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I think it's sort of the opposite (of acquiring ET for their customers).

As a company "born Cloud", Salesforce have had to make sure their integration capabilities have been up to snuff, and other vendors have been able to leverage those integrations to reach Salesforce customers via the AppExchange (similar to the App Store).

So the capability of using Salesforce whilst using other apps with integration has been a capability for a while, and so customers could tailor their own solutions to their needs, budgets etc. Except that more and more, customers want the one-back-to-pat/one-neck-to-strangle, and the associated 'one-solution, no integration' benefits. Hence Salesforce have been parking their tanks on the lawns of service providers. When asked for features, Salesforce response is sometimes "There's an app for that", however sometimes the demand for them to provide certain functionality is so great, or the opportunity large enough, that they'll enter a market in this fashion. They're currently doing something similar with identity management. Ping Identity had a solution they could sell you, but soon they'll have to compete with Salesforce Identity.

Competing with someone who hosts the platform you're working on is possible, but it's definitely a disadvantage.

The other factor here is what the other players are up to - Oracle recently purchased Eloqua, and for those of us in the Salesforce line of work, an acquisition like this has been expected for the last few months. Email marketing is an area in which Salesforce has been weak for some time, they didn't want to do it because it's not their core focus, and hey, "there are apps for that". But once Oracle moved, Salesforce were going to follow suit to block that advantage.
I've used hot code replacement with Eclipse since 2004, but you had to jump through hoops to get it back than, and you could not do anything other than code inside methods (no changes to a class public or private interface). No idea if that has changed, but I still think this won't help if you suddenly decide to change your class hierarchy, or initialization files.

His workflow goes much deeper than just changing the code. The entire application state is abstracted away and you can reload the entire application state in under a second.

Think a little about the implications of that before posting.
Self publishing AND traditional publishing? You don't have to choose.
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And when the person who was there to grab it isn't qualified for the position? Just because you were there early doesn't mean you're the best person for the job.

CXO titles at small companies are a sign of bad things.
Clever is not smart.

Consider this anecdote: I recently put together a DIY 3d printer. I didn't have the right tools to cut steel bar, so I made a clever jig and used a shitty Dremel without enough clearance. Clever? Yes -- it got the job done with limited resources. Smart? No -- dumb, actually. Smart would have been driving 15 minutes to Harbor Freight to buy a $20 cut-off saw.
But the PRC is still censoring it, right?
It think it's just an easier way for Parse users to do server-side rendering of their single-pag apps. To be honest, I don't even think that's right.

They're coming out with all these interested disparate services, they need to provide a coherent story for how developers can use them together. Maybe a sample app or two.
Actually, it was an alert() box plus evil.js, which overwrites lots of native JS functionality to intentionally cause weird bugs.

The idea is to make it impossible to ignore so abusers will stop their hotlinking. I'm not really interested in shaming anyone, though. I think it's usually just a simple mistake where someone was lazy and didn't bother reading all the caveats.
Thanks! I'll send this to Randy who is in charge of the website now. I'm pretty sure we're in agreement, him and I, that the left menu is possibly a bad idea and we've struggled with it.
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> By supporting XML by default and using XSLT to translate it to alternate outputs, you're able to support multiple formats without having to modify your software itself.

By separating out the rendering-to-an-output format from the basic logic of the application, you get similar benefits without creating a dependency on XML handling libraries and requiring another implementation language (XSLT) for the rendering component.
I think a variation of that happens in every country in the world.

I've heard it called all kinds of names like "re-birthing".
> It is dangerously easy, when changing and reloading code at the REPL, to get an application into a state which could not have been reached by the code it is currently running.

This is the key point people some comments have been missing. Since you can evaluate code whenever you want, the running instance might become a frankenstein, containing code and data that shouldn't be around anymore.

I'd like to see the point of view of Smalltalk users (who develop against the images).
It sounds like you've nailed it. This has fewer features, but if you use Parse's data storage (which is their primary product) you probably have improved performance since your data and app are presumably nearby.
have you considered the possibility that people don't do it primarily to feel special? What do you think is the spirit of charity?
Yes! Please Atlassian, consider this a feature request for Jira.
Sorry about that. I haven't even looked at the site on Windows. Soon as I have time I'll see if I can find a font that Chrome won't mangle on Windows.
With 3000 people... that amazes me.
I love IPython: it's definitely worth it if you want to regularly use a REPL to explore things like your Django objects, filter for things, or test scripts with test data. I really like it for exploring a codebase which I am not 100% familiar with, as its tab completion is excellent.

Run it with ipython --pprint though, so you get automatic pretty printing. I also recommend using the qtconsole plugin , as it is Much Nicer.

