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That writer's insistence on hanging back and not getting a little bit more involved in the project or at least helping out really annoyed me for some reason ... I had to skip to the end to find out what happened.
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google app engine

No beginner programmer should be doing anything on a cloud platform. You need to learn how to run a webserver locally first.
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Many large enterprises are exceptionally bad at managing physical hardware. And if they are ok at it, they spend obscene amounts of money to do so.

One of the key advantages of VMWare from a operational point of view is the management capability, which is either much better than what most people have for physical hardware or much cheaper. Even with this new licensing model, VMWare still offers a positive ROI for a large customer, since that customer would also need to buy more licenses for products like IBM/Tivoli, CA Unicenter, BMC, etc. Those products are mega-buck, and enterprise customers are/were realizing cost savings by getting rid of them.

It's hard to see this from a small/mid-size enterprise perspective. Imagine $2M in recurring licensing charges and $750k in annual consulting expenses for a product functionally similar or inferior to Nagios. Or spending $20M annually on maintenance on software that you don't use. This happens every day in the Fortune 500 and government spaces.
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> Bring back Lulzsec for a day, get them to hack their systems and delete all their patents.

Well, we just need to abolish patents in general. They just create reason for these patent trolls to do what they do (scam us developers) and they are extremely flawed in nature.
Other countries don't have injunctions? Even if the time to court isn't too long, it'll still be on the order of months which is enough to destroy most small companies.

I think the court costs should really be a footnote in this line of discussion though; I think the amount of R&D that big companies do combined with the nature of software patents would make it impossible for any start up to avoid actually infringing on multiple patents.

So you could have some great idea for a startup that does something innovative in the social arena; that's not going to help you very much if some big company has patents on things like friend lists or settable profile photos are patented. I'm honestly don't even think that is a "big vs little" company issue; what if Google had patented search engine results weighted by links? What if Twitter had patented broadcast status updates when it was a start up?
I don't see how any variation on these claims is patentable. Everything there would have been obvious 25 years ago.
Well, you'd get the opportunity to see me speak (cf: Better than ROT13), so I might be a little biased. =)

If you're looking for a job, then the answer is "Absolutely." I can pretty much guarantee that over 50% of the attendees will represent companies that are hiring.

If you're not looking for a job, then you'll still get the opportunity to learn from the masters of Ruby. Just be sure to put your laptop/tablet down during talks. =)
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There are plenty of vendors providing high quality KVM support.
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^ this is the best comment.
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Feeling potential for a new buzzword-methodology in this. It's common sense, but not so common that you can't charge for workshops/talks/certifications.

The only thing you need now is a good, substantial name that evokes a mechanical and engineering process, like "User Language Oriented Design".
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I think the dog house should be red.
That's because organizations like the one you work have governance models that aren't actually focused on delivering IT services.

If you use open-source software, you don't need to procure anything, right? At one level, that's great, but to people who run the contracts unit or procurement team, that doesn't compute. In their world, you hassle people for a discount and fight over contract terms.

Why do you think that Red Hat sells support contracts in the guise of a software license?

Answer: Because the processes that enable big companies/government to spend money on services are vastly different than software. On a services contract, you need to negotiate statements of work, etc. For a software contract, you just need to buy a software SKU and a maintenance/support SKU.
> Also apparently naive: Zynga, FriendFeed, TweetDeck, PopCap, etc.

FriendFeed and TweetDeck got gobbled up by the companies owning the platform they work on, and PopCap got bought by EA. Zynga could be brought to heel in an instant if Facebook wanted, too.
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See

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2759385

which addresses that point and more.
We can be more vigilant to start with and for that mindset needs to change.

I remember as a child I used to follow the security instructions like looking under the seat while riding a bus.My friends and people around me used to laugh on my cautiousness.

Similarly while driving if you try to stay in my lane and follow the
rules and precaution, often friend and family members laugh at me for this extra cautiousness.

In India "what is destined will happen eventually" attitude is prevalent and that needs a change.
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Research: you learn about human nature, cultural values, usability, and other human expectations. In a time where technology is changing and more widely adopted, information on people's attitude towards what is offered in, through, and by different technologies is invaluable. The fact that there is financial incentive to do this research just makes it all the more potent.
Works with Google Calendar, Exchange

Sold.

