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If you're on the right track, competitors are going to rip you off.

If you're on the right track, competitors are going to try to poach your customers.

If you're on the right track, some competitors are going to talk trash about you when they think no one's looking. Or even when everyone's looking! Using profanity in their Twitter feeds, even!

But just because you're on the right track doesn't mean you can't derail; take the high road and let your customers decide. How you deal with unethical competitors is just one mettle-proving battle in a much larger campaign.

I sympathize with Zendesk, but there are times where it's wiser to just let your tongue bleed out. Let that extra salt sustain you for the more important battles ahead.
What I got from their website earlier is that it's meant to reduce the number of API requests by bundling multiple datarequests, giving you better performance.
The junior programmers I worked with at Google were far better than the senior programmers I worked with at other jobs. Experience has value, but it's not the only attribute that matters when it comes to skill and ability. Taking the best kids out of MIT, CMU, and Stanford is a lot different than the junior programmers you'd encounter at most places.
I hacked on the core animation of the Path menu for a few minutes last week (it's pretty rough) using a combination of CSS and JS that is a bit leaner and more flexible.

http://jsfiddle.net/necolas/RGYUg/

The benefit of using JS to calculate the positioning (especially in an environment where JS will always be enabled) is that you can have the menu items correctly positioned irrespective of the number of items.

Edit: This is also an interesting approach: http://beaucollins.github.com/radial-menu/
It's just facebook login. Think of it as a cookie.
Maybe, but presumably pirates could do that now to deepwater oil rigs or cruise ships, but I haven't heard of it.
> So I as an artist should only be expected to be paid for one sale of my digital album?

You can expect to get paid for creating your album in the first place. And once you stop thinking of it as "I sell one copy for $19.95 and everyone copies it" and start thinking of it as "Fifty thousand people all agree to buy it for $19.95 if I create it", it makes a lot more sense.
Use an IRC server with SSL and client cert authentication? It's a standard feature in many daemons and clients nowadays.
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You must be awfully naive to think that there will be no competitors (with similar features) when you build a product which is relatively simple. If it wasn't listed in bold under the "threat" section of your business plan then something is off.
Having no experience is definitely detrimental to the candidate, but I would say, if the undergrad is extremely excited about what you are building and the challenges they will be working on then the experience can be overlooked. You can gauge motivation of the undergrad through side projects, its hard to be a student (at least from my experience) without being exposed to subjects that are so interesting that you simply can't resist building stuff.
The only reason they weren't caught was because of the lack of back scatter vans, right?
But you're forgetting the other big screen criteria people have: "not from Apple". Once you factor that in, the Android platforms all fare much better. :)
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Mostly governments have done very little about piracy in Somalia.

Also at the scale you're talking about, small fast boats, a well armed private militia would be just as effective, as a billion dollar destroyer.

A few 3" guns will stop anything a pirate can throw at them.
Quoting Mahatma Gandhi and then immediately writing your name and title under it just seems wrong.
Which is how long the Java solution took on my machine.

Which can't be right, because Java is wrong whatever the question is.
£28k is a low graduate salary in the UK.

The first proper result for "graduate software engineer" is Red Gate, who obviously only recruit the top graduates, but still: http://www.red-gate.com/our-company/careers/current-opportun...
> The engineering issues exist, but cruise ships are a pretty good proof-of-concept. Cruise ships show that we can get stable, luxurious accomodations at a per-day cost that is on par with an expensive hotel (2-3X SF Bay Area daily rent). The only question is the extent to which we can improve on that.

I Ctrl-F-ed both the article and the comments and I was sad not to see any reference to Jules Verne's "Propeller Island" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propeller_Island)

"""
It was first published in 1895 as part of the Voyages Extraordinaires. It relates the adventures of a French string quartet in Milliard City, a city on a massive ship in the Pacific Ocean, inhabited entirely by millionaires.
"""
the Images :

facebook: 'https://s-static.ak.facebook.com/rsrc.php/v1/yJ/r/vOykDL15P0R.png',

twitter: 'https://twitter.com/images/spinner.gif,

digg:http://cdn2.diggstatic.com/img/sprites/global.5b25823e.png,

reddit: 'http://www.redditstatic.com/sprite-reddit.pZL22qP4ous.png,

hn: 'http://ycombinator.com/images/y18.gif,

stumbleupon: 'http://cdn.stumble-upon.com/i/bg/logo_su.png,

wired: 'http://www.wired.com/images/home/wired_logo.gif,

....
Every Lisp program can be rewritten to be just "one expression"

