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Vista itself may not have been crap, but the whole Vista experience certainly was. In addition to the artificially lowered requirements, drivers were a huge problem. Because they changed the driver model, drivers frequently weren't available (at least at first) and when they were available they were frequently buggy. That may not directly be Microsoft's fault, but if your Vista is blue screening, you don't really care who's fault it is.

You can see the same with with corporate IT departments: many of them decided not to upgrade to Vista. Why bother when Vista has marginal improvements with lots of bugs? Instead they stuck with the rock solid XP and waited until Microsoft (and the vendors) fixed things (Win7).

I expect corporate IT will view Windows 8 the same way: Metro is a big headache they'll want to avoid. They aren't going to be deploying Metro apps (at least not at first) and they'd probably disable Metro to avoid confusing users. If Microsoft is hoping to make Win8 the corporate standard, they'll have to do it via tablets. Presumably if everyone is using Win8 tablets, they'll eventually want Win8 on their desktop/laptop. Otherwise, I'd expect many IT departs to skip 8 and wait for 9.
We use and like postmarkapp (http://postmarkapp.com) for their email API. You might also want to add Zend Framework (http://framework.zend.com/) to your list of PHP frameworks. If you are looking into agile, I did some research and I personally like Pivotal Tracker (http://pivotaltracker) for agile management, it makes implementing agile incredibly easy. LESS (http://lesscss.org/) is interesting if you have any interest in dynamic style sheets (also plays well with node.js if you go that route. Hope that adds to the discussion, I'm definately looking into some of the stuff on this doc.
This is one of the biggest reasons Linus Torvalds refuses to re-write the Linux kernel in C++ even though he is repeatedly pushed to do so... in C++ a whole bunch of things outside the file (templates, operator overloading) can make it so that what you're looking at doesn't do what you think.

In C, what you see is what you get. :)
Especially since I pay $25 a YEAR for 256bit AAC streaming audio to all of my computers and mobile devices. Spotify is simply too expensive.
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My main issue with adopting Gowalla was that they never let me actually use it.

Their Facebook Connect was broken for months—it'd bring you to a text error page; their app crashed repeatedly (and apparently is still doing so on the 3GS with their new update.)

Very frustrating user experience.
Well, now I am curious. I wonder what sort of app it is, and I wonder what % of those 100,000 registered users are active users. I've been looking for an excuse to use Stripe for payment processing. This could be it. Shoot me some details. randm.prgrmr@gmail.com
Or just use python on google appengine and forget about the rest. It comes with a template engine, memcache, tasks, crons, big table, etc.

When they say batteries included, they really mean it.
I think you win the nerd award for 2011.
I love the Spotify iPhone app, but when I've compared their selection to Rhapsody, I find that Spotify is lacking much of the music on Rhapsody. Right now I'm paying the ten bucks a month for both, but I need to curtail that soon. Do I take selection over user experience or vice versa? If they paid 45 million Euro for the number of songs they have, I assume Rhapsody must have paid even more! I think the clear victor here is the music industry.
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No! Consider this number:

0.101001000100001..... (continue the obvious pattern)

This number is irrational but there is an obvious pattern to the digits. The pattern is not random. It's an open question on whether or not the digits of pi are randomly distributed. If so then what you write is correct.
Wow, you must really hate pg and patio11. They spill about everything openly. What attention whores, amirite?

These types of blog posts are merely confessionals with learning points attached that the confessor hopes the reader would find salient. You apparently didn't. And...?
I've never understood the Red Hat hate, either. They were the first commercial distro that was fully Open Source, and they've contributed more to the kernel, and Gnome, and a number of other projects than any other organization, and continues to be the single biggest contributor to a large number of projects.

I generally can't afford RHEL, though I've deployed it in the past for clients who wanted a commercially supported distro, but I get most of the benefits of RHEL by running Scientific Linux or CentOS on my servers. And I run Fedora on my laptop, which is still my favorite desktop distro, by far (I keep trying Ubuntu, every couple of revisions, and finding way too many things to hate about it).

