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Email is email.

Facebook email, at least how it was marketed (Gmail killer etc) is a joke. People expected a serious, streamlined service and they got girlie private messaging.
This reminds me of what MarketBrief is doing for financial documents. Definitely less color / variance in the stories though.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/15/yc-funded-marketbrief-makes...
Maybe they use Europe for testing. Maybe because it's a huge market that request must be filled all at once. Imagine there was a problem and they had to return the devices to factory.
This is partially what the P3P standard was defined to help with, and the only browser that every seemed to do anything mildly meaningful with it was Internet Explorer. All IE did was refuse to set/keep cookies if either a P3P header wasn't provided or it didn't match the "user's preferences" (which the user never looked at or understood), so it just ended up causing headaches for web developers who at first tried to figure out which parts of the site's privacy policy matched the codes in the header value. When they found out that didn't work, they just copied the value of Google's P3P header. So many sites' privacy and data collection policies didn't match what they were asserting in the P3P headers, because otherwise, the site didn't work.
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It's unlikely they stored plaintext passwords. That doesn't mean that the attacker couldn't crack the hash.

More importantly, if the hacker modified the ssh binary then they could make it retransmit passwords before hashing them. Once the attacker has such a high level of access to the system it doesn't matter if the system has otherwise sound security; that security can simply be removed or altered.

I think the announcement is made as it is because it's far safer to assume the worst than the most likely or best. Even if your keys and passwords aren't compromised it doesn't hurt to change them.
Whatever. I've lost interest in participating in this thread.

I don't frankly care if you believe me. The crash occured and the .NET runtime kindly informed me that it was unaware of where the crash was occuring. I'd post it here, but I'd prefer it were not linked to my name as Googling the error message reveals my only post.

I had to reinstall Windows to resolve the issue. Reinstalling Visual Studio and the Azure SDK and SP1 and all the .NET runtimes did not resolve the issue.

Just so happy to see that I've been downvoted with no explanation to how my comments violated HN principles and I'm being accused of being incompetent and stupid. Fantastic. If I'm so incapable of reproducing issues and "demons in a machine" is so laughable, why exactly does the "Unhandled ExecutionEngineException" exist and why was it more than trivial for me to reproduce?

So now three MS people doubting me, mocking me, and suggesting #win32 as remotely comparable to open source style IRC rooms. This is just sad, and ironic as all get out considering the fact that my original comment was that Microsoft and community don't play nice together. Don't you see that irony?
I like your interface a bit better than Pinboard's, because yours is more like Google's. I like some other things about yours, although I don't recall them at the moment. However, I do remember that I was able to bookmark PDFs, even if they aren't searchable. So, I can at least add tags.

I see that your Twitter is rather current, but it wouldn't hurt to do a monthly blog update, even something minor, because I assume that there are other people, than myself, who look at these details when it comes to deciding whether to commit to a service. Said commitment is really less about money, and more about the perceived reliability, stability, and long-term viability of the service.

I suggest that, in the export function, you include everything about each bookmark, such as tags, dates, and whatnot, because it will likely make the customer feel better to know that they can get a complete snapshot of their efforts, whether they are leaving the service, or whether they are attempting to occasionally perform some external operation on their data. Giving customers complete ownership of their information is a good differentiator, because most websites don't provide such a thing.

My last question: How do you handle (D)DOS attacks on public bookmarks? I can see this as being a potential problem.

Thank you for providing an alternative to Pinboard!
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1. I can and will continue to blame the commentators and the respected publications in the financial world who give them voice for consistently publishing pieces that not only turn out to be wrong but aren't doing anything to help the problem. I really don't care what the government is or isn't doing, it's at best irresponsible to keep on publishing articles that doomsay to no result when investor confidence, employer confidence, and consumer confidence are such important parts of economic recovery.

2. I was using metaphor when talking about stuffing money into mattresses, the point being that most of the time the recommended actions for saving the individuals money do nothing good for the overall economy, instead the actions just provide a potential safety blanket. In terms of talking about economic ups and downs and how to prevent them, these actions have not much more effect than shoving money into a mattress
Let's call it 150 or so with a simple framebuffer and keyboard interface. And that's with lines of code that are a lot less semantically dense than either of the two Tetris programs in Clojure that were posted.
I agree completely. It's the genesis of "needing 48GB of RAM" that I'm curious about. The I/O issue with shared hosting, as I understood it, was that it took a long time to rebuild a busted RAID volume. This, to me, seems like a different symptom with the same underlying cause: there is a big server in the middle whose operation is critical to the site (otherwise, having 1 of N replicas take a long time to rebuild wouldn't be a big deal). For some sites, this big-server-in-the-middle is fundamentally necessary to do what the site does. I would like to know what it is about Pinboard that puts them in this boat. This is an honest question, not a sneaky way of saying "surely they don't need a server that big."
This isn't the equivalent of spark plugs. It's the equivalent knowing how the windows work. If you drive around with the windows down while yelling at the person in the passenger, seat, don't be surprised if other people can hear you. And you can't use as a defense that you didn't know that you needed to have the windows up.
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It means target people with needs that aren't being met. Those people are not consuming (i.e. buying and using) a product or service to address their problem.

