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> I hope I'm not being so cheap and parsimonious as to offend you, but I'd like to see a version of your service offered in the $15 price range without much sacrifice in quality/service.

There are two main reasons for high cost:
1. iOS / OS X projects have to be built on Apple hardware.
2. CI is resource intensive task, so not like very many users can share single machine.

I'll think on making a smaller plan though. Also for non-Mac projects $15 plan would work for me.
Great, thanks. I have downloaded and am messing around with Kohana now.
The only efficiency metric that matters is $ per generated watt. And that figure is dropping like a stone.
I'm used to calling these "Generators", as in a "Generator Function". We could use Forth's defining words to build a pretty succinct version of this type of functionality. Generators will be called by executing their address ("xt" in Forth parlance), and will leave a flag on the stack indicating whether the generator had another element available. If this flag is true, the element produced will be underneath.

To start with, let's create a word called "count" which produces a generator which will count from 1 to infinity:

: count ( -- 'gen )
noname create 0 , latestxt
does> ( -- value? flag )
dup @ 1+ dup >r swap ! r> true
;

Then we build another generator which slices the first N elements of another generator, so that we can do things without going into an infinite loop:

: slice ( 'gen count -- 'gen )
noname create , , latestxt
does> ( -- value? flag )
dup @ 0= if drop false exit then
dup dup @ 1- swap !
cell+ @ execute
;

Finally, let's implement "map", so that we can apply a word to every element produced by the generator:

: map ( 'gen 'func -- )
2>r
begin
i' execute
if i execute
else 2rdrop exit
then
again
;

Now the Forth stack gives us a nice, fluent way of chaining these building blocks together. Let's start with that infinite counter, slice off the first 10 elements and print them out by mapping them to the number printing word ".":

count 10 slice ' . map

And we get:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Spiffy, hunh?
There's also an option to squash at merge time, which is commonly used going from a feature branch to an integration branch.
That's ok, the Galaxy was also ripping off of the iPhone.
I read Maciej's comments compulsively, all of them, and your summary does not square with my experience. At all.

I thought his comment about Sebastian's post was impolitic, but I chose that word carefully.

I don't care to psychoanalyze 'pg or how he chooses to run the site. He's a busy guy and is more than entitled to make moderation decisions that I disagree with.

I don't understand why you felt the need to write your comment at all. What good did it serve?
there is a lot of overlap. Manpacks and guyhaus sort of already offer this. Can there really be so many niche verticals?
It only works in google chrome and firefox!

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Best of luck on your next startup. I honestly think that in the end you just had to ask yourself if you were willing to spend the next 10 years of your life working on Beautiful Savings. If your answer is "no" then obviously, pouring more time and effort into that startup seems painful. There's no point iterating continuously on a solution for a problem that you're not dedicated to solving.

I think though once you find that idea that you're genuinely excited and passionate about, you'll find that failure only occurs when you decide to stop iterating. If a person has a solid idea and solid execution, I find it hard to believe that the end result will be graded an "F", more likely it'll be a C or D, unless you are very very unlucky. The idea is the that the next iterations bring it to an A or B.
My main concern here is that Adobe's new flash plugin will allow some of these things for 3d on the web and set back adoption of WebGL to the point that it's also DOA.

I know mouse capture seems like a security concern to many browser vendors, but just have a dialogue to agree to mouse capture and a clear use of ESC to exit it. If they don't do it, some plugin will and we'll be set back into another X years of flash dominance in online gaming again.
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It's already been done. Mass production of this type of reactor wasn't pursued for various political reasons mainly concerning the alternate path of a sodium-cooled reactor instead.

1962:
September 16. The Indian Point-1 nuclear reactor begins operating at Buchanan, New York. Designed and built by Babcock and Wilcox for Consolidated Edison, it is a pressurized water reactor designed to produce 275 MW of electricity. Unlike other pressurized-water reactors, the Indian Point-1 reactor uses highly-enriched uranium as a fuel and thorium as a fertile material. This combination has a superior conversion ratio in a thermal neutron spectrum than low-enrichment uranium (more thorium is bred to uranium-233 than uranium-238 is bred to plutonium-239). The uranium-233 generated in the Indian Point reactor is later processed into a tetrafluoride and used to fuel the Molten-Salt Reactor Experiment.(MSRE)

The MSRE program then successfully operated a reactor with a thorium blanket around the U-233 for the equivalent of an 18 month cycle (same as current reactors.
He didn't call Sebastian a douchebag for writing a long post.

He called Sebastian prolix for writing a long post.

He called Sebastian a douchebag for writing that long post.

If we're going to hellban people for writing individual uncivil posts, that's a problem. But I don't think that's what's going to happen.

