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Actually you can use Open source tools to develop flash apps, like OpenLaszlow

Yeah, and? You just get more trade-offs. It's turtles all the way down.

And it's not like there are no distribution channels for your flash app, after all the internet is free and open

You'll sell more lemonade from a store shelf than a stand on your front lawn. The reason people are willing to give up 30% to a platform vendor or 50% to a game site is that actually getting your product in front of people and giving them a way to give you money is a pretty valuable service. You cannot just put something on some webpage and expect to make a cent. Believe me, many have tried.

I don't really give a damn what's good for Apple.

I never said you did. I'm just talking about the motives of another party, just like my first post. You seem to care quite a bit about their actions--I'm not clear on whether it's as a developer or as a user or both--so I just assumed that talking about motives would be relevant.

It's not really just about Apple, either. Flash is not going to be unseated by iPhone/iPad applications alone, but by the combination of HTML5 and growth of native applications on every platform that doesn't support Flash.

And yet there are still flash apps that I want to use that aren't available on the iPhone.

Yeah, and? Your point of control here is in choosing not to buy a device which doesn't suit your needs. That should be obvious.

But again: you probably don't care about those applications and not the fact that they're built on Flash. From Apple's perspective there are really only two possibilities: either development of Flash alternatives in the form of HTML5 and native applications eventually reach the point that your demands are met by their products, or they that never happens and that forever remains barrier to your interest in what they want to sell. I think there are very good reasons to believe the former is more probable than the latter. You may have dozens of other reasons to not want their product, but so long as you (and most people) don't demand Flash for the sake of Flash, it's nonsensical to include it.

I'm only concerned about whether or not Apple is serving my needs...

That's your business. I'm simply responding to your comments on my comments.

...whether or not blocking flash is a way to increase their profits or my enjoyment

The two are not mutually exclusive. In fact, they usually go hand in hand. If you buy a product and like it, you have both increased the maker's profits and your enjoyment. Everybody wins.

I believe at least part of Apple's intentions in blocking flash is to lock you in their own proprietary platform

How? Apple can't force anybody to develop for their platform.

I don't see how someone who develops iPhone applications is anymore "locked in" to the platform than someone who develops for the Mac, or Windows, or Flash, or Android, or Xbox, or whatever. I thought the whole complaint about the App Store was that everyone else was "locked out"?
Since you have been hanging out in HN for 2 yrs and just decided to create an account, you of all people should know that HN is very lenient towards self-plug; as long as you are upfront about the self-plug.

ie, Ask HN: Review my App/project/hobby-site

You can even submit your own site/blog as often as you want (as long as it is relevant to the audience), it is up to the audience to decide whether it merits 'upvotes' or not.

What chrischen did was not self-plugging or self promotion, it was just spamming.
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Yes, reading specific interviews is one way to read it.

Another way is reading every interview and comparing answers to the common questions Peter asked. Some answers are close to home, some unique, all interesting. Comparing them may be educational to all.
Would it be appropriate if it was his wife?
I am perfectly willing to stake FreeBSD's security on the belief that nobody will ever perform a brute-force search against a 256-bit keyspace.

For that matter, Microsoft, Apple, RedHat, Debian, and Ubuntu all make the same or (usually) even weaker assumptions in their respective packaging and/or updating systems.
It probably still makes sense to salt before hashing. It might take months to crack a password using bcrypt, but is there something preventing a database of bcrypt hashes being built? (serious question)
from the bcrypt page: the other [bit of terrible advice] recommends reversible encryption, which is rarely needed and should only be used as a last resort.

Why is reversible encryption a terrible idea for passwords?
Some one Hack my yahoo ID plz i want block my ID plz i want Block my .Do you help me.
Calling that 'stealing' has to be the logo equivalent of patenting resizable arrays...
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Hundreds of companies store/send back passwords in cleartext. I agree it is annoying and poor form for security, but hardly shocking.

Maybe someone could make a "Companies which store passwords in cleartext" database to name and shame them all.
You mean the one looking like she'd rather be vomiting than sitting there?
What kind of company are you? Are internships paid?
I'm in the NY area.
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This obviously is not in the spirit of what you're saying, but...

