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Nothing. The world is as it is. I've come to accept that.

But -- here's the thing -- your moral/ethical compass shouldn't be influenced on account of the world. Think back through history, and at every point, people have been essentially crazy. So the only thing we can do is to have the confidence to know "what's good", and then strive to make our personal lives reflect that. (Without becoming judgmental of others. </irony>)

If you're asking what I'm going to do about it, well... I'm just like everyone else. I train myself for years in every aspect of game development, am building an entire multiplayer game from start to finish without relying on anything except my creativity and capabilities, and will be done around age 39. :) Then I'll use the proceeds to form a company and hire a few likeminded people.
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When implementing Sendgrid, I think I spent about 30 min reading over the DNS setup docs and 30 min actually creating the records. I'm no sysadmin, but I thought it was quite easy.

Also, they have a free account which allows you to send 200 emails per month. That would allow you to try it out and then decide that Yes Virginia, it is worth the money. :)
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The kids behind Diaspora are NYU students. There is a lot of people working on startups in NYC.

https://joindiaspora.com/
There's a brief summary of something vaguely similar I made during my degree here: http://joefreeman.co.uk/blog/2009/09/lineographic-interpreta... (Lineographic Interpretations of Images, with an Etch-a-sketch)
When it comes to the web app pricing I'm not sure about this:

"For example, the mere fact of supporting user accounts will mean having to design sign up, sign in, and “I forgot my password” screens as well as all the different error states associated with them."

I'd much rather have UI guidelines, which cover how forms are built, what an error state looks like, and how text is formatted. A set of building blocks, rather then a unique design for each activity being undertaken.

In my experience designers who design each page individually usually provide designs which can't be adapted easily, and require each page to have much more work applied then would otherwise be necessary.

By all means provide a full design for key processes, for example the checkout process on an e-commerce site, but for a lost password form I should I be able to put that together without having to call in a designer.
I've been using the wonderful cli53 (available on GitHub here: https://github.com/barnybug/cli53).

All I have to type is "cli53 import example.com --file example.bind --replace --wait" and it'll replace all of the records for example.com with what's in the BIND file, and the --wait makes it poll Amazon until the "pending changes" go through.
I use full-ack: http://nschum.de/src/emacs/full-ack/ (which uses ack: http://betterthangrep.com/ underneath)

I have it bound to C-c a and it works great. Finds all references in a multi-hundred thousand line C/C++ code base in a few seconds.
Awesome, I like Khan Academy. Did not realize they had finance videos though. Thanks
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Crunchbase is the de facto startup knowledge base. It's probably the most valuable piece of the TechCrunch business in my opinion.
PG's presentation: characteristically focused, frank, funny, useful and well-articulated.
NYC's ascent: This is not really an important question. NYC's scene is in good shape.
YC alumni presentations: Just the right number, length of time and variety. Less banner waving and more frank advice would have been more useful. These guys don't need to promote themselves to us.
Networking: About as great as you could get.
Event production: very high. MP stayed out of the way, were there when we needed something. Good bathrooms and a coat check were very nice. Good A/C! Good Job, Renee!
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let's see.. my "tag" chrome extension stopped working.. so i installed whatever extensions was most popular (same one delicious uses in their demo video).
that one overrode alt+d (which normally selects address bar text), and it just saves before giving me a chance to enter any tags. so now anytime i press alt+d to select text, it just saves that site to delicious w/out any tags.
i really didn't need this. it was working great the way it was.
Reaper. Its simply the best value for money in DAW software out there. (http://www.reaper.fm/)
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You might as well ask, "How long is a piece of string?"
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Hey, I wrote one of these apps too .. its called "Fall Detector" and you can find it here:

https://market.android.com/details?id=at.spantec.securemotio...

You can use it to create a 'breadcrumb' trail as you wander around (hitting the green square at any time creates a 'user alert') and you can set it up to alert anyone you need to when the time comes, that you've fallen down and are utterly inactive.

;)
Missed it first time around, so I guess I like a repost...
It is a well established work horse so it has lost the mystic that attracts discussion and excitement. Never the less for getting shit done Python is a winner for me.
Would be interesting to get some feedback from other freelance front-end devs as well, in terms of pricing. As I known I'm probably completely undercharging.
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Not sure why the comment underneath this one was killed, but there's been a lot of large exits in the advertising space, and the people have gone on to invest in additional startups.

