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Just like the author of this blog post I was inspired by the MVC mini profiler and started a Ruby gem that has some very very basic functionality at the moment, you can find it here: http://github.com/bittersweet/stopwatch

It just shows the page load duration and amount of queries so far but I plan to have the same functionality as the original and GAE one :-)
Surely, ninety-nine shillings?
What if the standard could be changed from a language to a runtime specification? For example, a subset of LLVM assembler could play the role of a substrate (very much like what NaCl is doing) and leave the language part open. Runtimes with sufficiently rich capabilities can evolve over a much longer period than languages. This could liberate client-side coding from language specific-ness just like it doesn't matter what language you use on the server side.

That might sound a lot like Java, but it can can use some fresh thinking. I'm quite excited about NaCl on this front, for example.
A lot of hardware problems on Linux are like this. Unfortunately everybody still blame Linux.
Out of college I applied to two of the big companies, got two interviews.

I won't name names, but one seemed slow and disorganized in their hiring process. The other got me through in a couple of weeks and I took the offer.
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URL detection is tricky because people omit the “http://” part of URLs. It used to be that you could look for stuff beginning with “www.”, but nobody uses “www.” anymore, so now you basically have to have a list of TLDs and look for anything ending in “.<tld>”. Now that everybody will be able to register their own TLD, will URL detection even be feasible for humans any more? I’ve been thinking about how we’re going to solve this problem for a while, because we need some kind of notation to replace “.<tld>”. I mean I don’t think people will go back to writing <http://coca-cola>, so when I saw the title of this post I immediately knew what the idea was: let’s write //coca-cola to denote “the URL coca-cola”. (Unfortunately, both Google Chrome and Safari interpret “//coca-cola” as “file:///coca-cola”.)

I don’t know why everybody is talking about the technical meaning of //coca-cola, as that’s kind of irrelevant. Us web developers will of course still be typing the full http://coca-cola, as we always have.
I am not so sure. It's easy to write a program that is easy to use and has very few features. It's very easy to bloat a program with so many UI elements that it becomes unusable. On the other hand, it's _very_ hard to write a program that has a simple UI, and yet has a lot of features. This comes from programming experience... And it's our daily struggle with Apollo.

Tony Mobily
http://www.apollohq.com
Isn't this the password reset form on EA.com? I encountered it the other day as well.

Also, I wondered why EA doesn't use a form of openid via the user account. It has so many games, they all require EA logins, but as we've seen, different sites have different (often bad) implementations. A one-click EA openid would work wonders.
Hi,

this approach was tried by Gnome's Nautilus for a while, a few years back... and it failed miserably. It feels to me like a bad excuse for not designing a good UI in the first place...

Tony Mobily
http://www.apollohq.com
Interesting, suggests a quick fix might be for the client to not use keepalive, or to selectively close connections that are very slow so as to start new ones. Potentially a much easier solution than writing a new transport.
Quite common here in Germany/Austria: e.g. Nestlé ice coffee/espresso... either in aluminum cans or plastic bottles.
There was a nice introduction to West's work in the NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/magazine/19Urban_West-t.ht...
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Yes, but (like most banks) I dare say they'd lock your account after 3 incorrect attempts, and you'd have to unlock it out-of-band (e.g. calling their call centre).
Absolutely - one of things we were discussing as cycling along yesterday is what could have been done with a tiny percentage of the money wasted on the trams.

<sigh>
If your keyboard is like mine, and it doesn't like pressing Enter + Shift + Z + X (which is how you go to the save screen here), you can simulate the key combination with this quick hack:

function simuSave() {
gameboy.JoyPadEvent(4, true);gameboy.JoyPadEvent(5, true);gameboy.JoyPadEvent(6, true);gameboy.JoyPadEvent(7, true);
setTimeout(function() {
gameboy.JoyPadEvent(4, false);gameboy.JoyPadEvent(5, false);gameboy.JoyPadEvent(6, false);gameboy.JoyPadEvent(7, false);
}, 20);
}

