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I was all excited until I saw that $10/hour charge. I guess they're targeting high end users, but it would have been nice if they had priced this within the budget of a 'normal' person. This doesn't seem to be in line with their pricing strategy for all the other AWS services.
From my previous comment:

Everyone whose on this "are we still talking about color" thing is starting to get on my nerves. Theres still LOTS of mileage in it - more write ups, VC opinions, yada yada.

Its how the world works. They just raised $41m, one of the largest pre-launch rounds. Expect to hear about them.
Saying "are we still talking about color" doesn't make you cool. Nobody cares if your "over it because your so hooked in to the tech scene".

If you don't want to read about it, don't click on the link.
XBMC, which is my HTPC frontend of choice since early XBOX 1 days, recently released a Apple TV 2 Version, which still has a few flaws but is very actively developed and improved. This is not XBMC Lite, it is the full package you know from the desktop. Add a NAS for movies, music and TV Shows and you have a very good solution. It's impressive that the underpowered Apple TV is able to play 1080p content flawlessly, however while being able to play 1080p the Apple TV scales everything down to 720p - this seems to be a hardware design decision which can't be changed, the XBMC team is looking into it. Given that I use a 720p beamer it isn't a problem for me though.
Apart from that you get a full featured HTPC software which has been around for years on a power efficient instant-on box that costs you a hundred bucks.
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I needed something to remind me to (1) read my bible daily, (2) complete my bible at least once a year. I dun want to spend my time to create an app to do that, it could take up to a week.

Instead, I created a paid email newsletter using letter.ly, used Zondervan's Bible Reading Plans as a guide, copied Bible passages from biblegateway.com, installed Boomerang for Gmail extension to help me schedule emails. 4 hours later, my MVP is complete. The whole process take less than a day to complete.

link: http://letter.ly/biblein60days/

LESSONS LEARNT

- Do not reinvent the wheels. If there's a tool out there, use it! Dun not reinvent the wheels unless it is absolutely necessary.

- Resources is everywhere, use it! There are plently of resources for hackers to build stuffs. Go just do it!

- It helps if you are not multi-tasking. I could do it faster if I'm not surfing YouTube in my 4 hours sprint.

- Finally, once it is ready, go launch it! Listen to the feedback and reiterate.

I hope someone out there will find it useful. If I can do stuffs out there, anyone can do better!

ps: i can add you in a free subscriber, just dm me yr email to @iworkfothem - cheers!
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It's very much the Swoopo of design ;)

The majority of effort (cost) expended is provided by the crowd - one person (the contest holder) gets to monopolise on this spread cost, while the majority of the people who take part in the competition end up with no payment or benefit whatsoever.

It's an inconvenient truth - one which many people who use 99designs try to overlook.
easy to click: http://letter.ly/biblein60days/
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Both those function were added by the original creator of glibc very early on, not by Drepper.
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The Myriad Browser on my dumbphone wasn't too good, and it was also slow. Opera Mini (I used version 4) is faster (since it uses compression through Opera's servers) and has an overall nicer browsing experience.
Incrementalist vs. revolutionary
Related: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2369867

"Microsoft explains the technology behind the Kinect." (newscientist.com)
No, it doesn't, market forces are devaluing the design industry.

Designers, especially web designers, are working in a highly saturated market. Even in the rural area where I live, I constantly meet designers who want to be in the running for the contracts my firm awards. The low barriers to entry and the seductiveness of the industry have created a situation where many folks are claiming to be designers.

Furthermore, designers are working in a field that requires a unique blend of talents. It's not enough just to be artistically talented and proficient with design tools. The key ability a designer must demonstrate is to be able to, via conversation, grasp the vision that a client has and translate that into a coherent design that provides a fluid user experience.

With so many parties competing for the same business that key ability is the deciding factor as to whether you'll get work or you won't.

If it's my firm and you're new to us, you're going to have to prove that you have the aforementioned key ability. And that means...steady yourself...spec work. Not much, mind you, and not more than is necessary, but enough to prove that you're not just another wannabe with an artistic bent and a Mac.

Don't worry, we're not getting free design work because if we're going use your work, you're getting the gig. If you don't get the gig, it's because your work doesn't cut it.

