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I must disagree.

A coworker had problems with his Mercedes SUV, opposite end of the spectrum from a used Sunfire. He had it checked out and came back to the office in a very sour mood. I asked to look at the quote - they planned to replace the plugs, wires, and coils (V8) for $3,600! I looked at it closer and saw a very common game being played. They used the numbers "from the book" for the hours required for each replaced component as if you would replace each component individually and added them all up. In reality, if you're replacing the plugs, you're already pulling the wires, so it adds no time to the work at all (maybe a few seconds per wire). There's not much to add for the coils if you're replacing the wires either.

After much prodding, I managed to get him to get a quote at a non-dealer shop and when he showed the guy his quote, he pointed out the exact same cons that I did. End result, he saved 2/3 of the dealer's quote.

I could tell you other (bait & switch, rudeness, etc.) stories about BMW and Audi dealers, including a coworker's experience trying to buy a brand new one.
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Can these articles please stop? There is no silver bullet solution for anything. This is why polyglot applications are starting to pop up.
Thanks for the feedback!

- Yeah, we were afraid that the name is too clever for System 1 [1] to understand. On the other hand it feels good once you get it and it makes you feel kinda like a photography insider :) Also I'm not a native English speaker, but my English friends could pronounce it even without having an idea about d.o.f.

- There is no single particularly clever part about this, just the G+ style grid made possible by on-the-fly image rendering/resizing with imgix.com [2] and the absence of chrome/distractions. My company is working on a much more advanced photo hosting solution and we basically launched this to have a really minimalistic service to which we will be able to trickle down advanced behind-the-curtain stuff once it is proven to work for users.

- will check jux.com out thanks!

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/...
[2] imgix.com - these guys are just starting out so it is bumpy sometimes, but I've been recommending them because it is such a good idea
I don't agree. Pentalobe and tri-wing screws have no practical advantages over torx. The only possible reason I can see for Apple using those is that they're not common, and would discourage users from attempting to open the device.

It's obvious that most of Apple's decisions that make their devices less repairable come with aesthetic and practical gains, but the use of uncommon screws is not in that category. The most favorable explanation I can think of is that it was intended to signal to a certain class of users who were used to being able to partially disassemble laptops to make certain kinds of repairs and upgrades that it was no longer practical to do so.
In Russia too: everyone (and his dog) makes these sites.
While there is certainly some truth to what you say, why do you tie your assessment to the Object class? Object has been on its way out for well over a decade now, and all the alternative toolkits like GNUStep and Cocotron have good support for NSObject and friends.
Argument against: some browsers don't show the URL, e.g. Firefox on Android, which shows the page title in the URL bar when the focus is away from the field.
On the other side, income tax is one of the largest in Europe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_the_Republic_of_Ire...
This reminds me of recently buying a Samsung dryer. We had to side-vent the dryer, which is atypical, due to space constraints. However, Samsung and Best Buy kept telling us it was no big deal: you can just buy a side venting kit and do it yourself.

The kit's first step is "refer to your service manual" for disassembly. Service manual? We don't have one of those. They don't offer them on Samsung's website. I can't find anywhere to get them. Why are they telling me I can do something myself when they won't give me the information to do it? I started to read blog posts about people who would have to find DIY experts online who would sell them out of date manuals for kind-of-similar dryers in an attempt to fix it. Now that seems like a safety issue.
Wow, Sophia is stunning! Especially with your texture pack.

I seem to get stuck in a functional mode. I rarely build anything more than a box to keep me safe.

Surely you had to do a lot of planning for Sophia... Did you just use graph paper (which seems particularly suited to minecraft) or is there some software to help?
'Loose' is the opposite of 'tight'; to 'lose' is to misplace, which is the word you were going for.
Excellent idea.

What about making easier to employer to find employee who cares and to employee to find employers who care about employee who care.

Also what about making it easier to test each other ?
Nice work. This is easier to share with someone than pointing them to openssl. Also, misspelled oxygen in "feedback is my oxigen".
Cocoapods is a package management system. Objclibs looks like a curated list of popular/proven libraries.
In Malaysia, there are over 80 groupon clones at some time ago.
Check your fonts on Windows. With Chrome the rendering is terrible, and with Firefox the wrong font is used (looks like Times New Roman).
.NET tooling can't compete with any unix + ruby tooling. I use .NET everyday I work with NuGet & co and it stinks. It is miles away from being mature and robust (even with VS2012).

