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You're misrepresenting his position pretty badly. XMLHttpRequest is a comprehensible name. "MysqlndUhConnection" much less so.

Not being very familiar with PHP, I don't have any pet examples of inconsistent names to offer corrections for that might correspond with what he's actually talking about.
Can you be a virgin in most situations but sometimes have sex?
> scaling rich complex client side applications.

Instagram's really not a good example here. Do comments and likes even update in real time?
> the engineering salaries are significantly lower than I would've expected for a well known startup in the Bay Area.

While some of them do work overseas, Buffer employees should note they're drastically underpaid for Silicon Valley, NYC, or even LA salaries. If they didn't know this before, they should now. Any mid-level dev with decent skills would start around 110-120k before benefits in a highly competitive job market. I know because I hire and offer these salaries right now.

Anyone heading customer service would be in a tier within the rest of customer service, capped at around 90k. This is especially true for a small startup where their duties aren't managing a huge customer service team but rather playing the role of basically another customer service rep.
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I sent you an email.
Thank you!
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Who is your employer?
If you wanted to use proper dimensions, you would more accurately say they had a 8 child-days of play time in a single day.

Messing up units turns sensible claims into gobbledygook.
Yeah, the trading shit for other shit meta-game doesn't interest me at all.
Nick Szabo and Wei Dai appear to be mythical creatures just as much as Satoshi Nakamoto and therefore saying that, say, Szabo is Nakamoto provides no information. The other two appear to be real people.
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HN won't let me reply to your more recent comment for some reason.

As I see it, you have two options: a) change millions of people to your liking; b) change yourself to your liking. It is not "obviously" true that strangers' words must affect you. If it feels that way, it's because you haven't learned how not to let them. (This is the point the others miss when telling you to just ignore it. The skill is a learned one, not as simple as choosing ketchup vs. mustard, like they make it out to be.)

Let's practice: If they don't care what they're saying, then why do you? Non-rhetorical.
Great comment. I think that technology news is generally too transactional in nature and that both sides (entrepreneurs and reporters) suffer as a result.

I'm going to focus more in depth later on how to create these more "qualitative" stories like trend pieces and founder profiles.

The way things are right now, though. A lot of people rely upon tech publications for new product information, which startups have money (and might be hiring) and what's coming down the pike. These are the most efficient means of getting that information out these publications.
Thanks. That's a good idea.

We'll definitely consider email/sms. But the app isn't required at all. What this feature enables is one link that works across devices without requiring any software installation. The app is optional.

Here's an example, https://trvbx.co/8f890593c5
It looks like they aren't accepting users at this time.
We point out agenda-designed bullshit whenever we hear it, like I just did with you, twice.
Great refinement mike. I did speech (forensics) throughout all of high school and the trick is exactly what he says at the bottom - you work through the speech as is, with full sentences because it allows you to take advantage of excellent writing and structure. Then, you improvise on top of it so you 1) don't get stilted and disconnected from your audience and 2) you can add content based on what people are responding to, or even other input from the day (previous speeches, etc)
Nor does anyone else that gets work for free and calls it an "internship".
Thanks, Layoutit looks particularly interesting.
I'm also interested in how this works. I would imagine they would need to use a webservice to get the actual exchange rate at the time of the order processing to give you an exact amount.
Slightly frustrated Foresquare user here. I'm a little confused about its usage and was wondering if some of the more avid users here could clarify a few things for me.

When I go to a restaurant, I have 3 separate actions that occur at 3 different times during my meal:
1 - Upon entering a restaurant, I want to "check in".
2 - When I get my meal, and it looks great, I want to post a photo.
3 - When I'm done eating, I want to leave a rating and a comment.

It seems that Foresquare's check-in is a one-time only action. I can't "update" my checkin in its various stages.

I don't use it as a social app as it's intended (since none of my friends use it here in Sydney). I use it as a tool to discover and rate restaurants.
Female privilege allows you to frame a man for rape or sexual harassment even if the man did absolutely nothing.
NSA report implies NSA conducting offensive attacks against financial systems?
That seems fair, we must also keep in mind that public companies are legally bound to maximize profits for their shareholders. Being altruistic is something only privately held companies can do at the expense of profits.
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Well, if you're seriously left-leaning you might think calling somebody a "faggot" is praise...
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I think the jury will be out on this until BitCoin achieves a saturation point where its deflation due to rapidly fluctuating demand stops and its deflation due to being limited in supply starts. Which means, not for a while. We won't really know how deflationary BitCoin is intrinsically until the noise in our graph goes down - i.e., it stops being so susceptible to speculative bubbles. Maybe this never happens, but I think as there is more regulatory uncertainty it will.