`(progn ,@program)

What have we achieved here?
The distinction is that, in many peoples' eyes, "shrill" as a personal insult is almost always directed at women. There is a stereotype of a shrill woman.
Man this is classy. Well done Freshdesk.
Well, assuming you can afford competent representation... It would be next to impossible to link any particular case of injury to any particular action on your part, so you would quite likely avoid arrest forever and probably be acquitted if it came to trial. You would technically expose yourself to a massive amount of civil liability, but if you could make the argument that many other people are going around doing the same thing, you would wind up paying for a very small share of the damage that you caused. Outside of specific laws passed to punish your specific behavior, you probably get off more or less scott free.

Of course, it has never been difficult to terrorize people like this, and what you're imagining is small potatoes. Just build a big building which does this on a daily basis for decades. We call it "pollution", and mostly shrug it off as the cost of progress.
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Small correction, the bomb attack on WTC was 1993.
I'm guessing you want this pronounced like "DJ easy" or something. That's the closest I came up with that didn't sound like "disease".

This seems really cool and I'd LOVE to try it out. Please contact me.
>how would I get caught

lets hope that in post 9/11 world dosimeters are deployed at various important (i hope it includes "crowded with normal people") places.

>what would I be prosecuted with?

>walk around terrorizing people...

seems like you answered your own question.

>feel like it's not too difficult for someone today to build something like that

your old CRT ("cathode ray tube") TV/monitor :)
If they can TALK to hubot. So whatever the security is on campfire, or whatever it is.
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Importing isn't the problem, exporting is. A seastead will necessarily pay a steep premium on imported goods, even basic ones.

The cost of shipping is mitigated by goods going both ways. When you are shipping to a zero-export entity such as a seastead, the receiving entity is expected to bear the cost of the return trip with empty holds.
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The goal wasn't "tightly packed" the goal was "one line."

In Python that means, essentially, one expression. That's what makes it a stunt.
In addition to what the other replies said, there's another reason: effects like this reside purely in the presentation layer, and just like the argument for separating content from presentation, a good argument can be made for trying to separate application code from presentation as much as possible. The less animation you're doing with JavaScript, the less your application code will have worry about updating the presentation layer in a loosely coupled way – just changing a CSS class or whatever already provides that (relatively) loose coupling.

At BigDoor, we ship the same JavaScript code to many different partners, but their widgets can have very different form factors and visual effects. It's nice to not have to distribute a bunch of animation code to every partner just in case one partner's theme happens to use it – we can keep it in the CSS and just swap that out.

Soon I think people will see that using JavaScript for the simple animations they've been performing all this time (fade out, slide in, etc.) is just creating a tightly coupled system.
Why is this here? How do I downvote the post or recommend it for the "stupid twitter he-said-she-said" category?
I think the first paragraph explained it quite well.

Whether or not the feat itself is impressive or not I don't really know but the reason for the quest was motivated.
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I meant specifically a "credible threat of doing costly damage" to extort payment. I'm not aware of any oil companies or cruise lines that pay tribute to keep pirates from blowing them up.

There have been plenty of cargo companies paying ransom to get their ships back, but those ships were crewed by a handful of people and taken over.
> anyone who thinks taking the time to create a web page for an argument

It's marketing, pure and simple. And if you think any company that spends time/money on marketing/PR doesn't care about you, the customer, you're going to have to have trouble finding any companies you want to give your money to.
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Unless there are tracks, I find it hard building an automatic PRT on current network (roads).
I agree. I found the article very informative. I will have to try this new social pattern at my job to get rid of that bitchy UX designer.
This thing froze FF8 on W7 rock solid. Be warned.
While I don't agree with you, I admit my comment was not productive. I guess I was just unprepared for the backlash. I thought my Interpol suggestion was pretty neutral.

I've been writing software for law enforcement for about 7ish years now. My work helps monitor and track DNA samples through a forensic lab. I'm proud to be helping law enforcement this way. My work helps with murders, sexual assaults, break and enters.

Like I said, I saw this project, and thought I would make a suggestion that might help the developer bring it to the next level. It really had nothing to do with my personal beliefs pertaining to drug laws.
Agreed! We should ban all cars and trucks from civilian usage since they can carry bombs

This is exactly how civil liberties are slowly eroded away.
I agree.

