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Bah, I don't care about equity. I just want the work to be interesting and the pay to be high.
I'm not a Dropbox user yet, but the integration and simplicity of this task manager is pretty sweet. It would feel more mine with alternative background colors. Great job!

The iTunes redirect bothers me too, it's a bit too intrusive and probably heavy on some computers. I am a iOS dev and my links do the same thing.
Flipping houses, ah yes. This is a beautiful tax loophole created and endorsed by the lobbying NAR that enables salespeople the ability to make bucketloads of commissions based on unrealistic appreciation of house values in a very short amount of time. Housing market go boom, boom, bust.
I'll buy a home with cash. Never with debt. Mortgages are pointless. I'd rather pay my rent to a landlord than a bank.
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> Yegge has since admitted that NBL was Javascript.

Not really, no.

I work with Steve, and he's always been saddened that nobody really understood that the language he describes in his NBL article doesn't exist. He was hoping that someone would invent it.
Fair enough. You didn't offend me, I just see that sort of conclusion quite a bit; I think it was the way you worded it.
Meh, I understand their intent behind it but honestly it's too little way too late.

When Giuliani cleaned up NYC's Times Square (if I remember this correctly) he enacted a law that said adult establishments had to be X meters from main streets, etc. etc. Whatever the details were the net effect was he pushed them all onto the back streets and immediately Times Square turned into Disney Stores, etc.

For the XXX TLD to be successful the same thing would have to happen, existing domains would have to be pushed to the internet's red light district. The reason is that none of the existing 2 quintillion porn sites is going to voluntarily change their domain and obliterate all their existing traffic. Since there is no ruling body that can push them over there (let alone all the debate over whether that would even be legal) the number of them that are going to move by choice should be right around Zero.

Not such a bad idea, but really the new corral should have been build before the wild cows escaped, spread out across the wild west, got comfortable, and had several generations of offspring.
If someones fly is unzipped, I'd point it out because that's the sort of accident that can happen to even the most competent and discerning.

If someones pants are sagged around their knees, I expect them to have noticed this themselves, and by walking around in public they've accepted the possibility of ridicule.

I consider having a non-beta site to be 'walking around in public', and revealing code and internal data (however small) when there is a malformed request to be 'walking around in public with your pants sagged at your knees'.

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That said, rappers don't have to buy belts and maybe the culture of the 'new economy' is such that some people do not have to value security.
Except that mechanisms like DEP, ASLR, heap cookies, etc are being applied to all systems. Why? Because all of these OSes are vulnerable to the same classes of flaws.

Since XP SP2, Windows has led the way in protecting code itself. Linux is largely on par these days, with OS X trailing way behind (they're playing catch-up now).

As far as complexity, I strongly recommend you actually look at the protections in place. Those on Windows are significantly simpler (and more effective) than those on Linux, as of Windows Vista. The new heap, the simplified ASLR, etc all made things considerably simpler and harder to attack.
>In reality, local production of many things (cars) won't work with today's tools, and a real mix of general purpose local shops and standardized / accessible large ones is the real "Industry 2.0" path.

Assuming I won/t the same car GM is stamping out, they can beat me.

But what I want is a flying car and an 10.1 inch Android tablet, both of which are things nobody currently produces.

And tools only improve, so at some point we can defeat the empty leftovers of the industrialized age.
The conditions of Detroit actually make it one of the most attractive areas for Real Estate investment in the country.

High & mid-rise buildings Downtown are being purchased (Dan Gilbert is one such buyer) for 6 figure sums.

http://detnews.com/article/20110127/BIZ/101270352/Quicken-Lo...
On Chrome(Win), the windows doesn't autoscroll on joining/leaving announcements. It scrolls normally when a new message arrives.
Well, excepting cosmic ray bit-flipping and the like.
Yes, that should be worded clearer. But, there's still a way for you to get the advance PDF and Manning to get what they expected in return: you can still cancel your Amazon order and order from Manning instead.

Problem solved. If you don't want to do that, then you're over-reacting.
> Most people who are losing money in real estate ...

Many people are losing money simply by having the value of their houses fall. They don't want to sell, but their so called "investment" is worth half the price today on the open market than it was when they bought it. Realistically, they may never recover the value they spent in their lifetimes.
Whatsupedia doesn't work properly even in full screen on my monitor (at 1366x768) - by which I mean the "use these to view a more specific community" image pointing to the sidebar never becomes fully visible. Minor design flaw, but irritates me. Pressing the "add to favorites" arrow (which doesn't exactly communicate what it is visually save through the tooltip) presents a message telling me to login; it should instead send me to a login/register page. The directory button uses the standard symbol for home, which is confusing. Under "recent posts," pressing the link for the second page reloads the entire page (requiring me to scroll back to the bottom); either reloading just the recent posts box or using an anchor to push my browser back to the bottom of the page after it finishes reloading would be better.
> Then it becomes clear that "I" is correct.

