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> Just one example that is particularly painful for me: it's still impossible to build a high quality code editing component on web platform. There are many valiant attempts but none that approaches the speed, quality and convenience of the best desktop editors from 10 years ago.

Cloud9 and nide are really pretty competent editors, just because someone hasnt built the one application in a way that satisfies you does not mean the platform is dying.

> Another one: you can't build an ssh client as a web page because there is not enough socket support. You can do it by going through your own proxy, but that's not secure from the user point of view (you could spy on his traffic without the user knowing it).

CORS is supported in all modern browsers
It is extremely expensive in the US for small companies to provide health insurance for employees. Not as horribly expensive as individual insurance, but still outrageously high.
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In the original joke, there's three envelopes. The second says "reorganize".
Kind of depends on what code you're talking about. Some "failed" startups may have valuable code that can be sold or licensed out, even if it ends being somewhat of a firesale. Others may tuck it away on a backup or project folder and never revisit it or only pluck away some useful bits here or there. Others may use it as a template for a completely different business just to "get an app up and running" if what they had prior had some similar pieces.

Finally, some may decide to open source some or all of the code. As was mentioned, it's hard for others to use it, though, since it is rarely the case that a startup's codebase is going to be pretty and easy to get going and using, versus some nicely structure, re-usable OSS library.
For years Flash held a dominate position on the web. Without Flash YouTube who knows how long it would have taken for something like YouTube to be created? That stagnation is a fundamental problem.
In practice the two kinds of leave are treated differently even if they're from the same pool since vacation has to be requested in advance and sick time usually cannot be requested in advance. Unless you can schedule your accidents, injuries, and infections 4 weeks out.
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Hippie communes don't always seem to have that down... You'd think with the excitement over compost, they'd be able to figure out things like "clean" and "sanitation"...

Note: Not directed at all hippies.
Reminds me of the Battlefield 3 announcement earlier this week.
One the perks of being a regular at my usual Starbucks is that the barristas will quite frequently comp your drink if you buy a 3-pack of Via. With the Via being about 19 cents cheaper than my usual drink, it's a win-win for my wallet, and the barristas' sales quotas. Not sure how Starbucks itself makes out in that deal though.

My desk drawer at work is full of Via packs.
You could do that, or based on what the author of the article was saying, you could just charge more for anyone that wanted Windows 2000 support.
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This plays into the argument that the iPad is a toy -- I disagree with this. Firstly that was the critique aimed at the first generation of PCs back in the day -- they were hobbyist's toys and if you wanted to do real work use a mainframe. Next I've seen friend in the real world who attach a keyboard and park themselves at coffee shops and get actual work done. One should also keep in mind that this is the first generation of these devices, my bet is that we're at the very start of a real change.
Right, but the problem is what do you do if you have no one to observe? That's where Running Lean makes sense to me. Start with highly structured interview scripts and hypotheses, and piece together data by limiting the possible set of answers.

A pivot for consumers sounds like a great idea, but we all know consumers are more fickle than professional audiences. Turns out teachers behave a lot like consumers, which I should have figured out much much sooner.
I think makerbot industries has a better marketing angle, price just above a grand, aimed at tinkerers to create.

Unless the goal of origo is to print in a re-printable material, their target market shouldn't be for a piece of the play-dough market comprised of elementary school kids.

I can easily say i wouldnt buy either, i just dont have the need. If i was going to prototype something i would probably use shapeways.com or another 3d printing service.

http://www.makerbot.com/
http://www.shapeways.com/
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Ex-salesforce here, in full agreement. Who you know has a big role to play in most acquisitions, but quite important for a corp culture as unique as salesforce. In all fairness, knowing the team & culture well (and seeing a close fit), helps mitigate the risk that the acquisition won't take.
Ya, this is my thinking also (i.e., not designing it myself). I know a few very capable designers and will likely enlist the services of one of them.