But, also, in the detailed part of the proposal, he points out that with high densities (e.g. NY city) you need so many maglev cars to meet peak demand, that parking them off-peak is a significant problem.
My point with mentioning "tightly packed" was that if you'd tried to make the C version small, you'd come out with something much tinier than the 1047 bytes I mentioned.

I see he's set himself a very different goal, which is fine but not that interesting to those of us that aren't Python programmers, I guess.

What disappointed me was clicking through from a headline that seemed to indicate it'd be a tiny implementation, when it's in fact rather bloated.
HackerNews readers, watch and learn. I'm about deconstruct what is going on.

Anybody who brushes off FreshDesk because of its Indian roots is doing FreshDesk a favour. This is a sharp mind at work and it is lethal.

FreshDesk is executing the standard modus operandi of upstart against an incumbent.

Jobs is a master at it (I'm Apple I'm Microsoft), Calacanis too (remember the SEO controversy, and then the Angel controversy?), and Girish is in the same league. The idea is to frame everything as a controversy, and linkbaits people into discussing it.

Notice how a custom domain is used and it is a mini website, not just a blog post? It is a custom website intended to fuel controversy and will drive a lot of SEO juice from bloggers all over the world. Sit back and watch its PageRank explode.

Girish is also running very hungry by executing a social media campaign. People may not buy from Twitter, but it buys mindshare. It will be a matter of time before FreshDesk gets a good recall rate, as long as it acts heads above other people. The name itself enjoys co-recognition from Freshbooks as well as ZenDesk.

Don't forget, Girish comes with a Zoho pedigree, and this is a company that has bootstrapped itself in India and no one would say the software is anything but world-class.

As for ZenDesk, Girish has stuck a fork into Ben Keepes for the lack of disclosure (by the way, I've been a long time reader of CloudAve, always insightful, even if [I now have to perceived it as potentially] biased), and then masterfully weaves ZenDesk CEO's twitter reply with the overtly racist overtone that cloudavesyd (onya Aussies) "Indian cowboys"-tweet. Note that mikkelsvane wasn't party to the "Indian cowboys" comment, but the way it is put, mikkelsvane sounded like he was in agreement (although to anyone who pays close attention to this type of things, he clearly was talking about something else).

Girish, if you are reading - I'm in Australia, if you could - please don't turn this into a wider "Australians enjoy India bashing meme". We already have a hard time here, and race doesn't factor much if at all in business.

As for ZenDesk, the important thing is to stay above the fray, establish their incumbency, but emphasize their own underdoggedness. Both can play the jingoist game and appeal to emotions.
TL;DR: Nu uh!!!! ='''( [Quote comparing us to Gandhi]

I think their response was a bit too involved. They were insulted by some blowhard (CEO or not) and instead of rolling with the punches, they write an emotionally-charged, whiny blog post. Not to mention a name is the stupidest thing to fight over. If you want to see a real rip-off, check out github vs bitbucket.

Just focus on making your product. If you're doing well, some people may turn into little girls and get jealous and throw tantrums. Ignore them and focus on your goals. Engaging in back and forth like this shows nothing but weakness.

EDIT:
Just noticed they actually bought a domain for this. Even worse. I don't see good things in the future for Freshdesk if this is how they respond to an affront. Also, why are they comparing themselves to Gandhi? You've got to be kidding me...?
I don't think comments on submissions reflect their ranking, unless this FAQ is not the whole story: http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
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I well understand your point, and I respectfully disagree.

There's a whole lot more practical knowledge outside of the technologies and tools that the programmers know about and use.

Some of the least educated folks I've worked with are arguably the smartest, and the most practical. Some of the most educated can be the most useless. You never really know what you're going to learn, and from who.

EMTs and firefighters or other folks working in other vocations outside of programming are commonly designing and building and experimenting; you'd be surprised what some of the folks have come up with.

As for the technologists, a lack of field skills or a lack of experience can work detriment of what the programmers are implementing. You need look no further than much of the medical equipment to realize how little the programmers involved truly knew about the problem. (And that's from my own experience using the devices, as well as many years of programming similar systems.)

Everybody thinks they're special, of course. And ego kills brains. Which was my point.
Oil rigs and cruise ships are high-risk targets because both have the implicit protection of some extant nation-state. Which is the point here, I think.
Wow, this is really cool. Watch history as its being rewritten! (small wikipedia joke) Now I need something that shows in what category things are being changed (deltas) and then what linkages are being added or removed (connectivity). Lots of ways to go with this.
There's nothing like bad publicity. I never heard of freshdesk before this.