A case in point: I worked for Right Media, and then left after its acquisition by Yahoo to found a company that took angel money from (among others) the former CEOs of Quigo and TACODA.

HN just has a curious blind spot when it comes to advertising technology, which is something NYC does quite well.
Ask HN: Thinking of quitting job with no plans for the future: bad idea?
A little background (and I apologize for any vagueness, I'm a bit paranoid about coworkers that read HN): I've been a developer for about 6 years now, first and only job out of college. On paper it sounds like a great job: pay is above average, various perks, smaller firm, casual working environment, and I have a lot of autonomy. But my particular career path isn't really going anywhere anymore, and I find that over the last several months I've lost most any interest in my industry (not coding itself, but the field for which I write software for). The job itself has consequently become unsatisfying and thus emotionally and psychologically draining.

My goal is to join a startup, and go back to just plain building cool stuff. I am (or at least used to be) very ambitious, and I want to work with smart, ambitious people who want to build the next big thing. I'm just not sure if I'm qualified to be in that company right now - my skillset is so particular to the role I'm currently in I don't think I'd get very far (confirmed by some interviews I've had this year). I'd love to pick up web development again and work on projects in my free time, but it would take so much time away from the few hobbies I have that I'm pretty sure it would just make me feel worse.

So I'm thinking that maybe I should just quit, and do nothing for a while, try that whole "finding yourself" thing I never did. Maybe travel a bit, try and get some enthusiasm for life back. Everyone says not to do this without having your next job lined up, but does that apply if you're not looking for a traditional office job, if you seriously just need a break with no commitments? My big worry is that I don't figure anything out and find that a year later I'm having a very hard time finding a job again, and/or the economy is much worse.

Some important points: I have no wife/kids to support, not in a relationship, I rent, and I can afford to be unemployed for at least a year (at an acceptable level of comfort). If I leave my industry, I wouldn't bet on making it back in, certainly not at my current level because experience in my niche doesn't tend to be very transferable. I also have very few connections in the industry (sounds weird after all these years, but it's true). I've thought about grad school too, but I couldn't get more than one quality letter of recommendation at this point, so I wouldn't bet on getting into a top school.

So I'm at a loss as to how to assess this situation and figure out what's smart and what isn't. HNers seem to come from all walks of life and have collectively seen and done it all, so hopefully someone's been in this situation and has some wisdom to impart.
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> An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman walk into a bar. The bartender turns to them, takes one look, and says, "What is this - some kind of joke?"

If that's a meta-joke, then I suppose the version I heard is a meta-meta-joke:

A priest, a rabbi, and a mormon walk into a bar. The bartender looks at them and says "What is this, some kind of joke? Mormons don't drink!"
Precisely. That's a page I'd be frustrated to wind up on, and Google's easiest option for getting webmasters to actually act on removing them is to get their attention in a way that is quite noticeable.
I was wondering whether I was the only person who firebugged the background to #FFFFFF before reading?
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i remember hearing the same argument when google made google videos to compete with youtube, and we all know how that ended. That said, there were social and community aspects there that don't apply here, and google's cheaper storage prices and larger feature set may give it a leg up.
I hope they'll give the option to do your own encryption, too.
All, please re-read the point about content in JavaScript NOT being crawled. Yes, this is true. Accept it, move on, and don't waste hours or days debating this with your SEO or product manager.

Google will parse js to find links to index, but don't count on getting credit for any content you put in there.
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What you're describing doesn't sound like a problem with your job per se, it sounds like depression. You might consider consulting a professional before making any life-altering decisions. Good luck to you, whatever you decide.
Can you expand on this, as the resistance to this style has always confused me. The concern you are presenting is that a subclass could implement the setFoo method, and do so in a way that: 1) does not call [super setFoo:], and 2) does not follow the convention of handling memory management appropriately?

My problem with this argument is that the user could botch release just as well. Maybe they are slightly more likely to botch the setter, but either way they are botching it.
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In reality - how many people actually downloaded it from the website, rather than running "{yum/apt-get} install mysql-server"? The documentation is a different issue - probably much more popular than downloads themselves.
I am replying so that textlaundry know that not everyone is like parent: i.e., I am fine with "Pick a quality: good, better, best" (or "Pick a quality: good, great, excellent"). In fact, I do not like it when vendors pretend that everything they offer, even the cheap stuff, is the best that it can possibly be. I tend to conclude that the vendors\ is either deluded or insincere.

