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While true, this was exactly how Apple designed the cloning program. They refused to license to large PC companies like Gateway, and instead chose a couple small no-names. As a result, you had Apple with their huge advertising budget and retail presence, while mailorder companies like Power could really only afford to market in Mac magazines/tradeshows.

(IMO, this indicates Apple was never serious about clones; and wanted to keep it on a small scale. It was only done to appease the conventional wisdom on wall street.)
Their sponsor gave up on those twitter trolling
I'll admit I haven't. Are you saying you found it sucked for the first couple of weeks but after that you adapted to it?

Kind of... a period of adjustment certainly. Switching from 'me metrics' to 'team metrics' for success took a little time to internally grok.

Of course this kind of thing is also complicated by reactions varying greatly with where you are on the introversion-extroversion axis; programmers are on average more introverted than the general population, but still vary all over the scale.

If you're the sort of person who takes MBTIs seriously (I'm not ;-) I'm INFJ - and pretty far into the "I" as I recall.
> Am I just missing something here or did they seriously cancel an entire conference just because of some random dude on Twitter imagining some nonexistent racism/sexism in the speaker lineup?

According to https://twitter.com/Rebeccask/status/270220165344550912 sponsors pulled out. It's not mentioned at all in TFAA though, so I'd don't know if the explanation's legit (and why they went with a non-explanation instead if it is)
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Interestingly, their pictures are of existing Allwinner based Android products that are available for purchase now from any number of sources, and that there are plenty of documentation on getting Linux running for.

So making a good Linux distribution seems to be what this project is for. It's very unclear what they're actually offering - it seems that any donations will go towards work on a very limited set of missing functionality for existing Linux ports for these devices.

Personally I found the page very misleading.

EDIT: Here's details on Linux on the MiniPC they show:

https://www.miniand.com/forums/forums/2/topics/1

And here's details on Linux on one of the LY-F1 tablet models they show pictures of:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyVarHgHMWg
Some civil liberties group should start specializing in exotic travel apparel, including odd watches, intriguing earrings, suspicious-looking belt-buckles, and so on.

This insanity has to stop. Has anybody seen the progaganda the agency puts out? The idea that TSA is now using little stacks of toe-nail clippers and such as proof of how great a job they are doing should be ringing alarm bells somewhere.
Another difference is that the government generally tried to keep things orderly and calm. Not to say that government didn't engage in overreaction as well (e.g. internment camps) but the overall theme appeared to be one of reassurance.

Modern government seems to thrive on making people as afraid as possible, perpetuating the cycle instead of damping it.
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For a project in my English class last year, I bought the domain name http://starwarsproject.com/.

I was surprised it was available, but it helped me get an A on the project. Now that it's getting close to expiring, I'm wondering if it's possible/worth it to sell it, and how I would go about doing so if I was going to?
Good luck. You might have a pretty steep hill to climb with this one. In my experience, users consider ads to be the antithesis of content ... for the most part, they don't want to interact with ads at all, much less choose to interact more.

Also you appear to have an issue in your templates where divs and links aren't nesting properly, like

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I released a free game [1] recently which had been performing rather poorly with IAP. But in a recent release, I reduced the amount of free gameplay and allowed users to use (and spend) more than one hint per level (and of course I sell hint packs). Since then it's been doing much better.

If you don't mind unsolicited advice (and I've only seen your screenshots):

a. How about releasing a paid version of your app with everything enabled but no IAP? If nothing else, you'll come up in the new releases chart again.

b. I'm not sure what your in-app store looks like, but in my game I sell a 'combo' pack which includes two regular packs and 10 hints, all available separately, for a discounted price. I call it a 'combo super-saver' and even put a yellow star in front of it to draw the eye. It is the biggest selling SKU by far. Can you try something like that?

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/app/alphabet-connection-logic/id560...
https://twitter.com/BritRuby/status/270221926490857474

"#BritRuby’s decision to cancel was thought-out and based mainly on financial implications that arose from what happened on Twitter"
This sort of post is why I read HN, in my opinion posts like this should get more upvotes than Steve's death.

