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If Oracle wins on this bogus computer-languages-are-copywritable claim, I hope IBM sues them to oblivion for their use of SQL through the years. It's sad that a company can be so ignorant of its own history.
I guess the disappointment is that people don't use it much.
An algorithm that we developed and academia thinks is not going to work (Google)

That this an interesting thought. I am not sure it is really a classical competitive advantage, though. It's actually the first time I hear this. Is it really applicable in that many cases? You were giving Google as an example. Which algorithm were you referring to? I can think of these three from the top of my head: PageRank, MapReduce, Paxos. Of these only PageRank is what I would consider an substantial competitive advantage, but it had actually been published in an academic paper by Larry and Sergey.

I think Larry Page said on occasion that the early competitive advantage of Google was that the two founders were doing their PhD on how to build a search engine, so they simply knew much more about it than anyone else. Reading published papers about algorithms is all fine and well, but you having the intuitions to come up with them is much more powerful.
There's an example here:
http://code.google.com/p/phantomjs/wiki/QuickStart#Rendering
(gives examples of .png and .pdf generation)
PhantomJS has a "render(fileName)" API which supports PDF. Essentially, it is trivial to implement something like Wkhtmltopdf. However, Wkhtmltopdf is a shrinkwrap solution, which does not require you to install nodejs.
Whoa, I hadn't caught the Shadowrun one. Looks like that's another $30 I won't have any more - good thing I feel it's worth that. :)
junk mail is what makes the post office financially viable.

read the history of direct mail, going all the way back to the birth of air mail.

given a choice between junk mail or not, the postal service chose junk mail.

too many people profiting from "opt-in/opt-out" spam, including those selling access to networks (an electronic postal service in a sense) for it to be stopped by their choice. over 90% of e-mail. it is what makes email a business.
I'm sure they realize at this point that they could be running the same model. The profits at this point probably aren't even enough to cover the salary for one person to be doing everything this guy is doing. The cleaners could do these things themselves, but they would still need to compensate themselves for their time. So, the profits would just go to more hours worked rather than going towards everyone getting a raise.

I imagine that as the profits do rise, then this guy will have to spend more money on fixing all the issues that the other comments mention. He is also on the hook for things like damage and theft. I'm guessing his workers would rather just do their jobs, get paid and leave the rest for someone else.
Id like to see a pricing model similar to SublimeText - full functionality with very occasional prompts, in Sublimes case when you save.

Since the prompts are user invoked they're discrete enough to allow an unlicensed SublimeText to function as a main editor without making the user feel nagged, it's inexpensive and with its indie developer engaged in the community & active in improving the editor licensing has a feel good factor attached.
Playing the demo game, I think the idea has merit. But I'm concerned that even the presence of numbers is a turn off - that aspect certainly looks unappealing.

Perhaps reverse the application of the initial observation, that many games use maths, and start with a game without any figures, then, show the numbers behind it, in phases. This would create a link between something kids already grasp, and something new (numbers), which is a great way of learning. It would give the experience of a deeper world being revealed. And if using the numbers also made it easier to beat the game, it would give them a motivation; an example of useful application; and a sense of mastery.

For the game designer, that initial version with no maths would also make it clear whether the game was any fun in its own right. (It seems educational aims often obscure this.)
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Workers are not pointed a gun to do the job. Given the opportunities they have, they are choosing this specific opportunity. This means that this service is increasing their expected value from the job. I don't see how this can be bad.
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Every time I see a utility like this, I think maybe I could switch to producing some materials in HTML as the primary, or main intermediary, source format. Then I try the utility and realize that that would be silly.

For example, I currently make PDF slides for talks. In theory I'd like to make HTML slides, but would still like the ability to render a PDF for a robust record. However, neither this utility (or PhantomJS, which I just tried) immediately do a good job of converting something like: http://bit-player.org/deck.js/limits-to-growth-Harvard-2012-...

EDIT: also just tried cutycapt, with similar results to wkhtmltopdf (got all slides rather than just visible one, with bad page breaks, and no TeX maths).
Thanks for that link , I really did want to use python for my bot (i got reasonably far) , but after digging through the autoit docs it turned out that what I was trying to do in python could be done alot simpler in AutoIt. Specifically I did not have to worry about grabbing an image of the screen and then searching the image for a pixel (to determine the start location) , I could instead just search for the start pixel using a built function in autoit.
There are two reasons I have with wkhtmltopdf that still have me fall back to my own printing stuff I've done in 2004 in order to create PDFs for our users:

* WebKit's support for printing is a bit behind the times and stuff like "display: table-header-group;" isn't quite supported, so whenever you have to print big lists across multiple pages, you are practically forced to do your own page breaking.

* Due to an issue somewhere between qt and webkit, it's not possible to hyphenate text. Well. It is possible, but it causes the hyphen not to be painted in most cases.

Having not to deal with manual page breaks or being able to hyphenate (and thus do real justification) were the two reasons for me to move off my home-grown solution, but as those two are the things missing in wkhtmltopdf, I'm staying with my own solution.

