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Only $190? I made about $1k with a small learning app I put up. The goal was just to recoup the developer fee and it made more than that. I still get $5-$10 from Apple deposited in my account every so often :)
It'd be better if we could just append a "v" after the URL to make verbatim searches. That way we can bookmark it and there will be no need to be logged in.
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How is '13 inch screen' not part of the specs?

Aren't hammers a counter example, yes the difference between brand is subtle, but the difference between spec-between what it's actually good for is- large and important.
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> themes [...] wall to climb over

Urban dictionary (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fail upwards) dates this term 2009.

I originally saw "fail upwards" in alpinist Mark Twight's writings[1] ten years before that: his sense is to keep going up and over the summit even when things have gone terribly wrong: you may no longer have the option to descend the way you came up.

[1] "Extreme alpinism" (passage can be found on google books)
That's the symbol for logical negation, which would make it a confusing replacement for +.
$190 is probably even high for an "average" app. Plenty of $1 apps languish with sales that round to zero. Either they're no good, or they have too much competition, or they have insufficient marketing so nobody knows they exist, or they got unlucky somehow (bad choice of name, who knows).
As someone who's been in a teaching role (in the Russian math circles for gifted children), I wouldn't have failed the student. My goal as a teacher is to make the student interested and competent. The student's objective is the same: to become interested and competent. Assignments and grades are means to that end, not an end in itself. If the student is already clearly interested and competent, and you make them lose interest by giving them a failing grade, you have sacrificed your top-level goal in favor of a class-centric subgoal that doesn't matter to anyone - or worse, sacrificed it to your selfish desire to avoid being ignored.
Depends on your OS. ¬ is a quick alt+l on any Mac. However, it's the symbol for logical negation[1], and thus probably not a great substitute for +.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C2%AC
github.com/android seems be a mirror of kernel.org, which isn't where Android is hosted any more...
Please do an update post to let us know how this turns out. I realize that takes a special kinda "ruthless douchebag", American MBA to immediately see the massive potential behind this opportunity to pitch stuff, and do actual work for unique platform-for-vendors-to-sell-stuff #200,456 from some non-local startup run by a guy who "to be honest" is "against non-technical people". Eff the haters, you obviously know that this required a highly customized shoutout to get the star douchebag you deserve.
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The 28-year-old in the story is a sympathetic protagonist, and gives the venture plenty of indie cred, but let's all take a moment to reflect on the fact that he's only being allowed to do this because one of his primaries is an entrenched inside player. He managed to pitch someone one layer deeper inside the onion of oligarchy, and those folks decided the glass slipper fit.

Anyway, well played, sir.
But you can already buy apple computers and run Windows, Linux, OS X or a combination of all three. I dual boot osx and windows on my laptop.
It's not just about statistics. For blood donations, if I had unprotected sex with a different HIV infected partner every day for a year, then stopped doing this for a year and one day, I would be eligible to donate blood.

If, however, I had sex with a man once in the last 30 years I am not eligible.

Why is it more sensible to turn away gay people then it is to turn away people who have regularly exposed themselves to HIV?
Being in Canada I do not have the luxury of making such a hard decision. Consider yourself lucky you have the options.

But I think trying out something like http://feefighters.com to find the best company to go with.
Yes, and of course that works fine. It's just the ease of using an inline prefix to modify the term, rather than enclosing it in quotes. We're mourning the loss of the +.
In most community-based, social-networking, the companies behind them do want more exposure. The more people who join, the more vibrant the community is.

FYI.
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I live in a city with a street plan defined by an irrigation ditch cut around 1300AD and a market place that was active 1150 AD or so. Other places nearby have main streets surveyed originally by the Romans.

I suspect this was not a troll.

Greetings from very near 10137Ave, 62586st, bluenose territory.
All involve awk or sed. That cuts out a large portion of the potential userbase...

Perhaps common uses could be wrapped in options to the script? For instance, an option to graph numbers on separate lines, to graph all numbers in the input in order, to graph a specific column of information (like passing through cut first) or to graph commonly graphed sources?
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Hello; Thanks for your comment.

To get an easy read on this reply i would divide it in main for topics:

- Why didn't stay and more details about it.
- Difference within Chile.
- Totally different market.
- Changes in business strategy.

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-> Why didn't stay and more details about it. <-

This one in particular will be published soon, actually i'm just finishing the draft and maybe will be public in 2 days or something.

Try to subscribe, you can be sure that i will post open recommendations, opinions and reasons why i stooped paying Taxes in Mexico .. i hope someone in the government can read it.

