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Looks nice, but what is the selling point here? How do you differentiate yourself from a service like Pingdom? I would put some selling points on the homepage.
I actually live in Scotland. I'd love to be able to stroll over to the Botanic Gardens and use my iPad to do some reading/work while breathing fresh air, but I was sorry to find that's not really an option, rain or shine.

Yes, you can still read stuff outdoors (or in conservatories) but only barely making out the text, images and interfaces are spoilt completely. The first time I tried it my reaction was 'I can't see a damn thing.' It's really not at all optimal for outdoor use, unlike the Kindle. And the Notion Ink 'Adam' seems to have a much better outdoor performance.

I think the iPad's mobility is its killer feature: being able to take it into the lounge, recline on the sofa, pass it around the room, use it places where a laptop is too conspicuous, etc. Being able to take it to outdoor destinations would obviously boost that significantly.
It doesn't mean YC failed, but he does have some bragging rights all the same. The truth is, a lot of startups have been accepted into YC and have achieved far less...
Well... In my HN reading I "middle click" - actually is mouse wheel click - in several articles I got some interest and then start reading them. When it's time to see the comments I close the article tab and click on the comments in the initial tab with HN links only.

When I'm using the phone to browse because I got into some wait-state situation wherever, I just click the link, read it and then back to the comments (if it applies), then back to find another article. There is not really much space to open many pages in tabs in the phone.

Eventually, if for any reason I can't have the middle button simulation with my mouse I would have set the broswer to always open links in new tabs anyway.
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"It's their loss" is definitely the right attitude to have, whether it's factually true (how could one ever know?) or not. Good for you!
I agree on the "really well written part" - she is a good writer.
Actually, I read the study some time ago, and am very familiar with it's findings. My response was to your specific comment here:

"there was a belief that the school should take care of everything (Parents didn't encourage/supervise, students didn't care, etc)."

I thought that was clear...
That would assume that people using Adwords compare costs with the other ad networks before deciding to advertise. I would guess this is most often not the case.
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Yep, you're right that a single GET request has some problems. We don't right now (because we wanted to get feedback ASAP), but we will definitely be checking from multiple nodes (running on multiple different providers) by the time we're charging people money so that we're as sure as we can be that the problem isn't us.

Getting an API together (to enable a server daemon) is also very high on our priority list. (Although the disadvantage with that is that then you're not actually checking to see if the site's up: you're checking whether the server's alive, and that doesn't necessarily mean the site is up.) We do recognize we're dealing with something tricky and we want to get it right. Thanks for the feedback.
If you aren't using a mouse use something that can open in new tabs like vimperator and conkeror can or use control click. (usually ctrl-shift click to open focused which I think is the default in opera)

Some browsers let you set that as the default action for all links as well
Thanks for the resources guys.
Shenanigans. The author says that MySQL/Tokyo Tyrant don't work because of "death by I/O". Right, well, if your data set fits in memory, which I assume it does because you're relying on Redis, and the Redis VM feature is ghastly, then your problem isn't with "I/O", it's with MySQL not doing the right thing.

Buy some SSD drives, try out Postgres, but if you bet your business on something like Redis, you deserve whatever you get.
i have a lot of ideas and i've applied twice but being from europe and having difficulties finding a good team makes it impossible so i'm bootstrapping myself providing Shopify consulting amongst other things and i'm mid recruiting process for a Google position in Zurich, so maybe in the future a better opportunity comes along
I find pages that open in new tabs a little annoying, when I am on a site like HN, as the new tabs steal the focus, making it harder to pre-load many tabs.

In saying that, I think some people could find it useful, and it is an easy feature to implement to implement as a setting.
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I just quickly analyzed the list by year, and plotted it out by decade and it seems to be slightly skewed to the latter part of the 20th century. This sort of bias isn't surprising considering when the article is written and more importantly that there has definitely been a significant increase in the number of publications in recent times.

