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It's very early, and I plan to work on this for the long haul, so we'll see.
Yes I tried it for a day (Not long I agree). It looked like a reasonably copy of svn, but it didn't offer me anything.

Let me restate: I do not like branches and use them very rarely.

So, to the guy who hates branches, what does git offer me over svn (Which does all I need at the moment)?
I lived in Indonesia a few years. I believe YUI is a common name in Indonesia, but not sure of that.
I'm pretty sure this qualifies as blasphemy against WoW.

In all serious though, if you want to truly get into the endgame of WoW, you generally don't have alot of time for other games (this is of course depending on how much time you have for gaming in general). Blizzard has definitely made it easy to spend the majority of that time in their world.
Thanks, I wasn't aware of this. I can't find a reference to this anywhere, though. Amusingly, Googling brought me back to your post! Any pointers, please?
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OneNote is a good example:
http://blogs.msdn.com/chris_pratley/archive/2004/01/30/oneno...

You could argue that OneNote wasn't truly a bottom-up creation because Chris Pratley was already a pretty senior guy at MS when he started working on it.
Most themes available seems to be for blog/CMS style sites, but most of my work are semi-internal CRUD apps. Any recommendations for themes suitable for this?
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A cloud in a plug - brilliant
I've done both this and the compass too. "TRouBLe" just feels like it's in real competition in my brain for prime spot, instead of a clock (compass died out a while ago).
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i wouldnt do it via webcam, thats just a big barrier to entry.

im thinking of doing it as an experiment here. hiten shah said something to me like: i try to meet one new entrepreneur a day. that struck me. imagine if you met one new fellow entrepreneur a day? so heres the experiment:

sign up for a list: first name, last name, email address (required). optional- twitter, facebook, blog links for context. connect each person on the list to a new entrepreneur a day.
I'd submit that the problem is further exacerbated by the general population's impression that "tough on crime" means more jails and more arrests. In fact, if someone were to truly be interested in reducing crime, they'd go after poverty.

This means reducing the rich/poor gap. And that is a slippery slope that leads people to calling you "-ist" names if they're interested in maintaining the status quo.

So I'd say that the problem lies with the lack of insight in the general population.
You still can deliver bonuses to an entire team, group, or entire company, that are not dependent on individual performance.
They do segment. There are games for kids, casual games, social games, everything. I think in the more or less "core" demographic though, and they produce more games than I have time to play.
Before 1.5, svn had no real merge capability. In particular, it could not detect that you merged something already when merging a changeset. Also, the merge command effectively "squashed" everything - you could use svnmerge and co to get something a bit better, but the tools were very poor to say the least.

Technically speaking, svn merge is more akin to cherry-pick in git/hg/etc..., where the "merged" commits are not recorded as such, but as totally new commits.

Note also that bad svn merging capabilities are specific to svn, not to centralized VCS (perforce, etc...). It is not so much that DVCS are better than svn as much as svn worse than everything else.
> 1) Too geeky language - rather tell a story Company XYZ solved a problem by...

The page given is the technical detail. The front page of the site http://www.synctus.com/ is less geeky.
Ask HN: Has Google Buzz killed anything yet?
It's been like 24 hours and I have yet to see a blog post declaring something dead at the hands of Buzz. What are we waiting for? Get out there and write some incendiary yet poorly constructed arguments about who is next to die in the eternal war for Web 2.0 supremacy.
That story is also on Folklore:

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...
This is what Facebook would be if instead of having friends, every day you were thrown in with a group of 100 strangers and there was a video feed. Some people (especially men) act strange when they are in front of a bunch of strangers for a short period of time, with little chance of meeting them later.
> It was a wonderful reminder of why I don't have a TV.

Amen. So much of TV programming is a gas that expands to fill the airwaves - and economic pressures these days push that content toward low-quality dreck that has little to recommend it other than the fact that it earns a bit more in ad revenue than it costs to produce (I'm looking at you, reality TV).

The issue, it seems to me, is not one of quitting TV per se but of quitting the business model in which you pay a flat monthly rate for a bundle of channels. Since you've already paid for it and since it's there anyway, it's easy to rationalize and get used to the idea of sitting down and channel surfing.

Aside from being a major time suck, this also tends to normalize the idea of spending hours watching rubbish that literally makes you dumber.

It's not until you make a sharp break from that kind of exposure that you start to notice just how bizarre and dysfunctional it all is.

We have a TV, but don't receive any channels - by cable, satellite or aerial - and haven't for about a decade. We do tend to come across high quality TV shows from time to time - mostly on the recommendation of friends whose taste we trust - and if we really like a show, we'll buy it on DVD. That way we get to watch it in sequence, without commercial interruptions, whenever we feel like it.

