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Raw performance doesn't matter to me much as long as I can handle enough concurrent requests, and serve as few as possible with Rails (and trust me, I've built and maintained a webapp handling 50k+ concurrent connections). A good N-tier architecture goes a long way. You'll want a solid HTTP cache, an easy path towards integrating a CDN (better if you can resell and my IT dept has fewer vendors to worry about), and of course memcached is useful.

Creating an easy deployment process can be difficult but you'll find a good solution. No doubt you'll have a decent web management console as well. Devote some time as early as possible to the non-functional parts of the platform (fault-tolerance, availability, security, customer service and relationships) and you'll be in a good place.

Best of luck!
This is one of the reasons I don't want the government to increase the control over the internet. We sometimes get the illusion that it's all pure and butterflies, when in fact even whitehats/government agencies conduct illegal activities on the web abusing their powers. Better leave it to the people; we can handle it just the way it is.
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Ask HN: HN for PMs?
I was curious if there was a niche site like HN that caters to less technical-more product management folk. I personally filter a lot of HN posts for the ones really pushing stuff for product and browse relevant Quora topics. I imagine though that the product guys (who are as mature and intelligent as the HN crowd) must sit on some site and discuss stuff. Any suggestions for where to look?
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did you even consider that this was genuine?
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What relevance does that have to this piece?
I think they were going for "funny". It worked, imo.
That's surprising though, Apple's usual ways is beating down the little guy.

That just seems like smart move to me. If you can't beat them, you hire them.

If it makes my notifications better, it's all better!
As long as Bing continues to have to advertise, I doubt they're winning.
"Every feature has some maintenance cost, and having fewer features lets us focus on the ones we care about and make sure they work very well. For every new feature we add, we take an old one out. A lot of big sites don't do that, and it's a problem."

Very well put.
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I had always envisioned it would be easy for Apple, even given current iOS4 voice recognition to play well with apps. An "Open $app, do $command" would be amazing. The simple "return call" or "redial" phone related functions would address some of the AT&T frustration I have today.

But going the extra step and doing actual NLP on top of the voice recognition would be incredible.
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Apple is actually quite fond of just hiring the developer. I can't cite examples, but it's been done quite often.
Groupon Economy is Recession Economy, and groupon issues food coupons to it's members, merchants accept food coupon because they believe customers don't have money and selling at discount is better than no sale.

If groupon don't make profit, nor the merchants it is surely bad for the company and it's investors
I smiled as I saw this at the top. I know web programming's where it's at, but learning Django's been kind of a chore for me. And with an ok math background, Project Euler's been fun so far. Now working on Problem 11 to compute the highest product in a 20x20 matrix. Think nested lists might do the trick.
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I talked to his brother in high school. Peter signed on with Apple months ago.
However, it's hard to realistically expect one to go from being the maintainer of a hostile fork ...

Greg, "hostile fork"? I read Loren's blog post about the release of SlimGems and the motivations, and really got no sense at all of any hostilty.

As best I can tell, much like with YARD Loren decided he wanted to see some key part of the Ruby dev environment behave a certain way and wrote working code to make it so. I can only applaud that.

Having spent at least a little time chatting with Loren about YARD (he was terrific in clearing up dozens of questions at a MWRC) I'd be surprised if there was any anger or malice behind any of his projects.

It may be that the offering of these things in turn creates some annoyance for some people, but I doubt that's the intent.

I would much prefer to see more people code out their issues than complain on a mailing list or HN.

Code talks, bullshit walks.
It's tempting to generalize: If programming is best learned
in this playful, bottom-up way, why not everything else?
Could there be a Project Euler for English or Biology?

My biology book from farming school 10 years ago: On each page there would be questions that you were supposed to think through before continuing. On the next page there would be answers.

Most of the questions were serious, but in between there where jokes like "What is the white stuff on the outside of chicken poop?" to which the answer was "It's chicken poop too!" and then a longer explanation about how they get rid of uric acid.

(http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_that_white_stuff_in_chicke...)
Thousands of employees, slim (if any) margins... sounds a bit like Kozmo.com...
Well, the other thing it has going for it is that it works. So far I've had no problems with SlimGems on the half dozen or so projects I've tried it with. The same cannot be said for RubyGems 1.8 and most of the releases since 1.3.7.
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More and more I see deals that are likely to be turning a nice profit. For instance, last month there was an acting seminar in LA -- only a single 5-day session was offered which all Groupon buyers would attend. ~300 people signed up at $100 per head, for around $30000 revenue.
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As an entrepreneur who moved to Bangalore recently, I completely agree to Sridhar's post here.

My 2 paise - do a India based / focused startup, just live outside India's cities (if you can't live outside India, that is).
That's essentially the argument they've been making. I.e., Apple is focusing on things which make amateurs able to produce professional results, not amateurs producing amateur results (like Youtube).
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I believe this is a great project, I'm looking for a small investment (-$150).

Just to purchase a domain, hosting, and other plug-ins for the forum to get it started.

