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I read Spolsky's essay again to see if he mentioned making public the employee ratings. For all his talk of openness in salaries, does he really publish salary information or just the salaries at each tier of the rating system? Are employees allowed to know their co-workers' scores in the tier system? As helwr mentioned below, a lot like Soviet Russia... or the US Government.
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If either party should be paying it should be the telcos. No one needs to pay for monthly Internet access without content to access. They'll find that out the first week they drop Google.
Xenocode Postbuild works great but costs 1500USD

Update: Looks like they consolidated all of their products (including "Postbuild for .NET") into their Application Studio. [http://www.xenocode.com/]
Will Gosling work at Apple ? (just kidding)
We do dedicated/virtulal hosting, so we're not 'typical' sysadmins .

I still don't understand what makes it necessary for you to rack servers? If it's sheer quantity, then you should have enough cash to employ more staff. If it's very occasionally, then why can't the sysadmin handle that?

The only time our devs touch a server is when go to the datacentre to see how everything works.
It's Javascript with optional classes, optional static typing, and a sane API. What's wrong with that?
For me it's as simple as this: if people upvoted it, it's not offtopic.
Hold on. Let me go check the Hacker News archives at SearchYC to see what the last story was that could have convinced you that the SSL "web of trust" (note: SSL doesn't have a "web of trust") has broken down. Gimme a sec...

... ok, back. So, what you're saying is:

* Mozilla shipping a stale RSA-owned certificate shows that SSL has "broken down", and/or

* Kurt Seifreid allegedly managing to get RapidSSL to issue a cert for "a webmail provider" by signing up for the account "ssladmin" shows that SSL has "broken down".

Gotcha. Have you considered asking the banks, retail brokerages, and trading exchanges to stop relying on SSL, because it's so clearly broken?

I'm sorry for the sarcastic response, but this faux controversy gets tiring.
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Cuil itself is still there. But yeah that's pretty bad.

Here's one of the first grafs on "cuil" in cpedia:

Best Web Hosting Offer Cuil launches with an index of 120 billion web pages making it a most comprehensive magic! Affiliate Secrets search engine on the web and also a potential try to get the Google competitor. Clickbooth Cuil but not avail due to flooding traffics and making their servers 'too hot' to handle. After googling Cuil is down at the moment to 'cool' down.
They've been releasing beta updates like crazy lately. The database update stuff happened a while ago, so if you just start from scratch it should be more stable.
No, I would not rather have information about where I was every hour of the day scattered around ten different places. I would much rather it be at only one place, especially if that place already has my credit card info.
*accusations

Acquisitions may be a good thing.
Oh look, another typical aging misanthrope complaining about whatever generation is after him. Improvements in tech has made life easier but that doesn't necessarily mean the world is AMAZING, especially for a lot of young people in this economy.
I have a really common name, which I apparently share with a baseball player. The page on the baseball player is awful:

http://cpedia.com/search?q=jeffrey+jenkins

What's really funny about this page is that a quick search reveals that the Milwaukee Brewers have a "Geoff Jenkins" and a "Jeffrey Hammond"
> So, which one is it... is the video beautiful or stally and sputtery?

I'm assuming that Flash video is stally and sputtery, but other formats are beautiful.
I assume he is talking about the baby boomer generation? He doesn't specify the age of the people he's complaining about in his stories.
this doesn't bode well for (ex) sun products if oracle is imposing significant cultural changes on former sun employees.
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Interesting, very optimistic project.. Put it just produces a mash of out of context snippets. The biggest problem is that it seems unable to identify introductory information very well, or eliminate references due to news items. I tried a couple of things:

http://cpedia.com/wiki?q=computational+fluid+dynamics

http://cpedia.com/search?q=London%20Underground

Can anyone find something useful? I'd like to see a good article.
I've heard the "no Flash hardware acceleration under Linux" repeated a lot but can't find any concrete info.. could you elaborate?
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The Ruby on Rails one is particularly amusing.

http://cpedia.com/search?q=ruby+on+rails
Support for pip is a slightly different issue, pip doesn't rely on any C extensions. Out of curiosity, how does pip currently not work?
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Great video.

