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You can build apps with Visual C# or Delphi or many other RADs with relatively very little coding.

IE a basic wordpad - type text editor with some rich text editing would consist of:

- dropping a RichText control on a form (an empty window), and giving it a name ('editor')
- dropping buttons on the form, graphically placing them, and selecting captions, etc.
- Setting onClick events for the buttons, and placing code to the effect of ('editor.selection.font.style = 'bold';)
I'd like to hear more about the development of these applications. Any chance you'll provide an interview with your developer?
I don't think you need to actually get a hold of the person you want to talk to on the phone. Simply initiating contact like this outside of a job posting will show that you are extremely interested.
What are some potential applications of this?
From the outside it appears that Netflix is reacting late to market forces and business partners. Netflix had seemed to be growing in size and more importantly 'clout'. The 'media biz' is run on relationships, trading huge favors and controlling vertical markets. If Netflix has little influence or trading tokens then it will eventually be marginalized. Blockbuster seemed to be just just what it's title implies for a while, now it seems more like a blip.
I agree with what you that it makes sense, but the message Netflix is delivering tells me that Netflix is headed in the opposite direction of what makes sense.
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I recommend looking at http://theinfo.org/ community.
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I believe under the new law you would need to show you employed your invention as part of a business prior to their filing in order to have a case for prior art.
Ok, I like the pitch but you aren't showing us anything.
Flagged. As far as I can tell this is a standard landing page with nothing to see.
for something so obvious, it took me months of study to distil it this to it's essence.
They've said that x86 apps will not work on ARM:

http://www.crn.com/news/applications-os/231601663/microsoft-...
To start burning DVDs while the customer waits probably puts Redbox in the same difficult negotiating position with the content owners that streaming movies does.
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If I saw a kindle book for $.01 I would have to buy it or feel like a failure for some reason. lol

So, of course, I now own that one.
I disagree with OP's advice about the job boards. Yes, you will be inundated by cattle-call outsourced call centers. Yes, 90% of them will be: URGENT NEED 6 MO CONTRACT 8+ yr experienced J2EE 35.52/HR.

Totally annoying. My advice: get over it.

You want a job, right? Why limit yourself? Where's the harm? Learning to sniff out the bad recruiters from good is a pretty essential skill in this business. I have really good relationships with a handful of recruiters I met this way that are experienced, professional, genuinely interested in my career and not interested in mismatching. Yeah, I had to get burned a couple of times, and yes I've had to learn to filter out the cattle call, code monkey staff aug stuff. And it's great.

Once you learn to filter and know the good recruiters from bad (tone of voice in the first 30 seconds usually gives it away) you'll find that in the 10% non-crap calls are usually lurking some good opportunities.

Flip this around to the recruiter's perspective. 99% of their candidates and contacts are crap as well. If you actually know what you're doing and have a decent resume, there's a significant percentage of these recruiters who will be thrilled to find you and may actually have some interesting work, if not now, down the line. This has happened for me on a number of occasions.

If you want to avoid annoyances, by all means avoid the job boards. But if you're on the market, don't limit your options by snobbery or fear of annoyance. Learn to filter your calls and sift through the dross -- there may be a great opportunity in there if you're patient.
OK. And Windows on ARM won't run Amiga apps either. You and I both know that's not really related to what the poster stated. The poster said that ARM will only run Metro apps. You can not run x86 apps and still run non-Metro apps. And you can run x86 apps, but not run non-Metro apps. It's a completely orthogonal statement.
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I don't believe this to be the venue for sharing landing pages with no useful information.

While it's here, though, that top viral bar seems to seriously cheapen the page. It looks tacked on, and the Gentlemen Square logo is suffering from its size.
Your interface looks quite similar to some drafts I made a while back about a similar system. I'm still not sure if red, white, & black are easy to the eyes - I think blue is better.

The "Leads" page looks very confusing - there's a lot going on and I'm not sure where to focus. More whitespace would make it easier to digest. A better solution would be to hide the things I don't rally need to see right now (for example, all the contact info for each of my leads), as long as they are just a click away. You also need search.

More important however I still don't get it. What is it exactly that you do? How can I discover clients through you? I do find my self bookmarking sites that I intent to contact for a redesign/consulting gig but never actually do it - is this the problem you are solving?

ps. have you looked at toutapp.com?
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I remember that when a movie became available for streaming if it was in your DVD queue, you would get notified in the UI. I don't know if that is true anymore?
'distribution of traditional desktop applications will proceed as usual. “Open distribution: retail stores, web, private networks, individual sharing, and so on” will be allowed, Microsoft says. Metro apps, on the other hand, will be “Distributed through the Windows Store. Apps must pass certification so that users download and try apps with confidence in their safety and privacy. Side-loading is available for enterprises and developers.”'

