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> Was referring to urban ills rather than antiquated modes of transportation.

I don't know if you are being sarcastic, or you are misinterpreting what I said.

>> Yes, it does get worse than Chennai. Bullock cart might be the fastest vehicle in your village, but that isn't a compliment for the cart or the village. I don't see how Chennai, the fastest bullock cart in India, is supposed to be cheered.

You commented it gets worse than Chennai. I said "bullock carts are fastest vehicle in your village doesn't mean anything." Irrespective of their status in your village, bullock carts are still damn slow, and a shitty mode of transportation.

Chennai, though it might be better than other cities in India in terms of bribes to be paid, is still the fastest bullock cart at best. It might be slightly faster than other bullock carts, but that isn't something which deserves celebrations.

> Culturally conservative yes, (same is true for Kolkata more or less) but not in an imposing way. It is more of the you dont bother me I wont bother you variety, atleast in my experience.

My Chennai experience has been different. People often try to shove their culture down your throats, and feel smug while doing so.

> The funny part is that contrary to what many hindi speakers believe, they do not speak hindi, not out of malice, but they are genuinely afraid that they will be made fun of.

That would be least of my concerns. If people speak Hindi or English(the only two languages I speak), superb. If they don't and I am there for long term, I would try and pick up the local language. No one sane will hold a grudge against someone for not speaking Hindi.

> The autowallahs are mostly swindlers let lose though.

Auto drivers in most parts of India are full of malice. I understand they are living shitty lives on small incomes, but that doesn't entitle you to unfairly charge me. I don't know why, but the auto drivers in Chennai are the worst. May be it has to do with the fact that I didn't speak local language.
The publisher was right. It's 2012 and we still don't know how to make newsgathering profitable online. It's easy to say that news organizations should have been on the forefront of adopting new technologies, but even today in the internet's adolescence, print journalism is significantly more profitable. Convincing people to stick with print as long as possible while staving off "threats" was the right strategy as far as I can tell.
Wow.Straight from Game Maker to C? Sort of happened the same to me. Up until uni I only knew Java, Game Maker and basic PHP/MySQL then started with C in freshman year. Although I mostly do web development these days, I liked working with pointers and memory management in C (once again delving down deeper).
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My TF101 also suffered stability problems after the ICS upgrade.

But I'm the kind of guy who roots, install via ZIPs from XDA and all that stuff. Even if the guy who packaged the ICS update insisted on it being untouched stock, except pre-rooted, it's hard to know 100% certain if the error is Asus' or not. At least there are other possible sources of errors.

That said, ever since I moved my TF101 over to a CM9 codebase, I've had zero issues with it, and it has finally become the tablet I thought it would be when I decided to purchase it in the first place.

Yes. I know. My grandma is never going to do all that. I'm not suggesting that.

But if Google can get the software on this thing right, out of the box, like they've done with the Nexus-phones, I'm pretty sure this thing can fly.
Shotgun advertising paid the bills for 60 years. Small-fry ads never have and it's very hard to make money from them. Newspaper sales reps that came into the industry more than 10 years ago came into it when they basically just processed incoming orders from chains, franchises, and ad agencies. That money is largely gone.

"Small-fry ads" means asking those same people to now go out and hunt down money from local businesses being courted by performance-based ad companies like Google, Groupon, Living Social, Twitter, Facebook, Constant Contact, Yelp...you name it.

That's a hard job. You need a superb sales staff to take business from those people.

If you were a superb sales person, you'd want to make a lot of money and sell a great product everyone wants to buy.

Would newspaper sales be your first choice?
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My perspective is $75k a year (or whatever your number is) is all fine and dandy until something bad happens.

I'm sure there are far far worse stories than this but for example, my father, an eletrical engineer, left a job at a big company for a small start up at 50. The company went bankrupt 10 years later. His gamble to make it big failed. At 60 no one would hire him. (a) they expected him to retire at 65. (b) health insurance premiums are like 6x to 10x for the company for him vs someone 20-35 years younger.

So, he now drives a delivery van at 67. No retirement for him. Let's hope he has no serious medical bills.

