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I'll admit to being ignorant of Opera for far too long, and only really considering it by including an -o- variant in my css vendor prefixes.

But (rightly or wrongly) this news does mean I'll give Opera some serious consideration. If it's Webkit, I can use it with confidence and if Opera's developer tools are better than Chrome or Safari, then it will become my browser of choice.

I doubt I'm the only person thinking this way. So that's one more reason this could be a great move for Opera.
There's one thing I can't stand in many of these comments: The blithe assumption that just because something is open-source, it -- and any fork of it -- could be maintained. I can't emphasise enough how wrong this is.

Look aorund you in the open-source world. Do you see dozens of forks of every worthwhile project? Hardly! The greatest diversity is probably that between Linux distributions, and for the most part they're only trying to make all the packages play nicely with each other.

Maintaining any software that's even half as complex as webkit, (or half as complex as any modern browser engine needs to be,) requires a ridiculous amount of work. Each fork would need to be supported by many people, each of which would have to be convinced that the ideas of one innovator are worth supporting. Then what happens is the really worthwhile ideas are often very hard to explain, while ideas which can be made to sound wonderful and which attract much help may be of very poor quality.
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Because nobody will pay for it. Seriously though, as many others have pointed out, you need human beings that knows something about software engineering in the process.
My clients won't spend time specing out what they want. Often they don't understand what they want in sufficient detail to do that.
Creating correct and useful software is not a linear process. If you give a trader a spreadsheet he will look at it and tell you "this is right", "that is wrong", "and, oh yeah, I forgot to tell you I also wanted X". My technique is to use Excel to tease the spec out of the domain expert and keep pushing the business logic into C++. http://xll.codeplex.com provides a great way to do this.
Calling C++ from C# and Java is a much simpler problem to solve if that is one of the business requirements.
Because the competitor has inferior features.
>I don't know a single web dev who tests on Opera anymore.

Hello. Now you know at least one. :)

Of course FF, Chrome/ium, Safari, IE take priority, but I still run everything by Opera too. I just love Opera and have since I discovered MDI > tabs in the early 2000s, among other things.

This change will make all that easier though, so nice to see it.

PS - I didn't downvote you, though don't consider your comment particularly worthy of upvotes either.
"My hope would be to find some books on farming..."

The local library was looted when the Empire withdrew from the outer provinces.

Big deal! You're a farmer speaking medieval French: the books are in Latin.

And you can't read anyway - no schools.

And even if there were schools you couldn't go. As soon as you could walk Dad needed you for a farm hand. For some reason we don't get the crop yields Gram'pa did and we gotta work can see to can't see just to get barely enough food to survive.
I wish I had your problem ;-)Where r u based? You don't need to learn how to code, there are excellent devs out there, find your mission/passion and spend some of your cash on it. One area could be mobile tech for develop. countries - exciting!
Best of luck
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I think I'm right in saying that by emailing you a copy of the PDF, many authors are breaking their contract with the publisher. It's a few years since I published an academic paper but I've certain signed over my rights more times that I care to recall. So while you can get a copy of the paper from the author officially that is not allowed. Thankfully most academics are not dickheads about this.

The key problem with journals is that much of what they do has been made obsolete over the last couple of decades by the move to electronic document distribution and the wonders of the WWW. Don't forget we are talking about private companies restricting the publication of academic research much of which has been funded out of the public coffers. Even the peer review is done, for free by academics. All that is left is the management of the process and distribution of the publications both of which I'd wager could be handled by the communities themselves as beautifully and repeatedly demonstrated by open source software projects.

What the journals still retain is essentially kudos, but in a very real sense as academics are largely measured against their publication performance of which the 'currency' is the impact factor of the Journal. Academics need to publish in those Journals with a high impact factor so that their departments get a good rating and thus get more government funding (at least here in the UK). The key will be for a community lead Journal to attain a decent impact factor. Soon.
Github costs just over $1 per repo per month. If the projects you're consulting on generate less revenue than this you've got bigger problems than Github's pricing.
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Thanks for replying.

Your idea of only increasing in small steps is interesting, and I can see why you'd do it like that. I imagine $1/user fully scaling is probably impossible - it's probably unfair to compete when Atlassian might even be running Bitbucket at a loss and you presumably have no other major products under the same company. I can see how you'd be better value in some way at certain boundaries in price points - but I'm not convinced you'd ever become cheaper. I haven't drawn the graph, but if you used the full 25-50 jump, going from 25-50 users eventually, thats a $75 increase on your service. I see where you're coming from, but the scalar of 3x per user is probably too high for them jumps to become significant.

