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I went through the Codeacademy exercises even though I can program reasonably well (i.e. I can do everything I need to, but I would never call myself a software engineer). I did this partially because I do not know js and partially because I wanted to see how the systems work. The “Oops, try again.” message can be very frustrating because, as the author points out, often the output they want is opaque. They have a great idea, but it seems that they sometimes prefer brevity in their instructions over specificity.
Sounds like a case of featuritis brewing. It's very easy to get caught in an evil cycle of rising expectations that move the actual launch further and further away. Let's ship an MVP first, launching early and often.
Maybe you didn't have lots of topic branches floating above the trunk?
"It's not enough to have a passion, you have to have a work ethic"
Tony Shepps - PHILADELPHIA

I do EVERYTHING: web design, web development, system administration, marketing and more.I'm an "extreme generalist" for cheap startups with broad needs.

1985 BSCS, followed by serious systems programming and software engineering

1990 Founded what is today the net's oldest community - see cellar.org

1991 Offered Philly its first Usenet+email access

1992 Converted to sysadmin

1995 Sysadminning on the net

1997 PHP development

2000 Founded first startup, web dev team

2002 Converted that to personal consultancy

2007 Enterprise Linux sysadminning

2010 Designing beautiful, SEO-friendly microsites for small
biz

Affordable - honest - good-natured - will not tolerate bad coffee
7 years and no success. I need help.
Hello HN,

I'm a regular here, but for personal reasons I'll be using a throwaway account.

For the last 7 years I've been trying the entrepreneur game. I've have failed miserably with 6 failed startups under my belt.

For the last year or so I was working for a company that can no longer pay me and I'm for the first time in years without any income (last 7 years my income was extremely low since I was investing everything in my ventures). At this point I'm very frustrated and have no clue what to do.

I'm not a hacker, I'm a marketing guy. I know about usability, product, copywriting, lead generation and all those fancy things we marketing guys must know. Yet somehow, I can't get clients for myself (I'm trying the consulting route for SMB's but no luck).

I have two degrees, two masters, have travelled most of the world, yet I feel like a total failure. When it comes to building stuff and making a living out of it, it just does not happen.

I'm lost. I have no idea what I'm going to do to make rent next month, but besides that, what I'm most afraid of is this feeling of being a looser, of failure. Is one of the worst things I've experienced in my life and I have no clue what to do with it.

Professionally I'm also lost. I have a couple of good ideas that I'm to afraid to try them (I feel I'll fail miserably, again).

When it comes to money I suck too. I haven't been able to make a decent living for almost a decade. I'm tired. I don't know if I have to change how I understand money or what, but I can't comprehend how someone with my knowledge (I'm using all my strength to say that) can make so little money.

I'm sorry for this rant, but I don't have anyone to talk to.
I'm looking forward to this!
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Right. And considering the overwhelming majority of consumers are exactly those types of people, the iPhone is a better product since it is more appropriate for most people.
Fantastic! I'm very excited to try this out. I've been using postmark to quickly build out my MVP for a new site I'm working on. This is just the other side of the equation and I am very eager to start playing with it. Integrating with their nodejs library was literally as simple as putting the library in the right place, adding the api key and calling the function. Could not be simpler.
I dub human v3.0 'Borg'.

I like the more agile approach. Release early, iterate often.
They probably chose the 6th because it's on a wednesday; they chose June 8th last year, which was also on a wednesday.
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If your volume is ginormo this might not be the right solution for you. But as someone who simply needs the functionality and as minimal an install footprint/learning curve as possible this is really hard to beat. Hopefully my startup will take off and I will have to look long and hard at a replacement.
Also, MailGun is $1 per thousand. Which seems to offer a similar proposition.
indeed that's a common approach to spotting who copied your data in bulk but not to prevent it (or at least make it more difficult).

Thanks
Developers, go learn math.
the front page ladies weren't too much of disturbance either :)

If that's what makes you choose a registrar then you need to seriously grow up. Attitudes like this are why we have so many problems with sexism in the tech world.
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This is great! Perfect timing too. I've been using postmark for over a year, and have recently been looking to other providers for an inbound service.... soooo glad they did this!
The fact that B can't make enough to make a living off of speeches implies to me that speeches might not actually be that valuable.

Why do we need to make it so that B can make a living off of speeches? That's stupid. B has no more claim to make a living off of speeches than I do to make a living writing Python.

