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Two ideas that have serious commercial value:

- Decent document management (i..e handles word/excel, versioning inc. placing version info into docs, web based editor, audit log).

- ISO auditing.

auditing/tracking is a seriously lucrative field right now
Wow, great work on the MVP. I'd like to see PivotalTracker and Chargify added to the widgets down the line. Overall amazing job.
Rackspace had a design summit last week in Austin, TX for Openstack. I was an attendee and learned quite a bit from the folks at Rackspace. They've built and re-built their infrastructure enough times they know what they need to look out for. The drop-and-swap component model is great too.

It was fantastic to see what they've put together and the business model is great. Commoditizing architecture and software really is the next step.

If anyone is interested, I could write up a blog post about my experience, maybe provide a little more insight into the buy-in.
This is actually more than two years old: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QD9XQm_Jd4

Does anybody know anything further about this project?
Are they really going to be using the product "monthly", or just continuously, on an ongoing basis?

I was thinking, I suppose, of Google AdWords, which has a pre-pay model-- you pay a chunk of money (as much as you want, with a set minimum), and they let your pre-paid funds are getting close to running out, so you can add more.
I'm an intern at NASA this summer, and I've actually convinced the team I'm working with to use Redis/Resque for the application we're working on. Unfortunately it's 'just' a web application ;)
Washington or European capitals to ask their presidents or prime ministers to adopt a tougher stance with Beijing in commercial

I love this thinking. As if China is just a rouge portion of America or Europe that needs to be brought back in line. They are a sovereign nation that has their own political system. Don't like how they play? Take it to their politicians. They are not listening? Pack your bags, but once you cross out of US borders it's not our problem any more.

The US government should not have listened to you in the first place and now that it's not going your way, you want to run back to us and have our politicians clean up your mess. Well I say, lie in it.

I am not a huge fan of a lot of things that China does, but that is China's issue to deal with not the US. It is no wonder they want to stack the deck in favor of their companies, no one like a bunch of foreigners coming in and telling them what to do, and I am sure the Chinese are no exception.
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You can't exactly blame me for not trusting them. There is a mountain of evidence telling people not to.
What was your motivation for getting it done right from the start, rather than bootstrapping it yourself first for proof of concept/profitability? time constraints?

Obviously you have made some assumptions as to how long profitability will take - something I presume only comes with experience.

Not to over step my mark, but what magnitude of savings is needed to fund this sort of development? I ask this as I have recently started work on my own project, and am curious if my savings are even ballpark to consider outsourcing it.
can you elaborate on that document management?
See: Bay of Pigs, the unfortunate matter of the Diem family; etc.
It's just too bad they've got to pair it with Nagios; I'm fixing it so that I never have to work with that POS ever again.
It's more that how the hell do you unmix them (any why would you bother, anyway)?
A Javaphobe is, most probably, a C#phobe. It's worth to see how it does work out and how popular .NET on Android becomes.

It's not like Google will try to prevent you from writing apps in any language you see fit. The goal of Android is to fragment the marketplace to prevent Apple from becoming a monopoly.
Thanks! I'll add both of those to the feature requests forum. We're actually using PT for Geckoboard development so it would be useful for me too!
How's this? http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/index.html
Anyone who would expect this story to blow over doesn't understand the media. It's pretty much the same situation as happened with Toyota. Market leader stumbles, that is news.
Wow. Riding pretty hard with the personal attacks. Anyway:

You're behaving like an impetuous child if you lack the insight to see the purpose of the assignment and instead assume that the goal of it is exactly what you decide it is.

Why do you assume the assignment has reasonable purpose? The teacher specifically said that this would be a good way to raise one's grade, "to get a nice fat A in the gradebook before the year comes to an end". School isn't a game to me. Asking someone to memorize something is a shitty way to get them to really think about what they're memorizing. Why not ask them to write a paper or lead a discussion about it? There are many better ways.

