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Success also can be measured in ways other than downloads. I don't think Google is trying to "corner the browser market" by getting everyone to switch to Chrome. Rather, this could be another Google attempt to manipulate the course of future web development. The fact that there's now an omnibar for Firefox (http://scalarmotion.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/omnibar-for-fir...) indicates Chrome's influential success.
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In that case, could you let us know what you eat so we can avoid being bigoted morons?
Seems a little light on content for such a provocative title.
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It is always about the money :) well, almost always
Wow! Some guy finally invented Web 3.0..
Why does it disturb you?
I would rather keep the intellectually gratifying articles from the NYT magazine, salon, TED, the new yorker, marc cuban's blog, edge.org, etc. and get rid of the esoteric programming articles and cliche business advice. To me what makes hacker news boring is all the front page articles about erlang libraries and cloud computing.

This is the direction the HN front page seems to be heading. Maybe you have a lot of kindred spirits!
Best idea in the article: charge for it – companies actually prefer to pay for reliable, good service.

This is a no-brainer in the enterprise world, but continues to be avoided on the consumer side. Depending on ads to make you millions is a dangerous way to go. Building something that people are willing to pay for is a more tried-and-true method that has worked for thousands of years.
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Wow thanks man. I generally go to ethic stores for spices which is really cheap compared to conventional grocery stores. But not as cheap as that.
One of Boston's big advantages is that the local businesses and universities have a good P.R. infrastructure. ;)
Firefox's plugins are what keeps it as my main browser. It is nice for Chrome to be faster, more robust, better designed, etc... but in the end features really do matter.
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Huh? There's a huge difference between injecting a foreign chemical into your body and simply cooling your own blood. Not even in the same ballpark.
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More artistic than intelligent, IMHO, but very interesting, especially to see a forum so "moderated" by "creative forces."

Also, it seems incorrect to call those ligatures: WP says those are when >= 2 graphemes combine into one glyph. i.e., the "fi" in print, or the Æ and such.

Offtopic, found this cool character on the WP page: Ѽ.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligature_(typography)
I don't use my iPhone as a computer
Here's an online essay of his that summarizes the "Eat food" message:

http://www.michaelpollan.com/article.php?id=87
If they agreed to a single common tax for carbon creation it would still end up as a transfer from high carbon producing countries to lesser ones. They wouldn't just burn the money collected or something, it would be redistributed. So the developed world would end up shouldering most of the cost. In my view that is only fair and natural. If the US had agreed to Koyoto we would probably be close to negotiating that very situation about now.
No 64-bit support for OS X. Lame. I'll wait for CS5 or when i've got a ton of cash to burn.
"When the total CPK level is very high, it usually means there has been injury or stress to the heart, the brain, or muscle tissue. For example, when a muscle is damaged, CPK leaks into the bloodstream. Determining which specific form of CPK is high helps doctor's determine which exact tissue has been damaged."

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003503.htm

The part about muscles releasing proteins when working out is definitely true, I just don't know about the rest. It's something I was told by my sports doctor though.
Knol is really just a Google rehash of Squidoo. It is subject to the same problems as Squidoo: relentless spam. It is really Google's attempt to protect its content based ad revenue by trying to lower Wikipedia's domination of search results.
For me the term 'Web 2.0' is more closely related to collective intelligence and social media/apps than AJAX or other UI inovations. But hey it's just a term.

By the time 'Web 3.0' could actually apply we'll probably have another term to use for the change.
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That is one axis. But would you say that, for example, gmail is a web 1.0 app since it is not at all about social media or collective intelligence?
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Some time ago, I got into a discussion with my parents and sibling about role models of past generations. My sister and I were surprised by them offering up P. T. Barnum as a positive role model, and we got into an argument with them, since we believed (like many our age) that he was a well known charlatan and hoaxer. This article of his (as well as an article that Wired magazine did some time back) kind of makes me wonder what happened to his reputation over the years to make our misconceptions about him possible.
That's a good idea. Somehow I don't think it's pg's style, though.
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Well, people have been cooling themselves for literally millions of years without adverse effects. Of all the performance enhancers you could buy, including legal ones, the Glove seems the least likely to screw you up long-term.
I've heard that ~ 199, anyway, we'll know very soon
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I recently witnessed a member company representative shut down an entire line of discussion simply by saying, “This compromises several of our patents. We will remove ourselves from the W3C if you proceed.”