If that's too much to stomach, no problem. I'll grab the next designer's business card off of an ever-growing stack.
They're certainly stacking the decks with lots of ex-MSFT-ies with experience working on Microsoft's version of the JVM - the CLR. What will the name be? GLR? GVM?
I'm less concerned about the resolution where absolute bandwidth is your limiting factor. ATV has an absolute bandwidth of 6MBps. OTA has an absolute bandwidth of 18MBps in the US. Even if it could use 1080p, outside of still images, its going to look like crap during complex scenes. Its the balance between bandwidth and quality. If I want high-quality (like Avatar or any Pixar movie) I'll get it on bluray, for everything else ATV DVD-quality is fine.

But as I said before, some people will have the need for a HTPC. I have a moderately small apartment and don't watch that much TV. I realized, a while ago, that keeping a dedicated PC, recording shows I'll probably never watch, running 24 hours a day was futile. If there is something interesting I can watch it live, download it through iTunes, or pull the occasional torrent.
"I can't see how the system is different to a pyramid scheme. The majority of the participants will see no benefit by submitting an 'entry'."

Just like startups. Or RFPs. With these, the rewards are HUGE so it's worth it to roll the dice. Unfortunately for Western designers, the amount of money regular designers are making on 99Designs IS huge for offshore designers.

For speculative work like spec design, startups, or RFPs it's all about the math-- Cost of Effort * Chance of Winning = Worth it.
It's the combination "App Store" that they object to. So yes, Amazon App Market would be fine, as is the "Windows Phone App Marketplace".
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I suspect that Bjarne would be so overwhelmed with catching his flight that he would accidentally throw out his boarding pass along with the wrapper.
OK, answer me this: who in the organization has the technical know-how to decide how to solve all the SEO and usability issues; and the authority to do so?

If there's nobody even close, then they will have massive spec churn.
One thing I never fully understood about RSS is that only geeks know what RSS is, hence it will never be ubiquitous.

If you have a geek audience, then it's useful, otherwise, forget it.
This video comes from a BBC series which can be watched here (from the UK at least): http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/feynman/
Agreed. It was looking like a matter of time...
Some people actually need the performance guarantees, too. I've heard a lot of people whine about the unpredictable performance of I/O caused by shared tenancy, specifically people running decent sized cassandra/hbase installations or multiple database hosts. If you're willing to pay for a higher guaranteed minimum baseline, you could be in this market without a butthead ISO 9000 checklist.
If you connect over wifi, you can easily sniff the packets from your router.
> I suspect that Bjarne would have discarded his own trash properly

Either that, or hold it forever.
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The idea that they already have a corporate accounting dept speaks to the root of the problem.
Is it better to force banks into smaller entities, exerting government control over the marketplace, or let their investors lose their pants when the banks take stupid risks, allowing the marketplace to correct itself?
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Imo, it's not like a startup or a RFP at all - because in these cases those involved are taking risks which will hopefully lead to BIG gains.

In a contest like this, the participants are simply competing for the chance to be paid.

I cannot fathom how this scenario can possibly be fair.
Is this app worth a download?

Is there any iOS app out there that come close to BBM? It seems that all the one I tried were very buggy.
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I used to have this affliction as well. At one point I had a dual processor (not dual core) giant tower with turbo-jet-sounding fans running MythTV. I had a ton of other solutions since, but eventually just settled on Roku. Netflix and Hulu is plenty for most purposes and I no longer have to spend the time to transcode video.

For my legacy stuff, I just an NSLU2 (SlugOS) + ushare + XBox 360. Everything just works.
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Look, I care about great products and services. That's connected with strong competition. In this case, the company/product/service is close to becoming a celebrity thanks to very high blog & press coverage. Which artificially raises the bar to competitors, basically sky-high.

I lack any blogging experience; if I had any, I'd try to give some counter-coverage, to promote competitors.

I regret not making that reasoning clear in the original post.
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Thanks for the answers, this is very interesting.

> Yes. (Technically, append-at-head and delete-from-tail only.)

Do you handle this by breaking the DB up into multiple small files, like BDB-JE?

> The code keeps track of how much garbage is present and keeps a running tally of how much garbage collection it "owes" based on maintaining a long-term optimal GC rate. When that value is large enough, it looks for some old pages to clean.

How long-term is that? I assume you have considered the degenerate case, where load is increasing linearly (instead of more common daily/weekly/etc. cycles) and garbage collection falls behind. In context of your next answer, it seems like this case would cause the GC to get starved out, leading to higher IO requirements for queries, leading to less time to GC, and so on to failure.

Granted, you would have to be running very hot for this to happen, but its possible.

