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Scoop: Contractors will not be quantified by 400 tasks each worth $5.

Contractors will be able to include their stackoverflow profile, github, blogs, articles written, personal or paid projects, endorsements, along with usual reviews. This provides a much better assessment on the type of person, and yes, communication and people skills.

I've spoken with countless people complaining that they tried going with a freelance and they gave up when the individual disappeared. This is the problem we have to fix and I'm willing to bet there are enough buyers looking to buy real service for their money.
What makes you think that, if their pricing proves low, they won't simply increase prices? And marginally so? They'd have to more than quadruple prices before DropBox is the better backup solution.
Reading his response to a comment in his blog changes the context of his perceived smugness. Doesn't it? Here is what I am referring to:

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DHH 10 Jul 12
Kathy, that’s a great point. Also, this pyramid can be applied in finer resolution within your stack. For example, I’m perfectly content to be at the “Well engineered” level when it comes to my use of MySQL, but when it comes to Ruby and Rails, I want to be at “Moving industry forward”.

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They should seriously consider using OpenGrok. It's a fantastic open source code browser / searching tool that supports a variety of languages. It's also released under an OSI-approved open source license.
But they do depend on Apple's signing of the app before installation on the phone, right?
'Over-architected' and 'over-optimized' are the terms I prefer. Whatever term(s) is(are) used, criticism should emphasize 'non-pragmatically-built', instead of emphasizing 'startups don't need any design, engineering, or optimization, whatsoever'.
Apple's App Store Secrecy Hurts Indie Developers
Your right about the absurd use of memory by Gdrive. However, looking at my usage right now, my Google Chrome instances each use about as much as my GDrive, which for me is not a huge tradeoff, as Gdrive is just as useful to me as one of those Google Chrome instances.

http://puu.sh/Hplk
For the record, we're happy to talk to women developers. And it was women who designed and wrote the copy for the site.
Since when does monolithic mean unreliable? It's pretty easy to setup replication and have automatic failover.
> Let me communicate with a unified UI and unified contacts.

This was from the top comment. It is suggesting the solution is to glom everything together. I think the comment you are responding to is concurring with their parent comment by providing an illustration of the concerns raised.
I guess it just depends on the target. For starting out serious development I'd certainly agree with all you say, although I personally prefer the local development and tests on staging method, since it means I know it runs on at least two systems, at least with the code where it's possible. It might be nicer for beginners though to be able to quickly dive in.
Because $10/gallon doesn't matter much if you're filling up your tank once a month.
Google Translate. No other general MT comes close (there are specialized MT systems that can surpass it). It's a result of Google's possession of so many terabytes of bilingual corpora (and a very clever hybrid system).
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How is that bad treatment? I for one would welcome an instant, painless death.
For Postgres, I really recommend postgresapp.com.
But you know that nowadays even Boeing is using fly-by-wire? So the only difference is the input device which more a question of convenience or personal preferances. basically it all comes down to training, experience and system knowledge. The make of your aircraft is secondary.

by the way, the A330 has a pretty good safety record. We shouldn't judge one approach based on one single incident no matter how severe.

And even it came ultimately down to a pilot error, in order to make plane crash it takes a whole chain of events. In AF447's case the pilots reaction was the last straw, yoke or side stick.
OK, I see now that free accounts require a support ticket to revert everything to a specific point in time. One of my users a year or two ago was able to restore a very big folder herself; she must have had a paid Dropbox account with the Pack Rat feature.
I would go a step further and say that, at least in my experience, the code bases that have yielded amazing UX, piles of money, etc. are almost never beautiful. The code may start out beautiful, but once people start using it they start surfacing naïve assumptions, flawed designs, bugs, etc. And if things are going well business-wise there's rarely time or resources to fix those issues in a beautiful, comprehensive way (since maintaining beauty frequently means massive refactoring or flat-out rewrites).

In other words, beautiful code is code that nobody uses.
Catering to these users now will preserve the design for the next round of display technology. We all know the future belongs to these types of displays.
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The rewards are totally lame, and insanely priced. I love the comic, and really it's not worth a dollar of mine to remove the ads I don't even look at. The Kickstarter goal doesn't even remove the ad from the Comic page.
Not true -- you must purchase pack-rat unlimited history ($39) to be able to go back beyond 30 days. This is not included in the paid accounts.

