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They missed his first public Node presentation in Cologne: http://www.webmontag.de/location/koeln/2009-09-21
Agreed, but they also need to work with independent app developers to encourage/ensure consistency. Consider what happened to me yesterday: I was unplugged and wanted to see how my battery was doing. You don't do that via the Power Management console, although that is where you change all of the battery/AC settings. You have to left click the battery icon in the top panel and go to Preferences. Arrrgh.
Java is excellent for cross-platform desktop GUI. Eclipse's SWT looks perfect, but careful not to get dragged into their elaborate "Rich Client Platform" crap. If you can manage to use just SWT, you will win.

Having said that, Swing, the offical GUI toolkit can be themed to look quite native. And Java Webstart is an absolute win: one-click deployment on every platform.
I've been using wpf and xaml for making nice quick applications for windows. I need a dsl for the xaml or a ruby wrapper for the API - Which I'm currently investigating. Too bad mono doesn't support wpf.

I've been looking at shoes by _why with some interest but think a dsl/swing (jvm) comboo would be the quickest and easiest cross platform option.
Lots of shitting on Dave McClure from people who've never met him. If you had a friend who was a great guy but happened to have a ridiculous online writing voice, and terrible taste in fonts, you wouldn't hate on him for it. The few times I've dealt with him, he was incredibly generous and helpful beyond belief. Don't turn real people into hateful caricatures based on your dislike of the way they express themselves online.
Scoble's view on Angelgate. A well balanced view.
My own theory what actually happened:
http://www.reddit.com/r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu/comments/di0v0/s...
Sometimes designers and builders of a system make decisions about tradeoffs between availability and scaling and error recovery that they don't understand until after the system is in the field. Any sufficiently complex system becomes vulnerable to unexpected interactions between subsystems especially when one or more subsystems fails catastrophically. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_accident has more on the topic, but you do want to read Perrow's book http://books.google.com/books?id=VC5hYoMw4N0C&printsec=f... Normal Accidents.
You can actually get Visual C++ tools for free from Microsoft, since there's a C++ Visual Studio Express available. Check http://www.microsoft.com/express/Windows/ ... there's quite a bit out there for free nowadays from Microsoft. Though it would be great to see more WPF apps, and you'd need to look into Expression Studio for that. Can't wait to see what you build; the desktop market has definitely been neglected on all platforms for too long.
You might be thinking about Mozilla Prism (http://prism.mozillalabs.com/)
Interesting. Could either of you expand on that? What qualities do you now look for in a client/customer?
I tought about this yesterday! Thank you!!
Yes, Turbo Pascal was one of the most underrated languages ever. Blisteringly fast to run and way faster than C to compile. Clean simple language, native strings (yay!), no need to worry about memory management, pointers etc.

Built some pretty good stuff with Delphi, and I think sometimes that there's many cases where Delphi 7 is still one of the most productive desktop development packages of all time, even when compared to the latest Visual Studio.

and to those who doubt me - well, I like my rose tinted glasses, and I'm keeping them on :P
My sarcasm-o-meter flew off the wall. Well, I'm not deterred yet:

1. It may not be an insurmountable problem; see eru's and ambition's suggestions below.

2. There is a real business need for the application, and anything worthwhile can have unforeseen difficulties.
1+ for online sync. Keeping your data available everywhere is one of the biggest things most of us like about webapps. Evernote is a great example of desktop + mobile + web syncing synergy.

Of course, this depends on what your app is doing. Every useful app doesn't have to sync, or even create data that you'd want to sync. That said, most apps could greatly benefit from syncing, no matter what platform they're on.
As Tichy mentioned, there are the offline web apps, basically the application works offline and only uses the internet connection if it is available. It is even possible to have an application almost indistinguishable from a desktop application depending on the browser (Chrome, iPhone/iPod, etc)

The advantages of using this platform is that it is cross-platform, the application will have a really long longevity and "everyone" knows javascript (which might be a good or bad thing).
I find it's actually quicker and easier to move a window this way, compared to the regular "locate right hand corner, drag and release". Although the combo I use is a little easier than yours (I have resizes mapped to super key+left mouse button).