I was a RoR dev before and loved it, now I just hate .NET at work because of it's OS (Windows) and tools (VS, NuGet, MSBuild...). We don't use MVC though.
Below that in the price spectrum, there's Zenni Optical. I bought a $20 pair of glasses from them over a year ago & they've been very good to me. They aren't quite as stylish as Warby Parker, but they are still pretty nice.
Cartels make far more money off "hard drugs" than they do off marijuana, and smuggling hard drugs is easier just due to size (a kilo of cocaine is tiny compared to a kilo of marijuana) and relative lack of tell-tale signs like odors (dogs can sniff out packaged cocaine and meth, humans can sniff out packaged marijuana). I served on a grand jury a couple of years ago and a DEA agent, testifying in a big meth smuggling indictment, said the local authorities had cracked down so efficiently on small, local meth labs that it opened a big door for cartels to become the suppliers. Violence and volume rose rather immediately. I think legalizing marijuana is probably a good step, and it will take >0 dollars from cartels, but I highly doubt it would be a serious impediment to them, the will continue with other drugs, local (to Mexico) activities like kidnapping and extortion, and branching out into other organized crime activities (fraud, loansharking, etc...)
Currently I rather be #1 on HN than featured on TC. Ah. Penny dropped.
Huh, this is very nice. Congratulations!
Disclaimer: I came to hate Microsoft back when it was first fashionable to do so. I've grown up, and still don't like them.

Here is my pet peeve.

MVC is a well-understood idea in web development that traces its inspiration back to Smalltalk in the 70s. There are many MVC frameworks in many languages, which differ in various details. All of which, to avoid confusion, called themselves things other than MVC. Examples include Catalyst, Django, Ruby on Rails, Struts, CodeIgniter and many, many more. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_application_f... for more.

Why did Microsoft have the gall to try to confuse everyone by calling their product MVC? Yes, you've got models, views and controllers. So does everyone else. Yours don't work exactly like anyone else's. (Everyone else's work differently from each others as well.) Yours wasn't even the first one available for .NET. Get a less confusing name.
The MS stuff is good and getting better. Still, it's a (sometimes expensive) tarpit that is difficult to free yourself from. Better to not get involved in the first place, imho.
I was quite surprised there wasn't more discussion of regulatory issues. I guess Patrick is trying to talk in more general terms about starting up in Ireland, but if the question is "Could Stripe have been started in Ireland?" then I would imagine the primary, if not the only, reason is because of financial regulations.

The payment industry is highly regulated, and you would have to assume an Ireland-based Stripe would have to target the entire of the EU (the Irish market being simply too small). And that brings additional regulations - Stripe themselves clearly would like to support EU customers, but have no timeline themselves yet.

Conversely, you'd have to be utterly nuts to base your online-gambling start-up in the valley (...although I'm pretty sure a couple have. I still maintain they're nuts).

Whilst founders would probably like to be working on a business model that can be applied globally, there are many start-ups where scaling up outside of your home market can be very difficult. Square faces a similar problem with Chip & PIN in the EU. Given that, it makes sense to not just base yourself somewhere where investment is easily found, but to base yourself somewhere with a large number of potential customers. Ireland is probably not that place for Stripe!
That, of course, implies a world with no collusion.
This looks like very interesting. And a nice interface to deal with. But ... I do not find anything about authentication. Whoever wants can fiddle with this 8080 Port.

Did you rethinkAuth or am I just too stupid to RTFM?
As someone who has used both GNUStep and Cocotron, I have to say this is less true than you probably think, and yes, there are people actually doing it.

In fact, one of my recent gigs was moving an Objective-C code-base from GNUStep/Linux to Mac OS X (and then with Cocotron back to Linux).

Objective-Cloud seems to be a perfect bridge between those worlds. After all: worry about scaling problems once you scale, because chances are you won't ;-)

And if you do scale up so amazingly that you outgrow Objective-Cloud or hosting your own, I am pretty certain that the transition will be less involved/painful/drawn-out than, let's say, Twitters move from Rails to Java. :)
As usual, laws prevent innovations to protect the incumbent (banks and credit card companies)
It would be quite funny, although also given the tax structure pretty much inevitable, that if/when Stripe launched their product in the EU they set up a Irish subsidiary to take advantage of those tax arrangements.
Is there a way to differentiate between data that's only saved using Garlic (local) vs data that's also been saved to the server? This could be a huge confusion for users if there isn't.
What was the Subject line of your email?
Most may. But there are some laptops which absolutely require the laptop manufacturers drivers for the equipment to work. THAT is very annoying.
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or...they could go to a big time lobbying firm and have the media do all that, but in a legal and more effective fashion. They may not be sophisticated enough to do something that simple, but it would be far more effective to pay experts to do the dirty work than handle it yourself.

edit: to answer PGs question, follow the money trail.
Remembering Apple failed products
In Ubuntu, it's user overridable (i.e. machine owner is in control). In Darwin/OSX, it is not (i.e. machine vendor is in control).
Steroid bust shows Feds can still get at “private” and “secure” e-mail
We just had an election and almost 50% of the country said No we don't want "big goverment" which is what it takes to remedy those ills. If you want to solve the ills it's going to take years of hard work and a lot of money.

