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Why does it reverse my skills? If I enter "ruby, rails, linux, html, css, javascript, jquery" it becomes "js, css, html, linux, jquery, rails, ruby"!
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Considering how often adding an s to http is done (for example, I've only done this once, in gmail, before I saw the 'always use https' setting), I think that this is OK.

Still don't think it should be removed, though, just sayin' :)
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Actually, this comment sums up what I thought was wrong with the article. Haters are gonna hate. If you ask for feedback, you have to accept that you will get a lot of negative feedback, especially when you're trying something new, unheard of, and label it with a well know suffix (pedia). My main take away from the article was that they marketed it wrong. If you have to explain away the criticisms in a blog post, (and a few of the arguments were valid) that means you promoted it badly. None of the criticisms were wrong per se, just that he thought they didn't get it, or get how hard what they're trying to do is. That is their fault.

Plus I do agree with one of the comments above that the poem should apply to him. One thing I have learned from being in business a long time, its that negative feedback is gold, if you use it to turn a situation around to leave your customer with the feeling that they have been heard, been paid attention to and taken care of. That kind of customer will stick around more than a customer who used your product and it just worked fine. I love to deal with problem customers, as it is an opportunity, not a chore, if handled correctly.

Excuses are a dime a dozen, especially when it comes to cutting edge tech.
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Well, given that we're on a site called Hacker News, populated by a bunch of programmers and other assorted techies, I'm willing to be that many of us were, in fact, the nerds that got ignored and picked on when we were kids.

Although I was never nerdy like my bespectacled, asthmatic buddy Marcus, I wasn't too far off, and certainly "geeky" would have been accurate. And of course I took my lumps as a result. In my case, and I'm willing to bet the same is true of many others, this helped engender a powerful motive to succeed.

So ironically, it may be that all of the people trying to put nerds down just end up motivating them to rise up. In which case, you might even be able to argue that without looking down on, ignoring, and even bullying nerds, we'd have less technological innovation today. ;)
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What about titanium, any news?
Thanks for the reply.

Actually, dollar ranges in our space are more in the $5k-20k per seat range. "Bargains" are in the $5k range and "premium" starts at around $10k per seat (that's for the stand-alone market). It's definitely a high dollar, low volume small market, maybe no more than 20,000 total seats in the entire market space (at the way upper end) in the U.S. and maybe double that globally. For how we are used by our customers, the Office Productivity software space is the closest analogue. But because the market size is so small, lowering our price too much might get us fast market share, but kill us in the long run (plus our sales cycles are hideously long, 6-12 months, and high touch, mostly because of the nature of our customers). We own about 2% of the market right now, which is enough to keep my small shop of about a dozen people fed. We'd like to double our revenue in the next year.

I think that we are certainly starting to hit against the bottom of the barrel in terms of premium standalone customers -- or at least we will maybe in the next year. Most of those I'd say are early adopters who don't mind paying higher dollar for a solution that does what they want. But like any industry, early adopters are a very small part of the pyramid.

What I think is distracting our pricing model is that the enterprise pricing is totally different. The ranges there are $3k-$17k per seat but at seat volumes of 50 or more, but the current industry leader is at the top of that scale while the industry leader for stand-alone sales is in the middle of the range. So we've been targeting that per-seat dollar value and undercutting it as part of our strategy to capture lower volume customers. But like I said, it appears we're starting to run out of room for those customers, we've either captured them, or they went with a cheaper stand-alone competitor.

The book recommendations are great and new to me, I'll definitely look into picking those up.
Are these numbers (the 35k and 45k) before or after taxes?
Java is still more or less the way to do mobile for anything non-Apple.
> iPhone and otherwise

Objective-C is not particularly useful for any other mobile platform that's not Apple's
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The article writer can't mean this because he is comparing Apple to Nintendo. It would make no sense to do so if he meant the market that Apple is dominating to solely mean "cell phone games."
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The cpedia page on cpedia doesn't yet have a list of criticisms. There's no wikipedia page on cpedia yet, but there is a list of criticisms of Cuil.
Ive always found that whenever you implement browser specific code, you always end up with a headache one or two years down the road. The big browser players can invent any specific stuff they want but as a developer its always best to stick with the standards. If you want to experiment on non-live code then great, but plan on future pain if you go live with browser specific css/js.
Works for politicians too.
Broken on both the latest Firefox and dev build of Chrome on Ubuntu.
It might work better if they just presented a list of results, and users could up/down vote the results for relevancy. Overtime they could use that feedback to float more relevant "snippets" to the top. Kinda like wikipedia but without all the hassle of typing.
I get the feeling that C and C++ are undergoing a mini-renaissance right now. This is a good thing.