For some reason I find it very reassuring to read articles that tell about all the downsides of being an entrepreneur. It makes me feel like I know about all the obstacles that are coming my way, but also confident that I could handle/deal with them. Ofcourse this might be terribly naieve. But then comes the article that naivety is an essential founder's trait, and I'm restored in my faith :P

I wouldn't mind if every article submitted to HN was some founder's anecdote, big or small, keep them coming :)
When a case is brought in front of the police, they have a fair amount of discretion in terms of the actions they want to take next. For example, they could decide to arrest the suspect and put him/her in "judicial custody" if they determine that s/he would be a threat to the public based on what they have seen in complaint. Now if you're arrested on Friday evening it won't be until Monday that a judge will hear your bail application. So you're guaranteed to spend a few days in jail. And then there are legal loopholes you can exploit that can ensure that the bail application isn't heard on Monday. When such things are effectively done people could spend a week or two or even more in jail. All this is because the police and the judiciary have a fair number of discretionary powers each of which all have perfectly reasonable justifications.

I would guess that the person in this case involved got on the wrong side of a important political or bureaucratic entity and they pulled strings to make sure the discretionary powers were used in specific ways after filing a "bogus" complaint. If the police were behaving honestly, they should have told the complainant to bugger off, but because there were important people showing "interest" they didn't.

My guess is that this sort of thing is really nothing unique to India. It's just that the people who exploited in such ways in the US (to pick a familiar example) would likely be poor immigrants, young black males etc. who lack the connections required to get their stories heard. Perhaps one important difference is that politicians seem to have a lot of leverage over police authorities in India.
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They should have invited Matz
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> Don't they understand that it is not technically possible? People will just start using VPN.

Maybe it is not possible to completly stop it, but they could just implement severe punishments for trying to connect to services like TOR, I2P and VPNs. The traffic is definitely detectable, (here is a project that tries to make it harder to detect TOR traffic http://www.owlfolio.org/media/2010/05/stegotorus-talk/). Even if they can't catch them all they can catch and punish enough people to make it to dangerous to use a VPN/TOR/I2P to not make it worth the risk to access the uncensored internet.
I'm curious, as i'm failing to see any real value with this dock. It's an alarm clock...not much different than every other dock available...oh wait, it can change color.
They did, Matz has not replied yet https://twitter.com/BritRuby/status/269853833503588352
BTW Sgt. JD Nelson of the Alameda County Bomb Squad is not some rookie. He is the explosives guy on Mythbusters.

There quite possibly could have been a reason why Sgt Nelson thought this went beyond a piece of art.
This is very disappointing, the community has moved from calling out concrete examples of sexism to dog piling on anything where a circumstantial case can be made. Not very MINSWAN*

The only solution I can see is to make the process 100% transparent and show all invitations and refusals online - maybe even move to a voting system a la SXSW.

*Matz (the inventor of Ruby) is nice so we are nice
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Will we finally see sponsors listening to conf attenders complaining that there are exactly zero hot women giving talks? ;)
They probably are the most brainwashed and obsessed with the issue, and possibly believe they are scoring points in some imaginary and self-deprecating game.

Sane people of different hues are probably doing something more interesting - reading Ruby books, writing Ruby code, or just having a life.
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People will whine about anything, unfortunately they'll do so into the amplifier that is Twitter. On behalf of everyone that was going to go (myself excluded), thanks for nothing you whinging, impatient keyboard-slacktivists.
thanks a lot for both feedbacks, especially the anti-content remark.
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http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes_theorem#Bayes.27s_rule

What is the difference between Bayes Rule and Bayes Theorem?
Having just finished a conference yesterday - http://indieconf.com - I feel like throwing in a few words on speaker selection. OK, maybe a whole bunch, as I blogged about this a couple weeks ago:

http://indieconf.com/2012/how-does-a-conference-select-speak...

For my perspective, the idea of only opening up a call for speakers and just 'picking the right ones' doesn't work very well. Or at least, I don't think it works very well for conferences just starting off which don't have a lot of reputation to fall back on. Borrowing some of this reputation by getting some 'superstar' speakers might help a bit, but if you do that before a CFS, you've already done some preselection.

From year one, I had a call for speakers process open, but I also had some particular speakers I wanted to talk on specific topics. I had probably half the speakers/topics nominally on board (not officially at that point) during the first year CFS, and fleshed out the rest of the slots with submissions - some of which were really good angles I hadn't thought of.

However, imo, the role of a conference organizer is largely curation of an experience, and you have to have an idea of what you want that experience to look like early on. And for me, gender is a factor - it's not a major one, but I made sure to encourage some females in my network to submit. At the same time, there were some submissions and applications from females that I didn't bring on board the conference this year, because they didn't quite fit the vibe I was shooting for.

