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I personally don't have experience with Ruby on Rails, but it is almost universally regarded as an excellent option for web development.

If you want something more versatile (for non-web programming), I would suggest python.

If you go with python, Django is the most popular web framework. However, I find Flask much easier to get started with.

Both are excellent languages. It is tempting to spend a lot of time researching the options in the hopes of picking the "best" language. In my experience, it's better just to pick one and get down to work.
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You're severely missing the point of YC.. it has almost nothing to do with the (initial) money they give the teams.
At one point I was wondering it the TSA might be a sort of 'sand bag' for the administration, if they felt they needed more altitude in their approval ratings they could cut the thing free, which would lower the deficit and make people's lives better. Voila, instant boost in the polls.

Ok, so that is pretty cynical. But I've had my run-ins with them and frankly they add no value at all. I made the mistake of pointing out that they spent all this time and energy looking for concealed explosives, but if they found one they had no plan whatsoever except "clear the terminal." WTF couldn't they just put a re-inforced concrete drop well with a vent to the roof next to the check point? It would be cheaper than one of those Xray scanners and if they actually did find something they could just chuck it into the well and continue on as usual. Needless to say they didn't appreciate any practical advice.
Why can't they just use Webkit then everyone will be happy.
Amusingly, in most large "multi-party" parliamentary democracies, there are... two large, stable parties which actually govern (in the sense that no other party or coalition of other parties will ever be able to form a government) and occasionally a third which gets just large enough to play kingmaker before the system re-stabilizes.
To complete the circle of irony, it seems that some of the developers who were the loudest to shout about standards-compliant web design and development when IE held the reigns are now guilty of much the same thing - the number of sites (and indeed blogs that either implicitly or explicitly state the same) that seem to have been designed with a "Looks great in Safari on my Mac, my iPad and my iPhone, ship it".

For one (unnamed example), I recently built a launch page with a service that purports to do just that, provide a landing page of the "Coming Soon" variety, the ability to customize some links, provide some metrics, etc, and give your users a single page as a placeholder.

The interface for this design - and more importantly the resultant page for end users - is utterly horrific, largely unusable in Firefox, Chrome and IE10.
Briefly searching around the net, anything can be found to be very scary.
Can you please point out what is specific in this design, as represented in the black and white drawings that describe it in the patent? The angle of the page fold?
+1. If that means less page turn animation in ebook readers, it is a good thing.
And I beg Microsoft to make it easier for me to test on IE- release IE for OSX.
At that point I start by offering 25%, yes 25%, and seeing where he wants to go

How is this any different than requesting a blowjob in the parking lot to every woman you encounter in the gym or grocery store? Occasionally your insulting offer will work. It will work a very small percentage of the time, and meanwhile, you gain a reputation as an annoying douchebag that will follow you around 100% of the time.

I'd rather just take or leave the deal at the asking price, or something reasonably close to it, and get on with my day.
"Law"? Meaning 1-L, right? Reality does not work that way. The burden of proof is on the person who's trying to contest an existing patent claim, and that burden is an expensive one to carry against a well-funded opponent.

Seriously. What exactly do you think Apple is going to do when you mail in a check for $2520 to the USPTO and they inform the company's patent counsel that a valuable claim is being reexamined?

This oughta be good.
The Yelp reviews on these kiosks are interesting (dead sea premier kiosk). Lots of one-star ratings and rants about smooth-talking sales people taking money from the, ahem, innocent who are now filing complaints with FTC etc. I had to laugh out loud.

It reminds me of this olde English phrase, "If they pay a penie or two pence more for the reddinesse of them..let them looke to that, a foole and his money is soone parted."
Actually, it's more complicated than that.
Both Silicon Valley and Hollywood mainly support democrats.

Republicans in the past have not offered much that causes either to have to make tough choices.
If they did, they might be able to pit one against the other, which would help their party immensely.
Sure would be nice to get IE10 support into Zepto.js. IE support is one of the main reasons we continue to use Jquery Mobile, but Zepto would meet our needs (with a bit of re-work) at a much smaller download size.
Maybe they finally noticed who creative folks vote for.
I'm not a security guy, but I don't see what would stop a determined adversary with control of the LAN from performing a MITM attack. Obviously, a VPN is still more secure than no VPN.
All commerce is done based on an imbalance of value, and the ability for one party to unilaterally leverage that gulf to make money.