If a show is not good enough to warrant repeat viewings, it's not good enough to buy.
>> I think it's also important that parents provide the opportunity for their kids to have autonomy. If they aren't exposed to different things, they'll never take the initiative to be passionate about something.

Right on. Our kids are a few years behind you (1,3) but my current thinking on this is that they have to do 1 physical activity and 1 other activity, but they can choose 'em.

I wish I could forget 3 years of forced piano lessons as a kid. :)

(I'm talking high-school age more than anytime soon, right now their job is all about playing and having fun.)
> until you have a clearer story about how to do backups

Thanks, I'll work on making it clearer, and review the design too.

From the point of view of a single office, the device is just a NAS, so any backup solution that can back up a NAS will work - including Mozy and traditional stuff like Veritas.
Sure, let's take two clusterfucks, php and xml, and smash them together! Great idea!

(Actually, this looks rather handy.. but there is a certain amount of initial WTF.)
This is interesting. I did my first web project of any meaningful scale in early 2008. When it came time to look for a JS framework, the people I spoke with and searches on the net seemed to recommend Dojo. But it was confusing, because I heard just as much about these other frameworks as well.

A bit later, when I started doing some more front-end work, I found jQuery, and I dropped Dojo entirely because I found I was much more effective with it (a little bit / [lim -> 0] is...). Since then, my anecdotal experience has been that jQuery is the first-choice JS framework among the circle I regularly interact with.

All this is to say: I feel like my preferences toward JS frameworks as a relatively new developer are quite similar to this chart.
And the emphasis on this in successful military establishments is very strong: if a superior officer becomes unable to carry out his duties in a battle a subordinate is expected to immediately step up and take command.

Companies have the luxury of being able to do this in time frames not measured in minutes and seconds.

The US officer corps post-WWII also (in theory) defeats the Peter Principle by an "up or out" rule. If you do not advance in rank and responsibilities within set time frames, you are retired (which of course has its own problems).

I suppose the Microsoft "long at level" concept is related to this ... but I don't think it works in this field for some of the very reasons you noted.
It's true, I'm really impressed with Google Closure and nobody is using it. Nobody except Google and weirdos like me.
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As if consumers knew what comes from Warner compared to other record labels. Labels are smart enough to promote artists, not their own brand. So people will be missing artist X, not Warner.
"So, to the guy who hates branches, what does git offer me over svn (Which does all I need at the moment)?"

The ability to version control your project (even without branching you can checkin) when disconnected (from your network).
The copy seems to assume that users will be running Windows PCs. It doesn't anywhere say whether it worksd with Linux and Macs. It probably ought to. Most multi-site organisations probably use 2 or all 3 of these operating systems these days.
jquery is fun to use.
The way file locking works is that if one person is reading a file, others can't read it as well. I can imagine situations where this would be a hassle -- there ought to be a mechanism where people can get read-only access to data that is otherwise locked.
Not necessarily so. As I said, my experience may not be representative of the most common workflows, but in the company I'm working for people often work on experimental or tangential stuff but at the same time they want their changes to keep pace with the work on the main line. I that case they can't afford to sully the trunk and at the same time, because merging back a branch is a major pain, they can't fork off a branch, unless it is a significant enough chunk of functionality or code they are changing. No amount of "collaboration management" is going to make the situation any better, because all options result in some amount of pain for someone, pain makes people touchy, and touchiness makes people not work together properly.

Just as you believe that a proper social structure and sufficiently clear conventions can overcome deficiencies in software, I believe the oposite - the capabilities and limitations of software can enforce certain patterns of behavior. And in my experience DVCSs end up having more of a positive effect on the development process.
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I believe that you can hope to find innovation in the arts but I doubt that you'll find any progress.

Joyce is not better than Shakespeare and Prince is not better than Mozart.

This is even truer for painting, would anybody say that
we are doing better than the Altamira cave painters?

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Altamira,_bison.jpg)
> 1) Too geeky language - rather tell a story Company XYZ solved a problem by...

Do you mean the "Tech" site or the rest of the site? I linked directly to the Tech page which is intended for geeks because I figured that HN readers would want to read that first. I'm not using it as a landing page for any other purpose. Or do I need to make the other sections less geeky too?

> 5) Put all technical details in white papers - the IT guys will try and rip them apart.

Do you mean more technical detail than I have, or to move my Tech section into white papers? I intended to put all the technical information in multiple HTML hyperlinked pages rather than as PDF downloads. Is this what you mean - would PDF downloads be better?

I'll work on the rest - thanks!

> Who are most likely to be your Customers?

