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We integrate project, workflow, and action management into one application. Changing the dependency links for the critical path of the project immediately changes the action to do list. Rather than seeing countless tasks that need to be done, you only see those that must be worked on now.

Our system also expands the idea of a Project. Rather than an isolated silo of work that you have to do, a Project integrates all of the people involved together with our collaboration system, from customers to vendors to subcontractors. The goal of a project is the complete value being created for the customer or for yourself.

The system allows you to create workflow templates and capture process knowledge of commonly recurring sets of task steps so that you can assign many tasks with a single click. The system also automatically tracks all of your time and associates the work you do with what you've worked on.
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The Total Cost of Parallelization
Blogger is the new Hotmail.
First, ISA refers to a particular kind of hardware interface. I have never heard ISA refer to the Wintel duopoly.

Second, there actually is a reason to stick with Intel when it comes to fabbing - only Intel and a few other large players can deliver 45nm process. As long as Intel has the lead on process technology their chips will almost always be faster.

Multiple cores - maybe. DSP-like or 3D acceleration in hardware - more likely.
"Within five years, Kunstler says, the "very serious trouble" begins"

Then get that startup off the ground now!
The disappearance of nickb was an inside job!!1

WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!1
Fine, I added a UI to it...

http://www.andrewfarmer.name/2008/04/hn-blacklist-now-with-u...
Since someone wanted an easy way to edit the list of blacklisted sites, I added a little UI to it.

Check out the newer one here:

http://www.andrewfarmer.name/2008/04/hn-blacklist-now-with-u...
Maybe they are moving to Google App Engine. Jaiku went dormant after they got bought out too. They recently finished moving to Google App Engine.
Presdo, The Magical Online Scheduler
The only suggestion I would have is to somehow allow friendlier URLs. I would really like feedflix.com/icey for example. It would be worth signing up just for that.
I can't wait till multi cores actually makes a difference. I have way too many of them already.
A service that allows you to geotag things for your municipal government to fix: pot holes, poison ivy, graffiti, car accidents, dangerous trees, etc. This automatically creates a to-do list online for everyone to see, and lets people with an @town.state.gov email address check items off as they get done. Things like downed power wires would be submitted the same way and then automatically routed to the relevant authority.

I'm working on another project already, but if someone else wants to make this then I'll be your first user.
Microsoft's Vista Problems
Hi icey - while that's definitely possible, here's a simpler way:

Right now the username you get (typically something like xy-12345) is actually your Netflix username. So all you need to do is to log in to your Netflix account and set your Netflix username to "icey" and FeedFlix will catch up on the next refresh and your page will be feedflix.com/icey from that point on.

Makes sense? Let me know if it doesn't.
It is so slow for me it is not usable.
You can export old posts and comments to other services. I exported from Blogger to Wordpress when I switched. It took about 15 minutes.
not yet, just a linux newbie learning the ropes. i know with windows, upgrades break everything too, so i am not pissed, i was just trying to see if linux was better in that regard. and... i guess it is not.

i was also hoping to skip running through all of the customizations that i set up again, but i guess that is the best way to learn linux. either that, or to fix the install i have.
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Books I Am Reading: A Book Reader's Tool
Six word pitch for tarsnap (http://www.tarsnap.com): Online backups for the truly paranoid.

Longer version: Security is hard. Governments and organized crime are getting increasingly involved in identity theft and corporate espionage. Tarsnap is a backup system designed from the ground up to keep your data out of the hands of the US government (and anyone else who might want to steal it).
Tough crowd tonight!
I'm in Marketing, and I think it crept in. Sorry about that. One of the things that I think holds "internet" poets back is that they don't get together in groups and critique each other. Work together is a better condensation of that, so I'll take it :-)
All regulars: before deciding to take a vacation please create a poll and make sure you get a majority approval from the community. An army of satellites, airplanes and robots will be dispatched to locate any missing person and if found guilty of violating the aforementioned rule you will be responsible for covering the costs of the search and rescue operation.
Another place where Cringely gets it wrong -- Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) does matter in terms of virtualization. He's getting virtualization mixed up with emulation. Unless you can execute a lot of X86 commands natively, you basically can't virtualize in the manner of VMWare. So a PowerPC based chip will be only able to emulate an X86 operating system in software at a significant performance penalty -- unless you happen to re-implement a lot of X86 in hardware.

Perhaps multi-platform multi core chips will become the norm? Who knows? Probably not Cringely.
Dev Diligence: Don’t Invest in the Wrong Code
God Wrote Code in Lisp [song]
They may be promoting a more likely path to success, and I'm not saying that they aren't. I just think that the point that they stand to benefit from more smaller companies should be brought up.
We're way off topic, so how's about you send me a link or something by email. I'm not very knowledgeable about spoken word, but if it's good for poetry I'm at least interested in seeing what you're planning/doing.
Its true that the analogy is different from war, but what really got me thinking is that in the grand scheme of things, trying to get things right the first time is overrated.

