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Keep in mind that this is company behind the elaborate "Angry Nerds" April Fool's game (http://www.atlassian.com/en/angrynerds). It does provide some excellent PR and a testing ground for new technologies.
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Anyone else find it weird that the illustration for this article is a group of Asian-American high school students at NYC's Hunter College (which is, despite its name, a high school, not a university)? If those kids are going to HS in the US, they're probably either US citizens (as the name "Asian-American" implies) or have permanent residency, and aren't subject to the constraints on starting a business here that are the focus of the article.

But, whatever, we need a picture for this article, let's just find one of a bunch of yellow kids, right? They're all the same.
Yep, additional currencies are a high priority for us. And we live in Glasgow, so £'s will come next.
My point was that people need to be given a chance at an entry level brought on a contract to hire but the argument prevalent here is to exclude anyone who you isn't in your network.
There's a HTML version available (the build scripts are available on GitHub), so it could be readable on the web.
Site author here. I welcome all feedback on the site!

[There's more I'd love to write, but I found I was losing motivation to work on it in my Copious Spare Time(tm), so I thought I'd try promoting it -- knowing that others are paying attention to it will help me keep mine focused on it too.]
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We did go for Ruby in order to increase developer productivity (having a very small team of just two developers), and good code quality/high test coverage. We were sure we needed to refactor a lot later on. So Ruby seems like a good choice.
But Ruby is NOT good at waiting no a database / network latency. But I guess with PHP we would have had exactly the same problems.
I agree with the premise of the article. The point being advocated is a direct challenge in the way goals are achieved in a set frame of timeline one is apportioned. It shows that you may be more efficient and perhaps more productive if you could push yourself harder. Setting unrealistic goals and achieving it or coming close doing so comes just short of what a philosopher eruditley noted as being of a great mind!

That is asking "thinking of things that are not in existence, and asking Why Not?" yes, that's what I truly think Joseph has done here! Challenging the norms and at the same time, proffering his own peculiar solution!

Well done, dude!
What being #9 on HackerNews did for my webapp and me.
Ask HN:How well does your fb convo compare to the quality of HN comment thread?
My original question (which was too long for the title) was Ask HN: How well does your average facebook conversation/comment thread rank compared to the quality of HN comment threads?
I'm using & developing abaaso; a (truly) RESTful framework with stateful binding to provide HATEOAS via headers for dynamic GUIs.

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Google will let you filter searches by date, it's there under the More Search Tools -> Custom Range option. If I choose Last Year, I don't see most of the Perl 4 stuff.

The problem is that people looking for a basic Perl tutorial may not know about all the filtering options.
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I'll ask a question or three back at you. Why do you want graduates to work at startups? Why do you think this is a desirable thing to champion?

I've just been looking at one of your companies (http://www.entrepreneurfirst.org.uk) which has a free entreppreneurship course for final year students and recent grads (2 years). And I have friend who's been working for 3 years and was recently knocked back for a role because she had passed the 2 year recent grad mark and was therefore unsuitable.

So there seems to be a mindset that society must mold students in a certain way and force them in certain directions perhaps before they are ready? And if they take a few more years to become ready then they must now be treated differently.

I guess my final question is, 'Are you sure that you're not making a mistake by singleing out students'?
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They say doing a solo startup is hard. They're right.
That's not quite the same thing. Apple's patent covers a basic UI to go with the left-to-right gesture. In that video I see no UI to assist the user in determining how to unlock the phone, it's only the gesture which is only a small part of the patent.
You enter the details of the check, how much it is for and the like. You take a picture of the front and back of the check. That is it. They must do some sort of OCR on the image you upload because it usually takes me more than one try before it will accept most of the checks I have tried.
We have "build, measure, learn" and "faster, better, now" whispered in a hypnotic tone constantly playing but barely audible in the background of acid trance music. That and sleep deprivation.
please check the post. But actually everything is good to promote your app, you have to try and see the result. The difficulty in promotion is that most of the times difficult to evaluate to ROI and it is a kind of weird thing for software engineer - you don't know if it works or not (except if you've got a mention in a major blog/newspaper). But mentions in major blogs or newspaper don't appear by magic, you have to make some noise about your product.

So You just want that your app is visible to everybody. If, by magic, everybody was aware of my apps I would sell 100,000 units in one day I think !
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> Literally the only hard part there are the magic variables [..]

Sure, I'm not even saying that stuff like this makes Perl 'hard', just obscure and in many cases obfuscated. I have no idea whether you could write non-trivial Perl code that doesn't use magic variables or weird operators, but every piece of Perl code I have ever had to read or debug/maintain has suggested it's an integral aspect of the language. Maybe I've just been unlucky so far...

