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Ask HN: Where to look for intranet work? 
I spend a lot of time on here and I'm hoping to get some advice. I'm in my mid-30s. I've started several start-ups since I graduated college, none of which achieved any traction. I've been working a full-time job for the last few years developing and managing the internal business process systems for a manufacturer. I'm now trying to transition back to the start-up world and am looking to rebuild an income flow to support myself. After many years of being out of the freelance game, I'm looking to restart a freelance practice which would buy me the flexibility to work on another start-up if I could even secure the rates I billed 10 years ago. My concern is picking up work, as many years of working in almost masochistic isolation on various start-ups has left me without much of a professional network and my skill set is lacking in sex appeal. While I am well-versed in Javascript and I'm currently studying Ruby, my background is in the pretty staid world of SMB line-of-business applications (and Microsoft technologies). While I'm sure that there is still plenty of demand for these kinds of intranet applications, I'm not quite sure how to break back in. I've been looking at postings on craigslist and some of the other boards mentioned here, but most listings seem to revolve around consumer-facing web apps. Does anyone have any suggestions on where to look online or what sort of events I should be looking for to network myself to find these sorts of gigs? I suspect start-up community events will not lend themselves to finding this kind of work. I'm in New York City. In the event anyone on here has work, I also have experience with SMB ERP systems (my first start-up was an ERP as a service flameout) and am very strong on business and financial analysis (I'm trained in finance) as well as project management stuff like gathering requirements and writing specs. Thanks very much for any guidance.
We think of bit's as vary precise things, but at the hardware level they are better described as ranges of values. So you could use a say X +/- 30% = 0 and Y +/- 30% = 1. Thus, if X = 100 and Y = 200, then 128 or 78 both stand for 0 and a computer would litterally not care if you sent it 98 or 115 etc.

You can also add a little redundancy in longer messages so you can tell if it's corrupted or if only a few bit's are flipped you may be able to recover. Also, devices can downgrade their bandwidth to handle some noise. Think of it like someone saying Tango when they mean T, if you hear T or ango you know they both stand for T.

You may want to check out this video. http://hackaday.com/2011/07/10/sound-card-microcontrollerpc-...
I think the concerns are the interactions between user accounts. I don't think anyone is too worried about the hidden root account having access to your user account data.
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- Delivering Happiness.
More generally: nothing can be a right if it must be paid for by other people; rights can only be proscriptive, never prescriptive.
Portuguese: 'Se Deus quiser' == 'If God wills' ... very common in Brazil.

Even more common: 'Oxala' (oh-shah-LAH) taken from Arabic 'in sha lah' meaning the same thing.
"...it matches with my personal experience..."

Me too. And just by reading the title of the post I suspected The OP was not a programmer, but probably some kind of CEO dreaming of cheap coders.

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It's a good idea, though not a new one. Bill Gates suggested this very idea in his book The Road Ahead. I must have read it 15 years ago when I was in elementary school and have always wondered why no one's gone ahead and implemented it.
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Maybe the general-laymen catchphrase can be: shutting down internet freedom
A project I briefly explored was to develop an algorithmic model of "agency" in a roleplaying game, with the idea of taking existing plotline generation approaches and using the agency algorithm as a heuristic path-picker through the possible plotline alternatives.
I'll play the devil's advocate.

Casinos - The odds for many games are only slightly in the casino's favor. Most of my friends go to casinos because they're fun and provide entertainment, not to invest their money!

Insurance - If the man absolutely needs the lawnmower, yet can't afford a new one every two years, insurance suddenly seems more attractive. Common insurances, like car, health, life, home, etc. are based on this. After all, if you have unlimited money, you wouldn't buy insurance.

Religion - There is supposedly an eternal reward if you believe and the belief is correct. There is no reward if you don't believe, whether the belief is correct or not. Having a slight chance of an eternal reward is certainly better than having no chance at all.
It's a nice idea but wouldn't work in practice. If the "help" PIN is always 1 higher then there would be too many false alarms due to pressing the wrong button. Or if the "help" PIN is totally different then victims will forget under stress.
No wonder Crockford is so smart. HE LIVES IN THE FUTURE!

/* jsdev.c
Douglas Crockford
2012-01-05

Committed 2012-01-04T15:19:34-08:00
Agreed; the same can be said for other fundamentals such as foreign key constraints. I still see modern day apps being developed where foreign keys, and uniqueness, are only implemented in the application. I understand some protection should be added in the app to prevent errors, but to avoid implementing these constraints in the database itself still leaves the door open for problems to occur.
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I think the double-PIN makes sense in the ATM case (because you don't want to alert the robber to your scheme), but in the phone case I think multiple PINs is far too complex.

