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Its unfortunate that the only thing that is considered "actual work" is programming. But I blame myself for not explaining more thoroughly in the article.

I invite you to look at the startup itself and the video demo. I know I'm asking a lot, but I think you should look more in to someones work before you say that they gave up without putting in any actual work. The video demonstrates a considerable part of the back-end being complete; I just need assistance because I understand that I cannot manage a project like this on my own.
You're crazy. I've used an N900 and it is nothing like an iPhone. Responsiveness is terrible- clicks sometimes take 2 or 3 attempts to register, and even when they do register the software takes half a second to respond, so you end up with this awkward use that goes something like "did I click it? I think I clicked it, let me click it again."

The iPhone is instantly responsive to any touch, and when you get used to using a multi-touch device, you really can't go back to using a resistive screen. I felt like it was 1995 and I was using an original Palm Pilot.
In a similar spirit:

It is mathematically impossible to privilege one group without "disprivileging" another in a zero-sum game like college admissions. The question of whether alumni-preference "punishes" some people isn't even interesting, the question is a borderline-tautological "yes". The question is, is that what we want to do? And even if historically the answer was "yes", is it still what we want to do? And what do we want to do in the future?

I'm not commenting on the answer to those questions, subtly or otherwise. (Except inasmuch that some people would rather we not ask them at all and just take various answers as axiomatically true without examination.)

(just for reference, around the time of the supreme court cases re: Michigan Law School, alumni preference was weighted at least as strongly as race amongst schools that used quantitative point systems for admissions)
Some clients/bosses are hard to convince that you don't need rounded boxes to appear to those users ...
So did I!

And the answer for that is simple: it was free, James Gosling's NeWS cost money (and not a small amount).

And I'm sure this has more than a little to do with the success of Java, specifically the team delivering an ultimatum before launch that it would be free or they would leave (easy enough to make, since if it wasn't it would have died).
It has been corrected for.
The 9th Circuit is trying to find a way to read section 109 so as to undo Quality King and get back to what Congress intended--unauthorized importation of copyrighted works, other than for personal use, is prohibited.

Because a wristwatch is a copyrighted work.
I actually really like this bug in the phone. I'm an app developer and it's great for testing going in and out of coverage. I only get one bar in my house, not enough to make calls, but enough to affect the connected flags. I can consistently drop that bar.
I often wondered what psychological effects these diversity programs have on those who are supposedly benefiting from them. Do they walk around campus thinking to themselves "I'm here because I'm black"? This goes double for those minority students who would've been accepted without preferential treatment.
Affirmative action matters for the most selective colleges in the United States but very little for your average state school, where there is little to no selection pressure. (It is the public policy of the United States that you can get a tertiary degree -- and we will pay for it -- if you have a pulse.) There are many doctors, lawyers, engineers, teachers, etc etc, who do not have a degree from Harvard/MIT/etc. The hypothetical, exaggerated dystopian universe in which the most selective ~25 institutions drop to ~2% black doesn't resemble an Orwell novel.
of the big ecommerce sites Ebay always struck me as the one most likely to involve Microsoft. something about their culture, at least near the top.
the thing is, the startup job market selects for people who don't place a high value on job security, and who are willing to work (temporarily, at least) for below market rates. If you want something safe and high paying, startups generally don't compete with the big boys.

Now, obviously, the first hire gets a worse deal than a founder wrt compensation... but I think everyone is aware of that going in to the deal, and that this is part of why it's so hard to hire experienced people for those (non-founder, early employee) roles.
point them to your active domains you are using?
If Diversity is such a strength, how come the homogeneous Chinese, Japanese, and Indians (ok, there is some diversity in India, but only due to a high population over a wide area) are kicking our "diverse" butts in so many fields?
Bingo! I seldom talk on my iPhone. However I constanly do countless other stuff with it.

If you are different, there is a vast number of alternative, seriously cheaper phones doing the phone part so much better.

But if you want to do... anything else, well, there's an app for that.
Feedback is warmly welcomed as always. If any of the HN crowd sees issues with this approach I would love to hear about them before I commit to building this into my final language...
Does it even matter what race someone puts down on those? On the last US census I put my race as human, although technically (and visually) I am white, but my background is such a mutt, or not traced, that it doesn't really matter anyway. On top of that I grew up in a city thats over 60% (south Texas) Hispanic. That will change my views to be more "Hispanic like" vs someone with the exact same racial qualities living in, say, NY. Hell when I go to home depot they say things in English then Spanish on the intercoms.

