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No, but you can email me and find out my real name. Though it is a very common name. My handle (orangethirty) is unique. So, its not like I'm being very paranoid or anything. I use an internet handle because I can. It is a freedom that I support, and am including in all of my projects. Privacy is required in the world.
This is awesome. Just yesterday I was doing a 7-minute workout in my room, just because I was waiting for dinner to finish heating up.

The main problem is that the standard timer app on iOS only acts as a stopwatch...so the final ten seconds of each interval, I'm watching the clock so that I can hit "Lap" and move on...this is awkward when I'm also wearing headphones to listen to music.

What would be ideal for me is to have a simple timer that would alert me when the interval was done and automatically move on to the next one....like a repeating event on a calendar. I'm sure there's an app for that but I just didn't feel like downloading a bunch and doing trial and error.

One more twist: I can't do all the exercises in the 7-min workout (as made famous in the NYT)...jumping jacks would annoy the shit out of the people below me. So I make up my own. A timer that would allow me to set up my own sequence would be fabulous.

Anyway, this is just a longwinded way of saying that there's a need for a niche app here, and it would definitely be a fun coding project...I'm glad someone else thought of it first :)
They're still supporting client-to-server XMPP, so third party apps can always just connect as a client rather than doing federation.
My opinions change regularly, I am sometimes enlightened, I sometimes have a change of heart. I don't post with my actual identity because of this.

I don't want a situation where someone stumbles onto an old post or where I played devil's advocate and I lose out as a result.
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> I think my co-founders are idiots, that they fouled up their side of the deal, but I feel as though I've invested too much time and energy to bail now.

Well I think you found your problem right there. Whether or not, they're actual idiots, this is a problem you need to address. EIther get out of it or you need to find a way to respect them.

If you can't respect your co-founders, you're gonna have trouble working with them.
I've gotten bitten before for using my real identity (no, I won't say where, when, or what), doing something that at the time I considered in good faith. It is what it is, and there's little to gain from me in putting myself in that situation again.
Then write a dashboard facility without polluting your existing applications by bolting barely related features onto them.
Am I the only one that hardly ever needs a case-sensitive query/index on string data? This is the one feature I miss from the MySQL glory days. With postgres, I use the citext type (case-insensitive text) but I guess Mongo and ReThinkDB expect you to either store the data as all lower or upper, or duplicate the field (for indexing).
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I did something similar as in using the wifi chip for non-intended purposes (but not the same as you did with bunny) a few years ago.

Used same chipsets hehe.
I found that lorcon and aircrack's libs were both lacking tho. It appears not much has changed :/
Made it in C as i eventually forked off aircrack's lib to fix stuff (lorcon is nicer yes, but the code is so abstracted that it makes it painful to modify)
IRC not usually very secure.
Have you tried using the polyfills yet?

From the sound of it, they are good enough that future is already here-- except for some glaring exceptions like shadow DOM re-projections.
I too thought it was a dummy account & now really wish I could change my user name to be my real name. I don't really care about the Karma, but every time I've tried to create a new account & start over, I get an error about too many new users.
I've tried blogging under my real name and always went back and deleted everything, it caused me too much anxiety.

Same here. Burned already 2-3 blogs that way. Absolutely hate the idea of somebody judging me by my opinion from last year. Much easier to start from scratch and create a new first impression.
That's me, as well. I think it's come from chronic Googling of Craigslist users that naively sent me emails under their real names, or even just searching by their emails, and I easily found information such as: one guy was listed in a court order with drug related gang violence, one guy had blog filled with info about his adventures "mail order bride-ing"...Some of the stuff was more embarrassing and less incriminating, but still. I've Googled people I've met before and been overly turned off by say, a small stupid youtube comment, or something like that.
I came here to post this. Ultimately he needs to work out whether or not he can talk to his co-founders or not about this. If he can't it'll tear the relationship apart and it doesn't matter whether or not the company's making or losing money, without that respect he'll have nothing but pain, tears and resentment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-factor_authentication

something the user knows
something the user has
something the user is
The patent in question is pretty absurd. If I understand it correctly, Alcatel patented the concept of using an ID to reference an object:

"referencing... an object that is to be displayed on the terminal display with a particular identifier"

If I understand it correctly, I've violated this patent hundreds of times. But in Alcatel's defense, they patented it a couple years before I started using IDs.
> I feel as though I've invested too much time and energy to bail now.

