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Wow, how much will constantly relicensing an ebook cost our library system?

Sounds great for publishers, they finally get more money out of those damn public libraries who have been undermining their profits for over a century!
I don't consider Braintree to be inexpensive at all. But that's subjective, so let's get the facts out there. The monthly minimum I had to pay (minimum of fees) was $100, plus a $75 monthly fee. This is pretty expensive to me.
I've always said the ultimate Twitter business model is to know what everyone in the world is thinking right now, and to sell that information.
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"Assuming the maximum length of 140 characters, this means they're storing about 18 GB per day"

That's a huge underestimation. A tweet isn't 140 characters - it's 140 characters plus a huge chunk of surrounding metadata and indexes (who tweeted, when they tweeted, where they tweeted from, was it a reply, did it mention anyone, did it include any hash tags, did it link to anything, was it a retweet, its unique ID, how many users was it delivered to...) - all massively denormalised for performance reasons. See http://www.scribd.com/doc/30146338/map-of-a-tweet for an idea of the data involved.

Then there's the fact that a reference to each tweet has to be written in to the "inbox" of every user that receives it - so if Tim O'Reilly says something a reference to that tweet gets written 1,452,801 times, once for each of his followers.

On top of that, there's all of the associated stats collection, including link click tracking and a ton of data around who is doing what in the Twitter interface.

This article from last year suggests that Twitter were storing 8TB/day back in October, and it's only going to have gone up since then: http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/17/twitter-seeing-6-billion-ap...
If you would use both of them (which is likely the case), ask your self "Which one solves a greater pain in your life?"
That's a pretty silly list. Many formally trained programmers also lack understanding of several items on the list. How much can you really teach anyone on compilers and machine learning in two months? The easiest way to learn something is to use it. Taking tests and turning in homework assignments for 8 weeks only gets you so far. If you want to pick up the formal theory and functional aspects of programming then I highly recommend the course notes available at http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cis500/current/index.html. If you get to the end I guarantee you'll know more about the theoretical aspects of programming than any "formally" trained programmer at a big name university.
Thanks for letting us know some of the backstory there.

It may be just me, but reading your comment makes me more worried about lack of focus there than less... It just seems very frenetic.

I've been developing on Titanium for several months now (as a paid subscriber) and more and more the decisions and priorities of the company really puzzle me. It seems like Appcelerator mostly ignores a shaky foundation while excitedly piling more 'features' on top of it and using tons of duct tape to try and keep it from collapsing before the money runs out.

The most compelling evidence for this is the pull requests being ignored for long periods of time. How can we be excited about a platform that is so slow to even accept help from the open source community to improve it? Meanwhile, I frequently get calls from Appcelerator trying to get me to buy in-person training and even a new 'certification' program. Really?! That's where your putting your resources rather than the actual platform supporting your 'platform'?

I really really want to like Titanium and be a fan, but right now it seems like asking me to please be a Microsoft fan. At this point I'd probably recommend MS over Ti. That's not a compliment :(

Please please please focus on your core experience. Ignoring it will drastically damage your reputation among hackers (as you can already see happening) - and hackers are the ones who decide which platforms to use (and which to abandon).

I would gladly pay several times more than I am now for an 'A' quality platform. Money is not an issue for many of us developers, but quality will be the deal killer here. I've many times wished that I could even pay a bounty to fix certain platform bugs.

Please please focus on your core.

Sincerely,

Someone who'd really really like to be a fan
I've been meaning to do something like this for ages - well done. I didn't look at the source yet - I hope you're storing stats somewhere? I clicked on the L and my wife was skeptical, given the length of time it took her to get home. (The L seems particularly subject to bunching delays, by over-compensating line supervisors...it's common to walk the 1.5 miles home and pass 5, 6, 7 or even 8 trains coming in the opposite direction.)
John Carmack is a self-taught programmer.

