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Yes, it is a moving target, but you can still get it to a very solid good level. In the past it's always been a few years between updates, and they have version details in the files, so you can say "Supports Word 2007 files" and not worry about Word 2016.

I've written a bunch of Perl code (that I should open source.. maybe some day. anyone here'd find that useful?) for creating and editing docx files. It's not that hard -- it's all XML!

EDIT: I was using a LibreOffice daemon before, but I did this code just because Libre had so many bugs / missing features when converting a document to docx.

They're also XKCD/806 compliant!

http://xkcd.com/806/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrews_%26_Arnold

Why the fsck are all of you people commenting running OSX? We were fighting for a free, open OS, remember?

I really can't understand why hackers, coders, etc are happy to sign up to the shit Apple are doing. I do understand that "normal" people love Apple, but I just can not understand why coder people, who grew up learning to code in a GNU world (like me) can succumb to go Apple.

Check out Bittorrent Sync, http://labs.bittorrent.com/experiments/sync.html

Looking forward to it!

"Back in the year 1999 Microsoft released it's"

its

I think one core problem with Mulholland is that it was supposed to be a tv series. After some time of filming, they realized that wasn't going to happen (not sure why), so they had to wrap it up to make a movie instead. ddg for more details.

10 years ago, while at university, me and 2 other guys implemented a new network protocol (dccp) in the FreeBSD kernel. Later, someone ported it to Linux and gave us some credits.

I got my name in the Linux kernel source code, without having submitted any code.. </2 seconds of fame>

Not all cancellations will have been because of the NYT piece, so no, he can't be certain how many car orders were cancelled because of it.

Also, there is probably a feeling that some would-be orders were not placed because of the article. Quite hard to quantify that.

I personally live in London and love it, but if your main market is New York (for whatever it is you do) it seems sensible to be nearby.

> people generally have a good idea in mind of what they're going to buy

If I may, could I suggest another possibility;

People know, and trust, Amazon.

"I can't load the shopping site. Maybe it'll work if I reboot."

It's quite different for a site that's not as well known as this one.

I think it very much depends on what your MVP is, what your goal with it is.

My stance here is where the goal of the MVP is to get investment money. You're not showing your MVP to random users. You want to build something that "works" quickly, then get money to build it "properly". You have a good idea and you want to attack a certain market; but, you don't want to spend year(s) building a product and hope you can grow slowly. Your aim is to prove to investors that; you're a good team, you have a solid concept, with money you will gather a team and build this product.

In this case, I think you can(/should?!) skimp on the unit tests. The code will be thrown away after a few months of its inception.

There are of course many different MVP situations, this is just one small avenue.

I disagree. I like TDD, but if you're quickly building a MVP that has beforehand been decided(1) to be thrown away once you've gotten funding, just hack it like you've never hacked something before. You're aiming to prove a concept, to visually display your idea.

(1 - do make sure the non-technical people in the group really really really understand this)

I've never met anyone thinking Stella Artois was a microbrew. Interesting to learn this about Blue Moon though.

Catching up to what? Catalyst was first released early 2005.

For the UK, perhaps GoCardless is an option? https://gocardless.com/paylinks

As opposed to the United States of Murdoch (?!)

I do Perl on a daily basis, and I can't remember when I last blessed a ref.

use Moose;

If you want to work with Perl, http://jobs.perl.org/ is always a good place to look.

I've not used it yet, but I would still like to add GoCardless to this list.

https://gocardless.com/

Perhaps they're not censoring much, but in Sweden you're constantly wiretapped.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FRA_law

Don't mix language and location. I might be in Spain but I might want to chat in Finnish.

For language, yes, allow the user to set it. However, you can probably use the Accept-Language http header to get the right language for most users.

Not sure what this does on HN. Perhaps people don't know Maddox?

Here's an old classic where he's judge art work done by other kids on the internet; http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=irule

Random hate mail; http://maddox.xmission.com/hatemail.cgi?p=1

Um...yes, it is. Take any 10k+ employee company, can you as a company guarantee that no employer will "do no evil"? That's impossible.

I'm not trying to defend Google here, but just saying that an act made by an employee at a company is equal to a given strategy by the same company is just ludicrous.

I somewhat agree, but on the flip side - if they had had a "standard political party" name, I doubt they'd had any traction when they were getting started, and not gotten to the European Parliament at all. Remember that the major increase in membership count happened around the time the Pirate Bay founders were in court.

I'd say Ocado is good! Would love for them to have an API though..

Ignoring this "joke"; If you're looking for a light-weight MVC framework, try Backbone.js. It's rather nice.

Yes, I can/do not deny the power of the irony gods.

awful idea, yes, I agree, but real world is full of awful ideas. You can either accept it and adapt, or be drowned by it.

I've seen a lot of this.. I don't believe in it.

You don't give reasons for using an ORM in your code, do you? You just do it as part of your development work. It's nothing that's being questioned by PHB's.

Writing tests is (or should be) part of your development work.

Make sure you include the time it takes to write the tests in your "time estimate".