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So what's new Twilio can offer here?

Twilio lets a modestly competent web developer program a telecommunications company from their kitchen table in about, oh, six weeks or so. Alternatively, Twlio lets a modestly competent web developer take an existing app and add voice/SMS features to it in about a day. (Have a social site? Want to do SMS notifications when something important happens? You can implement that in four hours.)
FYI, the people who founded Zappos did not create Tellme. You're probably thinking of Alfred Lin who actually joined Zappos as the CFO much later (after Tony), and happened to be a VP at Tellme. At least according to Tony's book, he was a PhD student before he joined Zappos.

The founder of Zappos is actually Nick Swinmurn even though many people still think it was Tony. Tony probably owns a lot more of Zappos than Nick, but neither of them had anything to do with Tellme.

Mike McCue was the founder of Tellme who most recently departed from Microsoft, and before Tellme he worked at Netscape.
"The United States of America (is/are) ...", where in US English "is" is the correct version.

Interesting, I didn't know that. I'd have presumed that one would use "is" when referring to the country, and "are" when referring to the group of states. Is this incorrect? (for what it's worth, I'm from the UK ;)
Same, she didn't tell me the address...but I found out I'm not getting one either.
Apparently RIM has its own replacement for SMS that is dirt cheap, and this is what attracts the (extremely price sensitive) teens.

Not all teens are price sensitive of course, but those who are will get buried by outrageous SMS fees
This must be getting hammered from somewhere with a bigger audience than here. Doesn't load for me.
I reckon all the practical people will look at these comments and nod, and the people whose hearts bleed will be outraged.

FWIW: I'm a bleeding heart type who has spent a lot of time pondering how to be genuinely helpful without stepping in a lot of the pitfalls I've either witnessed or experienced first-hand. I've drawn similar conclusions. I would go so far as to say that if you really want to help someone, it is actually cruel to go the "I feel your pain" route. A lot of people will stop trying to really fix the problem if they can get some emotional relief. Also, my observation has been that tea and sympathy is generally offered for really hard problems that people believe cannot be fixed. I have come to view tea and sympathy as a very ugly message -- a veiled way of saying "you poor thing, you're doomed".
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I thought they had sent out the first batch to the first first pre orders in october?
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Motorola Droid X to get Android 2.2.1
Google Nexus S up for pre-order in the UK, will set you back £550
Apple and Google Make the DoD Jump Through Hoops
Yeah, I listen to music without words while coding or typing. I'm listening to the Tron Legacy soundtrack right now.

However, if I'm browsing/wasting time online/working out at the gym/running, I definitely prefer stuff like hiphop to keep me entertained. I think this is because these are more passive tasks.
I love the bit where he gets the best guy in the office to play through the game with cheats and grabs the image data from the sessions in order to reconstruct the maps.

Perhaps because I've always been an, er, "dedicated" gamer, there's something about a solution involving playing the game which is really satisfying.
I have a ... friend ... who has been doing Blackberry Java Development, and this ... friend ... was less than impressed by RIM hopping into bed with Adobe.

I think what exacerbated the situation was that when RIM announced the development kit for the new playbook, they led with the AIR kit, with no defined date for when they'll get Java on there. Which is probably good news for Flash developers, but doesn't look good if Java is your tool of choice.

Now, while RIM has brutally chopped the price of a dev licence (down to something ridiculous like $5 or $10), and they are giving away the dev kit, the tools you need (from Adobe) cost (if memory serves) about $8-900.

The good news is, if you happen to know what you're doing, you can take your Flash app and use some free command line tools to go and wrap it up. So you don't _need_ to spend that big chunk of change on Adobe products... you can trade off your own misery for it instead.

It seems a really raw deal for the Java devs, but if RIM can replace their lost Java devs with Flash devs they might consider that a decent trade-off.
Sigh: I say we have a new rule that unless the linkee is a major webserving force, that we systemically use Corel Cache.

