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I'm pretty sure the newest revisions of svn no longer use .svn directories
Anyone actually looking at youtube commercials?
Does any one actually look to those youtube commercials when your looking for a video.
As far as i know most people click them away, and think of it as annoyance. Which makes me wonder why would a company want to be related to annoying commercials giving it a bad reputation amongst its potential clients ?
From a demo I tried, the computer on your right temple is at least sensitive to swipes and taps to access a menu. In addition, the menu can be scrolled by looking up and down, so voice is not necessary.
The tokenizer is the easy part. The overall goal of this, writing a C++11 compliant compiler + associated standard libraries is going to be near impossible.
I own a small business and we have experimented with Square Register and other ipad-based POS systems. Register is by far the least feature rich of all of the offerings we looked at - this is not necessarily a bad thing. Specifically,

Cons

* Register is not designed for restaurant use - many of these reasons have already been discussed on this thread, the biggest being the lack of modifier support.

* Register does not support weight-based pricing (delis, produce, etc).

* Getting meaningful data out of Register is annoying

* There really isn't much tech support for Register - for a lot of businesses, being able to pay somebody to come set-up a POS and train the staff is a real feature.

* The card reader is unreliable - multiple swipes are often required. (A non-free, durable and reliable card reader would be a good thing for Square to consider offering).
* No inventory management. (If there was a nice API, other people could solve this problem.)

Pros

* It provides a nicely unified experience across Register and Wallet, which makes enabling Wallet easy.

* Square is still our preferred payment processor for credit card transactions. I especially appreciate how they transfer money into our bank account within 24 hours instead of trying to justify why they should be allowed to hold on to it until the end of the month.

* It is the easiest to set-up and use, and to train employees to use.

In terms of the ipad POS space, none of them are really mature POS systems yet. If your transaction set is simple, or if you're willing to modify it to fit into the POS feature-set, then one of them is probably right for you. If you need Aloha-style customizability, you should wait. My guess is that different POS solutions will generate traction in different markets, and then it will become much clearer with solution is right for your business.

Personally, I think the old-style POS's are such a rip-off that figuring out how to make your small business work with a newer technology is worth it. Running a food business, however, I would not recommend Register. If I ran a business with a simpler item set (e.g. a clothing store), then I would seriously consider it.

Asides

* Yeah, those printers are like tanks. Two thumbs up!

* You definitely want physical security. The bundled stand includes the ability to secure against grab-and-go theft (http://hecklerdesign.com/windfall/).

(edit: formatting)
What I don't understand is why Google doesn't have an open source PDF viewer? I mean, Chromium renders OpenGL, decodes movies, contains fastest JavaScript VM and it cannot view PDFs? Given what they did to JavaScript speed, can you imagine what viewer they would be capable of producing of? At least they should join Mozilla on improving pdf.js, IMO...
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Hey Igor, if you take a look at http://pythonhosted.org/importd/#importd-and-custom-models, you will see that importd still works perfectly well with normal django app, and it is recommended when your project grow large that you indeed split your project into apps for maximum modularity and reusability.

importd makes it easy to start using django for simple couple of pages/api apps, and it remains compatible with rest of django, that is the goal.
The Reddit /r/Keto rule of thumb is not to eat more than 5% of mono and poliunsaturated fats in the total fat consumption.

Under that 5%, the ratio of Omega-6 and 3 should be maintained.
Or better, have a folder called local_settings with an __init__.py empty file in (making it a package) and then just drop your custom settings there
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze. We use the boot drive just because it's a tiny bit "cleaner" to boot off a separate drive (and configure swap on that drive) and have all the "data" alone on the 45 drive array. It allows you to boot and THEN reassemble a failed raid array that is on other drives, stuff like that. You could do it off of USB sticks, but I'm not sure about how well that would work with swapping? Maybe it would be fine? In the end it hasn't been worth focusing on yet, the price difference would be really super small. We spend most of our brain cells trying to find cheaper hard drives which account for 80 percent of our costs.

Netbooting -> we're actively looking into that as an option. But you still probably need a local swap drive.
Re: your LastPass Chrome problem, you need to install the extension with a binary component (there are two on LastPass's site)
You're assuming they don't already pay for connectivity for an existing system, which all existing stores with POS must. Which means the additional cost over what they're paying is probably $0 to switch, vs possibly having to cancel and sign up with something new. And many of the people who will use this probably already use regular Square.
I think he means the full course goal, given that the first assignment assignment is not the hard part.
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They will need a stunning amount of marketing and advertising for this to become socially acceptable.

Well, according to the already existing marketing, if I buy one of these things, I'll have a happy family, dance with a classy, beautiful woman, have fun at New Year's, travel to Sedona, ride a snowboard, see the Brooklyn Bridge, shop for veggies in Chinatown, and travel some more.

