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If you're looking for something to force you to code why not just dive in? Photoshop up some sorta look you'd like, then pick a CSS framework and start slicing up your image into the resources that fit the framework.

Here's one that's easy to wrap your head around:

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I think what he means here is, see the market opportunity and raise money against that, not just build it.
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Yup, as well as Mobog, Natuba, BuzzFeed, circa 2005.
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It used to mean something. Fifty years ago fewer people had degrees and it was likely to mean good life and secure career.

Not so much any longer but the old tricks of the trade of life from 1-2 generations back keep living on. It'll take some time to change.
Even if that's what he meant, it's still false.
If you're into Node.js and Redis we (Voxer) are actually hiring engineers. We're building a Walkie Talkie for iPhone and Android. In more technical terms Voxer is a low latency messaging system for voice, images, and text.
We have an iOS client in the App Store, and an Android version is in the works. We've had explosive growth in the last couple of weeks and are now in top 25 in a bunch of app stores and we are looking for someone to help us develop the server side components and make the system scale.

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Wow, this hard turned into a nature vs. nurture debate. I highly recommend reading The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker. It seems a lot of the people who are really pushing the nurture end of things seem highly misinformed.
How close is couchdb? Couch is written in erlang but communicates over HTTP via JSON.
This post was great.. when I read it 2 months ago
This is nice but what's the difference from ViewText (http://www.viewtext.org)? ViewText has a JSONP API, which made it perfect for building into a recent little project I did (it was a web app). Plus, it's been around for a lot longer.
That lesson is not limited to "iOS" and "Apple". If you place the financial future of your company solely to $PLATFORM, then $PLATFORM_OWNER will always present a risk. That's why the smart companies also get their services running on $PLATFORM_B, $PLATFORM_C and $PLATFORM_D.
His actual name is Harold (Hal) Abelson.
If you've gone to great length already, then maybe it isn't much additional work to support the HTML5 history API and also provide server-side rendering to non-JS clients.

(BTW, that's a pretty cool site.)
Funny running into you on this thread, after our earlier discussion. I want to thank you for identifying for me what it is about online discussions that turn me off. You really hit the nail on the head with: "Discussion can exist without this constant battle to score 'points'."
By coroutine, he really means a language feature that converts:

do_something_and_then(function (){
do_another_thing_and_then( function (){
say "we're done!"
});
});

to:

do_something;
do_another_thing;
say "we're done";

Coroutines are one way of doing this, but source rewriting (Haskell-"do-notation"-style) also works.

An instructive example is the Coro module for Perl (which is a bit more coroutine-ish, as it provides separate perl and C stacks for each async action, etc.): http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Coro

It lets you write something like:

async {
my $t = AnyEvent->timer( after => 5, cb => Coro::rouse_cb );
Coro::rouse_wait();
say "OH HAI";
};

instead of:

my $t = AnyEvent->timer( after => 5, cb => sub {
say "OH HAI";
});

This may look like it's not an improvement, but it is after you add some sugar:

sub sleep($) {
my $seconds = shift;
my $cb = Coro::rouse_cb;
my $t = AnyEvent->timer( after => $seconds, cb => $cb );
}

async {
sleep 5;
say "It's been 5 seconds!";
sleep 10;
say "It's been 15 seconds!";
};

instead of:

my $t; $t = AnyEvent->timer( after => 5, cb => sub {
say "5";
$t = AnyEvent->timer( after => 10, cb => sub {
say "15";
undef $t;
});
});
Or on a 'Breaking Bad' episode.
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Much needed for WP :) But I am biased, since I helped with this work...
Heh. Just getting started with SICP. This reminded me even before college..
I love Node, but I don't think this is particularly true. I have had no problem writing Event-driven Perl apps that talk to web users, use ZeroMQ, talk to a SQL database, talk to Redis, read from disk, and spawn external processses... with none of those operations blocking.

Look at the AnyEvent:: namespace on search.cpan... there's a quite a bit of stuff there. Everything that Node has, and more.

