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I think as apple continues the clamp down on there products people will gain interest in the Android platform. Google can really destroy apple by providing the same services at a lower cost. I would imagine that is there game plan. So when Apple has completely offended every content producer they will jump ship.
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Valve is also really small compared to Apple (250 employees versus 50,000). If we're willing to compare among that level of size difference, then Mojang (of Minecraft fame) has better revenue per employee than Valve.
I really not sure it is common sense. I believe you have to have some talent or any amount of practice isn't going to help. I could spend 10,000 hours trying to sing, but it is not going to help, I just don't have that type of voice. I don't discount people's hard work at improving a talent, but I don't think the hours get you there. The all-it-takes-is-10,000-hours vibe of the book seems to be incorrect.
new? They've been powering search on reddit for a while now...
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CD/music sales have been declining for a decade. The latest Call of Duty game will shift more units in a single day than the top selling album will sell annually.

Book sales, overall, I'm not sure, but I don't think they've been in major decline. Yet.

The worry is that Kindles and iPads will do for novels what the iPod did for songs: drastically change the preferred method of consumption to something more vulnerable to piracy. The article is predicting a future trend.
Is discovery via the App Store really that common? As a previous iPhone user and current Android user I don't think I ever discovered a single app for either platform via the App Store itself.

I always went looking for something on the App Store (or now on the Android Market) after hearing of it elsewhere. I suppose I may be in the minority there and I can't say for sure I'm not, but I'd be pretty surprised if I were.
I could beat Watson.
"I'll take quote semi-colon drop table categories for 200"
Of course not - but the crash bugs should ideally be isolated (like your Chrome crash doesn't impact other tabs), short-lived (this bug has been around since mid-2009), and not impact the operating system (only cure for the crashie8 glitch requires loading taskmgr).
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JobGraphs - Good Service but failed to make money
I got compelled to write about my startup after reading 'Tell HN: I quit my job to bootstrap my startup by myself.' because I share lot of similarities with Chris except that he is from US and I am from India.

Yeah I too quit my highly paid job as a EAI Consultant back in Dubai to bootstrap my startup called JobGraphs.com - a very unique website that provides latest job trends from Software industry, its visited by software professionals and IT companies from 144 different countries, its showcased on hundreds of websites and blogs like MSDynamicsworld, Lifehacker.ru, Indianwebstartups, Wwwhatsnew etc...
Its based on something called 'Open Source Intelligence' and I have worked very hard on data collection part until I was not able to work with my right hand since I got a ganglion cyst on it and lot of pain in the veins blah blah so I work with my left hand now, but after all that hard work I failed to make some money out of it, Advertising didn't worked, Job board didn't worked, traffic dropped a lot...I was able to make only $60 from Google Adsense but today I got a mail that they have banned my account for some 'Invalid activity' which I never did.

Reasons for failure to make money:
1) There is no membership on the website (as I personally hate creating userids/password for each and every website)

2) The entire content is available for free without any charge, I thought if www.itjobswatch.co.uk (which is similar to my website) can be free of charge and still make money why can't I.

3) I tried to sell it to other companies but I didn't got any response from them

4) Last reason is that I too don't know why it didn't worked, maybe you guys can tell me that

but anyways I am not going to quit, I am going to start 6 more startups :)

I know there are lot of smart and experienced guys over here who can advice me on how to make this profitable and save it from going into deadpool.

Thanks,
Taha
Oh, definitely, I'm just trying to see what the level of support is. Obviously it can't be as good as having the actual developers provide support, but I'd like to see how close to or far from that it is.
A lot of their examples involve narrow passages in locations, where it's likely that a large percentage of pedestrians are pressed for time: airports, subways, business districts. There's etiquette that prescribes behavior in those places, and often it's quite official.

In Moscow, which has one of the busiest subway systems in the world, you learn as a child to stand on the right and let people pass on the left, regardless of how crowded or empty the escalator is. There are occasional loudspeaker reminders of that rule. When I moved to the States, it exasperated me that people would block the entire escalator and wouldn't even think of budging, being completely oblivious of other people and their needs.

Another recent example -- I was late to a meeting and had to navigate through a long corridor, which was reasonably empty and wide enough for 6 people to walk shoulder to shoulder. No problem, except for a lady in front of me, who not only walked just fast enough that I couldn't execute a quick maneuver to pass her, but also did not walk in a straight path and instead oscillated quickly and unpredictably. We walked for half the length of this passage, before I finally had an opening to pass her.

Generally, slow walkers are not a problem. Slow walkers in narrow passages that act as if they're a sole Earth inhabitant -- are.
Right.

The thing is, web browsers are always going to have to deal with two kinds of people: The malicious and the incompetent. They both write web pages, and neither can be avoided completely.

