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Honestly, it depends on the task, really.

I'm comfortable in a few languages / frameworks, and each has their merits. If I'm building something with a dataset that I think Django's ORM will work well for me, and having its admin will be a benefit, then Django it is.

If not, almost certainly I'd drop into Tornado + Jinja, and an appropriate backend store.

For some other tasks, PHP might be the right answer.

I'm doing a lot with Django right now, so I'm probably more fluent in it than anything else, but Tornado is really sexy. Kind of a toss up for me.
The question I have is did the business wreck his marriage or did his divorce wreck his business? Typically a divorce is a big deal, emotionally and financially. I'm not making excuses for the guy but there could be all kinds of bizarre psycho-dynamics going on here based on the dependencies and connections (even if only in his mind) between his business and personal life. Finally, being business partners is a lot like being married so the guy probably feels like he's faced with two divorces, not one.
> I've found that any feature branch that lives longer than a week becomes essentially impossible to integrate - in the time necessary to bring it up to head, head has changed enough that you then need to integrate it again, and so on.

Not disagreeing. My current working theory is that integration difficulty increases exponentially with merge distance.

And yes, team size is a factor - but I'd argue that if 500 developers all work in the same area of the code, something else is wrong :)

To get back to the original point: You sync to head, and you compile. I'm not suggesting a full QA cycle, but especially if you changed APIs, that's the polite thing to do.
They don't care about policing the little guys. It's the big media players. That being said they can just handpick a few little guys for app rejection, with the hope that the little guy will bitch and tweet and blog and spread the message for Apple that they are indeed keeping an eye on compliance.
> Am I talking to the official spokesperson for all non-enterprise web devs?

No. Is there a reason why you would ask such a ridiculous question?

> Last time I checked Facebook, Google, CNN, NYTimes, and Twitter all worked with IE.

Again, that doesn't affect my point which is: that the compatibility restrictions are arbitrary, unnecessary and completely unworthy of sympathy from the community.

> let me know what your sites are, I can add them to my blacklist

How nice of you.
Today's performance was much more impressive than the one from yesterday.
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Usability-wise they're horrible. I'm not so sure it's going to hurt their rankings though. They're using the #! in URL structure to conform with Google's AJAX crawling rules [1] and Google is linking to the pages in the SERPs.

Now they have screwed themselves in an entirely different way. Google has indexed their staging server [2] which is now password protected and outranking their site [3].

[1] http://code.google.com/web/ajaxcrawling/docs/getting-started...
[2] http://www.google.com/search?q=site:stage.gawker.com
[3] http://www.google.com/search?q=flubbed+because+she+was+drunk
If you'd follow the press releases or read the updated app store guidelines, you'd learn that Apple has changed the rules and is enforcing old ones in new ways that will affect Rhapsody, Amazon Kindle, Rdio, Netflix, and so on. The new rules would require Rhapsody to allow new cusomters to optionally sign up via in-app purchase with an ongoing 30% fee to Apple. The rules stipulate rhapsody _must_ make this offer if they offer an app, despite the fact that such an offer is unprofitable to Rhapsody.
Go back to spamming Google and stop complaining
[...] at least Enron and WorldCom crooks went to jail.

Good point — modern crooks got bonuses and their companies were saved from bankruptcy.
And of course, if you change the Referer header to http://www.google.com/, you get a different page with the solution at the bottom.

I find myself wondering though - why don't they get punished more for feeding different content to the GoogleBot vs what the normal viewer sees? Isn't it basically cloaking - even though clicking on the link in Google search results will still serve up the solution, a normal, organic link wouldn't?

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/06/how-googl...

"Cloaking: Serving different content to users than to Googlebot. This is a violation of our webmaster guidelines. If the file that Googlebot sees is not identical to the file that a typical user sees, then you're in a high-risk category. A program such as md5sum or diff can compute a hash to verify that two different files are identical."
under normal circumstances, the obvious thing to do (at least in my mind) would be to consider all the wonderful alternatives. but since this is also your baby, and you have probably poured in lots and lots of your soul into it, i sense this is really your quandary, because it sounds to me that you don't want to go.

so once you have that straight in your mind, just divide and conquer all the available options, i can't give you specifics because i don't understand the stakes, but obviously this marketing person/friend of co-founder must go or be relegated to a lower authority or else the culture and quite probably the business will flounder. perhaps finding a different role for this person would be beneficial. things cannot stay as they are, that's for sure.

good luck on this and don't let this suck your morale down, it really seems quite the downer, but you need to keep a positive view on things. ultimately, if you don't get the terms that you want then there are always other options, including starting another company.
And yet there seem to be a lot of books as apps on the App Store considering there's this 30% cut.

