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Are you saying that if your most productive employee were also running a side business (not side project), you would fire him out of principle?

Or are you just assuming that the side business would make the employee less productive to an unacceptable point (a fine reason to let someone go, but that a side business would cause this is still just an assumption).
Thanks. I thought this would be a (major) detail I wouldn't have overlooked. :)
They need to take the worthless "Write a java app, we'll output in ajax for you!" ones of the list. They're the wrong way to solve the problem. The web isn't a desktop app, you'll never get anywhere trying to treat it like one.
This is not true across the board. It's very sensitive to people, projects, levels of interest, and time between switches. For me, it's especially false with boring projects, where I simply have to be able to switch to something interesting.
eh negotiation works ~15x better than war (http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cf...)
Some simple tagging and a way to add links to custom views on the top bar -- so I can have a view of all the "Review my Startup" submissions and the "YC Startup XXX launched today" submissions.

(def customize-nav-bar
(lambda ()
(filtered-view 'Startups'
(lambda (submission)
(tagged-as 'startup'))
(filtered-view 'YC Startups'
(lambda (submission)
(tagged-as 'YC startup'))
(filtered-view 'Ask HN'
(lambda (submission)
(tagged-as 'Ask'))
They're looked down upon naturally. Evolution ensures that the "goal" (and I use that word loosely, but you get what I mean) of a species is to replicate, and in order to replicate, one must survive, thus survival is generally thought of as one's primary ambition. Consciously deciding not to ensure your own survival is aberrant behavior.
One thing: what works for PHP isn't necessarily a good approach to learning another language, such as Python.

PHP's global space and the feel of "batteries included" is sharply contrasted to Python's typing and object oriented feel. Having people write PHP in Python would not only be counter-productive, the people being brought up on that style wouldn't get much out of python.

The trim example specifically:
line = "foo\n"
new = line.rstrip("\n")

vs. if we were to directly to transliterate from php,
it would be
string.rstrip(line,"\n")

(which is quite a different style)

This approach also under-emphasizes using language specific tools (e.g. interactive python, pydoc).
have u tried tor / torify instead of socks5 ssh tunnel?
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Among younger people and HN readers it's no big deal, but among other groups it's highly offensive: older, non-technical, professional, parents, probably women in general, etc. Obscenity can spice up writing, but in technical essays it makes the writing look unprofessional. I would hesitate to send a link to your site to a manager or woman that I did not know well.
if google couldn't make this concept work, i'm not sure who else can. i'd like to hear why evernote has more a chance of getting somewhere with this concept than google did.
I don't mean to limit it to us schools only, I just threw this together last Saturday. How do you suggest I make this work for all hackers at all schools?
What sorts of crashes though? There's getting hit by a car going at 50mph (goodbye world) versus, say, clipping a car door as it opens and going over your handlebars.

In the former your survivability is suspect even with protective gear, in the second I can see a helmet come into real use.
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I'm used to getting cursed for Outlook - not so much for SharePoint (in my defense, I left SharePoint after V1 - there's lots I'd change - especially cross-browser support and build a real framework architecture).

When people swear at me for my other products, I bring up that I was one of the original Excel developers, and that usually absolves me of my subsequent sins ;-),
"How the fuck is..." is the wrong wording, at least in idiomatic American English.

"What the fuck" (aka "WTF?") connotes more "this is wrong/surprising" than "could you please tell me the answer?". "WTF?" is often a rhetorical question, but even when it demands a response, the response is a situational explanation, not a mere bit of trivia (such as "trim is called strip").

"What the fuck is trim doing in Python?" is more idiomatic in its use of 'fuck', but would express surprise that Python has a trim() function, as if it were against the spirit of the language. Because your "How the fuck..." sounds a little like that in its use of 'fuck', it gives the wrong impression for what you're trying to achieve. (Clicking your link, I expected a rant, not a idea for a equivalence-lookup service.)

To express curiosity about the right answer -- "what is the equivalent of trim in Python?" -- but with the same sort of irreverence possible via 'swear' words, a more likely wording from a native speaker would be "how the hell do you do trim in Python?"

"How the hell" expresses exasperation but also suggests some genuine interest in a 'right' answer. (You sometimes see "how the fuck do I..." or "how the fuck do you..." also, but anything starting "how the fuck" is far less common than either "how the hell" or "what the fuck".)

In general, using 'fuck' casually can be a problem, for a number of reasons. I believe the primary reason is that it is distracting -- it claims that the containing statement is emotionally important and demands special attention.

Is a simple cross-programming-language lookup facility emotionally important? No.

