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don't worry. keep on going. its true you may feel that you are moving slow in the beginning, but with time you will gain pace
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Ejector seats would work for a challenger stage accident.
The first shuttle with only 2 pilots on board did have aircraft style ejector seats. The problem comes when you have a crew of 7 on two levels - you could have down/side-ward firing seats, as used on some B52 variants, but that compromises the heat shield.

But the most dangerous part of the flight is on the pad, a seat capable of firing you horizontally far enough to be clear of an explosion on the pad would be difficult - you would probably need the entire crew compartment to eject on it's own set of rockets - but this wouldn't work on landing, the other dangerous stage.
Then there is the added danger of the rest of the flight - when inside the pressure hull you have the rockets necessary to blow a 2ton escape pod 3-5km clear of a pad fire.
Technically, it does not matter. Its more of a personal preference.

How does your domain sounds better? With www or without www?
Heh.

Nah, he was brought in after Java was going to help write the language definition document, given his fantastic demonstrated ability to do this: Scheme, co-author of the best one for C, Common Lisp.

He's now working on Fortress, a HPC language (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_%28programming_languag...). As far as I know, people doing research are still happy (enough), employed, etc., e.g. that project is still going with the most recent release a month and a half ago and the Maxine JVM in Java was fine as of the time Oracle sued Google, when I stopped paying attention to it.
I feel compelled to point out that multiple greater than symbols do not mean "even more greater than".
Maybe. The value attached to looking at friends' photos isn't nearly as high as that of finding solutions to just about every problem you'll encounter in your job.

Ask yourself this: if you had to work for a year without Google or Facebook, which would you choose to give up? One provides answers for me daily. The other I visit far less than HN. One is active - I'm searching. The other is passive - I'm being amused. In the former, I'm more likely to be convinced to spend money. The latter...well, I haven't spent a cent yet.
I voted "divulge information in a redacted form (for instance, percentages rather than absolutes)".

Being public about your success matters to customers. Business numbers are social proof as well as demonstrating you are reliable because you won't be going out of business soon.

If your competitors are an active threat who are likely to raise money, don't divulge real numbers because you make it easy for them to prove the business model to others without having to invest their own capital and time learning that information themselves.

Finally, being too transparent actually can confuse and annoy customers. Most customers don't understand economics, so if they see you are making 90% operational margin they'll think you're charging too much because they can't account for marketing and capital investments like R&D.
IPad, Apple's 'Mac of the masses,' predicted to sell 21M in 2011
Well, Borders in the UK went bankrupt a year ago, but I don't think bookshops are going to go away any time soon.

When I buy a book, either I want a specific book (in which case Amazon is the most convenient way of getting it) or I want a book on a particular subject, but I don't know which book I want. In a book store, I can easily and conveniently browse several books, and decide which I like the best -- this is harder online.
No, you shouldn't do it. (Edit: just testing your determination)
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Does the MVP model work for games in general? It seems if you're submitting to Steam, the App Store, Android Market, etc. you'll either end up denied entry or get buried by the games with a certain level of polish.
Here is a fanmade trailer that I think really does a good job of selling some of the appeal to this game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaMTedT6P0I
For the same reason selling your body for money might make you feel dirty.
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The summary he provides is also nice (of app stores, payment processors, festivals).
I think the reality is that XSS flaws are found on huge sites all the time, but only on Twitter (and to a lesser extent Facebook) are they immediately exploited to cause a scene. Now, that's Twitter's problem, not ours, but you do have to factor it in to an analysis of "how Twitter could have missed something like this". Everyone misses stuff like this. Everyone.
Agreed, this is A/B testing. Case A (presence of header) vs case B (absence of header). Making up a new term for it is quite silly.
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There's also Rake.net.
i kinda feel the opposite way, in the bookstore you base everything on the cover/thumbing through it...with Amazon you can actually read customer reviews and see if the book is worth it.
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Anecdote of dealing with average users: When I am over shoulders and ask people to go to various sites, the first thing they do is slap in a "www.", assuming that every web site must begin with it. In some situations, I have to specifically tell them NOT to put the www.
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Don't worry so much about the "they will hate me" or "my team won't trust me" angle unless you know that to be a fact. Most people understand that business is business, management or not, and if you're a solid employee that your team could use they're not going to be pissed that you got a better offer and accepted. They'll just be happy to have you back so they don't have to replace you.

