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Title: First time posting here. Had to use pastebin because I wrote beyond 2k char limit. Apologies for the annoyance of an extra-step. Please read and respond.<p>Thanks.
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Title: So, I'm being sued by a startup that I used to work for. I don't want to go in to the details for obvious reasons, but it's been really stressful and difficult.<p>I was recruited to work as the first employee for this startup, spent a good deal of time and effort on it, and then had the founder turn around and sue me. They're demanding more money from me than I was ever paid to begin with, because of some vague damages that I (allegedly intentionally) caused.<p>All of his claims are patently false (and I have documentation to that point), and boils down to the founder trying to scapegoat me for his own mistakes. However, he's independently wealthy and knows that I don't have much money and likely won't be able to defend myself. So, in essence, it feels like an adult form of bullying.<p>I have no idea what to do. I can't afford an attorney. I'm also concerned that there's this public mark on my record (e.g., a future employer googles me and finds this lawsuit).<p>So, what do I do? Have any of you been in a similar place with an early-stage startup? How do it go? Why do people suck so much?<p>EDIT: I was apparently responding to too many questions, and am rate limited, so I can't respond anymore.<p>I am a student and I have called my student legal services. This case is too big for them to handle. In the words of one of the people I spoke with, "you would have been better off getting a DWI."<p>It is a lawsuit in federal court, not just a threatening letter. I have considered going pro se, but I'm too concerned about following proper procedure.<p>I was W2 not 1099. I've reviewed my employment agreements, and that's part of what makes this whole thing baseless. Without going into details, their allegations suggest that my employment agreements require me to do things that they don't actually specify. It's akin to firing a airline pilot because they didn't serve enough soda to the passengers.<p>Thanks specifically to the users that recommended Grellas. I'm speaking with him later today :)
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Title: https://www.archlinux.org/news/mariadb-replaces-mysql-in-repositories/
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Title: Really, some fairly high percentage of readers must be reading on mobile. I can tell YC is committed to keeping the site simple as possible but 30 minutes of work would save actual man-hours of zooming in 500% in order to click that astoundingly tiny arrow.
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Title: We built this 2 months ago, but put a new landing page on it, added some features, and made it publicly available without requiring an invite.
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Title: I'm 22 and have no life. No car, no job, no money, and no future as I can see. I'm stuck in a rut and don't know how to get out. I'm really tech savvy (no degree unfortunately; money took care of that one for me; I seriously tried and tried and tried.)and i'm an aspiring programmer and producer/audio engineer and I can't find work ANYWHERE. I live in a town called Yakima, WA. and all it consists of is fast food chains, big box retail stores and the extreme use of drugs. I've tried over and over again to find a job and save some money so I can move or get out of this hell hole; but to no avail have I come closer to what I want. To just be O.K. for once. The last two years of my life have been hell and I can't seem to straighten things out. I've moved across the country only to be taken advantage of by family, I've been homeless, and I'm scared. I don't exactly know why i'm posting this, in all honesty I don't really have that many friends or people to talk to. I just don't know what to do anymore.
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Title: I dont' get it. I lurk a lot, try to comment only when I have something to say.<p>After months of this, today I tried to "Show HN" the new release of the software I'm working on since 2004 with an amazing team... only to find that I am "dead" and that my post is spam ("Stop spamming us, you are wasting your time").<p>[Edit to better clarify]:
I'd sincerely like to know what I did wrong, to make sure I'm not going to do it again. Ever.<p>[Edit 2]:
I wrote to [email protected] as suggested below.<p>Also, thank you all very much for your advice, even more for the one of the "hard to swallow" type.
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Title: I'm cofounder for a startup. It's been about 8 months or so. It's killing me. I don't know what it is; I clash frequently with the CEO about dumb stuff. Sometimes I love the product, sometimes I hate it. I can't see anything else because I've had my head in it for so long.<p>I've always been a person with depressive tendencies, but this is slowly pushing me to the edge. I smoke weed every night otherwise I can't relax and feel good. My gf tells me I should go see a psychiatrist but that'd make finances hard. I'm getting some really low lows.<p>I don't know what to do, help.<p>PS: my ability to pay rent and visa situation are very much tied to my startup... it makes things crazy.<p>If I quit, I'm left with 0 money. I'm unemployable by now– I can't be in at work at a decent time, I can't do what a boss tells me to, I can't take any kanban bullshit– I would not survive 1 week at a tech company.<p>Should I just call it quits and try to just go teach high school math or programming at a community college or something? (or go to thailand and live on the beach for $100 a month or something)
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Title: It appears that it's not possible to apply without an idea for S13. Does this mean that the experiment didn't work? Can you share some details of what you found and what went wrong?
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Title: I'm definitely in the "up-vote the good stuff" camp, but contributing to
HN includes the far less enjoyable tasks of occasionally down-voting and
flagging.<p>I know HN employs an "excessive flagging" threshold to prevent abusive
flagging (pg mentioned this eons ago, but I can't find the link). The
"Enough rope to hang yourself" design works well with engaged users who
care about the quality of HN, but the design seems to break down when
there's too much bad stuff to flag/down-vote. The most obvious break
down is when emotions run high on some topic, and we're flooded with bad
comments, throw-away trolling accounts, and redundant but up-voted
submissions. But on everyday terms, if I was to flag every single
violation of the site guidelines I see in the /newest queue, I'd very
quickly hang myself on the anti-abuse code.<p>Even seemingly well-intentioned people get hung by the anti-abuse code:<p>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5454106<p>Too much of a good thing is often bad, and a well-intentioned person
with an itchy mouse finger could easily flag too much. At present,
there's just no way to know where the "too much" line is, or what kind
of infractions should be flagged.<p>pg, could you provide more guidance on what you want to be flagged?<p>I've got a few ideas for potential ways to provide feedback on good/bad
flags to users in their profiles without spoiling the anti-abuse code. I
could either email them to you or post them up in the "Feature Request"
thread where they belong.<p>p.s. Also could you please add "gossip" and "X is down" messages to the
list of off topic stuff in the site guidelines?
