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But the current remedy of a non-human legal entity is that the entity can be sued and affect many people adversely who weren't responsible for the wrong.

We need a different remedy, like the ability for a citizen to sue every citizen belonging to an organization together if the organization was found responsible for the wrong. Then those citizens not responsible in that organization would have to have witnesses and documentation to prove that they were not responsible for the wrong.

And instead of sueing, I think that prison sentences would work better. Putting all responsible persons from a company into prison would get people's attention. Also, citizens and lawyers producing substantial litigation without merit would be imprisoned.

Agreed. What if we:

- Developed and focused on a small set of specific goals for the U.S. government.

- Eliminated most of the IRS and replace our current taxes with a graduated sales tax.

- Cut the myriad of handouts to various organizations that our government makes in one form or another every year.

- Developed and supported sustainable agriculture.

- Eliminated the public education system but provided allowances such that every child can get an education tailored to their abilities and desires, and advance at their own speed rather than the speed of their class.

- Eliminated most of the FDA, DEA, and other enforcement agencies, with the exception of the FBI, and allow our judicial system to imprison employees of companies found responsible for knowledgeably harming citizens simply using trial by jury, and replace bail/monetary remedies with prison sentences only.

- Focused efforts on planetary defense and colonization of other worlds via a beefed-up NASA whose purpose is to support private space enterprise.

- Allowed individuals at businesses to be sued rather than the company itself, for which there would exist no legal entity.

Of course, they won't do these things, but since they are asking...

From what I've seen so far this year in bills pushed by the House and Senate that had provisions to assist small businesses and entrepreneurs that have C-corps were weak at best. The originally proposed health legislation pushed by Reid and many other Democrats would have hurt small businesses hard, so they had to tone it down. Finally, a good bit of what I saw in Democratic campaigning this Fall seemed nationalistic, complaining that Republicans were sending jobs overseas, and implying that these Democratic candidates valued Americans getting jobs over foreigners. So, someone try to change my mind and prove to me why Reid and Kerry would be for legislation that would make it easier for foreign entrepreneurs to be successful in the U.S.? Sure Dick Lugar is a Republican, but this post seems to push the idea (imo) that Democrats want to help foreigners make money and that they are pro-small business, neither of which I have seen much evidence of recently. I don't believe Republicans will be loads better, btw. Small businesses and entrepreneurs aren't the most influencial lobbyists in the world, and while angels and VCs have some pull, the only reason they are getting attention now is because supporting small business and entrepreneurs is a politically popular idea.

"Step 2: Find a Developer"

That's where this went from interesting to nil. I was expecting at least something like "develop it in an emulator without buying a device". The cost of outsourcing development of mobile apps isn't necessarily chump change.

At first this looked like a waste, but then I realized that each of those descriptions in parenthesis are things that a motivating leader might embed in a quip to the worker that accomplished each milestone, rather than just something one might think on his/her own.

Instead of tweeting and cinching, why not just click the reply link? There are plenty on the page.

Just putting a feature on the site that links over to the Google Translate version really isn't worth the time, since it clutters up the page, and those translations aren't very good. However, despite you saying it isn't an option, if you actually serve good translations through the site that are crawled, that may draw more visitors.

If it is a saas app and you want it to be used internationally though, I say go for it and use google translate to attempt to translate labels, etc. that you use. Provide a feedback area so that people can tell you if the translation is bad, if they feed like it. But be aware that there is much more to i18n and i10n than translation (legal, other gov't issues, cultural issues, timezone, character set issues in page and DB, layout differences).

Understood, but:

- I personally like to see the number of comments to see if the number of comments had changed.

- It didn't seem to work this way before, so I think it might be new, or it was restarted and just hadn't loaded yet, maybe?

- This behavior isn't intuitive.

- It was distracting to reload the same page with the same backing data and get two different results (once without number of comments, once with number of comments on topic I'd just viewed).

So, it is a (minor) bug, imo, even if it makes for a faster, more scalable page load. Speed is awesome and speed is king, but don't do things that are distracting or unintuitive to the user.

It might be argued that the point now is to attract attention and buzz, rather than hide it as they claim to be doing.

Work addicts love work just like alcoholics love alcohol. Make sure you are doing something you love if you're working long and hard, and make sure that family isn't sacrificed.

I'm more interested in the education vs. income vs. prestige graph in: http://blogs.forbes.com/smcnally/2010/11/10/names-you-need-t...

Looks like there might be a ceiling for prestige, and that income is not as related to it as I would have thought. But, what are the units?

You might just look at examples for ideas. One of the longer-lasting successful startup blogs out there is: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/

To start with, the author says he switched to Colemak keyboard layout. Interesting, but about as useless as Dvorak. Unless you get everyone to switch to it, you will be disabled whenever you switch to someone else's computer, a kiosk, etc. Why bother?

