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I have a few disagreements with what you have said here.

AppCode is in Beta - it's going to be slow and its going to crash. Even though you have stated that "tools don't have to be pretty to be functional" I think you have contradicted your point here by writing off AppCode on that basis entirely.

As a software developer, fair criticism of a tool should never rely on its aesthetics but rather on its ability to solve problems and solve them productivity. Eclipse, Emacs, Hudson, et al are tools I wouldn't say are aesthetically pleasing but they are very successful at solving the problems they were designed to solve. Thus I believe aesthetics should logically be placed secondary to utility.
So chances are RMS really will become Saint iGNUcus!?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIF5xnkcncI
I counter that organizations like Sony have already so subverted our democracy that this entire point is moot. The laws that allow them to do what they do were not enacted in a democratic fashion. And to be honest I'm more concerned with the ends than the means anyway, finally. Democratic ideals are something everyone should strive toward to be sure, but things have perhaps degraded to the point that they need to be set aside in the short term.
Okay, the church is not perfect, but Hitler Stalin and Mao did inconceivably more evil in a few years than anything out of the church in the past century or two. What atrocities are you referring to?
This is new. Got it just now.

If there's any angel investors out there, send me an email. I already live in the Valley. I'm willing to make my pitch in person.
Not as extreme, but when I bought my 1.5 terabyte hard drive, I thought that I would be seeing 1.5TB when viewing its properties. I saw 1.36TB instead. So where did the other 0.14TB go? I thought I got scammed.

Then I looked at the number of bytes on the hard drive, and it listed as exactly 1,500,299,264,000 bytes, and I realized that computers and manufacturers use different metrics.
I don't buy it. As an Android dev you normally just worry about one resolution, Android provides you with the tools (device independent pixels) to make other screens look the same. Just like the iphone, designers are encouraged to provide 2 sets of art assets, for medium and high resolution screens.

The real reasons that apps looks worse on Android is that companies don't want to spend the time and money to get the apps polished. As an Android consultant I've come across the attitude from companies over and over again that the Android app should cost less money than the iPhone counterpart. The Android app is always an afterthought and treated as "let's just do a quick port of the iPhone app".
https://convore.com/yc-s11-apps/answer-accepted-rejected-wai...
The original title was more interesting, but I guess it was too long.

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It's this year's letter, presumably it's the same as they've used in the past.
I signed up for gmail and have a simple account name in the form of {common firstname}{first letter of last name}@gmail.com. The amount of crap that has started to show up in my inbox over the last year is completely ludicrous--and I believe it's all from people who, like you say, just don't know how email works.

As of today, my account is associated with seven addresses--that is, seven people said my email address was their alternative email address. 2,000 messages in the spam folder over ~1 month. Sometimes a dozen can hit my inbox per day; But, I'm guessing these are legit newsletters that people use my address for. And someone in South America used it to sign up for a facebook account. I was getting slammed with his friend requests and lost password requests until I just filtered them out.

sigh ... Rant over, and I feel better.
It's not about the amount of knowledge, but changes in society that allow vastly more people to become specialists than in 1800. At that point the modern research university had not been invented yet, and science was still effectively restricted to a gentlemanly elite.

Today, universities turn out middle-class PhDs by the thousand, each grinding away in their own tiny corner of academia. The chance is rather small that someone who hasn't dedicated their life to an area can be competitive with the legions of specialists who have.
particularly since speakers are often perceived to represent the community

There needs to be a serious education effort to remove that mistaken idea from people's minds.

It's also a bit insulting to the audience to assume they are too dense to realize that the actions and opinions of one person are simply the actions and opinions of one person.

Even if those who are offended are overreacting, publicizing their views is probably the best way to be sure that both speakers and attendees can make well informed decisions about which conferences to attend.

Exactly.
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That outlook seems like a self fulfilling prophecy.
Theft and property damage aren't inherently violating individuals.

To answer your question, clearly some HNers are anarchists.
For another great example, have a look at the CNBC free app. iPhone app is sharp and almost all self contained. Want to see details on a symbol? Click the quote and it'll show you within the app. Want to see a graph? Just turn the phone sideways and it'll show you a nice chart. It's got many other nice features that make it an excellent app.

The Android app is just garbage. It's basically just a watch list with links out to their mobile site. The end.
What these guys are doing with Bloom/Bud are searching for dramatically better abstractions for building distributed systems. Getting the performance right should and will come later.

