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My implication was to do something standards compliant and browser-neutral like 1px wide PNGs and (for the super fancy) JavaScript. Avoid non-standard CSS hacks entirely. It has a higher chance of breaking and not-working because, as you said, CSS3 is not finalized.

I wouldn't care if it was supposed to be some sort of academic tech-demo, but in the comments the author says:
>On Posterous they are going to be used in many places

edit: moral: JavaScript enabled\disabled is 1 axis of degradation. Non-standard CSS3 hacks have 3 axises: Browser type, browser version, state of CSS3 spec. It's a statistically worse bet.
summary: applying for a patent on patents

bonus points: assignee is Halliburton
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Compiler class was the most fun class I had back in school, though there were a number of things I didn't understand and skimmed over. It was only years late that I re-read the Dragon book in depth that I understood some of the topics. Too bad there aren't too many language or compiler jobs.
Focus on what you can do. I was in the same boat and I used to think like you. It was a wrong way to think and wasted a lot of my time.
So what exactly is this implying? What is the impact of white matter changes from a layperson's perspective. I could only get this last line:

> Thus IBMT could provide a means for improving self-regulation and perhaps reducing or preventing various mental disorders.
" Sure, it's hard if you're manually (un)locking mutexes like a damn caveman -- but every major high-level language available today (except, again, Java) provides better abstractions"

... java.util.concurrent?
A spiffy, modern infographic would actually be really useful here. This one is a bit messy.
Damn iPad and my fat fingers voted you down. Sorry mate. Good advice otherwise. Once I get off my iPad I'll search for the python tetris project that is pretty good for people in his situation. I agree a project is essential.
Three images, actually (normal, hover and active). Six if you have buttons in two different colors. Twelve if you need the buttons in two different sizes.

You need a truckload of CSS to define how a button looks but you only need to do it once. Creating arbitrarily colored and sized buttons is as easy as adding one or two lines of CSS. And at some point in the future we will actually be able to drop the prefixes and the CSS will become quite elegant and compact.
> What would be your dream setup?

> Mathematica + Wolfram|Alpha everywhere!

That's a funny dream, considering he charges a few thousand for a copy of Mathematica. I'm sure he'd have a larger user base if it were less expensive (or free…).
i found this very interesting - i think it is a good idea - something similar may be true for religion as well which is -inherited- but most people become disillusioned with their -official- religion when they grow up and ponder about what they really want in a religion and they should be able to change it
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The bottom of your daz home page and others says "all rights reserved", but text on the homepage says the database is GPL'd

"The data on this site was bootstrapped using the freedb.org data set (yes, our database will remain GPL'd, no strings attached)'

What version of the GPL are you using, where is the (database)download link and a copy of the GPL? It is an oversimplification to say no strings attached.

Unless the content is all already GPLed, I think there is a problem with you trying to assign a license to work you didn't create. You certainly can't say all rights reserved (restrict rights) if you're dealing with GPLed work of others. (what's free must remain free) I see some band photos. I seriously doubt the the rights holders released them under the GPL.

The banner "share your music" and taking MP3 uploads seems like a serious issue too. As does distributing 30 second clips. iTunes and music stores that do that have agreements allowing it. Do you?

And posting peoples geocities sites without their permission? It isn't your content. A notice saying you'll taking it down doesn't make it okay. Just because they haven't discovered your site and had a note survive that mail you check once a month... Right holders should not have to comb the net looking for abuses. Even the many that may like the idea may not know to update their content. (I'd expect you'd also have trouble authenticating them)

You really need to contact every former page owner and have their advance permission (and give them editing rights along with some sort of terms of service)

A bunch of thanks yous are great, but you'd get that for MP3s too. It doesn't mean there's not a problem.

Good luck sorting it all out in a proper way.
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I love how whether or not you get a ticket, you end up helping people :)
From a player's perspective I think you are right that part of the fun is physically rolling dice. If you run one of these games as a GM you might tire of the romantic dice rolling.
And to tell someone to connect lines A through G in this shape, when there are, say, 30 on the board? A doodle + screen works slightly, but certainly not optimally. And even if the laser-drawer can only manage a fairly small amount of detail, it lets you do at least part of an idea, let them see it / trace it, and then a later part, all lined up however you please. The screen's even pretty small, so it's not like you'd be able to show your masterpiece on it all at once either.

