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>> they have to make their money somewhere

I'm not against Posterous making money online to provide me a free service. However, they should be transparent and clear about it. When I sign up, I want to be notified about this. I'm going to create a blog, publish posts, make readership and stay a good time there; so I want to know whatever thing happens in my blog and not only be surprised about it when it happens.

Point 2 is that they didn't have a clear strategy how to monetize themselves (which is crucial since nothing runs for free) from the beginning.

Come on, but this is like saying "Get your free domain here" and then telling you that the domain is free, but only if you pay for the hosting :(
Well done! I did some searches in quotations for some very specific searches related to my startup's niche. Kurrently performed beautifully for me.

Would be nice to have pagination at the bottom in order to navigate through lots of results quickly. This would help for spotting patterns, trends, and making new connections using real time information.

Nicely done. If you want more feedback from me, fire me an email: hodgins.dan@gmail.com.
Hey, that's cool—pretty tempting to start using that reference retrospectively. Maybe a few canvas-animated butterflies on the website? :)

Cheers!
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That depends on the country.
Yes, I think blogs and hacker news is quite useful in general, but I find that you must have the books if you need depth.
Btw, solved your challenge in under 1s (2.27ghz), but i'm way too far from Palo Alto :)
No. Without their culture, community, and absolute freedom to roam the planet and carve a corner for themselves, they would be another zoo/museum curiosity, a biological anomaly paraded before us for pennies.

Even if a sizable population of them were granted full human rights and a habitat, they would forever owe us their existence, and their debt to humans would hang over anything they achieve for themselves in terms of growth and survival. Our future generations will also treat them as an experiment gone awry, should they ever threaten the slightest human interest.

It's hard enough watching dying racial and linguistic minority groups; their last remaining few members made into coursework for "our" undergraduates.

Bringing back a Neanderthal is to kill him twice, after granting him a brief purposeless life for our own edutainment. Let them rest in peace.
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Sure, although first we have to decide who will be the Eloi and who will be the Morlocks.
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The interesting part of this is the comment by Xiph.org's Monty Montgomery:

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"Thomson Multimedia made their first veiled patent threats against Vorbis almost ten years ago. MPEG-LA has been rumbling for the past few years. Maybe this time it will actually come to something, but it hasn't yet. I'll get worried when the lawyers advise me to; i.e., not yet.

"The MPEG-LA has insinuated for some time that it is impossible to build any video codec without infringing on at least some of their patents. That is, they assert they have a monopoly on all digital video compression technology, period, and it is illegal to even attempt to compete with them. Of course, they've been careful not to say quite exactly that.

"If Jobs's email is genuine, this is a powerful public gaffe ('All video codecs are covered by patents.') He'd be confirming MPEG's assertion in plain language anyone can understand."
In addition to Four Steps to the Epiphany, Crossing the Chasm, and Getting Real, I would add All Marketers are Liars by Seth Godin. Of Seth's other books, Permission Marketing, Free Prize Inside, and The Big Red Fez also made a big impact on me. But All Marketers are Liars is the best starting place I think.

Definitely also read Art of the Start. It's less insightful and more informative, but it's still a good overview of how the startup process works and it's easily readable in a day.
My guess is that VigLink maintains 100's of affiliate accounts, so it would take a lot time to get the same coverage in house.
It's a really good question, and one I probably should answer more directly on the website and in the README.

As I wrote above, I have a lot of time for these other tools—in fact the creators of sprinkle (Marcus Crafter) and deprec (Mike Bailey) are both mates of mine here in Melbourne, Australia—and I don't want to just duplicate their work. I'm trying something different here. Deployment is definitely still important to me with babushka, but I'm trying to build a more general tool that makes it as fast and pleasant as possible to automate getting to some end goal.

And that's one of the other differences—babushka is goal-oriented, not task-oriented. Unless there's some specific incompatibility, you can install babushka on (for example) any Mac in any state with this

bash -c "`curl -L babushka.me/up`"

And then running this

babushka homebrew

Will get you all set up with homebrew. But what it does is achieve the end goal of having homebrew set up—which might mean doing nothing, or cloning a git repo, or possibly just doing a `git reset --hard` to drop a binary in place. It depends on the system. The upshot though, is that if you're working on some other problem and a new colleague needs homebrew, you can run one command and you're done, instead of getting sidetracked for 15 minutes.

