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Look for "no comprises" in this thread. If what you think is true, then .. Microsoft still doesn't get what "don't make me decide" means.
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Become a consultant. You get wide freedom in how you spend nonbillable hours.

There exist many people working 1,000 hours a year or less. We all know this. At some point we started believing they must not be successful members of the professional class. That is observably false.
Without knowing much about how the game will be played, I doubt it. Maybe at the very highest end the marginal difference will be made by the quality of proprietary computer programs shared between elite clans but enough public script sharing will go on that will make it trivial for someone to be competitive at the lower levels without knowing a line of code.
'Engagement' is overrated. Some sites , e.g Google and Wikipedia probably have super high bounce rates, because they solve your problem on the first page you see. What if people start entering his site mainly from band pages, get all the necessary info and leave? That wouldn't be a bad thing for users.
I managed to order one on day 1 but I expect to wait many more weeks before they actually deliver it.
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I don't see the need for that either; I'm referring to sharing things in a more visual way (Pinterest), making new code available (Github), adding friends and likeminded folks (Facebook), discussing topics in groups (LinkedIn).
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"The failure of the Netflix prize is a timely reminder that basically all the books and blogs on social media are bullshit."

Is it just me, or is this a total blanket statement? A failure of one company and a contest they ran means ALL of books and blogs on social media are bs?
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Overall these advice make sense, but the relative import

from .context import sample

is better avoided. Why not this?

from tests.context import sample
This works out to $7.50 per Path user. ...yyyyyeah.
This is the true Hacker method of thinking. Problem solving, puzzles are what makes us happy.

We built tens of products, website and apps. The fun is always when you hack something new. When you manage to get the math right for an AR system for the first time, when you add zoom capabilities to your canvas with just two lines of code, or have the ability to embed youtube videos into your Android app before everyone else. When you create things out of nothing, when you share your creations and move to the next puzzle.

And once the hacking stops, although the product is pretty much finished and all that's left is the launch (which is a very important part, but not for the hacker in us), the fun is almost completely over. That is when fun ends, and the work starts for the hacker.

Hacking keeps us sane. And if you ever get to that point when you're stuck in a high position of your successful startup, look for role models that got the recipe right. pg always comes to mind.
Wow - great site!

You have built up a large userbase that is current free for users? I think that charging a fee for these users and for the app would not be a smart move.

However what about adding some paid features - like fee for promoting a profile to the front page, premium profile page (blog, sell tickets to gigs).

What is often overlooked is deals with corporates. Is there anyway to tie into promotional deals with companies? eg Fandalism members get discounts to gigs promoted by x event organiser? Corporate pays you a fee.

What do your current members say? How would they want the site to make money to keep it going?

Good luck - great result.
HN Meetup Munich: April 2012 (Reminder)
Agenda

1) Organization of future meetups -> regular "HN Stammtisch"?
2) Optional: speed talks
3) Mandatory: Pretending to be social, having a good time,... you know the drill

Details

Date: Wed 18 April 2012 (yes, tomorrow)
Time: 19:00 -- ?
Location: Reitmor 3
Reitmorstrasse 3
80538 Munich
http://www.reitmor3.de

If you'd like to present something, please give advance notice for planning.

For questions and suggestions, please leave a comment or mail hnmunichmeetups at googlemail dot com.

See you there!
If it comes. I remember reading the details of that bill and if I recall correctly someone mentioned that accepting crowd funding will make the founders personally liable to lawsuits over the company.

I can't seem to find the bookmark, anyone have one by chance?
Couldn't agree more. As someone's who is using Codecademy to learn, I find myself hunting around for the way I got to that useful page with the week-by-week lessons all spelled out in a nice list. Unfortunately I end up guessing URLs until I get it right, as it seems there's no easy way to get there via the actual interface.
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> Drop it in the ocean and have it transmit until it is crushed for amusement.

I now have a new hobby.
Nothing for actually being on call. 2x hourly rate for time worked (time worked is rounded up to nearest 1/2 hour before being doubled). Quiet weeks suck. We're continually reminded how "generous" this is. I would say my salary reflects oncall duties, but only a very small amount
To be more specific.

