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I don't think so. He clearly realizes the problem lies with him and his business, but manages to blame someone else anyway. It doesn't just take realization. It takes action.

You have to realize that the fault lies with you and then you have to act on that realization. Seems he realized things were going sour, but his solution was to jump in with the daily deals sites, instead of fixing the real problem with his business.

You can use Groupon in one of two ways.

You can sell off excess inventory. In the case of a restaurant, this may mean running a "breakfast only" deal if most of your clientele comes in for lunch and dinner. Or you can run a "dinner only" if most of your customers are a breakfast and lunch crowd. There are other creative ways and I have truly seen "Groupon done well" in this way. You focus the Groupon customers to fill gaps.

The second way you can use Groupon is to temporarily keep your failing business afloat. If this is all you do, your business will fail. It'll just take longer. Groupon is like a credit card. They'll give you cash fast and you better use that cash to fix whatever is wrong with your business. If you simply sit on your ass and do daily deals, you're just delaying the inevitable. Don't blame Groupon, blame yourself for not fixing your business.
Reminds me of the communication misunderstandings around the word "takeoff" that is both a noun and a verb, which led to the Tenerife plane disaster.

The KLM captain said "we are at takeoff" meaning "we are going to takeoff" while the tower understood "we are at takeoff position", and replied "ok". The captain then proceeded to take off without proper clearance.

After the crash, the word takeoff was removed form general usage in ATC communications.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster#Commu...
> "We've fallen into a trap of fighting over existing talent," Favaron said, "and that's a zero-sum game that hurts everyone."

If they've made an agreement to not recruit from each other, they're in violation of anti-trust law.

Google, Apple, and at least one other company got busted for this in SV about three years ago.
Putting all of Pulp Fiction on YouTube hardly counts as a remix.
I'm tired of the articles on HN telling me what to do.
Mind-boggling still. Saying this as someone who had a MSc thesis in realistic image synthesis, in 90s.
Yeah, I agree with that :)
There are also women who have been hurt by the feminist way of life. They just want to be submissive, raise a family and let their man take care of everything difficult and challenging. But other women are shaming them into having an active career and delaying the starting of family.

I don't support any dogmatic approach into shaming people doing anything. People should have accurate information without distortion and lies. They should have different options presented them in a pro/con fashion. They should be able to be themselves without feeling bad about it. Only shaped by harsh reality and their own interests, not by the opinions and preconceived notions of other people.
I come from Tucson, Arizona actually :) it's the same type of cocoon there, though Tucson is starting to get more conservative as people like me move out (this month even!) and more conservative people move in.

Seeing people smoke pot openly in the streets still messes with me.
Very few women are actually stay-at-home moms, and it is only even an option for a narrow proportion of women married to upper-middle-class and rich men.

The women who are choosing not to do start ups aren't choosing not to in order to stay at home or work part-time. They are choosing to continue working for other people, never trying out their ideas. We are all poorer for it.

Additionally, of course, plenty of people argue that more men should take on a greater share of household tasks and primary responsibility for raising children. Men even just taking the paternity leave to which they are already legally entitled could do great things for gender equality in the work place.
A lot of people disagree with you. When talking to folk in their 50's (I'm in my 20's) about this stuff, I often hear how intuitive it is that both copyright owners and patent owners should be paid for their work. Not just to create incentives, but because it's just in the absence of law.
> The price tag puts it out of reach of all but "business people," so the screeching fringe will probably keep its mouth shut.

I'm afraid the price tag will mostly put it out of reach of most but drug dealers and similar undesirable people.
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Though having children makes people less happy than they would otherwise be, so if that's the criteria... ;-)
I think you hit the nail on the head there with the recipe analogy. Copyright infringement is a lot more like using your own recipe to make your pizza, while depriving the pizza vendor of a "potential" sale, than outright "stealing" his pizza.

But even this doesn't make a perfect analogy, because when someone pirates something, he may not deprive the owner of a sale, because he wouldn't afford to buy it (or make it) in the first place.

However, the recipe example is still a lot closer to reality than outright theft.
Because she think women are more happy by marrying and having kids. She is happier that way so she assume all women are the same.
I am sad to see you downvoted because you are right. Wikipedia says 1.4% for 2010 in the USA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_inflation_...

