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The only hard analysis in this post is that enterprises don't adopt corporate IM; they just use AOL IM instead.

First, enterprises do adopt corporate IM. For instance, Notes shops use SameTime. Microsoft shops use whatever comes with LiveMeeting. You don't pay attention to these, because enterprises don't adopt IM from startups. I'm surprised when I meet enterprise IT people who don't have some kind of internal IM.

Second, enterprises don't simply use AOL Instant Messenger; take any 10 of my clients, and 8 of them don't even allow their users to connect to OSCAR (and 4 of those filter GMail as well).

Finally, Twitter isn't IM. Nobody really knows what Twitter is yet. If you had done this same analysis for the retail Internet a year ago, you'd quickly come to the conclusion that Twitter is a stupid idea even for home users. But then, Twitter happens anyways.

Third,
1. Different sites may impose different requirements, and some even more than one. Esp different "secret questions".

2. If you use same password everywhere, you can't selectively share it. E.g. if I want to share the iTunes account with my GF, I have to tell her what the password is.

3. Internet access point user id/password sometimes is given to you. E.g. Farimont presidential club gives you free internet at their hotels, but you need to remember a 10-digit code.

4. You don't want to have same password on digg and on your bank. The probability of password leak is proportionate to its use frequency.
Nope. iPhone seems to be the platform this days - lots of eyeballs and built-in monetization. I'm unclear on how to make money for Java phone apps.

Check this out for good analysis on platforms: http://mobileopportunity.blogspot.com/2008/09/app-stores-and...
How is this long-term? They were tested on recall the same day. Long-term memory would be a month later.

Still, very impressive research - I presume the misunderstanding (or omission?) occurred at the press office.
Sure that wasn't your WiFi network? :-)
I feel misled. The number of hours I was billed (130) for a relatively straightforward sale was way higher than the estimate I was initially quoted.
Comparing a predefined list of pictures to each other is totally different from pre-generating a hash of some sort that can match any image.

An idea I had was some sort of contour tracing, that will track each contrast path in the image, and then create a code the defines it in terms of changes in direction of the contour - that will handle rotations.

You make a large number of those for each contour in the image. Then match new images against that list.
It's true, but it's far less of a problem than it may seem.
When your functions are short it's easy to find out where the error was from the error message.

When you think of all the great stuff Erlang gives you, small issues like these don't matter (and they do get fixed with time, the OTP team is very responsive).

(I didn't mod jlouis down just to be clear.)
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That's not all it drains, am I right? Am I right? Come on, high five!

...

Hmm... I should probably have more karma before making that joke.
Having checked the T&Cs, this is US only
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Additionally, if you continue to hold down the front button, rather than just pressing it, you'll perform a hard reset of the iPhone.
You're using one now. I'm in the midst of launching a site myself (outsourced as I'm in a situation much like yours) but I have 9 years worth of copywriting/marcom/biz dev background. Feel free to shoot me an email and I'd be happy to chat.
I'm guilty of this. Luckily the domains have worked out (either having a use or a friend who wants them).

I was thinking a good iPhone app would be a domain searching/purchasing - specifically because I've had friends call me to purchase names for them when they are out drinking.
sorry, I down-modded you by accident - it doesn't appear there is a way to undo :-(

I had meant to click up but I missed.
Sounds like a scene out of "Digital Fortress" by Dan Brown.
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Have I missed anything?

Yes.

No matter how pretty you make your diapers, they still have your baby's shit in them.

Entrepreneurs want to change their own babies' diapers.
Looks like you might be right from the update he posted on his blog.

http://www.wagerlabs.com/blog/2008/09/erlang-sucks.html#more
This is like Microsoft banning Firefox because it duplicates Internet Explorer functionality.
Voted up because the few times you actually need to hard reset an Apple device, it's bloody far from obvious how you do it.
Or an actual campaign-office network?
There is no way I would hire him. You hire test engineers to find bugs. Just because a bug is found does not always mean it will get fixed (for many reasons). This can be very upsetting. But, it is a reality of development. The last thing I would want is to read about unfixed bugs in some news story.
It's a lot like having your lawyer or psychologist telling all, but about your company instead of yourself. It's unethical.
That seems an odd keyword for the sort of person capable of writing dropbox and for a site like HN which revels in arguments about what kind of threading mechanisms are preferable.

