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To be honest, your age isn't a problem, because the average above-average developer is still not competent to write this sort of software. If you had been doing security and financial software since birth, I might consider putting a bit of trust in the kitty to start.

I'm going to pitch a different take than a few others: Yes, great initiative, please keep trying things and building things, but end this project now. There are no probable outcomes where you do not end up having to explain where thousands of dollars of other people's money went to some angry people. There's also very nontrivial odds of being on the wrong end of armed Federal agents, based on some of the other comments you've made here. This is a horrible, horrible first-project sort of project.

Let me put it this way: Would you be willing to convert the BitCoins in your system into cash, put it in your front window, and post daily pictures of the pile of cash to your Facebook account, set to public visibility? Because that's roughly what you're doing.
I prefer Fage. I like the ones where you mix one side with the other. Ace.
Google to announce "new programming language for structured web programming"
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If the Honeycomb delay is a temporary result of working too fast, why is Google giving internal presentations about how they can profit by restricting access to the source to key OEMs?
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Consider the effect on wages.

If computers get cheaper while the average consumer’s disposable income stays constant, then people will just buy fancier computers, or spend less on computers and use their savings to buy more of other things, or be grateful that the cheaper computers make up for rising prices in other things they want (e.g., health care).

If the average price of everything goes down, then the average consumer’s disposable income must eventually decrease; to make up for the lost income, employers will have to either cut wages or lay off workers.

PS: The Roaring Twenties were not always so roaring. There was a depression in 1920–21, and according to the helpful St. Louis Fed graphs, there were two other recessions between 1921 and 1929.
If you code responsibly in ObjC there's no need to write comments. Therefore, if someone "has to" comment ObjC code there's something wrong with their practices.

The same holds for almost any language, but in ObjC that's just natural.
Since the site seems to be down, you can read the article (no images unfortunately) in Google's Cache[1].

[1]: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http:/...
The title is misleading. They just extracted character frequencies from source files which fail to capture 'Delete', 'Shift', 'Ctrl', 'Alt', etc keys.

Even has Paul Graham name at the end, as if 'Look, this is totally legit!'
I think that at even three times the price it will sell, at least like waffles.
I started my first startup when I was 17 (13 years ago, damn).

The problem I had then, and you have even here is that legally you're a minor and can't sign contracts.

EDIT: I noticed from your resume that you are based in Singapore - I don't know what the rules are for age of majority and similar issues... the advice below is from a US and UK law perspective given that is the more common location for people on HN. I also notice you seem to be incorporated already (which you wouldn't legally be able to do in US at 17).

Aside from the technical issues of 'spectacular failure' you might want to consider the consequences of being sued if something did go wrong. As a minor, it's probably your parents that are liable - you owe it to your parents and to your customers/users to be aware of this.

Normally for something like this you would set up an LLC to protect yourself (as they have limited liability, as the name suggests). Perhaps your parents can set you up an LLC and transfer ownership when you turn 18?
The real problem today is that the majority of people view children as accessories. They put them in front of the TV and let other people raise them, i.e., teachers, sitcoms, and the internet. They don't really care about the kids.

However, those kids are viewed as an extension of themselves and so any attack on the kids is an attack on them. if you say that the kid has behavioral problems, what the parent hears is that they are a bad parent/person. They don't care about the kid, they care about how it reflects on them. This is the same reason that you have parents beating up and murdering hockey coaches and referees when they pull their kid. In the mind of the parent, the call is against them.

We have moved from a society were the entire village raised the kids and parents had the support, training, and coaching they needed. They were raised in an environment in which kids were actually cared for and that was passed onto new parents. Today, we move away from home, most of us don't have contact with parents, grandparents, siblings, etc and we raise kids because they either make us look good or it is simply the expected thing to do. Unfortunately, they don't actually have any understanding of how to raise kids and they are too busy to do a proper job anyway.

I am a firm believer that we are getting very close to the day when we will have to issue licences before people are allowed to have kids. Not that we should police who has them, but to ensure that people have the needed support systems and knowledge in place before trying to be parents.
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I absolutely believe the reports of yelps blackmailing actions. I've personally met 2 business owners that have been contacted by yelp. Both accounts were very similar. They threaten to remove the businesses current exposure level if some arbitrary fee isn't paid monthly and they offer to remove any negative reviews for an additional fee.
Great post, but I feel that in the first email you sort of got lucky. The guy owned up to his mistake and realized how hasty he was with his first message. Not every customer will equally mature.
He asked for a refund. You ignored that point. Even if it was the customer's fault, you should offer a refund when asked.

