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> Actual users want products that just work.

And there's the sound of someone slamming down the portcullis between "us" and "them". Programmers and non-programmers. Creators and consumers.
I don't see how the patent office didn't just google for 30 seconds...

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031320304...

Maybe the patent has interesting twists and turns, but applying known algorithms on previously known architectures doesn't seem like the innovation that they should hand out protection for 17 years.
It's interesting how the trend among big-time compiled languages seems to be implement statically-analyzable versions of key features from functional and dynamic languages. C++'s auto keyword and lambda functions makes a world of functional-like expression possible. Java's implementing python iterator and lisp sequence-like streams.

It's fascinating to me to watch experimental and niche languages blaze trails and then have the designers of the big compiled languages see the success of certain features almost as proofs of viability.
Not a good enough offer - they would have to pay me to download these.
The fact of the matter remains that somebody will give you a nice car if you give them some encrypted ponzi-coins. Sounds pretty tangible to me.
Oh, I do believe that the video is damaging to MtGox's public image, but paying out this guy would have been at least as damaging. They hit rock bottom and are damned whatever they do.

I sort of doubt if their public image matters at the moment: They either fix the problem and then can communicate that "yes, it was unfortunate but we could no do any payouts since we needed to fix the bug for all of you, instead of a nutcase that went to japan to pester us." or they can't fix it and go bankrupt at which point the video on youtube won't do any harm either. Nor do the concerns of their users: You can't withdraw funds, not at all, no way, no matter how concerned you are and how often you show up at their office. Be more concerned, go ahead. If I had any money on MtGox I'd be writing it off right now and throw a party when I get it back.
Give this guy a medal.
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I had a couple of minor styling issues once with one of Squarespace's templates. I emailed customer support and they pretty much could not have handled it any better. They were in constant contact with me and fixed both my problems (which required dev team action) quickly and totally to my satisfaction.

I was never asked for my password and I doubt very much if that's normal procedure. Without trying to sound like some shill account, I can tell you that Squarespace made a loyal customer out of me by giving me the kind of support they promise, but which I had previously assumed was sales-talk-BS.

I'm going to say it was a case of number 3 on your list.
> But we actually have the capacity to feed them, to feed everyone, even now, even if we don’t have the will.

Careful, having the capacity to do something does not mean you should do it.

An excellent way to grow a starving population from 80MM people to 800MM people in about 80 years is to feed them (these numbers aren't made up).

Then all you have to do is just feed their children, and their children, and their children, until that population hits some type of a pivotal point where everything becomes great, they become independant, responsible, have a self-sustaining economy, government, start having only 1.4 children, etc.

The chances of it all going horribly wrong is very high, but why not balloon the population of the world, and have all those new soles competing over limited resources.
"Firmly" is a bit much, given you can install an extension manually using "Developer mode".
Sometimes the crappiest job is being part of Engineering. It could be super fascinating at times... At others you just work the transporter.

Google the Chief O'Brien At Work comic series for a laugh.
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I only assume that Squarespace is either having support people follow a script, or is training them well enough that they don't need to follow a script. Either way, they shouldn't be asking for passwords.

Other people seem to be assuming that Squarespace is having untrained people do support, which is a much more damaging assumption.
I think it is a Douche thing to do.
...couldn't happen to a nicer site.
Enough to share a link with some friends. Definitely not enough to link something from HN.
Or just continue using firefox instead!
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Loved this piece.

> I got so caught up in this mentality that I was literally embarrassed to be working on a company that was making money in a less than sexy industry. Seems ass-backwards to me...

Spot on! I wish you much success in your venture. Oh and in my opinion, a freshly cut baseball field is waaay sexier than any mobile app haha
Show HN: Cherrola, an aggressive Pomodoro timer for OSX
https://github.com/felixpalmer/Cherrola

I made this simple app to force myself to stick to the Pomodoro technique. In a nutshell, during the breaks your screen is obscured forcing you to take a break from your screen.

Would like to get feedback on whether this is something others find interesting, as then I would go through with the process of putting this into the App Store (currently just in github).
AdBlock Plus and Thumbnail Zoom Plus for Firefox are much better than their competition on Chrome
There was a great comment recently about "social" game developers being like heroin dealers who don't use their own product and look down on their customers, and "traditional" game developers being like cannabis dealers who are happy to smoke it with the customer.
The video refers to the context of an interrogation, questioning, stop by the police. There seems to be a constant theme in the US regarding police abuse (and I'm not talking about a scenario of a riot, etc.) during these moments – that is what I refer to when I say "Last time I check such abuse can't be seen anywhere in Europe." Are there going to be cases of such police brutality? Sure. Is it as frequent as the cases in the US, absolutely not. Do take a look at the NPMSRP reports and compare that to any EU country.
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Perhaps the folks who report this stuff are the exceptions. If you find yourself in these scenarios and you're not white, or aware of your rights... who's going to believe the ramblings of some gaolbird?
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Eh, in that case, what OP did was perfectly reasonable. I would hand my credit card to Apple much quickly than I would hand it to a friend of a friend that knows how to fix computers (which is what it sounds like d0 does, fix computers for people). And I certainly don't think you would sit there and watch someone while they work on your computer for a hours. I would just do it myself if I was going to waste that time.

