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"A couple months ago there was an article about people in NY who wanted to charge $3K+ to teach others how to program in Ruby. HN went ballistic, "How could you charge so much when you can learn it all on the Internet?""

A good personal tutor goes much further than reading something on the Internet. Especially something that could increase your yearly salary.
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The design looks great, but I'd like to test out the google integrations before I start paying...
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I tend to have... Opinions... about project and task management software. I'll be happy to give it a go and pass on any thoughts/suggestions/problems that I have through the 'feedback' option.

How would you be monetising this? A 'per seat' option, a 'per project' option, or some other way? What are you thinking of charging?

#EDIT: Also, who do you see as your main competition in this field? Who are you gunning for? What frustrations with other software/solutions drove you to build this?
If you are referring to them not allowing the plugin to work inside their browser for iOS then I agree, it is different. I have no problem with that choice that they made, it's their system. But, it was possible to build apps for iOS that used Flash development tools and Apple directly put a stop to it. Therefore, they did put some work into that aspect even though all it amounted to was changing the EULA and banning apps from the app store. In my opinion that was an effort to prevent development tools they did not control from entering their market; that's not an "open" attitude.

But, anyway, I wasn't referring to Apple in my comment. I was referring to individuals who present the argument I described; people who are all for "open" as long as it involves software they want you to use.
also this line "Never trust anyone under 30 with a BlackBerry.”

So now we're supposed to judge something as complex as a person's trustworthiness based on their consumerist choices? I understand it's meant to be taken as an offbeat joke but as humorous as it's meant to be, statements like that make me feel troubled and mildly depressed. I'd really not like people to define me based on what phone I have :( Let's just have a beer and talk instead :\
Star Trek, especially TOS, are all about drudgery. As I recall, they had to manually place torpedoes on the launch racks, and firing the phasers involved Kirk giving the order to fire, which is relayed by the weapons officer to a poor schmuck sitting in the phaser room, who then presses a button. Even in the more recent episodes, you constantly had people hauling around those little pads in order to give information to somebody, rather than transmitting it via the (presumably) incredibly advanced computer which is linked to and controlling the entire ship.
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Serving static files is more about pre-processing, or rather:

Don't do at run-time what can be done at compile-time.

This doesn't need to be any more manual that the labor involved in uploading content into a CMS or data store by another name (e.g., blog engine). It's more of a substitution of one task for another.

I prefer to think of the static HTML approach as the difference between using Makefiles versus a shell script for compiling code. Once you understand that the shell script will duplicate nuances that 'make' offers, use of Makefiles for compiling code usually gets viewed as the better approach. (There are always edge-cases, of course.)
I wonder why people seem to avoid the fact that the laws already know it is impossible to shut down file sharing. It is a power play. Just like it is impossible to stop marijuana usage, but that has no affect on the repercussions of the laws and the results for certain corporations and those accused.
I agree. Problem is, this Flash vs. HTML5 rhetoric has people mixing in "it can do everything Flash does" and "Flash doesn't work on mobile" leading the implication that if you want to do an elaborate, highly interactive experience, it'll work on mobile and it'll be better than Flash. You see how self-serving that argument is?
You also need to account for the transmission line efficiency[1], the charger efficiency (typically 90-95%), and battery efficiency[2] (80-90%).

If we assume the transmission lines are 98% efficient, the charger is 95% efficient and the battery is 90% efficient, the motor controller is 95% efficient, and the motor is 95% efficient (drive efficiency of 90% instead of 80% of the parent quote)...

0.33 * 0.98 * 0.95 * 0.90 * 0.95 * 0.95 = 25% efficient, with efficiency numbers somewhere between "best case" and "optimistic". ICE in an efficient car is competitive with that. A hybrid will beat that.

[0] How Stuff Works estimate: http://auto.howstuffworks.com/fuel-efficiency/alternative-fu...

[1] Nobody knows for sure what the transmission line (including step-up and step-down transformers) is in actual practice. Note the Wikipedia article says "efficiency" several times, but never pins an estimate onto it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_power_transmission

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium-ion_battery
Yeah that is a good point. One can argue that technology is a tool and it can be used for evil. But with this stuff:

"without IBM's machinery, continuing UPKEEP and SERVICE, as well as the supply of punch cards, whether located ON-SITE or off-site, Hitler's camps could have never managed the numbers they did" [emphasis mine]

The idea is basically:

So there were not pocket calculators that they bought and then deployed in concentration camps and IBM can claim complete ignorance over the use. These machines need constant & professional service. Having them onsite meant that IBM sent technicians there probably. One had to wonder what those technician's response do the 24/7 billowing crematorium and emaciated bodies were.

