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Android 2.2 Froyo Open Source Code Available Today
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Well, I'd say that MS-only developers ignore Linux because it's not directly relevant to their day-to-day work. They just want to do their jobs with the tools they know then go home (and there's nothing wrong with that). On the flipside, Linux-only developers actively avoid Windows on ideological grounds. The latter is where this article is coming from. You can't really say a LAMP developer is any more cutting edge than an ASP.NET developer. Both adhere to the orthdoxy of their preferred platform.

Simon Peyton-Jones is another heavy hitter at MSR.
According to USGS, this was about 50 km north of Ottawa, in a rather isolated area. There are a few villages nearby which might suffer damage, but it's unlikely that any internet infrastructure or datacenters would be affected at all.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Quakes/us...
When I was applying to many internships during school, I had an Excel sheet that did the job fine. These days I'm being a bit more discriminatory, so a couple of labels and moderate use of starring in Gmail does the trick.
>learning how to use a hammer is very simple

How so? What are you learning how to do with the hammer? Pry up nails? Hammer nails?

What thickness of nail should you use to go through a given board? How should the way you hold the nail differ depending on size of nail, size of board, working area?

A hammer is not at all simple; it takes just as long to get the hang of than your average desktop app, if not longer.
Sure, in the sense that there is also a Demand Media 'community'.
So I got my first phone call from the service - everything works very nicely indeed! That certainly lets you know that something is up!
Dan Rutter did a good thorough demolition job, oops, I mean objective analysis of this:

http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2010/06/15/foo/
They're not going to get many new blogs from this. People use Tumblr because of the community, and most users spend a lot of time reblogging content from other blogs that they like. Posterous doesn't offer that. This may be good for people actually using Tumblr as a traditional blog, but those people are in the minority.
That was pretty intense. I'm in a Starbucks in Ottawa. The whole building was shaking, everyone ran outside. I felt the 4.5 Ottawa quake in 2006, too, and this one was much stronger.
It's distributable, so right now you have to run it on a server yourself. There's a download link on the page: http://code.google.com/p/smob/downloads/list

I've been thinking of throwing the code up somewhere for people to try. Let me know if there would be interest in that.
> There is no "works directly for EA" unless you're a high-level executive or possibly marketing (not sure on that one). EA is split into studios and cross-studio departments, each with very different cultures.

If you're working at one of the newly acquired studios like Bioware, that's probably true. The older studios like EAC in Burnaby or EARS are so close to the EA corporate that it's hard to say that his friend doesn't "work directly for EA".

> In my experience, EA's not bad about overtime and such, but I can't speak for every studio, and neither can your friend

It's still quite bad at their largest studios.
You must unlearn what you have learned.
"Are those foot gloves?!" It has a confusion aura.
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Oh god, feature-checklist-itis.

I don't think that post is going to convert anyone who didn't want to convert already. Lack of comments on tumblr is a feature*. Like, how is 'ability to moderate them' also a feature? More like a hellish burden given down by a cruel god from on high.
Also, functions + closures = objects
Good for them for encouraging the competition to step up. I'm not a user of either service, but heating up the game is good for everyone in the end.
General advice I've heard is that you should be out looking for money well before you need it. Sometimes several months before.
Get profitable. You can do this before taking money.
You stack meetings so that you can get your fundraising done fast. If you're doing it right, you'll get enough people ready to go that you'll be done in a few weeks of hardcore meetings. Then you go back to product. This is win-win for you and your investors.

One buyer equals a ripoff. Many buyers equals a market, and a fair value for your startup's equity.
Dunno, only tried it once.
This is a really low blow. This is what companies do when they are clutching at straws - they spread misinformation.

Considering:

* Most tumblr themes have Disqus integration, and the "tumblr way" to comment is via reblog.

* Multiple people can contribute to Tumblr blogs, I can also submit posts even if I'm not a user, and ask the authors questions (formspring style)

* I can also password protect my Tumblr.

They also missed the giant Tumblr plus - the community.

Also, given that Posterous bootstrapped their themes from the Tumblr theme community stabbing Tumblr in the back is hardly cool. To clarify, I mean this: http://www.nbrightside.com/blog/2009/09/18/posterous-leverag...

