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lol, In this case, what you will need to do is find a burning building and save it. Look for a project that has high rewards that no one wants to touch or can touch but you can make a difference.

For instance, you overheard someone higher up mention a problem that they have difficulty solving. They indicate somehow they don't know xyz, and you know a little xyz. Tell them you can solve it and how much you expect in return[Don't solve it for free]. It is easier to get notice that way.

It is something like how you see products on TV for solving people weight problems. Sometimes the building is so on fire that people are willing to try anything, and in your case if you can actually solve it - they will be exceptionally thankful.

The hard part is asking for a reward in return.

[Puts away my playbook.]
Ive noticed after working in the UK (from Aus) that people generally tend to speak over the top of each other, just in order to carry on in the conversation. Back in Aus there tends to be a bit more of a tendancy to let someone finish talking before they start.

Of course this could be entirely the two workplaces and not related to cultural differences by location.
Schengen concerns passport/border controls, it has nothing to do with rights concerning living and working in EEA countries.
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> The only surprising part is just how many people keep falling for the same obvious ploy.

It's human nature. We have to function on deeply flawed brains and keeping ourselves rational is a constant effort and, quite possibly, one doomed to fail.
This was a really fantastic summary of why you should do inbound marketing and how you can get started delivered in a lively and entertaining fashion.

Congratulations Rand! Looking forward to seeing more from you on the speaking front.

I can personally attest to the value of "mining the social web". When we first launched decal mockups[1] to get some eyeballs amongst designers my only strategy for getting traffic was to post it on HN.

When it slid off the newest page and into oblivion I was really down in the dumps but I just added a stream in hootsuite for the word "mockups", then anytime someone mentioned mockups I posted a link to the site and got 70 people signing up within the first week.

It's a fantastic way to engage with early adopters (although I would warn against automating it - I think possibly it was the fact that each message was personalised that meant I got very few negative reactions - only one that I can remember which was some guy telling me to "diaf" :)

[1] http://www.decalcms.com/mockups
I get spam from the typical keyword monkey factories. I love the Interwoven they keep offering me, because ten years ago I once worked on a project that used it. The jr. sys admin opportunity I was informed about was really great, too. Too bad I'm not a sys admin, and with 15 years in the business, I really wouldn't be interested in a jr anything position.

I get a lot of good emails from recruiters and people looking to hire as well.

The spam from the keyword monkeys all looks the same. It's a mass email produced with a template. Usually the only personal thing in the email is the To: field.
Interesting to see how many comments cite supposedly immutable male sexual dynamics as the cause of this phenomenon - like being unable to respond non-erotically to an assertive woman, or even to a woman who is simply friendly at work.

I don't actually see any reason to assume it runs one way. The (male) song "I didn't mean to turn you on" comes to mind.
Please note I mentioned an example that wasn't the response in 2009-2010 to the crisis, but what happened before causing part of the crisis. Easy influx of money, both in interest rates by joining the Euro (more borrowing but not fault or EU per se) and influx of money from EU to close specific industries and/or production of goods (Agriculture for example) was a problem. Also, at least in Portugal, during this crisis there were incentives to buy new cars that were influenced by EU. This benefited some countries but countries that do not have an auto industry were screwed. Also for example, there were added taxes from pakistan on textile products. When the floods hit, EU wanted to lift those taxes as a whole, hurting a lot of countries that have a good amount of people employed in those industries.

These are the examples I mention with interfering. A central parliament where the members are payed an enormous amount of money to be there (yes, I also have a problem with the money and benefits they get there), deciding for the whole EU where individual countries get shafted because some countries (UK, Germany, France and Italy together get more than 50% of votes) can get a majority easily and can look after their own interests.
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This is a fascinating read, but I'm not sure what the answer is to "why libraries now" as opposed to "how can we make sure libraries are still relevant?" I don't quite know the answer, and I admit to being queasy about letting them go. After all, libraries were such a democratizing power, even if their quality did rapidly fall off as one went from big city to small city to town. A great deal of attention was paid to making sure libraries aren't a footnote in history, but I think it's worth asking why we don't want that.

