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"As for SPARC, I seriously doubt they will pour significant money into it. Trying to compete with x86 is akin to setting $100 bills on fire at this point. They will no doubt keep the Sun brand alive and use it to sell x86 based machines (which is the strategy Sun itself started of course)."

I believe they will. And they will also tailor it for Oracle DB and change the licensing plans to make SPARC a "wiser" choice, locking the customer both on SW and HW. The competition does it, so why shouldn't they do it also?
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Can anyone tell me why? It seems like a poor fit.
Ask HN: Are you happy? If so, how did you get there?  
In economics there is an idea called marginal utility theory, which basically says, in the case of money, that every next dollar is worth less than the last. This makes intuitive sense, your one millionth dollar is worth less to you than your ten thousandth. Psychologist who study happiness, whatever that means, have produced studies that show that after $60,000 a year or so, individuals do not get more happy with each dollar they have.

That might not jive with our conception of fuck you money, but I wanted to know in contrast to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1610824 , who would say they are happy? How did you get there? Was your goal in life to maximize happiness or was that just a byproduct of trying to maximize wealth?
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You'll probably find this interesting reading on the internal architecture of SSDs:

http://www.denali.com/wordpress/index.php/dmr/2010/02/02/ssd-interfaces-and-performance-effects

Also, while RAID0 reduces the MTBF, it's not linear. Drive life is not magically shortened as a result of the drive being in a RAID array (if you take care to isolate synchronous vibration). The life of the array is equal to the shortest drive life. In other words, if a drive would have failed after 25,000 hours in standalone operation, it will still fail in 25,000 hours in an array. The other drives may run to 100,000 hours, but it's a "weakest link" failure mode.
...for a 60% price premium.

Right now, large companies have so much cash available to them, on such attractive terms, that acquisitions don't have to be a terribly good fit to be attractive. It's just time to buy.
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think job-to-be-done, people visit places, they want to share their location and update status associated with those places to their friends, and that is the job they want to get done. Ask yourself how many times you visit a place and you want your friends to know about it (let alone earning discounts or earning awards)? if you have thought about it several times which means you might have a job that you want to get done. Before LCB service, they either use workaround solutions like FB status update and Twitter (tweet sth like (@John's coffee)) to their friends / followers or simply they don't use anything at all, at the very core, LBS target non-consumers, people who know they have a job to be done, but still looking around for a solution.

I agree that this job is not important to everyone, some might buy it some might not, and to think about it further, I think their core priority is to give user enough motivation / incentives to use their LCB services, that's why they add Reward systems and gaming elements, in other words, give users more reasons to use their service rather than just mindlessly checking - ins, I wrote a blog post about this http://20sth.tumblr.com/post/974848197/how-to-get-users-to-u...
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My guess is that they will be able to use their existing OEM relationships to push for McAfee to be installed by default (and paid for, not just a trial) on more and more computers.

McAfee also seems to be moving into different areas of computer security lately (PCI scans, etc), so it's not just anti-virus. I am not sure what % of their business this is though.
talk about being overpriced...
i guess the bankers knew how to negotiate
Me too! Very excited about this one!
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McAfee do more than just desktop antivirus: for example, they have mobile, virtualisation and network security products. see products by category here:
http://www.mcafee.com/uk/enterprise/index.html

Intel has a large interest in mobile, virtualisation and network arenas; this isn't really as surprising as you make out.
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The issue here is not really the abstract definition of the customer. Every user has a certain value to the business regardless what the business model is. If you have a free ad-based application then maybe this is only some cents per user. In this case it does not hold that the 'first ten customers' is what is important. Maybe the first 10.000.
On the other hand if you are selling dirt expensive stuff then the first 10 customers is a big deal.
I agree. I can see them moving to secure computers at the hardware level but does Mcafee even do this at the moment?
I have no idea what he was thinking about then when he took his stuff down, so you may be right. But having read his work for a few years I don't think it was spite; that just doesn't seem like him.

He worked for years on code and writings with free licenses - so for the most part he didn't really "delete" his work, but rather just stopped distributing it. He must have been aware of this fact when he took his sites/accounts down.
IMHO not every startup needs to solve a problem. Most probably should, but entertainment is a viable reason for existence. Even so, some services simply lower barriers for socialization, which serves a need.

