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Good for her. Young, female and coming from a tricky geographical location that's relatively distanced from the start-up scene must be incredibly tough.

Unfortunately for her, she's going to really struggle to have people heed her good advice for quite some time as it's experience and success that dictates the value of your advice.
I mean writing database-backed multi-user network
applications with a web interface. So yes, a webapp, but
there's more to it than that.

Webapps are exactly that. Database-backed multi-user network applications with a web interface. However, I can understand why you want to explicitly state the context (the phrase lost credibility.)

However, an index.php with `<?php phpinfo() ?>` in it is not a webapp imho, but still useful for teaching the network stack.

I'd go with Linux, certainly. If they are really bright and aspiring, they'll recognize the power of open platforms anyways. Just my two cents.
Unsupported guesses:

Fewer games means they're willing to spend more per game;

They want to create an incentive for game devs to port their games;

Linux users are older on average, therefore have more disposable income.
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Ahh, I believe you're correct. I optimistically read those stats...
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Why not have a Google account for work and one for personal use? Either way, getting locked out of Drive is pretty silly--like Dropbox you always have backups synced on your machines.
I wonder how much of a role her parents play in her life. Not to denegrate her achievements but a 14 year old is (typically) still dependent on their parents/guardians.

Secondly, how is she 'helping' in this start up. Maybe It's just because I'm in a rather unhappy mood but this article just really irritates me. Sure this girl is in a great position and has the wonderful opportunity to work with intelligent and experienced people but how much of this is because of her own hard work. The tone comes off as if she is the master of her own fate but I wonder if she would have still authored this article had she been born in Kabul!
Yes, exactly. We need tutorials for people who are primarily learning to program and are using a language for that, and tutorials for people who already know how to program and are using a language for GST.
Neither was mine! My number is ridiculous (worth over $1M) so that's why I made the site.
No.

But, I'm bias in the opposite way.

The US doesn't have an official language. There is a free press with publications in almost every language. And, at least in the states I'm from (California and Washington), voting materials are translated into all the statistically significant languages found during the census. [1][2] (The Federal Government helps too. [3])

I live in Australia now. It's made very clear that English is the official language here. Different strokes for different folks.

[1] See: Voting Rights Language Assistance Act

[2] http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/vot/sec_203/activ_203.php

[3] http://www.eac.gov/voter_resources/voting_accessibility.aspx
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Woaw. Apparently you can be 14 and extremely arrogant too.

What the hell was that ? That's just an article full of bold claims "If something is physically possible then you can achieve it if you try hard enough" and self gratification.

I hate people like this who, because they have been lucky in life and because they have worked hard think they can give general lessons about life.

My gosh this article was obnoxious.
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Rather than constant donation drives, I'd suggest you try to raise all the money for a year at once.

Also, if you're going to survive on donations---then publish a newsletter as well as a way to get peoples emails, and thus have them when you need to run your donation drive.

Target cost + your expenses + expenses to spruce up the site.

I'd also suggest recruiting other people to blog with you (not for you), in order to slowly give it a more of a community feel. A feeling of community is 100% necessary for donation drives.

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Otherwise, if you'd like people to pay for product because the above feels too much like turning your page into a charity, then publish an ebook of your writings and place that on Amazon.

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How do you currently get visitors? 800 page views a month is a pretty small amount. With greater traffic even a small margin can be profitable.
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Sour grapes fella. How do you know she's been 'lucky' in life?
How does this article have 41 points in 25 minutes? Is someone gaming the system, or am I missing something?
I recommend Debian for many reasons, but the primary reason to choose Debian over OS X is package management. Installing the development platform, a database server, an HTTP server (if required), a decent text editor, and any other necessary tools is very easy in Debian. Doing so in OS X, on the other hand, is often problematic.

I taught a Haskell course last year, where participants brought their own laptops running Linux, OS X, and Windows. Linux was the least problematic. If I do a similar course in the future, I am thinking about providing a Debian virtual machine image for anybody who runs OS X or Windows.
I'm not implying anything, it just made me smile that the article on how jaywalking was introduced by a "conspiracy" of auto interests was written by Sarah Goodyear. Like, the plot thickens...
Ah, "the" start-up scene, AKA "everything that's wrong with London-centric UK".

