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I'm pretty convinced that SOPA will become law. So I'm wondering if the next best way to fight it is to go with it? Get as many sites shut down as possible to get people to wake up and start noticing?
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You do realize that one with of the world regressing and less people living in poverty can both be true, right?

I'm quite familiar with the IMF report. That 1/5th was comprised mostly of former communist nations who's population was much worse off during the transition to market economies. That didn't always drop them into global poverty levels though.

There are plenty of bad things in the world, but the fact is that less people are starving to death now than 30 years ago and that is worth acknowledging.
Also, you can't buy them anywhere (except EBay). Probably why they've been forgotten by most people.
Facebook and dropbox both have high network effects and high lock in. Once your friends are on facebook, you won't want to leave and if your not on it yet, you will want to get on.

To me, they are clearly go big or go home style companies regardless of what small investment they started with.
same here I'm stuck with one last domain transfer, the one I'm most interested in transferring actually...
Ask HN: path to a freelance iPhone dev?
I currently work for a big company, and recently a small custom dev asked me to do some iPhone development for them (I dabble in iPhone programming in my spare time). I enjoy working with them, and would like to develop a career as an independent mobile developer, working remotely. I am not sure what steps to take.... Where do I find more clients? How do I market myself?
That's not a C feature only POSIX. Pointless still. Why does POSIX include useless containers like this and no real ones?
New funding is not an excuse to burn money. I am a bit concerned when you bring up a comment like "funding cell phones for our team". The majority of startups don't do that, if any does at all (as far as I am aware of). Even if you guys do get funding, ask yourself what you "need" vs what you "want" and buy things that will ultimately help the people on your team and the company itself move forward. If the company needs to buy computers because everyone has been using their own machine, fine. But getting funding isn't an excuse to splurge, it shouldn't change the fact that you guys should still optimize and stay lean.
A critical point in exposing the blatant contradiction and corruption at the core of the "war on drugs" argument.
Its not as clear when you are seeing traffic from a reseller like Namecheap. I can imagine that their query traffic comes through enom and their own systems depending on the TLD in question.
If you do a video, make sure it's relevant to your content. If all your video is of you talking - then imho it's a fail. As a visitor, the last thing I want to do is have to sit through a video stream which imparts no additional value beyond that which I would have got reading a transcript, and worse, I'm forced to listen at the speed of the speaker, rather than read at my speed.

The other problem with video is that it makes it very difficult to follow the idea that the article author mentions which is release early and then edit/polish later. Some people can present to a camera off-the-cuff and come across polished and succinct. Most can't however and tend to ramble, waffle, make terrible jokes or um and ahh to buy thinking time. Those types of unedited videos are painful to watch.

Which is not to say I disagree with Dan - I agree that video blogging is an untapped opportunity - I feel it's untapped because too many people think they just need to record an unedited 'on-the-fly' conversation or monologue and that constitutes a good video. Until people appreciate that you need to spend more effort on video to get the same quality of blog post as a 'text post', I think video will remain untapped.
glibc still includes similar code. (There are type-switch builtin functions in gcc that could have replaced it).
Thanks for the suggestions. Will get that info up asap.
Another example of a company in addition to J&J and P&G that the article mentions who focuses on customers is Amazon. Bezos recently was punished via a 30% drop in Amazon stock price because he is ploughing all his net income into the Kindle Fire, even though Amazon's revenue growth is exponential and has been for a decade.

Shareholders in the public market right now are focused on "value stocks" in the Buffet and Ben Graham sense and if you don't match value stock heuristics with a dividend and growing net income, you will be punished even if you're 100% focused on creating new customers.
I just added http://skillow.com/tour to give a simple how it works. Every item or listing now has a REPIN button, I'll work on making it more clear. Thanks!
It was buzzed around that Ubuntu would be their targeted distro but it doesn't support ARMv6.
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There are two devices in question here - the Galaxy S and the Galaxy Tab. Both of these are touchwiz devices. Samsung claims that adding TW to ICS will require more hardware (in particular, RAM) than these devices have.