My point is of course that $75k or whatever is fine day to day but you need a lot more to survive retirement.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/retirement/

At 47 myself I find it a much harder choice to choose a job with less pay knowing that I risk the same fate as my father. I'm not saying I won't take that risk. I might. But it's not as easy as choosing happiness today for less money. Today effects tomorrow. It might be better to try to find happiness in the higher paying job so that you can be happy for longer than to trade short term happiness now and possible suffering later.

Yea, there's no guarantee either way. YMMV etc. Again, all I'm saying is it's over simplifying to say the only thing to consider is "will this life style make me happy today even though I'd be making less money"
I didn't know clicking the Google Play icon and typing "Chrome" and clicking "Install" was that hard to do on a tablet.

Also, stock browser on Jelly Bean is stupidly fast. In fact so fast that I have ditched Chrome for it. Only thing I miss is the Chrome-sync against my desktop, but I can live without that.
"We see each other every day" does not qualify.

1-on-1 is a very specific, regular and dedicated meeting. This is where you check-in, coach, encourage new ideas, listen to pain points.

It's number 1 requirement even at Google: http://solutionfocusedchange.blogspot.com/2011/03/googles-pr...

I suggest listening a couple Manager-Tools.com podcasts about 1-on-1. You need more than one person's experience, even if it's for a decade.
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> A beggar & her naked child ...

Actually, a lot of the time, the child is not hers. It's rented from the child's real mother, so that the beggar can earn more money. But I'm sure you already knew that.
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And all those sites are struggling and barely making money. It's a tough, tough scene. That's why Gawker pivoted into national news and celeb gossip a few years back. The only way to make lots of money from blog advertising (i.e. enough to support a full-time staff) is to snag national brand dollars. Indi hyperlocals are beloved and do great stuff, but they're replacing companies that used to make millions providing similar services.
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Yes, I know what a commodity is. Thanks for insulting my intelligence. I was distinguishing between a commodity product and a non-product, which is something people don't even bother paying money for because it's practically free. A commodity product can't earn a premium price, but a non-product earns approximately epsilon.
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That's because everyone who is under 30 has grown up with the ability to download things for free. Of course entitled consumers are going to support free things for themselves. I don't expect many to actually know anything about copyright nor would I expect them to have any realistic concept of how to "fix" it.
I am 35+. Never coded myself except for small feats in HTML/CSS. Background - corporate finance.

It's difficult to learn from scratch, but it is not that difficult.

If your goal is web development, then I would point several key things that worked for me:

1. Don't be afraid to start and try it out.

2. Knowledge builds by iterations.

3. If you stumble - make a break, then get back to the stumbling block. Most of the times it will be solved fast.

4. Keep your end in mind.

5. Do some practical project, that has value for you.

About me:

- punched with HTML/CSS; hand programmed simple static site;

- got aquainted with Drupal; digged into Drupal; installed on hosting, installed and played with some modules, played with changing themes;

- started Django - Django book, tutorials, various books - stumbled;

- read through Learning Python by Mark Lutz, did exercieses - stumbled after 60-70% [decorators, etc];

- returned to Django, continued with books & simple projects - needed to get static assets working -> had to install webserver, did not want Apache, so I tried nginx - stumbled;

- got VPS from Linode - but needed to know a bit CLI and Ubuntu nix, since server is headless; stubmled - went through CLI tutorials;

- at the same time when installing web server stumbled with DNS, had no clue how it works, stubled - so digged through wiki, blogs, etc to understand the basics;

- with CLI and DNS basics under my belt, started setting up VPS - some packages in Ubuntu repositories were old and security risk - installed from PPA, but had to compile nginx, postgres, some other packages;

- installed!;

- in one week the whole set up was hacked;

- went through too many tutorials on nix hardening; iptables; auditing tools ; honeypots; logging local and remote; server monitoring [Graphyte and friends]; rootkit detectors, etc

- now back to Django...

In the background I digged a little bit into - databases [postgres, mongo, redis]; js [charts, various other libs]; some Python libs [requests, Pygments, etc]; OLAP/BI and host of other things.

That is a short summary w/o too many details.

