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> When it learns about the internet, it will be a huge powerhouse to reckon with.

I think you can argue that Apple is more self-aware than AOL with its walled garden was back in the 1990s. Apple treats its users better than AOL (or at least it gives users what they want - their content in a predictable manner - without having to deal with BitTorrent)

In one of the dot-com era books, I remember reading that an AOL exec boasted they could throw up one of those intrusive pop-up ads that you saw when logging in/logging off of AOL that said "Click here for $19.99, to get absolutely nothing!" and they would get click throughs - people would actually buy nothing. I doubt Apple is that pandering of its consumers (at least not in public). Though I did go to the Genius Bar the other day and I think the consumers may be condescended upon a bit.

I think that Apple treats consumers how they want to be treated - we want to buy, we want one-click gratification, we're willing to deal with DRM because most of us have no idea what DRM is (the non-geeks), we are scared of the Android Marketplace - it's more like a Chinatown bazaar where anything goes (live frogs and counterfeits galore) - compared to the safe suburban mall feel (marble floors and security guards) of the iTunes Store. Yes, the iTunes Store experience might not feel as inviting as an Indie book/record/knick-knack store and it may have a sanitized, strip-mall feel to it - but how many of us feel totally comfortable entering our iTunes password to get instant gratification - media snacks.

> I think one of Apple's biggest competitors will be Netflix.

Don't you think that one of the reasons Netflix is doing well is because it is not Apple? Yes, Netflix has done a remarkable job with execution (remember Blockbuster?) - the red envelopes (heck, my parents are Netflix addicts!), the cultural impact ("it's on my Netflix queue") but - the major content producers probably are scared to sign their soul (30% of revenues) away to Apple? They know once they do it, they can't go back (and lose customers that would be annoyed if they backed out).
Peter

To make the programme sustainable in the longer term, unfortunately it has been necessary to adopt a similar model to YC and TechStars. I am sure you agree that the provision of similar programmes should be encouraged.
Just put up the latest results

https://spreadsheets1.google.com/ccc?key=tth_jhM8vyBAuogqHll...
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I find it repulsive that poor diligence on the part of a programmer can be blamed on some ‘community leader’ setting a bad example. As a programmer, all code that goes into your project is your responsibility. When things go well you’re the only one who gets paid, therefore when they go wrong you’re the only one who should get the blame.

See also: http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/posts/fyi-my-open-source-us...
For an example of the impact which the programme can have check out ScreenReach who took part in the Difference Engine a programme I have historically run.

http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/01/27/screenreach-raises-50000...
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The first 3 are the same thing and aren't even social apps.

But, iTools was great when it was around. Way ahead of its time and free! When they went to subscription model I think most early adopters had a hard time justifying the price when you could get hotmail for nothing.
If people are using apps because they make more money with them, then what is your basis for claiming web apps are superior?
There are developer designers and 'artists'.
There are developer designers and 'nerds'.
Microsoft is pitching IE 9 as, basically, "Hey guys, we finally caught up! We now offer an awesome HTML5alicious browsing experience, so y'all can stop switching to Firefox and come back over here!" This is Mozilla's return salvo. It's about keeping their message out there.
I really don't get those numbers. Can someone please explain them?

What does it mean?

How much money did he make by the end of a month?
Isn't Clipper a separate entity from Caltrain? Or is Caltrain somehow handling that transaction for you on Clipper's behalf?

Still smugly using my Translink-branded card.
There is a common subset that most browsers have supported for a long time. I think the benefit of supporting that subset is pretty obvious, and I don't see how you can make the argument that a subset of a subset is better than the larger subset.
Phil

All points well made and accepted.

I can assure you we are not a scam - I would hope that the inclusion of Cambridge University and NESTA would provide some credibility.

All of our investors are also included within the mentor list - but do not want to be specifically identified. Interesting our investors have much more to lose ($$$) than the mentors who are giving up their time.

All our mentors give up their time freely. We take a minimal stake to ensure sustainability - but the ultimate objective to help teams accelerate their businesses.

If you have any further questions, drop me a line at jon at springboard dot com.
Thanks. I was getting confused about the root password with jussi's email.
Thanks for pointing that out - I missed it. Was thinking of rootkit.com.
I usually have the 'try coffeescript' dialog open so I can see what the compiled output looks like.

