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I made it like that because its also useful to know when a new page has been directorised and analysed for back links. So to you its not useful at all to see your internal backlinks?
I thought this link might just lead me to a page that said, "Stop reading this and get back to what you're supposed to be doing!," but I was wrong.
Thanks, like someone noted it will make more sense when you actually receive a new backlink lol
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I've never used illegal drugs, and I would be horrified myself at that kind of request. I would see it as an indicator the VC company wanted a distrustful, adversarial relationship.
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Wouldn't it be possible to add a clause prohibiting distribution of binaries?
No, I have lots and usually I don't care about where do I link to where (as it is my linking... if I fail, it is my fault :). And from the numbers, I think there is some missing count (I have around 30 or 40 posts this year, each one pointing to at least 4 other posts in my blog, if internal are well counted that would make 160... and I have far more than 60 back links 'in the wild'!)
The tic-tac-toe hack is absolutely fantastic, and reddits response is really great.

I think most of the people here have 'tasted' digg for a while and then left, it never felt like a site I wanted to be a part of to me, I think that cultural difference is visible on many levels, not just the interaction with the management.
Well, you may be on your coffee break ;)
There was a time when I thought freelancing means freedom. I no longer think that. In my experience the difference between a day-job and freelancing is much smaller than the difference between freelancing and starting a startup.
Freelancing and day-job are almost the same for me: work for other people to earn money from month to month to support my family.
Starting a startup (or doing a side project) is different. It is more about dreams, creativity and 'unlimited' possibilities.
Reddit isn't what it used to be, but it has stopped getting worse and is actually improving. The admins are doing a great job of community management. Triggering the Colbert/Stewart rally in DC is quite an achievement for reddit.
It's not the first time that I hear health insurance mentioned in stories I read on Hacker News. As a person living far away from USA I'm afraid I'm not getting the situation, and they don't seem to write about this sort of stuff often on the Net - because that's the way things are, except I think they are different in different countries.

For example, here in Russia every citizen including unemployed (which I am now) and retired has health insurance. It's of the basic type, you don't actually expect to get much good out of it, but at least you won't have to pay for a visit to physician. When you get a job, you receive health insurance from your company. It will be issued by different insurance company than when you are unemployed, but unless your company cares to provide you with extra health benefits, you will get the same benefits as unemployed person. I never worked at such a company though, and I started to think that maybe I should choose as my new job a company that provides a good health insurance end exercise some of those nice health benefits. Maybe pass some thorough medical examinations for free and receive whatever treatment needed (I have some issues with my health, but nothing that I can put my finger at and it nothing too serious to warrant the bother, up to this point). When I told about this to a doctor acquaintance, she said that in her opinion it is always wiser to get a high paying job and pay in cash instead, because that's the only way you can motivate doctors to treat you[sic]. So I keep wondering: do we have the situation so very backwards? I have really few information to compare.

Where can I read up on how health insurance works in the USA? Information about other countries is also welcome as well.

Why is the option of buying health insurance for a freelancer not even considered?
Ok I will, filter internal and external.

The site says you have
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Ooof... that's what I meant!
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I would add specifically that virtualization is overdue. Apple's strategy back in the day was pretty good: sandbox the entire old OS so that users can still get most things to "just work", but then support only a subset of APIs on the new OS. Apple also kept the old OS as-is (i.e. ugly), while using all the nice new technologies and look-and-feel as bait to encourage developers to move.
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Great. Thank you for the pointers.
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I hate the way SO only remembers you for a week or two, so when you return, you have to login, going to a separate screen and so on. Why do they have to make it so hard? What's the advantage in forcing frequent logins?

Yeah, I know I should find some other StackExchange site, go there, create an account there, login there, and post this complaint there - but you know, that's just more of the same problem. </rant>
Great point made by the author. People aren't spending a lot of time updating their sites so they will render or render more clearly on an iPhone.

But to some extent, I don't blame them. While there is a good chance that some client/potential client is going to look at a site on their iPhone, if your business is creating sites for people that will primarily visit on their computer vs. an iPhone, then that client/potential client would understand. For all of the effort you put into having the site handle the iPhone, etc. site in a more iPhone-friendly way (without flash, making it use much less screen real estate so no zooming is needed), your competitors may be spending that time learning HTML5 (Chrome has been here, IE9 beta is out, etc.- You'd better be paying attention) and writing sites for the future, while your company is still stuck in the 2008-2009 mentality of writing iPhone-specific versions of sites.

