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I completely agree, and I'm not saying that MongoDB is better because it has an easier install. The question was just "Why did you go to MongoDB over Riak?", and I did because I was able to start evaluating it faster, and discovered that it met my needs handily, deprecating the need to wrestle with my Erlang install any further.
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Awesome thank you so much for reply, its high appreciated :)

I'd blame my misspelling on OSX's new autocorrection feature, but I suspect it was me as I pronounce it closure :O
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Overcharging customers who are willing to pay that rate isn't "scamming" them per se. It could be considered unethical though and will probably come back to bite them even without going to the media about it. Are you sure your rates for whatever you provide aren't too low?
Certainly puts things in a different perspective.

His mother tanked the first deal? So his father told him to fire her? I'd love to be a fly on the wall at that family christmas.
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Ralph is using hyperbole to make a valid point. A company shouldn't put its employees in a position where they squirrel away their best ideas for their own future use in an imagined startup.

A company can help avoid that by properly rewarding their employees. That's basic. But suppose you give your company a great idea but it doesn't run with it for some reason. Do you think you're going to be rewarded? Not likely. And yet now your company owns that idea insofar as it qualifies as an invention if it has such a clause in its employment agreement.

That's not even getting into the invention assignment agreements many companies ask you to sign where in principle you have to list all inventions you have ever conceived prior to joining the company. The reasoning is that if you reuse an older idea of yours at the company and it wasn't listed on that disclosure form, they can now lay claim to it. I'm not sure if that's enforceable, but it's an unfortunately commonplace piece of legal boilerplate.
>> I wonder how 15 hours in the post become a couple of days here on HN.

Average work day being ~8 hours, 15 hours == a couple of days :)
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Your math is a bit off: Scala can be _up to_ 10x more concise than Java. This specific Clojure code was either 3x or 4x more concise than this specific piece of Scala code (based on char count or line count).

My experience over the last few years suggests that Scala code can be anything from 2-3x to 10x more concise than Java. My experience also suggests that Clojure code can easily be up to 10x more concise than Java. I don't think too many people would argue with that as a general rule (or at least, not too many people who've programmed in all three languages :)

I'll take a look at the link you posted and respond in more detail later.
Sure, but I'm pretty sure it's a great character-building exercise - either your idea is validated, or you're determined enough to prove YC wrong. Win-win imho.
Anytime someone asks you what makes you better than an established competitor please don't ever, ever say something along the lines of "because <competitor> sucks". It's better to acknowledge your competitor's legitimacy and respond with how your product is better.

Chauvinism has a place, but I think you have to be careful with it.
As a Scala user, I'd love such a survey on Scala. @Martin, #typesafe, please?
Wondering what is your business model - i.e. how do you plan to make money, given that maps app comes preinstalled and does instant search (I only typed in ghi and the suggestion include Ghirardelli Chocolate Co, Chicago). Though there isn't a link to yelp or yahoo review in the balloon, on selecting it I do get reviews, images, ratings from the site I'd care for. How much more does it add to the user experience by mashing up gowala and foursquare checkin data?

Have you thought of something like bringing together wishlist + local deals for places - say I add to list Ghirardelli and when there's a deal available there - I get notified about the deal. You can provide the businesses with a deal-hype building based on which they can plan their deals ahead of time. More fun stuff can be thought of with these on the user side too ... as which places are getting hotter and might be deal prone soon
> This article was originally published in the September 2005 issue of PC Gamer (UK edition).

Does anyone know or remember if there were any major follow-ups to this event ?
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Thinking of DataFrame as a 2D structure just aids mental visualization. With hierarchical indexing they can be arbitrarily highly-dimensional so maybe I should sell it a bit more like that. In an OLAP setting the "sparse" format may often be better than the "dense" (truly N-D) format.

It would be an interesting avenue to pursue building a "big data" on-disk OLAP engine with pandas-like semantics (e.g. expressing groupby operations with the same syntax but operating on big data on disk or across a cluster of computation nodes).
I saved a blog post a few months ago about this. http://stevelosh.com/blog/2011/05/paper-free/

I haven't made the jump myself yet, but the $218 result was:

Doxie Scanner: $160
JotNot: $7
PDF OCR X: $30
Hazel: $21
Backblaze: $5 per month
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I am thinking of purchasing this for our company to develop simple applications. Applications would be for searching for company information and basic images nothing performance heavy. I'd also like to integrate some sort of geo-referenced images.