Fair enough, Bitbucket does have a free one, but I haven't used Jira which is obviously more powerful. You may well be better there.

And again, allowing self hosting is a really cool move. I'd definitely consider it because I think the cost, even with Bitbucket, would soon become significant compared to the one time cost of a server.

In all honesty, I might be being completely unfair. I'm comparing Bitbucket alone and it's main options. You have teams, Bitbucket does, but yours could well be better - maybe Atlassian's Confluence is a fairer comparison. Same with issue tracking, Bitbucket does have it, but maybe you compare better with Jira. If you would say your service compares fairly to Bitbucket, though, I don't really know how you can improve it short of cutting the $3/user/month, which I imagine isn't a reasonable request. If that's not going to happen, which I'd expect is the case, the way you scale is probably fairest.

I would say to look at the business package and what you're offering though - if it competes with Confluence you're priced fairly, but if it competes with Bitbucket's standard team features, I think that's significantly overpriced.
M.A.S.K. was awesome! I have trouble finding people who remember it. They also had the second best toys (after Transformers). I wonder if this stuff is on Netflix...
Cool, thank you for the tip, great to see some data on the advantages of using plans.
The reason why you made a new account seems to be because you're not giving any arguments for your warning. Opinions with reasons are usually upvoted by HN.

I personally never had Opera become the default browser, nor did I have any other problems than compatibility with it (which is normal, given their market share). I also don't think the upvotes are fake.

So, why exactly "SHOULD WE NOT DO MISSION CRITICAL WORK WITH THIS BROWSER"?
Just contact them. They aren't going to bite you or bill you because you enquire about a bigger plan?
At articleak (see my other comment), we only ask for the link to the paywall, and then if we could not get it from there (we make the http request via Tor for obvious reasons so it may fail some times) we ask you for the title of the paper, and that's all. So in the worst case you have to fill in two fields, but in most case, only one: the link to the paywall.

However, I would not be as hard as you seem to be with the pirate would made The Paper Bay. When you really need a paper and you already lost half an hour searching for it in the web ocean, it's okay to take 2 more minutes instead of 30 seconds to ask for it on such a service.
Just a heads up about the Raygun website: On my iPad v1, there seems to be a right column that is cutting off content.
It's worth noting that the developer of Mathics joined Wolfram recently. Might be related...
Have you thought about contacting them and asking for a discount for volume?

Their enterprise pricing is probably designed for under a 100 employees.

No one is going to make you commit to a contract or bite your hand off if you ask them if they can go cheaper.
And it's rather a good thing, no? I mean, for me, as a developer who happens to know at least a dozen of languages quite well and has a basic grasp on a dozen more, I like it that way. Namely, I like being a harder to find good with limited supply, this means that I will be paid more.

Otherwise what would be the point of learning all these languages, frameworks, libs and environments? Of course the learning experience can "make you a better developer", but is it supposed to be only that?
Then again, even books sometimes have a 'mass market edition' for countries like India, that costs about a fifth than the US paperback.

I'm not sure it makes sense to sell at the same price all over the world. What does it even mean 'to sell at the same price', who defines the exchange rate?

The exchange rate of some currency often reflects market forces and speculation, and the purchasing power parity exchange rate can be wildly different. In some countries, such as Zimbabwe, the exchange rate with the USD depended strongly on who you were and where you bought it! [0]

Maybe you could define a hourly-rate-equivalent-price: if a Photoshop license costs $2500 [1] in the US and one hour of the median Photoshop-using professional is worth $25 in the US, then Photoshop should cost like 100 hours of work in the country where you sell it, so maybe 500$ in India and $200 in China.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbabwean_dollar
[1] All the numbers that follow are pulled out of my own ass
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In contrast to what developers might think, this is bad for the Open Web which is based on several competing and thriving implementations.
http://www.quora.com/Simple-company/How-does-Simple-primaril...

Is this what you are asking for?
According to wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_game...), there have been 618.24 million XBox 360 games sold, and 863.53 million Wii games sold as of December 31st 2012. Nintendo is bigger on the 1st party games, though, so who knows whether it's made more for 3rd party devs or not.
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>One copyright reform I'd make, would be removing copyright
>protection from works like this where are sold as
>massively different rates between markets.

