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> PayPal is not for entrepreneurs and I should of known better than picking them as a choice.

I don't think PayPal can be blamed for being aware that there are already thousands of small time deal sites and most have no discernible business model whatsoever, not even a potential future buyer.

Frankly, you have no idea what the rate of chargebacks is. You've barely run the thing yet. I would expect the company that processes millions of transactions a day to know what puts them at risk for chargebacks. I also don't see daily deal sites having a high rate of chargebacks is such an outrageous idea. Sounds pretty reasonable to me, they are exactly the kind of customers who would file a chargeback.

I'm no fan of PayPal on the vendor side either, but this sounds like poor planning to me. Not factoring in a 2nd payment processor just in case you have trouble with the first one is a bad idea, especially when you are in such a risky, fast-growing sector.
Some apps.
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Poll: Anyone uses Color?
There was a lot of hype and critique of Color (color.com) when it was first revealed. Considering the fact that people in HN community are usually among the first adopters of new technology it's interesting to know how many people actually use the thing. Now when some time have passed it's interesting if they made an app which people actually use and which is worthy of it's $41 million investment.
I use Color
I don't use Color
I think people should remember why they use grids in the first place and not just jump on the grid bandwagon, just because that's in vogue.

I love using a grid, but it serves a purpose for me, and I do it all in the CSS without creating a dozen of "clearfix" and "column1" classes and whatnot.
The minimum wage is a price floor, and like any price control, there's exactly two ways it can effect the economy: it can result in a shortage of labor or it can have absolutely no effect. At $7.25 it's closer to the "absolutely no effect" side of the spectrum--I've seen high turnover, low wage jobs priced above that due to market forces alone. There might be paid apprenticeships that are priced out of the market by the minimum wage, but that's speculative.

The entire rest of your post is frankly nonsense--it's clear you've never actually learned anything about economics, because most economists concede that the minimum wage doesn't really do much to help anyone, and if anything, only increases unemployment.

History doesn't back you up on this--the 19th century was a materially poorer time in the sense that less wealth was being created to begin with. While large numbers of immigrants lived in poverty, they voluntarily chose to live in those conditions because it was the best opportunity they had. If there was a minimum wage above and beyond the value their labor could legitimately produce, they wouldn't have had that opportunity and they would have been materially even worse off. More to the point, there is still a permanent underclass of immigrants living in poverty and earning less than the minimum wage in this country. When the relevant wage and immigration laws are enforced on that population, the net effect is that they're forced to live in the impoverished countries they voluntarily chose to escape from.

As for the rest of us, our recourse is to legitimately generate more wealth than the cost of our wages and benefits so that we remain profitably employed. The majority of the American population is doing this just fine without the government coming in and setting our wages for us.
OP also should have secured a backup payment processor for such a risky venture.

Why lament over the thing that will never happen instead of focusing on the solution you can use easily by yourself?
The headline is that VC's are "Giving Away" their ideas, not selling them.
So it's just Boxee plus streaming? I can see media companies loving the piracy capabilities behind this one...
So in summary:

1) Focus on the End User experience
2) Recruit Senior SW Leaders & enable decision-making
3) Cut projects to the bone.
4) Developers, not Carriers can now make or break us
5) Need for serious marketing punch to create end user desire
6) No Accountability - Canadians are too nice
7) The press and analysts are pissing you off. Don’t snap.
Now is the time for humility with a dash of paranoia.
8) Democratise. Engage and interact with your employees.

What happens if they do all of these things? They basically turn RIM into Palm circa 2009-2010. My take, it's over.
From what I gather from jpallen's response to my other message the properties you're talking about are things like being able to add, multiply, subtract and divide, right? What's to stop one from coming up with novel properties which are unique to these systems? Is our commonly used system basically an arbitrary set of conditions? Do you think that some systems correlate better to how nature does things than others, and if so, which ones would they be?

Ah, so it's unbounded like how Haskell's lazy evaluation treats infinity.
I think CodeBuddy is a good, not great idea. But the implmentation is poor. Unless I need a quick guestbook application ;<).

It's not in Python, but if you want to see a well done off line version of the same thing checkout http://alan.blog-city.com/openbd_desktop.htm

It's an Eclipse based desktop app that makes publishing to the GAE pretty simple. IF CFML isn't your cup of tea there's no reason why you couldn't implement a fork for any other language.
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App engine has the following awesome characteristics:

- the datastore is extremely scalable if you use it as intended.

- your app can automatically scale up and down (as if an invisible genie were moving the little "workers" slider that Heroku uses)

- always on instances make your app mega fast, even at low volume (but cost a tad bit more).