It's clearest to see when a product exists to solve a problem, but it's too expensive for some people (or some situation). In the article, the problem of reporting on local sports/financials has a solution (reporters), but the value of that news isn't worth their time: their time is too expensive. So the newspaper doesn't "consume" a solution to the problem of reporting that particular news.

By targeting this non-consumption, the startup doesn't compete against reporters (yet...), so it provokes no desperate fight for survival.

It's an term from Clayton Christensen, who wrote The Innovator's Dilemma, though he doesn't use it til "The Innovator's Solution", and expands on it in "Seeing What's Next".
I wonder if Google even needs to profit from Android or "keep people in its ecosystem". Given Google's scope, it might be profitable to do any fairly low expense thing which increases Internet use.
I just put my "place" on top of my todo list, or leave the editor up there.
Try posting a link to a torrent on The Pirate Bay on your wall on Facebook and see what happens. People in the 1980s would have been horrified, people on both sides of the Iron Curtain.

Yes, I guess we can assume that torrent link desperately needs to get out because it points to a copy of The Gulag Archipelago that FacelessPolitburoBook is trying to keep from us...

Get real. Not being able to freely distribute your favorite Madonna songs or a rip of Iron Man II is nothing compared to the censorship that people had to endure in the Soviet Union or East Germany. Just making this comparison shows how disconnected these flag-waving online pirates are from all levels of political reality.
lol

Are the downvotes because #win32 is comparable to #django, #python, etc? Or what exactly? No one bothered blessing me with a explanation for why I've been crucified here. What ever, this is sad.
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Agreed. I enjoy solving lego problems, and I think I'd be content solving lego problems for the rest of my life.
What if it was made out of an erector set? Then after that you moved to a hand crafted duct tape garage prototype? Then to a small scale SLA prototype to model it's characteristics. Then maybe a scale replica using CNCed parts?

Burt Rutan used to build small scale models of his concept planes and mount them to the roof of his car to test their aerodynamics. Last time I checked he managed to turn that "Lego" project into a manned space vehicle.
Thanks for the downvote and no reply! It's totally awesome that Microsoft is taking control of their developer's community projects and totally awesome that they incorporate these projects and relegate them to internal use only instead of encouraging the betterment of existing tools.

How dare I suggest otherwise. I totally deserve to be downvoted. THANKS.
Tackling a NASA-scale problem would (most likely) require NASA-scale funding. Ping me when somebody finds an investor that is this rich/foolish.

I admire the notion, but I actually think the scale of the problem is irrelevant. There are some really "small" problems (that are hard, but could be solved by one person), throughout mathematics and computer science that could have profound impacts.
Google wants to lock you into their advertising channels (gmail, google docs, google search).

As long as your mail app is a source of revenue for someone (whether from support contracts or ads), they benefit from you being locked in, at least locally. Globally they may suffer because of the loss of goodwill, of course.
Nice, that's a pretty good rebuttal of the "rebuttal". Thanks!
I have zero evidence to support this hypothesis, but it seems like power corrupts most the people who seek it the most. Some people do better with power than others.

Also, I am not sure what you are trying to say about sex in marriage. It sounds like you are trying to say that men are held back from mistreating spouses only because they can't get away with it. Is that true? I have witnessed first hand that that can happen, but it was in a very poor society. Do you think that is common in marriages in prosperous countries?
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It's not just newspapers who push PR pieces. This also applies to the web (Techcrunch and Wired comes to mind).
Competitors may come, but they'll likely have to overcome a higher barrier (to entry) than if your problem required a trivial solution.

