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Yeah, if you don't know what a class is and is applying for a OO programming job you don't qualify, and it's not OK to look it up on the job. That's basically what the article is saying.

But at least googling for answers to inane questions is better than going directly to asking your fellow coworkers. RTFM!!!
Who said anything about free? CA already has one of the highest tax rates in the nation, and yet here we are. Out of money. Again.

If your personal salary is in the top 2% of everyone in the US and you continually find yourself out of money, it's unlikely that reality is telling you that you should go to your boss and forcefully demand a raise. Instead, try spending less money on useless shit.
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Ask HN: Is putting my app and data on hosting/cloud secure?
I am planning for my own startup and I am kind of skeptical towards hosting and cloud.

I always wonder what if my app becomes popular and valuable.

The server owner will have access to my database and at least the binary of my app. I am exposed to a risk that the owner have a copy of my asset.

Another concern is that the owner will know the stats of my app. Such information is important to my competitors.
Oh, well, then buzzword away, o holy Gintern?
Can you clarify - what is not open source about Chrome or Android?
It depends on (1) who has the power to promote you and (2) what they measure for promoting someone.
He just "assumes" the step of a clearinghouse for payment information exists and stores the users payment information. Unfortunately, nothing of the sort exists, and would be quite a big hurdle to get over.
...and cutting from 46 CPU-hours per day to just 6.5
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One could enforce it by looking at the "referer" field in the http headers (yes, we know that it should be spelled referrer, but it is mispelled that way in the standard/rfc). If the referrer is from "somewhere else" then they could redirect the user to the front page.

This is similar to how many websites, such as Wall Street Journal, will let non-subcribers read an article if the user came in via a Google search (essentially, if the http-referer field = google, then the subscriber check is bypassed).
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Anonymity isn't the problem. The problem is that Trent's mind still cares enough about what other people think of him that it is consumed by the act of surveying his status and trying to please the please-able.

That's a dead end.

Instead, I suggest that at least on a personal level, we should let go and try to realize that nothing* really matters online.

As you begin to welcome anonymity, a certain type of apathy appears. You may even surprise yourself that you don't actually care that some troll just told you to "an hero" or whatever else it is they're bringing.

Although we're not funded yet, my startup is working on bringing the ideas of anonymity (along with privacy/security) to the mainstream.

We believe, that for many, many use cases, identity simply doesn't matter.

*mostly ;)
I absolutely agree - if I'm trying to gauge whether an applicant really knows as much as they think they know, I would ask questions where the interviewee might think "google it" is acceptable, but that would make me trash the application.

For example, if someone rates themselves as 7 out of 10 on java, they better be able to come up with a handful of functions on Object that are useful to override, or walk through the rough call sequence to query a database using jdbc. And that should all be from memory.

Maybe that's unfair on my part, but I feel like it does a lot to filter for people who can actually walk the walk.
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Quite right, and that's got a lot to do with NIN's style of music. You wouldn't expect Lionel Ritchie to experience the same thing if he emulated Reznor online. He'd probably get some middle-aged air-heads but no suicidal mischief-makers.
Ask HN: Please review my app
I've been developing an app in my spare time. It initially started as an idea planted in my head by my dad (who is a small business owner).

After 5 years or so away from programming I thought I'd use a personal project as a means to get back into things.

I've learned lots along the way and improved my skills in JS, PHP, SQL too.

The project is a simple CMS for bricks-and-mortar small businesses who want to publish a product catalogue online.

One of the cool (I think so at least) features is that you can design your own print resolution brochures as PDFs.

So my marketing line is: upload once and manage online and print material at the same time.

I'm getting ready to start promoting this soon, and before I did that I thought I'd run the product past you clever lot.

Links:

-------------------------------

Demo site:
http://acme-shoes.localsa.com.au

Demo brochure:
http://acme-shoes.localsa.com.au/ulimages/14/pdf/5/brochure.pdf

If you feel like going through the sign-up then go here:
http://www.localsa.com.au/sign-up?account-type=Plus

otherwise here is a test account you can use:
http://acme-shoes.localsa.com.au/admin

username: demo

password: demo

-------------------------------

Really appreciate any feedback you can give.
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It's OK the National Government is doing the same thing.

The real apologies go out to future generations.
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thanks everyone for the points, hopefully it will help it get noticed
As a small startup you are not going to win against the big boyz. They can drop millions in the lawyers' pockets to win. And they will. Have you seen the lengths that Google went to appeal a $761 case > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/aaron-greenspan/why-google-bot...

