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A few things: You position your app as a "collaborative editor", yet it took me almost two and a half minutes on the videocast to even get a look at it. I know you want to show how easy it is to sign up, but is that really necessary? You're not selling a sign-up/sign-in page, you're selling your service. Furthermore, if I were selling an app that does collaborative editing, I wouldn't harp on on the whole "revision control system" angle. It's redundant knowledge - I know it's there by seeing the amount of dates & times (and it's also briefly shown in the videocast), so I'll use it when I need it. See how Wikipedia does it: They don't go on and on about how each page has a "History". All that they do is put an "edit" button on each page or page section. Less in your face == much happier users.

Next, when I read the description, I was thinking of something like MS Word, online, with multiple people working on the same document, yet it comes across as an ajax-ified blog engine: "Version 1 by Nick today at nn:nn pm" isnt really information I need staring back at me at all times.

Some nit-picks: I would edit out the breathing-into-the-mic. No offense, but it's kinda grating :) And Charlie sounds kinda bored/indifferent...
...okay? Neat, I guess.
I don't follow how CDs, FDIC insured or not, wouldn't be affected by inflation in exactly the same way cash would be. Say you buy a $10 CD that pays 10% after 12 months. Within that year, the dollar is devalued by 50%, but your CD still only pays out $11, even though you'd need $22 to have the same purchasing power.
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"Your savings is protected by the FDIC up to 100k per acct."

http://www.fdic.gov/deposit/deposits/insuringdeposits/

"The basic insurance amount is $100,000 per depositor per insured bank."

Unless your accounts fall into multiple categories, you'd need to spread your 100k+ over a number of banks in order to be protected in it all. Although, this makes me wonder what happens if you have accounts at bank A and bank B, and then bank B buys bank A, how are you insured then? More information at fdic.gov.
I love my 335i coupe, but I think I would trade it for a Tesla in a heartbeat. I am so excited that a company is embracing alternative fuels (electricity especially) in aims of making a supercar.

Gear shifting slows down a vehicle, regardless of how fast it is, since you're disconnecting the engine from the powertrain. It also is another thing you have to bother with while driving.
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Yeah I agree - I know they are not totally encumbered. Think it's more of a question of buoyancy. If SPARC deploys were to drop off it might be enough to drop below the waterline.

I guess I should have said that Solaris is actually being eroded on two fronts - On the x86 architecture they are under growing threat from Linux (and Windows). On the SPARC front Solaris is still a mainstay, but the SPARC market is being eroded... That is to say, if SPARC goes into serious decline they are in trouble.

SPARC has a good multicore strategy, but remains to be seen how this progresses. Again, a key market for this is financials (e.g. hedge funds like these architectures).

Solaris/SPARC still deployed in a lot of scenarios where (1) midrange is required, (2) it's a vendor requirement and (3) where there is security paranoia (e.g. Internet Banking, particularly in the DMZ) - Not saying these can't be achieved with other architectures, just the correlated factors I've witnessed.

Unfortunately, most of these are holding positions rather than growth areas. You're right about RHEL in the financial industry - particularly as Oracle is now more at home with Linux. It used to be Oracle and Solaris going hand in hand (anyone remember Oracles "Raw Iron" strategy?).

Interesting times for Sun all round.
I manage number of Solaris servers for a major university and we face the decision of switching to RHEL every budget cycle. We are already moving some over piece by piece.

I will note that OpenSolaris is promising, and tools like dtrace and zfs, if positioned correctly, can give Solaris better leverage than they do.
Feeling smart? I was just taking a shortcut in the discussion. I know there are no "human rights", there is only the law of the stronger guy. Still there seem to be some shared desires among humans in most societies.

And it is not about feel-goodness, either. We try not to bother our neighbours too much because in turn they won't bother us, either. If you take away some rights from the next person, expect the same rights to be taken away from you the next day.
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The whole Internet economy is small enough to fail. It's still just a tiny sliver of the US economy. And ready substitutes for Google's wares exist all over the place; not as good in some cases, but more than adequate.

Besides, Google is mostly a facilitator of transactions. The might get fractions of a penny from every dollar spent on the interwebs. So if that price is fair, presumably we would just have to pay a few micro-pennies more per item for distributors to find alternative ways to market their goods or spend a few micro-pennies more effort in searching for it ourselves.

That seems wrong to me somehow, as it can be very hard to find some things on engines other than Google. But it seems to make economic sense. Unless we consider the very low "cut" that Google is taking to be an anti-competitive measure?
I don't know how marriage is handled in the US, but in Germany it is more than just a religious or cultural thing. It has several legal consequences, for example if your spouse is unconscious in the hospital, you are (officially) only allowed to visit if you are family. There are also tax breaks for married couples etc. I think the legal reasons would be a main reason to marry, after some point, the state basically forces you to marry because it is kind of stupid to not be allowed to visit your ill spouse.

