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Help...I Am 28 years old , hispanic women.I have been in Mortgage Preservation/Construction Business for last 5 Years this business is still under operation..But Wanted to venture out to something different so I started up Contractors Licensing School/Agency.. I partner up with an ex employee(Female) from my only competitor in town, and split % in half with her ...Only 12 grand has been brought in, half both ways,,My partner has only experience in her student specialist role-exceptional customer service relationships with ex students..No Business,No Management etc...So 6 Months into business Im faced with HUGE OPPS...Now i need capital to accomplish what i so strong desire. We have 1 possible interested person ,hes has tremendous capital intelligence, but low cash(7 grand)..His extensive background more than qualifies him as our director of education, with him on board we can extend our services out to EPA trainings,OSHA , and Trauma cleaning.So help me what to do, How to reconsider %, nothing has been sign ever.. So what now. Should I offer our new member 5% or 10% ....and try and find a private investor for 20% of company..I value my company as of today $50,000. With no marketing done we have had average sales of $1500 a month and 10 calls a day...
Where's the ninja star throw, I didn't see it.
At least it's not the awesomeness on cobol.com which boils down to "If you don't use COBOL you will have to REWRITE software which is a RISKY and COSTLY endeavor. COBOL makes everyone's life easier because you won't get FIRED for suggesting alternatives."
The "ABOUT ME" page has two problems. It, and the rest of the site, are supposed to be showing that the author is good at both the technical aspects of web site design (e.g., coding) and the artistic side (e.g., design).

If I change the size by using the "zoom in" and "zoom out" commands on Safari on my Mac, at two of the possible sizes the text is cut off on the bottom right. So, a glitch on the technical side.

The picture bubbles on the right confuse me. They don't seem to care about clicks, just the mouse entering and exiting each bubble. Mouse exit causes each to slide so you can see a different part of the picture. Waving the mouse around seems to cause the picture to slide between the two positions.

The problem is that I can't tell if this is decorative, or if it's some kind of interface that I'm too dumb to figure out. Leaving the reader confused over what is supposed to be happening is a design failure.

Fix these, and it looks pretty good.
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I couldn't be sure if their promotion video for COBOL was a parody the whole time I watched it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUrdX9xJx58
I think as community is growing there are more people turning towards RoR from other technologies, because:
1. Ruby is language of developers
2. With Rails building application is pretty fast.

I think I have attended a session 4 years back (when I was nuby) when one guy taken user requirements and generated rails app in few hours through scaffolds (and I must tell you it was very inspiring). Though it was just a skeleton and not at all production ready, but at least gives sponsors a feel of application what they envision and in turn they provide quick feedback.

So, I think scaffolds are still useful to provide you bunch of useful files, which otherwise you write by hand.
Or is our interest in limiting our consumption only a modern development brought on by socialization and culture?

In other words, I'd argue that it's unnatural to feign disinterest in accumulating infinite power and wealth.
By "business data" they probably mean "fixed format record datasets" which is COBOL's native format.

Processing fixed format records (preferably one at a time) is the only thing COBOL is somewhat skilled at, though.
This post really hits home for me. I have friends in consulting and I join a small tech company in bay area instead. I cannot believe when I hear about their experiences with consulting and how miserable they are in their jobs.

The struggle with consulting is that you never get to 'own' any decisions. There is not much accountability between conception, design and implementation. From my experience with big three consulting firms, they are brought in by execs to either 'validate' a path that was already determined or to get contract work done for short-term. In both cases, there is very little impact you can have on the overall business.

In my experience, if you want to be a good entrepreneur, get a job where you can own decisions and implementation. You will make mistakes, but you will learn from them and can implement those learnings in your startup.
Agreed. It takes a balance of both (and to be honest it took me a long time to learn to appreciate the practical side). I suppose the one-liner was too vague to fully convey my meaning but it really was playing in my mind's ear.
This is two non sequitur points in two small grafs.

Lack of boilerplate is one of the things that attracts people to Rails and it is one of the things that keep people there. Scaffolding isn't what provides that benefit. Scaffolding is. boilerplate. What eliminates boilerplate is the "Convention Over Configuration" mentality behind Rails, which is in full force today.

Rails in 2011 is if anything less bloated than Rails was in 2007; post-Merb, it's been made modular and had much of its magic goop factored out.