It may be obvious to some, but for me, it was a salient point.

What do you think makes the metaphor different?
N.B. This is from the whiteboard at the Y Combinator Mountain View office. Seeing it gives me an eerie Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate feeling. The hockey stick at the end gives me a little hope, but that trough looks awfully long...
Ummm I just thought (for no particular reason) that my comment was kind of silly. It got a +1 and then a -1. If you liked it, thanks :-)

This is what I had said: ":-) If we act like kids, you should probably mod_redirect us to disney.com"
yeah, i tend to find, confidence requires you to act quickly and with allowing her to reject you. creepy usually rests in hesitation, and well non confrontational actions from a distance.

i will usually look, smile, and see if she responds, before i say something. if she does not smile, i go back to something else.
So the crackhead that predicted "armageddon after y2k" (fta) says that suburbia is dead.

Maybe he needs to get out more. I certainly don't think that people are going to be moving to the inner cities or "main street america" any time soon.

If anything it will force businesses to move closer to their workforces, which is exactly what it happening here in Dallas. 20 years ago, everything was downtown. Now there are more and more businesses moving up to the 1st loop (635), the 2nd loop (Beltline), the 3rd loop (190) and even further north up to Friso and McKinney (121 area).

Look at 121 and the Tollway, Within 2 miles you've got EDS, JCPenney, Frito Lay, Countrywide, McAfee, Cadbury Schwepps, and a whole lot more. Some have been there for years, but Hall Office park at 121/Tollway is filling up as more and more companies move to where their workforce is.
Just to let you know, this pitch totally worked for me. As soon as I finished reading your pitch I totally clicked the link to find out more. I hope you release soon. :-)
You're Doing It Wrong
For the record his karma was -5 before i submitted this, just in case some are feeling generous enough to increase it.

I am definitely a flawed contributor to the community. But, this is just letter-pollution.
Does anyone have a FireEagle invite?
I was wondering if anybody could provide me with a fire eagle invite! Please!?
Scary predictions indeed!

"I believe the aggregate economic effect of these failures will be a worldwide deflationary depression. I will not be surprised if it is as bad in terms of unemployment and hardship as the 1930s. I expect that it will be attended by international political and military mischief."

"Such an oil shortfall would put at hazard such "normal" American activities as national chain retail and industrialized agriculture. I doubt that the WalMarts and K-Marts of the land will survive..."

"we are going to need local agriculture again, practiced on a smaller and more organic scale. We are going to regret turning some of our best farmland proximate to towns and cities into shopping malls and suburban housing tracts."

"We are going to have to live more locally, and more self-dependently. All our activities will have to be conducted on a finer scale...We are going to have to re-invent smaller-scaled farms (with value-adding activities), and we’re going to have to localize, or at least regionalize, commerce. We may have to start making some things again ourselves, or do without them for a while."

Those quotes aren't from this article though. They're from the same guy's article from nine years ago about what's going to happen in the aftermath of the Y2K bug. (http://kunstler.com/mags_y2k.html) He's still making the same predictions, and still has the creepy preoccupation with Wal-Mart.
We all have tons of photos, movies, and music on our desktops that we'd like to share, but don't have the time or patience to upload them all to an online sharing site.

We built CloudFire for people that want to share ALL their media...FAST...right from their desktop.

Don't waste your time free time UPLOADING.
Note that comment's author.
How fear of failure destroys success
Well... That's just awesome.

Thanks!
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Senate approves genetic discrimination ban
Not much to add to this except we're hiring:
http://www.seriousbusiness.com/serious-hackers/
Ask YC: Self Teach Videos
I'm going back to college to pursue undergraduate degrees in mathematics and computer science. I have been thinking about ways to alleviate my costs as I am currently relying solely on student loans and help for my father. The following is what I have come up with, and I am seeking the opinions of this community.

I have noticed that while there is some quality instructional videos on YouTube and places like MIT's website, I still think there is a lack of good quality educational videos. I would like to create a series of lecture videos with a textbook or two written by me and create a means of donating money to offset some of my expenses. In addition to that, if I have any money left over I would create a scholarship for math and computer science studies at Bowling Green State University. Do you think this is a viable plan? Could something like this be turned into a non-profit where more than just math and computer science lectures are posted?
Hubble telescope captures crashing galaxies
Hasn't taken effect yet, though. The House hasn't voted.

People already do low-resolution genetic discrimination, in the sense that they don't hire congenitally short people to play basketball. So all this really does is tell people to make the same decisions with less information. Very helpful.

