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What would be great would be to have a kind of meta store for MP3s, so that small startups could create online music shops without all the legal problems.
A picture can say a thousand words! I wonder if your response would be the same if Phoja was a YC startup?
We may use java for a tiny fraction of our startup (back end of the live game server) for the performance benefits. Does that count?
Doesn't it cost you way more than the cost of a meal to get there from the Y Scraper?
Startups Across America: A study tracks entrepreneurial activity in the U.S.
How To Obtain Financing for Your Startup Company...
We use Java - although, to be quite honest we were a PHP shop starting out, but then we got a big-league client who said they wanted a system built from scratch and, oh by the way, "it has to be in Java". Four years later, we have a mid-size application (80K lines) that operates well and is attracting more clients, though I often feel we have stepped into a few 'pits of despair' while building it. There are several 1500-line servlets which grind away on certain tasks, for example.

The upside is, we are now putting out our I18N'ed version of the product and it was very easy to produce a version of the app in a Unicode-based language, which will probably land us several more clients this year.

In short, Java can be great and there are a lot of things out there to help you build an app, but it only works as long as you keep the code clean and exercise your own discipline to keep from getting too sloppy. Otherwise, you can wind up with code that needs a rewrite from day one.
This guy is just the answer to the question "who will watch the watchmen?" It's important to know where your military expenditure goes. It's important to know what the CIA is doing; after all, they have a track record of doing nasty things all over the world... The NSA spy on you, why don't spy on them?
http://tipit.to/ is mostly GWT on the front and all java on the server.

CF is crap. Groovy is okay, but not -that- great. I'd go with jython or jruby instead if you're thinking of using Groovy.

Scala is absolutely great. It's my favourite language. tipit's server side isn't Scala based only because I wasn't fully aware of Scala when we started out. Scala is functional in theory but even with a very imperative background you can write your code and slowly get used to solving problems 'the functional way', which does come off a bit cleaner (e.g. using case classes).
I usually discover new music by 'accident'. For example, on radioblogclub.com you can search for artists or songs you know and you end up with a playlist you can listen to online. After you've listened to what you were looking for, you can keep listening the playlist and discover similar stuff.

Web radios are great, too. A favorite of mine is www.scenemusic.net (old-school demoscene music).
It's important to differentiate "Java" from the "JVM". Java is a programming language that gets compiled to bytecodes, and the JVM is an execution environment that runs bytecodes. (There is some java-language-ish stuff in the bytecode spec, but for the most part you can treat them separately).

In my opinion, Java is a clumsy language but the JVM is awesome. Static typing and lack of first-class functions or easy data types make Java programs verbose and annoying to change. The JVM, on the other hand, is fast, portable, well-specified, and there are a ton of libraries that run on it.

To have the best of both worlds, you can use the JVM to run a more dynamic language (not Java)! There are many projects to bring different languages to the JVM, but my favorite is Rhino, which compiles JavaScript to bytecodes. Rhino is also what powers my favorite web framework, Helma.
I agree that a lot of people want to work more, but I think that's part of the problem. I think people need to be encouraged to work less, to take more time off.

I believe the best employers encourage their staff to get out into the world and find fulfillment and I believe the best way to do that is by having a varied and interesting lifestyle.

Simply working all day every day doesn't lead to a balanced, healthy life.
Absolutely, open plan offices are a nightmare. I haven't yet figured out how to balance it out though. Social contact is important, interacting with other team members, etc. Maybe longer lunch breaks, or social meeting or something. Being in an office alone all day is pretty unhealthy!
How does one vote? I can't see anything about voting or about downvoting. Is it based on some external voting?
For example, this item has 24 points, but the user is brand new and has only posted 1 item which has no comments. Where does that karma come from?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49785
I get it, you can click the teeny weeny up arrow next to the item and that votes it up! Ok, simple.
The future of social networks
Peter Rip nails it.
How come Rhapsody isn't the solution to all their problems? The price is low enough that it isn't worth it for most people to go to the trouble of stealing the music. Portability is an issue, but maybe that's solvable or has been addressed already.
Well, if your company is going to tank, then 1-2% is a deal. Otherwise pay cash.
http://www.fleaflicker.com/ is 100% java.

