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A good friend of mine was actually born January 1st. "Clever" site owners should refrain from added smartarse JS alerts when you submit using the defaults. There are lots of people born exactly then. Either drop the requirement or allow people to use it!
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Or the article is tongue-in-cheek and Gabe never said any of those things.
That totally outside the scope of this issue, though. If you feel that having to install Xcode to get a gcc install on a Mac, that's fine, but that's the way it's been for a while now. Apple charging for Xcode 4 didn't change that.
This is great!
I just started going through Programming in Objective-C 2.0, although I'm not new to programming at all, I am pretty new to C/Obj-C. Good to see it in this guide, reaffirms that it's a good starting place.
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My webapp has undergone quite a change, would love some feedback
I have built my first official webapp product and i have gone through several rotations to make sure clients like it. It is about offering appointment based businesses feedback on whether their customers are showing up or not. I would love some feedback from the community. The site is at http://www.cuevox.com
zuck donated 100MM to newark school district.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/23/education/23newark.html

also he has signed the "Giving Pledge" started by Gates and Buffet to donate most of his wealth.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870349350457600...

that's certainly not sitting tight.
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On top of that, I think that a startup built for the Spanish speaking communities would get better exposure in a Spanish-language HN.
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Not really an assumption that you would understand his personality.

Considering he created and runs an incredibly successful game development and distribution company who's target market is people under 25 years old it's pretty reasonable to asssume that he has half a clue about his target market.
Fair enough. Maybe there is something people can come up with here which will help/inform people?

Edit: I mean this in earnest, we can and should help.
Anyone know if this does intellisense?
My thoughts are with those in Sendai and the other affected areas, the helicopter shot on tv is terrifying. The tsunami appears to have been more destuctive than the actual earthquake. The earthquake was a long way offshore (150km) so I imagine the shaking intensity was relatively low on the mainland and the buildings and other infrastructure will be alright.
It should be noted you don't need a Mac. I've had 2 apps developed, submitted and approved from my makeshift vmware player running on W7. I know others who use Virtual Box. Never ran into any trouble other than wondering why all the keys behave differently!

Yes, it's technically illegal but isn't that the best kind of illegal?
Because bugs are restricted to IDEs?
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I make 55000 USD per year, but live in a cheap place where 8500 USD per year is considered a good salary.

It is all relative.
I generally love JM's postings, but it's clear that he did not actually read much of the article at all. Unfortunately that cheapens the discussion.

For what it's worth, I think that Sebastien's reasoning for not having advertising on his site should be summarized, screen printed and dropped propaganda style from airplanes over the financial districts of the world so that when bored fund guys hire us to build web properties, they might be slightly more likely to have a non-advertising business model in mind.
Text message from my parents in Hawaii just now:

"At 11:01 pm we just had a 4.6 earthquake on the big island"

There's also increased seismic activity on some of the volcanoes in the Pacific Northwest (far left link on each row shows latest activity):

http://www.pnsn.org/WEBICORDER/VOLC/welcome.html

I'm not a seismologist so I have no idea if that's as gnarly as it looks.
You likely don't need printer drivers or a developer tool chain to get your computer set up enough to connect it to WiFi or ethernet. You probably do need different languages if the one the computer defaults to is not one with which you are familiar.
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If I worked at a company whose business model is making people jump through hoops to access PDF content, I'd do the same.
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For people who got fired from a job, Did you ever went thru a tactful and not very painful way about it? What part of the firing process was thoughtful?
Here's an updated inundation zone map for the state of Hawaii
http://tsunami.csc.noaa.gov/map.html.

On a side note, twitter and fb feeds are going off right now.
Is there a similar resource for Android ? I don't currently own one, but this kind of writeup would be helpful to estimate the effort to get into developing first things for it..
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For some background info...

1. I've tried meeting people at local networking events of all kinds (technical events/meetups, cofounder events, conferences, hacking events, VC and fundraising events, etc etc etc..) and have rarely come across a developer that doesn't already have an idea of their own that they are working on or a startup they are working for that they are already passionate about. Those that are available haven't really been a fit.

2. Going through my network of friends have been tough. Everyone is looking to hire people so they're all looking to hire people themselves. If they do have friends who are available for recommendation, these guys are either happy where they are or if they do leave, would want to do their own thing.

3. Listing jobs on craigslist and job boards for the most part have returns lots of resumes but few that really meet the requirements (I personally feel not many coders are as good as they think they are or they lack chemistry in other areas beyond their coding ability).

