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This isn't as bad as it looks.

Only your friends can add you into groups. You also don't have to participate in the group and they have made it very easy to leave. Jason is not a typical user and probably has a lot of crappy friends due to accepting requests from anyone. Adding an accept option would only add an unnecessary layer without changing much.
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Ansi strings in Windows are encoded using the current codepage, which is an OS-level setting depending on the localization settings. Most of the time, in the Western world, it's Windows-1252 Western European / Latin-1. It indicates how string arguments to the Ansi versions of WinAPI functions will be interpreted (ending in A rather than W).

This is the way things have been done on Windows for ages, so I don't think the concept is particularly foreign to people expert enough to need interop with native libraries.

The Mono documentation[1] indicates that Mono uses UTF-8 for all string marhsalling operations, which seems pretty unambiguously documented. It's as if GetACP() returned CP_UTF8.

[1] http://www.mono-project.com/Interop_with_Native_Libraries
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By that test, there are probably no good ideas at all. Except maybe the moms of 13 year-old boys.
I think you might have misread the code.

Each `fn` is bound exactly once, `forEach` is not a loop.
Perhaps that was unclear, but that only refers to 500 copies of the final book (most sales were made when the book was in beta.)
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If I included all that too, it would be TL;DR. You know I'm right. Follow my blog, though, because I'm going to be writing a lot more about infoproducts over the next few months, and I will be creating that infoproduct course that inspired the article.

But, I will say, you're making a critical mistake if you create a product and THEN try to find customers for it.
While I think Rand shouldn't be read until people have passed their youthful impressionable stage and are better able to choose whether to integrate her ideas into their world view (rather than be totally dominated by her persuasiveness), there are some gems in there.

One I particularly liked was Francisco explaining to Dagney's brother that 'making money' has a literal meaning. We're fortunate enough to live in an age where creating new wealth from thin air is fundamental basis of the global economy, rather than sending the Conquistadors overseas to steal somebody else's.

Wealth is created in two ways - harvest raw materials, apply labor+capital+innovation+time to turn them into finished products, then sell them for more than the total cost of the inputs. Voila, the difference is wealth created from thin air.

We used to take wood and iron and turn it into ships and trains. Now we take sand and aluminum and turn it into billions of dollars worth of microchips. The profit margin is the measure of wealth literally created.

The other way is to provide some service that saves people time, since that is a key input in the wealth creation process.

Everything else is either a wealth transfer of some form (trading wealth for something of value like leisure activities) or wealth destruction.

That's what Francisco was getting at in his speech. I knew it before reading Atlas, but liked his turn of phrase 'words have a literal meaning' when referring to 'making money'.

Another of Rand's recurring points I've liked is that philosophy is an applied science. There's very little about our day-to-day lives and modern world that hasn't been influenced by philosophy, for better or worse, intentionally or incidentally. But most people go about their lives completely oblivious to this, or at best with a vague sense of it.
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I'm all for people with cognitive differences helping our government, in fact, I'd be in favor of them running for Congress and Presidential office. I work with someone that I'm fairly sure is mildly autistic and he does a great job.

They could help our government (this goes for current and last administration) understand the charts that the Peterson Foundation (a non-politically affiliated group that sponsors NPR) has produced, showing how the out-of-control spending going to hurt us:

http://www.pgpf.org/Issues.aspx

And while they are at it, maybe they can help the government run more efficiently.
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> Adding an accept option would only add an unnecessary layer without changing much.

How about making a privacy option that allows you to set whether you automatically opt-in into groups or whether you want to be asked for a confirmation? I don't know about you, but I want to be in control of which groups I join, even if only my friends are able to force-join me.
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Hi, I'm the author.

I've written 3 full-length books, and half of one. Two of the completed ones were for actual publishers, and ended up canceled or not published or I quit in disgust. The last completed one was obviously http://jsrocks.com.

But, I've written maybe 950 pages of book in my life so far.

Writing a book is easy. Giving birth is also easy. Both may hurt like hell, but they're not difficult. You pretty much have to show up and push.

Now, writing a book for the wrong reasons is impossible. If you're doing it for fame or exposure, or the cred, or the money (without finding an ongoing motivating force), yes, you will have to fight yourself every step of the way. But that's because you don't really want to write a book, you want the goodies that you think you'll get.

