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I wonder what survey group would they have put me in if I had told them that ctrl + f was page-down?
I don't know whether you are right or not about that.

However, I do think it's a good idea to be "extremely niche", especially when the size of your market - in this case, people who like watching movies - is very large.

I'm sure that a good movie trailer recommendation system would work well on other sites, but those sites may have already moved past the startup/development phase into business-as-usual, where they are trying to squeeze money out of what they currently have without searching for new value propositions.

I'm currently working (albeit in a tremendously half-assed way) on a very obvious movie-related idea because I know I can do it better than the big sites and because the market is enormous.
How does CodeMatch encourage "overlyDescriptiveNamesThatJustMakeTheCodeHarderToRead"? I don't think it does. Search results are not code snippets.

If you're suggesting that the tool isn't useful or to be encouraged (as you seem to suggest in earlier posts), I'm interested in better understanding your rationale.

As far as I can tell, you have only critiqued possible ways that CodeMatch could be used, not CodeMatch itself.
Testflight seems to be grabbing UDID's to identify users. You still need to get UDIDs in your provisioning profiles though. It'll make beta testing harder since users will have to use itunes to get their UUID. I'd love it if Apple would let users see their UUID and email it.
I really would appreciate if they'd SHOW what those modifications look like.

Alternatively, link to the study(ies) and let me see for myself.
If this isn't on the YC FAQ, it should be.

A lot of great companies start small. One of my favorite PG-isms is this:

If you can make a simple product for a niche audience and make them amazingly happy, it's clear what you need to do next. Find more people like that. Move into adjacent markets (e.g. Craigslist started as an SF classifieds mailing list, Amazon started with books).

If you make a product that makes a huge audience ambivalent, you often have no freakin' clue what to do next. Add features? Take them away? Change your positioning?

So imagine if these guys OWNED movie trailers on mobile. Do you think they'd be stuck there? Could they, perhaps, move on to dominate broader short-form video to satiate micro-boredom? Could they then move onto longer form stuff?
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Those data protection appointees (and the people who are working for them) are the enforcement arm of the data protection laws.

The laws are not (only) enforced by the police but by specialized offices – just like tax law (with the tax office and tax investigators) or food law (with food inspectors).

This is like the police (which is organized in a similar way) in Bavaria deciding to enforce a federal law in a certain way. Whatever the police in Bavaria decides to do doesn’t have to have any consequences for the police in other states. (Suffice it to say, the police in other states isn’t going to be very happy when they hear about the Bavarian police interpreting a law in an odd way.)

It’s the courts that have to decide in the end what is correct and incorrect enforcement.
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I agree. The base of experience is super important, otherwise you're going to Struggling. I learnt the most from a project that was 25KLoC, than I did from a bunch of small projects.
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I think it's interesting that they reject it on privacy grounds, because that's not even how it seems to be used anymore.

I couldn't count on my fingers how many posters and ads I've seen from businesses asking people to "Like" them on Facebook in exchange for this freebie or that one. In other words, soon this data won't really reflect anyone's true interests, it will just be a way for certain people to cash in on stuff (the modern equivalent of clipping every imaginable coupon, I suppose).
+1 for wikiwiki (interesting discussions of issues I was concerned about that I could not find addressed anywhere else); and stackoverflow (for issues that documentation isn't clear on).

I would suggest that the hardest part of programming is not coding, not learning APIs/tools, not managing projects or other people - and not even getting clear on specifications. It's understanding problems and creating solutions; this often requires designing new algorithms, but it also involves restating problems into forms that are easier to solve. Arguably, there is no actual coding in this.

But the way to be absurdly successful and useful is to find a need and meet it. The quality of programming (in itself) is of almost zero relevance to this.
As. I said, I'm not convinced this will work. I think you raise a good question. Their argument would be that, like Amazon or any number of other companies that spend a ton of time at the beginning being unprofitable in competitive spheres, wthey are building up lots of forms of entrenchment that together constitute a barrier to entry.

Things like brand awareness, relationships with large national merchants, mailing list, I'm sure they are working on systems to tailor deals to user's buying profile, "groupon now", travel deals, etc. Amazon's barrier is that they have so much available for purchase no one can compete with their breadth. If Groupon's list is the biggest, maybe they can leverage it to exclusive partnerships to the detriment of competitors.

