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Agreed. Launch first, then iterate :)

Do a soft launch if you want, but get it out there!
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This is one of the best - don't call it a defense - summaries of today's tech I've read in a long time.
> "Some people might think that tech is a flash in the pan. It’s true that the raging popularity of consumer software (like iPhone apps) might die down in a little while. But software is more than consumer products. Software is in the back-end of everything. Software runs public transportation. Software builds buildings. Software designs toilets. Software spreads the news. Software boxed that cereal. Software ran that hospital. It’s not going away any time soon."
I read that out loud to my wife, and she said, "They always said that soon the world would be run by machines, but it already is."
I replied, "And in a world of machines, engineers reign."
Great idea, but I think this would be much improved by some standardized test cases, especially for the algorithms. I saw a lot of haphazard 3-input tests.
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IIRC, BlackBerry phones can be managed remotely. A nice use case for this feature is to shut down and wipe a stolen/lost phone with confidential information on it. I also believe that data (call log, text messages) can be retrieved remotely. I'm going out on a limb here in saying this, so I'll go look for something to cite.

EDIT: BlackBerry Enterprise Service is what I was thinking of. There's a least one tool that you can use with BES, Retain by GWAVA, that will track and store your employee's text message.
In this case though, they say their market is for HPC clusters and embedded computing, which are two areas where most processes are likely to be CPU-intensive.
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I'm glad they're doing this, but it's sad that it's news. We ought to be able to take for granted the freedom to run whatever software we want on the computers we buy. (Don't tell me a cellphone running Android isn't a computer. You know better.)
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No offense, but you sound like a broken western propaganda record. Having been born in USSR, I know a lot of highly educated people that grew up, went to universities, and built various careers in the USSR. While none think communism is perfect, or even worked in that particular case, it has a lot of merits and these people recognize them.

As Putin said, (paraphrased) "anyone who doesn't miss Soviet Union doesn't have a heart; anyone who wants to bring it back doesn't have a brain." I think this reflects well people's feelings towards the regime. It didn't work in the long run, but it wasn't all bad - far from it.
As I understand it, this is very standard lawsuit boiler plate, such that if they later realize there is another party involved, they can just tell the court, "so-and-so is Doe 1," allowing them to very rapidly fold in new parties without refiling the suit.
That's equivalent to claiming Assembly is always faster than other languages, because every program is just an algorithm. It's completely incorrect - I guarantee you I can write an implementation of an algorithm in Assembly that is slower than the same algorithm implemented in Ruby.
PHP, Ruby, Python. All of these translate into other languages, and with multiple ways of interpreting/compiling them, you get both the flexibility of an interpreted language and the speed of a compiled language.
Thanks for the advice, Troy!

As for learning .NET over the summer, there definitely isn't enough free time in the incubator/program – it's half-education, half-building-companies.

Re: .NET developers charging enterprise rates, that's something I've heard anecdotally. Do you (or anyone else on HN) know if it's actually true? Payscale says that a "software engineer" with 2 years experience with .NET costs about the same as 2 years of experience with Rails...
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> On top of that, this is FOSS, which means his weeks of investment is multiplied every time someone downloads and uses his code.

Excellent point.

Also, I didn't mean to talk specifically about his parser, it was just used as a general example.

It is just that in my experience, engineers (I am guilty too) have a tendency to spend time micro-optimizing without, in the end, making a difference in overall user-experience. For example, stuff like choosing to write a GUI app in C++ when it could have been whipped up in Python in a fraction of time and lines of code. The menus will open in 10ms instead of 3ms but maybe it doesn't really matter from user
s point of view.

Same holds for most data that ends up in IO choke-points. Even memory today in SMP architectures is a choke-point. Spend time hand-optimizing CPU bound code only to find out that it ends up waiting on a lock, in a disk, network buffer, or for some user input.

Also micro-optimizations are often not future-proof. Many cache-friendly data structures and algorithms for example, assume a particular cache line size, or particular characteristics of hardware that just happen to change. Even in the assembly case, today we have 32bit, 64bit and ARM common target architectures, each with various levels of SSE extension support and other features, so one can spend a lot of time, maintaining and tweaking all of them.
Correct - that was also a post by Roger Ebert: http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2011/01/post_4.html
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Yeah it's just as bad in Australia. Having paid for a ticket you don't want to have advertising and a whole heap of previews shoved down your throat. I don't mind parts so much, but needs to be kept to say 2 for about 5 minutes only.
I remember Paul Obrien tweeting that the GSII was really open, seemed to actively encourage modding. Twitter search is horibble so I can't find the tweet now though.
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Ask HN: Why LAMP for the next Social Network?
The very popular LAMP setup is persistent in the community. Its open source, its widely available and after all, past Social Networks have done just fine using Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP.

Why PHP? Why not something more elegant like Python or Ruby? My strength is PHP. Should I stop being choosy and just get hacking?
You are correct. And I learned to type with my right thumb exclusively, so it was very, very useful to me.

It wasn't quite my first keyboard, though. My first was the one that came with our Apple ][ GS (and I had previously used the Apple computers at school), though I did start to learn proper typing around that time.

