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They look at patterns. This is what VC does.

You have a content business. The exits tend to suck there. Pattern. I certainly avoid ad-driven businesses as angel investments.

Also, if you conduct yourself in person like you do here that is probably another issue.
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When you're working for yourself or in a situation where you can work more hours and make more money (freelance, sales, whatever) then you can lose money by being cheap. Anything that can be hired out at a lower hourly rate than your own should be hired out. The catch is that you actually have to spend that time you saved working and earning income!

If you have a fixed salary, though, you might as well do those things for yourself if you have the skill.
We've been in business for about 8 years and use about ~100 sysadmin hours a year.

I interviewed several sysadmins over the years and no one that I deemed competent charged less than $100/hour.

I did find people charging as low as $50/hour but they didn't seem that great, or that reliable, or that available.

For me as well, you pretty much need to trust your sysadmin more than almost anyone else in your company (except people that can sign checks).

Trust comes at a premium.

I will yield that I don't like working with substandard people. I hate having to manage people and am willing to pay a premium for people I trust to work on the right things with the right skills in a timely manner. Besides, it doesn't scale. One of my business goals is to never have middle management.
Why wouldn't you just add another contact card for a the location? For work it would be the name of your company...for the grocery store it would be the name of the grocery store? I think I am missing how this is a hack...
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As long as this topic has been brought up, what do people think of NewEgg, these days? I've supported them for the useful comments on their site.

They used to have a good "buzz" about them, including how they treated both customers and employees, but I've been seeing more negative comments about them in the last couple of years.
Great snakes! That's because $100 million is really a 'tweener number: You can be Richie Rich among your upper-middle-class friends or a hanger-on in the superrich crowd.

It takes tens of millions to be an upper-middle-class person? That would be news to most of us, and to the IRS, I bet.

It appears that this whole article is skewed by the editorialist's particular place in the very rich of society. I think that everything else he writes should be examined carefully.
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Just require the user to add "app" after the app name. Again only the apps the user installs are added to Siri's commands available to the user.
You unreasonably discount the possibility of someone deriving enjoyment from working on their car.

I personally find it to be rather cathartic.
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Why did you change to backbone.js?
Because clouds are flat on the bottom and bumpy on top.
Oh nice I hadn't seen Foreman before. Looks like EC2 console but for your own stack. We use XEN, that might be nice.

I don't know what you mean by "execute receipts" however in the video they kick off a puppet run, which makes me think you could similarly kick off a chef run instead.
For < 50 servers, can anyone comment on my choice of fabric and cuisine as an alternative to chef?
DRM is toxic. Just like lead.

Eating a CD might be bad for your health, but that's where this analogy stops.

I rarely buy DRM-protected content, and will always prefer open formats. (See also: My digital PragProg mountain that I've purchased because they're excellent books and not larded down with DRM.)

However, in a free society the government has no business forcing citizens to create a string of bits in a particular way. Vote with your dollars, not with the hammer of a tyrannical law.
Your tricks list reads like the constraint list of your typical professional game reviewer. Depending on the game, many gamers complain that reviews are lackluster or misleading for missing much of the game content.

That said, while I understand the desire to play as many different games as you can in your limited time. Some of us prefer to spend less money or effort looking for games and really savor those that have long playtimes and replay ability.
I'm not terribly knowledgeable in this area, but this was pre 9/11, where I imagine it was much much easier to obtain a green card/citizenship, especially from a friendly country like Canada.
Apple must have one of the biggest fleets of cnc machines in the world to mill all their aluminum MacBooks, iMacs, remotes, keyboards... And the steel bands on the IPhone. I remember reading they bought 1000 Fanuk CNC's when they came first came out with the MacBook unibody in 2008, and they have grown a lot since then.
Two reasons I'm wary of Chef wrt Puppet

1) the declarative vs imperative aspect

2) Chef's heavy dependencies

As a Ruby developer, I like Chef's Ruby DSL; but I somehow feel that its imperative DSL will lead to something similar to Bash Hell. I'd like to read more about the declarative properties of Puppet vs the imperative way of Chef, and why one should prefer one over the other.

Secondly, like some commenters before mention, Chef's dependencies seem quite excessive.
I second the importance of reading Jason Gregory's Game Engine Architecture.
The number of different configurations is far more important than the number of boxes, no? If you have 1000 completely identical boxes (e.g. big compute cluster), a shell script that sets up a freshly installed box to your requirements is quite possibly sufficient.
Agreed: http://imgur.com/QdqGA
Why talk a lot?
The deltas weren't exactly small either. Change one animation or move one arm a bit and the model file change completely.

And you often have more than one change at a time.