On a side note, great job on using your blog to promote your startup.

PS: Why did you delete the previous submission that had already several points?
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Asking the caller why he didn't have the balls to tell her in person (a valid question) and stating that she thought he was classier do not constitute a personal insult. You're the board chair, about to execute a big decision like this, you do it in person. Being on a plane is no excuse; re-route your trip or delay the execution by 1 day until you're face-to-face. Even the most junior employees usually get fired in person. If anyone creates a scene, that's what on-site security is there for, although exchanging words behind a closed door meeting with very few people present is probably the most that would have occurred.

Fuck it, I find her candor refreshing, regardless of surrounding issues.
It's interesting to note that a big reason ( ) dominate in Lisp here is that pg adopts the FP habit of short var names. If anything this is probably just a measure of the tendency to use long vs short name - mainstream OO practice encourages the former. It would be interesting to rerun the heatmap for Lisp with a typical CLOS program. I think you'll find that ( ) no longer dominate.

EDIT: And in fact here's a heatmap of core.logic (1K LOC) which is fairly OO-ish in its design - http://twitpic.com/6hwj88. ( ) are strong but do not dominate everything.

UPDATE: And here's a 1.4K LOC Clojure program, core.match http://twitpic.com/6hwo8w/full. ( ) again do not dominate.
This video http://techtalks.tv/talks/54443/ on machine learning by Bishop talks about the research they applied to kinect. There was much work done beyond the acquisition.

Anyways watch the video, its real good and worth watching for its own sake.
Google Code also has this feature.
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Where did I say that that coding is the only useful thing?

The point I was trying to make is that tools are productivity aids and if a tool gets in the way and distracts you from your main activity (or activities) too much it can be counter productive.

I use both Eclipse and VisualStudio and find those tremendous! A good tool hides unnecessary stuff from you and works in a clear predictable way. A tool is bad for me when it does the opposite.
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But there is no guarantee to be approved. Have you tried contributing to Android?
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sure, but how many people would even think to wipe the OS or replace the hdd because of something like prey or lojack, let alone wipe the bios?
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, in other words.
The following link should provide the correct unions of job postings:

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I had a teacher in elementary school who regularly asserted that I had done things which I had not. She wasn't directly lying: there was another boy who I did not get along well with (to put it mildly), and he would regularly tell her lies about things I had (not) done, and she would always take his word because they were German and I was American, even though he had been caught lying about me repeatedly. I was actually referred to social services based on a track record of fictitious misbehavior, and was evaluated by a government psychologist. She was extremely puzzled by the disconnect between my official record and her observations of me, so she pushed to bring the other boy in for evaluation. I don't know the details, but he disappeared from our school shortly after the psychologist evaluated him. Unfortunately, that just made the teacher hate me even more, so while I no longer had someone making up stories about me, every minor infraction was blown out of proportion and reported to my parents with significant embellishments.

Bottom line: not only is it a good way to engage with the child, sometimes the teacher really is making false accusations.
> This is why Microsoft have lost their way. Instead of focusing on their own products and innovation, they try to make money through other less honorable means.

Actually, Microsoft is innovating very much. They probably have one of the best (as modern/stable/useable) development environments and ecosystems. Their research is putting out great code and great products at a very fast pace. Plus, F#, a new-ish language, just entered TIOBE and it's the top functional language. WP7 and Windows 8 are huge leaps forward, and that's a great feat considering they're not copying Apple at all. Hell, most of the time I wish Apple would copy some things from WP7 and Windows 8.

Innovation isn't lost at all. It's just that Android isn't the underdog anymore. Microsoft is.

I, for one, welcome Microsoft, our new underdog.