Graph:

http://i.imgur.com/B4Lqt.png

Data:

1900-1909	1
1910-1919	3
1920-1929	6
1930-1939	10
1940-1949	11
1950-1959	11
1960-1969	15
1970-1979	15
1980-1989	20
1990-1999	13
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Your product looks like a definite winner now, when you applied though I'm guessing there was a lot of work to do and it was a lot less clearly a winner?
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Getting my fixes into 1.3 doesn't prevent 1.3 from having regressions.
I'd venture this is a problem for most engineers, regardless of their employer.
Neat - but why does the article read as though it had been translated from another language? "Propositioning"?
The calculations are quite tricky given the granularity of data the author is working with. I agree that a marginal cost calulation is a bit more useful as the cost of development staff is not really relevant here as this is an R&D cost. The exception being those employees that work on technologies to sustain the growth of pages and searches and the IT staff to maintain the infrastructure. Without management accounting data the figures will be rough estimates at best.
Facebook is in a weird middle spot between totally public and totally private. You log in, and you primarily interact with friends, but then a friend can allow an application to programmatically access your data... People have problems parsing the situation. Further, Facebook used to be much more private, and the constant adjustment of goalposts doesn't help.
Is it me or is the title incredibly difficult to parse?
I was assuming that such a change would apply to all permissions - not just phone numbers.
Yeah it was a lot smaller just 12 months ago:

http://playtomic.com/blog/post/46-looking-back-on-2010
Right. No Jews allowed in finance.

http://www.buffettsecrets.com/benjamin-graham-biography.htm

Somehow I suspect if you said something like,

"Enrico Caruso was Italian, and so couldn't find a job since none of the opera houses would hire an Italian..."

...the bullshit detectors would have tripped more readily.
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I am in the process of building a Ruby on Rails app involving a homework/studying for tests/quizes. It will have some social networky type parts. I would really benefit from these designs.
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I still have my MSX Hotbit with a 5 1/4 floppy disk extension. I had a lot fun with it in the past. Now I'm wondering what to do with it... At this time, I guess kids will find interesting that a computer must be attached to the TV so you can have a screen. Some love the typewriter, which prints at the same time you type!
This makes me never want to consider applying there. Can someone elaborate on why Google has this intimidating atmosphere?
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Your second and third paragraphs appear to be in conflict re bio-tech unless "faster moving" doesn't trump any negative side effects of removing patents. Can you elaborate?

I can see the argument for patents in areas like biotech where there's a huge up front cost in development and testing. But if the cost is really all in testing, then I think patents should be removed.

Additionally, I think patents should be much shorter since I believe returns/earnings on monopoly power today can be much greater than it was back when the patent duration was established.
I don't know what you mean by "hotshot" exactly, but all of the people who had extensive experience in my high school also knew functional programming and data structures and algorithms.

I'm not sure math makes all that much of a difference either because the most experienced people in my class were all doing math-related things (myself a physics minor, my girlfriend a math minor, and my two other friends a math and physics double major, respectively).
I'd hazard a guess at the fact that because Google is so prestigious, and because engineers there are reputed to be intellectually brilliant, people don't want to seem "dumb" in such an environment. Which is mad, because knowledge != intelligence.
Why not indeed. I'm not saying we should ban people from making stupid garbage, I'm merely pointing out that this particular thing is stupid garbage.
Thing is, this is a perplexing problem - my SO teaches at a school that has a "computer club" where they do such things, and it has a lot of female members, but there's a distinctly bizarre issue of girls interested in computers at Secondary/6th form level not then going on to do degrees in the subject. I think a more in depth study interviewing the "potentials" needs to be done in order to understand whether there's a problem with endemic sexism or whether it's something else.
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I do think that the split would be an interesting idea. At my university, our first year programming class was divided between people who found it too hard, and people who found it way too easy.
That's really solid advice. When I began my startup I had a domain that was really, really limited in scope, it took just 6 months for me to realize what a terrible mistake that is and to start sniffing around for something more versatile.