Put that in Chrome's devtools or Firebug's console and call it with simuSave(). YMMV.
So could most of us, but then again you could do something interesting with your weekend instead.
Nope, shillings were pre decimalisation, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shilling
I hate to do this but: it still beats having to deal with the airlines...
Probably not. Nokia (as every other company) constantly build prototypes and test platforms. There was talk from Elop himself that they tried to get an Adroid prototype working last year.
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The problem for those of us on capped and/or expensive-per-kbyte mobile connections (in the UK that is everyone who doesn't spend a large chunk on their monthly contract - people on Virgin pay-as-you-go pat £3 for a day's access but IIRC you get cut off after 25Mbytes in that day) with restarting connections early is that the ~20 seconds worth of packets queued up during the blip is going to be sent anyway even though they are now no longer needed. 20 seconds worth of discarded packets could be quite a bit if you were transferring data at decent 3G+ speeds just before the blip.
Ooh thanks for posting this so fast! I actually didn't know the techcrunch article was out until I saw it here haha.
That doesn't wound like a shopstopper... optimising performance for IE6 is kind of pointless..
That was informative, thank you.
Trains also dampen the signal. Many German high speed trains have repeaters but those don't yet (hopefully!) work with UMTS. Cars and busses have admittedly the same problem but maybe to a lesser extent.
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Let me be the devil's advocate for a moment.

Adding features is hard work, risky, expensive, and sometimes counterproductive (!).
It's hard work, because you need to change an existing, working piece of software with new code, and deploy it. Including possible database changes.
It's risky. Deploying a new version of your software might introduce nasty bugs, huge usability problems, or you might change the way things worked before, actually displeasing a lot of users.
It's expensive. Programmers aren't cheap. Then you need testing, QA, ticket triage... all things that cost a lot of time, and money.
Counterproductive. Your new features might only benefit a tiny portion of your userbase, and might not attract new customers. They might break your existing model. And so on.

Once you've reached a good feature set, doing continuous development is more of a life choice, rather than a business decision that makes sense.

Really.

Tony Mobily
http://www.apollohq.com
"and every day we’ve continued to win the most important battle for any company: existence"

That's just it. I had a client a few years back and I thought they were just, well, I mean it sounds harsh but I thought they were a joke.

They were in a highly competitive industry and everything about their product sucked.

I never really took them seriously. But then about 8 months after I'd been doing regular work for them they called me and said "There's a problem with the billing integration on signup". I was like "How did you know?" It was a problem that wasn't immediately apparent and there were no warnings in place on their system to detect this kind of problem. The guy said "well we usually get 5 or 6 signups a day and we didn't get any".

This was astounding to me. I couldn't believe they got 5 - 6 people signing up every day.

Now, 3 years on, they get about 40 signups a day. They have iteratively improved their service, and there's the really killer thing: the markets we're dealing with are HUGE here people. Huge.

I had this little epiphany the other day, about my service 8centsms.com. Here is a service that makes between $500 and $2000 per month - but the bulk of that is from 1 or 2 bulk marketing clients. I want it to be a "personal" messaging solution though.

The problem is, there are only 27 regular users. Pathetic. That's so small it makes me want to cry.

But then I thought about it like this: what if I told you that I had a service that only had 27 regular users (who really love the service). Then I told you that I knew (somehow, theoretically) that those were the only 27 people on the planet who would ever use it or love it, and we'd already signed them up - wouldn't you think that was utterly impossible?

In fact, the presence of 27 users just indicates that there must be more - many many many many more - who would signup and use our service if we marketed it properly. Isn't that amazing?

Don't commit suicide, just exist. Engage with your users and get more signups. If even one person falls in love with your product, that proves that there must be thousands, even millions more out there that will do the same. Because the alternative (that you managed to find the 1 person out of 7 billion that love your product) is so unlikely as to be considered impossible.
One initiative doesn't make it a hub. If you found a startup in Holland, there are plenty of other cities which are suitable to found. The distances are sort of close, so the reasons why you HQ your startup in the valley are not exactly applicable to Amsterdam, you get the same benefits in most other big cities with talent.

You are right it is not a pissing contest, but you mention exactly what Americans (or other foreigners) would think. Most foreigners don't know much about Holland and see everything as a sub-urb of Amsterdam. They don't know where the local talent is, where the good universities are, where (local) people want to live. Don't forget that Dutch people think Amsterdam is as cool as foreigners do.

