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While I may agree with you on the impression I get from such a car, what your post told me was, "Look at me world!!! I'm a douchebag and I didn't have 200K to spend so I wrote this post to inform you of this fact!"

Sorry, I don't mean to imply that you are a douchebag, but perhaps the car's owner isn't, either. He obviously drove the car and got some use out of it (as the poster indicated), so perhaps he just enjoyed it. Life is short, what's wrong with doing what makes you happy?

As for the submission, I (longtime HN member) upmodded it. The post was very thorough, and it was worthwhile to get such deep insight into the workings of a field that I previously had no knowledge of.
I think the OP is trying to say that all dynamically typed, interpreted languages are implemented in statically typed, compiled or JIT languages. If you like the discipline of the latter, you might resent the former.
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feel like a dork for saying it, but I use a freakin spiral notebook on the go. Then, I just sink it up with outlook when I get home.
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I watch the python-ideas mailing list and there has been some talk recently of bringing some of the micro-threading ideas from Twisted into the CPython implementation itself. I don't have much knowledge of micro-threads or Twisted so I haven't been following the conversation very closely, but at least that's another data point in the state of parallelism in Python.
Agreed. Writing such a wrapper also introduces the possibility of someone later implementing the same library for Ruby itself. As long as the wrapper's interface makes sense and the library is worthwhile, there is no compelling reason that the Java bits underneath couldn't be replaced by a C library and some glue code.
It's incredible that they actually had to go to Microsoft to get the necessary functionality in place. I'm glad that they did though.
cute: when the function is run, it calculates the value to be cached, then redefines the function to just return that value. This way, you don't need to check if the value has been calculated yet or not.

Yay for self-modifying code.
We just moved our startup to the Bay Area a couple of weeks ago :) My partner and I found a temporary place in Mountain View for the next few weeks while we look for a more permanent place -- but everyone has recommended us to either live in SF or Palo Alto.

We should meet up some time once you are settled!
Hasn't Java had a JIT compiling VM for a while now? And in the times I've used it, it has certainly seemed statically typed and compiled (to Java bytecode) to me.
Clickpass is a pretty cool openid authentication service. http://www.clickpass.com/
The most interesting tidbit I got from the article was the fact that Google worked with Microsoft to get IE6 patched to a state of suitable functionality. We often look at them (and competing companies in general) as if they are at war with each other, and the idea of helping one another out seems infeasible. Seeing something like this is a nice reminder that economics is not a zero-sum game, and that competitors can work together to make things better for everyone.
It seems like a pretty simple application - I don't imagine this would be difficult to write in js/jquery, as is evidenced by all the competitors doing exactly that.
...but when you do need that obscure piece of paper you need it right now.

Think of a filing cabinet(1) as an exception or error handler. In a perfect world, you could just burn your receipts and statements after you've finished with them. In our imperfect world, it saves you a world of hurt when you can snatch that stuff at a moment's notice.

(1)(Do sell the filing cabinet though: Bankers boxes are much easier to move about or squirrel away in the closet).
There is a GWT project for this very purpose (html template), but it's as simple as RootPanel.get(id) to get an element from a page. What's so hard about that? It works just like wicket.
This submission kind of reaffirms the idea (from a slightly different angle) that it is good to start with a good, free service and monetize it later. In the provided example, an online world purposely capped spending in hopes of getting a better public perception. Consider also that simply in doing so, they have generated some positive awareness of their company.

It's nice to see "Do good" being exercised in business and being successful; I think that's the approach that leads to the most happiness for everyone.
I loved the misapplication of Scrum

I heard Ken Schwaber tell a funny story about this. He was asked in by some place to evaluate how they were doing, so he attended their daily scrum. For anyone who doesn't know, that's supposed to be a brief meeting in which a facilitator called the scrum master asks each team member: 1. What have you done since yesterday? 2. What are you doing today? 3. Are you experiencing any impediments to your work? (The intention, of course, is that the scrum master then fight like hell to clear the impediments.)

At this outfit, they had taken a project manager and labeled him "scrum master". His version of the three questions:

1. Have you done what I told you to do yesterday?

2. Here's what I want you to do today.

3. (omitted)
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I don't think this comparison is accurate. Assembler is quite rigid (as is C), and the fact that C is more capable of abstraction than assembler is apparent. Adding abstraction capabilities to a language is always a win.

