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There was a clog in the sewer line near a cleanout valve.

This sounds like the cleanout is on the sewer customer's property.

The City has full access to our property at all times to
test the sewer line. At any time, officials could have
entered our property to find the source of the overflow.

Not in Texas, they don't. The city water/sewer department or sewage treatment company (or district) does not have right of entry into a property unless invited by the subscriber. The subscriber has the duty to ensure that the equipment on his or her property is functioning as designed. That is why laws requiring water sprinkler backflow valves are enforced at the junction between the city's water pipe and the customer's water pipe. The city or supply company shut off the valve on their side of the pipe. Property demarcation is a huge thing in Texas.

The city of Dallas apparently knew
there was a problem on December 9th, but allowed it to
continue and did not notify us until 41 days later when
government agencies served search warrants.

This I can believe (I mean, lolcityofdallas amirite?) but it does not absolve the property owner of liability for failure to maintain the sanitary sewer connection on his property.

The city maintains a box on our sewer line that has for
years monitored the amount of waste water going through
the line and the substances contained in the waste
water. The city monitors this locked box on its own
schedule.

And when your sewer bill was half of what it should be, this didn't raise any eyebrows? If there's one thing Dallas Water Utilities does shockingly well, it's collect money from ratepayers.

I think that sending in the mod squad and filing charges was overkill. The Trinity has been used and abused for decades and people are just now trying to clean it up, so it doesn't shock me that TCEQ and Dallas dropped the hammer on this fellow.
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Time for GNUPedia again?
I love your food. I've had it a few times between I think Off the Grid (?) and when you've catered at GREE. Its definitely a long shot, but please feel free to e-mail me (email is in my profile) the best way to contact you and I can put you in touch with some people at GREE who handle our food. Maybe we can extend a lifeline. I'm sure many who work at GREE would be more than happy to have your food more often :)
No prob. I just shared your link on both of my Twitter accounts and on G+. I'll push it out a few more times over the next few days, and share it via a few other channels as well.

Best of luck to you!
Yes, but that is not solved by the above, for that all email infrastructure in the world need to be changed.
Anyhow its awesome .
OP Here. Apologies for not being able to keep the link up. Should be up now. :)
I see what you are going for with this post, but the idea seems to be too close to the already popular "Who is Hiring" posts. I know that the difference is that you want to target recent graduates, but they are technically in the same job market as the (generally) more experienced people.

With all of that aside, I appreciate what you are aiming to do - get more job offers and opportunities in the hands of recent graduates. There are a few great programs that exist to do just this already. One that I found to be quite interesting:

http://www.university.firstround.com/

They are accepting applications until March 5th!
-- I don't like the blurb on your web site.

Satay, a dish of marinated skewered and grilled meats served with sauce, originated in Indonesia in the 19th century, invented by street vendors after an influx of immigrants to the country made it popular among locals.

-- Who originated it? Immigrants to Indonesia? Emigrants from Indonesia? I'm really confused.

Staying true to our Indonesian roots, my grandmother created a unique family receipe we could call our own and have passed that receipe down through the family for generations.

-- "Generations" usually means more than 2.

-- These are small things, but if you redo your website at some point, you might want to be somewhat more clear and credible.
Maybe for you lucky US people.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/KB_German...
> It takes a lot of effort to make an atomic bomb seem humane, and somehow World War II manages to do it

Apparently not a lot of effort for you.
First, I hope your business recovers. Most of us entrepreneurs have been where you are, its tough.
Second, if you intend to act on the excellent advice you've gotten here, I would appreciate a followup post on the results, maybe in a couple of weeks from now; marketing is definitely something I'm trying to get better at.
We have more people who graduate with degrees in dance than we do people who graduate with degrees in mathematics.

This is not true. Dance programs are extremely small and one can join by audition only. The U of MN only has about 10 dance majors per year. In contrast they graduate about 100 math majors per year. I know this because I'm from MN and majored in math, and my girlfriend majored in dance. You can verify actual stats on the U of MN website somewhere.

We have more art and history museums than we have science and engineering museums

This is also incorrect, there are 140 art museums in the US and over 400 science "museums" , if you count the following as museums: planetariums, kid's science centers, imaginariums, aquariums and the like. I know this cuz I once worked at a company that sold software installations to both art museums and science museums. (Not really a great business to be in with few potential customers and loads of competition). You can probably verify the numbers with data from Wikipedia.
I think the worst bit and the bit which may have lead to a lot of deaths was the shitty handling of the camps by the US and European allies.

