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you bring up some great points, cube13.

personally, i'm looking forward to the acquisition so we can have Android devices that match up to the iPhone on a hardware level (emphasis on battery life). but the biggest concern i have is how Google is going to deal with the bureaucratic system that they will inherit from Motorola.

i'm currently working in the mobile industry, and a lot of manufacturing companies (Motorola included) indeed have a "very corporate" engineering culture. there are many levels between the devs/test engineers and the customer (whether it be the chip providers, service providers, other manufacturers) and the higher ups within the company. although Google is already a large company, i feel that they make an effort on minimizing the "corporate feel" and that a lot of engineers are attracted to that effort. but with this acquisition, will top-talent engineers get turned off? or will Google be able to minimize/eliminate the inefficiencies between the Google devs and Motorola engineers?

ps: i'm happy to finally be a part of the HN community :)
This seemed like a developer-targeted article, though. I mean, who is having trouble with even 1 million directory entries, let alone 8 million, who is afraid of a compiler?
This is like Microsoft buying DEC in the early 90s (which, ironically, they might have had to do over IP issues related to Windows NT if the post-Olsen DEC leadership had had any guts). Motorola isn't successful enough with Android to be considered Dell.
Good for Google!!
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You've surveyed the customers on the domain renewal price compared to GoDaddy and they prefer the $39.95? Or, they are given the option to purchase/renew from GoDaddy at checkout? Or, maybe what they don't know won't hurt them?

"If you don't, you're free to buy your own domain at GoDaddy (or anywhere else) and point it to Weebly, completely free of charge."

Sounds good. Didn't happen - tried to move a domain off the platform after a year. After 3-5 emails with support the domain eventually just expired. Glad it wasn't anything critical - just a simple site I had thrown together for a family member's business which was remade in Joomla.

I think the product is great for many people, the founders sound like nice people. Just unsure if the experience I had trying to get the domain back is a tactic or incompetence/honest mistakes. Of course I hope it's the latter because that'll get fixed.
Being completely silent from the start is really weird and doesn't really get you anywhere, which people can get the impression of in the video.
Though it's a pretty old, this Microsoft presentation from USENIX 2000 describes how Windows NT development evolved from NT 3.1 through Windows 2000, including details about source control and build machines.

Windows: A Software Engineering Odyssey

https://db.usenix.org/events/usenix-win2000/invitedtalks/luc...
Basically the author makes a diff on a paragraph from the SEC filings, in which Linux is removed from being a threat. The author could have concluded any of the following:

- it is bad marketing to attack Linux
- Linux is an indispensable piece of infrastructure
and Microsoft learns to cooperate with it
- Linux cannot be attacked as a whole, focusing on
Linux is spending valuable resources; it pays to
attack tangible players that are pushing Linux
instead
- Linux is really not that important anymore, the
problem for Microsoft being escalated to something
much, much bigger

Really, the author could have picked any of the above and more. But no, the author picked "victory over Linux".

I don't usually complain about the lack of quality on HN, but some articles are borderline stupid, including this one. Remarkably, these days I find better content at Proggit.
I think AnyFu.com (by the TechZingLive.com guys) is gonna kick OfficeHours.tv's butt once it finally launches.

Don't these tech heavyweights feel embarrassed that their time is so meaningless on this site? 2.75 per 10 minutes for reddit cofounder? Hell, Josh Greenberg was on there earlier today for 2.50 per 10 minutes.

How useful is 10 minutes of time anyway? You can barely get yourself situated in the context of an issue within that much time.
My app Maximizer can do this dynamically for pretty much any app on your system (including TextMate, but also stuff like Firefox or Spotify). It's SIMBL based, but the code is clean and hopefully open source soon: http://chpwn.com/apps/maximizer.html
But just because you think something is obvious, don't assume you understand it.
I'd be curious to see if conversions went down, as the average price went up.

People who only wanted to donate $12 may have seen the frown, and decided "This amount isn't wanted", and left, rather than increasing their donation?