The whole reason capitalism is supposed to work is that it properly allocates resources--and if speeches aren't actually worth enough to make a living on, maybe you should do something besides writing speeches.
Thanks, it didn't show up in my search for bug reporting.
You can rent 20 AWS on-demand large instances for less money than a junior engineer. If you don't need a lot of machines and AWS saves you any time at all over dedicated hosting, then it's worth it.
;-), not that much. A decent connection is about $30 - 50/mo. The money saving is merely a fringe benefit, but it does add up over time. I usually just put everything up on my Linode instance where I can remotely manage updates via ssh. As for system updates on my laptop, coffee shops tend to work fine during off-peak hours or you can just head over to a nearby university library (which is also a nice chance to meet smart people).
Reeling MPAA declares DNS filtering "off the table"
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Twitter CEO Dick Costolo calls SOPA blackouts "foolish"
Bootstrap's styles are more polished and comprehensive than Foundation's. Foundation's CSS file is very well commented and half the size of Bootstrap's. Bootstrap's modals work with IE8, with Foundation's modal I get an error. Foundation's Orbit JS slideshow is easy to implement, but seems a little buggy in FF.

phpnode got it right - I'd be more inclined to use Bootstrap in cases for which I have no design, or a simple design with latitude for many elements. Client extranet, back-end utilities, etc.
I'd vote first for stability, then confidence. Without those two things your odds of building a successful startup are basically non-existent.

One other useful data point would be: where are you, and where are you willing to move to?

It sounds like you have bigger issues than can be hashed out in a comment thread. My email is in my profile if you want to talk more.
Interestingly we just had to build this type of processing into one of our applications, and I would have much rather sent this through a simple API.

Alex are there high volume discounts?
Thanks, Brice! I also recommend implementing it yourself first. After I did just that, I found myself wanting a little bit more smarts with my vim mapping. Since most of my work is in rails, and I use rails.vim, I was able leverage rails.vim's buffer detection for alternate files.

In essence, if I'm in a controller that has a corresponding spec or test, the mapping with run that spec. If there is no corresponding spec, it will run the most recent command again. I find this useful for outside-in development, where a change in a controller might make a cucumber scenario pass.

I would, however, add that the command you mention above would need to include C-m at the end to actually send the terminal a "newline" character, thereby running the command.

In any case, I appreciate your interest in the project, and your helpful example!
I've been using this amazing service http://mailnuggets.com for a while now (6 months or so) and the guy is absolutely fantastic (I emailed some ideas and he implemented them :D) buuuut I use Postmark for outbound email, it would be nice to consolidate everything into one account. Will give this a try. I love postmark :-D

Google apps + configured filters + inbound email processing = awesome possibilities.
I'll point out that we have no "account minimums", only the $1.50/1000 email credits for both inbound and outbound that never expire.

Also, we're home to many happy customers that are sending very high volume - we offer them bulk-credit purchase rates as low as $0.50 per 1000 when buying 2MM credits at a time or more.
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Try EmailYak. It is simple and elegant http://www.emailyak.com/ It is my friend's but I'd still recommend it otherwise. See: http://docs.emailyak.com/quick-start-guide.html
That's where my thoughts are going right now.

I'm in Europe. I'll write you an email.

Thanks.
TheRedditor has created a 14 pg special edition about SOPA & PIPA.
We've been using Postmark for quite a while now (maybe 2 years now?) and it's fantastic. We recently began using the inbound processing while it was in beta, and it too is fantastic. The API is great and it's absolutely painless to setup and begin using quickly...
I hope it works. My experience with IPv6 has been hit or miss because my service provider, Cogent, doesn't peer with everyone. So while I can access Facebook's IPv6 address and every international IPv6 service I've tried, I can't access visit ipv6.google.com.
SOPA supporters, stop leaving money on the table and blaming piracy
I would also recommend two of Steve Klabnik's articles: http://blog.steveklabnik.com/posts/2011-09-22-extracting-dom... and http://blog.steveklabnik.com/posts/2011-09-06-the-secret-to-...

Another excellent resource is Gary Bernhardt's "Destroy All Software" screencast series. They are well worth the $9/month pricetag. https://www.destroyallsoftware.com
Ender's Game was on sale on iTunes recently, and I snapped it up. Definitely nice on my commute.
What's next, royalties for commercial development? This is artificial problem that doesn't exist in the real world:

Person A needs a speech.

Person A gets a loan, or works out a payment system with Person B.

Person A gives speeches.

Or perhaps (shocker!) (EDIT: yes, quite what angersock has said):

Person B writes a speech.

Person B gets paid.

Person B, having realized the *actual* value of their work keeps on working like
everybody else does.
$1.50/1000 seems steep and could hurt should a spam attack occur...Someone needs to package charged outgoing, with free incoming. Kinda like the cell messaging systems they have in the UK...