Just a warning to any viewers: I think it might be a bit out of date now. I don't think node has promises anymore and I think they also have blocking and non-blocking versions for most operations (meaning callbacks are optional).
I think he's making a good point.
You can't deny that the technological advances in the last 15 years were bigger than than in the last 200.
He's just saying that all of that is easily taken for granted.
This list includes a lot of PHP and web application security items, but is missing some topics and is light on how to properly handle situations. A few of the topics missing important information include:

- Pseudo-random number generator issues
- Email injection
- Cross-site session transfer
- Password hashing

I recently did a talk on PHP security at the Boston PHP Meetup, and my slides are available at http://wbond.net/security/. http://flourishlib.com/docs/Security includes more information about many of the topics I covered with links to learn more.
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Two more contrasting views on technological progress:

Brad Paisely - Welcome to the future: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0Yg9wjctRw

Lindsay Mac - Rain: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5KMmVLkzvw
This story reminded me of Panic software's story about Audion and their meeting(s) with Apple. The bits about Steve Jobs are actually really telling for his current moves over Flash and Android. "It's like you guys are a little push-cart going down the railroad tracks, and we're a giant steam engine about to run you down."

http://www.panic.com/extras/audionstory/
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No surprise? Java is pretty big stuff in the corporate world that Oracle operates in, and had to be part of why they bought Sun. You wonder just what they're doing to piss off people like this so much.
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He was joking. He was making people lsugh. There was no other guy on the plane complaining about the internet going down, it was him.

http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1885790,00.html
You do know this is a comedy routine right?
Wow, there's an entire subsection on that page about me.. except, well, it isn't, despite being named as such. Laugh out loud bad, just like Cuil.

This is more nefarious than Mahalo. It's spam wrapped up in poorly summarised, chopped up content they have no right to be using.
Joel said in a stackoverflow podcast that he publishes the formula for the pay scales and profit sharing amounts so if an employee really wanted to know someone else's salary they could figure it out based on their position and how long they have been with the company.

I like the idea of transparency with salaries as long as the company pays well. If an employee decides he/she wants a higher salary than is afforded by a system like that they can look for another job or start their own company.
I searched for "wikipedia" and the results couldn't be worse: http://imgur.com/nXKXj.png
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I honestly don't know why people rave about the Aeron. I went to a store and sat in a few and wasn't impressed, maybe it's because I'm skinnier than most people, may (as some suggested) you need to sit in them for a long time to appreciate them.

What I do know is that for a period of time I was on a mad chair hunt. I went from store to store trying to find that perfect million dollar chair that would stop my legs and feet from hurting due to lack of circulation because of how long I'd sit for.

In the end, after sitting in Aeron after Aeron and others, I gave up, realized every one of them was a waste of money.

The solution was cheap and simple:

1) I kept my cheapo $70 chair from Office Max

2) I put a $90 cushion on it (one of those you can carry with you and put in your car).

3) I put a wooden tangerine crate inside of a cardboard box, taped it up, and used it as a foot support to elevate my legs, thus relieving pressure on them from the chair's cushion.

That's it. I was able to code much longer now without taking breaks, for a fraction of the price. Then again, if you're buying for other people, this sort of setup might cause them to roll their eyes, this is mainly just advice for people looking to buy chairs for themselves.

Of course, don't forget to take periodic breaks and exercise. No matter how expensive or ingeniously setup your chair is, unless it's levitating you in the air with force perfectly distributed on every square inch of your body, you'll need to take breaks to allow your blood to circulate properly.
Great post. If a prospective MBA student thought about their 150K as seed capital, they'd already be better off in terms of networking and learning if they started a company instead of going to school for 2 years. It would be even better if a small part of that budget could help get entree to your proposed ninja school just to take some of the inefficiency out of figuring out things alone
The fact that you did a tl;dr summary helps to reinforce his point.
Were this done correctly, it would be an amazing feat of NLP. Unfortunately, it is not... You can't just mash snippets together piecemeal. Context matters.

I'm surprised they even released it; the few search terms I attempted generated useless results.
Cpedia (the new Cuil?)
Considering this was produced by a flash development shop, I find that statement to be disingenuous. Of course they are pro flash.

And if flash developers actually provided useful content for people who didn't have flash -- they usually leave it blank or say "get flash" -- then they wouldn't need to rely on browser manufacturers to display a broken plug-in icon.
Demand Media must be relieved. Despite all the jokes, Cuil's team has a very impressive background. But they've just made it clear that the cheapest way to create prose online is still to pay people $10-$15 per article.
His best analogy was people complaining that there flight from NYC to LA was "delayed an hour" and comparing it to the fact it often took years to cross the country ("people dieing and babies being born in the group you traveled with").
I don't think he was polarizing any particular generation, because every single generation is GUILTY of taking progress for granted.

Much like freedom, progress and technology is taken for granted until it is interrupted or impeded upon.

But I digress...
I think you misunderstood, or it was poorly phrased. But I think the point he was trying to make is that, not that everything in the world is amazing, but rather we live in a time where we (generally speaking) take everything for granted and don't take the time (at least occasionally) to appreciate things for what they are.

