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The blog has a graph showing around 1500 paying customers, which is still amazing (nearly $15k / month revenue!). I'm guessing the missing 6000 odd are staying on the free plan.
Aloha is AGPL though, it seems they do license exceptions for BSD projects, is that what you have?
the Chip background acts as a 3d stereograms which was a good reminder of the 90s.
In some countries smaller trades are done with prepaid credits for cellphones.
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http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/content.php?theme=1...

Applied to itself 4 times. So meta, that we have to go deeper.
awesome! I'd personally much prefer to use markdown for my projects but unfortunately I'm not targeting developers :/
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Aziz also go his start on the Internet (YouTube), which may play into this.
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The guy's story is being covered by the Washington Post. How many people have heard his name now that never would have otherwise? I agree that - in and of itself - the whole "living in your car" thing is a bit dodgy... but if he plays his cards right, just the PR boost from this whole adventure could be a tremendous perk.

Of course, if he's successful, you have to wonder how long it'll take for a rash of copycats to decide to move to Palo Alto and sleep in their cars while they build startups...
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Ironic, isn't it. Managers whose jobs revolve around communication, coordination, and staying on top of things get offices with doors where they can isolate themselves. Developers whose job requires long stretches of focus and concentration are kept in open spaces with numerous distractions.
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We won't have reasonable parents any time soon (unless of course we start with reasonable kids and wait 20 years). Now reasonable administrators might work but where do we find the? It is not exactly a position that is coveted by reasonable people, it would guess it would attract and inordinate number of bureaucrats and authoritarians.
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My home system has 3: Two in a RAID mirror and a third that I rsync stuff over to. Not that I'm paranoid or anything. Then there's my external backup...
Just queued up 3 blogs for exporting, working as expected, feels good. :)

My only complaint was that I had to give my username/password, but @jazzychad tells me that's the only form of auth for the Posterous API, sadly. If you want to change your password before giving it away, here's the linky: http://posterous.com/#account/edit

Update (~10 minutes later): First export is done. Fast S3 download, nice in-archive directory structure, both HTML and JSON outputs, both scales and original media. Everything I could have asked for.
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Can we see this in real dollars? Hard to understand the actual trends the industry is facing in nominal dollars.
Congrats guys - very interested to see what happens when the free trial period ends for the users who joined after Codiqa showed up on the jQuery Mobile site.
On the other hand implementing pixel hinting of some shape in a font is quite likely equally hard then writing a JS generator of optimized SVG. Yet rendering speed may be a problem.
Sorry, that's misleading (though I do wish :)) There are about 1500 customers in a trial plan that hasn't expired and doesn't require a credit card, so we will only convert some percentage of them to paying customers.

However, we just pushed an update last night that has dramatically increased our conversion rate from free to paid trials. Only time will tell by how much!
I'm so frustrated that this is on the BBC, on The Verge, it's everywhere. It is TOTAL NONSENSE.

I don't even need to comment much, if you read the original research you will quickly discover just how poor this paper is. They haven't remotely correctly characterised it and a holistic approach would show the ridiculousness of the claims.

People are too busy to read a few pages though, but not too busy to write a bunch of crap and try and get ad impressions.
I'm assuming prewett meant 16 bit, which would be the SNES. The only comparison I've seen people make between the N64/Gamecube and NES/SNES is that sprite-based games aged better than early 3D games.
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I haven't read the book in question but is it more brutal than the hunger games? I know multiple 11 year olds who have read the hunger games trilogy and the children/parents had no issue with it other than "the idea of kids fighting to the death is a weird topic for a young adult book".
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I was first exposed to Enders's Game when a middle school teacher started reading it to the class a little bit each day. After about a week, I couldn't stand the wait anymore and bought the book, probably the first time I had done such a thing of my own volition.

It is incredibly sad that the students at this school might miss out on an opportunity to discover this series due to one ignorant, over-protecting parent. Heaven forbid a 14-year-old should be exposed to a swear word or two; it's not like they are constantly exposed to swearing and sexual situations outside of class... Oh wait.
That surprises me - when I am talking about tools, I mean things like static analysis, theorem provers, and coding standards like MISRA C.

I guess they figure if they simulate it enough, they can test out the bugs rather than being very careful about putting them in.
Some of the best advice I've seen on leadership. Anyone looking to lead others in high risk activities (like start ups) can learn from this. Key lessons I took away (in addition to the title): Always keep your promise and Everyone has a story.
The book Peopleware backs up the failure of open plan offices with references and data. For any kind of knowledge work, distraction is kryptonite.

I really enjoyed the book, and the info about open plan offices was really interesting. I was previously a fan of the open plan, but now I think if I ever design another office, it would be common areas and offices that close.
Just wanted to say congrats. I purchased something for the first time yesterday. It's missing a few things, such as search and links to each brand, but overall it's a very nice execution. Examples:

1. Search: I found a few things that I wanted to purchase. Came back later and couldn't find them again.

2. Links: I found myself often (web and iPad) on a product page and wanted to see more by that brand.

Also one thing that has annoyed me, but I understand why you do it. You show sold out items. 99% of the time I don't want to see it.
You can do a lot of functional programming in a language where values are mutable.

