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This got a little too typically NYT generic and preachy at the end -- I was expecting either an altar call or somebody to pass a collection plate -- but the specific case about non-competes deserves some attention.

For all the things California is doing to drive out businesses, one great thing about the state is that non-competes have very little weight. (In fact, this was what led Google and Apple to screw over the tech industry for many years, but I digress). The measures are very rarely enforced even in states that do support them. What with a new load of state legislators coming into office over the next few months, fixing non-competes in those other states is an easy win that could increase the state's competitiveness.
Excuse me. "Many men, though not all, because some Thing Differently, though judging by available statistics most..."

Happy? Or would you prefer #NotAllMen?
The article has a pretty obvious slant in one direction. A lot of times small businesses will require this of their entry level workers not because they are afraid of their workers going to a competitor, but don't want their employees to go and start a competing business, which in the small business world is a very real risk. It costs much less to start a small business, and in the local market many of these small businesses operate in, a new competitor can take away a big chunk of an already small pie. If that competitor did so by stealing your business practices, then congrats, you are putting yourself out of business. I'm not necessarily saying this is wrong or right, but it's the other side of the story the NYT didn't discuss.

Ironically, I worked for JJ in college, and never once did this ever concern me. This may be my personal bias, but I think the NYT is trying to make mountains out of molehills here. There are much bigger contributing factors to low wages for fast food restaurant workers, such as illegal immigrants depressing wages, limited ability for workers to organize, and perverse tax incentives that prevent profits from working their way down the economic ladder.

As a side note, JJ pays better than a vast majority of fast food restaurant chains. Their in-shop workers are paid above minimum wage (average around $8.50), and it's fairly easy to move into a delivery driver position where you can earn $25/hr on Fridays and Saturday nights.
In some ways, the U.S. has done to executions and automated foreign assassinations what the supermarket has done to eating meat. We are distanced from the act so that we aren't overly burdened thinking about about what is done in our names, both as citizens and voters. Hence, we do not oppose something that we normally would, were we only more aware of it.
> Unless they're on OKC to look for dates, they have no business being there.

This isn't true. Some look for companionship on OKC. Why they use OKC for it, I have no idea but 100% of the user base isn't strictly for dates/hooking up.
OkCupid does have big ads for PlentyOfFish on their logout screen. They do allow ads, but of course, PlentyOfFish is paying for that ad space. Many niche or competitor dating sites advertise on other dating sites, but since it's paid advertising, the benefits outweigh the possible loss of users (think of it as shared users?).
Probably something like protecting their operational advantages i.e. standardized processes found at the retail front line that give them a competitive advantage
I'm not sure where you live but Meetup.com has put me in some pretty awesome startup culture networks.
If we did that, we'd have to charge $100/match. That's why we have Premium - it's a higher price point for a guaranteed date. But in order to personally match people and provide great customer service, you can't guarantee a date for $20. At least not yet, unfortunately.
You're soliciting responses for a date. If someone responds with "we have someone we want to set you up with"....that gets me to my goal of finding a date. I don't think real users looking for dates make the distinction that you are.
Since Firefox tells users to "Search or enter address" in the location bar, I don't think it's correct to tell users trying to search that they're using it wrong. The issue described by fpgaminer is a legitimate problem.

The fact that some may prefer stricter segregation between URL and search fields is a separate issue, as is the behavior by certain ISPs that triggers this problem.
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They've talked about reworking runes, but I take it they don't have any good ideas about how to fix things. As you say, many players have a lot of time invested in them. I mean, I'm personally down to only needing crit damage and mana runes, so that should tell you something.
I'm going to write a Grease monkey script to prevent the word "hacking" from ever being displayed on my screen.
Yes, I think so. The current language around drone strikes is one of precision, sanitation, and infallibility. It's a one-way message that's easy to swallow. Faced with widely-reported counter information, such as actual photographs of "collateral damage", that spin must surely crumble.

This is obviously well-known to the military, having learned from their abject failure to control reporters during Vietnam. And is why reporters are now "embedded" within the military rather than be allowed to roam free (the spin for that, of course, being "safety").
Eh, I felt it was accusatory and putting words in my mouth (though I didn't downvote it - I can't, since he replied to me).

He seems to have taken my description of general gender dynamics in online dating to be an endorsement of said gender dynamics. This is in no way true.

He seems to also have taken my description of aggregate gender behavior in huge user bases to indicate specific individual behavior - this is also in no way true. There are plenty of users on both sides who don't subscribe to the larger usage trends, but ultimately the trends are pretty overwhelming.