You should stop calling people "Internet Tough Guys". You have literally no idea who you're talking about. Comments like yours are Part Of The Problem. Maybe you should re-evaluate the notion of starting whole threads on how much you dislike one particular person.
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I agree with many of the points you have made in this thread, it is indeed a worrying trend.

Howver, I am not sure it is fair to tar WebSQL with the same brush as these other technologies. WebSQL was on the standards track, and in fact started there. The main reason it isn't any more is that Mozilla representatives insisted on kicking it off the standards track instead of fleshing out the spec to be truly independently implementable.

The most common use of SQL you see is in iOS/Android-targeted Web apps, because WebSQL has been around there fore a few years while IndexedDB is new and isn't shipping in production quality anywhere.

Google is actually pretty sanguine about replacing WebSQL with IndexedDB.

Better examples of this trend would be:

SPDY as a replacement for HTTP, actually used in production by Chrome talking to Google servers, not a hint of it on any standards track.

VP8, where Google's single-source implementation is more authoritative than their spec, and no hint of it on any standards track. No apparent interest in putting it there.

(I realize Mozilla is on board with VP8 due to the patent licensing issues with MPEG, but consider the risk of giving Google total unilateral control of video codec design. I would have hoped that Mozilla insisted on taking VP8 through a real standards process before signing on wholeheartedly.)
Hey guys, I missed the call for this because I live in Canada, however I'm currently in NYC for the month and would love to attend.

Currently working on Barcraft, already hit the front page of the WSJ on and growing pretty quickly. Not looking for external funding at this moment but would like to talk to folks in the industry.
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yes, but it's easy to miss external costs of power sources like solar such as the land involved and maintenance (i.e. cleaning the panels to eek out that extra 10%).

Density of power is what matters in the long run. We need a solution that produces the most power for the given space it occupies. Hence, it's not a question of 'if' we use fission, it's a question of 'when'.
The contract had a personal liability clause, apparently. Assuming those are enforceable, it seems like you're downplaying the downside.
Agreed. Also anecdotally Lego makes a profit.
I don't think you can classy what Google did as a LEGO problem. At the time they started, indexing the web and comming up with pagerank was a hugely complex thing to do. And you can see how it impacted their future direction as a company that seems intent on attacking larger world problems. Microsoft did not get huge deal. Sure writing a BASIC interpreter wasn't something super complex but that isn't what made them successful in the end.

When I look at company like Dropbox, I don't really see a lego problem since building the infrastructure for what they are doing isn't easy. But it's not stopping people from competing with them as this article claims it would.
I would be thrilled to get unsolicited advice like this about anything I built, even if the advice was wrong. You made a good point, but if you had just worded it a little differently, it wouldn't come across like you were trying to take someone down a peg for writing something thoughtful on HN.
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>> The Greeks had it right - "democracy" to greeks was competent people drawing lots for the jobs to perform in government. No politics involved. You did your job right because it was your responsibility, and you'd hate to see the job done improperly.

First, there is no "the Greeks" here. You seem to be talking about ancient Athens. (Sorry if that's overly pedantic, but ancient Greece was not at all monolithic.)

Second, parts of Athenian democracy involved lots, but by no means all of it. In particular, the ten annual generals were elected precisely because they were supposed to be experts.

Third, there wasn't really any competency criterion for the positions held by lot. (This is one reason Plato disliked democracy so much - that theoretically unqualified people could speak in the assembly and hold office.)

Fourth, the jobs of the people who were chosen by lot were mostly bureaucratic. As Wikipedia puts it "The powers of officials were precisely defined and their capacity for initiative limited. They administered rather than governed."[1]

Finally, politics and petty personal infighting was a huge problem in ancient Athens (ostracism?[2]). The whole "You did your job right because it was your responsibility, and you'd hate to see the job done improperly." is nostalgia for a world that never was.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athenian_democracy#Selection_by...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostracism
As being somewhat old-school (I learned to program on a TI55 calculator before having a real computer - an Apple II clone) I am offended by the insinuation old-schoolers like to boast. In fact, only the lowest of the larvae would dare to qualify their work as the most sophisticated anything.
Yeah, I see no problem if you tell the employee, "I can pay you for two months." At least he knows what he's getting into. Besides, even a "safe" job can abruptly end, often with much less than two months' notice.
sounds like your dad had faith in you, above all. don't misinterpret this as careless disregard for risk.
Linkbait. Some of my competitors write contracts specifically so that they can sue other companies. How about this, I fucking read my contracts and I don't sign bullshit.
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Making a note here: add some shiny around my Python template engine and I can land $6m investment.
"Fueled by Doritos and RedBull among other things". Does this imply what I think it implies? I'm curious about how widespread drug use is during these hackatons. I've visited one or two myself and more than once I've been surprised by the odd responses and (facial) ticks of the participants, but I've never really been able to figure out if these were just socially badly adjusted individuals, or if they were tweaked out of their skull.
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"And all that isn't even accounting of the arcane crystals!"

well played, sir!
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These countries certainly get advantages from big governments (like social welfare, decent education systems, state sponsored medical attention, etc) but don't seem to pay much of a cost for it.

