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And kicking on Redhat for providing support is just lame.

Redhat develops just as much if not more as other people and free software developers. From Linux the kernel to gnome Redhat is a company that performs work, and for that they earn alot of money.

Unlike his other examples of highly unethical companies leveraging benefits on others misfortunes.

Highly unethical reasoning confuses the author from noticing difference between a successful scalable business and a succesful scam.
This may be true of Dell, but not all businesses are run that way. It's a choice, the result of what kind of customer experience you want to sell.
In the uk, u will be lucky if people want to pay over 300pounds a day(a day means 8-9 hrs) for ios dev.
> Also, I'd imagine Apple would've been slammed for rejecting an app which claims to be donating proceeds to charity so it'd be less controversial to let it through.

You have a front-row seat to that now, the app has been pulled.

I'm sure they'll use the 'donating proceeds to charity' as the reason why they pulled it.
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Thank you both _delirium and bermanoid. You have managed to express my sentiments exactly, but much more eloquently than I could have.

I am always so frustrated by the notion of "the market is always right". As if a system with billions of complex actors could somehow be described like a first order linear system, that will always find a stable equilibrium.
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Wide ranging curiosity, more like. I don't have any plans to buy, build or otherwise influence a house in the foreseeable future.
There is, and ought to be, a difference between 'wrong' and 'illegal.'
OurLabel is a fan-driven record label where fans earn rewards for participating in helping produce new music.

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More people use "I'm Feeling Lucky" than probably realize it. I don't know how it is today since I've got so much stuff wired directly to keywords on my install now, but it used to be that if you typed a non-URL into Firefox's address bar, it would run an "I'm Feeling Lucky" Google search for you. I think they changed it a few versions back, but many people (myself included) messed with the 'about:config' page and got it back. HTTPS-Everywhere seems to mess with this though. I should fix that.
Apple just took it down - here's a screenshot of what it was http://i.imgur.com/hnCMx.jpg
They care about protecting their own content and using the law to do so where possible - you can not logically infer from that fact that they care about copyright or the law more generally.
It reminds me of Joel Spolsky's 80/20 myth article.

"80% of the people use 20% of the features. So you convince yourself that you only need to implement 20% of the features, and you can still sell 80% as many copies.

Unfortunately, it's never the same 20%. Everybody uses a different set of features."
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000020.html
Originally it was just PIGS, standing for Portugal, Italy, Greece, Spain. Ireland got into financial trouble later on, and was then inserted into the acronym, forming PIIGS. No idea why it got added to the middle, but Italy was definitely in there first, so by convention they get listed in that order.
A philosophical perspective - Ask yourself this:"why do you want to start a startup?" Is it to make $? fast and lots of it? If so, then just rehash old startups and make a new one with a twist (another photosharing app, file sharing app, etc) - new startups today are all a mish-mash of some sort. If $ is not your immediate answer, then it must be drive/passion - something you want to answer/see because no one else has that is disruptive. In all honesty,the "next" big thing will take time and patience and you will need your drive and passion to keep it going. Other 2 things I want to add: think outside the box - step back and look at it from another way that no one else has; don't stay complacent with the status quo. And, finally, take calculated risks. Good luck.
Students may also influence people doing something broken.

Nice.
His argument was: if the only two things your class does are take in a string when constructed and return it on demand, you don't need the class.
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On the video you have an Indian Rupee as one of the options but in the actual webapp, it's not there. Instead I have South Korean Won. Is it because I have the korean keyboard installed?
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Eric Evans' book Domain Driven Design is all about this approach and is one of the best and deepest books about software design. (Disclosure: I worked with Eric for a few years. But that was because of my high opinion of his book and not the other way around.)

Finding an appropriate language/notation for a problem is perhaps the most important step in solving it. But it's also perhaps the hardest. Most software projects don't try. That's one reason most software is a mess.
That depends on how much time he/she can book at that rate.
Impressive, but this isn't related in any way to startups, entrepreneurship, programming, or anything else. To quote the guidelines: "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic [for HN]."
I'll certainly pay. It's a lot cheaper than the paper subscription and Boston.com has a horribly design.
Well, not long ago I remember reading an article claiming that Western capitalist globalization of trade and mass-production caused food prices to drop to such a degree that poor third-world farmers who don't have access to economies of scale cannot compete and make a profit. Now someone is blaming Western speculative traders for raising food prices. My point is, no matter what happens, someone is going to blame the West. Rich people are such easy targets to put blame on.