In focusing on that, I sacrifice usability in other areas—for example, right now there's not really any such thing as an unattended run using babushka, because most complex dep trees require user input at runtime. It's still very much a hands-on process. And that's cool with me—there are already tools out there that solve those problems, and solve them well.

I'm looking at working on deployment with babushka more with @glenmaddern, @dgoodlad and some other Melbourne hackers soon. But I'm very conscious of all the existing tools out there, and I'm a strong believer in deferring to the right tool for the job whenever possible. So I'm looking to integrate with existing tools where it makes sense, and solving old problems in novel and awesome ways whenever I can. :)
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Should we get extinct, I don't want to be the first or the millionth to be cloned to life. I want to come to this world 200k years after the experiment, born naturally into a world where my specie is not the lab-rat of another more intelligent. In a world full of our own inventions, cultures, and languages. I also want a family tree with people whose life stories fill my youthful evenings with pride and curiosity.

After that, I wouldn't mind if there was a pony, and/or an Atari 2600.
Definitely! Makes me proud(er) to have graduated from RIT last year. :)
Daniel Glazman (W3C CSS Working Group co-chair) gives a few more examples from a CSS point of view: http://www.glazman.org/weblog/dotclear/index.php?post/2010/0...

Yet another example is "viewport" meta tag, which Mobile Safari introduced, Android later adopted, and which we (Mozilla) are now adding to mobile Firefox. There's no spec for this anywhere; it will probably be implemented in half a dozen mobile browser engines before even a draft spec is written.

Now, it's clear from all these examples that Sachin and Joe's description of the situation are factually wrong. But that doesn't mean they don't have a point. The problems they feel with web development may indeed exist, but with some other cause than the one they imagined.
They were a warrior race that fed on beasts the likes of which we have never seen. Too noble to be kept in glass boxes and fed through IVs.

We won the race, now let's not desecrate their remains.
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grandma and butterfly are different words in Russian. Listen http://tts.imtranslator.net/A3Xz
"...and the WHAT-WG has been busily standardizing, all of these things for quite a number of years now."

Quite a number of years too long. Let's take drag-and-drop -- how long has that been around? Decades? And it's only now that we can drag and drop attachments into emails in a handful of webmail clients? That's not innovation, it's playing a really slow game of catchup.

I agree that 'browsers are innovating' -- but it's at a snail's pace at best.
Thanks for submitting this, speek :)

For those that are interested in trying out babushka, here's a 30 second crash course. To install:

bash -c "`curl -L babushka.me/up`" # If you're on a Mac
bash -c "`wget -O - babushka.me/up`" # If you're on Ubuntu

Some good examples to start with:

babushka rubygems # Installs, updates, or adds gem sources as required for your system
babushka homebrew # Sets you up for sudoless `brew install`s
babushka Cucumber.tmbundle # Clones the latest, installing / restarting TextMate as required
babushka Chromium.app # Pulls the latest Chromium nightly to /Applications

If you want to see what will happen without making any changes, use `--dry-run`:

babushka Transmit.app --dry-run

If you're on a Mac, you can follow along in TextMate too using `--track-blocks` — babushka points out each piece of each dep as it runs them. (This also works with `--dry-run`, so you can inspect the code a tree of deps would run.)

mate /usr/local/babushka
babushka 'Ruby on Rails.tmbundle' --track-blocks

Any questions, get in touch with @babushka_app on Twitter, #babushka on Freenode, or email hello@babushka.me.

Cheers
— @ben_h

[edit: fixed the babushka.me/up links.]
This is interesting, but it leads me to ask, what can you expect a JavaScript-enabled web crawler do? Load the page into the DOM, wait a few seconds for the dust to settle, start firing click events on everything and recording what requests are generated? It would seem a crawler could cause some really undesirable behavior on your site if that were the case. Imagine click events that post comments, delete things, downvote them, or generate emails. Since they are hidden behind JavaScript a web developer might expect a crawler not to try them...
There's a group of talented people in Ukraine that would love to join startup environment. ukr.startup@gmail.com
Even if you are somehow using Posterous to post to WordPress (I'm not familiar with Posterous' features), they're not the ones doing your redirect.

It actually looks like WordPress is doing the same link affiliation as Posterous. They're using Skimlinks, not VigLink, but the result is the same. (Open a javascript console while on your blog and take a look at the skimlinks function.) FYI, Skimlinks is based in the UK. That probably explains why the original apple.com link bounces through euro.apple.com.

As easy as it is to miss, I bet there are a lot of sites doing this now.
On their blog they believe their project Corona will prevail, I'm not so sure.