You're talking about sunk costs. There's nothing you can do about that now. Focus on the future. Think about your future time and energy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_costs
I am not going to go so far as to say someday you will regret it, but in the end you can't control how other people use your words. A pseudonym is a defensive mechanism.
> Wait till standing desks have been in fashion for some decades and you'll start seeing stories about people getting Thrombophlebitis in their legs.

Sitting for too long causes Thrombophlebitis too.

Standing desks are fine. Just like sitting, you don't stand all day. You take breaks. You move around.

The greatest benefit of a standing desk is you're more readily able to take breaks. You're already up. I think anyone with a sitting day job can attest to skipping breaks because of the effort of standing up. Yes, you heard me correctly, and it's true. Sometimes you're so into a problem or issue your brain tells you to skip taking a break because it's not worth the effort of getting up.
Is this anonymous copy-and-paste medium how people start to deal with their problems now? What happened to just talking to people or making tough decisions? I've seen more of these posts in the last year than I have in my entire time on HN.

I'm sorry you are having a tough time but you need to either 1) have a hard talk with your co-founders about your business model. present facts. make your case. they will listen.

or

2) if they dont, walk away and start something new. you mention you are a few years out of college. you could also go take all the technical experience you have gained over the last year and get another job. Make a decision on your own.

But really, the notion that a bunch of internet strangers will be able to give you some miracle advice is absurd.
Thanks for posting this! As a pre-beta startup, AL looks like an interesting way to generate funding, but using it effectively is a bit baffling.

C'est la vie. My big concern now is getting customers, not funding.
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I have to say I use my real name, but 1) I feel relatively safe because it's a really common name 2) I actually lost my job over my online postings, so maybe I should not feel that safe. Or maybe I should police myself (not gonna happen), or find a job where I would not feel the need to vent, or stop having a boss altogether.
If it had the amusingly dramatic music and crazy horn between sets like this video the I would definitely use it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRni0ctIeFE
>It was with this in mind that I spent a week in LA earlier this month recording Hardly Workin', a seven song album of motivational business music targeted at people newly entering the workforce.

Uh... what?
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> POP/IMAP are for reading email from the receiving server, not for sending out new emails.

They probably shouldn't be, though, there's an IMAP extension for submission.

> I was under the impression that most Usenet networks used UUCP.

No, NNTP. UUCP hasn't been used seriously for over a decade.

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> The filetype is more than the encoding.

HTML isn't an encoding, and HTML is the filetype in which the structured data used for schemas-in-email is embedded, using open standards for embedding various kinds of data in HTML.

> And should a given client not be aware of these 'actions', using a file-type enables the host system to present an application or extension that is.

It is now quite common for systems that handle HTML to provide mechanisms for extension to provide additional functionality that don't rely on segregation of related data into separate files with separate types.

> Embedding it within the email not only disadvantages those not using the big email clients

Parsing microdata and JSON-LD isn't exactly difficult; obviously Google specifically as the first mover has some advantage, but I don't see how this disadvantages any other client any more than any new feature a client implements.

> but it places ones email provider in the middle of a non-email exchange between the user and another service.

How is it a "non-email exchange"? Its an exchange conduct through email. That's an "email exchange".

> If anything, the way functionality has been created in 2013 is exactly why we should take care to not see things like this become a carrot for data silos.

How is the completely-open framework involved a "carrot for data silos"? You keep asserting conclusions without explaining your rationale.
Thanks. I will work on the feature description. The most notable features are easy saving and selection lookups.

To store a word, you just have to activate one or more of the colored circular buttons. And when you want to lookup a word within another word's definition you can select it and click lookup.
Can you roll back to a previous version of an app using iCloud after you update? I don't think so.
That looks great! When did Dribbble get so huge? That is less of a dribbble and more of a splllash.
And the requisite contrarian HN comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5704485
Just curious (and feel free not to answer due to privacy concerns), but does "partner" imply an ownership stake in YC, a la a law firm partner?
I'm in the same boat - I've been BruceIV nearly as long as I've been on the 'net, and it would be pretty trivial to find my actual name, location, etc. if anyone cared to look. I used to take more care to avoid links from BruceIV to my meatspace identity on the public Internet, but I don't care so much anymore.
Killer! Does anyone know good (free) software to build a computer (simulation), to test a design? Did you utilize any software in your specs?
No, actually they're different. http://floating-point-gui.de/ http://web.cse.msu.edu/~cse320/Documents/FloatingPoint.pdf

If you know enough about floating point to prove that the rounding will always give you the correct answer, then probably you would have just used the integer representation to begin with.
I'm pretty sure the OP wasn't expressing anything of the sort.

