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Looking for programming advice
I'm a entrepreneur who is new to programming (just started to learn C). I have a couple of app and web ideas but I do not know anyone who can program. Are there local groups in Indy or Boston for programmer that you guys know of? Or are there any general advice that would be good for me to know? Thanks!
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Congratulations! That's a huge achievement!

One nice way to keep the momentum going is to provide ways to encourage users to tell others about your product. I don't mean just a "Share" button either.

Right now, you have a form of "virality" if a user does not fulfill his/her goals. But presumably, if users use your app well, they'll never have their embarrassing photo shared, and thus, the success of your app prevents your app from being shared. So are there ways to encourage users to want to promote your app?

For example:

I'm going to take a step back and think about what Aherk is really doing. Aherk is a useful tool using negative reinforcement to encourage goal achievement.

Ah, goal achievement. Is that something an individual would share with others? Perhaps. Some people like to brag about the goals they've achieved. Perhaps you can give users awards or badges for goals they've successfully done, then allow those awards to be shared on Facebook, Twitter, their blogs, etc. Ego gratification can be a good motivator too (albeit in a positive reinforcement kind of way, which is ironically diametric to your current system).

Also, what if a happy user of yours knows a friend who could use Aherk as well? Instead of just emailing your URL to the friend, what if there was a way to post Aherk to that friend's Facebook page or something? This could be accompanied by a playful taunt that the user could type in, such as, "I'll bet you're too chicken to Aherk yourself if you don't finish your paper by next week!" (This feature could potentially be abused, so if you consider this one, think it through some more.)

Hope this helps. Good luck!
Enom is definitely having issues getting whois data, although I was under the impression that Namecheap was now accredited and as such would have started communicating directly with the registry for .com and .net at least. Maybe not though.
I have the karma to burn to come out and say this should be on another site. Not only has it already been discussed all over the internet, it's been discussed here to death, and in any event, yet another drugs debate here isn't going to accomplish anything.
Perhaps the grandparent isn't making that great of an argument. But at the same time, I don't see you doing anything but arguing. And yet, I have no idea what you're arguing for. I assume that you're making the case that companies need to be more focused on collective action, but I don't really see any alternative vision compared to the grandparent.

That said, I don't think collectivism and individuality are mutually exclusive. If a company can be individualistic in a way that benefits society, what's the problem? Clearly there need to be some limits to what company owners can get away with. That's why society has laws. But it's especially naive to think that companies can be structures that act solely for the good of society with no benefit to the people that have invested in and work for them. Clearly, there needs to be some level of individualism granted to the people who make a company work. Otherwise, you'll have companies that spend so much time focusing on the good of everyone that they end up delivering for no one.
For independent publishers something as simple as tying their print sales together with digital sales. This is already pretty simple, but it needs to be stupid simple. You can guess your Amazon sales data pretty easily.

Bowker.com is alright, but it is difficult to compare say English translations of Spanish Experimental Prose Novellas to see if you are competitive in the market. You would be suprised how little independent publishers know about their competitive positions.
AS nobody (as far as I can tell) ever reads more than one (short) paragraph of any email - the key thing is to keep it short.

If you have two points to make then send two emails.

If you have three points to make - then call a meeting because if you send a third email then they will forget what you said in the first two.

Meetings are the way I punish the world for not reading my emails.
Few thousand? There are only 12 third powers below 1729: 1, 8, 27, 64, 125, 216, 343, 512, 729, 1000, 1331, 1728.

Spotting that 729 + 1000 almost is equal to 1728 is not hard, either. Everybody who has computed that list will have noticed it. Translating that observation into a concise, interesting description is not hard, either, but it does require creativity. That, he had way more than most. I wonder what he would have said about the pair 3^5 and 7^3 (243 and 343)
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Does eNom own NameCheap?

http://davezan.com/does-enom-own-namecheap.html

No, it seems they don't, but the article provides details on a longstanding partnership.
How are you looking for Editors? I know plenty of underemployed editors. Many with years of experience. Do you pay market rates?
Personally I think this should be considered a violation of their agreement with ICANN. There is nothing wrong with providing privacy protection on Whois data, but they should not be rejecting transfers nor should they be blocking legitimate email delivery.
Off the top of my head (there is more):

* Floats are printed without rounding

* You can write x = foo unless foo but not x = foo if ! foo
Microsoft has little choice but to be patient and keep pushing. If they fail in mobile, their business business will eventually leave them. Their consumer computing business is already deteriorating. They must soldier on. The cost of failing is too high.
Turn on re-marketing as quickly as possible. You don't have to start paying for it right now but at least setup the tags so you can start cookie-ing new visitors - you can do this with Google Adwords. Feel free to contact me if you need help setting this up.

