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Last I checked, aural stylesheets aren't broadly supported.

You'd be much better off using ARIA (which has pretty broad support from browser vendors and assistive technology vendors):

<span class="icon" aria-hidden="true">Facebook</span> Facebook
<span class="icon" aria-hidden="true">Twitter</span> Twitter

This keeps assistive technologies from rendering the text (not just screen readers, but Braille displays, etc).

http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/
Exactly. The post could very easily have been titled,

'I just turned down $4k because I dont need it and like to say 4 letter words'
Imagine what they could do if they spent the amount of time reforming their shonky business practises as they did on the new landing page.
Having trouble figuring out the license (http://symbolset.com/license/), specifically: "You may not under any circumstances embed the licensed fonts into software or hardware products in which the fonts will be used by the purchasers of such products."

By that are they only restricting adding the font as a selectable font for writing (i.e. WYSIWYG editors) or can you not use the font in your own software in any case?
Relevant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucQ3lc4lkhY
People get drivers licenses in order to drive, and they get credit cards to take on debt, build their credit, or make payments quicker and easier.

Drivers licenses don't make people drive poorly nor do credit cards make people make poor financial decisions. If you're going to convolute the two through some form of causality, the argument you could make is that people who are apt to make poor financial decisions are more apt to pile up credit cards.

Your claim that getting a drivers license is the "worst safety decision a modern human can make" is pure hyperbole. What about not putting on a seatbelt? What about not checking their tires and brakes regularly? What about failing to adjust their mirrors? Those are the actions that reduce safety, not getting the license, much like buying that HDTV you cannot afford reduces financial standing, not getting the credit card.
I think you're missing the point of his blog. The entire premise is that by cutting your expenses, living within your means, and some clever hacking, you can be "free". I can certainly see how 4K would be FU money, say, if I moved to a low cost economy like Thailand, Costa Rica, or even middle America.

the entire blog I mean, not just this post
Any others?
I think that one thing to do for that is stopping spreading the word: "don't re-invent the wheel".
Because inventing is hard, it is a discipline and without 10000 hours of practice, one would probably never invents anything big. And to have 10000 hours of practice, one must re-invent a lot of wheels.

I see that each day. I'm working with great coders, very smart and keen. Very experimented. They are pretty fast at coding, they are fast thinkers, fast shippers. They are pretty fast for everything...

But when they hit something new: it's disastrous. Really. Especially their communication.

Personnaly, I'm not able to make a batch file without help... the worse is that it's almost not exaggerated. And yet, they gives me most of the big work because I'm the only one able to deal with it.

Another point is that we are probably at the ice age of computing. Most of the "invented things" should be re-invented a couple more times.
After all what is "an invented thing"? Can we say that I have invented the numbers if I have invented the roman numerals?

For me, there is no doubt, we should spread the word: invent the wheel.
That is simply not true. Not one person has offered any data to support the assertions on vi efficiency. Not one. All I have gotten are the equivalent of "because we say so". I am not flaming, I am not caving-in to the bullying, which is a different matter entirely.

In the interest of being constructive I decided to clear the bad blood and start another thread that is designed to educate us who might not understand why some are so passionate about vi. Here it is:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4145060

If those who post to this new thread stay within the proposed framework what will come out of it is a set of recipes that show (and support) the claims about vi efficiency. I hope you will be one of the first to join that thread and offer a few examples. There are many who know absolutely nothing about vi. Some have avoided it like the plague. And then, those like me, who only use it when absolutely forced to. This is an opportunity to educate all of us. Thanks in advance. I think it is safe to say that this thread is over (save those who want to talk about the foot-pedal).
Try this: The more a company grows, the more efficiently dysfunctional it becomes...
There are also step functions when dogma comes into the question. Copernicus and Galileo were both right about heliocentrism, but when heliocentrism was politically incorrect, the scientific consensus was wrong.
I swear like a sailor. I try to keep it down to a dull roar online. If I could make $4k/month by removing a single swear word from my site, I would be a total sellout in a heart beat. Fuck "integrity" of that sort.

Mz bookmarks article to try to figure out if she can sell her soul for $4k/month at some future date.
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If I was in the SF area I would be contacting you. This description is very enticing for someone like me, and I know I'm no unicorn. Good luck finding a person in in your area! Keep putting your feelers out, just like this post.. Look for a unique individual work you love, (who is also in your area) on sites like Dribbble.com and Behance.net.

