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There's prior art with "virtual currency" going back as long as the eyes can see. Even stupid old DOS Blackjack games where you got a virtual $500 to bet with is easily considered a form of virtual currency. This is why we need a public forum so that anyone, wikipedia-style, can look at patents awaiting approval so that invalid ones are less likely to make it through.
With ipq.co the subdomain is either new or already existing (and not editable). That explains everything, thanks!
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Java certainly does not guarantee "write once run everywhere", although Sun had a "Pure Java" branding effort at one time.

What Microsoft did was extend the language to include an annotations feature (making it source-incompatible), and extending the JVM spec to include new opcodes (which crashed everyone else's JVM). Had they extended Java the conventional way there would not have been a problem.
Totally agree. Another example of this is with the sleep indicator. It pulses at the same rate that the average human breathes at, creating a calming effect. Really not important at all, but the attention to detail really does set them apart.
The URLs most likely weren't the same. That front-page MailChimp article went to the top-level blog, not the post itself.
That isn't a strong meta-point, it's like saying it isn't the bike, it's the cyclist. Sure Lance can beat me on a junker bike. But he can't win the Tour on a junker.

So if you want to succeed, and you have a choice about language, you still need to pick the best language for your circumstances. The importance of people and process doesn't invalidate that any more than the importance of Lance Armstrong invalidates the importance of bicycle engineering in the Tour.

All that being said, I agree with the last sentence of your comment. It's just that I don't meet many people who say that with the right language they don't need anything else, so I'm not sure who you're debating. For example, all of the Rubyists I know fetishizes testing. None of them have ever said to me that thanks to Ruby, they no longer need tests. What they actually say is that Ruby makes testing easier, which is your point.

So yes, process and people are important, we all agree. So who, exactly, says anything to the contrary?
When I suggested the same idea to my VP in 2002 it created friction between us.
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You might want to Google for C.J. Date's essay on the problems with "intelligent keys".
Cutting costs is not the same thing as banishment.

On Flash they took a political stance, i.e. Flash is proprietary, HTML5 / H.264 is the future, long-live Quicktime.
If you follow the link, you'll see that quote came almost verbatim from the publisher of the New York Times.
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Many, many people. The old phrase "One man's trash is another man's treasure" really does apply. Check the craigslist "FREE" section or look at something like freecycle to get an idea of people jumping on the chance to own something someone else will toss in the trash. Granted, those are free exchanges, but it's not that large of a leap to see people paying for things as well.
Care to elaborate on why you chose C/C++ instead of Java for the backup client?
In 2003, Second Life had US$->L$ purchases, user->user L$ exchanges, no path to covert back, and many users playing Texas Hold 'em and other games of chance using L$.

We even had a day in early 2004 where some unnamed wealthy individuals had a high stakes game of Texas Hold 'em which moved enough L$ around to distort our statistics.
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I think a non-profit press is one solution. It just doesn't seem to be the solution favored by Americans. Given that, it's probably best to have a selection of well written for profit news sites with different points of view (NYT, WSJ etc).
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I will also update your links in the FB group.
Apple hadn't at that time just pissed Adobe off by banning flash, and MSFT didn't see Apple as a threat.
Agree re email. But this can be done in a right way and a wrong way. Right way = new york times explicitly asking you for your email upon registration and respecting email spam rules. Wrong way - data mining off facebook.
Is there a reason one of the three developers couldn't pick up the 40% platform/language? I am not sure the situation needs to be so black and white.
Well of course its use goes sky-high. After years of looking at those fake-buds for mail order in high-times since you were 13, when some fake weed actually works, of course its use blows up.

I wonder how dangerous the stuff really is, and how much of the danger is actually from the chemical (JWH-018) rather than the incense it's put on.

I have smoked some variation of the stuff, and it definitely gets you high. It's distinguishable from THC, but barely. Mostly the effects go away quicker, and it has a very sativa-like feel, at least the stuff I smoked did.

