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Free Software is not a gift. That is where you go wrong. Just because you want it to be does not make it so.

Free Software, as advocated by the FSF and many others, is an attempt to remedy the ethical problems posed by closed source software, which has a strong tendency to lead to monopolistic behavior and unfair power balance between the consumer and the producer of a program.

Free Software may be many other things as well, depending on who is writing the software and releasing the code, but it's almost never a gift. The developers almost always want something in return, whether that is recognition, assistance with development or support for their ideals.

People who give software as a gift, release it into the Public Domain or use the most liberal of the BSD licenses. :-P Those who chose other licenses, do so for reasons you should respect if you intend to benefit from their work.
When's the last time you had to dive into the Rails source code? The only bits of Rails I'm consistently familiar with at the source level are the code that maps HTTP parameters to the "params" hash and into AR model attributes, and the session cookie stuff --- and those are professional interests, not "I couldn't figure out how to use it" things.

I'm asking seriously, because I spend about 20% of my work time writing Rails code for a bunch of different Rails apps, and --- at least since Rails 3 --- I never have to do this. And I'm a C programmer, so "diving into the code to figure shit out" is a first instinct for me too.
I was about the say the same thing.

Your data set is too small for people to yet understand why they should be using it.

Determining the mood from tweets and linking that mood to the keywords in the tweet - that would be interesting and patterns would start to emerge immediately.
I'm all for new ideas and tools, but you have to bring something to the table other than just being different. And just being "smaller" is not enough.

This is the problem with Padrino- it isn't different enough. We don't need a smaller MVC Ruby framework, as there isn't much space between what Sinatra is great for and what Rails is great for.

There is also an assumption that scaling Sinatra up is a good idea. I'd propose that it's likely not.
Real men write their own email servers ... kidding ;P
I think most people want the parse api. That is doing something when an email received. We were going to use that and the event api ourselves but I ended up writing my own custom email server with subethasmtp (in hindsight the lost opportunity cost was probably not worth it.)
Someone needs to create a market place to serve victims of google's death sentences.

1) Tap a pool of willing people that would never be involved in AdSense. Perhaps non-technical, older people who have no inclination toward that sort of thing.

2) Buy their "google birth right" from them, that is, for a fixed fee up front and an annual bonus buy the right to spin up an LLC using their identity to do business with google.

3) Rent these LLCs to victims of google and their negligent bots. The money will come through the LLC, and there will need to be a percentage commission to cover the tax liability of the identity donor plus pay. Maybe minimal if you make the payments to the victim be an expense.

4) The renter/victim will need to make a deposit that is forfeit if they burn the LLC identity, to keep them from being reckless.

The cost involved won't help the casual user, but for people forced to make a life style change because their primary income was just destroyed, I'm sure this would work.
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You didn't say "Java web development", you said "Struts".

You didn't say "break new ground", you said "younger developers".

You didn't say "pick and choose", "risk and reward", you said "resistent to adoption" and "conservative".

And you said it on a thread mostly populated with people who used Sinatra --- we weren't "resistent" to Sinatra (I was seduced by it). We adopted it. It turned out to be poorer than Rails for our use cases. Given two options, one of which was better than the other, we used the better option; that's engineering.
On small addition: Padrino is also a Layer that stitches multiple Padrino Apps together, which is the true shiny feature.
I'd do something about the kerning of the h1 element, it's not particularly pleasant in my opinion.
While I sometimes wish something like this existed, it seems ripe for abuse and/or open to some sort of libel law violation should it get out of control.
I am not against the Padrino web framework. I still like it. :-)

So your benchmark only have tested against the small "Hello World" app. Maybe that's why I suggested that Padrino framework is pretty ideal for small/personal/API projects for fastest responses.

Have you tried benchmarking your one of biggest padrino apps?
I'm guessing the name is a play on 'swoll', which colloquially means 'muscular'.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=swoll
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The big advantage is battery life.

I now carry around a £5 dumbphone in my bag for when my smartphone inevitably dies on a night out (and yes, I do have a second charger at work). When I use the dumbphone as my main device, the battery lasts around two weeks.
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It actually turns out that being smaller can be worse if it means you're just building a half-assed implementation of something Rails 3 already does well.
I wrote an email server to do this but I highly recommend instead of using a RESTful POST you consider using a message bus like RabbitMQ. That is what we do. We have our custom email server push it to a Rabbit queue and then our app picks it up. That way if you shutdown the app you won't loose any emails.
The flow of the site immediately sticks out in a great way. As a user the navigation bar for the lessons is easily understood.