What kind of inside track should Amazon have on the poor shlubs who sell their books as apps?
If the iPhone doesn't have things like Pandora, Evernote and many other cloud services available because of this change, it makes one of the most useful parts of the iPhone disappear.
This is what I built on <10k investment budget, the rest was self-funded. The code to get in is 1234 http://beepl.com/jan if you want to have a look. Also, I am demoing this to an investor tomorrow. Any word of advice you can give me? Hoping to launch on March the 30rd..
If that doesn't go well, the backend is all programmed by me. And I am sort of a hacker that can program stuff. Maybe I can help with your idea?
That was the first site I blocked. I've been wishing for Google Blocklist every time "experts-exchange" came up in a Google search.
For three years I worked at Bug Labs (open source hardware company). We not only told everyone what we did, we posted the source code and the blueprints online. Nobody ever stole our ideas.

Think about that, people won't even steal your ideas if you give them the plans. It would make a lot of sense for someone else to just come along and build our hardware and sell our software without paying for 15 people doing development and engineering, but nobody did that.

Sure, we kept bits of information private like our negotiations with future partners or plans for the next version, but it really didn't matter that much.

Now I work in the defense industry. What we do on a daily basis is a thousand times more secret than your "stealth" startup and we can still talk about it in more general terms than most "stealth" entrepreneurs talk about their project.

So I call bullshit on the idea that anyone needs to keep a business idea stealthy, unless you are talking the nitty gritty details of the implementation's secret sauce, you will gain far more from sharing and making connections/partnerships than you will from secrecy.
There are always going to be a few bad eggs out there that would just assume hurt people's real lives in order to satisfy some kind of Internet justice. It's a shame really. I prefer a handle to using my real name but even in my about and on whatever I create you can find my name on it. Check out my whois to see where I live! It's a risk I've learned to deal with as part of life as a contributing netizen.
What is a "real name" anyway in this context? Certainly Facebook does not require a "legal" name to sign up, and any remotely plausible name seems to work.

Several of my friends and I use full or partial pseudonyms on Facebook; (In fact, I've changed mine multiple times.) As an alternative to that, my girlfriend keeps different Facebook accounts logged into different browsers to keep her personal and professional identities separate.

Identity is fluid, seems so should the names we employ in this even more volatile medium of the web.
What do you do when that happens? Can you get a court order to let you back in the building?
What blogs do you think will go pay?

Unless they pay-wall the content on their website, how will they get people to pay for a subscription?

Now, to answer that question there are many high priced financial mailing lists
It was the first site blocked in our office yesterday when we installed the chrome extension!
Ask HN: Learning Chinese Mandarin
I need to learn chinese mandarin but don't have easy access to real in-person tutelage, because of my location.

Can anyone suggest a good method, place to start, be it DVD or online etc.
Don't forget silly extras you find from time to time (kayak across the Pacific in Maps, 'Undo send' in gmail).
How often do you find things like that from large companies?
Sorry, but what for ? what happens when you find your guy ? and the data you will collect what's the use of it, a planet IQ database without names ?
I would not spend 5s filling anything there, because it sound pointless and vanity search.
Not all states recognize the doctor-patient privilege. For example, Massachusetts does not.

And attorney-client privilege is not absolute.

I have no idea where Arizona sits on either of those issues.
Apple's argument is that they deserve 30% of all revenue streams for getting a customer on board. For 30% of revenues, you could hire a true sales force that goes out and actively sells stuff, rather than just sitting back and hoping someone signs up. In the App store model, you still need to sell on your own, Apple just centralizes payment and distribution. Thus, I'm not sure I follow your logic.

Payments: Visa, Paypal, Amex, MasterCard, and many others would gladly handle the payments for ~2%. Not sure where you're getting anything about inventory and shipping given it's digital content. Sales: when did actually do any selling for anyone's product other than when it was mutually beneficial? You still need to sell it to people to actually use your product. Publishing: again, what is apple doing here? Distribution and a little bit of marketing, sure - but that's certainly not worth the other 28% of revenues.

Also don't see why Rhapsody repackaging stuff makes it any different. Shouldn't a true app store model work for any type of business?
One approximate reference is:

http://www.amazon.com/Why-Marriages-Succeed-Fail-Yours/dp/06...

Basically, the author did studies and interviews and found that some couples who fight frequently do still have a healthy marriage.

This goes against some common-sense notions, of course.

