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Is it really so?

In Moscow a humorous proverb exists: "There is no life outside MKAD(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Ring_Road)

When I read PG (and others) about "there is no opportunity for [startups ... interesting productive life] except SF" - I think it's the same. Not true
So is this app about sharing or tracking?

The tagline is "PaleoViz helps you keep to a Paleo diet by giving you an easy way to track your meals"

But, the later the real benefit seems to be "share great paleo meals with friends."

Which is it?
It helped me a lot to journal. When I do, I'm much more strict. This has been a finding generally with lots of habits.

I tried to make the app specific to paleo because the journaling opens up possibilities if I know the domain of the journal.
It's a treatment, not a cure. It's for their good, but it's still deception. I find it creepy. A true solution would be making them not forget.

I think it's tragic because it's an indication of a) how terrible some diseases can be, and b) how powerless we are to stop them.
Not only that you can use Bitcoin scramblers to launder your bitcoins.

Because nobody mentioned them yet: They forward money for a fee. With enough users one can then not trace the transaction anymore.

And that makes Bitcoins a anonymous method to pay. Readily availble to launder money. Governments will not look away if this becomes widespread.
Is it really that important for sites like this to "be the first" or at least "at the same time" of other press releases? It was 12 hours, most of your readers probably didn't read about it yet, why not just post about it? I wouldn't have noticed you were 12 hours behind some other site. I wouldn't have cared if I did.

Is it just for their pride that they won't do it, so as not to look like a half-assed journalist in front of their peers, or is there a real concern here vis-a-vis the audience? I'm trying to think how "posting late" as opposed to not posting at all could in any way bring negative value to the audience, and I just can't come up with anything.

Feel free to enlighten me, but to my unexperienced mind this smells like ego-tripping.

> What can I say? Reporters are a prideful bunch. No one ever wants to follow someone else’s story.

So yeah, it is pretty much just ego-tripping. Disgusting how he admits he broke embargoes himself, that he recognizes it's just pride, how apologetic he is about it, and then still doesn't publish the story.
i miss the days when a reporter's job was to report.
It's only a problem when people with clearly defective genes are having children.

It's ok to cure people with defective genes as long as they do not breed.
Testing as a form of strategic leadership
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Am I the only one who reads this and thinks that it sounds like a merely pointless ritual of "Why, no, I couldn't possibly do that, the gods would be displeased" that ruined some poor startup's day? If you have a perfectly good story, why not just run it and to hell with that blogger?
The web is not "federated": site A does not communicate with site B. Contrast with SMTP or XMPP which require federated servers to communicate with one another to establish dialog between two users. All of them are decentralized though.
Sorry, I messed up. I misread gitorius instead of gitolite.

The tagline is from http://gitlabhq.com/

"Fast, secure and stable solution based on Ruby on Rails & Gitolite. Distributed under the MIT License."

Gitolite is GPL2 and Gitlabs MIT. I was just wondering how Gitolite project keeps the license compatibility.

Please ignore my previous comment on AGPL vs MIT, that was due to my misreading of Gitorius->Gitolite. This misreading was probably affected by the http://gitlab.io/ site where it's said that "Gitlab ... similar to ... and Gitorious".
You're right; thanks for the correction. I was giving the figures from my faulty memory. :)

My app is $4.99, so I net $4.55 from each copy sold independently, and $3.50 from each copy sold from Apple. That's a substantial bump.
Yep. I never use the laptop's keyboard. Always use a USB keyboard and have never had any problems (e.g. drivers).

Doing real typing on a tiny little laptop keyboard is for masochists. No shortage of them though. How many people are struggling with a touchscreen at this very moment? Suckers.

I have not used a mouse in over a decade. And I'm not about to start tapping and pinching a tiny little screen because Apple spends a few hundred million on marketing. The sacrafice (speed, ease of use, productivity, etc) is not worth it.
Those seem synonymous, both syntactically and emotionally.
Wow, the original Phoronix article was much more reasonable. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=apple...
You're right: it's just egos
> I'm afraid to leave the house to be seen; I don't even want to see my friends anymore. All I want to do is sleep because I'm so ashamed of what I've become it's painful to be awake and have to think about it all.

God, do I know this feeling. I don't know if I would have gotten away from it without friends and family.
Be sure to take a closer look at the Gitlab source code. The last time I did, they still were vulnerable to exactly the same attacks that were also demonstrated to work on Github some time ago.
Pretty awesome concept! Could each of the objects hold there annotations locally, and let other objects query them? Or would there have to be be a central server?
Why couldn't the user decide how to view message?

You could easily allow a user to see messages ordered by "send time" or "received time". You could even add an "unread" flag to messages, so that unread messages show up first, then migrate to their proper locations in order.