Anything non-projected break down any time you've got a large scale - what's an efficient way to point out a sparse mesh between 20 objects on a whiteboard? Point to one, and then the next which it connects to, lather-rinse-repeat to 40 points (more if it's a directional graph), or draw 20 lines and leave them up for people to peruse simultaneously? People just can't remember that many things at once, so you'd rely on someone to marker in your lines... to be erased if you come up with something better? Even changing a single line means several dots + waiting for someone to walk over and do it for you, instead of just changing what's displayed.

And how about completing a circuit diagram? Have fun pointing out a resistor, inductor, and XOR gate[1], dot-by-dot, or showing any complex replacement in a number of sketches + several points showing where each connects. Even if you're only able to draw a couple at a time, being able to draw them in place is a huge efficiency boost.

edit:

Or designing in groups: crowd around the 'bot to look at the screen, while you-or-they are unable to see the board, every time you have input that can't be elaborated by a single dot + words. The time it takes you to sketch something and hold it up to a webcam is the same as or longer than it would take to make those lines displayed, but then everyone can see it at once, as you intended it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Circuit_elements.svg
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We aren't talking about selling cars. People buy MP3 players based on their car's MP3 player hookup...
Do you know of any good texts/articles/case studies on the subject? This sounds pretty interesting.
Thank you. My thoughts were something along the lines of, who do I trust more, the well vetted kernel tcp stack, or this unknown modification to my tcp stack in the name of security. It's hard enough making sure the normal stack doesn't have any issues (and, in my understanding, why Windows/OSX/Solaris have taken parts of the BSD TCP stack)
While I don't agree with what he's saying, I do appreciate his honesty in speaking out his mind.
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Rape of Nanking was a direct result of Bushido code. Japan's WWII government must be held accountable in history as pure evil, as a matter of official policy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_of_nanking

Stalins artificial famine in Ukraine was official policy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

There is no need to point out Germany's official policies of genocide, as they are well recorded and attested to in the historical record.
Good point. More code that does more work for you.

To me, that's the coolest thing about programming. You create something and send it out into the world and it creates things too.
Why not abandon central key authorities and go distributed? Bring social networks and the web-of-trust together.

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With news like these, I always wonder about the story behind the story.
This is so post post modern.
I have heard the claim that the "hockey stick" is an artifact of bad methodology repeated a lot, but this is the first time I've seen the actual explanation. I am curious. I feel like the climate scientists who have been defending Mann and his claims probably have a response to this. It makes me more skeptical regardless.
There are two types of single founders: those who would like to have a cofounder but can't find one (e.g. because they live in a place where good hackers are rare), and people who don't have a cofounder because they don't want one. The latter type are obviously different. The former type sometimes are too. E.g. if the reason they don't have a cofounder is that they are not persuasive enough.
You certainly wouldn't be the first to try.
Ah, the beauty of anecdotal evidence. Meanwhile, Parisian office workers are enjoying their 37 days of vacation time per year (US: 13).
Kfool is right. We probably have higher standards for single founders, and I know a lot of later stage investors are reluctant to fund them at all.
I have little experience in the corporate world, but I get the feeling that the OP's analysis could apply just about anywhere. There's certainly places that are great for 9-5ers to raise families, don't get me wrong. But the bigger picture is that the stereotypical fears associated with entrepreneurship can be in many ways more favorable than its corporate alternative.

Steve Blank's "Epitaph for an Entrepreneur[1]" is a great resource on how to live a fulfilling life in startups. My favorite quote: "Someone gave me a thought that I tried to live my live my life around. He asked me, when you’re gone would you rather have your gravestone say, 'He never missed a meeting.' Or one that said, 'He was a great father.'"

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[1] http://steveblank.com/2009/06/18/epitaph-for-an-entrepreneur...
Exactly...one of my recent ventures was spending evenings and weekends for a few months building a prototype HR compensation system for a big company I had done consulting with for years, we had a very good relationship.

All the requirements were met and the hard problems were solved (lots of UI work remained). When it came to decision time, they decided to develop in house instead of licensing my product for $50k. How much did they spend in house? $1 million plus (and counting). Plus, they missed their launch date so have to use the old solution for another year. I could have made the deadline easily.

The point is, the risk of failure is not just that your product is not good enough, it is that the people that make the decisions are often, if not usually, simply not qualified to be serving in the positions they hold.