I like the "make a joke of it" angle, but if you can't pull that off you really should be fine with just being honest about what happened, assuming you work with decent human beings. Story seemed reasonable enough to me.
I was insanely happy when all of the "Movie Gallerys" went out of business in my area. Fist pumping and the whole nine yards. Few businesses treat their customers as terribly as video rental stores. Multiple times, I had to physically lead their employees to the video I had returned, weeks earlier, to prove that the $89 (or whatever ridiculously high) late fee was bull$#!*. Dying in a fire is too good for these stores because then then could collect the insurance. :)
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to stupid down-voters: try to count what amount of testing a standalone package gets compared to the package which is a part of Fedora Project? In term of number of installations? community involved? Fedora's team and infrastructure?
Unfortunately this sort of view isn't very compatible with the indie developer ideal, or the ideals the author holds--which might one of the many reasons why you see so much Rails/PHP development in the non-enterprise space.

I'd say a much more likely reason is that the enterprise can't get enough programers to support anything other than the MS stack. The culture at large enterprise simply isn't compatible with the hacker mindset. Banks are a notable exception in my mind, but then again banks have always been fairly agile when it comes to turning a profit.

Also, the open source ideal isn't an "indie developer" ideal. Serious systems engineering goes on in the open source community and it produces what often are the technically superior solutions.
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Nothing stopping you using another database - I've started using CouchDB with an ASP.Net MVC application and it all hangs together pretty well.

You could use MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite etc. just as easily.
The writer of this post is not an average Amazon consumer. I'll confess I click around a lot on their similar items links.

You are not an average IKEA shopper.

My girlfriend loves going to IKEA for that reason. She looks through everything from couches to decorative cardboard boxes because of the 'walking trail' layout. Hence an hour of entertainment that she knows will be fresh and interesting every 6 months or so.

I once tried to convince her to take a shortcut to get what we actually needed and she looked at me like I was crazy and we were supposed to follow the arrows.

But I don't buy things from IKEA, I carry them. She is their target market and they give her a good experience.
I can't agree with you more.

One thing I have not seen mentioned is that cyclists are effectively INVISIBLE to cars when on sidewalks due to their speed. I work on a college campus and have watched motorists tune out sidewalk cyclists on a number of occasions - they aren't tracking objects moving faster than a pedestrian. On two of those occasions, the cyclists were hit - one was taken away in an ambulance with head injuries. Any near collision I've had has involved a pedestrian walkway of some sort.

As a cyclist your highest priority is to be seen. It's much harder to ignore a cyclist riding in the road.
That's what I feel. Not only do they have an impossible deadline to hit right now, but the deadline they did hit was probably impossible as well.

They may have spent most of the summer architecting this thing and figuring out things like "seeds". When it came down to putting code on screen, as it were, they had minimal time to do so. All of these security issues feel like the release was rushed and that they might have been better off releasing it silently, without a way to deploy public nodes, and having a blog post explaining the situation.
Ugh. Forget I wrote that. :)
Amazing what a \n can do!

Okay, so, stripping spaces from string values. Easy? If I import my line, I have 6 strings I need to segment out of it and my file uses spaces. So, in my previous line:

out_file.write(' <td>' + line[0:12] + '<td>\n')

I'd like to strip the spaces from line[0:12]

Thanks!
So does he think there should just be less content? It's one thing for a blog (e.g. daring fireball) to have a sweet minimalistic design that only shows you one thing at a time... but sites like Amazon and the NYTimes have an absolutely massive amount of content that they're trying to provide. How is the NYTimes supposed to make a sleek, un-cluttered interface when they have 3000 new articles every day? And it's not junk -- nearly every one of those articles is thoughtful and well-written. They all deserve some attention.

Do you have any examples of websites that have ginormous amounts of content and simple, un-cluttered interfaces? And don't say google, because that's different.
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Facebook is not worth $33 billion
I mean no offense by this (even though your condescending gasp makes me relish the thought of offending you) but you're probably too young to appreciate the requisite historical context. The link you provided is a relatively recent change in posture for the company in question.
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I never understood the concept of buying movies. How many times can you watch the same damn thing?
Recently I penned down a rant against the social hypocrisy of so many startups (http://colabopad.blogspot.com/2010/08/on-early-stage-hiring-...)

I did take a dig at Facebook at the end of that post, I must say now that I am more than happy to eat my words!! Kudos to you Marky Mark, as a Newark residence this is very much appreciated:)
You don't need it, even if you do ever go back to a Blockbuster. You can just show them your ID.
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Awesome stuff. I have a new game hopefully luanching next week, and another one going to auction at FlashGameLicense next week. I love making games.

