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freeze/unfreeze is to allow users to stop other users auto posting links to their web view... maybe you're at work and don't trust the participants not to post porn or something...

Unfortunately, You can only share links posted in the chat, once you navigate away from that page in the web view, the "shared" experience disappears... Something we're trying to work on.

Thanks for your feedback.
Overall, not a bad deal for TC, I'd say. Checking on the twitter stream shows that there's a lot of RT of this headline - which will only serve to spread TC's name around. It may be bad in the long run, but they may be able to issue some muted apology, patch things up, and restore their standing. More coverage, etc.

Of course, with MA's combative personality, it may go slightly differently, but it's probably a net positive for TC. Sadly enough.
This gives me an idea:

If I should ever have to be back in the situation of applying for jobs, I'll put tracking pixels in my e-mail and my resume document. Resume open rates!
"SQL, by definition, is natively nonfunctional."

I think I see your point, but is "natively nonfunctional" how you would describe lisp? There's not really any difference. One is binary relations and one is set relations.
Don't treat Arrington like some soulless mythical creature. He's a real person. He's susceptible to being offended enough to get pissed off at people and to rant even when he's been in the business for a long time.

Can you imagine how low you'd have to be to fake an incident like that just to get a few hits? Arrington has his faults, but he's not a showboater.

(Also remember that this article was posted while he's taking a break from TechCrunch entirely. Don't blame him for this story.)
Then why do you have this bizarre perception that marriage is like a primordial evil?
It amuses me that people think putting irrelevant pictures into their writing makes it "more interesting".

If you want to make a lolcat, just make a lolcat.
Not a bad idea, though virtually every email client blocks images by default.

You could track clicks to your portfolio or website though
Is this really such a horrible idea that it's worthy of downvotes by mods? I mean, I'm literally willing to give at least 10,000 to charity if I can get help for this, which is a whole lot of money last time I checked. And it doesn't cost you anything except a few clicks.
You also have to question the nature of the marriage to begin with. If he was doing a high-paid job when they got married, then I would likely say that she was a gold-digger to begin with. The marriage would end in divorce solely because he lost the reason why she married him in the first place.
No, you're wrong. The concept of corporate singularity started in the 1600s in England.

From wikipedia:

In the late seventeenth century, Stewart Kyd, the author of the first treatise on corporate law in English, defined a corporation as,

"a collection of many individuals united into one body, under a special denomination, having perpetual succession under an artificial form, and vested, by policy of the law, with the capacity of acting, in several respects, as an individual, particularly of taking and granting property..."
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Indeed. To be basically useful in a commercial setting a language must have rock-solid bindings to a) a major GUI toolkit on all its supported platforms and b) the big 3 databases. This is why I have high hopes for F# - an industrial-grade OCaml with full access to the vast .NET libraries and integration into one of the best IDEs around.
Anyone know of anything similar in the South Bay area? I'm in Campbell and I don't drive.
But you're probably looking for a cog. You'll get what you look for.

As an applicant, you get what you apply for. That you wouldn't have liked my style doesn't really matter: the person that wants to employ me would like my style.

The problem with all these 'how to apply' topics is that they really mean 'how to apply to me'. But I think there are 2 underlying and competing truths:

1) Be authentic. If you're not the person on your resume, it will come out sooner or later. Hopefully (for everyone) sooner.

2) Be unique. If you don't have a way to differentiate yourself, you don't have a reason to get hired. Of course, what makes you unique for one person won't make you unique (or will make you uniquely annoying) for another.

Of course, these are suggestions for getting the 'right' job - a job where you fit in with the people that hired you.

If you just need an employer: pander.
His point is past-tense action verbs. Get over it.
Yeah. I upmodded the story just to jerk their chain.
What's the benefit of this over email, IM or Skype? I already have communication channels through those mediums for everyone I want to talk to.

Addendum: I just now realized you have a shared viewing feature. But I didn't realize that from looking through your app, but from your description. Shared viewing is what differentiates you from email, IM or Skype. You need to stress it.
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I'd agree with the precedent. I would classify a bullock (castrated male cow) as a cow not as a bull. Equally I'd classify a man with (figuratively speaking) no balls a 'bitch', or a 'ball-less wonder'.
yes, but don't you think if someone spit on you, that you would have at least chased them down to kick their ass? I mean the guy must have been pretty close to land a hit.
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Isn't it a sad state of affairs that the highest praise a cell service can deserve is being the "least horrible experience." But I am right with you.

Naive little me: I had been hoping that AT&T's exclusive with iPhone would bring some pressure to bear on AT&T (or at least some cash flow) to enable their service/coverage to move up a tier. Sadly, I've yet to hear any evidence of my fantastical hope.
from seeing it suck the life out of almost every single married guy I know
Did your hacker friend eventually go back to school? I guess it also feels like I'm admitting defeat to the "system" if I go back. I had hoped to say "Forget you! I can hack it on my own just fine". So, I guess a bit of that arrogance still remains...