Reach out to that individual and kiss their ass, maybe you'll find someone "remarkable" enough for you ;)
Because the system makes sure people stay poor.

How many of you were taught in school that if you pay yourself a minimum wage and make up the rest as a dividend/bonus you can avoid paying a significant amount of tax (legally)?

Or how many of you were taught how to become "employable" so that you can earn the same amount of money and pay considerably more tax, unavoidably - because you aren't in control of your own finance.

How many of you were taught to open a bank account as a good way of "organizing your finances" (read: filling the pockets of fat men).

How many of you were taught anything about running your own business and being in control of yourself and your securities?

There's a reason this isn't taught in public schools folks - it's because the people at the top want more for themselves and less for you. They don't care about you - except when you're gullible enough to believe you're making a choice when voting season arrives.

The poor are poor because they think "that's just the way it is," and continue about their lives. It's only when you realize that's not the way it should be, because you're being fucked, that you start to do something about it and make yourself.

Then there's the moral effect. You either see the need to do something to change the system, and remain poor - or you accept it, and realize that the best way for you to make more money is to keep poor people poor (and gullible) - thus prolonging the system.
Zapfino is actually much more complex than what this is doing. Zapfino has glyph variants - that is, it can display the same set of glyphs multiple ways. Ligatures just combine specific successive glyphs into a new glyph.
It's simple, really. A domain name like poetry.com is as accessible to the average person as it is to a company. A TLD on the other hand is something you need to take out a mortgage to own.

The difference is in the democracy of it all. Acquiring domain names is a very democratic process even if you take into account squatting and other shenanigans. Scrounge up ten bucks and a web connection and it's yours. TLDs aren't even close. It's a total plutocracy and ICANN seems totally unapologetic about it while the companies snatching them up look ridiculous when they put a line in their proposal about how their ownership of some random word as a TLD is in our, the users, best interest.

How can anyone overlook that? It's practically beating us over the head, taunting us.
The purpose of his site is documenting financial freedom by reducing expenses, so I don't understand your criticism at all. Just because he can forgo that money doesn't mean it's not substantial.

Eg, his monthly income is reduced from $6000 to $2000, but he only spends $2000, it may be a reduction of 66% but he can still live with the decision.

Compare that with someone that makes $20k a month and spends $20k a month - $4k a month is a small amount of money, but he can't give it up.
I didn't interpret that as a dig at HN, any more than "GooBook" is a dig at Google and Facebook... He just changed the names to make it clear his story is fictional.
There are plenty of non-commercial entities with .com addresses.
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That is odd.. so politicians should have less freedoms than the citizens they serve? Good luck finding someone to elect. It is bad enough political organizations go dredging through their personal lives. It amazes me people are still willing to serve in public office.
HN shortens display of long URLs automatically and shorteners are bad long term so please don't use them here.
But the rackspace containers you just need to hook up power and water - then you are done!
In an effort to clear bad blood and actually learn something I decided to start this thread:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4145060

It should be obvious that it is intended to be useful and educational. No flaming. No trolling. No personal attacks. Just reproducible facts.

I am hoping that you will be one of the first people to post a recipe to that thread so that those of us who don't know enough about vi will, hopefully, see the light.

Thanks in advance.
I don't think I ever have. But thank you for the reminder. I knew that about HN but did not recall it.
It isn't three buildings. It's a three story building (and half a basement where they stuck me).

Almost all CitiMortgage employees get merit based bonuses. My department, on the other hand, gets shafted. Seven years working there and two years programming for them and running Oracle reports and I didn't even get a raise last year. (And now I see why since we lost so much money.)

Business has really slowed down and most people work in Lost Mitigation now.

I need out!

</rant> =) Sorry, just had to get that off my chest. Working at the O'Fallon headquarters of CitiMortgage is not where I want to spend my career. It's not even where I want to spend my Friday.
And I think you are vastly underestimating the percieved impact by the people involved, which was kind of my point.

Both Twitter going down for an hour and a plant that assembles cars going down for an hour aren't that big of a deal in the huge scheme of things, but for people who are intimately connected (either work there, know someone who does, are emotionally connected to the product in some fashion, etc), it feels a lot bigger than it is.
There's a lot to be said for that. If somebody had really sat down and hammered me on the power of compound interest and taught me a little bit about the capital markets, when I was, say, 14 or so... I think I would have made a lot of decisions differently and would probably be better off today. Although, to be fair on this point, I'm not sure it would have helped, because I can't - in retrospect - say that my 14 year old self would have taken those lessons to heart. You think about time differently when you're young... the idea of saving for "the future" and building wealth slowly... would I have appreciated the idea of Dollar Value Averaging back then? Hmmm... hard to say.