Also, a part of why we don't have the political will is latent racism.
I think the desire for this kind of project is very reasonably based, and it looks like you have done great work on most of the implementation. I have one gripe with it, though.

It would be nice if the documentation mentioned that garlic.js requires an HTML5 browser with localStorage implemented. Remember, there are people who are still using Internet Explorer 6 and 7, and these browsers are incompatible [1]. This is a minor details considering browser marketshare, but a fallback using cookies would be a nice-to-have feature.

Besides that, awesome work!

[1] http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/html5.html#t00
I can go to McDonalds and order an Apple computer by calling 1-800-MY-APPLE. I can also do so by using McDonald's wireless. If I don't have a computer or phone I can go to the library and use theirs.

Is McDonalds a Apple dealer because I can order an Apple from inside the restaurant? Is the city library an Apple dealer?

If the argument is true that this location, which does not accept money or purchases, and which does not deliver cars, is a car dealership, only because some people are using the internet to place deposits on cars with a company in another state, then the library and McDonalds are Apple dealers.

And furthermore, since I can also access http://carsdirect.com from the library and McDonalds, then under this principle, the library and McDonalds are both car dealers as well.
For the record, the MVC Framework is completely open source. So is the entire Asp.Net stack.

I'm a former C#/ASP.net programmer. This guy is delusional. Even when MS makes code available, that doesn't really mean it's useful in any practical sense. If you're targeting ASP.net, there is a 99.99% chance you're targeting Windows servers and only Windows servers. Does that sound like "open source"?
black market prices are so far out of whack with market value (apart from the value of getting something your govt. has declared illegal) that taxes would have to be ridiculously high to make prices even come close to street cost of equivalent drugs. Either that or street price collapses to legal price (perhaps minus taxes) and criminals are less incented to participate due to drastically reduced margins. High taxes really are only a concern for someone looking to buy wholesale, an individual user buying say 3.5-7 grams at a time would likely be paying, at most, a few dollars in taxes, which is hardly prohibitive since the same amount illegally costs ~40-80 dollars afaik (note: I don't dabble in illegal drugs but may have used some in high-school, so this cost knowledge is a little out of date, but I suspect not horribly off).
Safari for iOS is probably a less obscure example - as you scroll down the page, the address bar will scroll off screen.

These interactions are expected by their users, and they know how to navigate around them.

I wouldn't be hasty and say i don't think it'd be a material concern, on the contrary, it could make for some interesting A/B testing!
A game on regular expressions and finite state machines
It would also be nice if the documentation mentioned that it requires jQuery.
Just a heads up, the <title> of your page is still "Bootstrap".
I'll still be using email.
For a game studio, that's significant portion of your time.
Pretty cool, but there are a couple injection vulnerabilities when you make the cert.
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Well, that is good to hear. I'll be looking for that service in the future. I would definitely expect it to take over some traditional auto sales business.
I just hope everyone gets to use it. I added it to my "great to have" Javascript libraries list. Good work!
Actual source:

http://starwars.com/news/michael-arndt-to-write-screenplay-f...
This is true for a small % of the people. But if those people move over to cocaine or kidnapping or human trafficking, they will at least be in a smaller market. Their sociopathic tendencies will effect less people.
> don't let your users lose their form data

This is a huge problem, and is the reason I've had Lazarus installed for a few years now.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/lazarus-form-...

Apparently it exists for Chrome now, too.
Apple is anything but small... they passed Exxon earlier in the year as the world's most valuable company. They ship more computers than nearly any other company (save maybe HP).
So when do they start being big enough to be affected by this law?

I also find it interesting that you also compared them to Microsoft, since Microsoft is now opening retail stores.
There are many caveats to this hook -- so be sure to read the warnings associated with it.
I am a former C#/ASP.net programmer and I can confirm this. The thought of going back to the MS stack makes me cringe.
Thanks for your first comments ;) This is a very very early alpha release. 1h of work in fact.. Please, feel free to contribute!
To add a little colour to your engineering comments: Facebook actually are in the process of building up a substantial engineering team in London, and they moved into new offices about 4-5 months ago to facilitate that. Google's been expanding their London engineering teams for some time now - both companies have a pretty significant focus on mobile.

From my perspective (I work for a Valley based company, but head up the London engineering team) I see lots of large players and established start-ups creating engineering centers outside of the valley. I think there comes a point as a start-up where the benefits of scaling up your local engineering are outweighed by the advantages of opening up new global locations, especially when you're globalising your product..
I doubt most Rails developers spend much time thinking about .NET

There's a large and growing number of useful, productive high-level languages, frameworks, databases, webservers, tooling, etc. The thing they all have in common is they're open source, they can be used on a variety of POSIX-compatible operating systems and distros, they're often used together, share underlying libraries, and help build off each other's advances.

