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@ChuckMcM - "Disclaimer though is that I was one of the Java guys and I had completely bought into the notion of 'write once, run anywhere'. Making that true turned out to be impossible for a number of reasons, not the least of which that the underlying OS providers were hostile to the idea."

"Configuration Management is a Hard Problem (tm) on any system and people see the Windows eco-system or the MacOS eco-system and feel like they should be able to do that cross-platform."

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I'll just pipe in here real quick as cross-platform Java apps are core to the open source / middleware product I'm releasing called TyphonRT this summer. It's something I've personally worked on for many years well before Android's emergence. Fragmentation is difficult to solve alone across the variety of OS and device differentiation in the Android ecosystem without even considering cross-platform compatibility with the J2SE.

TyphonRT is one such effort though and is built with a scalable configuration system via a component architecture. Major engineering of the client SDK / runtime will hopefully wrap up by the end of June with a closed beta for those interested w/ public launch end of summer / Q3.

To support distribution across the Android ecosystem and desktop configurations part of TyphonRT is a PaaS system such as when a TyphonRT app is installed it will download any OS or device specific modifications / alternate components to "patch" or provide a stable middleware layer in attempt to keep that write once / run anywhere promise or get as close as possible.

Of note I'll also be dumping over 10 years of solid Java real time app / game dev knowledge too through an expanding tutorial series w/ lots of code examples styled in a similar manner to Khan Academy.

http://www.typhonrt.org/

Ok not to hijack this thread, but the work I am doing as an indie / startup is relevant to this discussion. This kind of solution with the current landscape surrounding Java is only going to come from the open source / indie area.
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Do any HN'ers actually read Entrepreneur magazine?
Ah! Another Emacs user who likes to spread 6 windows across a 1920-wide display. I knew I couldn't be the only one :-)

I use XEmacs with the 6x10 font, and can get three windows across, each 100 characters wide, all in the same frame (it takes a little fiddling to set up, but then I keep the session around a long time).
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I totally agree with you, except that since I use mint, the only time I'm on there is when I suspect mint is out of date, or to mess with my bill pay stuff, so maybe 2 or 3 times a month. I was envisioning a bank that offered the perks of somewhere like Schwab or ING, but with better UI/UX.
Does XY Combinator take 6% equity in the relationship? Does this include part-ownership of any potential offspring?
Can you elaborate? I don't know if this is empty snark, enlightened or otherwise?
I don't understand why YC is even mentioned in this blog post if the purpose is to encourage people to apply to Techstars (other than the obvious: to be linkbait). The best way to get people to apply is just to talk about your experiences and how the program helped your company, regardless of how it compares to other programs (Just google to find dozens of great blog posts by founders on their YC experience, none of which trash other programs while claiming to be unbiased).

Sure, the OP mentions that lots of YC and Techstars founders have already sung the praises of each, but I for one still enjoy reading about each company's unique experience, so more posts in the vein is in no way redundant. It's also much, MUCH more exciting than all this YC vs. Techstars nonsense. Let's keep the focus on the startups rather than the startup accelerators.
E-mail is easy to send but is not as effective as an introduction for that reason. You might see if you know someone in common and ask them to introduce you. Expecting an advisor to be friendly to strangers is a high bar.Ditto if you are trying to reach prospects or partners.
there are no consumers and vendors.

there's only traders.

this protects the criminal banking industry by keeping people out. you think these monkey bankers can't afford $1 million?

this is market entry barriers and you paranoid idiots are letting them get away with it.
then use bitcoin. no money to get out it only takes a few minutes.
I used to. Like another comment says, because of the name many aspiring entrepreneurs read it.

The thing is, when you don't know what you don't know it takes a while to recognize good advice from piles of obvious bullshit like this magazine articles.
I'm curious if it would stand up in court.

Microsoft owns the trademark for "Windows", but walk into a hardware store and you'll see dozens of companies that freely use windows in their name. I've never heard of Microsoft going after them.
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Re: #3... This is not an issue if your screen has sufficient brightness. I got a Dell u2410 and it's matte and seriously bright
That rate is what our accountant told me to put into the accounting software. I didn't actually see the statement. I can tell your that our average transaction is $205 and it's all card-present. There were 1031 transactions over two days. Maybe the tiers average out to that rate.
it's part of preventing small fry from getting in.

you could easily base the bond on volume.

the more transactions you do the more you must put in bond.

this again perpetuates the unnecessary division between individual and institution.
Why not take 16:9 and do portrait orientation?
You guys built that in 24 hours? Killer job! I skimmed the javascript... How do you collaborate on something like that? Does one person write most of javascript, and one person mostly do design, etc? Or is everyone mostly working on some aspect of the javascript?
I think the -Wconversion-null warnings are the other way around:

int i = NULL;

