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It well depends of the problem domain, sometimes productive programming is about best algorithms, for example if you develop a software playing chess you can't left it for later improvements.

I can add some of my experience (since I was 8 years old?), it works in my personal framework:

- Hybrid languages/technologies: for some solutions I need to use jython to develop in python + java libraries that you don't found in other languages (i.e: htmlunit).

- I have always an interactive console opened to test stuff while using an editor.Sometimes the language doesn't have a good interactive interpreter, my preference is using python (if using .net, then ironpython, if using java, the jython, etc).

- Since I do a lot of research for customers, research and proof of concept are first in the list to reduce the real risk in the project.

- When I need optimizacion/speed C/C++ is the language, but try to glue with python, ruby, COM, etc (SWIG is your friend).

- Sometimes debugging is the best option, sometimes focusing in the code and try to find the bugs in my head.

- Then I agree with Gabriel.
Rather a strange article for a website frequented by startup folks or wannabees. I would think the altruistic ones are quite valuable when there's a small team and a lot's on the line...
So you don't have any backups then? (And I mean actual backups - replication is not a backup)
They're competing for the same financial aid, which is based on need. Admissions aren't tied to need, but aid is. Therefore, if you ignore the structural forces making it difficult for poor people in general, they get a big bonus:

(1) Ability to pay is ignored during admissions...

(2) ... but ability to pay totally determines what you'll be asked to pay.

For those who get admitted and are poor, it's an extraordinarily good deal. I'm still not seeing where (or if) we're disagreeing.
Not to be confused with a FactoryFactoryFactory.
I know it is quite common to see people squatting in Japan.

http://www.kirainet.com/english/japanese-crouching/
Is there an allusion or metaphor implicit here that I'm not getting?
Apple to livestream its Sept. 1 event
I actually own a license, but I never enjoyed it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes_theorem
Getting paid to move code around in a text editor != programming.
Another advantage of a squat toilet is your buttocks don't touch any of that filth.
Guard against hotlinking on Apache & Lighttpd with X-Sendfile
Flash on Android is shockingly bad
Ivan Illich predicted exactly this sort of thing in his 1970 book Deschooling Society. He basically predicted an Internet-led revolution in learning.
Or Thomas Jefferson: "When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty."
This may be a bit too cynical, so consider this comment entertainment instead of insight.

But do you ever notice how things that please both political parties tend to be the worst, like the DMCA? Well, that explains this. The Republicans want a huge military. The Democrats want to give a ton of money to the private sector.

The compromise? Outsourcing the military's IT. Bigger navy == bigger IT contract == both sides content.
^ More hackers need to understand this. When you go pubic with an IPO, the shareholders are in charge. The Board and CEO are elected on behalf of those shareholders. The Board and CEO's function is to maximize shareholder value. If a CEO doesn't consider an extremely generous bid then he is breaking his fiduciary duty to those shareholders, and will be out of a job.
Maybe someone can help me out here, with something I don't understand.

What happens to the convertible note if you never go on to raise another round, but you still have a successful business that generates a lot of cash for yourself?
Oracle is a watefallish and conservative enterprise product company. The only surprise is that anyone is surprised by what Oracle does and how.

"Do no evil" is some other company's motto. That is actually being sued by Oracle.
If you have experience with your startup partnering (or trying to partner) with Oracle, could you please contact me? Particularly, if Oracle added your product to their price lists (or if you were trying to make this happen).

Thank you very much.
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JPictag , a jQuery image tagger
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I agree with what russell says, systemic discipline or the lack of it could be a problem here.

Try this:

Have

1)long term deadlines, (Quarterly?)

2)mid term deadlines (Monthly?)

3)short term deadlines (Weekly?)

At least on a weekly basis, review the deadlines and tasks with the team/functional leaders, and see if there are any issues that would prevent any of the deadlines from being met. If there are such issues, then brainstorm for solutions and then follow up.

Keep following up on fixed schedules and keep asking for reasons if any of the deadlines are not being met.

In fact, a better idea would be to let the team decide on the deadlines and commit themselves to delivering them. If they are too loose, push for tighter deadlines (over time anybody would develop a good sense of judging the deadlines - if they are too loose). That can make them push themselves hard when required to deliver by their own deadlines and they do get a sense of achievement.

And do your part to be the facilitator, to help them reach those deadlines. It could mean to provide hard resources, soft resources, to iron out political problems, to be a cheerleader, a hard driver/nudger, be a sounding board or whatever you need to be to help them deliver those deliverables.

Other than the work/task ownership aspect, another reason why I prefer this approach is, often the ones with hands on experience are the ones best qualified to estimate the effort required.

