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This is something I was thinking about lately. That competing for being an alpha male/reproducing is just something society has to have and encourage to exist. It's like going to high school; it's boring, it's not that much fun but it's one of those things you have to do.

There are three main ways society can encourage reproduction:

1) Fear. Mainly fear of appearing a loser if you don't reproduce/have sex. Peer-pressure in other words.

2) Positive reinforcement. Making sex more fun: sex-toys, apparel, Viagra, etc.

3) Eliminate alternatives. Eliminating/making illegal things that are better than sex/lead to decreased interest in sex -- like drugs that cause pleasure greater than orgasm.

I was asking myself lately, "Why, stereotypical nerds, being so smart and intelligent don't have much sex?" And then it hit me: because sex's pleasure is overstated through propaganda. It's a physical activity that requires immense effort and concentration, carries a ton of risk, and doesn't offer enough in return.

You know why dumbest people often have more children? Because to exert so much effort on so little in return means you have to fall into the traps of advertisement, or just do it out of culture. If you stop to think what exactly makes you want sex, you'll probably never stress over having sex again, just like you don't stress over not drinking beer if everyone's drinking it.
It means that you didn't do anything wrong but you're fired because someone doesn't like you, or some manager is mad about something and needs to fire someone to make a point. So don't say anything about it because we don't want to deal with bad publicity or potential legal problems.
I was disappointed, for a moment, I though this was the author: http://www.codebelay.com/blog/wp-content/themes/thesis_18/cu...
"First, welcome to HackerNews. ;)"

Actually been a HackerNews reader/lurker for a while, but never felt compelled to post any comments until reading your post on SoFL entrepreneur groups.

We moved one business (http://EventDecoratingAcademy.com) to Miami about two years ago. We love Miami. It is a much more vibrant community than Milwaukee, where we also have businesses. I am very pro SoFL. Being in an environment like Miami helps one see possibilities you otherwise would not have seen. Some of the fun art work my wife does is at http://GotLatex.com. This work is directly a result from being in Miami.

Our current businesses have physical presence, so we are not a tech folks per se. However every business that wishes to succeed today must have a tech undercurrent/backbone. The main reason I follow HackerNews is to find new ideas for our brick and mortar type business.

I also have an interest in tech since back in the late seventies/ early eighties when I programed metal working machine tools using a teletype to make a paper punch tape to run the program. We also wrote inventory databases using dBase on CP/M machines with 8" 100k floppy drives... yes, back then a whole business could reside on 100k of data. No fancy GUI, turn the machine on a single period was displayed on a monochrome screen.

Tim
I just finished implementing BrowserID in an application that I am building. It is quick and easy to use. Perhaps 20 minutes to get it to work. I used OpenID before. OpenID is annoying and difficult. I spent 3 full days working on it.
Great post Jason. Sometimes we just need to reflect in moments of despair and think about life and the meaning of it all. We are all destined to die and nothing is guaranteed. Our lives can be cut short at any moment. Nothing else matters but now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obo6xCAHIG8
Yes, you get a severance when the company fires you for no really good reason and they just want you to not sue them.

It actually happens MOST of the time in professional contexts.

"Severance" is usually no big deal, it's like 1-3 months worth of paychecks.
> (though, I'm not proficient in functional programming, so that might be why I find it complicated).

Hint.
This seems relevant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GSXbgfKFWg
Nice/Useful.

Internal Server Error the first time I tried to load comments. (And every time afterwards.)

And it's kind of a bummer not to be able to log in and comment, upvote, etc. I understand it's a MVP though, so presumably that's coming. I'd offer to help a little, but I know Python, Lisp, and Java--not PHP, JS, and CSS, so sorry.
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There are some definitely some quirks in the US patent system. I'm not a lawyer, but as far as I understand it, entities have one year from the date of disclosure to file for a patent in the US, where other countries generally view disclosure as precluding patenting.
I don't believe that this inherently true. The market generally revoles around risk, additional returns are possible when taking more risk. Higher rates of issuance just mean that there is more availability and possibly drive the prices down due to supply.

Now, a lower rating would result in a hirer interest, as lower ratings means higher risk (at least in theory, but what this article actually shows is that this isn't the case).
Well it seems you're mixing things up. Having a change in policy has nothing to do with bugs on the way the market performs.

One thing is a shift in direction from Google and another is bugs that prevents developers and users from finding apps.

On a other post you talk about marketing as if would make any difference. There's a lot of developers complaining users couldn't find their apps after they were told to look for them on the market. How would a marketing campaign solve this problem?

