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I think alot of major frameworks written in other languages have all if not most of the features Rails has. Django, Pylons, CakePHP, CodeIgniter, Catalyst, and Mason are to name a few.

Rails to make your life easier? well that's true if your creating web apps that fit into RoR's philosophy. To quote a member of HN "Coloring outside the lines is not allowed".

I do agree with you on one thing though, I believe the massive boost in Ruby's popularity is the great marketing campaign behind it.
You just blew my mind a little bit.
My PhD. Sure I learnt lots of great stuff and met some great people - but I could've done all that with a master's.
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Your #1 item is dangerously wrong. If you're not making money you can still be sued for personal assets (house, car, etc); and if you don't have those, you can be sued for debt.
Well, could you write it in Python and host it on Google's AppEngine?
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Focusing on quality rather than volume.
None of the limitations being discussed with the iPhone have anything to do with whether programs are vulnerable to "stack attacks". The iPhone doesn't even have background processes. And "virus" is just a scary-sounding word for "program that deletes important files on your behalf". Don't run those.

I respect the "walled garden" as a business decision; it's Apple's platform, and maximizing its revenue is their prerogative. As a technical safeguard, there's no evidence that it works.
For that you always have Google. This guide is for people who would want a comprehensive list of all the topics in a subject. And Google wouldn't suffice at that.
Kind of off topic, but I'll give it a shot.

Yeah, I think that paying off your debt is a smart thing to do. Likewise, I think debt is a great leverage tool if you can shelter yourself with some sort of limited liability company (c-corp, LLC, etc). At that point, there truly is very little risk with your personal assets, and all the benefits of leveraging the debt. (Unless you're being abusive with the limited liability, then you'll probably get pierced)

And now how this relates back to Hacker News and startups in general is that I think there should be further exploration into using debt instead of funding to grow a company. If your startup is making money and is seeking funding only to grow, perhaps you should look into debt. Especially after sealing a series A, I think most banks are very eager to sign on with agreeable interest rates. As startups either grow exponentially or burn out and die, this maximizes returns by refusing to dilute your stock with VC funding and still having the proper capital leverage to get to your next milestone.

What do you guys think about debt funding?
... or not. The iPhone has been embraced enthusiastically by the Mac developer market, and has attracted still more developers from outside it. Despite the fact that those same devs clearly are getting smacked around by Apple. 'Twas ever thus; find a longtime Mac developer without a story about how bad a dev partner Apple is.

The fact is, 99.999% of the addressable market for iPhones does not concern itself with these "limitations". It might be irrational for Apple to open up more now.
I don't know if this is a good thing but on the 2nd slide of the first lecture it says the grading is P/NP (pass and no pass), for a minute I was trying to figure out why algorithmic complexity has anything to do with grading.
Cool! Reminds me of Prolog.
That's a valid point, but is the same for Mac OS X. You have even more personal information on your desktop. Thankfully we're not limited to a single source for Mac OS X apps.
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Thinking other people are dumb. Even if it were true, it has yet to get me anywhere.
A "dick wad" you are not. I'm an honesty-is-the-best-policy kind of guy too, so I'm not offended by your straightforward no-bs critique.

You've pointed out the biggest issue I'll have going forward - hitting critical mass. Most of the other commentators have suggested removing the login requirements for voting. I think it's likely that will result in more interaction from casual visitors. However, I'm not sure how much it will do for my user count - we'll see.

Thanks.
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I think the only two choices you have right now are Enclojure and Webjure. Both of which are pretty young at the moment.
Football meaning soccer or american gridiron? I played the latter and the injuries I took affect me to this day. Back in the day, nobody mentioned the 100% injury rate - i.e. anyone who plays football will eventually get hurt bad enough they can't play. Thus, as I type this from bed, because one of my slipped discs has acted up, I have the opposite opinion - playing football was one of the biggest mistakes I've ever made.
Most people talking about Perl are quick to groan about its ugliness. I’ll first note, most of them don’t know Perl...

OK, I'll bite. I know Perl. Perl is versatile. Perl is powerful. But Perl is Ugly with a capital 'u'. Give me Python or Ruby any day.
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We're currently in the final phases of development on a web startup, and are getting ready to sort out the logistics of providing subscription based software. I'm wondering if anyone has any comments on software to manage subscriptions & handle monthly billing? I've seen quite a bit of it out there, but don't have any experience with it.

Any suggestions would be really appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
startup-wise:

1. working as employee #6 at a startup in boston instead of google in 2001.