(As an aside, I almost didn't follow the link because I assumed it was about undocumented Java libraries or some such thing)
> our primary interface emulates a DEC VT100 terminal from 1978

Huh? I didn't know the DEC could run software like Visual Studio, Explorer and TortoiseGit.

Whether you use an interface from the past or not is entirely a choice. Many developers apparently prefer it, and that's fine. I don't prefer it, so I use tools with a rather modern and well-designed interface, tailored towards developers.
I added "in the states" because I assumed Canada/Europe/etc. had far more sane laws about this already, but I admit I am ignorant as to if this is actually true or not.
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Just to clarify (I'm the OP): Why are you talking about American influence? What I meant was a harmonization/simplification of EU states legislation. Some harmonization could also work with the US, but that's not necessary (and it looks very difficult to me).
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It depends on the level of lobbying. To achieve both you need massive members AND decent money resources (i.e. a full time in-person representation in Brussels).

Petitions and other "virtual" protests forms are certainly nice, but it is nothing in comparison to having an ex-parliament member going from door to door explaining the issue to his former colleagues.

One way I could see this working is creating an organization that is largely focused on member size while cooperating issue-based with existing money strong lobbying efforts for example of Google. Joining forces could bring benefits to both parties by pairing money with democratic representation.

Also I like the idea of focusing just on the EU and not regional issues. The EFF partner organization in Europe ( http://www.edri.org/ ) is in my opinion largely ineffective because of their way to fractioned member organization system.
Google Docs is really a great starting point to see what exactly you need and where to go from there if you need. It's easy, free and just works.
I agree that the wine example is stupid, but here is (fairly) local example to me:

http://www.arbroathsmokies.net/pgi.php
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OK, but you aren't dealing with a monolithic entity, and they don't care about you, but about all the people who care about the problem. Whoever you lobby (say, the politicians) need a solution. "Cut red tape, federate payment gateways" is not a solution they can implement. They can either legislate, or handball the problem to "the relevant authority". Assuming legislation is infeasible (which seems to be the case) you have to make sure it goes to the right authority.

Productivity commisions will come up with a clear plan, which will feed back into further decisions. It's not an elegant solution, but you are talking about steering a ship with a lot of inertia.
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How do you guys deal with the long compilation times? For me, I wouldn't mind C++...if it only compiled faster. Even just two or three C++ files take ~5 seconds to compile on my machine. Is this not an unacceptable amount of time for you, or do you have tools to make this go below the 3 second threshold? In my mind, this is a serious problem that is keeping me from using C++ more. I try to do as much as possible in C for now.
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Another part of the problem is that you're fighting against cultural norms. People feel more uncomfortable turning down a woman than they do turning down a man. The whole thing is unspoken and runs deep.

Talking about it is worth something I guess, but it's going to take a lot of women putting themselves out there (and being punished for it) over time in order to move the bar.
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fo sho. I think the local hackerspace would probably be a good place for it (though I'm not a member)....
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Looks worthwhile to try out. I've also used Seesaw ( https://github.com/daveray/seesaw ) which was pretty enjoyable.
Quality wine doesn't need to come from a specific area. But if you write "Chianti Wine", it has to come from Chianti (which is a specific area in Italy).

There is protectionism, and there is consumer protection: I'm glad to buy food from everywhere, but I want to know what it is.
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You may be mixing up the Schengen Agreement, which the UK is not part of, and the EU which the UK is most certainly part of!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Agreement

As far as I know it's the EU that gives me the right to work and live anywhere in the EU. Schengen gives citizens of member countries the ability to travel between countries without passport controls.
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I am from EU, I have been involved with the pirate party, I think this is a good way to petition the EU : get MPs elected. Currently 3 are in the EU parliament.
I am French, living in Germany with a company in UK. I can tell you, business is easy in Europe. It is extremely easy to take the good of each country and leave the bad. You can setup a company in any EU country and run it from any other country. This means an insane level of flexibility at the regulations level (if you are looking at regulations loop holes) or ease of management (if like me you go for where you have the minimum of paper work and do not care about tax level).

