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I had my doubts about Ruby too, but we built the entire backend of our iPhone app (http://loqly.me) on ROR and our website is going to be entirely on ROR too. The amount of time it saves you as compared to any other language is nothing short of mind blowing.
Of course I am just sharing my 2 cents since you asked. Others could have a different experience. But we started out with php and 2 months down the line changed over to ROR and boy were we glad we switched!
The local daycares seem to be exclusively populated by kids of engineers, so I question that :)
I assume he wasn't hiring software developers...
Granted, this one did provide some original content - but all these Ultimate Landing Page articles simply seem to re-hash the same information in a link-baity (with infographics!) way.

Perhaps its just a knee-jerk reaction to the fact that they all originate from SEO/analytics company blogs, and recycle this chart http://www.formstack.com/the-anatomy-of-a-perfect-landing-pa...
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Maybe it's just my millenial entitlement, but that strikes me as a bad strategy. Unless the business was a cleaning or maintenance company, cleaning the bathroom seems far removed from anything relevant to my work and is in essence busywork. Questions that immediately spring into mind: is this some weird attempt at saving money by having employees do both their job and cleaning? Is this supposed to be some hazing ritual? Will this be representative of my time at the company?

Pitching in when it needs to be cleaned? Sure. Boss paying attention to who voluntarily cleans it? Sure. Making employees clean it on their first day? Not so much.

- millenial who cleans up after himself in the company kitchen
Don't go to the library. I don't want people taking my seat.
I'd phrase this as a rule: "Only argue if you feel close enough to the other party to admit if you're wrong, and if they feel the same way."
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Was this comment produced by a Markov generator? No part of it makes any sense.
+1 for the clpgh main branch.

The most awesome thing about the extended Carnegie Library system is how quickly I can go from seeing mention of a book (e.g. on HN) to finding it in the catalog and getting it delivered to the branch near my home. ILL is still a bit of a bother in contrast.

The combined catalog of all the libraries in the system has tremendously increased my use of the library, and I always was a library geek.
This. What matters most is what you want to create. When you've decided this, it almost doesn't matter what you program it in as long as you can get it done. If you're confused about which one to pick, just pick a widely adopted language that has a lot of community support and you'll have more than enough to learn with.
Good for them. It makes much more sense to shift government/business hours if needed than constantly mucking with the time and screwing up millions of software installations.
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When I was admitted to graduate school, I read up on each target professor's research, asked them relevant questions, met some at academic conferences, and made sure each knew I was applying to that graduate program to work directly with them before I sent my application in.

I also made sure I wasn't wasting my time applying to work with professors who were going on sabbatical or not accepting new graduate students.

Of course, this was for a history Ph.D., but I suspect the same advice holds elsewhere.
Exchanges and ban on pre-existing conditions don't kick in until 2014. That's why I left them out. But I agree, I should have been more precise.

Allowing 26-yr old "children" to stay on parents' healthcare only makes sense if the children are poor. Hence I counted it as geared towards poor. But I can see your point of view too.
My point is that, even in such a theoretical and apparently stagnant economy, wealth is still accumulated and economics is very far from a zero-sum game.
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Team collaboration is one major feature we are looking into adding. It could be setup two different ways depending on how the team would like to function. But essentially everyone could have their own codebase, or there could be one source code that everyone works from.

I haven't check out Bespin yet, but will do now.
Oh, and in case this helps, a 2005 Cornell study (debunking the "9 in 10 restaurants fail" stat that had been circulating) breaks down restaurant turnover rate by sector, and... wait for it...

Segment Year 3 Cum. Turnover

Mexican 86.81
Subs and bakeries 76.69
Coffee and snacks 70.00
Pizza 61.25
Chicken 57.88
Casual dining 53.13
Asian 51.43
Family dining 45.00
Steak 42.86
Buffets and cafeterias 38.46
Italian 35.29
Burgers 33.70
Seafood 33.33

