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It's an interesting thing to wonder, but I don't think Google has the juice to do this right. Recent evidence at least would suggest that it's more likely to fail than succeed.
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What about a leaderboard or rankings for popular dishes. Users "vote" by taking pics of delicious food. Restaurants would be more likely to promote the site - "Eat.ly votes our cheesesteak best on the East Coast".

You could also run contests for users - each week a different dish. Submit the most beautiful salad, win a prize.

Finally, promoting the site through restaurant weeks might work out well. There are 120+ restaurants participating in Philly's restaurant week right now. Best photo wins another meal.
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I worked on SproutCore projects at Apple for a couple years on the iWork.com team.

A lot of the pros and cons are similar for any thick framework: if you buy into it, you get a lot of power and functionality for free, but you need to fully buy into it and play the game the framework is playing. When your mandate is to build a web app with the size and feel of a native app, SproutCore is a good choice.

SproutCore is in a class with GWT and Cappuccino in that it's a thick-client framework. It is quite a bit of code that enables you to build powerful applications, but only makes sense if you're building a complex application. It contrasts with a small library like JQuery that is very flexible but only provides the minimum required for bootstrapping an app. Both in principle and in design it's similar to building an app using Cocoa instead of just in C.

I'll echo others' statements about the code and documentation. The docs left something to be desired when I was working with SproutCore, but by reading the code, I became a better JavaScript developer.
Very cool stuff. I've toyed with the idea of trying to integrate menus into my app (iowacityaccess.com) and found it to be just too much content to handle. You should allow embeddable menus, both so restaurants can easily add a menu to their website and so I can :)
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We all have our personality quirks and I'm old enough to not be ashamed of mine. I hate it when people get to things really early. My friends learn this about me, just as I learn their quirks.
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Trading to move deals to particular books/desks is not the same as making money off internal groups. I suspect you're conflating these two points.
The most we can hope for, at this class of employee, is better auditing of their access logs.

And better selection of the people put into that position?

Is it indicative of the downside of Silicon Valley's youth culture that you can wind up in a position of "high trust and engineering seniority" at the age of 27? You don't see many 27-year-olds in other ultra-high-trust professions, do you?

Besides, this guy just looks creepy.
I can believe you'd want 100+ tabs open, but I can't believe that flash wouldn't have forced a crash with even a dozen long running instances, unless you have the build with the new integrated flash plugin.
The article is coming up 404 now. Google has it in their cache though:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sourceid=chrome...
Again, it's the distinction between accessing something you're not authorized to access and accessing something you are authorized to access but shouldn't.

If I break into google and poop on the floor of their server room, I can be arrested, but if one of their sysadmins gets in with their key and then poops on the floor of the server room, they can only be fired.
Wishful thinking? I know I want a Facebook "killer" to pop up soon. Network effects are what I hate & love most about the tech industry: why is it that something beautiful always has to be ruined once some player becomes big enough to dominate the space? PCs : Microsoft, Social Networking: Facebook, Mobile Apps: Apple
I wonder if Google Me will implement some search sharing elements and socialize the Google Search experience instead of offering another standard social network. A current web project of mine delves into this, but Google obviously has the resources to push this to the mainstream, similar to Google Instant, and make it much more valuable to users from the onset. It would be more risky than another standard social network, but much more relevant to their core search service. It's also interesting to speculate whether or not Google Me may be the social element around Google OS. We'll just have to wait and see.
I suppose it's the machine gun way of thinking. If you fire enough bullets at something, you're bound to hit it.

Same goes with Google releasing a bazillion products.
I have mixed feeling about this.... yet another attempt by Google to get social.

I read an article somewhere else that the reason Google doesn't get social is because of its "geek" culture (no offense to fellow geeks, I'm just quoting the original article). Because Google is so technology focused, it sometimes loses its grip on human interaction.

I can't say I'm totally agreeing with that article but it does make some sense. Wave for example, technologically excellent and revolutionary, but really hard to use for a non-tech person.
Google is one of the top 5 software companies in the world, it is chok-a-ful of world class talent including many of the luminaries in computer science, they are changing the world with massive innovation every year, and to top it off they are famous for their employee perks and flexibility ...

but you'd rather go work for zynga making dumb games?

