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What it says is just completely untrue.. there are examples in this thread, such as Maya.. any form builder is based on combining components on a screen.. these same types of forms are coded by hand by web developers (like myself), yet contain no additional functionality. Components can also be combined, linked and configured with GUIs oftentimes more efficiently than integrating libraries. Colored ASCII code and command lines are great and I use VIM and bash constantly these days, but its just ignorant and irrational to try to say that is the best way to express yourself on a computer.

What I think is going on is that people are rationalizing the way they work and also, and this is the main thing, rationalizing a general feeling and stigma for programmers associated with A) using a graphical interface and B) doing anything that isn't inside a terminal and/or classical text editor window. "Real" programmers use bash and emacs/vim/TextMate or whatever. If you're not editing textual source code, you must not be programming. If you're not programming, you're not a real programmer.

I think this is the primary idiocy holding back not only software development but also quite a lot of potential business productivity gains from custom software.

What is programming? Is it wiring up vacuum tubes? Punching cards? Entering assembly code? Manipulating pointers? Generating Rails apps automatically from the command line? I think that programming shouldn't be limited to ASCII text. People who think that should educate themselves about things like knowledge representation and reasoning, components, program generation, dataflow, structured editing, intentional programming, anything Jonathan Edwards put out, etc.

TLDR: you're a bunch of retards. BTW contact lenses were invented in 1887 and MacBooks are completely overpriced.

TLDR2: the number 1 and number 2 things holding back software development are source code and CLI.
It seems every week another service comes out that makes me weigh the value of my privacy. If I used this, Lemon would have a staggering amount of data about me, but it sounds so darn useful!
"you could do a better job of convincing me that you understand my background and skill-set; I see you even are advertising for NMS positions on your company's site."

I had a similar experience, and because I had multiple people from their office call me about different positions in the same time period, I became convinced that recruiters are just allotted a concrete list of positions that _they_ are responsible for. (think of it like randomly handing out a different list of target customers to each member of your sales team)

Even if you aren't a good fit for a given position, they'll call you about that position and not the one you're a better fit for, because well, it's not _their_ job to fill the other role.
I go through this dance a fair bit. At least for us, we're totally serious about hiring. It's just that we're very fussy.

To understand why, think about what we hope to happen. If we do things right, then anybody we hire today will be a de-facto leader two years from now, because they're one of the people who's been around since the early days. Any code they write will be in core parts of the system. And they're going to have a big effect on who we can hire next, because potential hires are going to judge our company partly by them.

We definitely try not to waste anybody's time. But we also don't want to miss a good candidate; some really solid programmers don't interview well. But as soon as we're sure, we politely stop the process and thank them for their time.
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> $10,000 in cash or at a bank is the same.

Even though its the same currency, there are some very obvious differences between money transferred between banks and money transferred via physical currency.

> If it became only a method to transfer wealth (no wealth stored), then there should be no demand for it.

You don't seem to understand how this works.

Wealth would still be stored, but only temporarily. For example, Alice wants to pay $10 to Bob. To do this, Alice gives $10 (plus fee) to a broker, which immediately buys $10 of bitcoins at the current market rate from an exchange. These bitcoins are then sent to Bob's broker, which sells the bitcoins instantly and deposits $10 into Bob's account.

There would still be demand, because brokers need someone selling bitcoins in order to buy, and if demand for using bitcoins as a wealth transfer mechanism rises, so would demand for bitcoins.

> its market is so small that people who try to use it to transfer wealth could/do in fact manipulate its value even in real time

It wouldn't be worth it, because brokers would only have a relatively small amount of wealth tied up in bitcoins at any one time. Pushing the price several percentage one way or another wouldn't be cover the cost when you're dealing with small amounts.

If you're using bitcoin as a way of transferring relatively small sums on a frequent basis, you're effectively immune to short-term volatility. The only thing you care about is long term trends.
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Quite. There have been recent discussions on HN which point out the darkside of this: that early employees of startups often take as much risk and work as hard as the founders, yet get a tiny sliver of the upside. Co-founder, or nothing.
Thanks for taking the thermodynamics-defiance out of the robot and replacing it with kinetic energy over time.
True, but doesn't this mean that biped robots wouldn't be required to expend energy when walking downhill? Depending on the application, it can greatly increase the time that a robot can be in use.
More like "pendulum clock that looks like legs". Walking means propelling itself, climbing up and down and be steered.
I don't feel comfortable disclosing figures but to give you an idea, we have a nice office, we own all our hardware, have just hired our first non-founding member and we eat steak quite often.
This is really cool, but what's the benefit of using a textarea instead of a list of small forms?
"i have a dog so i can't let the place get super
hot or cold if i'm gone during the day."

