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Thank you for your valuable feedback. I believe that there is a market for my skills, and that has been proven repeatedly. I have gotten work, based on my current website and projects I have done, and I'm sure I will continue to be able to find work in the future as well.
From hackers I know many are also interested in community building and working towards and more fair and just world where everyone is appreciated for their contributions.

I guess that's what your seeing from the upvotes.
Turns out that AdWords doesn't allow redirects, though. I suppose I could create a dummy site for each of them with the text "there will be a moon calendar here soon", but it seems likely that AdWords wouldn't like that either?

Why not just put a full landing page? Adwords won't have any problem with that. In fact, if you want, you can put a big ol' link on the landing page to (temporarily) take people to the old site; this can be changed to link to the winner (on the two losing sites) once you choose.
Thanks for the endorsement. Is there a public link for their API documentation?

Also, any chance you could elaborate on, or perhaps email me tav@espians.com on the general pricing?
Landing page would mean different content for each of the domains? I guess I could, it is just a lot of work (6 sites, since I want to test the www, too). And I am not feeling very creative - how can I make them sound different? It is just a moon calendar.

Also, if the sites have different content, I worry it could influence the test. I think AdWords ranks the quality of the sites, so it might put some ads higher than others. (Might not be too bad, if click through rate is all that counts?).

Edit: I just tried a single page for all the new domain, and it was rejected, too.

Maybe something else than AdWords that is less restrictive could work? Maybe Yahoo or Bing?

Edit2: seems currently rejection is because of using multiple domains in the same ad group.
Slightly off-topic (but somewhat related):

tilt-shift w/ Panasonic GH1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FItdVsqGIzw

So cool!
I've heard good things about SagePay in the UK, though haven't used it myself. Have dropped PayPal because, though I understand chargebacks and fraud can happen, I was not at all happy with the level of information provided (ie almost none) when payments were held for investigation, then approved, then a few days later yanked from my account. Am now using Barclays ePDQ because I bank with Barclays, but the system is horrible to integrate, looks hideous, and is expensive. But at least it isn't PayPal :)
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I've been attempting to work with Alipay for my job for a while now. While they are the Paypal equivalent in China, it's very difficult to work with them.

First, they require a ton of documentation to become a registered business with them. Their API is non-existent, and getting answers is difficult because you either need to speak Chinese or use Google Translate. A lot.

While I'm sure it's great, it can be very frustrating.
He only wiped it off her stomach...and the girls and coke were sent in as a setup.
I keep try to evangelize the fact that things like apt are one of the biggest wins for the various UNIX-like OS's. In Windows world installing software takes both finding it and configuring the installer. On a Mac you have to at least find it. On Ubuntu/Debian/etc you just have to know the name (or you can search a central database). Also no more Java/Flash player/Acrobat Reader "needs to be updated" messages. You update everything at once. And it can all be scripted. And you can update your entire OS to the next major release in three commands. I can go on and on.
Considering they have problems with two of the three graphics card vendors and wubi doesn't work if you have more than one hard disk partition, just works isn't how I would describe it. Good when it does and mostly works pretty much describes it.
Sounds like there are some lessons hidden in there...I personally would love hearing the story, a post-mortem of sorts :)
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"Welcome to Facebook."

Does he then send the other 5 inebriated guys home?
About Google Checkout ... I've used both PayPal (~10 years) and GC (~3 years). My view is that PP has a more robust dispute resolution system. Resolving a dispute at GC is merely a matter of "Providing a positive customer experience" (and doing a refund even if the customer is defrauding you). The GC process (and dispute results) is very opaque.
It's weird. I used to love Ubuntu, but after 8.04 I just stopped liking it. The little things niggled away at me. The bloat, the fear of upgrades breaking things (this is why my main home file server still runs 8.04, something I'm not happy about) if you have a slightly nonstandard install. I switched to Arch for my main home laptop and breathed new life into a PIII-850 with 128mb of RAM. Ubuntu would've killed it.

In a bizarre twist of fate, work requirements meant having to use Windows Vista (the horror!) then 7, where so far the best feature seems to be "It's not vista", so no more Ubuntu at work for me, except through VMs.

Still, Ubuntu did a heck of a lot to make Linux easier for the masses, and I have to say thanks to all those at Canonical and the Ubuntu community that made it possible.
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I am using the same computer which used to work with 7.04. How come something that was working in 7.04 suddenly break in 8.10?
My understanding is the Chrome OS is basically just launching Chrome as the browser and then your web apps are rendered inside that.
McGrath's proposal is that the apps themselves are written as special web apps but can run with appearing inside the browser i.e. the OS is the browser and the graphics system renders HTML apps
Do you want clothes manufactured, or just printed on?