If we assume some people did each (some leave, and some increase), the adjusted total donation numbers with and without the smiley, would be interesting to compare, not just the average donation amount.
To be fair there are a lot of high performance windows tricks. They involve digging through the DDK and other obscure places to find documentation, but it's not impossible to build performant windows solutions. The open nature and documentation of Linux internals makes it easy to hire commodity developers on the cheap (relatively speaking), which I suspect is the real underlying trend.
When I try to load the page on my iPhone 4, I can only see a couple words at the end of the sentence (zooming out doesn't fix this).

Will be happy to provide feedback when I can get to my laptop
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After signing up I received an email asking if I had any questions. I asked this one, and they responded that they don't support it yet, but they're working on it.
Seems to me they love Google :p
Sounds really interesting. I'm curious: how useful is the event likely to be if I already work at a (larger) startup? Is it mainly targeted at those who want to found new startups?
I've asked that the proceeds of this get donated to my Http://awesomestudies.org - I'm on the board (treasurer) but it's a lightweight legal backend (read: donation funnel) for The Awesome Foundation.
Developers who only write in interpreted languages :-)
It would break my heart for hungry founders to pay market rate. I've got no idea what 10min can do, but my typical in-person office hours are 20min. I'll talk 2x fast!
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I suspect the author is incorrect in his claim that reading in 32k chunks is responsible for the slowness. Due to read ahead and buffering, Unix-like systems tend to do reasonably well on small reads. Yes, big reads are better, but small reads are not unreasonably slow.

To test this, he should try "ls | cat". On large directories that often runs many orders of magnitude faster than "ls". This is because, I believe, ls by default on most people's systems, want to display information such as file modes or type via coloring or otherwise decorating the file names, and getting that information requires looking at the inode for each file.

It's all those inode lookups that slow things down, as the inodes are likely to be scattered all over the place. When you do "ls | cat", ls noticed output is not a terminal, and so turns off the fancy stuff, and just lists the file names. The names can be determined entirely from the directory, and so performance is much better.
While ZFS adds some advantages, if you were going for snap shots and quick deploy with KVM your best bet was to use LVM as a raw device. A quick lvm snapshot + virt-clone + virsh start will let me have a cloned vm up within seconds.

Thats not saying ZFS doesn't add a lot (checksum backed store, heap of other features). But I would actually expect LVM to be faster, precisely because it is "crappier" (no checksumming, very basic address remapping, etc).

The real question will be support, if they can convince people that this will have enough life to build a user base large enough to support it moving forward. Especially if oracle stops publishing code under open source licenses.
The classic alternative to options/equity is a partner track. That's how huge law firms and the big 4 accounting firms do it. There are multiple levels in the partnerships, and the upper levels are often pretty spectacular.

Partner tracks address some of the concerns Fried brings up here. For instance, they reward current employees and don't create a class of former employees with a painful claim on forward revenues. They're simpler than options (you're gunning to "make partner"; you don't need an Excel spreadsheet to figure out what a win is).

They also have downsides; for instance, the biggest partner tracks are also all up-or-out systems where competent employees who are assets to the team but not ambitious enough to make partner are incented to leave.

So the question I have is, why didn't 37signals do that? It's a proven model. I ask because I'm sure there's a reason, and I'd love to hear it.
And even if Gruber's right, "one image" doesn't make it OK.

Try telling a prosecutor or judge that you told only one lie on the witness stand and let me know how that works out...
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+1 for having an event in London
I wouldn't call him a "regular employee" but incredible claim or not, DHH definitely did purchase a million dollar car recently.
Maybe the author should check that Android is Linux.
> How does it matter how its done as long as it works

Executing unknown scripts hiding behind obfuscated URLs is generally not considered a good idea.

