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Hmm, ok, I can totally understand where you are coming from with your comment and I do believe that these things happen in a negative form, which is what you are hinting at I think.

I think this is also not a bad approach though. If you sign up for a service because you wanted to comment somewhere, than yes it is for the first time and starting out somewhere always happens like that.

If it is done in a spammy manner I agree it's not cool, the above comment seems fine to me as a first time comment on a platform you just discovered. No? Would love to hear what you think about that :).
The second sentence of yours hardly speaks against a hype curve. Rather the opposite, given recent valuations and the little market doubt/backlash.
Honestly curious, are existing PHP frameworks hopelessly complex and rigid to have this problem?
Well, yes - but asteroids have plenty of time to correct, whereas a rocket doesn't. The safety measures are likely to be completely different.
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From people in the country I've heard that there is often a lot of violence that spills out of the slums around election time.

Citation? The only thing I've heard about are "service delivery protests" that happen in townships, usually due to internal power struggles in the ruling party. The worst effect on the average middle class person, is that a road next to a squatter camp or township that they commute on may be blocked with rocks for a few hours, before police clear the scene.

South Africa does have a relatively high rate of violent crime (and a trend towards organised crime) and a corrupt ruling party.

But the people you are speaking to are exaggerating, and could be a bit disaffected, and are probably not the most reliable sources of information.
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Hi Everyone.
I've been trying to get access to the Twitter grader api since weeks now. They advertise on their website that they provide access to it.
I've filled the form since weeks now, done it manytime and still no answer.
This is frustracting to see how most website advertise feature that they don't provide.

Anyone have access to it? Do you have any mean to contact the webmaster?

I don't want to go over their website the dirt way.
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Awesome! Thanks for the tip. Readability also comes as a FireFox AddOn.
(Sincere question) why would someone use Fuel over, say, Codeigniter?
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I've been using Fuel for http://gethirely.com (almost ready to go out of alpha). It's pretty good.
"Weird" depends on where you are starting from. They actually look like good first choices for someone whose previous work has been entirely procedural.
I can vouch for re2 - if you need to run a lot of regexps, or run user-supplied regexps, or run non-trivial regexps on user-supplied arbitrary data, re2 will save your application from certain death if you use pcre. Google "catastrophic backtracking" if you don't believe me.

Also, even though it doesn't say that Russ uses it, he probably must one way or the other working at Google, I highly recommend another google code project - protobuf.
Scott Chacon is also excellent in this area. He was a Codemash keynote presenter in January of this year. He talked specifically on how GitHub is organized, how they decide what to build next and how they get those things done.
Not really due to copyright laws more down to licensing rights, historically licensing rights have been sold on a per-country basis.

If it makes you feel better the record companies hate it too, I know the popular fad is to blame the music industry, but there's so much legal red tape over contracts it's actually very hard for them to innovate.
How far we've come:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1014567

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The examples are really similar to Kohana, especially view factory. Did you use pieces from it? And is this a MVC or HMVC framework?
No tinfoil hat needed here. Not only states can compromise CAs, scriptkiddies and hackers can too. As every CA can produce a certificate for every site, only one has to be weak/exploitable and you're screwed.

HTTPS is no replacement for proper code signing and checking. The hacker of the latest CA fiasco also produced a certificate for "plugins.mozilla.org", for example.
Your point is flippant, but you do make an interesting point. There is huge demand for skilled programmers in South Africa, and very few skilled graduates. Most are employed in Johannesburg, and the majority are snapped up by the financial industry, as someone else pointed out in this thread. Convincing them to consider Cape Town will be difficult. Apart from UCT graduates, it will be interesting to see who else they manage to attract.

Cape Town is a great city (and the best run municipality in the country), but it lacks the dynamism of Johannesburg. I have to wonder if "tourist" considerations, rather than serious business thinking drove the decision to put the incubator in Cape Town.
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Whoa yes, I've just read two chapters, and it's surprisingly good. (I had a similar surprise with the original Harry Potter book...)

I wonder what the license is. I'm interested in seeing if the reactions of some people in ch.2 can be made a tiny bit more realistic, without maybe reducing the comedy.
On blurring the distinction between code and data
Middle class South Africa, (still largely white), is pretty Westernised. Private (and semi-private) schools, private hospitals, high end shopping malls, cheap domestic labour - those would be better descriptors for the South Africa most programmers experience.
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This tool is totally awesome, runs great under windows and mono under linux.
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There sure is: http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/Default.aspx
The 'paying for extra of it' is niche, yes.
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So very true, IntelliJ IDEA is miles ahead of any other IDE I've ever used (including VS). For Java development, I started out with NetBeans, then switched to Eclipse and finally to IntelliJ.