But I'm an Android user, if you port it, I'll buy it. This is exactly the kind of calendar system I've been on the hunt for, and great UI design by just scrolling through the months (based on the screenshots).
Where can I find a 64-bit installer?
When it's good to be addicted to an MMO
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I was in DC yesterday, walking by the patent office and saw this quote from Lincoln over the door: "The Patent Office adds the flame of interest to the light of creativity"

I wonder what Lincoln would think of Lodsys.
> Bring back Lulzsec for a day, get them to hack their systems and delete all their patents.

They'd have to actually attack the patent office, wouldn't they? Not to mention, I imagine that both the PO and Lodsys probably keep multiple redundant backups, digital and dead-tree.
Haven't you always wanted to see your neighbor's house wrapped in shrink wrap?
Microsoft is good at making products that are good enough and staying in the game for a long time.

In 1990, high-end engineering users were very happy with their Unix workstations. Windows NT in comparison kind of sucked -- but over time the suckage was not enough to justify paying $20,000 for a workstation versus $8k for a NT Workstation.

Ditto SQL Server. Back when I was a newbie Informix DBA, my older colleagues laughed at people messing around with SQL Server. Informix was an awesome product in many ways, but cost like $40,000/cpu when SQL Server cost alot less. Who's laughing now?
> Well, we don’t think a billion dollars is all that cool either.

Apparently some of the investors who are cashing out think a valuation south of a billion dollars is pretty cool.
Unfortunately i think the Blisky ruling kinda killed this one.
Other than video/image uploads, there's not much you can't do with the Facebook website on an iPad. My wife uses it all the time without any issues.
Damn these are pretty awesome... only problem is The Pains of Being Pure at Heart costs $24. A little much!
My understanding is that Microsoft hates software patents (at least when BillG was CEO), has only registered them out of necessity, has historically only sued relatively few other companies, and only done so with either real patents (non-obvious, read beyond the patent title) or as a retaliation of being sued itself.
I’m sure there are a few exceptions here as there are always.
Specific Google Plus feature request with the same idea in mind:

http://www.google.com/moderator/#9/e=9fe9f&g=set+operati...
Bernanke’s comments have made the equity side very happy
Including 3+ millions and counting for communication alone. (source on the same site: http://www.pcinpact.com/actu/news/64492-hadopi-label-pur-mar...)
How to deal with stress
You do what you can to feed the kids healthy meals and snacks. And you must tend to all of these activities while striving to stay in top physical shape and to keep a smile on your face. Over time, addressing the same issues day in and day out can drain your emotional resources and test even the most resolute optimist. Here are five ways to help you deal with stress.
Don't forget that it took more than one year between passing the law (June 12, 2009) and sending the first warning emails (October 1st, 2010).
Are you doing what comes easy?
He could have build Prototype.js in CoffeeScript. :)
... built by a developer right?
I think this is a fantastic concept for tutoring / lecture support! Good skills and good luck!
They aren't suing every Android OEM out of necessity. Microsoft has converted to patent troll in lieu of innovating in the mobile space.
Who among Oracle, Google, and VMWare is going to pick up the mantle of Java leadership (no mention of IBM)? I get the feeling that none has any real interest in leadership, so Java will drift along with microfeatures being added, but with no biggies like type inference or anything else that can cut down on the sheer volume of typing or cutting and pasting.
I've heard this from many people who've picked up CoffeeScript, especially those who are most fluent in Ruby. Dr. Nic of Engine Yard, an early proponent of CoffeeScript, gave me this blurb for my book:

> JavaScript the runtime language is fast, dynamic, and can run in places other languages can't. But JavaScript the development language is kind of icky. That's why CoffeeScript may turn out to be one of the great innovations in web application development; since I first discovered it, I've never had to write a line of pure JavaScript.
Even if they did, who's to say Google won't pull the exact same stunt and leave developers in the cold?

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Because Google has a solid track record of dealing fairly with developers ... they've been giving devs access to their offerings via apis long before twitter was even a blip on the radar
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LAMP, mostly.
>The only difference between Lodsys and large software/hardware companies like Microsoft and Oracle is the size of their litigation targets.

And the fact that MS and Oracle actually make products.
They must've soft-launched this, as I've been using it on my feature phone for at least a month.

I assumed it was just an old app that they made before smart phones dominated the market.