It also seems lately that half the people I meet are half Mexican and half white. What should they put? Every one I have asked puts Hispanic because in general they get more that way.

I guess it comes down to an obviously flawed system. Possibly "diversify" based on income, or location over race.
Yeah, seems obvious right? But having a C backend (independent of LLVM) still has advantages. I will continue to maintain it, even if/when we get an LLVM backend.

I only wish llvm-c would suck less, then we'd get proper bindings and be able to write the llvm backend in ooc.
rock -> C99 (compiled with clang)
The introduction guide HTML rendering is annoying. It needs at least a width of 1280. I usually keep my browser window width at about 700, sometimes even less.
> an estimated 40-50 percent of (students in Universities) categorized as black are Afro-Caribbean or African immigrants, or the children of such immigrants

That's interesting. I'm curious what the cause for this is.
Also none of my argument applies to a startup with one or more non technical non domain expert founders hiring a tech guy as employee number one. In that case he is a founder without the title and might get a founder level share. However I think those companies are generally born wearing the stink of death and nor worth consideration.
I agree that C++ can be very low-level. As far as being high-level.. it's still desperately stuck years in the past, even with all the bloat C++0x (or whatever it's actually called) brings to it =)

</troll> (with a hint of truth)
It rings true for me (I'm 31, but act like 20). I've known for a while that I need help, I'm just having a terrible time actually getting it. (HN user skmurphy has recently offered some assistance though!)

The article's description of the way in which I got into this position sounds right though -- you start out resourceful, people rely on you, and that makes you reluctant to rely on others.
Non relational support is coming soon. Hopefully in 1.3. I am sure there will be "backends" for mongodb, Appengine immediately.
They are in a few areas but never creativity.
I use C++ and Objective-C, sometimes both at once (go go gadget GCC). I've had a look through the OOC website - does OOC offer me anything I don't already have?
So your solution is that these best colleges in the U.S, which select based on criteria OTHER than scores, should stop selecting based on race, but should select based on other factors?

So it's okay to select mid western people, because they are different from new york people, but it's not okay to select black over white?

Those picky schools mix and match to have a wide array of people. They don't just use scores. If they did, there would be a lot of chinese immigrants and russians jews in there.

The difference between two people because of their geographical distance is as great as the difference because of their race.
He doesn't say how long he asked people to read for. My suspicion is that the longer the timeframe, the more results between print and monitor (and Kindle and iPad) will diverge. You don't get eyestrain from even light reading on a monitor.

Also, satisfaction can mean a number of things, and he didn't define it, as evidenced by comments about weight. A lot of people could have had higher reading satisfaction on an iPad because it's an iPad.

Neilsen's results have no bearing one way or the other on my original statement, which is that people don't buy iPads to read books.
"Is CR testing signal attenuation, or an actual loss of functionality?"

From the article: "When your finger or hand touches a spot on the phone's lower left side - an easy thing, especially for lefties - the signal can significantly degrade enough to cause you to lose your connection altogether if you're in an area with a weak signal"

They are testing both signal attenuation and an actual loss of functionality.

I agree, actual data would be nice. What gives me confidence in the report is that, to quote Wikipedia, "Consumer Reports does not print outside advertising, accept free product samples, or permit the commercial use of its reviews for selling products" and that they've been doing this since 1936.

Bose and Sharper Image have in the past attempted to sue Consumer Reports for showing some kind of bias or for presumably using inaccurate methods in their reviews - both lost their lawsuits. There are good reasons why CR has the reputation it has, and that's why I'm willing to take what they have to say at close to face value, even without raw data being published in the same blog entry.
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"We didn't want to take the risk of being on Mono [...] It's not clear how long funding will be around for that project"

Can anyone elaborate on that or point to some reading?
After having lived on the coast for a while, I can say that people are not on average that much smarter or hard working there than in a number of other places. They might be a little bit, but that's because of the "brain drain to the coasts" phenomenon rather than anything intrinsic.

I can summarize the advantage of the coasts in three words:

Access. To. Capital.

Social networking effects come in a close (and related) second. Tech companies are in Silicon Valley because tech companies are in Silicon Valley.
"ooc is a modern, self-hosting, object-oriented, functional, high-level, low-level programming language. It strives to be powerful, modular, extensible, portable, yet simple and fast. ooc translates to C99 via rock, our self-hosting compiler."

Is this for real? Because it sounds like someone is overselling their langauge way too much.
I'm in language overload at this point. Much more than another language I'd like to see some creative new architectural approaches to problems that are thorny or tedious to solve right now.

