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I'd modify that a little, basically riffing on Marco Arment's proposal[1]: developers will do great things for a platform if we use it, if it's in popular use, and if there's money to be made. Twitter the service, I would say, has been fluttering between one and three of those things - the problem is that Twitter the company has been trying to choke out the "money to be made" criteria, and that, as you observe, drives developers away.

[1]: http://www.marco.org/2010/11/04/developers-dont-rush-to-new-...
I agree. I'd argue that twitter's success made the developers, not the other way around. Certainly, the departure of developers is not going to unmake Twitter, not least because they have the resources to build their own clients now. If I were a TweetDeck user and TweetDeck vanished, I wouldn't stop using twitter, I'd just switch to a new client (as I have many times)...
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Proggit is almost exactly like news.yc linkwise and pretty much always has been since HN branched off. The comments are a little more relaxed though. There's people who hunt for new popular links on each which haven't reached the other and act something like arbitrage systems and quickly post it up on the lacking board. It's fun to watch, someone should make a realtime diff site between the two, something like that ervqhgg thing from awhile ago.
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You sound unhappy. Maybe you should click the button-- it makes everything OK.
Even so, the URL highlighter (making it clickable right from the window) is so indispensable, it makes not using PuTTY Tray a non-option. PuTTY needs this feature.
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This, of course, is making a big assumption: that the difficulty factor will stay the same. It has consistently increased, making earning those bitcoins significantly more difficult.

Break-even for me occured at about 75 days for my 5850's, but also used a much lower difficulty (less than 5% of the current difficulty) for the beginning of that.

(difficulty over the past 2 months: http://bitcoin.sipa.be/speed-lin-10k.png)
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I don't understand what you are saying. What were you hoping for?
Responding to one illegal action with another illegal action is not exactly praiseworthy in my book.
I can. And I have. That doesn't make it a good dilemma to create in the first place: do the right thing, or protect your job?

With due respect, I think your notion of how interpersonal relationships work in this sort of situation is rather flawed.
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Exactly what would you have done had you come across that situation?
A strong open source alternative is sure to come now.
This is an example of VMWare getting high on their horse again. Back in the early 00's, I was working at a large university, and thanks to VMWare's $49 academic/hobby Workstation license, I got my entire department onto it (we all used Linux on the desktop), and I bought myself a personal home license. This was the v1.x days.

I forget if it was the 2.x -> 3.x or 3.x -> 4.x upgrade, but they eventually dropped the hobby/academic cheap licensing and the price jumped to something like $150 per seat. I remember calling our sales contact and complaining about how much the jump sucked, and when they wouldn't budge, I essentially told no thanks and that I'd wait for the open source options to mature. He, of course, chuckled at this quaint notion.

A few years later I had to chuckle back when they started giving away the basic versions of VMWare, since open source options and Microsoft were by then eating their lunch on the desktop.

Funny how history repeats itself. I hope VMWare lives to regret this latest trend in greed of theirs.

P.S. -- I also had a similar exchange with the Accelerated X folks, back when xfree86 didn't do multi-head very well (or at all). I accused them of gouging their faithful customers and that open source would catch up and they'd be toast. Three cheers for xorg!
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Funnily enough, yes. Psychology hack.
The would be novelists I know are as well. Still found it surprising they are THAT high on the list.
I've seen quite a few of these "part 1" articles on HN lately. I find it annoying and would down vote this listing if I could. This story is a good start, but not complete, and therefore was a waste of my time.
In the past year, Dropbox has lied to it's customers about encryption and how much power Dropbox has over the data (!!!), shown that they deduplicate before encrypting (and that they can view files in your Dropbox and make them unsharable), and finally allowed all Dropbox accounts to be logged into without a password, for four hours.

And yet they are at a $5B+ valuation?

I'm amazed at how dropbox seems to be able to make any mistake and keep going. Very few other companies are capable of this. I'm not sure whether i should congradulate them or be disappointed.
IMHO the more troubling trend is Randall's perpetuation of the "all men stupid and evil, all women good and pure" delusion that has infected everything from the classroom to the workplace to the media.
It involves a computer -- and the examiners employed by the PTO just don't have the time or training to properly understand computer patents. That's the only explanation.

If examiners can't figure out whether something is patentable, they err on the side of good faith on the part of the applicant, and leave the question to the courts.
"They built a huge business with one fucking product. One."