A relative of mine, a German civilian but not a sympathizer was employed to deliver supplies to the camps. According to him, after the war supplies were cut by the allies and people were left to starve to death. People were so hungry they were eating their clothes. Those camps by then contained both nazi and civilian prisoners mixed together as well resulting in murders, violence and factions of prisoners.

There's as much evil on both sides if you ask me. The whole thing was a complete mess from end to end.

Only the victors get to put pen to page. The victors also pretty much legislated against debating anything other than the official stories.

Note: I'm not denying anything, but some things have gone unsaid. When you're not allowed to talk, faith is required and faith is inadequate in this day and age.
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> people choose to label you as a foreigner because you cook ethnic food, so you lose branding credibility.

This part makes no sense.
Creativity is certainly distinct from technical proficiency. However, much research has been done on creativity, and the consensus is that it can be taught and learned.

The compulsion or "drive" to create is something else, and perhaps that is more innate. I'm not sure what the research says about this, actually.

Certainly a lot of people "want" to be creative, just as they may "want" to write a novel. But few want to put in the hard work to make it (writing the novel) happen. Being "creative" is also hard work. Especially when you have to do it consistently and over a long period of time. Relatively few are compelled or driven to do so.
IBM are just as bad now. UK surveillance, supplying massive US defence companies. You name it. Nasty bunch.
That is the next debt crisis coming up. Only difference... normal people don't get bailouts.
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I don't disagree, but I dislike the reasoning.

If you truly believe in art (or engineering or plumbing), you do it for yourself, make it happen regardless of whatever "big societal shifts" that may happen in the next 30 years.

Don't over-calculate the future.
ok...if the story is true or not..I believe the message there trying to get across is more important. For example who questioning the whole deal must treat people as bad as the other stores treated the "deaf" kids...
First congratulations on beating the odds :)

he was not Jewish and was born in Massachusetts in 1916. He apparently told them left and right he was a US citizen

Could he prove that he was an American or maybe Americans weren't that popular by then either?
What do you rather have: $300 for a 'toy' drone that might do the job, or $200 mln. on routers that definitively do the job (and stand idle 99% of the time)? I love how they would run a test on cheap hardware.
As a counterpoint; a last project I wrote in college was a machine learning algorithm. By a rough comparison it was on the order of 10000 times faster in C++ than the preexisting matlab implementation. The cause was that the performance bottleneck was not in large matrix operations; instead, there were lots of iterative updates until convergence; this meant small vectors; a C++ template-based matrix library such as Eigen ends up inlining almost all of it into one no-allocation dense bit of math the traditional optimizer can milk for every last bit.

And it's not just about static/dynamic language differences here: practically, JIT might even do better by specializing the algorithm for a particular dimensionality, whereas that's impractical in C++ since you don't know the dimensionality until runtime.

Now, sometimes you can reduce your algorithm to some large-scale eigenvalue decomposition or whatever, and then numpy or similar might provide reasonable performance. But it's not a very general solution because performance on small structures is terrible (and iterative simple updates are common in many algorithms). JITted code relying on some underlying native library (like numpy) could never extract reasonable performance from this type of code; it would be forced to make many, many function calls in the innermost loop.
The real problem is that no one teacher is "the best" for all students. What would be brilliant to see is testing which types of presentation styles, speakers or ways of explaining concepts resonate with individual students and giving them a personalised education, no matter which class they get put in each year.

A huge step forward indeed.
Thanks. I will do my best and post again.
I think this sort of story is surprisingly common. Most of our knowledge of such things is derived from films and books written by the victors (don't forget the UK government had a propaganda wing for WWII until the 1970s). These promote the nazis as well organised and ruthless.

In fact, much as most design by committee systems are, the nazi regime was a bit of an incompetent mess with holes left right and centre.

If you ever meet a Jew who is willing to discuss it, they usually have a relative or two who escaped to a more friendly country.
Thank you for your suggestions. When I can afford to do so, I will have it redone. I know it needs vast improvement. In the meantime I'm going to focus on getting as many customers as I can on foot and through reaching out to people online hoping I can pass this storm.
Considering that Yahoo has products ranging all the way from horoscopes to web hosting — this does not feel enough.
https://www.paymill.com/. There's been some criticism of them elsewhere in this thread, though. I don't have any experience with them myself.
Thank you so much. I will do so right now. I truly appreciate this.
He's none of Been - he just knows when he's beaten :)
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Not sure though if most of the people would find ethically acceptable to actively murder 250000 random people in order save some from cruelties.

You already mentioned the US and Japanese military deaths had we had to invade the island. It's also likely that more than 250,000 civilians would have died during that invasion. Largely different people would have died, and Truman had to "play God" but I believe that millions of lives were saved. His options sucked.
Excuse me for stating the obvious but [citation needed].

