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Look, folks, this article's sole relevance to HN is that it involves Kickstarter's banning policies. There's no coding, no real startupy stuff--just a ban on the premier crowdfunding site.

Unfortunately, any meaningful discussion of said ban requires we better understand the events leading up to the ban. That in turn requires more information than we are likely to get, and certainly more unbiased information than is available.

Without that information, we can't usefully discuss Kickstarter, we can't really discuss how to handle a case like this (as we wouldn't know what the case is like, exactly), and we sure as hell can't learn anything useful.

With that information (let us pretend it is even attainable), all we are doing is spelunking internet drama and finding a weird edge case that frankly is most easily solved by a blanket banhammer.

I appreciate that Kickstarter may be in the wrong. I also appreciate that the "victim" here apparently has several pseudonyms(annoying) and is arguably a troll/drama queen/lulzcow/whatever.

The point is, we don't need to waste any time on this. This is dumb internet shit--boot it out.
It's all about the advertising partners...
I have some issues with this exhortation. You need to survive today and plan for tomorrow. Otherwise you'll never reach your goal. This means that you MUST work. You MUST keep learning. You MUST gain allies. And you MUST keep your eyes on the prize.

It's not enough to simply chase your dream; you need a plan and many strategies. Most of your strategies will fail, and some will succeed. What you're really doing in your failures and successes and constant practice is grooming and changing yourself such that you eventually become the person who can succeed in the endeavor you have chosen.

If you stop learning, you're deciding that there's nothing left to learn. Besides the sheer arrogance of such a stance, it leaves you inflexible, unable to change yourself any more. It means that what you're capable of right now is all you'll ever be capable of, and that is a terrible waste, stunting your growth and locking you out of everything you could be.

The real exhortation should be: Don't be mindless.

Don't get stuck in a routine simply for the sake of the routine. Routines are good if they serve a higher purpose. They are great servants, and terrible masters. Know WHY you are doing, in everything you do.

Don't do work simply for work's sake. Work should serve a higher purpose than simply keeping you breathing and maybe squirreling away a paltry sum for some nebulous retirement. You won't avoid work, so make work work for you.

Everything happens according to a plan. If you're not building and furthering your plan, your life will be ruled by the plans of others.

Don't worry about whether people hate you or not; that comes as naturally as human nature. Your success can be measured by only one person: you. Everyone WILL judge you, but none is justified in judging EXCEPT for you. If you accept their judgment, it is really you who is judging yourself, for better or for worse. Know the difference!

So live, love, learn, teach, create, grow, succeed, fail, laugh, cry, suffer, comfort, transcend. It's your life, after all, and you only get one.
Disqus allows you to post both as a guest and with a disqus alias that does not collect much personal info. I hope they never change that.
Life's a mess, life happens and you have no control over it => CHECK

Life's is not fair => Disagree, that's depending on your perception

Resist the temptation to get a job => CHECK

Work kills => he is a little unclear here—I gues he talks about working for other, that's true—but the activtiy of working itself, being productive is a great thing which makes you happy and satisfied, always.

Find something you love doing => yes and no, from my point of view, yes find something you like but when trying to get big or to start something, seeing and taking opportunities which don't look like your passion at the first sight is more important, much more. Take opportunities, the more the better, don't miss any and wait the awesome idea that perfectly matches what you love (BS and time waster)

Be hated => BS, 20 yrs ago maybe I'd agree a little and in appropriate settings BUT nowadays it's a very false advice and too risky, building a good reputation is hard, takes long and can be destroyed in hours with the Internet, with just one enemy

Avoid telling the truth => DOUBLE-CHECK but it has a bitter taste in how he's presenting it, but maybe this needs just more depth: "avoid telling the truth" could also mean, try to see everything positive. True or not true is often not clear and subject to your values/beliefs. Focus on the goal and don't try to fool people, if it's about staying positive and omitting negativity, fine.

Love someone => CHECK, but dont focus too much on this
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More unsubstiantiated claims from the same source are not really a good foundation for support.

I have no bone in this fight, but it seems to me that at the very least, the issue is much more complex than she made it seem in her blog post, and there are a lot of pieces of the puzzle missing. My BS detectors were sounding the alarm, but they always do that when I read unsupported claims.
This is a little scary, a lot of people rely on Gmail. Im sensing a fundamental shift from "Free" to "Pay for it" for exactly this reason. When you are a free customer, no one has to care about you. When you are a paying customer, you suddenly have a voice.

