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pg, the site founder, observed once that longer rather than shorter comments tend to be valued by other participants here (as judged by comment karma scores). The subset of HN participants who read my comments appear to share this opinion, as my longer comments do tend to gain more karma than my shorter comments.

To explain to you the specific reaction to your one-sentance comment (great-grandparent here, immediately below the submitted article link), I really couldn't tell for sure if you were being ironic or meant the literal meaning of the sentence you posted. A longer comment usually makes that of issue more clear, which is important in a medium where we are not speaking face-to-face and seeing each other's body language or hearing tone of voice.
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"The shift to modernized computer services has already started. For example, nearly 140,000 employees at the General Services Administration and Department of Agriculture have moved to cloud-based e-mail, Mr. Kundra said, saving about $42 million a year. Google provides the cloud e-mail for the G.S.A, while a Microsoft cloud service is used by the Agriculture Department."
Not to nit-pick, but much isn't much of the PBS library already available free online?

It might be. I can't find Thomas the Tank Engine, Dinosaur Train, or Bob the Builder programs online, but if you know where they are, I'd be indebted :-)

Although still having them through a service that is carried by things like Roku boxes is a big plus, since most TV viewing by my familty is still on the TV. Although I'd consider a GoogleTV box if that was the only way.
So... OTR provides a way out from the PKI trap of requiring a private key to encrypt (which in turn demonstrates access to the private key).

Perhaps I'm thinking about it narrowly, but that's all OTR is said to do, yes?
I agree with your hesitation if you've done zero xcode 3 development. I just completed my first xcode 4 based project last night, and the instructions on Apple's site (for binary signing, and the like) have yet to be updated for xcode 4 - since the process is already complicated enough, had I not done it before with xcode 3 I would have been completely out to lunch.

With that said, if you're comfortable with xcode 3, you shouldn't have a problem switching to xcode 4.
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I disagree.

A complete business plan is always required...All professional investors know that entrepreneurs who start a business without a written plan almost always fail.

That's not true at all! There's a difference between writing a 30-page business plan (useless) and having a solid plan of how to build the company. Especially for angels, having a huge business plan will not help.

If you need more [than $1MM in capital], you need to focus on venture capital territory.

This used to be true. But today, with the emergence of the abundance of angels, super-angels, and AngelList, this is no longer true. This is one of many big disruptions in venture capital financing over the past few years.

Your fifth-year revenue projections better be between $20M-$100M.

The best angels I know don't care about fifth-year revenue projections. It's hard enough to estimate what the company will be like in 6 months. A fifth-year estimate is useless. Only when you start to raise Series A financing from an institutional investor do these figures start to matter.

Rules of thumb include an opportunity projection that exceeds a billion dollars

Again, for angel investors, it's a completely different situation. For institutional firms, they want to own 30-40% of your company, and want you to aim for the fences in order to get the necessary returns. For angel investors, a $20mm exit is a nice return. It's still acceptable to raise an angel round and get an early exit.

Certain business sectors have historical high failure rates and are routinely avoided by investors...food service...gaming...

There's some truth to this, but we're seeing a lot of innovation (and funding) in companies that experiment in these areas. Look at ZeroCater and Gooble for food innovation, and the entire social gaming industry.
No. Define "just missed". Flying across country (Florida to Washington), I saw another plane flying in the other direction. The plane looked and felt like it was right next to us, like .. hundreds of yards apart. Cross-country planes do this all the time, so far as I can gather.

[edit: fixed typo, added ending to sentence]
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I think this is a pretty significant step forward, and for me really highlights the changing relationship between Google and its users.

The transition from a passive search service requiring a user's input to an active provider fulfilling a variety of online needs is something that Google has clearly been working on from some time, and something they're good at. Still, the shift from "you might be interested in these shoes based on your search history" to "you might be interested in not having a computer infected with malware" seems pretty significant and bold to me. I really admire their vision and execution, but it still frightens me when I consider how much access I give Google to a large portion of my personal and professional life.

