 20 minutes, it looks like tmux better abstracts its commands from how it internally tracks the windows and sessions than does screen.

In particular, when i've played with screen, i found that i was frequently stymied by the broken abstraction of the way screen stored its state vs what I wanted to do.

byobu sadly doesn't work on macbooks, but it looks cool!
Is anyone else concerned Apple will release a touch-screen iMac, and all future "touch" software will need to go through the iTunes store? If touch software ends up being more popular I see all development needing to go through the Apple development screening. I'm beginning to feel that if they could screen websites they'd do that too, oh wait. They do that too by limiting Flash.
The quiet issue that most people don't hear about are not initial submissions, but updates that get stuck in the same review limbo for months and months. My app has been on the store for nearly two years, had many incremental updates, and my iPad compatibility update (not even a new app) has now been in review for 3 months. It's really hard to explain to your existing userbase why you cannot get an update released. Many of them aren't even aware that Apple can be the bottleneck for such a long time.
Probably not...but don't have any statistically significant data
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"In my opinion, excellence in the peacock's tail dance is among the highest goals toward which we peacocks can strive. In feather dancing, a male (performer) can deliver to the observer (fertile female) great beauty and wonder. Through the right dance pattern, a window into the very fabric of the universe can be opened. Proper feather color is one of those things that makes us distinct from other animals and humans; to encounter, to appreciate and to experience peacock's tails is to more intimately apprehend what it means to be a peacock."
I agree. This line I believe echoes that point.

"There are two types of successful entrepreneurs, and people in general — those who are aware of limitations and embrace constraints, becoming more creative as a result, and those who are unaware of their constraints and external realities, and therefore generate ideas freely."

I think if you are the type of person that can understand that things need to be questioned (programmers & science types)and can work within that, you can be just as creative. I think it depends on your personality.
I think this weekend I'm going to pass a law amending my own personal tax system that requires that any entity wanting more than $500 from me, for any reason, has to fill out, say, a 20 page form (the details of which I'll specify next week sometime.)

There's a lot to be said for individuals being sovereign. I think we are anyway. But I have followed a "choose your battles" approach in life so far. Perhaps one day that will change.
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The editorialized title here ("Dear Women in Tech: Put Up or Shut Up") fails to convey the sentiment in the article (titled "Too Few Women In Tech? Stop Blaming The Men. Or At Least Stop Blaming Me.")

The article isn't really aimed at women in tech so much as people who complain about women in tech, and especially women who are not in tech but complain that there aren't enough women doing what they themselves aren't doing either.
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Of course you would also need a mac and a $99/year certificate to install it on an actual device.
I'm curious what your audience was like. Young? Old? Tech Savvy?

Did your site focus on something potentially embarrassing if it would end up on your FB profile?
The biggest problem with deploying an HTML webapp to iPhone users is that they aren't trained to accept them. Users are forced to learn to use the App Store, but virtually none of them know how to make a bookmark on the home screens and even fewer know that this can then enable a website to become an application. (For those not washed in the gory details, full screen is not available until the user relaunches from a home screen icon.)

All together, you will need to have a motivated and technically adept audience for your webapp to succeed.
heck I think every written/human language but English should die out. If there are some words worth saving from those languages, let's figure out how to import them into English, then move on already.
Remember Software Verification?
Yep. By making the first offer, they set the ceiling, and it will only go down. They should have gone with the "make me your best offer" and started negotiating up from there.
I did a twitter to facebook page poster (using the like button), but haven't really been maintaining it. Maybe one that was better?

http://t2fb.paulisageek.com/
From my experience the average internet user is quite afraid to give up their Facebook credentials to a random site.
True.

For one, most people in our target age demographic (say 16 - 34) do have FB accounts. The other assumption is that if you don't have a FB account, you're less likely to want to talk with strangers over videochat.
Sounds like they burned cash wastefully, too fast, too early, and then they ran out of it for salaries. Foolish. But people make mistakes, hey, live and learn.
You really won't find that culture anywhere but here, really. Even Europe doesn't fully have that yet.

Finding success while working in Egypt is really not impossible. It lends to just working differently. You probably can't grow a consumer website in Egypt; but SaaS (software as a service) doesn't necessarily have to be created from an American company.

Also, there's such a HUGE need for Arab consumer websites. Somehow, Masrawy, YallaKora, and yes even Maktoob just don't cut it for me. The level of quality is rather low, so that's a great in for someone like who seems knowledgeable and a HackerNews user. There's definite opportunity there.

As I said. Email me and we can talk more.

edit: I think someone mentioned this already but it's worth re-mentioning. In some aspects, living outside of America and a costly place like San Francisco, can be a great benefit. Simply put, if you and I both make $1000, your $1000 will go a much longer way in Egypt than mine will here in a big expensive American city.
The more excuses any given demographic has available to it, the worse it will fare.
Do you cover your bills? Significant income.
A few things to consider (I went thru the exact same path):

- Android: toll to get approved on the Android market is significantly less. You can release the apk unsigned, they'll install.

