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Good job to you too; annotating isn't adding, it's annotating. It serves a purpose, obviously you never learnt that in school. Ha, maybe you should have gone into a school system where the government provides free quality education? You know, socialist.

Also where did faschist Stalinist-Communism come into this, we're talking about !!EUROPE!! here. Why not bring in Hitler to make your arguing skills completely inept.

Besides the fact you blatently know nothing about socialism, namely that the Anarcho-Communism movement in the Spanish Revolution led to 50-100% increases in worker efficiencies, before they got killed off and supressed. Similar happened during the Hungarian Revolution, both extremely successful but never powerful enough to survive military force. Also, it's nice that you miss out Cuba from your list, and make 'Modern China' sound like it's still not a Communist dictatorship, and BTW not Stalinist.

Now, back onto the subject of Europe. Nevermind that Europe, by your opinion, is going 'socialist' and apparently succeeding by beating the US economy. The fact that universal health care by US education seems to be 'socialist' and is in every WESTERN country except the US.

Every country in the west is a mixed economy, mixing nationalism and capitalism. Europe has done this to the best degree and is succeeding by it, the US has done it the least (yes you're part RED) and is suffering because of it.

I find your ignorance to social policy humourus. Capitalism is bull because the US doesn't practice it even though it waves the flag for it like crazy. I mean the US is basically like any European country, just piss poor at coughing up the cash.

I mean how far is banning drugs from banning certain hair cuts like in North Korea? It's on the same scale and 'banning' things isn't actually capitalist. I mean, the Netherlands by definition is more capitalist than the US because they're legalising drugs and prostitution.

Capitalism = ultimate left. Communism = ultimate right. Mixed = 50/50. No country is capitalist anymore because it doesn't work, it's a fantasy but communism does exist in its entirity and Cuba is an example of that, China too. The only part of China that you described as 'modern' China is Hong Kong, which is because it has British Laws that are mixed economy, and the only industries that have remained non-nationalised in China exist in Hong Kong because the government doesn't have its power to nationalise at will there.
If you voted for the first one (yes, but have to live close) maybe you should add a comment about where you live.

You might pick up a cofounder ;-)

I'm from Copenhagen.
I think it is possible that startups with founders at a distance could work, but it's an additional, huge barrier to success.
Perhaps there was many creationists on his website, they hate the monkeys.
Agree...

37 signals seem to have done it though, DHH lived in Denmark for a long time before finally moving to the US.
Can you expand Heroku to support Scala/Java development?
Maybe it's a pun. Pissing users off with their profile pic to make them want to change it.
Asians list your cities. I am in Tokyo.
A terrible idea, just like how tag clouds are a terrible idea.

I was talking to some HCI folks recently, and they said that in a study people thought there browser was broken when they encountered a tag cloud.

Simply does not work.
I love elephants. That's what made it hard for me to read this last week: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7262951.stm I'm going through a Frans de Waal-fueled chimp phase, too, and the news for them isn't much better. Same for dolphins. Damned naked apes.
this is what critical failure looks like.
I think it's ok, to a point, but... You get bonus points in my book for /not/ submitting it, and then replying to everyone's questions in the comments when it does get submitted.
Maybe I'm stupid, but I can't figure out how to post. I see the toolbar, but I'm not about to install a toolbar. Sorry.

Also, I really dislike the "infinite scroll" feature. Otherwise the site seems attractive.
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He is doing a good job so far. Anyway, I believe he isn't the only developer of web.py anymore.
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I mean how far is banning drugs from banning certain hair cuts like in North Korea?

LOL

* I mean, the Netherlands by definition is more capitalist than the US because they're legalising drugs and prostitution.*

LOL

Capitalism = ultimate left.

LOL

Communism = ultimate right.

LOL

but communism does exist in its entirity and Cuba is an example of that, China too

LOL

Troll on, brother.
Sorry, my question is: why are math researchers more independent than others?
I think a distributed startup could work. HD video conferencing will be affordable very soon. With a ~20" HD monitor and a little suspension of disbelief, you could converse with a co-worker as if they sat opposite you.
I think your left and right and up and down are a little mixed up... look into a scale like this: http://www.politicalcompass.org/
Suggestion: Since it's intended for code you should explicitly declare a monospaced font for the textarea. Safari uses a sans serif by default.
I like Mr. Bean...and Herman was okay in the Cheech and Chong movie, at least. I think they should use Emperor Palpatine...oh, wait, they're using Cheney? Nevermind.
Could you explain why you would use django over the others? Does pylons have too much magic? I've never used django and am curious if you have used the other frameworks.
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You do not have to install anything, just bookmark a link that lets you post. The best way is to put it in the links toolbar of your browser, but it doesn't have to be there.
the sliders are updated based on your feedback already, you do not have to touch them, they will work as indicators of your interest just fine.
Will do. Thanks for pointing this out.
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excalty about the food part, and going to the dude going Olive Garden? WTF?
I imagine it is ok to go to Olive Garden when you are in a place in middle america that has only chain restaurant around, but the bay area offers so much more in authentic multi-cultural cuisine, most of them family run.

