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I don't think this problem only applies to Java... .Net has the same problem, and I am sure this problems exists in most languages as well.

This is a problem that definitely needs fixing. It makes me wonder why I haven't spent any time trying to fix it, even if I have spent huge amounts of time building it into applications.
Hey, thanks for the feedback :) If it's not for you, that's fine, such is life. I think it's more for people with pictures of their kids and stuff, they tend to care more about not losing them and having them all in one place etc. Thanks again for the comment!
It looks interesting. I'll have to check it out.
You have absolutely no evidence that he believes what he's saying.

He is a lawyer acting as a PR flack, both professions where many express whatever opinions they are paid to express. It could well be possible to prove that he didn't believe what he was saying. Who knows what emails went around before his testimony.

What he said was certainly false, and he should have known that. For him to not actually know requires him to be competent enough to get hired by a top law firm, and competent enough to be selected by them to testify to Congress, but incompetent enough not to know basic facts about his topic. Such a person might exist, but Occam's Razor suggests that he was indeed competent enough to know the truth, but willing to lie to benefit his client because he (correctly) thought he'd get away with it.
No, it's not even close. I was expecting a story about generating profits with arbitrage, and using the profits to fund the company.

Though inaccurate, the title was much catchier than:

"How credit cards funded my first company"
That would be the most sane solution i think. Is there an advantage to having a readable URI? Browsers are in the process of deprecating the address bar already.
It is trivial to come up with ethical examples that utilitarianism disagrees with the gut-instinct version.

That's true. But the typical formulation for utilitarianism -- "if a trolley is hurtling down the track, certain to kill 5 people ahead of it, is it OK to divert it onto a different track if that will result in killing a single person?" -- is very difficult to talk someone out of.

The idea that minimizing the number of deaths overrides any absolute prohibition on taking a person's life is pretty much impossible to overcome. Hence my conclusion that utilitarianism is, or has become, the default mode of reasoning.
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Thanks! Yeah, I totally see the quid pro quo and to offer something in exchange for emails
Schneidermike on why he is obsessed with location and the SoLoMo movement
I'm a little fuzzy on whether they had to deal with paging or not. At the very least they'd have to mark the pages as dirty, but I think that happens when you mark it as write-able.
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Also, after receiving an invite, I am urged to create an account and then there is "One last step!"?!???! What's the step? Download a tiny program that watches my computer and uploads photos that it finds. REALLY? Yes, I will be skipping that step.

In the app, it seems to have lost my album structure.

On the upside, the app is FAST.

Now, where is the account delete function?
I prefer rdio. I prefer their UI and UX and haven't found much problems with their music selection.
I think the difference between your two products can be expressed much more simply: When teachers buy BCC, they can go to bed earlier, when they buy Knack, they've just opened the door to more clerical work.
I'm applying to YC this round with an idea very similar to this. We're aiming to help locals make travel guides for their own cities.

What other things frustrate you about finding things to do in a foreign city?
I'm not sure when this took place, but prior to the credit market crash, you were able to get risk-free savings accounts at around 5% interest. As long as your credit-card rates were below 5%, I think you could call it arbitrage, though it's value is lost in this case since the startup was burning the cash, not just letting the arbitrage run its course and used the proceeds.

This wasn't a particularly uncommon scheme in the mid-2000's with easy credit and high savings rates. A rough calculation shows that with a zero-interest card (you could generally negotiate 0% cash-advance checks as well) and a 5% savings account, you could make in the ballpark of $450 over the course of a year per 10k borrowed. If you had good credit and could quickly get access to 100k, you'd be making a few thousand for a not much more than a days work + some short-term damage to your credit score, though at that time, credit scores didn't really mean all that much.
The first url extender that insults you.
Adobe is already trying to create a web version of Photoshop. Eventually, they'll get to full compatability but I don't think the web adds a unique advantage to Photoshop; likely they're just doing it to cut down on piracy figures.

One place where the web apps can excel is in replacing 3D modelers. Once we get to the point that the frontend can be done quickly in JS, then the entire backend (e.g. rendering) can be done on a server-side cloud.

Imagine being able to lease server time so that what was a 10hour job, is now a 1 hour job?
I tried them both and settled on Rdio. Spotify has slightly more songs, but it was the focus that Rdio put on discovery that sold me. They didn't just outsource the social to Facebook, which is a huge plus to me. The whole service/design just seems more considered overall.
Back in the mid-2000s, when money-market accounts were paying around 5%, and there were a ton of promotional 0%-balance credit-card offers, people from fatwallet used to use the term "app-o-rama" for this trick of applying for a ton of 0%-balance credit cards all on one day, so that they'd all be approved before the credit score was updated. Then, there were ways to essentially extract the balance as a cash advance w/o it being coded as a cash advance. A few cards (like Citibank's) would let you do a "balance transfer" via a check made out to you, and then you could transfer that balance to others and repeat. The end result was that you could take out a quick $50k or so in credit, put it in a 5% money-market account, and pay it all back 12 months later when the 0%-rate intro promotion would be expiring, netting $2500 interest.

