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Right, and if you read my previous posts I never said it was not innovative.

I've actually never played laser tag. I just imagined that it might be easy for someone, like me, who has never played laser tag, to attribute the perceptions of innovation of laser tag all to this application, when really the innovation is in reimplementing laser tag using modern mobile technology.
Although "disappointing," this IS an open source success story, which is an aspect that the OP didn't focus on much.

After lots of iteration, wvdial got to the point where it worked really darn well. Now, it apparently works really well for cell phone networks, without anyone having to spend lots of money to develop proprietary solutions and iterate/bugfix over time to make them work well.

It's just too bad they don't have unit tests and (thus) people are afraid to mess with the code.
No matter how old a technology is, there is always someone somewhere still using it. Search for abacus, sliderules, punchcards in google, there's an active group somewhere discussing it.
This is why I couldn't handle working in the hard sciences. While there are breakthroughs every day, there is little time for institutions to go through and verify these findings before they become commonly accepted.
It is astonishingly easy to find examples of people basing years of research off of faulty premises from other papers who wind up losing those years of research.
Anybody else make it to Paragraph Five before they were 100% certain they weren't talking about a "Crystal Structure" file system? This line, in particular, had me puzzled: "Testing is routinely carried out using cifs"
My Verizon USB-3G modem is basically only usable under Linux if I use WvDial and treat it like dial-up. It's equally hilarious when you find out that connecting requires the hardcoded password of "777" regardless of your individual details.
An amazingly effective firewall; the brokers clearly didn't know anything the traders did.
Cross reference: http://searchyc.com/stem+cells+blind

Very similar reports from both very recently and from 2 years ago, with some discussion.
Parameters of the Space Shuttle based on the size of a horse's ass. Not.
That deserves a link of its own:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1013561

People may have seen it, but many still believe it unthinkingly.
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I still use a slide rule, and it's occasionally a great conversation starter with people who have fascinating stories.
The usual nomenclature for this sort of thing is "shared source"
It clicks with my intuition.

In one particular area of programming, competitive programming, productivity is easier to measure.

One might call Tomek Czaijka the Federer of algorithmic competitions. As of 1.5 yrs ago, he had made more than $130k off of TopCoder competitions [1]. Seeing as how he is still ranked 3rd, this figure might be outdated [2].

I can assure you the average TopCoder contestant who has competed over a comparable amount of time made way less than $130k/30 ~ $4300. Easily more than 30 times the productivity.

You can argue about how coding up toy programs compares to working on products. I suspect there is a strong correlation though.

As a point of reference, please consider Steve Newman, who co-wrote Writely which was subsequently acquired by Google and is today the word processor of Google Docs [3]. He must have made some money in the process and was also successful at topcoder.com [4].

That being said, I do knew similar people with astonishingly low "product" productivity.

1. http://www.portfolio.com/careers/job-of-the-week/2008/07/06/...

2. http://www.topcoder.com/tc?module=MemberProfile&cr=14440...

3. http://www.seattlepi.com/business/262443_googlewritely10.htm...

4. http://www.topcoder.com/tc?module=SimpleStats&c=coder_ac...
Did someone mention fascinating stories? Do tell. :-)
With the right User-Agent, http://help.apple.com/iphone/3/mobile/
You should ammend the second to "just take money from their clients" because, fundamentally, that's what they do. If you're lucky they might share a nugget of useful information.
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I'm slowly getting to write them up, but it's not easy to get my memory working on stories I was told 30 years ago.

However, I've started some:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1001262

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=996250

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=994358

Others are on their way.
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... unless you start with zero customers :)
Could not find target website in the results anymore. Either this was intentionally removed for being a hot topic or (imho more likely from what i have seen) google generally gives new content "opportunity window" on first page where if it to generate sufficient click throughs it gets buried; what you witnessed could have been that.
Perl has great potential. The reason Rails and other newer languages are getting attention is solely because they're new. Rails is easier to start programming in by people who'll never understand the difference between a constant and a variable in their life. Other languages are invisible to them.

Does that mean Rails is bad? No! Every language has its merits and demerits. It's easier for a programming to learn them all than fight for a single language.

Perl has its own strong points, just like any other language.

"No-one is building anything new with it today."

Generalizations. So easy to make, and so imprecise nevertheless.
I've read those already :-) Just encouraging you to write some more if you want to.
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Nothing. But they probably don't earn much.
You need to link to the original post, not a post on your blog, as you've done. That's considered really poor etiquette around here.
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This is really eye opening.

