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People can oppose the article all they want. I will internally laugh at them a little bit because I've been programming long enough to realize he is absolutely right in this case, but I won't attack the opposers because they are probably basically just me 6-8 years ago. And me 6-8 years ago was much "smarter" and more "sure" of everything than me today, so I'd realize that debating this point with them will be fruitless.

As others have mentioned in other posts, Charles Bloom's blog isn't your typical "look how smart I am" programmer blog. He's been writing it for years just as a stream of consciousness, self-reference type of thing. I follow it because it is worth following for insight into whatever set of problems he is currently deep-diving into (lately it has been very threading heavy). I don't always agree with him on everything, but again, someone disagreeing with him isn't the part of this I have a problem with.

My point wasn't that Charles Bloom is beyond reproach, my point was that codeonfire lumped him into a group of people to which he is clearly and objectively not a member so that he (or she?) could handwave the whole article away without actually saying anything about it.
Seriously? Creating that page just got Freshdesk on the HN homepage and hurt Zendesk's reputation very badly. That's a twofer in my book.

The fact that Zendesk is using "analyst" payola smacks of the worst practices of four quadrant research firms and enterprise software. "Want to the upper-right quadrant? Sure thing, the price will be..."

So at least in this case, it was exposed and we can properly adjust the value of all involved's reputations.
it's just another form of marketing. spending resources on marketing is a valid approach when you need to stand out from your competitors.

with this new campaign, they're likely to get an infusion of customers and cash, which will in turn be more beneficial to their product than the 30 minutes it must have taken them to set up the mud slinging website.
This guy has some very good problem solving skills!! These videos show the process he went through to solve the problem listed on this site: http://www.canyoucrackit.co.uk/
Is that not a normal thing? I've had that for quite a while...
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What a drama queen.
She would be hell to work with.
Perhaps they've all moved over to the defense industry? I work for a small (25 employee) defense contractor. I am 32 and the second youngest software engineer in the business. 32 is also younger than almost all the engineers at my previous job. Forget being anything resembling a lead developer until you are 35-40.
Congratulations Paul, I think you guys have picked a really important niche in public healthcare and I wish you all the best.

For those who're unacquainted with the problems of public healthcare in developing countries, one of the biggest challenges when treating long-term illnesses like tuberculosis and HIV-AIDS is that it's difficult to ensure that patients comply with the demanding medicine regimen that often has to continue for months or years. It's especially tricky in rural areas where patients return home and can not easily be monitored by healthcare workers.

If patients don't comply not only are their chances of successful treatment dramatically reduced but they increase the risk of drug-resistant disease strains like XDR-TB of emerging.

So something like Mediminder, if widely adopted, has the potential to save many lives and in one small but important way help developing countries get a handle on some of their most devastating diseases.
Slightly off-topic: anyone got any ideas on how to innovate in this niche? I am always looking to add to my idea pile :) (See here: http://ideashower.posterous.com)
There isn't too many arguments in play. One thinks Freshdesk is knockoff of Zendesk, the other one makes a website describing how it isn't. The real play is the choice of words and how Mikkel("Indian cowboys", the RIP OFF comment, etc.) went on about this, and how Zendesk responded

The customers are there to tell whether they're a knock off or not. I don't want to say anything as I'm not a customer.
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Would love to help curate the new plugins site.
Speaking of bullshit in threads - you're projecting your own issues and not actually reading the account at hand. The female hotel manager is given tech credit in the story - she knows that BSD code is in many tech products, but weighed it up and decided not to tell the hotel guest. Nothing superstitious or irrational about the manager's conduct.
Conventional bicycles are bulkier than these other solutions, making them harder to carry onto whatever mass transit one is using. On Caltrain, for example, bicycles are restricted to a special car at one end of the train. On other systems like BART, bicycles aren't even allowed on many trains.

The other problem with conventional bicycles is that it's hard to go very far without getting sweaty -- depending on the weather, of course, and one's patience for riding slowly. It's nice to have power assist.

Folding bicycles can be compact enough to carry on any mass transit conveyance. The Metroboard is certainly quite compact and portable. Not sure about the Trikke.

You're right that weather can be a problem.
Wow what a craptastic response from Zendesk. I think it is fine to have a bit of a spar over features in competing products but you have to keep it civil.
Thats exactly what I found too, total night owl too.

The people I work for don't always want/need my highest creativity, but my reliable attention to detail and high quality work. It's nice to innovate in the mornings for my own stuff.
FWIW: I believe I was inquiring about one of the smaller islands, though I can't tell you which one. It was some years ago.

