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I kept reading the name and it never got not-funny.

(Should I get the Home Edition, Premium Edition, Professional Edition, Gold Premium Edition Plus, or the Home Platinum Professional Office Extra Plus Edition?)
This is going to cause the same dilemma as the Common App for universities. An easy way for a program to filter applicants is the fact that they took the time to complete the long application process. On the other hand, as a startup founder, I'd rather spend my time actually working on the product than doing paperwork for 20 different startup programs.

Given that a common app definitely increases the amount of work for the VCs or accelerator programs, but reduces the work for founders, I hope that we'll see the more founder-friendly programs collaborate to make this happen.

I'm eager to see what YC's stance on this will be.
Do you mean a company like OnLive that was in stealth mode for many years?
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>also translated some additional named entities that were required by XHTML but not in HTML4

Sounds like you were passing non-allowed entities into a doc interpreted as XML but as MSIE wouldn't do that it skipped over any issues by pretending it was HTML4?

That wouldn't be a standards compliance failure for FF/Chrome though. MSIE has often coped better with (forgive me) sloppy code, however.
Watson Dominates ‘Jeopardy’ but Stumbles Over Geography
Stored my bank balance in an int too. You'll have to wait for it to roll over.
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My girlfriend has been trying out some new year's resolutions the past month and has actually "scheduled" facebook time so that she can better connect with her friends who use it all the time. She also writes letters to friends, calls friends on the phone, reads about linguistics (a passion of hers) and volunteers at the animal shelter once a week. After a month of strict adherence to the routine, she still finds her weekly 15 minutes of Facebook the most difficult obligation to uphold!
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We should direct those slimeballs to this thread so they can get a dose of reality. Actually... not this thread... a transcript of this thread. We wouldn't want their kind frequenting HN!
Here in Hawaii I pay $50 a month for 5/1 mbps....
>Our web copywriters were under the impression that images on the Web without any copyright notices were “public domain” and therefore free to use. Naive? Yes. [...]

I find it almost impossible to believe that copywriters dealing in the creation of copyright works weren't aware of the very basics of the copyright mechanism.

If they believed the above then they'd have to believe too that they couldn't charge anyone to use any content that they wrote that had appeared online? This sounds like an attempt to cover up mindful dishonesty.

>While we maintained an active stock photo account for our blog with access to an array of suitable photos, one of our copywriters grabbed a photo from the Web.

Bam. There you have it, why would they pay for stock photos when they could simply download those same stock images for free by doing an image search (if the photos had been used elsewhere already). Indeed they could probably have found the identical stock photos in the wild with a little legwork.

Does anyone find this convincing?
If you aren't measuring something, how do you know when it's broken?

It's my opinion that you can never have too many stats.
I'm going to disagree with a lot of these other comments. What does your simple social networking site do? Is it a close clone of another site? For instance, Digg for cat lovers? Twitter for Amiga holdouts? Groupon for Waco, Texas?

There are commercial and open source clones of most of these sites out there of all kinds of quality. That doesn't actually matter so much - what matters is that you can quickly get a prototype of what you want to build in front of your potential users/customers.

Swap out some colors and images and make your clone script look close to what you want to build.

If your idea takes off, then you can start looking at building from scratch.

Hope this helps!
The text after the # is a Fragment identifier. Wikipedia: "In the most common case, the agent scrolls a Web page down to the anchor element which has an attribute string equal to the fragment value.". Basically, fragment identifiers are commonly used to link to specific content in long documents.

More recently, however, ajax applications have started using them to push state into the browser's history. This enables the expected functionality for bookmarking and the back button. Since fragment identifiers are only used by the client you can link to them without refreshing the page. Using the ! in #! is a convention proposed by Google for stateful ajax applications.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragment_identifier

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/10/proposal-...
I've told you that:

1. the biggest risk we have identified in our business plan is being squished by a sideways-moving competitor that has decided to invade the part of the market we are attempting to take;

2. they are only going to be able to do this for a certain period of time before we hit critical mass and can defend ourselves;

3. by implication, we do not believe that they will do this without knowledge of both our vision and the fact that we are working on it right now; and

4. we believe there is a real danger that they would take this action to defend themselves if they could.

Perhaps I wasn't clear, but from our point of view, that is all the justification we need to keep things under wraps for now.
Microsoft didn't change the rules every 3 months, sure they drive netscape out of the market but they never said that netscape couldn't run on windows. If you develop for windows you could be absolutely sure your app would install and work on it in 12 months time, can anyone say that about iPhone?

