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Heroku needs a Customer Advocate!!!

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The Market has changed, Have you? An interview post of the Author
It appears to be just a screenshot and a signup form at this point. Any demo video or demo account for HN users?
About 60% of the web is good enough for you? Some of us want to try and reach everyone.
"I have two profoundly different takes on this video. Take one: “Ok, I can see how these components will work together, and I can see how they could fit well into the frame they’ve selected.” Take two: “Wait, seriously? You don’t even have a prototype yet? Not even a sloppy prototype? You’re just showing me a bunch of parts and telling me you’re going to make magic with them. WTF?"

Is this really that surprising? Diaspora raised 200k+ without many lines of code.
I do not believe you. Who? If you can't list their names, then it's pretty clear that Apple doesn't approve of their actions whatsoever.

If you can, then Apple explicitly working to close security holes, not providing a sponsored jailbreak solution, and letting people work on exploiting security holes, seems pretty damn absurd.
We promised Ed Nacional we would never publicly release the rate but I can say that the the majority of the $5K was spent on both the brand identity and URL.

While I was going through the process of selecting a designer, I went through a very long list of portfolios and selected Ed who was an up-and-coming designer at the time. He's much more expensive today as his portfolio and design skills have matured.
It's not the home button but the home tab: http://blog.mozilla.com/faaborg/2011/06/10/home-tab-and-new-...
I actually like this idea of an app to help craft arguments, but needs to be implemented on a smaller scale. Just a tool to help identify common logical fallacies would be pretty useful. Might be a way to ultimately leverage IBM's Watson technology, analyzing semantics to determine likely logical fallacies or cognitive biases.
From the Wikipedia entry:

"Originally [the bandit problem was] considered by Allied scientists in World War II, it proved so intractable that it was proposed the problem be dropped over Germany so that German scientists could also waste their time on it."
Chart of the day: tax burden in the US and globally
I don't agree with a lot of the things said in the article. For one, stored procedures are not just files, they are a part of your DB schema. Your SQL code (whether PL/SQL, or T-SQL, or whatever) is actually executable code that modifies that schema. The schema also includes tables, types, functions and so on.

If you want to do meaningful version control for your DB, you need to do version control for all of those things too. It's not impossible, but it is very difficult, because databases also have data. If you want to add a row to your table, for example. you can't just change the code you used to create it. Instead, you need to write new code that modifies the existing schema by adding columns.
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Lookbooks is a tech-based fashion company providing integrated marketing solutions in the fashion industry. We are hiring for the following postings:

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That's only really true of the remotely exploitable ones like jailbreakme. DFU mode exploits aren't a security threat.
Is WSGI Lite a Library or a Protocol? (And Why You Should Care)
It seems you have not yet reached the point where you got so frustrated that you decided to buy items instead anyway. The kind of players that buy items are often building up certain configurations and there is no way in the game to do that without spending days doing repetive runs just to find out in the end if that configuration of items will work or not. Money really only comes into play at a certain point and I think a game designer should realize something in the game mechanics is broken when people start paying money to _not_ play certain parts of a game.
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Work on projects that reach over 185+ million users a month. remote employee's totally cool as well. Check out a list of all of our jobs here http://www.meebo.com/jobs/
Phrasing the question that way makes it easier for the person to be critical, since the asker is already implying that there are issues (and is less likely to be let down).
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> users won't clearly know the difference between interaction with the browser, and interaction with a smart malicious website.

If you remove the word malicious I think this very fact is the future of browsers. The browser should be designed to prevent a developer from doing anything malicious, but they should fade into the background and allow the web developer to make many (all?) the UI decisions.
Likewise there's a big difference between forcefully inserting yourself as a necessary catalyst (aka, a middleman), and meaningfully improving someone's life.

It's the difference between someone who INVENTS a medication, and someone who collects 5% fee any time you PURCHASE the medicine. Sure, the pharmacists might go on and on about how they are helping people, but really it's the chemists that are doing the hard work that ultimately are the ones improving your life.
I launched Had That Beer (http://www.hadthatbeer.com) into private beta. Going great so far! Use code "showhn" if you want to signup (http://www.hadthatbeer.com/signup?c=showhn)
Just make patents non transferrable, but licensable. Is that not what they were intended to be, with the oversight that let them be transferrable the root of all the dysfunction?
Running the Chrome OS netflix plugin in Chrome on Ubuntu
from my understanding this is precisely how patent trolls like Intellectual Ventures work
It looks fantastic! Only thing I fear about firefox is the speed. (Speed at Starting, loading setting windows, obviously loading pages, caching, etc.)
This is not going to be a chrome plugin.... Instead it will be a proprietary client.
I just upvoted your old post. :-)

I did disagree with the solution (many who see the code would get confused), but it certainly was a positive contribution to the discussion, which is always my bar for upvote/downvote.