Press is the best way to leverage re-marketing.
This is a great plugin. And, if someone created this for Grubhub and Foodler with integrated Yelp reviews I would be forever grateful. I can't count the number of times I've had to do the yelp crosscheck on those sites.
It runs very slow on my 1st gen iPad
Well gee wizz, here's why - everytime I go on Hulu it says I'm not allowed to see that video in my country....
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> Legally, there is no such a thing as a "business".

The US Internal Revenue Service would probably disagree with you there. If I didn't file Schedule C ("Profit or Loss From Business") every year, I'd be in prison.

> Is an HFT proprietary trading firm, trading its own money on an anonymous exchange, with no customers or clients, not a business?

An HFT with no "customers" is simply an agent of its owners. The only sense in which you could call it a business is that it happens to have the form of an incorporated entity, which many businesses also happen to have the form of. A is part of B, C is part of B, does that mean all As are Cs?

You've latched on to one of the bizarre artifacts of the modern American legal system, not a fundamental principle of business.
Are you on ios? Lags behind my touch on a galaxy nexus.
This is a strawman. Clearly mhartl is doing something good for society. If his goal in helping society is so that he can build a pool of money he can dive into like Scrooge McDuck, why do you care? Is helping society only good if the person who does a good deed only cares for helping starving orphans and lost puppies?

The only time having self interest is wrong is if that self interest hurts society. What's wrong with furthering your own interest if society benefits in the process?
I don't know that the map itself offers much, but as the OP stated, it does help you quickly see who in your or any other state supports SOPA. I didn't realize there was anything below the fold though; when I see a large map like that, I assume it's the whole page and ignore the scroll bar, but that's just me.

As an aside, I learned that Ben Quayle in Arizona, who serves as the Chairman for the Science Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation [1], supports this bill. That made me especially sad; I had, perhaps foolishly, expected someone in such a position to understand the evils of this bill.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Science_Sub...
Thanks for your explanation. I know I like knowing /how/ drugs / medical treatments actually work, and I think many of the people on here also appreciate this.

Doctors, in the US at least, are a bit less than helpful when you ask about this kind of stuff, and I've had more than one actually act offended when asked about how/why what they're prescribing works. I know that in IT, if a client asks us how something works, I'm more than happy to explain, or at least point them in the right direction and link them to some documentation and/or how-to articles. With doctors, I typically get more of a "it just does" / "it's complicated and you wouldn't understand" / [very technical explanation, not even trying to make it make sense to laypersons].
Just an interesting idea, have you checked if people without the carrier specific build has the same problems? I have a feeling that all the customization that HTC and other vendors have to do for the carriers in the US is adding to even more negative effect to the bad update cycles.
Watermarking media can't be an answer to piracy. We already had the discussion with music years ago. Imagine, you loose your external harddrive with tons of your legally purchased media on it (all watermarked)—the founder makes a huge torrent of your media and puts it on Bittorrent for two years. What would you do then?

Watermarking could be a great way to protect IP but just this use case shows its vulnerability.
With shared information and rational actors (unrealistic, I know) stock prices should reflect long term expectation, even in the short term.
And I'm saying that the perception of "honorable" was obviously very different than what we would consider "honorable" to be today if murdering his accuser and getting away with it improved that perception.
The first webhost/registrar I used closed down my site (that I had paid yearly for) and made it annoying to move my domain away because I was hosting videos (of myself and friends) on the website. Apparently there was a clause in their terms that I couldn't host any type of video file on there. This was back in 2003; youtube didn't exist yet. Anyway, I moved the domain to godaddy and the website to somewhere else and had no issues for years.
Person A ignores his accuser.

Person B murders his accuser and goes on with life.

How exactly is B more accountability? As far as I know, Dick Cheney hasn't murdered any of his accusers.
Local groups I couldn't really help you with, but general advice, I probably could.

