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I think one of Facebook's biggest problems right now is that for most people it's still a place where all your friends are lumped together, whether it's your mother or your college roommate.

I think they have lists for segmenting friends but unless they can make Facebook grouping friends the core of their product, they're going to get the friend overload and intermixing of friends problem for the majority of its users.

Facebook succeeded because it was all about your college friends at first, and only people you actually knew. Linkedin's success is proof that we don't want to mix all our acquaintances into one identity site. If they can't make it dead simple to segment our Facebook usage based on our friend circles, then there's going to be some big problems ahead.
All this thread I thought you were criticizing Arrington as having been genuinely offensive!

(Note to self: avoid pronouns in replies, so anaphor collisions are recognized asap.)
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Include tornado framework in consideration if you are starting out. I just love it - lightweight yet powerful. I just love how helpful Ben Darnell and folks who are maintaining the framework.

The latest YC fav kid, hipmunk.com is built using tornado.
You're not using FB for professional networking, are you?

No, there is Linkedin for that.
You are not buying a reader. You are "buying" a content provider. Think about this carefully.

Although I am an enthusiastic Amazon customer, I have a nook and I hope this is a fight that Amazon doesn't win. I hate the fact that Amazon has adopted an essentially closed format, whose licence forbids it from being on the same device as any other format. B&N has made a lot of efforts to be reasonably open, adopting ePUB, encouraging Adobe to adopt so-called "social DRM" and so on.

Principles aside, I really like my nook, and haven't noticed any availability issues with respect to the B&N selection - perhaps I am a boring reader.
This would make for an interesting movie script.
Well, the first thing is like the post said: Ruby 1.9's string encoding support is much, much better. For more on this, see wycats' post here: http://yehudakatz.com/2010/05/17/encodings-unabridged/

Secondly, Rails 3 has some tricks up its sleeve, with things like the Rails Snowman: http://railssnowman.info/
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That's very much dependent on where you live, and what you like to eat/cook.

I used to cook at a 2 Michelin starred restaurant, I can whip something up fast and delicious if I wanted to and it's still much more worthwhile for me to work instead of cook myself food, almost all of the time. Especially since in Brooklyn you can feed yourself amazing food for $5-8 a meal.
I interpret it as thinking Microsoft as a whole is the dark mine, and MSR is the gem.
Why is it Helvetica? Sort of negates the whole point of letting that handful of words speak for itself, doesn't it?
That's not exactly a trap though, is it now? After all I take it they did that deal willingly.
"“I plan to work past 100 but to do so I may have to learn to think outside the box,” Buffett tellls Deal Journal."

Pun intended?
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Yep, be satisfied with who you are today (on the whole) and who you are on the day of your death. Recogonize now, the urge to speculate on what more you could have done as just another urge. Naturally, when one is dying and their own life is becoming scare in their own estimation, their longing for meaningful activities is going to be heightened. I'd argue that the more one has experienced in life, the more intense this longing will be. How many times can one go around and say final farewells to cherished friends? Never enough!

I try to read a lot of fiction, old and new, but I know that when I'm close to death, I'm liable to be choked up about those dozen or so books that I never got around to reading. Someone who doesn't like fiction will probably not think at all about what they never got around to think about reading. We're all that way about our own set of cares and don't cares, so none of the wishes and regrets are ever cosmically meaningful anyway.
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This is almost exactly what actually happened with WebShots (only with smaller amounts of cash).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webshots
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Has anyone here been to this in the past? If so, how did you find it and is it worth going to?
This is very cool! It's addictive to keep adding words.

If you start at the edge and build outwards, it seems pretty easy to go on indefinitely, continuing to add on points without even thinking of particularly high-scoring words. Maybe there should be a clearer goal? Get a high average score in addition to a high total? Get a high score using up all of the tiles in a normal scrabble set?
Funny, see, if we really had this gender equality nobody would think twice of it, after all the women are equally capable at combat right?

But we've never seen 'setting up hundreds of your men to be slaughtered by your enemies' as a ridiculous strategy.

They're both ridiculous strategies, and yet we routinely deploy the one and are horrified at the other.