And, when you get down to it, it's impossible to distinguish sufficiently advanced incompetence from malice. (This sentiment seems quite appropriate when discussing Microsoft's browsers.)
"I think the decision to be backwards-compatible with C is a fatal flaw." --Guy Steele

The funny thing is Objective-C is also backwards-compatible with C and there is a huge world of difference between programming in Objective-C and programming in C++.
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I don't think he is trying to say mathematics is sufficient to be good at security, just that training in mathematics develops the right mindset for security.

I have a degree in math and can see how my attitude changed as I progressed. When taking my first analysis class I was sure it is no coincidence the word begins with anal. It took a while for me to develop habits of skepticism about things that seem obvious at first glance. That's the attitude I think he is describing.
So you are claiming you can only do photo editing if you have a multi-core, gpu accelerated less than six month old computer? For most people photo editing means stuff which we have been doing with _way_ less power than the A4 (photoshop ran on my P133). The hard part of video editing for most people means transcoding from one format to anther which takes forever anyway so if it runs in 1 hour or 5 really doesn't matter. The A4 is perfectly fine for photo editing and video editing. The A4 is more powerful than my wife's iBook G4 (which she loves) that does just fine for photo and video editing (which she does).

Apple is pimping full screen applications for the next version of OSX. I would not be surprised if you someone isn't already playing around with 'launching' full screen apps off an iOS+A4 and not managed by OSX. The advantages are just too big to ignore.
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You're right, bicycles do belong on the street -- it's actually safer for them there (most accidents are at intersections, and the closer you are to the middle of the road, the more visible you are).

However, far worse than pedestrian ragers are car ragers. There's something about being isolated in a bubble that turns ordinary people into ragers. And some of these car ragers believe that bicycles belong on sidewalks and deliberately endanger bicyclist lives to force them onto the sidewalk.

There's no easy solution, but one is simply more bicyclists, making bicyclists a common site on roads.
The poorly-written HTML, however, is frequently generated by larger ASP.NET-based CMS systems (and occasionally SharePoint servers) that start the <form> in the header and don't close it on the page. This snippet is just a shorter example of the error, but is certainly not the only instance where this problem rears its ugly head.
Some of us have done too much work in environments where VCS scares people.

Actually, when I worked with UniBASIC/Datatel, VCS was basically impossible because the architecture was so bizarre. Unless I wanted to write my own, and of course I had actual tasks I was trying to accomplish and writing a VCS was not really worth it if I couldn't get anyone else to use it.

Better to adopt the habit of copying database records (which doubled as source files) with a note of the date and my initials, since that's how it was done. Well, also I did quit.
One thing Gamestop still has going for it is used game buyback and resell, which IIRC is where they make the vast majority of their money. Considering this market is completely unserved by Steam and other online delivery platforms, I can see why Gamestop would still be valued pretty highly, for now.

Of course, over time I suspect console makers will move more and more towards digital distribution for all games, but that won't happen overnight or even any time soon.
Just for you, Anemecek, I'll wear a beowulf cluster on my arm. I think it will vibrate off I you guys keep sending me email... www.getinPulse.com/images/toomanywatches.jpg
The correct url is http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/02/hackdays.html
The google cr-48 comes to mind.
My take is that mathematics provides rigorously defined, leak-proof primitives and operations. Most of the difficulty involved in porting a piece of math to a program is in plugging the leaks in the abstractions provided by efficient machines. For example, infinite-precision real arithmetic (with no overflows, loss of entropy due to FP rounding mode, etc.) is assumed in mathematics, but is devilishly hard to get right (and fast) on fixed-width machines. Obtaining a passphrase from the user in order to hash it is assumed in the algorithm for the hash function, but in reality doing so without compromising the rest of your system can be much harder than coding the hash function correctly.

Things like side channel (e.g., timing) attacks add an orthogonal dimension of complexity to secure complexity that simply doesn't exist (or is rightly elided) in the related math.

Proofs only operate in the domain of the pure and infinite. The glue logic to interface that with the real world is what makes it tricky to write secure code, especially when errors in any part of any program can compromise an entire system (better hardware-enforced isolation between pieces of code is possible today, and indeed used, but isn't pervasive yet because performance is still king, IMO.
Microsoft really needs to break away from the major version number releases for IE and go with an iterative approach like Google does with Chrome. For something like Windows or Office it probobly still makes sense to have major version releases because for the average computer user a new major version number means there are a bunch of new features and that they should consider upgrading. But Internet Explorer is a free product. I don't see the marketing value in only releasing major version numbers. Instead they should be constantly pushing out new stuff. At least in my opinion, that would still provide the feeling of having something fresh and new if I was receiving a constant stream of new features and bug fixes.

