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Firstly this is just a terrible article as from the heading "Digital Compression" onwards it deals with an entirely unrelated topic to the "Loudness Wars" meme mentioned in the title; this is confusing to readers. More on this section later.

The "Loudness War" meme describes a trend in popular music towards having decreased dynamic range in the time-amplitude domain. In other words, less difference between the loudest and quietest passages of a piece of music; a higher average volume over time. While I totally agree that this trend has occurred, it's negative effects have been largely overstated. The reality is that a lot of music produced decades ago had such a large degree of dynamic range as to make it hard to listen to in most circumstances. Modern mastering techniques allow us to rectify this without losing any of the power of the original piece.

Proponents of the "Loudness War" idea often cherry-pick specific examples of poor mastering where average volume over time has been increased using naive methods that do in fact have a negative impact on the sound. This does not accurately reflect the state of the art of audio mastering. Unfortunately mastering is often seen as a bit of a "dark art" due to the large amount of domain-specific knowledge required.

Because of this lack of knowledge, people are easily deceived by naively credible diagrams[1] showing one "skinny" amplitude-time graph and one "fat" one, claiming that the fat one is dynamically flat/ruined. However, this graph gives no information about the time-frequency domain, where much of the 'magic' of mastering takes place. The reality is that modern mastering techniques make much more effective use of all space available in each of the domains (time/amplitude/frequency).

In fact, many of these dynamic range management techniques are applied at the mixing stage of production (where all elements are processed seperately), before the mastering stage (where all elements are processed together). With modern tools and an understanding of psychoacoustics we can make pieces feel louder while preserving the shape and power of the various elements. It might make the time-amplitude graph look "fat", but that's hardly the whole picture.

Why the "Digital Compression" section is misleading: after giving us an almost uselessly simplified explanation of the digital representation of sound, it implies that it is common to encounter digital sound with a low resolution (bit depth and/or sample rate) however this is not the case, all CDs and MP3s one is likely to encounter have a bit depth of 16bit, and a sample rate of 44.1khz[2]. This is high enough as to be generally indistinguishable from higher resolutions to all but highly trained listeners.

[1] http://media.npr.org/assets/music/news/2009/12/dynamic_wide....

[2] One might find a few MP3s lying around on the internet with a lower sample rate, but not from any reputable source.
I think the post makes an excellent point, if you're willing to take the time to understand what the author is saying, rather than bristling at his rant. Google makes ITS rules, but they're made for their benefit, not that of our clients. It's up to SEOs to guide their clients through the process of an educated risk/reward assessment, and implement a campaign according to their wishes. If the client wants me to do something I'm not comfortable with, I walk away. But if I'm going to stick around and take their money, they deserve my best effort, regardless of what the search engines might say.
naw, some are from that site, but a lot of them are just collected over time from the internet in general.
She wasn't quoted by any major media that I knew of. In the open source/Linux media she was quoted now and then. Specifically, I interviewed her a couple of times. But there was a universal gag order on writing about Groklaw or PJ.

I know. I was there. I was one of those journalists.
I agree with Shantanubala.

Once you put school off, it will get much harder to return to it. I know a lot of people who go "Oh i'll take time off and save up some money and go back in a year or two" but they never do. Also be careful going to non-four yr schools from the start. If you have the grades, it would be good to go to a state school (cheaper). Tons of people go to community colleges (or some other pre-college school) to save money, but end up getting stuck there because units wont transfer or they can't get their classes. They end up spending way more money. Might be better off to just be a student worker and take out some loans.

You read about kids dropping out of college to pursue their business ideas, but the majority of them fail. You'd be better off getting a dual degree in say CS and business. School will allow you to develop your ideas further and get the connections you need to get a job or start a business.

best of luck!
Ruby/Rails
PHP/Codeignitor
PHP/Other
ASP.net Webforms
Poll: What language/framework do you hack in?
There is a great discussion on "defending ASP.net" so I wonder what the breakdown of language/framework is for hackers and startups.

