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Perhaps based on German pronunciation, but they're not spelled like they are spoken to English people. OBvious examples being things like when the letter 'd' sounds like an English 't', or 'w' sounds as 'v'.

I never actually learned to speak German, did learn French (can speak it fine, with a very English accent). Slightly odd situation though, I was taught to pronounce German extremely authentically (former professional singer), and didn't found it harder to learn German pronunciation than French.

That said I love the German language, some day when I can be bothered I really do want to learn it; can't quite put into words why I love it, but there's something weirdly special about it. Maybe just because of associations I have with it and certain music, like Bach's St John's Passion.
In Canada Dollarama is the market leader, and they've recently added $1.25, $1.50 and $2.00 items.

I honestly think you could grocery shop there - they have things like pasta sauce which is made specifically for them (same kind I buy in the grocery store, but at dollarama it has the label printed with dollarama price tag). There are tons of fantastic buys and I go there all the time, despite probably not needing to. I buy a ton of office stuff there too (even DVD sleeves, which I run through like you wouldn't imagine).

They even have iPhone cases, chargers, USB cables, etc. I don't know what I'd do without them...
"all participants had to spend 20 minutes highlighting as many letter e's as they could find in a 3,500-word text..."

These examples really don't compare to a hacker news reader's job. As long as the title looks catchy it'll be here.
Rewriting things in C, or Cython, also makes things much, much faster, without the hassle of PyPy. And because you
can do your own memory management (in the places where it makes sense), Cython code is quite a lot better for well-defined numerical applications than what you can get out of a GC-based environment.

Realistically, you always want to be able to take advantage of one of the two big ecosystems - namely the C world and the JVM world - because there are so many libraries out there doing nontrivial things you do not have to reimplement. Right now, writing C code that works well with generational garbage collection (or really any kind of garbage collection that moves objects around - i.e. all the well-performing ones) is either very tedious (when you try to take account of objects being moved) or slow and possibly error-prone (if you rely on JNI-style locking and unlocking of object references).

As a result, it may actually be more attractive to build a Java bytecode JIT into PyPy (and be able to have PyPy use Java classes within its more powerful representation scheme) and get mindshare among the people currently using Jython than trying to get the diehard C extension users to switch.

So much for the '"the X community should recognize what an awesome technology Y is" is a surefire recipe for building sucky software' talk. People will do whatever they do, and calling them idiots because they don't do what you think is awesome doesn't lead anybody anywhere. (Though having a decent installer and usable documentation may actually lead to more people discovering the advantages of PyPy).
Why is a good post like this downvoted? I know HNers tend to disagree but the sentiment is for the most part spot on. Groupon is not a ponzi scheme. It operates like any other business that buys from vendors on net 60 terms. It can obviously dial down on acquisition spending and be left with a fabulously valuable asset of 100+ million opted-in subscribers/accounts. A list that it can market to very inexpensively.
The really interesting engineering that happened at HP was all spun off as Agilent in 1999. What's left is just your garden variety technology company that does a lot but doesn't seem to do any of it very well.
Thanks, versioning is really important. By default, when you create a snippet, it only appears in your search results. There is an option to submit a snippet to be included in the shared results. We're building a moderation system to handle those submissions. In the meantime, we're manually approving submissions to the shared repository. The moderation system will include versioning.

We're also building a feature to allow users to define groups and share snippets with groups.
... they can't rely on no-name cloud providers for legal and ass-covering reasons, they need the local installations and control of their infrastructure, ...

Amazon Federal http://aws.amazon.com/federal/

"Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers federal government agencies a secure, reliable, and cost-effective computing platform in the cloud. By using AWS products, government organizations can focus on meeting their mission-critical objectives, and spend less time procuring, developing, or managing IT resources. "

"Security: In order to provide end-to-end security and end-to-end privacy, AWS builds services in accordance with security best practices, provides appropriate security features in those services, and documents how to use those features. AWS’ compliance framework covers FISMA Low, PCI DSS Level 1, ISO 27001, SAS70 type II, and HIPAA."
What is the relationship between this and Bootstrap.less (http://www.markdotto.com/bootstrap/), other than it appears to be by the same person? What about Skeleton (http://www.getskeleton.com/)? Are they just 3 different visual approaches to the same problem, or is there an evolutionary progression among them?
I installed ten (10) HP 3130 desktops two months ago for a local dental practice. No issues. Not one. Nice machine, fast, quiet, runs cool, plenty of space, 4GB, etc.

