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> Implementing anything is hard

Come on. Implementing something you invented should be easy. I would understand if the [Open|Libre]Office folks got it wrong, but Microsoft? The same company that basically discredited ISO (and badly damaged its function afterwards) in order to standardize this monstrosity? To not even bother to implement its botched bogus standard correctly is beyond insulting.

And yes, of all things wrong in MS Office Open XML, the bugs are the least important.
The mere fact that you took the time to compile this lengthy response and have received meaningful responses is evidence enough that HN has not "jumped the shark."

It is a people problem, but I feel the biggest problem is that people are pointing out that there's a problem. Communities evolve; that is, in fact, practically all they do. Perhaps HN isn't the same as it was 2 or 3 years ago, saying that it's worse is a bit of a stretch.

I've yet to find a community where people have meaningful discussions in the comments without some snarky response like, "lol wut"." On HN these comments are self-moderated; those with the karma downvote the meaningless comments and they disappear into the aether.

Simply put, I don't think HN is dying. Rumors of its demise are highly overblown.
I never thought I would sell, but I got three offers in one week. I told them all no. But after thinking about it a while, I told them all yes.

Thing is, Amazon was not one of the three. And I always thought that Amazon would be the perfect daddy for my baby.

So after the first three companies were looking at my books with NDAs and LOIs, I asked a connected friend to introduce me to someone at Amazon, and told him why. I was surprised how quickly someone at Amazon got back to me, and they were a contender until the end. (I chose a different company - one of those first three, after all.)

It makes all the difference in the world to have multiple interested buyers.

Any time you hit a snag in negotiations, you really have to be 100% sincerely ready to walk away. Actually believe, to the core, that until the final signature and wire transfer goes through, the deal might not happen, and you're OK with that.
Easily reproducible doesn't equal easily fixed.
I don't know that anyone engaged us here, but someone from VMware did engage me over at the blog: http://blog.bitquabit.com/2011/02/22/buying-vmware-fusion/#c...
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That is a pretty obscure test case. And I like how the "severe" impact this had was that someone got a bad grade on a paper.
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This tripped me up the first time I made an HTML5 page while developing in chrome.. switching to Firefox everything looked messed up.

Just a tip for those of you considering switching or starting a new HTML5 site.
"To not even bother to implement its botched bogus standard correctly is beyond insulting"

I'm sorry, I just don't understand what you're saying. It's a bug. Bugs happen. A programmer somewhere made a mistake. How is that the same as "not bothering to implement" the standard?
>I am now convinced that timesheets will be the downfall of civilization as we know it!

Oh let's not be overdramatic shall we ?

Civilization dies from a thousand papercuts, not a thundering blow. When the barbarians cut its head it's already dead.

That being said, timesheets are definitely one of those papercuts.
What were the most popular services that the existing business was providing? Is it possible to provide these services outside of an agency?

If your mom knows where the demand was inside that agency then she should draw from that when creating her own company. Perhaps business trips were the main thing they booked? Or young adult tour style trips? If she could focus on what was still selling maybe that is a way to go forward.

Does she still want to be a travel agent or is she looking to do something completely different?
We're building our application HealPay in HTML5 so if you want to see a real HTML5 site in action, check back with us soon. Posted on HealPay on HN:

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That's cool; I'd never thought of applying anthropic reasoning[1] to startup planning.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Indication_Assumption
The main purpose of Open XML is to facilitate processing and creating documents programmatically using standard tools to manipulate the DOM. Considering the vastness of resources which exist across platforms for manipulating XML (including those for translating to and from XML schemas), this is hardly a proprietary move on Microsoft's part. If they wanted proprietary, they would have copyrighted the format as Autodesk did with the Revit file format.
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My first advice is follow whichever position you are most passionate about.

All else equal, I assume you can get another corporate internship if this startup doesn't work out. In the meantime, you will probably get a wealth of experience. If what you want most is a job at the corporation walk in the door and tell them you are going to take this other job unless they give you a job and see what they say, if they can't commit to you now, there is no telling when they will commit to you in the future.
actually you can cache it. Or at least I think so...
I never use anything remotely non-serious in my test data. I even try make comments type on forms in tested seem at least close to real. Silly names are out too. You never know when some fool is going to show a visiting client a development system instead of one of the official demos, and I've been stung by someone not being amused by the existence of Don Kiddick and Mike Hunt in my sample dataset.
"Nothing like the Kuro5hin golden age, anyway."