You know what's interesting to me is that none of the faces staring back at "you" in the marketing are wearing Geordi La Forge glasses. If they were, would these "friends" seem as interested?
You could do topic branches in SVN, it would just be painful. It's sort of like saying "Why use C++? You can do object oriented programming in C with structs and function pointers."
If the market is only people who think it'd be cool to look like a Star Trek character, that is still a pretty big market.
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You can look at the DC Code from links here http://dc.gov/DC/Government/DC+Courts+&+Laws/DC+Laws, but you cannot have it to re-use or republish. The guy posting does a lot with open maps, so he probably wants to reuse the data in more interesting way.
Screen readers have no problem reading javascript-rendered content. A corporate environment that disables javascript may as well block port 80 as well. I agree with others who point out that js is as vital as html and css to rendering a page.
Are there companies with engineering teams and products that are equally as highly regarded without the Ivy League pedigree?

If the answer is yes, then it seems like your assertion is incorrect.
That may be the case. It certainly would make sense to me since I imagine demand for denser storage is higher in Silicon Valley.
> I'm pretty sure SVN now has only one .svn directory, just like git.

That was a more recent change in 1.7.x ( around late 2011?) and I know people who are still, in 2013, in 1.6.x
Would you mind explaining the use cases where this could be better than standard django? (or the ones that motivated you to develop it)

I think it is really interesting, but cant find a good example where I should use it
Phrases like "made it just fine without towing" and "between correct segments" just support the conclusion that the Model S is only moderately bad for road trips :)

Which is fine, if money were no object, I would have an electric city car for daily use as well as a big luxury car with heated seats and a huge gas tank when I wanted to go on road trips.
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For the Node.js developers in the discussion, I've been hacking away on [Junction](https://github.com/jaredhanson/junction) in my spare moments.

I've long been fascinated with XMPP, because it is so flexible. Rather than focusing solely on a specific purpose (like IM), Junction exposes a middleware framework similar to Express so that you can develop applications on top of XMPP.

I've been happy with the approach, and I'd be curious to get feedback from other developers who've had similar thoughts regarding XMPP.
>>In France, the verb 'work' is travailler. Traditionally this meant literally to toil, a chore, an obligation.

"travailler" comes from Latin, in spanish the same word is "trabajar", notice the resemblance. It literally means "to work" in english. Just saying this because I don't really buy it that "travailler" in French means "to toil".
I agree. Great idea in all but Django already is so batteries included, I don't think we need to take it down even further from what it is.
France is one of most productive countries in the world, when measured as GDP per hour-worked:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PPP...
With 98% of screen reader users having Javascript enabled [1], I'm willing to bet it's not really an issue for them. I'm then left wondering who these people are that have daily-use systems so old that they cannot run Javascript in their browser, and why they are such an important market.

[1] http://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey3/#javascript
A tokenizer is very reasonable. I would even have believed a complete C compiler, although that is a huge undertaking. But C++ is, as far as I am aware, the hardest language to compile in popular use.
True. Also, the wsj article is dated today. Look at the market, EVERYTHING is down today. The letter was dated Feb 8. As if this news is just getting around to the big players today...
> Subversion we had a simple rule: "If you get a conflict, save your work outside of the project, then "accept theirs full", then re-integrate your work. A pain, but non-technical people could manage it

You can do this in git as well.
He's marginally literate because...?
He could have got his point across in a more civil way.

I understand he felt the urge to vent his spleen at someone, but now they are going to be blackballed should they ever need anything from the French government.
Storage hardware startup here. We can do 72 drives in 4U for standard racks and 120 drives in 4U for deep racks, but it is difficult to service so we're only pushing to early adopters. However high-density servicability can be addressed. Our next system should have same drive numbers in 5U, much easier to swap drives. Not much can be done about the shipping problem, ha ha.
"Google and XMPP have recently added a draft extension to the protocol called Jingle, which enables voice over IP and video conferencing."

The use of 'recently' made me do a bit of double take.

http://slashdot.org/story/05/12/16/070245/google-jabber-and-...
There's a typo in the headline. They misspelled "copying."
Once speaking to a freebsd developer, he explained the problems with git in freebsd workflow.

His explanation was on the lines that if there are 100 developers working on different trees of freebsd and they want to commit their work, it causes a race, as if some one commits before you, you need to do a git pull, incorporate changes and then push, even when they are working on unrelated components.