1. To learn that some really smart young guys have outsmarted Google so many years ago.

2. How Google articulates stories to make innovation their own.

Had these guys not talked about their disaapointment, how would the world have come to know about the real truth.
It's a fine line. If you insure your car are you "betting" that you'll crash it? No of course not. But having insurance doesn't mean you can be reckless. Your insurer wouldn't pay out - and neither should the various governments that did.
No, in practice the same trader will make the trade and make another trade to hedge against losing money on the first. That's normal.

What's wrong here is acting in bad faith by selling known-bad investments. At best it's insider trading, at worst outright fraud.
Seems eminently more achievable in that case.
Depends on USB or BT profiles supported by the phone.

If it supports only USB CDC ACM or BT DUN, you are stuck with dialing. If it supports USB CDC ECM, USB RNDIS (Windows has to be special...) or BT PAN, things are much better and the phone is just another ethernet interface in your computer.
It's close, but it's not quite the quick summary you need. Try to get the phrasing down as small as possible and avoid platitudes. "Track sales leads using your existing email!" or something to that effect.
Clearly they are providing value. If not, the clients wouldn't be paying them.
Or infinitely more achievable.
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Flush it out good.
The W3C CSS working group is the browser makers -- and others -- getting together to agree on something.

http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members.php3
It's a piece on optimal caffeine usage - maybe worth a read for stroking your intellectual curiosity if you're not a coffee/tea drinker, maybe there'd be a related application to a similar part of life.

As for whether caffeine in general is worth it? I've got mixed feelings on it. I spent a couple years of no caffeine from 2004 to 2006 or so, and I was pretty effective then too. Caffeine helps when you're seriously burning midnight oil on a deadline, less so otherwise, but there's probably lots of literature around on the topic.
Well, again -- you don't have to do the whole separate-clones thing. Mercurial's bookmarks are pretty much git-style branches under a different name, for example. And even though they're provided by an extension they're really not anything fancy: they're just a thin layer of UI on top of normal hg operations (in hg terms, bookmarks just boil down to a way to name -- and thus jump to, merge from, etc. -- heads in the repository).
This reminded me of google advertising about 'Chrome by google' on big billboards in London. My first thought was 'they are not giving credit to everyone else who did the work on chrome'. Maybe it should have been 'Chrome - an open source project by google'.

There is no advertising clause, but claiming that it is by google is still a big lie considering big parts were not written or designed by them. Including the main part - webkit/khtml, the html renderer.

Especially with open source projects, getting credit for your work may be the only thing you get. Giving credit is a gentle(wo)mans thing to do.

In academia this would be plagiarism... but in business, it seems to be business as usual. Business can get in trouble for giving credit, but academia gets in trouble for not giving credit.
Shit so this is a second one already?
these were Dr H. Zhong and Professor T. Liu and the previous one http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1006478
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I start to feel good about going to the industry!
<grin>

Working on it.
Do you feel the same way about "Mac OS X by Apple", considering how much of that operating system (FreeBSD, Darwin, GNU, KHTML, llvm etc) started life in the open source community?

I'm as big an open source booster as anyone, but I can't say it upsets me in the slightest to see Google taking credit for Chrome in adverts. If anything, it makes me feel like the open source model has won - it's so widespread now it isn't even noteworthy.
Of course it's entirely possible that Google did independently arrive at the same innovation. I have no idea how long Google has been working on this, but it was likely quite some time (which is probably why the solicited help from that company in the first place...)

I'd really be curious to know what the truth is here. Landmark nagivation is an unbelievably big project, and Google is doing it at pretty large scale. It may have very well taken a couple of years to build the thing (not so much the programming, but rather building the data-set itself).
Spend more time with my wife.
Go full-time.
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Great writeup of all the places to modify for pro accounts.

Sounds like we need a setup script to modify everything with one action. I'll look at making one soon. I'm also in the process of ripping out mysql/derby support and replacing it with postgres: http://bitbucket.org/mattsta/etherpad-postgres/.
Develop a non-work life, if only for balance. I'd like to expand my ruby skills, too.
I needed to get Ubuntu to use my HTC phone as a modem. The only, only way I could get it to work was with WvDial. I even wrote a HOWTO - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=315927 . WvDial did one thing nothing else would, it let the user specify a blank password. 100% required for Sprint. That's why the new stuff won't work even now. It works, works well and seems stable. Why fix it if it isn't broken?
Eat healthier and become more active. I spend way too much time sitting on my ass.
For the year 2010 I plan to finally release a constant stream of documentation, both text and videos, along with numerous screencasts.

