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You're correct in saying that Jobs isn't criticized for missing enterprise software. He is criticized for trying to break into it and doing a terrible job of it though. Remember the XServe? Fortunately, he had the good sense to can that eventually.

Unfortunately, MS doesn't seem to be as introspective. I agree that it's best to see MS focus on their enterprise products. That requires them to... well... focus on their enterprise products rather than continuing their half-assed attempts to make consumer products.
I definitely agree with you on the speed issues. I really tried to use Firefox Mobile because I liked Sync, but it's just too slow. It takes forever to start. I'm back to the default Android browser now.
Thanks for contributing here, Jacob. As you know, I'm a fan, and it's great to see some debate here. I'm not paying much attention to HN these days due to time constraints.
They're more typing than no-semicolons and all you stand to gain is code that's harder to read for a majority of programmers. It's really as close as you get to an objectively-bad thing in a programming language.
Paul Thurrott has a relevant blog post: http://www.winsupersite.com/article/commentary/microsoft-fix...
A big Auth-hold transaction can mitigate this problem. An Auth-hold of $501 will prevent prepaid cards from being used. It also forces debit card users to have $501 available in their checking account. This should be enough to stop amateur thieves.

Professional thieves are a different matter. Traditional rental agencies have cameras at the rental counter, and get a copy of a driver's license. Building LoJack into the carkit won't work because it is too easy to block a GPS signal with tin foil. The only realistic way to stop professional thieves is to get driver's license numbers and review driving records for all members (which is what ZipCar does).
I'll check it. Thanks.
Is that violin music? Are those tears? Is the resale value of your product hurting you? Aww.

I guess next I should feel sorry for GM because they don't get a cut when I sell my 10 year old car. OR maybe they should disable the steering wheel if the driver changes. That way they can charge a fee to enable the car for each new user.

This studio needs to get out the duct tape and shut up its developer before any more of this crap flows out of his mouth.
No. I told them I wasn't ready to make the sort of long-term commitment I would want at Google.
Ask HN: Negotiating a partnership
Hi,

I'm the first employee in a small software firm. It's been 4 years now and the boss finally realized that he can't do everything. Now he's asking me to take over the technical lead/team leader position (we're small as I said :) ).

Next he'll concentrate on getting more clients and trying to sell a crm solution that was built during these years.

He's offering a 20% increase in pay(which is not a lot since I'm not in the states or a developed country) and by the end of the year he'll make me a partner with 5-10% .. not really clear right now.

I also do some freelance and I could get maybe more than my paycheck with half the work. But with a partnership in sight that could change.

What I can't understand is why not make me a partner now since we're at it ( he says that the percentage would be about the same as my current wage so why not wait). I'm thinking that if he offers me 10%now, and that's worth ... $1000 if everything works ok in 6months after getting more clients and selling the crm solution that could be worth 10000$ (just an example) - and then instead of 10% he'll offer 4% or something like that.

I'm not sure what to do ... go just with freelancing, ask for a percent now, hold on for 6 months ?

Any advice would be appreciated, thanks.
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Enders Game is not the book I had in mind with that statement, but his "Homecoming Series" are definitely... 'getting fringe', to put it kindly.

"'manstream' [sic]"

Ah, the perils of tiny keyboards. :/
Is your company split equally 5 ways? I feel like there could be a lot of problems if one person decides they are more important than the others.
This is mere conjecture.
Is he the guy who knows what needs to be done. Knows how to do it, but doesn't do it? Then I think he's the lazy guy. Or maybe he's just above the pain of doing it; ie, the lazy guy.
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Which is likely due to the style choice as OSC mentions in his self-book-review.

Personally, having read it at an early age, I found the science part of the sci-fi to be very captivating and philosophy to be interesting.

From a sci-fi historiology perspective, you can see parts of the Bradbury style space-as-wild-west, while also some of the Gibson-esqe interconnected computing. I also found that the philosophy of the ansible to be related to some of Philip K Dick's warped sense of reality books.
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"I don't pay an annual membership with ZipCar"

You don't? how come? I thought their only pricing structures were either (a) annual fee, or (b) monthly commitment (with variations in fees).
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Wait, you found a Republican professor at an Ivy-League college? What am I missing?
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Oh, come on, keep the sensationalist headlines out of here. I know it's the headline on the linked page, but that doesn't change anything. Most of the article is about piracy, though there is a single quote saying that second-hand sales probably represents more in actual lost sales, which is both unsurprising and unexciting. There is also a brief paragraph outlining how EA (who, by the way, is not Lionhead) tries to convert the secondhand market, which is also nothing new.

