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The success of the web browser as an app platform has little to do with HTML and Javascript as languages

Of course not. They are terrible languages! They do, however, manage to get the job done. Coupled with the browsers sandboxing, standardised communications mechanisms and programming practices - and of course the all important easy distribution of web apps, since everybody already has a browser - and you have a good, solid and convenient application distribution (and execution) platform. Sadly, until I can choose what language I want to do my client-side work in (since Javascript is a clunky hack of a lnaguage and other languages are more appropriate for some kinds of work), I will not like client-side web programming. Perhaps native client will save me there. Hopefully.
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The critical mistake is assuming that this is sexist. It's not. It's basic pattern-seeking, a simple and harmless assumption. Getting all up in arms over it is worthless!

Everybody makes a million assumptions about other people every day -- you can't get around it, there are simply too damn many people that you come across to consider every one as if he/she were the first you'd ever seen.

Sexism - and condescension - would imply they were saying things, or acting, in a way that said they didn't believe women were capable.
Sorry, but the use of the verb "to hold" in connection to the iPhone4 made it too difficult to resist. I know snarky comments are not always well received here and generally agree they should never be the core of a discussion, but not many of us watch soap operas and companies like Apple and Microsoft, along with their Steves and Bills provides us with the missing drama.

A world without Apple would be a lot less interesting. In fact, I am convinced one of us would have no alternative but to invent it.
The question is: in case the stock price drops because of the announcement, would it be a a good occasion to buy?
The European Union doesn't recognize software patents either. The world didn't collapse from that.
I've heard nothing but praise for ScreenFlow. http://www.telestream.net/screen-flow/overview.htm
The only phone you actually have control over is a Nexus One. People still have to root HTC's other phones, Motorola phones, iPhones, and just about every other usable consumer phone device.
Don't have to download or install anything - something that is evidently hard for a large amount of peple

Sure you have to download stuff - its just done in the background for you. Install? Thats a silly legacy concept anyway. Browsers DO sandbox code though, which is a good thing, but an OS could do that to "native" apps too.

Old versions aren't as much of a problem; updates can be just a refresh away

Desktop apps could be developed in ways that solves this too. Though the browsers "refresh" button is certianly a lot more convenient than anything we ever see used on desktop apps.

A browser is a consistent/familiar interface - people generally know how to interact with them

Hah, hardly. The browser, sure - but honestly, how much of the web really uses the browser interface? We have some basic navigation (switching apps, essentially - the address bar, bookmarks, back, forward) and a selection of currently executing apps (tabs, windows). The rest is done inside the browser as HTML - and this is HIGHLY inconsistent between websites/webapps. There is absolutely nothing consistent or familiar about them.

Runs on your iPhone, Android, PC, Wii, PS3...

Maybe one day the "standards wars" will settle and this will be completely true. Regardless, you could, conceptually, do this with traditional apps too. It would be a lot more dificult though - browser definitely shines here.
FYI, the Russian ruble didn't have a symbol, too, until recently.

http://www.artlebedev.com/mandership/159/

Though most currencies have.
The old metaphor of 'picking pennies in front of a steamroller' still holds in high-frequency trading.

Except that without (at least) a few million in cash deposited with a prime broker you need to pick up a lot more pennies than a bank. (You'll be giving a lot back on a day-to-day basis)
Yes, they were quite closely involved in that one. Which begs the question of will Google do something about this. I'm not sure this is something they are really looking to take a stand on but bricking a device is going too far. Maybe they should revoke license to Google apps on this phone until that feature is fixed.
I'd go with B as you say, because per the article Nepal and Pakistan use the existing symbol for their own currencies.
Personal Server would mean an application i host. Direct opposition(competition)to the Cloud.

Is their end user system of hosting, better than cultivating a system to harness the individual ownership of users collected information on various applications in the cloud?
to get = symbol, which stands for equality (among people, religion,etc)
I would ignore the "HFT" moniker and focus on the algorithmic part. HFT is a big-money game for companies who can afford to build a data center next to the exchange. But a longer-term strategy based on technical indicators can still do very well.

My main recommendation would be to take things slowly, browse through the COTS options in the field(which are plentiful), and make some of your own trades in order to learn and develop your strategy.
the scales certainly are tipped heavily in the direction of boys by our upbringing.

Perhaps, but...

I was fiercely discouraged from music.

Your own upbringing sounds pretty atypical.
Obviously Scott Adams reads Hacker News!