I'm getting the feeling that you don't do much Rails dev.
Do you mind expanding on this? I am having trouble seeing an internal divide within the humanities between those that want a continuation of the study of lit and phil and those that would like to see it cease. The reasoning that normally goes into the defense of lit and phil seems to be essential to the reasoning that might go into the defense of any sub-field of the humanities. Do you mean to posit an alliance of lit and phil with leftist politics and everything else with rightist politics?
I am an archival nut: it costs me little and from time to time, provides some big savings.
Also Europe isn't causing massive bubbles every other year that throw half of the world into a depression. Just wondering if this is related, not trying to start a flame-war or whatever.
That is, these apps can't have a "buy" button that takes users to an external subscription page.

I can't see how this is good for the user at all.
Insurance companies and other large-bore old-money financial industries. Therefore, Des Moines, IA, the headquarters of many insurance companies.
Why are these tech bigwigs friends with a fake spam-lady on Facebook?
... because nothing beats using a 3270 font with ISPF...

There are tons of COBOL code out there, with tons more being written every day (because the tons already there won't be ported but still have to do new stuff). You may get a job, even a steady one, but you won't have much fun doing it. There are lots of programmers who write software not because they like doing it, but because they feel it's a nice job.

But yes, you should learn COBOL. Only after you do it you'll be able to bash it. There is nothing worse than a person who bashes a programming language they aren't fluent in.
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It just isn't true. Europe just does not "suck" at tech innovation. Some europeans move to the US to have a bigger impact, and/or because that's where tech money is.

The US evolved a giant media+capital machine to make this happen, and this means making it hard for others to do the same - by being more attractive, in real terms of course, but maybe even more so in people's minds. I see articles criticizing other regions of the world for not having as much success as part of this (very natural, imho) process.
Industrial farming has its benefits, but one interesting data point is that the yield for small to medium farms is often higher than the super farms (ie of the US mid-West), around 1.5 to 2 times from the people I've spoken to. The ability to adjust the crop planting and fertilizer, etc by knowing the land is often diminished in the very large farms. That said, I could forsee better use of computer monitoring of conditions, etc in a large farm bringing their yield up considerably.
Scaffolds are a fine way to learn the Rails conventions, but in several years of doing security assessments in the codebases of some of the world's largest Rails apps, I have never once noticed one being used. Professional Rails developers seem to shun them as a rule.
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Yes, some hackers would no act in such a way as to do this, but the world is full of stupid people. Just look at Sony and their PSN network hacks. 1 year ago people would have said that of course a big company would never be that stupid. And it turns out they were that stupid. Likewise there are hound to be some stupid hackers. This canary email will catch them.
Why the snarky comment?
And that's one hell of a straw man.

I've spent a lot of time around progressive education folks, and I've never met anyone who met that description. There are some folks who display mild forms of one or two of those attributes, but he's combined so many disparate traits and described them in such over-the-top terms as to render the portrait unrecognizable.
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The trademark thing happened to the last company I worked at. We just told them that we disagreed with their opinion and carried on. Never heard from them again.
FYI, the split infinitive 'rule' isn't actually a rule.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split_infinitive#Current_views
Neat, although I wish I could read the bottom left of the text... http://f.cl.ly/items/3l270Q2D3i0n0z0j0J3b/fail.png
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Apple is setting themselves up for a Microsoft style lawsuit in the future. Everyone here seems very defensive of apple, and while I think a review policy does help a lot at keeping bad apps out, a move like this could easily be brought to court with a huge settlement having to come from apple. Actually trying to hire the guy could look pretty bad on them as it could be construed as trying to avoid a possible suit.
There is also http://plancast.com and http://lanyrd.com (though the latter is aimed more at conferences). I haven't found either to be that effective in promoting an event, but since it's free to create an event, it may not hurt.

Facebook Events may have its drawbacks (the login wall), but I've found that sharing an event via Facebook - as opposed to email with Evite, Eventbrite, Meetup, etc - can be slightly more effective. That's just my experience though.
Microsoft tried to make the filesystem a database, as in, the filesystem was literally SQL Server or something. It didn't work. That is a completely different concept than simply changing the user-visible filesystem abstraction.
Section I (EIC) was amusing. I didn't make it all the way through Section II (Taylorism). Citing such unreliable institutions as paragons of business virtue destroys your credibility.

