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The issue at hand, isn't the people in the first world.

how would you move a city like Mumbai? Or how about any of the villages in the hinterlands, like Waynard Kerala, Nagpur Maharashtra, random village in Bihar.

There is very strong regional centrism when CC gets discussed on the web (for obvious reasons). Local government has a hard time getting by now, in the places that have it at all.

Moving a city? Building infrastructure to manage water shortages?

I do not see how those human beings, with those resources, are going to achieve that.

Only a few groups can talk about adapting to climate change.
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As someone managing a small software edition company and selling yearly subscription licenses, I can totally get their business decision. Otherwise, you get the "Microsoft Word 97" effect, when people still use the same old software for 15 years, never upgrade, and complain about your software.

Having a recurring revenue is the best way to be able to manage a company, because it gives you a better view for your next years' budgets, and you can more easily plan investment and hirings.

What is wrong, is probably how jetbrain seems to change their pricing and businell model far too often, lacking direction, and pretending it's for the customers (it's only very indirectly for the customers benefit).
Besides, I wouldn't mind paying whatever they want if they would just improve their release quality so that I don't get afraid of breaking my project everytime I update.
How true is this for that 44% currently using iphones?

Iphones stay good enough for at least 2-3 years, if you're not picky. $600/3 = $200. $17 per month, 0.56 cents per day.

It's not nothing. But it is nothing compared to what the iphone class spends on, say, coffee. There is the one-off hit from paying the $600 all at once, but credit cards reduce that pain somewhat.

Meanwhile, you're using the phone every day. If you have the money, you probably want a phone you really like, not one that is just good enough.

Don't get me wrong, I think these new "good enough" phones are going to capture a large part of the market. I just am not sure it will be the iphone part. Past a certain income level, $540 savings for years of daily annoyance isn't really a compelling saving.
I readily, happily accept that dedicated seed-stage investors, "angels", whatever we call them today, have different incentives and selection processes than "venture capitalists" in the Greylock sense.

I'm a little unclear on how the economics of seed-stage investors interlock with those of venture capitalists, and what level of influence VC decisions have over the whole ecosystem. But from the vantage point of a founder, modern seed stage investors seem like an unalloyed improvement.
When you explain your problem, I feel like we might share a trait, which I could pithily describe as difficulty separating/ranking/comparing/organizing/categorizing things. So, I find it very taxing to make the kinds of decisions you describe. I usually get there, but it's heavy lifting for me.

I don't think there's a silver bullet for you; you probably aren't incapable, but you may need to suffer through sub-optimal organization to hone this skill. What I will say is that, if you haven't worked on an existing project with highly complex organization (ideally one that has problems), doing so might help you. While I envision working directly on the project when I say this, there are cases where working with complex dependencies you need to get custom results out of can also be useful.

The point is that you want to be working with complex software (not simple interfaces) that requires a strong understanding of its internals to accomplish what you need. You'll know you're working on something on roughly the right magnitude of complexity when you regularly realize that your understanding of how the project or dependencies work is wrong, and your solution doesn't account for some hitch in how they work. The meta-point is that you're working with sub-optimal decisions other people made, and you either just have to deal with them and simmer to yourself about how _you_ would reorganize this mess if it was within scope, or you have to start refactoring their code (or building your own interface with it) that solves the problems with their design. The meta-meta point is that we're better at seeing problems in work other people have done than our own, but with effort we can train our eye on other people's work and (eventually) learn to focus it on our own.

At it's core, I think this is really about the cognitive overhead associated with working on and understanding a given implementation, so working on things that are cognitively overwhelming provides you an opportunity to learn about how to manage cognitive overhead. The result is hopefully that you learn to wrangle that complexity into an understanding that helps you do what you need without doing surgery, you build an interface that reduces the cognitive overhead enough that you can do what you need, or you refactor to accomplish the same.
Starting from zero, their pricing is lower over a set number of year. They got rid of the initial "hump" and in turn made the annual amount higher. I didn't look too closely but I guess the cost evens out over a 3-4 year subscription span. For a business this is actually going to simplify accounting I would think. It's no longer a cap-ex with a maintenance fee, it's just rental so all pre-tax.

My guess is that overall their spreadsheeting makes this even out based on how customers have been paying.

The fringe bits (loss of permanence, ability to install a home copy) will disproportionately hurt solo/small business folks and hobbyists. The very people that have been their champion getting their software into enterprise dev teams.

