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While you're at it, let's talk community. The difference between the OSS and Windows developer community is striking. On one side, you have passionate Rubyists going on and on about how Ruby, Gems, etc are all so great. The same for Python and Node.js. These guys also code in their spare time and are active on GitHub. On the other side, you have the stereotypical .NET programmer who only codes from 9-5 making boring "enterprise" LOB software and only uses technology from MS. You know them, the programmers who only started using jQuery because it now comes bundled with ASP.NET. Programmers who probably can't even create a .NET project from scratch and build on the command line, but rely on the voodoo magic of File->New->Project and Build->Build Solution (F6) in Visual Studio. Does MS really want to woo these developers?

It is not impossible to be creative using the .Net stack:
http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/blog

From this post I gauge that you're approaching .Net from a overly webbish perspective. .Net is more than that. From a computer science perspective, it is so beautiful, Linq is so sweet - I feel like hitting Java with a stick now.

Also, here is what you can do with the .Net stack:

-> Netduino (using the .Net micro framework)
-> Apps on win
-> A full-feature ML dialect with a very solid vm.
-> Script# is a c# to js compiler so you can create js in vs.
-> WP7
-> Robotics studio

Also, express editions of VS are free. You don't need to shell out $550 if you want to get started coding - this is a myth that IMO needs a solid myth-busting.

Also, the lineup of badass devices that you can code for using this stack is bigger than anything out on the market - Kinect for instance - nobody even in the near future can potentially produce a competing device and if you want to base a startup around ruling the living room, I think the kinect should factor in - everyone I see using it is blown away when they are able to say "xbox pause" and get their netflix to pause.

Edit : formatting
I'm curions about this too. Haskell is my hobby language right now, I'm still an uber-noob, but my impression is Haskell code is easily 10-15x more robust, but not necessarily more productive than cool-kid languages (Ruby, Python, Javascript).
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Your analysis leaves out a very important factor: rents. If you don't buy a home, you have to rent.

If your mortgage payment is below the going rents (not too difficult to achieve if you factor in the tax write-off), then one way you can look at that is you give an $X down payment now for a free house in 30 years. If you look at it that way, slow growth doesn't look quite so bad -- the house only needs to be worth about $8X the down payment in constant dollars 30 years from now. Assuming 20% down, that's only appreciating 60% in 30 years, which is only assuming about 1.5% growth in home value per year.

Inflation should probably also factor into your analysis, for those who believe that inflation is likely in the long term.

Buying a home also offers a lot of stability on your long-term housing costs. Even if you buy and sell every few years anyway[1], the fact that you are both buying and selling at the same time leads to a fairly even end result. With renting, you are always purchasing on the spot market[2]. Avoiding risk and having control over when you move both have a value.

[1] Of course, buying and selling every few years is very costly, but it doesn't affect the stability argument.

[2] And it's not just luck when you happen to be moving around. If you are buying into an area because of a new employer, there's a good chance that the employer is hiring, and that a lot of people want that same apartment.
Keep your cost low. A "strong" team implies it's top heavy now. A few millions can be gone very fast.
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In general, perhaps, but in what way does that remark relate - in any way - to the actual situation?
Whip together a business plan ... it doesn't have to be a minutely detailed path for the next 30 years. Having a product already developed / far into development is going to make up for a lot, especially if you already have any traction.
I used to think that the ice core would work that way, but water is most dense at 3.7C (or something like that). So, under enough pressure, it would remain liquid.
This is easy to do w/ javascript adding the target attribute to anchors after document.ready.

A user can independently do this w/ a greasemonkey script or its analog for their browser.