That is, when you say 'design clothes' do you mean material, cut, and construction, or jut a picture on any old t-shirt or tank?

What contributes to an item of clothing being 'well made', in your eyes?
Sure, i might have unnecessarily blamed Ubuntu, but it's still a problem that needs to be fixed. And as long as that problem exists, i won't recommend Ubuntu to the average computer user.
It will be an HTTPS site, and maybe even if you wouldn't run the scripts, would you consider contributing on the other end, writing them and sharing with less experienced users?
...neither of which come with the normal versions (and, indeed, are quite a bit more expensive), so most people will never even touch them on their PCs.
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Are you new to marketing-speak hyperbole?

Anyway I think Office 2007 is a pretty good piece of software. The UI is leaps and bounds ahead of any other ofice application.
Component reliability overrated by who? Mac reliability praise is almost always about software reliability, from what I've seen.
What standard says <http://news.ycombinator.com/>? The appendix of http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt says <URL:http://news.ycombinator.com/>.
Tell me exactly what was unique about the idea of Facebook.

It could be summed up in three words: MySpace for Harvard. That's not an idea, that's an obvious conclusion.

I don't argue that you don't need good ideas. I argue that good ideas are a dime a dozen. I argue that no matter how good an idea is, if you can't execute, it's not going to be worth anything.
Not all hardware. I couldn't even get the install disc for 10.04 to boot on my 2010 13" MacBook Pro. I'll give it another try when 10.10 comes out, but Ubintu definitely does not "just work" on all hardware.
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I run AwesomeWM on top of minimal Ubuntu install, and I enjoy the best of both worlds. I get access to the whole .deb racket while at the same time getting rid of all the bloat. But you're completely right about upgrades breaking things. Since Jaunty, I can't remember a single upgrade which didn't make me thank god for Dropbox.
The matter has been settled, so there's little point in arguing the finer details about what happened between Zuck and the Twins. The point I'm trying to make is that the Twins could have avoided all of this if they had gotten off their damn boat and learned how to program themselves. If their idea was so damn revolutionary and game changing, they would have built it themselves or made Zuck sign an NDA. They fucked up, plain and simple. Zuck in the movie put it best (and I paraphrase): "They are just upset that for the first time in their lives things haven't gone exactly how they thought they would."
I have similar thoughts on cannabis. When high, I have the feeling that habitual actions are much more difficult and you become more self-aware when you fix something to drink for example.

The effect seems to vanish for people who consume cannabis every day however, the brain seems to adjust to the new state.
Anecdotal evidence is anecdotal.

Here are some hard facts:

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http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/09/21/pc_industry_cu...

Highest customer satisfaction, second highest reliability (after Asus).

Also, my laptop is carved out of a single block of a aluminum. I'm pretty sure that makes it awesome. My buddy bought an Asus laptop last spring and I saw it for the first time yesterday. The left hinge cover had been broken off and the thing looked like it was 2 years old. He also said was upset about the quality because he expected more from Asus. See, I can provide anecdotal evidence too.
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Seems like an interesting idea to push into an education system.

This is concept behind harder versions of classes (e.g. honors, AP) where you can increase the difficulty level if you have shown you are capable. However, the timeline is too long. Perhaps content tracks that included advanced reading/homework assignments and exams could be used to keep students engaged.

Would embedding game-like achievements (next track unlocked, toughest unlocked, stump/teach the teacher etc.) be of benefit here or just a distraction?

Has anyone had experience with teachers/professors that use these concepts?
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If the guy needs access counters without an ever-growing disk file, he dismissed MongoDB too fast. The ability to repeatedly alter fixed size data without growing the storage is something MongoDB has, and no other database engine that I know of. (Their design has its own serious disadvantages, but still, if that's the behaviour you need...)
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Another Iron clad rule:

People will have sex.

So it really doesn't matter if it isn't totally safe.
I believe his objection is that, being realistic about these things, administrators won't bother to seperately administer IPv6, when it doesn't confer any advantage to the first movers.

It's not about what should happen, it's about what will, taking into account the reality of human behaviour. And even if 95% of sites out there did enable IPv6, then everyone will still want IPv4 addresses so that they can still reach that last 1-in-20 - the transition simply can't happen until all existing sites are reachable over v6.

