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Indeed. And then you'd gladly take advantage of the social safety net if you became unemployed, or upon retirement, and of the roads the government built, and of the safety the police provides, etc.

Not paying taxes is great if you don't cost the government anything. All of a sudden, though, when you want the services but don't want to pay for them, you become the leech that people keep accusing the poor of being.

You may say, “but I never said I wanted any of those things!” Too bad. You live in a society, and a democratic one at that (or at least I assume as much—these citizens certainly do). That means if you want to pay fewer taxes, “all” you have to do is convince enough people that the government shouldn't provide a safety net, and then reduce taxes accordingly. In the meantime, just like you can't murder or steal because society says it's wrong, you shouldn't be able to dodge taxes.

And by the by, because these countries have VAT, when people don't pay their taxes, typically what they do is they ask the customer to pay VAT (because it's included in the price), and then they pocket the resulting money.

No, there really is no justification whatsoever for tax evasion. At least no more of one than there is for stealing. In the end, it is still illegal. When a government fails to enforce said illegality, you get a system that breaks.
I am running off a managed dedicated server because server adminstration just isn't something I want to deal with and my concerns about scaling/growth aren't there yet. I guess it probably depends on your situation, if there is someone in your office who has a really strong opinion and the knowledge to implement it, perhaps that would work best for your group?
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Nothing happened for me. Left it open for a few minutes and it still just said loading.
I repeat: tastes are tastes.
For me Consolas is wonderful in print but I can’t not even read emails set in this font. I need condensed monospaced without interline just like PragmataPro. It's my taste and I'm sure to don't be the one with this taste.

PS the smiley is intentionally cut off. It's the best possible compromise I found to keep it recognizable also at lower sizes
I agree with you. As I get older & more persnickety, it's got to the point where every time I hear somebody refer to "the community" or "the industry" as if it's a coherent entity with goals and plans and capable of taking action (or even having a stance), I cringe. What that really says to me is "I live in a fantasy land, run! run away! fleeee!"

In any "community" or industry ("community" in quotes here because people abuse that word so much worse, calling swathes of people with no connection whatsoever a "community" if they share some superficial trait), there will be a small handful of people who DO lead opinions and DO do things and DO make plans.

But then the rest are a swirling mass with no particular inlets or outlets.
Ask HN: work for Apple or continue bootstrapping my startup
I need HN's advice. I have been bootstrapping a first startup that failed. Now I am starting a new one, but no income in sight.

On the other hand, Apple is offering me a high-paying job as a senior developer. Because it's Apple and their working conditions are crazy, plus all the secrecy, there is just no way to pursue a bootstrapped startup on the side. For Apple, you're all in or you are out.

What should I do?

[kept anonymous for obvious reasons]
Same, text file on Windows/Firefox. Other formats (PNG, SVG) were displayed in the browser without difficulty.
> plus it will allow them to finally kill Flash off all Apple platforms for good...

You can't declare that sandboxing will destroy innovation, but also actively persist that killing Flash is a good idea. Not saying you are, but you know others will.

Flash is often used as a petri dish - a way to create new experiences and test them with a real audience. YouTube, Blog.tv, many experimental video / social integration and many other innovative (today or yesterday) ideas have lived and died because of Flash. If you've never coded a Flash experience (outside of restaurant websites) and did it well (ie, bother to code it properly), you might find it hard to see this point - again, I point you to the many examples available.

When we talk about the "open web" without Flash, you're really talking about a more closed web, because the average designer / programmer can no longer contribute to the core functionality of the browser - unless, of course, you work alongside W3C.

Unless Adobe begins releasing in longer cycles, by that I mean slower than W3C's snail crawl, the idea that HTML/JS will eventually catch up to Flash is a logical fallacy given history of technology.
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IANAL, and I realize this is probably laughable from an IP lawyer's point of view, but ...

Why can't OverbearingCompany send a letter stating something like we notice your logo or other IP is similar to ours. We recognize that we are in different businesses, and so we choose not to pursue this matter at this time, but we reserve the right to pursue any legal remedy at any time in the future that we determine your material to be infringing on ours.

That would demonstrate that OverbearingCompany is practicing all due care, yet doesn't waste OverbearingCompany's time and avoids potential destruction of SmallUnderdog.

As things are, the mere existence of large, overbearing companies causes accidental and sometimes catastrophic injury to the small and cuddlies of the world. Is that really what IP lawyers dreamed of doing when they were kids?
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(full disclosure: I'm a black founder) Mike's friends were right to tell him to stop talking because this is one of those issues, as evidenced by 90% of the responses below, that quickly gets twisted to help sharpen the axe that so many wish to grind. We've got posts citing the percentage of prisoners who are black and some focused on what they perceive to be the lack of ethics in journalism. Someone talks about Obama being described as black when his heritage was predominately white. None of which have anything to do with the reality of your situation with regard to CNN and this interview.