Even if they did get every conceivable feature implemented for IE9, it would only be current for a short time after the release. It would then sit basically unchanged for a year or more (thus seeming old and outdated) while they work on IE10. Meanwhile Chrome would have put out a ton of new features that are all added a few at a time.
If an app publisher wants to avoid all the App-Store-related restrictions, can they just put their app on the Web and let people download and install it through the browser? I don’t have any iStuff so I don’t know the practicalities.
> If IE won't support websockets, we won't use websockets because of lacking support in IE

This is already untrue for a number of websites. IE isn't as dominant as it once was.
No worries. That's why I updated the sub-heading to "and general spammy user generated content sites" because sites like EE aren't classical content farms (they're even smarter by getting people to give them content for free and then selling it to members!).
I wonder if there are any petitions out there for the cause of ending IE. I'm sure there are but obviously none have been properly executed.

It'd be a super long shot, but I'd bet that with some generous donations and a proper campaign, a viral petition could get thousands (possibly hundreds of thousands) of signatures requesting that something seriously be done about IE. Could Steve Balmer and Microsoft ignore hundreds of thousands of people? Sure. Would they? Maybe. They do seem to think they know what's best for everyone. Would it hurt to try? Definitely not.
Survivorship bias, selection bias etc
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He wasn't a customer. He was using a free service. Unless you're paying someone money, you're not a customer. If you live next to a coffee shop and use their wifi without ever buying coffee, do you expect the shop to help you reconnect if their internet goes down?

So no, it has nothing to do with customer service. Its someone who A) was using a free service and B) never bothered logging in to make sure his data was still being hosted by said free service.
Any program function can be cast as a theorem (although vice-verse is difficult). Proving this theorem is easier than writing the corresponding program function.

And by easier, I mean that the proof is easier to pass off as a correct proof than the program is to pass as a correct program. Of course, writing an actually correct proof is just as difficult as writing an actually correct program -- for the most part. Of course sometimes, due to real world constraints in programs (like dealing with fault tolerance or races for perf) correctness in programs can become magnitudes more difficult.
That still doesn't make much sense. The gains of sticking with a proven, solid server which you are familiar with surely outweigh the 0.5% speed increase.
Yes, I guess it's all relative. We are new to most people who have never heard of us :)
Ask HN: Made a hack for musichackday, now getting meeting requests. Need advice
I'm pretty young, and have some experience dealing with small business, but lately I've had three or four people from bigger corporations sending me emails asking to meet up and talk about collaborating. They aren't hackers like me, or tech VCs, they are music business people.

I just don't know what to expect. Is there anything I should or shouldn't do. Should I bring people with to these meetings? I was planning on open-sourcing the code but I feel like these guys will be the first people trying to talk me out of it.

Any guidance or help would be much appreciated.
That would be an example of yet more problems originating from MS products, then, right? I don't see why MS can't get this right. MS has the resources to produce a good product, but when it comes to the web, they fall on their faces.
Seems I was mistaken and the answer is "not yet".
To hide the icon, you can right-click on the icon and select "Hide button." To bring it back, click Wrench->Tools->Extensions and click the "Show button" link.

I love Chrome. :)
If Apple puts you on the new and noteworthy or featured lists, app sales go way up. I think it is safe to say that a lot of app sales are driven by discovery on the store itself. As to if it is the majority of sales, well, I have no way of knowing. :)
We actually do have a coffee-related server that we've open sourced at Etsy: https://github.com/morria/CoffeeD/

I currently have an open (internal to Etsy) bug on the author on making it RFC 2324 compliant.
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The very best I have tasted is Fentimans

http://www.drinkfentimans.com

Try it! And report back with your opine.
Without knowing the exact design of the test it's very difficult to be certain, but also from the linked Wikipedia article:

Goizueta publicly voiced a complaint many company executives had been making in private as they shared letters the company had received thanking them for the change in formula, that bashing it had become "chic" and that, as had happened in the focus groups, peer pressure was keeping those who liked it from speaking up in its favor as vociferously as its critics were against it. Donald Keough, the company's president and chief operating officer, reported overhearing this exchange at his country club outside Atlanta:

"Have you tried it?"

"Yes."

"Did you like it?"

"Yes, but I'll be damned if I'll let Coca-Cola know that."

...

Gladwell reports that other market researchers have criticized Coke for not realizing that much of its success as a brand came from what they call sensation transference, a phenomenon first described by marketer Louis Cheskin in the late 1940s: tasters unconsciously add their reactions to the drink's packaging into their assessment of the taste. For example, one of the researchers told Gladwell that his firm's research had found 7-Up drinkers offered a sample from a bottle with a distinctly more yellowish label believe the flavor to be more lemony, although it wasn't.