Targeting individual consumers vs privately owned businesses vs publicly traded corporations are three entirely different situations. If I had to recommend one, I would target the privately owned business sector - there are less developers targeting this market (as it requires domain knowledge), and they actually care about ROI, whereas with a corporation, they are often more concerned about the appearance of ROI.
True. In France, you get to spend many weeks of vacation with your kids. But then, you don't see them the rest of the year. Your choice (except that it's not really your choice, you can only change that by moving 5,000 miles away).
That's the human condition. You can sit on your ass instead of hunting or gathering, but then you'd go hungry and be shunned by your tribe. You can sit on your ass instead of working your fields, but then your crops won't grow and you'll go hungry. You can sit on your ass instead of going to work at the mill every day, and then you won't be able to afford any food and you'll go hungry.

I'm grateful we can sit in meetings and type code into computers in air-conditioned offices for our supper. Of course, building a business and having supper for life would be fantastic.
Not to mention meeting your local politician for a cup of coffee to "discuss things".
Perhaps VirtualBox (open source, was SUN, now Oracle) will be part of the VMware of the future equation.

The comparison with Microsoft is not a very good one, as there is good FREE competition and we're unlikely to see domination through massive VMware shipping bundled on hardware by default.

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The best money market account rates in the US are actually around 1-1.3% now (Ally, Capital One, Discover, ING, AIG).

Definitely not 4%. That was in 2005.
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The amount they invest is more: They invest their time, their attention, their connections to investors and their reputation. The money is not what they invest, and it's not what people go to them looking for.
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Find something that is working, and then ask people you know, trust and admire to join you. Use the success of what you made as your argument.
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I dont know how likely that is. As a group humans seem to value idealism and places that on a pedestal while individually failing to meet those standards.
More like video poker, you have to know how to play the odds to eke out a living but making bank is luck.
Think of a bunch of people using <your favorite app> in a way that makes you cringe. They doing it this way over and over without thinking about the problem they are trying to solve. "It's always been done this way..." You cringe enough and figure out the actual problem they are trying to solve and make it so when you watch them work you cringe just a little bit less. You could be the IT guy for a small business, at a bank or a consultant for a large financial software firm. The idea is basically the same. Rinse and repeat and most of all Enjoy...
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How about a card game that doesn't blow? I've bought the Apple poker game, hearts, and some others. I paid 3 bucks for a hearts game on Android and it was terrible. It looked like some 1996 Windows shareware game. Tiger Woods golf is fun, and so is Angry Birds. Or how about a navigation app for when you're out of service? The Android app store is just about useless.
Answering # of your questions, Are you sure the number is correct ? It's kind of unbelievable for a startup in beta.
This one is a bit messy.

That's the entire point: the flow of rights and royalties in the music industry is a mess.

Making it "spiffy" and "modern" may make it more aesthetically pleasing, but it's not going to make it any less of a mess. That's a problem with the underlying data, not the infographic.

It could certainly be cleaned up a bit because the text is rather hard to read, but I don't think doing that's really going to change anything.
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It's interesting, when Hacker News first started (and was called "Startup News"), I used to make ra-ra comments like this all the time. Like the author, I had little practical experience in actually succeeding at entrepreneurship. And yet they'd be voted up really high. Once in a while, some old salt like, say, the guy who founded Digg or the guy who founded Symbolics would reply and say "You're naive and ignorant. You won't think so poorly of jobs once you've run your own company for a while" (in nicer terms, of course). But by and large, Startup News loved wild-eyed optimism.

Now, the vast majority of comments hold that same sort of "Well, it's more complicated than that, and I'm quite happy with my 9-5" view. Sometimes even my own.

I wonder if that's representative of the economy changing, or if it's representative of the site's audience changing. If it's the former, maybe it means that now is a good time to found a startup.
you are making some money from it, so you have to be doing something right. next there are a few options;
- develop and grow existing user base.
- create more apps.
u have to decide which works best for you, i think marketing is over rated. unless i want to create a brand name which i want to keep, it can still pretty profitable focusing on the above 2 options.

but if u must market your app, make it worthwhile for your effort. e.g. i would give out coupons or version of my paid apps for users who give me feedback or ideas. it worked really well for me so far. i give something that they want, and if the idea is any good i can create something that solve a problem. that pays really well.
The Soviet general beating the Japanese army in Khalkin Gol in 1939 was Zhukov, who later went on to beat the German advance in the Eastern front, and led the counter offenses to turn the tide. Zhukov was probably one of the greatest generals in Soviet.
Not to wade too far into an already pedantic dispute...

