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In its history as a comic, the strip has covered topics such as bestiality, suicide, torture, a juicer that "fucks" oranges, among others. There wasn't a similar outcry. Why is that?
Ask HN: Do you trust a company with a website built with Twitter Bootstrap?
Today I found myself doing further research about a service I was about to subscribe just because they were using bootstrap. I am wondering, what could be the psychological effect to a developer/ designer regarding using a service using a website built with twitter bootstrap? Would you provide your card details with the same ease you would on a different website?
I haven't been able to leave a comment since the switch (my browser just keeps refreshing).

Wait, is your point and mine related?
also, I don't believe that's the actual chronology of the dickwolf debacle.
It's only got a 16GB drive. You might be able to run another OS, but you won't be able to install many apps, or store much data.

Just checked: Windows requires 20GB storage for a 64-bit processor, so you couldn't even install it on this box.
Kudos to you Mr. Shaw. I enjoyed your books that you so kindly made available for free but this act just made me respect you tenfold. World needs more people like you.
It's not going to play out like HTML5. There was no real urgency to replace HTML4, so we could wait until something better than XHTML came along. The IPv4 address shortage is urgent, so we're going to have to use one of solutions available now, which is either IPv6 or carrier-grade NAT. IPv6 may have its flaws, but carrier-grade NAT is far worse. While an ordinary user might not see the difference, website operators certainly will, since carrier-grade NAT makes it impossible to track and block abuse (without substantial collateral damage).

I imagine that HN uses IP addresses extensively for bans and voting-ring detection. Already, some ISPs (e.g. T-Mobile) are giving users public IPv6 addresses and private IPv4 addresses that are NAT'd. In order to distinguish between different users of these ISPs, HN would need to support IPv6.

Other ISPs are worse and are just doing carrier grade NAT without IPv6 (mainly in Europe/Asia, though Verizon has announced they will start doing this to some of their DSL customers in the US). For these users, HN supporting IPv6 would do no good, except to show to these ISPs that there is a point to them deploying IPv6. (Yes, one site is just a drop in the ocean, but if everyone did their part and adopted IPv6...)
The justice system showed Microsoft that the world no longer works on the basis of fairness. It's exactly as if Ford were a monopoly for not making their steering wheels removable from their cars.

Having been given a massive finger by "the people," Microsoft turned into a cynical company that no longer tries to play fair or to play with dignity.
The apple guy ads were much more classy. This is embarrasing.
Nothing wrong in taking a job and slowly working on your things on the side..
This is a matter of taste of course, but I found those Apple ads somewhat playful and amusing. Perhaps I didn't see them all and some were harsher?

But this Microsoft campaign just feels like a political attack ad, bitter and cynical. I'm disappointed in Microsoft for doing it, and I think it's just going to help Google by making Microsoft look bad.
This reminds me of last year when Microsoft tried to get #DroidRage trending on Twitter, and large part of the community responded with #WindowsRage[1]. I hope offensive advertising campaigns like this one continue to work against them in some way.

I have no issues with Microsoft products - it is purely this kind of advertising is that makes me anti-Microsoft. The whole Scroogled campaign is an embarrassment.

[1]http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/6/3734852/twitter-droidrage-...
What if they use BTC as a store of value and not a currency?
Just because accepting a job is voluntary doors not give license to employers to exploit their employees. 100 years ago, that same argument was advanced by people opposed to worker safety laws and child labor laws. People use that argument to justify jobs where you have to sleep with the boss to get the job. The fact that some people are desperate doesn't give an employer endless license.
One of their "Chromebook Can'ts" is called Document Incompatibility [1]. It's definitely Google's fault that Microsoft uses a proprietary format to lock-out everyone else.

[1]: http://www.scroogled.com/chromebook/OSCants
A lot of languages that claim to have "borrowed" from Erlang often borrow the "concurrent unit running independently communicating by a channel or mailbox" idea. Very few borrow the most amazing part -- isolated heaps for each of the lightweight processes. Web workers and Dart isolates, have that as well. I am not claiming they borrowed from Erlang, just saying they have that nice feature.

