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You are not the person I'm referring to because you say you are happy with that.

I do what you described too, in parties or whenever I have an opportunity for a discussion with someone and I enjoy it and they ask me questions too and we try our best to teach each other something which is perfectly ok and fun.

What I was referring to was mostly employee/boss situations where the boss asks the employee about the details or internals of system X and then gets pissed when the engineer can't explain it to him and blames it on them because they were incapable of explaining complex things to non-technical people.

I mean they have to appreciate that there's a limit to how much you can explain to non-technical people in simple terms. At some point it just doesn't work, and either you have to use the big words, and concepts and assume knowledge, or drop back to dead simple insulting analogies. You see that server boss? That's like a train! choo-choo!
I have to wonder if perhaps they perceive that with the wide income disparity in India, there's not a sufficiently large market for $200-$500 devices.

Let's say they can sell 15,000 at $500 each. Maybe they think that many of those buyers hardly care about the price, so why not sell 10,000 at $1000 each? Then they get $10M instead of $7.5M.

I can certainly identify with the frustration of people who do care about price, and could bear the price tag offered in other countries.
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I have to admit, as an outsider, I can't fathom how a law like this even exists especially in a place like America.
This is all true. But standing out the outside and pretending that they behave 'as intended' that is to say as a monolithic single entity, and then to guess about their behavior is counterproductive, especially if it is known that the company in question -does- deviate significantly from being a monolith.

Basically you kind of have to take both positions. Knowledge that a company is made up of bickering idiots doesn't excuse the company from acting coherently. But ignoring that fact while trying to analyze and predict a company isn't very useful either.
Poor bayesian thinking. Facebook was probably offered similar amounts. And Google. If you're offered $6b for a startup there's probably a 50% shot you're worth much more.
Why do people insist on correlating poor IPO performance with a company that somehow messed up? We keep seeing this with Zynga and Facebook too. These companies didn't mess up, those that invested in the stock did.

I'm not saying Groupon is doing well, but to suggest that they should have just sold to Google here is wrong; they still got their payout (the IPO) and they still have their company to boot.
The banks in Ireland are another affair entirely, but in terms of government regulations, things are surprisingly light weight for a country in the euro zone, and are probably better than the US in many domains.

As I heard a startup founder say recently: "One of the strengths of Ireland is that we will happily adopt the business practices of any foreigner in replacement of whatever use to stand for business practices the country had in the '80s."
Indoctrination happens in public school in China, and you can't do much about it. There is no such thing as a private school for locals (officially at least, there are some underground schools for migrant worker kids), though there are international expat schools that are super expensive. Most public school have tuition and competitive admission anyways.
Yeah, in other words an example of the broken window fallacy.
'Star Wars: Episode VII' will be written by 'Toy Story 3' writer
Reading the related article on writing a Lisp interpreter in Haskell (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4764088) reminded me of my second blinding moment of enlightenment- understanding vau expressions. Things that can't be implemented as functions are typically things that require controlling the evaluation of arguments (conditionals, assignment, short-circuiting boolean operators, etc.), and additional language features (built-in special forms or macros for writing your own) are included to handle those. But if you have something that allows you to control the evaluation of arguments, simply choosing to evaluate all your arguments gives the equivalent of a function. Implement that thing, and your compiler/interpreter no longer needs to know about the difference between functions and macros and built-in forms; they're all the same thing!

There's not a lot of practical use for that kind of thing that I am aware of (implementing run-time macros is one, being able to pass short-circuiting boolean operators to map, reduce, etc. is another), but I strongly suspect that's just because we don't have 30 years of collective experience figuring out all of the great things about vau expressions like we have with Lisp and anonymous functions. The only language (discounting toy projects) I know of that actually implements them is Kernel (http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~jshutt/kernel.html).
Maybe manufacturers need to change dealer pricing structure. If they're paying millions for licenses, training and equipment, it sounds like the manufacturer treats that like a profit center. Dealers need to accomplish specific goals, if they're a franchise or company store.
One possible problem is that they say (estimate) that the new model last 30 years. (Let's wait until 2040 and see.) It's very difficult to estimate how many years it will last with the real use.

* What happens when they get wet? Does it get a lot of mold?

* What happens during a flood?

* How fast the surface wears away?

* What happens when a dog bites it?

* Does the dirt accumulate inside and make the ball heavier?

It's looks like an interesting idea, but the 30 years claim is a little optimistic.
Nice interface.

When you click on a picture, the slideshow should be paused by default. I found it annoying when the picture I was checking changed automatically.

I did not see the pause button at first sight, you should make it bigger and put it bottom center, and by default it should be a "play slideshow" button.
This is nice. I could see myself using it even though I normally do this on the command line, as this would be faster.

