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Alternatives to NetApp
Anybody have good experience with NetApp service? I purchased $30k of storage from their Storevault division a couple of years ago to be the core of my startup's storage. When they rolled the storevault boxes back into NetApp they eliminated access to the system software used to reinstall or upgrade the devices without an expensive service contract. I've just been informed that it will cost me $450 to get access to the software for a couple of days so i can reinstall one of the devices. I guess I should have kept copies of the original install software, but this seems ridiculous. I value the block level replication features and thin provisioning. What other vendors should I consider for a small and growing business? Or is my experience with NetApp a fluke?
Wow, 26 years condensed into 10 minutes...
The infantilizing of movies has been very disappointing for me personally. I seem to have a lot of friends that only want to see CG movies, usually from Pixar or Dreamworks. Sit them down to watch a live action drama and in fifteen minutes the iphones come out to play Angry Birds. Very frustrating.
No, they do not pay less! The top 1% has an average effective tax rate of 32% -- much higher than yours! This includes capital gains taxes! It's whatever amount they send to the IRS divided by the amount they receive as income (including proceeds from stock transactions).

Methodolgy

CBO's analysis of effective tax rates assumes that households bear the burden of the taxes that they pay directly, such as individual income taxes (including taxes on interest, dividends and capital gains) and employees' share of payroll taxes. The analysis assumes--as do most economists--that employers' share of payroll taxes is passed on to employees in the form of lower wages than would otherwise be paid. Therefore, the amount of those taxes is included in employees' income, and the taxes are counted as part of employees' tax burden. CBO estimates payroll taxes and individual income taxes, including refundable tax credits, with a tax "calculator" that applies the tax law for the relevant year to the tax return data from the SOI.
Excise taxes are assumed to fall on households according to their consumption of taxed goods (such as tobacco and alcohol). Excise taxes that affect intermediate goods, which are paid by businesses, are attributed to households in proportion to their overall consumption. CBO assumes that each household spends the same on taxed goods as similar household with comparable income in the Consumer Expenditure Survey.
Far less consensus exists about how to attribute corporate income taxes (and taxes on capital income generally). In this analysis, CBO assumes that corporate income taxes are borne by owners of capital in proportion to their income from interest, dividends, capital gains, and rents. Over the long term, however, some models suggest that at least part of the burden falls on labor income.

http://www.cbo.gov/publications/collections/tax/2009/methodo...

"taxes that they pay directly, such as individual income taxes (including taxes on interest, dividends and capital gains)"
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC953ZM/A#overview

The iPad2 is the only device which supports video mirroring.

For all other devices, restricted video out remains, even with the Digital AV Adapter. It will only send video when the application supports it.
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That's probably true for most people if it's just a video in the middle of a blank page, but I would guess that you can pretty easily get people to tweet to watch the video if you a) put up a compelling description of the video or series and/or testimonials, or b) already have a dedicated following.

If Seth Godin or Ramit Sethi did this, I doubt they would have any trouble at all getting thousands of tweets on each video.
Ashton kuctcher's Twitter account hacked? or r we being punkd?
I also remember that there was a version of <unnamed product> that rather than sending LVM_GETITEMTEXT would just read the ansi characters corresponding to the selected item during LVN_ITEMCHANGED off of a random location in the stack frame that they had "noticed" held the value. Of course, this eventually changed to a unicode string internally and broke WinZip... so the code that fired off this event would convert the unicode string to ansi and store a pointer in the stack.

I recall being very confused when I encountered this code many years after it had been implemented and had to spend a lot of time tracking through bug databases before discovering why the listview implementation was doing that.
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You could use the same argument for doing everything yourself though.

"Tropo is nice, but with a few days of programming Asterisk, I got all the functionality you have out of Tropo and I'm not tied down to their pricing plans".

If you hosted your own VoIP pbx, you could just negotiate your own SIP trunking service for much cheaper.

I'm not actually recommending this route, as Asterisk sucks and Tropo is pretty nicely done, but I thought I'd give you another perspective.
Surely if you were encouraged to 'eat your own dog food', that would mean people inside apple would be testing stuff themselves, so would mean eventual public releases would be better?
Actually in a more relevant parallel to Brooks's comparison, Larry Page's grandfather worked on a Michigan auto assembly line. I don't think the grandson's economic contributions are that much less tangible or clearly valuable than the grandfather's.
Try to get that from the command line :-).
It's like the ZondaHH but not as fast or as pretty: http://zondahh.com/
Ask PG: non-competes for applicants?
Does it torpedo our YC application if two of the founders work together at a company now? And do we have to leave at the exact same time to avoid triggering a non-compete?

