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I deign to mention it, but if you were to add in a "bug" that would safely 'crash' at sparse but random-ish intervals, you could charge for maintenance.

Maintenance would consist of lowering the multiplier of "crash" occurance. So your Program is always improving. I see little difference between this and the way hardware makers cripple lower end hardware

You can sell maintenance then. Slimy, i know. But business is business.
Just curious - did the fact that it was hard to get people to renew maintenance contracts have any effect on your code quality at all?
This is why I've never believed in the "charge for support" model for funding open source software -- it creates a financial incentive to have hard-to-use bug-ridden code.

With Tarsnap, my incentives are perfectly aligned: Writing good code results in happy Tarsnap users, which results in more Tarsnap users.
* I personally think your domain is somewhat subpar. If you owned cilantro.com, it would be incredibly brandable. CilantroSites.com is a bit awkward and long.

* I was actually pleasantly surprised by your design. Sold me, and I am usually pretty critical of many start-up designs.

* I tried to click on the picture above "take a tour". It didn't do anything. I assumed it would start a lightbox gallery or something.

* "Take a tour" didn't look like a button, and that entire line should be centered under the photo.

* I was scanning the page for the word "Demo" to see some sort of demo, but there wasn't one.

* Nice job emphasizing that the sites "Work on iPhones and smart phones." That is a big deal, and many restaurant sites are not compliant, or load very awkwardly on mobile.

* The resultant url is pretty ugly. Why doesn't it have the name of the restaurant in the url? http://cilantro-92.clnt.me/

Overall, pretty impressive! 8/10.

I think the urls need to look nicer if you want this go more widescale. clnt.me? Not sure about that.

Out of curiosity, how are you planning on monetizing?
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"I'll buy a car from one of those no-haggle car dealerships. Yes, they're probably padding it out, but it's worth it not to have to chit-chat."

This, or take a page from an economy handbook and set up the game so that it works to your advantage (hint: if you're physically at a dealer before the negotiation starts, then you've already lost.) Decide the exact model you need an email a dozen dealers for a quote.
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Great job - feels really good.

One thing... *.clnt.me doesn't really say anything to me.

Part of the reason that many jumped to adopt about.me was the domain name, it made sense.

I note your company "2 Tablespoons" - that sounds better to me than "clnt.me" which, at first glance looks a bit weird.

I'm sure with a bit of thought and a site like domai.nr you can come up with a better domain hack for your user pages.

Best of luck with it!
agreed. When I am looking for something, I want to make up a quick list of providers with a rough idea of what they offer and for how much. After I've got my list, I'll happily call them for more details and pricing options, but unless I can have a rough idea beforehand, I'm never going to call them.
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Definitely #2.

Here's what you're advantage is: access to good, cheap developers.

Everybody and their mother is trying to find good, cheap developers.

You are the bridge.

Don't go the traditional consulting route though.

Here's your strategy: provide a one-stop shop for a biz dev founder 'looking for a co-founder'. You can't fart without finding 10 of them.

Only pick ideas that can be quickly monetized (no social, mobile BS...stick with B2B SaaS applications).

If you can float the cost of development (i.e. no out of pocket expenses for the biz dev founder), you take a nice chunk of equity.

You get IP rights (unlike a traditional consulting gig) and you hold the keys to the kingdom (i.e. you keep all source code on your servers under lock and key; biz dev person doesn't get access to source code unless he/she writes you a big check).

Think of it like a technical incubator, where all you're looking for are ideas.

This is a really powerful business model I think you could really knock out of the park!!

Let me know if you need any help on execution! And keeps us posted on your progress.
It's a good question. E.g. Flash has support for accessibility, but this gets trumped by developers ignoring it.
Google App Engine has a fairly restrictive Java implementation. It means that most libraries that you are familiar with would likely not work there. So you can't really just take a war file that works somewhere else and stick it on App Engine. They do provide a few nice built-in service like image manipulation.

The problem with services like Cloudbees and Amazon's Elastic Beanstalk is that you end up updating an entire war file that you build locally. This can take a long time.

Cloudfoundry only serves up deltas, but you still end up having to build the entire war file on your local machine ( at least for Grails ).

Heroku's approach seems much nicer, you get some initial setup pain, but then you can just use a standard git workflow.
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Elastic Beanstalk is also available in US_East region. If your company is not based there, you end up getting fairly unmanageable lag.