That said, once you get to a certain point, the need for further abstraction disappears. Obviously, Lisp-like languages are the epitome of what I'm getting at: as soon as you have powerful macros, you can make the programming for any application trivial by defining a high-level base for it. Domain-specific languages, while typically not as powerful, are also hard to beat, since it doesn't get much easier than, "Put an image with these dimensions <here>."

My point is that jQuery is a powerful enough language (having great abstraction capabilities even if it falls short of Lisp) and HTML and CSS are great DSLs. The combination of the 3 are simply good enough to make defining an entirely new approach a game of diminishing returns.

Of course writing C is more productive than writing assembler. Is writing Cappuccino easier than using jQuery/HTML/CSS? This submission raises the possibility that it is not.
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Misleading title. It's only one-line if your function has no parameters.
Every company will have it's ups and it's downs. Cutting edge tech is a risky biz, even for Apple. Or perhaps especial or a company such as Apple who has such a reputation at stake.
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I wonder how the OLPC will do given there are a great deal of competing netbooks already on the market.
I'd be curious to know if there's any empirical evidence for this -- that's precisely the sort of plausible claim that might easily not be supported by the evidence.
That has got to be either the dumbest satire ever, or the worst idea our gov has had since they allowed that "Matrix" documentary out into theatres.
I don't think I could have said it better than BrandonM.

As a developer I'm wary of learning new platforms until I know that I am going to get returns on my new knowledge(skills). We all have limited time, and there are plenty of techniques or popular platforms I could be learning or improving on that I know will make me employable in more situations.
"I think that Apple inspires a sort of fanaticism. It's like all really top-notch things"

This assumes that a mac is "top notch". I thought that was the point of contention?
"... But, it also contains 0 lines of HTML and 0 lines of CSS, while the jQuery demo has about 200 lines of CSS on top of its 50 lines of jQuery ..."

There are a lot of advantages of having this layering (usability, degradable functionality). The biggest problem I see is network latency and rendering appears slower while HTML loads progressively. What are the pro arguments in favour of removing this layer?

The biggest (pro) argument I can think of is reliability in construction, cost & development speed. Less to worry about reliably piecing together sites with css/html.
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the jquery version doesn't live resize images, which the cappuccino version does. that's the difference.
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I host a Meetup called Hackers and Founders in Sunnyvale every month. It's been growing a lot though, so we might end up going to every other week. We have 30 people planning to attend on September 18th, and I'm holding off on allowing more RSVP's because the bar we have it at gets pretty crowded. If you wanted to crash the party around 7:30 or 8pm it would probably clear out by then. There is another one scheduled for October 1st.

It's a low key event which consists of having a burger and a beer with hackers and people interested in startups. Our Meetup page is here: http://entrepreneur.meetup.com/1737/

As far as where to go to meet Hackers.... In the Bay Area, just strike up a conversation with people. 1 out of 10 people living in the area are engineers. You're bound to meet someone.
I tried using openid here on HN, but then I realized it's too many irritating full-page refreshes. I gave up.
You've got a pile of a hundred CVs to sort through.
"... Facebook for spies ..."

Of course they do.

People centric information are what Security Services are interested in. Being able to analyse and evaluate the mulit-dimensional networks people create (time, space, financial, other people) is important to understand their activities. Registries in the Intelligence services store the raw information but having an interactive layer above the raw intelligence is bread and butter for companies like I2 in the UK ~ http://www.i2.co.uk/company/default.asp In fact they have an (desktop) SIS module ~ http://www.i2.co.uk/solutions/sis/default.asp Having web based solutions along similar lines is not beyond reality. Take a look at the types of technology jobs available in the UK Services may give you a better idea ~ https://www.mi5careers.gov.uk/job.aspx?jobid=141
You will find that a lot of stuff in Java is done only because it has to be (elaborate J2EE app servers being an excellent example). If you just need to grab some records from a database and format them, you don't need all that scaffolding.
I recommend you find a friend, or friend of a friend who does sys admin work at a company or school, who uses Linux and one of the common MTAs -- sendmail, exim, postfix. Pay them a flat monthly fee to handle your email, and do whatever they tell you, get a VPS or hosted service or linux machine on a cable modem or whatever. Pay them until you can afford to have a "real" setup, and in the meantime focus on making your startup work.