You could also start a business with the cash, but that's a bit higher-risk...
If this whole mess is entirely built of libraries built by this one guy (Ceki Gülcü), can't we just stop him?

:-)
Great, thanks! I knew of timetric, mentioned below, but not about these. I suppose there's a strong selection bias.

The business model probably should be B2B: I imagine the users would be companies that need to do business intelligence, journalists, universities, and research organizations.
> while it would be unethical to take on all this debt specifically with the purposes of squandering it

Actually, in the UK, if they can prove it, it's illegal. Be surprised if that wasn't the same in the West.
My current projects are using GWT and I'm quite happy with it ... it has a steeper learning curve (plus it requires Java skills) but type-safety at compile time is great and it results in a Javascript application.

Under programming methodologies, how about CI/CT, artifact management and code quality analysis? We're using Jenkins (with Maven) for CI/CT, Nexus as an artifact repository, and Sonar for code quality metrics.

Our operational back-end is CouchDB, but our "documents" are defined by EJB3 annotated models, then generated into code that handles the same objects in JSON format. The benefit of this is that we can (and do) export the operational data into an RDBMS (PostgreSQL ... it is great) for reporting and dashboarding. We clearly fall into the NoSQL camp that defines the term as "Not only SQL".

Great start and I hope I've added some useful information to your pool.
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I have much respect for Meg Whitman, but she is not an ideal pick for HP. Her experience is with consumer companies -- eBay, P&G, Disney...Especially if HP spins off its PC business, that leaves the company as essentially a pure enterprise hardware/software play. Don't do it HP.
I don't think the fraud is really worth $50.
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IMO

Banks should be good at doing one thing. Holding my liquid assets. However, history has proven to us that even that is a challenge for banks. Where banks thrive in size, most banks lack in vision. I believe that banks are not software companies, at least not in spirit. Some banks are better at utilizing technology and others are not.

My challenge to BankSimple: prove me wrong.

We have to remember what a bank traditionally is, break that down, and build it from the ground up without the walls that immobilizes it today.
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The HIPAA continuous coverage and preexisting condition exclusion statutes apply to group coverage, not the individual market. There are states where either (i) individual health insurance is regulated as if it were group coverage or (ii) sole proprietors can obtain group plans. Illinois is a large, populous state where I believe neither of those are true.

I'm glad you were able to obtain coverage on the private market, but when I started my company in 2005, I tried to pay for it for my family and various members of my family were declined from every insurer in Illinois. I have had continuous health care coverage since 1994.

You made allusions to our "willingness to pay for the true cost of our coverage"† (my paraphrase) in our previous conversation, which I assure you has nothing to do with my complaint. We weren't charged extra (though an extra charge would have been unfair, I'd have paid it and gotten on with my life). We were refused any coverage.

The solution to this problem was to set up a group plan at Matasano, which we were able to do because (a) we're large relative to most YC companies and (b) we have a full-time finance/contracts person. That solution does nothing for whoever takes the job this thread is discussing.

† You also asked where the perceived belligerence in my last reply to you came from; implying that I'm complaining that I couldn't get a free lunch is where it came from. The implication is particularly irritating because my complaint isn't that the "food" (to torture the metaphor) was too expensive; it's that the sellers decided to starve us.
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I'm happy there is an "open" option and all but I'm sort of put off by their "message" it seems to be very sophomoric statements of "hey hey we're here, look at us, we did this first!" to which I can't help but reply "did what first? what the heck are you actually doing, no i don't want to spend my free time looking through your code or waiting for an invite"
> table[achievement][column]=instance&table[achievement][ascending]=true

Which is way too verbose than some sort of

table[achievement[column=instance&ascending=true]]
The OEM logo is one indication that it works.
Does it support X forwarding? That's a deal-breaker for me.
Mobile Industry Sucks at Pushing Android Updates to Users
Looks like this is jumping the gun a bit - 12AM GMT Sept 23rd is what was communicated on the Qi mailing list.
I have to applaud Gowalla for taking the risk of changing directions with their platform. Although it is a step away from the check-in crowd, their move is in the direction of how I tend to use Gowalla or Foursquare.

