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If you've had an iPhone for 3 generations like me, there's no way you would switch to another vendor, simply because of all of the apps that you've paid for. If there were some way to get the Android version of an app if you bought the iPhone version, that might make it a lot easier to switch, but without that, I can't be bothered with spending money trying to recreate the same environment I currently have.
ios7 was the last straw for me
I think they "lose" in that they'll be angry to see someone still making a living on the idea while they saw no returns. Or maybe they can't break free, and keeping it running would still mean just giving the profits to the investors for the next 100 years and it's easier to just close it all together?
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Santa Cruz most closely resembles your classic SoCal beach town and is more laid back than San Francisco. I grew up in SoCal and here's why I prefer San Francisco:

- It's a relatively big city with more cultural institutions than other areas around the Bay. You can expect many live music shows, plays, and events on any given night so there's always something to do.

- It's a young city with not a lot of kids in most parts of the city. There's a vibrant bar/nightlife scene and you can get around with public transit easily so DUIs are not an issue.

- The food is ridiculous - there's delicious food EVERYWHERE. Cheap delicious food, Michelin starred delicious food, etc. San Diego has some good restaurants but SF just blows it out of the water.

- It's a beautiful city (sans some shitty parts of downtown). I don't get bored of looking at the bridge from Crissy Field or seeing sailboats on the bay with Alcatraz in the distance.

- Awesome access to the great outdoors - San Diego has great coastal access and some decent forests/desert areas east but consider that just across the bridge is Marin county with hundreds of trails of hiking, biking, etc. all within minutes of San Francisco not counting what's in the city itself.
The payout is $500m though, plus false advertising.
if it's not too late, DLjirLRLyjiGnCDiAFyBghf16oBnmbFTqq,
and thank you sir!
I like gandi.net. Very clean UI, their motto is "no bullshit" and they live up to it in my experience.
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Great to see a YC company raise the next round with an open source pivot. Would be interesting to see how this pans out.

Great job Solomon and team. I am all for you guys!
People there purchase commodities in great volume, surely.
I should have made it clear that it's is certainly not the majority. My very first interviews were the bad ones and I was referred to the "skipping math questions" guy by a close friend. There was some other minor shit but I felt like it was caused more by awkwardness than sexism. After my troubles I started heavily screening companies I accepted interviews at. So this was 2/8 in person interviews but that's very high because of my pickiness. I probably did 20 or so phone interviews and either chose not to take it further or wasn't invited to continue.

I also run a very large meetup group (around 4000 people) that is nearly 100% tech workers. In four years and hundreds of meetups I've only met a handful of guys that have issues with women in tech. But like I've said, the ones that really believe there's something different about women that make them not care about hard work/intellectual pursuits/math/whatever are just so hateful that they stick with you.

I ended up joining two wonderful companies that were totally accepting and I felt 100% comfortable around everyone at all times. I got a contract to hire gig at Scripted but before the hire date I got an offer from ThoughtWorks from an earlier interview. I can't even describe how wonderful they both are.

I think that it's an ugly cycle right now. It's hard for me to talk about the experiences I've had because without adding a ton of qualifiers it can sound like I am blaming more than those few specific people. Which obviously puts people on the defensive which only leads to worse situations.

I'm jet lagged and rambling, hope this gives you a little more insight.
Just curious, but is there some sort of anti-car sentiment in the tech world in the Bay Area? Being from SoCal, I can't imagine living without my car and motorcycle.

SF is just absolutely terrible for parking. But I wonder, do tech people dislike cars because they live in SF, or do they live in SF because they dislike cars? Or is it neither?
use two step verification for app store purchases

That's actually a great idea, and it wouldn't be hard at all, as long as they were to use TFA for all iCloud access. The second factor (e.g. a 6-digit number) could be displayed in the dialogue box asking for your password.

If it's a genuine dialogue box, no problem. If it's _not_ a genuine dialogue box, then the captured username/password is of no use, as you don't have the second factor. Replay and MITM attacks could be avoided by using a session identifier; the app wouldn't be able to get at it due to the sandbox.
You can use heroku to host static website. Although it's a hack, but very simple and should not be a problem.

http://www.lemiffe.com/how-to-deploy-a-static-page-to-heroku...
I appreciate the dialog you're already having, but I thought you might like to know that some of the statements you're making are causing my skepticism of the whole argument to increase, not decrease. I'm not knowledgeable enough to weigh in, but it might be useful for you to know what arguments work well and which don't.