I mean, if something as simple as applying MVC principles to web development can create a revolution there have to be a lot of other unplucked ideas out there. Software engineering feels a lot like architecture would if people spent 95% of their time talking about materials.
most of my non-techie friends probably don't

You mean the ones who treat Consumer Reports' recommendations as holy writ?
Well S1 is "just" about introducing characters and setting up scenery and context - which are broad indeed. Covering such ground while trying to create an engaging experience would be very hard. Something had to give - story or spectacle and decision was made (I guess).

B5 has to be the best mix of great writing and proper execution I have ever seen. Had to have lots to do with Straczynski doing stuff his way.

On this note - what are other similarly well executed series that I'm unaware of, genre is irrelevant?
I think the blame for that lies more on Ballmer than on Gates, but the point still holds.

Microsoft could take a lesson from its own games division, though. It largely ignores them -- and they're largely successful and creative. :)
I'd be curious to hear people's thoughts too. It's definitely a lesson I've had to learn myself, and one that I'm still learning to apply.

I've just noticed that clients of all ages have trouble bringing themselves to get the right help they need when they need it. Coming into your own in business and in your career is not a linear progression, so people learn different things at different stages. You're lucky to have learned this early. :)
I'd love to see an example of such a protoype based object oriented language in x86 Assembly language.
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I have to wonder if people who write articles like this have ever actually worked with a Chinese company. I know my company (nuclear reactor software) had a disastrous experience in partnering with Chinese programmers, and a friend of mine in manufacturing had similar stories.

It is true, though, that we have essentially sold our technological soul in exchange to the Chinese for a big contract (we're building some reactors there, but we're selling them a bunch of IP).

I think it's less likely that China will 'rule tech' and more likely that they'll simply stop depending on Western tech and become a self-contained market.
yes, very much for real, feel free to talk about it at #ooc-lang
>> I've seen him in #dbix-class swearing at my code a few times.

That sounds about right: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.perl.misc/msg/b2f91...

(Note: I used to have a little program to pick one of these out at random and insert it as a signature for Mutt, but I seem to have lost it. I got some great replies based on some of those.)

Edit - better link - thanks mjd
America is very diverse, and it's the number 1 economy in the world, even though a place like china has 4 times as many people.

Europe, which is pretty diverse, is also massively successful.
Their infamous obsession with secrecy meant that all the test phones were hidden in cases that masked the problem, thereby inadvertently tainting their test results and preventing them from discovering the problem.

It should've shown up in an EM simulator before the hardware design was even finalized. The fact that it didn't explains why Apple is just now getting around to hiring some RF engineers.
I remember seeing the leaked Gizmodo photos and thinking "Yep. that's the new iPhone for sure" even though the gaps in the frame seemed so... unApple like?

It's certainly been entertaining following the drama from finding out that it was left in a bar ("Why would Apple let one off campus? Are they mad?") to Steve Jobs explaining the 'revolutionary' new frame as antennae design, to the eventual kerfuffle about bridging the gap and Apple's admission that they display arbitrary bars 'incorrectly'.

They probably should have installed some Faraday cages of varying effectiveness in Infinite Loop methinks.
I think that a lot of them prefer to be in the school and wonder if they are there because they are black than not be there at all.
Totally agreed. When I was shopping for a netbook I often saw people in stores who wanted a netbook, asked the store employee what they should buy, and then bought one. The same goes for camera's. Why should this be different for tablets?
Getting another job was not actually that difficult, so there is no need to worry on that score.

But if anyone wants to send donations anyway, I will still gratefully accept them.
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That's because the people from those areas did not face the travails that american blacks went through. I believe that that slavery thing and back-of-the-bus thing 40 years ago, and no-blacks-on-mtv 20 years ago left its mark.

The immigrants are coming in not feeling like they are the bottom of the barrel.
The big factor people don't realize is employee number one has worse job security than the founders. If you they have huge equity and no salary, and you draw a salary, guess who goes when the bank account is short? If you all make subsistence only, you are losing due to lack of equity and opportunity cost. And still, if there is only enough for 2 of 3 to subsist, the employee goes. If the company tanks, you all go.
If you assume the company's most-recent valuation accurately reflects its worth, then yeah, my equity more-than makes up for my loss. Until there's an exit though of course, the equity is essentially worthless (I find I stay more sane if I just act like it has no more value than a random lottery ticket has).
funny you mention that as many asian/white mixes end up looking very Hispanic
From the article:

You live in the era of the flat world where millions of people have access to technology, education, and a powerful sales, marketing, and communication platform (the Internet).

