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Agreed. I often wonder how much money in processing it costs them after people just throw their trash in 'hole' meant for bottles at the precariously available attached recycling bins.

I feel your pain, though, about just trying to find a bin - I'll walk blocks without finding one in some parts of the city.
Which misogynists? The ones who made threatening/abusive comments on Twitter? Or are you calling anyone who disagrees with Richards's handling of this situation a misogynist?

If the former, don't worry. Those people don't represent the tech community, they are kids who hang out on imageboards and spread hate. To everyone. Including men. Do I need to provide some examples of /b/ tarring and feathering male victims on the internet? Or can we all agree that trolls attacking people online is nothing new?

If the latter, then your logic is broken. And I'd argue that anyone who subscribes to said logic doesn't have the mental capacity to work in tech, so we don't have to worry about deterrence; they'd be filtered out anyway.
While I support what these groups (like pyladies) are trying to do, you're not being honest with yourself if you think no one would bat an eye at forming a men's advocacy group. It absolutely would not go over well to have a group advocating male involvement in tech (not to mention it would be useless and a waste of time).
The OP is in the United States, likely not in Louisiana, and being sued in a federal court. I am answering to OP.

That said, if the jurisdiction is different, I am still sure that an hour of talking to a lawyer (who can explain the laws and if legal fees would be covered) would still cost less than losing.

Please notice how my comment also says that if there is difference between my advice and what a lawyer says, take the lawyer's advice.
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No, my point is that comparing a single line of code is ridiculous. You can only get an understanding of the efficiency of a language when you look at many lines of code. I would think you would need a few thousand lines of code that did something non-trivial before the true picture emerges.

Not even when you come up with an answer will you be able to say something about a single line of code. Meaningful statements can only be made about lots of lines of code.

Except perhaps about vb. Screw that language.
It's not the first. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57570925-38/need-bitcoins-...
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Most of us here are probably geeks. We're geeks who work closely, collaboratively with other geeks. But we're not hired for our social skills. I think that probably makes a lot of human relation problems more pronounced in tech. Unintentionally making someone uncomfortable is probably just one of the symptoms.And no, I have no data to back that up; just anecdotes and conjecture.
Hey, don't get me wrong, I'm as turned off by Rob Pike's dismissal of everything not in his vision as the next 9fan or gonut. It took me forever to really efficiently use Acme, and no generics means no Go for me, since it's ridiculous to not have map, fold, and filter at your disposal once you've used it in other languages like Haskell, Python, even Perl or the shell. But what's great about his tools is that if you do let them creep into you, your daily practice gets much better because the weight of the environment doesn't slow you down so much.
I don't think it works that way.

When you say "Amazon and Walmart also have X% disallowed knife ads, but X is an extremely small percent of their overall number of items. Accounts remain active." the implication is that total ad spend vs banned ad ratio prevails. That would suggest that the knife guys could start advertising flowers, buy 90% of their AdWords for their buddy the florist and only 10% of their AdWords for their knives and be Okay. I don't think it would work out.

Google is just acting poorly here, why doesn't matter. As the original poster points out, 'assisted open' knives are legal for sale in the US (even in California which is kind of picky about such things). They aren't part of the terms of service explicitly, so either they are or they aren't. And if they are, they are for everybody, and if they aren't they are aren't for everybody.

I'm sure if .01% of WalMart's ad spend was for Canadian pharmaceuticals that they would be shut down in a heartbeat (because the Government really came down hard on Google for that).

Its common knowledge that one of the ways larger successful sellers on Ebay harass smaller sellers is by reporting them for various rules violations. When a "Power Seller" has a dedicates account manager inside Ebay they don't have to put up with random reports like the small guy who randomly gets someone in the problem reporting staff. That asymmetry is exploited to mitigate small seller effectiveness. I have no idea if this goes on in "AdWord" competitors but some of the lawsuits I've read from various people (especially on contested keywords) suggests the advertisers (or their agencies) aren't above such tactics.
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Yes - at least for me it is ;-)
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Nice work, the timelapse video is great as well.
Except:
1. The Dart VM isn't included in Google's generally-released browsers, either (it's included in Dartium, the special version of Chromium bundled with the Dart SDK).
2. The Dart VM isn't a plug-in.
3. As Dart compiles to JS, you don't need the Dart VM to run code developed with Dart, you just need a browser that supports JS.
What a bummer. I'm totally disillusioned now.
It isn't. Point out some misogyny. "Disagrees with me" doesn't imply "is a misogynist", though it's a neat rhetorical trick.
Hey webwanderings, co-founder here.

