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It could also be a reflection of how laptop usage has changed over time. Maybe a couple of years ago laptops were closed most of the time, hence the decision to put the logo up that way.
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1. IPO 50% lower then you guided 6 months ago
2. Float so few shares that you can push the value yourself with cash from previous financing round
3. ??
4. Profit
I'd like to see a study, too. Unfortunately, I don't know of any.

I do, however, vaguely recall an ergonomic study finding that it's easier (or at least faster) for humans to read text in variable-width fonts. I'll try to find a reference when I get off work.

That being said, code isn't the same as text. My own experience has been that a missing or wrong character is easier to notice with a fixed-width font (especially narrow characters), and that extraneous or missing spaces are less obvious. Where those things don't matter too much for human readers, they do matter for computer readers. It's obvious to a human that BubleSort is probably supposed to be BubbleSort, but in a more formal setting there is a distinction.
It's like me studying biology and finally didn't continue because there are just too many words to memorize.
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Minor nitpick, but the OP is a she - Lea Verou. To be fair, this feels like such a male-dominated sector that I only picked you up because I had unexpectedly noticed Lea's picture at the bottom of the article, and I suspect you didn't feel the need to check!
Yeah it's hard. Pre-med students dropped out of my physics classes because the lack of grade inflation (higher risk = higher reward though)

I think STEM degrees should actively be subsidized a bit more than other degrees, even at the cost of other degrees, at state universities for a few reasons. First and foremost, they're probably the most likely to be retaken, and secondly to increase the demand and attractiveness of a STEM degree.
As someone doing a second master's degree in a mathematical field, I can't say I've found it 'mostly easy', or even mostly approachable. It can be fun once you've developed strong intuitions for the material, but often a hard slog to get there.

Those who give the impression of finding it easy, I reckon tend to be either:

(a) freakish geniuses of the rare-even-in-academia variety
(b) modestly hiding the fact they've actually spent hours and hours of hard study to push past a series of brick walls in order to get here
(c) both the above
(d) overconfident and heading for a slip-up
(e) not challenging themselves enough.
>A line item like "IE6 support" is how to generate negative feedback from clients.

Not at all. The few clients I've had who've said anything at all have been overwhelmingly positive about knowing exactly how much IE6 support would cost vs not.

That's one of the reasons we started implementing it as a second, simpler site, much cheaper, allows that number to go down even more.
Great read and great points.
The shareholders are told exactly what is going on.

Accounting:

1) Buy parts for $1000

debit Parts Inventory $1000
credit Liabilities - Accounts Payable $1000

2) Pay vendor

debit Liabilities - Accounts Payable $1000
credit Cash $1000
I found none that made me particularly happy.

I actually waited for what seemed like an eternity for Balsamiq's online product to come out (I really had zero interest in the desktop product). When it finally did I tried it and found it was exactly what I was looking for. I am now a happy paying customer.
Great to see a reference to the WPI plan (my alma mater).

I think one of the advantages of an engineering school is that you are all in the same boat with needing to get through the tough classes (and maybe are less distracted by business majors with more time on their hands). I had a tightly nit group of friends who helped each other get through the harder classes like signals & systems, cryptography, etc.

WPI is quarter based so there is intense focus on each subject over a seven week period. If things go truly off the rails and you snowflake it is possible to recover (with semesters the concept of failing seems almost inconceivable).
Apple's rotten? Oh please. The headline is a linkbait troll. Take the speculations within with a lot of salt.
That makes sense. I suspect that the "cause" in this case was the chrome extension that I had been using (I don't remember the name offhand, but it's the one that shows changes in HN between visits). I usually left the tab open but only visited a couple of times a day, so it may have been doing something like that.
Having worked as a solo freelancer in the UK my experience was that prompt payment is inversely proportional to the size of the company.

The single man startups I worked for would pay their invoices promptly, while multi-nationals seemed to consider "net 30" to mean they shouldn't even consider paying until 30 days after receipt, and seemed to have a policy that they wouldn't pay until hassled.
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This may be a really, really dumb question... I don't know the laws possibly preventing this and how shady it could actually be, but is there a possible way to set up an intermediary payment system? Whereas one could accept easy payments and then do the work of transforming those into checks or whatnot and sending them to Wikileaks?
Perhaps we should all ditch Google Analytics
Google is still gaining more and more power, and with their recent changes, they're so called "privacy" thing, to protect its users and hide their keywords, I think it's better if we all switch to different analytics tool.

Piwik is a free alternative, or we can also use getclicky or KISS, there are many out there.

