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Not necessarily. I had the same fear when I first heard about XP Mode, but now that I've had time to think about it, I don't think it's going to cause IE6 to linger around any longer than it otherwise would have. And, if we're lucky, it may even help get rid of it sooner.

XP Mode is limited to Professional and Ultimate/Enterprise versions of Windows 7. These aren't going to be the versions that consumers (and small businesses) are going to get when they buy a computer from Best Buy or Dell. When those people replace their aging computers, they'll get Windows 7 with IE8. And unlike when XP first came out, most new computers are configured to automatically download and install critical Windows updates (which includes new versions of IE)--so IE8 won't be the albatross is that IE6 has become. Most Windows 7 users will be upgraded to IE9 without even thinking about it. (In this sense, IE8 may be the shortest-lived version of IE to date.)

That means this is really only a concern for corporate users, where policies are dictated by budgets and IT departments, not a lack of basic computing knowledge.

One reason that many such companies force their employees to use IE6 is because long ago they developed custom intranets or other internal web-based applications targeting IE6 and they're not willing to spend the money to upgrade or replace them. And because no other browser comes packaged as an MSI (meaning they can't be centrally managed and deployed), their IT departments won't let them install Firefox, Opera, Safari, or Chrome. That only leaves IE--specifically, IE6. (Want to see an uptick in Firefox usage? Lobby to have Mozilla release Firefox as an MSI.)

Now, because of XP Mode, corporations can upgrade their users to Windows 7 without fear that they'll have to spend money upgrading or replacing their intranets/apps. And because Windows 7 comes with IE8 (which can't be downgraded), those companies are going to have to put policies in place to secure it to their liking. Their employees will then be able to use IE8 for the web at large and IE6 for their intranets/apps.

For that reason, many companies will be more likely to upgrade to Windows 7 sooner than they would have done so if XP Mode wasn't available.
Have you thought about writing an ebook like Getting Real?
In 99% of cases going with an ex-enterprise sysadmin for your CTO for a early-medium stage startup is a horrible idea. Sysadmin needs are significantly smaller than programming/engineering needs until you get to a really big scale. So, while either is probably OK if they are overall smart and good at tech management, my advice is go for someone with experience managing programmers vs. someone with experience managing sys admins if you have to choose. Ideally you get someone who has been CTO at a startup before and has experience bridging this particular gap.

The third aspect of this is management. Someone who has been in management for 10 years is not going to be a spectacular programmer or sysadmin because they simply wont be up to date, but they've got a solid tech background and great managerial skills. These tend to be better later hires, but could be right as well depending on your situation.
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Google TV ads could be useful for local upstart politicians to run for local city council/state rep positions, etc.
What is interesting here between JC's style/outlook and DHH's style/outlook is:

1. World recession is decreasing capital exits, investments, etc..DHH's outlook wins

2. Increasing amount of college graduates have college loan debt loads..DHH's outlook again wins

3 SV in recent years has been more focused on get there fast(money) but screw the product quality or customer quality..

I see JC and DHH representing both what VC/angels have in the past make possible represented by JC as opposed to the new way DHH's.

I think in the long term, 10 years out, that VC/angels will be gravitating towards DHH's way rather than the old way that from 1980s until now led the VC industry.
Data driven from an individual collection and observation perspective, perhaps. Apple doesn't AB test its products.
It's a great idea. However, until they become accredited here in the US, the education is pointless. I talked with the head of transfers at my university, and was told they wouldn't even accept these classes for credit. Also, I don't know how many establish companies would take you seriously if your resume education listed a Bachelors from The University of the People.

Might be fine outside the US, but it has some BIG hurdles to jump here!
No need to be sorry. I was trying to be funny ;-)
The latest behavior from Mozilla is making me really uncomfortable with it as a viable platform for the future.
How large is his business now with 5 hours a week?
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You and probably most people around here are the exception, not the rule. Still it will never happen in the u.s.
Why won't my B2B client sign up for my awesome service today?
That's why I built a webapp that makes cold-calling obsolete ;-)
Is this how those ads with the special urls get posted at the morning hours? my.dom/tv38 etc. I always wondered how these small sites/affiliate advertisers managed to afford commercials. I suppose they have decent conversion rates or I wouldn't see them every night. An interesting service overall though. I might toss a few hundred dollars at it one of these days.
They've reached true immortality when they can go in one end of an animal and come out the other still alive.
No FUD here. You've been lucky, many people haven't. There's good odds you won't be a victim on account of Debit Card use, but you're far less exposed when using Credit and there's absolutely no downside to using credit over debit if you PIF.