One more question: Have you considered implementing in-memory locking/synchronisation (like a shared mutex)? Offering test-and-set type operations is a nice alternative to full-fledge transactions for many use cases. If these are just used as synchronisation primitives then fsyncing them every time seems wasteful, on the assumption that many use cases don't care about lock durability across server failure.
While you sit on your a$$ and watch him/her slave away?
Never used BBM, but have been pretty happy with both Beluga and GroupMe...though I'd say GroupMe is the one to go with, as Beluga got bought by Facebook.
It would be good to see the email that caused the ruckus... or did I just miss it in the post?
"There is a bit more to YC than just investing in a lot of companies."

You're exactly right, investing isn't going to make those companies succeed as you said, doesn't increase your chance of getting a return at all. There's a ton of dynamics at work.

What we do know is that the YC team has a process that works. I'm not going to say they have a "formula," since that would imply that they take the same approach with every class and company. I imagine it's something they work to improve each time and adapt uniquely with each situation.

The recent bulk investment in YC companies rides on the YC team's decision making process, based on a good track record. Granted, you're likely to see a better return with investment in 40 YC companies over 40 that have been randomly picked.
When I first saw the title of your post, I thought IIT referred to the "Indian Institutes of Technology". Now I see you're referring to the "Illinois Institute of Technology" :-)
See Andy Baio's "How I Indexed The Daily" for information about using a proxy to monitor/inspect traffic from a device similar to an iPhone.

http://waxy.org/2011/02/how_i_indexed_the_daily/
Actually my point was that with protocols like GRE it difficult to NAT more than one stream through an IP address. Also even if you do work that out (people have it seems) you need to work it out for every protocol which is not how the layers of TCP/IP were supposed to work.
Not strange regulation: regulatory capture, which is a subversion of the regulatory process by putting those being regulated in charge of regulation.
IPV6 is coming (yeah, right)
If vastness was really the issue, we'd see fiber everywhere in downtown Toronto. But we don't.
Science has error bars.
If $41m is what is needed for this company to generate huge buzz, build a massive user base and make phenomenal amounts of money, it's a completely valid venture.

I'm not arguing that it will be a success - it just seems sensible to wait for the outcome before passing judgement on whether the investment was worthwhile.

Let this particular business succeed on its merits, just like the average start-up.

Surely one of those 'merits' is having the wiles to raise large amounts of funding and spend it appropriately, including on mindshare?
Because we let the politicians run us.
Even if there was a one-year non-compete, it could just as easily be that Google isn't working on anything that would trigger it and Gosling just decided to play safe and wait it out for a year. A year off break from work while you decide what to do next in your career sure sounds like a nice option, and the perfect amount of time to "regroup" like this.
To them, P2P=bad for entertainment monopoly.
So are we now encouraging mobile developers to try and develop many crap applications, the sum of which will give an impressive financial return? What happened to concept of developing a great product that actually takes some effort?

It seems to me that these developers are spreading themselves extremely thin to get many apps into the marketplace with the h̶o̶p̶e̶ prayer that some catch on. Imo, this is a crappy business model which just pollutes the marketplace.

I know the goal/dream is to become self sufficient and control your own destiny, but do it with a great product that you believe in, not with bs e-books and movie quote soundboards.
I sure did not get what you were trying to convey here :(
For those (like me) who don't know he's famous because he invented Java.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gosling
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Any chance for Paypal to keep its position on the global mobile money exchange market that's announced to be the the top mobile app for 2012 ?
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I like your strategy but there are small local charities like food banks that can always use money. We give a significant amount every year and doing micro gifts would be very difficult so we research a few charities a give them the majority of our donations.

Sadly, these days homeless shelters and food banks need every cent and most are local and well run.
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Notice how no one gave a rats a$$ about this post. M$FT should take note that in the long run they're loosing a high quality pool of developers.
I'd welcome some feedback. I haven't seen a real considered critique of the iPhone's user experience, so I decided to pool some long-dormant thoughts into a short essay.
You make it sound like the US has something particularly good relative to the rest of the world. If only that were the case.

One such example, Comcast and P2P: http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-08-183...
Let's imagine Steve Jobs is President of the United States
I'm failing to see how ASC and DESC would apply here, unless someone is simply passing them on directly from a URL or input form into the SQL, which is almost the equivalent of just letting the user type in the SQL directly. Also, the worst thing that can happen to an extension like LIMIT is that more rows show up than expected, but that wouldn't change the context of the original query to return data that wasn't originally intended to be shown. Plus, it would be very difficult to tag on more SQL to a direct LIMIT number being passed in unless the back-end application was totally brain-dead about how it converted strings to integers.