Think medical devices vs iphone apps. Problems in the medical field are not secret. But they typically require a novel solution, five or more years and a team of experts to implement. Potential competitors may well know exactly what you're doing but they'll have to overcome barriers on multiple levels: time, funds, patents (a big one), expertise, etc.
> I'm afraid it's already too late to make suggestions,

Which was precisely the point of developing things this way. They don't want anyone's suggestions; they want to force the thing that benefits _them_ the most on everyone else.
It always seemed to me that the prevalence of LEGO problem startups, or in other words endless companies doing endless variations of "cat picture sharing webapps", was a reason to discount the total effect a startup can have on humanity and a reason why you should go work for BigCorp. We all more or less agree that NASA problems are more beneficial to humanity than LEGO problems, but in terms of money gained, both options are equally viable. Microsoft started as a LEGO problem, Google started as a LEGO problem, Facebook started as a LEGO problem. Now they're gigantic corporations that can see and manage and fund NASA problems, or buy up and piece together enough LEGO problem startups, who individually were doing NASA problem R&D possibly without realizing it.
Stupid name. It's more like you're trying to steal some thunder and grab his users.

This feels like the "how to get a hit in the App Store" articles. Take someone elses idea and redo it and make lots of money. Rehashing someone elses project to turn it into your own and make money.

Whatever happened to people having their own thoughts these days? Then again, with stupid articles on here about how ideas are worthless I guess this just comes down to the same ol thing. Beg, borrow and steal your way to success. Not that this is a bad thing for everything, but when we're talking about the written word and original thought is better than trying to be someone you're not.
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that is terrible. if you are a half decent php guy you could expect 25k. if you were really good 30k. if you could demonstrate something useful like hadoop or c++ more.

what else are they offering? if you are getting stock, cost for moving and regular training sessions on growing skills like scalable, Haskell or big data stuff, then you might just as well stomach it.

if you have a CS degree and have experience with version control, coding in a team, and delivering you are being undrbumped.

come to London get a work permit, leave and get a real job with a startup that value it's team.
Maintaining disguises on the internet is freakin' EXHAUSTING. We're too busy trying to get a roadmap for the next round of refactorings ironed out. ;-)

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I've changed the tagline to "Connecting at your own pace". I'll fix up the rest of the landing page shortly. Thanks for your feedback!
I agree with the message that you need something substantial to survive and prosper. Unlike 70s and prior, market and community of innovators at this age openly exchange their small yet fully specialized ideas. The result of which is the complex eco-system. I would rather compare the space exploration with current state with the internet, instead of few big firms working with their million-man hours, we have the swarm of innovators all over the world producing and exchanging their accomplishments of "LEGO" missions.
Since people generally underestimate the amount of code a certain task needs:

Can you demonstrate this? Or, can you show at least a plausible proof-of-concept?
> isolation, leaves the web in a hobbled state and unable to compete against the encroachment of other, less open platforms.

This seems more about fighting Apple Appstore than fixing Javascript issues.
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Your feedback was really helpful!

I'll look into the social media links and rearrange the layout a little better.

I'm relatively new at photoshop so didn't know how to tilt the image the same way as the iphone template. I'll just use a normal iphone image instead of trying to tilt it.

I've changed the tagline to "Connecting at your own pace" by your recommendation-thanks

I agree that the link to the blog article shouldn't be the main convo on this page. I'll change it out and clarify what the app really does.
They seriously know their stuff there. Back when SSDs were first becoming popular they had this expose on the problems that the SSDs of the time had with random write sometimes taking 100s of milliseconds, leading to manufacturers to change their firmware.[1] I'm not sure how many review sites can claim to have uncovered new problems and gotten them fixed.

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I just stumbled upon this interesting article on HBR: How to become a great finisher.

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/06/how_to_become_a_great_finish...

Rather than thinking in terms of how much time you do or should work, set your objectives and make sure to finish what you started.
This is a giant waste of money.
> "junk bonds yields are soaring"
no they aren't. http://ycharts.com/indicators/moodys_seasoned_baa_corporate_...

> "there will be massive dumping when the support levels are broken"
Really? Technical analysis? I wonder if he consulted his tea leaves as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_analysis#Empirical_ev...

> "In my Wellington Letter, I have been looking for a serious crisis to start in early September."
So he believes he can predict major market movements months in advance? Why doesn't he use that data to make a billion dollars (as he easily could if he has this remarkable power). Rather, than, say, selling that same 'information' for $500 per year? http://www.dohmencapital.com/wellington.htm

> "Money managers realized during the July-August plunge that they were way overinvested."
Wow, that's a huge claim. All of them did? What about the incompetent ones, they somehow tuned into this realization somehow? Or does he mean that just in general a lot of them 'realized' this? Of course, when he says 'realized' he actually means 'guessed', since you can't realize that you were wrong about a future event that you have no evidence to predict one way or the other. Phrasing it this way is just an attempt to use the unscientifically derived (in this case, assumed) opinion of anonymous or nonexistent experts as evidence. This is the sort of hand waving 'logic' he uses in the entire article.