And I love Concrete Mathematics. I wish people would say Knuth is the author of TAOCP and Concrete Mathematics. And Ronald Graham is another great computer scientist. With that said I do distinguish computer science from programming.
Uhhhh, [citation needed].

Let's do some plausibility arguments here. The total net wealth of the United States is about $54.2 trillion. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_in_the_United_States) Is that plausible? Sure, that's about $180K per person.

Now, let's suppose that half that $54.2 trillion was in the hands of four hundred families. This would give each of these four hundred families $67 billion each, on average. But the Forbes Rich List currently records nobody in the US with $67 billion; Gates and Buffett have $56 and $50 billion. I guess if you count all the Waltons as one family then they've got slightly more.

And of course the distribution is way tail-heavy. I don't have a list of the 400 richest people in the US alone, but the Forbes rich list implies that the ~400th richest person in the world has on the order of $3 billion. So the average out of the top 400 probably only has a few billion dollars.

In conclusion, I don't believe your numbers at all.
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I am genuinely curious about this statement. Who doesn't need a closet? (I mean, theoretically I can imagine someone who only wears 1 outfit in perpetuity... but that's hard to imagine.)
You don't need eclipse.

You can get by with Emacs, JDK, and ant. Plus the Android SDK of course.

That's how I roll, and it works just fine.
San Francisco, CA

Academia.edu is hiring engineers.

Academia.edu is a platform for academics to connect and share research. On Academia.edu, academics can upload their papers, tag them with research interests, and distribute them instantly to the News Feeds of everyone following those research interests. On the flip side of this, academics see in their News Feeds in real time all papers that have been uploaded to the site in their research areas.

The platform is speeding up the distribution of papers amongst researchers around the world. The goal is for papers to be distributed as quickly within research communities around the world as photos are distributed within friend groups on Facebook.

Amongst other technologies, we work with Rails, Redis, MongoDB, Beanstalkd, Varnish, Solr, PostgreSQL, Node.js and Memcached. We currently have 1.9 million unique monthly visitors, and have doubled in traffic in the last 6 months. We like to hire people who:

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Is Lodsys a "shell company" of Intellectual Ventures?

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/w...
There is nothing specific about how Diablo 2 did items that enabled duping. Nearly every MMORPG has had bugs that allow duping. You are working with distributed systems with tens if not hundreds of ways of interacting with your inventory and have to make sure they all work properly even when an attacker can crash your servers at any time during the processing. This all has to be done while at the same time allowing massive amounts of transactions to occur simulatenously. It is not an easy thing to deal with.
Maybe, but then again, loyalty cards with tiered rewards do that. Making customers do work to signal their price point does it (e.g. coupon clipping). Bundling can do it too. Essentially, sellers have to add complexity to keep the discrimination going. Meanwhile consumers have little supercomputers to help undo the complexity. Hence the arms race analogy.
Not 'entire', people outside the US can't watch it.
Clean installs on Macs
My friend who passed away a month or so ago is constantly on my list.

BTW, what does FB do about such accounts?
I'm sorry, one product IS a blah blah blah tool and the other IS a blee blee blee tool. Some users do in fact need blah blah blah blah and blee blee blee blee at the same time but not everyone needs both, hence two separate products.

Yes, Adobe does make more money on two separate products but that's not necessarily the reason for doing so. I guess Adobe makes more money by not implementing Photoshop features into Dreamweaver as well.
And, when they're on their quest, they'll also find rare items they can sell or trade to get the thing they want. So we have trading. An economy! Now they're participating in another part of the game that didn't exist before. Perhaps they'll enjoy it.

Look at Eve Online as another example. Would you make the following declaration? "Eve Online has a problem because the Titan Class vessels are hard to get. You have to spend years training for the skills necessary to pilot those things; and, at the same time, you have to go out and mine all the resources and find all the blueprints yourself, to build them. What should happen instead is that, with a reasonable amount of time, you should be able to find a Titan Vessel yourself."