As for two gigabytes not being much I don't think their repos is that small. Most of us would properly have no issue downloading it, but you have to upload them (and DSL isn't symetric) and you have to find some place that is willing to host those gigantic repositories.
Bad title, a karma honeypot? The topic has been discussed frequently and better elsewhere.
Thanks for posting that. I definitely like the look of Gitlab a lot better.
I'm cracking some books I bought on Audible.com right now -- the DRM system failed, won't let me burn anything but silence to CDs, which they claim I should be able to do -- and their customer service isn't staffed on Sundays. I tried to make things work for several hours, but nothing has worked. For the record, I'm a pretty good software engineer; I could crank up a kernel debugger on this mess and maybe figure it out, but why should I have to?

So, pardon my language, but fuck 'em. I plan to tell them exactly what I did, and why.

Should I buy more broken stuff from these people? It's a good question. A purist would say no, but on the other hand it's not exactly hard for me to free the content now.

DRM /will/ turn your customers into pirates.
Single guy, usually house sharing. Never paid more than 650/mo in the states for better living conditions.

The 750/mo price was for a single room in a two bedroom apartment.
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yeah, what a moron thinking 900k still appreciating in his 30's plus free rent is enough to support a comfortable lifestyle.

I'm going to refrain from writing something offensive. Suffice to say I find your attitude distasteful.
Since Bitbucket now supports Git I'd say that's a better option for anyone that just wants to keep their repos somewhere.

Either way is great, but Bitbucket makes it easier for sharing if that's needed.
I disagree. The important thing here is appreciating about something. To be honest, I had never noticed the title showing 'Hacker News' at front before. I only open one link at a time to keep focus. To be honest I learned something today with this post:
> Next time I write my website, I will treat title bar to be a scarce resource, and won't put any unnecessary stuff.
> I will test my website by at least opening multiple tabs.
> If you find something useful, or notice something changed that you really liked, don't forget to appreciate it.
That is true of almost all success stories though ...
Ok, but really, how do you know?
There absolutely are always opportunities, but those opportunities are not always available to those that won't or can't treat the investments as a full time job.

As long as there is inflation, all you need to do is buy assets to make money. When there is stagnation or deflation, making money becomes very hard work and luck plays a bigger role. That is because the number of wrong answers exceeds to number of right ones.
In a nice part of town that is not unreasonable.
completely agree with point 1,partially disagree with point 2,partially agree with point 3..:)
No one would have read the story if its title was "How I became self employed in 9 years on a corporate programmer salary"

HN needs some sort of false title penalty.
Really, simply believing in creationism does not conflict with most science, even biological science, and certainly not with US history. Of the 40% who believe in creationism (accepting your claim, though the source I'd certainly not consider unbiased), most have mainstream religious beliefs about the origin of the universe, earth, and life, but do not dismiss most of what science has learned in fields like medicine, biochemistry, genetics, etc.

For example, I myself have certain "creationist" beliefs but also accept the scientific evidence that evolution/natural selection happens, and I don't see any conflict there.
I can attest to that. We have two main "sides" of our app, one side that allows for editing of rules and another that just applies those rules on transactions. It took us much longer to build the editing side than than the transaction side, and when we hit users, we found out that they didn't even WANT to edit the rules. That was more than half of our app that users weren't using, even though in initial mockups/user tests they indicated that they would edit the rules.
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Can't the salt be safely dumped on land?
Cool idea, although I wonder if there's a better way to preload the images, so it's more seamless.
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Sorry to disappoint my friend. :)
As far as I know, there is no objective evidence that demonstrates an aesthetic preference for the golden ratio, or designs being any more successful with it.

According to studies done on the matter, nobody has demonstrated said preference:
http://plus.maths.org/content/os/issue22/features/golden/ind...
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Agreed, but instead of "very high marginal costs", you meant, "very high marginal income" or "very high gross profit".
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Need to hire Pro iPad developer ASAP
Need some help. Have a programmer who has bailed and left me empty handed after months of delays. Really need to get my client at least a "beta" version on a development iPad this week to win back their confidence.

What we need is very simple for "version A". Basically an FTP client that downloads a users whole folder and then an "overlay" for browsing the folders and underlying PDF files.

If anyone out there is interested would love to hear from you ASAP!
Playing football involves running and jumping and being alive. Playing Farmville involves sitting still and clicking the same buttons over and over and over. Football breeds real, live, community. Farmville virtualizes community.

Football intuitively seems healthy, whereas Farmville seems perverse and almost purely destructive.

We can safely say that Farmville is addictive because it is designed to be addictive, and succeeds at invoking addictive behaviors. People who play football/watch football don't seem to do so addictively.

