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CP/M was very important in the small-business microcomputer space, offering a measure of compatibility other platforms couldn't. Minis lived above that space and didn't compete directly with micros in the small-business.

The home computer space was much more fragmented and was where Apple, Commodore, Atari, BBC, Amstrad and Sinclair competed. BBC, Amstrad and Sinclair were important only in Europe, further fragmenting that market. It later became dominated by the same IBM-PC clones that took over small businesses.
For whoever downvoted Patrick, he's referring to the gaping security holes that are in this release. Nobody should be running publicly accessible seeds yet unless they want their boxen to get pwnt.
Slight misunderstanding. It's a PHP webapp that is an ad server. Not a web server. Having seen the codebase... it's evil.
What iDevices support this (video 'broadcasting')?

What H.264 encoding is used (profile, level)?

What bitrate do you aim for? Is it different for 3G vs 802.11g/n?

What framerate/resolution?

Thanks for the opportunity to ask!
I agree in cases like the voting machine image, but most of the other examples (and the rampant attempts to pass off shopped images as real for political or other reasons) make me think it can never go very far, much less "too much" the other way.
Yes and yes. We detect and use a hardware encoder on Android whenever one is present. It isn't always there, so we fall back to software encoding if we have to.
Then at least put a "no spam" text of some sort there. I find it hard to trust my email with a service if they don't even bother telling me that they won't abuse my email. I think you'll collect more emails that way.

Also emphasize how job offerers can put a word about a job out there using your service. I think that a small text in the footer is not enough.
That's one of the examples.
> Are you arguing that his foundation is some kind of elaborate scam?

I wouldn't rule that out. It has donated Microsoft products (in markets where alternatives could gain a foothold) and money for vaccines (we shouldn't forget Gates has a lot invested in the biotech sector). In the end, some of those donations return to him.

I am not saying his philanthropism is inherently evil. I am just acknowledging the possibility it's may not be completely devoid of self-interest.
Here's one I've always liked, along the same lines, that tends to make even the most committed utilitarians pause:

You need to build a driveway up to your new house, and there are two possible routes, each one with a single maple tree in the way. One of the trees is very old, but quite healthy, standing at least 50 feet high. The other was just planted a few months ago, so is still quite small.

You're not the one that's going to cut the trees down, and the cost to do so will be the same in both cases (let's say that the higher cost to cut down the bigger tree is offset by the fact that the person cutting it down wants the wood for himself) - which tree do you cut down, and why?

Now, this doesn't seem like a moral issue. Almost everyone would cut down the smaller tree, for several reasons: it would take less time to grow a new one of the same size, we wouldn't be destroying as much previous "work", etc. Very logical, can't really argue with it.

But I lied. When I said "maple tree", what I really meant was "human", and when I said "you need to build a path to your house," what I really meant was "we're all in a flimsy lifeboat, there's a nasty shark circling, and it wants it some tasty human gubbins[1], so we either need to toss overboard the 50 year old award winning medical research doctor with a loving family of six waiting for him at home, or a newborn baby. Or else we all die!"

[Edit: As I pointed out in response to some of the comments, I probably should have made the doctor younger, to avoid questions about whether he's already used up most of his potential. I'd encourage you to think about what age he'd need to be to change your decision...]

Anyone here actually willing to stand up and say they'd toss the baby? Because from a pure utilitarian point of view, it's the logical thing to do - a newborn baby is a roll of the dice, likely to turn out as a completely average adult, with zero expected value above and beyond any other newborn baby that the same couple has, so they might as well just make another one. OTOH the professor has proven himself to be near the top of the usefulness curve, and the expected value of his remaining years is likely far greater than that of the newborn, even after we factor in the mother's grief over losing her baby.

It's a rare person that would actually make the choice to toss the baby - I certainly don't think I could, but I can't really pin down my logic to anything more compelling (in a rational sense) than "But it's a baby, for God's sake, it just feels so wrong!"

[1]: A strained extension of the term "gubbins" (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/gubbins) outside its usual meaning? Perhaps. But screw it, "gubbins" just sound like they would be so damned tasty, I stand firmly behind my use of the word.
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I think CDDL would potentially be a better license. That would force returns on existing files in the project (keeping it from going closed), but if you have your own changes outside of those files, you should be OK (allowing you to commercialize your enhancements).
I'm on my 2nd GWT app.

GWT's downside is that you're now making a rich client, and, IMHO, rich clients are a PITA compared to web 1.0/web 2.0 apps that just generate HTML on the server-side.

A rich client generally means you aren't sending HTML across the wire anymore, you're sending objects (json/xml/whatever), which adds a whole new layer of serialization and deserialization to your app. Even if GWT "solves" the technical side of serialization for you, you're (typically) still getting/setting data in/out of a lot of DTOs.

