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Simple; PHP is everywhere.

Meaning; you must go out of your way to find a host which supports Django (not far out of your way, but still)

You would have to go out of your way to find a host which does NOT support PHP.

Or alternatively; WordPress uses PHP, ergo people still use and write PHP.
Do you need an integration with the Snipt to have your snippets available online? Any other reasons?
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I'm in the process of starting one, mainly for the purpose of publishing my own band.

What you need is an artist, a distributor and a handful of cash. A record label is in the business of creating and marketing the actual product, and the minimum cost is the price of pressing and shipping the records. The label might also front the money for recording, mixing, mastering, and hiring a designer to do the artwork. Booking, management and live promotion is usually a separate business area, but with indie music you'll often find bands, labels and promotion overlapping quite a bit.

The tricky part is of course getting your product in the hands of your customers. Selling them online is one option, but if you want to get the records into stores, you really need to partner with one or more distributors. They take a percentage of the price (20% is a good number), and have established channels for promoting, selling and shipping the product.

We're doing the first release on a shoestring budget. We've recorded and mixed everything ourselves, and traded services with a designer and photographer. I haven't gotten a quote from the pressing plant yet, but I've budgeted $500 for professional mastering and around $2000 for the first run of 500 12" records. CDs are alot cheaper (about half, I think). We need to sell around half to break even,

Add in the costs for professional recording, mixing, artwork and promotion, subtract the money for the artist and the margin for the distributor and record store, and you'll see that you'll have to sell ALOT of records to make a decent profit. A couple of thousand unit solds is a big success for a small artist.

Bigger labels will invest in artists expecting that most of the releases will be losing money, hoping to score a hit once in a while that will turn a profit.

Starting an indie label in 2011 is not exactly a brilliant career move unless you're exceptionally savvy, but it's a fun and not too expensive hobby.
There was a cool HN article a while back on building your own Shazam clone in Java.. I think the author received a C&D..

Found it!
http://www.redcode.nl/blog/2010/06/creating-shazam-in-java/
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By iPhone, I mean the concept, not the brand. And iPhone clearly paved the way for Android.
If people are willing to trade goods for it, then someone will be willing to trade dollars for it (or yen, euros, or any established currency).

For a reason that I am unaware of, you seem to think that just because something can be traded it will be traded. That's not true. People tend to only trade things that are readily exchangeable in the larger economy - things that have value.
That depends on what you are measuring.

In my world Apple is the leader because they have the best business. If you only look at market share then nokia should have been the winner for a long time.
For HTML5, we already have one: http://hildr.luminance.org/Platformer/Platformer.html
Usually, you don't work with Apple directly unless you're a sizeable label. There's a number of services that will publish your music on iTunes and other online stores. I've used TuneCore (which costs about $50/year per album), CD Baby also does this.
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People who participate in illegal trade (such as drugs, guns, prostitution, etc.) still need most of their purchases to be in the legal economy. Hence, illegal trade still uses real currency.
another way i like to think of it (someone please correct me if i'm wrong) is that high-frequency means high-detail (highly frequently needing information to specify how it looks) whereas low-frequency means low-detail

(is that completely off or is it an analogous transform?)
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I like the part where daring fireball complains about being called an "apple enthusiast"...
Oh, that's a great explanation! Finally! It trumps all the books for the general public I've read on the subject. Thanks very much.
"All rights reserved" is not an obstacle to an OSI license. If you open source some code then you can still reserve all your rights to the code. This mean that you can redistribute/sell/license it under any other licensing schemes you wish to. Other people, of course, can only use it under the license you grant them.
> Not trolling... I know I could just Google this question, but this kind of
> search usually turns up rants by language zealots.

Isn't that what trolling is?

I'm not sure why that would even provoke rants by language zealots. It's a simple question with a simple answer: big libraries and projects that can't be ported in an afternoon.

That is to say, Haskell is a nice language but there's no Drupal port to Haskell.
I don't understand why compressing an image is going to generate the same 8x8 image each time no matter what aspect ratio it was originally... whether it has been stretched before.. If you stretch and then recompress a bunch of times don't you eventually lose the information?