If you live outside of urban areas like most people checking in at the same places over and over looses its appeal quickly. The only time I actively use any check-in service is when I'm traveling or at a conference. I'm sure they'll continue to find their way in the new direction, but I like where they're heading.

Stellar design too.
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This list has been around for a while (10 years or so?). Still a classic, though.

The domain suggests something else, though: "THC dot org" :-)

(What are you people, on dope?!?)
Arbitrage is not the same as borrowing money.
There's a difference between learning to code, and learning to code well enough to make something worth selling. If it were that easy, everyone in his situation would have done it already - but it's not.

I'm an amateur web dev and experimental iOS dev, but in the time it would take me to get good enough to build my ideas from scratch, I could've payed someone to build 5 of them.
The freemium model is exactly what I was thinking. And, yes: Rapidminer, Weka, etc, are all on the desktop. Thanks for the motivation.
And then you get a client like me, who points out that the price in Euros in 10% cheaper than the price in AUD because of currency fluctuations in that period, and I would like to pay in Euros please.

The travel agency (in Australia) weren't able to do that for me, however - so it seems their agreement was in a single currency as well. I'm not sure how hard I could have pushed it, because the dates ended up not quite working anyway.
Google Search is also free with no limits. Don't you use them? :-)
Yanone Kaffeesatz, it's available from Google Web Fonts:

http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Yanone+Kaffeesatz
FYI, when signing up the "optional" website address field is actually required.
isn't that Donald Trump's business model?
They usually only do it for builtins (e.g., strlen) and const functions, which makes this example a lot safer.
Isn't this why we have the disambiguators gratis and libre? Or, if you prefer, “... as in beer” and “... as in speech.”
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Spotify is available in Europe as well—Rdio isn't.
Even for ruby you can find many logging libraries:

https://github.com/parolkar/active_log

https://github.com/colbygk/log4r

https://github.com/TwP/logging

https://github.com/relevance/log_buddy

I believe one of the reasons is that logging is not a simple problem, but it is ubiquitous to all applications.

It is not simple because:

1. your logging is usually a crosscutting concern to applications, and is really fit for Aspect Oriented Programming Mechanisms.[1] In language with mixins, like Ruby and Scala, this is not a big issue, as you don't need full AOP to solve this. AspectJ is not really widespread, and adds quite a lot of complexity to a small project, and is not standard Java, which makes a bad situation worse on Java.

2. your logging must be easy to disable, and only compute what it is actually needed. With languages with closures and Ast Metaprogramming, like Lisp Macros, you can do this very easily. Scala is particularly suitable to this, as you can use call by name[2] semantics to make the closures implicit.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect-oriented_programming

[2] http://www.scala-lang.org/node/138
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I had heard of these guys, but hadn't seen their site in months. Sounds like they're doing something pretty similar, which is exciting, because it means they've tested the business model.
Your numbers suggest that a person's best chance of being exonerated is for them to be on death row. A back of the envelope calculation:

17 exonerations / 3251 people on death row = 0.5% chance of exoneration

256 exonerations / 132000 people facing life in jail = 0.2% chance of exoneration.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_Unite...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_imprisonment_in_the_United...

It appears that sentenced to life are considerably more likely to be forgotten in some corner of a dungeon than people facing the death penalty. This fits my hypothesis - execution forces us to think about what we are doing, whereas life imprisonment allows us to pretend nothing is wrong.
Ah, well. It made for some pretty pictures, and a friend introduced me to the best cafes. But your description is more in line with his -- it's been a few years, and if anything, it sounds like those conditions have gotten worse.

I didn't know much about upisland, except some comments that parts of Nanaimo could get a bit rough. I'm not much in need of a social scene, these days, but your description sounds a bit past what I'd be looking for.

I did have a half-joking offer of a job on Gabriola, managing a small tech installation. It would have been a big step down in pay and responsibilities, but the food and scenery would have been great. I guess I never got that out of my head.

Thanks, again, for the description. I'll probably never make it up there, workwise, but a bit of information can't help but better inform my daydreams.
I don't get why everyone is hating on the author for his usage of credit cards. It's not the first time I've heard a story like this, and it's certainly not going to be the last.

I did something similar with an Amex card, and used it to bootstrap the development I couldn't perform myself. As long as you manage the risk and plan accordingly, it's not as bad of a play as it's made out to be.

Also, the author never said anything about bankruptcy, and he seems a man of his word. I didn't get the impression he was going to burn through the cash and then file bankruptcy if it didn't work. In fact, he didn't, and it didn't.

When you have a dream, and you believe in it, you do everything you can to make it work.
Even if you read code naturally, fishing out individual contributions from a Github page is a chore; there are lots of things people can do on Github that will make them appear at first glance to be productive and important.

