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Highly depends on your workflow and the hardware you've chosen. If you're developing locally and have the $249 Samsung Chromebook, it only comes with 2GB RAM and 16GB disk soldered onboard, so things are going to get pretty tight.
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Yes, I know there's a strong selection bias in who I hear about. That's why I'm extremely curious to find even one data point on the other side. If you have one, please share!
We did get rejected from Hyperdrive. It was pretty early on, however - last Spring.
I'm pretty sure pg has an essay about this using writing as an example. It goes something like "If you want to be a writer, you need to find time to write." Or something like that. I know for startup founders, and most other creative professionals, it's the same story: Find a way to work on the projects that matter to you. Maybe that means you get passed up for promotion at your current job, but you're not at your current job to climb the ladder anyway.

Edit: Found it. http://www.paulgraham.com/love.html
The fact that Bitcoin has flourished despite numerous high profile incidents of theft and fraud, the relative difficulty associated with buying and selling them, and the rather unsavory nature of many of its most popular uses today, is a testament to its long-term viability as a currency. The Bitcoin ecosystem has a long way to go before it is considered mainstream, but I believe its long-term success is almost inevitable at this point.

The price would likely be even higher right now if Bitinstant, once one of the most popular and easy ways to obtain Bitcoins, hadn't had serious financial and technical issues over the last two weeks. Here's hoping they get their issues sorted.
Wasn't there something similar on Kickstarter? I remember the video being of a young group of guys.

edit: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mbs348/diaspora-the-pers...
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This is also a bit different from Kickstarter - we're not actually taking any money up front. But it's a tool to show and estimate demand, and get potential user feedback before a product is fully manufactured and ready to ship. This way we'll be able to work with thousands of developers early on before the units ship.
It leads to value instability as bubbles form and pop. In theory the total value of bit coins in circulation is not all that important to an individual however price instability is a major downside so deflation does hurt adoption.
Currently bitcoin supply is inflationary because 25 bitcoins are created every 10 minutes, and a similar amount will be generated for decades.

True, this amount is set to decrease to 0 eventually. However, with some planning conceivably this could be changed, as long as the majority of bitcoin users agree it should be changed.
It is a coy answer to the question. Currency is a good, like anything else. An economic agent (human) trades currency for some other good precisely when that currency becomes less valuable to that individual than the good.
This has its own sets of biases. Working on a startup with nothing coming of it only works until you're tapped out. How many founders do you know would just remain broke when they run out of money vs doing the rational thing which is getting a job or whatever to get back to supporting life's basic necessities?
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No, removing all the spam is not going to recover the community that fled long ago.
This is some advice from "The Elements of Typographic Style" that is often better to ignore on the web. Vertical rhythm is mostly unimportant EXCEPT when you have text printed back-to-back on paper (you must ensure every line of text aligns so that bleed through isn't as distracting), or when you have multiple columns of text or facing pages. That is, it is really important for books and newspapers.

Notice that the links in the left-hand column do not use the same vertical rhythm so the baselines of the links do not align with the baselines of the main text. That is the type of bad effect that vertical rhythm is supposed to help avoid. But, I bet most visitors didn't notice it and weren't bothered by it.

Most implementations of "vertical rhythm" on the internet for a single column of text result in vertical gaps that are unnecessarily large. That is, implementing this concept is often counter-productive for must web pages. Notice in this blog post that there is too much space about the "Getting to work" heading, for example.
You're suffering quality problems because you went with a bad laptop. Zenbook Primes are good but other Zenbooks are not.
That's what scared me. Seriously, for a company like this, a Chief Science Officer must have a PhD. And there needs to be a Chief Medical Officer that is an MD (possibly the same person).

Starting a company like this with med students (I'm sure she's nice, but the VP of
Biology hasn't even finished her MD yet), is not the way to do this. It's a way to get sued.

So while the goals may be good, this is not the way to do it.
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The key problem with Google Now is that you have to remember to look at it, and so, most people don't get the benefit as much as they should. The act of having to physically remove the phone, unlock it, to see contextual Now card notifications IMHO is a transaction cost that makes it less likely you'll use it effectively.

You need to be able to see and dismiss a contextual notification within a second, like a warning light in a cockpit. It should be effortless and almost second nature.

That's one reason why the glass, or going further, direct-mind-machine interface, would be better - speed. Latency matters. I am often deterred by the time it takes to unlock a phone to perform an action. For example, I once witnessed a car accident and wanted to snap a picture, but it took too long to get my phone out, and I missed the moment. Other times, I want to translate something I'm looking at, but bringing up an app to do it is just too annoying. Look at the way the characters in Star Trek the Next Generation call on the computer to answer questions as if it is always just there for the asking. That's the kind of responsiveness you want.