I think the keyword here is "appreciation". We snap too quickly if things doesn't always work as they were intended to. Neil deGrasse Tyson made an interesting point about how people would have reacted to iphone if you showed it to them 10 years ago[1]. Yet we bitch and moan about flash and multi-task and copy&paste on iPhone (albeit, some are very legitimate criticism to some extend).

[1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xag3oOzvU68#t=2m18s
Has Steve Jobs ever coded?, I know Gates and Brin did at some point.
A quick search revealed a quote from Wozniak:
"Steve jobs never programmed in his life."
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2006/10/5672.ars
I have an Aeron at work and I love it. It's absolutely worth the cost over time. There's no 'wow' factor when you first sit, but you'll still feel comfortable in it after many hours, which is not the case with most chairs. I also have had some lower back issues recently and sitting in the chair actually makes me feel much better.

At home, I have a Steelcase Think plus lumbar support. I wanted something a bit less expensive and nicer looking for my bedroom. It's also great - I don't spend as many hours on it as I do on the Aeron and it's done a wonderful job so far - no back pain at all.

Before that, I used a $10 Ikea chair for two years, and I felt serious back pain after a few months. It's absolutely worth it to invest in a quality chair. Even though the price tag is depressing, make the purchase once. Your chair / back pain will become a solved problem for at least a decade.
Recently got an Aeron for about $600.

http://www.madisonseating.com/aeron-highly-adjustable-by-her...
I was also going to mention Machinarium. Like Little Wheel, the game interface would make for an ideal multitouch game. Solving puzzles involves tapping and dragging things in your environment.
I've had one of these since 2002. It's a little over your budget but it is worth every penny (Get the gel seat-pan).

I've survived shipping pushes that had 14-16 hr./day coding with this chair

http://www.mcergo.com/humanscale-freedom-chair-with-headrest...

http://www.humanscale.com/products/freedom_index.cfm
Eight hundred dollars per chair? That's a crazy high budget.
Absolutely. I never kept my iPhone apps up to date, because it was a pain to go into the app store and re-download them. The app store buy/download button had always been problematic for me, anyway - sometimes it would take six tries just to get it to register.

Now, I get a notification when there's an update, roll it down, click the notification and click the clear and accurate "download" button.

And then I get notified when it's finished. It's really quite nice. (the glowing trackball is fantastic, too: so many times I'd miss an SMS or a call on my phone and not realize it until minutes or hours later)
"how quickly the world owes him something that didn't exist ten seconds ago"

99% of the internet users today :)
The post isn't too clear on this, but you should note that this work is not yet in PyPy trunk. You need to check out the branch if you want to test it.

http://codespeak.net/svn/pypy/branch/cpython-extension/
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You're sitting on a chair in the sky.
> Absolutely. I never kept my iPhone apps up to date, because it was a pain to go into the app store and re-download them. The app store buy/download button had always been problematic for me, anyway - sometimes it would take six tries just to get it to register.

The store should let you update all apps at once--when you open the app it goes and checks if there are updates available and if so you'll see them in the bottom right. There's an option for update all.
Could you elaborate a little on that? I'm just genuinely curious about what the "additional runtime machinery" is, what assumptions they make about runtime behavior, how those assumptions break with the outlawed methods, and what those assumptions allow them to do to improve the iPhone experience.

(edit: yikes, I didn't downmod you and I don't know why someone did)
Except, appreciate doesn't provide progression. All that progression that we are supposed to appreciate isn't built on appreciation.

200 years ago, crossing the entire country was a bigger undertaking then it was 50 years ago, and 50 years ago it was a bigger undertaking then it is now. If 50 years ago, people merely appreciated, progress wouldn't have happened. Rather, people weren't happy it was fast enough.

As for why we bitch and moan? Because we care. It's not new, people have been complaining for ages. It's just with the internet, it's easier then ever to find people to bitch and moan with, or about, or to.

However, it was funny. =)
Agree. Even by jogging for about 30 minutes to an hour a few days a week solved my lower back pains.
Wow, I had no idea. Thanks for the info. According to Wikipedia, he worked at Atari creating circuit board for games.
I have to wonder if Arrington saw that the product wasn't turning out like he had hoped and quietly decided that he didn't want the TechCrunch name on it. Maybe that's why he didn't commit to a contract because he wanted the relationship to dissolve while also making it appear that he was the good guy by being pushed out of the relationship.

In any case, you can be sure that Arrington is at least a little happy that the CrunchPad is not going up against the iPad.
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Most servers are easier to put in a rack with two persons. And if you do it only very occasionally, hiring a second admin just for that might be slightly wasteful.
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I tried a few seemingly easy searches ("Obama", "ipod") and it only ever returns random noise.