Suddenly I understand why it takes seventeen years for the W3C to get anything done.
>On the subject of executive compensation, if they need government bailout money, take away 100pct of exit pay and any bonuses. Let them quit if need be.

>If you think you cant find someone else to take the current CEOs place,think again. No matter what number they pick for the CEOs compensation, its more than a lot of very smart people are getting paid elsewhere and those people would be more than happy to take a raise and replace the CEO who just took about his/her company

You can find plenty of smart people for a minimal CEO salary, but not smart people with any sort of executive experience. Some of this is populist drivel.
I like the mix of hacker and non-hacker stuff on HN. I would hate to see it become all technical - I mean, we do tech all day long, its nice to venture out and read what else is going on.
Yeah! Maybe you could even deliver!
I would just love to see some real life performance figures for this.

I wonder how long before we see an Open source project going the same route. A fully fledged relational database with the data store in the cloud.
you and me both.

I also question the so-called diligence of VCs who invested in fb app developers believing a viable and sustainable model existed. Why? Here are a few of my reasons: 1. social flight
2. arrogant leadership (i'm CEO bitch) 3. unstable platform in regard to design changes (fb is fb, it's not an OS).

Now, I certainly feel a few indies and bootstrappers can make a great salary... but 10:1 return is high-risk and an unlikely scenario, IMO. I dunno, maybe I'm bias because I've been a long time user of fb (having left both Friendster and MySpace) and absolutely can't stand 99% of the fb apps.
Ask HN:Use celebrity names in your app? How do you go about copyright and trademark?
I have an idea for a web application revolving sportsmen, specifically cricketers. But after reading a lot about this topic, I realize that I need to buy the rights from their respective clubs or cricket associations to use their names. But how can a one man startup do this without funding? What are your views on this? Thank you.
I have only a very rough knowledge of Python. In which kind of software development would you choose Python and why?
I think the most telling word in that post was "childish." Apple probably has legitimate concerns here, but by simply shutting him off instead of talking with him directly they are really missing an opportunity to develop loyalty with app developers.
I think the best part of the this experiment is you get to be surprised every week. Being someone who cooks and prepares meals for myself, I constantly struggle with coming up with something new. I find myself repeating the menu over and over again. So having the joy of sitting back and not knowing what's next is absolutely wonderful.
You would have thought after web 1.0, that web 2.0 would have been about making money.
This is an interesting blog article that supports my hypothesis of how to fail in the AppStore. I think a lot of people forget the concept and purpose of a mobile device, and how closely it's tied to being PORTABLE, EASY TO USE, and/or relevant to the basic fundamentals of the phone.

Games/media tend to be the exception.
This still sticks in my mind. Three phones ago I had a Samsung, and was looking for how to get ringtones on it. I was served up ads for people selling USB cables for my model of phone, and someone I never heard of, on the other side of the world, got a sale.

Whenever I'm on Facebook, based on my demographics the ads assume that I'm bald, fat and my Java code sucks.

Google FTW, as the kids say.
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You still haven't answered the question. I read the thread and now you're off ranting about other languages needing runtimes blah blah blah.

How do I deploy a lisp application to an end user when all I know is his operating system?
Alaskamiller, I noticed your comment at the top of the TC post: "Chris Sacca = Google buyout within a year."

I agree. If I founded a YC Company, or any other startup, I'd look at Omnisio's story and think about duplicating it. Clearly Chris Sacca was an important part of that acquisition. I think it's a very smart move to get him to invest.

It's just so incredibly important to take money from people are in the position to help you reach liquidation (if that is what you want). I know that sounds really obvious, but I'm sure some founders struggle with the decision to take money from the first person who offers, no matter how un-connected they are.
I would say it is a web-based email client. Is everything either "Web 1.0" or "Web 2.0"? That seems silly.
No. If VC money is for ownership of the startup, then no. If I lend somebody money and they promise to pay it back over N years with X interest, that is a loan. If I give somebody money in exchange for a certain number shares, that is a purchase. I am purchasing ownership in the startup. One does not "pay back" one's investors. Rather one generates a profit for one's investors.
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This is crap. Why do you guys accept a press release from the company as fact? Better than steroids my a$$! Can it make you gain 20lbs of muscle in a month? Doubt it.

Anyway, this technology has had ample chance to prove itself via peer reviewed studies and to my knowledge has never had any results confirming their claims.
You're hand waving again. Is there a solution for deploying a lisp application to a windows end user?

