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Has anyone successfully proposed a website replacement to a small business?
Say there is a small business in your city that should be competitive as it has very low product prices and good service, but doesn't get enough exposure and has an perhaps undeservedly poor reputation due to an awful website that has severe usability problems, very poor quality copy, and does silly things like putting most content in PDF files linked from various places on the site.

Has anyone successfully initiated a proposal to rewrite and maintain a website for a small business, or is it a case of "things don't work that way"? The proposal might include a discussion of the problems with the current website, the consequences of these problems in exposure and revenue, and an overview of the solution that would be offered.
$300 million and you could be everything to your child but you insist on attempting to overwork? Jesus that just feels stark to me.

Chacun a son gout. Mayer was famous for her over-the-top 100 hour weeks at Google - it's unlikely that would change with a change of scenery.
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http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Slow_Counting

Are there DBMSs where this doesn't happen?

I just did a SELECT COUNT(*) on a table here in our QA environment; 20.5 seconds to count 42385875 records from one table and 68.8 seconds to count 191906711 records from another table (Oracle 10g 64-bit).
Nobody said you shall spend your life before a mirror, saying affirmations instead of living your life. They are a way to rewire your brain for assumptions you want to get rid of, and break bad habits without needing a therapist. Acting is crucial. People who don't act are stuck and/or depressive, and they may use affirmations to pretend to feel better. But that's just a way of using a tool the wrong way.

Affirmations also should not create expectations in you. They change the way you perceive the world, and yourself. If someone creates expectations of feeling better after saying affirmations (and then is disappointed), then that's a problem of its own - it just means that you used it as a quick fix instead of trying to change your beliefs and assumptions.
I could indeed. Only under the current system there's someone else, probably more qualified than me, already doing it for me. That's part of what's so great about peer review -- other people do it for you almost all of the time.
4G is a mobile broadband technology that will change the way your department communicates, collaborates, and operates.

3G is a mobile broadband technology that will change the way your department communicates, collaborates, and operates.

GPRS is a mobile broadband technology that will change the way your department communicates, collaborates, and operates.

WiMax is a mobile broadband technology that will change the way your department communicates, collaborates, and operates.

So ... what are you pitching again?
They add (at least in Ruby) a few lines of code to a program; and take things like Email out of the User model and put them in a more appropriate place.
I'm only familiar with math publishing, but I've never heard of a math journal that did anything other than provide a web form for the editor to request a review (and similarly, for the reviewer to submit with).

Typesetting is usually done (correctly) by latex, and then possibly screwed up by some human the publisher outsourced to. Automated typesetting is a solved problem, and there is no need for humans.

As for your cost of $99/article, the Arxiv costs $400k/year (though admittedly, Donald Knuth does the typesetting).

As for your "darknet", are you really going to claim this darknet is more reliable than mirroring articles to 3-4 amazon regions plus rackspace files? I'm sure the darknet costs at least 10x as much, but that isn't the issue. Similarly, paying membership fees to the other big publishers to keep little guys out of the market is again not the issue.

If it weren't for reputation effects and agency costs (i.e., if the market were competitive), this process would cost well under $99/article. The only reason the publishers haven't already died is because tenure committees want to see Journal of Computational Physics rather than the Upstart Computational Physics Journal.
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"but I kept delaying talking to the people in charge of accounting because I really didn't like the though of <b>begging for my hard earned money</b>."

I think this is exactly the problem the article is talking about. The idea that asking someone to pay for something they purchased equates to "begging".

I've never had this problem (I've sent out invoices for $5, and if you're a day late, expect to hear from me the next day.. it took 2 invoices to collect that $5, btw).

I think it's helpful to put yourself in their shoes. Could you imagine calling one of your freelancers, having them do work for you, and then not paying them? When they call, would you think they were begging for their money or being greedy?

Of course not. If there's no dispute about the work, then you know you owe them money. You know you never paid for the product you purchased.