C is a great language for understanding the deep inner workings of a computer (some people I've worked with claim that it's "assembler with a nicer syntax", but I"m not quite sure I'd go that far)

For web work, PHP is the most similar in syntax to C, but I'm not sure that it's really a great starting point (it's really easy to learn, but the people who learn to program in PHP early on seem to be blissfully unaware of... well... the last 30+ years of programming theory)

I would suggest python as a good place to look for building web apps. It will also give you the advantage of a different perspective on how programming languages should work, look, and feel. Variety is pretty important, imo, for really understanding what programming languages are capable of, and people who say you should learn only their one favourite language are pretty short sighted.

For an easy resource for getting into some basic python (that will also give you a bunch of background in an easy-to-digest way) I suggest buying Z. A Shaw's "Learn Python The Hard Way" - http://learnpythonthehardway.org/

That's the opinion of one programmer, though, and I'll shut up now before everyone else jumps in and tells you that "C is the one true language" or that "C is an outdated dinosaur", or that "If you're not using Ruby, we won't talk to you", or whatever else really passionate people like to say.

Learn other languages. It'll help you to understand them all better.
I'm not sure if this covers C++ only, but here's what Stroustrup has to say:

"In C++, the definition of NULL is 0, so there is only an aesthetic difference. I prefer to avoid macros, so I use 0."
It's true, but I have to marvel at how slow they are or how poorly or dirtily encapsulated their modifications must be. The CM team already has ports running on many devices and is in progress on getting many of their features and customizations merged in. Enough that I was shocked yesterday at several things my phone did because of the CM9 kang I'm running. And these are all a bunch of guys (I don't know of any CM female devs to be honest) working in their spare time.
I'm not arguing against open data model or users' contributions. On the contrary, I think it's great. I merely wanted to point out that at least for now it's not good enough. I'm also missing route planning/directions, however I may have missed it while browsing the site.
"I read the post and it's mentioned many times that OSM is as good as Google Maps."

And it's also mentioned repeatedly that they were perfectly willing to continue with Google Maps until they had a bad sales experience and were estimated a figure that they couldn't pay.

When you say that and you put the charging issue third, it makes everything else look like a rationalization.

ETA: And as I go to OpenStreetMaps and see it struggle to serve me a page showing my house (and showing exactly the same wrong place for my house that Google Maps does, because it's using the exact same data), it doesn't much make a case for anything but "well, at least it's free".
Is it really a big problem that the Galaxy S can not be updated to ICS? It is still a perfectly working phone. Most users are probably not even aware that there are newer versions of Android. And why should they care?
That's pretty easy to do, I'll try to hack this together one of these weekends :).
Bastiat FTW:

http://bastiat.org/en/twisatwins.html#disbanding_troops
It's only a witch-hunt when the accusations aren't true.
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This is exactly what I was looking for over the weekend - thank you!!
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1. Demand creation-
On your front page it would be cool to see "Jane D. lost 10 lbs by using our service", etc.

2. Get social!
Tweet with people. Engage. Tweet examples, etc.
Yah definitely was finding myself doing the exact same thing... I decided to write it when I almost watched a movie that had like 20% on RT, but Netflix said it was 4.5* for me.
Yeah, it's like SOPA 2.0. Where are my funny cat pictures?
http://www.namecheap.com/
I have dropped the server side frameworks in favor of Dojo, jQuery and Backbone. I use JAX-RS as my service layer to provide RESTful services to the newer stack. I have seen more and more developers abandoning the server side page frameworks in favor of the JavaScript frameworks and a REST API. JAX-RS with the JPA is a pretty nice set up for developing modern web apps, and I think we will see it's adoption increase for those that elect to use Java for their back end.
Thanks for your feedback. Have you installed 1.0 and played with it yet? We've tried to address the first time user a bit better.

If you have specific instructional material you think should be added, we would be delighted to receive a pull request.

Thanks again for the feedback, we do appreciate it.
Also, sometimes you really need some text beside your indicator arrow. On the native email app on the iPad, my Dad repeatedly cannot figure out how to reply to an email (despite it being the principle thing he wants to do), because the icon (a curved arrow) lies among 3 other icons of equal obscurity (to him).

Another compromise solution is to put text on the page, but to grey it out, or otherwise make it less visually distinctive according to it's lack of importance.
If we're talking about small computers that are okay to be announced but not 100% ready to ship, I think the Open Pandora (http://www.open-pandora.org/) deserves mention.

There are some ... production kinks left to iron out, but I'm sure we'll see them shipping with some kind of predictability in, say, two months time.