My response to this was yes, and that is why git allows you to create branches so cheaply, but he still was not convinced.
Wouldn't the Google glasses allow her to spend more time looking around and at you instead of toward a phone?
I would never buy such a buggy product

:-)
Assuming you have a stationary unit, which you would in this case, the odds of you not having a broadband connection with wireless are incredibly slim. Every business needs internet, for simple things from Spotify to traditional needs (Google docs, email, etc). In a situation like this, you would never rely on a Verizon dataplan alone to run your business. Speed and reliability would be a serious concern.

Even assuming you don't have wifi, it's highly likely that paying for your own dataplan is smarter than going through a third party. GoPago uses Verizon wireless, but does not indicate how much of your monthly fee goes towards it. Small businesses get by on the skin of their teeth, so $1,420 in savings is $1,420 you can spend on something far more important.
So just because some crazy US CEO states in a letter that French workers have a "3 hour workday" you suddenly believe that? This guy is crazy and I find it amusing that anybody takes anything he writes seriously.
I don't understand this obsession with sequential commit numbers. These may vary from repo to repo depending on your commit/pull history.
Static navbar and infinite scroll all the things!
It depends on the candidate. Ultimately the Sunday test is just a formalized test for "cultural fit", which most people understand as a reason for rejection. I think not passing our Sunday test really just means this person did not gel with our team, rather than necessarily having larger implications.
That didn't end up well for the last guy who tried it ...
Much as I hate to rain on someone else's sanctimonious parade, I think that the average Yahoo is more than happy to have a credible figurehead. Especially after the bean counting clowns who came before.

For one thing, it's at last possible for Yahoo to recruit decent talent again. That's largely a credit to Mayer's track record and her shuffling of the executive leadership.

They're getting food.

They're getting modern cell phones.

They're seeing progress in long-stagnant products.

Like it or not, Mayer is a substantial center of gravity in the product decisions of that company, and they really needed a product person. Giving her the headline is more than fair.
Great video, I was totally immersed for the 7 minutes it ran for. Very engaging and love the visuals.
Sure, that makes sense, and I agree that "likability" is a fantastic metric to include in a hiring decision. And maybe the atmosphere and connotation is a bit different if you ask me the Sunday Test in person during an interview.

All that to say, as a developer who has been burned one too many times by the "oh yes we have lives outside of work" story (not so much), the question itself put me off a little, and I'm wondering if there is a way to measure this likability factor without a scenario that may immediately ping the sixth sense of a developer with certain past experiences. Just wanted to throw that out there.
Your comment would've been so much better without its last paragraph.
gdb - at 6:25, are you saying that you just happen to appear in people's towns when they are there, and schedule flights without telling them? Can't tell if I'm understanding incorrectly or if the audio is muffled and mishearing.
There's a hacker character on Ghost in the Shell known as The Laughing Man.[1] One of his skills is being able to hack cybernetic eyes in real-time to superimpose an avatar on his face, to conceal his identity.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laughing_Man_(Ghost_in_the_Shel...
Indeed, I'm defining seed investor largely in the context of a "seed round"...which these days seems to be anywhere btwn 500k - 1.2M. There are some 2013 startups that take a bit of friends and family money to pay for rent / food, and this largely comes down to the founder's personal / financial situation. Also yes, many of the cases I'm thinking of here are consumer focused companies.
I am not affiliated with either company and my only experience with operating a physical storefront are restaurants.

That being said, after taking a quick look at the front-facing material on both sites, I have a question for you/GoPago:
While the point you make about the initial cost being higher (about 1k with iPad) is valid, Square seems to run a pricing scheme where they charge a flat $275 per month and get rid of any extra cut they take.

Just based off some rough math, assuming the business processes $200k worth of transactions per year (about $550 per day, very reasonable) merchants will save about 2.5k per year if they use Square. For more slightly more successful businesses who process upwards of $500k-1m per year the delta grows even larger (upwards of $26k).

If the merchant runs a 1-man business which processes maybe $50k worth of transactions per year and uses Square's charge of 2.75% per swipe, he'll still be saving approx $300. And he'll own the hardware which inherently has resell value.

What specifically does GoPago offer over Square which is worth at least $300?
Sorry, but there are so many stereotypes here that I don't know where to begin.

I'll just say that right now I'm in Spain, it's frigging cold and I have been working for nearly 12 hours straight.
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I believe the presence of the comma between industry and ever is a subtle distinction. With a comma, it implies that no industry has ever been the same. Without it, it negates the implication that no industry has ever been the same.
I've developed a couple of Open Source stuff and I wanted to push them online. In my old company, they used SVN for almost everything (even Graphic designs, sometimes!) and hence I kind of knew SVN pretty well. I wanted to give GIT a fair trial, just to make sure I don't miss out something good, out of the personal bias in favor of SVN. And hence, I read some books, documentation and several other resources just to learn this GIT, simply because I saw it was a popular choice amongst many communities, including HN.