But developers make money you say? Well there are people out there tonight who were making money with subscription based apps who presumably aren't going to now apple is taking their 30%.

So apple has a big userbase, but for how long? Android comes in cheaper, it iterates faster, from personal experience I know people who are avid apple users who have droid phones because their cell providers offered them a great deal and their droid phone gives them what they need in terms of apps, (facebook, twitter e.t.c.)

All it takes is one killer app on android but not iphone and suddenly apple are on the back foot.
Source? If this is true, I'm really, really disappointed. FIOS was really the one bright spot in my life as an ISP customer, to the point where I've considered investing a week or two into adding a FIOS availability overlay on PadMapper (which would probably go unused except for me) so I could find an apartment with it next time without polling their ridiculous address entry form a thousand times manually.
benchmark game comparison: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all...

Yes, Racket looks to be almost an order of magnitude faster on most of the benchmarks.
No specific advice but just wanted to say hang in there and try to keep positive. When you say:
"I've been told I was in line for a raise but was just waiting for approval. That was six months ago, when I asked what was happening I was told 'still waiting'." - this means they are lying to you and they don't think you will have the guts to leave. Do your best to develop something on the side that you can show to potential employers, they usually are impressed by the initiative required for something like that. Visualize the day you have a solid offer on paper in your hand and you can tell your current job "Thanks for everything but it's time for me to go" - just focus on how good that will feel!
FWIW, EPB offers gigabit broadband in Chattanooga TN where I live. I don't use it since it costs quite a bit more than $26, but it's nice to know it's available :)
Honestly, I don't understand why so many people are frustrated about what defines the modern browsers. If you are not happy about a product, you don't have to use it. If you don't use it, the manufacturer will know that something is wrong.

Plus, the word, modern, is so vague. As Microsoft did, it can mean totally different things to different people. HTML5 isn't standard, yet. There is very little number of websites that fully utilize the capabilities of HTML5.

Now, go grab a cup of coffee and do something more productive :)
I have very little respect for the fqa. It is just a laundry list of complaints; absurd whining about every item in the C++ FAQ. For eg : http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/assign.html

If you are going to complain about a self assignment check in the assignment operator function, maybe you should stay away from any kind of programming at all.

And I don't understand this complaining about which subset of C++ needs to be used. I have written scala code and it most definitely does not use every feature of scala.

The scenarios in which any of the C++ features need to be used is fairly obvious.

1. STL - use it all the time, it is one of the core libraries of modern C++
2. templates/overloading - You will use these features when you use STL. You typically won't create you own template classes.
3. exceptions - This is one of the C++ features used less often. Dealing with it is no different from dealing with exceptions in other languages like Java.

> I find boost pleasurable to use; however looking at boost source is enough to melt my mind.

The idea is that you use boost source and not look at it. boost libraries are a very specialized kind of template meta-programming code that only container writers have to deal with. I like being able to use a smart_ptr without having to worry about silly memory leaks, none of which would have been possible without templates or operator overloading in plain vanilla C.

There are several deficiencies with C++, that I experience on a day to day basis, none of which are discussed in any of these online C++ rants. I have never faced any software engineering issues because of the multitude of C++ features. That has never been the problem. If anything all these features reduce the amount of boiler plate that I need to write to get my job done.

You may not like STL iterators, but they are a 1000 times better than some of the gnarly C macros I have seen in C code to get STL like containers in C. Once you have seen that kind of C code, you will be glad about the existence of templates.
I have found the opposite - by using a handle on a debate site, I've been able to float very taboo topics that have ended up being pretty illuminating and illustrative that I never would have engaged in if I was 'protecting my name and keeping away from the crazies'.

One example was in an online debate about a report of necrophiliac abuse of cadavers in a funeral home. Highly emotive topic and sets off the rage in most folks. But myself and a few others were able to look at it a bit more discretely - and through discussion examined where the harm lay: not to the person whose body was so affected (as they're dead) but to the family should they find out (you may disagree, but this helped illuminate something for me about 'bags of chemicals' vs 'human being'). This isn't to say I think necrophilia shouldn't be a crime, but that where the harm is done is somewhere other than the knee-jerkers think it is. Ultimately discussion of this ultra-taboo topic gave me insight to the human condition and was another brick in the understanding-how-things-are-instead-of-how-they-look edifice.

