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Or - the possible collaboration/support problems.

Someone else quoted here that Wayland needs toolkit support for lots of things (moving, resizing, decorating). Are we going to see that support (possibly contributed in parts by Canonical) in gtk (and QT/KDE, fwiw)? Or is this basically going for Unity only?

In other words:

I appreciate a more modern, desktop oriented architecture. X11 seems just too much "Mainframe terminal" focused. Which is nice - but not on my laptop/netbook or in the majority of private use cases, really.

I fear, though, that this leads to a two classes of desktops for a while: The shiny Wayland one and the poor thing that still needs X11. Note that "fear" implies more emotions than reasoning - I don't know enough about Wayland support in other toolkits yet and don't understand how it could/would work with "arbitrary" setups (Open-/Fluxbox, lxde, one of the tiling wms).

Update: I was reading up on Wayland - and completely missed the blog entry from Mark. The statement "We’ll help GNOME and KDE with the transition, there’s no reason for them not to be there on day one either." removes most of my fears.
More dissent also at Eurogamer:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2010-11-04-kinect-reviewed...

They bring up the point that you need quite a lot of room for the device to work, you need 2,5m of clear space between the TV and the sofa for two players. And if you don't have that much, don't buy the thing because it won't work well for you.
Ubuntu is certainly not too big to ignore. I have never seen any source say Linux (let alone Ubuntu) has more than 5% marketshare. Does your company support 800x600? How about IE6?
"How well doeth Xthboxth Kinect'th voith control handle thpeech impedimenth?"
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I'd rather see Wayland implement the X protocol themselves rather than proxy to Xorg. Running X and Wayland simultaneously could have performance implications on older computers or netbooks, two of Ubuntu's biggest targets.
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says "Using the &ltab:Test> UserControl"
I am cross posting a comment here that I posted on TC, this is an experiment to help me compare the reactions, sorry for the potential inconvenience.

2 things:

A) Don't under estimate the power of software. It is obvious that I have full access right to my "friends" list, including data that my friends share with me. It is only a matter of time/need until easy tools to export this will be in the hands of users, power users firsts, casual users next

B) Most users on facebook were rather computer illiterate at first ; we're talking about a population that basically is "discovering" the power of computers. They learn. They will leverage this knowledge to escape whatever walled garden emprison them, if only to do the cool thing that cool guys do.

C) A flat list of friends is a very primitive way to describe social relationships, mixing strong ties with weak ties to the extreme ; this does not scale, this does not reflect the true and essential complexity of relationships. Focus will shift to more fine grained (and fluid) ways to describe relationships.

D) The real issue is the single login one I think. I tend to believe that it makes sense that people will use their most "public" profile to login. That makes Facebook a strong contenter. But for quite some times, there will be services requiring an email address to login. Facebook (and Twitter) should better provide an email address soon, or else people will eventually become fluent enough to use a gmail one...

Facebook is one big step in the evolution of Internet, but it is just a step.

OK, not 2 things... that's serendipity I guess ;)
Why are you going through recruiters?

You already know how to market yourself. You're just trying to market yourself to a different set of people.

Also, you can't at the same time say you're a whore for money and then complain that you have to prostitute yourself to make your money.
The title is a bit misleading. No comparison has been made yet, in actuality the author is requesting developers from each NoSQL solution to describe how their solution handles some problems he lists. I would love to see the resulting article though once more have replied.
I agree. X is one of the reasons I'm not terribly fond of Linux. I don't know if wayland will help, but trying new things is defintiely good for innovation and advancement, so I'm completely in favour of this move. Hopefully something awesome will come of it!
Slightly off-topic, but if what annoy you in Trac is its setup or management, let me introduce pbp.recipe.trac ( http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pbp.recipe.trac ), a buildout recipe which can help you automate deployment and administration of several Trac instances.

And sorry to Hacker News community for this shameless self-promotion.
I can get work myself but its only about half as well paid as the jobs i can get from recruiters. I can live on what i make as a freelancer, but i get a much larger injection of cash if i take on an on-site contract. This is the only reason.
Let's not forget that it could be redeployed in the event that a water fight breaks out
It asks only for email while signing up but asks to loin with either Email/Username.

Interface looks good but even average geek will not use it for more than few days let alone average user. How do you make sure users keep using it for long time?
> For Kinect to succeed in the market, Microsoft must introduce a variety of complementary (and compelling) games, it needs to develop a collection of characters and stories that resonate with target customers of the Kinect, and it needs to carefully consider pricing, given that the price of the Xbox 360 plus Kinect (+ additional accessories) could overshoot the comfort level of a majority of consumers, especially in view of the economic recession.

