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This is the best suggestion so far, as other suggestions (like 'box') are neutral (emotionally), whereas 'clutter' lets the customer know that what you're doing is HELPING them remove things that are negative (emotionally speaking) in their house.

If you added in a positive effect to this (think along the lines of cash4gold), so clutter4cash or something (it has some rhyming to it too, which has been proven to improve recall of product names), then you're onto something. [EDIT: or is that 'cash4clutter'?? I never know which way around the before/after should be!] [EDIT 2: PPS - great idea for a service!]
Nokia Most Afforadable QWERTY Phone –The Nokia C3
Nokia has announced a new messaging handset – the Nokia C3 in Pakistan. Built with social networking in mind, the Nokia C3 is the first device to bring a full QWERTY keyboard to the world’s most popular mobile phone platform, Series 40.
Look, it's not offensive but I do think what you're saying is naive.

Lets take a step back into the 1500s and talk about what an advanced culture able to move thousands of tons of goods from one side of the country to the otherside in a matter of days would look like. or what being able to search all of the worlds knowledge instantly would look like, etc etc. Any of their guesses are necessarily limited to their 'limited' perspectives.

We have had numerous paradigm shifts since then, each giving fundamentally new ways to conceive of problems, and I think it's incredibly likely that we will undergo another paradigm shift with regard to physics/space travel before our society is leaving the solar system, let alone the galaxy. If that's the case it's not an unnecessary romantic conception, it's a necessary repercussion of a historically verifiable phenomenon, paradigms change, and so do ways of thinking about problems.

Besides, I still don't understand how we are seeing a several-ton payload going .1c in a galaxy we just discovered.

I guess I just don't see a compelling argument that we would, from our vantage point and with our tools be able to make any type of reasonable observation against a hypothesis about other intelligent life.
> certainly better than, say, MRI Ruby

Care to give some proof?

Say, performance-wise, MRI is not any worse than PHP[1]. And as far as I understand, PHP implementation is just plain horrible[2].

[1] http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32q/benchmark.php?test=al...

[2] http://blog.paulbiggar.com/archive/introducing-malicious-cod...
The C standard library is very clean. gets is left in the C89 and C99 standards for backward compatibility an deprecated right now. Nobody uses gets nowadays.
Packadoodle is fun. You'd want to make sure to buy a few likely misspellings.
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Someone else may have mentioned something like this, but I can't find it, so I'll chime in.

Transitioning to Ruby or Python or Scala or anything else will not make anything magically better. I recently converted a Rails project to Grails (actually, I'm in the middle of the conversion). I'd thought "it's Rails - we'll just go in and fix the current issues". It was a horrid nightmare of undocumented crap. It was started in 2006 - Rails 1, and had been added on to for nearly 4 years, and was still Rails 1 (1.2). No useful inline comments, no unit tests, undocumented magic method overrides for basic stuff that wasn't compatible with future Rails versions, and so on. It was horrid. But hey, it's Rails, right? Must be magically better than PHP!

I went back and forth on whether to rewrite in PHP or Grails, and either would have been fine. Why? Because part of the rewrite process is to use modern techniques - with a big helping of TDD tempering the process. Oh, and version control. Yeah - 4 years of a project with 0 version control is not fun to deal with.

So... I'll take PHP with a team of people using sane schedules, TDD/testing, version control, internal and external documentation, and other niceties, over Ruby for the sake of Ruby. Now, modern Ruby/Rails with all those niceties vs PHP with same niceties? Probably a more even draw, with no clear cut choice. But that doesn't seem to be brought up in these discussions.

Frankly, most of the stuff people point to as awesome about Ruby (or Groovy, in my case) in isolation can be detriment - metaprogramming in general can be confusing to someone new to the code without proper documentation as to what's being done. Whether those docs are in tests, inline or external is beside the point. Typically when I come in to a new code base in any language the documentation just doesn't exist (or, better yet, it's "self-documenting"... right...).

End of rant - PHP really is fine when used with proper development techniques. Most languages are. In my experience problems start (and get worse over time) when people rely exclusively on the language alone, rather than language + commonly accepted dev techniques.
Sounds dangerously close to casino spam to me.
I disagree. Chrome, Gmail, Google search, etc.

Very broadly, Google's product aren't as minimalist as Apple's because they want to appeal to power users and techies as well as your mom and dad. That doesn't mean they can't design.
Want. It brings back memories of being 10 and racing slot cars, although I never raced on such an amazing track.
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Not sure I follow you, can you elaborate?
Sorry but no. The guy was living on the 5th avenue. Why, because he had both: A good product AND a good pitch.

He had done that for years, he even told that a lot of times, people walking on the side just told "true, I have it and it is working great" when people were looking at the pitch. Free recommendations from customers along the way.