The list price is $789.00 but they were purchased for about $599.00. At that price the margin can't be very much. My guess -- $150.00

But it takes a lot more energy and logistics to move 1MM desktop PC's than it does to move 1MM iPhones.

If HP is getting out of this market (behind Dell and IBM) it must mean desktop PC's as we know them are dead.
Why less, why not sass?
Logogarden.com seems to have a massive db of stolen logos.
I just completed the course and it is very well done. If you want to teach to young children (especially boys), then a Khan Academy approach could be used where you narrate the course. Most of Khan Academy's success comes from Sal himself, his personality. It is hard to find natural teachers who show heartfealt enthusiasm for their subjects. Ryan Bates of Railscasts also achieves this. Just my C$0.02. Again, thank you for your work. This is a wonderful direction for education.
I've typically seen "ponzi" referencing Groupon's business model, not it's financing activity. Having a late stage investor payoff earlier investors/shareholders is not uncommon. IPO investors then payoff those investors and so forth. Is that what you mean?
This is great, but I'm afraid I will be forking and adding SASS/SCSS support.
‘Anonymous’ hacker quits; calls members hypocrites, efforts fruitless
Trabajos desde casa fiables
Trabajos desde casa fiables con negocios online rentables de programas de afiliados. Un sistema que requiere compromiso pero que es realmente efectivo
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Are you referring to the last funding round where a portion of the financing went to shareholders? That's not uncommon and I'm not really sure where you would draw the line. There's a buyer and seller on every stock transaction.
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I'll add one real reason:

- Explaining why code is "sub standard" is hard.
It's perfectly normal to feel ill as a reaction to hearing something that upsets you.

If the author is not allowed to eat pork for religious reasons, I can easily understand him feeling ill.
The best time to buy is when a panic subsides. It's better to miss the first 10% of a recovery than to lose 20% catching falling knives. That's what I have learned painfully in 2008. (I just wish hadn't forgotten it by 2011 :)
>And if there is one thing we've learned from Microsoft etc. is that throwing unlimited funding at a problem fixes it.

The main problem for Dropbox is simply scale. You, as a service provider, need to keep up with the storage and bandwidth requirements. The only way to deal with that is through buying more hardware/Cloud CPU time and bandwidth. If you're Dropbox, that means that you might need to get more funding. If you're IBM or HP, and they've made it a priority, it's much easier to get what you need.

Dropbox isn't really all that special from a technical perspective at this point. Any of the large tech firms can solve it easily, and Apple, Amazon and Google have all come out with services that do basically the same thing as Dropbox.
I don't believe that some people just can't learn to program. Certain types need a certain type of teaching method. I failed my first programer course in college (Java), and totally left the idea behind. Almost a decade later I learned to program. I taught myself, with the help of the internet. In other words, the internet supplied me a methodology for learning to program.
if groupon is losing money on every customer, adding more customers actually exacerbates the cash flow problem, and every time those customers buy a deal, groupon goes farther in the hole. they use the cash to pay their oldest debts but eventually there will be a reckoning.

it's unfathomable to me that it would be an attractive investment.
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Thanks for this honest post-mortem. It sure wasn't easy to describe your shortcomings in our world filled with infinite news of shiny web successes. I think one of the main takeaways can be that attacking a large project like this should not be done alone. It's a huge amount of tasks and context switches for one person to handle, and the risk of loosing motivation and even running into a burn out is much higher.

I think the way to go for solo devs is mobile (Android + iOS), since the project scope is often more limited / condensed and it's easier to get users with little marketing efforts.
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Well don't forget to read the part where I split it into three tasks - the web part, the game engine part, and the game design part. For game design, I highly recommend A Theory of Fun for Game Design [1] and the column Making Magic by the head designer for Magic: The Gathering[2].

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Theory-Fun-Game-Design-ebook/dp/B004D4... only $4 on Kindle or $12 on paper

[2] Look for the ones he gives 4 and 5 stars. WARNING: Lots of reading
Wow, your story is very familiar. I experienced similar challenges with my first and second startup attempts. The nice part is, you can try again and bring these lessons with you.
i think you just made his point for him
Thanks for the support. Clearly I have yet to master the paradigm of "adding value" that classifies it's increasingly clear that groupon is essentially a ponzi scheme with some graphic design. can't wait for the post mortem documentary a la "the smartest guys in the room" as more valuable than my comment. Will continue to try and adapt to the local culture.
So does this mean things like TestFlight will no longer work?
Yes but then everyone in Starbucks using iPhones looks out the window at the poor people walking by using cheap Android phones and drinking cheap coffee. That's who they think they're leading, not each other.
My mom is an extreme couponer. And while true that you can get great deals (she once saved over $600 in a single trip), you have to balance that out vs. how much your time is worth. For most of us who are entrepreneurs, an hour would be far better spent working on our businesses.

