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I find it amazing, how some of you "experts" judge without deeper knowledge. A good part of you without even taking a look. The comments on the bycicles are downright stupid ignorance.

I am not sure about ello myself, but it seems worth a try for me as a non-facebook-user. Esp. because of the things statet in ellos manifesto. i maybe able to judge in a few weeks.

I would have apprecheated, if ello comes from europe or southamerika because people outside the US (i live in germany) are fed up with the "american-way" of running things, which facebook is an characteristical case for.
There are valid scenarios for having a test which is expected to fail in some settings. But of course you should always know why a test might fail and be explicit. (Which is exactly what pending and skipped tests are for.)
> Entrepreneur is the pinnacle of this to me, because it's very pronunciation makes it sound so... bourgeois... pompous.

Perhaps you spend too much time around those people who still pronounce "entrepreneur" with the "-pre-" sound in the middle, instead of the more Anglocized "entreneur". Not dropping that 5th syllable in the middle is what makes it sound so pompous.
I hereby vote to also ban the word "founder". Somehow it manages to be even more weaselly than "entrepreneur".
> Great inventors revolutionize a product

Then those "great inventors" are simply designers, are they not? The revolutionary improvements you list are exactly that -- improvements on an existing product. Even Edison was not the first to create electric light.

These guys from the article are taking existing products and making improvements that drastically increase functionality / sales of those products.

For some context on one of your comments:

> Tesla revolutionized the concept of a car.

Third sentence on the Wikipedia article for electric car says, "The first electric cars appeared in the 1880s."

I think these guys are doing great work, and whether you call them inventors or designers doesn't matter. They are performing a vital function that not only increases profits for their clients but also improves the user experience for the consumer.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_car
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I don't doubt they continue to write these kind of documents, we've just added the other 'responsibilities' to their budget.
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The article mentions that they have over 1000 patents, but it only lists a dozen or so success stories.
I would hesitate to describe the SEC's regulations as "sensible and straightforward". I've never heard anything to that effect from a candid observer, and we're talking about more than just the SEC here.

But anyway, there are always bad people and there is always regulatory capture, but a robust system is one in which there is no excuse for bad things and good people are allowed to work honestly. My aim was to describe how financial regulation is broken even if it was full of good guys. In fact, what constitutes doing the "right thing" is hard to determine except in retrospect.
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We've all three been here long enough to know what the guidelines are trying to say. It drives me nuts that they won't update them. In the meantime: we're all on the same page on this, so this is probably a fake discussion.
Note: trying to impress your peers doesn't send invoices. Trying to perfect your linkedin page will not send invoices. Having an awesome title, awesome business cards, and an awesome email signature will not send invoices.

That being said, if sounding silly is what's stopping you from doing anything that has you sending invoices, take a printout of this article and light it on fire.
This article seems to do everything but suggest an alternative – what should I use instead?

If I have a small, bootstrapped company doing a few deals and with more in the pipeline, I think it should be fine to have the title "Entrepreneur". If this sounds pompous, what is a good alternative?
amen brother

So what do we use instead? Founder? co-founder?

I'd love a proper English term for this. "Business builder" "Satisfier of consumer wants", "Employer", "Creator of value", I dunno. Answers on a postcard
I have never in my life heard it pronounced without the -pre- sound.
Speaking of podcasts that make money, the Los Angeles podcast festival is this weekend[1], starting today. You can go in person or stream it live. A bunch of profitable podcasts will be there.

Keith and The Girl podcast will be there too. I work with them and they are a profitable podcasts that have a premium subscription service. You can use our discount code "KATG" to save $5 on the stream. We make a few bucks for everyone that uses the code.

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Honest question: what should someone call themselves when they've started, for example, a restaurant, two software companies, and a property management firm?
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So let me summarize this: some random guy from internet is mad at the word (!) entrepreneur because it sounds ... pompous?

Get over it: this word, entrepreneur, is the definition of what we are doing ( taking risks, becoming self-employed, building an entreprise ).

Excuse me now, I am going to eat my lunch in a eatery, the restaurants are for the bourgeoisie.
I sort of get the point of the article, but I don't undestand why what you call yourself is this important. It honestly doesn't matter what you refer to yourself in your career or otherwise. And you shouldn't be getting this upset about it either.
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Meh.

After years of reading hundreds of essays from people complaining about how others use words ("hacker", "professional", "engineer", "artist", "freedom", and hundreds of other words, etc), I've come to the conclusion that the complaint says more about the rigidity of the complainer rather than anything insightful about language evolution.