To answer the OP: unless you're after something ridiculous like word.com you should pay $8 - $10, domains aren't a brand until you make them one.
Yes, twice. First time we didn't get an interview, second time we did (same project). We didn't make it past the interview but it was awesome anyways. Eventually went on to dissolve that project, but I will definitely be applying again in the future if it makes sense.
Sorry but do you have any statistics on those sorts of things? Seems like there are more open CS positions so the average expected income would be higher..
>(excluding car costs etc.)

That's a very significant piece of the emissions footprint of a car. I've seen numbers that say as much as 30% of the emissions resulting from a car come from the car's construction and distribution.
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I run www.dumeet.com, it supports a whiteboard and 6 live conferencing participants, We were planning to pivot to educational, your designs are real good, i would like to modify some parts and add other stuff, Can you email to wissam@duleaf.com
Wow, I love the blatant agenda he has there...

While he does have a point the problem is that private for profits advertise based on a potential future of employment while typically ignoring the amount of work required to complete a program.

Beyond that, degrees from for profits are likely to be less valuable to individuals due to preconceptions about students from such institutions.
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Don Dodge put together some interesting numbers on the search market before in a post, albeit three years ago: http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2007/05/why_1...
The point is, anybody can say they are building a >$1Bil business. How are you really different from everybody else who is applying?
Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper started programming when Howard H. Aiken[1] designed and IBM built a computer[2] for her to program. Seymour Cray was also born before the first usable computers were created. I don't have concrete date, but I strongly suspect the other early pioneers also started programming when they first got access to a computer.

I'm a few years younger than the youngest of the quoted pioneers (Tim Berners-Lee, born 1955). My first access to a computer was in my junior year in high school: a DecWriter[3] connected via a 300 baud dial-up modem to a timeshare system, programmed in Basic. (Obsessively. Still. :-O)

The limiting factor for pioneers was access to computer. For kids today, access isn't a problem.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_H._Aiken
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Mark_I
[3] http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/la36.html
For me, the second space after the period is a wasted byte. The same applies for the just one space after the period if you are actually moving to the next paragraph (just a CR+LF) is enough (more than enough in Unix).

But what I really dislike is the preceeding space before the question mark. That really messes up my brain sentence parser (and many word processos too).
This is a cool model, but I worry it only works because software engineers are both the producers and the consumers of the github product.

The real take-away for me was less their means than how much freedom/less process you can get when the engineers completely understand the goals of your users.

Getting to that point feels like the hard part. Github is lucky to produce a tool central to their developers existing lives.
What were the ideas for the first and second application?
I'm not sure why it's the author's responsibility to go setup a dozen different VMs. That really is the package maintainer's job.

Agreed. I do, however, expect upstream to accept reasonable patches from package maintainers to fix building bugs or make it easier for people to build packages themselves.

For the few times I've done it, I've had no trouble getting upstream to accept an updated .spec file (or even a barebones .spec file) that they can distribute in their targz to make it easier for the people who want to build their software as a package if their distribution doesn't provide one.
I'm under the impression that these types of job postings never work here. The only 'stealth company' postings I've seen people interested in are ones where the company has already been accepted by YC or similar incubator.

As a developer, I can tell you that you're going to have a tough time getting anyone's attention without some more details. Good luck.
"How do you look up keywords in the Perl documentation?"

I hope there's a new clever answer to this that requires fewer keystrokes than google instant.

Because the Perl docs are a ... heap. To some extent finding what you really want but can't remember is a real skill - I don't know what novices do. They probably do without, truth be told.

And I say this with some affection, having spent countless hours of my life wandering the docs. And the various books.
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For a startup or an individual, $10 (maybe $30 for a fancy TLD), minus coupon code. I'd wait until you have mad profits, or funding to spend anything more than that.