I just hope this garbage gets blacklisted in real search engines ASAP, before it starts polluting results.
Author's points would have been valid if Apple didnt charge developers for App approval process.

But there is a developer fee, which obviously go towards approval/rejection of submitted apps. Apple's existing app approval process is more than enough to not let in crappy apps.The fee will cover extra cost arising from influx of new developers.
I have an Aeron and I just don't like it. I don't think it's comfortable at all. I've adjusted pretty much everything on that chair and nothing works for me.
This would have made a great April Fool's joke.
I find the experience idea their very arbitrary, so no experience from when your in school counted and 1 year no matter how many years in a "menial" position.

It kinda implies that while in school you couldn't have possibly picked up any experience that would define you above someone who has a year of industry experience.
I was hoping he was going to deliver an Oregon Trail, something like:

"New York to California in 5 hours?! That used to take 30 years, you die of dysentery, your oxen would get ill and you'd have to float your wagon across a river. Now, you watch a movie, take a dump and you're home."
I've always wondered if Y Combinator is modeled after the English university system. As I understand it, at a school like Oxford, you:

1. Work independently on your research

2. Meet once a week or so with your tutor to discuss your progress

3. Attend lectures during the week, but this is less formal than in the US, where you have to register for classes and get a grade at the end

At YC, you:

1. Work independently on your startup

2. Meet with Paul Graham once a week or so to discuss your progress

3. Attend 1-2 talks each week at YC that are germane to your company
I agree with your point. However appreciating something doesn't mean you have to stop doing everything and marvel at its beauty. I believe progression is a result of appreciation (from the person who is involved in creating it), not exclusively from nagging from consumers (a bit of a generalization maybe).
OK. I come from a different background of programming than traditional consumer apps. In my "normal" job, I get a very small white list of programming languages. "C", "C++" (but no templates, multiple inheritance, no operator over-loading), "ADA", Assembly. Within each of these areas I am not allowed specific features. Recursion. OMG. I did that once and never again. Big nono. Even a simple things like:

if (A && B)
{
}
else if (A && !B)
{
}

is not legal as you can not fully test 1 of the four branches in the "else if()" case. Even "default" statements in "case" statements that can not be executed (because the switch statements cover 100% of the available options) can be an issue.

What I am getting at is, with programming there are rules. The rules Apple have are actually very minor and very easy to stay within. If you program to make political statements, choose Android or BB or Symbian. If you program to make money, pick the platform that will do that and follow the rules. If it stops making you money, move on. If you don't like the rules and don't want to abide by them, move on.

You can enjoy programming while still staying within the rules. Sometimes, it is part of the fun and challenge.
If you phrased it "the average person has a far better chance of becoming a millionare by careful career and money management" I'd have agreed with you. The average person is not suited to starting a startup. But for the 1% of people who are suited to it-- the ones sufficiently smart and determined-- the odds are actually reasonably good.

I'm not sure what you mean about it having been disproven that starting a startup is a bad way to make money. Presumably the same sort of statistical evidence that would prove that randomly selected people can't do anything hard. But what matters to someone asking this question is not whether random people could do it, but whether they could, and if the right sort of person is asking the question, the answer becomes very different. If the young Bill Gates is asking the question, the odds of making FU money are close to 100%.

(Microsoft was already doing well before they got lucky with the DOS deal.)
I wouldn't say they last forever. My aeron is about 15 years old, and it's starting to get some wobble in the main stem. (There might be a bearing that i can replace, but I haven't looked into it.) Also I never did understand the +/- dial on the side. It increases the stiffness of the chair, but I have to crank it about 5-8 times every few days. It feels like the mechanics are wearing out.

(And my back is bugging me more recently, but that may just be me getting old.)
What was there to read? I skipped it because I'm trying to avoid YouTube.
The Shaun White part of this article is the kind of thing I imagine is said at a third rate business conference. That being said, I have my own observation about Shaun White and business.

Shaun White is the most popular snowboarder right now. I recently started snowboarding and purchased my own gear. What surprised me was that I was not overwhelmed by links to the Shaun White model board + boots + jacket + etc. This is a kid who is sponsored by the biggest (?) snowboard company (Burton), has 2 gold medals, and his own video game. I would expect to see entry level, mid-level, and expert level boards all in the Shaun White line. I really don't understand how they can not market his gear that way. (I am still pretty new to snowboarding, but so far I have not even seen a Shaun White model.) Maybe another HN person has some insight on this (like my ad filter was completely blacklisting Shaun White or something ).