Anyway, that said- maybe you want to get into the niche of having sites that render on the iPhone/iTouch, various Android devices, Blackberries, and other mobile devices better. That's fine, but realize that there are a number of companies who have had that as their primary job for years now that aren't design companies, but who do a decent job of making sites render better on mobile devices. But, it's still a good idea to explore that- maybe it is what your company will be known for one day: sites well-designed for mobile devices.
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Why can't they release ActiveX as a plugin (like Flash, Shockwave etc). Then the big corporates could use any browser they liked with the ActiveX plugin so their shitty old apps would continue to work!

Obviously... there would have to be a limit to who could get this plugin - we don't want people installing ActiveX all over again unless they really need it!
Yes very good point. Build a good foundation OS and then virtualise for backwards compatibility.

I think .net is a good bait for such a new system. From the little interaction I've had with C# devs, they seem to like it.
"If you don't make time, you'll never have time. The author seems to be falling into the all-too-common trap of equating long hours with productivity."

Not necessarily. It probably depends on the market you are in. The author is a writer: maybe it is a bit harder for him than for a software consultant: maybe he has to work more to earn enough money.
Also I have a freelancer friend who is very productive just somehow he is trapped into a market where there is not too much money. (He (and I) lives in Eastern Europe, and works for not too big/rich companies.)
A couple of other factors that we considered:

1. The spelling should be obvious from the pronunciation.

2. Should have as few syllables as possible. Two is great if you can find one.
An operating system roadmap that promises to get leaner, smaller, faster on future versions.

Not to flame but I switched to Ubuntu after Vista and never looked back.
I didn't know that vSphere used a SuSE kernel - that's interesting. I assumed they roll their own for sure.

There must be more to it though - a couple of hundred million dollars for a Linux kernel which you can have for free anyway would be a steep price, even if we consider it as a talent acquisition to get the engineering team which built that kernel.
This post has so much FUD it makes my brain hurt.
Oh, you can tell who voted up the stories? Didn't know that..
I'll make no comments about the SEO viability of the name, but I find these ending-in-"ly" names (I've seen a few of them recently) atrocious. An "ly" is one of the strongest markers in the English language for a part of speech: an adverb. When you make an adverb out of something that shouldn't be, you get something that sounds like it was uttered by a 3-year-old.
I imagine the user resistance is more due to a) not wanting to pay to join a ghost town, and b) not having significant issues with the quality of community on HN/Reddit (or being satisfied with the local methods of filtering).

I wouldn't draw any conclusions about Real Names from this exercise, except perhaps that users don't consider them valuable enough to overcome the other frictions created by your product.
Personally, I prefer the simplicity of the IE5 logo.

I really feel for the IE development team - they're working to make things better and be more transparent and on every post, they get bashed for things that are probably quite out of their control (like the guy moaning about problems with Windows Live).
It also sucks that the most capitalized companies are so big and powerful, but that doesn't mean they're unassailable.
This is a fair story (though overstated) because, as with carrier modifications, it's another example of a theoretically open platform being restricted in practice.

Yes OEMs don't need Google's approval to use Android, but will they go against Google's wishes if Google branding helps shift handsets, and if by going along with Google they get closer involvement with the OS development, upgrades and so on?

Yes anyone else can set up another App Store but how much of a benefit is that when Google use their vast might to make it unlikely that 90% of people owning phones will ever know anything but the Google sanctioned one?

I don't think it's a case of Google vs. Apple, more a case of the theory of openness against the practice of it.

You'd be foolish to overstate what this means for Android, but similarly you'd be unwise not to see that the practicalities of the situation mean that it's not quite as perfectly open as many would hope.
incidentally, i have no idea why everyone treats s3 as so reliable. all these services offer backups to s3. well folks, i think that s3 is bound to fail some day and some good peace of mind could be manufactured by mirroring s3 files to a few different mirrors.
I wonder how much of the difference in culture is actually fueled by the aggressive fund raising of digg early on.
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It's interesting that so far everybody seems to ignore the last part of the question, which seems to me interesting enough: is unit testing useful for web apps?

In my experience, I can tell that I'd really like to be able to use them, but changing my apps to fit them would make them a lot "thicker".

Let me explain. When I make a page in a web apps which does something, the code is very thing. It has roughly 3 layers: sql database (static, no stored procedures), business logic including sql statements (java), and html template (in my case html+apache velocity). There is no POO dividing my apps horizontally.