I for one am all for upending gender roles, but we're talking about how online dating works right now, not how it could hypothetically work in a society where gender roles as we know them didn't exist.
My sister had acute pancreatitis that her doctor said was caused by her gallstones. She'd been ignoring them for several years and had gotten used to the pain. When she started to get feverish, though, she went to the hospital. The doctor told her that she was at reasonable risk for sepsis if she'd let it go too far.
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are you not soliciting responses?

Yeah, from a prospective date, not a matchmaker.

A similar situation: posting a job ad and having a recruiter reply to it trying to sell you their services, rather than a prospective employee. If you've ever been in that situation you'd know that it isn't a comparable response, and is just irritating spam that results in an instant delete.
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Thanks, this is a great comment. Moving signin with Facebook way up on our list.

And you're definitely right that it's the principle, and we should think about that more. I like the idea of giving something, and not paying $20 for nothing. It's a tricky scenario (we played around with the business model for months before releasing the new site) but we'll be brainstorming this a lot more.
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1) It doesn't "tie" Go to anything - it uses Chrome for visualization purposes. You can write Go fine without ever touching Chrome.

2) Large parts of the trace viewer are separate from Chrome: https://github.com/google/trace-viewer/wiki

3) The event format is documented, so you're free to write an alternate viewer: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CvAClvFfyA5R-PhYUmn5OOQt...
This supports an org-mode like syntax for authoring, not just the sexp syntax: http://www.nongnu.org/skribilo/doc/user-3.html#outline-synta...
Definitely check out www.startupdigest.com. It sends you a weekly digest of the best startup events in your city, where you will meet young people like you who also want to start a tech startup.
Honest question, if you think someone is unmatchable based on their expectations not matching up with what they offer.
Will you let them know and refuse their business, or will you just throw other unmatchable people at them and keep taking their money. (basically will a reject pool exist where you don't really put in any effort, but just slap together the left overs)

As someone who's only matches on Tinder and OKCupid in the past few months have been camsites and escorts this is an actual concern of mine.
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Of course. HN has been super helpful today and I'll definitely be working on providing a better explanation - and making other changes people have suggested as well.
You didn't answer the question. He asked you why you think your matchmakers are better. Not for a page about them.
> I don't know if it's my location in the bible belt

Yes. You really need to start looking for either remote jobs that are headquartered elsewhere, or start looking to relocate to one of those places. The second will likely get you more culture, there are plenty of good remote companies but also plenty of bad ones.

SF seems to be the commonly-referenced location, but really any city. Portland, DC, New York, really anywhere that's not bible belt.
Context? If you're at dinner with friends you don't say "would you mind passing me the salt". With a stranger you met for the first time you certainly might.

"Please" is not a pleading word, it's a polite word. If you're going to give life advice, make sure it's right.
"location in the bible belt, that near everyone I graduated with has 2 or 3 kids already"

there's your problem!

"this kind of culture only exists on the coasts"

there's your solution!
Started somewhat earlier than 2005 (in some place it was mentioned hardware took a few months, and first news are about software after hardware is completed) and it's still going, last update from 3/29/2014: http://www.homebrewcpu.com/new_stuff.htm

Edit: the 2014 post mentions 10-year anniversary approching.

Second edit: this G+ post mentiones 10 years: https://plus.google.com/104192474935520300956/posts/D1cQEyof...
Except women on OKC can just ignore the spam messages, look at a couple of profiles and send their own messages. Their messages won't be buried in piles of spam. The best interactions I had on OKC worked that way.
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Guys, make room! I wanna play! :D
Yeah I really don't see anything wrong with this. The guy paid $13,500 for the domain and is rightfully looking for a return. It's not like ebola patients are being deprived of anything here because he won't relinquish this domain for free.
Ah, yes, we have been doing this since we launched. The $20/month gets you access to free, exclusive Dating Ring parties (lotsss of people find dates through those) as well as that one match a month. We should definitely surface that better.
Ah yea, thanks for that. When I originally clicked the link it was to the wired article, must have been updated to the kickstarter page.
Ignoring the fact that you're calling me dishonest for a moment, here's how I see it:

1. OKC is a listing of profiles where the lister is expected to manage the transaction
2. The management of the transaction is a huge friction and pain point for a significant number of people (as is writing a profile, taking pics, etc...for which there are also people that help).
3. this service reduces/removes that friction/pain point for okc.
4. this service is NOT a listing of profiles (as far as I can tell)
5. this service does NOT discourage people from signing up for OKC, Match, POF, etc...in my view it encourages participation in those services (whether implicitly or explicitly).