OB cached link: http://www.ppl-pilot.com.nyud.net/mame.aspx
Could you back that up with some evidence? I'm a firm follower in a lot of what Tim says, and everything in his book so far seems to be well researched, and provides a lot of scientific reasoning.
anyone from India getting one? or they even shipping outside US ?
He got rich by creating a supplement company, and subsequently selling that. Then creating himself a profile with his book.
FYI, I managed to track this down to the twitter 'hovercards' causing a fit onload. Got rid of them and the problem went away.
The Seven Principles of Bias
This goes for pretty much anything too - to get people to use your website, show them that it is worth their investment. To get people to join you in cause X show them that it is worth it for them.
I heard it was a low-tech test of their heat shield performance. That's why the joke works - they had to see how runny it was.
What Creates a Comparative Essay
Anything can be used to write a comparative essay. Students will be able to compare two literary works by comparing their styles, theories, models etc. Writing comparative essays is an interesting task which will require much analysis of the subject being compared.
I do expected to be down voted for what I say, but hey, who cares. Reading a lot fo the comments on this really do disgust me, a bit.

"Tim Ferriss started by selling people the idea that they could be successful too" -- His career was actually started by starting a supplements company. All of the information he gives in the Four Hour Work Week was pre-4HWW. Which means he had to have some income to travel the world, and outline all the feats he does in the blurb.

"Why would anyone take advice from him beats me, but that's another story." -- Because he has a huge amount of previous experience in the topics he preaches. He backs them up with case studies, data and scientific evidence (especially the 4HBody).

A lot of people see a self-help book and immediately cry snake oil salesman!.

This guy may bother a lot of people, but who cares. I know a lot of people that bother me. Ergh, I'm ranting.
I'm not even sure security simulation is the main concern at this point. it rather seems to be giving as much tax dollars to the companies who helped politicians get into office in the first place.
Yet another reason why you should move to SF. :)
Absolutely agree that Tropo is better than Twilio. Here are my reasons:

1. Cheaper

2. Multiple voices and accents (UK British Male & Female)

3. Use any number as caller ID.

4. Calls during development are free.

5. Recordings are a breeze

6. Voice recognition from a set of options instead of pressing digits (eg. "Say yes, no or repeat").

On the downside, I've found their system wasn't quite as easy to get going with as Twilio, but it is much more powerful.

Twilio have been more visible and active - Tropo seem slightly behind in evangelism and generally pimping their product.
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TLDR: move along, nothing to see here

If you're one of the people who likes fiddling around with your computer, and having very fine grained control over the OS, then Linux is pretty near perfect.

If you just want to use your computer to do work, if you want an integrated and unified user experience* that makes it easy to move from one app to another, if you are... dare I say it, a consumer, then Linux may be less than optimal.

However, remember that even Mac OS X is built on BSD. Now, my impression of the Linux vs BSD spectrum is that BSD used to have a small advantage, but Linuxes large dev base has more than caught up to BSD and continues to pull ahead of it at a steady (if not spectacular) rate. It is not difficult to imagine that in 5-10 years time Linux will be 2-5 times 'better' than BSD. If, at that time, someone with good taste and a decent usability team went and did to Linux what OS X did to BSD, then they could bury the Mac.

This is my definition of a power user -> someone who _uses_ the computer to do _powerful_ things. And I have no snobbery here, I consider programming to be (typically) a 'shallow' use of the computer, and I don't make distinctions between someone who does amazing things in Excel, and someone who does amazing things with home movie or music composition software.

*You might imagine this is a not so thinly veiled reference to Apple users ... however I don't consider Apple to be 'perfect' in this regard. In fact, it feels like most of the time their usability/product design is mediocre at best, sometimes even bad or downright awful ... the problem is that no one else is even _trying_.
Which music track you listen to while coding
Hi there coders!

which music/sound track do you listen/suggest while you are coding.
Why do people think a social networking toolbar, social networking side panel and facebook iframe add value to their website?
Samsung Nexus S will to be launched on 16 December
Forget the first, obvious question: Why are we reading this at all? (It's got 27 upvotes already, so that speaks for itself.) Why are we looking at this on some Instapaper+Tumblr site rather than from its source, namely New York Magazine?