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Title: Came across this on Reddit today and thought it was incredibly interesting.<p>The link they've linked off to doesn't appear to be working (presumably down to traffic volume).<p>The Reddit discussion is here - http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1baw7v/til_a_software_company_buried_a_1000_prize_deep/.<p>The Original link is here - http://techtalk.pcpitstop.com/2012/06/12/it-pays-to-read-license-agreements-7-years-later/
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Title: Fellow lusers,<p>I would like to appeal that you flag all uninspired april fools pranks until april second.
The truth of the matter is that april fools (Which I think some have called the "hackers holiday") has been ruined by oversaturation
and PR departments. Instead of being a funny unexpected string of pranks and absurdism, the experience has become a droning hum
of buzzing marketers and disrupted services.<p>By keeping the front page pure, it may be possible for a few <i>good</i> pranks to actually surprise and entertain.<p>Thank you.
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Title: Instead of saturating the frontpage with April Fool's pranks, why don't we keep all the jokes under this thread?<p>It works just like a subpage for just April Fool's pranks.<p>* Submit your link with comment.
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Title: I would love some feedback!
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Title: Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location and whether remote work is a possibility.
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Title: Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.<p>Also see: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2013) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5472748
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Title: My 5th grade daughter is on Spring Break this week. I'd really like to expose her to the basics of coding, and start planting some seeds. Any resources?
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Title: This is just a friendly note/advice/rant to everyone responding to the HN Who's Hiring listings.<p>I've been asking around and I hear the same thing over and over again from people/startups/companies that list their positions in the HN Who's Hiring: applicants are putting zero effort into their emails.<p>Just in the past hour, I have personally received 8 responses for a business development position that were simply "Hi, saw your listing on HN, here is my LinkedIn. Call me."<p>Guys, this kind of email does not get you hired. It will especially not get you hired when your LinkedIn profile is set to super private and the only thing I see is your picture. Even worse is when you don't even bother to send an email to the poster directly and it's instead just BCC all the emails in the Who's Hiring thread. And even worse is when you apply for a position that's not even the one being offered. Take the time to actually read the posts: just because a listing contains the word "developer" does not mean it's a <i>software</i> developer. Business Developer != Software Developer!<p>Some friendly advice: if you at least click on the links in the posts, take a look at the startups' sites, and just mention in your email "I see your product/service X, and think it's interesting" the value of your email and the chances of getting contacted in regards to the job shoot up infinitely more.<p>HN Who's Hiring is not CraigsList. It's mainly quality people posting because they know there are quality readers looking to get hired. Put a tiny bit of effort into the emails you throw out, it's an investment that will pay back greatly! Remember, this is the first impression you are making on someone who might be your future employer! You're often not dealing with HR staff/agencies, and will be likely directly in touch with the person you'll be working with/for should you be hired. Show some effort, make it look like you at least care.<p>Yes, it's not easy to sit there and read about each of the companies and what they're working on, but it is a hirers' market and if you don't show the initiative and stick out as someone who is earnest about becoming a valuable member of the team, why would anyone bother replying? Especially when startups are looking for the top talent (whether they need it or not is besides the point), HN is full of A-list developers/founders and A-listers only hire other A-listers. Your "meh, here's my info, you do the research about me and if you're interested call me up" is not the kind of attitude that inspires confidence and will not get you a job.<p>I know for a fact that HN is chock-full of quality talent both hiring and looking to be hired. It is sad that this is the sort of response people posting job listings have been getting. For the sake of the entire community, put a little bit of effort into your email shots. It's better (and is a smarter investment) to look through the listings, get a feel for what companies are working on stuff that would interest you, and spend a couple of hours drafting 10 personalized emails explaining why <i>you</i> are the answer to the question than to simply ctrl+f "developer", ctrl+c, bcc, ctrl+v, rinse, repeat, send.<p>tl;dr if it'll take the company more effort to reply to your email than you put into sending it, you're doing it wrong.
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Title: I'm currently living in SF and working at a fairly prolific late stage startup. I've got a Bachelor's of CS and am a Front End Engineer with roughly 5 years of engineering experience. The first half of those years was spent working full stack, and the last half working very closely with Backbone, jQuery, Require, and other modern JS frameworks. I've launched numerous very successful products, and consistently get nothing but positive remarks in annual reviews.<p>I make roughly 115k a year, which at first seemed like a ton after moving here from a relatively low COL area. Lately though, the combination of looking at my account balances after paying rent + seeing people talk about salaries on HN make me think that I am on the very low end of the pay scale. Combine that with the paltry amount of equity I have and the fact that my company gives absolutely zero bonuses, and it all leaves me thinking that there might be greener pastures in other companies in the Valley.<p>So what's your opinion HN: Are the people paid above the median the vocal minority, or should I reevaluate my situation for more fair compensation?
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Title: I work in the UK. I earn £15000 a year. For a web developer who has 3 years experience and always gets good annual reviews I feel I am underpaid. Normally the best course of action is to start looking for other jobs. But there is a problem... I have a terrible stammer<p>I've had lots of interviews for other positions, infact almost every position I apply for I get an interview for but my stammer that leaves me practically unable to talk in interviews.<p>I've asked my current employers for a raise but because they know my situation and they know my stammer means I interview badly they know I am stuck here.<p>I used to think my code would be able to win these battles for me but I think I'm wrong. What shall I do?
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Title: Since there were high amount of interest on Digital Ocean, ( $10 for 1GB Ram and SSD Cloud ), this may be of interest to some.