Sounds like this only applies to Metro apps, which will probably fall just as flat as Windows Phone 7 did.
Completely anecdotally, I've had a few hard drives fail (some spontaneous, some due to physical abuse that solid state hardware would tolerate) and never seen a power supply go. I suspect that power supplies are something where cheap ones will fail a lot and good, expensive ones will outlive the person buying it. Hard drives, on the other hand, have a decent risk of failure no matter how much money you spend.
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Well, I suppose this is all right if you want to have a no-malware curated garden, where the high priests tending the Great Machines tell you what software you can run, and what software is good for you.

I'll keep driving and turn down Linux Lane, thanks.
I think 'tzs actually is an IP lawyer (or studying to be one?) and here's his largely-positive take on this bill:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3011427

Much is being made out of "first-to-file" vs. "first-to-invent", but the name is scarier than the actual practice. 'tzs explained that one too:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2976041

His summary, paraphrased: first-file is as accurate as first-invent, but cheaper. In particular, it seems to be subject to less legal uncertainty.

Broadly speaking, the only reforms to patent law that really matter to startups are the ones that foreclose on patent trolling. Patents take longer to issue than the event horizon for most startups. In the 5+ years you'd wait to get one --- an award that merely offers the privilege of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars and many additional years to initiate lawsuits --- you'll already have proven your company or not.
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I am an n-th year PhD student in sociology running a one-hour(!) seminar for our incoming graduate students. My topic is "Why sociologists should learn to code." I have already covered the reasons in the abstract but I want to give a quick overview of "thinking like a programmer."

Obviously, I am creating a supplementary document that goes into more depth and suggests next steps, but if you were a non-programmer social scientist, what might be some of the concepts that would make you think "oh, yeah, I definitely need to do this"?
Apple -> IOS -> App Store

Google -> Android -> Android Store

Microsoft -> Metro -> Windows Store

The computing world is clearly going all vertical, all the time, and I can't be alone in being fed up with it. I think this locked-down environment that Apple has persuaded everyone to be comfortable with is eventually going to break down. I can't see any compelling reason why anyone would build 3 versions of their service to support the mobile platforms, and deal with 3 gatekeepers, 3 ecosystems. It just spreads any single developer out too thinly to be feasible. We are definitely going to see HTML5 mobile websites really starting to gain a foothold, because it's the only way to escape the gatekeepers and build a unique brand.

See Twitter.com on an iPhone for a great example of how a lot of mobile web apps are going to look. Apple, Google, and Microsoft can collectively go suck an egg.
Just what I thought google should know. I felt like they don't already have enough data - I hope I can input my CC number and google wallet will decide what I need for me and just buy it. Living the dream...
I think the main problem is that in brave new world of "connection is everything" landing job is really really hard if you just sending resume thru HR/normal process. If nothing you should always edit resume based on the job posting (so you can match lingo used in the posting) - but chances that the resume will land on managers desk is near zero (it like sending unsolicited business plan to VCs...)

The most efficient way to land the job it to establish direct contact with hiring manager (or somebody in the team). I.e., pay $50 for linkedin so you can send email directly saying exactly what you want ...
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It's a good thing that Silicon Valley = The World, because otherwise half this post wouldn't have made any sense.

HN's "Who's hiring" thread, yeah that works. And I think the amount of hiring managers in the Netherlands who know Github is below 10. Sure, some years may fix this, but right now, the advice in this blog is painfully regionally specific.
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I just started a postdoc at NYU and have been forced into using Blackboard to teach my class. Inspiring alternatives can't come fast enough.
I'm flagging this too. Nothing but a "Email me when it's ready" landing page. Does not belong on HN, imho.
All completely valid advice however most find job boards a chore so my advice is designed to be a preemptive measure to save people from the standard route of job boards.
The name was the result of a 5 hour long brainstorm with a friend. It was difficult to come up with one that somewhat made sense and was available. I have about 3 pages of scribbled out words and ideas. He proposed the original idea of "shared squared". All variances of that were taken, but I liked the concept of using "squared" and being able to draw a graph with "y = name^2" on it. Crowdsquared.com was available so I went with that.
they've also given up on the complete Netflix brand recognition. Going with a completely new name is going to lose all the loyalty they built up. While you can get movies from practically anywhere would may Netflix unique was there streaming and DVD services. This is deadly instance of creating multiple targets for yourself, they were deathly stronger together.
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Wow, what an incredibly large step towards censorship. Considering that Metro is arguably half of windows 8, I see windows 9 not even having a desktop mode in which case you will be able to run no app that hasn't passed the censorship filter.