Farmers market are awesome, and to get good deals go there late, around 2pm-ish, when the farmers are wraping their stuff, they'd rather give a lot of their food for half the price then bring it back.

If you live in SF, there is a awesome small grocery (only fruit and vegies) store at 4th and Geary. Very fresh, and very very cheap.
Half the price you get in your local safeway/lucky's/calmart.

Ah, and stay away from wholefoods. Horribly overpriced.
Hong Kong (originally from US)
I sincerely wish that humans leave the intelligent gentle animals to live their life happily.
Which city was it? Just curious.
I have done a lot of interviewing of programming candidates. If I saw a tag cloud like this, I would put this in the pile with the guys who list their skills and give themselves little unicode 'star ratings' like a movie review, in each skill. That is, 'only consider for interview if we are getting desperate to fill a seat'. It says the quality of the candidate is unpredictable but with strong odds of being flaky.
Right, and then they'd give you your money back, and they'd still not have made any money -- if anything, you'd be a net loss if they spent any time trying to help you.
You're right, that didn't occur to me. I don't type "www." and I would imagine a lot of people don't. Then again, I can't say for certain people like my dad understand that you can remove it.
Very, very nice. Love it. I agree with paulgb, this is something I never thought I would ever find useful, but I can already see myself sharing code snippets with others.

I might be getting greedy, but how about syntax highlighting? Although CodePad is really cool. Bravo! Keep up the great work...
I somewhat implemented this idea before (but just with Ruby, so obviously a much smaller project.) At the time, one of my biggest to-dos was AJAX support, to allow two people (i.e. a teacher and student) to play with a piece of code together as if they were on the same machine, with either person being able to hit "re-run" at any time and both seeing the updated output. Then I started getting into the details of trying to create a shared interactive debugger, and it started to get out of my range of ability ;).

One suggestion for this, though, copied from something I did in my little project: provide another field (optional, perhaps hidden by default) for batch STDIN, so it doesn't crash on the sample here (a simple Ruby call to gets): http://codepad.org/xz0E5olm
"Bookmark a link" in my browser? (???) A link that lets me post? (What does that mean?) I'm more confused than before. I want a button that says "post", and presents a textfield that I can put a URL in.
Really cool. I thought of something related yesterday, which would be a place where people could submit code to get comments and feedback from the community about how they would have coded something differently. It would be useful for both newbies, business people, experienced programmers, web programmers, and people who've known COBOL for 20 years and want to learn about new languages. And, for each program, someone could submit code that does the same thing in a different language, especially web languages. This is really awesome and would facilitate this very easily! A good way to learn the proper way to do something, especially with web languages that may change every major version, is by asking questions of experts in an IRC chat, and then watch them argue amongst each other about the best way to implement something. This would solve that problem by letting people browse, search, or reference a particular post or example or add on to it. I'm thinking of a wiki/social news/forum/code execution app.
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This reminds me a bit of that site Utility Mill, but, of course, that one is for long-term versioned Python code.

Nice work.
the individual components of what you're talking about basically exist:

http://refactormycode.com/ - comments on people's code, discussions about refactoring

http://rosettacode.org/ - common pieces of code implemented in different languages
This is a very interesting idea. In fact, a concept like this may very well go beyond the game itself.

Please keep us informed on how your score based ads work out.
Limited Documentation = really almost non-existent, except few samples, and few lines here and there in their website.

I am not sure it is by laziness, or it is purposely done to scare n00bs away from it.

It's a pitty when somebody takes the time to built a decent and useful framework, but just hinders its adoption, by not going the extra mile and providing good documentation.
I feel like I had heard of RescueTime many years ago...could that be possible?
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Upvoted! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=128746
Er, did you read the thread that got him banned? It wasn't clear whether he was a troll or just a total whackjob, but either way he had to go. It wasn't even a borderline case.
>> 0.15 * 5 * 24 * 30 * 0.12
=> 64.8

if your 5 computers take 150 watts each and it's 12 cents per kilo-watt hour, then your bill would be $65

they must spend a lot of time asleep or something.
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That is interesting, food and restaurants actually seemed cheaper in SF than in Toronto. I haven't really visited the US much outside of the Bay Area and New York, so it's hard to compare with other places.
I can't help to notice that apparently 10% of the population of Antarctica is reading hacker news.
Midwestern college town? Champaign, IL! I had a place near campus for $230/month with parking. You can probably live on $600 a month. Also, tech guys come through here all the time (UIUC cs students are fairly sought-after, especially because they'll work for less than their Cal equivalents) so you'll be in good company. And they usually bring free pizza; there are a couple weeks a semester around the job fair when the recruiters are hanging out in town that you can live off of free pizza about every other day. On that note, there's also a bunch of students that you could get to hack part-time if you needed a man-hour boost. There's tons of really bright students here that will work for peanuts if you pitch it right.