I think a lot of people assume that a device that sits on your face would be "always on", constantly distracting you, but I'd argue that the ideal device is one that is out of your way, but activates extremely quickly on demand, or contextually as appropriate, like a subconscious subroutine or personal assistant.

Too much effort I think is focused on immediate mass mainstream adoption. It's as if, you can't have an iPhone level sales volume, it's not even worth doing. But there are lots of things worth doing that the masses don't necessarily adopt out of the gate. Someone needs to lay the foundation that the future is built on, that other people can build on. Google Glass doesn't need to "kill" the iPhone to succeed.
Can someone tell me if I should invest in this right now or not or did I miss the boat and I should just move on?
Yes, this is still very premature, and more of a learning project for me.

I know about no support for folders, I didn't have time to fix that yet, but I will!

Virtual enviornment is interesting, I will look into that.

* It does check for alterations actually then uploads the altered file, look at the main loop in the client.

The way I am sending files now is awful! I plan on fixing all thos, thank you for the response. :)
There is something to be said about creating a product people can relate to.
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I have to chime in and completely agree. Very lucky. Most people who survive for years at companies have learned to either stay out of sight, or navigate the Treacherous Waters of Blame whenever things go wrong.

This is actually one of the things most employees who have never been managers don't understand.
I think the interesting thing that this highlights about php, perhaps especially for people who've never worked in it, is the fact that php is an extremely rare example of a scripting language that has value semantics for complex objects.

I've always found that an interesting choice.
Good luck to you. I hope that you come up with a worthwhile project that you can learn a ton with.

But, you it probably shouldn't have been submitted to the wolves in this state :).
How about taking inspiration from D&B[1]?

Don't charge for link removal; charge for priority link removal. Same day service: $1,000 per link. One week: $500. Etc.

Free link removal: First-come, first-serve at your own leisurely pace.

Sell the old forum to someone else and let them handle the requests.

BTW, PocoMail was a godsend back in the day. Thanks.

[1]:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4994246
> It got so discouraging that Lee reportedly contemplated learning computer science so he could find a job during this time, but was scolded by his wife when she found out, telling him to keep his focus.

Tragic...we came so close to having Ang Lee be a programmer!

I guess it's a small consolation that he's one of my favorite directors ever.
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I can give you two I know about personally. An ISP that couldn't afford the transition to a post dial-up world, sold its user base off for a pittance. Not really worth the six years.

The other was a fairly niche data processing startup in a several billion dollar niche. 10 years in and they missed the boat migrating their front end to the browser and moving their back end off of windows.

Couldn't even sell off the source code in the end.
Haha, blast from the past, I remember reading that. First, congrats! Second, has anything significantly changed since you wrote that?
Obviously I love bootstrap otherwise I wouldn't be building Jetstrap. But really, bootstrap is an extremely solid framework, and you can do a ton of customizations to make it look completely non-default (for example, our designer built our company site in a day with bootstrap+jetstrap which looks completely customized: http://drifty.co/).

You will implement the same structures if you don't use it, so you might as well take advantage of the framework and invest in a nice custom design.
If she knows who's not logging in to the VPN, then fire them.

Why would you want those people coming in to the office?

Fire them.

Don't punish the responsible people. And if the managers don't know which ones those are, fire them and replace them with their underlings.
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You've got it all wrong. The domain refers to the company that Steve Jobs founded when he was first kicked out of Apple in the 80's. The company name is actually spelt like this, "NeXT" Apple purchased the company back in 1996 which is why the domain points to the Apple site.
Interesting; I don't have the same take. If the OP's assertion is true, then he's referencing an under-recognized study of critical importance. If it's just hyperbole sitting on top of truth (whether due to an incorrect recollection or otherwise), that's a big problem.

Claims that have some truth to them, but which are not correct, are both endemic to and hazardous in healthcare. I will argue that in this type of conversation, claims of fact that are disputed but ultimately unsupported must be taken to be false until shown otherwise.

(The fulltext of the article that you found doesn't use the terms "SSRI", "medication", "drug", or "therapy", but I haven't read it in depth to see if they're using some unusual synonyms.)
Haha, thank you sir! And don't worry, I take pleasure in feeding the wolves. :p
I think that's a good question in general, and to answer you sincerely someone cannot tell you that. It's anyone's gamble.

