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Another plausible reason that I've not seen reported is that if he was indeed pulling in $50k/day, that makes you a target in Vietnam (average monthly salary $185).

In that part of the world, being rich without having the right connections/protection can be very, very dangerous.
Which will likely not happen for a number of reasons, see the current Bay Area fight over tech/gentrification.
Really cool tutorial. It also looks like the author has a pledge drive ending today, and he/she is really close to hitting their funding goal. Would be a shame to miss it while being so close, especially for something that looks so promising.

(Note: I have no connection to this developer. Just thought it was worth mentioning.)
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Author is a whiny git.

Oh noes, I couldn't sit down.
Oh noes, I caught myself liking my job.
Oh noes, some lady thought I was better than my job.
Oh noes, I needed to commute.

Why the hell was he bringing in a backpack that he had to have with him if he just went for a soda?

The frisking was a little questionable but otherwise this is just whiny drivel, with too many bloody commas, from a writer, who likes asides, but you know how that goes.
Rails 4 and 4.1 have added a ton of Postgres-specific features to ActiveRecord, too.
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Turning it off has probably done more to earn him money than keeping it on. It also ends with him saying it's possibly he'd put the game back up.

It's possible this is instead just a brilliant marketing ploy.
Nineteen billion dollars for that. What an amazing piece of software. Worth every penny. Each of the 1,900,000,000,000 of them.
I totally disagree with his point of view. He could simply sell the game to an established company that is already set up to handle the responsibilities that come with running a business. Throwing away $50k/day is just a stupid thing to do.
A great book about this is Concerning the Spiritual in Art by Wassily Kandinsky
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5321

The argument being that art is intensely connected to the time in which it is created, and the function of art in the context of the progression of humanity requires that artists constantly make new art for the current generation.
Yup! They're legally binding based on the eSignatures act passed in 2000. For more info, check out the link here: http://www.hellosign.com/electronic-signature

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Given recent changes to CA electoral law, a primary challenge to Feinstein would open the possibility of there being no Republican option on the general election ballot, which might change the calculus a bit. In the last election, if everyone who voted for Feinstein had instead flipped a coin, and voted for Feinstein on a heads and some particular other Democrat on a tails, the general election would have been a choice between two Democrats - which would have been interesting.
As you pointed to h-online.com, sadly "heise.de" english language branch is dead: http://www.h-online.com/news/item/The-H-is-closing-down-1920...
It's an amazing biased validation, though. You won't be able to determine the usage patterns of the average user, and that's what's important.
Interesting, I've been happy using Preview.app for signatures by just downloading/saving as pdf and signing it through there. It's not as seamless as doing it online through this, but at least it's secure and easy to do, and Apple's had it available for a couple years now. I guess it's not much of a pain point for me to find another solution. Also, the fact that you have to use your mouse to sign it ensures a pretty crappy signature every time.
When I work, and want to be paid, I say upfront "I can do this for you, and it will cost you X". However if I say "here, please, take this, it's for you" it means exactly that. I don't want you to put any monetary value. Because there's a chance you might undervaluate it...
which sounds like the most valid form of market validation.
It makes them resent you and long for a competitor.
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It is a solution to monthly data caps, enabling solutions like Popcorn Time. As has been noted, if infrastructure exists to facilitate questionable solutions, then use-case pressures arise to persuade better solutions to larger problems. If people have enough bandwidth to serve their video-streaming interests, some solution will appear, persuading both local data infrastructure improvements and, say, Netflix warehousing data in NZ for more efficient use of across-the-ocean bandwidth.

And speaking of across-the-ocean bandwidth: don't underestimate the bps of a freighter stuffed to the gills with MicroSD cards. https://xkcd.com/691/
The cryptographic implementations are usually called "digital signatures", while this sort of thing is usually called an "electronic signature". Engineers understand the differences and pros/cons, but end users really just want a picture of a signature and don't want to learn about certificates and PKI.
How does that follow?

If someone is willing to use it even when it's absurdly cumbersome then they are going to turn into customers. Once you build it you can iterate to find the best patterns.
Does it support the major package managers? You only mention Git, tarballs and http on the site.
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Bah, censored by commenting limits!

Totally true that you could make one out of IKEA parts, we just wanted to build an option for people who didn't have the desire/tools to do it themselves. And we wanted to keep costs as low as possible too so lots of people could have access!

