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This isn't exactly news. There is a page that include several HN related services here : http://resourcey.com/site_details/2/news.ycombinator.com/
Of course, not that many - but it is possible.

I've designed ASP.Net apps that have had back ends of various forms (everything from navigational databases to Oracle OLAP systems) and once you get over the need to have direct support in Visual Studio then it's not really that big a deal.

YMMV.
I'm not entirely convinced that this person knows what slavery is. Not only that, but he claims that "we all lose", then ends his post with nothing to support this quite insane claim.
Maybe he meant "should have been thrown away".
instead of casting other types, just make everything a string: buy a whole lot of pairs of the same type of sock so you don't have to worry about matching types!
Sweet. I haven't been to this site in a while, but I still have two dead tree copies - an IllumiNet Press 1991 printing and a Steve Jackson Games 1994 printing.

Hail Eris. All Hail Discordia.
I like it, but can we get a font with slightly less fiddly tiny details? They don’t work so well on a low-resolution computer display.
This seems to be getting worse with each release. I installed Maverick beta yesterday and the resize corner is almost unusable.
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Could you implement sorting by points or by comments with jquery?
The only thing is, he's not advocating the collectivization of FB (that would be stupid), but merely calling for new companies to enhance the user-generated-content model by sharing the wealth. Maybe the Diaspora people should look into this?
.NET and C# make developing Windows desktop apps ridiculously easy. There is a .NET API for just about everything and you can get started for free with Visual Studio Express.

As a bonus Visual Studio has awesome auto-completion features and is a great WYSIWYG GUI editor.

MS really ought to pay me =p
Ah....Burning Man.

Loved this, was a very very ambitious project, sadly I didn't get to see it working. :-(

In the same vein I made this this year:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bendelarre/5010762637/in/set-72...

A 16x16 array of RGB LEDs on which we ran animations generated by the community on a website. (Yes, I know, its still software related...I can't help myself!).
What operating system do you want to develop for? I've found desktop application development quite enjoyable on OSX when using things like InterfaceBuilder and Objective-C, and those skills can be transferable for iPhone development too!
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> I think Ubuntu first needs to brush up on its desktop-ui.

You know a company can work on more than one thing at the time.

To stay on topic, this demo looks pretty cool to me.
Depends a bit on what you mean with "a place". There's certainly a market, at least when you write a Windows application. I guess most people don't care much where their application runs, at long as it help them to do their work (or have fun, depending on the app) and the app does not cause any trouble. The latter is the reason why traditional desktop apps are slowly disappearing, being replaced by web apps or at least controlled environments such as iOS's app store.
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You need some amount of liquidity to make a meaningful valuation. Lack of liquidity leads to price volatility. Think May 6 flash crash.
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A concept from statistics: when your variables converge on a solution that is less than optimal, and you make the mistake of thinking that's as far as you can go because because other starting values seem to put you farther away.

Abstractions like this can often give you a new perspective on a tricky problem.
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Change is jarring.

Given the almost radical nature of the redesign it's not surprising that people didn't want to put up with it.

But if it is something for the better. Then a better design will see an influx of new users. It'd be interesting to see their new subscription rate.
IMHO there are a lot of opportunities in the desktop market. Most competent developers moved to Web apps and Linux long ago and left the Windows desktops lacking in many areas.

If your looking to low level system stuff or prioritize app speed have a look at Visual C++. Even Google used if for Chrome.

The most advanced UI framework I've seen is WPF. It has GPU acceleration; compatible, but separate tools for developers and designers; lots of 3rd party controls; can run in browsers through Silverlight.