I'm a big believer in the mantra "First make it possible. Then make it beautiful. Then make it fast." In the distributed systems community, there's a lot of experience with "making it possible": Hadoop, Dynamo, etc. Bloom/Bud is attempting to figure out the "make it beautiful" part by leveraging what we already understand about the problem domain of building distributed systems.

Worrying about the kinds of constant-time performance things you mentioned at this stage would be premature optimization. I commend them for building this system in a language that allows them to iterate fast and experiment. I'm sure in the future they'll look at using technology like JRuby to improve the performance of the project.

I think what they're doing is very interesting and potentially groundbreaking -- I can't wait to see where this project goes.
I agree with the sentiment... somewhat. For example, I prefer the Android Facebook to the iPhone.
But the entire blog is about pointing out anecdotal instances where the author doesn't like Android? I would much rather hear from a developer than the author of this blog.
My corporation is based in IL. Ideally I'm looking to simply change agents, as while mine is competent, he's expensive and not good at remoting. I work exclusively from remote locations so it's essential that my accountant be comfortable with that. How would I go about getting a price quote for a basic S-Corp return in IL via Sanetax?
can you cite a source for this please
Amir Michael who worked on the hardware team said, "The utility provides us with AC voltage which we then convert to DC very close to the motherboard in the power supply. Our goal was to bring the high voltage as close as possible to the load to minimize IR losses. We could do an efficient AC –DC conversion in the rack and then distribute DC to the individual servers but that would mean several feet of low voltage conductors which would be made from large copper bars and a would have higher IR losses."
Mac-based developers might also like to check out Brotherbard's experimental GitX fork:

https://github.com/brotherbard/gitx/downloads
Probably closer to a positive feedback loop.
There are very few professional settings where expressions of sexuality are seen as normal and fun. That's what "unprofessional" means.
As a java developer that needs to also support native iphone and android apps, this is a huge win for me. Its very nice to jump around projects using the same familiar keystrokes and functions.
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I'm confused. When did I ever tell Pandora my gender and date of birth?
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. Are you suggesting one should put up with some injustice in the face of the threat of more of it?
That reminds me of the guy who tried to become the ultimate shopper by mailing people a copy of the UPC from his Safeway discount card with the intention that they would stick it over their UPC code. http://www.cockeyed.com/pranks/safeway/ultimate_shopper.html
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Admittedly more familiar w/ the iOS SDK but I've build a few Android apps. I find iOS controls easier to use and customize.
"Tampers with the data" is functionally equivalent to sending me something different. There's not requirement that it looks like what I requested at all, and as long as it will execute when double-clicked, it'll do the trick.

We're already talking about running arbitrary code on a machine, compiled versus interpreted is irrelevant. And I think you have forgotten that a script with the appropriate hash-bang and file permissions is indistinguishable to most users from a compiled executable.
"Cancelled" is a harsh word for such a distinguished project. I think I would say rather that Kermit has been "completed".
Ask HN:  How to start a VC bidding war (when two are already interested)?
Hi all-

A good friend approached me with this problem and I didn't have a good answer. I figured you guys would have some perspective. His company is raising a seed round. He is currently in talks with a few VC's and has had strong interest from two (like talking finance, mentions of term sheets, etc.). Recently he was told to get out there and start pitching to other VC's and use the current situation for leverage both ways. So three questions:

1) Is this indeed the best course of action?

2) How should one pitch these "new" VC's without sounding like a total dbag?

3) Any other tips on how to do this most effectively?

Thanks!
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You listen to Journey on a loop all day... it's not that hard to figure out.
Was totally unaware of this issue in Nginx/PHP-FPM - going to check my conf files now!

UPDATE:
Here's the thread on this issue right from NGINX.org
http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,88845,page=3
I think it's the standard that is set by the original creator of the UI widgets available on the platform, in this case, Apple vs. Google.

I'm an iPhone UI designer/developer and you can make a really nice looking app without doing any custom design work just by using the widgets that Apple provides. A good example of an app that was nearly all stock is Tweetie 1 for iPhone and it won an Apple Design Award. Apple has put an incredible amount of polish (single-pixel highlights and shadows, consistent sheen/gloss across elements, built-in animations for common interactions) into the widgets as part of UIKit, and then the apps that are included on the iPhone are also incredibly polished. This sets the bar very high and also gives a quality of UI design that developers can look up to and try to emulate.

