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So you use Mighty Meeting as your sales tool... what do you think the Medtronic guys used in that example from the article?

As an iPad developer, I'm wondering if there would be value in having some sort of "Product Gallery" type of SaaS -- an app that you load on your iPad, combined with a website that lets you manage the products and info that you'd like to show with it.
The actual court docs, if you're in to that kind of thing:
http://www.businessinsider.com/irony-alert-man-sues-winklevo...
Its funny a lot of people see flash as a way to address platform fragmentation, but its starting to become a cause of it.
The vast majority of my development work can be done on an incredibly lightweight netbook with a 10.5" screen and 2gb RAM, with a battery that lasts 10 hours so I can just plug it in at night. Why would I chain myself to a desktop? Only when working with very large sets of data do I switch to something more powerful, and even then usually a larger laptop will do.
Yeah, but I'm glad Facebook (and especially Zuckerberg) is doing their part to change mainstream perception of the word "hack". For example in the 60 Minutes interview:

"I see 'hack' everywhere: 'Hack,'" Stahl pointed out. "It has a negative connotation, doesn't it?"

"When we say hacker, there's this whole definition that engineers have for themselves, where it's very much a compliment when you call someone a hacker, where to hack something means to build something very quickly, right? In one night, you can sit down and you could churn out a lot of code, and at the end, you have a product," Zuckerberg explained.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_wucE5Giko&t=2m20s
Practically, I don't think it really matters at all. But it's a very significant symbolic move. It sends a message about where the Java community is now in relation to Oracle.

Of more concern will be Apache's attitude to new development in Java. Will they continue to use it and to make cool new stuff in Java, or is this a breaking point for them in terms of using the tech?
Any idea of which part is unprofitable? Too much bandwidth used, or is it that they aren't getting enough people in each area onboard?
I'm too chicken to vote!
Military analogies and examples are almost universally terrible when applied to software development (and business in general). That blog post cherry picks a few anecdotes from Napoleon's history and ignores his failure to learn from his mistakes. As his famed opponent Arthur Wellesley (Wellington) said after defeating Napoleon the final time: "They came on in the same old way and we defeated them in the same old way."
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Business is not war.
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I personally prefer frameworks that get out of my way over Django which forces a lot of idioms onto you. Like web.py, and if it's your taste add Jinja and SQLAlchemy and you've got a decent stack to quickly iterate.
Oh oops! I didn't catch that before, but yes I do understand the distinction. My mind was just being lazy.
As a Rand fan, let me tell you: the world is not Randian. The overwhelming majority of the "capitalists" of today are not the kind I or Rand would approve it. We'd be more inclined to call them socialists than to say they are in accord with Rand's message.

If you think Rand's message is widespread then you simply have not understood it. For example Rand is sometimes accused of supporting big business. Maybe you have that misconception and think all the big businesses and their supporters are Randians. This is extremely false. Rand was very clear about how she hated many types of businessmen, and a lot of the bad guys in her books were big businessmen.
Haskell Curry made this argument in his "Outlines of a Formalist Philosophy of Mathematics": http://www.amazon.com/Outlines-Formalist-Philosophy-Mathemat...

His idea is that mathematics is the empirical study of the implications of systems of rules.
I can't help but be reminded of "hacking" casino comp systems. Please.

In truth, this trip cost well in excess of $418 due to the other purchases and time tie-ins involved.

I'm all for leveraging advantages, but there's leveraging, and then there's outright "gaming". The former can yield value when you factor in your time & attention, reasonable workflow safety margins, and compliance with spirit of a policy. The latter is merely a mental exercise to optimize a series of transactions around a single parameter, in this case the present dollar cost, to the complete exclusion of externalities.

At least he got some follow-on web traffic for his efforts.
I really don't understand this sense of entitlement these European protesters seem to have.
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Is anything where there's a possibility of hearing a 'no' rejection therapy? Asking people if you can take their photo before doing so is just being considerate.
Are you implying business primarily comes down to distribution?
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My AmEx merchant account carries no monthly charge. I do pay a higher discount rate for American Express than I do for MC/Visa/Discover - roughly 1%. I certainly don't pay higher rates because someone uses a rewards card. Nor do I pay a higher rate because someone uses a Gold, Platinum or Black AmEx Card. My discount rate is affected by qualifying discounts, i.e. AVS, AVS+Address, non-AVS.

I find it in my best interest to make it as easy as possible for clients to pay me. If I have to pay a percentage point to make it easy for a client to hand me money, I'll gladly take that as a cost of doing business.
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From the article: "Adobe’s senior director for engineering Paul Betlam took to their corporate blog and declared Flash 10.1 support on Chrome OS notebooks 'a work in progress'."