Anyone able to provide some advice?
Apple can charge a premium for their equipment because they are known as a premium brand. Even if they could make their products for 1/3 the cost, they would still charge the same price because they need to be seen as premium products, and because they can.

If you are sure you're competitor is over charging, maybe it is for the same reason. As dandandan said, maybe you are pricing your product too low.

Going after them publicly, accusing them of scamming or unethical behavior will only backfire. Either your company will be branded crackpots and unreliable, or you will actually get negative press.

The best you can do is in your marketing and sales pitches, say "our prices aren't as inflated as our competition but our product is better than theirs." Then prove it with examples of product quality. Your customers will do their own pricing research.
Is there something like this that is usable? What would be a reasonable competitor to this?
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Does this help?

http://www.nolo.com/products/a-legal-guide-to-web-&-soft...
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That's a pretty good reason on its own.
I admire the poster's idealism, but the advice is poor and the title is pure linkbait.

The problem is this: it is difficult bordering on impossible to get a company funded or acquired without IP assignment in place. It's the first check in due diligence. That means you'd be a fool to work at a company like the one the poster describes, since it is clearly run by amateurs and has grave, self-inflicted problems in its future. There are always exceptions - maybe an idealistic consulting firm could pull this off - but this is very dangerous stuff.

If you're dubious, ask your favorite startup attorney what the #1 killer in due diligence is - it's nearly always IP assignment. Someone wrote some code without having it in place, and you have to either excise the contribution (not always possible) or try to buy the IP retroactively - and since the entire company is likely on the line, you won't be paying market rates. It's more like extortion at that point than a purchase.

Long story short: if you're not assigning your IP, then you're not working for the company; you're working at the company. Don't try this one at home.
What is the differences, advantages that you guys (Yipit) have over other competitors (e.g 8coupons.com)?
Key takeaways or at least the main ideas behind PG and Harj's questions & comments-
What pain point are you solving?
Is it something you dealt with (or the market deals with)? How do you go about using the product?
What is the killer feature of your product that will allow a user to switch from their current method?
tl;dr:

- michael arrington invested $$$ in author's company

- author swears that arrington is totally fair tech writer

- have you read techcrunch? you can't handle the arrington $$$!
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Evaluating function declarations and expressions, even in a module pattern closure, takes well under a millisecond in modern browsers.

The "dynamic-hashes" remark shows serious ignorance of polymorphic inline caches and shapes aka hidden classes. Competitive JS JITs do not probe hashtables for dot member accesses.
I'm glad Gould got called out on this; he probably just lost himself a lot of future business by being so cocky.
If you read the linked article, it quotes the main ReactOS engineer as saying it was "ready for 80% of real world use". This is what Brandon is addressing.
Beau has been around a long time. I remember him posting jobs to the jobs.perl.org site and perl jobs list years ago (back in 2001). We had to ban him for similarly bad behavior.

I'm amazed he's still around.
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PG and Harj's pace is amazing - not a moment wasted. It's unfortunate to see that the lucky founders up there aren't really listening to their opinions. It seems like they're more interested in defending their product, rather than take suggestions.
Your point about how Microsoft is accelerating faster than ReactOS is exactly why I don't pay much attention to ReactOS anymore. For a while, MS was sort of stagnating and the idea of catching up (reasonably well) was within reason, but now that they've kicked into gear, I just don't see it happening, especially with more focus on WPF, Silverlight, and Windows 8.
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email me please: ryan@venona.com :) (selfish reasons too, obviously, but I'd be happy to introduce you to some other people who are hiring as well)
Awesome link that. Spent a few hours on it. Thanks :)
40/60 school/parent revenue, and you are confusing "classes" with "schools". You should Google "dreft" to understand the shit parents do for kids in the US. Now google "1st grade math".
I think you're misreading him. He's not saying the company shouldn't own inventions developed by the employee for the company on company time. He's talking about the all-encompassing agreements that make employees sign over all rights to anything conceived by them in their professional field for the duration of their employment.
That's impressive because he sounds like he's 14. "Fags ... suck dick". Real fucking creative Beau.
Could you elaborate on the point where my math is off?

You mentioned a range from 3-10x between Scala and Java, and we have a 4x multiplier with your code (260 LOC Clojure vs. 1000 LOC Scala). This would result in a 12 - 40x range which I quoted in my comment.

I also find it a little discomforting that "Scala is 3-4x more concise than Java in general" becomes "my experience over the last few years suggests that Scala code can be anything from 2-3x" in a matter of minutes.