Mike, you were used as the key to open Pandora's box. Doesn't mean you have to stay in the keyhole. Move on. You aren't the first and you certainly won't be the last. Instead of worrying about what a sea of individuals think, worry about what you can control. You've got a new platform with Uncrunched/CrunchFund. Use it to be future focused.
1. I've had this idea for years.

2. I love it when other people make "I've had this idea for years" into reality with zero effort on my part. The future is so cool.
I am trying to tell you "things have changed".
Very nice writeup of the event; captures quite a lot of the energy, many of the key moments, and interactions with many interesting people.
check this out https://github.com/duelinmarkers/clj-record
Congrats on leaving GS! Happy to connect with a developer looking to build something, have some things I'm working on in my spare time. Shoot me an email if you're interested.
Normally I'm the person who makes this type of comment. I'm not a fan of resistance to change, or contrariness in general - especially the particularly annoying and overly dramatic Internet Blogger brands.

However for me the crucial missing feature is being able to view and comment on your friends' shared items within Reader.

I'm completely OK with Google requiring me to have a Google+ account, and see the sense in the merging of the two 'social networks'. I'm also fine with my shares appearing on Google+. I'm happy to configure a Circle to handle my shares.

But there's no way for me to read the items that my friends who are Google Reader users have shared _within_ Reader, as either individual or merged RSS feeds. This is something I used to be able to do, and now I can't - with no replacement.

That's why the backlash is justified in this case.

PS - Google you could make me happy just by having a 'Friends shared items' menu item which aggregates Google+ shares from Reader. That's all it would take.

I'll have fond memories of pressing 'Shift + S', C, and typing a message to a small group of mates for a while though. Those were the days!
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Sounds like if the goals are acquisition and quick payouts, the place to be is SV. However, you indicated that the company in Idaho was better run or had a better product. Isn't that better for the end users in the long run? Wouldn't that indicate there's a better chance of a company staying around for the long haul and providing better service and what not?

Wouldn't be surprising at all if your competitor that was acquired was absorbed or shut down within a year. For the founders - sure, that's success - they had an exit. But how is this necessarily good for the long term economics of those businesses?

The original video story on this talked about all the jobs that 'high tech entrepreneurs' create. But how long do those jobs last? Sure, there's no such thing as a 30 year job for most people any more, but isn't this type of behaviour contributing or accelerating this trend?
Yes, but I'm trying to avoid corporate IT :)
Built-ins don't call a separate binary or script - they are literally implemented as a part of the shell. That is, if you look at the shell source code, you will see functions that implement the built-ins. As I pointed out elsewhere, I think they mistakenly said "built-ins."
Looks pretty damn awesome, imo, and I'm planning to play with this in December after some current commitments are over. I'm betting there will be even more awesomeness baked in by then. :)
...because the environment precludes changing?
Back when I was pressed into Linux work (years) C++ keywords were used as variable names in standard headers. Made it pretty obvious nobody had ever, ever tried to use C++ for Linux code.

I tried writing Linux kernel drivers; it was a horrifying mess. Tragically, it would have been easily managed in C++.
You might have a point, but your arguments are inconsistent with each other; You say

> IMO, if you need to worry about how many lines of code fit on your screen, it's probably time to refactor (or upgrade from a netbook).

But also:

> Block separation is very clear, and each brace is matched by an equal.

Block separation is equally clear in the first example (same column means same block), and if your IDE can't show you matches if you're lost, it's time to upgrade from ed or edlin.

Also,

> I might be crazy though, because I write "int* foo" instead of "int \foo" [edit: \ should be asterisk. can't make it show one, though]

You are indeed crazy, or at least misguided and confusing. because

int* a, b;

implies a and b or both of type "int* ", but actually, a is of type "int* " and b is of type "int". The second form is visually consistent, because:

int *a, b;

Says "*a" is of type "int", and also "b" is of type "int".
TL;DR version: Synchronising data in multiple places is hard. Don't blame Apple for missing an obvious feature - it's really hard and they'd need to deal with a complex UI decision.
A pretty fundamental example that underwhelmed was "what time is it?" (I'm in Australia). Siri responded with "Sorry, I don't know the time in 123 StreetImOn Street". This is doubly "amusing", as if I ask "where I am" Siri will tell me maps aren't supported outside the US. Long story short, to find out where I am I need to ask for the time.
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Wow. The coolest thing about the video for me was seeing WEINRE in action. WEINRE allows you to use a web inspector (like Chrome's) on your desktop to debug an HTML5 app running on your device. This is the first I've heard of it.

http://phonegap.github.com/weinre/
Because it is like X-raying people coming through front door to check if they are hiding anything metal having opened and unsupervised kitchen door. Plumbers are banned, yet you can still be killed with a ceramic knife by a polite assassin or with metal pipe by a brutal crook.
The idea isn't ridiculous. You could even start a company called Apple Computers Inc if you could effectively make the case that consumers are not confusing you with the big Apple.