I hope Propelly takes off and reminds the tech-luvvies that there IS a world outside London. It might stretches as far as Scotland, if you squint hard enough and don't listen to fat Alec too much.
Spot on. There is a difference between "Programming language X tutorial" and "Programming tutorial using language X". The former being for someone who wants to learn a new language (but probably knows some programming) while the latter is for people learning their first language.

This article seems to suggest that programming language tutorials should always be targeted at people with zero knowledge about programming or computer science. And he also seems to suggest that all readers are assumed idiots.

In the OP's view, the description of associative arrays as a primary data structure in Lua is not important. This depends a lot on the audience. For me the description about associative arrays was very important, since I want to know how the Lua interpreter works (esp. important for Lua since it's often used as an embedded language).

Same thing goes for the OP's complaint about Haskell and laziness. Laziness is a very central concept to Haskell so it makes sense to introduce it early on.

The OP says: "Programming language tutorials shouldn't be about learning languages. They should be about something interesting, and you learn the language in the process." I really disagree on this one. I don't want to spend time going through yet another badly written beginner tutorial if I want to learn a new language.
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The fact HN upvoted this straight to the number one slot based on age and gender rather than content is a little bit depressing IMHO.

Either the average HNer is less discerning than I imagined, or the system is being gamed.
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That's very nice.

But I have 54 private repos on my VPS. I think about something, start writing some code, and I need a repo.

Public GitHub repo would work too, but I don't want to have experiments all over my GitHub page.

So yeah, this is nice, but not for me...
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I'm guessing average HNer's see "girl", and think to themselves "must stamp out any sexism by upvoting anything remotely related to females". Reverse sexism at it's misguided best...
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Why does the human race have to have griefers? Why can't we all just get along and have cool sci-fi tech without people trying to game it?
Well most of us have been very very lucky in life, we have won the lottery, but among other things:

* Born in a 1st world country

* Born in a wealthy enough family that can afford computers and education for their children

* Born with parents that are supportive of her actions

It's a very common misconception on Hacker News that we have started from nothing and if people don't succeed it's because they don't "try enough". If you really want to see nothing go to Africa and say you haven't been lucky in life. "Trying" for these people is way harder than YOUR trying and you have to realize that.

By the way I am in no way sour, it's just important to realize what we were given in life and stop giving lessons to everybody based on our limited experience. Just a little decency.
I normally go to wikipedia for a description of a service or product rather than sift through all the marketing BS that's normally plastered over a website.
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The point of the article is good, but the tone of it seems a bit immature. I don't care much about someone's age, as long as they can act in a professional and responsible manner when it comes down to it.

I can respect her doing so much at such a young age, but if she acts like this in real life, she's only perpetuating the stereotype that she's trying to denounce.
Just curious, I can get 5 free private repositories under a micro plan as a student. What benefit does this have over bitbucket, which has unlimited private repositories? This is an honest question, I don't know that much about github.
Would be nice if there would be a community site for stuff like this where people would work together. A bit similar to http://www.419eater.com but then just only the technical stuff.
Is it wrong for something to be interesting because it's unusual?
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There's Brighton, also. I mean it's not so start-up centric as opposed to new-media centric, but it's still a great scene!
...Yes? Humility is learned through a lifetime of failure and suffering; don't hate people (your word, not mine) who haven't had the misfortune to experience that yet.

What I really hate is to see this kind of tall poppy syndrome, and I'm horrified to see it on HN of all places. Confident, ambitious people should be celebrated, not hammered down by small-minded people who are offended whenever someone tries to achieve above their station.
Lots of US hospitals already use offshore radiology services who interpret various medical imaging tests taken in the overnight hours an report back the findings.
What a fascinating problem, especially when it comes to personal photos that aren't really that 'personal.'

