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Sounds miserable. If they'd give you a loaner for the duration it'd be a little better.

I and others have recently had employees at the Apple store encourage us to utilize their no restocking fee policy to effectively get a "free" loaner laptop while ours were under repair.

Maybe Apple should encourage people to do this even when they're having computers from other manufacturers repaired. How often do people end up just keeping and paying for these "free" loaners... ?

Edit: loner -> loaner, Thanks ColinWright!

The blind-upvoting of celebrities on HN is sometimes appalling. This comment totally sidesteps the point of the article. OP is not asking for advice.

You are not being helpful here. She clearly points out "That no matter how tough I get, how thick my skin, the paper cuts still hurt." So telling her to get thicker skin really just adds one more papercut to the pile (and the rest of this thread will heap on a few more).

OP your post is well done and paints a clear picture. Hopefully you and others like you will continue to inspire folks to change.

Surely there are porn sites written in Python.

http://example.com/page and http://example.com/page/ could be totally different pages... So .replace()'ing could silently cause unexpected breakage.

Totally agree. But the article seems to say that you should always acknowledge and support, even if you disagree. And I think that could come off as dishonest in some cases.

HyperMac's response was certainly accusatory, which is probably not good for anyone.

But what if they had just said "We believe our display was not sexist, and we won't be changing anything." Is that any better than "We acknowledge that you think our booth was sexist, and we support anti-sexism in tech, but our display was not sexist and we're not going to change anything" ?

The former at least seems honest, the latter condescending.

Totally. Regardless of whose fault it actually is, you can almost always find something that you can do differently next time.

The question is interesting in and of itself regardless of who the OP is or what research they did.

No one has to let you work offline. You can choose to do so yourself by using offline applications if that's something you care about.

But web-based applications have major advantages to the application provider. First and foremost they have better distribution. I can write an app, and then hand you a link (and you know there's no commitment in clicking, so you do). I can show you why you should use my app on my front page, and then I can give you a demo, all without you having to confirm any "are you sure you want to make permanent changes to your system" dialog.

Now of course one can't easily make the above argument for a mouse driver. But I'm responding to your sentiment that too many things are web connected in general.

The child process could be run inside a chroot jail, or a virtual machine.

Hey dude. Awesome demo. Wanted to be a counter-voice to all the commenters here complaining about having to resize the window to make this work. You've got lots of upvotes so clearly people like your work. The only people commenting are the pessimists.

The resize thing is a cool hack. I wonder if anyone has ever made a game with window resizing as the control mechanism.

Finally, if you do you want to get rid of the resizing, maybe an easy way would be to simulate it by covering the un-animated part of the window with a curtain (Mario style: http://www.flickr.com/photos/shieldsokc/5388817583/).

The phone comes with wireless charging built in. Looks like that's a first. Does it come with a charging pad as well?

I think I'd buy a phone just for this feature.

And this, folks, is one of the reasons yc discourages single founders!

or "wc" <enter> <ctrl-v> <ctrl-d>

Discuss: How do you feel about Gogo's pricing model? According to this article they charge $9.95 if they detect you're on mobile. $15.95 otherwise.

This question is totally loaded. Whether they like you or you like them (which is what the first half of the description discusses) is irrelevant.

The question could be evaluated more objectively if it were just left to the headline: "Is it rude to leave an interview early if you have already made your decision?". The answer is no, of course not, as long as you're don't do it rudely.

From MemSQL's home page: "MemSQL writes back to disk/SSD as soon as the transaction is acknowledged in memory."

From the article: "See, MemSQL also has “transaction-buffer” setting, which, in default “full durability mode” will asynchronously return “ok” until 128M buffer is full (or background log flusher thread writes it out)."

So which is it?

What's your go to language now?

HN is about interesting discussion, and this article has generated that, so maybe it has just the right amount of upvotes?

You have to "easy_install readline" into your virtualenv along with "pip install ipython" to get ipython's control characters working (otherwise ipython outputs what looks like garbled text). readline is easy_install'd rather than pip'd to because easy_install'd libs end up at the head of sys.path.

They did help start this: http://www.climatesaverscomputing.org/about

What was your experience?

Semantics.

:)

A meme has to start somewhere.

I actually love how divisive this is. Folks on reddit told me I'm a terrible person: http://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/syov0/i_made_memek....

Honestly, why does it matter if people use a term differently than you if they're just having some fun?

Awesome. I'll shoot you an email.

Thanks! I think so too.

But... From what I've seen so far initial users will create a few images of their friends and then post them back to Facebook. But the incoming traffic from those Facebook links doesn't seem to get people signing up. So in marketing speak the viral coefficient is too low.

Here's an example of the landing page: http://www.memekit.com/im/d1bbe86c-3333-4d0e-bcf0-d0641c57b2...

I need to get more people clicking through to it from Facebook, and more people clicking "Start Meming" on that page. So I'd really love to here from HNers who have ideas.

Here's my newest creation. A fun little app that's really my first attempt to make something viral.

I'd love to hear feedback from anyone who knows how to drive FB app traffic. For example one thing I learned is that I probably should have made it a Facebook canvas app. True?

Any other feedback is much appreciated as well.

From the article, it looks like they don't actually post. They create the post, but it's up to the user to click the send button.

That's a good example and it does suck. Sounds like enterprisey java-land that we HNers love to hate on so much.

Can you provide a concrete examples?