Again, I'm not sure this will work, but you're not calling them a scam. You just think they're overvalued, or that their competitive strategy is flawed. I would never argue that they are certain to succeed, I just think a lot of this Madoff nonsense is overblown.
That is true for some cases, but also not for a lot of others. The German language is a great language as is English; there are a lot of sentences and words which pop in my head in German and I cannot translate them adequately in Dutch (my mother tongue) or English and I have the same with Dutch and English. I think you need to read more literature and analyze the beauty of your language; you are missing out if you only go for 'mixing up words' in a practical manner.
Hard to say: it hasn't had much of an opportunity to become popular, because it hasn't been a real option so far ;)

That said, my sense is similar to what yours sounds like -- the audience will remain small, just because it'll never be as fast, even after a tool like yours cuts down the entry time.

I'll ask around and try to generate some use cases or niches where mobile could take off, and get ahold of you if I do. I remember Paul G. talking about it a year or two ago, maybe if you can get ahold of him he could share his thoughts. Meanwhile -- nice work.
You mean Cmd-shift-F? I haven't experienced Cmd-F as full screen in any mac apps I've run across.
And your point? Sounds like they got poor instruction.
> As the Dalai Lama said, "Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively."

FWIW, this appears to be a misattribution.

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/dalai.asp
In the back of my mind, I seem to recall that path-finding A * algorithms like these actually aren't quite A * .

IIRC, this is a constrained version of A * under the assumption that the heuristic h() is not only admissible but also monotonic, whereas A * only requires admissibility. The additional monotonicity constraint guarantees that the g() values of previously visited nodes never change, right? Otherwise if you find a better g() path you may have to do a lot of costly book-keeping. I presume the book-keeping is not part of the algorithm on display here.
Ask HN: How long do carriers store the content of SMS messages?
This issue came up in a conversation I was having with someone who is currently in the midst of an ugly divorce. I seem to recall reading some Verizon or AT&T law enforcement documents on Cryptome indicating there was a period of 90 days or so that they are stored in case LE agencies need to request them. Am I remembering that correctly? Would this work the same in a civil proceeding?
PubMed is your friend:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21850491
The "99 cent only" stores are still true to their word (nothing is over a dollar), but they recently had to raise their prices to 99.99 cents, heh.
Say what you will about MS's blunders, but I've always found their developer support and outreach to be top notch.

Although they've yet to offer me a free phone.
I wish that my customers would read this. I just don't know how to suggest it to them with out sounding like I hate them. The big problem is that most of the pain outlined I will go through. The customers I have work for the guy that will feel the pain Peter felt.
I'm not German, I learned that great language for the fun of it. I wanted to be able to read "Über formal unentscheidbare Sätze der Principia Mathematica und verwandter Systeme, I." after I read Gödel, Escher, Bach when I was in college. And read Böll untranslated. Much better than the English versions imho.
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Nice list, I particularly liked this one:

"Flip a coin. Heads pick Vim, tails pick Emacs."

That pretty much sums it up. Spending any time deciding between any of the two is just wasting your time, if you are serious about programming you will _eventually_ master both.
Eric and I left Convore a few months ago to start working on Can'tWait!, and Leah is staying with Convore Inc to continue building out that company.
His Meg Whitman theory is nonsense. Not only does she have not a lick of hardware or software experience (her expertise is in consumer internet, which is different than both those businesses), if the board is really looking for somebody to "knock back brewskies with the engineers," Whitman is probably the last person in the world they'll pick. When she was at eBay she was fanatical about insulating herself from the engineering organization.
Thanks for all the feedback, everyone! We're happy to answer any questions you have in this thread--ask away. We're very excited to show what we've been working on, and we can't wait (sorry) to show you all where we're headed in the future.
What for? So these guys can get burned twice instead of once?

Sorry for the snark - I like WP7, I think it's a refreshing take on smartphone UI, but adoption is really at a standstill. It's been how long since it launched and I've only ever seen one in the wild that didn't belong to someone affiliated with MSFT.

God knows I'd love to have a viable third player in the mobile platform wars, but as it is it just isn't happening.
One of the things vertical rhythm's used for is making two parallel columns of text align with each other at regular intervals. From my limited knowledge of music, every measure of a song, the song's elements align. In a design, every measure (baseline), the design's elements align. By align, I don't mean with some arbitrary measure, but with the other elements.

Here's a quick example I made: http://i.imgur.com/NEc92.png

You do make a good point: When you get into single-column layouts, like a solo in a song, having mathematical vertical rhythm is irrelevant.
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If you are curious about protocols, their tags operate utilizing ISO 14443A and/or ISO 18092 (NFCIP-1).

edit: Corrected standards versions / this link might help,
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"Players don't finish games because they get bored...It was boring...Quests were simple and boring...It might have gotten better, but I'll never know because I got bored..."

