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To argue the other side, if you don't like something in OS X or Windows, you can type "vim my_os.cpp" and start implementing your own version from scratch.

If three years from now, everything from Firefox to GNU tar depends on systemd, then your open-source Linux is in the same boat.

[Edit: Just to be clear, I don't expect that to happen. I'm just pointing out why people get upset when systemd encroaches on very large numbers of system components.]
This is really awesome. It really says something about the quality of the product being churned out at TC.

I imagine that most of the funding articles are short. It would be interesting to see how much of the total words were about fundraising (i.e. not just headlines, but the entire article).
Great stuff. Works great on a desktop except for the two-finger gestures. I'd love to see a zoom and rotate binding to the mouse scroll-wheel.
I have been looking at your replies at this thread, and I think you are confusing legality with ethics (at least in the nature of the law and visa regulations).
I am sure it is perfectly legal to work on something for your brother, while he earns the money off the product/app/website.
I get that being annoying, but is it really that big of a deal?
So cool. Check it out!
A few years back my friend and I had bootstrapped a simple SaaS product to over $30k/mo in recurring revenue with insane margins. We turned it into a bigger business after that, but I sometimes can't believe how much we made with just two people.
How old are you geezers? Do any of you actually use Snapchat/know people who use it? If you did you would know that nobody actually uses it to send nudes because if people get nude photos they would actually like to keep them because surprise surprise - there isn't much you can get done in 10 seconds. The whole sexting thing is a load of drivel concocted by the media because like any good story, it strikes fear into the heart of middle america.

The actual reason it got popular, which a lot of other people in this thread have mentioned as well, is because it was much faster than MMS because the photos were low quality(and at the time I don't think Apple had introduced iMessage), and the photos didn't stick around on your phone after they'd been sent, so it was perfect for sending silly/mundane things that don't need to be preserved.
Monthly ~4-5k USD from Adsense through my Android Apps, and couple of hundred from in app sales for removing ads. I made my apps just to learn about Android initially. I did not know it would be a big hit. So, I just kept on adding features as per popular demand.
that's amazing. was there much of a sales effort involved?
Isolating just THC or just CBDs can be problematic in not knowing exactly why it's working. This happened with Marinol/Dronabinol not being as effective as regular marijuana with increasing appetite and reducing nausea.

Obviously they should be researching all angles but a concentrated hash oil perhaps high in CBDs could be the solution instead of just isolating one compound.

So I disagree. It could be the marijuana alone used in oil form and not smoking it.

I do take issue with your point as there are millions of people suffering from cancer. Marijuana is a well tolerated drug used by humans for thousands of years. People are suffering right now, and every day, and most are unable to obtain marijuana to help ease symptoms or for potential cancer fighting abilities.

I don't care about recreational use. I though am upset that I have to break the law to treat my cancer and that a family member with a potential recurrence gets told, oh don't worry you likely have 8 years before your cancer metastasizes. And there's nothing you can do about it except take estrogen. Which I believes increases cellular apotosis but comes with other risks.
This is amazing. I love Udemy and the fact every single course on the site (almost) is $10 is awesome. I am currently going on a buying spree as we speak!
You seem to be confusing Debian with NetBSD...
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As a neophyte trader, I can't tell the difference between technical analysis, and what Skrudge does. Can you elaborate ?
They opened a ticket and sent me an email before they turned off the NIC.
I'm glad someone found this; I was really confused because I recognised the phrasing, and thought "I've read this story... but it was about wedding guests...?"
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It would also make it impossible to untether the watch from the phone in future revisions, which seems likely to be the plan for the longer term, once technology improves enough to allow adding cellular connectivity without unacceptable size and battery life compromises. Here's someone's take on it:

http://stratechery.com/2014/now-apple-watch/
How do you get the willpower to start meditating and doing regular exercise? :P
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my app's a bit special - it's purely SDL / opengl / C with a tiny java wrapper just to get going. TBH, there's some key technical problems with it with respect to onboarding, and because of those problems and likely technical problems there's <20k installed users.

It's DJPad, feel free to try it - the library functionality is embarrassingly bad but the audio engine and UI's half decent.

Probably the biggest feature is that it's lower latency than the competitors written in java. It doesn't hold a candle to any of the DJ apps on iOS whatsoever though.

I started a new job/career 2 years ago, and now I'm a dad - suffice to say my free time is gone. If I had stuck with this project I would have rebuilt the library and built a dedicated onboarding walkthrough.
There was also a study recently in Europe that either tested just THC or just a CBD which found no effective treatment for cancer.
Is this what I've heard called "particle zoo" research, where they're just using higher and higher energies to pile up more and more improbable bundles of fundamental stuff?
All GRs also have a meta-option of "more discussion needed". Sort of a "no confidence" vote on all the candidates/options although in actual use unless it comes in first, when ranking it creates a border something like "absolutely positively no way". Technically the "no GR needed" people were abusing the system and should have just put "more discussion needed" as their highest rank. Its the same concept but this is a "funny" rephrasing of the same concept.

