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Hm.

I read the article. I saw HTML5 mentioned as a fallback for YouTube videos. Which, um, works. I also saw discussion of ClickToFlash as an option for things you want to use and which don't have a non-Flash alternative. Which, um, is pretty darned sensible.

The concluding line -- "we'll cross that bridge when we come to it" -- is about the only position it's possible to have. Nobody knows what the future's going to look like, and sticking to something that really does have performance issues right now on the grounds that the replacement might become worse in the future is, well, not so sensible.

So maybe you should talk to your optometrist, because you're apparently seeing things that aren't there.
This sounds awful and unintuitive. Stick with methods, please.
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i don't know why everyone's giving you so much shit. ignore them and proceed with your idea. like you said, you OBVIOUSLY have talent. who cares what a bunch of nerds think. are they your taret market?? serve them with the ycombinator videos. then find MORE markets. HN is just a fraction of the internet

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Some parts of that have aged better than others.

You should be using source control. It might sound shocking to the Github generation, but there was a time not too long ago where important work with millions on the line routinely got done with one copy of the code sitting on a single workstation, and collaboration happening over network shares or email. I worked at one of those places. It sucked. The Joel Test was part of an evangelization movement which changed standard practices in our industry radically, for the better.

Building in a single step? Still relevant for many projects. Less relevant for, e.g., Rails web apps. I migth substitute "can you deploy to staging and production in one step".

Speaking of which, a Joel Test in 2010 should include "do you have a fully functional staging environment" and "can you recreate a dev environment from a factory new machine in under an hour".

Fixing bugs versus writing new code, well, one might quibble with that in some scenarios. There exist businesses where the marginal business value or customer value of squashing an edge case bug is measurably less than new features. I have a known bug in my shopping cart that permits abuse of discounts. It has never been exploited. The minimum cost of fixing is several hundred dollars. Of course I write new code rather than fixing it. You can come up with quite a lot of similar scenarios if you're doing a lean startup -- there is little point to rigorously debugging code which might have an expected lifetime of a week.
Inspired me:

http://www.andrewandoru.com/2010/11/05/labs-flashy/

flashy! is an AppleScript applet that makes the simple simpler by automatically enabling and disabling the Flash plug-in by moving the appropriate components from their normal directory, and placing them in a “.disabled” directory for safekeeping.
Sorry, I just don't buy this. From Google, to Yahoo, to other teams in Microsoft, to small startups, to IBM, to single-person freelance developers--each one of these groups have open source projects that accept community contributions.

If that increased the "surface area for copyright/patent infringements" were so great, or were such a dramatic burden, then the above would not be true. But it is true.

Let's look at Cassandra as an absolute prime example of what I'm talking about. The original version of Cassandra was a code drop by Facebook. It made some news in tech blogs, and then mostly everyone forgot about it. A few months later, another version was dropped, but this time nobody really noticed.

Then Jonathan Ellis found the codebase, imported it into GitHub, and started doing development on it in the open, and accepting patches. Sure enough, more people started to take notice and watch as development happened, and started to contribute back. A community started forming. Facebook then donated the project to the Apache Software Foundation, where it's continued to be developed in the open and thrive. Now it's supported by many companies; in fact new companies have sprung up specifically on the premise of providing support for it.

Empirically speaking, the software has had much more development since it switched to being developed in the open. Subjectively speaking, it's simply a vastly improved piece of software from when it was handled as a "code drop", it's boosted Facebook's credibility in the eyes of developers for having started the project, and it's gained much more popularity.

So, going back to F#, what are the goals that Microsoft is trying to further with its platform? I'll posit three (of which there are certainly more): to increase the reach of the .NET platform, to boost Microsoft mindshare, and to increase developer productivity.

Each one of those goals are served better by moving to an open development model, for fairly obvious reasons.

I didn't mean for this response to become so long, but it just seems to me that this is such an obvious and unfortunate blunder that it renders the whole open sourcing of the language nearly worthless.
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Sounds like either super discreet (tiny) thumbnails that you can expand by clicking or a setting to determine embedding would be good.
Value comes from the ability to tweak or change the language if necessary, for your application. A permissive license means you're less locked into the vendor (Microsoft).
So you work for Mozilla but have dozens of tabs open in chromium? I'm interested as to why this is the case. I've found Chrome to simply be a nicer browser. It does everything I want, and nothing I don't. I switched from FF about a year ago, and haven't looked back. I can even deal with all of the flash problems with a copy of FF that I open should I need it.

What's your rationale for being such a heavy chrome user? Is it market research, or personal preference?
This month I'm launching Fanfare http://getfanfare.com into beta.

