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C++ with a JIT is called Java,

Seriously though this is misguided. PGO is clearly a step in the right direction but its simply deferred static optimization. Either you optimize in C at the compile time, or with PGO by running a few statistically representative executions, but these are not dynamic.

The only way to make truly dynamic optimizations is by having a runtime environment and code that is interpreted.

The argument that its not often necessary is a different argument and with only a few moments thought can be seen to be untrue. Take for example and strstr like operation that you naively implement using by walking through the source string. Now let's say you do this a lot, all is good because the input is short, now you receive (in a parser for example) something much much bigger. A JIT has privy information and can make determinations that building a index on the source string to make repeated finds faster is better, C does not, even with PGO because you may never have run a test that encounters this situation.
All of the above! It's deceptive in the sense that when I saw the ad, I thought Marketwatch was promoting an article. (That's why I clicked.) And I spend all day on this stuff. I would bet that a decent number of people read that article and don't understand that it's paid for by the company discussed in the ad.
Just a general comment about the site: I love your logo and headline styling, but why is the body text so unreadable? I know I can just ctrl+ it, but it seems that if you're building a better TechCrunch content-wise, why not shoot for better readability [reference intended] of the actual content? The emphasis looks like links and the graphic takes up a lot of room for an element that doesn't add anything.
Konig's Traps and Pitfalls, another slim book

http://www.amazon.com/C-Traps-Pitfalls-Andrew-Koenig/dp/0201...
How deep does C go?
I think the real reason explaining why apple has been able to get away with that is the fact that by (1) denying the issue, then (2) minimizing it by saying its a problem with all other phones, and thus (3) making the antenna problem an industry wide one, they were able to play win some time.

You see, the iphone -- or for the matter, any apple product -- can only be fully appreciated within a specific mindset, by adopting a specific reference frame, or point of view. To me, apple had to restore this my-iphone-has-so-many-feature-i-dont-care-about-the-issues POV that enabled them to initially sell a device with a lot less battery longevity than other competitor in the past.

Playing on time and making this a industry wide issue that is not so important, both allowed them to win more customer but also to allow those to adopt/restore this POV. Thus the more they had owners who just signed a X-years contract to get the new iphone the more they had advocates for their case.

The way I see this : its the ultimate win of the fanboy/evangelist strategy agains't the traditional "be-aware/show-you-care/do-your-share" PR moves.
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If only this was because the are going to launch another product to take on ebay/paypal.

But sadly it's likely not.

<rant>And for the love of $deity|!$deity please stop screwing with menu interfaces on all your products, Google, unless you can give us an option to get the old one back.

The new gmail interface today requires two clicks (and a "hidden" menu) to logout. Are they trying to get people to accidentally stay logged into their google account? What about on shared computers? "Logout" should ALWAYS be a clearly visible link.</rant>
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That's probably a sound business strategy if you don't want to (or can't afford to) take the cut.

I'm not saying "this could never happen". I'm saying "the OP is making stuff up to get page views"
I was actually surprised at how funny he is - many times I find the personality type that supports being so good at that type of thing tends to be lacking in social skills (broad generalization of course) but he comes off as humble, personable and funny. His answer to the Now do you know how people felt when they were competing against you? question was especially interesting to me.
as replied up the thread...

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Just to be clear we're not scraping content nor SEOing to death. We've been running our mailing list archive for almost 8 years.

To quote Matt_Cutts somewhere else in this thread: 'because USENET/mailing lists don't always have a centralized/canonical location on the web, which makes dupe content more of a potential issue. It's not the usual "Website X copied my website" scenario.'

If you dislike us that's cool, but just know we're not showing in your SERPs because of scraping & SEO trickery. A lot of people, maybe not you, really are finding their answer there. There's a lot of solid answers in inboxes.
What happens if some local infrastructure breaks down in a way that that the local community is put to a standstill until things get fixed?

In a non-networked world, the problem is limited to the local community. In a networked world, everyone is harmed.

It's pretty easy to see that there are tradeoffs to be made between reliability and efficiency. As we become dependent on products which are centrally produced (very efficiently) and widely distributed, we all become vulnerable when a disaster strikes the producers.

I personally believe that the efficiency gains outweigh the reliability losses, but that doesn't mean the tradeoffs don't exist.
Where has Apple said "No"? I seem to recall a whole bunch of speculation and uncertainty surrounding Apple not making a clear statement one way or the other.
I do actually. 9000 answers at EE (since 1998), 2.5K flair at SO (since last year)
Yet another example of getting some things wrong in the article, and then some things wrong in the title, to end up with a basically dishonest piece of journalism.

