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Was hoping for more discussion around bootstrapping and being cheap as opposed to iPhone development.

Is there anything wrong with being cheap? My company is currently barely "ramen profitable" and being cheap is more of a necesity vs a choice.

Being able to lower your standard of living is a big part of being an entrepreneur, we all need to be able to do it at some point.
I'm confused by why the python 2.x branch is still being actively developed with new features rather than just being maintained for bug fixes. What are the roadmaps and goals of the 2.x verses the 3.x branches?
Misleading title. Very little to do with bootstrapping. Instead, it's mainly a discussion of iPhone/iPad owner psychology.
My initial reactions:

1. Yeah, it's true that there are some people who have addiction "issues" with porn to that point that it negatively affects their lives. Some people have obsessive/addictive reactions to lots of other things as well: alcohol and other drugs, gambling, food (I'm referring to eating disorders, not our need to eat to stay alive), WoW, etc.

2. For most addictive things, there develops an "industry" around them that thrives on sensationalizing and over-stating the problems caused. As one example, this article tries to create a link by association between declining birth rates and porn.

3. The rise of anti-<whatever> groups usually leads to calls for legislation, and such legislation quite often has nasty unintended consequences (cf Prohibition, the war on marijuana use, etc). Even if that article is partially accurate about the effect of porn on some people, the correct actions to take, if any, are probably not the obvious ones.
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1. Browsers can only run JS inside application/javascript files.

2. Browsers will ignore any 'on' attributes.

3. HTML may link to JS with one or more LINK tags.

4. JS may assign 'on' attribute event handlers to individual HTML tags.

5. JS will have access to only the cookies of domain hosting the JS file.

There's still a risk of bad LINK tags creeping in, but the code will only be able to see the cookies of the domain hosting the dodgy JS.
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Can someone tell me when did english people start pronouncing sixth with a k instead of an x. I've only noticed this phenomenon this decade.
It's almost as irritating as pronouncing 'three' as 'free' which at least has the merit of being easier to say
As a native Dutch-y I must upvote both of your comments. Afrikaans sounds more logical than the contemporary Dutch and Flemish sounds softer and 'more sweet' (to me :)
Thanks for shedding light on this. Almost all Americans fail to realize that there's no such thing as a "Spanish language". There are many of them, Castilian being the "official" one (it's what it's written in the Spanish Constitution anyways). One could, perhaps, call them all Hispanic languages, since most of them (Basque is the notorious exception) are derived from Latin from the times of the Roman province of Hispania.
little bit of sensationalism here...

"compiler optimisation has become a bottleneck in the development process"

Certainly not true for arbitrary development.

"an automatic way to optimise compilers for re-configurable embedded processors"

and they are working on a particular special case...
2.7 is the last major release of the 2.x series. The goal was to ease transition to 3.x by backporting some of the features and provide a stable base for people unable or unwilling to jump to 3.x.
Best paragraph:

'''
Imagine the reaction when a company like Apple suddenly comes with devices like iPhones and iPads that don’t feel like computers, don’t require nearly as much maintenance & ‘Just work’. Or at least work enough.
Imagine the reaction: “Hey, tech doesn’t need to be difficult. Those nerds have been fooling us all along. Screw them.”

'''

That one hits home! Ouch!!
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The main issue with using DNS for failover is that the name servers of many major ISPs don't respect TTL values, particularly those under 3600 seconds.

As such, when a failover occurs a site will be unavailable for many viewers for several hours and possibly even days, making the solution anything but highly available.
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Ramen? I don't know, exercise left up to the reader... The question was how do you make more money with 10k, not how do I live off 10k and make money.
What does "no accent" mean? How can anyone not have an accent?
It's not science, and neither is what the article reports. It's typical media.

That's why when I see a Hacker News thread posting a journalistic report about some preliminary scientific study, I link to Peter Norvig on how to read research

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

for the HN newcomers who haven't read this excellent article yet.
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I just mean there is no discernible accent; you can't tell where in the UK I am from.
I find that I spend much less time programming than I did in my early 20's.

For work I do 8-10 hours 5 days a week doing programming/server admin/researching.

Depending on burnout, I work on personal projects 0-5 hours on Saturday and Sunday and 0-2 hours during the week. Lately its been closer to 0 hours. Personal projects are generally game related.

Recently I've been spending about 1 hour per day exercising.

Other than that I spend time hanging out with the girlfriend/friends and doing nothing (relaxing).
It's not that remarkable...Google has provisions for breaking news style content, and as it sees traffic, searches, and ctr increasing for certain urls, it bumps it up in the SERPs...as things reach up the SERPs and especially when things make it into the trending topics, aggregators and autoblogs starting scraping the content and hosting it themselves.