I'm aiming at small businesses with little or no in-house technical knowledge. However, I'm thinking about splitting marketing between them and technical people who can advise them.
I'll generally agree, as I like my preferences followed, and I'll generally disagree, as truly good design hinges specifically on many minor things like that. Not that other setups wouldn't work better, or that there aren't equivalently effective styles that are entirely different, just that minutia really adds up in a really polished product. If generic / "just" functional is truly your goal, then yes, I like serif / sans-serif too, but the defaults on some systems just don't read well, and a lot of people don't know how to change them.

Yeah, I know, I'm being contradictory no matter how you look at it. There's no "happy medium" in this, though, everything sacrifices something.

@edit2: same here. Especially as it only specifies the height of the font, and different fonts could easily take up more or fewer lines, breaking rigid constructions at least as severely as different heights. I think a lot of it comes from designers largely working in pixels, and slicing images to be recreated as a relatively static website. Many artistic people are quite bound by physical medium, which can't stretch like a website can. Add to that the hideousness of earlier IE versions, and browser incompatibilities, and static, pixel-based formats make life easier for a lot of people, despite being technically inferior in a lot of cases.

edit: oh, and slightly unrelated (though on the site), I despise different colors on text links, unless ALL links are clearly links (like this site). They break up my quick-parsing of a document, and I read too much to waste more time than necessary (curse you, hacker news! You've devoured my life!). Of course, this is controllable by me through a user stylesheet, but some sites get it right, so I don't want to break those...
someone commented on avc : this would be a good feature on facebook, with direct and indirect connections.
Incentives slice both ways. I know I personally have not done some things in work that I could have done, because I would not have captured a large enough slice of the value created.
Your point is well taken, but here's another perspective, from a person who consumes a moderate amount of games, and actually produces games as well.

I see every new game as a chance to be inspired by the artistry that goes into them. Of course there is plenty of crap out there, but an increasing number of games are undeniably amazing works of art. I want to experience as much of that wonder as I can. I want to see every mind blowing painting. I want to hear all amazing the music the world has to offer. Games are no different for me.
The VS2010 text editor and MEF (the Microsoft Extensibility Framework).

To be honest, I'd have a harder time naming innovative features that shipped at Microsoft and didn't come up from the bottom. Pushing innovation from the top seems like it would be really hard for anyone not named Steve Jobs :-)
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>> With this move, Google is declaring war on a host of web companies that are heretofore thriving and collaborating and making tons of money.

From the perspective of those other companies they are indeed "declaring war" and it's all very dramatic... but for actual users, this is just another company competing for their attention by providing a better service.

I expect the product will fail because Google sucks at social stuff, but in principle more competition is good, and unless a company competes unfairly through a monopoly (and they don't have one for email or social networking.)
Interesting, I've always assumed the long form of "Jen" was spelled "Jennifer" rather than "Jeniffer".
Yeah may be true. And I agree it's a problem in the ad heavy US, but not as much other places. Also, just get a PVR, start watching the TV show 10 minutes after it started, and skip the ads if they annoy.

There's something you lose if you just go to on demand stuff. TV is an 'event', at a specific time. Kids go to the playground and talk about what they saw on TV last night. I think that's pretty useful socially to have shared experiences like that. I'd hate to be the kid that doesn't have anything to talk about because his parents don't have a TV.
Yes - you can. Admittedly this information is buried at the bottom of the Tech page. There's a hidden share which gives you read-only access while ignoring locks.
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Please tell me that this isn't the general consensus. Of the games he depicts on the first page, the only vaguely interesting one from where I sit is Demon's Souls; in my experience it's rare to get even one good game a year. There's even the theory that the extremely low quality of present-day games is a driving force behind piracy, too -- although if so, it's obviously not the only one.
Well, if you spend five minutes on chatroulette you've already seen so much offensive stuff that the next offensive thing you see doesn't really bother you all that much. You just click "next".

Being able to not freak out over someone doing something gross is an absolute necessity to spend any time on chatroulette. And I think this is a good thing, because if nobody gets freaked out anymore, then its no longer fun to freak people out, and — finally — that stuff becomes marginalized.
Two factors are causing my video game backlog to shrink at an increasing pace: I'm not interested in most new games that come out, and I no longer feel compelled to finish a game to the end when I play it--I put it away when I feel the margin of return on time spent versus enjoyment has reached a plateau. For some games, this second point is emphasized because there is no end, like LittleBigPlanet or your MMO of choice.

As jsz0 said above, good taste is about being selective. I think part of good taste is also knowing when you've had enough and when you've cleared your plate do not always occur at the same time.
While the military is far more top-down, there's still only about 5 layers between a newish recruit and a general or admiral.