I can tweak an existing design (barely) but my visual originality begins and ends with stick figures.
Something like this I guess? http://www.highcharts.com/
Sorry, still learning the HN ground rules. No more one word comments.
I'm going to try to get an example + docs out in the next few weeks.
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Why can't it be both native and web apps sharing the application space together? Each have their own strengths and one does not necessarily have to dominate over the other. There will always be use cases where a native app makes more sense and vice-verse. There is enough depth and breadth in the applications domain to allow both of them to thrive.
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I'd say this is completely and utterly overshadowed by Google's hangouts API allowing you to embed content in a hangout... their first example was shared Youtube video watching.
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This is starting off on just the mobile hotspot plans but is expected to roll over to phone plans soon as well.. probably in anticipation of the iphone coming to sprint... that's my guess at least. Apple has to ruin everything :(
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One thing these discussions seem to be slipping into is "the web" vs. "native" while skipping the fact that "native" is not a thing, it's a collection of (competing!) things... and they all also run web apps.

Until one native platform captures more usage than the browser, which is impossible unless platforms start to drop the browser, the web will by definition be dominant if dominance is measured by addressable market.
If your employees are doing that it's time to clean house.
I know right? All my friend on Facebook are talking about Google's new hangouts API. Nobody has even mentioned the new ticker and if they like it or not!
But then I have to imagine that the tentacles of all these services intertwine in such a way that introducing G+ to Apps may not only cause G+ to fail but also supported Apps services.
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Microsoft made a killing by being second to market, except maybe for BASIC when they started. Operating systems, second (or third even). Applications? Second. Graphical interfaces? Second (and I remember when Microsoft was the David to Apple's Goliath in the "Look-and-Feel Lawsuits" of the mid-80s). There's not much Microsoft was first at.
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So what? I've been Native App-free for months now. I encourage everyone to go without using native apps for a few weeks. Unchain yourselves from Apple's closed, flash-hating club.
And what happens when the AZ goes down? Don't you lose data then? Or do you mean multiple machines across AZ/region?
Every time I read one of these (Github, Etsy, ...), I feel a bit guilty that our tiny startup doesn't do continuous integration/deployment. I mean, we git push to Heroku to deploy (maybe once a week), but there is no automated push once the tests pass. It seems like this is a big psychological leap (deploy every week vs deploy every hour).

When does setting up something like Jenkins CI become worth it? When you have 2 people? 10 people? 100 people?

Is there tons of custom code to set it all up with Github or whatever deployment scripts exist? What CI systems are dominant? (I'm mostly curious about Ruby-centric ones, but don't really want to bias responses.)
no, the google maps thing isn't a ranked search result, it's a onebox result

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/07/google-onebox-resul...
> This is more than the cost of full coverage through the national healthcare system in Japan.

Wait, what? I'm curious how you can manage to pay $120 for full coverage in Japan. I'm currently unemployed and will have to pay Y45000 (almost U$600) a month for national healthcare. When I was working I had private insurance provided by the company and of course the company paid part of it, but my share was still way over Y10000.
Beside some technical mistakes, this kind of job advert really makes me want to work there. I prefer transparent companies that pride with a good developer workflow.
"There has never been a version of Flash that hasn't piece a complete piece of garbage when it comes to stability and performance."

YMMZ. I'm using Chrome right now and I'd say despite playing lots of Flash games and watching players that use Flash, most of the crashes that happen are due to the browser.
It's nice hear, but it has its drawbacks. Victoria is as intellectually dead as you can possibly get. Plus it has aging, moneyed entitled boomers. A lethal mix. As they say, Victoria for the newly wed and nearly dead!

Upisland has loggers, retirees and drunks (duncan). Just saying, if you come here know what you're getting into.
Comox valley is nice, and is starting to attract smart young families. One of the best developers I've ever met moved his family there to get away from the cost of Victoria.

Just try affording housing! Plus we have students squeezing you on the low end.
I think the "Apple love" comes from timing. Y combinator and HN itself really came into their own around the same time as when the iPhone was born. So you have a boat load of hungry entrepreneurs and a brand new hyper popular tech that gives them a very clean shot at a startup with a simple business plan: "We'll do X for the iPhone". No matter how mundane or boring X may be it was a wonderful business plan to sell. Then on comes Google and makes everything complicated again - no more one OS, one plan, tiny team etc. Android makes everything harder for these entrepreneurs many of whom had limited Mac oriented skill sets. And at the same time as it does that, it seems less lucrative into the bargain. Google killed the iPhone entrepreneur's dream. I think some amount of bitterness comes from this.
I love it when companies eat their dogfood and make it work while having the employees not hate it at the same time. That says a lot about your product.
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Yeah, the Justin.TV guys did for $250k on Ebay.
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We've just recently had this discussion (you & I), and I'm reasonably sure that this is not in fact universally true: that there are plenty of places where continuous group coverage does not translate to insurability on the private market.
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It depends what they're looking for: Facts, insights or opinions and news on startups. Here's a list of items which i've always liked. To be honest you can get so much just from reading Hacker News.