Definitely not expected behavior from this user.
Hardly any history. Matter of time this becomes another useless institution.
Good old fashioned HAML is regularly maintained, and appears to have been the inspiration for SHPAML:

http://haml-lang.com/

It also comes with SASS/SCSS which similarly cleans up stylesheets, and adds things like variables and mixins.
*satirical ...
So that means your idea is good. If good enough another company may look around for something to compete with your competitor, that might be you. There are worse things in the world than being aquired by a big company (Google, Amazon etc.)
Oracle can't seem to see how they're destroying the Java ecosystem. I hope OpenJDK can keep it alive.
Thanks for the kind words, I think both of these products are very meaningful. Thats why I can't narrow it down to one.
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Also, look at who hired him.
We have what's called naked DSL or dry-loop (it's de-coupled from phone service). At least in my market, the phone company's system still uses phone numbers for everything so there is a phone number for the account but it doesn't function and you can't plug a phone into it. The FCC has mandated it as a concession during large mergers, so it's available pretty much everywhere in the country.

According to the CDC, as of June 2010 about 25% of US households have no wireline phone but have at least one mobile phone.

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr039.pdf

This comes up every election year because of the prevalence of phone based opinion polling. Younger people are more likely to not have a land line and thus not be polled, etc etc.
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Went and checked out LimeLight, really nice, I think you are addressing a market need that very much exists, so keep at it.

One little suggestion, you should have some example sites right from the homepage. The video is good (thought edit out the publish bug!), but first and foremost I wanted both validation that others are using it, and wanted to be able to see it in action.

Good luck with it!
R has always been a niche language/platform for dataists/statisticians and because of that it really hasn't had the contributions of programming language developers and modern techniques.

It'd be cool to see R evolve more quickly as a language (implementation wise). We're getting hints of it with the new byte code compiler though.

That would be ideal.
I.e. large shareholders will contact Apple directly?
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I had a land-line when I first moved into my own place only because DSL was the only option for my building... But I signed up with lifeline for $5/month and never really used the phone for anything other than to collect telemarketers voice-mail...
Your second paragraph (sort of) contradicts the first: it says that (some) groupon users will never return unless presented with another groupon. No repeat/loyal customers.

That might be the problem with groupon: the people most likely to use groupons are the ones least likely to become loyal customers and the least likely to effectively recommend your business to their friends because all their friends know they only went there due to the groupon.
We do not have traction yet, as we have not released the product. We were planning on launching private beta in next few weeks.
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I'll second that. Although you can get a similar simplicity in many other distros, however, what really makes Arch great for me is the community; they have one of the best wikis I have ever seen.
Steve Jobs worked on a lot of products in his life- not only the many that we know about but probably several times that in products that didn't end up coming to market.

But there is one product that is the most central to Steve's Life. In fact, it is his masterwork. He started when he was young and is still working on it today-- and that product is Apple itself.

Steve says Tim Cook is the right person to succeed him, and I believe that Steve would never say this if he didn't believe it. He, more than anyone else in the world, wants to see Apple continue to be what he wanted it to be.

Also, Tim Cook is gay (sorry but for me, that counts as an asset in the taste department). He's a creative guy (you have to be) and he's a uncompromising. You can't work as hard as he does and achieve what he has behind the scenes without a kind of ruthlessness that sets a very high bar.

Tim's experience as COO is exactly what makes him the best man to fill Steve's shoes, if ruthless focus on design is what Apple needs. After all, Steve isn't a designer. Steve doesn't even, by all accounts, have a lot of natural taste. He's acquired the taste over many years. What Steve has always had, and what Tim seems to have, is an uncompromisingly high bar.

Jonathan Ive is probably going to be well compensated for staying at Apple over the long term, and the skilled software designers and hardware and software engineers and those who lead them as well are critical.

But the "vision" thing is not a mystical ability, and it isn't an innate talent, or if it is, both Tim and Steve have it.

In fact, I think this is why Tim was the preferred choice by Steve, over people like Ron Johnson and Jonathan Ive. I think Steve saw this in Tim's nature, and not in Jonathans.

This makes sense, because I think a designer has to be more flexible and more open minded and more willing to take risks. A designer has to produce some crap in the process of producing brilliance because you can't know in advance that it is crap. To be able to ruthlessly weed out the crap, you have to have a different perspective.

