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Wonderful site and idea, good design, maybe too twitter-bootstrappy. Anyway I love it and I've subscribed inmediately.

I have noticed a subtle bug, if you check the rss, the links of the articles link to this:

http://cssdeck.com/[item-id]/[title]

When the actual url on cssdeck is:

http://cssdeck.com/item/[item-id]/[title]

Please correct that so that I can happily consume the RSS feed :)
I think public companies already file this info..

http://sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/webusers.htm
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last time i tried windows in micro instances it wasn't usable. just to download and install all windows updates on the first boot took something like 6 hours due to the heavy cpu throttling (something that took a couple of minutes on a small instance). but maybe it's fixed now?
Quickly checking in to respond, as the "extremely active 4 year old account" in question...

The comment was clearly poorly phrased. When I made it, there were no negative comments on the story, and it was really just intended to question the "programmer prodigy" aspect, not to criticise the deceased or imply that she was not an impressive young person.

I hate (!) to discard any part of the english language; I think all expressions have their place, including "I hate to be that guy, but" - however, in hindsight, the net effect was to lump my relatively neutral comment in with all the haters on the thread, so, in practice, it was proven to be a poor choice.

That said, I do dislike the habit of idolising deceased people as perfect in every way. It reminds me of the "HN Salesmanship hero" story (where I commented that he wasn't my hero and I resented this attribution, for which I got badly downvoted). This person was clearly impressive without making stuff up about them. From all the comments and interviews, it in fact seems that her programming ability, far from being prodigy-like, was in fact the least impressive of her other personal traits.

To conclude: had I known that there would be a pile-up of hateful belittling following my comment, I wouldn't have made it, or if I felt the need to ask that question, I would have done so in a much more carefully phrased way. I fully take the blame for not realising that this type of thread could descend down to that level, but my intention was certainly not to belittle.
100 years seems a lot for some of these predictions. Despite last decade's pessimism, I think technology is up for some major leaps the coming decades (otherwise, i wish i would live to see some of these come true)
Don't label people "jealous" or some other negative label based on pure speculation.
When you go to starbucks each morning, spending $100 a month there instead of owning your own coffeemaker - it's not minimalism.

It's consumerism.

Trying living with just what he has in a 3rd world country and it's minimalism.
We need right to connectivity to internet right up there with the right to vibrate your vocal chords in public and use your ears to detect vibrations in air. To take away a human's access to these basic things because they are criminals is unacceptable.
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I completely understand why Amazon is doing it and it's certainly their cloud to promote as they see fit. In fact, I am not sure why Microsoft doesn't do that with Azure.

In any case, I am a bit sad I no longer apply to the free tier.
Skype is coming to Windows Phone - really
I've noticed this with my comments too. My hypothesis is that if a person wants to optimise comments for upvotes, they need to be quick one liners because the discussion and therefore the eyeballs move on very quickly. If you write a high quality comment it takes time but less people read it because the top of the bell curve of the huge wave of eyeballs following the stream of the discussion has passed it by.

Humans are social, we have a need for acknowledgment from our peers so we can measure or opinions against others and to help develop our thinking on a particular point. As you suggest above, karma points are a crude replacement for the nods of agreement that you would get in a face to face conversation that signify that you or I are saying something interesting. It's a not a nice feeling to think you are saying something interesting only to find you are talking to yourself. Therefore, there is a strong incentive towards pithy one line comments that get seen quickly and appeal to the masses.

The trouble with karma points is there is no differentiation between the nods you get in drunken agreement from your friends when you say something funny in a bar and the nods you get from your colleagues when you say something insightful. We would value these differently in a face to face situation. On the internet it's just a competition for generic human recongition points where the short fast comments that 'press peoples buttons' are at an advantage.

The trouble with pithy one line comments that press peoples buttons is that they are hard to get right, not many people can strike the right balance. What's meant to be a pithy one liner actually just ends up saying nothing, something offensive, illogical or merely just voicing tribal agreement with Apple or Google or whatever.

Maybe it would be better to be able to see other peoples upvotes but not out own? What about a mandatory 1 hour before a comment appears, perhaps just display a '...' to signify that someone is preparing an answer? I don't know what the answer is, but I also miss the more challenging technical articles.
Despite the fact that Singapore doesn't have North American levels of political diversity and free speech protection, I don't think it's fair to imply it is a 'police state'. It's a rich city with a powerful political establishment that uses some levers of power that are taboo in North America. But there's an elected parliament, a non-corrupt bureaucracy, and a respected legal system derived from English law. (Though, there are no jury trials and the government always wins its libel cases.)