Erin Brockovich style success is very rare.

A game plan is as follows:

1. Get it working

2. Market your awesome idea, start making serious money

3. Identify your billion dollar company's arch enemy / competitor or similar who can set lawyers upon your billion dollar company and win.

4. Sell the running and growing business to them

5. Send me 10% for this great piece of advice :-)
I remember this story about a psychologist who pretented to be a woman, and I don't remember exactly who, or where, but it was in a movie about the net beginnings...

Found... don't know if it counts as a troll, tough: Google for "The Strange Case of the Electronic Lover"
They've cut $120 a month from the free quota, and they cut it from the only two resources that really get used: Bandwidth and CPU.

I have an App Engine app that I wrote a while back but hadn't publicly released yet -- now I'm glad I didn't, because this quota change would have fucked me with a 100x cost increase.
Specifically, on the Internet, when AOL got a Usenet gateway. No-one cared when they stayed within AOL, not least because AOL had moderators.

The real Internet is not HN, it's not Facebook or Livejournal. It's 4chan and the comments on Youtube. That's what we built, that's the glorious future, the pinnacle of high tech, the global collective consciousness. How proud should we be?
I'd stand by my identity consistently if it meant revealing the identities of others.
How did you decide what counts as the real Internet?
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Why not run a VPS to start with? Slicehost and Linode are pretty good.
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I agree.

For me version one would have been usenet, FidoNet and BBS chat circa late 80s or early 90s. I knew then what Trent has finally figured out. Sounds like he really is "living next" to us.
Looks pretty good, seems fast and responsive (not bad considering I'm in the USA). The PDF idea is very good, I'd make the 'download catalog' a bit more prominent for customers.

Dashboard tools and floating menus worked great. One thing I couldn't easily see how to do was change the skin of the page, ie the colors and fonts etc. The catalog edit looked good but the graphics widget didn't seem to do very much.

Still, these felt like things that haven't been fully implemented yet, but if they're done to the same standard as everything else I'd say you'll find success with it. I found it extremely fast, intuitive and responsive, which is more than I can say for the site I manage at my job!
Have you tried local meetups? I have limited experience with LA, but from what I've taken away the startup scene is a lot more concept oriented, and less hands-on, that the bay scene.

Escape from LA, and use your computer skills to do that.
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Everytime I see "X in N lines of Y code" I want to choke somebody because it's a disingenuous metric. I know it sounds like I'm nit picking, but it's really a giant pet peeve of mine.

That is all.
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See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=601951 for a related discussion.
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I do accept their argument, but only because the vast majority of 'apps' are abandoned and use <1mb per day. Fuck, probably at least half have never had code uploaded to them!

This change will affect everyone that actually uses GAE free hosting, even the ones using much less than 1gb/day. The way the free quota works, it's throttled to keep you from using it up all at once -- which means that anyone without billing turned on just took a massive hit to QOS.
Your life and circumstance may allow for this, others don't. :)
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Honestly, 4chan just reminds me of alt.* in Septembers. I'm not a regular visitor, but at least 4chan doesn't pretend to be anything other than the filthy underbelly of the net, and the community there has both a sense of humor about itself and genuinely likes kittehs...plus it has the merit of being funny if you're willing to accept the possibility of being offended.

What's really depressing to me is going to visit the San Francisco Chronicle website, CNN or wherever, and seeing the comment space overrun by arrogant idiots who think they're superior to 4chan, or would if they knew about it. I would far rather be trapped in a lift with a bunch of /b/tards than the over-earnest moralists (of all political stripes) that attach themselves like limpets to the mainstream news and political sites.
Under good conditions (plenty of light, not much shaking), it may be faster that 4-5 seconds.
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Can't those people just spin up new instances on different servers?
thanks! I didn't know libre.fm was so well-known around here.
I've been thinking about this for a while. What it needs is shareable trust networks, so you can see ratings weighted by the votes of those who you particularly approve of or despise. Attempts at objective moderation just end up creating echo chambers and/or popularity contests.

I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which this thread is too small to contain...but I am making notes to write it up in some useful form.
Some aspects of the bubble lifestyle irritate me, but this was an interesting read.