A thousand people will all visit Paris today, and all take a picture of the Eiffel Tower, and all upload said picture to their favourite cloud storage platform.

Is there any reason why we need a thousand, ever so slightly different, pictures of the Eiffel Tower from one day in April, stored in the cloud for eternity? Would people even notice if their images were quietly 'de-duplicated'?
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I like the "get things done" attitude and let's say that the article's tone is related to age, but how this made top 1 on HN is far beyond me...just...how!?
This is very true, however we don't choose to be privileged - and many people with privilege waste it. There's nothing wrong with taking advantage of your breaks, as long as it's not to the detriment of others.

The issue with the article was that she had this attitude that she'd come from nowhere, which is untrue, but I don't think I as a 14 year old truly appreciated the gravity of how much a person is built by their surroundings and predecessors.
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"If something is physically possible then you can achieve it if you try hard enough"

Personally, I think that's a pretty good attitude for a teenager to have.
My only real complaint is she says 'awesome' too much. I'm pretty sure there's an unwritten rule in these parts that prevents us from saying it. Fine for Americans and acceptable for tech conferences, but too jovial for us Brits. ;)
The idea is not new (and certainly I'm not the only one using this since years - there must be hundreds of thousands doing it if not soon millions of users).

I guess integration of storage aggregation might soon be seen in various apps (if ToS of the storage services allow) as more and more apps now can make use of online storage and services like box.com, dropbox and the many others that started about 4-5 years ago have made normal computer users familiar with these concepts.

As mentioned again in one of the links within the article (http://pandodaily.com/2012/02/26/steve-jobs-was-right-dropbo... - was previously discussed here on HN) providing online storage is a feature and not a product.

Like with many other things before, pure-play online storage is becoming / always was a commodity service. I guess providers will continue to compete around add-on services. That can only be good for consumers of these services.
I don't get this one:
Capitalization. Use only lowercase.

and:

Use HTML5. HTML5 (HTML syntax) is preferred for all HTML documents: <!DOCTYPE html>.

Why not <!doctype html>?
Better interface, plenty of open-source communities around (seems like everyone uses GitHub to publish their open source projects) and niceties, like project page hosting.

I use both: BitBucket for unlimited private repos, and GitHub for public, open source.
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This post is daft and encapsulates why people do not take young (vocal) entrepreneurs seriously. If you genuinely wanted to succeed with your product you wouldn't write folly like this and you'd just keep working.

Which is what lots of friends who are "young" do - and I am sure they would all hate to be defined by their age vs. their products.
Really neat solution, useful for straightforward things. However, it's quite far from telling us the full truth. Python won't release memory instantly and there will be some free memory that can be reused but won't ever be reused (int arrays?)
"Due to high demand, we've run out of student accounts. Don't worry, we'll have more soon. Please check back later."

So, you can add an email addy under your profile settings. But does this mean you can request an educational account if your main account is a private email addy?
Well, it can help OpenGL and other cross-platform frameworks become even stronger. Studios will have more incentive to make games portable from the get-go, instead of relying on Windows/Direct3D. Even mobile, console and OS X users could benefit from that.
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Also worth noting that a comparison to an M5's dashboard isn't particularly relevant. When driving exotic cars, the RPMs are significantly more important to the driving experience and performance than the actual speed. That's why the tachometer is so massive and speed is relegated to a simple small number
Do we have to treat every brain dead action by the TSA in the USA as if it is a news item of importance to software start-ups?

Great stuff for other sites I am sure but just clutters up HN.
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So let's say I bought a compromised version of SSL from a certificate vendor. Could I legally ask for my money back? It seems like you were sold something under false pretenses.
It does support code snippets you just have to use fenced code blocks ala Github style.

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Most of this is code is available in machine-readable form in the VirtualAGC Google Code repository:

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"The one problem Linux does have in regards to businesses is integration with Exchange"

You're forgetting active directory and group policy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_Policy
I'm usually the first person to denounce reverse sexism, but I loved this article. It has nothing to do with this young person's gender and everything to do with her attitude.
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Stupid article. Why would you hate goto ? You should learn that goto exists and use it when it is the best choice.