I've talked to a lot of people lately and it seems everyone is having a hard time finding quality talent to hire. For those that have had great successes in hiring talent, what worked best for you?

PS I have a solid idea, traction, technical myself, and profitability so those things are not an issue in attracting talent. It's finding the right fit that I'm struggling with. I am located in the bay area and prefer to work with people locally (personal preference).
1K of RAM if you were a sucker :) My dad brought his home with the massive 16k expansion brick. Playing with this (my first computer) and waiting for a game called Rings Around Saturn to load was literally the most futuristic-feeling experience of my life.

I remember nothing about the game itself, other than the kind of wistful enchantment that so few things in life can inspire.

Where did it all go wrong?!
Not just the bay area.

The readers of HN don't just live in CA you know.

It's the entire west coast of the US, Canada and Mexico, including Hawaii and Alaska.

Actually it's the entire west coast of both North and South America and any islands. Also Australia, New Zealand and Asia.
Installing Xcode to get gcc was already a requirement before this. I really don't understand the argument.

Funnily enough, I've never heard anyone mention it before this whole ruckus, even though installing Xcode was a requirement to get gcc in the past. No one has taken the time to build it themselves with the source that Apple gives out for free and host it for those that don't want to install Xcode.
Possibly more up to date in Hutton's Programming in Haskell. I've heard very good things about it: http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/book.html
stay with it. The telcos in New Zealand got COWS (mobile cell sites) and new cell sites/equipment down to Christchurch very quickly - importing some from China (Huawei gear I guess). Landlines take much longer to repair, and cells have redundancy - can link together with fibre or microwaves.
Saturday or Friday? According to the linked page it should begin arriving in Alaska 2 minutes ago, but the list of "Estimated tsunami arrival times" seems to be an empty file.
Ok, according to my parents the sirens are going off every hour.
I did add a point about using a Hackintosh, though it is good that you mentioned about using a VM image of OSX.
If this guide stays popular on HN for a bit, I will strongly consider (read: will) research it and write one up.
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I didn't down- or up-vote you, but my immediate response to your comment was: "is this really the time to worry about what HN is or isn't turning into?"

If your downvoters think the same way I do, they're downvoting because they don't think right now is a good time to worry about the future of HN, no matter what the guidelines say. This isn't to say your opinion is invalid (it's a perfectly legitimate thing to worry about); it just seems ill-timed in the face of potentially catastrophic disaster, and downvoting is an easy way to express disapproval.
"Micro Men" is a new (I think) comedy from the BBC about Clive Sinclair http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n5b92
The clips (needs proxy) look hilarious - in a very weird, slow, dark, english-humour kind of way!
16k expansion brick

I think brick is definitely the best description!

For those of you too young to remember:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3074/2671527140_fd269593b5.jp...
Reminds me of QA at Yahoo! Japan. They make sure that every page that is going to be released is capable of showing the EMG1, EMG2, and EMG3 tags.

Here is a screenshot of EMG1 and EMG2 both being shown at the same time, it was the first time for me to see more than one shown at the same time in production.

http://i.imgur.com/mZxyA.png

I forget what EMG3 is used for.
If you're really going to a lot of developer events, and rinsing your network to its fullest extent then I'd suggest keep trying. Assuming you're talking about hiring developers for market rate, then you should have success eventually.

You could try to ask friends as to whether anything in your proposition is putting off potential hires.

Finally, personally I wouldn't bother with Craigslist, but you could try the job/career functionality on both Github and Stackoverflow.com.

Hope that helps
Friday. And most of the links from that page don't seem to work - their webserver may be down.

Their home page http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/ has a huge warning button - but the page it links to is blank.
Pretty much the entire Pacific Rim...
There are plenty of sites for general news. HN is not one of them.

The reason you saw it here first is because somebody posted it here despite what the guidelines say, and you happened to come at the right moment, before you checked other news sites you usually do.

The fact that you saw it here first does not change the fact that the article is, according to guidelines, off-topic.

Oh, and FYI, not posting this article on HN != not having compassion for fellow hackers.
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Friday. Sorry, it's been a long day. I live on the west side of SF near the ocean; danger unlikely at my elevation, but they're deploying police to keep people away from the beach.

