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I guess I'll be the first person to say that it looks really good. I can see how some folks might feel misled by the tag line, but even that's sort of a stretch (to me).

The landing page looks great. I did get the video bug, but that's small. Have you really done all this yourself? Looks like a TON of code.

I've also noticed Mint as being stagnant, specifically since Wesabe closed down and they were acquired, and have been hoping to see some sort of progress there. It isn't that it doesn't fully meet my needs, cause it does, but there are a TON of nice to haves that I want to see to make budgeting a lot easier that I have less and less hope of seeing with every day that passes without an update.

Can I ask what's on the roadmap?
RPS had a nice write up in Feb.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/02/22/hard-choices-the-...
"Let users host web sites out of their public folder!"

Dropbox is awesome as a publishing mechanism for static websites, but public folders were never an ideal host. (Ugly URLs, no default document, etc.)

My startup, site44.com, was built to address the desire to host static websites using Dropbox. We're a better solution for that particular use case.
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A good friend of mine sends out a brief monthly email, summarizing what he's been up to, the movies he's seen and the music he's listened to. It is something I look forward to receiving.

There's definitely some merit in the idea.
At the risk of being rude, that additional description leaves it just as open-ended and confusing.

Is everyone at Etsy amazing all every part of your stack?

Suppose I've done most everything except zero database work in my life, should I apply? Or is that not full stack enough?

What if I've done everything but high level design work? Not full stack enough?

What if I've done everything including design work but realized I'm not that good at it, so I hired out design for my projects? What if I determined the reverse with low level database stuff?

What if I have written the full-stack of a few webapps but always used Rails, and haven't ever touched any of the low level bits?

What if I've done only database and web design and have never really touched PHP? Or did PHP but never did any JavaScript? Good enough?

I know what your reply to me is going to be, you'll say by all means, apply, etc. But that's not what I'm trying to point out here. I think that your listing and subsequent clarification might suggest to many that all of the above are inadequate, and I imagine you may be turning off several (very good) candidates that doubt their own full-stack-worthiness, merely on account of the term here being so nebulous.

In other words, to any given pair of eyes that fall upon the ad, all they know is that you want everything.
> people who wouldn't dream of letting someone else take half their work

As someone who is routinely doing full stack development this phrase worries me. To be honest I'm more than happy to give someone half my work if they are talented. Are you making this point because...

A) The overhead is so low that you want "full stack" people to keep margins low (so by wouldn't dream you actually mean wouldn't expect).

B) You want people that are willing to silo themselves, not incorporating exterior feedback or following direction from someone that may have a better handle on the given task.

Wanting someone that does full-stack is nice, but do you REALLY want someone like that and WHY. I mean, this sentence "you don’t flinch at the idea of writing largely PHP for a living" flies right in the face of everything else. It is like saying the following:

Do you dream of creating time-tested architectures? Do you spend nights dreaming up the next great cathedral or monument? That's cool, so we want you to put in our bathroom tile.

You are asking for a dreamer, an innovator, a creator, a designer and an architect to .... primarily ... write .... php .

With that said, it is written very well and etsy is a pretty cool company so I'm sure you'll get plenty of hits.
The point is that we're not looking for specialists in any particular language.

To cure the curiosity, however, we're largely running on Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP with many other tools thrown in the mix.
You are horribly off.

Methamphetamine is currently available at your local pharmacy. It's a generic drugs and costs less than a $1 per dose.

You don't lose your teeth from meth because of chemicals used in it's production, you lose them due to a combination of poor oral hygiene and reduced saliva production. The same thing happens if you abuse the stuff you can get at the pharmacy.
Funny how I always had that "it just works" feeling from the machines I build and never got the same feel from any brand available. This feeling is also helped by being able to choose the hardware at the time of build and not some middle of the road to high end options given by a manufacturer that simply overprices said "options" and makes wild claims about it. Plus, I always find it a joy to know the machine down to the bolt and not having to fall back on weird care guarantees. With the exception of servers that have to be serviced by a third party because of scale and time economy, this simply works for me. I don't see how microsoft can one up that, but hey, you never know. Hope it at least allows for some people to try it.
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what the hell do these phrases mean?
especially in regard to the article above?
-> capitalist "pig" column
-> darwinian startup culture

are you sure you're not projecting your own beliefs onto the article? just sayin'
Every single one? Including the author of the css for your website?

Edit: Yes, as per your reply below, this comment stemmed from an eruption of confusion on my part. It (the confusion) is now contained and slumbering happily in the depths of my brain. I extend my sincere apologies.
Just because you can read the source doesn't mean it isn't copyrighted.
Oh holy shit. You have no idea.