The article is based off of the "Cambridge Associates LLC U.S. Venture Capital Index." I see no reason to believe that measures the median venture fund--that would be a dumb way to construct an index--the responsible way to create an index is to weight by the size of the fund.

Second, as noted by dgabriel, the story draws its conclusion from the 10-year return--if you look at the quarterly returns on page 6 of the report (http://www.cambridgeassociates.com/pdf/Venture%20Capital%20I...) you'll see the real story is "Venture Firms Lose Money from 2000-2002." Which everyone already knows.

Really, really terrible work.
Will it embed the correct fonts?
I can tell you that as someone who was a designer before it was cool to be a designer, Intuit was present at every UX and HCI conference I attended (both academic and professional) looking for designers before it was cool to look for designers. Even back then their design team had hundreds of people on it, running the full gambit from interaction and visual design to quantitative testing (and lately I've seen them hiring). It's odd that they're so good, but it's no accident - they've been working towards it for years now.
Apple is marketing their hardware product and the platform, not your app.Yours is just one app out of hundreds of thousands, soon to be millions.

If Apple is eating your businesses margins, and you gain nothing from operating on their platform, then what's the point? "I get no profit from my customer, and this may even be costing me money because I'll never recover the cost of iOS app development and maintenance, but at least I got to pay $100 for the privilege of being app #823,465".
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Most startups need to focus where their market is. If you're in B2B or focused on selling something to startups, you need to be on Twitter.

If you're more of a general consumer product, you should be on facebook, but not on a fan page, you should be trying to get users to "Share" your content.

Fan Pages can be a good way to communicate with existing customers or blog visitors, but it's not really an acquisition mechanism.
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Making a statement of fact ("Apple is taking 100% of mobile SaaS revenue") with no basis in reality is pretty much the definition of baseless. Unless and until Apple speaks on SaaS, this is a figment of the authors imagination. I'm not saying "it can't happen". I'm saying "not true as of right now"

I'm surprised "making shit up" qualifies as news on HN these days.
If someone figured out how to write regular apps on a GPU (which would amount to parallelizing the app), it could change everything.

1. What would be a first step towards this? It seems the big problem is that most code is sequential... and the opportunity is those parts that don't need to be, but just happen to be written that way.

2. Perhaps another opportunity is to try to remove the layers that make modern software so slow. Can they be distributed across all pipelines somehow?

3. Finally, a radical approach is not to try to convert existing apps, but to think about the whole problem of an app from the very beginning (what inputs will you get, what outputs do you want), and try to write that directly on a GPU. By making it concrete, you might see new tricks, perhaps by redefining the problem (the app's features).
Hi all!

My name is David Lang, I'm the Community Manager at ProFounder. I wanted to clarify a few things about our platform and also provide some resources for those who are interested in learning more.

ProFounder is a crowdfunding platform for entrepreneurs that provides an easy-to-use interface to raise money from friends, family and people that you know. In the words of the SEC, the investors must have a "prior, substantial relationship" to the entrepreneur. We're not getting around any SEC rules by using revenue share. There are SEC compliance requirements for each state. We've found that - for the entrepreneurs that use our platform - the flexibility provided by the rev share model is key.

There have been a number of successful raises on the platform, between $10k - $60k. Check out the blog to read more about the case studies:

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Also, if you have any more specific questions, I'm happy to answer them!
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"PRNewswire is cagey about their prices, but it looks like it might cost less than $1,000 to get a press release out."

For online-only it's quite a bit less. I think it starts around $250.
Nice job guys, keep the good work.
You are overloading "free" too.

You exist. You can make choices. You can act. In that sense, you are free, until you're dead. You can do whatever you want with software.

In a more practical sense, if you want to redistribute GPL-licensed software, you aren't free from the restriction of the software's license in a legal sense, because the license is your only legal means to redistribute the software.

When are you ever free to do what you wish with software? Answer, when it's your original work... and you don't violate software patents, even the ones you never heard of... and it's not export controlled or you're not exporting it... and its main purpose is not to induce copyright infringement (we are losing that one in the courts today, sad but true)... and you are not using the software to commit other crimes... AND SO ON.

Get real, there are all kinds of legal restrictions on your ability to "do what you wish" with software, even public domain software. Some of them even make sense.

It might be more accurate to call it "freed" software. The goal of the GPL is to uncage domesticated software and let it roam wild forever, never collared again. The people who distribute software in this fashion won't let you put it back in the zoo.

