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I've used both Rackspace and Slicehost in production settings, and they both have their drawbacks and advantages.

We moved to the 'premiere rails hosting provider' (I won't say which one, but it's the current one, not the old one) and after moving to their 'managed' environment I realised that the grass isn't always greener.

Rackspace were not able to manage our application, but it's been more effort having to manage the managers so to speak, verify everything they did, and now we have a significantly more complicated setup.

In short, trying not to go off topic, I found Rackspace to be quite damn good at what they did (hardware, and provisioning). I could get a new box up and going in 24-48 hours with them, built to my specifications and sealed and delivered. The current premier provider take 'up to a week' to provision us a new VPS web slice, go figure.
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Nonsense.

You have a weird idea of what information SMTP servers care about when determining spamminess. DNS is vitally important to getting your mail delivered...but what CNAME is in your MX record is completely and utterly unimportant (it's like worrying about what the name of your mailman is...George or Franny...when the important thing is your address and zip code).

Get your DNS RFC compliant, get your SPF records correctly configured for the servers that will send mail for your domain, make sure your sending SMTP server(s) are not in any RBLs, and you'll be fine. MX records are irrelevant.
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I'd be curious to hear how things are developed at Apple. For instance, is Jobs an idea guy or more of a gatekeeper ("this sucks, do it better")?
Yeah, I don't want that crap, and view it as being annoying. Other people might find it necessary, or worth their money, so I don't think it's bad, it's just not for me.

I was thinking of getting a slice with Slicehost, but now I'm not so sure. I guess it's too early to tell what will happen.
I bought one, and it's awesome. It's obvious, to me, that this is going to be a slow burn product, but burn, it will...in a year, there will be a dozen Android phones, spread from low end to high, and the market will begin to look drastically different. Apple will likely find themselves in the same boat they were in two decades ago going up against the ridiculous variety of PC compatible machines, with a single somewhat pricey product. Apple is about to be engaged in war on a dozen fronts, and I suspect that it won't be able to withstand the onslaught (sales of iPhone may continue upward, since the smart phone market is growing so fast, but I think its market share can only go down from here, if they use the same playbook that used for Macintosh vs. PC).
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I think it's a good idea. I wonder, however, if it could be implemented like this:

Send an email to post_tag1_tag2_tag2@posterous.com

I think the (Tags: tag1, tag2, tag3) syntax is a bit harder, though I have no idea if the other one would even be feasible (some clever virtual email address and parsing thing would have to be put in place, I guess).
The thing is, the tech industry isn't male dominated like traditional industries with their "old boys clubs" and old-fashioned views of senior managers that a woman's place is in the home or whatever. It's male dominated simply because females aren't applying for jobs in it. I'm sorry to be blunt, but less eating dinner together and more showing up for interviews and the problem will sort itself out in no time.
add TXT SPF Record on your domain that includes your MX record

IN TXT "v=spf1 a:mx1.theemailserversdomain.com a:mx2.theemailserversdomain.com a:mx3.theemailserversdomain.com ~all"

and then check out http://old.openspf.org/dns.html
If you want on that site you can look on other domains examples.
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"Challenge" is doing that in a Volvo Open 70 (which people do take into the Southern Ocean, that's real sailing). It's like Bear Grylls on TV. Yeah he can survive the wilderness... With nothing more than a film crew and fleet of support vehicles, including a helicopter. What's the point?
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Why not client certificates? I'm pretty sure that's what my bank uses, they've got a java-applet that talks to a small binary file in my homedrive. The technology is simple (to implement) and well proven, guarantees security end-to-end.

What is BoA trying to accomplish? Easierness?
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Nice feature, have been enjoying Posterous since the start. Only concern is .. has it been awfully slow for everyone or just me in the past few days?
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I hadn't realised that mturk requests could only be made in the US. I was planning on using it to save myself a little time in a side project I'm working on. A quick google search turns up ways around this though.

http://www.hit-builder.com/ offers a way around this problem for a $25 setup fee and 5% of use. I'm not familiar with mturk or this service but I suspect operating costs aren't that high. A barebones / follow on competitor could be a nice side project if you aren't concerned about amazon destroying your business model at some point in the future.
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Agreed. I'm using slicehost too. Very happy with their service to date. Hopefully that doesn't change.
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Sun's fate was always a concern before Java was GPL'd, but it is an entity in its own right now. So, whilst Sun is the lead cheerleader, should they fail there are enough big companies (IBM for one) heavily invested in Java that one of them would take over the reigns.
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It is still somewhat surprising that India can do this cheaply. After all they government is even more inefficient in general.
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I've never been a rackspace fan, since way back in the day. Way expensive and I never liked the managed hosting space. However, I believe the jungle disk and slicehost acquisitions are very smart moves. JD was one of the first (might have been THE first actually) to provide a synch/backup client for S3 when it was introduced. Smart people, good idea, and the technology isn't going away. If they keep the people they'll be an asset. Slicehost has a great image in the hacker community and I love their documentation.

