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I know I'm beating a dead horse but I'll try anyway.

> If a 16-year-old boy from the ghetto in the US became the world's youngest MCP at the age of 9, I would absolutely expect that to be news.

It's very, very likely that some 9 years old kid in the ghetto has produced something much more noteworthy than becoming an MCP. You would expect that to be in the news, but it isn't there.

> well, I, as a white man with excellent access to education, got an MCP at the age of 20, and it wasn't all that hard

What I was trying to say is: think that you are a poor Pakistani little kid, working your ass off between work/school hours on your lame old computer. What would you think of the celebrations here? Again, that Pakistani little kid most likely exists. Most likely, there's hundreds of them. You don't hear of them in the news.
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I just can't believe I survived using a large monitor setup (1920x1080px + laptop screen) for so long without this tool.

Also, I'm not a fan of tiling window managers, but optional tiling is very useful for coding and browsing.

Do anybody have experiences to share about similar tools?
IR35 is not quite the same as whether someone is employed or a contractor - you could claim to be a self-employed contractor when working from home and IR35 would not apply. If you did that then it would be a question of whether you were employed or self-employed, and that would determine which forms of national insurance contributions were paid (your income tax would remain the same).

IR35 was introduced to stop contractors from setting up a limited company and then having the company contracted instead of the individual. The individual would then take dividends out from the company, which are taxed at a lower rate and not subject to national insurance.

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/ir35/
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Nice idea, unique solution to the problem. I'm working on a site right now that allows comments, when I release it I have the same concerns about comment quality. Time delays may be a great answer, perhaps also varying by the upvoted rating of the commentor: higher-karma users have the comment window appear after less time.

None of us want to see hacker news grow into reddit imgurl land, but I see that becoming more and more the case lately.
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These guys are well known for people cloners in Europe. There is a lot of press about them so its interesting to hear what people in american think about them. Most recently they tried to clone Air BnB and went into competion with them , their site is called Wimdo. Im interested to see if more articles come out about the Arguements for cloning US Sites in Europe and how you can prevent. Highly recommend
I think a lot of people may have a "mental budget" for apps -- e.g. spending $5/mo. on apps seems reasonable to me, while spending $50/mo. is not.

So if apps were $10, I would buy 1 every couple months, instead of 2-3/mo like I do now.

For example, I'll buy a $0.99 remote desktop connection app to connect to my server from anywhere, that I will use maybe 3 times ever. But I will not buy it for $10.

So I'm not convinced that higher app prices would necessarily translate into higher revenue.

Also, remember that we can't compare piracy-free iPhone app pricing (ignoring jailbreakers) with normal software pricing. Every purchased copy of Photoshop "subsidizes" n other people who use it for free. So on any piracy-free platform, you might expect prices to be lower.
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Personally i use Starbucks as a personal office space, it's a lot cheaper than renting of buying an apartment with an extra bedroom.

Coffeeshops don't sell just coffee, they sell a workspace, convenience, wi-fi, etc. Now if one doesn't take advantage of all these other aspects of Starbucks then it doesn't make much sense to buy Starbucks, I agree.
runs smooth for me on Safari OS X.

And I really like it... but....

It's style over substance and reminds me of the bad old days when Flash polluted every website with something snazzy but superfluous.

I don't really know how to phrase what I'm thinking. It's good to try new things, especially with stuff like CSS3 and WebGL on the horizon. But it's bad to just shoot things down. While I don't think for a second that you're promoting 3d transforms as something that everyone should be using for everything... some people out there really will latch onto it as a "cool thing" and abuse it. Which isn't your fault, it's just the way the world works.

So in summary. Awesome, love it! But I hope CSS3 doesn't become the new Flash.
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It has nothing to do with pricing in itself and all with competition. Look at the gps navigation software. They cost more than the average app. Obviously because there is no real or very little competition in that area.
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> That's not logic. That's jealousy.

If you read my comments, you'll see that I wasn't making a comparison between me and her. I was making a comparison between her and somebody who's accomplished what she did and much more without being born in a rich family, and is striving to get something to eat at the end of the day. There's plenty of them, why aren't they on the news?
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Thanks for that, I just gave them 100$ because you mentioned it.

PS: They require an email address on their donation page, but you can get away with junk data.
I wrote this up awhile ago for how to do this in pure httpd configuration:

http://journal.paul.querna.org/articles/2009/08/24/downtime-...
In business you have to make some tough decisions, and nice as being in a startup that you believe in is, your frustration and most of your anger is because you are angry at yourself for either not knowing what to do, or being scared about losing everything, or scared about facing up to someone taking advantage of you.