A Marine rifleman at the rank of private in a deployed MEF reports to a platoon leader who reports to a company commander w.r.t. a regiment commander w.r.t. a division commander w.r.t. the MEF commander. Private to general in 5 steps--and that general commands a full task force complete with air and support units.

The MEF commander reports to a combatant commander, a 4-star with authority over all military operations within a given theater. There are ten of these unified commands. (Sometimes a special command is created underneath the unified command, as in Iraq--the US Forces, Iraq command reports to US Central Command.) The combatant commander reports directly to the secretary of defense, who reports to the president. So the chain of command is around 9-10 deep for the entire US military, but about half as long for a task force.

Almost as importantly, just about every servicemember knows--and can tell you--his entire chain of command between him and the President. There's no ambiguity at all. You're fully responsible for everyone beneath you, and you are fully responsible to a single person above you.

It's probably impractical to organize a software company similar to the military, but militaries are very consciously attentive to organizational structure, and their organizational structure probably meets their needs more than most businesses.
Also, is a follow-up to "Founders At Work" planned? It's a really inspirational book, and I am sure there is a huge new crop of potential subjects from the last three years of ups and downs in the startup space.
"When I started at MSFT in 1996, there were six people between me and [Microsoft cofounder] Bill Gates," Boris said. "In 2009, there were 13 people between me and [Microsoft CEO] Steve Ballmer." Fred said, "the number of managers between me and the CEO went from six to 10," during the last decade. Another long-time Microsoftie, whom I'll call Barry, saw his reports go from six to 12.
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Just to give perspective, when I was in the military it was probably 13 links between a two striper and the President
Dropping an undefined "better" into a post like that is a bit unfair, since it is basically tautological most ways you could mean that. I'm going to guess you would agree that there is no objective "better", in which case it's totally just defining yourself the win.

I will say this; I have a clear preference for some modern stuff over the older stuff. The biggest one is modern TV vs. older TV; going back to 1960 or 1970 and trying to watch TV for me is simply infuriating; it's all so damned slow. Actually running it 30% faster (as in, watching it literally sped up 30%) helps quite a bit.
Yeah... that's what Homer Simpson said about Tee-Vee
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Touche. But if hes charging for a similar service (where there is obviously a margin), unless his API is easier to use the value added doesn't immediately jump out at me.
I bet she's summarized her take somewhere. But she's also documented in detail how many "roads lead to Rome" (success):

http://www.amazon.com/Founders-Work-Stories-Startups-Early/d...
See, that's signing. That has a lot of use, and there are a lot of ways to make that however secure you want. The example doesn't seem to do any of that, though, it's simply storing two user-specific details, one of which the user shouldn't know. Or, at least, one which other users wouldn't know.

Again, that's unless I'm missing something.
Minor correction - information elements consist of an information element identifier, a length and length number of octets for a total of "length + 2" octets per information element. In the case of concatenated messages, IE identifier is 0 and length is 3 and the 3 octets of data are id, part and number of parts, in that order.
Maybe it's just me, but I'd actually prefer face to face (ish, via webcam). I started brainstorming my blog posts via video and I find it much easier to express myself when I can talk through it verbally and visually. When I write I focus too much on how I'm saying things (structure, form, etc), and I find it difficult to focus on what I'm saying.
Cool idea but the last thing I want are my products to look like the came straight out of the Adobe Flex box.
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"Also, is a follow-up to "Founders At Work" planned?"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1113661
I don't think it's about progress so much as topicality -- the widely-maligned "relevance." A Restoration comedy about vainglorious mercenaries and cuckolded husbands might be better than an episode of Seinfeld on an objective measure, if one could be devised -- but I dare say it would have a fair bit less to say to you or me than it had to say to its original audience.

We find more recent works more interesting than older ones, not necessarily because they're better, but because they speak to us more usefully -- similarly, we can find surprisingly old works surprisingly relevant for the same reason, or can rediscover materials that previous generations scoffed at.

Most of the plays of Shakespeare fall into this last category -- they were hardly ever performed in the late 17th and 18th centuries, and when they were, they were jazzed up with special effects along the lines of fireworks and performing bears. The gulf between the 18thC and our own is an enormous one in general, come to think of it; play _Empire: Total War_ for a sense of just how different even the visual aesthetics of their era were from our own.

Don't look at the art assets that are, necessarily, more or less faithful to the period; look at how the game's developers try to make the era look interesting to a modern. What most stood out to me was the vast gulf between the national flags used in the 18thC and national flags depicted in the game -- in particular Austria, where the red-and-white national flag is replaced by the yellow-and-black dynastic flag of the Habsburgs, and Russia, where the white-red-blue national flag is shame-facedly tacked on to the Romanov coat of arms. (The loading screens are the second most extreme illustration.)