Thanks for the feedback, all, please keep it coming and share the link if you know anybody who might like one!
It's perfectly fair. What's not fair about it?

Science is a loose methodology. But scientific institutions are fallible. Scientists are fallible. And the methodology is fallible as well, especially in the short term. The whole point is that even if mistakes are made in the small, progress is made in the large.

I don't really understand the point you (or the parent) are trying to make.
Everyone sharing everything they have downloaded in a giant cache via mesh networking? Yip, its a great solution. One person endures a slow download, all those who follow have a grand speedy old time.
Our experience was to the contrary. It's not shown in the blog post, but users were thanked for their feedback immediately.

The reaction was overwhelmingly positive; people were excited that we were building something in this space.
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I think this approach is very interesting and may give it a try on a product in the future. How did you go about directing people to the demo though?
HelloFax/Sign doing some neat things but needs to figure out if it is 2 services or 1.

And what's with the 1300 pixel wide pages?
> We spent the next 24 hours getting as many people as possible to view and interact with the experiment

OP - could you elaborate on how you got these 803 unique visitors within 24 hours?
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You are cherry picking one part of his argument and claiming that this is what he claims.

He isn't only talking about ethics.
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I understand your point, but in context it's a bit unfair. The manifesto was issued in 2001, when waterfall was still the default methodology at most businesses. They were indeed trying to break out of that mindset and felt they were doing something revolutionary (which, in fact they were).
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> Burdening these people by making fewer of them have to do crummy, hellish work?

Unless your software is giving those people something better to do you're lying to yourself if you think you've made things better for them. As miserable as these jobs are, they're still better than no job at all.

Of course, I'm not saying it's your responsibility to solve that problem. When you automate someone's job away, the person who benefits is the employer, not the (ex-) employee.
If a good one exists already that is. And if that is the case why are they checking broken demos? Why are they given their email addresses to broken demos? Either way you slice it, if something like this gains interest it certainly illustrates opportunities.
Google Play only has an "Add to Wishlist" button for me.
If people aren't willing to, nope. This is a slippery slope and we can't afford to pay every employee of dying professions forever.

I think utilities and reasonable physical safety and healthcare should be paid for by the people. But for the rest, the free market will work better than an infinity of laws and incentives to put people in a corner to pay up. Money, uh, finds a way...
This comes up frequently here. Some people love open floor plans and find cubicles unbearable. Generally they're more extroverted and usually not programmers. Others, like OP, want privacy, quiet, and focus.

I'm not really sure what the solution is, other than maybe "only hire cubicle lovers." You could offer both arrangements and let employees choose, but this probably isn't economically or practically feasible for most companies.
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I think you're missing about 4 layers of the OSI stack.
Excellent question, and probably grounds for another blog post. We tried to use a variety of channels, including twitter, marketer communities, and even some google adwords.
I don't know if I'm being sarcastic or not. On the one hand, you & your joke are totally right. On the other hand, if we get into a bitter battle over just 1 or 2 things, maybe we really could make lots of progress everywhere else.
Obviously I'm just guessing, but:

I assume that the margins weren't just there, given they took 20% of $25, they'd need crazy volumes to be profitable or even break even.

They weren't growing fast enough? "merging" with Handybook provided better synergies a well established vertical + market share in NYC & SF for the combined entities.

Also, I think that cleaning is a crowded market, and Handyman services seems like a market that has higher potential for growth.
I think what the Manifesto was targeting was "blindly" following a plan. In those days, reqs were drawn up, a design spec'd, a plan written out and there tended to be considerable resistance to changing the plan. That's what they were aiming at.
We knew that transactional email was a problem worth solving

Really? Hasn't this been solved already, by many businesses (SendGrid, Mandrill, SES, MailJet) – I'm happy you've managed to build something and are seeing some success, but I don't think you're solving a problem that hasn't yet found a solution.
> I hate missing a "must have" and then waiting until the price is reasonable again.