Now Apple is being ridiculous.
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But then you write

int* foo, bar;

and the troubles begin...
Exactly. Anecdotally, probably everybody i know, who adopted Apple products, at some point mentioned audio engineering or graphic design or something similar as being a driving force to the adoption, as if they were going to be the next Vangelis/head of Pixar. People go where the cool people go, i can't imagine Apple giving that up too readily...
Conversely, I find the first example far easier to read. The second one is, to me, too "broken up" which completely interrupts the flow. To each their own. :)
Yes, it still matters, even if the filesystem is completely transparent to the user. System services may expect particular files to live in particular places.
This reminds me of Steve demoing the first iPhone, when he pulled out the numpad in the Phone app and called dialing a number "real last-century."

I think soon we will all have the bookmarked websites we regularly visit as browser-apps (contacts, if you will) with most of the rest being taken care of by hyperlinks, and once in a while one will have to pull out the URL bar to actually type an address in manually.
calibraxis, the thing about that is that what that kid said SOUNDED racist. But really the kid was just a little asshole. If you were white and had coke bottle lenses, he'd still have been nasty to you, he just would have done it a different way. Or if you were overweight. Or red-headed and covered with freckles. Or Asian. Or the poor kid who had holes in his clothes. Or were too eager to answer the teacher's questions… correctly.

As the poor, chubby, too-smart girl, I got smeared with all kinds of shit in elementary & middle school. Then one day I realized: it's not about me, it's about them.

It's like "sexism" too: If a bunch of sad, pathetic men hate & resent somebody and she's a woman, their insults will be sexual. But if a bunch of sad, pathetic men hate & resent another man, their comments will be equally vicious, they just aren't always sexual.

But whereas the hated men do not think "oh no, it's because I am…" or "It's because I have a penis," they realize that the reason they're being picked on is petty jealousy and that WHAT the jerks say is actually immaterial. On the other hand, a woman will assume it's actually because she's a woman.

I've watched this play out over & over & over.

The bottom line is that people are assholes, and they will pick on ANYTHING different if they want to be mean to you. That doesn't mean you should assume the reason they are mean is because you have something different. They're just assholes with an opportunistic bent.
As you are asking the question I'm assuming you'd like to work for Apple.

My basis is that you've mentioned nothing about the company you are looking to start.
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I have always gotten a real kick out of the fact that a large % of the questions in #vim are answered by ":he $THING". The help system is so good that most of the rest of support[1] comes from those few things humans do well, like matching fuzzy concepts and questions to search terms.

[1] It can always be better, but the amount of time i spend searching random vim stuff outside the official documentation is trivial, particularly when compared against most other tools I use.
Because you said "no income in sight", and it is a "high-paying job" I would say go work for Apple. That way you will

1) Get more experience, that will prove valuable if you ever found another startup

2) Broaden your connections and networking. That is extremely valuable if you found a startup later.

3) Save some cash with your "high-paying job" so that later it would be safer for you to pursue your enterpreneur dreams.

Yes, that would mean delaying your dream of becoming an enterpreneur and startup owner, but not necessarily give it up completely, and it has advantages if you can delay your gratification...
My /usr is 6.7GB large. That does not fit into any minimal embedded device. By far.

Of course, you can strip /usr to make it fit into a 128MB root device (which seems a bit more typical to me). Hell, you should be able to remove it, that's the whole point of having it in the first place.
Your logic doesn't hold. You're making assumptions about why minorities are sought after (or rather why Mike thinks they are sought after).

If minorities in the valley are people who are above average, then that would make them more desirable in itself. All else being equal, if you got to pick candidates only by race, and you knew (or thought you knew) that one group was above average, it'd be hard not to let it influence you.

