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When the title explicitly declares the content of the piece, the content should adhere to whatever format is implied. I'm looking for 10 actual ideas that I can scan through, not 10 witty headers like "Get Off the Couch."
I'd like to second these thoughts.

In short, don't use a tool if you can get everybody in a co-located space -- use the walls. Hard to ignore big flashing lights that say the build is broken or large burn-down charts that show the iteration is off the rails.

But if you can't get all co-located, or if you're forced to have a team that's too large, or if your Product Owner is actually a committee of seven, etc -- there are good reasons for using some kind of tool on occasion.
Seems like a bad idea to me. Mixing data into the html seems messy. The same thing can be achieved just by having the data in javascript data structures, and referencing html elements either by ID, or directly.
It's not exactly tough to code on Linux, so it's not an 'either or' proposition. Furthermore, you get the added bonus that if you set things up right, you can have very similar environments on your desktop and server.

And even on your desktop, there are good reasons to have more control than Apple might allow you to have. Steve Yegge's focus follows mouse rant is a great one:

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/04/settling-osx-focus-f...

... and finally, it's just cool, for anyone who really loves to hack, to get source code to everything.
Why Chris Anderson's "Long Tail" theory might be all wrong
"They say I'm a birdbrain. If I am, can I just fly away?"

http://youtube.com/watch?v=7Ynw9RT9coU

All right let me dress up in a suit and monocle to accomodate the distinguished gentleman. I've gone into great detail as to why sites of this nature are all inherently doomed via a flaw in their paradigm.

http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2008/05/summon-monsters-ope...

If my learned colleague shalt consult the appended citation, he will see that my predicated futures have come to trespass, and verily this event doth match the anticipatification in profile.
We already have the Constitutional amendment.

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

The challenge is protecting it.
thank god -- now if they'll only fix their retarded way of friending/following people in Google Reader, i can start eating again.
Why not just enjoy this place for what it is, karma aside.
Whenever I read the argument that metaprogramming is terrible because it leads to hard-to-troubleshoot code; it leads me to believe that the person making the claim:

a) works with terrible programmers and

b) has no idea how to discern who the terrible programmers are.
I don't think it will matter much if all the big media outlets become saturated to a much larger degree with bias, because consumers are no longer at the whims of "pinko media owners".

In the past, if all the physical newspapers sold if your area had a strong bias (that went against yours), you didn't have many options. But on the internet you can easily switch to a different news source. If all the big players just start pumping out far-left propaganda, consumers can and will go elsewhere very easily.

Differing opinions are more easily accessible thanks to the internet, but the internet also allows people to more easily isolate themselves from differing opinions. In a decade, people may be intentionally consuming news from sources that are tailored to their bias. It'll be easier to hide away from news sources that express ideas you disagree with.
Newspapers are almost free anyway. A dollar is not much for a gigantic bundle of paper. You're pretty much just paying for the delivery medium.

On the Internet, the cost of the delivery (bandwidth and server costs) is too low on a per user basis to bother charging, so it's "free" but the paper is free to make money the same it does with regular newspapers - advertising.

If anything kills the concept of newspapers, whether online or not, it'd be the self-righteous jerks who run ad blockers. Though, of course, this would lead to in-line ads, and an ever blurry line between editorial and advertising as ads get stuffed into the editorial.
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Title is inaccurate; the article doesn't say anything about why, which is what I was interested in. And it's exaggerated anyway. The title should be more like, "Musicians Make Us Weep More Than Computers". The article didn't really say anything that isn't already known.
What will happen if you include meta-programming in a language isn't as simple as "this will happen" versus "that will happen".

A deciding factor is the structure and process in which your organization works. Structures which work well for creating Java code probably won't work well for creating JavaScript or Ruby code. A couple of things come to mind:

1) Code reviews are a lot more important for languages which allow 'meta-programming'

2) Thorough, but concise documentation, also.

Extending Class.inherited() (as quoted in the linked article) without telling anyone or documenting it is a social problem of process and organization, not one with the programming language.
Portland, Oregon had a similar service in 90s. Painted yellow bicycles have been scattered along Downtown sidewalks free and available to anyone who needs one. Unfortunately, it was unsustainable due to theft and vandalism of the bicycles.
Whenever I read the argument...

