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In the short term their efforts will be profitable for Old Spice, but folks will quickly return to their favorite after shaves and under arm deodorants. Maybe some won’t and that’s more than the cost of the video campaign?

I'd say the opposite. I doubt they'll see much of a bump in terms of short-term sales; however, this was a great exercise in building the brand, which is a much more long-term proposition.
In a big company, any programmer is at most one link on the org chart away from the line of fire of corporate politics. If anything, communication and office political skills are more crucial to programmers than the average for most professions. It's the stereotype that obscures this fact.
But if you had a swarm of them...
You're getting upvotes so obviously other people can see this, but I'm repeatedly getting a failure to load. Other sites are working fine for me, so it seems to me to be you.

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Well, I always hear there are iPhone shortages, so it would annoy users too. I'm still waiting for the iPhone 4 to come to Brazil and would be VERY annoyed if there was a new delay on top of the already long lag between the iPhone 4 launch in the US and in the Brazil.
Not a true regular language (by the pumping lemma), and the reason you should care is regular languages can be made very fast: http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html
AFAIK, Riak search is suppose to be drop-in replacement for Solr http://lucene.apache.org/solr/. So anything that wraps that API would be easy to migrate to Riak Search later.
I wouldn't be so positive about open-source everywhere. I'd recommend keeping some amount of the server-side closed source. The risk I see is that competitors can simply use your code and run the cheapest hardware they can find, while you have to run the cheapest hardware you can find and maintain and improve the software. Unless you have a different edge on the hardware side, you have no sustainable competitive advantage.

So I'd suggest you stick with the open API, and perhaps have an open reference implementation, but add value in a secret sauce on the server side which competitors can't simply copy.
That's exactly what I was wondering after he opened the terminal inside XP:

What happens when you open a VM inside a VM?
I was thinking the same thing regarding xspringies...

edit Your link reminds me of Phun http://www.phunland.com/wiki/Home
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Absolutely the calls to even and odd are tail calls because of the semantics of || in Ruby (and most other languages). I hope we agree that even and odd are still mutually tail recursive, because Mutual Tail Recursion is a special case of tail calling.
Hey, thanks.

We didn't implement an emulator but since we're bringing virtual machines to the web, we decided to add 'VM' to our title to give an idea that this is related to virtual machines.

Addressing your other questions, sure, we won't have like 100 features where we get lost ourselves. We'll have a small set of standard features and we'll have an API that will let developers hack on stackvm and make it do all other wonders.

I don't know much about logmein at this point but they are corporate company and we are awesome and enthusiastic hackers.
Misleading article title, the Guardian is considering outsourcing some of their IT operations.

Only relevant 'pulling the plug' quote:

"A common thread here is that DDD, clouds, agile apparently gave better service more efficiently and produced more business value for the same investment. If the Guardian News Media board is now thinking of pulling the plug on all that, then that is seriously casting a shadow on those claims."
That flip animation is really annoying. It doesn't make any sense either; you fold your active page mid-page to progress? Wouldn't that just fold half of the page and reveal another half of the underlying page, were it real? It uses the metaphor of a book with two pages - one on both sides - for a single-page layout.

I don't get it, but maybe testing showed that people liked it?
Which Comes First, Focus on Profit or Growth?
FWIW I think saying "doing a startup" sounds pretty childish. Why not say that you're starting a company? "Doing a startup" sounds like you're just messing around with a concept, testing the waters. "Starting a company" makes you look more serious, like you know what you're doing. Just my opinion.
I used to listen to Mega Man walkthroughs on youtube. Love the music they created for that series.
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Yeah, I mean that. I think u$s20/hour is fine. Thank you for your interest, I'll contact you.
I double majored in English and philosophy because that was what I wanted to study and the kind of school I wanted to go to. I didn't expect it to help me get a job, and sure enough it didn't. I ended up doing a mix of non-programming employment and moonlighting as a consultant for several years until I had enough skill, discipline, and network to become a full-time consultant a couple years ago--which was when life kicked my family off a cliff and called, "Hope you figured out that flying thing!"

Thankfully, I've been flying since then. So if you habitually choose your life based on what you think is best not easiest, and you have some reasonably well founded confidence that you can make it work out regardless, study whatever you want to study. Just don't expect anyone to give you credit for it until sometime after you don't need their regard.
Useless article.
I agree, one of the few softwares worth paying for out of your pocket ! :D
Though being in India I didn't had that much money.
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They do teach philosophy at some high schools, and that is probably the strongest part of the program at the high school I know best.

http://epgy.stanford.edu/ohs/courses/core.html

One of the things that high school muffs up is not having an asynchronous online forum for the students, who are enrolled from all over the world. That's crazy that the school doesn't have a pan-school channel for interaction among all the enrolled students.
Without reading your article and the "spun" article it would be hard to tell whether or not your copyright has been infringed. Could you post the links?

