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It is different in the details. But in the general sense, this is true in other countries. For example, in the UK, "Asian" means "Indian" and what Americans would call "Asians" are just referred to by their nationality. This is because in the UK, Indians are the largest nationality from Asia. But in the US, where East Asians are more common, they got the blanket term "Asian".
Client side stuffs like validation,etc ... are here only to enhance user experience , you dont want a user to wait til the page reload just to know the password he entered should be at least 6 characters long. Same thing for auth , permissions to access resources are set server-side, and dealt on the client with HTTP response codes. So there is nothing to keep in sync,The server is still free to forbid any resource access, or invalidate granted access.
I live in Romania, so I can tell what we consider West: Austria, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, France, UK, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Spain, Portugal, Holland, Belgium.

If one goes to one of these countries, one feels like going west. Otherwise, it's less and less.

So when Americans speak about Europe, it's safe to assume that they might refer to these countries.

Rock bands will always have a hard time to tell Bucharest from Budapest.
These are some of the reasons that discourage people I know:

* Having to make a decision

* Opportunity cost (doing this deal means not getting some other solar arrangement and means not getting next year's better technology)

* "To qualify for financing, you need to have excellent credit (a FICO score of 700 or greater)."

* Some of us don't like companies that keep basic information off the Web and require you to talk on the phone to a sales rep: "Availability of SolarPPA and SolarLease vary by location based on what your local utility company prefers." ... "Financing terms vary by location and are not available in all areas. To find out which plans are available in your area, request a free consultation."

* Not knowing people in-person who will vouch for the company's honesty and good service.
> but just like people don't consider India to be "Asian"

American people, maybe: in the UK, the word "Asian", referring to a person and without other qualification, will usually be interpreted as Indian, Pakistani, or Bangladeshi.

> it sees unlikely that the world will suddenly include Brazil when they are talking about "Americans".

I'm fairly sure that, in at least some Spanish-speaking countries, "americano" means South or Latin American, with "nordeamericano" or "estadounidense" used for people from the U.S.

"People" != U.S citizens; "the world" != the Anglosphere.
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It's really about the broader industry rather than your product idea.

Can you see yourself researching opportunities in an industry for a while, and not being particularly emotional about any specific product idea?

If yes, you can very quickly and cheaply test out any idea for a product in your given industry with PPC, and you can start an SEO blog using Wordpress (I suggest Hostmonster) to tie together your PPC data and analytics in a giant data-driven feedback loop. This research-driven marketing approach will enable you to test out any product idea, and not lose ground if one doesn't fly. More specifically, if you have PPC/SEO keyword and traffic data that's tied to conversions you can almost instantly switch to a different product idea and still maintain marketing momentum.
hhmmm i've had a very different experience. i've never held a full-time working-for-the-man software development job but i've been freelancing for a bit over a year to bootstrap my own products. the money and flexibility is great. i got initial gigs because i'd been building my own product so i had something cool out in the world to point to. i think this is the single best way to get clients. have something that you - not you and a giant team of people, you - conceived of and built. when people see it (provided it looks good and works) they'll want to hire you. now i get gigs because i have happy clients and i'm a sociable person so they recommend me. people like working with me. so, build something you're proud of to show off and be a pleasure to work with. i've never gotten a gig through linkedin although recruiters contact me regularly. i have gotten gigs through hacker news, however, and they tend to be really good clients.

*edit: ALSO -- make friends with other freelancers and share your network! i've sent dozens of leads to people i know around Boston. this buys you social capital. people will reciprocate.
So what's the sweet spot for projects as a single freelancer? Simple Wordpress sites are easy but unfulfilling. But most interesting projects are beyond the scope of a single developer.
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Sorry; hit down arrow when I meant to hit up. You are absolutely right.
Anyone have examples of a well-known, successful company which is fully virtual like this?
I really don't see how you could say he is wrong. It's his open source project that he's put thousands of hours into and is providing for free to everyone that wishes to use it. You might not agree with what he says or decides on, that's completely fine. In that case you're completely free to use a different framework. Plenty of choice out there.
Great post - I just started freelancing last year and I got some good tips out of it.

I'm interested that you mention LinkedIn to network, as the startup I'm working on is aimed precisely at helping freelancers find clients through their social networks. (Since we realised that most clients hate using eLance and prefer to ask amongst their professional contacts for referrals).

