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I think for web applications, most people use a "community" provided framework, various libraries, etc. Java has been a locus for that mindset (as in the classic: http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.219431....
) It's not just parody though:
http://www.docjar.org/docs/api/org/outerj/pollo/xmleditor/Fa...
Yes. Launch, smaunch. You'll be launched when people start telling their friends about it.
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Here's one of their promo videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xX-B2wG1e4&feature=playe...
shorter version: there is no single solution - problems have context that must be worked with (this may sound familiar to anyone who develops software)
Yes. But I suppose the thing about embedded stuff is that if you write good "embedded" code (whatever that means), then it works well everywhere. If you write good "desktop" code, then it probably won't work well on an embedded system. So, when I'm doing my own hobby projects which are never going to go onto hardware, I still write it as if it might end up on a whacky chip one day, because when you do it this way, C seems to smile on you, and have exactly all the tools needed to express what you mean without saying more than you mean.
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It doesn't look quite so bad in the second picture where it blends into the background.

Architecturally I think this style is called "How to spend as much money as possible on something that is still just a big shed in the desert".

Seriously though, was there any real need to build a "spaceport"? Wouldn't White Knight/Spaceship 2.0 equally capable of operating out of any decent-sized airport, if you make sure you arrange priority landing for the spaceship? (Does Spaceship Two land on a runway?)
When I started freelancing 5 years ago, my accountant advised me to start with a large invoice number (eg: 20850) and increment for each new one :)
To put that into context, by "won over" they mean that at least one person working for that company has signed up for it. It doesn't mean they use it. It doesn't mean more than 1 person has ever checked it out.

Still really impressive, and using work emails to create an instant network is really smart.
It will have an effect. Anyone using WebObjects will use an IDE for that. Currently all popular Java IDEs are written in Java. When there is no decent Java for frontend applications (Soylatte is X11.app only) then WebObjects Developers will have to use Linux oder Windows.
Thanks for this. Not sure what the exact focus of your list is but browsing it made me think of this. I would also recommend this great financial model spreadsheet for startups in the funding stage - most complete and very fast to use - the best I have seen for software companies:
http://en.origoterra.com/2010/05/startup-financial-model-is-...
Cheers
Dan
It will be in the long run.
I still manage to marvel every time it seems Hacker News is community to the creators of pretty much everything.
"I think startup is a phrase that’s been abused. You’ve made a project, or a mashup, or a hack, not a startup"
brings up a good point. at what point can we separate the real startups from the hacks?

in general, the best startups are not started because of money. you'll lose track of the essence of what you're doing as money clouds your perspective.

as guy kawasaki likes to say, "if you create meaning, you'll often create money"
I've only used amazon rds and s3 to date. These have both been pretty straight forward to set up. I've been interested in exploring using EC2 instances but haven't gotten round to it because of the learning curve with images etc. The fact that I've got to pay for the service while I'm learning it has put me off. With the free tier now I have an opportunity to give EC2 a go and see how it works. It seems a bit silly to have to create a new account for this.
It does sound like from reading Gosling that Apple did this as a way to poke Oracle in the eye. The Mac has potentially become a large enough platform now that it seems Apple thinks they can leverage it against others. There is such a thing as overplaying a hand which I think Apple is dangerously close to doing (i.e. read their new mac app store rules).

What did strike me about the announcement though was how nonchalantly it was made. I have to think this was on purpose given how masterful Apple normally is with their marketing. So that leads to the question of why? Was Apple in talks with Oracle that broke down so they simply called Oracles bluff?

By the way, all of the knee jerk reactions have been very amusing. Reading comments and stories about it yesterday made me think Apple came down and removed Java from every Mac in existence :)
I knew mono (mono touch) could get you on the iphone but I didn't realize it was possible to get on android through mono as well. Thanks.
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I think that is true for most indy apps, but stuff from Adobe or Microsoft will be fine. I also expect verticals to continue to do fine (dedicated sales staff and industry rep). If your an small developer then you probably should be in the app store.