If you're making HTML5 games check this out too:
http://www.html5contest.com/
This explains the unexpected presence of .Net devs on yesterdays local Ruby user group meeting!
From the article you posted:

"Blockbuster turned down the opportunity to buy Netflix for a mere $50 million, instead entering a disastrous home-delivery deal with Enron."

Wow...
I worked in a different era than yours. Today, you can pick and choose the microsoft stack you want to use, if any at all, because you have choice and they don't.

Then, you sold software based on polish and integration in UI look and feel. You have to choose your tools very carefully, because of the realities of software publishing and distribution. You don't know how long it takes from the moment you press the CD-ROM, to the moment it goes on the shelf, to when it's bought. If it looks and works OK today, a year from now it would be butt ugly. Only hardware vendors could get away with ugly software. Even anti-virus software is polished and themed to oblivion. But mine corporate software with strong Office integration, it has to look modern, for some modern in the unknown future.

Did ole-good Windows API and C++ classes just go away with the advent of COM?

They didn't. I occasionally write native win32 apps with Dev-C++. But I could not, today, embed all third party components, be they MS' or off-the-shelf, using only pure C++ and win32 API.

There are tiers of Win32 interfaces and libraries, in terms of quality and system integration. On one end you have the Win32 API, and on the other end the latest managed .NET newfangled things (I am ignoring native NT layer and the DDK.) However, in between you have this graveyard of APIs, from OLE to ActiveX to COM to what have you. Each has been pushed with merciless fervor by MS, at a time when they were the only game in town.

I am glad you like your stay on .NET though. Cheers! I myself java just rediscovered Java (the JVM, really) and this is where it's at. Sun couldn't sell for shit, but they knew how to make software.
It's not the first time that the US applies its laws to entities that do not fall under it's jurisdiction and it won't be the last either.

Think of this as the internet equivalent of 'rendition' (talk about double-speak).
> If a bug is found in the stack itself, it won't languish unsolved in bug trackers for years, like many OSS bugs do. MS will probably fix it in their next cycle

You also have the option of paying Microsoft for a QFE (quick fix engineering). With a QFE, the team fixes the bug as an immediate priority and provides you with a patch for it. All QFEs eventually get rolled up into cumulative updates and/or service packs.
Historically cities lose out big time when they are situated up against state lines. Usually the suburbs located in other other cities with lesser service requirements will entice the tax income over the state line using incentives. They work in the city, therefore benefiting from a strong (and usually expensive) city government, and commute out into the other state. It's like a more extreme version of white flight, because it pushes taxes completely out of the state. The "inexpensive housing" you talk about is located in the inner city, not the suburbs.

In Memphis, where I live, most lower income people can't afford to live outside the bubble of city-provided public transit and/or social services. Even the middle class people live within the city limits, but on the very far outskirts. The wealthier people live outside the city in exclusive, incorporated suburbs where they avoid city taxes. Essentially the incorporated suburbs are designed as tax shelters for the wealthy. The wealthy people almost always work in the city and complain about the crime, poverty, crumbling roads, etc, but will dodge any tax that might help fix these problems.

We also have a pair of large middle class suburbs located just to the south of the city in Mississippi state. The county they're in is now the richest county in Mississippi. All of the income tax and most of the sales tax from these people who undoubtedly work in city is funneled out of the state of TN and into the coffers of MS. Every workday, they use our roads, police/fire protection, and by proxy, most of our other local gov't services. Most of which is paid for by people who are much poorer.

It is honestly a libertarians "see, I told you so" wet dream.
I agree but the creditors are the ones getting screwed now because of the way Blockbuster ran its business.
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You shouldn't be hitting 'express' on windows update on a live server just as you shouldn't be running 'update world' on a live linux server
OK, you've made headlines.
Now, where are your patches? ^_^
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It would be a sad day if you couldn't go to a local bookstore and randomly browse/ buy books. Not that I'm against ebooks or online purchasing of physical books as well as bookshops.
> sendfile() is a system call that sends data between two file descriptors

Not quite. As Pike complains, the first file descriptor must be mmap-able and the second must be a socket. I think his objection is that such narrowly applicable system calls do not belong in what should be a general purpose API.
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Yeah, we don't really need a new term. I just made up so that such tests can be identified and talked about easily. If you think about it, presence and absence of an element has some different dynamics as compared to having variations of an element.
> There is no reason why my customers need to know in what language the solution is developed in.

