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75% of my contacts who use a smartphone, already use WhatsApp. i dont see this taking off unless they provide some kind of bridge to existing services to ensure cross plattform capabilities.
Tried to sign up and got this:

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"both to deal with evasion but also to clarify what you were asking"

Very true. They would need to add comments and allow the interviewee to edit his/her answers.
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> I'm sorry but users aren't going to upgrade to iOS 5 for
> the same reasons they haven't upgraded in the past: they
> just dont care.

What are you talking about? http://www.macpost.net/221/apple-ios-distribution-stats-95-o...
They need to at least make an effort to test on things other than Android. It is unusable on an iPad at the moment. You cannot make a post because of some really bad JavaScript.
It's easy to make a "zombie-proof house," but it's not easy to make one that you can withstand a long-term siege in. You'd have to either beat off the zombies or come up with a way to feed yourself, otherwise you've just made a nice-looking coffin for you and yours.
Here's the thing, Apple will throw out a new iPhone model that will have iOS 5 by default. That's huge! People flock to get the new iPhone every time they come out with one.

Another thing is that if you use a Mac and want to use iCloud you're going to have to upgrade that phone (and Desktop) OS. I think many people will be keen on doing so.
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There are several important threads that Joe Armstrong brings up that people are completely missing.

1) Typing in code directly into a shell necessarily implies you ignore all the tools and IDEs that many beginners clamour for. In fact, in my experience, coding into Notepad is a far superior learning experience than using an IDE. Nothing stands between you and your gaping ignorance, and you're forced to grapple with all the hideous details without pretty colours or intelligent auto-completion.

2) Typing in code offers you the chance to _deliberately type it in incorrectly and see what happens_. This is my favourite method of learning. Take a known good example, and say "Hmm, if I just do...that...to that line, what happens?". And then stare at the error output, immerse yourself in it. Just as with people, there is no better way of learning about a language, a tool, or an idea than when it is put under stress or unusual circumstances.

3) Tools necessarily abstract away some process, whereas when you're learning a new concept or idea the last thing you want is to shy away from the details of a process. This point reminds me of learning about long division in Year 7 at secondary school, and being forced to draw all these long arrows making clear which digits were going where. My maths teacher explained the rationale as "You have to go through all the motions, regardless of how silly or tedious they may seem now. Eventually you'll just naturally drop them to one side and not need them any more."
For one thing, who wants to wait hours to download something before they can watch it?

There are clients that allow instant streaming. It makes little difference to a busy swarm.

the quality and availability issues are problematic.

Problematic to Hollywood because they are superior to what they produce?
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Or could a high quality recruiter just start doing this with a small number of select, high quality, recent clients? (developers are the clients in this case)

Starting from the ground up with no clients and trying to build a client base on this model would be difficult. If you can't show results, I'm not going to give you 10% (or any other percentage), mostly because so far I've been DIYing it and doing decent. But if I already had a "relationship" with a recruiter, maybe one who's actually good at technical placement and they found something good for me along with offering to be a long term career guide / mentor / agent, I'd be interested in listening to them much more than if someone just calls me out of the blue. And if the pay was more than I get now, even with the 10% cut taken out, and involved interesting projects, that would get my attention.

I think the long term career guide and mentoring part would have to be a big part of it. I know my skills but I don't necessarily know who out there wants them, maybe there's people out there who need my skills but also don't know it. The agent comes into play here and matches up two people who don't know they really need each other in order to make great things. This takes a lot of work on the part of the agent.

If you have this business model, managing 10 to 20 developers and taking 10% cut of salary, that's enough to make a nice living on and you'd have time to be personal with all of them.
The problem with buzz was that it put people in your list without asking you first. Here I'm just talking about putting everyone you add in the same bucket, until you (maybe) realize that you want several distinct buckets. That would be Facebook-like, not Buzz-like.