Perhaps the only thing everyone on all sides can agree on is funny, is that "further discussion" didn't get many votes. Somewhere last night I read a quote about there's hundreds on each side but only nine masochists who voted for "further discussion"
That's pretty slick. Did you do that manually?
That's pretty neat. Although it took me a while to think of a good song to use. If you have insights on "popular tracks" or "recently used tracks", how about a quickstart link on the wubmachine? That would be handy.
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Which apps did you make?
This is a fun thread I make a Thousand a month by hooking companies up with outstanding off shore employees that I have tried and tested myself. The goal is to focus and become a the best.
QML/Javascript and C++ options would not be going away. They kind of already rely on a niche language with QML. I do most of my programming in Javascript, yet I doubt I'd use my time learning that environment unless there was a lower language option that I found attractive. I don't trust QML/Javascript to provide what I would need to develop mobile apps like I would trust Swift or Java.
Hey Everyone,

I'm Adam the CTO at Bellhops. We're really excited to be working with the Binary guys, they've already been incredibly helpful as mentors over the last few weeks. We're really excited for the future of the company.
did you initially launch the app with ads? does the ad hurt the user experience?
I don't do any paid advertising at the moment. I get a decent amount of leads from two other apps that I distribute for free (http://theanchorapp.com, http://getsoloapp.com), google, and word of mouth.

Yep, the website is the only sales channel...
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Because systemd is, although people argue this point, essentially monolithic.
Sure, in theory it's modular, but the module dependencies are so intertwined that good luck using any of the modules without the entire thing - or writing so many compatibility shims that you might as just write the module yourself. And that's even assuming a compatibility shim can be written without essentially reimplementing the entire module. It prevents incremental replacements. And it keeps expanding to pull more and more essentially unrelated functionality into itself.

It's "you're stuck with this architecture unless you redo the whole darn thing". And, again, systemd keeps getting larger and larger. As you say, it isn't that hard to replace sysvinit. But to replace systemd you need to replace / write shims for far more things. (Your window manager? I wish I was joking...)
There are still Malthusians? Seriously?
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Categories are too generic in my opinion. I would love to have smaller categories like "programming", "unix" and etc.
No sales or marketing spend. We built developer tools (still do) and just found really passionate communities that were willing to pay for things. We did spend a good amount of time on "virality" (just making sure we were utilizing organic growth on Twitter), and also tweaking and testing pricing models. We probably tried 5+ pricing models for new customers in a given year.
To be specific, it's a rule of thumb in the US. I would not be at all surprised if UK real estate works differently. But yeah, in some markets you just won't find things that reach that return. Then you'd have to decide if it's worth buying those properties, or buying in a different market, or just doing something totally different with your money (stocks, bonds, startups, whatever).
Metafilter I still think is great

https://lobste.rs/ on occasion
Hi Thanks for this just been looking at it on amazon.

I particularly liked this review :-)

"I actually never got around to reading this. No, I'm not joking. I'm sure it's a good book. I might read it some day, when I have time..."
Someone is lying to you. Can you provide your source for this?
I have to admit to not feeling too strongly either way about this, but the argument I would have against the 'never use IDs in CSS selectors' is purely a semantic one.

An ID, by design, semantically references a single thing. This has important meaning when making HTML (amd CSS) readable and parseable. Now, I'm not necessarily saying this is a 'winning' argument, but throwing away a useful tool for declaring semantic meaning for hand wave'y arguments about 'britality' feels like overkill.
I'm around $5500 a month total from 2 Udemy courses and a launching Traction book. It breaks down like this (all links below):

My SQL for Marketers course on Udemy does about $1500 a month, and has been pretty steady since launching the course on Udemy in late April. This takes almost no maintenance, though I am starting to work on improving it in response to student feedback.

My other course, Productivity for Mac Users, is a simpler keyboard shortcuts one can use to be more productive on Mac. This one makes $400-800 per month, though average over the lifetime (launched in May) has been around $500.

Lastly, we launched Traction book 3 months ago, and it continues to sell really well. Even after splitting with my co-author, I make about $3500 a month from that. You can see full numbers breakdown in the blog post we wrote summing up our launch.

https://www.udemy.com/sql-for-marketers/#/

https://www.udemy.com/mac-keyboard-shortcuts/#/

http://tractionbook.com

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2014/10/getting-traction...
It seems like you'd need to inject malicious Javascript into the page before you could run an attack like this. General XSS attacks would be the larger, encompassing vulnerability.
Ah, absolutely. I think what's important is recognizing when a task is vague (intentionally or otherwise). It could be "Google 'mend chair leg' for 25 mins and list out next actions', and then those actions become new tasks. I think we're definitely in agreement here.