They're not sure either. That's why they're kissing up to Apple and hoping by showing allegiance they might get an exception. They're probably thinking that Apple would be happy to partner with, or buy out, a flash-like platform that's iPhone OS friendly.

I don't think these guys are the most credible arbiters on the issue; they have a horse in the race, and probably an axe to grind.
yes butterfly is technically babochka, but they sound the same to the english ear.
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Feels very similar to The Little/Seasoned Schemer, I'm sure with a bit more prose this could be the new equivalent. The hard part is coming up with an alternative to all the elephants.
Microsoft have money, they had talent but they no longer have vision nor talent.They can keep reinventing whatever they want, but gone are the days when they can use their OS monopoly to take over other markets(word processor, browser,...), because two future platforms of computing: mobile computing and web, they don't control.Between Google and Apple, Microsoft is getting beat on both vision and talent side.
18 now. ;-)
At 68, the lab would turn to a funeral scene in 3 seconds flat.
When I started at CMU's Robotics Institute about 6 years ago, the ballbot project just got started:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KPOOUsNRe4
What do I know. One of the ancestor comments introduced the concept: "They aren't philanthropists, they are just (grudgingly) abiding by the license of the software they are building on."

As an attempt to answer: They can just satisfy the letter of the GPL by a code dump--which I would count as grudgingly, or they can embrace open development.
It's not irrelevant. The fact that unattractive people are more likely to be found guilty doesn't mean anything without knowing whether or not they are more likely to have committed the crime.
Thats a philosophical question and I agree with you on that, but I was referring to stretchwithme point that they would die quickly.

I am not too interested in bringing them back either, but dinosaurs on the other hand...
One reason to move to JavaScript is so that you can process LESS on the server and client. This way you can serve up a static LESS file and let the user's browser parse it, cutting out the extra compilation step. But you can still compile it beforehand and serve up the CSS directly if you don't want or cannot afford the performance hit on the client.

At the very least I could see myself using it in the browser for development.
High-income earners may also be less likely to have exact change, and think: "if they really wanted my money they'd have left enough small bills to make change".

But also: if the final tally was done only by the total at the end of the day, the test may be measuring a late steal, rather than a lower rate of payment. And the one person who stole might be of any background -- perhaps compulsive, perhaps struggling-to-get-by but 'passing' as a high-income worker, etc. -- and not representative.
That's one reason why lesscss is being ported to JavaScript.

http://github.com/cloudhead/less.js
1. Links in Posterous posts are not edited in any way
2. Viglink javascript intercepts clicks...
3. Affiliate codes are not stripped...
4. Copying links is unchanged

and

5. All outbound clicks are recorded by an obscure 3rd
party server without my consent or knowledge.

You are routing me through a third party server in the sneakiest way possible. Who the hell cares if the affiliate codes are getting rewritten?

I wouldn't mind if you were changing the href attribute of the links so that hovering over a link would've showed the real destination. But, alas that would've not fly with way too many people. Google link pointing at api.viglink.com looks suspicious and intrusive. What makes you think that hiding this redirect behind some javascript hackery makes it any more acceptable?
There's definitely a difference between CH and SH, even in English. The pronunciations are:

BAH - bush - ka: grandma

BAH - botch - ka: butterfly

I am currently teaching Russian to my wife, and the things she says sound the same continually surprise me :)
Welcome to the world of compiler optimization. A compiler optimization has to preserve all side effects of a program. This is pretty similar to partial correctness.

Partial correctness means: This code computes the right thing whenever it terminates. It is a subset of total correctness, which states: This code terminates given the precondition and also computes the right then whenever it terminates.

In his case, the first loop had a simple side effect: None. Thus it was a correct optimization to replace the code with nothing. Fixes would include adding volatile to a variable, returning the variables as he did, printing something, ...
There's no "technically" about it. That's just what the word means. It's irrelevant how similar they sound to the English ear; you might as well argue that "the" is interchangeable with "duh".

Also, contrary to the GP, there's no difference in stress, which is on the first syllable in both words. The reason they're different words is that "sh" vs. "ch" is a phonemic distinction in Russian, just as it is in English. That's why we distinguish between "sheep" and "cheep", for example, and would regard it as bizarre to conflate them.
> Continuations sound confusing because they give you an explicit handle for something that most languages don't let you reference directly: who gets the result of the current computation.