What do you guys think?
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It's probably telling that when I see the phrase "Science Majors" I don't consider Computer Science to be a part of that group.

Of course, the article also includes Engineering, etc.

I started as a physics major, changed to computer science after 3 years. Mostly because I knew physics would require a PhD to do anything interesting, and CS would just take a couple more years.

Math wasn't really a factor, but there was of course a lot less of it in CS, as compared to physics anyway.
Why I need so many combinations of long CamelCase words and obscure symbols to make a bunch of web pages? ^_^
It sounds from your post as if you don't know how to learn new stuff.

I'm sorry, but that makes you unhirable for the kind of exciting projects you want.

What stops you from learning a technology this month? Say, MongoDB. Anything, really.
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Absolutely, this is also the reason why women aren't in technology. The more social and intuitive gender could see that for years of slaving away in high school/undergrad and even grad school, being at the lowest totem-pole of sexual and social hierarchy (from U.S perspective) for a average financial and professional payoff.

Obama wants to boost STEM; however the policy-makers and educators fail to understand the competitive disadvantage of "home-grown" industry vs. foreign ones; today, scores of Chinese and Indian PhD candidates and post-doc's are willing to take less pay and more hours for a shot for a green card in US and the respect of academia/engineering accorded to them in their culture.

Compare that to an average American engineering undergrad student, who on hand sees that his fine arts/humanities peers are getting laid and party more often, his law/business/medicine peers having greater potential financial payout and the opportunity to manage the engineers down the track - all the while he's suppose to be fretting all night long about problem sets. What a gyp!

Sad thing is US society used to reward engineers who invented things and businessman who actually created things instead of MBAs and marketing exec's - downfall of any great civilization comes when the focus of society turns from production to finance (see Holland, Roman Empire, Great Britain and US). There's still a few opportunities though in engineering to make good money, IMO just don't drink the startup culture kool-aid and always do your own thing.
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The math-science death march. Now that is a perfect name for it. It's exactly what I lived through and why I changed my major halfway through college from chemical biology to art and technology. Why, you might ask?

- being pushed through a system that treats you like a number (In two years, I never met my advisor or received any guidance from faculty)

- having your entire college career already planned out with no wiggle room or a chance to explore other interests (until the very last semester where there was one free elective)

- professors who spoke English poorly

- classes that were taught straight from books with no added knowledge or insight

And the list goes on and on. For all those who managed to make it through, more power to you. But it wasn't until I switched majors that I started enjoying the academic aspect of college.
How about NOT using a German identifier? His code could sometime end in the global community, and the meaning will be lost, while almost every programmer understands basic English (it's kind of a prerequisite).
In case you missed the link at the bottom - live stock reports. (As at this time it's almost up to $29)

https://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:GRPN
In Chicago, there's an additional resentment that the business community considers Groupon the first successful web startup in the city to ever go public.
Hmmm. I think I have that extension installed, too. Out that one comes, too.
Apple To Make Billions On Google's Android
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A message seeking comment was left Thursday on a media telephone line at Seattle-based Amazon.com. Amazon spokeswoman Mary Osako said last month the company believed "the sales tax issue needs to be solved at the federal level."

And that was just today. Amazon does not want to pay local taxes at all. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_INTERNET_SALES_IND...
Completely agree with plinkplonk and annon - this article is completely unfounded. The author never explains "what's rotten at Apple." Don't fix what's not broken.
Besides speed, static site generators solve a security vs. convenience issue; most dynamic CMS systems are more pleasant to use (especially for casual users) than Jekyll or Nanoc, so the ability to run one internally and pickle it up to static HTML files makes it easier for people to front-end their companies with static files instead of error-prone dynamic web apps.

If you can get away with static content for your public facing website, or at least most of it, I think it's generally worth it for you to do that.
I think you're missing the whole point. The DataTreasury example illustrates a fundamental problem with patents which is only exaggerated when it comes to software and software "processes." The problem is, as the article pointed out, that the patents are construed to be so broad that basically anyone can be said to be infringing it. To patent the idea itself of 'scanning checks with a device and sending it to a server' is pretty absurd. A copyright is more appropriate. If you copied the code, etc then you violate the copyright. But to say that anyone that implements this idea is in violation ... that's not encouraging innovation. It just encourages running to the patent office as fast as you can.
Except a tablet is just a big phone...
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Completely agree what's hard is all relative... if there's an easier path with a bigger payout why wouldn't you choose that unless your passions point you in another direction.
Aside from what they've done in getting every payment processor to blacklist them?

I think the question is: what more could BoFA do?

