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I think if Google got Android into the schools it might even make CS more attractive for women. If it meant you could build a cool app for your friends.

" What we're working on, having passed the gauntlet of Google’s trademark lawyers, is called App Inventor for Android, and the idea is to make it easy for beginning computer science students, non-computer science students, maybe eventually high school students, to build mobile apps."
Ok but the word "Droid" was indeed coined in Star Wars, whereas "Nexus One" was never coined anywhere, since the Nexus-1 model was never mentioned in the book or the movie. Its just a vague allusion
Upvoted for the linked article (PDF) about horses/manure in the 1800s->1905

http://www.uctc.net/access/30/Access%2030%20-%2002%20-%20Hor...

well worth reading for it's analysis of all the problems with horses that the CAR solved (and, as always, it created new ones) -- like piles of manure 40-60 feet high in cities! Now that problem's limited to D.C.!!
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Unladen Swallow: Python 3’S Best Feature
I've wondered how he does it, since I've noticed XKCD updates without fail at midnight eastern time. He must be finishing them well before the deadline, and have some kind of CMS publish it right on time.
less text on the landing page!
This is the scheme he has admitted to in the past - although knowing him it is a script and not a full-fledged CMS.
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Current State of Unladen Swallow (Towards a Faster Python)
Sure. In jQuery, something like this would work, if you have a span in your footer with the id "copyright":

$(function () {
var today = new Date();
Q("#copyright").text(today.getFullYear());
});
4 Years with a One Year Cliff
I think it's easy, if you sell it you lose it.

If Monty wants to continue working on MySQL he should simply fork the project and get it over with. Announce the new name, if he manages to assemble a good enough team then I'm sure he will gain some traction.

It's not like he couldn't hire a few talented people.

In fact, using some of the money he made from the SUN deal in order to do this would probably be one of the best ways to make use of it, provided his contracts do not stop him from doing that.
ok - I clicked around again, and see you have a different pricing page on Directed Edge.

The Venture Beat article mentions increases of 20-30%, but this page talks of recommendations only, without personalization. What sales lift can we expect out of related products only?
Not for the lurkers amongst us if you don't have any karma!
You don't have to because 8,000,000 / 365 is approximately 22,000.

Also since they are datapoints the actual number of requests is much much lower.
I think you guys should have links to some of your customers on your sales page, so that new customers can see how this actually works on other sites(without having to visualize how they'd implement it on their own site)

Something like "________ is using DirectedEdge to recommend _____, "after installing DirectedEdge our sales went up 15%!!!omgWTFBBQ!" - CEO of ______
There Are Now More Government Employees than Goods-Producing Workers in the US
Not sure when Blink-182 was ever too cool for anything. If you listen to their concert record, you'll see that they did not take themselves very seriously.

Everyone seeks approval. I don't understand what slight Blink-182 did to you or the other people on this board that you would feel schadenfreude towards them -- normally such is reserved for people who have done you ill.
Google Voice basically does the reverse of this; it provides a single "hub" number which you can configure to forward calls to N (I think up to 6) other phone numbers of yours. You can then setup rules for each phone number to not forward to your office phone outside of business hours, or to not forward to your mobile on the weekend, etc.

http://www.google.com/support/voice/bin/answer.py?answer=165...
Mac OS X isn't POSIX compliant
Resonant for me:

"I remember a time when I thought only super-humans could implement an interpreter but a naive interpreter like this one is really just a matter of putting one foot in front of the next."

I too thought interpreters were arcane and mystical, until a year or so ago I just tried writing one. Mine was also for Scheme, although I cheated because my implementation language was Common Lisp (I was learning it and wanted a toy project to work on). By the end of a plane flight from the UK to Australia I had a minimal working Scheme, with functions, recursion, lexical scope and closures.

I didn't go on to turn it into a bytecode interpreter or a compiler - I didn't even get tail calls working right - but I'm confident that if I'd wanted to, they would also have turned out not to be as hard as I previously thought. I scratched the itch, and it was easy and fun.

I don't think this pattern is unique to programming, and there's probably a lesson to learn. Something you want to do - but don't because you think it's hard - probably isn't hard, so why not try it?
Link to the relevant portion of POSIX (IEEE 1003.1):

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/rena...
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Such a dumb bug, It's fixed now. Sorry about that.
It's duplicitous and wrong. He sold the product, and now he is actively undermining the product that he sold with the potential of costing Sun/Oracle considerable sums of money to defend against his clearly self-serving claims.