The American railroads that conquered the west were grossly inefficient. Their "success" was sustained almost entirely by malfeasance, corruption, and the unchecked abuse of eminent domain.

Taylor was a fraud at best and a liar at worst. Taylorism and its cronies are possibly the greatest curse on our age.
It's funny you say that - there's a lot of Kool-Aid drinking that goes on at Accenture (or any other corporate consulting brand for that matter). Re-reading my post, it does look a bit sales-ish.

Regardless, from my experience, there are quite a few people in the company with cult-like loyalty. The majority, however, (myself included) maintain a pretty healthy dose of skepticism and pragmatism.
Completely agree - I've 'semi-retired' from doing tech start-ups to start a CSA project and its been absolutely superb!
decided to use facebook authentication since it can also push an alert to your friends' newsfeeds not to click links until the hack has been mitigated.

It also decreased friction in the sign up process - no need to enter a name, email adddress, etc. Was built before Facebook allowed application to access a phone number, or I would have added that too.
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You could also leave your keys in the ignition and the door open whenever you go to the grocery store, because that's more convenient and any thief with a brain could hotwire your car anyway.
For quick decision-making based on limited information when your opponents may be actively lying to you and colluding against you, see Diplomacy[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomacy_(game)
Just once, I'd like to hear an electronics developer, in HP/Palm's situation, humbly concede, "We realize that we're entering a crowded market. We realize that we're entering late. However, our strategy is simple: ply the development community with incentives which, over time, should help us flesh out our platform into an engaging and useful product."

I've read little but boasting from HP about the new round of WebOS devices. Let's be honest: they have a very tough road ahead if they want to get any market share. They need all of the help and good will that they can get.
Really? I've never met anyone in academia who wished the study of philosophy (or literature, for that matter) ended in 1950. There's definitely a division between the "Analytic Philosophy" and "Continental Philosophy" folks; and there are definitely warring schools of thought within English departments about what to read, and how-- but I've never seen a division aligned along chronological lines as you propose.

Could you offer an example of an academic who fits the "pre-1950" mode, so I can get a better idea of what you are driving at?
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works for me =)
I actually saw scaffolding as a crutch when I started learning Rails and therefore made the conscience decision to learn the framework without using it. I think the time investment paid back dividends, and I don't usually recommend that beginners (or anyone) use scaffolding. Instead, I recommend studying a simple, open source example app.
I think this also has to do with the in-App Patent trouble. Now Apple can say, hey, we did not force you to offer in-App purchase in your app, you can sell your subscriptions just outside the store; in the end, you as the developer of the app are responsible for any resulting legal trouble.
i like the cut of your jib - But, really, i think this is a good illustration of what can be done with minimal notes. I've heard a few people complain about not having sharps/flats. It might take a little more work, but there's still a ton you can still do.

It also taught me that yes, i can play by ear just fine, but I am no good at transposing real time. that's tough.
Contact page, as the paper flys out from the background.
COBOL - kill it with fire.

I am one of those programmers that looks for companies that work with technologies I love, because that makes sure I will be happy and they will be happy. Jumping into a position using something I absolutely hate just because they'll throw in another $50K/year or so at me won't work.

Perhaps others have a different phillosophy -- "anything that brings in more money is fine", it is sort of a personal choice.

So my advice to kids is "Don't learn COBOL, learn something that is more relevant today and something you are absolutely passionate about. (If you just happen to be passionate about COBOL you are probably a very strange person ;-)"
Oh yea, lots of room for improvement. In my experience, the concrete suggestions (for niche 1 and 3) aren't necessarily potential niches, but starting points to build more powerful software.

I should note, there is probably a huge opportunity to bring IT services to "mom and pop" style operations. But it needs to be dirt cheap or they won't be able to afford it. Lots of these people are struggling as it is and won't see a direct increase in sales as a result of new software.
>You pulled a statement about behaviour out of thin air, and it wont hold up to scrutiny. Now its being scrutinised, you are dodging it.

Why does the most obvious and logical course of events require justification? "Most hackers breathe constantly." "Do you have data to support that?"

Maybe you're right. Maybe this "canary" is extremely effective. Maybe everyone who makes a living by breaking security also happens to be dumb enough that they fail to take the most basic precautions to protect themselves.