Would be great to chat more if you're interested (email is isaac@i.saac.me).
Today, no one will choose to use iCloud over Google apps

I do. The only Google service I actually use anymore personally is GMail but that simply forwards to my iCloud account. It's easier and more efficient on battery to just check one mail account. I also ditched Google Calendar / Contacts for iCloud because they work almost exactly the same. Again easier to just use/sync one service IMO. I was never a big Google Docs user to start with but now I use DropBox and native apps. Again I only setup my DropBox once and it's good to go. I can use different (and more powerful) apps as needed. Sometimes Numbers on iOS is fine for quick data entry but for building out a big spreadsheet I'm going to most likely use MS Office on a desktop. I guess you could do this through Google Drive now but I already have DropBox setup so why bother? I use FaceBook/Twitter instead of Google+ which are both first class citizens on iOS/OSX now. FaceBook chat has replaced GTalk just because everyone I know uses it. A lot of this goes back to Google's period where they did a very bad job supporting iOS. The path of least resistance was just to use something else and now I have no need to switch back. From what I've heard their iOS apps have improved greatly but I'm happy with what I'm using.
At this point ios/android are nearly as standardized and ubiquitous as TVs were when home consoles started to boom. The 'console', then, is now just the controller. What is stopping companies from launching a controller for mobile exactly as if it were a new console (think launch titles and early game announcements from 1st and 3rd parties)?
> This causes many to simply assume that what they did is the "correct" way to workout when the truth is that had they dont most any routine with that devotion for many years, they would have gotten similar results.

This. A great example of this is Tim Ferris and The 4 Hour Body. That guy basically says "well, here is what I did, and here's what I look like now. Do exactly as I say and you will too." His "research" has a sample size of 1, yet he claims that his method will work for anyone in the world, from a skinny teenager to his overweight mother. True, it will work for some, further muddying the waters.
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that the auth stuff needed to be kept in sync, I meant models. People are used to pushing a button and getting a GO / NO GO response of some kind, whereas it seems that with some of these frameworks, people could edit something and have that not show up, if something went wonky in the middle: it's saved "locally", but the ajax request hasn't been completed yet.
I think you've got to be part of a larger group. The past few months I've found a couple of other guys with complimentary skill sets. We've been able to do some higher end work that we never could have managed individually. Up to now, we've just subcontracted to each other, but we are talking about forming a co-op of sorts.
He used to have a blog called "Loud Thinking":
http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/posts/archives
That’s not the point. The point is the ignorance on display here. If you don’t even know the basics of a policy you have no right to talk about it.
yes that is true if you dont count the money you paid for the chain products of GPS.
> But most interesting projects are beyond the scope of a single developer.

Why? I don't find this to be the case.
Second point could have been cultural and also related to upbringing. I understand the conundrum that he should/could have lead to the conclusion about atheism or at least about rational doubts in divinity. But imagine this (everything hypothetical)

1. A kid from the age of 5 or younger, worships a Goddess because of village/family reasons and ask for knowledge

2. He understand he's smarter than everyone around him because of high IQ but attributes it to the Goddess

3. This fuses, in his mind, causality of his intelligence being divinity.

4. To not risk his higher mental faculty, in event of wrath by the God, he kept on believing that his gift is God sent
Yeah, martial arts are expensive. I was looking at the price per year for this, which works out to be quite a lot.

I am not a fan of CrossFit for many reasons. At best, you simply don't get your money's worth. At worst, it's a one-size-fits-all system with no structure to it. From personal experience, and word of mouth, it's also really easy to get injured doing it.
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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People - Susan Weinschenk. This is the book from which I learned the most this year. It provides the reader with 100 applicable and up to date insights into human psychology: how people see, read, think, decide, etc. Very useful and well organized.

http://www.amazon.com/Things-Designer-People-Voices-Matter/d...
What are you lift PRs now?
If you asked most Americans who have visited Budapest where they went/what area they were in, they would say Budapest. If you to press, they would admit that they were on the continent of Europe, but wonder why that mattered.

Similarly, if they went to India, they would tell you they were in India. Upon further questioning, they would admit that they were in fact also in Asia, but would be puzzled as to why that mattered.

Similarly, if they went to Egypt, they would tell you they were in Egypt. Upon further questioning they would admit that they were in fact in Africa, but would again be puzzled as to why that mattered.

Now, on the other hand, if they went to France they would either describe themselves as having gone to France, or having gone to Europe.

