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> It's too expensive to make the whole internet free. Mobile operators spend tens of billions of dollars to support all of internet traffic. If it was all free they'd go out of business.

>> Mark seems to be implying here that mobile networks are eating the cost today as a form of charity. Is that true?

Patently untrue. On the contrary telcos are raking it in hand over fist ever since data usage started shooting up. If anything the massive popularity of WhatsApp, Skype, Viber and explosive growth in India's own home-brewed tech startups is a godend for these telcos. The avg nontech Indian was already getting home-delivered $2 groceries & $5 ladies suits from solopreneurs marketing on WhatsApp. Increased data usage helps telcos.

Instead of riding on the coattails of these massive data services and not looking at a gifthorse in the mouth, instead of strengthening their backbones & support they still employ 90s era CSRs (hundreds thousands of em) who answer every support call with Start Internet Explorer, Click Options, Delete cache..delete history, Click Windows icon on bottom-left of screen & Restart computer....still didn't work? Ok please write to us with your query at support@unfairtel.com and we will escalate this ticket with a turnaround time of 48-72 hours.

Here's a definitive explanation with chart & figures (from telco's own disclosed numbers) by one of the most widely followed financial blogger in India - http://capitalmind.in/2015/04/telecom-companies-are-not-losi...
Isn’t it chicken and egg though? People rarely type them out because they’re very hard to type out on a Windows machine.
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Pornography is deeply connected with human trafficking, child molestation, pedophilia, ... and so on..
I was not aware of this whole pornography industry world..until i start to research myself.. i was shocked.

How far it goes? Pedophilia will soon be legal. Don't believe me? Please go, and do research yourself. you will be shocked what is happening there. Pedophile political parties and lobists are everywhere.
When your product name is Meerkat
I think the distinction is clear. How you would swap in other tools not so clear.

With these updates I will have to update my own howto on how to use all 3 tools (4 with with the 'Engine') http://flurdy.com/docs/docker/docker_compose_machine_swarm_c...

I should probably write a tiny tool that wraps these tools and my common usage into a simpler shell script, maybe dockgod or something. I already got too many aliases in my dotfiles...
I suspect the MSN generation is only just reaching a level where they can make purchasing decisions. Good technical companies have been using slack-like systems for years, but traditional companies are... conservative.

Using multiple devices became mainstream; nowadays everyone needs to be able to use your system from their phone and their computer at the same time. This shouldn't be hard to handle but through accidents of history it's terrible on the big open-source options (Jabber or IRC). And companies need internally-hosted. If AOL had been willing to make a self-hosted AIM, or MS a self-hosted Skype, they would've killed it.

I'm not sure why they didn't. And I'm not sure why Atlassian didn't seize the whole market with HipChat, which is almost identical to Slack (it's very marginally less polished). At my current company we use Slack's free tier because we fit within the usage limits for that but not those for HipChat, so maybe it's that?
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Internet.org is in clear violation of net neutrality and zuckerberg is trying to fool people.well does he want to do charity?do one thing.give at least 500mb 3g data free for all and foot the bill for it.now isn't that how charity works?
Awesome. The faster we can automate military and police work the faster we can move away from democracy, into more efficient forms of government.
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Oh, wrong Tesla.
I use linux at work and run Windows 7 in a VM. It's domain joined and my company pushes updates to it seemingly many times a month. This rears it head more often than not when I'm going home for the day.. Sometimes I can't be bothered waiting for updates to install so I throw caution to the wind and power the VM off when it says not to... Still ticking!

I run the opposite on my home PC, Windows host and linux guest. Been through multiple video cards and even an intel to amd switch. Also still running like a champ.

Anecdata :)
You are right. The problem is with the telcos they are partnering with. The spectrum belongs to the public and the license was given with conditions and expectations of good faith (such as neutrality).

Facebook can build a wired network with only FB/Whatsapp available on it. No license required and no expectations of neutrality (they still shouldn't call it an "internet connection" though). It's not the Internet if links don't work or one link costs more than another. The telco can charge for data, the website can charge for its content. The telco should NOT charge a link based on its destination.
It's not an advantage in features, it's just that little bit more polished than everything else. Everything works, and works how you'd expect it to. The UI subtly guides you towards doing the right thing. There's nothing you can't do in other clients, but everything's just that little bit better.
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Yea, your startup failed long ago. You are just throwing good money after bad.

Here's how a business model works: you try a business model. If it works, great. If it doesn't, move on and try the next business model. You are either growing, dieing, or the zombie of living death. If it's the last two, get out now.

