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I see he went to an IMS retreat, the one I attended around Seattle was good - until the main teacher came in and gave us a 20 minute speech on why we should donate more money to his "begging bowl." That kind of ruined it for me... and they kept asking for donations afterwards. Once these groups become self-prepetuating institutions it's time to find something else. It's easier just to incorporate meditation into daily life and activities.
Land: It's the only thing they're not making more of.
"B" still seems to be missing.

Certainly not impossible, after all, look at how quickly FaceBook eclipsed MySpace. But I haven't seen the next big social network site on the horizon, have you?
One improvement you could consider;-

1. there isn't a inbuilt mockup tool. you could provide some default templates for different browsers, iphone, android, etc. that will really help us developer get straight into mock up.

I like the simple, straightforward approach in the web app, just let me focus on the mockup with its versioning & sharing features. Nice!
Unless you see a specific advantage related to your fantasy *ball team I don't see why one would be willing to pay to have access to information that would be coming free a few minutes later with a lot more substance behind the information.
"Ginger" was a much better code name.
Learning functional programming for a programmer is like learning programming for a non-programmer. Someone who is a logistics expert is valuable. A logistics expert who knows how to program is even more so.

OO programmers who understand functional programming have a big advantage over OO programmers who don't. Learning FP gives one the mental tools to do better encapsulation.
Or Geraldo Rivera giving up the positions of the army unit he was embedded in.
I guess even reading the internets for 40000 hours in 9 years will cause a similar effect.
I'm not sure how I feel about that, actually. I'll be interested in hearing what your experience is with it.
Here in South America we are mostly on the same time zone with the US (+/- 3hours) so there is quite a bit of remote work going on.. Since I got here I've met people doing HTML,php,python,sql and some Java for companies all over the US.. I also know of a few large US companies (fortune 100) who are opening big offices over here. Also, countries like Chile & Argentina are given big incentives for startups to move over there.
So this is essentially somebody whom I never heard about charging the same price (ie 478 vs 500) that PayPal does? Why am I supposed to chose them now?
trolling :)
I agree, though I'd do one change: once I go from "Band's website" to "new iPhone game", put the third option in the second position, rather than swapping the first two. That's just a gut feeling of course, but I feel that a visitor who wants to see a second option would be interested in seeing the three options as well. By just switching the first two options, you make the third one just a bit harder to reach than the other two. (especially considering the size of the control)
The same command works on Skype and does what one would expect. It's just not really advertised. Try typing /help in a Skype chat window.
People have trust issues with Google? Perhaps, but trust is a much bigger problem for Facebook which has launched a series of all out assaults on user privacy. Certainly Google has had some missteps in this area but they've responded quickly and with contrition. Facebook drags their feet and whines about how privacy is so passé.
Infinitec's 'infinite' USB memory drive
Maybe I don't get out enough, but I've never met a Haskell programmer with that mentality (LISPers, maybe). All the Haskellers I know are pragmatic people who will use another language (usually Python, I guess because iterators feel a lot like lazy lists) when it's the right tool for the job.
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I found the leet/lolcat verbiage to be a little excessive in this preso. It seemed to reach the point of annoyance when it referred to Douglas Crockford as "The Crock."
The idea was to list a couple things that would help the market as a whole, not Microsoft specifically.

I thought my intentions were obvious in the post. They are also consistent with my personal history, as well as my previous posts.
The main menu pops up behind the video (Chrome, Windows)
We're also in the early stages of being a start-up and there's also a big discrepancy in the personalities and working styles of all the founders. The thing is you just have to accept it and push through it.

The only thing that matter is the results. If you have issues with your partner, deal with it in a way so it doesn't interfere with the operational aspect of the business. For instance, myself and my one partner have a significant personality clash; we used to live together last year and we'd clash a lot. We came to a great arrangement - when tension reached a point where debate wouldn't work anymore, we'd fight it out. Not a real fight, but a physical tussle none-the-less. No punches where thrown but there were bruises and scratches afterward. However all our tension would have been defused.

I'm not saying you should wrestle with your partners, but find a lateral way to defuse the unnecessary retardants that are limiting your overall productivity, or in your case, the company's morale.
Who do you know does $3 per user with $1M per month?
The do not mention:

1) You will need to be PCI compliant (cost 2k +)
2) You will may need to spend 30 days going through due diligence
3) You may be considered high risk and have to pay much more
4) You may have a high rolling reserve (up to 10% for 6 months).
5) You will need to redesign according the merchants API, while paypal is pretty much 1,2,3.
6) You will probably be not taken on if you have no previous history...
The error here is confusing the language for the paradigm. He all but concedes that functional programming is a good idea and you can do it in current languages. True. When you do that, you have a functional program. The "functionalness" or "objectness" or "logicness" of a program is a characteristic of a program, not the implementation language. When you do object-oriented C, it isn't a "hack", it really is object-oriented C. You just don't have language support, you're doing objects by hand, with the corresponding disadvantages (syntactic pain) and advantages (no privileged concept of objects means you can do your own thing, which can be useful; want 'prototypes'? just do it! arguably easier in C than C++). When you do functional Javascript, it really is functional programming, you just don't have the same language support. When you refuse to mutate values and treat a language's values as immutable, even though the language permits you to mutate them, you have immutable values; the essense of immutable values is that you can depend on them not being mutated, not that the language makes it syntactically impossible to express mutation. This has obvious advantages if you want to use an immutable style, but is not strictly necessary.

Proof: It all ends up running on assembler anyhow, which isn't functional or OO or logical or any other paradigm. All of those things are categories of programs, not intrinsic attributes of the environment.

The author isn't being anywhere near as contrary as I think he'd like....
I was thinking about tempalias.com getting blocked sooner or later. Now the "quick fix" for technically versed people would probably be this one:

http://github.com/pilif/tempalias/commit/6762d1bfcbc64d67f4e...

Just allow anybody who has a domain to configure the tempalias MX as their MX (or an MX for a subdomain of theirs) and everyone (with a domain) can have their very own tempalias. Good luck blacklisting that.

Note:

this is not public yet - it's on a branch. I will implement domain name checking and maybe some kind of registration before putting something like this live - but you get the idea
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I'm head of integrations at FreshBooks and I am looking for agencies to outsource projects to (PHP, Rails, and Python). Unfortunately, I am not looking for sole freelancers as I want the agency to manage the product management, design, implementation, testing, and validation. However, if you have a group of people you frequently work with who can cover all of that, then drop me a line.

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Well, you definitely want to make sure your LTV is at least 3x your CAC, according to this post:

http://www.startuplifeblog.com/tag/ltv/

But personally, I try to keep my CAC below 15% of my LTV.
Not only do you not support 1024 wide, you do it with backgrounds on your "how it works" page, so I can't even scroll sideways if I want to. Note: I'm a design/product guy currently on a netbook (i.e. I'm your target market).

RescueTime, the company I just stepped down from, has about 8% of its users visiting with 1024 screens. This percentage WAS trending down but has flattened (Netbooks? iPads?).
You shouldn't look at it this way. Rather look at it like this: If there is competition, it means that there's a market. If there's a lot of competition then the market is healthy.

As long as you don't just add incremental changes, go for it.
Why are we typing passwords twice?
scoot over

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I can. I've borked several Linux partitions by installing incompatible versions of libraries, etc. Any highly-configurable system carries the risk of falling into an unusable (for you) configuration.
To the one who modded this down possibly because of the idea that NTFS is "modern" (of HFS+, BTW): list one feature of NTFS that hasn't been around in other filesystems for 5 years or more.

fragmentation prevention? OS/2's HPFS had that
long file names? Apple's DOS 3.2 had them (up to 33 chars)
journaling? ext3 had it, for both data and metadata
symlinks and hardlinks? Unixes had them since the beginning of time
multiple forks: more a bug than a feature. Macs MFS had it.
If this is true, it could very well be that Microsoft has finally figured out consumer computing.
Last week my wife was able to snag us free tickets to a Yankee game. My father and his two brothers were all long-time New Yorkers, but they're scattered now, and none of us had been inside the new stadium up until then.

I emailed them all some photos from my phone (Droid Eris) during the game. My dad was amazed by the quality of pics from the camera (relative to what he remembered of phone cameras), and we ended up having this exact conversation. Should there be an affordable non-phone but always-networked mid-level camera? He uses a cheap, yearly pre-pay phone and has no interest in paying $100 a month or more for phone+data, but he would get a camera with a small monthly fee for data use in a heartbeat. (He's a photo buff with some higher-end cameras, but that's obviously a whole different market.) I suspect he's the minority and more and more people will just move towards smart phones (high monthly fees or not), but I wonder if there's a market there.
I like PS, but my main issue with it is that it's really slow.
A personal logo? That's quite interesting - I've never heard of anybody using one of those. I wonder if this will be the trend of the future?

Simplicity will be key for personal logos I'd think otherwise it would become something like a family emblem.
For many of my use cases, the distributed transaction control is the key feature of any database product. The reason there are so many products out there with simple transaction models is that it is not that hard to write one.

It is really hard to do the distributed transaction thing [1] in a horizontally scalable fashion.

[1] http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/A97630_01/server.920/a965...
But you'd trust important information with companies like AT&T? I mean, I don't know, maybe you don't. It just seems to me that a smaller company can instantly lose if a security breach is exploited, but larger companies with gigantic market share can/will continue to operate after such an event due to massive PR machines and consumer inertia.

