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Sometimes us history buffs get laughs out of these things. I was listening to a Catholic thinker make a case for the uniqueness of Earth, and what came to my mind was how Augustine accepted the possibility of other continents and how the world was round, but concluded based on the Bible that humans could not possibly be inhabiting anywhere beyond Asia, Africa, and Europe. This view remained the standard view until after it became clear that Columbus had in fact not reached Asia but instead a new continent, and that it was INHABITED.

I wonder how much theology of so many people will have to be discarded or rethought as we find more reason to think there are inhabited planets elsewhere in the universe.
Smartphones and tablets are largely for entertainment, which in turn are designed to grab your attention to the fullest.

They're kind of bad (there's always that other excuse: limit yourself) seeing how the majority users are hooked like a drug addict lately (crackberry is an example)
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Note that my own terminal MacTerm (http://www.macterm.net/) also supports most of the iTerm2 features from this post. Though I feel my Full Screen support is nicer: I provide options such as a scroll bar when full-screen, and I do not use Lion's widget so the switch is instantaneous and has proper multi-display support (i.e. you can have a full-screen terminal on two displays if you want to).

I don't have split-panes, though they're on my list. There are a handful of other features I don't have, but also vice-versa. In the end I won't say either app is better, but I definitely think there isn't one terminal everyone will like.
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I think I'd love to have such environment. Simple and distraction free. I feel that as I'm getting older and priority changes, I'm no longer enamored that much by technology.
I'm an avid fan of hacking our own phones and being able to run what I want on them. But I'll be keeping 3rd party apps far away from my google wallet.
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Then the $19.95 home stem cell kit comes along the week after you die.
I'd love to help but I don't suppose remote tutoring is an option?
The problem didn't seem to be that the volume/value of transactions suddenly went up. The Paypal representative didn't say that at any point in the conversation.

Even if that was indeed the case, a simple investigation of the issue would have cleared things up. Businesses are supposed to work with customers, not fuck them over at the first sign of trouble.
IIRC Paypal was originally designed for interpersonal payments.
Same here, I was floored by how good it is. I'm obviously rating it on a scale of "Apps by Canadian companies" and in that scale, it's the best without question. It's not like I'm looking for the Pizza Pizza app to have a Reeder quality level.

I've reported bugs, submitted reviews, and recommended it to others. That's the benefit of doing it properly. I sure as hell haven't recommended or supported the terrible, half assed apps other Canadian retailers have on the app store.
For now, it will show only the first page. Swiping between Fireworks pages is something we have on our roadmap.
Google does this too for the Donate button: http://checkout.google.com/support/sell/bin/answer.py?answer...

For a kicker, you MUST be based in USA otherwise according to their terms, they'll hold the money like PayPal does.
I'm on Ubuntu 11.10 x64, firefox 1 billion, and neither of the buttons seem to do anything... if I have to login to try it, you should say so on the page.

Edit: I refreshed a few times and it seems to be working now, before, it just showed a "next" button and a "grade it" button, and a text box that said "ruby console".
You can certainly put such demands into an open source license.

Perhaps the easiest way of doing it is to actually put the restriction on the trademarked name, forcing them to distribute it under a different, likely unrecognized, name if they want to change the officially distributed package.
Indiana has an unwritten policy of only requiring licenses of companies with a physical presence in the state. Other states (Massachusetts, South Carolina, Montana and New Mexico) do not require licenses for domestic money transmission at all. The other three have likely determined that PayPal does not meet the criteria for licensure in that state.

PayPal may very well be exceeding the holding period threshold in some states, but someone would have to bring suit to push the issue.
This is part of why my phone doesn't have much on it. Twitter and g+ can be a distraction but when things are going on (say, Thanksgiving) unless it really IS a down moment I just ignore them. Plenty of time for such things later. Pity I don't have the same restraint when at a computer.
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No one would go. At least their post-Black Album albums have some fans, no one likes Lulu.
Because the gifts given will ultimately be going to someone other than the billing address. This is really the issue in the TOS OP is coming up against, from what I can tell.

Also, the actual items being sold were "mystery" gifts, not actual items.

My guess is that paypal views this as high risk because someone is sending money to OP, and OP is sending "something" to someone else. It's not trackable through PayPal's system, which means there is a high potential for chargebacks, which cost PayPal (and everyone else involved) money.