But, more importantly, an ebook doesn't have a page count requirement. It doesn't have to look at-least-this-thick on the bookshelf. It doesn't have to meet some stupid editorial rule.

It just has to do the job.

An ebook isn't a book.

But, like the rest of my article pointed out, _you don't have to even do an ebook_.

EDIT: Actually, make that 4 full-length books, since the text for my 30x500 Launch Class is nearly 300 pages. http://unicornfree.com/prelaunch.

EDIT: Oh, and it's not because I'm not afflicted with distractability or procrastination. Just trust me on that.
Scott Farquhar one of the co-founders of Atlassian said this best in his talk at Business of Software this week. Which I'm paraphrasing from memory...
If you're co-founding a startup equal shares is the way to go you should be doing this with someone you trust and can work with and squabbling over pieces of a worthless asset at the start is a sidetrack from doing what matters.
I'd add that vesting is never a bad thing but if you are so worried about people not contributing you shouldn't be starting a company with the person.
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>>unless you are comfortable giving the new platform access to your inbox, they can't get your data

>Huh? You receive a link to a zip file, which you then download. Your statement would be pretty FUDly if it weren't so busy being wrong.

I'm assuming the grandparent is talking about an automated site that imports from facebook by asking for my facebook username and password. This can't work, because the zip link goes to my e-mail, so I either have to copy-paste the link from my e-mail or provide my e-mail address and e-mail password as well, as the grandparent said. Your statement would pretty wrong if it weren't so busy being rude :-P
Well, if your build speed is measured in milliseconds, and then go back to C++ or even C, you'll learn to really appreciate it.
Really into the idea of hovering and showing actions on movie posters. Elegant and fun. How do you guys implement it, btw? jQuery plugin, or else?

However, I think there are too much text on almost every page, dizzy...

I remember Steve mentioned something like "cut off half text and do it again" in his book "Don't Make Me Think". Maybe you wanna try it out.

Cool stuff!
I don't see Hacker News...
I did something similar for e-mail back when the Graph API was broken for it. [2]

... I say "back," presuming it's fixed.

[2] http://fb.quadhome.com/
> Yes, they've given back nothing in return to the people that have created Java. What did Sun get out of Android? Nothing. Maybe some royalties would have been enough to keep it afloat.

Life's a bitch. Just because you create some product, does not create an obligation for the world to pay you lots of money. Especially programming languages. Most guys who create languages don't really get rich from them.

> The protection was in place EXACTLY so that other corporations couldn't get away with what Google has done.

The "protection" in this case concerns three things:

* Trademark: the Java name. Perhaps they have some kind of case there, but that's not what Oracle is suing over.

* Copyrights: sorry, but Google took nothing from Sun as far as I can tell. They did not use Sun code. No case.

* Patents: ah, software patents. This form of "protection" inhibits anyone from going out, and through their own hard work, creating an implementation that resembles the original. I don't much care for that idea really - because the real work is in the implementation.

> going out of their way to avoid paying Sun anything

Boo hoo. That's their own business if they want to go out of their way to avoid paying someone, as long as that "going out of their own way" was done legally, which it seems likely it was. As a business, the world does not owe you anything. Perhaps if Sun had done a better job with Java ME, they wouldn't have been in this quandary in the first place.

Are you angry at the Apache Software Foundation too, for creating the free code used in the class library?
Really impressive. You can add more gradient points by clicking where you'd like the new colour to start, and you can remove by "dragging" them off.

I'm sure I'll make use of this.
I agree with you in spirit. The worst place I ever worked had managers like this in spades (not sure if they had any other kind).

But if we're honest with ourselves I think we have to admit that this is our fault. Why does the pointy haired boss even know about the "quick & dirty solution"? We always talk about how much better other engineering disciplines are, "you don't see bridges falling over every time someone makes a new model of car!" we say, but why is this? It's at least partially because no engineer offers a "quick & dirty" option for making bridges. They never say "well, we could use this material and skip all these steps to get done in 1/10th of the time for 1/5th of the cost but it's probably going to fall over" [1].

