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"Blogger has been used for over half a billion blog posts (with over half a trillion words in total)."

The average blog post is ~1000 words? I would have guessed way shorter. The majority of posts I read are shorter.
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This is just an opinion, but if you need reminding to be thoughtful, you've already lost a lot of the essence of what thoughtfulness is all about.

Being given suggestions about how to be thoughtful further removes the 'thought' from the so called 'thoughtful' act. Though I haven't signed up, in technical terms I'm sure its a fair achievement for a weekend project, however I really think it misses the mark in an area where there could be much larger scale opportunity.

For example: you're limiting this service to romantic thoughtfulness, completely ignoring being thoughtful to people with whom your intended users might have a non-romantic relationship.

There are quite a few reminder / notification type projects popping up lately and I have to wonder how long-lived they will be even for avid users. I can't help but think its eventually going to feel like spam (even if your email content is fantastically insightful and useful).

With that said kudos for an interesting idea that you've made a reality.
Whoah I logged in using FB and it converted my surname from 'Başçıl' to 'BaÅŸÃ§Ä±l'. I can't even read the new version let alone pronounce it. And I cannot edit the field, it's grayed out.
The simple answer: work on a problem/product whose solution is both fun and challenging, then recruit developers who respond to fun challenges. Don't do mediocre shit, or if you must, don't expect it to be easy to get other people excited to give above-standard effort to it over an extended period.

I worked some nights and some weekends from November through January because I was doing something that I truly enjoyed. No one had to ask me – I did it on my own initiative because that's where my mind went each time it was allowed to wander. It was awesome. edit: Oh, and get out the ass-in-seat model of productivity. All this bonus time happened at home, in my comfy apartment.

At the same time, it wasn't a death march. If I needed a break, I took it. I spent plenty of nights/weekends relaxing, having fun with my girlfriend, and otherwise doing my own thing. I felt no pressure to put in the extra time and no guilt when I didn't.

In the end, everyone got a great deal. I work on stuff I truly enjoy, my employer gets substantially more productive juice than is standard, and everything is flexible.

Of course, even on your own initiative, it's possible to burn out. I'm a little frayed after all that effort, fun though it definitely was. Still figuring out how to regroup and recharge, and I'm a bit slower now as a result.
It's not about errors but understanding. A lot of math involving trig is abstract enough to be confusing to most people. Tau makes is [slightly] less so. For example, understanding that sin represents the y value of a point on a unit circle is easier when 1 tau is a full circle rather than 2 pi.
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Wow, I had forgotten about some of those. Nice reminder.

I actually played around with FreeVMS, but I am too young to have ever experienced one in the wild, so after I successfully booted it, I was then stuck. :-/

I have not dabbled with JNode in many, many years, but I find it especially amusing that one of their upcoming release goals is to "use less memory." :-)
"it is trivializing and almost obscene to spend so much time worrying about damage to a nuclear reactor."

* The nuclear situation is changing by the hour and people are making decisions and actively managing it.

* Having 3 to 5 nuclear reactors under various stages of meltdown is a big story in its own right. The existence of massive loss of life nearby does not diminish its importance.

* The earthquake+tsunami event is unlikely to get worse and there little people are able to do to prevent it anyway.

* Conflicting information keeps coming out about possible worst case scenarios (and their relative likelihoods) with the nuclear reactors.

* Some of these scenarios are, in fact, much worse than even the current unimaginably bad scenario. Just because things are bad doesn't mean they couldn't get worse.

* This has definite implications this for US and global energy policy. In my view, it's probably best to hold off that debate until these incidents are concluded and informs our hindsight, but the discussion is inevitable.

* The nuclear incidents are affecting rescue and cleanup. Rescue is hard enough without a 20km evacuation going on at the same time. For example there are reports that the US Navy had some ships which needed to relocate due to detected radiation.

* Tokyo, one of the largest cities in the world, faces a power shortage. Commuter trains are not running. It is unclear how long this will persist. This is a huge economic impact in its own right.
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prolific too...
My reasoning around Github is that you guys are engineers and are obviously going to gravitate easier to your brethren and make it easier to develop/refine your featureset. Making it for everyone is hard as we all have competing interests. The thing about having immediate content available from my past makes it easier for me to contribute without having to come up with something to make the app immediately useful for me. The first engagement is the most important and will help the user decide if the app is worth it or not. That's why I always use gravatar yet allow the users to add/edit their photo in my apps. It's a personalized welcome, like they do at nice hotels.

