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> Who are you playing monopoly with? Last time I checked you don't have to pay in real cash to get your funny money.

I'm not sure what distinction you are making. To play Eve, you need a monthly subscription. After that, you can generate all your ISK (funny money) in-game without any "real cash" payments.
If it seemed that I was trying to apply my experience to you, I apologize - that wasn't my intention. Keeping salary details secret is usually a valuable form of information asymmetry that HR, in general, try their best to maintain (funnily enough, that was a clause of my NDA.)
"My payroll is suddenly $100K/year lighter than it was. Am I going to replace that guy with another full-timer? Fuck, no. Hello, independent contractors."

From this country? That matters much more than whether they'd be contract or full-time.
Zuckerberg's never been fired though.
So they created an in-game mutual fund paying weekly interest? Is that all there was to the scam? Maybe I'm missing something, but the site to newcomers doesn't explain what they did to convince players to invest in them.
Most startups don't get anywhere near employee #100. If you're in a startup that does, you'll likely be happy to be either #1 or #100.

Being #1 means you work as hard as the owners but for much less -- often you will end up making less than you'd make elsewhere.

Being an early hire seems to be about trading salary & security for experience running a business. Friends who have joined a startup early have said it's the absolute best way to learn what to do -- and many times, what not to do -- when you're starting your own company.

Of course, YMMV. I've heard from plenty of early hires that don't end up near the business side, and don't get much out of it.
the most important thing mentioned in the article is "targeting the five billion people who live outside the current 'traditional' smartphone market." - whoever understands this will be the world leader in the future ... even the companies like Nokia and Yahoo that looks like failures today can comeback because they understand these 5 billion people better than many others , but somehow the noise of 'traditional' marketers has disillusioned their original strategy... someone has to just pick-up those threads and bring back these companies on track.
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This reminds me of the Groupon lesson: Just because a company offers a service is no reason to believe that service is right for you.

In this case, people paid $99/mo without seeing results... Probably before they even tried the free version.

The article assumes that people were complaining about lack of results. I also assume that people were asking for their money back.

Those people got what they paid for. What they didn't get was what they assumed: Results.

Marketing isn't magic, despite how it looks. You can't just throw money at it and get results. It has to be tailored to your business and/or product.
I ran into the same issues when I was creating a site, noodleshare.com. It was tough staying motivated, and in fact, i left it alone for about 3-4 months because of that. What ended up helping was getting positive feedback from the community, whether that was going to meetups or chatting online about the progress. What's funny is I ended up redesigning part of the site to help others keep up that drive. If you believe in it though, then find a partner that's a loud mouth and does nothing but chat about what you're doing. It's working for me!

I also disagree with fjw. "Keep creating content" is not the answer. You either need to refine what you have based on feedback and trends, or get out there and network more to let people know what's out there.
python/pygame
Nice post! I've just had a failing experience but that also served to teach me some of the problems and difficulties involved in creating a startup. I'm happy you guys made it and I'm gonna keep trying till I find my place there too.
Powerful magnets hamper our ability to lie
Dell Loses Orders as Facebook Do-It-Yourself Servers Gain: Tech
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Does Acquia have differential access to the trademark based on Dries' ownership of both Acquia and the trademark? In practice, the most high profile private branding of Drupal products and services are mainly in Acquia: Drupal Gardens, Acquia Drupal.
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Be careful asking a question and then citing marginally evidence as if it proves an answer to the question...

The question is if they got those trademarks fairly. The evidence you cite next is that their brands are high profile. These two things are not really connected.

To try to actually answer the question, I don't believe Acquia has extra access to the trademark process. Having gone through the trademark process I can say that an external team of lawyers manages and adjudicates the process which keeps Dries at arms length from all decisions.

But even without an audit of the process of granting trademarks it's pretty obvious that "Drupal Gardens" is a name which meets the guidelines for a commercial use of the trademark since it doesn't imply the nature of the service. "Acquia Drupal" is probably covered under fair use since it truly is the Acquia version of something.
>Whatever. I've lost interest in participating in this thread.

That's unfortunate.

>If I'm so incapable of reproducing issues and "demons in a machine" is so laughable, why exactly does the "Unhandled ExecutionEngineException" exist and why was it more than trivial for me to reproduce?

Well, an ExecutionEngineException is simply the CLR encountering some unexpected problem. The CLR is a piece of software like any other, it is simply a COM component, written in C++. Like any other program it too can have bugs and situations that it fails to handle gracefully. They are not untraceable or uncatchable in any way, I have caught and debugged a number of them. Of course without the pdbs/source that is much harder for an external person to do. In my experience it is actually preceded by an SEH exception that the CLR itself will catch and translate into the rather generic ExecutionEngineException, so watching for first chance SEH exceptions is generally more fruitful.