Even though I haven't used it for years, I still use my right thumb exclusively when pressing the spacebar.
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It's interesting in Australia it seemed when pirated films first started appearing they did effect audience numbers. It turned around though and people went back to theatres for the better experience, all they have done though is jacked up the price and added more ads/ previews.
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Can you say anything about what made ElephantDB + MaryJane better than HBase for your workload? (Occasional batch loads that then need random reads but not random inserts?)
Australia does have an SWF, the Future Fund - it is one of the top dozen in the world by size:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Government_Future_Fu...

Although the current government would like to impose a new resources tax (and a carbon tax) and spend it all as part of budget rather than banking it in the fund (which was mostly financed by the privatization of national telecom)
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I appreciate that The Economist takes a hard line on the reality of Australia's position, as clearly a comparison to California is wild. Last I checked California's population was roughly double the entire country of Australia, not to mention the vast differences in GDP and economy.

Australia has a lot going for it, but many problems that will hold it back.
Firstly, the Australian economy will live and die by mining. The Australian dollar has been so low for so many years, that China (and others) have become dependant on their neighbour to the south for a big chunk of their mineral resources. This clearly swings the labor market in favor of low-education physical labor. I regularly hear stories of miners in the backcountry of Queensland or Western Australia earning insane salaries. If you grew up outside the core of Australia's 5 major cities, there a good chance you have a miner in the family and have been panhandling in the local rivers. In the cities, you have been raised to work in mining supporting industries such as finance, banking or insurance.

Australia does have a deeper connection with the major developing nations of the world. Whether the conservatives like it or not, there are many chinese, japanese, indian, brazilian, south african, thai, sri lankan, and many other nationalities here. Many companies have done business in the countries of South East Asia and Africa. Many even border on being philanthropic. Furthermore, Australians are some of the most internationally travelled people I have met. Nearly all of whom have taken extended multi-month trips several times in their lives, and aspire to continue doing so.

Education has been a problem and will continue to be for some time. If the mining boom ever tapers off, Australia will have a hard time recovering. In a country of 23 million, the top schools of Australia don't have the same talent pool to draw from as the US, UK or Canada. Thus, the resulting education level is not the same. I know countless tech leaders that would list the ability to recruit talent as the biggest problem they face. Many of the top tech companies in Australia hire significant numbers of non-Australian passport holders.

Furthermore, much of the top tech talent in Australia is moving to California. I know countless friends who have chosen SF, simply after visiting once. I don't blame them.
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If you want to be in mining, Australia might just be best place in the world.
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Not sure if know/care but the fonts you use look really bad when ClearType is not enabled: http://i.imgur.com/VmCR0.png Looks OK in IE though.
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Not sure about paypal but I'm a lawyer at at a publicly traded financial services company and all communications on company blackberries (bbm, sms) automatically get logged along with all emails. All of these communications are searchable via a system we use for discovery during litigation.

The law isn't the employee's friend here...employees have no reasonable expectation of privacy on company devices.
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> lasted for well over a day

I've never had the spare money to buy a smartphone, but isn't that /ludicrously/ low? My cheap little nokia brick lasts (under normal usage) for a bit less than a week. Admittedly, the power drawn is not comparable, but I'd still think the manufacturers would try to give the users a somewhat longer battery life.
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Not yet but I have increasingly been clicking on AdWords ads so I'm sure it's just a matter of time. The guy in marketing at the small company I'm working for spends $20k a day on AdWords campaigns and he tells me it's extremely lucrative if you know what you're doing so yes obviously a lot of people click on those ads. The affiliate program we have pays out six figures annually to dozens of affiliates who reinvest the bulk of that into their AdWords campaigns. Lots of people click those ads. The HN crowd, by and large, does not.
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The keys things about XSLT are that it exists and it works: it's better than nothing. I agree it's horrible to use e.g. "if (i&lt;10)" are you kidding me? Though, many people use a graphical front end to generate it these days (mapforce, biztalk mapper, stylus studio, IBM and Oracle have their own - there's even a free one with an online demo
http://jamper.sourceforge.net/).

I think several healthy businesses supplying a GUI for XSLT suggests two things: 1. there's a need for what XSLT does; and 2. XSLT sucks

Of course, it could be that GUIs indicate a kind of disruption - making a difficult technology simpler to use, and therefore accessible by less-skilled people (or skilled people with less time). The potential disruptees are the XSLT experts (who in turn displaced people who wrote manual transformers, before XSLT).

Having said all that: there isn't anything comparable for JSON. And yet, communication between different apps - or even communication between different versions of the same app - is pretty much a given.
The basis of corporate law is that a corporation is considered to be an individual in certain respect - hence the root of the word. A corporation is given certain rights and responsibilities that a natural person would have.
"And in a world of machines, engineers reign." -> Until the machines take over and start sucking the engineers' bodily fluids.
I'm NYC born and bred. The kind of New Yorker that just can't see himself living anywhere else, even the vaunted Silicon Valley or SF in general no matter the opportunity (so take this with the appropriate grain of salt). In fact, NYC has been nurturing an interesting tech scene which has just started getting "noticed" in the last two or so years but obviously has been here much longer before that. I think there are a number of conflated reasons for this. NYC is the nerve center for a number of industries not only in the US but internationally as well. There are many types of startups happening here but let's delve into a few that immediately come to mind. Healthcare and Biotech, Media/Entertainment/Music, Commerce, Fashion, Finance, and Government.

