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No pun intended but finding out how to "do the business" after I already created it doesn't really bring much value. The article itself is called "10 Tips for Moving From Programmer to Entrepreneur" (i.e. how to do it, not what to do after)

Several points are hit here (some I said in a previous comment):
- get to know the customer (build MVP ...), see what they want, make a product not a Software Design masterpiece
- prioritize correctly (and oftentimes - especially after you built the product - the biz is more valuable)

Anyway, my experience is that even if one knows this theoretically, he will get it after the practical experience. Good luck building!
don't `apt-get install python-virtualenv` use `pip install virtualenv` because `pip` installs latest version, else you are under distro's package maintainer's mercy for update. After `python setup.py publish` only distro's package is updated.

EDIT: Using pip can simply solve py3 and py2 specific features.
It seems surprising that Microsoft even owns copyright in the works that are claimed.

"Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction" is apparently a Ubisoft product, which is a publicly traded company distinct from Microsoft.

Copyright in "Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga" is apparently held by LucasArts.

While they all appear to be Xbox 360 games, being a platform manufacturer doesn't usually mean you own the content produced for that platform. It is possible that the games linked against a Microsoft library, and are infringing against the Microsoft's rights in the library, but then the declaration needs to declare that "that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed" - which means that the allegation of what is being infringed (i.e. a library and not the entire work) should have matched the work Microsoft owned.
Or Symfony2/Silex (based on Symfony, but designed more like Sinatra)

http://symfony.com/

http://silex.sensiolabs.org/
So it's a smaller Kinect (with no Linux support) for half the price? I'm assuming it's using infrared, they don't say... Personally I'm still waiting for a company to discover ultrasound and combine this with tactile feedback. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e8tsG4uIt0
Apple is rotten.

Good job DOJ.
A very bad UI. I shouldn't have to guess how to go to the next slide.
Why discourage the Darwin effect?
The problem is that the user has no tactile feedback. It could quickly become very painful to hold one's hand/arm over the device.

Maybe they should orient the device toward the table and transform it into a virtual trackpad.
Ask HN: What are the benefits of using PHP today?
Knowing Python, Ruby, Node.js, Meteor etc.
Should one still consider PHP for some projects?
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For those wanting to know more, or one of the original articles, take a look here:
http://www.morgenpost.de/vermischtes/article106358144/16-jae...
BTW, I really don't understand the australian press... why presenting him as german??? The guy is as indian as he can be, he is just studying in Dresden.
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Regarding body workout:

No no no no no. If you are bodybuilding newbie, DO NOT start bodybuilding by reading articles from the web. Create your workout plan with your instructor, your gym should have one. Stay healthy.
The advantage of any programming language, framework, or library is that you know it already and it allows you to achieve things. I wouldn't personally advocate learning PHP today, but the idea that any language has intrinsic value divorced from its ability to achieve your purposes is mostly untrue.
For me FB is the proverbial ghost town - because I am no longer interested in the contents of activity feed I get on FB :-p . I am sure my opinions don't matter much, after all, I don't have thousands of friends on either of the two services.

But for whatever its worth, I've started to really like G+ since I've started to follow Linus Torvalds and Stephen Kinsella on G+. I like the drag-drop UI that "Circles" tab/widget implements and I love the posts that Linus shares with the public. I don't know if Linus has/uses FB too, but I don't care.

I think that if Google runs G+ long enough and has cool & intelligent people using/developing it, G+ will not do too bad.
Have they made it easier to follow say someones tech updates only. I remember early on there was the issue that circles didn't work when you were circling someone but they weren't circling you, so you would get their public updates, but that lost the ability to segregate to what people are interested in.
Which tablet platform to pick for your App iOS, Android, Windows or HTML5?
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It looks like the Fukushima meltdowns, which with better reactors design would have been manageable.

Perhaps. An energy shield (like in starwars!) would also make them safe. But we don't have these things. Most reactors are over 20 years old[1] and not going to be replaced with better designs any time soon.

If you want to get worked up about risks, do the math on meteor and comet impacts

We can't do anything about meteors and comets.
But we can get rid of nuclear plants.

[1] http://www.euronuclear.org/info/encyclopedia/images/npp-ww-a...
Previously on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4002418
It's partially due to engineering practicalities too.

Take two rings (imagining they are the top and bottom of the tower) and tie string vertically between them at 20 or so different points (these are the long girders used to build the tower). You now have a straight cylinder.

Twist the top ring slightly, and all the 'girders' remain straight, but the cylinder becomes a squashed hourglass, just like a cooling tower. This shape is a lot stronger, but still uses plain straight girders.
I guess it is mainly the fact that it's not using CamelCase for directories, all lower-case filenames, underscores in methods and class names (_Task).