It's Google's duty to provide developers and users with a reliable market experience.
Don't buy it on the assumption that you can get funding or resell the domain. Do you currently have an income? How long could you live for if you lost your job? Do you have a business plan / code / design for your product? Have you discussed the domain name with a few other people?

$3,000 isn't a lot of money for a domain, but it is when you don't have the money :)
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haha ....I got a little too emotional over there(edited) that part...but dont tell me you dont know about the gradual shift of power and revenue from the western to the asian markets....watch the documentary two million minutes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niU1E3SSTAM
CrunchFund.com, which according to the article was only recently registered, is about a product called CrewBuyer.

What is that?
Analyzing history through the lens of modern values is a foolish effort. At some point every person on the planet had ancestors who conquered, killed, and held slaves.

When discussing Alexander the Great we talk about how he spread Hellenistic culture and gave rise to western civilization. It doesn't turn into a flame war about how many Persians he killed, or how many slaves he owned.

If we judge historical cultures by modern standards none of them would come out smelling like roses.
There's two schools of thought on Florian.

One is more or less how he presents himself - professional blogger about IP issues, a campaigner against software patents and neutral ref who reports on IP disputes. Take a look at the first few pages of his blog, nothing really stands out as overlu biased -- Apple won here, Apple lost here, new patent troll on the scene, etc.

The other view is that he's a paid shill for MS out to SCO Linux. Groklaw dug up something where he no commented when asked about his financing (or perhaps specifically about Microsoft) and some weak link between him and Darl McBride (he was apprently in the wedding party of McBride's brother's wedding party or something). Neither of those is especially damning but it's at least eyebrow raising esp when you combine it with the Android claims he made earlier this year.

I'm not ready to subscribe to the second view but I definitely take any android-geddon analysis from him with a large grain of salt.
Quick fix around this; PAY FOR IT!

That's it FTFY.
totally agreed :)
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Pretty out there for a "more plausible explanation" that hackers would be launching attacks from desktop pcs of high level australian government officials.

I'm not even sure what you're arguing about - you actually think either a) the US doesn't conduct cyber espionage or b) the US doesn't spy on it's friends?
I'm not going to lie, we're competitors, and I have plenty of people tell me they're happy with Grooveshark, and that you provide a lot of value. I also hear the other side, and I hope that Grooveshark gets what it deserves from Universal.

The fact still remains that Grooveshark as it is wouldn't exist if not for the many years it's had to benefit from free use of mainstream content. That's not what DMCA was created for. It was created to protect people who mostly have UGC and occasionally have their terms violated. If Grooveshark was one of those companies, they would look more like Unsigned.com right now.

The music industry's legal system is complex. We all know that. Other companies are navigating that complexity in much more difficult ways, being much more honest to the spirit of the law. Grooveshark takes advantage of the laws and operates a service that has only one foot in legality. Of course it would be easy to build a business that way and then get the praises of those companies you forge relationships with _after_ your audience and platform is already valuable. But there is more to be said for a company that takes the hard road and does the same. I think Pandora has had a miserable time of it, but at least they did it right.
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It's a stretch to say that you shouldn't use them in a real application. Combinators in general can be useful for implementing functional programming languages, and those languages can be useful for applications.

That may sound like bickering over a fine point, but I'm just saying that combinators can be more than a theoretical tool.

It seems reasonably fast for my purposes so far, and the expansion rule is just a one-liner: https://github.com/chkoreff/Fexl/blob/master/src/Y.c
I'm really excited about BrowserID. I think for the end user it makes more sense than OpenId which was doomed from the start because it was too difficult to understand what it was.

If only people owned their email addresses then this would be a truly decentralized (eventually) and portable identity system. I do think emails are the best global handle for users that we have currently - we should treat it as such.
That's true. But Grooveshark has been playing Universal artists for years, millions of times over, without licenses. They're not innocent. They claim DMCA, but they know that they have a ton of copyrighted material on their platform. Say what you will about the RIAA, it doesn't make all of their enemies good people.
If you want to pay for the infrastructure and fixed costs too, go right ahead.
That's a pretty poor example. Linus says he hasn't looked at what Google is done and is just assuming they wouldn't want to do anything wrong.

Mueller offered his opinion on whether what Google was doing has a copyright problem. He backed that opinion by citing to legal experts who argued that there might be infringement. Some other people offer a different opinion (without citing to legal experts to at least show plausibility).

Maybe Mueller is wrong on occasion when he offers his opinion. However, when he's reporting on facts rather than opinion (i.e., in most of his writing), he's quite accurate and a very useful source of information.
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No packets are being blocked; none are being slowed down.