-> Difference within Chile <--

I think its matter of philosophy .. almost all the country's will try to "get a piece of the pay", what Chile is doing here to have a clear vision to mitigate the "brain-drain" effect bringing some hope to local people. Its always good to have a guy in his 20's who did it big like your neighbor.

Mexico in the other hand is focusing his self in giving "easy loans" with high interest rate to young people.

This sounds like "hey, let me screw you a little, in a couple of years you will broke like 80% of the business but i will have my payback or get your home".. they are just doing it wrong.. very wrong.

-> Totally different market. <--

Yes, it us a huge unknown market for us .. but we are going to keep our Mexico operations in a virtual way .. just they will be not paying to a Mexican company; Instead payment will be sent to an international company (i don't know where yet).

Doing this they cant charge Taxes but we sure can attend clients in Mexico (and all latin-america) from any country in the world (Borders are so 90's).

-> Change in business strategy. <-

Well .. to be honest I'm a Mechanical Engineer... within my career i didn't learn anything about programming, html or css.. i just focused myself in Energy efficiency, heath transfer and entropy .. but the web was always my hobie.

When graduated (2008) all the world was "in crisis" and there where no lots of Jobs .. but the web was making billions so i used my web knowledge to start something else and using as a pivot in the future.. by now the pivot is going great!.

What im planning here is to have a customer-base within all latinamerica instead of just Mexico. I will also diversify to three or web apps.

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Are there examples of this paradigm for another framework or in another language?

We think of js as being of paramount importance in web development because it's the only way to interact with the DOM, so we've mostly come to terms with it and its flaws (which are manifold, even though I happen to think it's a nice language in lots of ways). But if we put all DOM manipulation on the server-side with a very thin client-side javascript communication and manipulation layer, this isn't necessary.

You could write your entire application in Ruby, Haskell, Forth, whatever floats your boat, against a standardized, cross-browser, and improved DOM.

This is powerful and intriguing.
How does one go about acquiring IPV4 addresses as an investment? Thoughts on viability of ROI?
I only meant "drug addict smoke" in the same way I'd moan about a morbidly obese person sitting next to me on a flight. It's antisocial behavior.

It's not getting cancer I'm worried about, it's the disgusting smell, making me+my kids cough etc. You may as well go up to people in the street and burp and fart in their face - it's as disgusting.

I know, I lack empathy etc. But I still believe most of it comes down to proper parenting. I don't have all the answers, but I don't believe legalizing more drugs is the way forward.
I think you're confused about a couple of things here.

1) I'm saying to take five minutes and register as a potential donor. If you're found as a match, you're not required to donate. You then get to chose if you want to donate more of your minutes.

2) You're vastly overstating the liklihood that you'd have to undergo surgery to donate bone marrow. This is typically referred to as FUD, and is generally considered a bad thing to do.
Why is this on the front page of Hacker news when the article is from march?
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The problem isn't with the fact that they turn down gay men. The problem is that they turn down gay men while accepting people who have regularly exposed themselves to HIV, as long as they haven't done that within the past 12 months.
Hola Julio, your blog link http://www.blog.guali.com.mx/ is 403 right now. Good luck in Chile.
It is not a crap-app story per se, but I and many other developers I know have made all of our money from client work, not a dollar from the app store.

Since we manage the provisioning etc. for the client and walk them through the initial paperwork, no one ever knows who built the (admittedly sometimes faddy) app.

We do build our own apps but just for fun and personal use.
FWIW, I believe the scare method worked for me... I see celebs in magazines all the time with drug problems, you read about their car crash lives, then they usually die young. That, coupled with the fact that it's illegal made me decide early on "Yeah, I won't try drugs thanks".

(I'm in the UK so the culture etc may be different).
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Not hiring lawyers can be pretty expensive, as well, especially when you're taking on the Department of the Treasury, the Federal Reserve, the White House, Congress, and state regulators.
I was watching DC news last night and it was a story about the guy who shot at the White House last week. They went on about where the guy was from, possible motives, etc. The story ended with "police search the DC site of Occupy Wall Street for the gunman and didn't find him." Wow, so Occupy Wall Street is for shooting at the White House/killing the president?

The media is GREAT at shaping perspective.
You mean we should be talking about rate of infection in a population, rather than their contribution to the raw infection numbers overall?

Yeah. I thought it was implied that we were talking about that, though. I mean, even the casual reader should be able to infer that gay men do not make up anything like half the general population. That would mean there were no straight men at all.

If we have several small populations of people with a high incidence, though, I think the raw contribution is actually the right number to talk about. Consider the following thought experiment:

I have 100 people, and 6 HIV infections. 10 of the people are gay men, and 3 of them are infected. 2 of the people are female prostitutes and both of them are infected.