Here's what I noticed in your reply that I found myself questioning your authenticity:

1. Your first sentence is long and diminutive to the reader. I don't know who the other person is, but maybe they did read your post and links? I'm not sure. I also am highly skeptical of anyone that refers to their extensive anything on anything. It really highly signals "quack" to me. Again, I'm not trying to suggest you are.

2. Your first sentence includes a number of terms that demand unpacking. This is really strongly related to the first point, because I feel like as a reader I'm being talked down to and then hit with some deep jargon that I don't understand. Perhaps I'm just out of my league on this conversation, though.

3. Your argument on peak minerals doesn't seem to make sense to me. It's one of those things where, I read it and it feels very strongly like when I read a staunch libertarian/Austrian economic argument between friends on Facebook and see someone cite a universal law of microeconomics and then they use it to justify something much larger or more complex. Looking up Leibig's law didn't help me here. I'm just left a little more bewildered and even if I read and interpreted Leibig's law as being one hundred percent correct in its original formulation, there's a gap in my intuition between that and your use here, as near as I can tell.
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IAP is required for virtual goods used within the app. It's fine to ask for a credit card number to purchase physical goods and services. That's why Apple hasn't shut down Uber and Square.
The site's tagline is "Progressive Journalism for Positive Action". I imagine they have to include a dig on Republicans/Utah...ites? to show that the author does indeed think Republicans are Bad, lest the commenters crucify him.
Hi Solomon. Congrats on the round. We're building on top of Docker a reproducable genomics platform at Seven Bridges Genomics. For us, Docker makes science and healthcare reproducible. Let's brainstorm on how we can bring wider visibility to Docker in that vertical :)
Mobile in America is so messed up that the worst carrier in Europe literally is the best carrier in America.
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I'm not the person you asked the question of, but I'll dip my oar in anyway. Of the self-identified feminists I've come across, both online and in real-life, the vast majority of them subscribe to patriarchy theory. A standard response to the common debating technique of switching the gender in a hypothetical scenario and presenting it as as challenge to their world view is to say, "Well that may be so, but the difference is that prejudice against women is systematic, because patriarchy." So in this world-view men, as a class, cannot be victims, only victimisers; they cannot be oppressed, only opressors; and so on. And patriarcy theory permeates feminism. So in this sense, all of feminism, and most if not all feminists, to one degree or another, are male-exclusionary. I don't personally believe that this element can be exorcised. I believe it is axiomatic, that it and that it trickles down through the ranks even to those who consider themselves merely sympathetic to feminism.
If no one uses a feature the feature might as well not exist.
Hey everybody, Pierre from @sunrise.
This is the blog post we've just published to give more context:

"Users sometimes ask us why we require the user’s Apple ID and password in Sunrise, instead of using the local Calendar API. That’s a great question to ask, and we understand why users don’t want to share their credentials without context. We’ve thought a lot about that.

The two reasons why we are doing this are:
- one, to provide a better user-experience
- two, to offer a Sunrise experience everywhere, on all platforms (including web and Android)

Providing a better user-experience

Being able to access the data from our servers, instead of just client-side, has enabled us to write a better calendar app. We are working hard to make synchronization faster and more reliable, and it enables us to send push notifications or alerts to users without them having to open the app.

And this is just the beginning, a lot of new features that we are working on at Sunrise for the future will rely on our server-side infrastructure.

Sunrise everywhere

The two biggest feature requests we get from users are: “when is Sunrise going to launch on desktop” and “what about Android?”.

We understand our users, they want a unified Sunrise experience everywhere, and so we can’t use a local API for that.

How does it work? Is this secure?

When you type in your iCloud credentials, they are sent to our server only once in a secured way over SSL. We use them to generate a secure token from Apple. This secure token is the only thing we store on our servers, we never store your actual iCloud credentials.

What’s next?

In the future, we are thinking about ways to take advantage of the local Calendar API for users who don’t want to share their credentials, we understand their point of view.

We are also hoping that Apple will leverage OAuth to authenticate their calendar API, which will make things easier for everyone. We already support OAuth with Facebook, Google, Twitter, LinkedIn, Foursquare and Producteev. We support OAuth where we can.