- there are a lot of useful apis (memcache, queue, email) and a nice development environment.

- it usually "just works" and "just scales".

a few bad things:

- they had some very annoying downtime while they sorted out the datastore architecture problems (where theory and practice had differed with horrible results)

- the OSX dev tools don't bundle the correct version of python and associated libs, which makes it a pain to get a working dev environment on OSX without breaking your system's python.

- no naked domains, SSL support for normal apps that aren't priced per user.

All in all I'd rather write an app for AppEngine than any other cloud system, though Heroku is catching up -- both could really benefit from prioritizing 24 hour support via irc though.
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I don't use it. I don't even think it's available on Android and frankly, I never really wanted to try it out because it doesn't seem revelant to me.
I noticed I started treating circles like iTunes playlists - I have a master "All Friends" (akin to my Music Library) circle, which is a dump for everyone who are friends (not family), then "RL Friends" and "Internet Friends".

Thinking about it, I can dump the All Friends circle because its a catch-all, and if I wanted to post something to all my friends, I can just add RL Friends and Internet Friends. There are certainly places I want to have people in multiple circles (interest groups, etc) but catch-alls aren't it.

Nested Circles seem like catch-all meta-groupings that create a more rigid structure (unless you could add a circle to more than one Circle Group, but this seems to be over-thinking the problem and could present an unwieldily UI).

For Smart Circles, they use the example of a work relationship changing. It seems that renaming that circle to something else would work just as well, and creating a new Work circle with your new coworkers in it. Having G+ try and manage something that can be fluid and sometimes pretty arbitrary seems it could be messy and potentially embarrassing (someone ending up in a circle they shouldn't be in).
You're just being pessimistic.

The question is not "What is the future of mobile computing?"

The question is "How does RIM make as much money as possible with their resources?"

RIM can't compete on merit, so their best strategy is to do what they've always done: use aggressive, obnoxious sales strategies to place BlackBerries as the "enterprise" device and the only "respectable and secure" enterprise device.

Many lame executive types are very very concerned with appearing respectable and adult and elite or whatever, and will use inferior products to maintain this image. They are doing it right now with BlackBerries. The standard East Coast enterprise opinion toward iPhones has been that they are "toys" for children and plebs, while BlackBerries are serious work tools for rich and important executives.

BlackBerry cannot compete on fundamentals, but it can compete on image, exclusivity, and keep targeting luddites such as people who refuse to use Apple products because they are "pretty". These people love the ugly, hard to use BlackBerry, because the ugliness and crappiness itself is a statement about their values.
Does your company suffer from ADHD?
I am a technical cofounder myself. Still i believe a successfull business is the sum of many parts, not only the technical side. There are also enough stubborn devs that praise everything they build but still fail to bring it to a relevant audience.
I agree with parts of this post, but overall i dont like this kind of elitist talk on here all the time on how everything else than technical guys is worthless.
There a bad business guys and bad technical guys as well.
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I wrote a blog post about this a while ago, check it out: http://blog.phaxio.com/our-playlists
> Arguably defaults are always there, whether configurable or not. Thus you cannot claim to be familiar with an application unless you know how it behaves in its default configuration (whether that is in a GUI or a text file).

I don't agree with this part. The best way of learning about a program is to play with it. Knowing how a program is expected to behave is key, and without defaults you don't.

Even if someone knows the defaults, they will change.

(I agree with the rest of what you wrote)
In fact, allowing employers to pay less than minimum wage alleviates burden on the welfare system--not only do they have to pay less to support the impoverished wage-earner, but they are actually working in the economy and generating wealth, increasing the tax base that the welfare system draws on.
"Tasks that simple don't provide them any experience"

Utter bullshit.
The problem of making the defaults transparent has been solved a long time a go.

Standard convention for a lot of software is to have one config file (for instance often with the extension .dist) with all the default settings, and lots of comments about them, and a local config which is the one you edit.
Blackberry does not have the same end user as the iPhone. Blackberry's end users are corporations - its the default device that is shelled out to every single employee of large banks and consultancies. The 'Enterprise End User' thats what BB has to retain and capitalize on. RIM should look for synergies with other enterprise application providers. A cool looking twitter application is not the answer to their woes. Its seamless integration of a enterprise Yammer with the BB mailbox or an application that makes it easier to navigate ugly sharepoint sites.
> In Canada where the rule is 3 year contracts (and thus free is even more expensive than in the States), I've seen low-end Androids for $0 with 3 year contract, no data plan required and 2 phones + a PS3 for 2 three year contracts.