If I had've used my real name in a discussion like that, I would never have pursued it. Some people are blinded by rage and emotion and advancing an unpopular viewpoint is simply inviting someone stupid in the middle of a rage to do something harmful to you without rationally thinking about it. These folks are also the ones that believe that being offended gives them the right (or even the duty!) to harm you.
I'm in a very similar situation: building a startup that's not technically complicated and has no real competitors (only substitutes).

I'm trying to stay semi-stealth; avoiding talking about it to startup/techies/online but still asking friends, family, and potential customers.
The Stanford Accelerator program is particularly interesting in that they 1) Have great connections, but 2) take no equity. The only catch is that you have to be affiliated with Stanford.
As the site's very first "featured expert" (even gave me a tshirt), I wholly agree.
In March 2009, I wrote:

PG made an interesting analogy to the college admissions process. How long until we see an "Common App" for seed firms, and a common decision timeline?

(http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=528071)

The answer was two years, apparently.
it is the best possible experience !!1
Apple owns a very fertile piece of soil. You can grow 10x the crop there that you can grown any where else. Where do you want to farm your crop ?
Ask HN: Who is the equivalent of 37signals in Korea?
Do they exist yet? My aunt runs a design firm in Seoul. She tells me the business climate there is a lot less friendly to freelancers.
Actually, the scenario was much simpler than that, to do with building dynamic HTML where form fields could contain characters like apostrophes.

It turns out that apos; is not a named entity in HTML4, but is rendered as the single character you might expect by both Firefox and Chrome. However, when we ran into IE not rendering it "properly", it turned out that we were wrong, and IE's behaviour was perfectly legal. (Whether it is standards-compliant to render a non-standard entity in this way, I don't know; the point was that it turned out not to be IE that wasn't compliant at all.)
HBGary isn't anywhere near the only company to have security holes like this open. It's just worse because they're a security company and they happened to piss off Anonymous.

Getting employees or users not to reuse passwords is probably the hardest thing to do.

Also, Ars' coverage of this story has been great.
Are we asking if the deal is competitive or if it's fair? They are very different questions and most of what I'm reading in this thread seems to treat them as the same.

Maybe Apple doesn't want big, low-margin publishers in the app store. Maybe they want to be the big publisher and they only want small time content that is worth many times what it cost to produce.

As a developer, I don't like that the hottest new platform is a walled garden, but I can't say that Apple has ever even implied that the app store is anything else and they haven't twisted any arms or abused any monopolies to get where they are. They just played really well, went straight to the source (consumers), and now they have everyone else by the balls.
Off topic: On first reading I interpreted Application as in Program (computer) and was left wondering in confusion for a couple seconds how, why anyone would want such a thing. This sort of language ambiguity is Watson has to deal with and what makes it so impressive.
>Regardless, I think your exhibit is more easily explained by Apple understanding exactly who is likely to spend money and making them want to be their customers.

It's slightly different from the iTunes situation, but the same case can be made for Mobile me services. On any iOS device you won't be able to access mobile me (mail, calendar, address book, gallery) through the browser, you have to set it up locally and use the native applications.

Mobile me is for people who by definition spent money upfront on the service, and people using iOS devices are the customers. So far it's been a pita to deal with their lack of support for mobile safari access.
Congratulations Diego. You're doing such a great job with IndexTank. I hope the funding will expand the free plan so we can test it further, right? ;)
If the plan is indeed to ditch the app approach, I would be very surprised. Html5 does not offer the same reliability as a native app at this time.

It could happen down the line with a solid web experience as the starting point.
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That's what the `non-obvious' restriction should be good for.
My wife tried making a pseudonym Facebook account for helping me test FB integration on my site... Facebook refused to let her create an account with the name "Peaches Gnome"

Anyone out there who is actually named Peaches Gnome will need to prove it to Facebook. Imagine the troubles that the Zappa kids go through.
Bookbaby makes it pretty easy, but I don't see how that even matters.

You're just arguing that there should be more middlemen, sub-platform-providers who get a special deal with Apple compared to original app authors.

We can all foresee what happens when providing a hammer factory is favored over providing a hammer. It's not good UX or good for consumers.
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In their defense, they do allow anonymous posting of questions and answers. So if it's anonymity you're worried about...
Just curious: shouldn't Netflix be worried? This entitles Apple, Inc. to not only Rhapsody's income, but also to 30% of the income from Netflix's streaming only plan. Presumably, this policy would also affect Netflix's hybrid distribution model.