Given that this is a very non-standard and decidedly odd way of distributing a TextMate plug-in, a large degree of skepticism is warranted.
I feel your flag is unwarranted, and while the article doesn't use the word 'fragmentation', most likely due it it's negative connotation, what they describe is absolutely fragmentation [1].
In regards to point e) I'm not sure how "Don't be Evil" applies to a company that makes bomb components and missile guidance systems.
WooMe Privacy Violation
I joined WooMe briefly this past May to see how the site worked and I uploaded a picture as it requires the user to do so. I had forgotten that I had joined, until I googled myself to realize that my full name, picture and age comes up as user of WooMe. However, once I became aware of that fact, I immediately deactivated my account with the hopes of eliminating the problem, it has now been three months, and all my information still comes up via a simple Google search.<p>After made numerous attempts at contacting your company since last June at both privacy@woome.com and at 3832 Hemmingway, Irvine, CA 92606, and even contacted the CEO, Stephen Stokols and no one has responded nor rectify the problem.<p>Due to the nature of my profession, people often Google me. And it is quite embarrassing to me that this information should come up, and this is something which potentially can affect my personal relationship.<p>The more I read about WooMe, the more I realize how shady they are.<p>It is distressing and I will be forced to take legal action soon.
I didn't think so =/
Piping things from curl into bash is about the dumbest thing you can do security wise. Except if you also use an URL shortener, which means that in addition to trusting the author not to be evil, you're also trusting the shortener service to deliver what you (or the author) expected.
I look forward to comparing it to Woz's autobiography, which doesn't paint Jobs in a very appealing light.
If they had an API, or a machine-readable format that contained only the data from each SEC filing, I would be very interested.
Fabric is pretty decent. It's popular among Django, Python crowd. But there's nothing stopping you from using it for any project.

Fabric + git pull should be enough to get rid of rsync. And you get instance version control on the server with rollbacks to any commit.
>It’s very weird what you expect of Gruber. It just doesn’t make any sense.

Just a little more honesty and less hypocrisy would certainly help. As the OP said, those sites are more like sports team fanboy sites or political mouthpieces tailored to the audience/readers.

To go off on a funny tangent:

Well, maybe I just don't get it unless I am in the RDF myself. http://www.tuaw.com/2011/05/17/bbc-loving-apple-looks-like-a...

That is why maybe all those sites feels weird to me but seem perfectly fine to many others!
fonts aren't working in chrome 13.0.782.112. you only see partial names and some are missing names completely. screen: http://i.imgur.com/mbrfe.jpg
That's my bad - I'm the designer at Olark who forgot to make our WP theme look good on mobile. Fix coming tonight.

Sorry about that!
We definitely support transferring domain names out of Weebly. Once you purchase it, it's your domain name. If we didn't do that when you asked, I'm really sorry. That's our mistake and it definitely shouldn't happen. Would you mind emailing me at david+c@weebly.com with your account username or email so I can look into the situation and make sure that never happens again?

As far as domain name prices go, we handle a ton of things for you that are otherwise really hard. The domain purchase experience from Weebly compared to GoDaddy is night and day, and we've put a lot of effort into making it extremely simple and hassle free. A lot of people are willing to pay a premium to save them time and hassle with a domain name, but on the off-chance they'd prefer to go directly with another registrar (GoDaddy or otherwise), they are completely free to do so.
Don't these tech heavyweights feel embarrassed that their time is so meaningless on this site? 2.75 per 10 minutes for reddit cofounder? Hell, Josh Greenberg was on there earleir today for 2.50 per 10 minutes.

I know it's not clear on the site, but Josh's profile can be found here: http://www.officehours.tv/senseis/josh-greenberg (the current price is not $2.50, it's $15 per 10 minutes). If this works anything like eBay, the bids will tend to increase as the time gets closer to expiring.

Anyway, the founders aren't in this for the money. The real goal here is to raise money for charities while giving people an opportunity to talk to experienced entrepreneurs. These entrepreneurs want to give back to the community.