And yet, the headline of the article seems to be attempting to imply that pre-owned sales are some great evil.
Owners will charge what they are comfortable to cover all these prospective costs. It is a market.

Too many unknowns to calculate a risk premium - a burned out clutch might cost me $1000 to replace. What about the time the car is out of action because it is in the shop getting said work done? I could pull out my spreadsheet and begin to work some figures using pivot table, but this is about saving money not practicing for an MBA.

The main benefit from a borrower's point of view is that Getaround is both cheaper and more convenient than conventional rental.

Sure but the main competitor here in ZipCar (and its rivals) not rentals. If I want to rent by the hour I'm going to ZipCar, not Alamo.

An owner has already accepted the bargain of their idle inventory, and only sees upside in rental against the existing costs.

Not entirely true on existing costs - there are existing costs plus potential new costs directly associated with the rental element -- see above. The upside is the what's left of both of those costs.

The cars were closer (read, more distributed than zipcars) and cheaper.

I'm in SF, where their beta roll out is, and ZipCar is absolutely plastered across the city. I can't see how Getaround has greater distribution than a ~10 year incumbent. I'm not also not seeing as being cheaper, esp if you compare like-for-like models and factor in ZipCar includes fuel.

If I charge $7/hr, and Getaround take 40%, I make $4.20/hr. To make $100, I gotta have the car utilized for 24/hrs a month - just under 1hr a day. I think that's a tough threshold (given I need to use the car too). I'm not even sure whether $100 makes it interesting for an owner either.

Getaround is probably going to W2 me on that, so I'll have to pay tax on it, so I'll be lucky to end up with $70.
While "social" is sort of mainstream (in the sense that everyone and their mother is on Facebook), there's hardly any money in it. The vast majority of Internet users spend their time doing three things on the web: Facebook, e-mail, and time wasters like games & YouTube.

So while the userbase is certainly very large, the revenue potential is very limited outside of those core activities.
Excellent points - especially the one about the fierce independence of the Venetians. The history of that city-state is truly magnificent.
I had professor Ullrich for several classes and he tends to be very precise. Indeed, he mentioned that values in Python have types while the variables do not.
One major flaw with Google Analytics is its last click attribution which simply distorts your view of where traffic is coming from. If visitor first came via a Tweet, reads about your product and the next day he searches or types in your web address, GA would attribute the last traffic source as the real source of this visitor. You would never realize that it was tweet that brought him to the website.

Seldom any visitor converts on first visit and so it becomes extremely hard to calculate true conversion rate for different mediums in GA. How would you know which medium is most effective?
I was on vacation in SF a few years back and discovered from a sign in my hotel lobby that Tufte was giving a workshop there the very next morning. I immediately signed up.

You'd think it would be really weird to spend $400 to sit in a hotel ballroom for 7 hours while you're on vacation -- but it was well worth it. I had read through some of Dr Tufte's books but it was much easier for me to really integrate and understand the concepts with the detailed explanations and visual displays he presented during the workshop.

If you ever have a chance to go to one of his workshops, I highly recommend it.
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gem: --no-ri --no-rdoc

yw.
Yes, it has been tried. But it is impractical, because of collateral damage:

- Many sites are hosted on massively shared hosts. Blocking those IPs will cause a lot of services to be unreachable, not just the one to be blocked.

- People find you with your domain name, not your IP, so a service could avoid filtering by switching subnets every day and just keep updating the DNS entry. After a certain time, the govt will be blackholing a large part of the internet.
The 'product guy' is the former engineer who thinks he knows what the customer wants. Usually they also think they know how to do proper UX design but usually fall back to copying whatever is hot at the moment.
And presumably if I ran the HireFire open source library I could check even more frequently..?
Well aware. Still think it should be the default.
Coupon codes.

You see them around, although when I signed up I found a 'hack' that showed a list of the possible corporate coupon codes you could use and I iterated through to find the ones with the best terms (this was a few years ago)

You certainly don't want to sign up for ZipCar without a corporate discount code. Not all of them require you to be an employee.

I own a car but keep a zipcar card in my wallet. There is a massive feeling of security knowing in an emergency/etc I can whip out my smartphone, book a car nearby and be driving within a few minutes.
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It also worked for me. Maybe it's because I'm in Canada?
It seems you don't like Scala, but I don't think your complaints accurately represent the language.