That said, I don't get Foursquare, etc. There isn't much entertainment there.
He did not owe you a damn thing.
Watchmouse might do what you are asking for.
This looks similar to Facebook Friend Lists.
It will be interesting to see if game mechanics have staying power; as someone who does not fully understand the appeal of badges and mayorships, I tend to believe that these features have a limited shelf life. Of course, they could be replaced with new game features. Perhaps whichever location-based service can expand its game mechanics to more resemble World of Warcraft will be the longest-lived?
> A blog entry on how he inspired you, how he changed your views on programming and life?

What is some "blog entry" compared to actually writing some code?

Edit: to a hacker, that is. You all business types around I dunno about.
I'm not sure he knows how .live works. .live doesn't wait for items to be ready and it only binds one event on to the top level document. .live waits for bubbled events and if the item bubbling the event matches this .live selector it calls back. Pretty smart if you think about it.

But either way he makes a great point on the document.ready if your page depends on ajax or some sort of ui styling its probably best in the header script.
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I've been working on my Heroku for Django (or Python more generally) for a month or two now. It's good to see somebody else thinks this is a good idea.
No. Under some simple guidelines, which the model follows, the sorting algorithms won't sound like just about anything.

If you sort random permutations of the values [1, n], and map some monotonic property to the values, then not only are there provably some sounds which certain algorithms make that others don't, but more generally there are 'average case' signatures for each algorithm that give them their own recognizable cadences, and that is exactly what this video is demonstrating.

That you can use a 'boop' or a 'beep' or 'buzz' or invert the monotonicity is obvious and irrelevant.
Ok the 4 I can see. This guy doesn't know the difference between a rectangle and a square?
It's an excellent point, but I don't think Facebook's current lack of friend categorization will stay forever. I think it's only a matter of time before Facebook brings better organization to the friends list. Foursquare's best bet is likely the game mechanics themselves, if they can make them appeal long-term.
I attended last year and thought it was fantastic and would definitely recommend it!

Clickable: http://startupbootcamp.mit.edu/

The site has a registration form and the date of the event.

Saturday, September 11, 2010. 9:00 am. Kresge Auditorium, MIT.

When I checked the site this morning, no list of speakers had been posted. However, last year they had several excellent speakers and videos of most of last years talks can be found on JustinTV at: http://www.justin.tv/startupbootcamp/.

My favorite talks from last year included:

- Dharmesh Shah, OnStartups (http://www.justin.tv/startupbootcamp/b/258647787)

- Drew Houston, Dropbox (http://www.justin.tv/startupbootcamp/b/258647539)

- Adam Smith, Xobni (http://www.justin.tv/startupbootcamp/b/258647824)

- Alexis Ohanian, Reddit (http://www.justin.tv/startupbootcamp/b/258648107)

- Angus Davis, TellMe (http://www.justin.tv/startupbootcamp/b/258647971)
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I thought unwanted default installs are the only way McAfee ends up on computers anyway.
Could you please tell me if technically you can have security hardware based? Apple now competes with Intel, even in hardware. Would it make sense for Intel to have a "more secure" processors?
A way to pass the torch to those that can't program yet.
Had a gut feeling that asking an advance is a "better" practice, in generally making an impression that one is a professional. This article does a great job in making that "why" crystal clear.

But then, there are always exceptions, I have a contractor and his team working for me, for almost 10 months. We started off with 0% advance and still work that way, with the 32nd phase being done right now. It has been a great partnership - he has been very professional. It wasn't that his readiness to agree to 0% advance was the only reason I hired him. I interviewed him for a few hours spread over a few days to get to know him, make sure that he was professional and is what he says he is.

On my part, I also used to take specific measures to ensure that he didn't feel too exposed in his recievables from me. I used to break up bigger features into smaller phases and if any phase got stuck due to technical obstacles, used to schedule smaller payments while stil pegging the final payment with the completion of the phase. I'd rather he focus on getting the work done than worry about getting his payment on time.
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Bullshit on the too fast. Mergesort never needs more comparisons than quicksort, and mergesort was featured.
Is it "I can't tell the world enough about me through Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and Tumblr and I for some utterly incomprehensible reason I honestly believe the world NEEDS TO KNOW MORE about what I'm doing"?
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Knowing Facebook, I'd expect something ridiculously low at first, then public outrage, then small adjustments until people actually swallow it.
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McAfee also has strong UI programming expertise that Intel sorely needed. Intel's IPP and MKL libraries are absolutely great, but VTune looks like it is fresh out of 2002. They get access to several stable revenue streams (like antivirus), and can cherry-pick talent to work on whatever projects they want. There aren't many downsides for Intel.
Guy came along, a bit unconventional and smarter than the average. Wrote and made available some very good software for its time. Inspired a following, of people who had no business trying to be whimsical or clever. Guy went away. Weeping sadness, betrayal!
A square rendered in perspective would get a trapezoid shape like that.
P.S. Yeah, I know you Canadians have it rough, I feel for you.