You should use Node because you like Javascript, not because other languages don't have as good of libraries... because other languages have as good of libraries.
http://snaplog.com, http://clowdy.com and probably dozens more.
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And add "Strawman" to Ad-Hom Block Pro. The moment I see somebody use that word I think, "This person learned to 'argue' by reading Internet forums. Disregard."

Few things grate as much as the self-satisfied "strawman" police.
I believe this was an inherent consequence of JavaScript and V8 being tailored to short-lifetime (milliseconds of DOM operations, then lazy waiting for events to fire) applications with low amount of events (user in-browser activity).

Nope, it's just bugs. Every programming language has memory-related bugs... just less of them as they get older.
Just tried viewtext on lifehacker's feed and got:

"We understand you'd like to delete your account. If you delete your account all of your information including your comments, messages, posts, and friends and followers associations will be removed from our system. Please consider the following options before clicking delete."

Yikes! =X
There is another important example that the author didn't mention. The inquisitor. Anyone who's been in the workforce long enough knows the guy who can't ever accept the directions he gets without questioning every aspect of the decision. Also, this person tends to have a problem with authority and will always test his or her boundaries. That said they tend to be among the most creative thinkers in the entire company and for that reason they can be an important member of the staff.
This looks very similar to an app I had on my only Sony Clie PDA, which I am pretty sure was a copy of something on Pocket PC... this was back in 2003.
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It would be great to hear a post-mortem on why the founders think they failed to get traction. I remember the Techcrunch launch post being very positive (not that these things are determining factors, but still).

I wonder if we will be hearing the same thing about Path a year from now? The two services seem very similar.
So I strongly suspect that our programming ability is related to our capacity for being pedantic, as annoying as that may be socially.

Just like all tall people are good at basketball? Being a pedantic nit has nothing to do with one's ability to write code.

Regardless, this is a pretty cool story.
I think I'd like to be able to pay an author directly - that would be my ideal solution; and an ebook should necessarily cost less than a paper book. But I agree - removal of DRM should be a target.

The MP3 tip's a good one - thanks.
Hasn't changed! We've known about this (as well as the launch today) and aren't making any specific plans based on TC's testing of FBComments.
I just wanted to clear something up. A lot of our customers increase MaxClients settings, and we don't usually disable their servers for doing so. You can actually go into our community wiki to see how to do it. Other than that, good luck with S3!
Heh. I know that type well. A guy that I had hired as an intern many years ago was that type - to such a degree that once when asked to erect a shelf that we got for the IT lab was asking why it was using the type of screws that it came with and stopping and pondering this for several minutes.

He is now a senior sys ad in the valley - and very very smart - but his challenges to authority and propensity to ask questions just to be obtuse grew tiresome.
Is “App Store” As Generic As Microsoft’s “Windows”?
Did YC pay our site a visit?
We recently submitted our application to the Summer cycle of YC. The next day, our analytics showed a visit to our site from San Francisco, CA (IP: 67.180.79.10). Since we only launched our beta site the same day, and have yet to advertise it anywhere, we were thinking: Could it be YC?

Did anyone else get a visit from the same IP?
I know nothing about programming. I'm good with SEO.

What should I do? : )

hint: the answer might be the same!
I've (tragically) spent far too many hours trying to convince various developers that tables aren't good for layout - my motives are sincere - but I admit, it's a conversation that's more than enough to turn anyone off :)

I meant what I said about emailing if you'd like some tips about CSS - I had few 'a-ha' moments that really made my life easier.
There are absolutely nuclear power plants which use web technologies for their control panels.

Specifically, There are at least some which use ASP.NET in their SCADA control systems (although they are not connected to the internet).

I have performed security assessments on several of these.
It'd be great if someone added "[processor-heavy]" on to the title of posts like this.
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Have a look at the site and see if it interests you. Helps to have some activist in your blood.

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Um, tried to post under "who's hiring thread." Is it closed?
Oh no. Absolutely not. Just observing a pattern.
So, crack 5 patches a year and I roughly hit my current income?!
The TC link is an excerpt. Full article at http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/03/01/is-app-store-as-generic...
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Why the question?
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I think they catered the speakers' dinner last time. It was tasty.
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But that's just the thing... People often act like Gruber is writing about how things should be, but more often he's just writing about how things are (or how he thinks they will be), and why.

