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I don't know how to say this - but, are you for real?

Its very important to eat well. Yeah, eat cheap food thats fast to cook, but also make sure its healthy. Vegetables and noodles, pasta, are cheap and quick.

The safety standards and quality of product that goes into dogfood is very different than food for human consumption.

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_food
"As well, cow brains and spinal cords, not allowed for human consumption under federal regulation 21CFR589.2000 due to the possibility of transmission of BSE, are allowed to be included in pet food intended for nonruminant animals."

This is just one example, but you do not want vCJD
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creutzfeldt%E2%80%93Jakob_disea...

Its crazy to eat dogfood, don't do it.
On joining my company last year, one of the first things I heard my boss tell me was that we were aiming to be boring

Getting nearly a billion users, being one of the most influential companies in the world and not being exciting enough for tech pundits is an awesome problem to have.
Most of the time: Yes, traditional ORMs are an anti-pattern. If you think you want an ORM, consider an ODB or KVS instead (neither of which are relational).
Maybe I should change fields. There's so many people in UX design now that it is no longer cool. But I like it. Damn you, cognitive dissonance.
Is Google+ considered a flop? It seems early to render a verdict on this.
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It's Atwood-style, and I definitely find it really distracting. Every series of bold words is read by the voice in my head loudly and toneless, the way Americans yell English to foreigners.
Ask HN: How do you get over the pain of refund requests?
Every time I get a refund request I feel like I've been personally attacked -- often they're customers where its incredibly obvious that they're intentionally exploiting my favorable refund policy, and as such I shouldn't be insulted, but still, I feel it.

My refund rate is fairly low (less than 2% -- I've talked to other vendors in my niche and they report much higher refund rates). I have a prewritten response to refund requests that asks for feedback and offers a range of solutions -- in fact, it stops about 50% of refunds from being actually wanted. Its the other 50% that are mostly not in good faith anyway that are really bothering me.

I know I'm not alone here. Should I just be paying someone else to deal with my billing stuff entirely to separate my emotions from how things are going on the sales front?
One thing I've always wondered is if every search company looks better than their competitors on their own metrics. Seems totally plausible given how many different ways there are to define metrics, and how different the types of queries that each search engine receives might be.
Google instant is good for tablets/phones, not for desktop computers. Too bad they rolled it out to everybody I don't like it too much either, but can live with it.
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The main reason a lot of people are much more happier with Google+ and Twitter nowadays is not because some features are marginally better - it's because the atmosphere is so much nicer there.

Let's put some numbers around this interesting statement. Are there really a lot of people who find the atmosphere on Twitter much nicer than the atmosphere on Facebook? How about Google Plus? How many people find its atmosphere much nicer than the atmosphere on Facebook? And for the most important numbers, how much revenue is each of those companies gaining from the people who like each company's atmosphere best?

P.S. I like Facebook very well indeed, because my international network of friends is largely all there. I use Facebook much like a social linking service (not too differently from how I use HN), posting links I find interesting to invite comments from friends, and posting comments in threads about links posted by other people. The intellectual tone of the discussions I encounter on Facebook is very high--although that surely mostly has to do with how I met many of my friends. We (all my various friends and I) devote time and effort to cultivating a respectful atmosphere of people expressing frequently wildly varying opinions, as long as everyone is civil and everyone is encouraged to look up facts. That's like being invited to graduate seminars (a real-life experience I have had) on interesting subjects at any hour of the day that is convenient for me. As long as Facebook can monetize enough, somehow, to allow people like me who don't give it money (but arguably do give it content) to meet one another there, Facebook will be part of my life for a long time. After all, my FRIENDS are there.

After edit: regarding the comment elsewhere in this thread about the submitted article,

This is a poorly researched article that takes a few anecdotes

I can't say I necessarily disagree, but note for the record that most blog posts are poorly researched and mostly based on anecdotes. In actual fact, on HN poorly researched blog posts tend to be much more upvoted as new submissions than professionally written research articles. It's a rare case when a general readership of a website (e.g., HN's readership) prefers discussing careful research to discussing a few anecdotes.

Another comment asks,

Are people excited by search?