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Title: Saddle is a high-performance data manipulation library for Scala.
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Title: Professor Steve Joordens of the Psychology Department at University of Toronto Scarborough<p>has 1700 students fill Wikipedia with plagiarism so he doesn't have to grade papers. When<p>caught, he accuses Wikipedia of illegal behaviour.
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Title: Howdy, gang;
After almost two weeks of sitting in Apple's approval queue, my new app Timebar is finally available.<p>I think it has a pretty innovative UI feature, so I wanted to float it by Hacker News.<p>It's a timer app that turns your Mac's menu bar into a sort of virtual hourglass. Your menu bar starts out tinted blue (or whatever colour you pick) and it slowly drains from right-to-left until your time is up.<p>It works very well for situations where you want to keep track of time, but don't need to be super precise. The menu bar is easy to glance up at, and it doesn't take long to happen subconsciously.<p>Here are a few promo codes. I'd love to hear you you think. :)<p><pre><code> MYE99WJXFW4R
936LKT4MF49W
PLKYNNKH4ETN
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Your pal;
— Mark<p>Web site: http://whimsicalifornia.com/timebar/
App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/timebar/id617829225?mt=12
Twitter: https://twitter.com/timebar
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Title: http://www.angelfire.com/ny/mez51/
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Title: Have tech millionaires pushed the cost of living so high that the working poor are ending up homeless? Bill Moyers, the most subversive show on television according to the New York Times, shows the extremes of wealth and poverty in Silicon Valley.
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Title: I got an Asus few months back, only too find out Nvidia Drivers support is very bad for the graphic chip I have. Bumblebee project used to work for sometime, but its currently not working. Its been a pain since then, I'm running Ubuntu in 2D mode for more than a 2 months, will re-install 13.04 once its out to test my luck.<p>If the attempt fails, then I may be looking for a new laptop. So, which laptops in market has good overall Linux support, especially graphics.
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Title: We're working on our bachelor's thesis and we're looking at what motivates open source developers.<p>There's only one question, please write as little or much as you can. Thank you!<p>https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1MtXwd4kVF6kSuC4q_4rDaUksBRckLaCfgJGP6_JKSnY/edit
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Title: This is my try at a iOS Contacts app replacement.
I was frustrated by the fact that the default application wasn't showing contact pictures in lists, so I tried to design an app that makes full use of the images.<p>Another issue I had with the default app was the number of taps until finding a contact, so I tried to minimize that too using various approaches:<p>- put most contacted people on the main screen (app also proposes new tiles based on number of interactions)
- group contacts (work, family, friends, etc.) then put a group tile on the main screen
- search the contact list using T9 (3-4 taps to locate contact)
- use action tiles to instantly communicate with a contact (phone, SMS, mail) for often contacted people<p>At the moment the app is free, I haven't yet come up with ideas for monetization - if you have any, please share.
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Title: from the Philosophy in a Time of Software discussion list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/philosophy-in-a-time-of-software/SnV8qMUQc3Y
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Title: What would you recommend? What do you use? Do you know of something interesting about to be released?<p>Please, do not recommend me to use Windows or Mac OS, we are not discussing this right now. I am specifically interested to find a nice ultrabook to use for programming on linux.<p>Yes, I am aware of the most popular things like the Dell Linux Ultrabook and the Chromebook Pixel (and I might choose one of them). But yet, someone might know of something better.<p>So here are the rules:<p>1. It's OK if it comes with another OS, as long as it's not very hard to install linux. The hardware must work well with linux. Some minor exceptions are acceptable (eg - not working fingerprint reader)<p>2. Full HD or better.<p>3. SSD<p>4. Keyboard of great quality.<p>5. Good battery life.
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Title: Hi HN,<p>I'm about to pivot my life from using my marketing degree to devoting myself to becoming a Rails developer. My wonderful and analytical wife wants to see some hard data on the number of open junior Rails dev positions vs the number of applicants, or anything of that sort. She's too careful to believe my "everyone says we're in the middle of a Great Dev Drought" protestations.<p>Please help me find the right data. And if you have some anecdotal evidence, we'll consider that too!<p>Thanks a ton!<p>@brainscraps<p>EDIT: Since there is a consensus that having an active GitHub profile is a good thing, no matter how messy, here's a link: https://github.com/BrainScraps
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Title: "You’re not a teenager leaving your homework until the last minute. Professionals go hard early."
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Title: This should be self explanatory, but I'm going to put it out there anyway. If you are going to spam all the freelancers in the "Freelancer" thread each month, asking for a very detailed quote, portfolio examples and an estimate, at least have the courtesy to respond.<p>My time is worth a lot, which is probably why you didn't respond. I don't forget which companies are rude and don't hesitate to tell others about my experience with you. I'm sure the other freelancers feel the same.<p>Thanks
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Title: The Symfony project, an Open-Source project (http://symfony.com/), uses Google Groups to host its mailing-lists. The service is free and we really appreciate it, but for no reasons, Google closed our access to one of our mailing-lists (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/symfony2).<p>That happened a few weeks ago and thanks to some inside people at Google, the mailing-list reappeared. As the admin of the list, I received no email about the closing of the mailing-list, no explanations, and not even an email when the mailing-list reopened after a few days of black-out.<p>I was not happy with this situation but I thought it was just a glitch. But then, some days ago, they did it again. The mailing-list is not accessible anymore, not even by me (the admin).<p>There is no way to get support, no way to get in touch with someone at Google. This is really frustrating. Of course, this is a free service and Google can do whatever they want, but I would at least expect a way to get some kind of support (hell, I'm even ready to pay fot it)... or at least, some kind of email (even an automatic one) telling me what we did wrong (and I doubt that we did anything wrong as the mailing-list is moderated and we are only talking about yet another PHP framework).<p>HELP! How can I get in touch with someone at Google? How can we get by our mailing-list?