See, fault tolerance was actually the #1 priority when building Erlang not high concurrency. High concurrency was there too but it was #2. Also the tough part is selling fault tolerance. Only those that have implemented large concurrent systems using shared memory models, plagued by dangling pointers, large mutable state in the middle of everything moving around, and have it fail will appreciate fault tolerance. Most will shrug it off -- "hey look, I can run language shootout's Mandelbrot 10x faster!". There is a trade-off there, of course. Just like in a real OS. If you want to fork separate processes for each request, you'll pay for fault tolerance in performance some, if instead you'd just called a callback in the same process.
Google has a full-time team of some of the best compiler writers in the world wholly dedicated to tuning Javascript, and they have spent literally years to get it to perform how it does today, and it's still far from competing with the JVM, and will likely never be able to do basic things such as multithreading and proper type safety. Twitter was absolutely right in doing what they did.
The "PC" in those adds was not a user. It was the computer. Those ads don't make fun of or otherwise characterize PC users in any way shape or form.
This sort of article appears with each new technological invention. Go ahead and re-read it, replacing "Bitcoin" with "Motorcar".
I don't understand. What was the apology? For the transphobic thing or the dickwolf thing? What was the similar event?
I've said it once before and I'll say it again... Zed, if YOU are ever up for it, I'd love to buy you a beer man. I live in the bay area and so meeting up should be of little issue. I've seen the comments from your fans AND detractors, and I must say, I've never really bought into the negative. I'm not surprised by this comment and your willingness to help another individual who has fallen on hard times.
> 1/5 the price of an 11" Macbook Air yet comparable in many ways.

Comparable in some ways, yeah, but from the specs, it looks to me like there are more differences than similarities: the C270 is a bit thicker and heavier, the CPU is way slower, you get 16GB of storage instead of 128GB, 2GB of RAM instead of 4GB, the display is lackluster (according to reviews), the camera is lower resolution, there's no keyboard backlight... and so on.

That said, it's still an incredible value for the money.
I did get it, and it was very well done :)
What I've heard is that at Valve the formula is lowish base pay, plus a shot at exceptionally generous bonuses if you can convince your coworkers that you've been helping to bring home the bacon.
Debugging a large application on Rails for performance issues is a non-trivial task. I wouldn't be so quick to assume.
It costs them something and the margins Acer makes are somewhere between 2% and negative 2%, on $249 SKUs...
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"Stop Bitcoin. Save the children (and rhinos, too, while you're at it)!"

When will we learn that money and systems (especially X new technology) aren't the issue (or the solution)? People are both. Until society admits both its faults and its failed solutions, it probably will be plagued with deplorable crimes such as those facilitated by Bitcoin (and USD and CAD and CHF, for that matter).
Right, the incentive is to reject the highest possible number of applicants. The system is built around reducing friction for applying while rejecting almost all of those people as cheaply and easily as possible.

I wouldn't be surprised if some schools create entire "pre-disqualified" marketing funnels specifically designed to automatically reject everyone.
Anyone looking for Co-Founders in NYC?
I am looking to join a technical or non-technical person or a team to work on a start-up. I had two startups before and they both failed. I have learned so much from each one of them. I know about the ins and outs of startup marketing, project management, and sales. Entrepreneurs never quit, so I want to take the lessons learned and try again. I have tried posting on HN before with little luck. I started my first business at the age of 15 in high school and my family is full of entrepreneurs so entrepreneurship runs deep in my blood.

I am willing to work my ass off including weeknights, weekends, or whatever it takes. Looking for someone who wants to start their own business just as badly as I do.

I am currently in NYC, and I have bunch of savings saved up that I can survive for at least three years without a job.

Here is a little about me:

-I graduated from one of the top undergraduate business schools in America (currently in the top five of the Business Week’s top undergraduate business school ranking list)

-I have worked at Google and Salesforce in San Francisco for about a year and a half prior to moving to NYC. I am a 24 year old male.

-I am really good at people's skills, presenting, networking, and business development. I have high emotional intelligence and am pretty easy to get along with.

-I can SELL! I am also well-read.

-I am a go-getter, and do not need to be told to do things. I literally can do everything and am a fast learner.

I am looking for someone who is extremely dedicated, hungry, and willing work their asses off to make a successful startup. If you are action-oriented, hacker-type, and are looking for a non-technical co-founder that fits the description above then please contact me at williammarek325@gmail.com. I would write more about myself but HN has a character limit.

-William
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I tend to agree with you, but there are some differences:

A) Most of the "Mac vs PC" ads focused on showcasing ways Apple products were superior to Microsoft ones [1]. This isn't universally true though [2]. Regardless, that strategy is better than showing people break dance with your tablets.

B) The "Scroogled" campaign has a different, more aggressive tone to it. The whimsical background music in the Apple ads don't come across as forcefully as the term "Scroogled" does. I suspect this tone is more off-putting.

[1] See some of the ads here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5z0Ia5jDt4
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DWLyrljLDk
>I was told by Google if I took a job with them I would have to "finish" my studies with in 2 years of taking the job.

Why? What would happen if you didn't? Would they fire you? It seems very odd that Google would value an unnecessary degree over the actual experience that was why they were interested in you in the first place.
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Here is the real crime... It is a currency that no government can manipulate or control. Bitcoin with tumblers is "true" economic freedom from any beaurocratic or government control. You get the bad... But you also get the infinite good of not having any government able to take your wealth away from you at its whim.
I believe Chrome apps can use Native Client, if you want to message between a C/C++ module and your web application. And of course there are increasingly mature tools for compiling C++ to some subset of JavaScript.
https://developers.google.com/native-client/
> In a proper production environment, you just compact each slave one at a time because you have a replica set rather than a single instance.