Many people on HN will tell you that the imbalance of value means that if I'm paying $100 for skin products, they must be worth more than $100 to me.

There's both a certain element of truth and a certain element of circular reasoning in that. Your comment, though not exactly incorrect, reads tendentiously incomplete to me.
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I always write bad code
My point is that he libertarian approach is non-sense.

You have a market failure: pollution creates negative externalities and are over-produced in a free market.

You use one common solution to market failures: create property rights that can be protected by litigation.

You now run into another economic problem: Coase's theorem only guarantees efficient outcomes if transaction costs are low. The cost of litigation to enforce injuries as diffuse as environmental injuries would be huge.

You also run into another problem: it's nearly impossible to track injury resulting from pollution to a source once it's out and mixed with all the other pollution.

The libertarian approach runs face first into the brick wall of the very economic theory it's based on.

The sensible solution, as Coase himself noted, is a regulatory apparatus to stop pollution before rights are violated. As a lawyer I'd love the litigation free-for-all that would arise in the libertarian scenario, but it's just an unworkable approach. The fact that it is repeated so much is a triumph of ideology over rationality.
Twitter and email are both the same sort of medium.
You're right that the classes of people named by your parent are all categories one gets born into. But is this really the defining difference?

I believe it may seem that "nerds" differ because after all, you're not born with technical knowledge, you get into it by interest and learn it through studying and practicing.

But it is not the technical know-how that nerds get ridiculed for. That's actually about the only part that gets us at least some respect, unless it's downplayed as "just technology".

No, it is the inability to comply to some social norms. For instance, most of us don't care about the latest fashion trends (because we think that fashion is ridiculous). Or, we don't easily pick up on certain subtext signals. It is this non-acceptance that perhaps drives us toward technology in the first place. Because computers don't judge us. Because we understand them, and they understand us.

We are not nerds because we like technology. We like technology because we are nerds.
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It's not built on reason. It's based on Econ 101 oversimplification along with principles no less arbitrary than any other political ideology.
Violence only becomes more profitable when you have a monopoly to it: it doesn't cost you anything to use it, because you know no one is even gonna try to challenge you

Unfortunately, it looks like nobody explained this to criminal gangs. They obstinately use violence against each other, especially when no one gang has a near monopoly...
This discussion is likely to venture too far into politics for this forum, but which programs fit under the category of poverty reduction? I ask, because the term makes me think of people with no conceivable prospects who are essentially being sustained out of pity.

However, it is probably fair to draw a distinction between programs like Section 8 housing and food stamps (which probably total less than $30B), and the universe of all means-tested programs.

Increasing the talent pool is vital to producing a dynamic economy. It sounds touchy-feely, but things like school lunch programs are an enormous success when judged on the basis of their effect on childhood development, and the resulting increase in greater eventual intelligence, educational attainment, and productivity. Regardless of whether people have contempt for their parents, or pity that some people may simply have worse luck than others, something as boring as one healthy meal five days a week for nine months of the year has measurable effects on cognitive development for people who didn't choose their parents. The same goes for programs like subsidized preschool education, programs that educate young parents who didn't learn how to nurture from their parents, and many other small programs that are likely to sound very boring and very futile, but effect real incremental change that ultimately benefits the entire economy more than the individual beneficiaries.

On the other end of means tested programs from those that encourage talent pool development, are the social safety net programs that facilitate enterprising risk. Early in the nation's history for example the perfectly justifiable idea of debtors' prisons was abolished for the more pragmatic practice of bankruptcy protection. More modern programs make it increasingly possible for not only young single people to go all in on a startup, but people with families, with less risk that a failure will put their children on the street. That doesn't mean that people shouldn't work on savings, but that they can take an even bolder risk when worth it. It may be logical to argue that they should suffer the consequences of their risk, but the economy probably experiences a net benefit from encouraging people away from their biases toward playing it safe.

I get that social programs are really boring, especially since they tend to be top-down organized and not very entrepreneurial, yet it isn't accurate either to assume that they are all over-sentimental and based on pity alone, or that they all ultimately end up undermining people's chances of standing on their own feet.
yep! I ve been working with Python for some years now, and I still find the same exciting, its an amazing language to learn, code and build amazing projects.
> standards-compliant web design

I persist in misreading this as standards-complaint web design.
surely this is fodder for 6 strikes.
This story particularly illustrates why I avoid going into places with a selling mentality (most places in malls) and prefer to shop in places with a completely customer-centric perspective (what I call the REI model).