Aside of that: If you can live with these shortcomings and with the fact that you are for all intents and purposes forced into using their static build (patched qt, kerning issues for everybody trying a build with the same qt patches), then this might be the perfect solution for PDF generation.

It feels great to use CSS with mm measurements and getting exactly what you need. Or creating barcodes by just embedding SVG or being able to use the full capabilities of HTML, CSS and even JS when building your page.
Be careful about confusing what you want people to value with what they actually value because that's how you get Marxism.

I hired a cheap startup cleaning company (an internal startup within a larger organization). Flaky, unprofessional management; cleaners who sucked at their jobs... going by my and my friends' experiences, finding a good cleaner is pretty hard and (this is a big 'in general') the more expensive ones are more reliable. Information, quality assurance, and good management are all scarce--a lot scarcer than most people tend to assume--and cost money.

The other part is that the employers aren't "extracting as much surplus value" as you think from the sell side either. For instance, most programmers are content to work for the Man, losing significant amounts of "surplus-value". Independent contractors appreciate the freedom, the money, the flexibility, the power to say no, but it's not for everyone, because managing yourself is also a giant pain in the ass for a large number of reasons.

Finally, I think you're being down voted because all this is probably common knowledge on a forum for smart, startup-minded hackers. When you talk about "extracting surplus-value" there are prominent members of this community who do that for a living.
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Thanks for the feedback , I will look into autohotkey but in the end autoit was just there to get me started, I want to look at a other languages just to see how it would be done differently.
Ignoring OP's harshing, it does seem hopeless. There's little incentive. Probably the easiest way is to compile vim direct to javascript (or java), and ignore/hack the OS integration. Unfortunately, improving the plugin seems to have fundamental limits (see the js for the actual bindings http://codemirror.net/keymap/vim.js - there's a few more than I'd expected):

> Because CodeMirror's internal API is quite different from Vim, they are only a loose approximation of actual vim bindings, though. http://codemirror.net/demo/vim.html
Hi Chethan,

Here's some hopefully constructive feedback for you:

- The alturl link under "news" leads to a broken page.

- An example "fun motiviational message" might be helpul. As it stands the reader doesn't really know what they are signing up to recieve.

- There are an intimdating number of form elements (text input boxes, etc.) on the home page.

- Your page forces horizontal scrolling on my 1024-pixel-wide netbook (few other sites do).

- You have a lot of blue text that is styled like links but aren't links.

- There is no privacy policy on the site. You're asking people to give a name/email/phone-number, possibly two, and then to associate that information with "bad habits" and in at least one case, possibly illegal activity. I'm not sure why anyone would give that kind of data to a one-page web site in the first place, but I certainly wouldn't want to do that on a one-page web site with no identifiying information or legal/TOU/privacy information beyond "Copyright 2012 <domain-name>".

- For what it is worth the spelling "Enrol" (as opposed to "Enroll") looks odd to this America-English speaker, but the dictionary assures me that's a perfectly acceptable spelling. I did see that you are targeting India, maybe "enroll" seems just as odd to that audience as "enrol" does to me.

Also, I'll second the notion that encouraging folks to sign someone else up for this service is a terrible idea, especially this early in your product development cycle.
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Further, I don't think they are interested in controlling it because it's really really hard. Their web strategy has been to push open standards. They can't reasonably curate it or control it in any meaningful way. So they probably want to level the playing field and then deliver the best possible experience they can.
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I'm a novice Python programmer who just finished Udacity's CS101 course. I had a little Python knowledge going in, but no computer science background. (For instance, I knew how to use a dictionary, but had no idea that dictionaries work well because they use hash tables). Udacity promised to teach me to build a search engine in seven weeks, and sure enough, I did! I'm entering this very simple search engine in an end-of-class contest.

We never actually implemented the search engine code we wrote in class, but I did learn the basics of how a crawler, graph, and index work. More important, I learned a lot about how to solve big programming problems from the Udacity format of short videos plus immediate experimentation. I'm amazed that I got this project to work, but it was really just a matter of breaking big problems into small steps, reading documentation, and asking for help when I got stuck.

I'm excited for the next round of classes, impressed at how much I learned, and optimistic about new models for online education.
I have experience in Python (wsgi, paste, pylons, GAE) and ASP.NET (MVC). I like programming using node/express - node packaging system is very simple, express code is understandable and very readable. There are some things that you do not get out of the box but overall that's minor problems.

The only problem for me as automated testing and in result I have written my tests in Python.
There are more comments discussing the legitimacy of the question than those addressing the question itself. I'm not surprised. It's hard to ask a question on SO these days without getting hit with a request to close.
> When you talk about "extracting surplus-value" there are prominent members of this community who do that for a living.

On the other hand, there are also prominent members of this community who focus on recognizing cases of surplus-value-extraction and thinking about how to disrupt/disintermediate those markets. :)
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I looked into AHK for my roulette bot originally. AutoIt is quite similar to AHK but it can do more complex stuff. If you are just looking for basic GUI manipulation then AHK is your tool for the job.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1686975/choosing-a-window...
It's a completely different idea. In the article they mention 2 other similar paid apps.