This came up the other day in a thread linking to a Posterous link. It's good to see that Tumblr is also in the reposting business. (Edit: Found the other item about Posterous http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1990945)

Here's a direct, and nicely readable & printable, link:

http://nymag.com/print/?/movies/profiles/67284/
He came out with a book about fitness? Here's my response to his blog post on how he gained 34lbs of muscle in 4 weeks:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=529040 (tl;dr summary: He made outrageous claims and employed photographic tricks.)
I've been using Go for various things for quite a while now. I do love the language. If I would use it for any serious large scale project? Perhaps not just yet. There are still some wrinkles that need ironing out. Most notably: Go's GC.

These 'wrinkles' are not fundamental problems with the language though, and most are on the slate for fixing, so it's just a matter of time for Go to be ready for anything. Development pace is still quite furious and improvements are coming out every week.

In the meantime, I thoroughly enjoy using it for smaller tools and assorted bits and bobs. It's a very pleasant language to work with.
The information is spotty but from what I gather it seems someone (SimpleCDN) took the "unlimited bandwidth" claims on 100tb.com a little bit too literally - and tried to build a business around them.

The question remains why a supposed infrastructure company thought it'd be a good idea to rely on a single other company to provide their... infrastructure.
The money allotted to the TSA for the scanners was specifically part of a stimulus package (ba-da-bing!). It didn't directly have anything to do with security, more pass through grant to the scanner companies.
Not going to squint at that. But really, ranking languages by money involved:

COBOL 1.0
JAVA 0.1
C++ 0.1
.NET 0.05
OTHER 0.0000001
...whatever local radio plays.
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This is a factor contributing to the problem. I feel this is a lack of perspective or perhaps understanding of the end users.
I get your point, but feel you are overplaying the difficulty. You can code in plain ol javascript on freeswitch to create complex inbound and outbound comms apps in a couple of hours. Plug it into a sip provider ( i use sipgate ) and there is nothing more complex to it. Far far cheaper too.

You dont need a bunch of servers either. If you are doing more than 200 simultaneous calls ( freeswitch easily achieves this on 1 box ) you shouldnt be looking at these entry level systems; Voxeo, Tropo's parent company has an incredibly powerful platform.
I just checked the list and found out I'm not getting one. Does anyone know how many are being shipped out in total?
Sorry, I didn't realise. Previously, I'd only heard this kind of reference made in 1950s war films.

Perhaps I'm wrong, I but I think it's foolish to dismiss a country's capabilities without firm evidence. Much of the news media picks up on vague themes, and often makes assumptions based on its own country's perceived superiority. In my opinion, there's no good reason to duplicate their error.
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It's interesting just how many different systems needed to be considered by the pilots after the incident. I've read articles before about how a pilots routine job can be very boring but it's good to know they have built up all that experience and training for moments like these.
Supercookies: What Websites Know About You
The web itself is a user manual. And the index/catalog is called a search engine.
And so journalists need to learn the term, "script kiddie"
Instrumental. Cinemix on iTunes. Favorite is Hanz Zimmer's soundtracks.
ADA must be at 0.75 at least then!
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I don't like the focus of this article. I think it sidesteps the real issue - which is 'develop a passion for your subject' - and suggests that success would be very achievable for a student, if only the student managed to 'court' their professor/s in the correct way.

I might be wrong, but I don't believe this is true.

Develop (and progress) a passion for your subject, and everything will fall into place.
Just compare the share prices of RIM, Apple, Nokia and HTC (shows as 2498):

http://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=0&chdd=1&chds=1&...