Never forget that a good product without a good pitch is nothing now and a good pitch without a good product is nothing on the long run.
We loved this guy even before we discovered he's trying to bring politics out of the dinosaur era through tech. His signs were purple and he dotted his i with a star! How refreshing! :)
Google can't market as well as Apple. What Google is good at is making software that works better at a particular task. Very occasionally, something they make catches on.
This is not a serious suggestion, but you could do a play-on-words for "Put your junk in my trunk"...
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Jesse Livermore’s Trading Rules (written in 1940)

1. Nothing new ever occurs in the business of speculating in stock and commodities.

2. Money cannot be consistently made trading every day or every week during the year.

3. Don’t trust your own opinion or back your judgment until the action of the market itself confirms your opinion.

4. Markets are never wrong – opinions often are.

5. The real money made in speculating has been in commitments showing a profit right from the start.

6. As long as a stock is acting right, and the market is right, do not be in a hurry to take profits.

7. One should never permit speculative ventures to run into investments.

8. The money lost by speculation alone is small compared with the gigantic sums lost by so-called investors who have let their investments ride.

9. Never buy a stock because it has a big decline from its previous high.

10. Never sell a stock because it seems high-priced.

11. I become a buyer as a stock makes a new high on its movement after having had a normal reaction.

12. Never average losses.

13. The human side of every person is the greatest enemy of the average speculator.

14. Wishful thinking must be banished.

15. Big movements take time to develop.

16. It is not good to be too curious about all the reason behind price movements.

17. It is much easier to watch a few than many.

18. If you cannot make money out of the leading active issues, you are not going to make money out of the market as a whole.

19. The leaders of today may not be the leaders of two years from now.

20. Do not become completely bearish or bullish on the whole market because one stock in some particular group has plainly reversed its course from the general trend.

21. Few people ever make money on tips. Beware of inside information. If there was easy money lying around, no one would be forcing it into your pocket
Is it just me or has everyone else seemingly not read either the title nor the post?

Rationale:

Most people seem to be talking about this game already does this or that and xxx is virtual money blah blah. From my understanding the patent is for virtual currency in gambling games which almost no-one seems to have noticed. I mean, don't get me wrong I'm sure there is a lot of prior art for this patent but it just strikes me as strange that so many people would bring up seemingly irrelevant arguments.
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I had a job with exactly the dev environment you're describing (plus an HPUX box and a Solaris box), and it worked quite well. Sadly we were stuck using Visual Studio 6 in Parallels for development, but otherwise it's not a bad idea.
Do you know any bank or company that runs Oracle on Macs

No, but I do know a lot of developers that write Java code that runs on banking infrastructure, that do.
It is very unlikely that Photoshop will be available on the App Store and there is no way Apple is going to ditch Photoshop (or many other applications which are unlikely to ever end up on the App Store like Office and AutoCAD, both of which Apple lauded in their press event).

The status quo is powerful. There was no status quo on phones, that’s why Apple could just come up with one. It would not be in Apple’s best interest to change the rules so radically on the Mac.

It don’t know what Apple will do in a decade but I’m fairly confident that there will be no rapid change in what Apple allows you to install on your Mac. Steve Jobs already said that you will be able to install whatever you want on OS X Lion which keeps OS X safe at least until about summer 2013. I think it’s a bit premature to complain now.
How about richrubbish.com?
I upvoted my favorite TLD on the page (clutterbin.com)

However, I'm curious about your business model.

1. How much revenue are you bringing in?

2. What is the commission structure like?

3. How many customers do you have?

4. Where is your business located (generally, of course)?

5. Does this business model scale well?

Thanks in advance, I know I'm prying but it seems very interesting. I've chatted with a friend of mine who tried the 'eBay drop-off center' business but it was difficult because people would drop off their junk and it took a lot of time to sort, research, post, and ship the items. If you've discovered a better way of making money from this process, I'd love to hear more about it.
hn seems to autokill oppugn.us articles.
I dumped it for Virtual Box. As good of a product and free.
A couple of notable quotes:

1. I’ve sold tens of thousands of games direct online, since I started in 1998

2. It took me maybe 5 years before I could live from my direct sales, and was able to quit my job.

10's of thousands doesn't sound like much over 12 years, and it took him 5 years to go full time.

This reminds me of the story of Pangea software. An indie Mac shareware game company. They launched with the iPhone App Store: http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2008/11/17/story1....

Although his game development business [Pangea] launched in 1987, the revenue generated in six months by just two of its iPhone games has matched the retail revenue of all of Pangea’s preceding personal computer games combined, he says.

In 6 months they made more than 21 years of being an indie shareware developer. That is the promise/possibility of a highly traffic'd app store. And yes, results not typical, but I think the point still stands.
You could try putting it on a tablet PC (one with a stylus).

