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A weak and superficial article written in a hurry to get pageviews... I mean, another article on this site is "Why your business needs a blog"

The article entirely misses the issue of temperament. Some people really crave the "security" of a 9-5, they need somebody to tell them what to do.

There's also the question of where your career was going. I worked for a summer at a job shop -- one of my co-workers who'd been a web freelancer for a few years felt that getting a job at this place, with a good team and good salespeople, was a big step up. For me, it was a dead end job, and I turned down the offer of a permanent job with them and got one with another firm.

In the last few years I became an expert in an obscure but growing specialty, and that led me back into contracting, which got my career out of the doldrums. We've all got our own path.

Now, the article entirely misses the elephant in the room with self employment, which is health insurance. This can be a non-issue if you're 23 or if you're married to somebody who has a real job, but for many people, health insurance cannot be purchased on the individual market at any price.
It's not a tiny measurement (AFAICS - not entirely sure what you mean by that phrase), it's an extrapolation of a consistent and systematic trend. And it's really not like extrapolating the tides, since we know that tides are by definition cyclical whereas this change is not necessarily cyclical.

The thing is, the article is just extrapolating to make a point about existing conditions. By debunking the article by comparing with tides, you're making an implicit claim of cyclicality with no evidence, which is less defensible than the article.

A better argument would be that just because a bucket has a hole, and will have completely drained in one hour, doesn't mean that the bucket wont be repaired, or refilled. But that would be a fairly obvious thing to point out.
The more sophisticated the web platforms become, the more opportunities there are to make the best browser on the platform. Conversely, if the web platform stagnates, meaningfully differentiating a browser gets more difficult.
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Well for me the results speak for themselves, I have also had some good feedback on these tips which I obtained from what people were saying on forums around the internet. Clearing the cache may increase boot time for the next boot but if it had some dodgy stuff in it the first time round chances are the same stuff might be gone the next time. As for the build numbers on the GM Seed and on the App Store release, again the results speak for themselves, I fix lots of Macs for lots of people and I am just posting about my experiences and what I have feel to be true ground what I have read around the internet. Really sorry my website offended you...
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Alabama, Arkansas, California, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming will share over $100M in funding to improve rural broadband.
7" Capacitive (Android) tablets are already under $200: http://s.dealextreme.com/search/capacitive+android+tablet

These aren't crappy, low powered devices, either. Take this one: http://www.dealextreme.com/p/7-capacitive-screen-android-2-3.... It is Android 2.3, 1.2Ghz processor, HDMI out, etc etc. The only weakness is it is WiFi only, but it is only $166.

There are still supply constraints around larger 9" & 10" capacitive screens, but 7" screens are getting cheap enough now that it's possible 7" capacitive tablets will drop below $100 by the end of the year (depending on the exchange rate though..)
Yes, I was asking about how do I make money from end-users without charging them for my product and not selling advertising (in context of a web startup)

analyzing the data we get from users and then selling that analysis to other businesses - this models seems nice. Also, as japhyr suggested charging for the support would be good idea too.

Any other ways out here ?
Having been given an imac g3 running Mac OS 9, and also was thinking of resurrecting it just for fun. The imac has been sitting idly for 2 months now. But recently got hold of a some old PC133 ram so I might go back and slowly work on it until I have it running with Mac OS X or some other linux variant.
You need to learn more about the Economist's use of understated British humor and irony, and not be so literal minded.
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Read a lot. Do neat stuff. Show it to people. Repeat.
But not in a single shipment. I don't know how much ships and airplanes leave Australia each day, but let's say it's 1000 (I guess the 2 or 3 main airports alone would do that, but let's say) and if each would take a kilo of gold with them, all produced gold can be send abroad. That's a very different situation from what Chavez apparently is trying to do.
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From a Keynesian perspective, one accepted by many non-Keynesians, QE is not yet in danger of driving inflation, because there is still deficient demand in the US economy.

Bigger dangers to the dollar come from two directions: (i) America's massive debt burden - the joint public and private sector debt burden is around 350% of GDP, and (ii) America's declining (relatively and perhaps absolutely) competitiveness. The goldbugs are staging a theatre that distracts from what matters.