2. working as employee #6 at a startup in SF instead of youtube in 2005.

whoops!
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Quitting work in the physics lab at the University of Florida my freshman year and then switching from a physics and mathematics major to a finance major.
At Intelliverb we are spending a lot of time on vertical search, karatr.com is our latest piece of work.
Any feedback is welcome.
afraid of making mistakes .
I work in Tokyo, and I've noticed the only people who seem to have Facebook accounts are students who studied abroad and those who spend a lot of time socializing with foreigners.
.Getting a degree.
Honestly, I didn't need it. Contentious subject I know, but from the Hacker perspective, I have always relied on self learning in concentrated bursts to get me through - want a thorough understanding of TCP/IP? Spend 3 weekends going through the documentation and then playing around. Not 6 months in rigidly structured classes with no leeway for progression above and beyond what is in the curriculum.
I could have got a job that paid my pocket money, whilst learning more and coming out with less debt.
"but would this have paid off?" I hear everyone say.
My degree or time in education has absolutely no standing of where I am now, apart from the fact that I feel I could have been here by early twenties instead of mid twenties
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Almost every sport has a 100% injury rate where you eventually get hurt bad enough you can't play anymore. The trick is choosing a sport where the most common injuries prevent you from playing the sport but don't prevent you from walking. A good percentage of swimmers eventually develop shoulder injuries, but (AFAIK) that doesn't prevent you from doing anything except swimming.
So the real questions are: how do you get a bunch of anonymous people who don't know each other in real life to decide on the purpose of an already-existing website, and once you've done that, how do you keep the influx of new users in line with the site's stated purpose?
Not getting it in writing. It doesn't have to be a long drawn out contract, just a short email explaining what the agreement is. Even amongst friends, you will never regret having an email stating your agreement.
I'm baffled as to how he could actually believe that. Also, the cost of forming an LLC to insulate yourself against that is trivial.
Yes. Interesting read.
I'm a little surprised that PG hasn't already capped the number of users.

I think it would be great if user registration happened in seasons. I.e. every three months, there's a 48-hour period during which new people can sign up. The purpose of this would be to allow the site to retain a unique personality. If you constantly add new people, it's hard to know who's who and what we're doing here. Treat it more like a large and semi-exclusive collective, and give it a chance to center itself for a while before expanding again.
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Compromising the long-term product vision for short-term gains.
So far this year, I have:

1) rented a video from iTunes which I could not play on my iPod, because it was 2 years old and no longer supported.

2) Not been able to utilize my eclipse plugins that run on Java 1.6 due to Apple not supporting 64-bit carbon (required for eclipse on osx). This is after they took an extra 12 months just to support java 1.6 at all.

Apple made both of these decisions consciously. They make good products to create a good customer experience, then base support purely on ROI with no concern for customer experience.
“We designed Karatr to be the place to easily find the finest jewelry and watches.”

I typed in “Rolex” and was confronted with a list of Rolex-style watches. That’s not the finest choice that I was expecting.

“Karatr is a search engine where you don’t just look for a wedding ring; you look for a ring that fit your character as a person by providing details matching your needs. Karatr don’t just help you find a good brand watch, you’re actually given options to narrow your search to the perfect watch for both your price and style.”

Price yes, but I saw nothing about “style” or “character” on my Rolex search.
There have been NUMEROUS apps that provide beefed-up searching (multi-city,etc.) for CraigsList. Most get in trouble with CL because they're violating CL's TOS.

Craig and Company want you on their site, not on an aggregation site that sucks their listings...so they shut aggregators and scrapers down pretty quickly. OLX is, if I recall correctly, one of the many companies that has already gotten in trouble for doing this.
Given up to early.
Be brave! I wanna hear some horror stories! :D
I feel for you, dude...I hope there's no number 3 next time someone asks you this question.
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You do realise that nowdothis has a better gui than yours, right? Given the two services, I'd pick theirs.
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I'm a programmer with minimal sysadmin skills, and I suspect this saved me days. For instance, one command installs and configures ruby, rails, mongrel, ngnix, etc:

cap deprec:rails:install_rails_stack

Check it out.
I can understand this sentiment, but from my experience a lot of the value from doing a degree isn't from what you learn in class.

For me, the biggest value came from meeting other like minded people and being exposed to brand new concepts.

There's also value in learning how to finish things. I can understand that people drop out (for many reasons) and that's fine, but I think it's important to learn how to finish things off.