It's clear that HTC and Apple are taking off. Nokia's peak was around 2000, with a second (dead cat bounce) at the end of 2007. RIM's peak was 2008 - and that correlates with my experiences.
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I was going to disagree with your analogy, but then I realised that that would make the Storm the equivalent of Windows ME, and suddenly the analogy seemed much better :D

In both cases (Torch and Storm), I was keen to get my hands on them, but I could tell within about half a minute with each that they just didn't feel right. There was something deeply wrong with them.

I don't know what RIM's product problems really boil down to, but I would guess that at no point along the way do they have someone with good taste with the genuine authority to tell them to go back to the drawing board.

But I think perhaps it goes even deeper than that. RIM has its own implementation of Java UI controls, and even after all this time they are disturbingly primitive. It is genuinely difficult to make a good looking UI on a Blackberry. (As proof of this assertion, I invite the sceptic to do a quick Google search on centering text in controls on the Blackberry)
Sometimes they do matter, but what I gruently had to realize is how few times this is the case (the blog post is a good example - plenty of people here had used Java extensively and never hit these issues).
There is one coming to my house!

I found two orders listed under my zipcode. I called UPS and asked to verify the address on each one. The customer service representative uncandidly gave up my (own!) address. Excited, I asked if the package is being delivered under my name or the name of my room mate. It is sufficient to say that now I'm jealous. I'm excited to tell him, "Dude, you're getting a Cr-48!"

The one thing that worries me is how easy it was to obtain the address information. Hopefully no one nearby tries to poach the package as it arrives.
OK, it finally loaded.

It's an interview with a senior, "Check Captain" who happened to be in the cockpit at the time in addition to the normal crew.

This was a major emergency and a lot more than just a single engine explosion.
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I quite like Lighthouse too. But pay attention to the other comment in this thread about exporting.

Unfortunately, it is for pay unless your project is open-source though.
Hey buddy,

Im a lead senior flex/flash dev in the UK, building apps for ferrari, mercedes, banking finance etc.

I've used Grooveshark for many years now.

I'm interested to know why Grooveshark switched to the html js front end as a business decision?
I would personally say Ruby. But then again; given a longer answer I would say the same thing I say about camera brands. Pick both up, which feels 'right' to you?

Ruby and Python are both great languages. I prefer Ruby as I see it as the current front runner.
I hope that's the case, honestly, and I hope that it does go to court. I'm frankly sick and tired of the 'unlimited' advertising model, wherein unlimited really means limited to some arbitrary amount that is not disclosed.

As a customer who has been kicked off of a number of unlimited hosting services for a site that only does ~30Gb or so in traffic in a month, I'd love to see hard limits advertised rather than 'unlimited'.

I know that Dreamhost oversells on purpose, and that's fine, but I think they can still do that (though perhaps not quite as effectively) by just stating their upper limit. Of course, this means that more people are likely to hit or approach that upper limit, but at least they'll know when they need to grow into another 'slice' as it were, or whether or not to relocate from Dreamhost altogether.
When i studied traditional animation (drawing), I was always reminded not to listen to music while working... I picked up the habit even while coding and doing anything basically. I also had a problem of concentrating or being in the zone while listening to music while working... however, as of recently, I've tried experimenting with listening to music while working, again. I found that I have no problems with concentration anymore, and I find it quite enjoyable working along with music - BUT, I found out that I do less work while listening to music as opposed to sans music. Not by a large margin, but I think I'll listen to music from now on, since it's more enjoyable experience.
Acovea (http://www.coyotegulch.com/products/acovea/) is a genetic algorithm for analysing the performance of code with various optimization flags.