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Title: This is the story of how we rewrote our Backbone-powered web application in AngularJS, using nearly half the lines of code. (It is a love story.)
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Title: Hi HN,<p>One of my goals this year is to increase my income by 30-50K. I am currently employed full time and am looking for guidance from the thoughtful and capable HN community on ways to do that. I can code and design. I have been part of a small team running a startup and have worn many hats on the technology and client facing sides. My biggest strength is to be able bridge business and technology. I can talk technology to non technical folks and talk business to technical folks.<p>Thanks for your help !!
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Title: I’m a late 20s female ex-software developer. What happened? Well, not going to go into details, but I ended up with retrograde amnesia about a year ago. The memory of the last 4 years was most heavily affected, which sadly were the most prolific for me in terms of my graduate education and job-wise - I’d worked my way up to an actual developer job, and was doing quite well for myself.<p>It’s been an incredibly difficult year, and I’ve really had very few advocates along the way. My past employer failed to communicate with me properly post-amnesia, and I’m currently in bureaucratic hell trying to work with my University to see if I can retake the classes that I now can no longer remember.<p>I’ll often get something like, oh, jump on CodeAcademy/etc., get right back into things! But it’s not quite that simple. It’s - for back of a better word - downright PAINFUL, and I feel like I need more support going forward.<p>I feel like the best options for me would be some kind of class, workshop, or internship, but I’m having trouble finding the right fit. It’s going to be hard for me trying to find the right level, given that I’ll probably be rolling my eyes at how simple some things are but also getting stuck on relatively basic things until they click again.<p>An internship could be great for me, but I don’t have any contacts, let alone any contacts who would be able to place me at a company that understood my situation. For example, how am I supposed to explain a resume that I know nothing about? It’s pretty unavoidable, and I’d need a company that was understanding about the situation.<p>I just want to make it clear I’m not looking on advice on how to deal with the burden of this, but any advice you would have for me to get back into the field given these bizarre circumstances. Maybe there’s some avenue that I’m just not realizing? Thanks so much!
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Title: In 2004 you stated "I have certain competitors that [...] charge small customers per-user but then there's a "unlimited" license at a fixed price. This is nutty, because you're giving the biggest price break precisely to the largest customers, the ones who would be willing to pay you the most money."[1]<p>Today fogbugz has a "unlimited" license as well as substantially lower per user pricing if buying 150+ licenses.[2]<p>What changed?<p>[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckies.html
[2] https://shop.fogcreek.com/FogBugz/default.asp?sCategory=HOSTEDFB&sStep=stepEnterEmailAddress&fccmp=_buyfb (click the prepay radio button)
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Title: I've long suspected bitcoin was created by a government. Bulletproof protocols usually require peer review, yet there have been zero leaks from the reviewers. Pools of crypto guys who don't leak stuff are usually employed by governments.<p>The part that puzzles me is why a government would do this. I can imagine several possibilities:<p>1. To finance their own black operations.<p>2. Because they thought digital currencies were inevitable, and they preferred bitcoin to some potentially more malevolent form. (Could bitcoin have been worse from a government's point of view?)<p>3. A friend suggested this: because they felt their currency would never become the standard reserve currency, and they felt it was better that no one's be if theirs couldn't be.<p>4. A variant of the above: the US did it because it seemed inevitable that the dollar would eventually lose its place as the standard reserve currency, and better to have it replaced by bitcoin that the yuan.<p>I realize some of these explanations are pretty far fetched, but so is an individual cooking up bitcoin as an intellectual exercise. Whatever the explanation of bitcoin's origin turns out to be, it will probably be pretty weird.<p>Anyone have opinions about these possible explanations, or other ones?
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Title: I've been having intense focus problems (beyond normal distractibility), and each year they get worse. I'm in grad school, and the inability to focus is becoming a huge problem. It takes so much work to get <i>into</i> something. On rare occasion, I'll be able to get into what I'm working on and then I can focus non-stop for 10-12 hours, but it's near impossible to just sit down and get 30 minutes of work done on something. Even those 10 hour sessions require an hour or two to get started.<p>I am looking for advice beyond the normal "minimize distractions". My best attempt has been to go into a plain, featureless room without windows and use a software program that blocks any time-wasting internet site. But I just end up staring at the wall, thinking about other things instead. Or if I start reading a textbook, I'll just fall asleep or read the same line over and over again.<p>I'm not sure exactly what the cause of this is. The bad thing is that the stuff I need to work on is mostly things I'm really interested in (research) although some of it I am not so interested in (classwork). It's very frustrating, and it doesn't feel like it falls in the "normal" range of focus issues anymore. I'm quite certain it's not ADD, because I didn't really have this problem when I was younger.<p>Any help would be greatly appreciated. I know many in the entrepreneur crowd have developed techniques to maintain rigorous focus (otherwise you wouldn't be a very good entrepreneur) so perhaps the HN crowd has a unique solution that may work for me.
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Title: The police are going to need to sort through and catalog thousands of photos and videos. They may not be prepared or have the infrastructure to do this efficiently. Maybe we can build something to help.<p>Some ideas:<p>- A central place for people to upload photos and videos from the event<p>- A system to sort by time and location of the media<p>- Duplicate detection of photos and videos<p>- A forum to discuss the photos<p>- A way to crowdsource tedious tasks. For example: See if person X or item Y is in any of the photos of videos.<p>I'd love feedback on this idea. Would this be helpful? Does it already exist?<p>Edit: Getting lots of great feedback. If you're interested in helping, e-mail [email protected].
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Title: Via email:<p>We're sorry to say we couldn't accept your proposal for funding.
