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Videoconferencing is free on Skype as well... not sure what point you're making?
Don't bother; if someone doesn't want to believe you they'll just make up a reason to not believe any evidence you provide. Just walk away.
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blows off steam Thanks, you're absolutely right. It's sad I even needed the reminder.

peace :)
For the record here's a screen grab of the "Get experience tidying a shop": http://www.broadsheet.ie/2011/05/17/no-salary/
For sure there's going to be loss of confidence either way. You're probably going to have a bigger loss if the security experts are pointing out that you couldn't even get password storage right, though.

Obviously they It's up to you whether you care enough about your customers to try to get security right. You gave a reasonable argument for why using bcrypt instead of md5 makes little financial sense. However, that same argument applies to plaintext vs hashed. Or hashed vs hashed with salt. In the end, you need to decide how much you care about security, and also weigh how much security you are morally obligated to provide.
Poorly! Of course, every developer/team estimates poorly without a lot of practice.

One of the biggest suggestions that has helped me create more accurate estimates: don't say that a feature/task is going to take N hours. Instead, give it a bounded rank. I use {1, 2, 4, 8, 16}. Total the rank.

That won't be helpful in the beginning, but the real win comes when you've done several projects, and you know how long 40 points will take.

I think most people are poor estimators on unbounded spaces, and this solves that problem.
With a site called areallybadidea.com they have to complain about something..
It's an idea I'm certainly contemplating, thanks :)
My impression is that Google wants web browsers to be better in general. When people have a fast powerful browser, they're more willing to use rich web apps, and they spend more time online, both of which benefit Google. The primary purpose of chrome is to drive innovation in browsers, and to mitigate the downside risk of some company controlling the whole market and shutting Google out entirely.
I don't know whether to be offended or flattered!
if your grandparent was born in Ireland

I suspect, but amn't sure, that this is more felxible, and I think they include Northern Ireland aswell, i.e. they include "the island of Ireland".

(Which makes sense, the country now known as Ireland didn't exit until 1922, I'm in my 27s and by grandmother was born in the late 1920s. Someone in the 50s could have a grandparent born in what was then the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.)
Flat comments ensure a narrative thread.
Presumably these cables are greased-lightning fast
I've replied to you in the comments, but in short I'm conflicted between not wanting to pay for promotion (which a freebie is, essentially) but liking the idea of thousands tweeting about how great my app is.

Anyone reading that uses Twitter - would you pay or tweet to use a service? I'm guessing the vast majority would tweet... but am really not sure :)
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One idea I've thought about is allowing users to download the tweets they're going to delete in one file format or another. I imagine there's some extra value I could add in there somewhere as well... am just not sure what ;)
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Try the list found here: http://wiki.neo4j.org/content/Visualization_options_for_grap...

Looks mind-mapish:
http://mbostock.github.com/d3/ex/cluster.html
Scoble can come off that way, but he advocates for new and exciting technology and loves to share it with like minded individuals. I met Scoble last week at the 6sight Social Imaging conference in San Jose. He's a talker, and when you get him started he makes sure to leave you with his opinion. Presumptuous is not a word I would describe him with, however I see how that can be interpreted from his blog. I found him to be a nice guy, well informed and willing to talk to anyone about anything.
No, one on one video is.
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I don't believe XKCD is actually targeted at tech geeks. It describes itself as "A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language."

I am entirely unsurprised non-geeky brainy folks might enjoy it.
"A better (more honest) reply would be "we don't think there's a problem, Apple is just luck and hype, the playbook is industry changing (Mike said that, didn't he?), this better not have come from inside or else"."

If that's really what they believe then they're in more trouble than anyone could have imagined.
Out of curiosity, why did you decide to make it a separate service from TweetingMachine

I was wondering if there were many users who wouldn't spend $19.99/month on a service when they only wanted one feature, and to see if they would pay $4.99/year for that one feature instead.

I am thinking about making it entirely free and using it to solely promote TweetingMachine. I might stick a TweetingMachine advert on it for a week and see if that results in any sign ups and go from there.

Thanks for your compliments by the way - I have a few "proper" failures I can write about in the future if you're interested. Although I'm also waiting for the magic $500/hour moment ;)
Or you could use Google takeout and do everything Google in one go ;)
He said he did not want to use that scribble thing.
Plaintest vs. hash, or salted hash vs. salted hash do not incur the same performance penalty.