Also "A particular build"? ... this is Diablo. The weapons are procedurally generated. Frankly, a feature, to me. I love procedural generation in games where that results in millions upon millions of potential combinations. Go play WoW if you want a particular, precise build.
Well, under that standard, Google Search still supports Netscape 4.7, which is also served a (slightly different from IE6) degraded experience. I wouldn't be terribly surprised if it supports Netscape 1.0 and Lynx either.
Political Influence in U.S. an API Call Away
Looks great. I'm not a beer drinker myself, but my co-worker is a beer lover. I've passed the link on to him, you probably have a user for life ha.

One suggestion, I would have liked to have seen some auto-complete/suggestions when typing in a beer/brewer/place at the top.

Great job!
MIT develops Sun-less solar cells that uses heat to generate electricity
Right, but we're not talking about IDEs. We're talking about SQL.

No matter what you use to modify your database, be it a modeling tool, the table editor that comes with the database, a fancy VS.NET plugin, or a mysql command prompt, you're still producing SQL change scripts. Those change scripts always need to get saved out to a file and checked into source control.

This is especially true if you're developing on a local database with multiple stages between you and production. You need scripts for everything so that your build can push things out to the next environment down the chain and eventually live.

If you're not doing that, I can't imagine the pain you're introducing for yourself.
I think a lot of geeky people have the same issue as me with internet advertising. I dont click on ads. I do not buy any advertised products. The entire market is targetted at some average consumer, like tv ads, not at the niche markets like me. Google has apparently worked out that I might be interested in buying cameras, but I do not buy them based on adverts.

The brands that I respect have characteristics that advertising does not convey as well as informational marketing. I dont believe that wearing your prouct makes girls sexy, but I might believe that your German engineering is very good based on data.

I also like some adverts as cultural items, but the web has not been good at those yet.

So advertising annoys me because it is dumbed down and a waste for me, and I think that is a common geek view.
Fantastic Idea!
I think the problem for engineers working for certain companies such as Google, Twitter, or Facebook is not that your customer are advertising companies.

The real challenge (and problem) for some engineers is that your user is not your customer.

The joy of interacting with customers which are actually paying for things you made for them is sometimes priceless.

Also when working for Google, Twitter, or Facebook you might never learn how to envision and build the product (and company from it) which is sold directly to the customer.

So don't expect the next Oracle, Informatica, or Apple coming from ex-Googlers (even they have a lot of engineering knowledge in that space).
http://www.math.ucla.edu/~tom/Stopping/Contents.html

See chapter 7.
> 'His products show that he understands design as well as anyone on their payroll now.'

He designed none of the interface.

> '... his obvious coding skills ...'

A lot of the time, a person's coding skills are judged by how readable their code is, and how well they utilize SCM. Also, to be an Apple engineer you want extensive experience with Objective-C.
https://github.com/comex/star_

Now I don't mean to say comex is a bad programmer at all, the stuff he writes is amazing, I just feel like he wouldn't make a good Apple engineer.
The Chrome OS Netflix Plugin doesnt do anything yet:
Dear Chromebook user,
Streaming is not currently supported on your device. We're working with
Google to ensure that Chromebook users can instantly watch TV shows and
movies from Netflix. More details will be announced in coming months.
Thanks Netflix.
That sort of messing about isn't (in most countries) tolerated for tax evasion purposes, and tax authorities have a lot of experience dealing with it. It's solvable.
This article was damn near perfect. I much prefer this style to "the problem with X" or "Why X will never succeed". This person isn't interested in platform evangelism, he/she wants to ship. A very inspiring attitude to have.
Nice spot, I can see now it was hard to figure out what on earth the app does, wish I'd realised, feel pretty stupid.

So big thank you for the feedback, I've updated the text based on your suggestion:

"Are you a cross-browser coder tired of copying the same URL into 10 different browsers? Then Catapulty’s bookmarklets are here to help you…"
not mentioned in the article is that apparently Moose is a really good OO system for perl, but (in my opinion) about 10 years too late.
AutoDesk has been trying to diversify their products beyond AutoCAD for hardware users. They have been acquiring a lot of game design tools. AutoDesk owns the two most popular 3D modeling tools: Maya and 3ds Max.
No blog, no content..
San Francisco, CA

Heroku / Cloud Platform Support Engineer

Are you a software engineer passionate about web apps and related open source projects? Do you get a serious kick out of tracking down hard-to-pinpoint issues and solving problems for customers? If so, we’d like to talk to you about joining our support team at Heroku.