The apps that Google built for Android (Maps in particular) are very clean and elegant but I would hesitate to call them beautiful or extremely polished. Google's design aesthetic typically eschews gradients, sheen, highlights and shadows in favor of a flatter, cleaner look and feel. Although Google's Android apps are well-designed, they don't look like a team of visual designers hand-crafted each and every corner like Apple's apps and UIKit widgets seem to be. Because of this cleaner, simpler aesthetic, the bar for "good-looking" on Android is a lot lower than for iPhone and it seems companies will cut corners on Android app UI design & visual polish because of it.

Another theory is that companies might feel that Android phone owners are more technical, more geeky, and thus "don't need" a really polished interface so they spend fewer resources on it. Once a few big companies release Android apps with a sub-par design, other companies see this and follow suit, continuing the trend forwards. Obviously this is a difficult stigma to get out of, but some companies are putting out great Android apps -- Gowalla comes to mind -- so there is hope.
"Have you ever recruited anyone to work for you, had it not work out, and had to let them go?"

-> Yes. It wasn't fun, but it's less fun being fired.

"Very few things weigh so heavily on your conscience."

-> Realizing that you haven't been there for your kids. Accidentally killing a bicyclist with your car. Building a product that rips people off. I can easily write a really long list here of things that are harder than firing someone who is not working out.

Just saying.
I think it's the App Store review people who have generally done a good job in ensuring that an iOS app looks and behaves the way it's expected to. I'm not saying whether it's "wrong" or "right", just the mere fact that some warm body is running an app through its paces and makes an actual decision whether to reject it or not ensures a pretty consistent user interface.
Aint taking it personally. After all, just coz YC is not funding does not mean you have a bad idea. If you're smart and determined, you can still pull through :)
linkbait, would be my guess.
This has been feared for a while in that community. There's quite a bit of animosity towards the JWST for soaking up NASA's budget in recent history, and JWST is trying to do some serious damage control because they're too far along and too big to fail. I saw John Mather (Nobel prize winner) give a talk recently that was basically "Look how far we are, and we're sorry for soaking up the budget."
Wow, the Android ones look much nicer. Oversized icons? Garish blue? Gimmicky graphics? Just focus on the content, please.
It's not shown in the example on the link, but the Android Facebook app's home screen uses the bottom half to show a stream of recently posted pictures from friends. I suppose the article's author must not have many friends who feel like sharing.
From my experience developing for both iOS and Android, it's because iOS users expect your app to look good, or they won't use it.

Apple just sets a higher bar, both because of Apple's own apps and the approval process, and developers code to the users' expectations.

Plus, with the nice looking built-in UI widgets and Interface Builder, it actually takes some effort to make an app look bad.
You've already declared web frameworks below Lisps's station. I'm not sure you can help me. Obviously the problems I want a language to help me solve are no concern of yours.
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That's too bad. Gravity waves are one of the last unknowns in science that we also know how to study. (Most other unknowns we don't know how to study.)

I've always wondered, we have rich foundations doing all kinds of good - do any of them try to step in and fill budgets of this sort?
For some reason the link to this one bombed on HN recently but because it's relevant..

http://startingupinamerica.com/

Another documentary but about foreign entrepreneurs and the problems involved in starting up in Silicon Valley.
cool, thanks. I think I might check it out. It's certainly 'pretty'.

edit: testing it out now. It seems to be more responsive than spotlight. Liking it so far :)
> So two wrongs make a right?

Is it wrong to respond if someone is attacking you? Sony are subverting governments to make laws that take away my (and your freedom on the internet. These laws are backed by credible threats of lethal force. What anonymous are doing to Sony executives is but a small fraction of what Sony executives are doing to internet users worldwide.
Economics? (investing more design/dev time in the [currently, at least] more profitable platform)

Laziness/incompetence? (I don't know how many times I've downloaded an Android equivalent to an iOS app only to find re-purposed, screen captured iOS graphics with a non-native UI)

Device fragmentation, no IB, perception that Android users don't appreciate polished UI/design - take your pick.

Regardless of which excuse is chosen, the blame lies with the designer/developer/manager, not the OS.

EDIT: I'm speaking of custom interfaces rather than stock OS controls and views. Those elements are obviously controlled by the OS.
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Apple has crafted a development environment that is more conducive to producing high-quality polished apps with relatively little effort. The iOS SDK is a refined version of the Mac Cocoa SDK, which they have been developing for 10 years. They were able to keep the best qualities of standard Cocoa while further refining the framework for a mobile device. The end result is an SDK that not only has attracted tons of developers, but is also really enjoyable to work with.
We're doing this again? Didn't we cover all this when people got all up in a snit over LAST year's LessConf?
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I get where you are coming from, and it's a good plan, as long as the plan is to eventually fully detach from Ruby. Being even two or three times as fast as Ruby, which seems to be an optimistic interpretation of JRuby's performance, is still starting from a terrible position in so many ways.