It's a really nice little app.
The SMS msgs themselves are cheap, it is getting the numbers that might add up. What I'm thinking is allocating a block of numbers, maybe 5-10 for now and many more if/when this takes off and then letting you create a poll with one of those. The interesting part will be not letting numbers be used in a close enough time period that someone would skew someone else's poll results.
Indeed. One project I had a boring task with nebulous requirements, and said as much: "I find this hard to know when I'm done, and progress is slow. What's next when I am finished". The response? "More of the same!" said with a s* eating grin. :-(

At this point I pushed harder for my internal transfer. I later found out this line manager was "let go". (He'd basically taken all the interesting work for himself, the whole team productivity was bad when I moved.).
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I'd love to port it, but I'm at the point where I can't justify spending any more time on it unless I get some sales to prove there is a market for it. That and I don't actually have an Android device :S

If sales actually pick up on iPhone, I think it'd be a good project for me to learn the Android SDK.
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What actual benefit will 64-bit get you here? If you are starting to hit the 32-bit memory limit with a terminal emulator, said terminal emulator is probably broken.
XenServer is actually the product name from Citrix. Xen is the open source project that is Open Source.

I know its being a stickler for the tiny facts, but when you are a XenServer admin find the differences rather quickly.
They took money that they actually don't need?
So it's like selling yourself?
I didn't check them all, but I got 403 and blank pages when trying to access the python and C++ files respectively.
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maybe it should be "facebook for every OTHER phone"
The most important thing about this news post has been left out of the title: it is completely reversible!
Putty is far too simplistic on its own and the various mods and addons don't really work that well.

I switched to TeraTERM recently and it solves most of my problems - remembers sessions, passwords, has tabs and is stable enough.
"I love google for that"

Actually, I think the point is that Google was ill fit for using and rewarding his value, because it slavishly fetishizes engineering to the exclusion of other expertise. If you've been following this story, then you know that Google did eventually acknowledge the message from his presentation and book, to the point that people internally were upset his presentation was "leaked" and Google blocked and continues to block his book.
I agree there, but the native app helps out with alerts and the whole integrated experience. The "browser" site works fine for the most part except for sometimes when you have to scroll horizontally etc.

I want to see if they will launch an app with skype/video integration ;-) that will be slick !!

Oh wait before that I think I would want to just get a native skype app for the iPad LOL.
me too, IE and Chrome
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I'm not sure if there's a misunderstanding here. Let me approach both possible interpretations I can think of:

1) You're saying that PuTTY is Windows only, and then go on explaining what it is for and why that might be okay.

If that's what you think, that'd be wrong. PuTTY is available on a number of platforms, even on Linux. The port mentioned above though limits itself to Windows. I find that, plus the roadmap, weird & unfortunate to put it politely.

2) But that wasn't your point and you tried to make the point that PuTTY doesn't make _sense_ on platforms that already have a decent terminal emulator, ssh support etc.

In that case: Fair enough. I'd even agree. But I know a lot of happy PuTTY Linux users. It's the old discussion about using native but different clients on a number of platforms or going for a (decent) cross-platform solution. I think it's great to have the choice to use software on a multitude of systems - even if I'm not an active user/see no need for myself.
I have to quibble with Google having a lot of goodwill to burn. They withdrew any kind of usable search API a long time ago, considering Google's preeminence in search that is rather insular and not helpful for finding novel ways to build on search. They provided a translation API only to decide that it was too popular and pulling the rug out from under a lot of people who has built stuff on it.
It is a rare developer who can handle the Nesin step 3. It requires an empathy that doesn't come naturally to many engineers. However, when cultivated, that empathy makes for phenomenal developers. When I manage development teams, that is the number one trait I manage for. With empathy, all other problems can be solved.
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I think you over value "science and technology" and under value interface design, ux, social behavior, etc. Well, you're at least biased towards one set of problems over another.

I've gained far more value from twitter, hacker news, facebook, etc than I have from most academic research that's been done on ... pick a topic.
That is a BRILLIANT IDEA! Such a great way to swap/share music with people too. I hope it takes off.
Of course, people say now, the situation with Google is very different. With Google, you have a choice. You can either use their products or not. But it’s not that simple when they offer superior products for free. You rely on them, because you often have to use one of their products, because Search, Maps or Gmail, to name a few, are all far more superior than what other competitors have to offer. And if there’s a new kid on the block they can’t compete with, they simply (try to) buy them to maintain their implicit monopoly position.

This is a very... interesting definition of monopoly and by interesting I mean "don't be surprised if people disagree with your conclusions when you are re-defining a crucial concept, monopoly, to fit your argumentation". Every single Google service has a ton of competition, even Search, and you can migrate to these anytime you want.