My thoughts in this entire learning process was along the lines of - "Why the hell are they doing it like this, instead of that? Why are they calling this, like that, instead of just calling it what it already is?"

In my experience trying to learn GIT, I was able to conclude that GIT introduces a LOT of terminologies, and concepts, making the path for beginners like me more and more difficult. Whether spending hours learning these concepts just to get your stuff synced properly depends on your scenario. But for me, SVN rules.

Also, there is another REALLY brilliant way by which SVN helps me. I use Tortoise SVN. I have a couple of external 1tb hard-drives to back-up my code. I like to take regular backups (obviously) because some of the code is in production and I just want to play it safe. Using SVN, on windows, I run an SVN server on my machine, and create respective repo's on my hard-drives and just update them and voila - I have all the code properly backed-up and versioned. You can also automate this (there are scripts to do them), but for me, I like to keep it synced manually. And also, you can keep your stuff backed-up to your Google drive by making a repository inside your drive folder. I can't imagine typing all these as commands in GIT.
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Very interesting. I feel that I'm part of this cohort (unexpectantly) since recently launching startuprocketlauncher.com in 2013 ... essentially starting making $$ after day 2 and receiving tons of signups from little marketing efforts. I'm not necessarily say NO to investors but since I can market, develop and acquire users myself with a bit of profit, I prefer to work at a pace I'm comfortable with. Its best I believe to experiment without any pressure and development the business model creatively to a point where, if needed, investors can jump onboard with something less risky with a thriving community to take it to the next level.
Yes, you're most likely wrong.

France is a hard working country. It's not where it is today just because there is an Eiffel tower and great bread.

I realize that bashing France is always enjoyable but although its going downhill it's still one of the richest and most powerful countries in the world.

People have more holidays but work for longer hours. One example of one factory doesn't say much about the country as a whole.

For the record, in Germany, 32 hours a week is frequent in many factories (VW).

The question one could ask, is how come the factory reached a point where people work only three hours per day?

It's however true that the minimum wages are far above the minimum wages in India or China. I'm not sure dropping wages to Chinese levels is the solution.

I'm not saying there aren't any problem.

There is a recurrent problem with unions in France and the lack of communication between unions and employers.

Work laws are rigid and the amount of tax companies suffer clearly costs a great deal of opportunities to the country.

There is also a recent, negative shift, toward work and effort in general, especially in the youngest generation. I'm however afraid this might not be specific to France.
I'm 20 and can never recall having had the experience the OP describes.
"Git adds extra steps to the flow of content between your local files and the remote repository. "

This is the biggest issue I've always had with Git. I've struggled to understand why so many developers swear by a system that takes several steps backwards from other systems.
If people are using SCM for too many things instead of too few, then that's a major improvement. Git could be better, yes. I personally prefer Hg even though I almost never use it due to Git's ubiquity. But as far as switching to distributed SCM, we spent 2 or 3 years fighting to kill the crappy centralized SCM systems we were using and we'll go back to centralized over my dead body.. I'd rather deal with a less friendly distributed system than ever have to use SVN ever again and deal with all the merge nightmares.
> Pedantic, but important to note.

Pedantic, but "pedantic" actually idiomatically means "not important to note".
Maybe he thinks you have to be rude to deal with the French? There is a stereotype there, right or wrong.
It almost sounds like they push the repo to the staging server rather than pull from a central repo to the staging server.
I've long felt that novel legal arguments should be considered intellectual property. Once lawyers are forced to pay to cite precedent, the whole landscape will change....
The stock is up 34% since she took over.

So, nope.
Another theory often floated is the cultural history of Protestants vs Catholics.

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/south_...
It's too bad that Square gets all the press when the tech community should really be spending (at least some of) its energy trying to defeat a law that makes it a federal crime to start a payments company that actually does change things.

See http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/essay.html?id=86
It truly does seem like the craziest ideas sometimes turn out to be the most popular, but I guess that's because the people behind them have a creative vision of the future, aka true entrepreneurs.

One of my concerns for FlightCar is the amount of competition they face in other cities. Expansion could be tough but again, their prioritization of customer service is a great initial platform whereupon users will be naturally attracted to using their service.

One idea I had was to create a rewards system such that people gain 'points' by putting their car up for rent. And once a number of points is accumulated, prizes are offered or something of the sort. Could be a neat marketing tool as well as an edge on similar services.
Travail (like trabajo) means labor, effort. It's different from "empoi" ("empleo" in español), which has a bigger relation with being useful, and is also less commonly used.
That could be due to the diminishing returns of working longer hours after a certain point. They work fewer hours, so are more productive per hour, but sacrifice overall production to do so.