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Sydney Flowers 
Buy flowers online at Bouquet de Roses who is one of the leading secure online Sydney florist in Australia. We are selling Sydney flowers online 7 days a week and accepting order 24 hours a day.
Thanks for the comment. Will definitely add functionality for sharing images. I also just purchased textify.it and will be moving this project there.
I read the comment, it seems heavily opinionated touting worldwide numbers with hyperbole and more. Overall it seems the poster has an axe to grind.

I'm not sure if it was constructive. However, the parent poster was asking for sources.
I tried this out and Twitter suspended my new account quickly. Does anyone know what their general limitation is for duplicate tweets?
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Certainly blog posting is somewhat useful, but give feedback directly to the organizer. Assuming that the blog post alone was intended to fill that role, I'd suggest a direct email or perhaps even phone call with the organizers to talk one on one.

As an organizer who just put my first event (indieconf) on last year, and am planning my second iteration, honest feedback is golden. I had a few people who shot from the hip (thanks!), and I'm doing what I can to address those points this time around, but they were mostly minor points. I'm left thinking either no one really cared all that much, or it really was so amazing there's nothing to improve on - I don't think either extreme is true though.

I learned I did something poorly, and am trying to rectify it - getting feedback about particular sessions. Almost all the comment cards given out after the sessions were good or great - a few neutral - but less than a handful that were bad reviews. I initially thought "wow, we did awesome". I then realized people who'd left a session because it wasn't meeting their needs were not filling out the cards in the first place(!). Any ideas about how to collect that sort of feedback, short of specifically asking people to come find me or leave a note at the front desk about egregiously bad experiences? I've noticed people tend to bottle things up at an event, then blog about things later when there's absolutely no chance of fixing anything.
I especially disagree with his/her views on Europeans. If anything, we are more sensitive on those matters than the US, that's why the world's dissidents seek refuge here.
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I would actually be curious how much of this is recourse for Geohot, although there's probably no possible way of empirically finding out. That said, I'd be willing to bet that "people who hack Sony to protest Geohot" and "people who hack Sony to steal other people's credit cards" are two different camps.

As to the Sony being "down", I'd contend they are. Their reputation for security is in the shitter, and any hacks executed now are going to have a far greater effect than they would at any other time (again, I doubt things like this or the Thailand hack would have ever made news sites in any fashion before the PSN outage).
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I seem to remember there was a pretty interesting web framework written in Ada, Adaweb I think?

Anyway, Ada has some other amazingly cool features. The concurrency primitives it offers are very cool, lets you make some much stronger guarantees about the interactions between threads than any other language I've seen. For example, you can define rendezvous sections, which if memory serves, are pieces of code that are guaranteed to only be run once both threads participating in the rendezvous and neither thread can leave the section until both are ready.
While you admit on Twitter [1] that your post is formulaic to get attention, I can't exactly let you get away with your second point regarding VCs and Angels. You are in Cape Town, which tells me we can be visiting different conferences or having very different experiences, but in the case of those I've seen/participated in, the story is very different. The angels I frequently see speak have indeed written lines of code. The fact that you're posting this on this very site is ironic, considering who runs it.

Want to look at a few high profile examples?

* Chris Dixon: needs no intro, coded many lines of code at and before hunch.

* Conway: a salesman in the past, you take this one (although he's seen more startups than you've written LOC)

* Hoffman: has written many LOC

* Thiel: yup

* Andreessen: I've seen it first-hand

* Bezos: yup

* Sacca: business guy, no LOC

* Paul Graham: you're using his LOC to drive traffic to your site

The list goes on. Fact is there are angel investors and VCs that have not written software, but since when does that truly actually matter when they're giving you advice on how to run a business, namely finding out what people want and give it to them? Your comment in this very thread about banning speakers who use office for their slides (who cares?) tells me of your naivety, but here's a final tip: be formulaic all you want, but talk about things you know for a fact.

[1] https://twitter.com/jasonadriaan/status/72972319080976384
Totally. In fact despite my using the name (which GTD'ers would recognise), I don't get the brand aspect of it at all. I bought it just to see why the paper-users fawned over it, and I've found a 20c ring-bound notebook worked better since I could easily tear pages out.
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Funny, I (as an Austrian) am used to hearing that Munich is one of the most expensive cities in Germany.
Ask HN: Interesting papers on weather prediction?
The other day I was watching the weather forecast on TV, and started wondering exactly what kind of algorithms those meteorological boffins are running on their supercomputers to predict whether or not it will rain tomorrow.

