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For me, I built Start Bootstrap from my own personal library of starter templates that I used for my company. Once Bootstrap 3 came around I updated my personal starter templates and figured why not share them with the world.

They serve a purpose as learning tools, inspiration, reference, or a quick way to get a decent looking site out for someone.

I have so much respect for the people out there who can build awesome things from scratch though, the talent of some designers out there blows my mind, and for something to really stand out and be unique I think custom is the only way to go.
I feel like pointing out that legality is a quantum state.
Thanks for making such a wonderful initiative. You guys (at Start Bootstrap) rocks!
Another thing to know is that computer science != computer programming. In some cases, students can get through four years without becoming really proficient in any one language, and can largely escape things like version control systems. It's probably going to be up to you to learn those things on your own.
While you're waiting for this kickstarter to be funded, you can just tweet a picture of your bike: https://twitter.com/ceequof/status/372166690273898496

(And since google doesn't appear to have indexed that serial number, a vanilla html page: https://bbot.org/bike )
First I'd watch Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown: Spain, then I'd move to Granada and marry into a large family.
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You think pairing with Bootsnipp is good...

Grab a template, slap on a theme from http://bootswatch.com, and you'll have something pretty nice. It will still require some further customization, but it's a great starting point!
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Not to mention that most gmail users would probably be a little upset if gmail search stopped working because google was no longer 'intercepting' their emails to index the contents.
Thanks for pointing that one out. I will have to fix that ASAP.
Where is the video version of this presentation?
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I plan to keep adding at least 1-2 templates a week as time permits. I will take your advice!
Check out this guy. He lived in an apartment in the SF area:
http://earlyretirementextreme.com/rv-vs-apartment.html
Thank you! I am glad you found Start Bootstrap useful. If you have a personal suggestion for a template please let me know and I'll build it for you! Email me at feedback@startbootstrap.com and make sure you mention it's jalan from HN. I'll make whatever you want to the best of my ability!
If it went on long enough and there were outstanding questions that could only be answered by the SEC, it's not incredible at all. Or do you mean that it's incredible that our political system is so broken that we must worry about such possibilities?
If hardware doesn't require a traditional web UI then why even use JavaScript? Did we all suddenly forget the history of why we even have to use JavaScript on the web. Here's a hint: the web browser. I don't use it cause I like it, I use it cause that's what we were forced to standardize on. There are much better languages and frameworks out there we can use for this.
It really seems like a stretch to call Google's scanning a wiretap, but part of me hopes they lose. If they do, it might be harder for the government to access our online data without a warrant:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/10/governments-attack-clo...

"And now the government is trying to use standard contractual language to argue that any user of a cloud computing service has, at best, "severely limited" ownership rights in their property."
Ugh. So many problems:

1. It's a violation of "Kickstarter cannot be used to fund e-commerce, business, and social networking websites or apps."

2. This is a website, right? Then why: "Travel to the eleven biggest bike cities in the United States to meet with shop owners and give them the ability to register bikes for free (the cities: NYC, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Philadelphia, Madison, Tucson, Austin, Denver, D.C., and Minneapolis)."

(Awesome, let's use Kickstarter to pay for me/us to take a trip through the US "to meet with bike shop owners and give them a chance to use the website"...)

3. "Offer region specific recommendations for reporting bike theft to the police." - so an extended goal of this site is to "recommend how to report to the police, customized for regions"?!?

4. Some stickers.

5. Oh, and you have to pay to register with the Index.

And they seriously want $50K for this? Sorry for the cynicism... but this is a website, some stickers, and a tour of the US for the founders.
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250th on the list of all time NHLers? That's still a tiny percentage of all players that have every played (~1500/year, obviously with some overlap from year to year). And that's only counting those in the NHL; there are many hockey "pros" who could only dream of making the NHL. Factor them in and the Gretzky performance is even more remarkable.

And you're only looking at points scored. How does a star's leadership affect their team? How did their mere presence affect the other team's entire strategy? How many seats does a star fill in the stadium every time they played? How many jerseys and other merchandise did they sell? Hockey, like software, is a business and I'd be that someone like Gretzky brings in an order of magnitude more money than an "average" hockey pro.

Denying the possibility that there could be someone 10x better than you is the real ego stroking. I know there are developers an order of magnitude better than me. I find that inspiring, as it gives me something to work for every day.
> That this kind of essentially incestuous relationship is allowed should say a lot

How so? Would you rather that the judge be related to the plaintiff's lawyer? Would you not be crying "Conspiracy! Corruption! Favouritism!" then? Should the judge's son be disallowed from practicing law?
I can't imagine the existence of a security professional who hasn't already met someone who does.