Thanks for your reply.
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The original comment is correct though in that the video just talks about features, it doesn't tell a story or focus on how it would be used to build a product.

Even though I'm familiar with pivotal/ticketing systems, I still wanted to be sold on what it does not just on how it does it.
I have used both freshdesk and zendesk and have to say I prefer zendesk, freshdesk offers nothing substantial over zendesk.

Having said that I am grateful freshdesk is there to spur some innovation.
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I just signed up. Will check it out later today.

I did notice a couple of misspellings: enrol -> enroll, enrolment -> enrollment
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Delicious drama. Go on.
It's a bad move for FreshDesk's company culture. It's a worse move for ZenDesk but a bad move for FreshDesk.

They took this and made it a part of their company by registering a domain name and making a big, glittery page about it. Also, since ZenDesk isn't exactly a behemoth, and it names names, it's quite personal.
It's not really Southern, just rural. We have a lot of rural down here, so it seems like it's a special regional thing. You'll find the same proportion of crazy and cosmopolitan in a Georgia city that you would anywhere else.

Evidence: http://www.barrowjournal.com/archives/6103-Adulterous-couple...

Not even an arrest for public indecency.
I'm a web guy also

I started off working on random problems with PHP then I started working at a 1 person web development company where I learned a lot in terms of frontend development and cross browser compatibility issues and database work. Now I'm using all of the skills that I learned over the course of the years in this new startup where I'm the lead technology guy. I also picked up Ubuntu server command line administration in addition to assembling servers and deploying them.

Give it time and if you maintain the interest you'll end up learning a lot of cool stuff that will be helpful throughout your future
Absolutely a rip-off, but Zendesk was stupid to comment on it.
> Well, without any evidence that she presented.

Which makes for an ineffectual argument. It doesn't mean her point is wrong, but it means she failed to adequately support it.
Normally comments about someone's perceived race (I didn't know there was more than one human race) is reserved for idiots who get their education about the world from tv.

The indian cowboy slur against Freshdesk is beyond ignorant. Especially for a technie. They're usually pretty good for researching.

Maybe Christian Marth should learn indians invented counting, the pentium chip, hotmail, fiber optics and lots of other things without which our ability to bask in our own glory is not as possible.

If they're not perfect, but as we can see from Zendesk, neither are others.
If you watch the source here : https://github.com/Victa/path-menu/blob/master/sass/app.scss

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// Sass interpolation doesn't work with keyframe. CF : https://github.com/nex3/sass/issues/46

// so I use a tricks ==> "appear-'#{$i}'" - And it doesn't work in Firefox.

It's impossible to generate @-moz-Keyframes + interpolation with Sass yet. That's why the experiment works only in Webkit.
How did this get past the dupe filters?
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I wonder if Zendesk wants to reply to that. :P
You realize that it probably took FreshDesk maybe 2 hrs to create that page with the intention of defending the credibility of their reputation?

And at the same time, by picking (or rather extending) a fight with the industry leader, they are gaining lots of visibility for their product.

Was it worth it for FreshDesk to put in the 2 hours to defend their reputation? Of course. How is that not brilliant?
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It was my understanding that the difference between closed captions and subtitles was a semantic one--closed captions are for the hearing impaired and subtitles are for people that can hear but don't know the language.

So closed captions have stuff like "door opens, a radio is playing an old tune in the background. Sheila: Hello" but with subtitles you'd just see "Hello" since if you can hear then you can infer everything else about the scene.
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Very cool!!

Reminds me of the Gyro-X, a gyroscopic car someone built in 1967. I still remember reading about how the car could be made to stay perfectly vertical in turns, or even lean outward.
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One thing I expected to be able to do in Path was share a link. It seems that posting a URL as part of a post doesn't render that URL clickable ... so either it's an oversight, or a feature they don't support right now.
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I'm not getting into a dot-point argument with a libertarian. Been there, done that, bought the t-shirt. In my experience, libertarians are very bad at seeing the gestalt. They're also great at false dichotomies and selective reasoning. I'm not interested in another dot-point yawnfest.

What I am saying is that there are places on Earth that conform much, much better to stated libertarian ideals than modern industrialised democracies. Some of them are paradises; it's not just Somalia on offer. If libertarians really wanted to opt out - the options are there already. And yet libertarians aren't leaving in droves. Why would a fake island be any more successful?
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> They should be spending their time improving the product, coming up with new ideas, or responding to legitimate support inquiries.

