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It's fine to work for a company, but demand equity.
If one insists on this course of action, it might not hurt to throw in a little plausible deniability.

Instead of a landing page throwing your tantrum, have the site mysteriously break and just show a cryptic error message, then just be too busy to fix a problem for a client who hasn't paid anyway. Gently suggest that paying clients come before deadbeats.

When the inevitable legal backlash comes, simply shrug and say you were getting around to it and remind everyone that there might be someone in arrears with a large payment or two. Plus interest. And late fee.
thats my primary term for a year now, and it didn't have a single problem. I mostly work in remote shells, Snow Leo.
Even so, the developers could have taken the high road and put up a generic "This site is currently offline. Please check back soon." message.

When people don't pay their phone bill, the phone company politely tells callers that "the phone number is no longer in service." They don't have a recording saying "Bill is a loser who can't pay his bills, so we TP-ed his house and called his kids ugly ... oh and you should probably be friends with Jack instead, he's better looking!"

You know you have a problem with how you treat your customers when the phone companies do a better job than you.
There's no shame in needing money. It may be to your benefit to use your real hn account and make a posting to see if anybody is looking to hire. Maybe someone in the HN community is looking for a Rails developer. It's definitely worth trying. (Though, I recommend posting at a time when most people aren't sleeping already or should be.)

Another option would be to take a job working in retail or food industry. There are usually more openings in those fields and it will provide income until you find something more suited for your skills.

Good luck with everything.
I don't understand. Doesn't iTerm2 do exactly this?

What would I get by using Terminator that I wouldn't get by using iTerm2? One of the first things I did just now after installing it was create a window that looks almost exactly like the one in the Terminator example screen. Except I use 3 shells rather than 4. A full height shell on the left and 2 half height shells on the right.
No, I shook my head and pondered how clearly mentally unbalanced Reiser is.
Interesting feedback. OK I will sound like a freak but this stuff is so damn interesting.

To me your method is more likely to induce WILD not OBE. And I don't think it's the same.
Edit: visualization and the fact you seeked clairvoyance could be an explanation for your constant headache, I suppose your sixth chakra was very active?
I have an API for the World of Warcraft Armory which almost certainly broke after they updated when Cataclysm was released.

It's not brilliant code (particular shame for the testing, or lack thereof) but it should be fairly readable and does what I think is a cool thing :) You'll learn some stuff about SQLAlchemy/ORMs and web scraping along the way.

http://www.github.com/lewisham/wowspyder
He's pretty bitter!

He also changed the footer of the main site!

It's a Drupal site, so you can get an idea of what it looks like non-offline by going here: http://utilitybidder.co.uk/user/
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Ok, the author confirms with a webstore comment that none of this data come from the users. It looks like they test the extension on various websites and add there manually the text location for sites that are not being parsed correctly...
The google cache for the site has:

Site Content Copyright © 2010 Utility Bidder Ltd. | All Rights Reserved | Website Development by Jungle Creative (www.junglecreative.com)

It looks like a one man act from Scotland. If its not him, but someone else later down the line, he'd better get on the stick because right now, the ugly is pointing at him.

Edit: Actually poking around, he seems like a decent fellow, rocking the nomad developer dream on a little coconut island. Doesn't seem like something he should/would have done. That might make this doubly ugly. "Utility Bidder" may have hired someone else for further work who took the whole thing down over a dispute about their little part. That would be most uncool.
Why don't we collaboratively blacklist or push down domains from our Google results? This could be a stopgap measure until Google incorporates such a feature including the collaborative database or magically puts an end to spam.

A proposal: http://www.saigonist.com/content/google-spam-content-farm-fi...
Hey Chris, I was just trying to share a few things I'd learned. I know I haven't done as much scraping as others (like yourself and richcollins). Glad I've helped get some discussion going :)
Horrible idea. You move the "about" page to some monospace non-marked up page.

This just creates an excuse not to make a dcent "about"page.
I don't want to sound like a douche or anything, but I really like to focus on the product side. Bulding something and charging for it. I can easily get a job as a designer or rails dev somewhere, but I'm having trouble building a product which people will pay for enough to give me $2500 a month.
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All true, but somehow it's comforting to know that this client and this developer deserve each other.
I concur.

Besides, disruptive technology running on Flash? meh.
We could change fucking to effin.
Wasn't there research published sometime last year showing the opposite to be true? (When you tell other people your goal) or what you are doing/going to do, you internalize "I'm doing it" and then ... don't!).