In order to make this testable I'd have to basically put another layer on top of everything. I still have no idea how to do it without making everything horrible.
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Microsoft's advertising still doesn't do it for me. Frankly, most commercials makes me think more about their lameness than the product.

The exception is Xbox ads. As 'rakkhi' noted, the Xbox product line is actually great, and I think its advertising is one reason for its success. Xbox ads, everything down to the cool logo/sound thing in each one, make me think about the product, instead of making me feel sorry for the company that made the commercial.

Start by throwing out all the copycat stuff. ("I'm a PC"...I get it. Stupid. Is that the best you can do?) If you're going to copy anyone, copy yourself: take Xbox ads, and extend their style to the rest of the product line. Then go even further.
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Personally, I think Microsoft needs to make the strategic "pivot" to selling experiences - not necessarily operating systems.

They've done a great job of this with Xbox and Windows 7. I was incredibly sad when the Courier got cancelled. This was a big head pound moment for me. At it's core, MS sells software, but increasingly, it seems apparent that consumers are going to spend their dollars on hardware/software combos (this is primarily a nod to Apple, but look at the care that Google invested with Android - the G1, the close relationship to Droid, and Nexus One, and RIM making all their devices). It's no longer enough to say "here's an operating system, do what you want with it." This was the previous mobile strategy, and now it's gotten them into the position their in.

Mobile seems to be figured out already - MS will be fighting for 3rd place (at least for the next 5-7 years). Tablets is still a potential area for innovation - the iPad leaves a lot to be desired, ChromeOS seems to be dead, Android Tablets have yet to really take off.

Overall - there seems to be an inherent political culture at MS. It's intriguing that Apple has a higher market value with 10% of the employees. I know so many brilliant, smart people that work at Microsoft, but I haven't heard from them in the past 5 years - they seem to all be cogs in a big machine.

Encourage employees to start their own companies. Maybe have a blanket policy of providing seed money to any employee that wants to - YC style. Take a lot of smaller risks instead of few big ones. Zuckerberg would have taken $10,000 for 10% when he first started - now 1.6% cost you $240,000,000! You could have invested in 200,000 ideas for that price. Let your people run with their own ideas, without having to sit through 80 million meetings and having their ideas suffer death by 1000 PM's.
A little to "captain-obvious"-esk for me, take a look:

"The antidote to boredom is involvement. If you realize you are procrastinating because you are bored, try these:

- Reconnect with your excitement about the project you are working on.
- Work on something else that engages you more."

The first one is not easy and the second one is actually procrastinating on the project.
Don't copy the bad aspects of OS X, only the good ones. In turn, don't throw out the good aspects of Windows (XP), only the bad ones. Not everything Apple does is good - make up your own mind.

(I hate how Windows 7 removed the likeable things about Windows XP and introduced the annoying things about OS X).
It probably fueled it quite a bit. When you take $40 million in funding, you're committing yourself to exit for hundreds of millions of dollars within a few years, which in turn puts you on a monetization clock.
It's real. I know I'm obviously going to say that, but hey.

Also, checking out the Quora thing now. Cheers
The real problem is that after decoding you have realtime video stream with bandwidth of several gigabits per second (up to 10.2 Gbit/s, but average's about 3 Gbit/s if I'm not mistaken), you have to either store or encode.
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Yeah, but that's private homes. It's one thing to drag a cable to a house, it's another thing to rewire an apartment complex.
If you haven't read the article yet, read it! It talks about 2 clever "hacks" of the Reddit/Digg systems, which are really imaginative and wonderful.

There is one thing about the article I'm not sure about. He says the difference between Digg and Reddit is in their "hacker culture"; Reddit is made up more of hackers, and therefore likes hacks more.

On the other hand, I think Hacker News is even more slanted towards the hacker mentality than either Reddit and Digg. But I'm not at all sure what HN's reactions to such "hacks" of the system would be; I think we tend to frown on such things.

EDIT: I stand corrected. Read niyazpk's comment for an example of a hack of HN (although that is literally a hack of the code that runs HN, not a hack of the "system". Either way, interesting reading).
I would like to see .NET framework penetration numbers. A lot of .NET developers still target 2.0 for desktop apps because the perception is that that 3.0+ have a much smaller installation base - even though numbers posted on statowl.com and Scott Hanselman's blog suggest otherwise. This is definitely one case where more transparency by Microsoft would benefit both them and the developer community.