CloudFoundry Beta has some really bad limitation right now, ie. no pricing, cannot assign point an external domain name, etc.
really like the web page design (especially the 'secure' tab). was it made at MLstate?
I think this approach makes sense only if the acquired engineers stay at Google (and are significantly more productive than the average talent Google can acquire through less expensive channels).

I suspect that many of the folks working for startups prefer being at small companies: if they wanted to work for Google they already would be.
Yeah absolutely. I'm hoping that getting stories in the local paper, combined with flyers and that sort of thing will get it working in a small area, and then it will spread. Is all about the critical mass of users though.
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I don't know why it would be considered more difficult to use canvas/dom for rendering + JS. I've been working on a simple JS (well, CoffeeScript really) game, and it hasn't been very difficult at all. But then again, I do lot of JS and never touched flash.
Ask HN: What is the future for postal services?
Hi, I run a service that allows our customers to send snail mail from their desktop directly into the country of destination.

I’m writing an article about the future of postal services, but as I’m working in the industry I have developed tunnel vision. That’s why I would like to ask your opinion what you think the future for snail mail (thus excluding parcels)/ postal services world wide will be.

Keep in mind that currently roughly 70% of the world population, that includes siblings and senior citizens, don’t have an internet connection.

Will we e.g. in the year 2500 al have an implant in our brain where we “receive” emails as thoughts? And pay the bills by simply agreeing to pay with a thought?

Will the digital divide be so large that there are two subspecies of humans? The online and offline tribes?

Will all postal/communication privacy be gone?

Will everything postal be automated in such a way that there is basically no need for postal communication between parties with human approval?

Please share your thought no matter how wacky, strange or disturbing they might seem.

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I disagree; I think the free plan is too cheap. The free plan seems to offer almost everything most restaurants would need. Why would they move to the premium plan? It offers more locations and menus which is probably only relevant if you're a chain.

It's a good service, so why would you not charge money for it? My guess is most restaurant owners would be happy to pay for a good website without the hassle.
Because I learned Java and SQL from college classes, and BASIC (several versions), Visual Basic, C, C++, C#, PHP, Cold Fusion, Ruby, Javascript and more without classes. I learn things far faster if I'm the one deciding what I need to know, than if I'm forced to go through the language at someone else's pace and style. (And after college, I learned more about Java and SQL on my own than I learned in the classes.)

And it's not that I would get lazy in the classes, either. I would get bored waiting for the teacher and start messing around with things while I waited, and then continue with the lesson when everyone caught up. (Not their fault, I had other languages under my belt already.) I tried to do just as much experimentation in class as I would at home.

And that was all before the internet was available to me. Now that I have the internet, I can research questions and issues so fast that I won't even bother asking an expert sitting beside me. It's faster and I learn more from the web.

I'm not saying this is the method for everyone, but it's so much faster and easier for me this way that I find it hard to believe I'm a minority.
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No, I take bugs personally. If you actually take bugs personally they hurt and you don't want to have to deal with them. Thus you make them go away.
The Opa web site says that I cannot: "Firstly, `‘if I'm using AGPL Opa to develop an app does it need to be AGPL, too?’'. Long story short — yes, it does." It would probably be better for me to consult the license, but I don't plan on reading the license just to make sure that I really can't use a language whose developers don't want me to be able to use it
Apparently nothing... Though they did have my city listed... But it just said 'coming soon' when I clicked on it. Bleh.
It makes me uncomfortable that you are conflating criminal activities and publishing security research.
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Cool experiment!

I found it amusing (and unsurprising) that the distribution of reported bugs matches what you would find in code reviews within most companies: a small handful of genuine issues buried in a giant pile of superficial nitpicks.

Before anyone interjects, no, I'm not saying misspellings and stylistic inconsistencies don't matter. They matter to me a great deal--I am crazily OCD about that shit. Seeing 'shear' misspelled as 'sheer' throughout most of Unreal Engine 2 and 3 without being able to fix it (there were too many expected breaking changes to licensee code for such a cosmetic change to make sense) annoyed me like you wouldn't believe. But when I force myself to take a deep breath and consider the matter more rationally, it's clear that such issues are far down the list in importance. While I'm reviewing someone else's code and my OCD-ish code aesthetics sense is stroked, I always try to remind myself of that.
Law student here. Still recommend checking your contract extremely carefully. You'd be surprised how restrictive employment contracts can be.
ANTLR is great, but I also highly recommend xtext: http://www.eclipse.org/Xtext/. It generates a full lexer/parser, AST representation, does automatic cross-referencing, and even generates an Eclipse plugin for your language with syntax highlighting and code completion.
Your game wont work on my Windows and IE... flash does though.
Why don't you integrate an order system and for those not checking for orders add SMS notifications from Twilio
> I don't see Jig as a Q&A site because needs, unlike questions, tend to be personal in nature and change (or even die out) over time.