The fact that Facebook is used as a example of a non-monopoly because people aren't relying on it, is a humorous non sequitur and obviously false. Lots of companies rely on Facebook as the single largest social network through which they do most of their marketing and community outreach. Does that make Facebook a monopoly? Well...
Strangely encouraging analogy. Microsoft is still a hugely dominant player, but eventually new technologies caused their lead to erode and other, more innovative companies like Google started leading the pack.

If you're tired of Google-as-platform, just wait a few years.
I have to commend their opening of the data. I don't like what the data says, but at least we have the data to look at. I can't fathom that the US would pay $1.5B in contributions in 2010 with our deficit problems and rapidly increasing debt to GDP levels.

Hopefully this is a trend and we can get the Fed on board with similar openness. Access to the information will help everyone have more intelligent conversations about what these entities are doing.
Nice, simple, beautiful and funny. It might be cool if they tied the donate button into a charity or NPO and play off the fact that clicking it would actually help make things okay for someone.
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You rely on them, because you often have to use one of their products, because Search, Maps or Gmail, to name a few, are all far more [sic] superior than what other competitors have to offer.

This is a refreshingly original critique. We should shun Google because they create an "implicit monopoly" of quality products?

When and if they start shoving crapware down our throats with the force of a real monopoly we can entertain this analogy.
To be fair, Andy Carvin (@acarvin) was spending 20 hours a day on Twitter only when he was covering a revolution.
And that's why those of us who are evil-aligned are having fun getting stuff done. Being a paladin is all well and fine, but it keeps you from actually benefiting mankind sometimes. "The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality", as JFK said.
Ask HN: What is the best database to work thru power failures?
Any recommendations on a fairly lightweight database which will not get easily fubar'd due to a hard crash or power failure? (given UPS & generators are not used)
True, Developers follow the money, but its the stuff they build for a platform that really helps that platform shine.

Your argument is exactly why Google+ is so dangerous for facebook and twitter, both have a very tortured relationship with 3rd party developers so if Google releases an api for google+ that gives developers an opportunity to make just as much money as twitter/facebook ... developers are going to be throwing up deuces to them and moving over to google since they can make just as much money with less stress.
By the very definition of "patent troll", Microsoft is not a patent troll.
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From my position now, I understand that. It is however not: "Get an Android phone it's open source." Instead, it's find out about all sorts of technical minutia and then find a phone that actually allows you to use the open source.

I do live in the US. My phone (Milestone XT720) was released running 2.1 over seven months after 2.2 had been released and I bought it only both after verbal and email confirmation from Motorola support that a 2.2 update was on the way.

Nevertheless, Motorola officially abandoned the phone at 2.1 three months after release. They claim it was an honest mistake and the support personnel were confused. Whoops. Motorola has recently confirmed that we will never even get a security update. I didn't know at the time that Motorola were such incompetent assholes and would both lie and never ship updates. Maybe if I had known that I would have learned beforehand what was the locked bootloader.

Like I said, I've learned my lesson. My family will never, ever buy anything made by Motorola. Motorola points their fingers at the carrier and the carrier points their finger at the manufacturer. I'm tired of these games. That's it. End of story. It's Nexus only from now on. I don't trust any of the assholes selling phones. Period. If I wanted to buy a locked down phone, I'd buy an iPhone.
It would be really great if the buttons had two headphone jacks for sharing with somebody...
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it's why you have to be careful about generalized advice

This is so true. There is no generalized advice that will work for all parent/children combinations. Every child is different and will require different inputs to affect optimal outputs.

Having said that, I will give one piece of generalized advice: know your kids. Notice my advice is on how a parent should behave, not the child. :) Really spend time with your kid(s) and learn how they tick. Only by doing that can you hope to understand how to help them achieve their potential.
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Experienced Android developer looking for something different job-wise 
I'm an experienced Android developer based in New York City looking for a different work arrangement than the typical full-time office job.

I've been developing apps for Android since day one of the operating system. I've published a handful of apps under my name and built some serious Android software for my previous employers.

There are too much interesting things happening in this world and life's too short to warrant spending all day every day in an office doing the usual boring routine.

I'm open to any out of the ordinary work arrangements. If you're thinking of anything other than the full-time office job, please reach out! For starters, I've been considering becoming a freelancer but I'm thinking there are more options out there that I'm not aware of yet.

I understand that not everybody will be able to appreciate this, but that's the thing, I'm looking for people who get it.

This is written from a throw-away account because I'm employed at the moment.

I'm in New York City.

You can email me at androiddeveloper@thisisnotmyrealemail.com. Yes, for real.
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Companies care about Profits.
Everything else is secondary for them.