There's no point in having cool technology if it's not easily accessible, easy to learn, and demonstrable. There's only so many times you can have one on one conversations to get the wow across.

I just wish writing documentation didn't take so long, and video shoots didn't eat up whole days. It's so much nicer to work on a new feature than to re-shoot a section of a code demonstration what often seems like 100 times.
My "plan" for 2010 is to make a lot of ambitious goals, fail on most of them, but accomplish some good regardless.

Also, I am pretty sure that I will have my first amateur Muay Thai fight. I'm excited about that.
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But the clients may be mistaken about how much value they're getting.
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Sounds more like a failure of the mobile phone industry than of open source.
Well, I don't know what this startup is calling his innovation because I didn't tested its system, but what I understand for landmark based is something like:

+Go straight until you see a school at your right.

+Then turn right(left on India).

+Continue until you see a big fountain.

Is that innovation? I don't know in USA but in Spain and a big part of the world that is the normal way of telling someone how to go to a place, is not so strange that another human being has the same idea than you about doing with a computer what you do without it.

That is the main problem about software patents, people want to have a monopoly over ideas a lot of people spontaneously have.
This is indeed pretty awesome. I was actually just looking through articles about getting it running today. I think for many collaborative apps it would be great to be able to use a barebones etherpad in a model much like we currently use text fields and charfields. This would make me infinitely happy :)
obvious things don't need to be expanded upon.
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“What the world really wants,” Ellison told the crowd, “is to plug into a wall to get electronic power, and plug in to get data.”

With all the cheap netbooks and handhelds today, this is the end-point I see the world saturating to.

Well, apart from developers - who need good full-feature machines with apps and toolkits - the others would only need access to the internet. I see it something like "turn on the computer" vs "turn on the net".

Bulding an OS around a web browser, Chrome OS, I think is a step towards this goal.

[EDIT: Oh ya. Chrome OS has a mention at the end of the article]

”Mr. Larry is near Australia in his sailboat and can’t be reached,”

I believe that whatever hotshot CEO you are, you must always be accessible by your employee and be ready to discuss their problems (atleast if not your customer if you have a CS team).
1. Write an academic paper (getting one published would be cool, but let's start with things within my control).

2. Get my research project up to where I want it.

3. Sweet Internship in a sweet city *

* sweet city matters because I'm going to be 21. Work hard, play hard :)
But that's not really feasible for 100+ languages, not to mention character sets, etc. Editorial doesn't really scale for Google at all.

For many of the smaller languages (i.e., outside the top 20 or so) Google only employs at most one native speaker who's tasked to work on search quality.
That reminds me that interesting graph http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/05/14/congratulations-google-s... about revenues per employee in big tech comp. See the differences... Interesting enough, when you dig down subpart of the companies, you find areas with very different revenue per head also.
What I'm saying is that humans might react more negatively to your failings than you might expect if you believed humans were coldly rational beings, especially if those failings conflict directly with what you say you believe.

Honestly I thought this was common knowledge.
Interesting information. This was the time when the bubble was expanding rapidly. Anything got sold for $80 million in those days.

I'm sure that Frankel is an excellent programmer, but this in no way an example that excellent programmers are generally rewarded according to their ability.
I've just discovered your stories... Please go on... It's nice reading them :-)
I think it's mostly a question of luck and time of the day when it comes to traction on HN. There are so many stories and the page is only this big....
I can see two sides of this here:

Negative: you're considering changing career, seems like you don't really love hacking. It's really hard to be a great hacker if you don't love it.

Positive: You want to learn. A key ingredient to becoming a great hacker is being keen to learn new techniques, practise them, and admitting that there are better ways to do it than the way you are doing it now.
I've worked in both PS and HTML for mockups.. in different team workflow enviros, sometimes out of necessity, sometimes as experiments, laziness etc.

Photoshop almost always produces more esthetically pleasing layouts. Its also a lot faster to knock out ideas. And if you have clients (not solo) its the only way to go.

When you work in HTML first its very easy to back yourself into a wall. You're constricted by boxes and CSS, and due to the difficulty making certain things work in CSS you're usually less apt to do something difficult, so you get very dry layouts.