One other thing - extensions like LIMIT can be parameterized also (shameless plug: our product ElevateDB can do it with its RANGE clause). It's a nice way of getting rid of this type of issue, and allows for easier pagination without having to force the database engine to constantly re-prepare the same query over and over again.
They do have a floor below which the sensors can't get a good reading. I read that below 100W it's +/-10W. So Jeffs actual wattage could be 32 or 12W really.
They already have at least one world class language designer in Guido. They also have the Go language.

Point being that if they wanted a competing language to Java, they probably already had the talent to get it done. (Or just, you know, use Mono/C#).
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Depending on what you need, you might be able to find something good at http://themeforest.net.
Ah, but the firms I'm competing with charge >$300/hr, so I can come in under them and still make a good living.

You'll notice that nowhere do I say we're prepared to compete against teams of highschool kids in Bangladesh on price.
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I don't think you missed it. 848 words in the article and yet no mention of the actual email that was such a problem.
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He could have joined his own company, or Microsoft, or Facebook
The google influx does remind of "The Sublimed" from Iain M. Banks' Culture novels.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sublimed
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I link to the BMJ all the time through work, they have never complained.

Also, the author is cherry picking the text he quoted. Here is the full text from the BMJ groups T&C:

"You may link to articles or the home page of the BMJ or BMJ Journals websites (excluding BMJ Careers and Veterinary Record) but with regard to any other of our websites, you must not deep link to any of our other websites or link to our home pages without our agreement in writing. You may not provide a link which suggests a form of association, approval or endorsement on our part, unless we have expressly agreed to this in writing. We reserve the right to withdraw any linking permission upon notice to you or by amending these terms and conditions."

I would argue they are pretty fair as the majority of their content is on the main BMJ site or on one of the microsites of their journals. (I am not associated in any way with them.)
but do they say "the mac store" ?
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They spent $40 million to knee cap themselves! You and I know that in less than six months the paywall will come down.

They have built a pay wall that can be defeated with three lines of javascipt. This is so sad on many levels.
I don't think it has anything to do with the domain. Every time I see another post about Color, I become more and more convinced that the $41 million dollars were meant to trigger exactly this kind of frenzy. The usefulness of the application depends on a lot of people using it simultaneously and Color making it big without this kind of buzz was almost impossible.
oops my bad, I didn't realize this was a fictional story. <feels dumb?
I dug around my email box and I think this is the one: http://www.errant.me.uk/code/snip/10

It was long. And very odd.

I'm kinda used to that from Appsumo by now so it didn't really register for me. Truth be told, I just clicked through to see the offer straight away and ignored the rest as TL;DR. Reading it now.. the nicest description I can come up with is "rambling"

EDIT: Patio11 has a point about the formatting :) so: http://errant.me.uk/appsumo.html
This definitely sounds familiar--thanks for the post! I'm not familiar with Assistly, what is that?
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Depending on what you intend to do, you could do a lot worse than spelunk in the codebase of something like JQuery or YUI.
True indeed. I've never even considered this option to do the design for my startup. And if I don't have enough money to pay the designer I'd better do the design myself rather waste my money in such a way.
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This assumes a lot about a pretty mundane app. It seems more like Google is letting Slide do its own thing within the company. It was only acquired half a year ago, I'd be shocked if this is a precursor to a feature baked into Android.
http://images1.bingocardcreator.com/blog-images/hn/appsumo-m...

Posted as an image to preserve the distinctive formatting. Continues in that kind of vein for a while.
Yes. To clarify: if people don't understand how to use it, it's engineered wrong.
From reading the article, it seems that it isn't, yet. The posited theory is that Android will eventually include the app in its default install, so at that point it might be worth installing if most of your friends are Android users. Until then, skip it.
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But don't you want that sort of guy _not_ working on core projects? - then they get intrigued by running some little embedded language on toasters, and WHAM.

(But you do involve them in enough core work such they have a feel for the practicalities)
This system also exists in other fields, such as estate agents. Each house on the market will be listed by about 10 different agencies, yet only sold by one. So work is multiplied tenfold, and so commissions are high, because you're also paying the agent for the 9 other houses he didn't sell.

This seems to be a problem that isn't easily solved by market forces: If a new player enters the field, he has to put margins high, because he will only be able to close a small fraction of deals. The only solution would be for someone with sufficient cash reserves to launch a "hard-discount" agency, that would start making money once its market share starts growing.