The code you linked to contains lots of other weird and obscure stuff by the way, I just picked the first routine to make my point. To illustrate it in another way: I challenge anyone who doesn't know anything about Perl to explain why there is another block labelled 'BEGIN' at the end of the module, which goes like this, and what it is needed for:

==>8==>8==>8==>8==>8==>8==>8==>8==>8==>8==>8==>8==>8==>8==>8==>8

no strict 'refs';
foreach my $sym ( sort keys %{ __PACKAGE__ . '::' } ) {
next
if $sym eq
'VERSION';
my $code = __PACKAGE__->can($sym) or next;
delete ${ __PACKAGE__ . '::' }{$sym};
*$sym = sub { goto &$code };
}

==>8==>8==>8==>8==>8==>8==>8==>8==>8==>8==>8==>8==>8==>8==>8==>8

Imagine having to come up with this if you are new to Perl programming :-S

> The rest of your comment does not merit discussion because you've your prejudices and are content with them

That's funny, I hear the exact same thing every time I ask someone about what makes Perl great, and how it stands out from any other language. Somehow I never get a real answer, just accusations of being prejudiced or anti-Perl.

I'm not against any programming language (except maybe VB ;-), I'm just curious why Perl is still relevant for anything except legacy code, now that we have so many nice languages for almost every problem domain.
According to this article, Music would be a better choice since there are fewer Music apps being submitted.

http://www.somegeekintn.com/blog/2011/10/lies-damned-lies-an...
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Lets pray to St. Stephen Jobs protector of the Media Moguls and lonely subway users who need portable music.

This is not a political article nor is intended to create a discussion about media and politics, is just another "Steve Jobs was my leader" article.

I'm not sure if they write this article because they really think that Mr. Jobs is the greatest human being ever or to please those who think that Mr. Jobs is the greatest human being ever.Well, we got it! They Loved Mr. Jobs and they wish turtle-neck would become mandatory. I'd be happy if they'd just spare us from your messianic mambo-jambo, but since they'll be keep doing it anyway, I'd be nice if at least they'd find something of their own and stop quoting the freaking book.
Cool!

It would be even more interesting if we would know how much money you've spent to achieve this.
yes once you reach a threshold it's more easy to get motivated :-) But this is the start that is the most difficult, of course
Thanks, this is a great point and is borne out by the stats. Last night we saw 83% hitting the "Now Click Here" button but far far less taking it beyond that. We're talking about a consistent "what to do next" element now.
I'm not big on immigration controls and wish more people could stay in the US (or anywhere else) if they want to. That said, just for the sake of argument, isn't it kind of evil to say that the US should actively try and brain-drain the entire world? Why is it that American kids are being actively disinvested in and the active strategy of the US corporate elite is to effectively steal the best minds of every other country?
There's different things being discussed here at this point.

You're saying "CPAN authors don't write crappy code". Fair point, but CPAN authors aren't looking for tutorials, nor are they writing tutorials (otherwise, they'd be tutorial authors, not CPAN authors).

The original point was that googling for tutorials brings up old crappy code. What modern perl experts write has no bearing on this issue.

What's needed is an concerted effort to have those talented CPAN authors focus their efforts on writing modern tutorials, publicizing them, getting linked, and also contacting owners of older tutorials and asking them to link to the modern stuff.

It won't happen overnight, but there's a cyclical downward spiral with perl that needs to be stopped. People looking at old/bad perl tutorials may never get to the point where they even learn about or use CPAN in the first place, and won't get exposed to better techniques. Many tutorials in other languages are bad, of course, but compare a bad PHP tutorial to a bad perl one, and the PHP will still be easier for newbs to grok.
surely as a prospective employee it'd be good to know they've got cash spare for this kind of thing?
Unfortunately Perl coding culture includes a few deeply entrenched bad habits such as using horribly short variable names, overuse of the default variable, and using regex when a simpler string match would suffice. These subtle bad habits make typical perl code hard to follow and thus reflect badly on the language itself.
All this excitement about Siri makes me wonder, would people really talk to their phones in public places? Sometimes social barriers are much harder to overcome than technological ones.
Any chance of including video chat (not just voice) in future?
it's something I have to look seriously but unfortunately my time is limited. I wanted to do this myself but a framework could be interesting. I imagine also there are some opportunities for cross-marketing.
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In the olden days, pirating was hard. Hard to get the pirated game, hard to install the crack, hard to get it working again when a new patch came out and often the cracks didn't quite work and you had to find another one in the middle of your playthrough or even restart from the beginning because it broke something in your savegame. Just buying the game meant installing and playing, no hassle.