Please don't take it personally. The applications we receive get
better every funding cycle, and since there's a limit on the number
of startups we can interview in person, we had to turn away a lot
of genuinely promising groups.<p>Unfortunately we can't give you individual feedback about your
application. This page explains why:<p>http://ycombinator.com/whynot.html<p>Another reason you shouldn't take this personally is that we know
we make lots of mistakes. It's alarming how often the last group
to make it over the threshold for interviews ends up being one that
we fund. That means there are surely other good groups that fall
just below the threshold and that we miss even interviewing.<p>We're trying to get better at this, but the hard limit on the number
of interviews means it's practically certain that groups we rejected
will go on to create successful startups. If you do, we'd appreciate
it if you'd send us an email telling us about it; we want to learn
from our mistakes.<p>Y Combinator Team
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Title: Curious to see if there are any HN-ers and aspiring entrepreneurs in Delhi/NCR area interested for a meet up this Sunday?<p>Location: Route 04 Connaught Place,
Time: 4pm onwards,
Day: Sunday - 21st April<p>Edit: Please drop your confirmation in comments below.
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Title: There seems to be enough interest[1] for a HN meetup similar to the one at Delhi. Let us meet at my place in Bangalore.<p>Location: 522, 16th Cross, 2nd "A" Main, 6th Sector, HSR Layout<p>Time: 4pm onwards, Day: Sunday - 21st April<p>Please drop your confirmation in comments below. It will be good if people can bring some snacks and drinks to share as well. Please come even if you don't bring anything. :)<p>My phone number in hex is 218EC1161, if you want to reach me.<p>[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5563261
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Title: Jagex, creators of the popular MMORPG RuneScape just launched their beta version of RS3, a purely HTML5/WebGL implementation of their (so far) java based game.<p>I -think- this might be the first huge implementation of html5 in game form, and clearly marks Jagex as even bigger innovators in both the web and gaming industry.
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Title: HN,<p>I've been mostly lurking, semi-active on HN for over 4 years. For most of that time, I've been working on my startup, Learndot. I have always wanted to do a "Show HN" post, but I never thought it was ready.<p>We've now finally launched web signup and using a freemium business model. I feel I can now post and offer something to the community (a new app to try out) and hopefully get good quality feedback.<p>Here's the site: http://www.learndot.com<p>Would appreciate any or all thoughts: From pricing/positioning, to design/performance.<p>The app is written in Sproutcore and backed by an API written in Scala.<p>Thanks so much,<p>Paul
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Title: Swedish citizens are offered free- yes, free- co-location of a Raspberry Pi in fsdata's datacenter in Helsingborg, Sweden. 1Mbit/s, 100GB/month, 0.00 SEK per month.
If you aren't a Swedish citizen, ask your facebook friends to co-locate the server for you.
Don't miss out.
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Title: The bomber suspect threads are disgusting. Smearing people, then back paddling. Cross posting from Reddit for karma whoring here drags this place down. Please stop.
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Title: Here’s a software business model that helps engineers to retain control of their companies and aim for excellence, instead of having everything they build get hijacked by MBAs. It encourages engineers to build profitable companies rather than “get big or go home” (VC).<p>It’ll encourage mid-growth companies. See: bit.ly/16guxvy. I want this thing to generate some Real Technology, and focus on hard problems instead of social media bullshit optimized for instant results. It’s for the mid-risk 10-40%/year growth range that’s underserved by existing finance.<p>An Autonomy Fund’s like so: engineers get a base salary (say $125k) and the investors get a percentage (say 37.5%) of any profits they make. What do they work on? Whatever they want. Their own projects. Consulting. Startups. The fund owns part of it, but they have full autonomy over what they do.<p>One idea here is self-organization. If two teams decide to work together and pool resources, they can. Since they're collectives of autonomous individuals, they don't need to worry about the (morale-killing) processes of merging HR structures and org charts. They just pull together and work.<p>Who’d fund it? I think local governments might. (Am I right? Or off the mark?) It creates jobs, supports local businesses, and may build the next Facebook.<p>I see this as the ultimate symbiosis between cities and tech. They want to make their cities tech hubs instead of having all the action go to star cities. We’d vet programmers, something a non-programmer can't (cf. Design Paradox).<p>I'd aim for top-5% “10Xers”, with initial class size ~28 and a 2-year initial runway ($7 million). If the pilot succeeded, then similar funds could be launched all over the world, and there might be a business in setting cities up with their own Autonomy Funds.<p>Is this something that:<p>(a) local governments would support, and<p>(b) a substantial number of top-5% people would join, even if it meant moving to a small city (~50-250k inhabitants)?
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Title: This is what Stallman wrote right after the suspect was caught.<p>My personal response is:<p>There will always be a situation that is worse or where more people died, but that doesn't mean this isn't a very emotional and trying time for many, where the police and people of Boston were desperate to catch a person throwing explosives and shooting magazines of bullets in their city. Telling people to stay home for a few hours does not seem unreasonable in this situation.<p>Have some decency and respect for the lives lost, and save your opinions for a more appropriate time.
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Title: I thought it was really weird to find the following submission
marked [dead] and was curious if it was due to flagging or if
it was due to you getting a DMCA notice?<p>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5579615<p>[dead] CipherCloud DMCA notice to remove discussion of homomorphic
encryption (stackexchange.com)
39 points by dfc 18 hours ago | flag | 16 comments<p>My bet is it got clobbered by flagging, but if I put on my tin foil hat,
flagging until [dead] may have been caused by abusive flagging.<p>The more important question is whether or not HN has ever received any
DMCA Takedown Notices?<p>You went through the trouble to put a "DMCA" link at the bottom of
nearly every page:<p>https://news.ycombinator.com/dmca.html<p>In reading through the above, it doesn't say anything about publication
of received DMCA notices? It would be great if you published DMCA
notices on the ChillingEffects.org site:<p>http://www.chillingeffects.org/<p>EDIT: It seems the cause of the [dead] was a duplicate post:<p>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5579538<p>But I'm still curious if HN has gotten any DMCA notices?