Anyhow, sorry to see they've cancelled this. I know all too well how hard it is to organize something, and to be discouraged enough to pull the plug like this was certainly not fun or easy for the organizers. I wish them luck in future projects like this.

EDIT: Couple more thoughts - how you run the event the first year has an impact on how people view your event in subsequent years. I get props every year on the food, but mostly because I take the extra 10 minutes to organize vegan and gluten-free options, and I get people coming back partially based on the fact that I've done that (had people buy tickets and tell me that). Example: https://twitter.com/alanstevens/status/269856351214268416
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How did you manage to miss that?
If this is parody, it's kind of funny. It would be much better without the impression that you're sniping. Are you jealous? Have a personal grudge? An unhappy customer? If I knew for certain you were none of these things, I'd upvote you, but for now I think the decent thing to do is find out what motivates you.
Race and gender can be (generally are) used by potential attendees to determine what comfort level they'd have at an event like that. The more people you can get to your event, generally the better the outcome will be - increased connections, networking and exchange of ideas from a broader range of people.

I made an earlier comment about my recent experiences organizing a conference, and linked to my blog which touched on this very reason.
It is something that is within the discretion of police everywhere.

In theory, the judicial process will correct these mistakes. But in practice that takes money, time, and there are intermediate steps possible that cannot be made good in any reasonable way.

It may be bogus, but that doesn't mean that it isn't serious. Or that you should be confident of a just outcome.
If you don't have diversity as one of your goals (either from the start or tacked on at the end) you are part of the system that perpetuates racism, whether you like it or not.

2010: "We're not racist, but oh look, we organized yet another conference with 100% white guys, wonder why that happened. But really, we're not racist."

2011: "We're not racist, but oh look, we organized yet another conference with 100% white guys, wonder why that happened. But really, we're not racist."

2012: "We're not racist, but oh look, we organized yet another conference with 100% white guys, wonder why that happened. But really, we're not racist."

Yeah, okay.
"Metal" only refer to a set of kinds of matter. A set we shaped because it helps us make useful inferences without using too much brain power. Like the fast rules: "Most metals are good conductors", "Most metals are strong", "Most metals are hard", "Most metals are heavy".

Then someone comes and shows you that new material called "glass" that is heavy, hard, and strong (this one is bullet proof). You'd be quick to infer that it is a metal, and therefore probably a good conductor. But didn't we tell you that most metals are opaque?

http://lesswrong.com/lw/no/how_an_algorithm_feels_from_insid...
Although you might not want to debate whether Vimscript is better or worse than elisp, I don't mind. Most things are better than Vimscript.

I've even written a language [1] that compiles to Vimscript because it sucks so bad.

[1] https://github.com/luke-gru/riml
Congrats on your success--you have the best kind of problem.

1. You have a working product--do not do a full rewrite. Rewriting has so many pitfalls in the best of cases, and if it's just you, the context switches between the "old" (which you will still be spending most of your time maintaining) and the "new" systems will be brutal.

2. This is the prototypical "real world" case. You're basically asking how you can prioritize immediate enhancements vs. long-term flexibility and maintainability. But maintainability is a feature. Any (good) book on agile development methodologies will tell you that consistent refactoring and cleaning of the code has direct user benefit, in that future velocity (user enhancements) will be better.

3. The prudent way forward is to chip away at the problems. As you "touch" various parts of the system, start doing small refactoring work, adding comments, tests, etc. Remember, you're starting from nothing--anything you do in this regard is improving your situation.

4. If you're not doing some sort of iterative development methodology, start. Personally, I have a preference for Scrum, because of its time-boxed nature. It lends itself well to devoting a section of each dev cycle (sprint) to the kind of cleanup work you need to do.

Good luck!
I like it too. I did not make it. Just stumbled upon it and thought to share since it makes to some extents use of nice subtle irony.
Tht drivers and engineers are in it to be faster says nothing about the sport; they aren't the ones paying the bill. Looking at the bills, I notice that many new regulations are cost-cutting measures (limiting testing time, limiting the number of engines used in a season) that are, AFAICT, solely aimed at leveling the playing field, so that races become more attractive, giving more teams a chance to compete, rather than to take part.

We also have (http://edition.cnn.com/2012/09/06/sport/motorsport/motorspor...) Ferrari complaining

""If Formula 1 is not any more an extreme technology competition, where the technology can be transferred to the road car, maybe we can see Formula 1 without Ferrari,"
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The lineup was all invited speakers and there wasn't any diversity among those speakers, that's a bit of a difference between doing a CFP with regard to how people will see diversity at the conference.
"Diversity" has cancelled a conference where white guys try to improve the world we live in?