These numbers include chains and are derived from health department licensing numbers.
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Thats why they're offering to do it via WEB. If you go and ask your friends to go and pay via the site - that doesn't make much sense does it?
I just feel better that most of the time, other parties won't be able to even see the actual port.
Since we're swapping anecdotes: I'd guesstimate 75% of the fixed-bid projects I worked on back when I worked for a consulting shop barely broke even or actively lost money. Estimating the project well enough to make a profitable bid is hard if, like many shops, you work in whatever domain happens to be sending customers your way.
Glad you like it. I'd personally like to add personalizition to the IDE so you can customize the colors and editor however pleases you.
Interesting idea. Although compare this to a survey (most commonly used idea research tool): even with a survey with hundreds of responses, there is the question of the sample's representativeness. Here the sample base is so small that the results (positive or negative) just cannot be regarded as statistically significant. It may be used as a complementary tool to measure the "virality", but cannot give me a 100% confidence level within 0% margin of error.
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...Which also happens to be the inflammatory thread topic on the Skype forum.

Grandparent: There might be all sorts of good intentions, criticism and suggestions in the thread, but if you start out with "new skype = FAIL", well, you're going to have a hard time framing that as constructive.
Sometimes I wonder the same, but since hate is but a feeling, I don't mind replying with a loose cannon argument. My beefs stem from:

* the involuntary walling up of the web
* the vendor lock-in of human relationships
* the unfulfilled potential for something greater
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You've got the pattern exactly wrong.

They mention take down notices which means they are aware of online copyright issues. I was attempting both to confirm that they felt this was tortuously infringing activity and giving the opportunity to respond with their moral justification.

>Well, no. Obviously they don't realize that

To recapitulate: if they mentioned "take down notices" then they appear to be living in the USA, aware of copyright in online material and cognisant of the Digitial Millenium Copyright Act (just an informed guess) as a minimum; my point was to confirm this and, like I said, dig for a response (without leading them on as to what sort of response to make - moral, legal, technical, political, ...).

The question was also serving as a flag for the issue for other readers.

So, whilst I'm prepared to entertain an argument that I was being disingenuous I'm afraid your premises are false and thus the reasoned conclusions equally unsound.

If you're looking to establish a relevant argument to the content of the thread then perhaps civil disobedience WRT copyright would be the way to go; there are strong arguments that the BBC should back a change in UK law as proposed elsewhere to ensure release of such works in to the public domain.
If this is a web application that you're doing as a possible startup or side business, then I'd stick with the technology stack that you already know. You'll make quicker progress and all of the challenges you'll be solving will be in the actual problem domain you're developing for.

If it's more of just a side project or there's no real time constraints, go ahead and spread your wings and learn the new stack.
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It has a ton of original content. Oli (from Unbounce) is considered one of the experts on landing pages and he talks a lot about them in this interview.

I included info-graphics in it because they help get the point across, plus they keep distracted reader interested in the content (who first scans the page if all he sees is text would probably run away)
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IMHO: Don't take on learning everything at once. For instance, if you want to make a mobile app that hits a php web service with a mysql db, start with web service and its language. You can dummy data inputs that would normally come from the mobile app via CLI or GET/POSTs and instead of writing to a DB, just echo what you would be writing to a log somewhere.

To me, anyway, it's like a foreign language. If you try to learn 3 in tandem, you may end up slowing yourself down. Get to a reasonable degree of fluency in one and the others will be easier.

Also, I don't recommend having a mobile app interface with your database directly. Always expose a web service and have it interface with your db. The great part about this work is that it sets you up for exposing a public API in the future, should you decide.
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I don't really see the point of this article. They didn't renew their annual membership and so they're membership ceased after the expiration date. Works the same way at my local gym.
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edit: bcrawford covered this as I was writing. It's difficult sometimes to find a path of what steps there are...so many choices.

Ok. Really stupid question time then. I understand most of what I'm working on for the mobile app.

Am I right about MySQL as a direction for what the app talks to?

I might try another project first that doesn't need outside data to get my feet wet. I may be getting ahead of myself here.
I wondered this as well when I lived in Seattle. The public library system in that city is phenomenal. Many of the small branches have nice modern designs and you can always go to the Central Library which has tons of desk space, power outlets, and window seating. Internet access wasn't blazing but I never had issue with blocked ports nor was it ever "too slow to do work".

Not sure about all the branches but the Capitol Hill branch has a decent sized meeting room which a monthly Tech Startup meetup used to use (though that was 3 years ago now).
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Rails has GET variables, but the "rails way" is "restful routes" whenever possible. So something like /posts/12 will automatically pass 12 as a specific GET variable e.g. params[:id]. Or /posts/12/comments/4 might pass the parameters :id (12) and :comment_id (4).