How useful is 10 minutes of time anyway

I've been to 3 office hours sessions in the past 2 weeks, and none of them have exceeded 15 minutes. All of them were enough time to get all of my questions in, and I found them tremendously helpful. If the user wants more time, they have the option to get it by buying additional timeslots (30 minutes max).
There was a blog post but its is gone. Here is one describing that blog post:

http://www.winrumors.com/microsoft-employee-details-how-wind...
Twitter's t.co URL wrapper is now on for all URLs 19 characters and greater
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I think that is understood. The war between MS and Linux is always about personal computing. Otherwise, the comparison points are endless. QNX beats pants off of Linux in Embedded systems. Microsoft beats the pants of off any *nix system in quite a few sectors of Robotics space. Microsoft beats pants off Linux in Gaming systems. Microsoft beats pants off of Linux in Enterprise server systems.
(not to mention that it would put him up there with Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein...)
Yeah, those crazy lunatics! Let’s smile smugly and ignore their incoherent rambling!
Unless of course the first thing GOOG does is wipe out all the IP and Patents owned by Motorola that have anything to do with... you know, killing people.
You might be interested in Chocolat[1], it's currently in alpha but I can get you an invite if you want

[1]: http://chocolatapp.com/
What would Facebook lose by reversing its no-export policy? Google+ might force them to eventually anyway, might as well do it now.
Some people presumably do; I don't; and I'm probably more interested in who a significant other sleeps with after we're together. For more on this, see Dan Savage: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/03/magazine/infidelity-will-k... .

At some point—probably around age 16 to 17—everyone is someone's sloppy seconds. One either deals with this essential fact... or doesn't.
Microsoft considers the security implications of open-ended access (relatively) to be insecure, and the crashes other users are reporting on this article right here prove them right, for now. GPU drivers have never before been considered attack surfaces requiring hardening against malicious attackers. Stand by for the first major attack using this vector.
That's not sad reality, that's success.
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Agreed. My story is similar, with a medical twist: years of chronic lower back pain disappeared once I stopped wearing "normal" shoes.

If Vibram ever makes a shiny black leather version, I won't have to wear anything else.
Where do you see fragmentation? They're releasing a major new version of the Windows Phone OS. Microsoft and OEMs have committed to upgrading all current Windows Phones to Mango.

So where's this fragmentation you speak of?
Good to know, thanks. I'll have to check into that for one of my projects.
Obama uses Foursquare
>Some people shouldn't be parents.

it is obviously that the society is reaching the stage when procreation must be licensed (after appropriate education/exams, required professional/wealth level achievement and psychological/physical/aptitude tests) Once technology reaches the level when one just can't procreate without getting the permit - bingo!... well, we know the drill.
I'm using maximizer with TextMate and Chrome. Works pretty well, thanks! The only caveat is that to see the drawer, you have to hide it and show it again.
Going to print and make a poster.
Expectations are a bitch. Once you set them, its hard to undo. I sold personal shares because my co-founders didn't want to be diluted by another 1%.

And Ted's a friend, the press release was for your benefit.
Are these partners paying anything to google?
Try out nexenta too. Debian userland.
Google Turning Into a Mobile Phone Company? No, It Says
You know how they could help charities more? By charging what their time is actually worth and then donating that to charity.

edit: Auctions don't mean it 'automatically' goes up. It means it 'should' go up, so long as the site has enough bidders and sellers such that it generally resembles an 'efficient market'. You could argue that Ebay has an efficient market and that prices generally gravitate towards their 'real world value' (whatever that is) but I think that case is far from being made for this website and it's auctions.
Coding in full screen? For elite hackers who don't need to test the thing they're coding?
1. True it's from an older interview, but only 10-50k folks have probably heard it. an additionally 10-50k folks know about it now. So, it's new to them.

1a. It's newsworthy that a competitor would come out that strongly either way.

2. If LAUNCH or I say it's a respected investor you can take that as a top 25 investor in the space. you know my rolodex right? :-)
Well, if you're passing out invites... pretty please? I'm currently trying out different editors, not stuck on any particular one.
It turns out that this - "things I've never heard class of person X say" rhetorical device is a fine way to lend credence to what would otherwise be a simple collection of one-line assertions about how to do startups.