Python main() functions by Guido van Rossum

http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=4829
I agree on the line item veto. Deficit spending is so institutionalized at this point that we need real legislative checks & balances on spending. For the last ~30 years both parties have done it. The only point of contention is which party does it more. As long as it remains a political issue I don't see a good solution. For Pay As You Go I like the idea that you simply cannot spend this money. You can go back to your home district and tell the people you didn't vote for X, Y, Z because it was illegal to overspend. The system we have now makes spending too much of a political tool. We can't trust them to use it wisely.
I can't really agree with the apparent conclusion that the agency model is a good thing. It's more or less a revival of retail price mandates, where the manufacturer dictates to retailers exactly what they must sell a product for, instead of selling it wholesale and letting the retailer set its own prices.

That sort of manufacturer-set price model is popular in Europe but generally not permitted in the US, because it's rather anticompetitive: it effectively prohibits retailers from competing with each other on price, because they have no control over prices. Europe likes that, because it keeps companies like Amazon and Wal-Mart from undercutting the local bookstore, if it's illegal to sell books under list price; but I'm not sure it's good for consumers or, more generally, efficient markets.
Okay, two things:

But his money doesn’t come cheap. It’s typically 3.5 percent for the first 30 days, and 1.25 percent for every 10 days after that, an annualized percentage north of 40 percent. Most loans, he says, are repaid within 60 days.

Holy Crap! 40% annualized percentage rate. That's extortion.

But,

Last year, Hartsko lent roughly $150 million, compared with $84 million in 2008 and $60 million the year before that, he said. He estimates that the company will lend about $240 million this year. Profit, he says, was in the “high six figures” in 2009.

He's making a high six figure profit ( or < $1 million ) on $150 million of lending, but charging an annual percentage of %40 on what he's lent, something doesn't add up.
Yet another reason to switch to e-books... :)
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Wow I just checked up on HN and surprised to see a bunch of responses to this post.

Sorry if I offended anyone, but I want to offer an explanation as to why it's the only blog post. I don't have a blog. That's why it's the only blog post, and I've heard that it'd be better to submit a blog post instead of typing it all in the comment when submitting. So I decided to start a blog.

I really wanted to get that post out and google blogs kept on rejecting my display name so I kept adding to it until it worked. I also really wanted to go to sleep last night. But I am actually going to keep that URL, at least until I buy my own personal domain.

So yea I didn't intend to "spam" and I think I had something meaningful to say, so before you go ahead and label it as spam, please at least read it.

Also to address your statement about merit: I think that only applies in a perfectly ideal system. No offense to HN, but I don't think the system is perfectly ideal yet. I think there are probably tons of stuff that are deserving of attention but simply posted at the wrong time. I know this because I've seen lots of people post "duplicate" and what else could have caused it than the fact that the system somehow failed. And because I don't have perfect faith in the system I feel I had to "plug" it. But I did my best not to cheat. I think my link was at least somewhat appropriate (also I tried to be upfront about the promotion too by admitting I was desperate--that wasn't edited in).

So if you truly believe in a meritocracy, then please, I'll ask again, take a look at the article and determine its merit by the article alone without the need to judge it by my supposed shamelessness.

Also take a look at my previous comments. This would be the first time I not only self-promoted but also "spammed" a link.
Great interview. Here's a link to the full interview and transcript:

http://d5.allthingsd.com/20070530/d5-gates-jobs-interview/
If you are fuzzy with details it implies you are fuzzy with reasoning.
One problem is that in the most lucrative market, enterprise data storage, the woefully out of date benchmarks that are industry standard mainly promote raw throughput on absurdly large working sets, which makes caching of minimal benefit. Besides inertia, there are some established players who have a lot riding on that not changing, also.

Details in this kvetch from Sun engineer Bryan Cantrill (Sun's ZFS-based storage servers do pretty much exactly what you propose, but lose out to NetApp in the SPEC benchmarks): http://blogs.sun.com/bmc/entry/eulogy_for_a_benchmark
I'm curious why people think e-books should be so cheap?

Many years of rhetoric about other industries' transitions from atoms to bits have left many with the mistaken impression that the price should gravitate toward the cost of moving and storing the bits rather than the value in their particular arrangement.

The peak of this way of thinking was AllOfMP3, that dubiously legal Russian site that used to sell music by the megabyte. There were people who actually considered that fair and reasonable. Fortunately we're all a little more used to the idea of paying for bits these days, but the tendency to under-estimate their worth is persistent.
I'll stick with tradition and wait a few more weeks then ;-)
Since when does a domain equate to relevancy (in my situation here)? And doesn't everyone have to start somewhere?