I do most of my software design stuff (UML etc.) on paper first before transfering into a software tool. I find it much easier to do that way.
That's a great video, and I've seen similar performances by other street vendors. I suppose it's a case of "don't sell the bacon, sell the sizzle". He's delivering an enticing spectacle, of which the actual sale is just a small component and even the product itself is relatively incidental.
What sort of security issues do you see with django deployments?
Not sure I get the point.
These little details are what sets a lot of their stuff apart. While I don't use it all that much, one of my favorite examples is the clock dashboard widget on OS X. The second hand wobbles at the very tip as it "clicks" into place. Most computerized renderings of clocks (even Apple's own clock in the system preferences) omit this detail. But it's amazing how much more lifelike it looks with the jiggle. Individually, things like that are not that important, but the collective accumulation of all those little details is what makes the difference.
There is the idea that if they were able to effectively catch the summer wet season in the north they could reclaim it from desert and turn it into a food bowl.
So is anyone taking this approach with iPhone or Android apps? And to what degree of success?

It's starting to get under my skin that I lose 30% of my app's (http://goo.gl/USEr) revenue for nothing more than a listing in the app store and payment processing.
I really like this one - it's not really fun but I'm not sure it hugely relates to what I'm doing.
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Reminds me of cash4gold. I think a better business model would be to pay them directly for the box. The drawback is that you have to become good at evaluating the market value of what's inside the boxes.
This is they key point. Github has made contributing to opensource projects as simple as following someone on twitter.

Think about that for a minute. Forget which dvcs tool they're using. You want to know why launchpad and bitbucket don't have the same uptake? It's not the tool. It's the fact that, as a maintainer, I can easily accept contributions from anyone who wants to submit a pull request. As an end user, I can IMMEDIATELY start hacking on some project with a simple click of the "fork" button.

THAT is the power of Github.
Which has nothing to do with the patent submission process, merely the patent approval process. I'd be willing to bet I can apply for a meaninglessly trivial patent in Europe as well; I can't speak for the ease of getting it approved, however, so I won't even try.

This was filed in September of this year which means it'll be... 2014 by the earliest[1] that it'll be approved / denied, and won't even get looked at for 2 years yet. Plenty of time for obvious prior art to be shown.

[1] traditional total pendency: http://www.uspto.gov/dashboards/patents/main.dashxml
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To be fair, you haven't exactly be using many other applications of any kind since installing Minecraft, have you?

;)
Easier said than done, as Livermore himself knew too well http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Lauriston_Livermore
ThrowAwayRecycler.com sounds like a good one. If you dont like it you can also try CashForYourJunk.com but some people might get the wrong idea.
That did be a great idea by itself.

Still, when wanting to carry a really small laptop, an ipad is quit an additional weight.
What's so bizarre with this approach is that 2 years ago the specs on this were near 'top of line', and the software hasn't changed all that much over 2-3 years. I'm not saying it beach balls more now than 2 years ago - it's always been the same. I may do one more mac laptop - a higher end one next time - but I suspect my workstyle - doing multiple things all the time - is always going to end with beach balls, regardless of the mac. :/
Those "endorsements" could have just been by employees of his. As could most of the "customers" he had. And if you think someone on the street is incapable of that level of organization, you should read up on how monte gangs operate.
I don't see the point. What is the advantage of a small laptop + portable monitor -v- a larger laptop? How can it outweigh the inconvenience of carrying two gadgets instead of one, and having to dis/connect them all the time?
I wondered if they had some decent competition. The upgrade from fusion 2.0 to 3.0 was $10.
wouldn't a permanently attached second monitor increase the form factor of the laptop itself?
That's what it looks like. Doesn't mean he sold a single one.

Sure, money and peelers changed hands, but those could have easily been all to his employees, who give the peelers back later in the day, after all the real suckers forked over their dough.
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I'm not started yet - I just used the present tense for brevity above. I'm going to test the market over the next couple of weeks with a sample dropoff. I founded a student storage business [http://www.thebigspace.co.uk] 7 years ago and so I've got a good grasp of the logistics of collecting and moving boxes. I also have lots of empty boxes.

1. Zero so far.

2. I'm going to start at 15% after selling costs (ebay fees and shipping)

3. I'll start by dropping boxes to 100 houses and see what I get back - if it works at that scale then I think it should scale up.

4. UK.

5. I hope so. I suspect it will because I can bulk up similar things and then ship them to the markets where they'll sell well. Eg. Old phones still fetch good money in Africa. XBox and Playstation games sell well in Eastern Europe. Likewise, DVDs are still in demand.