Although, knowing when to bail is probably also just as important. :)
Hey Okeumeni,

How many 'vertical' search sites is intelliverb going to be launching?
Maybe it would be better to provide HN with a list of all the sites, rather than an individual post showing off another one of your sites every day. Particularly as the sites are all the same with the exception of the logo and each serving a different vertical market.
Also look at octave. Its OSS, and mostly m-file compatible.
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This site just eliminates the step of Googling for the county's web page. There's nothing here you couldn't do for free, it just makes it a tiny bit easier.
I initially looked at Ruby a number of years ago, and didn't really care for the syntax either. Rails made me take a second look, and while I'm not sure I consider it a thing of beauty, it is eminently practical, and a pretty good compromise between Perl's minimalist style that lets you get lots done - and then forget what the heck it does, and Java's blah blah blah verbosity. Also, Ruby gems are handy - maybe not quite to the level of CPAN, but they're pretty good.
We use freshbooks. Its inexpensive and had good support.
I applied for a job at Lycos around 1997. I passed the simple phone interviews and they scheduled an in-person interview. My wife did not want to make the move it would take so I cancelled the interview. We still live in San Diego, I feel if I was up in a more exciting environment I could have done better.

I instead joined this one startup of sorts, worked literally 15+ hour days including Saturdays. Unfortunately it hit a rough patch and they could only afford one programmer and I wasn't it. So the other guy now is making around 15k a month now. They hired me back but I make about a 3rd of that. The system generates about 50k a month in free cash flow and I built all of the fundamentals of the system.
That sounds kind of silly. OK, life has a high risk of death, but if sports really are that unhealthy, why pursue them?
Majoring in finance.
BTW I have also heard about Zuora. Have not used it, but you may want to visit their website to learn more.

http://www.zuora.com/products/z-billing-product.html

<disclaimer: I met the founder once, but have no affiliation with the company.>
I think the mistakes that can be classified as the 'biggest', are typically the ones made in personal relationships. Those are the things that probably cannot be mended/replaced with any other 'equivalents'.

In terms of career/work etc, i really do not think one needs to worry much or brood over past decisions, we all got plenty of time (hopefully) to work everything out as we want it to.

This quote sums up a lot of things nicely:

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -- Elbert Hubbard
I think mechanical_fish is probably right. Having down-voting suddenly changes the focus from solely looking for good articles to groups looking for bad articles (bury brigade, anyone?).

Keeping the site positive does wonders for my perception of the articles, and quite honestly, the signal-to-noise seems much better here than most news sites, even with the occasional garbage link. I think it goes without saying that the "community" is certainly better.
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Most of the below!!! (except playing football and doing physics!!)
There is lot of code.
Onista is amalgam of eBay, Priceline, LendingTree, Alibaba and LinkedIn. When I say that, what I'm trying to say is that site has lots and lots of features. We have done testing using different data set and lots of scenarios to find bugs.
We also redesigned lot of features.
It did take us to fix close to 2k bugs to get to stable state.
Found a pdf version: http://www.cs.kent.edu/~arvind/Teaching/Courses/AI/AIinfo/Li...
1) Granting people respect just because they are older than I am.

2) Not moving to San Francisco sooner.
> Find good stuff and upvote it.

The problem is that there is potentially way more junk than good stuff. In a good stuff only site, there would simply be less stuff, and at times, big gaps for lack of good stuff. That is IMO better than filling in those gaps with junk.
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maybe the 100% rate is true, but not 100% career-ending injuries.

Most people quit playing a given sport seriously because they have to choose between that and making money.

I swam for 4 years in college and I only know 1 person who had a career ending shoulder injury, and that one because it was misdiagnosed for a year.

OTOH everyone I know who played football at any level has at least a minor nagging injury.
At that point in time, where the other 2 startup ideas less/more crazy than google/yahoo?
Yes, football from what I've seen, is far worse than any other common sport. Even rugby is much safer.
Of course. But then again, I'm Russian, and one of my great-grandfathers was a victim.
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See, by Atwood's very sound reasoning, we'll help him improve quality by not reading his blog and by supporting somebody who's actually a writer worth reading. But his article doesn't cover the fact that hackers are subject to inertia like everybody else.
But the Japanese market isn’t lost yet for MySpace and Facebook, despite Mixi’s dominance. If millions of Americans don’t mind registering to multiple social networks, why should the Japanese?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the trend was the opposite one? That people are getting fed up registering at 100 different networks and sticks to the few "big" ones they've already signed up for?