Note: I know this is not comprehensive nor do I intend it to be. I selected the choices to get about 20% of the votes in other while the remaining 80% for spread across the real choices. If you think I'm missing a very popular stack, I'll certainly add it. Anything esoteric or non-popular should go under other (and listed in comments).
PHP/CodeIgniter
I'd recommend checking out https://www.greplin.com to help search basecamp. I've encountered some of the same issues with their search you have and Greplin makes things much better!

(full disclosure: I work at Greplin ;-)).
Interestingly, labor costs in Brazil are much higher than in China. The fiscal incentives for locally assembled equipment make all the difference in the pricing for sales to the domestic market, though.

Brazil is currently the 5th largest market for personal computers in the World and has thus attracted many Japonese, Taiwanese and Korean manufacturers that now have factories in the country.
Agreed on the ads, which are thankfully only on the website and not during playback. I don't have any issue with unsynced audio or buffering. The TNG episodes only appear crappy if you full screen it, but NTSC resolution is crappy anyway. The Enterprise episodes are terrible quality because those were all filmed in HD, so of course. It's no worse than watching just about any random copyrighted infringed video on Youtube.

It's the modern equivalent of staunch's dad's dubbed copies.
One could pick a worse role model than Picard.
I always misunderstood Greplin to be solely a social network search tool. It looks like it is much more than that.

Greplin is the YC startup that programmed it in days, right before demo day, correct?
I would be curious to know if anyone here has had a good experience with Dyson. The marketing woo, high price, and the flimsy, plasticky look of their vacuums has always turned me off.
I was unable to find this in the Fuel guide but I think Fuel uses a cascading file-system similar to that of Kohana:

http://kohanaframework.org/3.0/guide/kohana/files
I think some of your confusion may be a result of using acme-SAC. I recall acme-SAC is built on top of Inferno, which is actually a small semivirtualized operating system. I think the host filesystem is accessible via the #U* kernel device, which means you would first issue a bind command to put #U* somewhere in your namespace. Also, if you are using gnu/linux or bsd, you could try plan9port's version of acme.
I can't comment specifically on the Fuel framework, but it's probably going to take years (if ever) for "the right" way to use namespaces to emerge among the PHP communities. There's been a decade plus of ingrained name-spacing by convention that PHP developers will need to shed
When Is Social Media Relevant?
Some more details from Notch here: http://notch.tumblr.com/post/3746989361/terrain-generation-p...
Anyone know if this is related to the Fuel CMS (http://www.getfuelcms.com/) or are they separate projects?
He mentions he'd like to use it to get windowing environments compiled over to JS for use in the browser. I scoffed until playing around with his real live python 2.7 running on javascript in Chrome. YOW! That's just super cool.
Follow a link from a Google search for the article title.
Azure can make sense pricing wise for startups that have been accepted into their Bizspark program (which doesn't take much). Bizspark gives basically a single web server and database free and you can easily scale from there if you are willing to pay.

On the downside, deploying to Azure is a bit of a pain and its 15-20 minutes per deployment gets old, especially early on when you are deploying more often.
Arash Ferdowsi left MIT as a junior to cofound Dropbox w/Drew Houston. Turned our pretty well it seems :)
You would not have even written that paragraph had you ever tried to run a startup under either of these circumstances:

1. You tried (legitimately) running a startup as a single founder.

2. You tried running a startup where a majority of the co-founders were not working on location.

I've been in both situations multiple times, learned the hard way.
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Emscripten, given the recent advancements in Javascript interpreters, holds immense promise. There is a problem however: the size of the Javascript "executables".

As the size of their executables are already competitive with their C/C++ counterparts this is not easily fixed. CPython's "Javscript" runtime is 2.8 megabytes whilst CPython's C runtime is 2.2 megabytes, less than a 30% increase. With compression the JS size decreases, but not by enough.

A 2 megabyte JS file is likely prohibitively large. Even if common JS "executables" were hosted by Google, as is currently done for jQuery and other libraries, the problem is only mildly alleviated.

