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"And I'm telling you, even then, convincing managers is not easier than convincing any other investor"

You should know your manager much better than you know your investor. If you know someone, you should be better equipped to share your vision with them. Then, three things can happen a) your vision is rejected because it has a flaw you did not see b) your vision is rejected because it does not match your manager's situation (you should put more effort in getting to know your manager's situation!) or c) your idea is accepted. Of course, (b) is really hard. Then again, most programmers I know don't evaluate their corporate structures and people as thoroughly as they evaluate code.
actually...(1.0-2.0)+((((3.0+4.0)x(5.0-(6.0/7.0)))x8.0)x9.0) == 2087
And Arrested Development. That show being cancelled made me hate Americans.
Very funny. The Australia Australian Antarctic Territory isn't recognized by the USA. Something about the legitimacy of the claims, and possible mineral rights.
I think so too. We've enjoyed some good times with security-through-obsecurity on OSX but it's not going to last forever. I'm leaning towards wanting most of my apps being vetted and distributed through a trusted source. Of course I would want to keep the option to install anything I wanted. Given the choice I would choose to install via a Mac App Store whenever possible. I feel like anti-virus, anti-malware, etc are like missile defense. Yeah it might work most of the time, in theory, but if one slips past and hits your city it doesn't really matter. I find when I use Windows these days I am irrationally paranoid about installing any third party software. If/When OSX increases in popularity and becomes a bigger target I fear the same thing will happen.
But not for much longer according to this:

http://domains.adrforum.com/domains/decisions/1297333.htm
Not owned by Google though: http://whois.domaintools.com/wwwbing.com

The best $10k either company could possibly spend would be buying that domain from the guy.
Could smart phones be used to provide a "have something" security model?

Could an OTP generator like RSA SecurID do the trick? Let's say you enter two memorized numbers and then the last two numbers on the fob to make the four digit PIN (you would not want the whole PIN to be on the fob). Bonus: you need to use it for web logon as well.

Some customers will pay extra for such services. Potentially avoiding hassles like ATM fraud and identity theft in the first place is worth a small fee per month to me because of the massive timesuck that could take place if they happened.
You can also do the makerbot yourself, as it's also fully open source.
I disagree. You are effectively saying elementary school teaching activities do not change and are the same now as compared to 20, 30 years ago. I admit there might be some valid cases of "evergreen" articles, but I would argue that for these cases, showing the date will not take away anything from the article.

Readers are smart, trust them to put the date in the proper context rather than hide it from them.
As David Heinemeier Hansson said on Twitter this evening:

Worst elevator pitch I've heard in a long time: "Salesforce.com is the enterprise cloud-computing company". Could it be more contentless?

I still have no idea what Salesforce is. Their marketing sites are so loaded with buzzwords that I find that it's almost too much work to try to learn more.
Would be great if you shared the "Idea Sieve"!
As per my other comment Microsoft won the complaint and is getting the domain back.
Random idea: they might be using a single pixel "image" that they generate in memory, and then handing that image to their tiling routine, which duplicates and tiles it all over the massive resolutions we use today. Back in the day, using small tiling images on webpages was discouraged because slower computers/browsers would take forever to render them, even though they were simplistic in appearance.
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The FDM process is one of the rougher ones, but the end parts are much more durable. A little bit of sanding goes a long way.
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Actually, compared to 3D printers themselves... laser cutters are pretty cheap.
To be fair, in an industry that's as encumbered by patents as this one is, you can't expect things to innovate that quickly. There _are_ some innovations coming down the pipeline, however. Expect to see costs fall rapidly in the near future, making the tech even more accessible...

There's even business method patents on half of this.
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Actually, it was pretty obvious that although Microsoft Windows was the dominant OS of the time, it would not be in that position forever. You have to plan your software in a way it's easy to port it to whatever you will be running.

You know... There was a time OS/2 was the future.

Also, they could keep their apps modular (unlike what the Visual Studio code generators would give you) so that you could strip the IE-only part when required. Prefering Java over ActiveX and JavaScript over VBScript would also help a lot.
Atul Gawande wrote an article for the New Yorker in 2007 about checklists for inserting central lines in hospital ORs which elaborates on some of the points in this FT piece:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/12/10/071210fa_fact_...