Like many here, reading Dilbert is a special daily event for me. In my case, I wait until my first cup of coffee is brewed. It must be awesome for Scott Adams to be able to give so much pleasure to so many people, and make a good living from it.
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Other studies have shown that it has.
> Owning up is for the mediocre 90% of the pack.

Agreed.

> They will most likely announce something big to change the conversation

Changing the conversation is for the pathetic lowest 40%.

A brilliant company fixes the problem, does something extra to make up for the pain, and makes their customers happy.
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"Everybody should be able to answer the question, “why am I doing this?” Otherwise they’re likely to be doing things right, but not the right things."

This deserves more attention. While it is certainly critical to the point the author makes, I think it goes beyond far that. With every employee being able to answer the question "why am I doing this?" clearly you can achieve a far greater sense of accomplishment among your staff. This has positive side-effects for much more things.
And not spoilt the look of the phone, which is one of the reasons people buy it.
If I understood that article correctly it looks like the "high frequency" traders pay the exchanges to get access to trades before everyone else.

So it's not really the fact that these guys are trading at high frequency that gives them the edge (although that is necessary) it's the fact that they get to operate a few milliseconds ahead of the rest of the market.

I wonder how much much you have to pay to get that access?
It's not the programming syntax I think so much as the teaching of it.

Programming books, classes, etc., are led by people who "just get it" - and therefore taught badly - and therefore can only be understood by people who "just get it". And those people tend to look down on people who can't "just get it."

I, on the other hand, am a girl, and an extremely visual/verbal girl at that... an excellent designer and accomplished writer. I was doing all of that basically from a young age. I also learned BASIC.

When it came time to learn more complex programming, though, I got stuck, and nobody could explain it to me in a way that helped. I ended up teaching myself to draw loop diagrams, and procedural diagrams, and object diagrams, to visually THINK OUT the code, what it was doing. For a long time, I had to do this every time, or I was completely incapable of getting any traction on the coding problem at hand.

The thing about programming is that you have to actually BUILD AN INTERPRETER in your head. Some people seem to be born with the ability to do this. They are almost all - but not entirely - male.

I, on the other hand, am now an excellent developer. I know many developers who can write much tighter individual lines of code than me - but most of them can't analyze and break down a problem, and architect as well as I do. And my lines of code are still very good.

So, I started out with a "disability" but now I'm really great.

That's because I read programming books, and went to programming classes, and instead of thinking "ZOMG I'll never get this" I thought to myself, "I'm really smart - this class is shit!" And proceeded to nag everyone to answer my questions about my visual diagrams, until I got it.

That's why I write and teach code in a visual way.

And amazingly, I have a much higher percentage of women readers and women course attendees than the general coding population... and also many, many grateful men who come from non-traditional backgrounds, like history majors, artists, designers, musicians and linguists.

Comp Sci problems aren't men vs women, they're super-crazy-almost-too-left-brain vs normal-or-right-brain.
Same night as pub standards, too. http://www.pubstandards.co.uk
It's a shame some people are too immature to handle viewing a public Google doc without destroying it. People like that are worthless non-contributors.
Downvote me all you like, but I'm a successful woman developer and I'm the one saying it!

I can't tell you how often I see women crying "sexism" and making themselves feel like victims, instead of just accepting that _people make assumptions with no ill intent whatsoever_.

And I've overheard women speakers at conferences complaining about how sexist the board is, because their talks were rejected, when I was the one rejecting them because their talk proposals were off-topic, uninteresting and poorly put together...

Real sexism is vicious. Normal, well-meaning human foibles are not. Conflate the two, and you impair your own ability to function in life.
BTW Dilbert is now on Netflix instant streaming, lots of fun!
€ and £ both (can) have two lines, the $ sign can have two lines, too. The two lines seem to me to be a allusion to that. (That’s why the € sign has two lines, anyway.)
Some people, like me for example, find it easier to edit the text files than to muck about with a mouse in a graphical editor, selecting or failing to select the note, selecting the note duration from a pallet or menu, seems to take forever - in Lilypond I would just type c4 d2 e4 and I am done. JEdit provides a good preview mode and integration if you require it.

However, the Lilypond input syntax could be improved a great deal - I don't think the multiple different types of braces used in syntax files should be necessary for example.
Can you elaborate why? What was your experience with them?

My Chinese is a bit rusty (actually non existent) so I will have to trust Google Translate and my Partners for a translation of the site, the English language version doesn't work for me.
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You are correct. After close scrutiny they shortlisted 5 designs. Later someone high up (in the government) did not like it and so they selected an entirely new design for the symbol. Personally I do like this new one other than the 5 shortlisted ones.