Each lesson has its own key terms that can be used as a mini nav within the lesson which is helpful.

The code layout is simple and not overwhelming. Its nice to see long hand vs short hand

People can argue all day long about the right content but this seems to be a great start. Clearly the author has put much prep and time into considering this.
How long before this gets sued for libel?
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I think they should allow for rebuttals; like Amazon does with it's feedback. There are always two sides to a story.
Yes, it is. That's a sad reflection on our civilisation.
The only surprising thing about this story is that it made the papers.

US immigration officials have always taken a hard line on visitors. I had a very similar experience several years before 9/11 when I was denied entry because they suspected that I MIGHT be intending to marry my then-girlfriend (a US citizen and now ex-girlfriend).

Often, when I've related my story, I've heard similar first-hand accounts of travelers being accused of trying to smuggle in drugs, etc. for no apparent reason and being denied entry, interrogated or worse. Any flimsy pretext seems sufficient. I don't know if the officials need to fill quotas or if they are trying to set examples. I'm sure some are on a power trip but in my case they seemed decent people, just determined not to be swayed by evidence or common sense.

As much as I like America (and it's people in particular) I have no desire to return.
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> You are grasping at unrelated analogies and contexts.

You're claiming that 8 character ids are inherently public. Why is the "publicness" of 7 numeral ids an unrelated analogy? After all, the universe of 7 numeral ids is significantly smaller than the set of 8 character ids, so if the former is private (by obscurity) then surely the latter is as well, absent some other factor.

So, what are some of these other factors?
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Like others have said, I don't understand what value this adds. Second, I don't have Facebook and won't give my twitter login to an random site..... at the same time, those 'social' networks seem to be what gives this product value.
Could you go more in detail with your experience with Flask? I am new to web development and I am developing a landing page in Flask. I tried to use Django or Rails in the past but I just hated not being able to understand what I was doing. Flask is really, really, straightforward, I rolled out my own authorization plugin as a decorator and it feels good to be so close to the application. But I keep thinking if I should move to RoR in case my landing page succeeds and I will have to build the real application. Mostly, I am concerned about hosting and scaling...
I think that's a false dichotomy. I've never had a contract for any of my smart phones; pre-pay, all the way. For all my data usage out and about, 8 GBP (O2 web) is more than sufficient. But my phone is usually on wifi, around the house or on location at work. It almost completely displaces tablet usage; it's a rare task that makes it worthwhile holding a heavy iPad compared with my Galaxy Nexus.
Wrong way for a right course.

It is sad that browsers are not taking typography seriously.
The availability of SCP is irrelevant. What matters is support. I'm glad you did your research but you came to the wrong conclusion; the conclusion you should have come to is that FTP is much more tightly integrated. In C# it's part of the standard library; in Java it's an Apache library everyone has.

I think you're overvaluing what is the "best" method of file transfer. When you have to set up a file transfer process with a client, and tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars are on the line, you are going to choose the path of least resistance. That path is FTP. Clearly. If you are the much bigger company you have a better chance of doing things the "right way" but that rarely happens just because these are ultimately business decisions and business doesn't care about implementation details unless they cost money.
I don't think Twitter is doomed - but I think they've been struggling to figure out their place in the world. I think this is starting to change now and would agree with many of the sentiments in the article - if not the hype re: it being bigger than Google - I couldn't see that happening in the short term anyway.

The other part of the problem people's views on Twitter/Facebook et al. is that your experiences on each network tend to be a reflection of how much effort you've put into getting the most out of each.

For example, for me, Twitter has FAR more value on a daily basis than Facebook. From my perspective, Facebook is a glorified flickr account. But that's just me. Meanwhile Twitter is my go to news source along with Hacker News. Market valuations wouldn't reflect my personal perspectives on each network!

Twitter needs to get MUCH better at helping users get the most out of their personal user experience on the network - otherwise it will never reach it's true potential.
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Airbrake increased their prices A LOT :(
Today I got an email from Airbrake which told me that my card was invalid (I changed it recently and forgot to update it). So I went to their website to update it, and.. surprise! I've discovered that they've increased their prices, a lot! My current plan is a mini for 4 users and 4 project for 5$/month, as a single person, with lowe budget on some project that it's perfect, now for have the same (4 projects) I'd need to spend 32$/month, that a 640% increase! And worst of all, I didn't get any email about this change
I'm very sad about this decision, and recently a lot of services I use (Podio and Pagerduty) have changed (=increased) their prices. What's happening?