Oh, that's silly. Writing up and posting a small 1-page website did not take any time at all away from "coming up with new ideas, or responding to legitimate support inquiries".

It's fine if you don't like it, but don't act like they were somehow derelict in their normal duties by making this.
> Just go and lob a few complaints about her behavior that would never apply to a guy. The easiest one of these is to say "you're being too emotional".

I'm nor sure this would never apply to a guy. Saying someone is illogical or "motivated by emotion, not reason", or is "overly sentimental" seems to be a common attack during geek flamewars.

It's also a fairly common attack during corporate shark feeding frenzies.

That it was once used to attack women in general (as opposed to individually) actually makes it more tenous to use it as an attack against a woman. The speaker in that case can be accused of being sexist, whilst if they called a man "emotional", it would force someone to address the accusation itself.
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> Chrome does a better job with lots of tabs. Firefox definitely slows down with each tab. I absolutely love the way each tab in Chrome is its own separate process. Why doesn't Firefox follow their lead?

Many people report the opposite, that Chrome does poorly with hundreds of tabs. The reason is that there is a tradeoff: Running tabs in separate processes as Chrome does takes more memory, but it does help with responsiveness. So whether Firefox or Chrome ends up 'faster' really depends on the number of tabs (and which web pages they are on), and how much memory you have. There is no perfect approach that is fast on everything.
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Don't know about you but I prefer my plugins to be auto-updated to the latest, safest versions. Last I checked the non-bundled Flash still had to be manually updated from time to time by the user. The built in Flash/PDF is updated with Chrome. You might not think this is useful, but just wait till you click on a link and get pwned. Even if you don't, because you're on Linux, what about your parents?
The concept itself isn't very far removed from pie menus[1]; which have been around for quite some time. They're much more common in console games these days (the layout maps very well to an analog stick or face buttons); SketchBook (on both the desktop and phones/tablets) is another recent example that comes to mind.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_menu
What did I say that was wrong? The guy had the idea that Android has greater market share than iOS, I stated my belief that he was wrong, and then I got downvoted. Some of you guys are too trigger happy with your downvoting buttons. If you're going to downvote, at least explain why so everyone is wiser in the end.
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Sure. You can argue the publicity was worth something but I am certainly turned off by the way they went about it.

They could have mockingly made a fo-ZenDesk logo or any number of other things that didn't make it look like they are on the defensive.

Either way, as a customer I am more concerned about either of these companies using ANY of their time on this. Regardless of how much time they spent, it reflects on where their priorities lie.
Thanks downvoters, your hatering feeds my loving. :)
Is "Indian cowboy" an insult? Makes them sound like Bollywood badasses to me.
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"Rip-off"? It's a help desk service for Pete's sake, not the Xerox GUI or the Page-rank. If Freshdesk can deliver the same value to customers for a fraction of Zendesk's cost, kudos to them.
Thanks. I didn't know you could delete things. I tried the same swipe to no avail.
What about Monaco, which is already full of the very wealthy, has no income tax and is a bit more conveniently located:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monaco
I disagree. Based upon other commenters' experience with this exact fellow, he often turns abusive to people who don't want to buy what he's offering.

When it comes to public transit, strict limitations are really nice for the masses. Riding trains in Japan, where nobody chats on their cellphone next to you, buskers don't assault your ears, and vendors are limited, efficient, and polite, is a wonderful thing.
Yes, because the scrolling is very well supported by hardware. But you will notice the slowness when you are zooming in/out of pages (the font smoothing takes about half a second). But Apple got it right compared to Android, and you are right that even today the iPad holds up well, considering its hardware (reminds me of the C64 which was able to smoothscroll because of hardware support, while the PC didn't manage it at that time)
Darn, this article got posted about the same time I submitted a link. I did post that, since I did get bogged down for an hour or so reading the other posts on the site.

The author appears to be a female sysadmin, in Ireland, with some time in Google, or a contractor for Google.

Really excellent stuff, and you know, sorry for my irrelevant comment, but something, any comment can serve to get a deserved link up onto the front page.
The issue isn't sensitive managers, it is that sensitive managers call men jerks, lazy or assholes, but they'll say that women are "shrill" or "too emotional".

There's a difference there -- with the woman, the manager is attacking her as a person. With the guy, he is directing the commentary towards the man's behavior.
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> We really should try harder to not psychoanalyze people we don't know based on their blog posts.