However, on the other side (and I have not read the book, just looked at the topic many years ago superficially) I am not aware of any IBM engineers' stories about an actual site visit... So I don't know what to think and how guilty IBM really is...
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Ford Bronco 2012 concept was developed as a result of main automobile energy, displaying the positioning of the three windows and doors manually.
99% of internet users uses none of the things you mentioned.
sure. dmillar@pacsdrive.com
Within the workspace right now you can view the paying options. We are going to be charging per project, and for space. And possibly for one or two higher value features.

Does that make sense? Interested to hear your feedback.
You got lucky with a seriously naive buyer. Going by VZ's listed (usually inflated) price, the Incredible 2[1] goes for $430 brand new; so your buyer either thought your hacking was worth the $200 (at least) premium or just failed to do research.

[1] http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/store/controller?item=pho...
Can't find the video again, there was a humanoid version of this that was frigtheningly humanlike, smooth, articulated, balanced, subtle. It wasnt made to look human, fully opened and wired everywhere, yet the behavior/balance was more complex and on point than anything I've seen.
Here's the thing. His rich dad is fictional. He doesn't make money the way he tells you to. He's not a real estate mogul. He make money selling books and seminars. If the advice he gives were so great he'd be Donald Trump ten times over.
actually thats a great point, i feel like when i first started programming (c64 - im not /that old/) i was always playing with sprites and graphical outputs...however something happened and it all became about data and forms.

People should do more stuff like this, maybe it'll open up our minds to greater possibilities.
>What would Microsoft do if Google started demanding locked bootloaders from Android manufacturers?

Why would they even care? They are not planning to sell Windows ARM on Newegg like they do for x86.

>What would you say if your Dell desktop came with such a silly restriction?

iPads already come with such restrictions and MS has made it mandatory on x86 devices to have a open bootloader.

ARM desktops from Dell are way far away and have a steep incline to climb since won't run Win32 x86 apps.
So you want someone to cofound a company for less than 30% with 2 founders? I wouldn't partner with you if that was your mindset. You're basically saying your time is worth 3x my time and we should work full time on this. With that sort of disparity at the beginning and a glimpse into your mindset, I would get out. Not worth the hassle.

Of course there could be caveats like he isn't working full time or you've already built the product or something to skew it that dramatically.

I think the problem here is you honestly. If you're unhappy with the equity distribution and that's all that is on your mind instead of building a good team to bring your product to market and make it successful, you're doomed anyways. Option 1 is always on the table, option 2 won't happen or lead to a good ending if your partner feels cheated from the start (assuming he would even go for it) and option 3, you're the obstacle, can you get around yourself? Option 4, you compromise until you both are happy.
FWIW we ended up tracking TOR exit nodes on Delicious, and then we used "account created on tor" as a flag to the bayesian.
The article says no one wastes time and just kicks back and watches videos all day and how unrealistic that is. I think there was a character that did that, though. Lt. Barclay (sp?) or something like that got addicted to the holodeck to the degree where it interfered with his work.

Additionally, it's a very different world. Didn't they get rid of money in the federation, for example? Surely living in a no money environment where everyone has their basic needs covered for free would change how people behave.

Also having super smart computers. Maybe no one posts on Facebook because they can just talk outloud to a computer or a badge and it will get deliver to the recipient as text, newsfeed, or voice - whatever their preference. I already know people who prefer I always call them instead of text. If they are there we can have a conversation with some back and forth, if not, Google Voice transcribes the message and it is the same as a text message anyway.

Lastly, being in the tech industry and the US I tend to run into some blindingly smart immigrants. I think part of why they are that way is that they already had the money or education or talent to be able to get to the US when they wanted to. Many people are too poor to leave their home. So the people we mainly see in Star Trek could be similar, they are the people who had all the opportunities or talent to let them go out into the universe or become super well known politicians or doctors on the planets we visit, etc.. Making assumptions about everyday live based on the people we usually see might be like making assumptions about everyday life in the real world by only looking at Wall Street.
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Its just measuring the buzz, not if it's negative or positive. In any case people talking about your ad is a good thing. Even if they say bad things, it increases your brand recall.
Reach is a reasonable proxy for comparison, if you assume that ratio of people who won't(or would) see the ad, to followers is pretty much the same across ads.
But what I'm saying is, doesn't caching accomplish essentially the same thing? You process the resource once, cache the result and serve that. Full static site generation just seems like a more aggressive version of the same thing, and AFAIK you have to give up some of the benefits of being partially dynamic (like the ability to do have a "Latest comments" sidebar without unnecessarily relying on JavaScript).
I would hesitate to buy a used phone because these things like phones and computer keyboards and mice that people constantly handle have the highest level of germs, and getting germs and grease and stuff out of the various nooks and crannies without damaging the electronics looks hard.
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Be it Facebook, Google, or Bing, if they are willing to pay to access your content, would you provide it?
"At Priceonomics, we firmly believe that resale value is the best objective indicator of product quality."