Hacker News is a great example of a site that was designed in HTML haha. One giant column, no chrome, no styling of almost anything. Easy in CSS, hideous on the eyes...
Triggers an immediate back button reflex. Maybe it looks too much like very unfun business stuff. No idea what it is about either - I suppose you only understand it if you are in the business?
Redo the audio on your video with a decent microphone! It sounds bad and the echo is distracting and makes it harder to listen to.

Edit: also, it sounds like you're shouting at me.
This is not a bug in webkit. Safari renders it just fine.
you can expect such downtimes every Christmas. why? ask yourself how much protection money UltraDNS was told to pay.
Stories abound of google talking to innovators and taking their ideas. If you are a startup don't tell them a thing unless their acquiring you depends on it. Until they buy you, they are competitors. Treat them as such.
My most important goal for 2010 is to create a partnership with a co-founder who is fun to work with, and who has the skills I lack, and begin working together.
I think one of the major problems of "user-friendly" linux distributions/desktops nowadays is, that they try to make almost everything work automatically and without providing sufficient tweaking tools for the case where the automatic things fail. The usual argument being brought forward is that "my grandmom would be scared if I present her a 'Enter custom AT initialisation string:' entry field", the net result being that grandmom now has to search the web and download wvdial and the corresponding configuration file.

On the other side, the UMTS-USB-Dongle vendors (and network operators that sell those) aren't interesting in generic solutions that work out of the box with every compouter or operating system: Their products don't differ by (easily measureable) performance- or feature parameters and are distinguishable only by the added bling- and eyecandy the bundled windows-software provides.

I only used UMTS/GPRS internet connectivity a few times in the past, so my oppinion stated here is not based on any solid experience, but I know that it can work very well without much effort if a useful interface is chosen (a HTC smartphone provided a emulated ethernet card via USB to my Linux notebook). On the other hand with the currently sold popular UMTS-USB-dongles one has to jump through a lot of hoops just to disable the added bling the vendors try to impose on the Windows user and finally get to a useful modem-emulation port that, in the end, is handled by the well-proven infrastructures very well.

{e.g.: having to register the USB vids/pids with usb-serial instead of using the generic modem class, using special registers on the stick to disable the emulated driver-cdrom on the stick instead of using USB alternate settings, sending magic commands to enable the correctly working AT command interface instead of defaulting to, re-configuring GPRS APN, and finally dialling the magic *99-telephone number, or whatever it was, I forgot most of it already. The last item finally will work with any GUI friendly dialer, I'd say, but who cares about doing the first steps on the console?}
Thanks - I am planning more, but preparations for Christmas are taking over.

Stay tuned.
Go check out Bruce Sterling's blog: http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/

He's got a whole lot of AR links
An email I received this morning:

"Hope all is well. Would you guys mind upvoting this? This is my new company:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1013389

Best,
- Emil Gilliam"

Surely begging emails like this are an improper use if the voting system.
It's pretty much an inevitable use of the voting system.
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Seems to be a retelling of The Parable of the Two Programmers:

http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~magi/personal/humour/Computer_Audienc...
Yes, there's nothing you can do to prevent people from doing this, but I notice that on other voting based news sites such gaming has reduced the quality.
Existing things:
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Swim, run, workout. Keep learning Spanish and practicing guitar. Read books.

New things:
Learn basic Romanian.
Meet more iPhone (and Android) developers in the Bay Area and in / around Toronto / GTAA - always looking to grab a beer or lunch :).
Learn more about market research (you can never learn enough).
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"chase a dream of changing the way directions are consumed in India and globally" - Isn't it a hollow claim ?. Directions were always given in india by landmarks and it's not your firm which has invented it. So trying to take credit for it doesn't sound too good.

In what way did google steal your idea?. It's an idea even kids in devoloping countries know of. and google need not even see your site to realise that the lanamark system is the one that works in this part of the world.

Sory, to sound diffrent. But I don't see this point standing.
Yep - for example Germany has, it's called "Schufa" http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schufa
7. try to find inner peace and purpose. - SHOULDN'T THAT BE NO:1, and probably the only one ?. Just joking :)
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OS X's kernel (Mach) isn't GPL licensed.
Not at all. The GPL is a much older license than the Sun CDDL, which mainly seems to have been created to stop any useful code from Solaris entering Linux.
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