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As an indie developer, this excites me. Sure, I can understand how the big guys might see it differently, but now I don't have to build an entire distribution network should I decide I'd like to develop subscription based content.

I read many digital PDF's (like Hacker Monthly) and though I enjoy downloading and reading the PDF on my iMac, I would be delighted to pay 99 cents to have each issue delivered to my iPad on a monthly basis.

And as a developer, it's added value.
Interesting -- I'll check it out. (My working day has almost finished, so this thread will probably be dead before I get back it.)
>Yup, but we've got...

Indeed. They are very different propositions. Hence I said "for comparison" :)
True but this kind of stories conjure up the classic idea of the human computer :). Practical use is cool like the google self-driven car I'm not sure if it's a learning system (does anyone know ?). I figure deduction to be the truly hard part to do. Like deducting the laws of geometry by observation or something similar. But hey I'm an amateur on this :)
... and forcing all taxi companies to use it, and preventing them from putting pointers to their other payment options inside the car.

(Is it just coincidence that every analogy in support of Apple forgets that second bit. Are the analogy writers unaware of that clause, or does it start to sound oppressive so they just leave it out?)
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I sense a deeper contradiction at work. It's clear, despite how many time the word entrepreneur is bandied about in the essay, that the school still see its main mission as preparing students to be future employees. And, the U.S. still fails miserably to draw a distinction between trade education and liberal arts education.

If a person is entrepreneurial minded, then the real world sand-box this program is trying to create, will only annoy them, especially when considering the tuition costs. On the other hand, if the person isn't entrepreneurial minded enough, why should they be in that type of program to begin with? They should be pursuing trade or pure studies, depending on their capacity and inclination.
Ask HN: What's considered good traction for a startup / idea?
A startup I'm working on is seeing a > 10% conversion rate and we're excited about that. But I've recently started to wonder, what is considered a good conversion rate by other startups and/or money people?

Then with the recent number of startup traction / promotion related posts to HN, I see that it's not just a conversion rate question, but also a number of users question.

Obviously market plays a big part in what's considered a good number of users. 100 might be good for a niche market. 1000 might be good for a general hobby. 10k might be good for a general consumer product.

So that brings me back to the conversion rate bit. Of the people that land on a startup's site, what is considered a good conversion rate for signups? Is it different when you actually have a product vs just a landing page / invite list?

Thx
Braces are such a stupid thing to be worried about (thank you, BDFL!), but things like variable naming are very valuable in helping people parse code quickly. If you look at my code, you know instantly which variables are global constants, which are class instance, which are method parameters, and which are locals. Those are the valuable additions; the rest is an expression of an anal, alpha engineer or a group that said "let's just start with this thing I found online".
Good point. It's mostly for web or client (Mac / Windows). Might do deals on phone apps in the future. http://appsumo.com/faq
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They won't need to, there's plenty of space in the private range in IPv4 to put everything in my house on the net. IPv6 isn't going to make firewalls and private networks go away, people aren't going to just put everything directly on the Internet with a public IP just because they can just as no one gives every PC on their network now live IP's.
Happy wife = happy life only works if your wife thinks "Happy husband = happy life". The premise of the phrase, for me, is that you're actually married to the right person.

But way to read too far into a silly little phrase and call me a coward, Mr. Anonymous Internet Man.
You're right...the "seamless dispatch service" has it value BUT nowhere near the value of the car itself including things like reliability, comfort, space (etc) and certainly not even close to 30%. I think Apple is just pushing this high anchor so that it'll be negotiated down in the future. I believe we'll see this number being gradually notched down until it becomes either very low (in the low teens) or eventually 0 - just like most taxi fleet services now include the dispatch as a standard feature.
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I don't think this means that you are required to build subscription functionality into your app if your app's company offers any sort of subscriptions. So if the Kindle app on iOS doesn't support subscriptions yet, then they aren't compelled to do so, right?
I'm not sure who has been coming off worse in these post-fork actions - Oracle or Sonatype (Van Zyl's company).
My point is that Subscriptions can happen without Apple.

Where they do, Apple takes no cut whatsoever. If you have a subscription-based web application, for example. The only way Apple can take a cut is if you're using what they provide.
I don't think the plugin works via cookies though does it? Might be wrong....
At my school, almost all CS students do internships during the summer. By sophomore year almost everyone has an internship with a tech company lined up for the summer. My school may be is an outlier, however.
We use templates, exceptions, STL, and Boost and deploy to tens of thousands of devices in the field. We have the advantage of a uniform hardware and OS platform, so we don't have to worry about compiler issues.