The 'children' bit is just a strawman, as are the 'buses' to use them as human shields. We're talking about prejudice here, and why just changing sex seems to have an effect over and beyond the competence angle.
When some oppressive hellhole styles itself the People's Democratic Republic Of Wherever, everyone sees through the ruse rather than blaming its failings on actual democracy. I don't see why communism is held to a different standard. There weren't any secret police disappearances or corrupt apparatchiki in Marx's advocacy, were there?
They've been yammering about that for two years already. Maybe it just slipped his mind, as it hasn't been news for two years now.
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It runs in user space, indeed. As root.
because controlled trials that involve large groups of people are very difficult to actually control.
Communism's aim was always the abolition of the state. Technically, communist countries were what Marx called dictatorships of the proletariat, which he thought was a transition stage between capitalism and communism. This transition never occurred, so Chomsky is correct.
Way to go! Single-person teams are really in a minority here. I like the idea and your design is clean. Upvoted.
Node Knockout was a hell of a lot of fun. Joyent should get mad props for opening up their space like they did (and if you were in the crowd who couldn't make it, try to do so next time, provided they do it again - totally worth it!).

My team and I made http://nodeknockout.com/teams/anansi, which was pretty fun to work on. Actually gave me a lot of material for some writing, because there's quite a bit of hackery we ended up doing behind the scenes to get it to work properly. Extremely fun to push new tech like this.
> CISCO might want Skype just for the brand and userbase, since it already has a VOIP platform

hmm, with at&t as well as verizon legally allowing skype on their networks, i think it is much more than that. also, with 4g (sic) lte networks ims voice seems to be a long way away...

edit: at least one (high profile) cisco exec has moved into skype too.
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I think it's important to note, though, that ageism in Japanese recruiting isn't restricted to Programming by any stretch of the imagination.
Additionally, there seems to be a view of Programming as more of a vocational field here - likely related to the small number of schools with 4 year Computer Science programs.
I think it's kind of apples-to-oranges, but definitely some food for thought.
The only real data we have are the effects of the 1859 solar storm (ask your favorite search engine, my stupid phone still has no copy and paste), which carried enough EMF to burn up telegraph lines. So we have one dangerous event in 150 years (before mid-19th century there was no infrastructure to notice these events), which gives you some limits on the probability (you can quite confidently exclude the probability 0), but apart from that, we don't now enough about the inner workings of the sun to make accurate predictions.
they create lots of wealth for a small group, at the expense of a much larger group.

PG does a good job of explaining why this is not true in his essay, "Mind the Gap"

http://www.paulgraham.com/gap.html

The poor get richer too. Just at a slower rate.
Maybe the publishers to realise this and react first will be the best placed going forward. Maybe there is some space for a startup which provided authors with high quality services. Similar to a rentacoder but you would probably want to develop strong contacts and position it for quality.
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Rough rule of thumb that works wonders:

Write/modify code.

Run program and/or ensure that codepath is executed.

Did it do what you intended?

If yes, figure out what's wrong about it, fix it, retry.

If no, move on to next item on your agenda. (Possibly first doing a quick refactor to improve readability, etc.)
And that is the problem with communism: in a society with any scarcity, human nature will take over. Even in a small society with very strong moral leadership and social and philosophical unity, it is a challenge[1]. I do wonder what would have happened to Orderville if Congress would have left the early Utah pioneers alone.

[1] http://historytogo.utah.gov/utah_chapters/pioneers_and_cowbo...
Maybe a museum outside the U.S, can help. There is one in my old hometown in Germany. It is the biggest computer museum in the world and they have a cray-1. http://en.hnf.de
I could see that being true from a certain perspective. Many authors see themselves as being in a strange B2B market, where they function as manuscript producers, whose job is to sell manuscripts to manuscript-consuming businesses. The fact that the manuscripts are then used as raw-material inputs to manufacture products for a different market (printed books sold to readers via bookstores) isn't irrelevant, but can feel a bit disconnected.
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From the article: "On[e] exception [to non-age discrimination in silicon valley?] is YC, but PG did make clear about the chance of anybody above 35 in one of his essays."

Does anyone know which essay this refers to? A quick google search only brought up [1] which says: "Paul [...] said that while this [young grads fresh out of college] was more common, they fund the full age spectrum."

[1] http://www.cloudave.com/link/at-age-35-mozart-was-dead
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Can I recommend JA Konrath's blog to you? He is big on self-publishing, primarily because his one-man backlist is currently paying him six figures just on Kindle profits, a sharp improvement over a decade of miflist published authordom.

Ironically, I am writing this having tasked switched from one of your books on my Kindle. I love Amazon. They gave me the Kindle, from which springs joy and happiness and space Nazis. Your publisher? Meh, adds less value to me than the hosting company for a blog I'm reading. (I understand that they edit, whee, but it matters nothing to me whether the editor works on salary for them or on contract for you.)
It's TechCrunch. Lower your expectations.
where did you host this?
> In other words are Europeans just afraid of looking bad, poor or stingy in front of others in a restaurant and Americans just don't care?