So, Steve made the decision, and I think it makes perfect sense, but even if it didn't, who better than Steve to know who the right person is?
How timely. I just spent 2 hours re-installing grub2 after Windows wiped it out (I knew it was going to happen but I hoped it wouldn't be any trouble to restore it). As I use LVM, I had to copy the /dev/dm-* devices to /dev/mapper/<lv>-<vg> in order to install grub (this is what took 1h50mins to figure out). Then I had to boot in to Ubuntu and update the grub config again to pick up Windows.

That said, Ubuntu has improved a lot and despite the grub issue, I still love Ubuntu. I have converted both my parents to Ubuntu and I haven't had a support call from them since the switch.
Since the tax-deductible nature of mortgages also applies to your landlord, that factor nets to zero. Inflation also nets out to zero, since both the borrower and the lender (and the landlord and the renter) are using the same currency. Unless you argue that home buyers are systematically better at accounting for inflation than bankers, of course.

The way I would look at it is that I buy housing the way I buy groceries, clothes, and pretty much everything else: I buy it when I need it. I mean, sure, if I bought an orchard I could get apples for "Free" after I'd paid the mortgage, but that's just bad accounting.

The problem with buying a house is that it's a massive bet on your local labor market. Your job (your biggest asset, in terms of net present value), is also a bet on the same market. You're levering up massively in order to bet on one of the biggest un-controllable risks you face, and you're paying 7% transaction costs on the purchase and the sale in order to do so.

A cheaper way to make this bet is to borrow several times your annual income, and bet on your being laid off (i.e. you make money if you don't get fired, and you do make money if you do get fired). That would be a terrible decision.
The PBS series on this was breathtaking. I cannot imagine the bravery. Going to war overseas with a weapon at the behest of "leaders" pales in comparison to going into a mob unarmed to try to make a change in rights, knowing there is a really good chance you are going to be beaten to death without witness.

Not to diminish civil rights but the same mentality of those mobs is taken advantage of today by corporations to defeat free access to basic health care, cheap medication, etc. Then there is the mob mentality against freedom to marry, etc. When will a society grow above these things and when will "leaders" affect change without having to first be convinced what is the right thing to do.
Anyone can put a QR code sticker on anything that leads to anywhere. It's physical world linkjacking. As QR codes become more popular I wouldn't be surprised if the fake ones became overwhelming.
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That's interesting. Is it mostly scar tissue inside the eye socket, then? Also, I would have thought one takes out the prosthetic eye when going to sleep, like a contact lens. But if bruising is a problem, why aren't they made from softer / squishier materials?
Well it's not a constitutional body. So as long as it remains independent (most likely) it'll be lethal against corruption.
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Eric Ries once told us the following: "Just fucking ignore them."

That was the best advice someone could have given me for a situation like that. I'd advise it.

My ancillary advice would be: Use it as fuel to absolutely destroy them in a race of producing incredible product value to your customers.

Our startup competitors have existed 1-2 years before we did.
Great post, upvoted. I enjoy programming Perl for the web more than anything really, and I think there has been great progress in terms of available modern, efficient and easy to learn web development frameworks.

I prefer Mojolicious over Dancer. Be sure to take a look at the wonderful documentation over at mojolicio.us and drop a line at the amazing (and helpful) community on IRC (#mojo on irc.perl.org).
This is an awful post. Starts with saying how Windows XP crashed and continues with a bunch of anecdotes.

Here's another anecdote. I have yet to use Ubuntu on a machine where everything just worked. I love Linux and use it every day. It's not ready for prime time but it is, as it has been for almost 20 years, a reasonable alternative for those willing to learn.
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There's a handful of Haskell videos on ontwik at http://ontwik.com/category/haskell/.

There seems to be quite an overlap with the Galois talks though (but thanks for pointing that resource out as I hadn't seen it).
Hacker news really isn't the best place to ask this sort of question.

You will receive a lot more help if you posted this question to stackoverflow.
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Good point. I would look at wireless sound devices that fit inside the ear canal (if there are such things). My hunch is that hearing loss is more common than loss of eyeballs, so there are probably more experimental devices and more studies conducted with those.
The Core i5/i7 line of CPUs is currently the top of the line. Of course it uses the 'mobility' model, but it's still the current top of the line.