It's ironic that the blog's name has the word "consulting" in it. When I was in my early 20s, I hated that word. Whenever I told friends I was a consultant, I'd immediately follow up with a self-deprecation: "that's just a fancy label for white-collar prostitute." At the time, "consulting" to me meant McKinsey or Bain and not your bodyshop of Visual Basic programmers. I preferred "contractor" or "freelancer" to the title "consultant". However, the years have gone by and I no longer care. Anyone can call themselves "consultant" and it doesn't bother me at all. It's just bikeshedding now.

Anyone remember the 1990s complaints about the title "webmaster" because (gasp!) it had the word "master" as a suffix? How pompous of those html authors! We should be thankful that "web-jedi" didn't gain any currency and webmaster has already fallen out of favor.

The author suggests "business owner" instead of "entrepreneur". I used to not like that label either. "Business Owner" had connotations of being some monopolist crushing the protesters on Occupy Wall Street or the slavedriver paying his workers minimum wage while drinking their babies blood. Maybe I can call myself "unemployed speculator" or some other circumlocution so as to not offend anyone. Personally, I think "entrepreneur" does not convey any false pretenses about prestige or bootstrapping. It's fascinating that some find a word neutral while others perceive it as putting on airs. You can't win.

If the author doesn't like "entrepreneur" and I have mixed feelings about "business owner", what's a good compromise?

How about other candidate labels such as "wantrepreneur"[1] which is what some of non-HN folks call HN'ers.

Or how about "wannabe philanthropist"? If high-profile charity is the apotheosis of the journey from student->businessman->philanthropist, is "wannabe philanthropist" self-deprecating enough while simultaneously conveying bold aspirations? If family & friends have that puzzled look and ask, "what the heck is a wannabe philanthropist?", you explain the transformation of Bill Gates from Harvard dropout -> CEO -> Gates Foundation. As a bonus, you can throw in words like "camel" and "eye of the needle". And after all that, they'll say "oh for fock's sake, just call yourself an entrepreneur!"

[1]http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wantrepreneur
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If you are trying to automate some actions in the UI, use the record macro functionality and then edit the code. You can usually remove or combine a lot of the code it recorded.

If you want to use dictionaries/hashtable there is a reference you can add called scripting.dictionary.

When you search google for how to do stuff in VBA, most of the best answers are in Ozgrid and MrExcel sites, and of course StackOverflow.
And what a small price to pay for a job! Why accept anyone who would fail to pay that price? I cannot think of a single reason.

[Job applicant must also cry self to sleep under desk.]
This was a pointlessly fluffy article that can be summed up with: "Flat design is a fad. Just like modern and postmodern movements have come and gone in art — so will this."

Well, of course movements change, so you could write an article as soon as a trend starts that its "dying."

More importantly, human-computer interactions is a relatively new area of design. How do we know that flat design will actually be just a fad rather than a paradigm shift?
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I wish you'd left out the additional text.

Are there any hackathons for non-students & non-graduates?
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Good riddance.

While flat design was definitely done "right" by some (e.g. Windows Phone) it was done very wrong indeed by others (iOS 7, Google Maps, Windows 8, et al). So wrong in fact that I'd go as far as to call it a usability anti-pattern.

There's a reason why shadows and borders exist: To distinguish items from one another on a 2D display. Without those clues it is hard to distinguish a text label from a clickable button.

Perfect example:

https://i.imgur.com/Auyj1Xs.jpg

So if you had never used Windows 8 before, you might not know that "Change PC Settings" is a button instead of the title of the section, and in my experience that is typical for most users.
The events start tonight. It's at the Sofitel Hotel, near the Beverly Center mall.

If you stream it, you'll have access to shows for up to 3 weeks after.
Same is true in French.
They didn't rewrite it, they made changes to it - and they removed hundreds of bugs and potential bugs, on balance it's a huge improvement.
pending might as well not be there.

how many maybes passed could be useful information - perhaps 80% is good enough to be confident it works, but if it's 20% something's gone wrong
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I've had many bad experiences with Amazon Logistics. Amazon Logistics were the reason I learned, for the first time ever, that you can ring Amazon up and demand a refund.
It's not explicitly stated anywhere, but it hardly takes "reading between the lines" to see that the kind of "business" model being pushed is one that is exploitative of youth in some cases, and of the culture that has grown up around software engineering and computer programming in general.