We could reasonably replace C++ with a combination of C and a higher-level language. However, C++ is a much better language for our low-level code than C, and we have a lot of low-level code, so we have to take it seriously. If we took the route of using a high-level language to coordinate functionality implemented in C, we would end up using C++ to implement the "C" libraries, just for the benefits of RAII, exceptions, smart pointers, etc.

We could also succeed with a stable and efficient Common Lisp implementation. Other languages such as OCaml might work for us, but I'm not qualified to say.

We wouldn't bother changing at this point, though, unless we decided to create an entirely new product to compete with our current one. C++ is not a problem or a limitation for us. The shortcomings of C++ add a little bit of extra work, but they aren't a multiplier. Most other languages would aggravate our existing problems instead of just adding a constant factor of inconvenience.

And that's with templates, exceptions, STL, and Boost!
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In the earlier stages of research, diversity will be sought, many things will be tried. It will be "let a thousand flowers bloom", because that's the way most industries start, when no one really yet understands how to do it. It's experimental, trial and error. Those that don't will be surpassed by those who do.

... of course, later, there is often a consolidation phase, after the way to do it is understood, which might not be so egalitarian, and made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.
Google wave was classic groupware ( see http://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html ). And I think the people at Google got confused in the sense they used it at a place they love (Google) so they thought it was great (Wave).
If there was a way to down-vote a project on Github, I'd down-vote Hudson into oblivion. Just let it go Oracle, you lost. Stop being like the kid that pulls the girl's ponytail because she called you a fatty. You are a fatty.
Avoiding all other libraries seems an odd choice to me. Are you including std::string in "STL"? Almost all of the "STL" containers are part of the C++ standard now so not using them doesn't make a lot of sense.
They are planning on doing just that. They'll be selling Watson-type QA machines to business for a few million dollars, starting this summer I think. I'm not 100% sure about the price and timeline, but they're definitely planning on making a product out of this.
Exactly.

"After all, it seems simple enough to just go around the slow individual."

Trust me, if I'm able to do that, then I do, no questions asked. Unfortunately the other common behaviours of slow walkers include: sudden erratic motion, walking side by side in lines with others, and stopping dead in choke-points.
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A supermarket that sells magazines will appeal more than a supermarket that doesn't. That doesn't mean it owes its success to the magazine publishers.

I very much doubt that the availability of magazine and newspaper apps like The Daily will be a primary reason for customers to buy an iPad.
I pretty much quit programming because I got frustrated with the amount of boilerplate code I had to write/the bending over I'd have to do in order to get the simplest ideas fleshed out "idiomatically".

Don't take this the wrong way, but programming isn't for everyone. For some of us, it's in the blood. It's what I do during the work week and on the weekends for fun too.

Your complaints are valid of course, but take a look at all the systems developed for boilerplate elimination. I have used preprocessor metaprogramming, template metaprogramming, and "external Ruby script" metaprogramming - sometimes all in the same project.

But it's not everyone's cup of tea.

Some people swear by Python.
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I've read that Watson may ignore the category titles as they are often puns or confusing text that doesn't help him find an answer. Rather, I think, they may been seen as more of a source of confusion than help.
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>It's not intentional discrimination, [...]
Whatever the case, it makes them come across as jackasses.

The level of decorum here appears to have dropped significantly in the last few days with a lot of this sort of personal attack.

If they unwittingly discriminated against someone because of an unintentional consequence of an action taken in good faith and believed to be benevolent (preventing trolling, spamming and such on Quora) then how does that make the programmers "jackasses" (ie contemptibly foolish/stupid)?

Why not just say that it's a flawed filter, why the need for this sort of talk?
I'm a Brit living in the US and had a tense moment at a US airport when I'd "got my date of birth wrong" because I'd used the UK format.
FWIW, here's the Oracle rep saying that Github wasn't an issue:
http://java.net/projects/hudson/lists/dev/archive/2011-02/me...
The cut is high, but Apple does do more with iOS than they do in your hypothetical.

Apple has created a ecosystem in which it is very easy for consumers to purchase subscriptions. They're further enhancing the usefulness of this system by blocking applications that do not allow consumers to easily purchase subscriptions in a uniform way (e.g. in-app). And they're requiring app developers to pay 30% for the benefits they receive by exposing your app to the users of this ecosystem.

The rate may be high, or it may not be. We will see by how many developers pull their apps from the AppStore.
I was a paying customer of Mozy. Their 'restore' does not do resume. Yes, that means that after restoring 50 GB and losing internet connection, you have to restart.