EU is working very well for businesses, have you created a company in EU? I recommend you start to look at where you can influence to solve your real problems this will avoid you losing your time on big lobbying plans for little results.
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I don't think there is an issue with graceful degradation.
Basically, wkterm is a terminal and a set of pretty-printers that read data from stdin and print it in html.
As in my example with cpu usage graphic, there is some ./gen_cpu program which just prints cpu usage values as text, and there is graph drawing program. So, use them both for graphical output and use only the first for text.

Links, as you describe them, can be implemented with javascript. I'll try to make an example on weekend.
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i refreshed the page and it was gone, never saw it on any other google service.
Carriers already have access to sms data since they they deliver them and there is no end-to-end encryption.
Same goes for for location data(tower triangulation, might not be as precise as gps but close), call history, sms history, all data traffic use that is not encrypted, dns lookups, which ips you connect to. They might not track all that information on the backbone but they could.
No, i'm in EU, and it's not the same here as in Netherlands and i dont want any legislation. There are payment gateways for me to choose from, no problems on any of those fields.
Yes: I am from EU and know that lobbyism works.

I participated in a lobbyism against EU wide software patents some years before. Serious lobbying works in the sense that you contact EU people and tell them your complaints with solid facts in a respectful way. Then they get serious and pay attention to you.

Without the massive lobbying of many small and medium sized companies and freelancers against Software patents the EU would have invented them already years before.
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Sorry, misread the original post. Read it as "Should the US lobby Europe to make it more startup friendly" (No). Deleted my response as it's not that relevant having re-read the question.

I think that the main point of the EU (for better or worse) is this harmonization/simplification. The goal is to make the EU competitive against the US through economies of scale.

As an ex-Pat living in Ireland, I'd say careful what you ask for--you might get it. Pro-Startup becomes Pro-business which becomes Pro-big business which becomes Anti-social programs. I don't think I'd ever move back to the US because the direction it is headed. I hope that a "strong" EU does not mean an "American-style" EU...
Hung around for a few hours for me. Highly frustrating. All they needed do is add a dismiss option.
No it isn't. It's not wrong to notify users of changes, and the notice resides on the same area occupied by the previous navigation tool so as far as those coming from the older design are concerned no extra screen space was used.

The notice disappears after you navigate away then come back or even reload the page so it's obviously not a permanent thing.
Yes: I'm from the EU and I think that lobbying the EU Parliament and Commission is a good idea.
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This can't be said for all of the EU.

In the UK if you direct a foreign company but are UK based then HMRC will consider it a UK company for tax purposes.

I looked at incorporating in Ireland because A. We wanted good Euro banking which the UK doesn't have and B. The corporate tax rate is a mere 12.5%.
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Exactly. If you have a business model where Dwolla being free is integral to your success, then you're in a very bad place. Always assume you'll have to pay your suppliers/service providers, and keep a healthy margin on top of that to protect yourself from price fluctuations.

For a more concrete example, look at Chargify. For a while they were free to anyone under a certain size. Then, they changed their prices and started charging $39/mo (originally it was $99) for the lowest tier. A lot of hackers got burned by that move.
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> surprising it hasn't been replaced with a simpler approach designed for virtual terminals by now.

Because they ... just work? :-)
and if you want to play further with your data have a look at google refine http://code.google.com/p/google-refine/
I feel like half my bookmarks are the articles of HN submissions while I then get to march guilt-free into the comments page because I'll just read the actually article when I get a chance, darn it! I'm a busy guy!
Regarding payment gateways: SEPA is fast, cheap and rolled out in a large portion of Europe. I don't see much room for improvement there, quite frankly.
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Well, you have the Standford CS-101 course coming up in February, which is free.

http://www.cs101-class.org/

They also do other classes, as seen at the bottom.
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All the lights light correctly and the Mac battery receives a charge when I plug in someone else's adapter, so the problem is not my Mac.