Emscripten is an amazing technical feat but I fear due to this it will see little usage. Their main focus currently is improving performance, but is anyone looking into decreasing the size or improving the handling of these "executables"?
Yep, one of our co-founders (Daniel) hacked together the first demo of multi-service search ~2 days before Demo Day when his earlier idea fell through.

The team/product have grown quite a bit since then though ;-)

To be honest, I'm not really sure where we got the reputation for being a 'social search' tool. We want to help you search your data, wherever it is.

We support a lot of applications, including ones that aren't traditionally considered social, like Dropbox, Basecamp, Salesforce, GMail, Evernote, or Highrise. (We also do support more traditionally 'social' apps like Facebook, Twitter, Yammer, or LinkedIn though, since a lot of people's information is in these types of services).
I'd first work out how much its costing you to produce / maintain / support :)
tl;dr. Russ dogfoods.
My advice: go read @sgblank's The Four Steps to the Epiphany first.

That said, pricing is a very complex subject... volumes (literally) have been written on pricing theory. There isn't any easy, off-the-cuff answer.
I understood that from the beginning. I was never confused about why having experience with teaching would allow one to better propose changes to the education system. I agree that knowing that Woz has experience tells you something useful about whether you can trust his ideas.

The only point I was ever confused about was why michaelpinto’s comment not only praised Woz for having teaching experience but also disparaged his “tech peers” for not having it, when I didn’t see a link between Woz’s tech peers and education. (Now I see that the link is that apparently, his tech peers are fond of attacking the education system.)

I see now that I hadn't made it clear enough which point I was confused about.
I think that reputation came from a TechCrunch article. Honestly, I thought the idea was a "solution in search of a problem" at first, but now that I see you're really focusing on the real apps (gmail, dropbox, chat, etc.) I "get it." There's been plenty of times I've tried searching for something, but I couldn't remember the medium.

One feature you guys really need to do quick (shouldn't take long) is paper-medium search. I'll write notes on post-its, or give some info on a sheet of paper to someone. I should be able to search all this in real-time too, as I write it.
Wow, we reached the limit of the sausage string. I have to reply to my own comment :)

I still believe I can do it "alone," i.e. with just that other guy. I'm just gonna go get the needed money elsewhere and forget about Y Combinator. That blog post or whatever you want to call it, is my opinion on them.
And if you don't believe there's peer pressure to use a MBP, try going to Red Rock or the Dojo with an Acer laptop. You can just feel people judging you.

And? Unless you're trying to sell them something, who gives a rats-ass what they think? :-)
It looks my theory that the Other choice would be only 20% of the population is failing. If you are an other, I'd love to know what it is!
Or, you can start showing up at cool hacker spaces like the Hacker Dojo or Noise Bridge.

Get a stack of business cards, and hang out at Hackers & Founders </shameless plug> or 106 miles and make a point of having coffee with a couple of cool new people every week.

Join one of the dozens of cool co working spaces in the area. (Avoid Plug and Play).

Spend $9 on the "Pitching hacks" ebook. Best money you'll spend as a founder.

Work on building:

team with at least one technical founder
workable product
refined pitch
gain some traction
preferably find one or two people to be your advisors (aka social proof)

And then apply to Angel list.

You need demo day for "social proof" in front of investors and to get a press bump. Demo days aren't essential for funding any more now that Angel List has turned funding into an API.

There's an open ecosystem in place for this, and it's improving. There are still a number of places in the early stage ecosystem that really suck, however. And, that's why incubators are still able to charge 6% of your equity for fixes to that.

But, some of us are working on fixing these problems. You'll be hearing more from Hackers & Founders about this in the near future.
@whit537, you might want to add this link to your templating page as it gives more examples of how to use the Tornado template language : http://joshink.com/posts/9/
Other - Groovy/Grails
Any other San Diegans who applied unsuccessfully to YC Summer
Maybe do a meetup, network, share ideas, and drown our sorrows with copious amounts of adult beverages?
In the article you refer to[1], it is shown that IBM was not the aggressor, as TurboHercules filed the first complaint, and the "threat letter" was merely IBM calling their bluff: "Your suggestion that TurboHercules was unaware that IBM has intellectual property rights in this area is surprising." Furthermore, the letter was a response to a request that IBM identify any intellectual property TurboHercules infringed.