Needless to say I was quite happy that I tried the restore before I actually needed it. And also that I'm not a Mozy customer anymore, although I'm still paying them so I guess technically I am - but that's just because they refuse to cancel my subscription and keep charging my credit card.

Lesson learned: stay away from Mozy, and EMC for that matter.
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Really amazing that they were able to do this without using tons of fancy new technology.

Several great ideas for me to try at home to hack my energy use.
I would not risk depleting my home network address pool either. What if I want to connect 4 billion + 1 washing machines?
Or people who will stand right in the doorway of a train when people are getting on and off, rather than stepping to one side (or even off the train altogether, people will always let them get back on first). These people have made their choice, it's just attention seeking really. However the London commuter is not a shy species...

Or people who will stand on the left, despite clearly being able to see that no-one else is, even if they can't read the clear signs in English. Again it's not rude to push them out of the way; they started it.
hmmm, I am interested in seeing more detailed battery life information including for more "active" use.
What are the dimensions?

(I'd love an accelerometer - sure you guys are well aware of the possibilities)
In which way java is more verbose than C++? People in Java tend to choose longer names but, that is more programming style than something in the language.

In C++ you have to declare your functions in a header, then you have to do it again in the .cpp, I dislike it because if I change one I have to change the other one.
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va1en0k, who is "we" in your case?
Some toasters already have IP addresses.

http://www.embeddedarm.com/software/arm-netbsd-toaster.php

NetBSD really does run on everything.
I am totally getting one, soonish.
I confess, i have a Watch fetish :(
As I responded above, happy wife = happy life has more to do with how you think about and treat your wife than being subservient to her. As long as you've found the right person that has your best interests in mind, I don't see how it's a bad thing to show her you love her by doing things for her.

It is known that in general, women respond most to emotional stimulation and men respond to sex. When my wife asks me to do something, she's really asking me to show her that I love her. And when she gets that feeling, she's very receptive to the idea of sex. Win-win, as they say.
If you click on the Amazon link to the book, you'll see that it's a book about how much worse off the world would be if 'animal rights activists' succeed in convincing the world that an animal's life is equal to a human's life. I'm assuming this is either the site of that author, or the site owner is endorsing the book. In either case, it seems like more of the arguments in that book (based on the reviews/summaries on Amazon) are appealing to emotions in a way that is reminiscent of the religious arguments against evolution ("Those darn scientists are trying to say that I'm nothing but a monkey! I was made in God's image damn it! Not some monkey's!"). Even the title of the book, "A Rat Is a Pig Is a Dog Is a Boy," is meant to evoke an emotional reaction.

After stumbling across this nugget of insight into the author, I'm not at all surprised that the article is so preachy and attributes the boy's success to the "strength of the human spirit" rather than our own shoddy understanding of how the brain works. The title would be better reformatted as, "boy proves that brain work in ways that we did not previously know," but that's not a title that will fetch you as much ad revenue as it winds it's way through Facebook.
This does showcase an issue I've come across before: if there's a service that's important to you, make sure they have an email address on file that you check regularly. You never realize until it's too late that they've sent you "URGENT: WE'RE GOING TO SHUT DOWN YOUR ACCOUNT" five times at the spam-catcher account you never check.
Given how long it takes to load each message in their mailing list archive, I'd say java.net has issues.
This whole video will be hilarious in ten years.
Any idea how big the range of the bluetooth is? I'm curious how far away I can be from the other device I'd like to communicate with.
Looks very nice. If it had a couple more buttons, it would be great for a workout tracker.

Give it more buttons and I'll buy it.
Thanks for the links. I love the bits when Trebek visits Watson in the lab - it's the sort of thing where kids in 20 years will giggle at the fact that their pocket computer is more powerful.
While I bought Minecraft with the understanding that it wasn't done and I was helping support Notch as he continued to develop it, it's not a practice I'd do for a non-game product. I've spent well over $13 on games and had them turn out to not be fun, or only amuse me for a few days. If Minecraft didn't pan out, I've barely lost anything. If it turns out well, it will be more than worth the money.

Were it something important that I needed for my job, or were the cost less negligible, there's no way I'd throw a bunch of money at something and hope the inventor/developer/designer finished it adequately. If someone walked up to you and said "I'm going to build an electric car to compete with Tesla Motors, give me $80,000 and you can have the first one" what would you tell them?

EDIT: Kickstarter too. I've invested small amounts of money in things that I think are worth supporting, with the hope that they get finished well. But I'm not counting on it. It's a risk vs reward analysis that I'm willing to try, but only on small scales.
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Fascinating. Don't dig for gold, sell pickaxes.