That said, the time invested by the developers on the platform and money spent on in-app purchases (via Google's in app purchasing platform) isn't free.

I'm not going to shed crocodile tears for the likes of Zynga or people that buy far too much credit on their games, but I think Google can and do have a little responsibility towards those groups which they're shamefully abdicating with the style and timing of this announcement.
I don't think it is entire absurd that internet strangers can give good advice. That said, it is entirely impossible when given no actual information or goals, just a scrawling whine.
I worked with Andrew for a while, and I can confidently say that he's a good and smart product guy. He had a good vision for the future of Groupon. Things obviously didn't work out, but it will be ignorant to put all the blame on him.

This one time, a business school professor interviewing him in front of a lot of MBAs asked, "So, what suggestions do you have for a student who has a tech startup idea, and they need help finding developers to build the first version?" I'm sure she was expecting him to talk about finding contractors, interns or free CS students . His response: "Learn to code." Since then, I've always felt he was one of us.

Many of us would have done exactly what he did (or maybe worse) if we were in his shoes (inexperienced entrepreneur running the fastest growing company ever, where everyone around him had a lot more weight).
I think the future will be one where we're split on this - not as a society, but individually. You will have your public persona and your private persona. I have to be public because I'm in news, but not everything I do has to be associated with my real name, and I take advantage of that when I feel like it. That ability and that habit will only become safer and more accepted over time.
Great article, though this strategy (as well as AL) is not of much use for first-time & pre-traction entrepreneurs.
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"This has to be the oddest and most ridiculous attempt I've seen to form a social life."

It's just an advertisement for microha.us.
I try to keep my postings professional on here so I have no problem linking to my personal identity. Anything I say here I'm willing to openly discuss with a stranger should I be caught with them on a plane, at a bar or otherwise. My opinions aren't something I'm ashamed of.

That said, on sites like Reddit where I'll spend more time calling out people for dumb things or participating in circlejerk karma threads I prefer to stay detached from my professional profile. I used to use an alias that could easily be linked back to me but now I prefer to use usernames that are unique and un-googlable.
Was the minister held at gunpoint? No but NZ gets a pass. Great next time they don't have to worry they know everyone will give them a pass.
If you want customer support, go to a company that provides it. Don't go using a service, knowing full well that it doesn't provide support, then go screaming about how they don't provide you support.

You knew that going in. You just fooled yourself into thinking it would be different this time.
ex-Groupon here. Andrew was one of the best things about Groupon, by far, no question, no argument from any other devs that worked there. Take that for what it's worth.
I'm not identifying with this at all. I have strong passions outside the industry. Tasks more meanful than dealing with CRUD, servers and web applications. Hobbies/past-times that given the time and money to pursue would become my new fun "job", contribute more to society and connect with others daily.
>When peoples private conversation is read and interpreted, even by a machine, most people still get a feeling of lost security. This in turn causes a real problem from lower personal security, increased mental stress, and social self-imposed restrictions.

That sounds like a line out of a Scroogled ad.
I hope it's obvious that when I proposed the idea, I did not do so with the anger that I am showing now.

Also, I'm not that angry about the mishandling of G+ Games. I wasn't even on that team, so it's not a big deal. That's just one symptom of an underlying problem, which is the dishonesty that exists when a company is marketed as open and engineer-centric but was taken over by managers several years ago.

Google is a bank with worse pay. If it admitted as much-- you'll be working in a closed-allocation environment, because we're now a bank-- I would fully respect that.
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well now, that is a truly unpleasant level of self-righteousness and resentment.
I would agree, talking with the co-founders is the best route to go. Come up with good examples and/or comparisons for why you think the business model won't be a success but also propose a solution to what route you think the business should go.
So... is this XSLT reinvented?

I'll admit it looks like it'd be a tonne nicer (less verbose and strict) than XSLT but it all looks very familiar to me... just add a client library and you have the same thing?

Or am I missing something here?
Ditto.

If I were to post something that I wouldn't want coming back on me, I'd use a throwaway.

In general, I'm rather snarky but that's just who I am and if someone doesn't like it they can stuff it.
Google's tax strategy is legal, but disguising UK sales as Irish sales is not.

"Google vice-president Matt Brittin insisted he stood by evidence he gave last year that all the firm's advertising in Europe was sold through its offices in Ireland.

But in a series of testy exchanges, the committee chairman, Margaret Hodge, said his claims were contradicted by documentation MPs had seen and evidence from a "stream" of whistleblowers.