That's the solution?? That sounds like a workaround in a production environment.
Reason: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_poppy_syndrome
I know that's what they were officially personifying, but I interpreted them as having a PC vs. Mac user undertone. TV ads generally aim for that kind of implication, trying to make people identify with the kinds of people who own X versus the kinds of people who own Y (see also: beer ads).
Ask HN: Would you buy or sell bitcoin at current rate? Why?
As I am writing this bitcoin is trading at $950+ at Mt.Gox. So, given that you already have some bitcoins and also some cash to invest, would you buy new bitcoins or sell that you have. Why?
That's wordpress. . .
This doesn't happen anywhere except on HN. I check parents profile before I ever reply for this reason ;)
You are in an unpleasant situation, but not in a tragedy by no means. To put things into perspective: imagine you have successful company but got pancreatic cancer.

Your to-do list is pretty straightforward:

1) Put your failed startup aside.

2) Find a job ASAP.

3) Try to save your house. Your family would need it. Beg your bank to give you ~extra month until your next paycheck.

4) In about a year you may return to thinking about another startup. Take another year or two to think it over, accumulate some funds, do some part-time research and then jump into your new startup again... or not. Being an employee until you retire is also a good choice.
Excellent format, even better for being about Processing. This (graphics + interactivity) is the kind of stuff that resonates better with beginners in programming.
I believe you have to look at robots.txt file. If it lets you crawl, you should be fine.
Any is a very finite word. As much as I don't like the practice, parent's data doesn't lie, they had more signups. Whether those signups have high customer lifetime value or even stick around are another matter that requires different data to understand. Parent has enough data to make the first conclusion, you don't have enough data to make the second.
Man you're making me tear up here. Guys more often base their SELF-worth on their usefulness in their career than women, so when a man fails in his work or can't provide he often feels worthless as a human being. This is a FALLACY and it's not even true for a second. OP said he wasn't even a man anymore and that's heartbreaking to me. We all need a support net, every single one of us!
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This book may be a good start http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Missionary_Position
This is quite common in markets where there are only two or three competitors: instead of focusing on showing why your product is good, you simply bash the competition.

Pepsi vs Coca-Cola is a great example.
Elections in countries with only two parties is another perfect example of this.

It's been happening for a while and it will continue, since it yields results:

The ones educated enough limit themselves to a "sigh. seriously?" and keep on using what they know it's best for them.

Then there's the target market: the ignorant masses, who will fall to these strategies, prove them useful and validate them as good marketing strategies.

The funny thing here is that there's a similiar thread every 24 hours and people always react like this is something new, and like the company in turn is super evil for doing it.
i graduated with a 2.01 GPA from my undergrad program nearly 10 years ago (a top 20 school, basically the best public STEM school in the nation). since then i've worked extensively for big name-brand companies and have cofounded a multi-million dollar services firm which i now run.

after doing some very cursory research into MBA programs, i decided that it probably wasn't worth the effort and money required to even apply, given my academic achievement. a non-starter, so to speak.

the only answers i could wrangle out of admissions folks and people who had gotten their mba were bogus platitudes and non-responses, i couldn't get a god damn straight answer out of ANYONE whether or not it would be a waste of time to pursue admissions with a C average in undergrad, even given my professional track record. not a single person said "yes. it is possible that an elite school will accept you with a C undergrad gpa." even worse, nobody said that i would be rejected outright. basically, nobody knew.

i got the distinct feeling that mba programs cast a wide net on applications and keep the secret sauce of admissions as closely guarded as possible.

therefore, i gave up on the process and have pretty much decided that i am done with school for life. it's not really feeling like much of a loss, to be honest, especially considering it would take me over 500k of lost earnings and tuition to go to a school anyway. i dunno if that's worth it.
You actually get 4GB of RAM on the $249 model and it takes an SD card (11" air doesn't). It is ever so slightly thicker and heavier, yes; 0.75 inches – 2.76 lbs/1.25kg vs 0.68 inches - 2.38lbs/1.08 kg.

Close enough you couldn't tell them apart in a backpack. Certainly not as well built and precious but then again you can treat it like a disposable Kindle, throw it around, even if you destroy 4 you're still ahead.
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They just don't Get It. I'm typing this on a Chromebook right now - the 14" HP one. It's cheap, it's light, it's pleasant to use. That's the value prop. Microsoft claims you can get the same with Windows, so the very first thing I did was check the specs and reviews for the models they tout. Are they really that comparable?