(Edited for clarity.)
Mozilla's web development team uses Python and Django, and has several remote workers. I work remotely for Mozilla; my own team has workers in Mountain View, Toronto, Seattle, Vancouver, Boston, Pittsburgh, and Paris.

See http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/careers/ and you can email me (see profile) if you have any questions or want an introduction to someone.
> "a network the users control"

Yeah, see, that's the trick. The users don't want to. They explicitly abdicated control when they signed up to Facebook. They knew what they were doing. They know that they can get games and chat and publishing and status messages without Facebook.

And they know that using Facebook requires giving them access to all sorts of data they might sell to... well, anyone willing to pay. Of course, so could/does Google. And Amazon. And their ISP. And their phone company. And their credit card company.

If users cared about control, they'd still be using email and blogs and separate accounts for separate services from separate vendors, etc. Like we few holdouts.

But you simply cannot make a social network site work without giving away a shocking quantity of data. You either get something that works like Facebook (warts and all) or something that works like hotmail+yahoo games+classmates.com+icq+flickr+twitter

Users already chose. I think they chose wrong, but no Facebook-knockoff offering 'control' is going to change it. They want the integration and ease-of-use that requires Facebook have access to all that data.
I read the article, and it doesn't seem beyond possibility that he wasn't exactly the smartest dude on the block, before he took all that e.

That said, if street e is as impure and subject to cutting as people say it is, then he was exposed to an enormous amount of other garbage as well.

One thing that struck me. Does e run on the same mechanisms as the SSRIs? This got a couple of mentions in the article, so you'd think there'd be an enormous number of people on SSRI's long-term to study.
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I didn't realize either of those things were exclusive to any one part of the political spectrum. Assuming you're talking about US politics, I'm fairly certain it'd be safe to say a belief in civil liberties is an American value across the political spectrum ("we hold these truths to be self evident"... etc).

And anyone with a brain "believes" in science..
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Most people seem to be suggesting a pricing model based on the number of chat sessions. Something interesting that I noticed is that users will often start a session but no one else will join. The ratio of joins to session starts is around 1 to 6. That makes me wonder if I should charge per session started or per session joined. Something interesting to notes is that the actual video chatting incurs no cost to me because it's all peer to peer. So the only real work happening on the server is passing along chat session ids to the clients.

The one problem I have with charging per session (and most services that charge based on usage for something they don't really control) is that the client might not have any sense of what their usage is like until they get a bill.
I think it's more that shared mutable everything can't possibly scale in parallel, rather than that FP is a panacea.
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I see that some people in the comments on Hanselman's site are using the terminology "C/C++". Back when I was learning C and C++, it was described as poor form, and a sign that that the writer didn't know either language very well.

Has it become more acceptable to conflate the two languages in recent years?
Do homoeopathic remedies have a "best before" date? If you wanted to given them "best before" dates, how would you measure when the non-existent potency starts to disappear?

The next time anyone offers a homoeopathic drug, ask them how long the medication is good for. There is no sensible answer to that question, because homoeopathy is gibberish.
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I believe that compilation problems you describe are caused by Microsoft's development tools (and by some weird quirks of Windows as a platform) and not by C/C++ itself. Every time I build something for Windows I get this feeling that it's actually hostile to code reuse across projects and that is the case even in .NET. Getting right import libraries (what are they for, anyway?) and getting IDE to actually know that you intend to link something/use some assembly seems horribly complicated in contrast to unix's #include <foo.h> and ld ... -lfoo

Also, having five different almost-compatible ABIs for C is something that really helps C/C++ programmers, especially in environment where it is common to ship compiled binaries, that are often very hard to rebuild from scratch.
... in truly open data with simple export tools and easy to understand privacy settings. I’d recommend going with the Twitter model on privacy – it’s all public or it’s all private (for approved friends only). It’s not hard to understand, and very few people actually choose the private option.

I see person who wrote this doesn't have much contact with females, especially female groups and their behavior on facebook. "This is public, this I only want some to see, this can be viewed by my friends but not that bitch"...

Hell I don't understand those privacy settings on facebook, but I sure know every female I know knows them and knows how to use it.
Succeed, until it becomes unfashionable in 5 years? Is that really success?
An interesting description of an experience -

all I can say is, a 7 day retreat is probably a really, really bad idea for a beginner
I wonder how many Hacker News readers are also gardeners. I started this year after realizing how wasted our (pitifully) small back yard was. It's not much, but I'm growing some plants back there and am about to have the first harvest of tomatoes. It's relaxing sometimes to go back there and just weed and do something away from the computers.