This seems like an extremely reasonable freeze to me, especially given that the PayPal rep told OP exactly what OP could do to sell these items: ship to the actual buyer and tell them what they are getting, and do so under a different name than your original attempt. That's kind of the only way it can work.
It was quite brief but the point was made. Thanks, this book actually looks incredible!
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Exactly. There is something nice about the lack of ambiguity. If you get a screwed up phone order, you have no idea who made the mistake. You, the rep, the store, the driver, could be anyone.

When you order online, you know exactly what you need to know because you are both the customer and the rep, and you get an e-mail copy to reference. Errors in the order become indisputable, which is nice.

Making the age old question "Did he forget to bring that or did I forget to order it?" obsolete is reason enough to use it in my book. There are other benefits, but that's one of the best.
As a devbootcamp.com inaugural class hopeful, I'm glad to see your commitment to the project. (BTW, last I heard there were still a few seats remaining for Dev Bootcamp. If you were considering applying, I encourage you to take that step today!)

Just one question: What do you plan on doing with the $1 from your "exit"? :-)
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Assuming an average download time of 1 minute, that's merely 5 or so simultaneous downloads at any particular point in time. That is nothing.
when i saw the title i thought it would be about the fascinating story about how the germans invented the first commercially viable large scale method to produce ammonia (Haber-Bosch process) and the implications that had on world war 1....oh well...
I already figured that out, because when I try to accept a friend request, the Android app tells me I need to login again (goto 10).
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Congratulations Trixter! I own #1 and I might pick this one up as well. Thank you for preserving these demos.

I know you've said this would be the final installment, but, any chance of a MC4 with 64ks? :)
My business account was frozen by Paypal for a similar non-reason. I am not going into the details here but I chose to simply wait it out ($2 balance at the moment) and take my business to Amazon Payments.

The issue in my case was not me. It had to do, iirc, with someone my wife had done business on regarding Paypal, and we were required to verify all info on all accounts that had ever been accessed from our IP address. In other words they froze my account because someone unrelated to me was arguably (though maybe not certainly) violating their terms of service. Since that included my brother in law's account and he was abroad at the time, it was too much of a headache.

I have basically taken up advocating to all of my customers not to rely on Paypal.
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Their reputation is already tainted. Especially since your company is finding out after the fact.

What stops them from doing it again a month later?
I meant that the picture explains the tree's structure much clearer than the blog post, which is probably not surprising. Didn't really look at how to build or query the tree.
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I think the implication was that the policy was in place for when they weren't being sued, so that if they were sued, they could be completely reasonable in saying they only had 6 months worth of e-mails to provide for discovery.
No, I'm afraid this is it. Ignoring the gigantic irony of filling a Blu-ray with 64k intro output, I am moving on after three great volumes over the past decade. Time to code some demos again!
The money donated is used by the non-profit to purchase products that are then given away to needy kids. This is donation whichever way you look at it.

Amazon will let you do this but people generally specify who they want the product to go to which makes it a gift purchased for friends/family. So it qualifies as a purchase there.
"It stinks!"

http://media.onsugar.com/files/2011/04/14/2/1437/14373728/a0...
Tell HN: Why I'm Choosing the Perils of Unemployment
Background: Soon to be MIS graduate, decided quit working for the company that would have been my first post-college job (as a .NET developer).

Why I Quit: Job was intellectually unfulfilling, company completely fails the Spolsky Test (I don't want to sound like a prima donna, but I've been asking for a semi-new laptop and second monitor since I started, either of which would have increase my productivity significantly), little opportunity for career growth. I’ve also realized that I am lucky enough to enjoy a profession that is in demand despite the current economic climate.

What I'll be doing with my newfound free time: Between working nearly full-time as a .NET developer (35+ hours a week) and being a full-time student, I haven't had time to learn the data structures/algorithms basics that my course curriculum hasn’t covered (which I find genuinely interesting). I'll be spending time learning that stuff, along with working on some personal projects and improving my Ruby on Rails chops. I might even read a book or take a nap.

I'll also be looking for a job. So, if in a month or two you would like to bring on an entry level developer who is refreshed, has recently broadened his skillset and is eager to learn new things, my email is in my profile.
Grooveshark didn't start licensing anything from major labels until extremely recently. They built their userbase on unlicensed music.
For the other side:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3318009

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3318173
And thats the mathematics that few get to ever experience. It's sad.
I'm ready to take the full-time plunge into Linux. Spend too much time goofing off on my Mac, so I'd like to set it up as a pure development machine and use an iPad for leisure.

