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>How do you tell a C compiler that?

You'd need dependent types and a compiler that understood exactly how much information in bits was required for a particular proposition, I'm guessing. I think this is the sort of thing (not using tricky assembly instructions specifically, but using unboxed types with expressive type systems) that makes languages like ATS[1] possibly faster than C.

The point is: good code generation is possible in theory, even if "sufficiently smart" compilers are too hard to write. (Or are equivalent to general A.I.)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATS_(programming_language)
That actually is more troublesome as it is now impossible to distinguish between a legitimate form and a phished one.
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I've worked at a company whose motto was "Smoke and Mirrors". They'd try to sell based om the wireframe, but tell the customer it was a fully functional product that just need to be customised for their environment.

I never really saw it work that well for them. Sure they could get a lot of interest but any sales they closed were a nightmare to deliver because you had to develop a system in a timeframe that only allowed some tweaking.

EDIT: what I mean is that it's fine to use the model you mention, but IMO you have to be upfront with the customer about it.
> As far as I'm concerned, he's a thief.

Oh really? If they violated licencing terms, drop a mail the EFF[1] guys and they'll help to sort it out. They already have helped in sorting out a bunch of cases, most often amicably.

If ZodTTD conformed to the licensing terms, what's your point? It's the original developer that picks particular license -- wide is variety available already, covering most grounds.

[1] http://www.eff.org/
Seems like a reasonable deal for a very savvy person, but most people who would use the service probably need more help with understanding product and creating wireframes than with development. I can see lots of wannabe entrepreneurs coming in with poorly thought through wireframes of a few pages, lacking understanding of the interactions implicit in the wireframes - pop-ups, hidden pages, data model, authentication, user acquisition, etc. .

In my 5+ years of developing for these types of people, they need far more than someone who will "build your prototype." Generally they need guidance in knowing what sorts of decisions need to made, and then in making those decisions.

I'm all for string to provide a turnkey prototype development service, however I would fear most ideas and wireframes will be doomed from the start without push back for a well thought through MVP, which is likely not part of this service. That could lead to disappointment, over-reaching, and the unreasonable expectation of multiple iterations.
I don't agree that you need to automate from the beginning. I launched a site where I did everything manually behind the scenes and never needed to automate; figuring out the automation code would have been the trickiest, hardest part of the development process, and I saved a lot of time by not doing it upfront. Even had I reached the point where I needed to write it, I would have had a much better idea of incoming data and desired outputs to write it far more accurately than stabs in the dark pre-launch.

The advice I was given from similar workshops with Steve Blank etc. is to do things by hand until you have to automate; when you reach the point when you have to automate to scale, it's a good problem to have.

I can understand having the problem where you can't agree on automation strategy; options range from outsourcing the manual work to fully implementing algorithms, and even those can wildly differ. Obviously it depends on your specific situation, but I don't think your example is an argument against "Wizard of Oz" launches per se, just an example that it isn't always gravy.
Joel's main point is that, even with CA's labor code, it can still come down to a gray area around what a company's "business" is.

What I think the OP is pointing out is that in NY a company is able to set up a more restrictive contract than a company. At the very least (and from personal experience), companies in NY can introduce more gray areas in the contract (making it more difficult for entrepreneurs to feel safe in working on weekend projects) while still making it seem as if they follow the spirit of the CA labor code.
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EFF only does stuff if an actual copyright holder asks them to (and signs a legally binding thing as such), not random internet people.
I'm firmly behind the lean approach (though I don't think this article says anything new). However, I do often wonder how customers really feel when they hit a "Sign Up" link and are taken to an inexpertly crafted Wufoo form designed to harvest their address.

Dropbox got it right, but I've seen several examples where I think "I hope this scales, 'cos those first 50 visitors know they've been tricked and ain't coming back".
When I first started out with Linux, I thought "Man! Some people compile their own kernel! Wow! And then some build their system from the ground up! Some summer, I hope to be able to do Linux From Scratch. That would be so varsity."

