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Right, I was asking about the safety of the application that I write.

So any app written on couchapp can be considered to be modified by the end user if it's replicated to their machine. Then any application where you don't want users fiddling around with your 'source' is out of the question.

That said, there's plenty of applications that you'd want to pass along with the user's own data that you'd want the end users to fiddle with and improve.

With that in mind then, I'm guessing you can have validation functions that allow you to selectively update the design documents that you want from another person's changes, just as I can selectively replicate data from another person's copy of the couchapp.
I've been using OpenBSD for several years (since 3.4...wow, that's almost seven years), as my primary OS. I had been running Debian for 2~3 years, and Red Hat (briefly, ick) before that. A lot has been covered already, but:

1. The BSDs feel significantly more cohesive to me. Other people have mentioned this, but it deserves greater emphasis. The config files, man pages, etc. are quite a bit more consistent, and my first guess about where something is located is nearly always right. Red Hat, in particular, seemed to cavalierly scatter things in /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/sbin, etc. (Around 7.0, IIRC.) The man pages & other docs are consistently excellent, for everything from malloc to spamd, it's a cleanly and consistently designed system for learning Unix / system administration.

2. OpenBSD has a focus on security. While this isn't my top priority, personally, I really like its secondary effects - it tends towards minimalism, so there are less dusty corners to harbor exploitable bugs, and they pass security patches upstream. OpenBSD's malloc (http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=malloc) can also be configured for very aggressive scrutiny. Not quite the same as running everything under valgrind, but it has also much less overhead since it's better integrated. If you're working in C, it's a great platform.

3. I can install and configure an OpenBSD system in under ten minutes, easy. Its installer is spartan and based on text prompts. Once you know what to expect, it's a snap. Also, they put all recognized drivers in the kernel (ostensibly since debugging weird custom-kernel issues would be tough with a smaller community) - if the dmesg doesn't say "... - not recognized" at boot, you're usually set. No rebuilding kernels or modules just to get things working. I haven't dealt with much really weird hardware, but any random crappy old x86/amd stuff has worked fine. (Cheap old Thinkpads run BSD brilliantly, by the way. I'm typing this on a T41.)

4. The BSDs have less GNU stuff in the userland. This is probably a matter of taste, but a lot of the GNU stuff seems really bloated by comparison - gmake vs. BSD make, gawk vs. awk, etc. (That said, I'm also an Emacs user. :) ) The BSDs also seem less political. It isn't Linux or GNU/Linux, it's just BSD.

5. I really like source / ports-tree-based packaging. You can still use binary packages (especially if you're installing KDE, doing that from source is just silly), but ports+flavors works quite well. Some Linux distros (Arch and Gentoo) have similar packaging systems, now. Of course, some programs are hard to bootstrap - GHC, in particular, has lagged behind.

I've only used FreeBSD a bit here and there, but it also seems like an extremely solid OS, and most of the same advantages apply. It doesn't have as much focus on security, but its community is much larger, and it's probably more newbie-friendly.
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would anyone buy adblock?

Makes even more sense to buy and kill a service hurting you.
Amusingly enough, I’m seeing some social media marketers tweet this.
Am I the only one who wants to (and consequently is able to) only work on one project at any give time?
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Thanks! The fact that this is the first time you've heard the word conveys a lot. We're looking at amending the tagline at this time. Would you know if there's a one word equivalent to footfalls? I don;t think footsteps would do it.
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I think a lot of this comes down to the company's ability to vet a candidate. I find it fortunate that I can easily find and read code that someone I am interviewing actually wrote. In most cases you can also find when he/she wrote it and in what context. This is what I am looking for, and I don't need to get it from github or the like.

Job postings are more often than not (imo) poorly worded. The main idea is that you extract what they are actually looking for, which you can in most cases. If they ask for your github account and you do not have one - tell them you don't and send them some significant code samples. If they ask for a twitter/SO account and you don't have one - say you focus most of your commentary on HN and give them your username here.
I don't know of any companies that will ignore/discount you if you provide them with the data they are seeking.
First time hear DNU/kFreeBSD, I have been used Debian for some years, and will try kFreeBSD later
Yeah point #1 is odd. GNU/Linux doesn't let licenses get in the way of technical decisions. DTrace and ZFS aren't in Linux because Sun explicitly designed their licensed to be GPL-incompatible.

Where that isn't the case nobody is seeking to replace code due to license reasons. E.g. you don't see Linux people trying to replace X11 or Sendmail because of their licenses. But the BSD systems are actively trying to phase out GPL licensed code due to not liking the license.
My point isn't that my friend got a crazy good deal. My point is that arbitraging 12% rental income against a 5% mortgage rate is so easy right now you can do it by buying right off the MLS at market rates, in one of the most expensive(price to rent wise) cities in the US.