We're gonna be putting up our about info really soon but we wanted to get the product out as soon as we could to get some initial users.

The demo video gives a good overview of what app looks and feels like.
BBC's "The Secret Life of Chaos" covers some of this from kind of a historical perspective. It's a nice pretty superficial documentary, I enjoyed it: http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/secret-life-chaos/
No-bid contract - I remember when this was a big deal on the news for a while. Reminds me of the alcohol vending machine debacle (thankfully it seem that we are closer to privatizing our liquor stores in recent weeks).

These things were so bad Wegman's thought that they were hurting their business.
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You've certainly given me some food for thought. I had not considered that it could potentially be a full time job informing those around you that they are being crude and/or disrespectful.

It also seems that we are agreement on everything except the agency of men. While I would personally call someone out if they were being overtly sexist or disrespectful to anyone, I cannot expect others to do so. For some people, the thought of calling someone out in public is a terrifying proposition. Which, as I typed that, I realized that this was exactly your point as to why the onus should not be put solely on women. It seems that I have won and lost an argument with myself.
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Or nothing. Without more evidence, it's still he said she said and since it's their garage, they can do whatever they can to clean up before the cops get there. And, let's face it, since cops are there to keep the peace, they will do it in the most convenient way possible... and that may include doing nothing. At least, that's how they work in New York.

To be perfectly honest, is it really worth a black eye and a few broken ribs at best, and internal injuries at worst? Sure, you could sue them, but why risk injury (even permanent injury) when just walking away is also an option. It's not surrender, cause he will still own the car (even with its crappy paint job), it's a strategic withdrawal when the potential loss in a confrontation is unacceptable. Even Sun Tzu would agree.

He may not have liked it one bit, but he did the smart thing. A bruised ego heals a lot faster than a missing eye.

Meanwhile, he can name and shame the garage with every new person he meets without directly confronting them and show the car as evidence of the crappy job. A missile is a safer option than bayonet.
I'm not the OP, but I do work for Knife Depot. We have advertised with Google for over 8 years and they ONLY prohibit butterfly, balisong, and switchblade/automatic knives. We are within their guidelines.
Before you do what soneca said, consult a reputable, good lawyer with experience in IP/cofounder issues (not a cheap random lawyer). Tell your lawyer everything, your whole story. Don't leave out any detail. Tell your lawyer what you plan to say to cofounder C (i.e. the dialogue soneca suggests you should have), but before having that dialogue ask the lawyer if you should go ahead, and ask the lawyer if there's anything specific you should say, and anything specific you should avoid saying. Do not talk to cofounder C without consulting a lawyer first. You don't want your words to be used against you in the future.

I am not a lawyer, which is why it is imperative that you do consult a lawyer before proceeding in any way.

Right now, since you aren't successful, you don't seem to have anything to lose. But if you guys do gain traction, this problem could come back to bite you if left unaddressed.
The number of independent people believing something combined with their authenticity, trustworthiness, or competency is basic information valuation[0]. Religious beliefs fall not on how many people believe them, but because they all originate from either untrustworthy or distant sources. Otherwise the laws of physics would be false, since many people also believe them.

In any case that doesn't matter since what you actually said that sexism wasn't one of the factors and I've shown that is was. We haven't even begun talking about how large a factor it was since you haven't been providing any real perspective on the matter. At this point I seriously doubt your ability to provide any value in this conversation and are therefor going to stop participating in it.

[0] https://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/army/fm2-22-3.pdf
i might have missed it but where's the leaders accountability in this scenario?

Maybe I'm lucky but, throughout my career I have witnessed or have been a part of teams that pulled off the miracles under ridiculous conditions that were the direct result of poor planning and unreasonable timelines. The occasion where an individual worker bee was not pulling their weight has been a very rare occurrence compared the number of times managers failed to plan appropriately and they rarely have held themselves accountable.
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Just sent you an email. I liked what I saw on Dribble and think if we worked together it could definitely be mutually beneficial.
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The premise of do what you're good at is great. However, even the non-technical examples listed still require quite a bit of technical knowledge (accounts, management, payment flows, notifications, etc.). The good thing is that these are fairly simple processes nowadays and can be picked up within a few months of studying.
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Maybe I'm biased on the issue, but I don't find discriminating between categories of personal ads based on level of social prejudice provoked to be remotely comparable to discriminating between categories of object based on lethality and legal restrictions.
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Well, bi-directional data-bind is really easy. There is really minimum code needs to be written. But when you need to create a reusable directive (widget in Angular), it's hard to even find out where to start. You might need to write many lines of boilerplate configuration code that takes quite a while to learn and understand. In contrast, when you need to create a reusable widget in Backbone, you can just write a view class like any other view class. To be fair, it is in Angular team's plan to simplify directive development, so that it will be like writing just another controller.
Great overview, thanks.
It sounds like they want to add specific features to integrate with Hacker News:

"We want to experiment with and add value to the sources of information that are increasingly important, but difficult to surface and organize in most reader applications — like Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Reddit, LinkedIn, or Hacker News."[1]

[1] http://blog.digg.com/post/46251309499/whats-next
>> "Don't be evil" was a great slogan, but its days are numbered. Perhaps over.

It didn't mean anything. You said it yourself: Google is a marketing company. And that slogan served exactly that purpose.

We have a name for it in politics. We call it "rhetoric."
It's a pretty tricky business buying an open source company. You have to work with the community and existing people to maintain "master" of it. Oracle of course is not that company and so their subacquisition of mysql via Sun is now being pissed away in its entirety. If I were an investor I might have some questions.

*Edit: Sun dropped $1 billion on mysql. That's a lot of money to later just "lose"
Pretty sure they sent something out where you would have had to take action months and months ago... There is a giant notice on the front page of the new textdrive.com re this now btw.
In the context of their world-wide monopoly, at one point we have to start asking if Google has the right to censor or control anything this way.

Don't get me wrong, I hate the idea of government telling anyone what they can and cannot do. Massive monopolies is one place where I can see a need for some kind of legal intervention. The reason obviously being that a large monopoly has no competing entity to force it to modify its behavior.

While it is true that Google tries to "clean-up" their search I think this is almost an arrogant stance. How can a few hundred people be in charge of deciding what you and I should and should not see? Methinks we should be given control. If I don't like weapons of any kind I ought to be able to go to my control panel and exclude them from my results. It should be my choice, not theirs.

That said, these "assisted opening" blades are an obvious example of exploiting a loophole in the laws. For all intents and purposes they are switch blades. The end result is exactly the same: Open a knife very quickly.

Then there's the whole argument about how much sense it makes to granularly ban stuff like this. I have no clue as to how much crime out there can be attributed directly to switch blades. Probably not much at all. Although I do remember that knives are on par with certain types of guns in terms of murders per year.

Circling back, the "Google Syndrome" is one that is constantly growing in threat level. I've said this many time. I like their services, but this business of killing your account auto-magically with no real business process in place to deal with the problems is just total bullshit. At one point it has to stop. I have no clue what's going to make that happen, but it sure seems to be leaving a path of destruction behind it.

The best thing we can do is stop using every new Google service they throw at us. I know, it's hard to let go of the free drugs, but look at what you are promoting and decide if this is what you want in the future five times over.
>I fail to see the non-weapon use for a knife that is small (and therefore concealable) and also opens quickly

I am an Eagle scout. Being able to quickly pull a knife out and open it one handed, due to it being assisted opening and small enough to clip into my pocket, has been beneficial more time than I can count.

I have had a knife in my pocket nearly every day since high school. I have used it thousands of times in that time period. I never once used it as a weapon.
"Not to mention the window-smashing attachment"

That can be handy when trying to rescue someone, or so my volunteer firefighter friends tell me. Claiming that such a feature has no legitimate purpose is like claiming that a crowbar has no legitimate purpose.

"I fail to see the non-weapon use for a knife that is small (and therefore concealable) and also opens quickly"

Small knives are easy to carry around, that should be obvious. As for opening quickly, that is just a convenience -- why should convenience be frowned upon? Would you be less concerned if these were fixed blade knives?

Sure, knives and crowbars are weapons when you apply them to human beings. People have been murdered with screwdrivers (is a small screwdriver a bad thing?). On the other hand, the NATO e-tool, designed for use by soldiers at war, is often used for gardening because it is convenient -- it can be used as an ax, it can be used as a shovel, it folds up for easy storage, etc.
>You're more likely to have the entire tree fly straight at you.

Well, that certainly sounds much safer.
The reason Amazon and Walmart get to do stuff is not because Google didn't notice them.

If there was some small company that got away with it, you might be right. But the issue here isn't Walmart's actions going unnoticed.
Wow. Thanks for the clarification -- I'm sorry I misunderstood.

If this is true, it's completely crazy. How does Google think they can tell people what products to sell on their own shops??

Then I would completely agree with what the OP did, of course. In fact, there really was no other way.
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Did you find this page? https://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/SQLDrivers

The MySQL drivers there are tested and should work. If those were the ones you tried, I'd like to know.