I know for me it's true -- I'm much more likely to get the things completed that I haven't told others that I'm working on.
I don't have any up to date figures, but http://www.caught.net/innoc.htm suggests that the rate of wrongly convicted innocent people could be around 10%. So the vast majority of convicted people belong there. Indisputably a lot of people walk free who are guilty. But there are also a lot of innocent people behind bars.
Step 1) Do 50 hours per month of rails contracting at $50/hour.

Step 2) Use your extra 110 hours per month to build a business that makes money.

Step 3) When said business reaches $2500/mo in profit stop doing #1.
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On most systems, 1 byte == 8 bits, 1 word == 16 bits, 1 dword (double word) == 32 bits, etc.
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I enjoy video games very much, but tend to agree with you.

Speaking purely from my own naive experience, for many in America life is simply great. Within the context of my day to day life I cannot say that there are any great struggles. When life is so good, one starts to question its purpose. But games are not the answer to this question imho. There is a great deal of purpose to be had in this world, one just has to get out and seek it.
From the google cache:

Developer: http://www.junglecreative.com/

Linkedin: http://th.linkedin.com/in/raynimmo

Blog: http://www.raynimmo.com/
> I was with you until here. T'so is quoted as writing that btrfs has a lot of the same design ideas of ReiserFS,

When I was using reiserfs years ago, it ate all my data (/home unraveled). I like the features, and it was nice and fast for the time but I've held a grudge against it for years as a result. Looking at dumps of the on disk data structures showed massive corruption.

At work, we used it for a long time in a project where tail-packing is a huge win (many many small files). Never had any problems there.

So, it doesn't really suck I just had a bad experience.
If you're desperate, perhaps you should do enough of the work that you can easily do (rails dev, designer) to make the money you want to, and use your spare time, as suggested above, to build a product/business that will eventually replace your job. If you're still at the stage of turning down jobs (or not seeking them), then you're probably not desperate.
You know, if you had just written the first sentence, this comment would have been fine. Reading the silly digression about Guantanamo took this from "reasonable point" to "are you serious?"
This sounds like Windows terminology. I'm pretty sure on 32-bit Linux a word is 32 bits, and ptrace reads 32-bit chunks and not 16-bit chunks.
And that page has another footer: "we ripped off our web developer for this site and never paid him for work he done, if we knew where he put this bit of code then we would remove it, but we cant find it, we suck. maybe its better you just go to Uswitch" http://www.uswitch.com/

This is encoded in the web page as '&#119;&#101;&#032;&#114;&#105;&#112;&#112;&#101;&#100;...'
FF4 has significantly improved performance, at least. It's much more on par with Chrome and Safari than 3.x.
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Holding your breath for several minutes at a time can't really help...
Even if his contract stipulated that he owned the website due to nonpayment, I seriously doubt that it's legal for him to put up "This company sucks" at that company's domain and with that company's logo. And this is in the UK which has (I believe) notoriously stringent defamation and libel laws.
I agree. Generally, "desperate" means taking any (reasonable) job offer you can get.
Cleaning up the codebase and taking the time to make it super maintainable/configurable/flexible is huge. It's worth spending as much time as it takes to get it to the point where it's a pleasure (not just tolerable) to work with.

It's just like cooking in a messy and crowded kitchen vs a clean and spacious one.
What if I dream electric sheep? Do I add androids.txt?
I have once ran into a similar situation which the man simply refused to pay the bill (of nearly $20K). I was simply not being able to reach the man on the phone or get a response by mail.

Knowing taking this into the court of justice would take around 3-4 years, I have simply set auto-redirect to random porn sites (picked the top 25 out of Google).

It took about half a day since the man have had his lawyer send me a letter saying something similar to: "we will pay you all what you asked for .... "

I am not sure this was the right thing to do, but I was quite young and enthusiast by then, and I have invested allot of money in that project (hardware and bandwidth contracts - VPS were not invented yet at that time ;-)).
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I see this being useful for future developers – the number of sites I've taken over with no idea who made it or how to get server access etc. Having an easy way to find out how to contact would make things much better than having to wget everything each time.
In x86 assembly (and a lot of other contexts), 16 bits are called a word (a left over from 16 bit days when 16 bits were in fact a machine word), and larger data types are named dword (double word, 32 bits), qword (quad word, 64 bits), and so on. This terminology is even included in certain instruction mnemonics (movsb|movsw|movsd, ...).
This is a terrible read. This is a rant about what the author is used to, and anything else is different and hard.