Why not just have e.g. "swipe left to unlock to guest mode" or something similar? Then you can still have it be locked, but with the same old PIN; it will be far more attractive to users.
As much as I actually respect Kodak, absolutely love a lot of their products and will miss the film, this made me happy:

"The company's problems came to a head in 2011, as Mr. Perez's strategy of using patent lawsuits and licensing deals to raise cash ran dry."
Not unrelated is Kevan Davis' Ludemetic Game Generator (2003), which randomly combines categories and mechanics from those at BoardGameGeek to create new (and largely useless) game ideas, with arbitrarily appropriate titles:

http://kevan.org/ludeme

Some of the random games sound more fun than others. ;)

Game: "Indkub"
Categories: Industry / Manufacturing, Comic Book.
Mechanics: Set Collection, Hand Management.

Game: "Ugplay"
Categories: Prehistoric, Trains.
Mechanics: Acting, Trading.
When people talk about a right to Internet access, they generally mean a negative right: you can't be barred from using the Internet (as in the oppressive countries Cerf mentions), but you still have to pay for it. This is similar to the right of free press, which belongs only to those who own one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_and_positive_rights
True, which is probably why google put im right next to the message viewer in gmail. I know of many ocassions where a flurry of emails turned into an im session.

I think gmail's "conversations" are really the first try at what I'm talking about, a new front end on email, but I don't think they work well enough personally. And they haven't really expanded well on the concept recently.
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Organic food logo basically contains fruits and vegetables. And this type of food can only be obtained from an organic food store. To make people aware that your store is the best place for shopping for natural eatables, you will have to market and promote your products. For that you will require a brand mark that will represent you in the public.
I hope TriX holds out for at least a few more years!
Also, robbers would know there is such thing as a "help" pin, therefore rendering it useless. It's not a good idea in practice.
How did the other 3 go? What were they?

And just out of curiosity, how old are you?
I don't think you can really compare the last 50 years (anything more recent and it's really hard to judge how 'great' an author will be) with a 150 year period. Especially when you are including the Lost Generation which was, frankly, contemporary in 1945. Hemingway hadn't even published "The Old Man and the Sea" at that point.
Er, what? I regularly use Windows remote desktop and have my own full GUI session, independent of other logged in users. This has been around for many years.
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i love that almost everything in this thread would be added shortly if we had control of our phones. why isnt there a bigger open hardware phone movement? how about a new GPLv4? GPLed software can only be shipped on GPLed hardware. it can be installed later but the user gets to see an ad explaining what they cannot do with their phone, and possibly alternate carriers that support open hardware.
Hell, I want a guest mode on my computer. Instead I need to just have netbooks available for when company wants to check their email.
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That isn't true for Linux and Windows.

X (the service commonly providing the *nix GUI) was pretty much built with this in mind; Linux has had an implementation of X that has provided this since at least the mid-90s.

Windows has had this on the server since at least Windows Server 2003, and has also introduced it to the "consumer" market in Windows 7.

(I'd be happy to find out whether OS X supports this or not.)
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xscope is great, definitely try it out

http://iconfactory.com/software/xscope

http://chengyinliu.com/whatfont.html

https://github.com/thoughtbot/bourbon
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Yeah.. i used to use that name as my online handle.. I think it's about time I gave it up, so i let it expire. I just haven't had the time to update this code-base. I will probably do something with it sooner than later.
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Just the knowledge of this would discourage ATM robberies from happening. If you knew that you'd only get x bucks, and that the police would be called as the transaction was happening, you'd be less likely to try this technique.
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You might want to read up on the developments of the last 24 hours.

Santorum has gone from being a fringe minor candidate to being the last conservative standard bearer with a shot. It may be temporary, but he lost the Iowa caucus by 8 votes (ie, essentially tied it).
This assumes we're all playing to the crowd around us.

IMHO, Be yourself and be comfortable with yourself.
Google Wave was really what I thought the ideal marriage between email and IM. Why did it fail again?
>This is similar to the right of free press, which belongs only to those who own one.

Didn't it also speak to being able to hire a press (i.e. get someone to run a print for you) to avoid something like "thou shalt not print any materials concerning x, y or z on behalf of a, b or c."
My favorite: Signal Detection Theory. It seems applicable to many different areas in life especially as we become more and more data oriented. Which emails to read, which server exceptions to respond to, which person talking to you is attracted to you, which visitors will buy, etc., etc.