Even if that's true, there are still more effective solutions that should be used instead of this "canary".
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Maybe I'm really old school, but it'd be nice to have a link to some sort of CV or LinkedIn. Clearly looks like a solid UI guy who would be great to talk to, but it'd be nice to know what else he's done. I guess that's only a Google away though...
Likewise on FF7 nightly (mac)
The difference here is that we have to see the bigger problem within the small problem. Creating HTML to access documents is a solution to a small problem, storing human knowledge in HTML so they can accessed anywhere in world is a solution to a huge problem. Creating another photo sharing app is a solution to a small (an imo , stupid) problem, captivating real life moments and implementing time shifting solutions is a solution to a huge problem.
These guys aren't much better in the UK. They transparently break bits of the Internet regularly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Watch_Foundation
'cause all you want is money but no neurons.
I'm not sure I would want to store my files on other peoples private computers.
okay hmm and when ICE website gets defaced than what?
I built 1pix.me about six months ago and it would be perfect for this. You get a link to a 1 p pixel transparent PNG, and phone or desktop notifications (via notifo) every time it is served. Its totally free, enjoy.
The problem is, once such an online service is well known, the hackers could just blacklist the host name(s) to the service so no alerting messages are sent.

Agreed, this is another problem. However, I think that it also depends on who you think might be targeting you. I know that a few years ago, plenty of everyday non-technical folks "hacked" their ex-girlfriend or boyfriends' accounts by doing a password reset with known details.

If the aim is to get notified of similar issues (e.g. my home laptop accessing during office hours), such a service could have merit.
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As someone who's taught educational technology as a sort-of TA in college, I've seen this, and something a bit similar: folders, but not well organized. If it's more than one deep, it's lost. Same thing with my parents.

But really, are they wrong? With spotlight on my Mac, and Google Desktop on my PC, I can move files to a "files" folder and search away, without all the "uber micro" that some nerds seem to require.
I still don't see what homeland security has to do with enforcing copyright? or with regulation of commerce (ie seizing dns names)
Might be a prank. LulzSecurity.com is working fine.
The notice claims that it is acting pursuant to a warrant alleging copyright infringement, similar to recent seizures by ICE of sites related to file sharing (see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1943928), but it's unclear of the direct connection to copyright infringement by LulzSec.

Ideas?
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I don't think it was siezed for copyright infringement even though it's pasted all over it now. Bloody lying Ogliarchies.
Their domain is .com, isn't it?
I learned 2 things here:

A) There's a "National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center" with its own federal-agency-ish logo.

B) The logo looks like an eagle that's about to tear my face off. What is it with the lamer the mission, the tougher looking the logo?

EDIT: In reaction to hoax, I googled and the agency's actually real, complete with ridiculous logo.
Keep in mind that it's lulzsec and that the servers that host the ICE seized page respond for any hostname. So one can just point A records at 74.81.170.110 and be `seized'.
Hmm, could be. The notice appears as a gif here:

http://lulzsecurity.org/IPRC_Seized_2010_11.gif
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That video is hilarious in small doses, and horrifying in larger ones. I'm impressed.
I've always struggled to understand the mentality of hackers like these guys. The combination of the extreme intelligence required to do some of this stuff plus the stupidity to actually do it is confusing to me. I would be absolutely terrified if I were one of them right now, but they just keep on going.
The short answer: it's not directed towards you. It became blatantly obviously during Google IO that they're going after very specific markets: Education and Business private sector. No IT overhead, constant pushes of the latest security updates, and free hardware upgrades for as long as the line of products still exists with a low monthly price per machine. For the small fraction of use-cases that still need proprietary software there's virtualization.

They're not going after the home sector here (they have Android phones and tablets handling that for them nicely). They're going for the throat with Microsoft's last dominance: schools and businesses. If they can start upsetting the decades-long lock-in that Microsoft has had in those giant areas, then Chromebooks have succeeded.

(And before you ask, no the iPad isn't a suitable product for those areas. A proprietary cloud solution where a business doesn't control their own data is never going to fly. Also, while mobile Safari has made excellent strides, it's still not even close to a traditional browser.)
How is this related to copyright infringement? Protect IP hasn't even been voted into law, and they are already overreaching and censoring any type of website they want.
nowadays they could be living in europe if they want also... but the title of the post is about innovation.... europeans have their own way to innovate and that wont be reflected on US news papers because they just dont care, are closed minded or there are interests in that or who knows what...
What the frack are you counting as tech industry that you managed to Russia have more than Germany?
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