One possibility, is getting all the individuals associated with Wikileaks --possibly including family members and friends-- added to the blacklist.

That said, if I were Wikileaks, this would be the point I release my Insurance File. Along with whatever communications they've had from BofA, which doubtlessly outline what they want and what they'll do if they don't get it. (You can't be blackmailed without accusations and threats)
Fight opinion with facts.

Ask your customers if they got IE6 support as advice from someone.

Show how many people use it now and what that sliver of IE6 users now see with gracefully deprecating css libraries.
I think that there is a very high variance in math education (and people) in public K-12 schools. My high school math consisted of advanced algebra, proof-based geometry, trig and a smattering of calculus. This seems to be typical for college-bound student across the country. I went to a second-tier technical university (CalPoly, San Luis Obispo) and I was well prepared for the typical first year physics and math classes. From what I can tell, the first-tier schools you cite have substantially similar first year math and science curriculum.

That said, I know people who went to the same school middle and high schools I went to, but who were never able to get past the introductory algebra class I took in 8'th grade. Sure, some people probably got better or worse teachers, but I believe some peoples brains are just better at math than others.

Then why does the US look so bad at math? I don't know. I suspect that both of these statements are true:

1. Many countries have better alternate education paths for people who aren't
that interested in college. People on these alternate paths are excluded from
foreign statistics, while people who ought to be on them dilute US statistics.

2. Doing poorly in school is more acceptable to Amercan parents than it is to
parents in many other developed countries. (Ironically, this may be because a
lack of alternate education paths led parents to becmoe disillusioned with the
value of school)
An interesting example of going too far the other way (favoring readability without enough thought to writability) is Applescript. It's very easy to read, even for those without too much programming experience. But it turns out that it's very difficult to write Applescript scripts.

John Gruber wrote a good essay on the flaws of Applescript a few years back: http://daringfireball.net/2005/09/english-likeness_monster
Yeah, that death spiral that Apple's in. Maybe Tim Cook can restore clone licenses, reintroduce floppy disk drives, and stud the next iPhone with dozens and dozens of buttons and knobs too. Maybe add an "Intel Inside" sticker on every new MacBook, now that Steve Jobs' ruinous reign is over.
Another framework full of thinly veiled global variables:

http://uk.php.net/manual/en/class.yaf-registry.php
Not the case. I can go upvote a brand new post thats only a minute old and my vote wont be counted.
It isn't quite common, but many of the internet darlings did this same thing. I don't know why it is news all of a sudden. While GRPN has the smallest float, there were many other companies in the ballpark (P, LNKD, GOOG, etc). A more general rule of thumb for IPO's is 20-25%, but all of these guys had single digit values. It is fairly smart move on their part. They get a higher valuation due to demand and supply, and a long as all of the investors/employees don't flood the market with their shares, the early investors/employees win.

Recall Google: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Google#Financing_and...

They floated 14m out of 271m total shares, and other stockholders added another 5m or so... so the total amount it IPO'd for was around 7% of the company but GOOG's share was roughly 5%
Ask HN: Would you pay for hardened AMIs/VMs?
Do startups harden their own machines? Run stock OS's in production? Is there a perceived value in secured machines?
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That sounds like an asshole client. Just make sure you have it specified in writing before you start a job the browser that are and aren't provided. Then if they want to talk to a lawyer, they can try.

Best not to take any further work from that client again.
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Xenophobia is defined as "an unreasonable fear of foreigners or strangers or of that which is foreign or strange

Don't ever call someone you don't know a xenophobe, you know absolutely nothing about me. I fear UK white trash more than I ever have johnny foreigner.

To be clear, I'd be deeply hurt and insulted by this, but you don't actually seem to know what it means.

From the BBC:

The unemployment total for 16-24 year olds hit a record high of 991,000 in the quarter, a jobless rate of 21.3%.

They are the ones our government should be caring about, not you. Sorry. It's just that there aren't enough opportunities to go around and in the end a Government should be helping its citizens, not someone else's.

That's the point of them.

The original comment I replied to is calling his hosts vile names, as you are, just because you can't get that you're not entitled to anything in this world. You've been given an opportunity in this country and just because our citizens are naturally prioritized over you, why are you complaining and throwing names?

My point about taxes is that your parents didn't pay any. Do you think all this infrastructure appeared yesterday? All this case law was invented last week? That the freedoms afforded were given willingly by kings or queens? It's all been invested in generation to generation. All those unemployed kids? Their parents worked here, paying towards a future for their children. An unwritten contract of pay it forward. Go back a generation or two and you find parents dying, blood, fear, struggle to give their children and their childrens children this opportunity. To ask the Government to give the same opportunities to someone who just turned up is naive at best.