Considering how much people continue to spend on the Rock Band accessories - for one game - I don't know that the Kinect's price tag is that significant.
A while? You must have never read the UNIX-HATERS Handbook (http://simson.net/ref/ugh.pdf), which should be required reading for any unix fan, along with the Plan9 design documents (cat-v.org). In this case, "the X Windows disaster" chapter seems most appropriate. Feel free to ignore the VMS fanboys, though.

And yes, I am a dedicated unix (OpenBSD) user.
Ok, thanks a lot for replying.
I used to live near Kairali, but never tried it, will do.
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When you are thinking to design any thing definetly you starts designing from pen and paper. As far as webdesign is concerned it is also drawn on paper before going to Photoshop. Now a days hand-drawn art is one of the popular styles adopted into web designs. and i think it is the better way to convey your thoughts and individual style in sketchy design. Today i posted 30+ hand drawn websites for your inspiration.
Cross-references:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1870798

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1869772
Very smooth experience. Love the "What if your whole life could fit on a piece of paper?" tagline. Great job!

Key points for keeping it relevant:

- Mobile

- Offline access

- Export/print

Small nitpick: Deleting an empty item shouldn't bring up the undo delete bar.
Maybe for small teams and microISVs, you could merge the advice from Patrick's article too: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/04/20/building-highly-reliable...
If I was selling software to defense companies I'd support IE6.

If I was selling software to primary school teachers I'd support 800x600.

If I was selling technology to engineers (especially CUDA types building render farms of thousands of nodes) you can bet your life I'd support Ubuntu. I wouldn't want to give them any reasons at all not to use my stuff everywhere, in case I accidentally opened a niche my competitor could dominate and expand from.

These days games are just a part of Nvidia's market.
Her insistence on getting managers for references makes me wonder whether she wasn't mining you for new prospective customers (on the employer side).
Is it possible for the browser to prefetch hwinfo from the computer and customize the installation accordingly?
I would suggest, even better would be a really well thought out picture/diagram that tells the story. As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words, and it is far more likely it will be "read".
While I love my Android phone, the term "easy development tools" anywhere near Android is just scary. I found even basic Android dev to be so overcomplicated it's not even funny. I spent about a week trying to get started, and just decided it wasn't worth my time. This is especially true if you don't want to use Java or you want to do layouts in text (I ended up writing my own DSL in Python to generate layout XML, but man it was a PITA).

If nothing else, I think the advantage WP7 has is its development tools -- MS did a damn good job there (they generally do).
My fear is lack of remote desktop. I would never use a Linux desktop without NX support.
Incidentally, the way the ads are delivered means AdBlock can block them. I was shocked to discover a few months ago how many ads there are on YouTube. I had been blocking them without knowing. (Something went bad with my filter subscription, and I had ads for a few minutes while I googled the fix.)

Honestly, ads are so invasive and easy to block that I'm surprised they work at all. I can't wait until Microsoft realizes they don't make money from ads and starts shipping an adblocker with Windows :)
Negotiations for reciprocity probably failed.
There will be a special "Igor" version for that. But yeah, I have bluetooth voice integration in my car and I have a tough time trying to make the voice commands work ("call", "setup", etc.), because I am not a native English speaker and have an accent.
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Just for comparison, Apple "ditched" X too (they never used X). When they went to OS X they used Display Postscript rather than X. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_PostScript

This has been a mixed bag: it has been good for Apple-only programs, but it significantly slowed and complicated the porting of existing and new X-based programs to Apple.
It looks as if Shuttleworth is concentrating squarely on desktop bling, and this may be the right strategy if he wants Ubuntu to gain mass popularity and really eat into the Windows user base.
I call BS - I don't believe they are making 80k a month. The numbers don't add up and their responses seem very ill informed and shaky on specifics.
Just one question, I hear that Wayland is hugely dependent on the latest Graphics cards. So that would mean that ubuntu will no longer be usable by people like me who have moderately old hardware (mine is p4 with on board intel graphics, which are already having problems even with X).

I liked how ubuntu was stable on my computer (till around 8.10 I think and 9.04 was not bad). I will miss the compatibility
Are you pointing out a typo on the site (if so, I can't find it), or are you lamenting that it requires UserControls to work?

If it's the latter, read down to the next code sample, which shows how to call the library directly from an ASP.NET MVC View or anywhere else.

The UserControl is just there as a convenience.
Not what I'd call a shocker.

Was anybody actually using them? OS X is a wonderful single-user-facing operating system, whether that user is a clueless consumer or a Unix-loving developer. But there's nothing that sets it apart as a server system. Similarly, while the hardware's quite nice, there's nothing about it that makes it superior to alternatives.

But of course, people will inevitably spin this as proof that MacOSX is about to be locked down like iOS.
While I loved reading the Unix haters handbook it gets many things wrong. It gets a lot right too, but the point is it takes some critical thinking (and good knowledge of Unix) to tell which is which.