The real moral of the story should be "treat your bitcoin wallet like a wallet.... because it is one".
Met a fellow at the hacker news meet up in Tokyo that works for that company. His name evades me unfortunately. You could pop by the next meet up and ask around. I think he was a regular attendee.
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But you do have command history, it's just not in your shell, because the shell is the not right place to put it. The windowing system exposes all the history as a text file, so you can use scripts that use this text file or write your own. I already mentioned " and "" in another comment. In particular, to reexecute previous command I'd just type "".

As for using text editors. Yes, in Plan 9 this is actually feasible and it's a widely used idiom. What makes it so much easier is that I can just middle-click or middle-swipe on anything inside the editor, and it would execute. So yeah, I can just type commands and edit them. When I B2 on them they will run.

Please see this excellent introduction to acme by Russ Cox: http://research.swtch.com/acme
This is the kind of story that takes you deep into the rabbit hole

Funny how people just don't bother with x87 anymore, even for things that it's supposedly better. Oh btw x87 is not as exact as it could be for sin/cos, because of backwards compatibility. (can't remember the reference right now, but I remember Java computing them manually exactly because of this)

Still, if your program is asking for the cos of 2^120, you're doing it wrong, as nicely explained here: " You need around 120 bits of 2pi to even start getting significant bits of the cosine right, and you need 170 or so to get them all right. Very few implementations bother, because this only matters if you assume the argument was also accurate to at least 120 if not 170 or so bits of precision, which at that magnitude is very unlikely."
Maybe they have this and were still unable to reproduce it, and the uppity intern working support tried to go (in his/her eyes) go above and beyond to fix it. I agree with parent comment, knee jerk reaction to this kind of stuff is stupid. Seems to be "women in tech" who always feel compelled to fucking blog about it too.
Look, no one disagrees that learning angular and putting together an SPA requires a lot of brain power.

But creating a data-driven, non-trivial web app in pure jQuery is probably going to take much, much more.
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You might be right about the overall move toward giving away music, but in this case, it's because they simply cannot get their music released digitally due to rights/sampling issues. Giving it away sidesteps the issue, gives them much more exposure, generates a lot of goodwill toward them and will get more people to come out and see them when they put on a concert in your area.
Same here. I want to make a battery powered noise canceling headphone that automatically shuts off if the jack isn't plugged in. Why should a 250 dollar pair of headphones not do this automatically when the battery is required for the experience!?
Losing graciously is always deserving of respect. Thank you Mark.
This is all true, but the endlessly repeated line about "IO Bound" needs to die. It's just not true. Most stuff written in dynamic languages is a lot slower than it would be in a statically typed language.
The comments in that article are too damn retrograde
The way people talk about socialism and communism in the west show the sad state of our education system.

communism is already a big part of our lives. When you sit at the dinner table and ask for the salt, you get it. When are at work and you ask for a code review and the person gives it to you. If the need is great enough, or the obstacles to ability are small enough, people do things.

From each according to their ability, to each according to their need. Our economy is firmly based on communist actions and the capitalists exploit this.

but the way that people talk about communism, as a centrally planned economy, shows great ignorance of both the literature and a blindedness to "already occurring communism"
They probably only get paid $10 an hour: how much training do you think they might have..?
Ah, but trying to talk about a situation labels you as an elitist snob, or as Frito put it... "You talk like a fag, and your shit's all retarded".
She makes a reasonable point. Someone comments

"Wow, you are a hell customer. In the future, set a temporary password. They were trying to help you and you have to be a mouthy egotistical bitch. I'm sure they're happy to see you go. As someone in customer support, I'm sure they're happy to see you go. Egotistical hipster bitch."

For not wanting to give her password to customer support she is somehow a "mouthy egotistical bitch", a "hell customer", etc.

And yet you get down voted for mentioning the misogynist word?
Then do the constituents of your city, county, state, and country a service and either stand for election, volunteer time for a candidate that's not an asshole, or donate money to the campaign of a candidate that's not an asshole so they get on the ballot. Otherwise you get what you deserve.
There is also a spiegel.de article [1] which contains a short summary including examples, like this one:
http://cdn3.spiegel.de/images/image-656756-galleryV9-aesy.jp...