Here's what I would do in your shoes. The aim is to get his attention as you don't appear to have it when you talk directly to him.

Stop including him in your work, stop including him in important communications with your investors. Ignore his phone calls when you are either too busy to answer them or just not in the mood. If you don't like doing that, answer the phone and say "can I call you back later I'm just in the middle of something". don't call back. Same with emails and facetime et al.

If he does not start to even get slightly concerned about that, you know he's not playing ball... next step protect your position because he's already shafting you:

Start to conduct your work as if you were working alone, and start to set up structures to jump ship to a new set-up without him. Even if you don't use this nuclear option, you'll start to feel much better knowing that you are one step ahead and have it in place.

At no point must you ever mention that you are doing this to anyone at all, not even your investors. If you move you are going to be abandoning the joint project, but the work you put in does not have to disappear. Make sure you can pick-up where you left off (dropbox everything important) and if it comes to it, you can offer your investors the same equity for nothing in the new venture.

Once you realise that most business is a game of chess, and that it can be dog-eat-dog when big money is at stake, then you should not feel bad about these actions.

The problem is that if you let it get personal (which clearly is starting to happen) you already lose. Just make sure you always do what is best for the project and for you, and at least then you can hold your head up, even when it feels wrong. Sometimes you have to be a little bit ruthless to keep your sanity.

One last point, I'm not paranoid about working with people, but I have had a couple of bad experiences that have taught me not to put up with bad behaviour.
I like this; if you do it right, it could do an enormous amount of good. That said, I think you should be choosy about which charities you promote; rather than let charities seek you out, you should seek out the very best charities and promote them exclusively. The amount of good-per-dollar varies by multiple orders of magnitude, so the difference in impact between promoting only the best charities and promoting average charities can be enormous. I would suggest directing people to GiveWell's (http://givewell.org) top charities list, or to one of the specific charities on it.
This isn't minimalism in any sense of the word, it's just a consumerist vanity.

OP's 'minimalism' is sustained by a reliance upon huge amounts of infrastructure, most of it environmentally unsustainable. He doesn't carry stuff with him, but uses money to access what he needs. It's like claiming to be a minimalist because you own a second house where you keep all your stuff. OP outsources the burden of sustaining his lifestyle to people poorer and browner than himself.

He eats without pans and plates because he relies on an army of immigrant workers to cook for him and wash his dishes. He doesn't own bedsheets or a sweeping brush because an immigrant maid cleans his hotel rooms. I don't believe that such an economic relationship is necessarily immoral or exploitative, but it certainly isn't minimalist.

OP flew more miles in the summer of 2010 than most people fly in a lifetime. That's hundreds of kilos of Jet-A fuel, a substantial share of the fleet and fixed infrastructure, plus untold amounts of carbon (magnified manifold by being emitted at altitude). He eats meat, which has a vast footprint in terms of land, water and energy use. How minimal is a lifestyle that leads to irrevocable climate change? How minimal is a lifestyle that wastes good soy protein to raise beef cattle?

Real minimalists take less than their fair share, not more.
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Assuming Arch is still based on Slackware: Slackware 13.37 on my Compaq Presario (C700 series) works great.

It never used to, back in the 12.0 Slackware days, and then I gave up and forgot about it. A few months ago I decided to try again and it just worked.

Check out your scripts in /etc/acpi and try `acpi_listen` to see what event is triggered.
Would you guys be open to trying weekly sponsored posts on a Tumblr blog? (We're over at http://shortformblog.tumblr.com/) We'd have to talk about it some more to figure out the right way to handle it, but I see it as a way to unobtrusively play with a sponsored posts style (which would work well with Tumblr, where everything is dashboard-oriented) while doing something good with it. I have 20k followers there, so it might be worth trying. Let me know.
I think we'll see a year or two of abuse going forward as this starts eating Flash, and people become overcome with experimentation. This seems the adaption pattern with most technology. I know I'll spend a good amount of time abusing this just to familiarize myself with the new opportunities. Things seem to balance back to a more modest (and as we say in Sweden, "lagom") state after a while.

In a way, it mimicks what Tim O'Reilly wrote on piracy earlier today:
"History shows us, again and again, that frontiers are lawless places, but that as they get richer and more settled, they join in the rule of law."
I'm not sure if Mr Hyde's definition of a personal possession was a (well-played) PR trick or simply a certain lack of accounting intuition. Which is a shame, because his putative balance sheet should be a fascinating thing to think about.

