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how exactly will they be able to get trademark exclusivity on this name ? isn't this much more common than windows ever was ?
I do wish we could get rid of the "poaching" term for at-will employees. Either it's easier to bag trophy talent on the Google reserve than in the open field (in which case, good on those employees for improving their lot) or it's harder (in which case, good on Facebook and others for figuring out how to compete for them.) Either way, it's hardly a situation for which an external observer needs a judgmental descriptor.
Why would only the intelligence services of those respective countries be interested in monitoring their communications in times of unrest?

Perhaps with so much to keep up with lately the NSA monitoring equipment is struggling to MITM that many TLS sessions, so MS cut them a break.

(mostly kidding...)
"This ignores the difference in technical competence of consumers versus Apache users."

And Google's behavior ignores the spirit of open source, which expects the source to actually be available regardless of whether or not somebody's trademark might look bad.
What Steve Jobs is passionate about is the product experience. This goes way beyond hardware and software. Now, of course the software must run flawlessly and the hardware must be able to support it, but that's not his primary concern. Steve oversees every aspect from the initial marketing to create consumer interest in the products to the store where they're bought to what the customer sees whent they take the product out of the box for the first time. Everything is on Steve's radar. And I think it's that attention to detail that allows Apple to charge more for comparable devices than windows based computers can. While Dell and HP are competing almost solely on price, Apple continues to grow faster than either one while charging more. Thats not coincidence.
Salary/savings. Juice loans and pawn shops are terrible ideas. Don't do that! Your risk of failure is off the freaking charts already - those capital sources deepen the downside and add extrinsic risks to your business.
Just started running this on a macbook, and it even works on my external lcd! where has this program been all my life?
It's nice, in a sense, to allow people to out themselves as mistaking technology for culture. You can write slow code, and make bad choices, on any platform.

My colleagues at Stack Overflow work faster and produce more -- at obsessively fast web scale -- than any team I have observed. I also see talented people struggle to produce a viable site using (say) Ruby on Rails.

Technology correlation? None. The correlation is in discipline, understanding the tools, foresight, priorities, management...

Think of it this way...how often have you seen a headline on HN bring a site to its knees? Fair guess that many of them are on "scalable" technologies.
Why are Apple fans so crazy?
"... solving this problems[sic] is equivalent to solving the central artificial intelligence problem"

And that would be, precisely, what?
This is not directly related to your programming concern, but you might find the article useful. Paul Graham's Why to Not Not Start a Startup: http://paulgraham.com/notnot.html
This is really stupid, Hotmail isn't secure anymore. And how come Microsoft hasn't responded yet ???!!!
You can't transform an auditorium into a reception in place, which is what we do to the orange room at YC after the presentations. After the last talk the founders pour in and we scurry about folding up all the chairs, and about 3-4 minutes later the room looks like a (big, loud) cocktail party instead of an auditorium.
Pretty neat. Mirah is to Java as CoffeeScript is to JavaScript?

Looks very similar to ActionScript 2, with shades of Scala. Really neat looking language.

Anyone know where the `param: Type` (i.e., parameter name colon type) convention came from? I've seen it more frequently lately, and I wonder if it's easier to parse than Java's `Type param` (or my favorite: `param Type`)?
why would they do this? Something feel so odd about this.
I agree; we should start with assembly language. Students will never understand why these are dumb things to do until they can visualize the assembly code they get translated into.
Yes, because Google's privileged partners like Motorola get to access the source before its official release in order to have it ready on their products immediately, while everyone else has to wait.
There ought to be a word for this phenomenon where people follow a post that got them a lot of traffic from HN with another about how much traffic they got.

Metabaiting?
Good perspective on the term, you're right.

It is simply competition over the girl and one factor is who can take her out for the more expensive dinners. (Another being who makes her laugh more.)
Better than java, what my uni teaches CS students. Other people get to choose between c++ and fortran.
Unrelated to autocorrection, but my little rant. If I type fast Google instant only catches the first half of what I type. I don't know what kind of javascript runs instant but it fails for fast typers. Happens on different computers and different browsers. =(
I actually officially asked Jeremy Askenas if I can use the phrase "Mirah is the Coffeescript of Java". He gave me his blessing.

