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> So you retract your earlier statement? :p

No. By and large, I think I'm right, but that does not mean there aren't a few exceptions.

> Then perhaps we also need ways of founding a company that doesn't need all the risk to be taken on by a few people.

We do! It's called the limited liability company or corporation, and it's one of the critical components of a modern economy. As an investor in a company, you can only lose what you put into it, rather than have someone come after all your assets. This is also how stocks work, at heart: a lot of people can each own a piece of a company, and thus pool a lot more capital than the founders could on their own.

Even that is still fairly risky and involves a lot of effort for which people want to be compensated if it goes well.

One of the nice things about companies is that anyone is free to go out and create one and more or less create it in the way they best see fit.
I'd like to see it do CSG before I download it.
How does one get fired at CloudFlare? Who evaluates employee performance?
Want to like IDEA, but using a Java (Swing) based UI, in both Mac and Windows, makes me always feel like when someones scraps a blackboard with his nails.

I could live with Eclipse though, despite SWT being also quite removed from the native experience. At least it had bloody native text boxes and scrollbars and such.
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You're assuming she didn't want to be kissed (we don't have the girl's perspective on this; apparently they're "boyfriend and girlfriend", which I don't think are valid terms with six-year-olds anyway...).

Expelling imho is very extreme in this case, there's other ways to communicate to the boy/class that it wasn't appropriate without making a way-to-public statement about it.
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It's nice! I'm actually curious about naming it tyto. It reminds me of Josip Broz Tito (a historical figure form equally historical Yugoslavia) who, by local legends, got his nickname Tito because he would hand out tasks by pointing at it and saying "Ti, to!" (translated roughly "You, do that!").
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hey heydanreeves,

Thanks very much for the feedback! and thank you very much for that little tip, haha I spent a while thinking, hmm this doesn't look right, it's funny how like when you're stuck into something you can sometimes overlook simple things that are going to fix an issue. "float: right;" palms face

Thanks for the feedback, it's really appreciated!
It's ended up that I treat my line manager as a normal co-worker who happens to sign off on my leave.

I go to his boss when I need to discuss technical implications of decisions I'm making for the products. Next layer up is more of a filter between the CEO and the company.

Who works on what comes down directly from CEO.

It's tons of fun.

Edit: my last salary review, 6 people were invited to it (including me).
I'm not personally very familiar with Reddis or it's HA tenders, but (based solely on reading this article) they seem to suffer from problems (improper handling of non-quorum situations) that have been solved with tools like Pacemaker and Corosync.

Has anyone attempted to use Pacemaker to wrangle Reddis instances?
For Android, I suggest going to YouTube and watching videos from the Android Bootcamp (by Marakana). I'm relearning Android and I think this is pretty efficient.

For iOS, the Stanford iOS course was pretty decent. iOS may have changed a bit from when I watched those videos. Not sure if they are current anymore.

P.S. I don't recommend the coursera course on Android dev. I started watching it but it seemed to be going super slow.
You read my mind! That's my next plan for expansion, I'm just trying to decide how to approach it. A lot of the visitors to the site are budget conscious, so I'd really like to have coupons, etc for them (even if they aren't as good, etc), but people have mentioned that they'd love to have more local stores.

My current ideas are:

1. Use the yelp api to add local pizza stores to the current site - this is probably the easiest way to keep the database up to date. I could then reach out to local pizza stores, and try to get some promotions added. The biggest challenge with this is keeping the promotions for local pizza places up to date as a single person working on this.

One idea is to somehow encourage users to 'adopt' a local store, and keep the promotions up to date for that local store. Still trying to decide if there's a good way to do that.

2. Make the local pizza places a separate site / app and push users to use it for just finding local pizza places, less about finding coupons, and run it next to the current site.
And how does the top layer make any decisions then, without being aware of what's happening in the company? If they only make decisions that can be made by participating in a single meeting per year, it doesn't really make any sense for that layer to exist at all. Continue recursively.

If there really are four layers of management in a company with 25 employees, that basically means each manager has zero, one or two subordinates. I really cannot see how that could work very well at all.
Will do! I'll send you an email later tonight with more details.

I really appreciate the help.
A nice idea. I just contributed a Dutch translation.
I'd like to read more about this. Do you have any sources?
It's a fork in the sense that it's a fork of the IntelliJ repo with Google/Android related assets added. So it's more of a branding fork than a code fork, but since its in a different repo I'd still call it a fork. But it's just terminology I guess.
Just a dummy e-mail. You'll get back either an error response or the IP address of the machine.
I get that you two are rivals, but he does have a point that you haven't addressed.