If you are a skilled person, then you can always get another job elsewhere, especially now that you've got "startup experience" on your resume. Conversely, if you aren't skilled, then that's probably causing your startup's failure, and that's not going to change.

Being overly optimistic is great when starting a company. You have to believe, against all odds, that you are going to succeed. But optimism death AFTER starting up, hanging on hoping things will change when they won't.

Growing companies have a chance of success. Dieing companies really don't. Zombie companies are even worse. Get out.
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As someone contemplating starting my own lifestyle business I would be interested in hearing more details.
It's not just about Apple (though they did a lot to start the trend), I'd have the same objection if it was an Android/Windows/whatever tablet.

I suppose it depends on what your goal is. If it is to give people a device to use for reading texts then I suppose it's fine. If you want people to reply, or to provide a level playing field outside of school then what I said still applies.
Based on what you write it's over because you're burnt out and no longer believe it will work out. It will be a tough conversation with your co-founder, because he's in a different situation. My advice: don't make it a discussion, tell him what the situation is. At this point, letting him talk you into continuing (eg. he gives you money) is a bad idea.

My story: I did my 1st startup for almost 4 years. No pay for first 2 years, supported ourselves from other income. Then the startup "took off" in a small way, and we could pay ourself a minimal salary (=about 1/8 of what I now get as an employee of a successful startup, not my own). The last year of the startup, when it was basically failing, was really stressful. I once went 7 days without sleeping, depression, wife left me, got divorced, worst episode of my life. Lesson learned, as they say in the startup world: fail early :) In my case, I could already tell there are problems before the last year, and that's when we should have quit. Next time I'll be wiser. Btw. it's 3 years later and it's all good now, so heads up! Go out and run a marathon.
The lows of startups are far more terrible than you probably think.
This is really more of a graphical representation of a formula. It contains conditionals of sorts (in the form of the min operator), but no recursion, iteration or other sort of control structure.
the poor (who are easily influenced)

Thanks for making plain what others are implicitly saying. The arguments against zero-rating in general always seem to be based on the argument that the poor are stupid and as their superior, we know better. Paternalism at its finest.

In the case of Internet.org, I agree that the name is misleading bordering on fraud, and shouldn't be allowed. But besides that, how about letting people choose if they prefer to pay for full Internet access?
No, the right Tesla.
And why register company in Italy? We have EU and foreign companies can be present in Italy. I would register in Ireland or Estonia.
That's my article, if anyone's curious about the details.

Edit - I may as well post this here: I finally wrote this up 3 years after the fact as something of a "swan song" for my time in Italy, which is drawing to a close for now (I'm sure we'll be back in the future!). We're moving to Boulder, Colorado, and are actively looking for people to meet, jobs, housing, etc...
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Someone asked why not swap to Elixir or Rust, but why not actually swap to the sysadmins dream of Ruby?
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Possibly because those guys are just scratching their itch and making what they need with as minimal effort as possible. I know, because I have been there with open source project of mine (of 4 people on the team, 3 were only focused on getting the features out and only one cared about UX and it was an uphill struggle for him to convince us to rewrite anything).

This is especially evident when you have no competition, no other open source project that solves the same problem. If you compare Audacity to other open source audio editors, you would actually appreciate that UX is functional and it's easy to understand what you are doing with it.
I speak for myself. I find a bit against the Open Source culture.

Normally the Open Source projects start from a personal itch, meaning that nobody sits down and think I'll do this cool Open Source program that people will use. On my eyes, it starts the other way around, someone developed something that s/he needed on that moment, it gives him/her results and then decide to share it. If this project is really needed on large scale it will take off. (the Apache foundation got it right with the incubators).

In my case I will fund Open Source projects that gives me some benefit, so if I use any of them and I manage to get some income thanks to it, I'll like to give back some part of my benefit. But blindly fund an Open Source project if I don't see any usefulness it will be hard, but I wouldn't mind to join an organization that ask a fee and redistribute on Open Source projects.
Yeah that really is trivial. print now works like any other function, like it does in most languages. The new way really is objectively better. Short of allowing all functions to be called as "function argument" à la Haskell (which I would support, but would be a massive change) I don't see any alternative.
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I agree. I'd dare to say it's a common problem in most EU countries. EU is a more regulated environment in comparison to the US. EU is the old school of business (i.e. banks), so politicians are more focused on protecting them instead of helping to create new ones. This involves a cultural change. The economic downturn is the opportunity to do so
Maybe they're just trying to make their dev teams move faster
I really enjoyed this article. imho The quest/test for manhood theme is one of the most dominant in our media, yet it is also kind of a taboo topic. Breaking Bad and Fight Club come to mind, where "castrated" protagonists fight back for their manhood... The Big Lebowski is, among many themes, about how different people prove their masculinity in different ways too. The whole damsel in distress genre... Also, movie/tv male comic relief is often portrayed as asexual or incredibly dorky.
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it's not a superior vs inferior product. This was just an example to show that telcos are making money at the entry level too & they should (screenshot - http://i.imgur.com/gpsgRLh.png). This data plan has nothing to do with FB or internet.org.