It is, after all, your loss.

That's quite presumptuous of you. That would assume the time I would have spent memorizing those lines was the optimal use of my time. In case you're interested, I spent that time studying for my AP tests. And hey, my lowest score was a 4 in chemistry and I'm going into college with 23 credits. You can decide if that was a loss.

You've probably spent more effort bandying about this example as proof of your intelligence and the ridiculous creativity destroying nature of school than it would of actually taken to memorize the text.

Even if that were true, so what? What point are you trying to make?

I'd be curious to know what your major is/was in college.
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I do exercise during lunch, the issue is it is not healthy to sit down all day. I normally would have a war bike or a treadmill to keep moving but the place I work likes the appearance of being professional. Thank you for the link
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What is the case made of, and (if you can share), what makes it unique from the 10,000 other cases out there?

Depending on the material, manufacturing may consist of injection molding, milling, vacuum-form, or some combination of 1 or more of those.

You'll likely need a CAD engineer to do a proper drawing for it, depending on the primary molding method. It's been about 4 years since I last did something like this, but the general process was something like:

1) Design and model rough prototype. This was my own time/effort and about $500 in materials (for a custom server bezel).

2) Take model to a local machinist/engineer to have CAD work done and produce initial prototypes on a Haas mill - $5000

3) Take CAD drawings and such to local low-volume production house to have initial small run of units made, at a cost of ~$250/ea.

4) (I never actually got to this stage in this project). After stage 3, you'd generally do a field test looking for whatever properties you did or did not expect from the case. Does it stay on, does it wear/damage the phone, does it survive a drop, does it affect the signal, etc. From here you'd likely have CAD work done for a mold ($5,000 - $10,000, IME) and have an actual mold made ($10,000- $100,000, IME) Depending on complexity, number of parts, tolerance, etc., this can vary widely. Once all this is done, it's usually $1-$3/unit in volume (10,000 +), but again all this varies widely on a number of factors.

Very generally speaking, you're talking about probably a $30K minimum investment to get your first 1,000 or so unit. Then you have to sell or distribute them.
It's not really a pity at all. It will be more work for them, but it's a win for us as long as they pass their code to make it work back upstream.
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Or it may be that clojure truly rocks ;)
What if the technical cofound has contributed significantly to the business idea & is doing more than his share of product development? This chart seems to be unfairly biased towards the non-technical cofounder because it assumes a clear dichotomy between technical & non-technical skills.
You're absolutely right. The chart is biased toward the non-technical cofounder. I'm assuming they've done significant work on the business before recruiting a technical cofounder. I say it in the assumptions section, but I should probably make it more prominent.
I'm generally not so sensitive about this but that article is annoying to read for me because of the font you've used (or the effects you've applied to it).

Good idea for abandoned projects however.
Do you install this in the local network and tie into the Apps people use, or do you run this as a cloud service?
looks great. What was the inspiration?
Well, good SEO and getting brand recognition are important in any scenario (viral or not).

I think it depends on the type of B2B you are speaking, in terms of market size.

An enterprise business or government probably wont start using a SaaS application on an enterprise scale because they found it on google...the process is typically through RFP and the selling company will need to go through those channels. So if you are trying to bag an elephant it wont happen through SEO and viral only.

Now if you are counting small business (<500 employees) or even midmarket (<5000 employees) it starts getting fuzzy. The acquisition process is usually not that mature and sometimes it can get lucky as much as a top spot on google to get noticed.

For any B2B though, unless you have some great new way of getting noticed, your best bets are through typical business channels - cold calling, networking, trade shows, responding to RFPs, and so on.

I guess the viral version of B2B might be having the best spectacle on a trade-show floor or miraculously getting a nod in Forbes.
Is that for writing entire applications in C or C++ or just parts of them?
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yeh, sure. Basically as part of some of the ISO standards you have to keep track of document versions and their edit history. It's all part of having an audit trail.