See my reply to abrown above, who, like you, mentioned he's been "using debit for 15 years without problems."

Good for you, but you're wrong to call FUD. The scam I explained to abrown is just one of many downsides to debit over credit.

It also leaves out the half dozen wonderful benefits good CCs have. Things like automatic doubling of a manufacturers warranty, price matching if a price drops within 30 days of purchase, very generous cash back, defect, damage, and theft protection, federally guaranteed fraud protection & rights. Etc. I could go on. No FUD here, debit cards are risky.
Corporate culture has become a resonator of low-level fearfulness to such an extent that we gladly throw huge numbers of our fellow human beings in jail, just as we abandon our children to penal institutionalization in schools; the constant presentation of prison as our salvation, or school as the essential trainer of children, makes us all prisoners. It corrupts our inner life, it divides us from one another so that relationships lifelong are thin and shallow. School teaches us to divorce one another, to put aside loyalty for advantage, to quell our inner voices, subordinating them to management.

School and prison do the work that Rome's first emperor, Julius Cesear, said was necessary to manage a conquered population. In order to keep the conquered conquered, you have to keep them divided. School classrooms do that job more gently than prison cells, but they do it more effectively.

-- John Gatto (former Public School Teacher)
Likely this sounds petty and glib, but I have yet to meet a programmer who had the kind of administrative sense that makes a 'good server guy.' The politics surrounding change management and policy enforcement require technology administrators to have at least one foot firmly planted in reality. This doesn't keep server people from being proficient coders, but it suggests there's an upper limit. And, from personal experience, since I switched from full time admin to (mostly) full time programming, most days I couldn't tell you what day it is. It really feels like a personality shift due to less demand for administrivia and more demand for creativity. Four years ago, I knew the location of nearly every object in our home, all the bills were paid on time, all of my socks were matched up and we had a meal plan. Suffice to say, I've started wearing mismatched socks and the bills get paid when someone calls. Much to my delight, the world has not come to an end. Maybe I'll live longer, too.
Do people really think that the model of "Schools as factories" will work? The next step will be to increase the number of hours per day, after Saturday school fails to give the anticipated results.
Before even reading it, I just wanted to say thank you for finally writing up your experience.
No, I'm pointing out that, contra phaedrus, the concern is not "answered", but instead handwaved.

And when someone starts telling stories about a "well-known astronomer" who has substantiated his hypothesis, he's taken his claim to a higher level than "a neat, possible idea".
How many articles can you write on Bingo cards?

All the power to him however.
There are a lot of legitimate reasons to cut out the summer vacation or at least move to a year round schedule where the breaks are spread out throughout the year. My wife teaches at a school with a large Hispanic population for whom English is a second language. These students will often lose a lot of their progress not only with the typical academics like every student, but their language progression as well. This means that they are further and further behind every year. It's even worse for those students that go visit family in their country of origin over the summer as they speak even less English while gone. While I personally hate standardized testing, this is one of the areas most effected by the language skill loss over the summer. It's difficult to take a test that uses specific academic language when you don't understand what's being asked, even if you understand how to do the work. This is especially true with the math word problems they are presented with.

I absolutely agree that going to a six day school week would be terrible. Given that we are moving steadily towards teaching kids how to take tests they need that time away from school to learn and grow in other ways. Of course that requires a lot of parental involvement and/or turning off the tv and video games. Those are separate issues of course.
How about a way to see all the up votes and down votes for a comment. I would be intrigued to see if there are any comments with low points but only because they were somehow controversial.
I'm not trying to be sensationalist but it might be interesting to see the most controversial comments on a kind of leader board format.
Maybe themes would emerge to show big dividing lines in the way that the audience here thinks about problems.
I mentioned it in the comments on the article, but I typically just make my Wordpress blog use the same database as my Rails app. Then in the Rails app you can create a BlogPost model or whatever to use anywhere in your rails app.

You can either install the WP app on the same server as your Rails app, or you can just create a custom user and SSH tunnel for your DB between the DB server and the WP server.
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Well "[You] started Tarsnap" is the one that has benefited me the most, and I think that's bragable.
I spent the first part of my career as a "server guy" (along with networks). I ran tech at a popular ISP in Chicago called EnterAct.

I spent the next part of my career as a developer, first at a security company, then at a streaming multicast company I founded, then at a network managment company.

I spent the next part of my career as an almost full-time security researcher for hire, with a pronounced focus on high-end enterprise technology (SAN, WAN compression, replication, database, storage).