Recentely JetBrains has also released IDEs for Ruby/Rails (RubyMine) and Python/Django (PyCharm). It will be interesting to see if they gain any momentum within their respective communties.
If we wanted to have LLVM-based native clients, Emscripten would definitely be needed.

Distributing binaries isn't feasible as they aren't portable. Chrome would like to address this by distributing LLVM bitcode[1] and then compile this to native binary using LLVM. Portable Native Clients were introduced as an idea one year ago, but AFAIK there hasn't been much development, mostly because LLVM itself isn't very portable.

If native clients would be the path for future web apps, we can't reasonably expect the whole world to switch to LLVM in one night. There would have to be some fallback. As both Portable Native Clients and Emscripten work on LLVM bitcode, Emscripten would be the natural choice.

[1] LLVM's name for their intermediate language, low-level bytecode
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality was recommended to me at Ephemerisle (http://ephemerisle.org) by a Singularitarian (http://singinst.org) because I was relating a curious fact about my own childhood. I grew up in a cupboard under the stairs in a school of witchcraft and wizardry and have a funny birthmark scar on my face, but I studied science in my cupboard to become a rationalist who uses games to re-enchant people with science, making me a sort of reverse Harry Potter rationalist and making me the precise target audience of this particular fanfic.

I have been recruiting Singularity Institute people ever since, including one of my cofounders.
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This is how i see it: http://imgur.com/dA15I

Unfortunately I'm not interested in registering stuff at imageshack.
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Have you used Resharper with Visual Studio? Made by Jetbrains who make Intellij, it brings a lot of the same refactorings and other features across. No serious .NET developer should be without it, though Visual Studio 2010 has added a lot of new features that previously were only available through Resharper.
MS-DOS also came with a simple 16-bit assembler ('debug'), though I guess that could be seen as cheating. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debug_(command)

I remember typing in simple assembly listings for utilities to use in batch files from books & magazines. (generally saved as headerless .com files) Unfortunately, I didn't try hard enough to find out how they worked at the time, which probably delayed my programming abilities by a couple of years.
Also, if you don't know, the author of Methods is Eliezer Yudkowsky, (http://yudkowsky.net/) research fellow of Singularity Institute (http://www.singinst.org) and a founder of Less Wrong (http://lesswrong.com), a community advancing applied rationalism. If you live in the Bay Area, the SingInst community is excellent.
I guess everyone loves a story that makes themselves special.
lodging a complaint with a regulator is not an act of aggression. Regulatory agencies will only take action if a company's conduct is suspected of being anticompetitive and unlawful.

Wow.. that's an interesting spin.

The cynic in me wants to say "lodging a lawsuit is not an act of aggression. Courts will only take action if a company's conduct is proved to be unlawful."
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Dan Ariely makes a baffling argument that ebooks should somehow cost even more than physical books, and that it's "puzzling" how much attention people pay to price.

It's hardly surprising that consumers would respond to what they see as unfair pricing models in whatever method is available to them.

When the easiest and most available method of feedback is through a star rating system, naturally people will use that for anything they feel the need to say, even if that's about the price rather than the content of the book.

Rather than moaning about people's desire to see a discount when they're getting a product that's cheaper to produce, Ariely should consider solutions to the issue he raises.

If you don't like people talking about the "wrong" thing in a review, perhaps the answer is to make it easier for them to talk about those things somewhere else. How about a "why I'm not buying this" box? As a onetime publisher myself, I would have loved to know WHY people didn't buy, not just the fact that they didn't.
Thanks. 1 more question. How do you decide how much equity you would expect for YC's investment? I was on wompt and conovore the other day when all of this was going down and people were sharing their startups and many seemed very far along.

They way I see it YC adds the following value:

1. Operational Help (incorporation, UX, UI etc)

2. Strategic Advise (PG/JL/HT and others)

3. Cohort Batch (fun,fun,fun, we we we so excited)

4. Alumni Network

5. Demo Day and Access to Investors

Anything else? Thanks.
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It would be interesting to do a poll in relation to favorite star-trek character (TNG) and then cross-reference that to respondent’s job/career.