This tells you the item was not a "must have" then, or you would have bought it already, rather than waiting...
Perhaps an HN article analyzing which HN articles sink and which swim sometime in the future?
Even that isn't a clear bright line. For example, the To: header also comes from the MUA, and it's crucial to the message's transit. (In fact, the To: header is very much analogous to the stuff written on the outside of an envelope.)
And they can easily make sure costs are low by firing employees with regular appendicitis! Brilliant!
Of course, it's not so simple - for messaging, you have to use apps that other people use.
So they have no ability to sniff through my messages on the server? That's not a bug that's a feature for me!
600 - 1000 per month. 10 bucks an hour is 1750 a month before taxes

Well that certainly sounds a lot more attainable than 10 bucks an hour with the 2200 - 2600 rental rates in San Francisco. (Last I heard, at least)
Sure - that's probably worth another blog post too. We used a combination of twitter, adwords, marketing forums, and personal network.
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Back up, and they sent out a message on status.twitter.com:

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> In any event, we need more talented entrepreneurs working on some of these issues and not fast-following to be the next cool photo/chat app...prepare to spend 3-6 months just navigating the complexities.

Totally agree. The healthcare domain is incredibly difficult, especially for small companies that aim their product at medical professionals (speaking from experience here).

- As you said, who pays? There are a lot of different stakeholders in the purchase of a medical device: medical professionals, insurance companies, IT department, hospital risk management, etc. You need to consider them all.

- The healthcare market is incredibly conservative. If you have a fantastic product, but it requires changes to established processes, you need a really good story before someone will even consider purchasing it.

- The healthcare market is used to having products actively pushed to them. Standard marketing (e.g. nice website, advertising, etc) will not bring you customers. You have to keep in mind that medical professionals are used to "study" trips to locations with a nice beach.

- Medical devices (hardware, but also software) require CE certification, FDA approval or other forms of certification. Which can be expensive and time consuming.
What about dead languages like Dylan?
Great presentation of the information. The interactive sections are really good at conveying the concepts.
"Ms. Feinstein said that when Senate staff members reviewed thousands of documents describing those interrogations in 2009, they found that the C.I.A.’s leadership seriously misled the committee when it described the interrogations program to the panel in 2006, 'only hours before President Bush disclosed the program to the public.'"

Am I understanding this right? They found gross violations in 2009 and only raising concerns now.
That seems rather simplistic and is not borne out by looking at other small homogenous cultures.

I suspect it is more to do with having a very long history of democratic and social decision making in Viking culture.

The Viking Thing was electing kings by vote a millennium ago.
Your current job at the same salary won't go as far in either Kirkland or Sunnyvale. So if you want to stick with the same company, try to negotiate a cost of living increase. It likely won't be enough, but it will get you by until you relocate and start looking around for another job in those cities.

Both cities are more expensive than Denver, and have a very different vibe. If you like Denver and want to settle down there long term, my suggestion would be to look for something in the Denver/Boulder area.
Thanks for the feedback! In our standalone app (hellosign.com) you can type out a signature with our stock fonts and reuse it in your Docs add-on.
Doesn't it already send your IP to the torrent tracker and anyone who asks, because that's how torrent works?
So what if it's stupid? We know how much damage greed does to the world. The world would be a better place if more people stood up for principles over money.
I miss DOS, when there was a one-to-one correspondence between applications and filesystem directories.

Now Windows programs want to put stuff in C:\Progra~1\APPNAME, C:\Progra~2\APPNAME, C:\Users\Applic~1\APPNAME, C:\Users\Local\Roaming\Proiles\AaghThisPathIsHuge, and of course dump garbage into the Registry and your Windows directory as well. And install themselves on your OS partition without any prompting or chance to change the target. And you HAVE to do the click-through installation wizard because everything's built into an EXE using some proprietary black magic, or downloaded from some server in the cloud using keys that only the official installer has (and good luck re-installing if the company goes out of business and the cloud server shuts down). Whereas in the old days you could TYPE the batch file and enter the commands yourself manually, or copy it and make changes. And God forbid you should move anything manually -- when I copied Steam to a partition that wasn't running out of space, it demanded to revalidate, which I couldn't do because the Yahoo throwaway email I'd registered with had expired. (Fortunately nobody had taken it in the meantime and I was able to re-register it.)

I've been using Linux instead for the past years. While generally superior to Windows, its installation procedures have their own set of problems. dpkg -S firefox tells me that web browser shoves stuff in the following places:

/etc/apport
/etc/firefox
/usr/bin
/usr/lib/firefox
/usr/lib/firefox-addons
/usr/share/applications
/usr/share/apport
/usr/share/apport/package-hooks
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/pixmaps
/usr/share/man/man1
/usr/share/lintian/overrides

I don't mean to pick on this specific application; rather, this is totally typical behavior for many Linux packages.

