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I say depressing because most software developers didn't choose their profession out of a burning desire to become a marketer.

I started development (age 10) coz - well - it was a computer! Getting it to do shit was fun. More than thirty years on I still find making the computer do shit is fun.

Along the way though I found I got a real buzz about seeing people use the stuff that I made the computer do. That was freaking cool.

So now I do both.

This involve being sure that I'm helping build something that folk will actually want to use (UX, Customer Development, Lean Startup, Lean UX, etc.), building stuff (UX & dev), and making sure that the people who will like using my stuff can find it and discover value there (UX and dev and marketing).

I don't acquire marketing skills because it's fun (although bits of it are - how could I not find the intersection of things like statistics, socal & cog psych, etc, etc. fascinating). I do it because I get a stupid amount of entertainment value from seeing people use and enjoy stuff that I help make - and I get a kick out of helping other folk achieve that too. And if you want that you need marketing skills (or need to work with people who do).

And I don't find it even the tiniest little bit depressing ;-)
"I let philosophy consume my life for a few years to the detriment of everything else." - sounds like you'd love Wittgenstein. Haha.

Marx is WAY more interesting than Ayn Rand. Although you're probably better off reading Chomsky today. Popper is awesome.
To start I think 3D printing is just making it easier for hobbyists and small professionals to manufacture products, lowering cost for the consumer and increasing competition. In time they'll start to come into the home if we can find further compelling reasons for them.
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This is really cool and I can definitely see it being useful once the kinks are worked out.

Without repeating most of the feedback given already, I’ve noticed that it picks up too many pointless words. I’d suggest making it more selective with the words picked out to be relevant. Quality over quantity.
The working poor in America have the standard of living that is fantastically rich compared to the genuinely poor world.

But they don't own it. They rent it or, more often, they owe it to someone.

No debt peon or unpropertied proletarian can really be called rich, because everything he has can pretty much be taken away by someone else's whim.
Thanks for the downvote. I felt the conversation was civil and fine until it seemed I struck a nerve with you. I still haven't really heard why just reading some advice here http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/10/10/kalzumeus-podcast-3-grow... is a sufficient substitute - as opposed to courses / books, etc.

I still posit that the thing that matters most is the rate - that's what affects your bottom line the most, garners more respect, etc. Negotiating that rate is a relatively quick exercise -- it takes some skill, and some experience, but it has nothing to do with weight loss or plumbing -- sorry, I'm not buying that either.

If the books / courses / etc. held different titles, e.g. "How to be a better consultant", "How to improve your consulting business", maybe it would be different, but the way all this stuff is being marketed is straight for the jugular: "How To Double Your Freelancing Rate In 14 Days"
To be honest I think that 20 years from now people won't look back and say "3D printing, ahah! that was the revolutionary invention" but it will be a part of a larger set of inventions and innovations which will revolutionize manufacturing.

For example, I think 3D printing as a method to rapidly make metal casting and injection molds (either directly printing the molds or via lost-material casting) is potentially more impactful to manufacturing than direct 3D printing. The truly big innovation of 3D printing and, say, "table top manufacturing / fabrication" systems won't come because such devices will be immanently practical for home use. Instead what I think is more likely is that the ability of hobbyists and tinkerers to experiment with them will lead to an explosion of innovation. Meaning: better tools and techniques for automating and simplifying the process of transitioning from design to manufacturing.
This sounds like a company that would have benefited from a program like YC. It would have given them a peer group of entrepreneurs that would have pressured them to keep shipping product, filled in some of the totally understandable gaps in their knowledge (for example around engineering management and best way to time their Series A), and kept their success in context (just about everyone feels like a little fish next to Dropbox and Airbnb, and little fish swim harder.) If they'd had these things two years ago they might be in a very different position today.
These comments aren't taking into account the deterioration of the quality of teachers. One reason for this is due to smart women leaving the field in the '70s when the rest of careers opened up to them. My sister quit teaching English and became a lawyer. She earned a lot more and got a lot more respect. And, yes, in order to attract those people back to teaching the country will have to pay a lot more. These women have options and they walked.

Further, there is a serious problem with the fact that classroom discipline is so compromised by unruly students that many competent teachers no longer want to be with these children. This is not just in the US. I was in Chile last year, taking an ESL teaching class, and watched a video of a Chilean teaching English to a class of 10 year olds. The whole room was in complete chaos.