Remember, you can add value by combining valuable services. Sell one as a loss leader to bring in the users and the other is your revenue stream.
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We'll have a django drinkup in Dublin this Saturday! Join us for beers at the Long Stone Pub, 6pm till late http://t.co/Ba6J0srh

Bring your developer friends ;)
I'm sorry to read this. In my worldview, someone who has traveled most of the world is the opposite of a failure. It all comes down to how you feel about things. What makes you feel better? May I suggest volunteering? Without having met you, I feel like you have a world of experience and knowledge to offer. But your results seem to indicate that you are not getting what you want. Money is essential for living in the modern world; is there anyone who you could crash with for a while? When I used to read my diaries of my youth, I was struck by how depressed I consistently put down on paper. Things aren't what they seem to you.
No. I'd rather die.
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It didn't seem misleading to me. iPhone limits flexibility far more than Android in the hopes of making it less daunting for the masses. Woz is a geek, so he likes flexibility in his tech.
The Android Market has a bunch of mini development environments. On my Galaxy S, I have a Clojure REPL and two little apps for Ruby and Lua "development." Of course, you wouldn't want to do anything serious directly on the phone, but it's nice for trying out little things when you have an idea while you're out.
Yup, the same discounts apply for volume credit purchases.

Our credits work for inbound and outbound and never expire.

* 500,000+ - $1/thousand ($500)
* 1MM+ - $0.75/thousand ($750)
* 2MM+ - $0.50/thousand ($1,000)

Sending even more? Email me - alex@wildbit.com and we can talk.
The idea is licensing designed to keep a work free, not licensing designed to restrict. Even if that idea existed at the time, it was not prominent, evidenced by the lack of stock licenses to do so at the time.

As you say, "Rights were already being sold".
Does the type system help out in any way with this? I know linear types can be used to enforce memory management, but IIRC (I haven't looked recently) Clay's type system was more oriented towards generics than this sort of strictness.
Sounds like a job for Thorium Man!

http://www.ted.com/talks/kirk_sorensen_thorium_an_alternativ...
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I recently migrated from MailChimp to SendGrid. Reason is the MC customers support reall sucks ... they just simply suspended my account when my subscribers reaches over 100k ... no I'm not a spammer, i have been sending email to over 100k subscribers for many months using their API (by synching in / out), so when i finally decided i have the money to upgrade to their 100k monthly plan, so i dont have to sync in / out of their API (previously 20k plan) ... guess what is the reward? They decided to suspend my account .. WTF???
The digital delay is meant to represent the time it takes to transmit data to Bean via ancible as his ship plunges deeper into space.
I suppose I can't disagree with you. The technology around space exploration should continue to advance, however I think that we won't make any real progress on colonizing the universe, or even the solar system, until we are much less fragile.
We don't have to "make" Apple do anything. There are already people porting Linux and Android on their hardware. See http://www.idroidproject.org/wiki/Main_Page
You could always use Postmarks spam checker service to monitor emails and if you get say 2 or 3 from the same email address that flag up as spam block the email?

http://spamcheck.postmarkapp.com/
This is interesting. It seems they are taking a page out of the Apple book with mandated resolutions and device. They are trying to dodge the demon of device variation that Android developers wrestle with.
Wouldn't it be great if there was a standard JSON representation of an email, and that multiple providers (SendGrid, AWS SES, MailJet, ElasticEmail, etc) all then provided such an interface.

So not only could you choose (swap out very very quickly) your outbound provider, but also your inbound provider.

After the thread the other day on outbound email, I ended up choosing MailJet who have been wonderful with the questions I had when I hit their new member ceiling within the first few hours.

The things that convinced me on MailJet were real-time outbound stats and meaningful data (recipient + subject), API of status notifications (who bounced), and the fact that they do campaign emails at a cost so low that MailChimp ruled themselves out (one of my email lists has over 23,000 members).

I need inbound handling (currently using /etc/aliases and piping), but would love all the reporting and info which centralisation from an external provider could deliver.

My only concern would be resilience. Email is really good at re-delivery when your end is down or something prevents delivery, would a HTTP REST interface offer the same level of re-try and timeouts to ensure it got through eventually. Would the provider queue for me?
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Hear hear. I've been scanning both yours and his articles on regular basis.
It's also quite pricey - same price as Postmark at its cheapest, and $5/thousand at the first pricing tier.
There is a free NLTK cloud API: http://www.mashape.com/apis/Text-Processing

It includes sentiment analysis, stemming and lemmatization, part-of-speech tagging and chunking, phrase extraction and named entity recognition.
We actually include spamscore information in the parsed emails.

http://developer.postmarkapp.com/developer-inbound-parse.htm...

Also, if you use Gmail forwarding to foward emails into Postmark, you get the benefits of their spam filtering before it even hits our system.

That said - we watch for spam-like activity across our entire system.
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Possibly because the legal users of guns do not use them as violently (on purpose or by accident) when compared to 'business criminals'.
This is awesome, will play with it when I get a chance.