It wrinkled my brain and got my pulse quickened.
Updike? Fowles? Asimov? McCarthy?

Obviously listing a bunch of names isn't going to prove the argument one way or the other, but I think it's a bit unfair to claim that all post-WWII literature is crap mod a few exceptions. Sci-Fi basically didn't exist before 1940.

I think it is more relevant to look at the 19th century vs. 20th century.
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Is Jaipur prepared for becoming a Metropolitan city
Pink city Jaipur, the city of culture, the place that was sometimes known to be the synonym of peace is now stepping ahead towards the sparking culture of metropolitan. But is it fully prepared for that?
Who said that e-books would be easy?
That you are running on hostile hardware, and that "you" only has access to a small part of this hardware. This clears upa lot of confusion once it clicks for people IME.
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I've also seen numerous cases where editors have screwed up the original text of a technical publication in semantically critical ways. This holds especially true for editors who remain a few decades behind in technology, and don't quite grasp the concept of providing diffs, as well as the concept of having the author review the changes.
Visas are only good for a year. So there is potential for repeat customers. Just not that large. I'm surprised travel agencies don't do this. I work for a large firm with a captive travel bureau that handles all the paperwork needed for international travel.
Excellent. Thanks. I added your video to the README page. Bummer HIFI didn't work for you. Try again with max volume or a different computer. It's not your Apple II.
Well, I think you'd have fewer ATM robberies, but the ones you did have would be more violent, because now the victim is effectively armed with a crude weapon. So the robber is going to be more violent to intimidate the victim into NOT using that duress code.
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I'm gonna try this. Coding to me is mystifying even though I started in grade school. Later I met a hardware engineer/hacker when I was 18 and I decided then to focus on the business side even though I had made a few applications. He was so good at the math and the art of it that I never wanted to waste time to learn it properly. But I was lazy with it before all that. So I should challenge myself to this.
Such a distinction might exist in the traditional publishing world (the one with a sign "deposit manuscripts here" right above the trash can), but no such distinction exists in an all-electronic medium. Authors produce books; editors, illustrators, graphic designers, and others might provide help that improves the quality of the book, but they don't magically imbue it with a "book" status that it didn't already have.
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My girlfriend worked at bank that did this. The alert PIN was your PIN backwards. I don't know if they still do this or not.
This article is at least disingenuous and probably flat out wrong. As many have pointed out, "running" apps are not impact-less. The author says as much himself. The author also acknowledges that being "well-written" matters which we of course know is not always the case. The author oddly brushes off the impact of long running background apps. And simply wrong is the contention that the multitasking bar is merely recently used apps.
On Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion), there is now multiple user screen sharing.

http://www.apple.com/macosx/whats-new/features.html#screensh...
Agreed. So here's how we do it.

This is the word: Prohibition. It's our "death panels".

This is how you tell it to grandma:

- The music & movie industries want a Prohibition on user-created content.
- When radio was invented, they wanted a Prohibition on it.
- When cable TV was invented, they wanted a Prohibition on it.
- When the VCR was invented, they wanted a Prohibition on it.
- Now Youtube and many other websites have been invented.
- Youtube is very entertaining; you can watch funny cat videos all day long.
- They want the Government to create a Prohibition on Youtube.
This is something I've wondered quite a bit also.
ChromeOS already has this feature -- it's the idea of the device simply acting as a terminal, with all user data stored in the cloud.

Also, I'm a bit afraid implementing full-featured multiple user sessions (similar to a desktop OS) would lead to a lot more bloat.
While these things are created to injure and tarnish reputations (and I think they are generally mean spirited), they're a feature of language, not google.

Should they be editing out search results where people say they intend to "Xerox" things instead of photocopy them? Same sort of neologism.

(Yes, I get that this was an intentional GoogleBomb, but it has gone beyond that and is now the meaning of the substance).
Oh cool, thanks :) I tried from both my phone and my netbook and it started off loading (it recognized the game name) but then spit out an ERROR and stopped. I'll try a different laptop later.
Excellent points. I like your point that in an established space, the focus should be on polished features.

To me the key message to take-away is:
* less features is good, as long as they look complete in itself.
* finding those initial customers who are willing to work with you "despite" the less features is critical.
Not a scientific one, but a mathematical one:

Hypothesis testing.

Statistics inverts your thinking, because it asks you to only tentatively accept every single conclusion you make ("fail to reject").

