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> Let's see you write as much about having used a "really nice chopstick"..

Even though I think you're splitting hairs (I think the omelette and knife examples work well) I can write about a really nice pair of chopsticks: the ones I'm using right now to eat my pasta for dinner. They're not fancy, I think I bought the 5 (pair) pack for less than $10. But the weight of the metal is just perfect. Not too heavy, not too light... just slightly heavier than a wooden disposable pair of chopsticks. It's a very rounded square shape with small grooves on the tapered end to give you enough purchase to grab pretty much anything while not getting in your way and being difficult to manipulate because of edges or overall slipperiness. There's nothing ornate about this pair, which makes it easy to clean and to pair with random sets of my modernist spoons and forks. Unlike the stereotypical huge plastic pair of chopsticks at Chinese restaurants, the heavy flat metal ones that fatigue my hand at Korean restaurants, and the wooden pair that splinters that comes with my takeout, this is perfect.

Okay, so I went there. But I'm not kidding, I really do mean it about these chopsticks.

> Make it easier to type on an iPad? I don't think that's going to happen

Really, that is the only thing I compare when I'm shopping for an iOS ssh client. Ease of typing all the keys I need in an ssh client makes all the world of difference on a screen as small as an iPhone, while it may not be as big of a deal on iPad. Plus, Prompt works out-of-the-box just fine with my bluetooth keyboard that I've seen, unlike iSSH and some other alternatives, so that's already made the $5 well worth it to me.
Bah, this article is trash. The Chrome browser is free software which means that this feature will be added into the code, whether it is officially released as Chrome is another matter. I'm fairly certain that the non-Google version, Chromium or whatever they're calling it, will include this feature.
#1 doesn't sound right to me. You should be able to create Cloud Files persisted backups and use them to launch new instances even after the original parent is gone.

Granted there could be some extenuating circumstance for your specific setup, but I think typically that scenario is supported out of the box.
It would be a cat and mouse game for a while, with the bot ultimately winning.
"PHP is regarded as a clumsy and amateurish technology, best left to development newbies". I am not sure who it is that regards PHP in such a way.

No one likes it but it gets the job done in a clumsy and amateurish way. It's the BASIC of web programming. Those other so-called sexy languages have actually been designed rather than having features bolted on later, those features are designed to fit into the language from the start.

some of the biggest sites out there are running on PHP just fine.

Popularity != proof of goodness.
It's somewhat of an illusion. I only know the best books about subjects I understand fairly well, and I also try only to comment about subjects I understand.

Interesting question how to tell whether you're reading a biased account. It would take an essay to answer that. After you know some history, you can tell because biases causes their owners to make mistakes. But there's probably also internal evidence too. Never seeming surprised would be a bad sign, for example.
And you know this how--- Because SCO told you or what? Groklaw will not close; PJ will stop writing articles, but the site will remain. There is even an outside chance that the reins will be turned over to another to keep up the crusade to educate both geeks and lawyers.
In addition the Rackspace API supports injecting a file into the API post request which will be placed into the system as it is initialized. The intent of this is to inject some sort of individual identifier to a server, which could be in the form of an ID number that is read by a boot script in your gold image, but other useful scenarios that would work would be to inject the root password you want or to disable root login entirely and inject an ssh public key file for a non-root account.
That is the exact reason why I am cross shopping as well.
On that article, the funny thing is that Mac OS X is changing their APIs faster nowadays.
When I started using CodIgniter the easiness of installing the framework really amazed me. You don't even need the mod_rewrite enabled!

Just extract the CodIgniter code into a webserver directory and create the controller code to show some output or load a view and you are done!
Yes, they would still be the worst thing! I know, I used to use Godaddy, for my sins.

Strike one: I messaged their support asking when they'd get a usability expert to look at their awful interface. Response was basically "get used to it". So don't expect it ever to change.

Strike two: the maddeningly pervasive upselling. Wading through 500KB pages of desperate attempts to sell you hosting, SSL certs, and steak knives sapped most of my will to live.

Strike three: Trying to spin hunting a endangered species in a corrupt banana republic as a heroic and selfless deed
made me vomit.

YOU'RE OUT, GODADDY! And I feel so much cleaner now my domains are with Namecheap.
An infomercial style sales pitch isn't the same as a negotiation.
You used the word properly. In addition, your response smacks of philosophical irony.

Further, I think it's ironic that even people who champion the proper use of ironic, don't know what it genuinely signifies.