One easy way to find such places is to look for lack of pay by commission. REI and Apple are too relevant examples. However a lot of the time even stores that pay based on commission will have a larger customer focus than a sales-pitch focus. Nordstrom is one example that comes readily to mind.

In short, be careful where you shop.
Cherry pick the relatively popular policies and anyone can look reasonable. You want batshit?

Getting rid of the Fed.

Repealing the Civil Rights Act.

Global warming denialism.

Getting rid of clean air and water standards.

Seizing the Panama Canal.

There's no shortage of batshit insane ideas when you go down Ron Paul's rabbit hole.
Man, I hear all this about not leaning on Webkit, and I would actually like to try a Windows Phone for a while, but remembering that it has IE just sends shudders down my web developer spine.
What's the shelf life of a techie? Just 15 years
You can download a free VM that runs on OSX to test.
I thought this was going to talk about how to send 10s or 100s of thousands (millions?) of emails in a small timeframe, which would be an interesting problem, and may be for Stride at some point!
I wonder if they ever considered adopting webkit for IE. Is there any reason not to? Apart from MS pride.
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1. I like, support and (pay for) App.net
2. One tweet, by one famous media guy (admittedly a board member, yes, but really only known for being a great media executive) does not a strategy make.
3. The title "is pivoting" is extremely assertive and not really backed up by, well, a preponderance of facts or data.
Um, except for two idiot Senate candidates who went down in flames, it was the Democrats who were pushing so-called "social" issues this election cycle with radical positions like forcing everyone to buy health insurance that includes contraceptives, whether they wanted to or not.

Saying the employer or the insurer is one paying for the contraceptives is economic nonsense -- the cost ultimately comes out of the employees' pockets. Should, say, a woman who's gone through menopause or a gay man really have to pay higher health insurance premiums to subsidize someone else's birth control? Given that birth control pills are legal and cheap (~$10 a month at Walgreens) this was really just about trying to create a wedge issue by scaring people with a phony controversy.

And after being in office for four years, Obama waited until about five minutes before the election, when the polls showed support was turning in its favor, to announce his very tepid support for gay marriage. Not exactly, a shining example of leading on principle.
You may want to take direct moral responsibility for your circumstances, but that would be very dishonest. Whether you like it or not, you are part of a society and the very existence of society makes your circumstances possible.
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George E.P. Box's law: "All models are wrong, but some are useful". The problem with libertarianism/anarcho-capitalism, marxism/communism, etc. is that they don't acknowledge that truth and want to extend their models of human behavior well beyond the scope of their usefulness, as if human societies were simple, linear phenomena.
This sounds like a PR stunt.

Un-prefixed declarations are everywhere. They're part of every framework, and what every developer tries first. Then comes -webkit, -o, -moz. IE hacks are far more widespread. filter?

I've been looking for sites without un-prefixed declarations for an hour and come up short. If there is any merit to this, I'd love to hear it.
Well put. It seems to me that there is a lot of room for a moderate libertarian party, which could sit between the two major parties as a reform-oriented 3rd party. The majority of the electorate is uncomfortable with the idea of government regulating their bedroom activities, and is highly alarmed with the profligate spending and clearly unsustainable entitlement obligations, and is very skeptical of overseas adventurism. If this 3rd party simply co-opted the Democrats social policies and the Republicans fiscal policies, but with a reformist, common sense, moderate-libertarian bent, it could probably win enough seats in Congress to become legislative kingmakers - especially with an electorate as disgruntled as in the last two cycles.
So what exactly is the problem with easy_install? I just recently discovered it and it seems quite nice to me.
I'm not certain that's fair. They grew by an order of magnitude every half year or so. That's very difficult to keep up with, especially when you have no idea how to turn all those signups into money.
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Let's see, so the party whose biggest contributor is the teachers' unions, who have presided over four decades of trapping poor minorities in failed urban schools where it's virtually impossible to fire a teacher no matter how incompetent they are is pro-education, and the party that supports school choice programs, which in the past ten or twenty years has allowed hundreds of thousands of disadvantaged children to escape from some of the worst schools in the country and actually learn something is anti-education? Good to know.
Could someone list another apps that can make "beautiful" graphic like this app? (Or at least, something that could be done by non-artist, no photoshop / pattern / texture needed to generate the graphic).
You realize you are having the discussion with people who didn't even go to college?

