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I did PHP and liked CakePHP when I started out. After I did that I looked into both Ruby/RoR and Python/Django. I ended up liking Django much more than RoR. I do a lot of Javascript at one point and the intriguing thing is, somehow Python felt more natural to me. I DID try Ruby and looked at Rails though. I would recommend just testing things out yourself and see what comes more naturally to you.

One can do a lot of goods with PHP, Ruby and Python and any other languages/frameworks. It's not really the language but what you choose to do with it as well as your experience using it that will make your project. The only way to gain more experience is to start using it.

My feeling is, you want to pick something that will solve all your present problems and future proof. That's going to be difficult. Big solutions are usually a combination of different efforts because there are many different parts of the web development process. I've seen a company that use PHP for ALL their flow including the cron jobs' scripts. Some might say, that's crazy, why not use python or faster languages for backend jobs? But it worked for them up until they hit their bottleneck then they reiterate and revised.

The path toward the "holy grail" for the perfect "solution" is long. Crowd sourcing for this answer will also be difficult because many people have already took that journey and fought their holy war with themselves so they will generally give you their preferences up front.

Sorry for the round about way of saying: I think if you are at a point of asking question of what's out there other than PHP? Then you're at a good transitional stage. Congrats. Now your two (popular) choices are: Ruby/RoR and Python/Django. Go test out two sample projects and make it work from setting up to making it run. See which process you like the most and pick one. I don't think you will go wrong with either choices.

Oh, is there a site that you really like or look up to? Perhaps you can learn about their technology stack and give that a try :P

Again, sorry for the convoluted answer and good luck with your journey toward Web Dev nirvana :)
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Try Mirah (http://www.mirah.org/), Ruby like syntax without the need of runtime library.
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Don't try to turn this into a strawman communism versus capitalism discussion.

I think most would agree that some inequality is good. After all, people are not equal. However, a too high degree of inequality will fuel social unrest.

It leads to a society in which the rich have to build higher and higher walls to keep out the poor. Not my idea of a fun place to live.
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Isn't that exactly what reference counting ala shared_ptr does?
I saw this article and thought, I bet it won't be long before someone gets on and says something utterly specious about how this is all entirely to do with entrepreneurship. And behold!

This is the standard boneheaded 'I'm on Hacker News and banging on about entrepreneurship and how we're all headed to a beautiful meritocracy, so I will interpret everything that occurs through this lens'. US manufacturing collapses? Entrepreneurship. Estate tax weakened? Entrepreneurship. Growth of low-end service jobs? Entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship.
One is to add categories and the other idea is to have a good search. Your customers will look up the FAQ when they have a need and probably not right when they start using the service.

A good 2 minute video will be helpful if you want your customers to have an immediate understanding of your service.
I think if it's a good idea, the space will be competitive. If you have passion for the space, give it all you got. When you do that, only good things will come out at the other end.

With that being said, you still have to focus on your execution. If you take care of the smallest details and really worry about the users' experience/flow. It will show through and sure enough you might have that chance to fight with any bigger guy in your space.

Good luck and keep on fighting :)
I'm not sure whether to call myself a designer or a programmer (or both or neither), but I have released a handful of web apps/sites that usually end up receiving compliments for good design [1]. The funny thing is that I've never read a book or even so much as a blog post on what makes a design good.

Here's the most helpful tip you'll ever receive: find something beautiful and copy it exactly, pixel for pixel. You can start as small as you feel comfortable - a button, an icon, even a nice shadow. From there, work your way up. At this point, don't worry about being original. Duplicating existing design will help you in so many ways. You'll become acquainted with the design software of choice. You'll learn about tools and menus that you never new existed. You'll discover neat techniques, and you'll notice details that you overlooked before. As you work, you'll start to understand why things fit together the way they do. You'll see that some elements work together and some don't. Pick out pieces from different designs and mash them together.

And here's a secret: nobody gets a design right on the first try. Experiment, experiment, experiment! If something looks a bit off, adjust it. You probably won't know exactly how to adjust it, so tweak the element in every way you can think of. Resize, change the color, adjust the stroke or gradient. Eventually it will look right.