Your refusal to take those facts into account is far more damning than PJ's belief that IBM's patent pledge did not cover TurboHercules.

[1][http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20100408153953...]
Amazing. Tried to run the current CPython port on iPad and the browser crashes. :-(
Should be PHP/CodeIgniter
You have 2 ASP.net stacks on no Java stacks?

I'd say include Java/Servlets at least (which will include basically every other Java framework, if you don't want to break it out more).
PHP/Zend Framework
Java/Spring
read "What you'll wish you'd known" ~ http://paulgraham.com/hs.html
I feel like you problem is that for most of the languages you listed, there is more than just one common framework in use. For example, if I am a Ruby dev using Sinatra or a Python dev working in Twisted, I'd probably be a pretty mainstream software engineer, but I'd fall under "other" on your poll on both accounts.
I had great results with a logo contest. But the web page contest (opted for the $495 option) didn't work out so well.
pentadactyl

http://dactyl.sourceforge.net/pentadactyl/index
As the saying goes, 'You can have good, fast or cheap. Pick two.'

Check out BuildItWith.me for a great listing of designers and developers.
"WHOIS may be wrong" is a very good point.

However, if he were actually certain to get the right guy, what's so bad about "attacking his family" as you define it? Putting a thief in jail does reduce the income of his/her family, but I wouldn't blame the victim for doing so!

You could argue that the punishment doesn't fit the crime, but that's a much more subtle argument than you appear to be making.
I had been using an @name label for assignment, it's nice to see this supported. But filw attachmentes are still missing right?
This is a really important feature that makes issues much less useful than it could be :(
Fuel is fantastic, if unfortunately I was going to have to code in PHP I would probably use it as Fuel is really inpsired by Rails e.g. $ php oil generate migrations...
How far do you take it though? What if someone knows c+cgi? I forget the exact quote, but something along the lines of 30 years experience doesn't mean much if it's the same year 30 times.
Server-side JavaScript at work, and Java, JavaScript, and Haskell at home.
Rdio Shares Revenue with API Developers
Thanks for providing this level of insight!
YC isn't the end all and be all of your startup hopes. There's awesome accelerators like TechStars, etc. out there.
I wonder what the Donald Draper curve is like.
Contrary to what the echo chamber may sometimes indicate, not everyone is solely a web programmer.

(cpp w/ boost here)
I use the best tool for the job. Depending on what I'm hacking on, that could be python, java, a lisp, matlab, or something entirely more special-purpose.
At work I have to use Java, but in my spark time I use Haskell and Yesod.
The SEC regs were mostly developed based on actual abuses that developed in the free markets. Just sayin'
Implementing McCarthy's AMB Operator in Javascript Using a Trampoline
ASP.net MVC is maybe quite similar to Rails (it actually is 'inspired by it' i.e. a rip off).
But the difference between .NET and Ruby is that Ruby has a culture of hackers, and most of the innovative things re web dev are born in Ruby e.g. Haml, Capistrano etc,and then get ported to other langs
e.g. {
:Haml => 'PHaml',
:Rails => ['many PHP frameworks', 'ASP.net MVC'],
:Capistrano => 'Fabric'
}
You'll be much better off if you're well-practiced in ignoring those people. I think choosing your tools solely out of trends and peer pressure would also send a message, but it wouldn't be a favorable one.
I can't fathom dropping out of MIT with only a year left. Maybe he won't ever need the piece of paper, but surely MIT doesn't cram American History and Introduction to Communications in the senior year.
Don't think the google news trick works for the WSJ paywall these days. However, I read this article in the print edition, and this Washington Post article is substantially similar: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/sec-to-study-...
Yes really, the delivery mechanism can change how fast it hits your system, and that makes all the difference. Your liver can handle X amount an hour but not Y amount an hour before shit starts acting up.
Fair criticism, but this still has plenty of potential use for projects that are only one step away from llvm rather than two (i.e something written in C) which don't have runtimes.
Resources for learning Rails 3
Funny it uses Redmine a RubyOnRails based issue tracker for managing bugs
Google Goes Gaga for Gaga, Not So Much for Knuth
What, no ST:TAS?
I happened to need a new vacuum a few months ago, and I asked a professional cleaner friend for her advice (don't laugh - it's a very lucrative business here in Sydney). She said, basically, Nilfisk or Miele, whichever's on sale.

