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I carry around my copy of K&R like it's my bible. Learning C really opened up programming in general for me. I love it. Here at school though, we're never required to write pure C code. We learn C++ (as it's own class! Yuck.) and use it for data structures, but other than that it's not required anywhere either. It's all Java and Python, and most people here can't be bothered to learn a new language. I've probably got more to learn about C before I'm at the level of the people you hire, but if you think you might be hiring in May, I'll be graduating soon! ;)
Me too. I kind of went through a "buy domains like crazy" phase a couple years ago but have since kicked the habit. Now I won't let myself buy a domain unless I have some other work done for it first. Although it only costs me $7.50 a year, the cost adds up a lot after a while.
The "Barack Obama is a cactus" thing had me really confused until I searched for it myself. It's an Onion article, and a funny one.

The "ues" "am" and "ael" entries seem to be a result of how the query is handled. "Hillary Clinton issues" is the autocomplete; it's dropping the s after "is" and giving us "ues".
Let advertisers leave a voice message. In most cases, the call will go to voicemail (even if the person finds the phone they'll probably ignore the call).
A funny one

http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=why+ar...

http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=why+ar...

http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=why+do...
bug report: http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn/#start=+too+X...

Words are getting clipped.
It will be interesting to see if/how they pivot.
I've managed to accumulate about 150 domains, almost all of them were bought with an idea in mind (quite a lot are duplicates/complements/variants to the main idea).

This year I listed all of the ones that didn't have websites yet on sedo, and set all of them to a couple of hundred pounds each buy-it-now. The idea is that either I focus on building an idea quickly, or risk that someone who thinks he has a better idea than me snaps the domain name up in the meantime.

Hasn't worked. But, so far three of those domains have been sold, so that essentially covers all my domain name renewal fees this year.

Perhaps I should drop the prices to increase the pressure on myself.
A friend of mine said it best. If you see something really interesting (concerning software) and you have the immediate desire to share it with someone else but there is no one around who will understand it, it is time to add Architect to your resume.
I agree that it's not the primary cause of Java's decline — as if it had far to go aside from theoretically — as a desktop system. Apple's moves seem these days to signal or drive the industry direction, though, so if Apple's deprecation isn't a blow, it's at least a bellwether.
Allow the user to send in App notifications to their iPhone allowing them to popup something on the screen offereing a reward to the finder.
This may already be supported somehow, or otherwise planned, but one obvious way to monetize might be to act as a broker for contract designers. As a user, if I search for an icon and either don't find one that works for me, or find only icons with incompatible license terms, then the next thing I'm going to want to do is find someone who can design what I want. This is also going to be true in the event that I need a whole set of icons with a common motif or color/design scheme.

No matter how good a search engine like yours is, most of its users will be at least partially unsatisfied, and you may be able to turn that into an advantage. It might also be a good way to stand out from the copycat sites.
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If you mean just sitting on your ass, no.

On the other hand if you meant going to parties and events where you actively talk to potential investors or using PR and marketing to build buzz about your company. Then not engaging in a hard sell and instead letting them say they are interested, yes.
Except for ghastly yellow. I think that you have an interesting idea over here. I understand that deal aggregation from something like EBay would be a tough job. Mainly due to quality problems, but if you add an ecosystem like that and track people themselves (to see if they have a good deal history or not) into the algorithm then you can have something that pulls a lot of weight.

The way I see it you could make a ranking algorithm based on price * trust, Where trust is a weighting function dependent upon the number of sales previously completed; the satisfaction recored (as per ebay et al metrics) and the cost of the article vs. the original (too good to be true scenario).

If you make something like that then I would use it in a heart beat.

Please email me if you want to continue this conversation.
I tire of the "Top %1" stuff. There's never been a case where I've been personally disadvantaged because someone else had a pile of cash that they earned legally.

I wonder why those jealousy inciting statistics don't include the percentage of wealth "controlled" by the government. Why is an individual who makes money more evil than an organization that takes it?
I should imagine google, having access to a 'quite' large web index, would know if hiding the http/https would break the Internet for the majority of web users. I am guessing this actually only happens in a very few edge cases, and those edge cases should fix their sites, not hold back development for everybody else!
How well does it integrate into Apache?
I am a CS student in my last semester and in my operating systems class we have been required to do all of our assignments in C, we also are targeting minix. This has really given me a love for C and made me much more comfortable with programming in any language. C skills are a must!
Fingers crossed this encourages Parallels to improve their support of compositing in Ubuntu VMs (since, I assume from another article, Unity required compositing). I've still not yet had it working reliably. Any idea if Parallels 6 works any better?
That's a really interesting suggestion. People self-identify for all sorts of reasons, and the pleasure of doing things a certain way is one of them. If you don't like writing queries in SQL, all the arguments in the world about SQL's efficiencies are not going to drag you away from an abstraction you enjoy.
"Python is more useful outside of Django than Ruby is outside of Rails"