I don't care what people think, but restaurants that don't do takeaway simply don't have containers to take food home. I've been to 10 restaurants this month, and none did takeaway.

Besides, a half-eaten reheated meal doesn't sound very appetizing. The sauce will have congealed or soaked up by the food, the pastry gotten soggy, etc. etc.
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That's exactly where I make that distinction.

Then again, I came through college just as Facebook started picking up steam (my freshman year was in '05 when the number of college networks expanded from a couple dozen to practically everywhere). It's been, by original use (and force of habit), solely a personal networking site in my eyes.

Things may have been different for me if I didn't join until after the "universities only" days, but then again, LinkedIn and Twitter had already gained plenty of traction in the "professional networking" arena by then -- and that's where I do most of my professional outreach (in terms of social networking sites).
> 80 MHz

It runs a bit slower, he's got it pegged at 33 MHz in the article linked elsewhere, the 80 Mhz was the original machine.

Absolutely awesome project, even if not very useful, the guy must have pretty amazing skills to re-implement all this 'on the side'.
My summary: Publishers do a lot of things authors need. They're like companies that "hire" programmers in a way - they give programmers a more direct route from "writing code" to "making money". Sure, some programmers could go and create a startup, but the vast majority prefer working for someone else.

In a similar way, publishers provide authors with a few important things:

* Editors

* Fact-checkers

* Marketing

* A filter for the public against bad books

* Legal help and protection

* Most importantly, an advance. This means guaranteed money for the author, regardless of the book being a success. Publishers can afford this by "funding" lots of authors. Without this, a lot of authors could probably never keep working long enough to make a decent living.

My biggest takeaway is that there are a lot of problems going from the old world of publishers, to the perhaps-inevitable future. Startups which attack any of the things above which publishers provide authors, but do so in an innovative way, could become huge and successful, and help define the future.
I think the point of this & related threads is simply to make people aware of the attitudes defacto policies that exist, so you can be aware of them if your life choice is to remain what is euphemistically called an "individual contributor" into your middle and later years.
Publishers are damn thieves, at least as far as educational textbooks go. A decent portion of a student's budget is in books. It's a waste of money and tree pulp. Full disclosure: I teach a programming course or two at a local university.
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Linkedin doesn't actually work (or do anything useful) for folks in my profession. Caveat: if you don't have a fan page on Facebook, you're probably not in my profession.
"For a complete explanation of the dangers of managers with the wrong kind of ambition, I strongly recommend Dr. Suess’s management masterpiece Yertle the Turtle."

For those who like me want to fill in this hole in their education: http://www.archive.org/details/jessyertletheturtlepodcast
Yes, ActiveRecord is a joy to use, while Django's ORM is years behind.

Right. No.
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I suppose I'd probably read it somewhere, but it reminds me what a huge gap there used to be between supercomputers and anything else in raw horsepower. 80 MHz in 1976! Workstation-class machines only achieved those clock speeds around 1991-92, and the Pentium hit that speed in 1994. Not directly comparable (very different architectures), but still I think a bigger gap than currently exists between top-end consumer equipment and top-end big iron when you look at single CPUs (big iron of course scales up to much higher multiprocessing).
TDD folks will ask you to write tests first, then code. At least, for the example you used to make your question concrete, I'd first collect data I can use for testing before writing test code. You can even ask around for data.

Doing this helps me a lot 'cos by the time I have the data collected, I usually have a rather good idea of what code to write and edge cases even before writing a slew of tests for it.

If you're writing a data structure + algos for it, then think of a data format for storing and loading that structure so you can do the data collection in that format first. It'll also help write tests greatly.

Scripting languages are great ways to test your code, even if it is in C/C++. Learning to bind native code to some scripting language such as python helps a ton.
It's a pretty accurate picture, TCrunch, but there's also the problem of Live TV - that's where Hulu could already join forces with the likes of Justin.tv and really goes out on a full scale war. But then again, big media is gonna be a tough sell on it and yay another format and DRM war.

There is definitely a new AD model at work - there will probably be location based ADs for all we know. I mean, you still watch TV in your living room only?
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you can always press the fork button

I have. I've forked my attention to Haskell and JavaScript, among other things.
yeah probably. His tweet came about an hour after this submission :)
Coming from a hardware designer, I would say just focus on mastery of Python and C. As far as technologies go, only learn what you need to do the job in front of you. You can spend years reading books and online documentation about this or that framework and never turn any of it into useful output. Remember Kipling: "think... but do not make thoughts your aim."