The key theme here is that the casual American mind, contrary to popular belief, doesn't generalize based on continent boundaries, but rather at a finer (often)multi-country/sub-continent grain. The largest unit of generalization on any particular continent gets the name of the continent (be it Africa, Asia, or Europe (I suspect Americans do generalize South America, and include anything south of the US in that generalization)). That doesn't mean they are generalizing the continent itself.
We are rigid uptight and rude. Call me, I'll prove that to you.
In all fairness, the parent is talking about cardio workouts. If you are able to read while on an elliptical, you may be getting exercise, but certainly not in the "high end of the aerobic zone".
IIRC Galileo has DRM on the signal so they can charge for it. Not that different from satellite TV I guess.
According to the article and to other discussants, yes, AEDs are provided on planes. I haven't personally seen the medical loadout on a plane.
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One factor that does not seem to have been explored is financing costs. As I understand the situation in the US, residential solar is often financed by banks, and capital for this type is expensive right now, leading to high costs. Anyone in the industry know whether that could account for the cost discrepancy?
The OP did have an advantage that not every archivist benefits from: permission from the copyright holders.
Without knowing how many hours Nathan spent on the book, it's hard to say if 26k is a lot of money or not.

I think it's pretty good, but it's not like Nathan is earning 26k a day every day, it's basically just once or twice a year.

And if you spent several months building up a following, writing a blog, getting people to sign up to a mailing list, not to mention releasing another eBook first, you too could "make a lot of money in a short time based on notoriety and marketing"…
Mexican-beaner grammar nazi here, is "COJONES" not "CAJONES". xD
Never heard of it before and I suspect largely irrelevant outside of UN statistics.

As in anything in Europe these things are largely a product of history.

Those of us who grew up during the cold war talk about Western and Eastern Europe.

Within those sets there are various other deeper historical and cultural subsets and intersects, such as Scandinavia, Benelux and Balkan. Now there are newer political groupings such as EU, Schengen and Eurozone.

I expect anyone in Denmark and Scandinavia would include themselves in Western Europe where I would also include Italy and Spain. Danish people may have more in common culturally with someone from Estonia than from Spain. But it's just one of many historical intersecting and overlapping circles.

Attempts to ignore these circles and creating top down classifications in Europe, Africa, Middle East and probably elsewhere have historically not been a winning cause.
Great point. I wonder why they don't. I'm sure it's coming...
This isn't new at all... The latest version (which is still beta) was released in October...
Germany had a lot of solar a long time before Fukishima.

Germany's use of solar drove up prices of silicon in 2004.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cell#Cost)

> The price of solar panels fell steadily for 40 years, until 2004 when high subsidies in Germany drastically increased demand there and greatly increased the price of purified silicon (which is used in computer chips as well as solar panels).
What are your squat/bench/press PRs?
Forgive me fo veering off topic, but "power users" is such a horrible notion. It just makes me think of douchey know-it-alls with massively over inflated entitlement glands - especially those that consider themselves to be "power users". Again, apologies, I just really dislike the expression "power user" and I'm seeing it way too much on here lately.
To be fair that's true for my country, Kenya, as well. Asian here refers to subcontinentals. The Chinese are just that, the Chinese.
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I think treehouse is a relatively small operation that is built to be cash low positive.
I imagine the 2 weeks will include testing their theories etc too, which takes time
I think it is easy to under-estimate how much difference it makes when your game is on a URL and is running with now download and install.
Yes, it should be ignored. That's my point. I'm saying that investment and shouldn't be taken into account when gauging first-day success, because that quality and time-investment don't factor into first-day success. No one knows how long it took him to produce the book, so no one buys on quality initially. My whole point is that his success was based on marketing, not quality.
Can you tell us where (city) you are based?
Basho, Github, and Percona immediately come to mind. Lots of other companies (including my current home, ideeli) have distributed Tech departments with employees all over the world.
And for the similar reasons I think it would be in the interest of fruitful discussion to try and not generalize India and China into... well, India and China, respectively. Yes, they are both single countries, but every one of them has a population greater than America and Europe combined. At this scale I'd expect that those countries have cultural substructures corresponding to european nation-states in size and diversity.
Well, impressions of course can differ. I observe lot's of people moving from Windows to Linux, and never yet observed anyone moving from Linux to Mac OSX. But globally this probably doesn't mean much.
So do I. The issue for me is one of trust. I simply do not trust Google with my personal information. It's how they make their money, which is why I don't trust them.
Aw, man. I wonder how often I've said that incorrectly. Thank you!
I don't like doing these kinds of posts but as a counter example:

> Daughter wants a iPhone, you want a new car. Some neighbor needs help to pay healthcare bills. You don't buy the shiny things, and help the neighbor instead.