$1199 ($50/100 off if you're a student) as configured. Show me another laptop with it's form factor and capabilities for that price? Hell, show me another laptop with it's form factor and capabilities?

$1000 for some so convenient is a STEAL, especially if you actually make money using it.
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Reminds me of the most recent conclusion I had come to regarding Groupon: it appeals to broken businesses. If you can't get new customers by simply lowering prices (instead of offering a Groupon), then your business is on very weak ground. Leveraging Groupon's email marketing distribution for a one time boost is not going to fix this fundamental problem.
That's because you can't remember the lack of features for noobs :)
Downvoting, flagging, changing colors, etc.
Pretty much what I was thinking. I've messed with Linux HP, Lenovo Thinkpads and Ideapads, and most other major manufactured laptops. From Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, Slackware, Mint and plain Debian, I've never had major issues with hardware.

IIRC, the last time I had a hardware/driver issue that pissed me off to no end was back before Fedora even existed.
Does anyone in HN develop Bada apps? How is it? Any tips or general advice? How does it compare to developing for Android/iOS?
So, 2011 will be the year when Linux goes mainstream on the desktop? At last!
Very thought provoking. My first thought de Grey's claim that the first people to live a 1000 years have already been born is that will certainly require changes to social security. It seems likely even modest advances are enough to start getting societal conundrums. It looks like an interesting book.
I would argue that the PC is a terrible gaming console, as crappy drivers and graphics APIs (and the wide variety of hardware) rob PC games of huge amounts of the total performance the hardware is capable of.
Surely it's going to be part of history. Besides there are being RTI and other laws, it was much needed. This bill will be independent and answerable to people not government. Hope it helps for good.
TMZ got taken in, and so did rebelidealist.
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If you replace "QR code sticker" with "link", the first phrase applies to Wikipedia. Yet, it works.
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I'm not sure about that. The iPhone UI is definitely a good piece of engineering, and it's certainly more polished than what came before, but I don't think it invented anything novel.
Cool idea. The font is kinda hard to read though.

I think "voting" should be open to anonymous users. The public's consensus is the value you are offering. Without volume there is no value. Attracting that volume is key, meaning low barrier to entry is necessary.
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I can zoom and select text just fine on an iPad... Odd.
The file protocol is for generic streams, but you could seek to the end and then call tell().

If you just want to know the size of a file and don't want to write to it, os.stat() will do what you want.
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How does copy not work? I just opened the link on an iPad and was able to copy fine.
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Check out fpm if you're concerned about packaging issues - https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm

It makes it incredibly easy to create an rpm/deb/etc. from a directory, rpm, npm, gem, python module, etc.

Here's a BayLISA video about it: http://vimeo.com/23940598
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Please note that, the bill is not passed yet. It will go to committee and will be discussed in the parliament again.
Even though I agree with him, this guy's argument hinges on the fact that he couldn't do a fresh install of windows.
I have never been beaten that savagely, but growing up in the sixties and seventies I have been exposed to some racial violence. When i was twelve or so, I remember being attacked on a subway by two hoodlums who singled me out because I was a "spook."

But I never really had to face the kind of antipathy the Freedom Riders had to face. I have never felt like my whole world wanted me dead. Some close relatives have strong religious beliefs about homosexuality, but none have disowned me for being outspoken in support of basic human rights and dignity for LGTB people.

I feel blessed to live in this time, and I feel like my whole existence is owed to people like them and those who fought in the Great War.
I have a DSL-only plan with AT&T. It works fine, but every time I call for support, they ask me for "the phone number on my account", and I have to re-explain ten times that I have only DSL, and not phone or TV service. Often I am told that it is impossible.
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I have Comcast and they basically force you to get a "land line" through them (although I guess it's closer to VOIP?) for a cheaper package. Mine isn't plugged into a phone though, I don't even know what the phone number is.
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Sweet. This seems to be exactly what I was about to make a much worse version of myself. Good work.
Thanks for the insight :)