In my case, it's simply "Hark! The clarion call of the librarian". ;)
you need to watch a movie called "Les Poupees Russes" (Sorry, don't know how to do accents on my iPhone)
Or, you know, if you want to work without having to worry about ALSA taking a dump in your ears.
Why you should never start a company: most fail painfully.
Summary of argument: Your opposition to (whatever) is just like the old priestly order's opposition to the printing press.
A couple of years ago, I created a coin-op internet access system from a stripped down version of Debian, that ran in several hotels near Venice, Italy. It was pretty cool, and would have been difficult to accomplish with anything but Linux (infact, it replaced a windows system that never worked very well). Unfortunately the business side of things didn't work out very well because the guy I was working with was not really on the up and up:-(

I still have the code somewhere, if anyone's interested in doing some kind of deal.
easily switch to a different news source

This is because the internet has lowered the costs of distribution and production. It has not lowered the costs of reporting...you still need actual salaried workers to report. Thus the problem. Cheap distribution has lowered the overall price, which is where the money came from to hire reporters.
Such articles are always misleading.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. - Mark Twain

If you are interested in such questions just read the original research: PISA 2003 http://is.gd/Si0

Full report in English: http://www.pisa.oecd.org/dataoecd/1/60/34002216.pdf
I recommend looking at the Google Maps satellite view for Garden City, Kansas. (I couldn't believe that picture, so had to see it for myself).

It looks like the town was generated by an algorithm. Neat.
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1) Give me a break What's with the attitude?

2) Your "Build a better mousetrap and the users will come" approach just apply to every scenario. Maybe to yours, but not to everyone's. No idea what you are going on about here. I never said anything about building better mousetraps, neither literally nor metaphorically.

3) I wrote a big long reply explaining why you're wrong, but Nostrademons said it far more clearly, so I'll leave his words as the definitive answer...
The difference is SUN doesn't have a business model anymore. Hardware is now a commodity. What business do you want to be in? One where the price of your product has to decrease (and every tech web site is trumpeting the benefits of cheap commodity hardware) OR the one where you can charge MORE each year for a little bit different version of your software (and you have a built in monopoly (like Microsoft and Google)?
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Metaprogramming is a sharp, sharp tool that many people are liable to cut themselves with - it does lead to hard-to-understand and hard-to-debug code, so you have to make sure the tradeoff is worth it. As with any such tool, you just need to use it with restraint.

I've personally come to the conclusion that without metaprogramming you really can't write decent frameworks; even Java frameworks tend to use reflection and even run-time code generation, and I think the lack of more capable metaprogramming abilities in Java is one reason frameworks in Ruby, Python, etc. are more user-friendly. Frameworks are crucial these days, so I think metaprogramming is also essential to a language. It's just something that ideally would be used only in cases, like frameworks, where only a few people have to actually understand and debug it and a large number of people can leverage that work.
I think you mean HN.

And I am not submitting for the sake of submitting. I read the author's book on macroeconomics and got the link through his blog: this is not a random post. I also thought an article that sums up consensus among economists is relevant to a community of entrepreneurs.
u "you" users r !(technologically superior).

use of English != technological status
Even if you don't like the page views metric, people are looking at "Time on site". Have to make a reader load a new page every 150 words will definitely increase that!

I was reading a Perry Marshall book the other day and he talks about how there are five groups of people visiting your website:

* People who will never buy ("Noes")

* The No-Maybes

* The "Maybes"

* The Yes-Maybes

* The people who will buy no matter how many barriers you put in front of them ("Yesses")

The people reading all four pages of this article are the Yesses w/o a doubt. No casual reader wants to click, click, click, click, click, click...
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I have a habit of not clicking nytimes articles with titles that require correct philosophical thinking to support. Is that one good? :)
Yeeesssss, good point - we probably need to define what we mean when we talk about a 'small' ISV. Eric defines it as being about headcount, whereas you - in labelling these as normal small businesses (and taking into account previous comments by you indicating that ability to scale was what seperates startups from other businesses), would seem to be saying that 'small' ISVs don't scale. My reply was specifically addressing that perspective.

If you actually wanted your comment to be taken as a seperate thing, and not read in conjunction with your other writing, then I guess we don't have anything to talk about - as Eric defines small ISVs, they are effectively... small :-)
If it's on slate, it must be worth reading!
They just hate us OGs, don't they? Every change in the past year = suck
Hi Jim, We certainly have plans to allow people to do a lot more than just basic scripting. The idea is to open the API and let people with the programming skills go as deep as they want.
No I didn't. That post about New York was stupid too, nowhere near this stupid, but still not particularly impressive. I can't go into detail about every random piece of stupidity I encounter.

I can't even read every random piece of stupidity I encounter. Neither this nor the one about New York was worth reading all the way through. I'm a writer, I need to avoid stupidity "for the same reason models avoid cheeseburgers."