Celestia is quite focused on accuracy and while it has many educational overlays and add-ons, it's a practical tool for astronomy geeks "in the know". It's used by the ESA to interface with their Space Trajectory Analysis tool.

Celestia is free and OSS (GPL). Celestia receives no funding and all support AFAIK has been made in terms of sharing knowledge and source code. Celestia is, in short, an old school pure Open Source project. This has pros and cons, but I'd say it's pretty f*ing amazing.
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"Working for x" != "Exploited by x". In one of the comments he says his best team earn double when they did before.
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As far as I understand, the actual editors are going to be codemirror instances. ( http://codemirror.net/ )

If it doesn't have proper support, perhaps you could help add it?
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It'd be interesting to figure out (though I'm not sure how to measure it) how important each of the factors are. For example, one factor is just a marketplace/organization kind of value, the same reason eBay skims n% off every sale, or TaskRabbit takes a percentage. On the other hand, I wonder if there are more structural reasons for why his employees wouldn't be able to cut out the middle-man. For example, is there a kind of class- or race-arbitrage going on, where people are more willing to deal with him because he's "like them", whereas the cleaners come from social groups that the typical clients are more scared of contacting directly, so it's easier for them to get work if he's their public face? If so, that's not his fault (he'd just be arbitraging an existing societal imbalance, which arguably actually mitigates it), but would be interesting to know about.
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It's an interesting idea; I look forward to seeing how it turns out in the longer term.

I'm sure this would never be sanctioned but I think it would be great if people could temporarily patch these damn things on their own rather than waiting for the government to get around to it.
I had a go at something similar for the Facebook version a couple of years ago. My main goal was to stop playing the game, but it was also an excuse to try Clojure. At the time it absolutely thrashed my best scores, though I'm sure it won't work with the updates the developers have made since then.

I think it was the first thing I wrote that drove home the power of having a REPL for exploratory programming:

https://gist.github.com/490689
According to Kickstarter [1] the success rate was 43% in 2010 and 46% in 2011. Wikipedia [2] suggests the success rate so far in 2012 is 44%, but the source is no longer available.

I don't know if that's just the success rate of crossing the funding threshold or success rate of delivering the project as well.

[1] http://www.kickstarter.com/blog/2011-the-stats
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kickstarter
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That seems like it would just delay the inevitable, he needs to find competent cleaners that are unwilling to strike out on their own. If he manages to keep the cleaners as contractors, then his future will be absolutedomestics.com.au. They have done incredibly well for themselves and have set themselves up exactly as this guy has.

I'm thinking it must be more profitable making a decent profit while losing clients and cleaners, than taking a smaller profit and retaining clients and cleaners.
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... now I'm also reminded of Alligator Eggs ( http://worrydream.com/AlligatorEggs/ ) - a symbol-free kinda-gamification of lambda calculus.
that is exactly right. kickstarter is not a store. there will be bad products and probably some outright fraud. it is a marketplace like ebay. backer beware.
I'm not sure that gamifying algebra will make it any more desirable to kids. I think that those who want to see it as a game already see it as a game in their heads. I know I certainly did back in high school.

Still a cool idea though!
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> The extraction of surplus-value comes from having an economical/power/knowledge advantage

Yes, this is called the division of labour. When not everybody has to know how to do everything, more things can be known and more things can be done.

Making a marketing plan and a website sounds easy to you, but why don't you argue that they are being exploited by the vacuum cleaner or detergent manufacturers' economic and knowledge advantage? Probably because designing and building a good vacuum cleaner or formulating an anti-allergenic organic cleaning detergent doesn't sound easy to you.
Does anyone know of any other engines like this, either paid or free? We are using this to produce catalogs of 200+ complex pages and it is not handling generating PDFs of this size very well. It will often become unresponsive and create a memory leak.
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I could see where a slightly more robust solution could really work. Lay down a film (thin-ish plastic/spray sealant that would create a semi-sealed pool on the bottom of the pothole), then fill in liquid from a tank, then apply an epoxy on edges and then a kevlar mesh on top. Then you'd have a decent surface. Especially if the liquid was more like a "gel".

I'm not an engineer or a scientist--there are likely loads of reasons the above is impractical.
What happens if you park with a wheel resting on one of these, though? Would you come back to find your tire had sunk in?
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I spent a lot of time 2-3 years ago assessing different tools to convert HTML+CSS to PDF [1]. At the time, this was to convert HTML plus custom tags into well-formatted legal documents.

At the time the hands down winner was Prince XML [2]. It's relatively expensive ($3800 for a single server license) but it just works, works from many languages and produces beautiful results quickly (look at their samples). It doesn't take a lot of developer time to make up that purchase cost.

I haven't checked out this particular project but with the others I have they tended to work for smaller samples but would die, take forever or have unpredictable results on even moderately large documents (~150k).

For any commercial project, honestly I'd just fork over the $3800 for Prince without hesitation. It's simply that good.

EDIT: actually, looking over the SO question I think I did check out an early version of this project and didn't have much success with it. The one thing that concerns me about this project now is the last news item is over a year old. Is it still being actively maintained?

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/391005/convert-html-css-t...

[2]: http://princexml.com/