Now I think, "They want to compile their own kernel? Fine. I can go from nothing except the internet and a CD burner to a fully configured system in <90 minutes. Then do you know what I can do? Programming. Web browsing. Work."

If the platform gets out of your way and just lets you do what needs to be done...then excellent. Excellent.
AAA (American Automobile Association) is a Big Deal (TM) in the USA, and they have a 5-star rating system. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Restaurant_ra...
I don't know if you've read the essay, but I couldn't figure out how the author's theory of "ultimate purpose" of money could be falsified. In fact, how is any description of subjective motivation falsifiable? Maybe neuroscience can elaborate on one facet, but in the field of inner human experience, I doubt we'll come up with anything close to what constitutes a theory in the hard sciences.
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Hey guys, so our team is trying to decide where to host our site. Obviously hosting sites can be a little shady about what exactly they offer (like "unlimited" anything), and in the ones we've looked at we've found a couple surprises in the terms and conditions. Could anyone share their experience finding hosting? We need a database that has foreign key and ACID compliance (so Postgres or MySQL with InnoDB) and preferably a decently high connection limit. As always cost is a concern. Thanks a lot for your help
> The current vogue among computer users is to get
> as far from the real hardware as possible.
> ...
> Assembly is the epitome of using the features of
> a given machine.

But what about the features of a particular language? Mucking in assembly is great if you're trying to squeeze out every ounce of power, but it's much too verbose for building complex systems. If you're trying to build user-facing features, layers and layers of language abstraction is great. See http://www.paulgraham.com/hundred.html

If you're building a prime-number generator, go ahead and write in assembly. But if you're writing an application, like most of us on here (I assume?), use a high-level language. "[Taking] advantage of every idiosyncrasy of [the] instruction set" is a waste of time.
I've tried taking notes on my phone, but it takes a few seconds to get the app open. Who wants that? Also, sketching on a phone (or a pad) is for the birds.
> It looks like the Intel 8086 architecture and its descendents will be with us for ever ... Why not take advantage of every idiosyncrasy of that instruction set?

Because ARM.
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I recently spent three nights porting a C++ game from Linux to Windows, and made $181.90 after RentACoder and Paypal fees, and it was the only freelance work I've managed to find.

I'm just trying to keep my cell phone on, but unfortunately it's very hard to find anyone who needs the services of a professional C/C++/C#/Python/Ruby programmer with 4 years of gamedev experience.

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I always wonder about the debate of whether hunter-foragers worked 11 hours a week for food and shelter or were always on the brink of starvation and warfare. I wonder if we'll ever know, since there's so much earth left to dig up and so many stories we can tell with the few arrowheads and bones we find. I do know that whatever you believe in about scarcity has a profound impact on how you work, buy, and vote, and that by controlling the narratives surrounding scarcity in human evolution, you control the policies that the society creates and enforces.
quick search shows the promotion video runs its course over 3 weeks creating a buzz about an e-course which is gonna cost several hundreds if not thousands. How are people falling for this type of material (read snake oil)? Dive in and dissect this shady e-course launches!
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This mostly seems to be a bitter rant about the time Facebook tricked TechCrunch by rolling out a new feature that only TechCrunch staff could see.

See the results of the prank here: http://techcrunch.com/2009/09/10/facebook-now-lets-you-fax-y...
the video in the subject wont show up unless u sign up to see it, a non existent email will do cuz no verification needed. I tried getting it off kajabi but its protected. And not sure if passing some parameter to this link will do the trick. And there is a video as well to get u to sign up to watch this and its creepy lol, Cant bypass that crap. sigh
Don't equate exception with "Error".

Many common problems, especially in network servers, can be solved quite elegantly with an "exception driven design". In those scenarios the exceptions serve as a vehicle to bubble state through multiple layers. Pretty much like an event-framework, except many people don't realize they have that baked right into their language.