I don't think of Safeway as greedy when they ask me to pay for a loaf of bread. And I wouldn't expect a customer to think I'm begging when I remind them they haven't paid their bills.
I didn't qualify it as I'm not a MS investor. I'll leave it up to the shareholders to read into it what they will.

This is fairly standard practice. Just much more noticeable when it is MS and it is such a large purchase price.
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Time is limited, so how do we use this scarce resource to our advantage? I think this is a great way to get the message across. I wouldn't buy anything this guy pitched to me, but the underlying technique is important. What is the most important piece of information you want the person buying your product to know and how do you support that one piece of information so that our minds will remember it with all of the other information out there.
In addition to social apps being simpler and easier to start you also don't have to deal with the reams and reams of paperwork and certifications that getting into healthcare entails.
Y’know, browsers already have several built-in mechanisms for transparent caching without having to rely on Web Storage. I'd strongly recommend taking a look at them before implementing a jQuery plugin.

The only problem is that HTTP-based caching requires sane server URLs, and the Rails code here indicates a lack of understanding of how to build a cache-friendly URL structure.

I'm also a little fazed by the fact that the 'isCacheValid' key not only checks the validity of the cache, but also sets a cache key at the same time.
I thought the same, it's a super 'businessy-corporate' message that says 'nothing'. Actually I snail-mail could be pitched with almost the same message (remove mobile broadband).

I stopped reading after that sentence.
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Can the lack of mixed DML/DDL transactions be worked around with a change to my.conf?

non transactional migrations always seem to trip me up in mysql, cleaning up the mess is a nightmare
Way off is kinda unhelpful, is it way more expensive or way cheaper?
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Nicely done. A (surprisingly) hacker-oriented process features in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Dummies by Rhenna Branch and Rob Wilson.

The tl;dr version is that you can (and probably should) step back from your thoughts, observe, and experiment with them to tackle your own negative or limiting thoughts.

I think that CBT will probably appeal wildly to the autodidactic HN'ers than pop up here. Check it out, even if you decide on another book.
Does this mean the system will have to store your password as plain text? I more trust myself to choose a secure password than any service to keep the plain text password secured.
I think she's only worth $33MM right now, so getting another $100,000,000 in the next five years could still be motivating :)
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Boom! This is so key and is a constant battle for me. Establishing and reaching these small goals is the key to success. Most of the time we only are made aware of big successes (like SpaceX docking with ISS), but don't see the 10 years of hard work and thousands of small successes along the way the provided fuel to continually push forward through setbacks.
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"13 percent of deals were in the mobile sector with 30 percent of those companies involved in photo or video technology."

So I work that out to be >95% of VC deals were with companies that were not mobile/video/photo related.

Unless I'm missing something, I don't see a problem here.
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Is this for real? Sorry Kim Dotcom - you are not a figurehead of any movement, you are not a new Martin Luther King.

Call me crazy, but I think I trust this mob more: http://internetdefenseleague.org/
There's a number of companies with that many, particularly if you do manufacturing in addition to tech.

Intel - 100,100

Dell - 110,000

HP - 349,600

Google - 54,604

Microsoft - 90,000

Apple - 60,400 (I don't know what fraction is retail sales)

Numbers from Wikipedia, which I assume are from the annual reports these companies put out.
> Even the most busy home makers get lots of time in the afternoon and in the late evening.

Oh, that's the biggest load of horseshit I've seen here in a long time, and flat out false. You make a lot of unrealistic assumptions, and have absolutely no idea of what you are talking about. I swear, if you aren't trolling, then I can only imagine you grew up with some twisted idea of what normal is. Sheltered at the very least.

No, if what you say is what you honestly think happens, they you are either ignorant of reality of simply a twisted person.

I'm going to side with the ignorant part.

> In fact I would love to live a life where everything is other thing is taken care of, and all I have to do is house hold chores and get kids to do home work.

I just have to keep reminding myself that you are ignorant of reality.

> I am ready to be oppressed for a couple of decades at home.

Icing on the cake. Do you honestly believe this tripe you are spewing?
" and similar observations in nature to that effect"

Which one? Examples without mammals that breast feed their offspring which a male in mammals can't do?