I was very excited by Google when it first became available. (I discovered Google before it was publicly announced, by noticing what search engines were spidering my personal website back in the 1990s.) Google's results were so plainly superior to those of Excite, Lycos, and even AltaVista (my previous favorite search engine) that I soon told all my friends about Google. Search results that turn up reliable, accurate, readable links are always a pleasure. The way to do better at search than Google does would be to somehow serve up better results more consistently--that would be exciting, if it is possible.
iOS libraries need to be cross-compiled and statically linked. (Dynamic linking is not allowed in apps submitted to the store, IIRC.) I'm sure macports or whatever CAN be forced to do both of these, but it's easiest just to make something new, lean and efficient.
They're free, and it takes ~45 seconds to get one. You should probably just make one.
Conceptual Integrity - The best quality of any program
Have browser send screenshot to Mechanical Turk and offer 1 cent for the answer to the question: "Is this image identical to this image?" :)

FWIW, my Firefox 6.0.2 gets 100/100 but the resulting image does NOT look, pixel-for-pixel, identical to the reference image. Ah, but I guess it's only required for default settings, so perhaps that is the problem - non-default settings on my end.
Yup, I and those around me experienced very similar things.

1. I was also 9 when we arrived here, but we ended up in a rural area that did not have ESL classes, and for the longest time, we were the only Russian-speaking students in our school (long enough that I didn't feel the urge to communicate with them once they arrived, on a regular basis). My math also fell to an above-average level, but I never really cared for it beyond thinking it was nifty.

2. My brother (19 years my junior) experienced something very similar to your nephew, but we took it in stride and he adjusted very quickly.

3. My wife also came from Russia only 5 years ago, she experienced the same feelings as your wife did.

4. We also are experiencing a fourth experience: our oldest speaks Russian fluently for her age. In order for her not to experience shock when she went to kindergarten, we started speaking English with her for about half the day about six months before she started kindergarten (and really, we intentionally exposed her to English all along, but focused on Russian at first). Now that she's in kindergarten, she understands almost everything, and can communicate well enough that she doesn't need to attend ESL, although she still doesn't know all the words in English that she does in Russian.

By the way, where are you located?
http://89n.com/blog/manageflitter/google-public-posts-decrea...
Russ, Ken, Rob and the other guys are making a great work in Go. It's weird that people are not yet paying much attention to it - and to Plan 9 as well.
I agree with your assessment of the curent Social Media's state of affairs. Facebook is here to stay. Well for “ever” is a taboo word that I would never use (not just in tech nowadays), but I think that their user base will ensure sufficient longevity in tech years (which is akin to dog years).

I believe that Facebook will keep being somewhat interesting by default due to their alluring ecosystem and viral potential for future entrepreneurs. Most new Apps are built with a clear strategy of broadcasting itself (and showing some of its features) through Facebook feeds. These new Apps have made peoples feeds a lot more interesting. I think Instagram is a good example of this. It made your friends amateur photos much cooler and aesthetically pleasing to look at; thus drawing you to a more interesting Facebook experience.

Their strength lies in their ecosystem and ability to let their users and developers easily create and share content. They have more or less nailed this down already (along with a revenue sharing system to sustain some of their infrastructure costs). At the end of the day, even if they stopped innovating, they’ve done such a fantastic play with their infrastructure, that it ensures that they remain interesting as long as new entrepreneurs keep developing Apps that enhance their ecosystem.

If anything, I think their need to copy and catch up with new breakthroughs from other social networks (i.e. Google+, Foursquare and Twitter) is actually making their product more convoluted and less appealing. Less is more in Facebook’s case. That was the genius of Facebook from day 1. You could strip down Facebook to probably 5 core features and it would still remain relevant and interesting because of others ability (developers and friends) urge to create and share.
That's awesome. For a project I'm going to work on using node.js and Redis, this is exactly the functionality I need for a component. Would be quite useful for scheduling one-time events through Redis.
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Building a Fashion Company on the Internet? Stop. Just stop.
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In pretty much every state, it's not illegal to carry lockpicks, just illegal to pick locks you don't have permission from the lock's owner to pick.

There are probably exceptions, but this holds true in at least California and Florida. Also, ianal, so I could be wrong.
I briefly entertained the idea of doing business a while back and it didn't last past the first meeting. The first problem was that he didn't respect the technical side, and he had a pretty technically complex idea with no clue how it'd be implemented. You don't want to tell someone how hard their job isn't unless you actually know, and even if you do, you don't make friends that way.

Another corralary tidbit is that I tend to like people who I feel I share at least some common interest with. If I say I like videogames and you immediately dismiss them as something you outgrew, I immediately have a lower impression of you. Don't let me catch you pretending though. That's pretty irritating and tells me you're not trustworthy.

Dale Carnegie does a good job of teaching how to get along with people. I was skeptical at first but he's got some good stuff.
I think Facebook being more exciting would actually hurt them, from what I have seen people generally have a lower opinion of Facebook because of new features, not because of lack of features.