When Google becomes self-aware on August 29, 1997, I am really going to be screwed.
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Give it a week. After a couple of days your mind flips and suddenly the old way seems wrong.
I am too a very happy switcher from Carbonite to Backblaze. It really is fast, as Valien says. The cost? Well, it has gotten cheaper since the dollah is dying.
I remember reading the wired magazine article for this. Some people can actually benefit from an economy like this. You can buy things for a fraction of a price they were before. Although, that is a double edged sword. In this economy, your own money falls as well.
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I think they're off by default for new installs but on for upgrades from Snow Leopard. My upgraded-today Mac had them on by default. Either way, you can switch it in System Preferences > Dock > Show indicator lights for open applications.
Not to be overly harsh, but I'm honestly amazed that small teams can turn out great iOS software but a company with the talent and resources of Google gives us an app like this?

I know that they plan to improve it, etc. but I have to wonder what it would look like if you gave Tapbots three months and access to the G+ API...
I'd say that not only bonuses work per quarters but budgets are generally allocated in quarters or semesters as well. Typically, budgets allocated for one period need to be used in that period, otherwise it's "lost" and you don't get as much the next period.

So, on one hand, sales people want to close as many sales as possible before the end of a quarter and, on the other, buyers are also pushed to spend the money towards the end of the quarter.
"How much of Django would you really use?"

The URL mapper, the view abstraction, the middleware, the debugging tools, the generic views concept, the httprequest and httpresponse classes, the templating system, the caching framework, the syndication library and a bunch of the third party ecosystem tools.
Works for me! >.<

But seriously, I find programming language fights to be mostly useless. Its like trying to argue English is more expressive than say French or German or whatever language. They all can convey human ideas, but each makes certain concepts a bit easier to express and others more difficult. In the end though, the thought or concept can be conveyed.
The Xcode installation asks you to close iTunes because of iTuneshelper and how iTunes will sync devices (including development devices) when they're plugged in. It makes sense that Xcode asks you to quit itunes (and kills ituneshelper too) to update files. It isn't ridiculous.
I should have considered that I certainly wasn't the only one, and I shouldn't be so self-centered in the future. My bad.
Almost as good as a Vaio Z12. It just needs an 8GB RAM option and 13" 1080p.
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It helps when your "reality-based statements" are factually true.

"You may also be able to install Xcode 3.2 from your Mac OS X 10.6 DVD and then run Software Update to get the latest version."

http://guide.macports.org/chunked/installing.xcode.html

" There’s actually a third version—Xcode 2.0 shipped on the original Tiger installation DVDs back in April. "

http://www.macworld.com/article/46286/2005/08/installxcode.h...

etc. It's been on every OS X install disc I've used, which goes back to about 10.4.
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10.5 ia also available for download through the Mac dev resource subsite.
You have to submit accurate tax returns with possible audits resulting extraditions and criminal charges if you don't. And there is FBAR.
I have to agree. My first thought was going to be to disagree because I always just use something like view formatted source or something to look at my nesting levels within the dom but having it show nesting levels in place that has a trivial-to-digest visual effect is pretty nifty.
I think if you posted a notice that said "All disruptive customers will be removed from the premises. This include children." that most people would approve of it. A few people with noisy kids would object, but that's who you're trying to get rid of in the first place.

You would have to actually enforce the rule, and that would be ugly, but it would have been way, way less ugly than what's happening right now. And it would have been just as good for publicity, if you advertised it.
Yep.. replaced by a $999 Air.
The last paragraph of the article reminds me of recent closures of kids' lemonade stands by government inspectors:

http://reason.com/blog/2011/07/18/lemonade-stand-crackdown-c...

There's something perverse about a government that cuts away people's autonomy and forces everyone to rely on its handouts. I'd rather live in a society of free people than a society that can't imagine life without the government telling them what to do. I could do with a little less "civilization" when it comes to closing down a 5 year old girl's lemonade stand because she didn't prepare her pitcher in a kitchen with a 3-basin sink.