Some of these directories, e.g. /usr/bin, are a real mess because EVERY application dumps its stuff there:

$ ls /usr/bin | wc -l
1840

Much of the entire reason package managers have to exist in the first place is to try to get a handle on this complexity.

I welcome the NixOS approach, since it's probably as close as we can get to the one-directory-per-application ideal without requiring application changes.
I got up to 9,000 with:

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"but I don't think you're solving a problem that hasn't yet found a solution." - eliminates like 95% of companies.
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+1 for Preview.app signatures. It's like magic. I hadn't had a 'wow' moment with any out-of-the-box OSX software until I set it up - but it's awesome.
Do you have a source for this?

I've only heard this said on HN and I doubt that it is significantly dangerous to be rich.
SendGrid/Mandrill/Mailgun are great! We've built a much needed layer on top of those services, that focuses on email content and customer experience.
Had to double check and make sure I wasn't on Slashdot in 1998.
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Some people believe lot of money changes you and people's perception of you. He seemed to be one of them and it doesn't sound stupid.
Neither can Oracle do this, FWIW.
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That may not be true. Jon Skinner, the developer of ST, is the sole developer but as of a few months ago (may have been longer by now but I don't remember) he added on support for sales. I don't remember the guys name. Jon has done an excellent job of building the application. I'm sad to see it so slow and quiet at the moment. Hopefully everything is well with him.
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Great news for Steam OS and Linux in general. It's not as popular as UDK or Unity (especially at small studios), but this definitely opens the doors to getting games on Linux that wouldn't have been otherwise.

Off the top of my head, Star Citizen is using the next gen CryEngine. Along with the next Crysis game and who knows what else.
Which would earn you more envy and less respect.
We are going through the same approach with our current beta customers (and will be making our demos available to a wide audience in the future too) and I can attest to the validity of this approach. We make it very clear to our customers that this is a demo and their changes will go away if they refresh the page. We don't have pop-ups integrated since we collect emails on another page. I think event tracking should be sufficient but we'll have to see what the data says in a little while.

We actually also use these semi-live demos instead of mock-ups (since we'll be implementing the same pages afterward anyway) since only one of us is proficient with Photoshop but everyone is comfortable with Bootstrap. It serves as a testing ground for various approaches for JS code too.
Twitter seems to be working here, unless it's some uncanny fake...
> The difference is, upgradepkg will virtually never fail on install, while apt-get has about a hundred things that can fail on install.

That's because dpkg does more. It's designed to ask you questions interactively when configs change and get you to look at things. If you ignore config files and just blindly install new binaries (even yum/rpm do this!) then you end up with an upgrade that "worked" except that the new binaries won't run at all because the config files are now invalid.

Failing silently like that is hardly better. I would say it's objectively worse.
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Her response is normal for someone living in her bubble. Think about it -- were you upset back in the olden days when you heard about US Navy divers tapping Soviet telephone lines?

People like the President and senior Senators get daily briefings from the intelligence community. Part of that is to keep these folks apprised about what is up. Another part is to keep the paranoia level up so that these people see threats everywhere.

The "intelligence community" is a modern analog to the Guardians in Plato's republic. The natural question to ask is "Who watches the watchmen?" Feinstein's reaction answers that question.
The apparent origin of the idea, the "button to nowhere" that they linked to in the story is also a good read: https://medium.com/design-ux/77d911517318

From a user perspective, I think there are both good and bad ways how this technique can be used:

I actually like the way Sendwithus used it - as part of a very very early "pre-alpha" version where you're not yet interested in providing a reliant service and just want to get a feel for the demand. As a user you're informed early-on that you're looking at a version in development - so you will not be surprised by missing or incomplete features and will maybe even motivated to provide additional feedback.

The downside of this approach is of course that the data you're gathering is really only good for that - an early overview. Your test group will likely be very different from the actual people who will later use the service. The usage patterns will be as well.

The second way to use the technique is how Nick Kishfy describes it in the "button to nowhere" article. In that approach, "buttons to nowhere" are not just inserted into an early preview/development version, but into the actual product as a continuous part of the development process.

This would solve all of the above problems and would give you a much richer set of data over a much longer time span - but from a user perspective that would be the worst thing possible.
"They only have 35 engineers, what they could do is limited."

Um, am I the only one that thinks 35 engineers is a pretty good size team to get a good amount of work done?
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