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Apparenly Ryan Dahl considered Lua, but he rejected it because "Lua is less ideal but a lovely language - I did not like that it already had a lot of libraries written with blocking code. No matter what I did, someone was going to load an existing blocking Lua library in and ruin it."[1]

[1] http://bostinno.com/2011/01/31/node-js-interview-4-questions...
It's quite simple: Wording. Somebody might have gotten sloppy writing requirements for the new position, or HR may have misunderstood the requirements.

This may be enough to give the rejected applicant ammunition for a law suit. I've been to several interviews where I've had to dig out that what they say they're looking for doesn't match the position they actually want to fill.

I'm a straight, white male in my thirties, so discrimination is far from my mind. Other people may form different ideas, though..
Agreed, the new EU ePrivacy directive is not about "cookies" per se, but storing and re-accessing data you store on people's computers. Cookies are the main example of that, but it also applies to anything that can re-identify a user.
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Hi jusben1369,

a guy from our business team will contact you in the next days. Looks like a cool service you're offering! :)

We're thinking about AMEX and it could be another possible step in our v3. Actually we want to fix some minor bugs, our blog will updated within the next 1-2 weeks so you can stay tuned on English as well.

We actually didn't have the time to update our blog regularly regarding our European rollout. ;)
This is great news, but I will probably try and wait for Stripe as I have no urgency to move today.

Why? Because this looks like where Stripe were and I know that when Stripe finally makes it to the UK they are the ones pushing the envelope and I want to be where they are.

I also hope Stripe will be more competitive on fees.

Obviously, should the need be pressing then this looks like a good stop-gap.
jQuery fixes that.
When I have been hiring, I make sure to inform candidates that aren't hired. If I have been far enough with them that we actually met, I have so far always offered to explain why they weren't picked, over the phone. Not only do I think it's a decent thing to do, but it also forces me to be very conscious about what I'm selecting for, since I know I may have to explain it later.

I've had some awkward conversations as a result of this, but nothing I regret.

I'm fully aware that this doesn't scale well, but it works fine for me.
Malice and stupidity aren't mutually exclusive.
Even Java for Windows tries to install a toolbar. The whole thing is out of control.
Comparatively how much memory was Node.js using?
This is a truly awesome idea.
Money they weren't supposed to make in the first place. This is just market correction.
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I am expecting some momentum too once Nginx and Redis Lua support both grow together.
"Almost everyone" is basically almost everyone you know. It's difficult to find data on the market share of pay as you go plans in the UK but I'm sure it's a significant portion of the market. These plans typically charge for individual text messages unless you get a special plan or meet some criteria (e.g. top up at least £10 a month).
Maybe it would be better to spend some time on:
-certifications
-further education
-market/company research
-polishing applications
-part time job at neighborhood kiosk

Instead of just going automatic shotgun all over every position you see?
Selling complex products - what matters?
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My understanding is that as a non-incumbent campaign, you ideally want voters to believe that your candidate is behind but gaining and that the result will be close.
There's the AGG (Allgemeines Gleichbehandlungsgesetz) in Germany. It's enough to not include the feminine form of a job title or feminine pronouns in a job advertisement to sue the company after a rejection because of discrimination if you happen to be a woman. Instead of the gender, you can of course also assert the rejection was because of race, age, sexual orientation and so on.
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Great article.

I see this cult-like behaviour quite a lot.

Particular examples, when it comes to open source and free software and gnu/unix, vim emacs etc...

It feels like most people just follow the cult's teachings and hold the same opinions that they saw.

I'm sure you guys all think open source software is fantastic and can give me 10 reasons and examples in support of your opinion.

But how much of it is truly your own conclusion and your findings vs just repeating what you were told before and what everyone else seems to be saying?

Have you ever stopped for a second and asked yourself about it? Have you tried to challenge the popular opinions of the cult?

What would you be doing, if every other hacker was bashing open source today and praising proprietary software?

There's a factor in here that I call 'Bandwagon Threshold Theory'. People react negatively to new and disrupting ideas until a critical mass of people start admiring it. By then they jump on the bandwagon and start preaching and telling everyone about how cool this thing is.

If you look around you can see it everywhere.

Older ideas and technologies have already established their bandwagon and therefore there's strong resistance and hesitance in saying anything negatively about them.

Don't believe me? just say something negative about open source and see how religiously people will defend it.

