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The typeface is blatantly offensive, but it took me a while to see what was supposed to be sexist about the shirt. You have to read it out loud to get it: the last two syllables of "PHP-ness" are supposed to be pronounced like the word "penis". So it's not just an ugly shirt, but an ugly shirt which associates an ugly language with ugly ripoff-marketing spam email.
Someone will always have to understand every part of the stack. If that person's not you, then just move on. I don't give a crap about browser UI and I wish I lived in a world where we didn't have to deal with that. But in reality, I'm glad somebody cares about it, and if someone writes an article about that world - more power to them.
In the U.S., at least, there are many contexts (speaking very generally) where an acknowledgement de facto increases your risk.

One being that it can provide the pretext for legal action, such as a lawsuit.

Even if you've done nothing wrong, this can impose a significant burden upon you. And, given our legal system, there's no guarantee you'll come out vindicated -- or whole (e.g. financially), even if you "win" and are "vindicated".

P.S. And so, by extension, some people decide that if they do not understand a context and its implications, the best default action is to forego acknowledgment of it unless compelled.
There are a number of fluid dynamic studies that show 'angled' flow, generally around mixed densities and viscositys coming into contact with each other. That said, its a cool effect.

If it were science fiction there would be a giant hexagonal shaped structure under the clouds on the pole. Waiting ...
"So what am I missing?"

1) With discipline and hard work you can beat stuff in weeks, not months
2) You can get a paid position in months, not years

"How can my plan be improved?"

Set specific goals, build a study schedule. Python, JS, html and CSS are great choices. Consider Ruby also.

"Am I being unrealistic in any aspect?"

No, you are not. YES you can become a developer in 6 months. Some people will try to bring you down, don't believe them. Just work real hard and keep in mind that things can get really boring sometimes and discipline is fundamental to pull this off.

In fact, discipline is what sets apart winners and losers.

Now, get out of HN and get to work. There are plenty of resources online.
Yeah what's the deal there? I always assumed he was a spam bot...
It'd be very interesting to get the scoop on what books are promoted this way. I find a lot of business books to be very much on the "fluffy" side of things. Even good ones that present a unique idea often take a long time to say something that could have easily been state in 10 pages or less.
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Apparently at -1 I guess there are stupid questions in this world. Thanks for the replies though guys, didn't know EE stood for that. Electrical engineering doesn't involve any FPGA's in Norway.
Right, but what I meant was triadic closure.

I can tell my friends to use this, but since I can already communicate with them through existing services (which may include geolocation like fb's find friends nearby or highlight) there's no real value there for me.

The value comes from talking to people who may not be on your social network (e.g. all of the use case examples on your page should be directed at as big a local audience as possible).
How is moral different from ethical? In my mind, they are pretty synonymous.

And no, I don't think Foxconn is bad for replacing workers with robots. Why would I?
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Once again someone is trying to engineer a fix to a political problem.
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>give me an example

America.

...

You people are dense to the point of complete idiocy.

My point is that the current period of prosperous peace (relatively speaking) will certainly not last forever. Wars are a fact of life, and when they happen, regimes fall and power vacuums arise. Sometimes, those vacuums are filled not by the most capable (and rarely by the most benevolent) but by the most ambitious. Given the history of the human race, it would be foolish to believe that there will never be another Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, et al, and on a long enough timeline, it would be incredibly foolish to believe that there will never be one in your neck of the woods, wherever that may be. What are you going to do when you've been labeled an enemy of the state and your friends and family are being shuttled off to a labor camp? Write a strongly worded fucking letter?

Guns are our insurance policy that we will not be easily oppressed, whether by a foreign invader or our own government, and that you people have such a difficult time accepting this obvious truth is utterly baffling.
Thanks for the 'friend' link, will keep it in mind. I am thinking about several possible auth-related components, and 'friend' is worth studying if I start working on them.
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This is awesome! Maybe one day we can extend it to more modern members of the x86 family (286,386) that introduced more opcodes (hence producing the complicated ISA encoding that x86 has) and operating modes (unreal mode, protected mode, SMM, ... )
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$99/year to publish on the Store (at the moment, they don't allow Free applications).

SDK can be downloaded without paying.

Can develop on any Vita or certified Android device. (These: http://www.playstation.com/psm/certified.html)
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Having worked with assembly a little bit (MIPS, for Coursera's Compilers class -- but it's supposed to be better than x86!) and with LLVM IR a bit more (I'm writing my own compiler for a language that compiles to IR), I really wonder about the trade-offs for learning LLVM IR vs assembly if your goal is to learn lower-level details.