Come on, are you being serious? Are you trolling?
AGPL means I can't use this.
Libertarian mumbo-jumbo. When you have any significant evidence that 1° people buy rationally 2° people are free from influences 3° markets do exist in the absence of an overarching organisation such as a state; please do come back with these. You should read less Ayn Rand and more actual science.
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Yeah, a totally obvious solution, and probably how 99% of people 'backup' things from computer to computer. I find it hard to believe in this day that someone wouldn't backup valuable stuff offsite. It's a trivial amount of effort.
Are you joking? Every web developer I work with was self-taught using the web. Every programmer I've worked with depends greatly on free information and documentation found through Google.

The easiest way to teach yourself is to BUILD SOMETHING and figure it out as you go along. Don't worry about what to learn, just go do something and when you run into a roadblock then seek out the answer. Repeat until you're skilled.
How much can you save per month by being frugal? Top several thousands dollars per month.

I prefer to focus my efforts on maximizing my income, which is theoretically unlimited, instead of minimizing my personal expenses, which are limited to $2K/month.
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Can someone explain how a combined income of $150K (before tax) allowed the OP to save $100K/year ?

And why is the idea of stopping being a productive member of society at 30+ is a good thing ?
I don't think being British or drunk has anything justification with acting the way he/they did.

See (Twitter Screenshots): 1) http://i.imgur.com/OrFOh.jpg 2) http://i.imgur.com/ktwot.jpg

Taken from: http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/le0pb/lemmy_indie_st...
By "zoom", I'm assuming you mean the zoomed-in-on-hover effect on the illustration on http://disqus.com. (I was a little confused as to what you meant until I went looking.)

To answer the question: it's done by having a 120px square div that:

* Has the full "zoomed" image as the background: http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1318540955/img/marketing/homepage...

* Has a thick white border, 120px border-radius and a box-shadow applied.

* Is absolutely positioned, with its top and left being controlled by javascript.
The safe withdrawal rate -- that is, the rate at which you can withdraw from retirement accounts without too much risk of running out of money eventually -- is generally considered to be around 4%. With $900,000 saved up, that means the OP can spend about $36,000 / year from his nest egg without too much risk. The article states that they live as if they made $35,000 - $40,000 / year. So the income from their retirement combined with their side business should be enough to at least sustain their current lifestyle. I have no idea if their $35,000 - $40,000 estimate covers health insurance, so it's hard to say whether they are at risk of being wiped out by medical expenses.
Sage advice, I'll probably try it. Still, this may fix my immediate problem but it doesn't do anything for the elephant in the room that, judging from the comments here, was hardly addressed:

she returned home to read her e-mail, which contained over 100 replies.

THIS is the real problem. At the end of the day (or the week) it doesn't matter how one out of the 100 candidates is selected; what matters is that 99 fools will have to keep looking. Finding housing shouldn't be like applying to
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That "stash" number does not count only cash in the bank. He is also including the value of his house, and other assets.
I didn't say that we should have anarchy. I said that if I'm going to produce a string of 1's and 0's, I get to arrange them in the manner of my choosing. You need to clearly explain where you get the right to force me via law to produce that string in the manner of your choosing.
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I'm guessing that 'receipts' was meant to be 'recipes'.
I don't think I've seen that website before, but I wish I did. The data oriented object chapter is just plain cute.
Actually, yes. I gave up coffee about a year ago, during a pretty stressful period during which I wasn't sleeping well. It is unbelievable how much better I sleep (and I seriously believed that it didn't affect me), and the second thing I notice is that I'm no longer tired in the afternoon.
Wow, a lot of envious people in this thread.
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Everyone should block all access to 2o7.net, the same as Google Analytics. Nothing useful comes from them.
To piggyback on your comment. Being frugal allows people to have capital when opportunities come along. Being cheap is generally undercutting someone else in order to save a nickel or a dime. Being frugal is delaying gratification in order to save up for some specific purpose or to have capital when an opportunity presents itself.

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Yeah, I think he meant that $100 million makes you richie rich among the HNWI set, just "one of the guys" in the UHNWI set, and downright poor in the billionaire set.

I'm pretty sure being worth $100 million makes you a serious "What-are-you-doing-here?"/"superrich" among upper middle class (folks making < $250k/yr).
LOC (Lines of Code) is not a good characterization of the quality of code; clarity and understandability is. The Clojure implementation is pretty nice on those counts.