You're kind of sending mixed messages here. You say it's not boredom, then you say you quit because you got bored... But I think I understand what you are trying to say. That people stop playing these games because they no longer expect good games, they expect inspired games. If the games just keep repeating the same thing over and over again it's going to start feeling like work.

I think a good example of the problem of repetition is the game reviews for Alice: Madness Returns, where they said the first 5 hours of the game were flawed, yet fun, and then kept going. And going. By the time they reached the end they were just sick of it. If a designer can't make a game that can hold your interest through the entire gameplay they are doing something wrong.
I don't think the companies today are any less impactful than the companies of yesteryear.

What's different is that now, because of consumer Internet, "cool people" are getting into computer programming. The old guard of Silicon Valley was very awkward and nerdy -- Bill Gates is the archetype. Today's software entrepreneurs are more like Jack Dorsey -- they dress well, have no trouble getting dates, and people on the street know their companies.

The nerds look at these people and say "This is OUR thing. Get out of here." And resent these new unwanted arrivals.
> It's only a matter of time before we find out some super popular free app has been sucking down contact lists

I believe that moment already came and went when people discovered the sync feature on the iPhone Facebook App sent all of your friends' phone numbers to Facebook. (https://www.facebook.com/friends/edit/?sk=phonebook)

For the record, finding this didn't particularly bother me and I did approve it -- however unwittingly. (I thought I was just pulling info from facebook, not sending info back.)
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That sounds brilliant for single-column layouts. Too bad it wouldn't hold up to a multi-column approach.
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I wonder if this will work all around, or if it has any later negative side effects. It's very interesting.
FYI: this is not CNET.com, the computer news site, but Central Contra Costa Narcotics Enforcement Team.
"Maybe PG just expects these startups to build a quick product and sell off to a Google, Facebook, Zynga etc."

YC makes very little on quick-flip startups.

Count the number of YC partners and the number of LPs they have, do some napkin math on their expenses (weekly dinners for 150+, funding 120 startups per year, presumably moderate salaries for partners and staff, legal bills, flying hundreds of people to SV for interviews every 6 months, etc), and tell me how needle-moving it is for them to turn a $20k investment into $240k (before taxes)... Which is exactly what they'd get for a $4M exit.

AFAIK, YC always advises founders who have an early flip opportunity to stick it out (though it's supportive if the founders don't want to do so).
Given the willingness of the carriers to roll over for any quasi-legal government demands, I'd be surprised if the answer is not "forever". But I'd also be surprised if you were able to get access to them in a purely civil proceeding.
Hey, don't diss nano like that. Try alt+c, or ctrl+g. Looks like you didn't try looking for a solution either (=

First thing you should teach in a class like that is to teach them to fish for tricks in the manpages/docs rather handing them individual tricks throughout.
> persistent disks
How do you then deal with people who create an instance and then don't run it. Unless i'm mistaken, you'd be forced to either unbalance for storage or VM usage.

> cgroups currently
How do you protect the kernel from something like CVE-2011-2212?

Quite cool otherwise :)
Required classes to finish a bachelor's in CS or IT, I'm guessing. I've taught programming to a couple hundred college students (or more) and I agree that the aptitude seems to either be there, or not.
Smaller: NAV (Nano Air Vehicle) by Aerovironment - engineering folks behind the General Motors EV1

bottom-right corner of their homepage: http://www.avinc.com/
You're totally welcome to try to teach my mother how to use vim.
We tech-savvy people think ctrl-f is so basic we can barely conceive how could anyone not know it. How could they not?

Somewhere there is a discussion group where people can't believe people don't know you can wear something other than geeky looking clothes. They can't believe someone would wear baggy jeans, a baggy t-shirt they got free at a conference, and white sneakers.

To say other people don't care is accurate, but doesn't do justice to the diversity of interests out there.

They have other priorities.

Yes, some are lazy or daft, but while you figured out how to use ctrl-f other people were learning to ski, climbing a mountain, jumping out of a plane, learning to dress fashionably, picking up girls, picking up guys, teaching their kids piano, etc. Even the lazy ones probably enjoyed being lazy and don't care about streamlining their searches. And the daft ones, well, if they have a learning disability or something like that, that's their story.

Viewing people having other interests as something to learn from and celebrate makes the world a different place. The humility that comes with it leads to much more learning about the world.
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UDID has been deprecated because iOS 5 supports a general purpose credential store. Instead of reading a UDID, an App drops an identifier. Very similar to how a web app would drop a cookie.

The token can be shared across Apps using oAuth. This is how Twitter integration works.

So, for Apps that use Flurry, Flurry would drop an identifier into the credential store. Then Apps would access this identifier using an oAuth token and token secret.