I don't understand why they don't go to the rental model with optional one-time permanent license add-on.

So like hypothetically 100$/year rental and a 100$ supplement for permanent license. Basically option into the current deal. They can even make the sum total greater then it used to be. Like 120$/year rental + 100$ permanent license supplement.
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That's not the message (most) are conveying. The formula is:

Great team + great market = great business (for some definition of great, almost always < 1bn)

Great team + great market + luck = billion dollar business.
I've always wondered how they kept the accounting for the money spend on driver bought by family members etc.

My CPA would not like that.
> Their first response was that it's cheaper than before. Except it's not. Did they think I wouldn't actually go look at the prices?

Uh - their "everything" price is $20/month = $240/year (or $200 for the annual plan)

(All renewal at current license price)

PHPStorm - $129

PyCharm - $99

ReSharper Ultimate - $600 (no renewal price)

If I were to purchase that with their old license it would cost me $828, with the new plan I only pay $240. And those are just the tools I have an immediate need for (I do Python, PHP, and C# on an almost daily basis).

$20/month for their full suite of tools? Count me in.

When I first found their tools - I was like "ehhh I don't know - I'll stick with Eclipse/Netbeans etc". Eventually I tried IntelliJ, PHPStorm and PyCharm and they have been the best IDEs I've ever used. Trust me I'll advocate open source when I can - but after all the issues I've had with Eclipse and Netbeans I almost just totally switched to vi.
It's been on my wishlist for quite some time that browser vendors need to start implementing expanded cubic-bezier() timing functions, now.

Bouncing, elastic, and spring easings can't be done easily with CSS. These easings are now increasingly common in apps yet are very tedious to do on websites.
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All these threads complaining about JetBrains decision are actually debating what we as customers should do. I think you missed that point.

We give JetBrains a chance to change it's mind by this public outrage, and if they don't listen – many people will switch.
I've not needed any of the new PyCharm features in about two years - but I've still purchased the new versions. In fact, as I work for an open-source company, my PyCharm license at work is free. I buy the personal license for home even though I don't work on non-free software... because I want to support JetBrains.
You can use the open source community edition of many of their products forever...
ZTE is as big as Huawei. Both of ZTE and Huawei manufacture telecom equipments. Umi is a tiny company. That's why ZTE phone is much better than Umi phone.
I am planning to do a writeup on the core algorithm myself.

But in a few words: linear algebra and integrals.

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There's a very simple explanation for why anything that floats wouldn't ever appear in the lake, even though the Kettle drains to it:

| | Kettle
| |
|~| |~~~~ Lake
| |____|
|___________

The water level would equalize between the Kettle and the Lake, but there's no way for anything that floats to get over.
I'll give you a billion dollars if you stop saying "unicorn" like it actually means something.
The subdivision served multiple purposes: it increased revenue by segmenting the market, and it allowed for a level of specialization that was difficult to achieve with a single tool. For example, some of the PyCharm stuff requires hacks that most Java developers wouldn't want in their IDE, and I honestly wouldn't want to deal with any Java stuff if I can avoid it.

At the end of the day, the announcement is just corporate speak for "we need more money more regularly, so from now on you're going to pay rent; to make it a bit sweeter, rent includes use of swimming pool and sauna, which you may or may not need". Most businesses switching to SaaS don't do it for the customer, they do it for themselves.
When it stops being a massive PITA to use...

I HATE Eclipse, it's a massively bloated POS IMHO and I wouldn't touch it with a 10' pole. Eclipse is what drove me FAR away from IDE's until a friend recommended JetBrains to me and I found how awesome it was.

OSS fanatics drive me up a wall. I don't have unlimited amounts of time to customise something a ton just to make it useable. I'm not going to make my life harder on purpose so that I can sit on my high horse. I want to get things done not be constantly futzing around with display drivers, font rendering, icon sets, endless pages of customization, etc. Do you have full control in OSS? Yes, but the defaults normally suck.

I want something that takes me to 80-90% on day 1, I don't care if I can take it to 100% in OSS (it normally starts at 20% at best), it's simply not worth my time. Now given 2 products, one closed and one OSS that perform equally or close to equally well out of the box I will lean towards OSS but I'm not going to go out of my way to use it just so I can tout my neck-bearded-ness. Money = Time and I'm not interested in wasting the "non-renewable" one of the two.