People do want native apps (for a bit of humor http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/10/21/beltzner )because connectivity is not 100% and the fit, finish, and speed of native apps are better. I don't think your wrong, I guess twitter clients kind of prove the point.
I'm pretty excited about this. There used to be another Haskell -> Javascript compilation tool in the York Haskell Compiler and it kinda disappeared into the bowels of the Internet. Haskell is an incredible tool for writing parsers and interpreters. Leveraging this in Javascript could give us some interesting web software. I've always gotten the feeling that Haskell could fit in the same problem solving spot that some Javascript functions do with respect to passing call backs and higher order functions and all that. Nows the time to give it a try!
Overnight success is a myth. You can read tons of articles on how companies took years of trying to reach the success and adulation that they now receive. In most cases it takes them years of sweat and persistence to become an overnight success. Of course there are the rare ones that hit it on the first go but that would be equivalent to winning the lottery versus having to work hard at making your millions. Don't give up now or ever and some day just maybe some day you will become that overnight success.
Send a high priority email to their customer support (or alike), wait 24 hours, if no response is received then tell the customers (blog post? forum thread? hnews/reddit?).

If response is received wait a week or so and, again, check for the existence of the exploit.
Oh I didn't mean that you should put all your source code in those folders - only that which is different for each platform, and if that is only one or two methods in each class then that is not a problem as C++ is much more flexible in that regard than C# or Java.
Thanks.

Is it feasible at all to (ab-)use this free Micro instance as a real development machine for running little experiments? Assuming I keep one instance running at all times, without adding any new ones, it seems like I could just ignore the fluid snapshot system and treat it like a bog-standard VPS.
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You are aware of that other similar sounding website (Picnik), right? You know, the immensely popular online photo editor that was acquired by Google several months ago?

http://picnik.com

As far as your actual tool: There are many color pickers available online that have many more useful features than you do. I'm not trying to be snarky and I hope you posted here for feedback.

Why would I use your product? What's the use case? What value does it provide that the other dozen or so top color pickers DON'T offer?
I keep wondering if I should introduce my grandma (90 years old) to World Of Warcraft. A couple of years I gave her her first computer (against the advice of the rest of the family), and she does a lot of stuff with it (for example email, online banking, what I know).

Hm, maybe I'll just give her a WoW account + better graphics card for christmass. Who knows :-)

In theory the internet should be great for lonely people stuck at home. My problem is that apart from Hacker News, I don't really know where to turn on the internet when I feel lonely, either.

Any pointers? Most chat rooms seem really tacky, but I didn't do that much research.

Is there a MMORPG for the iPad yet?
I don't know why you think paying taxes is morally commendable. So far Google hasn't, as far as I know, invaded any countries or funded any coups.

$2.6 billion per year is about US$9 per person. Another point of comparison, if you're worried about conservation of fresh water, is that the Mississippi River discharges 110 trillion gallons of fresh water per year into the Gulf of Mexico, where it turns brackish. So the plumbing doesn't sound like a disastrous problem to me, particularly compared with problems like 1% of the adult US population being imprisoned, companies being raided for selling chemistry kits to kids, a decaying passenger train system that commonly delivers passengers several hours late, and government bailouts to pay the bonuses of the bankers who wrecked the economy.
It's conceivable that there was a negotiation between Apple and each of the studios whose "styles" were used in iMovie '11. If I'm Apple, it wouldn't make much sense to release a product containing knock-offs of well protected trademarks without at least talking to the mark owners before the fact. You have to expect that they'd request that their specific studio name not be allowed in the product.
The time is certainly ripe for a better language to step in and make cross-platform desktop application development easier. Seems like most anything you use (barring C++) necessitates shipping 20mb of dependencies.

I miss the pay for what you use model.
Fantastic. A touch-screen with small buttons, stock Windows 7. Ships with IE8. $200-$300 more than an iPad: you could buy a netbook and an iPad for the same price.

WTF? Total shit. Who wants Windows 7 on a tablet?
AMEN!
Why do you think infomercials continue to run...THEY SELL A SHITLOAD OF PRODUCT! Think about the Magic Bullet...biggest peice of shit ever....EVER...a 4-year old with a spoon can do a better job BUT they connect with you on a very specific level. they make a connection, they show YOU how YOU can do exactly what YOU always wanted to do with their product.
Did you see how many different things Joe showed you how to do with just a peeler? Even if 10 of the 11 things he showed you dont apply to you, you are willing to pay $5 for a $0.10 peeler to save you a minute of your time once every 4 weeks.

That is why customer development is so important. You need to understand what your customer does and show them that you can make that part of their life easier. For enterprise software its the same, prove to a company that you can actually reduce or eliminate a pain point and BOOYA you have a sale and once you have sales, you get press when you get press you get more sales and the cycle continues until you exit gracefully.
It's odd that they would do this. They should have ramped up the price of the subscription for some of those features instead.
I'd love to hear more about interviews. As a front end dev with a BFA in design I've had surprisingly easy time finding jobs. I'm always interested in hearing about what other experiences people are having.
And in fact, if you had a ridiculous amount of money to blow, you could get a Wacom Cintiq, which is basically a 20 something inch LCD monitor which has an active digitizer built into the entire thing.

