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Hi, OpenVBX project lead here.

I've only formally been on the project for a couple months but I'd love to spend more time on it too. One of the things slowing me down is finding out exactly what the community uses, needs, etc and then working to make that happen.

A few things high on my (personal) agenda are: formal support for <SIP> (launched yesterday), better support for Queue, internationalization, and some infrastructure improvements around upgrades, plugins, etc.

Feel free to drop me an email (check my profile) and we can chat. :)
I lump them in the "not throwing money away" bucket.

Yes, one is giving to others, one is giving to the couple. My point was, don't throw the money away on baubles.
It doesn't matter why, even if the "why" has been specifically conditioned into the both of you just so that the person selling the diamond makes a profit? That seems a bit... I don't know... tragic.

(To be clear, though, I'm a nerdy gay like the parent commenter, and I can't fathom a situation where either my boyfriend or I would ever want the other one to buy a diamond for any reason, so there's probably some component of the dynamics here that I don't fully grasp.)
>wasted computing power

having a secure system with the properties of bitcoin is worth some amount of money compared to money wasted on frictional costs in the current financial system.
No, it is more like they got in and locked the doors so the real thieves couldn't get in. (Aidra)

I still don't like it.
If you are in the US and currently employed with a group health plan, COBRA will cover you for 18 months after you leave. You pay the full cost, so it's not cheap, but it's there. You have to elect to do this within 60 days of leaving I think.

This might tide you over until Obama-care helps you.

You could get a group plan through your new company as well. I'm not sure what the minimums are, but there are benefits administration companies you can talk to about it.
Forgive me if I don't trust _marketing_, of all facets of society, to nullify that.

As much as I think it'd be a great alternative to diamonds, my feelings on the matter have quickly been drawn to the same cynicism about diamonds.

It's a problem that we want to flaunt our wealth, _however_ we do it. It's the root problem.

The diamond industry is flawed because it's acting exactly as desired: to fulfill our need for vacuous display.

And flaunting your moral superiority? Well, that's not as bad as flaunting your wealth, but only because it's less practical. People notice and _hate_ when you're morally superior.

Isn't that a sad commentary? That when bragging about morals is more easily attacked than bragging about wealth?

There's something interesting in how when the social drive to appear wealthy approaches appearing moral, it is diluted and weakened. Just mere contact with the idea of morality is enough to lose our respect for the egregious use of wealth.
The project is based on OpenVBX (big fans here!). We added a few modules, such as call queueing, call cost tracking (incoming, outgoing), the ability to export call flows to files, import/export of those files, SMS polls, automated phone call flow initiation, in-browser call flow testing, as well as Stripe integration to charge for more credits, then top-up the tenant account for more SMS and call credits. A different theme is also applied.
Many things can be abstracted further and improved, feel free to take from it what you wish :)
I meant it as a personal attack for the reprehensible views he has expressed in this thread.
There is no version of this genre of discussion that does not end in a mess. And internet-stalking misogyny is squick raised to the power of wtf.

But even the trope-busters are, themselves, tropes (cf. Joss Whedon's parade of badass waifs).

I have one personal nitpick, though:

> The messages these popular characterizations send — women are weak and need men to protect them;

Taking a very narrow of definition of "weak", strength sports demonstrate that actually, men are generally physically stronger than women. (I leave emotional strength to another discussion).

Granted, a female strength athlete will generally drastically outperform Joe Q Couchmaster on something like a snatch or a bench press. But compare like with like -- powerlifters with powerlifters, weightlifters with weightlifters -- and men lift more than women in every weight class.
"we made it very clear that we were not affiliated with them"

I'd say that there were probably better ways to make this clear.
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The most disgusting and frightening part is not the women who support the feminist side -- you should always be careful around the ladies, but the traitors amongst men -- who look, feel, taste, and smell like men, but say the wrong joke around them and the feminazi in disguise pops out. Basically gender traitors
For the typical engineer at the typical startup, that sounds way too high to me in terms of realized value.
No offense taken, we looked to learn from Squidoo a great deal and Seth sent me a couple supportive notes along the way that meant a lot to me.

I still believe cost-per-action is the future of indirect revenue on the Internet and as fraud continues to climb in display and even CPC advertising I think things will head in this direction. But not yet.
I'm a dev that works at Envato on the marketplace sites discussed in the link. Some quick answers:

- None of those requests are served from cache. That's the number hitting the Rails stack and being served dynamically (there are some cached pages on top of that. not sure of the number of RPM off hand)

- Deployed on nginx/unicorn running on linux servers. I think we've got 17 web servers at the moment. Not sure of the specs sorry.

