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Twisted is great. The only real problem comes from their utter unwillingness to accept less-than-100%-perfect ipv6 patches. It's 2012 for fuck's sake.
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I'd tell them to quit humble bragging on HN.
So in my opinion, if someone does want to track some finance stats in India, they should primarily target for Life Insurances, Mutual funds and other savings instruments. There is also an impending FDI(Foreign Direct Investment) in Life Insurance. That thing is ready to explode in the next 3-5 years.
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you can put anything inside class attribute

<div id="data" class="{json: 'x'}"/>

you can mix actual classes with JSON, just put JSON at the end:

<div class="header inline {json: 'x'}"/>

CSS selectors will work just fine
How would anyone be a 10x PM? Do they 'leader' real hard or go to 10x the number of meetings? I was just reading something about what makes a good PM, and one of the items was similar to 'shows leadership in funding projects.' Virtually every measure of a PM is just business doublespeak about leadership or something that the PM does not actually do like 'shows technical leadership in shipping software.'
I'm still amazed that such brilliant Paul and Ned could not figure out politics as it happend all the time in most of the companies. The question i'm interested in is What had prevent them to use their superior skills to take care of themselves ?
This guy seriously doesn't understand that "Europe" to most us westerners basically means "All European countries with a coastline, down to Italy."
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That mock monologue is actually really spot on. I just recently left our bootstrapped startup and had a pre-emotive conversation shortly before doing so. It played out just like that.

I shared this link on HN already but since its so relavent here it is again. I wrote about why I still left. But didn't write about the conversation I had. And you hit it on the head. http://mustefa.com/looking-back-at-my-ux-career-in-2012/
A trifle off-topic but it's interesting to read that the author believes in a 'strong European union' with 27 unelected commissioners and an unelected president following a constitution that has never been put to the peoples of the EU countries.
> Adobe are buying companies that build HTML5 and JavaScript tools.

which ones? you're talking about appstore rules but phonegap purpose is for a js app to be deployed like a native app,out of the browser.

> visibility :

an app on the app store is more visible than any app on a web site on mobile. I have no exemple of any profitable html5 game , on the other hand there are plenty ( machinarium )exemples sucessfull of unity or flash games.

Things may be different in 5/10 years , but i code for now and with stable technologies.
Many long distance runner do not lift at all, but there are so many schools of long distance running what actually works still seems like vodoo (at the top level).
I read some of the comments about employee passiveness. Sometimes it's tough for an employee to put themselves on the spot like that. What if the conversation doesn't go the 'right' way?
This really comes down to confidence in your ability.

I wrote http://myanimcalcam.com by myself. This site is definitely more complex than a standard Wordpress install, but didn't require a team.

I also find adding features to existing sites a good source of "interesting" income. "I've got a website that does this but I need it to do this too" is a common problem I solve for my clients.

Also I'm not afraid of straying away from the "I built websites role" by producing in house systems for companies. A lot of these applications can be done by a single developer.
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coz he's writing many more books related to programming for beginners, unlike you who's just got snarkiness and nothing else going for him/her
Revisiting "Where the jobs are…"
None.

All the tools I use personally (vim, git, svn, bash, ubuntu…) are free. My employers takes care of the stuff he wants me to use.

The only online "things" I pay for are my ISP, a Linode, a VPN, a few domain names and an old Dreamhost account.

I don't have a smartphone/tablet so I didn't install any pointless 0.99$ app.

I've bought a few second-hand videogames for my kids (DS/Wii), though, but that's not what you are asking for, I guess.
I respectfully disagree. Nothing wrong with a simple design that deviates from the "standard" behavior. Most UI metaphors including the standards require some learning. Even the desktop icons need explanation to the users initially. Most users are ok with training if the UI is simple enough to pick up.

For example, this app has non-standard UI but has very simple UI that the users can pick up quickly. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mhillsyste...

Clear and Rise are perfect examples of simple UI that can be explained and picked up quickly.
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Just an fyi, jQuery's core JSON parser actually uses eval (well, new Function(), which is almost the same, but with scope protection).

https://github.com/jquery/jquery/blob/master/src/core.js#L52...
It is a good article, too bad he sortof skipped the cardio fitness which to me is probably the most useful every day kindof fitness
That's actually a pretty good idea.
I'm very very cautious with retainers. The stable income is nice to have, but at the same time you have to make sure the contract terms doesn't debilitate you from working with other clients / finding new clients.