Any coin that tries to adddress the problem of deflation right now will also have to go through a cycle of gaining widespread adoption before we know whethre or not the monetary policy built into the coin works. PeerCoin if it ever gains wide adoption will almost certainly seem just as volatile as BitCoin as it becomes more widespread. And we wont know until it becomes widespread if it successfully combats deflation.
I remember looking into this a couple months ago and using pointers was still strongly discouraged due to massive performance impacts.
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The web's headed that way as well, we just call them services. That said, I'm not sure why MVC is inappropriate for component intra architecture.

I love how different programming communities never talk to each other.
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I have also had a simple app rejected, then approved once some complexity was added.
It was a totally silly app that was pretty much an exercise in what exactly they would accept as the simplest app. (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/iuplift/id469338399)

Initially, the app was just showing canned upifting phrases. This was rejected.
Second submission allowed the user to add their own phrases, using some native controls to show/edit this list of phrases. This was accepted.

What I would suggest is perhaps adding something like a way to manage different collect links in the app. Keep track of which photos you have sent to a collect. They seem to also love you to do things that are not easy to do in a web app. Maybe if you added camera access from within the app (useless I know, but still), maybe image cropping etc before upload? Is there metadata attached to their submissions to the collect link? Perhaps allowing them to edit this metadata in a table view.

I think you need to come up with reasons why you can't just make it a web app and want it to be an app (why do you want that anyway?) and be sure to implement those things.

My reasons for wanting my apps to be apps and not web sites is because phone apps are cool and people want an app not a website - it seems weird to me that apple do not think the same way. I understand they don't want any more fart apps, but most phone apps could be reasonably done as web apps now anyway.
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Yes. It's also wrong. The article itself is the problem, and so are you.
The middle way is the path to enlightenment.

Argument to moderation. "The truth lies in the middle" is a false axiom. Sometimes it's either in the black or the white.
A possible approach by the boss would be to 1) see if there is flexibility to provide more within the current system (maybe Niel is more "senior" than we had recognized?), and 2) see about tweaking the formulae so everyone (or at least everyone with overlap with Niel) gets more. You may not be able to make up the whole difference, but you might not have to, and I expect very different social results than "we're paying him more to stay".

I've no particular confidence this would work well, but it seems a consistent approach that has some potential.
The title is strong, yes (on purpose). I'm not certain how you came to the conclusion that I was far from the first hire at Crowdtilt. Your statement is simply false.
Yea Sails is awesome but I feel like the devs have been putting the community on the back burner lately. Its ORM is off to a good start but I find myself writing a bunch of hard to maintain SQL because of the things yet to be implemented, like joins. Also, Windows support could use a ton more testing/attention.
"It is disheartening that you realized this only after getting involved in activism."

I had an inkling, as I think most people do, even the people who most benefit from the status quo. But, being born white and male into a middle class household granted me a tremendous amount of privilege to avoid ever having to see it too closely, without even trying very hard. Having been exposed to technology at a young age, and encouraged in that pursuit, granted me a near complete lack of need to actually work all that hard to survive. It's easy to believe in a meritocratic society when you believe you're meritorious enough to deserve all the good things that happen to you and to avoid all the bad things being inflicted on others.

Let's just say I've grown as a person over the past few years.
No reason not to support multiple currencies, of course.
That's great - benchmark 2 is essentially a bunch of useless work, and it appears to really speed things up by making sure we only actually touch the DOM every 16ms, instead of constantly.

I'd imagine a Backbone integration with React would get us even closer. I'm not sure if it actually makes sense to go too far with an LM conversion as React appears to do a better job. But LM could certainly benefit from waiting until RAF.
I could be wrong about this but if my memory serves me correctly, linux syscalls put the first argument in AX, second argument in BX, third argument in CX, and fourth argument in DX. BSD syscalls do the saner thing and just put everything on the stack.
A better way to find music by genre or record label
In most environments, writing something like `if (x = 5)` will generate a warning.

E.g. if you use JSHint, you'd get:

"Expected a conditional expression and instead saw an assignment."

Nowadays, there usually isn't any benefit in using yoda conditions.
I've noticed a lot of Python coders to be pet technologists. They simply can't let go of their beloved Python, no matter what. It's as if to mask their incompetence.

