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I certainly don't understand the context of the email or the people involved, but that seems extraordinarily douchey. Perhaps I'm the exception, but when your primary focus is on being a multi-millionare, you are missing something from your life.
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It's not like you can't get out of it pretty easily at this point if you want. Just download all the free apps in the paid account. Done.
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Ask HN: How can I send .xlsx attach via email to generate img?
...(or read-only) in web app?

Nothing fancy needed. Essentially, it's a staff schedule I need to be able to update weekly.

The important part is that I would like the file to appear (generate/refresh) with each new email that is sent. Even hyperlink-list/log (i.e., list of hyperlinks reflecting each update) instead of replacing image would work.

Can Dropbox, Kicksend, or Google Docs accomodate this method?

Or if there is an app or open-source (that bypasses the need to create these staff schedules in Excel), I'm all ears.
I think it's a bit overkill to say any pre-commit hook that doesn't stash before running is 'wrong'. If nobody thought to stash before checking the files, maybe nobody else has a workflow that would require it. For me, staging and committing happen in immediate succession, so there wouldn't be any edits that aren't staged. If you work in a way that requires it then go right ahead, but what's the deal lately with calling everyone else 'wrong'?
That's a pretty common problem all throughout education. http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/06/living/teachers-want-to-tell-p...
They are certainly a direct competitor to Instapaper
now. But it didn’t catch me by surprise, and I hope
to still remain friendly with them.

This is a very big and increasingly crowded market,
and there’s no reason why we can’t respectfully
share it.

Those are inspiring words, which I will keep in mind. It is a very healthy approach toward competition and competitors, and I would rather adapt this one instead of "we shall smash our competitors to death" which is more in common (see all recent patent suites for instance)
I have to wonder if there was actually a problem with your disc or drive. Everyone assumes an eject button is the magic elixir, but in 5-10 years of supporting Macs I've yet to have a working drive not spit out a disc using one of the regular methods like holding down the mouse button while booting.
Completely agree. But that's a different issue entirely - arguing that it's useless because it's not part of the flight is complete nonsense.
Dead on.

What makes a good programmer good isn't the code they write, it's the code they don't.
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As we know, however, people simply aren't the rational economic agents that the economic giants of yore held them to be. Most people would be happy to pay if the legitimate product was better and more convenient than the pirated version. It isn't.

See Gabe Newell's take on piracy. Valve's certainly done well in that respect.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLC_zZ5fqFk (piracy bit @1:05, whole interview is worth watching)

http://www.gamesradar.com/gabe-newell-piracy-issue-service-n...
Because those buttons are terrible, provide zero real feedback tactile or visual, and people hate them?
Who said anything about a strip search? Wait a second....someone told this person to take off their clothes, then proceeded to physically touch them and probe their orifices searching for contraband?

I don't think it's reasonable to compare what happened with a strip search. And I don't see how what happened is all that humiliating, though I get the sense I'm probably just not as sensitive as many others. I find the security measures annoying and frustratingly misguided, but not humiliating.
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Can't help but wonder if this is going to start all the pro vs cons for swearing in posts again. It would be great if everyone did everything they said they would to the deadline but in reality the unexpected happens and if you get this draconian people just will not commit to anything
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Interviewing is an inherently flawed way of determining skill. This manifests itself in numerous ways; one of which is our inability to properly extrapolate information from an interview: if a good programmer needs to search online for information to solve a problem about once each 8-hour day, then during the interview, the good programmer may ask for help once. But if they do that, then the interviewer sees that they need to ask for help once every hour. Alternatively, if they don't ask for help, the interviewer might be led to believe that they don't use tools afforded to them. Because one cannot ask for help 1/8th of a time, the interviewer has a negative impression of the candidate regardless of the choice the interviewee makes. This sort of lose-lose for the interviewer due to extrapolation can happen for many different facets: anything that is necessary, but only in moderation.

Interviews are a very flawed system for identifying skill.
bias implies people are unfairly disparaging the soft sciences. most of what I see seems pretty fair.
Bill Gate's philanthropy is funded with Microsoft (and Berkshire-Hathaway) stock. They'd be fighting against themselves.
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Reminds me of the story of steve jobs, when he dropped the original ipod prototype into a fishtank to force the engineers to make it smaller:
'See? Bubbles? That means there's air in there. Make it smaller.'
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For those of us cursed to develop on Windows but deploy to Linux this can be a big deal.
So let me get this straight. This guy is fronting the money on his credit cards, can't do any of the work, and gets people to do things for him by "Being very fucking cool with" them?