I trust CS to do the right thing, but I still like to confirm it's doing what I expect.
Phil

I am humbled to think that we can compete with Paul and his investors (including their $150k). Seriously, we announced the deadline in mid November when we launched. PS if you know any YC applicants who would like to apply - send them my way.
Couldn't disagree more. The "all apps should be web apps" movement is just an attempt to return to dumb terminals. Now the pendulum is swinging the other way again, but this time "fat client" apps can just be nicer front ends to web services.

Personally, my strategy is to create my product as a REST web service and provide some kind of default web interface, but let native clients use the REST interface to provide a nicer experience where applicable. I.e. the HTML interface is just one possible "view" to the service.

Why does my native app have to be the completely generic web browser native app when it could be a specific "web browser" custom tailored for my specific service?
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Nobody gives a damn but then he provides us with 4 debatable reasons why he personally chose a technology. Sure looks like he gives a damn to me.
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Only if you assume that hits are evenly distributed throughout the day and throughout the month. Very few sites have that sort of traffic pattern. 30 million hits/month quite likely means peaks of 100 QPS followed by periods of 1 QPS.
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I've been using it for the last week or so and its a huge step forward, if you are an IE8 user, 9 is huge step forward...

Its actually good enough to never have to worry about moving to a different browser (If its what you are using).
why they want to staff up on average to below average programmers

1. Because they don't want to spend a lot of time looking for developers - it's far easier to find a Java developer than, say, a Ruby developer, simply because there's so many of them. Also, because there is so many of them, in all likelihood they will ask for standard wages whereas a developer with a good knowledge of some lesser known language/technology might ask for a higher pay because he knows his skills are in demand and the employer cannot easily find somebody else with those skills for a lot less money.

2. For certain types of software there is no need to have the best of the best. Average programmers are just fine for working on a standard CRUD application. If you're Google and you're hiring people to work on your search engine, then yes, you want to have the most brilliant minds out there, but if you're a company that just needs somebody to maintain it's CRUD application than you'll do just fine with an average developer, who'll be more than happy to work for standard, average pay.

That being said, it's my opinion that, when hiring developers for work on an enterprise app, it's probably best to hire those that have a good knowledge of some enterprise-proven language like Java or C#, but with an interest in languages such as Scala, Ruby or Python. This way you get the guy that knows his way around an enterprise stack, but that's also not just a drone that considers programming nothing more than a day job, you get somebody who actually likes coding and frequently codes just for the fun of it.
>It's deeply disturbing that the people at Apple feel entitled to radically change the rules of the game whenever it suits them.

What makes you think that's what they're doing? It could also be that they never intended for their platform to be used this way but didn't explicitly deny it because they didn't see this coming. I don't have any way of knowing that is the case, but I don't think you have anyway of knowing your opinion is right either.
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Yes, maybe. But a fun-hack with the addition "should make it generic".

A quick ack VERIFY_NONE above an out-of-the-box install of a gem-loaded shopping framework reveals 6 instances of VERIFY_NONE, one of which in a function called aply_ssl_options ...

The interesting part of the OP in my opinion, is more about the copy-paste technique which makes this kind of "just use gem-install" code into back doors.
[edit: deleted double post... xmonad's surprising short cuts are a blessing]
I think he means online indexing http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/cc966402.aspx
Tufte's in person presentations are pretty disappointing IMO. Better to spend your money on one of his books and read it aloud to yourself in the mirror, which is about the same level of engagement you'd get from sitting through his course in person.
Even just in the context of visual design there is more to it than a continuum of aesthetic quality. A good designer needs to interpret culture and situate the product in relation to an environment in a meaningful way. Others will just follow trends and make things that may be pretty but are also empty and disposable. To say that this is a distinction between art and design I think denigrates both.
Simple solution: sell your crops where it is most profitable. Maybe with 11x normal it's still worth it. As soon as it's not, you switch.
2009 is so two years ago.
Even if IE9 were in every way superior to Chrome 11 this would still be the case, and it wouldn't really be any the fault of MSFT.
The 'accredited investor' rules make it hard to accept traditional equity investments from small net-worth investors. My understanding is that ventures can take a small number of close-family/friends/founding-employee investments from non-accredited investors, but the added costs and risks of setting this up limit its use when there are other options.