I agreed that you were wrong about New York, and I took the effort to conceal my contempt for the post itself because I figured it was the low point and people would move on. Obviously the low point was yet to come!

In either case what's more important is the expression of dissent - people on the site are disagreeing with you. They're trying to launch arrows of criticism but the points are so pathetically blunt it's more a feeble attempt at a public stoning than anything else.

My hope was the dissent might provoke you to work harder. That nonsense about New York, you wouldn't have wasted anyone's time with that in the "Hackers & Painters" days. This site has completely ruined you as a writer, and you used to be pretty fucking good. You too need to avoid stupidity for the same reason models avoid cheeseburgers. I bet you read this ridiculous Eric Sink crap all the way through, every last word. Those braincells are dead now and nothing will bring them back.

You should kill Hacker News. Revenge for your slaughtered neurons. A favor to those of your readers who actually understand the things you write and don't just read them to kill time after lunch when they should be working. Any site of this nature is inherently, inevitably, built into its design, a magnet for the type of jackass who only reads blogs because if they played Warcraft in the office they wouldn't be able to fool themselves. This site is a diseased mutant doomed from birth. Give it some tranquilizer so it dies in peace, but the minute it loses consciousness, take it out back and CUT OFF ITS HEAD.

And before you build the next one, read "The Wisdom Of Crowds." Free votes for everyone is a recipe for groupthink factories.

Also, the thing about my dog? TOTALLY TRUE. My dog was absolutely smarter than this Eric Sink guy. Probably by orders of magnitude. Eric Sink has gills and lives on a diet of algae, pond scum, and moss.

And they're not "essays", dude. They're blog posts. It's a good intention to elevate the discourse, but it won't work, because what really elevates the discourse (or lowers it) is the economics of participation. You can call it anything you want but if it's cheap to publish, cheap to link, and everybody has one, then it'll display a very wide range in quality and maturity, and that's just life.

I don't know what the hell is wrong with people that this economics of participation thing is so obscure. Vote costs nothing but time? Vote becomes expensive for people with no time and cheap for people with nothing but. Supply and demand.

The same thing holds for comments, which is why I made it so personal. I'm going to remember writing it, so you're going to remember reading it. I don't have time for another one.

Kill this fucker. KILL IT.
I was too lazy to do the searching :)
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Some excellent discussion above.

There are really two decisions to be made here - the choice of entity and the choice of state.

Delaware is the choice for two big reasons: it is generally considered one of the most "founder/board friendly" venues, and it has one of the well-established bodies of law so you don't pay to litigate issues. Another important side effect is that any lawyer in any state is qualified to validate coprorate structure, whereas in another state you need to find a local lawyer. I wrote a little about this in the past: http://bit.ly/31lbT2.

As for choice of entity, well, that's complicated which I went into a little more depth with here: http://bit.ly/cIpSL.

S-Corp and LLC are both known as "pass-through" entities which as mentioned by cch don't pay tax directly - the members/owners do. This also means that the members/owners can't file their personal taxes until the corporation files its own. This is generally best for closely held companies where you don't want to bring a lot of people on, give options, and you're operating with tax losses (to take advantage of the write-offs on your personal tax). Plus, unlike a C-Corp, you're not double taxed.

On the other hand, VCs can't and won't invest in anything but C-Corps (http://bit.ly/mKx08) - so if you're thinking about going this route, it may be better to just do c-corp right away and minimize your legal expenses.

My summary in that first article:

"If you're actively seeking VC funding (VCs will only invest in C-Corps) and don't anticipate significant tax losses (which is probably the case with many technical startups), then C-Corp is usually a good choice. If you want to take advantage of the pass-through taxation, Imke has a good discussion on choosing between an LLC and an S-Corp. Partnerships are ok initially, but best avoided given the lack of a liability shield."
The problem that I mentioned in my comment with this is that Nevada's body of precedent is not nearly as well-established as Delaware's, so you're going to pay to litigate otherwise settled issues in Delaware. Often, even if the other state is more founder-friendly, it's often better to use Delaware because you'll save on legal costs across the board (more lawyers able to do DE work, less cost litigating, less question marks and uncertainty).