True, but Canada has a strangely high iOS adoption rate and carriers are just doing whatever the hell they can to increase that existing 9% of Canadian smartphone users that own Androids. I think it's because they can negotiate better with the individual Android device makers than they can negotiate with Apple or even RIM.
For anyone interested, I actually had written up an article on box-sizing yesterday: http://monkeyandcrow.com/blog/splitting_the_difference/

There's an example illustrating pornel's point.
Are consumers buying more goods via mobile?
a couple of reasons I think we see so many

1) the development time / potential number of users ratio is attractive for a developer (easy 100+ watchers on github etc)
2) many people have built their own grid system over the years and feel like sharing them, documenting it and putting it on github isn't hard.
'Brand name' companies don't play games with employment law and the IRS. They pay their interns.
The goal should be to keep environments as similar as possible, which vagrant helps to accomplish. Just because you can develop locally on your Mac before pushing to a QA/Dev/staging environment doesn't mean you should.

Obviously your Dev environment isn't going to be able to match every aspect of your production environment, but keeping the same platform builds across environments is something that all teams should be aiming for.
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Good decisions aren't a function of how much time you think about them.

There is no correlation between the time taken for a decision and the quality of the decision. None.
I can't speak for all the options, but Blueprint has for quite some time now had a "semantic" option where a Ruby script generates the appropriate CSS based on your input.

Using that you can still think of things in a logical grid format rather than pure CSS (i.e. 3 columns wide, rather than 80px), but keep your HTML clean.

See the "semantic_classes" option: http://joshuaclayton.me/blueprints_compress_a_walkthrough.ht...

Not to mention if you use Compass you can do the same thing with their Blueprint mixins: http://compass-style.org/reference/blueprint/grid/

Or if you use Less: https://github.com/omnifroodle/blueprint.less
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A low-level IPC mechanism needs to exist in the microkernel. Higher-level IPC mechanisms that applications will actually care about and use certainly don't need to; see, for example, pipes in Minix.
Samsung Looking For A Ban On Sales Of Apple Mobile Devices
As a Tarsnap customer, would this allow you to stop charging on sending data to Tarsnap, or does that still cost you somewhere in the lineup?
Unlike your web app, your employment practices are subject to federal and state laws, and to the tax code. Give someone work an employee would normally do, and which isn't educational, and you must pay them. Fail to pay them and the IRS will be after you for payroll taxes and severe penalties.
I think the value of a college degree as a screening procedure is in fact dropping. The potential value of college education is still high, but the piece of paper doesn't really give any insight into what value the student took. All it shows is that the student payed the fee (and probably is in debt) and put in his/her time.
Speaking as a technical cofounder, it depends on the potential technical cofounders that you meet. Personally, when I met my non-tech cofounder, he already had his idea well thought out to the point where he'd made a trailer video demonstrating some of the UX using After Effects. I fell in love with the product idea itself because I'm primarily motivated by product ideas, and secondarily by team members.

I've now got as much skin in the game as him - neither of us is making a salary yet.

There's no one way to find your technical cofounder - we're all motivated by different things, and maybe what you've already got will click with someone. Just keep meeting people and putting your idea and self out there.
Here are some Quora threads:

http://www.quora.com/Google-App-Engine/What-is-the-highest-t...

http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-biggest-sites-built-on-top...
That's because you're not running the business. BES is not about sync, it's about security, and for an enterprise, it is in a class of its own.

I recognize that not everyone (and virtually no one here on HN I'm sure) sees the things that BES offers as important, or even desirable, but I can tell you that there is a huge market for them.
Yeah, you're spot on. We've so been focused on scaling our Gateway and services that we didn't prioritize the infrastructure serving our marketing site. It could really use some love, which we'll be giving it in the very near future. There should be enough caching in place now to handle the HN bump, and we'll be keeping an eye on it.
Smartphone statistics are pretty unhelpful when it comes to evaluating iOS because they don't factor in the 100+ million iPads & iPod touches out there. It helps to remember this when reading arguments about the App Store & the Android Market, because it's often forgotten or dismissed.
I suppose we should probably repaint all of those greek statues too...
...we are able to perform all our maintenance without downtime. We can deploy new versions of our software, make database schema changes, or even rotate our primary database server, all without failing to respond to a single request. We can accomplish this because we gave ourselves the ability suspend our traffic. To make this happen, we built a custom HTTP server and application dispatching infrastructure around Python's Tornado and Redis.

Why is it necessary to suspend traffic to make these kinds of changes? Just curious.
What I observe so far is people who learn all kind of programming languages will become very good programmers. And one who see language as a tool to solve problem and applies it smartly will become millionaire providing food for remaining good programmers.
Yes so essentially you have the commented defaults config file (under /usr/share or hopefully under /etc) and you overwrite non-default settings.