I only had four bucks, so I got five hundred sheets of paper.
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Ask HN: a MMORPG for old people?
As discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1819766 - I think loneliness is a huge problem for old people. Personally, I expect that at least I will be able to pass time with the 2062 equivalent of World of Warcraft when/should I ever get 90 years old. But would todays old people in general get/enjoy the concept? I seriously thought about introducing my granny to WoW...

Or maybe I should just try farmville? Any other games that might work? What could work for the generation that is old today?
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Ups the cachet considerably, no? If you're paying that kind of money for a flight, isn't it more fitting to fly out of a Spaceport then Albuquerque International Airport?

Plus, given time, we may see a vicious hive of scum and villainy grow in the surrounding area.
One thing going for it: They almost resisted putting intel/windows stickers all over it. http://goo.gl/vXKi
That video makes it look even worse. Don't they realize that people can type faster than they can write with a pen? It took that guy a long time to pull out the pen, write "Rear Light" and put the pen back. Should have been <2 seconds with a touch keyboard.
This looks like a very luxurious crack den, which actually probably isn't too far off.

You have to wonder whether, given his LSD use and whatever underlying emotional issues he may have had, how psychologically healthy he was at the time.
Agreed - We just need more devices with front facing cameras - which definitely will happen. Add the fact that location/time data could captured associated with it as well and it's likely make some people at least think twice!
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I don't know, to me it makes a lot of sense that Apple's CEO doesn't unofficially announce Java OS X from Oracle via his iPhone. The man's a professional after all.

Apple did their part in dropping their own Java version. Reading these comments, it seems likely Oracle would want to step in.
Can someone fix the link? It's pointing to the front page for the blog, the blog post is here:
http://www.mailchimp.com/blog/ewww-you-use-php/
DES' key is short enough to brute-force (see below for time/cost). It's not tremendously difficult to obtain some output samples: make the first account, you now know DES(key, 0), where key is the actual key used by the site. Then run through all 2^56 keys k until DES(k, 0) = DES(key, 0); for some extra assurance, you could also check DES(k, 1) = DES(key, 1) by making another account.

Once you have key, the proposed scheme is no better than sequential account numbers.

This gets slightly more difficult if you don't know your account id; in that case, simply create a couple of accounts immediately after each other (script it), and check whether DES(k, i) = DES(key, counter), DES(k, i + 1) = DES(key, counter + 1) etcetera, where again key is the real key, counter is the real counter at the time of creation of the first account. You now have to bruteforce counter (i) as well as key (k), but that's still doable.

Brute-forcing DES is not easy on a desktop, but http://www.sciengines.com/copacobana/faq.html offers a $10,000 off-the-shelf solution that can break DES in 8.7 days (source: their presentation at CHES 2006). Note that this is uses components from 2006 and that it's easy to trade cost for speed (i.e. just buy half as many boards.)

The above is the most obvious attack; I'm in no way saying there are no others. It's not impossible to make schemes like the above work (e.g. using the pair (AES(key1, id), HMAC(key2, AES(key1, id))) and a good library); but even the scheme proposed is more complex than just picking random account numbers.
I wonder if they'll manage to go to the moon within 20 years.
FWIW, earlier models of Wacom tablets supported two styluses at once, but they dropped the feature because no one was using it.

http://forum.wacom.eu/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3552
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I would actually like to move to a place with four seasons. Over here, it's pretty much summer all year round. Anyway, isn't the US sort of difficult to get into these days? I've noticed quite a few HNers complaining about that.
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You gotta love the slide out licensing tab: http://www.engadget.com/photos/hp-slate-hands-on/#3494156
Here's my profile:

http://developer.appleseedproject.org/michael.chisari/

Here's a test site for the latest code:

http://gotham.appleseedproject.org/bruce/
As the father of a 6-year-old who already has a Club Penguin paid account, I really don't mind not seeing any innovations in this area for the next 17~20 years.
Please forgive my ignorance, but wasn't Google sued by Oracle over issues regarding Google's implementation of the Java VM? It just sounds natural that other companies would be less motivated to maintain their implementations...
Thanks for all the suggestions so far!
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I love this site and will use it all the time if you change the domain name.

Also once I choose a colour I think you should have a cool little div down the side of the page that shows me a thumbnail of the previous colours, so I can contrast it etc

I will bookmark it for now but please change the domain name.

something that I can google if I ever don't have my bookmarks with me

easy colour picker.com

I'm kind of at this stage where I can't remember what the apps name is because there are so many

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Honestly the question isn't really is a Columbia GS degree valuable or prestiguous, but whether going to Columbia school of GS is really a better option than SUNY Geneseo.