Personally I despise the hypocrisy of the state when it forces a certain value system on us with the marriage laws (like tax breaks for married couples - so the state takes a stance against unmarried couples for moral reasons).
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That blew my mind, too. An amazing hack.
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Marriage is not a religious idea. It is a result of evolution, like everything else. Being a couple makes it easier to accomplish certain tasks. There are also animals who "marry" for life, it is just a strategy to cope with certain problems. Therefore cultures with marriage seem to have prevailed in the evolutionary competition.

Religion is just the handbook for a society (like the "turnkey" instructions manual for a McDonalds branch), therefore it includes marriage.

Also, I am confused: you are not religious, yet you style yourself as a supersensitive guy respecting the feelings of religious people. How about respecting the feelings of your son?
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Once I was in a large organisation and needed access to an RSA SecurID service that we ran.. Problem is, I had no idea who owned it... So I asked RSA, and they put me in touch.

A lot of larger organisations are moving to a more social networking model to connect employees - there is a lot of potential for startups in these domains.
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"It also is another thing you have to bother with while driving."

I think that's what makes driving fun.. you have greater control of your cars actions and are in touch with it. I could never see myself driving something where I never have to touch the shifter once its in a forward gear.

As for the speed issue, you're right, it is slowing it down. (granted new paddle systems make that 60 milliseconds like the F430 Scuderia) But the Tesla only has 1 gear, which doesn't like going much past 100mph.
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He talks about "Grand Theft Auto IV" as though it were a Software Dev Management Training course.
Towards the end he talks about outstanding games and how there should be re-makes of those.
What 'libraries' are you talking about in specific? Or are you just rehashing stuff you read on slashdot?
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Is it just me, or do others simply not have enough time in their day to read a Steve Yegge article?

He's a good writer, but wow, those posts are long!!!@
"While I did try out Ramaze a few months back. I had a hell of a time trying to setup the ORM. The documentation has a looong way to go compared to other frameworks. So far the best documentation I've ever had the pleasure of reading is CodeIgniter and Django.

I would love to use Ramaze on future projects but unfortunately it's documentation needs work."

Ramaze does not have an ORM. While I see a trend towards using Sequel, it is not part of Ramaze, is not shipped with Ramaze, and so you will not find much docs about it on the Ramaze site.
oops. Sorry about that. Fixed.

PS. Your email address is not posted either.
Why should anyone, or a collective entity, sit idly by while things are being said and done that they do not believe in?

Everyone is so indifferent to everyone else in this day in age. Why shouldn't Google (at least their executive board) be able to say that they feel strongly that gay marriage is a right that should be had?

Your style of thinking is a dangerous subconcious attitude that has crept across our nation since the latter half of the 20th century. Stand up for what you believe, because if you don't you may lose out on more than just your rights.
"It also is another thing you have to bother with while driving."

It still surprises me how few manuals you see in the US, It's as if people aren't interested in driving + getting the most out of the car. If you don't enjoy driving, why not get a driver. If you enjoy driving, you want a manual.

Nothing worse than speeding up an on-ramp, and the car refusing to budge out of 2nd.
I think we need a web app and perhaps a start-up to address this important repose thingy ;)
This could just be me being "picky" but it is customary to post comments against the original posting rather than add a new HN post.
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So you support "seperate but equal?" That was the winning attitude of our nation for about a century; and that turned out just dandy!

Why should polygamy or polyandry be outlawed? If multiple people feel they love each other enough that they wish to be bound by the legal act of marriage, who are you to say otherwise? Who does it hurt?

This concept of marriage and single sex partners is not only anti-evolutionary, but is only backed by religious nonsense. Granted some animals wish to be this way, but why should anyone say others cannot?
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Analogous to Lotus versus Excel Spreadsheet Market http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9893
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Was that ice on the screen at about 5m?
Really? Then I must have had "THE idea" at least 20 times this year...

Ideas are a dime-a-dozen.
I used to have some depressed moments, but after a big tragedy in my family, i realized i had no time to waste, and if i ever had any depressing moments, they were rarely longer than a day or two. Apparently work heals pain fairly well, it distracts you from the depressing thoughts and the productivity gives you a feeling of fulfillment and satisfaction, but the side effect is that the work is hard and frustrating. I could say that im "crazy", but not in the medical meaning.
Assuming you are in tech, you should probably think differently about this problem.

Instead of focusing on whether people could like it or not, do a test to see if people actually want it or not by implementing a very simple and non-committed version (kind of like what Google Labs is to Google's product line). If people like it, you will have your answer.

You probably have ideas like this all the time, so make a list and try a few of the more promising ones. But don't put all your eggs in one basket if you don't have to.