In the economic dimension, at least, the case can be made Singapore has gone farther and faster than its other 'asian tiger' peers.

And, I'm not sure that Taiwan or South Korea would come out better in a point-by-point comparison of either economic or political/social freedoms. They're all different than US standards regarding dissent, by my understanding. (I've read the least about Taiwan's internal politics.)
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> I agree C is hardly used anymore

Any time you want to provide libraries, you'll likely use C: all languages have C FFI, and it's not possible to have a C++ FFI. So you'd have to rely on `extern C`, and then you have to build a bunch of stuff over your OO code so it can be used procedurally.

Often not worth it, C is the lowest common denominator of languages, if you want to be accessible to all languages... you'll probably use C.
Agree. I think the key idea is to minimize the time it takes to think about the things you own.
I'd imagine they'd prioritize lowering the barrier of creating .net webapps over Azure success. Azure is just one service but .net success is key part of their strategy.
Either find the way to boost up his motivation or tell him he's going to be working part time and his equity will be reduced accordingly (that's assuming, his part time work worth something).

co-founder who give 100% of himself, gets 50%.
co-founder who don't, does not.

Better off, if you think you drag on your own for a while, fire him.

The worst thing to your productivity (after social sites...), is a non productive person next to you.

* s/him/her/
Your definition of lock-in needs a reality check.

If my pocket calculator can't access the internet, it doesn't make the internet 'lock-in'.
Wrong, we researchers are not double-dipping, just because the publishers are charging exorbitant sums doesn't mean we see a dime of it.
There is also the hipster version of this: http://theburninghouse.com/

"If your house was burning, what would you take with you? It's a conflict between what's practical, valuable and sentimental."
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Thanks for the adroit summary...Since I've only done photography in the digital age, the idea that a photo alone is worth something seems strange to me. However, a photo produced during an assignment in which a photographer has to schlep a half-day to get is most definitely worth hundreds or thousands.

Someone who cares about preserving the memory of their wedding will recognize the value of paying someone $3,000-$10,000 to capture it, over some uncle who just bought a massive DSLR system to toy with. Same with publications and important news events. In the latter case, the problem is that there are just far fewer wealthy publications that still exist.
ouch! haha, thanks for pointing out - it's fixed.
Article doesn't mention Photoshop, so for all you know he might be using a free alternative.
My impression also - this was just somebody taking his grudge from a discussion here to his blog, and then back here. Just couldn't let go.
You just need to live long enough for prediction number 3 ;-)
Yes...you're exactly right. $3,000 to $5,000 sounds about reasonable for me, since I live in NYC and have a higher cost of living. However, my pro colleagues in northern California charged that much for weddings, so I imagine I would not be able to charge that high.

As another commenter noted, it's not about the amount of work, but just the type of work. The cat herding ("OK, find all the grandparents. Now let's do a shot with just the uncles and nephews. Now let's do their med school class with her mom, etc. etc.") is pretty tiring. I also really don't feel confident enough with lighting systems to consistently get the "money" shots (i.e. the kiss at the altar in a darkly lit church).
And a dog just needs a stick. I don't think it's about competition.
Different people can have different images in their mind what does constitute "language learning". For this reason I suggest to encourage people to leave more details about their recommendations made.
Minor thing - what is the reason behind the order of the languages presented? It could be useful to sort the languages by the number of suggestions made.
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> I've never left a website because of its color scheme. There's no issue.

As you say on your own web site, sometimes you just get it, sometimes you just don't.

Colours do provoke emotional responses, whether or not the viewer realises it, and people do measurably change their behaviour as a result. Legal pads are yellow because it increases concentration. Performers wait in green rooms because it calms nerves. People who wear dark blue suits to interviews are more likely to get hired.

> I've come to the conclusion that [these kinds of blogs] serve to inspire bored designers by exciting them with this pleasant gimmickry, but never really help past a momentary aesthetic stimulus.

Sometimes, a momentary source of inspiration is all you need.

Sometimes, you encounter that inspiration a long time before you find the right time to act on it.
I live here. Have for 5 years, and my latest startup will keep me here for a good number more... success permitting!

Singapore has excellent food, weather and is incredibly safe & clean. You can eat $4 noodles or $400 dollar steak. Booze is too expensive. Public transport is cheap, comfortable and mostly efficient (until a couple of recent train breakdowns).

It's also a great base for traveling Asia.