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Title: I work at NASA creating procedures for spacewalks (EVAs). Typically these procedures include 2 astronauts working outside the space station (called EV1 and EV2), plus a robotics operator inside, and other actions taken by mission control on the ground. All of this is happening in parallel. Sometimes EV1 may be working on a task where all the steps can be done independent of what EV2 is doing, while other times their steps are heavily intertwined. The same goes for robotic and mission control steps.<p>Currently we write these procedures in Microsoft Word. A procedure is basically a big table, with each column of the table being the steps for each entity. So EV1's steps are in one column, EV2's in another, and so on. If EV2 has a step that has to come after one of EV1's steps, then we make sure that the later step is lower on the page than the earlier step. All of this requires a lot of formatting in Word, and we spend too much time dealing with the formatting aspect. Most of these procedures are text with ordered and unordered lists, but there are also images and diagrams.<p>What I'm looking for:<p>- A better method for writing procedures with multiple people working in parallel<p>- Ability to easily see (and diff) the entire revision history<p>- Allow multiple editors. Not necessarily Google Docs-type multiple editors, though. Instead I imagine the procedure would reference individual documents as sub-procedures, and those could further reference more sub-procedures. So each editor could be revising smaller portions of the same spacewalk procedure, but not the same portion at the same time...so a lot like software development.<p>- Bonus if it can also help manage the location of hardware and tools as they're used throughout the spacewalk<p>Is there any such software in existence? If not, is anyone interested in creating such a thing? I'm not sure how much applicability outside spacewalks there this, but there has to be some.
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Title: We're in the midst of putting together a simple Bitcoin tipping bot for HN.<p>It would allow you to tip posters and commenters in the HN community with a simple text command.<p>Is it something you would use?
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Title: Discusses methods to identify profitable algorithmic trading strategies and to understand in detail how to find, evaluate and select such systems.
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Title: This seems like a pretty big deal for a lot of startups. The compliance requirements alone sound like a nightmare. I'm curious why none of the recent articles submitted to HN (from very legit sources like NYT and WSJ) are getting upvotes. Also, it's not like this is a hypothetical - it looks like it's going to be railroaded through very quickly.<p>EDIT: Here are some links:<p>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/23/technology/internet-sales-tax-gains-ground-in-senate.html<p>http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424127887324493704578432961601644942-lMyQjAxMTAzMDIwMTEyNDEyWj.html<p>http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/295431-internet-sales-tax-advances-after-obama-endorsement-<p>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/04/22/carney_internet_sales_tax_is_simply_about_leveling_the_playing_field.html
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Title: Mailbox iOS app is not even using file protection API that iOS SDK provides by default.
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Title: We’re working on Retrospect (http://goretro.co), an app that sits in the background and intelligently records location and audio from your day-to-day interaction with the world. It lets you access your real-world conversations just like you might search your email. Look for things like “conversations with Sarah at Starbucks” or “Baseball games I’ve gone to with my Dad”, then play back the recorded moment.<p>We’re launching sign-ups for our free beta starting today if you’d like to try it out.<p>What do you think? Would you use something like this?
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Title: I know a lot of amazing programmers who have been working for about five years, yet they still make less than $100K. I don't want to end up like them in my career and I was wondering how I could set my career path to earn more.
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Title: Sneak attack: surprise amendment makes CISPA worse, then it is voted and passed a day ahead of schedule. Congress just deleted the Fourth Amendment
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Title: This article presents selected facets of Project Oberon, the latter of [Pascal creator Niklaus] Wirth’s two large system-level design efforts. The leitmotiv of this project was a quote from Einstein, “make it as simple as possible, but not simpler”. And if any further evidence was still needed, Oberon provided the conclusive proof for Wirth’s mastery of The Art of Simplicity.
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Title: Why early stage VC is bad for a SaaS company
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Title: Cached version:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fedu.mkrecny.com%2Fthoughts%2Ftwitter-should-shut-me-down&aq=f&oq=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fedu.mkrecny.com%2Fthoughts%2Ftwitter-should-shut-me-down&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
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Title: Sorry, tickets are sold out.
However, you will still be able to take advantage of great WWDC content.
Stay tuned for exciting announcements on videos and more.
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Title: Are there other viable/hands-off/scalable rails app hosting solutions you'd recommend?<p>What I love about heroku : super easy to deploy and maintain.<p>What I don't love about heroku : poor support, uptime and performance
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Title: Besides HN can you list one website that you go to the moment you get connected.
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Title: When it comes to color, flat design works with a variety of colors, but most commonly designers are choosing to go bold and bright.
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Title: At this rate MRI is gonna be getting most of Rubinius before Rubinius 2.0 shipped.
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Title: The person (or persons) deserve a medal.<p>All I can find is it was built for Outlook Web Access. Nothing more. No names, no nothing.<p>Who's idea was it, and who built it?<p>Anyone know?<p>http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/123475/who-first-created-or-popularized-the-original-xmlhttprequest-msxml<p>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHttpRequest
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Title: Or even $1,000, if you're yet to make $10,000.<p>From an entrepreneurial or self-initiated venture.
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Title: Mozilla Services announces Heka - a tool for high performance data gathering, analysis, monitoring, and reporting.
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Title: Point-and-click adventure with only one scenary!<p>We tried to approach Minimalism trough gameplay. Isolated on a single stage, with a few a possible actions, you must endure trough a 40 days survival until the Sgt. Burden's crew can be rescued. Enjoy the puzzle and stay alive!<p>And let me know if you have escaped the planet!