Anyway, I think Red Hat's success is a great thing, particularly for companies trying to make a living in the Open Source world (which mine happens to be).
I think you missed the part where he says they had no coders as founders, and also the part(s) where he says "don't do this".
Really sorry for that. I can't edit my comment anymore but it am aware that is a mistake.
Maybe you could ask Thomas Hawk.
i sorta think this is dumb. these are all true, but superficial. this piece doesn't touch on any real, deeper reasons that well-intentioned code is unmaintainable, like excessive and unnecessary state & implementation inheritance.
Is this actually considered arbitrage?

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

While the 4th credit card company he applies to has imperfect information about what his credit is (at that point) actually worth, it seems like all the deals are independent.
This is huge, if it's true. But where is the source? Sprint doesn't seem to have released anything about this yet.
"too expensive" for what?

Spotify's draw for me was more than the music selection or quality. It's more than just a streaming music service—I use the playlist sharing/collaborative playlist editing features heavily, and I like the general UI/UX on both iPhone and OSX.
I would definitely want to visit Cheers if I visited Boston, it was a part of my childhood. I think you're totally underestimating the value of the place.

There a phonebox near my house that's pretty run down, cleaned once a year, smells of pee and often has those seedy cards in it. It's not well maintained.

But it's constantly being photographed by tourists. Every time I walk past it there's someone taking a picture.

Why? Because it's one of those classic red booths and you can spot it if you're visiting Nottingham Castle.

Tourists can love stuff that looks mundane to the locals.
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Credit card debt is, in most states, entirely dischargable in bankruptcy. So while it would be unethical to take on all this debt specifically with the purposes of squandering it, the CC companies are extending you an unsecured loan. It's really not all that bad of an idea, provided you can survive a bankruptcy and a few years of exceptionally poor credit.
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So far, though, Wayland currently can’t do much more than this: (video)

What the hell was that? We've been seeing much more impressive videos than that since last year...

e.g.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R3n7W_wfzM
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tornado.database has no real ties to the rest of the system; you can (and I usually do) use SQLAlchemy or another database layer instead. You can also call another template engine if you prefer, but you're sort of stuck with the url routing.
Scammy to ask me to link to FB, give you access to everything, then make me "wait for an invite" or try to get 3 friends to advance my spot.
The last time I checked there is nothing on github's TOS page stating that your code must be open source. You could, hypothetically, include a LICENSE stating that while the code is public, it is still copyrighted.

Of course, I'm assuming if you have legal/contractual restrictions against open source, those restrictions also apply to making code publicly viewable.
Very, very, very hard.

You almost certainly know that already, so here are a couple more remarks just for fun:

One useful technique when making pseudorandom number generators is to take two not-so-good RNGs and combine their outputs (e.g., adding them or XORing them). If the two RNGs have different enough "structure", the combined generator can have much better statistical properties than either of its two components. The fact that it's much harder to prove anything about pi+e than about pi or e individually is rather like that.

But even proving that pi is irrational is highly nontrivial. (Proving that e is irrational, on the other hand, is a fairly easy exercise. Sketch: suppose e = p/q; then q!e is an integer; but q!e is the sum of a series whose terms are initially integers and then abruptly positive numbers small enough that their sum has to be between 0 and 1; contradiction.)
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Maybe I'm missing something but how is this even arbitrage? If you were just putting the money into an interest bearing account and repaying before the interest rate kicked in then yes it would be arbitrage (if you could even beat the 3% fee) but that wasn't happening here.

The author was just taking the 0% rates and using them to fund his company which didn't work out. There was never a guaranteed upside to this which is what you would expect with arbitrage.
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I thought the same thing (about 2000 & NT) but then it occurred to me that those versions were (I believe) considered part of the business-oriented (rather than consumer-oriented) NT line, so maybe the list above is reasonable.
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A function call in a for loop's conditional is practically C best practice. K&R do it on almost every page.
I'm always happy to help folks, particularly folks helping teachers. A bit busy this week but will get back to emails eventually.
I didn't sign up.

I've already signed up for Snapjoy, and a slue of other photo apps. I went to your page and couldn't figure out what your product actually was—what the value add was.

This was compounded by the fact that your "handwritten" font choice is impossible to read : "hackers pet invites faster" is what it looks like at the bottom.

