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Hmm.... I know it's just an example, when they talk about about not wanting to go through recruiters, they mention what they'd have to pay on top of an 80K salary... and go on to say that a developer would have to be "astonishingly good" for a 100K price tag. I checked, and this company is in palo alto. are these realistic figures for what cloudera expects to pay for top programming talent?
The class privilege in hackerland is when Youtube gets bought for a billion dollars because one of the founders is getting married to the daughter of SV royalty, not that your parents could afford a $600 computer in 1985.
I think Conan O'Brian said it best: http://mobile.twitter.com/ConanOBrien/statuses/19842630249
guilty as charged.

i attribute a lot of my success and my love of computers to my dad buying me an apple 2E and a programming book when i was 10. now hardly a day goes by when i don't think how lucky i am to be doing something i love. so yes, i was privileged and for that i am incredibly grateful.
500 is the new 700? We definitely spend over 500 billion on the military.

For the last 8 years or so, national education spending has been pretty much flatlined, or even declining in real dollars. Military spending has been skyrocketing.

And yes. I don't believe kicking teachers in the teeth is a good idea. If you have a math degree, you can get paid twice as much to work on some non-functional crap for a defense contractor as you can as a teacher. That's not the same thing. Defense is far more bloated. Meanwhile, we're sliding on every international metric of education. I'd suggest reading Kristof today if you want some neat statistics.
So sharing music, seeds or medicines with others can be more evil than insulting them.
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I've had a computer for a long time, but looking back, when I was 8 I was lower-middle to middle-middle class at best. I say "looking back" because I didn't really realize it at the time, but in hindsight it's pretty clear. My dad bought a Commodore 64 not because he was rolling in filthy upper-class lucre, but because he saw the future coming and made that a priority for himself. And it had been out for a while before I got one; I think my dad said he bought it at $299. Which is of course still more than $299 today, but there's a lot of people who could scrape up enough for the C=64, disk drive, handful of floppies, and some TV somewhere (mine certainly wasn't a new TV!).

I find it hard to apologize for being lower-middle class at the age of 8-ish. Over the years he clawed his way up to middle-middle class and I did end up with a family computer of more value in my midteens, but, well, again, I have a hard time apologizing for this.

(Which was actually somewhat harder to work with than the C=64, in many ways; open source was terribly young and I had no access to the Internet for quite a while. The BBS software percolation system wasn't necessarily the best. Everything commercial was out of my reach, especially before open source started forcing dev environments down in price.)

There has to be some point where people take responsibility for themselves, after all; nobody forced me to actually learn about it instead of just playing games like all my friends of equal class who also had such machines.
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This sounds like a web site idea in it self. "Announce" launches with firm commitments to a beta user community, and everyday you can go see what was supposed to "launch" that day, and give feedback. It'll put the pressure of public failure on the founder where it normally wouldn't exist (as is the case here).
Is there some deep subtle meaning I'm missing here, or did he just write an article that says "VC's like markets with huge growth opportunities"?
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Just some quick feedback on some of the site copy: It appears you like to use buzzwords and superlatives quite a lot. I'm not sure if this is appealing to everyone (it certainly isn' to me). After reading your three columns "Entrepreneurs", "Workers" and "Companies+Nonprofits" I still don't know what you do and how I would use your product.

All I know is that you "exponentially increase my agility" (which is most likely untrue). If I'm a worker you apparently also engage all of my humanity (which, as everybody knows, is made of passion, purpose and creativity). And as an entrepreneur, I feel that you are somehow trying to offend me ;)

Maybe a description of what exactly your product does (screenshots are better than stock images and icons) would be more helpful.
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So PostgreSQL won't work on Solaris soon. Nothing works in it anyway, so will anyone even notice?
Well, the first thing I notice is the inconsistent navigation to "home". If I just go to the domain, I get /front, if I click the link "home", I get a different looking front (/home) page.
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Trying to take this point back to the 60s is stretching it beyond usefulness, though; in the 60s even having privilege would hardly have been a guarantee of access to computers. It depended on many other things, too.

Note that I do not accuse the original author of trying to stretch this, nor you; just pointing out that if we're going back that far it becomes a completely different issue. (We can wish really hard that every child of the 1960s had access to computers for learning, but we might as well wish that every child of the 1860s had such access for all the practicality that has.)
There aren't 2 Ts or any Ys in "video", duh.
You're wrong. http://yfrog.com/1ssz0p

This is a free app. It's up to the app's designer and isn't endemic to the device or OS, unlike the inexplicable permanent presence of a physical back button on Android devices.
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Thanks. Just fixed it.
Google is currently using the model of try creating a service and see if it sticks with users.