In particular, LLVM IR is just so much easier to use, even though it lives at a very similar level as "real" assembly. Granted, you don't have to take care of register allocation yourselves, and the instructions are slightly more abstract (an abstraction which is inevitably leaky), but it does really drive home the differences between registers and memory, how pointers and addressing are used at the lower level, that there are different calling conventions (but you don't have to learn the niggly little details for each), it's portable, etc.

Anyone who has used both more extensively who can comment?
If starting with x86 assembly seems overwhelming to you there are a few alternatives that might help.

First are virtual machines that were developed to be programmed directly in a kind of assembly language. CHIP-8 [1] is a good example of one of those, being a VM standard developed to make games run across a broad range of otherwise incompatible mid-1970s hardware. It gained a new popularity in the early 2000s and as a result you can now find CHIP-8 emulators for virtually any platform, including your mobile phone, as well as a range of assemblers and other development tools. It's a fascinating bit of history in its own right and also a great platform to emulate in the first emulator you write. A bit further away from the syntax of "real" assemblers is Linoleum [2], which is meant to be a kind of a cross-platform assembly language targeted towards graphics applications, but the principles behind programming in it are largely the same. I can recommend both from personal experience, although CHIP-8 is probably a better starting point.

Second, if you want something closer to real hardware I'd suggest learning how to program for the MOS 6502, the CPU used in the Apple II and (with some modifications) in the Commodore 64 and the NES gaming console. One way to get started with it is Easy6502 [3], which is an online introductory course on 6502 programming bundled with an in-browser emulator.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIP-8

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linoleum_%28programming_langua...

[3] http://skilldrick.github.com/easy6502/
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I'd subsidize the rural operations directly from the government, similar to the "universal service fee" for telephony, and rural electrification.
Unlike Jig, our objective is to connect you to the people around you.

People who share the same location often share a similar set of problems and that's precisely why they are the best people to connect with.
Still building the same company, so we weren't conning any investors. And we weren't doing poorly back then... Just going through some challenges. Site load bringing down servers, hiring, etc. rarely can an investor take the time to really know every possible deal and founder in the seed stage. They're looking at a volume of deals and need to be able to take thin slices of founders to make decisions.

And again, the point of my post is to say... Yes, we're not fully transparent with people because everybody else isn't. We're to blame first for the lack of transparency. I'm making an effort to change this.
I love the sporting aspect of this trick. Well done!
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I have a perfectly working Google App Scrit that does snooze - 1-5 days, 1-3 weeks, and 1-6 months. I wrote it myself, and never found time to publish.

There are other scripts out there, in which ways did you find them deficient?
> FedEx and UPS have spent large amounts of lobbying money ensuring that USPS does not innovate.

It's hardly surprising, but do you have any sources for this claim?
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Seems to me that this app doesn't use any advanced android features, so requiring android 4.0 is needlessly excluding a lot of potential customers.

Edit: Almost 60% of android users, in fact. [1]

[1]: http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html
I use the auto-fill plugin that Cultured ships with the app. I didn't have to use any Applescript.
This is from 2009. I love Charlie Brooker like the next man, but this isn't really relevant any more.
Yup. I read it. Thanks for sharing. I'm not sure how well a big group would work. If its bit an intimate close group of people, it wouldn't be easy to open up and share. This is why I think it's important to have a small group of founder friends to confide in.
>Frankly, your story is the perfect, one-in-a-million anecdote.

No, no it's not. Homeowners defend themselves against home intruders all the time with guns. Google is your friend.
This doesn't account for dynamic content.
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Wow. I love the rhetoric, but it's glaringly flawed. You're suggestion: people are driven by their basic instincts, so...they should all have access to guns. Couldn't make a better case against guns myself.

Or is it that government is "special" and only the sort that would misplace their power? You do know the government is made up of citizens, right? Or do you think that once you get a government job you suddenly become vile? Would love your insight.

Again, your argument sits within the confines of American reality, while the rest of the world gets by. What paranoid, delusional scenario do you see playing out exactly? Your government/other regime turns against you...and what? The rest of the world just sits back and watches your government attack its people? Come on, man. Really?

You're the only modern country that thinks this way. Let that sink in for a bit.
Yes and no.

On the surface Japan can seem like it has some things in common (comparable) with the West; however, it's more or less comparing superficial manifestations.