Of course, that varies from state to state and certainly depends on the kind of business and cap structure, where you're doing business, etc.
"An ugly MySpace page is interesting because your friends are on it."
Exactly! :-) We believe people will want to play their friend's games just like they want to see their friend's MySpace page. The reason they got into MySpace in the first place is because they could express themselves through the layout of their page.
I think you were both saying the same thing. C-corp is taxed on its profits, and then employees are taxed on their wages. S-Corps and LLCs are pass-through entities where the profits are "passed along" to the individual owners, so you only pay once. Obviously, there are some benefits with a pass-through entity but also some real concerns for outside investors.
What do you think about jaanix system? When the "votes" are not votes, but a feedback to the recommendation system that learns what you think is important. There's no front page and there's no groupthink. If you "vote up" stupid stories you're the one who will suffer the most next time a stupid story is recommended to you.
Some of these are false-colored, right?
I didn't like the subtitle though: Why Chris Anderson's theory of the digital world might be all wrong.

Anderson explains on this blog (http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2008/06/excellent-hbr-... ) that Elberse uses different definitions for 'tail' and 'head'. So it's all about definitions, rather than having posited wrong claims.

The article's author never disproves Anderson's theory. So it's a bold statement to say it might be all wrong.
You're playing "6 degrees of hacker news", which is often a good sign a post is off topic.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=242484
Apology accepted and upvoted :)

You made a very understandable mistake, the same one that a lot of my friends do whenever I rave about how great New York is. Just because it's the best in several aspects doesn't mean it's the best place to live.

And you could be right about the size of a city being a much larger factor in quality of life than easy public transportation. I actually like SF very much, despite the shitty public transportation, and a big part of that is because it's smaller (about a tenth the size of New York) and yet still has high population density (second highest to only New York). My friends in even smaller places like Boulder (a tenth the size of SF) love the lifestyle and startup scene there too.

Either way, this conversation seems better suited in person, like the kind you'd have over a beer after a workshop in some other city.
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Just like in the movie The Island, where a powerful insurance company has clones of all its customers. Those clones stand ready to provide for potential failing organs in the body of their real-life counterparts.

Immoral as a concept. Excellent as a sci-fi movie scenario.
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Only people who haven't really lost someone say this kinda stuff. The pain of loss eclipses all the good parts of having loved by a large margin, in my experience.
Like most things, habits are good in moderation - even the ones put together mostly by advertisers.

Washing hands, brushing teeth, taking a daily multi vitamin = good.

Automatically supersizing meals, buying wedding rings and going to the tanning salon everyday = bad.

All of the above habits were brought to the mainstream by advertisers...kinda scary.
Yes, exactly, for the specific reason that Jeff didn't just say extending languages was terrible, he took several paragraphs to talk about how we the people are unqualified to do so compared to his personal list of exalted greats who have invented the languages he admired.

So I felt the repsonse mirrored the original post.
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Bottom up design: Create a bunch of robust libraries so your goal system is simple to create.

Top down design: outline your goal system and work down to create the components (or usually one off custom made stuff) to create your system.
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you need to avoid stupid fucking bullshit for the same reason models avoid cheeseburgers

My advice: skip Hacker News

Using this reasoning, models should avoid food, right?
"economics of scarcity"

The definition of economics is the study of resource allocation under scarcity. Giving away stuff for free is marketing, not economics.
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Doesn't solve deadbeat buyers problem :(
use of English == intellectual status.
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Well he played because he was challenged by vaksel.

Plus, he made it with 1 degree: current consensus among economists written by a famous economist -> HN
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Ask YC: What corporate stuff is needed in the beginning of a startup?
I have a start up idea and found a co-founder and we are working on the project.
I want to take care of all the incorporating stuff and all that jazz..
How do I do that?
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I agree with you 100%

Markup, style and data should be separated
For those of us that are single...

Does a single girl out there EXIST that could understand even a few of these items? Particularly the one about weekends?

I've scoured my campus and I have yet to find one.

If(oneExists) {
letMeKnow();
} else {
sigh++;
}
I'm really hoping for some airline to offer WiFi at all of its gates, only to its own passengers. You could use your confirmation number and first/last name to login. If Southwest did this I'd fly with them even more than I do today.
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Isn't it incredibly difficult to build a bot that plays gametheoretically optimal, other than in rather simple situations (like large portions of a heads up limit match)? My friends who understand such things tell me not to worry about it just yet.

And nothing can make me get a real job.
Here's a good place to start: http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Ask_YC_Archive#t...
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Pretty good list, though I would replace Windows 3.0 with Mac OS, since it was really where the innovation was.
And in software, both work, as long as you're paying attention. Software isn't like rocket engine design in this sense, because you can still perform unit tests without incurring a huge cost, even if the units are the result of a carefully considered top-down design.

In any case, you begin to get into trouble if you're not clear on what your goal is.
The Flash demo is pretty cool: http://theory.stanford.edu/~amitp/game-programming/a-star-fl...