If you have ideas for a lot of small web applications, why don't you try the really low risk approach of building them one at a time, polishing each one up really well, and host these applications on the web? Internet web hosting is dirt cheap and if these are all "small" applications, then you won't need a lot of resources for any of them.

After you build a small collection of services in this way, you can then start looking at cobbling them together into a single service brand like 37signals for example. Alternatively, you may find that one or several of your web properties really take off. You would then be able to let the users tell you how to evolve/grow that service (or system).

Good luck.
Mostly I found it annoying to switch from ~ to ~/Dropbox while on the command line.

Is there any way to change the folder Dropbox? If so, I guess it could be the same as ~.
That is true, but Oracle recently has been pushing Linux, not Solaris. The Exadata, which is Oracle's first attempt to to build a database appliance on Sun hardware uses Linux, not Solaris, for example.
Your editor is one of the least important differentiators in productivity. The best developer that I know, who is probably 10x faster than me, uses TextEdit and the mouse.

His secret weapon is the ability to quickly and decisively design software. I waste time tweaking and iterating to (hopefully) find a similar solution.
Been fixed. It said "mintues" instead of "minutes" in a pretty obvious place. ;-)
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Just a question: If you haven't launched, how can you claim to a "most popular plan"? Seems dishonest...
Yeah, that definitely helps. I wasn't rocking a computer at home until 15 and I'm incredibly thankful I was able to get that when I did. My public schools in the middle of KS wasn't doing anything with computers when I was 8 and I didn't know anyone who talked about them.
If you want people to use your software you have to invest in good engineering and you have to invest in good marketing. They're both crucial. Engineering alone doesn't cut it, nor does marketing.

Canonical's work is just as important, if not more so, in putting GNOME in the hands of users.
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Computer penetration in the US in 2001 was 61% and for the most part, those who didn't have a computer felt that they didn't need one[1].

Most incoming undergrads were 8 in 2000 so I would assert that this argument has no basis going forward.

[1 http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2002/03/18/da... ]
My girlfriend has a kindle 2, and I have an iphone. I've found that the iphone has one killer feature that the kindle doesn't: It's in my pocket all the time.

For whatever reason, my reading happens in 15 minute spurts while waiting for someone or something. The kindle app for the iphone allows me to do that, along with all the book options that amazon provides (and synced up to my girlfriend's kindle too, so we share books).
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It is. Thanks for pointing it out.
Right now it's our guess that it will be the most popular plan based on talking to customers. I'll change this very soon. Thanks again for holding me accountable.
This seems to be a fairly popular view among people who see "reverse racism" in America, however I think it is mistaken to assume that poor blacks have it easy and that the so-called "elite" only look down upon poor whites.

Btw several powerful establishment figures seem to think of "rednecks" as far more important than the so-called "elite". Sarah Palin and mother politicians use Redneck jokes to endear themselves and identify themselves with their core constituencies. It is hard to imagine someone like Obama or Deval or some other mainstream black politician use n-word jokes for political benefit or to describe themselves.
The conn should be fine but I'm in europe, perhaps that's the problem?

I get frequent stutters on this video (which is otherwise great btw!): http://wizardsmoke.vittyo.com/videos/98401
I will. I run PostgreSQL on Solaris at the day job and it runs very well. (Most things run fine on Solaris so long as you avoid X.) We use a lot of Sun hardware where I contract, and it will be very annoying if I end up having to port my software to MySQL to make Oracle happy.
dmfdmf's point is that it takes more energy to make a solar cell than it will ever produce during its lifetime.

I am not sure his numbers are current (he made the disclaimer), but it has nothing to do with energy pricing.

My worry is not whether photo-voltaic is net-positive, but whether the production actually reduces pollution. For what I know, they are very close cousins of computer chips and those factories were not particularly "green".
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Maybe we should go back to pushing Erlang submissions to the top of the first page again?

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Nice job with the logical fallacies.

First, just because you're well off doesn't require you to become a programmer or a hacker, the author is not claiming that. However if you were so inclined, you immediately have a leg up on others due to the circumstances you find yourself in, and the resources you have available to you. Denying that just seems stupid.

Second, the notion that becoming a good hacker requires social sacrifice is pathetic; misleading; stereotypical. Pick your poison. If you've made social sacrifices, don't blame computers.