Apologies to good HNers for feeding the troll here, but I've always been curious about how holocaust deniers could have the balls to carry through with their opinions despite a preponderance of evidence to the contrary.
>That "left brain/right brain" business is the stupidest, most egregious display of a lack of understanding of basic neuroscience.

This is the first thing that I wanted to say, and I'm glad to see it already represented in this thread. The only myths that get to me as much as perpetuation of the Left- vs. Right-brained business are statements that assume a zero-sum model of economics/trade, or statements that imply a 1:1 mapping of specific genes to specific functions/physical traits.

It's a more academic version of "So are you a dog person, or a cat person? Oh you're X? That means, you like to Y and and hate it when people Z!"

Getting past that and allowing the neuromyth as a metaphor for "creative" versus "process-oriented", there are still all sorts of issues that I take with that sort of one-dimensional categorization being placed on a person.
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good. There is nothing I hate more than having to sign in to yahoo for something such as a support group for a bit of software or freecycle. Its just horrid from end to end.
All that setup and no "very very frightening" joke?!
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For lots of data sets, and that includes many so-called I/O-bound datasets. Don't forget that a lot of I/O is very fast nowadays: if you're reading 100's of MB from the disk a second, you can't spend much time on the CPU processing each byte before the CPU becomes the bottle - you have on the order of 10-100 of clock cycles a byte, no more. Simple things like decoding utf-8 and checksumming can take a significant portion of this time, and that's before you're parsing anything. (Hence stuff like protocol buffers...)

If you're trying to make a fast program you obviously avoid too much expensive I/O. You can't avoid some latency, but you can often avoid a lot, and cache a lot, and place the rest closer to the consumer.

When you say I/O dominated, are you sure you don't mean: interactive website? Because I think the real saving grace there is that's it's OK for websites to be very slow - from the perspective of a CPU. It's not that the I/O needs to take a lot of time, it's that you have 100ms (and that's before ajax and relatives, which can hide even more latency), and you just don't need a lot of optimization to get into that restriction. And once you have, the difference between 100ms and 1ns just doesn't matter nearly as much; so sure, then you start to accept very inefficient I/O setups even though much more efficient ones could be readily available.
I hope they do close it - its useless unless you are dredging for comedy.

Citation for the downvoters: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110910190628AA...
Speak about Python and Ruby.

Javascript is insanely fast, with V8 and its ilk.

And I'm not talking about "toy benchmarks" either, I'm talking about envolved stuff written in plain JS (no C extensions), from the QT port to JS/Canvas, to the h264 encoder and such. Try doing those on Python and you'll see what you get. And of course all the toy benchmarks also agree.

Javascript with v8 is like a faster PyPy (with less performance deviation): 10 to 20 times faster than plain Python code.

Sure, you can extend Python with fast C code. But as the core languages are concerned, JS beats CPython hands down. (Oh, and you can also extend JS with fast C/C++ code if you need that. Node modules do it all the time).
So TypeEngine (a company I didn't know existed) got free publicity from Arment himself ?

Pretty clever...
Get traffic, make the author look good, make Apple look good, ???, profit.

C'mon.
>Meh, MEH. I'm almost never waiting on my python code. I'm waiting on network or disk or database or joe to check in his changes or etc.

Meh, MEH. That's because you don't do anything involved with your Python code.

>I'm sure there are people who do wait. But that's why numpy, c extensions, all the pypy, psycho, and similar things exist.

That they HAVE to exist could also be considered a sad state of affairs though. With a faster language you would just use the language, not external extensions and tricks.
Just a friendly suggestion, if you want people to follow your link to "historical established fact" use a URL:
1) that isn't to a movie or TV show
2) that doesn't include "Oliver Stone" in the text
And I was hoping for a small surface to air missile system :)

I'm considering spending some time on an anti drone technology startup. I have some ideas.
Thanks for your suggestions. We did Satays because it was a family recipe and customers loved our food back when I first started out as a solo guy selling on the streets. From there I expanded the menu around this. I do not know much about cooking to be honest and I think what we have, customers currently love. While I realize we could tangent off to other foods, thats not really our business or goal. We want to grow our current business to reach more customers. Those that have tried us have in the past re-ordered (but this was all through the catering agencies). We are now working to go direct.

Our goal is not to become another catering agency. Our goal is to grow our business to cater to as many companies that will have us. I think its important to focus at what we're good at and I firmly believe in this model.