If we were to take a look at his assets and guess reasonable values for each category of asset, I wouldn't be surprised if all 15 items he listed (give or take his wallet and computer) ended up in a catch-all 1%-of-total-value "other assets" category.

In reality, Mr Hyde's own description of how he lives (and how he manages to get around with so few 'objects') suggests that the most valuable things he has, by far, are (and probably in that order): his contacts, his reputation, and his cash.

Close to these three, his clothes, iPod and sneakers, however annoying to replace he imagines them to be, should be next to meaningless.
Indeed. If you own a device running a modern processor and OS, you got extreme miniaturization hiding in (skimpy) minimalism's clothes.

A sheepherder in Afghanistan might own a hundred items more than this guy, yet he lives a simpler life by any reasonable definition.
Rather than emailing the passwords, you might want to look at the way Django does transparent upgrades of passwords.

It has a prefix for the hashing algorithm at the beginning, so it can check which algorithm is being used for each password:

sha1$a1976$a36cc8cbf81742a8fb52e221aaeab48ed7f58ab4

So in your case, you could add a prefix 'txt$' in front of plain text passwords, and when the user successfully logs in, have it hash the password and save it in the database.

The advantage of doing it the way Django does is that the "upgrade on successful login" lets you change your hash without causing problems with the users.

Give the users a bonus or some reason for logging into their account and most of your passwords will get fixed automatically.
There's some other fascinating articles on this guys site. I especially like his look into the local real estate industry.

I don't share all his leftist proclivities but his research has been very eye opening and informative (and paradoxically made me a bit more libertarian).
I love to see people taking things to the limit and would never harshly criticize or discourage someone from doing something like this but there's a big but coming...

But whenever you do something like this you have to be sure to test it on enough browsers and devices to be sure the vast majority of your audience won't be left with a bad taste in their mouth. Either that testing didn't happen or it was decided that the negatives were worth it in this case. The experience isn't good on iOS (iPhone and iPad) and just a little better in non-Webkit browsers. The scrolling is the big problem. It's okay for a minute but soon it's annoyance become more and more prominent in your mind.

Anyway, this is really really awesome! Having the js backup was good thinking. I hope it works out for the site. It's not something I'd use on a site with an audience that was really important to me but not everyone has the same priorities. In any case, besides the practical considerations, the effect itself is very impressive. Kudos.
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Freaking amazing.

My only issue with css transforms is how unfamiliar the world of transforming/scaling/rotating/animating/etc is to the average web developer despite studying the basics of computer graphics. Whenever I look at the source, I feel like it has been written to never be read or understood again.
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If you thought the first part was just wrong or ignorant, you really should keep reading all the way to the bottom.
It's sort of hard to take seriously an article that lists the "benefits" of Kickstarter without including "the ability to solicit and collect pledges".
Great article with a small typo...
"Codecamedy did a very good job, but even them left plenty of room for improvement."
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As an author of one semi-pro audio app, I can tell you that even the "pro" apps are selling for as little as 1/10th of the price of a similar app on a Mac. I really doubt the sales volumes compensate for that.

The big problem with the app store is that the people on the very high end of the power distribution dictate a pricing structure for everyone that only really works for those moving huge volumes. People now have a preconceived idea of what an app should cost that often has nothing to do with how much it must actually sell for in order to turn a profit.
Also, I'd love to have a way to pay for apps after I've been using them for a while. For example, I would never have bought Instapaper in the first place for $10, but now that I use it every day, I would be very happy to contribute even $20.

It would be fascinating from a psychology standpoint to see what kinds of results this might have.
This one would not fit in a normal envelope. What happens in the US when you get something that doesn't fit into your mail slot?

I just know that in Finland, in such cases you have to go to the post office to get the package, so I've tried to avoid sending such things as part of the regular shipments. I might still add an option to order those separately.
Thanks for the details Tyler! The size is of course flexible, by suggesting 250x100 I was just trying to give a general idea of the small, non-intrusive style we're requesting. I've updated the post to make this clearer.
But don't forget: the best thing about having a personal site is not having to care what others think about it.
I think I'm thinking the same thing, it's hard to put into words. I think we absolutely need people to show us the possibilities and overuse this. I hope css3 does become flash! I hope it gets stretched to its limit and overused by coders like the author here. Once that happens there will be a backlash and we'll be using it sensibly again. I think the web goes through these phases where some technologies get overused and it's how we find the best practices and proper ways to implement this sort of thing when the situation calls for it.
I'd say 4 but to me it feels like 11 ;)

Just don't have enough time, money, or knowledge, and could do with some help actually!
>These are examples of 'bad' comments

They weren't bad comments at all. The circle-the-wagons "we're better than this" reaction is worse.

