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> .class files compiled on Apple's JVM work fine on other JVMs

Technically, you don't need to compile "on JVM" but "for JVM." And it doesn't seem to be as you describe for most of the cases (in Sun's words, 98%).

> Microsoft's JVM violated both of these requirements

AFAI understand it was far more subtle: the language (the source form representation) was extended with the features which functioned only on Microsoft's implementation, and only such classes were affected. See

http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/guide/deploymen...

for a list of issues of switching from Microsoft VM based upon Java 1.1 to Sun's 1.4.2. The list appears to be very unimpressive.
We once (8 years ago?) had a woman pull a beeper out of her bra in the middle of an interview. And that was not, by far, the weirdest interview.
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Makes sense. Electrician is a skilled job which requires a lot of training. It's not the kind of thing you just fall into as a temporary stopgap when you can't get real work with your B.A. in Medieval Basket-weaving.
What's the advantage of static linking?
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To be fair Amazon and Google are more or less in direct competition with their cloud offerings. Also Amazon and itunes for that matter.
I think it's the button to the left of the home button in this : http://www.engadget.com/photos/hp-slate-hands-on/#3494151
I expect the answer to your question is buried somewhere in this document:

http://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/homch1_itc.htm
I haven't read the methodology for how the bureau of labor statistics gets its data, but I'd be very surprised if it were significantly flawed. The federal government is generally extremely competent at collecting social sciences data like this. I'd actually say that it's one of the few things the government does really well.

The big thing you need to watch out for is the media and other government agencies spinning it. For example I always see MSM articles saying that 41% of Americans have tried weed, despite the fact that it's closer to 85% of Americans under age 55.[1] (And above that we don't have as good data.)

[1] http://www.erowid.org/psychoactives/statistics/statistics_ar...
And the web has the greatest benefit of all: no proprietary-ness, no walled gardens.

Web apps typically end up storing all your data on somebody else's system, and they can limit or revoke your access at any time. I don't see how that's less proprietary than local apps.
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They seem a little more expensive for starting out

I've also been looking at various payment gateways lately, and Braintree looks awesome. However, the $75 monthly minimum in fees is way too much to start out. Sadly I think I will either be locked into another provider or have to make the painful migration once revenue reaches the point where it makes sense to switch.
This is wrong for the same reason you don't produce your own power. See: http://www.nicholasgcarr.com/bigswitch/

Economies of scale create a cheaper alternate solution. That was accomplished in physical goods years ago and the cost of "transporting" physical goods is much higher than the cost of "transporting" massive data processing power.
>This tells me that there is a tremendous opportunity in the form of huge inefficiencies in our computing infrastructure.

VMware has benefited from the CPU race. ESX is an easy sell for fotune 1000 datacenters that have huge amount of idle cpu horsepower.
I am interested to learn from experienced PHP developers about certain aspects of PHP program. We are currently maintain a social game which consists of few millions transactions every day (through JSON-RPC, not HTML page rendering), and it appears to be CPU-bounded (we use Redis as db backend). Based on my understanding, Facebook is CPU-bounded too and that's the reason behind their custom HipHop. How many PHP programs out there in wild are CPU-bounded in percentage? Because before I got my hand dirty on PHP few years ago, I heard many times that web applications were usually bounded by network/disk bandwidth rather than CPU.
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Sure, but it's in Swedish. If you still want it I can e-mail it you.
What a list! SloughOffYourToffStuff - I used to live in Slough, that made me chuckle. TossitAndProfit - as a marketing tool like CompareTheMeerkat would work very well.
could you give more info about how you did it?
I need to implement something like this for a frequent Ajax refresh.
I like ByeByeBox. FromYourDoor would be a great one for a taxi company.
No it won't.

The 70mpg figure is from the Japanese test.

The Mazda release said the car would achieve 70 miles per gallon, but that number was based on the Japanese test cycle, meaning American mileage would be lower. A 15 percent increase from the existing Mazda 2 would result in a combined 37 m.p.g. (For comparison, the Toyota Prius, which gets a combined 50 m.p.g. from the Environmental Protection Agency, achieves 89 m.p.g. in the Japanese test.)

More accurate article here:

http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/21/mazda-next-genera...
Like the idea. Here are a couple names that came to mind

hoardsale,
hoardbox,
tidycrate,
shipsold,
sendsold,
auctionboxx
Charles Murray has never been one to let a non sequitur get between the data and his conclusions.
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You're definitely right. I suppose I just meant that it's one of those little things that doesn't make or break a computer, but it's those same things that sets Apple apart from the rest.
The well-known but thoroughly ignored issue in this article: college has become all-but-a-necessity to get a decent job in the US because having only a high school diploma doesn't even guarantee to an employer that one has basic literacy or math skills.
It's fun. Now if I could lock in text styles it might even be useful.
repost: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1795783
Without reading the entire bottom bar on the site, I was kind of assuming one of the color codes would be copied to my clipboard once I clicked on the screen to lock it.