For a company as cool as Posterous I have no idea why they're resorting to such shammy PR.
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It's going to take many months to go from zero to funded. Deals exist to fall through.
Buy a shaver and do your hair at a #2 once every week or two. It takes 5 minutes to do. Less time than you spend washing and drying your hair by far.
I have a wordpress blog that I abandoned because one post was popular and now my comments get spammed to death. I'd much rather have comments on my blog posts where they were syndicated - twitter, hacker news, reddit, etc. This keeps each set of responses within the context of the community the traffic came from as well as prevents blog-post footers turning into "first" and shouting matches.
Just for example, I made a webpage that I can submit an email address, a job title and a job type to. The webpage submits the data to a database. Every 5 minutes, a cron job wakes up and emails an appropriate resume and cover letter to the recipient based on the job type. I use the perl MIME::Lite modules to insert the name and job title into the email. I've got an html and text version of the emails, and it attaches a PDF of my resume to the email. All I do is submit an email address, the title and click on the job type, and I can mass-bomb the job market in a short while each morning. I'm thinking about putting together a followup button. :)
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Looks interesting, will check it out now!
Congrats.

How did you create demand/scarcity/leverage in the leadup to getting your first term sheet?
The plural of "anecdote" is not "data".

That's brilliant. Can I steal that from you?
the mac app won't launch for me
Has anyone on HN had Adwords convert for their business yet (in real measurable ROI)?

The best I've seen so far was like a 2 year payback period. Not very good. It's gotten competitive enough that I'm rarely seeing Adwords be useful anymore to a startup.
Really? What was the error?
I've never understood that argument. Whatever time you may save on monthly upkeep is lost many times over on daily (or at least, hopefully, weekly) washing and brushing and pony tailing, etc. I rebuzz my head about once every two or three weeks and that is literally it.
I deal with this scenario everyday in a company I work with, where the founder expects everyone to work on weekends and late night (most days). Since it is an advertising agency, he accepts every work that comes his way from clients. He comes from Sales background and somehow believes that more work is equal to more money, which is not true. When it comes to any work where some amount of thinking is involved, Less work (Quality) == more money.

Most of the people in the team are stressed and are complaining that they don't have a personal life. They would quit the company, the day they get an opportunity to apply leave, so that they can attend other interviews.

Very soon, I am going to buy him a book called "Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams". It's an amazing book, and is a must read for people who are or want to manage teams.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peopleware_%28book%29
Free service number 1 with no business model in sight wages war against free service number 2 with equally no business model in sight. "web2.0" is the new "New Economy".
I certainly hope that point isn't lost on anyone familiar with Google.
I think looking at something (netbooks), then turning around and selling 3 million units of a vastly more expensive and higher margin product in a few months, shows that he was right to downplay it and that the iPad does actually offer something fundamentally different that consumers really want.
Seems pretty fast on my low-end previous-gen mac mini.

How much RAM do you have?
How long has Mahalo been using Dora the Explorer as their mascot?
Even if hey don't convert a lot from Tumbler I'm sure as a whole all the converters will be very successful. It's a sign that they are really confident in their product now that they are aggressively push for people on other platforms to check them out. You may only get one shot at getting people to consider your product that are already on other platforms.
Yes, but you have this mental furnishing of "a dumb robot...that would perform" multiple functions. Earlier generations don't have that. Instead, they have this TV/typewriter/stereo/VCR/telephone/phonograph/answering machine that will also come to do god only knows what else in the near future.

Only a matter of time before some biotech genius invents a fruit that has different tastes depending on how you peel it, then it's my turn for a brain meltdown.
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no import from picasa, google reader, last.fm, rss means no tumblr/posterous for me :F

I find soup.io just the perfect tool for me, btw ;)
I was about to make the exact same quip :)
It was a nice gentle shake down here in Burlington Vermont.
I've seen that a lot with offshore dev shops: "We charge rates 1/4 what an American would take. Oh and you'll need 4 of our developers plus a manager to oversee them!"

(scratches head)
Release notes? New features? Er, nope - Eclipse.org is a case study in how making software into abstract 'products and platforms' has the potential to make it so vague that you could be, in fact, downloading anything at all, which constitutes a subproject of the Eclipse project platform, which I assume is a hamburger.
wow. Russia now 'democratic' at long last ;-)
First thing that comes to mind is James Silva and The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dishwasher

James Silva has won recognition from Microsoft, has co-authored books on XNA game development. He's another kid that in the middle of no where upstate NY that did a great job, made a good product and is doing well for himself.

Also if you just look for indie game developers -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_indie_game_developers
alot of these games appear on STEAM (steampowered.com) and are distributed to many customers successfully for Win/Mac/Linux.

In fact most game developers started out as mod teams. Back in the Quake days, Team Fortress was made, and now the same people that made that made TF2. Left 4 Dead started out as a mod for HL2, and turned into a full fledged game on the OrangeBox engine.

