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Once it was very easy. Now it's very hard. But still doable. By passive income you probably mean a content website monetized with ads. Some time ago there were people that made millions of dollars only with google adsense. I don't know if this technique still works but I think Google bans every time black-hat adsense users if they manually discover them.

Most of adsense millionaires used this technique: they select most paying keywords (there are several paid tools for that) and they make microsites about this keywords. With some black-hat SEO, they make fortune with adsense. They write codes, and automate the whole process. Some make content aggregation, they don't write anything, everything is automated.

Google updates its algorithm to prevent this kind of abuses, but still, there are too many people smarter than google engineers.

I've read too much about this kind of business. 7 years ago I made a small site to test if it really works. I made a blogspot site with only 2 articles, it brought me 100-200$ per month. I was in high school that time. Than I read some interviews from big content website owners that they make too much money with their website. And I made a decision that I'll learn SEO and build a big content website with a unique idea. I was 5 years long a premium user in SEOmoz. From articles by Rand Fish I discovered Hacker news. And the community blew me away.

I started university and started to build my "unique idea content website" but it was never finished because of Hacker News. I saw that although it's still a good idea to make money with a content website, there is better way to make money and it's more passive than that. It's just simple idea. Start a startup.

I'm still a student at a medical faculty. Last year I started a startup to see what it looks like and if I can build something useful. I bought a domain name for 10$ and 9$ hosting from hostgator. Now it makes 20-30k $ per month and I don't do anything. I'm the owner of my small company and I have 12 workers and one CEO to organize the work, and I continue my study at the university.

After seeing how it's simple to start a startup, (of course starting is not so easy and the idea, marketing also important) I think I'll continue my life as an entrepreneur, not as a doctor.
I think you are mis-reading the intention of the post.

It's not about caring. It's not that we want to go back and relive the past. It's more about how you are ready to message someone and some older conversation from 2007 pops up. It's a weird nostalgic feeling about something you don't really care about much. But hey it's out there.
if his place looks nicer than mine, I'm going to clone it. Cue the "You wouldn't steal a car" brigade....
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I'm good with POROs (assuming Plain Old Ruby Objects). I'm a huge fan of Domain Driven Design. My issue with the parents is that without going into what many Rubyists would call Java-land, one would find it hard to separate concerns. Also, I don't agree that an MVC can truly be fully decoupled from the V. This is why one seldom has one MVC to rule them all.
I can hear the screaming sound of Patrick Moore rotating in his coffin as i type this response.
What really makes Cherry that special that it needed or received funding? There have been mobile detail services for years already. Was it the "startup" label?

Plus, we really don't need more wasteful services. No way to collect and recycle the waste water for example. Car washes are just ugly wastes of a resource we don't have enough of.
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The problem with these personality tests is their belief in an atomic, immutable "personality" or identity. It doesn't exist. People change radically. The person I was at 5 is gone. He's effectively gone, forever. That's not a bad thing. It's to be celebrated.

One thing I like about Buddhism is that it dovetails well with my skeptical, nonreligious inclination. You're expected to find things out for yourself, not take your beliefs from on high. If you don't believe in reincarnation (I do, but it's not required) you can still meditate. You're still invited to participate. It doesn't matter if you believe in God or an afterlife.

One teaching of Buddhism, that I find to be very useful, is that most of what we call "me" is an illusion. It's inherently empty. To the extent that it exists, it's dependent on so many other conditions and relationships. People get into traps. "I'm just not a happy person." "I'm a neurotic mess." "I'm a programmer, so I could never be a good writer." Bullshit. People also inflict it on each other (crab mentality) by focusing on reputation and "track record"-- this illusion that observable state reflects inherent traits rather than an interaction between a person and external conditions-- rather than real capability.

People get deeply invested in, and limited by, these identities they build for themselves and each other that actually make no sense.

Ok, rant over.
Unrelated: what does your username mean? I'm hoping it's totally random.
We have photo albums going back 4 and 5 generations. We have postcards sent by great grandparents and grandparents during the first world war. I can imagine Neal Stephenson like alternative stories about people falling out when they come back...

I think that - as often with the digital/Internet thing - it is not qualitatively new having documents of yourself, but the huge increase in the quantity of this information and the way it lives outside your control. Same way that mix tapes in the two tape drive days were copyright violation, but had a considerable time and effort barrier so not too many got made and they had limited distribution. Digital copying is low effort, and broadcasting trivial. Hence problems...

