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Fair enough, but I'm still interested in examples of subtle programmer errors with templates.
I think having a checkbox that toggles between your suggestion and how it currently is would be optimal, but that's just because I prefer to focus on the smaller box.
Sombody pwned the chat with a scrolling bug.
Actually this is exactly how I started learning openGL. Be it a new language or new framework always follow these steps.

Read it. Maybe couple of times (say only chapters 1-3) in the beginning. Understand the basic mechanism first rather than try out a program copied from somewhere else.

Start testing out simple things.

I'm lucky to not have fallen for all the blog posts/tutorials on openGL where they spit out a C file and say to compile and run it.
Is is, really? For me multiplexing is just nice addition to SPDY.

Personally, I consider "server pushes" as the main feature and "full encryption and compression" as nice improvements.
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(Depending on your optimization settings)
Try for a contract QA position. Also, tell us where you live. Maybe someone here knows of an open position looking for QA's... It's still who you know so make sure you know people in the tech field. Also try programming again because you are going to be expected to do a certain amount of automation if you are doing any kind of software QA.
Fwiw, Freescale has a 64bit ppc processor now... Either way though, until you're able to just drop an ARM processor into a "commodity" motherboard, it won't really see widespread use, aside from cell phones, and other mobile devices. There is also the fact that ARM processors all seem to have the graphics card embedded in the chip.
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I'd love to see a WSGI adapter for Pow!

Check out Nack (https://github.com/josh/nack) to see how Pow runs Rack apps.
Do you have any polyphasers? I used to do it, but real life intervened. Would be curious to hear about how polyphasic folks use the WakeMate.

For now, I use nature's other natural alarm clock: A newborn.
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Business development was an ongoing process during development for me. I spent about a month in planning, and talking to businesses about their scheduling needs. Then throughout the development process, I'd be talking to businesses and showing off bits and pieces, getting them ready, and getting early feedback.

In the end, this product had a VERY short run. I think it was available to be used for two months.

I personally don't think business development should be begging people to use your product. You should be able to introduce the product, get people interested, help them in getting it set-up, and fill that adoption need. Particularly when it is a task they already do regularly and you're providing a better method, not something completely new.

I also think that a project should be more like a baby deer than a baby human. Deer can walk right out of the womb. They may not walk well, but they stand on their own legs and just need help moving along and with direction etc. If you try to stand your baby up a few times, and just keeps falling, maybe the problem isn't that you haven't given it enough time, maybe you don't realize that it doesn't have legs!

Not being facetious, but I agree some projects need a longer customer adoption cycle, and it is entirely possible that things would have been different if I had given it 6 months or a year. But I would have had difficulty going to a business and selling them the product I had, knowing that there was a free alternative to them that was likely better or at least as good as my offering.

I add to that the fact that the free offering still has nearly 0 traction more than a year later, and I am very pleased with my decision.

If you're really passionate about scheduling and think that is your purpose in life to bring scheduling to the world, great.
That isn't my goal. I built it as a business, and I can look back today and see that it doesn't appear anybody else has made a great business out of this market, I doubt I would have been any different.
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Of course, the comment about it being "wrong" is completely subjective. I just really like JavaScript these days (and I've been paid to program in a lot of other languages - Lisp, C, C++, PostScript, Java, C#...).
"When dealers compete, you win."

Isn't that a rip off of LendingTree.com's slogan, "When banks compete, you win."?
Command HN: Vote up good questions
It's obviously pretentious to tell people what to do on a site like this, but one of the things I notice about HN is that we seem to reward good answers much more than good questions. But without the right question being asked, that answer might never have been written. Vote up comments that lead to good answers and good discussions, and maybe we'll get more of them!

The flip side is that sarcastic one-liners often lead to a string of similar responses. Usually the piling on gets (properly) voted down, but the first joke often gets a lot of points and appears high on the page. This isn't necessarily bad in itself, but when posting a quick quip stop to think ahead of how people will respond to it. If it's going to produce a string of low quality rejoinders, maybe it's best to skip it.
Likely they did, but probably no more than would have happened anywhere in high-winds.

I know here in the Greater Toronto Area can get hit by blackouts frequently because of tree falls. Having moved here from the UK I don't get the idiotic notion of letting trees grow through your power lines because inevitably a branch or the whole tree will fall and knock out power. I've seen a few trees that are so big that no matter what way they fall, they'll knock out power to both sides of the street.