Both these unfortunately come from Microsoft. You can get the dev tools for free or at low cost through programs like BizSpark.
The latter is the reason why traditional desktop apps are slowly disappearing

Is it? I thought the main reasons were: no install, cross-platform, data available everywhere.
In safari 5 the layout blows up (slightly) if you resize the text (it was too small for me).
Which webserver is better?
During past few days I have been reading about webservers available
1. Apache
2. Mongrel
3. Unicorn
4. Tornado
5. Nginx

While I have read the both Tornado, Nginx are written adressing C10K problem. Tornado being used at facebook. Twitter laying its hands on Mongrel and Unicorn and while apache serving the major percentage of Domain. My question is if I have to use one for my startup which one should it be ? Or is it completely dependent on the type of startup being founded.
What do you guys think of java as a language for desktop applications? I have a web app that I already use java for, and it could use a tiny desktop app to leverage it. I say tiny because all it will do is receive web requests which inform the user that they should visit the main web app.
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Google checkout is a nice alternative/complementary option... I always choose this in preference to paypal when shopping - perhaps because I can remember my google password by heart, but not my paypal one?
Visual Bookmarking is very useful
Video and visual bookmarking website where you can easily collect and enjoy your favorite stuff in cutomizable boxes that can accessed anywhere with an Internet connection.
No, there is not. Unless of course, the application has a very good reason to be a desktop app.

Downloading and installing adds extra friction to your distribution, which you can live without for most of the cases.
Most definitely. Eg I'm not happy to rely on having a constant internet connection for editing photos or doing some writing while on holiday, and even with a connection in both these cases the desktop options are much better.

I recommend learning the QT framework. It's cross-platform, unlike .NET, has very well designed libraries, and bindings for a bunch of languages if you don't want to write in C++.

It's nice if a desktop program syncs to an online service though (eg Picasa).
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http://unicornfree.com/2010/why-im-putting-on-a-bootstrappin...
> If your looking to low level system stuff or prioritize app speed have a look at Visual C++. Even Google used if for Chrome.

As an experienced C++ developer I recommend you avoid C++ at all costs, even if you are an experienced C++ developer. A blend of C and another high-level language is a better choice.
Ah I didn't realise it was region specific. Yeah the alternative item underneath the 3 button is the symbol for pound sterling (£), the # symbol is a hidden extra.
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Unfortunately the answer is "it depends":

- What kind of application do you want to build?

- What OS platforms will the users have?

- What experience do you have or is there a platform you particularly want to learn?

If you can narrow it down to one platform then most of these have pretty decent tools - if you want to support multiple platforms then things get interesting.
Yes. I do build completely Java projects with SBT just to keep myself sane (away from Ant, Ivy, Maven).

You need a basic understanding of Scala to write your build configuration though.
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It's a decent video, but it's also just a dream with nothing restraining it in terms of feasibility.

The challenge of good design is making the best of what's possible. Concepts that are only on paper or in image don't present that challenge, and so it's hard for me to get excited by them. After all, we should have flying cars and jetpacks by now right?
Wow, what you're saying here is that you have failed at saving for your retirement if you don't have $1m in semi-liquid funds. Really? I guess that fewer than 10% of the population will ever be in that position. Your definition of failure seems to be "didn't succeed massively".
Hello,
I tried historious just now and indeed, it seems a good product. I think you have to find some compelling reason, why one would switch to your service from others. Also, a big improvement would be, if one can try your service without the need of registering - like the Instapaper. I must say that generally I simply don't have a motivation to try another bookmarking service just to see what it is. But I did a very short evaluation just now to help a fellow HN'er ;-)

Ok, so why I won't probably switch to your service? ;-)

Currently, I use two bookmarking sites:

- Instapaper - this is for the stuff I want to read later, but not necessarily "bookmark" it, and

- Google bookmarks - for the stuff I might want later, so I want to bookmark it

Now, as I see it, the only advantage of historius over Google bookmarks is, that I can historify by one click (like Instapaper). But, this is not that important to me, since when I want to store something, my current habit already is that I always want to add a tag anyway. Because, despite Google bookmarks also having a search (in bookmarked sites), I almost never use it - I can recall an old bookmark by the tag more easily. Moreover, another advantage is, that I do not need another account to create, since I am also an Gmail user.

The third thing is, that I probably would not pay for bookmarking service monthly/yearly, when there is so much free offerings. Maybe you could convince me to one-time fee (like pinboard.in does), but probably not regularly.

So, to sum it up, your product combines good things from various other bookmarking services, but that alone doesn't make it better than others. You just need to find people, who like the workflow you are offering them with your service.