Most countries with systems more extensive than those of the US tend to be poorer than the US.

http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2010/03/super-economy-in-o...

http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2010/03/income-distributio...

http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2010/01/dynamic-america-po...

Also, we have social welfare, stated sponsored medical attention, and decent education systems in the US. Where did you get the idea we lack these things?
What a bad choice for a name. Was it intentional?
First of all!!...good job dude.

> Now if people knew how much of a kludge it is code-wise.

Yes...we are our own worst critics.I am sure I could produce kludgier code than you!
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I always use either a framework or a CMS that's a framework, like Wordpress with Thematic. Every time I get involved in a project that has no framework (and too low of a budget) I regret it.
Isnt that the point of the article? Dont think your idea is the most complex and that no one else will be able to copy you. If you're solving a lego problem stick to the lego but try to solve it the best you can cause people will come and its gonna be easy to copy most of your solution
There's no way never to have your livelihood in someone's else's hands ever again; the world's too small. Probably the closest thing is growing your own food in a remote area based only on supplies you produce, but that leaves you exposed to acts of aggression aimed at control or destruction of the land.

Your livelihood depends on so many people when you're doing a tech startup (your clients, the organizations running the internet, the government, the army, your neighbours) it's not even funny.
Well, your business may well not be like his business. First, it was all new then, and the first half of the swhoosh to the top.

But being of the conservative sort, I have generally had a lawyer review whatever contracts people want me to sign, firstly for him to explain what it really means--what are the actual risks. Even as a very young fellow in my first one with a contract, I knew enough that it was for me to make the business decision and for my lawyer to explain what the legal ins and outs were.

Then there was the fellow who liked to do negotiation by contract. It said that everything that I did they owned, probably back a year before I started, and that if I didn't perform the would take my house and my first born, but then on the second page they said that we are kidding about the house. And it was from a law firm that was bigger than most buildings, and Very Famous. But I pushed back and after a couple of cycles got things to be in a reasonable state.

In another long-term consulting contract negotiation, my lawyer's first response after reading it was one word "Egregious". Fortunately, I was able to hammer that into better shape. This was one where the contract was supposedly non-negotiable. I learned something there.

But in no world that I am familiar with does it make sense for the lawyer to do the negotiation. They (in all likelihood) don't understand your business as well as you do.

Even though I have been doing this for a while now, I wouldn't sign anything without a lawyer's review.

But I have also been at the other extreme, where there was no contract for a multi-year deal and it worked out well.

Use a lawyer, but use the lawyer wisely.
You might be employee #20 - they can still lie to you and tell you everything's fine, then run out of money in a matter of weeks.
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I know it feels good to think this, but often times playing it safe is not the riskiest thing to do. Climbing the corporate ladder, being smart with investments, and doing the right things financially are considered "playing it safe" and would be viewed considerably less risky than alternatives.
Two things:

1. They will sue. Medium to large - in fact any mature business, considers lawyers and the threat of lawsuits and litigation as a cost of doing business. They don't get emotionally involved, they just do it. FYI, looking at lawyers & legal as cost of doing biz is a healthy attitude and may save you a heart attack.

2. Telling someone to just "fucking sue me" or simply "sue me" makes it combative and I made this beginner mistake early on in being a CEO. I actually simply asked their lawyer if he thought his case "actually has any merit?" in a cocky tone in a phone call. Turns out he thought it did. Once I had capable council on my side she had to work hard to make nice with the other side and bring it to settlement hours before we were irrevocably committed to litigating the issue.

Lets put it this way: Wouldn't it be awesome if everyone you signed an agreement with "just signed it"?
This poor advice is like saying you can save money by not paying insurance premiums. Of course you can - until something goes wrong.

A better lawyer would have been able to amend that contract with minimal fuss. I used to get a legal briefing on the dodgy parts of the contracts I was asked to sign, along with sensible suggested changes that often benefited both sides (eg. termination clauses more appropriate to the length of the gig) I'd then send through the amended contract and discuss all the reasons for the changes with the client. Never had any problems.
There's another perspective that is equally true: Employee #1 is getting paid to see how a startup is created, struggles, pivots, pivots again, and eventually turns into a viable business. There is no better way to prepare yourself to be a founder than to be an early employee in a startup.
1. Have you ever owned an iOS device?