--

As a side note... I got my first Mac in 1989. I've been reading the Mac press for over 20 years, and Daring Fireball for about 7 or 8 years. There was a time in the "dark ages" of the 90s when even the most die-hard Apple fans had a "love the product; hate the company" mentality, because it seemed like Apple's management was doing everything they could to screw things up.

Daring Fireball is entirely a product of the Steve Jobs II era, with much more competent management, so it hasn't had quite as much reason to gripe. But Gruber has had some long-standing disagreements with Apple. He bitched for years about how much worse the Finder was in OS X. (I think the only reason he stopped is that he gave up hope that it'll ever be fixed.)
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wow, I wish I was as productive as you when I was 15.
I don't see what's wrong with congresspeople being wealthy. In fact, I'd rather see congresspeople be richer than they currently are. When a congressperson has more money, it becomes much more expensive to buy their favor with campaign contributions and expensive lobbyists, and they are less likely to be pulled into lobbying themselves after they quit.

It's pretty much impossible to bribe a billionaire.
Curious if you happen to know the answer to this... but some eBooks I've seen when run through antiVirus programs report being 50% MATLAB. I can't tell where this comes from or if it means anything at all. Does MATLAB in PDF files ring any sort of bell for you?
Honestly, I would just like to get 3 sizes with each shipment, try them all on, and pick the best... but without having to advance them 3x the cost of a pair of shoes.

I don't find returning to be a big deal. You put the shoes back in the box they came in, print a label, and drop it off at the post office. Still easier than going to a store, and once you know your size for a given brand, you don't have to do this anymore.

I've also found that shoe sizes don't really vary all that much, in my experience. I wear size 11EE boots, 11EE running shoes, 11EE sneakers, and 11EE dress shoes. I think the problem that a lot of people have is that they order standard-width shoes even though they don't have standard-width feet. Then the fit comes down to how tight the laces are, etc.

But I digress. Zappos will probably not go out of business if they don't buy this company.
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How about this? Worked on this project for a very long time, had a few problems with partners, etc. Here are the design files: http://cl.ly/2Q0m001I3g0n1d12152e Lemme know if interested! :-)
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Why I think Facebook's comment system won't take off.
edit: forgot to mention... I've put in plenty of time and effort already, but split will be 50/50. I want you as personally invested as I am.

Admirable and, imho, smart. One word of warning, though: set up a vesting schedule. Don't just give the 50% outright.

Since you've been at it longer you should start with more shares, but perhaps have your cofounder accrue shares faster so that within a year or two you'll be at 50/50 - but don't give 50% right off the bat with no protection for yourself against the risk of your cofounder just walking away...
This data seems to be based on reviews, and reviewers are typically morons that know nothing about shoes. I order by size, ignoring the reviews, and I've only had one pair of shoes from Zappos not fit well.
Aye. :(
Ahh well, in time things will get better.
That is confusing text. I assume the subscription is for the next 12 issues, so you'd get that one free as a bonus.

Hacker Monthly isn't free, but they link to all the articles, so you can consume the same content by clicking the titles listed. HM just packs it into a beautiful package.
Sure, and snorting vitamins could replace eating meals. Sleep has been implicated in a lot of secondary roles, including memory consolidation, the body's ability to repair itself, etc. It's unlikely such a fundamental process can be easily replaced.
I remember signing up for Treehouse after that TC post and thought it was really cool. Tried to get my friends on it, but that failed (most people didn't have iphones at the time) so the app was useless for me.
I think this entry could just as easily be renamed "When People are Bad Employees." I've encountered people that fit these profiles and wouldn't classify them as particularly clever.
Holy FUD! I'm sure all the Lisp and TCL fanboys thought the same of their supposedly superior runtimes all the way to eventual irrelevance.

Hubris much?
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Love it, means jack squat but I love that they care about their work so much.