An older man in the class with me who was my age (early
60s) had been a teacher and said that the video depicted why he would no longer go into the classroom. Curiously, the 2 younger students in the class, recent college grads, felt we didn't accept normal in students. Well, the new normal is devastating to learning. Parents are responsible for this mess.

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The junk mail operation needs to be reigned in. Right now the Post Office does not need subsidies, that may change in the future. Delivering junk mail is hurting the brand with the tax payers that may be asked to give the subsidy.

The thrust of my argument, that services need to be added and not cut, is to say that the Post Office should be made more useful and not less.

If the utility of the USPS dwindles, and we first cut Saturday delivery, and we close neighborhood Post Offices and make cuts to service so that you cant pick up the phone and get a local employee on to help you. If we go that route, and that is the direction we are headed now, the chorus of voices allied against the Post Office will be bolstered. The public will say, with some justification, that the Post Office is not that useful and therefore should be let go.

A national, publicly owned and operated non-profit efficient distribution network: indispensable to our modern economy.
In Firefox 16.0.1 on Linux, if I type a letter after the pre-existing text then the browser opens a tab that I had previously closed. Works fine on Chromium.
I'm amazed that such low numbers could be worth anything more than a few cent
It might be useful to show relevant content from my local system on things that I've written already, like maybe notes from a project, or excerpts from email.

Writing code, similar suggestion, showing other code, requirements, design, etc.
That would be great, but I think the time frame isn't realistic unless we already have the technology to do this but it is not out of the lab yet so to speak.

If we do, then perhaps it is possible to make the manufacturing processes simple enough within this time frame to bring the costs down to the point where these types of companies would be commercially feasible.
It's a question I've been faced with in the past, and just now I was expecting the smart crowd at HN to reach a consensus on why.
It's interesting to see the sheer diversity of opinions. I guess it's not an easy question after all.
My first (Intel X-25) SSD went from working fine to not being able to read _anything_ from it, at all, in 10 minutes - after having worked great for 1½ years.

It is still worth it, but I have never experienced a failure mode like that with harddisks. Usually you can get most of the data off of them when you start getting errors.
+1 for Wittgenstein
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Having physical access to the network shouldn't (in a better world) result in such an utter compromise.

With the ability to plug in devices like the Pwn Plug; your network needs to be moderately resilient to attacks from inside.
What are some good prosumer SSDs for people putting together new desktop boxen?
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The article talks about monthly revenue. And even if the average was in the middle (ignoring the "power law" mentioned above) then you would have a lot of channels making over $83k which equals over 1m annually.
Because we're living in an alternate universe where there's no such thing as VLANs?
Came here to say exactly that, thanks for making the case more elaborate than i would have made it :)
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What strikes me is how little money is being made here. $2 CPM rates will not support the production quality we all expect in our entertainment. The dream of the internet supporting a large creative class self publishing is still far off.
Awesome, I will reach out to them. Thanks for the tip.
...And it works pretty well. I apologize
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Next Big Idea? 3D Printing is ~20 years old.
i think it would depend very much on the context. if it was the kind of place where i had to look after the boss's kid, but the boss wouldn't look after mine (or look out for me in other ways) then i wouldn't like it. but if it went both ways - why not?

my current boss works in a shed behind the house. i don't work there, but when i visit i would guess i've distracted his kid (older) while he's been on the phone a couple of times. it wasn't a problem.

anyway, thanks for clarifying. i can see what concerns you now.
Ah ok, I think I first heard of it here and thought it would be included in the spec: http://brendaneich.github.com/Strange-Loop-2012/#/41
This is well known. This "news" is very old. http://www.broadcom.com/products/BCM2835
Reading about Sweet.js made me really, really want such a thing in Python.