The central line checklist was extremely basic — almost condescendingly so — and some doctors resisted it as a waste of time. Here's the checklist, from the article:

(1) Wash hands with soap
(2) Clean the patient’s skin with chlorhexidine antiseptic
(3) Put sterile drapes over the entire patient
(4) Wear a sterile mask, hat, gown, and gloves
(5) Put a sterile dressing over the catheter site once the line is in

That's it. Very, very basic. And yet one ICU that implemented it saw central line infection rates drop by 66 percent, and that's representative of the drop in infection rates at other hospitals that started using it.
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could you explain more about how the .NET CLR treats unsafe pointers differently. Any links?
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"MeetingMix charges meeting creators $4.95 a month"

I like the pricing which is so low (especially for the app which is aimed at busy corporates for whom probably $5 is worth less the time it takes them to yawn). Shawn, would be interested in your comments on how you arrived at the pricing?
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Someone should make one of these as an iPhone app for people stuck in boring conversations, only it shows an emailable invoice at the end based on the time wasted. ;)
They are not unfortunate. They are just poorly managed.

It never looked like Microsoft would support IE6 forever. You should always plan to upgrade your software or you will end up maintaining vintage hardware because it's the only thing that runs your vintage software.

Not that it's not fun to maintain old computers - I keep a collection of machines from the late 70's through mid-to-late 90's - but it's no fun if your business depends on them working reliably.

Computers get pretty temperamental in their teens.
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Then the congratulations are not for you ;-)
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I liked this article, but at the end, it seems like the author conflates dynamic and interpreted languages:

> Interpreted languages like Ruby, Python, Perl, and yes, even PHP, are now replacing compiled languages...Yes I am aware Ruby, Python, Perl, and PHP can now be compiled, but they will always retain their dynamic heritage.

As far as I know, it's only historical accident and ease of programming that has made them correlate.
Me as well. What I don't see is people saying "I want to have great/efficient meetings, but I just don't know how."

Maybe this can make the job slightly easier for people who already run good meetings, but I'm skeptical it's going to convert anyone.
I think the approach the article is making is that it pays to be methodical about deciding to invest in something, it's not about saying that startups will be predictable, but about reducing risk. Planes just happen to be a case where risk can be reduced to a pretty minimal level with a good enough checklist.
I wonder if Dawkins is aware of this ecosystem?

Recent discussion: the truth dogs reveal about evolution

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1057835
The whole VC pitch process is basically a test that VCs run to detect future success. Obviously, it's badly prone to false negatives and false positives. So I think the thesis of the article is that checklists help VCs reduce both those error rates.

I don't think, however, that Gawande's necessarily saying that checklists improve a VC's winner detection algorithm; just that checklists help the VC make sure to run the algorithm thoroughly.
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I think there's a market for something similar, but stripped down–for users with knowledge of HTML and CSS.

Stripped down web services for users competent in html and CSS is not a market. Those guy don't fork out the money, and they don't write about monetizable topics, so their visitors tend to be cheap as well.
We want someone to see this and start using it without worrying about the cost. Before launching we met with managers to understand what prices they're able to expense without needing additional approval. We learned that this wildly varied depending on the company's size though, so we decided to go with the simplest model and price it at the lower end. Hope this helps!
Not $750 cheap.
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Yes, thanks for reply. But do you mean that you could change the pricing depending on the initial feedback? In that case, won't it be difficult to break the perception?
"This is something that really irks me about online discussions; we're not having a formal debate here, not passing policies, we're having an informal conversation about jobs."

Sure. But if someone makes an interesting claim, especially one that contradicts their own experience, knowledge, or intuition, they'll likely want to know if you know something they don't. So, people like me ask for more information, specifically concrete data. If I find out it's just a gut feeling, or a guess, or whatever, that's fine by me. But I just want to know.

"I gave an opinion and stated it as such...yet my opinion isn't valid because I don't have research data to back it up?"

Maybe.

Not all opinions are valid. Sure, you're entitled to believe what you want, but if you make it public then expect others to ask questions, and absent any evidence or a good argument, to scoff.
This.

Just a little bit of sanding, some filler, some paint... it yields a pretty nice product.

I wish the photos weren't so craptastic, but my friend rob made a plastic combination lock on a high-end 3D printer. While the resolution is certainly a lot tighter than MakerBot, it still is easy to tell it was printed in layers. Even the high-end rapid prototypers do this.
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True, those guys may not be forking out the money, but their clients might. The benefit of easy installation and customization could easily outweigh the cost of implementing traditional methods or hacking Disqus to pieces.
Yes. Thankyou.
We can look at IE now and criticize. But IE 5/Mac was awesome. IE 5.5/6 on Windows were so much better than netscape. MS might have done some dodgy stuff to get them there - but at the same time they delivered the goods technically.
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Of course. But give Neil Gershenfeld another year or two. He's working on it.
And they auto-translate the website to the language of the browser. So if yo happen to access the page with e.g. de_DE as preferred language, they sound like complete morons.
(@jamesbritt I accidentally hit the downmod arrow (I meant to upmod) . Could someone up mod this please? Thanks in advance.)