And your argument that one wouldn't need to desire to hire them is flawed, because if being a member of a minority in SV actually makes you more likely to be highly skilled, then that is an easy signal for you to seek out the person. You wouldn't need to, but it's human nature to consciously or subconsciously try to take "shortcuts" in evaluating other people, especially when other knowledge of the person in question is lacking.
I thought this was a, like standard feature of iCloud. I mean, the slogan is: "Your content. On all your devices.".
Well done for embarking on the entrepreneurs journey!!
Might be useful if you all put your location down too.
I'm sure you find many opportunities, folks are always looking for good technical co-founders...
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Yes, exactly what I was thinking. You may only play the design card if your design is actually world-class. Canonical is trying to be Apple without having Apple's resources.
The original split was because the disks on Ken and Dennis' PDP11 were too small to hold the entire operating system. The solution was to put enough bits on the first disk to allow it to find and mount the second disk.

I think it's safe to say this particular reason isn't as relevant today as it was 40 years ago.
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It does however tend to color your judgement about how professional and reliable this service is. If they risked their future on the stability of the Somalia domain registry - just so they could have a quirky domain name.

Calling yourself slashdot is funny if you are a geek site - worrying if you are my pension fund.
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What happens if some of these pedo's steal other people's internet?
But those are not well known phrases. If you mean "shit work," say "shit work." To do otherwise is bad writing.
The prominent API for this type of data exchange is AppleEvents, which apparently won't be allowed without special permission.

(Perhaps there is some other sandbox-friendly way to get calendar info ... I don't know.)
FINALLY!
A person that arrived to the heart of the problem!

I gave my best effort to achieve the perfect balance of symbols, letters Western, Cyrillic, Greek. And someone has noticed!

I tried financiers from Google, Canonical, Apple, IBM, SAS, Microsoft and many other companies with computer connection without success, knowing that these companies have funded other projects of the same caliber of PragmataPro.

I keep hoping to find greater understanding between professionals like you. Don’t let me down!
Well, they must have gotten the idea of rockets from somewhere, for starters (/sarcasm)
IOS 5.0.1 beta fixes Caches "Cleaning…" behavior
Why is this Mac specific? This is exactly the sort of feature that must be cross platform.

Does Apple really think it will have a monopoly in the years ahead?
"Appropriate" reward would be the reward the market decides you get, not what you hope for.
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True, the main goal wasn't necessarily getting acquired, although typically that's what you expect to happen with a lot of tech startups. To get big we would've had to change direction (which wouldn't have been a bad idea).

Whether or not we were to get acquired, it was just tough to find quality employees and the money to pay them until sales went into the black. It took about 3 years to become solvent and even then that did help luring good programmers to Idaho.
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I can think of several reasons besides being a secret agent that I wouldn't want my name announced.

Say I am meeting someone that I wouldn't want to normally be associated with - whether it's for a job interview or a personal meeting.

Or say I plan to pick up a Playboy magazine at the same counter.

Or say I'm a cute woman, and I prefer not to be stalked.

Or say I don't want that sales guy over there to come up to me and pretend to know me.

Or say I was just overheard saying that my kids are all alone at home.

Or say I just got out of an expensive car.

Or say I was having a bad day and complained loudly.

Or say I farted.

Or ...

I could go on and on.
You mean you didn't test it for compatibility with major browsers.
But you can see it happening before your eyes every day.

You can see it in how everyone's website or logos look the same. How some ephemeral concept of lean startup infects through people talking about startups. How startup incubators start popping up everywhere.

The influence is there, to dismiss it as childish or 'fantasy' is strange to me. It's just not a physical thing, it's a subtle form of group think. And it's quite easy for someone like Techcrunch to use their influence over that group think to engage in positive discrimination, which Arrington says they have, highlighting Black and Hispanic startups more than they technically merited.
To help figure out the real cause, start with powertop:
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So true. The value of the feature grows exponentially with the number of users using it.

* If it's used to share files with other users - and not just your own devices.
Why is this needed over existing authoritative dns servers like djbdns or nsd?
Any way to upload a file if your browser or OS doesn't support drag-n-drop?

Would've been nice if they told me that before I signed up. Well, you got my email now, let me know when it becomes usable.
I'm sure you will be able to reason it away, just like you did on iOS. "I can still jailbreak" might be the mantra.
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Because all Android apps are sandboxed and have to request explicit permissions for connecting to the Internet, reading or writing the user's contacts, accessing the user's pictures and so on and so forth.
Going to introduce a freemium model soon.
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What info should I add about the startup I'm working on right now? It's one of those Web 2.0 projects, hard to tell if it will ever make money. It's kind of cool, has a few users, needs a lot of work to grow it seriously and attract real funding.
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I mean look at their mobile sales, these features are really about Mobile. Most of the people I know that would (a lot do) use Dropbox are on mac.
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