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Just be careful to interpret the answers to those questions in context. If a small company is growing or expanding into new areas or technologies, I wouldn't necessarily consider it a bad thing if the answers to the second two questions were short periods of time.

For example, if you join a small company to lead, say, their first Android application's development, and one of your first tasks involves hiring another developer or two to round out your team, there's not going to be a lot of tenure there. That certainly represents a risk, but it doesn't indicate something wrong with the company.

When I encounter situations like this, I often ask about the team members' prior experience. They're not obliged to share those details, of course, but most people are eager to tell you about their past achievements and how they hope to outdo themselves in their new roles.
Coincidentally, IE's Test Manager just posted on the IE Blog about how we've been dealing with incoming bug reports/feedback during IE8 and IE9. I would encourage everyone to read it, and submit pro-active, actionable bugs, especially the Microsoft haters: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2010/04/28/product-feedback...

In addition, I remain always available to the news.yc community (see my profile for my contact info) if you have IE issues to debug. Please don't hesitate to drop me a line!
Redis says that craigslist uses Redis. You have a link to a redis tutorial on your blog. Is this not your answer?
At my office, we're doing "fancy Friday", which is like casual Friday, but, you know, fancy. I've started taking it pretty seriously.

People have noted that when I wear a nice suit, I look far more authoritative. My wife joked that I needed to put a lab coat on over the suit, pin on a police badge, and carry a clipboard. Then everyone would be convinced of my authority.
Greece will only be bankrupt if they don't get bailed out again either by the EU, the IMF or both.

The measures demanded by the IMF & EU (which is necessary for political will & arguably 'right') will cause the economy of Greece to contract.

There has been much squabbling within the EU about how to structure a loan and the whole thing has been a mess given differences within the EU.

The stability of the Euro is certainly much on the minds of the Germans given their experiences with the mark and the loan can be challenged in the German supreme court if it undermines the Euro.

I frankly wouldn't worry about which way the Euro will go. Especially when compared to the problems other wealthy nations will face.
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I don't see it. How do you explain something like PyGlet?
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His frustration is understandable, and I'm certainly guilty of venting at times too (after wrestling with one, or likely more, browsers!). But the fact that it is understandable doesn't mean the title of the post is any less nonsense. In my opinion the Microsoft employee is justified to point this out.
They are not going to be selling Macs in ten years.

People were also saying that 10 years ago. It's hard to predict the future.
Interesting, thanks. That won't stop me from putting beer in the freezer though.
I can't imagine this going well for HP or Palm. Palm has already been passed around 5+ times and it just gets chewed up by bureaucracy worse and worse each time. HP also doesn't really have a strong history of stylish consumer electronics, particularly in the non-business market, which is frankly what the mobile market is all about. It's all about hearts & minds.

With Apple and Android clearly the top players, and Microsoft always being a long-term contender, I don't see how there's any room left in the marketplace for another major player.
Dataexplorers appears to be focused on the securities lending business, which is a tiny segment of the market compared to what the parent is proposing. Also, I see nowhere on the site where they claim to "get all the information on longs and short trades throughout the day, from all the big investment firms, and produce a market snapshot", can you please provide a reference to the place where this claim, or a similar one, is made? Most likely they are simply analyzing all long and short trades in the market on a given day to provide information about expected lending fees, which is a far cry from being able to assemble an accurate picture of the securities held by various financial institutions for their own accounts.
I'm wondering if the author or other readers have looked at this node.js library:

http://github.com/jcoglan/faye

Coglan has put together code for ruby and eventmachine too, if you prefer those tools over javascript and node.js.

Use faye in combination with redis-node-client and you've got an efficient means to create a high-volume, low latency work queue.

40+ mbps of http traffic and upwards of 20,000 redis requests per second can be serviced by a couple of node processes, using only a few hundred MBs of RAM and a plain-jane Linux VM with access to multiple cores. Tests are ongoing....
You mean like this?

http://www.eastofcleveland.com/misc/hn2009sal.php

Edit: I guess I'm cheating, in that it doesn't "automatically" update...but just visit that, and keep hitting F5.
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Would you prefer that someone who bought a shrink-wrapped copy of Windows XP at Best Buy 6 years ago suddenly discovers that their computer/browser stopped working as it should

Yes. Happens all the time. My Toshiba Techra A6 made in '06 will not have win7 drivers released for it - therefore no win7 for me. Life goes on.

This is especially true given that browser upgrades are free

Also - is there a good reason for why ie6 cannot be simply sandboxed into a ie9 tab? This would solve all of the 'corporation are unwilling to upgrade' arguments.