A very brief summary of the case against the gold standard: http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/politics/whynotthegoldstand...
I agree in principle, but it has the downside of raising the transaction costs significantly. When you hire someone to do a job, you need to be able rely on their best judgment. If you're going to expect being held accountable for buying a pencil from your brothers stationary shop, this encourages rampant unproductive CMA.

(Not that this isn't already a problem in government organisations).
I hope you have sources and/or benchmarks to support your claims. Bashing a promising future technology without any backing is not constructive.
Google Music seems to work well (and works great on a TouchPad) but I still haven't gotten 1/50th of my music collection uploaded.
Hm, I checked the website but only managed to find a list of ads for public procurement. Slovenian app shows the flow of money from each particular public office to each private company. I might be wrong though.
The title of this post has the software misspelled. Ollydbg is the proper name.
You're right. It did come off trollish. Wasn't my intent. I'm sorry to both parties.

Both WebAPI and WebRTC will produce awesome collaboration apps. Wins all around.

But how, exactly, do the two fit together? Is WebRTC a low-level implementation of protocols, codecs, and transports whereas WebAPI provide the friendly developer-oriented APIs?

Will WebAPI provide hooks for standard widgets for dialer, SMS, contacts, etc?
"Gold is money, and has been considered money by all civilizations on earth for thousands of years."

Actually, no - the Inca's used textiles and animals for currency, and gold was used for ceremonial purposes (that last part iirc, it's been a few years since I was in Peru). The reason was that gold was plentiful for them, so its main reason for using it now and elsewhere didn't exist for them.

Apart from that, 'gold is money' doesn't even make sense. 'money' is something that has value, and 'value' is in the eye of the beholder. If you want to argue that gold has a longer historical track record as a holder of value than paper money or any other economic theory about gold, fine - but you sound like a crackpot gold bug, and if that is really the case, please take your intellectually dishonest nonsense elsewhere.
There should be a web platform where people can check how transparent, efficient and independent publicly funded organizations are. This would be helpful in many ways.
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You get 2% per year on the bond market, but you get 2% instantly when exchanging in the proposed fashion. If you could traffic enough gold, let's say because you are a pilot and fly in and out of Venezuela 5 times per week, you can make a bundle on a deal like this. (make a quick excel sheet - you can double your money in 6 weeks when you can make an exchange like this 5 times a week! Beat that with bonds!)
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>This is basically test driven development

I thought the same thing. Just a week ago I finished reading the "Pragmatic Unit Testing in Java" book and after skimming through the article I remembered the "design unit tests first" approach which forces you to think about the API (or exported methods).

I have not used it myself, but it seems quite sound.
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Dear zmmmmm,

But they are using an OS that is competing directly with Apple and are therefore bad. Even if they do everything we just said we wanted for the price we said we want.

Yours,
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There are lots of people using rspec with MRI-1.8.x. How would this be a reasonable resolution?
How to improve the performance of your new HP TouchPad
How many hours/day do you spend on social sites?
Just trying to get a barometer of this demographic. Let's see how social we are.
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This is how you end up with a load of junk in your house.
you can edit hosts without root with adb, if you don't want to root. If you want to live in a post-pc world you can simply grant root privileges to one single app for one single session...

I bet that if you don't trust any app on the market, you can simply write one for yourself, pay someone to write one or find one that is open source (and pay someone to audit it) and build it+sideload that app on your phone. Too complicated? Sure it is. Make your trade off
Sure, but you're discarding all the other costs associated with bringing in gold, plane, fuel, security. These will eat up all of your profit.

As the article stated, 500 million for insurance on 12 billion in gold is allready over the 2% your going to earn. And that's before you factor in any security, borrowing/carrying costs, transportation.

I have done the numbers and you end up in the red on each and every transaction you do:(
the hell does this have to do with hackernews?
Does this proposal entail writing Python code without mutation of non-local state? Isn't this harder in Python than in Haskell or Ocaml?
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Or bcrypt, which is actually implemented in PHP as part of the crypt function ;-)
Engine Yard has acquired Orchestra to add PHP support
"A compiler or something" huh? Let's see. Would you hire someone who couldn't reverse a linked list, if you wanted to develop...

Google Chrome?

Adobe Photoshop?

Crysis 2?

An IPad?

A self-driving car?