Her you can see the others: http://trak.in/tags/business/2010/07/13/rupee-symbol-shockin...
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You mean Devanagari. Hindi has no script of it's own. Few other Indian languages also use Devanagari. Eg: Sanskrit, Marathi, Konkani.
There aren't very many women going into tech because there aren't very many women in tech. Male or female, when a kid is picking a college or major, they tend to listen to their friends (and maybe even family). If none of their female friends are considering Computer Science, it's an uphill battle to sell a girl on that. I don't think most teens care as much about this as parents, but if they can't see positive role models already in that field, it's even harder to consider that field.

I don't think it's getting much better soon. My daughter's on a First LEGO League team (4 boys, 2 girls) and we see lots of teams without a single girl on them. Our local Girl Scout council got a grant to fund several First LEGO League teams. We've tried to work with them to mentor any new teams but no success. (Now, maybe an all-Girl Scout team is unrealistic, but it has been done.)
In the comment section to the inc article I found this blog post which
I thought was interesting:
http://blog.global-roam.com/index.php/2009/11/joel-spolskys-...

Some points I reflect on after reading both articles are:

- Should the real needs of my customers be met,
or the needs I think they have?
That is, where is my focus: On the customer or on the product? (ref. blog post)

- Can I allow myself to think that my competitor is selling junk,
as mentioned in:
"So that's the development team's mission for 2010:
to eliminate any possible reason that
customers might buy our competitors' junk, . . . ." (ref. inc post)

- Should I build the perfect product and use a salesforce
to push it on customers that does not happen to
know that we have the best product (ref. inc article),
OR should I make sure that we all the time make sure that we
build what the customer needs and wants (ref. blog post)?

PS: I know nothing or very little about the products mentioned in these
posts, some my reflection was more based on the chosen strategies rather then the
given people, companies and products mentioned.
So that's how they became entrepreneurs
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Nothing wrong with marketing yourself. I just don't want to have to do it in so many places.
Given that the consequence of that might be accelerated involuntary retirement, isn't that the same?
Hi marquis, please write me! amy@slash7.com. I wanna hear what you're working on.

I think your idea of "real world" / physical things is a really interesting thread. Check out my comment below about the teaching of programming and see how our ideas cross!

By the way... young people, all young people, get condescending remarks from older people. The more successful you are, the more remarks you're going to get, because successful young people are equally loved and loathed. That's the way of the world. Don't assume that just because it appears to you that it appears in a certain form that it actually has anything to do with you being a woman.

All of those remarks come from fear. They show that the person saying them is weak and afraid. Or simply a regular old foolish human being with no bad intentions who operates his/her mouth on autopilot, just like everything else in his/her life.
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Are you serious? Do you really think a new plastic polymer was invented for your smart phone bumper?
Unfortunately can't make it tonight - E.Sussex to Water Poet = 2 hours and I stop working around 6...Maybe one day!

Has anyone been to the MiniBar meetups? Great hacker/startup crowd there as well, I used to go all the time when I was living in London.
Cheaper? How. 10/order makes no sense at all if you are ordering 10-20 shares at a time. It makes a lot of sense if your orders are 100,000-200,000 (or more) shares at a time. Individual traders (most often) only do the 10-20 shares or so... Check to see if your broker has limits on the number of shares/order.

High frequency algo trading, as presently committed to by the big banks, relies (as others have noted) on advanced notification (if only, at times, milliseconds in advance...) which, as an individual, you probably won't get. But that just means you can't make use of the same algorithms as the banks. You'll want to derive your own algorithms to exploit some specific pattern(s) that are different from those that rely on advanced word. It's possible, but unless you're already in possession of some wealth, unlikely that you'll be able to design, implement and tweak your algorithm to profitability in anything like a year or so. I certainly wouldn't try it as anything less than a full time occupation... certainly not something that can be done as an 'experiment'.
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This looks like a variation on the same theme as the PG "procrastination" essay. Sometimes you're doing unimportant things (you may do them right, though, and they can be somewhat useful anyway) instead of doing really important things (the right thing).
Interesting! You seem to know a lot about it, are there any books on stocktrading generally and on algorithms and/or computerized trading specifically, that you can recommend?
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What about low frequency algorithmic trading? As in you run a program that is looking to make money holding a position for hours to days so the exact buy price isn't as big a deal. Or does it become to much of a game of chance then?
Cool. Btw, I like how the South African rand is simply a Latin "R".
Paul invited me to apply for YC but I declined because I didn't want to move for 3 months. (I'm a girl.) I don't know if that is still in effect, but it is ridiculous, and more men than women will go to ridiculous lengths.