They are out there, and it's nearly impossible to get them to understand why they remain in entry-level positions for so long.
Familiarity. If you are someone who builds traditional web UIs, then Javascript is what you know best, and that is the market segment they are trying to attract what this product.

If people truly want the better languages and frameworks that you mention, then the products that come out with those choices should win out in the marketplace eventually.
It's amazing how so much of it is still so so relevant today!

(The book was published in 1994.)
You can run node on raspberrypi. I don't see how this is so much better.
I still don't understand how a rally will do anything beyond making the news. The effort might be better spent identifying specific senators, and representatives, and encouraging people to vote them out of office through campaigning.
The judge has rejected the argument that the receiver has given permission in general even for their own messages to be intercepted.
I can understand the motivation. But not sure if I want to be surrounded by hardware powered by software written by people who think that Javascript is actually a good programming language.
Personal anecdote;

At one of my previous jobs, where I had worked for a year or so, my employer had to let me go due to cutbacks. I was the first in a wave of about 20 that were made redundant in the following two months. This equaled about half the company.

It was a pretty intense 30 minutes.

He called me into his office, and told me he would have to let me go; today, without severance or pay for this month. By the time I got back to my desk 5 minutes later, my work email account had already been blocked, which rendered me unable to say goodbye to about half of my colleagues, since they weren't in that day. I was stumped. After cleaning up my computer I made a round in the office, saying goodbyes and telling everyone I was made redundant.

As my employer showed me into the photo-studio next door, where I wanted to say goodbyes to the rest of our team, I told him I'd be having a long hard look at my contract, because I didn't believe he could just let me go without pay. 15 minutes later, still in the photo-studio talking to my colleagues/friends, I got a phone call. My employer had looked at my contract and found that he:
- had to give me a months notice;
- had to pay me my severance (a month's wage);
- owed me my un-used leave;
- already revoked all my access to all internal/external processes.

That last one meant that I didn't have to come back in again.

The other employers that were made redundant, were told they had the choice of leaving that day (and get paid for a month), or finishing the month of work, all receiving their severance normally.

My bet, is that it was the first time he ever had to make someone redundant. He seemed genuinely upset too. I never blamed him on a personal level, even though I disagreed with many of his executive decisions.

He did end up giving me a glowing recommendation when I applied for a new job, so there's that.
> This behavior is exceedingly non-intuitive, at least to me.

I've been thinking about the notion of the Bekenstein Bound lately, and I'm not really sure how accurate the whole idea is. There seems to be a few problems with it, and I don't get the sense that it is a particurly heavily studied problem in the physics community (compared to something like general relativity or QFT).

For one thing, nobody is certain that "actual" black holes exist. What I mean by this is a black hole where matter has actually fallen into it. Instead, the matter approaches the event horizon at an increasingly slower pace for an observer until at some point in time it is effectively frozen an infinitesimal distance from the event horizon (but still not in the black hole). In this sense, of course the information content is proportional to the surface area of the black hole.

(I should note that mathematically, "effective" black holes and "real" black holes end up having the same properties and behavior; they'd be indistinguishable to an observer).

Another problem with the Bekenstein Bound is that quantum states aren't localized to a volume of space. You can't just hold up a beach ball and say "What's the maximum information content of this beach ball?". Why? Because you can't just have a wavefunction of just "the beachball". It's a pretty good approximation, but what about the electron-electron correlations at the edge of the beach ball? And what if the spin of an electron within the beach ball is entangled with an electron outside of it? The information describing that particular quantum state is then delocalized.
> A year or two later, and they'll freely agree that being laid off was good for them.

It strikes me as dangerous to conclude too much from this. In fact, I worry that this particular sort of statistic could be completely meaningless. People often try to find positive interpretations of events which are too painful for them to accept. It's a very powerful form of cognitive dissonance. Being fired from a job you enjoy can be a nearly traumatic hit to your perception of yourself, and it is necessary to reconstruct your self-image in some way. Most likely the person will exercise some creative freedom in this reconstruction process.
Those vendors aren't using the content of your email to further their own interests other than the expected function of delivering the mail reliably.
I get the feeling this is going to become a a comprehensive registry of stolen bicycles.
Sorry, I was using security in the sense of physical security that one associates with money, not cryptographic security. But yes, they are both cryptographic properties of the system and for most systems they are provable properties.

If I remember correctly, Chaum's original paper didn't deal with offline double spending. It was blind signature based online e-cash that depend on the bank keeping a list of spent serial numbers(which isn't much easier keeping an account balance). So it's point was mainly anonymity.

