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That's a given, and it's what I did. It's not the time that's in question, it's the choice of what to learn.
Speaking as a layman, it seems like actual banking is a commodity while Simple's UX is not. I don't know how to translate that to valuation, though.
I sound like a broken record, but it all comes down to money transmission laws.

http://www.thinkcomputer.com/20140214.cfpbcomment.pdf
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I just went to the site to look around. Definitely interested in the concept. However I only see an option to Login by registering a new/linking with an existing Dropbox account.

Has anybody seen another way to register?
Then why WhatsApp over thousands of other companies they could have acquired? No, there has to be another reason and there is no way WhatsApp is not going to change because of this. Their saying it won't change is like the like a corporate VP stepping down "to spend more time with his family".
> that might not be the sort of thing that strikes you if you're white yourself

Oh, it struck this Midwestern white boy almost as soon as he got off the plane. I mean, I'd heard the phrase "white bread neighborhood" and always took it to mean there's only a few non-white people living there. No, in Seattle (and Redmond, where I live) entire neighborhoods can be comprised of nothing but white folk.

I notice because I grew up in and around Indianapolis (with brief stints in Detroit). 20% black population in Indy (I could be off by a bit) means 1 out of 5 people I work with, buy groceries from, pass on the street, whatever, are black (ratio of friends was a bit lower than 20%). Now drop me in Redmond/Seattle where I rarely see a black person, and it's just...weird. I mentioned this to natives, and they acted like it was the most racist thing they'd ever heard. What, you thought I wouldn't notice that Bellevue's black population is 0.9%?
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>It doesn't ensure they stay relevant but it's a better strategy than watching your target demographic leave your platform.

I don't see any evidence to support that claim. It is a different strategy, but I don't see any indication that it is better. Flushing a few billion dollars down the toilet is a different strategy too, but that doesn't make it better.
My company selling Telecom-grade distributed MQTT broker and MQTT-SN gateway. Both written in Erlang/OTP and come with 1M concurrent clients SLA (was tested with even more).

I gave a talk about MQTT-SN Gateway at Erlang User Conference 2013:

http://www.erlang-factory.com/conference/ErlangUserConferenc...

http://www.erlang-factory.com/upload/presentations/807/ZviMQ...
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I have been working on the MS stack for more than 14 years and still remember the decision I made to invest in learning the .NET platform. I certainly don’t regret my decision and maybe in hindsight I would have made some different choices along the way but being a .NET developer pays my bills and gives me plenty of satisfaction. For the last two years I've been doing more with the big three (JS, CSS3, HTML5) and I’m keeping my eyes on SignalR, Web and Mobile Development, AngularJS, and other "cool" technologies, but .NET is still paying my bills and I have no problem with that.
The university IT is a separate entity from the comp sci dept at umd
Having recently designed and produced a low volume (<1000 units), low-complexity (2 layer / 30ish placement) board, I was very happy that my relationship with the assembly house was not fully abstracted behind an API! I suspect this was more of an editorial/marketing flourish..

When there was a problem with the SMT stencil over a connector hole that might have hurt durability, the fab's CTO called me up and then worked with the stencil house to add an aperature. We worked together similarly on balancing cost vs quality when weighing numerous otherwise-equivalent board and parts suppliers. And so on..

That said, it's great to see new stuff in this space. I'm very curious to give CircuitHub a try and see how it compares to my favorite (lower-tech) shop..
Yeah, Node should have been the obvious choice in 2001.
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Today I was reminded that there are other parameters for beer than my own.
I took your advice and transferred a domain to DNSv1. That domain is still not back online, but all the domains I left as DNSv2 have come back!
This seems to be more about telecommuting than about Google.
That's on the webmasters, not the advertising itself.

Just because you have fifty different tracking, advertising, retargeting, etc. scripts doesn't mean you should use them all at once on your website.
The first time I flew in a plane, I never Landed..because I parachuted out, using the 'old 18'ft Army round parachute'pulled both toggles down the whole way 5+min descent...great fun!
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I wouldn't say it's overtly racist, but there is a very strong correlation between race, class, and privilege in the Bay Area.

Unlike the traditional American narrative around race (black vs. white), in this one, the privileged group consists of well-to-do Whites, Asians, South-Asians, and other highly educated recent-immigrants, while the underprivileged group consists of ghettoized African American and Latino communities.

These underprivileged groups are segregated physically from the former (in East Palo Alto, San Francisco's Bayview, and East/West Oakland), and are mired in a multigenerational cycle of poverty, violence, and disenfranchisement. However, they constitute a significant portion of the low-skilled, low-paid service labor force.