A lot of the themes in this lecture related to motivation and employee qualities are what I'd lump in the category of "dog whistles." They're meant to send a certain signal to people. If that's not what they are, then somebody has done a thoroughly unimpressive job of communicating various ideas.
And how many are still using Facebook today?
One of my previous employers went and acquired a startup that had three employees and each had a C title. One was chief Organization Officer. What exactly are you organizing?!
Well I did a quick look for F# and C# tools like this and found

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/fsharpteam/archive/2013/07/16/combin...

Interesting usage. Personally I try to use CSV and code in R. R has libraries where I can pull information in BUT I am always afraid of issues with a non-open file format.

In the Universe of everything is done in Word and I am hard pressed to get people to even use Excel these approaches might make my job easier.
And I just redesigned my websites from gradients to flat. What will they think of next?
But if your login shell isn't bash, and the test itself doesn't run bash, at what point are you actually testing bash (the software that is known to have at least once contained this vulnerability)?
It's about time. I bought something from Amazon, and had to return the first two packages that came. The first one's sealing tape (the paper one, typically advertises Fire phone) had popped because of how hard it had been dropped. The second one was torn, and in such a bad shape that when I went to a UPS location to return it as-is, they refused to accept it, even though they had delivered it in the first place! (Note: both had been delivered to an Amazon Locker, so I couldn't refuse delivery).

And then you see things like these daily: http://i.imgur.com/cYaZU4y.jpg

I have a lot more trust in USPS than UPS. Yes, there may be the occasional rogue, but in general, they have been much better. I know the local mail carrier, and it feels a lot more personal.
The counterpoints in [0] are outdated. It shows the author has not read any of the anarchist literature. If you are interested in debating this, let me know. I'm working on a YouTube channel to bring these points to light, and having someone that is curious about it and knows these counterpoints as well as you do would be great help.

> Things like basic research, things like exploiting a limited pool of shared resources, things like schools and prisons - they all go to hell when you try to run them on free-market rules.

Research is done with money from profits; if companies weren't taxed so much they'd have more profits left to invest in R&D.

Public schools are a vehicle for government propaganda and the brainwashing of children. There, they are conditioned to obey, not to question, and not to trust their own thinking. Public education as it is is as much child abuse as growing up religious is; it teaches kids the truth is in others, and that they couldn't have arrived at true conclusions by themselves.

There are better ways to deal with crime than prisons. It's a strawman to counter anarchist views with "but what of the roads? and prisons?" as if those are the only ways to travel and to curb crime. Go back in history, there are several alternatives to these that do not necessitate the government. Of particular interest is Iceland in the 10th century, but that's really just one example. I wonder how much research you've done to conclude with so much certainty that those things "all go to hell when you try to run them on free-market rules".

Advertising is not money spent trying to one-up competitors (though it can be). It is broadcasting the existence of a service or product. It's not about converting others to drop their favorite brands (though it can be), but about letting others know you exist. How do you get people to know you exist without advertisement?

I'd also like to point out that although I usually enjoy your comments here, you're being extremely condescending to me in your tone. Examples: "pretty much [...] debunks your points", "a lot of dogmas that sound nice", "trivially easy to be shown false", etc. The reason I point this out is because I'm routinely downvoted for defending my side of the argument, when in fact we should be using downvotes for people like you that address others with contempt and trivialize their points.
That's a trap. Any number you answer will become your maximum atainable value.
Given Newegg's fights on patent trolls and that shellshocker.net is about helping people secure themselves vs selling electronics... I would think they are safe from litigation

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edit: Maybe Mattel will however :) http://trademarks.justia.com/857/91/shell-shocker-85791354.h...
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Sadly, the percentage of the population who would be into that is probably single digit, and large companies rarely care about single digit niches :(

I would argue that those single-digit percent niches can matter quite a bit. People follow the upscale. Facebook started at Harvard, branched out to the Ivies, then the top 100 colleges, and so on. At every step, it was associated with a higher level of prestige than what it was expanding into.

If you start with cognitively upscale games, you get a core of highly intelligent people who love your product and will evangelize it. Through that, and by just having a great product, you move the rest.

Games is a really hard space for Google to get because it emerged as the anti-Yahoo. Yahoos and AOLs and Facebooks want their users inside the walled garden spending as much time as they can. Google established itself by being the "we won't waste your time" search engine; its job is to get you where you want to go, as fast as it can. So Games were really a new thing for Google and G+ Games wasn't a fit for its traditional ideology, and that may explain why it made such bad decisions (and ultimately failed) in that space.
"Preneur" means taking part.
FWIW, here is the definition of "entrepreneur" from Etmology Online.