Books:

Founders at Work
The Lean Startup
The Four Hour Work Week
Hackers & Painters
Getting Real - 37 Signals/Jason Fried
F'd Companies (Maybe not crucial but helped me think about startups needing to fulfill a need/fix a problem).

Articles:

http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html
http://thestartupfoundry.com/
http://avc.com
http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/
http://steveblank.com/
http://onstartups.com/

Market (Raw startup information/links):

http://betali.st/
http://angel.co

Interview Specific:

http://foundation.bz
http://mixergy.com
http://thisweekin.com - TWI Startups or VC are both good shows.
YC Startup School Videos (Not exactly interviews but great).

Startup News:

http://thenextweb.com
http://techcrunch.com
http://readwriteweb.com
http://venturebeat.com
http://gigaom.com

Update: YC also has a library of information here too: http://ycombinator.com/lib.html
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Some great nuggets of wisdom from what is obviously a very high-throughput and productive team. Zach always has something very interesting to say. The beautiful slides are a nice plus as well. What are you using to make them Zach ?
> I haven't lived in any state for more than 6 months

What do the grey nomads do? Here in Australia, you can specify an electorate where you are deemed to "live", even though you don't spend any time there. It ensures everyone can vote.
This means it doesn't cover things like 'seeing a doctor' or 'getting antibiotics for a lung infection', which is why I need to cut a check to the urgent care center I visited a few months ago when I was in-country.

My admittedly unpopular opinion is that that's exactly what health insurance should be. It should protect you from major unexpected expenses, and you should take care of minor expenses yourself. That's how insurance works for everything else: you don't expect your auto policy to cover oil changes or minor dents, or your homeowner's policy to pay if you accidentally break a plate.

If you have an expensive preexisting medical condition that you can't afford to pay for (which unfortunately often includes "being old"), what you need is subsidized care, not "insurance".
I don't mind this (and I am a Sprint customer) so long as I can easily see where I stand at any moment. An app with a "thermometer" display showing my usage would suffice.
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We're almost ready to beta launch an app that we've been working on the last few weeks called Aggresaurus.

From the site: "aggresaurus is the loveable dino that makes it easy to create a customized, real-time social media feed from multiple sources that you can embed on your website."

Essentially, it let's you mash up content from different sources (flickr, tumblr, twitter, etc...) into one feed. Each source comes with the options you'd expect (ie. twitter let's you provide a username OR keywords/hashtags, etc...) and filters can be applied to each feed allowing you to remove posts with "bad words" or negative feelings.

We've got a lot of other ideas that we're currently working on implementing to make the site easier to use and the feeds more effective. Right now it is just a landing page, but we were hoping to solicit a little feedback on the site design and general direction as it is.

We're also hoping to send out a few beta invites to test our backend in several weeks so if you're interested feel free to sign up for the newsletter and we'll send out a notice when we're ready.
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Is it a .com/net/org?

If it's one of those random country TLD's not related to your own country or the name of your business, i'd say definitely "No."... if it's a .com/net/org or the TLD makes up part of the business name (eg i.bm, which doesn't exist, but is an example of what I mean) then maybe.
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I like the idea of teaching a chat bot to run various commands for you. Not only is it faster (one place to go), it probably makes it easier to teach new people the ropes. ("How do we do x?" "Tell Hubot to do it.")
I think generally this is a very simple thing to do, by installing a widget for another search engine for instance. Also once you install Chrome on the desktop you get a choice of Google, Bing, or Yahoo as your default.
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There is something in this job posting I like a lot and will steal: the "day in the life" section.

The tonal problem I have with this post is that it is about Dave Thomas. Any steps it takes towards being about the candidates it tries to attract are incidental. Roughly measured, it's roughly 50/50 filtering/sales. Better than most job postings! But in this market, not good enough.