Heroku’s customers are deploying some of the coolest and most innovative web applications today. Your primary responsibility will be supporting them by jumping on trouble tickets, providing basic troubleshooting, identifying root causes, and developing resolutions. While you will be participating in forums and discussions and developing and improving our documentation, you will also be a key person developing sample application, bug fixes, and building and support’s suite of tools. In addition, we highly encourage active participation in open source projects of any language.

You should have experience as a software engineer and/or white-box tester; be passionate about helping real customers solve real problems; have a strong background in web application development using technologies such as Ruby, Rails, javascript, Clojure, memcached, and RDBMS such as PostgreSQL and MySQL; and be a well-organized and effective communicator.
Sorry Stefano, somehow your email fell through the cracks!

We were a little premature on posting the PM role. We probably won't open it up for another few months.
Is this just a landing page? What am I supposed to be looking at?
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Number 3 is where the real money is. We had success with multiple schemas, using views and materialized views to partition everything we could, but both the good, the bad and the ugly in PLSQL come from the wonders of joining so it's always a very hard decision to make with high risk and high reward.
Not to sound too cynical, but if companies like MS, Apple, IBM, Google, etc. have spent the last 20 years amassing billion-dollar patent war-chests and are still giving in to patent trolls, and they haven't managed to get the system changed yet--what chance do a handful of game developers have?
This is effectively a straw-man.

Treating advertising a way to connect suppliers with those with a need is a common, benign interpretation of what it is, but that view rests on assumptions of trust or informational parity between buyers and sellers. i.e. the sellers have to be meeting genuine needs, or the buyers have to have the information necessary to make good determinations. I don't see why we should assume that's generally true. There are plenty of counterexamples (e.g. Drug companies advertising drugs for conditions for which there is not good evidence of efficacy, and consumers being unable to evaluate the statements for themselves).

Google makes its revenue by auctioning qualified snippets of human attention. By qualified, I mean that it makes algorithmic inferences about the users demographics and intentions and uses these to bucket these snippets of attention so that they can be priced differentially. This is why Google's advertising is so much more profitable than most other forms.

At best, I think you can say that Google's advertising is neutral. The value it provides to society is determined by the qualities of the buyers and sellers.

A more skeptical view would be to point out that buyers are better informed than sellers when they enter these transactions. For example, google's search users don't get to see the price that google is charging for their attention, nor are the mechanisms by which google intends to use, say the Google+ network to improve classification transparent to us.

You can reasonably claim that it would be preposterous (or uncompetitive) for Google to reveal these mechanisms, or that Google couldn't survive such a climate of openness. Certainly their competitors are probably worse. That doesn't mean we should be any less critical.

I think that the more informed we are about how we use our attention, the better, and it's not clear that Google, or any other advertising company is automatically aligned with society in this regard.
IMHO, the floating cloud is partially blocking the screenshot and makes the whole page looks weird. And yes, show us real stuff please.
My co-worker used to (humorously but effectively) phrase these questions as, "How can we make this even better?"
I find that most anti-ads people change their tune when they try selling something on the internet.

You get your service/product built. You make a page for it. You wait for people to come check it out. Your friends drop by. Maybe you sell a few subscriptions. Then nothing.

So you start looking at ways you can spend money to get people to check out your service. You're buying ads now. And you're grateful that there are platforms like Google, Facebook, and eventually Twitter out there to help you sell your stuff and build your business.
I can't tell but if I had to guess, it service like http://dribbble.com/
Cake Health is looking for our first full-time employee to help us tackle the huge problem of health care costs in the US. We're in the Bay Area (San Francisco, Mountain View, Palo Alto for the Ctrl+F'ers).

The product to date has been built on Ruby on Rails + mySQL + jQuery, so fluency with those is a plus. We're moving on to tackle some larger problems, though, so I'm far more interested in what you've done than what you've done it with.

More info at http://cakehealth.com/jobs
New software aims to turn the Internet into an anti-censorship device.
Love the ones with the short URL bar. That is one thing from IE9 that needs to be copied.