I'd love to say it's also unfortunate that people put much thought into correcting others' use of the term, but that in and of itself would be an ironic statement.
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Awesome! I've been looking at moving all my domains (.com and .co/org.nz to IWMN for a while - the fact that you're a kiwi with a customer focussed bootstrapped startup might just tip the scales :)

All the best!
Look at figure 3 in this PDF:

http://napobo3.lk.net/dna/Behar_2010.pdf
I've worked both on the buy and sell side of the new issue trade. On the buy side, as a proprietary trader, who had the option to buy the new issue (or not). On the sell side, pricing and structuring deals with the equity capital markets team, and placing them into the market. (This means selling them to institutional clients.)

It's not surprising to me that this stock exhibited really high volatility on day one. It's not easy to value this particular block of equity. It could easily have traded down 50% if the pricing was overly aggressive.

Here's why:

- Not profitable.

- No easy comparables to help you know what metrics the market is going to care about, or what multiple it will apply.

- Sub-majority block of equity being sold means public shareholders won't have control as a group.

- Large overhang in the form of the significant amount of shares that aren't being sold in the IPO, but will eventually need to get sold.

Typically an IPO would be shopped around the street, meaning that multiple banks would have the opportunity to handle the sale.

If it's a fully underwritten deal, one parameter that gets negotiated is the underwriting price: bank X will guarantee that you sell the stock for no less than $15; bank Y will guarantee that you sell it for no less than $18. (Note: they take a % off the top. Plus commission when they sell it to institutions.)

In a market this starved for IPOs, I'd guess this was an underwritten deal, which means that the other banks probably wanted to place it at an even lower price.
For me it was more of seeing an end-user need not being served and slowly mulling over ways to serve that need, progressing to building a prototype on my own time, finding an equally-motivated co-founder, before finally going full-time.

The end-user need wasn't served because of both technological and business reasons. Customers complained without much being done, so I thought that might be an opportunity.
Are there other platforms that this will work on?

Also can you elaborate a little on HIPPA compliance measures that are being taken?
This person was a paying customer, and did get human support. From the article:

We got back several emails explaining that they are very sorry,
but while they are working on retrieving the file, they can’t
promise any dates or times.

It's easy to miss that, as most of the article was a copy-paste of a useless email. Looks like after that, he did get the human support you're talking about.
This can be very useful
http://freelanceswitch.com/rates/

It'll let you know what you can charge based on your circumstances - consider it a bottom line figure. Markets are such that supply and demand will alter this (if your skills are short supply, like being one of the few developers in the area, it's likely you can charge more)
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Being in accounting I can tell you that yes it would really help to have a class in it. However, I have met quite a few programmers who hated accounting. I do not know your point about going into university, what is the point of doing it period? Is it worth paying $3000 for free printing or maybe the library space?

Are you trying to be self-sufficient in everything?
If you go by the look & feel of their web interface then it certainly still feels like a bolt-on. I also remember various of their server ips to have PTRs to slicehost names, but that may have changed since I looked (a couple months ago).
Thanks. I had always heard of scheme as a dialect of lisp so I figured the philosophy was consistent across both.
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I'm looking for a type of y combinator type startup. I want to invest in a company that has a identifiable business model and plan to get that itself profitable. So, this includes both tech b2b and consumer web.
Assuming ~2 billion internet users, that's less than 1 in 2000 users in less than 10 weeks.

If I start a business in my home town and get 5 new customers per week, do I deserve a write up?
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In my experience, students who do well are the ones who learn early how to self-teach.

A university can provide you with a lot of efficiencies (some faculty are extremely good at explaining things) but I don't think there's any knowledge that can't be self taught with sufficient motivation.
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key, I think, is to make sure that more than one entity needs to screw it up. If it's really important, make that three entities. But the point is, if google hosts your email, make sure you have backups somewhere else.

Personally, I think this applies to yourself, too. As much as possible, make it difficult for you to overwrite your own backups before they expire. If possible, encrypt and outsource.
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I think by "explosive" they were talking about the volcano, not that the theory was that sensational. Granted the choice of the natural pun was probably not the best... :-)
The biggest reason I've stuck with EC2 is that no other provider provides many hundreds of GB of disk space like EC2 does. Even the smallest "tiny" EC2 node can have 1TB of EBS attached to it.
Heres a good quora post on it, this is mostly related to programming:

http://www.quora.com/What-skills-do-self-taught-programmers-...
I'm not trying to argue, I was simply trying to discover how much he thought popularity matters. If he figured van Gogh was unimportant, it'd be pointless to try to convince him that sometimes having companies doing interesting things is worthwhile.