And while I may feel morally obligated to provide great security, the people I report to would not be as impressed with that in a cost-benefit analysis.

tl;dr It's a great idea, but a tough sell, particularly at scale.
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I personally think so, as I think blocks in C are a clumsy way around the issue (probably because C doesn't natively have garbage collection) and it feels natural in go, but I know others will disagree.

Also, I don't think you can make it anonymous, can you?

func(x int, y int){fmt.Printf("%d\n",x+y)}(2,4)
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I really need an app like this, can't wait to try out the beta!
" I made InboxCleaner free for life – just as long as you don’t mind being limited to only 50 deletes per day."

Perhaps I'm not the heaviest twitter user, but the free service would wipe every DM I've ever received in.. a day. I imagine a one-time fee would work better.

(On a related note, I wonder if Dropbox is also far too generous with their free offering; almost everyone I know uses the free tier as 2GB is a huge amount for docs that need syncing; I've used dropbox since it came out and am only at 20% of that).
Doh. Thanks for pointing it out, maybe I learn and get it right next time. It seems that I can't edit the title to fix it.
Imagine if MS, Apple, RIM AND Google all cooperated and said "this is silly, let's get rid of all our nukes (patents) and live in peace". Collectively, they would be $4.5 billion better off and could use it to build something instead of stocking up on weapons.
right, the space saving harmed readability indeed, thanks
The second link (job offer) is broken...
You mean, like "Skype" does?

Gmail has also been offering a cross-platform "Google Voice & Video Chat" for some time now. Hangout will probably be a rebranded version extended to include video conference support.
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Again, you are missing the point. Imagine if the USSR and the US cooperated and spent all that money they used to make their dicks look bigger on, for example, flying to mars.
I really enjoyed the quote from founder Mark Pincus: " Games should be accessible to everyone, anywhere, any time; Games should be social; Games should be free; Games should be data driven and; Games should do good."

I hope more game developers take this (especially the last point) to heart. Too many game developers are latching onto publishers who demand games on an unreasonable timeline. To give one example, Valve is a testament to how putting the appropriate amount of time into development of a game produces great results (not to mention an amazingly loyal fan base).

That said I do understand game companies need money to produce these games but I do think a culture shift is in order and publishers need to realize great games take time. I think they undervalue how much more money a great game make than a good game. Also nothing builds more hype than anticipation!
Remember that you can say the same about Friendster. Lots of people were using it.

Twitter started with just blogger- and programmer-types too.
All too often they result in no thread whatsoever.
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I found this tidbit amazing:

"As of March 31, 2011, approximately 64% of our employees had been with us for less than one year and approximately 92% for less than two years."

For a company with hundreds of employees, that's a crazy growth rate.
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You seem to forget that Google+ is in field trial, and was launched only 2 days ago. I don't expect any product as big as that to fully launch overnight.
My hashed/unhashed comparison was not a performance statement, but a trust statement. If a breach will lose the same amount of confidence regardless of password storage, why bother with even hashing?

I can't imagine how "good security - scalable enough for Twitter" can be a hard sell. Your customers certainly won't by sympathetic if they learn that you willfully chose weaker security to save a buck.
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I have the same problem. However, I originally came from Textmate and switched to Vim when Textmate essentially became vaporware. I do miss the fluid scrolling though. And decent project management. And I hate those pseudo-graphical ASCII-art boxes that Vim so loves.

And then I found Vico (vicoapp.net), which is basically a modern OSX text editor with Vim keybindings. There is still a lot of stuff missing, like macros and ci(, but it is already enough to make me prefer it to Vim most of the time. And it has full support for Textmate bundles, too.

On Windows, E-texteditor and Visual Studio plugins like Vsvim or Viemu achieve this, too. On Linux, Gedit can do it. Oh, and Emacs can do that, too, though that is a somewhat odd choice for a vimmer ;-)
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Not sure what you mean. Java is one of the main languages we use, along with Scala, Groovy, and JavaScript.
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They're very busy people, whose attention a lot of people want to get a piece of, and don't always have time to answer every email they get. As someone who spends 3+ hours on answering email per day, and doesn't always get to all of it, I can sympathize.
I believe you are looking for http://jsplumb.org/jquery/demo.html
> Google wants to ensure that people understand it's not a Steve Jobs type situation at Google.