The general population has a 6% infection rate. The gay men have a 50% infection rate and account for 50% of the infections. The prostitutes have a 100% infection rate and account for 33% of the infections.

The exclusion of which group improves the resulting donor pool more?

If we exclude the men, we are left with 3 infections / 90 people = 3.3%. If we exclude the prostitutes, we are left with 4 infections / 98 people = 4.1%.

Even though the prostitutes have a much higher rate of infection than the gay men, excluding the men helps the final result more because they account for more of the overall infections.
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Yes true. I always wonderd why americans used these stupid credit cards all the time.

We a better System atm but we should not relatx. They need to start making paying on the internet easier, Credit Cards and Paypal get alot of money by offering shitty servises. The Banks should get into this field and make it easy, safe and free.
I have dealt with a lot of VC's and my point was that the title CTO does not help you, but the lack of it can hurt you with certain people, even VC's. There are very few people that are going to go oh he's a CTO, let me listen up. But there are a lot of people that will go, he is not an executive let me take a nap until the executives start talking again. Even VC's are not immune to this, there are a lot of people that for whatever reason dismiss people that they view as a lower cast. If anyone is set up to look at people as a lower cast it is VC's. I know there is a lot of VC bias on this site, but believe me there are just as many idiot VC's by percentage as their are middle managers.
Actually, usage of the + operator has been in steady decline for years. With Altavista you had to use + to require a word. When I started at Google, many many more queries had tons of pluses.

Google's demographic was much more tech-savvy in the early years, but as we've struck partnerships with companies like AOL, the population of people searching on Google has become broader. I don't believe that 95.5% of users will be searching with + or double-quotes any time soon. But for the power users like people on HN, they now have an extra option that allows better slicing/dicing of search results.
The article says Oxford taxis, not London taxis.
Really impressive work, great job.
I think you just need time. Why edge scroll when you could use the entire mousing surface for scrolling? I don't know why tap-click is not on by default, but you can enable it. Also don't go changing the tracking speed or acceleration on your trackpad either. Give it some time if it feels odd. Its pretty much perfect.
Yeah, Liberty Park is located on South 12234th Ave at 10740 St.
Raising general awareness is an accomplishment worth pursuing.
Thanks for the info.. we are renaming our company blog to superpymes.com

That's why you got the error; i don't no lots of traffic there but i will be done by today's night.

Anyway i removed the link on our company website, thanks again :).
Thats awesome. Is this common practice for corporate-owned complexes? And they obviously don't charge you anything extra to use a card?

I've always rented from individuals, so don't have experience.
So far all I know is that in your opinion, in one specific instance Dwolla behaved in a manner that you believe was worse than how Visa/Mastercard would have behaved.

Every company has the occasional unsatisfied customer.
All that and #4: Consumer Protection.

A few years back, I had plane international tickets booked on Zoom. They went out of business between the buying and the flying. With a credit card, that was Visa's problem. If it had been a debit card, it would have been my $3000 problem, as customers were unsecured creditors.
Great job.

Although, I'm particularly interested in how you made the decision to quit your full-time job and create a startup based on one-time sales? Is there a service behind this startup?
The remote server is located at apple-compu.car1.charlotte1.level3.net.
Wow 2/3rds of people use it wrong. That surprised me.

On the other hand, the post tries to pretend that this had nothing to do with +username or +brand and Google+.

No, it's the users, it's their fault, not our new product naming boo boo. We'll just silently break our flagship product and hope no-one notices.

Blame the customer seems a bad strategy.

Just wish they'd man up and admit it. Even if it's really not the reason, because that's the belief on the internet. It's times like this that remind me how Google really doesn't get customer service.
Everyone want a different delimiter... Hence, I filed https://github.com/holman/spark/issues/23
> No re-registration or change of any kind of the existing domains is necessary.

So who gets to own www.foobar, the owner of www.foobar.com, www.foobar.net, or www.foobar.org?
I'm comfortable in Javascript, but not a ninja with it or anything. How do you effectively use this to keep what would be client side code on the server side?

You can already write code in server side frameworks and only ship as much code to the client side as actually needs to be there, but surely this isn't what you're talking about.

What am I missing?
Why don't thes people release their files as they work on them? Why don't they resell the bare SoCs at cost or a slight markup so we can use them for other projects?

Something has always struck me as fishy about this whole thing.
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You seem to be suggesting that Google's new demographic will never become more tech savvy or at least not "any time soon".

That's an interesting view.

