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Very, very nice. I manage my church's website, but I don't have the time to constantly upgrade Drupal (or WP), and it looks bad. My only thing is that I have a small church, and while $25/mo seems reasonable to me, I doubt my church would go for it. They're looking for "as free as possible", to the point where I have to donate space on my own server. Also, we have an existing MX provider, but it seems like you're wanting to handle DNS (since you offer email and CDN). Do we still get access to set custom CNAME and MX records?

I guess what I'd also want in a service is something to guide me (or really, the pastors) on how to effectively use social media. We have the accounts, but they go unused because we cannot figure out what should and should not go there. I think a very valuable thing would be a portal that helps you post to those service and maybe gives you a prompt for what to do. Something like that might help justify the $25/mo for small churches. I'm thinking something like where the pastor can post a blog (devotional thoughts), and have the tool automatically prompt him to make a FB post about the blog, maybe asking a compelling question that will get you to interact. If it integrates with FB for commenting, that would be even better!

I guess my main point here is that there is a market for teaching small churches with older pastors how to properly integrate social media. The website management is a great start, but the social aspect is where we fail hard. If you can solve that problem for us in a way that integrates with the website functionality, we'd be a definite customer.

Edit: Oh yeah, the media aspect. Our church cannot afford to pay for custom graphics or images. I occasionally buy stock photography. If you had a library of images or graphics that could be used by the churches, that would be a major selling point.

Edit 2: I feel like an idiot. Just noticed you provide $50 social media training. Assuming this was comprehensive and geared to the completely non-technical, this might facilitate some of my thoughts above. Saw the banner before and thought it was training on how to work with the website.
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The best example of this is revenue per employee. Google and Apple have close to $1,000,000 revenue per employee. How many of their engineers are bringing home more than 20% of that?
So what does it take for one to differentiate themselves?
It sounded overwhelming and after quick skims on some articles about the stuff you recommended, it felt very overwhelming! But that's good I guess, I just have to push through the initial barrier most likely.

Thanks a lot!
On the other hand, I refused to use a calculator all through elementary school and high school. I figured if I couldn't learn to do basic math in my head then I'd be screwed later in life.

I don't think I'd be screwed anymore, but I'm happier having those skills without needing to rely on electronics.
Know that one of your biggest hurdles is going to be the fact that every church has a "tech guy" who will "do the website" for free.

It's a big market, but probably not easiest hill to climb.
Yea but I've been using haml for quite a while to generate markup. XML is horribly inefficient by comparison and prone to mistakes.
I know this is silly but is SHA-1 of your StackExchange username 28a0b3fe0e151fefc417ad7d526b99d726d0f319?
Yes, that's true, but when camera phones will be as good as e.g. Canon 5D Mark iii (and they will, relatively soon even) then that quality will be good enough for practically everyone. At that point only professionals need better quality.
Wow, the full moon example is really impressive.
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So keep in mind that there are two sides to this: the beaten path is boring and frivolous because it's easy. The unbeaten path is hard, if for no other reason than because it's uncommonly trod. If you are finding it difficult to deal with other people's expectations of you now, you should probably not expect that to change immediately.

Learning is obviously not the point in any of this, so try to evaluate your situation without taking it into account. You're being asked to tolerate some awful people and jump through stupid hoops. Probably not for the last time.

I've been in this situation, whatever you choose will probably not matter as much as you think it will. This is much more dramatic and momentous to you now than it will be in ten years. You will get over your high school experience, whatever that is.

I've also, in an unrelated matter, been homeless. Try not to have to worry about where/when/how you're going to eat/sleep/bathe next. It's not the most fun or productive thing you could be doing. I do recommend being thankful that you live somewhere where this is remotely an option: being homeless in, e.g. Alaska would tend to be fatal. If you have any, go live with your relatives for a while. Just being in a different place can make a lot of difference.

The essential problem of your situation is that you're wanting to do something that statistically leads to worse outcomes, and with justifications that you can essentially only guess at. And it's not a terribly informed guess either; you're too young to have any kind of experience to bring to bear on this choice. Your parents aren't wrong, nor are they stupid.

They're also not right. You have as much information as anyone can about what you want to do, and what you're capable of doing. You'll probably fuck up a lot, and you'll probably recover from it. So relax. Try and have a sense of perspective about it all -- or a sense of humor. That will help with the fuckups, trust me.

Lastly, it's a terrible thing to try to raise a smart kid, I think I'd rather be in your shoes than your parents'. Go easy on them.
What a great way to trivialize a classic film. "It's like 'Shawshank Redemption', except at the end people can reserve a table at a restaurant without calling ahead."
In Denmark the company taxation is 25%, but it is very likely that a large part of the amount is a fine for doing it, although this is just a guess.