Yet, there are attempts to hack-around the traditional overhead. Though I know very little about it, I'm intrigued by 'ProFounder', a funding mechanism that seems to use revenue-shares rather than equity to get around some of the regulatory barriers that otherwise prevent crowdfunding by small investors. See:

http://www.profounder.com

The founding team with kiva.org alumni (and recognizable advisors and investors) suggest this isn't just some dreamy, naive, or fly-by-night undertaking.
But what is it? What does it do? How does it work? I skimmed the article, maybe I missed the answers to these, but seemed precious thin on actual information.
SparkFun, if you're not already aware of it, is only vaguely related to ThinkGeek, but it seems to me anyone looking at a hackable watch would be right at home there.
Nothing stopping you using another database server - I've started using CouchDB with an ASP.Net MVC application because I wanted documented oriented storage and it works perfectly well.

MySQL seems to have plenty support, as does Oracle etc.
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I think calling it "unmatched" is a bit strong, but generally I would say that the documentation of .Net is definitely one of its strong points.
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Do you have any proof otherwise? I've developed software on numerous platforms, and the Microsoft stack was incredibly stable, and performed better than any Ruby/PHP/Python stack I've worked with.

I prefer to do most things in Rails these days, but I'm not kidding myself that for raw performance, .NET is great.
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It's not an enabler, it's a threat to their core business. That's why they don't produce a modern browser, just like they "can" do spell-checking in the browser, but aren't because the web threatens their Office monopoly.

Why would you expect a modern browser from a company that is frightened of the web?
Could you also fix the tags underneath each section? They all say "java" in big letters for some strange reason.
Umm, if you're supposed to be a security guy, you shouldn't use IE+Windows, especially if there are publicly known vulnerabilities. You should also reconsider the use of OS X, and at least be able to follow instructions on how to disable the JDK. Etc.
This has been submitted a few days ago. I can't find the link because I'm on the iPad, but if someone could searchyc.com and link the old discussion here, that would be great.
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Amusingly, you have to have a paid subscription to be able to comment on their blog. No wonder it doesn't have any comments.
Guys,

My name is Paul. I am CEO and Founder of a company called Screenreach (screenreach.com) which was on a programme called The Difference Engine which was basically the trial run for Springboard.

So I can speak from first hand experience of being on the programme and what I actually got from it. When we entered the programme we started with a technology. We used the programme to help accelerate the business and to really help put meat behind the areas where we were lacking.

Over the 13 weeks we effectively went from a technology to a business that was investor ready. At the end of the process, we started to put a team behind Screenreach (one of my mentors joined us fulltime), 2 days after the process finished we raised £250,000 from an angel who also joined us as our chairman and we really have gone from strength to strength.

We are now expanding, just raised another round and have a really strong management team behind us.

The programme really helped us achieve this and as it says on the tin, accelerated us through the process.

Happy to discuss further with anyone who wants to know more, just drop me a line.

Paul
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Hey guys.. coming to palo alto for the Launch conference. I will be busy with that Wed and Thursday, but Friday I have free. I wanted to see if there are any hackers here that could show me around? I would love to visit hacker house, meet some of the cool startups and young entrepreneurs like myself building web startups, founders den, and anywhere else that will take us!
They've continued selling it, that's why they have to support it. It was all very convenient for them to offer it cheap to fend of Linux on netbooks because Vista sucked, so they can honour the implicit bargain they offered.
The way it is appearing is that Mozilla are scared of IE especially when you consider where the product has evolved from IE6.

Additionally, it needs to be said that whilst IE9 may be lacking some HTML5 and CSS3 features that Firefox 4 supports that HTML5 standards won't be completed until 2014, and Mircosoft will have its IE product fully supporting HTML5 by then.

I'm a firefox user but I still believe that Mozilla had no reason to do this, other than that they are realizing that IE has become a decent competitor again and they can't just pump out a slightly better browser to convince the crowd to convert. They've made themselves look a little stupid especially with regards to standards which won't be completed until 2014, and you can probably expect Google Chrome team to release a Chrome Vs. FF4 comparing its standards etc.
Same here. I know with vim you can have jslint run every time you make a change, so I wonder if that would work with the CS compiler, maybe even show an output pane. Though I don't use vim much, and spend more time in Textmate. Textmate does have a nice CS bundle, which you can do cmd+b to compile and see the output, but the window is not very pretty.
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I think what noonespecial is probably getting at is that because .Net is usually written in Visual Studio a lot of people stick applications together in a RAD approach without giving much consideration for what is happening under the hood. Not all, of course, but probably a larger proportion that for platforms that don't have tools with RAD features like Visual Studio.