Don't worry about the UI too much. A good one requires a professional to focus on that alone for awhile to get it right. A good one costs money. That can all come in time.

Google analytics are fine, there are some other packages out there that you can slip on, but when I do usability tests, I measure exactly how many clicks each button/action receives and valuate their purpose to the app based on those metrics, so yes, some internal metrics will be very valuable to you in order to dole out resources to the app, and if you're so inclined, give some light metrics to the user to show them how many times their particular project was visited. It's a cheap trick (like karma) but people are people and they enjoy validation.

Also, if you think of it, listing the number of active projects in your app on the homepage is another easy come-on and helps conversion, just like McDonald's has been doing for decades now.
The Microsoft mission was: "A computer on every desktop and in every home." (done)

The problem is what they should do next.
To a European this is hilarious. Over here, at 25 you'll have just left university with a master's degree if you started university just after high school, or with a bachelor's degree if you took a gap year or two (which is extremely common in Europe). In America, apparently you're expected to have a career and already have "succeeded"(!) by the time you're 25!
Thanks for letting me know. I'll try to look into this tonight.
>"the lowest bracket of society is still not out of the recession"

If by the lowest bracket you mean "the bottom 80%", then yes.
Please, by god, kill the ads at the bottom of your sign up page. It makes me highly skeptical of your service, since you seem to be interested in making a quick buck.
On the other hand building a skillset is not necessarily what people think. It's also what you gain when you're not paying attention to "building a skillset" or making it big.

For example I have met few good software engineers that are also good at design or marketing - but those few rare gems out there are fuckin' awesome individuals.

sure as hell don't rest on your laurels

IMHO, some rest is precisely what many of us need.
My problem with that attitude is that it's not humble. Not in a false, pretending-to-not-be-good way, but systematically not acknowledging that you may be wrong. Say what you think is correct, but always conduct yourself knowing you may be wrong.
Well Goiânia wasn't really a nuclear plant incident. Interesting read on Wikipedia btw.
Something similar happened to me: I had a house that I bought for $490K had put 80K down and had equity of something like 70K.

I made all my payments on time - had a credit rating of 750 was never late or missed a payment.

One day - I went to make my payment online and the payment button was missing of the page.

Everything else was the same on the sie - just the make payment button was gone.

I called the bank and inquired. They stated very matter-of-fact "Oh, that's because we sold your loan. Your loan is no longer with us - you need to call your new lender"

WTF?!

I had no indication, no notice, no letter.

I said "Who did you sell it to?" They claimed they had no idea - that it was sold "with a whole bunch of other loans - they have no idea who has it now, the new lender should have contacted me."

They hadn't.

For more than 6 months this went on - no notice from my lender, no contact from the supposed new lender. At first - I was calling my lender every day - then every week - continually asking. No info.

Then after six months - I got a notice of foreclosure and a statement saying I needed to pay $30K

I didn't have $30K - and other situations had changed as well (change of job, divorce, change of income level).

The new lender refused to work with me on the delinquency stating "I did not make enough money to qualify for a refinance"

They ended up taking my home and ruining my credit - I still haven't recovered financially, and emotionally form the experience. My credit rating is now poor - and I cant seem to fix this.

As I mentioned, I had a great credit rating of 750 - and had zero debt (I have made it a choice to not carry credit cards) and after this incident I could not get a credit card now that I would need one.

It has totally fucked over my life and I dont see how I can fix this part.
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You need to be able to re-create your inputs if a problem occurs. You need to be able to seed a random number generator and have it generate the same sequence for debugging.
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Nice. Linear interpolation of C functions.
I'm not sure what the exact quote was.. but it was something like:

"If you try to drag people like [them] down, they'll win on experience"

You should always aim for the rise above IMHO, but sometimes you can do some verbal Aikido and deal with them in style. ;)
There's a thin line between constructive criticism and a backhanded compliment, though.
Well, if you cite specific examples about what you're referring to that's from a factual and objective source (since there could be thousands of different viewpoints), I would know your premise. Simply calling a whole industry as engaging in deceptive practices as a common occurence -- and freely accepted among those in the industry -- is unfair, absolutely untrue, and does nothing to help the financial system become more effective for society at large.
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> At age 28 Genghis Khan had nothing and was barely starting to get control over his own small tribe. He eventually ruled over the largest land empire in human history.