Ya know... kinda like email.
This version is mostly tracking with twitter for sharing. I am building out a backend for sharing right now.

I intend the app to be hired for two jobs: motivation in sticking to the diet and recommending paleo meals. Tracking and sharing are the features that will help me do that.

Since, at a minimum, I need you to track, I tried to make an app where tracking would be encouraged and easy (still plenty of room for improvement, but that's my intention)
So the author didn't want to post the original article on Lyft just because someone else beat them to it?

Oh, someone launched a competing product before me, let me just scrap my project even though it's already done and ready to launch.

No one really cares that you weren't the first person to cover the startup. If it was good content, people will read it.
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As of August 21st, I've sold 5.9% of my copies through my independent store. This includes a few weeks at the beginning where the app wasn't available on the App Store at all.

The App Store utterly dominates.

However, I still think it's good to have your own release path as well, because it gives you a bit more courage to argue with Apple when you need to. :)
"I use wordpress plugin which automatically post content related to any topic of your choice to your site, maybe that's the reason for this?"

This is most likely it. It sounds like your blog is just re-generated content from someone else's site.
> No one ever wants to follow someone else’s story.

Uh... then why do we see post after post droning on about the same BS days after the first one went up? It kind of sounds like he helped ruin the launch by refusing to be second (or fifth) to write about it. This guy kind of sounds like a twat.
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For what it's worth, I really recommend Stripe. It took me about two hours to write my home-built store using it, and I plan on using it on a new project soon.
Yes, he does seem to pull out the "jump to conclusions" mat a bit much. That being said, I can't help but think that this would only justify more data. Log more variables; have someone review your methodology; etc. I've always wondered, how do you test your own intelligence? If you're writing and scoring the test, doesn't that invalidate scores you get? Ditto for taking the same test more than once. Maybe I'm just not smart or creative enough to think of ways around this (is that a test? :)
I think this is a good point. Both are about equally true. Around half of Russian economy lives in Moscow region, formally or informally. About half of the world's startup ecosystem is in North California. Everyone else just makes do with what remains, or moves.
That's been the case since file quarantining was introduced.
Sure, of course they could. The point is that you can't do both at the same time.
Who cares?! You bought the device. It's yours not Apple's.
"that blue" is the default browser blue and if you check Facebook uses a different blue and doesn't use the default underline, neither does Google and neither does Github. They all changed the default.

I'm not saying it's bad design. And if they don't notice, good for you.

it's part of legibility. And yes, it's part of usability as well

that was a point. Do you want to look like every other page hosted on github or any other small app page?

the article states how long it takes to change to customize bootstrap. It's less than 30 minutes. Within that time, you can have a site that doesn't look like stock bootstrap thus differentiating yourself from the rest of the sites that look exactly the same.

Different audience desires different stuff; however, having a site that keeps away from the default is brandable, much more so than a default Bootstrap site. Branding is marketing 101.

What's your site's URL? I'd love to check it out.
DISCLAIMER: I did not intend to write such a long response, but got carried away. The intention is not to disparage China in any way, but to frame the issue as an economic incentives problem, rather than pointing fingers.

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One issue I have heard from individuals much more familiar with the current Chinese culture than myself, is that the cultural revolution (communist legacy if you will), really disassociated the modern mainland culture from its roots and what you see if the "off-shoots", like Taiwan and Singapore.

The ethics, asporations, priorities, etc. that a person has, are all influenced by their surroundings and the culture that the family/environment holds. I saw this all too well in Russia in the 90s. The "anything for a buck" mentality is the core issue. In US/Western-derived cultures, as well as Singapore/Taiwan, you see boundaries put in place to restrain some this capitalistic drive. For example, in the old days, a man's word, was as good as a contract written on paper. You see this in many historic documents, such as British common law and it's influence on US legal system.

When the "anything for a buck" mentality sets in, your word is no longer that valuable. So naturally, you shift to other value-driving things, such as acquisition of monetary instruments and other "stuff". Means of said acquisition take second seat to acquisition itself. The apps in this case are the other "stuff" being acquired. How they are being acquired are irrelevant, so people doing the acquiring are taking the route of least resistance.

But this is not a China problem. Anyone remember the US financial crisis? Same basic problem - it was easy for consumers to consume beyond their means, and it made sales people richer. For a while, seemed like a win-win, until people needed to pay-up that is.

