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The reference to Turbo Pascal brings back some highschool memories.
How exactly bitcoin resemble a Ponzi scheme? It kinda sounds like you mean pyramid scheme, rather than Ponzi scheme. (Not that bitcoin is a pyramid scheme either...)
There's an interesting analysis of which web company is worth the most per user at http://neptune.observer.com/node/138871 - LinkedIn ranks 3rd on their list of 9 arbitrary companies:

Groupon - $210

Facebook - $105

LinkedIn - $33.33

Zynga - $25.58

Twitter - $18.05

Foursquare - $20

Tumblr - $15

Skype - $1.56
But that's my point -- it's not a hack OR a kludge OR a workaround.

It is the straightforward and recommended way of doing something. Twitter didn't kill RSS, they just stopped advertising it to end users.
Overall, good post to people learning. I've been teaching myself programming and have more or less followed this advice, though I'm also working through SICP and planning to continue with K&R and Cormen afterwards. For an approach that's more grounded in CS fundemantals, I highly recommend what Joel Spolsky has to say: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/414779/what-should-a-self...

My learning curve so far has been a balance between building something for fun and learning CS basics.
Hmm when I look at I don't see any difference between this an frid.ge, etc and there seems to be no way to look closer at it without signing up to yet another service.

So how does this differ from the rest of the group chat systems?
Facebook likewise took my page down. It was going viral. I "appealed" it but never heard anything. I wish I could get it back.
Stallman's argument assumes there is an equivalent non-SaaS version of every service or that you should live without it if you can't get it as open source. I am giving up absolute control to use Google's search engine but it is not practical to build my own system to index the entire web with sub-second response times. If there was a distributed open source search engine project where a large number of people could pool resources to recreate something similar to Google that would be a different story.
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Disagree, in part.

Personally, I use Linux for everything, when given the choice - except the occasional game or two for which I use Windows. Couldn't ever get used to Mac. It feels a bit like linux (being BSD based and all that), but gets touchy when you actually try to do something with it. Though this may simply come from my lack of experience with the platform. And im not convinced that the productivity increase from switching from linux to mac is worth the investment(in short i can do the same thing on a system that is twice as cheap ,and without any extra learning).

However I do agree that Windows is very often disastrous in terms of productivity.
I'd prefer e-ink.
I know very little about the stock market, but isn't the individual share price totally meaningless on its own?
These days discussion about programming generally seems to center around web applications development skills; but I was talking in more general sense.

The Unix Philosophy, design of software and the idea behind the Unix are good to know and learn.
Speaking from experience using mysql as a message queue.

Lock contention will be a bitch past a certain number of processes/threads accessing the DB. Also, hopefully your application doesn't crash during the long-running work. If so, your messages are gone forever.

As for a simpler idea, message queues aren't that difficult. Why not just install a proper one to start off with.
Of all the Social* out there, LinkedIn seemed the most purpose driven. The real issue with it is that there is no benefit in being a member of it. It matters to firms and recruiters and if that wasn't shitty enough, LinkedIn will rank higher in search engine results for your name that something you might have published yourself. In return, I give employees bonus points for getting to the top of search results on their own, using their own skills and not a fill-in the blanks template profile site.

That correlates to my main question of: why is LinkedIn valuable to the tune of $35 / share? Is it because they just started to rake in some profits for the first time from their job listing service ? Is it the secondmarket hype ? Is it because Sequoia capital has it in their best interest ? Maybe it's just because they re-branded their service as hiring solutions, added value to advertisers and rode the wave that Facebook created.

Do away with it and invest time in making an employee/career profile for yourself. It's a joke how LinkedIn is more of the same that didn't work for employees in the past.
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Not sure of the exact number but you can see it on the charts here:

http://ycharts.com/companies/AMZN/pe_ratio

http://ycharts.com/companies/GOOG/pe_ratio

Edit:

Worked it out, GOOG was 154.29 and AMZN was 657.75
The actual title of the article is "10 Skills to Become a Frontend Developer worth millions" with key points such as "#7 Be a conversion-horny UX nerd" and "#8 Write non-nerd hackable code". Of all the skills listed only one of them, the previously mentioned #8, requires some degree of vague technical proficiency. The other points involve having a desirable personality trait or simply using an existing web service. If that is worth millions hire me. I am UX-horny and I know how to click buttons and watch pretty graphs.
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It is, but the above list is per user, not per share, which certainly has meaning.
Not totally meaningless, but certainly it doesn't tell you the value of the company unless you know how many shares exist.