- Use webkit to wrap your app inside some dummy binaries. Apple approves your app then you keep updating your app leaving on AWS or Google App Engine your pick

- Don't go full blown. Release a lite app with minimum features, then add more as you go. Apple tech reviewers are humans. You need to familiarize them with your app, then you can crank up the features.

- Blog about it and get the community to be supportive and all jazzed up on how evil Apple is (IMHO: you did that too late)

- Release some libraries open source. I am not sure why you released the whole thing, because I don't think it will help you much beside maybe the buzz factor (which you would have gotten by writing to techcrunch, hacker news, slashdot and theregister.

- Finally, never give up, never surrender. It's a tough world out there and if it was easy, everyone would be able to do it.

Good luck!
I've been approached a few times by a company whose business model looked suspiciously like what you described. In fact, eerily similar. I don't want to name them here publicly because I'm not 100% sure that's what they were doing. But I felt strongly enough about it I walked away from them and ignore all email from them since.
It's too bad you feel this way, because whether you like it or not, most (if not all) of the great intellectuals of the 19th and 20th centuries--Einstein, Wittgenstein, Planck, and (why not?) Jobs--saw a critical role in music as providing some kind of aesthetic guidelines for their work. Bach's music, for example, is contrapuntally rigorous to the extent that fairly complex matrix mathematics are required to explain his patters in crafting The Art of Fugue. Mozart's music Einstein described as "perfect," as if "plucked from nowhere," containing a grace that he was convinced existed in the mathematical formulations describing the cosmos. Believe it or not our logical convictions and "faith" in science do have deep-seeded atoms of intuition that nearly identically match the visceral responses we have to music.

That's not to mention the fact that music ostensibly IS intertwined with our language and culture, so it would be almost impossible to relate to other people (or understand them, communicate with them, as is the project of numerous scientific fields) if we didn't share their practices. You'd be left in a very strange position of describing an "objective" reality devoid of the emotions that make humanness--and by extension, the world--what it is.

I recommend you engage in a deeper reading of science and objectivity, because nary will you find a thinker or scientist whose findings, motivations, or thought processes are completely uniformed by a particular set of aesthetic considerations. Theories are beautiful. Designs speak to us. Mathematical formulations must be true. These convictions are developed from the same stuff as that of our musical convictions. They are one and the same.
"I couldn't remember how to write the character 嚔, as in da penti 打喷嚔 "to sneeze". I asked my three friends how to write the character, and to my surprise, all three of them simply shrugged in sheepish embarrassment. Not one of them could correctly produce the character."

Simple! 嚏 is spelt 口十冖田厶止. The first character, 口, meaning "mouth", is on the left of the other 5 characters, 十冖田厶止, which are stacked on top of each other on the righthand side. Those five are the picture of a body: 十 is the head, 冖 are the shoulders, 田 is the sixpack abs, 厶 are the privates, and 止 means "stop walking", for the legs. When he sneezes, the mouth becomes detached from the body, comic book style. Perhaps when Chinese students learn characters in primary school, they don't remember them because they learn them in rote style, not remembering WHY a character has a certain shape.

The character amnesia is because of the rote learning, not because of the enlarged character lexicon.
That's true. There really isn't a good way to communicate with your userbase. You're basically limited to updating the app description and hoping your existing users bother to click the "More" link to read it (assuming you didn't put the update at the top, because that's prime real estate for attracting new customers).

It really astounds me hearing about how long new apps and updates can get stuck in limbo, with no feedback from Apple or path to action. So far I've managed to avoid any nightmare scenarios, but every new anecdote I read makes me increasingly anxious that one day, that time will come.
I use git on Windows without issue, but I push repos to Linux servers/github because I wouldn't trust any single platform to safely store my code and that of my clients. This is now my source control of choice.

As an aside, I've used Subversion (SVN) extensively on Windows with success as well. And Mercurial a bit too.

In all honesty, use a system that's intended to work on multiple platforms and trusted by thousands of others. You have plenty of choices, and most of the good ones will work well on Windows too, even if they were written with *nix/bsd systems in mind at first.

(go with git!) ;)
1. (total acquisition) Turn over CEO reins to someone that Mike Maples would pick,and buy Kevin out with acquisition money.