Ofcourse, I'm not going to pretend my behaviour is the norm, where mixi and LinkedIn are the only networks I bother with. For local friends, timezones not being an issue, phone and MSN works fine.
But it doesn't imply practice. Look at how productive the average fanfiction writer is.

It's a misleading statement written as-is.
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Completely disagree. As a consumer, I just want the thing to work. The best way to ensure that, is to have control of the platform.

The lack of a glut of apps, some badly written is hardly damaging the platform, it's maintaining the quality of the user experience, which I'm extremely glad about.
I feel Perl is under appreciated because too many people have inherited badly written Perl code, and thought that languages needed to enforce readability.

Or wondered why blocks of code needed to be delimited once for humans via indentation, and once for a parser via curly brackets.
I'm pretty sure the overclocking competition posted on here a week or two ago beats this out.
So we seem to have these facts:
The iPhone platform is a commercial success for Apple.
The iPhone platform is a commercial success for 3rd party devs.
The iPhone platform is tightly controlled by a vendor whose actions range from understandable lies to misleading behaviour and outright bullying.

So, is there anything to be criticised or is commercial success a justification for everything that is lawful?

I think being the uber cool bully who lends his followers success for a while but may turn against them at any moment is a dangerous long term strategy.

It basically means that Apple's growth rates must keep up with the inconvenience caused by their behaviour. And I don't mean just intellectual inconvenience that affects only a small number of people (closed vs open platforms, etc). I mean getting harassed by a vendor has a cost and that cost needs to be covered by growth. It's as simple as that.
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Here's my top:
http://pastie.org/246884

MobileSafari, MobileMail, MobilePhone, all running in the background. fairplayd is the fairplay daemon, commcenter manages communications (all of them), springboard is the desktop, lockdownd is the little thing that checks to make sure the phone is activated (and locks it down if not)

only the top three apps (bash, top, sshd) aren't there on a vanilla iPhone. Apple's apps will run in the background, but other (app store) apps exit completely when you return to the home screen.
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You blame the post for being wordy and complex and then you post something like this...
not really, most of the times you really don't know what phrase to use to find what you are looking for. And a lot of results are crap. Google search now is basically a way to find the site thats best at being found by Google, not necessary the best content. Usually when I search for something that gets spammed I don't find any good links until page 4-5.

If there was one list where the person did the groundwork to find the best links for each category that'd be much better. I mean whatever the category almost all the information is repeated between the links. So there is really no reason to list 10 different links that compare an LLC to a C-Corp.
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That's because you are an American, the sites you go to are usually American too. But the problem that comes with international companies is that they think that translating the site is all it takes to adapt. Which is not the case, the cultures are completely different and the sites usually fail to take that into consideration.
I think it is too early to judge the iPhone as platform for 3rd party devs. OK, some people got rich already, but they might have profited from the early hype, in other words, the seeds for their earnings have been sown long before the iPhone platform launched. It remains to be seen if the platform is still viable once the dust has settled down.
go with zuora for sure. email me if you would like an intro.

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disclaimer: publictivity is a customer
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Trusting the level of integrity, gratification posed by founders/managers and slogging my ass for their success. Reminds me of Austin Wiltshire's blog on New hire Cannon fodder.
You only need to incorporate in one state. Which one you choose depends on many factors.

Businesses are supposed to register in each state that they do business in. This is easy to understand for brick and mortars. Any place you have a store, register with the state. It gets a little murkier with internet companies.

So, just incorporate for now. Get the limited liability. You do need limited liability so you don't lose your house, car, or anything else you may have an interest in. It is so easy to incorporate and pay the few hundred dollar fee each year, so do it.
I totally agree. There is a lot of power in the launch. That's why you should only use it once you have something that can actually impress then tens of thousands of people who'll come and have a look.

You say Cuil did a great job on the marketing. Yes, they did. However, most people who went and tried Cuil had a bad experience. That compares very unfavourably with Google, which is unflinchingly brilliant. Result? Sure, Cuil did great by getting (say) a million people to try them on the first day. But of that million, maybe a thousand will actually use them more than once.

It's not really worth going through all that PR work if your stick rate is only 0.1%. Unless, of course, the whole thing was about investors / buyers, not about users (which I believe is the case).
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It certainly provides a better understanding of what the VC's are thinking about when they're investing.

Of particular note was how soon they have to identify the "losers" and cut them off from further funding.