Adding people in a list doesn't count as making people think, because the targeted audience has already been trained to this by Facebook.
SSL cert != knowing who the other party is
I recently moved to Germany from Ireland, and I must say I find it extremely limited in terms of what you can and can watch - half of youtube is blocked!!
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It's that type of hubris that gets you killed by a zombie horde. (The commenter the first time around said it well too http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2501608)
Big companies are almost always far too slow to actually kill a small competitor.

- Omar Hamoui (@omarh)

http://startupquote.com/post/7530331986
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You're right, MarkMonitor's portfolio is truly impressive, so there must be something to it. I just thought that precisely those top tech companies (maybe not banks) would appreciate having the additional security layer that arguably comes from being your own registrar, and do so effortlessly.
One of my criteria for a good registrar measures how much effort it takes to transfer a domain away from the registrar.

I love godaddy's customer support even though I am no longer a customer, don't get me wrong. I loved that I could just call them at 4 in the morning with a random problem. What I didn't love was that I had to call them up and live through upsells and boredom in the process of trying to initiate a domain transfer. I unlocked my domain in question, verified the email address, but then I couldn't send an auth code to a known-working admin email and...yeah.

I've also moved clients' names away from Network Solutions, since those support people were just beyond unbelievable. One particular support person was telling me that there was a chance I was going to lose the domain if I initiated a transfer and that there would be nothing they could do about it if that happened. I almost lost my cool at that point.

No company is perfect and sometimes they have really aggressive retention policies for their support people to follow. I get that. So I'm willing to pay extra for registrars that make it braindead easy for me to do what it takes to get away from them should the need arise. I use dynadot and gandi right now quite happily and have never had problems with the company or their management or their UI for managing domain names.
Wait, what that white wall? looks thin, and if you learned anything from zombie survival guide that's probably break thru-able
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As an aside, have any of those inspiration struck domains ever paid off or been developed further? I ask because I've registered about 50 of them over the last 3 and a half years and after a good nights sleep the fire has usually died down and they languish in my account until expiry...
As somebody who lives in the Eastern hemisphere, I've never understood the apparent zombie obsession of the West.

I understand that in video games and movies we need "bad guys" whom we won't feel bad killing. And for that, zombies and merciless aliens (the UFO kind) are ideal. But making an actual house based on the premise of a zombie apocalypse?! That's serious.
I don't know... That roller door looks like a weak spot. Especially if the zombies have velociraptors.
Maybe I don't, but saying 'I don't need to worry about the financial side of medical issues because I live in Europe' is nonsense too, especially when you have your own business.
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I'm trying to set up a CRUD front-end for some non-techie people so they can update sports team stats. There are multiple sports, leagues, divisions, teams, etc., and I've got them all set up in a MySQL database.

I need something that's less difficult than phpMyAdmin.

I know a couple of PHP frameworks do this kind of stuff well, but ideally, I'd like something that's simpler to set up.
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My sentiments exactly. Especially if said raptors are equipped with lasers.
I've been sticking my feet in the graph database waters for a while, and I find them really compelling.

As a rule of thumb, here's how I think of the differences:

Graph databases are optimized for joins. Relational databases are optimized for selects.

Easy use cases:

Tagging systems where you're tagging million of items.

Social graphs, and "friending" people are an easy slam dumk for a graph database.

I'm convinced that a graph database is the secret to Linked In's success. Their ability to quickly identify first, second and third order connections are a graph problem, and become a lot easier when you're built on top of a graph database.

Commenting systems like HN's commenting system, where a threaded comment ordering is based on frequently changing scores is a giant pain in the ass trying to model in a relational database. That's why most commenting systems are date based. That only requires a single SELECT statement in a RDMS. I know because I built my own, and it was a giant pain, and required modeling a tree structure in a RDMS. HN's commenting system works well because comments on HN are modeled as an S expression tree, and kept in memory. Only occasionally are they serialized and written to disk for permanent storage. I'm convinced that the underlying tree structure is the reason that there hasn't been much innovation in commenting systems for the last decade.

Real time recommender systems can be modeled easier in graph structures.

Anything semantic web related will probably be modeled in a Graph database easier than in a Relational Database.