We are a team of 7 people building a calendar with love & passion, and unfortunately we can’t always move as fast as we want, but as always, we want to address users’ issues with transparency and openness. We’re listening on @sunrise or support@sunrise.am"
SLC probably has the advantage that your average homeless drunk has a much harder time getting booze.
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Well, do you test on mobile IE? Should you?
I apologize if I am not being clear, but this is precisely what Argentina does. Argentina keeps the value of its dollar much lower than its official exchange rate by giving exporters less pesos than the real exchange rate would dictate. The government pockets the extra USD.

You could also look at this is as if the exporters got fair market exchange rates for the USD they earn, and the government took some of the pesos the exporters were given, and immediately converted them back into USD. The effect is the same, as the exporters end up with less money than they earned, and the government pockets USD.

Overall, this reduces the resources available to people holding (the same number of an increasing pool of) pesos, thus devaluing the currency.

The fixed official exchange rate also allows for less obvious increases in the money supply (inflation).
"Personally, I think we're better off with Google taking the place of Microsoft in the mobile space". Wow it just felt like 2008 for a second. Google's image is so different now. Sad really.
I find it hard to believe that Microsoft is outselling iPhone in Colombia. Even if that was the case iPhone is vastly more popular.
Although not peer review, so take the conclusions with a grain of salt and all that, the premise seems to be that approx. 80% of the users will be abandoning facebook in a few years.
But that still doesn't really solve the whole progress reporting part of it. As per my example, the "job" would really be 20 individual cropping/resizing jobs. In order to know that the whole set of jobs is complete, there needs to be a checking job or something similar that looks to see out of the total number of jobs started, if all are now completed, and if so, tell the user.

Is there a pattern for that type of situation? Some sort of watcher pattern or master job monitoring pattern that allows accurate progress reporting?
Try ending with the question, rather than leading it. For instance, taking your line about weird foods and flipping the sentences yields this:

I think squid jerky was one of the more interesting foodstuffs I've tried. What other sorts of weird things have you had?

The revised phrasing is more conversational. Ending with a question gives them something to go on. Otherwise they finish reading the message wondering what squid jerky is like and why you would say "foodstuffs" when you could use "foods" instead. And don't use weird language like that. Just say what you mean, simply. Your messages read as if you're trying to fill them with personality. ("Life is divine!" comes across as weird.) Stop using exclamation marks.

You don't want to put too much information into messages. When you say less the other person will fill the blanks with their imagination, and people tend to be optimistic. They'll see you as they want to see you. Whereas your messages are full of a subtext that makes you seem over-enthusiastic and a bit "quirky!" (in other words: annoying).

Sorry for being blunt, just calling it how I see it from the few messages you have posted.
How about meeting people from the site at random and then finding patterns in the answered questions of the ones you liked?
I'm from Europe, currently living in SoCal. It's just so much nicer to be able to walk/take a bus/subway wherever you need (I went to university in a really dense urban area, never even needed a car). Also, suburbs are too quiet for some people, hectic/agitated city life can be more interesting (during day time as much as at night).
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Very true. Do you think we could take the Gittip model a few steps farther, and have companies use it to fund open source projects they are built on (like OpenBSD)?
You could start here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/wiki/index#wiki_that_.22...

The reading list starts here, it's a brief introduction to a very broad topic:

http://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/wiki/index#wiki_so_..._a...

(And for anyone stumbling on this comment in the future -- I'm planning on substantially reorganizing that Wiki page though it should link to the appropriate sections).

The major issue with tapping solar power for high-grade electrical energy is whether or not it's possible to do so in a manner that sustains the ability to create that solar energy infrastructure and support technological life. EROEI, capital and maintenance requirements, and other resource limits all come into play.

The last time humans had a sustainable-energy based economy was 1700. The state of technology was markedly lower. If we return to that energy state, we should continue to have the benefit of scientific understanding gained since then (engineering, germ theory, metalurgy, sanitation, evolution, steam power, thermodynamics, electricity, chemistry, relativity, quantum mechanics, atomic physics, astronomy, electronics, pharmacology, aviation, rocketry), though how much of it we'll have the techological stack to support is another question.

Joseph Tainter, Charles Hall, Robert Ayres, Donna & Dennis Meadows, and William Stanley Jevons would make for some interesting reading.