But for a typical salaried employee who's not motivated to start a business and who just wants something fun to do on the weekends, sure, it works great.
Very honest analysis. It did make me wonder if the author really wants to be an entrepreneur. For me, starting a business is something I feel compelled to do -- I don't think I can be happy if I'm not in control. I'm certainly happier in my current job than I have ever been in any job where I worked for anyone else. Knowing that if I don't make the business work the kids don't eat and the mortgage doesn't get paid is pretty motivating as well. The author says he's happy in his current job -- so why not stick with it?
That's a hosting providers proprietary method of giving you a sandbox. Not a plugin or version control.
What happens to analytics companies like flurry??
Most (nearly all?) inventions aren't revolutionary in their novelty but are just an increment above what already existed. So I'm agreeing with you but want to make sure the inventiveness of this kid is not understated--especially since I think the intelligence demonstrated in his article is above that of a typical US college graduate.
How to engage in entrepreneurship and keep a day job
I didn’t really mean in that sense, though that’s another possibility.

What I meant was that, when Java somehow becomes ‘functional’ (like that transition can happen to an established language) it will be assumed that any program written in this version is ‘functional,’ regardless of whether it really is written in a functional style.

Either way, adding lambdas does not make you into an acceptable functional language. Java is still not a language that Joel Spolsky won’t complain about the teaching of in schools.
I'm sure Apple will still use the UDID for provisioning. This change sounds like they're removing access to it from the device API.
There was this one time when I restore my iPhone without using backup, one application restored all my favorite items without me ever input anything into the application. There's no mention of this "feature" in their product page as far as I found find. While it's useful, it's rather scary that this could be done completely without user acknowledgement.

IMHO, removing UDID access is good, though I would prefers if they introduce something similar to Location Service and let me whitelist which app to allow reading UDID.
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I'm not particularly well informed on the issue, but a local doctor who would prefer to make house visits like in the old days, informed me that the hindrance wasn't taking insurance, but liability. According to him America is too litigious these days to visit people in their house, and the cost of malpractice insurance for home visits was prohibitive.
That's not true. "V" and "f" are interchangable (e.g. I always forget if it's "haven" or "hafen", which would be pronounced the same), as are "eu" and "äu". "V" at the beginning of a word is pronounced like an English "V" (as in "Viktoriapark"), where it's ambiguous with "w". There are also a large number of French, English and Slavic words that are used in German (for instance I live in "Treptow", which is pronounced as it would be in English, not with a "v" sound on the end). Jumbojet is perhaps the funniest, where the first "j" is pronounced as a "y" and the second as a "j".

In general mastering German is harder than mastering French for an English speaker, despite them being linguistically quite similar. German has retained a lot of features that have been stripped out in various degrees in other Germanic languages, most radically in English, that are difficult for English speakers (case system, almost totally irregular plurals, irregular genders, irregular past participles, irregular usage of "haben" and "sein" in construction of compound tenses and so on).

(I'm an American that's lived in Germany for almost 10 years.)
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Looking at the comments gave an even more pronounced view of this "lifestyle" - What with those agreeing and others vehemently arguing.

Just like HN, the comments were more entertaining to me than the original content.
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I dislike Gruber so much that I can't read that lede as anything other than antagonistic.
There are legitimate reasons to ask for a phone UDID -- namely tying together information from multiple applications. GameCenter does this, but only for a specific subset of games.

Is someone going to come up with another fingerprinting mechanism?

The obvious approach is to use the MAC address:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/677530/how-can-i-programm...
Man keeps same Manhattan parking spot for 11 years, feeds meter $36/day
This won't fix all of your problems, but I've found it pretty useful. It seems to degrade gracefully too.

http://css3button.net/
Letter to a Young Developer
I agree with the others, one of the nice things about tech is that you can more easily afford to do this kind of thing than in other fields. One thing I would say, though, by way of advice: definitely try to complete projects as opposed to starting lots of them. I'm sure this goes without saying, but it would be a lot more compelling if you can say "I took some time off and made these cool things" rather than "I took some time off and started all these cool things", if that makes sense.
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You can do very well for yourself, but you have to commit a significant amount of time, research, and be constantly monitoring/changing.