This happens all the time for people using PHP too, however it's usually accomplished via mod_rewrite. For example, Drupal's pretty URLs simply rewrite /posts/12/comments/4 to /index.php?q=posts/12/comments/4.
I was fortunate in community college because the instructor for my major (Linux admin) liked to spend large parts of class time telling stories from working in the IT industry.

Many interesting stories from dealing with MS audits in a mixed source environment.

The most interesting classes were those where he had us solve a real world problem (like researching and preparing an executive summary for a purchase).

Or the time he mangled all the computers while we were on break and had us troubleshoot them.
This is exactly why I got out of consulting. I also don't like working for consulting companies (even if I am a full-time employee there). To many times, the company takes on too much work for the number of employees, and the employee ends up suffering (tons of overtime..usually unpaid, pissed off customers, etc).

One of the worst place charged companies a flat-fee per month for tech support (some had 300 or 400 employees). There were about 10 of us that had to take on everything.

It resulted in customers calling us up for things that weren't even really problems..mostly just preference (IE: location of icons on the desktop).
Thanks, that's helpful. Did you limit your targets to professors working where you did your undergrad or did you try to cast a wider net? If so, did it work?
"a valuable non-tech perspective"

That comment was absolutely golden, and an idea that I've advocated for a long time now.

We can't rely on web/high/bio/green technology to save us. As a heterogeneous society with differing skin tones and accents and places of origin, we also have differing education levels. You can't say "hey there, person from a mining town with 5 generations of mining-town subsistence living, come join us over in good ol' Silly-Con valley and pull up a cubicle, work on some Erlang". But, is Mining Jane somehow less deserving of a shot at entrepreneurship than Aspie Joe who was raised with a keyboard under his fingers? When it boils down to it, they're both a big risk, and as we've seen our fair share of pizzerias and beauty supply shops go out business in our lifetime, we've also seen tech flameouts of the scale that makes the pizzeria one look like a rounding error. And, that's the _vast majority_ of *-tech venture. Only a few come out on top.

I think a refocus of the SBA and Startup America and all those other things should be to empower entrepreneurship at _every_ skill, education, and economic level. Look for opportunities like Champs. Set up a 1-2 million dollar fund for them to continue educating, maybe give out grants. So what if there's a barber shop or bodega or gun shop on every block. I'd much rather they toil and struggle away on a business than slog it out at the french frier for the big Clown McMachine. And, when they fail, hey they fail. But, they fail with a much better feel for how real business is supposed to run, and they might get better at it (or go work for someone else in a much higher position than one that requires bell-bottom uniforms and a paper hat).
Move to San Francisco. While working on your startup you can be eligible for Health SF http://www.healthysanfrancisco.org/ -- basically free health insurance from the city.
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Duke's "Friends of the Libraries" is only $50 a year or $100 if you want access to the medical, business, law, and divinity libraries as well. I might actually consider working from there a couple times a week.
>Arguing on the internet is pointless.

Have you never been convinced by a counter-argument delivered via "the internet"? Not even enough to alter your position even slightly, nor even your approach to others in presenting your position?
Thanks. I'm trying to take it slow but have a goal that I'm working towards for the future.

App first with dummy data seems like a doable first step.
So I guess Google, Facebook and Wikipedia wouldn't work?
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That's a great precedent! I hope the US abandons winter time, too.
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Selling pickaxes, my friend.
This doesn't mean that Toyota was in the right all along. I still think they got a bad rap for what happened, but apparently I'm in the minority.

More context:

The probe by National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and NASA engineers found that the only causes of the unwanted acceleration were the previously identified sticking accelerator pedals and loose floormats that could jam the pedals.
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Python generated viewing order for Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis
because they do... even that little intel sticker means you're saving some dough.
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>How many of us have the phone bill from 5 years ago filed neatly away in some box? Let some stuff go.

5 years is, IIRC, the term for keeping records for tax purposes where I am .. worth checking before discarding all your old records.
No kidding. That's one hell of a family. :)
I think 5 people would put down cash for any of these if explained correctly.
Perhaps we should pay someone to decide what people are allowed to look at on those computers. Actually, that doesn't seem fair. Perhaps we should pay a committee to decide, and they can hand their decision to an IT department to implement. Well, I suppose adding another responsibility to the library's IT staff will mean we'll have to pay to add a position to the department so they're staffed well enough. There. Problem solved. Funds are no longer being misused. Right?