I am re-building a project in Laravel right now that I started with Slim, using a couple of Symfony components and own code and it's a bit of a turn-off for me that I ended up with quite mixed naming conventions now.

With so many PSR-0 compliant PHP libraries and Composer on the rise, I just think it's the way to go. This doesn't stop me from trying Laravel though and so far this is the only thing that kind of bugs me. But don't get me wrong, basically I really like it so far.
It is widely used and sought after. Any average to decent PHP programmer can find work. Any average to decent Haskell programmer can't.
I agree tactile feedback would be helpful. But it's not as critical here as it would be on a normal touch screen. Here you at least have visual feedback. Because on a touchscreen you only have two states: touch and not touch. Your app cannot know where the user finger is when he's not touching, that's why there are no cursors and onFocus elements lose their meaning.

But if the leap is as good as in the videos, then your app could show a cursor of where the fingers are before touching the UI. And you can use that as a visual feedback to the user to help him mentally locate himself. So I'd guess using a virtual keyboard on the leap would be much more efficient to work on than a touchscreen virtual keyboard.

Of course, since the existing apps won't be expecting this, it will be hard to use existing stuff. Ideally, people will have to adapt their apps to this input instead of trying to just migrate from touch.
An f4 could probably go

But it didn't in the video.

As to why they used an f4? Probably a heck of a lot cheaper than a 737 at the time.

It would seem like there are plenty of scrapped 737s available[1] to carry out such a test. I'm too lazy to look up prices on these things, but I'd be very surprised if those were significantly more expensive than a scrapped Phantom.

[1] http://airchive.com/html/scrapped/ardmore-graveyard
and soon Zend Framework 2.
The combination of lighttpd, fastcgi, php has a very low memory footprint. This is a benefit on Xen servers.

PHP also offers a build in function for nearly everything.

The main drawback of PHP are the tutorials, using mysql without the i, and teach how to implement a website that is vulnerable to SQL injection.
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Wow, this is awesome.

While the world's biggest "democracy" (India) censors the web, Swedish government sponsors means of dissidence.
FYI, Tor was originally sponsored by the US Naval Research Lab, and the US has always been a pretty bad player in this regard (though more so now than in the past).
I think this video is a great way to start limbering up peoples brains with regard to the vastness of space.

The scales shown in the video are truly difficult to wrap your head around - and it's just the size of various stars - it hardly touches on the distances between star let alone between galaxy superclusters!
OT: the div#dd_ajax_float element (the share buttons) on that page is really annoying. Its fixed location and its style (e.g. it has a drop shadow, making it seem to be physically closer than the content) make it seem 10x more important than the content itself. I have to set it to display:none to read the page.
If you want to create a new framework, why create it in PHP instead of switching to a language that is not deeply flawed?

Any decision to use PHP on a green project seems to me the consequence of either technical decision making incompetence, or personal or organizational inertia, only the last of which is generally excusable.

Using PHP otherwise seems like requiring your organization to use IE7 because you don't have the resources or energy to learn how to upgrade your infrastructure. At best it's a reasonable preservation of resource, but generally it's laziness. Learn something new and good - Ruby, Python, Java, Scala, C#, node, heck even Perl.

I know I'll take hits for this, but seriously - how is continuing to use PHP any more justified than forcing old, flawed technologies like IE 7 unnecessarily on your organization? It's the same stubborn laziness and curmudgeonry - sticking to and forcing on others your bad status quo. PHP is better at nothing than alternatives (except introducing obscure bugs) and worse at so many things .
Hitting 40 employees and going vanilla
Or a photographer, apparently their community is huge there:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/109572812341174932454/posts/5D2y...
The problem is that being insured reduces incentives to not make a mistake. Nuclear companies are already often better at covering things up (look at Tepco, and Chernobyl for extreme cases, but also the ongoing poor disclosure in the uk). Thats why insurance wont happen, not some actuarial issues about probability.
Sorry, but if the situation is clear cut then a good news source should say exactly that.

Just publishing X did Y and alleges Z leads to the current situation where creationists, global warming deniers and so on are given space in news reporting as if these issues were to be decided by personal opinion and not by facts.
It will slow down shortly, I expect.

Taylor has only recently started working full-time on the framework and as a result has been able to "fill out" the framework with community-requested features at a quick pace. It's just a matter of time before it tapers off; there's no point in stagnating the development of such a young and novel framework for what IMO are silly reasons.
This a thousand times

My 4/5 mile runs invariably turn into walks because I just dont have the motivation to push myself into carrying on a run, however I can happily sprint for 2 hours playing football.

I know they arent equivalent exercise, but my body can tell you I do a far lot more work during football without really noticing it while playing
But why tax the US consumer too, which is what tariffs do? Why not sales subsidies for US manufacturers, say?
I get 500 Internal server error with some command-line HTTP fetchers, not wget(1). And http://www.rssboard.org/rss-validator/check.cgi?url=http%3A%... is unhappy.
This goes a long way towards explaining some of the things I don't like about Mercurial but haven't ever fully understood. I didn't even realize the git and mercurial concepts of branches were different!
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Thanks for making this. You can add iPad 2 5.0.1 to the list of working devices.