* Approximately same price, same screen size and resolution, same processor and memory.

* Four pounds vs. three. Oops, not so light any more.

* Battery life (according to reviews) is around three hours, vs. this Chromebook going all day.

* Typical Windows suspend/resume times, vs. true instant-on for the Chromebook. It's actually disconcerting to have everything right there before I've even sat back on the sofa.

* Typical Windows upgrade/maintenance cycle (and malware), vs. no worries on the Chromebook.

I have other laptops that I use when I need to do more serious work. One of them even runs Windows, though mostly as a host for a Linux VM. But at this price point there's nothing running Windows that can match the overall Chromebook experience. Until there is, sleazy marketing stunts like this only make it obvious that they're desperate.
This is very hard
"Horseless carriages will make men bankrobbers and women immoral!"

-Buggy Whip Manufacturers Association, circa 1890's
read the book Millionare fastlane. just google it it's available via electronic book version, Within that book it will tell you where you went wrong and hopefully it will steer you in the right direction.
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>I wouldn't be surprised if some schools create entire "pre-disqualified" marketing funnels specifically designed to automatically reject everyone.

That thought really just rocked my world. It's just crazy enough to be true.

Why else would they turn away a paying customer?
>"reducing friction for applying"

Awesome phrase. Completely agree.

In fact I personally know of graduate programs that have reduced their recommendation letter and essay requirements for this reason!
Thanks for offering this guy light at the end of the tunnel. This reminds me of a a talk i had with my cousin a while back. I said to him that he had it easy growing up with his dad being an entrepreneur(construction industry), he laughed and said no way, maybe my younger brothers. He says that one day he gets home from school, his mother is sitting outside crying and guy's are moving furniture out the house, creditors where seizing all their stuff. He called his dad but nothing could be done. To top this off, his dad would be gone by 4am get home late at night and he would hardly see him.

So, his dad borrows some money from family and friends, keep in mind everyone was talking shit about him now, both friends and family. He took them across state to a rural area and told them that a lot of construction was going to happen here and that he was going to setup shop here. He hardly saw his dad and he doesn't remember a lot about how his dad did it but things started getting better, his dad got a contract with a huge mining company and shit just took off. We were discussing this at his beach house, that his dad bought for him. He said that he remembers the hard times but his younger brothers, think that there was no suffering just happy times and the life they have now. My uncle is now retired and the business is totally family run, he spends more time travelling than anything else.

In tech, we honestly glamorize startups, but what about all the others, the 90 out of every 100 startups that fail or just stay in zombie status. My point is not to encourage the OP to dig in but to let him know that it is ok to fail, many do with families as well but he will bounce back with a good job or something else down the line. Zed has provided that ray of light and hopefully u can turn it into a rainbow!
I wouldn't quote Jobs in scenarios like this, given that he pulled a pretty similar thing with the whole Flash thing: a misinformation campaing with the sole purpose of attacking the competition with fallacies and sketchy arguments.
To get paid the maximum amount possible you will have to look around and test the market, as it's unlikely the first offer anywhere would be the highest.

But you should probably just work out how much you would like to make, what kind of company you would like to work for, what kind of work, what kind of work life balance and aim for that.

If you put your contact details in your profile would be interested to talk based on above.
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These stories should be required reading. To that end the community would benefit massively from you documenting it.

Just as there are Journals of Negative results [1][2] so too should there be a journal of failed startups. Your detailing of what caused the failures could save thousands of man hours and potentially someone falling into the same traps.

Goal #1 for you right now is to get your family in order and steel the troops for tough times ahead as you get back on your feet.

In short order though you should start simply documenting the process that led to your company failing. Not only will you learn from it but it will help others.

If you are in the DC area don't hesitate to reach out to myself and my family. We have kiddos the same ages as yours so they would have a ball.

[1] http://www.jnrbm.com/
[2] http://www.jnr-eeb.org/index.php/jnr
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Please share some more details - it would help us to give you more targeted advice:

1) What was the mission of your failed startup?

2) What was your personal role in it?

3) What city are you in?
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hey, it's not the end of the world, maybe you will gain huge if you found it's very hard this time. Don't give up!
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We are only talking about 1000 in this case. There is enough book depth to sell 1000.
I agree. :-(
I'm based in Santa Monica. If you're in the area and I'll buy you lunch, give you a pep talk and help get you back on your feet in any way I can.
True enough - I suppose my search for an interesting program (That I could 'qualify' for) has soured me towards Higher Education in general.

Needless to say, their email was not well received...

I wish I could find a legitimate school, with an online program, that would accept me.
Jumping ahead, or rewinding to catch something you've missed. They should definitely put the transport back in there. I can see how they don't want people skipping around, but it does harm the experience a bit.