Can anyone suggest some good papers to serve as a technical introduction to information processing/algorithms for weather prediction?

(Target audience: I'm a professional software developer with a working knowledge of data mining and related fields, and a barely-remembered knowledge of high school physics.)
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I dragged in a screenshot of OSX. Makes the dock look cool ;-)
I for one was really hoping that this was going to be more ironic than it actually was...
I agree. The tab hogs memory and kills the browser.
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If you're shelling out to PHP to execute the themes (which is likely to take up the bulk of processing time outside of talking to the database), why write the rest of the CMS in a language other than PHP?
Use it if you want break all the working addons for nothing.
lol, I was also thinking about loudspeakers before I read the post.

But serious: I hate it when they use party (subwoofer and all) speakers for speech. Every plosive will shake the room. It's very annoying and tiring to listen to.
Don't worry about "developing your personal professional brand" - just work. Stop trying to be strategic, and instead spend your time actually doing freelance work for money, which you need right now. Then, later, you won't have to develop a brand, because it will have happened by itself ("I'm the guy who did this great work for this long list of clients").
I don't have a current one to share but back in 2005 I decided to do a 24 hour project in Rails and built a tagged source code site called Code Snippets (it wasn't the first code snippets site but the first with tagging to get any traction). I let it run in the background with just a couple of tweaks here and there for just over 2 years and it was making $1000ish per month from Adsense with zero effort by me. I then sold it for a healthy 5 figures. It's still running at a new URL: http://snippets.dzone.com/
Hakim, you always make cool things. :)
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New twitter account, which mass tweets gets suspended immediately. I would suggest to use a relatively old twitter account. For old accounts, you can tweet around 100 tweets per hour, and 1000 tweets total in a day.
The way to do it is to work hard. No hints, secret strategies, or clever tricks. Just work hard, deliver results, and get referrals from happy customers.
Hey @f. Firstly you're reading my tweets out of context. Yep I'm sure the environment is vastly different and that VCs and Angels are more salted in the States. The names on your list I would obviously PAY to see. But this doesn't hold true for the guys surfacing in Africa and asked to speak at conferences.
The list of bugfixes is hardly nothing:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/5.0beta/releasenotes/bu...
I understand it to mean you should take time out in order to improve the overall quality of your work.

Be that training, a vacation, or the literal "sharpening of the axe."
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I totally agree. I think this project is taking the whole user interface paradigm to wrong way. It's confining the usability to the limitations of an existing design, which is not a good approach for anything.
Why do we have version 5 already?
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The project has been christened Lodha World One and will be built on a 17-acre site at Upper-Worli (south-Mumbai). It will include a 117-storeyed high tower, around 1,450 feet, Lodha Word One stands as the tallest residential tower in the world, The Lodha World One complex, which will have two more towers, shall offer 300 exclusive 3-4 bedroom flats, lavish villas with private swimming pools and a few duplex suites. Every detail seamlessly comes together, making it unquestionably the city most coveted address
I don't know where people are getting the idea that Europe pays software developers $3000-$4000 per month. Maybe in eastern Europe, but in Switzerland, you can expect double that amount.. after tax.
I am not able to ping anything from this emulator... Apology if its a stupid question
And the purpose?
It loads again, I guess the short time on the HN front page was enough to get the blog down for a while.
Here is how I see things:

1. Updates should not only be applied in sequence.

It is better to produce a binary diff between any two versions, and apply only that (one) binary diff. The reason for this isn't efficiency, but semantics. Updates not only fix things, but break things. Meaning, updates corrupt application state (data), both in-memory and on-disk. It can be disastrous to apply an intermediate update that removes state, only to realize that a future version reversed the semantics and needs to use that state (which was available, but is now gone).

Peserving backward compatibility is important, which means the ability to skip some version updates is necessary. To the extent possible, reversing updates is important too.

2. The ideal update system should apply updates live, not offline.

With a model that accounts for updating the entire state of an application, updating live is possible. The reason most updates are not applied live yet is that the model is not descriptive enough to change the entire state of the running application.

Notable state that should be updated, but often isn't, is continuations and the stack. This is why GUI applications need to be shut down to update.

Scheme's call/cc (call-with-current-continuation) solved making changes to continuations and stack state decades ago better than Erlang. Erlang cannot force stacks unroll or continue from arbitrary points.

3. Updates must be produced with source code and programmer input.

Updates should not be produced with binaries as input.