Sure you can do whatever you want, but if the language does not support things like tail call optimization, non-imperative function definition, writing code in functional style turns out to be a lot slower (due to non-tail-optimized function call overhead) and less safe (due to potential side effects in function definition) than if you are writing it in a functional language with explicit support for these facilities.
You don't write code for each person... javascript handles that.
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SVG is gaining traction, eg through use of d3.js. svgweb can work as an IE shim. Old Android is a problem, but on the other side Microsoft are doing a good job and pushing SVG in IE9+.
I try to expand on the 4 metrics I came up with:

fastness:

This can be measured by giving the person a not too hard (but not completely trivial) algorithmization problem, and see whether he/she can solve it in 15 minutes. Someone 'fast' is usually very good at competitions or at interviews excercised by companies where interviews are quite intense like Google.

deepness:

This basically means that given a much harder problem than the previous one, how the person solves it given lots of time. This is different than the previous one. Can he come up with a quite original "theory"/(thought system)? How fast a ray tracer he can write in 3 months? How good domain specific language he can come up with for a tricky domain in 2 weeks? (vs. writing the implementation for the Dijstra algorithm in 30 minutes without mistakes, which is 'fastness')

- input bandwith

How fast you can read a reasonably dense technical/algorithms/math book. How fast you understand other people's nontrivial ideas? This is not totally the same thing as how fast you come up with an idea, or how good an idea you come up with yourself.

- memory (forgetfulness)

How big a system / requirements spec. document can you hold in your head? If you used C++ 3 years ago, do you need to re-read the book 'The C++ Programming language' or you remember more or less everything? If you look at your previous comments on Hacker's News, are you suprised by some information in your own comments or you remember more or less everything?
People will, if it comes bundled with their computer.

Nearly every grandparent I've run across has a >100GB hard drive (if not >500GB). They're all using roughly 20GB of that drive, after a couple years.

With only very rare exceptions, people don't choose what goes into their computer. They buy what looks good for a price that they're willing to pay, for the simple reason that buying a computer is full of more buzz-words, acronyms, and useless numbers than any other purchase I've ever made. It's insane, and it gets people to buy more than they need, so the sellers won't stop doing it.
While it might sound funny, people out there really do design their pages like this only:

http://govindtiwari.blogspot.in/

Yeah, even today! [edited]
Glad to see this. If anyone at MSFT is reading, it would be useful if the blog posts had permalinks.
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Similar idea we provide all the apis in various languages by default and the hosting. We actually run all the applications per user per request, and sandbox them for anything malicious.
Actually that seems like a good analogy. If you have a $800 coffee machine but are serving it to people who won't appreciate it, it's going to waste. I've heard HR people asking about how to attract top talent when all the company does is build simple CRUD apps.
That also made some pretty big waves for the method of sale rather than it being Louie CK. I bet he got a lot of extra traction from that alone.
To my shame, this hadn't actually occurred to me. Duly done. Though I don't like that it came to that.
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What you've described is fundamentally a problem of communication.

You don't need to do multiple roles in order to understand them. You do need to listen to the feedback from each different area and then act on it so that your decisions don't create unnecessary work for others.

The restaurant scenario is one I've heard before and it's the literal version of putting yourself in the other person's shoes. Not workable in every situation (but kudos for having the balls to do it.)
Yes, the only way to auth with their API is with user/pass... but I am using ssl on my server, using ssl to connect to their api, and am storing the passwords using strong encryption on my server. I never see or log the passwords.

However, if you are paranoid like me and want to change your password anyway, please don't change it back before your exports finish :)
Listen, my girlfriend is wild about her iPad. She is far more into it than she has ever been into her Mac laptop. For her, the laptop is boring and she uses it for work, but the iPad is her link to her loved ones. Every Saturday she does a Skype call with her parents (who live in Poland). When she is cooking she listens to Polish radio, via the iPad. When she travels she takes the iPad, not the laptop, so she can check her email, and Facebook.

She does not watch much TV, so the quality of a TV would never matter to her. She does not even have cable, or Netflix.

The iPad is the main consumer electronic device in her life. In terms of hours of use per day, she uses the iPad even more than her cellphone. (She has a fairly old and "dumb" cellphone.)

The other day we were walking down the street (Columbus Avenue, up in north Manhattan) and we passed a store that was advertising the new iPad. She wanted to go in and check it out. There is no other electronic device that she would go out of her way to see.

For some people, the quality of the iPad matters far more than the quality of any other consumer electronic device. And these are not necessarily technical people.
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Good article , cleared a few things up for me.

One thing I am still a bit hazy on though.
He mentions that continuations could be used in the context of a web app to maintain state between HTTP requests.

I'm not quite clear how this would actually work.
Lets say you have something like this (in psuedocode):

Let's say we have a counter we want to increment on each request.

doHTTPRequest(requestVars)

{

renderPage(requestVars)
pause()

return requestVars + 1

}

doHTTPRequest(doHTTPRequest)

Is that approximately how this works?