It feels awful. "Everyone" in my family and their social circle think it's the norm, that you do high school and then you get a degree and get a job. That it's just life, you just play the game that everybody's playing. That the school obviously doesn't care, but also obviously none of the students care either -- they're just paying customers. It feels so awful and dirty to have to go back to that and prove everyone right.

But, that's the firey youth talking again. If I do go back, this time the professors will be a resource to chat up outside of class hours. This time the fellow students will be potential business partners. This time, when presented with esoteric course material, I can think about how it relates to my code, oh so many tiers down later. This time, I know that the academic bureaucracy isn't there to help me, they're just there to make a buck and keep the system going, like my pension plan and unemployment insurance.

Hurray for cynicism!
See also: http://www.fsf.org/news/endsoftwarepatents-phase-II
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It's not the idea that's horrible. It's the disrespect you show to the site by disregarding its rules.

Spam = spam. Doesn't matter whether it is excipient for charity or for self-interest.
So, you think that because it was a terrible idea to post this on Reddit you somehow think it's a good idea to post here?

I see you've made other contributions here, so I do see you're not trolling or spamming; but this really doesn't fit the HN environment.
Silicon Valley is filled with corpses of companies that people never expected to fail. The Googleplex rests in a cementery. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googleplex#Facilities_and_histo...
Thank you... good feedback. I have added some simple instructions in the web view for now to get people started...
I'll assume Arrington is a nerd, like me, and that he's not the sort of person who'd kick anybody's ass.

Frankly, I think that people who react to aggression with more aggression are wasting their time and looking pretty stupid.
I've always been curious to see why people dislike AT&T and would prefer Verizon. I've switched from Cingular to Sprint to T-Mobile to Verizon and now back to AT&T and by far my worst experience has been with Verizon.

A big part of the problem was likely with the handset I had, but the Verizon customer service department was by far the most frustrating of the group that I had to deal with. I cancelled my contract with them after only 3 months after spending over 20 hours on the phone with idiot after idiot during the last month. I got so fed up with them that I walked into the nearest AT&T store, bought a new Blackberry and threw away my Verizon phone (the other lesson I learned from this incident was to never, ever use a Windows operating system on my phone).

In my experience T-Mobile had the best customer service, but they had a weak signal out in the suburbs of Chicago (in the city though T-Mobile had the best coverage by far, working deep underground in parking garages and elevators where pretty much nobody but me would have signal). AT&T has also been great, although come to think of it I don't think I've ever had to call them in the last 2.5 years so I'm not sure if their customer service is still alright.

I would really like to know some of the reasons people prefer Verizon over AT&T.
Don't you have to provide at least equivalent documentation as a consultant?
Thinking about using Facebook Connect on your site? Step one: Abandon your will to live.
I know the article is sort of toungue in cheek, but Thomas Friedman actually said roughly the same thing (minus the eugenics) recently:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/11/opinion/11friedman.html?_r...

From the article:

"Leave it to a brainy Indian to come up with the cheapest and surest way to stimulate our economy: immigration.

'All you need to do is grant visas to two million Indians, Chinese and Koreans,' said Shekhar Gupta, editor of The Indian Express newspaper. 'We will buy up all the subprime homes. We will work 18 hours a day to pay for them. We will immediately improve your savings rate no Indian bank today has more than 2 percent nonperforming loans because not paying your mortgage is considered shameful here. And we will start new companies to create our own jobs and jobs for more Americans.'"
Whether your startup starts strong or not, you really need to be prepared for opportunities for interative adjustments. Ignore them at your peril. Or at least your loss.

Of course there's a balance required between adjusting course and staying focused on your strengths, but the number of current major tech players who started out with totally different products/services at their core is astonishing.
It will be time to call it quits when we lose zombo.com. The loss of goatse.cx was bad enough.
oh I always put, contract or consulting on my entries. I've got like 5 contract/consulting things on my resume, 2 internships, 2 failed business attempts and 1 that I was actually fired from.

