clscott

It's never going to go away at that rate

Enough to make it worth your while, what that means is entirely up to you.

Didn't they just invent a new synonym for "second"?

i.e. Take the second left. Do you want to go out on the second weekend from now?

The syntax proposed has problems. Many languages allow you to declare nested data structures and a natural way to express an array of arrays in swift would be the following:

  let a = [[1,2,3],[6,7,8]]

There's a regex character class for that

Alphabetical only? $value =~ /[[:alpha:]]/

Ascii only? $value =~ /[[:ascii:]]/

http://perldoc.perl.org/perlrecharclass.html#Bracketed-Chara...

Congrats!

You may have already lost this battle by allowing it to be an option. If you really didn't want to do it you should have either:

0. Not offered it as an option 1. Priced the option off the table (i.e. 10-100 x the next closest option)

High pricing either makes the customer not consider the option or is enough money to totally make it worth your while.

Also:

1. Why do you not want to do it? 2. Why do they want to do it that way?

What alternatives have you laid on the table that satisfy the majority of their needs within their budgetary constraints?

That's exactly my argument against it, it's less skimmable

You're already charging money for the service. If your issue is too many users then charge more money, if the issue is not enough users find more or charge more. Targetting only Pebble users is a really small niche.

The only way to be fair to your customers is to make enough money to keep the service they love alive.

It is rare, but it does happen. Over the last 4 years I've help to build up a 10 person development team (from 3) having never met any of the candidates before hiring them.

I didn't meet anyone else from the company until a year after I had already been working here.

The interview process is just needs to be fairly rigorous. Our preference is to hire within Canada because of:

* Timezones * Government incentives * Payment/Tax/Accounting hassles have already been sorted

But that doesn't mean we'll pass up great candidates in other locations.

We're hiring Modern Perl developers right now :

http://jobs.perl.org/job/18026

My third was born a year ago and our other two were 3 and 18mo at the time.

I ended up buying a used Dodge Grand Caravan with captains seats in the middle row. Any of the minvans will work. We did a lot of research into different vehicles and car seats as my wife was opposed to the minivan.

Part of the appeal is that there is enough room to change a kids diaper on the floor with all the doors closed (extremely useful for those winter road trips). There is also enough room for an adult to comfortably sit in the back if necessary.

If you look carefully you can find a lot of discussion on this exact topic.

HTH

Seek counselling either with a professional recommended by your doctor or with a community group like Rageaholics Anonymous.

Don't wait, contact someone before you talk yourself out of it.

We're still using Skype and starting to introduce irc.

One main advantage that Skype had going for it was a little known feature on the Mac Skype 5 and 6 clients: ChatStyles [1]

The Mac Skype client used a copy of webkit to render the conversations and at one point provided instructions to let you hook into that and style the conversations the way you like with HTML templates, css and javascript.

We took advantage of this feature it to add communication short cuts, the main example being that if someone typed #1234 in a chat and the person receiving the message was using our ChatStyle #1234 would become a clickable link to the appropriate bug in our issue tracking system.

Skype silently killed this feature in an update a few weeks ago, so our thought is to go with IRC and and use an IRC bot that can provide these kinds of shortcuts.

If there is another chat system that allows you to customize these kinds of things, I'd love to hear about it.

[1] http://joemiller.me/2011/05/24/alternative-skins-for-skype-5...

There must be a few (I am one). There are a few gatherings for like minded individuals such as http://teamcamp.ca and http://startupottawa.com. Also there are many meet ups advertisedon meetup.com

You wouldn't do the following?

   :% s/_/_Class_/

Explained: On each line replace the first '_' with '_Class_'

I have had no experience doing this myself and I can only echo the other sentiments that you speak to an attorney; it's something that would likely be too risky without one.

File the necessary paper work to get their patent invalidated due to prior art?

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

Hopefully it would be easier/cheaper than a protracted head to head lawyer battle.

What about his job prevents him from being open about it.

Watch out for IP clauses in his employment contract that mean his employer is now your uninterested business partner.

You mention news and magazine sites, they are very topical and change out almost all of their content on a regular basis. Your site very definitely doesn't do that and but should.

An easy to find example:

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/index.html

This is what your home page looks like now, except I'd have more "fresh" content and less duplicate content.

Additionally, under each of the three feature images/stories I'd include the first paragraph from that article under the image with a meaningfully named link to the article.