To each his own I guess.
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Social gaming has consumed my life and now I request management. Bravo Google
There's something really strange about personal tracking - it seems like such a good idea, full of great potential for people, and yet the same problem happens over and over again - people start using it, fall off and never pick up.
What about Macs and Macbooks? they are making some serious progress over the last few years despite market domination by PCs for a long long time (almost everybody outside of design industry was using PCs). I think really great technology does eventually shine.

To be fair though, iPod and iPhone did play a big role to give Apple the "coolness" as a whole, perhaps that's the right strategy - attack from the sidelines.
I think Google has about 10,000 engineers, so this article is saying that over the past 5 years, approx 1% of Google engineers have moved to Facebook. I think this article is light on facts and high on sensationalism.

And it is "common knowledge" that Google has "very high churn and dissatisfaction rates"? Is that because Techcrunch or Valleywag says so? I think there is a large vocal minority of (in most cases) non-Google employees who are so quick to talk about how Google is a terrible place to work and everybody hates it. And internally at Google, there are a bunch of happy employees who just laugh at all the made up stories about how they are supposed to feel.

Look, people are going to leave Google. That is what is going to happen when you have a bunch of really young and talented engineers working in a big company, but don't think this is because Google is some terrible place to work. I'll bet the satisfaction rates of Google employees is among the highest of any large company.
Chrome does a pretty terrific job of surviving the Flash plugin — it doesn't let it get out of control nearly as much, when it does it only affects a few tabs, and if it dies or I kill it everything's peachy with black boxes where flash once was. It shits the bed a lot more on Linux by a large factor, but Chrome's countermeasures work just the same.

Flash video playback does stutter regularly on my ridiculously overpowered machine. Occasionally a group of tabs will pause from an obviously flash-related issue (the flash open file dialog has been causing me grief), but it recovers in a couple seconds. Once a month or so I have to kill the flash plugin process because it goes on a runaway malloc train, but it doesn't affect my tabsplosion at all — I just have to refresh a couple of them when having flash loaded again would serve some useful purpose.
Interesting. Are you saying that "statutory rape" is generally considered abhorrent in the US?

I'm not from US, and in my country the roughly equivalent (but different) crime is called "seduction". It's not nearly as bad as "rape", either legally or socially. A rapist might get lynched in prison, while nobody besides a 17yo girl's parents would care about a "seducer" nowadays.
Moral issues aside, unprotected sex with an adult would be much riskier than protected sex with a minor.

Would most American young men really say that they would never have consensual sex with a minor? Even if the guy is 18 and the girl is 17? My understanding is that most guys wouldn't do it in situations like a one-night-stand, when the perceived risky of being caught/charged is higher. But if the girl is their girlfriend I believe most guys would do it.
My parents are anthropologists, and you’re certainly sort of right. I maintain though that tracking dozens of drug dealers, cops, high-level city officials, newspaper reporters, unionized dockworkers letting drugs through as a side business, junior high students, etc. etc. would be almost impossible to do to the level of detail portrayed in The Wire – it would be difficult and dangerous work and you couldn’t get that kind of access (public officials don’t admit illegal activity as a rule), etc.

Of course, you’d be getting a glimpse at some real people, instead of a complete in-depth view of fictional ones.
Prediction: privacy nightmare.
The culture of worshiping people for being OK at their jobs is more than a little sickening. While not elucidating, the penis pic does make a valid point.
My read is like this:

Facebook / Netscape - Hotshot early player that does most of the early innovation, has near complete market penetration and doesn't quite hold on.

Google Me / IE4 - After a few feeble attempts, the product that successfully takes over through a combination of (a) being forced upon a gargantuan installed base and (b) being a pretty decent product, as a result of the prior iterations.
Ask Yahoo how that worked out for them.
or a Dell Mini 10v?
Because the US spends so much money on production value that we can't compete and just dub stuff. While these dubs are really high quality, I personally find awful to watch them since a lot of jokes or puns get lost in translation :(
anybody has the instant.js file? the link for it does not seem to be working anymore:

http://feross.net/instant/instant.js

??

thnx
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I see what's going on here. Mozilla's trace compilation approach has a lot of startup overhead but produces extremely fast optimized code for inner loops. Therefore, their benchmark includes compute-intensive tests with long-running inner loops to amortize out the costs of JIT compilation and focus on the raw speed of the generated code, where they beat Chrome.