Or maybe a 'portable' version with all the dependencies bundled into one distro so that ie6 could be launched without installation?
I honestly don't think that was the point at all. Yes, XHR allowed for AJAX to follow, and was rather revolutionary. That said, the original implementation was very tied not just to MSIE, but to ActiveX and, by extension, to the Windows platform. It was not even in principle possible for Mozilla, Opera and others to implement XHR as originally implemented by MS, since to do so would require implementing ActiveX support. Rather, cross-browser support for XHR required developing a second, incompatible API. Similar concerns hold back implementing support for MSIE's "filter" CSS properties and several other such experiments.
This suggestion would be the equivalent of requiring that all software firms provide all of their source code for free public viewing. The information about the aggregate positions that a bank holds for its own account can be used by a trading firm to make tremendous amounts of money at the bank's expense. In fact, Goldman was basically accused of doing this to Long Term Capital management in the book "When Genius Failed".
I'm not going to defend Winer's point of view, but I also prefer XML for some tasks. Namespaces make XML extensible in a way that JSON is not.

In XML, I can add an attribute or a child node anywhere without affecting anything else. There is no easy way to extend JSON without jumping through ugly hoops to recreate a more XML-like data model.
Beyond being frustrated that your TV is obsolete

How frustrated would I be if I could download a brand-new TV from the manufacturer's web site, for free?

Gotta love analogies.
I mention that library specifically as it's a pubsub implementation for http/javascript too.
There is a notion of special directories under Windows, so you can request the Program Files directory without knowing even what drive it would be on. I do realize that a path-based whitelisting approach would introduce unwanted limitations, but considering the cost of false positives, it may be warranted to accept such limitations.
Two standout quotes:

"... Conway cares less about the specific ideas than the people who come up with them, and he looks carefully at the chemistry of a company's founders. 'We invest in people. We don't invest in ideas,' he said. 'Ideas can morph. But great people end up building great companies.' ..."

"... One of Conway's axioms is that the best new ideas arise from the personal frustration of an entrepreneur. ..."
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Reminds of Bulgaria - not much houses, but 8 to 12, and sometimes 18 story blocks. You take the elevator (if it works), go down in front of the block and kids were there - all day being dirty was just fun.

But now, I know the names of just 3 of my neighbours, and they all happen to be old folks (65+). We have lots of young people, but we just say "Hi" and that's it.

Then we go the park with our little kid, and lots of spanish speaking people (mostly mexican emigrants, I live in Los Angeles) have gathered at the BBQ and having fun. Their kids are more friendly with our kid, more giving, understanding. An american kid, much like our kid (he was born here) would always try to be individualist - not sharing much, crying sometimes for no reason, etc.

I miss the good old days.
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Wow, does Ashton Kutcher really hand out cards that say, "This certifies that I had a personal encounter with Ashton Kutcher."? Other than this was an interesting look into Conway. Fascinating that he seldom uses the products.
Not the cheapest but probably the simplest way would be to use an inexpensive router. The dd-wrt capable variety give you linux and a serial port for under 100$. There are tons of ways you could glue a potentiometer to a serial port.
All I could think while reading this was "what a sarcastic, snide jerk". He sees one javascript error and not only concludes that MS does no testing of Bing in IE, but decides to trumpet that "fact" on his personal blog. I think / thought posterous was cool, but knowing someone so childish is in charge of it sours it a bit.
Based on the salary and studying part, he must be a grad student.
The first thing came to my mind reading the headline was:

"What does KFC have anything to do with HP or Palm?"
Factor in work-study and the student loans, I agree.
I wonder - The wall posts, pics, etc., that I posted 4+ years ago, is that data covered by the privacy policy that was in effect at the time?
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Ah okay, so even with the fastest clocks available today, the best you could hope for is cutting the 8 hours to 4, or one month to two weeks.

As far as the parallel cores it sounds like you already have thought about possible "end runs" around MySQL's "transaction safe" ALTER (which is probably why it's single threaded). InnoDB supposedly has a few performance improvements for ALTER over MyISAM so you are already taking advantage of that.
I think Garry wrote this in frustration.

When somebody is frustrated, you forget that a company is run by people too.

I used to work for a company where the web site was too buggy. We (the developers) want to make the site stable but are not given resources and time by the management to do so. Our users were complaining and it was frustrating for us because there was not much we can do.

Microsoft is not a machine that churns out software. You may not agree with some of its practices but there are people in Microsoft that actually believe that they are doing something good for the internet as a whole.
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The memristor alone is a gold mine. They've also innovated tremendously in making data centers more energy efficient. I'm not sure what you consider innovation, but because this stuff doesn't make in the news regularly like some pretty phones do, it doesn't mean large companies like IBM and HP aren't innovating every day.
This is about how much money I made when I lived in San Francisco for a few years mid-decade.