In what way? I was a heavy Python user for a number of years and then moved to Rails/Ruby. I use Ruby for a lot of non-web projects, and I've never found it to be lacking.
Not exactly. He was a bit smarter. He is mainly using free blog services (blogger, etc) so he avoids the annual domain and hosting costs. He also notes that by using blogger he automatically gets more weight from Google searches (I'm not that sure of that though).
I see two main ways to monetize it.

If it's calling you or texting you, you should be able to text an advertisement or leave a voicemail as an advertisement. I'd also consider telling jokes or something that gets people to spread the service and make it viral. Randomly mixing jokes and ads might not be such a bad bet.

The other option is impressions on the website.

Either of these probably won't result in much money, but it should pay for part of the service.
There are some people that enjoy being tied up and whipped too, and those who wear "hair-shirts" to show that they are noble for all their suffering.

More than enjoying C as a language, you should find people who can identify when it is, or is not, the correct tool for the job. If you hire people solely because they enjoy C, you may find that "when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail".

Putting my money where my mouth is, I have written more C++ in the last month than during the previous decade, because I am doing a lot of node.js work. I am writing code in C++ that speeds up or makes possible the things I want to do in Node. Nothing more.
How many general-public end-user apps are built with SWT?
How to make an iPhone App Part 4
Now that we know how to create a table views, we are going to use that knowledge to create a new project using a navigation controller to see a more detailed view of the tittle in the cell of the table view.
Someone just released this last week: http://hntrades.com Post your domains there and get something for them.
I never start by buying the domain. Instead I spend a bit of time to write down the concept, see if it sticks.

It's only later that I look for a name for the project itself, and I buy the domain at the same time (it's a kind of whois brainstorming).
I've heard of in-house apps being done with XUL. I'm not aware of any used by the general public, other than Firefox.

To be a successful cross-platform development environment, there would have to be lots of these. To my knowledge, only web apps are that widespread and used by the general public, not primarily for in-house apps.
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Sponsorship. Localized.

You know the person's area code. Make the assumption that they live somewhere near there and sell local ads.

I wouldn't put the advertising in the voice message itself. Most users are just as likely to ignore the call once they get the phone. After the number has been submitted though, the ad can display on the website's thank you page.

"Now that we've helped you, return a kind act and consider one of these fine products from one of our sponsors."
I just returned to Rails after a brief stint with Django. I was working on a stackoverflow-ish site and wanted to make use of an existing OS project if possible. Django has OSQA, and Rails has Shapado. Shapado would've naturally been the better choice for me, but they use MongoDB and at the time I started the project, I questioned the wisdom of that decision. Learning Django (since I already know python) and using OSQA seemed like the better option, as it would allow me to use my beloved PostgreSQL.

Bias warning...I've used Rails for far too long now, so it's very familiar to me and I'm comfortable with it. That said, here's the heavily opinionated and subjective reasons why I'm back:

* urls.py - the python regular expression syntax makes your route definitions very ugly as they grow. I find Rails' route DSL much more intuitive.

* Lack of model-level validation - OSQA uses Form objects to validate models rather than letting the models validate themselves (as Rails does). In OSQA, the Form objects are rather heavily bound to the UI interaction, so if you need to create models outside of the web app itself (I did) it gets painful. I kept having to hack these form objects to get them to validate properly. I've been told that Django now provides model-level validation, but OSQA doesn't use them (for now).

* ORM - I find ActiveRecord to be a much cleaner and intuitive ORM.

* Django's template language - I don't work with designers, so I don't need to be hobbled by a template language that is limited by design. I know you can use other template engines, but I was working with what OSQA provided, so I was stuck.

* Community - the Rails community in general is more active.

* Language preference - at the end of the day, Ruby just feels more natural and clean to me. You could attribute this to familiarity, but I actually knew python long before I knew ruby. I do like python, but tend to "think" in ruby.

I re-assessed my progress after a month and realized I was just not reaching the same level of productivity I was used to. I decided to switch course and learn MongoDB, which was probably the decision I should've made to begin with, and my productivity instantly improved. I was able to move the features I'd created in Django over within a few nights of focused effort, and I couldn't be happier with Shapado (and, surprisingly, mongodb).