The original poster was moaning about how hard it was in TODAY's environment to make money off of several million dollars in cash(!). I wanted to provide a counterpoint to that attitude.
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Considering how much at&t seems to suck, this is hardly surprising. And indeed Android seems to be a very US-centric thing so far.

Take France for instance, where all careers are selling the iPhone :

* iPhone : 2.25 million units currently in service

* Android : 220,000 units currently in service

That's a 10 to 1 ratio !
(as of April 2010, so pre iPhone 4 launch)

http://www.geeketchic.fr/geek-blog/admob-android-vs-iphone-o...

Conclusion : study carefully your target market before deciding on which platform to launch an app.
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this magic gives your approach a cutting edge and helps in conveying of an impactful message.
That's just silly. Having used pkg, pkgutil, pkg-get, apt-get, and ports near daily for awhile ports hands down beats anything on the *solaris platforms.

For one, you can find the libraries you want and they actually work.

Postgres 8.4 on FreeBSD? No problem. With plperl? No problem. OpenSolaris? Well, if you want to run 32bit Postgres on a system with 48GB of RAM sure. No 64bit for you though. And Oracle shutdown the Postgres build farm servers they were hosting.

Just because FreeBSD stores it's package information in makefiles and pkg stores it in a catalog doesn't change the end result. Ports are as easy to use (if you bother to read the very simple README), and offer far more robust support and packages than any flavor of Solaris I'm familiar with.

There was a time I'd have agreed about Ports, but 30 minutes later I had read the README and realized I was just being lazy. ;-)
The point is not to get into YC, but to work for a YC-funded company, or more generally, in any exciting development environment. Being a good employee requires certain skills, skills which don't always heavily overlap with the skills required to be a founder. A founder has to have drive and vision, the ability to motivate others, and the wherewithal to see things through to completion, among other things. A good employee's main traits include working efficiently and communicating effectively (in my experience, in any job).

Some people are capable of producing great work when given a little direction and prodding. Those same people may iterate endlessly and have trouble finishing things when working independently. Thus, there is an entire class of good workers who will almost by definition not have the types of independent projects that many hiring startups are so keen to see.
That's pretty good for such a specialized application, if you ask me. I'm looking to make decent passive income between BlackBerry, Android and iPhone app sales over the next few months, so a few applications with $100 monthly sales would be perfect for what I'm looking for.
Why wouldn't the PPV partners get some of the streaming money?
Thank you for your feedback. Yes, I guess we need to be a little more direct about what we offer - and perhaps highlight the segments (restaurants etc) we're focusing on. We're also relying on the video to convey that message (the setting is a street with a restaurant, cafe, bar & spa)
The headline isn't designed to work by itself - the objective is to gt your attention (if using social media is on your radar). But if the first thing that comes to mind is 'Groupon clone', we should relook. Thanks again.
I've been using FreeBSD since the 8.1 release a few weeks back and as my first *BSD experience it is fantastic.

The only thing which will keep me from committing to it is the absence of a stable and/or official version of Google Chrome (the only freebsd versions of Chromium I've found have been very much alpha software).

I (like a lot of people I suppose) spend too much time in my browser to have this be a negotiable point.

I have been very much impressed by the cohesiveness of the platform (akin to what Ubuntu has achieved on the linux side) and the documentation is fantastic so if you're a FF user anyway, go for it.
That's awesome. But I want to submit the crap I have to hear everyday. Where is the submit form? :-)
It's not as if the normal conditions are 0% unemployment.

Also, society as a whole is so much richer now than it was in the last 'great depression' that even those that are down on their luck have it comparatively easy compared with 80 years ago. It's a world of a difference.

That doesn't mean there aren't individuals that are on really hard times, but there are only more of them, it's not like the phenomenon is unique to 2010.
I'm not trying to be an Apple fanboy here, but this is sort of an interesting example of what happens when you give your users more information about the system than they need. People see these stats and make incorrect assumptions about what they mean. iPhone on the other hand doesn't give you this information, so people ignore it, which works out fine.
If I understand correctly it depends on how well or badly behaving the applications are. I believe the judgment Android makes to close down an application is primarily free memory (not battery life).

This gives a basic overview of how application activities behave (see the diagram a few lines down):

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals.html#...

It is possible for a badly behaving application to create a thread which would continue to run whilst an activity is not visible.

Take this as a common example for an Android game app framework:
http://www.helloandroid.com/tutorials/how-use-canvas-your-an...