I don't suppose I'd win any favor for saying Offline Folders - you logoff your domain, they sync, you logon, they sync again. It isn't any effort once it's setup. Not even browsing to a webpage or entering a password.
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I read that part time and am not convinced. It's like when people see the image of Mary in a piece of wood or toast. We see what we want to believe.
Yet here -> http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/05/01.html Joel couldn't be more scathing of file synchronisation, writing:

"It's a way to synchronize files.

Jeez, we've had that forever. When did the first sync web sites start coming out? 1999? There were a million versions. xdrive, mydrive, idrive, youdrive, wealldrive for ice cream. Nobody cared then and nobody cares now, because synchronizing files is just not a killer application. I'm sorry. It seems like it should be. But it's not."

among other things. Has he changed his mind and now sees it as a killer app, or is it some anti-Microsoft/Ray Ozzie stereoype bias that doesn't apply to dropbox?
""Historically, we have never been meant to sleep in the same bed as each other. It is a bizarre thing to do. "

...what??? Where did that idea come from? Sleeping with other people is as old as humankind. Beds are unnatural, and having nearly enough space and resources to have one bed per person even more so.
"The only common languages that have this ability are arc and scheme, a close relative to arc."

Arc is common?
why is hardware control attached to machines networked to the internet?
What stops me starting a business or even working for a startup?

A 6 month old daughter and a wife who's been made redundant. All dreams and ambitions play second fiddle to keeping your family alive.

My day job was a smallish business that got bought out by one of the largest IT companies in the world and the birth rate has shot up dramatically since we were acquired.
JavaScript doesn't have "method_missing" (but Objective-J does! It's called "forwardInvocation")
Apple's behavior is becoming increasingly sketchy when it comes to approving apps. This is troublesome as I am currently working on a app I hope to get on the store. I'm curious to see how much longer hackers put up with this before there is a total backlash from developers. It is certainly making me rethink about creating apps for their devices.
:-) Well, compared to other languages with true continuations, like New Jersey SML.
And parents just want to be able to afford diapers - so a risky startup with long hours and little immediate pay, is very hard pill to swallow. Startups are great in your early twenties (I worked in 3 -- all bust now) but your life (hopefully!) won't always remain as carefree. For most people, 30's and 40's are a different matter altogether.
I'll be glad when the election is over.
This is true - but remember it's all relative. If most universities are drawing from approximately the same sample (e.g. university undergrads) then you essentially have a within subjects design. Still, that's why the science that survives is repeatable.

As to the question of the MIT students, I recently saw a talk by this group and I have little doubt that the effects are an automatic function of visual memory. Participants just knew which objects they had seen. The results should replicate very nicely even at lower ranked schools. Indeed, I bet middle school kids would show the same effects.

I don't think they recruited exclusively students though. I believe mixed in to the sample were folks off Craigslist. If you're really interested you could always send an email to one of the co-authors. You're more likely to hear back from one of the grad students.
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Iowa and Cerise were running production apps before Rails. Nitro came out at the same time as Rails. (There may be more, but I'd have to go look it up. They're described in The Ruby Way 2nd ed.)

Rolling your own request-handler+template thing is not hard. Nor is using DBI. Having stuff all bundled up is a big win, but it's not something essential. Ruby's a clean, fun language.

"Until Rails, people mostly wrote CGI-style applications."

Well, maybe that was prevalent with Ruby (whose mod_ruby is/was iffy), but mod_php was damn near everywhere before Rails.
a sample only ten couples makes me suspect of the results...
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Why does the cash prize halve in size by the end of the article?
Actually, no. His hands/fingers don't work.

He not only can't type, he can't tie his shoes, or comb his hair. It happened during a vacation at a Vietnamese hotel.

A smart guy like you, who can type and all, could have used a "google" to find this out. But, if you had, you wouldn't have been able to make a witty comment.
Does DropBox encrypt your files? I couldn't find anything on their site.
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in some weird way, he seems even more about himself now.
conversely, do lonely children have good ideas?
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It doesn't. The first line is "The grand prize is $100,000 in cash and AWS credits and a potential investment offer from Amazon."

The $100k amount is split between those two.
he can't move his arms above his shoulders, that shouldn't affect his typing? + computers are handicap capable now so thats no excuse.

i.e. like this:
http://www.microsoft.com/enable/guides/dexterity.aspx
That totally sucks, but it's no surprise really...
yeah and all of those are large corporations. You going to tell me that a big corporation is going to trusted a hosted solution with a 5 man team?
Once these hackers are old enough for their testicles to drop, they should be cut off.
It says eight couples, over ten days.