While a death is usually a tragedy, made magnitudes worse when it's a child, the title of that post was absurd, and it was a giant elephant in the room that simply had to be rationally diffused. Like others I went into that story primarily to read how she was a programming prodigy.

Tragic death. Not a programming prodigy. The misrepresentation was noticed by all, and it will be a sad day when social convention means we all have to carry forward the lie lest we offend someone's sensibility about death.
> No, it contains correctly spelled words used in place of other desired words.

If you intend to write a word meaning "actually existing as a thing" and spell it "reel", it is monstrously unlikely that you genuinely thought a word meaning "a cylinder on which flexible materials can be wound" was a suitable substitute. If you did, that would be the use of a correctly spelled (but incorrectly selected) word in place of a desired word: a grammatical error, in other words. However, if you just pick the wrong letters to construct a phoneme, as is almost certainly the case here... yep, that's a spelling error.

To put it another way, imagine that the word "reel" didn't actually exist, and I make precisely the same error, substituting an 'e' for an 'a'. All of a sudden, by your argument, what was a grammatical error is now a spelling error. But the mistake I made hasn't changed, so that makes no sense.

> If you want to correct these kind of errors, you must now a lot about natural language.
>...
> Anyway, no spell checker in widespread use attempts this

So? The category of error doesn't change with how difficult it is to fix.
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Map databases are very expensive. You can't just use Google Maps for navigation, because of the licensing.
Look into the IAB (Internet Advertising Board) standard sizes. You want to pick one (or more) of those.
Thanks for sharing.

Btw You are pushing limits and turning people off by it. To me that are usually good signs, looks you are on to something with this approach.

I am pretty sure you just sparked a series of creative ideas coming up the next weeks. Thanks for that!
Glad someone pointed this out. Several of us are doing this at the office and I've watched our design team struggle in similar ways. If you're not used to the the kind of errors you'll see in coding or javascript, it can be incredibly confusing. Luckily for me, a reference error can be meaningful but to someone who has no idea about scripting, it's utterly worthless (sure you could argue this person should go to google and learn it but I'd say that this is the learning tool they've settled on and it should provide that instruction).

I've found myself struggling with their less-than-clear directions. I'm even convinced that there is at least one problem set so far with no solution (Functions in Javascript Optional Course » Lesson 2, part 3).

I have high hopes for Codeyear. After toying with it for a bit during the first week though, I'm hoping the usability and directions are cleaned up otherwise this will be more of an exercise in patience than in learning programming or javascript.

All this said, I've at least gotten some totally sweet badges.
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"I work at Google as a Webmaster Trends Analyst. This is my personal profile.

What do I do at Google? I help webmasters build better websites, so you'll see me talking to webmasters on our and other forums, writing blog posts, saying things like "I'll ask internally" and the like."
His/her friend is dumb and she uses a bad browser.

(I hope you note it's sarcastic)
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One has to wonder that, services and technologies comparison aside, perhaps there's something appealing about the Kickstarter brand/community. Contributing to a random website out in the wild vs. contributing in an environment where there's a critical mass are very different. Whether or not the value is extracted from being a part of Kickstarter depends on many more variables than the article choses to mention. Perhaps a viable alternative would be a similar product but with a more de-centralized approach (ie. a mechanism placed on individual sites but with a recognizably safe community & brand).
Unless you're Knuth. But I'm not, so I test.
I hope that Oracle's corporate customers are profitable, because they are really doing a good job of pissing off the programmer community.
Right! I'd feel the same about my personal site. See, I'm not familiar with the author so I'm not sure if it's appropriate. I think you have a point but if you have a personal site that's highly trafficked and popular then this might be a bad idea. I could do something nuts like this but imagine if PG did this to his site. I don't think he would. That's the kind of thing I'm getting at.
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I made a little test on SpriteJS (https://github.com/batiste/sprite.js), Spritely (http://spritely.net/) and CSS3 Keyframes using step-start.

You can basically test it yourself using any browsers:
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