It is a lot of fun - don't limit yourself. Your fears are your first enemy. So just do it.
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This is something between desktop and web, but you could use Chromium Embedded (http://code.google.com/p/chromiumembedded/). It uses GTK+ on Linux, Cocoa on Mac OS X, and it's own library on Windows (but it looks identical to Windows' UI elements).
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Qt is the best cross-plataform GUI Toolkit.

But it still feels odd on Windows, and OSX, and Linux (provided that most Linux users are on Gnome these days).

I would rather spend twice the time coding it for native Windows forms and OSX Cocoa.
And what about using a pepper in addition to a salt? Then a potential attacker requires access to application code as well as the database tables.

I can also imagine some kind of DDOS against the database using the linked system.
Off-topic, but Ubuntu Software Center seems to be stuck on Chromium 18 for a while. Plus, for some reason there's no Chrome in the Software Center, although you can download it from Google in the browser (Chrome 20 now, and seems more stable than Chromium 18).
Once a newspaper sales rep starts talking "web ads" with an advertiser, the client has a host of other options. These options have more reach, are closer to people with purchasing intent, are performance based, self-service, and generate much higher ROI than banner ads on a newspaper site.

So the newspaper guys had to offer competitive pricing, or at least pricing in the same galaxy as the other web guys. So instead of a $50 or $100 CPM for inclusion in the print paper, they're getting a $5-10 CPM for includion on the web site.
this is great stuff - I'm a casual php hacker and this is just the sort of thing I need to help me out when I'm working in the language - saves me from having to be deeply embedded in the culture of a language I don't use "all day every day"....so thanks!
Imho the wrong word in your question is funding. Do you really need funding to build your tool? If so pick another tool you can get your hands dirty on without the needed funding. It isn't wrong to think about funding upfront but it shouldn't be holding you back to just hack your idea's together and get it outthere. If it gets enough traction you can really start looking for people to help out of get some VC.

I myself am in a similar situation so i'm not speaking out of experience but I do know that sitting around thinking about how to get money isn't going to get your product/project launched. Just do it already :)
Mobile websites? That just means bigger buttons.
Re: your last sentence, even Wired magazine has done that to various degrees over the last 15 years.
It was the right short-term strategy. Would you rather be in charge of a media enterprise that is producing dwindling revenue, has a limited lifespan, aging workforce and no way to attract new talent, or one with smaller but rising revenue, sexy requisitions and massive future opportunities?
If the problems with that "crap" were insurmountable we wouldn't have the huge variety of websites like we do today. And I would argue that just as big cross platform issues exist with Qt/Swing.

With Modernizr, JQuery etc you can get 95+% of the features on 95+% of computers.
I haven't met any fellow USians that _constantly_ do this. Then again, I guess that's the problem with making wide generalizations about an entire group of people.
You realize the Qt basically does exactly that for non-web apps except it's far more comprehensive and tested, right?
The weak points are definitely there, but I think they can be mitigated by training or using proper tools:

Parameter types: use YARD and use its notations to describe parameters. It actually allows things like <Document|Hash|#to_h> which go far beyond what you can describe with types. While in the Java world, you would just overload methods for such things, Ruby allows you to describe all this in one place. Turn flaws into benefits.

Refactoring: strangely, I never miss this. I think bad refactorability is a weak-point of your code, not of the tooling. Ruby allows you to take the Single Source of Truth-Principle (aka DRY) to the extreme, which can allow you to turn most refactorings into search-and-replace operations.

Interfaces as contracts: I hate Java Interfaces, mostly because they don't allow implementations. In Ruby, you can use Modules to a similar effect and raise NotImplementedError on methods that were not implemented correctly. Thats maybe the hackiest thing in this collection, but there is no one-size-fits it all solution :).

I think the theme here is "no static guarantees" and thats definitely true, but after years of programming in dynamic languages, I rate those problems far lower than most others. Most of those things can be mitigated by thinking a lot about your code, which you should do anyways.
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This would increase the complexity of the hash verification by log2(N) times, where N is the number of user records. So even if you do have a billion hashes, you only slowed the attackers 30 times. You might as well increase the BCRYPT complexity and skip this scheme.
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By being a foreigner and by travelling to touristy places the author is immediately in the high risk category. There are a lot of people trying to fleece tourists, especially foreigners. This colors some of his prespective, for eg.