Disclaimer: I have a tendency to display fanboi qualities.
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Even with that definition, there was Shozu, which was founded in 2001 and raised over $36M. At least by 2005, they had significant traction with their mobile photo sharing tools.
and google never published that percentage until iAd came around.
Spanish also pronounces it as "Double V", though I can't say anything about the frequency of it throughout the language.
Haha, I used to be an employee like that. You know those methodologies like DDD, that say: 'understand the business problem before coding'. Well when I was doing it managers would go crazy and say I should not create confusion, but start working. Once to find 6 months later that a 15 men team hasn't done anything useful ... In all cases I can remember thinking and asking at the beginning was/would have been worth the time.
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The real surprise here is that Facebook was still using mysqldump to perform regular backups. Yikes that's slow.
>Most JS use is sparing and lightweight

Have you used Twitter or Facebook on resource constrained machines? Even on latest nightly builds of Chromium it's painful on my Dell Mini netbook.

The point is that you can use Javascript do just about everything you can do in Flash. And Adobe CS6 will almost certainly contain some tools to help you use your existing Flash assets in a pure JS+HTML+CSS environment. So the animation studio for Javascript doesn't exist yet, but we're talking about the near future where it will and it will be just as obnoxious as Flash (but much harder to block from consuming CPU.)
Scrap "overly critical", I just want him to be critical.

And what is the incentive of the Apple insiders? While Gruber may not, they are perfectly capable of forming their own, independent opinions on what Apple proper does, as orthogonal as they may be.
What do you mean? You think it should not be mentioned ever again?
Is there a time delay between the source feed and the full feed?
(The comment I was responding to said something to the effect of "This sounds like content farming.") There are similarities: they produce content at scale by taking a repeatable process and throwing money at it. Then again, so does the New York Times.

Ideally, a successful startup is producing pages which actually solves problems for its users and, in the process, makes them lots of money by connecting their valuable software/service to people who need it.
>it's just making the best user experience out of the functionality available

That's a pretty broad generalization. On Twitter for example I'd say they're intentionally trying to make it harder for you to have a URL to reference an individual tweet.
I strongly suggest 51/49. Decision making with a 50/50 split is not fun. Lock-up agreements are generally pretty messy.

It's pretty clear you have already put in substantial work. I would assume a co-founder would be quite pleased with 40% at this stage.
A similar service: http://fivefilters.org/content-only/ and it is opensource too. It uses a PHP version of readability to extract the full content. Also can the author of fulltextrssfeed.com explain some of the implementation details? I was planning on a similar project with node.js, jsdom and readability.
I don't know... Your statement assumes the entire concept of discourse is to say things in the minimal number of bytes or words or whatever. This may be true in code or maths, where less verbosity makes the point better, but I am somewhat convinced the point of most discourse is to disseminate understanding.

Since it is people who do the understanding, some repetition, while wasting bytes or words[1], certainly helps maximize reader comprehension. Even math and CS journal papers quote things, not just put pointers. That is wasteful repetition don't you think?

I look at it as an optimization problem. There are at least two variables -- number of words and reader comprehension[2]. The goal is information transfer between people. To minimize or maximize any one of those variables may result in non-optimal information transfer. Instead there may need to be some repetition rather than pointers for some things.

[1] There are serious questions at this point whether at the scale of HN discussions there is such a thing as limited resources for data storage, bandwidth, etc (and given the level of intellect here, even reading time is almost trivial for a lot of posts).

[2] There are lots of confounding variables, such as the intelligence and prior knowledge of any given reader, the eloquence of the writer, the complexity of the point being made etc.
If you put an URL and a text comment in the submission, then only the text is displayed. You should put now the URL in a comment.
Counterpoint: Elements of Programming is an exercise in overengineering written by architecture astronauts. I was not impressed by it.
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Interesting, it might be a Romance language thing. Paging linguists! Paging all HN linguists!
Interestingly, this comment sets up a strawman to represent all people who use the term "strawman"... :)
I guess it depends on your customer.
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Ask HN: What kind of chair do you sit in?
Getting older or spending too much time hunched over the computer desk has led to significant back pains...

Assuming most of HN readers spend a whole lot of time at their desk, what kind of chair do you use to prevent or relieve back pain? Do you have a specific regimen of work/rest to prevent issues that may arise? Has anyone tried a Swooper Stool or similar "outside the box" seating options?