With luck, they're erring on the side of caution; low tide is about 10:30am, so flooding seems unlikely...but this is such a rare event that it's a total guess. Just keep an eye on the weather sites and hope news from Hawaii is not too bad.
Of course transitions always cost something. For instance, C++ is the best when all your developers know C++ and have to extend a C++ code base. This examples are short term, and don't answer the question "is the new tool eventually better than the old one"? If so, consider switching costs. If not, don't even bother.

So, a better example in the svn vs git matchup would be the handling of locks for binary files. Assuming of course you can't fix it yourself.
Yes, sorry. I just popped it up as soon as I saw it, and focused on SF since I live here.
its a matter of life and death. They better put up with it, if not feel thankful for it.
What do you mean by "real" competitors? The Galaxy Tab has had Flash since launch and is mentioned by name in the article.

But they really should just rename it to the No True Competitors to the iPad Fallacy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
Low hanging fruit:
-Import scantron test data into a database to analyze which questions students got right/wrong (http://www.scantron.com/cognition/faqs.aspx)
-Analyze teachers gradebooks (most are already in excel or an LMS) to see which types of assignments students excel/do poorly at.
-Provide comprehensive SAT9/STAR/PISA test data to schools for analysis on individual student strengths/weakesses

Seems like the problem is not necessarily lack of data... In fact when the freakonomics team applied econometric analysis to large quantities of data already possessed by the Chicago school district they were able to prove cheating on standardized tests (http://www.wikisummaries.org/Freakonomics:_A_Rogue_Economist...)
All quake servers are down in Japan; http://www.quakelive.com/
what is the point?, and cant that be just another name instead of India?
I'd be fascinated to know why this got downvoted. I don't think what I said is in the least bit controversial.
According to the linked message, it's still a "watch" for the west coast (including SF), which is "issued to areas which will not be immediately impacted by the tsunami." I don't see where on the page it was upgraded. Can someone point this out?

Update: The updated message is on this page:
http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/2011/03/11/lhvpd9/04/messagelhvpd...
I feel the same way you do, but I'll hazard a boilerplate "don't feed the trolls" statement here.

It's clear emotions are running a bit high in this part of the comments.
Isn't that strange ? I mean cable should be more easily broken than airwaves, no ? Is it because the landlines in Japan are designed to resist and the cell phone tower got power disruption ?
I'm not saying this to be offensive in any way, but anybody who has visited Spain knows that it's a country relatively closed in its language.

Some will call it pride, others will call a generalized difficulty or lack of desire to learn different languages. Opinions will be divided in that, however, the fact is that every single thing in Spain is translated/dubbed. For instance, there is/was also barrapunto, which is the Spanish version of slashdot (being that the word barrapunto is the literal translation of slashdot).

A site in English will have more users and therefore more information, however, a site in Spanish will reach far more Spaniards and therefore end up being more useful for most Spaniards.
Just my two cents.

Note: I'm not from an english-speaking country either.
Wave energy maps
http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/2011/03/11/lhvpd9/energylhvpd9-04...
Why is it counter productive? Because it makes us losers feel like losers? Or because it == resting on laurels?
Unless the "general purpose processor" market is disrupted itself. It might turn into a niche. Maybe SoCs are the future.
(64 bit is in the works though)
I looked at your original question than the one you ended up asking about (which I think differs slightly from just the general idea of the title itself), so I'll try to answer this in two ways...

I am not sure I would call Steve Jobs a social entrepreneur the way most people define the words "social entrepreneur". He certainly doesn't make huge donations or contributions to many non-profits, but does his work impact millions of people and drive innovation greatly? Yes. Even if its not the kind of work that solves problems relating to global warming or poverty, it has it's own kind of impact. Does all that work vastly help improve technology as well as the quality of life in some way? I think most would agree that the answer is a definite hell yes regardless of what they think the definition of the word social entrepreneur is.

I may not be doing something like Sal Khan with the Khan Academy or anything like Bill Gates with his foundation, so in that sense I'm not a social entrepreneur, but I'd like to believe that what I am doing (or trying to do) does have impact in people's lives and help make some people's lives better albeit not to the extent of Steve Jobs or the greater social good. I don't believe I'm just aiming at some profit number and blindly ignoring my fellow man either. I think that solving a problem and making someone's life better is still a social impact, albeit not in the way people would think of a social entrepreneur, but that's fine by me.