I recognise that such a thing would run completely counter to Python's 'no magic' cultural values, but structural search-and-replace seems such an intoxicatingly powerful tool, I'd like to at least have the option to abuse it.
LLJS and Now Sweet JS

Seems like mozilla is trying to answer TypeScript. Which is really good.
I haven't looked into it. My speculation is that it's going to labor: pay and benefits. That's the largest cost in almost any endeavor.
Yes, that's one of the many optimizations PyPy does, however it's only a very limited one. PyPy goes much, much deeper than this, with tools like function inlining and escape analysis.
Nice but Zurb does this and so much more.
My experience is a bit outdated, but I've had good luck with both Intel drives and the OCZ Vertex series. If I were going to buy an SSD today, it would probably be the 240GB Intel 520.
Truthfully, the recording I did with Patrick is enough for some people. But the book goes much more in depth (i.e. how and what to change on your sales site, examples of qualifying emails, followup tactics, academic research re: pricing theory, how to assess your value to clients, and interviews with 7 freelancers who once charged very little and now charge much more, what they did to get there.)

Zenocon: You are not the customer I'm targeting. I can't stress this enough. People who value their time and don't have hours and hours to kill Googling around often times want someone else to present the research to them in a structured, easily consumable package and are willing to pay for that, because their time is a non-renewable asset. That's what I've done with the book, and considering I've had exactly 1 refund request and close to 400 sales, I think I'm doing a pretty good job.
Well, you seem to forget that Meego and the N9 were built on Qt. And you cannot say about Qt that " No developers, no industry support, no technical expertise within the company to develop it".
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I have experienced the same, but after updating raspbmc to RC5 it runs just fine.
Very nice effect. Very very smooth on Firefox Aurora with plenty of ram.

Is it possible to make this CSS effect work on the iphone? Is it a matter of tweaking the CSS or is it due to the limitation of the iOS Browser? Im curious of how smooth it looks on the iPhone. Would happily have checked a different mobile... but I dont have one of those.
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I think they don't mean to give it away free in the long run. They did it for redactor[1] too. (I think it is the full featured awesome and simple WYSIWYG editor)

It's totally upto the developer to decide upon on the licence. There are lot of projects under FREE, but not open sourced.

[1] - http://imperavi.com/redactor/
As others said, why not bootstrap?
Apple would be dropping the ball if they went to ARM, especially on all the people using MS products. Not to mention they would essentially destroy the businesses of Vmware Fusion & Parallels for their virtualization environments which many many people still use to this day in large enterprise organizations to maintain a dual-environment compatibility layer. If they want to throw out their enterprise market, then this will be a great way to go about doing it.
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I think 3d printing has a lot in common with 2d printing. And I have not had a printer for since collage, and I tend to go months between printing something at work.

Of course if were talking about a 3d printer that can print me up a soda or an iPad that's a different story. But, if it's just little plastic objects well, that's stuck in the realm of knickknacks / Junk IMO. And I suspect most people will quickly get to that point after the first cheap 3d printer shows up.
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I was thinking the same thing and I was shocked at first to see the link wasn't pointing to ALA.
That was my point. Seeing as Winston has a console transport and syslog support, I'm curious why this wasn't used.
During same period Arctic summer sea ice extend also was reduced by 50%, volume shrunk down to 25%. Environmental news do not spark lively discussions here - except a data center opens in the high North. Can only guess about reasons, may be green entrepreneurs are already more impressing at parties or as long as net works there is no need to discuss and in the other case no possibility.

However seeing a colorful reef turning grey is depressive on Sunday and partially explains my mood to get voted down.
That's really cool.

Would love a simple blog with their creations!
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As far as I know, it's possible to make it work on iOS Safari browsers, as Safari mobile browser supports CSS animations, transforms and transition effects.
Individuals or sole proprietors who have reached the older of 18 years old or the age of majority in their jurisdiction of residence and have the full legal capacity to participate in this Contest at time of entry.