> "In the mean­time, the Pied Pipers will be out in force telling you to buy, so that they have someone to sell to."
If Forbes isn't part of the Pied Pipers, who the fuck is? This is like Fox News talking shit about the 'mainstream media' while being #1 in the ratings.

> "Warren Buffett’s $5 billion investment in Bank of America (BAC) shows that a crisis will not be confined to Europe. I consider this a signal that things are much worse than they are saying."
It is entirely evidence that Warren Buffet thinks the fundamental value of BAC is higher than what he had to pay for it. Generally betting against Warren Buffet won't be profitable. Wait a second! Isn't Warren Buffet a 'Money Manager'??? I thought they were all overinvested and trying to unload. Warren Buffet is by far the largest 'Money Manager' in the world, and yet he's diving in with both feet. For fucks sake!

> "Now that everyone knows there is a crisis in Europe, the one in China will soon be making headlines."
So... They won't sell us stuff anymore? They barely import anything from the west, so if they go into some kind of crisis they still won't, but their exports will get cheaper and demand for oil and natural resources will go down worldwide.

> "For more strategic recommendations, read September 5′s issue of the Wellington Letter."
LOL, this entire article is just an advert.

This author is just full of shit on every point.
I did something similar for my users' default avatars, randomly picking an image from a directory of a few thousand images I gathered and renamed sequentially. I just scoured deviantart.com for texture icon packs (usually 100x100px) that people seem to make for some reason, and threw them all in there. I spent a night quickly flicking through them and deleting anything exceedingly boring, too effeminate (majority pink/purple), or just lame. It hasn't gone public though, so I haven't experienced reactions yet.

stuff like these:

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http://rhcp-csi.deviantart.com/gallery/9253073?offset=24

http://browse.deviantart.com/resources/textures/?q=icon
Here is my rumor, the iphone5 will be available on all networks. Sort of like everyone else's phones always are.
I don't know why transit agencies don't just open-source and make available the raw data they have. Often I see them trying to put together "apps" or some such gizmos, when the reality is, if they just made the underlying raw data available (in a reliable manner), someone will come along and build apps for them on their own dime. The transit agencies would rather spend money hiding the data, and then more money building some crappy app, than open the data and get all the labor for free. They just don't get this whole "open-source" thing.
NASA has competitors. The competitive landscape is dynamic, and solving a difficult problem only gives you a head start. A head start is a great thing, it has founded incredible businesses, and it is enormous fun to be the best.

It's sad, because whatever exceeded customer expectations today (so that they think it's incredible, magic, they can't believe it, how did you do that man) won't work tomorrow, when their pesky expectations have habituated to it. "New" is intrinsically time-sensitive. What have you done lately?

Here's Joel essay Where there's muck, there's brass http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/12/06.html
Personally I've bound history searches to the up/down arrow to make bash behave more like the C-shell in this regard:

"\e[A": history-search-backward
"\e[B": history-search-forward

(This was really the only thing I disliked about bash compared to csh, so imagine my delight when I found out this option existed in readline.)
Oh, sure, maybe they don't just accept articles written by others. But they will base things heavily off press releases. That's what press releases are there for. If reporters didn't bite, nobody in the big leagues would bother with them.
hmmm, didn't W hold hands with the Taliban right before 9/11 ? Just sayin
Same here. I'm not trusting rave reviews about samsung devices anymore. The SGS1 was praised in the exact same terms ("it's fast!"). Fool me once...
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I am absolutely sure you can write Tetris in 100 lines of C. Would you be able to maintain it in half a year? Would anyone except you at the moment of writing be able to understand it?
I wrote this implementation in January, found it and understood again in one go. There is even no comments in the source file. The Clojure code is mostly self-documenting (sure thing, you still have to write comments for bigger projects).
And yes, I also liked the OpenGL version more. It is very nice except some logic being based on try..catch blocks.
The only people that "need" Gigabit connections are the High Frequency traders. For everyone else, 100Mbps is plenty.
> "To start, home screen one is the far left, not the center. Switching between these is accomplished either by swiping back and forth or dragging on the dots at the bottom. This animation is extremely fluid"

They thought of that.
TFS truly is awful.

I am amazed that the cost is not mentioned in the article though.

Forced to use it where I work, because management wanted the reporting capabilities that it provides and like the turnkey solution. My back of napkin calculations came up with that for the cost of TFS we could have kept our existing SVN/Jira/CruiseControl solution (or migrated to a hosted solution) and hired someone at 60k a year to just write reports for the existing system, or paid Atlassian to come up with them for us.

Add in everything mentioned in the article, the cost and that basic functionality such as "get latest" doesn't and you have an impedance to developer productivity.

These days I tend get the TFS code, check into mercurial/git and work that way.