Just a 2G data plan that I can use to surf any site. Fb/internet.org on the other hand is free to users & paid for (or howsoever they do it), decided by a secret cabal behind the scenes between telcos/FB/govt bodies (mark's words) and whoever else is monopolistic enough to be at the table.

Perhaps I didn't understand your question?
If you are BASED in Italy and register in Ireland or Estonia I'm pretty much sure you are breaking the law, EU or not.
> 25 is young

25 is more like the end of the childhood, really :)
Yes, there is ample room for improving things further in Italy, but I think: if I was able to do that, what could be accomplished if more people tried? Especially people with money/power/connections/etc... Heck, my Italian is good, but I'm not even a native speaker!
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"The recent Philippines disaster saw HMS Illustrious deliver all the spare rice in Singapore in a short space of time along with a number of helicopters as well as fit, motivated, organised and well led teams to assist in disaster relief."

Then you can have the same efficient result with a non-military organization. What's so special about them having guns?
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But forgot to say "to a new audience" ?? But you knew what he meant because? He really didn't say it. What he said is actually what he said.

Yeah ok, so I'm wrong every downvote proves it as does all these responses reacting to things that literally were not said. I think we really can call this whole post, thread and all discussion of it a total bust.
this could be very useful. Reminds me of a similar tool for jquery themes (If I recall correctly).
Microsoft were not initially in control of the ecosystem; it was IBM's PC cloned by Compaq and then a horde of others. At one point there were competing desktop environments - Desqview, OS/2.

They then faced the upgrade problem: at any point, restrictive control over drivers would mean that hardware that ran Windows N-1 would not run Windows N.

There is also the antitrust argument: control over the OEMs restricts the possibilities for competing software.

And there's a limit to what they can do. My latest driver/hardware bug was discovering that my Crucial MX100 has some horrible interaction with write caching and link power management such that it can vanish from underneath the operating system.
I would also encourage the design team to keep in mind what their users actually use Audacity for. I'm only talking Anecdotally here, based on my own experience, but I would guess that a large number of users use Audacity for it's dead-simple audio capabilities, especially the ability to record sound from an internal sound source (ie; recoding the sound coming our of your speakers). Essentially, I believe many people use Audacity as a modern-day tape-recorder. For this, Audacity works amazingly well. Throw in the ability to trim the sound recording down and some very simple effects such as Amplify, Fade In, Fade Out, and you've got a very good, simple piece of software.

I may be wrong, but if they pile in more effects and 'advanced' functionality, like any form of batch scripting or API integration. They're going to bloat the software unnecessarily at the expense of the average Joe. That's going to make the UI situation even worse.

Perhaps the time has come for Audacity to offer a basic version, with limited effects, and a 'Pro' version (possibly paid for?) that can cater to the advanced user who wants more effects and automation options and won't feel alienated by a cluttered, technical UI.
An Inc is the equivalent of an Italian SPA, which is even more expensive to register and maintain than an SRL. I went for the SRL's because it's low hanging fruit.

If you compare an Inc in the US to an SPA in Italy, it's even more in favor of the US, although unlike an LLC with a single owner and pass through taxation, I think with an Inc, you're going to want to get an accountant and lawyer involved from the get-go.
So it seems there is one type missing - custom screwdriver/bolt parings such as http://www.pitlock.de/.

I have these and my bike wheels have not been stolen yet!
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2838775/why-google-want...
A similar, little-known disease caused by a lack of dietary diversity is pellagra. It's caused by a lack of vitamin B3 (niacin). In the early 1900s it became an epidemic in the southern United States, due to (largely poor, rural) people's diets consisting almost exclusively of corn.

The most interesting part of the disease is that corn actually contains vitamin B3, but it cannot be absorbed by humans when eaten by itself. Native people always treated corn meal with lime, which allowed the vitamin B3 to be digested. When Europeans came to the Americas and learned about corn from the native people, they thought it was stupid to put lime in their food so they left that part out. Thus, causing a disease that afflicted 3 million people and killed over 100,000.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pellagra#History
I would love that. Ruby has become my go-to language for quick scripts, even in places where bash does the job. Bash is for things where I can keep everything in my head and there aren't too many lines. Ruby for everything else.
> b) don't know if they'd be that great for Vim-ers like me.