Our contracts have what I assume is a typical clause against poaching of existing employees for a certain amount of time after leaving, but I've also got a job offer for a much higher salary that would help save up for YC if we get in.
Their control is sedentary rats because they hope to extend the results to humans, and humans are sedentary. If we were all hunter gatherers, you would have a point.
"... the risk of increased injury is easily addressed by choice of exercise - swimming, rowing, etc. ..."

what about your bones?

"... The best exercise for your bones is the weight-bearing kind, which forces you to work against gravity. Some examples of weight-bearing exercises include weight training, walking, hiking, jogging, climbing stairs, tennis, and dancing. Examples of exercises that are not weight-bearing include swimming and bicycling. Although these activities help build and maintain strong muscles and have excellent cardiovascular benefits, they are not the best way to exercise your bones. ..." ~ http://www.niams.nih.gov/Health_Info/Bone/Bone_Health/Exerci...
Thanks for your honest feedback. You're not raining on my parade at all. I'm a realist. I agree and see the challenges you point out. I'm not being specific on the concept b/c the patent filing is in process and, like most founders, I'm totally paranoid (my partner is worse) that someone will steal my brilliant, gazillion dollar idea. Guffaw all you want. I realize how naive I sound. However, we already have clients and investors lined up. and the prototype being built. So, we're a bit further along than just a dollar and a dream stage.

Thanks for your very thoughtful and helpful reply.
Red and green might not have been the best choice. 10% of males are red-green colourblind.
There are Indian tribes in Mexico still running like this. Check out "Born To Run" by Christopher McDougall (excellent book by the way).
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Yes, just read it. Much appreciated.
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Couldn't one simply write a php script opening up a socket and routing the request as fit? Is there a need for this in the core?
You should give them something, yes.
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Please tell me my sarcasm meter is broken. It must be, for you to claim an article discussing John Gruber defending Apple as not being fanboyism.

When was the last time Gruber wrote something negative about Apple? My best guess is probably July 8, 1997, the day before Amelio was shown the door...
This isn't entirely a crazy idea.

Seeing as they were already setting the bar for tablets they could afford to make it thicker that they needed to. In all likelihood it was more of an economic consideration, larger components being cheaper, but knowing they had the ability to make it thinner and lighter later would have been part of the medium term plans.
That looks exactly like Facebook, even to the photo timeline thing at the top.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/lt/the_robbers_cave_experiment/
It's not just for absolute beginners. I tried the vaunted "running Passenger locally" method of Rails development but I didn't really like having to configure it and all that (even PassengerPane was a pain). Much easier just to cd into the project directory and type "rails server".
It's unnecessary to have to write that every time you want this feature though. Would be nice, and certainty more efficient, for it to be in the core.
The Chrome sandbox protects pretty well against that kind of exploit. I bet $20K [1] that won't own Chrome. Also, I think Android 2.3.3 patches the webkit bug - there was a similar problem that held up the release somewhat.

(Obviously that shouldn't understate the danger of that exploit against Safari or the Android browser)

[1] of Google's money: http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2011/02/02/pwn2own-2011
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Not true. I have developed in python, and php for many years. PHP has always suffered from the problem of having to install MAMP, or XAMP.

When using django, you just have to install django using something like pip. Then from your project folder you can launch a dev server without need to configure apache.

As Steve Jobs would say, 'it just works'. Projects like Drupal would benefit immensely from something like this.
Lazy and unmotivated are about his internal state, which you correctly point out we don't know. Lack of direction and ambition are observations of exterior actions. He is not moving in a direction, so we can say he lacks direction. He doesn't seek to be great or even good at anything so he lacks ambition. In making those two observations we have not ascribed any reason why he lacks ambition or direction. So complaining about people not knowing his motivations when we are talking about his actions not his motivations, is in fact a straw man.
I'm just happy to see him.
Not in itself. The interesting bit would be playing with different UI's and testing backwards compatibility of settings and apps. Such as the OP video does between upgrades.