Congratulations, I have no idea if this will work out longterm, but I find it to be a creative idea. Reminds me of the Heroku/AWS/GAE play on hosting apps, but applied to the customer support market.

Sarah, a quick question ( I noticed you're listening out there) . . .

Some years ago, before I became a corporate SQL grunt, I worked in an actual, honest-to-goodness telephone support center (non-technical in nature). Is your "scalability plan" to somehow identify those patterns of support for apps that require the most hand-holding (e.g., live person-to-person contact) and automate/FAQ/build some software to somehow win the 80/20 support race? Just curious, since there such a huge range of customer tech savy out there . . .
Perhaps he uses the term "developer" to include "web developer" or "suburban residential housing division developer".
Plus they're open-source, so they're theoretically "yours" in the sense that you can compile and deploy your own. If you find a bug in Boost, you can fix it. We frequently deploy open-source libraries we've patched ourselves -- never Boost that I know of, but at least we know it wouldn't be a problem.
I'll look into this. My host Servint says that my inode allocation is "generous", so I wonder if I'm the only person running into this problem with PHP+nginx.
http://www.getinpulse.com/faq/ The first question under Inpulse category will answer it. That's in case you haven't seen that one already.
Apple's 30% is a tax on the consumer, not the app publisher. The tax is always on the person whose wallet was opened. Apple and the publisher are beneficiaries. The publisher will make money off these sales or not stay in business. Its the consumer that will ultimately lose choice and quality. Apple's business model is not Microsoft, its Wal-Mart. And like Wal-Mart, companies will respond to Apple's predatory behavior by filling the shelves with inferior product.

If you haven't shopped at Target recently, go check out something as simple as Hanes undershirts at Target and then the seemingly similar Hanes product at Wal-mart. There is a marked difference in quality as this is the only way suppliers can make money off sales to Wal-mart. Of course, software follows very different rules of scale than textiles. We may expect to see product differentiation such as "MyApp for Android" having more R&D into it than "MyApp for iOS". Its hard to say how this differentiation will take place, its new territory.
Does Microsoft deserve a cut of every application written for Windows?
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>..better than C++ unless efficiency is a concern

Like other construction materials are better than steel unless strength and reliability are a concern.
From Apple's press release:

Publishers who use Apple’s subscription service in their app can also leverage other methods for acquiring digital subscribers outside of the app. For example, publishers can sell digital subscriptions on their web sites, or can choose to provide free access to existing subscribers. Since Apple is not involved in these transactions, there is no revenue sharing or exchange of customer information with Apple.
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But if the question takes 20 seconds to read, Watson has 20 of his seconds to narrow down his confidence to a particular answer. If he only had 10 seconds, his calculations might not have gone far enough to bubble the correct answer on top. It would be interesting to see a chart of confidence of answers vs time for Watson..
Keep in mind that the concept of Groupon not just need a group of people to tip the deal but also would need a "sustained effort" of a group of a people behind the scenes to get the interestingness of Groupon going. If you think about it, it's not that easy of a part to find those interesting local deals and set constraints on top of it and on and on...

To me, that's one reason all these clones fail miserably.
Playing devil's advocate...

He's only three. At that age, nobody is "human" in the fullest definition of the word. Full cognitive abilities don't develop for several more years.

The plasticity of the brain, especially young ones, is well documented. It's not surprising to me that functionality could be offloaded to the parts of the brain that are present (although the extremity of this case may be surprising).

I'll be interested to see where he's at when he's 6 years old, and again at puberty.
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While I definitely agree this would have worked as a great collaboration tool, anyone I tried it with just did not get it, and we ended up using it as a I'm-seeing-what-you're-typing chat box.
"I'm curious as to why you wrote your own containers instead of using the C++ Standard Library, Boost, EASTL or any of the other existing container libraries. Care to elaborate? "

A game developer disusses why he often writes his own data structures and steps out of STL and gives concrete examples at http://altdevblogaday.org/2011/02/15/data-structures-one-siz...

(fwiw I don't have a dog in this discussion. I don't use C++ and never will. The above is offered only because I had that page open in another tab when I read your question, and it seemed relevant)
If anyone's looking for an alternative (yes, an expensive one), I've been extremely happy with Atlassian's Bamboo CI tool for a couple years now.
If you serve a niche vertical, this is NOT great. You don't need Apple.
Also interesting, if you're developing an API: http://blog.programmableweb.com/2010/08/16/writing-bulletpro...
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A la carte model vs monthly subscription 
do you feel that there has been more success for video platforms that offer an a la carte payment model (charge per upload) or an monthly fee structure?
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