Furthermore, when you value a company it could be that their assets are extremely high, but they at the same time have high liabilites. This (although I do not know if it was the case), could lead to a lower price for the company, than the market value of the product.
Hi there. We mention in the post that subscription and recurring are critical requirements we hear and thus important. Just as say Stripe or Braintree have good basic recurring functionality for subscriptions we too think we'll get those requests with Spreedly. In particular, there are folks that don't get to chose the gateway they work with. (There are a lot of companies that have fantastic processing rates against older, bigger gateways) Those folks can/do use Spreedly as the front end and then just drop in those credentials for that gateway to process. So recurring is key there.

What will change is marketing subscriptions directly as a stand alone product/service. It'll be rolled into our overall messaging and be much more inline with how you might see a modern gateway answer that question vs a dedicated service like Chargify, ChargeBee, Fusebill etc. Btw more to come on this topic in length in a few weeks.
Same here. I'm even more rigorous and don't keep any bookmarks at all. So far I was always able to recall from where I got a link or to whom I passed it on. So in a sense me twitter feed an my email outbox are my bookmarks.
Those restrictions do not apply if the gateway is not Indian. I can vault my card with Amazon/Google etc without any problems.

But mainly I want to bill non Indians. So the problem is finding a gateway/merchant account which can be setup by Indians from India.
Probably they used regexes to parse it. :)
Am I the only one who believes that the lean startup movement is a positive for early stage investors at the expense of true innovation and causes founders who would otherwise try tough challenges to try somewhat trivial business ideas?

It seems that the framework is designed to reduce the need for computer engineers to use business thinking and to allow for a few examples of lucky groups to float to the top, raise capital while leaving the vast majority of those who try it with nothing to show for their work.

With the strength of the movement, how many people out there are currently trying "lean startups" only to fail? What do we think the percentage of businesses that get started using this methodology would actually make a profit large enough to support/grow the business at some point in the future?

It seems that the lean startup method serves a purpose in that it helps people try stuff, but it probably is not the right approach for any real challenge.
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I can't convey to you how good this post made me feel. It's extremely reassuring to me that there's someone out there who feel the same way I do about this stuff.

And the procrastination part made me smile. I keep trying to find better and more optimized ways of learning something and I keep getting stuck at certain points. Only after I've read your post have I realized that this was just another way of procrastination (and perhaps the most insidious form of it).

Thanks billions and billions of times (hat tip to Mr. Carl Sagan) for the very kind words and the motivation!
Hahaha. Are you serious?
I agree, but part of it is that the abstraction layers most people are used to just aren't very good. For example, the way people do MVC doesn't leave a good place for logic, so it gets bound to a controller or view or model. None of which is a very good place for logic. So, people add layers, and it gets gross.

Better patters would help avoid all the layers.
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I think that the point he was trying to make is that it's illogical to have all this elements on the video.
This isn't really necessarily true, and it definitely seems like he isn't making it easier on himself. Girl dumps him after a week (breaking his heart) and four years later they're back together, he's working on forgiving her, and they've co-founded a start-up?

Any personal issues you may have with someone are going to compound under the stress of a start-up (although 20 hours a week is about the same as many other college kids with part-time jobs), try to avoid crossing the streams.
Men don't pull this stuff on other men?
It's commonly stated that 9 out of 10 security threats come from employees or other insiders. You should assume malicious employees. Sooner or later you will hire the wrong person.

Now, you must also have a functioning system, and so you may take risks by leaving things more open than you would like if you don't have the resources to thoroughly lock everything down.

But wherever locking things down further costs you very little, you should take the opportunity. And elsewhere you should asses what level of protection you can afford. Ultimately it is a cost-benefit analysis. Many risks are not worth spending money protecting against. Others are vital.

But even disregarding malicious users: Individual user accounts is not just a protection against malicious users, but against careless users. When someone sets a password that gets guessed, you want to be in a position where exploiting that persons credentials is as hard as possible, and tracking down actions taken via the account is as easy as possible.

And yes, you could insert something into a build script. But if the build script is committed, and the commit was pushed from a named, individual account, you're now at the risk of going to jail. Creating deterrents is often a sufficient risk mitigation strategy to be acceptable.
I see, but I think the same principle applies, even in this narrow case. As a server admin guy or fellow software dev guy, I have to trust that any code you've written has been properly reviewed before checking it into a repository that I pull from. Fortunately, version control tools make this trivial, but you're right, the policy and infrastructure supporting it has to be in place, otherwise you're depending only on voluntary peer review.