This page http://www.codecademy.com/courses, shows no hierarchy on where I am in the course, I think this is horrible UX. Compare that to this, http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/javascript, where I know exactly where I am in the process.
Standard of living is connected to inflation.

We should not be asking ourselves "Why is everything more expensive now???" and instead asking "Why is my dollar buying me less..."
It wasn't a "fragile edge case", it worked just fine with no ambiguity in every javascript implementation.

The problem is that jsmin is a naive pile of textual replacements (though not quite as abysmal as John Gruber's markdown.pl) instead of being a javascript implementation — something that actually parses javascript into an AST and compiles it to minified javascript.

He left out cases for several unary operators so it broke perfectly valid code. After bitching at them he came to his senses and fixed it: https://github.com/douglascrockford/JSMin/commit/5ca277ea452...

Unless for some reason you need your minifier to be trivial enough to be portable with no dependencies, you should really be using something along the lines of google's Closure Compiler, which produces far better output and even has stuff like tests!
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I remember doing similar things on a pirated 4.0 in '98 or something.

In 2012 I wonder which user of professional $700 graphic design software needs a tutorial on how to modify a photo, or why would some amateur 'enhance with Adobe Photoshop(tm)' while a free app on his phone can do it in a second. Really, who is this tutorial for?
so how did he go from 0 to half a million users in three months? or is this just another rockstar founder effect?
db8 JSON database has been open sourced
db8 is a JSON database that HP has open sourced. It comes from WebOS. The question is, what might it be good for? Anyone got any ideas for use cases for this database?

The documentation:
https://developer.palm.com/content/api/dev-guide/mojo/db8.html

The code:
https://github.com/openwebos/db8
Allow me to point out that cheap satellite launches are (indirectly) very nice for the layman who likes communicating with far-off places.

That said, this thread is indeed pointless, so I'll drop it now.
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I probably wouldn't have even watched that video if I hadn't just finished watching Moleman 2.
Clickable:

The documentation: https://developer.palm.com/content/api/dev-guide/mojo/db8.ht...

The code: https://github.com/openwebos/db8
I wasn’t. Apologies if it seemed mean-spirited — I only wanted to understand your point. I’m probably being thick, but I still don’t quite follow. It seems like you’re saying that if you leave semicolons out (relying on ASI), this makes “mistakes/missing semicolons easier to spot”? That doesn’t make sense to me. :-/
I like this idea. People probably have never heard of the artists on your site, but I'm sure there is some incredible talent there already. If you could create a service for listeners, I think you could attract a lot of music fans. And hipsters.

People expect to hear ads in radio streams, as they have been conditioned by Pandora, Spotify, etc.
Dropbox is running on top of S3. If you look at the S3 pricing per GB for storage and bandwidth, it's not exactly cheap. Back of the envelope, I'm guessing a 50GB account costs Dropbox something like $3-$4 per month. Their $9.99 plan can't really go down by an order of magnitude and still be profitable.
FWIW I used H&R Block At Home to file my US tax return after I relocated to Australia and it worked fine. Note that e.g. American teachers at international schools have to file US tax returns so there are accountants out there who understand the issues.
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I'm sure many of you faced this situation before, but this is a first for me.

I've been assigned to mentor a new intern, for whom I have great hopes - This kid is sharp, a quick learner and has a bright future ahead.

My mentoring/teaching experience is limited to having been a TA in college, taught some courses, tutored some students and all that. Originally I majored in engineering, but got into programming after picking it up along the way. I still learn new things every day. Overall I have about 5-6 years of actual work experience in misc topics - web dev, databases, systems/ops eng., etc. I don't consider myself an expert on any of these.

So, I'm looking for advice, tips, shared experience on mentoring a new employee/intern from the good people who read this site. Common gotchas, things to avoid, things to emphasize, etc. Thanks!
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I read an article that it cost between $100-400k for the hologram...

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/report-tupac-hologram...
Android virtual machine is not jvm, why do you think it makes them naive or stupid? Does it also make Microsoft naive or stupid, when they designed CLR VM for Windows Phone?

Google does not pay royalties for Android, and neither does Motorola or Sony. Notice that only vendors that also sell Windows pay the royalty.
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Nothing about this experience is unique to programming. People derive similar pleasure & creative outlets from a variety of activities.