EDIT: Can you tell me how I should have approached this then?
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"When the supervolcano at Yellowstone last erupted 640,000 years ago, the magma and ash ejected from the caldera covered most of the United States west of the Mississippi river and part of northeastern Mexico. Another such eruption could threaten civilization."

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Is your app pushing the limits of SQL databases? Is there any reason to look at NoSQL other than the fact that it's 'cool'? Currently all the NoSQL databases are very early adopter products, and each have their own strengths and weaknesses, so you'll have to choose a NoSQL database whose strengths match the area where a SQL database is failing you, and where the weaknesses aren't deal breakers.

Of course I'm biased, and tend to lean towards using SQL/relational databases... FathomDB is all about trying to eliminate the pain points of running a (My)SQL database. I feel a lot of the NoSQL marketing hype is picking on weaknesses of MySQL (rather than relational databases per-se), and so we're thinking about how to make MySQL better, and we don't think it's a good idea to abandon the relational model entirely. After all, our industry started with NoSQL back in the 60s, and there were good reasons for adopting the relational model 30 years ago!
This same website has a solution for the permutation of a string. http://www.mytechinterviews.com/permutations-of-a-string
That's propaganda, brainwashing, whatever you want to call it. But by my definition (the one I'm talking about; I didn't create it) it's not advertising, and I think Google is working to achieve my definition of advertising.
Either this is a work of fiction or else the author doesn't actually want his privacy very much.
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No, it's not ready to replace SQL, and I don't think it ever will. What are your requirements? If it's horizontal scalability (and you're actually hitting a performance wall) you should begin to think about it. Maybe also if you never do any joins.

Relational database systems (+ normalization) compromise everything to ensure the ACID properties, which for the majority of cases, is the most important part.
My ultimate goal is to increase productivity - I'm getting tired of writing and maintaining all those SQL queries. I felt the driving force behind NoSQL databases was cutting through the pain of SQL, but I can see from other comments that it is not really the case.
I actually like the fact that it has different operators for numbers and strings. It somehow feels cleaner to me, this separation of contexts (contexts in the usual sense of the word, not strictly Perl contexts).

The fact that the string equivalents are all words (cmp, eq, ne, etc.) gives a useful mnemonic (strings usually contain 'words', so their operators are words), and also prevents ugliness from operator-proliferation - it's the symbol operators that usually make the code _look_ ugly and lead to claims of 'line noise'.
In Python True==1, unfortunatelly.

>>> True + True
2

Simple left-associativity would also make 3<4<2 evaluate to True.
Finally coming around, are we?!
Nice generalization that doesn't address the question of just what constitutes an A-player vs. B,C, and Losers and why I should think that an A-player in one situation will continue to be an A-player in another or if, given the right incentives, whether a B,C,Loser can become an A-player.
Is the iPad proof that user-led innovation is doomed?
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Forget government loan guarantees. Make capital gains on investments up to $1mm in small companies tax free. Make this process paperwork free for the small business and a 1 page form for the investor.

Someone wasn't paying attention to the State of the Union speech...

http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/running_small_business/...
Actually, it is permitted in the US Now:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_fixing

"In August 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that vertical price fixing by a manufacturer and its retailers, also known as retail price maintenance, is not a per se violation."
That's a reasonable assumption, you horribly prudish person.
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I don't make a living programming in Flash. :)
Hmm, I think you might be oversimplifying it. If most loans are repaid very quickly, it would drastically reduce the profitability of the lend. So, lending out 1 million dollars 150 times consecutively in one year could be doable, you'd never hit the higher interest rates, and you'd still be able to claim you lent 150M dollars.
I'd only consider NoSQL if you expect a very heavy load and one of these:

- You have live data that is changing very regularly
- You have a large quantity of flat data (think column-oriented databases)
- You don't need to index / find data and it is very flat
(perhaps simple files on disk will allow you to store more)

Plus :

- You cannot possibly put off going NoSQL until you have further established yourself in the marketplace

For Gridspy, we have live data and I expect large quantities of pretty flat data. It makes sense to stream the data directly to the user via messaging rather than polling through a database. Plus, I plan to store large quantities of high resolution data in a specialised database or dumped to disk - it will be much smaller and simpler without the indexing information since I don't need to search it, only slice it.