> which is most often detached from "real reasons based on the facts on the ground".

If that was the case, then why doesn't someone with more access to "facts on the ground" make a huge profit by betting more accurately given this knowledge? Perhaps the speculative market you are talking about actually does reflect facts on the ground.
Maybe I will break even, maybe I won't. Maybe I will have to cancel it within a couple of months. But none the less I am certain it will both be informative and fun.

I'm curious, what support costs do you have that would require you to cancel?
While that is cool. You have to realize he's not getting this rate all the time or at least that many projects that can be billed out as such. Pivotal labs can though. I'd know about it, having done similar work in SF. It's unusual. Typically rates are pretty normalized and much lower, however I'm surprised rates are actually consistent across the US despite the cost of living. Makes me feel like I'm working a lot harder for less, which is probably true. That's SF!
The CEO of Samsung denied it:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-02/samsung-electronics...

But HTC could be interested:
http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/WebNews_Detail.aspx?Type=aALL...
There are lots of illustrators. Most don't have money.
Aisle50 (YC S11) is hiring in Chicago
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This job is in CHICAGO.

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Bringing this out again: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2639456

But, even if we magically had the ability to colonize another planet, that wouldn't solve any problems. Did colonization of North American significantly reduce the population of Europe? Not at all. The main benefit to Europe was another trading partner who had different kinds of goods. Which was beneficial to Europe, but it did not solve the kinds of problems people seem to think colonizing another planet will solve.
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That's not the best argument. We have System Administrator's appreciation day and Administrative Professionals day here in the USA.
Not only do I like understanding my tools, I build my own tools. I find abstractions and go after them whenever possible. There is always an upfront cost to this but the end result is a cleaner system.

The understand-your-tools side builds the tools that the make-it-work side uses. The feedback between both sides is important for improvement. The success of the make-it-work side helps to quantify the value of the ideas coming from the understand-your-tools side. It's unfortunate that these two points are often treated like opposing sides.
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Off the top of my head:

-- Factual (http://www.factual.com/), who I really, really like because they want to develop an "open data platform"

-- Wolfram Alpha (http://products.wolframalpha.com/developers/) licenses their super-amazing API

-- Twitter (through Gnip) licenses their data to users (http://gnip.com/twitter)

Now, in my opinion this kind of business model is awesome for a few reasons:

1. It's not glamorous. No one says "whooooo I want to develop a data API and license it!" Everyone is too busy developing a Facebook for cats or whatever.

2. It's really, really useful. If you work with data in any capacity, you know that an API for said data is much better than scraping data from HTML. Even the HTML-parsing modules in Python/Ruby/Perl, which are friendly relative to raw HTML + regexes, are brutal.

3. It's super-interesting. The world has so much unstructured data, and yet this market is (almost) untapped! There is data on almost anything you can think of -- health care records, pedestrian/vehicular/retail traffic, food consumption -- and you'd only need some thought, maybe a few data-collecting tools, and an API to make it useful.
I know people like Instagram because of the filters and such, but is it cool otherwise? I mean, I've got it installed on my phone, but I hardly ever take pictures with my iPhone (3GS, maybe that explains it?) in the first place.
I'm sorry, but: the position of a transit bus at a given point in time is not really "private" data. Neither is the number of parking spots open in a City garage; or the meter rates of parking meters.
These aren't me, but to give some perspective, I know of a bay-area consultant who charges $200 per hour for JavaScript related work and by all accounts is well worth it. I know of another that charges $150-175 for GWT development.
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Love the funkiness of your idea/site....do wonder what's the average bid...though...:-)
Hello,

It was an attempt (from a non-native english speaker, so maybe the literal translation from french did not have the same exact meaning) to feel like "There's a sense of urgency for me to go there, I can feel, I know this will be good, for me, for the project" => the "have to go" has since been replaced / complemented by an explanation on the page.
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My point isn't that you should apologize -- why should you? Any more than Sun should apologize for Java, or Microsoft for .NET Sometimes shit needs to get done, and people need to make things happen. Google is trying to fix some problems; no big deal. You see "Tower of Babel", I see the free market offering alternatives.