As an aside, I've begun to think that email is/should become a platform for app development. Some sites are already using incoming email for active user engagement (posterous, idonethis, etc)

I think it's a great avenue to fight app/user fatigue. Most people constantly check their email no matter what, but few are making it past the app download to regular usage. The assumptions of emails limitations should be rethought.
Get a job and put your startup/consulting plans on hold for a while (6 months?). After this cool down period, re-evaluate your priorities in life and then charter out your next steps.

I know it is easier said than done but don't let your past experiences bog you down. You don't even know how all those dots would connect in the future.

All the best.
If true, this seems like a huge case of shooting yourself in the foot.

I don't understand why book publishers, or other old-school content creators in general, are so eager to make it hard for customers that want to buy their goods to give them money.
That is how I consumed Pastwatch and Pathfinder. I've been keeping my eye on the local library's website for the Overdrive version. I've listened to and read all the Ender and Shadow books.

Then again, you'd think that if they embraced the audiobook market, and released all the past Card books in ebook form on their treebook release dates, they'd go ahead and do the same here.
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We have plans for handling retries and making sure that the HTTP interface with your app is reliable.

As far as stats go, that's on our list as well.
This is a strong statement for a language to make, but it actually makes it much more interesting.

To me, this says "Clay should be used to implement the same kind of hard-core stuff that is still implemented in C++": games, interpreters, compilers, browsers, etc.
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Take some time to think about this:

> I've worked hard. I haven't had a vacation or day off in years. (...) My life is wake up, code, sleep.

> When she's done with her day, she goes to play cards with her other friends.

In order of importance, I feel that that you would benefit the most from speaking to your wife, a psychiatrist, a marriage counselor and possibly a lawyer.

Not knowing you personally it is difficult to ascertain your mental state but if your writeup is any indication, you really, really need some time off; not a new startup.
At first there was Meamo, then there came Moblin. After a while the two merged, thus creating MeeGo. All was good until Nokia and Intel divorced, and Intel made Tizen based on MeeGo.

Now Tizen is incorporated into Bada, Samsung's platform. What will happen next?
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I read though the docs and couldn't tell: is delivery reliable? If my app is down and I miss some POSTs, will I be able to tell? Will they be re-delivered?

I'm currently using Exchange to get real-time mail notifications and nice parsing, but am looking for other options.

Also, encoding attachements as base64 is an interesting choice. I'd prefer a URL where they can be downloaded instead.
Thanks for your response. Can you give me an example of how you would frame the material in your response using task-based documentation? It seems to me that the NLTK book does exactly what you're describing in most sections, but perhaps if you gave a counterexample I would better understand.
I'm not sure it's exactly a ringing endorsement of the Copyright Act of 1976 that Martin Luther King Jr. didn't take the time out of his civil rights campaign to work out the copyright status of everything he ever said in the less than half a decade between the time he gave this speech and his untimely death.
In case any one else wants to follow him on twitter (only RSS is linked on his site): http://twitter.com/swombat
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The tinker's tartare would at least come with root access. That "thing" I have running on my Samsung is anything but hacker-friendly. Instead it does a perfect job of feeding Google's advertisements as well as the crap both the manufacturer and my data provider independently installed.

If that "thing" wants to be the hacker's tartare, maybe it would give me access to its bootloader, show open drivers and not call me a "pirate" for circumventing their laughable restrictions.

It would also allow me to manipulate the Linux it claims to deliver the way I want it, the way 40 years of Unix culture taught me.

Apple's gadgets may be a hacker's nightmare, but Androids are far from being the answer.
They were. I've dealt with them on one occasion (had one client insist on using them as a host/registrar), and they are technically incompetent. We've had numerous outages with this client's site, and had one problem that their technical support staff were simply unable to solve after numerous phone calls (they ended up blaming it on the site, which was running on WordPress - hardly an oddity). It ended up being a very simple problem/solution, which I discovered after spending an hour or so researching it.
Your activity feed will show that there was an HTTP error.

We're working on the workflow for retries, it's coming soon.

Thanks for the feedback about the download URLs. Any particular reason for this preference that I can share with the team?
I have an alternate theory for you.

People with CS degrees have a "bump" in the jobs they can get. The ones who are really good get hired at better jobs than any that you can offer. Therefore your sample is biased towards people with CS degrees who have failed to get a better job, which means that they have some deficiencies. The better the degree, the better the bump, and therefore the worse the deficiency needs to be for them to remain in the pool that you encounter.

Conversely good people without a CS degree have a hard time getting into those really good jobs, and are therefore available for your sample.

Thus the negative correlation that you've seen between an obviously positive attribute (CS degree) and your hires is a result of your only seeing people in a certain band of desirability as a programming hire, and is not an indication that people who study CS tend not to be good programmers.
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