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There's this prevalent stereotype about vegans that they are very naive and get all of their information from peta and the like. I've worked with hundreds of farm animals and seen conditions even on small family farms. I've been in contact with many animals that were neglected and abused from small farms. Of course the situations are the worst on CAFOs, but certainly not limited to them. I'm sure I have a higher standard than most, but the farms that even approach respectful treatment of animals are in a tiny minority. And those are the products for which you pay a large premium.
I'm sure it works great. But it's one other piece of infrastructure to deploy, monitor, and maintain. Depending on what stage your at and whether or not photos are core to your business, I think (at least temporarily) a hosted solution is better for some.
Your wording gives the answer away.

Copying the many trivial details of a game down to specific color values is not the same thing as sharing a gross physical resemblance to a piece of glass with metal on the back and a screen with a grid of icons.
> Is your issue that the are trying to make it the safest, or that they said that they are trying to make it the safest?

The article doesn't say they are trying to make it the safest and it doesn't say they said they are trying to make it the safest.

The article says it will be the safest, even though it hasn't even been tested in flight.
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I, for one, am looking forward to post-modern browsers.
Although it seems most of their argument (http://www.scribd.com/doc/101954002/EA-v-Zynga-Complaint-Fin...) except for the RGB values relate to game mechanics.

As someone who doesn't play Facebook games, looking at the images, they certainly look like two different ways of expressing the same game. Some icons are similar - e.g. the 'heart break' icons, but they don't seem to be that novel for what they are depicting.
> Well, the project manager

There are no project managers. The closest thing Valve has to them are nothing but glorified receptionists. There is no-one who can do the decision to not accept a team member.

If you flood into a project that is already overstaffed, you'd be hard pressed to find any actual work to do. Which means that you're not producing much, if any, value visible to your co-workers, and those are exactly the people who will be evaluating you.
% cd ~/.local

cd: no such file or directory: /home/tammer/.local

% uname -s -r

Linux 3.4.7-1-ARCH
No, he definitely doesn't understand what quickbooks is. He says 10million loc is an indication it has gone "horribly wrong". That tells me he doesn't have the vaguest idea what the feature set of quickbooks is.

I've been programming for 15 years, and have personally used sage for 7 years. 10m loc is definitely within reason for the number of features the app has.

If he doesn't understand WHAT the software IS. Then how can he sit there and say what the level of difficulty is.

He DOES NOT KNOW. because HE DOES NOT KNOW what quickbooks is.
I've felt it recently. And I'm not gay, either. Like others have mentioned, it's not a "bio-clock is ticking" deal(I'm 25. And a dude.), but more a desire to help my kids grow and be happy. That's kind of weird because I don't have kids, but whatever.

That said, I'm not married, and startup life doesn't mix well with single parenthood, were I to adopt.
B2B = better to bet for VCs in the coming years.
I'm building a discussions platform that works in a similar fashion to workflowy. I guess you could say it's a collaborative workflowy. for Check it out: http://ec2-50-16-106-77.compute-1.amazonaws.com/

I think the idea of infinitely nested lists are useful for many things. The tree structure is quite powerful.
IMO $1B for that kind of risk-free traction isn't significantly expensive to FB. Especially as FB desperately needed a volume of photos available outside the social graph in order to stay competitive.
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I wouldn't want to put my life in the hands of someone who trusted his own software, so I'm going to say no.

I like that. There are a million ways you can answer a given interview question that will cost you the job, but there are also a few ways you can make me end an interview and make you an offer on the spot. Under the right circumstances, that answer would be one of those.

And you have to pray that they didn't miss something.

I don't have to do any such thing.
End users should always have the newest browser without having to work on it and thus get new features when they are ready and hotfixes and security fixes in the fastest way possible.

People chasing the chimera of the browser as universal app platform have lost the forest for the trees. Do you really expect me to take a dev platform seriously that can't be versioned and is constantly being changed out from underneath users?

I don't envy QA teams working on web apps.
> Yes. When members of a firm create value for each other, they don't pay sales tax. It is huge unfair advantage for large firms.

This is very, very close to the sales pitch of a VAT. In a proper VAT system, there is effectively no difference between purchasing an intermediary good or service or producing it yourself.
It's ramadan. People in Cairo are fasting and hungry. So they see an ad for a bagel and click "like". That's all there is to it.
I really hope there is an HTC nexus phone in the pipeline. It seems to me that their Sense skin is what strays people away from their phones. Their hardware, on the other hand, is incredibly beautiful and well built.