Oh, and you've only got 800 million - 1 billion years: solar flux and/or C4 synthesis will mean the end of life as we know it. Life on Earth is past middle age. Even allowing for the lignin revolution and decomposer lag, that's barely sufficient time to replenish fossil fuel stocks for a do-over should humans fail.
I was in a similar position to yourself and ended up leaving after 5 weeks. The problem was that my immediate manager didn't have the clout to change things and going up the chain of command got me nowhere. And this was with a big name multinational IT company.

There are two things for you to do:

1. Refresh your CV and focus on the positives. Don't rubbish your previous workplace. Explain it away as a difference in priorities and goals.

2. If your immediate manager can't / won't fix the problems go over his head. It might not work (hence step 1). But you could luck out.
Which was in no way influenced by c++
Sure, big players like Google contribute to open source projects, but I'm thinking along the lines of smaller companies pledging 50k/year because they rely heavily on ___ open source technology.
Just a few refs...
That doesn't prove that they have received or read it though...
Submitting credentials "only once to our server" is a classical fishing attack. There is no way for the user to verify what happen with them.
Leaking's fine. Blaring out the other side of the ear cups isn't. I don't understand it, if I wanted everyone to hear my music, I'd just use speakers. What the hell is the point?

But thanks for the recommendation. I'll be sure to grab those.
What would you do in a dilemma like, choose between two jeans?
Tough shopping decision?Pickii(http://bit.ly/LcDFvJ), a real time polling among your friends, can help!
Congrats Docker team. Docker is an amazing product and I've been following it closely as well as playing with the latest version. Not one bit of the hype is vaporware. Cant wait for it to get a little more production ready. I'm sure anyone who has done even a small amount of dev-ops can appreciate what a huge pain point docker will solve. VM's have been commoditized, but with docker, they can be obliterated altogether.

One question I have for Solomon -- do you guys have a product roadmap on the site anywhere ? As in, what features are planned etc. and by what release/time ?
It's true that those same qualities may make them poor fits for this program. I don't know the details, but I'm sure there are rules about the housing (you can't damage it, etc) that may be barriers to some of the target population living in it.

Many of the people who would have trouble paying rent every month will also have trouble staying within the rules of state-provided housing.
Are you making a mockery about my country's laws?
I am deeply offended.
You know that, it is a criminal offense punishable by jail time to do such a thing.
Girls, what would you do in a dilemma like, choose between two jeans?
I wonder if Nate Silver is disqualified..
That's awesome, and I can respect that you're trying to tell me "We are trying to make Docker the project survivable even in the event of Docker, Inc ceasing to operate as a going concern.", and I have much less stringent requirements for maturity than the Fortune 500, but...

As one geek to another, the thing which stops me from Dockering up my entire infrastructure in February is that: of that NxN compatibility matrix that Docker will some day liberate me from, I feel like I'm going to be the first production system in a lot of the cells, I will have to replace my existing cobbled-together infrastructure which I know to be borderline functional with hand-rolled work to Dockerize it, and I figure that when there are inevitably bugs I will be the one to weep tears of blood about them.

When this is no longer true, I'm so there.
Least boring upper-management change announcement I have seen all year. More things should be done with gifs.
I'm a white dude. Why is that creepy? Because I'm dating someone of a different race/culture? She's exactly my age, college educated, speaks excellent English, makes more money than me, etc. I was explicitly trying to minimize any sort of power differential (which is part of why I looked online in the first place, the subset of women who are computer literate tend to be more affluent / socially mobile).

By the way, I live in Cambodia... what the fuck am I supposed to do? Not date anyone? I guarantee you I would be more likely to end up with a mismatch of power if I stuck strictly to IRL dating.
Funny you should mention TripAdvisor. Go back about 9 years and guess who was one of the biggest SEO link buyers?
I’m glad that you are able to understand that abstraction, but if I'm being honest, how Apple handles accounts gets way over my head — and anyone around me is baffled by it too.
I'm disappointed by the 1 per household and million entry limit. I would really like to see someone hit it.
Serbia? Wikipedia says it has:

- 20% VAT rate

- Roughly 60% marginal payroll taxes for highest earners (including both employee-paid income tax and employer-paid payroll taxes)

- 58 guns per capita in 2007