I may have missed something, but given that prices are supposed to reflect the supply vs demand ratio (in a sane market), how can they end up "firmly" believing that resale value is an objective indicator for quality ?
I frequently go to the warrior forum and it has helped me. How they make their money is usually not very good or over-saturated.(IE: referral marketing). However, the marketing methods have given me some great ideas. I borrow some of the ideas they use and market my own products.
This is much ado about nothing. Just fodder for bloggers. What Pinterest is doing is legal and isn't unethical at all. They're not promoting their affiliate links over anything else and Skimlinks does not alter user posted links that are affiliate links to start with.

Pinterest is providing a service to its users and those users can choose to use Pinterest or not. I would tell anyone upset about this "tough luck, go somewhere else". If this were Google or Facebook there may be some reason to be upset. But unlike Facebook or Google, Pinterest isn't a ubiquitous service that's been adopted and deeply integrated into people's lives and way they work. Right now is the time for Pinterest to do these sorts of things because the more popular they get the harder it becomes.
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Haven't read Rich Dad Poor Dad but from what I got out of this article and several of the comments here is that the main point is disconnecting your personal time from your wealth generation.

Your time is better spent generating products/investments that generate wealth independent of your own input. It's really really hard to get rich as a consultant or even as an employee (though both can generate the capital to kick-start the real wealth generation).

A concept that was illuminated quite brilliantly to me when I read How to Get Rich by Felix Dennis.

However, I personally think intelligence and "balls" play a far bigger role in our ability to generate wealth for ourselves then anyone seems to give credit for. You can read all the books on finance you want, if you're an idiot, you will probably fail to get the returns you want. Same goes if you're a coward.

Personally, I'm lacking a bit in the balls, and hope I'm smart enough. We'll see in the next 10 years or so.
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Regarding #3 - I've noticed that many forums now are either not allowing signatures, or not allowing links in signatures. This seems to be a really recent thing.
> if you honestly want to customize the core, it's going to be just as much trouble as writing your own styles

I agree, and if I were approaching a project where I knew I'd be charged with significant customization, I'd probably choose to use Compass to code my own design patterns.

That said, many, many projects don't fit that bill, and I think Bootstrap is just the first in in a series of tools that will offer beginner/intermediate developers an accelerated path to a design 'that doesn't suck'. The need for such tools is obviously greater than many imagined.
Is it possible to make free ebooks with this? I'm a publisher and need an application to produce ebooks for appstore.
I will definetely try this one out. I had a very limited experience in Objective C and I can easily say that its the weirdest language I have ever used. Programming with Lua will certainly be a relief for me.
I know this is a movie. But I think we all get the point.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086197/

Gordon Cooper: You boys know what makes this bird go up? FUNDING makes this bird go up.

Gus Grissom: He's right. No bucks, no Buck Rogers.
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Some of the comments here remind me that not everyone watches occasional episodes of 'Weaponology' [1] :-) That show does a credible job of tracking the various technologies that contribute to the eventual weapon that you know today in the 21st century. One of the shows talked about the Tank and how it was developed to get people across the 'deadmans zone' in trench warfare and ended up becoming the backbone of mobile maneuver tactics.

So this thing demonstrates a vehicle that can navigate completely unimproved terrain carrying a useful load. In battlefields like Afghanistan there is a huge challenge getting troops resupplied (this is true in any war of course). Helicopters and other air drop means (the robotic parachutes are pretty cool) require that your troops break cover to recover their goods, these things could walk into camp where you are under cover drop off supplies.

So one tactician might air drop these things out of a plane at a safe altitude and have them land within a couple of miles of the targeted base. The vehicle starts up, and walks over to the base to drop off the supplies. It could conceivably walk back out and, using a helium balloon, send up a retrieval cable that would let a helicopter come and pull it out of there.

Thats a pretty cool capability. And in peace time if this thing could walk into a city ravaged by an earth quake and drop off supplies, that would be cool. Or carry a clean up device through a nuclear contaminated forest, etc etc. The key is 'unimproved terrain' and '400 lbs for 20 miles'.