Because of C++'s conflation of NULL and 0 (and now C++0x's nullptr).
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I think you might be surprised at how much you can contribute and recognize in a collaborative design environment. If just one person spoke up at an architectural design session (well.. meeting..) about how they hate how they cannot tell which way a door will open, there would be many less frustrating doors in my life :)

Inexperience at design means that you shouldn't be leading but that does not mean you cannot contribute!
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I also find 16:9 to be way more common than 16:10, such that all the high resolution 27" monitors I found were all 16:9!!! I prefer 16:10 fir the extra vertical space. More lines of code
Ok. So I'm correct in thinking that for my own domains that I manage it boils down to the same thing, e.g. there is no reason to prefer www CNAMEs over domain A records.

Just wanted to check if I'm missing something.
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You mean, like "realtor"? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Association_of_Realtor...

> Realtor is a frequently-used word in many countries to describe any person or company involved in the real estate trade, regardless of their NAR status or American residence. However, in the United States, the National Association of Realtors in 1949 and 1950 obtained registrations for the words "Realtor" and "Realtors" as collective trade marks.

> In 2003, Jacob Joseph Zimmerman, a real estate agent who was not a member of NAR, petitioned the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to cancel the trademarks, on the ground that "Realtor" and "Realtors" were generic terms rather than a trademark. On March 31, 2004, the USPTO's Trademark Trial and Appeal Board denied the petition.
I would prefer a choice for the same price, no matte surcharge
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Is that seriously true? As a graduate of DreamIt Ventures, I can confirm that it's also not the case with DreamIt. We spent most of our time building, first month included.
I had to reread the article to confirm that that sentence is actually in there. I honestly can't believe that a program which focuses on launching successful companies prioritizes "building your actual product" below meetings and finding mentorship.

I can't remember who said it, but I read somewhere that "the goal of every startup should be to stop being a startup" (the moral was that a startup is a fledgling business, and you should be trying to mature that business rather than staying in the beginning stages forever). If you're more interested in meeting people and talking about startups than you are in actually working on your startup, something is probably wrong. Not that this is a bad thing, but you should reevaluate whether being a startup founder is right for you.
What I don't get is, on a display like an iMac where the front surface of the display is glass, why doesn't Apple offer an optical coating (i.e., anti-reflection coating) option?

Optical coating used to be standard on high-end CRT monitors. It seems like the right solution here as well. I wouldn't miss the matte finish nearly so much if I could get the glossy screen coated.
This is my take on writing the next great writing app for iOS devices. Writing Kit is built for unitasking in mind, and it works great with the workflow of 'write something, open up browser to find reference materials, add them to documents, export, send to different services'.

Here's the pitch, in case you guys read comments before checking out the link:

Advanced Markdown Text Editor...

Write Markdown-formatted text. Use your favorite TextExpander snippets. Do quick research to find reference materials. Insert quotes and links into your documents. Upload images to CloudApp. Export your writings as Markdown or HTML files. Send them to Evernote, Facebook, Posterous, Tumblr and Twitter. Or use the generated HTML for your blog post. Your choice.

... Meets Awesome Web Browser

Use the power of 750+ site-specific search engines to find the materials you need. Enable Ad blocking and Text-only mode to enjoy a reading experience without visual clutters. Access your bookmarks on Delicious, Pinboard and Zootool. Browse your Instapaper unread items. Queue interesting links to view them later. Writing Kit is built for researching and looking up stuff.

I've been working on the app non-stop for months and now finally be able to ship it. Love to hear your feedback on the website, and the app itself.
Here's a sideways look at this:

If you have a trademark you are legally required and compelled to go after anyone who is infringing on it. Otherwise it is deemed that you have let it lapse into the public domain.

enter debate on trademarks, patents, blah blah etc...

My point is that clearly EMI should not have been awarded a trademark on the term "entrepreneur" in the first place. However, once that trademark was granted, there was no other option but for them to start aggressively guarding it.

(and to a lesser extent EMI, if they had any decency, shouldn't have attempted to trademark it).

Don't hate the player, hate the game, etc
I don't see this replacing cash registers. Think of places like the grocery store. Porting all that coupon / discount code?? Too much work
No one is likely to confuse panes of glass with an operating system. If those same hardware companies started selling branded software, or probably even computer hardware for that matter, it would likely be a different story.
Unlike what job? Aircraft mechanic? Pilot? Street cleaner?
I think Google could handle spending a bit of extra time on a single diff, in order to save 25% of their update bandwidth. Maybe they should just implement the thesis.
Why am i attempting to find a post-doctorate position?
Trademarks are granted for certain products and services. In Microsoft's case, it's computer services or something. If you try to offer an operating system with a name that has Windows in it, then you would be sued.

