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This widely depends on your geographics.

Writing from Brazil here : still over 70% of the visitors, on average, to most sites I monitor are using some version of IE.

So claiming a "feature" like that down here would be like rejecting 70% customers on a popular mall because they're not wearing red shoes(or some other arbitrary reason).
Thanks. Good enough for me.
@JasonFried

“Sortfolio just isn’t core to our business.”

If Sortfolio was making more money, like $2M per year, would it then be “core to your business”?

Also, what about the Job Board?

Job board is effectively the same as Sortfolio, yet it makes millions per year. Why not shut down Job Board as well?

Lastly, what about Deck Network? This is yet another million dollar per year generating site that is a pure advertisement property. There’s no way you can claim the Deck is core to 37signals.

So why don’t you just admit what is truly happening here. You are unhappy with the relatively low revenue, and don’t want the buried of the services anymore.
Wonderful that you couldn't think of any way to actually argue your case so you go check me out and all you could come up with was a.) I'm English b.) I'm 22 c.) You know more than me so there.

Have you ever managed to convince anybody who didn't start off agreeing with you of anything?
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As an almost universal rule of thumb, there is no perfect simulator/emulator substitute for a target hardware platform.

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> sometimes you can save yourself hours, days, or even weeks worth of wasted time trying to understand

There's no such thing as wasted time when you're learning. In fact, I can't think of a better way to spend my time.
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As for backup, pg_dump dbname > db.dump will do the dump, psql -f db.dump dbname will do the restore. There are, of course, far more complicated ways of doing it, including doing it in binary format, or data / schema only, or individual tables, but those are all a flag or two away.
Highly relevant question. As someone with a signal processing background, the SFT is so huge that without doubt it should be on this list. Knowing MIT's meritocracy, they would have given the award to more women if it were appropriate
I can agree with the need for alone time, but the ivory tower worship is a bit much. My professors set the right tone and pointed me in the right direction, but that's about it. Theoretical background? More like a loose set of principles mostly boiling down to an aversion for needless complexity and a desire for elegance through proper organization.
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I am sorry, I took the literal definition of the following:

"* a malicious, false, and defamatory statement or report: a slander against his good name*

You published and broadcast on HN that you assumed that I would be manufacturing illegal weapons based on a comment that I had an STL for a part of a gun.

You said that you DO assume that if I am going to 3D print a part, that I would be producing the fully automatic version of a weapon.

This post ignores the fact that the STL I refer to is only a singular part of a device.

Further, your analogy DOES NOT work. As printing a gun part is NOT illegal. So you are saying that having an STL is the same as having previously commited sexual battery???

NO

IT DOES NOT.

My analogy works, yours is broken.
I can't agree with you more than I do. Good writing and journalism is more important than ever but it is completely missing. Blogs are mostly crap, successful online news generally consists of fluff pieces and most actual news is repeated and retold to the point of being a muffled meme.

Page view driven journalism is taking us down a dark path. I would not be surprised if George Takei and Ashton Kutcher are the premier sources of online information for most people in 5 years. Good writing is not required for a large number of page views.
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Your blog doesn't support comments. Is that a feature too?

As a developer I sympathise, but as a user I don't. I can understand not supporting IE 6 and 7, but not supporting 8 and 9 is not a feature, it's a lack of feature. It's saying that you aren't prepared to work with me the way I want to work.

It may be the right choice, but don't sell as that it's not.
There is a such thing as opportunity costs. Learning faster is better. (Assuming the same quality of understanding derived from time spent.)
the scary part will be when they can remotely order a car off the road through remote control with no cause.
Isn't "complexity" just a euphemism for "the programmer did not understand the problem he was trying to solve"?
There are definitely varying rates of efficiency in learning. I personally find that working with others tends to make me more efficient, for the exact reasons that sliverstorm cites.
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Except it's not arbitrary. Each browser they support adds development costs and takes time from their devs.

It is more like choosing not to serve vegan options at a dinner. Sure, it might piss people off but they could always suck it up and just eat the bacon.
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Orthogonal to this trend, is a probable reduction in how much we actually travel every day. Would it make sense if a kid was dropped to a very nearby school, where learning happens by interacting with teachers in close proximity as well other teachers on another continent(not just cheaper ones). It may even be a micro school where just 25 students from the neighborhood attend and have a weekly meetup on a large campus. As technology improves, that actual benefit of being at particular spot diminishes. Of course some professions like nursing/sales may need direct presence every day. For many others occasional meetups would more than suffice. Would we not drive a lot lesser if technology allows us a lot more seamless communication?
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I'm basically just stating the fact, leaving an interpretation open for everyone who's interested.

A while ago, there were a few front page posts about the role of women in IT, and about how they find themselves in their work environments. The MIT list is not restricted to computer science, but perhaps it can be interpolated to the relevant fields here, too?

I think it stands out that women are heavily under-represented on this list, and although explanations for that fact might be manifold, I personally just find it a bit sad to look at that outcome.
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This is a great list.

I'd add some of the relevant things from security strategy over the past 20 years, like "log lots of stuff".