But anyway, I agree with you in principle, sparkie. What we're taught about how the world works, when we are young, is tremendously influential.
You're fixating on the same point over and over again, probably because it is the same point that every "intellectual property" advocate ever fixates on when this discussion comes up: "the original author has an inherent right to demand payment for future copies, and copying deprives them of those payments".

I haven't attempted to argue whether the original author (note my not accepting the term "owner") will be worse off from the copying. I haven't fixated on that point at all; it never once entered into my reasoning. The original author is a third party to the transaction of copying; they have no standing to object. Party A has data; party A lets party B copy that data. Neither party is the original author, so the original author has no standing in the transaction.

Please do not assume that people who disagree with you must not have put enough thought into it. I have put a great deal of thought into my position on copyright, and I came to a different conclusion than you did. Your analogy provides no new information to lead to any different conclusion. I do not appreciate you dismissively lumping my arguments in with "every nerd ever" and assuming I have not put my own thought into the issue.

> By your own definition, the shopkeeper is "rent seeking" when he charges more than his cost basis for the M&Ms.

No, my own definition had absolutely nothing to do with the cost basis for M&Ms or any other physical product. Please don't attack a strawman. I defined rent-seeking the same way economists do, namely attempting to extract economic rent from a third-party transaction:

'Rent, by contrast with these two, is obtained when a third party deprives one party of access to otherwise accessible transaction opportunities, making nominally "consensual" transactions a rent-collection opportunity for the third party.' -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking

That seems to describe copyright quite accurately, doesn't it?

We both obviously agree on about property rights over physical property. Thus, we both obviously agree that the owner of a bag of M&Ms has the right to charge whatever price they see fit, and nobody has the right to take that bag of M&Ms on terms the owner does not approve of. You keep bringing up your analogy, bringing up the obvious absurdity it implies about property, and then trying to jump from there to a conclusion about copying. We fundamentally disagree over whether an author has the right to control the copying of data. To accept your analogy as having any meaning in the context of copying data, I would have to accept the concept of copyright as a property right the author has over the copying of their data. Circular reasoning at its finest, disguised by way of an appealing-sounding analogy.

> Why do you accept one and not the other?

Why do you assume one implies the other? I have no particular reason to think of data as property, so I don't. Why should I believe otherwise?
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Easy out. Make a claim and don't support it. Here's an effort to be constructive:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4145060

I hope you will be one of the first to post to that thread.

Thanks in advance.
Your comparison is "world without credit cards" vs "world with credit cards." That's not reality. The reality is "world with credit cards." It's crazy to pass on using a credit card correctly in a world with credit cards.
I figured this latest burst of news from Microsoft is just a bunch of PR hits, the kind Microsoft used to get in exchange for trade rag journalist trips to Redmond & etc. The late print magazine "Brill's Content" ran something of an expose of Microsoft's journalist grooming techniques in the late 90s.
I think 3.5 hours is probably Concorde rather than a 747.

I was thinking that a gaziilion terabytes might be more tempting for the piratebay.org
OK how about I rephrase: I meant "OMG-big-deal-game-changing problems." Difficult is just a proxy for that.

To Stephensons point, which he makes in the video in the link, he really means dreaming up and solving big problems. The example he gave was building the worlds tallest building. I'm paraphrasing him here: <paraphrase> Typically accomplishing the goal of building the worlds tallest building is measured only in contrast to the current record holder. So when people aim to set this record, it's only incrementally bigger. If you actually do the research you'll find that it's possible to build a building 20x taller than the tallest existing building. Why aren't we thinking on that scale?</paraphrase>
Thesaurus.com is one of best friends. I use it all the time to discover better ways to articulate my thoughts & feelings.
As always with aesthetics.

Different cultures have different ways of interpreting it.
So municipalities tried to game the system by instituting closed auctions instead of the open ones, and then got mad, when it turned out that some parties are willing to pay to peek into the sealed bids? An open auction system would not have created the peeking problem in the first place.

Both parties tried to institute unreasonable complexity to get an upper hand.
If you're using X, then xcape can map both Esc and Ctrl to Capslock. https://github.com/alols/xcape
I've never paid a dime to my credit card companies.
Ask HN: How much should startups pay per beta tester?
For startups that pay for usability testing and feedback what is an appropriate price to pay? I know sites like UserTesting.com charge about $40 per test. It inspired me to create a campaign to try and gather some data about what startups would be willing to pay to use a service like "UserTesting" to get feedback for their site / concept / design etc.