I was a solid windows user for many many years and now find myself getting frustrated using it when I have to hunt for the edge of a window. Maybe it's just me ...
thankyou

that was inspirational.
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You need to refine your pitch.

You say you "could really help small businesses."

How, exactly? By increasing their revenue? Decreasing their costs?

If you can convincingly demonstrate a significant ROI, people will overcome their resistance to technology. At least, that's been my experience.

So: can you demonstrate a significant ROI? Do you have enough real-life industry experience to be able to write the business case on your software? Does your software solve a pain-point that they know they have? Or do they need to be educated on both the problem and the solution?
Maybe something like the popular geo-caching but instead of geo-caches, one "finds" other people and activities and can then post about it...?

And there is something like meetup for example.
All the time. Also renewal scams. Appraisal Scams.
The biggest thing I look for is to be clued in to the feasibility and difficulty of their commission. If someone wants a Facebook clone for $500 and/or finished in 3 weeks, I'd walk away immediately. I guess that's an exaggerated example but if a client is completely non-technical it's almost always too painful to work with them directly.

I don't agree with 'never say no to a customer' in software development work.
After spinning around for awhile, I forgot which axis was which. It's very pretty though and definitely useful for a visual learner like myself. It's annoying (to say the least) how long it takes to render a single frame of a 3D graph on a TI-89, and I often find myself spending time trying to imagine spinning around a graph rather than actually waiting for it to render every time I change my point of reference.
You know I have refrained from the whole HN is going to hell, but to get downvoted for trying to explain a viewpoint that hey he might have gotten downvoted by a dyslexic who took it personal (something I have learned to refrain from doing, by seeing the error of my defensive thinking) and then to have a troll try to get his +5 funny quota (wrong site sir), at the expense of my affliction. Knowing full well that yes I do suffer from the affliction is reprehensible. You sir have reached a new low for this community. It is people like you that make me feel the fool for defending the community of people here to have an intelligent discussion.
C++ is the highest-level language that I can accurately guess the assembly that will be actually run by the processor.

YMMV whether that's a blessing or a curse, though!
4 different Make: DIY eBooks for $9.99 each today on O'Reilly.com in celebration of Maker Faire in NY this weekend. Looks like good books to add to any hacker's library, especially if you want to pass on the tradition to younger people in your life.
Judging from the commentary the majority of the commenters think this post was massively inappropriate.

It was massively upvoted because many, many people agree with a lot of the content of the article. If this was lesswrong or reddit, the post might have a negative score, it would certainly be controversial.

Personally attacking the author is okay because

(a) He's not remotely as active, committed or useful a commenter as Patrick.

(b) Obvious self-promotion is taboo among technical people and among their broader cultural peers, nerds, geeks, whatever. Demonstration of talent in the course of something else is the way to go. lsc has some great comments on this, and makes the point that business people are just not like this, at all. Sebastian is much, much more like them in this regard than Patrick.

But many people probably agree with him among the lurkers because not all of his comments on this thread are negative, they're hovering around 1 or 2.

Now personally I too think this was inappropriate, but if he had run it by Patrick, it'd have been fine. It's not like I, and the no doubt many other, habitual patio11 comment stalkers, couldn't have writted this or something like it<1>.

That said, this post probably wrecked Patrick's day. I felt uncomfortable reading it and I'm way less territorial or private than normal. It will probably occasion an Xing of his consulting rate though, which will leave Patrick more time for leisure or working on his own stuff, so distasteful as even I find it, it may in the long run turn out to be a _small_ favour. Maybe it accelerated his consulting trajectory a year. Whether that's worth what was no doubt a punch to the gut I don't know.

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Why do you care? (serious question)
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McClure dug himself into a hole with his first response. He didn't think two moves ahead. In poker parlance what McClure did was to bet the turn on a semi-bluff not anticipating an all-in shove from his opponent on the river.

McClure's post - through both its style and its content, left an opening for Conway to come out with this email. Dave is stuck now, and his only response from here is to come clean in some way and clear the air.