"Sure, you're entitled to believe what you want, but if you make it public then expect others to ask questions, and absent any evidence or a good argument, to scoff."

The "make it public" is key. Sure we are not having a debate, but then no one is asking for results from double blind randomized trials either.

For me to say something (and expect people to accept the truth of what you say - I could be honestly mistaken for example), asking for data is a good thing. It forces me to reflect on why I say what I say and if the "why" is weak, then maybe I need to rethink.

".yet my opinion isn't valid because I don't have research data to back it up?"

Your opinion is valid as an opinion. it isn't valid enough to be accepted by other people without data/logic/whatever backing it up.

It might help if any such request, even if abrasively phrased, could be reinterpreted as"What makes you think so?".
Ask HN: Recommendations For Making A Politicians Site 2010
I am making a website for a local politician running for a state office. After the last presidential election I walked into his office today and he said to me, "I want you to do what Obama had done."

Whats your recommendations for Facebook pages and what not? should there be his page and then a group for the office he is running for? or a separate political page?

What do you guys think?
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Have you seen a V-Flash print up close? You really have to be looking to see the layers. That goes for stuff like Z Corp, too.

And you're not even going to be able to see the 10 micron resolution on an Object machine.
You have to include a lot more in a binary to make a dynamic language compilable to machine language.

So there's some natural fit to running a dynamic language on a virtual machine.

That said, you're completely correct that you can compile dynamic languages to machine language, and that static languages (hello Java) run great on virtual machines.

His "history" of languages is pretty warped too. The original IBM Fortran compiler could produce code as efficient as assembler. That was a design requirement. The issue in the early days was that -- for those who were capable -- writing machine language was quicker than having to go through the additional step (on batch processing machines) of getting the code compiled.

Furthermore, the original FORTRAN compiler was designed to turn algebra-like expressions into 704 machine code. What really made HLLs take off was the idea that you could abstract away the particulars of the machine. This decoupled programs written in HLLs from particular machines, it also made the abstraction layer much thicker than existed in FORTRAN I.

For a long time, there was performance gap between code written with contemporary HLLs and hand-tuned machine code. If you had a particularly tight loop of a program, it might make sense to write it in assembly for at least some of the supported platforms, to avoid the gap. Actually that gap still exists in some situations, but compilers have gotten better and Moore's Law has reduced the effect.

He seems to think that there was some fundamental cultural shift at work -- when in fact it was a matter of a slow evolution of compiler and machine technology which eventually changed the engineering calculation such that hand-writing assembler code has become a very rare activity.
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We might some day shift to a tiered strategy with different features/prices, but existing users won't be affected.
so does http://wwbing.com

edit: i see now that ALL the urls are listed in that complaint down there. sorry about that.
Ask HN: Is it weird to ask users to pay via CC through a desktop app?
I'm working on something that would take payments (via credit card) from within a desktop application. Is that weird? The purchase is for something physical that would be received via real mail (which the application helped make).

It's not that it wouldn't be secure or anything like that. I'm not going to store the payment information -- just keep a record that it happened successfully.

I suppose I could make it so users would have to buy credits on the website and those credits would show up in the desktop app version as well as online. But that seems like an extra step for some users. I also don't want to hide the real cost of the service from users by saying "$10 is 382 credits and one use of the service is 342 credits" or anything like that. Associating cash cost with the product is fine.

Thoughts? Am I over-thinking this?
I'm pretty sure this was written by a German.
Honestly, yes it was :-/

In fact, I met a lot of people here who came from the midwest and all of them either hate it or have already left (I'm from the midwest too).

Seattle is a gorgeous city, when I first came here it blew me away how beautiful it is. But there's just something about this area that really didn't jive with me. I agree "sleepy but not in a good way" is one good way to describe this area.
Gotta love his defense, given the collection of names he has seems like a decently crafted lie.
If you're into playing around with materials... check out this blog.

http://open3dp.me.washington.edu/?cat=6

This dude is on the cutting edge of new material stuff. A lot of it is for Z Corp stuff, not FDM, but you might find some interesting nuggets there.
Quote from the article

"Those with other styles were not failures by any stretch – experience does count for something. But those who added checklists to experience proved substantially more successful."