From a startup perspective, a huge amount of emphasis (read: money) is currently being applied to regional entrepreneurs to base themselves in Singapore's low-tax, straightforward business environment.

Engineers have been slightly underpaid historically, but things are beginning to improve. Coupled with the low tax rate though... the main problem is expensive rental accommodation.

The government certainly is guilty of heavy-handed-ness in a variety of situations but in general it appears to be from a sense of egocentric paternalism ('we know best what is good for you') rather than cynical exploitation.

They currently have some issues in terms of redistributing the wealth fairly to locals. The perception is that competition for jobs amongst the lower middle class is hampered by economic migration from poorer countries in the region.

Happy to talk more... but I've gone on enough already.
> I'm guessing posting anything about our password hashing will be frowned upon due to the context of this question.

The only way it could be harmful to disclose the hashing method is if you're using an insufficient one.
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No you're right, as is the previous commenter who speculated that I have a copy from work (no one considered GIMP? :) )...funny enough, I noticed someone in one of the discussion threads about the "This photograph is not free" who was in agreeance with the author but also seemed to imply that it's OK for non-rich photogs to pirate Photoshop.

The two things are apples-to-apples in that people who copy photos or Photoshop w/o permission justify it in that the original work is still available for the owner to sell/use. But it's funny how it's hard to see that perspective unless you are actually in the aggrieved group (i.e. photographers and software developers)
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You reminded me that I had wanted to mention my observations about pageviews, so I added them to the post:
http://danwin.com/2012/01/a-million-pageviews-thousands-of-d...

The answer: I don't know. Besides frequently uploading to Flickr, I don't take advantage of many of the social features...I notice I get very few comments on even my highly trafficked photos. I'm guessing this is because a good portion of traffic comes from social sites like Reddit...and most of those users aren't likely to create a Flickr account to comment. Also, Flickr's "interestingness" algorithm does not seem to place much importance on high traffic, if that traffic comes from a single outside source.

And also, I've never drawn much traffic from Google or other search engines.
I'm comparing more to Europe than to the US, but in particular, Singapore is not meaningfully democratic. The one party is enormously dominant, and there's considerable evidence that other parties are pressured not to field candidates. "The government always wins its libel cases" - sort of demonstrates that (a) the government is at least unusual (normal democratic governments do not bring libel cases, or the Daily Mail would be in a lot of trouble), and (b) the judiciary is compromised.

> And, I'm not sure that Taiwan or South Korea would come out better in a point-by-point comparison of either economic or political/social freedoms

Both are now relatively democratic, though it's a recent thing.
So they're battling online privacy?

Say no to privacy! (or maybe yes to proof reading)
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I struggle to find what the post was trying to say.

I've 10 million pageviews for my photos, averaging 430 pageviews per photo.

I derived a lot of revenue from the photos. Not from selling but from using photos to drive traffic to my blog where people will buy stuff.

Mine is more of product photography, targeted at people looking to see how a product looks.

There are may ways to make money off photos. E.g. Some are

1. By selling the photos.
2. By selling your service as a photographer
3. By affiliate marketing - driving traffic
My favourite usecase for QR codes are the links to a web site showing realtime bus arrival times you see at bus stops that don't yet have a realtime arrivals sign up. You can type the web address in manually too, of course, but the QR code is much more convenient.
Why should I care about this Open Data thing anyway?
this is probably the best feedback - http://pastie.org/3194809 :D
I took a quick look through your photostream...one other factor to consider: You have a higher proportion of personal/friend/family photos in your photos (I post my friend/family photos only on FB), whereas I have mostly general interest New York photos.

Photos from New York (a snowball fight in Minneapolis would not likely draw much attention) are typically more in demand so it seems that I should actually should have much higher traffic than you, assuming most random browsers are more interested in New York than a photog's friends/family. So my milestone seems even less noteworthy (and/or, of course, your general interest photos are particularly interesting).
I remember reading somewhere that S. Jobs was of a similar mentality; at times he only kept a Tiffany's lamp, a chair and a bed in this apartment.
Outside-US-version of letter from CEO Tony Hsieh
Is that, to ensure that US customers can read that letter without downtimes due to international readers who might not be affected by it? If so, what's with US customers who are just on a visit in another country right now?
Does he have health insurance? I'm guessing that's a pretty big thing.
Not only that, but all his consumer electronics are made by them.

Heck, almost everything not wearable or clothe related is Apple's.
More of a 'oops, wrong window'. I just thought I would try setting up news.arc on a virtual machine to use as a journal/blog and see where it goes. I am noticing that Hacker News topics are about 5-10% my interests so I thought I would make my own site and post what I find interesting.