Not all programming is boring business stuff with SQL and class diagrams. And even "boring" apps may be more tricky than they look: Microsoft Excel had its own bytecode interpreter, which definitely qualifies as "a compiler or something" :-)
codedivine has a point and it's even admitted in this posting: "we expect the initial performance to be abysmally bad (maybe 10x slower); however, with successive improvements to the locking mechanism, to the global program transformation inserting the locks, to the garbage collector (GC), and to the Just-in-Time (JIT) compiler, we believe that it should be possible to get a roughly reasonable performance (up to maybe 2x slower)."

It will likely be difficult to beat expertly written code using explicit locks. But most people aren't experts in concurrency and will either get it wrong or have slow implementations. And if transactional memory catches on, we may even see some hardware assistance in future CPUs.

(S)TM is definitely worth exploring more and even a 2x slower implementation (as envisioned by the PyPy team) could cover most concurrency needs, which will make it a success in most people's eyes.
Wow, looks like the news brought down the site? http://orchestra.io/
I think the biggest issue is that you would need to get buy-in from the major manufacturers and it doesn't seem to be in their best interest. The further divergence of the platforms, in tandem with the conscious raising of switching costs, is one of their main strategies.
> effort, smarts, a great idea, luck, good design,

Also End-to-end, top-to-bottom knowledge of the technology and knowledge of the problems you're trying to solve with the technology (aka 'Domain Expertise').
Given that the account was just created, I tend to agree. Which is sad, as Crashplan is a genuinely good product (disclosure: I've been using it for 2+ years and am paid up for the next few years). It gives fine grained (up-to-the-minute) off-site backups w/versioning and easy restores (I've only done one-off restores, not full disaster recovery).

I've used it in production and personal environments.

But I hate the idea that they are farming out this kind of astroturfing. Gack.
Seems fine here.
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That's why i posted it here. I hope to create a bigger audience :)
Correct. So... use that 800/sms/second. Even assuming they were getting SMS at a bit over .1 cents per SMS (highly unlikely - probably much higher than that), that's about 80 cents per second - round it up to $1/second that would be $3600/hour.

Sheesh - is my math right on that, or did I move a decimal place?

I'm guessing they weren't burning through thousands per hour every hour on SMS fees, but even hundreds would put a serious dent in a startup's pocket.
The original article I read reported that the webOS userland was loaded in MobileSafari and it ran at more than twice the speed. Screenshots of it in action were also given. Granted, that is easy to fake.

I'm not familiar enough with webOS to know how much of the userland is written in HTML/JS/CSS, but it doesn't seem completely inconceivable. Even if it was just benchmarking of apps running standalone at more than twice the speed, that alone is pretty significant.
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The whole point of being a "startup" is to find a business strategy and not be a startup!
I agree with this post and think more startups should point out HOW they "could be a platform" rather than focussing on how they are one, which they most likely are not (which as the point of this post, i think, and the original citing article that got so much buzz yesterday)
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I wasn't trying to be political at all. And I don't want to get into a political debate here. So please, stop pushing this into bad territory.
Agreed, I wouldn't want to backup my entire laptop on s3. But since the first 5GB on Amazon's s3 are free, I find it's a great way to keep an extra backup of my current projects.
Google have a vested interest in non-browser apps? What? Why does ChromeOS exist then?
Venezuela is one of the last remaining socialist dictatorships in South America. If you look at the other countries who rid themselves of dictators and turned towards market democracy the growth rates have been staggering.

South America is full of resources and natural wealth, and should be a very wealthy economy. The only thing holding parts of the continent back is the class warfare and old marxist/socialist governments.

Look at how well Chile (a benchmark for modern western markets via Milton Friedman et al) and Argentina (for a time) recovered. That is what Venezuela should also look like. I have never heard anybody argue for the South American style of socialist dictatorships and against the reforms that have been demonstrated in the other, successful, nations of the region.

See 'The Miracle of Chile':

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_of_Chile
>if [a JVM thread] reads a field of an object, and another thread writes to the same field of the same object, then the program will see either the old value, or the new value, but not something else entirely

Nitpick: unless the field in questions is a "long" or "double". In those cases the operation becomes two bytecodes and you can in fact see something else entirely if you are unlucky. At least it used to be like that.
> But how, exactly, do the two fit together? Is WebRTC a low-level implementation of protocols, codecs, and transports whereas WebAPI provide the friendly developer-oriented APIs?

They're not related. WebRTC is a video chat/conferencing project.