Great. When you're done there, can you tell others what to do with the things they've created? Because surely you know better than they do. How about you tell startups what price to offer their software at and how they must license any patents they create?
I don't think he's saying that its too much, its that there is a cheaper option with better financial predictability, and that is why he's not using github. Its more of a heads up to github, paraphrasing : "if you want our business, this is the kind of plan that we like to buy, it solves our pain points, which for us is stability of pricing" or similar.
I'm collaborating on some projects on Bitbucket and it has pretty much everything you need. It doesn't have some of the nice little touches that Github has like autocomplete emoji etc, but nothing that wouldn't make me miss Github if I had to move over to it 100% for private repos.
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Very useful feature. Thx!
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I agree... it seems like the fixed office could become a relic of the past. it used to be important that you were generally in your office... so people could find you or reach you on your extension, but with chat and email.. it seems less relevant.
The great irony is that Opera has started the HTML5 effort:

http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/2005-09-01/

back then it was called Web Forms 2 and Web Applications 1.0.
A while back my team switched to from an internal SVN system to BitBucket. We're now buying into the Atlassian OnDemand platform so it was definitely #2 for us.
In my experience it is not unusual that an intelligent, ambitious, and creative person finds themselves at a crossroad in their late twenties. Perhaps it began in adolescence, even childhood, where they knew that they had an above-average intelligence and a mind open to possibilities -- but, at the same time, a grave sense of self doubt existed, which only grew year by year as ambitious projects floundered and others (who to appearances were less intelligent or at least less imaginative) thrived. This can reach a crisis point in the late twenties, when the options for avoidance begin to dry up -- and one is faced with the increasing reality of finding work, starting a career, etc.

This can be a frightening moment -- but it is also a liberating moment, viewed correctly. At this point the self's ego-image -- the set of core beliefs about who you are, what you are destined for, how 'intelligence' and 'success' are defined -- come into conflict with the reality principle. This is naturally a very painful moment (drawn across months and even years). It is also an opportunity to redefine these core beliefs -- to reexamine them -- to ask yourself what are your fundamental assumptions about intelligence, creativity, success.

In my own experience, and watching similar-minded friends, this crisis point is a fundamental conflict between what we THINK intelligence, creativity, and genius is -- and what we actually see in ourselves. On the one hand we "know" that we are smart, imaginative -- on the other, the reality principle demands proof and evidence. But here is the paradox: this very belief in intelligence creates its own contradictions. For example, if you believe that smart people are smart because they do clever things easily -- then your brain can start to believe that if you find something hard to do, it is proof of your stupidity. The brain then finds ways to avoid this painful conflict between ego-image and reality -- by dreaming up great ambitions and projects, but then shying away from realising them. Or, you can develop an aversion to "lesser work" -- which reinforces a belief that you are innately special and "above that".

The problem is in the core assumptions one makes about worth -- examining these assumptions deeply, being open to see the paradoxes in them, the hypocrisies even, can reveal avenues out of the situation. You can find practical things to do -- this in turn can build real confidence, not ego-confidence. Work seems then less like 'drudgery' and more like the slow and steady strengthening of your powers.

Just some thoughts...
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>I'd probably shuffle off to a quiet, dimly lit corner somewhere with my headphones, and try to block out the intense primary colours and lack of sound insulation.

Yea I'm with you on that. I'm not opposed to having workspaces more comfortable and less mundane, but some of these offices look more like a McDonalds' playpen than a workspace to me.
Indeed.

Enjoy the DMCA takedown notices.
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They are ditching their UI toolkit and dev tools as well. It does look like a complete rewrite, maybe with copy&paste of some old features like gestures.
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The Wii U controller does seem to be the bulk of the cost, but Sony were willing to take a massive hit on the PS3 cost at first to make Blu-Ray the standard disc format, so we'll just have to wait and see how much the next generation costs
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VAT is avoidable, but the tax man makes that sure that no one is going to.

However, corporate tax and a few other bits and bobs payable on overall revenue are perfectly avoidable if you channel it out and about.
Hey how's it going?

Sounds like you're in a great spot to pursue a goal, as soon as you've settled on what you'd like to do.

How did the programming go over the past 276 days? (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3964837) How did your prototype come out?

I somewhat agree with cjbenedikt about investing. The issue though is that without actually experiencing startup or being in the trenches with technology it is harder to filter/process ideas that people talk to you about.