Also, for further reference, look at Dydra[1] and Directed Edge[2].

If you're interested, ping me and I can probably put you in contact with the Neo4j team. They're really responsive to questions like this.

ref:

[1] http://dydra.com/

[2] http://www.directededge.com/index.html http://www.directededge.com/products.html
Sure, and I guess it would be a net negative for you since most people would find it petty, but at some point someone needs to take a stand against idiots who think they can hide behind their keyboards and who feel they have the moral high ground and that that gives them the right to bully others into molding their behavior according to the bully's world view.

(not saying you have some moral responsibility to be a crusader against internet bullies here, just that 'trolling' isn't funny anymore when people start calling other people's jobs and families and that we shouldn't just shrug it off and accept it as a normal thing on the internet)
Zombie films are rarely about zombies, they're about us. The humans become zombie feed because they are incapable of working together, even when faced with unfeeling, unwavering brain eating machines. George Romero beats this one over the head in his latest film, where is set in the midst of a blood feud.
Perhaps. Then again, with an agreement between the companies involved and whatever mostly-unknown-to-us services they provide, the additional security layer you speak of could be meaningless. I doubt most of the legal teams of said corporations would be okay with this arrangement if it was potentially insecure. And of course there is no such thing as "effortlessly", someone somewhere has to be around to manage the huge domain name portfolios these corporations have.

I really wish MarkMonitor's website wasn't basically a bunch of marketing mumbo jumbo about all the services they provide. It'd be interesting to find out what they are being paid to do (even in brief) for all these major companies. For all we know they could just be a glorified godaddy for corporations that buy and hold a lot of domain names as far as their domain registry service is concerned.
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The Tick Tock Taxi website allows you to easily book a cheap cab online or with an iphone app; There's no need to phone around taxi offices - we'll do all the ground work for you.
That one picture looks like something out of a Japanese horror film
The article points to http://onefps.net/post/6496478249/50-percent-of-iphone-owner... which tells a somewhat different story.

One article sources "A little bird" and the other its own customer base. I wouldn't take neither as a definitive answer..
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I'm really curious as to what all the fuss is about, but google+ isn't going to be available on Apps accounts until Q3 2012, at least... It's unclear as to how they hope to drive business adoption (i.e. monetisation), if they're going to lock out all business accounts!
>There have always been plenty of seeds, and there has always been a high quality version that has been easy to find

This isn't the case for me. I watch mostly "foreign" films (i.e. films in a language I don't speak or understand). If the subtitles aren't included it can be a nightmare to find some (I won't watch dubbed movies). Sometimes you can't find any subtitles at all (I once had a movie sitting on my HD for over a year waiting for subtitles to show up for it), often when you do find them they're out of sync [1] or awful translations written by people who don't speak one (or both!) languages very well. Often whole chunks of the movie will be left out or have one word explanations.

So for me, the quality is not remotely better via torrents, that's just literally the only option for what I want to watch.

[1] Apparently different formats actually run at different speeds, causing the subtitles to drift if they were made for a different format. I didn't want to know about this and if the media industry had provided me some way of consuming this content I wouldn't have had to learn about it.
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Now, I got it, You have to mount both the hidden volume and the first level volume to safely write to the first level. Great.
In the video is says that dyslexic readers made fewer errors when reading the text than normal readers, and they think that means that it helps dyslexics read easier.

What kind of experiment is that? If you want to know if it helps dyslexics, you don't change out the dyslexics... You change out the font!

It sounds like they either don't understand experimentation at all, or they borrowed someone else's results and tried to read things into them.

Edit: As noted below, they apparently actually did test whether dyslexics could read that font better or not. They just also happened to test normal people as well, to see if they were affected. The video confuses this.
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Items that you +1 on the internet appear under "+1's" on your profile. Although you are right, cannot say the same for items you +1 within G+

These are all very good ideas. You should suggest them through 'Feedback' button at the bottom-right corner of your page!
Just my two cents: I think that the updated version still doesn't do enough to make the two dialogs look different. For something like this, I would like the two to be distinguishable even when you're standing six feet away from the screen.
Heh, after a failed deal with Groupon this came about, apparently.

