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I think people reading slowly has a lot to do with it; people just jump onto the first relevant-looking item they see. They saw the Facebook button and didn't read the stuff that was obviously a written article.

Something else I often see, which I think has the same cause: people blindly clicking on the first item returned by a search, when the second or third result is clearly what they're looking for.
What's wrong with okCupid, other than being written in C++?
Match.com has been bloating numbers for a very long time, they just seem pissed that throwing money at downtoearth.com didn't pay off. I'd love for them to be forced to be truthful about their numbers for a change too.
Call me old-fashioned, but I just send relevant messages to girls that I think I might like. Not everything is some mathematical operation to optimize.
I think you missed the point of rsl7's post. Satellite navigation systems are marginally helpful but not even really necessary. Inertial guidance can work fine.

If someone wants to hit a ship with a cruise missile then they need precise real-time targeting data. A box of missiles on a cargo ship doesn't do any good if you don't know where to point it. Reconnaissance satellites are one possible way to get that data, and only a few rich countries have enough good satellites to be useful.

Some people think that guided missiles are magic: just point them in the general direction of a target and the missile will do the rest. In reality they have limited range, limited fuel, and short-range sensors. To have any chance of hitting a ship you have to tell the missile at launch time where the target should be when it finally arrives.
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The vendor-prefixed properties being used on production sites are the fault of those who create the sites, not those who create the browsers. The purpose of the vendor-prefixes is well known: to put new capabilities into the hands of developers and designers to allow them to test different implementations without having to use non-production versions of browsers. You are welcome to use these properties however you see fit, but you don't get to complain when they go away or change implementation because they are, by definition, not standardized and in-flux. So if your site is relying on them, and you don't want to spend the time to maintain them when they change, it's your own fault.

I thought this had been to put to rest. http://searchyc.com/vendor+prefix
But isn't everybody doing that? Or, at least a lot of people?

If your database has 3 millions lines in the account table, it feels better to use that number than the number of accounts that, say, logged in in the past x months. Especially if that second number is way less.

I'm not saying it's right or wrong, but I feel it's one of these games where since everyone is doing it, you have to catch up one way or the other.
Why, exactly, is it "clear" to you that this publication isn't an ongoing serious problem for Apple?

Because the phone is not that special. It is the same as the next-generation phones that HTC is going to release at about the same time. It's almost like all these phones are made by 2 or 3 companies in China, or something...
OTOH: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts%27s_law
Surely you can't mention this without the Bill Gates "Windows 95 will revolutionize PC gaming" video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN0K58EfJSg
Very timely and useful post, thanks.
FYI plentyoffish is basically a one man show. And he claims to be doing it part time.
Very neat seeing the webkit2png tool in action. This is something I may find useful, nice project!

Scanning rss feeds in this type of format is sometimes preferable to the list inlay style that Google reader uses. It's also more enjoyable to discover things this way as well. I would only really want to scan topics I'm highly interested in this type of presentation layer rather than all the topics in my feed reader. This format definitely works best for that.
From the comments:
Yeah, 15% sounded high to me, too. But, from my Commission Junction account:

23 leads
3 sales
—–
13% conversion ratio – about right.
Lawyers routinely resolve almost all of their work with nastygrams (sternly worded letters demanding that someone take action on behalf of their client).
A recent blog post from OkCupid dissects Match.com (and eHarmony, to a lesser extent) to bits:
http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/2010/04/07/why-you-should-...
In India or Nepal people are consuming exactly this kind of food, because it is local which means cheap. Locally grown vegetables is the cheapest food possible.

The main source of food is local markets, which operates at morning and evening times. Most of goods are managed to be sold the same day, and delivery agents adopts to this circles. So, each morning it is fresh.

If you enter into some local tea-shop or kitchen and take a look which kind of dishes they serve and how it was made and from which ingredients you could catch the idea.

Of course, most of fast foods are using not fresh or organic sources simply to get more profit, but if you can cook yourself you can choice whatever you want on nearest market.
Care to elaborate? Apple's products and Ubuntu are entirely different in how they are managed. While Apple's is an almost entirely closed ecosystem, Ubuntu's is almost entirely open.