Fanfare is a social media marketing platform that lets online content creators (bands, writers, video producers, etc.) promote their content and engage with their audience.

The secret sauce is that we provide an easy way for online publishers to distribute their content to users only after they take a social action. Publishers can log into our site and gain insight in who’s accessing their content, sort their fans by Klout score, export their info, and reengage.

Version 1 is live, let me know if you'd like to see a demo. We're currently working on Version 1.5. Thanks.
Yeah, we've realized that our tagline sucks. We're going to change it to "Organize your brain." What do you think?
I believe by "haskell" you may mean "ghc"
From Google, to Yahoo, to other teams in Microsoft, to small startups, to
IBM, to single-person freelance developers--each one of these groups have
open source projects that accept community contributions.

The difference is that Microsoft is selling these products to companies that have idiots in charge and that won't touch anything related to open-source; although it's Microsoft's fault really.

EDIT: This is their excuse, that their customers prefer to be safe in regards to the IP they buy from Microsoft.
Surely there wouldn't be just one. If you started with a list of common misconceptions, presumably a well-informed person would not have most of them.

e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions, which is quite interesting, though it's missing the first two I thought of: gods and the Monte Carlo fallacy.

A more interesting variant of the question might be, what do you believe that most well-informed people don't? That's harder.
Yeah, everything's going to be text editable. The twitter #hashtag model is what we'll probably follow. So if you type, say, "!" it might pull up a date picker and then when you choose the date it'll insert it in the text like !2010-10-24 (and record the metadata invisibly for sorting/filtering and whatnot).
Totally :) I think a simple progress bar getting people up to, say 1000 items might do it. Any other ideas?
Apache2 is not in the same league as BSD and MIT. It includes an explicit patents grant, versus GPL v2 which doesn't.

It's a strong license overall.
My worst issue with Gmail at the moment is that I have a label for a mailing list with a good amount of traffic (at least 700 emails a day) and searching, browsing through pages and deleting emails from it takes anywhere from 3 seconds to 3 minutes. In terms of perceived speed and responsiveness alone, even Outlook is faster than Gmail's web interface at the moment..

Also, loading Gmail indeed takes about 20-25 seconds, but that's a small issue for me (yay for one-time costs).
As a business, I think we'll follow the lead of dropbox and evernote. Some variety of:

1) You get a lot for free.
2) If you need even more (or just love us) you can pay us (My hunch is we'll also have an easy to find "I need a lot of space but am poor." option)
3) You can always earn more space by promoting us

Also, once we have collaboration this could be a pretty powerful enterprise tool, and businesses pay lots of money for software.
Check the usernames again. I am not sayrer, but he had an insightful comment worth linking to.

Personally, I do prefer Chrome/Chromium, even though it uses more ram and cpu than firefox 3+.
Hrm, good point.
Are those people the same ones who would buy into an early-stage functional programming language like F#?
I think everyone agrees that accepting patches would be awesome. The F# team isn't very big and is largely made up of researchers. They have obviously thought about an open model but decided not to, for some reason or other.

Whether they have a valid reason or not, it's perfectly legitimate to create a public fork of F# and accept patches - I imagine that Microsoft will practically beg to merge in quality patches once they're proven to be popular.
Interesting, thanks. Like earl, I've never seen one on OS X.
The main reason Brazilian jiu-jitsu doesn't spend much time with small joint manipulation, striking and other such unpleasant techniques is because live sparring is an integral part of training. The focus is on techniques that you can apply to your sparring partners without injuring them.

That is true even for the "old-style" Gracie school, which tends to focus primarily on jiu-jitsu as self-defense and "no-holds-barred fighting" (a.k.a. street fighting) rather than MMA or even BJJ competition.

I think live sparring is one of great things about judo and BJJ.
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You picked a bad time to post as it's after 2am on the east coast. I know the HN community spans the globe but your project has an North American bent. I bet you'll get more feedback if you repost in an evening before 8pm here/5pm west coast time. That aside...