There is no programming skill that a school can teach that a motivated individual cannot learn outside of school. That is one of the great joys of working in this most democratic and meritocratic of fields. Its secrets are not locked away in an ivory tower, they will reveal themselves to all who seriously seek them. The only tuition required is hard work and persistence.
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It's so in Latvia and I'm pretty sure in several other small European Union countries as well. For iTunes there's at least an unofficial way to get an US iTunes account, but it's not simple and convenient enough for an average user.
I think a 3 day weekend is excessive for a birthday, but it sounds like his mindset is as an employee and not a cofounder. That's a recipe for disaster too.
Yet for the first time normal people like your dad and my parents and other family members can figure most things out themselves. My dad have both iPad and iPhone and for the first time he figures out stuff on his own, he have had phones since they came out back in the late eighties always asked me about the most "easy" things. The input problem isn't solved yet but for most cases it just works.
In my opinion and experience Facebook ads can work well only if you advertise your fan page. Get people like it (obviously the fan page needs to be interesting for this), then from time to time post stuff that advertises your startup.

It's more work, but you can market to every fan many times instead of hoping she will buy from you or give you her email address from the single visit the ad would bring to your site.
Come on, it was one click away from the parent article:
http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_C64Select.aspx
Am I the only one who doubts a lot of the magical usability of touch interfaces?
Until you mentioned him I never even knew he existed.
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Nice. Any plans to expose this via an api?
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After spending the past 3 days in the hospital with IV antibiotics for an unknown cause of a disease, I though "how can I get healthy enough to sustain the stressful workload of a startup."
Paypal is very expensive in terms of fees! We opted for a local card processor. They all offered us less than 2% for every transaction and a fixed monthly fee for the service. C

Compare that with Paypal! Paypal is great for quick and easy implementation - but at the end you pay a lot more..
And, it's missing the original C64 game ports (like Atari joystick ports), which had OUTPUT capability!
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> the key is in being curious and exploring

That reminds me of another hacker:

"I think one of the most important guiding principles has been this: — that every moment of my waking hours has always been occupied by some train of inquiry. In far the largest number of instances the subject might be simple or even trivial, but still work of inquiry, of some kind or other, was always going on.

The difficulty consisted in adapting the work to the state of the body. The necessary training was difficult. Whenever at night I found myself sleepless, and wished to sleep, I took a subject for examination that required little mental effort, and which also had little influence on worldly affairs by its success or failure.

On the other hand, when I wanted to concentrate my whole mind upon an important subject I studied during the day all the minor accessories, and after two o'clock in the morning I found that repose which the nuisances of the London streets only allow from that hour until six in the morning."

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Does this mean that ChromeOS devices netbooks and pcs are the PC for normal people? Time will tell I guess.
Before I got to the end of the title, a little part of me hoped it was a jQuery plugin that operated rumble motors and force feedback in game pads and the like.
Not that it would be useful on any widespread scale.

The rumble effect presented on the other hand seems like it will be useful to alert users to errors or interactive elements. I can think of some cool interface sugar to implement with it.
Your post seems to be implying that Facebook hasn't found a business model, and that a day of reckoning will come "the second they start charging". However, Facebook is already charging for advertisements, that's how they earned about $355 million in profits in the first 3/4 of 2010: http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/01/goldmans_leaked_details...

In contrast, National Semiconductor earned about $220 million in profits for approximately the same period: http://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NYSE:NSM (not exactly the same months, because their Q1 goes from Dec-Feb, but still a useful point of comparison)

One can make the case that Facebook is overvalued, perhaps even grossly overvalued, but to say that it should be valued at less than National Semiconductor is a big stretch, even if you are very conservative and use only current bottom-line financials. In my experience, those who make such statements are not basing their opinion on fundamentals of the companies, but on an opinion that companies like National Semiconductor do "real" engineering as opposed to "frivolous" social networking sites like Facebook. It's discouraging to see such attitudes, but they are not new: both early internet companies (including ones that survived the bubble and turned out to be sound companies) as well as early PC-era companies were also derided as toys or fads.
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No, doubting the magical usability of touch interfaces is still a very popular viewpoint, and until recently was conventional wisdom amongst almost anyone in the know.

Touch interfaces actually do work pretty well though. Direct manipulation is just more engaging.
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The question, as it was posed, was pretty arrogant and contained an implicit assumption. It assumed that a "self-taught" programmer does not know, or does not have available to him, certain things that a so-called formally taught programmer does. And that's just not true. Both self-taught and academically taught programmers have access to books, computers, the Internet, peers and tools. Also, there's no black-or-white difference between the two: the academically trained programmer has had some amount of so-called self-teaching, and the self-taught programmer almost always has some amount of academic education. Also, they both have brains, and are able to reason out things for themselves. Many things are learnable by experience, and learnable when needed. Also, there's the point that everything ever put into a textbook was at some point independently discovered or learned by someone, without the benefit of a textbook or academic course -- instead they had to discover it directly or think it up themselves, or derive or synthesize from something else they read or learned previously, sometimes in adjacent or even very different fields. The computer itself is a wonderful teacher. And what the Internet makes available to everybody, regardless of whether inside a university or not, makes even the famous Great Library of Alexandria look pale in comparison.