I think the advantage over the dropshop model is:

1. Much more appealing for householders: I've got loads of stuff that just depreciating year by year. By the time I've found a box, boxed it up, found a dropshop, driven it there, and filled in the forms I could have sold it myself. This way you just pick the box up at your front door, walk round the house and fill it, write your email address on the box, and leave it back at the door.

2. Scalability: I can do this nationally by shipping inbound boxes for $7.50. I can also use a rep system, whereby local people (think Avon ladies) take on their area on a part time basis.

3. Low overhead: No premises. Centralised facility for sorting through things - ideally with the facility to simply enter a model number and condition for common items to generate a standard listing, without the need to write anything or photograph things.

Drop me an email if you want - me@alexmuir.com
that indeed would be a problem.

I wonder how much power the Ipad screen uses.

hmm... mebbe a regular power cord would be required.
This sounds like a nightmare feature: you're having a nice quiet night home alone with your girl... You accidentally press the shutter button on your phone as you are plugging it into your nightstand charger... you've just invited everyone you've ever met into your bedroom.

Keep in mind that there's no way to permanently delete images on facebook:

http://www.techspot.com/news/40662-facebook-keeps-photos-aft...
Not sure who your question was directed to, but I've implemented a similar system in the past for a website with 10m+ users and 15+ web servers. It scaled just fine, we were sending close to 150K emails a day, among other background jobs for reporting, data cleanup, automated spam checks, etc
I am a business person rather than a programmer, but I can tell you from my end that I have never seen a rewrite take only as long was as planned. If that two months becomes four months, you have 'lost' one-third of your runway. And there's not going to be much point having a product everyone can work on when there is no money to pay anyone.
"Did I mention anything about either of those?"

Yes you did ("the only thing I consistently read about ruby & python web apps are deployment issues"). That was the reason I used them as my examples.

On your second point, I never assumed anything. I used two examples of common things that where said a few years ago about both languages. It had nothing to do with what you use, more power to you if you use windows7 and .net, it had to do with the fact both where misconceptions that where later proved to be non issues.

I didn't mean to be patronizing or anything, I guess what I really wanted to say is that if you keep reading that Ruby and Python have all this massive issues, you're probably reading articles from 2008 ;)
> and are blessed by Sun/Oracle. I don't follow your argument

I don't have anything more to add than to quote you (the keyword is blessed) and also point to my previous posts. As long as you're forced to get the blessing before you introduce the interface to your own platform (or be forced to leave something out because you know it won't be blessed) why should it be in your interest to maintain the technology of others if you have your own technologies and a platform that's attractive even by itself?
Bad for Java app developers on the Mac

I find it hard to see the issue, if you are using Java to build an app you are developing a Java app not an OSX app. You are targeting a different run-time than a standard OSX app. To me it is no different than Apple saying you can't sell an Adobe Air app in the app store. or a C# app running on Mono. I see a very valid reason why Apple would instate such a policy. Even though in the past Apple supplied the run-time for Java it still did not make it OSX it was just a very well tailored JRE for OSX, you still write Java apps and not OSX apps if you target the JRE.
I understand why they've called it Chromeless, but I feel the name is jarringly similar to Google Chrome and that is a problem.
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You can't with iPhone since the App Store is the only official way to get onto an iPhone.

I can't speak to android, but suggesting that the iOS App Store is "nothing more than a listing and payment processing" is sort of like saying you'd rather sell your widget directly from your basement rather through Wal-Mart so you don't have to give up the retail markup to Wal-Mart.
Interesting how the 3rd to last frame breaks the transparency of the hiding content. The blue arrow seems to be back to fully opaque.
If the upgrade would have been $10 when I made the decision I would have staid, but it was not when I decided to make the switch. Oh well, I have moved on now.
I would love this if there were a really competent stylus based tablet for this kind of thing. I prefer to write down creative and technical thoughts... and I almost always require a white board in order to share thoughts with someone else. A 'Notebook Paper' sized tablet with a stylus ( or 2 for collaboration?) would be really nice I think. Any suggestions for something like this? Most of the stylus based tablets I've tried have been entirely unimpressive.
I would say building for all platforms to verify you didn't break anything is the perfect job for a continuous build and integration server.

Simply don't accept the changes if the code doesn't build cleanly and passes the test suite on all platforms.

Why bother the programmer to remember to do this?
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So, maintaining that technology boosts your runway, but also puts you in danger of loosing everything if the developer quits. Assuming from your (positive) feedback to that idea you think it shouldn't happen in the 12 months timeframe.
These quotes from PHP's creator are very enlightening:

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rasmus_Lerdorf
Has anyone tried CloudCrowd? They have a similar system to MTurk but it's built on facebook and it's a managed process similar to crowdflower... Interested to hear any experiences.
My bank supports billions of dollars of transactions per day. But they use COBOL, so I will never work there.