Last thing that comes to mind is -> "http://sandboxgamemaker.com/ which is another production that has been very successful. My friend who's on the dev team has had stories come back from teachers in Europe and California that use this software with kids, and has helped them learn and find passion in their work.

If it pleases the court, I'd like to end with this. If you wish for me, I ask for a brief recess to prepare material. :-)
Froyo Code Being Published to AOSP Right Now
Similar discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1368423

Notably, for the naysayers, there are a few pointers to salient markers of non-quackery, such as meaningful mitochondrial research.
I'm trying to get a hold of the META II paper from 1962 he mentions, it sounds very interesting.

Is there anyone who read the paper and could give me his/her opinion?

(Fortunately, the university library has an ACM subscription.)
A VS project is, more or less, a makefile with a little information around the edges.

It holds, within its structure, information enough for VS to build its targets. Who cares if it's not called "Makefile" and you don't invoke it with "make"?

The reference to makefiles is that, if most VS users did understand what goes on after they invoke "Build", they would be able to write a makefile. Since so few of them do, few of them could, conceivably, write one.

Or tell, exactly, what happens when they hit... What was it? F9?
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I thought you could activate an iPad with a 3G plan at an Apple store, and then you wouldn't need a computer from there on out? Or am I wrong here?
I up voted before clicking the link.. I am terribly sorry I did. Come on, at least link it to a news article!

Anyway, looks like Quebec is finally separating :P
Sometimes you just keep going on doing something that makes you unhappy because it actually seems safer than trying to change it. You have a paycheck, you have something dependable, you have something to talk about...
Leases are an easy place to make expensive, and slightly long-lasting mistakes. In our first office:

1) we didn't insist that they install a mini-kitchen. Not a big deal for the first week, but sucked to have to take plates to the bathroom to wash, and not being able to have a coffee maker

2) we luckily negotiated dog-friendly -- I've known others who forgot to do this, and then found that their landlord wasn't open to negotiation

3) forgetting about parking spots. I don't think you should pay for them for employees, but having them available can be very helpful

4) +1 for having a great broker -- ours has treated us like a massive company, and always saves us money. I don't fully understand how they make money, but I'm not worried about it -- they're awesome.
Also, it has a tracking pixel in the html template, so I know if the email was ever opened - which comes in handy to tell if people are actually getting my resume submission.
I hate searching the eclipse site for any kind of information that actually pertains to eclipse. It is that bad.
It varies widely based on where the choke-points are in the architecture, but it is usually something like:

Interweb--> Load Balancer--> Web servers--->Database Servers

The "Load Balancer" part can be as simple as a machine (or two) running haproxy, to an F5 style device, to what is effectively load-balancing-as-a-service (Akamai, etc.).

The web servers could be multiple iterations of a single server, or a pseudo CDN setup where for a given set of machines that serve a page request, 1 machine handles serving images, 1 serves javascripts, css, and other static text, and another generates all the dynamic content.

The database layer can often have its own load-balancing within it, depending on the type and scale of activity. Much of this depends on how frequently the dynamic content changes and needs to be kept up to date (a system handling comments for a busy site needs to be more real-time than a system that just updates news stories over some period of time.
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Maybe LinkedIn/Facebook is making this more socially acceptable. I sure would like to picture a potential employee before phone screening/in depth interviews.
Somewhat related: programming language inventor, or serial killer?
http://www.malevole.com/mv/misc/killerquiz/
I'm in a building near the Ottawa airport, and I must say, it was pretty violent here. Some monitors fell over. The cellular networks appeared to not be able to handle all the sudden traffic, but that seemed to ease up after a few minutes.
We'll have it fixed in a jiffy, sorry
He's got it backwards. The world isn't the exobrain for humans, humans are the exobrains for the world.
From mildweed's comment in the CalTech thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1455037
async is the main reason to use NodeJS, and it supports the older module spec. I'd rather no standard library than a sub-par one.
At my university, it's more common to give your research group a grandiose name that implies it's got a bunch of profs in it, when it's actually just you. Not sure if that's better or worse...
You are confusing cause with effect. If you did understand what is going on in your build process, you could write a makefile for it. Since you don't, you can't. It has absolutely nothing to do with command lines or XML editors (and, while we are at it, if your answer is using XML, you are asking the wrong question).

And the C# build process is very simple. It should be easy to understand.
The solution is called Stanza (owned by Amazon now I believe) and ePub books. I agree that the legitimate selection possilby isn't as good, but I see no advantage to buying books, _books_ for chrissakes, that have DRM.

