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I love hearing this.

I have fond memories of doing things with my dad -- he once let me dismantle an old lawnmower engine so I could learn how it works -- but although he was very supportive of my computer interests, I had surpassed his skill level early enough that I didn't have a lot of time with him on it.

I hope my boys have memories of me like you have of your dad.
That's the problem, Nancy is just so much better.
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Freedom of speech doesn't mean no one can ask you to change what you say, or that you never change your words to please anyone.

It's a very specific concept from the United States Constitution that relates to the government forcing you to refrain from saying things that you want to say. Freedom of speech is the kind of thing that comes up when a government agency puts warning labels on record albums, news media are prevented from reporting on government activities, or butthurt lawyers (cough cough Charles Carreon) try to use the courts to prevent people from criticizing their clients.

The blogger in question felt that the word "badassity" was an essential element of his brand, and that to change his header would dilute his brand in some way. He made a calculated decision that appeasing Chase would negatively affect his brand, perhaps even resulting in a reduction to his overall income in the long run, either directly or indirectly. A post like this one reinforces his brand as a blog with "integrity," and an attitude, and is sure to help offset whatever immediate loss he sees from Chase withdrawing their support.

While he's clearly a skilled and savvy blogger, I really don't see this as a free speech issue. A more accurate title would be "I Just Gave Up $4000 Per Month to Preserve My Brand Integrity."
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Awesome. That is a wonderful idea.
My question to your takeaway point would be, if these people are so motivated that they do better in courses, why do they stay so poor? Either merit is being suppressed by social forces (most definitely), or merit isn't the only requisite thing for social ascent.
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if that's the best they're genetically equipped to do

Gosh I'd be ashamed to make such an argument. It's a) incredibly loaded, and b) carries incredible risk in the event that someone takes it to heart and actually starts acting along those lines. Though perhaps you are just not used to your words having any force, and have yet to learn circumspection.

And I sense a certain hubris: "I am not a pigeon." Well, so you think.
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Upvoting, because the issue at hand is so old that I find it funny people will use this as a reason as to why "PHP sucks".

For the record, the version in question was 5.3.1 vs 5.1.6, two releases away and three years apart. Of course you'll need to test updates to your app with such version changes. Yes, using semver means this is a minor version release, but if we do that, I'll be first to note the lovely hash syntax changes in Ruby 1.9.

In any case, the current release is 5.4.4.
Why do you think that? If you're focusing 100% on raising money and taking meetings every day, 4-5 weeks spent fundraising is about average, at least in Silicon Valley.
1) Wealth is not zero-sum.

2) You're recommending that we defraud our federal government in your original post.

Just stop.
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"how do we make it more likely?"

Sometimes it's not just a matter of being intrinsically motivated, and no matter what you sacrifice, you never seem to have enough.

"Many young people, who have the ability to attend post secondary institutions, will not get that opportunity because of limited family financial resources." - http://rotarycs.org/local.aspx

This is my anecdotal story.
Not only did I fit into that category, I was also not initially intrinsically motivated. But the good people at the Rotary Club accessed my high risk of dropping out and gave me a "Stay in School" scholarship.

Having people believe in me and put $5000 on it - well, I can't say enough good things about them. I believe I would have given up on school in grade 7 (and I still missed a large chunk of it (long story)), but instead here I am with a BSc in Computer Science with "Great Distinction" instead. I imagine I would still be a min-wage Courtesy Clerk at the local IGA if I hadn't been given this opportunity.

Part of the trouble is that only 3 of these scholarships were given out when there were plenty of other kids who could have used them too. Not necessarily hand outs, but a hand up. These scholarships come with mentoring and support to develop motivation in the student to not only stay in school, but to do well at it.

It's not that I think they owe me a scholarship and mentoring, but just that it's not really my fault I was born in to a situation where I would have otherwise had virtually no idea and no means of escaping. I suppose maybe I could have tried worked for it all by myself and for myself (and I did pay for the rest of my schooling myself), but I can't imagine how I would have known to without intervention and I'm not sure I wouldn't have worked myself to death before getting anywhere.

I wish I had more profound and coherent things to say about this, but it's a subject that is pretty close to home and I could start rambling pretty quick.
Your kid can't be captain of the squash team if there is no squash team.
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Have you ever raised large amounts of funding? (I see you have a $45k seed on your current company) A month has been pretty standard in my experience, even raising larger (A) rounds.