Going rates that I've seen are actually higher than what the article states, around the same price/g good ganja. Thus, the market is really people who can't get connections to ganja, and moreso people who undergo drug testing.
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This reminds me of the location app war that's been going on for the last couple of years. All you would ever hear about on Techcrunch was Foursquare Foursquare Foursquare, but all along a little app called MyTown was blowing away Foursquare's numbers. Don't get caught up in the hype of TC and Silicon Valley.
I'm quite glad WP7 is looking like a real contender. Viable competition raises the bar for all phone companies, and consumers ultimately win.

This is a really fun time to be a a gadget lover -- Microsoft, Google, Apple, Nokia, etc. are bending over backwards to give us the coolest toys ever invented.

I'll wager that in a year from now, all of these phones will be nearly perfect experiences in their own way.
Space exploration has always been a phallic endeavor. Now I see that Virgin has taken a very very...yonic style to it's spaceport architecture.
I have a 1st gen Zune (black, not brown), and I think it's great. It doesn't have some of the flashy stuff or a touch screen like the newer models have, but it's never crashed on me. It's solid. I've dropped this thing a bunch of times (sometimes the "drop" was a bit more of a launch across the room, whoops) and it's not even scratched. Plus MS still supports it with almost all the new features, like Zune Pass--which is currently my favorite music service. (I wish the channels were updated more often, but they're still decent.)

The only reason I haven't upgraded to a new Zune is because this thing just works so well.
Yeah. Another way to look at this is that traditionally Java ports fell into two categories:

a.) The platform was important enough that Sun would lose credibility if there wasn't a good JVM available (Windows, Linux), so Sun (now Oracle) did the port.

b.) The platform was minor enough that the platform would lose credibility if there wasn't a good JVM available (MacOS, AIX, HP-UX), so the platform vendor did the port.

I see this as Apple indicating that with recent growth in market share and cachet, they've now moved from category b.) to category a.).
Oh, about scalas, clojures and rubies - they really, really don't matter.

Thank you, sir.
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what sort of programs are you working on that must run on platforms that lack a C++ compiler and need to be portable? (I am legitimately curious)
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It was basic frustrations like this that caused us to switch as well. In particular, it with the issue with tasks lists - we used Basecamp and Highrise, and even though the feature request has been made regularly for the last 4 years, there is STILL no way to get a common task list across Highrise and Basecamp.

So we went over to Zoho. In the time it has taken 37Signals to hem and haw over task lists, Zoho has created an entire ecosystem of apps, integrated it with Google App Engine, associated tasks across their apps, etc.

Sure, the apps aren't pretty, but they work. Jason would probably argue that our needs aren't the norm, that we've outgrown Highrise, but a counterexample is FreshBooks: we've been using FreshBooks since day one in our business, and we continue to us it because it's a great app that is growing with us. It focuses on simplifying things that are ordinarily complex rather than simplicity as an end goal.
Well, if Zynga does it you know there has to be prior art since they've never thought of anything themselves.
I was alluding to the initial dilemma of where to host, how to host etc. Ideas without the implementations are just that, ideas.
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disclosure: I write php daily.
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Looks like inDinero will be facing some well-funded competition.

This could either be good for both companies if the increased activity gets small businesses comfortable with doing their accounting online. The pie just gets bigger.

But then again, one of these company founders could be writing a "Why ______ lost to ______" blog post in a couple years.
In point of fact, Nagios (which I use extensively) handles alerting, notification, auto escalations, acknowledgements, on-call rotations, and resets itself post incident. http://library.nagios.com/ Sounds like re-inventing the wheel for a well-solved problem.
Somewhat off topic (though slightly relevant): do you read Magic articles? That exact drill/hole metaphor was used in Mike Flores' yesterday article (which is a good piece of writing, and HN people might be interested even if they don't play Magic): http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/dai...
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I agree. It isn't the language which makes the project good. A bad programmer will write bad code no matter what language they use, and a good programmer should be able to write good code in any language, even PHP.

Perhaps once a language becomes mainstream, and is adopted by many people, not just the early hacker adopters, the perception of the language as clean and elegant goes down. This isn't necessarily because the language has changed, but because the average person using it has become less skilled. Languages that are comparatively new and shiny are mostly used by the much more talented early adopters, and thus seem to be more professional and clean. (This is just speculation, so feel free to disagree if your personal experience doesn't reflect this.)