Even if Monty does not succeed, he has the ability to do significant damage to Oracle, Sun, and even industry perceptions of not only the GPL, but of open source in general.
I feel the same way. I have no urgency for 2.0. Even search isn't much of an issue if you just restrict your project scope a bit. For example, for Rails apps I just open everything but log and vendor and everything is snappity snap.
In the first two years I made (short pieces of) music, the things people liked best were those I threw together in an hour or two. It was almost uncannily reverse-proportional to time spent. Probably because it was songwriting, not composing.

Programs are like architecture ... each program is like a unique building. But in building, the architect designs and the workmen construct. Too often programs are constructed without design ... many times because you don't really understand the problem until you've worked at it. At which time, like musicians or writers, you have to be willing to throw away the first draft and start all over - this time with a solid architecture.
Ask HN: How to go about pursuing a distribution deal with an online publisher?
I'm working on pursuing a distribution deal for my product with local online publishers. I have a good idea on how I want to structure the proposal and which publishers I want to pursue. I was wondering if any of you could share their experiences of how they approached forming distribution deals; what to look out for, and what are the ingredients for success?
http://twitter.com/gvanrossum/status/7464557748 BDFL likes
Vancouver VC wants an Entrepreneur-in-Residence for 2010
Also see Michael's post: http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/weblog/arch_d7_2010_01_02... (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1036400)
Survival of the fittest: exercise 'can fight ageing'
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The problem of easy web access is it reduces the pain of access by the authorities and the setup cost by the telco. Physical wiretaps were better because they could not be provisioned by clicking a mouse.
I don't find rtteam@us.ibm.com on either IBM internal or external sites - what page did you get that id from?I can try to see if I can lookup somebody's relevant id
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Good point, but not always true. It's a myth that game performance is universally GPU-bound. Most notably, most MMORPG's, many RTS's and pretty much anything made with the Source engine are more dependent on CPU performance.
What does SGTM stand for?
St. Elmo's fire! That'll do for any weird glowing thing in the sky. Or electrical discharge.
The joke being that it's now the year 2010.
The Victory of Judaism over Germanism: Viewed from a Nonreligious Point of View
I think the problem is that he would have to fork from the GPL'd version, which means he can't sell a proprietary fork.

(Someone please correct me as I am most probably wrong)
Hehe, ah, I see.

Sorry, it's 4:45 am here, I'm hardly as sharp as I am when I'm awake. I should probably call it quits for today.

Modding up ggp.

tx!
What about its proximity to the church? Is that because of the metal in the crosses? Are they made of metal?
Netcan & netsp are the same person (me) so it does apply. (sorry about that, I updated my profile to show this)

You make an important point. This poor quality of service from Google hasn't affected their revenue from this advertiser(s) at all. Actually, several times a year the ads go down for a few hours due to a failed payment, CC issue or some payment related adwords bug while I drop everything & try to get a rep on the phone. I suppose that ads up to a few grand per year. But.. these are highly competitive areas. If we aren't on the page someone else is for a marginally lower CPC.

BTW, your case study link doesn't work
What does SGTM stand for?

Sounds good to me.
It's a curious flash of light. Next question?

(I suppose it's probably man-made or a case of St. Elmo's Fire, but the images and video are very bad quality.)
Hrm... one writes songs about handjobs, the other, the Oxford comma.

Vampire Weekend is definitely more current, I'll give em that.
What if it's dry but cold?
He already sold it as proprietary, so that really shouldn't be a problem at all. Ostensibly his concerns are for MySQL, not his pocketbook.
I had a band in the 80's. Never famous except locally. We played the same clubs as They Might Be Giants.

In the 90's I had a startup that got some buzz. TMBG came and pitched us for tour support. There was lots of "remember the good old times?" which frankly was bs, we had some common fans but never really hung out or anything.

Bands are weird.
What exactly does an EIR do?

Can anyone on HN who has been one, or known one really well tell us what a typical day in the life of an EIR is and what is exciting about the job?

As I understand it, it is a temporary position before you become the growth-stage CEO of a company that the VC has previously funded? Or to become the CEO of a CEO-less company that the VC is funding? Is that about right? What else do EIRs do?
I've always thought the Oracle acquisition a bad bad thing.

Then again, I always thought using GPL for a database is ALSO a bad bad thing. It probably should have been LGPL at the most, probably something like apache/MIT/BSD instead.