Lots of applicants give us Github links, and while I'm very happy to have them (please include them), I still have to look at the list of projects and figure out "is this his project, or is it a project he just likes and follows; are these his commits, or is he just backporting someone else's patch" &c &c.

I can't imagine how a hiring manager dev who hasn't used Github before could be expected to make decisions from it.
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Kevin Smith used a similar technique to fund his first movie (Clerks). Personally, I think funding a movie with this technique is WAY crazier than a startup.
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This was down-voted because you attempted to express your opinion as a fact. If you look at even older religious texts, you'll find that murder is not condoned while capital punishment and war are considered justified.

I think I lean towards your opinion ... capital punishment leaves me with a lot of questions, but I also think there are cases where it's clear-cut. I guess I'm thankful that I'm not the one dripping the poison into prisoner's veins.
You're welcome, but I made a similar mistake too until I noticed Raphael being mentioned in the comments ;-)
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I'm especially looking forward to trying the new interface to Twisted and the gen module. I was about to write some async interfaces to things that are currently not - these new modules look like they'll be helping me out quite a bit.
Apple sued by VIA Technologies
Thank you! Didn't know about tornadio.
I feel like this is one of those "how to rob a bank" lessons that you find sometimes from old-time thieves. It shows you how to do something to take advantage of the system, definitely a hacker thing to do, but at the same time its very dangerous and often unnecessary. More than one person is reading this article and thinking "hmm..."
I think this puts a lot of the "put the house on the line" risk back into startups. Say what you will about the time and effort starting a business takes, in this day and age of venture capital, it is almost stupid to get into that situation. Nonetheless, people have done crazier things, overextended themselves even thinner, and had no contingency plan, and become billionaires. Its all part of the game
How is a regular person supposed to determine if a PC will work well with Windows? The logo program is supposed to give some assurance of quality, especially when dealing with low priced systems.

(Although, Microsoft screwed this up in the past, certifying crappy video cards in order to help partners out.)
Regardless of the abstractions you use, buttoning down a C runtime environment so you can be rely on the assumptions behind those abstractions is a chore. There's a pretty famous Mark Dowd Sendmail vulnerability that relies almost entirely on (only- incidentally- sent-) signal timing that I like to use as an example here, but rlimits are another.

The problem is, your code will appear to work fine even if you don't complete the chore. It isn't until your program blows up that it'll even occur to you that there was more work to be done.
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Yes ... they're very powerful words knowing that the person that uttered them chose them as the last thing they'd ever say. I'm also surprised at how many of them mentioned that they could "feel it coming".

I don't think I'm going to get much done today either.
I've tried both and I far and away prefer Rdio. The site can be slow at times but the usability and community make up for it.

And the iPad app is phenomenal.
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Here is a really nice review of our site by Web.AppStorm that came out today if you want a little more info about what we do.

Link: http://web.appstorm.net/reviews/media-reviews/the-wisdom-of-...
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There are projects for running an X server on top of wayland either as a client (like Xnest) or as a rootless server (more like X on Quartz on OSX). Both of those should allow for X forwarding, there's also been a number of projects for doing something more native to wayland but i'm not sure if they've gained any traction.
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I can explain the free with no limits here. We put no limits on the amount of photos that you can upload. We do put limits on the amount of pixels per photo that we'll store. So we may not store your full-size photo (although we'll store a pretty good version), and that lets us offer this for free (storage is really cheap).
this is great advice, but I would add a caveat. Don't become a custom dev shop for that customer. Listen to your custoemr but make sure he remains a customer and not your product management or test/QA function.
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"Die, heretic scum", by Emo Phillips ;-)

(e.g. http://www.godlessgeeks.com/LINKS/EmoPhillips.htm)
If I were to create a short list of bad ideas for HP's new CEO, Whitman would likely be on it.

I really don't understand the thinking of HP's board.
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Thanks nurik! I'll have to noodle the personal aggregator idea :)
We're adding that before launch :) We're gonna add the Facebook album structure back in as well. (founder here). Thanks for the feedback!
I don't think you're right. I think the geeks you describe like new things, and are passionate about the things they like. Some of these new things become 'the next big thing' but a lot of them don't.
Kudos for him knowing that he was using his CC to fund his startup. I made the mistake of not realizing that I was using my CC to fund my business - I was using them for food, rent, and other things.

A lot of 'regular' businesses fall into the trap of building a lot of short-term debt that isn't really obvious - owing their suppliers, owing their employees, and owing the tax man. When a small hiccup hurts their cash flow, the whole stack of cards comes crumbling down.

Or so I've been told.... :)
See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Propp