My partner spends most of her waking hours honing her craft, pushing boundaries, and experiencing new heights of joy. She's a musician. Most of our muso friends would gush similarly about their craft.

Lately I have been getting a lot of rush from golf. It's extremely rewarding and frustrating at the same time.
> More specifically unit tests that muck with the database.

If you're doing a cross-process call then IMO they're no longer unit tests and have become integration tests. Unit tests test small pieces of code for validity and should run fast. You can't do that if you're hitting the database.
FYI, redis_failover has now been rewritten to sit on top of ZooKeeper to deal with network partitions, stability, and data consistency. From the README:

redis_failover attempts to provides a full automatic master/slave failover solution for Ruby. Redis does not provide an automatic failover capability when configured for master/slave replication. When the master node dies, a new master must be manually brought online and assigned as the slave's new master. This manual switch-over is not desirable in high traffic sites where Redis is a critical part of the overall architecture. The existing standard Redis client for Ruby also only supports configuration for a single Redis server. When using master/slave replication, it is desirable to have all writes go to the master, and all reads go to one of the N configured slaves.

This gem attempts to address these failover scenarios. A redis failover Node Manager daemon runs as a background process and monitors all of your configured master/slave nodes. When the daemon starts up, it automatically discovers the current master/slaves. Background watchers are setup for each of the redis nodes. As soon as a node is detected as being offline, it will be moved to an "unavailable" state. If the node that went offline was the master, then one of the slaves will be promoted as the new master. All existing slaves will be automatically reconfigured to point to the new master for replication. All nodes marked as unavailable will be periodically checked to see if they have been brought back online. If so, the newly available nodes will be configured as slaves and brought back into the list of available nodes. Note that detection of a node going down should be nearly instantaneous, since the mechanism used to keep tabs on a node is via a blocking Redis BLPOP call (no polling). This call fails nearly immediately when the node actually goes offline. To avoid false positives (i.e., intermittent flaky network interruption), the Node Manager will only mark a node as unavailable if it fails to communicate with it 3 times (this is configurable via --max-failures, see configuration options below).

This gem provides a RedisFailover::Client wrapper that is master/slave aware. The client is configured with a list of ZooKeeper servers. The client will automatically contact the ZooKeeper cluster to find out the current state of the world (i.e., who is the current master and who are the current slaves). The client also sets up a ZooKeeper watcher for the set of redis nodes controlled by the Node Manager daemon. When the daemon promotes a new master or detects a node as going down, ZooKeeper will notify the client near-instantaneously so that it can rebuild its set of Redis connections. The client also acts as a load balancer in that it will automatically dispatch Redis read operations to one of N slaves, and Redis write operations to the master. If it fails to communicate with any node, it will go back and fetch the current list of available servers, and then optionally retry the operation.
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When I saw the title, I immediately assumed it was Silk Road. That would have surprised me, as the operators have no part in the actual business, and all trades are conducted with bitcoins. If Silk Road went down, that would be news, as they really embrace strong crypto and opsec.
I know TurboTax works well.
The obvious answer to why is, no one's built it yet. Forrst supposed fill the showing off things in pictures void (plus it's exclusive, just like Facebook used to be). Github comes pretty close, you can even have a personal page (though updating has be done via pushes).