The param:type notation I largely just stole from Scala, but it seems (in my novice opinion) easier to parse as well. It also fits better with optional type declarations, which we have in the case of interface impl or class extension (easier to omit syntax on the RHS than on the LHS for a typical parser).
Minecraft is an excellent example of making something that is utterly different from anything else on the market.

The mobile market is hugely oversaturated with casual toys. Solution: don't make those. There are entire genres that are empty and waiting to be filled. Jeff Vogel is currently in the process of porting Avadon, his latest RPG, to iPad. I'll bet that he's going to charge at least $20 for it, and that he'll be quite successful. Why? Because there's absolutely nothing remotely like it out there on the iPad, and it's the kind of game I would love to play while relaxing with a tablet device.
Oh yeah, I've seen some great shared hosts (medialayer, mediatemple, come to mind). Realistically though, most of them do suck pretty bad.
My alma mata's IT department offered a single PHP course - the CS and SE departments didn't offer anything remotely web-related, short of a graduate-level course on XML parsing.

I was desperate, so I took it. Man, was it terrible. I learned more from two weeks of part-time self study.

(It's also kind of funny hearing Zynga complain about unqualified candidates - I haven't exactly heard good things about their hiring practices.)
One of my professors told me YouTube is hosting approximately 100TB of new videos every month, I think 200 TB is off by very, very much. If 200TB was the case I could afford to buy disks to store the entire web with my yearly salary...
Except that you can't download the source for Honeycomb. That's kind of the point of the discussion.
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The credibility of a source is relevant. If the National Enquirer posts commentary on a matter, you're likely to take it less seriously than commentary from The Economist.
There's several in this realm, though chartbeat still seems like another variation on whats out there. Real time dashboard, but not really new methods of capturing and reporting on data.

It is nice that they specifically target publishers, which is where real time has more relevance. But it seems most sites can't react to knowing the information in real time, so even the real time value proposition is limited.
Really? Cool... Havnt been following but thought Apple were rejecting REPL applications.
It is a much more sensible objection to say that the incident happened because the tsunami was 10 meters instead of nine meters, and the possibility of it being 10 meters was suggested by a previous tsunami mentioned once half a decade ago by a single engineer on the basis of an estimation gleaned from historical records that predate England, by not pursued further. But when you phrase it like that, it sounds like the awesomely accurate 20/20 hindsight that it is, and the narrative needs a villain.
I have daylight balanced bulbs at home so I'm using the Daylight setting. I thought that I was supposed to match them up. Or is it just a preference of color temperature? It would be nice if the UI included icons for the type of bulb so they are easily identified if for instance you don't know what a halogen bulb looks like.
lifehacker and other gawker media entities should not be allowed to post tips on password management or the likes. they fucked up their user accounts for chrissake.
The problem isn't that universities don't teach Blurb. The problem is that at most schools, computer science students go into the field because it pays well, and aren't otherwise interested in programming.

If you aren't interested in programming, you aren't going to take the time to play around with new languages. You won't spend thousands of hours outside the classroom, hacking on your own projects just for the sake of creating something you think is cool.

The end result is that there are two strata of programmers; those with passion, and those without. In my experience, it's easy to spot the difference with one question during the interview process: "What's the coolest thing you've ever built?"

If the answer to this question is something they built because they were told to, they lack passion. If, on the other hand, they built something because it scratched an itch (at school, work, or otherwise), then that's something else entirely.

My best hires have always been programmers with less on-paper experience, but a ton of hours building stuff because they wanted to.
I forgot to show one of the coolest features of Mirah...it can output Java source too: https://gist.github.com/888001

The original goal for this was to allow Mirah to be used in places where Java source is required, like GWT apps. We've kept it going over the years (thanks to Ryan Brown, my co-conspirator).
Thanks @allanchao! Another resource for me to read.
Anyone who says both, or software: Please explain iTunes to me in this context.
Most hotel conference rooms/ballrooms are set up with portable chairs and I don't see why you couldn't do the same thing there, but something seems ineffably worse about that scenario to me. Maybe that with everyone presenting at once to all of the investors, there will end up being fewer total conversations between founders and investors.
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Why? If they write something obviously false, then I can refute it directly.

The time I question someone's reputation is when they appeal to authority themselves. For example, if I were to write "I've been in business for twenty years, take it from me that where startups are concerned, _____," then it's perfectly appropriate to point out that I haven't worked in silicon valley.