OTOH, .NET is stuck in the walled garden it built around itself, with its fanboys trying to scream out over the walls at the rest of the world bustling by, demanding we pay them more attention.

Well sorry, no. You guys enjoy that garden though; you keep telling us how nice it is!
Also, LivingSocial has turned out to be not nearly as valuable as Amazon thought. I don't know if that means this is a terrible business, but it certainly implies that it's a very tough one.
If you're not planning on trying to sell your company early, it doesn't matter whether there are companies nearby who might buy it. I agree it's still going to be harder to do elsewhere at present as getting funding for further expansion might be harder, but it is possible to bootstrap to success, and going for an early exit is not the only route startups can take.
Yes, I'll need to work on that, if there is already server data. Maybe in a tooltip like, let the user choose which version he should use
Domestic market size is also a huge factor. The market in Ireland and indeed many other countries is simply too small for a startup like Stripe to be viable. It would have to target international markets/the US from the get go with all the complications (regulatory and otherwise) that go with that.
I wonder what happens in the RethinkDB office on Monday evenings? https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/graphs/punch-card
Apple's next chip architecture transition will be smoother than ever
Thank you, this is very close to what I do indeed, but is not very helpfull for me because I can't purchase from amazon.
Looks neat.

Any chance you could add optional X, Y, Z co-ordinates?
Wanna get a game going sometime?

I play DOTA 2, by the way, hopefully you do too.
I agree with this. Outside of explicitly signaling to users that they have a saved 'draft' of the form, and having them click a button on the page to restore their filled out fields from the draft, there aren't really very many sane implementations.

Some other issues:
- doesn't work in IE
- saved data doesn't expire
- Storage keys aren't unique to the URL, so if two pages have the same exact layout, but different content, identical forms on the page will be filled out with stored information.

So it's a good concept, but I think that there are definitely some questions about user privacy, and that it needs to be paired with some extra UI cues that make it clear to the user that they're looking at draft information, and not something that's saved.
Figured so and meant no disrespect for your tenacity to find him. If you can't disclose it's understood but I still really want to know the details.
For all intents and purposes, IE6 and IE7 are dead. They account for less than 1.5% of worldwide browsers [1]. At this point, seems okay to leave out.

[1] http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version_partially_combine...
Ruben, can you please share your "great to have" Javascript libraries list? It sounds promising.
Unfortunately youtube loads a resolution that is smaller or equal to the embedded frame, I didn't find a way to force full hd. If you full-screen it and then change the resolution, it should play nicely.

The adds are there because I might have mixed some copyrighted music in the background, will have to iterate on that.

In general, the youtube embedded videos are probably not a professional way of putting a video on a product homepage. But it is definitely the cheapest+easiest way.
Why they didn't promote you for re-architecting their systems like that is a failure on their part. I hope your contract fee made up for that!
My company has a few competitors and every now and then a new one will show up blazing through all the tech blogs.

If I'm being 100% honest I feel a little jealous because I'd like our team to get a little love from our peers in the tech community. But I reevaluate when they shut their doors 6 months later because they spent all of their PR money on coverage outside our industry. This has happened to us three times in about 4 years.

I've spent some time getting write ups and case studies on tech sites. I think it's ok to give yourself a little attention in that way as long as you keep in mind that it isn't really reaching customers. It can be good for developer morale though.
They are able to kill with relative impunity in Mexico because the Govt isnt big enough or strong enough to stop them. If they killed an American politician, regardless of which side they are on, it would draw the focus of the US law enforcement agencies. This would cause them some very serious issues.

They have been careful to keep the violence south of the border and I think they are cognizant of the fact that killing south of the Rio Grande brings profit, killing north of the Rio Grande can bring ruin.
The solution to that is to reimplement the functionality outside of the GUI. Write the GUI out of your life.
I disagree to a certain extent. I don't believe in catering to the possible 5% [1] market share that will not upgrade their browsers. Anything that strongly suggests people to upgrade is better, imo. I don't care for the entire notion of including everybody when it calls for more code bloat and makes the code more difficult to maintain or upgrade.

[1] http://theie7countdown.com/
Irritation is a factor. If you sense you're going to be irritated by doing something a lot of times, and it's more fun to develop a tool than to do the tedious thing, then develop the tool.

My general rule of thumb is to tell the client you're going to charge 3x for the hours spent on tool development what you will for the tedious work, and let them decide which they think is in their best interests.
There are at least 3 prominent buttons rigged up to the "WE ARE SORRY!" modal. If all you can actually do on the site is leave an email, make that more clear and try to be less deceiving.

Furthermore, in its current state, this product is not considered a beta; rather an alpha.

Nevertheless, I wish you all the best and indeed hope you are successful; especially given Mojang's complete lack of interest to fill these voids :)
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