Your app may need (implementation specific) to take explicit action (SurfaceView::surfaceDestroyed) to stop the rendering thread before being backgrounded,
I'm reading "Surely you are joking, Mr. Feynman". I'm about 100 pages into it, and it's a pretty cool read. Smart as he is but the way he wrote it doesn't make me feel intimidated at all. I was really impressed about the part when he talked about this his first presentation to Einstein and Pauli and other biggest minds of the 20th century. He made it so casual and I could pictured me in his shoes perfectly. It reminds me of my Chemistry classes in college.
because at that point it's very easy to get complacent...and building up to $100K for a niche business still takes time and money.
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I've ran into confusion that I am trying to know how to reach a bigger audience for my application. Right now, all people I know are using and loving the site, but I can't reach a broader audience (people that don't know me or people that I don't know). Would like to know if anybody who can kindly provide me some advice on this?

More details: http://blog.stephenou.com/post/895527719/growing-userbase
haha, yeah well lesson learned. :)
Right conclusion, not the most direct argument. NP is a proper subset of EXPTIME; there are problems that must take exponential time to complete. Wikipedia says that asking whether a Turing-machine halts in k steps is EXPTIME-complete (you have to execute k steps and the input is of size log k), but if you're willing to fudge a bit and consider function problems, listing all paths in a graph (or something even simpler, like "list all n-bit binary numbers")is going to take exponential time in the worst case.
yeah live your life at the fullest,,,everything eventually works out.

And if worse case scenario it doesn't...and you are broke at 55-60....go rob a bank. If you succeed you get some cash...if you fail you get free room, food and health care.
Data de-dupe is FUBAR. It's why snv_134, which was supposed to be final was scrapped.

I hadn't heard of a FreeBSD kernel issue, but if that's true, it might just be for the best for the next 6 months at least. de-dupe is kinda a useless feature if you're not a hosting company anyway. A hosting company could take advantage of storing tons of mostly-the-same VMs. It's not the few hundred GB in our dozens of base VM images that concerns me though. It's the terra-bytes of multimedia and databases.

Plus de-dupe takes a lot of RAM. A lot. There was a time where it would've been very nice, but as it stands, it's really a niche product to come up with a situation where it's RAM requirements, and it's rather small storage savings might make sense.
Outside hacker circles, Amazon is always Amazon-dot-com.
Terrified of what? The bogeyman? Everybody reading this still has internet access, which is not exactly one of the prime requirements for living.

You've got very little to be terrified of, other than your lack of self confidence in your ability to make the best of a mediocre situation.
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You have to shift on multiplication and division.
"didn't"? More like "hasn't yet"---and while I don't necessarily predict that desktop Linux will "win", whatever that might mean, it continues to gain market share.
Except I wasn't talking about other countries, I was talking about the U.S. Nothing you say here invalidates my point. "They may do so" you say. That was my point. We're still waiting for Apple to do something on another carrier. In the U.S.
"Into Thin Air" (Krakauer)
Journalist/Mountaineer account of an Everest expedition gone wrong. Read it, ponder, but know that there is some controversy. Very interesting look into expedition dynamics.

"Mountains Beyond Mountains" (Kidder)
An account of Paul Farmer's work in Haiti, and later in other parts of the world. If you are interested in public health it is a great read, and may provide a fresh angle on recent Haiti <-> world politics.

"Three Cups of Tea" (Oliver, I think)
Greg Mortensen starts building schools in Pakistan / Afghanistan. Adventure ensues. There's some definite political bias here but it's worth a read.

Fun summer read: "World War Z".

Unrelated, I use Shelfari [http://www.shelfari.com/] to organize my books-to-read, if you need an organization tool.
This is febrile raving, codexon, why are you insisting on it? It is like a kind of madness, right on its face. A range of solutions were given on http://haskell.forkio.com/gmpwindows of which the writer, Sigbjorn Finne, said "nothing too magic or new here". None of them seem particularly appetizing, of course, which is presumably why people continued to labor.
Not in any particular order, but I'd highly recommend these interesting books:

How to run a Thriving Business - Ralph Warner (the founder of Nolo book)

The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy (I read this based on a recommendation by a fellow HNer)

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions - Dan Ariely.

The Winner-Take-All Society - Robert H. Frank, et all.

Gun, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond.
If the viewer (of the stream) got interested enough and got 4 other friends interested in UFC, they would only need to throw in ~$10 each to watch the next event. It's probably not all that fun to watch a live event over a laggy stream with friends. Seems like a plausible situation and a win for UFC.
I believe you're thinking of iPhonemodem (or something like that?)...