In my home office, I have two large, 30-inch computer monitors -- a Mac and a PC. They share the same mouse and keyboard, so I can type or copy and paste between them. I'll typically do Web stuff on the Mac and e-mail and chat stuff on the PC.

What does this actually mean? A Mac with a virtualized Windows instance on one of the monitors?

I do my best stuff midmorning and superlate at night, from 1 to 5 in the morning. Some people don't need sleep. I actually do need sleep. I just sleep all the time. I'll catch naps in the afternoon, or I'll take a 20-minute snooze in the office -- just all the time. Our business is 24 hours. Our guys in Europe come online at midnight. Sometimes, I will go out at night, come home from the bar at 2 or 3 a.m., and then go to work.

This has to take a toll, right?
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It is quite sad that we have to use actual people (Mechnical Turk) to simply filter out the garbage.

We've more or less figured out how to train spam prevention systems. How is "troll prevention" a fundamentally different problem?
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Am I the only one that gets a little pissy thinking that this is nothing but pure content thievery? There was a sum total TWO paragraphs of OC there - the rest was a re-post of Trent's entire post. A link would have sufficed. A couple of quotes would've been fine but the whole post? That's content theft as far as I'm concerned.
> I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which this thread is too small to contain

This isn't going to be like Fermat's theorem all over again is it?

Seriously though I agree that you need a system that copes with the fact that different people have different tastes. Not a generic 'good' vs 'bad/spam'.
I have my doubts about whether the Mturk payments are going to attract moderators capable of handling more than the 'LOL I TROLLED U' comments, though. It seems like more of an anti-spam/swearing tool than anything likely to elevate the quality of discourse; that's useful enough in and of itself for quite a few sites though.

I do think it's fairly pricey. 15k messages/mo ain't much on a busy site. Some political blogs rack that up in a couple of days, but I don't see them putting down several thousand a month for crowd moderation.
> Apparently he received several threatening e-mails from members of our community. Honestly it was not our intention to motivate such actions.

Seriously, what did they expect? It's pretty well known that if you bring an issue like that to the public eye there are always going to be idiots who take it further than is really necessary.
Thanks for the positive feedback. Good point about the download catalogue button.

I've been thinking about how to make the catalogue tools a bit more intuitive. At the moment you have to drag some products on to the page for the changes to styles to have an effect - i might add an alert that says this if the catalogue is empty.

Thanks for your encouragement.
You wouldn't expect Lionel Ritchie to experience the same thing if he emulated Reznor online.

Well, having been on the receiving end of something I thought I'd share my experience. There are raving lunatic fans all around the place, regardless of what genre the artists are in.

During the campaign to get Rick Astley voted as Best Act Ever for last years MTV Europe Music Awards, I started receiving large volumes of hate mail from one or two of Astley's fans (I've never seen anything quite like it before or since... and I've seen some pretty angry emails).

I was also getting some quite vitriolic comments posted about me by these same fans on many blogs around the web (Thanks Google Alerts!)... these fans, I found out, just happened to be women in their mid 40's who have a "thing" for Astley.

Having spoken to several people close to Astley (I can't say who) they have mentioned who these people are and that they were "loonies" and could effectively be ignored.

So, I imagine Reznor would get more than his fair share and I feel for him, I really do (I experienced about 3 weeks of it, and that was 3 weeks too much) - raving lunatic fans are everywhere.

Anyway, back to the story at hand, I think Trent talking about verified forum profiles is great, but I think that you could take it one step further.

Some sort of centralised system for verified identities online with a simple API that people could plug into their forums/comment systems on blogs.

Only want verified people to comment on your blog - easy, same with forums? - easy

I think when you start removing the anonymous posting aspect of parts of the web, it becomes civil. That's why I never post anywhere anonymously, I self regulate and I find I don't troll - unfortunately I expect there is a significant contingent online that don't have the same self control and do cause problems for others.

I think right now is that we're seeing a tipping point from when trolling was an accepted fact of the web the experience that new users are experiencing as how to act given it's becoming more widespread, and those people are simply emulating that.

It's a problem that is just snowballing.

</rant>
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It probably means he's using http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ - I've used it for similar things (typing on a Mac laptop, with a second monitor hooked up to a Linux desktop) and it's a brilliant solution.
I'm a nurse and I work for a hospital in Silicon Valley. Pretty much all the hospitals in Silicon Valley are union. The California Nurses Association has been very politically active, as have the state employees union.