I bet there is a strong correlation between Data (the character) and a programmer.

What do you think the correlation to Riker, Picard, Worf would be?
How is this different from what the Khan Academy is doing?
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It pisses me off every time I see this. I don't mind product placement, but it is evident that in some cases the advertisers have forced script changes on the writers. Not just the obnoxious throw-away references to "bing it", but even stopping the story to show off a piece of technology, co-opting the dialog to explain how to use a "cool new smartphone."
Obligatory comment pointing out that the fabled "quicksort" example in Haskell is not actually quicksort proper since it's not in-place.
From the article: Was it that all the grain consumed before 1950 was healthier whole grain? No. As flour became an industrial product in the late 19th century, mills began processing out the germ and other "whole wheat" elements because the fats in the germ caused the flour to go rancid. By 1914, your great grandmothers were mostly baking with white flour. Polished ("white") rice was similarly well established, and for some of the same reasons. And of course corn, the other major American grain, does not have a healthier "whole" alternative.

The author doesn't address meat since she is focusing on the hypothesis that carbs are making us fat.
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Absolute, complete utter bullshit. Functionality be damned--- such a pricing structure makes it impossible for people to get beyond the initial rip-off. Nor should they; this is the same approach that gave us 20.00 CDs with a single desired track, year after year after year. The single star review is the equivalent of the pitchfork and torch, perhaps it is time the publishers looked out the castle window!
This occured just on two weeks ago, for definitions of two weeks that encompass plus or minus 4 billion years.
I'm not sure what Dan's point is. Customers know that digital versions cost publishers much less money. Pricing them higher is obviously going to make users feel disrespected and think "greed indeed", as a review stated.

And maybe it's because Dan and I are using different definitions of rationality, but I also don't see how the 1-star reviews are irrational. I think fairness is a big part of rationality, and the thought that "as readers we should pay a little less attention to minor differences in price" is shockingly short-sighted. Behind the 1-star reviews is a deep-seated and completely rational worry that if the higher pricing works, in the long term, sellers will be encouraged to bump prices up even more.

Edit: There are comments to the blog post about how the pricing makes sense from a "traditional economics" viewpoint. I don't know much about it, but if traditional economics doesn't take humanness (respect, fairness) into account then it's just a failure on the subject's part.
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Hey there!

We are looking to add one more technical member to our core founding team.

Check out our splash page http://www.gohachi.com/ - if it piques your interest (don't go by UI - revamp in process), ping us at info@hachilabs.com, and we’ll provide you with an invite code to play with the app.

And if you enjoy playing with it, and have ideas on how you can take it notches above, then let’s talk! We can’t tell you how anxiously we’ve been waiting to hear from you.

A li’l about us -
We’re a small team - crazy enough to leave our cozy comfy jobs, near-perfect silicon valley life, pumping in our hard earned savings in to the startup, and working anywhere between 10-15 hour days (what's a weekend??!) ...and loving every minute of it. We do keep getting help, every now and then, from our awesome friends and others. And, we have insanely rocking super star entrepreneurs, investors from silicon valley advising us! Overall the team is star-studded (so to say) with IIT, Stanford, Urbana Champaign alums.. though we don't really care so much about pedigree, but the passion and value each member brings to the team.

We have an alpha product, and we’re working with a set of early adopters to evolve it further. The feedback from our alpha users is encouraging - to say the least... and that also means, we have lots to do. That’s why we’re looking to add one more member - hopefully, you!

Our beta list is steadily growing and is impressive enough to pique the interest of some angel investors in silicon valley.

This is not just a cool product we're building, but a viable business. It's $11+ billion industry and rapidly growing, and money is already being made. And we are fundable. We were just offered a $40K grant opportunity (no equity involved) - we decided to pass (we’re happy to share our reasons, when we talk more with you). Besides, we’ve already opened discussions with angel investors in the US. That said, we can comfortably do without funding for a reasonable amount of time (remember - the hard earned savings?!).
We are incorporated in US.

A li’l about you -
You should have some background in Computer Science, be it in the form of hobby programming, involvement in open source projects or something equivalent. Having built an app from scratch is a big huge plus!

We don't care if you are not familiar with the tools and technologies we use (CakePHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, social network APIs), so long as you are superbly confident that you can pick them up quickly and write and push code to live site! It would be a big plus if you have an eye for good UI.