They are: I am addicted to vim, and I use bash/zsh in emacs mode, so having the consistency is incredible.

Also having cmd+C for the GUI and ctrl+C for the command line is awesome. This last feature is one of the few things that kills Linux for me (ended up hacking on GTK, which turns out to have both an undocumented setting and an obscure compile time constant somewhere that ends up not working. And no, remapping every single app shortcut is not an option — I tried).
My comment was anecdotal too, no worries ;)
> Zuck wants a walled-garden version of internet (with FB as gatekeeper) to be made free for the poor. We're saying poor Indians should have access to the same full open globally-connected internet as we all take for granted. And that free & fair competition will & should take care of things like access on the cheap, sachet-mktg etc.

To be honest you are not offering an alternative to Zuck's expanding coverage, you are offering the status quo which for a person without any internet sucks. You can claim Zuck's plan is corrupting and should be stopped for that reason alone but I doubt you'd find agreement from the people who don't have any access under your system but would get limited access under Zuck's system.

The idea of net neutrality grew out of common carrier ideas, most similarly to the telcos. You could pick up your phone you can call basically anyone, it costs the same as anyone else you called in the same location... except some companies could set up toll free numbers to make it a little bit easier to call them. That analogy seems to work strongly for what FB is doing here.

The fact that FB and Bing are paying for "toll free numbers" would make a lot of other businesses like Google do the same. The competition would tend to lower prices as if 90% of the traffic on the telco lines are subsidized by BigCo's they only need to charge 10% for the remainder. In this instance it all seems like a net good from the expanding access angle.

edit: nileshtrivedi's comment below[1] has a much stronger argument against Zuck's plan:

The spectrum belongs to the public and the license was given with conditions and expectations of good faith (such as neutrality).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9393040

So that seems fairly cut and dried, if those are the conditions for the spectrum license and it seems reasonable that they are. Still we could consider whether the greater good of expanded access might outweigh the benefits of strict net neutrality and the answer to that might not be the same everywhere. It might be interesting to see how full internet access develops in two similar neighboring areas with completely different regulatory regimes here.
My self thaught code is prettier then my work code ( deadlines @work, perfectionism at home)
I'm saying that FB/Internet.org is an inferior product (since it's limited to a few services) in the same market as the Vodafone plan, which only costs a few cents more. If so, then what's the problem? FB/Internet.org will likely just fail to attract any significant number of users.
I find it sort of amusing that the idea of a "security torx" is that people won't be able to insert a flat or regular torx. Every bit set I've seen the last 10 years have had security torx included, so beating the "security" just require a trip to the hardware store.
It's a pity that this cycle repeats itself so often. "The army is cool, they fight wars. My army won't fight but I'll still get to feel cool.". My dad fell into this trap too and got stuck going through a war. But ultimately it really is their own fault. They did agree to kill people if told to, and they did lock themselves into being unable to quit even if the situation changed. They also wanted to get the feeling of being associated with the other killers in the army, which they got. So I don't think signing up in a brief moment of peacetime excuses any soldiers of their immoral actions.
You can map drives from a client over Remote Desktop if that's at all helpful.
But sadly, no C-w.
For all things that are shitty in Slovenia (next door neighbor to Italy), starting a company is not.

If you want a LLC - you will need 7500€ of capital, however there are no fees and whole process doesn't take more than a week.
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As far as I know there is no European country that would have legal structure similar to LLC in the US.

If you want to avoid double taxation while maintaining limited liability, you have to get into some complex and obscure legal structures - like a limited partnership where one partner is a limited company (with at least two directors) and the another partner is you.

Even then, the limited liability is very limited and it's easy to make a mistake that will make you fully liable.
Compare that to: http://www.cyanogenmod.org/blog/microsoft-and-cm12-1-nightli...
I can imagine, must be the opposite of actually starting to work with the Trackpoint. I tried, I really did, but I never got it to work for me.
"You must be on the Reliance network to use Internet.org. If you'd like to access these websites for free, use a SIM card from Reliance" --

What I see when I visit internet.org from my wired & wireless, non-Reliance telco.

Think of this as FB passing off 'free AOL CDs in the mail' as The Internet in India for millions of first timers who are getting sub-$100 smartphones, using poor villagers--& benevolent Wikipedia to provide covering fire.