Here's an example: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Microsoft_vs....
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I am reminded of a movement by some government agency perhaps 15 years ago to regulate what people called a 2x4 (two-by-four). Since it wasn't exactly 2" by 4", there was some punitive-sounding regulation attempt at acting on this. This is a basic element in every wooden building, and everyone involved with buildings knows that it is not exactly two inches by four inches after planing. Fortunately, the idea did not go very far.

Let's not make our own individual confusion into some rule of law.
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Expected lifetime wages of college majors
Hmm.

"Whitespace is not special, it actually behaves the same as any other undefined variable, which is nothing. You can set a space to some value and use it like any other variable. This has the potential to cause hard to track down errors if you accidently set it without knowing."

Is solving a problem in a minimal number of printable characters really worthwhile if you end up having to expend a huge number of actual keystrokes rewriting it and debugging it? It seems like you could solve problems in a smaller amount of actual, elapsed time in a language like Python.

Interesting to see someone focus on the compactness of the code specifically, though. Languages like Brainfuck seem to be compact only because it tends to obfuscate meaning.
I can imagine several reasons why the European situation is different from the US. First of all, many of the "best" services aren't available here for practical (e.g. Amazon Prime; with the exception of some EU countries like Germany) or legal reasons (e.g. anything to do with content distribution apart from the likes of iTunes). Most consumers will pay for content, but in Europe the options are limited and often come restricted to a particular platform (iTunes).

Another reason is payments. Credit cards are a lot less common here and the culture regarding them is quite different from what you see in the US. A lot of the American-centric services require credit cards which means they are simply not an option for many Europeans. That being said, alternative payment options are becoming increasingly mainstream (e.g. iDEAL[0]).

Another big factor is culture and generational differences. For example, a lot of kids here buy stuff through their phones, using paid text messages (e.g. ringtones and games).
You have to be careful when using your immediate social environment as a benchmark. I assume that in the US online service consumption is quite different in rural Indiana compared to the situation in California, for example. We're both Dutch and it is part of our culture and Calvinist heritage to not want to seem wasteful by spending money on frivolous crap.

People only want to spend money on something that gives them some kind of tangible benefit (including entertainment). This explains why online shopping is already huge in Europe, because it is the most straight forward deal in terms that non-technical people understand very well: you pay for physical goods. As I mentioned before, our (legal) online media consumption is hindered by a myriad of licensing issues[1]. This explains why normal people don't subscribe to the likes of Hulu here. But the younger generations do tend to spend money on gaming subscriptions and perks (e.g. paid items). Regular people mostly spend money on entertainment, so that is why your relations aren't paying for things like Github. Their employers, or schools, however, are. Services targeting professional users are doing quite well here.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDEAL
[1]: And, possibly, by the fact that downloading content "illegal" isn't necessarily illegal in many EU jurisdictions (and otherwise not really prosecuted).
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Fwiw, I'm a programmer and not attracted to artists. I think art is fine if you want to do it, but it can be hard to make a living that way. I also don't think going to college for art is a great idea, because that major doesn't help you pay back the loans. Now if you can go for free that's another story

Also, programming can often be art. Think of Quine programs.
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Non-shortened actual direct link is http://www.amazon.com/Born-This-Way-digital-booklet/dp/B0051...

Also without lots of parameters that might or might not include an affiliate strings.

Please do not post shortened URLs here. It is obfuscation.
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Both are guilty of this. EMI wasn't under duress to trademark it.
would love to collaborate on it - ideally find a way to push the PDE directly. Interested?
Same with my HP LP2475w.
Long live Shakespeare. A simple cron job = culture++ on Twitter.
I would also add that Ada compilers do generate some surprisingly efficient executables. This helps quite a lot in the embeded space.
That's because trademarks only apply to a particular line of business - specific 'goods and services'. Along the same lines, if I wanted to open a business called Dell in the line of plumbing, that would be fine as long as I stayed away from the computing business under that name. Sometimes, there's a conflict when the definitions may overlap - Apple Corps (Records) vs. Apple Computer, for instance.
I lived in Boston on $800/month. It's no picnic, but it's not hard.
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You're right in general, but that example doesn't support it: MS didn't win, but bought the trademark. For $20 million.
Unless someone else was threatening to trademark it instead.

I have personal experience of someone having to trademark something simply because if they didn't the other party was going to and then they'd have no choice but to lose all rights to it.