Comments:

* You're often too literal, especially given your audience is going to be largely people that find it too complex to do it manually themselves. People don't think of "common names", they think "url" or "hostname".

* Where's my back button?

* Again on the literal front, you've copied the OpenSSL descriptions of OU and stuff and expect the user to know what it is. Fill in sample data or placeholder so that it helps the user figure out what they want, should they want to customize it. Consider removing fields if no one cares.

* Do you even need the second screen? You could just put "domain name" and "secret key passphrase" on the front page and go straight to the download after that

* If you want to make it more helpful, on the download page have something like "What next?" and have some pointers to installation/configuration instructions.
I appreciate this reply a lot. This type of situation is a new one for me, I guess I should just bring up the subject as a whole and see how it goes. I hope I don't run into too much resistance since it will result in a short term decrease in deliverables.
Yea that phrase also caught me off guard and had me wondering what year this was.
I find that objclibs helps people find suitable frameworks fast, while CocoaPods is great for managing those frameworks.
I cringed at that line.
Just imagine how excited and evangelical this guy will be when he discovers static typing and lazy evaluation, too.
I'd leave the short term to short sighted people. In chess, in wars, in business, in software, the world belong to those who see far away.

As Napoleon said: l'intendance suivra, which means that short term and ancillary problems will be solved anyway.

Another way to say this is that if you keep the general long term direction, it will be ok to use dirty hacks to fix in fee minutes the short term problems, you will know how to do it in a way that we'll not hinder the long term path.

But make sure your tools and automation are really in line with the long term direction.

For example, building a chrome plugin to speed manual testing of a web app would be wrong, architecting it to be fully unit testable would be right.
This is unfortunately quite likely. Witness the involvement of organized crime in cigarette smuggling as cigarette taxes have risen.

If we want to minimize the involvement of organized crime, not only does marijuana have to be legalized, but the taxes have to be low enough for black market alternatives not to be worth the trouble.
TypeWhale aims to take media manipulators out of the equation
Thanks for providing way more information than the author of that article ever did.
These aren't regular police men, they are the police guys who are in plain clothes and drive black Audis. Quite a bit different from the regular traffic cop.
One overlying question here is in your contact with Anthony in particular over every other journalist out there, and how that came about. Did you know him already, have his email from a personal reference or similar, find it online, take a guess and hit send?

I suppose anyone can blindly email anyone else with hope there is interest for followup, but having that genuine starting connection makes a huge difference.
Why? DOS is probably the CLI by far most people know. Naming anything else would be pretty stupid.
Wait, how is this different from any consumer device that has a warranty?

edit:
e.g. let's say my apple laptop breaks, even if I could fix it or get it fixed by a third party for cheap, I have to take it to the apple store to not risk losing my warranty completely.
I would like to see emerge a car-buying agent. The agent would deal with all manufacturers and used car lots (still a need for this) and help the buyer get exactly what they want at the best price.

However, there will always be some new car retailers because some people like to buy new cars in person and drive them immediately. I think the standards for sales staff will continue to change away from the old commissioned, "pal" model to the new non-commissioned, quant/car nerd model. It is a change that seems to be defining this generation of workers.
Thanks! Good point about the slideshow. I asked a couple people and the opinions were about 50:50. Will gather some more feedback on this one :)
I'd say a little more than 'take a guess', but that pretty much hits the nail on the head.

He turned out to be a really nice chap :)
Er, I'd say that "Chrome-less" is a better description. You do have a GUI, it's just its chrome that is mostly invisible.
Personally, I migrated to homebrew due to the ease of writing packages compared to macports. But I happen to enjoy ruby more than custom DSLs. It's probably a division similar to Chef/Puppet.
Oh absolutely, but it's more of a niche thing for designers who need some serious horsepower. The article makes it sound like they're doomed because they're not devoting any energy to a market that doesn't really exist anymore.
These laws came into existence to protect dealers from predatory actions taken by manufacturers against the public interest. They have their roots in the Great Depression era when Henry Ford dumped inventory on dealers with "offers they couldn't refuse."

There is a huge imbalance of power in this relationship. Since their creation the statutes have been captured by special interest just like every other regulation.
Hats off to you mr. Jahnigen and hats of to you mr. Sting for not just being good with music, but for being Good in general :) It's absolutely one of the most beautiful ideas I've ever heard. So simple, so powerful. Saw the Joy and harvest the Good.
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Good point, fixed the title!