One option would be to remove TW - the nexus s and galaxy s are near identical in hardware spec but the nexus s will be updated to ICS. The main difference being the nexus s is non-TW. However, for samsung, this is not really a viable option. Going from TW to ICS is a major change - things work differently under TW than stock android.

Their best "option" (ignoring costs) would be to find a way to minimise the amount of RAM TW uses and enable ICS on these older devices.

The galaxy s has already received froyo and gingerbread upgrades. What do people think is an "acceptable" upgrade timeframe?
I just got the e-mail from GoDaddy to ask if I wanted to allow or decline the transfer. I'm glad that got resolved. That was my one to test that I was doing things correctly before I moved about 20 other domains off GoDaddy.
I would use a full web hosted IDE, that way everyone can just click and they have a usable dev environment running. The mechanics of programming are orthogonal and often much harder than programming itself. Skip the dev env setup and go directly to solving problem.

Next, they need to understand WHY they are solving problems. Teach them high level concepts and then low level implementation.

Induction, recursion, depth first, breadth first traversal. The New Turing Omnibus is a great place to start for algorithms plus applications. Python is OK, but I think too mutable. Scheme is way more powerful, maybe something like a cross between Scheme and Python, OCaml Lite in the browser?
But they were an industry of falling prices, the incumbents who failed to innovate were probably going to fail anyway. http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2011/12/22/the-amazing-po...
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While this is a good point, concerted efforts against GoDaddy isn't a bad thing. The only way corporations will feel anything is if the entire Internet focuses on them -- we need to focus on one thing at a time and not spread ourselves across too many targets.
Thank you, I appreciate hearing that. It's been a difficult thing for my friends, and esp. my family to grasp. In many ways we were compatible, but I consider this crucial. Most are passively accepting now "well, as long as you're happy". Only my best friend who is around my age (I'm 35, he's 37), who also has never been married and has been an entrepreneur for the past decade truly understands.

As to your own situation, I get that long hours, lack of attention and whatnot are difficult to deal with... but it sounds like you've proven success in your endeavor. Seems like a bit of a double-bind. One thing I can say is, being single certainly simplifies things! I dated two girls briefly after we broke up but have now made the choice to not do that for awhile, the time I gained is precious and there's nothing wrong with being alone for awhile to capitalize on it. There are many women out there and there is nothing more attractive than a man fulfilling his purpose in life.
iTunes Connect is closed for the holidays (until Dec 29)
Because it's hard, I expect. There are few companies you can boycott with just a few clicks.
Maybe because they struggled to run iOS 4 usably?

Can you name a handset that received official software updates for longer than the iPhone 3G? Seems odd to attack what is probably the longest officially supported phone yet... Sounds like axe grinding to me
Yes, thats exactly what we do with it. We use it to track (among other things) sent/read messages, created ratings, , signups and sales.
You can define your own metrics/gauges very easily. Have a look at "doc/ulm_stats.rb" or contact me on skype ("paulasmuth") if you run into any questions or issues :)
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GoDaddy felt the brunt of direct action because:

A) GoDaddy has nurtured a lot of ill will over the years, whether due to poor customer service, a sloppy user experience, or their absurd corporate culture of using bikini babes and right wing politics to sell, of all things, domain name registration and hosting.

B) Internet users can (relatively easily) transfer domain names. It's something they can go do right now, without much fuss and without having to police their own day to day purchasing habits.

C) GoDaddy, unlike the other businesses on the SOPA supporters list, is not a purveyor of intellectual property with a legitimate interest in preventing counterfeiting.

D) GoDaddy, as a technology business and self-proclaimed "innovator", should know better than the others, who have the dubious defense of being ignorant of how this stuff works.
I strongly support "focused fire" -- picking a small number of influential and easily-targeted businesses (or members of Congress) and targeting them with everything we've got. It's an optimal strategy for creating press hits, exactly like this one, which publicize our cause.