Another Nexus One might be exactly what they need.
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The poor man's API. I love it.
Does Valve make a promise of having a consistent support response time of 15 minutes?
I agree it's misleading, but some companies have spent a lot of money on the HTML5 brand, so expect to see a lot more of it.
I dont want to spoil the party but:

1) You really don't need Git to do this. Can you bind almost anything you like to make a call to this randomfact website.
2) The site doesn't only state facts. It says that elephants are the only animals that can't jump. This is simply not true, because snails for instance are animals as well, and it is proven that they can't jump.
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The Space Shuttle was a far less reliable system from a fundamental design perspective. The size of the wings, the nature of the thermal protection system, the insulating foam and the use of a super-cryogen as fuel, the side-by-side staging, the use of solid fueled boosters on a manned launcher, etc. Engineering estimates show that we were incredibly, incredibly lucky to have the Shuttle safety record we did, the vehicle was a death-trap. We almost lost Atlantis in 1988 and Discovery in 2005 to the same thing we lost Columbia to, and we almost lost several shuttles in the early 80s to the same fate that doomed Challenger.

Of course if an organization ever gets complacent about safety then things can go downhill, but in the case of SpaceX they have a fundamentally more robust vehicle design, a system with more and safer abort scenarios, and every possible reason to maintain a high degree of vigilance about safety (if for no other reason than their company's image and financial bottom line).
And you may be aware that the family farm of previous generations is not what it used to be. Your family may have been a step ahead most of today's farms, but I still take issue with several of your points.

>You mean until they are old enough to feed on their own. The reason they are individualized in early life is because otherwise the stronger calves will eat all of the food and who wants to see a calf starve? Even while in the hutch ("igloo"), the calves are free to interact with the nearby calves in other hutches.

No I don't. The only reason that would be an issue is if they are not drinking milk naturally from the mother. All across the Midwest are small and medium sized cattle ranches with calves of all ages getting on just fine. The biggest reason is they must be separated from the mother otherwise the farmer is losing money. And I honestly have not seen a single case where calves are free to interact with each other. They're either tied up or fenced in.

>I'm not sure the general population does know how that goes. I've heard all kinds of horrific stories about how veal calves, specifically, are mistreated. The only differentiator for veal is the age of the animal, otherwise they live like any other beef calf.

I'm actually surprised you said this because it's 100% wrong. Veal in the US is almost exclusively the male offspring of dairy cows - usually Holsteins. They are never beef breeds and their lives are extremely different. In order to get the tender meat, they are put on a formula deficient in Iron and either tied up or kept in small crates, which I have witnessed many times. This combination produces the light, tender meat veal is known for. I have a very hard time accepting you didn't know any of this having grown up on a dairy farm.

>Sadly, calving is hard on the animal. To be fair, this is something humans equally struggled with until the advent of modern medicine.

It sure is. It's a tremendous amount of stress to put on a female's body. That's the issue.
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Talking about bleeding edge; look at those browser requirements!
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Maybe you do didn't notice, but it wasn't our survey, and we had nothing to do with its design. I agree that the design is not great, but c'mon, this is just for fun. When you can select multiple answers, the percentages no longer total 100 across options, only within each option vs all respondents.
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I carry one of these in my back pocket at all times. "a year of white pages" by Nava. You switch books every month, and then can look at them later.

http://www.navadesign.com/_funzioni_articoli_dettaglio.php?A...
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You completely missed the point. The point is that there are many examples of similar behaviors that aren't learned in lower animals that don't have the ability to learn much of anything the way humans do.

Thinking up an example of a different trait attributed to the opposite sex in humans is completely irrelevant.

If you want to address this subject in a meaningful way -- rather than find a nit-pick over an analogy while obtusely missing the point, maybe you should look into refuting the mountain of twin study evidence that shows that nurture lost in the nature vs nurture debate.
I think the reaction from many long-term programmers who have switched technologies, careers, frameworks, languages is to the "...use it for everything?" mantra. I applaud your goals and the success at getting more people to program and build things. That's what we really do need. Let's hope this audience is reading HN with an open mind and figure out, as many here have, that the problem to be solved is the most important decision, not the tool.

Thank you for the nice write up.
I think you nailed it in the least amount of words. You're right, it's real! B2C has become the land of also-rans. It's the same old, same old but this time with a new interface, a special niche, and so on but in the end it's all the same app with a different logo each time. B2B solves problems that make it easier for customers to solve another problem. They're real tools that create real value as well as wealth for its customers. That's probably why B2B pays while consumer focused startups have a hell of a hard time monetizing.

If I had to pay for Facebook I'd say fuck it and use the phome which I already pay for. If Quickbooks started free then asked me to pay I'd pony up because it not only saves me time and the monetary value of my time but it also saves me on hiring someone to do the work Quickbooks does for less. That's a real problem.