Today, installing a game you bought is harder than pirating it. You have to activate it, type in a 25 digit code you found on the box (wait, is that a B or a 3? Damnit.). It'll need an internet connection to activate, but the activation server is usually overloaded and doesn't work on launch day. Then it wants to patch itself before letting you play, because the stuff you got on the DVD you bought is actually out of date by the time you get home. You also have to sign up for some stupid web service that you never wanted, and have another login and password that you must not forget (or else you can't play anymore and your savegames are gone with it). Except if it's GFWL (Microsoft's Games for Windows Live). Then you also have to figure out why that damn thing gets stuck in an update loop and makes you log into things just to play an entirely offline, single player game (then you have to install xliveless, which avoids that). Pirating is so much easier. You torrent the thing, unpack it and play, just the way it should be.

I'm glad Gabe Newell gets this, and it's apparent in Valve's Steam (except for some reason they permit GFWL infested games, but at least they warn you about it).
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Just doing a quick Google search, it seems it costs around $150 to get a fully customized bobble head in physical form. It would probably cost more to have it faked (even if it's an in-house designer) than to get real ones created and take high quality pictures of those.
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My friend moved to London from Leeds and works for a design company somewhere near the roundabout.

I'm not aware of any groups up here in Leeds that meet regularly and cater for hackers interested in working for a startup.

I've been to a couple of talks/beers with the local Linux User Group but I do miss the opportunity to talk about things a bit more web- or startup-specific.

I hear you guys have a bit of an after-work drinking scene going on down there and I'm jealous!
That's how most (if not all) banks work in France. They charge you overdraft fees as a loan at the maximum legal rate (which is about 20% annually, or 1.5% monthly according to Wolfram).

That way, if you have a 2 € overdraft for one month, you'd only pay 3 cents of fees. However, if you have 1000 € of overdraft during one year, you'd pay a total premium of 200 €. Seems to make much more sense than a flat fee.
Same as android does when you trigger a task that more than one app can handle: it asks you (and you can, off course, tell it to remember you choice so it doesn't bother you again in the future).
You mention that Children's Technology Review gave you an award. Did you contact them and pitch the app or did they find the app on their own?
I concur with a strong preference for a "deny all" option. I have credit cards for when I require a temporary line of credit.
Uh, he probably meant that he was doing several of these at the same time, didn't he?
HackersNL meetup #3 2011-10-27 20:00 Utrecht, The Netherlands
Join us for already the third meetup of hackers and like-minded individuals in the center of Utrecht!

There will be two speakers. One talk is an closer look at data structures and the other talk is about the mobile spectrum (GSM) power and art. Language will be most likely Dutch, but if there are non-Dutch speakers around we'll switch to English :)
This a recurrent event every last Thursday of the month.

Thanks to SETUP (http://setup.nl) the event is open to all free of charge, but you do need to register, so we have an indication of the amount of people interested.

See for more information: http://hackersnl.nl
This is the correct link.

http://blogs.plos.org/mitsciwrite/
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I really don't know. The issue is for people to find your site - so it is SEO. In addition, I've never found very good data about how people find apps (I've seen some generic data but of course I'm looking for data about parents looking for apps for their kids). Do people look for apps on google ? You should also look at your keywords on the app store (of course)
Seller financed is one of the oldest tricks in the book. It means you (the seller) pay yourself for the sale from the proceeds of any furture profits. There are a couple of other red flags in what you wrote above, like time pressure (always a bad sign) and "the ratchet". Of course you may be informed and able to speculate, but there's nothing better than getting yourself a very good legal firm. Good ones are very honest about the downsides to any situation, which is what you need. Nothing is worse than being told everything is fine only to find out later that there were foreseeable issues.

You should go into this with a take-it-or-leave-it approach and call the shots so that it's what you want, and not what they want to give you. But you'll have to get a standard position from everyone of your partners, and the only way to do that is to say NO to dealing with individuals. The reason is divide and conquer. That's another thing they'll do.

Also DO YOUR RESEARCH. Who are the buyers? Can they give you personal guarantees to pay you even if what they're doing does not work out? Who is this mysterious competitor? Why didn't you know about them when you started your project? Again good lawyers will help you out here.

So form a company, set your equity, get the best legal advice there is, and do not have multiple positions on your side when you go into negotiations. Be prepared to walk when you don't get what you want.
When a key part of the offering is "simple pricing," having rates that are constantly shifting complicates things for customers, Sales, etc.