But yeah, if textlaundry can convey in that row of radio buttons (terminology?) that "great" service means that the text is worked on by more editors than work on text using the "good" service, that would be an improvement.
There's something to be said for beta testing in a way that's less likely to take the entire site down due to unexpected behaviour under load.
http://www.delicious.com/ and http://delicious.com/ are alive:(

Not sure, why these guys are missing basic thing....
Ahem: http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/09/26/goldman-sachs-draws-u...

Doesn't look very world-ruling to me!
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I'd always though it was that too - I'd presumed was a roughly positive expression, eg once you've drunk the company Kool-Aid, you get to see the bigger picture and understand more.

A visiting American put me right, before I'd had chance to use it incorrectly!

(Amazing book btw, love it)
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If you have an observer listening for changes on the "photographer" key, then `self.photographer = nil;` will send off a KVO event. [photographer release]; will not.

Since your object is likely to be dealloced at an odd time (for instance when an autorelease pool is drained), and in an inconsistent state (half its fields missing), it's much better to do a release.
Thanks for clarifying what type of things you think cannot be passed along. I think that's a good example. I guess my biggest question becomes - can we design ways to pass that information along more effectively? Sure the world isn't just facebook, I think of more as a nexus for organizing and documenting social lives. It doesn't take away from the fact that most of the 'actual' socializing happens in the presence of others physically.

The blog post was very long and I think he missed some of the major historical points (especially about finance). You should checkout The Ascent of Money for a good history of corporations and the financial innovations that made them possible. It would argue spain/portugal didn't become irrelevant because they weren't as good, it was almost because they were too successful. The flood of physical wealth prevented financial innovation which allowed the dutch and brits to get ahead.

Japan is especially fascinating to me (I am half Japanese) and the culture is very bizarre in a lot of ways. It's probably one of the most (if not the most) homogeneous society on earth. I do wonder what the effects of that are on determining people's beliefs and behaviors. For instance, would the willingness to sacrifice and contribute to the greater good be diminished in a less homogeneous society? The recluses, while a problem, I am not sure what percent they ever actually made up. There is a lot of social problems in Japan for so many different economics, political, cultural reasons. However, I do wonder how much they were blown out of proportion in the media as a scare versus a real threat to the very fabric of society. I have a number of japanese friends who would be in your recluse age group, even the worst off one (I don't want to tell their personal story here, but it's not good and probably sounds like many great struggles to find identity for young people), ultimately became a salaryman. I think they are finding their way eventually, most of them at least. It's always been strange for me to try and understand Japanese culture. I am Japanese but I don't think I would ever be considered Japanese, so it still feels almost like an outsider looking in, with maybe a slightly less foggy window.
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Client-server model, welcome to the 2010s. Why do we call it cloud anyway? Screw personal computers and thousands of hours wasted on removing malware, give me more powerful browsers

p.s. i had the same stereo system as the one in the picture in the 90s, sigh
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Pretty much all of the CPAN stuff I care about - Moose, Catalyst, DBIx::Class etc. supports as far back as 5.8.5 still - specifically for the people stuck with old RHEL systems and similar.

While it's disappointing that you don't get to use a newer perl at work, you should still be able to play with most of the shiny modules. There's plenty of CPAN authors still happy to do the legwork to make that so, because we don't want to exclude a bunch of people just because their perl5 VM sucks.
Google Drive: $5 per year per 20 GB.
Dropbox Pro 50 plan, $10 per month for 50 GB

"the price of Google Drive looks dirt cheap." wait what?
Ask: How do you add users to the system?
Let say you have a web application that is collaborative in nature. That means, you signup and then you can involve other users with your work.

For e.g you work on a document and then want to add more users to come and edit the document from your team.

Now as a team admin you can add new users by simply providing the email addresses.

Now there are multiple options how the webapp treats the new email addresses

1. If the email address does not exist, then create a new user, send an activation link with temporary password to the email address

2. The webapp ignores the email address and notifies the Team admin to have the user pre-register prior to getting added to the team.

#1 is more convenient and a better user experience but it has potential for someone to abuse the system for spamming

#2 Is safe as the team admin and the member have already communicated prior to joining into the webapp, they register and then the admin can add the user as its own team member.