What's wrong with someone trying to innovate in the PC desktop space?
Can you recommend a good book that would get mathematically literate laymen a functional understanding of how to pick classifiers for data sets?
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Great article, thank you. It's the first well reasoned anti-g argument I've seen. I'm going to want to gather more information before I make a decision but I'm glad to have read something that challenges my opinions enough that a decision has to be made.
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The great thing about user numbers is that you have so many to choose from!

There are straightforward, well-used definitions of "user" for which I have 60, 1.5k, 2.9k, 50.0k, and "well over a hundred thousand" users. They're all equally true and none of them singly or in combination tell you a thing about the health of my business unless you're intimately acquainted with it.
Do you see any difference between an OS and a GUI toolkit which was ported to that OS?

Even a good GUI framework cannot solve deep problems of the OS.
I wonder if the differences of opinion here are due to different mouse acceleration. Ideally you should be able to hit a global menu with a small mouse movement even on a large monitor, but with improper acceleration it would be more work.
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Having gone from a regular job to self-employment and now looking at moving back to a regular job, I've gotten a surprising amount of disappointment from my entrepreneurial buddies when I tell them I'm thinking about opting out.

What I was expecting was for them to ask about what I'm thinking about doing, what I've learned about myself, why I'm going to make that move. Instead, I'm getting an unspoken but almost palpable sense of disappointment and disinterest. It's the equivalent of telling someone you've converted to a wacko religion or that you've decided to betray your country or something.

I'm comfortable and confident in my decision, whatever it ultimately is, but it's got me wondering if some of the rah-rah about start-up culture and entrepreneurship hasn't sunk in a little too deeply to the point where you are either entrepreneurial or a waste of space.

You see bloggers of all shapes and sizes and of every level of experience casually disparage those who are merely employed, especially if they work at large companies or, worse still, academia or the government.

My sense for a long time now has been that there is an imbalanced representation of the realities, challenges, and suitability for entrepreneurship in the broader web. There's the sense of, "If you're smart enough, not a sheep, and hard working, you should be building your own business," but that's neither realistic nor even desirable for most people if they are able to get a clear picture of all of their options and what the trade-offs really are like.

Should there be more articles about why NOT to be an entrepreneur or about how to find a great fit with a standard job?

For everything we read about start-ups, it's amazing there's anyone left to work for them.
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> It’s like Y Combinator

....

> a $115 million fund in order to create five successful Chinese startups a year

The funding levels imply it is less like YC and more like a standard VC. With those numbers -- even assuming 50% overhead, and five years of five startups each -- that's over $2 million per startup. YC starts at $17k to $20k per startup.
A large part of that is that he hasn't really updated the site in ages. It's basically coasting, as far as I (or anyone I know) has been able to tell. That it can make that much money without adding 'new and exciting features' is impressive.
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Nice to see someone addressing the problem of early stage companies in China. As I was reading through the differences in China vs. the US, I was struck by the similarities to Japan as well. People are much more risk-adverse here and having a startup, to put it mildly, is not usually a source of pride, at least until you have serious funding. This also makes it difficult for B2B startups to gain traction.

A friend of mine told me that Japanese companies look for the following in vendors: 1. have they IPO'd? if not then, are they 2. funded by a big VC? and, failing that, have they at least 3. won some award?

It all comes back to a lack of desire to reward innovation despite its obvious risks and wanting to play it safe by requiring external validation.

This can be good, in a way, because it forces entrepreneurs who still decide to operate in this environment figure out the needs of what we in the US would call the "late-majority" on the technology adoption curve (which is also usually about half of the largest part of any given addressable market).

I'm guessing (though only guessing) that some of these things are also true in China. Perhaps it's very different in B2C.
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I'm either blind or there's no way to search. I tried to add a service I'm part of and apparently it's already listed. Surely there's a better way to find a particular start up than next-ing through page after page.

Anyone interested in a particular start up will want to be able to jump straight to it to see how they're doing/vote for themselves.

Maybe you could create a little page for each one. Screenshot, a short blurb and bigger vote buttons. Have the screenshots on the main page take you there instead of directly to the outside site. That would give you a set of pages that would be indexable. Put them at urls like sinkfloat.com/news.ycombinator.com

Just an idea :)
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Venture Beat should try visiting the links they publish in their articles.