That said, I view the definition of what constitutes an "entrepreneur" does not matter whether they are doing something noble or not. An entrepreneur to me is anyone taking the risk to run their own business. That is the general definition in the vaguest (is that even a word?) sense. A startup entrepreneur or a social entrepreneur are specific types of entrepreneurs. Nothing more, nothing less. Of course this is all personal opinion.
It's because everyone in Japan started sending SMSes to everyone they knew practically before the shaking stopped and that DOSed the network. This happens fairly regularly (e.g. for a few minutes after midnight on New Years, when a large portion of Japanese people send well wishes within the same 15 second window).
Totally agree. I bought a Symbian phone in 2003 (Nokia 6600) and got a new one in 2008 and the user interface was almost the same. The only difference was better looking icons and more options. The applications was the same as before.
Chiba Steel Mill explosion:

http://twitpic.com/48edb1

It's getting serious.
You consider 55000 USD per year low? Geez, I've never made over 20000 USD.

40000 is the median in the U.S. and that includes people at the peak of their careers. Cops, teachers, and social workers don't necessarily make much above that after a lifetime of hard work. Anyone over 40000 should feel proud and/or fortunate.
I think it showed originally last summer but on BBC 4 (which has relatively few viewers). Caught a couple and it was kind of fun. Makes Sinclair look like a bit of tyrant!
Yeah, I couldn't update the URL properly. http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/ is the latest at all times. I'm going to go to bed soon and get up early; I don't anticipate danger here, but it's possible there will be some evacuation downhill from me (94116).
I've heard it will probably be fine in SF. That said, I'll be over here in Denver.
At least according to the latest reports from NOAA, the warning/watch does not apply to the US West Coast at this time:

http://www.weather.gov/ptwc/text.php?id=hawaii.2011.03.11.08...

A good general page to keep open tonight if you are following this story:

http://www.weather.gov/ptwc/
I'll gladly take those 2k Eur to provide a day of reading comprehension classes that would help avoid such misunderstandings. :) \

Sebastien's article had little to do with actual money and a lot to do with the implicit value of one's skills, name, and work (and advises not to cheapen your brand with puny advertisements unless it actually makes sense financially). This response had nothing whatsoever to do with anything but the link bait title.
Yes, AFAIK, they have administrative office in Bangalore. Now they are starting game studio as well and doubling staff for that.
Sproutbox is also choosing in late April.
We applied about 15 days ago. It doesn't look like our video on posterous has been viewed yet. Does it mean anything at all?
Have you used a debugger before? The interface to gdb built into Xcode works pretty similarly to other debuggers.

To get the most out of gdb, learn to use it on the command line. It's very simple to get started, you can use it outside of Xcode in any application, and it really unlocks the full power of the program. It's very useful.

Google for tutorials.
I strongly suspect it's related to the strange stories we've been hearing about a so-called Monster Island.
Apologies. It appears my above comment was incorrect:

http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/
I thought it would be an amusing story to relate regarding our disaster preparedness: don't worry about us, we're so on top of this we have disaster warning systems built into the class schedule portals college kids access from their cell phones. It's amusing because out outsourcing operations in India were... less successful than they could have been because of frequent... inefficiencies in communication and pervasive... opportunities for improvement in engineering skill levels.

No, company policy and common sense would not let me tell you the names of the engineers I had that conversation with. You can read it as "An Employee Of A Japanese Megacorp's Indian Subsidiary" if that makes you feel better. I'm assuming most people understand I do not actually mean everybody in the country.
Yes, but how many people signed up for that? The parent proposed contacting everyone, remember...
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The Tsunamis caused by this that might hit Taiwan etc. can be huge (5 to 10 meters). Or then just 10 cm high. How ever it's moving now 800km an hour.

The destruction is terrible (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xhj2ge_violent-seisme-d-une...)

I cannot explain in written how sorry I feel for the people living in the area.
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Hope everyone in Japan is doing ok - I guess I am lucky that I am out of the country precisely this day, but now starting to get worry about people I know. It is a bit scary to think that an earthquake felt in east of Japan (tokyo, sendai), and also in Osaka where I live, almost 500 km west from there.
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http://www.ustream.tv/channel/fc2mh3

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/tbstv

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/foxtokimekitonight
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Because the CEO of BigCo isn't likely to award you a big contract if he gave you two dollars for coffee not five minutes ago. Picking up (advertising) pennies is not without costs.
>"It would also be better for everyone if humanity as a whole switched to renewable energy sources next year."

I doubt that. The cost would be devastating. With current renewable energy technologies, we'd only generate a fraction of the power we use even after we pave the wilderness with windmills.
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