On top of that, you still have the opportunity to make that sacrifice. If you have 12 siblings and live in the ghetto, or out in coal country, there's not much choice about who you have to interact with or the obligations you've gotta fulfill.

That's the whole point. If you grew up in a well off family who had access to a computer at home, or attended a school system that was able to get PCs, you were part of a fortunate group, as distinguished from people who did not have those opportunities available to them.
I'm laughing but not really certain what you were originally advocating here.
I have found the culprit. When you specify the availability zone especially 1-b it is taking an inordinate amount of time (this may be needed for bandwidth and data transfer savings reasons). But if you are in an emergency where cost is not as much of an issue, then leaving the availability zone with No Preference will spawn an instance in US-East within 4-5 minutes (either from a community ami or your own custom ami). I have tested and confirmed this.
Remember that Twitter and Facebook did not resemble the same services we have grown to love today. Have you seen screenshots of the earlier version of twitter? It was beautifully simple. bare-bones.

If you think your features and UI are taken out of fb/twitter's book.. you're doing too much. Scale down, simplify and launch. Then gradually add elements that make sense.

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Hey cool! I was just telling myself the other day that I need to start living a healthier lifestyle, part of this was getting out and going walking, building up to jogging. I've always wondered about just a barebones, downright simple point and click route system, this does it. Bonus points for the elevation widget, and even more points for the "Link to this Route" function.

Great job!

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Just had an idea, if you have any plans on sharing routes and letting multiple people define courses, maybe color coding I can easily see this turning into a nice tool to coordinate city wide scavenger hunts, or even useful as an aid for geocaching
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Not to mention the fact that the rich/urban whites admitted to elite colleges are actually mostly Jews: http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/authors/Connelly-Harvar...

Also see this excellent article on the same subject: http://theoccidentalobserver.net/tooblog/?p=2923

"When lower-class whites are matched with lower-class blacks and other non-whites the degree of the non-white advantage becomes astronomical: lower-class Asian applicants are seven times as likely to be accepted to the competitive private institutions as similarly qualified whites, lower-class Hispanic applicants eight times as likely, and lower-class blacks ten times as likely. These are enormous differences and reflect the fact that lower-class whites were rarely accepted to the private institutions Espenshade and Radford surveyed. Their diversity-enhancement value was obviously rated very low."
I've had plenty of flights cancelled due to bad weather, which most people would probably say is due to lack of runway landing slots. However if planes cannot get off the ground at my destination, they aren't freeing up gates for incoming flights. So yes, I probably have had flights cancelled due to lack of gate availability.

On the second point, the airline industry is notorious for cases where the whole industry quickly follows the changes initially tested by a single airline. That's an important part of the process through which we end up with air fuel surcharges and checked baggage fees. My point is that it's pretty fair to assume based on this subtle change in the fine print at one airline, that in a couple of years being stranded due to bad flying weather is going to be a substantially worse experience than it already is.
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Adding to what others have said, look for an industry that either interests you or is somewhat a laggard. Get some domain experience and the ideas will flood you. There are obvious benefits to an area where the pace is slow and the practitioners are not stellar, fewer HNers to compete with. Be aware of the sales cycle though. Government has multiple crying needs, but it can take years to make a sales.
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Not exactly the most optimal way, but you can hop on to the IRC channel #perl6 and run code there using one of many codebots. Admittedly, you are limited to one-liners here. And, your code will be public, so it's not like running in the "comfort of your own session".
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That is under-market for top talent, maybe they make up for it in options (if you're the gambling type.)
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Every idiot can print. What about handwritten invitations? Well, not all the invitation, just the name of each guest.(We had this in our wedding, mainly because a very good friend with gorgeous writing was willing to volunteer and do this as a personal favor).

In the context of Limedaring's business. How do you make something like this happen? Unique typesetting? Outsource and arbitrage? Printing on a plotter machine?

Maybe my example is not very practical... but the question is: what in your product makes each guest feel special?
The key here is you were able to snag influence from your Dad. Luckily he was bright enough to see the potential and was resourceful which spawned your interest.
Congrats and huge thanks for all those involved in this release. It is looking awesome.
Whether this is true for a given person depends on when they were 8.

For a 48-year-old, this would certainly be true. For an 18-year-old, not so much. The march of technology has more or less solved this one particular issue.
Nope. Try again. There should be link to create a workstream.
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