Of course some languages make it easy for inexperienced programmers to write bad code, but this doesn't mean that good code can't be written in that language.

In fact, I would go so far as to say that if you are a decent programmer you should be able to write clean, reusable, DRY, efficient code in just about any language.

So as far as your argument goes I agree. The important thing is the team doing the programming, not the language they are programming in. If they are a decent team they will be able to do good development in PHP, or any other language.
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Ok... Now someone email Larry Ellison to see what response we get from him. :-)

Apple is a big WebObjects user. And WebObjects is 100% java based. This means that developers use Eclipse/WOLips/java to develop their WebObjects applications and java on the server to deploy.

There is also OpenJDK and it looks like that will be the route that developers will use to get java for OS X. This may actually be good. You will not have to rely on OS X releases to get java. The only thing that doesn't look good is Swing unless OpenJDK implements Swing using Cocoa instead of X11. :-)
Funny, isn't this the same company everyone was predicting would #fail because it was "just another clone of Twitter" but for companies? Well, while they still could fail, they're getting away from that the longer they're alive...
I don't think that there's yet enough information to draw this conclusion.

If it's the author's engagement that caused the spike in sales, what happens months down the road when the author's post is forgotten, but the pirated bits are still floating around in torrents?

While the effect looks positive today, it's entirely possible that the long-term result is negative.
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They just don't get it ... Java sucks so badly for desktop development, it's not even funny.

It also didn't help that the early ports that they did were heavily
customized - far more than they needed to be.

This also reminds me of what Gosling said about Eclipse ...

[Talking about Netbeans] To us, Eclipse feels like something very "me
too" and derivative, backed up by a really strange marketing campaign

Also on Eclipse's SWT:

The SWT thing was just...it pissed me off beyond words.
...
It has all the AWT problems: it's way simple, it doesn't port very well.

Also on .NET's support for C++:

[This] has left open a security hole large enough to drive many, many
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The a) category is not so clear-cut. Originally, it was up to OS vendors to support Java port, period. So Sun did it for Solaris, MS did it for Windows and nobody did it for Linux. Then MS tried to hijack Java and Blackdown did the Linux port. The current status is result of what happened in the past, not some master plan to support only tier A platforms.
Can an admin update the link to: http://www.mailchimp.com/blog/ewww-you-use-php/

The submitted link requires clicking a "More" link in order to read the full entry. (And it will be out of date once they post another entry on the blog.)
I see where you're going, and I'm probably not as clear as I wanted to be (and probably don't have time to be!)

The ruby community is interesting because of the testing focus, which possibly negates my point a bit. However, I meet plenty of Rubyists who are so focused on tests (which are easy to do because of the language) that they eschew documentation, of any kind.

I've talked to more than a few Rubyists who are now in the 'my code is self-documenting because Ruby is so elegant and my method names and variables are so awesome and I can metaprogram anything I need that there's 0 need to have any comments or documentation - just read my code and the awesomeness of Ruby will overtake you'.

I don't particularly care how elegant your code is, having some inline comments will not hurt. Having external documentation, and sane commit log comments, and so on, are vital in my view. I'm not picking on Rubyists here specifically, that's just the few that spring to mind.
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That doesn't bode well. Isn't a large part of the appeal of a Mac that everything "just works"? How do you suppose sysadmins will now feel if banking infrastructure apps no longer "just work" and will now require an additional JVM to be installed from elsewhere and kept up to date through separate channels from Apple's?
I'm a sysadmin - this is how I think too. It's great for the most part but... there are some problems:

- If the job isn't split up evenly or with an event queue, you end up preallocating jobs to processes, it's possible that one may take far longer than the rest to finish.

The worst case of this I've run into is Microsoft's EXMerge, which does imports/exports from an Exchange datastore - it can be threaded, but preallocates work by splitting up alphabetically. In one case, a family business, all the heavy users got lumped in one thread because they had the same last name - that thread took 5x longer to run when all other threads had finished.

- You can run the machine out of some resource (mem/disk/CPU) by spawning a huge number of jobs that hit one subsystem hard. This is tuning dependent, of course.