Both paid and free accounts have 30 days of deleted file history by default.
Steam would need to ensure each game is completed. It would tarnish the brand if some games were not finished. Kickstarter does not suffer from this problem because everyone goes into it expecting that the game may not get off the ground.
Their goal is to redirect the people they have handling advertisers into projects for creating new content. Also, Mike tweeted (http://twitter.com/cwgabriel/status/222718794798350336) "I don't want to spoil some of the un-lockables but if we aren't making projects for advertisers we are free to make projects for you."

They clearly want to stop spending effort on ads altogether and spend it on new content for their readers, instead.
> If I send 50 SMS to someone who is charged 10c per message, I have cost them $5.00. So I should care whether I send them an SMS vs. an email.

Yes. You're supporting my point.

> Someone without a data plan doesn't have constant access to email. Maybe they only check it on a computer every few days. So if I want to send an instant message, SMS might be necessary.
> Randomly sending an email vs. an SMS does not "just work".

Again, yes, this is it exactly. Things right now are very far from it "just works." Things are horrendously complex, and it often sucks for one reason or another. Some people can manage all of this complexity in their heads, but that's certainly not true of everybody. What's needed is an integrated vertical.

> Nor does forcing each person to communicate to a computer some elaborate policy for how to reach them best.

True, that, though being able to set that just once might be better for some of the tech savvy than having to keep track of it all. That wouldn't fit everyone, though. What if someone could communicate their preferences to something like Siri after the fact, with a machine learning system adjusting preferences taking into account all of the communication stakeholders?
When EBS failed in US-East a year or two ago, my RDS instance did not remain available and did not automatically fail over to its replica, despite my paying for these benefits. Even when it was working correctly, the RDS instances had low capacity compared to physical servers, and there were often spikes of significant latency that would lead to overloaded web servers as DB queries backed up unanswered.
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Ok I think I've got a counter example. First of all, I'm only going to consider values where N approaches infinity && r < 1 && r > 0 to make the math easier.

lim [n-> inf, r < 1, r > 0 ] of S_0 = E_0 (1-r^n)/(1-r) ->

S_0 = E_0 * 1 / (1-r)

I propose that the actual relationship is:

S_0 = E_0 / (i-f)

E_0=1,f=.07,i=.10 - Original: S_0 = 36.666..., My proposal: S_0 = 33.333...

E_0=1,f=.80,i=1.00 - Original: S_0 = 10, My proposal: S_0 = 5

So it seems your formula approximates mine at low values of i and f, but diverges strongly at higher values.

I believe I can show mine is the correct one with a small amount of intuition when we let f=0:

If I make 10% annually in interest, then $1mil will provide $100k/year forever. The same thing more concisely: i * S_0 = E_0

r = F/I = (1+0/1+i)

After substitution and division, your formula is E_0 = S_0 / ((i+1)/i)

In words: If I make 10% annually in interest, then $1mil will provide $90.9k/year forever, which is intuitively false.
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I flagged this before and I am going to flag this again: this service is not legal in any state except Virginia and will not satisfy the in-person verification requirements of any state (except Virginia, which does not require in-person verification of identity). This does not mean the service is illegal; it simply means that this service cannot be used for any legal purposes in any state or federal jurisdiction (except Virginia).

There is a reason this service is not, nor will it ever be disruptive--it does not address the core underpinnings of the notary system: verification of documents and identities. Online identify verification using inaccurate third party verification databases is not sufficient to prove identity for any purposes. Holding up a document or id card to a webcam does not allow for sufficient examination by the notary of the document or card showed to prove that the document or id card is what it is alleged to be.

Indeed, this system would actually aggravate the notarization scam problem it claims to address.

Going digital does not solve every problem. Most people at HN may not realize this, but there are a lot of situations where things cannot be done through a computer.
Yo! I run partnerships at Dwolla. Your email from May went to my spam- I just responded. No excuse, but sorry about that.
To me 50mb is way to little for me. In that sense you are no way like dropbox.
Android has an NDK that allows you to write native code in C\C++. Most of the resource intensive code for Android games is native.

That's why you can't play most of the games if you have an android phone with a MIPS processor (they're all compiled for ARM).
A very wise person once said:

The three biggest lies ever told are "CPR saves lives",
"I won't come inside you", and "The NSA doesn't read your email."

OK, paraphrased a little, but does anybody believe these guys when they say they aren't snooping on American citizens? I, for one, trust the NSA as far as I can throw them. Aren't there some NSA whistleblowers[1] running around right now testifying that the NSA is spying on Americans?