My non-technical mother asked me today what SOPA was, and is now opposed to it -- when yesterday she hadn't heard of it at all -- because she saw an article in the news about the GoDaddy boycott. This is what success looks like.
It's strange they got rid of "Give One, Get One", since most people would never have seen one otherwise.

The foundation is trying to find people willing to write and contribute apps for it, yet it's hard to actually get your hands on one.
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This SOPA support was the straw that broke the camel's back.

Call this anecdotal if you will, but GoDaddy always occupied that "necessary evil" for domain registration in my brain. If others on HN are at all like me, they probably have > 75% of their registered domains sitting and doing nothing. GoDaddy's tasteless ads, horrible UX, shutdowns of domains due to "good faith" complaints...this was just the final incentive to call it quits. Predictably irrational, absolutely - guilty as charged.
The third generation iPod touch (and the subsequent generation) runs iOS 5. The 3rd gen iPod touch was released on September 9, 2009.
Great idea on re-marketing, it is really cost effective - downright cheap to do. If you are not sure what is is - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_retargeting but basically a banner follows a user that has come to your site for 30/60/90 days and keeps your brand in their focus.

A better (cheaper) solution is http://adroll.com, I use them for my corporate site at http://www.webheat.com and they are pretty cheap and easy to setup.

The only thing you need before you sign up is a banner, any banner - even if it gets rejected you can still have the tracking pixel on your site and then target your users.
I totally see your points. Don't worry, I have a thick skin.

Anyhow, the past few years have been a "life gets in the way" scenario. I've moved across the country twice, and most of my waking hours are spent devoted to the startup that I work for. I know, tons of excuses. But no more. Trust me, I am giving myself a kick in the pants as well.

I am exploring many tools, and today I fired up my treehouse account http://teamtreehouse.com/. It's a great program for people who like to apply new skills immediately and receive consistant feedback. This process reminds me of the "learning a language" comparison that you made. When I learned French in high school, we spent the first few weeks awkwardly speaking the language by learning basic songs and cafe menu items. Once we got a feel for it, we began to learn grammar. I think that approaching learning to code this way will work for me as well. I'll need a few weeks of awkwardly following along and completing exercises within my treehouse account before I can look at the bigger picture.

Thanks for the advice. I'm starting this journey with open ears and I welcome comments like this.
"Superior" is subjective.

The reason Windows Phone hasn't taken off is that it why it's a "nicer" system than say Android, it lacks soul.

It's just too clinical.
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In any case, good that something is pointed out that can and will be easily overlooked :)
Grid is broken (chrome 16, mac): http://imgur.com/a/wefVt

The total width of the columns is larger than the page body.

Merry christmas :)
Thanks for the comments. Yep, it's going to be challenging and I am sure that at times I will want to beat my head against a wall. I view taking on new challenges as a twisted form of fun, so we'll see how this goes. Thanks!
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PROTECT IP already has 41 sponsors out of the 100 members of Senate:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:SN00968:@@@P

The facts that almost half of Senators are sponsors and that they represent whole states would make a spatial visualization less helpful, I think.

I figured this particular format would be more effective to highlight the small minority (32/435) of House members sponsoring SOPA. So I started there.

You're absolutely right that PROTECT IP deserves just as much attention, though. I will get to work as soon as I can on compiling a table of the PROTECT IP sponsors' contact info.
Why would I want a Windows Phone?

If I want locked-down smoothness I'd have an iPhone (it has all the apps).
If I want openness, I'd have Android (I can install anything I like).

What does WP7 give me?
Which is a good thing for those customers who bought an iPhone 3GS back in 2009, they're pretty much guaranteed to receive software updates for their phone for many months to come.

