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But you always need someone who cares. Someone who pulls everything together, not technically, but who thinks of how things should work, what's best for the users or business goals. This you cannot subcontract because subcontractors don't care. They will do whatever you tell them to, to spec. You need someone with a connection to the company to make great things, someone who values the long-term benefits, not just the amount he's paid this week. Day-laborer programmers are easy to find, rent-a-code is full of them. But while you can use them to do menial tasks, or specialized ones, or absorb a demand spike, you can't count on them to drive your business. Sounds like that came all on him, he didn't want to do that anymore.

Same is true for other industries btw. I'm living through this in the real estate sector right now and sometimes I want to punch people in the face for not just thinking for one freaking second before blindly doing what some other non-invested person wrote on a spec sheet or plan, but then I remind myself that they're all mercenaries who just do what I (directly or indirectly) tell them, and that I need to be on top of every little detail and double- and triple check everything. That's what driving (not just running) a business is about.
I did read it and I see that they are aware that their advertising clause causes problems for distribution and I see them recommending against making GPL software that links to OpenSSL. gem is GPL and links to OpenSSL.
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I like the idea. Can my alter ego please have 8 spider legs, then? Some years ago I told a good friend who works in cybernetics to get the job done. Unfortunately there has not been real progress to far. Anyway, I assume, in 2060 the job will be done.
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It's a little heavy-handed, but a pretty good analogy.
I wouldn't personally rely on the police camera to not get edited or lost before an important trial.
Someone that's prepared to pay for access to the source code, the rights to use a brand in a particular country and the lawyers to draw up a licence agreement is a godsend to a company like Yelp whose functionality and business model can easily be copied by locally developed alternatives focused on their domestic market
Yes, but even that is a half-solution - Debian users are still likely to think you suck and/or use alternatives, which means less users/prospective developers/testing.
[disclosure: I've just spent the last few hours getting some new stuff working in IE7 and 8. at the moment my level of contempt for all things IE is pretty high :) ]

I have no problems at all with them not supporting XP. It's 10 years old, and if they've decided to make use of features of Vista and 7 not available in XP, then good for them. Seriously.

I'm also inclined to think that any non-enterprise user still running XP and IE isn't going to manually upgrade to IE9 without being forced to. Those that would are also able to install any of the alternatives that do run on XP
> Perl 5 exists as it is for the sake of backwards compatibility.

This is really says it all: a language, just like any software, develops when issues are fixed without breaking existing code. What's so ugly with having a language version declaration on top of a file, or something better? Why I can link any language to C and still I'm not able to use different versions of the very same language at once? Having newcomers wrestle with ancient issues is not progress, IMO.
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I don't know, what DOES happen when it's all glass? Is part metal, part glass supposed to be particularly difficult relative to that? And who says hardware is ever going to be 'all glass'? I don't understand.

My suggestion is that probably at that point, Apple will continue to have sleek, advanced products that dominate the high end of the market.
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RH ships older kernels because they release relatively infrequently, and they've had time to QA them (the RH kernel test suite is huge and they run considerable stress tests). They backport features and drivers and fixes because their customers want the stability of well QA'd kernels and the support of newer server hardware and the benefits of fixes made later. One of the older RHELs even went so far as to backport entire subsystems from 2.6 into a 2.4 kernel because they felt overall 2.6 stability was insufficient for their needs.

Specific grips with your assertions aside, I think you are too quick to dismiss the ideological goals of FOSS projects - the entire FOSS ecosystem is afterall founded on some pretty seriously ideological goals, particularly Free Software. Open Source exists to dampen these goals and I suspect that a lot of folks now involved in this world are just interested in forking ruby software from github to run on their Mac ;)

Disclaimers: I own a Mac, but Linux has been my desktop/server OS of choice for the last decade, and I work as a sysadmin for a Linux distro company. I also write some software that's packaged in most of the distros now, so I feel self-entitled to see this from several very relevant perspectives ;)
The actual responses are here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/dk3s0/the_ie9_te...