- average server response time is 155ms (again, not using caching)
Oh, that's easy. I simply advertise myself as such. Say, a post on HN or Craigslist (SF, Austin, NY, Denver) stating that I am available for hire. I put my rates in the ad to make sure that people who contact me can pay my rates (which are not really high, I don't charge that much), and sit back. Really simple. If you really want to hack it, just start blogging about the specific type of programming you want to do, and have your contact details in a place where people can see it. I did that for a short while, but I'm to busy to blog these days.

I also make sure to treat people as such, and not as walking dollar bills.

Try it out, it works.

Edit:

Here is a template for an ad you can use.

Headline/post title:
$language_name developer/engineer/programmer available for hire.

Body:

$language_name developer/engineer/programmer available for hire. Rates are $rate. Mature and responsible. Focused on working with serious people.

Remote only.

*
That's it. Dont give out too much information, because you are only pre-qualifying leads (people who respond to it are very likely to be able to afford your rates and meet your requirements). Then just work out the deal through email/phone/whatever.
Creating an In-person Community around online courses
Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch to leave Adobe for Apple
App Engine 1.7.6 Released (Full Text Search API, Async Task Queue API)
When(/)will Balanced payments come to Australia?
What an incredible product. There appears to be nothing out there like it in order to automate outgoing payments into bank accounts. I'm forced to use banks or online currency transfer companies who want me to email my payments each time I want a transaction to go through. Does anyone have any suggestions for Australia?
Effectively, it was an era before your generation.

This is largely speculation, but it's the conclusion I've drawn from my experience in community college (my university experience was more specialized and used effectively no textbooks):

Students very often saw themselves as customers to a university, and the consumerist mindset of always being right was unfortunately brought along with this. If they got something wrong, they didn't accept blame for that: they'd push it off onto the TA or onto the professor. One easy vector for that was to blame it on the particular variation of book they had used, so professors started moving towards simply mandating a single golden text and teaching directly out of it.

I got the sense that a huge part of it was because the faculty had gotten together and agreed on this solution as the simplest one; it was particularly palpable in cases where the professor was dismissive of and disgusted by the mandated textbook.
Driving a car is a lot more dangerous than birth. And most of us do that.

But, yes, giving birth can involve complications.
After a quick recursive diff, it looks like you're a few versions behind OpenVBX master. Have you considered rebasing your changes off of that?

There are a number of fixes, improvements, and features that have come into play recently.
This was a long time ago. I funded my first startup doing consulting work writing IVR software for an "audiotex" company (I told my friends I was a phone sex repair man). While it was a colorful client, they were the best consulting customer I ever had. Paid well, and paid on time every time. Also got to travel to interesting locales such as Guyana, Nicaragua, Italy, etc. (And yes the people staffing the phones were not attractive, and more than a few were men).

I guess that counts as prostitution.
I don't think anyone's discussing the independently wealthy.
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That was my road to Ruby: Developing in PHP "mvc" frameworks. Even had a PHP active record implementation. Create function was used heavily ...

http://php.net/manual/en/function.create-function.php
What is the program in New York? Regular unemployment requires that you be fired, and unable to find work.
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I'm not sure that those jokes are comparable. There's no negative stereotype in a penis size joke.
Hi Keith, thanks for taking a look at this, and thanks for working on OpenVBX, amazing project! Yes it's been a while since touching this code (~6mo-1yr) but once I have some more free time I'd like to bring it up to date with the current OpenVBX version and post some screenshots as well.
Pay attention, this is how you handle the public aspects of a pivot.
yes just a fork of OpenVBX and added a few features on top, different UI, Stripe support, etc.
As an optimist, I must point out that if Moore's law holds for the next 10000 doublings we'll have the answer in 20000 years, plus 9 picoseconds.
I am all for saying living car free in dense urban environments and relying on self powered transit or public transit. But the lifestyle change there is pretty dramatic for most people compared to a conventional car dependent suburban lifestyle.

Comparatively, there is basically no lifestyle difference required to wear a ring without a diamond.

Many people doing other stupid and wasteful things is a poor justification to do any particular stupid and wasteful thing.
Headline is misleading. Only reference related to this in the article is:

By 1973, Smith was so desperate for cash that he flew
to Las Vegas to play the blackjack tables. He wired
the $27,000 he won back to FedEx.

Where did you find it was the "last $5000"?
It's funny how this obvious connection eluded most of the higher up commenters.
In addition to the "jobs" link at the top of the page (for YC
related companies), on the first of each month there are two job submissions
to HN. The first is the "Who is Hiring?" and the second is "Freelancer? /
Seeking freelancer?".