All of this is incentives problem. In US for example, you have much more incentive to "play nice" with the system, than going against it. For example, it's much more convenient for me to just buy the app. That "convenience" comes from a mix of ethical convictions and the fact that pirating takes time, which I am unwilling to invest, even IF I was ok with it, which I am not ok with stealing. From the economic view, the cost of stealing the app is much greater for me than someone else, so I make the rational choice of buying it and consuming for less.
You'd still need the pages with the "special dotted paper pattern".
I need software that will:

1) come up with a business idea
2) build a site for me
3) market it for me
4) profit!

In that order.
All these benchmarks are great and all... but in terms of using Linux on a Macbook Pro, the shitty support for the multitouch trackpad/touchpad alone makes linux barely usable. Unless this has changed recently, in which case someone please correct me
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All open source software has the source code available. But the availability of source code does not mean that it's open source. You can put a very restrictive license on software with the source code available.
Cool project. In the future, it's probably better for the story to link to the description instead of the list of backers. I'm guessing most people would prefer to initially read about the project instead of seeing who already supports it.
I would consider those very different, actually. When you only allow copyleft licenses you become a social movement, whereas open source is a software development methodology.

Edit: I must be way out of date, or something. I was under the impression that all Free Software had to have a requirement that derivative works also be published under a Free Software license. This doesn't seem to be true. I would agree, then, that they are basically the same.
I wrote a small tool to convert videos to PDF notes, but it is offline for the meantime. Written in Flex. Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-7JCg5fGho
Teachers and students mostly use it. Its free.
Oh look another TechCrunch article about TechCrunch and how hard it is to be TechCrunch and by the way, some company.
"Source-available"
This is all fine and dandy, but I would have much preferred them to put the effort into producing a decent X* tablet again. Since the X201T, every upgrade they did, starting with the switch to an even flatter and wider resolution and most recently switching from having one of the few decent keyboards remaining in the market to yet another clone of that hybrid style between TV remote buttons and the metal anti-vandalism keys found on airport internet café terminals that Apple popularised, has been feeling like more of a downgrade.
This is not able to compete with Github or BitBucket... I actively work on GitLab and there are a ton of issues and missing features that are highly important, and will most likely turn away users.

Most of which won't be solved anytime soon.

But I wish you good luck.
The person's reason for speaking isn't the issue, the law is the only issue. My point is performance claims are actionable, but the contents of a book are not.

Do you really think people only initiate legal actions when someone has actually misrepresented something? That's naive. My point was the OP was taking an unnecessary risk, when he could simply have said "If you're not happy, I'll refund your money."

How complicated is that?
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A natural language parser that can develop software based on vague descriptions of functionality.
Asteroids in under 600 lines of Common Lisp (uses SBCL and SDL)
I also know nothing about the Windows laptop market. But in Linux land Thinkpad is just working perfect.
I understand the allure of an objective way to evaluate the "quality" of your code... but that seems ridiculously naive. I'm pretty confident I could come up with something that uses features in the spec that nobody ever implemented, so it would be fully validated and correct and yet totally nonfunctional for actual users.
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Yes, but in practical terms, the amount of code that is one, but not the other is either small or nonexistant.

The original poster thought that open source simply meant 'source code available', which I corrected. You are going off on a tangent.
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Yes, but how far is this from just using standard/college/quad ruled paper in the first place? Requiring special paper automatically limits the feature's utility. Once their "limited edition" notebooks sell out this feature immediately begins the countdown to uselessness.
Joining the chorus of positive feedback, everything (including all things you specified) work out of the box in 12.04 on x61s.

To be fair, there is a known bug in resume from sleep/hibernation, but it is not particular to ThinkPads but to Intel GPUs.
No, it is not your responsibility if people have no self control and abuse the game. Just like if you work in McDonalds and someone keeps eating there everyday.
Screenshots? Weird to have a dedicated screenshot key, but that's what Windows has done with it for nearly eternity and I'd imagine a few people expect it.

As for the positioning; only logical reason I can fathom is they ran out of room and you can't split up Home/End, etc. (Then again, Microsoft drops Insert on some of it's full keyboards, why not Lenovo?)
More accurate I guess would have been "the ~OSX laptop market." Precision in language!
me too never saw it, but i have pinned hnsearch tab :P
Perhaps it was a typo and he meant 10%? That would be a perfectly healthy athletic body fat percentage and an easy typo to make.
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Does the app tell me if a food I'm eating is Paleo or not? Say I plug in "beef", it'll tell me yes, it's Paleo. if I plug in "Skittles" it'll say no. That'd be tremendously useful, as there are already tons of tracking apps out there.
Here's the paper (PDF):

http://physics.aps.org/featured-article-pdf/10.1103/PhysRevL...

It's about observations & theory where you can get waves in Cherenkov radiation which propagate against the dominant direction.
If you provide something that GitHub doesn't have it will make for a much more compelling sell.