Not bad for a weekend project! Good name. Smooth and predictable functionality. No bizarre usability things that surprise or confuse and a generally interesting concept. For simplicity's sake I would make the entire images clickable, but that's my only nitpick. I think the site is neat and appeals to everyone's inner Perez (in a _good_ way).
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agreed. excellent move on their part. not to mention that i'm continually impressed by what the folks at MSR put out. some smart folks, those ones. i've always found it odd that the environment there seems so contrary to that in redmond. i guess that's marketing for you.

now if they'd only do the same for the .net framework. i'm uncertain about java's future myself as are many of my friends who have invested a lot in their companies' solutions thinking that java would remain fairly OSS and are now scratching their heads.

i guess MS sells enough server and DB licences that my hopes that they'll do the same for the rest of the .net framework will remain just that. it'd be nice if they at least sanctioned the mono folks and gave them a roadmap. living under the threat that microsoft could probably swoop in and put an end to their fun doesn't make me want to use mono. that said, i generally like the .net framework (and specifically c#) more than the alternatives in the managed/oop realm. but i'm out of the loop on the status of mono, as i rarely develop in managed/oop code these days.

has there been any official acknowledgment/condoning of the mono project by MS?
Apple made a fantastic product and is advertising it like crazy. There is no tablet market. There is an iPad market. People buy other products because they can't afford the iPad.
The main thing is I don't see Google taking a hit in the press for this, considering that it's clearly fair.
http://xkcd.com/541/ for the context
Dude, relax, take a Valium or something.

Also IMHO, using "flashblock" is disrespectful of other people's work. If a website bothers you so much, stop visiting it and go somewhere else. It's kind of like voting with your wallet and it works ;)
Huh? C++ doesn't have "methods".

What language are you really thinking of?
I'm still going with Steve Yegge's opinion from a few years ago for the rest of this decade: JavaScript. It might have been around for ages but it's just coming into its own as a full-scale, popular language that isn't a total PITA to work with in any serious way (unlike 5-10 years ago).

I've had a good (but lucky) record with checking out languages ahead of the curve but little except JavaScript really excites me right now. For a zillion reasons (and intuition), I'm bullish on Scala, Lua, Ruby (but only if significant implementation improvements come soon or Apple more seriously backs it) and Go, neutral on Python and Haskell, and bearish on Clojure, Java and Erlang. (Feel free to quote this back to me if I get it wrong!).
"My inner software developer winces, and fears, both professionally and personally, that the ever-growing number of such low-quality apps will eventually make it pointless for developers to invest in creating a ConvertBot or Instagram."

Gimp, OpenOffice, and Linux didn't hinder the popularity one iota of Photshop, MS Office, and Windows (or OS/X) respectively. In fact, the free stuff augments the consumer need for high(er?)-quality alternatives to the free stuff.

That said, I don't think Dash of Color from FreeTheApps even dented Color Splash, which has been cemented in the top 20 overall paid apps for as long as it's been released. Nor has their FilterFX Free app displaced Hipstamatic.

There is _absolutely_ room for low and high quality apps in the App store, as there is room for quality software applications and repackaged GPL apps ported to Windows sold to people who don't know it's available free. Or, for that matter, the Big Mac and the $25 Kobe beef burger.
MySQL no longer free - Thanks Oracle
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You can pay us app-devs all the lip service in the world, but the fact remains that _YOU_ get to hack on the Delphi compiler, while we A/B test sign up forms.

;-)

I said the exact same thing, a few days ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1832024

P.S. Get in touch in the twitters, please. I am very interested in what you do, and where it's going.
I'm not sure why you think it looks pathological? If you want to construct the data they want to construct, what would you do?
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Short answer is YES.

My app Noodles (see: makeramen.com) was just another todo list on the Android market, and somehow -to my surprise- gained some very solid traction.

The amazing thing about the productivity software space is that everyone wants their app to do something different. It's also much more of a designer's space. I've seen countless apps that have all the "features," but the actual interface and interaction is so awkward you end up spending more time fighting the system than using it.

As many people have noted about 37signals, people realize the benefits of software like this almost immediately, and will easily spend money on it. Contrast that with other social sites where people are just not culturally incline to pay for services that connect you with friends. But you start talking about productivity, and helping people work faster, better, and more efficiently, and they see benefits immediately, which means they'll reach for their wallets immediately as well.
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As Natalie Petouhoff of Forrester Research noted "social media isn't a choice anymore - it's a business transformation tool". With that said, firms that have not yet embraced social media need to approach it in a cautious manner; rather than blindly drinking it like Kool-Aid.
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Sounds right. They have been the only game in town. Now the only way for that number to go is down as 50+ android tablets flood the market.

Whether any of them will rival the iPad remains to be seen though.
this may or may not be true. it depends on the level of quality that all these folks spending thousands of dollars on high end panels/plasmas are willing to tolerate. i watch most of my films on a 27" computer display, and mostly over netflix streaming. but if i had a higher end system, no doubt i'd want to have the best quality i could get. and even on a 30Mb/s internet connection, i still can't top the quality of blu-ray.

but your analogy is well-founded. convenience usually wins. and after all, laserdiscs looked much better than their competitors and still didn't survive.
Imagine if all government institutions were this efficient and transparent, from health care, to taxes, police, and education.
This is common practice in China. Whenever there is clouds, they shoot them and get the rain. Korea is always mad for "stealing" the clouds!
I am hopeful that Kinect is a successful product for Microsoft, but I have some questions.