I'm just a bit more optimistic.
I saw this somewhere the other day: tedious work is a necessary part of good software engineering.
Exclamation point? (!this !word !exactly, !darnit!) Or a double exclamation point if that's still too common...

It really was nice to be able to control which words were verbatim and which weren't. Quotes are perfectly logical but just a pain to retrofit onto a query you're refining.
They stand to gain more from IP enforcement than lose to the false positives and business opportunities.

Also, perhaps more cynically, it stands to do very serious harm to Google.
too little too late?

It's hidden into the prefs when I'd liked it always on, on any device I use without having it tied to a specific account or anything.

I switched to ddg for regular and advanced queries, and use google for all the fuzzy stuff or very specific queries. It's still easier than to care about the verbatim setting.
Thanks for your advice.

If there's a hacker who is truly interested in the possibility of great work, I believe he'll reach out.

Best of luck to you, as well.

Victor
I have actually written all the projects I have had through and asked for their feedback on a number of things. Among others quality, whether the project owner answered all the pledges etc.
> You mean we should be talking about rate of infection in a population, rather than their contribution to the raw infection numbers overall?

Either is fine. "50% of HIV positive people are gay" is not. For all we know, there are only two HIV positive people, and one is gay and one straight. That's hardly a reason for excluding all gay people from donating...
>>> def foo(first, *rest):
... print first
... print rest

>>> foo([1,2,3])
[1,2,3]
()

*

sub foo {
my ($first,@rest) = @_;
print $first . "\n";
print @rest;
}

foo (1,2,3);

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It's probably my Python deficiency. My claim that Python's syntax was going to be uglier is probably wrong, but I think the claim that Perl's is appreciably worse is also wrong. We can all get along!
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I think it would become more obvious if you are actually writing a check for a $X000 piece of equipment, and thinking "my iPad could do this".
Bad ROI. For Microsoft, this is more like insurance. Pay now a little to avoid a potential, small probability, high future loss.
> It's true that some people need to purchase items on credit but the reason that they're so popular now is less to do with having a line of credit and more to do with the legacy of the technology.

I don't know if that is true.

My wife and I make a fari bit of money but we use credit cards so we don't have to worry about cash flow. If I want a new mac I just go out and buy it.

I don't have to worry if I have enough money in my account at that exact moment or not because I know that at the end of the month when the credit card bill comes I"ll have enough to cover it.

We might be an exception because my wife divides our income into several buckets as it comes in and then pulls from those buckets to pay the credit card bill at the end of the month, so I know very well what my monthly budget is .

TL/DR we use credit cards as a line of credit to smooth over cash flow throughout the month as do most afluent people I know.
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The whole world? Like it extends out to Brooklyn and up to the Bronx?
Sure, but what are they going to do about it once it's up there?
No, now you would use double quotes. So instead of searching for [hacker news ck2] you'd search for [hacker news "ck2"] to require the exact word "ck2". But remember, that could match anchortext pointing to the page. You can use "intext:" to require a match on the page.
> Though my philosophy is to learn both.

How many of your friends are designers or artists?
Thank you for sharing that story. Sounds like a very daunting process. When I was in the Philippines last year, there was an initiative to create a new visa that would grant permanent resident status to entrepreneurs who set up businesses that employed 10 Filipinos. I wish more countries would adopt this approach.

http://www.visasphilippines.com/sveg
> we’re also applying similar ideas directly to our algorithms, such as tuning the accuracy of when our query broadening search improvements trigger

As you are doing this, please keep in mind that when you incorrectly broaden my query, and there is no immediately obvious way to re-narrow it, it costs you much more than you gain each time you correctly broaden my query.
Also, we're more than an idea. We have a business plan, mockups, and interested businesses and investors. I would never risk the future of the business because someone didn't want to take the step of introducing themselves personally in order to learn more. Of course, I understand what you're saying, but I'm sure you can appreciate where I am coming from as well.
Man, and to think my friend's 5th floor walk-up in a little building on 1st and 1st would truly be the center of the universe.
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Yes, some of it. You get a very low collision rate due to that.
How can Nortel sell something they do not own?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4_address_exhaustion#Markets...

"The concept of legal "ownership" of IP addresses as property is explicitly denied by ARIN and RIPE NCC policy documents and by the ARIN Registration Services Agreement. It is not even clear in which country's legal system the lawsuits would be resolved."
That isn't necessarily true. I have and frequently use a credit card, but I do not actually need the line of credit. I have it to establish a credit history so that someday when I actually do need credit (e.g., for a home loan), I'll be able to get it.
> I would never attempt to maintain code written in a language I don't know.

I know Perl 5 well enough but will my successors also?
Is Perl still rising? I don't think so.