I asked about Dyson since I'd also been at least somewhat impressed by their marketing materials. The response was that while their performance is reasonable in a light use context, they are not at all durable and their use is unheard of in a commercial environment. They also have no commercial products, which is a red flag because while a company's marketing might be able to bamboozle consumers, the professionals are far less impressed with glossy brochures and only concerned with consistent performance, reliability and TCO. Nilfisk and Miele have commercial products.

That was pretty much "case closed" for my decision making process and I bought a Nilfisk. YMMV.
I like the idea of a fresh start in the crowded market of PHP frameworks.. But also, I think that there if you're willing to do the effort to work with something new, you should also try new languages. The web is moving very fast and the nicest projects in github today aren't built in php.
At Hacker Dojo, I'm running a very small in-person solo-founder's support group. Yes, it's like an A.A. meeting, but for solo-founders. Going at it alone is well, lonely, as anyone who's done it can attest. But solo founders can support each other. Email me for details.

And if you're looking for a co-founder in Silicon Valley, I recommend FoundersHookup.com. In the valley, there's an overabundance of business people with just an idea who are "just looking for an engineer". With FoundersHookup, biz folks are thoroughly screened first (and charged). Free for developers. As a technical founder myself, I do believe that if you can find the right biz cofounder, you'd may just never do another startup without the right biz cofounder first. I didn't use to think this way. (note: you could also find a technical cofounder at FH)
Yes but some of the examples of obj-c I've seen look ridiculously wordy compared with the smalltalk equivalents (even if you ignore op overloading). (setObject: forKey:) vs (at: put:). for ex.
Python/Flask

http://flask.pocoo.org/
All vacuum cleaners I've owned became completely useless after one or two sessions of cleaning. We now have a Dyson and I don't notice a difference in suction with an empty canister or a 90% full one and don't need to empty it for weeks, it's great.
interesting, was able to scroll Canibus's music as if it was a DVD menu! lovely. Using apis, scraping or pattern mining?
Love that saying! Good is constant, fast or cheap are variables, cheap is becoming a constant as well ;)
Or you need to work on your pitch because you weren't able to effectively communicate the value proposition.

(Sadly, guilty as charged on that one)
imagine a hugely useful c library being compiled into javascript for use in a browser env and even nodejs.
mullethawk: the long-tail of punk.
Yea, but that is a good enough explanation if it's a hobby, but if its a business they need to have a viable financial model.
Java/Servlets
Separate projects. Fuel CMS is powered by Code Igniter 2.
My excuse is I'm exhausted, but Java does belong there
I don't know, with the way things are going for YC some prominent group of angels will be pledging to invest $150K in these guys any minute.
Maybe include generic libs into browsers.
Yep, and I think that's OK, I'd say Ruby/Sinatra is a more rare combination.
Do you not think that as time goes on (bandwidth increases) a 2MB download is something that we won't even notice?
Doctrine2 and Lithium took the lead and went 100% namespaces. Other projects such as Symfony2 and Solar2 have followed suit.
Thanks, it's been a long day.
Glad to see Zend Framework. I have a client still running this framework on their site.
There are a number of books on Rothschilds and a ton of Google hits.

Dude, that's such an utter cop-out.
Sure, so which type of job do you do primarily ;)