PS: I'm 54 and think about Life, Time &c quite often.
Thanks! Would love to hear from you. Will send an email.
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It was not intended aggressively, but rather rhetorically. We are not racing against each other, but if you intend to be 'good' at something, you are in a competition with a great many other. If you find excuses not to improve yourself, you will definitely not be 'good'.

If you practiced basketball every day for the next year, and enjoyed doing that, you'd be an excellent basketball player after that year. That you couldn't make it as a pro doesn't detract anything from that.

There's a near infinite amount of things every single one of us could do if they wanted to. The only problem is that we usually do not want to. The number of things that you truly can't do because it depends on some physical characteristic is fairly limited.

You could be a physics professor, an awesome captain, an excellent stock broker or a locally successful artist. You are just not interested in any of those things.
Well the constant refusal of Costa and McCrae to accept the results of confirmatory factor analyses is what gets me. To argue that personality must necessarily have a different method because the current method does not agree with your (essentially qualitative) conclusions is not science in my view.

Certainly in my areas (social especially) there's a lot of flag waving for the Big 5 which really upsets me. Then, when I told my lecturers during the course of my PhD that all psychologists should have to learn a little matrix algebra i was essentially laughed at. Unfortuntately, until they do, stupid over interpretations of flawed statistical models are likely to remain commonplace.
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> A file (not a pattern) is the most effective unit of code organization and navigation

This can be misinterpreted in many ways.
Why would you post this? He's open sourced his work and made something that will at least serve as learning material for python developers.

There's no need to be crabby.
Well said. Furthermore, let's try to root out these beliefs early. It's easy for great power structures to form around them if left unchecked.
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So don't buy locked down devices. There are unlocked device for sale, and the Nexus devices are at least price competitive, if not downright cheaper in the case of the Nexus 4 and Nexus 7. (Yeah, there are some availability issues, but I bet after Christmas things will get better on that front.)
I'd be really surprised if Dropbox didn't have a way to revert this (and to punish the Dropbox for Teams account creator, if identifiable).
It appears to be a hardware limit - humans can only consider a given number of other humans as individuals. Everyone else composes "the others" and are treated less favorably.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number
Mirror? Getting a Google Drive error: "The app is currently unreachable."
Thank you for injecting reality into the discussion. I couldn't care less whether one's post is angry-sounding, upset-sounding, careless-sounding, etc.; I don't read HN for emotional support. I do read it for posts like yours.
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I have many aunts and married friends on Facebook who upload tons of images of their kids.

I wonder what plans, if any, Facebook has to reach out to those kids in 10 years time when they are "old enough" (heh) to use Facebook.

Can you imagine having your entire life documented on some website? Pretty creepy in my opinion. I have to discourage my wife to upload images of our kids.
So when joining a startup (or anything else) that uses Dropbox for Teams, you make a new account just for that project? Perhaps startups (and other entities) that require dropbox membership might make that suggestion?
This looks pretty cool. Has anyone tried it and liked it?
FYI, it's "Sass" not "SASS".
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Well, if you want all that dross, then yes, I suppose. But the hosting user software niche is well filled by various Unix derivatives already, no?
Is it possible to see what clients use this service like you can with other services (dropbox.com/company or whatever)
I use confluence for work and it's absolutely dreadful! BitBucket is a AAA piece of software, better than Github hands down for me. But Confluence seems like it was outsourced to a shoddy backwater software developer.
If one were to read on this subject just as an outsider peeking in, what book would you advise?
Scary. It is quite honorable for you not to violate that person's privacy. As a physician, this is of the utmost importance for our patients and it is nice to see honest people out there.
I can imagine why it is so hard to roll back to your old account once you leave a team. It might be best for companies to advise their employees to create separate dropbox account before joining a team.
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That's how Skynet got started....
Yes! Learning vim or Emacs would have been a lot easier if I hadn't started learning Unix with a bunch of bearded gurus back in the day. Although I did impress a few with my now-forgetten VMS/DCL chops...
I don't think making a new account just for your Teams access is very convenient. The desktop application is only associated with 1 account at a time.

So (until Dropbox changes something) there does not seem to be a good solution to your question.
If it's not possible to un-entangle accounts, then Dropbox needs to support being logged in to several accounts, much like Google does.

Also, to not delete user's data.
Tl;dr: Revoking a user's access to "Dropbox for Teams" kills their entire account, including content created / accesses granted before joining the team.
If you make a comment that's downvoted, it gradually becomes invisible to the extent that people have to select it to view it.

I know from experience that either people do just that and then downvote or else downvote unread.
Either way it smacks of kicking a dog when it's down.