(On another note, is Mac OS 9 valuable now? Will it become more valuable eventually? Should Apple just have closed shop since they had a small marketshare and a product that isn't valuable now? Could the lessons learned from the Newton have possibly been applied to make some other kind of consumer device?)
only thing i can think of is its one char off of testis. but i don't know if it would be that big of a deal. in the same ballpark as "pens.com" being one letter off of penis.

unless there's something else? and i couldn't come up with a better, relevant, easy to remember name. any suggestions?
Unless you're going to a vocational school the point of an education should be to make you more well rounded as an individual. Although you may be shocked as you go through your career how important liberal arts can be — one thing that amazes me is how much writing one does as an example.

If you look at the very best entrepreneurs they're curious about everything -- be it Steve Jobs and his interest in calligraphy or Bill Gate's current interest in international medical issues. I realize that at first glance these things seem to have nothing to do with tech, but they do as tech intersects with many other fields from finance to law to social interactions (yes sociology!).

In terms of what to study you should pick a subject you have a passion for and go for that — if most teachers see that you find something to be too simple the good ones will allow you to explore most subjects in depth. And in that sense getting the right teacher is just as important as picking the right course.
http://www.avweb.com/news/sayagain/191072-1.html has a (now retired) US air traffic controller's thoughts on a fatal collision involving two of the three planes a European controller was responsible for. It suggests that not all cases of sleep deprived controllers are harmless.
I don't understand why a question on Quora with no answers is worth posting to HN.
B) always be available.

That's a relative term, though. While complete outages are rare, there are frequent, prolonged periods of abysmal performance (latency in the >300ms range, throughput approaching <50 MBit/s) and the average performance without CloudFront isn't stellar either.

However, for many use-cases the sheer convenience and low cost of entry trump these issues.
While reading this, I kept thinking that search results are ads too, at least as the author defines them. Google still managed to create a valuable proposition for advertisers, so why couldn't Twitter?
There are also airplanes without radios (though such planes normally operate at untowered airports).
The whole premise of Cisco's teleconferencing business is maintaining the illusion that that it has to be expensive to do -- which isn't true for 80% of the market at least.

Cisco won't make billions on peddling their stuff to the 20% of the market who has a few million to drop on a telepresence system.
The background contains vertical bars 2 pixels high. The edge of the icon should therefore be positioned so that only 1 pixel of the vertical bars is showing rather than having both pixels showing. Also the left and right edges should have the whitespace between the vertical bars showing rather than the vertical bars directly adjacent to the left and right edges.

Also, I'm only seeing the inconsistency in the concave parts of the icons. The outer border is fully consistent with the design guidelines.
What browser these days doesn't have a "clear all cookies" option? You can even browse in private mode and have your cookies cleared automatically. Chrome is working on multiple profile support: http://www.chromium.org/user-experience/multi-profiles
Either you misunderstood IDGA's letter or you misunderstood gacba's comment, or both. None of this has anything to do with the 30% cut they take, so I'm not sure why you're mentioning that.

The complaint is in regards to Amazon controlling the cost of the app rather than the developer controlling the cost of the app. That's all. Gacba was simply saying that if you don't want Amazon controlling the cost of your app, then make it free and sell in-app purchases. Since Amazon doesn't control how much you sell your in-app purchases for, they lose total control over the cost of your app and the developer gains the control back.
> AGPL is not open anymore and I don't know how it could pass the open-source definition -- because AGPL is an EULA that restrict what users can do with said software, usage rights that don't have anything to do with redistribution by the normal copyright definition.

Stallman on SAAS:

I came up to the mike again because I wanted to address
the topic that Tim O'Reilly raised....a proprietary program
on a web server that somebody else is running limits his
freedom perhaps, but it doesn't limit your freedom or my freedom.
We don't have that program on our computers at all, and in fact
the issue of free software versus proprietary [only] arises for
software that we're going to have on our computers and run on
our computers. We're gonna have copies and the question is,
what are we allowed to do with those copies? Are we just allowed
to run them or are we allowed to do the other useful things
that you can do with a program? If the program is running on
somebody else's computer, the issue doesn't arise. Am I allowed
to copy the program that Amazon has on it's computer? Well, I can't,
I don't have that program at all, so it doesn't put me in a morally
compromised position.

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/08/open-source-licens...

Given that, and AGPL's clear incompatibility with Freedom 0 (it restricts your freedom to run the program for any purpose), and it how it is triggered by something other than an act of distribution, it was very surprising to see the FSF approve it.

Your characterization of AGPL as a EULA is spot on. Unlike Free Software licenses, which relax things that are exclusive rights of the copyright owner, AGPL restricts things that aren't otherwise prohibited under copyright. That is exactly the criticism the FSF and many other Free Software advocates have of EULAs.
Also it's not fair to single out just Google here. SalesForce, Microsoft and many others offer cloud based solutions. Any cloud solution has the risk of them screwing up something in their data center and losing your data. Stay local and in control if the data is so mission critical.
I'm actually a philosophy major, so I know how important liberal arts are. :)

I'm interested in a wide, wide variety of areas, but I feel as if this thirst is better quenched online than in a specific semester-long course. There's more and better information online than any one introductory course will have.
Google is really novice in this game. They will learn the tricks over time. Microsoft has played the game for many years now.
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Built a product and its getting some traction, at last check it had over 11000 page views, but with google adsense we only got like 10 clicks.