Well I think we can all agree on that. It seems like the entire web really peaked in 2005-2006, and it's been all downhill since there.
what would make this even more amazing would be the ability to automatically clip the quote you want from the movie. automatically time-aligning the text to audio is trivial, although i imagine this may have copyright implications.
However, it may take some time (measured in years) for competitors to catch up to Apple in this market.

That means if someone can get their act together and catch up in just 1 year, they can lock up a still enviable #2 spot. I'm talking about having good execution on the device, the software, and a competing set of complements.

Not only does Apple engender the love of many, it also garners much dislike. This amounts to a huge resource which can be leveraged for marketing.
Link to original CNET article: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-20034213-92.html

Link to original thread on Microsoft forum: http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/wordshare/t...
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Which is what is so frustrating about major corporations and their approach to the law. Or rather how the law is enforced.

Small deviations from speed limits are not particularly harmful, but small deviations from the standardisation process here or breaching insider information rules in banks make a mockery of the system. They can pass the infractions off as unavoidable incompetence, but really the system should not except these specious half-truth excuses in these circumstances and should come down much harder, sooner and more often.
Indeed, not everybody necessarily wants to be an entrepreneur. For example, one of the reasons my mom works is because she enjoys working with other people. Running her own business from home wouldn't work for her in that sense. I'm not saying that's the case here, but PonyGumbo is right that you have to be careful not to project your own ideas and ideals too much.
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That's essentially the argumentation of Torvalds, why i likes C. In C you know, what the code does. Higher macro magic is rare.
The stylus has utterly failed in the market place. I don't blame them at all for ignoring it.
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There's a bug somewhere in Open/LibreOffice where an old ODT file opened in a new version loses spell checker support, and no tinkering with dictionaries will fix it. It's also carried through a copy and paste.

And it happens in Word 2010 when I try to open the same ODT file.

Bugs happen.
Self-reply: I'm an idiot, this just computes the sum of 1 to n. Doing fib requires a few more instructions.
A web analytics company in my neck of the woods (Omniture) was acquired by Adobe a couple of years ago. I've talked with a dozen employees there and I've heard nothing but good about it from both the business and technical sides of the house (I interviewed there to see for myself a couple of months ago).

Adobe's leadership still seems to have the "founder" mentality and gives their acquisitions (at least this one) relative autonomy to continue to do what they do well in addition to solid financial backing and all of the nice resources of a big company (benefits, software discounts, etc.)

Adobe is helping them expand with a brand new building with great freeway access. This will also help them attract new hires because it will be about 10 miles closer to a much larger metropolitan area than their existing campus (which is about as far from the freeway as you can get). So +1 for Adobe.
Just for the record - this is a composite of various conversations over the years, and does not reflect specifically on any one manager I've directly reported to.

Also... I'm taking it too seriously? Over a 2 month period when, say, 400 hours are logged, but one week 2 hours are not accounted for in a specified (yet unspoken, hint hint, nudge, nudge) manner, and I'm taking it too seriously?
For a recent graduate like you, I think a startup would provide you the best opportunity to learn, expand, network, and make a niche to something you have the passion at.

Talking with the clients to gauge how they feel about the company could be a good aid in your decision making, but ultimately, you would never know unless you actually jump right into it.

It is quite hard to compare a full time position with an internship based on a lot of factors which satisfies your requirements. Some people may find internship better than full time salaried positions because they find the latter more enjoyable and goes in line with their values in life.

Good luck on your decision. You should be able to make the right choice.
There are companies out there that acquire you and then leave you alone as long as you keep doing well. The canonical example here is Berkshire Hathaway. They don't acquire tech companies, but there are conglomerates out there that try to emulate Berkshire, to varying degrees of success.

Lots more might say that they follow the Berkshire model, but talk to people that have been acquired to get the full story.

Of course, if you start losing money hand over fist after the acquisition, even Berkshire would step in and shake things up.
You should also understand that big companies buy small companies for many different reasons. Sometimes they want a new revenue stream and sometimes they just want the brain power and have no interest in the small company succeeding. A founder who cares about his or her company's future will look closely at the strategic reasons a larger company may be eyeballing you.
I think that part of jrockway's point is that at least some of the people complaining on a bug tracker, have the skills to help.
Ask HN: Anybody going to LAUNCH in SF today?
Anybody else going to be up there? Or launching for that matter?
It's important to separate concerns, and I think there are three main things people are complaining about:

1) quality of submissions
2) quality of comments
3) quality of community

It's the second and third that I think have declined. It's not because the people are any less smart, it's that there are just too many of them. It becomes difficult to keep a mental model of everyone in your head, so you start seeing everything as disembodied text, rather than human beings speaking to one another, with a history of shared experiences.