And again, FSF is not saying that users are free to do what they want. You are not free, according to them. They say that software is free, in the sense of the software freedoms. That sentence essentially would only parse to $0 before Stallman came along.
Nova producer Michael Bicks, who attended the taping while working on a program related to the contest, said:

"He [Watson] crashed a bunch of times," he said. "It took over four hours to tape the show--most of the delays were due to crashes."
It's not customer-centric. It will hurt innovation, because fewer players will participate. I wrote about the topic at some length here:

http://www.bradlanders.com/2011/02/16/apples-30-vig-is-bad-f...
What does "computational power" mean in this context? There's a graph but no explanation...
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Really cool, clean and simple, I like the first step! Keep it up!
> I wouldn't say Apple got away with it. [...] Having said that, she'll likely still get an iPhone.

It looks like Apple did get away with it.
Yes, you are typically the kind of person I help at EE...
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Sentence one says that there's no public good being served. Succeeding sentences argue that there's no individual right either.
exactly. It's not really an acquisition mechanism. I still think you should be on facebook, but focusing on building a facebook fan page isn't going to get you anywhere. If anything, just use it to reserve the URL.
The problem is that they will be required to sell subscriptions through Apple. The new rule is that apps that offer subscriptions through other sources must also include in-app subscriptions for the same price through Apple's store.
Thanks for the downvote. Way to be uninformed.

http://www.inspiredgeek.com/2011/02/07/mozilla-plans-to-rele...
Ken Jennings (and I) disagree: http://live.washingtonpost.com/jeopardy-ken-jennings.html#qu...
I do not think the GPL restrictions are aimed at users, but at other developers who may be competitors. Some developers might be cautious about opening their source using BSD-style licenses because their competitors may then use the free code in their closed-source product. So they use the GPL reasoning "If my competitors use my code in their product, I want to be able to use their code in my product."
Very true. It is for the same reason that the article shows GPU progress outpacing CPU's in regards to FLOPS. The limited scope of a GPU's functionality allows most of the processor's silicon to be arithmetic units. CPU's, on the other hand, have huge sections of their real estate dedicated to handling conditional logic (something most GPU's fail miserably at), legacy instruction handling, virtualization, etc.
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At one point during his winning streak, he purposefully answered incorrectly so he could say "what is a hoe".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKA0K7bf7Rc

Well, I think it was purposefully anyways. (btw, he's a Mormon)
it's not really an acquisition mechanism

Sure it is. We have 1000 fans on Facebook, and basically none of them have converted to our paid service yet. It's people who came to our site and hit "Like". Many of them don't even use our free service. Status updates we post there can absolutely convert users.

And when those users like an item in our feed, or comment on it, that potentially goes into their feed, which is outreach to their friends (i.e. new customers).
To be honest, though, its not like any of the other aerospace companies are any better. Airbus, for example, experienced huge delays in getting the A380 built, simply because its engineers were using two different versions of the same CAD tool (http://www.cadalyst.com/management/what-grounded-airbus-a380...).
This reminds me of the discussion many years ago: "In what cases is C faster than Assembler". This sounded as wired as the current question, but it wasn't.

That time C optimizers were getting better and better up to the point they knew "tricks", where you had to be a very, very good assembler programmer to compete. History seems to repeat.
Interesting. What country is this?
My Facebook page allows me to broadcast content to my fans. That's valuable.

I've found that it's not all that effective when I'm promoting content that my readers get through my e-mails, RSS, or website, but it's actually really great when I'm promoting a sponsor (I'm in the employment space). I can usually send some extra clicks to my sponsor, and that makes the campaign look better.
B2B startups need to be on Twitter?

Based on my experience with B2B, you don't even need a website.
If this chart from nVidia is to be believed, the CPU speed increase will continue for many years to come. They're projecting almost a 100x increase in speed from Tegra 2, in 2014!
http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/SoC/NVIDIA/Kal-El/roadma...
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As Apple discovered from the other side of the fence, the better specs often don't overcome a large pricing difference. Also, betting that the iPad 2 will cost more than the iPad 1 is probably not a winning bet. I wouldn't be surprised if there is a price drop coming.
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Wow really solid app. Why is it free?
I like this game! I can play too. The three laws of snarky Apple critics:

1. A snarky Apple critic may not injure any argument against Apple, or allow, through inaction, any argument against Apple to be proven wrong.

2. A snarky Apple critic must do the opposite of any order given to them by Apple, except where not obeying such orders would conflict with the first law.