>So now three MS people doubting me, mocking me, and suggesting #win32 as remotely comparable to open source style IRC rooms.

So when I point out that 'untraceable uncatchable exceptions' don't exist you see that as mocking you? Or was I the doubting one? I am simply a software engineer, like I assume you are. I was pointing out some things don't exist. If untraceable, uncatchable exceptions existed there would be a class of bugs that were logically impossible to find/fix.

As for 'the .NET runtime informing you that it was unaware of where the crash was occurring', the .NET runtime would never be aware of such a thing as a crash is a crash. It means the exception found no handler and the process was terminated. Figuring out why is what a debugger is for, not the runtime.

>I'd post it here, but I'd prefer it were not linked to my name as Googling the error message reveals my only post.

It is strange that you want to hide your identity so much.

>This is just sad, and ironic as all get out considering the fact that my original comment was that Microsoft and community don't play nice together. Don't you see that irony?

Not really, 'the community' doesn't consist of a single person. I am active on the MSDN forums in my area of expertise. I am also active on my team's blog. In the course of such activities I regularly encounter trolls, I am not saying you are one, just saying they exist. To 'play nice' with a troll is pointless. Some people have axes to grind and no matter what you say or do they will be upset, there is no point trying to help those people. Also, if people are rude from the get-go I tend to not bother helping them, since I generally am spending my own free time to try to help them out, and there are lots of other things I could be doing. Civility is kind of the minbar for what I expect of them.

As for 'open source' communities being more civil/friendly...well that is certainly not my experience across the board, but then again, people always have different experiences and tend to remember the worst/most frustrating of them and project that as 'the norm'.
If you fire an employee, why do you pay unemployment? I would understand if you laid them off, but firing?

Also, if you are paying for their unemployment, why is unemployment being deducted from their paycheck too?
I agree. I hated maths in school where you had to plug numbers into formulae. I could never remember them correctly. This stuff should be made interesting so that kids with their natural curiosity will figure out how to do it.

I truly started appreciating maths after I experienced cases where you could code an elegant solution based on math in about 5 lines as opposed to trying to solve it your own way and end up having 30+ lines of code and your program still buggy.
Buildings also need to be maintained and retrofitted. Around here in Cambridge, there are countless residential and commercial buildings that were built before the days of electricity and air conditioning, and even plumbing in some cases. The maintenance costs often far outweigh the initial building costs, even given inflation.
It's super work and a great Hello World+ or maybe a "Hello Solar System" example. :)
Your "no drag and drop" fallback is so utterly useless that I have not the slightest idea what this site is about.
I have come across a need for this many times, often there's a simple trick you can do to get by it (i.e. setting an image as a background of an input element, rather than overlaying the image on top, or using transparent backgrounds along with z-index fiddling) however, I would definitely consider using this tool for rapidly building a layout. I like your presentation as well, clear layout with a brief to-the-point message.

My only concern would be performance, right off the bat I see a few nested for-loops in the code and am wondering what sort of performance hit you'd be looking at if you use this for several images on a single page. I didn't thoroughly trace through the code or anything, I am just thinking out loud here.
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Rather than comment directly on the article, I'm going to give my advice on How To Get A Job Right Now.

1. Decide what you want to do. Don't say "I'll do anything." Be extremely specific about the type of job you want. (You can change your mind, but again, NEVER say you'll do "anything." That translates as "has no useful skills.")

2. Locate companies in your area that employ for this position.

3. Start making phone calls and sending emails to the company owner or manager. Forget about responding to ads for jobs and sending resumes blindly. That doesn't work. (Many ads are placed for compliance purposes or fishing expeditions and thus do not correspond to an actual job on offer.)

4. The really important part. Every time you get a "no" get a referral or two. Keep expanding your call list via referrals.

5. Within 100 phones calls, you will have a job. Make every call sincere and productive and you might only need to make 20.
This still doesn't deal with the problem of "what you work on isn't your choice" If I get assigned to, maybe, improve the front page by implementing a design from the graphic designer who gets paid more if the front page drives more signups?

The graphic designer, for his/her awesome design? Me, for the time I spent implementing it? Both of us?

What if it fails horribly? Do I take a hit (in the sense of not creating wealth/not getting paid more) because the graphic designer did a horrible job? Orders came down that said "Implement this" and I had no choice but to say "ok" (maybe I could argue the point, but at the end of the day it's not my decision)
dragging an image from my filesistem to the area is not working in OS X Lion, Chrome (flash and js enabled)..
> Drupal fulfills the need to slap together a web site quick and make it pretty...