Recruiting is sales. If you can grok the articles telling you not to shove signup forms into the faces of first-time visitors, it should be obvious why you don't want to demand a code sample in your first correspondence with a candidate. Lots of hiring managers will think this is entirely reasonable (the average candidate quality for a dev job is indeed poor), but that's an expensive filter applied way too early in the pipeline.

Also, the graf about health insurance is written evasively. Netflix says "we give everyone $10k; they can use it to buy one of our plans, or handle it themselves and pocket the difference". That works. Not having a group plan? That sucks a lot. If we didn't have one, I wouldn't trumpet it in a job ad. If I had to mention it, I wouldn't write it in a way that begged the reader to ask "ok, exactly how much higher than a normal salary are we talking about?".

My cynical internet self assumes "not enough to cover the huge cost of private health insurance".

(And providing your own computer? I hope that's just misworded, and they mean "we'll buy whatever you want". Otherwise, talk about penny-wise pound-foolish...)
First: Pointers do have a simple real-world analogy. They're post office box numbers.

A given post office box is a container with a fixed size and a fixed number. You can refer to a post office box using that number. You can also do things like say "Get me everything from the four post office boxes beginning with post office box 20." or "Go to post office box 3, go down two boxes, and get me what's in the post office box there."

Finally, you can write a post office box number down and stick it into a different post office box. Then, to get anything useful, you have to say things like "Go to post office box 15, open it and read the piece of paper inside, go to the post office box with the same number as the one written on the piece of paper you just read, and get me what's in that box." You can actually 'chain' requests like these for a long way, with one post office box having a piece of paper with the number of the next post office box written on it. This gets screwy after the third or fourth box.

Anyway, the post office is the simplified notion of RAM your OS gives application programs, a given post office box is a RAM location (byte or word), and a post office box number is a pointer.

The rest of the article is basically "You can program carefully enough to make C programs robust." and that is, in fact, true. I use robust C programs every day, one of them being the Linux kernel. However, the actual debate is over whether it's worth taking the time to be that careful when you could use a different language which makes a lot of mistakes impossible.
This is a good reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_explorer#OS_compatibil...

IE 4.0 was a revelation and IE 5.0 was fantastic as well - effectively it was death knell for Netscape and all competition (earned MS a monopoly suit, but in truth it was a vastly superior browser to anything out there).

They won the browser war. Then, check out the time difference between IE6 and IE7. 5 years. That's where innovation goes absent credible competition.
Just to add more info: they sold Kiko on eBay. And here's Justin's blog post http://areallybadidea.com/selling-kiko
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Ask HN: Is it possible to hire/rent sysadmins on retainer?  If so, where?
I've seen designers and programmers getting contract gigs, but I haven't ever seen sysadmins get the same kind of small-job contracts. Am I not looking in the right places? Or is this an untapped market?

For the people in early startups here, do you hire a sysadmin full-time, self-learn (I am in this camp), or keep them on in a retainer or as-needed contract?
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My company EventVue failed. We tried to sell the code, but didn't get any serious offers. We'd raised 500k in funding so any money we gained from a sale would have gone straight to repaying our investors. I would have loved to have been able to do that just for the long-term goodwill, but financially I didn't have any incentive to work on finding a buyer. The chances of us selling for greater than 500k after the team left quickly approached zero. Good startup founders are usually quickly picked up by other companies or launch into another gig of their own. For me, it was a hard decision to pull the plug on EventVue, but once I did, I wanted to move on as quickly as possible. Wrapping up the last pieces of EventVue was painful enough.

The code still lives on my laptop and I reference pieces from time to time. I would have open-sourced it, but it included a lot of expectations about how the infrastructure was set up and would have taken a ton of time to generalize or properly document. The demand obviously wasn't there or else we wouldn't have gone out of business.

So there she lies. ~100,000 lines of code and 3 years of my life. May she RIP.
While I'm inclined to agree with the article simply based on my own anecdotal evidence, I am skeptical about the results.

There is a very broad definition of what "work" is, and the iPad is a general purpose tool, so maybe a lot of people do "work" on it that, from another person's perspective, doesn't look like work.
Ruby does't have a grammar? MRI Ruby, the oldest and creakiest of its implementations, is parsed with a 6000 line Yacc grammar.
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