We have considered selling Satays frozen and ship it but that isn't easy and there is a lot of issues around this. We can't ship cooked food due to lots of regulations and laws. Its an incredibly difficult path as we have considered in the past (before the current pivot) to be the Omaha Steaks of Satays or be in stores like Costco. I have explored both extensively and landed to the conclusion that the business we are doing now was the best for our future.

We have had a few press coverage in the past to be honest but I don't know how much that has helped us as a whole. Especially since we have pivoted but I will reach out to them again soon.

We did do festivals and events before and it was very hit or miss and the total revenue was actually less than what we were doing now.

No race tracks nearby that I can think of. I am definitely going to do a meetup as well as reach out to current meetups soon. Not sure if there are many movie productions that are around here but we are definitely open to any business that would love catering.

Our menu is tiny so we don't have an overly complex menu at the moment. We started on the street with just Satays and expanded the menu there before pivoting twice to the current model. Our customers have definitely been satisfied with our food, it really is more about reaching out I believe.

I greatly appreciate you taking out the time to offer suggestions and will look at the other stuff mentioned. I am willing to try anything at this point and will think it over for future implementation if we survive long enough. Above all, I appreciate your kind words. Thank you.
Pivotmania.
Yahoo is a content company, no matter what label she gives them now. They need content.
What these platforms are trying to insinuate is that — the iPad can become a platform like Wordpress.com! "Create a blog in minutes" is the equivalent of "create a magazine app in minutes" here.
Sure it is anthropomorphism. That is just one of the ways in which a bunch of loser tree-monkeys make sense of a world in which they can send a robot to a different planet.
Thank you soooo much.
As a non American, is US student debt repayment linked to income? Or is it a more typical type of debt that could swallow up incomes in the event of deflation?

Here in the UK, you have to earn over the equivalent of $26k per year to start paying it back and then it's 9% of your income over that. I believe it is then written off after 30 years. So the risk of a crisis in this version of the system is low since the terms are so generous.
Have you seen any of the Kitchen Nightmares UK episodes? They're all on YouTube. (Not the U.S. version, it's terrible.) A lot of the episodes have at least one part where Ramsay gets out and puts samples in front of people ... I'm not even in the food business and I find these things helpful to watch from time to time for learning customer engagement.
I find it quite handy and it can quite trivially be disabled if you don't like it. Not sure what's not to like.
My opinion: bandwidth

The lightning connector doesn't have enough bandwidth to drive a HDMI connexion directly

Of course, compressing (inside the iPad) for streaming, sending this through a limited bandwidth channel and then decompressing is complicated, but looks like it's the easiest solution (because all components - especially sw ones - are off the shelf)

It's like a mini Raspberry-pi in that adaptor, amazing! (if not slightly overpriced)
A promising start is when they sell them and lots of them and people start dropping good reviews.

With Firefox OS around and with a brand name more people recognise, I doubt they will get anywhere.

I mean even Microsoft have had to work hard to get their stuff on the market.
If ever a time comes when one could sustainably make money selling art

Now is that time.

Poetry is another thing altogether, but more visual artists are making more money right now than they ever have at any other point in history.
Aren't server and client not now merged with tiered compilation in Hotspot?
Fully agree. Only when C goes away we have the possibility to have more secure software.
Your 80% is based on what exactly? A tiny sample size. Please if you don't have solid data don't quote percentages it just encourages people to spread the number like it's a fact, which it isn't.

If you read the right sources a majority of seo advice is correct.

Www.seomoz.org
http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrust...
Www.inbound.org (homepage stuff that has been voted up.)
What does it take to turn around a Web company?
Sorry to hear that, don't be so hard on yourself in the future. This is hard work (even if it is fun). As a post-mortem you did one thing right and one thing wrong.

What you did right: You accepted responsibility. Good, this is a hard trait to find. The "perfect" engineer mixes equal parts intellegence and humility.

What you did wrong: You didn't trust your team. They were all very supportive of you, but you didn't trust their assesment of you.

Trust your team; trust yourself. Have confidence in your ability to learn from your mistakes.

You'll do fine. Start looking for another start-up job while working at a corp.

The best time to find a new job, is when you already have one.
You have to be open to the idea (and the potential reality) that you could be wrong. In the tech space there are tons of examples of companies that started out to do X and ended-up doing something radically different. I know it's what you want and your family recipe, etc. That in no way constitutes a formula for success, it's just what you want. Success could very well be somewhere entirely different or a few minor changes away.

Another thought. Find your local SBDC chapter (Small Business Development Center) and SCORE (?? of Retired Executives). You might be able to connect with someone with deep knowledge of the food business who could help you figure it out. There might also be loans or grants that, along with advise, could help you get past this problem.
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