Scala doesn't have H-M type inference because H-M can't handle subtyping. You don't miss it, though. Declaring functions and generic types is hardly arduous, and indeed necessary to resolve that very same ambiguity that stops H-M working. In Haskell it is common practice to declare types for functions and other top-level definitions. Scala imposes about the same burden.

Dealing with first-class functions in Scala is awkward
(getting and returning functions requires juggling with
generics, currying is half-baked)

Currying is not idiomatic in Scala. But other than that -- what? This makes no sense to me, as someone who write Scala most days of the week.

Haskell relies a lot on type-classes for its polymorphism,
which aren't really possible in Scala

Read "Type Classes as Objects and Implicits" (e.g. http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4039) for how type classes are possible in Scala.
And if he doesn't settle, I can always sue you for saying so. :-)
I'd be happy to, what editor do you use?
Google Analytics has a No-Override feature for traffic attribution, which is disabled by default:

http://code.google.com/intl/en/apis/analytics/docs/gaJS/gaJS...

I haven't worked with this setting myself so I can't say whether it works on all traffic sources or only campaigns. First Referrer information is stored in one of the GA cookies, so it's always available on the page, even if it's not getting passed to the GA servers. If you really wanted to get creative, you could yank it out of the cookie and throw it into a Custom Variable. This has the advantage of giving you First and Last Attribution, in different reports.
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This is exactly the sort of unhelpful comment that is making the situation worse, not better. There has been a lot of discussion about why RubyGems doesn't support this, and perhaps that discussion got lost in the circus of +1's and tensions. Would you like me to try to get Ryan and Eric to write up something explaining their stance so that you can understand it better?

If you already understand it, would you mind writing a reasoned, well thought out explanation of why you think this is important and then submit a real pull request or discuss this on the rubygems-developers mailing list?

If the answer to those two things is no, then you are not actually contributing, you're stating a preference with no explanation, and no sensitivity to the fact that your personal preference isn't necessarily what's best for Rubygems.

The good news is, RubyGems does has a configuration file which you can set once and solve this problem for yourself. Add this line to your ~/.gemrc:

gem: --no-ri --no-rdoc

Hopefully this has come across as helpful and not rude. I'm trying the best I can to get both sides of this situation to cool down a bit, and we can help that happen as users and contributors by being a bit more mature about the way we interact with this project.
I'm not sure about the legality of sharing a Microsoft font... the color scheme is my own.
Pretty stupid article in my opinion. Apple's handling of the MacDefender issue is exactly how Apple handles most issues - don't say anything until you have the whole story and have planned the course of action. As John Gruber said, it's "measure twice, cut once".

To say that they were 'shamed' into acknowledging MacDefender is ridiculous. They were always going to - what they didn’t want was support personnel giving out potentially incorrect information on how to remove the malware before the proper research had been done.
Might have just been copy Demand Media wrote for him.
I guess I'm like Fred Wilson who said "Why would anyone want to rent someone's couch" - I'm probably out of touch or just mildly privileged.

But the idea of sleeping on some stranger's couch doesn't appeal at all (plus the unknowns like cleanliness, security, etc)
Airbnb has a solid business model.
Ultimate experiences .. worth the crowd
I think a mod edited the title because when I submitted it didn't say 'lead'
Thanks for your idea. I will think about it. Really appreciate your advice.
"gut-level" - Let's say this is the stylistic equivalent of a fart joke. I think it worked well enough

Rather firm limits on the density of em dashes are fair, because there's a typographical issue of avoiding "horizontal rivers": the distracting effect of dashes varies nonlinearly with their number. An upper limit of two, per Chicago, or three, is a good usage stricture; there is practically never a strong reason to violate it.

"en dash" - Fair enough, but she's following AP style, which uses em dashes.
Airbnb has done a great job already of promoting themselves (e.g., rent a country/village promotions) so I tend to think they know what they're doing. Kutcher could put his pad up there, get some of his famous friends to offer their places?
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Thanks for the detailed response. I really do appreciate it. To be honest, I wasn't even aware this was possible until I saw DHH's pull request.

Have a few more thoughts. On an iPhone. Not practical to write them all now. Happy to continue dialog though. Aaron@brethorsting.com
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The four attributes I've identified in the best "product guys" are these:

* They "get it" - they are master analyzers in their field. This lets them critique quickly and effectively. People who don't "get it" are hard to take seriously and those who do are sought after for their thoughts.