There's a practical example of this being used on a Haskell program at http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/evolving-faster-hask...
On a side note, I haven't heard a single good thing from anyone about the ISP in question. One of their brands, VPS.NET, was an absolute nightmare and almost tanked the launch of one of our projects. A friend who made the mistake of going with them as well, had nothing but headaches. The main issues were reliability and poor customer care.
Smalltalk is mentioned on the last line of the software evaluation. (One below "Sesame Street". It was originally designed to be used by kids. It is used by grade school kids, even today.)
If that's the case, maybe both parties are at fault. Claiming availability of 'unlimited bandwidth' is just as naive as believing in it.

In any case, I don't understand why the ISP wouldn't choose to send any communication about the termination. Seems like reckless behaviour.
It's all a little bit silly.

Everyone knows 100TB can't afford you to use the included bandwidth.

When you start actually using your bandwidth then you cut into their profits and they'll want to get rid of you.

When you start actually using the bandwidth _and_ undercut their own CDN using their _resold_ infrastructure, then they're losing out twice.

It's important to remember that UK2 = OnApp/UK2/Midphase/VPS.NET/100TB/Hosting Services Inc/etc/etc. UK2 doesn't own much infrastructure, they're just a reseller and overseller.
Dreamhost however is very open about the type of `best effort, use what you like` model.

Compare the claims on http://vps.net/ to the reality of http://status.vps.net/
I was in 4 different airports in the US recently. Didn't have any problems in any of them.

I will note though that the big scanner off to the side that I saw in one airport had the product name:

"Rapiscan"

... which probably doesn't seem like such a good idea now to their marketing team.
Presumably because they could sell bandwidth below market price? This would also explain why they aren't scrambling to put up alternate data centers, but instead sending their customers over to MaxCDN.
In the "I can't say what it is, but I can point to one" sense, hackers to me are the ones who show you lines of code they've written for some app, as if to say "This is the magic bit. Look what I've got this language to do!"

They're the bright-eyed people who show you how they managed to make a program do something that nobody else with access to the same program can do. They come from the same school as people who build Antikythera Mechanism emulators and Babbage Difference Engines out of Lego.

That's a hacker, to me: someone who can make something do cool things. If it makes them money as well, that's just the icing on a very big cake.
Lately I've been listening to a lot of The Roots while working. I can pop on the head phones and get into an instant flow to them.
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On my EDGE connection, 15 minutes is sometimes not sufficient to even download the app.
any specific?
Personally, I think pay-for-use models a la Tarsnap and NearlyFreeSpeech.net are quite fair. I suppose most people will be put off by "mental transaction costs", though.
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I wonder whether using unanswered questions from SO was a good idea.

Shouldn't it mean that the community is lacking cohesion?
I think that even just adding sourceforge may have pumped C a lot more.
I believe the point is that people tend to leave those comments at zero/-1 rather than downvoting them further. That has nothing to do with the -4 limit.
Deadmau5, almost exclusively, or Groovesalad from soma.fm.
As you would expect unmetered bandwidth from 100TB is truly unmetered and unshared, with no limits and no small print. Unmetered servers use exactly the same SoftLayer network as their 100TB equivalents and are fitted with 1000Mbit ports.

Hosting plans page though has:

Unmetered Bandwidth (324TB)
add $399 / month
Not really seeing why they're "naming" SoftLayer here, when it's 100TB.com they're dealing with.
Stavros, you're in the UK, right? If you want a copy of his book, send an email to books (at) allwein dot org with your mailing address and I'll get a copy sent off to you.

For US folk, I've got two other copies of his book, one of the original release and then a copy of the updated ones from last year. Claim it here and then send me an email with your address and I'll send them out.
So is the alternative/your expectation that they send each developer a custom email? If Twilio was to do that, that doesn't sound practical, scalable or smart.
As in "No Jobs? A handful of young graduates, less than 5%, make their own".
The alternative is that they don't lie about their content.
Good design is as obtrusive as it needs to be --- a fruit juicer shouldn't call attention to itself as much as the center of religious and political life in a town.
This is one of Bruce Schneier's constant themes.
Damn it, now I wish I hadn't learnt japanese.