There are many things which help availability (backups, easy deployment, tests, etc.) which also help security. If it's relatively easy to push an update, it's a lot more likely that you'll be able to rapidly respond to a vulnerability, or will have pre-emptively updated away from a vulnerability.

The most interesting things I've found recently have been in the "we can't touch that because we both don't understand it and because it's not working" parts of a complete site.
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Seems like it's a fashion statement more than business decision ? Unless your app is point and click, it's unlikely to get too much usage from Ipad. So in that case, will you stop supporting that too?
My laptop is in for repair and is taking a disturbingly long time, but my friend lent me his out-of-use EeePC with a 10" inch screen.

I'm amazed at how much work I have actually managed to get done. When I'm in the office I dock it to a keyboard/mouse/monitor, but even on the road I've found myself able to use it, once I adjusted to the keyboard.

If you run light-weight ubuntu (lubuntu for me), have your browser/editor/terminal in fullscreen, and you can get back to work. The slow processor does struggle with our companies rails app though...
This is a great attitude. My team and I didn't make it into YC either this round, but I just moved here to the valley today. See you here soon?
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Well, adding support for Retina displays is definitely an iOS-specific thing (at least right now).

Not "right now". As long as you intend to support "retina displays", it will always be an Apple-specific thing.

If you want to support something as general as high-DPI devices, you know, something concrete and not an Apple marketing-term, there are certainly lots of those being made and sold as we speak. They run Android and are not made by Apple.

You might want to consider supporting those as well.
Ask HN: How much do freelancing product managers charge for their services?
I've been working on a startup on the side of my main job for quite some time. I'm quite happy with my main job. But 2-3 times a month, without fail, I get cold-calls/e-mails from people seeking a developer for a project.

I don't want to freelance on projects anymore.

However, it made me wonder. Are there freelancing Product Managers? Surely, there must be? Couldn't I just have them handle all the interfacing with the customer, file tickets, and I do them. Problem with the output? File more tickets. I do them. Rinse, repeat. Meet on occasion to hash things out.

Has anyone had experience with such an arrangement?

It'd basically be delegating myself to commodity labor, but seems like lately there is enough market that I could charge my hourly, a product manager could charge their hourly, and the customer would still be happy cause they would finally have someone to do their project, which in this market, is seemingly difficult to find developers for. And I'm not talking about pie-in-the-sky take-a-cut-of-the-revenue people. I'm talking people who are willing to lay out hard cash upfront.

I should note, I'm in the U.S. and have googled some on this question, but it seems estimates vary wildly, and outside of structured companies I don't see this arrangement very often .
>>> I guess by your reasoning, then yes, he is implying that, otherwise the implication is always true and there's no logic to assuming a false P.

There are two separate questions being asked here:

1. Is P true?
2. If P is true, does Q follow?

The jury is assessing question (2) while the judge will later assess question (1). Question (2) is a question of guilt (if this were the law, did Google violate it?) and question (1) is a question of law (is this actually the law?).

To answer (2), the jury must assume P then evaluate the consequence on Q; that is simply the manner of establishing the validity of a material implication. As you note, if the jury did not assume P, then they would have nothing to do. However, that the judge instructed the jury as such does not indicate any bias on his part; he was simply providing instructions to simplify the procedure of logical reasoning to a group of 12 laypeople. I'm assuming that most of them aren't trained mathematicians, logicians, lawyers, or philosophers.

To put it succintly: the answer to your original question is "No."
Too rare are blogs/posts in the Valley about the "trough of sorrow." Even rarer are the ones that don't leave on an upbeat ending. This is life. This is what it is really like to build something people want... or to try to.

Thank you for writing this. The euphoric prose that plagues TC and ilk can often do a real disservice to those trying to build the seemingly impossible, and your honesty and humility are refreshing.
This is exciting!

Do you plan to offer API support? I would be very interested in having students fax the exam sheet to Kite, and then pulling the question marks (and image?) from your service.

Also, will educators have to use your exam sheets?

Can you read barcodes?
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Best writing I read this month, and I only read half of it yet. Story captures the startup situation and founder feelings really well, I found a lot of parallels.
Maybe make another update post regarding this topic when your pivot is ready so you can gain some exposure to it?
It's overvalued: Firstly if you buy the site that doesn't mean that you get the audience and the good will that the site/brand has now: The brand with the value is 37signals not Sortfolio. Secondly running it "as is" won't grow the site, you'll need to invest a great deal of money in adding features and growing the audience (so "tons of untapped potential" actually costs you money). And lastly if you think that it's that great of an idea you could most likely build it for far less than $480k (and contact the current soon to be alienated user base).
You must also understand the costs of supporting IE, I think is bigger than the revenue of those 1.6%
No. But, I had to think about it.
If I was sufficiently focused on productivity to follow this advice, I wouldn't spend so much time reading HackerNews.
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Railsconf had a similar policy: http://railsconf2012.com/antiharassment

I think this is an excellent idea.
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How can I take this seriously.