It seems anomalous that when a comment is upvoted no one knows it except the person voting and the person getting the vote but when you're downvoted everyone knows it.
My understanding of Myers-Briggs is that it is only useful when undertaken voluntarily, and the subject accepts and recognizes the validity of the outcome. Jung was a therapist, so his main purpose was to help people seeking to attain mental health. The idea of the test is for individuals to understand themselves, not for other people to understand them.
As I was reading your comment I couldn't stop vigorously nodding my head in agreement at nearly everything you said, especially the part about it being hard giving up photography and excessive reading in order to pursue programming. I feel like I'm exactly at the point you were when you began you journey into programming. Thanks for leaving this comment!
At the risk of stating the obvious, that invitation email ought to be a bit more informative. Maybe, there ought to be an option to create a new account for use with that team.
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This is why I never trust services like Dropbox. It's painful to maintain backups manually but at least I can sleep well at night knowing that the only points of failure are within my control

EDIT: because I realize its not completely obvious, I keep multiple backups with my own servers sitting in different data centers. I don't see how you could trust any external service to store data.
VLC for ARMv6 exists already :) It is just not on the store :)
The winner will probably employ a similar hopping technique combined with "chirping" to transmit condensed bursts and phase modulation to better evade jamming.
You know who wins? The competitor who sees a market opportunity and their customers.

I don't see any good reason for limiting secondary sales that doesn't reek of protectionism.
I think your C++ example corresponds more to the following haskell type.

boo :: Map a b -> b -> a

since it nowhere mentions int.
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Sure. Instead of learning the power of composition of high-order functions, you will learn that particular composition, with a trendy name, and will start to argue on forums, that this particular function composition is somehow superior to all other compositions and you must do everything using that particular composition, which is called monad..)

There is one question, before you press "down-vote" few times - what is the sequence of machine instructions your monad compiles into?
I also bought Windows 8. After a few hours getting used to it, I'm happy with it.
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What a great post! I've been a different Myers-Briggs type in the few times that I've taken them, and outside of its usage in business, I've heard things like if you and your partner only differ by one type, that could mean that you will have relationship problems. In addition, if both of you are (some astrological type) then depending on the type you may also have problems. This is such B.S. and there is no scientific study that proves it.

But, lets examine this a bit further. These tests do ask questions that identify behavioral traits, and it is true that some behaviors could more likely be less compatible, and that there are studies to support this. So, to some extent these tests are onto something.

And what about psychological tests? If each test was perfect, you would not need to take several tests that each vary a lot in the results. Both a family member and I have taken a number of psychological tests, over time and result were really inconsistent.

It isn't just in business that they use these types of tests, whether they are Myers-Briggs or widely accepted and used psych tests. These tests are used for college students in dorms to assess whether they are compatible. They are used to access psychological problems. This is very important stuff, and it is guesswork! The human mind and accessment of our behavior is beyond our current ability to measure and diagnose properly.
It may be due to key encryption methods?
You have simple options to have the old UI back.
Puhh... Linus is known to be quite reckless and he may be right in essence, but the language... he might calm down a little and learn one or two things about social interaction.. there are a ot of ways to say what you want without plainly insulting someone over and over again.
> I get it's easier to be an asshole online

Your point is well taken, and I think we agree.

My point is simply that the mechanics of interaction on HN do little address the missing social cues that (my programmer brain theorizes) would help. The social evolution that HN is going through is nothing new[1]: It's been understood since newsgroups or before.

For example, I have no idea if you're a native speaker/writer of English or not. (I might cut you more slack on your grammar.) I have no idea if you and I share the same culture. (I might cut you slack on certain culturally sensitive issues.) I don't know if you're new to computers or an expert. (I might respond to your comments differently.) The conversation presents itself as real-time and throw-away, yet since comments are stored indefinitely I must write as deliberately as if I'm writing a book.

[1] Here's just one analysis: "A Group is its own worst enemy" by Clay Shirky: http://shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html
Not approving Windows 8 and not porting a popular open source solution to Windows 8 are two different things.
Averting global warming by instigating a mild nuclear winter does not seem a reasonable course of action.
I'm in my early 20's, so my perception of my childhood chores:

* We had a paper & pencil chart with the shared chores. The chart was because my sister and I alternated dishwasher unloads, and that didn't happen every day. At some point we switched to the calendar already on the fridge, you just write your name down (different colored pens)

* Generally accepted chores (room clean, bed made, vacuum or dust on the weekends) that didn't alternate weren't written down.

I agree that chores are required. In some sense, you could create a point system if the kids were saving up or working towards something, in the sense that your parents might "pay you" for extra stuff (washing the car, mowing the lawn, painting the spare room). At the end of that there might be a reward as a sort of appreciation, but for me it wasn't expected.