[1] http://letspocket.com, http://madebyloren.com, http://snowday2011.com, http://boxify.me are a few of the designs I've worked on recently
Everybody remember this thread from a couple of weeks ago about their "naughty" antics and the good that came of them ?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2479757
Thanks, very comprehensive! Sections and a place to ask more questions is a good point.
Ooooh. You know what I was thinking? You have a "night" theme on your site. What if, based on the hours of the day, it will switch to "daytime" where there's the sun and green grass etc. It will make "some" people happier and that's all the "personal" feeling you need for now.
I agree, it must be a mix, where you have the opportunity for growth at the same time you don't get a free ride. However there is always and always will be a bottom 20 percent that needs to be taken care of.
Thanks - break up into sections, good search to aid results, and an overview video as a starting point. Is there any advatage in using services like Get Satisfaction, or better to have your own FAQ / ask a question page?
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Would you say all that to his face?

Chill out. There's no reason to be nasty.
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This argument cuts both ways. All OECD countries have some degree of inequality and, as you said, we don't really know what the right amount of inequality is. On the basis of inequality numbers alone, it is not possible to say whether they are good or bad.

Where, by the way, do 'these studies' assume that income should be divided equally? That seems like an odd position and I honestly haven't heard very many people except for extremists express it. I think a solid majority accepts (some degree of) income inequality.
There wouldn't even need to be any explicit throttling - when a site gets slashdotted or whatever everyone trying to access it slows to a crawl, but it's not because individual user's ISPs are throttling them. An ISP that was saturating its outbound links might drop packets according to some algorithm to ensure "fairness" rather than at random, but that's still not throttling, that's "our network is too congested to keep up with demand".
Have to say that, as soon as I read just the title, my initial reaction was "no shit". I mean, I love America, there's no country of the many I've spent time in that I enjoy being in more, but social equality certainly isn't on the list of reasons I love it.

Does anyone have any insight as to why Mexico was at the top of the list of countries with growing inequality?
From what I can see, you can't make a usable app from this. I would prefer to use flask or pylons for developing an app.
To me it's about egalitarian distribution of wealth, there are many ways to distribute it, perhaps there are systems that distribute wealth in a more egalitarian manner than capitalism and it would be great to hear some of those ideas. It's well known to most economists that there are definite cases where the free market system does not work well.

I didn't even mention free market / communism, let alone construct a straw man. If you think I have please point it out and add to the conversation.

If you don't agree with the idea that wealth should be distributed according to contribution then please let us know why. (Seriously, the idea is 300 years old, surely in that time we've found something better)

I agree with most people that those unfortunate enough to not be able to provide for themselves due to sickness or disability should be taken care of but I think that's a relatively small amount of money and everyone would agree that that sort of thing should be done.
Cool idea, nice to show off the possibilities of RabbitMQ
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Er. Why should the bottom 20% of society be "taken care of"? Is it because we're afraid they'll turn into criminals if we don't? Because that would be equivalent to paying off the mob.

Honest question.
What about taking money from those who haven't earned it and giving it to those who need it?
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Picture recognition - face detection.
Speech recognition.
Speech synthesis.
Video recognition.

Multi touch gestures and handwriting recognition.
I can't offer any advice (sorry!) but I'm terribly interested to know how the connection was made. Considering you didn't know eachother before and neither of you has any investment experience, this seems very out of the ordinary and unusual. Please share!
While I was in college there was this kid in grad school who was living in the lab. All the other grad students made fun of him. Our school's graduate program pretty much made education free. He moved on to become a prof in the electrical engineering department, which in my opinion is a huge success, especially given with he had to deal with.
They are being taken care of. Look at how much money we pay for food stamps, unemployment benefits, section 8 housing, etc.
If I had to guess randomly, I'd say it's because of the drug cartels.
You really gotta wonder how this is gonna turn out. How are dumb people supposed to earn a living when technology makes all the jobs for dumb people obsolete?

I guess we'll have a huge class of people that will basically get free money through the state. But maybe that won't be so bad since wealth will be so abundant?
We are on Hacker News and we do tend to "bang on" about entrepreneurship, for better or worse. You're playing to the wrong crowd.
Mexico has huge corruption problems, they also have a lot of monopolies and state intervention into commerce. Generally, Mexican citizens have a very low level of economic freedom.