I cannot find anything on pdanet that is asking me for money (this is why I uninstalled iphonemodem)
So true, I only installed one because it was one of the demo apps the CSR installed on my phone to explain how the app store works. I used it occasionally and then realized it was pointless.
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Rapportive is awesome because its simple and easy to understand. Everyone gets it without any confusion. Would be interesting to see how they make money, though. Thats a toughie, especially considering the target market is Gmail users.

Also, anyone know how they are getting Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Skype info for email addresses? Are they using RapLeaf? If so, are they paying for every such lookup? That would be a huge cost to deal with.
"hasn't yet" is the same thing people have said for the last decade.
I bet a lot of the iPad target audience wants it to be close to a physical book. They aren't geeks.
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I live in Victoria and still don't understand why salaries are so low in Vancouver. My only guess is that it's some kind of "quality of life" tax. Companies can pay less because it is a desirable place to live.

(Currently I work remotely for a US company because I haven't found a decent job opportunity here)
Imagine saying it on the phone to someone who doesn't speak the same language?

Is it possible without resorting to lima, india, golf ..?.
Solaris SMF is actually one of the best things about Solaris (IMO). Runit documentation as an init replacement are woefully out of date for most platforms, and Upstart seems like it's still beta at-best.

I'm not that savvy, but I know of nothing for Linux or FreeBSD that starts everything up, makes sure it gets restarted if it crashes, notifies you, has maintenance states, supports simple, robust dependencies (process or file-based). The SMF covers these bases very well.

Runit seems to come closest on the service side, but it's not nearly as well documented. Monit is almost a suitable substitute (even though that's not really it's goal), but robust dependency support is lacking last I checked.
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this list is wrong.

hacks, css grids, obscure references, nonstandard way of clearing divs, instead of the much more used and standard overflow:hidden , vendor specific css declarations? printed media references?

here's a few questions that a REAL front end dev would likely answer:

do you know standards?
do you do inline css/js?
do you use hacks?
do you use grids? if yes, this guy is a neofite and needs to learn how to unbloat his css
do you reset your css?
do your sites validate?
do you like flash in your websites?
do you code by hand?
do you use autohotkey/zen coding/texter/autoit/etc for coding?
do you despise expression web/dreamweaver/kompozer?
do you use firebug?
how do you test for xbrowser testing?
do you know what "semantics" mean in a web context?
Looking at the set of investors who endorsed their vision, I think they probably have a lot more to come which may define why its more interesting beyond the mashups they have right now.
Immediately reminded me of Dack's Web Economy Bullshit Generator, a classic from the original web bubble. I'm happy to see that it's still online: http://dack.com/web/bullshit.html
Miran Lipovača is a computer science student in Ljubljana, Slovenia. His online tutorial, "Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!," is widely regarded as the best way to learn Haskell.

Seriously? LYAH is nice, but the examples are so contrived that I'd be surprised that anyone who learns Haskell from this book will be able to write any idiomatic Haskell code or even understand Haskell besides "hey, that's neat".

I haven't read the whole book, though, just the stuff on the web.

In my unbiased opinion, the best way to learn Haskell is to read RWH, read all the code that you use (just click the "source" link next to the function when you're reading the docs), and then say something like "monads are like burritos" on HN and wait for my comment :)
The GCC situation is a bit more complicated than that. Importing new versions of GCC is a major PITA due to changes needed in FreeBSD not being accepted into the main GCC tree. We've been saying "gee, it would be great if we could get rid of GCC" since long before GPLv3 came out.

GPLv3 caused Apple to support LLVM development, which caused LLVM to be production-ready; and that combined with the general crappiness of gcc is causing FreeBSD to switch to LLVM. The licensing issue is a slight irritant, and without it we might have ended at 4.3 or 4.4 instead of 4.2.1; but it's certainly not the biggest issue.
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And those iPhone 3G(S) that were being replaced were simply thrown in the bin? Or were they passed on to the second hand market?
This article completely misses the point.

>The real interesting data would be if any single Android phone is outselling the iPhone.

This isn't a handset war, it's a platform war. So, yes, Android outselling iPhone is meaningful, even if Android is available on more carriers and have more handsets. If that's the way to get the bigger user base, then Apple has a suboptimal market strategy.
Austin has a great startup scene, I guess some companies just look for places where their changes of success are greater.
Shocking is the fact that darling, must have, hype phone from 1 (really crappy) carrier is no longer outselling every smartphone under the sun.

That it's no longer "obvious" that if you build just for iPhone you've reached 90% of the market.

That if you're serious about having a mobile pressense, you have to build, maintain, support etc. two rather different platforms.