In that respect I found the chapter on X to be one of the weakest. They trot out the old "X named the client and server the wrong way around" chestnut for example...
The TSA can blame individuals all they want, but the systematic abuse of power points to bad policy.
Why is there a bump in traffic signal conditions at 15:00, that doesn't follow the bump in street conditions at 19:00?

The latter I assume is because by that time, everyone has driven home from work, noticed problems, and phoned about them when they got home. But why only street conditions? Why not traffic signals?

Fascinating! :-D
Uh, NVIDIA made the decision to fully support linux a long time ago.
Within that ecosystem, Ubuntu is too big to ignore.
If you want to submit patches for code written by the same guys, there's always GHC.
"7. Do you have a spec?"

I've written succesful applications without any spec, just talking with users, writting things down myself, showing them prototypes, repeating. In some cases users are not able to produce a spec and even if the do they don't always really "know what they want", that's why prototyping is so important.
Seems a shame that a browser can't pick it's preferred format.
Kinect teardown reveals 15 chips, cooling fan and motor as weak point
You have failed to understand her job. Her clients are requiring these things.

I know this, because the company I work for has had to draw hard lines on recruiters. Before that, they would send us utter crap and waste our time. Now, we don't get many hits, but most of them are actually worth talking to.

She asked you all those questions because when she assumes things, her customers get really angry. Sending bad recruits can get her banned from that company altogether.

She asked for corporate drone references because you'll be doing corporate drone work and her clients want to make sure you can do it.
I'd say the next logical step is to read James Gleick's biography "Genius", which gives a slightly more well-rounded view.
What you say about Flashblock being installed and active as standard is true (as is the model Chrome uses where when the browser closes it automatically closes Flash - not true for Safari and Firefox) but I think the point that the test is trying to make is that this is a drain on battery life for no benefit to the user.

This wasn't a case of the user doing a load of value add things using Flash which would be fine, it was basically adverts which the user cares about not one jot draining the battery.

It's easy in the midst of the current Apple / Adobe spat to see anything involving Apple and Flash as petty bickering but I think the scale of the impact and the nature of the activity (that is nothing the user is really actively doing) make is a story / fact worth reporting.
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Flash is such a waste of CPU cycles, I disable flash, and lots of other things in my primary browser. If I need to view flash I'll fire up chrome.
I'd been eying it already, so $2k would just be icing on the cake. This is right up my alley but I can't afford the hardware right now -- I'd be willing to split the bounty if someone can give me something to play with. (For reference, similar projects I've worked on/hacked: iPhone dev team, Belkin Network USB Hub, Emotiv EPOC brain-computer interface)
Interesting point about the future of the web. That's a horrible idea that HTML 5 will be able to run rampant in my backgrounded tabs - certainly an itch that needs scratching...
Yes, I completely agree: that's the "ignore the VMS fanboys" part.

It's a very good resource, but a rather uncritical collection of criticisms - some highlight important deficiencies, some highlight alternative implementations, some of it is out-of-date (most unices are quite stable nowadays), and some are just plain ignorant.

I recall the chapter on X being rather sensible, but I don't exactly love X either. Maybe that coloured my perception.
That is factinating. What makes Mac OSX on desktop is based on Quartz and Linux needed something like that to be more solid and modern on desktop environments. So let be it.
The annoying thing to me is that once the video is over it immediately starts playing a series of other commercials and content which I did not want to see.
In all probability, the job didn't exist, and she was just mining for information.
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Have you ever tried to repair things in a new car with electronic fuel injection and computer-driven brakes? A huge advantage of X11 and all that other "70s technology" is that you can fix things more easily because it's built for being maintainable in the first place.

Having said that, I think that splitting the X server into one lightweight compositing manager and one slightly less heavyweight X-server-on-top-of-the-compositing-manager is less of a disaster than what we got with KDE4. I'll only start worrying when KDE and Gnome catch up and they start having UI programs talk directly to the compositing engine.
How? From what I gather, Wayland is better for the mobile/touch space, servers don't use GUIs and there's not much that uses only X...
Here's my experience with HHs from the financial industry. There is a large batch of newbie HH's coming straight from college who are pushed hardly to overperform and 'make it'. I've found that the inexperienced recruiters can be quite pushy and aggressive and so frankly, in situations like you describe just say thank you and bye quickly.

The established and more senior recruiters will be much more professional and polished. They all have their quirks and little tricks, but just learn to deal with it and if you're senior enough, be patient to find appropriate recruiters.
Look at Kinect using IR goggles
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Antennas --especially big ones-- have a large radar cross section, i.e., very visible on the radar. So a stealthy ship wants to avoid them. At the same time, long distance communication requires very large wavelengths and therefore large antennas. Temporary antennas are a good solution.