Fundraising is a big drain on founding team bandwidth, so there's obviously incentive to get it done as soon as possible.
If it takes much longer, it's probably because it's a company that should be raising, or that the company failed to properly prime interest prior to fundraising. Once you begin fundraising, it's extremely, extremely bad for the process to draw out. From the first time you ask for term sheets, you should be able to fill the round fast.
> So you would say that aggressive and uncivil contact was not a learned behaviour?

I would say it is uneducated behavior. Yes, everyone learns naturally; that's what it is to exist. Education is eduction--the drawing out--not mere "learning".
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Absolutely I do. See my blog for examples. The other stuff is more important than the computer, and they spend far more time outside than they do at the computer. One of their favorite activities is to build their own river systems using a slow trickle of water out of a hose & pipe onto a small mound of dirt.
Touch screens are interesting because they build on the sorts of visual skills that we use in daily life. The command line is interesting because it nurtures skills you can't get from wandering around a garden. If I want a child to build their visual skills, I want to get them out in nature, or playing with physical toys, not a touch screen.

A CLI on the other hand is a very good abstract reasoning thing - it's on the same level as teaching a kid to read, or counting. And like reading I think it's a very valuable exercise whether the kid "gets" it or not.
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I am mostly on the side of the bug reporter here. PHP changed the behaviour of a simple method that has been there since PHP4 (which is oooold).

It returned 0 previously for "", why change it now? Was "" == 0 a bug ?
If I'm reading his post correctly, it took Gabriel Weinberg 4 months to raise his round, and he still called it quick and painless: http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2011/10/what-i-learned-f...
My submitted posts don't appear on my profile...is my profile broken?
I've submitted a few posts lately, and while they may not have been very popular, I noticed that they do not appear on my 'submitted posts' part of my profile. I also have a lot of trouble when trying to post in general (I get redirected to http://news.ycombinator.com/r/ alot).

I'm new and just curious... am I doing something wrong?
That's what I do: http://personalmba.com. Business is not that difficult once you know the basics.

The best place to start is my book: http://personalmba.com/book/

Hope you find it useful!
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I guess it does matter if we are counting the "prime interest" part of the equation or not.
This seems very similar to http://crypto.stanford.edu/PwdHash/
If you want to be noticed, you gotta put the work where people notice. You mentioned django, so go and become a core contributor. Write something useful, then rinse and repeat.

Alternatively, just work on things that make your friends, coworkers and family happy. Those are the people who matter anyways.
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I succeeded at failing to raise money for our company, but spent a long time doing it.
Sure it'll help the middle class with out current system, but the point was more about how all people should value themselves. Rather than selling your time in exchange for money (i.e., being an employee), you are better off exchanging your value for money. This should apply to any class really.

The reality is different for poor people, but my point was more about "what could be", rather than "what is". Trying to think about it in terms of the current system is flawed, because the current system is designed to enrich people.

If everyone was avoiding tax then the tax would need to rise, or the laws would need to change - this may or may not be a good thing to the masses - but it's certainly not a good thing to the rich - which is why they make sure it doesn't happen.
Sorry I couldn't grok what your opinion on semver was.

Ruby 1.9 introduced new hash syntax but did NOT break the existing syntax one so it was a minor version release (backwards compatible).

PHP made an backwards incompatible change in their code so it should have been a major version increase.

So as far as I can see Ruby is in the right and PHP is in the wrong with regards to adhering to semver.

Is that not your opinion?
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I see that point, often there are minor differences between browsers and it's hard to fix them all, but it isn't that hard to at least get your app to load in the main ones. This failed at that.
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Hey HN!

So, I made a login for HN a few weeks back. I submitted two posts originally (ASK HN posts) and got a few responses on each one. After that, none of my posts received any attention at all (granted, they could just have been very boring). But I recently submitted a post, then logged out and checked the NEW section on HN. My submitted post was not visible! It wasn't on the NEW section at all. When I viewed my profile (whilst not being logged in), I had nothing under the "submitted posts" section of my profile.

How and why was I banned? I only had about 5 posts overall, and all were questions (no spamming of any kind).

PS- this is a new account
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I really don't understand this sentiment.

I prefer carrying around credit cards compared to cash, it's more convenient and I don't have to worry about whether I have enough cash on hand when I need to make a large purchase.

I feel safer using a credit card compared to my ATM card due to the chargeback and fraud protection provided by the credit card company. There's less money "at risk" if someone steals my credit card or skims my cc number (which has happened to me at a restaurant before - I paid with a credit card and the guy wrote down the number while handling my bill. A week later he attempted to use it at Best Buy to buy a laptop, which was caught by my credit card company's fraud department.).