You know who's responsible for this, right?

"Diversity" == non-white
You're confusing intuition with pragmatism.
This is why the Internet is awesome :) I read the original article, glad to hear it turned out positive.
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I did, and voted for the moderate Republican in the last election -- Barack Obama.

Why should I vote for maniacs in the hopes of moderating them? We already have a moderate party.
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It annoys me in all your other posts as well. I read essentially everything you write, and it throws me off every time. Sounds cheap and insincere, which is precisely the opposite of the actual stuff you write.
His actions of hiring ahead of revenue say yes. Investors giving him $5M show they think the same thing. Actions always speak louder than words.
It's too bad that this 'no money no conf' meme continues to dominate. You can have something more than an 'unconf' or 'barcamp'-style event, even with no or minimal sponsors, especially with a team of organizers/planners to share any overflow expenses that do not get covered by ticket prices.
That's the reason viral marketing even exists, to present advertising to users in a way that doesn't carry the stigma of being advertising. It looks like you're wanting to do the opposite.

If you can figure out a way to accomplish the same trick with banner ads, and get people to treat overt advertising as something fun, and actually generate revenue, the world will beat a path to your door as they say.
It's a little off-putting that the documentation brags about the low line count without mentioning the use of Scintilla, which already implements most of a text editor. Still, I'm willing to give it a try.
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But with this Pacific Fibre cable the populace would probably see much cheaper bandwidth, especially if the NZ government is trying to get 50%+ of the population 100mbps.
Actually, selecting speakers without regard to gender or race and ending up with 100% white guys (which is easily possible, since they are very overrepresented in the field) isn't racist or sexist, whereas selecting people specifically based on these traits would be racist and sexist, by definition.

I think diversity is a worthwhile goal for a conference, but we shouldn't throw around these labels so freely (and incorrectly).
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The (deprecated) debug module has some screen shots that show margin markers:

http://foicica.com/wiki/lua-debugger

The styling and symbol choice is configurable.

Not sure how inline diff works though (for deleted lines), do you have an example in another editor?
Scraping content isn't bad if you aren't redistributing it, technically your web browser is scraping content in the same sense.

http://paulgraham.com/robots.txt doesn't disallow robots from reading the essays.
No, what it means is that Sgt. Nelson knows how to work with bombs. It doesn't make him a subject matter expert on terrorism or art. Just bombs. And as charged, yes, the subject of the article did have materials needed to make bombs minus the explosives.

Everyone who has a timer/watch/cellphone does, which is the point of why this is so ridiculous. If you arrest everyone who has all the materials necessary to make a bomb minus the explosives, everyone would be arrested.
Since dropbox's valuation might be bigger than that of all the other YC companies (including airbnb) combined, it serves as blazing evidence that you don't need a cofounder. Possibly the truth is that singlefounder companies have more struggles but are capable of bigger wins (which is what investors should want).

Kinda how many succesful dyslexics (like Ari Emmanuel) credit dyslexia for their success.

The fact is that many of the extraordinary people YC looks for are often written off by YC's own bias against single founders. That's silly, but in the end it hurts YC more than the founder, because of all the other Dropboxes they miss out on. So forgive them for knowing not what they do.

An investor usually has only one chance to pass or invest, whereas the entrepreneur has many chances to succeed. Single founder or not, if you are tenacious you will keep having chances for as long as you are willing to fight. Many more chances than any one investor does.
The original article I read yesterday (from /.) said the bomb squad cleared him but he was arrested anyway.
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Is there a photograph of the watch anywhere? (Not that it makes much difference.)
Does anyone consider that showing up at the airport with a watch that looks like a bomb is a good idea? We all know that in the current climate that the TSA is prone to overreact.

It's not right that this is the case, but like it or not, it is.
I'm all for civil liberties, but the info in this case is actually quite thin. I'd keep the pitchforks and torches away till a fuller picture emerges.

The facts of the case so far are:

1) Dude is outfitted in camo, watch that looks like an IED timer, and shoes rigged out like the "shoe bomber".

2) Dude gets pulled aside and claims it's all art.

3) Dude gets arrested.

Getting flagged for questioning because of (1) seems straightforward to me.

How it went from (2) to (3) is less clear, and it might be prudent to hold off the hand-wringing for now.
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