Say your neighbour can't pay his healthcare bills because he was laid off for being drunk while on the job. His healthcare bills are the result of an altercation with his bookie, for gambling debts he couldn't pay. Is it worth encouraging his behaviour by supporting his healthcare bills?

> Another example: You own apartments, and some poor immigrant student can't afford the rent in the city with his university. You lower the rent, because a happy PhD is worth more than $100/month. Yes, even if you don't know him and won't gain anything from it.

The PhD student is living above his means by wanting an apartment in the city, when he could easily live a little further away for less rent. Is it good to spoil him, and give him the expectation that he can get anything without hard work?

> Another example: You're the personnel at that top university. You agree to be paid less than you deserve so more can afford the education.

The University notices your pay cut, so decides to cut the remaining staff's wages to be fair. They don't reduce the tuition fee for students but instead, hire more staff at the university with the cost savings.

I could go on with the rest of your examples but I guess the point I'm trying to make is you never know what everyone's backgrounds and motivations are.

I'm not saying don't help people out, but chose very carefully who you help out as most people aren't victims because of circumstance, but usually victims of their own doing.
Isn't this what competition is all about?
"I just enjoy playing with the latest Apple product, watching TV, and reading Hacker News. What kind of life is that?"

What about becoming a tech journalist/blogger/analyst?
Perhaps the diversity of the USA is not the extreme of Europe, but I would be quick to point out that the regional differences in the US are quite notable even to an outside observer.

There are 5 major regions of the US: Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Southwest, and West. Each of these regions has noted differences in: dialect, culture, food, general behavior, economy, and quality of life.

Now regardless of US or Europe we have to factor in the population density of a location. It's no secret that urban culture is very different from rural culture be it in Oregon or in France.

Granted: we mostly speak the same language, we all share a common currency, and we all answer to the same federal body which represents us.

There is more diversity in Europe, that much I am sure of. But there is no problem with a comparison of the two.
I'm 20 now, I dropped out of the university a year ago and I never regretted it.

I started programming at the age of twelve. Here's what I think was most important:

- learning to search the web crazy efficiently

- reading classic blogs like Joel on Software

- reading classic books, such as Code Complete, Refactoring, Design Patterns

- learning to use functional programming primitives (map/reduce/fold);

- breaking the habit of abandoning small projects and finally shipping something, and maintaining it for some time;

- maintaining a horribly-written application so I will never repeat that guy's mistakes

- making all sorts of mistakes (permature optimization, premature generalization) so they would come and bite me later, making me more experienced

- having a lot of free time to play with programming: glad I started while still in school

But I realized the most important one was to find a community. If not for internet forums, I would never have learned programming. I started by reading a book about Visual Basic, heading to a local forum and trying to help newbies, while still being newbie myself. That's how I learned. I would absorb the forum culture, discover different tools and languages by participating in flame wars, and later explore them and write articles to help other people. I'd translate articles from English into my native language, learning new concepts along the way.

StackOverflow disrupted this forum culture and I kind of miss it, although I know it was never efficient.
It depends. For example if you use Nvidia driver and tools - they offer good and convenient multimonitor support out of the box. Without Nvidia it's quite messy, I agree.
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shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto
his God.

21:8 Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread of
thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I the LORD, which sanctify
you, am holy.

21:9 And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing
the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.

21:10 And he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose
head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated to put on
the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes; 21:11
Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his
father, or for his mother; 21:12 Neither shall he go out of the
sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the
anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the LORD.
This happened to me; I was aggressively talked down from an attractive job offer I received, and when I accepted a counter, a succession plan was put in place to improve the the timing of my presumed inevitable resignation.

This isn't folklore. There are roles and companies where counteroffers are pathological; sometimes it's overt and the company is trying to screw you over, and other times it's subtle and emergent and has more to do with the inevitable loss of traction that comes of the company preparing itself more deliberately for your eventual departure.

If I ever end up in this situation again, I'm certainly going to bring this concern up directly and immediately. It's something you can work out if you're negotiating in good faith; it's not the case that there's no such thing as a successful counter.
Granted, it could just be my lack of LinkedIn savviness, but it's never been a source of actual business for me (I'm the author of this blog post). The only people who actually seem to use LinkedIn are recruiters who sloppily blast off emails on keyword matches.

But I continue to use it because it allows me to keep track of what my contacts are doing, which gives me an excuse to reconnect with them: "Hey Bob, how are you liking that new job?" It also is another source of credibility when people Google my name if they're contemplating hiring me.