Ghostery seems to be in the business of selling the data that I forget to tell them they may not collect. This is intrinsically a sneaky thing to do.

Yes I know about and use the "default to blocking" setting, but I don't think there is much argument that Ghostery users download your software with the expectation that the default would be anything else. But it is. And that's sneaky.

So you offer a very useful product, for free, and make money off of the people who fail to configure it so that it performs the only service they would ever purposely download it for.

Again, I have sniffed Ghostery looking for violations of my configuration settings, and never found any. I believe that it follows its configuration settings, and I am thankful for its existence. And I recognize that development and maintenance of it is not free. Presumably you are not a volunteer.

I have gotten value out of Ghostery, but apparently that has been on the backs of other users who want the same thing, but are less-careful than me about reading configuration options, and that doesn't sit well.
hey leokun,

Thanks for the feedback! yeah that was kinda the intention and inspiration with tyto, I wanted something simple that people could use. Maybe it could work on a smartboard or something.

Thanks again for the feedback, really appreciated!
>In an ideal world, no one would try to get heroin

It's a sad statement.

In what ideal world? Brave new world type "ideal world"? World with "shiny, happy" people which you see in TV commercials? And in an ideal world, no one would try rock climbing and BASE jumping? Because these activities are far more dangerous than doing heroin.

You see, some people like hacking on perl, some playing PC games, some enjoy rock climbing and some love doing heroin. Now the tragedy comes then government makes some things so more dangerous for the user and society by making them illegal.
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This is somewhat relevant. One of the candidates for Governor is Maryland, Heather Mizeur, is running on legalizing cannabis. You can see her discuss it here:

http://www.heathermizeur.com/news/wusa9-plan-to-legalize-mar...
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Since the project started the developer fought for this internally. Finally they won.
He wasn't expelled, he was suspended for one day. With so little context I can't say much else.
I had that feeling using eclipse and netbeans for years before switching over to IntelliJ.
"At the end of the day, the US is the devil the world knows and needs."

Probably easy to grasp and agree with this political thought when you're being part of the US, bot otherwise... could you elaborate?
Well, you should not seat for long periods of time.

If you do you train your body, the same way that if you look just with one eye you modify the eye you don't use, you modify your spine if you seat or use heels for long periods of time.

A good chiropractic professional could read your body in an amazing way.

Once you have modified your body by use, being "comfortable" is not the same as "healthy". Smoking is comfortable for a smoker, taking drugs is comfortable for a drug addict and covering one eye is more comfortable than using it once you have used only the other for a long time.
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"edit: it's still not that easy to start your own company, and the common advice these days is to "not try a new structure", so your argument doesn't follow there either."

It is easy to start a business. You can buy things at thrift stores and sell them on Ebay for almost no startup capital.

I think the main reason I wouldn't run a company this way is because it's inefficient. A non-democracy can make decisions much faster and much more efficiently in the marketplace. Since this is the case, most companies would never do it. The only real ways is if every company were forced by the government..which would not end well for anyone.

Do we really need everyone in a company voting on product ideas/direction when many don't even know or care about it in the first place?

It seems, from your other comments, that you don't want to risk your own money and start a company like this (where everyone has a say)..you would rather force existing companies to use this structure..which is ridiculous.
On #4, you can avoid it by adding data-keyboard="false" data-backdrop="static".
The basic overview blog is well worth reading
http://scn.sap.com/community/developer-center/front-end/blog...
i was thinking ownership for a top layer, but that could be true for lower ones too. but i see your point, ownership and management are different things.
If you had bothered to actually read the linked article, he claims to have been..."inspired" by infiniminer more than any other game.

" But then I found Infiniminer. My god, I realized that that was the game I wanted to do"
What exactly would a self driving car have to do with this? This is talking about tracking by cell phone data and license plate, not car data. A self driving car would be the same as a regular car, just with extra sensors, the ones they have now are at least. Who is to say that it would have extra tracking?
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Can I ask, Why? I don't understand why anyone would do this! The fact they have PDF's plans suggests to me that other muppets for some unknown reason want to pretend to work for Google. When did it become cool? Now a MI5 agents car with heat seeking missiles which blow up lane hogs.... that I would be interested in!
hey edelans,

Thanks for the feedback, minimalist and lightweight is certainly my aim.

Yeah the email feature is something I am quite happy with, that came from one of my other projects where I have made a chrome browser extension for sticky notes that you can drag around a page and then email back to yourself (can be seen on my github).

Yeah the menu feedback seems consistent so certainly something I am going to look into. I am wondering if I might need to implement the drag and drop slightly different to get rearranging working properly as intended but I'll take a look.

Thanks again for the feedback, it's much appreciated.
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> By and large, I think I'm right, but that does not mean there aren't a few exceptions.