The Nintendo Wii found success in the market, not solely because of its simple, easy to use controls. In addition to the innovative Wii UI, Nintendo launched a variety of family oriented games that took advantage of the Wii controllers, it had a brand and bevy of characters that it could leverage that resonated with families and kids (e.g., Mario), the Wii console was small and quiet, and the Wii was priced well below the competition.

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.

Ultimately, the success of Kinect hinges not only on the Kinect hardware but also on Microsoft's ability to develop a coherent "Kinect strategy" that includes games, characters/stories, branding and marketing, pricing, and so forth. And a key issue is developing a "Kinect strategy" that does not alienate Xbox 360's most important customers, which at present are hardcore gamers. These are the gamers paying for Live and providing the Xbox 360 with the highest (game) attach rate among 7th generation consoles.
You post uninformed crap like this, then complain about being downvoted for anything "negative against Microsoft": http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1800507
And since it's a dev build, when it fails, then a proper bug should be filed. Bitching about it on HN is counter productive (and karma-whorish, IMO)
I love it.

For those that don't want to "Sign Up" here's what happens when you do: NOTHING

I never got ANYTHING in my inbox. They just use your email for a username, which I very much appreciate over any other method (creating usernames you forget, Facebook connect, OpenID, etc, etc)
If politicians are people's representatives, then as people, we're getting increasingly more stupid.
When you're in the impact zone, returning that way can be pretty unpleasant. But yeah - its the fun that compels you to keep going.
Find a different form of exercise that you enjoy.
but netflix doesn't ship me a two terabyte drive full of movies when i click a button on their website. and their so-called "HD" is only so-so. i'm guessing 480p.
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If I can make a suggestion: Don't replace your existing, stable Skype. The new one throws away their previous UI and some of the changes are REALLY pissing me off. I usually have Adium, Colloquy, and Skype all lined up in a Spaces screen nice and neat with my current chats. Skype 5 makes this impossible, forcing you to have everything in one, excessively large window. You'll see...

Also, some features which I can't live without seem to have been excluded. (sharing only a portion of your screen, for example)

YMMV but I think the designers suffered a case of "Don't fix what ain't broke"
Weird tax tip since I do this for a living...

If you have RRSPs tell your US tax return preparer.

California doesn't consider an RRSP to be a tax free account. You will be taxable (Calif state income tax) on the income generated inside of it. Federal income tax is trivially easy to eliminate on an RRSP. Just say "Form 8891" to the person doing your US and California tax returns.

If the RRSP is small you might as well just kill it because it will cause you endless tax hassles in the US.

Oh and one more thing. If you have more than US$10,000 in accounts in Canada once you're a citizen, file Form TD F 90-22.1. See my blog or ask me for horror stories. I had two IRS Criminal Investigation agents in my office today interrogating a retired schoolteacher.

Email me for a few tax pointers for this transition year.

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How much time are you 2 putting into the business? How much employee time would a buyer have to put into the business?

If a buyer has to pay a fulltime developer to replace you guys, then your business wouldn't make them very much, unless it keeps growing for a few years without cost increases.
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You might be better off getting the canonical path and then checking against a whitelist. E.g. `strpos(realpath($command_path), '/var/www/html/') === 0`.
It's not marketing speak. It is a clear, simple, and short sentence that describes exactly what S4 is. It doesn't have irrelevant details ("we use technology XYZ for distributing our nodes"), nor very much marketing describing the value ("S4 solves all your problems!!!", although they do use the word "easily" once).

If the terms used are not clear to someone reading it, they are probably not the right person to implement a good distributed system anyway.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1156838 I asked a similar question a while back and got some great replies.
Almost full-time. Product is also very support intensive (a lot of email/forum support that is highly technical).

The product can fit well into competitors portfolio of products and can make them much more than what we do (they are established, big, have sales channels, etc)
to their credit, google has also been remarkably open and user-oriented with the technologies they (we) have paid to develop. i commend them on this stance.
I run a site that pulls in a decent amount from Google Ads. I was contacted by a potential buyer and after going back and forth quite a bit, we arrived at around 5x annual revenue. I realize Google Ads != selling software but at least it's a data point.
Ads have become too intrusive. Some people have bandwidth caps too, and flash video ads aren't the most productive use of that bandwidth.