And don't be so quick to dismiss the likelihood of other browsers adopting Dart... If I'm not mistaken, IE supports Javascript, right?

Let's argue languages based on technical merits, not how or by whom they were developed.
The other way of approaching this may be to pivot it towards a general discussion on the state of the market in different sectors, regions, etc.

For eg. I know that atm iOS developers based in San Francisco or the valley can charge out around $1500 per day.

I also know that on-site web development work in Australia (Sydney) can fetch $150+

These are both from friends of mine who are experienced developers and who can work and complete a project on their own.

I also learnt today that the discount on working remotely can be large in some instances. (30%)

Interesting takeaways to get from other HN members would be what areas are hot at the moment (for eg. javascript web app dev), where the market is hot, how clients are being found, etc.

I am getting back into the market after a few years of fulltime employment and taking time off, so I am trying to get as much information as possible in order to get back up to speed.
People like pie charts.

How do I know? Because they ask for them.

You're analysis for why pie charts are inferior at conveying information compared to other forms of data presentation are thus moot.
you must first define "harm to society". then put two groups in isolated environment. first with tv second without tv.
I didn't see this the first time, so I'll just give my feedback on this one. I glanced at it for about 15 seconds, which is probably longer than most average users will browse it for.

What are the "recommendations" that you offer? If I tweet once a month, and don't use Facebook, what exactly are you going to offer me as a recommendation? Even if I used those services a lot, what are you recommending? Restaurants, movies, books, etc?
Apple doesn't sell Web sites through Safari. It does sell apps through the App Store.

There's quite a bit of difference in responsibility when money changes hands.
I agree. A lot of times the contractor who built the system will either (a) see the value in the data, and put in a clause walling it off, or (b) try to obfuscate the data so it's not easy to get to, so that they'll get more money to free the data.

SF's MUNI had a huge mess on its hands with the whole NextBus thing. Eventually the developers prevailed, but this is SF, where you can't throw a stone without hitting some developer. Imagine the situation in not so tech-heavy cities.
They're making lots of money, so it's working.

VC firms are making lots of 2&20. Mostly 2. Performance for VC firms has been poor since 2001.
you really needed to create an account called "salarypoll" just to answer this?
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No Beatles for you EU adds 20 years to music copyrights
No Doodle for you, get back to your BDD lean cloud-backed, mobile first bootstrapped startup! Stop messing on HN or your accelerator/angel investors will take away your shiny new MacBook Air.
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Google's Dart (Dash) to Replace Javascript?
Part of me sees Watson as a marketing gimmick. Statistically-driven medicine has been around, and effective, for decades but doctors don't trust it. Part of me thinks that Watson's future-cool AI patina makes it a "good tool" even when its efforts could probably have been replicated with a database, a short manual and a month of experience.
At the end of the day its the job of the manufacturer to ensure that their product performs to the specifications they set. If the customer decides to use the product in an extreme environment, and the product fails to perform as desired, the customer will blame the manufacturer, even though the product was never designed to work in such a scenario.

From the manufacturers perspective, it could be deemed cheaper to write "single-purpose" fixes for such scenarios, versus responding to the backlash of consumers which decide to use the product in such scenarios.
If you don't understand how something works, you will never understand why it stopped working.

Lesson #1 from my car hacking hobby.
You don't need to go back to a pie chart for that. On the chart above that I created there is a clear 50% line in the middle. If necessary, it could be darkened to make the mid point more obvious.
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SteerMouse does this as well, and much, much more, from the mouse itself, it's $20 http://plentycom.jp/en/steermouse/index.html
I consider a tool that requires me to dig too much inside its internals a bad tool, and a tool I can't start using, even if in a very inefficient way, after reading 2 minutes of quick start, a tool that is not good for me.