That's not a good sign, that's a bad one. That means if anyone attacks that one product credibly, the whole company is rocked hard. Better to be diversified, broadly speaking. (Details matter, of course.)

What are the odds Google, Amazon, and a not insignificant number of the other backup vendors in the world are planning some form of direct competition?

... actually, this speaks to what sort of concerns me about a bubble right now. Excessive valuations aren't themselves a cause, they have to be a symptom of something else. ISTM there is an excessive optimism over any one company's ability to completely lock up the market forever and ever, amen. To be honest I don't expect one masterstroke that comes in and just destroys Dropbox in three days, but valuating them as if it's just an assured thing that they're going to completely own the home backup market over the next ten years is absurdly optimistic. It's one possible outcome, but not anywhere near the most likely. Valuating Facebook as if it's going to own social networking forever and ever is absurd; look at the very rapid inroads G+ is making, my point being that even if G+ crashes and burns it has clearly demonstrated that it has a chance, and that means other competition has a chance, too. Valuating X as if it's going to own the market is stupid, and a lot of the valuations seem to be based on that; not a reasonable, rational assessment of the possibility that they may own the market or at least do well, but valuations based on the solid, near-100% of that outcome. Seems unwise to me.
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* Screen should always be filled with buttons and menu options which are never used or understood.

* We love Google and feel search belongs to them so we go to that extra mile to make searching hard.

* Email Integration will make life easy for the support staff so lets make it impossible.

* Support staff is lazy so lets force them to click at least 5 buttons before they are allowed to make an update. By making them click though those button we are bringing them back to reality.

* We love excel so lets make reporting so tough that Microsoft excel stays in business forever.

* Categorization should be multilevel so Support staff should always end up categorizing it wrong. Remember we love Google.

* Of Course our hidden agenda is to sell our support and consulting services.
I thought (perhaps incorrectly) bloggers listed themselves as bloggers not writers normally.
You're right, it's not very green/minimalist, so the hipsters might frown upon it.
Why Mumbai again?
Every time these coward terrorists have blasted our homes, we came out of it more stronger and united. Thats the Indian spirit
It was an interesting read, and thanks for coming here to talk about it! There were a few questions that came to mind...

- In what ways does Facebook prioritize social science over technology? By all accounts it's just as engineer-driven as Google.

- Also, you seem to have pivoted away from research upon your arrival. Does Google not allow researchers to transition into product development? Would that have been a desirable path for you?

- Finally, did you leave Google before or after you knew about the Google+ launch, and is there any part of you that wishes that you retained some input into the product? It is quite evident that it was built centrally around the results of your research, and I wonder what it must feel like to be working for a competitor when the product of your vision finally goes live and reaches 10 million users.
Yikes, bye bye karma.

I'm wondering if there's not a single person out on HN that sees this the way I do? It's not a bad thing that Matz is joining Heroku, but it does give them a very different stature in the Ruby community than they had pre-Matz. Nothing inherently evil or snarky about that.

I'm a Heroku user who hopes that this produces an even better experience on the platform. But I find it hard to see this as just another hire. Google's got a huge leg up in Go since they've got the two Robs and Ken, Joyent has Node + Ryan Dahl.

They don't own the language, but they do "own" it.
I think Oracle does something similar and we all know how that went... they're huge and have lots of cash...

"Enterprise/Big Corp" will buy anything with the right sales person.

http://www.orafaq.com/wiki/Oracle_Licensing#Enterprise_Editi...
I don't think so, the point wouldn't be to completely lock it down or something. The music would probably get on the internet, which is fine (to me, at least). But for most consumers who choose to buy music, they would have to choose between buying the "collectors edition" or waiting a week to get it on iTunes.
It will be interesting to see what developers create from the g+ apis. I will be taking a look at integrating when they are released.
On the subject of terrible captcha systems. I found the following gem while looking for OSS games for linux:

"You are born into WHAT? (answer is one english word)* [1]

It is not entirely clear to me what the expected answer is. A google search for "you are born into" does not return any answer that is clearly correct. If I had to guess I would go with "sin" but I am hoping that nobody would be so ignorant as to design a captcha system that assumes a certain cultural/religious background.