Yeah. Keep your money. Fuck your business cards. You sound like sales guys scum trying to leverage the real makers in this project.
Err, I wonder what percent of people think parking tickets should be under $5. Not sure that means it's a good policy.
Spend whatever you need to get it done, but I'm not willing to pay a top designer his normal rates even though I'm having him do a rush job at 2am. But that's okay, I'm being very cool with him and I promised him I'd recommend him to other big shots.

Well, the "top designer" is an adult, we assume, and can make his/her own decisions, but I stopped falling for that kind of bull shit 25 years ago. A good designer is worth paying good rates. Despite lavish praise as they walked out the door with "my miracle", I never once had any of those "big shots" ever show up again, much less provide me with any kind of value in return.

(Now on a side note, I've done spec work and/or above the call of duty rush jobs for customers who've done well by me _in the past_. Or on very rare occasions, I've pulled rabbits out of hat for new customers who were _refered_ to me by very good customers. Maybe that's what's inexpertly being alluded to here. But I doubt it.)
Yeah, yeah. Lots of open-source half-baked projects with no support and incomplete features. Advertised as "photoshop replacement" or "complete IDE" but turns out, missing critical features, crash right and left, won't work on modern hardware etc etc.

Been down that road, burned more times than I can count. I wish it were true, but I don't fool myself into believing it.
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Yes, but is that fair?

What is fair? Defining fair in terms of equal outcome is vacuous here.

For a bit I thought it would be more interesting to let the humans ring in as soon as they had read the question, but the problem is that today they would slaughter Watson, and three years from now Watson would slaughter them, and possibly without even updating its software.

I suppose the most fair thing to do would be to do away with the buzzer entirely. Let all players choose whether or not to answer all questions (that is, all three could get it right, all could get it wrong, one right, one abstain, one wrong, etc), and check the scores at the end. Without the buzzer advantage for Watson I suspect Jennings and Rutter still win... for another year or two, anyhow.
Gatto IS the person who went through and made cites point by point about the education system. people point to him because he did a very good job. Sometimes you have to suck it up and read a book rather than expect people to summarize and rephrase what has already been laid out very nicely.
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So I looked into all of these some time ago for an app that I use myself. The Safari fork of Readability is the best client implementation, while the best server-side implementation (by a mile) is Diffbot.

Out of the 50 sources I had (regular RSS updates, etc.) InstaPaper failed on far too many, either stripping important content or pictures and captions. Readability was only a bit better

I glued together an app that will pull in RSS, send each URL to diffbot, and then collate the output into a reader that I use. Never thought of releasing it as an app, I just use it myself.
I disagree. +50% of people probably think their taxes should be much lower. Does that necessarily indicate our taxes are way too high?
Where does the "forces of hell" reference come from?
To those that want to play with it:

1. Download zip: https://github.com/Jarred-Sumner/Jantire/zipball/master

2. cd into the directory and run "bundle"

3. Sign up for the scribd API: http://www.scribd.com/developers/signup_api

4. Get your API key and API secret: http://www.scribd.com/account/edit#api

5. Add these to "config/initializers/rscribd.rb" along with your login information on line 5 ('email','password')

6. rake db:migrate

7. rails c: c = Course.new(name:"Biology").save; User.new(email: "example@email.com", password:"password", password_confirmation:"password", teacher:true, first_name:"John",last_name:"Smith", courses:[c]).save

8. rails s; open 'localhost:3000'

9. Login

10. ???

11. PROFIT

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I can sympathize and understand with what he's writing.

I know it seems douchey and shallow to a lot of you, but when you work remote with a team of friends, things tend to get far too casual and eventually everything falls apart altogether. Suddenly everyone has an opinion on design decisions, or a meeting needs to be held on whether we should use Mongo or MySQL, and we should just think about it on our own time and get back together next week for more discussion.

Complacency is really the biggest enemy of the side project / remote team. And so making excuses becomes easier and easier as time progresses.