<<< 1828, "manager or promoter of a theatrical production," reborrowing of French entrepreneur "one who undertakes or manages," agent noun from Old French entreprendre "undertake" (see enterprise). The word first crossed the Channel late 15c. (Middle English entreprenour) but did not stay. Meaning "business manager" is from 1852. Related: Entrepreneurship. >>>
http://etymonline.com/index.php?search=entrepreneur

"Undertake"? "Theatrical"? Heh. Uncharacteristically, etymonline doesn't mention the two French component words, which more literally translate to "between-taker". A middleman, in other words.

In more common parlance, anyone who starts their own business of any kind is an entrepreneur. Food-truck operator? She's an entrepreneur. Hair-salon owner? He's an entrepreneur too. If we wanted to make finer distinctions about degrees of entrepreneurship, those distinctions might be based on risk. Buying your own equipment and materials to sell stuff at the local art fair? Very entrepreneurial. Taking other people's money to sell to an enterprise where you have inside contacts? Barely entrepreneurial at all.

And that's where I think anger like that in the OP comes from. People resent the way that founders of VC-backed high-tech companies seem to act like they're the vanguard or elite of entrepreneurship, when there's often very little entrepreneurial risk involved. For example:

* Person A goes to work for AmaGooBook directly.

* Person B starts a company that fails, then goes to work for AmaGooBook.

* Person C starts a company that's acquired by AmaGooBook.

What's the difference? Why are B and C entrepreneurs but A isn't? Because investors paid their salaries for a couple of years? Not all startups are like this, of course, but the question is whether those that are should claim the same "entrepreneur" mantle that others truly deserve. When a startup founder orders pizza, it's highly likely that the guy who owns the pizza shop is the real entrepreneur.
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I've run a couple of these "testers" against servers I know are vulnerable by verifying at a shell prompt, and they they all report "safe" (with hedging language, of course).

Why is that? I don't mean to come across being entitled to any sort of free tester, but is it responsible to publish tools that definitely report "safe" when the underlying systems are not?
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The reason why is because most people don't want another social network. The problem that Diaspora, app.net and Ello are trying to solve is not actually seen as a problem by most people.
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I stand corrected, I had misunderstood your post, I interpreted part as a mechanical part.
I wonder how else they could monetize this game that would not leave a bad taste in the player's mouth though. It is a free game after all and so far there's no banner ads or any sort of direct monetization happening within the app itself.

Since they need to pay for the servers and the app's development, what would be the best way to sustainably develop this app while also not turn off players by charging some money in some way?
Wasn't last year the year that a bunch of people ordered by the deadline posted by amazon, but still didn't get their packages in time? A friend of mine is a sales manager for UPS and I recall him having just a terrible, terrible December. They were all hands on deck for weeks, even the salespeople were out on trucks delivering packages to try and get stuff to people on time.
To be fair it should say unknown rather than insecure if the secondary can't be accessed and it can't confirm that it is secure and you should assume an attacker able to perform a Man in the Middle attack on you could disrupt your traffic sufficiently to force the fallback to to the secondary server.

Although does the validity of the incoming mail servers certificates actually matter? In an ideal world other hosts would never send to improperly signed hosts or without TLS but that clearly is not the case so I'm not sure what current practical value having proper certificates actually has. In the longer term by pushing people to adopt proper certs it may become practical for people to turn off sending to servers without proper certificates so this may be better seen as part of a long term effort.
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Flat isn't dying, although maybe the most extreme version of it may be falling out of favor. Thick glassy, 3d icons with heavy drop shadows, skeuomorphism, and gradient bevels, protruding interface elements and the like are still as garish now as they were a year ago. The trend toward more subtle depth if any depth at all and only when needed is still very much a thing.

Much of the new popular UI designs is still pretty flat too: https://dribbble.com/
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USPS always just leaves a note that they will try again to deliever WHEN I WAS HOME AT THE TIME. 50% of items from USPS always gets returned to sender due to unavailable times. UPS and FEDEX seem to deliver my items 90% of the time.
How does your here-unjustified opinion help move the discussion?

I don't mean to be rude, but so what that you think this or that is more important? The discussion should be based on the merits of each investment, not eric_cc's list of most important things on an objective level.

Get off your high horse.
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