EDIT: I know meta-posts aren't well regarded here, but why the downvote? I wasn't bashing Microsoft, or Android for that matter, and even provided some opinion as to why Microsoft hasn't ceased innovating (I could go on, btw). By calling it the "underdog" I don't think I'm being offensive, please, sorry about that plea, but I'd like to know...
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Yogurt has been my primary weekday breakfast for at least a decade, probably more. I recently switched to Chobani for one reason: Flavor. It tastes rich and creamy like it should be bad for you, but it's not (true of most Greek yogurt). With Chobani, the actual flavors are not just the typical yogurt ones (blueberry, strawberry, etc...) but also include things like pineapple and mango. Plus the packaging is familiar if you've been eating fruit on the bottom yogurt. there's not a little container off to the side to mix in. That sounds minor, but I don't want to rearrange my fridge because my yogurt needs more realestate.

Most American yogurt is pretty dreadful. When I did an exchange program in Germany in the 1990's, my host family fed me some Swiss yogurt. I'm sure it wasn't "Greek style" or "low-fat", but man it was some of the best yogurt I have ever had in my life. I have been trying various custard varieties ever since in an attempt to get that European style flavor, but all of them are poor imitations.
True, I'm in Texas. Here in the middle of Houston I see fairly large sections of imported cheeses in some grocery stores.
Benign paternalism means "we're not acting of malice", not that every well-off kid with great options and social support networks will have their heart sing hymns of praise at the notion of being forced to attend class every day.

It was an imposition on you to go to school. At the time, it may even have felt like a major imposition. You'll get over it. We imposed upon your time because e.g. a poor kid in your local inner city who prefers hanging to all that books n' shit would, with about 100% certainty, durably ruin their life given the option not to attend school. It is very hard to "get over" being poor, illiterate, with a criminal record, etc.
Don't be afraid to show your code to the world. Better yet, paste some in a pastebin and ask for tips in an IRC channel: it'll make you a better developer.
Did you get any commit so far?
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What about input and display devices? Although school can afford buying some cheap keyboards, the displays are much more expensive and it's pretty hard to work without them.
It may help alleviate your pains to think of Techcrunch as the TMZ of tech.
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I always figured they care more about the local deals than anything
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why wasn't this one of those "resign or we'll get rid of you" situations?

It was: "After Tuesday's call from Bostock, Bartz says, she had two hours to let Yahoo know whether she would resign or allow the board to fire her"
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"Yet my experience has led me to believe that K-12 didn't matter."

The reason for this is that the more wealthy and highly educated your parents are, the less you learn in school as a kid, even though you likely go to a better school. (Or, to be more precise, you learn roughly the same amount as low-SES kids in absolute terms, but it's a much smaller percentage of your total learning.)
This list is basically irrelevant to startups.

PE firms don't invest (generally) in early stage tech startups. By the time you get to dealing with PE (as an alternative to IPO, or as a path to turnaround if you're company is fucked like Yahoo), you can hire your own lawyers and such to buffer from the sleaze.
Has anyone done this for programmer Dvorak yet? I guess I'm just looking for validation..
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I've spent weeks looking for a regular yogurth not loaded with sweeteners (doable) and thickeners (almost not findable).
Siegler is a manchild.

Look at his subtle shot at Mashable recently:

http://parislemon.com/post/9951081147/hope-everyone-enjoys-t...

Translation: Arrington is out, this is what you can all expect to enjoy now! (not translated: Siegler crying into his iPad plushie.)
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Here is a very good explanation of the option pool "shuffle": http://venturehacks.com/articles/option-pool-shuffle
I think the idea is that they're cheap enough to give to students to use at home, who can hook them up to TVs they already have
Thanks dude, from experience, a lot of angry customers change their tune after they receive a quick and helpful response. This was just one particular example.

As for auto-refresh, we couldn't do this as it would trigger TfL abuse systems.

(I pinged a few friends to up vote, and the post disappeared from the new list, so I deleted and resubmitted).
I don't have noscript but even after temporarily allowing coffeeandpower.com and beta.coffeeandpower.com on CookieMonster it keeps showing me the no cookies page. Why does it absolutely need to set cookies to show me any content? This is so annoying.
Get over it! They're not disrespecting or hurting anyone. They're not affecting the quality of their product. This is purely a style thing. Calling unconventional behavior "unprofessional" is a cop-out!

P.S. - I still upvoted you because I see where you're coming from, and "s//" is always funny to me for some reason.
Well, Ctrl and Alt aren't related to the programming language (more the editor or OS) and neither is Delete.