...

Coke considered but rejected gradually changing the drink's flavor incrementally, without announcing that they were doing so. Executives feared that the public would notice and exaggerate slight differences in taste. In 1998, Joel Dubow, a professor of food marketing at St. Joseph's University, tested this "flavor balance hypothesis" and argued that it was not true. He and fellow researcher Nancy Childs tested mixtures of classic Coke and Coca-Cola II and found that the gradual changes of taste were not noticed by a significant number of tasters. Coke, he said, would have succeeded had it chosen this strategy.

I'm not at all convinced the primary issue with New Coke was taste-based, from the available information.
There are situations, most streets in and around Atlanta for example, where "slower traffic" means a vehicle going the speed limit.

Most people around here don't trust that the engineers who plan roads have some sense of what they're doing. :)
I would try reaching out to the founders of these companies. They will recognize your email right away as a customer development effort and will sympathize with your cause since they were in your shoes one before.

One thing I've done in the past is just show up. I've found that people are more defensive on the phone since the only time we get calls from people we don't know is sales calls. Show up, ask to speak to them for 2 minutes if they are free and set up a meeting at a future time. If they aren't free, leave a handwritten note.
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>Of course, over time I suspect console makers will move more and more towards digital distribution for all games, but that won't happen overnight or even any time soon.

This is why Gamestop should be finding support (ie, EFF, ACLU, legislators) to safeguard First Sale doctrine for digital purchases: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine
> enterprise IT purchasers aren't known for making the best decisions.

Specially those who are already Microsoft clients...
Computer security is a social science, so degrees in ethnography, epistemology, or organizational behavior are a lot more relevant than mathematics. Agreed that math teaches you rigorous thinking and questioning assumptions, but outside of the narrow areas of cryptography and systems analysis the specific skills you learn aren't that important for security work.
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This is extremely important - the claim to user-generated content is either boilerplate and wasn't intended to apply to actual software, or it is specifically intended to apply to the uploaded code due to the cloud-compile service.

The question has been asked a couple times here - is there an answer?
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I know it's an oldie, but it's a goodie. And Twitter is a trip.
I just noticed this thread continued, but I'm not sure what you're worried about. The two things you said:

* the final count will be about 50/50

* the remaining part will be about 50/50

are actually the same thing (since we're talking about a limit). That is, we could flip a fair coin a billion times, get all heads, and still, in the long run, expect the total ratio to converge to 1/2 (imagine flipping the coin forever - that initial billion flips won't even be a blip on the graph).
I've accepted that fact and I'll just continue to serve IE9 the same degraded web pages without using the HTML5 History API.

Better browsers get a better experience, IE users continue to reload the full page for each link, and everyone uses the same non-hashbang'ed URL.

Sucks for IE users, but I'll just continue to not give a damn now that it's apparent IE9 won't be improved any more between now and release.
I suppose another possibility is that users don't replace Macs as often as they do PCs. Which would lead to a disparity between sales figures and actual usage.
Just off the bat, I had a few questions/suggestions:
1. Sorry to hear about your hand injury. You really should have to do any manual data entry, only programing. Perhaps others could chime in.
2. The data seems to be limited to a few popular categories. Some people might be interested in slightly more 'arcane' technologies. There should be an option to select categories from a list.
3. If there are links to the actual jobs from the graphs, a lot more people might go to your website. e.g., I go there and see -- aha there is a small bar for Scala. Cool, let me click on that to see if any of the job ads you've parsed are the ones I am interested in. This gives me a vested interest in going back to your site. I don't know if the technicalities/legalities permit that.
That's great. Should level the playing field a bit.
Awesome stuff! I wasn't able to tweet after I voted though. Not sure if it was a bug. This is going to be big!!!
> but that's not what generates their profits

If that were true, you would see 90% of Mac users running Windows. Since that's not the case, and many Mac users bought their Macs in order not to run Windows, I'd say their OS has some weight in this.
When taking my first analysis class I was sure it is no coincidence the word begins with anal.

I'm going to steal that line, if you don't mind. :-)

It took a while for me to develop habits of skepticism about things that seem obvious at first glance. That's the attitude I think he is describing.

Yes. The attitude of "I don't care if this looks right; am I absolutely certain that it is right, in all possible universes consistent with my axioms".
Lack of WebGL support is a real bummer but realistically WebGL came to late for the IE9 release cycle.

Also, I don't think Microsoft plans on supporting in in IE10. Afraid of the competition with their own tech I guess.

I'm getting all my user to switch to chrome and firefox 4, I haven't gotten a lot of complaint about it. (none actually so far)