I think Rhapsody's got a friend in Netflix.

This will be interesting, given how much Apple has promoted Netflix in recent store advertisements, and integrated Netflix with Apple TV. Does this mean that Netflix will be required to have subscriptions entered through the App Store? What about the restrictive privacy policy; will that hinder physical distribution?
I understand the reasons why people accept friend requests from people they might not know but personally, I will never friend someone I don't know. I might only have 30 friends but I actually know each one of them.
Apple's visionary leader is an old-style media mogul
Reminds me of what TI did with graphing calculators, actually.

HP and Casio had graphing calculators a good five years before TI did, but TI gave schools free samples and made deals with textbook authors.

And that's how a late-to-market-but-adequate technology becomes ubiquitous.
Upvoted and also interested in this.
Just made one of these, really really half-assed.

I had to strip a coaxe cable with a pair of scissors and my hands. That took at least 20 mins.

But here we are

http://imgur.com/a/6mE0W

I have to remember to take that down before someone gets cut in half running down the stairs
"Greedy" is such a misused word. Businesses are supposed to be, for lack of a better word, avaricious. That is neither good nor bad; it's basic capitalism. That greedy system spawned the very computer which the author used to type his rant and the electricity that powered it.
Wow. Did they do anything right?

I can understand a typical organization making most of these mistakes, but a security firm?
Mammoth global corporations use passwords like 'P@55w0rd' on production systems and open servers not blocked by a firewall that store product-code and build systems. This type of 'best practice failure' occurs everywhere.

For most, its like flossing every day. You know you should... but do you?
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>Microsoft are mostly rising above the silly political games that Apple/Adobe/Google have been playing lately in terms of knocking out functionality for non-technical reasons.

You mean like satisfying current internet standards and meeting the draft standards head on to allow browsers to exploit the latest advances in web design and development off the bat rather than having to wait years-and-years and drag back the whole development of the www as a medium.

>Meanwhile, I have been less impressed with each successive version of Firefox, as performance of the UI slowed, things got moved around or more cluttered, and they didn't keep up with what I regard as essential features in a web app world like running tabs independently.

What do you mean by "performance of the UI slowed". You've stated quite clearly that performance is only a factor for you up to the point it is fast enough. So, it seems something in the UI is so slow as to be unusable for you - the UI is pretty much non existent though isn't it. There's an address bar, couple of buttons, search bar - what is significantly slowing you down there? The actual user interfaces save a few niceties (like Chrome's tab closing, optional tabs on top in Chrome/FF/Op, etc.) are pretty similar in their standard forms.

You mention running tabs independently (as independent processes presumably) I didn't know that IE8 did this?
They're not allowed to reprice for iOS, unless they also reprice for all their other platforms. Quoting the Apple announcement[1], "we require ... that, if a publisher is making a subscription offer outside of the app, the same (or better) offer be made inside the app."

[1] http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/02/15appstore.html
> Exhibit B: In order to do things with your iPhone (like download podcasts, or update firmware)

Can you not download podcasts on the iPhone over the cell network? I have 3rd gen iPod touch and it lets me download podcasts over wifi.
That is a far more admirable method of Facebooking. I think I gave up being strict about accepting friend request shortly after registering and just tried to avoid social confrontation over declined friend requests. And this is apparently what it leads to. :)
If you can forget the silly musical, _Wicked_ was a pretty awesome book along these same lines.
Nobody really gives a damn what you built your site in (why I chose asp.net).
a fair point, but he also has it somewhat negatively in Childhood's End.

edit: having just looked it up, i'm actually not sure i've read the City and the Stars: i may be remembering a different story entirely. regardless, Childhood's End was rather bleak in that regard.
I find this exceptionally funny.

EE held me hostage for so many years, working as a young independent contractor in a small town with far fewer tech resources to draw upon... there's just no sympathy for their particular kind of slimeball tactics.

I remember that they even experimented with cutting off answers right before the end, not to mention saying that they had an answer when it fact they didn't. There was certainly no way to get your money back.

Thanks Google, Hacker News, GitHub, Quora, Ruby on Rails and even Facebook for making my life so much better in less than a decade.
For pete's sake...

I'm a fan of Moglen and the SFLC but this is about as practical as a bicycle with square wheels.
isn't being negative exactly what you were trying to do? unless you were trying to conjure up positive images of experts exchange.
I presume you mean at university? There are no serious math classes at school.
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