Good point. Maybe they should add an optional "end date" for the need?
How many bugs do you have in your code?
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People often fail to draw the distinction between the developent tool and the platform when talking about Flash. With the tool anyone can knock together interactive animations with nice transitions and cut-n-paste bits of ActionScript from the web to tie it all together. I've seen non-programmers produce decent work this way. There's a lot of trial and error involved, obviously, if you don't really know how to program.

I usually program in Java but I'm using Flash (the tool) to throw together the GUI for a game I'm making. I find it's way more productive to develop the GUI visually rather than positioning and tweening things with code.
Us Filipinos are not very entrepreneurial. Talk to any random middle-class student here and you'll be told that the first thing that motivates them to study is so they can get a good job in a multi-national company. Most local tech startups that I'm aware of were founded (and funded) by people with a rich family background. Add the state of the government to the mix and you'll get an environment that is totally not conducive to small tech businesses.

As a Filipino I'd like to see more of my country men venturing into realistically sustainable tech business setups rather than trying to emulate Silicon Valley. The environment there is vastly different from ours. We need to play to our strengths (English proficiency plus currency exchange plus OK 3rd-world level I.T. education) and work from there. I'm pretty sure there'll be innovations so we can use our strengths in a startup context.
Probably nothing. What you're doing is interesting. Those icons are close together; it might have been an attempted upvote.
Yes, this is roughly the distribution I expected. Maybe a few more spelling mistakes than I expected, but not as many style bugs, so the "harmful bug" / "harmless bug" / "cosmetic bug" distribution matched reasonably closely.

But I wouldn't call the harmless bugs "superficial nitpicks". Most of them could become problems later -- if other code changes result in the functions they are in being called with different parameters; or if an error is no longer treated as fatal but instead Tarsnap continues and retries the failed operation; or with more aggressive compiler optimizations.

Better to fix the bugs before they cause problems than to wait for them to cause problems.
Only when you click to focus on it.
C++ looks like it ought to be OK to parse, but turns out to be completely evil. (flamebait mode on) Bit like the rest of the language really. (flamebait apologia: I spend most of my time coding C++; sometimes I even enjoy it...)
For me it is definitely not touching because I am emotionally involved with Apple products. I tend to rant against them all the time, and I just bought a Galaxy Tab. I most like Jobs for his inspiring Stanford Speech. Yet hearing the news made me feel awful.

There are all sorts of aspects of the story, though. For one thing, it is a genius who is clearly extremely passionate about his work, and who has a lot of money, but he still has to yield to the disease. That is tragic.

Also, while I don't like Apple, I still like Jobs philosophy, and the pressure they put on other companies to improve their products.

I only wish Apple wouldn't be so silly with patents, they really taint my admiration for Jobs.

Think about it - patents are land claims in the sphere of ideas. We cheer about the innovations, but essentially it is like native Americans cheering on the colonists when they took away their land. I am surprised that for all his desire for aesthetics, Jobs was not bothered by the ugliness of patents. Just mentioning it, because I could admire him more without that elephant in the room.
Oh, I meant the cosmetic bugs specifically. And to be clear, I'm not saying they shouldn't have been reported. Issues like that _should_ be fixed. I just found it all vaguely amusing for some reason because unless I keep myself in check I'm so much that grammar and spelling and formatting guy when it comes to code reviews.
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Now I think about it, the other thing that does this is PDF files. Which are also a gift from Adobe. I loathe Adobe.
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Ah, ok. My original motivation for offering bounties for those was as a proof-of-work for code reading -- I figured there would be enough of those that anyone who spent a while looking at the code would pick up a few, even if they couldn't find any "real" bugs.

The fact that it satisfied my OCD is just a side benefit. ;-)
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For literally decades I have advocated this attitude. Time and time again my efforts are beaten back with "Bug-Free doesn't sell" and "Bug-Free doesn't pay" and, most insidious, "Bug-Free is impossible."

This last is then followed by

* You have to verify the compiler,

* You have to verify the hardware,

* You have to verify that there wasn't an error in loading the code,

* You have to use radiation-hardened hardware

* ...

and so on.