But I overstepped myself. I couldn't possibly have these thoughts, or reach these conclusions, without having been spoon fed it from a professor in a university course. I'm sorry. I forgot my place. Back to the servant kitchens for me....

...oh look, a book on algorithms, what's that doing in the servant kitchens? I'll sneak a peak when nobody is looking. :)
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This would only add to the excitement and enthusiasm currently around Node.js . I've been planning to use node.js for a feature on my product (I am on the appengine and what I want to build does not fit into the GAE philosophy). Node.js seems simple and I've been trying to set it up on AWS. I guess I'll give dotcloud a try too.
Talk about perspective...
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I think we'll need a new input method in the coming proliferation of touch ui based devices. Something like the old quickwriting research project perhaps. I have no idea how one brings about a social skill change like that. I suppose Palm did pretty good with their writing system. But in any case, I think if you just look at the problem the answer is a new input method for this form factor. How you get people there I have no idea.
Suppose that depends on your definition of entrepreneurialism.

Raising $40m in funding, adding 2 million customers in a year and dominating a niche is pretty entrepreneurial behaviour to me.

But then you could define that strictly by who founded the company, came up with the original idea etc.

It's an interesting debate. Going by the second, stricter, definition of entrepreneur, how would you class Trump Organization heir Donald Trump? Or, if you believe a couple of Olympic rowers, Mark Zuckerberg for that matter?

They are still both entrepreneurs to me. So is Matt Barrie. Good on 'em all, I say.
Ask HN: If you had to choose, would it be your startup or significant other?
My relationship recently ended because of my startup life. The continuous work and mismatched schedules made it very hard. She never explicitly said "it's me or the startup" but it became apparent that things would never work with my startup lifestyle. Has anyone else faced this decision?
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So do something about it. Between the Internet and possibly some nearby university (where you could sneak in and find out exactly what books all their classes require of the CS students), you'll have access to 99% of the same relevant things you'll need to "come up to par" with the so-called college trained programmer. Wikipedia beckons. Amazon (both as bookstore and cloud hosting provider) beckons. Your terminal beckons. Etc.
To your point, Steve Jobs made a similar comment at D8 -

Jobs: “When we were an agrarian nation, all cars were trucks, because that’s what you needed on the farm. But as vehicles started to be used in the urban centers, cars got more popular. Innovations like automatic transmission and power steering and things that you didn’t care about in a truck as much started to become paramount in cars. … PCs are going to be like trucks. They’re still going to be around, they’re still going to have a lot of value, but they’re going to be used by one out of X people. … I think that we’re embarked on that. Is the next step the iPad? Who knows? Will it happen next year or five years from now or seven years from now? Who knows? But I think we’re headed in that direction.”

http://d8.allthingsd.com/20100601/steve-jobs-session/
I actually find Swype on my android phone to be easier for text input than the iPad. My wife also puts down the iPad and grabs her iPhone when it's time to reply to emails. She doesn't like full ten finger typing on it and she can't thumb type on it like on her phone.
Best wishes and god speed. I'm glad you liked my comment. In terms of hooking it up to social/calendar stuff -- those also seem to me like the bright maybe-promising-if-the-thing-catches-on future, rather than 0.9 features, so to speak. I didn't mean to imply you need to do that right away (if that wasn't clear). (I can't give you feedback as a user since I don't have a phone on which the app can run.)

Also: "when to call" --- brilliant! perfect (imo).
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As an indie game developer, I kind of agree with a lot of this article (except I do backup)

When writing a game, I feel like I'm painting a picture, not writing a program. New funcionality is like a sweeping brush stroke. It doesn't have to be perfect, it has to feel right.
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Ask HN: In search of cure to a disease called loneliness...
This is my status on Facebook right now -

"I guess more than a dating site or social network, we people need something that can keep us away from spending time online. Facebook is not a solution, it is a symptom of disease called loneliness, affecting billions worldwide. :|"

Social networks, dating sites, chat rooms, virtual life all these are meant to socialize and be less lonely but I think they aren't helping in anyway. When I see people on facebook and other dating sites, I think of them as suffering from disease called loneliness and their online activities as symptoms. As the virtualization is becoming more and more prominent loneliness is growing many folds. Sites like facebook are designed in a way to keep people online for longer duration. In no way, facebook can compensate for real world socializing.