The LOC measure may be important when, for example, the goal is to show the number of operations to be as small as possible.
Coming from a HTML5 community, I can say that our games have evolved pretty quicky (audio + visual). We're getting closer to Flash in terms of performance, tools and support.
It would be interesting to see Forbes 400 adjusted for local economy. For instance, Warren Buffett who spends most of his time in Omaha certainly gets more bang for his buck than the Billionaires that live in Silicon Valley.
Looks great but will it be a pain to use GitHub and GitLab for different projects? I'm not too experienced with Git so I'm hopiing that configuring my machines to connect to GitLab won't screw up what I have with GitHub.
Yet another sad lesson in backups. As they've now learnt, you need offsite backups. It's not just burglary. What if the building burnt down? What if there was a simultaneous hardware failure? Flood damage? There are any number of things that can affect an entire site. You gotta have important code somewhere else, so if one day you turn up and the entire building is a charred, smouldering shell, you're still OK.

I back up important code to Dropbox, and if your content is over 2GB, you can't afford not to pay a little for the 50GB or 100GB plans.
Given that Mark's work was always available for free... Now I respect him more.

(no offence to the author of diveintoios)
Suffice to say that one of them was Spain, a country with one of the lowest percentages of English speakers in Europe, and me not speaking a word in Spanish at the time.

Language is not the (main) issue.
I seem to remember an Apple earnings call, around the time of the iPad launch, where they disclosed that they were spending $1 Billion+ on some undisclosed manufacturing facilities in China.

At the time it seemed to me that they were investing in touch-display capability to ensure their production demands for the iPad display.
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Then you can't afford not to pay for Dropbox's, or some other service's, 50GB or 100GB plans.
This is all very true. But there is one big but. If you live like that you yourself will have it easy, but the economy as a whole will suffer and the weak in society will suffer disproportionally.

The further South you go in Europe, the stronger this effect gets.

http://www.eyeonspain.com/blogs/SpanishBusinessNews/4527/qua...

Articles like that are not capable of conveying the differences between Spain, Portugal, Italy, Romania and Greece and the more Northern parts of Europe but after traveling through most of those this summer I've seen the other side of that medal and the price of the 'laid back' Southern attitude is one that has become very visible to me.
I've always picked my location so that I don't have to commute more than half an hour each way but if that's what it takes to find a modern half-decent place in this city, I may consider living further.
"When Amazon got its start, we had brilliant engineers. I didn't know all of them, but I knew some of them. Examples? Shel Kaphan. Brilliant. Greg Linden. Brilliant." - Steve Yegge

Shel Kaphan:

http://www.geekwire.com/2011/meet-shel-kaphan-amazoncom-empl...

Greg Linden:

http://glinden.blogspot.com/
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Even the author's examples of asymmetric, 4-bulge, flat-bottomed cloud icons vary somewhat, though a good case is made that this is a very popular variant. At least one of the example App icons has 5 bulges, and the 'old weather map' example refutes rather than supports the case by being a distinctly different symmetric 3-bulge cloud.

I think the more interesting topic is why asymmetric, flat-bottomed, 4-bulged, 3-radiused, golden-aspect-ratio'ed is so popular in the icon format. Pretty sure it's due to the need to look good bounded in a small square – balanced but not perfectly (unnaturally) so, and simplified to minimal details but not cartoonish.
I am impressed at just how much you have managed to warp what I said. Please point to the part where governments threaten you with violence if you don't attend college.
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You might be right. I'm stunned that a good service appeared in Canada before the US.
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What are 2o7.net & omtrdc.net?

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It's very likely that only 1% of children who spent countless hours of their childhood in organized sports ever made a dollar off of it.

I had friends that spent 2 hours a night, saturday morning and sunday morning playing organized football (soccer). Their grades were always low because they rarely completed the assigned homework. They had no social life in football season, literally no social life. I had a friend who would be grounded if he got an after school detention, because it meant he missed an evening practice. He didn't get punished because he'd done wrong, he got punished because his dad wanted him playing sports.

I played video games. I had lots of free time to socialise with friends, my grades were always excellent. Me and my friends would get together for gaming parties, 8-player C&C games, Halo 4 player deathmatch tournaments, etc. I spent most of my time interacting with people. Even when I was at home playing games, half the time I was online with my high school friends.

Why is there a line drawn in allowing parents to forcibly confine their children into organized sports because a very slim minority that don't get serious injuries and manage to play in the top 5 percentile MAY be scouted and then MAY get picked to play for a professional team. If not, they're just a loser that spent way too much time playing a game and achieved nothing.

At least video gamers tend to lead a life because they need money to buy games.

It may be true that video games are addictive, but so are cigarettes and alcohol and the majority of addicts lead normal productive lives because these minorly addictive substances require money. This money requirement means people work, which mean people socialize.

Most gamers I knew as a kid had paper routes or mowed lawns for money. Why? Because money bought games. The kids playing sports didn't have paper routes, they didn't have the time. They never did a job until they graduated highschool.

Myself at 15 was working as a video game reviewer. It was a job that gave me video games.