Personally, I would put a light weight (cpu and bandwidth will be minimal) linux server on whatever is the cheapest way you can get a business class fixed IP. I use exim.

When olefoo said keep the MTA and web operations separate, and you asked "with a queue?", I think olefoo meant keep them on separate servers. The MTA and web operations are normally separate daemons that run, and the web submits an outgoing mail to a queue in the MTA, but it's not somethingk you have to write or set up, it's the default way an MTA works.

When olefoo mentioned keeping incoming and outgoing MTAs separate, that might be a good idea but I would warn that if your account notification email comes from a different IP address than is listed in your MX record, some of those emails won't get to users because they will be blocked, dropped, or spam-foldered.

Once you start having to deliver lots of email, you will find that there is an incredible amount of pain in doing it reliably. You have to regularly examine all your bounces, and check for successful delivery to test accounts at the big places such as yahoo, gmail, and hotmail. First, you will have to make sure your From: and other headers are configured exactly correctly. Get a reverse DNS record correctly set up. You will probably have to learn about SPF records and domain keys and stuff like that. It can be a chore.

I still have problems with it. I have fixed IP addresses from a business class Time Warner connection, and I have had those IPs for a couple of years now, and some spam block lists still list me as "dynamic" ips, even though I have been through the removal process over and over. I have given up on ever being able to deliver mail reliably to earthlink addresses.
We are in baltimore http://www.ubernote.com. We are also attending the twintech event. Also just saw this and was thinking of attending. http://bootcamp.umd.edu/index.html
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Moore's Law is more of an observation. There's nothing to suggest it can continue indefinitely forever.
Impressive.

Unfortunately it also given the nick name "big browser".

Google should clarify things ASAP and radically, otherwise their image might become darker.
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I feel flickr demo is not at all appropriate example for the cappucino.

Further I see the trend more and more web development is shifting to model of desktop application development; as most good programmers can keep whole thing in head while designing complex web application.

jquery is sweet and fits the bill all the time.

Examples for the trend are

1. GWT

2. Apache Wicket

3. Cappuccino
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GIG: I need an admin interface (budget $500)
I have a web app which is essentially one large admin interface. I'm looking for someone to overhaul the design. The app has a number of existing users so I want to work with someone over a few weeks to introduce small changes gradually rather than just change the design overnight.

My budget is $500. I realise that's low but that's what it is. I'm also open to the idea of doing some programming work in exchange for your design work if that's more acceptable to you.

I'm in the UK (northwest) but your location isn't really important. Please get in touch if you think we can work together (learningmatters at tiscali co uk)
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Thanks
I have a friend who's rabidly anti-Facebook, who says that if someone is his real friend they'll phone him (presumably a hundred years ago he'd have been rabidly anti-phone, his real friends would write him letters on parchment). What FB does it it lowers the latency and friction of interactions that would happen anyway. If I want to go to a restaurant, FB lets me know exactly how many I actually need to book a table for just before I call them. If I'm planning an event, everyone going gets a reminder and a map. If I want to send someone a (real) birthday gift, it's an address book that updates itself.

What it might change is the real meaning of the word 'friend', or what it implies - all you can tell from being FB friends is that you're in someone's contact list. It doesn't really supplant real-world relationships.
I'd suggest you to also post to freelancers.net (a UK based gig board).

Btw, checkout a recent article '10 inspiring admin interfaces' - http://nemetral.net/2008/09/03/10-inspiring-admin-interfaces... for some cool ideas.
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http://www.wind-works.org/articles/RoofTopMounting.html

Mounting wind turbines--of any kind--on a building is a very bad idea. I've yet to see an application where this has worked or will likely work. In short, rooftop turbines will not do what their promoters claim and often will cause their owners no end of grief.

http://www.wind-works.org/articles/VentilatorsandSquirrelsin...

Like ducted turbines, a perennial favorite of hucksters and charlatans is, for lack of a better word, squirrel cage rotors. Many are nothing more than roof-top ventilators repackaged as "wind turbines". As ventilators, they work fine. It's when someone tries to couple them to a generator that they quickly learn why wind turbines use two or three slender, airfoil-shaped blades. Most hucksters, however, never progress that far. They never build actual wind turbines, and perchance that they do, they never measure the "wind turbine's" performance. Of course, they wildly exaggerate the potential of these breathtaking new inventions.