Whichever is older, 18 or the age necessary to participate. Its odd wording, but it makes sense to say that you need to be reach whichever age is older, either 18 or the age of their jurisdiction of residence.
I think you and Prof Scott Page could make a great team combining your think series with his model thinking class content.
Flash, by design, only admits finitely many write cycles, but this does not mean SSDs "never become unreadable", only that they never become unreadable as a result of the finite rewritability of Flash. In theory. In practice, the fact that your data is "really still there" means very little if the controller refuses to read it, SSD firmware is complex and therefore bug-prone, and reading in the "worn out" state will always be a rare edge case, so it's not something I'd care to test without good, current backups.
Interesting and impressive from a technological perspective but wouldn't sweet.js make your code harder to debug? Macros in C are hell. Have you seen functions with ifdef littered everywhere? Why would anyone want this in JavaScript? JavaScript is dynamic enough to not need a crutch like this in my opinion. At least with CoffeeScript you're not mixing contexts. Everything is either CoffeeScript or JavaScript.
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I emailed the authors about a week ago and Alex clarified that free to them means it can be redistributed freely. I agree that an actual license would be reassuring though.
And, having had a similar problem with Intel, I switched to Samsung. So it goes.
That is the point. You don't need to be making two versions. This has nothing to do with npm even. Just write your code using the commonjs require syntax. When you want client side scripts use one of the many different bundlers which can resolve the requires and turn it into whatever loader style you want (flat time, AMD, custom, etc). This provides much more flexibility and keeps the code free of boilerplate which serves no purpose.
Sometimes, that's exactly what you need.
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If I am directly getting the 404 page, and I receive it, then shouldn't the status code be 200?

curl -I http://leftlogic.com/info/articles/404
HTTP/1.1 404 Page not found
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 12:45:07 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) DAV/1.0.3 mod_gzip/1.3.26.1a PHP/5.4.0
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.4.0
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html

But it was found.
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You make an interesting and compelling point. I often write brief notes about the various creative projects I'm working on or half-formed ideas. I'll try to do some longer-form writing on my next project.
Because bootstrap is totally overused, some differentiation would be nice.
Look on the bright side, if it continues to lose half its volume every 30 years, it will be here forever!
More info http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/pages/pattern
I found Niall Fergusons last lectures to be quite eye opening in regards to possible reasons to the wests apparent decline and what is driving it. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01jms03/episodes/guide
I think the arguments here are weak. Using a builder is extremely common in API wrappers like this (I just did this myself wrapping an API in Ruby). In the second example, the code you pointed out was similar really wasn't that similar. Someone else made a good point: because this is an API wrapper there's really only a limited number of ways to do things.

Still, there's a good chance that someone looked at it to see how you did things -- these things are hard to prove. Regardless, I think your response is a bit over the top? Does it warrant this nasty blog post, or could you have just emailed the dude and said, "Hey, I noticed you guys may have been inspired by my code, a lot of appeared similar. I am licensing under GPLvXXX [or whatever your license is] and it requires some attribution if you guys did use some of my code." I suspect they would have happily given it to you. If they refused, well, then maybe then would have been the time for the rant. :)

No offense, but the way you handled this, you are coming off like some guy having a temper tantrum on the internet, instead of a developer with valid grievances handling this maturely.
Zurb is more flexible and less opinionated.
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There's an interesting book called After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre that does a good job of going through how these confusions over language arise. I haven't read it for years, but I liked how it explained how and why the language of philosophy has changed over the centuries.
I think the main reason why scientists haven't moved away from FORTRAN is cultural.

I remember rewriting some unreadable F77 code with copy pasted functions from Numerical Recipes into C linking GSL for my advisor in grad school and making it much much faster.

Fast linear algebra has been available in partly-functional programming languages to scientists for at least two decades (think MatLab and Mathematica), but once you learn to use one tool and it works well enough, you'll keep using it for ages.

Furthermore there is no great advantage in parallelizing linear algebra, when most HPC workflows I've seen in physics are intrinsically parallel in that you can run 512 version of whatever your problem is and get good statistics out of it. Your mileage my vary though.
Another effect: prototyping is surely the most labor-intensive part of the manufacturing process. This will reduce the share of employment attributed to manufacturing while possibly increase output.

Like all other manufacturing technologies.
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There is no resource on that endpoint so nothing was really found. It is merely arbitrary that applications redirect you to a preconfigured URL to show that error.
That's a very good and relevant quote, thank you!
I've used Bootstrap and switched to Kube for a recent project. It's smaller and feels cleaner. Responsiveness feels tacked on in bootstrap rather than baked-in like Kube. Bootstrap is great for apps, but if you just need a good grid and some defaults for a content site, Kube is great.
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Seek and ye shall find ;-)

You don't think up something the community would want. You observe people and see what they need. Find the problem first - then figure out the solution.
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The part where a hooker blows everyone under the table, and the one who smiles has to pay the bill.

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