And changing pricing up is hard. Look at what happened to Netflix on the streaming/dvd plans.
FDIC studied it in 2006:

http://www.fdic.gov/bank/analytical/overdraft/

They state that the sampling wasn't random and shouldn't be extrapolated, but for the banks with automated overdraft protection that they studied closely, 4.9% of customers had 20 or more overdrafts per year and paid 68% of all non sufficient funds fees collected by the banks. An additional 4% of customers had between 10 and 19 overdrafts and paid about 16% of the fees (so as a group, people with more than 10 overdrafts a year paid 84% of overdraft fees).

The people with 20 or more overdrafts averaged about $1,500 a year in overdraft fees.
Competition is good for all platforms. Without it you have stagnation.
Modern slavery is alive and well, but it isn't lusting after the newest thing.

It's child trafficking, illegal immigration to another country (and then the company (or the pimp) holds your passport), and things of that nature.

Reminds me of http://www.theonion.com/articles/i-am-so-starving-vs-i-am-so...
Very interesting article. We launched (are in the process of updating the website) a kids educational app as well -- Alphabet Fruits which can be found at http://www.apps4tots.com

We will definitely be tweaking our pitch and app after reading your insight.
I've been looking through the website since the second rounds was announced and I think that the companies should all be tagged with what field they do stuff in and what technologies they use. For example Eduvee.com, I can see what they do but not whether they use Ruby, Python, or PHP.

And relevant to this thread. You should get the companies that want to take on Graduates to have a big 'Graduate Wanted' flag!
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Exaggerate? Not really, no. For the first time since we started counting, food insecurity increased as a proportion of the population. 250,000,000 more people went hungry in 2008, the worst increase ever-- while the grain harvest itself was one of the most bounteous, filling up silos and going to livestock feed instead of bread. But of course this is all in the article you didn't read.

Never mind that, though. If you are seriously trying to draw some kind of moral distinction between a child "literally" starving and a child who goes to sleep every night not having had enough to eat, having a little bit less every night... I don't say this a lot, but God damn you, sir.
Thanks for the note. That is a perfect example of a company, who just can't afford to wait. The window is closing to turn the tide, if it hasn't closed already.
This is an interesting idea. If only it was possible to make it wysiwyg... ;)
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operative word is 'quota'

The scalability is available, the dev has just decided not to pay for it.
I would say on a scale of one to twenty, 10 being the average HN value, my usual facebook conversations rank at around 3 or two. The ones with my closest friends maybe around 8.

Here's why:
1) The people I have as friends on facebook have varied interests, and usually it's mostly smalltalk, because even if I ask people about their interests, they would rather not explain them to me on facebook, or they do a very bad job of providing insight into said topic. There's no real value to anything being said, and yet this happens almost everyday.

2) My closer friends have interests more inclined towards mind, and often, our discussions, lead to new ways of thinking about said topics (usually 'intellectual' [humour me here] stuff), sadly this happens maybe once a month or so.
Same thing further up north, in Norway.
But I get the impression that it's not like this in the US?
More people either buy in without a contract, or 2-year contracts?
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I'm so disappointed by the color choices, and the bevel on the screen (or what looks like a bevel). Don't people ever wonder why some of the most popular phones in history have been white/black/silver only?

I feel like consumer demand for mobile devices isn't driven by aesthetic choice, more so than apparent popularity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_mobile_pho...

The numerous amount of buttons on the side also makes me angry. Honestly, I have two buttons on the side of my iPhone, and a flip switch which makes perfect sense. Is it really necessary to have four different -unmarked- buttons?

</end_of_complaints>
Thanks KE! This was my initial reaction as well. Sometimes it's nice to apply abstraction in order to grease the wheels of reason, but abstraction has a nasty double edge. ("Owner cared for well-being") does not equal ("Only individual cares for well-being"). Not even a little bit.
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Yes! I've always found it to be the case that employers that ask for 'passion' are merely interested in turning enthusiasm into dollars. Run, run, run like the plague.
I don't think that's a very common word in Spanish. Both my wife and I are fairly well-read Mexicans and neither of us had ever heard or seen the word. The Royal Spanish Academy's dictionary does include it, but they add the annotation "p. us.", which means "little used". So I don't think many people in either Mexico or, judging by the dictionary, Spain will know the word, but Spanish does vary quite a bit from country to country, so it might be more or less common somewhere else.
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Why do you want it to be a mass storage device? I don’t get it.