Perhaps, open up a channel of communication with the "legitimate businesses" that run the site instead of sending them a DMCA notice.

For more on spinning, I found this article helpful: http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2009/06/16/spinning-spamming-...
This is great! But are Dark and Grunge really the two latest? It seemed chronological up to Web 2.0, Textures, and even Minimal...but I don't understand why Dark and Grunge come after.
If it helps with anything you are doing, I wrote a quick and dirty project to launch EC2 instances for people to demo software during a class.

http://code.google.com/p/fabulatr/
I wonder if they actually licensed that music for use in that video? If my ear is correct it's The Bad Plus. I hope they did license it.
This was mentioned in "Predictably Irrational", essentially, this is exactly what you don't want to do, changing a decision from social to being economical. Unfortunately, you can't change it back easily.

I believe the example given was that of a daycare center. It used to be looked down upon when you pick up your kids late, and parents try to avoid it as much as possible. The center then added a penalty of some small monetary amount. This allows the parents to rationalize this as an economic decision, and many more chose to pay the fine. Even after they took the fine out again, they were unable to get the lateness rate down.
Why not take the SQLAlchemy approach with its lower-level expression language? Avoid string parsing, implementing specific dialects of SQL, etc.

I love perl, but why strings? Writing SQL is not that fun. The cognitive leaps one has to make is annoying. Why not write queries in natural perl statements and translate them to SQL?

That being said though, modernperl++ and yay for perl 6. :) </fanboyism>
What if they got a 1525-1660.5MHz transponder aboard someone else's (yet to be launched) satellite?
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So many things about this just make me cringe. Consequently I predict it will be wildly successful.
"This is bigotry, plain and simple. Its taking sterotypical prejudices based on what may be real-life encounters with a relatively small sample group, and applying them to a wide class of people. It’s gross and it needs to end."

this could be equally as well applied to dilbert comics.

seriously, some random guy calls programmers autistic and this somehow deserves a blog post breaking down the argument? give me a break.
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A system full of smart people with no effective opposition is too unstable, in the physics sense of the term. It's too easy for the system to go flying off in some really, really bad direction with nobody stopping it, because all the smart people have rationalized that this is a good idea and the negative consequences will come far too late. (And smart people are just as vulnerable to the argument "The bad things are happening because our ideas haven't been implemented hard enough, so the solution is to do the same thing, only more!" If I could just wipe one argument from political discourse, that's probably the one I'd pick....) If you need to see government where intellectuals of one sort or another were in uncontested control of the government, the 20th century can provide you with some examples. You probably won't like them.

The real key to good government (and the brilliance of the founding fathers) has actually been to effectively cripple the government and make sure nobody has the power to completely rewrite the government on a whim, and that no coalition that is capable of doing so can last very long. Unfortunately, that still seems to only delay the inevitable, but that's better than nothing.
Previous submissions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1033455

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=980043 <- This has some discussion
> If this contract had been signed a year earlier, it wouldn't matter because Zuckerberg would have been too young to be a party to it.

Incorrect. A 17 year old can sign a contract, they just have the option of voiding the contract until they turn 18. (Which is why most people avoid signing contracts with minors.) Once they turn 18 they no longer have the option of voiding the contract.

There may be a period you can dispute the contract while 18 but not indefinitely. I don't remember all the details but I do know that contracts signed with minors are valid just very risky for you.
Really, the FrontPage one is infinitely better than all the actual FrontPage sites I remember from the era.
Oh, I agree. It's misconceptions like these that keep very smart, talented people out of programming and development.
A lot of this problem is people's misconceptions of the idea of what kind of person a programmer is. The public at large has a big part of this problem.