However, the comment you replied to isn't about stock prices, it's about the value of each user for each of those companies - user as in somebody who uses those services.
I agree... kind of. Not all of SF feels dilapidated, and not all old parts make me depressed. Kind of depends. I've lived here my whole life (almost 40 years now, sheesh), and some parts have gotten more interesting. The embarcadero has gotten much more appealing. The decision to not rebuild the old freeway was a good one - now there's a long bayside path from the restored ferry building past the new ballpark (one of the nicest in the country, I think), and then finally down past the new UCSF biomed campus (which will be producing some mind blowing work). This will be a pretty incredible new neighborhood. I also think that crissy field is a more appealing place than it was when I was a kid, and the long walk from the presidio (fort point under the bridge through fort mason contains "old stuff" that is very evocative).

Market Street around civic center is appalling, and it spills over into Powell street and the Embarcadero near market enough that those spots are clearly tarnished, especially in the eyes of visitors. But pretty much every corner of the city suffers from blight - the new Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park or the De Young may sparkle (a little too much for my taste), but the appeal of the park is diminished by the presence of a large homeless population (including stray pit bulls). Maybe these things are more noticeably to newcomers now?

While it may seem a little facile to blame too much on one problem, I don't think you can understate how severe an impact the "hardcore homeless" population has had on SF. Not only does it create blight, it's also a big drain on our finances. SF is in a tough spot here. It's a liberal city that has friendlier homeless policies, but unfortunately, that makes us a magnet.

As for New York... lived there for only 6 months, but Mahnattan is truly a vibrant place. I was at Columbia, and I'd say I was hit up for spare change about as often as I am in SF, though. This was in the mid 90s, maybe it's cleaned up better than SF since then, haven't really been back.
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That isn't the point they're making here, though. They're comparing the valuation with the size of the user base. For example, at $3b for LinkedIn, divided by the number of users they have, it comes to about $33.33 per user. In other words, a sort of very rough market valuation of what the industry thinks the users are worth, I suppose.
I believe you'll get your ass kicked, sayin' som'n like that, man.
Ask HN: want to create a group of code hackers in London?
Hi, first post here.
As I was hacking into my Ruby code for the MVP last night, I thought I don't know a lot of people that are doing the same here in London.
Hence the desire to find similar people with which meet fortnightly in the weekend or during the week as you prefer, to hack on our startups.
That would allow to share knowledge, solve problems together and form a kind of core group. If it goes well we could have an our own venue where to meet.
What do you think?
Let me now.

Alessandro
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> The company expects [to get] approximately $146.6 million (in total the company will be raising $274 million but some of this money goes to fees etc.).

Is this normal? They paid almost a third of the money they have raised.
I don't use Qt but at a glance QML sounds like XUL all over again to me, and we all know how great the UI's created with XUL are.
So in a capitalist society there will be no pollution?
There is a way to use ramdisk as your workspace which makes eclipse quite fast. Check a post at the Scala forum ( I am sorry, do not have the link handy right now )
I had come up with this because I had some friends who were on Facebook but nothing else, there were some without Facebook or Twitter and only used Gmail. My idea was a way of setting up a 'group chat platform' where users can come in from Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Gmail and still be able to interact with each other in one place.
Our own websites, helps to know network details of the far end.
The main selling point is that Cassandra has replaced HDFS as the underlying filesystem for Hadoop.

I'm curious: what are the performance implications of using CFS instead of HDFS? Is it faster/slower/more fault-tolerant? (It appears to be the latter, given that there's no single point of failure in CFS).
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Google's homepage is also my "test printer" page, as it uses little ink and the normal logo will test all the colors in a device.
Looking forward to their announcements about improved walkie-talkies, advancements in CB radio design, and nano-polymer typewriter ribbons.
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Gah! You've completely missed the point of my irony. There's scarcely any point discoursing with you.
Chomsky is 82 years old. We're lucky he still has enough energy and drive to sit on panels. I think it's disrespectful to demand serious investigation from an 82 year old man who has produced more of that in his earlier life than we all will combined.
In that Bitcoin presents itself as a viable alternative currency, and encourages adoption by people looking for a safe haven from fiat currency. Eventually, though, it could become clear that certain factors, possibly the production function, preclude it from long term viability. The value drops, holding are wiped out, but not before the earliest adopters have already secured their gains.
Awww..... group hug! :-)
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Agree whole-heartedly. I am still trying to figure out what exactly it takes to be what I refer to as a "sweet heart of silicon valley". Some companies repeatedly get covered regardless of how minor and marginal their new feature is (I recall reading about chat roulette's new wall paper a couple weeks ago).