When I say every document they really do mean everything - from the simple notice printed out and stuck on the office door to the company disaster recovery plan.

There is not currently, as far as I can find, a solution for small-medium sized businesses to handle this.
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This is great! I had some penned out drawings of something like this but never really took it anywhere. As a developer what I would really like to see is some GitHub/Google Code integration - I want to know when a commit is pushed etc.

Some other ideas:

- RSS feed block

- "Pings" - when a block is updated flash it yellow and fade to the original colour over 5-10 minutes.

- "Workspaces" - separate dashboards that suit different uses, for example a build indicator, site-status and other monitors on one, support requests and tweets on another.

- Custom components - having a developer ecosystem would top this off.

I could see myself using this on a spare monitor or TV if some more components were available.
No reason other than an unacceptable bug. I'll make sure we fix this and please accept my apologies.
I had the exact same idea. When I saw panic's dashboard, I thought "Man, If I could make a script to do that for everyone, that would be awesome"

Granted I wanted to release mine as open source. Congrats man, It looks awesome :)

See if you cant find a way to get server uptime in there. Maybe with a script we throw on our server.
Why wouldn't you consider a virtual magazine a complete product? Even when you buy a magazine in physical form you're paying for the content. Personally, I never go to a newsstand and base my purchase on the physical properties of the magazine, but rather, the content, articles, and design.

One way or another we'll have to deal with this issue soon as electronic distribution becomes the new standard. We can't expect magazines or newspapers for that matter, to maintain the quality of design and content we enjoy if we're not willing to pay for it.
That's awesome. Nagios in space. Sounds like a cool comedy title. Were about to install Nagios here too. One more point for management to like the idea ;p
Yes, of course it's not intended to run a service for millions of users, it is mainly http server for developing purposes, file serving (scp, ftp), perhaps dns server and firewall.
I like my competitors. I don't think about them much (weird, and potentially dangerous, I know), and I would never link to them, but I do respect them.

I'm currently looking for a blue ocean strategy that will erase any competition, but regardless, I hope we all eat well.
I'd rather use JS on V8 to develop for android. Not necessarily nodejs but an in-house brew made by google, optimized for android and tailored to web hobbyists.
The worst visualization I've ever seen (CNBC on the oil spill)
Thanks for the info! I'd rather not say what makes the case unique at this time but I have not seen anything like it on the market yet.
I have a prototype almost complete that I have kind of hacked together using parts from other cases and some custom made parts of my own.
I wonder if its possible to license the design to an existing case maker?
This is a very weak contribution to the question of whether science can truly consider itself amoral, as in, does the march of progress outweigh all other concerns, which many people believe is the case.

In this case the author wants us to see pain guns as we see computers, as progress that helps us more than it hurts us. A better analogy may be nuclear weapons, let's see him try to argue the positive effects of bomb which can and has been used to vaporize cities.
It's a cloud service at the moment. I have no philosophical objection to it being self-hosted and it could be something we look to in the future but no plans yet.

We're working on a design for a reverse API to allow users to plug in their custom data.
How about XPlanner or some other custom task-list integration?
I'd argue that the prototype is worthless, unless it's validated by an active user set and/or profitability, and has been through at least one iteration where features were added or changed.

I've seen a good number of technical prototypes built by non-technical people, nominally via outsourcing, and in every case the only path forward was a full rewrite. Crazy interdependency and tight coupling make it easy to build a 'demo' version of a codebase, but they also make it very expensive to bolt on new features.

Similarly, I think the percentages are high, and don't account for any business skills that the technical founder brings to the table -- what about a tech guy who's gone through the VC dance, and built successful products in the past?
Out of curiosity, what are you reading it on? It looked perfectly normal to me (Windows + Firefox), but maybe it was due to some font issue on my side and substituting something readable.

Here's a screenshot: http://imgur.com/vdkMS.png
Taiwanese creative "re-enactments" are awesome and I hope that the format gets widely copied.