Still very cool though, good job.
That's what I meant, indeed. If you unilaterally demand to keep things confidential and undistributed, it would seem consistent to do the same. On the other hand, I realize Jobs is fully aware that most of his replies will be published.
> I respectfully submit that the man who thought AWT was an acceptable GUI toolkit doesn't have a leg to stand on here.

Where did Gosling say that? I remember reading that AWT was a botched job because they had very little time to ship out a UI toolkit. They replaced it with Swing later.

And if you think Swing also sucks, then try developing swing apps in groovy. Java language sucks even in SWT UIs.
Easy Auction is long gone sadly.
There are guys like Terry Cavanagh who've had some success by making limited versions in Flash that market the real version.

The Flash industry can deliver an enormous quantity of eyeballs onto a game. My own best has had almost 6 million people play it although I track games much larger than that.

http://www.kongregate.com/games/TerryCavanagh/vvvvvv-demo
Or that people don't get graduate degrees with the intent of maximizing their earnings potential.

I've often heard it said that the fundamental problem with economics is that it assumes people are rational and have good information. I'd say it goes deeper than that: it assumes that money is the rational thing for a person to maximize. In reality, money is something that bears some maximization, but it's hardly the primary consideration.
Sure thing, what part are you stuck on?
sad to see that all these years I've been bragging around, and happy to do so, with my macbook doing java dev. Finally I had a nice machine, cute os to work. Sad that some day a big corp will tell me that now it's windows or nothing. Sad to feel like apple is letting us down.
This example uses Treetop. The same variety of parser, PEG (parsing expression grammar), but not code-generating, but dynamically defining ruby code is Citrus. It was really a pleasure to work with. The difference is that you don't need a preliminary compile step in a rake file e.g., which I like better for a language as dynamic as ruby.

http://github.com/mjijackson/citrus
And maybe it is this "arms race" issue that is at the core of the SEO problem. If you are a startup with SEO that just happens to intersect with that of a very large well-established organization you might as well not exist.

Maybe Google can fix this by splitting their search page into a top section of top SEO sites and a lower section for "the road less travelled".

Just thinking out loud here. I've seen neat sites with very useful and relevant content not show-up anywhere useful in a Goggle search.

Then there's the "evil" element. I'll call it inadvertent evil to be kind. If you've ever had the experience of having, for example, Google reject your site for the AdSense program with pretty-much a totalitarian approach to the issue you'll know exactly what I mean. I've had that happen and it was beyond frustrating. It took months to deal with it. No way whatsoever to engage with Google to figure out what was wrong. I've heard even worst stories from folks who had sites black listed by them.

If we, by extension, call Google a "totalitarian regime" that, without a doubt, has the power to decide what can succeed and fail on the web, I think that the issues created by such things as SEO algorithms are amplified.

I don't want to go to the "Google is evil" extreme --they are not-- but some aspects of their robotic approach to dealing with the massive tasks they undertake definitely have the potential to become auto-evil-ized.
Oh the one where you have to wear funky gloves and wave your arms around a lot? The wide arm movements are a dead give-away. It's MADE FOR MOVIES. Not for actually using it.
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"Simple" is quantifiable as how much information-theoretic complexity a population's selection pressure can sustain against mutational entropy to allow for relatively permanent (on non-evolutionary time scales) adaptations. It's not a measure of how much an organism makes us say "Gee whiz!" This is what I was referring to.
it's arguably good for consumers, as it means that they can buy a Windows Phone 7 phone with confidence—if you know your way around one Windows Phone 7 phone, you know your way around them all.

It may, however, be bad for the OEMs, who may find themselves with little ability to differentiate and distinguish themselves from each other.

How about the carriers distinguish themselves by providing good network service and good customer service instead of loading up the phone with crap hardly anyone ever wants? (Manufacturers can distinguish themselves on price/quality as they see fit.)
In college I knew a ton of people who would take jobs as parking lot attendants because it gave them a simple, non-taxing job with plenty of spare time allowing them to study while working.

Even those these were all undergrads, I can easily imagine lots of grad students would do the same.
what if their bachelors is in fine art? My assistant has one of those, and I'm a lot less worried about her leaving than my support guy who has no degree but quite a lot of *NIX experience.

My point is that a degree does not necessarily impart more upwards mobility than other kinds of less formal training.
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There's a similar thought process in the music production world:

Get punchier mixes by listening to wimpier speakers while you mix.
> my feeling that diminishing returns have set in to investments in higher education

That's seeing people only as a black box slave-like "workforce", giving them "education" as well as food to sustain your busyness

> Now it is true that college has a consumption as well as investment function. People often enjoy going to classes [...]