Because this is the internet, the above probably seems really snarky. It's meant to be a calm, civil anecdote to illustrate my point, but I apologize if it does seem hostile. In any case, I think preventing people from using their library computer time as they see fit 1) will result in upset users due to many false positives, 2) results in more ... "big-brother-ism", if you will, 3) will cost as much money as it saves.
I bought a few netbooks a year ago, I had to spend over an hour uninstalling all the bloatware -- I had a farm of them on my coffee table running the uninstallers on each simultaneously.
Depends on the argument. It helps to not be flat wrong, as the author was in the case of his parking ticket and his attempt at appealing it.

I thought that was funny, because he was essentially playing the part of the guy trying to cut into line (from his later example), and the cop was the person not actually arguing with him while not letting him get away with it.

Mind, stopping yourself from arguing with people who call you on doing the wrong things is probably a wise change to make.
That's a good point and actually applies perfectly in my case. They still use essentially the same setup I created.
I'm not certain why you're so emphatically insisting that an article that is a pure anecdote--a case study of a single failed business--is more relevant than industry-wide data. You're quick to insult me for citing "a single study from an industry marketing organization", but you aren't citing anything.

You state: "your analysis assumes that the coffee shop market is divided between 'Starbucks' and 'Independents'." It does not, and I'm not certain how you can read it that way. Also, describing what I referred to as a "back of the envelope calculation" as "analysis" is silly.

Furthermore, the comment that I was originally responding to did not distinguish between chain coffee shops and independent ones, so your insistence on excluding Starbucks from consideration is bizarre.

Do you have anything to offer other than insults and an anecdote? You appear to be arguing with some passion for the proposition that coffee shops are money losing operations. Provide some evidence, some reason for believing this other than a single Slate article about a single failed business in trendy part of Manhattan.
Actually, I was referring to Facebook, Myspace and YouTube (from the parent comment) more than the porn, though it doesn't read like that! And I don't actually have a smartphone, so the only thing I can do with my phone on the Underground when going to work is ... tell the time.
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If you're going to use the vacation time route then please don't go to unlimited vacation. To some employees unlimited vacation is the same thing as none.
Python actually is strongly typed: Everything does have a type, and aside from within numerics (integers upconvert to floats), Python generally won't automatically convert between them. Mixing objects of different types in operations that would otherwise be ambiguous hence throws an error: You can't use a string and a numeric as the operands of an addition without explicitly converting one of them first, for example.

However, variables in Python aren't names assigned to storage areas for data of a particular type, but store references to objects, and can be freely reassigned to objects of any type at any time, i.e. there's no type constraint on them. Similarly, Python's built-in collection working horses (lists, dictionaries, tuples, sets) store references to objects of any type as well, including allowing mixing of the types of referenced objects in a single collection.

So while on one hand it won't allow you to shoot yourself in the foot with type mixing to a degree that e.g. PHP does, it also won't allow you to place much in the way of specific type constraints on common constructs. Technically you can check an object's specific type explicitly, but that's a lot of manual work and frowned upon since it undermines polymorphism, i.e. having the same code work on as many different object types as possible as long as they implement the interfaces the code wants to use. Some people feel this makes large bodies of code harder to maintain than in a language that places specific type constraints on variables, collections and other constructs.
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Wifi is indeed usually atrocious at rest stops, which is why the one in Nebraska was such a find (my standard is 'works well for 8 bit VNC'). I find they usually 'work', technically, but the signal quality is very poor.

Some hotels have been similarly ruined for me by lack of acceptable internet service. As an entrepreneur, I'm never on a real vacation and thus a reliable, stable, reasonably fast connection is even more important than working plumbing. If a 3G device can take care of that, it's quite a relief. I always dreaded that I would sign in at a hotel, go to my room, and find the internet connection was lousy.
how much pre-seed/seed capital are you looking to raise?
Not nearly as socialistic as Nixon's mandatory wage and price controls. (Cue Glenn Beck rant: there's a reason Nixon went to China!)

You're quite right about the rhetoric, but it's completely unmoored from reality.