I am used to explaining to non-computer people and they have no idea what chrome is and GUI = buttons basically for them. :)
Microsoft releases xbox Smartglass to iOS, Android
Nobody is doing "quite well" on consumer desktops right now. The market has shifted away from them towards tablets. The primary consumer for desktops at this point is likely corporations that buy cheap machines in bulk. Most of the rest of the crowd that cares about desktops are enthusiasts like me who aren't buying prebuilt anyway.
This is not a general-purpose computer, this is a microcontroller. This Stellaris LaunchPad is comparable to many other small devices such as the Arduino family. These boards are used for embedded development and are not able to run a full-blown desktop operating system such as Linux, but instead run smaller programs with the purpose to control LEDs or motors.
I would suggest that it depends a lot on the stage of the company. Early on, only build enough that you can legitimately track the key metrics. Other than that, focus on building the product.

As the product and business matures, it's likely that you will need to spend more time to ensure that the business can keep up with the product.

As a PM, I make sure that we've had to do the same thing manually a number of times before we spend any engineering time on automating it, or setting up the tools so that a non-engineer can do it.
It's strange to see both 1 and 3. If the expenses are inherently incredibly high, then there couldn't be a low barrier to entry. Why are groupon's expenses so high, then?
I have OpenVPN set up on a linode server in the US. That was working fine until a week ago. Switched hosting to Tokyo instead and that worked fine for a few days. Now my colleagues and I have given up and are using a friend's account with Astrill.
employment regulations. Telling you who you can and cannot fire, entanglement with the unions (France is a good example of this).
Even so, it only has to last 8 days to break even.
I feel like pot is like the hypnotoad on Futurama and I can't really trust the opinions of its users.
Also the commercial taxes here are ridiculously low for the EU, which is why a lot of multinationals have their EU operations here:

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

And:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement
That was my thought when reading the article. Replace programmer with accountant, marketer, designer, etc and the article would read the same. As much as programmers think we're special snowflakes, there's always another group (see previous list) that thinks they're special too and that no one else "gets" how they work.
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"Because I want to share photos across all my online and offline personas - not tie them down to a single social network or app."

I'm personally happy to know that this is the underlying sentiment, and I'd guess that the photo community feels the same way.
Newest public Java exploit (CVE-2012-5076) found in the wild for first time
Yeah, I'm a fan of the canned starbucks doubleshot expresso drinks. A bit high on the sugar content for regular consumption, but I like the tasty treat every now and then.
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I think it's a sure sign you're on to something when the incumbent businesses try to use outdated laws to stop you.
Completely agree with the author. mvc3 and razor are fantastic to use.
Thanks for the constructive feedback! Will add to my todos.
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I agree, especially with the last sentence. But there's an important point buried in one of the e-mails in the article:

2 weeks ago we walked away from $160,000 in seed funding because we decided [..] we should get profitable before we take funding to get a better valuation

Getting press from places like TC will be very helpful when it comes to finding funding, especially if it's from the typical Bay Area crowd.

But I do still agree with your last sentence and a company that does well in its own niche and doesn't need funding is certainly more cooler than one that does - it's just not what everyone wants to do.
Then Toshiba will not be bought by me for myself or my customers. Happy to reduce the selection process with another brand. Actually I by Mac for myself and Fujitsu Siemens for customers.
Car sales has always struck me as an industry that was ripe for disruption. Why do we still need car salesmen?
Most laptops can have vanilla OS installations with OEM drivers, unless something changed with laptops in the past couple of years that I didn't notice.

Generally the first thing I do with a new laptop is repave with fresh OS, etc. Weird hardware is relatively rare.
How exactly did you get that traction? Curious as to what I'm missing... doesn't look so easy to me.
It's pretty easy to say what kinds of problems are not interesting: those where instead of solving a few big, clear, problems, you have to solve a lot of nasty little ones. One of the worst kinds of projects is writing an interface to a piece of software that's full of bugs. Another is when you have to customize something for an individual client's complex and ill-defined needs. To hackers these kinds of projects are the death of a thousand cuts.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html
Wired's Geek Dad has a better write up of same board (http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/11/a-13-arm-single-board-c...)
Thanks. I'll have to integrate with trusted CAs for this. Will check this out.
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When I clicked on a few pictures, they expanded, which I expected. Later (in Berlin) I clicked on a picture and got a slideshow. I much prefer seeing all the pictures and clicking on the ones I want to zoom in on. It is indeed a great interface. My vote is a "play slideshow" button; otherwise, make zooming in on the pic the behavior when a pic is clicked.
The point of laundering money at legal marijuana outfit would be getting caught, showing the public that there is a permanent 'criminal nature' to drugs such as marijuana.

I'm not saying this makes any sort of business sense, it's just a way of influencing public perception.
I can recommend reading this paper[0] It discusses the history of the relationship between the auto manufacturers and their dealers and the reason why franchise laws now exist in every state.