If there's a misfit between a problem and GTD, the challenge is to figure out how to frame the problem properly.

To zoom out a little- GTD won't create an inspiring work of art, but GTD will manage the artist's schedule, and free her up to read more, meet other artists more, get inspired more, etc.
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Trying let see how it works for me
Yeah, that's one of the 1% or so of politically-tinged bits of the project. The ones I can recall from the past few years are: systemd, ffmpeg vs. libav, libjpeg vs. libjpeg-turbo, and whether to ship GFDL-licensed documentation with invariant sections. Fortunately I don't really care about any of those. :-) The systemd debate is the only one of those that's actually a bit interesting to follow imo.

One quasi-political issue that has somewhat more pervasive importance is the general relationship between Debian packages and the Ubuntu packages derived from them, which occasionally is a point of friction if the maintainers have different goals. In most cases it isn't a big problem though, afaict. There are reasonable number of cases where it's even the same maintainer.
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Yes i added ads initially. But I always made sure they did not compromise with user experience. The ad revenue was not significant initially. It has grown steadily over couple of years as the user base has increased.
Hey hackers, I’m David from Awkward, the company that created Beam. Happy to answer any questions and please post any feedback you have.

Happy redditting ;-)
I don't know. Try it. I just posted what I know from personal experience. The resin definitely works.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQwwGPiyW9M
I wonder if it skews both ways. I tend not to post on these threads because a.) they come up so frequently and b.) it sometimes files like it's just bragging to keep telling everybody that my business stuff is successful.

I definitely agree on not getting discouraged. It's not in any way as hard as you think it is before trying. And you get better at it the more times you try.

My history of products looks like:

- Hey, I built this cool piece of technology. Maybe I should try to turn it into a product.
(... but never finished it) (X3)

- Hey, Google Maps is cool and I like travelling. Maybe I should launch a Travel Blog host.
(... without any fathomable way to monetize it)

- Hey, look at this cool one-day hack that got tons of Reddit love.
We should totally start a company!
(... with a flaky co-founder who never got around to doing any of the "business" stuff
before bailing for the next shiny thing)

- Hey, I bet you could transform Amazon's cloud storage logs into CLF and
feed them into Webalizer. I should totally sell this for like $1/month!
(... which actually turned out to be a good idea, but for $10-$300/month)

After all that, I expect my next product will be something with some form of actual market of people willing to pay money for it before diving in to the IDE. But then you never know...
Well done!! The only thing that is missing and that I really need is the grid layout support, but animations are really light and smooth!
So this is basically a Natural Language state machine? Or am I missing the intent of this entirely?
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It is a high number, but it's also just a rule of thumb. You can find a lot of debate about "the 1% rule" if you look.
I earn most of money from trading stock and binary options you read my review about binaryoption here http://www.bizocean.org/2014/05/Binary-signals-aka-option-tr...
The second example needs some more work.

When you drag no-drop over the yes-drop div it appears on top. If you then drag yes-drop and go back to dragging the no-drop this then appears under the yes-drop div.

Also I don't get what causes the highlight of the drop zones to activate. Percentage of shape? Center of Shape? Personally I prefer that it is the mouse pointer that activates the enter / leave and not the shape itself.

Added:
If you drag the yes-drop from the side to enter the drop zones, the outer zone looks like 50 pixels wide and yet the error or margin to drop it in there is about 2 pixels before you enter the inner zone.
no, the alternatives are

(1) systemd
(2) write and advocate the usage of a different init system.
(3) a horrible death

I'm certainly not opposed to having a better alternative, but the systemd people managed to write something that is better than sysvinit and made the package good enough to get people to use it. Now people complain that they're taking over the linux world by force, but they actually don't. They just provide something people want - it's not that they forced the gnome people at gunpoint to use systemd.
I played around with upstart, it worked fine.

Alternative init systems are a very old idea implemented over and over for decades.

The "innovation" of systemd is product tying it deeply to Gnome. Nobody is willing to kick out Gnome, so they can make everyone else do whatever they want. Including, say, making it impossible to run any other init system.

By analogy it would be like product tying emacs into python, such that you can't install or run vi if you have python installed at the upstream level, because the default location for python temp files is now /usr/bin/vi. Well, I guess you could stop shipping python, or cave in and remove vi. This is the "innovation" that is new in systemd. Merely being an advanced init is really old stuff.
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But just because these components are present in marijuana I can almost bet that it will be reduced to an argument in the fight for legalization of smoking weed.