This is the key point. Of course for bridges purchasers are going to want the cheapest and fastest thing they can get. They aren't given an incomplete solution as an option so that's why they don't ask for it. If we want things to change in our industry we have to do what the GP suggested. Don't mention non-solutions, aren't you an engineer (at least partially, I know many of us think of ourselves as artists)? In fact, if a manager says "lets just do this quick & dirty" you should take that to mean that they still want a completely correct solution that just doesn't address some of the requirements (e.g. "handle email quick and dirty" might mean leaving out SSL).

>What if you are told directly to do it "quick & dirty," and you refuse?

This is the place where they shouldn't know this term. It shouldn't exist. No one asks a bridge builder for "quick & dirty" they ask for cheaper & faster. So the bridge maker considers all the possibilities that still leave a completely working bridge and answers based on that.

The bridge builder recognizes that no one is asking him what is the cheapest/fastest way to possibly make something that looks like a bridge. What good would that do anyone? We also need to understand that no one is asking us for what we mean by "quick & dirty". Are they going to expect it to fail 70% of the time? No? Then what they're actually asking for is a correct solution but they want it fast, cheap and without unnecessary frills.

[1] I have no doubt that some joker will find an example on the internet of exactly that happening. When you do, understand that you've found the exception that proves the rule, not that refutes the point.
Wikipedia has an excellent political system that decides disputes on the basis of the quality of the arguments rather than voting or autocratic declarations. For this reason and the fact that one of wikipedia's 5 pillars is a neutral point of view (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view) I would tend to think that their articles on controversial topics are much like controversial laws after they have been extensively litigated: settled and accurate.
I wrote my thoughts on this some time ago: http://blog.jgc.org/2008/06/advice-to-young-programmer.html
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Will you also write about how to find a topic for the infoproduct? That to me is the most difficult part.
Nice! There's some really useful examples in the advanced chapters.
I hate to sound too negative, but 99% of that "Rate My Startup"'s I see on here are worth nothing now, and will be worth nothing in 5 years. Don't spend too much time debating whether you deserve 90% or nothing or 20% of nothing, because they both equal the same thing.

Unless there was a overriding reason for one partner to have more equity I would only ever do 50/50 or 1/3rd each etc. Equal shares means everyone has the same amount riding on it. Everyone suffers the same stresses. Everyone gets the same wins. Reasons that would make me do it differently, if one partner has a proven track record (has had a major success in the past, that they were truly part of), if it was an extremely technical project (getting better search results than Google for example) I think the technical co-founder is probably worth more - if they can deliver, similarly if it is a very hard sell the marketing/business person might deserve more (although if it is that hard a sell I'd stay away). Lastly if the business needed money and someone had a contact that could bring in that money it would be worth considering giving them more equity (if it was me, I'd be demanding more).

I'm pretty sure in general YC gives the company equal money based on number of founders. I would imagine as a general rule that means they see all founders as equals. Seems like a pretty good guideline.

(Would be interesting to hear what PG and co do when they meet a team and think 2 out of 3 are awesome - do they fund, not fund, tell them to lose the other guy etc?)
Realise that you will never be as good as some other people. Then act like this is the case; follow those that are excellent coders; read what they write about and read their code. Emulate.

Don't just pick the easy route when you have to solve a problem, try to pick the 'best' way and see if you can follow through. That is the way you learn.
This is great. It would be nice to see the general availability of the movie. I pay for an unlimited blockbuster pass and only get movies from my local blockbuster store. It'd be neat to filter to movies that are still widely available.

Same thing goes for filtering to the age of the movie (e.g. 'new movies' or movies newer than 2 years old vs all movies).
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Freedom of speech is NOT compatible with the protection of the Islamic faith from depicting or criticizing Mohamed, PERIOD. There is zero room for negotiation there. So in that context there is NO misunderstanding that the U.S. constitution and sharia are not compatible.
"Only your friends can add you into groups."

And how many of your "friends" are ACTUALLY your "friends"? As much as it was once fun to reconnect with somebody I shared an elementary-school classroom with, that's a connection I'll need to revisit if they're given the power to latch my profile onto whatever cause they want ... implying my support of that movement.