Guaranteeing an amount of days per month sounds great, but juggling commitments around these retainers and other customers is ( in my experience ) incredibly difficult, not to mention stressful.
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What bugs me is how is it possible that while 1% in net worth starts with $6.9M, it is just $350K in income only a quarter of which, comes from financial assets. This implies 1.3% interest - unbelievably little. Any explanation?
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> Are there any services like this that you are aware of?

I get some magazines/journals with my ACM membership, which are a mix of articles and selected research papers each month.

At only $99/year (student discount available) for membership and the monthly print magazine, it's quite affordable.

http://www.acm.org/publications
Let's be clear about this. If there are negative things that Monsanto, or any other company, is doing, then by all means let's discuss them. But I don't see why GMOs themselves are bad. If that is your position as well, then you aren't "anti-GMO" but just "anti-Monsanto."

I like organic food and I eat it when I get a chance. At the end of the day, it's a luxury product, like fine wine or private jets. It's something that's inherently expensive because the labor it requires is greater than that of conventional agriculture. We can't feed the populations of tomorrow with the methods of the past.

Perhaps in time some new technology like robotics will come along to square this circle. In the meantime, we're stuck with the agricultural economics we've got.
It just occurs to me: does French even have the affricate /d͡ʒ/ natively? Do some native French speakers pronounce "Django" with an initial /ʒ/? That actually would be a silent D and would explain why the French would say "Django with a D" rather than "the D is silent"
Claiming that "there's no real rhyme or reason to amazon's strategy" doesn't seem right, since amazon is considered great at strategy(and yglesias is the wrong guy to claim it, he's not a business expert and he's been criticized before about being out of his depth).

As i see it , their strategy is simple: identify the points along e-commerce where monopolies/quasi-monopolies can be formed and control them.

So they try to control the customer, the data, the warehouses, the marketing(the digital experience), the volume and now the financing.

My guess is, due to all those, e-commerce's end-game is a winner takes most market.

If they'll have monopoly powers, destroying everybody's profits(and everybody) wouldn't matter much. At that point amazon could increase prices and profits.
The other thing is that JSON scoffs at trailing comma (both in object and array literals), while JavaScript engines are perfectly happy to accept them.
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Just curious, how come your premium to free user ratio is 1:2? Seems incredibly high to me.
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What bugs is me is how is it possible that the 6.9M in assets results in only 25% of the 350K income coming as interest - which is a 1.3% interest rate - seems to low for any reasonable investment (lower than inflation, for example)?
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Not sure where you think I say that, but to clarify anyway: the sound at the start of all those words in English is not the same as the sound the French write as "j".
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I'm doing pretty close to what you describe, with a few minor differences. I have a single-page playlist app for YouTube and SoundCloud called Muxamp [1] that runs on Node.js. The site is served as static HTML/JS/CSS right now, using JavaScript for all the heavy lifting. All requests go to a REST API--JSON in, JSON out. When a playlist is requested (static data), the server checks a cache, then checks the DB. Data is turned into JSON and sent over the wire.

I'm currently doing a rewrite in Backbone, which is extremely amenable to this kind of design. Unit testing so far has been pretty painless, too. Creating a new server instance is as easy as calling a function to get a server object with the endpoints specified. Start the server in setup, close it in teardown. Node.js makes this stuff super easy to automate, provided you can learn to live with callbacks and promises.

[1] Example playlist: http://muxamp.com/1776
> There are a gazillion of these.

Nope there aren't, not at this price. Even the pandaboard ES is more expensive (and TI is discontinuing OMAP :-(( ). Sure there are quite a lot Allwinner and Rockchip based boards, but these don't compare to a Samsung Exynos. Not yet.
YAML is the new JSON dontcha know.
Whoa! Amazing stuff. Gonna build something this new year :)
he could always have sent that mail to Mauro privately and a toned-down version to the list.
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sure, i would be interested. i'd like a short (3 sentences?) summary explaining why the paper is interesting and a pdf.

you can often find preprints on people's web sites even when the final paper is behind a paywall. and sometimes if you email the author they will send you a copy.
Yeah, I misread that part when I wrote the comment...
Great story and good to see success - how scalable is it - from what I read, the early feedback praised you on the quality/depth of questions, which if you move to a more automated way of producing the surveys you'll lose?
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You DO know there can be a difference between owning a company and managing it?
It's contradictory that you would do whatever you like regardless of anyone else's opinions, ever and expect your software to be used by a large number of people.