At least thats the way I prefer to work. Keeps the management time overhead low too (relatively)
Jessica Livingston is now tweeting as well 
A few days after pg started twitting as well: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1640530
Sure, if by "kindly asking" you mean "we'll shut you down unless you comply".

And the fact that "serious" criminals will not be impeded makes this even more of a suspicious measure - looks more like it's aimed towards snooping on innocent parties, such as journalists and political opponents.
Depends on the terms - it could convert to equity, get paid back, or have it's maturity date extended...

More here: http://www.startupcompanylawyer.com/2007/04/29/what-happens-...
Are you thinking about infoaxe.com ?
Much as I dislike this as a developer, this is a smart business strategy for Oracle. Let's face it: at the companies that use Oracle, the developers aren't the one making the call as to what database to use. That's the call of much higher-ups.

About the only solution I can suggest is to avoid working for such companies, but I'm be preaching to the choir to say that.
The first step is to take notes.

The next thing is to apply it. If you don't apply it, don't sweat it; you've only lost the time you spent watching the video.
Neat, the live stream returns. Does anyone know when they stopped doing that? It will be interesting to see whether the stream holds up or crumbles.

Steve Jobs had problems accessing the web on the new iPhone during his last presentation because of all the devices with wifi and the mifis in the audience. Could the live stream be a reaction to that? (With a live stream in place larger parts of the press will probably be ok with stricter rules with regard to wifi or mifi usage. If the stream holds up all the live blogging is kinda pointless.)
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Strange: except for exposing the pyrite to the environment, this is an entirely natural process....

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrite#Weathering_and_release_o... and further links from that for more details.
A few days after pg started tweeting as well: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1640530
I'd wager it has something to do with slavery. And I'd wager the development community is not on the dominant side of the analogous relationship.
Google propaganda suggesting (perhaps fairly) that a developer's relationship with Oracle is unavoidably abusive?
Exactly, which is very interesting. The number of schools that call themselves "Liberal Arts" schools is fascinating, especially considering that their focus is very opposite in that it is very much vocation/job preparation related, rather than liberal. The goals of liberal arts education is to create "free" people - educating people to become more introspective and understand the complexities of the world we live in, understand their role and responsibilities in society, and have clear understanding of ethics and morality in everything.

I attended a supposed liberal arts school and was NEVER informed of such goals or anything in the proximity. In addition, never did I feel that my schooling was geared towards or assisted in much of that.
Bluntly, I assume he's implying it's an appropriate parallel to the relationship between Oracle and its customers, as described in the post. (I may be reading into it too much.)
How did Oracle maximize their value by buying Sun? Sun has Solaris, Java, and VirtualBox. All are free. When Oracle took over, everyone that worked for Sun quit.

So Oracle paid a lot of money for a bunch of free stuff. Why?
Do you think that you use fixed width fonts because you use words like that, or do you use words like that because you use fixed width fonts?
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You missed "discipline". College gives you deadlines, in case you're not the kind of person who can provide their own.
I think the desire to give lots of money to the private sector is more of a Republican thing than a Democrat thing. Republicans tend to be "Rah rah, free market, lower taxes, starve the beast," whereas the Democrats are more comfortable openly advocating for public-sector services.
Students currently have access to "cheap money" (i.e. gov't secured loans) regardless of what school they choose.

The bottom line is that cheap money injected into an industry always raises that industry's prices. Housing, healthcare, education.
I want to do something awesome but haven't hit on a good idea yet. I think about code not business stuff.

I would use this. :-)
or, after redirecting, http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/19/hp-confirms-webos-tablet-...
Regarding information, not quite. One of the few things I really missed immediately upon graduation was access to expensive databases like LexisNexis, JSTOR, ACM Digital Library. You'll be at a great disadvantage trying to conduct real research without such access.

I sometimes must ask a friend still in academia to download a PDF of some slightly older CS paper for me.

I also miss the wonderful university libraries. The public libraries are not nearly as good especially for more specialized matters.
You can always align variable width fonts with TAB.

Because a tab is frequently equivalent to a number of spaces in a fixed width font, we get religious wars about tabs vs spaces. In a variable width font, I presume you would use only tabs.

It mat also be the case that c and c-family languages (or python and python-like languages) are not the best choice for such a typesetting system.
We need a link :)
You can certainly look at it that way, if you choose to. The thing is, this is a Pandora's Box situation. The noble goal of using federal grants/loans to make higher education more accessible results in institutions being able to charge more for it. Same number of schools (supply) + more potential students (demand) with more money in their pockets (ability to pay) = higher prices; if each student is charged more money, they need more federal aid to make up the difference. This goes on in a circle, up and up and up. But closing the box now would be too politically unpalatable for any politician to try it. The solution, if there is one, must be highly creative.
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It would maybe help if you posted a link to it!
That's true. The higher-ups can say which database to use and hire a bunch of people to set it up. But if the developers ignore them, they have no way of actually determining this. (Which is what's so great about mandates from Higher Up.)
Squatting trivia: South Asians do squat in repose, but notice that the heel of the foot is in full contact with the ground.