My Magsafe adapter works correctly when plugged into someone else's computer (all the lights) so the problem is also not my adapter.

I have a friend who has the same problem, and when it happens we can trade adapters for a while and it seems to fix the issue. I'd love to hear a technical explanation of what might be going on from someone familiar with how these batteries and chargers interact.
I am very surprised that many of these recruiters can stay in business. Even if internal HR departments are lazy, how do they get candidates that actually pass interviews? Sometimes I wonder if it's a field with a low barrier to entry, that just weeds people out. It's relatively easy to be a stock broker, but hard to stay in it and make money. Similar with Real Estate.

The one caveat on this... Recruiters are also people working for a dollar. One day many of us will need them too. Burning bridges with anyone in the hiring process has limited upside, and potentially large downside. That said, if someone rejects both the polite "I'm not interested" and the less polite, "I mean I'm really really not interested" then it does become fair game.

In this case, it's hard to imagine they're much more than a quarter step up the food chain from the folks spamming me about viagra.
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No problem; I see your point, but from the US there are for sure good parts I would take. Others... not at all :)
Duplicate : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3301056
Yes. The EU represents the worlds largest economy, dwarfing the US by about USD$7 trillion. Yet the potential is locked up in bureaucracy and petty nationalism.

Another bitter truth that people in the EU need to acknowledge is that English needs to be spoken by the majority. Not as a first language, but to the level of countries like the Netherlands or Norway.

That's easy for me to say, I'm British, but this isn't national pride in my language. Only 4% of English speakers are English. English is a necessity in the world we live in, and Europe's diverse mix of languages is holding it back in a lot of ways.
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> whenever I see lobbying mentioned, I shriek!

danmaz74's idea came because he's part of the http://SrlFacile.org initiative, which is lobbying for less laws and complications for the creation of limited liability companies in Italy!
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I love the discussions on Hacker News. I typically find the comments more interesting than the article itself, and I bet I'm not alone in that sentiment.

Unfortunately, the discussion half-lives are painfully short. Once an article moves from the frontpage, discussions quickly die off. New comments are also difficult to find in large, threaded discussions. This seems to be one of the more common complains with HN.

I wrote a greasemonkey script that identifies and highlights new comments. I've been using it for several days now and am pleased with how much better the HN experience has become.

It isn't anything fancy, just hoping to improve the user experience for similarly frustrated individuals :)

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I think this is a really cool idea, especially as I am a remote worker. However, why the focus on startup hackers? Why can't any coder/designer get involved regardless of their workplace? This would be great for freelancers and small agency employees as well.
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To be heard, you need to organize. Did you try to contact your MP individually, or with the backing of a group? That makes a lot of difference...
The "new" gmail theme had that stupid thing at the bottom asking for feedback. What was stupid about it is that it would keep coming back after you closed it, when any sane person would have known the user didn't want to see it again.
> Pro-business

Every country is "pro business" when it comes to their Fords and their Fiats. Where it really does change is in the rules for new and small businesses.
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The Atlantic article "Don't Just Ask: Why Women Don't Negotiate" by Megan McCardle [1] was killed, even though it had 105 points and 100 comments.

Do we seriously think this isn't an important or legitimate issue, or that it's not worthy of discussion on HN?

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3302364
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Sorry, but as a "petty" nationslist, I would rather see the EU disappear than more legislation.
One thing that ought to happen is this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Private_Company

If done correctly, it could be an excellent way of forming companies for startups, and might be able to get around some of the crap that you have to go through to form a company in places like Italy (thousands of Euros and tons of paperwork).
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The older I get, the more I realise people just enjoy complaining.

People complained when they added the black bar, they complained when they removed it, they complain now when Google point you in the direction of the new feature, and I'm sure people would've complained if they hadn't have mentioned it changing.
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And, for teams that use C++, there are different subsets of what they choose to apply.
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