It doesn't just "happen" for everyone. A SEO god is pulling in millions per year, but so is everyone in the top 1-2% of their industry. The money is there, but you likely will not get it.

Remember the barriers to entry here are zero - anyone with the desire can get in that game. It is crowded. Your first idea has to be to find a market/niche, and then go full out. Then you have to repeat. One a week while keeping up everything. Once you have 52 hooks in the water you'll start to do OK, assuming you've done everything the way you should. It is a lot harder then you think!
It is reassuring how well a liberal can succeed in an unregulated industry. Where there are no unions and unpaid overtime is the norm.

It's also to be admired how he can build a successful company while insisting on green practices by shipping all the dirty manufacturing to a country with no environmental protections and where the workers are brutally exploited.

Not to mention his social responsibility and sense of community in basing his software and services on FOSS advancements. Of course without sharing any profits with those who made that community what it is, and tightly controlling his own platform.

Your right Mr. Dash. Jobs is a paragon of liberal business acumen and virtue. Your next article should be on Ariana Huffington.
It's lame that HNers are so blind to the reality of the Groupon case. It's even more lame that some HN members use downvoting to express disagreement.
Well, how much software have you paid for lately to help view your files and directories in a graphical tree, defragment your disks, compress the data on them, or scan that data for viruses? A few years ago, all of those things were available through a variety of commercial tools. Microsoft basically eliminated those entire industries when it provided a decent alternative built in to Windows.

In any case, your comment is a cheap shot. Microsoft have a relatively strong track record when it comes to establishing footholds in new markets, even if they've been slow to see the opportunity at first, by committing vast resources and running loss leaders for a while if necessary to establish their product. They also have some of the best R&D in the business, thanks in no small part to hiring some of the smartest people and putting them in top class facilities.
Given the number of complaints Linus Torvalds made about GPLv3's anti-Tivolization clause, I don't think that we're going to ever see the kernel on v3.
I think you just proved my point: your specific reasons for not buying Apple products aren't universal. Other people who don't have your particular software requirements (probably 90% of people in the web-centric era) aren't going to weigh those downsides so highly when comparing price, battery life, hardware quality, available software, etc. - all areas where Android, et al. are struggling to keep up.

Saying "it's about the brand" is too simple because it could mean "Buzz / clinging to past glory" (i.e. the Sony strategy) or "well earned reputation for producing products people like" and heavily papering over the reasons in the latter case.
> May be the only way to be successful is to constantly sell yourself and your products.

Don't worry it's not. This is just the echo-chamber path to success, and it's a crowded one. It might be easier to get hipsters to try something new, but it's just that much harder to get them to actually stick with anything. Another path to success is to be in touch with the 99.99% of people that aren't "early adopters" and figure out a way to make a product that they like.

Twitter did the former, Facebook did the latter.
>Another MBA type killing a great tech company.

Fiorina killed it many years ago. Even though she is long gone, the company has been infested with the drones since then. The company will of course linger for decades as an enterprise software/hardware provider. As exciting as SAP.
No, not in general but only for this one particular doctor. He is basically providing the simplest of medical services to the most well-paying patients. This is a teeny tiny market, one whose consumers' needs and means are not reflective of the average consumer of medical care. He may have success doing this in two zip codes in a metropolitan area, but this business can't be replicated to any meaningful scale.
And in the darkness, bind them? Who is Uberblic Labs Unternehmergesellschaft (haftungsbeschraenkt)? My German is non-existent...
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Beyond the usual, you'll get to work with interesting tech. Just this week we made a Goliath/Eventmachine image proxy server with a Redis backend. Why Goliath? We’ve built a few Node.js apps for this company too, but we wanted to see if we liked Goliath/Eventmachine mechanics more. Node.js is great, but Goliath proved itself to be a lot fun to work with.

We are looking for someone who is proficient, can manage themselves, and can contribute new ideas. The team is very small right now. We're friendly, but serious about getting work done and iterating very very quickly. We aren't taking a project on right now unless it can get done in a week or less. You will have a big impact in a short amount of time. Location is wherever you live now.

Major additional points if you can help not only with server side Rails bits, but with mobile development as well.

This is a contract to hire position. We’ve run another company for years and in our experience, a contract with the chance to hire full time in the future has been the best way to see if you like us and we like you.

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