I note that the Ycombinator application asks at least one question an employer could not legally ask -- perhaps one of the major selling points of startups in the future will be that they can evade these silly restrictions.
Andreessen: Mosaic Expectations Were Very Low
The irrationality of free
Every expert that weighs in on the future of oil makes me feel more certain the price is going to be back to $30 a bbl in 6 months.
Because that's exactly what happened before.
Interview with Donald Knuth
Yahoo plans makeover with elements of social network
What is cloud computing? What's new about that?
Enough already with the divisive posts.
So you decided to quote a line from a classic 1980s movie because said line occurs in said movie shortly before a line which sounds somewhat like the line from another classic 1980s movie which was (quite relevantly and in context) quoted by the parent post?

Did you think that plan through carefully?
Are you interested in beta testing? :-)
I'm still waiting to hear the name of the 'startup' that had a wildly successful product and failed to make any money. The key of course will be the definition of "wildly successful". We could use twitter as an example.

Is there any one on hackernews that believes twitter won't make any money when they finally decide on a revenue model? Anyone who is willing to say publicly that 37signals will be worth more as a business than twitter in 12 months?

Just to be clear: if your product is very popular, finding a way to make money will not be difficult. You might not make a lot of money (but DHH says that's ok right?) and you might have to sustain a huge level of traffic to stay in business, but you won't go broke.
Too much actual news in Techcrunch, and it's not really a very divisive site.

Valleywag we can do without, I think.

And please, someone add 37signals to that list. Really, those guys are contributing nothing positive to the conversation.
Yeah, I agree -- good pitch. Makes me want to know more. Inspires me to come up with a better pitch, myself. :-)
(As a new member of this forum I'm a bit shy to add to this thread, but here it goes anyway.)

I suppose you've both seen the writings of Alan Carter (http://the-programmers-stone.com/about/) and it seems to me that it just might be a way of getting these two seemingly differing viewpoints aligned.

If stress is the biggest factor then age or marital status might have very little to do with it. At least directly. Married people might have learned to handle stress well and younger people might be less affected by it.

That is to say, you both might have seen the "less stress affected" crowd and drawn conclusions about it.
Take your agnostic ideas away from out religious flame war! :)

Just kidding. I don't think its fair to say that DHH is pulling markets out of his butt though. They service the fortune 5M, so obviously their own customers are living proof that the market is bigger than you'll ever need it to be. As well, $40 a month is less than most people pay for a cell phone. That's a pretty low bar.

To your second point, given that there exists a "fortune 5M" and there exists a lot fewer "big mammoths", I think there's plenty of data if you care to see it.
I bought a Lenovo laptop and quite frankly regret it because it runs Vista. The OS is slow and unresponsive in infuriating ways.

Vista simply is the simple reason why Mac sales have gone through the roof in the past quarter.
Expensive oil is more likely to spur telecommuting and telepresence than to destroy suburbia. (not to mention the immense pressure it creates to research alternative fuels, which may turn out to be very much cheaper than oil in the long run)
What are you talking about? DHH and 37signals provide a lot to the conversation, including differing points of view.

If having a different opinion means "contributing nothing positive" then we've fallen a long, long way.

Edit: fixed grammar.
"Mr. Liddell dismissed claims that some customers were reluctant to buy Vista machines. “There are no Vista-related issues at all,” he declared."

puff puff give, dude...
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He goes on a bit too long in this post, but I hope that the folks piling on to Blaine (who I don't know, but doubt is as incompetent as he's been made out to be) will read it. Scaling is not a simple problem, and many aspects of it are unique to the specific application. Given that Twitter runs on a not-very-fast framework built on a not-very-fast language and it rapidly became the largest site running that framework and language, one should really step back and ask, "is one IT guy going to be able to fix this?" and the answer is gonna probably be "no".

Premature optimization is the root of all evil, because it leads to micro-optimizations rather than architectural optimizations...since Twitter seems to be running an awful lot of boxes for shipping around tiny (really tiny) messages, I can't help but think they need some architectural optimizations. And that's something it takes the whole team to accomplish. One guy, particularly one guy without enough power to make people fix their code, is going to be helpless in the face of that--he'll keep throwing hardware and edge caching (edge in the sense of at the edge of the outgoing network rather than the traditional sense of close to users--but without a lot of awareness of the data or application) at the problem. Sometimes it'll work, sometimes it won't.

I don't know Blaine or the Twitter situation, but I do know that scaling on a very large scale is never simple (my previous business was focused on web caching and scalability, and I've dealt with several quite large scaling situations--for sites burning way more bandwidth than Twitter). People outside of the situation probably shouldn't decide they know what went wrong and who was to blame.
I must of got really lucky because we got our first choice (for facing customers) and second choice (for facing Doctors) and third choice (for facing investors/internal). I also got the websites I wanted for my music composition hobby. Not one person had anything we went for across .com, net, or org.