"A compiler takes in a stream of symbols and translates it to another stream of symbols. Common compiler techniques include intermediate tree representations, parsing of symbols, various recursion-based optimization passes on the intermediate representation and phases, and various serialization techniques."

The second sentence is a good definition. The first sentence is probably the cause of the disagreement -- it's so vague as to possibly describe a C compiler, as well as a Chinese Room, a signal detection algorithm, a kid doing his math homework, etc. I'm not quite sure what you call something that transmutes a stream of symbols into other symbols that is precise, but i feel "things that transmute symbols" covers a very broad class of things that are not compilers as well. Someone doing their chemistry homework, for instance.

I mean, yes, a compiler will transmute symbols, but it's the second sentence is how we distinguish that from, say, a DSP. When you start asserting things like "builds an intermediate structure representing the parse tree", then the definition starts going somewhere useful.

"Necessary but not sufficient," and all that.
Well, I suppose that came out sounding a bit communist, and OT. Fwiw, the point was that, if there's gridlock, then there's no hope of seeing any of the needed job-and-value-creating investment in public infrastructure development.
Depends where you look. When Livejournal people come to Facebook, they insist on bringing their "gothic" handles with them, for example.
Well if people are going to worry about solar flares, they might as well figure on EMP (electromagnetic pulse) protection from high altitude nukes too. Energy levels can be very high, and the very short pulse risetime results in energy extending to at least the VHF range. That means relatively short conductors can function as efficient antennas, picking up considerable energy. Solar events are lower frequency, so energy from longer conductors such as power lines is the first thing to worry about there.

It is silly for those people to be worried about WiFi, but some just don't have a clue as to the differences between ionizing radiation and electromagnetic radiation (and the importance of power levels). But the same folks will gab with a cell phone against their heads...
I think you make a good point--one that business types often overlook. Its extremely daunting to begin duct taping a startup together though. Your options are never optimal. I've spent nearly 2 years (on and off) banging and hammering on Drupal to try and make it do something non-trivial. I'm proud of what I've been able to do, but I can't help but think what I could be capable of if I devoted that time to learning to program the right way.

With that being said, I would highly recommend Drupal as a reasonable way for a non-technical type to piece something together. The community that supports the project is pretty top notch IMO.
Recent studies suggest that music may be a detriment to coding, but I still use it anyway. Playing around with the soundtrack from Inception. Its interesting....
OS X has the Spotlight which people use in the same way: one hot-key, two letters to find your app by name, and enter.
Or you could try their Request for Startups: http://ycombinator.com/rfs.html
Yes, and I have a patent pending on it.
If you're in your 30s or 40s now, and a geek, then there's a high probability that your youthful discretions are documented online but your peers aren't because they simply weren't online in the the 80s and 90s. What you say may be true, but it only applies to people who are teenagers right now.
You could always run a CDN to add your own guarenteed-up nodes for this scenario.
I think they're trying to be more than a $20m company on $32m in funding.
> Tests are of course very important, but when the coder begins to fetishize testing and write tests for the sake of writing tests, rather than to help pursue the project's goal, then it becomes a problem. I've been guilty of this earlier in my career and have seen quite a few other people do it too.

Any chance you could expand on this, especially the part about "I've been guilty of this earlier in my career".

I am interested in TDD because so many people are such huge advocates of it (although I've seen many people being huge advocates of all sorts of things over the years), and I have an open mind, but this article does nothing to convince me, in fact is reinforces my skepticism.

"The feeling of productivity because you are writing lots of code."

Never mind if that code is useful, as long as it makes you "feel good".

I'm open to being convinced, but I honestly don't have to spend a lot of time fixing and chasing down bugs in my code, and when I do, I can't imagine the wildly obscure and diverse tests I'd have to have written to actually catch them.

I've asked this before...if anyone has a genuinely convincing article advocating TDD for the uninformed, I'd love to read it. The typical response to this is read x, y z book and it will make sense. My response is, I've been writing software for 15+ years, if you have something to sell me, do I have to buy your book to get the idea? I'm willing to meet you halfway, but TDD advocates don't seem to have the same mindset.