However, once you're over that initial learning hump...you'll quickly notice why the postgres manual is often cited as being one of the best documentations ever written

"It's really that good - once you're familiar with a few basics."
Note: We already have had that in Switzerland for several years now, it's quite popular: http://mobility.ch/en/pub/index.cfm. They have self service rental cars all over the 'bigger' cities here (Note: Biggest inner city in Switzerland = ~0.5M). The major downside: You always need to bring back the car to where you took it. Automatic vehicles will make that concept even more viable. Designing a central scheduling agent would be quite a fun task. Traveling salesman problem here we come! ;)
Very true - and it becomes a self-fulfulling mission to maintain that high level of service. Its hugely rewarding to get positive emails and testimonials from customers every day.
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i looked at the source code, all seems so very nicely done. can u shed some light on the underlying technology? i see you use some twitter bootstrap, but the ui elements look like your own (i like) and backbone right?
http://codeavengers.com is the best way to learn JavaScript if you end up going in that direction.
I also just moved to the Valley and would love to meet up. Here's my story: http://kurtvarner.com/post/19347794553/man-car-startup
When is the right time to quit something? A startup, a marriage, a book, etc. Is there a right time? If not, when should you quit? Or should you not?

The people who make it say that persistence is key.

But what if you're climbing the wrong mountain? How/when do you know that what you need most is change?

For me personally, I've changed things when my heart just isn't in it for the long haul anymore. When I don't love it anymore. (And usually, when I realize I don't love it anymore, I often realize -- sometimes not until much later -- that I never did.)

It's been clear to me when I do love something, or someone. So that's what I focus on.
The only example of this exploit that I'm aware of is the script that Matthew sent me.
I would buy a Ubuntu laptop. I feel like a fool that I spent money on a MacBook Pro. I was too lazy to get a Linux laptop working.
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Hi there,

I know it sounds unusual but I could start working from this September/October; are there any startups looking for engineeers (even for an internship) from that period?

Both U.S. and Europe-based startups are very welcome(I'm from Europe).

I've graduated last October and I'm currently doing web app development (will send resume by email to anyone interested).
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Educators build the assignment in our application (writing their own questions or using them from a question bank later on). In order for our product to read the fax, it needs to have been created from our application.

Currently no API support, sorry.
It depends on you case.

If you are doing:

slist = list(mylist) #create new copy of the list
slist.sort() #sort the list
use_sorted_list(slist)

The use of sorted is more more convenient, and really doesn't use more memory (since the memory from that statement you quoted is for the list copy).

More usefully: sorted will take anything that is iterable, allowing you to write simpler code, rather than testing for various types and dealing with them in type specific ways.
I suggest you donate the profits to charity each year

Maybe to help kids learn how to code?
Informational alerts are useful, even though you rarely act on them. I get a mail every few minutes from a script on my web server (it gets archived automatically). In case the server explodes, I can see the status of that application just before it went down, that is when the informational alert will become an actionable alert.

My conclusion is, use many alerts, you never know when they become useful. But use the filter functions of your email client (auto-archive in Gmail for instance) even more.
Could educators import the question bank? If so, would it work with Moodle's XML format (http://docs.moodle.org/22/en/Moodle_XML_format)
Even if I have moved away from Ubuntu, if mass users adopt it, I will be happy. And I think they are doing a great job at purposefully" bloating" their platform to accommodate newbies.

The skills I have on Linux only become more valuable as the user base grows.
I work on Azure (billing, to be specific) and helped make this change. We looked at the bill and decided to simplify it. That's all. I'm amazed at how bloggers took this out of proportion - this is not part of some uber-corporate rebranding move. Relax, people.
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I'd like to see those other alerts brought into some sort of dashboard. I'm imagining an app that runs down the side strip of my right-most monitor, collating various business/social metrics, site/earning stats (Analytics, AdSense, etc), domain/billing reminders, etc.
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When you really want to quit, set a deterministic goal to hit in say six months. Give it your all with your last reserves. If you hit that goal, your energy will come back. If you don't hit that goal after six months, then you know you gave it your best. Pursue the contingency plan of posting your CV on Whitetruffle or LinkedIn as a startup founder/early employee and score a six figure offer within days.

Take the offer, heal up and lick your wounds for a few years, figure out what you did wrong...and remind yourself and everyone else why you truly are God's gift to hacking by utterly killing it at your new company.

Then try again.
I actually like the widescreen displays for coding. I keep my line counts to 80 columns and now I can have two files side by side. Or a file open and a browser open side by side.
I would argue that "false-positive txt messages about server outages in the middle of the night" are actionable from the point-of-view of the recipient, as they are not immediately known to be false-positives in most cases.
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A majority of blekko's verify emails get clicked on, and the ones that don't include a fair number of people who give us bogus email addresses instead of not giving one at all. So I don't think there's a big problem overall, and I'm glad you happened to notice!
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I will trade in most of that for just a matte screen. I read code all day and I like my terminal black. Most laptops nowadays function as mirrors instead of laptops.
It is a good idea, just can't believe some poeple need to be reminded to be decent. Maybe it's just Ruby people. I haven't see this required at other language conferences.