So some people will act 'offended' at use of a word with other 'naughty/private' connotations, and even some people who like to swear will feel like you've diluted the word's value.

You need to save 'fuck' for really important uses, or it won't have any fucking meaning left at all.
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He also asked if anyone was offended if he linked to his own site. I've been wondering myself. I have been considering submitting some issues for discussion in the form of a two or three paragraph statement backed by an essay elsewhere. Given that the topic is of general interest to HN and is not self-promotional spam, does it fit with the HN etiquette?
Very Cool. Thanks.
Probably more important is that they can be taken on the train for free. That makes it useful on both ends of a commute.
The interesting philosophical issue I find is what if you can freeload and your work doesn't take a drop. Or more provocatively, what if you freeload and your work productivity increases? In this case, it's likely that your abilities could be managed better to more fully extract your potential. Unfortunately this is impossible (or very difficult) for most companies to do.
Are you interested in a low pay situation? My startup doesn't have the revenue at present to pay you much, but you'd have a big hand in shaping the direction of the product and a friendly, happy atmosphere. And obviously we expect some revenue soon. Shoot me an email at gmail if you want to discuss.
yup, i added it to my profile. it's [my hacker news screen name]@gmail.com
The arguement against compulsory helmets is that they discourage people from cycling, so instead they take the car. The fewer cyclists on the road - the more dangerous it is for those that do cycle.
I believe laconi.ca (http://laconi.ca/trac/) provides exactly this kind of functionality. As always, though, it's a chicken-and-egg problem. Look at Jabber and how little it has taken away from the proprietary IM protocols. As long as everybody and their mother is on Skype/Twitter/etc. there's not a big incentive to switch.
Here is an idea for twitter to make money: User pays a small fee for bandwidth and space the more space (and bandwidth; they will have to figure this out) you need the more you must pay.

One more thing (It is an idea derived for my actual stealth app), you get your own space somewhere to store your tweets. Then they will have to store some sort of repository there for you. Bandwidth and size become your business; you deal with the third party.

This way Twitter will somehow become more open for hackers to do stuff on their platform.
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Unless you have a business relationship with whoever you rely upon then you are in trouble. Even then you should be ready to jump ship. Remember when S3 and EC2 went down? If all of those services that rely on it were ready to jump onto another service they wouldn't have gone down as well.

While it's not always possible to replace parts of your infrastructure you rely on, it's common sense to have multiple redundancies for stuff. The problem in the case of Twitter is their offering is users, rather than computing. That's something you can't replace if they pull the plug.
Unfortunately, not all countries have a standard TLD for schools. I think the only way around it is with a whitelist of domains, but I'm not sure where the list would come from. Maybe someone has created it already? Either that, or use the facebook API.
Does it work when one side has no leverage because they defunded their military into extinction?
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If you are seriously looking to go to SF you should have no problem. I was looking for positions last year and the east coast just kept calling. That said, you will be working for a start up given your requirements which lends itself to the very condition you are describing. You'll have a ton of fun, learn a lot, but eventually the mess will hit the fan and you'll have unrealistic timetables and a grab bag of management woes.

Building the future is an excellent goal and something to strive for, but if you want stability and dependable management I'd head for corporate America. They have the capital to hire decent managers, train you for free, and give you realistic deadlines. Couple that with realistic hours, and maybe you'll have more time to experiment.

Zed Shaw put it perfectly, "Fight your hardest not to be a corporate coder: your life as a geek or a coder should be all about exploring some new domain that no one else gets -- you can only go to conferences and talk to other geeks about what you do. A corporate coder works only on the stuff he's supposed to on one language, and never touches code otherwise. You should go home and do something fun with technology."

http://vimeo.com/2723800

A disclaimer, I work for a giant corporation. I work on things that I think don't matter, but to the people on the ground building our products, the tools I help build and deploy mean a lot. They prevent accidents, environmental hazards, and close calls.

Then I go home and hack on Python, PHP, .NET, and Arduino. And play Rockband.
A highly successful new magazine -- Ordinary People, edited by the nonagenarian Studs Terkel -- focuses only on people who have never done anything in particular to deserve attention.

this would be a hilarious subversion of celebrity worship.
If he's your employee, you really should have a feel for how long it takes him to get something done. You should also know what sort of quality to expect from him.

If you can't determine those things, then one of you is not doing your job already.
it wasn't an MS product originally, it was a SubLogic application, and I had a copy on my Commodore 64.