Don't take me wrong, Appsterdam is a cool initiative, but to me it sounds like something by foreigners, for foreigners.
If I understand correctly, they use both in parallel: low resolution, animated voxels for the light map, and high resolution, detailed rasterized polygons for the final rendering pass.
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Thank you! Please correct me.
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Cool. Fabric rocks!

People may also want to check out Ian Bicking's Silver Lining tool: http://cloudsilverlining.org/
I thought this might be an issue when they did generic TLDs, but as far as I can see they are only selling to registrars, so they are not expecting web sites at the top level, there will still be a subdomain, and browsers will probably not go to the top level domains.

Interestingly, http://dk/ has a valid A record to 193.163.102.24 which curl will show is a 301 redirect, but you cannot load it in Chrome or Firefox. dk has MX records too (I remember an old story about someone who had the email address m@dk or similar), but I think generally having any records for the top level is frowned upon now.
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I live in Vienna right above a big supermarket. It is a nice neighbour, I couldn't think of any reason why it shouldnt be allowed in a residential zone.
It is as if I had a fridge in the cellar with unlimited supplies. Only I havent because that would be a stupid waste of power.
It's a good point if you don't think that you _can_ develop feature-rich software and still keep the interface nice and easy.
It's an excuse if you believe that you _can_...

I think you need to walk the line on this one. That's what we do with Apollo... We managed to include a CRM in there, and still keep the UI very simple.

Tony Mobily
http://www.apollohq.com
In an interview with Bloomberg, PG mentions Kiko. Apparently when Google calendar came out Kiko lost about half it's users. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2664467
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MD5 collisions don't matter for passwords, since you are very unlikely to hit one.
And that's exactly the kind of thing Justin argues is just another excuse to give up. I have this heresy that one of the most common reasons for startup failure is founder boredom, but few founders ever admit it.
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I don't know, 81 balls?
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Hi I follow HN everyday and I read almost all the articles. It inspires me a lot to do something novel to do something unique which will change the game. I am technically capable of doing it if I think but mostly I dont think that way. Whenever I find some idea I see someone has already implemented it so I quit and loose enthusiam.

Now is the time to go for a startup. Whenever I see startups getting launched and being successful and used n number of users everyday I feel motivated but I dont know where to start? I am trying to get into some startup experience but not getting it too.

Please guide.
Not it has not been hacked! Please read the rest of the thread before rushing to post a story!
Or you could eat natural healthy food with exception of flour and sugar products (and reduction in lentils and dairy) instead of starving yourself: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/diabetes/
eBay (mainly through their own incompetence) managed to screw up a Skype deal badly.

I actually think Microsoft could build something more worthwhile out of Skype, and that Microsoft in 2011 is actually fairly non-evil -- certainly less so than Skype or SLP seems to be.

The thing I'm really waiting on is a16z's response to this whole thing.
And now i'm just waiting for the guy who commented earlier to take his dual 5970s and start brute-forcing ASB internet banking details.

Good thing i'm not with ASB.
> nobody uses “www.” anymore

Except for the vast majority of high volume sites that know how to balance traffic and don't show "fail whales" every couple days.

Visit google.com, yahoo.com, amazon.com, msn.com, etc, and watch your URL get fixed to correctly reflect the local hostname "www".

Even coca-cola.com. You can type it wrong as you always have, and they'll fix it for you to be "http://www.coca-cola.com/.
This is typically unaffordable for most developers (single). If you earn 50.000 euro per year, this would be 50% of your net-income. Most rental agencies have requirements on your income before you are eligible to rent an apartment. This could be 4 or 4.5 times your pretax income so you would require a 60-70k salary (or income) per year. That is 85k-100k USD. That is a high end salary, which only the most senior people would get.
Rounding error, I think. Probably no more than $200mm on an $8.5b deal.
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Um, not so much. From a reply in that very thread:

"The link supplied by @C.Woods goes to a recent forum posting of mine, but that post has nothing to do with hacking. My post refers to earlier posts that describe scenarios under which someone can delete files that he or she does not own. They are not hacking scenarios; they require a file sharing relation between the two involved parties."