That math is for some reason totally counter-intuitive to me. Could someone do a proof?
As the post notes, that algorithm is great at matching, but sucks at searching. Hashes on the other hand are probably better off at matching. My guess is that you use some variation of hashing to get a set of candidate images, and then do more detailed examinations.
And sunscreen... don't forget the sunscreen.

Flippancy aside, there's nothing that makes these 'end of life' desires any more meaningful than 'prime of life' impulses.
Interesting read, which also says I'm doing most things wrong.

Original (kind of disingenuous to just copy / paste the whole thing with a link at the end): http://www.inspirationandchai.com/Regrets-of-the-Dying.html
@latch - Yes, we saw it - would be a fun project, but we are software hackers :-) There are also concerns about heat, vibration, hot swapping, etc. I would happily spend $78K for that same storage instead of $7.8K if it was reliable and was shipped as a complete package.

Closest company doing something like this is CORAID, which might be an option, but they have a number of proprietary interfaces/systems to buy in to.
Yes I've actually sold 26 of them now with no complaints or returns in the last 2 years. They are quite cheap but they are actually extremely good quality with 8-10h battery life, very light weight, decent keyboard, decent screen and touchpad. They also just "work" with no driver problems etc.

They should not be confused with the other Acer machines which are power sucking junk if you ask me.
Why is the framing of looking back on your life from your deathbed seen as more valid than any other point in your life? Are there good arguments for its validity?
And your bet is based on what?

Looking at the URLs that iTunes and friends use behind the scenes it doesn't seem like the apple web-stuff was built by competent programmers either.

Try a few random clicks on https://iforgot.apple.com and look at the url-bar and firebug to get an idea.
Came here to say the same thing - pure content thievery.
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I love the first comment in the original thread, specifically:

>“Microsoft has first class cross-platform application framework called Silverlight and they want us to right freaking javascript.”

Yeh, because js isn't a first class, cross platform language...
If you compile recent clang, it supports range based for loops.

Using https://github.com/Rip-Rip/clang_complete you can use smart context-aware completion with vim/emacs.

For example if you had this code:

vector<string> vec;
for (auto &x : vec) {
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and then if you typed period (.), it would show members from std::string. I'd say it works better than Intellisense (it's very precise and you use the same parser for code completion and final compilation).
That had one incentive lacking in the proposal though: cash to the uploader in exchange for access. Also, apparently, some rudimentary gatekeeping on what was uploaded (though it seems some people were able to upload tons of useless information for a while before getting the boot).
I disagree, respectfully of course. Rather than "build it", I think the culture here is "fail fast". What better way to fail fast than to figure out that you should not waste your time building something because no one cares/needs it?
The idea that Microsoft is going to go the IOS route is so completely contrary to the interests of their primary customer bases - business and enterprise - that it is only the constant call of the techpress for Microsoft to be more like Google or Apple which gives the idea credence.

Windows has had HTML and script based Apps in the form of HTA's for a long time (i.e. IE5). So in many ways the buzz seems more of a marketing coup than a revolutionary new approach (aimed at getting consumers to enable scripting on desktop installations). I suspect Silverlight to be deprecated as a web technology because it has many of the same issues as Flash (for which it was always intended as an alternative/replacement), but .NET is here to stay. It is .NET that facilitates the expanding ability of Windows to run on diverse architectures - since Windows Vista the Windows OS is essentially .NET for many purposes and Windows 8 and WP7 are extensions of that roadmap. A roadmap which, again, is business focused and tailored to provide stability.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms536496%28v=vs.85%2...

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

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/200874
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I really don't buy the enterprise v consumer argument when large corporations are buying iPhones and iPads en masse. The iPhone showed that bussinesses are consumers too, so why persist this out-dated dichotomy?
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California legislative update
There is some good news that Sacramento is actually listening to legitimate concerns of the tech industry. This is a wild week in the legislative arena, as bills need to get pass out of the house they were introduced in by today.

The social networking privacy bill died on the Senate floor yesterday:
SB 242 (Corbett) http://www.aroundthecapitol.com/Bills/SB_242/20112012/

The sales tax bills, however, which Amazon has used to threaten to shut down affiliate programs in California made it out of their "house of origin" and continue to move through the legislative process.

AB 153 (Skinner) http://www.aroundthecapitol.com/Bills/AB_153/20112012/
AB 155 (Calderon) http://www.aroundthecapitol.com/Bills/AB_155/20112012/
You mean Wikipedia would lie to me???