And no, having ads does not mean that you are paying. Someone else is paying for those ads, if anything they are sponsoring your ability to enjoy a free service devoid of customer support.
i don't see a Udacity compiler class
That's the one part of his message that irks me.

First, he says "marriage is a milestone", and makes it seems like it's the top milestone since he mentions it first. OK, that's fine and dandy but has serious demoralizing consequences for the single dude who has tough luck finding love. Never ever say marriage is a milestone to single people.

Second, I agree with you. Loving someone when they don't love back makes no sense. It's something you can't control, so putting so much focus on love makes no sense. And if he's talking about love in terms of friendships, he's very naive. In this world, people will reciprocate attention if you give them 1 of 2 things: money or orgasms (or babies). I've tried to be good friends with people, and they'll easily forget you because you are insignificant to them.
> Don’t work. Avoid telling the truth. Be hated. Love someone.

Is the essay is a lie?
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Except he was paying, and still got no voice.
Author here. I hope this can help the community, especially Yehuda with his own one click installer project.
Is it possible to use Objective-C under Windows?
It may be 5 years. Are you willing to wait that long? Most people just give up before this point.

If you have money, you can pay for advertising. If you don't, you will need to spend lots of time finding creative ways to market your app/service.

We fortunately live in a great time where this is very possible. But I don't think anyone here can give you a blueprint to your marketing success. It's different for every idea.

Twitter is a good start. I got 200 beta testers in a week by following people that I thought would be interested in my app. The trick is to not spam people to death.

Link your app in your profile. People like private betas because they feel like they are part of an exclusive group that gets to see your app before anyone else (and they are).

You will also have a group that is genuinely interested and can give you honest feedback. This is a key to success: build the foundation with some interesting features and have your customer base give you the rest through feedback/ideas.

It's not an easy road to follow.
BrowserID allows you to select one of your multiple ids when logging in to each site. It's more of a replacement of the process of signing up with email/password to each site rather than an "identity".
PG had an interesting write up of this a while ago: http://www.paulgraham.com/colleges.html
Actually this comparison to startups can be extended. In case of demogroups PR was very important, there were strong brands, you had to apply for the positions etc. That was fun&learning not only on the technical side but also about teamwork, coping with failure on the party etc.
I feel like Udacity's compiler class would be more practical and more entry level as compared to Coursera. Its target audience are the people who finished the recently concluded CS101 course. Coursera's version would be more theoretical, thorough and closer to a Stanford level undergraduate class. Coursera's version has midterms as well exams. So I feel like it would be around 10 weeks long as compared to 7 weeks for Udacity.

Like you I plan to try both of them and ideally finish both of them. I am also waiting on them to announce a part 2 of the Data Structure and Algorithm class.
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Its called "CS262 - Programming Languages - Building a Browser " by Wes Weimer http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs262
Yes, for you and me these are solutions. For the 99% of the internet population they cannot understand the words you've written, and cannot get around these filtering. So they'll still buy their CDs in the brick and mortar shop and the business model for the music & content industry will be unchanged, old fashioned and not disrupted. :(
I always assumed it was Ruby. All of the Ruby people I know use GitHub.
They're hardly separate things at this point, @autoreleasepool? The new @[] and @{} constructors for NSArray and NSDictionary? ARC enforces retain/release/autorelease, which are NSObject protocol methods. NSString isn't "part of" Objective-C, but the language has had special literals for a very long time.

I guess that isn't the entirety of Cocoa, but Objective-C and Foundation are very linked now.
programming is definitely a skill which doesn't require a lot of resources, with a pc and decent internet connection, one can become very powerful.
I wish. Unfortunately I can't skip summers while trying to get a double degree, if I want to finish in any reasonable time -- or before scholarship money runs dry for that matter.
It boils down to choosing the top 2 courses. It's difficult to do beyond that if you have a day job. One can still score high on the exams but you will have very little time left to reflect on the material.
We store them on the local server until we can push them to s3. I am hoping to update the uploader to allow posting to s3 upload pre-auth'd urls.
Perhaps you could find a sponsor to offer some free give away items like t-shirts etc to donors, in return they get mentioned in the kickstarter, the email list and throughout the project. I imagine any startup would happily back this, if you managed to get one that used coffeescript that'd be even better.
He's indicating that the story may not be an uncommon one, but gambling, anyway, that you may be someone named Roger who he knows has the same story.
I'm disappointed the article made no mention of ISPs. What are my options when looking for a privacy-friendly ISP?
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I'm feeling the exact same way. Fortunately, the fact that you can download the videos help to be dedicated to one course at a time.
My understanding is that the realistic way a musician makes a living without "making it" is session recording and teaching. What's the equivalent of that for comics?
There's GNUStep, though I don't really know how far away from the Cocoa moving target it is at the moment.