To my opinion, this is MySQL AB's old owners getting bitten in the ass for their greedy dual licensing model. They should have licensed it with a more permissive license.
I imagine BDFL would do anything at this point to get Py3k jumpstarted.
Windows 7 running on a 266MHz Pentium II, 96MB RAM, 4MB graphics
BTW, your case study link doesn't work

I fixed it. My apologies for the typo.
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Yeah, that was my first impression.
I agree that this bug is worth fixing, but I don't think appealing to POSIX authority is a good idea. As we saw in the ext4 fsync debacle, what matters is expected behavior. POSIX (and its cousin UNIX®) doesn't matter.
Really? No redundancy?
Does Quora use Pylons?
Up until now, it didn't seem like there were that many compelling reasons to try to jump to Python 3 - most of the changes were for correctness. Something like this gives a tangible reason to at least consider the pain of a major upgrade.
How much you'll see just from related products varies significantly based on the type of products you've got and how much potential there is for selling additional products based on related products. i.e. if you've got a bunch of disjoint products, you're probably not going to see huge lift, but if you've got products that tend to compliment each other (and, of course the data we can infer that from), you'll see a decent bump.

That said, we'd like to have personalization, from the line in our FAQ:

We've been talking with the Shopify team about making personalized, e.g. Welcome back Bob, here are some things we think you'll like, possible. The Directed Edge recommendations engine supports that type of recommendations, though currently we don't have the ability to get the necessary data from Shopify stores.

http://shopify.directededge.com/home/faq#personalized
> I think the problem is that he would have to fork from the GPL'd version, which means he can't sell a proprietary fork.

That's my understanding too. Maybe he could fork MySQL, and create some tools roun it that also work for other SQLs (Postgres, SQLite, MS-SQL, etc). He could use the dual-licensing approach for these tools (since they are not tied to MySQL)
The only version he can fork is the GPL - no ability to do the split license from before. So his desired business model is out the window unless we all get together and 'save mysql' thereby allowing him to make money off it again.
Who owns data that companies expose to directededge?
That assumes any of us (BDFL included) are desperate to get it in production Right Now, which isn't true. However, backwards incompatibility is a tough pill to swallow and while Py3k is a cleaner, saner language it has still been a tough sell.

This should give it a helpful kick in the pants.
That was a case of "expected behavior" being a superset of POSIX, not a subset. POSIX's guarantee wasn't sufficient.

This is a case where the behavior does not even live up to POSIX's guarantee, so I wouldn't say that it's comparable at all.
Why do you think there was no redundancy?
I think a better word would be "outfix".
Zeus 3.97a out now. A highly configurable programmer's editor for Windows.
The latest version of Zeus editor is now out. Zeus is highly configurable programmer's editor for the Windows paltform.
API's don't disappear overnight once they've become deprecated. There are API's that have been deprecated since 10.2 or 10.3 but still work on 10.6, for example.
I can only imagine how difficult it is to pitch a product to someone who isn't there to listen to a pitch while being filmed by two separate crews. It would be really hard not to look like a dildo.

We've known for over a decade now since Napster that artists would need / could get other revenue from online to make up for declining music sales.

It's cool that Tom is actually trying to participate in the changes rather than just bitch about the state of the industry as 999/1000 of them do.
On second thought, this may be a non-issue, since a huge dataset that is just product0-29389283923 and customer0-29389238923 is probably not that useful without product names.
Regardless of DeLonge's bad pitch and VW's reaction, niche website tools are a good business. That's what we do and we do well. Don't forget, that's #29 on YC's startup ideas.

In a way, I see a lot of similarities to our industry (professional photography). Both are creative industries that have been quite disrupted by various technologies. Just about every well-known, experienced photographer sells training material, photoshop actions, holds workshops at $1k a seat, or lends their name to technology companies in exchange for money and/or free services.

I imagine DeLonge isn't much different. I just hope he wasn't suckered into investing his own money into someone else's idea. I also don't blame DeLonge for pitching to VW (but I admit, the circumstances seemed awkward). In niches like this, the more well-known bands you can get using your startup's product the better. Heck, I would have offered it to them for free. But, then again, I'm also a big VW fan.
I'm not sure what you mean. The inputs (eg. HDMI) don't support the bandwidth necessary for 120 Hz, but if they did, the LCD could display them. Interpolating frames is similar to upscaling DVDs to an HDTV. You make a better picture out of the inputs available.
Any reason why you guys haven't secured the socialblaze.com url?
The issue is that you can't write non-open source programs on it anymore. You have to write JUST GPL programs with it.

It doesn't have a linking exception like Linux does [which allows you to write non-GPL programs to run on it].

Basically, the dude used pure GPL [a bad idea in my book] with no linking exceptions. He did this to make $$$$ off of the dual licensing scam that MySql AB [The company] was doing. He then sold the company, and got bit in the ass, because you can't make a useful fork of the application due to the overly restrictive license [which pure GPL is for a library, such as MySQL].