They miss the point!

Bugs in your code are way more likely than any of the other problems, and they matter.

I've generally given up, but at least it's nice to see the attitude here not being instantly shouted down.
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Only on iOS AFAIK, coming in later Android (3.0?)
Aha. Ok. In that case, my advice would be

"pick an industry leader (ie facebook, google, apple etc), research as to what publicly available technologies they use, learn those as the rest of the tech world will follow".
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I would:

* Show the item location and item owner on the item page.

* Let me filter by location

and if I owned Freeycle, I would:

* Get it off Yahoo! groups and provide a decent web interface
I once sent a really awesome link of hot news to two friends - they never replied or said anything but one posted it on his facebook immediately as if he had found it and got all the likes and comments and the other posted it on slashdot only to actually make it to the frontpage and surely I didn't get any mention.

Yep, I felt really great that day.
A bit of Googling found this blog post[1] which lists a number of Crenshaw-based variants.

Two other quick finds: a more readable pdf version of the Crenshaw tutorial itself[2], and "an x86 compiler written in Ruby"[3] made by following along in the Crenshaw tutorial.

[1] http://blog.spacesocket.com/2011/06/24/lets-build-a-compiler...

[2] http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/compiler.pdf

[3] https://github.com/samsonjs/compiler
I clicked on the link, and it displayed the "Aw, snap! Something went wrong while displaying this Web page." page. I suppose that $1265 of bugs could look like that.
The issue of doing tiny passes is not so much efficiency or the lack thereof; it's that combining passes can allow for better decisions to be made. This can result in better code quality than could be achieved independently. The classic example is the combination of register allocation and scheduling - scheduling can benefit from knowing what the actual operations are (e.g. will this thing be a load or will it be in a register) while register allocation can benefit from not having scheduling make overly aggressive movements of code that generate more live ranges than can be successfully allocated to registers.

Lots of papers on this sort of topic - the one I remember was (probably outdated): http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=106986

Integrating register allocation and instruction scheduling for RISCs (1991) by D G Bradlee, S J Eggers, R R Henry

That being said, many quite successful compilers manage to get by with simpler passes, sometimes using heuristics or multiple passes or just plain trickery. It's nice to be able to keep things simple. Especially nice for pedagogy, as above.

Compilers are lousy with 'phase ordering problems' where there's no clear-cut superior order in which to make certain decisions...
This doesn't seem to be very effective on my test system (apache2-mpm-prefork 2.2.14-5ubuntu8.4) regarding memory usage triggering the oom-killer.

Memory seems to be (almost?) stable, but apache cpu usage is through the roof, with the client barely consuming any cpu. The moment you kill the client, the apache server is back ok.

I'll let it run for another hour or so, to see that this actually gets somewhere or not.

Are the actual memory increments really small and/or slow ?
Or isn't this supposed to work with the apache2-mpm-prefork model, but only with the worker-model ?
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Yes, OK, everyone hates Flash. However, as others have said, Flash won't - and can't - disappear until Canvas development has the same almost-zero barrier to entry as Flash, and until every potential end user has a modern browser.

Another significant limiting factor is the simple fact that there are still things that you simply cannot accomplish outside of Flash. Specifically, I'm talking about camera and microphone data access, which can't be done via HTML5 without calling a Flash or Java applet.
There is a bias with many management and business people, they think coding is low level cruft done by expendable people and once you become a manager or start doing business you start doing the real work and don't have to deal with this lesser things.

Sadly I've seen this a lot. Even more sad is that I know programmers that have become managers, no longer write code, and loathe the days they were simply coders. It pains me.
I think the post would be better if only account on encounter with Steve was there, no speculations.
Hardly there is any bias involved, it seems to me that Tim is in the totally different universe than Apple and I doubt he will ever "get it". Not that he has to.
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I'm with you on "Bugs in your code are way more likely than any of the other problems, and they matter." This is very true. A while back Eric Raymond had a post called "When you see a heisenbug in C, suspect your compiler’s optimizer" (http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1705) which I felt was very wrong and responded with "A bad workman blames his tools" (http://blog.jgc.org/2010/02/bad-workman-blames-his-tools.htm...).

As might have been predicted the bug that Raymond was talking about wasn't caused by the optimizer at all (http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1705#comment-248328).

It's depressing to think that when your code works, it's almost always your fault.
Why? It seems funny? :)