X-Plane is, in my opinion, a more accurate flight simulator than MSFS is, but I enjoy the training modules MSFS X offers, even though in those training modules oftentimes the program takes over the flying part to some extent. X-Plane is a very accurate and enjoyable sim, less a game.

The other sad part of this layoff is, that the same team was also developing MS Train Simulator 2, which was scheduled for release sometime this year.
Pretty cool!

signed up & added Temple University.

Beacame a lil frustrated with the "join" form, every time it goes through the error validation, it clears all the previously typed information forcing me to re-enter. I Did it twice, on the third gave up. I'll try later.
Consciously deciding not to ensure your own survival is aberrant behavior.

So everyone who chooses a job they need to drive to instead of a local lower-paying job is aberrant? Everyone who chooses a car for looks instead of safety rating? Everyone who goes out without a first aid kit? Everyone who eats barbecued food known to be higher in carcinogens? Everyone who works with power tools? Everyone who walks by a main road when there's a 10-mile longer route away from traffic instead?

(These are the sorts of decisions along the intensity of wearing or not wearing a bike helmet).

Guy-risks-self-saves-life-becomes-hero-wins-girl is a very common story line. Guy-is-coward-wins-girl less so.

Hmm.
That's great feedback. Putting a person behind it is a very good idea. Also figuring out what we want to be is something I am working on. I'm the idea guy who created the site - but being a man, I really have no place in picking and choosing what goes on there.

As far as related posts go, I agree that it needs to fit. The site is still early - you guys are getting a very early look at it so there's not a whole lot of content and even less related posts.
It's pretty interesting that Microsoft's Flight Simulator has its roots in subLOGIC's flight simulator for the Apple II.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft_Flight_Sim...

The wikipedia article also mentions that the software began life as a set of articles on computer graphics, written by Bruce Artwick throughout 1976. Does anyone know if those articles are available online?
Ok, I admit it - I almost upvoted just based on the title. But I restrained myself, and have discovered it actually links to a decent article

What's especially amazing to me though is how hungry we are for a competitor - an empty website, empty getsatisfaction page and a single twitter account - and we call this a feedburner competitor?

My hat's off to them for some excellent PR work, if nothing else ;)
I already live in SF.
I guess this was a good way for Python to reach new and younger audiences that haven't seen their magic before.

On a side note I'm somewhat surprised to see gizmodo actually call the MPAA and RIAA "a bunch of pricks". Not that it isn't true.
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Next to links we show the domain the link goes to. Sometimes I would rather just visit the domain and not the story that showed me the domain. Can we link up the domain?
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Would you consider yourself a professional blogger if you were blogging to support your revenue-generating startup activities?

I get a metric truckload of business value out of having my blog -- links, business opportunities, rankings for key terms, etc. This is grossly disproportionate to the pennies I would get if I showed ads on it.

This also lets me scratch the "I like writing, dagnabit" itch.
That was the mentality - it's easy enough to throw up there so let's just do that and see if it resonates.
That's sad to hear. When I was a kid, I bought Flight Shop (3rd party product to create airplanes for FS 98) and made a whole bunch of aircraft, most of them from my own imagination or from sci-fi. I even made a Yehat Terminator from Star Control that had VTOL capability. I used to want to become an aerospace engineer and design planes, but somewhere along the way I noticed I spent way too much time on the computer and got interested in programming instead.

Sad to see the legacy of a childhood memory pass on.
I'm just tired of reading blog posts full of swearing.
It's always the same bland content without nuances.

I'm sure that you could have written a better post, without resorting to swearing - or perhaps you belong to the Zed Shaw school of writing.
The OCR thing is definitely interesting. But what I find more compelling is that the author created a simple neural network in javascript. Rock!
See nakedtube.com. We've got a recommendation engine based on each video's unique DNA/content.
I would suggest looking @ notcot.org and notcouture. People love it, they seem to make money, and you can learn a lot about (1) how to present non-standard images in an appealing way, and (2) the types of inventory/writing that appeals to folks.

Also, i like your username.
Great idea. Love the colors (even though usually I hate light-on-dark).