We are looking for someone who shares our entrepreneurial passion, is ambitious, open to ideas, has an appetite for startup roller-coaster ride.

This will be an equity based role - atleast till we're funded. We’d highly prefer someone who can commit full time. We're currently camping in Bangalore - India (may move back to silicon valley at some point), and we're open to working remotely.

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Technology is driving huge changes in the education industry. First the price of the technical information that comprises "an education" going to zero. The information that used to exist only in textbooks is now mostly available for free, or almost free. I have a relative in medical school who tells me that when med students need the details of a disease or medication or other medical topic, they just look it up on Wikipedia or another free site.

Second, the price of the learning technology is dropping. Quizlet is an example. It is getting easier to actually learn the material and verify that learning has taken place.

What hasn't happened yet, but what seems to be the logical next step is cheaper or free credentialing: a trusted organization vouching for a person's mastery of a body of knowledge.
Fair warning, though -- it's unfinished, but already more than 1100 regular book pages long (and hard to put down), so it can easily become a significant time sink for a week or so. It will certainly outlast your train journey unless you're really going long-haul....
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Contrary to my statement being "an interesting spin", your statement displays a total lack of understanding for antitrust law and patent law.

Worse than that, you don't even seem to understand that antitrust regulators aren't courts of law.

If you sue someone over patent infringement allegations, and as long as you satisfy some basic criteria (such as "Rule 11"), there will be a lawsuit. It's a given that the court will hear your case. Period. And it's only because you as the patent holder want to assert your rights, regardless of whether that particular case is good or bad for the economy at large, and for society.

By contrast, an antitrust complaint like the one TurboHercules brought against IBM (many months after the initial - even if then not yet totally specific - patent infringement threat) is lodged with a regulatory agency that doesn't have an obligation to follow up. They can always say there's no public interest in what you complain about. In that case, you could try to bring an antitrust lawsuit, and then you just satisfy some basic criteria and a court will hear the case. But if you ask an antitrust regulator to act, the regulatory agency will look at your complaint and its merits, and will compare it to other complaints and their merits, and will then decide to pursue only the most important issues, i.e., the ones that the economy at large, and society, have the greatest benefit from.

Depending on the jurisdiction, the antitrust regulator will either have to go to court at some point (unless a case is settled before) or, such as in the EU's case, the regulator may be in a position to impose remedies and fines, but all of that will be subject to review by a court of law if the affected company appeals.
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Hmmm. Wonder if that's why my post got killed yesterday? I posted for people who weren't accepted this round to check out Startup City in Baltimore and some info and links about Baltimore neighorhoods. I'm not affiliated w/Startup City in anyway and am unsure why the post was "deaded"?
I think so...it was several years ago, when I was learning OCaml.
You're 9 years old?
I had a rather bruising experience last fall "teaching" precalculus to a lecture of 180 students. Although I'd try to engage the students and explain how the stuff is useful, the students would have none of it. I got scathing reviews about how I was teaching stuff that wouldn't be useful until calculus 2 (which is, of course, a feature and not a bug).

We're fundamentally talking about 18-year-olds with bad attitudes here. If we can engage them with programming as opposed to further disengage them with math, I'm all for it. Anything that hastens the realization that learning is your own responsibility would pay great dividends to the students.
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How awesome would it be if Dropbox had "tunneling over DNS" build in? Basically the usability of Dropbox with the ability to get to it at airports, etc. would be awesome.
I've also met Joel irl, great, honest guy.

I've no doubt this is a genuine comment from someone who lurks but appreciates Joel's posts (which appear in HN pretty much every Sunday about this time).
The process definitely did this for us.
Not to mention that Haskell's sort function is actually quite a bit more complex than the stereotypical "quicksort" example shown.
Good catch, I hadn't read the original.
Agree. Having conversed with him via email, he's done really well with Quizlet and is a smart guy. Goodluck Andrew.
His argument is that e-books have greater utility than hardcover books. In general, consumers are willing to pay more for products that are more useful to them. How is that so hard to understand?

He's an economist. This is a thought exercise that illustrates an apparent paradox in pricing. It's actually an extremely interesting insight for entrepreneurs (and others) who would like to set the most effective price for their product.
C++'s std::sort in turn is a lot more complex than the quicksort example shown.
I like it a lot. Not sure what to make of Harry's alternate personality though. Will have to read on to find out I suppose!
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