If I develop an application can a user download an exe which installs the requirements and have the application run after clicking an entry in the start menu?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhabdomyolysis

It's usually caused by crush injury, but if you're enough of a knucklehead, you can give it to yourself in the gym too.
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I make a lot of meals for my roommate and myself with 2 cans of tuna ($.69-.89 a piece) and a package of 'parmesan couscous' ($2.49). The couscous part can be broken dwn even further if you just buy a big thing of couscous without the flavoring and make your own.

Total: $3.50 for two people. You could probably feed three with it, the servings are huge.
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I think this is awfully silly and superficial. Did anyone seriously expect Chrome's early, early beta to set the world on fire?

It took two years for Firefox to get from its first public betas to v1.0.
This BBC article is 7 months old. There are new videos on all the gadget sites.
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I've got a similar size pan. Since they cook up quickly it's not hard to make a couple if you have to feed more people. I whipped out six the other day to feed a bunch of people.

Also, I use corn meal on the bottom of the crust so it slides nicely from my cutting board to the pan. Other than that I think it's pretty hard to screw up.
The headline is a little misleading; they're replacing some desktop apps with other desktop apps.
I'm pretty sure nobody is saying PHP is elegant, just that they think it's easier to set up and drop in place than Lisp, and it's easier to find junior programmers familiar with it. Several loud voices in the Lisp community have implied that this isn't really a problem, which is a great way to convince people to write it off as a web programming platform.

Instead comparing PHP to Lisp for that purpose, I'd be more interested in a comparison between PHP and Python or PHP and Ruby.
We'll just have to disagree on that one, since I think MS isn't doing well at either right now. I think more focus on their core would help them a lot more than following others in trendier areas.

Edit: I missed the part where you said MSR isn't about shipping s/w. You are right. I just disagree with the conclusions of the original article.
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$179 on a 2 year contract, no idea about pricing outside about the US
How exactly is it bigoted to notice that poor hispanics, who subsist largely on starch, have poor health and builds?
Well, there are several distinctions, but an important one is that the Glove just hasn't been around long enough for the dangers of Glove abuse to become apparent. If it turns out that excessive Glove use raises your risk of concussion, or ages your joints prematurely, or induces heart attacks in 2% of the population, or causes impotence, or takes twenty years off your life, or whatever, there might come a day where nobody sees a distinction between Gloves and performance-enhancing drugs.

(Not that I have any reason to expect any bad side effects. But you never know. It takes time and statistics to work these things out. Physiology is holistic. And, when you remove one bottleneck (in this case, the rate at which your body can dissipate heat) you inevitably run up against another bottleneck, one which may have much scarier consequences than the first.)
Well, perhaps, but really it is one of the apps that, when it came out, helped define the term. So one would have to call it retrospectively silly. In my mind any terms can be silly depending on how you look at things. But it seems to me no more silly to call digg web 2.0 than gmail. I will agree that most of the apps that have been called web 2.0 have been social, but most of the apps of any kind have been social, which is, as I see it, part of the problem. social != $$$$.
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talk about smart money, with 2 ultra connected web celeb investors on board things are looking good. Plus, $900k is a fairly small chuck on cash, leaving things wide open for whatever opportunities emerge. Deftly played guys, congrats!
Guys, don't mod this down. It is funny, considering that the transaction took place on craigslist.org (© 1995-2007).
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all of those downloads are just people looking at the latest shiny thing. I was one of those downloads, I haven't opened Chrome since, because I like firefox, and I'm used to the interface and Chrome didn't really strike me as something that was way better
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This is pretty much nonsense. Different races have all kinds of different builds in different climates. I suppose you'd say Eskimos are stubby and fat to retain heat. Except you'd be wrong because the ones living in the outback are of average height and leaner than most populations. Short arms for altitude? The Masai are highland plains people, ya seen pictures?

Diet determines build and height in a population. I stand by my assertion. The Dutch have gone from the shortest people in Europe to the tallest and among the healthiest because now they eat lots of meat and cheese. The Sikhs are ethnically identical to neighboring muslims and hindus but are much taller and leaner because they eat a dairy heavy diet. Hispanics are relatively short and chubby because they eat cheap starchy food.
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Mixing a salad with a can of low sodium tuna fish, lettuce, and spicy mustard provides a lot of protein and no simple carbohydrates so it will keep your blood sugar from crashing. Add baby carrots to it and the fiber will keep you full for hours. If you create several of these and keep them refrigerated in plastic containers you'll always have healthy meals on hand for when you get hungry.
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I do want to use my iPhone (or any mobile device) as a computer!