Or did you mean elephants, "The females spend their entire lives in tightly knit family groups made up of mothers, daughters, sisters, and aunts." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant

so we should raise our chilren in tightly knit groups and drive the males away?

Should we throw marriage out because nearly no mammals have long monogamic relationships?

"Plus, when we are faced with some thousands of years of history, common worldwide family patterns, and similar observations in nature to that effect"

Your lack of citations seems to be a modus operandi.
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Simple answer there.... just have the system automatically lock the account if you statistically miss the password, just at it statistacally allows you in if you play properly.

Or maybe it's only accessible from secure locations - you don't go this much trouble to secure day to day stuff.

It's not unbreakable, but the idea that you're letting someone in by statistical analysis of their conditioned response to a game, including their mistakes is clever - no reason you couldn't lock them out or use other security measures by failure to meet that response.
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Just another example of this administration's abuse of power. The sooner they are gone the better for all of US.
I did this for one month for my master exams - I had to catch up on a lot of things due to working in a startup ;-)

I was a wreck in the end.
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Pocket is one source we are supporting. Actually, we do different things, especially we support full text search.
Great to see a Newcastle, UK based startup launch their product. Saw these guys pitch halfway through their accelerator program and thought the concept looked pretty cool.

They're recruiting too if anyone is looking.
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I think of it slightly differently - "I really appreciate the direction that Microsoft developer tools division has been heading with their adoption of open source for a growing number of their products.

They deserve big credit. But devs appreciate open source more than other consumers. it's hard to see how open source would work for, say, the parts of Microsoft that make Windows, Office or Xboxes.

it's easy for devs to think of Dev tools as Microsoft as a whole, but they're not the biggest part of it, and are not the ones who bring in the most money (I found this link: http://www.tannerhelland.com/3958/microsoft-money-updated-20... ).

Like it or not, the MS Windows division can therefore boss the dev tools division around (and have in Windows 8, effectively dictating the direction of .Net and WPF).
Yeah, it's insane here. Note that my employer pay 75% of my insurance premium as well.

I don't think the insurance industry per se is the cause. There are many issues that books have been written on.

Fundamentally though, because we lack any basic "safety net", yet require hospitals to provide emergency care without regard to payment hospitals are forced to recover massive losses by raising rates for everyone. That's why a cesarean childbirth can cost $40k -- if a woman in labor who didn't get prenatal care shows up, they need to care for her and don't get paid.

So we end up in this false debate where opponents to "socializing" insurance/medicine don't understand what is wrong, because they have middle-class jobs with paid insurance as a benefit. It doesn't compute for some reason that they are already paying for it!
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One of the founders here... As far as i am aware you have to have a registered Irish company to avail of the .ie domain name. Thats how we got it.
The reason VCs are funding lightweight companies isn't that VCs want to fund lightweight companies. It's something else, and it's easy to see the reason if you understand the sociology of VC-istan.

VC-istan has become a good-ol'-boy network like any other. You need connections. You need the VCs to see you as a real person so that, instead of getting an indefinite put-off or a horrible term sheet, you either get (a) funding, quickly, on decent terms, or (b) a sit-down explanation of why your idea was rejected and either (i) introductions to investors who might be interested, or (ii) an EIR gig to pay the bills until you happen upon an idea that has wings. If you're not on those kinds of terms with VCs, and I doubt more a very small percentage of people are, then you shouldn't be wasting your time in VC-istan.

If you're a real founder, not getting funding means that a VC will pop you in to a high-level position at a portfolio company that one would never get on the open job market, and that will make up for the 6 months you spent without income. Actually, you're going to have more than one of these offers.

If you're not a real founder, not getting funding means that, congratulations, you spent months hustling with no income and no results.

The reason why lightweight companies are getting all the funding is that building up and maintaining those VC contacts is expensive and time-consuming. It's easily as large a time commitment as a full-time job, if not worse, and it takes months before you see any payoff.