Note that as an attacker, there's a high risk of exposure and identification in the scenario you describe, and that's a good thing. A well secured system shouldn't merely prevent attacks, it should also protect innocent users from suspicion (another reason why shared accounts are discouraged).
When I open the site with Firefox, half of the 1-2-3 popup is over the top of the browser and therefore cannot be read. There're also various bugs with the 404 wysiwyg editor.

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Sure, as long as you remember to use

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A GoPro doesn't have the same pressures placed on its thickness that a smartphone has. It can afford to have a lens that is deeper than 5 mm while people expect phones to get thinner and thinner. A deeper lens can afford you better optical quality.
"when the problem is actually a shortage of people capable of doing jobs where it makes economic sense to employ a person"

I would argue that there's another way of looking at it, there are actually a lot less jobs that need doing that unskilled people can do. When food production and manufacturing become largely automated, and there are only so many people can go into the service industry, what happens?

It's a very difficult problem. Thankfully not one that I (as a skilled worker/business owner) am going to be on the sharp end of.
> This stuff isn't hard. It's worth doing right.

Can you provide an article as equally succinct as the OP's that provides this information? Your list is painfully devoid of anything of true value. Since it's not hard, and worth doing right, I imagine something should already be written.
I want to live in a world where I can find and talk to somebody who has not learned to write, who does not have any idea how the alphabet works, but is exceptional in some other completely unrelated field.
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Upped for giving me a chuckle in the midst of some very heated XML discussion :)
Offices are a cost center and have their own set of inefficiencies. I think Mayer was correct in "correcting" an issue at Yahoo! which is that many employees were gaming it. There is a value in face-to-face connection. We can do away with offices as long as there are community spaces (public or private) where people can connect. There is good value in finding a balance between isolation time and collaboration time. Offices might tend towards collaboration time and lose out on isolation time, while the opposite is often true with strictly home offices.
Like the article’s author, I’m a neo-Luddite. (Love that phrase.) I will be swiping my card(s) for the foreseeable future. The perceived time savings of mobile payments is not worth it to me. I have little retail/brand loyalty unless it’s based on perceived quality/value of the product/service. And I hate it when I’m the target of aggressive marketing.
of course we would, but photographers wouldn't be too impressed with only capturing 1920(?)x1080 resolution.

This gains it's light gathering abilities by simply having much larger "pixels" on the sensor, which can collect more photons. This is the same principal used on the highest end canon eos body, the 1DX, which has slightly lower resolution than the 5DmkIII in order to gain sensitivity.
Interestingly I noted that it supports 16GB DDR3 RAM. Since all current ARM cores are 32bit I wonder if they are doing some sort of bank switching to address all the RAM.
It used to be http://hackful.eu/ but that appears to be down.
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I call it an "abstraction-enabler" and also appreciate its ability to help me understand complexity. It's not something I find effective while pounding out code (alcohol neither): that's what caffeine is for.
I would like to meet the guy who decided that minimalism was better than uncompressed 1080p...
Good catch - will have to fix this tonight, thanks!
"An accelerometer isn't very useful for a tower PC, is it ?"

It is. You could use the tower in a wheel table like the Valve guys are doing, or inside any machine like cars or trucks or robots(btw I do so every single day), and they become useful for protecting hard drives, or rough sensing the movement of the car, or someone trying to steal the thing in the laboratory and activating a sound alarm.'

We use lots of accelerometers in the lab today connected to computers. I'd love to use a common API integrated in the OS for accessing them.

I would be able to rotate the screens of my arm mounted imac without having to press complex key bindings like today.
True. The messaging has changed, and good for that. Nathaniel was telling me last summer(?) that spreedly handled regular payments, not just recurring, and I found it hard to find references to that on the site, and hard to find docs at the time. It seems the opposite is true now - I'm not seeing any explicit reference to recurring billing on the quickstart page: https://core.spreedly.com/manual/quickstart
Yeah and with more of our world entrenched to use native apps and web separately, it is quite hard to show a webapp which functions on touch surface too.
You two make me laugh.

You just invented a robot that fits on the back of a horse, picking up the poop, putting street-cleaners out of business.

I don't think there's going to be a robotic shirt-folding device. More likely, shirts will be "printed" on demand. No store necessary.
Well, for starters, who says the sensors have to be in the device itself? Accelerometers would be handy in gaming devices, for instance.

I'm not positing this as a huge win for Linux, but it's not useless either. Built-in GPS would be fairly cool for a laptop, even if it's just for wardriving or something.
I couldn't agree less.