As hackers, we should come forward with novel solutions for this problem, which is also our own problem. I believe there should be some kind of web application that encourages members to spend as little time as possible on itself, by finding opportunities for them to go out. Something like a local events and interest based social network where people find ways and partners to enjoy the REAL life by going out to events, movies, sports meet etc.

Share your ideas about a next generation social network that doesn't suck, that doesn't promote virtualization but mingles with the reality....or any other solution?
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After digesting the Quora thread some more, I think it's yet another "bait" question -- meaning, one not seriously asked, because both (a) it's loaded, and (b) the answer(s) are obvious and no need to discuss among serious people with reasonable intelligence.

For example this:

>> And as a follow-up, where can said self-taught programmers find good resources on the above subject matter?

Come on. In 2011, where could one possibly find good resources for the above. Let me rack my brain... Hmmmm.... Maybe.... rhymes with Internet? Rhymes with Google? Rhymes with bookstores? I don't know. I give up. I wish I had a PhD in CS so I had the formal education needed to figure this one out. Thank goodness for Quora! (Wait, that's part of the Internet. I missed the class.)

Seriously.
I agree that direct manipulation is engaging and intuitive, but I think it has fundamental ergonomic issues when you're talking about doing any sort of long-term, serious work. When you get to screen sizes that we're all using now at work, a handheld device is no longer feasible, and a large touchscreen monitor is silly for the same reason that whizbang Minority Report/Kinect interfaces are silly: you arms get tired very quickly.

This fantastic video comes to mind: http://10gui.com/video/
There's a startup called kaggle.com that is all about hosting data mining competitions around datasets, like netflix.
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I put this up just today morning:

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Odd indeed. Javascript and Ruby are quite FP (At least in the lisp sense of FP) and they are predominantly hacker languages, meaning that they are used more by self-taught programmers than CS graduates.
Peeling back the clearly insulting bias in the phrasing of the question, I do believe in programming as a craft. By that I mean that it's possible to become pretty good at it by just screwing around on your own, but you're fooling yourself if you think that you don't have something to learn from the academy.

To use an analogy, I think of myself as a decent carpenter, but I'm always blown away when I watch "This Old House," because Tom Silva is always busting out really great shortcuts that make things like scribing molding to the wall look really easy. I'm sure he invented some of those tricks on his own, but I'm also betting that he learned a lot of them from his days as an apprentice carpenter to someone older and wiser.

I think it's definitely possible to get such an education without ever setting foot in a school, for example by working closely with a skilled mentor, but I do think it would be hard to naturally stumble upon all of these key areas without someone laying out a self-study plan for you.
Is there any other country in this beautiful world that encourages lunacy like this?

I mean, patenting a specific engine design is fine by me. But that would be equivalent to patenting the source code structure of Spotlight, which no one can see anyway. How did we get to the point where we now have patents not for implementations but for interfaces?
I wonder how much money is wasted every year on disputes like this. How much time is wasted on it. How many lives are getting wasted on it!

Software does not have visible physical implementations like engines do. Software consists of ideas, written down so computers can execute them. Software really only exists in the mind, it has no physical reality. If you patent software, you patent cell patterns in some brain. If you sue someone for that, you are claiming ownership of some programmers brain tissue!

It will be a fine day when we programmers can legally own our own brains again. It will be a day worthy of great celebration! Until then, american minds must keep their head down lest someone wants to rip their brains out, which is a sad thing indeed.
Posting this because it reminded me of a tweet by Don Dodge earlier where he said "36,000 high schools in USA, or 360,000 top 10 students. They can't all go to Harvard or Stanford. Only 2,600 4 year colleges. Do the math" (http://twitter.com/DonDodge/status/54617148722655232). Compound this with VCs offering to fund students to postpone their education and I do think it is fair to legitimately question (or challenge) our traditional and even conventional education system. Would love to hear thoughts from the HN community and how this applies to startups/tech/entrepreneurship.