His subsequent work did offline e-cash with double spend detection, but at least the original paper on that was very inefficient. I'm curious which line of work Digicash tried to deploy.

There is a large gap in my knowledge of the literature after that which also handily ignores the work of Stefan Brands, but as far as I know, the first system with really efficient offline double spend detection was due to Camenisch, Hohenberger, and Lysyanskaya, in 2006, long after Digichash went under.
Most Christians in the US are evangelical

http://religions.pewforum.org/affiliations

I would also debate that many people calling themselves Protestant who go to mainline churches aren't really christian except in a cultural way. Unlike their Evangelical brothers, they have a tendency to not show up at church

http://religions.pewforum.org/comparisons#
That might actually work, despite being unethical, since it would create outrage over the punishment victims' plight... The only reason the draconian punishment regime we call the war on drugs fails to elicit outrage is because it only sends The Other (the poor and the unfortunately hued or both) to jail.
If you want to do new things, why not learn appropriate ways of doing those things? Is it really so hard to use more than one language when that makes technical sense?
Well that's the most depressing thing I've heard all year.
Most of the messages that pass through Gmail do not originate there.
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Hi hackers, could you suggest me some computer science project ideas related to mathematics.
It's unclear why you'd want to do so, since the Windows console environment sucks. Just use Winpdb, pdb, your Python IDE or whatever.
I'd just add take a few classes outside your chosen field (and required courses) in an area of secondary interest. You get acquainted with different people, get a different perspective, etc.

My main undergrad was actually originally BioChem, which I flipped over to straight Chemistry and added Computer Engineering because it was easy. I never worked in the Chemistry field. I threw in Lit and Politics classes (upper div/grad level) just to meet and discuss different topics with different groups of people.

All too often if you pick an impacted degree, need to take lots of the same classes with the same people, and are spending all your time on that subject you will miss out.
They do that only for the purpose of delivering the mail safely. Not to further their own arbitrary business interests.
This is really awesome, some of these are really well thought out and executed.
and what is a 'good' programming language, sir.
So as long as they don't kill people, whatever they do is ok?
yeah we should just develop everything in assembly
I'm not sure that's accurate ... web developers went out of their way to make CSS and JavaScript not be written in CSS and JavaScript.
From where I sit - it seems a lot of the UI for "internet of things" hardware is going to be your phone, so your end user facing code is likely to be html5/javascript web apps served from the webserver on the embedded hardware. There's tehn a lot of good reasons to run javascript code on the device as well. (Which isn't the approach we're taking, we've got html5/js for the UI and Python running most of the code on our hardware (for details and shameless self promotion, see http://dev.moorescloud.com/ ).
I know right? I wish there was a recording of the talk-- the slides are glossing over something that was probably either in the QA or explained during.
Tessel has been on a pretty strong marketing push ever since the Espruino funding page went up.
The difficult thing in writing web sites or apps isn't writing them, or writing a lot of them, it's is writing a polished, successful, end product people love. So I think having a goal to write a certain number is self defeating.
I don't want hardware designed by people who can't manage to learn a language.
Cultural fit tends to be code for the firee (or firer, one or the other) being an asshole. Nobody wants to work with assholes, no matter how above average they might be. I have never heard of a kind, well-liked person being fired for cultural fit issues. (Which is not to say it never happens. But it's pretty rare, I guess, that that is the actual reason a nice person is fired.)
Consider how it would be if the NSA passed our email through a system that uses machine learning to generate a list of suspects, but no human analyst read the body text of any message.

Somehow I don't think we'd say that they haven't intercepted the email.
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A better idea would be something like LoJack for a bicycle that fits in the stem underneath the seat. It would transmit on a frequency which can be picked up by the police and in theory you should be able to get your bike back fairly quickly. Alternatively, it could have a cel connection (like whispernet for a Kindle), and any time it picks up a frequency it could send out its GPS coordinates or triangulates itself.

Either way, technology is the solution, not registering your bicycle. Most cities have registered bikes for years (in Palo Alto I believe there is still a law on the books making it mandatory, but it's never enforced), and very few bikes ever get recovered. You're better of perusing Craig's List to wait for someone trying to sell your bike and just go and steal it back.
anything but javascript!
For some people it may be easy. For others they may have awesome ideas but decide not to execute on those ideas because learning Arduino C++ or figuring out how to install Node on a RaspberryPi seems like a large barrier to entry for them. Maybe some of those people are those that make those awesome websites, and maybe with an embedded controller that feels more like the environment they're used to, they're more likely to bring their awesome ideas to fruition.