http://www.gnustep.org/
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Why did you drag money into the conversation where it wasn't before, and then try to pin it on someone else?
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Call an emergency meeting with the head of your marketing dept. and start hashing out a blog post, I would assume.
It probably isn't a direct replacement, but for low income children and schools serving those children in the US, it is probably a good alternative for a programming class. It will probably do better in the long run because of cost and availability to everyone.
Awesome !
Love that part :
For some reason, kids loved making their parents repeat stuff 100 times over.

It's exactly the kind of thing I used to do when I first tried a programming language (printing random stuff 500 times already feels strangely empowering... not to mention email spamming scripts!). I guess it's one of the main purposes computers were made for.
I think he's just saying don't love because you need the reciprocation of love, love because you love the other person for whom they are. It's hard, but that should be decoupled from whether or not they love you, if you are honest with yourself.
Detailed comment on that stackflow thread says it all: life is short, use C.
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Thank you everyone ,i really appreciate all the positive responses .i never imagined my story would be on hacker news frontpage.
It's not difficult to use NoScript. You simply enable it selectively.
Why not find a regular programming job that will pay you much more?He is obviously skilled enough to be hired.

Because he would have to work on something that wouldn't interest him as much as his own project, and because he would have to show up regularly. When you gather funds to work on an open source project, all you have to do is hang out at home and work on your pet project when you're in the mood. That's good work even when you're not getting paid.
I generally agree with what you've written there. I think we're mostly arguing shades of gray.

On the topic of the efficient market hypothesis, there was a paper published a while back that purportedly disproved the hypothesis in the general case (basically, the potential number of data points can grow larger than the available computational/cognitive power of the market). I'll see if I can dig that up later. I think specific cases could potentially still hold, though, at least theoretically.
This is the final part of my journey of working on RaptorGL.
It also gives insight to where it's headed.
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Is SV turning into an old boys' club?
I am in a fix after seeing Coursera's list of classes as to whether to take the automata class or the compiler one? Any opinions on this? I have not done both at university level as I am a self taught programmer.
One thing I've noted about this is, it gives him a personal, easily indexed Wayback Machine.
Interesting, however I'm not very convinced it's a good idea for a primer. That's a lot more confusing than it would be without the natural language macro hacks.
But strictly demos are non-interactive, right? That's the question I have: Is there a market for a pure-digital multimedia art form beside games?
Thanks for chipping in. I am leaning towards the Coursera one after reading your comment.
I'm not impressed with this essay. It makes contrarian statements against common wisdom which have some value but I feel are being miscommunicated for mere shock value. I much preferred David Foster Wallace's commencement speech: "This Is Water" [0] which really struck a chord with me.

> Don't work.

I would rephrase as "Don't do something you hate" or perhaps even better: "Find what you love and do that". I generally enjoy my work and I'd be unhappy if I stopped working... In fact, I make very little distinction between work and play. (I also enjoy learning but apparently I should quit that, too!)

> Be hated.

Earning people's hate is often a strong signal that you are causing them some kind of harm. But when should you care? I don't think you should care about everybody's hatred equally, if you were liked or loved by somebody with opposing values it would signify miscommunication on your part. Perhaps you should care about the opinions of the people you love -- choose your own authority in others! --, and greater than this, you should care about your own opinion of yourself: "Am I the man I wish to be?"

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5THXa_H_N8
I think this is a critical, and maybe the most fundamental, part of programming. It's not just how well you understand a language, but the entire process of translating what you want to do into a set of instructions.

Once you can do that in a useful and meaningful way the computer just becomes a tool to implement your ideas.
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For Rails, "sudo gem update --system; sudo gem install rails" is not sufficient ?
..and a lot of other northen european games companies.

http://www.4players.de/4sceners.php/dispbericht/-/5157/0/ind...
Ever since pg put magazines out as a fund-worthy idea, I've kept an ear open to see if anything innovative had been started, because it sounded like an interesting challenge. But these ideas are a bit obvious and sound like they've taken the TV playbook and tried to apply it to magazines: Add a cable tv subscription model! Add an interactive tv model with a chat box and games! Put TV on a different device!