You're sure about your numbers? Not wanting to be offensive, but it sounds a little like you pull them out of thin air.
How is this different from Jottit?
Fairly big companies often have surprisingly minimal filters for "visibly awful." Passing due diligence is easy when the process does not include common sense, and individual managers are likely to have misaligned incentives.
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Re iOS: "This also means that multitasking will only work for an app if the developer specifically implements it. Nice."

As opposed to the Android model where all apps get free reign to drain the users battery life unless the user explicitly kills the app. Task killers are quite a popular application on Android for this reason.

As to the notion that Apple stole the notion of multitasking on a mobile device from Android, I'm pretty sure that Apple engineers knew about multitasking before Android implemented it. Apple made the very difficult (but correct) decision to sacrifice functionality to protect the overall user experience.
See my other reply on XHR. It is orders of magnitude simpler than Dart. Also, even though MS had monopoly power when they added XHR, they did not abuse it on the web. XHR was for OWA. Mozilla and Opera were not coerced by MS-inspired use of XHR on the web. We chose to implement (with some changes, see the wikipedia page) at leisure.

In contrast, Dart usage in Google web properties targeting the native VM in Chrome, per the leaked memo, would pressure other browsers to adopt or reverse-engineer a much more complex non-standard.
The author states, "...that suggests man-made activities are responsible for changes in concentrations of CO2 in our atmosphere."

Notice the difference between that statement, and "OMG we're all going to die a giant heat death 5 years from now if we don't give up all our liberties!"
"People often say that Android is a copy of iOS."

Who are those "people"?

Sounds like the author is debating a position that few people actually hold.
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Climate science isn't entirely based on simulation. For example, long-term geological records show a correlation between CO2 and global temperatures - see http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/360/1793/659.... for example.
This is just HOME energy use. We're still increasing industrial and commercial energy use significantly every year.
Very well executed, and everything I've read about it is positive. Good job PR team? Or good job social web :)

Oh, the site is pretty good too ;)
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Ah, then the reason of our misunderstanding would be my insufficient knowledge of English. In German I would have said "two days" if it was 2 days and use a "a couple of days" for - lets say 4 or 5. Interesting how culture differs.

Sorry, I thought you were using Scala and Java and had to chose if you replace Scala with Clojure (Java + Clojure) or add Akka to Scala (Java + Scala). So I've assumed you counted Akka as a language (Java + Scala + Akka) as you've mentioned 3 languages. I probably didn't read your comments correctly.
What's even more interesting is how much Apple copied from Palm and others. Like the whole device with a big screen and a grid of icons copied from the Palm Tungsten TX (debuted in October 2004) which was something Apple was suing Samsung about. Or did they copy that from Windows 3.1?
As the owner of [what I believe to be] an idealistic consulting firm, I tend to agree with both the rule and the exception. IP ownership isn't really a good business practice for us because it comes with its own liabilities and could put us at odds with our clients. Our rule for our devs is that if you develop it for a client, it belongs to a client. If you develop it to serve a process we use for multiple clients, it belongs to us. If you develop it in your spare time, it's all yours.
The post was probably a little unclear, I did not understand you poked around to find the oOms in 2009, I just assumed it was more recent as the Clojure post was from September 2011.
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cross-platform is the future.
I feel that the jailbreak dev community offers more "direction" to the changes that are brought about in iOS, compared to Android. The multi-tasking feature for one, was available on iOS 3 if jailbroken, the same goes with wifi sync (which is going to be on iOS 5). One could probably argue that the jailbreak apps get their inspiration from certain Android features, which could be possible, but I don't know the release dates for each feature to retort to that.
Though I think this article is right about one thing, competition does bring about innovation, be it from Android or from Cydia.
Task killers haven't been popular or recommended since the release of Eclair and really Froyo (ironically most simply destroy performance these days, but people aren't bothered to learn about Acitivity hibernation in Android so they don't release they're shooting themselves in the foot needlessly flushing ram and then reloading the app from a closed state when Android seemlessly suspends them). 90% of the time that apps are draining the battery, it's because of a user-initiated wakelock. There are very few if any apps that just "drain the battery" these days.

As for multitasking, it's been around for a long time sure, but there are various implementation details that are in common among Android and iOS (but not Mango or webOS necessarily). I have no desire to point fingers of "theft" or "copying" but inspiration doesn't seem unthinkable.
First time poster, long time reader.

Not a great article.

"since Android was built for multitasking, inactive applications remain in a saved state for a particular amount of time." -- uhh, this is exactly how it works on iOS.