I wouldn't mind seeing the same video idea with Ubuntu. Somehow I don't think it will be long before a copycat does this :)
I'm just thinking this would be better suited for a quite simple php script/framework you could download, since it's not in any way meant for deployment.
Oh, good, you do allow the user to edit the tweet before sending it off.
I think this is potentially a mistake, it furthers (in my opinion) the image that Jobs is irreplaceable (being on a medical leave of absence he must still come back to launch products, etc.).
There's an even more specific reason. There is no 16bit support in 64bit Windows. It's probably the biggest backwards compat kill they did for 64bit Windows.
Looks a lot better organized, but also a lot like facebook. Not that that's a bad thing, the facebook profile page has clearly been successful.
python at age 29 is no fun.

I had a great time with it at 32. Of course, to fully appreciate Python it helps to have spent years using Java and Perl.
I think the reason profile pages tend to use the same layout is because it's an established design pattern now. People already know what to expect when they see a page with that layout.

Edit: Also, Google profiles have had that photo timeline for a while. They added it months before Facebook added it.
I did Linda in the university, during the Concurrent Programming course. It was lots of fun, even though we never actually wrote a line of code in any place other than the blackboard... It is sad that the model did not take off.
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""Privacy" What?"

Is it so hard to fathom that other people might have differing opinions on that point?
> Another change is that you can now hide the Google Buzz tab from your profile.

Slowly admitting that Google Buzz was a complete failure...
I found it amusing how you avoided to mention the name initially only to lapse (I'm assuming it wasn't intentional) and inadvertently say it was WinZip later on.
Both your mother and your aunt would be signing in to (name of decentralized social service).google.com, just like everybody else except for a handful of geeks who take pride in running their own nodes.

Or Microsoft's node, or Yahoo's node, or Amazon's node or anyone else with the infrastructure to run a huge scale social site.

But all that aside, you don't consider this a better situation than now, where all data is walled off and silo'd and the biggest player is an effective monopoly with much, much less interest in privacy and data security than Google? And geeks have no option whatsoever to operate a social network independently?

If not, what do you propose, other than acquiescence?
The root exploit appears almost incidental here - without it the application could do everything it was doing merely by requesting those permissions at install time. The vast majority of people would install it without checking.

Here's some examples of iOS apps doing similar things without requiring a root exploit:

The threat is not theoretical. Several iPhone apps have been pulled from the App Store after being found to be harvesting user data, intentionally or unintentionally. A game called Aurora Feint was uploading all the user contacts to the developer's server, and salespeople from Swiss road traffic information app MogoRoad were calling customers who downloaded the app. Game app Storm8 was sued last fall for allegedly harvesting customer phone numbers without permission, but it later stopped that practice. And users also complained that Pinch Media, an analytics framework used by developers, was collecting data about customer phones.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10446402-245.html
I tried it in Ruby in ~2006, and found that many operations in Rinda were O(n) in the size of the tuple space :(
> college chicks?

Is every founder either a man or a lesbian?
The way the OP is presented is a little confusing, comparing Microsoft and it's internal applications having a 'strategy tax' versus Apple and their internal and 3rd party applications. I do agree with the closing argument, it definitely could have been presented in a less confusing way.

Apple is in every right to charge whatever they want, but that doesn't mean they should. I would hope that everyone that is affected by the policy change will jump ship and show Apple that they are important to the iOS ecosystem. Maybe even causing Apple to change their policy to be more developer friendly. It is crazy to me that Apple lauds their iOS app ecosystem as a reason to buy iOS devices but then punishes the developers that make those apps.
On non-jailbroken iOS you can't mark a section of memory as executable once it has been writable (and vice-versa, apparently). Executable pages are also checked against a signature by the kernel before they're used.
The threat is not theoretical. Several iPhone apps have been pulled from the App Store after being found to be harvesting user data, intentionally or unintentionally. A game called Aurora Feint was uploading all the user contacts to the developer's server, and salespeople from Swiss road traffic information app MogoRoad were calling customers who downloaded the app. Game app Storm8 was sued last fall for allegedly harvesting customer phone numbers without permission, but it later stopped that practice. And users also complained that Pinch Media, an analytics framework used by developers, was collecting data about customer phones.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10446402-245.html
and big companies...
Hopefully this will end the long-standing practice of novice PHP developers writing code and pushing it to production to test it (or worse, editing code on the production server).

Yes, I know you can set up Apache and mod_php or whatever, but starting a server from the command line is just awesomer. You'll see, guys!
Do you mind explaining more fully how this is useless?