A simple example would be a network-server that detects a protocol phase change at the lowest protocol level. By raising a "PhaseChange"-Exception you can quite nicely propagate such an event to the higher layers that need to know about it, without resorting to duplicated/shared state or awkward call-chains that introduce nasty dependencies and then need their own exception handling, and without running into potential synchronization issues.
Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox article from 1998 on "Microcontent: How to Write Headlines, Page Titles, and Subject Lines" is still very relevant.
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/980906.html
As soon as you said that, the phrase "unfashionably early" came to mind. I didn't immediately post it because I figured it would be interpreted negatively/argumentatively. That's not really my intent. I am just thinking of your remarks in terms of "fashion trends": Looking back historically, hemlines go up and down again, ties get fatter then skinnier again and so on.

I don't personally read any big significance into the possibility that this is part of a trend towards over-the-top, bling-bling, excessively flashy job-hunting techniques. Maybe it is but I think the value in this particular post/microsite is that he seems to be genuinely interested in this company and that he made the webpage and posted it here rather than sending it directly to the company. So it got notice because other people already vetted it for him so to speak. I think sincere interest in a particular company is always something of value for that company. I remember reading a story where a recruiter at IBM said he would hire the next person who knew what the letters "IBM" stood for because he was so sick of interviewing people who had zero idea what the company did. Most folks who are job-hunting are just looking for a paycheck. There is limited value in that from the perspective of the company.

That's not to point fingers at anyone. I am as guilty of that as anyone and that is part of why I am still stuck in an entry level job in an industry I never had any interest in. I'm a former homemaker who was going through a divorce and I needed a paycheck. I did try to apply to jobs in the field I was training for/had relevant education for but I never completed my bachelor's and ultimately took the first job offered me, having nothing to do with any of that. I am envious of Loren for having a clear idea what he wants to do and being in a position to go after it. In terms of career, I have not ever been in that situation: I either knew and wasn't qualified or didn't know (and also had other significant obstacles). I sincerely wish him all the best. (If his site somehow ends up promoting over-the-top, bling-bling horrors in the future, may he find absolution for this small sin.)
I've always got between one and four notebooks with me.
I've heard that it's impossible to submit apps that have been compiled using Lion to the Mac App Store. I'm not sure if the same is true for the iOS App Store, you might want to look into that before going any further.
There us no one size fits all solution to marketing a startup / website. Usually, it is a combination of PR, SEO, CPC, Display advertising, Social, Viral techniques etc. Post the URL of your website, or answer the following questions:

- What problem does it solve?

- Who are your customers / users?

- Where do they frequent?

Then we figure out a strategy to reach them.
I'm wading into something I have absolutely no background on, but I want to say something about the "shape" of what is happening here, not necessarily related to its exact specifics.

In a situation where there is a free (as in beer) product, and someone comes along and then sells it "for a quick buck", they are not automatically thieves - they are in fact doing the work of the free market by promoting and spreading the product. Their value add is in packaging, distribution, advertising, etc.

Now, if things are done without attribution in contravention of licenses etc., then it's straight up illegal and wrong. I just wanted to point out that selling something which is normally free is not automatically immoral or ripping people off.
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FWIW, mail service Campaign Monitor have picked up on this as possibly true, while stopping short on actually advising people to make list changes as a result:

http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/post/3486/do-email-newsl...
How would linking to a Google Map prove that he travels or add to this resume in any way?
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I was thinking that, but to be fair he gave that talk 4 years ago before the tablet/phone market took off.
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Very Cool! hope you now believe 4 yrs weren't a total waste after all:-)
Great points aneth - I'm the guy that created ibuildmvps.com - I end up telling 90%+ of inquiries to do customer development and give them some hints. Not many projects came from ibuildmvps, but it's been fun helping fellow entrepreneurs think through their hypotheses.
I think Erowid is about as unbiased as it gets. All they do is provide information about drugs, they are neither advocating drug use nor condemning it.

