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Conferences (regardless of their size) take a lot of time and effort. Gotta do your marketing collaterals, write your press releases, setup your booth. More importantly taking part in them costs big money (in our case, the awesome Singapore government paid for us)

IHMO, early stage startups that still are in heavy development are better off being holed up in their offices working day and night than exhibiting at conferences. The high costs (both in terms of money and time) are simply not worth it.

You have a good point regarding the type of conference. As I mentioned in my blog post, maybe a more focused conference (eg. The Strate Data Conf) could have resulted in better outcomes for us. But once again I am not too sure I want to take part in any of them any time soon (atleast until we have shipped our product)
I agree with the author's first point in full. The second I feel is moot.

"Decide what your priorities are quickly and follow through. If you feel compelled to change your priorities, do it quickly."

You shouldn't do/think/execute anything you regard as a priority unless you can do so without second-guessing yourself. This is about being content with your decision, which usually only happens when you've weighed out the pros/cons and understand most of the implications.

That being said, I agree with manmal that having a "clear declaration of working and resting time" is hugely important. Otherwise you end up treating others poorly because when you're spending time with them, you're actually focusing your attention on stuff you "have" to get done, and as a result you don't contribute 100% to the current social situation (bad).
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As a "competitor", I think the biggest compliment I could pay you is this new system is the only LMS out there that even comes close to what we have built, both in content and presentation. Great job. Honestly, I'm hoping that your development cycle is long enough that we can open up a big lead while you are caught up building out new classes. Given how long the old open-courseware was around, I'm cautiously optimistic.

As a student, I do have to highly recommend not using Comic Sans for any part of the presentation. It makes the slides look incredibly amateurish.
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Only if you create accounts and your workstations can reach each-other somehow. That is more effort and won't work at all if the workstation is behind a firewall on some remote network.
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This is a great post. This buggs me all the time, but I thought I am the only one because nobody turned it into words.
Exactly! One of my favorite tricks. Any decent shared host can serve as a makeshift git repository.
I came to the same conclusion about a month ago. Some of the examples he listed I solve by tossing a coin and leaving it up to chance. I only do this when I really don't care about the outcome. Before tossing the coin, I make sure of this, if I prefer an outcome, then I don't need to toss. There was a famous quote that more or less said the same thing.
That appears to be standard practice for "model bound" systems where the internal "domain model" is bound directly to the HTTP protocol. You get this issue with ASP.Net MVC as well on most of the trivially implemented projects out there.

This is not really a "framework bug" as such. It's just crap application architecture.

At the core of this issue is a simple misunderstanding on what the "model" part of MVC actually is. The model represents ONLY the request or "form model", not the data model. There should be a mapping of 1:1 between the request and the "form data model" always with no exception. The controller is responsible for translating that into something useful or doing something with it involving the domain/data model.

Unfortunately where the usual CRUD approach is required, ignorance reigns supreme and the shortest path, not the most correct path tends to appear.

I write this as someone who works on a rather large ASP.Net MVC application (100+ controllers) and has seen this many times already.
I agree to a point.

However, if such a problem was reported to LedgerSMB here is how we handle it:

1) Scope out the problem. What's affected? Are other related open source projects affected? How bad is it? This itself can take a bit of time. We do not rush this because we don't want a full disclosure when it happens to bring other problems into the fore.

2) Within a few days we let the reporter know what we have found and give them a chance to offer feedback.

3) Then we get everyone on the core team together and talk solutions. Once we implement it, we test and release a patch. Two weeks after the patch is released, we release a full disclosure along with a hat tip to the one who discovered it.

The whole process takes time. But the fact is that it's generally better to get a full fix out in two weeks than a partial fix out tomorrow.

So no, don't burn the midnight oil. More speed, less haste.

And this whole thing really doesn't look good for Github.
Stress comes from change and change means you don't know what will happen. Coincidentally, you never know in life what will happen so at worst you could be stressed to max merely for being alive.

There are two approaches to this uninviting uncertainty. Either you try to block it out or you accept it as a fact of life. In the first case you want to build as many static and seemingly permanent corners in life as possible, using methods such as routines and risk-avoidance. In the latter case you set out to do whatever you must because you don't know if you'll live tomorrow and you have nothing to lose.