I'm not usually one to reflexively write off studies, but this sounds like a group of scientists collectively whining about their spouses hogging the blankets.
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Another reason to use SSH keys, not passwords
It's not, but java never caught on for desktop apps because Swing is a steaming pile.
We are thinking about entering. We are already built on top of AWS. We have been incredibly happy about our uses of AWS (except SQS which was way to slow).

Definitely not counting on the challenge in anyway but could make for some nice publicity and give us good reason to post about some of the work we have been doing.
My girlfriend will not be a fan of this article.
yeah, i thought 15min walk from davis was arlington MA, but I guess that's more like an hour's walk.
Not for their payroll, but then, you wouldn't be dumb enough to try to start that company. It took the ADP and SurePayroll people to be that dumb.
Because it's control and monitoring, and the internet is the easiest way of sending around small chunks of data that you recorded to colleagues around the world.
Extremely well written. Hoever i think the ending does not focus on something very important. there are many ideas that are ahead of their time so do not work out very well.
Well they might not be able to properly configure a few computers, but let's just hope they got the whole simulating the creation of an entire universe thing down.
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Playing along with your question, I suggest no more so than popular children, however the popular children are exposed to pressure to discard the good ideas and have no incentive for acting on them.

Those few lonely children with good ideas, OTOH, have very little pressuring them to abandon their ideas. Who asking them to stop coding and go out to play?
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What is AOL's email interface like these days? It used to to be terrible.
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wow! I'd never watched that video and it totally frightens me. Ballmer is kinda crazy! Watching him yell like that makes me totally uncomfortable.
why isn't data recording a one way process?
People are on their way to addressing the problem:

http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/openbsd-misc/2008/9/12/327...
They hide the punchline at the very end.

"If they have shared their bed with their partner for a long time they miss them and that will disturb sleep."

In other words, its temporary.
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Though sex probably has the opposite effect. For example Schrodinger took a vacation with his mistress to work on the wave equation, which he did between lovemaking sessions.
That's sweet. I pretty much felt required to waste some time adding a js easter egg to our blog.
That's even more anecdotal than the article.
I think you're being overly apologetic for a large company that released a very shoddy product.

You're right that there are (sometimes) good reasons for big development projects to have long bug-fixing cycles. Nevertheless, there's very little justification for software updates that brick hardware. There's even less justification for a defensive corporate posture when it happens.

I don't know if this guy's actions are right or wrong, but I'm fairly confident that Microsoft can defend itself, and doesn't need our help. Moreover, considering how much money Microsoft is dumping into inane television ads to improve their brand image, this kind of behavior seems counter-productive. Perhaps if they spent a few of those ad (and legal) dollars making better products, instead of arguing with their users (and suing their employees), they wouldn't need get Bill Gates to do the robot on national television.
http://www.synthesisnet.com/mccain.jpg

I used this thing called "google" to find a handwriting sample. I'd argue if his hands work well enough to write this, they work well enough to do everything you claim he doesn't do himself.
Also to note, the couples who were tested knew that they were sleeping alone because of a test, safe with the comfort that their significant other still loved them. It's a different case when you're sleeping alone and lonely.
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As I understand it, it's not that he couldn't reach a keyboard, but that it would be pretty uncomfortable for long stretches.

I'm sure he could dictate to a computer if he really wanted to, but given that he's constantly surrounded by secretaries, assistants and minders, why would he bother? It's much faster to dictate to a person than to a computer.
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Great idea! I wonder how many other such niches are out there - no doubt lots of them...
I think you're correct -- but the original sentence is actually very carefully worded so as to include your interpretation.

Never bet against a scientist in a cagey-wording competition. When they're focused on the task, they're almost as bad as lawyers.
When will these distribution idiots (RIAA, game companies, et al.) realize that DRM just plain doesn't work? There's no way to stop piracy of digital content, so just work with that limitation, instead of fighting an impossible battle that only punishes legitimate customers.
That would explain why it takes so long for people to check their mail. :D
Naming one's closed and encrypted wifi network "Obama 2008" strikes me as an awkward way of getting a political message across.
If they really want their platform to be a universal success they should give developers full freedom to design and sell apps in any way.