You had me until that. Usually you can tell a site is Drupal by how ugly it is and how awful the code is. Also, putting together a site in drupal is far from quick, unless you've been working with drupal for years.
Samsung Galaxy S 2 has the fastest GPU than any SmartPhone around
That Wiki link needs to be editied. EX:

consequences:In terms of their theoretical consequences, thought experiments generally:

challenge (or even refute) a prevailing theory, often involving the device known as reductio ad absurdum,

Hmm, you could replace device with logical falicy but then it does not say what they thought it did...
As the first paragraph of TFA points out, the VC is always a chicken. They're not "committing big-time" so that appeal falls flat. If someone wants to take a risk because their partner is taking a risk that's fine, but anyone who takes a risk because a VC will be a little put out otherwise is a sucker who has over-delegated responsibility for making strategy decisions about their company. True pigs won't turn chicken around VCs. ;) They'll take the risk of displeasing a VC along with all of the other risks mentioned.
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My impression of the Borg was that they weren’t disliked because of their goal, but because they forcefully recruited.
Does Innovation Flow From Cities?
Ask HN: who's thinking of developing on Amazon's Kindle tablet?
I'm very, very bullish on Amazon's upcoming tablet, and see it as the first serious iPad competitor (at least in market share...they won't compete directly given rumored price points...anyway, I digress) to the iPad.

However, as a grad student with tons of other projects I don't have time right now to learn Java and submit to the Appstore yet. So I'm curious! Is anyone excited to develop for this thing?
>Buy every kid of 3 a tub of Lego bricks (Not a 'set'). That would go a long way to getting them thinking, problem solving, and building stuff.

That's a really weak argument. Buy every kids Lego, and all teaching problems would be solved?

>And don't get me started on the "There aren't enough females in programming" BS rolleyes
Oh, please get started.

>Programming is an extremely niche career, and anyone who is interested in it can easily learn.
Being a software engineer/developer is. Knowing how to program is just as useful as basic math or writing- anyone can benefit from it.

>You're likely to bore 90% because they're not interested in learning programming,

"Don't teach math or english, you're likely to bore 90% because they're not interested".
Getting the kids interested is part of teaching.

Have you ever taught K-12?
The KE850 original Prada (not the KF900 in your image) has long been compared with the iPhone.

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=...

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q1.07/72B08E9A-D46...

http://www.mobilemag.com/2007/01/18/lg-ke850-touchscreen-pho...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Prada_(KE850)#iPhone_controv...
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Ask HN: You can't wear jeans if you go public?
To me the true significance, more so than this money, is the milestone of the federal gov't finally recognizing "entrepreneur" as a third category of employment status and not just the unemployed/employed binary.

Hopefully this leads to further help for folks starting a company (that will in-turn create more jobs when successful) like healthcare coverage.

EDIT: This will also help with mainstream cultural and social acceptance. Less weird looks when explaining to Joe Shmoe your employment situation!
In most states it's quite difficult to prove that you fired for cause -- performance is quite subjective. Typically the employee needs to do something dramatic & harmful for you to deny unemployment.
But it might be legal.
the @mixin delineation is quite deliberate. See Nathan Weizenbaum's comment at the bottom of: http://nex-3.com/posts/83-sass-and-less#comments

Also, one of the most powerful features of Sass today is @extend, which is something that Less definitely does not have: http://sass-lang.com/docs/yardoc/file.SASS_REFERENCE.html#ex...
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Motorola Droid Bionic vs. Verizon's Data Cap
Rolling your own framework to the standard and complexity of, say, Zend, would take an impractical amount of time. If that's the kind of thing you need, use Zend.

If, however, you feel that anything more than a front controller, a registry and some common sense is just ego-stroking, roll your own and enjoy ;)
Roubini: Without stimulus, another Great Depression
I'm another frequent flagger. I'm not sure that I would get any benefit from publicly stating disapproval without also stating why I disapprove.

I think the problem with flagging is more that it's too easy for a link to pick up enough flags to keep it off the front page --- imo, if a link hasn't picked up enough flags to kill it, it hasn't picked up enough flags to disqualify it from the front page.

(Re #2, I agree with you.)
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I completely disagree with this, programming is a fundamental skill in a variety of careers and can be used as a tool to teach how to think.

It isn't an either-or proposition, incorporating programming exercises into any science oriented class can not only be illustrative, it like any sort of hands on lab does teach students to think like a scientist and helps to create a more realistic microcosm of how science is actually done these days, with programming forming a bridge between theory and experiment and heavily relied on in analysis.
I'm pretty sure that Credit Suisse is using F# (a derivative of OCaml) extensively.
Also, I've seen quite a few posts on Don Syme's blog about other F# job openings in the financial industry.
Letting a kid hit some fingers and get frustrated can be the best way to prepare him/her to care about listening to an explanation of how to use a hammer. I think the reason I enjoyed SICP so much at MIT was because of my teenage experience banging my head against the limitations of BASIC.
Collecting Gourmet Sandwich Recipes for Daily Fast Dish
Gourmet Sandwich Recipes are the most commonly seek recipes by those who love simple dishes.
The truth that Apple produces most of the innovation in design that other companies then want to copy.
It's too bad that it's a modification of unemployment. I'd take this, but I have a job and it's next to impossible for me to be fired or laid off.
> More details to follow.
I wrote syslogit only to find logger about an hour later...