I started developing it in '05 before Rails was huge. Using Java has actually been a huge advantage:

There are hundreds of high quality open source libraries.
GWT allows me to leverage existing data structures and algorithms on the client-side.
Yes, if your product competes with mine. No otherwise.
The science of color is actually pretty amazing. Now if only there were a mathematical explanation for Paul's love of orange. I thought I was a fan of that color until I met him.
Khakis are so great for that. The best part is, girls see hundreds of douchey guys wearing jeans and something that doesn't match. It's a strong clothing choice for like 15 different reasons.
If you have the legal documents, which in this case means downloading them from the web, then just send them in. Each comes with mailing instructions. If you are incorporating in Delaware, you will need to get an agent to have a mailing address there as well.
Chinese military hacked into Pentagon
How much time do you spend online?
i use java
I use the JVM, but not the Java language.

I extended Scheme to make BRL, http://brl.codesimply.net/

I use it in http://ourdoings.com/
If they weren't, they probably are now.
Does the internet help when you feel lonely, and where do you turn?
Google Wiki Prepares To Launch
I'm pleasantly surprised that it takes cryptographic research to break those things. I always assumed they were completely insecure.
Mozilla Revives Eudora. You Remember Eudora, Don't You?
Digpicz: The Unofficial Digg Picture Browser
Fake Steve Jobs Was A Blog Hater
Sun Microsystems Changes NASDAQ ticker symbol to JAVA
Bad question. How much time do you not spend on line?
DoE study says US could switch 73% of cars to electric without another plant
Coding Horror: Choosing Dual or Quad Core
I use flashblock ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433 ) rather than adblock. I find this gets rid of 99% of annoying ads. I don't really mind text ads or static pictures, but the flashing ones, the ones that automatically start playing audio or video when the page loads, or the ones that pop over the text and follow you down the page, those I can't stand.

If you don't want your ads blocked, don't make ads that annoy users. An average user's natural state is to do nothing. If they've been moved from that state to seek out, download, install, configure an extra piece of software, then it's because the advertiser failed. Isn't the job of an advertiser to produce content that entices somebody to buy something? If the ad doesn't do that, if it actually repels the person from looking at it, then that's a crappy ad. The advertisers can't then turn around and blame the user because their ads are so horrendously bad that people have to block them to use a website, they need to make better ads. Seriously, what other content provider blames its audience when its content is rejected?

Also, wtf is this sentence: "Given the decentralized nature of the Internet, the user's experience has to come first -- for now." For now? Basically, "As soon as we figure out a way to commandeer your computer and force it to show you ads, we'll do that." And they want to talk about ethics? Get real.
You know your anti-Microsoft argument is plain old retarded when everyone on hackers news disagrees with you.
In the Genome Race, the Sequel Is Personal
Sergey and Larry's desert hideaway
Lawyers do more than incorporate.

If IP is important, you can easily blow $40k on a reasonable set of patents. That's a good place for a bit of equity.
Rick Rubin Discloses Sony Rootkit Called Home
"... observing nature is far more interesting than just trying to think about things ..."

Interesting article and one I'll be coming back & reading. Colour is always a hard one to pick & apply. I take photos any chance I can and one of the subjects I usually shoot each morning is a mountain shot out the kitchen window.

I happened to be playing with gimp with one such image and mapped out the colours that I liked. You can see it here ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/541666109/

Then looking through flickr that particular day I found a very similiar colour combination here ~ http://flickr.com/photos/factoryjoe/545089963/ Even now looking at the top palates at colourlovers you can see another similiar combo ~ http://www.colourlovers.com/palette/77121/Good_Friends

So I wonder if there is a natural colour grid of all possible colour combinations that are repeated in nature that you can capture (exploit), process and apply rules like the one described here?
Is Vista the standard OS everyone is running? Back in 2001, there were people saying "Windows 98 is just fine, thank you." But those people were drowned out by 1. Gamers and 2. all the people who were buying a new PC didn't really have a choice about the OS they got.