No, it's not.

Your sentences are correct, though, but you altered them from the original by adding a verb, thereby requiring the presence of a subject. The original sentence doesn't have a verb, therefore they need the object form.

In other words:

"You're stronger than I am"

"You're stronger than me"

This last sentence is the form used in the article.
> (though if I have kids, they will be)

Not a parent, but I think the best thing you can do for your kids is to lead a good life yourself -- where good is by your own standards.

> I feel like I have a lot of catching up to do.

I must say -- you describe your skills similarly to most people I know who are seriously good. Really good people recognize there's a lot of stuff out there they don't know and would benefit from learning.
For some reason I'm reminded of AIM and I miss AIM. I'm going to start a start-up that remakes AIM that you can log in with Facebook.
I didn't vote on your remark, but elsewhere in this thread, it's demonstrated with six lines of PHP that the contents will be exposed.
Here's an analogy.

Man to Plumber: "The pipe burst! What happened? I thought that steel could handle that water pressure".

Subtext: Which is it: do I not really know what steel can handle, did you expect lower pressure than you got, or are you just a bad plumber?
Not really. I know the US has exceptionally low interest rates, but in every other country I've ever lived interest rates are almost always higher than rental yields. Properties that are yielding higher than the current interest rate are the exception rather than the rule. On that basis, you're paying a premium to "own" your home.

The only benefit of owning in such a market is that purchasing means you draw a line in the sand, "A" is now more in control if their monthly rent. But they're not in complete control, interest rates rise, the building needs to get repaired, there's those not insignificant legal and other costs associated with purchasing in the first place. That adds up to quite an expense. Meanwhile "B" doesn't have those concerns, and a great deal of flexibility and liquidity.

I'll personally stay "B", and my investment properties will be limited to those rare gems that are cash-flow positive within a year or two.
Oh, I'm pretty sure they do. Not because their main stream articles are any good, but because they seem to go out and find the really weird stories and jazz them up. They get a lot of play on fark.com and they like to put up bigger pictures that tends to draw the links on entertainment stories. Not good journalism, but they seem to have brought their newsstand game to the web in a fairly smart fashion.
That is a pretty sweeping generalization. I work for a public radio station. Our journalists routinely interview primary sources, sometimes live on the air. We also transcribe those interviews and put them on the web. We've also been increasing the size of our news staff, not decreasing. It's not all doom and gloom, it just depends on the medium and the revenue model.
True for people who purchased in the last 3-4 years in Florida, Cali, Nevada and a few other places. Last 10 years in Michigan.
Nice endeavor! I especially appreciate the clean design.

You shouldn't really worry about the Reddit comparison, as there are many more potential users in the world than there are redditors. On top of that, you are free to pivot as you like, while Reddit's users won't let it change.

I've written my own HN copy for Hebrew-speaking Hackers (http://bitorama.com), and I'd be very interested to read how things go for you. Best of luck!
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Yes, but it now allows for a plethora of new domains to be registered. Type anything marginally sex-related and put .com on the end and I assure you it's already taken; new websites would either need very long or non-obvious domain names.

Additionally, .xxx reinforces the point of the site: leather.xxx is pretty obvious, n'est-ce pas?
What's keeping someone from making a search engine that doesn't have these flaws?
She wasn't saying that. She was responding to that idea.
RIP DIG
"I could definitely do this if the startup job could pay me full salary."

Some can. "Startup" can still encompass something that's been running a year, is profitable, and has ~10 employees. You'll still get most if not all the autonomy while drawing a salary. You may have to give up stock options to get it, but, well, sometimes you come out the winner on those transactions....

You're trading some job security away but as others say that only matters if the job disappears and you can't quickly find another.

I won't tell you not to go big company but I would suggest you may have a false dichotomy here. The choice isn't between 3 guys going bankrupt and a bureaucracy-bound multi-national with thousands of employees. There's a lot of middle ground.
Your question is too vague. Please provide concrete details, or answers will be abstract and useless as well.
Not sure what the simplest would be from a tech perspective (probably paypal). But I'd only pay people once they've built up enough of a balance to make it worthwhile to do a payout. At the very least, you'd reduce your payout throughput that way.
Looking for interesting startup APIs for mobile client development
Do you know any startup with smaller userbase and public API which I could use to create mobile client, get experience while building it, publish it for free and have something to put in my resume?