I wonder, though: is it possible to ask Facebook to query for the intersection of users at my school and in an arbitrary (for instance, "hacker news") Facebook group? (I wouldn't be surprised if it's not, but it would definitely be an excellent feature for Facebook to consider.)
just like everything in life, this will only pay off for the first few. Right now people are willing to pay to reward the artists who are willing to tell the RIAA/MPAA to piss off...but once everyone starts doing it, it'll revert to just the natural sales to the fans etc.
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More likely, it's because they can be taken on public transport without paying extra. In Belgium trains have a special compartment for bicycles, but during rush hour they sometimes fill up quickly, so you can't be sure you'll be able to take your bike with you. So these small bikes are cheaper to take on the train, and more convenient.
Disqus is looking for one. We're in SOMA (2nd & Howard) - shoot me an email: daniel@disqus.com
Wildflower propagators make small golf-ball sized balls of dirt with native flower seeds in them, to be tossed into empty lots and other likely places. The idea is that the seed is protected until rain melts the dirtball, and then it can sprout and has a starting batch of nutrient right there.

You could probably sell those, and work some gimicky advertising off the "dirtball" name. You could probably get some wildflower propagators to make them for you for free, if you gave back to their organization from each sale.
I don't know... I found it interesting purely from a "wow, that googlebomb still works" POV.
The big difference in Amsterdam is how cars are not really welcome in the city center - and the drivers feel it. Access to many roads is restricted for private cars, almost every street is one-way, and practically everyone regularly rides a bike or walks.

This makes drivers respect the non-armored road users (pedestrians and cyclists) and streets are actually pleasant places to spend time in. Almost everywhere else city planners have basically said: "let's just turn this city into a giant racetrack slash parking lot".

Things are only slowly starting to change but at least some people are actually thinking about giving cities back to the people that live there: http://www.carfree.com
As I mentioned in replies to your other comments above, running a business requires your full attention. It's not a hobby. It's not a side-project. It's a way of life.

You cannot work for another person while running your own business. A business becomes the centre of a person's universe and an employee's work will suffer if they are building a genuine business on the side. No amount of dramatic profanity will change that reality.

Of all the vigorous down-mods and "you're wrong!" comments I've received here in response, I've yet to read a single real-world example of a person who has a full-time employee on staff working on their own business, or who is a full-time employee working on their own business while being paid a salary by another company.

Why? Because you're an employee or you're an entrepreneur. Those are not compatible mind-sets.

If you work for me and want to start your own company, great! I'll happily send you on your way and offer every bit of support I possibly can to ensure your success, but I won't pay you to build your own business.
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Do consumers always know what they want ahead of time?

With all the focus around the "digital divide" (on top of class and income divides), this type of investment makes intuitive sense.

Whether people (who don't have it) really want it or not will be interesting. The rather crude analogy in response to this is that "learning infrastructure" (access to educational materials, great teachers, schools) is A Good Thing, even if most children probably wouldn't study/learn if given a choice.
That is not the original implementation. The code you see there was an aborted attempt to specify and implement JS2. Brendan Eich wasn't involved, Waldemar is now at Google, and Netscape burned up somewhere in there.

The original implementation was written in C by Brendan Eich, and shipped in Netscape 2. The code currently used in Mozilla Firefox is a direct descendant of that.
Daniel, you and I have spoken before. Thanks for the heads up, I'll email you during lunch.
Yeah, because services built on top of another 3rd party product are never successful...

This makes no sense at all. True, your business will fail if the underlying service fails, but Microsoft would fail if all hard drive production suddenly stopped, too. A great many businesses rely on "private 3rd parties". The real concern is "how reliable are they?"
The Python language (funny that in this context, I can't just say "Python" on Hacker News) was named after this show.
A contractor's business is based upon providing the best possible service to their clients.

If you retain a contractor, you're one of their clients and any improvements they make to their business benefits you.

If an employee on your payroll starts a business, they're not doing so with your best interest in mind and their work's focus will change accordingly.
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I lived in a not very flat part of the Netherlands and most children went to school by bike (also if you had to travel >20km/day). Now I live further north (flat) and I can certainly say that I prefer biking uphill to biking against the wind (flat => more wind).
I guess we'll have to start one for people who aren't in school?
This is something that's been in my head a little while: would there be interest in Wikipedia-style, not-for-profit, in the public interest services? We don't see a lot of this in web stuff - probably because internet has seen a lot of competition and a lot of free stuff. However, maybe there is still demand.
At least one other time, in 1973, I think, the US administration defaulted.
After running up Viet Nam war debt Nixon devalued the currency by de-coupling the value of the dollar from the price of gold.
The debt was repaid in dollars that had lost their value.
There was another effective default/devaluation, but I can't remember the circumstances, sorry.
Investment implies (part) ownership. So, you're back to figuring out who owns what.
My job's web proxy also just started blocking news.ycombinator.com. My guess is the "hacker" news got added to the filter software we use. I plan to appeal the block with IT. The blocking page tells me who to call to do this. I develop software for them, so the site is relevant to my work.