It's surely caused by the earthquake, but it's hard to tell if it would only be cause by the earthquake. You've got to draw a line between "act of god" and an "act of man" for being stupid enough to let an earthquake, windstorm or snowstorm knock your power out.
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It is also a story how these things should not be done. We locked ourselves out of HN with noprocrast when needed to answer the comments here.
No. I think the HTTPS in the browser prompts a user to think there is confidential information being passed when your just browsing, so now your break user experience. The app portion could be, and should be for any semi-secret information, but keep the front-end clear of it. Plus any and all external resources in-page must be https, it might hang you or a designer up down the road and break your cert.
While VS is good I think they made a huge mistake pricing Team System to up to $10000 per developer. The Express versions are nice but they don't contain a profiler for example.
I don't think it's smart trying to make money from developers. Apple made the same mistake with the Newton when they priced the dev kit at $800 (not sure if that's accurate but it was expensive) while the Palm dev tools were free.
Hire HN: Baltimore Flash/Red5 Developer
Hey HN:

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You have to ask yourself: Are you sure you want to do QA? Some people go into QA without really knowing what QA is. QA is really a support role and won't get you very far in your career. Most people in QA do have a heavy engineering background and have an extensive programming knowledge. However, most people who go into QA do it without realizing it's not a frontline role. Try to look for a role that are customer-facing while offering opportunities to test and find bugs. Customer-facing roles are frontline roles in any company.

If you would really like QA without the customer-facing aspect, the only industry where QA is a frontline role is really in healthcare. Medical devices have to go through extensive governmental regulations and this is where QA would actually be considered a frontline role.
when does the 2nd half start??

Does livestream show a schedule of the event?? I can't seem to find start times anywhere.
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It depends on what you compare to. Bryan aimed for speed got to 56% of the speed of the C parser he used as a benchmark, using 54 lines of code. The C parser is a 1,672 lines hand-rolled parser that's only does HTTP, while attoparsec is a general purpose library. Bryan wrote about it here: http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2010/03/03/whats-in-a-parser-...
Very cool. Can't wait to dig into the source (learning node currently)!
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Can't speak for Atlanta, but the situation in NYC these days is pretty solid. Great startup community, lots of tech meetups, organizations like HackNY, places like General Assembly, etc. The list of cool NY startups is long, and includes Foursquare, bit.ly, Etsy, Hunch, Aviary, OkCupid, Tumblr, SecondMarket, Hunch, and more.
I'm not sure why this is on HN, these have been available for years. I'll admit, I like the reminder, because last I checked AL had mothballed the server, and no one noticed for months. Someone (perhaps me?) needs to scrape these and store them some place when the inevitable happens, and AL stops hosting them for good.
Just tried it, your right. However, this happened in Visual Studio.
Yup. This goes back to PG's advice - release early to core users to find the bugs before the mass market does.
Hi,
I just realized there's a question to our application that I didn't see until now. I just responded to it and also emailed Harj.
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Cool. Can you get an image out of it ?
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I like the UI you suggest as an option. Good stuff.
edit:option toggle.
I guess what I meant was that the geography factors heavily into the culture, which feeds heavily into the leadership.

Even though large technology companies are opening offices, like you mentioned, the difference are that these are satellite offices. Your career potential will be limited, its just an unavoidable fact of the current corporate world. Its a very different scenario to move from the center of the solar system to Pluto.

A self feeding startup culture is not a healthy startup culture, at least imo.
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The marginal cost per license may be cheap, but there may be a significant support overhead to a flood of new users.

Maybe with technical web apps that AppSumo tends to focus on this is less of an issue. I've found a certain portion of non-technical users want some degree of contact with the company just to assure themselves there is a warm body at the other end.

Of course, the feedback from those users would also be valuable to the startup.
Well it was first drafted in 2002, and Jakob Schlyter actually wrote about it recently: http://www.circleid.com/posts/20110327_death_of_the_pki_drag...

Along the same lines Google recently launched a DNS based service for certs it knows about: http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2011/04/improving-s...

DNSSEC is now deployed at the root level for .com/.net/.org/.edu/.gov.
Totally agree. There have been quite a few articles recently that fall into this category.

pquerna's recent post about OpenSSL memory in node (and elsewhere) is another that comes to mind.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2411144

keep 'em coming I say!
I disagree. I might not spring for an EV cert in most cases, but using basic encryption to protect against casual eavesdropping should be the rule, not the exception.
Glassdoor.com is supposedly anonymous; the Microsoft employees surveyed would have been self-reported.
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Your link does not support your assertion. It's just a picture without a caption.
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Ask HN:How do you get your daily news?
Do you use RSS, Twitter, Hacker News, Reddit, other, or some combo? If more than one place, what would a site look like that could consolidate them? Or would that even be worth trying?
Very good points!