3. A snarky Apple critic must protect their own existence, as long as such protection does not conflict with laws one or two.
You really think that? That's adorable.
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Yep it's all rather obvious. Of course no company wants a developer to harm them or their platform (1st rule). 2nd rule - you wanna develop for Apple, you gotta play by their rules. 3rd rule - nothing really.
"And while RSS isn’t exactly dead as in gone, it is dead in that the vast majority of people who consume content on the web have absolutely no idea what it is and will never know what it is."

Like TCP/IP. Dead, man.

Mind, it's a good thing that I'm seeing designers twig to the fact that labeling feeds "RSS" doesn't mean anything to most people and watching them instead start to label feeds "Subscribe" or "Follow".
I am with the author. I deactivated my FB account back in December. I don't trust friend's opinions and don't trust facebook to securely store personal data of mine or prospective users. Before adding the pretty bells and whistles, make sure your site attacts users and works correctly before wasting valuable design time.
Apple vs. X flamewars are so boring IMO.

Edit: I wasn't trying to make a negative comment towards your post.
Now I know why I want to look completely incompetent!

But, seriously, I agree.
Oh snap! I stand corrected. Thanks guys.
People looking for a tiny, embeddable scheme should also check out Alex Shinn's chibi-scheme.
Yeah, I'm slowly approaching the threatened point of just automatically flagging every TC post I see.
One degree to another does not excuse 'noticable worse than the rest'. You're right, large parts of the hate -was- unjustified. As an engineering student, I understand the necessity of tradeoffs, and acknowledge the advantages of the external antenna.

That doesn't mean they couldn't have done it differently, and still have a better antenna. For example, the CDMA iPhone4 (from the AnandTech review) actually has two CDMA antennae, positioned in such a way that the only way you can duplicate the 'death grip' is the cradle with both hands.

The launch phone ran into -significant- signal degradation in a common use case. This -should- have been anticipated better. And the whole "you're holding it wrong" thing did not help.
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It was first created by non-MS guys, and there are others out there by community members. MS decided to form an officially-endorsed open source project for NuGet. Pretty good model actually. It's a collaboration of MS employees and community members and they take outside contributions. Not sure what's wrong with that. It needed to be in VS to take off.

The organic community is there, it's just not the dominant one but it has a significant presence.
With all due respect, I know that a lot of work goes into these YC companies, but how is this ground breaking? Not simply for that fact that this seems like a feature the Scribd provides but also that fact that this is clearly not the next Google. We're seeing a lot of YC companies and startup founders in general creating these non-compelling web 2.0 features and 'apps' getting a lot of buzz and a descent amount of funding. This is not good for the startup ecosystem as a whole. The VC and angel investors who would have provided some kind of stop gap to weed out the next Pets.com have all drank the proverbial Kool-aid and are tripping over themselves to invest in these companies. This is creating a bubble scenario. This will hurt YC and in the long term. Please let us return back to sanity.
The following really surprised me coming from a designer:
Build the web app first, then design it.It was tempting to build the entire interface first but I deliberately ignored the design until I had things 90% working. This got me to constantly work on the code before working on the "fun stuff", plus encouraged me to launch quickly since as soon as the code was finished, all I had to do was quickly "skin" it before getting it live with the assumption that I would be iterating on the design after it launches. Also, if I needed to abandon the project due to some insurmountable code problem, the time wasted wouldn’t include the time spent on design.

I'm impressed that the site looks so good, with design being skinned on afterwards. Was it literally just divs, spans, and lists, and then you did the CSS in one fell swoop (well one fell-iterative swoop)?
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Do you have the same trouble walking through a mall, dealing with the different pricing structures and mixture of cash & credit at stores?

I really don't think it's much different.
Chaotic environment; hookup and unhooking frequently stresses connectors; people trip over them.
Joel wrote the spec for Copilot, so it's a little unfair to claim he had nothing to do with it.
Cool utility. Surprised at how many three letter domains are still left.

Guess they'll be going away more quickly now...
Being a programmer first, this works backwards for me. If I would work on the fun stuff from day one, my sites would never get skinned. :)
I would love too, but I'm going to Manhattan.
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They don't have to sell it directly, only guarantee OS updates. Speaking of which, somehow I still don't have Gingerbread on my N1.
Except when it came time to move to .NET/Mono, they only had to update their compiler to generate IL instead of rewriting the whole app from scratch. Sounds smart to me.
I would have preferred a logarithmic scale for the last graph (http://csgillespie.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/gpu3.png).
The Nexus S is in Best Buy. Having no retail for the Nexus One was dumb, but Google has learned.
Thanks, now I know why!
Chrome is packaged with a PDF plugin, which is as close to "native support" as makes no difference IMO.
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