I earn frequent flyer miles by spending with my credit card, which (combined with signup bonuses) earns me several free plane tickets every year. Since I fly semi-frequently this is a major cost savings for me.

I pay off my credit card balance in full every month, never incurring interest. In doing so, I show a consistent payment history and build my credit score. I don't particularly need it right now, but if I ever need to take out a mortgage, finance a car, or take out any other kind of loan, having a high credit score will benefit me in the long run.

I literally cannot think of a reason why this is a bad idea, or why anyone would consider this a bad financial decision.
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Slightly off topic, but have you played with this site http://www.gcmap.com/mapui

It shows great circle routes for any pair of airports, with ETOPS, actual routes etc - great fun if you wanted to know why you are over Iceland
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To standardize PHP code is good, let's be clear... There's a lot of "misbehaves" in PHP. And if you're not casting or checking all the time you can get a wrong result, without even knowing. At least now/then (it's an old topic) number_format WILL tell you that you're not formatting a number and that's GOOD.
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There's a lot of good stuff there. I would add one thing about accounting. If you are a founder, you need to know it. Every case I know of where a business went out of business due to embezzlement, the cause was a partner not keeping an eye on the books. Know your accounting and at least once a month look at the books. There are no excuses.

The second point is about todo lists. I have my own style here, the author has his own style. It's a good idea to develop your own style here and run with it. Maybe it is 19 min a day. Maybe it is 5 min a day. Maybe it is linear. Maybe like mine it is non-linear with general priorities.
I'm not recommending you defraud your government, or do anything illegal - I'm recommending you do the same thing that every big corp does - pay the minimum tax they are required to by law, and no more.

People are led to believe that the richest pay ~40-50% in tax, or whatnot depending on where you are - but that couldn't be further from the truth - they generally pay less (as a percentage of their total earnings) than the middle or working classes.

You know, when these bankers pay themselves a $9 million tax free bonus at the end of the year - are they defrauding the government?

Work it out, say a banker is on a nice $1m salary, which he pays 50% in tax, but pays zero tax on his fat $9 million bonus.
> Does that provide any help?

Not a recipe, but yes.

Can you explain this comment a bit further: "they are gummed up by the fact that they are always in insert mode"

How is being in insert mode problematic? A scenario or two might be useful.

I use vim with git all the time and can't say I enjoy having to go in and out of insert mode every time I touch it.
A) The new behaviour makes more sense.

B) The change was discovered as a difference in behaviour in two major releases that were three years apart.

C) Rasmus Lerdorf can change PHP however he wants. It is precisely because of this that PHP has been so {'widely success', 'pain'}ful.

D) The reporter was being overly dramatic regarding the change going to take a supposedly crazy amount of time to fix.

E) You don't pass a string into a function that's usually returning a string without at least casting to a string when part of its intended behaviour is at times not returning a string. Casting in this case even before the function even changed would have been an exceedingly good idea.

F) (edit) I vote we burn in hell PHP developers who tack on comments to a long closed bug report to offer their opinions like joezimjs did. Especially when they display a basic ignorance in saying crap like "NULL is neither a string nor a number."
Same, that's why I asked. I know Emacs has various 'modes', like haskell-mode, org-mode, SLIME, etc., but I don't how or if a footpedal would make sense for that. I don't think Emacs users switch between those modes as frequently as Vim users switch between our main modes.
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I work on systems where D) is perfectly reasonable. Where one "small" change results in a hell of a lot of regression testing and doc changes.

What I don't get is that they are keen to modify php source. But not to just keep using the same php release?

I agree with E, they take floats not strings apparently.
I got all of them except the last one. Does anyone know how to apply a formula to a range of cells and get back a range of results? (i.e. map)
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Maybe there are other guidelines (Security related, no maintenance for the old release) that were 'forcing' them to update.
To standardize PHP is to create a new language not named PHP.
Well it is certainly smaller. I'd really like to use it at least for APIs where I am currently using the WCF rest and JSON stuff but it would be an uphill battle to get it deployed to production. Right now I use RabbitMQ and Redis internally and I fight the same battle over and over. They can't believe I wouldn't just use SQL Service Broker. I wish there was a way for Microsoft to "bless" projects like Nancy.
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1. What is the average amount owed?