Geneseo is a teaching-oriented undergraduate college and one of the best schools in the SUNY system. If you're the sort of person who is going to bust their ass to get into Columbia as an undergrad, you probably could have just busted your ass at Geneseo and then gone to the grad school of your choice, which is arguably more important (unless you are a programmer).
I think that the 'phallic' aspect of rocketry has more to do with physics than anyone's actual obsession with penises. Personally, I think when you read phalli into it, I think that says more about you than rocketry.

I think that the same can be said about this hanger... I didn't see what you saw until you mentioned it... Now I can't stop seeing it through. Thank you very much.
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I tried this out about a year ago while at college. The dependencies were very painful and I was never able to install it.

I would love to know if anyone has this running on Mac OS X successfully now. I'd love to check it out, but had a terrible experience last time I tried it.
It's just so weird! It's like they are advertising to an alternate universe where the iPad, iPhone, iPod touch don't exist. I can't believe how slow and laggy it looks in their own video. How can they not see this?
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One of the big things that Nenshi had going for him was that he engaged the 18-25 crowd. My wife goes to school at the University of Calgary and she said that Nenshi had posters and supporters all over campus, whereas the only presence the other candidates had came from the political science students.

And Nenshi engaged at other levels too. The guy rode Calgary Transit to his party headquarters on election night; this city wants someone to improve services, and I want someone that is dogfooding the service to do it!
I've just outsourced a project to a friend of mine. He's a very skilled Django developer. The rate is around 30 euros / hour.
However, I live in Romania.
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I'm surprised at the generally positive approach in HN toward Apple's recent announcements. Apple is about to have control over the user's system no one since mainframe-era IBM ever came close to.

Not only they're about to move desktops/laptops into the App Store's walled garden, they are showing they can drop support for major technologies like Java or Flash if they feel like it. This is not good news for anyone but Apple, certainly not anyone calling themselves "Hacker".

The problem is that you're jumping to some serious conclusions. Nothing about the mac app store demo showed banning of applications from a different source. You're assuming that's their plan, but I don't think it is. The app store makes perfect sense from an end user perspective. One of the great things about linux are the package managers. A central location with lots of software that I can install from AND get updates from.

There is no flash on the iPhone for many well document reasons, so I'll guess you're referring to no flash on the new MBA. Given that any version of flash is out of date and a huge security hole as soon as it's installed, it makes complete sense to force users to go get the latest version when they buy their machine. It wasn't long ago that the shipping version of flash on osx had a huge security hole that made Apple look bad.

What I would like to see if Apple let Adobe put their flash player into the new mac app store. This lets Adobe manage the updates like any other 3rd party developer.

As a 'hacker' I look at what is. Right now my MBP works great and has all the support I need. If Apple does end up going down the path of locking out all other software and/or the ability to hack and develop I'll switch back to linux. At this point though, it's much ado about nothing.
Perhaps you could try using a collaborative whiteboard (either web-based or app) on a iPad?

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=886713

You can get styluses that work on the capacitive screen, if desired.

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7-10443415-233.html
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Most mainstream manufacturers do seem to put Swype on at least some of their models - HTC, Samsung, Motorola at least.

No doubt this works out nicely for Swype (strictly volume deals is pretty lucrative, I'd imagine), but it really puts me off them as a company - I'd hate to see this kind of model proliferate.
In this situation the details are actually important. What 2 technologies are being used? Can you cross-train? can you hire more dev's on tech A? Which platform is more sustainable, scalable? What is the pool of talent in your regional area? Are you in the enterprise market or consumer market? Are you integrating with your clients via some kind of API or is it a SaaS model?

All these questions impact your decision. It seems like you are only thinking about the technology but if you are a technology company then choice of platform has wider impacts.
Somebody please get a free appengine/heroku account and move all spreadsheets to webapps.
It is important though. Even with Apple knocking them out of the park every couple of years people don't seem to fully catch on. Dell added a sleep indicator to some of its notebooks and it pulses too quickly and is annoying. You need a control freak like Jobs that can go around and criticize every part of a system. You need someone that is willing to spend money to make things right.

edit: Even if people don't realize it breathes at the same rate as a human they notice subconsciously. Something about it is just right. Little touches like that make Apple products attractive to humans. Design matters. It's hard to hear for some geeks but the tech isn't paramount now that computers are mainstream.