After all, my reputation is part of my argument, so questioning it is questioning my argument. Other than that, if I say something about business, arguing that I boast of being a Socialist says nothing about whether my words about business are useful. If you "take them with a grain of salt," you are the one who may be missing out.

This principle is not new to HN. Paul Graham wrote about it explicitly in his essay "How to Disagree:"

http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html

Have a look at what he has to say about DH0, Name calling, and DH1, Ad hominem. You may not like the National Enquirer, but if they were to write about a startup, it should be possible to disagree with their suppositions without resorting to questioning the piece solely because they published it.
What does the HN readership think about this article? I disagree with it.

It appears the author is suggesting that HN is for hackers looking for a quick fix, not articles of value and meaning.

And, based on the number of in-depth articles (Economist, Atlantic, etc...), I'd argue that the HN readership is much more interested in depth compared to most online communities.
iOS programming is a specialty, not a career. I don't see any reason why you would have to make a lifetime commitment to any particular platform.
It's a nifty experience when you're browsing the web and come across a blog that uses the same exact wordpress template that you do... (http://allanchao.com/blog/)
I thought this was common sense. Every step needed for a user to signup in anything will eventually make a difference in conversion rates.
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This would actually be interesting if it showed long term effects. The posts only a few days after seem to come up every other day now, versus actually showing the long term effects. Are many bloggers consistently growing their user base over many months? If so would love to hear about how those stats actually looked from an long past HN front page article.
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I was wondering why it received such a huge investment.

That`s brilliant :) Great post john.
Yeah, sorry about that. Not sure what happened, attempting to bring it back up now.
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it was 8 years ago - the numbers for both have undoubtably increased

(it was ~10x the web at the time)
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Completely agree.

Maybe they should have used Azure. At least that forces them into a staged deployment. (of course not that it was around when they started MySpace).
C, being the glorified assembly language that it is, would be an excellent intro to programming if we didn't insist on teaching it as a high-level language.

A beginner's course in C will tell you "uninitialized variables are bad", and "don't use pointers after free", but it won't explain the stack frames or heaps that underpin so much of our computing.

I happen to think that having C blow up in your face (and fixing it) is one of the best ways to learn the subtleties of programming.
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Perhaps it's because Android is touted by Google fans as an open platform, yet the source is withheld and only given to Google's special partners until an official release.
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Thanks for the pointer. You should check out Microsoft Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/AppFabric/Overview/def...). It's supported for .NET by MSFT; however, I think there are other implementations for other platforms. Technologically it is very similar. (I used to be a Program Manager on that team not long ago).

I understand the technology quite well; however, (hope I don't sound rude) I'm not clear on what the value is to the customer (presumably developer) of pagekite.net. Please email me; my email address is on http://www.skierkowski.com/ (I have CAPTCHA on there which is why I don't just give it to you here).
It's interesting that they don't have their company name anywhere on the page except in small text in the footer. Also, even on colour.com the page title is still 'Color'. If it were my site, I'd be redirecting colour.com to color.com. (And swimming in pools of money.)
Looks like the original post would have only taken people less than 20 seconds to read, so it's not all that unusual an 11 second average time on page.

Most of the blogs on here, unless they pop up a bit or I'm really drawn to a post I only see in the context of that post and not what else they have.
The most amusing part of your post, other than the strange grammar, is your implication that Google is some target of bias. Google gets more glowing press coverage and free passes than any other technology company. Imagine the red-hot nerd rage if it was Apple who had been caught driving vans through neighborhoods and archiving people's unprotected WiFi data.
"It's not the platform itself, but the developers that know the platform inside-out."

That's the number one benefit of an open source stack: it's possible to know the stack inside out. If it's closed source, there's an eventual point at which you're dealing with a black box.
It`s an old traffic method but it does work. Not that I do it anymore. But back in the day I did make some interesting connections with it, getting to know people and their blogs.

I prefer to be the content creator and focus more on delivering value than trying to skim off others value.

But it`s not really spamming you are adding some value. It`s just low value content generation.
I agree with your theory, though maybe not so much its implementation.