So to sum it up, my only advice I can give is - try to make your service available without need to register, so more people will try it.
It looks a bit odd for me in Firefox. I'm assuming the comments/points totals were supposed to line up...

http://imgur.com/RLkXX?full
It is a fine language. Java Web Start will help you distributing your desktop app.

Only drawback is the non-native GUI. However, I've heard the Eclipse team has made a framework with a native look-and-feel available.

EDIT: Well, if your app is tiny, I guess the different look-and-feel would not be an issue.
Is it Chrome? I don't seem to have a resize corner at all in Chrome on Windows. The Firefox/Vimperator on Ubuntu has one, though it's small and not called out clearly.
You can Visual Studio Express for Windows for free now days. XCode for Mac is free, as is the GNOME environment for Gnome/Linux systems. I would suggest you look for tutorials surrounding those environments.
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"Angel collusion results in black hole collapse"

now that would be awesome!
For me, the worst part of his writing is his use of foul language. I do not want to have my mind littered with such filth. I have nearly two decades of business experience, and I have never come across anyone who comes remotely close to approximating the grossly unprofessional manner in which Dave communicates. How could professional colleagues and entrepreneurs put up with that? His style is a reflection of substance -- substance which is unprofessional, irresponsible, and uncivil. From the perspective of fellow investors, Dave's writing comes across as very sophomoric and utterly unprofessional. From the perspective of entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs merit more than any money, contacts, and accumulated wisdom that an investor can offer -- they also deserve a responsible and professional role model. Dave's writing is reflective of one whom I would hardly find to be a good role model. It is just simply improper and disrespectful of others for anyone to communicate in the manner that Dave has, and it is highly irresponsible for an adult to project himself or herself in such a manner especially when serving in an advisory or mentoring capacity.

Thanks, Ron, for calling a spade a spade. I watched an interview with Ron about a year ago, and I found him to be very forthright, insightful, sincere, and professional - and clearly one who wants to try to help entrepreneurs out as much as he can. He seems to be a good role model for entrepreneurs. Thanks too to Mike Arrington for breaking the story and to Mike and his team for their follow up reports.
If Conway or any other 'Superangel' or whatever doesn't go public with some sort of response like this, everyone will just assume they were there, which will be bad for their image in itself.
+1 for QT. I picked it up for the first time a few weeks ago and built a basic spotify clone[1] in one week for fun. Very nice API and as close to native look as I have ever seen from a XP framework.

I think there is a place for native applications, as long as you've got a niche that needs filling. The web isn't the answer to everything.

[1] - http://www.executionunit.com/blog/2010/metalify_spotify_clon...
Ask HN: Building something the customers don't know they want
Everyone at YC speaks of the mantra "Build something people want" but what if our customers don't know they want it?

That's part of the issue that my team and I are struggling with. We've built some really good online software that could really help small businesses. However, the industry that we're in is absolutely non tech savvy and use very traditional methods to do what our software could automate.

We've been struggling with selling our product because many people refuse to change and don't want to learn new technologies. How do we overcome this in a very traditional industry? It's too late to switch markets.

Is it just a matter of good sales and marketing?
Testing webhooks with local development. (Without a public DNS)
I'd say, whichever you're most comfortable with, but it also depends a lot on your startup.

Apache is a good general purpose web server, the others are a bit more specialized.

Personally, I use nginx, because I do not need the extra stuff apache would provide, and my resources are fairly limited, so nginx fits my use-case better.
This can be looked at from many angles, the efficiency of communication on Facebook compared with things like phone calls and text messaging would have actually collectively saved Facebook users billions.

Sure you could argue it doesn't take Facebook to come in to give us these communication options but it takes someone to come in and create a common network which is easy to get started on. Sure we can argue that a distributed network would be a much better solution but the reality of it currently is that very few people have the technical inclination to becomes a part of something like that.

I'd also prefer to look at the benefits and not the downfalls of massive networks being able to be ran by few people. Giving people a job for the sake of having a job isn't the answer, we can all benefit from increased efficiencies.
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Seems like there's at least been some meetings, but I can't help but drench anything Arrington "digs" up with some hoisin sauce.