Currently production is being re-targeted to Germany, with what seems to be awesome results, so far. I'm very impressed by the guys behind this project, if I'm sounding very much tongue-in-cheek that's just because I bought mine in March of 2009, and am still waiting for it to ship. :)
Maybe. I think that you're at least partially right, but I also think it has a lot to do with the Christian values that affect our laws way more than they should (see also: abortion laws in USA.)

>Its purpose it to line the pockets of the politicians who support it.
I would say that it's more for the large pharmaceutical companies. Politicians are cheap these days, and the profits from the "war on drugs" are orders of magnitude larger than the money given to politicians to support it. The ATT/T-Mo merger "only" had $9 million in lobbying support -- an order of magnitude less than they stand/stood to lose if the deal fell through REF: http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/12/09/attmay.have.tr... .
Other than open street maps, Map Quest and CloudMade (pay) are there any map Apis that let you download the tiles in a desktop application?
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samlev, thanks for the advice!
Play! framework is way above anything else I've tried in Java.
Yes. I posted to this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2158522 outlining some of the unfortunate history of war and militarism changing the face of what was originally a more libertarian (small L) form of government in the U.S. If I were to expand that comment I would add the role Wilsonian Internationalism played in making War a good thing, if not a moral obligation. War becomes a euphemism for any given social engineering project (war on poverty, war on cancer, war on obesity, war on drugs).
As this is in beta, if it sells or not is something I still don't know - so first I'll see how it goes with these kinds of graphs, but hearing more ideas is very useful to be able to do variations and see if and how they matter. For now my main concern is bugfixing and preparing to be able to sell, but then I'll work again on the refinement of the product itself.

In my summary I made the intentional choice of showing only the essential info. I hope to find out soon enough if that is exactly the information that my target is most interested in - my prospective customer likes it. But that's just one.

As for it being a dashboard or not, with content that is all above the fold... I could make the page liquid by adapting the size of the gauges and pie charts to your resolution, or just reduce their default sizes some to have everything above the fold with most resolutions. I'll consider that.

For the influence graph: Yes, the position on the axes is that of the center of the dot, so ryah in the diagram is less influential than nodejscommunity even having almost 10 times its followers. How is that? I don't calculate influence only based on your followers, but also on how much you tweet (in general and on the specific subject), how much you're retweeted or cited... that's why it's interesting to see more dimensions in that graph. The dimensions aren't independant from one another, and from that graph you can get a very good idea not just about how influential a user is, but also why/how.

But you made me realize that I need to explain that graph even better. I'll try to address this in my next iteration ;)

EDIT PS: I'll also add that the horizontal bars you linked are a good alternative especially if you have a target to reach. With negative/positive numbers and no target, I should try them to see how they work.
Conversely, the mobs are already upset about bad behavior on GoDaddy's part. If Namecheap is right, this story gets even bigger and makes things even worse for GoDaddy.

If they're wrong, well, everyone is pissed at GoDaddy anyway, so this angle fades quietly from view.

I don't see the PR downside for Namecheap here.
What a marvelous discussion because it encourages the inherently self-absorbed to reveal their belief systems which nearly always include the worship of self, money, and power as their only true gods.

I highly recommend they all watch the Canadian Documentary 'The Corporation' which clearly illustrates why corporations ARE like psychopaths - and generally run by people who also meet the definition. The movie is available free online.

Corporations as they currently exist are inherently unethical and unsustainable because by focusing on short term gain and stock values they are destroying the real value they once had.

Either social responsibility and long term goals must be injected back into corporations or they need to be boycotted by everyone with a conscience or ideally have their corporate charters revoked.
The 3GS is still being manufactured and sold as new though.
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The first few thousand integers, and knew their properties quite well; that seems to be what is meant.
From Ann Arbor, Michigan here, where the STATE law says that possession is illegal, but locally it's a misdemeanour for non-medical and $25-100 fine. REF: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_laws_in_Ann_Arbor,_Mi...

If it's for medical use and you're all registered as a patient, it's now technically legal under local and state laws, but illegal under federal law.

TL;DR the laws are a mess and if the FBI catches you, you're still pretty screwed. We need to work on reforming the laws at a federal level, since that overrides all lower laws. It'd be at least cool to have the federal law just refuse to say one way or the other on marijuana, so that states could decide what is right for them.