I actually use Apple's book software a bit here and there, it works fairly nicely, and when they add PDF support I'll probably use it a bit more. But I'm not buying a page from Apple's book store until the DRM situation has changed.

I waited them out on DRMed music, never bought a note before they offered DRM free files. Now I spend money there regularly, among other non-DRMed places. Its a shame the "powers" have to learn this lesson over and over and over and over...
I didn't mention Linux or LAMP. I said that the MS programming world is parochial. It's closed-in on itself and remarkably ignorant of the rest of the software universe. I worked in the MS space for years and observed it closely. There simply isn't any doubt about this, or at least wasn't at the time. Possibly things are changing as MS' power wanes; possibly the people who frequent HN are outliers; possibly some people just don't like hearing this; possibly all of the above. But I can walk you down the street from where I'm sitting and take you to my friends' consulting shop where life is all-MS-all-the-time and introduce you to a dozen or so smart programmers who can tell you all about Linq-to-objects and ASP MVC, not one of whom knows anything they haven't gotten from MS, except what they learned at school.
Peter Thiel doesn't think so:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel#Philanthropy
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Celebrating Android
NKS covers a lot more than just 1D or 2D cellular automata. See http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/section-5.5 and beyond.
According to this [1] you can steal it from Frank Kotsonis who in turn stole (and inverted) it from Raymond Wolfinger

[1] http://askville.amazon.com/original-source-quote-plural-anec...
I absolutely LOVE this whole campaign (one service a day with auto-switching imports). It's good, creative PR and will probably get them as many new users as it converts from other services.

[edit: one service a day, not week]
> 2 - only accept solutions less painful than the problem

That sounds good, but it doesn't work unless you have the experience to tell how painful the solutions you thought of actually are--which you don't have if you haven't been hurt by some overengineering.
Okay.. but Javascript is free to view through the client machine no matter what. It brings up that question "if its easy to cheat, will people do it?" and the answer is, usually yes. Sure theft really sucks, but was there a way to prevent this other then trusting someone not to steal?
I have a PhD from Caltech in Applied Physics/Engineering. I worked for a physics prof when I felt like it. He didn't even KNOW when I was working for the most part, and I took great vacations.

You payz your money and you takez your choice. Different profs, different groups, had different cultures. I was in a group where the cultural values were being really smart and having a great time. This letter is clearly from a group where the cultural value is devoting your life to climbing the ladder.

Rejecting the work your butt off model is the wiener way out. Maybe it works better, maybe not. Maybe it works well for some people, and that's why many of them are represented among the full professor faculty at Caltech. I don't care if it works that well, it is not my choice, and I had no problem finding full professors at Caltech who asked for nothing of that kind.

R:
I once had someone ask me I was willing to work overtime in an interview. I said "It depends....!".

And so it went:

dumb-ass company> What do you mean it depends?

me> Well, if it's a reasonable amount and I am compensated for it, then I'm game, but otherwise I'm not.

dumb-ass company> We don't pay for overtime, it's expected in our industry to put in some overtime.

me> That's ok, as long as I can take time in lieu.

dumb-ass company> We don't do that either.

me> Well my priorities are different than yours. I put my family first and my employment after. So each hour of overtime I would work for you would be an hour stolen from my family.

dumb-ass company> When you work overtime you do so because having a job lets you pay for you family. So working overtime and having a job really is putting your family first - right?

me> Sometimes, but truthfully if I took this job I would only work only long enough to find a job where I am not required to work uncompensated overtime and the company has a "families first" value system. However, in reality, working for you would probably leave me with little to no time to look for work, so I feel I am better off to pass and invest my time wisely........

--

You folks working at places like EA are caught in that same cycle: the company is working you so hard your not able to effectively look for work.

I recommend two options:

1. Stop working overtime. Show up for regular work hours and let them get mad at you. Let them threaten you. Let them fire you, but until they fire you spend your time looking for a better job.

or:

2. Quit. And understand your sacrifice is an investment. Have confidence in yourself to succeed. Empower yourself to better both yours' and/or your family's lives.

If your going to spend the rest of you life being manipulated your life is going to suck.

Have or Have not!

Live or Live not!

It's up to you! Not your company.
I've tripled posted this already, but I don't like faces on resumes -- it can be practical (if it shows the person in a manner that resonates with your company culture), but the odds of that happening seem pretty remote, since it can't be a good photo for all involved.

I think I'm starting to show my stodginess because I like resumes looking like they've always looked.
It's one per day, btw.
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