I "worked" on Wyvern in high school (in that I played a lot of Wyvern and made a few terribly shitty game areas and ended up being an administrator, or "Wizard" in classical MUD parlance).

You know how Dwarf Fortress, that ASCII game, simulates a whole lot of ridiculous detail? Over-the-top, "the goblin's spear strikes the baby dwarf in the back upper left tooth and it really hurts so he cries for mommy"? Wyvern didn't quite have that, but the API implied most of the functionality for it.

You didn't have inventory slots, you had body parts, which brought with them the ability to wear or wield certain other items.

You could've written Wyvern in a much simpler fashion. A bright high schooler could make a game that had all of Wyvern's functionality at the end of its life. It's the mountain of "do a lot of other shit later" that got in the way.

And that's what he's writing about in that blog post - not that he's perfect and Java sucks, but that he was trying to employ industry best practices and make everything perfect without compromises. It's not very hackerish, and sure, it was stupid. But the guy wasn't doing this for his day job and didn't have defined deadlines. He was a programmer, in other words, not a project manager.

And that's where he fell down. Project management, not programming. And if you read back through his massive wall-of-text blog archives, you can see him mature as a programmer and project management.

(Please note that I am an avowed fanboi, if you didn't catch that already, and as such everything I say must be taken with a grain of salt.)
His Facebook announcement: https://www.facebook.com/btaylor/posts/10100299350436123
That means the 7-year-old laptop I just replaced has been a fantastic investment!
jetpack and buddypress together would seem to give you a distributed-facebook experience.
I'll answer with my default reply for the google case: if someone steals your lunch and starves you to death (eg.: google getting killed by apple or facebook), you innovation doesn't matter. It'll never see the light of day.

Pa.: downvoting for disagreeing is childish
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I was referring to the style of presentation, rather than to whether the underlying business model is viable or not.

However, I would add that if they did not consider their market properly, or run any numbers before their interview, then that probably contributed to their lack of success this time, "bullshitting" or not.
I have a 27" Apple LCD, 2560x1440...

I would check these out, supposedly the same LCDs used but a lot more affordable: http://www.ebay.com/sch/dcsamsungmall/m.html?_nkw=monitor...

Forum thread about them: http://bit.ly/GMvsdP
I agree with the spirit of your argument, but for reference 30mg of nicotine is fatal. It's a potent neurotoxin and is actively used as a pesticide. It would easily qualify as something "so intrinsically harmful [it] cause[s] severe, immediate, measurable harm."
Of note, since I was curious as to the answer myself and just found out, there are still 'gangs' (though less the urban variety we're used to seeing) based around moonshining.

That prompted me to ask "why is moonshining illegal", and the best (wrong) answer I could come up with was for production and delivery to dry counties.

Turns out, it's just a matter of taxation. Moonshiners are welcome to go legit, but they then have to pay $2.14 for each 750ml bottle they make, which cuts into profitability.

As they likely don't have reputations and/or massive marketing budgets, they still and distribute illegally, which turns it into a pure profit + overhead scenario.
I don't think drug legalization is the final answer the problem of cartels. Like the article says, '“The goal of these folks is not to sell drugs,” Tony Placido, who was the top intelligence official at the D.E.A. until he retired last year, told me. “It’s to earn a spendable profit and live to enjoy it.”'

If you shut down their income from drugs, they will find another way to make money. I had the opportunity to talk to a former U.S. Border Patrol sector chief in San Diego about the cartels. He said that in San Diego, they achieved some level of success in constraining the drug trade. The cartel response? Kidnap people and hold them for ransom. Like any business, they will find another way to make money when the market changes. As their innovations in finding new ways to bring drugs into the country shows, they can be creative when faced with a business problem.
Works authored in CSS, HTML and JavaScript are all protected by copyright. Lawsuits for code theft, including in webpages, happen all the time. Ask any web host, they have to take down pages after getting DMCA copyright infringement notices about stolen HTML all the time.

Grid layouts, pinning images, etc. are ideas. Ideas are not protected. The concrete implementations of them are. You can clone Pinterest, but you can't do it by stealing their JavaScript and CSS files. You have to write your own.
I agree, and feel the same way about people on alcohol -- which, incidentally, has a much greater risk of toxicity than LSD if you overdose. Which of these substances, if any, do you think should be illegal?
Recently I sent DMCA notice to Dropbox to remove my work from one of their user's public folder. Which was basically used to host images. They responded quickly to my request.

