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I'm hoping that Mozilla's upcoming paid browser will open a market for browsers and browsing software.

You can definitely compete with the likes of Mailchimp. It's a big market.

My employee returned his first laptop because of this issue, and now his replacement laptop is having the exact same problem.

He's 2/2 with this issue. The statistical likelihood of that if the issue only affects a small percentage of laptops is very low.

I agree. Especially in sessions focused on the process of writing code, such as the original Rails demo, I find live coding to be very engaging.

I'm blocked behind a paywall.

I've built a few Electron apps now, one of which I use quite a bit to track ticket prices in secondary markets.

It's a great prototyping environment, and people have built businesses around Electron apps (VSCode is built on Electron, I believe). The apps I've built are big, kinda slow, and as others have mentioned tend to eat memory.

The Hardware/Software Interface from the University of Washington (previously offered on Coursera). As a non-CS major, it gave clarity to a lot of the magic that happens when you write code. Fabulous course. https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse351/

Commenting to follow this thread. And if I may add a question: Are there such things as javascript tutoring services?

Does anyone know a low-fee way to buy Ethereum?

Although having perspective is important, nothing the original poster says implies he/she lacks perspective. Your advice is off topic, and implies he/she should take the $100k without giving reasons as to why or why not beyond a description of your own personal situation. That's why it's bad advice.

Did you read this on your iPhone? :)

Just kidding; I'm tired of hearing these things too.

I own a semi-attached house in Toronto that I purchased last May with my fiancee. I have a few critiques of this article related to the context it places Toronto's housing market, and some of the souped-up language used.

Why compare the Toronto housing bubble with that in Japan or the US? You don't have to look further than Toronto for a direct comparison; [housing prices in Toronto decreased by 40%](http://www.torontocondobubble.com/2013/02/toronto-housing-bu...) between 1989 and 1997.

Second, a bully offer is not an "aggressively high" offer by definition. A bully offer is simply an offer that is submitted before an agreed upon offer date. He offers no evidence to his argument that houses are going for 6-figures above the asking price.

Last, ideally these statistics would have been given in context. Don't pull two historical housing bubbles and then compare their growth to Toronto's. Rather, pull all fast growth housing markets and compare their behaviour to Toronto's. In other words, how often is this growth not a bubble?

I'm 32 years old and consider myself very fortunate to be able to own in Toronto. This will allow my family to live in the city I love. Many of my friends are facing the choice where if they wait and growth continues they'll may be priced out permanently, but if they buy into the market they may be sitting on a bubble. There was tons of bubble talk when we bought, but we were more worried about being priced out.

Allocating time between sales activities and product development to optimize growth and retention.

I've brought on some part-time help for the sales end, but ultimately the difficult factors to balance are:

  - My desire to grow as quickly as possible.
  - I'd like to retain all of my clients.
  - I want to have a very high client satisfaction. 

We have had a few complaints/suggestions from our user base, and like all of you we have had some feature requests. These need to be addressed, but it's also a solid MVP and very sellable. Determining whether and how to invest my time in product vs growth is an ongoing challenge.

TL;DR It will make you more money. There are many ways to integrate React with Rails. To get started do the React tutorial and buy my book.

How is this different from Shiny? I couldn't quite tell.

This is awesome.

"_____ (some person I have never heard, usually a marketer) is now following you." Two days later, they're gone. This is a huge proportion of my push alerts from Twitter. It's simple for me, far too much of the content has far too little value.

ITT: People who have not used IBM Watson for something productive..

Well done sir!

Soliciting the levels of financial investment needed for Cruise to be successful would be difficult if the founders expressed the same sentiment, that they're trying to solve a problem regardless of the payback.

I don't think any business is immune to legal trouble. I sincerely hope you don't experience any yourself (ever), but if you do you may find yourself using similar language.

as u/dotBen has said, this type of language is common in court filings. Put differently, although it seems abnormal to read this type of language for us, it would be abnormal for a judge to not read this kind of language in a legal complaint.

It's not the way I wish the world operated. However, it looks like they have legal counsel that will do what's required to win.

Hi Sam. Not sure if you'll read this, but thought I'd take a moment this morning on the off chance you might.

I just wanted to say hi, and say thanks. 5-6 years ago I came to realized how much I enjoy creating/making things, how little that process resembled work for me, and shortly later after reading Paul Graham's essays felt like I had finally found a community that who shares my interests and values.

Although my background is in mathematics I've spent much of the past 6 years in coffee shops during evenings and weekends teaching myself to code and bringing my projects to life. Equally important has been my business education during this time. I now view business as a means to spend more of my time in that creative space, and creating successful business as an equally enjoyable engineering challenge.

So thanks. Thank you to you for the countless videos, the (awesome) recent lecture series, the Stanford Entrepreneurial talks, and for curating this community. Thank you also to Paul and Jessica, from whom I continue to learn so much as I try to get to the essence of the deeper, most important questions in life. Thanks to you all.

Well, it's Saturday morning which means Pam and I are off to the coffee shop - her to write and me to code. Although my current project/business (that I'm super excited about!) doesn't lend to a startup-style investment growth model, hence no immediate YC application forthcoming, I hope one day some context will exist where I can thank you in person.

Have a great day.

"You have reached your article limit." Disappointing.

Without a court order, at least.

I was at this event. It was hosted at the Empire Club of Canada in Toronto and featured the two authors of Losing The Signal: The Spectacular Rise and fall of Blackberry, interview Jim Balsillie. Jim was excellent; gracious, humble, insightful, kind. These were my big takeaways (very loosely quoted):

On hiring: Q. How did you attract talent to the small city of Waterloo? Jim: We found kids that were excited to come to the BIG city of Waterloo. Small town Valedictions. I love hiring them. Give them two years to mature and they'll knock your socks off.

On the iPhone début: Jim: Perhaps overlooked was the significance of having the exclusive deal with ATT. Steve Jobs used to describe the carriers as the "four orifices" - everything had to go through them. This partnership was far more significant than people realized.

On Blackberry: Q. What phone do you have in your pocket? Jim: I have a Blackberry, I read my newspaper every morning on a Blackberry Playbook. I love them both, and you'll have to pry them out of my cold dead hands if you want me to change!

A few things I wasn't aware of (from Jim): - In it's heyday, RIM (Blackberry) was the fastest growing company 5 years in a row. - There was a patent battle that nearly killed RIM (Blackberry) in it's early days, before they major growth (I would like to read more on this).

Great session.

In August of this year I walked into a job interview for an entry-level'ish Rails dev position at a start-up. Already having a great job in education, I made clear that I was weak in testing and needed a plan to patch things up. I'm now very confident with testing using MiniTest. Here're my 2 cents:

- Build something super easy (<4 hours), using Test-Driven Development. The example I used was a URL shortener.

- Rebuild one of your existing apps using Test-Driven Development. If you're wondering where to get started, watch videos titled "creating a simple app using ____ and TDD", or even consider calling the Rails hotline.

- Get someone to look at your test code for you. I learned a ton from this, I can't even begin.

- Use MiniTest. RSpec is amazing, but I found MiniTest to be more transparent as to what was actually happening.

- Check out the codeschool and codeacademy tutorials. Very helpful.

Best of luck. It's a very difficult topic, one that I really struggled with.

Thanks so much Willem!

wvanbergen, forgive me for veering off topic. I'm planning on applying to Shopify (Toronto) as a software developer before the end of the weekend. Any advice you're willing to share?

My favourite comment ever on HN :)

Oh... to be Canadian... I still get redirected to http://www.vizio.com/en-ca/.