>But with only a couple hundred dollars lost, I got away fairly unscathed..
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"The unthinkable scenario unfolded something like this: The ability to share content wouldn’t shrink, it would grow. Walled gardens would prove unpopular. Digital advertising would reduce inefficiencies, and therefore profits. Dislike of micropayments would prevent widespread use. People would resist being educated to act against their own desires. Old habits of advertisers and readers would not transfer online. Even ferocious litigation would be inadequate to constrain massive, sustained law-breaking...

Journalism has always been subsidized."

From Clay Shirky's essay, "Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable"

http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking...
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Your description on deleting files not being protected by the type system is the result of side effects at runtime.

The point of the OP was discussing the safety that can be achieved from pure code.
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So they told me that using the download page to download something was not
something they anticipated.
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Discussion of the same project from almost a year ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2828626
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Things may shift in the future, but at the moment, it's the regional guys who are going under. The local guys are getting bought by Warren Buffet. This is because the local guys still have their "effective monopoly" over local advertising in their communities.

http://www.fool.co.uk/news/investing/2012/05/28/why-buffett-...

The regional guys and the guys covering large cities are the ones getting hammered hardest right now because they're being exposed as not being "essential reading" for any one thing.

In Chicago, for instance, the Chicago Tribune covers Illinois state politics, but the real wonks turn to insider blogs like Capitol Fax for that news. So Tribune's not needed for that.

Sports? ESPNChicago.com and all the Chicago-focused sports blogs have them beat there for resources and depth.

City Hall news? They're untouchable there...but who wants to buy ads against that content? And who really wants to read it other than local wonks and older people who own homes.

Entertainment? People find out what's going on from massive sites like FB, Twitter, Yelp, you name it.

And on and on. So a paper like the Tribune is left with a great brand, lots of exclusive content, and the ability to out-execute just about any of their competitors at anything it wants in terms of quality. But none of that matters so much to consumers who have tons of more convenient options.

Meanwhile, the internet hasn't really figured out hyper local yet, with the exception of Topix.com, which is huge in small towns. Everyblock might get there, and even Reddit eventually as geographic subreddits continue to grow.
This is fundamentally not true. The massive disruption of this industry isn't from Japan/Germany or banana republics or China, this is pure change in distribution. It's analogous to music or movies or tv, only none of those industries fancied themselves as the "fourth estate" while the getting was good.

The ground moved beneath the feet of this industry and as much as they like to sit around and acknowledge that with self-loathing NYT pieces, I'm not sure they've accepted it. Seems like there's still a lot of sitting about and grumbling about how bad it is and how much better it was when back when. Or worse, how relevant they really, really, really still are cough David Carr cough.

See The Newsroom on HBO for example of this version of onanistic self flagellation.
Looks like they've gone the traditional route. What stopped you from continuing? Were there technical issues?
It's a conversational and social handshake protocol. As with other syntactic sugar, it establishes a conversation and a convention. Where you go with it is up to you.
For those curious (I didn't know myself until researching some ideas for this API), Chrome has a built-in text-to-speech API (http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/tts.html) for use in extensions and packaged web apps.
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The problem with a structure like that--or rather, a lack of structure like that--is the risk of it degrading into politics. It's just like in society--a more democratic system increases the amount of political friction in the system, but a more authoritarian structure increases risk (but potentially reward as well) by betting more heavily on the judgment of the authority figures.
C++ references and PHP references are completely different beasts. PHP references like Unix hardlinks, for example.
As for why they exist - they make doing some things easier and some use cases easier to program, without introducing concepts like pointers which are completely foreign to language like PHP. Could we do without them? Yes, probably. That's only one way to solve it, there can be others.
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Hey, Will,

Good post.

I think consumers have this already in Facebook and Twitter. The news guys already post all their news there, for free, to try to generate ad revenues. People don't click through because often the entire story is there in the headlines and that's all they really cared about anyways.