You do realize that dogs used to live outside? I have a dog and he can play for hours outside in 20 degree or 85 degree day. You are fooling yourself if you think your dog can not handle indoor environmental temp swings from 50 - 85 degrees.

Do you always use your dog to justify things?
I had a conversation with a recruiter and she said how can you expect to get a job if you have ColdFusion on your resume instead of Cold Fusion?

I directed her to adobe.com so she could see the correct spelling. She went oh crap, I've been throwing away all the resumes with ColdFusion because the employer spelled it Cold Fusion.

No wonder the client is complaining to me about the low quality of candidates that I am sending them. She promised to get me an interview with them but never called back.
TLDR: "The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates," Gabe Newell said.
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Given the costs involved in making a bad hire, at what point does it become unreasonable to turn a candidate away?
That should be a great idea (I started down that path too), but have you run into the problems I describe with NSURLCache at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7166422/nsurlconnection-o... ?
From what I can tell, knowing several who have earned or are pursuing PhDs, is that an academic career requires a long-term commitment and a willingness to do a lot of hard work for rewards that are a long ways off (and not guaranteed).
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Is it written in CakePHP, or is their website just made with that? (Assumption from the favicon)
I also find it amusing that many great iPhone4S videos are edited on device with iMovie, but the Nexus video needed a $999 program to get a well-edited clip.

But regardless of the platform wars, this is just further proof that the hardware out there is amazing and getting better every day.
I'd like to see a list of accepting/rejecting retailers, because this seems quite strange to me. A lot of companies use anti-fraud paper and secure inks to reduce alteration of receipts. I would expect that loss prevention groups would be less than thrilled with this app.
Except that, most 3rd-party recruiters being clueless, you still have to do all the work. The only sensible way I've seen to use them is as a pure resume source. The folks at Wealthfront explain how: http://eng.wealthfront.com/2011/07/hire-best-forget-rest.htm...
Depends on how much upgrading would cost, right? Enterprise-wide licenses, plus the cost of upgrading (downtime, overtime for IT staff, training for users, etc.)

It might make sense to shell out $200k/year for a few years, while gradually rolling out upgrades to more recent versions.
FUD, [edit:] IMHO. [not trying to be a dick.]

The TSA is not an intelligence organization. Its job is not to secretly develop intelligence. It does not have the same problem of needing to not be accountable to the public as, say, the FBI or the NSA.

Second, that claim is a lot stronger than you're pretending it is. If you're going to throw around a term like "police state", you will need a lot more proof than hand-wavy "every day they add new stuff like this". Everything in your argument is attributable to selection bias, and if you're going to level a convincing point, you will need to do more than appeal to the fact that people seem to want to believe this stuff. TBH when you say that, it makes me wonder if you really know what a police state even is.

Third, my point is not that there is no abuse or that the government is incapable of doing bad things, it's that we should be evaluating pie-in-the-sky predictions with actual evidence. "We are becoming a police state, DUH" is not evidence. And neither is the ridiculous claim that tomorrow the OWS people will be barred from flying.
Like me, you might have initially misread the article and thought that Nolan and Rankin were in the same plane. In fact, they were each flying solo in their own planes.
I will surely disclose more in the next future, granted.

About what's real, I think that it's mostly the need.
I read every tweet that comes on the "iubenda" search, and frequently look to the profile of the user behind. Most of the times the user is a web designer, which proves that people subscribe because they feel the need.
Moreover, I interview almost every beta tester that we invite, and again I get people really passionate about the product.

I think that the marketing-driven risk is mitigated by the fact that the product is explained very well on the website, and people signup only if in need of the product.
I'm guessing the HN + NYT coverage is making this site run dog slow.
BYO money-system? PayPal, local transaction, whatever?
Editorializing in the title isn't necessary.

For my money, though, the quality is actually fairly middle-of-the-road. The non-tracked shots are shaky, the highlights are blown out, and shadow detail is almost completely non-existent. Hardly "amazing".
Try seeing if you can get it at your local library or a nearby university library. Even if they don't have a copy, they might be able to get it for you through inter-library loan.
It might be pretty difficult to build a robot that can both walk passively downhill, and walk actively uphill.

Can that thing walk downhill over an uneven terrain?
Saving a snapshot of the page you bookmark at the moment you bookmark it is totally awesome. Great work guys.
Need tagging service please. It will help me group my bookmark.
> you've just left the limits the GUI imposes for a CLI environment

Not all macro and automation systems are text-based. Automator and Photoshop actions both let you create user-defined behavior by combining primitives while still taking advantage of the discoverability and spatial layout of a GUI.
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Ah, the whole house fan. I grew up in an area with 90-100 degree days/50 degree nights without AC, and my parents eventually got a whole house fan.