2. Kevin take over as CEO,Layoff 65% of staff (which he didnt 10%), which Kevin was in favor of because they were going towards simplified operations,(Jay hated this idea), in agreement he would scale back doing other things and put Digg as his "First Focus", also included was that the board felt as if Kevin should not write some book(s) (not sure about this).
Also Jay hated these 3 ideas
-Acquisition of WeFollow
-Acquisition of Diggnation Assets
-Firing of Jeff (I dunno who this is)

all of this is because they had some itchy investors that felt as though Kevin and Jay didn't have enough skin in the game.
You're right, I'm wrong on that one. Business trips are covered, but you cannot actually work.
I'm a fan of dtach + dvtm. tmux looks pretty great too.
Just objectively, I think it's unrealistic for you to expect anyone to fund a five year old site that has only managed to attract a few thousand users, and apparently not enough paying users to cover its own server costs. The fact that you are not in the United States is probably not the reason for your lack of success to date.

That said, as an entrepreneur who is NOT in the United States, I agree that setting up payment systems is a real pain point. My suggestion is that you get a part-time job. It will cost you a few thousand a year to own an international business (register it anywhere) and you may end up paying prohibitively for the right to process credit cards (5%+ per transaction).

But it is possible. In the meantime, if you really want to slum it, there is nothing stopping you from putting up a payment screen and collecting credit card numbers, then getting your friend in the US to collect the cash for you while you build a compelling case for someone to lend you the money to do things more legitimately. I suspect that once you've started your own business and have a revenue stream, you won't want investment though.
I work at various coffee shops at least 2-3 times a week usually for a full day. I would easily have to file for minimum 3 different coffee shops a year. This bill is absolutely ridiculous.
In the time it took to act smart you could have just read the code and seen that his intuition was mostly right. The code is extremely simple. It reads like a half day project just for fun that happened to get picked up on HN. It doesn't seem to be at all related to his line of study either.

For you interest and information, he has a defined set of bounding boxes in the world for each of the user pickable regions. He generates random lat lons until one lands in an enabled region's bounding box and then makes a request for street view data to google. If google returns a 200 he sets the street view display to the lat Lon and otherwise tries to find another lat Lon. If he ever gets a 500 from
Google he quits.
what is the longer term vision for the product? what's the next feature that you're planning?
I don't know the answer, but I have to agree that it has nothing to do with silicon valley, venture capitalists, or really the tech industry at all.

My introductory freshmen computer science course had about 100 people of which maybe 10 were female (this is at a school that has more women overall than men). You simply can't recover from a gender disparity like that. Also, remember, this is a course that you decide on taking essentially before even getting to college. The kids enrolling in this course hadn't even been exposed to all the things that people usually blame the gender disparity on.
The real question should be what is the best way to monetize HTML5 web apps primarily used on the iPhone and Android.

HTML5 Boilerplate http://html5boilerplate.com/ is a great start for HTML5, lots of good stuff in that template.
This example demonstrates value of asymmetry of information when making a deal, but not "don't make first offer" principle. Obviously the lady was ignorant to the true value of the balls, as any non-golfer would.
One man building free online education system for the world.  
Salman, a former hedge fund manager with an MIT degree, has quit his hedge fund career to do his nonprofit Khan Academy full-time. With Bill Gates talking about his academy
That is a great way to remember the character but it doesn't work as an explanation for why it's written that way. It is NOT a picture of the body. In fact, most Chinese characters are not pictures of anything.

The character amnesia is because the monosyllabic sound of each character doesn't not provide enough information to make it easy to remember how to write that character. (A consequence being that rote learning is practically the only way to memorize the characters.)
Narrative Essay Writing Structure 
A person should be gifted with the story telling skills to write a narrative essay. It takes a reader in to a situation created by writer; regarding past or future events. There are various literary devices used in narrative essays and some are explained here.
Will you digg it again?
It's funny though because there are some exceptions even to that, if you start digging :-) Last time I checked "repairmen doing in-warranty repairs" can use B-1/VWP. There are a few other odd exceptions too.
On a similar note, here are some cute pictures of kittens:

http://images.google.com/images?q=kittens&ie=UTF-8&o...
I did a short (free) screencast about tmux if you want a more visual run-through: http://peterc.org/blog/2010/216-tmux.html
Cheezburger sites are definitely tilted towards the annoying side of the ad balance. Which is probably fine for the their audience but would be tragic for reddit.
The problem is that women in general do not feel comfortable in the male dominated ecosystem of tech startups. Could men be doing more to change that perception, I think so. So whenever somebody complains about the problem men like Mike Arrigton should not lash out but instead they should just list all the things they do to encourage more female participation. Then the people that complain about the problem can actually point at the proactive steps people are taking to address the problem and tell them these things are working and those things are not. It's silly to tell women to put up or shut up because it's a lot like telling somebody if you don't like the country then leave.
This is just Michael Arrington defending TechCrunch against one person's assumption that they're not aware of the issue. There's nothing really relevant to the issue itself here, aside from the obvious point that the reason why there are "too few" women in tech is because there aren't enough women who want to be in tech.
I think the Valley greatly overestimates how much inside baseball like conference speaking slots impacts startup formation or decade-prior turning points like taking AP English instead of AP CS because English is the easy A and your GPA gets you into a better college.