SEO 101
So, I've been using this guide as the gold standard :
http://www.owasp.org/index.php/XSS_%28Cross_Site_Scripting%2...

what it seems to boil down to is : sanitize user input.

In what circumstances is this not sufficient?
This is a great stuff, I would love to see more business plan presentations like this. For example, it includes detailed explanations of strengths of Netflix's main competitors/threads.
I had an iPhone for 3 years or so. It was a great device for what it did, but the whole hassle of having to use iTunes. No removable storage. Can't just stuff mp3's on it and use as ringtones. Can't just copy photos off it unless you go through the right software. It's just a PITA. Not to mention the mass of features that are just lacking on the iPhone but you take for granted on Android.

Exactly. Mobile doesn't mean you can copy your stuff onto something portable. It means you've got a window to your stuff in your pocket. Google's information-centric approach makes a lot more sense than Apple's device-centric approach.
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No, there where details that where omitted by the Saudi business analyst because it was "common knowledge".

For example lets take an ATM machine, it would be like detailing the system and forgetting to mention that the user inserts their bank card to begin. It would be easy to omit that very obvious first step, because everyone (at least in the US) knows that you inset you bank card to begin. I know this is extremely simplified, but the point is there are items that everyone takes for granted as common sense. Some of these common sense items a very cultural in nature.
That adds up to a pretty hefty indictment of Apples policies.
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Just propose to pay out the proceeds of the tax equally among all citizens. That should be popular.
Did you really never study a subject where at least part of what you needed to learn was facts? History? A foreign language (noun and verb forms, vocabulary, irregular noun and verb forms, genders, idioms)? Science? Computer science? Math? Literature? All of these subjects involve learning facts - at least some of the time.

Yes, ideas are important, but so are facts.
I think a more accurate mentality is if you build it they CAN come. I'm fully aware that the act of building itself means nothing, so let's not make this all black and white.

What I meant is that learning how to email bloggers, use adwords, optimize for SEO and create funnels, or the B&M version of the above, is about 500x easier than being technically competent.

I have a tech background. I've built sites that achieved rapid growth. No, it didn't happen magically on its own. Yes, I eventually learned about A/B testing and conversion. But if life was an RPG, I'd load my character up on the technical mastery, knowing how much harder that is to build up relative to business skills.
It's a call center: are they getting paid by the hour, and if so, to sit there and do nothing?
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=How+can+entropy+be+reve...
Agreed. A better solution is to have all nameservers always return 2 A records in response to queries for a specific domain name. That way the browser will itself be responsible for trying to connect to each of the IPs to determine which one is alive (then with DNS pinning it will stick to the working one). And it does not matter if an intermediate DNS caching resolver ignores the TTL.

Of course the ultimate solution for HA is to implement anycast with BGP...
I need more data. What else was, "Great since day one?" In particular, is there anything that's not Apple that fits this? Toyota and Honda, maybe? My Sennheiser wireless mics? The PS2? I'm looking around my apartment and I'm having a hard time finding non-Apple stuff that fits that description. My Gerber Suspension pocket tool fits the bill, I think. The Logitech VX Revolution mouse does as well. I think about half of the "Great since day one" stuff is made by Apple! Most everything else required tinkering. The BenQ 520MP projector just worked and was great. Ah, my old GE 2 alarm AM/FM clock radio. That thing was cheap as hell, it's as solidly built as something can be from plastic, and it just works great. Oh, and of course, my Nintendo DS! My apartment is full of stuff that takes tinkering!
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I guess if I'd written this for Hacker News, I'd have included the phrase "hackers aren't wedding planners" somewhere. We don't just program, we think and sweat and worry and ultimately, hopefully, create something inherently beautiful and full of Quality.
What do banking crises have to do with consumption?
See now I can't tell if you are trying to be funny or a dick, but what I said I meant in no way to offend you. Your previous comment did indeed come off with an accent (I wasn't even trying to be funny).
But why would you post it twice ?

Also, I've yet to meet my first 'Android fanboy', but I've met plenty of Iphone fanboys in real life.

I'm sure they exist but either not around here or they're not as much 'in your face' about it.
Here is a more appropriate question, then: what do you want to do?
Yeah, there're many. Here're a few examples:

- the gas/pass divide: in many British accents pass is pronounced like 'pahs', but gas retains the same vowel as in American accents. gas and pass will basically always rhyme in America, but in Britain it'll depend on where you are. In RP they won't rhyme. In the 18th century, it was the same sound everywhere, the one Americans retained.