I'd call quite significant and an important factor if you compare money over time.
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It does if you reorder the scenes in chronological order.
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I'm just thinking out loud and nitpicking here, I don't disagree with your comment at all. I know you just meant it as an example, but writing down the ingredients and making your own batch isn't actually illegal. What I find somewhat interesting is that writing down the recipe on the back of the box and publishing it (not verbatim, but re-written) is also not illegal. I guess recipes fall under the category of things that might be patentable, but I'm not sure. It might be an interesting avenue of study and comparison for someone wanting to use it as an example to illuminate software and algorithm patents, which are often compared to recipes in intro to CS and programming textbooks. I have no idea if this is something that would yield an interesting explanation or not, as I'm not a lawyer or very well informed on patent and copyright law.
Putting it in a different order does count. The problem there is that you can experience the remix instead of the original, essentially replacing it. So it's on the border.

But most of other cases are when derived product can't replace the original. In this case, we should adamantly demand that the creation of derived work is by default allowed, or else we lose all creative work that could be derived from original, which is a very bad thing in the same moral system where you operate.
I left Austin and even I know that Texas is in general much friendlier than the big metro areas in California. :-)

I agree, the OP needs to hang out with more Austinites. Unfortunately, the reason I left Austin was precisely because the ratio of "Austinites" to "Transplants" was headed in the wrong direction FAST. I've been gone almost 4 years now and I hear that it's only getting worse.

Austin still has pockets of cool left, but it's nothing like it was in the 80's, 90's and 00's. It's been on the steady decline for decades.

All that said, it's probably a much better choice than most anywhere else in Texas and probably the south/southwest.
Getting into a place where Internet connectivity is either not available or is very spotty helps. I've done some of my best programming in trains.

Sure, not having access to documentation sucks, but not having access to HN and Twitter compensates for it well :-)
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Under 2011, you can add "Facebook starts putting everything your friends read on certain sites into your timeline but won't let you read them without opting in to the insanity as well": http://alanhogan.com/facebook-pseudo-links
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This is why we can't discuss sensitive subjects like this. People always take an innocent comment, which seems to be borne out by observational evidence at the very least, and then twist it to mean something entirely different.

>There is no evidence that women naturally want to only raise children.

Do you see what you did there? You (perhaps unconsciously) inserted "only" in the parent's statement, completely changing its meaning. Then you attack your modified statement as being sexist. Furthermore, nothing in OPs statement implied there was something wrong with a woman who chose differently.

Discussions on subjects like these would be much more productive if we could just take statements at face value without assuming all kinds of implied sexism.
Oops, you're right, I didn't read the OP carefully and forgot that Pulp Fiction isn't originally in chronological order.
I grew up in the tail start the generation who doesn't understand copyright (though I do, having been a rapid FSF supporter).

The thing is copyright no longer makes sense. It used to, but today we have so many movies, tv shows, albums and books that you couldn't possibly read/watch/hear just one tenth of one percent of them in your entire lifetime even if you did nothing else. Copyright was supposed to enable society to be enriched. The constitution doesn't demand that congress make a copyright law, it merely enables it to do so. The moment the public no longer believes that copyright is likely to benefit it, it can simply stop offering it.

So that nobody makes the argument that you take away their property or that the owners somehow has a moral right to it. Nobody is taking their property away from them. What we take away is the (temporary) monopoly they were granted.

And we could properly still put limitations on the commercial use of copyrighted works -- if that had been used as an example, a lot more hands would have gone up among the students.
It's an exploit and it will get fixed, but I'd like to see what people can do with root access. Will we see vanilla Android ports?
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I am some what torn about this; it seems akin to "stop telling women to do math."

I think it's a matter of semantics; no one (at least in these pro-woman-startup posts) is telling particular women that they need to do a start up. They are encouraging women to go into a male-dominated field.

I strongly believe that evolutionary biology sas on-average gifted men and women with different types of strengths; and while cultural idiosyncrasies have exasperated the 'problem' of a dearth of women in engineering, etc; there is also the issue of playing to our natural strengths and preferences.

So, of course women (and men) should do whatever the hell they want; and be encouraged in that regard, and, discouraged from falling into stereotypes.
Corruption and religious zealotry aren't what's preventing legalization of weed. The majority of the country doesn't support it yet. The attitude of legalization advocates (I support legalization) that anyone who disagrees with them must be corrupt or in the thrall of some megachurch preacher harms the movement to legalize.