But your belief then is based on conjecture, as I said before. So is mine, but a positive belief (it can happen) is less strong than a negative belief (it can't happen).

We could look at the proportion of attempted co-ops that have failed, vs proportion of normal companies. That would be some interesting data.

> We do! It's called the limited liability company or corporation

This has nothing to do with your original notion of "risk" from 2 posts ago that you used to discredit co-operatives. There, we are talking about the reward split based on the risk split. Typical LLCs still have unbalanced ownership distribution.
The police won't be "out of the way" if the cartels continue with murder, selling to minors, underage workers, kidnapping, tax evasion etc. Those are all still crimes even if hard drugs were made legal. The cartels would have to choose between going legit, and delivering goods like coors, malboro etc, or continuing their other illegal activities and get taken down by the police
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That's one thing where the renter mindset has an advantage over homeowner mindset - you aren't financially tied to a particular stone, and can easily move as often as your kids can handle the school change and language barriers if you move across countries.

Moving house literally isn't an option anyway if you want to move from one jurisdiction to another, as it likely involves too large distances.
Or maybe devs should stick to a subset instead of using every feature to make the code unreadable.
Why is this not just in the regular python docs.
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hey knes!

Thanks for the feedback, well I have used it to brush up on a few things and I've tried to write it in a way so that it's easy to pick up so I hope you find it useful.

If you have any questions, suggestions or other feedback, don't hesitate to contact me. I'm more than happy to help people out.

Thanks again for the feedback!
Here is a direct link to documentation and examples of all the controls in the UI library

https://openui5.hana.ondemand.com/#content/Controls/index.ht...
The date-picker has a bug, it shows calendar week "53" instead of 1 (first week of 2014): http://postimg.org/image/faubokz5b/

SAPUI5 is good, finally they can replace the outdated Netweavers Web UI with its horrible JS code.
And the linked "Reasons to open-source this toolkit" at http://scn.sap.com/community/developer-center/front-end/blog....
(I'm not saying everyone is the same - this is just a point of view)

At my last job, we donated very considerably to needy families all throughout the year but much more around Christmas. We would amass hundreds of canned goods, blankets, toys for their kids, etc... As well as cash - The nature of our business was a call center type, so every month, a bonus check would be given out for performance. Many people would donate a portion of that to this fund to help buy more. More so, the company would match all donations.

All that being said, it was always my point of view that the work the call center did was not particularly difficult. With a little training, anyone off of the street could do it. You got your own desk, beautiful heated and cooled facility, good hours, good pay and of course, based on performance, the ability to earn this bonus check.

It was always my point of view that a man doesn't want a hand out. What we were doing was great, but if you want to see a man smile or cry, give him a job. Let him earn for himself, for his family. Thats the best gift in my opinion. Give them the means and let them see how far they can take it, not us.

It never flew with management (and I'm not sure why). I hope this guy succeeds. Maybe he's one of the people I'm talking about (someone who wants to earn for himself and not get a hand out) but not all people are like that. Some people want a hand out and to do nothing more then to live off of others.
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There probably have been, but not that I can recall. And not in a (very) popular and mainstream newspaper.
hey why-el!

Thanks for the feedback!, it's really appreciated. That's a pretty good way of summing it up, you're more than welcome to share it as that :P

I am certainly going to look at adding the localStorage feature, that will certainly add a lot to tyto.

Thanks again for the feedback!
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I love it, but is there a reason why you limit the height of the box in your demo app? I'd much rather have it use up all of my screen height, and scroll the entire page, rather than the white rectangle part like it does now.
There was a false positive in there. There was a "probable criminal activity" that turned out to be a real estate agent.
I didn't downvote him, but I can understand why others might.

His comment seems willfully ignorant of the problem, which is that Ghostery calls itself a tracker-blocker, but squirrels that obviously-desirable config option away under "advanced" settings.

If Ghostery was on our side, really and truly, that would be the default. Indeed, it probably wouldn't even be an option.

Of course when the tracker list is updated, I want to block the new ones!

No post on HN, no matter how helpful, correct, and civil, changes that this operating model is essentially a trick.

I just spent 45 seconds explaining it, but it would have been faster, and pretty defensible, to just downvote.

On the other hand, nuking his comment into gray-land would obscure useful instructions for making Ghostery do what it is assumed to do in the first place. So I agree, downvoting here is destructive.
I also found newer versions have a --buffer-size option which allows you to set a huge buffer and download at a much higher speed
Hey everyone,

Last year we created our own Instagram bot which automated many of the interactions I went through manually when trying to get people to follow me (liking photos, following users).