- the long o, in words like go, home, etc. changed in many British accents from [ou] to [eu]. If you can imagine a very "British", RP pronunciation of home, that's the difference you hear.
I wonder if this has been adjusted for the increase in dropout rates? I'm assuming that many of those dropping out did less studying for whatever reason, be it too busy working or just not having what it takes to do this sort of unsupervised work.
What size are you looking at? On either the success or failure side, I think there's relatively few similarities between, say, getting freelance devs from elance on one end of the spectrum, and contracting out a big project to InfoSys on the other end of the spectrum.
>1. Governments shouldn't pick the winners, particularly too early in the process.

If we do that, we only end up with things that can reasonably be expected to work.

And things that can reasonably be expected to work rarely change the world.
This has been around for a while but it's a really nice way to show what's possible if you have backtracking capabilities.
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It's a debugging feature. It scratched a particular itch that a particular developer had at the time that they wrote it. If it weren't there at all, would this blog post still have been written?
But you do sound distinctively British? Similar to Americans that saw they have no accent but there's no mistaking they're American.
"England and America are two countries divided by a common language" - George Bernard Shaw
A reason open source might work better for coding than design is due ego. Coders are known for their contributions to code which can be reused and praised over-and-over.

Designers on the other hand are known for their great designs that can't be reused. Their are styles/techniques, but rarely are they known by ego reference. Therefore, designers have a great ego interest in developing things designer praise - that's probably not esoteric open source projects.
In the second category ("technicals about a web site") I'm a big fan of http://web-sniffer.net.
I meant the question seriously and your answer was informative.

However I suspect your example really stems from an argument that "common property" like roads should be minimized and that a private owner would better price road use. I think libertarians would not argue that the government should create a fancy new road-taxing system. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Many other externalities are harder to privatize. For example social costs/benefits of hiring or firing employees, of providing employees with insurance or not, of destroying local businesses with everyday low prices and shipping the proceeds to China, of promoting education and/or research, of taking advantage of peoples' poor choices in credit use, of selling highly-addictive drugs, of polluting, of destroying the Gulf's tourism and fishing industries, of global warming, etc. I doubt libertarians advocate private ownership of the atmosphere.

I certainly don't like the idea of the government micromanaging every conceivable, nebulous externality, but I think there is a time and a place for regulation, taxes, government investment, government subsidies, etc. as tools for dealing with the most troublesome systemic problems.
"It Doesn't Happen All At Once. You Become. It Takes A Long Time."
Considering that the Declaration of Independence was published virtually simultaneously in German (July 9) as well as English (July 5), the accents in 1776 were probably quite varied.
Having enough command of background facts to quickly figure things out is useful, but beyond that, knowing where to look up the facts seems like a perfectly fine substitute for memorizing them. The real problem is if you know so little that you don't even know how to figure out what you need.
Yup. And over the air updates are obviously a good idea. I plug my Nexus One into my computer when I want to, not when it needs to be plugged in (Unlike the iPhone). It stands up as a device on its own.
> This is a subject of irrationality I have trouble understanding

That's because you are utterly, terribly wrong, and like you millions of people, including doctors. And that's why so many people have trouble losing weight. You think you have THE TRUTH, your truth is not working, then blame the world.

Just two things:

1) The actual first law of thermodynamics is:

(Calories In) - (Calories Out) - (Calories Stored) = 0

Note in particular this is a constraint, i.e., the absence of causality assumptions.

2) You don't eat pure energy. After the first law there is the second: http://www.nutritionj.com/content/3/1/9

3) Please read Taubes.
How is this better than JITting?

It seems like most recent performance gains come from runtime/dynamic optimizations, not static/compile time optimizations.
that "official statement" is not sourced by techie-buzz.com. where did they get that from?
You completely missed the point of this article, which I find odd because the author clearly explained why he compared Android with desktop Linux. By "Linux on the desktop", he means Linux on regular Joe's desktop, not the hacker's desktop. The author agrees with you that Linux is made for people like you that want/need the extra control, etc, whatever. This is not what the majority are looking for in a desktop distribution.
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I do not think it is that surprising. Being part of the same political entity, there should have been a decent amount of intermingling and cross-travel in both directions. There was a NYTimes op-ed today about colonists from Massachusetts who returned to England to fight in the English Civil War in the mid-17th century: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/04/opinion/04tinniswood.html
'The Shallows' by Nicholas Carr 'Has The Internet Rewired Your Brain?' (excerpt)
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Hi forkqueue, DNS pinning is indeed an issue, the scope of which this experiment will help identify. However, this would only affect those with an existing record cached for an unavailable node, no new requests would be directed that node. Futher, a Mammatus cloud can also be used as a back-end service for another front-end service which can evade the cache by prepending a random string or timestamp to the subdomain, i.e. 123.mammatus.thimbl.net. Mammatus ignores subdomains of it's subdomain, so this works. Also, information from research into DNS rebinding attacks shows that browser based pinning drops it's cache when it gets a failed requests, so a re-request would also work after failing once. Mammatus is not meant to replace all other HA techiniques. Certainly for organizations with the appropriate budget, there are potentially more robust options for front-end systems. For many situations, this is a good technique, considering how inexpensive it is. Also, this same issue exists for systems like dynamic DNS, which remain quite popular in many use-cases.
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And this is exactly what I meant by "piss-taking"; your comment was such a delightful jab, I was pleased to play along :-)