The recent California initiative is a good example of this. Rather than respecting people's reservations about legalization and finding the baby-step measure that would do the most good (e.g. keep the largest number of people out of prison or at least spare them career-destroying criminal records), California legalizers instead proposed a wish list policy that voters rejected.

There's a parallel in here somewhere with copyright legislation; it doesn't help that copyright reform advocates on the ground (ie, not Lawrence Lessig) are schizophrenic about the issue, sentimentalizing a position that reduces to virtual abolition of copyright while at the same time barking at people about GPL and working in jobs that more or less depend on copyright themselves.
Hope it all works for you. It would be great to find someone to convert the documentation to epub and mobi formats.
Well, if your number one priority is to have a young population (whatever it is), to keep the economy grinding, then that would be a solution. But then you're using people just as interchangeable economic entities, i.e "I need X young workers so that I have that economic outcome".

If, on the other hand, your priority is to preserve your way of live, your country's culture, etc, then encouraging immigration as thus, can lead to many problems, something a lot of countries can attest to.

Now, it's true that historically the US had been a "melting pot", which cultures joining and contributing, etc, but this is a notion of the past in an era with cheap travel, instant communications with the homeland etc. It's not 1890 anymore, when say immigrant workers had to more or less adapt to the "american way of life", separated as they were from their home culture. With a large enough immigrant population, as an immigrant you don't have to "melt" in the pot at all, you don't even have to try to learn english. Especially if the immigrant population, because it's unskilled, has no major aspirations besides some low end job.
I travel all around the United States, moving every three to six weeks, and I completely agree with your assessment of San Francisco, having just spent a month living there.

San Francisco is actually kind of disgusting. It is one of the dirtiest cities in the United States and there are literally-crazy homeless people on every corner. In many ways, it is dirtier than Manhattan; it makes Boston look sterile. There is human excrement everywhere, and serious crime issues. I passed a fountain that was effectively aerosolizing human shit (the homeless were pooping in it), which smelled about how you may imagine. It is not uncommon to walk through a cloud of pot smoke then to be hit in the face with the foul stench of waste; the mixture is revolting.

The locals are also out of touch with reality. They compare Market St. to the Champs-Élysées in Paris which only seems to demonstrate that they've never been to Paris. There are idiotic cancer warnings on everything; hotels, gas stations, parking garages, Starbucks, shopping centers, health clubs, and french fry boxes. There are Idiocracy warning alarms at the exit to every parking garage, presumably to prevent the deaths of the vast number of people that are killed every year by cars exiting parking garages. There is a tax on toasted subs. Idiotic protesters were allowed to block Market St., halting street cars, rerouting buses, disrupting commutes, and closing the MUNI station while blathering about how it was there first amendment right to do so (it's not). In short, the place is backward. There seems to be such a political desire to tackle huge societal issues and minor non-issues that the city has failed to master the very basics, and is unable to even manage human waste.
Downvoted for projecting opinions on to parent that are completely unwarranted. Pointing out what seem to be tendencies that a majority hold does not imply there is anything "wrong" with those who deviate from the norm, nor does it imply any attempt at "fixing" the deviation.
When I'm disconnected, I tend to just leave a bunch of comments in code with ONLINE in them and what I need to look up and recover my train of thought.

I then switch to working on a different part of the program, or a different program altogether, and come back to them when I'm next online.

This has worked pretty well for me so far, as long as I'm not under a time crunch.
> This is the 21st century. Are we really still talking about "natural imperatives"?

People (and in particular their brains) have not evolved significantly for a very very long time.

A lot of modern unhappiness is caused by people doing things which they are socially expected to do but which go against their primal urges.

The feminist movement is perhaps the classic demonstration of this. Many women feel that they should go and get that high-powered job etc. due to social pressure, but I think many of them would be happier if they didn't.

This problem isn't limited to women, of course. Men also feel social pressures to behave in more cooperative and less ambitious/aggressive ways and this causes issues for them too.
It's not a "traditional gender role", it's biology.

>If nothing else, note that women are having fewer and fewer children, later and later - clearly, they are feeling this "natural imperative" less and less.

On the other hand, maybe they are being misinformed and thus unwittingly making choices they later come to regret:

http://www.npr.org/2011/12/01/142725547/many-women-underesti...
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what is this piece arguing for?