I don't get the idea that some people seem to have that performance doesn't matter for distributed systems, when the truth is the exact opposite. Desktops and even cell phones, we see a great deal of sloppiness around performance, because it doesn't really matter that much. Small servers or small clusters, we still say throw more hardware at it and just hack some stuff together for clustering. But when you're serious about distributed systems is also when you are counting every one of something; maybe disk hits, maybe CPU cycles, maybe bytes of RAM, but there is something you are obsessing over. And maybe you're obsessing over more than one of these at once, all with an intensity that would credit an Atari 2600 programmer. (Facebook apparently published the specs for their machines today. Tell me they aren't too concerned about performance.) I'm not sure leaving performance for later is a good idea, they may well iterate their way into a cool abstraction that will never perform. Designing a distributed system abstraction without worrying about performance strikes me as about as sensible as designing a new 3D framework without worrying about performance... not necessarily a fatal flaw but I sure hope you have a good plan.
iOS development is a good bet for the next few years.
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So, to sum up, poor quality control in the absence of government regulation is the result of too much government regulation.

There are folks who want to solve every problem with government-led solutions. They are often wrong. Then there are people whose response to everything is cutting taxes and privatizing institutions. They are often wrong. What you have in common (and lately I am beginning to think these two groups have a lot in common) is whenever anyone can name an example of your ideology breaking down in some way as it has here, your immediately come out with a No-True-Scotsman style of rebuke. Why is it so unacceptable that a pure free market might not work perfectly?

And, the typical consumer anywhere would fall for this. This isn't an example of ignorant Chinese being duped by unscrupulous merchants. If ignorance alone is the culprit then this should be happening everywhere. Want to take a guess why it isn't?
Yeah, I'm surprised nobody's asked this yet. I wish I could, but I'd have to either ask you for your password, or ask you to install a browser plugin.
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I was using the official Mac app. Tested on two separate machines and same thing. Actually didn't try the delete and DM tweet on the web app (in new or old twitter).
> If we get something with the moral foundation of wikileaks, the activitst appeal of Anonymous, the secure communication system of Tor, and the virality of Facebook? We're going to have problems

We are not going to have problems. Governments and corporations who want to take away our rights are going to have problems.
Shoddy reporting. This is like claiming that the White House is pro-hacker because of an interview that appeared on Massachusetts Public Radio

La Civiltà Cattolica is not a Vatican magazine. It is a Jesuit magazine. And I highly doubt that the magazine itself endorses Fr. Antonio Spadaro's opinion.
I'm going to ignore the content of this post and just say: the tone here makes you sound very bitter and "I'm taking my ball and going home". You may well be right, but this isn't a good way of getting people to take your side, and would look really bad if future potential investors were to see it. Something to keep in mind.
The interesting part is at the end, when he talks about people being willing to "like" on Facebook, but perhaps not as willing to take the time to install an app.

It's a possibility worth considering as the concept of a Facebook app loses more and more traction.
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>Google's ranking depends on analyzing search histories, so if you were the only user, the experience would be worse.

I disagree. At this point, I believe that because of how big google is and because of how profitable gaming google is, getting good results, I believe that more than half of the work of finding relevant search results is filtering out the people attempting to game the search engine.

I mean, it is /possible/ that the help they get from user's search histories outweighs the massive amount of effort spammers put in to making google suck, but I doubt it.

I bet that things are much easier for a new search engine while they are small enough that it's not worth much time and effort to game the results.

>Data center technology can benefit everybody, that's all I'm trying to say.

This is true, but I believe what other users are likely saying is that google probably alrealdy has something as good or better than this.

Personally, I won't get excited until someone starts building out co-location centers that have efficent cooling. Nearly all co-location centers use mixed air, and most end up keeping the place much cooler than required, and they pass on those costs to me.

The thing is, for anyone who is big enough to take advantage of their data center design, this isn't particularly new. I mean, it's great they are sharing the documentation of how they did it... but that mostly helps the little guys, and the little guys can't really take advantage of it... we're stuck in co-location centers, like I said, with antiquated cooling designs.

The chassis designs, on the other hand, might be great for the little guys. Hell, I am not that far away from enough scale to job out the chassis to a metal shop, and the design would be a pretty big part of that cost, that facebook just reduced to zero. Thanks!

But the power savings on the chassis are very small compared to the power savings on the cooling/data center design.