EDIT: this is of course in the article. Note to self: RTFM
This will still work well with other open-ended social networks like Foursquare and Twitter. I think this is actually a huge leap forward in social technology
The reality of the situation is that if you want to work for a large corporation, then you're stuck playing their games. I've had a recruiter ask for references upfront. They don't always check them, but references are required for their software. Also, the other commenter noted that the recruiter is likely using your references to build a list of contacts. A list of line managers is more valuable to a recruiter than a list of technicians since the line managers make hiring decisions and serve as contacts for additional sales.
"Moral rights" has a specific meaning in copyright law. It's not clear to me that enforcing destruction is covered as a moral right (although I can certainly understand the logic), but every content creator automatically has moral rights in the copyrighted content.
Damn outsourcing viz Chindia is destroying American Dream and Confidence.
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Just one? Thiel chose a great question. As an aside, maybe it should be considered for next round's yc application?

Some number of my possible responses, although admittedly I would use none of these for Thiel's essay:

* Modern running shoes increase one's tendency to injury.

* Free will can exist in a fully deterministic universe.

* Saturated fat and cholesterol are not the primary causal factors behind heart disease.

* Keynesian economic reasoning has few virtues in its own right, but is leveraged as a rationalization for policies convenient to those with political power.
There is a typo: you're missing the semicolon at the end of the &lt; entity. Some browsers are permissive enough to allow that, some aren't. You must be using one that is.
The Cassandra and MongoDB articles are already available.
Well, it's an X server, in fact :-) It uses the parts of X server that were moved to the kernel in the last year or two (KMS, large part of graphic drivers). Wayland itself is very small, you can look into the source code to find anything you want to know, it's all there, easy to find.

That's the good thing, perhaps, breaking that large and ugly X thing into small parts that we can easily understand, check, improve. I'm very glad of this and it's a great improvement. But it's still just a part, this whole idea that Ubuntu is ditching X server is so frightening. It's not happening, instead, they are breaking X into small parts, improving them, not having to deal with the insanely large X stack at once. Finally cleaning that large outdated codebase and so on.

But. If you see it as 'we're getting rid of X11 completely, not coming back again', you are going to repeat every mistake made in the last 20 years. I'm afraid that's exactly what Shuttleworth and his minions are going to do :(
That is exactly why she was asking for references and why you shouldn't give them to a recruiter, only to the employer.
dont stop. dont make excuses. don't doubt yourself. They are all a waste of time. Focus on the end goal and methodology for getting there. If you really want this, move in with housemates or figure out what you need to to save a little so that you can self fund for a while. Also figure out some reasonable numbers as to why you can make money doing your startup and how long you think it will take to pull it off. Double those numbers. Otherwise, you will need to be cannonball in the chest convincing to any investor worth pulling in to fund your idea. Find ways to check your gut instinct with numbers. Understand the inputs to the numbers and understand the trends in the numbers. Own the pain, own the glory.
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Thanks for that. Fixed.
Ask HN: So I got first two paid customers, now what? 
Hi Guys,
This is my third or forth try to address this community and ask advice w my startup (previously I got zero responses).

I am launching my project (as part of HN - November Launch pad initiative)
Ystd i got some 1k uniqs about 50 registrations (couple paid), few calls from potential customers, advisors, investors etc

My question is again the same. What now? What should i do now? I have solid roadmap on developing product, but feel like I am all over on business dev strategy: I was sure my initial market is education(screencasts, tutorial, etc) and got some good agreements there, but yest couple guys from Hollywood called and said that i should go to LA for big guys in Movies and entertainment industries... I feel like i am lost a need some good advices.

Thanks in advance. Hope this post will not get lost again, please consider upvoting, i really need some advice from respectful ppl here(not more traffic, thats why i am not posting link to my site here.)

Edit:
Based on feedback in comments here is the link: http://videolla.com
Check the source:
"<h3>Using the &ltab:Test> UserControl</h3>"
It probably should be:
"<h3>Using the &lt;ab:Test&gt; UserControl</h3>"
This looks like a really nice way to write a book, or in fact any other large body of work.

It avoids the monolithic todo list item - 'write book', and breaks things up into manageable chunks.
Clearly you have not ventured too far outside the "safe" en-US cultures ;)

In the Scandinavian languages (Danish, Swedish and Norwegian) "aa" is (for whatever historical reasons) considered a synonym for "å", which is that last letter of the alphabet. In the same way "ae" maps "æ" (third last) and "oe" maps to "ø" (second last).

Hence, using culture-aware sorting, the following array may actually not be sorted: [ "a", "aa", "ae", "b", "oe", "of" ]. You will find similar sort behaviour in a lot of databases when you set the database/table/column collation to other cultures.

While I agree the PHP implementation is silly, your blanket dismissal of the possibility that 'aa' can't be greater than 'z' is equally ignorant.