Look at Apple: http://goo.gl/6hZfI

People felt like they "missed the boat" in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012. Seriously.

And none of them had any concrete way of knowing that it would continuously impress year over year.

...Or that it would go from 700 to 450 in the last six months.
If you can explain in the readme how to set this up for first usage it would great.
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archive.org[1] shows that the URL has redirected to apple.com since at least 2007. There are no entries between 2001 and 2007, but the last one for 2001 has a delayed redirect to apple.com/enterprise. This delayed redirect to the apple.com domain took place sometime between February and December 1998. Before that, next.com just loaded Apple Enterprise content.

The last pre-acquisition snapshot is from April 18, 1997: http://web.archive.org/web/19970418052856/http://www.next.co...

1: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://next.com
Sounds like Firefox OS. Yes, Google should do that.
Ang Lee was, even after 5 years of failure. I have heard of quite a few people in other industries (namely entertainment and art) that just failed to make it and would have been better served having spent that time pursuing something else. I've never heard of an example in tech startups though.

I would love to run a controlled experiment. Unfortunately we can't force people to do anything, so we never really can eliminate people's choices as a confounding variable.

I can give you one data point from my own experience. We committed to creating a company for two years no matter what happened. After a year and a half, there's no question it was the right choice. If I had chosen to do something else like high frequency trading, programming at a large company, or grad school, the likely outcome would not be on the same level as where we're at now. Even our worst case scenario, selling for a talent acquisition, ends up ahead of those other options.
Probably not all that different as a trial of self-belief, though the money for screenwriting is a lot lower until you finally "break in".

You might make some money along the way if you option a script, but probably not more than a few thousand or so.
Unfortunately, that's completely incompatible with being the CEO of a growing company that prides itself on support and puts its (that is, my) phone number on the website.

Also, this is a bit blaming the victim. My phone is for productive conversations I want to have, not a direct line into my soul for parasites.
Yeah, I should clarify that I meant you could do it if you control whether they're released under DRM or not. If a group of indie developers wanted to pool together and run an experiment, they could do it in a way that was really informative about its effect on revenues (the conclusions might not hold up if you tried to extrapolate too far beyond indie games though).

I agree that the existing data aren't much like the random experiment I was talking about.
The real question is, what will happen to Tinychat after Google hangouts?
For the rest of your life, no matter how old you are, if you want to do something then fucking do it.

Here endeth the lesson.
What about Chaos Monkey?
> perhaps especially for people who've never worked in it

At my last job, one of our interview questions for an experienced PHP programmer was "What makes PHP arrays different or unique, from a computer science point of view?" Not a single one ever got anywhere close to the right answer (that they're ordered hash tables, not arrays).

Pretty sure this applies to by-value and by-reference semantics too.
> If you stick with it, you'll be successful. It doesn't matter where you come from, who your parents are, what you know, who you know, or how you look. All that is required is a choice

I'm going to present a different picture of the world. I think it's a more accurate one. Not necessarily more useful.

There is no such thing as a guarantee of success -- at least, for a definition of success that includes broad recognition and financial rewards. No choice you can make, no enduring commitment, no talent you develop or have inborn can guarantee that "whatever it takes" will actually be enough in the end.

Determination, focus, talent, and years of effort may make you a success. They will markedly improve your chances, possibly even make them quite good. And shedding them or neglecting to cultivate them will all but guarantee failure.

But they're still no guarantee. And that's why the central message of the article about the intrinsic rewards is so important. Because in the end, the only reward you can keep for sure is the one that you take for yourself in terms of being satisfied with how you spend your time and the work that you've done.
No. But if Ferrari a) had no dealerships in your country, and provided no legal way for you to import, and/or b) decided they would only sell their $150k cars to owners of $1M houses, then (assuming you don't own a $1M house) they'd be refusing to sell to you. And in that circumstance, if there existed some way for you to acquire a free Ferrari in a way that didn't involve taking value away from anyone else, but in fact helped advertise the Ferrari name, then both you and Ferrari would benefit from your doing so.

Of course, this is an absolutely ridiculous metaphor because physical property and intellectual property are very different things. When I steal physical X, the owner doesn't have X anymore. When I pirate intellectual X, the owner still has X. There are plenty of reasonable arguments in favor of IP protection and against piracy -- and those arguments can be and have been made on HN -- but given how well-established that basic distinction is, whenever you equate piracy with stealing physical objects you're essentially giving up any pretense of discussing these issues in good faith.
Are you saying that inflationary currency is the root cause of an economy geared towards consumption.
I doubt age has anything to do with it. Poor fit with your learning style is far more likely.
Genuine question, how do you know when to continue/slog and when to stop?
In addition to the already mentioned quotes and biography, Apple had nearly 30 years of research in the space [1]; you've probably heard of the (failed) Newton. At some point in 200x, they decided to try one more time, this time as a smartphone. It kind of worked.