I think they have leant a bit on this front, the subscribe and the enhanced lists are there for those that want them but try to stay as far out of the way as possible for the general crowd who would dislike them being forced in as a key component.

What I look forward to is a proper rollout of credits, I think at the moment Facebook apps appear similar to me to a lot of the free apps on the app store, of questionable quality and loaded with ads. Once there is an easier path for developers to monetise apps (and probably improvements in the process of making an app docs and stable api wise) I think we will see more quality, useful things popping up.
Serious question: Do people around the world really use non-English code to develop websites? If <div> and <span> have to be in English, CSS styles are in English, and libraries like jQuery have functions in English, are there developers somewhere who absolutely need the ability to write JS in Kannada or French? If not, why is Unicode even allowed as a variable name? It seems like a potential vulnerability waiting to be exploited.
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These are limitations of specific ORMs or ORM classes, not of the concept in general.

> Another point: your ORM would automatically pick up changes to your model and cope with it, not your hand-written SQL, making your code harder to maintain.

You mean, I'd need to re-write LESS hand-written SQL with model changes. This is a selling point, not a down side.
The assertion is that ORMs are an anti-pattern because it's hopeless to represent data from a relational db as object in an OO language. Obviously, an object or document database maps better to OO languages. My question is, what programming style maps correctly to relational data, other than the obvious answer of SQL?
This is frustrating to me. Thread pool has been a requested feature for quite a long time, and I'm sad to see it's not being contributed to the community edition. Wasn't it supposed to be a part of MySQL 6.0 and now MariaDB?
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Sell more. You'll end up issuing more refunds, and eventually get used to it. It will stop hurting eventually.

When I first started http://anynewbooks.com, the occasional un-subscription or "Enough! Stop sending me emails." message would bother me a little.

Today, I don't even blink at unsubscribe notices. And when I get the occasional "Remove me!!!!111!!!!", I simply unsubscribe the person who doesn't understand that an unsubscribe link is provided.

No big deal. I know that refunds are a little more personal, but like most things in life, you get used to it. You'll grow a thicker skin.

Just focus on selling more copies of your product. And focus on improving your product for all those people who didn't ask for a refund.

If after issuing dozens of refunds you still can't get over it, then outsource it.
The answer is simple: yes. If you find dealing with purchase support emotionally stressful, definitely outsource it. Just make sure you receive weekly reports so you can keep your eye on trends.
I hate it because hitting backspace removes letters from the search field instead of going back in the browser even if I click outside the box. It gets too annoying. Not to mention that it's useless for me because I type really fast.
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Benford's law is fabulously weird (and useful)
Good news for sure, but the Mozilla Foundation has let the plugin updates vs supported plugins issue get away.

Firebug, YSlow, Web Developer and others don't work with the new version? OK fine but tell me first.

I reluctantly upgraded from FF 3.6 as FF has been my go-to development browser for years, but plugins I need to get work done kept breaking or were not installable to the FF version that FF thought I should have.
I'm a co-founder at Uniiverse (and the guy coding up a storm in the photo for #2!).

I will agree that yes, we go to extremes when budgeting for food, please understand that _budget_ has very little to do with the _quality_ of food that you can eat when you're bootstrapping. Truthfully speaking, I'm eating more healthy, tasty, and cheap meals than I've ever eaten in my life. As a former "lazy programmer" who would opt for a morning bagel + cream cheese for breakfast, then a fast food lunch, and a restaurant dinner every single day (usually keeping an empty fridge at home), I'm much happier with my meals than when I had plenty of budget for food. Oh, and I've lost weight in the right places too :) Food can be wonderful at any budget. Plus, restaurants taste so much sweeter when you're taking $0.00/yr salary :P

Design-wise, myself and my co-founders are more than capable of fully designing & coding a sufficient application skin / theme, and we started out with that route, but the results we got by going with our "top-notch design shop" were far superior and well worth the investment. Design is extremely important, and not something we wanted to skimp out on. Spending the extra few dollars up front for a kick ass design is something that can have an immeasurable positive long-term impact if done right.
Tangentially related - http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/26/business/26nocera.html?pag...

In March 2009, still unsatisfied, Mr. Nordlander persuaded his superiors to send an attractive female undercover agent, Ellen Burrows, to meet Mr. Engle and see if she could get him to say something incriminating. In the course of several flirtatious encounters, she asked him about his investments.