A work in progress. Just like on my macbook, except they've had what -- a decade to work on that? : rolleyes :
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It can be found here under Section 8 F, including such foresight as to say:

"(F) [..] (iii) prevent uses of my Publicity and IP Riqhts that I either explicitly did not approve during my lifetime or that are inconsistent with those uses I did explictly approve regardless of whether they were disapproved during my lifetime"

Hopefully this should be sufficient to keep him from being digitally resurrected?
I guess I forgot to write about the email that Paul sent me regarding my rejection.

He suggested that I try and get the software installed in 5-10 more businesses. That would be "the best for both the product and investors".
I really don't understand why people should sit by idly as wealth is transferred from those who don't have to those who have plenty.
The Atom N455 has integrated GMA 3150 video. So no hardware video acceleration with Flash 10.1. h264 video will play, but maybe not at full frame rate, and certainly not full screen. And forget about HD.
What happens when someone writes an app that blocks ads on the Android phone

Already exists. AdFree. Requires a rooted phone. Blocks ads system wide. I actually found out about this because of people complaining about the obtrusive video ads in Angry Birds. I don't think the average person is going to root their phone just to block ads but as more people are driven to use alternative ROMs it may be an issue worth considering for developers.
You are right, and the fear & distrust go both ways. The .NET "community" is almost entirely Microsoft fans and a good number of shills. The shills are rabidly anti-FOSS, the Microsoft employees are about evenly divided between FOSS-hostile and MS-provincial (with a tiny minority pro-FOSS), and the rest are just unaware of anything that Microsoft isn't hyping.

It's very hard to get momentum behind a free software project on .NET, and once you do Microsoft and their shill army kills it by reinvention, heavy promotion of their vaporware, and badmouthing the competition.

It's really hard to work against the culture, and the dominant .NET culture sees Redmond as the One True Source for anything worth using.
In-house or contract designer for my app?
I'm building a web app and am using both in-house design from our front end developer as well as using some world class designers. Assuming the business works out, long term is it best to hire an in-house world class designer or to keep contracting out? Will I get better, fresher design and UI if I get someone from the outside? It would be more expensive but is it worth it?
The reason I hope to not see these sorts of articles is not because they don't interest me, but because they seem to beget more and more articles on politics: it's easy to talk about politics, as everyone can have an opinion. It's not so easy to talk about Node.js vs Erlang, especially in the congenial, civilized way which prevails here. Articles about politics could easily "crowd out" the more hackery sort because there are so many of them, and, frankly, they're actually way more important in some ways.
I suspect this is one of those cool ideas that in practice doesn't work so well, unfortunately.

But increasing brake light intensity overall on new cars or replacement brake lamps would increase safety even though old cars might have weaker brake lights. Essentially an "Omigod!" mode.
That's crazy talk.
Has anyone ever tried pair programming with a collaborative editor? EG: gobby.
Google presently has some job postings for FTTH engineering and field operations positions. Looks to me like they're still in the early stages of putting this project together. I put my resume in just for the hell of it though I haven't worked with FTTH G-PON much only cable HFC & some FTTH RFoG. Worth a shot eh?
I forget where, but i heard someone say somewhere that the best entrepreneurs are ones that solve problems, not the ones that are just trying to make money. Maybe it's just me, but it's much easier to be passionate about a problem because I'm not satisfied until it's fixed. It's a finite conclusion that you can finally reach.

Might try asking yourself - what's one problem that makes you upset/annoyed/frustrated? What can you do to fix it?
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Wikileaks was under DDoS as well, wasn't there any illegal botnets involved?
Really wondering here on the kindle vs. nook debate here.

I get the appeal of books, but I'm interested in the ereaders solely for their portability. Books don't even come close to that.
I have no idea if this is a good ad, but I got a good response and hired a great developer from the following ad:

Ruby on Rails Developer

We’re a funded, for-profit startup located in the Greenville area looking for a back-end web developer. We are developing a web-based application that will 1) help non-profit organizations establish a strong, easily-promotable web presence, and 2) simplify administration and marketing.

The person in this position will carry out all of the server-side coding for the company and be responsible for developing the back-end architecture so that we can scale effectively. We are starting with a small team consisting of 1) a back-end developer 2) a front-end developer and designer 3) a business developer 4) a very productive ant farm.