If I'm missing the mark on any of the above, feel free to correct me.
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It's philosophically difficult to say 'someone is dead' in the present. Post-life, it's very difficult for your subject to verb. When you are consuming media of a person that is dead, though, like video or photographs, the dead subject is verbing before your eyes.
They just need to make use of respective hardware accelerated APIs in each targeted platform.
Maybe photographs don't do anything new but the fact that they are more realistic helps makes it easier to get that feeling, maybe?
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It was the phrase "and this model works". You could have said "and this model is very profitable". But "works" implies correctness and fit for purpose which is seen to me as an endorsement.
No, the de facto situation now is that Adobe makes a lot of money from sales of Photoshop and no money from support/integration.

I.e., nonwithstanding the piracy, Photoshop makes Adobe a lot of money, and all that money comes from sales, and none of it comes from support or integration.
Which is not a charity BTW, they're a non-profit but they make a lot of money from Firefox and the Mozilla Corporation is run like any other company.
"The article has a pretty obvious slant in one direction."

I noticed there's a signpost pointing down that way as well. There's some writing on it saying 'Sanity'. You may want to stroll that way a little.
Do keep in mind lots of us are forced to live in the past.

Developing a large app for healthcare, we MUST support IE 6, and IE 6 alone.
I am confused by what appears to be an assertion that Jimmy John's has a legitimate concern that their minimum-wage-earning food service employees might leave to start a competing national sandwich chain.
So Atwood's Law again. I'm always impressed by the things who are getting done in javascript.

And as a fellow hardcore gamer, this lower the barrier to pc gaming a lot, and it's a great step!
Everyone did this, Tagged did the same thing as well, so did HI5. (create fake users that is - not doing it on OKCupid)

(Then tagged and HI5 took the user base's email addresses and turned them into mailing lists for their spam email side companies...)
Someone from OKC posted above and asked you to stop. Why make them do it with spam filters!? Just honour their request.
> I'm not necessarily saying this is wrong or right, but it's the other side of the story the NYT didn't discuss.

Probably because it's a really dumb side to the story?

An individual Jimmy Johns franchise has to worry about one of their sandwich assemblers starting their own deli as much as I have to worry about catching ebola.
@genericuser A big value add to what we do is that we will offer advice to people who keep getting rejected. If it's that their expectations are too high, we have it on our list to guide some people toward Premium. Not so we can make more money from them (our margins on Premium are lower) but because some people need coaching more than they need matches.
I'd like to point out that goroutine support has been added which allows concurrency in the browser. You can literally avoid using callback soup using this.

its like clojure core.async only more powerful.
"It costs much less to start a small business"

Ok, I'll bite. In what way does starting a small business "cost less"? Less than what? Have you ever tried to get a loan to start a retail restaurant? It's incredibly difficult to get the funding necessary, especially in an industry with such low margins.
We do definitely 'need' it. I think the bottleneck at the moment is technological, and slightly cultural. Basically we don't have an efficient way to run free open-source web services that could out-compete their commercial alternatives.
Only in the last few years is open-source software really starting to take-off and it's mostly due to better infrastructure (technological and cultural) around open-source development rather than the actual projects themselves.
My best bet is that IaaS has to become virtually free and the tools around software defined infrastructures have to get better. It's just too hard to open-source infrastructure. My second guess is huge progress in distributed de-centralized software with a 'centralized-like' functionality, but it seems at least 10 years away, the former is more likely.
I just wonder, if waiting until C++17 gets done and available across all major compilers in all platforms, not just the C++ triad that gets discussed on HN, won't be a kind of "too little, too late" kind of thing.
Thought I'd share two quotes I enjoyed from Kevin Systrom's interview:

"Every little experience you have, you may not give credit, but it turns out is super important for being foundational in your startup going forward. Each and every little experience adds up."

"It turns just surround yourself by great people where you can learn the most and great things will happen."
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Let's not fool ourselves. A minimum-wage worker has hardly the resources, knowledge, and time to start a business. Are the non-competes coming from the corporate arm (who potentially has a secret formula to lose, but again lets not kid ourselves), or is the non-compete coming from the local franchise owner?

The more likely reason is because JJ's and/or the franchisee know that their line workers can and frequently do hop jobs over small things like consistency of hours, a manager they don't get along with, or a $0.25 increase in pay. Lost manpower and retraining hurts the store's bottom line.