Would you guys recommend Arch Linux as a good starting point? I've used Ubuntu before, and I agree with Sivers's take ("too hand-holdy").
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I have a client who is a payment processor who specializes in high risk transactions. Paypal is not. The problem though is that Paypals definition of risk can be overinclusive to the point of being arbitrary. When I had my account frozen, I was told it was because my wife had sent money to someone else who was accused of violating the ToS. So here we have an account suspended because someone from the same IP address sent money to someone else, and that third party was accused of violating the ToS. I wrote them a nice nastygram, stopped taking credit cards for a while, and later started up again with Amazon Payments instead.

Fraud of this sort of thing is a difficult thing to solve. I don't envy Paypal's position here. However, their approaches are unprofessional at best....
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First, thanks for the excellent reply. I'll try to address your points objectively, but this company is my heart and soul (not to mention my financial future) so I get emotionally invested quite easily.

"How do you know he's progressing faster?" > I watch his site develop as I develop mine, and he's got better versions of everything in place. My charts are static, his are dynamic. My page load times suck, his are fluid. And so on. We COULD iterate faster but we do not have the money to hire. We're making enough money to pay our editors and writers, and the founders are taking a paltry salary (I still do a bit of freelance writing to keep my bills paid), but not enough to pay for developers. This is why I have taken the helm and learned to hack!

My partner is also a lawyer, and handles everything related to tax, marketing, legal and bookkeeping. The competitor's revenue model is basically "run ads". I dont think he's even considering it as a real business. He's only a problem as long as his service is free, mind you. Once he starts charging, we have the advantage.

We don't "claim" to have a working paywall model; it's there. We are pulling down 5 figures of yearly revenue from subscriber fees (most of which goes towards overhead right now). We are indeed a very niche site, and our new product is targeted directly at both business and end-user customers within this niche. It's a product they're BEGGING for!

I'm about to give my business beta testers their first shot at the software, as soon as I can figure out why the whole thing is running so damned slow. From there I will have a tremendous advantage over the Other Guy. I'm learning as fast as I can, but I still -fear- that its not fast enough.

"The fact that you said that the "[...] products will be functionally identical once both are deployed and out of beta" is a red-flag" >> Hmm. I guess that's a bit short sighted of me. The concepts are the same, so I'm hoping my execution beats his.

I don't care if he copies my existing work; I care if he beats me to market and gets the publicity he needs to give away what I intend to charge for.

There is a lot of fear in my post because that's exactly what I'm feeling; its a new feeling for me. My site blazed a new trail in my industry; no one had dedicated an entire platform to our area before, and we haven't really experienced competition.

The competition only underscores just how good this idea is, and how important it is to get it to market ASAP.

I think I have to ensure our execution is better, our CORE feature set is comparable (not talking bells and whistles, i mean The One Thing that makes the product what it is), and we have the platform he lacks. Thanks again for taking the time to address this. Entrepreneurship is sometimes emotionally draining and it's great to have a community that understands the feelings that can sometimes crop up.

I guess its back to coding, then!
>In this case, this person obviously doesn't get it. "Why? These are my customers!" <- Right, which is why they are not "donating".

You seem to be confusing different things. After being unable to use donations, they tried to use sales. And paypal said no. That's the context of what you're quoting, after donations had been given up on.
That would be like hiring designers based on whether they know photoshop or coreldraw.
Just curious cause I don't know how it works... do you just find a way to create a foreign US company and run through that?
"used by the non-profit" <- I'm sorry, maybe I'm confused, but as far as I know there are no "non-profits" involved here; which entity are you speaking of here?
Well, the people who down-voted my post disagree with you. Apparently it is controversial. But I'm glad you don't have an issue with disagreement as without it there is no debate.

Does the software crash during "normal" workflows? Without defining normal, I would say yes. But then again, I have various software packages crash during my workflow. Does that mean all of them are "bad"?

Is the software sluggish when compared to other similar software/platform? Define sluggish. What if on my machine Firefox is sluggish in loading new tabs but Chrome is sluggish in closing old tabs? Can I call them both "bad software"?

Is the memory consumption unacceptably high? What's unacceptably high? My work machine has 10 gigs of RAM while my home machine has two. Which one should I judge the high memory usage on? What was I doing at the time that might have added to the level? Does the high memory usage cause sluggishness on my machine? Is it because of a memory leak in the browser, a memory leak in a third-party plugin or maybe because I just felt like leaving thirty tabs open for more than 24 hours?