Basically, if you wrote a proprietary app that uses MySQL, you're hosed if regulators don't block this.
I pretty much can't jump until scipy does.
Can't they just put a bigger lid over the led traffic lights, and no ledge under the light for snow to build up? Or would there still be a problem (not so familiar with snow, coming from Oz).
Naw, the issue is he had a greedy dual licensing scheme that didn't properly allow proprietary development on top of the GPL version. (Linux has an exception in the GPL which specifically allows proprietary development on top without forcing GPL adoption].
Yeah, I understand. But the problem is that if t = 0 and t = 1 are far apart, then by the time I jump back to t = 1' and defend, I could have lost a bunch of troops (for example).

I'm not saying it doesn't work, but I'm trying to think of this from a more "realistic" (within the scope of a time travel video game) point of view. In theory, at t = 0' (before I've jumped back) you'd want my troops controlled by someone with my skill, but not with my future knowledge.

Lets say I'm a great strategist, so good in fact that even when I'm attacked at t = 0' I would be good enough to fed off the attack. But, if I was asleep till t = 1' (as is essentially the case in what you are saying) I will get decimated. Jumping back to t = 1' doesn't help me then.

Obviously I have to accept limitations based on the fact that the players are in fact temporal beings, so I'm not saying the game mechanic is bad. I'm just stating a limitation.
I don't think it was redundancy that they were worried about as much as someone trying to install a passive fiber tap (yes, it's been done).

Installing such a tap is pretty dicey, if the fiber breaks your goose is cooked. The response time was likely such that they would have had a chance of bagging the guy that did it, in this case it was just an accident.

Personally I'm quite impressed with the response speed, if all authorities were that quick when there is trouble there wouldn't be many unsolved crimes left.
If you sold something for a billion dollars, and you had a 1% chance of getting it back just by writing some letters and blog posts, so that you could sell it again for another billion dollars, would you do it? If you had a much-higher-than-1% chance of getting Sun/Oracle to pay you many millions of dollars just to STFU, would you do it?

Some of us would say "no," others "yes." Monty is definitely a "yes" man.
Yes, that was my point.
One does bog-standard 3-chord power-pop-punk with standard 'rebellious' studded-crap accouterments, the other does mellifluous afro-pop in menswear from a Wes Anderson character's closet.
Wilhelm Marr’s The Victory of Judaism over Germanism [pdf]
Running 80km/week (~50 miles) is pretty intense! I'm happy when I do 12-15 miles. Still, this is good news for my telomeres apparently.
> He sold the product, and now he is actively undermining the product that he sold

Monty's actions leave a bad taste in my mouth too.

I've still signed the petition, because I think Oracle's intentions towards MySQL can only be bad -- they want to neuter it so people have to buy their expensive databases instead. This would not matter so much, except that MySQL is an important part of the technology infrastructure, particularly as part of the LAMP stack.
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When MSFT becomes afraid, it can accomplish stuff. "Wow, these netbooks are popular, and they can't run our latest operating system!" caused them to change pretty quickly.
My personal opinion is that it's time to let SQL and RDMS go.
Free the world from the shackles of schema.
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"And then you could just apply filters to turn off certain phone numbers based on day or hour..."

I think it does do that
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I had a very similar reaction and thought process when I read about AT&T's comment about attempting to curb usage on their networks:
http://www.webdesigncompany.net/when-the-world-gives-you-lem...

Since then, even AT&T have come to admit that voice lines as a concept is obsolete now and that data pipes are the business they are going to be for the foreseeable future.
Complicated looking perhaps. But the ERRORS you see are significantly easier to debug.

I come from the "Why not at least look at multiprocessing" in C world as well. Threads are a way lots of very subtle bugs happen. It's a "all is well until someone loses an eye" type of situation.

Both are valid ways to solve problems, but both have their share of issues.

And they're not "significantly" more complicated if you're actually testing your code. Testing multi processed solutions is easy. Testing for threading issues is a pain in the ass.
Ha, A Windows Experience score of 1.
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I forgot to add this in the original posting.

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http://www.reachlocal.com.au/ use AdWords campaigns and customised phone numbers to track referrals by phone. Client of mine use them. Not quite as "all in one" and affordable as AdWords+Voice would be, but the same sort of thing is being done by a third party.
I would kill to do something like this. VCs need someone in the firm that's a product/engineering guy to really connect with entrepreneurs for that first chat. Something akin to the EIR role is probably the best place for them to be. Kevin Hale describes how that role might work after a constant flow of crappy VC interns who don't understand their product calling them about Wufoo:

"I've yet to wait for a VC to come and talk to me and have an idea, at the table and say, 'Look. I've looked at your business. I've looked at what you guys've done. Have you thought about these?' Right? I don't hear that at all. I don't understand. That's not how I would approach having someone be excited about wanting to be a partner in business."