This is simply my experience. If it were a completely new project, my experience might've been different. YMMV.
I think this issue changes monthly, and people care about it - otherwise it wouldn't make the front page.
Maybe there wasn't much you could buy for less than $5.

What's a single Zimbabwe dollar going to get you? Nothin'.
I will even admit that I have personally never experienced this problem but your original answer STILL ticked me off and I think there's a reason other than general Internet annoyance.

What I have experienced is the "Internet Interface" of ....

"Whatever the problem is, the first answer is 'it's not a priority'"

THAT needs to be tweaked. I understand prioritizing things. But we really, really, really need a way to relate to those frustrated by and reporting X that doesn't involve "answer 1: we don't care about X" because that has as it's implicit message "screw you".

Edit: Also, the original problem is something really looks like a bug to the end-user whatever is may look like the programmer. So fixing it should be "bug priority" whereas a number of the thing you mention are clearly features, look like features to the end-user and so should have "feature priority". Just consider...
Whose theory is that? My source of information (book "Ernaehrung und Training" by Dr. W. Feil and Dr. T. Wessinghage [european champion over 5000m in 1982]) clearly states, that "stretching [immediately after sport] is the gate of regeneration".
Well that answers this question from yesterdays (Digg: A Cautionary Tale) thread.

Maybe my perception of the costs associated with running a high traffic such as this are way off, but doesn't it seem like $15m in revenues should be able to sustain the company... at least to the point where it doesn't operate at a loss?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1827027
bellwether
noun
harbinger, herald, indicator, predictor

Thanks for teaching me a new word.
"our wooden computer can simulate what an electric cable does."

Theoretically, yes, but I still think that using C for all your programming needs is closer to the degree of difficulty of "using only a hammer for all your woodwork" rather than the degree of difficulty of "replacing all your electric cables with miniature wooden computers".
VirtualBox too. I've never been able to make Unity on Maverick Netbook Edition work on VirtualBox 3.2.x.
I guess I don't so much disagree with the idea of being careful on an unsecure public wifi, as I am concerned that so many people seem to think they only have to concerned about the unsecured wifi, not all the other hops on their connection. You know what I mean?
It might make you sad, but it's spot on. People were sharing MP3 files on usenet pretty easily, back in the day. It would have taken 5 minutes or less to work out how -- even easier than grabbing cookies.

It wasn't until Napster made that 0 minutes of googling that MP3 filesharing really took off.

For something like this to end up on millions of desktops, you have to be able to explain it to a half-stoned frat at a party. "Five minutes of googling and then some nerdery"? No chance. "Install this, go to the quad and you can sign into the facebook of any other person there?" Yup, that's going to spread like wildfire.
There were half pennies and farthings (quarter pennies).

Once the US got done with revolting and got around to writing a constitution they decreed the "mill" would be 1/10th of a penny. They seem to have largely only useful for sales tax.

I think a smaller coin would have been impractical:

• Coins were self-backing with their metal value. Even in copper, it gets too small to keep track.

• Manufacture was more labor intensive, the cost to produce a very low coin is a problem.

• Mass production hadn't devalued objects, so things we think of as cheap today would have been relatively more expensive.

• If you live in a small community and "run a tab" at the general store, you don't make payment in small batches.

None of these speculations should be mistaken for accurate historical facts.
I use and recommend ipredator.se, the piratebay VPN, for 5 EUR per month.
> Except SQL.

Actually, SQL2008 is Turing-complete! See (if HN doesn't mangle the link): http://assets.en.oreilly.com/1/event/27/High%20Performance%2...
We had half pennies as well from 1793 on. Remember, this was before there were cheap industrialized goods.
I hear you! VMWare Fusion also has these issues for me.

I miss compiz (or whatever it's called these days) when devving under Ubuntu under OSX :/
Looks like someone with a brain finally took charge of Digg.

Also how common is it to offer to find jobs for people being layed off?
Pirni uses a vulnerability of a common WPA2 configuration to execute a MITM attack using ARP spoofing. There are ways to prevent this exploit as well.
Some Universities require more classes in C than others. You could go to the course listings of Universities you might like to recruit from and go after graduates from those programs.

With one decent CS school that I am aware of, the University of Maryland used to require (until last semester or so) all CS graduates to take two lower level classes which are taught in C (with some asm). Now it is just one course. I don't know whether or not students enjoyed it, though I think it is unfortunate that they are dropping one of the two courses (actually combining both into one course.)

