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All my new domains are on Gandi. Another advantage is their broad selection of TLDs. Domain names are too valuable to nickel and dime.
What a horribly biased article. I think this could be the poster child for how to right an article that, while not coming out and saying that it favors one side, engineers its presentation such that it's clear that one side is wrong.
Maybe there should be more emphasis on the word "vague", there.

There's definitely a link between my own motivation for success and my sex drive, even though I'm very happily married and am way, way off the market. I want to be wanted even though I'm unavailable, I suppose, and I'm quite happy to be wanted by people who are unavailable to me, by extension.

This is not driving a motivation for "success" in monetary terms, btw; it's a drive to become more of a person I would admire, and (by extension) a person that others would admire and desire. Part of that involves NOT being the sort of person weak enough to cheat on his wife, interestingly enough. :)
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Well, but the CS disease may be suffered by individuals and - occasionally, you're right - groups or even the IT department as a whole. The MBA disease is currently suffered by top management of huge multinational conglomerates, because its vector is in fact the people within companies who allocate all the money.

It's like the difference between the flu and AIDS - if the disease targets the immune system you're dead.

Regarding discovering it, though, speak for yourself about the just-nowness. When the corporate raider became front magazine cover hero in the 80's, that's when it became endemic. Since then, America has been eating its seed corn.

I was in high school and college at the time, so I didn't know what was going on, but looking back, it should have been obvious. And like I say, I figured it out in the early 90's. I've been self-employed since that job and never regretted it.
That's what they all say. Then the horde arrives.
You were smart to tell your boss ahead of time.
How about using the Tumblr2Wordpress tool by WooThemes? Granted, it's not the best thing but it would keep your data and you'd be able to migrate to a solution that's easily self-hosted.
There was an example of somebody who had taken an ad posted by a company, removed the name and increased the salary with 5k -- that way the recruiters would get all the applicants and they would get a lower salary than they would expect based on the ad.
I'm trying to see how linking to TIME is linkbait, but ... don't you think maybe this short-term mercenary outlook is the effect of the problem, not the cause?

I mean, you're not at all wrong.
Immediately I see a huge flaw: If the electricity gets shut off before they are able to close up the place it suddenly becomes among the least of zombie-proof houses.
I don't think developers understand that pirates aren't customers, they are thieves. It is a crime of opportunity. If they can just take something for free they will, because they are probably 10-20 years old and they don't have enough disposable income to make buying a game easier than pirating one. So, they trade their extra time for their lack of money and go the pirated route even though it's a PITA.

Yes, there is a lot of piracy and there always will be. The only way around it is to ignore it and keep making software for your real customers - the people who paid for it in the first place.

The other thing you can do is try to use the thieves to promote your product. Hold contests, get them to post on message boards and other junk about your game. Have them post scores to FaceBook or Twitter. Turn them into your "street team" so to speak.

The point is, whining won't get you sales, so stop complaining about piracy and run your business.
I've been noticing this lately. A lot of stale projects are claiming the same date in 2009. The code hasn't actually been touched since June 2006.

This is why, as James says, linking straight to a sourceforge project isn't particularly useful. I'll assume it's a single commit from a decade ago unless proven otherwise.
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If there were any "common themes" in the resumes you reviewed or if you have any general advice for the HN crowd regarding resumes, I would love to hear them.
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hopefully not a Peroni. Italian import piss ;-)

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peroni_Brewery
This is very anecdotal naturally. But I am a dyslexic and it was really a struggle for me as a little kid. I don't like reading very much because it is a frustrating endeavor. I like information, I like thinking, and I guess I have favored smaller condensed pieces when reading. Perhaps why I love this website

I can attest though that upon seeing the paragraph written at the end of the video that the text was much easier to read. I was really quite blown away with it. I'm all for this, and really hope it can get spread around.

I don't think you can make someone who is not a reader become one. But I think like anyone who can't do something by a limitation when it is removed you have a new found respect for what you didn't have. It may not be a big market, but trust me there is a market here.

I'm going to download all of these on every part of my system that I can tonight.
Fellow European here - I was going to say the same thing: I have practically no options of watching any current shows, a lot of FANTASTIC shows don't even make it over here and most of the German translations are abysmal in terms of being wrong and having horrible voices/voice acting, to say the least.