Facebook seems to have created Groups as their implementation of Twitter Lists. I can create a list and call it whatever I choose ... adding whomever I choose to it. But my sense is that the perception of a Facebook Group is different than a Twitter List because Facebook already has/had the concept of groups, and they DID require opt-in.
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The frid.ge uses a url like http://www.frid.ge/php/profile.php?u=10613 for user profile, while there is no provision of a search box in site, you can easily find a profile by changing u=xxxx to get a profile. And you can post on their wall to , regardless of the privacy settings. Don't know if it's a bug or a feature but I found it weird.
Can you list some of the opportunities? I have an account, but no idea what to do with it.
So far so good. But my only choices on the hover are "I want to, I don't want to, I have". I'd like to have "Saw and liked" and "Saw and disliked". Or am I missing something?
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It's just their corporate email system.. no big deal.
I just deleted my Facebook profile a couple of weeks ago. I'm not one of those tinfoil hat privacy nazis who worry a lot about that kind of stuff, I just simply don't enjoy Facebook anymore and there's too much shady stuff going on. If you don't mind this then go ahead and use it to "connect with your friends" but personally I think Facebook became seriously uncool recently and I don't think that's going to change. I'm not boycotting or anything, I'm not mad at them, I just simply don't enjoy it anymore.
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I left Facebook after their feature rollout at the beginning of the summer, so I can't check these things for myself. Do you really not receive notification when someone adds you to a group? If not, how is it easy to leave, given that you may not even know you're a member? And is there any way to know who added you, so that if someone keeps doing this to you, you'll know you need to tell them to stop or unfriend them?
Oh, they'll make jokes about those too.
Make sure to watch the video.
Just signed up and haven't had a full chance to go through it all however there are three things I've found so far (neither are going to stop me from using the service).

1) When searching for films, on the search results mousing over the films doesn't reveal the 'add to watch' and 'mark as seen' buttons. This is slightly annoying as I'm normally searching for a film because I know it.

2) Your whole system is designed for finding films however on the film page all there is is a poster image, maybe include links to IMDB, Amazon but also a trailer pulled in from youtube. If I see a film on your site at the moment I'm going wow - let's find a trailer and then leaving the site.

3) (TINY) an autocomplete for the search would be incredibly useful.

I'll try and use the service more tonight and give some more feedback - so far am loving it and will hopefully be using it for the foreseeable future.
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My friends quit, so its 100% to me now.
Or the similar: "darling, style isn't something you put on after a bath"
I guess it was meant to be funny? I want my 2:34 back.
We've been using name.com at work and for personal use for over 2 years.

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Second, it lets my boss deposit cash as name.com prepaid 'credits'; so, I can act on domain purchases/renewals without running to the accounts guy everytime.

I hear namecheap does the 'credits' feature too.
Peak Oil: Change, opportunities, and you.
In the late 90's my chemistry teacher took a period to show the class that we are going to run out of oil. Few of us even blinked- we just started driving and gasoline was cozy $1/gallon.

In recent times, the Peak Oil prophesy call of a 'Doomer' has been written off as a mere tinfoil tirade. Those who professed and postulated were marked as downers, as conspiracy theorists. Many of the people who knew the data experienced psychological difficulty of being outcast by those they were trying to help. [See: Stages of Peak oil Awareness: http://energybulletin.net/stories/2010-09-30/stages-peak-oil-awareness]

Now, even Honda has a facebook page dedicated to Peak Oil: http://www.facebook.com/Honda?v=app_10531514314

I am primarily interested in dialogue as to how the YC community of hackers and thinkers have interpreted the data, and what changes you are making to your short and long term plans and dreams to prepare for this massive decade long transition?
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i´d say this strongly depends on what language you want to proram and which software you wanna write.
a very good basis (though not really programming) is html and css.
these languages are the basis for many software related projects.
and for the "real" programming thing it´s very important to learn the principles of object oriented programming. (the language is rather unimportant for this).
and to get an understanding what this object oriented thing is all about i recommend you diving into the model view controller (mvc) architecture, which is a way of organizing code using classes,...
if you start learning those things you got something to do for a while :)
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1) When you search for a movie, the results are fromt tmdb.org, and it's only when you click on it that it's added in our database. That way we don't have to pay for a lot of storage… but you're right, it can be confusing. We'll try to find a solution.

2) We're planning on adding trailers.

3) Maybe later.

Thanks for the feedback.
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