(for anyone interested after some research I've found an open alternative to Airbrake which is working quite good: https://github.com/errbit/errbit )
Not the best route to handle this. Make sure you have a decent lawyer on hand (and a good contrct) when dealing with delinquent clients. Something like this will guarantee that you'll never get paid.
He must really like himself to put two portrait pictures of himself in a single blog post. I'm not saying its bad taste. I would do it too if I was better looking :)
There are this things called stationary phones. Some people still use them.

Also - some people don't have mobile phone because they don't want to be available all the time. As popular as moblie phones are, there is no law that says everyone should have them.
Alway be honest!!! Tell them the other company responded quickly, but that you would be willing to explore still
This is a fantastic project, but I can't help but feel that it's a bit late to the party. Five years ago this would have been especially helpful. The trend now is towards css compilers like LESS or SASS, or using bootstrap css frameworks where you name your html elements based on the framework conventions.

I still think there's a place for this. I think they've got a ways to go before it's ready though.
6 minutes downtime for Github? Github is amazing. That's all. :-)
The site wouldn't be liable. A lawyer would tell his client that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicatio...

Anyone could post libelous statements on the 50+ million blogs and forums out there, yet you've never seen "Warn HN: Monitor your blog comments for libel" -- that's because you can't be treated as the publisher or speaker, so can't be held liable for what was said.
This reminds me of ol' F'd Company. Can't be sued for libel if the story is true.
Well, if a $25 Raspberrry Pi can run Linux and play HD videos, there's no reason a $50 phone shouldn't be able to run Android at a reasonable speed.
Anyone know what indian libel laws are like?
A much more useful approach would be to educate people about protecting themselves from non-payers. Eg, use an agreement or contract, check references, etc. That would be far more beneficial than a collection of libel and rambling.

For instance, the entry from Jan 31 says the person worked for _four_ months without being paid! Why would you work for four months straight without a single intermitent payment (or an advance)?
I agree with others on the legal view, but also, to me this site just focuses on sour grapes. As a result, I can't see anything positive of helpful coming out of it. I'm not going to search a blog each time I get a client to see if they've been written about here. And aside from that, this site will only ever tell one-side of the case.

What if the developer did really poor work, missed every deadline by weeks, or the client still says there's work to be done before being paid? All this site shows is angry developers complaining about less-than-ideal clients. For me, that's the kind of talk you have over beers at a bar — you say your piece and then you move on — not something you permanently record into a collection on the web.
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> Something like this will guarantee that you'll never get paid.

I do believe that if you're at this point, you already believe that you'll never get paid. Otherwise you'd be saying "I wasn't paid yet."
What if this happens:

I work with a difficult dev/designer for a couple of months trying to bootstap a product. In the end it's not working, we agree to go our own ways, but I keep the name of the product. For what ever reason they get shitty with me, and a month or two down the line when I'm working with someone else they post about me on 'iwasntpaid' - not just once, loads of times - they know a lot about me so they can make it look like a string of unhappy dev/designers are annoyed and I can never be sure who it was posting this.

Would the site owner let me/help me remove these? Will they be asking for proof? If not I can see them getting in some interesting legal battles pretty quickly.

I think something like: http://youthoughtwewouldntnotice.com/blog3/ is great - but it is totally open and honest - you state who you are and why you feel you've been ripped off.

This anonymous sniping isn't going to help anyone. If someone rips you off write a blog post about it, tell people you work with, or better yet talk to the offending party in person.

This feels like bitching-meets-4chan. At least http://www.grouphug.us tries to keep both sides anonymous.
Personally, I can't stand QR codes. They're annoying to scan and most don't even have value or take you anywhere worthwhile. So I ask, what's the real point?
Even with rebuttals, the very name of the website suggests that the employer is in the wrong.
"I still think computers will not succeed. They have been built since the 50s, and the price tag, the space they take, the heat and energy consumption have always been a problem."

I think you fail to realize where electric cars are on its technological trajectory. They're still in its infancy, and it's not like there's no more innovation to be had in battery technology etc.
If you want a humorous take, the classic "Missing Missy"

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I think moments like this define what should take priority. It is a wake up call but we all push it anyway don't we.