Shift is, but that could have (should have IMO) been extracted from the character frequencies in the source files...
It's common to typedef the templated types you use.

ex:

typedef std::tr1::smart_ptr< MyClass > MyClassPtr;
Bartz was brought out of retirement to fix the impossible, useless mess that is Yahoo!. She's going to get a fatty severance package. I think she's going to be fine.
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yea, big fail.
If the patch contains good code/documentation, doesn't break anything, works as supposed to do and is relevant to the direction of the project, I can't see why it wouldn't be approved.

If my patch conflicts with the direction of the project, I can just fork.

And no, I never tried because don't have a device running 2.x. I could try contributing to Honeycomb (since I happen to own a Xoom). Is there any repo I could clone containing Honeycomb? (honest question)
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I highly agree that the conventional 'job' is becoming obsolete. Technology is enabling us to live in a bottom-up world where we can add value individually. We don't have to to work for a company to add value. Imagine all the commerce that could be happening in a 5 mile radius from where you live - all the needs you could address to add value. And when you add value, you are rewarded financially. There is no recession.
This is not true. See my other comment on this thread. Dominance of ( ) only reflects a particular coder's naming convention.
I like this move for Google, but I'm concerned it will just become a me-too move.

When I want to find something to eat close-by, Yelp is perfect. Yes, Zagat integration takes away the need to switch from Yelp to Google Maps to get directions, but that's not a big pain point for me.

It's definitely something cool to add, but I'm not sure it will be as effective as they think it will.
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Mom: What does "WTF" mean?
You: It's just some internet joke.
Mom: Well, all right.

Fortunately this is how it goes for me:

Mom: What does "WTF" mean?
Me: It's an internet thing; it stands for "What The Fuck".
Mom: Ha ha! I love it. I'll have to remember that one.
I just want to add a small personal anecdote.

I eat yogurt regularly, and I've been a convert to Chobani lately. I started eating greek-style yogurts with Fage, and have had several other brands but Chobani flavors and texture are superior (IMO).

If you don't already know, it's the most expensive yogurt at most supermarkets, and is even pretty expensive compared to other brands at specialty retailers. So in the interest of saving some money, I recently bought some Dannon greek yogurt with coupons for about 1/4 the price.

It was awful in comparison. To get a similar texture, they use gelatin. The texture is still inferior. And the flavors are not in the same league either. I think it's refreshing to see someone rewarded for not buying into the conventional wisdom that the American public has no taste and can't recognize/won't pay up for quality products.
Back in the day, pretty much all Forth implementations were standalone operating systems, or at least capable of being run stand-alone. This was one of its great virtues--you could port it to new hardware in an afternoon. Just write disk block I/O, console I/O, write the image to disk blocks (or maybe ROM if you were embedded) and get a boot loader going.
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Finally! Awesome work. Do we get points for finding "unlisted" video platforms it supports :) ?
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On good days it's close to what consulting pays over here, so somewhere between ramen and decent living, with a trend upwards. It's not 'get rich' stuff, but for me this was one of the critical points of Rob's book - if you make something that's hugely profitable, expect lots of others to jump in too. If you do a niche well, perhaps it's easier to set things up and keep going.
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Based on the authors, my guess is a Smalltalk-ish interpreted lang for Web programming, which runs on V8? So a higher-level compliment to Go.

Sounds promising - will be interesting to compare to Io/Ioke/Seph...
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Congratulations! Always liked the idea (huge potential and other related services could be launched) and i was waiting for a post like this :)
>Except with Android I can't submit those patches back to the main project, so I have to maintain a separate fork myself

Open Source doesn't give you the right to get patches accepted upstream, it gives you the right to have your own fork.
If your fork is worth it's steam, other people will like it and join you, otherwise it will die off when you lose interest just as it should.

>This isn't sustainable for more than a few patches

This is true, but sounds like it could be countered by starting a fork as a community project so that anyone with just a few patches can submit them to your fork. This would also likely increase interest in your fork and may help find someone willing to take over admin rolls for you, since that seems to be your goal in all this.

Look, if all you want it to be able to publish a few patches and upstream won't accept them, then include said patches in a blog post. That way they're in the wild, and you don't have to maintain a repository. Just a thought in passing.