Looking at it from all three angles, I'd say: there's definitely something to this. Being a programmer gave me insight into how systems worked. Being a security researcher gave me even more insight (I had projects that were literally months spent reverse engineering equipment firmware and building protocol test suites).

I'm confident that after all this "insight", I knew more about how, say, iSCSI worked than any SAN administrator in Chicago.

So, how would I have done as a manager of a SAN array? Terribly!

The things that actually matter in administration --- understanding the processes that need to be in place to make changes, understanding what kinds of changes will occur, understanding what's a typical kind of failure that will just take a couple hours to diagnose versus what kinds of problems mean that your vendor is putting engineers on an airplane --- those things you learn by being in the operational/engineering role.

To excel in the operational/engineering role, you need to dedicate yourself to the things that matter for that role, and not allow yourself to get distracted by shiny things. Developers and researchers: prone to distraction by shiny things!

What I don't think is true is that strong tech people are predisposed to one of these roles or the other. Could I be a strong ops/engineering person again? I think so. But I know I can't do it while I'm doing this job.
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I went to Cooper Union for a year, and it's a freaking awesome school; besides having excellent classes (at least in engineering, don't know about art/architecture - it only has those three programs, so don't even think about it otherwise), it really is zero-tuition, no strings attached. I highly recommend that any engineering/art/architecture students apply, at least if you think you have a shot of getting in. They are not a "by-the-numbers" type of school, and they definitely have room for people with colorful backgrounds, even at the engineering school - just make sure your math is solid!

There is one hidden cost, though - you're going to be paying out the ass to live anywhere near the Village, and New York City is expensive. That was the main reason that I left. Well, that, and the fact that I realized after a year that engineering wasn't for me - it's not an engineering school in the MIT sense, where you're still going to be satisfied even if you're interested in pure physics or math, Cooper Union really is a school devoted to teaching you to be a practicing engineer.

Still, it beats the hell out of NYU or any of the other schools around, where you're paying both the exorbitant NYC apartment costs plus 40k/year for tuition, so it should definitely be on any engineer's list...
I'm debating whether or not to put my B2B app up there. It's certainly a webapp that I use extensively for my companies, but it's still in (open) beta.
They should get 37signals in to sort out the schools. I can see the next book.. ReEducate. I got a sneak peek at the contents. Some highlights:

Teach half, not half-ass
Underdo other teachers
Learning is overrated
Enough with “tests”
Start a career, not an education
Let your students outgrow you
The social/communal aspect of this looks interesting, especially as one of the questions is "what can you bring to your fellow student". A good study group is worth its weight in gold.

The selective admission process should also help: your social surroundings should be fairly fixed and you can be sure they're fairly motivated.

Part of me would like everyone to be included, but the aforementioned, and that the students will require time/effort from the teachers, means it's more or less required.
I wonder how much of this is due to the diminishing value of TV ads. Could this have been done 10 years ago at anything like this low a cost?
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I think the added time in school in summer or any year round schedule is counter productive in other ways. Summer jobs (farming in my end of the country), camp, outreach programs by colleges, family vacations, and just being a kid. Setbacks in English are a problem, but having school full time isn't a good solution. Spending the money that would have been spent keeping the school open for all on intensive language programs for those who need it would be a better use of the money. Hire the companies that contract with the military and State Department. Fix the problems of subgroups with solutions for subgroups.
I think that if you argue so, you must also admit that mathematical prowess isn't related to intelligence (and such, that your mathematician adversary being faster than you at symbolic logic didn't prove him or her smarter) or you would be on contradiction.

Another discussion is IQ correlation with chess prowess or mathematics ability. I would argue that chess and mathematics are two separated skills which are applications of intelligence; so there's definitely a correlation between both, but entirely determined by experience.
Advertising is just "information". :/ and information 'manipulates' people who consume it. But I'm not sure why you consider that a bad thing.

Probably about half the posts on HN are 'adverts'. They are posts that have a message, urging us, the readers, to consider this information and possibly act on it. That's an advert.

Your previous point "Ads often mislead people"...

News often misleads people. People often mislead other people. It's not unique to advertising by any means.
It's not even a browser at this point, it's simply a closed test suite.
It doesn't say that he's the current world champion. It says that he's currently ranked number 1.

http://ratings.fide.com/top.phtml?list=men

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_Carlsen
I would buy this.
Programming is about problem solving. A good portion of system administration is also problem solving. I know several programmers who are excellent system administrators, and a couple of sysadmins who are OK programmers (but they don't really enjoy it). Personally I'm more interested in programming but I've definitely jumped into the sysadmin role on occasion to help solve problems the regular sysadmins were struggling with.
The point wasn't "don't do this"; the point was "why haven't you started here?"