[1] http://blogs.wundrbooks.com/apple-their-tablet-computer-hist...
Should have the client use fnotify or similar.
The companies failed, but did the founders end up worse off than if they had been random engineers at Microsoft?
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Yes, all those fat/average-looking white men stealing their roles.
Your server request handlers could use decorators for checking if the user is logged in.

Here is an example decorator: https://github.com/kamalgill/flask-appengine-template/blob/m...

In use: https://github.com/kamalgill/flask-appengine-template/blob/m...
they probably need this functionality..
The author needs to rid himself of using any os.system post haste. Just say no.
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Here's the direct link for the Baidu English-language developer center: http://developer.baidu.com/en/
Anyone join any mining pools lately now that prices are increasing? I figured there would be a pretty serious drop after the 50 to 25 drop, but there seems to be some dedicated miners still out there. Looks like brand new FPGA boxes are coming out for it as well.
Is White Plains the Palo Alto of the Northeast? There seem to be a disproportionate amount of intelligent people doing new and exciting things from that town.

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Don't forget the Handspring Visors and Compaq iPAQs that could be turned into smartphone-equivalents with the appropriate add-ons. Those came even earlier.
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Props on PocoMail comment :)
Your assertion that it isn't a slippery slope is subjective, as is my assertion that it is. Both viewpoints are valid.

However, I reject your solution. It's my machine, I want it to be a pleasant experience to develop on, I don't want to memorize a workarounds for a bunch of trivial problems that I have to apply to every machine I use.

I'm taking the defensive position of not investing too much of my time in their products because I think they will remove access to those folders, or lock down on application installs, or otherwise make the experience wretched for me sometime in the future.
yes i fully agree with your points but it's still two vulns

1) detecting URL by assigning hash + onload (iframe)

2) detecting URL by assigning hash + timing of history (window)

i just made it work for both frame/window this way
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Did anyone else first see this http://i.imgur.com/kglXUKw.png or this http://i.imgur.com/KxRY9Vo.png and immediately laugh out loud like I did?
It's never too late to start learning anything.
it would look very ugly...
Komodo IDE 7. Seriously the best IDEA I've ever used for dynamic languages. Their CodeIntel (think intellisense for Php) is worth it alone.
Are you sure its not proof that there's a huge market for an internet based currency and despite all of bitcoin's issues it is still growing?
Wow, that talk is fantastic. I think a lot of it applies to regular web interaction design, too, except that there you probably need to be more subtle.
it's easy to judge
i had a typo in PoC, now it clearly works
Alan Kay is a voice that we need to listen more...
we are distracted from the fact that our current Industry generates a lot of money...
too look at the fact that our Craft is in the pyramid construction age.... we need real architecture and real engineering.
This company sucks. You are out of college and doing the first job. Are these stupid enough to give you direct access to production database? if they are making millions in revenue where was there DBAs? Obviously the management got what they deserved. Its unfortunate that it happened through you.
> If the result, one way or another, would not change management, the test is not worth running

That's got some rationality to it, but how do you value the impact to the patient of simply having an answer? I know people who've broken down and cried with relief when they finally knew what was wrong and the search was over, even though it just meant a lifetime of living with the disease for them.
Yeah, I am not saying it is. I am just saying that it was the reason I began using chrome extensively and slowly, exclusively.
Critics keep saying that there is no incentive to spend it. But all the numbers indicate that there is increased spending: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5296889 Therefore, no, I do not think it will cause its downfall. I guess people are irrational and still spend bitcoins despite knowing about deflation.
No offense taken. 2 comments, though:

1. fofou.org hosts the forum for my SumatraPDF site, which is 33,279 in Alexa. I think that's enough of a target, more than most forums out there.

2. I don't think it's productive to bring top 1000 websites into this particular discussion. OP's forum wasn't that popular and most forums, by definition, won't be either.

Once you're there you're playing a completely different game and at that level you should have resources to win it. I don't see spam on Wikipedia, StackExchange, Quora, HN etc. When there's will, there's a way to fight spam.
You will be hiring 200 RIM engineers next year if there aren't delays and problems.
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