Most people settle with something in between. If you intend to block change, it will break through somewhere else and you suffer again and that is like patching a sinking ship. If you intend to accept change, you demand a lot from yourself and you will certainly be tried for that up to the highest standards, but you will possibly come out if not enlightened at least balanced and realistic about life.

Stress is good. It shows you're holding on to something you shouldn't be holding on to.
Perhaps I'm underestimating the difficulty of cloning cards.

I don't know how the bank cards work, but here in Portugal we now have a citizen's ID card that looks much like a bank card and can actually do cryptographic operations itself - it has a private RSA key that it can use to sign and encrypt data by request of the card reader. It's essentially impossible to clone the card, at least without breaking it.

EDIT: According to this article[1], PIN-and-chip bank cards are similar to what I'm describing.

[1]: http://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/outdated-smart-c...
That is so true. The way I phrase it is: "the hard choices are the ones where there is no wrong choice". One of the choices may be slightly "more right" than the others, but none of them are bad choices and the unknowables completely swamp the knowables, so just make a decision and move on.
Of course I was joking about the young man thing. As I suspected you were with the “Gee” thing. It’s not a formal debate, a little “local” colour makes comments like this more enjoyable to read.
isn't it the very nature of a distributed vcs to be able to work without a central repository? I like the post, but I think the title is misleading ( sorry to be that guy ).
Especially ironic considering the thing that sparked this whole discussion was a vunerability on GitHub, of all places. If the developers at GitHub are lumped in with the uneducated "novices", who exactly are the experts?
Tossing a coin is actually a great mechanism for bringing your unconscious into the decision. Flip the coin. If you suddenly feel yourself wishing it fell the other way, then your gut is telling you to to go with the other decision. Most likely your gut doesn't care and you can just go whichever the coin falls.
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Square seems to be attempting to counter NFC with Card Case[1]. Still requires the merchant to be using Square, but has the upshot of working /now/, with the cards/phones you already have, instead of maybe in a year or two when ISIS gets it's act together.

[1] https://squareup.com/cardcase
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Conferences don't suck if your startup helps conferences :)

Seriously if your company can some how help the conference by using your product you will find conferences are much more valuable.

For example we provide inbound mobile marketing software (http://snaphop.com). We often give the conference holder free access to our software to help run the event.

Otherwise: yeah conferences feel pretty much like "circle jerks". Basically all the vendors extolling how awesome they are and how cool the problem space is. If its B2B the press is generally pretty bored. Rarely do I see prospects (leads) at these events. Sometimes I even walk over to other booths in the beginning of the event and pretend to be a prospect so I can hear their pitch :)
the newest chrome has support for transferable objects that can be sent directly to a worker without being copied. this works with ArrayBuffer now, not sure if ImageData is transferable yet, but it should be eventually.

demo: http://html5-demos.appspot.com/static/workers/transferables/...
I fully agree on your comment regarding "wasting time". Just 3 months into this new career path. So much for me to learn =)

And yes, in some sense I am a little too short-term focused. As a friend commented on my facebook wall, the angel investor whom we are going to meet might refer to someone big in the long term and that one meeting could have made the difference.

Time shall tell.
That is exactly the point! :-)

Dvcs systems have that potential, but people still generally fall back to using a central repo for sharing, because the network gets in the way of direct push/pull. The point of the article is to show one way of working around that.

If you follow it to its logical conclusion, then every member of a team can expose their working repo and any member can pull from any other member at any time.
A bit off of their central point but....

Having never been to SG but the more I hear about its public-private interactions, the more intrigued I become. American young people may be at a disadvantage to Asian young people in the coming years.

I think it would be difficult in the US to have the government provide, what is essentially angel funding, to startups. But this sort of, 'provide angel funding' thinking, is beginning to take hold around asia. For instance, I knew that the Indonesian government was trying to figure out the details of how they might accomplish something similar in Indonesia.

I don't know...just will be interesting to see those structural differences and how they play out over time. Maybe Asia will have more low quality startups since that funding is less dear. I don't know...it'll be interesting to watch.
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Yeah, this was quite a revelation to me when I realized it. I have a bias towards this dialect and an instinctive bias against, say, AAVE since it sounds "uneducated". I've been trying to correct this, thinking about how, say, British English sounds different and has different grammar but I don't think any less of it or its speakers.