Another example happened to me just today. I'm heading up a project to start A/B testing our marketing efforts where I work. Right now I signed us up for a free Mixpanel account that I'm using to kind of start showing the team hard numbers before actually buying anything. This morning I had a meeting with someone from Optimizely which actually does exactly (literally exactly) what we want to do better than Mixpanel. I was shown how the service works and got a nice run through and at the end of the meeting I was dying to buy their platinum plan because of how much time it would save me personally, how much money it would save our company, and also for what the product itself does. My point here is that you don't see that in the B2C space. Most users would complain if a Facebook disappeared overnight but they sure as hell wouldn't whip out their wallets to keep it alive like B2B customers do when they like a service.
I think to understand @daltonc's strategy with join.app.net, one should be familiar with Thomas Schelling's concept of 'precommitment':

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precommitment

Note that the 'textbook' examples of precommitment involve the burning-of-bridges or burning-of-ships-at-the-shore.

If there's any hope of an alternative to Facebook/Twitter at this point, given the incumbents' long head-starts, it's going to be a 'zag' to the incumbents' advertising-supported 'zig'. Caldwell might not have gone into his Facebook meeting fully intending that sort of confrontation... but by the time he left, the choices were stark.

I thus view Caldwell's anecdote not as a complaint, "boo-hoo I was wronged", but as him sharing a difficult lesson: that Facebook's model makes it impossible for Facebook to be a magnanimous platform steward. Perhaps Caldwell should have seen the writing on the wall earlier, but many exterior-platform shops are missing the same point, as evidenced by the surprise and indignation after each new consolidating move by the platform proprietors.

Perhaps Caldwell could have intuited the reality beforehand, and written about it in abstract terms. The anecdote illustrates the problem, in a way that far more independent developers will understand.
No, 'smart' is the right word.
Specifically what it says:

"SpaceX, along with our partners at NASA, will continue to push the boundaries of space technology to develop the safest, most advanced crew vehicle ever flown."

That reads to me as "We are working hard with the goal of making it the safest." They haven't done it yet, but they are stating what they hope to do.

Anyway, I think you are looking at this too hard.
HTC was one of the first to manufacture smartphones. Their old windows phones were nice but the new HTC surround and a couple other android phones too don't really stand out.
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As an aside, I find that I usually disagree with anyone who feels compelled to frame their argument as an 'open letter'.

In this case, I agree that javascript is ubiquitous, and has the advantage of being delivered to the end-user in (more or less) source code form. However, the language itself is a mess, and it's a bit of a shame that we seem to have gotten stuck with it for so long as the only dynamic web runtime.

I think the most annoying thing about javascript is that people who learn it for web-programming seem to insist on using it everywhere, without regard for whether it's the best tool for the job.
As the SpaceX president put it, it's an "abort" if you get to try again, and a "failure" if you don't.
I'm reading that SimCity Social was released about six weeks ago; is that wrong or were you thinking of something else?
Even in high school, I never thought differently. >10 years later this is the first time I ever even thought that someone would consider the probability of their graduating (totally within their control). It was always 100% which would be the best school to be from...or which one would be the most fun. Graduation rate has nothing to do with either.
Dairy is not really a cheap source of protein. Most vegetable sources are cheaper - pulses and whole grains.

>It is, however, annoying that the price has gone up by about 22% in the last 10 years.

No, it's really not that annoying. Many of the other foods on that list have undergone similar increases and that 22% hasn't even kept up with inflation. This is also despite the fact that the dairy industry is pretty heavily subsidized. I'm far more annoyed that the price hasn't gone up more to reflect the true cost of dairy.
I think there is a big difference between B2B and enterprise software. Enterprise software, to me, seems very boring. B2B software like, say, the stuff 37signals makes is interesting. I enjoy those business models and reading about b2b web apps and picking apart their UI designs and how they go about solving problems. It seems like it would be a ton of fun to build something like mailchimp.com or basecamp.com, etc..
I have a Desire HD and a week ago they announced they will not be releasing an ICS update for it, citing a lack of flash storage. It took them about a year to find that out, about the same amount of time that ICS has been running on my device through a custom firmware, and just a few days ago, I installed a jelly bean image.

It mostly works fine, but the biggest problem with custom firmware is the bad/unstable hardware support. You need the propietary driver blobs, and only HTC has the means to get them.

Personally, I hope they go bankrupt. I would never buy another HTC product, from the complete lack of software support for what is supposed to be a smartphone, the defective included SD card to the completely closed down bootloader and inane protection measures. It has been a complete disaster.
:) Thanks so much. Yeah, it's really interesting that after the golden era of outliners, none of them still exist in a big way.
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I actually have seen most being really close.

Here's one with the GS3 marginally better - and Galaxy Nexus even better: http://www.theverge.com/products/compare/5588/5239/5258/2946...