The important thing was that each thought the other one heard and understood their point of view. I can't recall if the feeling that progress was made to resolve the dispute mattered as well.
Knowing how to configure Apache and configure Exchange server is a far cry from I need to build a SaaS webapp.
What if Google gave us the option of having a local ascii file like windows host files to block sites in the SERRPs. It could be loaded once and stored in a cookie. This could be administered in preferences. Then any browser would work.
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As the only person commenting here so far using my full name as my HN handle, I'll agree that there's a big difference in how one acts when using one's real name than under a pseudonym (even one based on your full name). I only maintain the habit because of my journalistic background - bylines are like gold-dust to me, even if they're on HN ;-)

In my case, I back away from "crazies" and flamewars pretty quickly, remain civil at (almost) all times, and apologize (or ignore) quickly even if I really want to tear the other party a new one. But I think this is a good thing. The constant invisible axe swinging around in the room helps me keep my words and manner in check, lest I get cut.
I think Android is more optimized for touch-screen devices but I was hoping Chrome OS will bring more ARM laptops to the market. Now it seems like that's not gonna happen, but Windows 8 being ARM compatible should bring more ARM laptops to the market. Sadly that won't happen any time soon.
Right and if your ISP says it was your modem, it was your modem.
I have used a professional arbitrator in a legal case. I didn't like the result and the other guy didn't like the result, and that was the best we were going to get, so we went with it.
> At Experts Exchange, we know who we are.

Oh no they don't. Judging by their attitude these people are in complete denial as to how they are perceived by others.

> Experts Exchange Experts are unpaid volunteers who give of their time to answer questions on the site.

Right. So if they are unpaid volunteers wouldn't they rather help the community and provide the same answers at stackoverflow?

If I volunteer to serve soup on Saturday in a soup kitchen to the homeless, why in the world would I want to have some third company take my soup and sell it to the same homeless people and keep the profit.

And then of course, why would they name their site something that sound exactly like "expert sex change"? Wasn't their domain listed as r-rated in some porn filtering software a while back.
There are multiple issues here: ownership issues, management issues, employee issues, personal issues.

Here's how you tackle the employee issue. Implement quarterly and yearly reviews and goals. If an employee is not performing they get a 1) verbal warning 2) written warning 3) termination. Make sure the employee understand where they stand at all times.

Good luck with the other issues.
This is rather interesting. Growing up in the UK the only place I could ever find Pepsi was at a KFC. McDonalds and most restaurants all have Coke. My first drink of Pepsi was at my friends' house whose father only ever got fast food from Burger King (which was impossible to find in my area of the UK because they use lower quality beef) so drank Pepsi.

As an adult I've found the only relevant things for colas. Coke goes great with white rums and Pepsi goes great with spice rums. Beyond that I'll drink either whenever.
> I still fail to grasp the argument of IE9 not being released for XP. I mean, the OS is ten years old, upgrade already.

Other browsers show that it is technically possible to support XP, without limiting your product on Vista/7. This would be even more true for Microsoft.

So the reason Microsoft does not support IE9 on XP, is apparently to encourage upgrading from XP.

In other words, Microsoft's IE roadmap is determined, in this case, more from Microsoft's overall agenda and interests, rather than what is good for IE and IE's users.
didn't get that [2] and [3] parts, But the design is so bad that makes me stop going there instantly. Engadget just got a not shared 24/7 user.
Yes, you are probably right, my examples were just meant to deliver the rough idea, not fully shaped solutions.

Lots of room for experimentation and exploration in this space - exciting times ahead.
For 95% of my searches I don't want local. I want the best result. But Google is bent on local.
Just got the [2].
[3] still not clear thougt
As a student, StackOverflow was one of the best thing on the internet. I would be willing to even pay for its content.
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I resisted clicking the link because I thought I would have to sign up for an account.
Theaters don't allow food that was purchased elsewhere to be brought inside the building. Same principle. Sorry but you're just wrong on this.
> when really the person whose opinion matters most is the one who asked the question.

Additionally, I find this point to hardly be the case. I love that on SO you can look below the answer to see another one with ten times as many votes and I know that's the better answer.
It's more like you bought a ticket to an event hosted by Apple and while there, Amazon set up a free booth giving away carry bags.

Every time you buy something from Amazon (at the event) to put in the carry bag, Apple takes 30% of the purchase price whilst screeching "WE ALLOWED YOU TO GIVE AWAY THOSE BAGS!"

So, you've paid money for a platform. Amazon showed up on that platform and gave away something for free, taking a freely available booth to do so. THEN they used that to encourage you to buy things from them. And Apple went nuts and demanded they get 30%, even though you paid for entry and they were giving booths away for free.
This is the first time I've read anything on that site without having to scroll all the way down.
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Anti-trust applies here just as much as it applies to theaters who don't allow customers to bring in their own food.
I interviewed with the team in early January. Smart group. Hope they do well.
It can't be demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt (very important) that the owner of the modem is also the person who committed the crime.