It's a shame, I was really liking a lot of what windows 8 was bringing to the table too.
Well, the full list makes it seem a lot bigger: http://research.google.com/pubs/papers_by_year.html

But considering they have over 25k employees, it may not seem a lot. But given the depth and quality of such publications, I think it is quite a fair number.
Funnily enough I'm based in London and a lot of the advice is UK-centric. Granted Github has limited exposure outside of the US & the UK but I am not versed on Dutch standards so I'm afraid I would struggle to offer advice!
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Also, a clean HTML5 template: http://sampleresumetemplate.net/

I just print to PDF from there, and attach the result.
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I woder why US negotiators are authorized to put forth any treaty that infringes the rights of the public greater than current law?

Probably for the same reason that congress doesnt read the laws it passes.
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Only the first one seems to mean anything. (And the zeroth.) The third one he admits is a joke.

The second one can't apply to something that can't make decisions autonomously. The only orders you can give it are very specific ones it's programmed for. And if you've programmed an interface to do something and it doesn't do it, that's so obviously a problem that we don't need to discuss it.

0 and 1 mean more, though. Interfaces should protect the user from their mistakes, so long as they don't prevent the user from accomplishing their tasks by doing so. This is trickier than it sounds since that much power is hard to bubble-wrap. Protecting the entire web from bad decisions is even tougher. Designing a protocol is hard. You practically have to be clairvoyant to foresee all the possible problems.
This was useful back before known_hosts got obfuscated for security. Now not so much.
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That's quite an accusation. It's incredibly unlikely that PC Magazine is risking the FTC going after it by publishing something paid for by AT&T without disclosing it. Frankly, that was an unjustified attack to discredit without providing a compelling counter-argument or other evidence.

Moreover, 40Mbps isn't unrealistic on an empty network for an absolute maximum. Average speeds of 22Mbps seem realistic given Verizon's 16Mbps performance and the fact that Verizon probably has a couple million customers on its LTE network. Likewise, Verizon's absolute maximum is 50% more than their average speed. On an empty network, I'd expect more divergence in speed from average to maximum making AT&T's ~85% difference believable. Likewise, if you visit wireless forums, you'll find plenty of Verizon users posting their maximum rates over LTE and seeing similar speeds.

And these tests were being done using Speedtest.net run by Ookla and endorsed by the FCC. While I don't know the specifics of how it works, it is the standard in testing broadband speed. Without evidence that it can be tampered with, I'd listen to the FCC.

The real question is how AT&T and Verizon's networks will hold up as more customers come on board. Last quarter, Verizon sold only 1.2M LTE devices. AT&T has just started selling LTE devices. We might see the speeds of both networks lowered as the number of customers on the networks increases.

Many people dislike AT&T. PC Magazine is testing an unloaded AT&T LTE network and a mostly unloaded Verizon LTE network. These numbers seem very reasonable given those conditions. It doesn't mean that AT&T will remain at these speeds or remain "better" than Verizon (if your purpose is to defend a cherished carrier). It's simply an initial test of an unloaded network that shows promise for the network. Whether that promise will be realized or not we'll have to wait and see.
I'd say resume working on it because this was one of the things that inspired me to put together conferenceroundup.com when I came across flightm8 on Google Maps Mania
Ah. So these people are responsible for japanese, greek and formulas in my capchas.. they should really have a "I can't type this" button for more efficiency.
A corporation; here, it's meant to refer to the Blackboard Learning System, which is Blackboard's course management software. Students can log in and view assignments, readings, etc. that faculty post.

It's closed source and <opinion> a colossal pain in the ass to use.</opinion> The institution I work at recently switched away from it to Moodle, which is the big open-source alternative (which, in the interest of full disclosure, I think is pretty great).
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Previous HN discussion about a different report of this same finding:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3011044
if that is their intention they're going to be an far rude awakening. Netflix's subscription-based model will never support the new releases that are currently offered on pay-per-view sites. They are now also going to be competing with cable companies who will most likely always beat them with new releases. They should've just made their DVD operation more efficient. The intangible value added to the company is completely underrated.
"All apps for ARM are going to come through the Store, which means they’re going to be Metro Apps."

– Windows president Steven Sinofsky
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2011/09/13/windows-8-on-arm/
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That's not true.