McClure has made all sorts of mistakes, first the blog post, and then the accidental tweet. He is not handling this very well and I feel for him because he is the only person from the dinner who is speaking out. The other people in attendance are suspiciously quiet (and giving away that they were there by being quiet) and leaving it to Dave to do the talking (and not doing a very good job for himself or for the rest of them).
Precisely. The author uses the term "slavery" while completely ignoring the fact that the users are choosing to contribute their time and energy. Clearly they believe it is worth it.
There are many toolkits to use. It depends on the type of app you're writing and who's going to use it and what platform its for.

Is it mainly for Windows users? Might want to go with .NET. There are free versions of Visual Studio available for this purpose.

Is it for Linux systems? GTK with C/Python or Qt with C++/Python maybe a better option. All the libraries and compilers are free. Mono (an open source .NET implementation) also works well on Linux.

If its for the Mac then Objective-C + Cocoa is the de facto method. The IDE, Xcode is a free download from Apple.
You can also get python bindings for Objective-C.

If it has to run on many platforms then you might want to think of a cross-platform toolkit.

If the program has a very simple UI, then you can probably get away with using wxWidgets or QT with Python.

If UI is more involved, then you will probably want to write the front-end for each in it's own native framework.
How does the author propose to start financially rewarding power users in any case? What sort of perverse incentives would this create? It seems to me that such rewards would conflict with providing real value, so I'd be interested to hear how this would be avoided.
Anybody got a link for up-to-date benchmarks?
The second strangest part of this outage (to me) was that the cluster "was quickly overwhelmed by hundreds of thousands of queries a second." Does Facebook not have a way to curtail the number of queries being sent to its databases? I'm not a highly experienced programmer or dba but i've seen mod_perl websites that can do this with their API layer. It was engineered in once it was realized the database cluster could only do so many queries and connections at a time and they didn't want to lock up the database servers.

The strangest thing to me was that the clients had the permission to essentially cause a race condition across the whole site. From what I understand, the client ran an API call which either forced a re-fetch of a key which apparently only needed to be fetched once (and thus theoretically could have been staged in advance using a database application not running on the frontend site which could update the cache and prevent a database fetch, or just update the database, whichever was more necessary), or failing the database connection due to the aforementioned thundering herd of QPS it also triggered a re-fetch from the db (which again could have been prevented by a db app pre-loading the new value). So, if my outsider's idea of how Facebook's code works is accurate, this could have been prevented if either the cache/database was "pre-fetched" in the background not using client API calls, or if client API calls simply weren't allowed to all modify [and read] from a single key in the database. The latter point seems less likely than the former, but possible.

(Sorry if i'm speaking out of line or as an uneducated FB user, but according to these comments and RJ's breakdown this is how it appears to me)
> That's not very connected. You could easily imagine a free form electronic system.

I can also imagine a multitude of ways electronic voting can fail or be manipulated without anyone knowing.

Voter turnout was over 84%, and that number has been increasing over the last few elections. We do not have an accessibility problem. For the type of elections we have, the current system is a good fit. One person - one envelope. When the polling stations close the polling clerks take all the envelopes, open them, sort the ballots into valid and invalid piles, and then count the valid votes by hand. It takes a few hours, but we get a pretty accurate preliminary result on election night, and the process is completely open, anyone can watch the counting.

After the preliminary counting all the ballots are sent in to the regional election authority office where they do a second counting where they also add in mail-in votes from Swedes abroad and other people who couldn't be there on the voting day. The second counting is also completely open, anyone can come and watch.

Yes, it takes a few days to get the final result, but the confidence in the result is very high. Yes, there are occasional screwups, but it gets noticed, it gets reported, anyone can notice them, you don't need to a software engineer to have a chance at it.
Something like Perl6 Rules / Grammar maybe a good target to explore: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl_6_rules
Why can't the homepage explain, at least in one sentence, what the software is about?
If I could upvote you more than once I would. Thank you. The mention of "deleted tweets" in the article title made me laugh outright.
You could use, say, "ARG_" instead and it would work just the same. (Phoenix uses "arg".)
I feel dirty watching this. Should I also feel insulted to be compared (as a somewhat-ish hacker) to Hitler's gang?
Eclipse RCP can be challenging, and, quite frankly, overwhelming when you first start using it, but after a while, you begin to see the benefits that you get from developing your application on the RCP instead of doing it as a raw SWT app.
That being said, there are situations where the RCP's provided solution to a problem you're having may be overly complex, and you're better off rolling your own solution.
I definitely recommend learning C++ and Qt. At first, I was quite afraid of learning C++, it's supposed to be a difficult language, without all the niceties of python, javascript, php and the like.