Asking for a crowdsourced list of apps strikes me as not having done one's homework.
A marvelous post about Patrick's start of his "wee business" and how he got there on the time left over from his salaryman day job with a three-hour train commute to boot. Whether this overall will work for any of the rest of us, given what seems like incredible focus Patrick seems to have, is unknown.

And this is not "work four hours per week to gain huge success in life". Like everything else he writes, this is backed by expedience, external constraints, and data-backed experience.

Patrick's business is what I call the Chicago School of Startups. (I might have just made that up.) (And at the risk of tweaking Joel, as Fog Creek Software seems to be following the Chicago model.) This is, like 37Signals, a self-funded operation, and eventually self-sustaining. The SV School, or more precisely, the YC school, emphasizes the path of seeking venture capital, and has the side benefit of a seriously enviable network of other founders and former founders.

What has been most interesting is the data-driven nature of his decisions. Many longwinded discussions on HN have focused on the importance of design,. Patrick, among others, points to A/B tests (not to mention highly successful sites like Craig's List) indicating that such design obsession might be misplaced. Minor heresy: while Mac developers are very graphically intensive people who will buy software just to lick it if the UI is good enough, many Mac users are just regular people. My Mac version has a conversion rate fully twice that of the Window version, and it is not noticeably pretty.

Perhaps there is a little leeway to tease Patrick--it does not seem that this five hours per week is sustainable. It is successful enough that he is quitting his day job, and I bet he now can't help but spend more than five hours per week on it. Congratulations.
There is also Olin College, outside Boston. In fact that's what I thought this article was going to be about. It's only a few years old but it has a good reputation already.
Many people haven't been lucky with credit cards, does that mean credit cards are unsafe as well? A lot of the "risks" of using debit cards are hypothetical or extremely rare scams. The more common frauds can impact credit or debit card holders alike, and typically have robust protections and straightforward remedies.

These "don't use debit cards, they're risky!" warnings are extremely reminiscent of the BS TSA regulations. They don't represent a sane, robust risk assessment, they represent merely an overreaction to certain very unusual risks.
Apple iPhone launch 2007: 'We invented multi-touch.'
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I disagree. The big parts of it seem to be 1) Talking (as in person-to-person) to customers and potential customers 2) Focus 3) Determination.
In our periodic bouts of crunch time, such as the last three months, I end up sleeping at a hotel next to the office (about 25 times this calendar year).

Oh man. Maybe it's just me being an ignorant American, but doing that for anything but a company you founded is just crazy. I can't believe that's the norm in Japan.
Write an e-mail, you can find the address on his blog.
Show HN: My first website: A story sharing website for cubicle workers
http://mycubiclesucks.com

It's the first website I've created. I know it doesn't really solve any problems but it's just for fun.
I used to work in a cubicle and always had stories I wanted to share about the funny things that happened. Hopefully you guys enjoy it.

PS I'm working out some of the bugs in IE but if you see others, just let me know.
Also, I just released it today so there's barely any content. Feel free to post your own.
Thanks!
To turn the logic around here. If MS should feel obligated to make sure all its software works on windows XP, then shouldn't web developers continue to feel obligated to make sure all their websites work on IE6?
That last one isn't a bad idea. Remember that our teachers are people who are formally educated in teaching, not necessarily in the subjects which they're asked to teach.

Especially in the early grades, a teacher has to be a generalist. Students who take an interest in any given subject will undoubtably know more about it then their teachers do. This is absolutely worth encouraging.

It's no wonder that students aren't interested in learning if their desire to learn is suddenly discouraged once they've gotten off the lesson plan.
Sadly, Olin's endowment took a rather major hit and is no longer tuition-free. It's actually almost $39,000: http://olin.edu/admission/costs.asp
I just got your ping and I'm going to shoot you an email. Peace.
"...However, you’ll quickly find that there is literally a world of people out there who are willing to work for $1.50 an hour and would be terrifically overpaid at that price..."

That's the number one reason why some clients of mine comeback to me saying their last developer didn't quite accomplish what they wanted. And the reason why sometimes I have to struggle to fix bugs and identification (yes, many low-cost devs don't have a tab key) on other peoples code.

You normally get what you paid for, but I hope it worked nice for you.
Alternatively, if he isn't able to do the contact, I would highly recommend reading all of his comments http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=patio11
and all of his blog http://www.kalzumeus.com/
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