Maybe "Google Docs has a bug" would be a better headline?
heresy != heresay ;)
I think it has a lot to do with a general backlash against people who hardly ever leave urban areas driving stupidly large vehicles consuming vast amounts of resources for no good reason whatsoever. They were fashionable for a while and now they most certainly aren't and a lot of people buying them were motivated by fashion rather than practicality.

Even in situations where you have deep snow etc. a lot of modern SUVs aren't actually that good because of huge low profile tyres. For most people in urban environments, SUVs are silly.
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Since air-conditioners operate in the hottest parts of the world, why aren't they solar powered?

Do they just require far more power than can be got from current solar tech?

edit: It seems that it's possible: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/01/solar_powered_t.php
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I think this market is looking for a competitor. OnSwipe is like the minimal thing you can do for mobile viewing of content.

There is such a huge room for improvement:

1. making content more readable. Right now the readability is still about the same as visiting a regular site.

2. Faster - I cant help but feel that everytime I go to an onswipe site, safari-ipad starts becoming immesely slow.

3. Easier to browse content - Onswipe shows like 4 posts on eage page and you have to flip through a bunch of pages if you want to get an overiew of the blog, its frequecy and content covered.

4. variety of look/feel - Every onswipe blog looks and feels the same. I for one hate this. I think its just easier for my brain to classify information if it also has a certain type of look.

Onswipe is the market pioneer and they are gonna make mistakes.

In anycase I think this space should be able to easily support at least 3-4 different companies.
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Not at all. One's a document and the other is an index list unless the list is replaced by a default document.

Also, leaving off the slash to an index will usually cause the web server to do a redirect to to corrected URL with a slash, causing your user extra latency and your server extra hits.
But if the release schedule is faster, and there is less in each release, then surely they can support more releases.

I'm assuming that the amount of code change relative to the latest release has more impact than the incremental burden of supporting each additional release.
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Everything written here is true, but you have to be careful. Following advice like this, any startup, even ones ultimately doomed to failure can be continued indefinitely.
> fixed in [REDACTED]

Is that a joke? Or did you actually have to redact it?
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No, I do mean heresy, as in an uncommon belief. And what you think I meant is spelt hearsay, not heresay.
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Jason, you guys are the market pioneers for this and therefore its going to be tough sledding as you figure out the perfect feature mix and implementation.

I commend you for taking this criticism in stride!
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Real example:

Region: East Europe
Site type: Entertainment, movies/music discussion

Google Chrome	49.2 %
Firefox	28.8 %
Opera	15.9 %
MS IE	4.9 %
Safari	0.8 %
Including AOL's talk launching SocketStream and my own talk on Facebook Ad optimization.
Unfortunately can't get this old chestnut to work with it.. otherwise great!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWdxSz65iXc
Personally, I don't think it's a good idea to rely on third party services to do things which can be trivially performed locally.

I agree with you totally. However, there is a whole army of marketeers who can barely manage to paste some javascript into an HTML file without messing the whole thing up. Those are the folks that you can monetize off of projects like this.

BTW, it's always good to see another perlmonger.
Apparently the time delay is now down to 1 min.

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My god this thing is loud. Also, at least on OSX, there is no way to lower the volume/mute that tab, individually(or even all of Firefox?!, which is insane, even Windows has the built-in). Can you add some kind of volume control? Or at least a mute button :)
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All they had to do to not be deceptive, subhuman assholes would be to repurchase vested options at market value vs. at initial value.

It's reasonable (sort of) to not want former employees to retain an ownership interest in a private firm, especially one with no intent to exit.

It's not reasonable to have equity which "vests" and then can be repurchased at the initial buy-in price at any point in the future.

By handling the repurchase at market price (which is difficult to determine in some cases, but in an M&A or IPO is fairly transparent), you give the former employee the economic upside he has earned, but don't have to deal with a former employee as shareholder.
PG, say what: hook up with Rockstart.com in Amsterdam, help build the greatest startup machine ever and come visit your new friends as often as you like! :)
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