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4214561
Of course they will. I don't think we will see >1TB drives without it.
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I guess it will. I bought Dropbox one morning in a panic when I thought my drive was dying. It turned out to be fine but I've been working out of the directory since then. Thanks.
You must have felt the same way I did about the original Google Wave announcement.

So much potential squandered by a poor design team. I've always hoped some developers would turn the code into what it was meant to be.
No, there just needs to be interoperation layers like file systems, sockets, stdio, etc. In the kitchen metaphor, it's your hands.
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Only works if you downgrade from SL to Lion though.
> A nice simple how-many-in-stock web service would be a lot easier to maintain.

... yes, _after_ you are doing millions of transactions per month. But until you've actually built a business, there's no point in setting up a web service.

If there's a web service, there has to be a team to maintain it. This means you need to be big enough to have one team per web service.
I completely agree with this.

It's the same issue with comparing MBA programs to accelerator programs. A Masters in Business Administration is NOT a Masters in Entrepreneurship, which I would argue is a more apt juxtaposition to the "school of hard knocks". Sure, an MBA and accelerator experience may overlap in many places -- but they sure diverge in many others.

That doesn't stop people from asking the question "Harvard MBA or Y Combinator?" though...
I read it as "every game must have a demo". I think this a good strategy, a strong differentiator from iOS that fits the way people want to play games, ultimately resulting in more sales rather than forcing developers onto a DLC model.
When do you think Py3K will be main stream ? I'm afraid this might be a failing effort. Is there any company out there using Py3K in production ?
It's not about the setters/getters directly, it's the way they are being called by returning references to the parent object in each method call.
You're missing my point. I wasn't saying that the problem was that the document came from DHH or 37Signals. I like 37Signals!

What I was saying was, if you remove the author's identity from the document and just look at the actual words on the paper, you find that the words on the paper have a pretty clear value judgment embedded in them: that "a single consultant serving local businesses in Schaumburg, Illinois" is by definition someone who doesn't care about beautiful code, quality engineering, etc. A beyond-saving rube, in other words.

If a warehouse full of monkeys produced the same argument in the same words, I'd have reacted to it just as strongly. Elitism is a turn-off for me.
You can check checksums. You can use a package manager which has been gpg signed and reviewed by people smarter than you. You could download it over https.

You're downloading and running in one go. If someone puts a badfile up for 1 minute, then restore it to normal, and you get hosed, it's pretty hard to check that, because the download link looks fine now. You cannot try to figure out what happened or who did it to try to track down the culprit.
"Dropbox Pro now comes in flavors of 100 and 200 GB, but at the price of the original 50 and 100 GB plans." I don't know what's complicated about this. It reads like new pricing = old pricing with 2x the storage. Am I missing something, too?
Sure, but it will cost a few hundred dollars more. And many people might not want these just for games, but for media stuff, and they would find the $99 price a lot more attractive than $300-$400 for such tasks.
But dosn't Ubuntu have their own designer? why do the subcontract it?
Or even better, the Lybian goverment siezes it.
They have a feature called "Dwolla Instance" that lets users use the money from a transfer before it's complete (the $3 option you mentioned), but more importantly they're actually building out their own clearing house that doesn't have the five day delay. As more banks get on board with that we'll have more instant transfer for free (and they're doing a lot to incentivize the banks).
It looks like this thing is aimed squarely at indie game developers, and the type of people who play indie pc games. Indie gamers aren't really known for their craving for top of the line graphics.

I'm not sure there is much of a demographic of people who are "indie gamers" , most people who play indie games also play AAA games, so a console for Indie games only doesn't seem like it would have a huge target market.

Using android saves them a lot of time and putting it on an arm platform allows it to easily run all of the popular android games.

Android stuff is mainly Java, so I can't imagine that porting would be that huge a deal especially considering there are also ports of android for x86. You must also keep in mind that most android games are designed around touchscreens, so it's not like they are suddenly going to have a big library of games that are playable with a controller without significant redesign.

There isn't a commodity SOC that comes with a desktop class GPU, so I don't see anyway they could realistically do that--it would require a whole lot more than a million bucks to develop it.

Couldn't this be mostly done by using a motherboard from a laptop or similar? Since it's a console, space and weight are less of a factor than with a tablet etc.