The high level language / low-level language thing is one of the "cycles of reincarnation" in software.

I do sometimes wonder... if we spent our time cleaning up the C/C++ ecosystem instead of recoding everything in the newest language of the month, would we get further with that?
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When using the password reset to claim my account:

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Dear app designers everywhere: there's no good reason for this. Please stop.
Ugh fields
My rate isn't $100+/hr -- I don't even charge in dollars.
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At least sometimes the results would be marginally useful.
Well how about a weekend project for someone here: scan the HN db for constantly reposted links, cull the ones which have low votes and put up a FLA (frequently linked article) page for new users, or old users to check the required reading list for HN. I'll give it a shot, but I do have a full workload at the moment, but hell, I'll give it a shot. (maybe the guys at searchyc can give me a pointer or two? hint hint)
I don't really want to continue this discussion here, as HN is not a political forum, and as I tend to agree with many of your points (the devil is in the details...), and I IMHO the problem is rather the way different actors are "in position of force" as you note.
The order of the skills is messed up. I think it is important to display it the way it was entered.
Programming languages are nothing more than a ponzi scheme?
> Nobody thinks of what's being done here 'take a dot, and use it to join this list'. They think of 'take this list, and join it into a string using dot'.

Even fewer people think of how to do that in the face of heterogeneous and polymorphic lists.

Intuition is not God, it's just an informant. Sometimes it's wrong, no matter the language.
this is nicely done. great app :)
I found the section in the search on Jeff Bezos particularly moving.
That's definitely a risk when you get out of the city areas. Unfortunately, when minimizing stops, the greedy algorithm is the ideal solution -- it's always better to risk it.

(In graph theory, nodes don't close after midnight.)
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Increased exposure for "noname" artists/developers/creators and thus stimulated growth in those areas.

This is only a single example (one datapoint does not a trend make), but..

http://torrentfreak.com/ink-the-movie-that-blew-up-on-bittor...

He made more money (and got significantly more exposure) out of it being pirated than he would have otherwise.

Film ticket sales have been relatively stable since 1995 and revenue has doubled in that time.

http://www.the-numbers.com/market/
Head of cpedia gives self-inflicted wound.
By ideal world I meant 'a better internet user experience within the next a decade or two' not 'all people are intelligent' as you meant. In the latter we would not be crouching over a browser anyway but do more evolved stuff :)

We do not teach users what an URL is when all she wants is to read her emails, just as you do not teach them how that browser is written or how the data travels to and from destination. I share your wish that people would be more inquisitive and learn but some people are just not like that for various reasons or do not have time for that and trying to teach them stuff they do not care about flies in the face of good user experience.

You use URL for many things including DB connections, this makes you a technical person. One of the reasons user experience is still shit in many applications is that many techies are convinced the user should be exposed to all the wonders of the underlying technology and consider this the noble quest of teaching them.

Yes - network://hash-of-what-you-want is the content addressability I mentioned. So the 'locator' in URL is not going to be meaningful. You do not locate a resource, you get some stuff wherever it may be located - assuming it is in one single place and not built from bits located in various parts. Anyway it was a tangent to the main topic - even if we denote the content someway it should not be exposed to your users.

Try asking around your non-tech relatives and see if they understand what the components of simple web url-s are.
My mom sure does not, and I have no intention of teahcing her that .com is some silly legacy from when it was thought that if you are a company that is what your webpage address, will be named like or what is with the slashes or even worse the ampersands.

I do not assume users are stupid, they just don't give a shit about stuff that is cruft and that has little bearing on what they actually do on the web.

The fact that tiny URLs are such widespread also underlines the fact that URL is a necessary evil by which you send someone to a resource and not something to inspect by people. There are complaints about them being opaque but much less then you'd expect given their massive use.

So do not try to teach people who do not care about learning because they will not learn and you'll have wasted your time on them.
What about allowing users to re-order the snippets by draw and drop - or at least move up, move down, and reject buttons?