Now that's something to shoot for.
The enumeration at the top of your comment is the best thing I've read yet today. Douglas Hofstadter expands on similar ideas in I Am a Strange Loop.
Wow, great to see that round-up on one page.

Question for HN - does anyone value real time analytics for anything other than a physical LCD dashboard? Personally, I guess it's nice to have, but I wouldn't pay more for it.
Any pedagogical institution flunking students for labeling and using constants when solving math problems should be burned down and the ground upon where it stood strewn with salt so that life never again will prevail there.
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That's like doing:

#define NOT_A_LOOP(x) while(x)

Enumerator is just Ruby object goo over a loop.
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I'm sorry but you haven't made a case that Krugman is "well known for being dishonest" by citing one gotcha. You seem to be using character assassination to "prove" that he engages in character assassination.
How much of this is attributed to spam?
It has to do with getting an int from pointer arithmetic on function pointers. IIRC, there's no guarantee that a function pointer will even fit in any specific kind of int. On this computer, sizeof(&main) is 8, sizeof(int) is 4.
It'd probably be too much to hope that this catches on and becomes a trend.
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1+!1000

No stinking loops!
Hummingbird's premise seems like it kind of misses the ball, it certainly would be cool to see a real-time stream of analytics, but what would you actually do with that feature? Seems kind of gimmicky, but I agree with the author in that it could find a home in some other analytics package.

Definitely a solid list of interesting options in the analytics space, thanks for the share.
> However, eventually the market catches on and your existing ten people start waiting for the GroupOn deals, and now only five people are willing to pay the full price.
> Selling unused capacity at a discount without cannibalizing your existing business is non-trivial, especially in this age of rapid peer-peer sharing of information. I suggest that the problem GroupOn solves--selling the capacity--is not the hard problem for this scenario, the hard problem is getting away with pricing discrimination.

Maybe, but it depends on the product or service too. For example, is there any evidence sites like Hotwire and Priceline, that sell unused capacity for hotels or car rental agencies, really cannibalize the existing (i.e. non-discounted) sales that much?
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Great issue for the first push, too, this is one that pretty much all of the technerati agree on. Good luck.
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The entire ecosystem in which we all dwell seems to promote it as some kind of holy grail that we become "successful" by our mid-20s. However, there is SO much that one cannot know at that age. Is there any data on the ages of YC and other startup incubator attendees?
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Definitely kill the AdWords. Those ads, at least for me, are not relevant at all (diabetic socks, huh?).

As others have suggested, you can monetize with the affiliate ads in the emails that relate to what you're suggesting ("Need flowers? Try FTD.com"). Those ads will bring in higher revenues because they are relevant. AdWords feel really cheap here.
Chad, thanks for writing this post. It's inspiring and embarassing at the same time to see how many things you built in your spare time.
I didn't call out the whole industry as engaging in deceptive practices as a common occurrence. I do however think there is some deception occurring and that if it isn't uncovered and corrected, it will grow.

You did however did claim that any hint of deception would destroy their business and that therefore deception is not happening.

I think your claim is absurd and does nothing to help the financial system become more effective for society at large.
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You guys at gnu.org shall consider taking freeSwitch and rewrite the parts which are licensed under non GPL compliant license, especially some of the voice codecs. FreeSwitch is so well debugged and tested, and been around for long, starting something new reminds me that attempt published here two days ago about some hackers which were claiming of authoring a better nmap replacement in few weeks or so.
The anti-hipster culture is hilarious.

It is impossible for me to read this without pointing out that after a very well-reasoned and largely accurate argument against the completely irrational spite, you close with a (admittedly small) taste of the very disgust you just denounced. "I luckily rarely come across 'hipsters'."

It's pervasive, even in the group itself. Hipster doesn't actually mean anything specific to anyone, it simply means, "a member of the counterculture which I find offensive at the moment." And, shocker, the people who you would consider, "hipsters," are just as guilty of this.

The problem with this, from my perspective, is that it's also a catch-all for people who are difficult to categorize. Even before the word was co-opted to be a generally negative term, it was nebulous at best, referring generally to young people who are interested in culture or art or food or music or, really, anything.