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You mean - "forced to use C++" :)

I would love to use Digital Mars D or Scala for scientific applications if they had compilers/runtimes as good as C++.

Perhaps one day the LLVM backend would be useful as a universal backend for many less popular languages.
I would imagine because when you're on your deathbed, it's too late to change anything. It brings a little clarity and highlights what is really important vs the stuff that seemed important at the time but turned out to a waste of time.
Agreed. If anything, you won't have to worry about those death-bed regrets for long.

Also, this type of thing always seems skewed to people who worked a lot. What do the under-achievers regret?
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I don't understand? :)
I agree. For most existing users, especially power users, this will probably be as insignificant on the desktop as Active Desktop and Active Channel were in Windows 98 or maybe desktop gadgets in Windows Vista. I mean, who even remembers that stuff?

For some users like my dad, the tiled interface with a touch screen should make it easier to use the computer. He doesn't use them enough to learn the whole stacks of windows metaphor and all the operations involved with it, but he can pick up an iPad and use it just fine.

The real significance I see here is that Windows mobile developers with just the skills of a web developer can now target desktop and tablet users fairly easily with the same exact code and a similar UI. If Microsoft releases their own App store for Windows 8, then that provides a unified platform for developers to sell the same product to every kind of Windows user from kids with smartphones to grandparents with a desktop PC.

And if the tiled interface takes off with the not so computer-literate, there'll be a great new demand for applications that fit into it's metaphors to prevent the jarring experience of being thrust back into a classic Windows-like environment, kind of like the demand for GUI applications after Windows supplanted MS-DOS.
I watched someone close to me die over several months. Her only regret seemed to be that she was dying.

I don't believe this list of top 5 regrets is based on research at all. I suspect that it is mostly only in TV, movies, or novels where a person on their deathbed contemplates things they would have done differently. Usually the impending death overwhelms all other thoughts.
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Good arguments? I dunno.

However, I think an argument is that experience and knowledge about your own life is at a maximum (absent degenerative diseases, etc) just as it ends, and therefore taking advice from the person you are on your deathbed is taking advice from someone who knows more than you about everything, and has precisely the same goals for you as you do.
If Harvard doesn't have a record of the damaging emails, couldn't it just be because they've been deleted?

Barring the mushroom conviction, Zuckerberg has an even greater (albiet shorter) history of alleged shady dealings as Ceglia. I figure the two parties about equal in terms of credibility.
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This struck me as rather smart: why bother having images describing the function’s pattern when the function is embedded in the code on the page and browsers can now generate images?
I was expecting something like "I wish I had worked harder" as opposed to what I found in the article - "I wish I didn’t work so hard". In a way, that’s actually relieving. Perhaps, I am too alive to think that way.
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Xen solved a problem before 2007: no CPUs at that time had hardware virtualization extensions, and Xen allowed you to virtualize Linux-on-Linux without needing them.

However, the Xen developers never worked very hard on getting the code into the mainstream kernel, so literally for two or three years if you wanted Xen you had to run some ancient patched Linux kernel (2.6.18 IIRC).

From around 2007, CPUs started to be shipped that contained hardware virt. KVM was written about that time, and because it just defers virtualization to the hardware, the KVM code is small and simple, more akin to a device driver than anything else. Putting this in Linux was a no-brainer really.

Now, 2011, third generation hardware virt is everywhere, and it's really fast, much faster in fact than the original Xen "paravirtualization" trickery.

The Xen developers realized late in the game that they needed to get their changes upstream into Linux. The changes were late and very invasive, but now after ~3 years of trying, all the pieces are finally in upstream Linux, and that's the news you're reading about today.
When is the actual ipo though? These articles never seem to mention that.
Let's face it. Thinking that WPF/C# can be replaced by HTML/JS is foolish at best.

The html apps will be the widgetty type applications, while the real working computing applications will be written in solid .NET.

My only concern is this integration of one into the other that they show. It looks like slapping a pig on top of a cow and asking for babies.
"If you’ve been using microformats or RDFa to mark up your Google Rich Snippets, sorry, you backed the wrong horse."