The downtown area is reasonably nice and, if you wanted an office, there's a bunch going up right now in the heart of downtown. If you really need a big city, you can get to chicago in ~2.5 hours.

The down side: if you drive more than 10 miles in any direction, you might start to regret your decision. Central Illinois is flatter than you might be able to conceive if you're not from the midwest. There's really just endless fields of crops in every direction outside the city - they say you can see 10 miles in any direction on a clear day, 20 if you stand on a tuna can. Also, it was in the low 60's 2 days ago... today it snowed about 6 inches with sleet and plenty of wind. I guess you get what you pay for.
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Hope you stick around :-)
Yeah, I was actually surprised how cheaply I got restaurant food in SF the last time I was there. It wasn't really any more than Pittsburgh and was definitely cheaper than NYC prices. I figured it was somewhat reasonable because there is so much agriculture nearby. I also meticulously picked out restaurants on yelp and ended up at mostly ethnic places.
I guess "motivating" would be too obvious.
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Not a bad research idea.
About freaking time.
"Remember folks, just because something performs better spec-wise doesn't mean it actually sounds better. Specs are one thing, psychoacoustics are another."

This is an important consideration I think many ignore. There can be variability in how ICs, power, and speaker cables sound which does not always correlate to how fancy or expensive they are.
That is very interesting.

I would be grateful if you let us know in a couple of days (or enough time to get a decent data set?) how many people are using the feature (and if it has any noticeable effect on user behaviour), and what kind of clickthrough rates the ads have...
Obviously this sort of thing is an improvement over all the various contortions one must do to achieve that w/o "css tables"... nesting and negative margins and what-have-you, but I feel like using "display:table-cell" obscures the designer's intent, kind of. That sample layout isn't a table, it's a layout.
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My poll is missing.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=129154
"...	Codepad.org, a pastebin that executes code ..."

Very nice. Tried "import this" & "hello world in c". There is a poll over on arclanguage that asks if users want this type of functionality (hosted arc repl). I was surprised that more didn't want this type of feature to hack with Arc ~ "A hosted repl" : http://arclanguage.org/item?id=4070
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I have the same problem with polls not showing up.
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Given that the more established alternative is incentivize, which is at least 50% more awful, I welcome this newly abbreviated word.
Congratulations on your new status :-)
Yes, but it functions like an HTML table, and that's the point. While a Firefox tab may look completely different from what a tab originally is (like one in a folder), it functions the same, and so the term is carried on.

I think the important thing is that CSS can finally model behavior identical to using a table tag. And as I said in my other comment, it's about time, since tables are one of the most used HTML design (what CSS is for, after all) elements.
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A site I was on a while back used pictures of baboons. From behind.
Launching A Startup is Barely Step One
It all boils down to this basic principle: a happy employee is a productive employee!
hahaha.
Ok, so, where are you jey?
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http://codepad.org/H2wMdxsA

Didn't know this one about python. Thanks kilowatt.

By the way I can't "paste and run": Error 500 Internal Server Error. Looks like the site is popular as it gets (well deserved).
Exactly--tables (CSS or otherwise) are meant for _tabular_ data, like you would see in a spreadsheet, not page layouts. And if you want to use a table, the semantic way is to use a <table> tag, not a <div> or something else disguising as one.
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Nothing wrong with the article, but I was expecting... optimizations. It seems to instead be a list of additional software your average desktop user may find useful.
There are several pastebins with syntax highlighting: http://rafb.net/paste http://pastie.caboo.se http://pastebin.com/
The trouble with Steve Jobs
I think the 4-day work week is genius recruiting. How much more would you have to offer me to take a job that demanded an entire extra day of my week? How long until other smart companies start offering this benefit?

And I think they're right: you're going to get the same amount of shit done. The best developers on our team work round the clock, because they love what they're working on.
Why, may I ask?