Even their legal articles don't take any position on what drug policy should be, all they do is explain the case law that exists.
Processors get tuned for the code that runs on them, and the code that runs on them is generated by compilers which have generally broken down high-level operations into low-level operations to seek out other kinds of optimization opportunities. Idiosyncratic opcodes end up as backwaters because so few general-purpose back ends can target them in broad scenarios. So they receive less focus from chip manufacturers, and their original purpose gets lost; they often end up slower than a handful of the simpler opcodes.
Couchsurfing and airbnb offer completely different services. Couchsurfing is free, and very focused on community building. It is definitely alive and kicking.
Additionally, the 8086 is not much like the 386! And the 386 isn't much like the 486, which differed surprisingly from the Pentium. And each subsequent revision has followed this trend of being (at the very least) different enough from its predecessors that assembly language programmers need to re-read the manuals.

Today we even have a 64-bit version, which differs from its trail of 32-bit ancestors even more than they differed from one another...
yep. Don't know what they're thinking over there.

They'll probably start putting up a disclaimer when its not actually google's doc
What happens when you get more demand than you have time for?
Did the ever sell the IP for that? I wonder if a company like Brondell would want to buy the patents.
You've missed the point: The fact that someone did "work" doesn't mean that they're qualified. It just means that they're enthusiastic enough to make a website for a single employer. And that's great, but it's just the start of the whole hiring process. Once you get noticed, you also need to prove that you're a good engineer, employable, a culture fit, etc.

The OP was (vaguely) implying that the success of this guy's effort indicates that everyone else is somehow Doing it Wrong, because we're using jobvite, passing around resumes, etc. But what this guy did is the digital equivalent of those dudes who pay for a billboard on the freeway that says "Hire Me". It's a clever trick that may work for the first few people who try it, but it won't work consistently. The rest of us are still going to need a resume, recommendations, etc.
The issue here isn't ZodTTD, it's Google. Whatever licensing issues there are surrounding this, are we to believe the entire Android team wasn't closely watching sales of the questionably legal emulators that were selling like hotcakes on Market?

Google wants to have their cake and eat it too. They'll only support devs as long as it will help them get their App Store (TM) off the ground.

Good for business, probably. But definitely Evil.
That's cool; I hate it when people get cool names like "venturebros' before me. We can't all win at everything.
I feel this directly correlates to the many discussions of the idea being worthless and leads to neglect of the real aspect of ideas being continuous. Given the timeframe, how can the the added ideas, which are equally important to the original concept minus the original implementation, add the necessary value/execution?

Additionally, this is a specific tech choice where I would love the chime of others contributing into this sort of thing, perhaps as a service, where one can choose equally proficient specialists of any stack(coming from a design.ui.idea guy learning ror). I know this is just the efforts of one based on taste/preference which you would choose, so I love the idea.
Can hated design elements be made to work?
I can't see the news-worthyness of this either. Facebook has 6 months of stuff in the pipe, but hasn't been deployed to the general public.

Is this important? It's impossible to tell. It all depends on how they quality control and implement changes. Facebook is very interconnected and giving it a third leg might cause a complication in how it runs. How it appears, given that my wife's facebook can be on a server down for maintenance and my account works perfectly fine, is that it might be in the facebook backend, but it could be taking them months to safely roll it out without downing their entire network.

Furthermore, who knows what will get released. I could have 3 blog posts in the works, but I might drop one or two if it becomes irrelevant before posting. I don't get why facebook is seemingly not allowed this courtesy, maybe it isn't in Facebook's best interest to create a segregated network when whites/blacks men/women dogs/cats can't access each others profiles or send messages to each other. However, it might have a good idea, IE the ability to block people who are harassing or spamming you.
Ironically, the vast majority of "improvements" listed in the post (everything except using scasd) are algorithmic ones that are in fact doable in a compiled language.

And even special machine instructions seem quite achievable with a pattern-matching code generator.

Overall I think the HN title is very misleading - the article seems more "compilers don't do this well yet", definitely not "compilers can never do this".
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I recently released a product that had nearly 6K signups in one week. How long does it typically take to get to 10K signups for most startups? What is typical early-startup growth?
I don't disagree and my experience has actually been similar as I worked with customers previously. My hope is that there might be those people already out there who are far enough along to be ready for the "build me a prototype" phase. I have, however, considered adding the option of a two week "let's figure your idea out" thing. In the end, maybe that's the way to go...
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