Thanks
Thanks I appreciate that!
I am guessing that this is because you are off-topic, writing about the publisher which doesn't seem to be the topic of the OP.
Can confirm this.
Anyone involved in pornography who would've previously bought a .io, .fm, .tv, or any other 'non standard' TLD just so they could have a meaningful domain name.

Now they can get a meaningful domain name, and have a TLD that emphasizes the point of the site.

The whole discussion about these domains being blocked is a ridiculous one---anywhere that would block .xxx TLD would also block any pornographic content in general regardless of the domain name.
Clearly they should make vim mandatory on every machine;-)
I guess the 'i' comes from someone who is used to use vim but in this case using another editor.
I think his post is a bit extreme. It depends on a lot of factors on whether to buy a house or not. I think most of his reasons aren't really valid for not owning a home.

I'll make some comments on his financial arguments:

A) If you pay off your home fast, you won't have anymore mortgage payments. And you actually own something that you might be able to sell later, getting some money back. If you rent, you won't see that money ever again. So technically your cash is good as gone if you rent. If you own, you can get something back at least.

This depends on the house you buy and the market. For example, I rented a lot until I found a good deal on a house. Now I pay less on my mortgage than on my apartment I rented.

The rent may increase every year too. At every place I stayed, they always raised the rent every year. At least with the home, you don't have to worry about that since you have the same mortgage payment every month.

B) Usually the seller pays the closing costs, especially at the current market. If not, negotiate so the seller pays. You don't usually have to worry about this if you're buying a home.

C) He's right on this one. The comfort of calling the maintenance person at my apt was one of the benefits over owning.

D) This is simliar to A). It depends on the market and the home you get. For me, the taxes + mortgage turned out to be simliar to what I paid in rent. Plus I now get a huge refund because of my deductions. So I paid around the same amount as my rent, and I got a bigger refund on my taxes.

E) I agree with the author. This is probably one of the disadvantages of owning a house.

F) I don't consider my home an investment. It's a place I bought to live in. I don't expect to make a profit from it. I have my stocks and mutual funds that I consider to be investments.

Now my comments on his personal reasons on not owning a home:

A) I agree with the author. This is same as E) above. I don't know why he put it twice.

B) I don't see how this is a reason not to own a home. The benefits of owning a home is that you can do whatever you want with it without worrying about the landlord looking over your shoulder.

C) I don't understand this argument as a reason for not buying a home.

D-F). Not everyone is same. Some people's hobbies are gardening and maintaining the home. They actually enjoy doing it. Some people like the sense of stability. But if you're like the author and like to change things up a lot and be mobile, a house is probably not good for you.

G) I got stressed when I rented because the landlord needed to raise the rent every year. Then I had to go through the stress of negotiating the rent increase. If I wasn't successful, I had the stress of budgeting for the higher rent or had the stress of packing all my junk up, finding a new place, and moving. So renting isn't always stress free.

H) This is true. But if you plan wisely, you should still have a lot of cash available for emergencies, even after buying your home.
Ah, my experience as well! I wanted a cool, easy to remember number, and though a good numeric pattern would do. The obvious ones were taken, so I thought about repeated pairs of numbers. I tried all 100 combinations of two digits, and found a number which begins with 42 repeated 4 times. I wish I knew who the lucky person was who snagged 42 repeated for all ten digits!
After using eZ Publish with its templating language (also implemented in PHP) for about a year, I've found `raw' PHP just more expressive and concise -- and my team, coming from various backgrounds, has that preferrence as well.

Whaddya know, PHP is a templating language, after all.

Also, it takes us less effort to ship product that matches performance requirements with `raw' PHP than with another layer of abstraction.
I'm not arguing against building unique things industry doesn't / won't make. I'm saying that it's more realistic to better coordinate existing production than try to invent some small scale / limited way of doing so. Have fun making a capacitive screen with that equipment list... ;-)
I've been working at a large company for the last 7 years, recently quit to join another large company. I have always had projects "on the side," but those have (so far) never led anywhere, and I can only dream of joining a startup -- Why? Because the money in corporate work is good enough, the job is stable, and you are right that if someone takes you under their wing, you can go far.

On the flipside, upper management is usually not a good place for (ex-)developers (which means less money). Maybe it's just my perception of things, but it seems like you already have to be a part of the upper management club to join the upper management club, if that makes sense.

Another bad point is you have to deal with people that you will never be sure how they even got a job. This can be very frustrating at times because sometimes these people can hold a position of power, and you just have to learn to say "yes sir" in the face of an obviously-bad decision -- in fact, you may be experiencing this right now.