The problem is that learning to build/configure/use XYZ is almost always a wasted effort, it is not like learning a new algorithm that will be useful knowledge for decades, so if the effort is too big I consider it wasted time.

Examples of tools that are not easy to master but that I'm trying to learn well are vim (it's 15 years I use it), and git. Both tools pay back a lot, and in the case of git it is hard to learn not because it is hard per-se, but since you are learning general concepts about distributed VCS, so it's not a wasted effort.
Yeah. I watched 4 hours (the first 4!) and skimmed another 10. Sadly, I missed it live and had to rely on what I found on the net. (Wish some help from people here and other sites.)

Watching him build the raycaster was a 'whoa, I definitely need to up my game' moment.

It also made it clear that he knew every aspect of game design inside and out.
I was more thinking about the "experiment" of posting the numbers. If there are no numbers to write about :)
Maybe you should give your actual reasons why you need to go there, what you intend to accomplish?

On another note, you may wish to consider hooking up with a corporate sponsor, I'm sure there is someone out there that sees enough value in what you provide for who $1500 is pocket change.
In the modern sense of the term, that is true. However, one could certainly make an argument that Oliver Cromwell, et al were fundamentalists, as well as the original settlers of Plymouth. You could go back even further in time and apply the term to various Catholic orders at certain points in history.

All that being said, I was just using his term (in quotes) for the sake of continuity of conversation, and it was not my intent to lend credence to his application of the label "fundamentalist" to 18th- and 19th-century missionaries.
// I actively avoid the nightmare. I don't want to spend my time figuring out which bad decisions, bugs, and corner cases made it behave in a certain way.
I usually do that too. But am beginning to wonder, if i should not. If only to understand bad design decisions made by others and be wary of making them my work.
> "the billion-dollar question is why mobile handset manufacturers bother to play ball with Mountain View at all."

If the smartphone revolution has taught us anything, it should be that you don't just flip a switch and build a competitive smartphone OS. Microsoft and Palm both created very polished, capable, user-friendly and robust operating systems that have gone nowhere.

The Android situation isn't all roses for all partners. But there's a considerable amount of work involved in even attempting a fork and a considerable amount of risk.
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Extended ASCII isn't a proper term either. ASCII is 7-bits, that's all. There's no 8-bit extension to ASCII. Extended ASCII is really more like "some 8-bit encoding that shares the first 127 values with ASCII" -- and there are plenty of such encodings.
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Ok HN, what's the best book for learning this stuff? My criteria are: rigorous is good, but so is fun. Bonus points for anything a hacker would appreciate, such as computational applications or exercises.
I hesitated adding this but a few of the reviews are actually obviously pretty poor and some would actually hit the level of libel. Here is an interview with the creator:

http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2011/09/13/tumblr-tuesday-...
The "fun" bits of client work are when do_something has a non-obvious but critically necessary side effect for products with even-numbered SKUs issued in 1997 from the Chilean subsidiary, and this fact is either a) known to one guy who retired last year or b) so blindingly obvious that it never needed to get written down anywhere.
I like to upvote a lot. There are plenty of threads here where I post nothing, but upvote the comments that I learn from. I especially like to upvote comments that

a) provide useful information (especially those that link to other Web resources, or that cite high-quality dead-tree books or articles);

b) ask follow-up questions about a parent comment to ask for sources or to clarify what the parent comment means;

c) say thank you to someone who was especially polite or helpful (I usually say thank you just by upvoting silently, but I also upvote other people who say thank you in a comment);

d) remind participants of the site's guidelines or how to participate in online discussion constructively;

and comments that

e) link to previous discussions of the same submitted link or closely similarly issue on HN.

I figure the best way to improve the quality of discussion on HN is persistently to upvote good-quality discussion. I also downvote "comments that are (a) mean and/or (b) dumb," on the advice of pg's thread-opening post

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403696

of 162 days ago. And I visit the new submissions page

http://news.ycombinator.com/newest

to flag new submissions that are spam (which make up the majority of what's visible on that page to anyone who has showdead turned on).

Upvote the good. Follow the example of the good. Share facts politely, and HN will be a better place for all participants.