The reason is the need to account for application semantics, which binaries do not expose in the detail source code does. Although automated, sophisticated semantic-diffing based on control-flow can be developed, it is sometimes inconclusive whether an update will break things.

4. It is necessary for programmers to provide live update guidance.

In the cases where producing provably safe dynamic updates is not possible, it is input from the programmer that can clear any conservatism of the safety certification process.

Tools are needed for programmers to reason about the semantic safety of their live updates, integrated in the development process. Including tools that help transform application state between versions.
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In what way is this new? It seems like it's just a fork of qemu with fault injection. i don't see how that's helpful to a general audience.
I guess I could to that but it would be an e-mail to like hundreds of people, easier just to blog about it. Also this is much more entertaining :P
I've recently ditched paper in favor of org-mode. It took about 3 months of using org-mode before I was comfortable enough to consider using it for my task items. Even then I needed to wait until org-mode was more embedded in my daily workflow than going through my stack of paper notes.

I think part of the problem with other task apps is that they try to be really good at one thing; organizing tasks. The problem with this is that you want to spend as little time as possible organizing tasks, which means the apps marginalize themselves by nature. You don't get enough time to learn how to use them, you forget to check in, you keep stuff in your head, etc.

For me, org-mode worked because I spend a lot of time organizing things other than tasks in it. But if I wasn't already familiar with it, I'd be spending too much time trying to figure out how to use it and I'd probably forget to check it.

The problem generalizes to this: organizing tasks is not a generic problem. The problem is highly informed by your life. Paper works because you can do whatever you want with it. It only looks like people using paper are using the same system. They're probably not.
I struggle to see how "her" could be considered gender-neutral. In my opinion that's just making the same mistake all over again.

Not meaning to dismiss the underlying issue though. I just think that, short of inventing a new word, singular "their" makes a lot more sense.
Was 'the organizer' hundreds of people? Maybe I didn't understand the type of function it was. Typically there's just one or a small group of people who coordinate an event like that. Giving them your direct feedback will help make future events better. :)
IndexedDB?
More succinctly, "Where's the beef?"
You did a smart thing (from a vote-getting perspective) by omitting the words "South Africa" from your title.
I stopped going to conferences in my area for this very reason. Even the "unconferences" that are supposed to be by and for developers are riddled with marketing people and money people. Both very important roles to be sure, but I cannot fathom why they continue to overwhelm tech conferences.

They should be at marketing conferences and business conferences.
Firefox is moving to a more Chrome-style of version numbering, to try and get enhancements out to the web quicker.
I do agree with all of this but I like to think that with some collective effort we'd only be some iterations away for these kind of apps ("Shiny Real World Magazine Simulation") to evolve into something of equal, possibly even better quality?

I don't talk about e.g. games or navigation apps nor am I denying the polish which went into the different native mobile frameworks/platforms.

I, for one, welcome our heterogenous appscape.
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This is actually nothing new. Without meaning to criticize the author's efforts, the whole paper has a strong feel of being "reinventive". There are several algorithms for this in use since long (almost all of which were made specifically to improve video game console emulators) such as the early EPX algo from 1992, and the newer MAME algorithms and hqx.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_art_scaling_algorithms
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropomorphism
Actually the first beta of FF5 is available for almost a month on their ftp here

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/5.0b1/
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I think you're right about the danger of conditioning users to trust a certain symbol. See also: anything with a yellow padlock icon or a brightly coloured shield icon.

> To summarize, it is worse for a consumer to be misled about a website's privacy policy than to not display one at all.

On a related note, the descriptions for the negative icons aren't in the form "can't promise this good thing", they are in the form "does this bad thing". If Mozilla started displaying those negative icons against any site just because the site didn't follow their non-standard privacy policy protocol/mark-up, then that would be not only misleading to users but potentially damaging to sites that really do take privacy seriously and happen to say so in plain $LANGUAGE rather than using Mozilla's pre-defined, machine-readable categories. That also sounds to me like a lawsuit waiting to happen if anyone's traffic stats suggest that they are taking a hit because of Mozilla's misdescription.
Still, there's no reason to break bugfixes. Heck, a lot of them still work, if you flag some "developer mode", but you don't need to do that in Chrome.