Both companies fit nicely in the cloud space, an VPS is definitely the future. Rackspace is giving an ear to some smart engineers in their camp, which I think is great and kinda googlish. They've got my attention now, for what that's worth.
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I've got one too and I'm very happy with it. I've used the iPhone quite a bit and it's ok. So far I like the G1 better. The buttons on the front and the scroll ball make it a little easier to navigate around. The standard applications work well. I like how the notification bar works. I was surprised at how much was already in the Android Market on day one. It seems like some of them are also on the iPhone, but there are some exclusives too. Locale is an especially cool application that isn't possible on the iPhone. There are quite a few that make use of the GPS. One that I found amusing, although still innovative, is iSafe. Among other things it can alert you when you enter a high crime neighborhood or when there is a registered sex offender nearby. Call quality and reception are generally good. I like how the screen automatically locks when I put the phone up to my ear during a call. Overall, I'm impressed by it. I had expected it to be much less polished than it is. It's also not nearly as ugly as it looks in the pictures. It's actually kind of nice looking in a minimalist way.

I do have a few gripes, though. First is battery life. I expected it would be mediocre, but it's downright terrible. I have to recharge it in the middle of the day. The silver lining here is that the battery is removable so I can carry a spare with me. I really hope they come out with a higher capacity battery soon. Another part that could have been better is the keyboard. The keys are just a little too flat and feel just a bit spongy. It's not a bad keyboard by any means, but I would prefer one more like the Sidekick. Multitouch would be a nice plus too.

It's also worth saying something about the first paragraph of the NYT article. The author says there was no one waiting in line at the store for the G1. That's because we didn't need to. People who preordered the G1 had it delivered. I even had mine delivered a day early. I'm not sure that there would be people lining up otherwise, but it's still a little misleading.
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Sun should focus on producing Java acceleration hardware, especially making multicore behemoth servers designed for Java thread concurrency. Sun already has enterprise customers, they own Java, and Java is their customers platform of choice.
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> they're buying up hosting to compete with amazon, likely.

Indeed... and to be honest, given what that are buying into, seems like a good execution on that strategy.
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that kind of thing is apple's speciality. Hard to beat them on that turf.

But it's easier (and cheaper) to follow. Once people know (from the iphone) what a phone is supposed to do, they'll be able to get other phones to do it too.
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An odd post from Jeff Atwood.

He (sort of) defines Marketing as:

1. people understand what you're doing
2. people become interested in what you're doing
3. people get excited about what you're doing

I would say it was more about people understanding what your product can do for them, identifying it's value and thus parting with their money.
Sun already has multicore behemoths - it's the CoolThreads platform (UltraSparc T1 and T2 processors). Dozens of cores - and I've used them and they run concurrent Java really, really well.

As for specialised hardware. Sun used to produce/specify the picoJava, microJava and ultraJava processor architectures (processors designed for Java).... They all tanked. The problem wasn't the implementation - it was timing. They came about just when the processor world was coming to the conclusion that the instruction set architecture didn't matter - AMD proved this by bolting x86 onto a RISC core (proved it by doing this, and then by winning the performance war for a number of years with it).

Problem now for Sun is timing again - the market combined with their market share. It will be a challenge to hold onto the market they've got, and a bigger challenge to grow into other areas.
the writing style seems super lax for the nytimes , felt more like reading a blog. The g1 is good the battery is the same issue as the iPhone if you use it to surf for 5 hours it's going to get low, give it a week then it will last all day plus ; after the coolness wears a little .
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How did this story get 0 points? Is there a downvoting button somewhere?
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This won't happen, it's like the sweet dream of small, self-sufficient communities. Not all kinds of work can be done in such an environment.

But startup culture will inevitably do away with a lot of inane bureaucratic megacorp policies. Especially if all the trophy kids stop swallowing the bullshit. Most large organizations would be much more efficient with a different structure for incentives, and they'll start realizing it when they get hammered by others. Outraged news stories like this one is the first indication that something is happening. You aren't outraged unless you fear something.
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I don't know if it's warranted, but I'd venture to say that there's an immense disdain amongst millennials for older generations for the state of the world as it is now.

The problems left to younger generations are of such magnitude, that, for better or worse, their attitudes towards "superiors" seems natural.
I think the underlying problem is we've been taught that if you work hard you should be rewarded but what older people mean by "hardwork" is in the sense of hard time as in prison.

In their view showing up at 7:00 and leaving at 3:30 each day with a 30 minute lunch is the epitome of a model employee. They expect that by putting in time irespective of their actual work product they should be rewarded.