I stopped short of scratching others as well, my gut response was to say "Did you divorce a German and take half her humor in settlement." That would have gotten an ovation from the English crowd, but could have confused you and other festive yanks in this victorious of all occasions! Happy 4th of July, mate! No harm was meant :-D
I think your whole post argues against you.

Craig was a developer. Whether he was good or not is irrelevant, but he knew enough to write a prototype. He had (and arguably still has) little business skills. If he hadn't been a developer, there would be no Craigslist.

The same applies to Markus Frind, the google boys, and the majority of famous tech startups. Hell, even in Sun's case, Vinod (MBA) approached Andy (PhD) wanting to grow an existing, already-profitable business.

> Only on HN would people argue that it's more important for a small business owner to know how to write code than to know business.

If the small business is a bootstrapping internet startup, then yes we'd rather know how to code.
I'm just wanting hulu. Hulu+ is a joke.
Ethnocentrism 101: Only other people have accents, never us.
Why would you even compare the Nexus One to the first generation iPhone? That's like saying "The first computer in existence sucked, my Mac Pro is way better."
Ask HN: tools to create feature-level comparison matrices?
We've been using Excel to create feature matrices to compare different tech components, listing both technical features as well as fit to our needs (e.g. using 1-5 stars to indicate how it fits our requirements). We've done this for storage devices, cell phones, and are now considering switching from PC to Mac and are trying to compare across the two. Creating these sheets is time-consuming and brain-deadening, and made me wonder whether there aren't some web-based tools that do this for you (e.g. scrape feature listings for a Dell and a Mac PC to let you compare / contrast). Any ideas?
Hi mrb, this is just the first release. Mammatus will return 2 A records if the endpoint domain does, so that will be built in. Of course anycast is a great option if the organisation has the option of getting an ASN, running BGP, etc. If that is not an option, Mammatus is a reasonable alternative.
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Not surprising. The degree requirement is largely a (time-consuming, expensive, and inaccurate) IQ and class filter that employers can use without getting sued out of existence.
It actually uses httplib1 under the hood which I've had weird problems with (even when using the httplib2 abstraction). Restkit has a better interface and really cool filters for such things as proxies.
Oh, so that's what A Nation of Shoplifters means! Funny. (It's a song by Carter USM).
Well, Castilian (Castellano) is Spanish, and Spanish is Castilian according to definition. Although all of them are 'Spanish languages' because they are languages spoken in Spain.

I guess difference, if we call it that way, between Spanish and Castellano as terms, is the similar of English and British. Right? I'm not sure, but I guess they are close.

Check this map: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Castellano-Espa%C3%B1ol.pn...

* Blue: Places where it's mainly called 'Spanish' (Español)

* Red: Places where it's mainly called 'Castilian' (Castellano)
Is shutting down the internet physically possible? Ignoring the consequences, I'm just curious about the implications on infrastructure. I, for one, am really unsure about what the internet is as far as the hardware connections go.
And think how much better you'd "know the underlying concepts" if, in addition to listening in lecture and staring blankly when they ask questions about the reading, you read a section in advance, did some practice problems, noodled around with assorted Wikipedia pages on the topic, talked to and sparred with your friends about the material, and dropped by the professor's office to nail down some esoteric edge case?

Actually, I'm guessing you did at least some of those things if you were a successful student. All of them are forms of studying; cramming facts for a test is but the slightest part (and, as you say, likely a sign of a poorly-written exam).
I don't even know what that means, but I can't wait till hollywood gets hold of it
How does one go about updating Python on OSX Snow Leopard?
A test should judge if you know the underlying concepts

Isn't it a bit presumptuous for the student to dictate the criterion of the test like this? It's often easy for students to get underlying concepts, but education could be so much more, and teachers should be free to design tests of something more ambitious than understanding concepts.

I understood the basic concepts behind playing the piano at a young age: press the keys with variable force at rhythmic times - not conceptually difficult.

But a test designed to determine if I understand that would not measure an ability to apply that material.