In which case, how would it work for doing more than 2 requests in a row?
Tide detergent seems to be the money equivalent of choice among drug dealers:

http://bastiat.mises.org/2012/03/tide-as-money/
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Yeah, of course it does.
Their previous effort along these lines: http://www.betabeat.com/2011/11/17/new-york-techs-20-most-po...

I guess betabeat thinks this is the tech industries' version of the society pages. How off putting.
I skipped over that even when I was looking for it on a first pass, assuming it was part of the tagging system.

Linking to a primary source takes people away from your site. That's why news sites don't like to do it. I'd suggest that the amount of inline linking in blogs would be a counterpoint to that argument, but that's another story.
So in order to "support github and bitbucket" you have to keep copies of your project at both sites? That makes less sense than the original post. The OP uses and when including bitbucket the only way your explanation of "support github" makes sense is with "or bitbucket."
There are a lot of girls who would also shy away from that precisely because it's pink. So yes, make the ropes more stylish/pretty, but don't limit it to pink. There are other colors in the spectrum that are attractive to girls (and guys) besides pink.
The full-length interview this story is based on is on this page:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17439490

Just skip the stories and listen to the audio, it's much more informative.
Like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BudlaGh1A0o

edit- Parachutes are probably more practical. They work if you make them big enough.
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"It's normal that things are hard."

This can't be said enough. Everything sucks in some way -- and I mean everything:

* working for a big company (too much politics, can't get anything done)

* working for a start-up (not enough people, not enough money, too much pressure to get product out the door)

* being single (feeling lonely, no sex)

* being married (having to deal with someone else's issues all the time, not enough freedom to do your own thing when you want)

* living in Tahiti (food is too damn expensive because it has to be imported)

* living in San Francisco (terrible weather, house prices, too many hipsters)

* Jira

* Trac

* Vim

* Emacs

* etc.
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> but the tone of this article seems a bit off

Indeed. I smell some personal bias/agenda here.

You can not kill off an existing , actively used system (however crufty it may be) without a fully functional alternate in place.
Thanks!

Currently, I wouldn't consider us much more trustworthy than any other news source, but this is something we intend to combat with user feedback/corrections. Every fact we list or paragraph of analysis has a small [!] link after it, which brings up a form to send in feedback on the item it's appended to. This is meant to make it as easy as possible for our users to contribute if they see a mistake, or feel something is missing, etc.

As far as selection goes, this is something that's hard to get away from; the main reason we have the Minutiae tabs is so we can push information we consider to be less important off the summary tab, but still have it available for those that want more info/details.

Other than that, all I can say is that we are extremely interested in presenting things accurately and completely (though with just two of us, we're rather pressed for time currently).
Sounds like a future problem at the ICPC worlds. I would write it, but I lack horrible-pun skills.
It's great to see bootstrappers getting some well deserved love. Lots of attention goes to the startup lottery winners and it's good to have a reminder that you really can do it without funding just as well.
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So if someone posts your picture on the front page of your local paper with a headline "rapist at large" then you're fine with that because it's just an image and context doesn't matter?
Checked out the homepage on FF 11.0 and the gray text under "Pure jQuery Mobile" shows up as an unreadable light gray (vs. Chrome where it shows up fine). Might want to check that out.
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Based on this experience, I think the optimal solution is the 3-5 person team room. It works well because it allows for a high degree of collaboration while keeping folks outside the team at arms length to limit distraction. In this environment, we shipped a working product written from scratch within 3 months.

I cannot even begin to imagine how anybody could find that desirable. 3-5 people in one room? So you still get distractions, lack of privacy, and the room will probably be too damn hot more often than not (some companies get this part right, most don't in my experience)... and unless you entire team is those 3-5 people, you still don't get the purported advantage of maximum ability to communicate and collaborate without having to get up and walk somewhere. This actually sounds like the worst of all worlds to me.

Then again, I'm strongly biased towards the belief that programmers should have private offices with doors that close.
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I thought we all did this because it's fun. I don't see why people want to dumb it down.
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You still needs comments that tell what the content of a code file is supposed to do, no matter how clear the code is.

(And in scripting languages which doesn't declare parameters, like Python and old style Perl, you need to document what the parameters are.)
+1 for bringing up documentation. Good documentation without code is valuable. Good code without documentation ... probably worthless (unless it's clean enough to read, which is rare for production code once you've killed all the weird edge-case bugs).
Then maybe we can get rid of all this javascript stuff and start sending .exe files to each other.
Why do cars have brakes? Or thinking function is a system.
Agreed that success is not guaranteed. The other two factors are context and success expectation. You can't win NBA MVP and expect to successfully go and sell cookware (unless you are known for being a cook outside of the league) it is not what people trust you for. You also need to look at the size of the audience of your accepted expertise. Tony Robbins is known, but apparently not enough to float a primetime television show.
This is awesome. I was using tinymce but will switch to yours. Is there an easy way for allowing image upload as opposed to external link?