How do webapp handle these kind of situation? What is the best practise?
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Cool. Nice to see the updates coming but it's rather lightweight and minor. Of all my pet projects and scripts, Perl ones hold the most value. Lala.com music downloader comes to mind.
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The technical problem for price discrimination based on the user's location is that location can be faked. The social problem is that, even if you succeed, users who are paying more will feel ripped off.

I think a better approach is to allow users to pay what they want (maybe with a specified minimum). If it's pitched the right way, some users will happily pay more than you'd charge them, but you're still letting poor (or stingy) users get your software, and (as a side benefit) those users may also recommend your product to others. So the net profit could be greater than if you charged a fixed price.
Could you explain the first one?
I wouldn't worry about spamming as long as the team admin couldn't modify the outgoing email message.

Furthermore, you can add in rate limiting, or limit the number of unactivated users a team admin can have.
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Absolutely agree with that statement.The quality of the projects on these sites is very much rubbish.
Being from a place in Europe where there's excellent public transportation, this entire discussion is absolutely hilarious.

See, if all of you that expressed interest in this idea instead actually took the caltrain, the bart, and the samtrans buses and whatever local bus lines there are, then the companies operating those would see that there is increased demand, and the increased revenues would go to making the system better.

There are already people around whose job it is to handle the messy details of moving groups of people around the valley, why make yet another company in parallell?

What annoyed me the most when I tried the public transportation in the valley is how fractured it is, there's lots of different companies, no unified payment method, no unified ticketing system, no unified timetables, no unified maps, etc. Figuring out how to get from point A to point B is really hard because there's no coordination at all.

And into this mess you want to introduce yet another form of transportation? Madness.
>>I prefer many things about Python over Perl

I have been doing Python a bit now and am of the opposite opinion.

Except for CPAN I miss the advanced stuff like Moose (better OO) and extensible syntax.

I might be too new to the language. E.g., I don't really get the list comprehension -- it looks like a kludge around the lack of multi line code blocks, so Python can't have nice a map() syntax. But people seems to love the that syntax, so there should be more to it than a kludge?

But sure, Python has a minimal and elegant notation; it just changes a bit too slowly.

Also, try posting a flame comment like yours about Python in a Python thread; you'd be at minus ten in five minutes and stupid comebacks would be up voted to orbit. The fanaticism makes RoR kids look mature.
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Além de moves você ainda encontrará, notebooks, celulares, ferramentas como furadeira, então ta esperando o que vai dar uma conferido!
To be fair, what he needed was actually DOMAIN knowledge, in this case, some specific math stuffs. Unfortunately, unlike other domain knowledge such as business workflow, stuffs like Math and Physics are kind of hard-core, can not be quickly picked up by self-learning. He should have had some domain experts (mathematicians) to help him.
Perl 6 is an entirely different language than Perl 5.14 with an entirely different development path. I don't see Perl 6 as "the next version of Perl". Perl 5 continues to thrive and will for some time.
It's dangerous for Dropbox because GDrive will be automatically integrated into all Google services. I can access it anywhere from any Google service or device. No need to think about uploading, downloading, copying, pasting--it's just there. I don't use GDocs because it's the best.

I use it because all my friends use Gmail and sharing docs with them is super easy. I see GDrive having the same benefits. Sharing on Dropbox still isn't as easy as it should be. I've been trying to convince my girlfriend to sign up for a Dropbox accounts since we started dating, but no luck. With Gdrive, she will never need to.

That said, success is still not guaranteed. MS has had SkyDrive for years and I have no idea what the market penetration numbers are, but I'm sure they aren't good. Hotmail is no Gmail. I had no problems convincing a bunch of people to switch to Gmail, but only got one person to sign up for Dropbox.
But Perl IS ugly. You haven't noticed that before? The truth hurts.
I always answers like this:

"How much does a website cost?"
"It depends".
"Depends on what?"
"A lot of things".

I am a web developer, not a web designer.
At those rates, Google's service for 100GB for a year would be $25. Dropbox's would be $240. I think I'd call a little under 10.5% the cost "dirt cheap", but I guess that's subjective.
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Google Drive is $5 per 20GB per year. I'd say that's a pretty significant difference.
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I am considering to vote with my feet. :-( I just don't want to go to England...
The bartender says, “What is this - some kind of joke?” because a great deal of jokes are set up with three people of different ethnicities (or some other kind of group) walking into a bar.