I don't really see why the "Illiterate" is necessarily a terrible programmer, though. Code is the very opposite of literature: hard to read, easy to write.
Don't take this the wrong way, but you're actually developing new applications with CodeIgniter? Ugh...
I just read through all the React docs and the tutorial. My first impression is it looks and reads like Flex for Javascript, both for the JSX markup and the component lifecycle events. I'm not saying that is a bad thing, just an observation.
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"All right. What have we got? A computer! Not a surprise, actually. To be expected, to be honest. Check that off the list: computer identified. Tick."
This still doesn't convince me it was ever a beneficial design.
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What's really really funny is if you are a Stalin nerd like me and you've read everything there is to read about Stalin and his rise to power some aspects of what we've seen unfolding before us over the last decade just seems so oddly familiar.

What Stalinism was about was the use of organized crime tactics that Stalin had used during the revolution and previously being brought into use in government. The thing that usually prevents this from happening in a normal situation is that the mob bosses get obsessed with material possessions, women and comforts and get distracted from running a government. In Stalin's case though he wasn't going to be satisfied until he had completely taken over the world in the name of Marxism/Leninism and that kept him focused throughout his political journey. It also didn't hurt that he had an enormous intellect and memory to keep the whole thing together. It's weird because it was all ideologically consistent and had probably seemed all practical and reasonable to the cadres. Simon Sebag-Montefiore explained this in his book "Court of the Red Tzar" as them thinking of themselves as "Warrior Priests". Molotov, a true believer himself, even complained that after Stalin the government became filled with opportunists and not revolutionaries.
It gets complicated; you have to store the inverse of every API call you use in order to back it out in order to have proper Undo support. IMO the UI is the easiest part of it, as you normally just reuse methods you already use in your app.

For example:

* Rename model: inverse is to rename back to stored name

* Delete model: inverse is to create with same data

* Create model: inverse is to delete the model

* Add model to collection: inverse is to remove from collection

.. and so on. It's pretty simple. I use something similar to JS-Undo-Manager[1] to manage it. Om isn't going to get you around needing to make those calls and your UI should (generally) be able to handle executing the inverse of an action at any time.

1. https://github.com/ArthurClemens/Javascript-Undo-Manager
I think the benefits it provides outweighs the slight chance that someone would ship code to production with it turned on.
TIL, thanks for the link. However, I don't think they have xbox live in prison.
I don't want to play a role in an ongoing crime... but I think that is naive to believe you even have a say in your government. You have a greater chance of dying in a car wreck on the way to the polling station than your single vote swinging an election. Democracy really doesn't work unless you have the option to opt out and it is at a very small scale where you are actually able to judge the character of the people to choose from.

What you are advocating is what you then go on and complain about; it's total akrasia. You are suffering from Stockhom syndrome in believing freedom from your serfdom would be serfdom. Democracy is a very persuasive idea because it seems like you have choice, but then in reality the political elite rule. 2/3rds of Americans oppose the Iraq war; would you say this is an example of having a say in policy?

Governments are, across the board, a failure and a drain on society. Every service, including things like providing a "social safety net" can be better provided through market processes.
I'd love to hear your reasoning.
> You could plan the rough change in value over time, and build it into the algorithm

Are you sure of what you're saying ? Because bitcoin doesn't seem to work in a very simple fashion already, it's decentralized and it's already a miracle if it's working as the programmer intended.
Why do earphone pieces repel each other when music is on?
Other than Facebook, does anybody need HipHop?
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Hey guys, congrats on the release. Any news about Hack coming out any time soon?
There is no excuse to be dumber in action than the people/company/administration you oppose. Business is ritualized warfare. It's not about playing fair.
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"The gaming world is a cesspit of maladjusted, comically aggressive, emotionally (and maybe actually) adolescent males who have a deep fear and distrust of women. The problematic gamers are, naturally, almost exclusively male – and no doubt skew towards the young side. No-one’s surprised by that. I’m not surprised."

We have such members. We expect them to abide by our clearly written community standards. We are gamers. They are gamers. We act as a community, which involves not leaving everyone to fend for themselves as an individual.

"The gaming world is a cesspit of maladjusted, comically aggressive, emotionally (and maybe actually) adolescent males"

Sure, the preceding paragraph makes a pass at placing this in context, but this is clearly baiting language. And the problem is apparently so bad that OP doesn't want to even be called a gamer, lest he be lumped in with this cesspit.

Again. For the record. I am a gamer. I'm a lot of other things, too. But I'm a gamer, and so are my slightly maladjusted male and female compatriot guildmates.

The biggest problem I see here is parents letting children play M-rated games. Anecdotally, and with no facts whatsoever to support my theory, I believe this would remove 90% of the problem.
> the premise that women get more harassment online than men

If you are a woman, online, than you'll be harassed more than if you were a man, online.