1. Japan while you will see 'international' this and that everywhere and people are taught English from an early age, Japan is very insular (geographically, obviously and mentally) and inward looking (provincial not reflective) and hardly international. People (employees) in the international depts can't expect to rise much within an org. --with few exceptions). All talk and no walk.

2. Japan is very xenophobic (not just a little like Italy might be or France might be about undocumented Roma or Albanians). This could be traced back to how Japan dealt with foreigners (and trade) back in the Edo period as exemplified by Dejima island. Foreigners (dutch) were relegated to an island and had to be back by sundown and could not leave. This attitude has not changed in over a hundred years. 3rd generation Koreans are still considered foreigners (and they must assume a Japanese name, and oddly none the less considered foreign). The foreign population in Japan is actually on the wane for various reasons (economic and also people just get tired of the politics)

3. Japanese industry found their stride in the late 60s; however, few have revisited their assumptions, systems, technologies, methods, etc. For an example, look at their film industry. Almost complete implosion due to stagnation.

4. Conformity. While on the surface these niche 'diverse' groups would seem to indicate break with conformity, it does not. As someone observed, these movements and subcultures are de-coupled from politics, completely.

That's just the beginning. There are many other reasons a 1:1 comparison with the West is not helpful.

There is a kind of parallel withe the US. It's the maturity regression. However, while many in the US recognize and decry the eternal adolescence of American adults (viz toilet humor, frat culture), in Japan it's rather infantilization (viz Hello Kitty, stuffed animals, Pokemon --whose main audience are adults, not children).

Edit: I guess what I mean is that one would extrapolate Japan onto the West at one's own expense (of understanding). In this agree with Japan --they are unique, in this regard.
This site takes the problem of the search filter bubble[1] and pushes it to the extreme. It might be useful for people who want to avoid, at any cost, political opinions that they disagree with. However, if you're trying to solve a hard problem that you don't know the answer to, is it reasonable to assume that you do happen to know what tiny subset of the web contains your unknown answer?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_bubble
Far too often, people nitpick on headers and sentences rather than the actual element placement and overall structure of the page. This alleviates you from having to deal with those situations until they are warranted.
He's schizophrenic and the parts of his comments that look like spam are actually algorithmically generated Christian songs.
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Well, Mayer finally gets her wet dream: No one to mitigate her absolutism.

I've no involvement in Yahoo, but personally, this raises my gorge -- a reaction to my own past experiences with Management dictates and ultimatum from on-high. Very often a blind cudgel of personal prejudice, often mixed with Management best-practice du jour.

Mayer may be smarter than the last, but apparently not than the rest.
In my opinion this is just a matter of taste, especially whether Linux or Mac is better for development. I personally use Linux on a daily basis at work and when I'm done with my day job I use my MacBook Air for my hobby projects. Both environments have pros and cons. But to my personal taste, I really love working on my Mac, it feels more stable, hardware and software is much better integrated, it just works all the time.

The same arguments you can use to move away from Mac OS X for development, you can also use to move away from certain Linux distros. Ubuntu's Unity is not something you could call stable for the first few releases. Looking at all the changes between GNOME 2 and GNOME 3, that also scared away many users, or at least left many at GNOME 2, who still don't look forward to upgrading...
Wow, what a fantastic set of articles. Some interesting things for me:

- Apparently low/middle class consumers in Japan would put themselves into debt to buy luxury brands like Gucci. I'm not sure if this is meant general debt like we see in the US with credit cards, or if it mean specific financing for those items. (I met a guy in Central America that was making payments on a jean jacket.)

- If I read correctly, the lower income pressure is making things that are marginally cheaper, like fake beer, actually take off. I would assume this is because of the generally high cost of products in Japan? Whereas in other countries, even with lower income, you don't resort to fake beer... maybe I misunderstood though.

- As of the article's time, the Internet doesn't have any really influential outlets in Japan, and print media dominates for legitimacy and doesn't put much content online. I know myself and other folks that don't read any print media, so it seems odd that the Internet didn't penetrate quickly in Japan.

- The squeeze on the markets means fringe groups now "dominate". That is, "normal" folks cut back on their consumption, but fringe groups are defined by such consumption. So the normal purchasing is gone, leaving just the fringe, leading to groups like AKB48 being #1, when in reality they have niche appeal.

It closes pointing out that this fringe popularity taking over means Japan's cultural exports are growing weaker, and like technology, might be disrupted by Korea. Since the article was written, I think SNSD has grown in popularity, and Gangnam Style certainly brought K-pop into the highlight.