Regulations aren't made with the good of society in mind. They're usually made by self-interested businessmen looking to keep out competition. When you realize this, you will reach political enlightenment.
If children are making a lot of noise and fuss, and the family was kicked out, I bet people would clap. I've seen them clap for less.
The dock is an application organizer, the taskbar is a window organizer. Big difference.

The windows on each monitor should be represented in a taskbar on that same monitor. Easier to comprehend, faster to mouse to. The app Ultramon does this very well, it's essential for any multi-monitor Windows install.
What would the point of that be, really? The one time every two years you upgrade your OS, you don't have to reboot, saving 15 seconds a year?
I'm having the same issue so came here to search.

Downloaded it twice and get the exact same error. Deleted and removed from trash the first time.

Edit Reboot your machine. That worked for me. I can now install fine with the same 'corrupt' file I had before.
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good insight into how overused APT has become with a clear explanation of how we should correctly use APT
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> einstein was right. his work was an improvement on what went before.

Einstein is less wrong; his work has smaller error bars than what went before. It's "sufficiently right to allow advances to be made".

See http://hermiene.net/essays-trans/relativity_of_wrong.html (by Isaac Asimov)
No full opengl 3.0 support. I'm a bit disappointed
The difference is that they'd be asked to leave -after- they've caused the problem. This is causing a lot of collateral damage to innocents.
Damn I planned to update to Lion soon, but not so soon. Seems like we'll be spending tomorrow updating, after figuring out how to get Lion on everybodys iTunes account. Give us some time apple!
Snoop is an amazing utility and I used it quite often when I was coding WPF.
My tip: put yourself in some situation where work is so difficult or inconvenient it requires your full attention.

Example: your server crashes, two ads are linked incorrectly, your API provider has suddenly started returning 30% 503s. You are at a Bosselman Travel Center in Nebraska with a cell phone.

You won't get more done, but you will feel productive. It's possible to be inspired by the intensity of such endeavors.
I'd imagine Internet Recovery is simply an EFI application stored in the Mac's firmware, and that the app itself is an extension of the pre-existing NetBoot/NetInstall concept that supports http and does some machine and dmg verification.
Putting it mathematically, non-linear problems (which are generally harder to solve) may become linear in a higher-dimensional space.
roughly the same. For the Sandy Bridge platform there is no other choice anyway as a dedicated nvidia chip wouldnt fit and draw more power.
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Thanks for the edits. Much appreciated.
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This is an awesome tool. I can't even tell you how much debugging time this is going to save me. Said time won't be reflected in my estimates or in my billing rate, of course, but at least I'll have more time to work on my RSS feed.
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Normally Android apps (the 'properly' written ones) use the same code base across tablets and phones. Most of the layout is done as xml, with different xml files loaded based on the size of the screen, resolution, etc.

That being said I checked out the Google+ app on my Xoom and it does not appear that they included proper tablet configurations yet.
The only thing that I can think of is that this restaurant is not far from PG's home while he was growing up.
i have a current gen MBP with a core i7 Quad-Core 2.2Ghz and while attached to an external display the fans get noisy pretty fast. I basically gave up working on GPU intensive stuff on the MBP because the fans annoy me.
that's unreal. Min 29 on seems to be where the direct discussion of "rule" breaking begins. Rule breaking by Swartz being getting the JSTOR files from students and placing them online.
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What's interesting in these threads is the obvious dichotomy of values.

You can't have it both ways. If people want to make money from research itself, then intellectual property must be enforced.

Many hackers seem to hold the belief that making money from research is wrong. Or at least anybody else but themselves.
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Except I use one monitor almost exclusively for reference. I want as much screen real estate there as possible. Since my mouse is already on the editing monitor, it would take _more_ effort to move it over there to switch windows.
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Meh. It was for a good, innocent cause, and he says he took the trouble to notify nearby airports.