I wouldn't extrapolate the subjects of the meetings without some hard facts.

Ones that didn't come from TC or people who stand to benefit from "SuperAngels" getting embarrassed/investigated.
A copy of the Penal Code (or whatever the US equivalent is, you know the big book of laws and especially punishments) is supposedly a much better motivation. Not that I would know.
Ron would not do that. First, he's not the sort of person who would write an email hoping it would be leaked. If he has something to say, he just says it. But also, if he'd written this to be leaked, it wouldn't sound like this; he wouldn't have said some of the things he did, and he would have showed it to his posse, who would have fixed the misspelling of "entrepreneur."

I suspect he is mortified this got out. It must have been leaked by one of the super-angels themselves. Which is a little surprising, considering the things it says about them. There must be at least one super-angel so eager for attention that he believes there's no such thing as bad publicity.
What about offline webapps?
Someone else would have published it if they hadn't.
It was an interesting proof of concept. I'm not sure how much the parallax-correction or full-screen toggling would help but there seem to be many more possibilities. This is a great opportunity for Canonical or other developers to build in a gesture-recognition framework which other developers can plug into and build applications.

Think about it - a gesture can mute the sound, so you don't need to pause the music when a phone call comes in. Get up and leave, and the screen will lock itself. Stick out your tongue and it'll check your email. Heck, I'm sure soon enough Ubuntu will detect your face seeming sad during debugging sessions and automatically shows kitten pictures (Emacs probably does this already, I'm not sure).
Personally, since I come from a web dev background, I would probably look into Adobe Air or some of the frameworks that allow you to wrap up web applications into desktop apps (don't recall any names atm, but I think Mozilla has one?).
Being defensive is seen as a bad thing because you're only defensive when you perceive a serious enough threat. Occasionally, lies can be serious threats, but when it comes to scandals like this, the most serious threat is, in fact, when the scandal does in fact have a solid basis in reality.

So, the defensive reactions by both Dave and Ron indicates that there is probably substantial and threatening truth behind Michael Arrington's post.
I use Facebook (sometimes), played FarmVille and Farm Town up until this January, and I STILL didn't get it right off. Guess pulling out of those games was a good idea after all. :)
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I've been contemplating for a while now moving my blog from Tumblr to my own hosted solution. I've been doing some research on both Wordpress and Movable Type, and they both look like excellent solutions.

What I can't seem to come to a conclusion though is the pros/cons weighed out in detail for both platforms. I'm pretty familiar with their history, but haven't used them in depth.

Can anyone recommend one or the other and state some convincing arguments as to why I may want to choose one of the other? Thanks so much.
> You know a company can work on more than one thing at the time.

I too feel that they need to experiment and push the envelope forward. But Canonical doesn't seem to have _that_ many developers that they can focus on too many items. Of course it's run by some very experienced people, and I'm not one to complain. This seems more like a cool hack which can spawn off an independent community project which might eventually become part of the desktop.
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Android owners who know their phone is running Android are more tech-minded, maybe.
sorry for the stupid question, but what features I get with ZVOLS exported as iSCSI/AoE versus exporting a LVM device?
I wish the author of that post could see a translation back into japanese of what he posted. I'd love to laugh together with him :-)
If there's even a chance this takes off do you want to be at the mercy of PayPal?

Man up and set it up properly from the start. It costs more but in the end you'll be happy you spent the time and money to do so.
A lot of people will read this and think "damn C++ is such an ugly language, it should never allow the programmer to do this!".

The reality is that that kind of technique allows to produce extremely fast code because the compiler has got so much "certain" information at compile time that it can optimize very aggressively.

It's more powerful than vanilla C macros because it works with the compiler, not the pre-processor.
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Sorting by date is a great idea, easier to keep up with than a list that randomly reorders every few minutes because of changing point values.
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Deleting twits works most of the time; you just don't notice it…
I do it all the time for typos, or playing with time zones.
What if he wants to run his app on Unix and Mac?

Qt via Python or Ruby bindings might be the best way to go.