The coolest thing I've ever built was indeed something I was "told" to create as a part of my job. That doesn't dilute the fact that what I created took lots of creativity, careful thought and developed into an elegant, scalable solution for the problem at hand. I was very passionate about building it.

I think your litmus test is correct, but I think that regardless of _why_ someone built something, it's fairly easy to tell if they're passionate about having done it.

That said, the good ones almost always build things to scratch their own itch. Those things just may not be the coolest things.
On another level though the community is quiet a busy one, so taking a quick break from work and keeping up on things with a few tidbits here and there is pretty common. At times while a long in depth article would be great it is just to much of a distraction at the time from getting something done.
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Shoot me an email. I have at least 5 minutes to spare for pretty much anybody.
Not sure if it meets your criteria, but there http://blog.crashspace.org in Culver City. I'm up in Portland, but have admired it from afar. Seems to have some great events, especially lots of hardware hacking.
Maybe it's just my age showing, but going to work somewhere because they're buying you an iPad seems totally ludicrous. One would think that with a $90,000 salary, a $500 tablet should not be a deciding factor.
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To some extent depth, and deep thinking are somewhat against the grain of the medium; the internet supports the idea that you are always getting the latest and greatest news, or at least that what you're seeing has been filtered of the boring and spammy before it gets to you by the power of the aggregators.

The essential feature of the internet is that it is a connection to many distant places at once. This comment will in theory be visible in the Ukraine 3 minutes after I post it. The constant flood of novelty and distraction that comes form the internet is part and parcel of what could be called the grain of the medium.

What I find truly interesting is that as the internet becomes more pervasive it also becomes less urgent. And it's telling that as the internet is reaching ubiquity we are seeing a shift to tablets. Notice how an iPad or Kindle user is usually more relaxed, focused on a single task at a time, in a posture that can mostly be described as relaxed; the pose of a student or a scholar pondering what is available to them, rather than the infoshark pose of someone manically paging through comments to reach the good stuff, the now, the new.

Calm computing is the new trend.
If you really need money in a hurry just get a part-time job and work the minimum you need to / can at it. Even slum it on the rent-a-cheap-x boards like elance, rentacoder, getafreelancer etc ... you can make money there, but the work's crap and so is the pay.

I supplement my lack of income from passive income from the 20 or so Flash games I've produced, donations from my users, and occasionally making more games that I sell the licensing to / that further increase my passive income.
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in the bubble years of the late 90's there was a startup that received $500 million in seed funding. I only bring them up because even with all the discussion around color I haven't seen them referenced (there might be others like them as well, I just don't remember any).

In similarity to color, their initial valuation and largess of funding was due to the history of their founders, and the perceived "hotness" of their target market.

Still around, but have never managed to do much of anything.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=zhne&ql=1
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Just build it.
I think this is the natural reaction of the hacker news (intelligent and savvy) crowd, but I see more and more every day that the average human desperately wants to be seen by anyone. Hence the success of youtube, twitter and facebook.
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The tip about the support / bug report button is very helpful. It's one of those that seem obvious in hindsight, but I suspect is helpful in reducing negative reviews on the App Store. This gives the user another outlet for expressing negative feedback. Thanks for sharing this.
There's lots of C gotcha lists out there; the "Undefined behavior" series is good (and I think Koenig's Pitfalls book from 1989 is still worth reading (pre-ANSI C)

http://www.literateprogramming.com/ctraps.pdf

http://blog.regehr.org/archives/232

http://blog.regehr.org/archives/226

http://www.andromeda.com/people/ddyer/topten.html

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1990244
I think it is because people think HN traffic is "oh shiny.." compared to other link sharing sites. And then you go too far and get banned or hated by HN members.
Site doesn't seem to be responding. Google cached version:

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I think there was a lot of noise and hyper that obfuscated the real messsage. Same thing happened with "Web APIs"... there is not such thing as a "Web API"... look what Twitter/Facebook and others do when they have enough traction. Web APIs and Open Source commitments seems more like a tactic than a strategy.
It makes sense to pay $9 if it saves you enough money on your electric bill. (You have to factor the $249 in too.)

That being said, it looks like a gaint pain in the ass to install, at least for now. I'd spring for it if I was paying my own light bill, but I wouldn't expect less-technical people to.
Hm, what exactly do you think data mining is? How much money do you think Facebook gets out of data mining?
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