As a result of this, people get lumped into this group based on these very general terms, and then assumptions are made about their character by regurgitating every complaint anyone has slapped the word "hipster" after, as though it's representative of everyone who wears sweaters. No, not everyone who has a moustache is an elitist. Not everyone who smoked pot in college loves Bob Marley, do they?

I encourage people to stop using this word at all. It's just stupid, meaningless, and devoid of positive connotations for most of the world.
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Yeah, he also caused the return of the Halley comet.

I mean, he was in office when it happened, right? He must have caused it.
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Well yes and no.

On one hand, NoSQL as ``let's ditch relational'' is [2] squared; especially as ditching relational because of SQL is ditching the only thing good about SQL.

On the other hand, if NoSQL would mean ``let's have relational language better than SQL'', they hey, that's good!

It's been tried [a] even before the SQL and tried [b] since then. It's not easy for something new to get traction with all the SQL code out there. But we will arrive there some day.

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[a] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBL

[b] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_manifesto

NB., if you attack a hot & popular topic, you better provide some argumentation, or you will be downvoted to the ground :-(
You'd better succeed fast in Europe, too, because you won't get hired after you're 40.
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I also use Ubuntu almost exclusively. My biggest complaint is with the panel. It doesn't make sense to me to have both the 'notification area' and 'indicator applet.' Why is my wifi status indicator in a separate grouping from the battery and sound indicators? I prefer to have any sort of important indicators grouped together. When I place the groups side by side, there's a visible divider between them. I feel this is a waste of space and is detrimental to the overall look and feel. Another issue with this is that when I switch screen resolution or use an external monitor, the positions of the groups shift. I'd prefer if they were always just docked against the edge of my screen.
Okay, killed the ads. I hated them as well.
DEAD. I hated them as well.
It's simply impossible that you've been following the politics/economics/finance for any longer than a week and you haven't heard of stuff like Dual-Track or Robosigning or document fraud (especially allonges).
I'm having a bit of crisis. Ever since I found out about Tau, I just can't look at my username the same. Maybe I can get it changed to 6pt283185?

In either case: Happy me day!
The ads are dead. We'll probably look for sponsorship if running the sites ends up costing anything. It is on google app engine, so everything is free right now.
One of them offers a solution (use bcrypt).

It's the delivery that matters.
That's only a problem when you need to use radians, which is only necessary for calculus. You can do all the explanations with "cycles" (1 cycle = 2*pi radians), and it's actually simpler.
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When you only have 1 program using another language and it slows the builds, you tend to want to replace it. There are still scripts and such in different languages (ksh and I do believe some perl).
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> I think it's fair to guess that this kind of software is made for buyers, not teachers, and may not address their needs very well. I could be totally wrong.

No, you're spot on. She hates working with iNow, and we have yet to talk to a teacher who likes working with it. Seems safe to assume that the buyer was someone who will never have to use it.
This is exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about though.

I believe a lot of this bad advice stems from thie belief that "other people write bad software." When you run into bugs day in and out, it's easy to reinforce this belief. Afterall, how can someone who claims to have all this experience and knowledge make such an obvious mistake? They're paid a salary and millions of people trust their software! I could do it better. The reality I believe is that these sorts of people are really compensating for the flaws they themselves are prone to making. When they catch these sorts of errors, they're just reinforcing patterns they themselves recognize as bad; likely because they themselves have made such a mistake in the past that someone else had pointed out to them. So when they call someone an "idiot," they're really calling themselves an "idiot," and bringing the other person down with them to bolster their sense of self worth.

The truth is that we all are guilty of making mistakes. Operating systems that run the Internet, control nuclear reactors, and send really expensive robots into space all have bugs. They have security flaws. And they were written by individuals who've spent a significant amount of time paying their dues in the ivory tower and working their way up the career ladder. That a novice can also make the same mistake is not coincidence. It's human nature.
The problem is you can only do that if the categories "What you think you know/What you think you don't know" overlap exactly with the categories "What you actually know/What you actually don't know". And they often don't.

So, doubtless you're laying down the hammer of knowledge in some cases where you think you know something, but you don't. Which means it's not the hammer of knowledge you're dealing, it's just a hammer.
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Is there a Hacker News meetup planned for SXSW attendees and local Austinites who are HN members? If not we should definitely plan one.
I wonder if I'd get in trouble if my girlfriend caught me using this...
I see. So does this purge only consist of compiled executables then, with the standard C++ headers and libstdc++ still getting a pass?
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