Our Ideal Developer Will Be/Have:
- Expert-level Rails knowledge
- Knowledge of JSON format (or similar)
- Working knowledge of developing e-commerce systems
- Excellent Object-Oriented Application Design skills
- Ability to utilize and implement functionality of Facebook's Open Graph API
- Working knowledge of HTML/CSS
- Experience in building Software-as-a-Service web apps

And They Will Show These Qualities:
- Integrity is at your core
- Wicked smart
- Clean code makes you smile
- Knowing that the end user is happy makes you smile even more
- Working with the flexibility, speed, and change of a small team makes you giddy
- Fast
- Very independent
- You both can and want to learn new skills quickly
- Voracious appetite for everything new in IT
- Excellent writing skills

Bonuses:
- Experience with Paypal, Twitter, Facebook Connect/OpenGraph APIs
- Social media excites you
- Good database design skills

This is an on-site salaried position. We will not accept applicants who 1) wish to work off-site 2) are contract workers 3) are outside companies. Salary will be determined based on your knowledge, experience, quality of your previous work, and fluidity of your hip-hop dancing skills.

If this sounds like it might be your cup of tea, go ahead and email your resume, examples of your work, and salary requirement.
If I understand this right, this would mean now you could do all the calculations on your data on a cloud based solution without disclosing the data or results, a huge breakthrough for securing sensitive data on the cloud. Or another example, you could run a Google search and Google would return the results without knowing the results or what you initially searched for. This kind of reminds me of the tor network. On the other side, it would make it impossible to know if your cloud system was infected with spyware because you could never prove what it would be doing. But on the other hand, that could actually be a solution to a larger problem, which would solve the problem of pirated software by limiting crackers the ability to decipher the registration-code algorithm of a software product.
oh no! The Mint had to pay a processing fee?

Iraq|Healthcare|Welfare|NEA|USPS

Better a taxpayer get back some stolen funds from the government than have it thrown away in another country, or on bloated pork.
... and bugs... lots of bugs... of course bugs in your Facebook albums are exceptions.

I wish I could write code without consequences during maintenance stage :(
Now you see, I am Canadian. So I could walk in to half the threads on this site and say "I really don't understand this sense of moral superiority these American chaps seem to have," which would be a perfectly stereotypical action from a Canadian, and would, additionally, be mindless flamebait that contributes nothing to the site or the discussion.

Your comment is no different.

What's more, your account was created roughly 10 minutes before you left this comment. Really? If you are an old user using it as a sock puppet, your fear of expressing even mainstream opinions is clearly crippling you. If, on the other hand, you are a user new to this site, there are infinitely better ways of contributing to it than unintelligent, unfunny snark about how European kids these days blah blah blah entitled.
Two posts I found through googling:

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/guide_to_seed_fund_incu...

http://kaljundi.com/2010/02/19/upcoming-startup-incubator-de...
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You're ignoring the opportunity cost of having a card that gives airline rewards instead of, say, an Amazon Visa which wouldn't get him any "free" plane tickets but would instead get him Amazon gift certificates.

Yes but you're ignoring that $4000 spend on Amazon Visa might net you a $40 certificate (@1%, I dunno the exact reward) where as $4000 spend on British Airways Chase might net you 75,000 miles (incorporating their bonus) which might represent $1000 worth of airline ticket.

In my experience, assuming you fly, the airline reward cards are the best in terms of the $ value of the reward.
Absolutely. All of the benefits you'd get from knowing smart people. The biggest benefit has been recommending them to others.
Strange that as "a liberal opposed to the war in Iraq", you and the other binary thinkers here want to advance the argument that the actions of people like Assange and these anonymous "hackers" are taking place in a vacuum unfilled by the miasma of absolutely unconscionable actions taken over the last decade by U.S. neo-conservatives.

The American conservative element, endlessly on the wrong side of history, whose own policies have a great hand in fostering terrorism, whose own policies have brought the economy to its knees, absolutely needs its filthy little secrets.

Exactly how long do you want people to remain in milque-toast-mode before taking more direct action?
In some countries (and increasingly in the US), applied econ/finance/policy is considered a form of engineering - quite true.
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I think it's a little bit disengenious to post this, because http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckie... covers this just as well, but hints in the opposite direction, viz:

"There's no software priced between $1000 and $75,000. I'll tell you why. The minute you charge more than $1000 you need to get serious corporate signoffs. You need a line item in their budget. You need purchasing managers and CEO approval and competitive bids and paperwork. So you need to send a salesperson out to the customer to do PowerPoint, with his airfare, golf course memberships, and $19.95 porn movies at the Ritz Carlton. And with all this, the cost of making one successful sale is going to average about $50,000. If you're sending salespeople out to customers and charging less than $75,000, you're losing money."

In this case, the software is lower than $1000 - so he needs to detect and avoid time-guzzling corporate buyers, even if they are likely to buy something.

Or, to setup corporate pricing. But you can't recommend the 80 question answer approach at this pricepoint.
The main difference...

Engineers learn to build.
Scientists build to learn.
I thought one advantage of <video> is that regular HTML can be used to display content like ads?
ADBE is down 23% this year. Reading their quarterly reports + other data they have been having a hard several years. Been (happily) shorting them for a while. http://benjamin-meyer.blogspot.com/2008/09/adobe-owns-web-an...