Televised news has become a complete farce, so why not inject some humor into it?
Great work,very slick. Out of interest, can you provide any information about the system architecture?

Things i noticed:

* do you really need my pingdom password?
* drop-down in pingdom setup process does not work on the iPad (can see the options, but cannot scroll)
* I wasn't really clear on what the fields did on the last stage of the pingdom setup process
* The text in the text boxes could do with being lighter, it doesn't really have enough contrast in comparison to the background and is hard to see
* I am asked to choose the size of the widget without really knowing what is going to be appearing in it. I do nit have enough information to make the decision. Maybe always make the small type, with the option to enlarge later? Would shorten the process a little
* nice work on the 2-step signup (getting my email then asking for the other information once the user has brought into the process)

Anyway, great work! We hope to be in your position soon with our startup, http://playnice.ly </shamelessplug> :)
Well, as far as I can tell, all the other solutions they could be using suck more, at least adding new modules to nagios is about as easy as writing a script. Cause that's all you have to do. I've dealt with installs checking hundreds of servers,routers and switches and our only major issue was needing to distribute the checks onto multiple machines. One box will die trying to ping,connect,... onto too many nagios boxes.
What makes you think the color can't be changed? There are some other pictures of it being pink -- which makes me think the color is customizeable by the user.
Sorry about the formatting there! Those were supposed to be bullet points
Well to offer a counter perspective, i began and tried to learn lisp with Common Lisp and Seibel's "Practical Common Lisp" book. I got totally overwhelmed by the sum and quantity of knowledge to absorb, and by the fact that finding libraries to do "fun" things was very difficult.

Then i tried clojure (with netbeans which has at the time quite a easy IDE integration that allowed me to not focus too much on the java side of things, unlike using clojure on the command line was at the time). I used it first to solve some project Eulers problems, and then began toying with some libs, notably QT Jambi, swing, compojure, etc. All this to say that learning it was a lot easier than learning Common Lisp, because at the time i began, it was a lot simpler language than Common Lisp. It still is, but i wonder if the protocols thing is not gonna considerably complicate a noob's approach to the language.

My advice to clojure newbies is, start with an IDE that makes it easy to interact with libraries and let you concentrate on the code, not on the ugly java stuff. You will have plenty of time to handle that later on if you really enjoy clojure ;)
I recently, on a lark, looked up graphing calculators on Amazon to see what the state-of-the-art was (I was super into my TI-83 in high school). Wow, color me dissapointed...

At least there is one with a "touchpad" now:

http://www.amazon.com/Texas-Instruments-Ti-nspire-Graphing-C...
(No referral code.)

I wonder if smartphones are/will replace dedicated graphing calculators? Any current students or teachers/profs/TAs that have an insight on the matter?
If they can make it work, this could be perfect for powering ships, too.
Mac Minis are great but in this case I think they are overkill. Starting at $699 and 2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo, NVIDIA GeForce 320M it is more expensive that what I had in mind, and more powerful than what I need.

I could buy 3 GuruPlug Server at $129 to separate responsibilities and have one dedicated to http serving, another for file serving (using it like a NAS, scp/ftps server, smb/nfs) and another for firewall, and all of them would cost half than a Mac Mini.
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Check out the political rant masquerading as #1.
Map of Boston's Early-Stage Tech Investor Ecosystem
After I posted the recent map of Silicon Alley's early-stage venture ecosystem, a healthy number of people found it to be very helpful and several suggested I do the same for Boston.

Well, here's my first stab at capturing what is just a massive early stage venture ecosystem! Until you lay it out on a map, you just have no idea of the sheer sweep scope of the venture/tech community. Amazing stuff really.
I've found this bookmarklet: http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ cures all my woes.
A thousand times yes to this comment. I have had a great deal of fun playing with the V8 engine, and it would beyond cool to write code for the Android using it. Android Chrome already has it integrated, so it should definitely be feasible.
Windows 7 Window Size/Position Keyboard Shortcuts
Just a quickie for one of those "Oh damn! Gotta remember that" moments.