See http://blog.gridspy.co.nz/2009/09/database-meet-realtime-dat...
I believe that simplifying querying is a non-goal for NoSQL, in fact most NoSQL databases actually push more of the burden of querying onto you. CouchDB is arguably a bit better here with its concept of views. SQL is incredibly powerful for expressing very complex queries succinctly, and it's pretty difficult to beat. CRUD queries are tedious in SQL or NoSQL, and an ORM or similar abstraction layer definitely helps productivity when programming those bread-and-butter operations.
I didn't throw a launch party, but I have been incrementally building my latest project (http://votereports.org/) completely in the open, starting from the first weekend it was started and launched (which happened to be a Startup Weekend event).

I'm about 2 months in now, and while I'll need another 2 or 3 before I'm ready to promote it, just having it out there has been an excellent motivator, for one simple reason:

When I talk about the site to someone new, rather than just explain the idea of the thing I'm working on I have to also tell them that it's up on the web. And when I do that, given its current state I have to follow with a whole litany of cautionary notes to the effect of: it's not done yet.

So instead of basking in the glow of the nobility of my not-yet-public project, for now and until it's ready to go, I'm be making well-justified apologies every time it comes up.

I'm looking forward to not needing to make those apologies, and working in part to see that happen. These uncomfortable moments complement my longer-term vision for the project, as the immediate, recurring motivation I need to complement the that farther-out achievement of completion.

So I agree, as the submitter says: Make your "Failure" Public.

edit: And in the spirit of what's above, you should know that the site's visual design has been the same since the first weekend, and will be totally revamped sometime in the near future.
I enjoyed hearing them talk about tablets, given that was ~3 years before the iPad launch. (I believe most of that conversation occurred in part 5)
... which might just as well be part of the PR :P
All the world-wide destruction predictions on that wikipedia snippet has only one reference from a book by this author: http://www.gregbreining.com/. From his biography it seems that he is neither a geologist or any kind of scientist by profession. He is a journalist who likes to write science stuff (journalist = automatic BS alert). [ * ]

Not that I doubt that something like this can happen, but can anyone give any reference to study or research paper done by (and peer reviewed by) _actual_ scientists? It would probably give more validity to such a claim.

* I could be wrong about his profession, I only got those info after less than 5 minutes of googling.
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Note that someone made an implementation of such race as an actual game: http://www.texasexpat.net/posts/wikirunner.html. Quite nice to play in my opinion.
The tablet bill gates is talking about is the tablet pc, and I think the tablet pc editions of XP were shipping in 2001/2.

Something like this: http://shop.lenovo.com/us/notebooks/thinkpad/x-series-tablet

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Thanks, that's exactly the answer I was looking for. For some reason, I was under the impression that simplifying queries was actually a design goal of NoSQL whereas it really is about scalability and performance... right?
He might have lent $20 million 12 times to get a total of $240m. 40% apr on 20m is 8m.
5% of the deals go bad which probably eats up a lot of the interest. And who knows what he pays himself and employees.
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They mean drawing inspiration from the competition by taking a strong stance about what they're doing wrong; make their approach your enemy: http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch02_Have_an_Enemy.php
Could someone understand the first paragraph?
Sharing my startup with my friends and family somehow inspired a sense of legitimacy in me. They wished me luck and it resulted in some unexpected networking.
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I just had that interview. I called it "guess the word" because it was a vocabulary nightmare. "What makes a good program?" "Not crashing is a good start!" They were not impressed.
Perhaps, but it's also part of an ongoing bit. He did the same for the iPhone.
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Because it means with <single piece of secret info>, your entire customer base's worth of passwords is now decrypted.

You've now gone from "Even if we get attacked, we've chosen a provably difficult / secure storage method. The damage should be negligible." to "If we get attacked - I hope like hell they don't get <single piece of secret info>."

An attack is an attack. If they can get in and steal your password database, what's to say that they can't get access to the key that decrypts your reversible database?
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Yes - that's my understanding of the goal of NoSQL. As for whether they've achieved it, that's a more complex question :-)
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That is a very simple, yet great, idea. I'm definitely doing this, something to look forward to.
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It might very well be authentic, but for some reason I'm a cynic when it comes to big business and advertisements.
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Making an iPhone or BlackBerry app or version of a site is usually a no-brainer, as you can assume that anyone who owns such a device is a pre-qualified customer. It'll be the same with the iPad - anyone who owns one can be assumed to be a high-spending consumer, therefore desirable as a customer, therefore worth producing original content for.