[1]: http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/geometrie-neue-kla...

[1-translated]: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=ht...
I was somewhat dumbfounded when I was asked for my apple id and password when I went to get my screen replaced at the apple store.

After some debate with more senior team members, I reset my password to something generic and gave it to them, but it sets a bad precedent for customers who should be educated into never giving their password, under any circumstances.
That's true, although I doubt that will happen as well. Time will tell.

FWIW, Ron Minnich wrote the Linux v9fs. He was very involved with Plan 9, for example the Blue Gene port. He know ports Plan 9 bits into Akaros.
> For some reason, I bought into this premium that our
> community puts on companies that produce gimmicky
> technology and raise massive rounds without having any
> real revenue streams. I got so caught up in this
> mentality that I was literally embarrassed to be working
> on a company that was making money in a less than sexy
> industry.

Anyone who is looking to take VC money needs to be able to convince investors that they'll have a 100M+ exit within seven to ten years. Investors who are looking to make these "long-shot" bets are not looking for solid companies with predictable growth like a lawn care business.

It's really important to understand the investor's point-of-view when considering a position at a VC-funded company, otherwise the company's behavior may seem irrational.
Kudos to him for this. Could not have been an easy decision but does sound like he listens and wants what is best for Ubuntu in the long run.
Focus on creating things. Not on learning things. I.e. Ask yourself what fun low-level project can I _MAKE_ instead of what technology/language/whatever can I learn.
Tough customers, once won over, can prove to be extremely loyal. And in this case, the customer did Squarespace a favor by pointing out a flaw in their customer service approach. Undertraining can in fact be a systematic failure.

Unless the customer is causing you a major amount of aggravation or costing you money, you shouldn't be happy to see one go.

Also, FWIW, I don't think citing a comment in which the commenter calls the OP an "egotistical bitch" twice is good support for an argument.
I've been involved in helpdesk operations for a while. I've never been involved with a corporation, large or small, that has any kind of script.

Hell, they rarely have a knowledge base....
Wow, i wouldn't have thought that. Since i moved away from Ubuntu to Debian mostly because all this upstart, mir, advertising solo attempts, it's nice to hear that.

Now i'm waiting for the same blog post about supporting Wayland and i may even switch back sometimes.
Seriously though, I hate to see these kinds of unforced errors. Especially from guys who should understand that the only reason people know who they are is because of a business model that is under siege.

Now is a time when the music industry desperately needs to make the case for value. These kind of gags don't help anybody.
Graciously?
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Where's the window's admin interface to log in as another user...?
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Not a lot, and that’s the point. If the company can’t dedicate resources to train these people, they aren’t worth sticking with.
I'm sure you didn't mean it to sound entitled, but it's free music. Disappointed in 128k is fine, as you can't get the sound quality that would meet your requirement to be in your library. But it shouldn't annoy you.
Years ago I tried out SquareSpace and was having problems copy and pasting content into their editor. Basically they told me to first paste into TextEdit, convert to plain text and copy and then paste from there. When I explained that was a non-starter they pointed out I could switch to Windows and use IE or Firefox.

Yes, SquareSpace customer support actually recommended I switch from Mac to Windows to use their service.
Now that's a surprise. I've never known Canonical to give up like that.
No kidding! I recall that strike, and had no idea. Thanks for sharing.
It's a tad annoying for us kinda-sys-admins that run full stacks in AWS (or other cloud services) and have to maintain not only domain knowledge for the code we're writing to run on the stack, but the server architecture and services of the OS we choose. My time is limited, and Upstart scripts have been written and run wonderfully.

Ubuntu smooths out many things, which is why I (and I guess many others) choose it for my main server OS. I'm glad to hear 14.04 LTS will still have Upstart support, but this means I have to put "move to systemd" as a medium-range ticket, which is sadly more time wasted.

Go progress! But comon, progress! Stop making more work for me. :)
One difference is that the init system is not especially user facing.

(It can be, but that means it isn't working very well)
I worked at Squarespace for two years as a developer. Neither support nor engineering needs a password to diagnose and fix problems. I can't actually think of anything on the system that would require this so my first thought is that the support rep's machine or account has been compromised. Could also be an extremely poor decision on the rep's part but I never ran across another case in a couple hundred escalated issues.
In another thread, someone mentioned selling and getting from "hello to a signed contract" is one of the hardest parts of freelancing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7224666

I tried to address that concern with my latest blog post. Hope it helps!
By script, I mean standard procedures. "For this problem, do this. If it doesn't work, try this." And if you don't have that, yeah, you are going to get wildly varying quality of support.
Are you suggesting that privacy only counts as far as some site's policy defines them?
> They were driven by the underlying belief that he was smarter than the people he was dealing with. With just a little effort he could convince the police officers to see things his way.