And Buffett might argue with you that investing (VC or otherwise) should try to be predictable too!
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plus with more and more iphone owners, the switch from windows to mac will be an easier step to take.
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Competitor of Farmville:

"Tired of Farming. Try Digging"

The competitors innovation was a digging for treasure game.
The article explains what happened, but it doesn't explain why a non-complete clause ended up in a software agreement.

The PDF of the decision is a little more informative. It seems like he wrote software before being hired, worked on the software with the new company, then left. Things got ugly after that:

http://www.gasupreme.us/sc-op/pdf/s09a1485.pdf

The record reveals that TREC is a medical practice specializing in retina surgery. Coleman is a software engineer who was hired by TREC in 2000. Prior to his employment by TREC, Coleman wrote and marketed a medical billing program called Clinex. While employed by TREC, Coleman, with the assistance of the doctors who worked for TREC, modified the Clinex program to suit TREC’s specific business and developed an integrated retinal practice computer application called Clinex-RE. Clinex-RE is a software program that integrated electronic medical records and image storage with a billing software component. Clinex and Clinex-RE are different programs, and Clinex-RE only works in conjunction with Clinex. TREC contends that Coleman incorporated into his Clinex program proprietary information and trade secrets of TREC in order to develop Clinex-RE.

In 2003, Coleman and TREC entered into a Software Agreement that allocated the rights to Clinex and Clinex-RE between TREC and Coleman. Although the Software Agreement states that Coleman owns Clinex and that TREC only has a non-exclusive license to use and sell Clinex, Paragraph 8 of the Agreement provides that, “Coleman will not distribute, vend or license to any ophthalmologist or optometrist the Clinex software or any computer application competitive with the Clinex-RE software without the written consent of TREC.”
If investments in startups were predictable they would be loans. Venture capital exists because there is a gap for high-risk / high-return investments.
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Casual fans, such as myself, would very rarely bother to look it up and watch it online, but catching a half hour or so after the news might happen a few times a week.
Ask HN: Opinions on New Business Launch
Hi all,
It's not my intention to spam HN. I posted a story about my new business and it disappeared very quickly on the list (maybe wrong time of day to post?). Anyways - if this get ignored then i'll assume ppl are not interested and i'll scurry away with my tail between my legs hehe :)

I've been developing an ecommerce startup in my spare time over the last 2 years.

Ecommerce site builders are a-dime-a-dozen, so i tried to differentiate myself by including a fairly feature rich print catalogue builder.

I'd love to hear your opinion on a few things:
1. What do you think of the product/site?
2. Do you think there is a market for another ecommerce product (the shopify guys seem to be doing well - this gives me hope)?
3. Do you think that the catalogue builder can be enough of a draw card to get people to try wizifi?
4. Any marketing advice for a total marketing noob?

Thanks for your time - I value HN opinions.

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How would you classify Forth in terms of typing, and runtime binary size? :-)

The only reason dynamic languages need to do more to run on stock hardware is that mainstream processor design has been about optimizing for Fortran evaluation.

Algolish languages generate small binaries because their necessary runtimes are already pre-wired into the x86 :-)
The checklist technique, like anything else can be abused to the point of ineffectiveness. (So what's new?!)

When I was at Intuit, we had a VP (who was a management consultant in an earlier life) develop an "innovation pipeline" with checklists at each stage of the pipe line.
Anyone who had an idea for a new product had to run through this checklist before they could produce a prototype , get some funding, time etc. IIRC there were about a 20 questions in all and to move from stage to stage each set had to be answered in some detail. In theory it should have worked. In practice it was disaster. The answers to these questions had to make sense to the VP (who was very bright but knew nothing about prod dev or the local market, so nothing would get past her "approval sense") and a whole array of managers(and Intuit has a LOT of managers. Oh boy did we have managers everywhere) who had to approve of every item in the checklist before the person who proposed the idea could start moving on it.

Soon enough, anyone foolish enough to submit an innovative proposal would have to send endless powerpoint slides in support of every checklist question, usually to be gathered by a set number of what Intuit called "Follow Me home"s. When one manager was satisfied, the next would ask for more data on some other point. Then the first would have a rethink and ask for more data. People spent months gathering data for something that could have been bulit and deployed over a weekend and got real data from real customers (and people wonder why Intuit is stagnant!).

What I took away from observing this "pipeline" in action, is that anyone using a "checklist approach" to creative work should be well aware of its limitations. I guess this is good advice for any tool. Use it as a tool, not a crutch - a substitute for thinking or deciding.