Same situation in the group messaging space. I am the cofounder of Groupie, which is tied with Beluga as the highest rated group messaging app on the App Store. We have tens of thousands of users and tens of thousands of groups. In fact, you cant search for GroupMe without seeing Groupie, yet we've never been covered. It's a mystery to me but that ultimately hasn't stopped us from growing and with a good product, it won't stop you from growing either.

On that note, happy to make myself available you should want to discuss anything since we've probably hit a few hurdles that you're undoubtedly going to confront.

Good luck.

Leo at groupie dot co
my god, you may have inadvertently had a great idea. There's a lot of cool things that could open up. For instance, i believe right now it is not kosher to scrape google results. However an open source distributed engine would be totally kosher.

Search results could potentially be more relevant... there would be millions of computers instead of hundreds of thousands. people could play with ranking algorithms... this is a cool thought.
According to the panelists, what Google does (statistical inference) is not pure AI.
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Hi, I'm moving from Germany to London (tomorrow) precisely to find more opportunities to network and attend technical/business events. There are actually many of them, check Lanyrd for a good (but not exhaustive) list http://lanyrd.com/places/london/.

In any case, I'm in for these kind of events (feel free to connect on Linkedin to keep in touch, see my profile)
Why is it worth $x? Simply put, because that's what they will be able to sell at. As to why that is, one could argue that it is in part because of a tech bubble, but the most obvious and simple reason is indeed the rate of growth in their revenue and profit.

I do disagree with your view that there is no benefit to being on LinkedIn. Personally, both my personal website (very low traffic bio site with a few blog posts) and twitter account are ranked above LinkedIn, and I like that LinkedIn is ranked third (that's for a search of my name on Google).

I've never hired or been hired through LinkedIn, but people I want to work with (usually future clients) and people who consider working with me (again, clients) can look me up, and my LinkedIn page helps verify who I am, and what I do, they can see a few endorsements people have given me, and often they can see who they know that knows me.

Also, after meeting someone at an event, a follow up LinkedIn reequest reminds them who you are and helps connect your face to your business card - and visa versa, helps you connect their face/job/etc to their card.
I like the latest iteration of qt and find writing code in qml very enjoyable for a beginner like me. What worries me is that there will be no official support for qt in windows phone 7 now that Symbian is heading to the grave.
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I think your balanced approach is better than what is proposed in the post. It's good to just get started doing stuff in a language like Python or Ruby, but a serious programmer should also try to learn real computer science along the way, either through college or self-study.
It is traditionally considered good practice for an employee to give an employer two weeks notice before quitting a job, so that they have time to try and fill your position. It is not the case the other way around.

Nonsense - it's traditional practice for the company to give you considerably more than 2 weeks worth of pay. I've never heard of an employer giving less unless they were bankrupt or the employee was stealing.

These are both customs (not rules), so exceptions certainly exist.
The talk / post is meant for frontend developers. So if you're a great frontend developer, and you have these skills, I'm sure you're worth millions. My whole point is that simply churning out HMTML/CSS/JS isn't enough anymore, you need more skills these days...
I find it interesting that a Groupon user ends up being so highly valued by the market. I wonder if it's because Groupon can make money from each user in ways other than advertising.
No doubt that personal, life-encompassing happiness takes more than a set of computing preferences.

With that said, Payne's rules seem to minimize frustration with the computing experience. He won't list "spend time with your SO and child" on here.
But this is the easy one. Imagine the pain if they had to go backwards, repeating the same day twice!

(of course, we do that on a smaller scale in the USA once a year, when we set the clocks back from DST)
how do you know it's connected with that data? and what data, exactly, is it showing? the wind is from the NW but it's extended to the SSE (at least for me, now). and there's no indication of what temperature might be - is that colour?

maybe something isn't working for me? when i hover over it, all that changes is the text at the side, giving the weather info i just described.

i can't believe everyone thinks this is so clever just from looking at that page. is it well known through winning an award or something? in other words, does it require additional knowledge to appreciate? and, if so, doesn't that mean it's not as great as the cognescenti believe?
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I agree with you completely. And like I've said a couple of times in this thread, we didn't put all our eggs in FB's basket.