When writing software manually, this is rarely the best choice, but for automatic generation of code, this is very powerful.

Do never listen to the stupidities that are said to sell code quality checking software.
I agree. I think this approach allows the tutorial to be useful regardless of other language programming experience.

If you are new to programming reading a tutorial aimed at experienced developers, then, as OP states, it can be difficult to understand paragraphs loaded with unfamiliar technology, or where the concepts are presented in an entirely abstract fashion.

If you are an experienced developer reading a beginners' tutorial, then it's easy to miss some crucial novel detail hidden amongst all the bits that you already know.

If the tutorial takes you on the journey from a blank text file to an application that does something, then all levels can be as engaged as they need to be.

On the other hand, it will be just as easy to make a rubbish tutorial in this way, as it is to make a rubbish one that teaches the language in a more abstract fashion.
Not to discount what you said, but I think in some ways she realizes this. The problems she does overcome are, in her own words: "a load of crappy excuses". I think she understands the challenges she faces aren't really challenges, and are just that: "crappy excuses."

So, you make a good point, and in some way, I think she realizes that with all she has been given, the excuses left to her are crappy.
I know many, many people that would never even consider switching to Linux until Office and the Adobe suite are first-class citizens.

As happy as I am to see Steam come to Linux, I don't expect Linux to grow much desktop market share as a result. The future of user-facing Linux is Android.
No it won't. Login to steam from a mac some time and watch the awesomeness unfold as 1/10th of your games are available.

Now make it 1/10th of 1/10th!

Unless they convince a significant number of other publishers to do linux versions (while they won't even do mac versions) it's not going to be very exciting.
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I find myself cringing at the excessive use of the word "awesome" round these parts. It seems a lot of people just can't articulate themselves or their product so they just slap "Awesome" into the mix and be done with it.
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Yeah, I can't echo this enough. I had to temper myself writing to my sponsor child last night.

She's in Indonesia, and likely to be stuck making cassava with her mom and helping in the fields, until she gets married off and never heard from again.

If she was able to suffer a trip on a boat, or be adopted into the 1st World she'd have a solid chance at an education, and a first world life.
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That's an interesting observation. Not long ago I was talking to an editor who thought that books 150-250 pages in length were an ideal sweet spot.
You're probably missing all the implied and non-verbal stuff. It was probably really a conversation about philosophy couched in allegories and metaphors.
Seconded, and it's so very, VERY British. Perhaps when the rest of the US wakes up the tone of comments might change, but right now some of them feel like they came straight from the playground.
A couple times a year I blow away my Windows install and go Linux-only. Then a AAA game comes out, and VMWare just doesn't cut it. I've recently gotten tired of Skyrim and put it away for a while, but then the GW2 beta is this weekend...
Isn't this a fairly standard "let us serve/host your files from any of our data centers in the world and move them to any data center in the world" EULA with a bit extra so they can build up services around it (translation, OCR, etc.)?

I bet if they swung their critical eye to the EULAs of SkyDrive or DropBox or iCloud they might find something similar.
There is a solution to this: you can flag the article if you feel something is fishy. Gumming up the works with a pointless question doesn't help anything. I'd encourage you to continue to contribute rather than being that which we want to discourage.
This reads more like proof-of-concept. There are
already 2 forks on github that use faster ways.
Very impressive: Medfield is a single core processor that's competitive with the dual core Krait-based S4 and faster than a quad core Tegra3 in a $400 phone, unsubsidized.

If I was an ARM manufacturer, I would be very afraid. Intel has 3 obvious ways to produce faster CPUs soon: go dual or quad core, be the first to 22nm, or base their mobile CPU on Core rather than on Atom. OTOH, 28 & 35nm Krait & A15 will be the best Intel's competitors will have available for a while.
I can't understand the negativity expressed towards this article. I bet if the 'I'm a girl' part had been omitted there wouldn't be half as much vitriol.