It's a growing trend and I think a good one. There's a lot of untapped potential out there and anything that gets people realizing what good vegetables taste like is good in my mind. Luckily most of us aren't starting gardening for such depressing reasons!
This is a "case report": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_report

It is not intended to provide conclusions. It is intended to be raw material for later people to use as evidence for their conclusions. This is not a scientific paper, this is raw material you make scientific papers out of. Medical fields tend to use these quite a lot.

I seriously doubt the people involved are ignorant of the possibility that this person went into this experience with a non-normal brain. Nevertheless, a subject that appears to have consumed over an order of magnitude more of a certain drug than any other known person is intrinsically interesting.
So pretty much: if you make >= $1,000 from a site you should use a merchant account (if the amount is really close to $1,000, you may want to use Paypal if the transaction amount is above $10) otherwise you are better off with Paypal Standard.
If you think shared state is hard to scale and you are arguing for message passing, then what's wrong with Erlang? In fact, you can't conflate Erlang, Haskell, O'Caml and Scala together as FP.

By being immutable by default, FP makes message passing simpler and in some cases forces you not to do shared state, so FP helps you do concurrency that way. Closures are old news and are in almost everything now anyway (I'd include Java anonymous inner classes, they just have a nasty syntax, although good for grouping methods, e.g. mouse events).

Other than immutability by default and closures, what makes a language functional anyway? Because if you take the languages you suggested together, that's all I see them having in common.
Not interested in actual songs. I would much rather see a music news version of Hacker News. I've actually thought about this a lot. Users would filter noisy articles, pushing relevant news to the top.
Couldn't you use the rss feed?
Is Macroeconomics Hard?
PS is substantially different enough that I don't mind, though.
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I'll venture a guess - there hasn't been enough clear focus on what Java7 will be and there's been a long gap between 6 & 7 (4yrs versus 2yrs for previous versions). Combined with Oracle's acquisition of Sun, there are a lot of questions in the air. Hopefully, JavaOne in September will provide some answers.

That said, Java is a good enough language and still quite powerful. You can do a lot of things that are possible in other languages, but the code isn't as concise. There are open-source libraries and frameworks for just about everything. Spring and Google have both taken up Sun's slack.

Java's not going away any time soon because it's too widely used.
That feels even more wrong for Haskell. I think that the Haskell way really is that you have pass the function in. Probably the worst thing about Haskell is that it aggressively has no concept of a global environment.

That said this may well be the most practical approach; "the Haskell way" and "practical" are not always exactly buddy-buddy. I'm just responding to the question of "the Haskell way".
Indeed. But daily practice is something to treasure :).
I submitted this because I felt that this discussion of Say's law and the classical discussion of the concept of a "general glut" that DeLong brings up in the article is important material for people to be aware of, regardless of their current viewpoint on how best to deal with the current economy.
Can you give some examples of the "harder problems that are intractable with traditional OO mechanisms"?
Hrm, "workers" seems like the wrong word here. They're basically executives (going by their titles). Also, I work at a university and my pay hasn't changed for three years...probably because of stuff like this.
The hacker Bret Taylor and his team created a way to output all of a user's data in JSON format: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/api
http://aviary.com/
You can make some nice graphics with this one and also learn from others
The website promises "smarter versioning" but each of the examples have only a single version, so there's no opportunity to review this feature.
Apple? Not that they’re using Paypal.
Sometimes I think HN users live in a bubble. Although the OP seems very aware of this, many of you think this is some fancy new idea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_e-mail_address

Going back even further, to the 90's, it looks like tempalias is just a no-account version of http://mailexpire.com

My advice to the OP, now that you have your proof of concept, is get the heck out, running a disposable email address service is a nightmare. Welcome to a world of spammers, blocklists, backscatter, exploiters, calls from police, etc.
I would go tiered. Per-chat session is great until you try to collect on someone who has a $0.025 bill. I'd start with a small monthly fee ($30/mo) + per chat session. If that doesn't seem to be capturing the hearts and minds of your licensees - then go into a tiered approach for "capped chat sessions" with overages.
Wow, that'd be pretty useful terminology. Most clones, particularly of the "programmed a version of foo site in just 7 hours" type, are indeed 2-dimensional clones, just copying the look without implementing the underlying complexity.

"Plane clone" is definitely in my vocabulary, now.
Pure caffeine powder can be almost instantly fatal if handled without gloves and respiratory protection. There are no safe drugs, only safe quantities.
Haha, I knew somebody was going to notice! Time constraints, hope to get to it tonight.
Very true. I'm not a teenager but I can imagine Facebook is definitely beyond "cool" for them at this point. Their parents and extended family are now their friends on Facebook. They'll soon be ready for the next thing where they can be with just their friends.