I just filed an issue to make the above link more discoverable.
> never edit an existing approved ad.

That's good advice. It is also a sad indicator of bad things are.
As an early employee at a YC startup (early enough to go to YC events), I would like to throw in a word of caution: YC looks for strong founding teams. Meaning they look for founders who know each very well and who have worked together in the past (i.e. meaning 6+ months). Partnering with someone you have only known for a week is a negative signal for YC. The reason for this emphasis is that many YC startups have imploded during YC due to founder disputes.

I have also noticed a trend that many YC founding teams consist of 1)founders who were classmates in high school, 2)founders who were classmates in college, 3)founders who worked together at a previous company.
"The very existence of these knives is clearly to circumvent existing laws regarding switchblades."

Those laws should be circumvented; they are as stupid as laws prohibiting Bowie knives.
How do you reduce collections from 21 times a week to 3 times a week (more than an 80% reduction) for a city the size of Philadelphia and only save 900k?
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Yes, but it doesn't necessarily pay the defense bills.
A tool for building "web applications" seems a little far-fetched, given the values and conceptual model pedastal is based on. On services and scalability...

> Built with scalability up front rather than an afterthought

And

> Pedestal gives developers a solid foundation to build highly scalable backend services [emphasis mine]

Pedastal seems more like a framework for building enterprise services, not simply "web applications". It's serving a type of use case, for sure. Just not one suited for all web applications.

If you're a pre-product-market-fit startup, trying to validate a concept, pedastal isn't for you. But, if you're square, or linkedin, or [insert successful startup here] and you're going to introduce a new service into your existing infrastructure, yea, it should be performant, and then maybe pedastal and the mental model that backs it makes sense.

But for an early stage startup, you're not likely to have to solve many of these problems, especially the scaling ones. And doing SOA from the get-go is orders of magnitude more complex than the standard monolithic application. You won't reap any of the benefits from SOA until you have the requirement for some form of scale -- either team scale or product performance scale. The more likely case for an early-stage startup taking the approach pedastal is "peddling" (forgive me, I had to) is that your application architecture will be significantly more complex, making it harder to work on, grow, and hire for.

The stuff pedastal is trying to do is for grown-ups, and grown up applications. And in this metaphor, early-stage startups are teenagers.

How this looks to me is that relevance has a specific perspective on how to build services. I'd guess that perspective is highly informed on the types of clients they work with. Given the mental model of pedastal, I'd also venture to guess that they don't do much work with early-stage startups. Excuse my presumptiveness on the nature of Relevance's business, but if a consulting shop tried to sell this bill of goods to my early-stage company, I'd probably sound the architecture astronaut alarm and show them the door.
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I have seen a few knife groups using this exact same reasoning - I think it just gets heard less because the firearm part of the "arms" is the hot national topic, and Congress has made very few laws that limit knives/other arms - most of those are state laws.
I carry a pocket knife every day; some of mine are assisted open, others are not. I have a small preference towards assisted open ones because they are easier to operate one handed, though I can open a simple folder with a really loose hinge almost as fast with a flick of the wrist.

They're just more convenient.
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No, it's different. There's lots of laws about firearms and dealing with them can be painful, so it can be reasonable not to do it.

For another example, the pawnshop on Pawn Stars doesn't deal with modern firearms. Because they don't have a license. Because they decided it wasn't worth the hassle/effort/expense.

Dealing with firearms can be hard/expensive compared to selling other things (like knives and accessories). Dealing with gay personal ads is no more hard or expensive than regular personal ads.
Try now. While I haven't scaled the backend yet, I have put a massive db machine in place as a stand-in.
Wait a second, I just read the text of the change: http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/51leg/1r/proposed/h.1432-se-kav...

It says and the person is not legally classified on the person's birth certificate as a member of that sex. So you don't have to carry an ID on you, right? This petition might be bogus... On the other hand, it seems odd that you'd be stuck using the restroom according to the gender you were identified as at birth, instead of your current one.

Also, what would genderless people do?
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Take a look at the history of laws prohibiting Bowie knives. This sort of thing goes back a long way...
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I totally understand what you're saying, but I still disagree, at least for a service where you can upload arbitrary video. Framey is a bit different, because you can reasonably assume an upper limit to the amount of time a user will record themselves on a webcam in a browser (or restrict them to a max # of minutes).

I know you were just using it as an example, but music just isn't a good comparison for this conversation. Video is simply much more expensive than audio in just about every way, from storage to encoding.