I guarantee you, the majority of those defenders will simply be doing so not as a result of deep understanding and knowledge but because of the teachings of the cult.

I have previously written a short rant here as well: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4601593

PS: I just used the open source examples etc to make a point. My comment is general about the cult-like behaviour in the industry not about something specific. In summary, I think we should all stop worrying about standing out and start challenging the things we take for granted as a result of being surrounded and constantly fed a set of accepted and popular beliefs and opinions.
yup, since a long time, having a 13' screen pushes me to do it:
screen 1 browser,
screen 2 terminal full screen with vim, ssh whatever,
screen 3 torrent client and music player
I find this unconvincing. People who are smart enough to create something of great value will often have valuable input on other things as well. My favorite example is Richard Feynman. No matter what he says, it makes me wiser.

'But Feynman only has expertise in Physics'. Well. A more accurate picture might be: Feynman is a hell of a smart guy, he chose to dedicate most of his time to Physics, but that doesn't make him any less smarter when he talks about other things.
Zooming in makes it easier to discern certain details. This is true, to a point, even if it increases the zoom beyond 1:1. This is increasingly true as the screen DPI get higher, and you can't make out individual pixels. Even zoomed in to 200%, a photo displayed on a "retina" iPad doesn't look jagged, it's just bigger. The same is true on a regular TFT viewed from a few feet away.

Apart from that, breaking browser zoom is just rude. It's a standard feature of the browser and apps/pages should never mess with it. I'm not saying you must have an application level zoom (e.g. by hooking the mwheel events), but breaking browser zoom is just not okay.
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Probably simply because they're not officially recognized by the EU.
I wonder if this trope would ever come up if one of them were named Bob instead.
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Well, suggested solution of this problem seems kinda backwards to me. I'd much prefer something along the lines of what Stephen Wolfram suggests - offload computation to computers in the first pre-rigorous stage, which may enable building of the foundation in a more rigorous manner right from the start.

Even at rigorous stage, offloading computation increases dramatically exposure to solutions and builds intuition faster by orders of magnitude.
Start charging money for Tweetro. Problem solved.
No - consumers will save $54 billion by 2016. They'll then spend those savings on other things.

It's a good thing.

But I'm afraid it's not the only industry about to get absolutely crushed by progress. This story reminds me of the time Steve Jurvetson (a VC of DFJ fame) discussed the amusing interactions he had with a large engine oil company.

He clearly illustrated to them them how, and why, their synthetic engine oil business ($10 billion a year) was about to get absolutely decimated by the introduction of essentially maintenance-free electric vehicles. He then told them that they had better diversify their synthetic oil cash cow, before electric vehicles came in and ate them for breakfast.

Did they bother heading his warning? No. Instead, they laughed in his face.

Everyone that services cars is next on this list - outside of brake pads and body panel beaters.

I wonder how long it will be before there's an article that states: "World to lose $15 trillion as AI and automation replace most humans."
While there are some particularly bad examples of cult of personality in free software, I wouldn't say this is one of them. I think that people are relaying Linus's opinion on desktops so much because he's sharing our thought process and gives us an opportunity to spread our own opinion through his fame, rather than just following everything he says just because of his kernel expertise.

Look at the reaction people had when Gnome 3 was introduced, and Unity in Ubuntu. People didn't wait for Linus to complain against those changes driven by UI designers gone insane.

Lots, and lots of linux users had the SAME reaction Linus had, BEFORE he even publicly talked about it. I went to Gnome 2 from the KDE4 transition since I liked KDE3 but hated KDE4, and went to Xfce after the Gnome 3 and Unity debacle. And I didn't wait for Linus to talk about his thoughts on the linux desktop to switch everytime something bugged me.