Finally, you there can be a huge amount of bureaucracy that you have to deal with and this can be frustrating if you're the type that just wants to get stuff done.

After joining corporate, you might not want to join a startup because your job is "cushy" and you don't want to take on that much risk. You will be "comfortable." And if you're ok with that, I say go for it, it's not so bad as everyone here thinks it is :)
No, all bugs are not human error.

Some bugs are caused because the programmer cannot see into the future and determine that something they programmed will be used in a manner that was not intended (using a Hammer function instead of the new Screwdriver function).

So the bug is in the code that the programmer wrote years ago. It is not suitable for today and WOULD crash and create a bug if used that way.

But is there an error somewhere? No, the programmer just cannot see into the future.
Housing is not an investment, it's an expense.

To compare another investment, if you were to save $200/mo away into an investment account bearing 9.0% (like an S&P index fund), this would amount to $368,894 after 30 years. The whole time these funds are liquid and accessible to you, not subject to foreclosure, nor is this a required payment. $400/mo is $737,789.
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Awesome! Would love to keep in touch - my email is in my HN profile.
Leave. Your hard work is being wasted there. I was in almost an identical situation. When I left the company folded, but funding was getting short anyway (the first time a check bounced I used that as my excuse). The boss won't be happy, but you can only go up from where you're at.

Happy side note: 10 years later I'm running my own startup (only founder) and it's great. However, working in big companies between the two was definitely helpful.
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Thanks, I'll investingate and probably adopt it for my code :D
They have code review post-commit? It seems like a very dangerous practice. How do you guys feel about it?
Mortgages are an excellent inflation hedge. Consider it--you borrow a large pool of dollars to buy the home. The value of the dollar drops through the floor. Now you are paying back the loan which was for a fixed amount and doesn't change with dollars worth half as much.
For a web based chat platform I think it falls short, but from what cmatthieu said about making it, Chats.io is really a weekend project. Not really something that 'launches' anyways.

As far as what he could do to improve it, here are some ideas:
1. IRC is a solid and robust chat platform that has been around for a long time, you should really look towards what makes it strong and how it is used. Take that and apply what works towards the web app.

2. After building the foundation on solid chat technology, add in things people expect from a web app. I wouldn't mind seeing actual profiles with publicly available logs and what channels they frequent. You could add friends and what not and know when they login and what channels they frequent as well.

3. Since Node.js is so versatile, look at making it compatible with IRC so that IRC clients can connect to it and function as you would expect. This would be an added feature, but could be huge. Not everyone likes using their browser to chat, I know I don't.

Good luck with it, glad to see someone making some fun stuff with Node.js and showing it off.
The problem is that many in the US have been brainwashed into believing their house IS an investment and this justifies purchasing above their means, because "at least I'm not throwing the money away in rent."
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Just shot you an email -- you should consider working with us (Profitably) if the fit is good.
Assumptions. Engineers are confident that building a search engine requires thousands of servers, indexing the entire web, coming up with some super complex algorithm etc...

Maybe we need a couple of guys who do not know their limitations and are ready to approach search from a different angle.
I read that as disputing the exclusive ability of any specific performer to make people's lives enjoyable, while all others will not be able to do so.

Before Gaga, people were paying for Madonna. After Gaga, people will be breathlessly excited and pay for someone else. If there was no Gaga, people would be breathlessly excited and pay for someone else yet.
I doubt anyone would be offended, but I consider breaking bread with the rest of the company part of the job and corporate culture especially if folks not directly working together get together. It is an effective tool for informal interaction which helps folks adapt to each others unique communications styles.

I think it might be more in keeping with the spirit to suggest group lunch outings just to get out of the office. My old team at IBM used to take our lunches to the park across the street by the Charles River when the weather was nice or take lunch bicycle rides.
I actually like that feature. I generally tend to know how my search queries sound but not how they are spelled, so this gets me to where I want to go faster. I imagine this is also true for a large number of people, so I doubt it would be changed.
The existence of one bug doesn't imply complete disaster everywhere. It should be treated as an anecdote. Good science demands it.

Good science would also suggest Tumblr should get some experts to help them discover anything else that might be lingering, which they're planning to do. Much like a peer review process.

Your attitude is important for those in the security industry as it pushes things forward, but remember that not everyone has the time to spend on it that you might. It can either be an asset or the bane of your existence. As an asset, you get paid for the things you understand because others don't. As the bane of your existence, you fight society for not knowing what you know.

Tumblr is hiring. Maybe you should apply and help them fix it?
The latest AIM lets you do this already.