The comment linked summarizes the IE team's responses in the voice of a M$ strawman, ready to be attacked by Reddit. As a result, it makes for a more entertaining read if you like to hate Microsoft, but it doesn't tell you what they're actually thinking.

I preferred the long version.
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Just to clarify for those that haven't read the answers, this doesn't look anything like the "IE9 team" responding. It looks like a marketing team responding.

That's why you get BS answers like "XP is a platform that doesn't allow for the performance characteristics of a modern web experience."
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He Semiapies, I'm really not sure why you think a project can't start with a website and a slideshow to try to explain what it is, or wether you are suggesting that we should only ever put anything on our website when we are done. Or what. No need to distract that there is not much here, there is not much here, I said so myself. In terms of criticism, and blame, again, I'm really not sure what you are talking about, we have no need to blame anyone for anything, and we're very much interested in criticism, I simply can't understand what yours is. That we should keep our slide show secret until the system is ready for launch? Well, as I said, I have a different opinion and prefer to be open. Whatever.
the long version doesn't tell you what they were thinking either

[edited to add the following]

Yes, there's a few cases where the longer version contains a bit more detail, but in general the tl;dr version is a pretty concise summary. For example, compare this answer

XP is a platform that doesn't allow for the performance characteristics of a modern web experience. We have a great browser for XP users (IE8) but as the web continues to advance you need a modern operating environment that can take advantage of the underlying hardware through the OS. IE9 requires Direct 2D support which is available in Vista (with SP2) and Windows 7.

to this

Because Microsoft neither wants to backport new APIs to XP, nor do they want to release a version of IE9 that doesn't require the new APIs.
The Shuttle system was a triumph of technological marvel on top of technological marvel that even today deserves respect. Nevertheless, it was the wrong design for its mission, overcomplicated, expensive, and impractical. That it did fly is a testament to engineering savvy and determination. But it flew on the back of a standing army of aerospace engineers costing billions of dollars a year and upwards of half a billion dollars a flight. That aspect is not something to be proud of. The opportunity cost due to the Shuttle system in terms of things we could have done with the same money and resources is nothing short of breathtaking, and must be counted as a significant tragedy in the annals of manned spaceflight.

Consider that every single Shuttle flight (all 100 or so of them) ranks up there with a Saturn V launch in terms of expense, engineering, complexity, and hardware. Imagine where we would be today if instead of 100 Shuttle flights we had had 100 Saturn V launches.

The Shuttle design turned out to be deeply flawed in ways that prevented it from ever achieving a high flight rate (the only way to dramatically lower costs with a reusable vehicle) and was at best only quasi-reusable. Worse yet, it was burdened with requirements from the military which ended up not being used and took a heavy toll on the system's capabilities, robustness, and efficiency.

It's telling that of the many new clean-sheet designs for manned space vehicles the particular characteristics of the Shuttle are absent.

The Shuttle performed its primary mission of keeping the prestige of the US through the maintenance of an impressive looking manned spaceflight program. But in terms of advancing manned space exploration the Shuttle was a failure. And all of this is independent of the safety problems of the Shuttle system.

My heart still stirs when I see a Shuttle launch, but my head cannot help but see the terrible flaws of the program.
Getting job at a normal company is also "safer" than joining a startup for just equity.

This cash value will once be eligible for conversion to equity at a decent discount. I personally see this as stock compensation on steroids. With pure stock compensation there is no chance to recover any cash whatsoever if company fails, also prior stake estimation may be unfair (i.e. overestimated or underestimated).
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I think that tying IE to operating system is a bad decision. If they can make whole MS Office package available on OSX, then why is browser that special ? Of course I know many of the reasons why _not_ port IE to other oper. systems, but it would make my life easier if I could have all browsers on my machine for development testing.
From the company's perspective, the main problem seems to be that it becomes harder to get investment as you accrue debt. The only incentive I see for an employee to accept such a scheme might be if a convertible note would have tax advantages to the employee compared to wages.
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Yes, the OS must assume the common case. However, by the time one node has 90% of its memory in-use and the other node has 1% of its memory in use, it's clear that this is not the common case, and this should be handled more gracefully.
Only in one of those fields will the gender skew be seen as a "problem" tho'. The other, feminists would be perfectly happy to leave to the men.
> Why not just say that IE9 makes use of features available in Vista and 7, but not in XP.