It was doable primarily because I always lived with people who had rent controlled apartments or houses they'd lived in for some time. The cheapest rent I paid--and where I lived longest--was $550/mo. My girlfriend lived with me there and we split it 50/50.

Other things contributing to low living expenses: no car (huge savings); no TV; aggressive (but perfectly legal) tax deductions; choosing fun activities over costly purchases; freegan friends who gave us loads of food; and, of course, two buck chuck...

It's certainly doable.
Easy, get a PIC, Atmel, Aduino, etc microcontroller. Interface it to a WiFi USB key and write a bit of code. A lazy weekend's work for a Real Hacker.
I really feel my 48 years. What is this, The Running Man?

Either leave it in the hands of the authorities or prosecute. Making a game out of it sends a very strong message that it's all about the page views whether you're hacking a site to redirect towards your sleazy affiliate trap or whether you're turning the justice system into the Circus Maximus.
Except that facebook only got big because of the privacy policy in the first place, in comparison to myspace which was all open.
I believe the "Sent from my Blackberry" message was responsible for a large part of Blackberry's success, so it makes sense that Apple would want to do the same. It's a lot less obnoxious than the advertisement footers Hotmail adds. Still, I'd change it right away if I had an iPhone.
Jon Stewart assails Apple for becoming "Big Brother"
Actually, HP recently changed their tagline to "Create Amazing". It's a pretty good indication of where HP has gone.

I quit HP early this year (around 18 months after I joined HP in an aquisition). After that experience, I can't believe HP continues to grow at all.
That paints a pretty telling picture. I took the opportunity to look through my privacy settings on Facebook. It seems that applications can now access certain information about me through my friends, even if I haven't made that information publicly accessible. It's checked by default and needs to be disabled.

http://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=privacy&section=ap...
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It's at least partly the fault of the US government that tried to dismantle the company over developing a free browser. If it was your software company, would you get right to work on the next version after that?
Yet more semantics around extensions? Ugh. I long for the day when we can use metadata instead of doing funny things with names. I fear I'll be waiting a long time...
The venue was Y Combinators, a kind of "American Idol" for geeks that helps entrepreneurs turn promising ideas into businesses that will attract investors.

WTF?
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Is he suggesting startups are voted off the island?
"Global superintelligence known as the cloud"... Really?
perhaps. But I stand by the assertion that words like "rape" are best left to describing a horrific crime.
Want to be an entrepreneur? Drop out of college.
The earthquake in Haiti was so destructive, in general, because Haiti has been a land under the heel of grinding poverty for many years. It was the poorest country in the western hemisphere, a place where children were sold into slavery to make ends meet, where eating dirt to avoid hunger pains was a practical enough approach to spawn an industry. And then natural disaster hit.

Building codes have got nothing to do with it. My sister went there a few weeks ago. I've seen pictures. Some of those houses look to me like they'd fall over in a stiff rainstorm.

[Edit: The hospital my sister helped build is the subject of the video featured on this page: http://heartlineministries.org/EarthquakeNeeds.aspx . If you haven't seen Haiti, it's worth looking at the community they served and the problems they solved.]
Of all the blogs about how to run a startup from the discomfort of your own home, this one stands out. It's well written, has some research and it's obvious that the writers spent time on the posts.

But perhaps too analytical, too long for getting a conversation going. There's not much to argue about.
> It was not even in principle possible for Mozilla, Opera and others to implement XHR as originally implemented by MS, since to do so would require implementing ActiveX support.

Incorrect. The code to create an XHR object in IE looked something like this:

var xhr = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP.6.0");

Any browser could absolutely have supported creating XHR objects in this manner without being forced to support ActiveX.
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promises need to be build into the language and all libraries have to be build with promises in mind for this to work. Look at io-lang's @ syntax or for a slightly different ( much better ) take, look at go's channels.
While it's certainly up any victim to testify / support a prosecution, isn't the actual decision of whether a crime has been committed and whether to pursue prosecution up to the law enforcement agencies?

Any legal types around to clarify?
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It's settled then, I'm extremely frustrated and headed for success.
Arrington is 40 so age obviously has no relationship to decency.
Ha! The title reminds me of an old Calvin & Hobbes comic, Calvin is talking about Einstein getting bad grades and he says something like "you heard Einstein got bad grades in school? well mine are even worse!"

I don't think not attending college was good or bad for me but I'm going to do what I can with what I've got.
Reminds me of this article on how friendfeed implemented schemaless storage on top of MySQL:

http://bret.appspot.com/entry/how-friendfeed-uses-mysql

I always thought it was a very clever design.
Founder Institute does that. Actually about half of the people who go in are kicked out.
Another reason to love ruby is the great community. The ruby-forum has leading ruby programmers helping out newbies. No one's berated for asking newbie questions.