Your "Sign In" button is below the fold—this is going to hurt user engagement and confuse users who come back. When I load up the page, fullscreen, on my MacBook Pro, I don't see a "Sign In" button at all. http://cl.ly/2j1S1n1V0Z1f3G0K2D3j

Finally, the "Free with no Limits" thing is scary—especially because, as I mentioned above, I don't know what your product is. The biggest issue and worry with services like these is that you put in all your photos, expecting them to be maintained forever, and then the service goes down in a week. Lots of similar worries were flagged when Snapjoy launched—it might be worthwhile to read their HN thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2861515
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I'm friend of one of your developers. I've had alpha access for like a month or so. I've chatted him a bit about the project, but I'll give you some feedback directly.

In short, I think your project is cool but I don't think it is for me. As far as I can tell, you're trying to do a sort of dropbox-style thing, except with images. That's pretty cool (especially the unlimited free storage), but for me I am not really interested. I just don't see the purpose of putting things into the cloud, just because. I have a lot of local storage, and the local storage is faster, and (usually) larger, and not very expensive at all. Sure I run the risk of losing my pictures to a hardware failure, but I mean, oh well, guess I won't have my curated 4chan content anymore.

Overall I think this is pretty cool.
> But today, when a programmer sits down and writes a C program they must sit and think out what they're doing and why

That's true for any programming language. Sadly, far too often, programmers are unable to afford taking the time needed to think about what they are doing or understanding what happens under the hood of the libraries they link against.
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> {foo:{bar:"Something",baz:"Else"}} should be _foo_bar=Something&_foo_baz=Else

This makes sense, but is not what I or the author was suggesting. Note that it is somewhat repetitive (foo appears twice). In contrast the new suggestion simply has an possible ; to disambiguate these possibilities.
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Stripe is pretty impressive. I was able to build payment integration into a side project of mine in about 4 hours.
If you know what kind of structure each argument will have, the variants O-Rison and A-Rison further cut down on the parentheses. For example:

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Looks pretty natural to me.
Generally everybody says you shouldn't start a start up on credit cards.

What he went for is the advanced version where you can get free money if you stack the cards correctly. It is difficult to do, but companies and financial investors do it pretty often.
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I wonder how many peoples keys ended up looking like penises...
Less profitable space? Is check-ins profitable at all?
I had guess 100-200 daily active.
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Thanks for the mention @jadedoto. You're correct, we're not running Android on our screens, but there is an Android port for MT4j, the Java multitouch framework we use: http://www.mt4j.org/blog/index.php?entry=entry110404-105831 If this Android x86 port comes further along (and there's some way to do remote administration for Android), maybe we can start developing for Android first, and porting that over to the large screens.

On the hardware side, one of the unfortunate limitations with most large touchscreens in that price range is that they only accept 2 touchpoints. For most applications, that's sufficient, but Martin mentioned that one of his goals is to enable multiple users to simultaneously interact. While the opportunity for that is a bit limited on his Acer screen, the larger screen size alone does make it easier for two users to view the screen simultaneously, and it's easier for them to alternate in usage without passing the screen back and forth.
Thanks for the feedback, we'll try to make stuff more clear on that page. Clear writing is hard. Thanks for the pointer to Snapjoy discussion too :)

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Having used their services, i think the "No BS" motto is fitting. Unless they start marketing their new offering as "revolutionary and magical", i 'd say they are still "not bullshitting" people.
people sentenced to life are not just quietly forgotten in some corner of a dungeon.

a life sentence leaves open the possibility of having the evidence reexamined and of exonerating evidence emerging.

from http://www.innocenceproject.org/Content/Facts_on_PostConvict... :

> There have been 273 post-conviction DNA exonerations in the United States.

> ...

> • 17 of the 273 people exonerated through DNA served time on death row.

> • The average length of time served by exonerees is 13 years. The total number of years served is approximately 3,524.

how would putting the other 256 people on death row instead have improved error rates?
The early adopters and innovators will switch based on whether they believe what BankSimple believes in. However, I agree that in order for the tipping point to occur I need to have a compelling reason to do all the leg work of switching. Unless, BankSimple comes up with a way to do that for us.
I don't get Github profiles as resume enhancers. They're impossible for many decision makers to navigate, optimized for reading code rather than supporting the decision to hire you, and make you look like a commodity coder on a site full of talented commodity coders.

If I were to have a hire-me page, I might link to code on Github, but it would be supporting documentation that no one would actually read after they got through my five minute hire-me spiel.
(founder here) We're not trying to be scammy, it's more so that when you do finally log in, your photos will already be there. But yes, it's definitely something we should work on.