I don't mean to be snarky but even a cursory examination of the evidence would make that pretty obvious. A bit of focus and cohesion would do their product quality some good.
It's fun to socialize. And a lot of that is talking with people, and spending time with them.

It's not the only kind of fun. But it's fun enough for G+ to be compelling.
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I routinely edit files of 5-10k loc and have never had a problem. It blows ide's (eg eclipse) out of the water in terms of speed.
Sorry...you're right. I apologize. Fixed.
It's always cute when people obsess over synthetic benchmarks.
I'm not sure that anarchism can be as stable as government

I'm not sure you get the original concept concept of anarchy. Anarchy is a society mode where there is no designed leader that has power over everyone and where law is substituted by social standard that people follow (no written rule). It's basically NOT having a government.
I just saw this recently: jsPlumb http://code.google.com/p/jsplumb/

Here's a demo: http://jsplumb.org/jquery/demo.html
It appears that they use gmail and/or gtalk data (frequency?) as input factors; as some of my top scored friends I chat/mail with frequently but are yet not on Google+.
What evidence? Sorry but this is simply baseless FUD. I've installed the seeds, I've done so without an Internet connection, and I've never had to provide any kind of license or proof of purchase.

Never.

If you want to make a claim that Apple is moving towards the Windows licensing model or even just the requirement of a license with Lion then you better be prepared to back up that claim with proof. Also please explain how I was able to install without running into the supposed "licensing" difficulties you seem to have run into? (e.g. the requirement of being connected to the Internet)

Edit: by requiring a license, I mean that the software enforces it. The "AppStore validation" notwithstanding, which the current seeds do not seem to use fwiw, where is the evidence? Because the seeds can be installed sans-Internet and without an Apple ID, there doesn't seem to be any evidence for this claim.

Edit 2: the image linked below is not of a local install: "To download and restore Mac OS X, your computer's eligibility will be verified with Apple." As previously stated, installation does not require online activation. Also I would like to point out, if you are restoring from a back up in the cloud, e.g. iCloud, you damn well better hope Apple verifies your credentials! If you're simply wanting to re-download, I don't know why you're complaining Apple is checking your credentials? At any rate, installing from the local media works without any such requirements; you do not need an Internet connection and you do not need an Apple ID. Now, can we stop with the FUD?
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This is just the beginning... I bet we'll soon see Facebook's own "Circles" feature.

As I wrote two days ago ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2707775 ), Paul Adams, previously social research lead in the Google UX team, left Google for Facebook in December: http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/20/paul-adams-googler-whose-pr...
I've always used moo.com in the past.
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As much as I like Twitter, I basically agree with most of the points in the article. G+ will attract developers, it does have a clear path to monitization, and for people who already use GMail+Calendar+Picasa+etc it is a natural since it is always available.
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I use the local printer just down the road. Send him a PDF by email, 24 hours later get a phone call saying to come and pick up the 1000 cards he just made for me.

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Check out this post from a Google+ engineer: https://plus.google.com/107117483540235115863/posts/GTESUy4y... (sorry, Google+ users only)
This was identified as an issue that's planned to be fixed in the next few days.
"A lot more men than women on Google+" is a more accurate title, but I think Forbes wants to link bait
Sales engineer type at a company like Cisco seems right up your alley. Equal parts software and hardware would ideal.
Tying as a legal issue has never made sense to me, and seems incompatible with private property and contract law. As a consumer, I don't have a right to an imaginary version of Windows without Internet Explorer that I wish Microsoft would build. Likewise, as a handset vendor, I don't have a right to an imaginary contract with Google where I get everything I want on my terms.

Tying laws, and antitrust broadly are a way for regulators to forcibly dictate what companies create. As stated above what's really revolting is this typically comes as a result of competitors lobbying to cripple the top player in the industry.
I've tried django-nonrel as well - if you're not trying to get an existing django app running on app engine, I'd stay away from it.
In practical experience, we saw our handlers taking 3-5 times longer when using Django-nonrel.
Damn, I was thinking the same thing too!

TweetMachine does look like a pretty neat webapp. I'm not a big enough Twitter user, but if I was promoting an app through Twitter, I'd certainly regard $20/month as likely a solid investment.

You might want to try and emphasize some approaches to app promotion and support in your features page.
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