Now, in my mind, these method names are decidedly ugly. They aren’t friendly, short, clean, straightforward or simple. I don’t think anyone would argue with me there. Certainly no one’s actually happy typing the extra underscores.

That’s true, function passing is painless in Python and a little harder in Ruby. But coll.map &f isn’t so bad, and for me, it’s definitely not a deal breaker. I’ve actually gotten used to it. To me, the extra syntax is the price we pay for internal consistency.

These two quotes above are on one hand poopooing some apparently arbitrary naming convention in python and then praising the same kind of apparently arbitrary syntax quirk in ruby.

(I find the double prefixing and suffixing underscores to make sense in python: these methods are called implicitly by other constructs, never called directly.)
According to his website, guy's a Scot and living on a small island in Thailand, Koh Phangan to be precise. Good luck with taking legal action.
Hey David, it wasn't a stab at your blog - your post was great - anything that builds some more interest in node.js is positive :) I just hate reading about people having trouble with JSDom and putting it down to the node platform. JSDom is an excellent parser, it just fails miserably when you feed it malformed HTML, and as we know, a majority of the internet falls in to this category. I needed a framework that could scrape anything on the web so I built it myself
You're thinking too high-level. We're talking about a "word" in x86 instruction set parlance. It's an artifact of the old 16-bit computing days. Nothing to do with the OS.
This is really helpful. I always struggle with regex expressions when they reach some complexity.
In ptrace:

> The size of a "word" is determined by the OS variant (e.g., for 32-bit Linux it's 32 bits, etc.).

Taken from http://linux.die.net/man/2/ptrace
Really only a problem for clients that don't intend to pay. I believe it is a very good thing to know if the client has grave worries about what you might do if he refuses to pay. An honest client won't even be thinking of that.

There's a long established legal principle that if you don't pay a workman he can place a lien on your property, which may even result in it being sold at auction. You can also be charged with theft of services, a real crime for which you go to jail.

If your new client is worried he might go to jail should he be committing felonies, that is also a concern.
I always ran into problems when doing full screen applications like aptitude (over ssh) and vim in iTerm1, so I had to switch back to Terminal.app - I hope it is fixed now, and I'll give it a try..
Merely rewarding "effort" is never failing anyone just because they tried. Sustained effort is even worse to reward because it doesn't indicate any progress. Sisyphean tasks are unfulfilling because they have no end, no matter how much effort, sustained or otherwise, you put into them.

The way video games reward sustained effort is through the ability to completely retry, from almost any random point, without penalty.

I wonder if there's a certain amount of reward inherent in the fact that the video game accomplishment is meaningless other than the amount of time and effort put into it. When you're done doing daily chores, the chores are done. Making that more rewarding might actually get more chores done, but you're still playing the chores game because it needs to be done, not because it's entertainment.
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Noname, what if you don't have any money?

Books are free, if you have the internet or live near a university library.

I do like your empirical attitude though.
Ever see Anna to the Infinite Power? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_to_the_Infinite_Power

Other than the specific circumstances of the mother being murdered by the father, that's kind of close to the plot of this movie.

The movie also some pretty weird ideas about what cloning is.
At the very least, I think it shows that he wants a version of his wife that could be controlled and manipulated.

Really not a healthy mindset, I don't think. And that's not even getting into sexual issues.
Using it since day one. It's great.
I agree that we should't deviate from the subject too much. My reply was intended to fix the generally incorrect comment regarding the size of the word read by ptrace.

In ptrace:

> The size of a "word" is determined by the OS variant (e.g., for 32-bit Linux it's 32 bits, etc.).

Taken from http://linux.die.net/man/2/ptrace
There is a limit to how much the negotiation skill can get you - at least over the average for your position, that is. Mad negotiation skills can of course get you into mad paying jobs, but this is not the point.

When you fix the position then I think that the factors outlined in the article have a lot more influence over salary than negotiation skills.
You're right, I retract the point.
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Excellent point. However I think you can learn about the box by reading books, too.
Probably the title raised a lot of expectations about learning the 'how'. So people expected a long and detailed video.

I would say for a 2 min video, it was good. Hey, TC did not cover an $80 million exit by a 23yr old.
Isn't there a limited amount of room for people to do what you did? I mean there can only be so many teachers and business consultants.