So, here's an idea I'll throw out there: Someone create a magazine where the content is controlled by the subscriber base. Basically, take the idea of a sprint planning meeting into consumable media. Or, call it micro-commission media.

This would probably be easiest to start with a review type magazine, like a Consumer Reports. I often notice that the reviewed products aren't the ones I'm interested in learning about. Instead, upfront, you can let each subscriber allocate a set of points to review product X. Get enough points, and the product is reviewed. If you get manufacturers buying up a bunch of points to ensure their product is reviewed, so what--all that means is the product is bought and reviewed fairly.

It takes away the hope that the article is something that someone will want to read--the readers have already indicated this by putting their money down on it. It takes care of a revenue model, and it melds a methodology that many people are passionate about into a different world.
Comics and movies are pretty good ways to tell stories too. Some stories are better suited to text. Some are not. I'm in the middle of making a comic that makes deep use of color and the relative position of panels on the page to tell its story, for instance.

What kind of programs are we missing out on by limiting ourselves to text? What kind of programmers?
Local clubs and improv/comedy classes?
Business Angels and Europe, like oil and water
Indie publishing and art classes.

Edit: Oops. Wrong "comics".
Also bear in mind that the community behind Rails is more mature, and a lot more companies have stake in it being an effective solution than do CoffeeScript, not to mention the fact that Yehuda Katz probably has a bit more reach than Michael Ficarra.

... also also a student's cost of living as opposed to a seasoned software engineer's is probably pretty disparate (for better or worse).
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Well, appearently the number of people understanding are such a threat to their existence that they have declared war on an entire generations of people.

But you and me both know their actions are not to decrease piracy. However, its a perfect public reason, because the only way to gain control of the internet is to destroy the ability for people to be anonymous online. All humans using the web need to be monitored, just like in society. That is the intention behind all this.

But of course we cant really talk about that...
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This is targeted at beginners with little/no programming experience.
The raspberrypi has had so much press and its not even in the hands of the public yet (although first 10k go out this week i think), while every article is great for the project, i'm just disappointed i dont have one yet.

Anyway, onto my point, i hope that the stories continue after its penetrated the hacker community and there is coverage of the million of cool applications that the computer has been used for. So much of the mainstream press lose interest after something is launched.
It's not. At the very least, you'll want to upgrade to a 1.9 version of Ruby - even in 10.7, I'm pretty sure it still comes out of the box with 1.8.7.

Also, most of the Ruby or Rails developers I know use either rvm or rbenv to have multiple versions of Ruby installed side by side.
> Things like NO New File and NO easy way to copy the path out of finder drive me up a wall.

While I don't of a way to copy the path to the clipboard, dragging files (or the proxy icon in the title bar) to the terminal will put the path there. That's usually sufficient for me.
So, they made some mistakes, learned from them, and ended up in the right place.

Sounds like a great story for a blog post, that others might learn from as well.

Calling it a troll -- just because their mistakes involved mongo and their solution did not -- seems harsh.
I'll vouch hugely for Josh "thejash". Josh is ultra hardworking, super smart, and the least flakey dude that I know. He's also managed a shared housing situation for years, so he's really the ideal dude to be doing this.

Disclosure: Josh and I founded/sold a company together and overall have been good friends for many years.
This is a very interesting question. I believe that demos didn't "take off" simply because most people don't find them interesting. If you ask me, the main reasons behind this are the inherent geekiness of this subculture (it's difficult to appreciate the craftsmanship behind demos for most people) as well as the fact that most of the active "sceners" are typically young people who don't necessarily have enough life experience or maturity yet to be able send a meaningful message with a lasting value that could capture the attention of a wider audience (this was definitely true for me). By the time they "grow up", they have jobs and families and other responsibilities and don't have time to produce demos.
Nope, I don't feel like we have lost! But it is a critical point in the road and easy to lose perspective. so trying to get as much input as possible. You make some really good points :)
The Japanese situation mentioned is interesting. I wonder if it'll make Japan less xenophobic, and at the same time, help its poorer neighbors financially.
tl/dr: He is a fricking litigator and claims that what he does isn't work and that you shouldn't work, because work kills.
And you've heard about her now. Hmm. Whose interest does that server? Someone who wants to stop her life, or someone who wants to promote and sell tickets to her "transhuman" art projects
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I run Rails 3.2.3 with Ruby 1.8.7 on Snow Leopard without problems :)
It was bound to happen...
That's a site owner setting, and this site owner -- despite the article content -- appears to be denying anonymous posts.
I think this is one to be deleted. It's a trollfest all around.
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