If you are interested, please post below.
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Still missing a lot cool features, but I think most of the core functions are in place. Would greatly appreciate feedback on the concept, design or anything you would like to see added.
What would garbage collection do that C++0x's shared_ptr smart pointer (which is reference counted) doesn't?

I'm not really sure how GC works but using normal memory allocation when you can and reference counted pointers when somebody else is responsible for deallocating objects seems to be adequate and is still high performance...
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Or is simply the underlying reason why he thought Carrol was talking about him.
I'd love that. I put a proposal on StackExhange, but it hasn't made it very far: http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/28281/product-mana...

I also made a subreddit a long time ago, but also to no avail: http://www.reddit.com/r/ProductManagement/

There's a lot that goes through #prodmgmt on Twitter, but that is too ephemeral in nature.

At this point (combined with being vice president of the Utah Product Management Association(, I've come to these conclusions:

- Many (not a majority!) PMs are completely unaware of what they don't know, so they don't go looking for answers

- Many PMs psychologically need to be in the middle of everything (it's part of the reason they want to be PMs), which sucks down massive amounts of time, leaving little time left for book learning.

- Many PMs are thrown into the job with no real understanding of what a PM should do. As a result, they do the two things they understand, leaving the other 20 boxes in the Pragmattic Framework empty (and there isn't much need to learn about them as a result).

I know I'm bagging on PMs, but i actually think most PMs genuinely try their hardest and most of those are reasonably good.

There's one other critical piece that I think hurts more than all of the above: PM is a poorly defined role, ranging everywhere from bizdev to project management to business analyst to development manager. It is really hard to get two people to agree on what a PM is, so it is equally hard to find content that is equally interesting to all.

If you do find a good community, please let me know!
Also looking for some domain suggestions for the new forum!
Has to be related to Hacker News and/or Y Combinator!
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"let us briefly examine the tulip mania that is Groupon."

Yesterday I equated the bitcoins craze to tulip mania [1]. I wonder whether the author of this blogging read that on HN, and thought he could use that for Groupon, too. He also linked to the WikiPedia article, like I did.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2612858
It's a bit late to be giving Apple advice on iOS 5, considering it's going to be announced in 2 days.
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This is a huge challenge for the FBI and it will be interesting to see how they handle and crack this case. I do hope they can find these bastards and put them behind bars for a very long time indeed.

The FBI should start with the a court order and to get the domain registrar to reveal the identity of the person/organization, that registered the domain name lulzsecurity.com which happens to be registered in the Bahamas and can be viewed at : (http://whois.domaintools.com/lulzsecurity.com) as

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Tel: +852.81720004

Of course, most likely they used an alias/fake identity. But the hackers had to have left a financial trail when they purchased and registered that domain name, or that phone number, PO Box.
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I think a lot of it is profitable for merchants these days. Invariably when I peek at Groupon, the deal falls into the category of "useless shit that is insanely overpriced normally, and with the deal is just reasonably priced useless shit".
IANAL but I believe Larry Flynt's case only established that a public figure can not be awarded damages for "emotional distress" caused by hurtful remarks done in satire or parody. I do not believe that affords protection from libel should the criteria for libel be met (which, as others have pointed out, is quite difficult to prove).
Link to the actual article (OP can you change the link?):

http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2011/06/03/apple-hires-the-guy-w...
There is something reasonably similar to PostRank in PHP: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/want_to_do_something_similar_to_po...
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Can someone help a novice and explain what types of things can be achieved with such a dump?
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The obvious reason for no Object/Relational Mappers in Clojure is that while Clojure has objects available, it doesn't orient around them. It makes much more sense to treat a set of records from the DB as a sequence of maps.

For DBs and Clojure in general I can only speak about CouchDB via Clutch and SQL via ClojureQL and clojure.contrib.SQL. I don't want to claim to be an expert in either of these technologies, but if you have some more specific questions i'm happy to do my best to answer them. you might find some answers about couch in an older post of mine http://brehaut.net/blog/2010/couch_impedance
Not if they were smart.
I was suggesting the possibility of different coupon services marketing themselves to different segments of the populace; the most common characterization (as far as I can tell) of people who use Groupon is as cheap or stingy, so a service which was able to promote a view of its subscribers as more affluent or using the coupons as a low-risk way of trying something (as opposed to just shopping for deals) would be better placed to market to businesses.

However, you're completely right that clients would go with whichever service offers the best value and best range of coupons, and that scale offers an advantage there. I would add that it is highly unlikely that subscribers would only subscribe to a single service. With the marginal cost of subscribing being so low (just signing up with an email and then looking at the deals when they show up, as I understand it), the increased variety of coupons would almost certainly sway the majority of subscribers. At that point, it would become a fight over which service can find businesses offering the cheapest or most desirable deal, in which scale gives the advantage.
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The author of this article seems to be unfamiliar with the concept of an internship. Peter is an intern because he's still in college, not because of some mythical gauntlet that new Apple engineers have to run through before Steve himself hands them keys to the repos.
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Thanks for the hot tip. And now here's my python wrapper for the Microsoft Translate API (bing) --
https://github.com/s29/mstranslate

No limits, seemingly comparable translation quality. The API was a bit annoying, but hey no surprise there. Thanks Microsoft!
I don't see why some people dislike this idea. If you think about it, this is really just an extension of the right to speech and the right to assembly. The only new thing is officially recognizing the Internet as an avenue for these things.
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I think the one big thing will be ... an A5 based combined set top box/high powered Wi-Fi router that allows you to opt into Apple's worldwide wireless network by powering a node (you can also pay or maybe everyone pays but the people donating bandwidth get Apple bucks).