Visit http://takemymoneys.com/usertesting to participate in the pricing campaign. Hopefully we will collect some interesting data.
I don't mind the pedants, as long as they aren't assholes about it. I grew up in a bilingual home, so I am prone to certain errors in spite of generally being told I "write well". I am acutely aware that poor grammar and spelling can be genuine obstacles to effective communication. As long as pedantery (sp?) is not served up with a huge side of sneering, disrespect, pissing on people and similar, I think it has real benefit for the forum.
> In this situation it's not a free trade either as he needs to give up something quite important to him (censorship) to receive the money.

Of course it's a free trade. He would be trading his banner for the money Chase would pay him. He's free to do that, or free to not change his banner and not take any more money, which he did. That's the whole definition of "free" in "free trade" -- he gets to choose. And that's why there's no censorship here, because there's no coercion.

It's no different from advertisers pulling ads (rightly) from Rush Limbaugh's show after he says something offensive. I never heard anybody calling that censorship. It wouldn't be even if they warned him in advance (which is what Chase did).
Do you have a reference for the IV link?

EDIT: Should have googled it myself. For reference http://web.mac.com/nealstephenson/Neal_Stephensons_Site/Inte...
They really are doing some cool stuff, the author mentions a few things. I'd also mention the stuff they are doing in software. ASP.NET MVC, F#, hell even good old C# is just getting better and better. There is plenty of room for Google, Apple and Microsoft to all create cool stuff.
Ok, so prices go up a little. But on the other hand, we have the convenience of plastic. Convenience is not worthless.

What's that, we all should just use debit cards instead? Hmm, I thought debit cards used the VISA or MasterCard networks?
Sorry to barge into this thread. There seem to be a lot of vi experts reading it. Perhaps you might consider contributing to this thread also:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4145060
This is a cynical and unrealistic way to look at it. The poor seems to blame the system for failures instead of blaming themselves. That to me is the biggest difference. By blaming a system, they take the power of self improvement away from themselves.

You assume all those things should be handed to you when most people acquired those knowledge on their own.

By the way, that first statement is incorrect. Dividends is taxed twice, a first time as the income of a company, a second time when it comes to you. Wage is taken out as a cost so it's taxed once.
I tried to mitigate this by telling people not to
bother writing a cover letter.

Aren't cover letters a dying art anyway?
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Probably not the best title but I enjoyed the article. I always like hearing what tools other founders use.

ps. all you project manager makers TODO list startups, listen up. Your app is not a project management app until it has dependencies. If you don't have dependenies you are just a TODO list; Basecamp, I'm looking at you ;)
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Agree that trigger might be better.

But in this case both runs firebase the same
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What are you basing this on? At minimum Chrome and Firefox have better html5 support, as they have near parity with their desktop counterparts. I don't have the numbers but I'd guess Opera Mobile has better html5 compatibility as well.
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Why not spend $6500 in sv and work 8 hours a day

Because your VCs will go crazy if they found out you were only working 8 hours a day. I've interviewed with both TechStars and YC startups - and they've told me that 55-60 hour work weeks are the norm. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
I'm talking about the browser shipping with the system, which is what 99% of the people using the device are going to use and where web apps are going to live or die.

Once Android starts shipping with Chrome stock things will be different.
ASP MVC isn't very good.
Defining colors with the non-W3C-defined term 'colour' is cute, but annoyingly inconsistent with browser terminology.
What kind of money do people pull out of a startup, assuming VC funding? How big a salary are founders allowed to pay themselves?
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Here's the talk that's from: http://youtu.be/e3Zs74IH0mc
Inspiring read. I especially like the anticipated 'how' question at the end. This encourages me to trial and error my own elevator pitch.
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I only really discovered the advantages of creating my own business when I was around 23, I'm 25 now. I also got into a significant amount of debt in order to get a degree to make me more "employable" - and I'm still paying it back.

I'm perhaps most irritated by this because I'm mostly self-taught (in computer science) and university did very little for me. I should've studied business instead, but probably like you suggest, I would've considered that idea incredibly boring at school leaving age.

Boredom aside though, I do wish I'd learned more about business and life in general during school. I'm still trying to learn my way around the system now, but there aren't enough hours in the day. I'm sincerely grateful for the people who've taken the time to explain things to me anyway.
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