But another huge part of this problem is the people among us who try and propagate the stereotypes of the 'hacker' of yore. I was at my community hackerspace yesterday, and there were some visitors who were perfect embodiments of the "loud and obnoxious computer nerd who will talk your ear off about something even if you clearly don't understand"

The enemy is us. We need the loudest and most opinionated voices among us to not be the ones who try and mystify computers and programming, the ones who love to use unnecessary jargon with the public. We need the most well known of us to be the smartest, the best spoken, the charming.
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I think Bruce Eckel started a blog about these issues because he had seen them so many times. From what I have seen it seems true more or less everywhere. People are territorial and they see everything relatively. So in general its more important to a manager that a talented employee is held back from contributing value than that the employee deliver the value and possibly end up getting paid more than the manager. Then again there are exceptions. You will often hear very successful business people say "Success is about enabling people". I remember reading an article about one entrepreneur years ago saying that if you can get good people then don't be afraid to pay them more than you pay yourself.
But of course the manager is just an employee where the entrepreneur is an owner. Maybe we should just go to a system with only owners and contractors (another kind of owner) and let the enlightened owners and the talented contractors win.
What about franchising your startup?
Hello!

I see a lot of cool startups with cool applications coming by here, and quite some stuff I like to use myself, and I think it's useful for other people too. However, a lot of stuff is in English only. As an Esperantist, I want to inquire if there is interest of startups for a "franchise" of their startup translated into Esperanto and from there into a lot of other languages, including customer support.

I am thinking a lot of starting a startup myself, but really my itch I want to scratch most is the unavailability of a lot of things in other languages than English. It's just not fun to see international support as an afterthought in a transnational internet. :(

(An example of a startup that went with Esperanto translation and grew a lot of good community translation and a truly international public out of it is ipernity.com; the reason a lot of you probably don't know it might be that it's a startup in France on the Riviera, and has a relatively small english-speaking audience and more french and german speaking.)

If you want to contact me personally, and the rest of my team, you can mail to info@ideek.com. Thanks for your attention.
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To me, using the "Web of Stories" title reminds me too much of "Web of Lies," which I am assuming the title is a play on.
Perhaps this "rethinks the CMS" from a performance perspective, but it certainly doesn't rethink the CMS from the end-user point of view -- they still need to manage content using an admin area that is different than the front-end of the site (thus breaking their mental model of what the website is and how it works).

If you want to see a CMS that rethinks the end-user interaction, take a look at Concrete5 -- http://www.concrete5.org/ (built in technically boring but easy-to-deploy-on-cheap-hosts php), or Webvanta -- http://www.webvanta.com/ (closed source so not sure what it's built in).

I have found it much easier to train non-technical clients who don't already have blogging/wordpress experience with Concrete5 than any other CMS I've used in the past.
I'm aware I've to improve my english skills. I've an FCE(First Certificate of English) but I know that's not enough. My plan to improve is to write a blog and continue talking to foreign people in argentinian hostels.

Thank you for your answer!. I'll begin to look for opportunities.
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Apologies. For whatever reason, perhaps because online discussions tend to take on a point-counterpoint structure, I sometimes misinterpret comments.

I did not, in fact, return my phone. The bumper has fixed most of the issue, though it is still not an elegant solution. I very much suspect that Apple will have a hardware based fix, in the near future. Even if they don't, I get relatively good signal where I am, and so am not usually affected.

Still, I have had "searching for signal" issues that would go away when I held the phone differently.

-Cheers
I think there is a certain sense of excitement and anticipation in the term. This is a new beginning and a start of a new life for these guys.

Frankly, I could care less how they reference what they are doing, or whether or not they put .ly on the end of their name! As long as they are doing something relevant and are having a good time doing it, more power to them.
I realized the exact opposite. Oftentimes, when I tried to lead people into deeper and more interesting areas, their body language kind of "closed down" (like crossing arms in front of the body). When I shared some information about me first, people seemed to be more open.
So, now, most of the time, I talk quite a lot in the beginning to melt the ice and go over to ask questions AFTER that.
I can't decide if you're being sarcastic or not.
I thought this was going to be about other nerds making fun of Visusl Basic programmers.
Stegall only allowed the two to be run under the same roof...

I think "only" is dismissive of the whole point, which is that they have been intertwined from a regulatory standpoint, arguably undermining the regulation of each.

Why keep money in a mattress when the FDIC and its insurance is backed by the full faith of the USGovt?

The mattress alternative is a patent strawman, but FDIC insurance hardly protects against all the damage a bank failure causes its depositors. What's the average amount of time between a bank failing to pay its depositors and the FDIC paying a claim?
Amen.

It's also I think why a lot of programmers are attracted to startups: because it's far more attractive (not to mention the company's and the programmer's interests are more greatly aligned) to be somewhere where you share in the success and aren't simply treated as an irksome cost centre that's hard to apply metrics to.

A programmer with 10 years of experience can be 10x (or more) more productive than a graduate yet they will probably less than twice as much.