Even better, why not take a leaf out of the books of the four major cross-platform browsers and make opportunistic use of OS features.
I don't think that gmail alone can capture all nescessary and substantial details of ones mind.
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I can see this maybe working with a couple of caveats:

a) There's a premium paid on conversion over what he/she would have earned in wages.

b) There would be a minimum payment for them even so, which would be almost living expenses.

But that's just off the top of my head, there may be legal issues.

I think the unfamiliarity issue only comes to the fore if your idea is not compelling enough. If it is, someone will find a workaround.
I'm glad it's this way and hope it takes a long time to change. In the US so many markets have been destroyed by one big company undercutting everyone and running them all out of business. Imagine if this happened on the internet. It's already bad enough with Google, Ebay, Amazon, etc.

I like the fact that I can take a proven idea and apply it to the local culture for a business idea. And if it works well enough the big company will probably just buy you out instead of figuring out how to market to your country on their own. I think it's great for a lot more entrepreneurs than the alternative.
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If they can make whole MS Office package available on OSX...

Unfortunately that remains a big if: in reality, they can't, or choose not to. Office for Mac lacks major features (VBScript/macros being the biggest) and, in my experience, is even crashier than the Windows version.
a) That's what discount is for, isn't it?
b) Well, that's up to a specific situation, just like in equity compensation scheme.
> Aetna is surprisingly forward-thinking for a bunch of evil bastards.

I know it's fashionable to bash health insurers, but I think it's not quite accurate. Aetna's profit margins are lower than 4% [1] and they generally do well for people.

Insurance is the kind of business that is almost always disliked, because people attribute the positive success stories and gratitude towards the people doing the direct work (the doctors), but everything that goes wrong to the insurer. It's just the nature of things. I'll share a counter-story though: When I was 13 years old, I had a kind of benign skin cancer growth on my head and we had Aetna at the time. If memory serves, the policy for our entire family was only $500 per month, and pretty much every dime that we'd ever paid was more than wiped out by me getting surgery. The insurance process was fairly smooth and there were no problems. For $6000 per year to insure a whole family against disaster, I think that's a pretty awesome service.

Their margins are low. Currently I've got Patriot International insurance while traveling, $150 for six months for coverage up to $2,000,000 with a $10,000 deductible. Honestly, though it's unfashionable to say, I think the health insurance companies are generally a massive net win for society.

[1] http://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/flowchart/2009/08/25/why...
You're talking about how IE9 itself could have been improved; cubicle67 was speaking about how the IE9 team's response could have been better.

In this case, while IE9 is still a terrible product, the team's response is so stuffed with fluff it appears this whole Q&A session might have backfired.

Everyone is just looking for a direct, no-bullshit response. We don't want anything that sounds "hip" or loaded with marketing speak.
This is all true, assuming one uses a standard model for the integers. Non-standard models[1] are more interesting, but I'm not sure if one could say anything about the number of digits of a non-standard number.

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The same way as marketing "experts" could become used to use sophisticated computer analysis and isolate their selves in their computers, forgetting to walk the street and ask customers, those people could isolate from the real criminals.

And criminals use codes when talking on the phone, thinks like "making the bed" could be the code to steal something, "drink soda" putting a bomb, so you need the serious work anyway.
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Yes, you are correct. But the newest version, Office 2010, is much better and also supports VBA. My coworker that uses the beta version is positively surprised at the quality of the product.

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Assuming you can actually figure out who the bottom 10% are. Also assuming that the bottom 10% is a constant and not something that literally changes daily.
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I didn't notice any misrepresentation of MS comments. What the commenter has done was to shorten and strip out the BS.
I've heard a lot of the poker clients are all the same software, licensed out and re-branded with different celebrities. Same deal with many dating sites. "Dating for busy professionals" is often the same site as "Dating for catholics" with different display ads.