A feature I'd like to see in such a site is a repository/tool for defining syntax rules & colorschemes for editors.
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I think he's talking about 'best selling authors or bloggers'. The author pokes fun at big blogger's opinions that congratulates or praises netflix's crowdsourcing contest....because it validates their own books and makes them look smart or sound right. (wikinomics, freakonomics, jarvis..)
Do you really think Musk is doing it for America?
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This sounds horrible......
Actually, Google makes money off the ads on their 'free' services. I think that qualifies everyone as a customer. The horror stories recounted here is a signal that Google needs to reconsider its reliance on the algorithmic approach.
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Pud, don't forget there are 2 sides to profit. Income and costs. Monetisation is important and there have been loads of ideas here. However, can you drive down costs? Have you investigated a dedicated server instead of EC2?
What countries would you recommend your clients to go to?
there are even fewer good arguments for changing the semantics of the fucking logical negation operator 17 years down the line in a dynamic language with billions of end users and no discrete versioning
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We are PayGuard and we're building a payments platform that would specialize in long-distance/cross-border transactions. http://stark-river-6968.herokuapp.com/ We do this by combining your normal payments gateway with the global network of an international money transfer company (Western Union) with the twist of "escrow". We got our rejection letter too but we are forging ahead with launching our beta late this May. We believe eCommerce will globalize and payments will be at the forefront to make this happen. We want to create a world where anyone can buy or sell anything anywhere. We would appreciate any candid feedback on our idea....intellectual honesty is the best weapon against self delusion.
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Smartphone/web hackers/designer: join a 4-person post-series-A team (YC W12)
We make "TiKL - Touch to Talk", one of the top social apps on Android and iOS. It turns your smartphone is a realtime walkie-talkie with instant messaging. The user base grew organically from zero to 22 million in 20 months without any marketing.
We just closed an over-subscribed series A round. We invite iOS/Android/WP7/web hackers/designer to join a 4-person team in the current YC batch and help grow the user base from 22 million to 200 million. Based in the bay area, we offer a fun working environment, competitive compensation and excellent opportunities to own significant equity in a hot startup backed by all-star investors.

Required:

* Expert in networking, multimedia and multitasking on iOS or Android or WP7, or expert in extreme-scale web development.

* Strong understanding and passion for intuitive and elegant consumer-oriented UI

* Passion for quickly producing beautiful code/design and finding simple elegant solutions to hard problems

* "Whatever it takes" altitude, never settles, loves fast-paced dynamic startup environment

Plus:

* Experience in developing VoIP smartphone apps

* Experience with echo cancellation

* Experience with Facebook and Twitter mobile/web SDK

Please contact nanzhong1@gmail.com if interested. Prior work samples would be appreciated.
That makes 2 subscribers ;)
Expedia REFUSES to stop selling rooms after being told to stop selling.
I agree with Naner. (Expedia REFUSES to stop selling rooms after being told by the hotel to STOP SELLING ROOMS BECAUSE THE HOTEL IS SOLD OUT.) I work for a hotel front desk at a major franchise in a major city. Expedia/Hotel.com reservations come across as faxes and then have to be input into the computer manually. Expedia can send across 40 reservations in just a matter of minutes and oversell the hotel. Many times when we have called Expedia and told them to STOP SELLING rooms because we are sold, the Expedia rep will REFUSE to stop selling rooms which the hotel does not have.
Seems like a marketing/sales strategy challenge. Here's a few thoughts about potential markets for what you've done, and how you might reach them:

Market: Profit-minded folks who want to do the next AirBnB in another vertical, but don't want to code the core of their business.
Strategy: Market to entrepreneurial business/MBA types at universities nationwide to set something up at their campus for sharing among students, or sharing in their local community. (You'll probably want to help share best practices/best verticals to tackle)

Market: Existing communities where this would be a nice additive feature to add to their community (ie Mom's groups)
Strategy: Ideally target platforms for communities, like BigTent for Mom's groups, then then can roll out to hundreds of communities in a vertical. Otherwise, set up key verticals (like Mom's groups) and market to them the ability to set up a sharing service for their communities (ie: Mom's groups; toys, sporting equipment, video games/movies).

Market: Businesses that would like to add the feature to engage a local community and ultimately drive leads to their core business. (Home Depot/Tools, REI/Sporting goods, etc.)
Strategy: Ideally target national chain that can roll out hundreds of sharing locations around each of their stores. They will see this as a marketing initiative to build community and leads. If you can't close the big guys, target the local #2 independents in local markets to give them a differentiating tool against the local big box.

Market: Existing 'barter' exchanges ( http://www.gigafree.com/barter.html )
Strategy: Enable something new for a barter exchange; enable something new for platforms that support barter exchanges (assuming that you are doing something additive rather than competitive)

You can also look at your current customers and see if anything generalizable about them in terms of markets, then think about your entry strategy into that market.
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> I didn't even want to read the whole table for all the features of windows 8

Took me all of 5 minutes to digest that table (and decide I want Windows 8 Pro for Boot from VHD and Client Hyper-V). That's not too much time to choose something I'm going to be using for 3 years, is it?