Yes, unfortunately continuations don't play nice with lazy evaluation.
Google Ventures is a semi-autonomous fund. I would say that their participation does not necessarily imply synergy with Google, nor does it imply that Google's search team has vetted the impact on their results.
As mentioned by others in previous threads -- even with the web's shortcomings vs. desktop (or native OS) applications, the web still has major advantages for both the developer and the consumer.

for the developer:

- distribution is easy. buy a domain name.

- agile, iterative development is possible. you can ship a MVP, and push updates frequently and easily.

- greater reach. developing one web app (possibly with a mobile web version) is more efficient than creating a windows, mac, linux, iphone, ipad, android, etc

for the consumer:

- no installation necessary.

- updates are invisible. I'm pretty good at keeping my software up to date, but I just looked at my iPhone and I have 22(!) app updates waiting for me. It's a chore to keep up with that.

- accessible from any computer.

As new browser technologies (HTML5) allow developers to utilize more of the computer's powerful hardware (local storage, GPU acceleration, etc), I think native desktop/mobile applications will become even less necessary. You couldn't pay me to use an existing desktop mail client over Gmail.

While some applications will be slow to move to the web for obvious reasons (intensive audio and video production), I don't see any reason why ChromeOS (or the browser-based OS) won't be a huge success.
They both are. I think he may have meant that under the conjecture that Apple intends to selectively enforce this, they might be less inclined to exclude Monotouch apps in practice.
I guess it depends on your frame of view. Web apps have advantages over traditional desktop software, such as no installation required and upgrades by hitting refresh. Don't underestimate the power of users being able to just try your app by surfing to a URL, and "installing" it by remembering the URL (which the browser does for you), or bookmarking it. Some browers now automatically populate a home page with your most commonly used apps/sites. If you think about it Google is like a big web app store.

Version Tracker and all are great, as are traditional package managers, but they still can't match the UX of web apps in that area.

They are just different, each with their strengths and weaknesses. It seems like it's going to be easier and quicker to get web apps on feature parity with desktop apps before the desktop catches up in the ways it is behind.
I think there is a big difference between trying to restart their civilisation and cloning one. Sure morally it would probably be the wrong thing to do, but there would be a lot to learn from doing it.

I guess it's a fine moral line, if they're considered humans then people probably be against it but the past has shown animals are another class altogether with cloning research.
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You can make your own quite cheaply - with LEGO Mindstorms. I bought a set for my dad last christmas and he's been playing with inverse pendulum ever since. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8jxGsg3p0Y this is a lego robot balancing on a ball.
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i see. i have seen james giving some advices in some YC dinners(summer 09). now, i know that heroku is a 18 people company. everything just makes sense after this.

but, i still wonder how heroku works as a startup from a more engineer perspective, for example, how to get things moving as fast as possible. maybe an engineering related blog like what twitter or facebook have might help.

offtopic: when heroku is going to launch in other regions especially Amazon EC2 just launched in Singapore?
Wasn't there an article here recently that suggested that Neanderthals weren't the cute cuddly people we'd thought them to be?

http://www.themandus.org/
@mbrubeck I totally agree that there is a real problem, but from all the responses, I think it's actually the opposite of what they're saying.

People say "it's all well and good that Mobile Webkit has hardware accelerated transforms, but I can't use it in IE". In other words, people are (correctly) seeing that despite the rapid innovation, the lowest-common-denominator of browsers in use is changing rather slowly. And that's frustrating.

Apple's work on Mobile Safari clearly puts the lie to Joe's argument about browser innovation on the iPhone (which is where his experience lies). I see plenty of evidence that Apple and others are improving the underlying browser engine, and that Apple is adding mobile features to their iPhone browser, and no evidence to the contrary.
There is also http://abtests.com/ which is an interesting take. Though they limit to two versions and don't offer that many insights.

Plus, if you are particularly interested in A/B testing case studies, we have A/B IdeaFox: a search engine for case studies - http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/ideafox.php
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Note and Point seems like more of a design gallery than a place to find good content. Having to download a PDF to view a presentation is especially irritating.
If you cloned a Neanderthal, you would get a relatively normal looking person with average human intelligence who would adopt whatever language and culture they grew up in. Their differences due to being a Neanderthal would be more subtle than the variation among individual human beings. They would likely lead a normal life, provided they could escape the inevitable media frenzy and racism.

The question "should we clone a Neanderthal?" is the same as the question "should we use unreliable technology to radically alter the development of a human being just for research purposes?" in which case the answer is undeniably "No".
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Proggit had a lively discussion on this earlier today: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/byilp/c_compile...
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