Does anyone have links to great videos of educated, intelligent discussion in typically looked down-upon accents (e.g., AAVE, deep south, etc)? For instance, I read once that the Queens accent was stigmatized until Feynman became so popular. When I hear videos of him, I notice his distinct speech, but it sounds "smart" because Feynman speaks it!
While the MMA fighter is going for side control, what's he planning to do about his attacker's 5 mates?

This is how a pub fight does down: you go to the gents, and a bunch of guys pile in after you. None of them can fight on a martial arts sense but it doesn't matter, there's no room anyway for fancy high kicks. They drag you to the floor and stomp on you 'til you stop moving. Then they go back into the bar, calmly finish their drinks, and quietly leave.

The true martial artist sense trouble brewing, phones a taxi to come right to the front door of the pub, and gets straight into it.
Singapore is a city-state, so administering that sort of program is feasible.

The US is so much larger in terms of both size & scope that any program would be overrun with fraud, or overrun with bureaucracy to prevent fraud immediately. If you have ever had any experience buying stuff for or selling stuff to any US government entity, you'd run away as soon as possible!
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I disagree.

The LedgerSMB project started in a similar shitstorm. I found an ability to forge credentials in SQL-Ledger. I submitted it. I went back and tried a month later on a new version (no communication from the SL author) and it was a little harder but not too hard. I exploited again, sent another email, was told to bug off.....

I tried to get the issue fixed for six months. I finally gave up and forked. When we forked we issued a security advisory publicly and stated we would offer a full disclosure soon. That's when the shitstorm started in earnest. I was accused of fearmongering. I was told I didn't understand security, that the software was plenty secure, and many choice lines that out of professionalism I will refrain from reposting to this forum.

Dozens of emails.

The end result was that Dieter fixed SQL-Ledger shortly after the fork, because those who stayed behind made him. It would not have been fixed without the fork.

Sometimes you have to be confrontational.
The Singapore government hates you for saying that. /Singaporean.
The os module now has a new function: pipe2. Is there a reason why they didn't give it a better name, like pipe_with_flags?
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I was thinking about that too, and I recall a thread where someone said a good strategy is to release a paid app for iOS and an ad-supported free one for android. That said, top 100 best sold apps here and there being priced quite differently is quite interesting and counter-intuitive.

I wonder if perhaps it might be partly due to some nicely priced niche apps being better represented in (by definition more open) android market than in the iOS one. Not that I know of any or actually looked into it; plus, I doubt many such apps would get into the top 100.
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How did they do a bad job?

They (temporarily) disabled the account, fixed the problem and re-enabled the account. All while keeping people in the loop about what happened......at 9am............on a sunday.

I may be wrong, but that seems like a pretty reasonable way of handling the situation.
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Incorrect. The Adobe AIR SDK allows you to package Flash content as native apps for both iOS and Android. Adobe only halted development on the browser plugin for Android.
Sorry for not responding to this earlier, I just missed it.

In m4 I simply created some sort of preprocessor that renamed variables to have some sort of prefix depending on namespace. I haven't used this for a good while because then I have the issue that MSVC doesn't support other modern C99 things that I consider basic unless you compile in C++ mode, thus negating this. At work I need MSVC compatibility...

Hope you get to read this.

If I were to do this again today, I'd use OMeta. Give it a look, it's dead simple if you have the time to read through it.
Exactly. This is like saying that it was fine for older versions of windows to broadcast the users directory tree over an open file server because they should know better than to leave the server up. (This happened right? Correct me if it didn't.)