Our conversation went like this. "Blah blah" "Blah Blah" "So we're settled, we want these names?" "Yup" "I'll see if they are available." "Cool" "OK, we're golden. All done" "I'm gonna register the name for my music studio too." "Cool" "Done"
like a lot of things cringely writes, this strikes me as kind of dubious. on the other hand, i hope it's true.

the fact that apple machines used to have a totally different architecture than PCs felt right, in a psychological way. it drew a clear line in the sand between Us and Them. now that apple machines are pretty much the same under the hood as PCs ... it's sad.

cringely's reasoning sounds specious, but i haven't heard anybody come up with anything better to explain why apple needs a chip company.
Hackers and Founders South Bay
More to Vision than Rods and Cones
We're getting together on May 20th in San Jose if anyone is interested.
Tonight -- EXCLUSIVE party (poem about evite)
Whoever hires this kid is going to get far more than their moneys worth. If GM or Ford or one of the other auto makers is smart, they'll snap him up ASAP (and pay for him to continue his education while working part-time). Not because the Uno is going to be a big hit on the market, but because he's obviously got the kind of far-ranging knowledge that is rare in engineers today, but is really good for solving the really big problems (because so many really big problems have to be solved from a multitude of angles).
Fake Steve Jobs lights up Web 2.0 Expo
Ask YC:are OpenSocial + JS Frameworks a good idea?
I am wondering if any of you are making OpenSocial Apps, and using a JavaScript Framework like jQuery, Prototype, MooTools, etc... It seems like Google assumes you will not be using any other JS Framework, and some functionality like storing JSONs as User Persistent data might become bloated if not stript of all of the framework prototype additions.

I am wondering what our little community thinks? I would be really nice to use some of the animation and selector features that the JS Frameworks offer.
mandatory comic post:

http://xkcd.com/224/
Perhaps it's a cheap shot, but he apparently doesn't know what ISA stands for - it's glossed as "Industry Standard Architecture". I think you're off base on Apple's ability to port to a new (or old, for them) architecture and handle app translation on the fly. They've done it twice before with very good success and OS X has the infrastructure to make it as easy for them as it's likely to be for anyone.
Working Within Limitations to Achieve Great Designs
The "premature optimization" advice is usually taken to mean "worry about performance later". But it can be very hard to make a system performant after the fact, when the important design decisions have long been made and a lot of code has been built on top of them.

I think what the advice really means is don't optimize unnecessarily. Figuring out what's necessary vs. what's frivolous optimization is actually a hard judgment call, so people (often good programmers who want to follow best practices) fall back on not optimizing at all, until they run smack into a brick wall. By then it can be too late.

I too know nothing about the Twitter situation, but it wouldn't be unusual if Blaine had nothing to do with the design decisions that are the root cause of their performance problems, nor if he had been asked to "make it scale" without actually having any power to affect the system in the necessary ways.
after reading all the comments, i start wondering: is this a community, or is it a bunch of kids with nothing better to do that truly don't get what hacker news is all about?
try, 'hello better public transportation'

as someone who lives in a "suburbia" i'd be more than happy to commute, if there was anything nearing reliable, timely public transport
>try, 'hello better public transportation'

If there's money left for infrastructure. I think America has already missed its chance to build railroads.
This is a really great idea, and I seeded start pages for some of the libraries & frameworks I'm using. Don't have time to do too much with it - gotta get back to work - but I hope folks will put up there own experiences and come back to this as they find more gotchas. I certainly plan to.

One suggestion: in the template for new pages, include a "Tips & Tricks" section. This includes all the little non-obvious features that are not hyped in the official documentation but make life much easier for experienced users.
'With the caveat that there’s no reason anybody should care about the opinions of a computer scientist/mathematician like me regarding software development, let me just say that almost everything I’ve ever heard associated with the term "extreme programming" sounds like exactly the wrong way to go...with one exception. The exception is the idea of working in teams and reading each other’s code. That idea is crucial, and it might even mask out all the terrible aspects of extreme programming that alarm me.'
The rationale being that HN wants to reward the websites that hackers find useful or meaningful and not give free linking to spam?
He was logged into Google Talk last night.

I'm sure he appreciates the concern though.
Oh, good idea. I'll put that in.

Edit: Or I won't, because someone else already did. Yay Wikis.
You're right, I'm not running enough servers. But I plan to keep my strategy as the number of servers goes up. I like having the same version of OS on the server and on my desktop. I'm a big fan of having everything (configuration, updates, deployment) automated so hopefully the amount of work I have to do doesn't increase linearly (or worse) with the amount of servers I manage.