Note: none of this applies to servers, linux is the only thing I'd ever consider using on a server. This is primarily aimed at OSS programs and OS's (Open Office or whatever they are calling it now, Eclipse, Linux on the desktop, etc)
It might not be fair; it's just that in my mind one moment Microsoft was hyping Silverlight and the next moment they were discontinuing it. That's not a nice way to treat your customers.

What Microsoft should have done is to make it compile to HTML5. Something like SmartGWT is a great way to write interface in Java. It may even be the way the Java ends up on the desktop again.
I think you are saying that climate change may not necessarily occur? Why do you think so? (Just curious)
Microsoft recently did the same thing, requiring you to sign in with a Microsoft Account to continually re-activate Visual Studio (90 days, I think). So now, even with an MSDN sub, after it expires, you don't get the software. Rather significant change. Though, with BizSpark and other programs it will probably only impact larger companies.

Plus when customers view changes like this as unfair or unethical, they suddenly find themselves caring a lot less about using a disassembler and changing some jumps.
Not necessarily grow or die; you can try to build a number of $10M/y businesses instead of growing one to $1B/y one. I won't hazard to guess which approach is harder.
I can't understand what interests has Murdoch when he spreads hysteria and panic for months against the "30 million of romanian and bulgarian immigrants aiming UK" which was highly improbable and failed to materialize and now when confronted with actual waves of immigration from 3rd world or muslim countries, known to be hard or impossible to assimilate, they switch the tape and it's all emotions, humanity and manipulation. "Someone" does not have the best interests of british or european people at heart.
potentially, but stock Android tells the carrier it's tethering, and there's no way around it. CM doesn't. http://danielpocock.com/android-betrays-tethering-data

You can hack around both TTL values and user-agent btw. Deep packet inspection, maybe less so
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Great. You've decided to focus on terminology. Congratulations.

Am I wrong about YC's central operating principle?

Are they not explicit about it?

Does their track record prove them wrong?
Thanks for the reply! It's actually not an issue for me at all, my comment was more about the legitimacy of the OP's arguments.
You know, 3 years ago I would have called that paranoid. Now? Not so sure.
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I have been at it since 1999 and I have never paid anyone to write a resume for me.
I am actually familiar with Lisp and was wondering what to do to bring people over, not try it myself. I doubt the parentheses is a huge problem, because like you said, it can be trivially automated using your favorite tool.

I think what the Lisp world needs is a huge push from one of the big players. Not just an in-house, small-ish tool, but rather a publicly-facing bet on it, as dramatic as Facebook's bet on javascript with reactjs, or Twitter's move to Scala. After a 15 minutes survey I couldn't find an example of a big, respected company whose tool chain has a substantial Lisp project for other people to contribute to. Sure you can find multiple companies building Lisp solutions, but those rarely open source them and even when they do they are no where near as substantial to warrant massive public attention.

I sincerely think that this the only thing standing between Lisp and universal adoption.
I bought a Xiaomi Note 2 months ago and really happy with it. It's comparable to an iPhone in terms of quality and at least twice cheaper (~315$). The only downside is that you have to figure out how to install Google Play Store by yourself (and most online tutorials on how to do it are outdated).
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The updated graphics work better for MI2 than MI1. That's because the MI2 graphics were scanned. (They even admit to that in the audio commentary.)
My most interesting "great idea" actually wants to be a non-profit. OTOH a friend thinks it's also potentially a billion dollar idea because of the total lack of anything in the space. But that would require finding a way to reap the rewards without driving away the users - they can not be the product in this case.
No, I believe the idea is that if water wasn't flowing through the pathway that we would have a lot more options for exploring where it goes with various equipment.
I use a lot of Jetbrains' IDEs and have for years: ReSharpe, dotCover, etc., WebStorm, PHPStorm. I also have Rubymine but probably won't need it after the license expires. I use the first three often enough that I'd keep renewing the license to keep up with versions.

The use-it-all yearly price is cheaper, plus I can try their other IDEs. (Looking at you AppCode!)

Seems like a win to me. I heard about the change through the OP, which filled me with dread. Then I went to their website, which filled me with relief.

I've always found their IDEs worth the price.
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I've personally not had problems with https://www.coinbase.com/ thus far. I'm not a power user though, either.
I'm glad it's better for you (really!).