It'll probably fly better, too, since it'll integrate with the rest of the google services, and help google use us as a product...

Now only for it to start in a city I live in.
C does not have a standard threading library. Pthreads is a threading library for C that happens to be standardized.

The difference between these two statements, while perhaps subtle, is quite massive.
Not in the slightest. Do you wish to address it?
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Not really.

Craig Price is a notorious serial killer from my hometown. They caught him when he was 15 and the law only provided that they could hold him till age 21. Sometime after the law changed to patch this hole, he was ordered the see a psychiatrist. Upon his refusal, he was held in felony contempt of court and sentenced to 10 years.
Alternatively, you could keep the double printing of the names and leave out the lines connecting them, they too are just for readability. Of course, you can't remove both the lines and the second printing of names.
Anyone else felt unclear about whose Friends are seeing some comment?
I'm assuming this is an app? Or are you talking about plus.google.com on an iPad?

They have stand alone applications for Android; I'll go as far as to call them completely bug-free! It even uploads your pics recently taken pics to Google servers automagically in case you want to post it later on...pretty neat stuff
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How many are actual users? About 50% of my friends in Google+ have no info, posts, pictures, etc., up. They're on Google+ because they got an invite and that's it. What's the use of having that many users if half of them don't use it?
Related, the Read Regular project: http://www.readregular.com/english/background.html
No. I have worked with and seen small, lean defense contractors and those who are smart enough in the govt. (and there are some of those as hard as it maybe to believe) know where to find those companies.

> I think the reason is more that the big companies understand the byzantine government processes and have things like CMMI/ISO certifications and certified-secure locations than pure corruption

True. You need someone full-time basically to navigate all those ATOs,ISO, certification, security requirements, etc. So someone who worked on the 'other' side or with the 'other' side is needed. But then you just 30% in only. You need to know people to get the other 70%. Don't you think it is funny that most of these CEOs are ex-generals and ex-heads of CIA, NSA other large departments and then they turn around and sell their service to their old buddies, when their old buddies retire they find similar position to sell stuff to their buddies. Interesting correlation isn't it. Well what it is, is a huge conflict of interesest and an environment ready for rampant corruption and nepotism.
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I am expressing concern that you don't seem to see any issue in the slightest with benchmarking an effectively Microsoft language with Microsofts stack. Good job acting indignant to avoid addressing this.

Allow me to additionally point out that this account you are posting with seems to be used solely for the purpose of trolling discussions about programming languages. Someone who only shows up for programming language discussions surely cannot be any stranger to a very mild "insult" or two.
Doesn't iTunes offer to update your iPhone automatically (whenever the iPhone is connected and there is an update available)? I would guess plenty of people just click OK.
Is Apple's developer support a joke?
Oh yes. The whole movie industry needs to change. When a new movie comes out I want to see it that day, on my laptop/TV/home theatre in HD. If I am constrained to a single viewing for a period, fine.

I do not want to see it in a smelly, sticky, noisy public theatre.

Will this ever happen? Unlikely.
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The video contained a lot of weird phrasings, probably due to translation... I'd assume that this is more of that.
> As somebody who lives in the Eastern hemisphere, I've never understood the apparent zombie obsession of the West.

Sadly, it is more than an in-joke:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_King_riots
Thanks for letting us know. On first inspection this looks like an irregular response from Gmail's SMTP servers that our app didn't catch. I'll get this fixed ASAP :)

In the meantime, if you'd like to try to sign up again it will almost certainly work. I think you just lucked out.
Honestly, as a freelancer, if you want to keep your domains and email on GD, that is fine with me. Their shared hosting is so inexcusably slow and difficult to manage,it makes me wonder why there hasn't been a class action lawsuit against them. Hyperbole, I know, but they suck at hosting! IF a potential client has space up there, the first thing I do is have them move it.