That's in stark contrast with buying an Android phone, where models go out of style in a matter of weeks, not years.
See, just like I said earlier, Namecheap should have contacted GoDaddy first instead of publicly slamming them without even trying to make it better for their clients.
It's overly simplistic to say people always worship the powerful. Caesar was assassinated by the entire senate. Democracy in America was created on the basis of the rejection of power-worship.

You seem to have your pet way of interpreting history. I'm not arguing that honor and other values were some kind of omnipotent force for good I'm just saying they existed.

When you assume that I'm a complete idiot you're failing to "assume good faith" which is one of the conduct requirements to maintain your honor. In a court of law, a lawyer who fails to assume good faith is dishonored and his arguments are automatically invalid. Honor is still used in our justice system.
Also the fact that Godaddy has had their fair share of bad PR over the past year, there seems to be a pretty bad feeling against them anyway - this just gave everyone another excuse!
Aha I see. Thnx for the follow up.
> Drug use is a health-related issue, whether it is a doctor prescribing medications, a patient taking meds off-label, a person self-medicating, an addict, or some kind experimentation. All of these situations are much more personal health concerns than public safety concerns.

Not so fast. "We" have decided that obesity is a public health issue that warrants all manner of intrusions.

I think agree with you about drug use but ....
Thats what people said about the Zune and the XBox. True with the latter (no one can say the 360 isn't a huge success) while very much not true for the former. Despite pushing the Zune for years it never took off and was recently abandoned. What makes you think Windows Phone will be more like XBox than Zune?
I think that people overestimate the correlation between popularity of a product and its quality. This, combined with the fact that different people measure quality differently, leads to "surprising" results like this.
> How is drug usage a "medical" problem?

Because it's the ingestion of mind-altering substances to achieve a certain goal. Most often this goal is inebriation for entertainment purposes, some times (especially in indigenous cultures) it's a spiritual goal.

> It's a personal choice.

Sure, many times it is. But I think more often than you'd realize it's less of a choice and more of a predisposition. I mean, if some people are born with allergies or giant feet or different colored eyes, would it be too crazy to assume that some people are more easily addicted to drugs?

> Most addicts aren't born addicted and they make the choice to pick up that first joint.

Just real quick, I think you mean joint as in marijuana joint. Marijuana is completely non-addictive physically, in any circumstance. Nor does it kill brain cells, etc. These are remnants of the hilarious Reefer Madness nonsense that the US unfortunately took part in.

> I don't want to make it easier to be a drug addict in this country. [...]

Then make drugs further decriminalized. Marijuana, for example, is not a gateway drug. Drug dealers are gateway drugs. Every drug dealer that I know, except one, doesn't just deal pot. They've got cocaine, saliva, mushrooms, ecstasy, et cetera et cetera. So instead of being able to just go to a safe environment and get some harmless little green stuff, many drug laws force benign drug-users to be around shady, scummy people with lots of other shady, scummy drugs on them.

> [...] Especially at my expense.

See the above comment, and recognize that your hard-earned tax dollars are being brilliantly spent on DEA sweeps of Marijuana dispensaries in California, for example; countless arrests are made and resources used over completely benign drugs. Massive, massive wars are being waged around the world that suck money into them faster than a black hole. I'm not a socialist myself and would agree that Person A having Person B take money from Person C to pay for his/her decisions is almost laughably dumb; but there are far, FAR more money-sucking endeavors in the US than drug addiction care/treatment. I'd take a socialistic addiction treatment plan over 3 million+ Dept. of Defense employees (that we know about), 216,000 "Department of Homeland Security" employees, massive military expenditures, and who-knows-how-many-millions of dollars spent annually "fighting" marijuana and other drugs.

Just my two cents. Sorry for the long post guys.
Its incorrect? Great! A chance for you you to contribute. I enjoy when I get to add to OpenStreetMaps and Wikipedia.
hah - as I wrote this, the exact some issue cropped up. Was fixed again within minutes. :)
What I Did in 2011
Supporters like Adobe, Autodesk? If there was good alternatives to these 2, the price of their product alone, would be enough to make us run away. Only now, open-source alternatives are getting at their level, so...