I have much more of a problem with the legions of dumbasses out there shining laser pointers directly at passing aircraft.
See. This Q&A is useful to you.
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I met Reggie at an event in Chicago around 2000. He stood out among the other entrepreneurs that day to me. There were far more companies from those days that didn't survive than those who did. A very inspirational story.
It's a bit of a mystery what Rich will be talking about tonight. The only word from him is that "I'll be talking about something new!" Not much to go on, but thought I'd share the live stream link for interested parties anyway.
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when I used a mac, I really preferred Terminal over iTerm (esp. for the large buffer size of term). I could do anything I wanted with Terminal (VT100 emulation etc. etc.)
"It's further harming the possibilities of being an independent scholar or even reading academic literature outside academia,"

And giving it away for free harms the possibilities of being an independent scholar as well. Do you seriously not understand that?
With the default Windows 7 group and icon behavior, they're virtually identical in behavior...
"We can put out code that is useful to us that raises the bar, and get people using it, and we get our bug fixes for free, and our R&D." Maybe the best case for open sourcing commercial products that I've heard.
The modern SSDs in the new Airs makes a colossal difference when swapping. I've never had any problems with only having 4GB RAM on my previous gen 11" MBA, and I'm regularly running a host of apps and doing active app development with Xcode.

Swapping at 2-400MB/s is far less painful than swapping at ~15MB/s.
Well, OW Delta has published a bit on CEO succession and success criteria, and it's still a widely contested topic. I think the author is just trying to make a point, tying personality with the CEO success, rather than explicit background... whether true or not.
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Has anyone found any more detailed articles that describe how Apple protects the boot process described in the article?
The broken application detection and the refusal to identify which processes need to be killed is ridiculous.

Having a dev system that's so fragile that iTunes needs to killed when installing Xcode is insane. It's the request of a lazy programmer that's not willing to put in the work of understanding the real requirements or working around the problems, and would be unacceptable in a consumer-facing application. I don't want to say it's OK in the developer tools, but probably not as bad.
Indeed, irssi or other console IRC clients are very effective time wasters.
Same things we did too:
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I found an Apple Support thread where some others are reporting the same issue:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/15660833#15660833

I posted my md5's of the internal .dmg's from the download there. They're different from the two unsuccessful downloads but I suspect that's just App Store watermarking because they differ in so many places. Maybe someone here on HN knows the real story though.
Absolutely agreed with everything here. Additionally, push-ups help keep you awake. Nodding off? Drop and do 5. Gets the heart pumping again.
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the $999 is 949 EUR in germany which translates to $1349 :-/
On a completely unrelated note, I find that my Apple purchases often correlate closely to dates when my American friends come out to visit.
If you'd redeemed the codes Apple gave you as a registered developer, you wouldn't have been able to buy Lion – it was already purchased by your last redemption code and, like all previously purchased App Store apps, clicking that button would simply have re-downloaded the app (or, in this case, Lion's installer).
I searched "Google Plus", saw nothing, then just "Google" and it was the top result, if that helps.
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I think that is unsigned apps require the extra dialogs/etc...

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Securi...

That has the most info, i'm digging through the changes.
Fer sure. Netty (http://www.jboss.org/netty) is your friend for handling massive numbers of NIO connections.
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It definately would, questions is if you really need that kind of extra power.
Yep. I'm aware that you're supposed to scale with size nicely in order to make an app work nicely on all screen sizes. But there should be more than that. My Xoom's camera is far better than my desktop's webcam, but the app lacks the Hangout feature - the only part of Google+ that's really magical for me.

So the 10" tablet app has a layout designed for a 3" screen, ignores the incredible hardware capabilities of the device (two video cameras! no video chat?), notifications that pop up after I've seen them twice already, etc.

It's just no good at the moment, but I'm sure it will improve with time.
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This is slick, my only problem with it is that Lion is a huge download. It's bad enough waiting on fresh OS installs, but waiting on a download and install would knock the wind out of my sails. I'll be buying the USB stick.
"Terminal also—finally—supports 256 text colors with its new xterm-256color terminal type."

Woohoo! Finally a true MediumAquamarine comment-face in emacs in mac term.
On a related note, does Lion delete its own installer once you install it? I don't want to have to download Lion on all of my machines separately, seems as if I should be able to buy it once from the App Store then copy it (does the OS have the same license rules as apps, i.e. n copies? I'm not looking to pirate anything, just want to save download time)
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