So? What's wrong with rhetorical devices? You can't win people over with logic alone. Believe me, I've tried.
I was under the impression that launch devices would not be getting the Mango update.. This was a few months ago[1], but it seems to be a different story now..

[1] http://www.neowin.net/news/wp7-multiple-calendars-marketplac...
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I've always wondered how much defense spending was actually just a jobs bill or an alternative form of "stimulus spending". Let's face it, somebody has to design the bombs, trucks, lasers, predator drones. Somebody has to manufacture them and sell them. There's a lot of people who's livelihood, for better or worse, depends on the defense industry. And let's not forget the salaries & benefits of every enlisted man & woman. War is big money, but also a big employer.
Microsoft: Linux Who? Apple & Google Are Main Threats
The original onus for the post was python's os.listdir() which as far as I know doesn't stat(). ls, just made the blog post more interesting :-).

I was surprised that the 32K reads were taking so long. It's possible since it was on a virtualized disk ("in the cloud") that something else was slowing down disk IO (like Xen).

But I can assure you that a larger read buffer performed much better in this given scenario.

I'd welcome more tests though.
What is Condor?
Console.fm signs up 10K+ for stripped down turntable
That's why it's an auction system, the price automatically goes up to what it's actually worth.

EDIT in response to EDIT: I'm confused by what point you're trying to make here.

"It means it 'should' go up, so long as the site has enough bidders and sellers..."

So is that the point you're trying to make? Are you saying the site does not have enough bidders to bring it to market price? If that's the case, then charging 'market value' still wouldn't work, would it?

If it still wouldn't work, then can you elaborate on the point you were trying to make with your original comment? How would your proposed method help charities more?
I can't reply to your last comment, but you didn't answer my question, you just pasted a link to neowin.net.

Where do you see this fragmentation you're referring to? How does this perceived fragmentation differ from iOS and Android updates to old devices?
No one else delivers mail to a post box. But private enterprises don't have many barriers here - they are free to convince their customers to accept delivery elsewhere, or put up a private delivery box - many newspapers do it this way. Companies have already picked off the most profitable areas of mail delivery, overnight mail and packages manage to deliver to your doorstop. The USPS is stuck with mandated delivery scope which was taken on by our founding fathers. That mandate could be debated, but making this a private vs public efficiency polemic seems a little strained.
Of course Gruber is spinning this to be about "one image." Pro-Apple spin is largely what he seems to do these days. Does anyone think that, were this situation reversed, that Gruber would be intentionally trying to make this about a single image? Of course he wouldn't.

I still read Gruber everyday- he has a lot of interesting things to say about technology in general and Apple in particular. But it is increasingly hard to take him seriously about any story related to Apple's anti-android litigation, because he seems to have abandoned any attempt to present the situation fairly, to the point where he has really become a rather naked shill for Apple.

I am typing this on an iPad 2. I love my iPad 2. I tried a great number of tablets prior to purchasing it, and I genuinely find it to be the superior product, and by a long shot. I am even sympathetic to Apple's claims in this case, as I do think the resemblance between the Galaxy and the iPad to be more than simple coincidence. But it seems pretty clear to me that this is about much more (or should be about much more) than one "doctored" photo, and I am absolutely sure that Gruber knows it.

The thing is, I don't think he cares, because it seems as if he's completely abandoned even the pretense of presenting a just and fair picture of any of Apple's recent patent litigation.
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Ask HN: Web designers: do you consider Adobe CS5 necessary?
I'm a web dev/designer, currently using Photoshop CS3. I don't know CS5, so not sure what I'm missing - would upgrading to CS5 noticeably improve my work or workflow (assuming I learn how to use it)?

Do the top web designers consider CS5 necessary? If you mock up sites in CSS instead of Photoshop, do you use CS5 for other important things, or are other programs (or older versions of Photoshop) just as good?