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Title: Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.<p>Also see: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2013) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5637667
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Title: Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location and whether remote work is a possibility.
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Title: We went over our Rsync.net quota, and this is how they responded:<p>==
This is an automated alert. Your rsync.net filesystem ([removed]) is over quota.<p>Currently you are using 20.318 GB out of 15.0 GB
Please note, your usage includes the combined usage of all your accounts, including
the parent account and sub account(s).<p>This is not a major problem, nor do we insist that you remedy the problem
immediately. However, your account is only allowed a 10% overage before it will be
impossible for you to write additional data to the account. You will never lose the
ability to read files from the account.<p>You may check your quota at any time by running the quota command over ssh:<p>ssh [removed]@usw-s007.rsync.net quota<p>Or you may simply log into your web-based Account Manager, here:<p>https://www.rsync.net/am/dashboard.html?u=[removed]<p>where you may see your usage on the Summary screen.<p>You can remedy this by removing files, increasing your account size, or you can
simply let it be. You can increase your account size using our web-based Account
Manager:<p>https://www.rsync.net/am/dashboard.html?u=[removed]<p>or by emailing [email protected] and requesting a larger account.<p>If you have any trouble checking your quota, or would like to disable these
notifications for this account, please contact [email protected]<p>Thank You,<p>rsync.net Support
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Title: [english version] http://www.bvb.de/?Z%1B%E4%F4%9D<p>Can anyone point to any advantage to have unreadable URLs like on the linked page?
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Title: I can login via Chrome or IE, just not Firefox. This behaviour started very recently - a matter of a few hours ago.<p>Also, for future reference, what is the best way to ask about this sort of problem?
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Title: We know so much about you, and yet, so little. What's your day job? Where do you find the time to do all this writing? Does your site make a significant amount of money? Why do you choose relative anonymity?
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Title: I remember seeing a couple of links in the past about really fast, lightweight web application development frameworks that seem to streamline a lot of things — unfortunately I didn't bookmark any at the time. I'm sure one almost described itself as a Bootstrap for web apps. I'd love to find one or two, but it's proving difficult.<p>I sure most were ruby based — think Padrino.<p>In any case, It'd be nice to see some suggestions from the community here so I can make some educated choices for a couple of small projects I have planned.
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Title: Here are some examples (Dutch so I passed the links through Google Translate)<p>http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mingos.nl%2F&act=url<p>http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hettes.nl%2F<p>http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Flinuxcomputers.nl%2F<p>It's now impossible to buy a Linux laptop in the Netherlands. You <i>HAVE</i> to pay for Windows, even though you don't want to use that OS at all.<p>Seems like we're back to square one. And the worst part is, nobody seems to care. No outcry from the developer community. It's really sad. We don't seem to give a shit about freedom and choice.
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Title: Recently we've built anonymous service for tracking and reporting petty bribery around the world [Web http://bribespot.com , Android http://bit.ly/11dCsIh ].<p>Our contributors mostly come from developing countries, and since law-enforcement agencies in some of those countries are corrupt, we designed our service to provide maximum anonymity for our contributors, e.g. no personal details are collected and no open IP logging taking place (IP addresses associated with submissions are stored in the DB in an encrypted format).<p>The problem is that anonymity opens the door to all sorts of nasty surprises - from spam and abuse to fake reports and blackmail campaigns.<p>How are you guys coping with problems that arise from running anonymous services? Anyone wants to share their experience?
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Title: We're building version control software for Microsoft Office documents that works as well as Git and GitHub do for code.<p>Today, we’re releasing the first component, Draftable for Word, an Office add-in that lets you generate side-by-side diffs, and makes it way less painful to work with Track Changes.<p>Our diffs are designed to look right to humans — instead of machines — showing changes as they might actually have been made by an editor.<p>We'd love to hear your feedback. We’d also love to fix what you find painful about authoring and collaborating on Microsoft Office documents, so get in touch!<p>https://draftable.com
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Title: My favorite professor's take on the ever-increasing "I can't do math" statement.
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Title: Hi,<p>Creator here. I'm sort of reposting the same thing from about 208 days ago. The first version kinda sucked. I guess this is my first lean <i>not-really-a</i> startup experience.
The new version is much better. http://thehorcrux.com/why-i-built-horcrux-app/<p>Let me know what you think,<p>Here are some promo codes:
97HNR6HW4EPH
K9R7KTWPTJJ6
WPM3MK4WXNHY
3P7N9RNPF4M4
3N49NP9P7TR6<p>Cheers,
Suhas Sharma
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Title: I've been working on this tool for a few months. Would <i>love</i> to hear any and all feedback from the HN community and MATLAB/Numpy folks.
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Title: Prototyping just got easier and faster with Designmodo's release of Flat UI Pro, a user interface kit made in the flat design style. The stunning kit contains basic components, glyphs, icons and a variety of buttons and other elements made in the super-trendy style.<p>The Bootstrap-based kit contains everything a designer or developer needs to build a fully-responsive website in no time. (No dual prototyping here!)
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Title: Please check it out. I spent all of 2012 learning to code to launch what would eventually become Uncover. I'm super excited to announce that we're finally live.<p>Here's a blog post I wrote on how we got there and a little story behind the startup: http://spencerfry.com/introducing-uncover
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Title: Hi,<p>This is my brand new project which helps indie iOS/Android devs discover the most profitable phrase niches in Apple App Store and Google Play Market for their apps and monitor position of their apps in markets.<p>Please give me your feedback :)<p>Regards,
Wiktor
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Title: Cloud 66 Team [email protected] via mail123.us2.mcsv.net<p>URGENT:<p>We have just identified a malicious activity on Cloud 66.<p>To protect your servers change your API keys and enable termination protection on AWS accounts you have.<p>We strongly recommend changing all cloud keys.<p>We have shut down the site and will keep you posted.