An easier way to install this is to just run
dpkg -i /path/to/package.deb
on the device.
Off-topic: I don't use G+ (or Facebook, for that matter), but I've always wondered what's with its disgusting, un-humanish urls. It's Scobble's (I presume): https://plus.google.com/111091089527727420853

What the hell is that? If you wanted to share you G+ profile (say, to a friend in a bar) would you have to spell this god-knows-how-much-long id, or is there a better way (like, plus.google.com/robert_scoble) that I'm not aware of (of course, without using url shorteners)?
"the average error was a staggering 24 minutes"-- The average is a terrible measure of centrality for data that is unbounded at one end, because one outlier (the 42 year off clock) skews the measure disproportionately; the median would be much more appropriate to report. That's unusually sensationalist number crunching for The Economist.

I'll bet that out of the clocks that doctors actually use to decide on treatment (tallying every device is a bit unfair; if a blood pressure monitor on some cart in a closet has the wrong time of day who cares) 80% of them are within a few minutes of the right time. And at the end of the day, doctors are supposed to be able to reconcile conflicting information, it's part of their training. This is a little bit like tallying up every textbook lying around a high school and getting concerned that the average book is three editions out of date and has 142.8 errors--calm down, most of those are not in active use and have some faith in teachers to check their material.
tl;dr: It is called a hyperboloid shape and is very strong compared to other curved surfaces because it can be built or supported by straight beams. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperboloid_structure
Here is a general rule among jailbreakers. If you make something cool, chances are, Ryan Petrich has already made something similar :P

https://github.com/rpetrich/WebGLEnabler
No, absolutely not. An awful news reporting agency would say "creationists think X, but evolutionists rip them to shreds." That is bad news reportage. Good news reportage would say "creationists say X, evolutionists say Y, the facts that are evident are Z." This is clearly not what CNN have done with this piece. It would be nice if they had.

The simple point is that engaging in inflationary and imprecise colloquial language like "totally rips it to shreds" renders the article pretty much useless for communicating clear facts, especially if there is one clear winner. Don't tell me who's right; that is pointless and communicates only opinion. Tell me the facts, and make them as stark and as clear as possible. "Totally rips it to shreds" is not a fact; it's vague cant wrapped up in metaphor. Bad reportage.
Wow. That's... a lot!
What's the ratio between the number of developers/designers/authors/marketers/etc?
Oh, cool. I looked around before I built this and couldn't find anything. I wanted to avoid writing my tweak against Safari since it changes so frequently, but it looks like his approach is pretty straightforward.
Reminds me (a little) of the Netflix Culture slides [1].

[1] http://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/culture-1798664

Edit: Specifically from slide 39 onwards
I'm so bad at math couldn't figure out which one is 'v's which one is 'u's
Try altjs - Javascript compiler test suite
Infographic: the improvements of Windows 8.
There are plenty of set plans that will work for anyone starting out. Starting Strength, Strong Lifts, New Rules of Lifting etc.

Personally I tell people to steer clear of personal trainers. If only I could recount the amount of crazy (and sometimes dangerous) things I've seen them get their clients to do, all in the name of "getting fit". Stick to big compound movements like squat, bench and deadlift and that'll be more than enough past just the starting out stages.
Designers use these watermarked images when goofing around at the beginning of the creative process because they can't buy the dozens of image they need before actually knowing which one will be accepted by the client. Some images can be cheap, of course : royalty-free photos often are, compared to those with "exclusive rights", for example, but it would still take too much time and money. I know: I've spent countless hours looking for businessmen/women in Getty's and other databases. When you come up with 30 or 40 possible images and it's time to try them all in your comp it will be really hard to like this stupid square.

Such a temporary picture MUST be neutral because you need it to fit your composition/layout. This rectangle is the opposite of neutral: it's huge and very visible. This big square is going to clash more often than not with other shapes around the image which won't be aligned with it provoking all kinds of troubles for the designers who use them. Clients will think that the square is part of the designer's intent and, when it will be explained to them that no, this big ass square isn't part of the design they will rightfully say "Well, get rid of it!". But it won't be possible without paying large buckets of money to Getty.