Maybe even allow suggested snippets too - sort of like Wikipedia built from nothing but citations.
My only complaint is that once I grabbed the bar and dragged it around I had a hard time getting it back to the current time without refreshing the page.
Anecdotal: The last time I needed to figure out was what someone meant by American PST - this wouldn't have helped me.

Great design.
This is the kind of guy who wants to be instant friends just to get his computer fixed.
They are the dominant species.
For all this bluster, D seems awfully high on that list (above ActionScript and Objective-C? really?).
sorry, i find the "$100/hr+" problematic.
Looks very nice. The only problem I had is that it's not clear when you load the page that you can actually interact with it. Some people might go away confused and think this tool can't convert specific times
No news. I'm sure HN will be the first to know.

This is a good sign, no doubt. But I'm still pessimistic about Titanium on iPhone. I've stopped all development until I know for sure my apps will allowed on the AppStore.

I may continue dev anyways though since Android support is pretty nice. But iPhone was the focus and now its very much up in the air.
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Is Social Engineering being overlooked as a modern day security threat?
I guess you are the guy who told me yesterday in the spreadsheet chat that that list should become a rentacoder on steroids, fast execution!
Seamus? Who worked in Arvato?
I've often heard of this, but only just read it for the first time.

When reading this, I was struck by how much more horrifying it would be if the characters were running on the computer instead of being physically inside it.

Can you imagine being restarted and seeing the terrible fate of thousands of your previous incarnations?
Computers are boring, let's go shopping...

for apps.
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Well, Erlang has its own database that can store Erlang terms (see mnesia). As you can save some there for the impedance mismatch.

Nitrogen itself deals with reducing the differences between your backend code and the frontend. See the demos and their source code for examples: http://nitrogenproject.com/demos

Erlang also makes it a lot more easier to model stateful applications. I've found the best way to make an active web app with Erlang is just to make a regular application for the command-line (or the Erlang shell), and then add bindings to a web-server.

Because every block of code you have is independent, this is really easy to do. It makes every program extremely modular and I've rarely had the concept of 'code reuse' come so easily.

Maybe stackless python could be an interesting option under this perspective too, but I never used it for any project.
I guess ableal is right. You need to be looking at the normalized results, further down the page.
No doubt it's a huge problem area, been researching around areas that would be involved in this like clustering and summarization,

Google Squared attempts to be less ambitious and still feels very incomplete and they probably have some very smart people and the backing of the most complete index of the internet and probably the most computational power afforded to any work in the area.
Hard to explain, better to watch!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmzivRetelE&feature=fvw
Don't like the email in cleartext in the html, considering that all these pages are public, could you fix that?
Site does not work for me, but I have been using foxclocks for a long time:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1117
I think the proliferation of languages is due to people following your advice: they go off to make their own language, realize it's hard to make something radically different and end up just fixing a couple of their pet peeved from another language.
Only a black page for both my Mac Chrome 4.0.249.30 and Safari 4.0.3, but works on my Firefox 3.6.3 (OS X 10.6.2).
Clicky on Carl Sassenrath, the Amiga and Rebol guy: http://www.sassenrath.com/

P.S. good rant on major pain points - I'd toss in the breakage in the hierarchical filesystem model.
Also: .cat is a valid TLD for email validation. I got:

"There were problems with the following fields:

* Email should look like an email address."

Whoops.
This is an awful story -- "fostering collaboration" is definitely vague and fuzzy, and part of the reason people get paid lots of money is translating vague and fuzzy into concrete items. It might be a mailing list and wiki -- or it might not. I don't know. And sure as hell the author doesn't know either.

Even more disturbing is the editorializing in the piece. I'm not going to comment on to what degree we actually face a cyber-threat, but I note that competitors of Booze Hamilton have to be laughing their butts off about now. It's cheap-shot journalism, and when you do that it's easy to start picking your targets for whatever motives you might have -- good or bad. In other words, this guy could have been paid by people who lost the contract to post this, and it would read exactly the same way. That means the tone is has serious flaws.
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I can't wait for the iFad to be over.
...built with computers.
As a newcomer, the likelihood is you'll have more success developing a marketplace for a new type of product or service rather than entering an existing field. I am also working on a marketplace(s), my email's in my profile if you want to discuss.
Maybe I'm just retarded, but I spent 1 minute on this website and couldn't figure out how to use it. Too many elements jumping and shining blew my mind. What I really want is two text fields, where I can type in cities and get the difference and local time in each of those cities. That's it. My guess is that people really like the design, but I can't see how this is more convenient than typing "time in San-Francisco" in Google.
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It's because us Ruby developers have a nice tool stack and discoverable APIs such that we don't have to search Google!