This would a lot of time. Since these games are written for android a port will probably be a complete rewrite (see minecraft for x-box), and take a year at least.

This is basically a chicken/egg problem. Indie developers are unlikely to develop around a platform that does not already have significant user base. Most of the popular indie titles, supermeatboy , braid etc were developed around the 360 first because it already had a significant market.
I use and love Ruby every day, but this package management business is ... irksome. First the Ruby guys crapped all over package management from Debian, who, despite their shortcomings, have been doing it a while and know a thing or two about it. That wasn't entirely unfounded, because there were some messy things there, and the intersection of two different package management systems is bound to be a bit confused.

Now we have rvm's and gemsets and bundles and additionally people trying to foist off alternatives to some of these, and the whole thing is beginning to look like an unholy mess.

Meanwhile, Debian/Ubuntu's package management continues to work pretty well at what it does.
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As a non-developer who has tried several times to learn, I can say with 100% confidence that setting up a dev environment and workflow is fucking maddening.

It's a major barrier to learning and I hate that it's as complex as it is. Should be turn-key.
Most people are going to donate less than $200 and the people that will donate will do it because they love the site, not because they're looking for swag. I've been reading PA since 2001 and aside from buying a t-shirt, have been entertained 3 times a week for over a decade for free, aside from the inherent value of my eyeballs. If I toss them some cash it will be because I love the site and because I want to support what I regard as a really awesome company, not because I demand they give me more stuff.
I'll link you to adblock for $44 billion and 50 cent.

In fact, let me write up a kickstarter proposal.
I was surprised the article didn't mention this too. It talks a lot about culture, but doesn't really mention that Harvard really isn't the place where people most interested in computer science would want to go, especially at the grad level.

I agree, the "humble" thing about University of Washington was pretty cringe-worthy.
Nice. This is a great way to deal with Sturgeon's Law.
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Why do you pay for it, then?
No, online notarization is not legal anywhere in the world, except Virgnia.

This is not at all similar to how lenders can use Utah law but incorporate in Delaware. Choice of legal forum is a contractual issue between private parties.

Notorization is a legal issue involving the government. Notaries act as government agents when they notarize, so each legal jurisdiction gets to set the standards for legal notarization within their jurisdiction. States are not required to honor notarizations performed in another state under the Full Faith and Credit Clause because notarization is not considered a "public act" but most states will accept notarizations from other states if the standards in the other state are the same or stricter than the first state.

Hence, while signers can notarize from anywhere in the world using SignNow, they can't use this notarization for anything except for transactions governed by Virginia law and subject to the jurisdiction of Virginia courts. This makes the service effectively useless for anyone who does not live in Virginia, since other state courts do not have to accept the notarization.
The thing is that the $15 minimum would have applied to all of the services that Uber offers, not just their town cars. This would have an impact on the rollout of UberX to the area, which has a minimum fare of $10.

http://blog.uber.com/2012/07/03/sf-vehicle-choice/
With no air-speed indicator at night there is no way to tell your speed or wether you stall or not. What also happened to AF447 was that when the pilots pulled up the stall indicator silenced. that the COMPUTER does that beyond a certain speed stresshold wasn't remebered apparently since that wasn't trained properly.

And being in coffin corner where to much speed is going to kill you to, well as apiot you have to decide.

What is true on the other hand is that the bush pilot to aorliner pilot career became kind of scarce. But here AF is one of the better airlines since they still train their pilots themselves instead of relying on third-party training institutes. Something that's apparently happaning a lot in the UK for example.

But given the fact the planes are basically flying computers today, well being a pilot didn't become easier imho.
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Checksums are only for transmission errors. If someone can change the code, they can change the checksum.

Indeed, using signed code is massively preferable, and it is increasingly common.

I was about to write that you can't operate running only signed code, but if you consider git hashes a form of signing then I suppose you largely can these days. However, running unsigned code is still so common that I don't think you can really single out people who pipe curl into sh.
I'm surprised they're not also pursuing media center features, either baked-in or through third parties. Netflix clearly wants to live on every box in the universe, and the open-ish stack lends itself well to Flex, XMBC, etc. It increases the value prop while the game library is still being built up (how many people bought a PS3 because it doubled as a Blu-Ray?)

Also: how the heck is Ouya pronounced? Feels a little awkward to say, like the first year of the Wii. It's important that people are able to talk (and brag!) about your product.
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