Try to reduce the duplicate content, for example you have the same article teaser for "2012 Topps Heritage Baseball Cards" image,headline,paragraph on your home page and at least two other pages:

* http://www.cardboardconnection.com/baseball/ * http://www.cardboardconnection.com/sports-cards-sets/

And it;s the only content on those secondary pages. Google will definitely frown on that.

If you have fresh content, you should be using it.

On your second level pages put your most recent article teasers on the page (The teaser is the image/headline/first paragraph combo) like on the third level pages, do your best to bubble the actual content up.

I visited your site and it "looks" like a link farm.

There is no content on your homepage, it's 100% links.

I also visited your top level pages (clicked on Baseball,Football etc) and they are 90% links.

You need to move some actual content to those pages. They should at the very least having have content similar to the third level pages (like http://goo.gl/3RFqI).

You seem to have new articles on a regular basis, having fresh real content (not just links) on your 1st and 2nd level pages can only help, especially if your external inbound links are pointing to those pages.

My $0.02

Good luck, you have an interesting price point but currently a too limited feature set.

I'm a huge fan of Divvy and it is worth the $14. http://mizage.com/divvy/

Disclaimer: I am not associated with the company

In the past I have used an Aeron for about a year. The Mirra comes very close to the adjustability and I would say is just as comfortable.

I'm not surprised. After serving as a maintainer of both the main perl client side api (http://search.cpan.org/dist/WWW-Facebook-API) and one production application I have to say the Facebook platform sucked[1] for its instability, lack of regression testing, lack of roadmap for new feature or fixes for major bugs and lack of a testing framework for client apis.

Now, this was 2 and 3 years ago they may have cleaned up the mess since but I don't think so after poking my head in a time of two over the last few months.

[1] It sucked to worked with but was an undeniable success for them and those that we able to dedicate the resources to keep up to the constant churn and downtime

I have been using a Mirra fulltime for more than 2 years. When my former employer was getting new offices and furniture, I piggybacked on their chair order so I could get a discount on two chairs for the home office.

I now work from home and think it was one of the best investments I've made in myself. The chair is very comfortable and they adjust very well for tall or very short people (my wife).

Rating: Would buy again

I'd charge a standard consulting fee for the effort involved in rebranding and building the client's version of the app and charge them $.66 (your price - apple's cut) per download for the lost sales.

Now, if you think one of the following may be true: 1) there may not be many downloads 2) there may be issues getting paid regularly I'd get a lump sum to cover the lost download revenue.

The marketing campaign should have a targeted # of impressions (i.e. downloads) so you should be able to get that number from your client and multiply by the $.66 to come up with the lump sum.

If you want to take Aqua_Geek's approach which doesn't take into account your lost income going forward I would see if I could add a differentiating feature to the original app and release it soon after their version of the app goes live, this way there is a reason for someone to purchase your app even if they have already installed the other one.

EDIT: fixed some grammatical errors and removed some duplicate information

Tracking GST/HST isn't that big of a deal, and you are only required to do so once your annual revenues exceed $30K.

http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/E/pub/gp/rc4022/README.html

We're looking for:

  + perl backend developers http://jobs.perl.org/job/13680
  + javascript front end developers http://peter.michaux.ca/articles/wanted-javascript-developer

The job ad says you're required to be eligible to work in Canada but that's just a nice to have for us. If you're qualified you can work from anywhere you want.

It's not just in response to Apple, the timing is just fortuitous, O'Reilly's Tools of Change ( a publishing industry conference ) is on in New York this week and it was probably timed to coincide with that event.

Another avenue is to find mailing list and google groups for either the technology you're using or the business that you're in.

For example there is a jobs.perl.org for finding perl developers.

Also there seem to be tech job listing service associated with sites that developers may frequent like stack overflow (http://careers.stackoverflow.com/) and TechCrunch (http://www.crunchboard.com/jobs/). I just saw a job advertised in my city while visiting stack overflow.

Good luck, C

PS I'm a developer in Canada that works from home and I know of a number of developers that also work form home (or are capable of doing so). If you let me know what you're working maybe I can help.

CMD+} and CMD+{ appear to be the OS X keys for switching tabs.

They just worked for me in Safari, Chrome, MacVim, iTerm 2 and Terminal.

If you render the report as an HTML document and serve it with a mime-type of application/vnd.ms-excel the users system will prompt them open it in excel.

Excel will parse it with all of the nice formatting and everything!