IMO, this is a solvable problem. You can use avatars and display our locations next to our comments, or even just make our names a little bigger. Anything to humanize the conversations.
This isn't even an announcement, this is just a rumor of an announcement. They author has specifically denied getting this information from Apple PR.
Because of the high quality of iOS and it's large market reach, Android development had to be rushed a great deal. This caused most of the programming power to go towards developing base features (android 1.x - 2.x) or implementing tablet features when the iPad arrived, and almost no resources were left for developers support (the emulators are awfully slow, severe lack of animations framework, etc...) and for bug fixing.
Once things start to settle down, bugs will start to get fixed.
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He is sometimes critical, true, when the critical mass goes against Apple, but his sneering pro-Apple stance 99% of the time is insufferable. It seems like 50% of his posts are about iPad competitors.
To answer that question one has to examine the culture of the smaller organization in contrast to the larger. If you're working at a small startup with an us vs. them mentality and you thrive there, odds are you will not enjoy transitioning into a job where you're required to submit reams of paperwork to HR, get an ID badge, interface with an incompetent mid-level manager who has to report to a boss who reports to a boss who reports ..., attend endless meetings about future meetings, socio-political silos, mind-crushing reviews, pep rallies, ominous rumors of layoffs, social embarrassment, an influx of marginally-skilled and unmotivated coworkers, offshore IT, business casual dress, the realization that all your efforts at the startup went to line the pockets of the founders who vacation ad nauseam while you continue to toil away on a dying project with increased responsibilities for similar pay while your new management makes every effort to erase your contributions while simultaneously reminding you that they bought you, albeit by directive and with corporate cash, then it is quite possible that every cell in your body rejects your new corporate overlords. However, if you're the kind of person who enjoys an anonymous routine backed by a well-known entity, then by all means, focus your attitude and culture into one of eventual assimilation, making friends and cutting deals along the way, so that when the eventual day comes, you'll be in a position to personally benefit from the acquisition by either cultural similarities or the desire to willfully carry out the bidding of your new masters.
Not totally uncertain, there's the GPL'd version which contains almost all the functionality non-commercial desktop users would require (except USB 2.0 device speeds). Oracle can derail VirtualBox the trademark, but they can't prevent a fork.
In my opinion this mentality is more helpful than spamming bug tracker with "YOU SUCK FOR NOT FIXING THIS!!111eleven!" which seems especially common with Android's bugs. I even assume that such comments actually hamper fixing of respective bugs.
Could it possibly be that some of the employees are special people? There is no magic bullet. If the right people are in a position where the can succeed, they will. If you don't have the right people, it doesn't matter what scheme you employee, it won't work.
There are significant technological differences. EyeToy is primarily a camera. Kinect is a camera coupled with two IR emitters that project a dot pattern on the room. The presence of the dot pattern and Kinect's ability to interpret the dot pattern projection on to 3-dimensional surfaces drastically improves the Kinect's "perception" of a 3D environment when compared with EyeToy. EyeToy relies primarily on motion detection algorithms that interpret a composite, 2D image.
I don't quite get the point. If email security is important to you, you shouldn't be outsourcing it.
I agree with the characterization of Scala's generics as complicated, but I disagree that that ends up making its static typing unpleasant or day-to-day programming difficult. Type inference is a big win, and other language features add enough that I find myself not reaching for generics for my own code anywhere near as often as I did with Java. Aside from the occasional container type missing from the standard API, I just pretty much don't use generics in Scala except as a consumer, and I don't miss them.
This in turn is quite unsurprising, given that these countries who knows the value that a very good internet connection can do for their people would always take the lead in ensuring the betterment of their general populace rather than simply making the businesses that run them earn so much while providing so little.

US may have invented the internet but they stopped innovating in the name of making big bucks but for a few.
Any recommendations? It would save me a lot of time if I could spend a little money and read a book to save the hours wasted on applying for junk offers.
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This is a silly excluded middle argument, no?
I think it's worse than nothing. Before there was one Apple position (the app store agreement), now there are two Apple positions (with the email). But can you really point to this email as justification for anything if your app gets rejected?

Plus you don't even know that it's real.
A tablet does not need HDMI.