Or using another service.
It's all broken out here: http://teamtreehouse.com/about
Great find - thanks
I get the same thing from ice skating. I was so happy when I was told that an hour's ice skating was equivalent to a four mile run. Frankly, when I'm skating, I hardly notice.
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Would the stuff you guys are talking about in this thread be statistical analysis techniques or something more along the lines of data visualization? I ask because I'm fascinated by it and would love to find where I can learn more. I'm just not sure where to even start.
Definately one of the most clean coding frameworks I've seen.
Some of the modern PHP frameworks are already wise to closures e.g. Silex.
Yep - I saw the headline and immediately thought back to your comment. And after reading the article, I wasn't convinced they had any substantive evidence. Either they thought the same thing independently or they simply crafted a news story from your comment!
me neither, but now I understand why some discourage the concept of creating many tiny branches in hg. [you can't delete them -- i still find this hard to believe]
As noted elsewhere, this is aopinion piece and thefore is entitled to present one side of the story without attempting to summarize the entire situation. It's like the difference between a political editorial and political coverage in a newspaper.

The important question is whether the one side it presents is presented coherently and without fallacy.
So is it like making something similar to RoR? If yes then I am interested.

RoR has spoilt me. Anything that is similar to RoR is highly attracted to me.
When I saw the words "Bite Me" in the title, it set certain expectations for what was to follow. I would have been surprised had it been anything but an opinion piece.
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There is another - and more simplified - version of Google favicons service:

http://s2.googleusercontent.com/s2/favicons?domain_url=

You can also pass a full URL to domain_url parameter, e.g.:

http://s2.googleusercontent.com/s2/favicons?domain_url=http%...

So no need to find the host name, just be sure to encode the URL

It also works with HTTPS connection.
Sweden is a really amazing country! In addition to being a well functioning democracy it also has these features:

* A flourishing market economy that has created everything from IKEA and H&M to Spotify and Skype.

* Free health-care

* Free college education

* Low corruption

* A well functioning justice system (practically no patent trolls!)

It certainly has it's problems but compared to other countries it is truly amazing how it has managed to balance social well-fare and capitalism.

Disclosure: I am Swedish.
I've never really understood the way that you can rewrite history in Git. It seems really odd to me - completely counter to the idea of having a repository in the first place.

From the article:

That is why git branches are so useful; you can do
absolutely anything that you want with them. When you
are done with the ‘quick-fix’ branch, you can just
remove it, and nobody has to know it existed

That actually sounds quite horrible. What if you make a mistake and remove a branch that you didn't want to remove? What if you remove the branch and nobody has any idea where change 'x' came from or why?
Twitter was amazing just after the big quake hit here in Japan. Facebook also proved useful, but the cell networks were simply not able to handle the traffic and all my friends switched to twitter to communicate.
CakePHP (http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/index.html) was initially built on ROR concepts. It follows a brilliant MVC pattern and gets you up and running with 'bake' (think 'rails generate') so if you know RoR and PHP, then you will feel very at home with Cake.
I think this site goes a long way towards explaining things.

http://gitvsmercurial.com/
You're removing the branch, not the whole commit. They can still see where the change came from by looking at the commit history and message. But they don't need to know how you locally organized your own self when you did it.
So is it for R only?
Every modern C compiler (not counting Microsoft one with terribly lame support for C99) supports bool, so there's no compiler dependency.
It's a really big ghost town.
"The destruction of Nikola Tesla's workshop, with its wonderful contents, is something more than a private calamity. It is a misfortune to the whole world. It is not in any degree an exaggeration to say that the men living at this time who are more important to the human race than this young gentleman can be counted on the fingers of one hand; perhaps on the thumb of one hand."

I can't relate to this remark. Whenever I've been working on a project for a long time it becomes ingrained in my memory just like any other long running experience would.
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I respect the work, but the samples look a lot like Symfony2, which has a huge community behind it. Sf2 has a learning curve but I'm not sure what problem Laravel solves that Sf2 (or its simplified kid brother Silex) doesn't already solve.
Hey, Dayle Rees here, (guy who made the getlaravel.com promo site) I also wrote the pastes app, and the reason I chose to use routes is that its a tiny application, and using routes avoided all the unnecessary "class fluff" allowing me to prototype quickly. On a large scale app I would have used controllers, which are also available. :)
With unbelievably hostile URLs like that, you need to share a URL to your own site/blog/someplace that's easy to verbally share, and then link to your G+ from there.

Which is an antipattern, and a smell of some sort.
Hey all, glad you find getlaravel.com useful. You could also checkout my blog which has 22+ Laravel tutorials including tips and tricks : http://daylerees.com . There is also an ebook available, linked from the site. Thanks!
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mercurial patch queues are for that kind of workflow.
Try this version too: http://neave.com/webcam/html5/face/

It doesn't require WebSockets or Jetty. Just good ol' JavaScript/HTML5. Nothing more.
The history for every change in existing branches is recorded - if you remove a branch you either want to discard whatever changes where there or you merged it into another one and don't need it tagged as separate branch.

Commits in git are reference counted - the ones that have no references to them are removed, (and having a branch or other commit pointing to yours both count as references) and the ones that can be reached from tops of branches or tags are kept.