Kai-Fu Lee's Innovation Works is www.innovation-works.com not www.innovationworks.org
Yeah. If one can't explain the thing "on his fingertips" he doesn't understand the thing either.
Maybe the case is not that programming became less interesting, but that there are too many (mediocre) programmers.
Someone wrote that maybe the crappy, amateurish look gives the site more authenticity, much like a long-tail forum/bb.

If POF's UI was really slick, it might look too commercial for some people.
I don't personally know many people who understand all of the intricacies of CSS and browser support and writing HTML along with it that aren't programmers.

To me, the design and the implementation are two very different things, and advanced CSS seems to be more in the programming realm (despite its goals to be accessible to the average designer).
$2 million is an astounding amount of money in China. You can get engineers for $10-15K a year, and designers, sales, and marketing people for a lot less. Equipment can be a little more expensive than the U.S., but office space is dramatically cheaper, as is virtually everything else.

I imagine that the high level of funding is to impress the hell out of potential partners and new recruits. For a variety of reasons, many people in China will shy away from a new and risky business. In order to get employees and partners on board, you need to give the impression that you are large, in charge, and not going anywhere.
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@Coders can often walk through large logic problems instantly: I work in an IT shop where we write in house systems to support the business processes of nontechnical people. When we try to hammer out business requirements for systems we'll often have discussions with customer where we carefully question "OK, so it is ALWAYS the case that P and Q implies R", and "It's NEVER the case that P or R implies S" and so forth. The customer will say yes, yes, yes, throughout this, then she'll mention some other case can happen that logically invalidates the rest of everything she said. Only, she doesn't realize this because she doesn't have a coder's hard-edged sense of logic. But when this happens I, my boss, and my boss's boss (the CIO) will all three exchange a quick incredulous look with each other at the same time because we all ran through the logic and found the contradiction nearly instantly. Or, that is to say, as she was talking we were all three building up the same structure in our minds, and the last thing she says brings it crashing down in all three of our heads at the same time.

Trying to explain that to a non-coder is not easy to do without appearing arrogant, and I think that is why people in IT can appear rude. How do you politely say, "Your mental representations are so messy and imprecise I'm having trouble categorizing what you need?"
Yes, but before you did any of that you did printing. Admit it, the graphics came much later unless you started with logo. If you started with logo though, you probably don't consider that language your first programming language.

I just think that until there's a solid totally idiot proof way to do "write, run, fix" and get graphics you'll fail at this. It's this patter of writing out a file, running it, and fixing it that's missing really.

But, I also think making things fun for people is overrated. Too often we think that in order to teach we have to entertain. Problem is that makes people (kids and adults) who can't learn anything hard. Hard problems are not entertaining. They may be satisfying, but until you've slogged through solving a bunch of them they aren't really entertaining.

Anyway, I just don't think graphics and entertainment is where it's at. Making it possible to accomplish the exercises and feel like you learned something that gets you ready for fun and graphics is all I'm aiming for.
You only need one because someone else uses one against you, and the law was written by lawyers in language only they can understand ;) Thus, in the hypothetical scenario of no lawyers having existed, either they would be replaced by some other ruling and representative class, or the problems they solve wouldn't have been invented in the first place.
my favorite metric is: `wc /var/log/httpd/access_log`

:-)
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Please explain this. I am grinning hugely in anticipation.
I doubt you could get top notch engineers in Beijing for 10-15k without giving up equity. I think if you go work for Microsoft in Beijing, you can make 40-50k. It's really not that astounding - have you seen real estate prices in Beijing?
Very interesting article. The letter from the founders to the investitors is also worth reading: http://investor.google.com/corporate/2004/ipo-founders-lette...
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I was wondering as well :) Maybe you could just slap on a different wp theme (one that shows the post author)?
Dude. You're NOT seriously going to TRY start a DC vs. Marvel comic character thrown-down on HN?!

I pity 'da fool.
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Just like how you break up with your girlfriend over SMS because she has a cellphone, or a Post-it because she has a desk.
Ask someone who doesn't know how to program to read just a few lines of code. Though it's very naturally readable to you -- and in general, if you didn't know a new language you could try reading it line-by-line like English -- it looks totally impenetrable to them. I've heard people tell me that they have no idea how I do anything [programming] when they look at just a simple script in PHP or Ruby.