He mentions having switched to biphasic sleep. If he said- I don't use electricity at night and just go to bed and wake up with the light, then if he got up during the dark hours, that's fine. But scheduling it and forcing your body into a strange deprived sleep pattern is bad for you. Napoleon slept ~4 hrs a night. He was successful for a time, well- except for attempting and failing to conquer the world. Poor decisions may not have been made with more sleep.

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

So, that leads us up to the 30/30 work cycle. This actually doesn't sounds that bad. But, it is totally not something that would work in a professional setting. When you are in the middle of an important meeting with the board, or working on getting a product feature out that day, you can't walk out of the meeting or walk out on your team to go play video games. I take time out periodically for a walk, but seriously- grow up.

My guess is that when some chose "insufficient recognition", a possible reason was that someone else was taking that recognition. Having a site that allows people to recognize others for their achievements could just as easily compound the issue. For example:

Susan wants a new application, so Jim tells Bob to write it. When the application is complete, Jim shows it to Susan, and Susan praises Jim rather than Bob, because as far as she is concerned, Jim made it happen. Yet, Jim did little more than tell Bob to do it and show the result to Susan. If recognition requires little work, Susan will praise Jim more often (if she is not aware of Bob, or chooses not to recognize him). If Bob sees this praise of Jim by Susan for his work enough times, he may leave the company one day citing "insufficient recognition", when, in fact, more recognition was being given, albeit to the wrong person.

in English: http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&h...

That post was rather long. A post in title alone would have sufficed.

Used to work at a place that tried outsourcing QA. Truly awful idea. They started off by just trying to get them to document the process they would be using to QA. They failed.

Hardware: http://www.gdium.com/group/16/home

http://www.amazon.com/Liberty-10-Inch-Netbook-GDNBL10USK006-...

According to one comment, the cost was $369.

I think that open source and GNU projects can contribute to the common good, for the most part. You help many more people that way.

Links for organizations OP mentioned:

http://codeforamerica.org/

http://www.taprootfoundation.org/

http://www.catchafire.org/

"Writing, in other words, is just coding by a different name."

No.

Zip isn't just a compression format that people can choose to use or not. Java jars, wars, ears, etc. and a number of other apps/frameworks/etc. package files using zip. It is flawed, but many well-used things are flawed.

I personally use tar.gz whenever I don't have to use zip, unless I'm sending to someone where I don't know if the person is using OS X or a *nix OS, in which case I use zip, just in case. But I use unzip and sometimes zip in OS X and Linux, and whenever I'm trying to unpackage something I know is compressed in an unfamiliar format, I unzip it, and I think every time, it was the right guess.

Thanks for the post, though.

Why am I not surprised?

I think you are worrying about it too much. Just be yourself.

If you are doing interesting things, then other people will want to talk with you. If you aren't, they won't. You can be personable and likable, and they might talk with you, and maybe you'll get an in somewhere, but if you aren't aiming for anything in particular, what difference will it make?

"The orange asterisk is of the same color as the headline box"

This annoys me at times, too. Maybe grey would be better.

"and refresh itself once in a while"

Only if it did it without meta-refresh. Meta-refresh would be evil.

"I find the background having a very close color to the text and it makes reading a bit problematic"

Only for the OP's post, for me. The rest is fine. I think the OP's post is a little harder to read, but I don't mind much, as it is like that to distinguish it from the comments. The OP's post is typically not as interesting to most as the comments, which is why it is grey.

"The down-voted comments literally cannot be distinguished from the background."

If you want to read it, highlight it. I don't mind this one.

Basically, I like it the way it is for the most part. I really dislike what others have tried to do with it, which I think is a good sign.

This book seems to prove yet again that arrogance packaged nicely can appear to be the fruit of intellect. It is like a pale shadow of a modern Poor Richard's Almanac.

No, I think what sabat is saying is that the front page documentation is geared towards the wrong audience and needs to have less general information on usage.

I think if the following actually had examples of use, I'd try it out:

http://wiki.s4.io/Cookbook/Cookbook

Currently it only has:

UsingEclipse

   1. Check out sources from git
   2. Create Eclipse configurations: mvn eclipse:eclipse
   3. Import project into Eclipse
   4. set variable M2_REPO to the local Maven repository: e.g. ~/.m2/repository
   5. Set up formatting:
          * Spaces for indentation
          * Tab width = 4

I completely understand that this isn't there yet, though. It is a new project.

You'd have even better advice with > 10 and ability to provide feedback via a basic form/getsatisfaction or similar.

Usually people would just provide a site with info on how it works and a form in which they could provide you with an email address if they are interested.

Grails and JRuby on Rails are already Rails for Java, and there are a ton of existing frameworks out there in Java for anything you can think of almost, so no, I doubt it.

Why only 10 people, and if only 10 people, then why aren't you just talking to people you know rather than broadcasting it on HN? I think people can see through the fact that you are trying to gain interest by making it harder to access.