Basically, if you like bpython, this is better in every way I can think of. If you like the plain python REPL, give this a shot anyway. :) You may be pleasantly surprised.
Oh wow, its like git commands for my ...terminal?

All jokes aside, this is actually really helpful, but as someone who uses the terminal on a daily basis, I have the commands for Git like baked into memory (or at least the ones I use on a regular basis), and wouldn't be interested in trying to change my work flow (a lot of my stuff is scripted). However, for someone learning git using github, something like this could be extremely helpful!
Congratulations to OMGPOP for pulling this Hudini act off :)

Cha-chin!
don't need to do that all - its actually basically a very simple model without the circular reference.
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They posted two sample apps on the article:

AnyBlog: http://www.anyblog.co

Source: https://github.com/ParsePlatform/AnyBlog

AnyMeme: http://www.anymeme.org

Source: https://github.com/ParsePlatform/AnyMeme
multiprocessing is just pretty broken in general. I've never been able to get it to work well in FreeBSD in particular. Essentially python calls all sorts of unsafe routines after the fork, here's an example bug report:

http://bugs.python.org/issue3770
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Are you unaware of the "WAKE UP SHEEPLE" meme?

Suggesting that voters (or "the masses", or "the proletariat") are a flock of dumb animals that need herding / shepherding is as old as the hills.

Either you're unaware of this, or don't find it problematic. I find the latter to be less edifying than the former.
Use APIs when possible...the methods would be dependent on what the goal is.
I agree with you as long as the candidate is sufficiently competent at negotiating. Unfortunately, a large number of developers are not.
Might want to take another look at the article to fix grammar/spelling.
Moving walls actually requires a construction permit since it is generally not an interior decorator's job to move walls.

Hard to tell if you're trolling or showing what wrong-headed arguments are used by the industry to justify anti-competive laws.
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Point is that taxpayers are subsidizing your gain in disposing a car that isn't worth the book value, as well as the process of transporting and selling the car, and KQED might not get much money at all.
I'm 27. I've crossed the 6-figure barrier twice.

1: Consulting on the side.

Find a company that has you working an actual 40 hours per week (government contractors are good for this), which doesn't bar you from doing some side work (bonus points if they have a culture which supports this). Then, find a client or two. You won't have to charge much in order to cross the six figure barrier.

2: Work outside of the software industry

Within a year of when I started consulting, I was recruited by a shrinkwrap products company to work in their intelligent products division. Because I was already consulting successfully, and because I didn't really feel like I wanted the job, I threw out some high numbers during salary negotiation. In the end I wound up with a compensation package North of six figures in an area with very low cost of living.

General advice:

Quit focusing on what solutions you'd need to learn in order to get to the next level. Instead focus on what problems pay the most. Never, ever market yourself in terms of the tools you use. Market yourself in terms of the problems you solve.

Edit:

One other thing - definitely do learn more. Always. The more you learn, the more problems you'll be able to solve. Just make sure that you're letting the problems focus your learning and career development, not trends in solutions.

Edit 2:

Did I really write "done crossed the six-figure barrier" up there? "Well shewt!"
I meant that it's not a lot of money, it's wasn't very successful for the amount of time/effort/marketing/press it got.

It was all over TC and other publications. One would assume that would correlate to more success, but I guess that would be a false assumption.
I can honestly say this book changed the way I think about everything. I can't recommend it highly enough.
Actually it does much more than that. You can create issues on GitHub, list all pull requests from all repositories you own, and so on...
This is probably true at the National level; however on individual State / local government levels this isn't true at all.

You can argue that the original tripartite division of US government doesn't scale to modern population levels, but your argument is otherwise extremely weak.
It seems Mr. and Mrs. Parker should have purchased their own coastal land for their fanciful wedding. Surely they could afford to do so. They could have probably avoided public scrutiny. However, I think the author's indignation and clear bias are a little over-the-top -- I think he even came close to using the all-powerful "middle class" hammer we've been beaten over the head with so much in the last year or two: "Basically, what was supposed to be a facility that people of all incomes -- including the general public -- could visit had become a high-end resort...". Sigh. It's worth noting also the CCC is notorious for their zeal in enforcement. Ask anybody who owns property along the California coast, and you will hear story after story of severe enforcement. Most any project is deemed to have significant impact; consequently, only those with deep pockets can afford to obtain the costly permits. To Mr. Madrigal, though, this is "...also part of the new Silicon Valley parable".
This is exactly right.