Chances are you'll re-brand or pivot between now and then anyway.
It's not actual age that's the issue, it's relative age. If your peers have an eight-year headstart down the learning curve, it's tough. At a low level you internalize: they are god tier, you are not.
What does that link show?
"you deserve what you get"

Are you just referring to the potential pitfalls of using a non-relational backing store? Or is there something specific wrong with Redis?
Power consumption will vary based on usage on modern machines and Google could do automatic boot/shutdown of machines to match demand. But the marginal cost in electricity alone should still be pretty small.
Why do not you just integrate micro-blogging system to this ?
Also customizable themes/colors. Maybe add some space for website logo?
I've found that in the last few years as the "we must encourage more women into tech" train has gained speed, people have lost sight of the importance of removing barriers in favour of recruiting girls simply because they are girls.

In addition to being totally messed up politically, it's really harmful to your self-esteem if you think that you are being given special treatment to satisfy someone else's political correctness quota. Not to mention that eager men (with the best of intentions, no doubt) over-compensating can lead to "othering", that feeling that everyone is going overboard making you so welcomed that you kind of want to barf.

My current speculation is that for most girls, it's actually their parents that instill a nagging sense of doubt regarding what they are "supposed" to consider good career options. Therefore, I think the key is to reach young minds.

Girl coders: go speak at public schools or high schools today!
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I'm sure this gets said by thousands of geeks every day, but Matt Cutts is a cool guy. That was hilarious.
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No!

Your comment only implies that bringing more people will solve the problem. Sadly, that will just reinforce the current social proofs that loud assholes dominate CS.
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Backbone is working really well so far, an impressive framework.
Actually, for some industries, Google traffic converts much better than Bing/Yahoo traffic. No 2 traffic sources are exactly alike.
I always try to find a domain that is available for under $10....There's no point in dropping $100 on a domain for a website that doesn't have a proven market yet.
i think that's great news for the startup community. if startups weren't mainstream before, so many kids were inspired to get off their ass after seeing the movie.

as for the flick, i think is was very entertaining, but the most ironic thing about it (outside of the love story) was how close to reality it was. the way everything has played out over the last six years lent itself very well towards a screenplay.
GIF supports sound? Since when?

No coverage of any vector or hybrid formats?

No talk of TIFF compression?

I expected much more...
I finally saw this last night. It wasn't a BAD movie: Reznor's score was magnificent, they didn't mince hacker jargon and it was interesting enough to sit through. It boggles my mind that it took Best Picture. Was 2010 really that bad for movies?

I should mention I was actually blown away by not only the technical correctness of the programmer jargon, but the fairly accurate representation of hacker wordplay, i.e. referring to the Winklevoss brothers as "The Winklevi."
Yes and no. In Canada, software engineering is an accredited, 'professional' program and discipline; that doesn't seem to have helped gender ratios within software much for now, but nevertheless it's outpaced by stereotypically dirty and male disciplines like civil and chemical engineering.

Sample from one institution: http://web.archive.org/web/20080611075012/http://www.eng.uwa.... Class sizes are around 80-100 except for environmental and geological which are half to third of that.
It looks great. The only thing I would be concerned with is that it would be pretty easy for a developer to replicate on their own.

Being totally honest, the price would have to be pretty low, or offer X sites (like 10) for the price for me not to just do it myself.

That or there would have to be some kick-ass value-add. The simplicity is a nice value-add, but doesn't quite cut it for me.
Doesn't matter if the patent holder is a troll with no viable products of its own.
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> Some countries have just been in the news more, so have been noticed more and have more 'fans' or interested observers than others.

Not to mention that tiny scrap of land about the size of New Jersey on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean, where a local conflict has been keeping the world media drooling for 60 years.
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I would hope that apart from staying legit, another take away from this be to know the market that you are in, know of some of the key people at those companies, or perhaps being able to find said information?

From the article it seems that the bruben25 SEO guy didn't do any research as to who Matt was, where as Matt quickly found out quite a bit of (public) information on who the SEO guy was.

Now who's the better Search expert?
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did PG & co. recognize your persistence? what do you think stoof out the fourth try? had the business advanced a good bit?
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"CS ... needs to attract more people."

"Honestly, the atmosphere and culture of most CS departments just aren't appealing at all."

I read this as saying that we need to fix the culture in order to attract more people.
Uh, it says that The King's Speech actually won.