It turns out there's a pretty decent reciprocation rate and in turn, thousands of users flooded to my Instagram profile and tapped the link contained on it which was to our iPhone app in the App Store.

We managed to rack up several thousand downloads and my photos hit the Popular page over 40 times

It was a fun experiment, I ran the bot for 9 months and collected all the stats and figures here:

http://www.mobileinc.co.uk/2013/12/follow-pie-the-instagram-...
Looking at proportions is meaningless: more people have tried and failed with regular companies because that's the default.

Let's look at how many of the world's leading companies are worker's cooperatives: very, very few. And this despite the fact that companies generally don't stay 'at the top' all that long. There is plenty of room for new companies in many fields.

> This has nothing to do with your original notion of "risk"

So what's your proposal? I don't really understand what you are discussing if you think it is not related.
Here you go:

"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses" Bjarne Stroustrup
It's not really mixed in with your views. You would put in a .js file that has nothing but javascript in it.

Some benefits I see are:

1. It just works perfectly with and without javascript which means your stuff gets crawled by search engines and it works great for people without JS. Then if you have JS enabled you get the enhanced UI.

In #1's case I do this all the time for search boxes. In admin dashboards that I make with rails I allow people to search for data.

It's trivial with rjs to implement a solution that works with no javascript and then if you have JS enabled you get your search results shown immediately without a full page reload.

2. You can tell the rjs code to use server side (erb) partials that you already have created so you don't need to have templates made for both.

Or in #2's case if you just use jquery without using any template engine it gets super messy trying to append elements to another element with inline html strings. All of that is eliminated by using your existing erb partials.
> I think the main reason I wouldn't run a company this way is because it's inefficient.

Everyone thinks so (for no good reason I can see), so nobody tries. This doesn't mean the idea itself is actually bad.

> Do we really need everyone in a company voting on product ideas/direction when many don't even know or care about it in the first place?

This is a valid concern even for democratic governments. I don't think it's contradictory to the idea of a democracy. There are ways of making this work better e.g. weighted votes based on some criteria; I'm not interested in armchair-theorising about it though, we need to try it out and gather data on what works and then form theories about why.

> It seems, from your other comments, that you don't want to risk your own money and start a company like this (where everyone has a say)..you would rather force existing companies to use this structure..which is ridiculous.

I don't have enough money to risk this way. If I did, I would. "Force" isn't feasible, and you're extrapolating me here, but perhaps the market can apply pressure, in the same way you might boycott an unethical company. (As I noted elsewhere, this is more feasible today because you do actually have ethical alternatives, as opposed to a few decades ago.)
hey Monk_NT!

Thanks for the feedback, it's much appreciated.

Well I wasn't sure what to name it but that kinda just stuck for me ha. Haha that's a good little story that I was unaware of, thanks for that!

Thanks again for the feedback!
Interesting, I was thinking that SAP might have opened this up to help broaden the base of developers who are comfortable working with their technology. I just assumed that there must be some business logic underlying the move.

I imagine that an open-source javascript project would be a great deal more approachable than proprietary ABAP for developers exploring new career paths.
I'm guessing empty message, check for error status later. Just send a bunch of emails, see which hostnames resolve (vs not).
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Yes, this is more of an obscure C feature (they are exactly the same in all cases in C, the standard defines a[b] as *(a+b)), which is inherited by C++.
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Someone needs to say something about that hideous layout. It's mobile-first and I had so much wasted real estate on my screen. So annoying.
Can you support the coffee is addictive comment? I drink coffee daily but have no issues short of a headache if I stop and I don't drink it on the weekends.
Yes "Unless you're Fabrice Bellard" should be included in the oath. :)
Right, this was a requirement so if you dialed 911 the emergency responders know where to find you even if you didn't know where you are. It is called e911 or enhanced 911.
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It's also fairly well accepted that prolonged standing is bad for you.
IntelliJ is indeed java-centric (and not light-weight), but the front-end coding environment is top-notch. I've tried going back to a light-weight text editor (I'm still a sucker for TextMate) but I always come back to IntelliJ. The code completion for HTML/JS/CSS is phenomenal, and the way it intelligently switches syntax highlighting schemes regardless of filetype cuts down on my numerous, numerous typos (for example, if in app.html you write <div style="foo:bar" onclick="foo('bar')"></div>, the HTML, CSS, and JS components will all be syntax-highlighted appropriately). It's also great for XML.

(I also happen to work on an app with a Java backend so it's a no-brainer, and the company's paying for the software...)

EDIT: Just realized you were referring only to the CE, which I've not used. I'll leave this here as a _non-sequiter_ opinion on the paid version nonetheless.
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