Business continuity.
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A company I worked for in the past (MM pageviews a day, you've probably heard of them) was a big MS proponent and an early adopter of some of their new stuff, like--at the time--Silverlight. We had a fairly direct line to someone at MS if something crazy happened. It might not always get fixed right away (a bug that might need to wait for the next cycle), but MS was always on top of what needed fixing.

Contrarily, we had one guy working on some OSS stuff in a corner of the office--Apache, PHP, Rails, stuff like that. Whenever he ran into a problem that needed to be solved yesterday, he had to find and call a $100/hour consultant who may or may not even be able to solve the problem, or even guarantee that it would be patched at a later date. That's the big MS selling point.
How well do you code? I know of a few startups that will happily send you to AA.
Did people think it was that good? IME, it translates normal text to and from many languages into something that provides the gist if lacking in the nuances. Which, IMHO, is flippin fantastically great even in the face of the odd horrible translation.
Suggestion: Someone should develop a site where people who want to share their insights can register their type of business, evaluate/interview prospects who want the information, and then open their data to acceptable non-competitors. Charge the people who want access and share the revenue with the companies/people who provide the information.
Yes. This is what the open source world doesn't understand. You can't just copy a commercial product feature-for-feature, open source it and then scratch your head wondering why it isn't gaining adoption.

When a corporate pays for software, they are paying for peace-of-mind and assurance more than the bits that make up the app.
Or use a 3D printing service like http://cloudfab.com/ if you just like making the 3D .stl files.
"Get BizSpark or WebsiteSpark to cover your licensing costs during development..."

Like offering free crack to drug addicts! No wonder .NET continues to exist.
Blockbuster Canada is unaffected by the U.S. bankruptcy and is still financially stable

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20100923/bankruptcy-protect...

I wonder how the US and Canada businesses diverged, maybe less competition in Canada.
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Getting lost in discussion threads after submitting a comment and having to scroll around to find where I was. That is all.

(wasn't sure where to send/submit this)
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And why is that mahmud? Because most developers, by a HUGE margin, wanted to this in VB. And in VB hosting COM controls in your app was super simple.

What I send to see are two classes of MS developers:
1) Those who use the MS stack, but realize they're using tools that they build with and on.
2) Those who use the MS stack, but get stuck thinking that it is the only tool available, period.

The second group of developers sometimes gets an epiphany when they change to a non-MS stack, because its so clearly obvious in the non-MS world that there is no stack that is convincingly better than any other. Group two expresses their outrage at the MS stack. While group one is mystified that they ever thought the MS stack is the end all be all.

Here's a hint as to how to find them ahead of time. Go talk to the guy who does .NET development today and ask what his favorite third-party controls are. If he has none and says, "I only use MS out the box controls" then this person will eventually become part of second group.
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Continued comments on last week's Fighting The Wrong Fight, that we have been distracted by Google v. Apple when it is really hardware makers v. carriers. What you can do and how the hardware makers can fight back.
Interesting. In my CS degree ('08) the languages used in the few classes that involved actual programming were: C++, Scheme, Prolog, Python and Java. Never anything that would require proprietary software like Visual Studio.
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The tools around docking are pretty good. Much better to have that than 2 separate dev environments (laptop and desktop). In terms of bulk, my laptop is a 13" so not very bulky. It could be a bit more powerful but the main problem is the HDD (not SSD) and the awful corporate virus scan.
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Right. Which is why we need a long term study. To follow a product from conception to production to end of life.
I wouldn't use it on Linux! Obviously Solaris would be the 'best' place to use it.

But even after a port, the underlying FS will have many more years of production use than brtfs. You might find bugs in the interface between the kernel and ZFS, but hopefully they wouldn't mess with any of the core fs code.
Permissions-based, perhaps? I often feel facebook is a little wiki-ish when I find myself tagged in a new album of photos a friend uploads.
A blockbuster employee once stole some dvds I returned, and destroyed my credit.

To this news, I sing, "We don't need no water let the motherfucker burn!".
You have failed at properly saving for retirement if several (3-5) hundred grand is a significant > 49% of their total retirement savings.
Great idea. There's a point when creating a game stops being fun and begins to feel like hard work. It's the ability to push on past that point that separates the people who ship from the ones who don't.