If any of you remember it was exactly this kind of behavior that led to failure of early Macs against Windows. (Developer's needed apple's permission to sell apps for the early macs).
Just like putting an 'Obama 2008' sign on your private property is?
I can't find the quote, but I believe it was Neils Bohr, who when asked how supporters of quantum physics overcame the resistance by classical physicists, said "we didn't, we just waited for them to die." I believe the same principle applies here.
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That sure sounds like Republican propaganda, probably in response to a recent Democratic ad. No mention of it on his wikipedia page (it says "His injuries left him permanently incapable of raising his arms above his head"), and I had no problem finding pictures of him pointing with
an extended index finger:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/McC...

thumbs up:
http://randt.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/john_mccain_narroww...

holding a microphone and thumbs up:
http://www.goodtimeoldies.com/Files/john.mccain.jpg

And I used google to find this out.
With RSA encryption in the CPU, you can definitely enforce DRM. Just decrypt the game's code on the fly in a DRM-enabled CPU. The only way to break the code is to get the RSA key, or spend year(s) hacking the key.

I believe the Xbox works this way.
Man if I was a shareholder in Microsoft I would be worried. There spending money on this... what about making their products better. Whatever the quality of microsoft now it doesn't matter because I switched to Mac specifically because my computer crashed constantly , lost files, and gave me nightmares. They need to get my friend telling me , " Dude, I have been using Vista and I love it, " end of story. I don't hear this anywhere. Is Vista that bad ? Probably not, but not bad isn't going to take back business from Apple, and change any previous negative perception that many people have of Microsoft products. A good Ad-campaign does little if you don't have substance behind it.
After reading the article I felt the urge to change my SSID to KillEmAll.
Same was said about AI researchers like Minsky ;).
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The quality of the bed has to be a major factor here. How large is the bed? Is the mattress designed so that one person can toss and turn without disturbing the other? (Most aren't.)
That's really not a bad idea at all. I don't know all of the circumstances of their situation, but they might be able to set something up where jmagar will earnestly support and help launch his employee's startup, for a share of the action. While the startup's getting off the ground, the employee might be able to continue a few responsibilities at the company.

I know I would have jumped at a chance like that, mostly because I was scared witless of being without a regular paycheck.
| 2) His baby. His own company. A sense of TRUE ownership.

I'm surprised that more people aren't making this point.

I think it's common among entrepreneurs to take ownership of some idea -- not in terms of stock or revenue, but more like parenthood -- and want to see it through to completion, on their terms, their way.
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I'm just glad someone finally used the correct capitalization for iPhone.
Futons on tatami solve that problem. You're sharing the same space but you aren't disturbed by your partner's movements.
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haha i love the phony outrage by "jeff croft" in response:

"I care about right fucking now. My clients care about right fucking now. Our users care about right fucking now. "

wow, he really has his irish up! hey folks, don't piss off jeff croft! he has clients!

you have to hand it to jeff, it takes a big man to swing at a slow pitch over the plate. does he piss his pants over poverty or injustice? NO! but show him an obviously pointless-to-the-brink-of-trolling "due date" for html5 and LOOK OUT. you just got played jeff.

only thing funnier is scoble's new "get in your face" conference response method, when he hops off the table and goes directly to some dude and screams in his face. scoble, my wife could kick your fat ass

stuff the faux indignation and keep your panties on ladies, the next guy you try to rip your shirt off in front of might have been in the marines
I also think that many good people have lonely childhoods.
joel rules. he will give any useful tech a chance. he approaches problems like an everyman. he isn't afraid to ask for help. i've watched him churn through lisp, haskell and ocaml, and now erlang.

i think he should give haskell another chance. it clobbers erlang on every performance metric, including massive concurrency, which we can now say erlang no longer "owns". otherwise i think c++ is the only option
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Only one person has to hack the key. Then he/she can distribute either the key or the decrypted content to everyone else. This is exactly why DRM will never work.
you don't even want to know how many college educated people are unaware that you can drag a google map

its useful to pop your head over the valley sometimes folks
interesting. I've noticed some famously creative people had a period of convalescence during their childhood. e.g. Descartes apparently formulated the idea of x-y (ie Cartesian) coordinates while bed-ridden.

I don't know how strong the correlation is (maybe lots of bedridden kids don't become creative? maybe lots of non-bedridden kids do become creative?), and there are other reasons for being lonely.
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Apparently that's what the McCain campaign is saying now too. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/12/yes-mccain-can-use-...
Why do all the hackers embrace Obama? It seems like every tech web site I see has an Obama sticker on there. I would have thought that people who want to start businesses would be Republican, because they have always been the ones who want to make it as painless as possible to start and own a profitable business.
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As someone who makes fun of folks who say "{place} is just as good for startups as SV", I want to point out that you don't have to move to a startup hub to do a startup.

There are advantages to doing a startup where you are. If/when you move, it will take you a while to learn as much as you currently know about the resources where you are now. In addition, you can start now instead of waiting.
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