It'll be interesting to see if Korea can successfully export other cultural stuff that Japan has done well with, like video games and anime. (From my brief and irrelevant exposure, it seems Korea is very insular and does not do well exporting culture, although the kpop thing might be changing that. For example, all Korean sites seem to require you to login with your Korean national ID.)
Hmm yes those 1/3 of Fortune 1000 companies who do decide to prefund (which is entirely optional, unlike for the USPS) do so at average of 30% of liability. At the USPS pre-funding rate they're projected to have 73% of future liability funded by 2016.

I think you're on to something though, we should definitely require private sector retirement benefits to be pre-funded by 100%, then we can all point our fingers and say how obvious it is that the private sector is less efficient.
Two friends of mine made a similar app called spotvite [1], It's great for pickup sports. I find these type of apps only excel in popular areas.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spotvite.a...
This doesn't prove guns solve problems. It just makes it clear that police can be incompetent. This is the most bizarre argument. You're argument is that police do a poor job, so average people should do the job? Here's an idea: spend some more money on creating a more competent police force. So silly! Let's see, my employee isn't doing his job well, so I'll just call in another developer to bring competency. Talk about spinning the tires.

Please, America. Spend some time wondering how other modern countries get by. You'll have no choice but to conclude it is possible to get by without guns.
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If it were in physical conversation if someone consistently "spammed" a conversation, by say saying something outloud and obnoxious to get attention, I would ask them to be quiet or leave. If they became persistent the only last resort option I would find would be to ignore them altogether. It might feel morally wrong to simply ignore and pretend another person doesn't exist, but it might be the only thing that does the trick, it might cause them to rethink their words and actions.

That being said I feel like this is way it should be handled online, something like hellbanning being the last option. Unfortunately the difference between real conversation and online is that online a person can simply reenter a board with a completely different name or "face," it could be literally impossible to tell whether a new board spammer is a first-time offender or someone who's been peacefully told to quit in the past. I'm not sure that off-line morals and psychology applies here in the same way
The point of Shoutt is to find what you need, not just to connect with people you don't know. Whether a person is a friend or a stranger is secondary. It's just that friends are always more likely to help.
Very much this. I'd love a block-y looking one that included both ascenders and descenders and had different widths for different lengths of words.
It's not fair to think that everyone has an internet connection though, should be posed as an alternate solution, then I think it makes a lot of sense.
It is certainly not only for academic papers. See [this thread](http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/40720/latex-in-indust...) for example. But it may not be suitable in the environment you describe, the learning curve could be too steep for "business users [...] familiar with word". It could work however if they only need to edit something you built and are at least capable of editing html.
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Amy: I don't really have a dog in this race.

MJR: This isn't very honest considering that you are the one giving Nathan the advice in the article. And he is creating ConvertKit while part of your 30x500 launch class, Correct?

Nathan is /not/ and has never taken 30x500. (I'm alumnus from way way back, and alumni get to attend all succeeding classes, so you have to take my word for it.)

So in that sense, Amy doesn't have a dog in the race, which she would were she partnering with Nathan on the product. She may have a tiny mouse, however. ;)
I worry that you're trying to be everything to everyone. Just because your backend can handle anything type of "shout", have you considered effectively turning it into a white label, and creating dedicated "sport" brand, etc.

If you manage to get X number of people to sign up, currently they likelihood of finding someone who wants the same thing is significantly lower than if those X people all signed up to looking for a similar thing.

Though I should imagine there is some advantage to keeping it generic to a point (sport over tennis) as someone may just be after someone to play games with, and might also be up for badminton or basketball or whatever.
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I know, that the worst part! I like Python, in fact the indentation convention makes it really nice to read, but why did they uglify it with the double underscores?
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>If you wanna have fun writing assembly language, pick a processor microarchitecture that you can comfortably fit in your head, and an environment where you'll only have to deal with one or two implementations of that microarchitecture.

For those of you who read this and want to try it out, I highly recommend the Propeller. The transistors were for the most part laid out by a single guy, using only his brain and the silicon-tracing equivalent of notepad, but it is powerful enough to run about the same applications you might find on a commodore64.

http://www.parallax.com/propeller/
> his daughter was at the school down the street. Does that really change anything?

Yes it does. It shows that what you said about a verifiable fact wasn't true.

And his daughter was over a mile away -- a long street, even by US standards.