You can easily skip that step though, no harm done.
that's €10 million revenue per month, right?
I wish they'd figure out how to make their web site work. This morning I've spent quite a bit of time trying to change the settings of one of my domains: every time I chose it, they'd come up with a page with a pink background and an uncanny ability to replicate itself. You could eventually catch a glimpse of a link and follow it, but it was not easy. And forget about doing it with a browser other than Firefox.
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They paid €45 million of licences in 2010 [1],

Per year.

and 2 million subscribers is probably close to €10 million revenue.

Per month, right?

And may even higher than that, because Spotify Unlimited is Euro 4.99, but a fraction of the subscribers also uses Spotify Premium at 9.99.
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A bit suspicious, maybe? I was trying to suggest the unsigned issue without actually spelling it out, not anything to do with side effects.

I probably should have used sizeof, even though that doesn't make sense there.
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The impact of an occasional slow query is mitigated by the fact that you're running multiple processes. You need multiple processes anyway because of the GIL, so just run a few more to make sure you're able to keep the CPU busy. An async DB interface would be nice, but as long as you keep your database performance under control it's not crucial, so it hasn't been written yet.
Like I mentioned, most users don't come back. 100,000 users have registered over last 1000+ days (I still have their email ids in the database). Only a small fraction are active. New registrations haven't slowed down though.
I've seen $750/day at some convention centre in Winnipeg. Outrageous...
So, you pay the equivalent of two traditional CDs worth of music for a year of audio. That sounds like a pretty good deal, actually, even if it is streaming.
> Not quite ready to associate my real identity with my evolving side project on the tubes (for several reasons at this point)

It would help if you listed the reasons.

Would you be willing to reveal your secret identity at some point? Why or why not?
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Well sure, but you've got quantifiable product/market successes. For someone in a more one-dimensional role the spiel might not be as easy. Some folks really just want to be a dev on a team of devs, and github is a great starting point for a technical interview.

You're right though, github doesn't optimize its presentation for the resume use case. There's plenty of room for other startups (see my Work for Pie plug elsewhere in the thread) to take that information and package it especially for hiring managers. StackOverflow Careers does a bit of that, too.
To me this resembles how network locked mobile phones work in some ways. In the end we will end up with unlocked hacks, or legit ways to unlock an OEM machine either after some time has passed or to allow certain non-MS products.
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"internal twitter"? What's that?
There are a few good reasons to make a launching soon page. We made one because it allowed us to determine some visual standards for our actual product (branding, site layout, etc.) and we're using it as a way to find our users.
We created a competition that lets people vote on where we launch first. We're actually going to move to which ever city wins. It seems to be working. I think people like the idea of having control over our future.
If you’re going to request email addresses, I recommend playing an angle like this or offering something. In the past we’ve asked for emails for nothing in return and we got basically zero.
Has anyone tried Rdio? I've tried both services (as a paid member) - and I really think I prefer Rdio - even though Spotify tends to get more media coverage. Rdio has a web based player (huge for people that can't install stuff on their work computer). They also have an iPad app, and I find both of their iPhone clients about the same. I haven't tried either of their services on Android... but I'll assume they have the same feature set as their respective iPhone clients.

Rdio also has much better music discovery services.

All in all - I really want to know what the Spotify hype is? (I want to use the best service, so if I'm missing something - please let me know).
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The irony of this is that I have just cancelled my Spotify account because tracks I have on my playlists have disappeared due to I assume various problems with record labels.

It's utterly annoying when you sit down in the office and the first track you go to is gone.
I first heard of this in Bram Cohen's (bittorrent) PyCon keynote in 2004 (?). He basically started bittorrent the company this way.
Rhapsody doesn't have a free version, other than the trial period when you sign up. Spotify does, but has to pay the labels for their usage too. So Rhapsody in all likelihood paid out the the labels a lot less than Spotify.
Really? And where's the call to action for that? I see a text input box, two buttons for Sharing on FB and Twitter. I also don't understand the significance of the 1-2-3 step indicator. From a UI perspective it doesn't tell me where I am.

Why would I share this to my entire social graph, risking my reputation, if I haven't vetted the product?
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