Like I said enter discussion about the brokenness of patents, trademarks, etc
Such terse languages have a long history -- going back all the way to APL. Current environments, like K and J, continue the legacy but their syntax only includes glyphs from the ASCII character set as opposed to APL's specialized keyboard. The FALSE [1] and F [2] languages are similar to GolfScript, the former being a stack-based language, minimalistic compiler, and inspiration for Brainfuck. The latter is a more recent implementation and purely functional implementation in K.

[1]: http://strlen.com/false-language
[2]: http://www.nsl.com/k/f/f.htm
That the patent exists and was legally acquired is not up for debate.
I updated my comment. I wouldn't approach it from the idea of a php parser. Also, don't assume that its a couple of "shitty themes". I hate to tell you this, but wordpress wouldn't be where it it today without these "shitty themes". Writing a blog engine in node.js is a great start, but to gain traction you need to appeal to the masses.
I think this relates to the whole problem of student loan repayment. It would seem that if you get an engineering degree from an in-state public school, you should have no trouble getting a job and making the payments. However for those who got a humanities degree from an expensive private school, I imagine it's much more difficult.

I think our educators and parents need to start emphasizing picking STEM majors over humanities, because STEM majors will be able to repay the loans easier. Or, if you really want a liberal arts degree, just double major that with an engineering / CS degree.
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Here's a list of other trademark litigation cases: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Microsoft_lit...
The application is actually in the form of answers to questions stored as a repo on github
That's kind of a can of worms.

On one hand, you probably wouldn't be noticed for not suing people for the name. No one would really have the opportunity to appreciate your benign decision to not engage an exclusivity to your trademark.

On the other hand, if you were so benign, then one day another magazine comes along, called "New Entrepreneur", and you try to defend yourself - only to find your case thrown out when they can prove you routinely don't defend your trademark.

But then again, doesn't that lead to another point? You can defend that you don't seek to have the trademark ubiquitously across industries, just in the magazine and publication industry.

Or is trademark law so sweeping that a business is unable to have a trademark in only the practicing industry? (If so, Square & Square Enix come to mind as outliers from this example.)
Learning something is not a creative process, but finding better ways at doing it (after learning) makes you an artist. Same rule applies to learning following skills:
- Music
- A programming language
- Cooking
Brainfuck is obscure, but only because of its restricted character set. 8 operators is not very expressive and requires large, but eventually recognizable, idioms to get most common tasks done. Languages like J [1] keep the terse syntax but have a much more expressive set of operators. J is also very regular, so once one knows the basic vocabulary the programmer is able to infer the meanings of more complicated operators. Compactness itself is not what obfuscates meaning.

[1]: http://www.jsoftware.com/
Wordpress drops support for IE6 would be a much better title, as it described the article content
Apple has the money and volume to get whatever size they want.
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If you depend on other systems to commute (VTA, BART, etc...), then 45 minutes makes a huge difference. A one-way trip from South Bay to East Bay can easily take 3 hours if you take VTA+Caltrain+BART+Muni, while by car it takes just 30-45 minutes.
Case in point: shawn inman
Wouldn't you get a code explosion and difficulties dealing with cache coherency if every path was a hot path (serious question, I don't know much about this stuff)?
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Clang has support for a lot of gcc extensions: http://clang.llvm.org/docs/LanguageExtensions.html
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Stardock was one of the victims that had a game called it.
Amen! I don't understand the people that have cable and make this argument... it's crazy! For the people that don't have cable, $8 is sure a heck of a lot cheaper than the alternatives!
Yes, it should. your the 2nd to comment on the comments.
Will update the site later on.
I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but really anyone who wants to get into this game has to play by the rules.

Even a tiny startup company full of web 2.0 rockstars who hate software patents will be advised to patent as much as they can, because if they don't, some other count will come along and patent their stuff from under them and force THEM to pay.

Pretty much nobody likes the software patent system except for software patent trolls, and as such we have to deal with it. Software patents won't go away until bad people go away.
The Polymorphic Inline Caching paper refers to AOT compiling with runtime hints.

In the case of non-dynamic languages like C and C++ that clang generally targets, are there other examples of where JIT would make things possible that are not possible in AOT?
It's the time wasted waiting for rarely appearing public transportation that is the problem.
Works fine for me. Ps. this is AWESOME!
Walk. These guys are amateurs looking for an easy ride after watching The Social Network.
The stepped-by-seniority approach is how my current employer has it. I'm not sure how I feel about it.
I like the idea behind the icons, however these tend to be judgement calls, or at least prone to being "optimistically" interpreted by interested parties.