I don't think he's an "IPv6 opponent", I think he just makes a good case that there isn't a workable transition plan.
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yeah, until the repository maintainers mess up, create two packages that are in conflict, and yet both installed on your system, and now every attempt to update your software fails because you have out-of-date dependencies that can't be updated due to the conflict.

In case you hadn't noticed, I'm a bit bitter about my fedora install at the moment :)

That said, I think you overestimate the delta between OSX and the various linuxes. On the Mac, as with linux, if you want to use a package that isn't part of the core system, you should package it into your app/lib yourself. The big advantage that the linuxes have is that they have a far bigger range of packages in the repository than you have in a mac's standard install. But by the same token, you can't have as much confidence that all the libs play well together, because they haven't been tested as thoroughly as Mac OSX's set of libs...
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Sure, computer science students get paid a lot, relatively, when they get out of college.

The trouble is that, unlike white collar professions, pay for programmers doesn't go up as they mature -- instead, it goes sideways or down.
Maybe you should adopt less early.
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Actually I would wine because I now have to go to the doctor just cause some idiots can't remember to use a condom (condoms doesn't break very often, or else prostitutes wouldn't insists on using them).
Good comment, yes, I've looked into this too. If you look at game design, incremental variable rewards are one of the most addictive possible things. Incremental means you unlock them gradually, and variable means you don't always get the same thing. That's why getting an awesome item in Diablo II was always more addictive than getting an awesome item in Baldur's Gate. In Diablo, you never knew what you were going to get and how valuable it'd be. In Baldur's Gate, the Hammer +3 was always with this guy, the dagger +2 was always buried down in the southeast tomb, etc.

Mixing variable and incremental rewards does increase addiction, which can be positive or negative. It's positive if you're harnessing it.

I think this could definitely work for teaching people things - one of the ways I learned how to type really fast was playing a text-based player vs. player game way back in the day. Getting semi-unrelated rewards (like you said next track, toughest unlocked, stump the teacher, or more commonly badges, ranks, points, etc) can be a massive boon to learning something. There's also the "head fake" element of teaching while not looking like you're teaching, which I got from Randy Pausch's Last Lecture (highly, highly recommended if you haven't seen it).

With all that said, I haven't found quite the right way to harness it in my own life. A lot of the tracking I do gives me a way to get numbers and feel good, but assigning myself badges or points seemed like a little more trouble than it's worth. Just setup and maintenance time of that systems seems like it wouldn't be worth it, but if someone else built a good one, I'd use it.

I've played with various software that tracks goals/habits/etc, but I keep coming back to minimalist, flexible stuff, that lets me do what I want with it. But I think sooner or later someone will build something that works well for either general education or other skills training, and I'd be all over that.
I'm not sure if they still do this, but I dropped Google Checkout several years ago because they allowed the user to hide contact information from the vendor. This may sound like a great privacy feature for the customer, but it really made it a nightmare to support customers who I couldn't confirm were actually my customers - especially if I needed to re-issue license keys.
Accidental downvote, sorry. Yes, this is not only in the first scene but is revisited at the very end.
I know my primary school forbid students cycling to school if they hadn't passed the cycling proficiency test, my secondary school officially forbade it, but considering they had around a thousand students it was harder than policing the 40-60 kids my primary school had who were actually old enough to be left alone to cycle to school.

What I liked best about my local town was that the cycling zones were put onto the sidewalk, so as long as you was in the cycle lane you didn't have to yield to pass pedestrians, but you weren't at risk from drivers on the unmarked roads. I don't think I ever heard of a cyclist being hit on the street, one of my friends was hit but that was because someone backed out of a hedged-drive way at a bad time and broke his leg. IIRC the driver got a caution and the council fined him and ordered his hedges be cut down as they violated height restrictions.
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I was planning on being in the area that week, and this would've been the icing and cherry on top. Unfortunately, didn't get in. I figured my #gov20 work would count for something, but it seems it doesn't (which is fine, perhaps I'm just not that interesting of a hacker!) - any pointers for how to frame the pitch so it seems more appealing to the YC crew?