Who care's if Mozilla has more extensions? They cause too much trouble when you upgrade.
If your site has a 5-day waiting period that I can skip and reduce to 15 minutes by tweeting about you, then with all due respect please do not be surprised if come to think that you may be lying through your teeth.
It appears as if this will be a great tool for developing device drivers.
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That isn't really the internet, just a web proxy.
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I agree with ehutch79, x86 virtualisation is well over 10 years old. There are many free (both as in freedom and as in beer) virtualisation options available currently, does FAUmachine cream everything else in terms of performance or ease of management or something?

I don't mean to detract from the academic aspects, nor from the effort that must have been put in. But "next cool thing"?
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The Chinese intranet.
Can't say in details. Broadly:

* checking specific configuration items,

* performing deployment in a specific order (even when it doesn't matter),

* testing deployment step-wise (so you know certain things work when debugging something that doesn't)

... and so on. We start with a checklist, and we then push as much as we can do automated scripts. At the end of a deployment we have a checklist to ask what can be moved from checklists to scripts. Next time round we do both to check that the script works, then reduce the checklist.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

It's making it "the norm" that's having the biggest effect. People are starting to know that certain things will work, and it releases them from tedious checking.
Hm, still no win64 build available.

I mean they don't have to promote it through their website, just put it on the ftp. Take advantage of the dev-channel for some testing.
Yeah, I know, I don't need Flash ...
Don't forget my idol/hero, Mark Suster - he's also originally a developer.

The guy is a genius. He has a way to put complex thoughts into understandable words.
It is aimed at debugging embedded systems, not at server virtualization. Performance and ease of management are not so imporant in this case, configurability and ease of writing virtual devices is.
I think you're right that they're likely anticipating this.

Legal cases are like chess - a series of small moves rather than one big bang and it's done.

Lodsys will undoubtedly have hoped that Apple wouldn't involve itself but it would seem unlikely they're going to be put off by a single letter. The very earliest I'd expect them to drop it would be the point at which they got a court summons from Apple or the point at which a settlement was reached (still I'm guessing the most likely outcome).

The next move will likely be an open letter from Lodsys disputing Apple's view and reasserting their claim which will put the ball back in Apple's court but I'd also guess that alongside the public discussions there will likely be private ones going on to which we'll obviously not be privy.
Pragmatic, I would guess.

"Quite frankly, I'd like there to be more competition in the open source compiler game, and that might cause some upheavals, but on the whole, gcc actually does a pretty damn good job."

http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Volatile_Performance
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After a few years of fence-sitting doing a lot of ruby, I find myself... still sitting on the fence. My next project will probably be in erlang and haskell, for what it's worth.
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Because openings for parking lot attendants are scarce on the ground?
Or to try and get more free cake from the IE team ;)
An idea without execution isn't worth anything.

You'll be doing all the work up front and then all the work maintaining and improving.

You're also not a flight risk as it sounds like you're in it for the long haul.

They also sound like they're not convinced, which means they either haven't though it through or they're not worth the risk.

Good luck with the decision. I would vote a no for them as it sounds like you deserve better and if you keep looking, you'll find some cofounders worth taking the startup risk with.
What kind of process did you go through to get your merchant account?

What kind of process does one go through to set up a Square account to take payments?
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To make things worse, they have to protect their trademark aggressively, else they do become generic:

"The courts read any failure to protect your trademark as good reason for the courts to not help you protect it later when you find the infringement significant. As the trademark attorney in the clip noted, Elevator, Thermos, Aspirin, and Trampoline all lost their rights to their trademarks, because they didn't "police" their trademarks."

From: http://stosselintheclassroom.org/video_activityMar08.html

(Important for startups:

http://blog.startupipservices.com/archives/top-startup-trade...

I'm sure you knew already, but it doesn't hurt to reinforce the importance of trademarks.)

Edit: dotBen made a similar point further down the thread

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2578717
Big company with many independent websites has lots of independent vulnerabilities. OK, I get it already. Probably true for many companies.
If I wanted Chrome features, I'd download Chrome. The reason I use FF is /because/ I don't want to use Chrome. If FF just copies from other browsers, why have FF at all?
My most recent project is £18 in the black :D
"That's rare enough to elicit my surprise, interesting."
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We created one called http://www.creatorfinder.com/ which helps developers showcase their verified portfolio.

It also adds a watermark for images created by designers. That helps designers to show verified websites that they have helped design.

No plans on making money yet. But we do have a fair number of registrations every day!
It is so painful to witness elected stupidity in action.

My sympathies to all the Royal & Mitterrand voters - seems like Sarkozy is rapidly becoming the new G.W. Bush.
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