It should all be so simple, but most programs still don't do it.
There's no such informal agreement at all, only individuals who know that they can earn better elsewhere. In other words, a market. The key to this is that IT workers actually generate enough wealth for their employers that it's worthwhile to pay us well. It's completely different from a union (which is basically a cartel).
I'm inclined to agree.

I've tried a few times to learn category theory in the abstract, and struggled to motivate myself when I couldn't clearly "see" the structure and the application, in categories (like Hask or Vect) which I know reasonably well.

I'm glad it exists though, so I know where to look if I want some kind of deeper unifying intuition about structural ideas in whatever area of maths I'm studying, which might help me connect them to other areas, and as I read more graduate-level maths I imagine more of these opportunities will crop up.

Perhaps it's one of those things where it's helpful to learn the basic definitions early on, and their implications in categories (initially probably fairly straightforward ones) which you already know.

But then, just keep it gently percolating while you study other things, rather than trying to force it and make sense of adjoint functors etc before you've studied enough applications to justify the abstraction.
I don't think JSON as a _data interchange format_ should have comments. Key factors contributing to JSON's popularity and great practical value is simplicity and the fact that JSON is a final specification (i.e. no versioning, no extensions, no backward compatibility requirements).

Although JSON is human-readable, it wasn't specifically designed for human interaction. There are other projects and languages that address this specific topic. For example, Yaml and Piq. (Piq is the one that I'm working on as a part of the Piqi project -- http://piqi.org).
Thanks, I grabbed The Raconteurs off of your blog post.
If you're in the US, you're absolutely right, and other people are ignorant. You can't use unpaid interns like free workers, even for menial work like updating websites or e-mailing prospects... yet several HN regulars have advocated doing exactly that before. It's not legal.
This isn't a real senior person. This is some idiot with a senior title who doesn't have a clue about business. He sounds like an ancient engineer who got slowly promoted and wishes he worked for Apple.
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That doesn’t seem like a big story unless it happens again.
A number of people (at least in my circle) have also realized that those touchscreen devices are inferior for their primary purpose; being a phone. I know quite a few who "downgraded" their iphones to old fashioned devices with a real keypad (mostly nokias) after the novelty had worn off.
Who Says You Can't Make Money with Open Source?
One thing I would note, if you use "box-sizing: border-box" you can include borders (transparent if you want gutters) and padding without any float drops.

I wrote up an example here: http://monkeyandcrow.com/blog/splitting_the_difference/
Appengine is extremely good for auto scaling, if u have 100 users today and and u get 1 million users tomorrow, it will just work without u having to do anything, u dont need a scaling engineer.

I use appengine for all my web apps, it works for most of basic webapps, here are a few I have used appengine for: http://gramfeed.com, http://shaloc.com, http://checkinmania.com, http://misotrendy.com
I would love to see more details of the fabric+vagrant integration. For instance, you don't show how the prod/dev prefixes in your fabric commands are used to set the vagrant destination host, or the site urls. The vagrant way of things seems to be using "vagrant ssh". I know it sets up port forwarding to accomplish that, but how are you establishing the map of port# -> environment type? Just by convention, within the Vagrantfile?
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> But only locally.

Fair enough. I use Usenet almost exclusively at this point so I would love that.

It's true though, I had this illusion of people with that kind of connection being able to connect to anyone on a quality server instantly.
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This still suffers from the rounding error seen here [http://i.imgur.com/DXjVN.png].

Otherwise, yup... it's a grid. Looks like they're setting the grid elements to display:inline... which seems weird and unnecessary to me? Block elements don't belong inside inline elements.

I hate to keep posting this, but I've been unable to find fault with this grid [https://github.com/stubbornella/oocss/blob/master/core/grid/...] code. .lastUnit spans the pixel gap on the rightmost, nestable, extendable, fluid widths.

The two are mostly the same idea, but I think the OOCSS project implements it better and works with more browsers.
Things like showing up on time every day, not goofing off, and not being a dick to the customers are what distinguish valuable employees at that level.
On the folly of giving money directly to developers
Ouch. That is dumb.
The goal of having your dev environment match your prod. env. is not the right approach in my opinion.

Indeed. It's not just the right approach, it's the only approach for non-trivial applications.

Sorry for being a bit snarky, but I've seen the alternatives crumble under stress way too often.
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I wouldn't advertise you don't have a QA team.
I might be interested:) If you leave your email I'll send you some references -- although I'll be busy for the next few months. After that I've +-3 months free time & I'll be going to the UK around January. (or you can contact me on twitter with the same nick)
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