Clearly this method is not working very well, what other options do we have?
Most modern smartphones have the ability to turn into a wifi hotspot.
That's true, but something also that's true is that raising money through an IPO spreads the risk out to the public, whereas with VCs, the risk is contained.

That's why one of Peter Thiel's original arguments on why there was no bubble centred on the fact that there were no IPOs. No IPOs meant no general public irrationally driving up the price of a stock; rather, the rise in a stock's price in most of the big-name tech startups (or high-growth companies) today are from investment activity from savvy investors who are experts in the space.
It's not a bad idea. Google's choice of game categories in the Market is bizarre, to say the least. There are a few highly specific categories which don't particularly represent popular genres on any platform, and everything else gets dumped in "Arcade & Action".

It's a total misunderstanding of the market, and it does quite a poor job of selling games (at least from a customer's perspective), which is the thing you really want in an app store.
Yes, this is indeed a big deal and (as far as I know) unmatched so far.

EBS has been getting a lot of bad rap recently (most of it deserved), but being able to juggle detachable, snapshot'able 1TB-volumes for $100 a shot has still been a game-changer for many companies.
This is why HN desperately needs downvote for articles.
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This is not about the 2million people who already do this.

It's about the 2billion that don't and don't have a $400 laptop.
I'm not actually a programmer (I'm teaching myself how to program). I'm much more interested in business than your average programmer, so accounting might not be too boring.

The reasons for enrolling are Internet, printing, workspace, and to keep the university job I currently have. I'm not entirely sure I will be taking a course, but I'd like to investigate all the options first.
The app's UI really needs some work-- lots of rounded rect buttons and text fields (i.e. lazy use of Interface Builder), bad alignment, all caps text, nonstandard icons and labels, UITabBar on the top rather than the bottom, etc.

This may seem trivial-- it has all the features, even if the corners are rough-- but having a good UI makes a big difference to the experience.
I may be old fashioned but I think being in the same room as a good teacher and with good students seems to be much more valuable than online. Online seems to be great for learning very 2d subjects or doing fact gathering, but that stimulation tends to come from being in a room with other people (even if it's a dinner conversation or a party). Maybe the problem is that you need to go to a more engaging or specialized school? My gut tells me that your current environment isn't engaging you enough -- to me the answer to that is to find a new hood!
As a North Carolinian, I am all for more competition. Just today I found out I can order Wideband Internet from Time Warner Cable (50Mbps down) for only $99. This is after languishing for over a decade at 5-7Mbps. I'm theorizing that the muni-backed broadband initiatives are spurring the existing monopolies to "step their game up" so to speak.
The correct link is this:

http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4215094/A5--All-Appl...

Links to the print version of an article are annoying. First, they are usually formatted badly for reading on the screen (most people are not going to actually print the article).

Second, sometimes they actually bring up a print dialog that needs to be dismissed.

Third, those who want the print version can easily click on the "print" item at the site. There often (such as in this case) no link that goes the other way, so when you send someone straight to the print link, it is hard for them to get to the regular, well formatted, page.
2 one-way connections == 1 two-way connection. Both sides just need flip and something to view it on. Even if that something was gold plated it would be cheaper than "enterprise" conferencing systems.
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You learn how to deal with teachers that threats you like shit(and think they are good) and you also build a lot of hate to anything academic related, which can prove to be good as you won't want to be a part of the system and will give you 1000 ideas, will make you a god in execution so you will have success for sure, to not be like them.

Oh, I forgot to tell you that they give you a diploma just in case you fail as an entrepreneur -- and you won't.

The rest I think you can learn by yourself.
I've heard this as well. If everyone who was a member actually used the gym 3 times a week for an hour, the gym would need to be much, much larger and charge much more.

In effect, all the people who pay but don't use are subsidizing the people that pay and make the most out of the service.
Because whomever user 'hella' is - he is the same anon who posted the Q to Quora...
Like most serious accidents, the sleep deprived controller is just one part of what went ridiculously wrong there. Had the controller actually been sleeping the entire time, and the pilots followed the automated systems, it's entirely possible that they would have been ok. In addition, the equipment failure/downtimes severely limited any operator's situational awareness.

It's one of the cruel ironies here, that a completely passed out controller likely would have lead to a better outcome.