[1] http://military.discovery.com/convergence/weaponology/episod...
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I thought popcorn.js was a pure HTML5 solution? Does it secretly use Flash or something?
My feedback:
The UI is pretty clean and fast, so 8/10 for UI.

The overall features are good, not enterprise ready, but a very good start. 6/10

It will have to compete with tools like Asana, and they are really good with their project management, task management etc app. Some more innovative tools will help you.
I really wish that there was a feature that required anyone that down voted a comment to give a reason.
Ask HN: Had an idea for a web app to trade favors with strangers. Feedback?
I had an idea this morning and put this landing page together: http://minutefavors.com/

To be more specific, my thoughts at this point on the process are as follows

- A user ("requester") posts a new favor request, something that can be done in 1 or 2 minutes at a computer

- Someone else (the "helper") sees the favor as something he can do and marks it as "spoken for"

- The helper has 5 minutes to complete the favor

- If it gets marked as complete, and the requester user accepts it, the asker gets (karma|points|rewards|something|credits-to-post-favors|something?)

- If it gets rejected or it isn't completed within 5 minutes, then it goes back into the pool of open requests for someone else to fulfill

Possible favors include stuff like:

- Converting a PSD to a PNG, for people without Photoshop

- Testing a small website feature in a version of IE that you may not have

- Combining multiple PDFs together into a single PDF

- Anything else that can be done in a minute or two using only a computer, by a person with the know-how and necessary software

Is there any potential here? I'm having trouble finding a business plan (and I'd be happy doing it as a free for-fun service, but I'd love for it to be a startup if possible) since paid memberships doesn't really make sense in this context (am I wrong?), so do you have any ideas there?
it's true, engagement is more important than reach.
Clickable: http://minutefavors.com/
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The article was about native CSS, not imported libraries.
Yes, there are templates on our side, and you can use them to produce games or ebooks.
Energy density and materials don't follow a Moore's Law curve. In 10 years, a walker this size will have similar carrying capacity and range.
I'd pay $5 for this if it were a screen saver and didn't suck up too much CPU.

If you do end up making that, shoot me a message.
That's an insane reason. Just by being in the same room as other people you expose yourself to more germs than you would by touching a used and cleaned phone.
I defy anybody to find a modern web server that can't serve a static file a thousand times per second from the smallest VPS slice on the market.

Apache 2, with KeepAlive on, using the MTM that will be installed if you have PHP running on your system. Specifically, when you try serving a static file a thousand times per second to a thousand clients, your first 150 clients are going to saturate all available worker processes for 15 seconds, then your next 150 clients are going to saturate all available worker processes for 15 seconds, then ... most of your users will see their browsers timeout and it will appear that the server has crashed.

n.b. This is the default configuration you'll get if you do weird crazy things like "sudo apt-get install apache2 php5" on Ubuntu.

Edit: Added victim site below if you want to test this.

http://50.57.160.126/

[Edit the second: I fail at reading comprehension of my config file at 4:30 AM, and underestimated the number of simultaneous connections it could take at once. Still, I'm pretty certain this is technical reality after the numbers are corrected.]
And management chooses the underwriters, who therefore will conform their requirements to management's demands, as they have here.

Underwriters frequently try to impose lockouts, but its the management who actually sets the terms, which is why some lockouts are as short as 3 months while others are as long as 9 months. There is no requirement that the lockouts apply equally to management/dominant shareholders and other shareholders, though management frequently accept such restrictions b/c its not usually worth the cost to carve out such an exception.
Pretty much. Only chances are it's not actually manual, either.

The way I do this for the CMS/Blog stuff on my products is to set up a 404 handler that looks for urls that seem like they should be blog entries. So if it sees a request for the non-existant http://mysite.com/blog/caching_is_awesome.html, it'll do a quick check for that article in the database, and if necessary create the static .html file before redirecting to it.

It's a little nicer than caching because you only need ever lookup/create the thing once each time it changes. From there, it's just the webserver being a webserver. No need to involve any application layer at all.
I had thought I might buy the necessary material and write out the required instructions to do this and give them to three six and seven year olds for them to assemble and launch (with adult help to carry the tank & fill the balloon).

So far their mothers say yes, they have a sense of humour & don't think I will actually let the kids do it without a lot of help. Their fathers say no, likely because of their own selfish lack of input in building it and they think they might have to pay for the project (ie the damages if it goes wrong). I will have to try some more and hopefully in a few weeks will have convinced them to try this experiment.
Well said!!!
Site is bouncing up & down for me, here's the scrib'd document he links to:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/80949907/TOC-ML4Hackers

Exciting!