They reap comparatively little benefit from the economic boom brought on by the tech industry. Many of the arguments here on HN and elsewhere about gentrification in the Bay Area and it's benefits/costs ignore that the situation is layered over a long history of race-based tensions in the area.
"The Pittsburgh Left" is very common practice there, which is to give the right of way to the opposite car in the intersection that is turning left. Definitely a much more relaxed and polite driving environment than anywhere on the east/west coasts.
Awesome tear-down. Seems like it's a pretty straight forward on-boarding process but I feel like lots of mobile products get it wrong. The paradigm is just really different, and you can loose context so easily.
I would go Java if the syntax weren't so stale. C# has continued to improve over the years. The BCL and compiler teams are not afraid of breaking changes between major versions. Stability is good (which is why non-nullable reference types won't make the cut), but stagnation kills the ecosystem and drives new contributors away.
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My impression of Seattle while living there was that it wants to be Manhattan, except that cars will stop to let you cross the street.

"Looking to be metropolitan" I guess is how I would phrase it. Wasn't really what I was looking for, but it was an interesting stay for a while.

I don't know what is more real about Vancouver, other than the newer part of downtown, I found it to be a sprawling mess just like your average US big city. Richmond was heavily Asian, Surrey seemed to have the heavier crime, and Burnaby was more suburban.

The weather in California is certainly better on average, though, I'll say that. Except for the cost of living, I'd almost assuredly go there, myself.
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If you're in need of a new bank, Schwab is pretty great on a couple of fronts (and hilariously awful on others.)

The good:

1) They have great customer support. You call and get a super-nice, helpful real genuine person in Colorado or Arizona, 24/7.
2) They refund all your ATM fees from any ATM anywhere (this is maybe mostly a big deal in New York where cash only is still a major thing)
3) If you have an IRA with them, they have a suite of index funds which are well-regarded, and which you can trade for free.

The bad:

1) Their website is pretty awful, but also totally usable.
2) They have some restriction for their checking like you have to sign up with $5k or direct deposit or get an IRA or something, I don't remember. This didn't matter to me though, because I needed an IRA and use direct deposit anyway.
Also to do our best to keep up with our health, so we may live long enough to enjoy life outside of work. It's not all about the money or legacy.
I agree! Like I say in the teardown, speed kills!
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Who's actually using React??
Those are programmers. People who followed a game design course often have 'good enough' skills in writing simple scripts and 3D modelling (judging by the CVs I've seen, anyway).
What is the advantage of creating Firefox OS using Cordova (if you're only creating firefox os apps)?

If you all you need for firefox os apps are: html, css, js then why do I need to add additional cordova library? The big plus of Cordova is you can use HTML5 and write apps that run on other platforms where HTML5 is not natively supported but Firefox OS claims to be HTML5 first.

Cordova seems useless for FireFox OS apps..specially if I'm not using Cordova for any other platform, since performance wise it's not as fast as native on Android/iOS.
Yes, but I suspect his point was "I work with NoSQL, so testing me on my SQL knowledge isn't a very good proxy for my ability to tune a database". If he didn't know the details of MongoDB, and that was in the hot path (let's face it, for many situations it just doesn't matter), then that would be worrying.
Strangely enough, there's actually an anachronistic usage at the heart of it all. The word "beef" came, originally, from the Norman-French "beuf" (precursor of the modern French "boeuf"), from the Latin "bov," which referred to the animal, not the animal's meat.

"Beef" started switching meaning from the animal to the meat because the meat was something only upper-class, Norman-descended Englishmen could afford. They had less experience with cows in the field, and more experience with cows as slices of meat on a plate. So the snootier, upper-crust "beef" came to be used in the context of food, while the Old English, working-class "cow" was still used by the actual farmers in the fields, who were dealing primarily with the animals. Merchants and middlemen, who dealt primarily in the meat but also in the livestock, adopted the more aspirational "beef" to refer to both. This usage was common until as recently as about 100 years ago. There are probably few people around today who'd call a cow "a beef," though there are still people who'd refer to a herd of cows (or any quantity on a market) as a "beef herd," or a "herd of beef."

I'm not going to go out on a limb and claim that "beef" is common, modern usage when referring to the animal. (And "beeves" is now so uncommon as to sound funny to the modern ear.) But the usage is not entirely extinct, and in instances when differentiating beef from dairy, it's moderately useful.
I'm figuring once LA and SF have no political influence over the former CA farmland, there are going to be more.
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What exactly do the protesters want, then? Other than Lopez to be president.

As far as I can tell, they want law and order because of the rising (and terrifying) levels of violence, and they don't want their Bolivars to lose all of their value.