It's like no, you should have to turn the server on in the first place. The fact that it took some Russian kid in his basement breaking into the github rails master for this self evident truth to be realized by the core rails team is totally outrageous.
This short excerpt from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy seems appropriate:

“`...You hadn't exactly gone out of your way to call
attention to them had you? I mean like actually telling
anyone or anything.'
`But the plans were on display...'
`On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to
find them.'
`That's the display department.'
`With a torch.'
`Ah, well the lights had probably gone.'
`So had the stairs.'
`But look you found the notice didn't you?'
`Yes,' said Arthur, `yes I did. It was on display in the
bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused
lavatory with a sign on the door saying ”Beware of The
Leopard".'"
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Corporations are agents of the government, because they exist at the pleasure of the government. In the US, a corporation essentially requires a "license", which is comprised of a veritable tree of federal, state and local permissions, with the papers of incorporation being at the root. Much like a driver's license, which gives the holder the privilege of driving, a corporate license gives the corporation the privilege of doing business. There is no "right" to drive or to be a corporation, and therefore, a corporation will never willfully break the rules to the extent that the government would pull its metaphoric license to exist. Wishful thinking, wherein you see corporations as possibly becoming somehow righteous, cannot alter these basic facts.
I don't think it's on the same scale as register_globals or magic_quotes; both of those were much stupider. It's still very stupid, granted, but not on the same scale as register_globals.
This is a gimmick or a hack. Not much better than what you will see on hackaday.com

I did a LOT of POS work a few years ago for small businesses. An iPad/iPhone would be dead and broken in less than a month for most retailers. You need pretty hard wearing industrial grade kit if you don't want to throw it away 3 times a year. That flimsy card reader is almost comedic - you'll break it and your device.

If it's your revenue collection equipment, it makes sense to buy something that will last i.e. was designed for the job rather than sit there not being able to take cards.
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"On a Sunday morning when you're fixing a security hole and you know who penetrated it you suspend that person's account."

Haha what. Do you maintain any sites? Tell us what ones. I want to warn all of your users that the admin is someone who will disable an account of someone who committed to master on a project that is not theirs and feel he has accomplished something.
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Square as a company isn't tied to credit card processing. Credit cards just happens to what's popular now. If NFC takes off, the company will run with it. When that happens, the shops just need a new attachment or a device upgrade, the software just works.

i.e. this would be how I would have done it.
This, to me, is the craziest part.

I'm not condemning anyone, but it seems that when someone points out that your framework ships Insecure By Default code with absolutely no warning in the generated code, you'd take that seriously.

Instead, the thread is full of "We've discussed this before, we like it the way it is" and "Rails is not responsible here."
Yeah, that's the idea. However personnally I would link from the home page ("Inside the business" chronicles). It doesn't have to be a big link, could be in the footer for example. I don't have metrics for that but I think pages that are not linked from anywhere on your website might look a bit shady in Google's eyes.

By getting links to your articles you'd improve overall authority of your site (also important to link back to your homepage and other important pages in order to drive PR back, as you point out).

By improving your website's authority you'll rank better for your main keywords as well.
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You might want to get a blog on your domain--this post is on the front page and all the traffic is still one click away from your website. Any links to your Google+ won't be giving your product any SEO boost.

Congrats on the launch. Your landing page looks nice. We signed up for a similar product fairly recently. There are a lot of edge cases for time off products. I would expect you'll have a lot of feature requests in the early going.

You might consider "internationalizing" your copy a bit to attract US companies. There would likely be changes you would need to make (international holiday differences, etc) but the US market would nearly be an order of magnitude bigger than the UK.
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I'm guessing it's named after the underlying POSIX function pipe2().
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Early stage startups should not exhibit at conferences because this one startup got nothing out of this one conference? I think more likely one or more of the following:

-They chose the wrong conference
-Their product sucks
-Their pitch sucked

Conferences are great for networking, raising awareness, getting customers, catching the eye of investors etc. All the reasons they went. Sorry it didn't work out but that doesn't mean it wont work out for others if they choose the correct conference, have a good pitch and have a good product.
I think you misunderstood why it is frightening to be associated with that channel.
Is it a coincidence that the title of the next story down (as of right now) has "Kids" just after the 'you' in the title here?
The underlying syscall and libc function are called pipe2.
Not according to the OSI. So I guess you could say it's open source, but not Open Source.
Apples and oranges. The example to which I was responding shows it running in a browser.

If the kids are going to share their creations, they need to run in the browser, without requiring installations, app stores, and so on.

As much as it sucks, Flash did have the one big advantage of being ubiquitous. That's no longer the case.
I don't know where you get your information tidbits from, but just know this: they are completely, ridiculously, wrong.
This will hopefully become less of an issue once NFC payments take off
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