Uh, where are you reading all that?

The OP saw a friend being manhandled and didn't understood why. He said he'd like to go home with his friend. He got arrested.

Where's the "I'm smarter than all these people" coming from?
Yet another shining example of throwing money and time away to work within AWS constraints when bare metal and openstack (1) would have solved it cheaper (2) and arguably faster.

1 (if you insist on cloud provisioning instances, even though it makes little sense if the resources are as strictly dedicated as they are in this case)

2 (VASTLY, over time -- these guys are pissing money away at AWS and I hope their investors know it)
You can access Screen Sharing from the Finder with the same ol' cmd+k (Connect to Server...) and enter a url (e.g. vnc://my_remote_mac).
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PayPal stuck in a vicious downward spiral whilst everyone else is innovating?
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Haha seriously ? :)
"There's nothing about capitalism that demands that monopolies of any kind should or must be allowed."

It depends on what you mean by capitalism. If by capitalism, you mean a market-based economy, like that adam smith guy, then yeah, we should have anti-trust laws to guard against private anti-competitive behavior. If you mean lack of government interference at all costs (which is more a political program than an economic program, really), then no, monopolies and/or cartels will actually be the end state of many industries if you don't have laws preventing that behavior.
Is it not typical in for many peoples?
We don't look down on our customers at all. But certainly, those in-charge of design don't care where the line is. If the change is a net profit increase (almost exclusively, we go on insider's reports from other studios on how their changes worked out) we do it.

As a developer I put up as much resistance as possible when it feels absolutely ridiculous - when design becomes more about tricking people into accidentally doing things they didn't want to do. At one point we made the flow for connecting to Facebook pretty ambiguous, where "Skip" meant yes and "Continue" meant no. Eventually that got voted out...

I do often feel a bit conflicted, but to be honest, I don't think we're the worst within our competition (Dungeon Keeper takes that crown, now). I've been playing on our production server since launch with no cheating, and no spending, and I'm doing just fine, and get enough minutes of play time for free to keep me satisfied.

The flip side from the rage we see on things like Reddit, we do receive far more messages and comments about how much people enjoy our game than those who don't. And if people are spending money, they must actually like it, right?
This always bugged me about Spotify. The only reason I still use iTunes for music is because of De La Soul and The Beatles.
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I'm a little disappointed with Google. I understand the rationale behind this decision, however instead of improving their browser's permissions system, instead of doing a better job reviewing all those crappy extensions that turn to mallware over night (e.g. Window Resizer - and btw, Mozilla is doing a much better job), instead of all of that, they decide to drop the ability to install extensions from third-party source. I predict a similar change will also come for Android. Because grandmas need protection of course.

For several months now I have been torn between Chrome and Firefox, not able to decide which I like better, switching back and forth depending on mood. Well, I guess this settles it. I was already using Firefox on my Android exclusively, because it's the only mobile browser that has extensions, whereas Google decided that extensions are a nuisance on Android and even if they don't admit it, they probably hate the idea of AdBlock making it to Android.

Chrome has had a positive effect on the marketplace, but now the negative effects are starting to show up. Adobe for instance decided to drop the support they had for Flash on Linux and only support Chrome, so at present and going forward, if you want the latest Flash on Linux, you've got to use Chrome. My answer was just to disable it of course.

But do we really want a monoculture? Haven't we had enough with IExplorer 5/6? Are we really that dumb?

Either way, at the very least Chrome fans should start using Chromium, because the Chrome binary is not open-source and if you use it, you won't realize the true difference/cost between it and the competition. For example the PDF reader bundled in Chrome is something proprietary, whereas Mozilla bundled a PDF reader that's open-source, built in Javascript and that also works in Chromium - you see, whenever Mozilla does something, it usually benefits everybody.
I'm guessing they aren't looking for companies like Uber and Handybook, you know because they're in predictable industries like taxi cabs and house cleaning...
Yeah you are. You're paying taxes because the alternative is the state employing violence on you.
No, you're thinking of the value of a safe, or did you forget the economic collapse of all those regulated banks in 2008?
"su - user" has existed for at least 30 years.

Oh, right, Windows. Using Windows as a counter point to any argument on best practices is silly. But even then, as your domain admin, I can reset your password, login as you and then reset a new temporary password for you. I have done this and would never ask a user for their password. Even on windows.
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