Agreed though on a lack of marketing. My GF has an HTC Evo 4G design, which most have never even heard of. And it's a damn good phone - even at a year old.
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It's actually not more sophisticated, if anything it's simpler.

Here's how the Falcon 9 + manned Dragon would abort: the capsule would separate from the launcher as the escape rockets fired, meanwhile the launcher's engines would be shut down (cutting off thrust). The capsule would then coast through the atmosphere until it slowed down then deploy its parachutes when it had slowed down enough and float to the surface.

Here's one abort mode for the space Shuttle: the Shuttle continues to fly until the SRBs have burned out (there's little choice about that) and jettisoned, then the orbiter rotates 180 degrees so that it is thrusting against its direction of travel, the SSMEs continue to run until the forward momentum is cancelled and the vehicle is headed back toward the launch site, then the SSMEs are shut down and the ET jettisoned, the orbiter then glides to an unpowered landing at the KSC landing strip.

Or, how about this one: if the Shuttle's SSMEs cut out during flight then the orbiter rides along until the SRBs burn out, then they and the ET are jettisoned, the orbiter glides a bit until it slows down, then a hatch is opened and a rail is extended out of the hatch, the crew then individually bail out of the vehicle as it is traveling several hundred mph by sliding along the rail (which allows them to avoid hitting the wing) and deploy their individual parachutes, they land in the ocean and are recovered by a search-and-rescue team.

That's complicated, the Dragon/Falcon is utter simplicity.
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This is really too bad. By far, HTC produces some of the nicest Android and WP7 hardware out there.
Yea, I know it is not going to disappear overnight. tantek suggested on whatwg IRC to do a CSS-style modularization of HTML, with HTML5 being the CSS 2.1.
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That works until you unintentionally hellban a legitimate user.
This is so not true when comes to the biggest AAA video-games, and fan-boys never happy with them :) - like boycotting them months before the game is released, even making their avatar with a picture of the Boycott, and then later seeing them buying it with the avatar unchanged...

Or maybe even movies - well it might work - for Friday bad movie night :)
I'm not sure what that's based on. For example, selecting a subset of items from a given list seems to be faster in a GUI than I've ever seen it done on a command line.
It's true! We're working very, very hard on Redis support. No ETA just yet, but there will surely be an announcement from us.
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This could very well become a good mobile personal diary. Love the way old history from Facebook/Instagram/Twitter is imported. It would be great to have a good way of visualizing this (Examples: Snapjoy, Facebook Timeline, iPhoto, Flickr Calendar)
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I am not a hiring manager, but I am a guy without a college degree who works in IT.

As mentioned elsewhere, it depends on what the equivalent experience is. But also consider this;

Employers [1] look at a college degree as an indicator that one can pick something and stick with it for a few years, see it to it's finish.

If this is valid, then you can't have a strict conversion rate. Enlisting in the military for four years is a valid a measure of 'stick to it-ivness'. So would working at 'a' employer for a dozen years [2]

Which is a roundabout way of saying 'it depends on the individual'.

[1] I was told once by a CIO during an interview.
[2] While demonstrating progressive advances in responsibilities.
I really, really hope Valve succeeds and gets this vision through. It sounds like a great company.

His insight about corporations being Soviet in nature is spot-on. Corporatism is neither capitalism nor socialism, but a hybrid system to give a well-connected elite (~0.5%) the best of both systems and the other 99.5% the worst of both worlds. Look at air travel; that's about as Soviet an experience as one gets, but the pricing is aggressively and mean-spiritedly capitalistic. Or consider suburbia as a microcosm. The rich live in places like the Hamptons and have both rural and urban amenities, while the poor live in depressed, polluted exurbs that combine the worst of city and country life.

What Valve sounds like to me is a post-scarcity capitalistic model where there's still inequality of results (as, IMO, there should be) but there isn't pain or poverty.

In our current world where there is a lot of scarcity (even though it's outmoded and artificial in the US) people work a certain way, and give up too much power, because the alternative is risk of economic misery. In a post-scarcity world with more of a safety net, people probably would "wheel their desks" to other projects, companies, and opportunities (or split their time among more than one, rather than lingering in this undiversified full-time thing) more freely. That's what we're starting to see in technology, as the demand for programmers increases and the stigma against changing jobs frequently (assuming there's upward progress and learning) goes away.
Ha, It looked bad in chrome so I opened Firefox.

It looked just as bad in Firefox 11.

Then it updated to 12 and it looked bad still.

Then it updated to 14, and it still looks bad.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/bi4mwp0abkyehjz/sendicate_Chrome21...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/vdfc86r8a5gy72g/sendicate_FF14.PNG