Knowing the Photoshop interface is clearly not what makes you a good designer, but in general it is a necessary-but-not-sufficient prerequisite to being really good.
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I honestly thought the content got cut off by some scripting bug. I only double checked when I read your comment.
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As a open source and free software under GNU GPLV3, indeed the power is of the open source world is 'you' can contribute and help it to improve.

RFC finder 1.0 is self driven quick release, which is very naive, but follows the principle of Bazaar give to us by ESR.
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I agree parts are sketchy, but lots have some basis if you take a hardline no-fair-use-at-all scenario as the alternative. It's not clear that, absent fair use, Google's index would be legal: you can't generally make your own local copies of copyrighted texts, even for private use, and even only for the purpose of searching them. Certainly the snippets they display on results pages rely on fair use. And you can reasonably say that, if indexing the web were illegal, that would have a significant negative effect on the economy.
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No, that actually wasn't the case -- although I can see why you'd think not. I typed in the graphics example from the BASIC manual[1] that gave you a blinky smily face and played with that. Ok, I went to printing and '10 print "hello" : goto 10' shortly after though... :-)

Fair enough about the rest.

I sort of wish I could look at the innards of that manual again to see how they structured it...

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Started-Extended-Color-Basic/d...
Shuttleworth did a great job on the article, but I am disappointed that something of this GUI nature wasn't supplemented with some screenshots.
My (very limited) experience with peer programming:

- It works very well if both of you are experiencing a language for the first time so you can both help each other with syntactical traps that you may find yourself in as well as other quirks that emerge with new languages.

- It doesn't work as well for projects in which you both know how to code. Having another person watching you code over your shoulder is distracting and stressful, and often it would be more efficient for that second person to code simultaneously with you.

However, these are only my experiences, and I'm sure they change from person to person. I'd recommend that everyone try it at least once - it may work for you, and you probably won't know until you try.
Sentence-by-sentence rebuttals are not very effective. And they're never the best you can do. Why are you wasting my time nitpicking on 'legend tells us'? It's silly to tell me I needn't bother with the original - and then take me in excruciating detail through it.
but at the end of the day they are all desktop/laptop UIs.

The physical form of an 8" netbook isn't designed for the same type of use as a 15" — or even 13" — macbook pro is. Why should the UI be?
It's surprisingly fast for a super-pre-alpha. Definitely needs work, but has a lot of potential.

One big advantage already: Runs animated GIFs (useful for ajax loading indicators).
I'd like to say that all these points are valid for India as well particularly the 3rd point about Failure not being an option. I started an ecommerce startup (bad decision) with a friend of mine (again bad decision) whose parents were keep pressuring him to pursue "MBA" instead of doing business. Parents in these societies have lot of say in the future of their children and thus are very apprehensive about risky career options.
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> Try 123456789 * 9 * 2.

It's 12345679, not 123456789
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you're surrounded by statistical outliers. are you based in san francisco by any chance?

the good spirit is to follow your own calling, so do whatever you want. don't mind the others.

also, a non-entrepreneur movement sounds like a good idea. it would benefit both sides.

also, i look straight at people.
While that quote should understandably give anyone pause, I don't think it's nearly as damning as you seem to think, nor single-handedly enough to advocate against hiring him. As you say, he's probably quite intelligent, and his solve-problems-damn-the-consequences approach can actually be a crucial piece of a development team. Some developers will like nothing better than to take one of his quick and dirty "it just works" PHP algorithms and fine-tune it until it is more reliable than the server software hosting it.

Plus, of course, when you desperately need something done or fixed YESTERDAY, memory leaks are indeed the last thing on your mind. In the world of rapid developments and instant news spread that is online commerce, fixing a crucial 0-day issue at the cost of 3-5 minutes of downtime per hour until a better fix is implemented? No-brainer.
uh, after revisiting the tables in the PDF, i understand the situation better.

the NAND and NOR tables don't follow the same evaluation scheme.

the NOR table is "(not A) or B", which is according to python's precedence rules without parentheses.

the NAND table is "not (A and B)", which matches the common definition of NAND.