Other features:

App Store, FaceTime, Thunderbolt (obvious).

Touch remote included - where do they save money vs ipod touch? no memory, lower res, monochrome? maybe eink?

Femtocell functionality -- Massive applause line when smiling AT&T CEO shown. See, it's not an end run around the carriers. At least not totally. Or not yet.

Cloud gaming ala OnLive, arcade business model- bye bye consoles

Easy to use QoS/throttling ala Ga Tech's recently demo'd Kermit.
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Ditto for me as well if necessary.
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All these speculations are wrong. Last night an extraterrestrial entity appeared in my dream, and it was revealed to me that Apple's big announcement will be the 'iConsole', with which Apple will enter the console market, to crush the Xbox and PS3.
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Sorry, but you can't diagnose Asperger's from a fuckin' interview/article.
wxPython didn't look native enough is the reason I've been given by the Dropbox folks.
4) simplification - if a weatherman says "it will rain tomorrow" (s)he will leave out lots of 'given', 'statistically', etc. Similarly, one can find fault in any categorical statement ("1+1 equals 2" -> not in Z/2Z). If you meet a person for the first time, establishing conventions for the level of simplification can be difficult. That may lead one to think somebody does not know what he is talking about.

There also are variations on #3 that I would not really call lying:

5) "Santa flies from the North Pole". Technically #3 above, but feels different to me.

6) Politeness - as when answering a "do I look fat…" question.
Yep, I asked on IRC and apparently the livecd manifest is a good list to use. Stay tuned
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That's a great point, these competing services can try to go after say a higher end part of the market or underserved demographic.
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Probably too smart for their own good - all super-smart criminals make the fatal mistake of assuming that others are too dumb to catch them. They also do not have access to the combined resources of the NSA, FBI, CIA.
If it was seamless I agree it would be a big step forward. If it was as flaky and unreliable as the other voice rec implementations I've tried I'd be disabling it as fast as possible. Voice recognition is one of those things that has to be 99% right to be usable at all, IMO.
Pretty neat, specially for us on the last leg of development which seems to be taking forever!
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> Spammers will always win. If it is made by the hands of a human, it is pretty much common sense that it has aspects that can be exploited.

They seem to be losing on HN. Mostly because we're very low-profile, but for a while there were bunches of spam comments by new users. They all ended up dead really quickly, and it seems to have petered out (nothing in the first two pages of /noobcomments), though there are occasional bursts.

There are also all the spam articles (look at /noobstories), but again, most of those end up dead instantly, and the ones which don't never go anywhere. The fact that every link off-site has rel=nofollow probably helps - no link juice gets given to other sites, so spamming HN doesn't improve search rank. The hellbanning system probably helps too - if a spam account is banned, it doesn't notice anything different, but everything it submits is autokilled.
I really don't know where to start, so I'll jump right in. In reading your post, I think you've hit the nail on the head; you're not happy. My advice is to find a professional that can safely help you pursue happiness. Just out of curiosity and a potential starting point, when was the last time you were happy? Also, boarding school sounds like a significant and possibly traumatic incident in your life (did you have mixed feelings about going to boarding school?). I'll also throw out there that your sexual fantasies, so long as they don't hurt another person and you have a willing participant aren't bad...after all, to each their own. Remember, sex should be gratifying. If you feel nothing or worse when you are done, or shortly thereafter, and are escalating the behaviors to "feel something", you should probably stop the acts and tell a professional.

With regard to your situation as a founder of a startup with employees and investors, if you can't do the job or fear you can fly off the handle at any time, you need to be an adult and do the right thing (which could be at a great personal cost). That could mean selling your piece, bringing in someone else, going on leave, whatever. But, you have taken several steps to reach out on your own behalf and you should at least make the same attempts to safeguard the money / livelihood of those who have helped you get where you are today. That doesn't mean you have to tell them what's going on, but you still have to take action.

My advice to you is figure out what makes you happy. It's way harder than it sounds, so start small. Do you have a hobby that brings you joy? Something from your childhood you haven't done in a long time, but made you happy back then? Have you ever tried helping a complete stranger? Start doing 1 thing a day until you find something that makes you feel better and run with that (make sure whatever you try is positive).

I hope we see a post from you in the future that tells us how much better you are doing. And remember, just because you've spent your whole life trying to get to where you are, if it doesn't make you happy --you're better off making a change.
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