But they shouldn't present it as better for everyone when it's clearly not.
Personally, they had lost my goodwill already with their old upgrade policy. If you bought a license on 01/2014, it expired on 12/2014, and you didn't need the product again until 04/2015, the upgrade you purchase in April begins on 01/2015, retroactively beginning after the end of the previous license. So you don't get the full 12 months they charge you for. When I realized that it was the end of my support for them.
> Uh - their "everything" price is $20/month = $240/year (or $200 for the annual plan)

If you need that.

The individual products are more expensive with the subscription plan if you buy a license starting 1/1/2016
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I looked up other phones and really No, the number do not back that up.

The Nokia N95 sold 7 million units in a year after launch, pretty much exactly the same numbers as the original IPhone.

Unless you are declaring the N95 a wild crazy success you are talking rose tinted nonsense.
Which one?

https://www.giffgaff.com/goodybags/15pound-goodybag

Can only find that, 15 pound plan by giffgaff, 4gb limit on data and a 10p charge per minute for calling UK landlines.

Then there's their 'always on' which isn't unlimited, it's 6gb which to me is practically unlimited. After the 6gb your speeds get reduced to a fraction (which I like, and up to 6gb you can tether btw).

But if you look at the phone+plan deals giffgaff has, they're all slightly cheaper per month and with the phone included there's no upfront costs and it's still cheaper than buying the phone separately.

It does make sense of course if you can find a new-quality, second-hand phone, at a second-hand price, or if you travel so much that any plan no matter the pricing really makes little sense in the first place.
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> I'll take marks off for 2011 being too early, but not for the datatype choice.

I would. If he had said something like "XML is most popular... but really meant for documents not data, so something similar will probably replace XML" then I would have given full marks, even if he didn't specify JSON or BSON explicitly.

(I would give ~50% though, not 20%)
"...where would you put a day's worth of river water?"

The other side of the river, by diverting all the water down the falls. River flows certainly vary by more than half in this part of the country/world (I'm in Michigan but it's not so different), so if you do it during a down time of the year you would not be creating a flow the rest of the river bed could not handle.

I'm not saying this is a "good" idea but it isn't a bad one in the sense you're suggesting. There is a place to put the water.
If that's the solution then I guess I might as well get started with it now.

Edit: oh, exactly one of their products has a Community Edition. Guess that's not much of an option after all, unless that's the one product you need.
What I don't get is why a developer would ever use proprietary software in the first place. I code—it's what I do. I want to tools to be excellent, certainly, and I don't want to have to spend a lot of time fixing them where they aren't, but I want to be able to improve them for my use cases. Who else in the world is as capable at knowing what I need as…me?

If you use proprietary software, you're at the mercy of the vendor for features and, as this shows, for pricing and pricing model changes.
> I don't want to run a $10M company, I want to run a $10BN company. It's the difference between tee ball and Major League.

Why stop at $10BN? That doesn't get you into the Global 500.

For that matter, if you want to "run a $10BN" company, what makes you think the best path to that is by doing a startup? Of the Global 500 how many of the CEOs come from startup backgrounds? None of the top 10.

If you really want to run a giant company, your best shot might be to work at a giant company for a really long time and become the boss.
It's great breaking the math down like that.

A billion dollar company (~$100 million per year in revenue with 10x valuation multiplier) requires $274,000 per day in revenue (which is $8.33 million per month, or $3.20 per second, every second of the year).

To actually receive a billion in revenue requires $2,740,000 per day (which is $83.33 million per month. Broken down further it reaches $32.00 per second, which doesn't sound impossible).

To become Apple, you would need about $329,000,000 in revenue every day (which is $10 billion per month, averaging out to $3,800 per second).
In the previous thread on the announcement I expressed some concerns (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10165919). An employee responded:

"I see this is turning into a conspiracy theory )
Fortunately, there's a little thing called competition that prevents raising rates at will without facing the consequences, and JetBrains is no exception: we're no monopoly"

So the message first was "We did this for YOU!" and then quickly became "Hey! You can always go elsewhere..."

Doesn't sound like something they did for my benefit.
Next big thing? Nah. But it's pretty useful in industrial applications. And videographers would definitely take it. Consumers too probably - a lot of mobile phones do limited slo-mo today

Sony is dominating in many different areas in image sensors - high framerates is just one of them. There's a reason they have 40% of the market