If you have access to the iOS 5 docs take a look at ACAccount, ACAccountStore, ACAccountCredential.
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The rant really displayed a lack of understanding of what Anonymous is. Anonymous is not Topiary and Samu, and they are not its leaders. They're just by far the most active members as far as hacking is concerned, and they own the twitter accounts that, thanks to said hacking, are the most followed. Had this guy, whose name I don't recognize, simply said, "the actions of Topiary and Sabu are casting us in a bad light and I don't want to be associated with them", that'd be fine. Instead, he seems to think that the "leaders" of Anonymous are selling out the masses and taking Anonymous in a bad direction. Topiary and Sabu are only involved in AnonOPs, the @AnonymousIRC and @AnonymousSabu twitter accounts, and Lulz/AntiSec. There's a ton of other Anonymous forums and operations that have nothing to do with those activities.

His rant displayed an outsider's understanding of how Anon works. Even back in the trolling days, there were Anonymous factions on all of the various /i/ boards operating mostly independently, as well as the WhyWeProtest crowd continuing with their chanology stuff. 420chan launched the raid on the Epilepsy Foundation [1] while the Scientology stuff was going on. There was much wringing of hands and kvetching about how "this makes us look bad", etc, but the fact is they are two distinct groups. Similarly, there isn't a whole lot of overlap between the AntiSec guys and those who DDoSed PayPal, Visa, and MasterCard, or prepared aid packages for Tunisians. The claims that this guy made don't reflect an understanding of that reality.

[1] http://encyclopediadramatica.ch/Epilepsy_Foundation
Ive used idol very extensively for approx 5 years. Its like combining oracle db with google search and then adding language analytics. Basically its a very advanced db (these were the first guys to really get nosql into the enterprise). You dont query the db, you search it. Keyview is also a nice addition to the IDOL stack.
This is one of those things I'm constantly explaining to friends, clients, and others. It seems so trivial to me, the ctrl+f brings up the search dialog, but at least if someone doesn't know the shortcut surely they would know of the search dialog itself? I've found over the years this is definitely not the case, anything that's not blatantly obviously with buttons on the browser is never known by the majority of the people that I interact with.

In terms of this particular feature, I love CTRL+F and I use it on a daily basis.
And James Burke's amazing series "Connections" and "The Day The Universe Changed."

One of the best shows I've ever seen.

It's on Youtube. Here's the first link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcSxL8GUn-g
4 octets of UTF-8 suffice to cover all Unicode characters. Unicode is essentially 21-bit (U+0 to U+10FFFF), not 32-bit. The BMP is 16 bits, U+0 to U+FFFF. 3 octets suffice for it.

It's useful to know that MySQL support outside the BMP doesn't work, but I would guess it's a generic problem affecting all Unicode support, not restricted to UTF-8.

(Yes, UTF-8 was defined to go up to 6 octets and cover 31 bits. As used with Unicode, only up to 4 are supposed to be used...)
HP didn't have a chance - they don't have the software DNA that Google, Apple and Microsoft have.

Microsoft is the underdog here but they have a much better chance of making something happen.
i.e. teach them how to teach themselves: scan menus, google, ask. http://xkcd.com/627/
Kind of strange that they only used the street name exclusively when referring to the drug.

It's MDMA, BBC.
Perhaps a slight exaggeration, but not much of one. 200-300 lines per developer per month is the norm in large companies. Most of the time is spent reading crappy code, debugging crappy code, and dealing with crappy workarounds for crappy code. It sucks.

Even very good programmers fall below 500/month if they get mired in legacy bullshit.
Alright, I guess I'm not fully aware of all of Nano's features. And yes, my entire point is that it's much better to teach them to fish for tricks in various places rather than teaching them individual tricks. Also I was only a T.A. in this class (and actually only did grading) so I never got a chance to teach.
Something definitely has to be said about having the right environment. If you're around people who are also doing hacking, this will help you immensely, even if they're not working on the same projects as you.
Yes, that they got poor instruction is my point. Furthermore more my point elaborates on why it was poor. Because they were taught many individual tricks and never how and when to search for new tricks.
This is an exciting plugin but in terms of execution, I'd have preferred it based on 3 separate instances rather than MU.

With MU it is difficult to keep different versions of plugins, something which you might want to do during development, staging and production. But ultimately you might want to have the development version on a local machine and the staging on a different server.

(I'm also not a fan of MU unless you are truly building a 'network' of blogs, but that's just a personal preference)

Seeing as author mmaunder is reading these comments, I'm curious to hear whether he'd be interested in having this plugin developed to support multiple discrete instances, perhaps with community development? I might fork and do a pull request if he is.