I don't feel bad for using tvtorrents - as far as I am concerned, I am just watching a TV show that has already been paid for by its target audience and stations in the States anyway and I got a copy; what's the big deal?

And movies: why are there still significantly different "launch dates" for the same movie all over the world? This is 2011.

And while we are at it with movies, my favorite pet peeve are the frakking movie theaters here... you pay outrageous prices just to get a seat, then you pay extra for 3d goggles, then they sit you through 20 minutes of commercials, then they switch on all of the frakking lights AGAIN and ask "Does anyone want to buy some ice cream???"... and of course there are always some assholes who want to buy a $1 popsicle with a $100 bill but first they take their sweet time deciding on what to get... then finally the light goes out... and there are more commercials. The whole experience is just begging to install a nice home theater and since one cannot (legally) watch current movies while they are in theaters.. pirating surely becomes an option.

Movie theaters and current movie distribution are a concept from the stone age when people could not afford to view them at home; they are a fossil in terms of modern technology and possibilities. Most people who go to see a movie could just as easily watch it at home without much less enjoyment or sound or visual quality.
> The Read Regular typeface is not available for purchase.

... and of course, neither to download for free.

What's the point of this font? Is it used beyond the promotional web site?

I didn't try to contact the creator because I don't have any specific need for the font right now, but I think that she's doning a disservice to dyslexic people by not publishing it under a Creative Commons license.
Wow. On a desktop it looks fine- the text is oriented differently and the background is much larger compared to the text
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Hmm, this got killed and then resubmitted within 15 minutes.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2754480

And what a coincidence, it's both submitters first submissions.
I know it's totally off topic but did anyone else read thar article on an iPad? The theme they're using is a bad attempt at making the site work like an ebook and it sucks.
I'm not sure why he would be getting numbers that low. The only setup I have at the moment which would give useful numbers for ssl req/sec is a small single core VM, running one nginx worker process, and that pumps out 135 new req/sec. Add a few cores, workers, put it on real hardware, and I don't see how this couldn't push well over 400 req/sec.

This is using nginx strictly as an ssl termination, where I need to do some header manipulation that I couldn't do in stunnel/stud.
Have you thought about expanding the scope and making this into a possible larger business? It seems you could provide calculators for other stuff too like calories, cholesterol, etc
Is that an ordering of chronology or personal preference? Could be either.
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I've been happy with Dotster for my domain registration and some DNS management and have been slowly moving domains over from GD to them. Anyone else have input on Dotster?
As a dyslexic and with only a little knowledge of Spanish I would say that it is probably true. When I was learning the little bit of Spanish I know it did seem easier to infer the correct word and spelling. In the end that is what a lot of dyslexics learn to do to cope. They infer the word. Many times they get them wrong but with certain fonts it is easier than trying to read it.

One thing about this issue that never really gets covered is that with repetition dyslexics can improve their condition. One of the main reasons I read and post it to ensure that I am constantly working to improve my ability to do so. Many times kids become discouraged and end up abandoning written language due to difficulties with their condition. It only serves to worsen their condition. I for example was given a computer at an early age to help with my dyslexia, I was allowed to submit all papers typed and I was excused from handwriting assignments due to being deemed to have a learning disability. This was both a blessing and a curse, it was a blessing because I became exposed to computers but a curse in the fact that to this day I am functionally illiterate when it comes to handwriting. My handwriting looks more akin to sandscript than English. I can read it and understand it, but to someone else it is an entirely different language. Fortunately they have better policies for learning disabilities now days and use a combined approach.

On an unrelated note, there are a lot of dyslexics (the ones that don't get discouraged or use their condition as a crutch) that end up in the math and science fields. It has been theorized that these people's ability to see textual items as 3D objects some how aids in their ability to visualize abstract concepts.