Aaron Seigo is asking us to not care about Linus opinion ? But we don't give a crap about yours, man, you're the reason why KDE4 went to hell, the man behind Plasma. After so many years acting like you know better what your users want than they do you're getting all hurt when people listen to someone like Linus instead of you ? the thing about Linus is, he's just a user like the rest of us rather than a desktop developer, but with his fame he can make his opinion reach your ears and it seems you don't quite like what regular users think of your "innovations".
Old desktops (from back in the day)
I could have an unlimited texting plan if I felt like paying an additional $20-30/month. As I did not feel like it, I used to avoid texting for the most part. Now that iMessage is available, I text freely with other iOS users, and still try to avoid texting for others.
Applying for a job doesn't necessarily guarantee a response in many cases. This is mostly a case of companies getting way more applications and resumes than they can handle. Many companies handle this by storing the incoming resumes in a database and searching for potential hires when they have an open position. It of course would be nice if these companies at least sent an automatic reply indicating that they would contact you if they were interested sometime in the future, but an automatic contact doesn't mean much either and sets the expectation that if you reply enthusiastically, you'll get a reply (which is unlikely given the volume for some companies).
Sometimes when an organization wants rid of something (semi-) popular they use a two step process - first change it so it's unpopular, then kill it.

That way you don't have to deal with the PR of killing something popular.
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Exactly. The headline should read "Consumers set to save $54(?) billion by 2016".
Simple, universal, and insanely expensive. Nothing says "oligopoly" quite like charging 20 cents for a 140 byte message.
That's awesome, just cool to know why the activation is needed and how long it will take.

I'm stoked to have you guys launched and I'm sure many other developers are also.
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Good riddance to carriers making 6,500% profit off of texts.

[0] http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2010/news/1001/gallery.americ...
Back in the 1990s there were a few companies that introduced laptops with integrated bubblejet and thermal printers. A few pundits crowed that every printer would have one builtin because it was so useful.

Since then, every couple of years a company introduces a new one and usually sells a few hundred and discontinues it.

A projector phone might be like a construction company owning a full-sized truck, but it might also be like a construction company buying a Toyota Prius with a builtin dumpster attachment
Would be interesting to see scans of your notes.
I wonder if we'll ever see a decent post-mortem of this, with detailed information about the proposed architecture, hardware and software, where the servers were hosted etc.
In any case, someone signed the check and approved the overall design. This someone is ultimately responsible for the failure.
Let's step to the side and consider this from a different angle: Imagine that someone made Linus' perfect desktop environment. Something that satisfied him entirely and which he could happily talk about whenever he felt like it. Would that environment be interesting and useful for the general public, or would it be something great for kernel developers and grumpy-heads like Linus?

I don't care about the general public. I'm not part of it (regarding Desktop Environments) nor do I develop DEs for them. I'm a developer who actually likes some of the same tools as Linus does, including those he developed (Git), so yes, he's position is potentially useful to me.

This idea that software isn't useful unless my mother can use it is a really annoying meme. It's like farmers claiming that reviews on combine harvesters aren't useful because they can't help uncle Tom harvest the tomatoes in his garden.
I have also been told this in the UK.

However I see nothing wrong with a "You have not been selected on this occasion", though I make a point of not entering into a conversation about why because of the risks outlined.
Sorry, re-reading my post it was misleading because I didn't post my intention: I did not want to show that Europe is coming up with successful start-ups at any rate comparable to the US, SV obviously wins by a huge margin.

I was more interested if younger successful founders in the US faster take-over older founders. And they don't. A large part of the wealth of the older founders has been acquired past-IPO.

The conclusion (for me) is that to make it into the top 10 (whether US or Europe) and stay there, you gotta grow a company successfully for many years, like Microsoft, Oracle or Apple did in the US and SAP did in Europe.
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I don't think fairness was ever the subject at hand. Rather, it's the quality of the process that's up for debate. If you've been rejected for a job, regardless of whether or not your rejection was fair, the point is that you'd probably like to receive some sort of notification as such. Otherwise, how long do you sit around waiting to hear back before you give up and move on?

Honestly, the process isn't just cumbersome for the applier, it also causes trouble for other employers, because if you never receive a rejection letter from your first choice company, you're likely to move on to others, and if your first choice happens to get back to you with an offer after you've already contacted others, then you're wasting all the OTHER companies' time.
The reason unlimited texting has come about her in the Netherlands seems to be Whatsapp and its friends - providers add an "unlimited texting" bundle to most plans to "remain competitive".
Senior Software Developer Syndrome
yeah, thats a webserver....

I am talking about the backend stuff's programming language? It appears that it was programmed using happstack.
a) they were assholes, b) yes - daily rate was previously my weekly rate :)
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Pretty impressive, I've given it a go with a few of the more technical terms that I come across at work and that other TTS' have difficulty handling and it dictated them flawlessly. Very interested to see where this goes!
Open source is not "Free Software".