Disclaimer: I went to school with the Tessel folks.
I would like to second this opinion.

I am concerned that many of these products will not hit practical state until issues like power consumption and cost can be addressed. I don't want to have my device wired and I don't want my $1 dollar light bulb to cost $40.

If these guys insist on using JS they should compile it to 8bit code, so that we can better address to cost and power issues. Right now they have something that is larger than an Arduino. My gut reaction is that python might be a better fit.
How about medical information from your doctor or legal information from your doctor or financial information from your bank?

Google also can compile information about the sender or receiver of an email even if they are not on gmail. Can they retarget ads based on that information?
ooh, how about PHP?

It's practically C and everybody likes C!
Here are a few languages you could choose from (my favourite currently would be Scala):

Scala (http://www.scala-lang.org/)
Clojure (http://clojure.org/)
Haskell (http://www.haskell.org/)
OCaml (http://caml.inria.fr/)
Mechanical engineering is really hard. Getting injection molds made is really expensive. 3d printed stuff is janky (right now).
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"slightly less egregious Whole Foods" is a great way of putting it, though like Whole Foods, I find food from them does not last before spoiling as long as I would like.
Except that no. Because of players within the market entrench themselves, like JavaScript for example has, there's practically no way for a change.

The iterative change is constantly restricted by past decisions, abstractions and investments. It's very hard to come up with nothnig but "good enough, sort of" solutions in this kind of a model.

I don't even know why I care. Psychology is a bitch, and I suffer. :(
Apparently the NSA should get into the ad serving business to fund themselves because they are the only ones legally authorized by congress and the president to read and store everyone's content.
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Of course not. And they are doubtless doing something like that, because human analysts could not possibly keep up. The idea is to build a huge haystack, then go searching for needles in it, using as much automation as possible.

And, like any Gmail user, you did agree to their TOS? Well? Didn't you?
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The question is, why are they trying to attract the segment of the market that builds traditional web UIs?
Isn't the sender then also potentially a target for ad re targeting even though they were never on gmail at all?
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Practice is never self defeating.
I would imagine any clever idea John McAfee thought of probably has a contingency plan in an NSA file somewhere.
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As a member of a small startup (4 person technical team, all of us holding down day-jobs as well), the _prime_ decision trigger for technology is "what 'way of doing things' is the person allocated to a particular task going to be most productive in right now?". That's driven us in some directions that're non-obvious to outsiders - our stack is basically ARCH Linux, CherryPi, Python, Arduino, HTML5/JS - I can easily see people thinking "WTF? Why?", but there's some very good reasons behind those decisions - reasons which have probably allowed us to get to market 6 months earlier than if we'd chosen the stack based purely on technical merits rather than considering the skills and competencies of the existing team.

If we'd had corporate funding behind us, it'd almost certainly be different. But as a small startup, I'm 100% sure our slightly odd choices are the right ones for us. (And I could easily see why a different startup might decide node.js/javascript on the hardware was the correct choice for _their_ technical/development team)
coming to this a bit late, but I'm glad that you (a) recognize that your wife's gender certainly plays a role in her career trajectory and (b) want to help her without mansplaining like I see most of the commenters so far have done. It's unfortunate but true that women are discouraged from pursuing technical and scientific careers from elementary school on, and once we get into this industry we are dismissed as 'not a good cultural fit' if we aren't interested in halo marathons and competitive cycling. My solution, taken from my consulting background, has been to send out 'contact reports' after meetings summarizing what was discussed and agreed on and making note of who is responsible for what - a paper trail is a wonderful thing, especially when you cc key stakeholders (eg marketing) who weren't in attendance. I also had to learn to take more responsibility for my own development and tell my managers that I wanted to take on new challenges and what specific responsibilities I wanted to have. I also am very assertive about scheduling 1:1 time with senior leaders to check and see what problems they need to solve, telling them how I can help and following through. And when all that seems like it's going nowhere, I have a 'lean in circle' of other professional women once a month for peer coaching. Good luck to both of you!
> I favor Jabber as the out-of-band these days since everyone can get at least a GTalk account.

Isn't that deprecated in favour of Google Hangouts?
Have you tried to employ experienced developers to support a codebase in any of those languages?

As much as I dislike it, sometimes PHP is "the right language".
In general, you just have to trust your email correspondents not to show your mail to parties that should not see it.

If, for you, such parties include Google's servers, then don't send mail to Gmail users. And make sure your non-Gmail correspondents do likewise.
Why are they targeting web developers in the first place? I'm not sure I understood that part of the pitch.