I know when I do higher level math I do not see numbers. I see objects that are represented by the numbers. I think for many just starting out in higher maths, variables are a difficult concept, but when you see each items as a object it helps one to look at all items in a equation as a variable some just have known values. I think dyslexics grasp this concept earlier because it is inherently how their mind works. Unfortunately many dyslexics never make it that far due to years of failing in academics.
It would be nice it Matt provided full details on the testbed, including the client. In a test scenario it is very important to understand what gets tested in the end. I liked that "Russia" tag too :)
I scarcely think anyone in that mindset to go to that length and expense would overlook backup generators. I would be surprised if the roof were not tiled with solar panels as a second resource.
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That's the one! Love the stuff. Trust me, I'm Irish.
Is there any proof that this won't happen with the alternatives?
Their admin interface is significantly worse and they lack many of the options found on other registrars like Namecheap or Gandi. They don't even offer DDNS or TXT records.
If you check that then won't those users using an unencrypted connection?
The other, other hand? I believe the phrase you are hunting for is "on the gripping hand" :-)

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/O/on-the-gripping-hand.html
(fun books, as well)
After reading the article, your app got all of those users because it was featured on the cracked app web page - it's not clear to me that those same users would have found your app through the App Store. App discovery is probably the biggest problem for iOS games

Can you switch to an ad-supported model?
If the scripting language itself is fast, then the game changes completely. That is obvious to the rest of us, and motivates this work.
There was a time when I used to rip my DVDs, for several reasons: 1) get rid of the warnings and menus and other crap. I just want the main feature; 2) preserve my investment, DVDs are the most fragile consumer media I've ever dealt with. If you have kids, one day they will set a DVD face down on the table and chances are good it will never play right again.

But now I just don't buy DVDs anymore. I watch some stuff on Netflix, and am happy to pay $8/month for that service. I've mostly opted out though. I just don't see the stuff coming out of Hollywood and the TV networks as really being worth my time, regardless of cost or delivery mechanisms.
But this wasn't about productive work, just about learning from scratch. In my experience, he's right about starting with a text editor and shell.

Anecdote: a complex toolchain that I have worked with for cross-compiling programs for an ARM development board was easier to set up for the command line - using an IDE just added more steps, more mystery and more problems.
Netscape's death throes began in 1998. The 90s tech bubble finally collapsed in early 2000.

Assuming this year marks the beginning of Facebook's death throes and extrapolating from recent history: Until 2013, let the (tech startup) good times roll!
The amount of hollow marketing speak in this post suggests it's a rationalization after the fact. Which usually indicates the original criteria was mostly a matter of "ooh, that looks pretty".

Not that there's anything wrong with that, but the need to rationalize intuitive decisions with BS phrases like "It’s a design that breaks more news than its competitors, that loves the code junkies working 22-hour days to build world-changing products." makes me want to barf.
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I've had a great experience with Apple Support so far, when I renewed my contract I had some random issue with my credit card expiring (it was an old CC), because of this issue the iAds in my Apps where failing to Appear (for about a week).

The guy from Apple support called me like 3 times (international call to Chile), gave me a free month and fixed the issue.

It has been a good experience so far.
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I have this "short form blog" about compiler stuff [0]. It consists mostly of links i encounter, mixed up with job offerings, quotes, etc. I chose tumblr, because it allows me to markup things like quotes appropriately.

This is not about being social, but more of a between personal notebook. If somebody else would produce something like that I'd probably terminate mine.

[0] http://compilers.tumblr.com/
Agreed. It's clearly not zombie proof, as there is no attached garage with a APC in ;-)

Clearly built to withstand a non-casual attack until the police get there. But once they are on the roof, I suspect it is game over, as it appears there is solar heating. Unless the pipes for that are locked down too...
If you're that worried about piracy, go for free apps with microtransactions. They're more painful to work around.
Yeah that's true but I chose the domain specifically to calculate the BMI (calculerimc.com -> "bmi calculator").It could still potentially accomodate more calculators though. For now, I want to build traffic to "BMI calculator" keywords and then possibly branch out to more calculators.
Passive income is a funny phrase... I've tried it before too, but always end up pouring more time and energy into it than I first intend. At first it's "I need to put time into this to get it started, then it'll be all good."

When it's generating income, the question becomes "can this be scaled to make even more money?" Then we adapt, A/B test, work promotion channels, obsess over page rank, refine analytics... ugh.

I wish you luck :)
What do you mean by "author say t it's pointless to wait for the financial information to clear"?

I'm not sure I said anything like that.

ps. yes of course it's slightly emotional, we are just humans
Everyone say "just call them!", but you all forget: he's an international customer (from blog's about page, he's from Latvia).

If he call them, he will have to spend more money in international phone call just because Apple make this a big bureaucracy.