I think this case is the most extreme where it is directly about one's health and is very critical. You have to be alive and kicking to do what you want.

However what about the more grey areas like a loved one being sick, not getting time to see your child grow up, or even pushing the possibility of having a child or marriage - these are as irreversible. Just that these are a sacrifice of a feeling vs sacrifice of self. But you never know if the feelings are bigger than self.
Anonymous accusations, no verification and guaranteed reputational damage to those accused: This is a bad idea.

If you have legal claims, press charges instead of going down this road.

Edit: the first post, an anonymous accusation (by the site's creator?), disappeared shortly after the site showed up on HN. Also, now suddenly submittals are subject to review (by whom?).
> What if the developer did really poor work, missed every deadline by weeks, or the client still says there's work to be done before being paid?

Then make a place for that kind of post too. Perhaps even create an index that correlates the two accounts, so that people can see both sides of each story, and weigh the evidence for themselves.
Very true. I've been in a similar situation with a lot of money not being paid, and the client didn't care about their reputation being damaged. What they did care about was my lawyer.
I'm not saying that MegaUpload need to pay for this, but more of how the hosting company can not destroy evidence and not have to spend a lot of money.
Nice idea in theory. But ultimately I don't think it will end very good. There are certainly unscrupulous people out there, even contractors. So I wouldn't be surprised if some false or grey claims end up on the site. I don't want to predict possible legal action. But I predict possible legal action.
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If I were in that position, I would have done research and posted details in the answers. "I checked my log files, and received an average of X visitors over December, which compares to Y visitors over November. I also noticed IP Address K was crawling my site daily and I can't determine who they are, so I blocked their access. Perhaps that was the source of the abuse."

A little effort might have gone farther. Or who knows, maybe it would have had no effect.
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I carried an Ideos for a few months, it was perfectly useable. Not my Galaxy Nexus by a long shot, but the important stuff of email, texting, Facebook all worked just fine.
> flock() is not trivial to do in a portable way

Perl, Python and Ruby manage it.

> For a unix-only flock(), check out the fs-ext addon

Which I wrote.

> Of course we'll be "dealing with Node.js security bugs for a VERY long time", because we'll be using Node.js for a very long time.

That's not quite what I meant - I mean that people right now are writing temp files in LOTS of Node.js applications in an insecure way. It's good that O_EXCL is available, I'll try and submit a patch to node-temp, but really temp file creation should be in core (amongst other things).

This isn't a vague suggestion. There are COUNTLESS security bugs created every day by insecure temp file creation. Let's see, from npm these packages have security bugs because they rely on the insecure node-temp: ShipItJS assetgraph-builder confy filerepl gracie joose js-loader muffin nerve redisfs.
Doesn't primercss.com do the same? Its available since more than year now.
Can you not just buy a phone & get a SIM-only contract in the US?
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Sinatra has a great use case in Service Oriented Architecture and APIs. One Rails app supported by 4-5 Sinatra/Rack apps.
Because of the cloud fad. People have always made bad IT decisions based on the flavor of the month. They still do.
FYI: http://youthoughtwewouldntnotice.com/blog3 leads to a giant ad for some Canadian pill site.
You wouldn't lose anything, but enterprise and B2B software is an entirely different world than consumer software with some very different expectations.

Often times the reason screenshots aren't shown is because the application is so complex that its functionality couldn't possibly be shown with a few screenshots (enterprise software is often really ugly too). Same goes for pricing; pricing is going to vary based on the size of the purchase, what the company can afford, what discounts you give, etc. It's too complex to just throw onto the site.
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In an ideal world this is great but anonymously posted data only could increase problems with people posting one or many stories about others they just want to harm for personal reasons.

While self naming probably increases the chance of legal issues I think people should have the choice to say I am the person he did this to to help credibility. And if one have it all documented there should be nothing to be worried about.
I first formulated it differently (basically like… i believe that etc etc) but it sounded very outdated written like that…

I tried to communicate that many people see it that way. But you are right that "common knowledge" is too far.
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This is a fairly unique issue to America and its ridiculous contracts.

This article is mostly talking about the developing markets, where pre-paid is the defacto standard. No contracts.

Most people with data enabled phones in Rwanda pay less than $30 a month for their service. (pre-paid we pay 5c a megabyte)