Those in Mexico that can easily cross the border often come into America not to seek work but to buy their groceries and other items at a much cheaper price. Yes medication is a lot cheaper in Mexico, but most things are not when you look at comparable quality.

http://www.heritage.org/index/country/mexico

http://www.heritage.org/index/country/unitedstates

http://www.heritage.org/index/country/canada
Out of three Macs I run I got notified about the new version on one. On two others "Check for Updates" got nothing.
"Since they can't or won't do it for themselves, it's our duty" is how the argument usually goes.

I've always chaffed with that sentiment a bit. "Can't"- ok. "Won't"? That's a choice.
He is right, stop d stop downvoting just because you don't agree with him, Instead show why he is wrong or admid he is right.
My brain's not yet running this morning and I can't think of the term for this point, but as it's now in my brain I'll come back and link to more details as soon as I think of it.

The rough concept is that, when it comes to society/politics/law, you should think as if you are yet to be born and don't know where in society you will end up. So, you might become the richest man in the world, or you might live a life in poverty and unemployment.

As to why it matters, should people dying of hunger in the third world be ignored? Should we not care about homeless people who are sleeping in the cold and wet and will have crazily low life expectancy and a terrible standard of living?

I'm not sure where the 20% comes from or how accurate an estimate that is, but the more fortunate should always do their part, whether through legislation (such as taxation) or charity, to help the less fortunate. While different people will have different views on many areas of this, such as to what extent they should be helped, how badly off you have to be to deserve it, and so on and so on, I think very few would say that the bottom end of society deserves no help at all.
I'm curious to know more about exactly how you plan on acquiring your first 500k users and how long you expect that to take. Unless you have mad connections, 500k users is not exactly a walk in the park. If you aren't pulling revenue at that point, still haven't developed a business plan, and have zero investment, your startup might be dead by then. This reasoning fails if you're bootstrapped, which would leave me wondering why you're trying to raise seed funds anyway.
Groceries are cheaper in America? I've never been to Mexico (in fact I don't think I've ever been anywhere in South America), but I was always under the impression that (non-imported) food would be crazily cheap in countries like that.
But... It's not our duty. Why should it be?
There is one huge company, whose name start with g, highly interested in all of the above (they want to make a web apps based os). but seems like they have lacked the inspiration, or...
mm.... maybe they are quietly doing it right now, with NaCl
My main response is So? Really it is well understood that the main reason for high unequality in the US is relatively high numbers of poort immigrants. I'd say that is a good thing, not a bad thing.
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If you don't agree with the idea that wealth should be distributed according to contribution -- I never said that. Wealth should indeed be distributed according to contribution, but contribution is not that easily measurable.

There are a lot of things that affect your contribution to society that are not measured by how much money you can take from others.

I just don't agree that some people contribute more than 1000 times as much as others. Everyone is human. We all simply play our part. So in my eyes, distributing according to contribution will not result in a that large inequality.
Yes, I would. I'm happy to use fairly mild words like 'specious' or 'bonehead' to describe a person who has decided to _celebrate_ the rise of income inequality by reinterpreting several decades of complex social and economic changes as having to do with 'entrepreneurship'.

It's hard to tell whether the guy is being actively intellectually dishonest (ie. is aware of what the major factors are in increasing inequality but is choosing to ignore them) or simply naive to the point of dimness.

Even TFA - an extremely brief treatment of inequality without a definitive focus on the US - offers enough illumination to make it obvious that simply chanting 'yay, this must mean entrepreneurship' in response to this isn't so smart.
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> One aspect of the suit concerned infringement in the implementation of the FAT filesystem in TomTom's Linux-based GPS navigation devices.

Which had little to nothing to do with Linux, as it was over FAT not Linux.
It can be, if you go into most groceries stores in the US & Canada you will only find Grade A produce. The cheaper Grade B stuff can be found at certain fruit and vegetable stores and Grade C mostly goes into processed foods in Canada and the United States. That's why I mentioned the bit about comparable quality.

The competitiveness of American farmers despite market distortion is amazing. When I go into the US I see Milk for $2 or $3 / gallon where as it's more like $4-6 in Canada.