Also, stop worrying about people stealing your idea. Assuming you are sitting on a pot of gold, it's not about who launches first, but about who gets the right people to use that product first who get the prize.
Fantastic. An excellent of example of "doing with a dime what any fool can do with a dollar."
This research seems to overlap with their near neighbors at PARC, esp this paper (which isn't cited by the Stanford group:

http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~echi/papers/2008-hypertext/2008...

THe PARC group's blog:

http://asc-parc.blogspot.com/
Exercise, absolutely. I also give myself tasks that require occasional updating but that have pretty brisk, definitive closures. A big one for me is my iTunes library: I sort the music in it, find album arts. It gives me something to do, something to occupy my mind, but it's something that beyond the first excursion never takes very much time.
Looks nice, but I much prefer continuous (not block-based) collaborative editors, like SubEthaEdit.

Having to switch between blocks (or create new ones) isn't hard, but that slight effort required breaks up the "flow" of editing a document.

I haven't seen anything quite as good as SubEthaEdit on the web yet.

http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/
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>You're right that there is a lot of choice. But most people who like to use Linux actually see this as a big plus.

By "most people who like to use Linux" - realize that you are talking about 0.5% of the desktop population. The market could be a lot bigger if it were easier to find one's way.

>When first wanting to get into Linux, the best option is to talk to someone that you trust

And what about most of us who are not acquainted with anybody that uses Linux on a regular basis?

>But my point is don't assume that all Linux distros even care how popular they are, or care about competing with any other OS, because many don't.

If their goal is not being popular, then I would say they are succeeding.
Thanks for the feedback!

The screencast sucks. We know it, and we're in the middle of redoing it. We threw it together quickly because we'd heard from a few people who wanted to demo the service to bosses or co-workers, but thought signing up for a test account was too much effort or "commitment". We want to get people over that activation barrier.

Suppose we had an extremely short video that showed only the live multi-user editing, and ignored the permissions and revision control features. If you were a business with a use for a collaborative editor, would that be compelling enough for you to sign up and try it out?

For people who want "MS Word, online" Google Docs basically has it covered. We don't want all those Word features -- we just want live sharing that isn't painful, which is the one thing GD doesn't manage. I take your point, though, that we're trying too hard to emphasize our own feature list.
What are the advantages of Solaris and RHEL in these settings over FreeBSD? Is it all about commercial support?

I've found FreeBSD to be a nicer environment from a few aspects - better man pages than the GNU world and less SysV-vs-BSD cruft than Solaris. But my perspective is based on my experience as an operator rather than any big-picture considerations.
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To me, it sounded pitifully uninformed, like the author was a Marxist who once read a summary of Keynes.
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I love SubEthaEdit for single-user editing. It's built into Coda, which is my preferred web development app.

http://www.panic.com/coda/

For collaboration, continuous editors drive me nuts. Someone inevitably winds up typing over someone else. It's tedious in SubEtha with just two users, and gets worse with more users or with the added latency from web apps.

We're trying to impose just enough structure to eliminate collisions.

Any suggestions for ways we might soften the hit to flow?
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Solaris x86 vs RHEL is a no-brainer from a budgetary perspective.
This is really old, and I'm glad to see it's been cleaned-up, in the sense that a lot of the ideas he had that I really disagreed with and thought were actually clumsy are now missing. I'm happy he's saying this and I know many people are working on this exact problem, including some of the people I admire most, such as Alan Kay.

I disagree strongly with one statement: Programming is not Mathematics. I know what he's trying to say, that the View/Controller of the language shouldn't look like mathematical expressions. But the internal model IS mathematics. That's a big difference.
I have wondered for years why Yahoo haven't attempted to use del.icio.us as a back-end for some sort of search engine. I don't think it requires any great leap of faith that searching for a combination of keywords that numerous people have already tagged the page with indicates it's relevant.

Hell, even improving the searching in del.icio.us would be helpful - basic ability to sort by number of people who have saved a page would be incredibly useful, for example.
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This also happens to be the title of a novel by Wallace Earle Stegner, for which he won the Pulitzer. Now that I know what the phrase means in engineering, I'm sure to have some great insights into the book. If I ever read it.
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I really enjoyed reading it, but it just reinforced my feeling of disconnection from normal gaming. I hadn't played a "play it sitting in the dark alone" game in 4 years, but the last one was GTA3. So I bought a 360 and a live account to play with friends across the sea, and after diving into GTA4 for a solid week I found I not only didn't really enjoy it at all, though I sure did experience a lot of adrenaline.

Listed the 360 on craigslist yesterday and back to a much more interesting game (life).
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No, really, I totally took the fact that the server was down as proof that there is a god, and the bible is correct, and Sarah Palin should be the next president.

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