VCs aren't preternaturally biased in favor of lightweight companies, but the people who are doing heavyweight stuff don't have the time to become "real founders" (i.e. "made men" in the VCs' eyes, who are entitled to sit-down explanations and EIR gigs upon rejection). So they have to pursue other routes to funding.
So, it's something like Firebug's console but with :chrome mode and syntax coloring. Am I missing something obvious here?
> Wow. Version 1 obviously wasn't ready at all. Why was it shipped in the first place? I guess a good question is why did MS let it ship?

Perhaps the one-free-patch policy should change into a no-free-patches policy, to encourage companies not to ship unfinished games.
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I'm one of the guys behind this plugin. In our case built-in browsers cache mechanisms were a no go because we needed to have a programmatic control over our cache. Our app is heavily powered by realtime notifications from the server, and we needed a way to invalidate the cache when some events occurs.

About 'isCacheValid' setting the cache key, you're right, it should have been done in the success callback. The gist is going to be updated soon with your feedback.
“You see people graduating from top tech schools… and they’re starting companies in internet and mobile,” said Corey Reese, CEO and co-founder at Ness Computing. “They’re not starting companies to enhance the life expectancy, by and large.”

This is what's known as the law of supply and demand, and isn't going to change. Sure I can start a business trying to sell salads because that's what people should be eating, but I'm not going to stay in business if people really want cheeseburgers and pizza.

This whole article also kind of points the finger at people in Silicon Valley and seems to say "Hey, you went to a good school and there are a lot of people around you with a lot of money. Why aren't you curing cancer?"

Two things- first, curing cancer is really fucking hard. Has the author of this article ever tried? Or is he assuming that some smart people somewhere else should be trying? I highly doubt that the guys behind Instagram are capable of curing cancer. So it's not as if for them it was interchangeable. It's also not as if the money that went to them would have resulted in a cure for cancer. To assume that it would have is to assume that there is somebody out there in SV going door-to-door trying to get funding for a cancer cure that would work.

Secondly, there is a lot of ongoing research in the "important" industries at Universities and research laboratories that do not rely on VC money. VC's couldn't afford to fund this research. It requires grants and donations on a massive scale. The simplicity behind this article is absurd.
The only way to see what the app does is to either watch the video (which I haven't done) or to sign up using Twitter/Google.

I think it would be useful for people like me to provide some way to know (even a small writeup would help) what the app is without forcing us to give the credentials or watch a video.
Agree. Take advantage of HTTP caching.
"There are lots of tech companies that are very successful but don’t fit the VC model. If they don’t raise VC, the founders can make money, create jobs, and work on something they love."

e.g. Microsoft
As a guess, I'd say it varies depending on a few factors such as the scale of the game, the changes introduced, etc.
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Depends on how 'small' a business is.

It is my honest belief that unless a business requires a website - they don't need one.

There are some exceptions but in general they can more easily use existing services that has existing users. (Ex. a directory listing or some type of SaaS platform)

There's a few things as dissappointing as spending thousands of rand/euros/dollars on a website and it ends up being an expense with no tangible benefits.

I'd tell a business, lets get real. A real website requires maintenance and regular updates which means time and money. Can a small business really afford to waste money AND time on something that doesn't increase your profits?

If a website doesn't fit into your core business domain, then you probably don't need one.

Here are a couple of questions that need to be asked:

Will clients leave you if you don't have a website?

Are there any dependencies that require you to have a website?

Who will be responsible for maintenance and updating of a website?

Are the 'experts' available to help create a website? (Ex. they want to be able to do stock control but have no idea how to do it - they expect the software to make up for their lack of skill/laziness. This is a major cause of failures in software development.)

Are they willing to pay upfront what it costs to create what they want? (I call this the free ride principle)

I'd say, consider the above questions. It might be better for such a small service to not to have a website and rather spend that money on physical advertising campaigns instead.

If you can take away anything from what I said, take this: Bad news is always free. Good news has to be searched for or created - in other words you should bring them good news and they will listen to you. Ask them those questions as a consultant, if they need a website - propose to them what you would do to improve their existing website in regards to their core business domain. If they don't need a website - tell them.