In all seriousness, though, I agree. The anecdotal evidence that I have is that Ruby (and Javascript) are getting to be more popular. That may just be with the crowd I hang out with though.
I would react the same if I had worked on a really really tough problem and made an incremental advance, which I thought was a breakthrough, but everybody dished it because they didn't understand it.

I was once part of a company that thought it had superior technology that everyone else "didn't understand." It was true, it had marvelous technology. It was also true that lots of people didn't understand it.

Here's what it also had: 1) a deployment system everyone agrees is a pain in the @@@, which they never paid much attention to, 2) user interfaces which didn't repaint themselves like native widgets and which looked terrible and had terrible APIs, 3) intermittent bugs the customers kept reporting and getting disregarded and blamed for, 4) a less than open, "not invented here" culture with a big dose of "us versus them."

It's cool to make an incremental advance. The hard part is getting people to understand it. The hard part is reaching your audience. For this, it's more productive to enlist their help, not to blame them.
This is the press release announcing the acquisition of the company my wife and I launched last July. I posted a Review My Site on HN when we launched, so I thought everyone might be interested in a follow-up.

It's our first startup, and we went from launch to sustainability in 6 months, then acquisition in 9 months. It's been a crazy ride. :)

Here's our blog post about the acquisition: http://blog.agilezen.com/2010/04/14/rally-software/

Here's the original Review My App link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=691673
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He makes the argument there that because 10.6 is so great, we don't really need to be disappointed at 10.7 being delayed. But, for me, it is precisely because 10.6 was so great compared to 10.5 (and 10.5 was so great compared to 10.4 and 10.4 was great compared to 10.3, etc.) that I am so disappointed by the delay of 10.7. Apple (often) makes great and innovative products that improve the way you interact with technology. I honestly didn't know I needed spaces/timemachine/spotlight, until I had them. I honestly didn't realize how long the computer took to start up and shut down until 10.6 came along and made it do those things pretty damned quick. Based on Apple's track record of innovation, 10.7 could be super freakin' awesome in ways I can't even think of. But instead... iPad only. The iPad is neat and all, but some of us still need a computer, and computers have a long way to go before they're good enough so that it doesn't make sense to make them better.
I think he started with a point but devolved into a lot of wishful thinking.

Why not focus on the solution rather than hoping someone is going to listen to you complain and make it all better?

I'm sure they could use the help.
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It seems that most people won't make jack from mobile apps...
I get so frustrated with how media reports information out of government. It's damned irresponsible. This Wired Piece is a derivative of a Washington Tech article here: http://washingtontechnology.com/articles/2010/04/13/booz-all...

Most unfortunately, the Washington Tech article doesn't actually cite the source of the information either. These contracts, and their awards are on fbo.gov, it doesn't take much to find them and cite the source. But the "mailing list and a wiki" line is, well, unsubstantiated at best, and false at worst.
This blog clarified for me what Cpedia is about. As presented in the blog, it does come across as a powerful tool for mining obscure information from the web. Maybe panning gold is an apt metaphor. What you wind up with is going to be full of mud and silt, but if you slosh it around enough, you may get some gold dust to show itself. Most users are expecting fast access to less obscure data and don't have a deep appreciation for that sort of process, however.

In other words, it's a useful tool for an unsightly and messy process. In other words, it is the last thing you'd want to expose to the web at large.
More precisely, Macs.
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For me it is fancy and graphical on Mac/Safari-Latest and all-text on Win/Firefox-Latest.
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The claim is that Java is losing ground to other languages that use the JVM yet very few in the top-50 rely on the JVM. JavaFX is cited but it's only "approaching" the top-20.
"otherwise" as ipad, ipod touch...
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Ah, that makes sense, I didn't read and assumed that the first chart was the summary.
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Not to mention that gas stations in a small region (especially a small town) are playing their own game which will probably tend to equalize prices between the stations.

I haven't seem gas stations with a 60c/gal(!) difference that are a reasonable distance apart.

Between Boston and Lexington? Sure it might be 60c cheaper, but that's almost 20 miles which would wipe out your savings and it has more to with city vs country which is predictable and doesn't require a game theory solution if you happen to be going that way.