Calling them racists or xenophobes? Total lies and totally out of order. Britain is a liberal and tolerant country compared to many I've been to. There are bad eggs, no denying that, but we're one of the most progressive countries in the world.

I fully admit our forefathers are to thank for this and I feel very lucky to have had the random luck to have been born here, but on the other hand your totally unrealistic sense of entitlement doesn't make everyone else a xenophobe or a racist.

Xenophobia and racism are specific, vile states of mind. Every country in the world prioritizes their citizens. Twisting those words to mean that is, frankly, pathetic.
"""UX implies usability as well as aesthetics. Any time spent worrying about the aesthetics of code is time not spent solving problems."""

Only an ignorant can separate aesthetics from coding.

The top programmers agree that good code is also beautiful. In fact this is often stated also about good maths.
Current undergrad taking math courses at one of the colleges mentioned. I would say that what you suggested is definitely part of the problem. The other part is that even the good* programs in high school are very different in structure from university math courses. There are very few study skills developed because most of the focus is on remembering the testing algorithm and does not necessarily include the rigor required to fully understand mathematics.

*good in this context means AP level. This is not because AP is the correct measurement, it is because AP and the like is the measurement used to judge high schools
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An Advent was a three tube projection system. It had a triangular arrangement of the CRT's, one red, one green, one blue. You had to focus and align them yourself, but with a good screen you could get a pretty good looking 60" television. It required a dark room.

Since it sat in the middle of the floor, it was subject to kids bumping into it (in my grandparents home anyhow) and also then subject to grandfathers shouting.

He later replaced it with a front projection set that bounced the CRT projectors off a mirror onto a screen. It was a beast.
I'm a fan of the recent move towards Micro-ORM's. As others have said, SQL is quite expressive and pretty easy to learn (for most things). I suspect that the reason why many app developers shy away from it is because it is set based rather than object oriented.
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I was an EE major in college at a good school and I can tell you that it is a long, hard grind. I never had a problem with the math/physics pre-reqs. In fact those were the fun classes.

It was the soph/jr/sr years where it was very difficult to tie what you are learning to anything real and concrete. The worst part is that you are being asked to remember facts/processes/patterns for a test, then you rarely have to go through them again. So you end up forgetting most of what you learned. Since you didn't know what it was used for in the real world, you end up forgetting about something you didn't even care for in the first place.

The courses I enjoyed, I really enjoyed. At a school on the quarters system, you end up taking about 50 total courses and I enjoyed < 10 of these. My junior year I built a 4-bit processor on a breadboard using discrete parts for everything but the control system (fpga). This was one of my best memories because I understood the real-world applications of a processor and I got to sit in a lab and build it myself.

It's a broken system. It's a long grind thats not effective at getting you up to speed as a professional or getting you interested in your career. Its also terribly inefficient at improving your problem solving and analytical thinking. It still improves your problem solving/analytical thinking through brute force and I think thats a necessary process, but there has to be a better way.

If there was a way to combine the rigors of academic courses (to improve analytic thinking/problem solving ability) with the hands-on experience of vocational learning, I would be all for that. It is more applicable to software than some of the more traditional engineering disciplines, but I think it could work for all of them.

(admittedly my situation was poor because I chose the wrong major. I was an EE who was taking all CE electives and I moved into software after I graduated)

As for not being able to graduate enough STEM majors, ffs let's drop the jingoism and bring in more foreign students.
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If we had genderless pronouns we wouldn't have to care about details like that which don't materially affect the article or its criticisms.

Having said that, fields with a more even gender ratio have had to deal with this for a while - what do they do?
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It matters more when you've got a statement broken over multiple lines. If you've got a function which takes a lot of arguments for example, lining them all up vertically can make the code a lot easier to read. This can be difficult or impossible to do with a proportional width font (and would almost certainly look very strange to anyone else looking at the code in a fixed-width font).
WikiLeaks has been dead for a long time. Ever since the release involving the video of helicopter firing on the people below, someone out there got serious and decided to take Assange down by discrediting him and by diverting the focus away from information and toward the rape charges. Assange was probably given some "offer" he could not refuse and the rest is all for show.
Yes you're right but the reason I am is because there are so few even if there's only a couple using these methods they make up a large percentage of incubators in the UK.

I'm referring to http://oxygenaccelerator.com/
I simply can't see Flash on iOS devices and Blu-Ray on Macbooks.