I was just in a Chipotle last night, standing behind a Starbucks worker taking a break from the shop next door. The SBux worker and the Chipotle line staff instantly started an exchange over who they knew was hiring, what the conditions were like at their respective stores, and what the pay was. Everyone keeps their ear to the ground these days.
From the same outfit that brought you that weird crowdfunding campaign to send women from New York over to woman-starved Silicon Valley: https://www.tilt.com/campaigns/working-on-it

Another solid YC investment at work.
Absolutely. I'm sure the noncompete is the only thing saving JJ's from having their secret sandwich formula stolen by the kid they pay $8/hr. If not for that NCA she'd probably cross the street and open her own "2,000-location sandwich chain" & put JJ's out of business. Thank goodness for this wholly appropriate, not at all exploitative use of NC agreements and darn that socialist newspaper!!
Nice idea, but the bartering is a shame. Volunteering can make you live longer apparently, so why not encourage people to give freely?
I find the simplicity nice: find an app I want to buy, click buy, and I've got it. Developer just pushed an upgrade? It installs automatically without my having to do anything.
I think what you said in your reply works just fine:

"I, personally, discovered..."
We'll have to work on our website then! Probably losing sales due to a poor explanation of our product.
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The idea that "Please" means "I beg you" is archaic. It's a prefix added to convey civility. It is not contradictory to use it while also being firm or even abrasive.

I sometimes find the English language to be quirky or frustrating, and I have some sympathy with efforts to change it for the better. I think in this instance you are tilting at windmills, and not offering sensible or sincere "life advice".
Also adding that internationalization, IIRC, for native date input on the desktop is entirely based on the browser locale.

That's neither user friendly nor developer friendly. It just sucks.

Can i18n become a real concern for specs anytime soon? The non-US world at large would be grateful.

In fact, these HTML5 form features have just basically fragmented the development of mobile and desktop web pages. If we're gonna have different sets of features for different platforms, that's fine. Just be clear about on the api level. It was better when the date input was not even implemented on the desktop, at least we could detect it and shim accordingly, now it's basically a false positive since it's implemented without any real effort.
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I think that's right. Part of why the Fayum mummies are so startling (to me at least) is that they aren't as damaged as other ancient art. Many Greek bronzes originally featured inlaid mother of pearl or jewel irises, for instance, and I like to think of the loss of their eyes as a metaphor for the distance creating by time. With photos that distance is reduced because they're so easy to duplicate that the images they encode can never really be damaged, in a way. At least not in the way that things like Greek bronzes can.
I have no wish to go out of my way to discredit a valid observation about general behavior over a population so you can say #NotAllMen.
Thanks Chas!
I think people who are invested in C++ now won't suddenly stop being invested in it by the time C++17 rolls around.
I'm starting to use Go as an arguably better Node. Very fast, easy (pseudo)concurrency, relatively nice HTTP capabilities in the stdlib. It wouldn't be my first choice for building a full library, but it works well as an internal component in a service oriented architecture or a background worker for a queuing system.
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This looks like a game-changing innovation in the hosting industry!
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what are you going to replace it with? "butt" is already taken and wouldn't fit grammatically anyway. [https://github.com/panicsteve/cloud-to-butt]
Saying something like that makes me believe that you must work deep within the bowels of an entrenched corporation, insulated from revenue needs. Anyone who has ever had to pay employees, sacrifice time from other projects to do unplanned-for maintenance, or scrounge around for tedious grunt work during a slow season would never say something so ridiculous. I bet you also swore you'd move to Canada if Bush/Obama got elected.
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Its amazing how fast Jimmy John's has been expanding too. They seem to be popping up all over florida now.
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I tried signing up but it was really unfriendly to us non-American folks:

- Height in feet and inches

- Pretty limited locations

- I'm neither Democrat nor Republican

- It's called American Football and Football, not what you have (OK, I let that one slide)

- ...

I get that the non-English speaking world is harder to reach but on the other hand: English is not a problem for the higher educated in most of Europe and I see no real reason to limit this service to just the US. A profile is a profile.
"The measures are very rarely enforced"

Don't get into an agreement you're not willing to enforce... lets be realistic, the victims are judgment proof, if they lose, the company might be able to repo their hat or apron, that's about it.

Most likely result is if you quit and tell your boss you're going to a competitor of any sort in the food service industry, you won't get your last pay check. It'll cost too much to get it, so corporate wide its free money for the company across the large set of all employees.
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