The Free Software movement is a political movement and requires leadership. The OP's critique of Linus (regardless of its merit) is entirely irrelevant to a discussion of Free Software Movement and the clear necessity for uncompromising and visionary leadership.
<quote>as meaningful as his opinions on rocket ships, film production, oil recovery techniques, sociology, religious history, automobile engineering or any of the other topics he has no meaningful expertise in.<endquote>

I completely disagree with this line of argument that, you have to have worked as something before giving a valid opinion, I wish it were true in some case of tech journalists, but, in my opinion if you've been a user of a technology, then you can give an opinion.

On the flipside, positive case for cult of personality may be, a simple use of two words and middle finger can affect the decisions of major corporation like nVidia.
For a cult, we're not very good followers. There's barely anyone who doesn't use proprietary software, even if there are OSS solutions, as long as the closed version is sufficiently better.
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The PR here is hiding the larger issue. It's not end-users that carriers need to worry about - as you say, most are on near unlimited texting plans, and it's rather unlikely monthly plans will drop in price.

No, the problem is the general rise of IP/push messaging across all sectors. Carriers do make significant amounts of money from direct connection billing and bulk SMS. As more brands develop mobile presences the need to contact customers through SMS versus alternative methods will decrease. Push messaging is considerably cheaper, and from the end user's perspective often less annoying and more convenient.

Fortunately (for the carriers), most operate globally, and certain developing markets offer vast SMS revenue potential, more than the West ever did. India alone is a massive user of SMS, considerably more so than the US (partly due to the lack of regulation: a lot of those SMS messages being sent in India are spam).
I can't find the differences between the 9$/mo Beta Subscription Plan and the Free Plan.
Excellent and dead easy to use. Great work on making it simple.

I was actually looking for a similar API like this just a few hours ago, but with some other languages as well. What's the TTS engine driving this?

BTW, One small critique on the page copy... "You expect" could be more politely expressed and in terms of the user's pov/benefit.
Credibility is an amalgamation of measured predictions.
It was a gaffe because they stole the design and got a license only after being called out publicly by the Swiss. All the while being involved in huge law suits with companies who they claim stole their look and feel. Do as I say, not as I do...
It's huge. The most recent OFCOM market report[1] reckons just over half of all mobile customers in the UK are on PAYGO. Don't under-estimate the UK pre-pay (PAYGO) market. It's quite easy to, because most people reading this are probably on contract themselves.

Not only is pre-pay half the market in the UK, it's by far the hardest to retain. Pre-pay customers aren't loyal (partly because they're not locked in to contracts, partly because they tend to be price conscious), and because they skew young they tend to be the customers more likely to both a) use SMS, and b) switch to things like WhatsApp.

[1]: http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/research/cmr/cmr12...
Great article, made me reflect on how as an entrepreneur it's great and totally valuable to continuously be generating new ideas and also at the at the same time to recognize the need to, at times, just shut out every idea you are having and just focus on doing that one thing that needs to be worked on.
Microsoft does that too. AFAIK their Signature Line is exactly that http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msstore/list/parentCateg...
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Sorry, I don't see the offense in framing a discussion around one instance of something. Don't get me wrong, if someone claims to be fighting for a general cause and then repeatedly talks about one instance, that's wrong. But I really don't see a problem with someone offering a story about one instance. At no point did the OP imply that there was no discrimination against other groups.

Claiming that the Holocaust (I'm guessing you don't like that word either) was the worst catastrophe in all of history is a different matter. Now you're dealing with a statement of fact that should at least in theory be either 'right' or 'wrong'. In practice though, I don't think it makes any sense to split hairs around wether it was the 'worst' catastrophe in human history. Who cares, it was pretty damn bad. It's hard to see why you would be offended - there's plenty of defensible views of the word 'catastrophe' that could make the holocaust the 'worst' catastrophe, and if by some other reasonable view of 'catastrophe' the holocaust only comes in at number 7, why would you view it as offensive if someone disagreed?

Same goes for your insistence on the right way to call 'prejudice against jews', where you also manage to find offense. Any mainstream dictionary will define anti semitism as something around discrimination or prejudice against Jews, which would make it's use in this discussion 100% legitimate.

Perhaps you could enlighten us - what exactly is the problem with Jews talking about ways in which they were hurt as a group in the past?