It has many other functions too, for the human beeings beiing "educated". If done well, it can even give them critical thought process, and knowledge about certain topics of their environement. In eastern europe countries, the aboundance of educated people in a beauraucratic regime which did not propose so much interesting life openings contributed to its fall.

> [...] increasingly costly and unproductive forms of special pleading by a sector that abhors transparency and performance measures.

Just like the banking sector, the pharmaceutical sector, etc... Performance is a word people often use meaning fittness to a metrics relevant to their particular interests.

> Higher education is on the brink of big change, like it or not.

Which only means the balance of powers is changing. Care to ellaborate about why and how ? Otherwise it is just saying : specialized labour is less needed by US industry, so less people have to be trained. Ok, agreed (or not), so let's give them education instead.
The idea is very interesting, but I think it needs a demonstration. I don't have any webapp ideas offhand but if I did I would try this.

I'm skeptical about the "no maintenance" part. Software no longer stands still. You need to keep adding features, promotion, and tending to the community, if for no other reason than competition for people's attention. If your app makes even a little bank it will be copied by profit-seekers with higher motivation.
I grew up coding in PHP and still love it to this day, so I agree with the basic premises of this article.

The one thing that bothered me was towards the end. In trying to justify PHP's coolness (which I am not arguing against), people continuously bring up Facebook as an example, even though they've repeatedly stated that they wanted to move away from PHP to Python years ago but realized they couldn't after having hundreds of thousands of lines in PHP.

PHP's cool. I love PHP. But, let's stop using Facebook as an example of a company "embracing PHP".
Disabling the kernel check means after you take the program off one iPhone, modify the binary to disable any DRM check, you can then copy it to another iPhone which is able to run the unsigned binary.
I trust you, still on the page is: "Poker Copilot is a native Mac application." I can of course imagine it's only to prevent users to worry if the application would run "as it should" or not. Thanks.
"there are 5,057 janitors in the U.S. with Ph.D.’s, other doctorates, or professional degrees."

So, the titles wrong. Professional degree != Ph.D. right?
This is surprising but the study quoted says it explicitly:

* In general, marginal and average returns to college are not the same...

* Some marginal expansions of schooling produce gains that are well below average returns, in general agreement with the analysis of Charles Murray
I'm biased, but here are my thoughts in response to your dilemma. Feel free to disregard this opinion, but I enjoy talking about these things.

Your target market as I understand it is not strictly the mass market as such. You are aiming for people with relatively valuable disposables. With slightly more subtle branding, you can include those people who reducing the amount of boxes you get with old magazines and assorted housewares in them.

Living in the States, box2cash.com would be anything but memorable to me. You see cash4gold, work4you, cash4you, ezcash and such regularly. They are almost always low-end pawnshops, title loan, or work-from-home MLM operations.

On the other hand, "unpackage" is kind of cute, not too big of a reach, and has an obvious story to it that sticks once you hear it.

I can much more easily imagining myself telling a friend to consider trying Un-Package than to go to box2cash.com.

More importantly, I can easily imagine my mother sharing the idea of Un-Package in a way that's on-point with your value proposition rather than in a way that sounds like a recycle bin. Instead of, "You put stuff in this box, and they come haul it away and give you money," she'd probably say, "It's an easy way to sell stuff you don't need anymore." You're in the commerce business rather than the hauling business. Valuable and high-end rather than another trash service with who-knows-who showing up.

Again, I'm biased. I think either one could work for you. :)

Edit: Just saw that some of these domains aren't currently available. Sorry about that.
despite the fact that it's closer to 85% of Americans under age 55.

[citation needed] again, I'm afraid.
Since the problem is lazy programmers, we are probably discussing regime of doing sums in php rather than in the db. In this regime, legitimate performance improvements are usually easier than gaming benchmarks.
I'm at 1366x768 and your bar is insane with the amount of space it takes up. (That 768 is also taken up by browser tabs and such things, as well as a taskbar.)

Navigation is fine when it is on the top or bottom, or even both, of the page and if you really want something to scroll with the content please choose vertical navigation in a sidebar as that at least is only mildly annoying.
There's a difference between data and software. Free software important. Free data is important, too, but local/remote storage is a different issue than proprietary/cross-platform software.
Wow. That's amazing. I knew that IP protection on fashion was weak/difficult, but was unaware of the reasoning.

What's bizarre is that people have been making music for a long time, too, yet courts have no trouble locking it down with copyright.

I wonder if this is a notational thing. There's an established and (somewhat) robust notation for music allows it to be "fixed in any tangible medium of expression", as required by US copyright law. Is there even such a thing for fashion?
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Apple and Amazon both provide a marketplace for music.