Sure they are. If I try to watch n GB of movies on NetFlix, then the last n-m GB get blocked, whereas on the ISP's service, none do (where n > m = data cap).

maybe the “spirit” of it, but technologists don’t believe in spirits, one hopes.

This is a pretty silly equivocation.
Not to mention tons of ubiquitous algorithms.
Maybe this person hadn't had much chance to network beyond their coworkers or people otherwise connected to the company? Depending on how they got fired, I could see how that might create a sense of being excluded from the bit of the community they could see.

In other words, maybe they hadn't yet come to appreciate that there are multiple tech communities with all kinds of diverse characters.
Jesus that sounds horrible. So now if you default on a loan you not only lose your house but can't get a decent job, and thus cannot afford healthcare.

I don't know how you guys get anything done over there I'd just spend my life ina state of perpetual paranoia.
So it's more collusion than competition.
You're trying to take last month's news and net it out with todays news. This is absurd.

Let's take is as a given that Person Y stole something from Person X and was found guilty of that last month.

Now there's a question about whether Person X also stole something from Person Y.

If the judge today rules for Person X that is bad news for X. If the judge rules for Person Y that is bad news for Y. It's that simple.

If the Cavs beat the Mavricks in game 1, losing Game 2 is bad news for them because they would have been up 2-0 instead of tied 1-1.
Thanks for posting that ... I'm happy to see I'm not the only one who eschews OOP and sticks to plain old routines. I've been programming for over 30 years, and I went through an OOP phase, but I got over it.
Kind of a tangent, but it frustrates me to see when a company makes its decisions based on the desires of its shareholders (by legal obligations or otherwise). The way I see it, this behavior only serves to weaken a company. Sure, the shareholders get their 5¢ dividends, but it's usually at the cost of a superior product offering.

Capitalism, man…
@samyzee Stack level went to deep so I'm replying to my own post. I agree that Asians are underrepresented in terms of global GDP, and with time their share of the pie will grow much larger in keeping with their share of the population.

However economics is not a zero sum game. I'm not adversely affected if Asia's economies grow. In fact, I'd love to see them succeed. More wealth anywhere is good for free people everywhere; it give's me more people to trade with.
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That looks more like a feature of private/competing currencies than commodity currencies. If a commodity money is backed by a state, it shouldn't act differently from fiat money (assuming its price is stable enough to act as a useful "unit of account", which for a weighted basket of commodities shouldn't be difficult. If the commodity basket is the particular one specified by the CPI, then its real value will be a constant by definition!) You wouldn't trade in pork bellies, but convenient "dollars" with a well-understood and stable value, pegged to a fixed ratio of a commodity (X pork bellies). E.g. historically, 1 USD was defined as 1.505 grams gold (1900-1933). And most transactions wouldn't involve physical delivery of a commodity, just paper bills.

You have a good point that if there are multiple currencies (say they are privatized), then there could be major confusion as to how to denominate debts, which currencies are acceptable payment, people being confused by different units and fluctuating exchange rates, etc. Like dealing with international currencies, except everywhere.
The simple fact is, without mainstream content, Grooveshark would be a joke. Putting in a requirement - Do not play songs with the word Primus in the metadata - would probably "accidentally" keep out some cover bands' songs that are legally uploaded, but it would do a very good job of keeping out most Primus music. Even if that music showed up, but without the metadata, nobody would be finding it in searches, which also helps eliminate the use of that illegal content. What you do, frankly, is close to the legal minimum because the business wouldn't exist if you did a better job at it.

Within 5 minutes I can go find music on Grooveshark that is there illegally. It ought to be pretty easy for you to do the same queries and prevent that from happening. Would you prevent legal music? Yes. What is more important - that some cover band be allowed to post their music, or that Primus be allowed to retain their rights? Particularly when you consider that nobody is coming to Grooveshark to hear covers of Primus.

I'm not saying that operating legally in the music industry is easy - far from it. But on the spectrum of trying to, unprofitable Pandora is on one side, and Grooveshark is waving hello in the far distance.
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No... but it will, that error is really easy to fix (well, easy to work around, just getting an actually valid link). I will have some spare time this sunday and will work on that.
Like I said, it's not about comparing the two. Neither one of them makes you an expert at running a business.

And, almost certainly, the amount of VC money raised by startup founders coming out of YC and that of founders coming out of Harvard cannot possibly be in favor of HBS.
OT... a shout-out for my evening proyect (that is to improve HN as well): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2768238
Partisan political statements rather than a serious analysis of which country has the advantage.
Did you forget about this guy? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Moritz

Not too shabby for a reporter.
Really downvoters. You think we need more debt and to ignore the the housing crisis? Really?
We paid hundreds of times more for our domain names than this, and we are glad we did.