We had it installed in the ceiling in our hallway in a 4 bedroom house. I didn't care for it for a couple reasons:

It was dusty around where we lived. This means it was really good at sucking said dust into the house. Made everything get dirty faster.

Even when it was on at night, it didn't really seem to cool off the house much. Sure, if you sat in the wind path of your open windows, it was 50 degrees. If you weren't, it was still pretty warm. I'm sure it was really good at cooling our attic off though.

Part of me wonders if the fan was too large for the house to be effective.
Or, as was said, use ctypes.h, which is the Right Thing.
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Congratulations on another release!
There's a lot more positive benefit to staying in school than dropping out. For one thing, making money is something you'll do for the rest of your life (unless you're the kind of fiscally-responsible freak that can save enough to retire by 30).

You have all the time in the world to start a company or join one. But right now, while you're young and have the time and resources available, you're at the best possible position to acquire the experiences and knowledge you'll need for the rest of your life. Yes there's debt; you'll pay it off. Yes it's tiring; you'll get used to it.

Is it easy to drop out? Yes. Can you make money (assuming you're smart enough and have learned enough to get a job now)? Yes. Does it make sense to cripple yourself for the future just to get a couple years ahead of your peers? Hell no.

Do whatever you have to do to finish school and try hard to enjoy yourself while you're there. Life isn't going anywhere that you need to drop out to get there.
This seems an awfully risky way to get this sort of business off the ground.

Privacy policies are one of those convenience things. If you don't have to write one yourself and outsourcing it saves precious time and money, great. However, if you do, it's hardly the end of the world: it's going to take you a few hours to write at most and not a huge amount of money for a lawyer to review it.

You're hardly going to wait around to launch your entire project because someone didn't want to let you use their pet social experiment^W^Wprivacy policy generator tool. Moreover, there are plenty of free alternatives from reputable sources already available[1] if you just want something to make sure you're covered legally and need it Right Now. And of course, once you've done one, chances are you know enough to do any future ones yourself anyway.

My guess is that if these guys really do only have 200 or so active users but 2,700 or so on their waiting list, they are blowing a massive opportunity and going to waste most of those 2,700 by missing the train. Their service is a quick-and-easy thing, and they are making it hard. I notice that the one thing obviously missing from their "Launch by the numbers" summary is an indication of whether all those numbers are worth any real money.

[1] For example, in the UK, Business Link provide this sample:

http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/detail?itemId=10...
I guess it is a matter of how you define profitable. We were profitable right away but our profits were insignificant. I would say the "big moment" for a bootstrapped business is the day you quit your job and go full time.

Every business is also different but if you could charge your customers at least 2x more that it would cost you to acquire a customer through PPC - you could scale quite aggressively to "quit-your-job" kind of profit in a short period of time.
I know that I didn't buy games before Steam, or at least as much as I do now. But price is also a factor. I really have to think about it when a game costs more than $15, but Steam usually has good games on sale anyway. Steam and other digital distributors have made me more of a gamer.
Really nice post, and a great product idea. Looks like you're off to a great start.

One thing though - the name. It means nothing to me, I can't spell it, and I'm going to forget it. Perhaps something more direct like YourPrivacyPolicy.com would be better?
But it should be noted that Steam's pre-release anti-piracy has no yet been broken. So it's not like they don't do DRM...

Having said that, the conclusion is pretty much in line with what many gamers and pirates have been saying: Stop screwing the customer and creating pirates of them.

I'm lucky enough to live in an English-speaking country, but I'm sure that if I lived in a country that typically sees long delays before localization, I'd find a way to get it early. Even if that meant learning English and engaging in piracy.

These companies understand hype and the way it drives sales, and then completely fail to use that knowledge when it comes to other countries. They won't wait! The hype has pushed them into getting it NOW, by hook or crook.
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Yeah, you might be able to get a high-paying recent-grad job but odds are you won't, either because you don't make the cut technically (the bar is high) or because your job-finding, interviewing, and negotiating skills are crap.