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Title: She is 21 years old and has an inoperable brain tumor. She is recovering from several surgeries. She has limited body movements, but wants to go back to school. She is unsure as to what she wants to study. I think it might inspire her to visit the campus and see people being innovative/productive in an office setting.
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Title: In my experience as a web developer for the past year, it seems that many clients are shocked by the price for a website where they want specific functionality created just for their business. Why is this?
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Title: I wrote this a few weeks ago and I keep it open on my desktop at all times.<p>---<p>That would be cool. But you know what else would be cool? Actually finishing an idea that you started. How many times do you start to work on something and never finish it? EVERY time. You've been doing this your whole life. Somehow along the way you have learned many things and even became a master in a few different areas. But that is not what you want. You want to create. It's not really creating when you never finish.
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Title: In the last 4 years, give or take, there has been a lot of discussion and work relating to adding features to old or sub-par web browsers.<p>These have been called, variously, “polyfills,” “shims,” and “shivs.”<p>What’s the best term?<p>Well, a shiv is a homemade knife-like implement, such as one created and used in a prison environment. Where’s the word come from?<p>> <i>“a razor,” 1915, variant of chive, thieves’ cant word for "knife" (1670s), of unknown origin.</i> [1]<p>A “shim” is something that raises something up a level — that is exactly what we are doing within an old browser! Origin:<p>> <i>“a slip of wood,” 1723, a Kentish word, of unknown origin. Originally a piece of iron fitted to a plow for scraping soil; meaning “thin slip to fill up a space or raise a level” is from 1860.</i> [2]<p>Similarly, “polyfill” originates from “Polyfilla,” a brand of wall filler (or spackling paste, which is less relevant). That also kind of makes sense: it’s filling a gap (in a wall, and now in provided functionality).<p>Please — two terms is already too many and hurts searchability. Three is absurd. Let’s start with, ahem, <i>cutting</i> out the obvious worst option. Don’t say “shiv” when you mean “shim”!<p>[1]: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=shiv&searchmode=none
[2]: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=shim&searchmode=none
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Title: Every 3.14 years I have this question. I know that changing all highway signs would cost a lot of money and would take a long time. Well, had we started fifty years ago we would have been done by now.<p>When designing mechanical components or circuit boards (or looking at other's designs) one recurring thought is that our fractional unit system might actually cause inefficiencies and increased cost of goods.<p>You can look at an American design product and identify it as such by taking a few measurements. Mechanical designers will think in fractional terms and specify "nice round numbers".<p>For example, a feature might be set to 1/16 of an inch, when, perhaps, a smaller thickness or length would have worked just fine. In this case 1/16 is 0.0625 in, which happens to be 1.5875 mm. Now, a designer working in SI units will probably specify 1.5 mm for the same feature. This doesn't seem like much, but you are talking about 5.5% more material. That's not a trivial amount if you are making a bunch of widgets.<p>We ship liquids in gallon containers. A gallon is 3.8 liters. If we worked with liters, might we buy and ship three liters instead? Perhaps generating less waste?<p>This is a very simple example to illustrate one of the mechanism that might be at play here.<p>Don't know. Just a though in between coding sessions on a fine Saturday evening (Los Angeles).
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Title: I had some spare time this weekend, so I created some simple concepts for Google Glass. What are your thoughts on the soon to be released device?
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Title: I'm asking this on behalf of all those who don't come from a programming background. I often hear you don't need a CS degree to land a job as a developer. This isn't about me specifically, but anyone in a similar situation.<p>My background and a couple relevant links:<p>-28 years old with a Finance Degree from a non-Ivy league school<p>-Spent the last two years living overseas teaching English and learning to code<p>-Fairly well versed in html, css, javascript, and PHP<p>-Just getting started with Ruby<p>blog: http://fajitanachos.com<p>github: https://github.com/fajitanachos<p>stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/users/1180335/fajitanachos<p>Would you hire me (or anyone with similar credentials) for a junior dev position?<p>Also, I wanted to make this a poll but my karma isn't high enough. A simple yes/no would be appreciated.
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Title: Hello from Google!<p>You are the administrator for one or more Google App Engine applications that may be impacted by an upcoming new product release. Google will be releasing a new communications product called Hangouts which users may choose to use instead of Google Talk. The new service does not support XMPP.<p>As a result XMPP bots such as the App Engine XMPP service will not be able to communicate with users who adopt the new service. There are two ways to keep your App Engine XMPP service working for end users:<p>1) Your users may use any chat client that supports XMPP. XMPP clients will continue to work as usual with the App Engine XMPP service.<p>2) End users will be asked to opt-into the new service when it goes live. Note that the go-live date may vary for Google Apps domains. End users and google app domain administrators may choose not to opt into the new system. If they do not opt in they will remain on the current Talk client and there will be no change to their existing functionality, including being able to exchange messages with App Engine XMPP bots. Users who already opted in may toggle back to the old XMPP based chat clients in Gmail.<p>Note that the changes discussed above have no impact on non-Google XMPP clients, which will continue to work as usual with the App Engine XMPP service.<p>If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please don't hesitate to email us at [email protected].<p>Sincerely,<p>The Google App Engine Team<p>© 2013 Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043<p>You have received this mandatory email service announcement to update you about important changes to Google Cloud Platform or your account.
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Title: I'm a 20 something female who just joined a start up in San Francisco. I used to have 9-6 type of job but now I'm finding that I'm working 9-9 most weekdays. How do you find time to meet and date people and also balance time to work out and have other hobbies? And some locals tell me that in San Francisco, everyone just does online dating, is that the SF dating culture?
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Title: This is a project I have been working on for a while now and I would love some feedback.
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