Someone has to step up and lead, so maybe a motivational speech is just what the team needs. The points about partying and making money might matter to his team, maybe its why they're working on the project in the first place. (And none of us can say that the excitement of making money doesn't motivate us).

So the man makes it clear where he stands; step up and get shit done, or leave and be a joker. Do you want to sell sugared-water for the rest of your life? Or do you want a chance to change the world?
This post represents subpop-management nonsense. People are complicated but there are, in fact, things we can do to work with each other. "Commitments" can be considered real things and we can hold each other to them. You either fulfill on a commitment or you don't. If you don't, then fuck you and you're RIFed. If you do, then you're part of the team. (An aside: why is fulfilling on commitments part of being excellent?! Shouldn't it be a criterion?!)

If you don't consider "commitments" to be real things, then you run round and round the what-are-we-doing-and-why-didn't-you-do-it circle... And then you write a blog post.

Update: freeloaders/non-fulfillers are a real thing. I'm one of them. Generally, I perform at a very high level, but I'll dial it back if I'm under the gun and a client unintentionally indicates that they're not one to assess slippages accurately. Unlike most freeloaders, I wake up at 3AM and think about how to fulfill against a late commitment.
Cocoa was given its name because, at the time, it was intended to be built on Java. Cappuccino is a play on Cocoa. So while it may not be directly built on Java, its name did descend from Java.
"Find a way. Or make one."

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"I’d do it myself, but I can’t, because I’m doing something else that takes all my time."
I don't think that's the main focus of the post - its more about sticking to commitments and making stuff happen in spite of obstacles. Obviously money is a financial reward but that's not what I picked from the post.
The term is slacker, not joker.
Reading through the claims, the requirements for a "beacon" suggest that this doesn't read on geolocation by IP address. I'm not sure about geolocation by triangulation from towers that don't specifically transmit information intended to identify a location.

(As always, read the claims, not the abstract).
If he was sipping margarita on a beach, your words would be right. But he is putting in 17 hr days on another project, so I dont see why he cant ask his partner/employees for greater commitment.
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I think it's great for those of us who want to switch out music really fast without syncing or anything from any computer. Also solves some space issues like me filling up 8gb and needing only about 4 more...
Because his other employees are working other jobs or, as "Sebastian" points out, in classes. That's why. He's not willing to sacrifice his other project, but he's asking them to sacrifice theirs. If you're asking people you're leading to make sacrifices you're not willing to make, you're a bad leader. Period.
I'm very impressed thus far. One thing - its a bit slow for me (loading in a post and starting up in general). However, that may just be my internet connection.

I would love to help with this in any way possible. Let me know (email is in profile).
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I'm not sure I get your point. If someone finds the legitimate product is not better or more convenient than the pirated product, isn't the rational choice to go for the pirated one?
Very different products. Although this product is slightly expensive for what it is. It seems that this is more for supporting the campaign and a young company. It does seem to be something I'd find very useful in day to day life.
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You're missing the point of the email. He's asking his team to stop sweating the small stuff and just get it done. He's pointing out that others are busting their ass (the designer) while the team is trying to figure out something basic like email providers.

Just pick something and go with it.
>In February of this year, the app was finished and ready to launch, but it was rejected by Apple for the in-app-purchase subscription-matching rule, which had just gone into effect. Readability decided that they didn’t want to give Apple the 30%, so the app was put on hold and soon cancelled once it was obvious that nobody was budging.

Readability didn't decide they didn't want to give 30%, they just couldn't because then Apple would end up with all of Readability's revenues.
Surveying people on what fines anything should be is ridiculous.

I once made the mistake of surveying people what software product prices should be. Surprise surprise the average was about $15, which I suspect was just as much as they could say without actually asking for free.
I've actually been a C#/XNA guy for a really long while so it was easier for me to develop for WP7 first. But it is also available on iOS now.
I can identify with what sebastian is experiencing here. Its easy to work with friends, or be friendly with your employees. Its easy for things to get casual. Its easy for people to start running everything by you.