Not the parent, but I don't psycho-analyze people based on their blog posts unless their blog posts are devoted to psycho-analyzing someone else.

If you open that door in your discussion, then its not unreasonable to have people walk through it.
There is also the world's busiest Costco (they send execs there to learn how it works).
Perhaps instead of asking whether or not you want to do programming, ask what industry interests you. A general science background should do you a lot of good, especially if you can also write and speak intelligently. Being able to write software is an added bonus that should make you more effective.

I personally can't stand web programming either. Although most startups you read about here are web companies, the world is much larger than that. I write simulation software. Other people do business applications. Some people work in finance and some work in defense.

If you are concerned that your skills do not directly translate to an industry or you are having a hard time getting hired, try finding the smaller(not necessarily startup) companies in your industry. I have found that it is much easier for somebody with more general technical skills to get hired at a smaller place.

Hope this helps and good luck.
It's funny because they could be co-operating instead of competing and be making much more money by targeting different markets.
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to your .htaccess for the uploads directory.

2) You appear to be running nginx as a reverse proxy to apache, but you've left apache open to the world on port 81. Either have it only listen on localhost, or have an iptables rule denying the world connections.

Edit: formatting.
"last mile or two" transportation problem.

Non-existing problem. Walk.
For two miles, use a cheap bike.
Done.
Thanks for the advice. I tried suggesting the idea of attaching equity to milestones but he didn't see the need. I probably didn't explain why I thought it was important well enough. I think this is a good idea and I'll suggest it again.
Brilliant! Care to elaborate on the implementation?

Edit:
Found some details on the about page http://inkdroid.org:3000/about/
and everything else at https://github.com/edsu/wikistream
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Presumably any pirates need only make a credible threat of doing costly damage to or destroying the seastead in order to extort payment. Damaging a seastead seems easier to do than damaging a city-state atop a hill.
You described me there, I now own Nokia C1-01, because it was the cheapest I could get. Reason for this is the fact that my phones usually last only 1,5 years and I hate touch-screens. Constantly loosing most of my stored numbers is my biggest problem right now. I'd be willing to pay for some-kind of external backup for my contacts.
> You're underestimating how the technology can be used to simplify the process of taking an image for the average consumer. With the right marketing and UX Lytro could sell their camera as one that 'just works'.

Simpler than having the camera embedded in your phone so you don't have to carry two devices just to take and send pictures?

Face it if you're a pro you'd carry an SLR and if you're not you'd probably just use your phone.
The embedded video is dead, but I assume this is the same one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHRlXzRfvpA

Edit: the video claims radiation exposure is equivalent to a 15 minute airplane ride.
Actually a government or PMC seastead near Somalia (to operate UAVs for monitoring and response) would be a great way to police to sea lanes at lower cost than a naval task force with ships.
Cost of asphalt is going up significantly! Even with electric cars, cost of oil may end up making track based systems more effective.Also, what is the maintenance cost of a road. Vs a track? And what about reclaiming all the land on the ground, and land used for parking? In some areas, that will more than pay for the system!
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Thanks DJO :) I take it from your history and submissions you are in SA? Email me on paul@prophecy.co.za , keen to get connected.
I agree with what you said except for the last part. I think it was a great call NOT to include screenshots of their product, otherwise it would totally come across like they are trying to (directly) use the controversy to sell their product.

Including a side by side comparison of features almost gets them there but not quite since its still relevant to the article itself.

Kudos to freshdesk for a tactful reply to what could have easily spiraled down to a pathetic childish argument. And in the mean time Zendesk's brand was hurt and freshdesk got front page in HN. Brilliant!
You can seen Peter Thiel's homage to Atlas Shrugged with funding this thing, but I think logistically its a little bit too much. I'm firmly in the libertarian camp, but things in this country would have to be pretty bad to move full time to a place like this.

Another cool idea is the possibility of creating self governing city's, with minimal regulation, inside of existing countries. Ex-Stanford economist Paul Romer is proposing ideas along these lines. If you partner with a country (Honduras is considering this) who give you land to set up an independent city, you could have the type of self-governing, anti-tax/regulation environment that libertarians yearn for. I can't see the US ever agreeing to something like this, but some countries would.
This whole spat just highlights one of those truths that's evident to those in the industry:

There is no such thing as a good idea, only good execution.

Being first doesn't count for anything. Having a vaguely similar name doesn't count for anything. In the end, only how well your product works, how many users you can attract and retain, and how much value it provides matter.
I don't think Mikkel called them Indian cowboys - that was someone else.
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