Pretty traditional stuff. Foreign investors can't wait for Maduro to be toppled, because that means the shop is open again. The protesters are going to have an unlimited source of monetary support and friendly foreign press.

>the government doesn't have much in the way of checks and balances

Citation needed.
Not quite - you still have tracking in Google Chrome that links by IP.

You can compile Chromium with the tracking flags off, and then search in incognito.
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Most cities in this area, like Zürich, Munich, etc. ?
I'm the author.

I wouldn't agree. If you built a bank, you aren't subject to the same money transmission regulations. You're subject to many other regulations...
Those are not the same "motorcycles" each year, so you cannot multiply by 30.
The only way this would be successful is if the "customer IP's" were spread accross separate networks, and the announcement for the attacked network was sent somewhere else.

Assigning customers across lots of IP's in the same /24 isn't going to do anything. A volumetric attack is still going to succeed there.

In this landscape of ever-dwindling portable IPv4 subnets, it's harder and harder to get a /24. You won't get an assignment if your justification is "to fight a DDoS."
You're interpreting things too literally.
I'm not sure what you're expecting when the criticisms were vague jabs like "not a real city," "provincial," "hick town."

Also I did say that I find the people friendly, which is the opposite of unfriendly. Yes Seattle people tend to be passive, but that is not the same as unfriendly.
Oh yeah i've been there! We hope to eliminate a lot of those types of issues but in future we will be handling that communication from within the web interface.

We're working closely with our first partner CM http://www.worthingtonassembly.com/ to achieve this. They are awesome and even if you dont decide to use CircuitHub you should check them out!
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If you are ok with assembling your own, I highly recommend this desk [0]. I bought it myself recently after doing a lot of research and really happy with it. I also need extra leg room and it really fit my need. It is L-Shaped with plenty of space for everything you mentioned. The wood is solid and sturdy and not some cheap material. It is not very difficult to assemble as well even though you might want 2 people to finally mount the middle portion.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001UHM6VS/
They aren't collecting much if anything.
Assembler is very interesting to mess around with. As a side project I built this app a while back that does something similar: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/classic-100/id567631118?mt=8
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Excuse me? Where do I apply for the manual on how things work? More seriously, tipping policy is up to the tipper.
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And you can't "build a bank," even in five years, as Simple just showed us, unless you have unbelievable wealth, or a bank already.
> A lot of detached homes in Vancouver at the $900k price range look like they are in bad condition and reflect the land value.

So much so, that a game has been made about this, Crack Shack or Mansion [0].

[0] http://www.crackshackormansion.com/index.html
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BBVA Buys Banking Startup Simple for $117 Million
From the other thread (Jim's last Github commit) it states he passed away due to a heart attack at age 57.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7271909
It kind of makes me sad. Banking in the US is soooo outdated (paper checks?), and banks themselves together with government seem not able to come up with better ways of organizing this industry.

Let's hope somebody takes Zac's advise and goes for it. I hear a couple of just dudes got $16 billion, that sounds like enough to start with.
Java syntax is usually pretty irrelevant when it comes to actually solving problems.

C# is a minefield for issues. Linq memory ballooning, null refs, O(WTF) LINQ expressions, tri-state logic caused by nullables, spinlocks from hell (ReaderWriterLockSlim), missing symbols and more sourceless black boxes than anything. Oh and three different subtly broken XML APIs.

More language features don't make it better.
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1) Riding motorcycles is very dangerous:)

2) What's the average mileage of a motorcyclist compared to a pilot?
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Does DDG not log queries?

You would think they would, in order to make the service better.
Sorry you feel that you "lost years" doing ASP.NET. I did some COBOL, FORTRAN, Pascal, C, C++, VB, and Delphi during a period of two to four years and don't feel they were "lost years". In fact it was all fun. Would I be better off if I had done something different? I guess I will never know...
Sure, here's some off the top of my head.

1) Everyone calls me "Sir", but they don't use that term with others.

2) I have a jacket that sets off store alarms. I never get questioned, but others do.

3) I've seen apartment staff be rude to other residents (and prospective residents), but they're all smiles and sunshine when I walk in.

4) My wife was talking about how she wasn't able to work because of her visa. The other person then said she wouldn't have that problem if she was Mexican (working illegally).