Concludes that state regulation is necessary to the extent it neutralizes the disparity in bargaining power between the automakers and the dealers, but that current legislation no longer achieves this and only benefits the auto dealers.

[0] http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:reg:wpaper:628
Unfortunately it's my first job as a programmer (though not by any measure my first job) so I have to settle for less than what others get to get in to the business and make myself more credible and hire-able. I have adapted well though and I have the hope that things will be better soon.
We’re rethinking publishing and building a new platform from scratch.
Noise canceling is harder in high frequencies. You'd need ultra fast mike, circuit and loudspeaker to inject in the air the same wave in opposite phase, before it arrives to your ears.

Our maybe a pill, like some analgesic, freezing your auditory nerves for a while.

I have noticed that loud speaking is much less disturbing if you don't understand the language, maybe a drug messing your language brain could help, but if the purpose is to think about something else it will not help...

I bet the best fix is to tell this women you have misophonia, and pray her to tone down a bit.
Mostly fair points technically and a reasonable conclusion, but..

I want to be fair here – there's more than one camp in the Rails world

To be fair, quit with the linkbaity titles that tar everyone with the same brush. I could find some developers to spout off some garbage and write "BS That Dumb .Net Developers Actually Believe In" except I wouldn't, because it's ridiculous, unfair, and antagonistic. It's as simple as adding the word "some", really.
Awesome news! I wonder what the pricing will look like..
I am a Ruby on Rails person! I will tell you some things.

I am not going to give up OS independence, on the development or server side.

I am not going to give up editor/IDE independence.

Microsoft is not seen as ahead of the curve with respect to web technologies, and this is reflected in its developer community.

Until these problems are fixed, the MS stack can pretty much go kick rocks.
They're 12 different articles with different content, but all about Star Wars.

This is huge news.

I didn't realize this was inappropriate.
These agents actually exist. This is how my grandfather has bought cars in the past two decades. He gives the agent a set of parameters and the man shows up with a car my grandfather is willing to purchase.
While you may be correct, though this is highly speculative, the reality is the stuff the Mexican cartels push is extremely low grade, and always has been. Thus it seems unlikely they'd be the ones to seize this opportunity... More likely it would continue as it stands today: boutique producers of high-grade, high-manual-cost indoor hydroponics. Legalizing allows everyone to grow in their own homes. It's not like tobacco which requires big fields and lot's of post-processing. One big plant is enough for one consumer for a year...
This is awesome! I can't wait to watch.
Let's take it even further then,

Government doesn't want X to happen against its interests, and thus implements measure Y to counter-act it.

Now all governments and governmental actions are the same.

Also, people in Eastern Germany could vote, that didn't help a lot. I am not sure if dictatorship is the proper term when it's actually a one-party state / oligarchy, though.
Initial thoughts:

- "Dofsome... How am I supposed to pronounce that?" After a minute of hypotheses, I realized that it's a clever mashup of DOF (Depth of Field, i.e. photography jargon) and Awesome. I wonder how many people will figure that out. Maybe give a pronunciation hint somewhere, e.g. (pronounced DOFF-some). (Doff some? Doff some what? Some clothing? Is this an intentional double entendre?)

- The key feature, the full-width gallery of thumbnails, seems like a feature that would be easy for others to replicate. Google+ albums are already similar but with chrome around them. Squarespace has some templates with similar look; their hosting also starts at $8/month, but they offer way more than photo galleries/portfolios.

- I'm also reminded of Jux (jux.com) which is a beautiful idea. If you haven't explored their demos, please do! I'd happily pay for a Jux-based website, but they decided to be free, and so I won't go anywhere near them; why would I host my photos on a service that has no way to keep running long-term?
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...And brands like BonLook and Warby Parker are disrupting the old industry right now.

My wife and friends (24-27 years old) have been getting their glasses at $100 a pop, no strings attached, from these companies for a few years.
"we're the hardest hustler's you'll ever meet, oh, and we scored $2M seed" <-- Vungle?
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Why would he be a Mac user? Since he mentioned DOS I think it's much more likely he's a Microsoft/Windows guy who remember the DOS days.
Techvibes is probably one of the most anti-RIM blogs I've ever read, practically every day they have a negative RIM spin story, even if it's supposed to be positive news for RIM, it's like their main money maker is writing anti-RIM stuff. I'm surprised they actually wrote this. So if you think RIM paid them to write this, I would be surprised.
I wish there other aspects to social than shouting out your status "Just mining away in my tunnel! I love the smell of bedrock in the morning =]". In general I like tasks you need to complete together or something different. The whole share your status thing is old.