Compare that percentage to a course I just finished teaching, 12 weeks on bootstrapping - how to make your first profitable product, on the side.

I had triple the percentage of female students - 4 women out of 50 participants. They were all 30 or older. I am reaching women that no seed fund will reach, and they are going to be successful.

I expect that percentage to grow.
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Unfortuantely, that isn't what Veracity is going to do; see the comments from Eric Sink himself elsewhere in this discussion.
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Stay away from HFT, big players will eat your lunch. HFT isn't even a game of milliseconds anymore, it's a game of microseconds. You can still do well with algorithmic trading where speed of execution isn't an issue. Work on your strategy, test it on historical data, execute it manually, if it works then automate part or all of it.
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From their point of view, it is much more complex than any given musical concept because it has to encode such a wide variety of musical concepts. The musician playing it doesn't (intentionally) pay attention to the complexities that Lilypad is talking about. (I've never noticed stem lengths or stem directions when playing, but they're important to keep things legible.)

It's comparable to fonts: the study of fonts is pretty intricate, regardless of whether you're writing a grocery list or "One Hundred Years Of Solitude".
Interesting read. Loved the ending!

I do wonder whether it is better to be more rational. One way or the other though, I'm sure it's better to realize you're an irrational being, instead of clinging to the false belief that most of us have that they are, indeed, rational.
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Taking a cue from Philip Greenspun, maybe the real question is: why are there so many men? In my experience, at least half the people in "tech" are miserable. HN.YC focuses on the winners, not the losers. For every young startup hotshot, there are 1000 middling software engineers working on connecting the invoice database to the PO database and wishing they never got into the field in the first place.
The idea has crossed my mind. Email me please and we'll figure it out.

EDIT: Please see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1517597 . I set up a Google Group to get us going!
Spins both ways:

Why do people hate venture capital funded / don't generate revenue from day 1 companies?
Never again? Despicable and completely disrespectful denial and hesitation?

My counterpoint, not to dismiss legitimate concerns that the huge number of customers affected by crappy AT&T coverage have, is twofold:
Denial is spin, PR. Hesitation is having less R&D resources to do anything about it. It's well known Apple has a smaller headcount than Microsoft, and values certain things more than others.

Mr. Winer and you are totally entitled to your opinions, but mentioning the axes you have to grind in your criticism of Apple aren't great ways to be persuasive.

In order: OSX and Apple's hardware, because its worth owning, and nothing else. ChromeOS(via Hexxeh, at this point) can't adjust screen brightness. Ubuntu can't support 'proprietary wireless chipsets' on first boot - like it should matter. Vista was difficult to use for everything, it was disrespectful anyone got stuck with any of the 7 flavors of that turd. I looked at the font on a blackberry yesterday and could barely make out numbers; it's just so crappy.

Embrace the black plastic of all these windows-bundled laptops, I'll enjoy a machine I need to use for hours on end that feels designed and extruded instead of matte and injection moulded.
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I'm thrilled that Yegge has made peace with the pack of wolves that roam the Internet, seeking to disparage those who... well, who knows their offense? He referenced them in some of his previous posts [0], so I figured they finally got the best of him. I loved reading his missives, and was sad to see them go.

[0] In Story Time, for instance, Steve says "If you read the comments with (Comic Book Guy)'s voice, a lot of them make a whole lot more sense."
And now that everyone's completely forgotten who I am...

Not one bit! I've been eagerly awaiting this day.
There's also Nokia's N900, which runs Maemo - a Debian derivative.
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I find it interesting they refer to notes as quarter values or eighths. I can quickly see myself getting confused by that (is that a quaver? Did I do it right?) - does it change if you change the time signature from 4/4 to 3/4? (forgive the slashes)
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If the new Mercedes S class had a flaw that could be fixed with something as simple as a strip of duct tape up to a $400 widget (paid for out of pocket by the customer), would that be acceptable?

Because that's how Apple positions themselves in the market.
Legislators looking after themselves, most likely. I remember back in the early Pleistocene era when I lived there that the CHP was forbidden to use radar (legislators needed to be able to speed back to Sacramento).

If my neighborhood were abused by pink-light violators, I might be tempted to post fake signs warning of a traffic camera. </confession>
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Trouble is that you still need to guess what kind of market you are in. Such systems often only work in some trending markets and you can easily loose what you have gained when market goes against you.