It really is "easy mode". I don't have to argue for anything, and people give me the benefit of the doubt - even when they shouldn't.
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I took the latter interpretation. The "correct" solution uses the fact the first query can be solved by selecting 0 rows from the base table.
Then buy skis that are a different color ;)

Just kidding. But I understand your sentiment. The grey skies wouldn't bother me at all, but my wife would not be able to stand it. We live in a sunny climate, and every day that is overcast she tells me how depressed it makes her feel... Some people just need sunshine!
Awesome! You guys were great. I thoroughly enjoyed that, so thanks to you too.
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I strongly disagree. Simple did not try to build a bank.
Original domain owner here.

I certainly hummed and hawed about attaching clauses to the sale, but feared they would make the transfer overly complex.

It was better for me to err on the side of being zen about it. A big driver was the feeling I got from the microryza team.

They're the real deal and they are going to be able to do very well by this name.

I told them during negotiations that what I'm most interested in is their succeeding so that they don't need to enter into the domain name speculation business, because they would be very very sad.

I will mention, though, as part of this story, that I was once approached by someone who wanted to use the domain name for a sex toys store. And while that's reasonably noble, I was comparing at the time to my own aspirations for the name in the realm of pure science.
I get your point now. In my case it's a 1280x800 landscape screen, minus menu bar and window chrome. When I zoom out to 75% the visual hierarchy improves somewhat (though font size becomes too small, and some of my points still stand).
1. I guess nothing is certain - but even if they are a complete hoax they still can't correlate searches with my other data (mobile, mail, documents, http header data from javascript api calls on basically every site I visit, ....). This correlation is something other search engines explicitly state that they will do.

2. You don't know that.
I have just come back from the Toy Fair in New York where the Digital Kids conference took place.

In-app purchases was a hot topic as everyone just focuses in the revenues from Candy Crush and similar. However, the question floating in the air was if this was an ethical model to target to kids?

It seemed that kids were aware when a game was trying to simply squeeze out their money, and most kids which have access to their parents credit cards, had a sense of responsibility that stopped them from buying this kind of service.

So therefore, I think there is room for a market that wants to buy extras for a game (as long as it provides value to the game experience) but considers that the existing in-app payments are a rip-off.

Also, some research shown in the conference showed that the buying decisions ultimately come from the mothers, and mothers usually tend to favour physical objects which gave their kids the opportunity to play with them in other ways and not just "staring into another screen"
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I'm going to go with the stereotypical response that he did learn something new and different every couple of years as Microsoft kept changing directions with their development stack.

To be fair, Microsoft's web stack has not had the dramatic changes in direction that their native stack has had over this time period. Still, the response from his peers when he tried to bring in ideas from Rails is telling, the ecosystem he chose isn't just a nice IDE and language.
I've been away from the Bay Area a long time. I don't doubt it is now how you describe it, but it wasn't that way before hi-tech startup culture started taking over. Seattle is slowly getting more friendly and less provincial. Maybe one day it will be better than the Bay Area, but unlikely because the same forces that are messing with the Bay Area are messing with Seattle (and New York) too.

New York has closed itself off to the young and the struggling. But there are other cities. Detroit. Poughkeepsie. New York City has been taken away from you. So my advice is: Find a new city. – Patti Smith on whether New York is still good for artists.
Scott Guthrie. Which is also why there is hope for the future.
>Honestly, if your thirteen year old technology choices are still having an impact today, then you're doing the wrong thing regardless.

Really? If you don't randomly flit from fad to fad you are "doing the wrong thing"? What if I made a good choice 15 years ago? Should I have stopped using postgresql simply because I chose it so long ago?
What's an API mean in this context? Is this the workflow? Upload a BOM, gerbers, drill files, pick and place files, test plan, and they outsource it to a board house and contract manufacturer?
I'd say learning assembly by starting with x86 is indeed a bit crazy. =)

If you want easy training wheels, try 6502 or 6809. If you want more relevant skills, go to a recent ARM instruction set like v6 or v7.
Yes, I do, because I'm from New England so I don't have to imagine those things. I've lived in New Hampshire: a conservative state within an hour drive of Boston with no personal income tax and housing that's way more affordable than Boston. These factors don't magically make it more affluent than Boston.
Fair point. Hard to argue San Diego has a superior tech scene than San Jose...
i am baffled by the faith most people here have about electronic elections.

this being hacker news and all there is too many people claiming "democratically elected"
The recipe in the article is a good example of why this it is difficult to convince people to change their habits of eating a quick sugary breakfast. The recipe involves making 3 different items: polenta, salsa and poached eggs. The polenta requires 35 minutes to prepare, salsa is relatively labor intensive, and mastering the art of the poached egg is not easy. While the dish looks very tasty, I find it hard to believe that the average American busy parent will wake up 30+ minutes early to make it; giving your kid frosted flakes is a much easier and much faster.