My point being that there are way too many factors involved for someone to just label software "bad" when so many people do not report the same problems. People act as if their experience and opinion is common knowledge when most likely it is not. What if the problems, whether real or perceived, are due to new features in the software? Should we all just roll back to Firefox 3.6?

Now, is it possible that Chrome is just a better browser than Firefox? Of course, I'm not disputing that at all and I would tend to agree. I just have an issue with labels that don't necessarily apply.

Now show me Firefox having these problems for, say, a substantial number of people then I would have to agree that there's an issue. But I'm talking something significant, such as 60 to 70% failure rate and then you have me. Even then it's possible the problem can be fixed so that it is no longer "bad software", but I'm sure no one will listen at that point. Because it seems that in these debates the negative ("bad experience") far outweighs the positive ("good experience") to the point that my positive opinion of Firefox means nothing.

If that's the criteria to label a product as "bad software", then I say that all of it is "bad software".

Or should I just say; "Chrome good, Firefox bad!" to avoid down votes?
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I couldn't agree more! My all-time favourite in that regard:
http://russ.cox.usesthis.com/
Paid. Support. Where was I on that one? That's a GREAT selling point for us; we're known to have an insanely fast customer support response time, which we can sell.
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console doesn't work to well with the xoom keyboard.
Looks like the focus goes away and comes back with every key press. I suspect android tablet wasnt a target for the demo :-)
Bitcoin is an option.
I don't see how Paypal is liable for taxes collected, so I don't see how that should concern them.
PayPal does not let you ship items to addresses that are not the billing address. General policy, in their TOS, no surprises. OP is also not a registered non profit, though the real issue doesn't really have anything to do with the charitable nature of it.
C|Net / download.com has been doing this a while. They're even doing it to companies that pay to have their product(s) promoted on download.com. From what I understand, a C&D isn't necessary. If you email cnet-installer@cbsinteractive.com, they will remove the wrapper from your application.

BTW, here's a discussion about this from ~three months ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2910554
I was wondering the same thing. The most generous interpretation I can give Mixtent is that the survey asked its respondents to rate these developers as team players and then found that those developers who tended to be ranked as above average team players also tended to be ranked as better overall engineers. But in general, this "finding" destroyed all credibility the article might have had with me.
It's great if you want the opposite of hand-holdy. The Arch docs boldly ask you to solve your own problems before asking for help.

That said, I loved Slackware and FreeBSD when I ran them. Arch has more in common with those OSes than the Debian or Red Hat derived Linux distros. If you have the patience to learn, you will likely break it in just like Derek describes.
2) "A little known fact about Google, for instance, is that its investment in Python (one of the three languages the company uses for its work)" - Gonna go out on a limb here and state that Google uses more than three languages

For a long time the 3 "approved" languages for use in production systems at Google were Java, Python and (a subset of) C++ (Javascript was a fourth language, but was a special case - used only in the browser) [1][2].

I believe that has changed recently with Sawzel, Go, Dart, etc, but he is correct in principle.

[1] http://panela.blog-city.com/python_at_google_greg_stein__sdf...

[2] http://dave-ford.blogspot.com/2008/01/googles-4-approved-pro...
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i'll check it out.

split-panes are a great feature. glad to see they're on the roadmap.
I have a few biz owners who are actually waiting for a beta invite already. I just put a nice UI on top of it last night so it looks like a 'product', and I'll be giving them the keys to test drive as soon as I rewrite my queries so it doesn't take 5+sec to render a graph and 20+ sec to pull historical pricing data.

Query run times, above all, is where my inexperience shows the most and is by far the most hamstringing part of this process.
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TBH you might be correct. I don't think that's what is currently optimized for, but even there, it still works pretty damn well. Haters gonna hate...
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have you thought about attempting to accomplish these things in the evenings? once school is done and all that
There is someone paying to do this port right now: https://www.odesk.com/jobs/Port-linux-bit_~~2416926dd8d9a963...

In my last job, I used colinux with Windows 7 and it was a match made in heaven. But when I moved, I had to choose the next best thing, which is Mac OS X, because of lack of support for 64-bit windows.
Im guessing this rant was submitted and upvoted by the developers of Stripe. Paypal works.