NYC has one of the best ratios of hospital beds to patients in the entire country. There are a huge number of medical institutions in the five boroughs not only serving a huge variety of patients but also performing a tremendous amount of research. I work at one of those institutions and I can tell you that if they weren't looking to capitalize on/spin off their in-house tech, they are now.

Media and Entertainment. All the major players have HQ's here and where they are so are startups trying to sell them goods and services. Boxee comes to mind (as an innovator and a partner). I dunno where to put Meetup, but I'll put em here.

Commerce. Gilt Group, Etsy, etc.

Fashion. Clothia, Warby Parker.

Finance. The money is here and half the players on Wall Street are looking to get off the Street and start a business with the right technical talent. Not to mention innovation in the trading and hedge fund space.

Government. Mayor Bloomberg is really pushing municipal data as a platform. Check out the NYC DataMine and places like OpenPlans. NYCBigApps is a contest (two years running) for developers to take advantage of municipal data for the betterment of the City and maybe make a few bucks/put a business together in the process. This is only going to grow and I expect some great things to come of it.

There are also tech plays like 10gen, Nodejitsu, various tech incubators like BetaWorks and K2 and cooperative groups like GeneralAssembly and NYHacker.

What I find interesting about the tech scene in NYC is that in addition to R&D there is a huge amount of applied technology due to the confluence of talent and industries. The stuff that is getting made out here has a revenue model out the gate because they are re-imagining and re-inventing pre-existing business with technology as a corner stone. At the end of the day, let's face it, people want to be here in NYC. You know what they say - If you can make it here...
"Users will be able to store their entire music collections in the cloud—even if they obtained some songs illegally."

This could be a major coup for Apple if true.
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Do you have a link? Also why are you talking in the past tense? What happened to it?
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How are the Chinese and American situations vaguely similar? Just because one involves computers and the other doesn't? If these counterexamples are not made up, what would it take for you to go from being tired to seriously revising your beliefs on the US system?
As a foreigner who studied in the US, I used to find myself attacking some US actions with some American friends, while attacking senseless knee-jerk anti-Americanism back in my country... A sad, and also tiring state of affairs, without much (even partial) support on either place.
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It's not comparable at all. Every smartphone I've had (Palm Treo, Nokia, iPhone 3G, and now Droid X) has needed daily charging. The Droid is down to ~50-60% battery by the end of the day, unless I'm on the phone a lot. It's not a PITA to plug it in before I go to sleep.

These things are full-on computers, in your pocket. Woot!
This is what links are for. An evergreen article can be promoted by a tweet or a more recent post that puts it into context and explains why it's relevant today. History needs historians to direct people to it.
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I think Patrick is an amazing argument for bootstrapped entrepreneurship in a way that I haven't really heard mentioned enough... The freshness of perspective that comes from an incredibly bright person of one field (in this case development) thrust into other roles (marketing, sales, web production) seems awesome fuel for innovation and new thinking.

Thrilled with the article, and I think like many on HN thrilled to see patio11 killing it. Cheers, Patrick.
Three years.. tops...

(sorry, but this is what I'm working on... unofficially of course)
The chasm between quality .Net developers and bad ones is a steep curve, but good .Net developers certainly do exist. I do not think you need worry, .net is a well supported platform thet attracts talented folks.
It's ________ all over again. Love these types of comments on HN.
Apple does all right with higher costs. "HN advice is often raise your prices".

"ChuckMcM Theaters. We're more expensive because that's what it costs to give you a better experience."

"ChuckMcM Theaters. Our projectionists make a film look
a million dollars, and it will only cost you $40. One showing per night."

Etc.
Short-sighted, technically illiterate penny-pinchers are wounding a great art form.

And a lot more than that.
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> I'll be doing all the rest of the work to get the community going.

Glad you took the easy bit! Here's some background:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2011/05/26.html
The customers for the software are the hospitals that people go to, not the insurance companies or the patients. I guarantee you that the hospitals will prefer whatever option results in the best possible financial outcomes for themselves.
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Drupal sounds like a great fit for what you're looking for.
Interesting. I found that loop by looking up "Homer Simpson", which now loops on poetry.
It's not really as benign as you're insinuating it to be.
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The Reddit guys think differently: "[...] (rabbitmq) died, which added about an hour to the downtime. It dies like this pretty often at 2am or at other especially bad times. Usually it doesn't cause any data-loss, just sleep-loss (its queues are persisted and the apps just build up their own queues until it comes back up), but in this case it decided to crash in a way that corrupted its database of persisted queues beyond repair. rabbitmq accounts for the only unrecoverable data-loss incurred, which was about 400 votes. [...] Coincidentally, rabbitmq crashed twice more that day and a few more times into the weekend. [...] Things have improved thus far, but replacing rabbitmq is at the top end of our extremely long list of things to do."
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