The user of the IP at the time the crime is committed is at issue here, not the ownership of the modem.

Looking upthread, this has already been explained to you several times. I've kept my own explanation as clear as I can in hopes that it's the one that gets it through to you.
There are plans to move Firefox to a release model much closer to Chrome after Firefox 4.
I think you overstate the willingness of existing payment processors to deal with, say, .99$ purchases (they likely won't bother). I'm not arguing that Apple's providing a service that's worth 30% to everybody, but building a payment processing system to handle sub-$1 charges cost-effictively isn't trivial -- and if you're not in the business of building payment processing systems, you might just pay the rent. Amazon could handle rolling their own; Packt probably can't.
NO WAY ! nothing more to add.
That's CSS animation. There's a blog post from Surfin Safari dating back to 2007 for CSS transition, and a Mozilla article dating back to 2009 (might have been implemented before that)

So... two implementations older than 2 years.
So, instead of a bourgeois tale of an epic fight against evil forces threatening a dubiously idealized analogue of a society that no longer exists, it's a socialist tale of an epic fight against evil forces threatening a dubiously idealized analogue of a society that no longer exists?
Microsoft has had automatic updates for years now, I believe. Firefox seems to have no problem prompting me to update it when its required.

I'm not sure I understand what disadvantage they're at?
Show HN: AdFrenzy.net is trying to make online ads better
There are a lot of problems with online ads right now. Some of the big ones:

- The sales metrics used (CPM, CPC) have caused a numbers driven approach which favours shitty content farms and dilutes the value of quality human-driven sites and blogs.

- It seems like ad creators are always coming up with new ways to annoy end users (ie. big Flash pop-ups, sound, etc). The level of user tracking also presents privacy concerns.

- Smaller ad buyers rarely get to choose which site their ad will be placed on - instead, it is usually based on certain target keywords. This is not always the best option for advertisers.

http://www.adfrenzy.net is a really simple project I've started which attempts to address these problems. I've been working on this in my spare time over the last couple of months, and now that it's ready to show people I'm hoping to get an idea of whether or not to keep working on it. Please be extremely critical of both the idea and its implementation - compliments are nice and appreciated but I'd rather get some tough love. (There are many things I plan to improve in the next little bit but your feedback will help me determine which order to take. Also, right now it is best suited to somewhat self-serving industries like ours because the only way to buy ads is directly from the site you saw it on. I plan to start building out the other side of that equation - helping advertisers find the right ad spaces - if there is an interest.)
Make sure you communicate your concerns to him clearly. Communicate specific things that you have a problem with (specific so that he has an opportunity to rectify the situation). Also communicate the importance of the problems. He may know that you are not satisfied with the designer and the company's progress, but does he know that it's so important to you that you're willing to throw in the towel?

If, on the other hand, you've already communicated specific problems and the importance of the problems and he hasn't shown a good faith effort in helping you resolve these concerns, then you may need to part ways or otherwise restructure the company.
Clickable: http://www.adfrenzy.net/
The original author says that they won't rank, but the pages are ranking in Google with the #!. The problem is stage.gawker.com is ranking instead of gawker.com.

Click the first result in [3] and it will ask you for a username and password.
Google sort of encourages this kind of cloaking. It's called First Click Free.

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en...
WordPerfect would have crashed and burned, if it weren't for a third partner owning 1%.

It's a very long story, but one of the anecdotes is how a non-technical founder (who owned ~49%, and was painted as a great maverick hustler, but not so great in a larger operation) got booted by the technical founder, and a third guy who was there as a tie-breaker (and also was the manager for a while).

The books here:
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s/in the middle east//

the FBI investigated unions for "Soviet influence".
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> I really think there is some valid anti-trust possibilities here.

Except Apple doesn't have anywhere near the market share needed for the legal definition of "trust".
Thanks for the input, I actually didnt know about the investment fund for Force.com startups. I will definitely apply.

Thank you everyone for the feedback, my decision will probably be to leave the company and provide consulting for them while I start my business, I am definitely ready to jump in!
Merely removing one claim would be sufficient to avoid their patent. It gets tricky if you "change" a claim, because then you have to consider the substantiality of that change. For example, moving the "point escrow" of claim 9 would be sufficient to avoid their entire patent, but you'd likely be staring down the barrel of the dirtbag attorney they hire to drag you through the mud in an expensive federal court case, hoping you'll just opt for a licensing agreement. It is what it is.
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