Correct -- has no bearing on the issue of recreational use.

Rather, and more importantly: another gentle reminder that we (as a society) need to turn our backs on the unrelenting tide of fear, misinformation, and outright deception that has characterized most discussion on the medicinal (and recreational) use of controlled substances in the public sphere for the past several decades (nearly a full century, actually) -- and back to basic science.
That'd probably shave off $200-300 / month
That's a good idea.

Actually it's a bit like Allen's "Put it by the door" technique.
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At first glance, this seems...really solid. Thanks!
https://pizzacharts.com doesn't work for me (get an SSL connection error) and my ISP (Virgin Media in UK) blocks http://pizzacharts.com
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That's exactly the problem - you're referencing a single element which can't be reused. I bet all the styling being used on the element could be broken down in to reusable classes leading to cleaner code and less specificity.
Obviously if given no other choice, smoking cannabis might be a viable option. It's important to keep this discussion in the context of the parent comment, which was pointing our (rather anecdotally) that some guy who smoked cannabis for 35 years died of cancer (implying that the assertion made in the parent article was incorrect or flawed).
Most of my revenue is from an app called Hindu Calendar. It has loads of features now relating to traditional Indian calendar, and festivals of India.
[Edit]: See https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Alok+Mandavg...
This is really interesting. I have read a lot of articles about dropshipping being extremely hard to get right. Just out of curiosity, how much time on average did you put into marketing/seo in order to start generating income? Do you also blog about electric bikes?
about $800/year, radio play royalties from music I made about 10 years ago. Pays for a new guitar each year
Yep, saw the same thing. Everything works nicely but on a small screen you can get into situations where you can't scroll the page unless you drag the very edge.
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Thank you! The "ads on a blog" was just the most trivial example. The rule applies to any side project as an attempt to make extra $
> advantageous against predators

Only until your species divergently evolves and one of the descendent species evolves into predators. Then it's game on again!

Then again, if reverse isomers = indigestible, what is your species going to eat? I suppose this strategy might work for plants.
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I don't think it is a big deal. It is just slightly arbitrary, in my opinion.
In May 2004, a Debian packet maintainer (Eduard Bloch) started to send repeated personal insults to Jörg Schilling after one of Bloch's patch requests against mkisofs was rejected because it was full of bugs.

In March 2006, a group of Debian maintainers started to attack the cdrtools project.

The latter attacks have been based on the fact that cdrtools was licensed under the GPL. As a result, on May 15th 2006 most projects from the cdrtools project bundle have been relicensed under CDDL (giving more freedom to users than the GPL does). At the same time, an important amount of additional code (DVD support code from Jörg Schilling and a Reed Solomon decoder from Heiko Eißfeldt) has been added to the freely published sources.

In summer 2006, the attacks from the group of Debian maintainers escalated and in September 2006, these people created something they call a fork from cdrtools. They soon added a lot of bugs and this way turned the "fork" into a questionable experiment. The last work on this "fork" has been done eight months later on May 6th 2007, then the leader of the attacks stopped his efforts on the fork and instead started to advertize for nerolinux. During the Debian project activity, the source code distributed by Debian was modified in a way that violates GPL and Copyright and makes it impossible to legally distribute this "fork" called "cdrkit". There is no license problem with the original cdrtools.
As with social overuse of MJ itself: I'd prefer that Huffington Post citations be moderated by the force of social opprobrium (preferably in the form of a consistent lack of upvoting), rather than by coercion (in this context, outright blocking).
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Very nice library & code - thanks for making it not require jquery or any other library!
I agree that some people just have very little ambition and determination. However, I think the statement "If they're not normal humans, it's only because they have more willpower than you." is way too overgeneralized given the limited information you have regarding jmnicolas' life (unless you know more than can be gleaned from his post here).

There are any number of completely valid reasons why a person would be too exhausted to work on a side project after work hours. People do have limitations. Some people have very difficult lives. People do burn out -- and everything does not boil down to having the willpower or not. I'm not saying willpower is irrelevant -- it is relevant. It just isn't the only variable in the equation.
I notice you have the 4-tier (299/149/79/29) pricing system. I'm curious what percentage of your revenue comes from each tier.
In that advert it says the annual turnover is about £160K.

For a 40 bed hotel!!

A chip van turns over more than that.
Auto-complete is already in most decent editors and almost every IDE.
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We use Ansible because it's simple to write recipes (they are just YAML files) and simple to deploy (you just need a working SSH setup and you don't need a master server). We were reluctant to automate our devops with Chef and Puppet. Discovering Ansible was a relief.