I am not saying that other languages don't. Java has wonderful JUG's.
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Right up until MS changed their implementation, say to version 7. MSIE's implementation of XHR exposed internal details of the ActiveX-based implementation which were subject to change-- it was never meant to be an external API, but rather, to enable features in Outlook Web Access. Thus, any third-party implementation would have to involve making a list of special magic strings to recognize in the ActiveXObject() call, then delegate to code that attempts to replicate internal implementation details of the given ActiveX object.
He would be fully justified if he calmly pointed it out, explained that the headline was sensationalistic and inaccurate and left it at that. Instead, he loses focus as he goes further, turning the reply into a flame:

"Meanwhile, I'll take my Posteri over to Tumblr. Maybe they have more maturity when it comes to handling the occasional bug."

That's not a constructive way to handle criticism. There was a great opportunity to take the high road here, but he ends up just tossing flames back and the whole experience becomes a net-zero shouting match. Neither of the participants in that exchange have the high moral ground here.
The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers.
On the other hand, look at Brad Fitzpatrick. He managed to successfully run LiveJournal while enrolled in college (full-time I believe) and said he wouldn't have done it any other way if he had the chance.
I suspect it may not be so much that the kind of people who don't finish college make good startup founders as that many other jobs filter them out. But that may be changing. General Motors probably still cares if you have a college degree, but I wouldn't be surprised if Facebook doesn't, so long as you can hack.
Maybe he's confusing Paul Graham with George Foreman?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41RZKHGga0Q
I just canceled my Facebook account today, after thinking about it for some time, and specifically in reaction to recent events. The type of decline illustrated in this timeline is reason number one. From my point of view, Facebook is no longer enhancing my life activities, and now on its way to hindering it.

The various reactions to canceling my account were interesting. Some people seemed almost angry. Some just wanted to make sure to get my email.
I misread it and thought he meant he was considering buying the entire company and was disappointed that HP beat him to it.
How come you found that fascinating? I found it lame. Why put your money down for something you've never even touched before? I couldn't do it.
Another battle in the epic war between Microsoft, Apple, and Google. Fun to watch.
This was a shocker to me, including the sale price...I had no idea Palm would go for that much!
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http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll

You need a few hundred karma to post one.
I feel articles like these make (angel) investment seem like the end-all and be-all of startups. If you just get Ron Conway to invest, you're set... Does anyone else find that extremely silly? You're a business, not a popularity contest.
I'd be prepared to call for the AMA not to have a monopoly on their certification and licensing. As it is, we bypass them anyway by importing a bunch of doctors who went to med schools in the Caribbean. Why not run more U.S. med schools instead? At the very least, increase the number of med-school slots in line with population growth; there are now fewer med-school slots per capita than there were in 1980, because the AMA refused to allow any new med schools to open between 1982 and 2001, and has put strict limits on enrollments at existing schools. Throughout the 80s and 90s they justified this with dire predictions of a "glut" of doctors, which of course turned out to be incorrect.
Want to be an entrepreneur? Be an entrepreneur!
Want to be a college dropout? Drop out of college!

Me think, education and entrepreneurship are not, and should not be presented as, mutually exclusive.
MobileMe cloud service

Palm's Synergy works better than MobileMe ever has (including its time back as .Mac). Its free, over the air and automatic. Handles calendars, address book and the like. And I've never had (or heard of) a horror story in which it synced and removed all the contacts on the device.
In classic Jon Stewart fashion, he reemed Apple...major points for "minority report" and telling them to knock down AT&T's door...that's what they SHOULD be doing!
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I think for those born in the 1980-1982 range, which generation they fall into depends very much on their personal experiences.

I was born in 1980, but I had 2 older brothers and I was heavily involved in their social circles. MacGyver and the A-Team were the stuff of my generation. I always felt like my younger sisters were weird; Power Rangers was a show of their generation. I would consider myself at the tail end of Gen X.

My wife was born in 1982, watched Power Rangers, and doesn't remember the fall of the Soviet Union... but also grew up using UNIX, remembers Vinyl, owned a Walkman as a teen, and feels most socially comfortable with people in the 35-50 age bracket (who often assume she's in her late 30s.) I'd say she's more Gen X than Millennial.

Another close friend of mine was born in 1981, and I'd consider him 100% Millennial.
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This is more or less the route I've been taking (though I'm short on the type of success Brad has had). I rather like it. I feel like I'm learning a lot more when both lifestyles collide.
Seems strangely Orwellian (in the sense of his politics-via-language writings, not the police-state kind of Orwellianism). It's a descriptive word that long predates these organizations, so it's sort of weird for them to retroactively take ownership of it. I can see specific, narrower terms, like Professional Engineer or Licensed Engineer, but engineering is just a description of a kind of activity that people have done for millennia, and an engineer is someone who does it.