Now, the people saying "XP is working just fine, thank you" are probably a majority, and the relatively few people buying new hardware can choose OS X (And today, Ubuntu is a more serious contender than any open source OS was in 2001).
To some you need to reply "Yes, we're going to be just like Google."

That relates to the other meme about setting expectations to force hard work to avoid embarrassment :)
Dvorak: Don't Trust Web-Application Servers
The Word "Linux" is inappropriate in XBOX Live
The crazy premise in this story is that MS represents great technology> MS radically messed up their online service > therefore online on-demand services are a bad idea. Yikes!
You think that's painful? Ha!
Steve Yegge: Good Agile, Bad Agile
I like it when products compete on specifications, then a number can be important, and a brand. I'm reminded of chevrolet whenever I see a pound of butter because they own the number 454.
The number for my cell phone is just a serial number for the accounting and parts department people. It has no other useful information.
Sort of like this? http://www.snocap.com/
I am using java for juwo. Swing looks kludgy compared with flash, but Apollo Flash that lets it run offline is in beta - and Java Web Start has been running for 4-6 years.
Social Networks Aren't Products
what about non-technical offsite CEOs that read lots of non-fiction!?!
40+ Books For Professional Design & Development
Just to be a bit pedantic here-- social networks aren't fads, though the sites taking advantage of them may be. (I know that's what you meant, but I think it's important to differentiate network effects vs. "social networking" sites)
The future doesn't need us ;) http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html
Yellow Pages in your Pocket
This situation sounds like a classic example of what happens when someone throws a bunch of money (and not much else) at a business opportunity. Unfortunately for most hackers, we don't often get opportunities in startups like this until AFTER the infusion of cash with all of its inherent problems.

That is, of course, unless you start it yourself.
All users deserve interface respect.
All hackers are users.

Therefore...

All hackers deserve interface respect.
We are all just living in a simulation
Lyons blogged as Fake Steve Jobs because he knew that when he came out, the discussion would go from "Fake Steve Jobs says..." to "Daniel Lyons is..."
Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Jeff Bezos credit Montessori education as a major factor in their success
An argument gone too far.

Which is more likely to happen?

a. Google, Amazon, Yahoo, or <other host> goes down and loses all of your data.

b. Your hard disk crashes and you have no backup.
Propaganda Tactics and Fahrenheit 9/11 [pdf]
Which Scheme are you using?
I've been reading Maria Montessori's "The Montessori Method" anthology and it's been interesting to see how her "children's houses" were like startup schools, err... schools that are like startups. The theory side is a little hard for me to fully grok, but her insights into the mental world of children are outstanding and the way she applies them quite interesting.

For the record, I went to a Montessori school for kindergarten and first grade.
If you're into Scheme, you can use Bigloo Scheme to generate reasonably fast C code, or even JVM bytecode.
I always figured it was the George Nelson influence.
A VC: Cash and The Ugly Adolescent
Microsoft's in 'Cloud' Computing initiative
Recently, I had to make my way through some ColdFusion code because my job's external and staging websites (which haven't been updated in years prior to when I got there) use it.

My advice: Run far away from ColdFusion. It does suck as much as you've heard, if not more. I don't know why MySpace is using it (if they still are).
http://www.applibase.com - Almost entirely a Java based startup.
So does Will Wright
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/146
Montessori schools seem ideal. But this looks like a bogus site. There's practically no content here. He even has Larry & Sergey mixed up.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49797
Service Providers or Service Workers - America's Direction Forward
Kawa Scheme. I'm stuck at release 1.7 though. There are many improvements in 1.8, but 1.7 is so pain-free that I haven't been motivated to get with the times.
Yeah, site looks totally bogus. Jeff Bezos is mentioned in the headline, but not in the "article". The sentence structure is horrible. I think that the part, "Having been friends since childhood ..." is supposed to mean that Larry and Sergey were friends from childhood. If so, that's wrong, at least according to Google: "Larry Page and Sergey Brin were not terribly fond of each other when they first met as Stanford University graduate students in computer science in 1995." (http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html)
Welcome Back To College: Here is What Your School Will Do To You If You Fileshare
Could this site be the result of a poorly paid PR firm for Montessori?