Obviously you aren't obligated to accomodate anyone when you are doing your own project, even if you are doing your own project and then making it available publicly. But acting like a tiny dictator on a power trip is not the correct behavior if your purpose is to make a tool for public consumption.

If you want to "write your OWN project, YOUR way" you are not making a public tool, you are making a private tool that is available publicly.
Depends heavily on what you're letting people do, and how long they're going to spend doing it. Games tend to have smaller numbers of "verbs", and longer engagement times - for a superb example of progressive teaching, play through the Portal developer explanation (available after you finish the game).

It's much, much harder to do this with an application where you can't boil the functionality down to a small set of verbs - line of business apps are the usual terrible example of this.
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> They act as the equivalent of standing next to someone
> and "showing" them how something works.

Yup. That's the point. In the best case you should not show how something works it should be obvious or very easy to discover.
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View Rails server debug logs, ActiveRecord logs, etc, right in the Chrome dev tools!
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All the Karma i collected (which was 13 btw, not a big deal, just wondering why it was resetted to 1) just "vanished" together with my email and personal profile data. Any idea about what happened? Thanks

Update: Just noticed that all my submissions and comments were deleted as well.
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I doubt it. Much as myself, I wouldn't invest without expecting a sensible return.

I did stop giving about 2 months ago and poured it all into debian.

Now I'm doing the capitalist thing of whinging about how my investment was misused.
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CloudFront doesn't retry on 500s. Besides, you can't alias to a CloudFront distribution from x.com apex, so I don't think it would work for you even if that were the case.
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You've never talked to philosophers.

Educated people managed to save the word "irony" from Alanis Morissette, I don't think "beg the question" is lost yet.
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This is excellent news. S3 turns out to be an extremely inexpensive static hosting service, yet very scalable. Now I don't have to run Apache on an EC2 instance to host static files.

This would be great for client side JS apps that don't need any write-back to the server. Local storage is pretty much supported in all modern browsers.
> But the problem with being in your early twenties is that in general you have very little idea of what the fuck is going on. Trust me, I’m 21.

funny, but it really made me stop reading any further... in these information overdose ADHD-ed times you shouldn't joke with things that can make readers subconsciously mark what you're writing as "not informative enough" and instantly switch to another thread :)
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I'm talking specifically about developing. I have to continuously switch between Ubuntu and Mac (and very rarely Windows) and I would prefer to do all of my work on my perfectly capable linux box instead of purchasing expensive Apple equipment just to run XCode. I definitely appreciate Android not forcing you to develop on any specific platform, but at $2k a MacBook Pro, I don't see Apple changing their policy anytime soon.

For now people want to develop for the App Store and they pay for the expensive machinery to get a piece of the action. If the Google Play Store ever becomes the trendy target market and Apple's position is threatened, I imagine they might consider opening up.
If you have the time, skills, and inclination to help, see item 4):

http://dalpix.com/blog/help-development-mariamole
Are you sure you really mean start-ups as in: http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html
(in short: companies bound to grow really fast and bound to generate extraordinary profits fast)
Pretty much all the posts on that thread are reasons for the functionality:

* Transaction fees that people have to pay on their credit card

* Budgeting purposes

* Expense handling if you're buying the company services on a personal card (this happens a lot more than you'd expect)

* Company shared accounts where the finance/purchasing department wants to do the old invoice / payment dance - finance department gets invoice for $5000, pays it in the background, developers get on with their work.

* Applying a cap on your spending

* Lack of credit cards in many parts of the world

I'm sure there's dozens of reasons why you'd want to prepay, and it's clearly something Amazon want to support, judging by their staff's comments on the page.
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Yeah, that is clearly a non-solution.
Wasting and hour a day on hacker news increased my productivity tremendously. I have had cases where I have a problem and the solution is on first page. Or a simple search can find a lot off good info even better than stackoverflow. Pretty nice side effect for non QA site.
The problem is not that some apps use their own UI paradigm to achieve a minimal UI. The problem is the kind of apps that do so.