I read somewhere that the typical Westerner, or someone not used to squatting for extended periods, will squat on the balls of their feet. Apparently this can tire you out quickly.

I'm embarrassed that I can't quite manage to squat on my heels either, despite being South Asian.
I had a friend who was working for a small local SF consulting shop making $75/hour. The consulting shop was getting paid $150/hour. They got the job through a contract recruiting firm that got paid $200/hour, and EDS was getting paid something like $400/hour, all to do some crystal reporting work. It was quite bizarre.
Can US government decrypt the messages or get them via Warrantless Wiretapping, or force RIM? If the answer is yes, then I do not see any reason why India or some other country should not be allowed to do the same.
Excellent book, but no one is going to read an entire book on Lisp unless they're already interested in the language.

What I mean by "articulate the benefits" is a short explanation for the unique benefits of Lisp that a non-Lisper can digest. That's what I tried to do in this article by trying to show a tangible example of an embedded DSL.

PG's post "Beating the Averages" is a better example, but its argument is more based on authority than clearly communicating the tangible reason why macros are so useful. That said, PG's posts are what got me interested in Lisp in the first place, but I didn't fully understand the benefits of Lisp until I started using it heavily.
I believe it's this, which was posted directly to HN a few minutes ago:

http://www.jpictag.com/
If Google and Amazon scan every book in the world, do you think they'll let you have the result for free?

How about we properly fund the public library system to do its job of maximally disseminating knowledge, which it can most cost-effectively achieve by buying those scans from Google or Amazon?
Does anyone think the (rumored) new touch screen iPod Nano with be capable of running "Nano apps"?
Yep. So why not add this question there as a comment?
Sounds like Redis.
Can US government do the same? If it can I see no problem in Indian government expecting a similar capability.
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With a modern version of Perl and the autodie pragma active (part of Perl 5.10.1), your dissatisfaction with verbose handling can often simply disappear.
Well, here's just one example: not getting into financial aid bidding wars for particularly desirable students.

I'm not particularly interested in their justifications, more their real reasons. The biggest one for raising tuition per se is that it's entirely unrestricted money, they can spend it any way they want. The Federal government is pretty strict about where research overhead goes, and pesky alumni don't trust schools to do the right thing and restrict a lot of their donations (see this for why their concerns are entirely reasonable: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson_School_of_Public...)
There are private equity groups that acquire companies with profits of this size. But I don't know the industry well enough to suggest names. I would try and get some names from any investment bankers you know -- maybe alums from your biz school if you don't know anyone personally.
This article has to be read very carefully. Near the beginning it says:

UberCab contracts with black car services – mostly Towncars and Escalades

That suggests that they are probably doing some due diligence.

My friends the management consultants report that they use these black-car services all the time. You think a business traveler with a big expense account hails one of those yellow cabs, like me and the rest of the plebes? ;)

The follow-up idea of dispatching cab traffic to any random idiot with a Lincoln Town Car, an iPhone, and a possible drug problem seems to be Arrington's idea. It is, as you point out, a pretty lousy idea. [1] But don't blame UberCab.

---

[1] I should know. I had this idea five years ago. Then I conducted a thirty-minute thought experiment and decided that the due diligence would be annoying and not my cup of tea.
On a tangential note, if you think The Story of O is about an abusive relationship, I'd say you haven't read the book or watched the movie: (i) O willingly enters the relationship (ordeal may be a better word here) and (ii) it's not your usual S&M or Belle de Jour story either, because she also gains power over her lover, e.g. see the last scene in the movie.

So, the analogy may be more apt than the crude master-slave relationship that people have commented here: many companies willingly choose Oracle, knowing full well its tactics and that they will be locked in.
From original source: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1631716
Wow this guy is a real idiot if he is making statement like this, probably he can use same logic to justify Hamas.
Sorry guys, it's kinda late and i'm sleepy lol.
Yes , the website is http://www.jpictag.com/
Even stating it as 1% is very misleading. There have been a total of what 4 incidents since 9/11, out of the billions of total passengers that have flown within the us and europe since? The statistics simply don't support the added cost and scrutiny.
The race for the next eBay: Will Accel and Kleiner beat Benchmark?
Have used Backblaze for about a year now. It's a solid system, though I use it IN ADDITION TO a local backup on my primary machine, not INSTEAD OF one. If I had to pull files over my 'net connection to my new HDD, rather than just grabbing them from my Time Machine drive sitting on my desk...well, I would be typing this on my laptop rather than my hard-drive-failed-but-replaced desktop.