Young people on the other hand expect to be judged and rewarded based on the quality of their work product itself and how much value it contributes to the company. Older workers are many times indignant to this idea because they spent the last 30 years racking up their seniority points.
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I'd be worried about piracy.
If that were true then software teams would be make up of marketing gurus, who code on the side.
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Develop for the iPhone, you'll make some money for sure while you learn some interesting technology.

You'll never regret it, if Japan and Korea are indicators of mobile consumption.

The future is mobile!
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I've never seen a software team that didn't need to improve the way it communicated it's ideas to other areas of the business.

I've never seen another area of business that didn't need to improve the way it communicated it's ideas to the software team.

Marketing isn't a dirty word. It isn't advertising. It's the art of persuasion.

So, it is true, and in actual fact software teams would be made up of developers who are highly effective communicators.
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How many apps legitimately need launchd to start up? I can only think of a few apps; Little Snitch, VMware Fusion, iStat and, possibly tablet and printer services. The rest of the stuff, well, Adobe doesn't need to launch a process at boot for me to use Photoshop.

OS X is not Linux. launchd is not cron. Don't treat them the same way. There's better way's to autostart an app then (ab)using launchd. Look at the Shared File List API in Leopard or having your app do a quick search with Spotlight to find the files and delete them. You could even name it "Reset Preferences" for the user if you don't want to have a big ugly "Uninstall" button in your program.

Apps shouldn't be using launchd in the first place. So there should be no need for an uninstaller.
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Yeeeeessssss, thank you very much for providing us with a perfect example of precisely why women don't show up for interviews in the tech industry. That condescending tone ("I'm sorry to be blunt" ) - we have to deal with it all day, every day.

Other examples from my recent professional roamings - with 13 years experience as a professional programmer, and 2 years at my current company, I had to justify a line of trace that I had in my code. You know what, I'm a big girl now, and can decide for myself whether or not a line of trace is needed in an app, and I have never seen a male colleague (even those much less experienced than myself) have to justify such minor decisions.

Or what about the guy on my floor that decided that as there were only two women on my floor, that he could share our toilets, after all, "why should you get a toilet all to yourselves".

You see, rubbish like that hits women in the face all of the time in the tech industry. Even those of us that love programming can find all of these little insults to our persons a bit wearing. I mean, I'm on this site precisely because I've had enough of having to justify myself to male colleagues, and have decided that I'm going to head out on my own.
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The "dial-a-salary" idea would be great. I wish I could work less sometimes, but I have always worked at companies that have a limited amount of "unpaid time off." If you take off more than X days during a year, you are fired. Period. Firing someone for requesting a voluntary pay cut? Ridiculous.

I guess it's probably related to the reluctance to let people work from home. It's about keeping up the image. A corporation doesn't want people to let on to the fact that sometimes there isn't as much work to do, or sometimes there is really no need to physically be in an office building.
I'm not so sure Apple would want to leave the market just because there are a lot of other companies in that space. There is still room for growth, which is key.

Steve Jobs often refers to iPod/iTunes as one of Apple's three "legs":
http://www.macpredictions.com/2008/06/since-when-did-four-le...

They rely on producing a superior product/user experience/brand to dominate the market and as long as they stay good at that there is no reason to leave cash on the table.
Make tech friends. There's bound to a bunch of people in Dallas that would like to team up with you. Go find them. They'll give you the ideas you need.
I like the fundamental premise of his post, but I am (metaphorically) downmodding it for presentation. His blog is beginning to look like it is hosted by INET-WEB: http://www.inet-web.com/creativeGeniusWebDevelopers.asp. Jokes aside, the danger I see here is that people might presume that when he says "marketing," he means bombarding people with gaudy images and superficial ornamentation.

That is not marketing. And furthermore, Jeff ought to know better. I suggest he read this: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000834.html.
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I don't think so. The only open source project dealing with hardware that I can think of is the OpenMoko. And thats not exactly a shining example of the best thing to come out of OSS imo.
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Yes, Google's proprietary Web applications are a great example of desktop applications that where ported to the Web:

Gmail (proprietary) = Thunderbird (open-source)
Google Docs (proprietary) = OpenOffice (open-source)
Google Reader (proprietary) = RSSOwl (open-source)

They forgot to add the "download source" link at the bottom of the page.
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A word of advice... You mention having 14 ideas...

Find the 2 or 3 (at most) that seem most viable. Research them, prototype them, find a co-founder. THEN seek angel funding.

Ideas are free, VCs/Angels get thousands of half-baked "idea" pitches regularly. Hard work, data, prototypes, co-founders and enthusiasm are far less common (and you won't convince anyone that you are equally enthusiastic about 14 different things).

If you're just looking for some free guidance, I like your ideas #5, #15 and #8, in that order ;)
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