> Will WebAPI provide hooks for standard widgets for dialer, SMS, contacts, etc?

Yes, that's its precise purpose.
Ask HN: Has HP TouchPad $99 Pricing shattered the iPhone lovers ego?
Congrats to Eamon, Helgi, David and Noah at Orchestra (and EngineYard on getting a smart crew and good company) - interesting times ahead!
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"Until an asteroid,"

By far the best byline I have ever read.
funny thing is, this
http://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs... works pretty well.
Nokia’s Developer site hacked
How so?

HP built a product that they can barely give away, and have announced they are canceling the entire platform.

Not being a fanboi, but how/why would this have any impact on iPhone zealots?
My favorite quote from Ice Age: there goes our last female :)

I do not agree however with the article. There are many reasons for why the female birth rates may be dropping, but all of them are solvable issues with the societies they live in.

And we are over-populated, so fearing that the last human will be born in 1500 years from now seems like toiled-math to me.
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Pretty disappointed on the comments here (this was written when people were saying moon landing was fake)... The training had to be exhaustive, there was no retrying. Each Apollo mission was an important step from the previous. They had to be prepared for just about anything and know how to do each step of the mission in their sleep. This kind of redundancy has always been there in manned spaceflight including the shuttle. One cool thing they have to assist in training these days is virtual reality training. Here is an image: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/multimedia/gallery...
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Coming from an International Relations background, I found the Mutually Assured Destruction analogy interesting. This piece tries to flush out whether the MAD analogy really works.

Figured some people might find it interesting and/or have feedback. Thanks.
Your comment is an instance where I wish I could see the number of upvotes, to gauge how many people corroborated this.

For lack of that, can someone comment as to how valid this is? It sounds valid, I would just appreciate another data point.
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If we really want to try to take that seriously, I would add several things to the model:

* trend for increasing life expectancy and average reproduction age (I am not saying age of menopause - there are probably pretty hard biological limits on that, but women increasingly choose yo have babies later in life).

* accounting for reproduction rate being dependent on overall population and/or probability density in a given region

* Migration from high reproduction regions to rich low reproduction regions
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Google "demographic winter."

The "population bomb" hysterics of the past few decades have drowned out the reality of long-term population decline, which will have disastrous consequences.

(Investigate before down-voting in a knee-jerk fashion.)
I feel that at least telling them they are in for a hard slog, is a good idea. I've wasted at least a couple of months, using vim as my standard editor, before giving up and going to something else.

Vim's "jump to compiler error" tends to get confused by C++, and gets very confused by clang (this is from experience). There are indeed a huge number of tools available, for code navigation, for C and C++ in vim. Each of them has it's own faults and none of them have anywhere near the functionality of eclipse (although last time I tried vim, clang_complete didn't exist, and might now outperform tools from last time I tried).
That should keep Slovenia off the Anonymous radar for a while :)
Everytime I see things like this, it amazes me. The things they were able to do with the little technology they had is incredible. To think that a lot of this happened 30-40 years ago really blows my mind.
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1. Research

2. Build prototype

3. Never finish it and never launch it
I hope you encrypt the hell out of that thing.
I've only had the device for a couple of days now but haven't noticed any adverse effects. What prompted me to try it in the first place was [this ZDNet article][1], in which the author adds, "...my Skype video call to Jason Perlow was an hour long with video, and battery was down to 91 percent when ended."

[1]: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/mobile-news/overclocking-the-hp-to...
I agree that the proposed replacement is terrible.

I'd suggest files are a great example for people who have a programming background because you can quickly show problems (e.g. streams considered as a subclass of files) that entail the kinds of tradeoffs and decisions the author rightly points out are shortcomings of the duck example (most of the shortcomings listed are in fact more a case of the author trying to show off and not problems with the example at all).

But, you know what, duck, bird, and penguin are actually just fine. As the author himself (I assume it's a him) points out, penguins can't fly. And let's say that over hear we're doing vehicle, car, plane, and helicopter. How can we avoid implementing flying twice? And is it a good idea to treat flying like a plane, a helicopter, and a bird (but not a penguin) as the same thing. Oh, and the way penguins swim is amazingly analogous to flying, how can we leverage that?

So, bye bye shitty drum machine example. I'm going back to duck and bird.
On 32-bit platforms.

On 64-bit, you won't. =)
Why not prop the door open instead?
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