A rich client also generally means you're doing fancy validation/event driven coolness that, for me anyway, takes a lot more time to get right than just "here's a text box, have fun".

So, yeah, you'll get really slick apps with it, but I would be hesitant to use it if you're not certain you need a gmail-style one-page app.
In a previous life I worked at a company [1] doing things similar to this [2]. It was great to see it put to use in the 7/7 London bombings, and it certainly helped save a few lives over the years.

When I left a couple of years ago we were putting the finishing touches to a new version which was much improved, but it looks like that never launched.

[1] http://citysafe.org

[2] http://communitysafe.gov.uk/
C- Everyone in a smaller company will ultimately have to sell the products, the vision, or the job at some point. Quality social skills count. They may end up being a pain to work with later as well.
Just curious. Is Go being used for any major project yet?
Weather bug app does this but it's Opt in. First thing my parents want installed on their phone.

I use it b/c I rarely watch live tv or listen to the radio.

Not sure about the " a system to push emergency alerts directly to mobile phones based on their location without the need for the person to opt-in." Seems a little too big brother to me.
Thanks, that makes it sound more appealing. I'd be happy to beta test (contact info is in my profile).
Your mechanic might hate that too. One difference between software and hardware is that you can't just revert the checkin that cracked your cylinder head when you were over-revving the engine to see if you could make the ping louder.
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Sorry about that. I updated my post. I am in the US, have a green card, full time job, looking at doing this on the side.
Does anyone know how I can download/buy the SaaS theme [1]? It looks quite good.

[1] http://saas-wp-i.worryfreelabs.com/
> Many want to be judged on their comments alone.

Ideas should not be judged by anything other than what they are.

> So I was wondering if you had done anything in your career that I would consider hard. If you had, I might be inclined to give your comments more respect than they deserve on their face.

The respect you give to my comments is not important to me. You may give the respect you think they deserve, for I will not give your thoughts any more respect than I think they deserve.

> so you have no standing to criticize Gates in my book.

You must know your book is not a very important one for anyone but you.
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It sounds, to me at least, like he did a very poor job of actually putting this "opportunity" in proper context. More often than not this type of behavior is a failure of the CEO rather than the board.

As a technical founder I'm really well aware of it. After all, I'm constantly pushing projects that my non-technical partner (and by extension our board) really doesn't grok. Things like site security, more robust backups, improvements to the software stack... these are all things that don't really show up in any visible way within the product but they're all crucially important. It's my job to put the risks in proper context and help him understand that. It's his job to learn, understand, and help me make better decisions as well. I've often championed projects that addressed risks that weren't worth the effort to properly deal with. I need him to reign me in when that happens.

I think it's far to shallow to say "well they don't understand so their just flailing about trying to turn it into things they do comprehend." Assuming that you've assembled the right board and the right investors it's much more likely that you've done a poor job of engaging them in the topic. To them the advisor LOOKS like a commodity because from their position he is.
I don't see why a qualified programmer from another country couldn't charge $35 either, and I don't see why people should not be able to set their own prices based on that quality.

I'm sure the market will find a way to accommodate the price/quality relationship without adding restrictions like this.
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I wrote this thing "on the complexity of sock-matching" a few years back: http://www.mail-archive.com/kragen-tol@canonical.org/msg0008...

It was more about the problem of matching socks when I put them away, but the same principle applies.
Aside from businesses, I don't know anyone with a landline :)
This gave me a headache, and here's why: it's assuming a dichotomy where none may exist.

For instance, I may believe that we should be as consistent as possible in our moral views because society functions better that way. This is a utilitarian argument, but it has deontological implications. Likewise I may feel that my absolute morals requires me always to sacrifice one person for the many. This is a moralistic position which looks like harsh determinism.

Or -- as implied here -- we can just make it up as we go along, mixing and matching.

This study did nothing to disentangle these terms, choosing instead to define them in such broad and contrasting ways as to create a question where none (or a much deeper one) exists.

In short, you should study what you can clearly separate and identify. To do otherwise is to waste your time. And ours.
The select a location does not render properly on iPhone. The cities list cuts off.
If someone asked me that I'd push them over the edge!
That one bugged me, too. Unlike all the other examples, that photo was manipulated to make it obvious that it was a "photo illustration". The only apparent controversy is the context in which the photo appeared. I found an article with more info:

http://www.sptimes.com/2005/03/26/Southpinellas/The_few__the...

It sounds like some of the marines and their parents are upset, but they don't have much recourse, since the marine base allows the press to photograph the troops without their permission. The one issue that might have been trouble for Harper's was, ironically, the obvious photo manipulation, which is forbidden in the terms of the stock photo license.
This is very well thought out and presented. Even though the internet hasn't reached everyone in the world, cell phones certainly are. I could see this being picked up by someone outside of the US where it hits a little closer to home

I have actually talked to folks who are working on something similar specific to africa I believe. And I've done a little thought in this area as well.