Its VERY easy for the sense of urgency to just go away. Its very hard to get people highly motivated about time. It's easy to kill an entire day with BS, and let things just stretch out. Especially when you're an employee, and you're working for options. Options are so intangible. You're theoretically motivated, but on a day to day basis, do stock options get you doing 6 things in an hour instead of 3 or 4? Especially if your boss isn't there? (And if your boss is there then you're likely to be inhibited.) It's really easy to kill time by running everything thru your boss too... it lets you cover your butt, and you can read HN while you wait for him to make a decision.

I don't know how you teach initiative... but this is a good attempt.

Find a way or make one. Good advice.

Its a shame most of the comments on this seem to be reddit quality. Almost as if the people making them have never been in this situation. (and this was the situation I found myself in at my very first startup-- when we all felt we had no clue what we were doing, and tended to wait for direction, rather than take initiative.)
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Sorry, I am trying my best to get it out on Android as soon as possible. There is a minor snag I've run into and trying to figure out.
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Coffee is for closers or something.

We like to think that having money fixes things and we can just throw cash wildly into the air while making definitive exhortations and all will be well. We will be Gods or something! But unfortunately, it doesn't, not usually. What's pretty broke without cash doesn't typically get fixed when you shove its gullet full of coinage. Every once in awhile, throwing money into a whirlpool works, and when it does, you should totally record that shit. Put it on YouTube. But not what preceded it, no way.
I like that it's called the 'CPU act.' However, it doesn't really abolish overtime; if you look at the original law that it's amending, most computer professionals were exempt from the overtime pay requirement anyway. This amendment slightly expands and clarifies the definition of what constitutes an 'IT professional' by including things like 'debugging' and 'database' administration as well as 'system' administration. It strikes me as more of a maintenance release than a major change to working conditions.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode29/usc_sec_29_0...
I would say the propensity for the average person to spend money on either software or software services (ie, web subscriptions) has increased markedly over the last couple of years.

Maybe that's a result of the App Store opening up people to the idea of paying for software/services, as opposed to the old 'everything must be free' internet model.

But to me the trend must be being driven by an increase in consumers willing to pay, rather than by some dramatic ability of founders with more monetizable business models.
In sport psychology, Hull's Drive Theory predicts that introverts perform poorly under pressure. The physiological response from a job interview is as about as close to the pressure of taking the last shot in a basketball game as I've ever experienced, and I've experienced both. Couple this with the fact that most programmers are introverts, and I'm always amazed at the credulity with which people accept these fizzbuzz claims. Is it more likely that 90 percent of experienced programmers can't program, or that something about the evaluation process is broken? I can say that I would never take a programming job where it was critical to do well under performance anxiety inducing conditions.
Sometimes, longer, more thoughtful text can be more powerful than short, punchy advertising copy.
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I do the same thing, usually with multi-page articles, since Readability will stitch pages into one long one before I save to Instapaper.
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Ok, that's the context you picked up on. I did not. What I got was that he set a timeline for project A. But that timeline did not work out. Now Sebastian is busy with project B. To empower the team on project A, he gives them a cc and the decision-making authority to get the project going. He also throws in some hannibal and "joker" stuff to rally the troops and make a point about sticking to commitments, forging thru obstacles. This does not make for a bad leader.
How does this guy have time to blog about it?
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1) Unless you have moral problems with the business domain, why not for a bank? Good salaries, interesting / challenging work, usually mature career development programs, ....

2) I had similar experiences. While our situations differs in some key aspects (I'm much older, have university degrees, long work history), my work history has also not been the text-book IT career path for most of the time. I also found banks much more interested in me than IT firms.

3) My speculation on why that is: Banks are better (in light of recent bank problems, maybe "more willing") at risk taking. Your circumstances make you less predictable than a candidate that has a "standard" career path. Big corporate IT is a lot about minimising risk. IT chooses the candidate that poses the least risk of a bad hiring decision. Banks may be willing to accept higher risk for higher potential return. My speculation is based on conversations I had about this topic with a small sample hiring managers at banks and IT HR managers I worked with.
This guy kind of seems not necessary to the whole project, aside from small amounts of funding. If he's spending 12-17 hours a day on something else entirely, what is he personally doing to advance the project?

Did he just have an "idea" and hire a bunch of engineers "find a way or make one?"
I don't think you watched the video. This is a bottle opener. Whereas you're linking to a cable management device.