I think that's supposed to be a joke, but it just comes off as insulting instead.
Those who have lived longer do have one advantage of perspective: they have years of experience pursuing many "prime of life" impulses / goals / desires, and are therefore able to look back on and judge the (negative and positive) results of such pursuit. Of course, the experiences and feelings of one person or a handful of people cannot generalize to everyone, but I definitely think there is some value in considering the assessments of those who have "been there, done that."
Which was already posted 278 days ago...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1643239
Misleading title and post virtually devoid of content. Link to the actual paper: http://preprint.math.uni-hamburg.de/public/papers/hbam/hbam2...
Nice! You can try to replicate the curves on this CSS3 easing tool I built:

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Not all curves are possible due to limitations in the CSS timing functions.
Any mathematicians here wish to take a look at the paper, and comment on the likelihood the proof is solid?
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I've got a i7 8gig of ram and SSD and VS2010 runs like a complete pig on a year old project. It's unbelievably bad.

Each time I report problems, they close them saying 'cannot reproduce'. So if that's the case, why do people upvote my issues?
When my father was dying there was only 3 things he wanted to do: 1. Get up from bed because he was uncomfortable. But had to lay back down because he was too weak. 2. Use the bathroom, becase he didn't want to use a diaper 3. Waiting for his mother to come get him. Towards the end, #3 is all he wanted. There were no regrets. Initally he was worried about his wife, my mother, but we told him everything is going to fine.
[Not speaking on behalf of Red Hat]

Even in RHEL 6 we have support for RHEL as a Xen guest.

However as aliguori says above, "Xen in Linux" is a misnomer: Xen is a separate and completely different kernel (the "Xen hypervisor") and it seems unlikely we'll be shipping that any time soon. No one gets rich by providing paid support for two completely different and incompatible kernels.
According to the article, the #1 regret is that dreams were not pursued which suggests a lot of hard work. Taken together with #2 this suggests a startup founder might regret not working efficiently enough.
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Because you're only looking back, not forward.
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Do you recommend any particular one? Do you have an online store?
Doing something you enjoy is wonderful, but it may take a while for it to start generating revenue. I think if you persist then it certainly will generate revenues.

Since you mention Android development... I believe there are people who are making a good amount of money with Android apps. However, it may or may not come near what a large financial company pays you.

My basic thoughts are:

1. It will take some time to start generating decent revenues, so be prepared to have patience

2. Many people who work on Android apps report their monthly income on the Internet. You may find such articles very useful

3. If you enjoy teaching, you could teach Android courses on the Internet or in a local college. This will help pay your bills while you are making your apps.

4. Try and be cashflow positive. Even if you are not making a lot of money initially, try and make sure that you do not start eating your savings. This will increase the overall sustainability of your venture. Doing some consulting, teaching on the side can help.
I would be far more interested in: Top regrets of generally successful people on their deathbed. I don't read people magazine for life tips, I read HN.
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It is. While Im not really worried that .NET will be replaced by HTML 5, I really wonder why the windows team wouldnt want to try and merge the development models for WP7 and windows 8. If they really want this platform to run on tablets, why would you not want to leverage WP7 code a'la iOS???? I think that it is great if the HTML/JavaScript model is an additional way to draw in developers to the windows platform, but the fragmentation is not a good plan IMHO.
More info: I'm running exactly what's on this Gist.
Oh hey, that’s nice. Not too long until we’ll be able to use this sort of thing in a cross-browser way as well. Not to say I’m not using it now, it’s just restricted to little styling points.
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The argument that "xyz on the web is a toy and will never be fast enough / xyz in html,css,javascript will never provide enough functionality to be really useful or as full-featured as their 'real' desktop counterparts" is an argument that has been consistently wrong, or at least become wrong over time in every case. Why should the next few years be any different?
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Fwiw, the author of the paper did his PhD work with Collatz himself, though that was over 40 years ago (http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=27958). Not conclusive, but makes me inclined to consider it a serious effort. Not qualified to judge beyond that, though.
The point to take away from the article is to budget some money for a lawyer to draft/consult on crucial documents, but do not use him for all minutiae.

Lawyers will usually adopt a better safe than sorry attitude. At a startup, this might not be exactly what you want.

Second, great laywers are just like great programmers, not that easy to find and qualify.