I think this approach for a business would make a lot of sense, and probably would get scooped up by one of the larger players in global mobile infrastructure pretty quickly. Hope your plan falls into the right hands, though I imagine the scope of such tech is a little beyond the typical YC-type startup?
>if you hold strong opinions be prepared to apologize with grace.

I'm quoting this from now on. Can I attribute it to you? (I understand your reservation to giving out a real name over HN. Pls email me at this username at gmail.)
Not in the third world.
From a usability perspective you should add more technologies and make the textarea itself bigger.

I can appreciate the need to control the terms you are allowed to choose but lets say someone releases a new JS framework tomorrow and it hits major popularity in a month - your site might still not have this. Perhaps this should work as pseudo-tagging.

In any case I love the idea since I want to take on part time project gigs apart from my full time job.
> The "diverse" (...) computing environment of Atari, Apple, IBM et al was a complete nightmare for developer and user alike

I don't think so. You had a handful of self-sufficient ecosystems to work in. Apart from having only one software ecosystem, I can't see why you may think we are better off now.

> how one may deny that Gates brought the PC to the masses with knowledge of the above are beyond me

Since it's your own assessment of your own shortcomings, I assume you must be right.
Hmm. That would imply that either I'm not skilled, or I'm not charging enough. :-/
Major Difference Between Vinyl Banner and Vinyl Sticker 
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I believe this is the final answer for water-cooled systems, haha.
Methinks you missed my point. I am not upset, however.
But the utility functions are different. baby tree vs adult tree, old tree is better looking(provides more shade more useful right now) old crusty scientist guy vs baby, baby is cuter. If the shark eats the baby it will still be hungry(or get hungry again sooner) old crusty scientist guy is a much larger meal. Also an older scientist might be past his prime and have lower expected utility for the rest of his career while still expecting high pay.
I love GWT. I've been using it for 3+ years. However, I love it because when I write a large enterprise web app, Javascript just doesn't cut it. But, I'm also a C# developer, and so I feel that Java is holding GWT back - as Java bothers me.
I just read the article. In it, you assume the product could be better, as you just repeated here ("could be a lot better"). Please explain how that's not begging the question.
Some of them clearly are. Like Brezhnev from Dulalala.
I got bitten by this too, and when I discovered why I was livid.

https://svn.openx.org/openx/tags/2.8/openx-2.8.6/plugins_rep...

This third party plugin is automatically installed and enabled by the installer. No admin authentication, wide open access to upload and run PHP.

More details can be found at http://www.kreativrauschen.com/blog/2010/09/09/critical-vuln... and if www/admin/plugins/videoReport/lib/tmp-upload-images/ exists, it's likely your server has been compromised.
Medical and mobile were made for each other, remote diagnosis, remote sensing, video ER conferencing and so on.

In a very short while I've seen a stethoscope replacement app, ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/11145583 ), an ultra sound unit ( http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/13928.aspx ) and now this.

For places that are less well served by the medical profession these could be real life savers, mobiles are amazing little computers and they can be used for much more than just playing silly games.

Great to see this and much good luck to you.
According to the authors (and independently confirmed by a friend of mine who works at Google), it is used for some projects at Google. Unfortunately, no details of those systems are available.
Is Greplin mostly screen scraping your sites? I imagine there's a lot of data that people want to search that isn't available via the various APIs.

What happens when Facebook tells them it is against the TOS?
I think I heard some talk about raising the yearly domain price... this is really the only good way to fight this crap.

Make it like $30 / year... price out tasters.
Twitter's lack of real permissions system is really crazy, especially with the carte-blanche access all apps get to things like your Direct Messages. I doubt people are storing credit cards in there, but the article's right: it's similar to getting access to all text messages on a user's phone.

I run http://preyfetcher.com and signed up for read-only API access for that app because I wanted to let users know I wouldn't be messing with their account/data. Even so, more fine-grained permissions would be nice, ESPECIALLY for read/write apps. (Prey Fetcher actually DOES need access to DMs to check for new ones, but that's beside the point.)
As far as i know 4 letter .com were all registered in 2007...

What you see now is people who didn't renew their 4 letter .com domains...

And for those who are down voting me, here's the proof:

http://www.namepros.com/short-domain-discussion/161235-llll-...
What iDevices support this (video 'broadcasting')?

iPhone 4 and 3GS. The iPhone 3G didn't have a hardware video encoder, if I recall correctly, so we disabled broadcasting on it and anything lower (though viewing works just fine!).

I think we also tested on the latest iPod Touch and found everything worked. I'd have to check my notes to be certain though (sorry, not in front of my work laptop, looking after my 1-month-old daughter right now!).