Hopefully Backblaze stays chill about being acquired, and waits for a really good offer that will allow them to keep on doing what they're doing now, except better. I'd back up with Backblaze any day over Mozy or Carbonite, the only two "big dog" competitors in the area...
Permission to cyber, sir
Recent history suggests for Sun's patents, not their software.

Oracle has claimed they bought Sun for their hardware (e.g. so they could do vertical integration selling like IBM), but that remains to be seen if it is true or not.
As I've said before, the problem is: Who is going to sell that device to the customer?

Google has no direct-to-consumer sales worth talking about. Phone carriers sell Android phones because they make money on the contracts; without the contracts they have little incentive to stock, market, or sell an Android equivalent of the iPod Touch. So who's going to step up to compete with the Apple Stores and the iTunes installed base? The same electronics companies that blew their years-long headstart in the personal music player business?
Can you share any details of how your encrypted indices work? Searching over encrypted data is an active research area. I'm curious to learn what you are doing in practice.
I disagree. When in disaster-mode for a privately held company, the board should not be focused on restoring shareholder faith -- but in restoring user/customer faith.
"Viewing requires either a Mac® running Safari® on Mac OS® X version 10.6 Snow Leopard®, an iPhone® or iPod touch® running iOS 3.0 or higher, or an iPad™."

I guess windows and linux users need not apply.
I think this is because a project being on github is a huge signal of "I care about my project" which I want if I'm going to be leaning on it for my project.

Like they say, you can always tell if a google code project is active if it says "we've moved to github..."

Github just needs a "Google Groups" without the spam and they're set.
In practice it's not that big a deal.
Sometimes you have to tilt the screen or shade it.

But that's more than made up for in the added usefulness.
For reference, i have a far harder time reading an HTC Incredible in the sun.
Xobni doesn't claim to solve the mailbox triage problem. That's a really hard problem.
Hey Arctictony,
Thanks for the clarification. I agree your guys solution is perfect for media companies or any company that has fresh content coming in and needs to know which content is working. I think Jason's strategy is right on. I guess I'm just bitching because I can't find a "smart analytics" company, one that goes beyond the numbers to recommend solutions for companies like mine.

My company is http://www.MojoPages.com and we are constantly iterating the site to improve the user experience. Analytics companies like Kiss Metrics don't show the level of detail that we need to really understand the smartest improvement. We're forced to test, test, test and hope we're smart enough to figure out the problem and the optimal solution.

Imagine if an analytics company used the data from 1000's of clients to be able to suggest problem areas on your site. An example is if it could analyse your sign up flow and tell you if the location or color of your button or the amount of fields you had etc. was hurting your conversions and the data shows that if you made x,y and z change it would improve 20%. It would make life at a start-up a little easier and whoever creates this magical analytics company a little richer.
I circumvent this by having a gmail account and an apps account, forwarding everything from the apps account to my gmail, and using the "Send mail as" feature to complete the illusion.
Pretty funny how that sentence is preceded by "based on open standards".
maybe something like quirky.com might work for apps too
It's highly dependent on where you live. They are quite uncommon in the wild here. We bought 1 plant 10 years ago and it's still 1 plant. You could literally kill it in 2 minutes by cutting it from the ground.
I'll admit that learning to be effective with Lisp's syntax took me a few months. It's a matter of getting used to that way of thinking about programming.

Now that I'm fluent, I strongly prefer the s-expression style for most problems. The uniformity of Clojure means that I can use the sequence library for an unbelievable variety of tasks. And I love that operations like "+" are just like any other function and can be passed around.

Another important point is that when you make a DSL in Lisp, that DSL can interoperate with all your other DSL's.
Just about any hosting company should be able to get PHP right.

I use http://prgmr.com for my main site and http://dreamhost.com for the rest of my sites. Prgmr is great if you don't mind configuring your own server, DH is great if you do.

(I have the Prgmr account mostly so I can play with node.js, even though my main site is in PHP.)

If you want to go with DreamHost, contact me and I can get you a discount code.
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is how you present an idea. Seriously Justin, this was a great presentation.

You probably have several ideas already, but maybe you would like to take a look at this spreadsheet:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Ag-R_ZlGO21NdE9HSWR...

It's chocked full of ideas, maybe you could pick what you consider the best ones out of the bunch and elaborate on them as you have done for Oregato? Either way, thanks for the wonderful inspiration!
You say you're based in Toronto. Have a look at the people behind http://www.startupnorth.ca/ and get in touch with them, I'm sure they'd either be interested themselves, or would be happy to make some introductions.