[1] http://garden.sourceforge.net/drupal/?q=image/tid/3
I know this is getting old, but here's another nice example of why you should be using Free Software for everything that's really important. KVM works very well; I know it misses some of the nice, pretty interfaces but at least it won't stab you in the back at the next upgrade.
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That assumes patents are not for being sold as a product in a market, but for extortion.
I'd guess nothing, like just about everyone else here.
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I also see this as an aversion to being manipulated. People (kids, adults) definitely react in different ways to this, it's why you have to be careful about generalized advice. Some kids would flourish being "pushed" into something, others experience an almost allergic reaction to seemingly blunt manipulation and obligation. The exact way parents and coaches reward and encourage the kid also matters, and matters differently to every kid. You just have to figure out what each kid is like.
"No. The problem is a lack of users (and thus money to be made). Developers follow the money."

Developers follow the money, and customers follow the developed products. It's a cycle. You can't just say 1 is the whole driving force when in reality, both are, and they drive each other as well.
I get that this hurts your pocketbook, but having seen people in "industries" that were shut down by reforms, it's nothing like a law preventing the takeover.
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I sure hope they did not do it because of the reasons Munroe outlined in his post, which were baseless and sexist (towards men).
Would open source have been way slower to catch up if not for the gouging? If not, then it seems very likely that the "gouging" maximized shareholder value by extracting maximum profits during the period in which they were the sole supplier of a valuable-to-you service. You get (during the period in which they are the only supplier) usage of a product that no one else in the entire world is supplying and they get a few extra bucks. Hard for me to get outraged.
The problem of translation should not affect the writing of the original text.
Small little detail about myself, I helped out in creating a unified driver package for ESXi and wrote a couple custom *nix net drivers for hardware VMWare wouldn't support (cheap commodity hw). So I agree with you that after I had ditched VMware for KVM I was in heaven. Shoutout to those ppl that used my stuff, and try KVM!
So if a service provider (a restaurant) uses their service (waiters) to gather information from users of that service (waiters get food orders from customers) and transmit that information to the provider (waiter brings orders back to the kitchen) then wow ... they patented waiting on a customer!!! What a novel concept!!
> I know this is getting old

Yes, it is.
I didn't say Firefox, I said Firefox 2, the memory leaking piece of crap. There's no reason that you won't be able to run Firefox 7 or whatever on the XBox 720. People have forgotten that you don't need huge machines to run this stuff. Anything you see running on a tablet or smart phone today is perfectly feasible on a carved-out, hardware-dedicated element XBox 720, proof by observation (it exists!). Moreover, it's not like I'm hypothesizing the existence of a Microsoft mobile OS... it exists.

In fact this makes the whole Windows Mobile play make sense in a way that it doesn't in any other way; on its own it stands 0 chance of taking over the phone market. Oh, I get it now! Microsoft hasn't let go of a unified OS running on desktops, tablets, consoles, and cell phones. They just realized that they can't just slap the desktop OS on a cell phone and call it a day, but in fact they need to go the other way; take their tech base, build the mobile OS, then extend it for the desktop case for desktop uses.

Hey, that could work.
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I don't know about msysgit, but I use it with Cygwin all the time.

Just have the cygwin SSHd port running (which I tend to want installed and configured for other reasons anyway) and use PuTTY to connect to that.
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Why do you need to click twice if everything is already OK after the first click?
That's just the title. The claims are what get examined for patentability.
Eventually there will be a relevant and non-obtrusive text(?) based ad in the email.

There already is a Like link there...but that needs a little tinkering to get it to behave like I envisioned. Will need to add +1 since that's getting popular. Another one I've been contemplating is to add Twitter link as well.

I think your idea of turning this into a game like experience is brilliant. One thing I've noticed with emails of this nature is that after a while you start to ignore them. Letting readers keep score of the reps/tasks completed would hopefully entice them to keep opening the emails and, more importantly, keep them exercising.

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You have a great point here, limited availability would work here (only 1000 copies made), and would be more meaningful than limited runs of traditional media (which is more easily duplicated).
I read somewhere that other languages had more neutral gender splits, or simply all-masculine ones, to make things easier for now. So it could be in other languages they had nothing to reverse yet.
This is really the primary value proposition of Free and Open Source Software. No matter what happens down the road, no one can suddenly jack up licensing fees. Even if one company decides to try to change the direction of a project (Oracle; OpenOffice), another group can fork it to keep it going (LibreOffice).