If you want to go by ratio, then yeah, but that has nothing to do with the argument. The point is that the gaming community is driving away women with this behavior.
I don't ask this too hard, because not only do I know ahead of time that I probably won't like the answer too much, I don't have much reason to suppose I'll get it 'right' next time, either. Without any one all-consuming passion in life, the best I can do is change stuff and see what happens. Also, it's unclear what Mr. Sivers' financial independence status is, but I think that for most of us, wherever we go basically has to be for a job.
> What I would suggest is perhaps adding something like a way to manage different collect links in the app.

Good idea.

> Keep track of which photos you have sent to a collect.

We are already doing this in the app. But maybe doing it for the multiple "collect"s that we're tracking might help.
>Amazon EC2

I'm not sure how they compare in practice, but it might be worth calculating how many hours an Amazon G2 instance would take, using their high-end graphics cards as CUDA processors. I think the cost per performance ratio is much lower, and that could change the equation in the other direction.
We built our own immutable object utilities that prevent mutating anything in the object graph. These immutable objects look and feel just like regular objects/arrays, so you can use functional map/reduce etc. The only thing you can do with them besides reading their properties, is to create a new version of the previous object with changes applied. We then use object identity to detect when things could not have possibly changed between render cycles. We prune off those paths that will not need to be updated, justifying the pruning based on dependent data's object identity remaining the same over time. Same object identity across two points in time necessarily implies that their deeply immutable data structures have not changed, therefore their generated output could not have possibly changed.
Apologies for our second-rate internet connections. Hopefully we'll see > 5 Mbps download speeds to residential buildings within my lifetime.
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They were buying some sort of inventory (seats or flights outright), correct? -> You are now an airline.

airbnb, über, ebay and craigslist don't have any expensive inventory. They just provide the eyeballs and matching venue to make business happen. That's what those guys should have done.
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Depends on your definition of "create", but Beatrix also creates :) It's not just about link sharing - sign up and choose (for example) the Technology category and you'll see original pieces of content as well as link sharing in your content feed.
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No! Pacifism has no spectrum, like anarchism. You can't have a little bit of government with anarchism any more than you can have a bit of violence with pacifism.
There is so, so much more to this story that I don't even know where to begin. People "asking for what they want" takes on completely different contexts depending on their situation, background, gender. The system you are advocating will always pay more to the privileged, encourage a competitive, low-trust culture, and disadvantage many skilled people for reasons out of their control. Ultimately, it's the company that will miss out on the best talent.
> But you CAN trade Bitcoins for things, not just currency.

The value for which you can trade a currency is its extrinsic value. Insofar as "intrinsic value" is meaningful, it refers to the value you can derive from a thing without exchanging it with someone else.

> You can trade Bitcoins directly for more hardware to mine Bitcoins.

Yes, you can buy things with Bitcoins. That's the definition of a currency's extrinsic value.

> So it IS a reversible transaction

No, if mining was reversible, you could recover the resources expending in mining bitcoins without trading the bitcoin to someone else in the market, the way you can make industrial or ornamental use of gold in your possession without trading that gold to someone else for industrial tools or ornamentation.

> and Bitcoins are DIRECTLY (not indirectly) valued at approximately the cost of mining and distribution.

"Direct value" isn't a well-defined phrase, and isn't the one that was under discussion. Intrinsic value of currency is better defined, and is what was being discussed, and bitcoin doesn't have any of that traceable to its mining cost.
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Reddit is great if you're looking for a place for:
* Mens Rights Advocacy
* Bitcoin chat
* Creepshots
* Jailbait creepshots
Just because moderation isn't right in every case doesn't mean it's not right here.

Your reply strikes me as a fallacy fallacy. It's not a logical fallacy if it's not used to support an assertion. In this case, it is the assertion.
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You're definitely right that there are other options, and I'll be reconsidering that approach closer to the time based on what's easiest/most important for actual users. Thanks for the comment :)
>homonyms

Homophones?
I don't disagree with what you say about C3; my comment is more to do with the "see one-write one" nature of software books. Even though some books turn out surprisingly well, there's a distinct lack of depth and statistical analysis in the field.
You talked about real rape, and so did I. Moving goalposts gets you nothing.
They made like 300 of these, so that would have saved them $150.
I can't see what the exchange rate is or whether you can buy dogecoin here. Am I missing something?
I never understood the crying over that. If you have a good product available right now, and you can't sell against a vaporware product that may or may not be available for year(s) in the future, you're simply not good at sales, or your product isn't good.

At Zortech, we found selling against vaporware to be easy sales.