Amazon and Google both provide datacenter services.

The similarities don't extend much beyond either of these points.

Oh, and all three are headquartered in the Pacific mid-to-northwest.
> it's windows or nothing

Far from it. First, Apple's version will stay for a while. For further future, Java is GPL-ed, and also see:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1820418
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The intermediate compilaton step is actually optional when using Treetop. You can see in the code in the article that Treetop is directly loading and interpreting the grammar at runtime. (Of course there is always going to be some compilation 'behind the scenes', but there's no need for it to be explicit.)

Citrus looks interesting! From what I can see the PEG syntax used by Citrus is very similar to Treetop. I'll definitely check it out more later, I'm particularly interested in performance difference between the two.
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There's a ton of jobs that society deems as bad that are in fact not bad at all. "Garbage men" in certain cities, for example, make quite a nice living.

I just think that sometimes we see "Janitor" and think that it's automatically bad. Too often, we don't even scratch the surface or know the whole story.

And (honestly not joking), Good Will Hunting is a great movie.
How about calling it a "transaction-value-logging-data-store" and naming it TRVLDS? That ought to be good for something. :-)
This is fantastic, especially in full screen chrome. I'd love to hear the inspiration behind why you decided to build this.

+1 Bonus Points for the subtle faux color gradient in 'Piknik'
I don't see why not? Java is GPL-ed, and also see:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1820418
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Here's an interesting one: http://www.endless.com/

It was their competitor to Zappos. Shoe-focused, free overnight shipping and returns. I would call it a failure since they subsequently bought Zappos. But like you said, not very visible since they never shut Endless down. No real point, since it's just another skin on Amazon.com.
You could google how to do a simple fork server in c/c++ and after you have that working you just need to do something like this:

stringstream response;
response << "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n"
<< "Server: BTB Auction Updater 1.0\r\n"
<< "X-Powered-By:BTB Update Engine\r\n"
<< "Content-Length: " << msg.length() << "\r\n"
<< "Content-Type: text/html\r\n\r\n" << msg;

int n = write(s, response.str().c_str(), response.str().length());
if(n < 0) error("Error writing to socket");

to write back a valid header that a browser will understand
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Oh, I don't know. When I'm using my computer I often think "Man, I wish I were standing up and making huge arm movements right now so that my arms would get tired within twenty minutes"

I'm tempted to say "At least it would be good for games", but frankly the Wii has failed to revolutionize gaming as much as folks thought it would -- after waving your arms around for a bit the novelty wears off and you go back to wanting to mash buttons.
So, did this have any movement since ... February ?
It actually kinda made sense as a system meant to be used quickly, but only for brief periods of time, by completely able-bodied people.

For any extended period time, or for anyone with even minor physical disabilities, it's wretched.
So it really wasn't PHP but Apache right? In an hour you could have switched out your front end server to Nginx and had it serve responses from Memcached and then keep the Apache/PHP backend and change it to update Memcached on bid changes.

Here are some links:

http://www.igvita.com/2008/02/11/nginx-and-memcached-a-400-b...

http://lserinol.blogspot.com/2009/03/speeding-up-your-nginx-...
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Agreed. I don't understand why so many people want TC coverage.

If you sell pianos, find musicians.

If you sell coupons, find local restaurants.

What are you selling that's gonna go on TC?
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Right, but if even he was unsatisfied with AWT how can he criticize Apple for doing the work for a native look & feel?
Folks interested in this world might enjoy the documentary "Eleven Minutes"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1149584/

"It's been two long years since the sharp-witted Jay McCarroll was dubbed 'the next great American designer' on season one of reality TV's Project Runway, and he's anxious to finally show his first line of clothing. The feature documentary, "Eleven Minutes," chronicles his year-long journey preparing his first independent runway show for New York's Fashion Week in Bryant Park and the subsequent selling of his line to stores. The result is an in-depth, painfully raw and humorous exploration of the creative process and the constant conflict of balancing commerce with art, fame with talent, and reality-TV with actual reality."

BTW, if incessant use of variations on the word "fuck" bother you, this may not be the film for you. I don't usually care about it, but after a while it gets more tedious than shocking or whatever the intent might be.

I think it ranks with "The Commitments" on F-Word count. :)
If he did it poorly, no one would care. It's not a great fucking idea. He just did it so well - and he did it so well because he had practiced it for so long.
Judging by the pictures on iFixit[1], the PCB and the battery don't look very heavy.

1. http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPad-Wi-Fi-Teardown/2183/2
On the frontend I was already using lighttpd, but I could have used memcached on the backend that was going to be the next step if the c app didn't work. It just worked so well I didn't have to worry about it.
I stand corrected then. It's not really that important anyways.