Often, it's both-- because you don't make it through a college-assisted placement program into a high-profile company that likes to hire recent grads, and the college hasn't provided any reasonable training on how to go about getting a good job and compensation on your own, you flounder and struggle up a ladder of mediocre tech jobs until you figure that stuff out. You are probably not making $80k/yr during that time.
Any ui with a "mode" button is inevitably a disaster.
We have been thinking about hashtags together with search but haven't nailed down the decision. What do you think about that?
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W00t! That is awesome.
Isn't that what lists are for?
At least this might force the recruiter to admit what his true assessment of your chances are - if you don't call their bluff, they will forever tell you that you are a perfect fit, and that the job is the best ever.
That would take a significant amount of charitability (?) since he says

...whether in the form of matter or radiation
For those who may remember Bling Nation, Lemon is what's left of it. (Wencesao was the co-founder of Bling Nation and the Lemon app's Android package is com.blingnation.)

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.blingnation
As an autodidact (I never dropped out of anything, I just didn't go to high school after 8th grade) allow me to say that I have never, ever wondered how successful I could've been if I'd gone to college, nor yet suffered from impostor syndrome.
Of course, I'm probably as much of a karma whore as the next guy...but I take my karma average with more salt than the score of individual posts because it offers less direct editorial feedback.

The link between numeric score and quality of post is tenuous. Good comments in low interest threads may still wind up as one point, and well timed snark can score in the double digits (though less likely now that scores are hidden).

The difference I see between the average karma mechanics and the black band is that while the former is of individual concern, the latter fosters a sense of community.
Steve Jobs reportedly tapped iTunes creator to help "crack" the smart TV
I don't like it. Not enough whitespace, too colorful.

I think it'd be better if the middle column was a scrollable list and the right column was fixed and display information when middle column boxes hovered.

Also, if I were looking for browser addons, I'd be looking for a "Chrome Extensions Center."

"Chrome Web Store" could mean many things. Web could mean anything so it should be omitted, and store is misleading if things are free.
Split browsers have been around for 15 years (Top Gun Wingman and Opera Mini come to mind), so these issues aren't exactly new, although mores about business models do seem to have changed.

The copyright issue is a non-issue since the DMCA contains a specific exception for caches (if infringing material finds its way into a cache, the original should be taken down and the cache will expire it automatically).

Modifying Web content in transit is pretty obviously illegal, so Amazon wouldn't do that.

Censorship would create quite a PR backlash once it was noticed, and people could circumvent it easily enough using local mode.
Or an escalator.
I agree with you, not the parent, but I just want to clarify for posterity that it is generally possible to get a stacktrace from a crashed C program. :-)
Dude, use PyPy. Seriously. Please. Sacrificing readability for this kind of work is not good.
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Any online resources would be preferred.
ounds good.. you should add Fandago service to purchase movie tickets once plans are finalized. Btw, what tech stack are you using for front-end and backend?
It depends on your ambitions and your skill set. Average college graduates are definitely not making $80k/year out of school.

CS graduates with decent coding skills can get that much. And in my experience, your major doesn't matter much if you can code. A CS major might make your CV 20% more appealing, and what you'll learn is certainly valuable, but technical skill (not major) is what matters. (I majored in math, not CS.)
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Would be nice if you made it easier for me to pick the list to save to.
It also makes phone calls.
I did a masters in CS for almost the same reasons and it was one of the best decisions I've ever made. Met a tonne of amazing people, learnt a stupid amount in one year (which I say with some authority in learning stupid amounts in short spaces of time) and had a really fantastic time. I found that it forced me to do things I wouldn't perhaps on the face of it have chosen, but turned out to be really interesting and influence my work in other areas (like predicate logic, which I initially hated but learned to love).
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He's pre-generational, along with people like Ramon Llull and Hero of Alexandria (who, however, did not have such a heroically unusual distribution of letters in his last name).
Good call, I didn't even consider the most obvious. They'd likely have many fewer hoops to jump through to get at that data.
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In the web UI or extensions? We tried to simplify the flow and make bookmarking things fast (no need for tags, extra fields). So far it seems that most of the user base is sticking to Chrome extension but we're always looking to improve the experience.
Note that $200k/year is for the first year. The price of Custom Support generally increases every year, with the pricing generally disclosed 3 years in advance.
This stood out:

> Lemon’s name is derived, he says, from a Web site address he had purchased years ago; it made sense for this venture, he said, because it’s easy to remember and it reflects the process of making the “lemonade” of digital receipts out of the “lemons” represented by paper versions.

My initial reaction was that this seemed like a terrible way to choose a brand name; then I thought, is it really any worse than anything else? (The justification is a little iffy, though. Better just to say it doesn't really mean anything at all...)
Fantastic!

You might want to mention that users can drag and drop images as well... that was a nice surprise.
Can bookmarks be private?
Thanks. I'm really excited about building a native iOS app for our site and it's one of our important milestones.
We started with automatic tagging of bookmarks at http://utopic.me/ but now added folders as well (something we initially removed in design phase). Both have their advantages.