2. If answer of 1. is yes the how do you find the touch interface of S2 and android devices in general? (I find it broken).
I used to have high hopes for fusion power until I came to learn two things:

1. Neutrons rapidly destroy any kind of containment. He-3 is seen as some kind of holy grail here. Unfortunately it's incredibly rare. The best source is probably the Moon (which, with no atmosphere, has had billions of years of solar winds to collect non-trivial amounts of He-3); and

2. To sustain a fission reaction any current research reactor I can recall reading about uses probably radioactive isotopes (most likely tritium ie H-3) or at least somewhat uncommon isotopes (ie deuterium, H-2).

Fun fact: per cubic foot compost generates more power than an equivalent volume of material from the Sun's core [1]. What makes stars such great energy producers isn't fusion per se, it's their sheer size and fuel supply.

Fusion goes hand-in-hand with the Utopian concept of "free energy" because obviously water (and thus hydrogen) is abundant. But no energy will truly be "free" although it may be cheap enough to have the almost the same impact as being free.

There are four component costs in energy:

1. The cost of building a device that produces energy;

2. The cost of maintaining that device;

3. The R&D required to bringing that device to market. Obviously, over time, this cost diminishes to zero; and

4. The cost of extracting, storing and transporting whatever fuel is required.

So for hydrogen, assuming a fusion reactor doesn't use sea water, you must first extract hydrogen. This is actually relatively expensive. Hydrogen extract is seen as a way of smoothing out power generation from renewable sources (most often wind power) [2].

Sure a fusion power installation could produce the energy for this but remember that any power system needs to produce more power than it uses or its largely worthless (barring corner cases like producing energy in portable form, which is the entire model for batteries). With hydrogen extraction, you've just raised the bar on how much power than reactor needs to produce.

Likewise, hydrogen storage is non-trivial. It's flammable and hard and expensive to store in liquid form (compared to, say, liquid nitrogen [3].

Energy needs to be produced in many forms. Fusion is on the scale required for power stations but that's only one of our needs. What about vehicles? It's really hard to beat the amount of energy stored in oil (by mass or by volume) and the ease with which it is extracted.

I see a long term solution to this in genetically engineering microbes to produce readily consumable compounds for abundant and sustainable inputs. Another fun fact: if you've read Neal Stephenson's Anathem you'll probably recall his mention of "fuel trees" that suggest this kind of approach.

In the far distant future I see the only viable power source that would allow us to live in space, let alone cross interstellar space, to be black holes [4].

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_core

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_hybrid_power_systems

[3]: http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2007/KarenFan.shtml

[4]: http://io9.com/5391989/a-black-hole-engine-that-could-power-...
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It is infinite, so you can for example have an stream of all the prime numbers (only those you actually use will be computed, of course; the point is some algorithms are easier to express using this abstraction).
Thanks - a brilliantly written article, as is customary at Ars...
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another similar app in the space is Denso: http://getdenso.com/
I have both iPhone 4 and S2, and no the scrolling smoothness is not even comparable. Either that or there is sonething wrong with my S2.
I really love visualized algorithms like this. To less-than-brilliant people like me, it's often the only intuitive way to understand how an algorithm works.
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The question is: what do you gain by categorizing them as self-identified black or white as opposed to not categorizing them at all or categorizing them, say, by the presence of some gene cluster or genetic marker associated with gout?

You gain many things.

If the True outcome is more common in group A than group B, you get a prior (in the Bayesian sense) which can be measured at low cost.

If you are attempting to identify the aforementioned genetic marker, you get to rule out genetic markers which are equally prevalent in both groups A and B. This narrows the search space considerably.

Throwing information (even imperfect information) away is stupid.
Is it currently down or not working? When I go to http://disrupt.flickmunk.com/ all I see is a white screen with some times listed across the screen.

http://i.imgur.com/hqWmq.png - Using chrome13

Edit: maybe I need to be in SF for any theatres to show up?
I have an HTC Droid Incredible, and I find the touch interface as good as, if not better than the iPhone. Everything works exactly as I'd expect it to, and there isn't any lag while dragging or scrolling.
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Except for the cables that are so cheap that they just don't work. :(
It's a risk but at the same time Adobe has a lot of the same issues to fix as what webgl has. It's not going to be easy for either solution to make a dent in the adoption of the 3D web. Some of the biggest problems with WebGL and Flash will be drivers, security and prevention of abuse.

At least with WebGL you have multiple groups working on solving the major issues. I don't see Flash fixing these things alone.

There also Silverlight that will come out with their own solution but like with Flash I don't see it as an easy win over WebGL.
I'm the author, it was definitely intentional :D