Actually I grew up in Victoria, BC. The climate there is very mild for similar reasons to why much of Europe is. I didn't experience nasty weather until I moved to New Hampshire.
Take a look at this thread (pros/cons of various eu countries): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1565375
I hate you.

You've had him working for you for 10 months without payment. People have to eat, and unless you've done some deal with him (equity?) this is a clear path to ripping him off.

Saying he doesn't have to worry about payment on time is one thing, but he has to worry about all his expenses. And the longer he works on this without payment the less likely he is to get paid.

Why is he working for free(at the moment)?
That's what happens when you encourage your employees to build things on their own. You have more failures than successes as far as products go.

Personally, I like that Google has these pet projects that they try out for a while and see if they work. Not everything you do is going to be successful.

I'll take my gmail/maps/apps/reader and be happy. And who knows, maybe in the near future they will come out with something new that I can't live without.
No, seriously, why Scala?
The particular paradox I'm describing is not limited to college - it applies to virtually all goods and services. So any college-specific explanation is incomplete.

It's also not limited to any strata of income - the poor today have more goods and services available than the middle class of 1970. This casts doubt on explanations based on inequality.

Decreased savings might explain things, though I think in the long term it would cause inflation. Would need to think about it.
I still don't see a business case for it, though. Continuing to develop SPARC will cost a lot of money and won't buy them any extra lock-in. As far as DB apps are concerned Oracle is the platform, what it runs on is transparent. Edited to add: and the same goes for Java, which on Unix accounts for 99% of enterprise sw development.

As far as I can figure out the only reason IBM has to keep developing POWER is their mainframe business, which is the king of platform lock-in :)
How does it work? How do you handle persistence and parallelism?
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I think its a massive problem space, sure you could argue we'd all go on without it being solved, but the same can hold true for services like Twitter.

Many businesses at situated at a physical location, they need an effective way to be able to promote their offerings. People are out and about and want to know where the best places to go are, this combines their friends and other opinions, recommendations algorithms and can at time align with businesses wanting to promote themselves.

I guess saying this isn't a problem would be similar to saying that adwords didn't solve a problem for businesses less reliant on a physical location.
In my experience, at a small liberal arts college, there is little motivation for research, so even if the professor is teaching four or five courses a year, it is possible that they aren't doing much outside of the classroom work. Thus, tenure is a ticket to an easy life of teaching the same material year after year, with little value or motivation to publish.

I don't disagree with your point, however, and I had professors that did work hard outside of the classroom on their research, and certainly, in the case of larger universities, many do work long hours.
See http://blog.jgc.org/2010/08/solving-kevin-roses-email-proble...
I take it you didn't see Chris Hecker's GDC talk? It was all about the real world gaining these MMO like rewards. It was fascinating and horrifying at the same time, but I'm hoping it will never be a reality.

www.gamasutra.com/view/news/27646/GDC_Heckers_Nightmare_Scenario__A_Future_Of_Rewarding_Players_For_Dull_Tasks.php
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I too always question the "solve a problem" drum that everyone keeps banging around. These services are used to keep close friends in the loop and those friends can be between 1-100 years of age.

If you don't see a need or want to know where your friends are or, in Gowalla's case, what they are doing through pictures then you might need to rethink your friendship. Although it is cool to see what other people are up to that you might not know, these services are mainly tied to the close friends in your life, the people you care about and the people you want to spend the most amount of time with.

With that, I think that Facebook should concentrate on improving and designing a better core experience. Jumping on the mobile LBS isn't going to impress that many people. Plus the API is currently only read and although a rough time me table for write was given, Facebook has never been one to give out data all that freely.
The moderation in this thread is the weirdest. _why seems to bring out controversy like nothing else, not even politics does.
To be fair, you wouldn't need much more than SQLite to gather emails. It's more than sufficient (I would say it's absolutely amazing for most use cases, but the one thing I am not sure about is how well it handles concurrency, if at all).