I am wondering if this is a true reason, and not showing dropbox splash screen. It is so easy to share files with their public folder right now which might cause copyright problems in future.
Is cloudflare mainstream? Any testimonials? Sounds pretty cool.
Having something open source doesn't remove the copyright, it just permits usage. Likewise in this situation. While you can see the source, it doesn't mean that you can just copy the source and use it yourself as it is copyrighted and the creator can choose to let others use their work as they see fit.
I admit it, I chuckled. Sometimes I think this kind of news is the soap opera for geeks.
Most innovation is polishing existing things. Sometimes the polishing is as simple as an "iteration" (eg gorilla glass), sometimes it's a complete leap ahead (self-driving cars). Innovative != absolutely new
On a side note, now I understand why HN doesn't allow comments on job postings. This is a tough crowd.
Plenty of sites have generic layouts that are clearly "inspired" by other sites. But blatantly re-purposing an entire site's code goes too far. You are right to call them out.

Will this fiasco harm your business? Probably not. If anything, enjoy the extra boost in traffic and sales.
I've run out of popcorn for it myself.
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Sorry to veer a little off-topic, but where's a good place to reach out to those in the web design industry who are using Dropbox public folders this way?

My startup, site44.com, does exactly this, on top of Dropbox (with custom domains and passwords if you want). I think designers would love it, but I'm not really part of that community and don't know the best way to introduce it to them. Any suggestions?
> It's funny how he couldn't do any of these things before while using social media.

Yes, almost as if our brains evolved in an environment where social media didn't exist, such that social media constitute an exploit for a security vulnerability in our motivation systems. Oh wait, they do.

> Incredibly cliche.

So is "don't take drugs". Sometimes something is a cliche because it's both true and worth repeating.

> Moderation. How does it work?

Step one is to be lucky in the genetic lottery. Seriously, there are people who can indefinitely maintain a moderate habit with cookies, whiskey, cigarettes, cocaine, poker, television and Facebook; and there are people who can't, and need to go cold turkey. As it happens I'm one of the former (well I haven't tried it with cocaine, but I can do the others), but that doesn't make me a better person than the people who can't, just luckier.

It's also worth noting some people have found going cold turkey for a while, was enough to break the addiction such that they could then go back cautiously, in moderation.
Dell U2711 is quite nice, good IPS and anti-glare, but it's not cheap (800-1000 USD). But in my case I consider that money well spent.

At a recent Slashdot discussion a lot of people mentioned Yamasaki Catleap, it could be shipped from Korea where it's supposedly produced from 27'' panels rejected by Apple, but still usable. And it costs 340-400 USD with shipping.

As for the topic, it's really puzzling how people can use just laptops as their main work machines for code development. Right now I have about 6Mpixels at 100dpi of screen estate and I guess I could make use of another 4Mpixels. Good keyboard is also a must.
It is far easier to take a fundamentally-streaming stack and layer conventional request-response on top as a special case than it is to take a conventional request-response stack and layer a stream on top of that.

You're asking the wrong question. The right question is how much of a problem is it for your conventional request-response app to be built on top of something that really wants the streaming aspects exposed. And the answer is quite a bit.

For example, there are significant performance benefits to putting caching proxies in front of applications. But whether that is a reverse proxy sitting at your hosting facility or a distributed proxy that you're getting from Akamai, they introduce a strong assumption that you're not going to stream content through them.

So stuff you're going to likely want to do anyways at some point pushes you to want to separate request-response from streaming. And if are going to make that choice anyways, it makes little sense to add any complexity to your life at all to try and keep those together.
They don't allow time-limited trials, but free feature-limited versions seem to be ok. Or try an in-app purchase to unlock more typing tutorials? (Those are my apps by the way, if you have any questions.)
It can still be a more-true-than-false generalization. Most of what we can claim is limited to generalizing.
Give me a break. My family isn't using Wordpress and I don't see them use Wordpress in near or far future.
I don't mind if people kill themselves on drugs. I just don't want that to negatively impact me.
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Thanks for sharing. Thats about how I imagine doing it myself.

I am currently on a 2011 13" MBP and understand the just awesome feeling!
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Sincerely, the Market Economics Fairy!

(Full disclosure: I'm just borrowing this character because it's suddenly relevant.)
Because Gates managed to more or less bootstrap Microsoft, he and Ballmer have maintained a significant degree of control. This allows them to orient the company toward the long term, rather than chasing this quarter's advice from Wall Street analysts.

Microsoft has always approached relationships with a B2B strategy - the mea culpa following the red ring of death shows the way in which that culture extends into the consumer side of the equation. Management's job is to make sure that there are dividends going to all those pension funds which own their stock, not to entertain bloggers.