I'm sure there are many people who don't have a Facebook account who have a Google account. Such people could use this to create their own profile page. Also, while you can make your Facebook profile searchable if you wish to, Google profiles will likely be given special priority and placement. Not to mention the social search features Google is working on using profiles.
Any django developers or css/sass/jquery experts. By experts I mean you really know it.
Because most sane languages aren't just for writing web apps, they're for writing programs.
What's the point of inward focused echo-chamber babble? Focus on finding ideas outside the echo-chamber, surprising and delighting customers and building a useful product.

Then sell the hell out of it.

This is also why I hate VC's (PG included), they force you to become inward focused rather than seeking external inputs (IE: Customers). As Gödel proved, you cannot determine a systems consistency within itself.
i use error_log() for that and just tail apache's error log.

for dumping arrays and things, i use an error_log_r() which just does print_r to the error log:

function error_log_r($obj) {
ob_start();
print_r($obj);
$lines = explode("\n", ob_get_clean());

foreach ($lines as $line)
error_log($line);
}
This is probably more of a ServerFault question; I suspect most HNers would say "what's NetApp?"

NetApp does seem to have scaled back on the low end; the EMC VNXe might interest you.
Passenger works as a standalone server with Nginx now - http://www.modrails.com/documentation/Users%20guide%20Standa...
I honestly couldn't care less what happened to Mahalo and I pretty much agreed with all your points when you first revealed their ways of creating tens of thousands of useless pages, but nevertheless I also have simpathy for Jason.

I think not many people on HN realize (or probably are willing to admit) that This Week In Startups is the most interesting resource to learn from real experiences of fellow entrepreneurs, developers, etc.
Mixergy is another interesting one, but the format of TWIST provides its viewers lots of insights and info that you simply can't get anywhere else on the web.

So not all Jason does is evil.

Just my two cents.
Not only that, but Scoble is the bar Scoble sets for healthy. Slightly less germane, but about 6% funnier.
Like what? Open a bunch of popup windows? Normally the problem with XSS is that it's a way of getting malicious code to execute in a privileged context (namely, a user's login session on a website they presumably care about and trust) but here no such privileged context exists.
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Good, now please allow an API to get your avatar using your gmail address. While we're at it, allow me to get some public info via JSON too. ktxby.
I am no where near the target audience for your app, but the difference between this version and the last is miles apart. I did a double-take to make sure both sites were done by you.

One thing I ran into was that when I first loaded up the page, I didn't realize it was for musicians touring -- I thought it was about 'sight-seeing' touring. Maybe you can emphasize the musical element somehow. Nothing on the front page indicated to me that this was an app for bands. Maybe your tagline ("Instantly track merch sales and expenses") could be tweaked slightly ("Instantly track your bands merch sales and expenses while you tour").

Good luck with the official release!
And by http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/cocoa/... for OS X applications.
I'm going to take a wild guess and say Apple's Smart Cover is 33% as thick as the previous iPad.
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That is only at all comforting if they first salt the data so it would not be comparable to information gathered by other services.
UML brings back good memories from OS classes. We had to patch ext3 to add some triviality, and I did it first in UML so I could more easily test and make sure it was working correctly. It felt a lot faster and easier to setup than virtualbox or qemu (my options at the time), although I guess with hardware support and things like hypervisors it's no longer practical.
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Yes, that's an old optical trick that magicians use.

However, it also makes it easier to pick up from the table, right?
While this is true, there is certainly a point where backward compatibility becomes a bit absurd. I'd personally peg it around the 15-year mark.
Your second and third predictions are predicated on economies of scale breaking down. What makes you think that's going to happen?
equipster is hiring (paid) intern engineers in SF.

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Nobody complains about referring friends as a way to ascend pre-release invite lists (i.e. http://www.socialcam.com/). How is this any different?
It's a summary of objectivist philosophy, otherwise known as the "Law of Identity".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_identity
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> So why of all the important things in your life that you’re doing would you want to present to the world only part of your company?

Because you might be wrong, and building the wrong thing to a high level of polish = failing slow.

> To customers and investors, if it doesn’t fit their need, they move on, you rarely get a second chance.

The number of people who see your initial MVP will be minuscule compared to the number of potential customers. You don't need to get the same customers to come back; you just need to get customers.
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most of 300 years? For instance, if I could leave something buried beneath my home today for my great-great-great-great grandson to find, what would make him wealthiest?

My current best answer: a portfolio of government bonds from all the major countries. (Or perhaps as many of the current sports cards that I can find.)