Both submissions are posted by the HN user 'whoishiring' and you can see
the list of the submissions here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring

The March 2013 "Who is Hiring?" post:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5304169

The March 2013 "Freelancer? / Seeking Freelancer?"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5304173
Why can't you work on this start up in your off hours? I don't see unemployment as a good option. It's not very much money. If you really wanted to do that, since you "great earning potential," why don't you save up for a few months and then try it? Although, I think the first option makes more sense in many cases.
I'm dying for working at Google. I'm in SV but I never dare to apply for Google. How is working at there? My friends seems to be happy there but they wont share all the details.
The wiki entry you posted mentions this, but it is interesting and related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potlatch
"even the trope-busters are, themselves, tropes (cf. Joss Whedon's parade of badass waifs)."

Don't forget http://io9.com/5959794/the-firefly-episode-were-really-glad-...
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Shh. It's okay when feminists do it.
"Thunderf00t"'s rhetoric reminds of Glenn Beck. It's heavy on emotive language and expression, while relying on extreme leaps of rationalization and logic that withstand only the most superficial scrutiny.

Anita's video covered the existence of the "Damsel in Distress" trope. It exists, it's wide spread, and it's a fact.

I don't even remotely identify myself as feminist, and in fact, I'm usually on the complete opposite side of the political room from liberal feminists, and I don't agree with a lot of what Anita has to say.

Despite all that, the barely masked misogyny around Anita's work disgusts me.
I've noticed that any time we hear "strong" or "weak" (in discussions such as these) we always assume the definitions to mean physical attributes and abilities, and then it is ultimately comes down to performance, agility, pain tolerance, etc.

This is dangerous as it looks to add credence to the concept that it is okay to portray women as weaker because under some averaged metrics they perform less than the average man.

However, the "women are weak" quote isn't exclusively, or sometimes at all, related to physical ability. I would say that weak would be any situation or scenario where a person is not able to escape or solve (Princess Peach may not be able to defeat Bowser physically, but the writer's haven't had her try and out-smart him either.)

"Women are weak" isn't exclusively in their ability to win in combat, its their ability to outsmart, to plan and problem-solve, and ultimately to look out for their safety. Very few games show female characters doing even that...
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I still like to pretend...

Good, at least you understand it is only an illusion ;)
I think the general premise holds, but assuming that you will hit a cap in this, the market is still efficient, this is only noting that a single employer's system is inefficient. Or that the employer has found job security and loyalty command long enough a tenure that it's worth underpaying.

Also the inflation math doesn't work out.
$102k => $83k in 11 years
vs
$106k => $85k in 6 years
If the second number were $95k, I'd accept it.
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| they want to be able to show off the diamonds to their group of (female) and boost their social status among them.

That's true. But why do diamonds have high social status? Because they are expensive. They are a reliable signal of the wealth of the man. Social status is a proxy for actual wealth and power, and thus the probability of wealth and power for the woman's potential offspring.

Unfortunately they have become such a strong signal that people without wealth to spare feel compelled to over-spend on them. Like a peacock's tail.
"Some people apparently still don't get it"

Hrm, yes.
Same with my wife. Told her about blood diamonds, and how the price is artificially inflated. She agreed. Still got the diamond ring.
I didn't make it clear in my comment - but yeah I don't think women are more susceptible to marketing than men. It's just that women value different things. The original poster values functional items such as cars, computers and cool gadgets. So he thinks that it must be marketing that tricks women into buying non-functional items.

The thing is... if you value how you are perceived by others, then fashion is an extremely important investment. It does serve a purpose to women (and some socially-conscious men).

There is some interesting data that shows women are buying more... just Google "percentage of purchasing decisions made by women." It's over 70% - so it wouldn't be surprising if most marketing is targeted towards women.
Ask HN: How many of you will buy Sim City for Mac?
Given the recent fiasco with the new Sim City release, I was curious how many people on HN would still buy the Mac version (in April??)? I know many people purchased the PC version and are running it on a PC VM, just curious who else would make the purchase given how EA has handled the initial launch.
I've had this discussion on reddit far too many times with too many incredulous responses to what is plainly obvious if you're willing to see it: http://www.psy.cmu.edu/~rakison/bussandschmitt.pdf

Yes, women seek men with status and financial security. I'd give you a pointer to a specific line or paragraph, but its all relevant.
So the world is filled with gold-diggers? No. Not true.

You'll find it shocking that in some parts of the world people are happily married without any jewelry at all.
Yeah, this is unworthy of HN.
If you can do it on the side, I strongly urge you to take that route. Quit only when you are already seeing traction at your startup and requires your attention. Even at that point, see if you can take a short break at your current workplace.

Take extreme measures only when situation demands it. Do not force yourself into extreme situations especially if you don't have a backup.