If Microsoft is actually releasing their own tablet hardware as a long term strategy for extending an existing franchise (such as Xbox), it's probably because their is little interest in Windows Tablets from existing hardware manufacturers. Releasing their own hardware also brings the Windows RT restrictions regarding BIOS into a sensible light - not that dearth of consumer interest in Linux tablets made all the whining sensible.

I suspect that Microsoft has looked at the existing tablet landscape and sized it up pretty accurately as people want eReaders and iPads, and believe that the best way to expand the market is to get telemetry on how tablets are actually used.

Unlike your local paving company, Microsoft is gambling their own money, not driving up profits by looking for change orders.
Rock stars generally don't get a salary, but royalties or profit sharing. The better the star/band does, the more money they make right now at the gig, and longer term in increased sales over time.

If someone wanted me as a 'rock star' developer, I'd want some serious profit/revenue sharing plan in place - something more than "10% of profits are held back and divvied up amongst 90 other people based on seniority".
Because there's always the risk that someone will try it out of curiosity. And since it's a highly addictive drug you might end up causing more problems than you intend to solve.
Works perfectly in Chrome and Firefox here, but both browsers exhibit 30%+ CPU usage on a mid-2009 MBP. This is an outrageous figure that makes me wish NaCl gets standardized.
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Alright. Good to know. By the way, I was merely asking, I was not accusing anyone, so there is no need to downvote me.
I've heard from multiple sources that online social gaming is tapering off as a market, to be overtaken by mobile gaming apps.

Perhaps G+ was skating where the puck was, instead of where the puck should be?
"Get over it" almost always shitty advice.
Ha ha. I actually have a running joke now. I log into Facebook about once a day with a hearty, "time to check Facebook!" About 30-40 seconds later when I've skimmed the latest posts, I quit with a boisterous, "well, that was great!"

I'm assuming that anyone who can spend more than ten minutes on Facebook has way more friends than I do, and/or those friends are much more prolific than mine.
In case anyone else runs into the same issue, I finally found Poole to be useful. I can wrap everything in Py2Exe to make it easy to distribute and the software itself is simple enough that it doesn't require much expertise.
The only reason there were suddenly large numbers of people with the appetite for the high life and a lack of scruples is that you can't exactly put "Regional Drug Cartel Leader" on your resume. This is a transition cost that will fade over time, unlike the costs of prohibition which seem only to mount.

You don't see the Kennedys going around kidnapping people, do you? Why should it be any different with modern drug dealers?
If all they do is wipe out all their partners' tablet business, I would not call it a success. How much money would that make them?

I would call it a success if they carved out a new, larger (in dollars) market elsewhere, ideally, but not necessarily, without standing on the toes of their hardware partners.
Not quite, that's just a tree including all the files. When you've got quite a lot of folders and also file within it becomes really tedious using the finder's views.

It's almost as if Apple has made decisions that deliberately hamper anyone that needs to get complex tasks done quickly. Not click-by-click slowness of the Mac UI. The Windows UI is a helluva lot faster to navigate, even more so with reliable keyboard shortcuts.
I have to say, I was more hoping for the groupies and gak myself. A million-dollar salary from a programming role is so unrealistic.
one aspect this "superstar"-worship drivel^Harticle seems to ignore is the organizational contribution to success.

i'd argue that individual contribution to any given project of substance is greatly overestimated, while contribution of the team (organization/culture/whatever) is unfairly underestimated.

even in professional sports, superstar a winning team does not make.
Speaking of Cutler, if you haven't read it, I highly recommend the book "Show Stopper!", which describes the early days of Windows NT.

http://www.amazon.com/Show-Stopper-Breakneck-Generation-Micr...
True, at the moment it's only site owners and WordPress.com bloggers who are really tapped into this network.

We're talking about potential here.

As more end-users features like comments get added to JetPack, the chance is there to entice more users like your family.
I thought you were joking, because you're basically describing the postal service, ie. snail mail.
WebKit is open-source and yes, that's what the IGB is run off now.

http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/IGB_Development
Interesting, it runs at about 4% to 5% CPU in Chrome here. Did you have the dev tools open? That seems to disable a lot of the JS optimizations that Chrome has.
I haven't been this entertained since the Ocean Marketting saga of late last year.
No because Meth can't create huge profits for drug cartels. Street price is too low when compared to heavy drugs. And it's the money that makes cartels invincible.
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> How does this system handle chargebacks?

How does cash handle chargebacks? How can we possibly do so much business with a financial instrument that provides no way to un-pay someone you've already paid?