I think part of why there is this move away from C is some students (rightfully) complain that they may never need to explicitly use it, and Universities figure they can teach the concepts with other languages. I believe that lower level languages should be taught, but I understand why not everyone agrees with me.
It's a service that will dial your phone so you can find it when it rings. This is presumably for a situation where you lost your phone in a couch cushion or something similar. :)
It is not supported but I think it's a great idea. Perhaps doing something like 99designs, where jobs are posted and then icon designers can choose to upload their work. The designer who is chosen will win the "auction".
I'm sitting on a 3-month-old gem: theomnomnom.com

Purchased time: 2am.

Hilarious potential: check.
Chance that I'll touch it before the renewal reminder email: 20%
He does have a legitimate issue. The suggest algorithm guesses that "MIT" is the start of "mitochondria" or "mitosis".
Management fails utterly in decision making and employees suffer by layoffs. I don't see a bright future for Digg ahead given these actions.

Edit: This is on the basis that the layoffs will likely not be management.
Adoption: Rails is bigger. Both are healthy, and neither is going anywhere.

Community: These are roughly equivalent. The Rails community is probably significantly larger, but there's more than enough activity and information coming from both to keep you plenty satisfied.

Jobs: It's easier to find a Rails job.

Scalability: You can scale both. Both frameworks are pretty heavyweight, but they're also both designed with scaling in mind (e.g. decent caching is built in).

Fun: If you like CakePHP, then assuming you don't just irrationally hate Python or Ruby you should feel right at home with either one.

Full disclosure: I do Rails for a living.
Does Songbird count? I think ActiveState's IDE's are XUL too, but it seesm devs are generally more willing to accept cross-platform apps.
On Pitman's "Special Forms in Lisp."
I just had an submission hit the front page the other day where I explained how moving from PHP/Apache to C saved my bacon. I'm 26 and have not been out of school that long.

I would look for schools who start their students in C or even C++ right off the bat. I know some people who took intro to programming in Java and would never learn C now, not sure why.
and good luck signing up advertisers.
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Well, that's very true. But you know, if I meet someone who calls themselves a "C Programmer," I would be surprised if they were trying to build a client-side web application as a browser plug-in in C. C Programmers tend to ply their trade in places where their skills provide value, so "using C for all of their programming needs" might work out with very little difficulty, just as a carpenter would be unlikely to try to wire a house.

Then again, there's nothing like expanding your horizons a little. While it's fun and surprisingly instructive (for me, at least) to think things like this through, I'm sure people will grant that debating how much the metaphor leaks says nothing about what you or I might think of C, or Javascript, or the benefits of learning a new programming language every year.
It's an interesting assortment of sites that are "supported" out of the box. Some of them are pretty harmless (bit.ly, Flickr), some could cause some pretty serious hassles (Google, Amazon), and some could be absolutely devastating (Deleting someone's Slicehost account? Ouch...).
I think the primary problem with monetizing this idea is letting people know it exists.

I would register a twitter account such as cant_find_your_phone etc, search the firehose, and then tweet the user.
I've never understood why Digg required so many staff (~80) while competitors such as Reddit have < 10 people. Bringing their numbers down to a level more appropriate for their product (and revenue opportunity) can only be a good thing.
Actually I have 5 domains left that are all 6-7 letters and make really sounding words. Bought them 6 years ago, holding on to them and use them whenever I start up a new company.
There's some hacks for detecting which fonts are available on your computer, so I could, in theory, let you use any of them. And since the product is an image it wouldn't matter if the person you shared it with didn't have it. I'll see what I can do.
Google 'mistakenly' captures emails, email addresses, and passwords
TKIP is much more vulnerable. In theory it requires "work" to crack WPA2+TKIP but it's comparatively trivial with modern hardware. With WPA2+AES you basically open a public/private key encrypted connection to the router (similar to SSL) and exchange the PSK in order to authorize the client. This traffic isn't any more sniffable, in principle, than https traffic. However, depending on configuration it can be vulnerable to man in the middle attacks and such-like.
Why not "Front End Developer"? Sure the tool is JavaScript, HTML, and CSS but if there was a better tool tomorrow, you would still be building front ends- just with different hammer.
Um, a reward?

Isn't that the first thing you offer when you lose something?

Monetize by taking a cut of offered rewards.
i have a personal domain (jcs.org) and i just create a subdomain for a new project. it lets me put it online quickly and it also means i'm not tied to the name if i want to change it.

sometimes i finish a project and it never moves (http://metra.jcs.org/) because i can't find an appropriate domain name.

though as someone else suggested, try http://hntrades.com/ to buy/sell/trade unused domain names.
You can give user an option to opt into (by default selected) SMS advertizing with local offers.
EA open sources their internal version of STL