I'm outside U.S. too, and had to call once. Yes, the person solved my problem really quickly, but everything could be made in a single email.
They're verifying you're a real company is why they don't do it all via webform.

Call them. While they can be strident on policies, they're otherwise extremely nice and helpful. Seems to be very highly paid compared to other CSR jobs.
This also means that you have to invest 200€ in addition to the time spent coding it and to the hosting+domain fees in order to get things started. Considering the goal you expressed (making passive money), why was this your choice compared to spend less money at first, code it and just make it functional (not beautiful), and only if it works or show signs that it will, then spend the 200€ (or even more then) on the design?

(In case it needs to be said: I'm not saying you made a wrong choice, I'd really like to know/understand why you chose to go this way :-)).
If they can't afford a 99c game, how did they afford an iOS device?

I think it is more unwillingness- since some software is free, some people resent paying for any software. (They probably don't get HBO on their cable TV either...)
Seriously, frakk the frakking useless GEMA and frakk that youtube "sorry, not available in your country" screen. I am trying to see something on the internet for crying out loud!
Hello liu3hao, looks like we are competing in a similar space (related website in my profile, I am not trying to spam your post). I like your minimalism, quite elegant. Good luck!
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SEO is hard, what tricks do you have in mind? For now my SEO strategy is to contact people who have fitness related blogs and fitness related link lists and get my site in there. Also I could build more content with a blog for example. But tricks? :-)
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I'm just trying to learn some erlang, I'm working through Joe Armstrong's "Programming Erlang", which I like quite a lot, so far.
BUT it would be nice to have some real world code to read as well. As I am not much more than a beginner in functional programming, this would benefit me greatly.
So, my question is: what are noteworthy pieces of free erlang code on the internet? Does anyone have suggestions? thanks!
I also received a very similar response from Jeff Sessions [R-AL].
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I made the same mistake. I started out very excited about the developer program. I bought a Mac, read a couple of books on iPhone development, but my enrollment got stalled for weeks (months). Partners were asking about the delay and eventually the project lost momentum.

I should have called support sooner because they approved my application within minutes (after verifying my phone number). Though by then I was discouraged and figured I would get the same experience if I submitted an app.
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More ideas
Rank it then sell it to someone who can do something useful with it, such as a fitness coach/company or any other interested health related org.

Or build up a list and instead of trying to monetize immediately provide tips to get a healthier bmi, then offer products or services after building up a relationship with the listmembers.

Or partner up with someone who is a coach or has value to offer to people who are interested in improving their bmi.

All three of these are more interesting and likely more profitable than trying to push affiliate or cpa type offers straight up to your visitors.
You are right. I just spent 25 min on a phone with them and I'm pretty much were I was. Hoping it will get escalated now...

ps. I could use Skype for cheaper calls but they are not very reliable. I have been using Skype for conf calls for ages so I should know
I am transferring my domains from GoDaddy to Dynadot (http://www.dynadot.com), so far I have no complains.
AT&T just introduced free mobile to mobile calling to anyone on any network a few months ago, with the catch being you must subscribe to an unlimited SMS plan to be eligible.

They are going to find ways to get people to pay for an SMS bucket whether they need it or not.
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Does that include the URL and what i just quoted?

Some people really don't understand the web.
More interestingly, I once had a slightly heated debate on HN - nothing serious - just different points of views - and in the end the person managed to hunt down my email address just to apologize in case there were any hard feelings (which there weren't). This community is one of a kind, even with your occasional borderline-psychotic oddballs :)
> Harassing already-bought politicians does not fall into that category.

True indeed. The only thing to do with them is send them packing on the next off ramp. That's the idea behind a web app I'm developing: http://repwatch.us

You've got to be able to keep track of who needs to go and why.
Honestly the one takeaway I got from this is that there are roughly 45 active HNers that I absolutely do not want to interact with.

While I know Peroni will never share those email addresses (he's much to polite) I somehow wish we could see which users are that rude/psycho to send this guy hate mail and stalk him (albeit online with the exception of the one nutcase who called his boss)
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there's so much Tetris goin on there too. Also, cue logo design (mis)trend of late 2011 - the pixelated fade. ala..I think it was MS stuff/Windows back in like....turn of the century?
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If youtube would at least show that in the preview already. Or make it an option - filter automatically all videos from preview which you are not allowed to watch anyway.