Use the publicity That you've been given freshdesk but don't overdo it!
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Regarding the initial dispute over trademark: The "desk" part of the name is 'descriptive' and so isn't the strong part of each trademark. The "zen/fresh" parts are arbitrary so are the strong part of each mark. These are distinct, so I don't think there is a valid claim to trademark infringement here. One could argue that "desk" is 'suggestive' in trademark law which makes it a bit stronger, but I don't think that would fly.

If one of the companies can show actual instances of customer confusion, then there may be a case as this is an important test in a trademark case.

The fact that zen haven't filed suit speaks volumes.
The full statement is:

> Passing judgement on Product innovation based on the founder’s nationality reflects poorly on the intellectual ability of the person making the judgement.

They are complaining that nationalist insults or racist insults make the speaker look like an idiot. Is this ridiculous, heavy-handed, and unfair?

Perhaps it is simply reflective of the fact that current culture looks down on racists.
Do you, by chance, work for Lucasfilm?
I agree. Guy Kawasaki suggests companies should pick fights with better known rivals. Apple vs. IBM back in the day is a perfect example.

I now know who Freshdesk is (didn't before) and might consider them in the future. We used to use Zendesk but found it too expensive for our needs. Plug: we use Tender.
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Confusing word choice. Not sure why they couldn't say "temporarily unavailable" or something else.
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Ah, looks like this is the library Subbu Allamaraju refers to at http://www.subbu.org/blog/2011/11/apis-are-a-pain--the aim of ql.io is to alleviate the challenges of "aggregation, parallelization, and orchestration of forks and joins." (i.e. in practice, "consistent RESTful APIs don’t matter as much as we think," nice though they may be.)
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Because you have to pay a shipper a lot of money to send a ship somewhere that doesn't have any exports to ship back.
who promptly apologized

Sorry, but that wasn't much of an apology for a racist slur.
ha ha ha ha !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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One of the vernor vinge books had software archeology as a discipline, for similar reasons.
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The internet and electric lines are provided by Time Warner and ConEdison, respectively.

As far as I'm aware, few libertarians have any beef with streetlamps or preventing violence. Of course, like most people, you avoided the main issue - the majority of the US government (65%, see my other post on this topic) is not preventing violence or providing roads. It's redistributing wealth.

To bring up 35% of government spending while ignoring the other 65% is disingenuous.
You can't measure emotion.
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Contrary to your claim (6) there is plenty of evidence for the likelihood of (5) being higher if the party is female e.g. see [1].

This is management 101 knowledge, so the "thin-skinned manager" (TSM) should've known it.

Which leaves two possibilities: incompetence or malice. However, the former option equates to a discriminatory position by default, so either way the TSM is guilty of sexual discrimination and is party to the constructive dismissal.

Interestingly that is independent of the gender of the TSM but the fact remains that women are more likely to be negatively treated with respect to emotional behaviour.

My disappointment is greatest to see the production of the old canard that "anyone can be treated like this", as though it is somehow acceptable to be an incompetent manager. It isn't.

Systemic and thoughtless sexism is alive and well and thriving in the IT industry. Stamp it out and reap the benefits of a huge and highly competent workforce segment. Ignore it and lose talent. Your call.

[1] Brescoll, V.L. and Uhlmann, E.L. (2008). Can an angry woman get ahead? : Status conferral, gender, and expression of emotion in the workplace. APS. http://socialjudgments.com/docs/Brescoll%20and%20Uhlmann%202...
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How on earth did you get to freshdesk making personal attacks based on this page? I'm gobsmacked you managed to so severely misread the whole thing. The entire point of the page is to point out personal attacks made against them and then respond to the rip-off comment. Supposedly they did make a decent product already.
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I think everyone's still getting caught up in the Steve Jobs-ness of the past couple of months. CEO's are acting cocky, cause that's what Steve would have done. They're calling out people who they think have stolen their ideas, cause that's what Steve would have done.

What they're completely missing is Steve's greatest lesson: If you want to trample your competitors, just build a better product.
Interesting, another use of a SQL-like language as the query language for a data store that's definitely not an SQL database. (YQL is another example.) I really don't understand why ORMs always seem to want to create their an object-based query language--SQL is just fine for querying.