It's very interesting to me that when SSL opens up, you immediately feel like confidential information information is going to be passed (which is usually the case).. I didn't think about that before!

The app portion is def. protected by SSL and switches to that context when you hit the login path.

Your last point is interesting too, as we do pull in external resources such as google fonts, jquery (google's CDN), analytics, etc. but have managed to find an SSL version of those URL's too (luckily). I do see this becoming painful for designers moving forward though when they're trying to pull in external resources that lack support for https url's.

All very good points.

Do you think the average user notices the SSL activation bar?
Are there any SEO or other indexing issues that crop up if you're only running TLS?
You actually grunt about rational and sceptical posts being upvoted? Go read you some Eliezer.
As a service provider, if I could "buy" a satisfied customer (That means repeat business for the next, say, ten years.) and the "cost" of that customer is 50% off my first job, I'd take it in a heartbeat! If my average bill is $100 and I am going to get ten of those over time, I am earning a little less than $1,000. (considering net present value) However, I just got a new customer. That is worth something in opportunity cost.
If this person becomes a satisfied customer and tells five of their friends,there is no better marketing! And all this for $50!
This is why lawyers and accountants often give the first hour for free.
On the other hand, if I offered my services on Groupon and end up with 500 responses, I could not begin to handle the response. How do I vet 500 possible new clients quickly? Exactly the reason I don't advertise on the web. (nor in the LA Times)
I suspect that most brick and mortar businesses would have the same response. They just don't know how it will work nor if they can deal with it if it does work.
This is why internet startups are and will continue to be a fast growing business. Most small businesses haven't even begun to use the internet as it can be used to decrease costs and increase efficiency.
Ask HN: Help Me Pick a Product Idea
I've wasted countless time on searching for a decent product idea that might actually create some revenue. I'm not searching for huge startup type ideas, but rather an attainable lifestyle business.

Rather than leave this in my notebook, I figured I would put them up for critique and feedback. While there are competitors in these spaces already, the hope is that this proves there is a market and an opportunity.

Here goes:

- Resume Publisher and Submission Tool

Experts review and edit your resume for first part. Once you're resume is deemed ready to launch, provide tools that help organize and track your submissions, follow-ups, etc.

- Location Based Bar Trivia

Check in to your local bar/venue and play trivia and compete to win discounts, prizes, etc. Free for consumers, with venue owners paying monthly subscription. I've seen some posts from people with experience in bars on HN before, so would love to hear their thoughts

- Mobile Table Camera Service Weddings

IMO, less creepy than color since only those who attend get an invite code.) People take pics, they get posted, shared, and you charge a one time, tiered fee to bride, or maybe as a white-label offering for photographers

- Mobile Snack Shop App for Golf Courses

Monthly subscription service for course owners/management. Players can request beverages, order food, etc. from anywhere on the course. Transcribe their menu as part of the onboarding. Could start simply with requests and add payment options in next phase.

- Presentation Analytics for Sales People

Send a PPT presentation out to leads, and see when the open, where they bounce, time on slide, etc. Monthly service for sales people.

- 99Designs for Interior Design

Put up a design request for a room, specify preferred vendors, and let designers compete. You pay a bounty for the winning design.

- Social Media ROI/Metrics

People are dumping money into FB campaigns but how are they measuring value. What's a like worth? This is a big nut to crack probably but could be worth something to marketing brand managers if it worked.

- Buy Local Delivery Service

Not your usual internet business... but build an offering of products across CSA's and farmer's markets and offer subscription type delivery service. Start with a small delivery area targeting affluent consumers.

- VOIP Outbound Call Tool

Monthly tiered subscription type service that lets you upload a lead list and then start dialing outbound via Twilio or something similar. Agents only talk to people who pick up. Could also be used for surveys, political campaigns, etc.

Thanks!

* EDIT - also appreciate any derivative ideas or variants that you think might be more interesting than what I've started with.
Good luck man.. it's a tough field to break into. Tons and tons of competitors (like me) and few businesses who would actually use it.

- James F.
Founder, Fendza.com (http://www.fendza.com)
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I thought the blog post was interesting, but lacking scientific data.

You had citations for most of the information, but I stopped looking after you cited ehow.com.
This is a good question! I have no idea. I know that there are sites that do run behind SSL (like paypal) and their pages seem to appear on google just fine. As far as how this impacts your PR, I have no idea.
Many open source projects have bug databases that anyone can submit to; you might try starting with that to get some actual experience testing, finding, and reporting problems.