Do this exercise: look at how much you earnt 5-10 years ago and now adjust it by inflation into today's terms. In real terms don't be surprised if now you earn little more, the same or even less.
I once took a 20 thousand dollar pay cut by bailing on a company that was trying to kill me. I'm much happier now.
Completely disagree with this idea. If you can avoid browser plugins without major issue, and it seems you have been successful at that so far, by all means continue to do so. Not only will the technorati appreciate not having to install yet another piece of (usually unnecessary) software, but corporate customers will be more inclined to deploy in their environments if it means there won't be another piece of software for them to install and maintain across their entire enterprise.
I tried it out, but forgot to do it in the demo.

You get an awesome feedback/recursion effect!

I'll try to do a video about it in a few hours and post it here. :D
>I know very successful people who did degrees at Oxford in classics

Isn't that like half of the UK cabinet for the last few hundred years?
Politics has a way of becoming a popularity contest, I can see the programmer type presenting a rational, realistic and effective set of policies just to be beaten out by a more charismatic opponent who managed to visit more schools and old peoples homes during the campaign. I really hate in interviews when a politician will go off on a tangent with an answer to avoid and tough but direct question.
Google checkout sounds worse than Paypal. I have both and right now have my own nightmare with them Customer claimed empty box sent for heavy item said wanted exchange, sent back replacement now claims wrong size. I used to call Paypal automotons but at least they people that you can talk to, it's so obvious what is going on. They say resolved then say customer not happy. Con artist is not happy. I am sure all the conartists know that it's a sure way to rip off people. !2 years in business no problems online with empty box, google checkout 6 months and first of a few problems with con artists, this by far the worst.

I am sure in your case , the ones that are con artists that have the request of receipt will say they did not receive. I guess what you should do is update all the tracking in the google checkout system to avoid any problems. Gee and I thought they were great at ebay live 2007 in Boston but they seem to be slipping down on the job. Ebay is now the payment king, bonanzle the best site for selling and google should stay with search. Creativity in business solutions is not their forte, neither are phones i guess. Losing steam and unhappy customers virally transmitted info people spreads fast..Paypal has lawsuits due to their way, I think there is no due process on google checkout either. They had better be careful and they definitely need a customer service line. I don't know how they think that they can operate without one!.
I'm quite sure there was no real testing here (heck, there isn't in most other apps anyway). I quickly showed this to the guys in the office and everyone found the animation to be weird and confusing. Some tried to flip the other side of the screen to see if it would reveal anything else.

I guess they were trying to justify their name and logo.
Well, the area where the user uses their phone obviously affects both the iPhone 3GS as well as 4. So if a user has 1/100th the number of call drops on the 3GS, they will see a smaller increase with the iPhone 4, i.e. less than one percentage point. The “average joe” user will experience the increase given by Jobs. And finally, those who drop several calls a day with the 3GS will likely have returned their iPhone 4 already.
That's why I usually don't care what critics say. Or I take it as a clue to do the opposite.
Tastes differ. And my taste seem to differ a lot.

This being said, Freddy Got Fingered is one of my favorite movies.
I think it's actually the name that plaguing you at this point: it suggests that you're going to present another VM or, perhaps, something EC2 like.
I haven't organised any musical events (though do have a lot of experience in music that I won't go into) - though for the company I work for I've organised two events which saw 40k-75k paying visitors through the doors over 4/5 days, and also done freelance event work for companies ranging from small 1-2 person projects up to a couple of (very small) events organised by News Corp, so I do have experience in that area.

As much as I love music, I don't want a career in that area, not any more, just looking to do the degree as something I've wanted to do since I was 8.
This is actually an interesting article in the sense that SO is also designed --FOR-- developers, which is why the "negatives" haven't hindered usage of the site.

As the article's criticisms have some validity, I do wonder - does Stack Exchange need to revisit the information architecture of the original code if they want it to be the Q&A platform for the masses?
Anyone know what the legal settlement is he is referring to?
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"We will be treating monads as a design pattern instead of monoids in the category of endofunctors. The latter perspective is interesting to the people who like to design languages; the former perspective is interesting to people who like to write code." That kind of perspective is really important but I have to say that one rarely hears it from the academic community. To my knowledge providing perspective is supposed to be part of their job description.
Thanks for the advice (and others suggesting the same thing), I think minoring in Maths is definitely something I'd consider, happens to be another area I'm interested in (though no-where near as experienced, would have to do a fair bit of pre-university learning to be ready to study it I think, having forgotten most of what I knew when I was 16)