It depends on your market, though. And it should be noted that we started out with a medicore domain name.
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i agree tht it is not a zero sum game...the world economy is larger than it was 30 years ago....and yes you will be able to trade more since there will be more consumers....but standards of living and of most economies will definitely decline...the stuff that you bought from china for really cheap wont be so cheap anymore....which means tht the average westerner will be no better than the average asian in terms of healthcare,education,food cars etc....(the average asian right now lives on less than $1 a day)...so far so good...we are all happy rite...wrong!!....the asian countries still have a huge advantage in such a scenario...population!!...when everyone has the same standard of living ...it is population which will decide who has more power!!
It's not a solid ISO standard. One of my coworkers recently gave me a c++ library to use. I linked to it and started making calls and found out that the STL from his compiler ( VS 2003) was incompatible with the STL from my compiler (VS 2010). They were simple things, like function calls that had their types changed, but nonetheless it rendered his library useless to me.

Compare to C, where everything is heavily standardized and you can use libraries from different compilers without much difficulty.
It's as simple as this: never sign the document they hand you on the spot. Give it a day or two, say you might need to talk to a lawyer. They're firing you. They really want you to sign this document. They won't actually really take away your severance if you fail to sign in the first ten seconds, because if they wanted to do that, they wouldn't have offered it in the first place.

Believe it or not, you have the power in that situation. That's why they want you to sign it right away - right now you're emotionally distressed and thus gullible.

So that's how you prepare yourself: remember that if this ever happens, DON'T SIGN ANYTHING until you calm down. It's okay if that takes several days.

(This is from experience at past employers, I don't speak for my current employer, I haven't actually been fired but I've been on the other side, I am not a lawyer, This does not constitute legal advice, blah blah.)
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A lot of this really doesn't add up to me:

> "My boss the previous week had told me what a great coder I was"
> "You cannot use the employer who fired you as a reference."

Why couldn't he use his boss as a reference?

> "if you get fired, you become a persona non grata."

I find this hard to believe. How would people even find out about it? And is there no one in "the tech community?" (as if there's only one) who knows that people are human and make mistakes? Surely he would have friends in the community who would see the whole picture.

> "I know there’s no techie blacklist but the only 2 jobs I could find were as a spam engineer or in a totally different industry."

Again, I find this difficult to believe. If he was really a great coder, and came clean with his mistakes, possibly presenting a plan for why he wouldn't make them again, I don't see any reason an employer wouldn't take a risk on him, provided he's got chops.

It seems like most of what this article says would only be true if you were fired very prominently from a high-profile role, or if you had an egregious lapse in judgment that lead to serious problems at your company.
Define procrastination. Perhaps I'm working on research for procrastination articles, or studying design of that web-page.

I understand what you're trying to do but a bit of advice for the future: do not offend your reader. You can offend something else they might hate, e.g. "fuck procrastination".

I just downvoted you solely on the lazy asshole comment because I took it personally, because I'm reading this. If you were to say it personally to someone, in certain cliques, you would've gotten the shit beaten out of you for saying things like that unless you aren't their teacher. I would personally just flip you off, told you to go fuck yourself, and then never spoke to you again.

Just friendly advice.
I like it :D

Have added it to my bookmarks on my smartphone.
I've been trying to be constructive and help you guys, but clearly you just wanted to come here and complain. You guy should just give up, because google won't fix their customer service and won't fix your search rankings and probably in general won't do anything to help you. The next think you should try is making another app on either market and complain about all the deficiencies of either market instead of focusing on figuring out how to get over limitations and being successful
Given that you are severely undercapitalized, cutting your runway in half for a domain name makes no sense. Particularly since there will be plenty of domain names for sale in 3, 6, or 12 months when you are ready to bring the product to market - or have angel funding.

There is no point in spending money on something today which you don't need and may not need...Pivots happen.

Good luck.
Depends on who is asking. My stock response is "I work for a web retailer". I generally only mention my ownership or role when it's relevant to the person or the context.
P.S. I apologize for saying "the simple fact is" way too often.
Yup. I've setup a Jenkins server that uses a combination of xcodebuild and xcrun. The process:

- clones the repo from git
- builds with xcodebuild
- signs/provisions with xcrun
- creates a manifest file for over-the-air installs
- copies the build to a server where users can install
- saves off the symbol file for our crash server so it can symbolicate crashes
- sends emails

It would run unit tests and integration tests if we had them. :)
By what mechanism does BrowserID require RPs to respect the valid-until field?