Supporters like Microsoft? So much commercial software is made exclusively to Microsoft, that is impossible for some of us, to change. I'm glad I did, but let's not kid ourselves. Microsoft has a monopoly on property software

Supporters like Apple? What are you going to do? Drop your brand-new gadgets? Stop buying? Their main business is hardware. Not only it is expensive to replace, it has also a big niche of Apple-only software that is favored by a lot of people.

A lot of Anti-Virus are supporting SOPA as well. If Internet newbies start not using anti-virus...well I don't even want to know.

Hardware companies like Intel, Siemens, Dell...Hard to replace, etc etc.

I could go on and on, but the main points are taken. And the main problem, is that a lot of products are really hard to replace. And some people just can't afford it.

And that is today's World. Now stop making conspiracy theories against Google, and side them on this!
The barriers of entry do not currently prevent new firms from entering the market. Why do you believe they will do so in the future?

Also, can you find any examples where the strategy you describe has actually worked?
If Cambridge made a textbook of this, and did it right, it could be a very effective replacement for the great, but ageing, SICP.
This revisionist view of Rhodes is overly negative. He was an empire builder but his prime motivation was to modernize the world. Rhodesian policy led to the end of the empire, in fact. This is just overly simplistic character assassination. Rhodes was way more complicated than you make him out to be.

I remember reading one of his lectures where he was telling the class that now their duty, as wealthy and cultured modernists, was to serve the uncivilized and poor of the world and to bring the luxury and comfort that aristocrats knew to everyone. Rhodes taught altruism and service to the unfortunate and his legacy is many powerful people who worked to better the world, inspired by Rhodes.
Awwwww damn it! I look like a fool now. Thanks for showing me. I'm using Chrome 16 too on a Mac and it's fine. If you leave the media queries in the stylesheet (like I obviously did) then what you see in the picture happens when your browser window width is less than 1140px. Fair warning, I never claimed this to be fluid. Small screen sizes/mobile devices are the developer's responsibility - the grid doesn't help you with that. I'll try to fix that right now though, thank you.

Update: The fix eludes me right now. I knew about it on mobile devices but never saw it on the desktop. I'll get it...
They did this with rare earth metals. The price rose 10x this year, and America put the mine in San Bernadino back into production pretty quickly. Wasn't the end of the world.
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Don't use generalizations, just do the math.

$10 million, minus the VC investment, split each among 2 or 3 founders. That ends up being what, $2-3 million in 4 years? I personally know several people who make more than that off of one iPhone app on the side. Apple's paid out billions to app developers.

Again, look at the numbers: what percent of YC investments have exited at $10 million+ in 4 years? Again, much closer to 10% than 100%. This is in a thread where pg implies that the chances of a big success are 2/3 or higher for some people. Empirical evidence proves that top investors are not right anywhere near the probability suggested.
GoDaddy was a very easy, even painless, target. Switch to another registrar, done. The user only loses a bit of time, and in the end still is fully operation and the "boycott" doesn't directly affect them.

Ideally we'd be boycotting Nintendo, EA, CBS, etc as well. But that would mean actual sacrifice from people.
and for those that don't have a clue what this is or what relevance in holds:

"iTunes Connect is a suite of web-based tools that allow you to submit and manage your apps for distribution on the App Store and Mac App Store.

In iTunes Connect you can check the status of your contracts, set up your tax and banking information, obtain sales and finance reports, request promotional codes, and manage users, apps, metadata, and your In-App Purchase catalog."

http://developer.apple.com/support/resources/itunes-connect....
If this had fluid grid-resizing support (a la getskeleton.com) we would take a deeper look at this for new projects. Nice work otherwise. We love Less so great to see this integrated, hope you get some traction.