To my mind part of being an entrepreneur is leaving the world of books, professors, and ideas.

Anyway congratulations and here's to hoping that your book makes the B-school reading lists.
For me it's a laptop, desktop replacement. I don't do much content creation outside of work on a computer so I don't need those form factors and I like the portability, video capabilities, and being able to read books from it.

The Courier....that was the only Microsoft product I was ever excited about. I can't believe they killed it though. They are blinded by Apple.
Any auto-completion that the terminal emulator could possibly provide will absolutely pale in comparison to what a properly configured shell can do.

Just copy over your shell config file if you're really in a poor situation like that often, and it's pretty trivial to make a script that'll automate it.
That's a great point and unfortunately it does not work that way with math books.

Well, fortunately in that the signal-to-noise ratio is high. Unfortunately in that one must be very selective about what one chooses to invest time into reading.
He wants to make a symlink to Nina.
I thought these guys had ripped off my revolutionary idea "humans.txt": http://www.mrspeaker.net/2010/07/15/humans-txt/

But it turns out they were trying to do something useful, not devise a system for preventing pesky humans from wasting precious robot bandwidth.

I think I like my idea better though.
On the other hand, the more you get used to reading math, the more possible it becomes for your eye to skim through math stuff.

I'm at the point where I can sometimes skim through arXiv papers and understand the gist.

(Does it work the same for books with code in them? Legit coders can skim and understand?)
Can orbital mind control lasers really be far away?

Assuming the government hasn't already developed this technology in secret of course. The real question is, how well do these lasers penetrate tinfoil?
You're asking how to build a business. Getting a product to generate 2,500 USD a month is non-trivial. In fact, going from 0 to 2,500 is probably going to be easier than going from 2,500 to 7,500 or 10,000.

Start simpler. Ask yourself how to build a product that can bring you 20 USD a month. Think of something that you can realistically envision yourself selling a couples of copies of a month right away. Then figure out how to go from there.

By the way, running a business isn't going to reduce your stress. And whether or not you'll be able to make money from a certain product / service is really speculative. You'll eventually get something to work if you keep working at it, but it can take time to figure it out. Maybe you should just consult in the short term.

As someone who's been desperate for cash before, I don't think starting a product business in order to obtain fast money is a good idea, unless you have experience selling to your target demographic and are really confident about your idea. Or unless you don't have any opportunities to actively work for the money, but you say you can easily get a rails dev job.
Rework is probably the best out of all of those!
I would like to hear much more discussion about these two parts of it.
An interesting talk about the inner workings of Python's dictionary was given at PyCon 2010: "The Mighty Dictionary" by Brandon Craig Rhodes. Video at http://blip.tv/file/3332763

It also contains stuff that applies to hashing and hashtables in general.
Yep, he's on the short list (with Ballmer) of people who are billionaires through stock grants without being co-founders or heirs.
Thanks to your comment I've lost four hours of my life to fiddling with Jekyll. Thanks for making my Sunday night more interesting.
Yep, surprised I left that out.
I noticed that a few months after I put up a list of themes for bbPress (WordPress's little sister for forums) someone started a website that copied them all for download (which is fine because they are GPL) but then inserted all sorts of malicious spam links and other code into them.

Despite my warnings to users and trying to get Google to put that site into their security blocklist (never happened) I can now search for and find hundreds of sites that have these spam links from using those bad copies.
I agree. For example, Leslie Lamport, who invented many distributed algorithms that are used at Google (eg. Paxos is used in Chubby and in Megastore) works at Microsoft Research. Watching or reading interviews with him, I get the feeling that he is a "pure [computer] scientist", probably not that interested in getting his stuff into the next product.
I agree, I'm not endorsing the message specifically as posted. I was replying to the parent about lawsuits, not the propriety of the offline message.
When I first saw the site I thought great for the developer. When I read the analogy I rethought my position.

I think the analogy is somewhat apt. The legal system is the mechanism for enforcing contracts and bypassing it out of convenience should be frowned upon. Habeous corpus was inconvenient so it was bypassed. I'm opposed to the suspension of habeous corpus and in the interest of consistency I ought to be opposed to what this developer did.
It looks like the interview was at the Summit (780 Valencia).
I really second that.

It doesn't have to be really physical: for me simple things such as walking in the nature for a while help a lot.

I also started yoga last year, and it has changed dramatically how I feel (no more back/neck pain, more focused etc). I'm actually increasing yoga to 2.5 hours per week now.