And, it's pretty common for nurses to make 100-150k a year in this region. I know for a fact that there are a few nurses that work at Valley medical center in San Jose that make over $200k.

While astonishing, those nurses tend to work a lot of overtime. And, it's in the overtime that those people pick up the money. The nurses that are making over $200k are working 16 hour shifts, 6 days a week.

Before people start disparaging unions... The union rules here are really nice. For instance, this is one of the only jobs I've ever had, where I get a break on a regular basis. The union contract says that I get 1 hour and 15 minutes of break time every 12 hour shift I work. If get off work at 11:30pm, and I have to come back at 7am, I get double time. The unions actually force hospitals to treat their employees more humanely. Silicon Valley is one of the few places in the nation where there isn't a nursing shortage.

I know that Police work a lot of overtime, too. I'd be willing to bet that those officers are working 80-100 hours a week. I'm sure their union rules are similar to ours regarding scheduling, etc... And, while a cop making $100k sounds outrageous to people not living here in Silicon Valley. Have you looked at housing prices in San Francisco?

If you want your cops to live in San Francisco, you're going to have to give them a wage that lets them think about buying a house there. The median home price in San Fran id $550,000, which means a mortgage payment of about $4000 a month. So, factor that in to your outrage at public employee salaries.
I think biggest issue for now is whether medical science can extend your 'ordinary' life. If they can get you to 120 in relatively good condition then there is nearly 100 years to work out the rest.
You are talking about the student researcher Selena Sol:

http://selenasol.com/selena/
He definitely means Synergy -- that's the setup I have at work too. (except 24")
there's the link to the original post at the beginning. I found reading the whole post on stereogum's site more relaxing however.
Yeah, I don't buy it. I was on the intertubes in the early nineties, and I distinctly remember trolls running around Usenet.

That said, the caliber of trolling may have been slightly higher. :)
You'd think so -- but I was the same when I was a PhD student. I'd get my best work done from 10pm-5am, and a bit during the middle of the day. I'd take naps in the afternoon and evening whenever I felt like it. I actually felt great and wish I could work like that all the time (having a wife makes it difficult to sustain).
Why the 4chan hate? It is what it is, doesn't pretend to be anything else, and there's a place for it. At its best, 4chan can be great.

You can't compare that to YouTube comments at all. 4chan's about lulz, not pure unadulterated stupidity. They're not the same at all.
Thanks, Aldous Huxley is amazing.. I should read more from this author. I've read "Brave New World", so I guess "Island" is next.
Me too, except with Linux on one and Windows on the other. synergy works fine, although the fact that the last release seems to be from 2006 worries me a bit.
Maybe trolls are less smart than spammers, but a troll's goal is more amorphous.

Can filters catch sarcasm, negative tone, or lack of intelligent thought?
The comments on Youtube and 4chan have absolutely nothing in common. One is a group of people who recognize they're acting like idiotic jackasses and do it because they find it humorous. The other group is simply mentally retarded.
I am about to email you, but ill post here first.

1. You must have a solid pair if you started a web development company without knowing a server-side language...

2. I'm in a similar, situation in that I'm a one man show, and am 6 months into liquidating my first (tshirt printing) business and going 100% all in on a web-app startup.

3. Take #1 as a compliment =)

Email is on the way. Best of luck.
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Lightning storm FTL.

Once power was back, however, so were our instances, which was a pleasant surprise.
Wait: you've signed a contract with the big company, but you don't have a lawyer? If so, big oops.

Get a lawyer, have him review the contract, and ask him to advise you.
You know what, I'm glad that companies choose the route that Spolsky derides. Even if Apple (or whoever) makes them obsolete, these products are still useful (and should be profitable) during the interim.

The only good advice (which the article seems to avoid saying) to be realistic. Everything has a useful lifespan after which no one wants it (or they want it at very near the cost of producing it). Be grateful that you can potentially predict that lifespan and not over-invest in that project.
I've always fancied an interactive (ruling out scsh) sexp based shell. At the prompt Bourne compatibility doesn't matter to me.
that worried me too - but Im hooked :D the fact I can hook my mac, PC, dev machine and laptop (OSX,Vista,Fedora10,XP) to one KB/Mouse is so great!
On Facebook I leave my status blank and don't change it when I enter a relationship. You're right though, most people keep it up to date.
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Earn it, and then tactfully make it known to the proper person(s) that you want it.