Alternatives to VMware like KVM aren't just a better version of VMware that happens to be free, but it's fundamentally better because it is free (as in speech, of course).
I have two iSCSI Targets. I want to pull a LUN from each, and mirror on the KVM Host system, exposing the mirrored disks for my guests.

Compared to using ZFS on OpenSolaris with Xen 3.1, this process is incredibly cumbersome and unreliable.

Plus I just don't get the need for libvirt. It seems an incredibly complex and useless abstraction over a simply documented configuration file for Guests, and a tool to start/stop/add/remove them.

I'm sure a big part of that may just be that I'm not familiar enough with KVM. Still, it's 2011. Tying all your data to a single host with limited redundancy and depending on live-migration seems like a fundamentally flawed approach to me with a lot of needless complexity.
In the case of the iPhone developers either followed the customers, hence money, or they developed things because they loved their iPhone and/or Cocoa.

So maybe in order to bootstrap a platform you need to attract a bunch of customers including a healthy number of developers. If devs like the platform and there are potential customers that could create a spark.
Putty is a great case to look at next time you hear someone trumpet the benefits of how fast or often their code is deployed to users.

Everyone knows the waterfall model is a bad idea, what I wonder is how fast of iteration is too fast? What does the tacit assumptions of multiple releases a day being a good thing say about a product? Does the browser thin-client target enable development process anti-patterns?
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For what it worth, I worked on a website that started receiving massive amounts of spam on its feedback page very shortly after it went live. We (as in the three programmers on the project) hated captchas with a assion. Instead we put in a field with the text "What is 1 + 1?" (If they missed it, we'd actually put in red next to it "Hint: the answer is '2'". (Granted, we checked the value server side.)

The end result, spam disappeared and we didn't add much pain to our customers.

Most spammers likely don't go check every website to see how they can break the captcha, they just set up a script to go fill out forms and submit them.

They're solution, while not being the "awesome, technologically advanced solution", if it prevented spam, was a working solution without the complexity of actual captchas.

Furthermore, as captchas have been known to be broken, who's to say that the spammers tool doesn't recognize valid, commly-used captchas and break them automatically? As opposed to a field that says "Type the following word", which the spammers don't (can't easily?) check for.
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Do I tell investors I want their money only to get acquired?
I run a social-media website that is growing rapidly (100 users in January, 20,000 now in July) but only makes about $500/mo.

I really want to make a decent exit so I decided the next best thing for me to do is to try to raise money despite that I don't actually want money, just to get my name exposed out there.

Do you think it is wise to advertise to investors that "my goal is to get acquired ASAP"?
Word of warning: I ran this on my MBP with external display, and switched to integrated mode. After that, my display wouldn't update anymore, and I had to VNC into my computer to change the setting back to dynamic.

A "test mode" which reverts to the old setting after X seconds might be useful.
For all you know, the "original text" is a mix of "foo bar" and lolspeak.
For the HN crowd, startup means web-startup.
It was probably webdoc.
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I'd like to know more about the protocol feature for the passwords that you mention. I've often wondered how to authenticate safely from a phone without requiring the user to enter their details every time they use it.

Where on wikipedia did you learn about it? (I'm assuming that was what the "Wikipedia++" was for -- If not, care to elaborate?)
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He's looking for the equivalent of openssh's "ControlMaster" functionality; essentially, you establish a single (master) session to a remote machine, incurring the key negotiation penalty once, and then multiplex later sessions over that master connection.

It's a fairly effective way of getting around situations where the up-front cost of establishing the connection is high (high-latency remote connections, in particular).
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Sometimes legality and morality don't intersect. This is one of those times.

Also, the OP of the reddit article is not a US citizen or resident. Not entirely sure if his actions ARE illegal in his jurisdiction, wherever it is.

Edit: In fact one poster on the reddit post pointed out specifically that in France it would be expressly legal.
You're factually wrong about social sites running on vanilla technology. I bummed more cache misses out of tight paths, and invented more data structures in one year working on Facebook's search backend than I did in any of my nine years working on VMware's virtual machine monitor.

Being a mediocre guitarist is probably easier than being a mediocre violinist; and writing a Facebook clone that works for a few million users is easier than writing a web search engine that supports comparable traffic. But when you are trying to expand the boundaries of what is possible, everything is hard, even things that seem easy when tried in their simplest form.