Anyone who's using rawgithub.com in a situation where harm could be done by running arbitrary third-party JS is probably misusing rawgithub.com.
True, though some start in the womb; it is a semi-instinctual behavior. I favor it because I think it promotes cognitive development, whereas a pacifier does not. Admittedly the calculus of this looks a bit different when the baby wakes up at 4am, after finally going to sleep at 2am.
If i correctly understood the stock options seminar i recently had to go through, it means two things:

1) if you want to sell your stock to someone else before IPO, the company has to approve the sale. If they don't like who you're selling to (which could just be because they don't want voting shares belonging to outside people), they can choose to buy it back instead. If they don't like your price (too low or too high), then you and the company have to negotiate a 'fair' price.

2) The company has the option, but is not required, to buy back any unvested shares that you have already exercised if you leave.
Yeah,

It is quite hard to read a stream of text about programming without examples.

But reading it, it seems like his problem could be more with Perl, which certainly has a reputation of supporting and encouraging unnecessary complexity. But argument is so vague, you could write the same article with Python substituted for Go - at least as far as the knowledge the article gives one about Go goes.
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There aren't all that many engineering disciplines, and hiring a hundred well-qualified people to review patents might actually save the government a lot of money that currently goes toward running the legal system (they could hire fewer federal judges).

Being a part-time patent examiner might be a great job for a retired engineer who remembers all the "new ideas" from the last several decades.
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I used to live in Denver, and today I live in San Francisco. I can tell you, this story is not an exaggeration. When I was in Denver I did PL/SQL and C# types of things. Today I do Python and Javascript and basically standard technology things. I can tell you, there's a vast difference in Denver vs San Franscisco. You drive down the streets of San Francisco and you see signs saying, "Developers! We freakin love you, come work for us!" You ride the subway, and there are signs for game companies hiring developers. Really: it's not like Denver, honest.
Do you have a portfolio? It sounds interesting.
Assuming my password is safe, I think keychain (on a Mac) takes care of almost all the issues specified. Except the source code
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Yep, I'm fully aware of the behavioral theory behind it and the four quadrants. To the layman it's easier to talk about Reinforcement versus Punishment alone, since the two main branches share most of the common effects, and of which (at least in animal training) Positive Reinforcement with cues (clicker) appears to be the most effective. I realize I might have mixed them up above, sorry about that.

I actually think about positive wording versus negative wording to be a prime example of punishment versus reinforcement; with negative wording the interpretation (mine anyway, without much analysis) is a pre-emptive punishment directed directly at me for an undesired behavior that is an option, whereas a positively worded sign is pre-emptive positive reinforcement for good behavior that I might consider. I get rewarded/positively reinforced for good thought versus punished for bad thoughts, and it turns out the punishment (and side-effects thereof) applies whether or not I actually had the thoughts or not (citation needed, etc.). Really interesting to think about.
I know, its pretty cool; Thats why it was a joke. Im a purist when it comes to my technology, and like to keep my git separate from my github. I don't feel like mixing their metaphorical peanut butter with my metaphorical chocolate. I don't use github for all my repos so I dont want to have commands that don't simply work on , say my bitbucket repos.
I worked at Zynga for a year + some months. It's actually a good place to work. You learn a ton about social / viral games and monetization, make really good contacts, get paid at or above market salary, eat really good food, and get all the other startup perks. And, you're still doing game development so it's not like your skills don't transfer.

I don't regret working there at all. I just wish the stock hadn't of tanked and the game I was working on hadn't of been a failure =P
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5814432
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My third language..

will appriciate if you can drop me a line with corrections do @ itlater.com
I’d love someday to hear a young coder tell a story about someone they idolized like, “There was this guy I worked with who once optimized a complicated red- black tree getting 300% performance boost. I was baffled and ask, ‘How’d you do that? That’s impossible.’ To which he responded…”

“‘That’s my linked list my son.’”

I believe that this is exactly what Niklaus Wirth did in the Oberon compiler.
Ask HN: One year off. What do I do to get hired?
A month ago I secured a summer internship at a big bank. It pays well, it is funding my rent and food for the next 1 year - 1.5 years.

I'm 20 years old based in Toronto in my second year of a god awful community college program. I am not learning anything. Everything we have covered up until now, honest to Richard Stallman, I have learned in highschool and on my own time tinkering with things and building.

I've dropped out. I was kicked out of my parents house and disowned as a result of this.

I am now focusing this entire year on development. My own personal projects as well as self study time. What do I need to learn to be the best developer I can be + what exactly do I need to be hireable? I want to work as a web developer.

