When I saw "If this then that" I instantly knew what IFTTT was. However, when showing it to people I noticed they "got it" after seeing the recipe "If the forecast calls for rain tomorrow, send me an SMS message."
Hmm... I have 31 purchases from newegg and returned 25 of those purchases with 0 problems. That's 80% return rate with 100% satisfaction.
I'm glad we hold companies accountable as consumers, but why do we focus on one employee's action without forgiveness? The issue was resolved, get over it. I'm tired of rant articles being posted to HN.
> I bet this is the last Mac Pro. If you wanted to kill a product line, an “update” like today’s would be a good way to clear out parts and keep selling to a few desperate buyers for a bit longer without any real investment.
Apple's products build off one another. Apple is not going to kill the Mac Pro line because the iPad and iPhone would suffer.
With Chrome you should block all plugins, not just Java. You will still be able to watch a YouTube video by 'right' clicking the plugin's element and choosing 'Run This Plug-in'. Steps:
Settings | Under the Hood | Content Settings... | Plug-ins -> Block All
If you selectively disable plug-ins in Chrome you won't be shown the Plug-in element and won't be able to select 'Run This Plug-in'.
jimmyjazz14, I too worked for a large Fortune 200 company until moving to SV and working for a successful startup.
"working at a large company has meant I get to focus solely on the thing I care most about, programming"
There is a difference in just programming and efficient programming. You might be surprised how much time you spend doing unneeded programming that could be done more efficiently.
"plus I get a steady paycheck"
There's almost no risk at a successful startup. I remember people worrying about restructuring or layoffs at the large company... here everyone is too busy solving problems to worry about layoffs.
"It has also allowed me to learn a lot of new and interesting concepts (particularly dealing with scale) that one generally only finds in really large companies."
There are few large corporations where individual programmers actually deal with scale and if they do it's usually using old patterns. The successful startup I work for now has me dealing with(as a team) more 'big data' scale problems than I ever did working at a large corporation. I am also able to use newer technology and design patterns to solve those scale problems where the large corporation already had a standard outdated solution.
Bottom line, you don't have to settle for a large corporation to get job security and challenging problems when many successful startups offer the same benefits. I was a passionless drone working at a large corporation and since moving to SV I have never looked back.
Right on! This should be titled "How not to sell software that costs under $1000 in 2012" because the do/don'ts obviously are wrong for non-cheap software.
I wrote 169,020 lines of code in 9,691.25 hrs over 4 yrs from 2007-11 for a part-time job while going to school.
That's 17.44 lines per hour or 0.29 lines per minute, not including code written for school or leisure!