I tried SQLite for a few things, and it has always come out a champ. I would not hesitate to use it for most of the semi-static websites I make (web apps would be pushing it), if I were sure it can handle more than one connection (I'm not, sadly).

I am very, very impressed by it. Seriously solid database.
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For site development, you must charge a deposit, otherwise you will be jerked around.

I began a project for two guys over 3 months ago, did the specification and gave them a time frame for delivery. Laid out the payment plan 10%, 30/30/30 (based on deliverables).

When it actually came time to pay(the deposit) they would't because I have no portfolio (and we're not in the same country). I said fine, when it's done then full payment. It's been 3 months, it's complete design and all, and they still won't pay.

They keep asking for more features (people will often attempt to use payment as a way to strong arm more free features out of you, don't give in), I told them put up or shut up.

On a slightly related note, does anyone want to buy a website to help people keep track if borrowing and lending things to friends?

Edit: Also do the entire site (thats right, every page) in photoshop (or gimp if you're poor) first, don't write a single line of code, get a spec written up in great detail. If they want any more than that, then they have to pay. Stick to the spec, if you see some problem halfway in you can make arangements but you must put it in the spec. Once the spec is complete don't hand the site over until full payment.
Errm. Yes. I know that. It was a joke...
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Maybe Intel hopes to extend their 'Intel Inside' campaign to include anti-virus protection?
My fabric setup is basically:

* push to <server>

* update the files

* compile sass to css

* minify javascript

* process the dependencies file (using pip) for updates (it does nothing if I haven't added new dependencies)

* restart/flush/whatever I specify

It works beautifully, I can deploy changes in a few seconds.

EDIT: Okay how do I make lists :(
great stuff
can i ask you what hosting do you use ?
im asking becausei know there is email limitation sending
how did you over come this?
Multiple monitors are often significantly cheaper than one large one. You can also aim the two at you more accurately, so you don't have to change what distance you focus at as much. The productivity study was short-term; how about long-term? Certainly having things too wide means you spend more time mousing to those edges, but how about eye strain due to viewing angle?

>That optimal number, for the vast majority of people is about 2500x1400.

Programmers are most definitely not the vast majority of people, when your study covers "people" as a whole. Programmers handle huge amounts of data and tend to have documentation and/or testing at-hand frequently, which takes up what would otherwise be usable space. I also don't see any info on how many people were used for the study, though I've only seen the slides, and have to get going...
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thinking is one, execution is another. Reading is important, but action is crucial. I have no problems saying that I can think like entrepreneurs, and I believe you can as well, what separates winners from the rest of us is relentless execution. I used to force myself to think of 5 new startup ideas a day, at the end of the week I have to pick one idea to execute because we don't have enough time and money, what I want to say is idea is easy to come up with when it becomes your habit and once your team found a process to brainstorm, but execution really matters, we're still building our 1st startup around 1 single idea among bunch of our ideas from the portfolio. (and the idea has changed dramatically) .

Readwirteweb once wrote a post about this "the case against reading for entrepreneurs", good read, http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/2010/08/the-case-against-b...
Aren't we missing the point? Grades aren't what's important - learning is. Until the school system gives people real motivation (i.e. not just saying "do this, and we'll give you an A"), we're not going to make any progress in getting more capable graduates / citizens.
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This thread reminds me of the cacophony of similar questions people had about Twitter when it was the center of attention. I think the problems that these location apps solve are quite obvious, just like I thought that Twitter very obviously solved problems too.

The catch is, however, that you need to have a significant amount of your friends and acquaintances using either service for them to become useful. Imagine if you were in college, and were meeting a bunch of new people every week, and you could see at any moment where your new friends are hanging out, or partying, or studying. You could see where the most popular hangouts are. You could check and see if anyone you know is at the same location you are currently at.

Once the network effect kicks in, these apps become awesome. And yes, just as people pigeonholed Twitter as being a narcissistic service, these apps allow people to express themselves as well, only through their choice of venue, not their choice of words.

If you want practical solutions, imagine a street team for a band or product going around town hitting all the hip locations spreading the word about a new album or product. They could keep tabs on each other as they fan out over the city and make sure they don't double up on locations.

The possibilities are endless, really. You just need to use your imagination and stop being so skeptical.
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People on HN don't get that an app which makes you more social solves a real problem. What a surprise.
I think each one of the 32 phases was payed on finish. Otherwise it would be really shocking.
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Yet Facebook sees great potential in this space and just launched a competing service which I predict will become a HUGE hit, especially among college aged kids.