Plus I find arc interesting and like the interface quite a bit, and could see, with some extensions, maybe building some sort of distributed/connected series of news.arc based sites (think a modern, distributed usenet). That's just a bit of an idea that I had, but something I might start working towards as I learn me some arc.
Neil Postman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Postman) is the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death, a fantastic book on the danger of our ever-increasing access to information.
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I would urge extreme caution about reading too much into this article.

I (I'm a political junkie) saw Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D) on TV yesterday. The message I got from his body language, nuance, and phrasing was something like "Obviously people who are elected from heavy technology areas are feeling a lot of heat. There's still a lot of support, though. Let's see if we can tweak this in such a way as to pass some kind of compromise."

Maybe that's just Reid trying to keep the RIAA cash cow alive, not sure. But I was fairly certain that what I was hearing was a tactical retreat, not a strategic surrender. Not by any means. My money says next time they'll have some language in there that could be interpreted a bunch of different ways (to prevent informed debate), and they'll wait until the last minute and sneak it into some other bill that is a "must-pass."
There are a bunch of comments that this guy actually owns more than 15 things, and that others cope with less, and he isn't in the 3rd world etc. All true; his system isn't as extreme as the headline would have you believe.

However, I see the takeaway is that he gets by with a lot less stuff than the average person in his demographic, and I think that is something to be applauded. I know I wouldn't relish doing it like he has, but it has made me think I could get by with less.
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What if you disallowed people from upvoting until they had received X upvotes? Would that force people to assimilate the culture before being allowed to affect it?

Alternatively, or additionally, has any thought been given (maybe something like it is already in place) to weighted voting? By which I mean more power is given to the upvotes and downvotes of community members who have been upvoted a large number of times. If a trusted member recommends something should it be given more weight than a recommendation by a newcomer?

Just a couple thoughts by a relative newcomer who has nonetheless observed and participated in online discussion for years and is interested in the problem of scaling a valuable community...
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I used to have three different passwords of varying complexity that I shared across sites.

When Gizmodo's database was compromised and I didn't know which password I used there, I decided to stop using the same set of passwords everyone and started generating and storing my passwords using 1Password. It's a little annoying to use on my iPhone (particularly having to type my long master password on the soft keyboard), but it's dead simple to use on the desktop and I recommend it to everyone. I still have some sites that use my old passwords, but 1Password's Smart Folders let me search my passwords for those and I plan on changing those today.

(I haven't used LastPass so I can't comment on how it compares to 1Password)
Any day we're set on, Black Friday? Weekly, bi-weekly, first of every month?
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In terms of software... very bloated.
For the same reasons he listed above, eg you want to use an ffi etc. This is not a temporary issue with c++ as you imply, there are really hard issues about the c++ programming model, eg exceptions and classes, being really hard to interface with other languages that work differently.

The question is not why Haskell not C, sure if you can use Haskell why not, but for most use cases you cannot. But most languages can be used instead of c++, Haskell or Java or whatever, with many advantages.
Says the guy who bought a social network where practically every profile had a pirated mp3 autoplaying, and pirated profile decorations.
Nice concise guide. Thank You.
Just to clarify as I was sleepy: Martingale http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martingale_%28betting_system%29

Also, the risk profile idea is: A company's decision makers tend to act in their own self interest. So, when their risk profile is favors high risks followed by a quick exit the company will end taking lot's of long term risks even if it's not healthy for it to do so. EX: There is a continuum of lean manufacturing where each stage is slightly more efficient, but the risk that supply chain issues cascading increases. If everyone is focused on the next quarters profit independent of all other issues then things may be trimmed past the point of reasons. This carries over into every area, if you can get a 6 months supply of a part at significantly below market rates it may be worth it to do so but again risk reward of decision maker informs what the company will end up doing. What separates the financial industry is simply the scale of risks and rewards offered to low level individuals within a company.
Last time I was at an AWS event they encouraged existing customers to create a new account to use the free tier.
Pocket calculator designers can implement internet support. Android developers cannot legally implement an iTunes store (I hastily assume).
I down-voted you for flagrantly abusing the flagging mechanism
"Creative Commons Non-commercial license (but I’ve let anyone who asks use them for free)"

This is his primary fault. If he gives his photos away for free to anyone that asks, it's hard to listen to his argument that he can't make any money from his photos. He can - but he chooses not to.
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