WebForms in ASP.Net are pretty much an attempt to take the developer experience of Visual Basic and make it work on the web - arguably with mixed results.

I really don't think there is anything wrong with .Net as a platform - but things like WebForms can be rather disturbing if not used with care.
It happened to me once. And worst part is that it happened to me when I was negotiating a seed round :/

So, I ended up stoping negotiations with the BAs and focusing on raising a personal loan to buy him his shares.

Finally I was able to buy him out and signed with the BAs (who were extremely supportive in the process because they saw me manage all of this professionally... and I didn't use their money for my battle).

So, if you really don't hit it off with him, my advice is only one: "the sooner the better".
Do you get the Domain Registrar of America renewal letters? (Or whatever they are called). Or is that just something sent to us rubes in the colonies.
Also, passwords are compromised much more often than keys. To get someone's SSH key you have to have access to their local workstation, which is probably going to be more troublesome than access to a colo'd server, if for no other reason than most workstations go to sleep after they've been inactive for a while (there are other reasons, though).

Also, changing keys isn't that hard. You just re-run ssh-keygen and delete the old key from authorized_keys and replace it with the new one.
I can understand Apple wanting to cut out middle men. I've never been a big fan of middle men myself, for the most part. But the biggest thing that bugs me about this is: iBooks doesn't have any books where I am! I buy all my stuff on Kindle because it's the only place I can legally buy a book at all. They can't try to shove everyone off the platform when they don't have any viable alternative themselves.
Here it is: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2209808
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I think Mozilla is worried that people will accept IE 9. If Microsoft's pitch takes hold in people's minds, the push for Firefox will lose steam.

And all of this "HTML5 standards won't be completed until 2014" talk is kind of a semantic game. That fallacious concept is why Ian Hickson is trying to move away from the unrealistic notion of a "totally finished standard." In practice, most of the stuff Firefox implements is already nailed down. IE is unquestionably lagging.
Correlation is not causation. The post they responded to is big, by Mozilla and made the rounds.

I see no mention of HN, on which basis do you infer they responded because it was on HN's front page?
That was the root password, and remote root was disabled, so they had to social engineer an account that could remote in over ssh so they could su to do the real damage.
The funny thing is, while as a web developer I hate with all my guts fighting IE standards(?), I also hate how Firefox (yes even version 4) is a memory hog. It's unbearable to work with it consuming 700mb to 1Gb of memory, with just a few tabs and firebug on.

Chrome(webkit) on the other side, wins both of these two combined any time of day.

Mozilla, you have come a long away, you created history when you came out with Firefox, you destroyed IE user base back in the days, and in Europe you are now the number one top browser. However, please stop comparing yourself to other browsers and work on your own issues.

Point being is, I love FF (although I'm not using it lately), but I'm hating how cocky they are becoming.
It's simply due to the regional monopolies the telcos and cable cos have in the US. If you had open competition it might go something like what happened in the UK.

Bandwidth was pretty expensive in the UK back in the nineties, but then OFCOM (the regulator) forced British Telecom to be broken into two companies...one wholesale and one retail. BT retail has to buy from BT wholesale at the same price as everyone else, and even small ISP's could now offer ADSL, and were allowed to install their own equipment at the exchange.

Fast forward to today...I pay £10 p/month for 24/2. If you have a satellite package with Sky TV you can get 2Mbps for free, or 20Mbps for £5 p/m or so. BT is just launching a 40Mbps service for around £25 p/m. Normally in the UK we get stung on prices and everything else I can think of is 20-50% higher in cost than the US...so it's pretty amazing our broadband costs are more competitive than many other countries. There just happens to be very health competition in this category.
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"Apple® today announced a new subscription service available to all publishers of content-based apps on the App Store℠, including magazines, newspapers, video, music, etc."

I'm hoping they aren't going to classify a SaaS client as a content-based app .. we definitely need clarification on this.
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Hi,
I know a game available for pc and iphone. It's not even a very recent game, however there isn't any online and/or facebook version of it. Imho, the concept has a huge potential for social gaming.
Question is, how legal is if I was to do clone of the game, extend to be a social game and publish it on facebook?