After acknowledging that he had been speculating in real estate during the bubble to help support his running, he said, according to Mr. Nordlander’s grand jury testimony, “I had a couple of good liar loans out there, you know, which my mortgage broker didn’t mind writing down, you know, that I was making four hundred thousand grand a year when he knew I wasn’t.”

Mr. Engle added, “Everybody was doing it because it was simply the way it was done. That doesn’t make me proud of the fact that I am at least a small part of the problem.”

Unbeknownst to Mr. Engle, Ms. Burrows was wearing a wire.
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I decided to do a test and switched my in-browser search bar to Bing. So far, I haven't had any reason to object. I still get results which do what I want.

Also, I could swear that Bing Maps is actually faster than Google in terms of loading tiles, scrolling around, and all of that. Google Maps just sticks at times, for some reason. It's amazing to see it fall so far, considering that smooth-scrolling maps at Google is what brought me over from Mapquest years ago.

I'd love to see someone continue the result comparisons with the brands filed off. It might surprise people.
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Show HN: Clockies, a future virtual time machine? 
Hi guys!

We have launched a beta version of an application called Clockies. http://www.clockies.com

Clockies is about having all your future in one place. Discover and share interesting future happenings with friends. Clockies can be describe as a RSS feed of future happenings(What's going to happen) , instead of present happenings(What's happening right now). With a very strong community, we hope it will reach our vision, which is to become a virtual time machine.

I have showed it to Adam Lisagor(the producer of Square's intro video) and he thought it was cool.

What's your thoughts? All feedbacks are welcome!
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You need to develop a thicker skin. It's just business.
I have issued dozens, probably about 200 at this point, I'd estimate. Selling more is always good advice though, +rep.

I'm in an extremely niche market for my best selling stuff, so selling more is likely going to involve new products. Something I am working on, of course. :)
Adam here. Actually, we're with Rogers because they've got a discount available for condo residents, so it's better value than Teksavvy, all things considered. I'm a huge Teksavvy fan and have them at home as well! But we opted for the Rogers deal instead.

The all-inclusive condo option is an interesting idea as well :)

Regular ping pong matches was something we originally wanted to do, but now it would require moving our monitors, laptops, all-in-one printer, etc. and that's just too much work! hehe.

If I had to add an 11th point, it would be "SSDs should be mandatory". I've found a huge productivity increase since switching to one, and will never go back to anything else for the primary disk on my development machine. That said, we're bootstrapping, so not everyone has one _yet_ ;)
I'm the CTO at TUMIS.com, we are one of 2-3 boutique dev shops in the Bay Area, CA, US that work 99% with social justice organization, social enterprises, green businesses, campaigns across the country. We are not a non-profit- more like a B corp with worker shareholders. Have been in business for 10 years. There are similar shops that meet regularly via NTEN and TechSoup conferences. Taproot Foundation just received a very large gift - they do most of what you described, they have some paid staff to wrangle the volunteers.
I offer an unconditional refund policy at my service business, and I've had to deal with the same feelings. In my case, I would often spend a few hours working personally with the client, only to refund their money afterward.

However, I continue to offer the policy because my refund rate is low (about 1-2%) and the increase in sales due to the policy is substantially higher than that. The way that I see it, giving out a few refunds is a cost of doing business, and I don't begrudge refunds any more than I begrudge taxes, merchant fees or rent increases. Looking at refunds mathematically takes some of the pain out of paying them.

I'm also somewhat comforted by the fact that a refund policy is a way to resolve genuine client dissatisfaction: In my view, giving refunds to undeserving people is far preferable to clients actually leaving dissatisfied and possibly badmouthing my company.
I failed FizzBuzz, I admit it. I was asked that as an interview question. I studied hard for my interview but I forgot about the mod operator and totally fumbled my way through the interview. I am now the Senior Web Developer and turned out to be a great asset to the company. But you wouldn't have known that from my FizzBuzz results. I also didn't have 'Computer Science' as a Major. Couple strikes. However they took a chance on me.

Since then I've been able to interview others and I look for different things than FizzBuzz compliance. I want to see how they solve problems in general. I want to see if they have any passion for what they do. I want to see things they've developed.
Fairly easy.
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The DataMapper ORM allows you to use SQL but still return domain objects: http://rubydoc.info/github/datamapper/dm-ar-finders/master/D...

Maybe the gp doesn't know about it or chooses not to use it, but it exists.
The post starts out sending a disgruntled-employee vibe, but it improves later on. The OP conjectures about how an organization becomes more heavily political than the rest of a company are pretty interesting.
Trollface he made you all log out and log back in again.