I would never personally bet a startup on adobe tech. Just too risky.

Disclaimer: This post is my own personal opinion and in no way reflects my employer.
To me it is perfectly understandable that a student would be very upset at the news that their tuition fees might triple. This is in the name of "reducing a record deficit" which students generally aren't responsible for; I don't think they should be subjected to that level of financial hardship as a result.

Adds insult to injury that the decision is made by a bunch of middle-aged politicians who have mostly been to university and paid much less than they expect students to pay from now on.
You're right, I missed this. Gruber should really front-load his articles with punchline, rather than expecting people to make it through his text... and while this was better than most of his articles, I think he's expecting too much for any non Apple fanboy to make it through to the end of even this ;-)
fairly sure the planes would be going to the destinations regardless of whether he redeemed his FF miles or not.
To me, passion in the context of starting and building a business is about a deep commitment to serve the a source of pain or create a source of delight for a market that you feel a strong connection to.

If what's driving you is an attachment to a particular solution, then if the solution doesn't work, your commitment to the entire endeavor evaporates.

But, if your attachment is to a market, you stay motivated and have a much easier time pivoting as needed and surviving until you find the model and solution that work.
why would you want credit at the moment?

Renting a house/apartment is basically credit because you are agreeing to pay the total rent over a 12 month term and as such landlords want a credit score.

In hot rental markets like San Francisco a better credit score can win you the application over the next person with a lower score. A poor score can even prevent you from renting even if you have monthly income to cover the rent.
I don't know about that. While being a good hacker probably correlates with being a good engineer, I think that the focus on "hacking" excludes a lot of very capable people. I know from personal hiring experience that a lot of qualified people are put off by the emphasis on being a hacker.

To expand on this, I don't think winning a multi-round programming competition (that is, successfully solving multiple algorithm-based problem statements under a time constraint with the highest accuracy and speed) is the best indicator of a good hire.
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Does bring up a good point though, I'd like to see growl like notifications in Chrome OS for twitter and email. With something like this I think users like him wouldn't mind not having a stand alone twitter application.

Another feature that might be nice would be tiling browser tabs.
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Indeed. The first step to world peace is taking out PayPal.
If you look at the taken care of for you security, updates, no administration or backups to do, no apps to lose in menus, etc. etc. I think it's clear that this is supposed to be a netbook+OS frankly for people who fuck up any other OS. Your young kids, your parents, your neighbor that keeps getting malware and asking you to fix it. If google can smooth over the rough edges and provide a good enough experience for these users where things never break or get infected that may make them (or you) very happy.

If they made dealing with a camera easier I could easily see my mother adjusting to this style. And in the end it'd be easier on my father and her.
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I use 100 chars, too. No problems to date.
you know, I've heard people say this a few time over the years, and although it doesn't make it more true, it does sound very plausible.
Based on what I read in The Facebook Effect mostly. I think he's even said as much.
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Are you assuming that higher education is a transfer to the poor?

In developed countries this is not the case. University enrolments are dominated by the middle class. Effectively it is a wealth transfer from the poor to the decently well-off. Or, looked at another way, a transfer to the student from their future selves.

If you take the last point of view, income-contingent loan schemes (like Australia's) are a reasonably sensible way to fund university education.
I'm uncomfortable with the zero-sum thinking that often accompanies that kind of statement.
yes this is a whole another argument that as a geek I get frustrated about. Not flying on a given trip doesn't reduce the amount of CO2 because the plane will fly anyway and either the weight reduction difference will be negligible in terms of CO2 or they'll just take more freight.

Then the counter argument to that is that if enough people don't fly the airplane won't fly at all... But that would just make it commercially infeasible to operate many routes and in turn whole airlines and then we just have a complete deterioration of the airline industry.
Personally I am perplexed why Gruber's opinion of Android or the Android ecosystem has any relevance. He can wax poetic about new iOS features and iOS brilliance, singing to his choir, but he has no perspective or relevance to preach about Android. His overwhelming bias (and years or snark) has eliminated his ability to play the voice for any other platform.

No one should take that as anti-Gruber. It isn't. It's just that Gruber made his "iOS or nothing" bed over the past couple of years, leaving him looking a bit clownish when he tries to play peacemaker.
As pro-FOSS CTO with a JIT-compiling VM userbase, the ASF exit from JCP EC makes it CYA time for us with the FOU restrictions in the TCK and JDK 7/8. Agreed?
Thanks for sharing this. I read the line "the rest is history" and wasn't sure if I knew what that history was. Maybe a link to more info in the footer would help.

Anyway, it just goes to show how difficult it really is to get your ducks in a row and truly get to the root of the problem you're solving.