Currently GitHub doesn't give you fine grain access controls, this is something you could capitalize on and provide for clients. Something they could go back and say as awesome as GitHub is, they can't do this so they have to choose you.

A few examples.

- I only want [release dude] to be able to push to any release/* branch.

- No one should be able to force push to master

- No one should be able to force push to release/*

- release/* branches must follow the regexp [...]

- The user bmeyer can only create branches in bmeyer/*

- The user bmeyer can only push commits to the branch master
if the patches touch files in src/network

- Users that don't have a single commit in the repo can't push at all. (After analyzing an internal project this one rule would have caught most of our breakage and forced the first commit by a new user to be pushed by another developer who would be more likely to catch basic errors such as build.)

- Users in the group [foo] only have R access to the entire repo

Really go check out the rule support in gitolite which is a good model to start with as it is very expressive and allows for doing a lot of stuff. http://sitaramc.github.com/gitolite/rules.html

Disclaimer: Having made my own GitHub clone I have thought about this a fair bit. (GitHaven, which sadly was killed by my works legal dept before it could get off the ground.) If the feedback is about your UI or some minor feature that GitHub has that you don't, ignore them because if you solve that problem you are still in the same boat and they will go with GitHub. You need to solve an existing users problem so there is someone out there who will be shoving money at you to make their problem go away even if you made your UI ugly and barely working.
So if I disable that plugin and remove all generated posts, will the website appear on Google again?
The problem with that is there's different definitions of paleo, depending on who you follow and how strict you are.

Dairy and legumes are examples of paleo diet foods that are borderline and depend on who you talk to.
You can if you use vector clocks.

@sp332 You can prevent that by buffering messages. The less you tolerate messages appearing in-between messages you've seen before, the more you buffer. If the latency between your host and the host of someone you follow is high enough that it's taking more than a few seconds for you to get the message, they're effectively down. Late is better than never.
well, they don't talk to the marketplace sellers (which make up a good percentage of their profits), so I'm not surprised.

Amazon is probably one of worst companies I've ever dealt with. They 1) banned my account 2) told me they couldn't let me know why, because it was "proprietary to their business" and 3) also let me know that they would no longer talk to me and I could get my $5000 in 90 days when they felt they could release it to me.

There is nobody to talk to on the Amazons side, even though they were making thousands of dollars/month from my business.

In addition to this, they pretty much allow their customers to get away with murder. I lost money because customers complained and refused to send back the product (and amazon refunded them).

If I bought an ipad from Amazon and decided to return it, they would make me send it back before I got a refund. The case isn't the same for 3rd party sellers. It's ridiculous.
Is the RAM user upgradable? Otherwise it's an unconscionable $250 to go from 4GB to 8GB and no option to go higher.
I remember from "Founders at work" something like: "West Coast is the land of dreamers" and something about how it totally opposite with Boston and NYC (I don't remember who said this)

And I suppose that this is possible.

But:
There is "life outside MKAD"

Even with:
"Around half of Russian economy lives in Moscow region, formally or informally" - I remember that 75% of all money in Moscow
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This is absolutely great.
Spread the love on twitter.
It's a small (virtual) world... when I read your username I thought it sounded familiar, and now I'm pretty sure that I've been a jerk to you on IRC before! Congrats on quitting FFXI and finishing your PhD, and greetings from a certain former #BG member with a four letter name starting with z.

/me prepares himself for public humiliation if he's wrong
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- They couldn't have just stolen it. There are slight differences in the UI plus the binary has creator information embedded in it. The app is simple enough. I think it would be harder to take the source binary and modify it than to clone it.

- I'm not sure whether he maintains servers or not. If he did then he can do something about it. All I know is that he gets app usage information from pirated copies. Those pirated copies would be stolen but they would also not be obtained from the app store. There are two things happening: devs ripping off his ideas, users pirating his app
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It's important to note though that hardware muscle and bandwidth were both much, much, much more scarce and expensive back then.
I see this type of thing come up all the time when monitoring complex production systems.

Say you have 10 servers in each of 3 datacenters and you are looking at request latency. Averaging all 30 servers is very different from averaging to the datacenter and then averaging/alerting on a dc by dc basis.
"... I don't see them as games anymore, I see them as ways to min/max, look for exploits, efficiency, risks vs rewards, mathematical equations."

I was talking with a fellow gamer, and we both made the same observation about playing video games at an above-casual level. I realized (when playing Skyrim) that I was focusing so hard on being as efficient and successful as possible, that I wasn't really enjoying myself anymore.

I've since been making an effort to play games more casually. I can still be competitive, but if playing games feels like a chore, I'm doing it wrong.
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