For your app, something like this last piece might be a bit more dynamic. Parents can load up tasks that need to be done and the kids could work towards them at their own pace. If they run out of tasks they run out of them for the time being.

Another thing parents might really like - a quality indicator (5 stars?) or accept/reject. If you do a crappy job you've got to redo it, and any sort of goodwill you might have just accumulated is null and void.
A very good start is the Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, but there are a lot of great books out there on these topics.
Revert this how?

Ann has an individual account. She joins a team. She leaves the team, and Bob (the team account owner) revokes her access. Dropbox deletes all her accounts.

What can dropbox do here; set Ann back as a member of that team? Bob (paying a lot of money) is not happy with that.
My problem with fat models is exactly what the author describes, data really needs to be separated from the logic. Since all of my current projects are service oriented, I generally abstract into gems, albeit with some minor overhead. That has proved to be the cleanest approach for me. Just throwing code into /lib never seemed to help the organization/readability problems.
..to think of every such problem as a chain of the primitive list operations, maps, folds, filters and scans. Now I always think in these terms. I "see" the transformation...

You mean these functions - http://karma-engineering.com/lab/wiki/Tutorial5

Why Haskell, then?)
Disclaimer: I have been in the automotive business for 23 years, not the tech business.

I have to agree with @orangethirty comments on this page. There is not enough margin in the auto service business to let this succeed. I have known people that washed cars professionally in both small high-end detail shops and full-size car wash operations. The high volume car washes are staffed largely with people that could not get better jobs - felons, drug abusers, those with no education or other job skills. The small high end detailers were generally guys that loved cars and found happiness in polishing a Porsche for an afternoon. There was an old guy named Al that used to come by my office and spend an hour on my truck for $30. I don't know where he went, but I miss the service. You do the math on what his income was per year if he had to travel, pay for soap and supplies, and then only grossed $30 per hour. My math estimates that he couldn't be netting more than $25,000 per year.

YourMechanic will also hit this same problem. They promise 30% savings and at-your-door service. This will run into the same issues. There is not 30% margin to cut at any small auto repair shop that I have ever dealt with. For those keeping track, I sold equipment to 200 auto repair shops over a ten year period. There are many car repair problems that are not fixable in the field. The bigger problem is that auto mechanics have the same rockstar ninja aspects as software. The rockstars simply will not be doing brakes in the rain, outside of your work in the parking lot. Why would they? They can earn $100K a year at a dealer, there is no way they are going to earn less in your parking lot. In worse conditions. In the rain.

Ask the question in a different way. Would you prefer to work in a heated/cooled work environment with restrooms nearby, a break room, a place to wash your hands, specialized tools and equipment nearby, support staff to get your parts, queue up the next job, a counter guy to deal with the customer OR----- would you like to work in the rain, deal with angry customers, no restroom, not enough tools or equipment with you, doing jobs that become much harder because of location, etc etc all for 30% less money? You will not get any talented person to work for you. They have better options. Auto repair is very talent driven, especially any area that is hard like diagnostics, transmissions, or solving the problem that the last 3 shops couldn't figure out.

You wouldn't expect to produce good code in a parking lot, would you?

And then there is the classic problem of auto repair. Once you touch the car, the customer finds all sorts of things that YOU apparently did even though you didn't. Scratches, dents, missing items, the list is long and familiar to all.
This seems like an issue best resolved through Dropbox support, not through HN Soapbox support.

Edit: My main point is that I come here to read Hacker News, not Some Other Guy's Support Problems. Treating every dropped use case as a public relations crisis is just an exercise in getting yourself worked up for no reason. If this is a real issue that affects multiple, real users, then I'm sure Dropbox will do something about it. For now, I think it's reasonable to treat it as an oversight until we have a response from Dropbox or more information. Unless, of course, you're the type of person that just likes to get pissed off at companies. In that case, I should probably find another community to read "hacker news".
Intermingling personal and work accounts is almost always a bad idea. I've seen colleagues get their personal accounts subpoenaed, have a firing result in loss of primary email/cell, or have really awkward communications show up in an IT audit.

The overhead of maintaining separate accounts is very small (multi-profile browser, multi-account smartphone, etc.), and more than worth it given the liabilities. Beyond that, I think it's just a lot healthier to know where the boundaries between your work and personal life are.
If it's hard it's due to bad design. It could've been possible.
Perhaps different levels of confidence are desired for different sorts of actions.
PG's hierarchy of disagreement should be a sticky post on the front page for this reason. +1. Thanks for sharing.