I was impressed with Dave's strong endorsement of the ASUS. However, the iPhone has raised the bar to a mindblowing level. This device is causing major shifts - high speed wireless is once again becoming hot; USA is finally catching up to the far east in terms of high speed 3G networks - all of which is further accelerating internet innovation.

Had it not been for the iPhone, we would still be messing around with boring devices like Blackberry and shitty laptops. This does not excuse their stupid decision to ban Alex Sokirynsky's cool podcasting app. But without them, our collective games would be much weaker.
Steve Jobs is getting paid millions by Apple. "Our" Steve Jobs is probably somewhere getting paid.
Underwhelmed. It has a keyboard, which is nice, however, $35 a month for a data plan? Why is this a better thing than the $20 a month TMo charges when you buy a SideKick?

All Apple has to do to shoot this thing in the head, is to release a Bluetooth keyboard capability for the iPhone. Then it will be DOA.
Yes, a tool that creates a simple to use setup for users, which allows those users to start lisp applications after an easy installation from the startmenu would be useful. Maybe that does even exist, I didn't see that so far, but it's been some time (about 3 years) since I last spend some time trying to do something like this.

I guess if it would for example install the clisp environment (if it's not installed already) and binds files with lisp extensions to it so they get executed on click that could be sufficient already. Do you know of a ready-to-use tool which does that already?
Short answer: In most places you would otherwise use Perl, Ruby, C, C++, or Java. It's not as fast as C or OCaml (except in programs which are almost entirely calls to libraries, e.g. string-heavy stuff), but you can rewrite the hotspots in C later (if you ever actually need to), and the overall development time will be much shorter. Even if you never use it for anything else, Python is an excellent prototyping language.

For a more in-depth answer, look at these:

http://python.org/about/

http://diveintopython.org/

Also, see the standard library's module index, which is one of the places the language really shines: http://docs.python.org/modindex.html
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If I could charge people to feign interest in their projects, I would, too.

Surely it's a scam.
The apps I notice now are the ones that are actually useful. I've got a Projects app from the DivShare team, and that one comes up a lot because I'm active using it. I haven't found many other applications that actually provide me with value.

So you know what, Slide, with your Top Friends and your FunWall? Screw you. Maybe now we'll get developers who actually care about adding functionality to Facebook. (Incidentally, Top Friends functionality is now a part of Facebook, though nobody's mentioned that in the blogs. I'd like to see how many users start to rely on that instead, though it's less of a circlejerk and doesn't notify friends.)
A) You said nothing about economic status, which makes all the difference in the world. Poorer people universally have worse health than middle-income or wealthy people.

B) Rice and beans isn't only eaten by Hispanics; maybe you should turn off the Lou Dobbs and pay a little attention.
Interesting post. Not everyone can get away with repackaging though. You better be damn sure you're content is amazing before trying to serve it up over and over again. Otherwise it'll just piss people off.

They get away with because the content itself is so valuable.
I am patiently waiting for a network to grow here. So far it's mainly nickb and I've had a post.

I don't think there is an equivalent to this, but the name might be a turn off for some. There are many great minds not totally interested in turning into a mogul. They might see themselves as already being moguls and thus think this site is a place for n00bs.
When the Android was first announced, I wondered which providers would support it, because sooner or later someone was going to develop VOIP capability (like the siphon project for the iPhone), and no one would be paying the provider network access charges.
Because it's a web browser. It loads web pages. Isn't the idea that it's supposed to stay out of the way and let you browse?

I won't jump on either side here, but this is a foolish way to argue it. One person's preference does not a browser make, and the fact that Chrome buzz died away is only because Chrome had such ridiculous buzz to begin with. THAT was the unnatural part, and its dying down is only logical.

Somebody apparently disagrees with me on that, so tell me: was Chrome not overhyped? And isn't it true that for web browsing, the best interface is none at all?
An OS that doesn't appeal to geeks and can't take gaining critical mass for granted (look at Vista, bet they never planned for no-one wanting it) won't have compelling applications. Applications matter. No-one (but geeks) cares about operating systems. People just want to write a letter, watch a movie, play a game.
I'm going to say something unpopular and lose friends:

Who the hell CARES about the term?

Gmail is a good application. Digg was a good idea but it didn't scale. You can argue about Web 2.0 all you want, nobody cares. And you can go out and make money right now, and that's a fact regardless of whether you're 2.0 or 3.0 or whatever in between.

I never got the reason behind the "2.0" buzz. I never will. It's such a pathetic waste of time.