"This doesn’t need to be strictly implemented by the developer, it’s a core part of the OS" and "is also means that multitasking will only work for an app if the developer specifically implements it" -- completely wrong. Compile the app with the iOS 4 SDK and you get it all for free. Background services like audio and VoIP require developer work though.

"iOS still missed the mark. On the iPad, the notification bar is super awkward and doesn’t scale well." -- citation needed. I actually prefer the iOS 5 notifications, as when they come in they are more conspicuous than the Android system.

"And the backwards compatible version of iOS4 for iPhone 3G slowed down the phone so much that users wanted to throw their phones out" -- 4.0 was a bit pants, but that was fixed pretty quickly, and worked reasonably well. And at least Apple actually provide updates to their older phones, unlike most Android OEM's.

"Even things like voice-chat were available on Android devices before the iPhone 4 was even announced" -- pretty sure the iPhone 1 could make voice calls.
According to Energy Star, electronic devices (TVs, computers, etc) only account for about 4% of home energy consumption, so I'd doubt that device usage patterns is much of a driving factor here.

Almost three quarters of our home energy is spent heating things up or cooling things down:

Heating: 29%, Cooling: 17%, Water heating: 14%, Appliances: 13%, Lighting: 12%, Electronics: 4%

Source: http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=products.pr_save_energ...
I didn't describe this setup, but it sounds to me like they are using Kanban. Properly executed Kanban should have Queueing and WIP limits to prevent clueless roaming, make sure tasks get completed, and provide feedback. If something doesn't get finished in an acceptable amount of time you hit the WIP limit, a red flag is raised, and that task becomes everyones priority. If you regularly hit the WIP limit then you have a problem that needs to be addressed.

If you don't set these limits then you are absolutely correct. In this perfectly acceptable scenario you do need deadlines, however I'd argue that adjusting pace isn't the correct step. Here you should remove low priority unfinished features from the deadline, maintain a sustainable pace, and use features completed as your metric.
See also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2983004 (related NPR item)
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I've actually heard this several times from people when I extol the virtues of Android. I use both systems, though.
It is possible to interact between apps on iOS, using URLs. You can encode data in base64. It's not even close to Android's intents, but it works.
Wanted to add one link to this where I did get the idea from the first time:

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/09/7_reasons_i_swit...

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Some bullshit in here unfortunately.

"since iOS was not built from top-to-bottom for multi-tasking functionality, you have to address what continues to happen in the background as the user leaves app and you’re app has to scurry and get everything ready in within a short period of time, or iOS will completely shut it out"

This is just patently false. Multitasking was not an afterthought in this UNIX based OS, the absurdity of that claim reveals the thickness of the author's bias. This compromise was made to save battery life as well as to make sure users are aware of what their device is doing at any given moment.

There's a lot of other obviously stupid claims in there too, I'll leave those as an exercise for the reader.
I think you're striving for absolutes where only relatives exist.

You're right that I said 3-4x in one place and 2-3x in another. Sorry. It's a gut feeling. Is it 2x, 3x, 4x? One of those. Any of those depending on the code. Somewhere in the middle. It's going to depend on the specific code. You can't reasonably suggest that language X is always Nx more concise than language Y, surely?

So, somewhere in that space, Scala is a substantially more concise than Java (will you allow "substantially"?) and Clojure seems to be substantially more concise than Scala.

Is that suitably vague for you? :)
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Because it doesn't want the distraction and/or doesn't have the resources to pursue them, your employer's unlikely to ask for or want ideas unrelated to its business.

Because you're an ethical person and/or have a good appreciation of the legal risks, you're unlikely to try and implement ideas related to your employer's business.

Because of the above, 'squirreling away ideas for a future startup' should only very rarely be an issue. Certainly not a company-breaker.

Having to explain why you've abandon a standard and uncontroversial bit of IP protection to your potential investors - now there's a potential company-breaker.
I agree with your points. Tutorial-style documentation is a way to go.

The main problem this framework has isn't its reference-style documentation (if a framework looks good enough I'm willing to do some extra work figuring out how to use it). Kendo's real problem is its licence. Apart from seeing how "awesome" it is you can't do shit with it.

Here's the licence: http://gd.is/qDdw
Even if /dev/urandom gives 10Gbps, a 1kb file would take 2^1018 Seconds, which is 1.4E688 years. That's well over the length of the universe (1.3E10)
Now it all makes sense how IBM is one of the most patent-producing companies and yet the patents don't seem to generate returns commensurate with their number (vaguely recall a study about this, could be wrong).
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Well, that makes the XSS vulnerability kind of moot.
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