If an alarm clock (second example in the OP) requires me to remember weird gestures something is wrong. An alarm clock does not lack visual screen space and the main purpose of the alarm clock is to set the time and then close it. It doesn't have to look good or save space to show something else.

For a browser or a book reader it's different, there i want to fill the whole screen with content as reading is the main purpose of using that app. If i have to tripple sweep, double tap or whatever to get to the menu i don't care.
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I suggest you try it out, I think your lines of code will greatly decrease. The biggest reason I prefer to program in Angular over Backbone is that I simply don't have to write rendering logic code because of data-binding. There's no "render" function, no jQuery DOM manipulation for common tasks, because all rendering behavior is declared in the HTML. Unless you're doing something non-trivial, in which case you should write a custom directive. (For those unfamiliar with Angular, a directive is a declaration of a new HTML tag or attribute with custom behavior which can be reused throughout your app)

I've got to admit that I've never worked on a substantial Backbone app, but many of the issues I see people having with Backbone (regarding rendering item and list views, programmatically binding events, etc..) are simply non-existent in Angular.
Priceless dilletantism.

TLDR: "I'm not an Economist", followed by quoting Paul Krugman.
I think there's a lot of truth to this essay. As am American, I've certainly been guilty of these kinds of generalizations. To Americans (colloquially meaning U.S. citizens here), I think the phenomenon can be attributed mainly to two causes. The first is that Americans don't travel much, only a small minority hold passports. And who can travel with a meagre two contiguous weeks of holiday per year, and with real incomes of the 99% declining for the past 30 years? The second is that the political propaganda machine in the States explicitly lumps all the nations of Europe into the "un-American, thus wrong-thinking" category. You need look no further than our last presidential election for evidence of this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16583813 . There's probably a third force at work that just occurred to me: I think that in American schools, kids are not taught anything meaningful about Europe other than perhaps a vague bit about the World Wars. Namely who was "good", and who was "evil", black & white just like modern American politics. My apartment here in Berlin has a Berlin-raised caretaker who I've had a few extended conversations with. I'm astounded by how much he knows about American history, to the point of even forming opinions (historical ones, not politico-propaganda-influenced ones as far as I can tell) on individual events such as the battle of Little Bighorn. He's in his late 40s, speaks English fluently, and knows more about American history than most Americans I've met. I'm not sure that I entirely know what to make of this, but it certainly leaves me with the impression that there's an element of learning and sheer curiosity about the world that's largely absent in the States.
Callbacks are bad for the same reason non-local gotos are bad. They destroy locality and make the code hard to read.
That's ridiculous. JSON is replacing XML which is a well-established interchange technology that doesn't have all the problems of JSON (like no good way to represent 64 bit numbers, weak typing, barely any types in the first place, etc).
Ah, jeez, no, they didn't.

They might've invented a superior interface paradigm that doesn't fit into an existing model. While it could be discovered by poking and taping, it might be faster and less frustrating to have it explained explicitly.
You'd be surprised by how little that actually applies today. Yet, politicians and public debators always talk about it. And I should know; I am Danish.
CloudFront, when used with Route 53 as your DNS provider, can be used for zone apex hosting, as you can place an "ALIAS" record (as opposed to a real DNS CNAME) to the other hostname; this is the same procedure you use to get S3's static hosting feature working with a zone apex and these new instructions today. (That said, I have never done this personally with CloudFront, as again: I do not use CloudFront.)
I do use a similar approach with html/css/javascript + json in a recent app, though the static content and the json data are served from the same server. With aggressive cache serving the static content is not a problem.
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I only really read papers that relate to my field (storage systems, databases, distributed systems, etc). The other stuff might be interesting but I just don't have the time to really focus on it. I also tend to take a more "pull" approach to papers-- if the title or the abstract doesn't seem interesting, I won't read it. There's just way too many out there.

If you were somehow able to curate the list and present "the most important papers of 2012 for field X", it might be interesting. That's kind of what journals are supposed to do, I guess. I suppose you could consider your effort a kind of virtual journal then :)
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> Even if there is a boot menu, that is still much less scary than having to hunt through a series of menus to find and change an obscure setting.

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> Even if there is a scary series of menus to find and change an obscure setting, that is still much less scary than having to hunt through a series of menus to find and change an obscure setting.