Doug Selsam, himself an inventor, has tried to understand why consumers--and the news media--are so gullible. His explanation: ventilators and squirrel-cage rotors are easy to understand, modern wind turbines much less so. After all, a roof-top ventilator with its entire swept area covered with blades looks like it will capture more wind than a modern wind turbine with only a few blades, some with--unbelievably--only one.

In a 2002 internet scam, a company peddling ventilators as "wind turbines" claimed their product would produce nearly five times more electricity than a conventional wind turbine of the same size. Naturally, for this "superior" performance they would charge 2-3 times more than for a real wind turbine. The company asserted that they were "thinking outside the box," a catchphrase of 1990s management gurus. They certainly were. They were not even close to the box. They were on another planet where the laws of physics don't apply.
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You can definitely find a place cheaper than $500/wk in SF. I live in the city, and pay way less than that.
It would be nice to have the option to buy a small wind turbine for your house.

There are small wind turbines available. One has the option. However, why would one choose to excercise it?

I wonder if this would help drive residential solar prices down.

How could it do that?
it probably doesn't, majority of those people are those who just wanted to try it out and see what it was like.
A step backwards IMO... legacy is legacy for a reason. Drop it like its hot.
I would recommend roommates. 3/4 bedrooms are a lot cheaper per person than 1 bedrooms and you get a porch.

If you post that you're looking for roommates here I expect you will find some. Or http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/roo/
Does this automatically update? I'd love to have it constantly running on a spare computer, just showing storm data.
"to check if the addr is live" -- why not just send a spam?
thanks for the tip. I tried elance & co but got nowhere, I'll give freelancers a try

That blog post is what inspired me to get the design sorted :) I can code but I find design really difficult. I'd increase my budget but my app is non-profit
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Ask HN: How do you identify a great software developer in an interview?
Several young (fresh out of college) engineers on my team that I interviewed last year impressed me with their intelligence by way of excellent algorithmic thinking. On my recommendation, they were hired. However, several months into the job, they continue to ask trivial (read: stupid) questions, and don't seem to want to figure things out on their own. Yet other engineers, who I was not impressed by during our interview, have absolutely exceeded my expectations. They have the spirit of a hacker; they dig deep into problems, learn everything within our code base, and are invaluable contributors. How do I identify those people during an interview? Why do my intuitions seem backwards?
500 per week??

The high rents in SF are caused by rent control.

http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-274.html
If you're looking for places to live, I really like San Jose. Sure, it's not, The City(tm), but down town does have a lovely little, urban lite feel to it. There are plenty of working class people and plenty of hackers in the area. It's not the sexy place to live, but heck, for what people are paying for a one bedroom apartment up in SF, I'm getting a 4 bed/2 bath house with a yard and an office big enough for 3 people. And, if I want to go up to Yoshi's and hear some really great jazz, it's only 80 minutes away.
PPT makes me sad :(
I want to read about your JIT scalability, but I'm a lazy linux user!
Try to give a (not too outlandish) problem that they cannot prepare for. People memorize algorithms or can adapt their mathematical knowledge, but when given an obscure or abstract scenario, you can get a good idea of how their mind works. Encourage them to take their time and think out loud so you can understand their process.
I just thought "facebook for spies" was just an analogy. Don't expect "About me" and "Quotes" sections and user profiles. I just assume it will be a way to trade information between agencies via user-defines relationships.

And of course, it won't be a web site connected to the public network.

Hell, I'd be surprised if they didn't have something like this already in place...
I would add, work together with them on a problem that is completely out of their comfort zone and/or background. See what kind of questions they ask, how fast they recognize a dead-end, and whether they learn from what you are trying to explain. If you have a hard time teaching them something new in an interview, probably it's not a good fit.
They fixed the ":%" bug. I assume, since I never tried it in the first version.
I was never a fan of contrived problems with arbitrary solutions. I agree that it offers a certain amount of insight into the interviewees thought process, but I tend to be a fan of problems with provably correct answers that require some rigor. Perhaps that's my problem?
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I don't really mean problems that are unrealistic, just ones that are not everyday issues. Along with that, I think "provably correct answers" are mostly good, but it does not have to be just a single possible answer. I think the best problems are the ones with multiple good avenues, but you can still objectively identify if they take a wrong turn along the way.
Good point. Sorry about that. I just posted a PDF version, let me know if it works for you:

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