Also, I'd recommend using make and similar tools for this rather than shell commands like xargs if you're going to seriously script this - those tools are made to run processes in parallel and avoid repeating work. They also tend force you to write intermediate steps to disk which can help in debugging (and can be coded around or put on a ramdisk later if it proves to be a performance issue).
some people, bizarrely, wil say "yes, I will buy your piece of crap."

This needs restating, as it is THE moment when you have validated your business. Everything you do at first should be focused on selling your first piece of crap.
From someone who works with a OS X software company, the announcement was great. I am really not worried about OS X being closed because of development needs and the server version.

Not shipping Flash on the MacBook Air was pretty understandable given the noise Adobe made about the OS X 10.6 release version of Flash. The whole build & release cycle seems to take longer than it takes Adobe to patch Flash. So, it is probably a good thing to train users to go to Adobe's site and get the newest Flash.

Dropping an Apple version of Java will probably be a good decision and actually help Java developers. If Oracle is actually taking over then OS X will most probably (given Oracle's catalog of OS X software) be at the same version as all the other platforms instead of the current delay.
Probably embedded - many more constraints than desktop environments. ANd their C++ support is usually problematic.
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The hack is simply changing the id variable in the url.
It's a serious bug as you can view some of my photos from my various social networks.
This could be detrimental to the VC backed company as they just did a Groupon-type deal (which is how I came to be a customer).
Great article. Rapleaf is clearly crossing the 'ick factor' boundary, and the NYT and WSJ writers who have been going after them for the past few months are definitely starting to get some traction.

The reality is that personal identification (as opposed to anonymized or pseudo-anonymized id) isn't necessary to drive the kind of value advertisers need to see ROI gains relative to the ways they buy today. Whether or not the ad industry can organize around a coherent strategy here is questionable, but there are tens of billions of dollars in incentive not to have regulatory agencies come in with an iron fist.
One concern I have with this approach is that like all code, it becomes hairier and more complicated over time as it becomes more robust and special cases are handled.

Once bash scripts reach a certain size and complexity, I've found they become quite difficult to follow. I don't know if this is inherently a quality of bash, or of people who tend to write bash, or of my ability to read bash scripts, but I find larger Python, Ruby, etc. programs a lot easier to follow.

On the other hand, even a 300 line shell script is easier to follow than a 10,000 line Java program.
Wow, Yammer's UI looks, uh, a lot like Facebook's.
He doesn't have big enough patent warchest?
I believe the OP was suggesting using a non-business key that isn't an incremented integer - typically some kind of guid.

This allows to shard the data across multiples machines more efficiently, too.

MongoDB (amongst others) use this by default.
I would imagine the naming implications was given very definite thought...
Our 'make' vs Visual Studio issue is: to add a new module in Visual Studio you add it to the project. VS automatically getting included in many makefile scenarios. Which causes a common bug: a _WIN32-only module gets built on the wrong platform because the developer forgets to put the module in the makefile exclusion list.

Small matter, easily detected and fixed in the first build, but would be nice to automate somehow.
As someone who does live in a place with what you call socialized health care, I find it utterly bewildering that anyone would ever found a start-up starting from zero.

The cognitive dissonance of working on a silly web app while worrying about something as fundamental as my family's well-being in case of illness or accident: that would really, really tear me apart.
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Fox != Fox News. They are both owned by Newscorp, though.
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Tiny embedded things from people you've never heard of.

Often, I won't even get to see the compiler for the platform, I'll just write the code, send it to a completely external person, and say "this should compile and run on your platform, I can help if it doesn't".

The core of what I do is audio DSP, so it has to be memory/cycle efficient too, otherwise no one wants to use it.

But as soon as you start developing for these platforms, you then need to build testing tools which also work there, and all the other fun stuff that goes along with it, so it ends up being a lot more than just the core DSP stuff (which is where most of the platform specific stuff comes for me actually, as the core DSP stuff is just memory in memory out type stuff with no side effects).
I like the camera idea. It would probably work just as well if the unauthorized user merely believed a picture was being taken; just have a pop-up message saying so before the transaction is finalized and skip the picture altogether.
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