Think presentations. One of the first things my girlfriend asked my about the iPad was "can I plug it into a projector and run presentations?" To her this was the first use that came to mind. I imagine she isn't the only one. More and more projectors are coming with HDMI as standard and being able to plug in your tablet directly without worrying about needing to buy a separate adapter will be a boon to many people.
"If the founders leave then what are you left with?"

By this logic, the maximum life of any company is about 40 years.

Walmart and ExxonMobil are two examples of companies that became gargantuan long after their founders had left. In fact, of the Fortune 5000, I would bet the majority no longer employ their founders.
I'd like to emphasize this point. Any sort of personalized response is seen as an invitation to initiate a conversation. Which is fine if you want to have that conversation and the person on the other end isn't a sore loser or doesn't have an overinflated ego that you just bruised. Sore losers and overinflated egos aren't the majority, but they do seem to form a very large minority...
Main issue is that the amount of capitol needed for a movie is insane. $10 million is a drop in the bucket, and that would require pre-selling 500k DVDs or so.
A bigger problem I have is that it's hard to get this information ahead of time. Hospitals don't want to tell you, if you come in for this operation and are willing to pay cash, total cost will be $x (and it should be total cost, including rooms, drugs, anesthesiologist, surgeon, nurses, etc.). If you could get that quote, you could comparison-shop hospitals ahead of time.
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You're absolutely right, but the best test there is is the real-life one. And I was prepared for this so could go back. No animals were hurt, no dogs were blamed for the homework, but it have a great first impression of the "improvement".
Not at all. The same people that complained that Canadian laws are too weak to sue Canadian trackers somehow have managed to sue isoHunt.
> Really exceptionally poor engineering for a communication device.

I disagree. You can not judge their entire engineering based on this particular bug. From my little experience developing an Android application, I have to say that they have done a pretty good job in the engineering/API design part.
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The first time someone offered to buy a site of mine, I ended up selling (after negotiating a price I was happy with). I was thinking about selling it anyway.

For a different site, I've had literally more than 10 offers, but all have been too low, so I have had no problem saying no to those :)
I totally agree. I guess it's limited to the cases where you feel you can help the candidate with further job searching
Just a thought.

Maybe it is not who sucks.

But rather the first person in line receiving and reviewing your profile who has the crab mentality thinking that this person seems so good that s/he may change the way how business is done.

And let's accept it. A lot of these front end people dislike change. A lot of them have the same repertoire of outdated processes in hiring and looking for people who would be a good fit in their organization.
One of the key design principles behind Java was to be a cleaner C++: remove all the hippie stuff which make programs too hard to read back, which makes one thing look like it's something else entirely, etc. The result is a boring but reliable language, which gave birth to a wide ecosystem of good quality libraries.

Scala puts back all the hippie stuff into Java. Together with them, it brings back the associated problems which plagued C++. OK, some stuff are done in a less broken way in Scala, largely because they don't try to be a superset of C. But still, we end up with a language hard to read, hard to trust, hard to support for IDEs... not something you want to use for big teams or long-term programming.
Is that also true for more recent versions of IE?
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I don't think this answer holds true anymore, i.e. the newbies who are a year old would claim comment quality is going low. I think it now has become the norm. Why not just aim for a standard near the top quality submissions?
Just ask the designer for confidentiality.
The free market does work in healthcare, you just need a government option as a baseline. If someone wants better care then the socialized healthcare, they are free to pay. That's the system in England and Australia.
Ask HN: How does HN ranking of submits work? Could it be improved?
Just curious, points x time ? what's the ratio ? could we improve it using page views ? or something else ?
I seriously doubt Apple is going to forbid users from loading and viewing their own pdf files on the iPad.
I actually do programming in Scala and I'd have to disagree. While there's the freedom to build a "type castle", you don't have to. For the most part Scala gets things right.

When you do need/want to get fancy with types, you get some of the best tools out there to do it.
That's a bad bug.

But I have to say that comment [1] might be going a bit far comparing the loss of some SMSes to the burning of the library of Alexandrina

[1] http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=5669#c415
damn you [developer of this], had this idea pending for the longest time. yeah, I know this crowd knows this line too much.

Anyway, my approach would be different by a single feature: movie sync. I've already watched many of the movies listed, and would be great to give you my imdb rating public url and you filtering those out. You could even implement a basic recommendation system using my ratings to give best matches.

Hope you can keep this service up.