I'm pretty sure I get skipped over because people think I'm job hopping when the truth is I'm 24, I've only been given 1 real break, and in that job I found that there are just some things I'm not great at, like help desk. Technically wise I do fine, I just can't handle the phones...

also I tend not to like background checks because of the above I'm pretty sure I've a crappy credit history. I've had hard times making payments due to lack of stable work.

also I wonder if the people reading my resume, are also noting during this job hopping I've mostly been in school full time.
The figure that are stated in the article are quite obviously made up but conceivably close to real life scenarios. I think the author is way off on the last example, though: "It then takes just one person a few days to provision new resources from IT or a fast-moving hosting company, install the default web stack, and do the initial deploy." I can see that for an IT department but not for a fast-moving hosting company. With all of the deployment tools available, most of the deployments I've done have ranged from a few minutes (RailsMachine) to a few hours (barebones install). All that aside, though, instant deployment would be pretty darn cool.
Has software development really gotten 160x faster in the last 10-15 years? It's a moving target, of course, since people keep trying more ambitious things as tools get more powerful. But that number doesn't feel right to me.

On the other hand, the main argument - that the percentage of effort occupied by deployment has grown - may not need that figure.
Not as stupid as the guy covered in someone's possibly HIV infected spit.
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I actually like the new Tropicana packaging (as shown at the top of the article). It looks more hip and healthy, like something that would be sold at Whole Foods, as opposed to the old packaging, which strikes me as more nostalgic (e.g. "Your Father's Orange Juice").
what do you think of mine Caleb Cushing xenoterracide@gmail.com ? would you toss my resume for that? xenoterracide is google-able, my caleb.cushing@gmail is not. I use the xenoterracide one for all my social networking, blogging, open source work.
That does clarify things, but users still have to go through several steps before they see it. When I look at your front page, the only impression I get is "web based group chat." You should elevate shared viewing to something you mention first.

edit: You do have the material for that, but it's under the "View Sites Together" tab. That information should be what I see first. Looking briefly at your blog, you understand this is your killer feature. You need to make sure your users understand that, too.
No plan survives contact with the enemy. - Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke

It's got good advice if you are investing serious money or time. OTOH my advice is, if you project is of the throw-it-against-the-wall-and-see-if-it-sticks" variety, you are even better off. If it has a glimmer of hope, iterate. If not, move on. I have done the opposite and it's why I am a thousandaire rather than a millionaire.
While that is certainly possible, I wouldn't argue it's required.

Consider a couple that is living together. They might be unhappy, but bearing it anyway because they have a lease and moving out and separating all your stuff is a pain in the ass. However, once that lease comes up for renewal, suddenly the burden of breaking up isn't so heavy, which might be just enough to make it happen.

What I was proposing for marriages->jobs is analogous.
I'm not going to upvote this one (it's not really what I want to see on the front page), but I have to admit it is quite funny :-)
I get your point: the deployment-to-development ratio has increased as we've streamlined development processes faster than deployment processes. I understand the underlying theme, Heroku is going to kickass in deployment. More power to you.

Here's what bothered me about this post:

- Scrum fanboyism. It was unexpected and threw me off track while I was reading. I felt it negatively detracted from your point.

- Capistrano bashing. You certianly gave Cap it's due, but calling it an "incremental improvement" compared to what you've got in store takes balls. We'll see how that pays off.

I know this is just a preface to some (hopefully) technical articles about your work, but on it's own, it's just fuzzy math and hype. Here's to some meat in the next one.
I fail to see how HIV came into this conversation.
Tangentially, anyone know of anything similar in the Tampa Bay area? It'd be nice to see comprehensive, geographically sorted meta-list of get-togethers ranging from this to 2600 meetings, for those of us outside Boston, NYC, and California.
I mean, really. Executable line noise is so 90's
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No, you misunderstand. I posted on Reddit previously and was dugg down by troll types. See the aftermath here: http://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/7zgyw/dear_reddit_i_...

And you're right, I'm def not trying to spam or anything. Just trying to get some help and in return give a bit.
Because vendor-made enterprise software is a culmination of that vendor trying to say "yes" to the questions of almost every company who expressed interest in their software.
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Thank you - Totally get what you mean - Will have a think.
Once every hundred years media changes!

I wish people would stop conjuring up mathematical models to add drama to their observations.

Firstly, mathematics makes for poor theater. Secondly, the silly models distract from otherwise sensible observations: media changes and development gets faster.

But, in the end, the only sensible sweeping generalization may be past performance does not guarantee future results.
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How does it work? People actually choose to follow Tropicana? Or, more generally, how's Twitter valuable for marketers if in order to deliver your messaging you've got to persuade your customers to "follow" you first?

Why would I want to follow Nike or even BMW?

P.S. Perhaps I'm just an 'untwittery type' - I find it hard to believe people actually use Twitter, period. I've tried and my response to 99% of tweets has always been "why would I care?" - if you're into assembling random facts about lives of strangers, just watching them in a cafe or on a busy town square is way more fun.
Partly it's because people read them, decide they know all they need to know about philosophy, and stop right there. Then they get arrogant in conversations and denounce people who disagree with them. They use Ayn Rand as an excuse to justify their own lack of worth under the excuse that society doesn't understand them or that most people don't appreciate their work.