As far as fundamental knowledge goes, I would recommend for any software guy to do a rigorous study of computer architecture. Wrapping your head completely around how digital computers actually compute things will serve you well throughout your career.
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I'm just curious - kinda interesting actually.
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The main reason for the death of the product was the debacle between the two companies from day 1. I would have certainly purchased one if it was released by Techcrunch.
Well I can name one place where portions are exactly the right size and it's McDonald's. E.g., cheeseburger plus the Caesar salad w/o chicken, plus french fries plus two apple pies plus a coke is about half the size of a meal in a regular restaurant. Which of course doesn't stop people like my girlfriend from bashing McDonald's as non-healthy and preferring places where "gourmet" burgers range from 1/3 to 1lb, i.e., the smallest one is bigger than the quarter-pounder.
The site isn't loading for me, but how is it different from http://rdoc.info ?

edit: rdoc.info is down, too. I think they're the same site. Nevermind!
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Some old Buddhist sayings is "Concepts act as robbers, consciousness becomes waves". So, one should avoid memorizing sayings and living inside conceptual consciousness. ^_^

Concepts are just tools. The map is not a territory.
Can't help but notice the lack of Padrino (http://www.padrinorb.com/) on this list. Granted, it's a layer on top of Sinatra... It's really quite fantastic. Please do look, and run the stack on 1.9.2 :)
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I've always liked a variation of that from Tom Lehrer: "It's people like that who make you realize how little you've accomplished. It is a sobering thought, for example, that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years."
Thank you, panda. That was the joke.
I trust Zuckerberg to not steal my ideas - just like I trust Calacanas to not run a spammy bot created website!

In other words: It takes a rat to know one...
I get annoyed when companies that provide the "Next-Gen" of some kind of technology claim to be open for their systems to be attacked in an educational and controlled environment, but fail to do so. Specifically, this sentence:

> Ribordy and Zavriyev stress that the open versions of their systems that are sold to university researchers are not the same as those sold for security purposes, which contain extra layers of protection.

Granted, I can see how they would be unwilling to provide the same system to a school or university that they do to a company that pays them full price. They are a business. It sounds more like "Thank you Mario, but our princess is in another castle!"
A language community needs to be robust enough to look after these things. This is not the same thing as, nor does it require, "beating" other languages. Even accounting for limited time and attention from interested developers this is not a zero-sum situation.

Language communities do not need to push for a monoculture in tools and frameworks to be robust; cultures that avoid this are much healthier in the long run.
Awesome! I'm sure even Apple will solve it as they know HTML 5 is going to be a big part of the future.
My reply: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goc4COUe1Z4

(I for one would much rather be stolen by Facebook than Mahalo.)
It is uncommon here in the netherlands. My mom had a gastric bypass when i was very little but even at the age of 7 to 12 i alway felt emberessed when my mom asked for a doggy bag. Even our european sizes were way too much for her. Here it is/was almost concidered a sign of being poor and having no manners. I now think its super cool off her to go against the social stigma and is able to enjoy a restaurant meal for 2 to 3 days.
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What is flex? I'd just go with 0 or Studio as it is much more common on rental website search forms.
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I was in the same state of WTF until I asked about it a friend of mine, who was the CEO of one of larger Boston startups. It took him a couple of minutes to crunch the numbers in his MBA head and to show that eBay's purchase price was reasonable.

Apparently it was a viable business transaction when it was conducted (excluding the not-purchasing-the-core-technology part).
Ask HN: I created something cool-- how do I get the word out?
I don't have any particularly well-connected blogger/twitter/other media friends and I don't have a budget to spend on advertising. I've posted a link on HN, although it didn't get much attention. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe what I made isn't that cool... this is certainly a possibility. (I tend to find odd things interesting.) But, the question remains-- how do you get the word out?

What's the cool thing? It's a Facebook app called Nearby Friends that plots Facebook Check-Ins on a Google Map. (shameless plug)

http://apps.facebook.com/nearbyfriends
MMORPGs are for losers. For a winner life itself is a the best RPG.

btw, posting things to HN (and especially down-voting) are just a different kind of RPG. ^_^

TV is watching someone else's play.
meh. love what you want for your own reasons. my mac does widescreen displays just fine, so does my win7 notebook. they also both suck in their own ways. build your own perfect machine if you're so damn picky, then you can't blame anyone but yourself.