(Note that I'm not saying this is unfair or biased at all. This is a good set of benchmarks to have.)
Ask HN: Starting an individual consultancy
I have been working in the same (highly specialized) area of software engineering for nearly 20 years, and am now considering the prospect of moving into consulting in this area. I will probably not make the move for the next year or two, as I would like to research the prospects, brush up on some related skills, and know what I am getting into.

I am wondering if there are others who have made a similar move, and what advice they have.

Is there any chance of being successful these days in a consulting company where you are the only employee?

Keep in mind that in all likelihood I will be working on one of a couple open source projects, or updating already constructed proprietary software - it's very unlikely that I would be asked to design and construct a new piece of software as it's tens of person-years of effort in this area. As a result, companies that hire me would not be completely screwed if I were to die a horribly tragic death, so being the only person in this consulting company wouldn't have the same drawbacks it might have in other instances.

Also - there tends to be a regular trickle of contract positions in this particular area - I just don't want to work for someone else if I can manage it (although I might be open to that if it's the only way to swing getting out of a full-time gig - take a couple six month contracts a year with a month or so break in between each).

My goals are to be able to work remotely, and take some time off occasionally (more than the 3-5 weeks/year I have gotten in my last couple positions - perhaps more like 6-10 weeks/year), and if possible do a little travel while working remotely (I know, probably pushing my luck on this one). I currently pull down approx $200k + a small amount of stock, and I don't necessarily need to clear that much, but if I am taking care of my own healthcare, etc., I do want to make sure that after all of that I am not too far below that (let's say $140k).

Your thoughts and feedback are appreciated.
Still, once a startup finds a repeatable, scalable customer acquisition process, it's hard to see much need for angel investors.

I disagree. What's more, I think you do, too. You said as much a sentence earlier: Even with income and more and more customers signing up, you may still need money to expand at the rate you want.

If you've got a repeatable, scalable customer acquisition strategy, more money in means more customers (and profit) out. In other words, you've built the money machine-- now you use angel money to get it running full speed.
It’s a pretty strained analogy either way, but it’s much more like saying studying protein folding is hard so we use some mix of (only roughly accurate) mathematical models and (imprecise, difficult to collect) experimental data, and hope we get close enough to still draw some meaningful conclusions.
How exactly are they evil? They borrow your money at a certain rate, and loan it to other people at a higher rate?
This is how I usually browse hulu.

I love good URL design. I think hulu was pointed in this direction by its use of Rails.
Hack Olark (s09) to load after document ready
I am seriously disappointed with how the skin tone issue was blown off in about half a sentence. I understand that there is great variability in Japanese ethnic skin tone, but it seems like the majority of Japanese have a dusky skin tone while the majority of anime characters have a very pale skin tone.
The beat detection section was most interesting to me, as I spent a lot of time trying (and mostly failing) to do reliable beat detection when I was in high school for an XMMS plugin. It amazes me that this is now possible in a web browser.
Load Olark and really any other third party script after the DOM is ready!
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Useless unless double-blind. Kids will make shit up to prove the point that they want to prove.

Personally I find time spent away from the internet to be very pleasant; it's just a matter of engineering sufficient distractions.
Thank you for your kind words and explanation. Are you preferring some other sites over HN? Could you please tell us more?
Is hiding your wireless SSID really more secure?
The post no longer mentions SproutCore, instead referring to "a new startup in the mobile applications space." A comment mentioning SproutCore remains, however.
I think so. For the non UX crowd or those starting out. You have to start understand the issues at hand somehow.

Anecdotes are stories. Stories are great ways to communicate complex issues in an easy to digest manner.

It may not be ground breaking insightful; but still relevant.
And your network! Right?
I have talked to 15 iphone 4 users, and they are really happy with the device. CR is trying to stay ideological here, whereas in practice this issue does not have any significant impact. CR also may be just wanting some attention (eyeballs) here.

If you look at the list of so many positive points of the phone, the small antenna issue is of hardly any significance in the overall evaluation of this phone.
We can only hope that Google Millenium Edition lives up to the awesome legacy left behind by Windows ME.
But Google already has one successful product, which Yahoo didn't.

It's more like MS. We all remember how badly Bob and those new phones failed. But they went from 0-to-success on the gaming console market, and they did it by capitalizing on their already-successful product ("Hey windows developers, click here to compile your existing game for xbox 360!")
> "Before I go on, it's worth mentioning that many websites are already moving towards practically URL-free navigation in the form of Java- and Flash-based input and navigation."