* They're passionate - they are clearly energized about their field and its possibilities. When they criticize work, it motivates even better work, rather than throwing a wet blanket on it.

* They have a definite critical opinion - they know what they're looking for and criticize freely. They don't temper their critique to be accepted, to seem friendly, to look sophisticated or to make more money.

* They focus on the right things - they offer specific criticism, picking apart something for its strengths and weaknesses. They aren't satisfied with just telling you their general opinion -- they start in with "Here's what I didn't like..."

It took me a while to realize that PG is not just an insightful thinker but an all-star product guy. Then again, I think that's also because he has focused so intently on developing as one. Maybe he was merely good when he started YC but by now he's a master.

I also think it's amusing how wildly deprecating the title "product guy" is for the tremendously valuable ability displayed by people like Steve Jobs, Walt Disney, John Lasseter or even Paul Erdős.
Defining 'product guy' is hard because doing the role well requires multiple disciplines, and no one product guy is good at every discipline that's useful for the role.

Many entrepreneurial developers have a lot of contempt for product guys - in part because there's a lot of incompetent people out there in product management roles, in part because many of them have enough product skills to make a decent go of it on their own.

Personally, I'm a big believer in specialization and minimizing context-switching - with effective communication, a team where one individual largely focuses on product and the others largely focus on development seems more effective than a team where product responsibilities are divided evenly between the developers. (I suspect that's a minority opinion around here, though.)
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Who has respect for Donald Trump?
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Rifftrax guys gave me an idea - what if I setup Amazon shop and will sell legal DVDs. People who buy DVD get access to the same movie on my website (invitation code). Will it work?
Using AirBnB for the first time -- currently staying at a great apartment in Manhattan. My girlfriend and I are both quite happy! Both of us, and the apartment owner, are first-time AirBnB'ers. It _can_ work, I believe, but you've got to vet things carefully.

We had to work around an understandable but (I think) misguided AirBnB restriction that makes it hard to get phone numbers in to messages -- it's so important to be able to talk to someone to understand who you're dealing with!
Alternate theory: the material scooped and dumped to cover the pyramid has different thermal characteristics than the pre-existing soil surrounding the site. That is, it's not the pyramid that stands out, it's the covering.

I don't know, just formulating another hypothesis for the fun of it.
Unsure why you used a question mark?
Hey now, I say if MC Hammer can promote good products (Flipboard), so can Ashton Kutcher.
Ballmer has done nothing for shareholders, and that's ultimately his job, regardless of how much money they make. It's unconscionable that they've been able to pull in the kinds of profits they have, and still done nothing with their stock over the past 5 years.
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Ask HN: What to build into a better Social Network?
Facebook will soon be a decade old and frankly, its starting to feel bloated and behind the times. I think I can do better.

Besides the fact that many people are already on FB, what would you be happy to see in a new social network?

I would like to go back to the basics. What's your opinion on more Privacy, more User Control and NO Apps & Games?
From what I've seen, with most of them you either get your own bedroom or the entire house/apartment. It's really no different from a typical vacation rental, except the owner is possibly crashing at a friend's house or a motel during your stay.
I've had some random conversations with people in airports before, it wasn't a particularly life changing experience. I think there is probably an opportunity to provide services for people who are out of town on business better - basically at the moment the social interactions serviced by having a few beers at the hotel bar. I think grubwithus does this pretty well, but there might be other models.
I've been to L'Aquila twice before the quake. Many buildings consisted (at least in part) of old structures. The city was founded in 1258.
The reason why private-public key mechanism works is that it is really hard to get private key from public key. With quantum computers it is trivial task. In theory you could steal other people's bitcoins.

In reality I wouldn't be so enthusiastic about quantum computing exploding because of bitcoin. Private-public key encryption is used now everywhere and having quantum computer would give you benefit in lot of situations.
We found a place in Budapest for a stag do, via AirBNB, and it was great. Big, clean, well located, cheap, and the landlord was cool. So experiences definitely do vary. I'd certainly go back to AirBNB after this experience.
If you need an app example then think about building an app to get stock quotes in real time.

The software guy writes the code to interpret user input, get the data from its source, do calculations and present it to user.

The UI guy decides the layout of how to present the info.

The product guy decides whether you're going to build "Stocks" app or "Bloomberg Terminal".
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