The #5 paid app in US Music right now is I Am T-Pain, which is the 116th most popular paid app overall.
If this comment ended one word earlier, I wouldn't have downvoted it. 'tzs's comment was superficial. Yours was uncivil.
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This is the one feature that Trusted Execution Technology (TXT) does not provide. We really wanted to have something like that for a security type appliance, but it is impossible. The only thing TXT provides is the ability to prove to a third party that you are running an unmodified version of the software endorsed by them, so they can avoid sending their valuable content to a device controlled by you. It doesn't help you to ensure that the device will only boot software endorsed by you (or anybody), only to prove what software is running to somebody else.

But one should probably be lucky that that functionality is missing...
My school used eCollege, a Blackboard competitor. From what I have heard from professors that have used both they are both on par with each other in terms of being absolute shit.

When I was still in school the students attempted to push the administration to go for an open source alternative called Moodle which is miles ahead of anything else.

Speaking of Blackboard, apparently some security vulnerabilities were found: http://www.scmagazineus.com/zero-day-holes-found-in-blackboa...
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I think Netflix has basically two kinds of customers: mainstream customers and long-tail customers. The mainstream will be fine with this, but for those of us who like to draw our content from the long tail, it sucks.

My wife and I were on streaming-only for a few months, but last month I upped our account to streaming+DVD again for just this reason -- the stuff we wanted to watch just wasn't available, and didn't look like it was going to be anytime soon.
Linux is more secure than Windows due in large part to its openness and the security-minded users. Like all software, however, flawless logic does not equal secure software, no matter how open source it is. The user is the biggest variable as this does not prevent him/her from misusing the software (even if it was flawless). Both software and user would be negated on a fault-tolerant platform - which does not currently exist.
I am not sure how inspired it is, but Sakai is a very good open source alternative to Blackboard used at many Universities.

http://sakaiproject.org/
I just knew that someone would use the "a storm is coming" quote. Let's see if this piece of software will shake the universe…
Very interesting article; although here's what I think gets missed when folks teach and talk about Philosophy since Russell: anything that smells even vaguely religious just doesn't count -- don't read it -- too spooky, too irrational. The only reason Greeks get away with it is, I think, because nobody takes the Greek gods seriously anymore (or at least no one is worried about too many people doing so, and causing trouble in the name of Zeus!)

So no King Solomon, no Vedas and probably no Confucius either, as secular as he tended to be.

You mentioned at the end of the article that"...philosophy was hopelessly intermingled with religion. It didn't shake itself free till a couple hundred years ago..." I'd have to counter that philosophy without religion is generally new, hollow and unworthy of much study -- which in some ways I think is your point.

I'm genuinely curious: Why (or if) you think that this decoupling is a good thing? So few other disciplines (only Religious Studies, and perhaps The Arts) ever touch upon the idea of spirit at all -- which I think is at the core of Philosophy -- the nexus of Sapience and Sentience. If one is not a fan of religion on principle (its over-adherence to both dogma, and dominance are two criticisms that I have), then certainly this is a strength of Philosophy -- the decoupling of religion from matters of the spirit/soul. Spinoza's The Ethics; and Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil are two interesting books for students of Philosophy to consider.
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Does anyone know what software was used, to make those two allocator flowcharts, in the above blog entry?
I came up with judg.me because I noticed how most of us often wonder not about how "hot" we look, but how others perceive us. E.g. how differently would you be perceived if you had a faux hawk as opposed to being bald? Do those glasses make you look more "nerdy"?

In the interest of usability, users can currently be judged on only 2 scales (or "continuums"): the social scale (introvert->extrovert) and the intellectual scale (dense->smart). Users judge you based on how sociable and intellectual they think you are.

I'd appreciate any comments or feedback. Thanks.
One can get that microcontroller around $5 a piece with larger quantities (e.g. 10k). Also, the AT91SAM3U has a high-speed USB peripheral. So, the extra circuitry for the serial-to-USB bridge is no longer necessary.
Oh jeez. The only way to make that fair would be to require that people employ the invention as part of a business prior to suing, too.

But of course, that won't be in there.
How much of the 72 hours was spent on the video? For someone like me without any animation/video editing experience, it would probably take up most of it.
Thanks. That is definitive.
Any big data application where the majority of the working set changes continuously and requires more processing than just "bucketing".

The example Twitter gives here is for trending topics, but Storm is basically to message queues what Rails is to CRUD web apps, and so you can draw use cases from eg everything Tibco and JMS are used for today.

Storm is nothing you couldn't have done a year ago, or ten years ago, with a message-oriented architecture. But it has a very attractive feature, which is that it bakes in all the fiddley details and problem solving Twitter did while scaling it to their architecture. Systems like this tend to be easy to prototype and a nightmare to mature and manage, so that's not a small feature.
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