"It was quite clear from all that documentation that the entire trading process and sales process took place in the UK," she told him."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/may/16/google-deni...

"The committee had also been contacted by a senior salesman who Ms Hodge said was paid a "modest" salary, but three or four times that in commission for sales and for "closing deals".

"This is somebody, a senior salesman, who said he was making sales in the UK. This is a UK sale and should be subject to UK tax," she added.

...Mr Brittin said that although sales staff in the UK were promoting Google and encouraging people to spend money, the transaction would take place in Ireland.

But Ms Hodge replied: "We all accept the billing is in Ireland. If sales activity is taking place in the UK, you are misleading both Parliament and the taxpayers in suggesting that is not happening."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/hmrc-are-being...
This is what it looks like on an iPad at least https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BKaxeNfCQAAp678.jpg
Stop wringing your hands over this and leave this venture. Don't worry about hurt feelings. Move on with your life. Get a job that brings in some income. Do it for the sake of your sanity and your relationships with loved ones.
Yes. I've exclusively used my real name online since 1991.
Technically, their collection was worth many millions of dollars, if they'd parted it out rather than donating it.
I know how you feel. Been there, done that. Let me say that its not your fault. You went in with the best interest in succeeding, but things went south. Your focus now should be on you. Not the business, but you. You don't owe them anything. Its time you focused on what is best for you. Its obvious you want to quit. Do so. Whatever happens, cannot be worse than what you are going through right now. Don't trap yourself into thinking about what if the company succeeds after you leave. Its not worth it. You can't continue living like this, in hopes of a better future. Truth is, the company has a slim chance of succeeding. And without you, it has less of a chance. So quit. Move on. Get your health back in order, and get a well paying job as a programmer. (look for the hiring thread on HN, or at indeed.com). Remember, money is nothing without health. You must be mentally healthy in order to be able to enjoy it. If anything, just shoot me an email. I will gladly listen to you. Best wishes.
The reason we (and probably Mongo folks) do it this way is because JSON is case-sensitive, so making indexes case-insensitive wouldn't work very well.

EDIT: it looks like I misread your comment. I was talking about index/field names, while I think you were talking about field values. In this case Sam's comment below is correct -- once we add string.toLower() (which is very easy) you'll be able to do case-insensitive indexing if you like because the indexing system supports arbitrary reql expressions. If you're using rethink and this is important to you, let me (slava@rethinkdb.com) know, and we'll prioritize this.
> Then write a dashboard facility without polluting your existing applications by bolting barely related features onto them.

How is automatically recognizing meaning and surfacing action requests from email a "barely related" feature to an existing email client?
It doesn't change anything from my perspective, that is the idea behind part-time vs. full-time. The other part-time partners all have fulltime jobs as well.
i don't get the excitement for this 7 minutes workout, can't you just go in the gym for 1 hour 3 times a week and do some squats ?

aside from this the site looks good, simple and to the point, props for it.
Try and fix the problems yourself. If the problems are fixable, I'm sure you have insight into how to fix them. There's obviously something wrong with the situation.

If you can't fix the problems, leave. Don't fall into a sunken cost fallacy. Sometimes losing time and/or money is just a part of doing business. You took a risk. Risk is a part of life. But you should also learn to recognize when to cut losses and move on. You should sit down, decide upon what it will take for you to leave the company, and stick to the decision if it comes to pass.
I personally believe that an indicator of intelligence is the capacity to change ones mind when presented with new data. I don't want to be judged on past posts or comments, if it's possible that my mind has been changed, my opinion altered, etc. by new data or more thoughtful consideration.
Ditto. Deciding to use a variant of my name here was something I went back and forth on (partly because I didn't want it associated with me at all, partly because I didn't want it to be gendered [1]). Ultimately I decided that I wanted to be able to take credit for posts where I write about usability/design/anything else I feel qualified to speak to, even at the expense of potential employers reading the rest of what I write here. On the other side of the same coin, I don't put any personal information in my profile.

[1] One of, if not my very first, comment's first comment was someone using my gender to denounce my opinion, which had me trying to figure out if I should start fresh again. For the most part this only happens in gender issues threads (where sockpuppets and new accounts run rampant), but this particular one wasn't. I wasn't sure if that attitude was going to follow me throughout my time here, but I've found most people don't even look at my username (as evidenced by being referred to as "he" in child comments).
If or once a string.toLower() function is added to RQL, you'll be able to have case-insensitive indexes in RethinkDB, because you can index on arbitrary functions of your rows.