Currently I know: HTML/CSS,C,C++,MySQL,PHP,a bit of JS. I have loads of experience in graphic design as well, so that's an edge I have. I work when I come home from work freelance doing logo/graphic design and some development work. I've built fileservers. I've run a gameserver company before. I have LOADS of experience with every major forum software: vBulletin, IPB, MyBB, PHPBB. I know these back to front, like the back of my hand, this is what I did in my teen days to make money so I know it well. I'm familiar with Wordpress and Joomla, looked a bit into Drupal.

What do I do to get hired? Realistically speaking I only have about 8 months of prepaid dev time, after that I'm going to have no cash so I need to make this time count.

I was kicked out of my parents house, so if this year doesn't work out, I'm either getting a burger flipping job or going homeless.

With that being said, what should I do to get a job at a small company/startup as a web developer?
This doesn't address your particular question, but I like to recommend Eric Koester's guides to term sheet newbies:

http://www.avvo.com/attorneys/20007-dc-eric-koester-1214516/...

There are several pages of articles & you might have to read and re-read a few times. It's dense, but clear.
> Of course, how would the patent office know that the idea is non-obvious to an engineer trained in the state of the art, unless they employ engineers who are trained in the state of the art in every engineering discipline?

By using a roster of consultants, presumably.

(I agree with the rest of your points, by the way.)
great feedback - do you think facilitating the fundraising with books would help? we think this may work but it deviates somewhat from what we want to do as it means we help people do fundraising as opposed to us doing it which is what we want. If we have to change to make it succeed that works.
Take a look at my personal site without checking the source:

http://willholloway.net/

Can you instantly tell if it was built with boostrap?
Zynga games?
My car donation story:

In 1998 I donated a car to the American Lung Association. It was picked up from my driveway and I thought that was that.

Months later, I received a bill in the mail from the Chicago Police Department for impound fees. I do not remember the total but it was in the THOUSANDS. $4000 or so sounds about right in my cloudy recollection.

It had been dumped in an alley somewhere in downtown Chicago. The registration had never been transferred and I was still the legal owner.

I got it cleared up (fairly easily, thanks CPD - must be a common enough thing), but beware.
lulu.com offers print on demand for ebooks and lists your book in amazon, B&N, etc.

Of course publishers add value with marketing and editing. But a big publisher is not required to sell books in print.
Any chance the idea was found here? http://willgrant.org/category/idea-dump
> Being a part-time patent examiner might be a great job for a retired engineer who remembers all the "new ideas" from the last several decades.

Shit, that is a damn fine idea, friend.
We have done this but CTR on FB is very low. We spent a long time improving it and then landing page interaction is poor. I find FB ads are great for continued exposure in FB, for example, towards an FB page. However, to an external site, it's very difficult unless your value proposition is crystal clear. Considering young parents are not thinking of college per se, makes it difficult to be crystal clear in 2 seconds.

Have you seen succesful campaigns with FB ads?
Smart might be to buy a cut-off saw. Brilliant would be to find a working cut-off saw with blade for $20!
If you couldn't see Zynga was poison long ago, even when it was on its meteoric rise, then you seriously were not paying attention.
I'm not sure a $2.5 million fine means very much when you have an estimated net worth of $2.1 billion.
Ex-Zynga here, and that's exactly what I've done. We're prioritizing profit sharing over equity, so as the company does really well (as Zynga did in the years prior to their IPO), all employees who contribute will be making a lot of money, not just the founders.
decentralized social network program pump.io has a dislike button. But features like this are implemented as apps, and so you can implement these kinds of features however you want. In effect a like or a dislike is an activity post on your own account with a backreference to the content, and others who subscribe to your feed see this. You can't aggregate all data as in a facebook "like" system, but I see this as a feature rather than a bug.
Sounds a lot like the Borders strategy. It worked well for Amazon. For Borders? Not so much.
I launched rawgithub.com before GitHub announced their official policy discouraging projects from using "github" in their name. I really, really liked the simplicity of just deleting the dot in "raw.github.com" to get a rawgithub.com URL.

I've tried to make it very clear that rawgithub.com is in no way endorsed by or associated with GitHub in the hopes that there won't be any confusion, but naturally I'd change the name if GitHub asked me to. I definitely don't want to tromp on their trademark.
On the "pay investors legal fee's", I was recently very shocked of how many things investors want their Portfolio companies to pay for them.

For instance, if investor is required to travel for Board Meetings they will require company to pay for it. Also some investors will make companies do regular financial audits with a firm of their choosing and force the company to again pay for it.

My biggest questions is, were does the 2% annual fee that investors charge their LP's go? I know some firms have on-site staff to help their companies with recruiting, PR etc, but most don't.
Many countries already do that today and this is not 'a reserve' currency use.