PS: I think the greatest hubris of youth is that there time is worth much, and they have any idea what they will be doing in 20 years.
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You need to adjust for inflation for one.

$1,000 in 2002 correspond to $1,280 in 2013 (+28%) as an example.

You are comparing 5.8 billion 2013-kroner with 10.8 billion 2002-kroner.
Looks great. Good luck, and I've bookmarked the blog to keep up with it.
It's fairly clear that this has very little do do with process and bureaucracy and everything to do with corruption.

Looks to me like the price has been inflated by 2 - 3 orders of magnitude, possibly 4. This isn't adding a margin to cope with certification.
Too bad the whole camera business wasted a huge amount of resouces over ten years on a stupid tinier and tinier pixels race.
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The question we're addressing here is if there is economic harm in bootlegging object code for a system that is no longer manufactured. Arcade hardware applies just as much as console hardware, even moreso since the arcade machines were produced in quantities much lower than the catridges for popular home consoles. The response being mentioned in the grandfather comment was if owning a copy of the original object code on chips satisfies the copyright concerns. If you own the original game, then you should be able to sleep soundly at night that you're not stealing from the author of the game.

Namco (& Midway in the USA) stopped making these arcade machines 30 years ago. One could easily argue that that is WAY out of production and there's no possible way Namco could be harmed by bootlegging Pac-Man ROMs into a MAME cabinet and placing it into a Chuck-E-Cheese.

But, lo and behold!, Namco is making arcade equipment and selling it again. There's definitely an economic impact now.
Apparently some Marvell CPUs have 64-bit address extension http://www.marvell.com/embedded-processors/armada-xp/
Santayana said "[even] In the best schools, most time is wasted...", but frankly I don't think that anyone has come up with a better system.
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> "Securing" ssh with a VPN is just one step beyond of security by obscurity.

You're not securing ssh with a vpn. You're adding another layer. ssh is still secured by all of ssh's existing protection.

ssh behind a vpn requires that someone both compromise the vpn _and_ compromise the ssh service to gain that access that, without a vpn, would require them to only compromise the ssh service.
Given the choice between 24 MP with very high sensitivity or 2 MP with ridiculously high sensitivity, I'm not sure the industry is wrong.
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A UK expert of sorts covered this very well. Watch [0] or read a spoiler full review [1] or google for more reviews

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/black-mirror/episode-guid...
http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/12/19/review-of-black-mi...
Hey thanks! So far, I have just sent out emails to a few churches. I want to take it pretty slow so I can easily adjust to what customers want and changes I need to make. I have a relatively long list of churches, blogs, church networks and ministers to contact. Locally speaking, I plan on going to several churches and making a pitch in person.

Technically, I launched a week ago today and I don't have any paying customers yet. I have several who registered for a free site though.
Which is good.
Yes, stackscripts are a great way to take advantage of automation. :-)
RABL does a pretty decent job at generating XML too.
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How does this prediction jibe with the statement that a larger sensor will always be beneficial, especially in low light?

Will smartphones be able to include much larger sensors in the future?

Is there some new physics that obviates the need for a large sensor?

The 5D Mark III has > 24x the sensor area of an iPhone 5, and most smartphones are even worse off [0] [1]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_large_sensor_interchang...
[1] http://www.chipworks.com/blog/recentteardowns/2012/09/21/app...
"If you fail, all your efforts add up to nothing. "

Disagree with this. Even if you fail, you have learnt a lot and you will get another chance to try it. In case of Andy, he probably would not have got another chance. Big difference.
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This is terrible. Never let developers log into servers. The output from your devs are commits.
I'm looking for a tablet device where the graphics drivers are open source, or there are decent reverse engineered open source drivers. So far the list is very short: buy Intel HD graphics hardware.

The problem you raise is exactly why I'm so picky for graphics accelerators: they are most often what is stopping me from upgrading the kernel on a system, and I want to upgrade the kernel/distribution.

I'm not sure about the state of open-source AMD drivers, so if anyone can testify about their graphics drivers, I would appreciate it.
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Horrible comparison. Software development could hardly be further from working on a farm. Farm is physically demanding but not remotely mentally so. Move hay from the barn to the cattle feeding areas. Sow this part with the currently planned plants, etc. It will wear you out physically but your body will get used to that and you can push yourself quite far. By contrast, if your mind won't work on a problem anymore then no amount of pleading, begging, yelling, etc. will force it to.

Software development is closer to writing fiction novels. Now how many fiction authors do you know of who write 40+ hours per week for months on end? Has it ever been done at all?