TSA only requires high school diploma or GED, there is no education or critical thinking requirement.
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Reading the google groups discussion raises some interesting questions:

What prevents other open source projects from being taken down with a "management did not authorize this" notice? For example, what prevents Twitter from saying Bootstrap was released by a rogue employee, invalidating the open source license and rendering millions of websites in copyright violation?

What happens to the commits by other authors to the source tree? Do they own the copyright to their commits, even if they modify invalid open source code?

How does the open source community react when this happen? Do they fork and pretend the source code is legit open source? (from reading the discussion, it seems like many developers have already forked the code and encouraged others to work off it)

Perhaps there are reasonable solutions to these, but I'm interested to see how this story unfolds, since it may affect how people think of companies open sourcing code in the future.
If taxation is theft, property is theft. Or in other words: what gives you the right to compel me to defend your property?
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How does tail-recursion fit into this discussion of infinite recursion?
The discussion thread is interesting - it is strongly implied that NVD3 was up publicly and widely used for ~9 months, and its open source release seemed to have been approved by management.

Are there any other notable examples where a project was 'open' for such a long period of time and then the company that claimed to own the copyrights tried to un-open it? It seems like there's a huge potential for nasty side effects when something like this happens. 9 months is long enough for lots of people to start relying on a library that's been released under a permissive license like Apache2 and then suddenly have the rug pulled out from under them because a vendor either did a terrible job of protecting their copyrights or decided to take their toys and go home.
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The main reason IE doesn't adopt webkit is that IE's current purpose is to provide stability and backwards compatibility to enterprise customers. A large portion of corporations have custom built webapps to provide basic services like HR, Payroll, etc. and they rely on IE to provide consistent behavior for these services.

Should they update their apps? Probably, but it costs money to build systems like that and most corporations don't want to drop money on something that already works perfectly fine.

Adopting webkit would completely disrupt all of these services, and Microsoft would basically destroy its customer base/relations.

Alternatively, Chrome is about pushing the boundaries of what's possible on the web. It's great for new companies, startups, and small developers, but as they move fast and implement new standards / functionality they also break stuff, and unlike Microsoft it doesn't really matter to the webkit dev team if a certain medium size corporation's old payroll app no longer works because of the latest chrome update.

Different browsers serve different purposes, and IE's is to provide stability. Hence they don't adopt webkit.

(I was an intern with IE this past summer and I asked the very same question minus the last part to my manager, and this was his response)
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That's also what was most interesting to me.

This smells like the whole Twitter Bootstrap thing a few weeks ago, but the bootstrap guys had enough pull to take the brand with them after they left Twitter.
There are poorer countries than China that are not growing at their pace. Your claim implies all developing economies should be growing because of the "gap" between them and developed countries. In reality, most developing economies are struggling to find a path to growth.

You're perhaps right, people will one day "demand regulation" because that's what happens when countries get so wealthy that politicians can't pander on bigger issues and instead start making big deals out of smaller ones (i.e. we'll protect you from unhealthy restaurants). Not to mention, like all organizations, governments fight to continually grow. Unlike corporations, governments can't go out of business (easily) and have the support of misguided do-gooders.

Europe is going through this right now. They developed before the United States and they are declining before us as well due to the excess of government.

Finally, to claim economic growth in China is "abusive" is to show total disregard for the poverty of the people living in the country. China is still an incredibly poor country and economic growth is helping move millions out of poverty every year. Would you prefer slower growth and more poverty?
Well, if it were a contract it might be covered by the "Apparent Authority" doctrine. But I know jack about this.
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Did anyone actually bother to read the blog post[1] linked in the ars article? Nowhere does Microsoft "beg" anyone to do anything, and in fact IE6 is isn't even mentioned. Glad to see everyone is jumping on the anti-Microsoft gravy train though.

[1] http://blogs.windows.com/windows_phone/b/wpdev/archive/2012/...
Though I somewhat agree, having moz and ms using separate rendering engines does provide some opportunity for innovation.
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You describe perfectly what I understood him to be saying, then say you don't understand.

As you said, a sensible buyer would love to see those costs on the balance sheet since it would lower assets in the company. Which is exactly what happened, and the buyer spent $150K less. However the OP was the seller, and so was significantly less delighted to find at the last minute that $150K less money than expected would be received.
Not just that, the company might actually integrate the ideas and development from others gathered during this 9 month oops period into its now conveniently closed source product.
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