And my desperation didn't come from the fact that now we are screwed (which we aren't), but from the fact that I know what hell I'll have to go trough to get the matter sorted out.
Thanks for the intro mate! Will certainly shoot you an e-mail soon. And I agree with your comments. I haven't said any of these to mock the writers (infact I won't mention the publications), because it's completely up to them to decide who they write about and who they won't write about. I just want to encourage anyone else who was/is in the same boat that being covered helps a lot - yes, but that's all it does. It doesn't disqualify you at all. If I had only been covered on a big blog on Friday, don't think I would have even got to 2k users by now.
beanstalkd hits the sweet spot for me.
The comment about why they moved the calandar 119 years ago to be closer to the USA had me perplexed. I guessed it would have been too early for Samoa to get a telegraph station and therefore I couldn't understand the need to move the date. But looking at this http://goo.gl/wIaTb it seems to me that they got the telegraph in 1880 or there abouts...which precipitated the need for first change.
As far as I am aware LinkedIn have been profitable for a while even before the news features.

They have 100 Million users

Loads of data

It's invaluable for employers like myself.

I have several times been contacted with regards to jobs by recruiters and I can see they went to my account.

It's a great verification tool

Their API's are pretty cool.

To me LinkedIn is the one social network that shuts up and just let me build relationships without asking me to participate every day.

So I think your characterization is unfair and wrong.

LinkedIn is going to be around for a long time.
The US government, at least, thinks that the perception is relevant, else why did they put us through so much rigmarole in changing the dates of the Daylight Savings Time change?

EDIT: s/things/thinks/
Its more like "for minimum stress". Arguably not for maximum productivity - I violate a good dozen of the rules because of the job I do. And yes it causes stress, but that's life.
Ha, FB un-banned us. No response from them, the bann was just magically lifted.

If somebody here had something to do with it then I really can't express my gratitude!! I just hope this does not happen again.
Have you thought of using your technology to generate Makefiles for projects based on C, Autotools, Pkg-config, etc. ? (Read as: I don't do FPGAs, but those build processes are not particularly fun to set up).
There's probably some truth to SSDs dying off horribly, but like anything else, the tech will evolve and then you replace your SSD with a new SSD at some point. Wouldn't hurt to use Time Machine as well.
Everything in this release says Qt/Embedded is dead and it's all about trying to stay relevant on smartphones. Small platforms need GUIs too, and there's just not enough MIPS on those platforms to handle QML and it's Javascript interpreter and all the other crap that goes with it. QML is a dog on anything below 700 MHz.

"Qt will require OpenGL (ES) 2.0 to work."

Sigh... Guess we're all using 4.7/4.8 forever.
Yup, the architecture of boldport is generic and can adapt to (almost) any software stack. I'm an FPGA design expert so that's where I started.
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Please post what you can here when you've finished. It seems like a very interesting area to study.
Thanks for this article. Eduhub is doing exciting agile development and they have chosen a great business model (scalable lead generation).

I am a front-end developer too. I also like conversion rate optimization -- you have to expand your skillset, but value standards adherence, accessibility and performance as core features for a good front-end developer.

May I be so bold as to suggest that you eat my dogfood? At a glance I'd fix the 52 Validation errors and 34 warnings for W3C validation of the homepage. I'd also look at Google page speed/Yslow and follow their tips: minify your css and javascript, combine other resources, and leverage browser caching. Should make a hefty difference in performance on a site of that scale and traffic.

Or at least look at adding performance and standards/accessibility in your top 10 as a front-end developer. Marketing, your SEO or statistics co-founder can always do your A/B tests, bar maybe the technical implementation (though Visual Website Optimizer is very easy to use and implement). As my mom used to say: finish your plate first, else you won't get your dessert :)
Probably not. There were two reasons why I didn't add multiplayer. First (and most importantly) I felt that their wouldn't be a tension between the players. It would be hard for people to yell over each other to try to get others to do what they want to do. Secondly, I didn't think it would add enough value to delay the game longer.

However, if the game gets popular enough and enough people want it, I would be willing to add it.
Why not wait until the next leap day and skip that?
Where would tablets and netbooks fit in? 2008 was a long time ago, in some ways.
FWIW, the article was written in 2008, two years before the iPad existed. But I guess there were still a few popular Netbooks around then.
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wouldn't it be simple enough using Google's own AJAX search API ?
http://code.google.com/apis/customsearch/v1/overview.html
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Maybe because time == money?
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