=AVERAGE('Raw Data'!D2:D252)
$547.55

2. How many music customers are there?

=COUNTIF('Raw Data'!B2:B252,"Music")
103

3. What is the due date of the customer in zip code 11680?

=SUMIFS('Raw Data'!E2:E252,'Raw Data'!C2:C252,"=11680")
4/4/2012

4. If you divide the highest zip code by the lowest zip code, what is the remainder?

=MOD(MAX('Raw Data'!C2:C252),MIN('Raw Data'!C2:C252))
7782

5. How many theater customers have a May 26 due date?

=COUNTIFS('Raw Data'!B2:B252,"Theater",'Raw Data'!E2:E252,DATEVALUE("May 26, 2012"))
2

6. Considering all customers, find the standard deviation of dividing the customer's zip code by their number.

{=STDEV('Raw Data'!C2:C252/(1*MID('Raw Data'!A2:A252,LEN("Customer "),LEN('Raw Data'!A2:A252)-LEN("Customer ")+1)))}
85.98374041

A few notes:

- #3's answer cell should have date format (otherwise it will show up as 41003)
- #4's answer cell should have number format (for some reason it defaults to currency)
- The curly brackets on #6 denote CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER for an array formula

There's still room for some improvement. The range 2:252 and the string "Customer " are hard-coded into the formulas. These could be removed with some additional code but this would increase the length of the formula by a good amount.

So, how many did I get right? :)
I don't believe there should be any obligation for developers to maintain undefined behavior across versions. Even with defined behavior, sometimes APIs change, for legitimate reasons.

The function requires a float, and the developer is passing in an empty string. To rely on this type of edge-case behavior is ridiculous, in my opinion.
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So what exactly is the point of PHP then? If you want to write Java, write Java.

If PHP has any place in the world at all, it's as a language for the web with a minimum of extraneous boilerplate. If it fails at that goal, well, wtf? If you're going to be all proper about things, why not just do it in Python or some other sane language?
Definitely agree.

I think it's the little things like that that can make a huge difference. Even if it's just a short, quick reply like you mention, it is still very satisfying to at least be acknowledged by someone!

Also, on a slightly similar note, I remember reading that the guys at Pinterest sent out thousands of emails to the initial users of their site. Now, I'm not saying that that was the sole reason for Pinterest's massive success, but it definitely didn't hurt 'em!
Reporter posted this: "...which is why we are moving to a supported, fairly-recent platform". I'm guessing it's the support their after.
contribute to a project that many people use.
create a project that fulfills many peoples needs.

If you do something that helps many people, people will notice.
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He specifically addressed that

>If this blog were the only thing between my family and a homeless shelter, I’d surely be a banner-changin’, credit-card-hustlin’ fool. Just as the indebted office worker faced with an abusive manager will bow down and do the shitty work, year-in and year-out.

The whole point of his blog is financial freedom. How to make enough money that you don't have to live like that.
I disagree with point A. The old behavior makes a LOT more sense symbolically.

I tell you that you have no apples. Write the number of apples you have on a piece of paper. What did you write? I bet it was 0, not some arbitrary, non-writable symbol for an abstract concept that could mean "nothing" or "error" or "empty" or ..
Regardless of the prior behavior, that particular behavior was not documented [1] and subject to change. I do think it is PHP's (very big) fault that the proper documentation on various edge cases is missing, but it is a bit too much to disallow PHP to change undocumented behaviors. That said, the proper documentation is not enough (and PHP does not get this right either); it's rather a mere prerequisite.

[1] http://php.net/number-format says the first argument expects float, and does not say what happens if it receives non-floats.
=STDEV('Raw Data'!C2:C252/(1*MID('Raw Data'!A2:A252,LEN("Customer "),LEN('Raw Data'!A2:A252)-LEN("Customer ")+1)))

It's an array formula which means instead of pressing ENTER, press CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER
Regardless of merit on either side, the attitude presented by the creator of PHP in this post makes PHP and open source in general look bad. Seriously? I still can't believe that's how the situation was handled.

EDIT: Rasmus calls the bug reporter an idiot in the first reply. It's probably some sysadmin that has been tasked with upgrading the infrastructure and really has no idea what to do. So rude. It would take just as long to write: "Sorry about the inconvenience. We changed this undefined behavior for consistency's sake. You could cast the first argument to a float like: '[sample code]' and you'll get the old behavior back. One of our consulting partners [link] could help you with that if you'd like." Instead, Rasmus set the tone that he was superior from the onset.
It's only good for abstract reasoning if you can manipulate it and understand what you are doing. Kids at that age can't manipulate it the way you seem to suggest. They can "only" (if I do X, Y happens). It takes pretty intelligent kids to be able to be creative about that at such a young age.

The iPad on the other hand allows for emulating the reality the kids know and thus allow them to play around and learn abstraction based on where they are mentally.

This is I believe pretty well established.