Are there any meetups/after parties/etc in the area that one could attend? Half of the value of being in that auditorium would be meeting other hackers/entrepreneurs, I would hope not to lose out on that completely while i'm in the valley.
http://www.thisemailwillselfdestruct.com

I'm going to guess its HTML emails that use javascript to download a decryption key. The js could hash it's own functions to avoid tampering. Rudimentary cut-and-paste protection could be enabled (don't know if the MUA would honour it though). Remove the key from the URL when you want the email to self-destruct (I'm thinking htaccess going to a db so you've set the date in the db beyond which the URL redirects to a key which causes the display of "sorry this email has expired" rather than the plaintext. Add a print-style sheet to blank out an attempt to print it.

Wouldn't work against screenshots and would be reasonably easy to crack but for the "man in the street" I can see it working?

I'm sure there is a far better more devious way of doing this.
A lot of people who graduate college claim that they have a dream wherein they fail college, years after they graduate.

Maybe this is something similar to that.
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I couldn't for the life of me remember the name of the book or the character - I do remember perfectly the gas-masked fish on the cover of the mass-market paperback, though.
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I'm sure someone here remembers the iBook G3s (the white ones), that would have their logic boards die.

I still have my g4 ibook and it works perfectly (except for the smallish HD, but still works). Had the best suspend-resume from a low battery of any laptop I have used.

Typing this on a unibody Macbook. It worked better on 10.5, not 10.6. Resume is much slower. (BTW, the G4 only had 512mb less of ram).

The most important advice I can give of Apple hardware...always wait for 2nd, or 3rd gen product (Hypocritically, I did buy an iPad).
Couple of posts ago there's a boring bit about college students switching to Macs en masse. A few posts before that there's an equally boring piece on bad Linux desktop adoption... ".NET Jerkface" sounds like someone with real insight to offer
That was a stab at irony, which apparently flew over the heads of most readers.
To clarify, I meant, in the context of the movie, where Zuckerberg is accused of hacking by the administration because he used wget.

Downvote away!
>Non-technical users don't install operating systems.

Look, this is probably generally true - however, the last bare metal Ubuntu install I did was as simply as insert disc, click the install prompts, accept all defaults and your done. Yeah, it took an hour or two all told.

It certainly has been quite different in the past but any user that can watch a DVD on their computer can install an [selected] OS if they want to.

Hardware compatibility is another question. If the manufacturers would just test and have a "Ubuntu ready" label then that issue would be largely moot, at least as much so as with MS Windows.
Redis works great as long as the dataset fits in RAM. After that, the background saving process kicks in, and performance becomes an issue. This caused my company to move away from Redis to Mongo. It's foolish to assume that just because a product goes beyond storing key/value pairs that it's over engineered. It actually seems that no research was done outside of what Redis can do given the portion of the article talking about namespaces for keys not being inherent in NoSQL solutions. Check out Mongo's collections. That's exactly what they are.
According to Wikipedia the Model T had a curb weight of 1,200 pounds. Needless to say it didn't have, oh, seat belts, let alone a whole bunch of safety features that add serious weight to modern cars of its class.

Compare to, say, a ~2,600 lb 2003-8 Toyota Corolla that gets equal or better gas mileage.
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I moved from the Netherlands to the US nine years ago, and one of the big differences I noticed was the almost complete lack of bicycles on the roads. Not just that, but also the way bikes are used (or not used).

Where I'm from, there are many places with crowded traffic (not just in the bigger cities) and many, many bikes. It's common for kids to ride their bike to school, for example. There is such a thing as a "traffic test" for kids riding bikes, although I'm not sure if all schools do this. As for motorists, driving lessons are mandatory, and some of the things you learn are meant to protect cyclists: if your car has to take a right turn, you have to stop and look in your mirrors and over your right shoulder to check if there's no bikes coming (because they have the right of way!), and when you park you don't just slam open your car door, you look for bikes and other traffic first. (Failing to do so during the (non-trivial) drivers exam will likely earn you a failing grade.)

The Dutch have a lot of crazy traffic rules, but some of them actually make sense. :-) This why there are relatively few accidents with bikes, people accept them as part of the regular traffic, and cyclists don't need to wear helmets. (They do need reflectors so they can more easily be seen at night.)

So, coming from this, when you then move to the US, your first reaction might well be, "why don't people ride their bikes (to school, work, etc)?" One of the reasons is that it's just not a very common or safe way of transportation around here (at least in most areas -- I don't know about downtown SF or something).
Well the way OSS drivers developpment works means that you're far more likely to experience problems with new hardware than with old hardware. That, plus the mac pro, even if it is an intel based machine, is the most closed hardware you could find on this platform. So, "couldn't even" may not be the right choice of word for your situation .
US-only and not actually widely available even there.