antoinec

I'd be really curious to know which contracting company you worked for. What you are stating is not true: when you are transferred back to the contracting company (for whatever reason), if they are still your employer, this company has to pay you. Even if you don't work for a client. This is not that uncommon actually to be in that kind of situation. However, contracting companies are well known to be really hard on their contractors (especially developers), if they saw that you would believe that you wouldn't get paid unless you work free extra hours, that doesn't surprise me that they'd use that. But it would never have happened. In France, work laws are much more in favor of the employee, they would never have gotten away with not paying you.

The site looks great! What's the goal of the tactics? I've passed one but couldn't figure out why I "won". Is it just supposed to make me learn what a good move would be in a random situation? If it's the case it's fine, but I think it should be better explained.

You won't have a single serious customer that is going to hijack the back button. So, if you want to do a legit business, you better stop offering this option. While it's an "ethical" choice, it's also a question of what kind of customer you want to have. Moreover, I think Google penalizes websites that prevent user from going back to a search result they provided (not completely sure though).

Are you overriding the back button to show an offer when clicked? Or do you show the offer before the click by tracking the mouse position?

To me, the strict definition would be "purely self made". But I guess it's reasonable to say that a company that has been around and very successful for 8 years, without external investment , is bootstrapped.

It's definitely not a programming language at all. But for young kids it's much more appealing to create a web page with colors and animation than a calculator in Python. And that's the goal, not make them able to program, but show them what are the possibilities.

And, on the teacher's side, it's going to be easier to teach most of them HTML rather than a real programming language.

"In return for funding the renovation, Nippon TV received the exclusive rights to photography and video of the restored art, as well as photos and recordings of the restoration process" http://mentalfloss.com/article/54641/reason-why-no-photograp...

I guess that some features like 'push to deploy' would not work anymore then.

I think it all depends of your goals, if you learn to cook in order to impress your friends, no you probably don't need chemistry lessons, but if you plan to win 3 Michelin stars for your restaurant, you probably need to. Same for programmation, if you just want to ease your work, compute quickly some math formulas, etc, you can start with Python. But if you plan to write the next big OS, you better start with C...

Uber said they would purchase few self driving cars: http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/25/uberauto/

which translates into $10M I think

- That's a disingenuous position which is not being advocated by anybody. Mozilla are free to hire him; in turn, the community is free to object loudly about his views.

Asking his resignation for something that has strictly nothing to do with the job he has been chosen for is not right. The fact that Mozilla's community is asking it doesn't change that. Members of this community base their opinion only on their own ethical and/or political point of view, which makes the general opinion completely biased. Asking his resignation because of his ethical/political views makes as much sense as asking it for religious reason: people get angry about it, and most of them can't even argue about it properly (I'm saying this for all sides). There is a board for a reason: to make rational decisions based on the work they think he'll be able to do. And it seems like they think than a donation made 6 years ago didn't alter his ability to do this job...

But if you really want to boycott him, you should not block Firefox browsers from visiting your site, as it's more the product of a community than a single man, but you should stop using on it the language he created (Javascript).

20 times more votes for "hero" than for "traitor". Wow, I wasn't expecting that at all on HN...what a useful poll, thank you.

The most amazing thing to me about this is that it took that much time to get to this software.

The difference is the way it took to get where they are, technically speaking. On one side, they chose to architecture their SDKs/APIs in a way for some reasons, after some thinking. And they are going to keep improving on it in a consistent way. Same thing for customer support. On the other side: "Hey, it works for them, let's not think, throw $10M and do the same!", but I don't think it's possible to improve the product when you just rely on the innovation on someone else. Until now, the only valid reason that made people chose Paymill was that they were available in Europe, but Stripe is going to change that soon.

One other good example to show how good rocket internet is: Here is a french website: http://www.adopteunmec.com/ (you can translate it by "adoptaguy.com") And here come RI in Germany: http://www.shopaman.de/, looks familiar?

I don't even know how to argue with that...can't do anything against bad faith I guess

What the purpose of studying something then, if at the end you still don't understand it?

"MVP" => Minimum Viable Product (at least here). You just showed the "M" part. I don't see how it's actually possible to misunderstand the fact that it should be a bit more than that.

And I would have love to read a comment of someone who actually tried to understand the article before posting.

I think you need to read that: http://www.rudebaguette.com/2013/05/28/stop-blaming-the-ecos...

You are not downvoted because people think it's a "rant against Koudetat" but because what you are stating in your post is completely wrong

Thanks for telling me that you are not available in my country AFTER I register....

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I might have missed something (if so please tell me), but the only mention of Kim Dotcom is "Check the first album ever released on Baboom, Good Times by Kim Dotcom", and it's saying what it's saying... and not that Kim Dotcom is actually behind the service.

There is the pretty much the same concept in Paris, except that you pay per hour. http://anticafe.fr/en

They have plugs all over the place and the wifi is much better than in any other cafe, which makes it a really nice place for working.

"There is plenty of space for non tech founders." In the tech startup ecosystem, I don't think there is that much space for founders that don't want to code. Saying "I want to start a tech startup but I don't want to code" is as ridiculous as saying "I want to sell horses but I don't know anything about them and I certainly don't want to have to learn anything about them". It's possible, but you're gonna have a hard time doing it...

Agree, never accept a job in a company that favors minorities during a recrutement process. You'll never know if you have been accepted only for your skills or because they think that you will make them look better with you on the company picture.

...and this spaces are full of people that are doing their job by passion and not because they don't have the choice, right? This is sad to read such a comment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analogy might be useful to the author of this article.

Technically it's very cool, but I'd never use something like this to actually learn how to code an iphone game.

I'm a developer, I've done some C but I've never wrote an iphone application in Objective-C.

Seeing "Your game will be written in Objective-C, the language that is used to write all native iPhone apps" I first assume that your target is people that want to learn how to code an iphone game with no programming knowledge (I think I can safely assume that every programmer knows that you are using objective-c to develop native iphone applications).

From this point of view, there a lot of things that I find bothering: On the first screen: "Go ahead and create a class-scope variable int screenHeight; right above the line @implementation GameplayLayer but below the #import lines. ". But why here ?? What is "#import" ?? And what "@implementation GameplayLayer" does ?? Then you explain what "[CCDirector sharedDirector]" is but not why I have to put a second level of '[' around this.

Later: "Notice the asterisk. We will cover later why you MUST declare anything that isn't a primitive with an asterisk, for now just take our word for it". Again...I want to learn how to code, but I'm told to write something without asking too much questions about it...

Then finally I see a "Basic Syntax" section...is there anybody still around?

So after these few pages, I really don't understand who you want to get to use your application:

- Developer with basics knowledges of programming? I'm one but when I'm trying to learn something and I see "Write this things, we'll cover it in the chapter 35, section F", I don't really want to continue. I want to learn and understand what I'm doing.

- Developers with basics knowledges in Objective-C that want to specifically learn how to make a game? Well, when you explain at the first page what Objective-C is, your are going to lose them all.

- Non-developers that want to learn? Do you really think that they can learn by writing code and executing it without understanding anything ??? I don't. It's too complicated to make them understand without basics knowledge? Then, send them to a tutorial that covered the necessary basis and thell them to come back after.

I also thought that the goal wasn't too learn to code anything but just to "build an iPhone Game in your browser", but then why even bother myself to write code? Could I just have a nice interface when I can drag & drop my ships please?

So, I'd like to know what is the profile of a typical user that would do the entire tutorial, and get some benefit from it: ie you give him xCode and he gives you back a game (or even something that works).

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