In Windows 7, you can use the WINDOWS-KEY + UP/DOWN/LEFT/RIGHT to manipulate the position and size of the focused window.

WIN+LEFT: Snap to left half of screen + resize.
WIN+RIGHT: Snap to right half of screen + resize.
WIN+UP: Maximize
WIN+DOWN: Minimize

Pressing WIN+LEFT/RIGHT multiple times will cycle the window between the primary anchor side (direction of arrow) then the opposite side then back to it's original position and size.

Enjoy!
Would it be safe to assume you found that link via the Hacker Newsletter from last week? If so, that is great as my hope was it would rekindle some of the great talks on here from the past.
Parts. But major parts if you want to, see e.g. the Android port of Quake 3: ~250,000 lines of C and a few hundred lines of Java glue.
Thanks for the compliments. I loved the Panic status board, just fantastic.

If you have a Pingdom account you can display your server uptime from there right now. Otherwise, we will be implementing a "reverse API" for custom data and external services to push data to your dashboard at some point in the future.
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Just keep them as BCD and add / xor them in parallel, as show here (under Packed BCD Arithmetic / addition):
http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/bcd/bcd.html#packed

Then just keep track if at least one carry was generated instead of checking if the resulting number was a palindrome separately. Should be very fast.
This shows you exactly what not to do with your info-viz. They show about 100 milk jugs of gray gradient and say, imagine if there were 184 million of them?

Whoa Whoa Whoa. HOLD THE BOAT. You (CNBC) are telling me that the oil spill is 184 million gallons is also equivalent to 184 MILLION ONE-GALLON MILK JUGS?!?!? That is just crazy - consider my mind BLOWN! Perhaps you could show a pyramid of 184 million gallon jugs and put a small outline of a 6' tall man next to it?

Then there is this one: http://www.cnbc.com/id/38294088/?slide=7 At least there is some useful information on this slide "674K Homes for one year". But why the hell show a picture of the entire electrical grid? It doesn't make any sense.

The rest of them are pretty bad as well, they either don't show scale, or they show a very misleading scale.
The total amount of money, as far as they're concerned, is probably less than it takes to buy one lobbyist lunch.
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Wait one milk jug is == to one gallon of oil? Wow, that makes it that much easier to see.
Are they dumb?? Is it a joke? I am not getting it -can someone explain plz?

What Does 184 Million Gallons of Oil Look Like? - Like 184 Milk Jugs..
He doesn't masquerade anything; it states that the new layout isn't as politically neutral as the old one, and affirms it to be a bad thing, which is hard to argue against given the sad state of politics in the US.
Best clicktrap ever: keep moving through the visualizations ... it gets better and better.
yes but isn't it the MAC addresses they collected "by accident"? That's my point (or have I totally misunderstood this?)
" Nobody will remember who Dan Brown was 50 or 100 years from now."

Are you so sure about that? Let's take the most popular mass-writers from the 18th or 19th century and see if they're remembered now:

18th century (US): Susanna Rowson / "Charlotte: A Tale of Truth" - doesn't ring a bell for me, and has a very small Google Search result (60.000)

19th century (US): Harriet Beecher Stowe / "Uncle Tom's Cabin" - I think everyone has heard of it :) and it has 15 times as many results as Susanna Rowson (Dan Brown has 17 times as many as Beecher Stowe, fittingly)

I personally at least recognize most of the bestsellers from the 19th century - probably Arthur Conan Doyle's books or Alexandre Dumas could have been seen to be as bad as Dan Brown in their time (I'm not arguing that they are)

20th century: Agatha Christie - still widely read as I recall.

sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_literature , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_fiction_au... , and related Wiki articles, and googling