You live in the era where the most powerful programming frameworks and tools are free, local broadband and high-availability servers are cheap, and world-class people are willing to work 60 hours/week in exchange for Ramen noodles and the chance to be a part of a cool new startup.
Bad link. Try this instead: http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Canadian+software+helps+Iran+d...
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I recommend finding your local Mac USer Group and see if anyone there's looking for one.

There's a few machines been bought/sold via the Edinburgh MUG.
The biggest issues with Python are speed and the lack of typechecking.

Interesting that they took this bit of wisdom away from programming in PHP.

I say this because I've never heard anyone consider a lack of type-checking as an issue when considering Python. It's a feature. You either need type-checking or you don't. I suspect that the Quorum engineers didn't need type-checking, so I don't understand why the felt the need to consider it an "issue" with choosing Python.

Spare yourself this yammering rant. They chose Python because that's what everyone else at the company was cool with. End of story.
A black person cannot hide his blackness. Black people are currently perceived as lower class. Making it easier for them to enter universities means that they get to be upper class easier (it's not easy to break the class barrier).

What this implies is that there will be a diverse range of skin color across all classes, reducing the perception that black skin implies lower class.

Doing so only for conservatives does nothing to help this goal.
Made it larger on the opening page ;)
Haha, well it wouldn't be easy, but it is certainly possible.

A good tool to mess with something like that would be 'EaRing', the dynamic assembler by Zed Shaw: http://www.zedshaw.com/blog/2009-08-21.html
You're using them wrong. Just get a case^Wpair of $30 sunglasses.
I also have an iPad and read books on it
Why not just write the LLVM backend in C++? The C++ interface is actually pretty clean and really easy/trivial to use.
I'm not sure you get the point of 'diversity'. The U.S has a class-based system that is very very strongly correlated with skin-color. Dark skin -> lower class, worker. White skin -> upper class, college educated. The system is there to spread dark skin across all strata of society, breaking the stereotype that a particular skin color belongs in a particular lower strata.
so get an N1 and have it all.
start with web.py

then incrementally add code as you need it, how/where you need it, including how to persist
> If the feature is the product, then the only way someone else can copy your feature is by redesigning their entire product. That's a huge barrier of (re)entry for existing competitors...

And my point is this isn't the definition of competitive advantage.

> Most software ideas can easily be copied no matter what.

Which is why most software doesn't have any inherent competitive advantage :)
I worked at a nuclear plant during a college internship and can vouch for the strange attitude toward radiation exposure. There were guys who would work outages every year, receive their annual rad dose in a few months, and make enough money to take the rest of the year off. Then back next year to do it again. The max dose of 5 rem is about 20x the cosmic background - so 20 yrs of radiation in a year! I chose a different career soon after figuring that out.
You forgot "sexy"
I sit with people with a googledocs spreadsheet and we plug in numbers for various scenarios, so they can see what happens if there is a quick sale vs. multi round and then later. And show how cash comp to engineers affects this too. I believe in total transparency for at least the first 20 or so employees wrt budgets, salaries, equity, etc.

If you "trick" someone into working for less, you have screwed yourself more than you have saved money.
Yeah, finding help is a skill you have to develop like any other. It's not easy, but it scales better than doing everything yourself, and you get better at identifying problems and who might be able to help the more you try.
Where did this title come from? The title of the article is "Remember to Thank Your Star Players", and the letters "fear" occur exactly once in the article.

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Just go to an Apple store and act seriously entitled. Do it on a busy day when a TON of people are playing with iPhone 4s. Get really loud and demand to exchange it unless you get a free case.

Odds are you'll get a free bumper case and asked to leave. Problem solved.
I'm writing this on a current-gen MacBook Pro 13", which replaced a Samsung NC10 Hackintosh, which I absolutely loved and really wish Apple had made so that it would work properly.

Despite being almost the same spec-wise, apart from the much smaller screen, it's almost entirely replaced my 24" iMac pretty much solely because I can hack from the sofa which is a bit more social and also a lot more comfortable.

I recently replaced my colocated server with a Dell R210, which I think might be my new favourite rack server. It's so tiny and cute - and draws hardly any power. Sure, it's only a single-socket board with four DIMM slots, but that's just enough for me. And who would have expected TWO internal USB ports and an eSATA port? Nice little touches, there.
Excellent point.

lojjic, you should illustrate that in the docs somewhere.