All science rests on this, the twinned ideas that 1) something must be testable for it to be useful and 2) it is only through embracing uncertainty (it _is_ possible for a coin flipped 50 times to come up heads 50 times) that one can mediate certainty.
PayPal losses are somewhere in the teens of basis points. Not all chargebacks are passed on to merchants.
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Today, not just big companies but small and midsize businesses too need advance mediums to compete and grow. Meaning they want to seize the business opportunities and alive in the competitive world.
Yes, because it's not like any such signals are now available: http://devinterviews.pen.io/

Seriously, this is one reason I like the emphasis smart companies are putting on github accounts. Better signals are available, and portfolios are one such signal, and one that works great for many other professions.
The short answer is that they're print ready as-is. Eric Ries printed a Leanpub book of his first year's worth of blog posts (we sold them at the first Startup Lessons Learned conference). They looked pretty good.

The slightly longer answer is that we are working on some features for a more print-ready PDF. Right now our PDFs are optimized for on-screen reading. Sone small changes such as gutters and page numbers that alternate sides will make a nicer looking print book.
That's a harsh description, I think. But it's true that PayPal does some things over time that other payment processors do upfront. That is one of the primary reasons PayPal has been so successful.
Wow, is that actually letting the player shoot out the parachutes?
'The government could shut down your pub cause 2 old guys were at a table bitch'n about Obama.'
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A few weeks ago I was listening to a DrupalEasy podcast about the book with lead author Benjamin Melançon. The podcast was aptly named "Epic", which kind of sums up this two kilo volume that would make Stephen King jealous. As Benjamin points out, he is only one of about 30 authors who have contributed to this 600 page volume.
In one way I feel bad for the little guy as it's a horrible smear campaign against his name however when I look at some of his extreme policies I'm suddenly less sympathetic. He implies a lot of nasty things about a lot of different groups of people. I can't see any good reason others shouldn't do the same against him.
I always find this Yudkowsky-esque conceit somewhat lacking. It's not that one shouldn't examine the motivations of your various... motivations.

But it just seems so close to depersonalization, as witnessed by your interesting pluralization mismatch ('"you" only has'). That supposedly hostile methodology is actually very sensible once you understand it.

I suppose that's what comes from assuming that the hostile hardware is merely a statistical assertion of the Bayesian variety.

And apparently it is functional for some people, so... I suppose that's merit enough.
I'm not sure whether he is right ,but I think that's his point(ie he believes that most similar problems get special tweaking and Santorum doeesn't for whatever reason)
I can think of quite a few straightforward ways to justify pricing like that, if you set pricing based on the involvement of a human in the processing of applications. Under such circumstances, it requires about as much work for the human whether you order 1 or 1000.

Imagine ordering a paperclip: how much do you expect it to cost to order one paperclip, versus 1000 paperclips?

Similarly, it requires about as much work for a business to issue a check for $10 as for $10,000, hence why many businesses say it costs them much more in accounting costs to issue a small check than the actual value of the check.

The pricing for ISBNs makes zero sense given modern technology, where no human should ever need to get involved in the process. However, that assumes some degree of sense involved in the process...
Is that.. bootstrap?!
What kind of computer do you have that doesn't have a guest mode? Windows, Mac/UNIX and Linux have all been multi-user either from the beginning or for decades.
Yes, yes from a guy who has to nervously hope that as his Dad looks up something on his phone while having family dinner, he doesn't end up in my SMS or Photos app. It'd ruin the dinner. And some.
"And I'm dead serious about making it the easiest, fastest and most reliable NoSQL database. Easy for developers to use, easy to deploy, reliable on single machines or large clusters, and fast as hell. We are building something you can put your mission critical, customer facing business data on, and not feel like you're running a dirty hack."

That sounds like something I very much want, I hope Damien and the team can deliver.
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I was going to write a tweak for iOS to do something like this, with behavior similar to that of the built in Camera shortcut from the lockscreen.

1. You are using an app

2. You activate 'Guest mode' using a button press, swipe, tap, etc. (configurable)

3. If the user hits the home button, it redirects to the lockscreen instead of the homescreen (much like the Camera application does in lock-mode)

4. Instead of the camera icon on the lockscreen when you double tap, it is the icon of the locked-in application. (You can tap it to resume use of the locked-in application)

5. To disable this guest mode, you simply unlock the device with your passcode.

So, when a friend asks "Hey can I check my email?", you can open Safari, enable this guest mode, and hand the phone to him, no worries.

What do you think?
All rights have to be paid for by other people—if you believe that the notion of "right" is well-posed, that is—which I don't.