Offhand, I'd guess you need a predictable revenue funnel and an environment where niches are determined by self-image rather than unique product requirements. Dating & gambling are both rich enough spaces that it makes sense to exploit every niche possible with the fastest available solution and then move on. Is the same true for something like Wufoo?

You could also buy a chatroulette clone license for $100. Not sure how many he ended up selling, but I bumped into a couple people who grabbed chatroulette-as-a-feature for their sites.
Well YouTube already has (currently terrible) machine text transcriptions...
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I assume their business model is roughly : to implement algorithms that find near-arbitrage opportunities by sifting through vast amounts of market data, then use those to multiply investment funds. This sounds like the perfect domain for a startup.. where a nimble small team of quant/developers would have huge advantages, by being faster to rollout.

This is almost a pure software business, so why aren't these companies more like startups? Is it because of the expense of getting fine grained and low latency market data [eg. exchange colocation]? Or is it due to the contacts needed in the biz to get the 'investment' funds to trade with? Or is it because only large financial entities have access to these risky speculative trades?

Side note : I see Jane Street Capital use Ocaml, and some other quants use KDB/Q for implementing these kinds of algorithms, so it seems innovative languages give leverage here. I was thinking Node.js + a js BTree api to access streaming data would be a nice dev environment.
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The tl;dr summary should also have addressed the forced and cringe-worthy name-dropping of internet memes of the past few years, that is in the beginning of the reply.

It actually comes across as a bit condescending: "Let's show them that we know their community by mentioning the Star Wars Kid and Stephen Colbert."
Can we kill the IE-should-be-built-on-webkit meme? One of the web's strengths is the wide range of independent and compatible implementations.

Yes, the differences suck when you are dealing with CSS incompatibility problems, but when you look at the big picture it remains vitally important.
why aren't these companies more like startups?

There are. http://www.forbes.com/2010/07/28/high-frequency-trading-pers...

Incidentally Jane Street isn't a hedge fund, it's a proprietary trading firm.
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why not?

Anyway, I guess the point was that by adding wording that may be offensive to some readers you are not improving the quality of the message, unless you want _that_ to be the message, which is in fact the (wanted or not) result of the OP.

(nonetheless a decent analogy)
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but d2d is not available on xp, so they are not actually telling lies, the tl;dr version is correct, they simply don't want to port new apis to old boxes.
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The longer version was less snarky but had a lower signal to noise ratio. There's lots of PR double-speak in there.
The short version was also funnier.
Well, the investors (hopefully smart people) in that particular round hope to get more money for their shares than they paid for them - so one could make the case that one dollar of shares is somewhat more valuable than one actual dollar.

On the other hand, what employee wants to put his wages into a highly-risk investment like a startup? (High-risk investments can pay off, sure, but you don't want to take those risks with money you need for food and housing.)
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Part of the issue is that you can reach such a huge part of the market with just English. English is spoken as a second language by 1.2 Billion people around the world.

With an Anglophone site, you can reach a substantial portion of the internet.

After that, internationalization and localization takes an awful lot of work and resources, for increasingly smaller piece of the internet. Do you focus on rich, internet savy countries like Holland or Belgium? Or, do you focus on the next two largest languages online: Mandarin and Spanish?

And, then, there's always the problem that the US tends to be a bit enthnocentric. And, companies really don't think about expanding overseas until they are relatively large.

Finally, our educational system is very Anglophone centric, and topics like i18n and l8n aren't really covered. I know they weren't for me, and I finished up 3 years ago. So, the learning curve for a lot of developers here in the US is fairly steep, so they tend to ignore the problem.
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I prefer mercurial over git, but being on bitbucket is starting to feel like being on Orkut when everyone else is on Facebook. Even with this announcement I'll probably start all new personal projects on github for the better visibility and collaboration with the hacker community.
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It's still easy enough to get a number of the first kind of 2, there are hundreds of active mathematicians with EN=1. You need to find one who shares an interest and then publish something serious with them.

Ditto the type 2. If we found something that was worth getting into a journal at least you'd get EN(2)=4.