Why does it have to be arguing for something? Isn't it posing a question?
I had to double check I didn't write that comment and forgot about it :)

That's spot on for all my startups interviews in sf.
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It may be true, but I'm inclined to think that they just got used to things being that way, so it feels normal to them.
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We dug up the original Framemaker files from the 90s and have been converting them to be processed by Sphinx (http://sphinx.pocoo.org/) into various formats. That should start to be included with the next release.
But then, Ruby is an interpreted language and this fact is re-stated throughout the book. With Just In Time compilation, this could become a non-problem, but I'm not sure how well Ruby can be optimized due to its very dynamic nature.

Ruby 1.8 is interpreted, in the classic sense. Ruby 1.9, the current production version, 'compiles' to bytecode internally. TRPL was written when 1.8 was still the production version of Ruby (although it does cover most, but not all, of 1.9's syntax). Also, JRuby's JIT works well and typically yields better-than-MRI performance after a short running time.

The lack of a formal specification and the ugly grammar put me off.

It's not entirely complete yet but a formal specification, targeted for ISO, is on the way - there's a 300€ PDF floating around somewhere ;-) Due to the length of the process, it focuses on Ruby 1.8 for now, I believe. More interesting, however, is the http://rubyspec.org/ project, but the MRI core team's engagement with it isn't strong from what I've heard.

And while Ruby certainly has its warts, calling the language "ugly" is like calling a Mercedes ugly when parked next to a Ferrari ;-) Lisp's syntactic simplicity is certainly beautiful but compared to mainstream languages, Ruby fares well.

I can see the appeal of Ruby, but there seems little it has to offer to me that Common Lisp cannot provide.

Certainly. That's a good thing. If you can be more productive with Common Lisp, its ecosystem suits you, and you're not a huge OO nut (which I'm inferring), there's nothing particularly compelling about Ruby. For certain folks though, including me, Ruby has significant advantages in many areas.
In my opinion, Postgresql + hstore + PLv8js (Javascript as a language for stored procedures, see http://code.google.com/p/plv8js/) could really rock the world if it became an accepted standard and got some people behind it.

It's not so great if you start using something and one year later see that the original authors lost interest and move on, leaving you with 10k lines of code that depend on a pray-for-no-bugs unsupported piece of software.
Definitely, asserting non-blocking flags for the socket options is also a good idea.
It's just a hypothesis. Obviously I don't have enough information to know for sure.
I think Nirvana picked up a thread that had already been running through REM and the Replacements and that started with Big Star; I'm hesitant to give him too much credit for the an idea as big as "revitalizing serious pop music", but it's hard to put a finger on why I listen to Nirvana so much more than I listen to The Replacements.

Love John Cale. Not so much a Lou Reed fan.

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Do you realize $10 has a higher value in developing countries? If not, I am surprised you are on HN!
Let's skip past whether OpenDylan is ready for production use ("No") and pretend it is.

I'd absolutely use Dylan over those languages in at least some contexts.

Dylan hits a sweet spot between performance and flexibility. Even the existing OpenDylan ought to perform better than most of the languages you named, for example. But the level of flexibility is far greater: you get full-blown macros (Clojure, Common Lisp, Scheme), optional static typing (Racket), a really pleasant syntax that doesn't make me use a pile of parentheses, has a great object system based on multiple dispatch...

There's an awful lot to love there. The only reason I don't use it is because the compiler implementations have historically been very poor, and the library compatibility worse. If this project goes well, I'd definitely take another look.
And the massive amounts of water pollution from all of the industrial interests that have been around for most of the 20th century.

It's what made Wisconsin great but it's also a horrible legacy to leave the population with.

It sure is beautiful in the spring and summer. Door County is amazing.
Thus begins yet another unendable initiative. Differences exist, therefore we say there could be inequality. Since there could be inequality, better to consciously bias against the alleged inequality, just in case the inequality actually exists. And since it's impossible to prove its nonexistence, better to simply state that it exists. After all, there HAS to exist some bias somewhere, no matter how significant. It's safer to think this way because you avoid being labeled as "against equality", and can enjoy life with the other "enlightened".

I just call it pure cowardice.
That is a good point. Another tag like TODO and FIXME :-)

I've noticed that I eventually get "push anxiety" when I work offline for longer periods. Once we even had to do a detour on a road trip from Poland to Helsinki to stop by a colleague's office in Sweden to be able to push code I had written on the way. I guess I simply don't trust my laptop...
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I had similar idea, most of the time I get cookie-cutter contracts and having a service that would provide additional value as vault would be useful
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Anybody using this with rails?

https://github.com/softa/activerecord-postgres-hstore