In other countries because of the dynamics of the market lower grades of fruit and vegetables are more generally available. I'm not sure where you are from but you may be looking at US and Canadian grocery pricing through the lens of major metropolitan centres, or depending on where you shop the difference in price between Whole Foods and Wal-Mart. The price of groceries is going to be much different in the midwest vs. NYC / SF.
What I'm saying is, if people decide to donate their own money to charity, then that's fine.

But I don't understand the attitude of "It's noble to steal money from some, and redistribute it to others". It seems immoral.
Andrew, you have the most interesting and in-depth interviews I've seen. I love that I can always expect enthusiasm coupled with exciting topics when I tune in to Mixergy. Keep up the good work, my friend!
If you couldn't afford to pay your bills, couldn't afford a place to live, couldn't afford health insurance, couldn't afford to buy clothes for your children, would you still have that view? Or would you be rather glad that there's a system (even if not a great one) that helps balance society out a little bit?

And frankly you shouldn't need to have to imagine being in that position, how can you not feel that we should all care about those worse off than ourselves?

Oh, and there are plenty of selfish reasons as well. Society would fall apart if only the rich were able to live and we left the poor to, eventually, either become rich or die out. Who would make your cars, clothes, food, serve you a coffee, sell you your ticket to a sports game, etc etc.
So basically, Google has too many people for them to be able to list them all. Or Google didn't want to try and list them, thinking they might miss someone, or subject them to poaching.

That seems to be a fundamental problem with humans.txt: The bigger, more interesting a project gets, it creates several reasons why it will only vaguely be able to lost anything, out of a conflict of interest, rather than give full credit to the team behind the site.
Thanks for the honest question Palish. I have noticed from teaching that if you take a large enough sample the bottom 20 percent always struggle more. These could the issues udutu society or some kind of intelligence or disability. I am not going to pretend that I know the answer but there is always the bottom 20 percent that needs, extra help so I think on the grounds of compassion they shall be given extra assistance. I understand your point on meritocracy , however we cannot assume that everybody starts at the same starting line. So from my point of view it is based on the grounds of compassion. Again, thank you for the question.
So, among this list of "societies with hardly any inequality", America is at the top. Not really a surprise.

They sort of tip their hand by including Mexico, which should probably be on the "societies with a bit more inequality than the West" list instead. If you included every nation in the world, I wouldn't be surprised to see the USA still sitting sixteen places from the right.
I would imagine that if it was suicide I would be mad at the deceased more than anything.

Also isn't notifying next of kin usually something the police do?
> How are dumb people supposed to earn a living when technology makes all the jobs for dumb people obsolete?

So we're just assuming it will?
That doesnt change the fact that mozilla isnt interested in NaCl, which is sad because it could enable alot of cool stuff, especially in regards to games and realtime apps.
The countries with highest gini coefficient are USA, Mexico, Brazil, China.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient#Gini_coefficie...

Does it look to you like there is any correlation in how they all succeed t promote entrepreneurship?
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> You really gotta wonder how this is gonna turn out. How are dumb people supposed to earn a living when technology makes all the jobs for dumb people obsolete?

Every time new automation is invented, people think is going to happen. Seriously, this goes back to pre-Industrial Revolution times. Any time part of the labor process is automated away, people think that there's going to be permanent economic damage, and they're consistently wrong.

We'll adapt. There's always new things to be done. Personally, I'm betting on a greater diversity of creative and artistic work happening - people in core industries that are going to remain and grow in profitability (technology, raw materials, energy, consumer goods, construction, etc) will have more surplus income to spend on personalization, customization, different and more unique kinds of entertainment, etc.

We're going to seem a massive boom in people able to make a basic living from pure creative professions enabled. There'll also be more personal services offered. Ideally a lot of ineffective governmental costs can be optimized down, and more of government spending can go to refining and cleaning up the environment too, planting more trees and flora and fauna, things like that.

I think a lot of excellent jobs that don't exist today are going to be created. I also think many more people will learn basic technology skills than perhaps is commonly thought. A few hundred years ago, no one - and I mean no one - would have believed you if you told them what literacy rates would be in developed countries. They just wouldn't think it possible. So, more people will get on the tech bandwagon as time passes and kids grow up with it. Computer literacy will become like language literacy.

Good things are happening man, we're living in the greatest era ever. God damn I'm so optimistic and grateful to be alive right now.