But actually Qt really adds a great abstraction layer that makes coding in C++ as enjoyable as Java, for example. Easy string manipulation, easy iterators, the signal/slot stuff is awesome, and the community is great.

Yes, HTML5 is here, but there is still a lot of stuff that you can't do with HTML/CSS/javascript. So my advice is: go for it. You won't regret.
Well I like the original better I guess (nice to see a different design take though... I ain't hatin'). Guessing your alt. design would look cool in an ipad though.
PayPal do support recurring payments in Aus. We used it (briefly) before ditching it and going with Chargify. Unfortunately it is horrible to use for your customers. It is literally a "recurring payment" not a subscription. I know that sounds like nothing more than a semantic difference, but in practice it is a huge problem for people looking to change plans/unsubscribe.
Hah! I encountered the same majorly-mismatched... then got engaged -> married. When I left, I was still getting tons of "ENGAGMENT RING HEER"-level ads, despite being married.
No sarcasm intended. (wish there was an HTML tag for <nosarc>). Fun as in intellectually challenging with a constant stream of new baddies to battle.
Chargify is dead easy to get going. Merchant accounts are HARD. Someone else mentioned using PayPal Pro with Chargify. Chargify no longer support PayPal with new accounts until PayPal sort out their long list of problems.

We've been using Chargify for a couple of months now and it's great. Just a shame you have to have a Gateway and Merchant account as well!
That's a good point... makes me wonder if any sufficiently-large social-communication site can ever make money without heavy ad revenue.

Still hoping for a distributed setup, personally. Then site A can sell features + integrations Q - BZ, and B can be free but only do A - D.
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Ask HN: Which is better: creating ERP System regular or ERP through Internet?
Hi,

This is Obaid AlDosari and I'm planning to create some parts of ERP system such as Recruitment and Training System to enable customers to use the work-flow easily and to get accurate results. So, which one is better to put my application as a web application or put is as the traditional application and they have to purchase it though my sales employees? and should it cost lesser money if it's going to be on the internet?

Note: I know If I will sell my application globally it's easier for me to sell it.

Thanks,
- Obaid AlDosari
I can't watch this video and read the subtitles. If your main language is German (and you've actually seen the original movie) it just doesn't work. I get pulled into the movie and just can't focus on the subtitles. Also trying to read wrong subtitles hurts my brain.
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Thanks very much, in that case. Honestly I get no kicks out of dealing with the bad guys. I'm hoping the combination of [virtual machine quarantine] and [being low profile enough to stay out of the scope of most bad guys] will see me through.
Go to http://rubini.us/

"Rubinius is software that translates the code for the Ruby programming language [...] and turns it into efficient machine code like [...]"
Er, no. Facebook is monetizing user-contributed content by slapping their own advertising across it with no kickbacks to the contributors. There is an asymmetry here; FB are creaming a profit off this material, in addition to covering their running costs.

FB also has the 500lb gorilla of network externalities on its side. For example, I dislike FB but I can't afford not to have an FB account: because 500 million other folks are on FB, there's an internal email system that doesn't interoperate with other networks, and some of those folks are (a) clueless enough not to have a non-FB email account and (b) important enough to my personal or business life that I need to communicate with them. So perforce I must use Facebook.

The high-value content-contributing users were a critical part of FB's growth dynamic insofar as they attracted other users (whether that's so now is another matter). But they get no monetary or in-kind reward for their activity.

I will concede that the term "cognitive slavery" is a bit over the top, but platforms like FB are very carefully designed to hit our reward feedback loops and make us feel good for coming back and feeding stuff to them, to the point of fostering addiction-like compulsive behaviour. This is, at best, unethical and at worst exploitative. And that's what's in play here -- FB make no pretense at doing this for anyone's benefit but their own.
The former case happens when the attacker challenges himself to just do it. Motivation may increase with time. This is the attacker mindset.

The latter is when any host would do the trick (relay, host platform, whatever).