That's simply bad design. I would say opposite – the trend is towards friendly URLs. And seriously, I don't remember seeing Java-based (applet) navigations since 1999.

While I love the URLs in string form, I agree that they could have less cryptic syntax, e.g. "web:com.google/path/to/resource". (Yes, I'm aware of the historical reasons for the current syntax.)
Here a good explanation by Avi Bryant of what is Gemstone Smalltalk:

http://www.avibryant.com/2008/03/ive-had-a-numbe.html
I think its fair to say google has more than one successful product.
I think I asked for it last time we saw this here, but this really needs a way to parse standard text-based tabs.

There are hundreds of thousands of songs already transcribed in a (somewhat) standard format that this thing can't yet read. It would seem a logical step to get it reading them.

The TabStave format that this thing reads might make sense to programmers, but I'd bet your average guitar player couldn't make sense of it. As a result, I can't imagine we'll see much music transcribed using this pretty library unless somebody comes up with a graphical editor or a way to read the existing format.
I tried sproutcore for a project about 2 years ago and couldn't make the table widget work with page up, down etc.

Instead I finalized on qooxdoo - http://qooxdoo.org/ and was impressed with it and the mailing list was and is responsive and the developers from 1&1 quick to fix any bugs I found :)

And I finally had the table widget I always wanted with keyboard shortcuts for all the things I wanted.

Of course, it could be me not knowing enough to make sproutcore's table widget work like I wanted, since I was only a beginner in JS back then.

Edit: The demo at http://demo.sproutcore.com/table_view/ for the table still doesn't work with page up or page down. Maybe the feature is there, but not enabled for this demo.
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I have been working in the same (highly specialized) area of software engineering for nearly 20 years

First question: how many potential customers have you come in contact with? Presumably, after 20 years you know the niche: how many companies are there out there that would be interested in hiring your services?

Next question: Any way you can build any "name recognition" in the niche? This is where "personal branding" becomes a good idea-- I'd start blogging, if I were you, and participating in conferences, etc.

The hardest part about being a one-man consultancy is customer acquisition. If you can create a situation where the customers are coming to you, asking you to work for them, you're golden. So: start from there, and work backwards-- how can you make that happen, in two years?
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"Furthermore there is no such exemption for trademark or patent infringement in any legal system that I'm familiar with, but I'm happy to be proven wrong on that"

UK Patents Act 1977, Sec. 60 (5) (a): "An act which, apart from this subsection, would constitute an infringement of a patent for an invention shall not do so if -
(a) it is done privately and for purposes which are not commercial;"

As to trademark infringement I agree that there is no explicit exemption for private use. But on the other hand I think it is not necessary - trademark infringement is putting trademarked goods on the market so it's not private by definition.
You think Steve Jobs is clever??? :/ You must be on drugs.

Saying something was important isn't the same as saying it's beneficial or good. For example, some people often say the following:

"The best thing that happened for me was getting put in jail"
"The best thing that happened for me was getting thrown out by my wife"

That doesn't mean people should take that as advice.
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Santa Cruz is another option, though I'm biased since I live here and like it. ;-) It's actually closer than most of the rest of the livable options if you work in the Cupertino/San Jose/Santa Clara area. You do have to get used to driving Hwy-17, but on a good day it's 35 mins driving, or 60 mins on the Hwy-17 bus (which has free wifi), versus 60-90 min driving to get to San Jose from Oakland or SF. And there's beach.
People walk down the street stinking of it. If you want to rot your brain with drugs, good luck.
Yahoo has Yahoo.com, a product that brings in hundreds of millions of users even now. A day or two of placement in the home page is more than enough to launch any product.
There are many many countries you cannot use Android marketplace at all.
Agreed. Unfortunately we seem to be the minority amongst pot head idiots.
Amen, brother.

I don't know how I ever managed multiple projects before RVM. Thinking back, I don't think I'd ever call what I was doing "management"...
Valleywag was blacklisted early on, and Gawker has been too at least as long as Valleywag has been reintegrated into it. Plenty of other domains are blacklisted too: http://infoworld.com has been for some time, http://oppugn.us/ got added fairly recently, http://www.kungfugrippe.com/ got added after a (wholly justified) rant about Scribd (YC S06!).