I'm contemplating to skip Zope3 to learn Plone. I'm also tinkering with the idea of purchasing Plone 3 book by Martin Aspelli. I heard the book is good and it gives you enough information about Zope3 to learn Plone.
What a coincidence! we are in the same Galaxy!
Doesn't seem like a very useful article. DVD playback, etc, are givens....even for people new to ubuntu (you'll find the info with any google search). And is amarok really that much better than rhythmbox? Seems a bit KDE oriented.
During an interesting project with my previous employer, a friend and I both put 80-hour weeks for a month, even though our manager told us that they can only pay us for a max of 50 hours a week due to their policies (it was a big corporation). Still we were happy to do it because the project was challenging. So when I read that 37signals is reducing their work week it puzzles me!! If their employees are happy, shouldn't they be staying overtime anyway? And how can a 5-day week and a 4-day week produce the same amount of work, unless a lot of time is wasted on non-productive activities?
I think a lot of great blog entries have started off as comments to thought provoking questions. My most recent entry about strategic ads started off as a reply when someone asked if placing ads on a site would even work if the blog is targeted for techies.
I love the line of thinking here, but please don't try this with you're pre-revenue cash burning startup. Best wait till you have solid profits, plenty of users and a nice 'moat' around your business as Warren Buffet would say.
He really is the master at saying a lot of words and actually communicating nothing.
Will there be any PHP support?
Given how much free software is developed by volunteers across the planet, communicating almost entirely, if not entirely, over email, I don't see why a "distributed startup" couldn't work in theory.

I worked for about 18 months developing avionics networking software for a big company, and I worked almost entirely by myself in this country; most of my co-workers were in China. Even the people that I did communicate with locally, we usually spoke over email/IM.

As a maintainer for a GNU package, though, it seems that volunteers come and go, and their interest levels vary wildly. I think that the big problem with distributed startups wouldn't be, "can we actually develop a product this way?", but rather, people would feel more free to just up and leave the project, and never be heard from again, if there wasn't more of a social, in-person bond to the company.

This begs the question... could a startup be run as a quasi-volunteer project like GNU? Contributors would likely expect to be paid, either in cash or in equity, if the project is a commercial business venture, so that detail would have to be sorted out somehow or another. But it might be doable.
It's about not burning yourself out and promoting results over putting in hours. I'm sure if employees at 37signals want to work more, no one is going to stop them. You can be happy without working overtime at a job you love.

The more time that your job allows you not to be there, the more time you have to pursue passions of your own choosing. This makes for more well-rounded, happier, employees. And it's this well-roundedness that's going to pay off for them in the long-run.

Personally, I love that 37signals is challenging so much of the status quo in business.
DHH though worked as a consultant building rails as an in-house tool, while 37S developed web pages.

Not saying it's impossible, but they don't fit the "startup over the internet" analogy.
Probably very low. Until the entire environment gets easier, I think most people that successfully learn Lisp will be the most dedicated to it, and if they're that dedicated then they'll want a more powerful editor.
Am I glad that you're not my boss. Please get a clue and read Peopleware (The "Spanish Theory Management" section applies here in spades).

"If their employees are happy, shouldn't they be staying overtime anyway?" is precisely the wrong way to look at this.

* If an employee is happy, expecting them to work more hours is probably not the best way to keep them happy.

* Productivity goes down when you spend 16 hours a day at work. Creativity suffers as well.

* Morale goes down when engineers realize that managers are too incompetent to schedule tasks appropriately.

* Morale goes down when engineers realize that managers don't understand that results aren't proportional to face time.

Any hacker aspiring to be an entrepreneur should rebel at being asked to put in 80 hour weeks for $0. You're not going to do your best work, and your life/health will suffer. It defies common sense.
well django is definitely a good starting point.. but turbogears has very advanced templating engine... but for a beginning (like yours truly), django is very easy to setup and get it running..
I've submitted stuff from my blog before (maybe 1 in 10 of my posts) but this week someone submitted one of my posts for me for the first time (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=128805). It was actually lifted from a comment I made on YCNews that got some votes so I thought it would be a decent blog post. Nothing special so I didn't submit it. Well, it hit the front page of Reddit and YCNews and it my most viewed post ever (over 4K in one day)!

I felt a little cheesy submitting my posts before, but since no one knew I had a blog, I figured it was worthwhile (turned out well, four posts with over 3K views compared with ~200 for the other posts). Now that I've had others submit me, if I write something that I want to submit, I'll give it a few days to see if anyone else does it for me.

And spydez, I replied to all of the comments!
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I'd also like to hear some results from this.
I like this. This could be a big change in how ads are served online, and since ad-supported is one of the most important business models for internet sites, that's saying something.
Yep, companies can do this, but startups still have something to prove.
good. I was getting tired of all those polls.
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I'm not sure I understand. What does django do better?

Content, quality of work: What are you talking about?