What H.264 encoding is used (profile, level)?

Would definitely have to check my notes for this. I'll follow up.

What bitrate do you aim for? Is it different for 3G vs 802.11g/n?

The OS gives us a limited degree of control on this one. We get to specify the bitrate as "high", "medium" or "low" and it appears to be completely undocumented what each one maps to, if they're the same for each device, etc. In practice it looks like "low" is always around 80-120kbps, "medium" is about 800kbps-1.5mbps and "high" is somewhere north of 4mbps. We use "low" and "medium" depending on how much actual network bandwidth we think is available.

What framerate/resolution?

Resolution depends on the camera - we don't modify it away from the native resolution. So far, either 480x360 or 192x144 depending on device and selected camera.

Same is basically true for framerate. So far every camera I've tested has given us 26fps.
Very informative write-up. At Stormpulse we're already sending emails and are about to start sending SMS and phone calls via Twilio. I can vouch for the demand (it's high). Of course, folks still have to opt-in.
No new theme. You probably just have your browser zoomed in.
Warning: NSFW (amateur nudity).
You may think its simply of the better of the two options, but other people think that being the person to cause any deaths is simply the better of the two options and its good and useful that we have words like "utilitarianism" and such that let us talk about these differences.
I couldn't emphasize the part on focus. If you can't focus, you got problems. It seems to me that a lot of entrepreneurs suffer from entrepreneurial ADD. I've noticed that that's one key differences between those who succeed and those who don't.
Feeds are disposable, e-mails are not
But it did have tremendous marketing behind it. I saw those very creepy Palm commercials all over the place. Hell we had a huge Palm banner hanging in Downtown Denver for like 6 months.

I think Palm suffered from a serious issue with brand identity. It just seemed like people weren't sure what those phones were supposed to be exactly. Were they blackberry competitors? After all, they had a really crappy keyboard. iPhone competitors? The form factor would suggest otherwise.
We wrote it in Ruby using an in-house framework. The db is http://www.mongodb.org which we have found to be awesome.
I'd put it in the pile with the rest of the applicants.

The reason being that we where doing mass interviews years ago something like 200 people for 30 positions.

One guy missed his interview time slot by over an hour. Most people would say 'forget it', but for some reason we decided to bring him in at the end of the day.

Not only did he get one of the spots, he was an absolute rock star employee and won numerous corporate awards.

There is no doubt his resume is going to have to impress you, so if it doesn't then he doesn't get an interview.

If his resume is great, and you bring him in for an interview, bring up the lack of a subject, and you might get some interesting insight out of his response.

Really, what do you have to loose? it took you more time to post this to HN than it would have taken you to take a quick look at his CV.
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Agreed. I'm a Java developer than wishes for C#'s features.

There is hope, these guys have the Scala library compiling to "jribble" pseudo-source than then will get parsed by the GWT compiler:

http://scalagwt.gogoego.com/
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HP/Palm have one possible advantage: bundling for the enterprise. Give away a Palm phone with each purchase of a PC by corporate accounts.

Apple essentially does this in the consumer market. MacBooks and the iPod Touch get bundled together during back-to-school season.
You might want to tweak the ranking algorithm so that the front page can not be dominated by one person/genre? Right now everything is by "podobuzz" in comedy. And while they are definitely funny submissions I am not sure if it gives a clear indication that the site is meant for more than funny papers.
Thanks, I'll consider it.

And it's better not to use your main email account for this kind of services. Open a free account and use filters to resend good ham emails to your account.
It's slightly more complicated than that, and you'd probably have to work in advertising to understand why.

Ad zones, campaign weighting, frequency caps, companion positioning, exclusive campaigns, delivery limitations (language, user-agent, geographic targeting, time of day, section), probability calculation, detailed statistics, and the ability to give a client a login to view their own stats. These are just a few of the features.

If all you need is a glorified image/snippet server and counter, you could probably just write one.
Yes, that usage ("a code", meaning a program) is actually quite old in the numerical modelling community -- I heard it in the early 1970s, and I think it's older than that.
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That post was likely created by an employer who wanted to test the site. CanYouCode has been up for just about 7 hours now.

In future, such posts will be removed. The site will initially be moderated by us. Eventually, we want to bring in more user participation in this moderation.
Not enough news sites tell you how to apply for the money they report about. I understand a lot of it isn't known yet, but at least a blurb saying "Businesses will be able to apply at fbo.gov on such and such date" or something like that.
The question is "who will they fix them FOR?" If the parent poster's experience is typical and nobody cares about this OS, improvements to it are irrelevant.

Personally, I'd like to see Palm OS stay in the fight. I like the stack UI concept they discussed here, and anyway, competition is always good.