Write about it on a blog or some-such, to demonstrate what you've learned and what you can do. Try to distill general testing advice into longer articles.

You also might try offering your services here on HN as a QA contractor. I can imagine someone being interested in paying for a few hours of another person's view on their product.

Just some ideas! I've done a lot of testing work, though I've kind of fallen into it accidentally. It's fun for a while, but I don't think I'd want to make it my full-time job.
At least it's readable. Convore hurts my eyes =/
But for me the key question is – as a designer, how will you convince investors to fund you? With just an idea? With your portfolio? With a business plan and strategy?
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Thanks for trying it out! You may be interested in the previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2301871
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Anyone with experience able to call BS or not on this?
I'm really, really trying to understand your viewpoint on this. How is this any more insecure than downloading (over HTTP) and running a graphical installer that requires your root password? Is it just because it takes a bit more effort to exploit a binary, given a MitM position, or am I missing something else?
I have no f*kin'idea how you did this, guys. But the result is amazing even for us, casual weekend spaghetti coders ;-)
The book 'Testing computer software' by Cem Kaner is an excellent introduction to the field.

You will make less than a programmer while being expected to possess extensive programming skills. Where developers produce code, therefore product, therefore generating earnings and profits, QA is a cost center and does not put revenue on the books. Thus, QA gets laid off more often and you can expect to work more as a contractor with no benefits.

Be prepared to spend much time explaining how the job provides value to managers and engineers over and over and over again. You need to present good data often, and be a strong salesman for your work. Expect to hear things like 'You mean you just play with the software?'. Have a good answer ready at all times.

At many shops, if a customer finds a single bug and you missed it, even though it won't reproduce on your test configurations, everyone will consider you a failure, in spite the value of your overall contribution. For some reason this never affects the developer who created the bug.

Now, if a legal precedent is ever set that software companies are held liable for their products, QA will become front line in a damn hurry.
I would certainly think so (the two languages you've mentioned are both regarded as being quite easy to get started with), but everyone is different and is interested in different things. If the demo app you're writing (and the framework you're using, if any) allows you to try something and see the results quite quickly, that's a good way to avoid getting discouraged.

Although frameworks (Rails, Django etc) are a good way to avoid writing boring or non-unique stuff, they do add to the amount of up-front learning you have to do before you can write _your_ programs (since you have to learn the language _and_ the framework at the same time). Trying out some noddy programs that just use stdin/stdout is a good way to learn the language features first and then the framework can follow afterwards.

Early code in any language is always horrible when you look back at it a few months later, don't beat yourself up :)
One argument to the above point can be because of the vast amount of information easily available to everyone, it has become easier for an expert or someone who is concentrating on one particular area to create "new" knowledge. So the knowledge you have now will become obsolete quicker than 200 years ago. Your son's doctor is a great example.
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I can visit regularly via modern innovations in transport. Like the airplane.
BTW; your site looks good, nice clean design.. I, too, would probably change the screenshot away from Office to something like restaurants, retails stores, etc.

Funny thing is; you'll start getting people copying you almost exactly. I found two other 'employee scheduling software' sites that almost directly ripped off my entire website.

Anyways, feel free to hit me up if you have any questions about anything.
I am 100% with that mentality, I guess I just see the overhead and understanding of HTTPS causing more problems in practice than solutions for developers who are not security-centric. Think we'll ever see google.com go to SSL?
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I agree that SPDY would be a "quicker" solution. Just modify the browsers and wait a year or two, and 30%+ of the people browsing the web will have it.

SCTP have the nice side effect of improving things like streaming, and games.

As for application-layer changes, I don't think it would be too difficult to do, kind of like ipv6 (I don't have anything to back this up, it's just a hunch).

SCTP deployment will much longer than SPDY, but SCTP seems to be the "right thing to do". Not only for the web, but for other things that use the network. Internet is not only http://.

UPDATE: I just realized that saying that the transition to SCTP will be like IPv6 isn't necessarily a good point for SCTP :-D ... I guess I'm a purist and not a pragmatist.
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What about returning users ? Do you see any traffic today ? This should be a little viral too if ppl start puttin oupons on their webpages ?

What technology do you use ?
Does anyone know why these spin offs occur? Is it tax reasons?
Well the 90 minute thing is wrong. So I couldn't find a more reputable source than ehow ;-).
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