You're cut out to be a founder if you are consistently applying effort to improving yourself as an entrepreneur/in business. Persistence is key, because that way you can eventually navigate all the obstacles to building a successful company, something I've managed only to a minor degree.

I won't presume to give you any advice besides that. What I can help you out with though is getting a solid start to learning how to program. Feel free to reach out to me with any questions, especially related to programming (front-end, back-end, software, architecture, mobile, games... anything) at kevin.stubbs at therubyhouse dot com.

P.S.

With apparently all the time in the world, don't worry about learning too much programming. Just work your ass off at it and you'll be a fair enough programmer for your needs soon enough. (I prefer overkill courses too.)
"The countryside also can't sustain itself at its current standard of living without goods and services produced in cities."

I think it is possible you underestimate how much manufacturing happens outside urban areas.

Your argument about 'how we need each other' has a point.

Does that mean I get to vote on how you run your trains, down there in Big City, USA?
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>"it seemed a bit slow and thorough for what I'm trying to do"

Okay, so as somebody who quit their job to learn to code (I just didn't realise that was what I was doing at the time), I'll say: if you are going to code you have to be thorough. Codeacademy is a good start. I began by doing pretty much everything on that site in a couple of 8hrs/day 7-day weeks. From there, Treehouse, Zed, books, blogs, StackOverflow... there are a hundred ways.

Bottom line: if you want to be a technical founder you've got to commit to learning the hard way, be passionate and determined. Non-technical, you should read and type along to something like Michael Hartl's Rails Tutorial book so at least you've got your hands dirty with code and can understand how it works when working with a co-founder. For a brief intro to simple web apps, you might try the Essential PHP with MySQL course on Lynda.com as you can see the inner workings of CRUD etc.

I've been at it six months and I can hang out with devs and talk shop, no problems. You could probably get to where I've done quicker too. Good luck!
That's not how it works in reality. IndexedDB has been in WebKit for a couple of years now but Safari still doesn't have it.

It's not as if the browser vendors simply do a 'git pull && make' every couple of weeks.
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Eventbrite used scraping in the early days. They first argued it was a publicly available website. "Public" in the sense that the site was browse-able without restriction.

The plaintiff responded that it had anti-scraping language in its user agreement. The court said "the Terms of Use are not displayed on the website in any way in which a reasonable user could be expected to notice them."
Those are all immature web markets. By the time the majority of web users in those countries spend a significant amount of money online, they probably wont be using Opera anymore. If you're looking for more file-sharing users, sure, target these markets. But if you want to make money today then don't waste your time. (I've lived in, started/run businesses, and produced web products in Eastern Europe).
Unhealthy? I've been longing for the day that all browsers are based on WebKit, because it means a real web programming language will be that much closer to replacing kiddiescript.

EDIT -- from http://wtfjs.com:

parseInt('06'); // 6

parseInt('08'); // 0

Your language is bad, and you should feel bad.
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Thanks for responding to my late addition to the thread. You're right, of course... I may have missed a lot of it. And I haven't worked at gaming companies - not a lot of those in Boston, and the "kill yourself working just to get fired 2 months after launch" thing is not really my cup of tea ;)

I'll talk to a couple female ex-coworkers and see what they have to say. I hope I didn't come off as not believing sexism exists in the software world, because I absolutely believe it.

Anyway, thanks for bringing this up. I looked through your tumblr, and luckily do not see myself in any of the gaffes that you posted about (but I'll try to keep an eye out for things I or other coworkers might do without realizing). I am saddened that there are so many on the list. I can't believe there are men who still act like that in this day and age.
Google earns nearly $1 million per employee, not a loss at all.
Thanks a lot, this is very nice and helpful. However... Aren't you afraid of going to jail?
History has shown me that if it breaks in Opera it will break in IE. The difference being that Opera will give you more details
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I hope to publish this book in April and I hope many of you can relate to this.

Please visit the website: http://theweekstevequithisjob.com

I also do recommend you explore the sample chapter and follow the ongoing blog series.

Would love hear your feedback & have your comments on this.
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Great write-up, thanks.

I guess that "might even be running Bitbucket at a loss" makes it hard to compete with Bitbucket on price. And Bitbucket is a good product and Atlassian is a great company. I don't think GitLab should be compared with Confluence.

Maybe I'll switch GitLab to a simple plan based pricing model and compete on its strengths:
1) Advanced permissions
2) Can run your own server for free if you ever need to
3) CI server integration with GitLab CI (coming soon)

What do you think?