https://bitbucket.org/russellballestrini/syslogit/src/tip/sy...
Poll: Your YCNYC application response?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2987514
Why not? It has been done with the Linux Kernel...

http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/millionvis/Treemap_Visualization_...
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Greek 1-Year Debt Yield Hits 108%
Got a link about the "equal preference rule" being rescinded? Sounds interesting and I hadn't heard of it. Googling "equal preference rule credit cards" didn't help me.
Actually, you do. A set of Monopoly money costs about $20 (and includes a free board).
Yeah, what are they doing to do, start some company focused on providing good commenting systems on websites?

The fact that that comment appeared on a Disqus comment stream is icing on the cake.
Can someone explain to me what is meant by "Optimize for the back button?"
So put the code in the model, where it belongs ... I rarely use helpers for anything but formatting-fu - everything else is in the model. I rarely use helpers, period.
They're an interesting company, but not for these reasons. If someone built a payment gateway in the same fashion of Noca and Braintree, but for "Card Present" transactions, it could make it easy for many independent developers to build their own "Square". That's what's missing in the "Card Present" space.

btw....Square uses Authorize.net
1) it's almost impossible to talk with someone about themselves, about mistakes they've made or about things they could do better (unless they brought it up).

People usually aren't seeking validation or criticism from others, especially if they don't know or work with these people. Offering these apropos of nothing is kind of rude.

2) almost nobody cares about "the truth". They only care about what makes them happy.

What does this mean? Who is the arbiter of "truth," then?
I always used this to enable horizontal buttons for iTunes in favor of the odd vertical buttons.

defaults write com.apple.iTunes full-window -1
One nice thing about getting revenue positive is that you can tell people like this to fuck off.
I'm Fred. I've always been Fred. I wonder at times whether this has been more helpful or harmful to my career. As Fred, I've rarely hesitated to speak my mind, and so I've gotten ideas pushed forward that would have definitely been DOA if I hadn't been so outspoken about them. That being said, I've been so abrasively outspoken at times I've seen former peers with just as outspoken but not so confrontational communication styles advance far beyond where I am now. I suppose my gut evaluation is I'm further along than if I had kept my mouth shut, but not as far as if I had been able to effectively communicated my positions (or known when to withhold communication entirely) -- then again, doesn't that apply to pretty much everyone?

Rands juxtaposes each of his points with "Why Fred Hates It," deftly countering them with reasonable and logical arguments that make Fred seem like an anti-team player cancer. And then he ties it all together by saying Fred is essentially a product of frustration because no matter how committed his company seems to be to solving the big picture issues that have been painfully obvious to him for months/years, if the company doesn't actually enable solutions, then all the off-sites are pointless.

In recent years I've mellowed out, moving more to a "Jim from The Office" attitude (Loser Jim, Not Sociopath Jim[1]) where I just smirk and go through the motions for things like off-sites, and figure any actual production that results in any long-term company improvement is a nice bonus, not an expectation. But in the end, we all want to be startup founders because it's a lot easier to turn dreams into action at our own small company than to figure out how to do it at someone else's larger company.

[1] http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-o...
> The very basic scam that's always running in the trade hub in game is 'I'm leaving the game, send me game currency and I'll send you 10x back'.

I don't understand how that could possibly work. Who's stupid enough to fall for that, and yet can operate a computer?

Then again, Nigerian scams work. :(
> Finally, most people also have a strong propensity to see themselves at a fundamental advantage to most people ("I'm doing good, everybody else is struggling."). I wish I remembered the name for the term.

The Lake Wobegon effect I assume. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Wobegon_effect
For my multi-lingual-content-needs I work with a main table which only has the non-translatable data items and a subtable which contains the translatable content, one row per language per row from the main table. Then I do a join to get a single full 'object' in the language of choice. And per the postgres docs I can choose collation at query time. Thus the following query would do the trick if I'm correct:

select * from main_table join sub_table on main_id=sub_id where sub_table.language='fr_FR' ORDER BY my_translatable_col COLLATE "fr_FR.utf8";

No bloating tables, just a join and correct collation.
Ask HN: How's my landing page?
Recently worked on a personal project this summer and finally soft launched it with a private beta. I've created this landing page for it at:

http://www.dailychomp.com

I'd like some feedback on the landing page design and ways you think I could improve it as I've never really done landing page designs before.

Just want to see if others could pick out ways to improve it.

Thanks!