I would also like to see the Certificate Revocation List checked less frequently. Microsoft Office add-in developers actually get penalized for having digitally signed add-ins, since the (daily?) CRL check slows Office application startup significantly.
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www.storeslider.com

I've been building this site as a faster alternative to Ebay. It shows a lot more results, more quickly, with the 'as you type' results and prediction like Google Instant.

This is far from perfect, and I'd love to hear your thoughts on how this could be improved.

The plan is to add various other shopping services if the concept is popular.

I came across Pic Click a week or so ago, which seems similar, but hopefully I can differentiate this with presentation, range of search options etc.

Would love your constructive criticism on this.
>> I'm not at all sure what HN's reactions to such "hacks" of the system would be; I think we tend to frown on such things.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=639976
I didn't have to jailbreak my Nexus One either.

Just buy the right phone.
+1 for that last paragraph.

Just thinking that you need a billion dollar product or it's not worth it, will mean that no potentially game-changing ideas that start as a seed and will grow can come through the system. You're left with only the options to buy (but now the other companies will not sell as they have wisened up to their value) or partner (and you'll not get the real benefit or possibilities from it, and your competitors might).
Care to explain how come Chrome OS is dead?
the first few paragraphs are all about how much he loves his work, It sounds exactly like someone who loves what they are doing but wants to point out that it isnt all sunshine and roses for people thinking about doing the same thing.

he is obviously a very good creative writer, you probably need to read it a little less literally.

when I first seen the title I remembers pg's quote straight away "doing a startup is like being punched in the face repeatedly, but a 9-5 job is like being waterboarded"
Could you provide examples of things you like/don't like in OSX and XP?
There is already the XP mode in Windows 7, which boots a virtualized XP for compatibility.
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Say to Ballmer?

I'd tell him to move aside. Ballmer's a sales' guy. He is clearly a good sales' guy. But he's the wrong person to be determining strategy at Microsoft.

I sometimes wonder what would have happened if Ballmer had gone to Sun, as the sales' guy. Is there an xkcd for that?
True Hacker News is slanted towards hackers, but it takes itself far more seriously than Reddit.
Suggestion to Microsoft - Do less, but better. My faith in their products has slowly grown over the last 10 years, however they still suffer from trying to have too many fingers in too many pies. And in my opinion their products suffer for it. Maybe they should put more focus into fewer products?
I would include the Diffie-Hellman key exchange algorithm in that list - it is pretty simple but wonderfully counter-intuitive:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie%E2%80%93Hellman_key_exch...
Why would anyone reboot a system, instead of putting it to sleep¹? (Except when restart is required by an upgrade.)

[1] Powered-off-and-ram-image-stored-to-disk type of sleep.
Because netbooks are not the future of ultraportable computing; tablets are, and Chrome OS is primarily part of a mouse and keyboard driven paradigm. Also it is making increasingly little sense for Google to support two divergent operating systems.
An understanding that if you're asking us for ideas like this, that if you don't already know what's wrong despite everything that's been written and everything your developers could tell you, you're in deep trouble?

More constructively, I'd like to see Microsoft taking more risks and leading more. Kinnect and XBox Live are good examples of Microsoft being first in or coming up with the best thing out there. You could make a case for elements of Bing too.

So be more ambitious. Too many MS entries into markets now seem me too relying on the MS brand to prop up an otherwise ordinary product (Zune?). You need to either be better on day one or moving with such momentum that you're confident that you will be very quickly. How are you going to move with that momentum? I'd suggest less management and less marketing. Yep some of projects which don't have the current level of guidance are going to bomb out heading in totally the wrong direction, but the ones that succeed will be better than what you're producing now and get there a lot faster.

Your historic approach of watching markets develop and muscling into them using Windows and Office as leverage won't work any more. Windows isn't an effective lever in the new markets and the competitors (Apple and Google) don't shift as easily as they used to. You need to be in earlier and better.

Your developer tools are pretty good but your licensing is a quick route to insanity. I've honestly recommended Oracle in the past because for a proposal I had to put together very quickly, working out the licensing cost for a complex SQL Server implementation was simply too time consuming.

Mobile - you seem to have become obsessed with the iPhone where frankly you're ill equipped to fight. Aim at corporate, go for RIM. You're strong in corporate and if you can't do a better integration with a corporate infrastructure (which is likely based around Exchange) then you shouldn't be playing at all. Once you've got that sorted, then look at the consumer market building on that.

But also good luck. Though I don't think you'll ever be what you were historically, I honestly believe MS could be a company turning out great products and the more competition in the market the better.
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