It is good to have confidence. But don't let that blindside you.
> We were hoping that they wouldn't mind

I really don't think you understand how trademarks work.

If you willingly let your trademark be diluted, you will lose control over it. Amazon had absolutely no choice about shutting you down. That they shut you down was a completely foregone conclusion from the start. It's not about whether they mind what you are doing or not, it's about whether they lose exclusive access to their trademark. Had they not shut you down, and let you run for long enough, anyone could have used your existence as a point in their favor at court when arguing about using the Amazon name.
This is actually a famous story... dont ever give up on your startup.
I can't back it up with another source, but I have heard this / read this assertion somewhere. It's at least founder-culture folklore. Trying to remember which book I read it in... will edit if I can find / remember.

Here's a reference to another reference: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/15/fred-smith-blackjac...
http://www.labor.state.ny.us/ui/claimantinfo/specialprovisio...

It requires, though, that you collect unemployment for some time first
The Geography of Sin
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Sorry for the misinformation, I obviously wasn't paying enough attention to those claims.
>Nobody does. Now why is that?

Probably executive order 6102 in 1933. By the time the government allowed private ownership of monetary gold again, it had fallen out of use as currency.
I have saved up. I think I made that clear.

I also am working on it in my "off hours" (after an 8-5 job, supporting other entrepreneurs in my community, and exercising every day how much time is that?) but I don't believe there's much evidence that's how great companies are built. How many great companies were "spare time" companies built by someone who wasn't in college (college is nothing but free time, whatever any student tries to tell you). Great companies are built on talent, process, and RELENTLESS EXECUTION.

I'm not saying unemployment is the right thing, but this is a MORAL not practical decision. Unemployment + my savings would be more than enough for my to relentlessly execute for 6 months to a year, which would be enough time to either validate or show I wasn't going to validate enough to get investment.
I'm just waiting for LayerVault to issue a DMCA takedown against the Art Institute of Chicago for hosting a work which despicably stole their colour scheme back in 1989: http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/152758?search_n...
it takes relatively few sales to define pricing in a real estate market.
Does Sarkeesian give any credit to tvtropes.org in this project? The whole video seems to be a recitation of http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/DamselInDistress/Video... but without the context and analysis.
I think the consulting route is generally a good one. If you establish yourself as an expert in the right area, you can charge good money. Just pick your clients carefully, and you can work part-time consulting, and the rest of the time on your project.
I wonder if it will be further delayed. That being said, my brother is considering purchasing it, but I am holding off.
I think this issue has been so inflammatory because it covers a lot of sensitive topics.

- Women in one of the last male dominated tech fields
- Privacy between two people having a conversation
- The ramifications stories can have in todays twitter world (i.e. getting fired over hearsay)

There are so many issues one could discuss its difficult to know where to start. On one hand no one really knows exactly what joke was said except for those three individuals involved. At the same time while innocent until proven guilty, no one wants to be painted as unsympathetic to womens plight against sexism in the tech field.

Then there is the issue about whether its acceptable to assume there is a right not to be offended. One persons dongle joke is another person 'trigger'. Is it understandable that some individuals feel threatened by the heavy handed consequences that can come with what is assumed (rightly or wrongly) to be general conference chit chat.

Why is it that as a Muslim I have no right to be offended when people make jokes or down right derogatory comments about Islam (which are protected by the oft affirmed free speech shield) yet this person was allowed to be offended and seek retribution for a comment that she heard.

It's an interesting situation thats for sure.
He's not defending diamonds at all.

He's pointing out that you have a relatively weak argument to be standing on if you are going to get outraged over how evil diamond are, then continue to happily consume dozens of other "evil" products in your everyday life. The only reason these other "evil" products are being brushed under the table is they are much harder for you to do without day to day than a diamond.
I feel like I should be clear here: my lifestyle is extremely simple. With my savings, even $600 a month would cut it for close to 9 months, 6 months without ANY decrease in lifestyle. Upon needing a job, I could get a restaurant job and continue to support my lifestyle or get a job in my field within a month at most.
Maybe I'm unclear on the specifics, but it doesn't say what filesystem is used for the mounted striped volume. Could the choice of FS affect I/O?
"Where is the IDE for graphic designers?"
Why I don't want to do it on the side I answered in the comment below you, but I don't believe that's how great companies are built. And that's what I want to build.

On the side I've built, and have either launched or (in QuickRamen's case ready to launch):

Quickramen.com
Letterlasso.com
Traxi.co

Helped with
Coffitivity.com (200k users in 3 weeks)

Added to
cityswig.com relaunch (my old startup, relaunching this week)

None of which have the potential to be huge or great companies. I want to build something great.