Rand also gets very preachy, especially in the end of Atlas Shrugged. It's a terrific climax, but it's not at all a balanced finale. When she condemns people who live in society to a death by train explosion, she's getting a leetle bit heavy-handed.

Rand changed my life when I read her, and I still agree with most of the tenants of Objectivism. That said, I do not like her followers and I think that her works need to be taken with at least a slight sense of perspective; otherwise, you'll start acting foolish.
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There's a difference between being arrogant and being plain-spoken. There's also a difference between being falsely modest and behaving in a way that doesn't make people feel worthless. (If your inclination is to say "That's their problem," I respectfully disagree.)

You're awesome. Your skill speaks for itself. Being arrogant gets you nothing except a reputation for being difficult to work with. That's all I'm saying.

Of course, YMMV. I'm just some guy on the internet.
My hacker friend is doing the whole living out of the back of a van thing... in a good way... by choice.

As to admitting defeat to the system, sure you could look at it what way, but you could also argue that the defeat came when you quit! But that's mind games and you can play those on your own, you don't need me for that.

Suffice it to say, if you proving everyone else right or wrong is a major concern for you, that's a problem, school is not.

I think your last paragraph is an excellent plan, hell it sounds a lot like what I did in college.

Except that my attitude to esoteric material was: C- is all I need to pass.
The professors then look at you with those puppy dog eyes: But you can do better!
I know, that's why I'm not bothering with this shit.

Cynicism is the appropriate response to less then honest systems like college often is. Another word for cynicism is realism.

And your plan talk to professors outside of class and view fellow classmates as future partners, isn't cynical at all, in fact it's very positive.

The view that academic bureaucracy isn't there to help you, could be described as cynical, but then again it could also be described as factual.
Why submit this idiocy?
You should never assume that mass opinion knows anything. Even when it does, it tends to be shallow and misguided.
I don't know of a single version control system that doesn't let you change history in a straightforward manner.

http://www.accurev.com/

It has an append only db.
Yeah, and what rules would those be? Last time I checked the guidelines, this fits just fine into the off topic area of submission. I'm a real guy who will really give to the charities, who wants to be able to put a 10,000 dollar check in some deserving group's hands. I mean, that could be an absolutely awesome story if it ever came true.

You're mistaken by thinking I'm disrespecting the site. This is not spam. If I wanted to spam, I'd build a bot and go to digg with this. But I don't.

And lastly, this topic also provides for people to give me the opportunity to discuss who I could best give this gift to. Hacker News is about hackers and tech, mostly, yes. But hackers are people with hearts, too. They can help a guy get money to give to charity.
That is one talkative corpse...
Europe is a big and diverse place. At least 10 European countries have higher divorce rates than the USA, and many others are about the same. The cultural mores regarding marriage are much different in Italy than they are in Sweden. Thus it doesn't seem like finding a "nice european girl" is going to statistically help you avoid divorce.

European countries with low divorce rates generally have conservative laws regarding divorce. Spain was one of these. It was financially and legally prohibitive to get a divorce in Spain until 2007. When Spain liberalized its divorce laws, it had the highest divorce rate in Europe almost overnight.

On a side note, the divorce rate in the USA is lower than it has been in 40 years.
From a European perspective I'll give a guess. I've known girls from France, Spain, Denmark, Ireland, Switzerland and IIRC Romania, and I'm from the UK. The general consensus is that the American Male are 'fat, ugly idiots'.

The only thing an American male has going for them in Europe is a foreign accent, currently being American is a con not a pro.

I've known many nice, intelligent and attractive Americans (both male and female) so I disagree with this point, but I'm sorry to say it's a common stereotype and not entirely inaccurate. It doesn't help that most tourists from America that I've met in Europe are very ignorant of everything.

I saw an American couple in a bistro in Paris getting the bitchiest treatment I've ever seen from a Parisian waiter, I've never even known them to be rude to a person before. I know where the stereotype is from though, they didn't know a single word of French and expected the waiter to know perfect English because they couldn't understand him speaking English. Well I get the same waiter, I try ordering in French and the man all but refuses to let me speak it and addresses me in English, reading me the specials and giving me better service than I ever had when I visited the USA.

Honestly, the French are magnificent waiters and polite to everyone if you show them respect. Even just saying bonjour and they'll be polite because you acknowledged the fact that you're sat in the heart of Paris and that they're French. The only rude person I met in 2 weeks was in a little cafe-restaurant on Boulevard Garibaldi, it was the Chef and I was trying to work out what he was saying because he wasn't even French so his accent was bizarre and after like 30 seconds the owner of the store came out back and started apologizing in perfect English.
you never know what the other person has, doesn't hurt to be careful in this day and age
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