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I agree with the article and probably with you too on the large number of low-quality applications, but there is no obvious solution to the problem of decreasing quality coming with an increasingly large population (of developers, of HN users, of Usenet posters...)

In your opinion, what would common sense be in that case? Apple got criticized for censoring applications; True, that was because these applications were competing with Apple's own services, but the move still sent a strong message.
Apple will probably want to retain a large control over what can go on an iPhone (hint: Flash wouldn't), and an arbitrary decision on what is acceptable or not in terms of quality can be a very bad thing. IMHO, the review process is probably the best hope in this case, the first few people buying an application rating it to warn (or invite) other customers.
We are doing some of those, not to as large an audience as 37signals. One thing that makes it difficult is a lack of good tools to re-purpose content across blogs, wiki, web, print, presentations, animation/video, and PDF. We do workshops where we have the content both as a presentation (slides), a workbook/handout, and in a wiki. It's a lot of extra work right now. Conceptually we develop/refine in a wiki and deliver as presentation (PPT slides), print, and wiki (slimmed down, that is then available as an on-line notebook where further work can be done). I have contact info in my profile and would welcome any suggestions for tools that make it easy to develop and re-purpose content.
To be fair, I don't think I went through as elaborate mathematical considerations as the writer of the article. But even he mentions that he immediately had a bad feeling about the wrong solution, simply because it is doing too much work.

The step for me was to move away from the stochastic problem and say "wait a minute, there is a random generator built into my computer already, how can I use it directly". Assuming a horde of mathematicians has already showed that the inbuilt random numbers generator is as good as possible, that way I avoid all the maths issues. And that is a step that seems reasonable to expect from a good programmer.

Edit: just read the Knuth Shuffle entry at wikipedia. Happy that I even reinvented the Knuth optimization myself ;-)
Many are a fan of using the Caps Lock key as Control. While better than the insane standard positioning, it's still not optimal: it's not symmetrical between your hands (you're not going to remap Return as another Control) and it still makes for a lot of awkward pinky use. (Imagine playing a piano piece all with your 3rd, 4th and 5th fingers.)

The optimal solution I've come up with is to use the two keys adjacent to the space bar (typically Alt, but actually Command on the Apple keyboard I generally use) as Control, since that's easily the most important modifier key, so it should be the easiest to access. This makes C-w, C-s, C-r, C-a, C-e, C-p, C-o, C-j, C-l and so on very, very comfortable compared to the corner positioning. As far as I know, this is the way many keyboards were before the extended IBM PC keyboard came up with its insane control key positioning. (My comfort with these keys may also be linked to my use of Macs and ubiquitous command-key shortcuts before I switched to Ubuntu. Ironically, Emacs is much more comfortable now in Ubuntu than it ever was on my Mac, because I can use the most readily accessible modifier key as God intended, rather than the third-tier relegated modifier that Control is on the Mac.)

The two keys adjacent to the new Control keys (ie. 2 away from the spacebar) then become the Alt keys. Whatever is left over (the original ctrl keys, plus Caps Lock and any silly Windows keys left over) can be bound to Super, which is useful for window manager shortcuts so that they don't clobber emacs/bash/screen bindings.

These changes are trivially easy to put in a simple .Xmodmap file to load whenever you log in, and copy to all the other computers you have to use regularly. If you're using Windows, I guess you may have to fiddle with the registry, but it would be worth it.
I don't know why I haven't seen more complaints of this, but for both me and another colleague in my office, when Chrome is running (this is in XP) the system freezes for several seconds at totally random times, even when Chrome is just sitting in the background. Total deal breaker.
Our experience has been that different audiences like to consume the same content in different ways: blog, print, workshop presentation, and workbook. Many complex software application development teams face the same challenge: they need to produce documentation (print & on-line), training materials (print, wiki, presentations) on-line help, application notes (print, web, presentations).
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The learning curve is no joke. 2 weeks is nothing.

Don't get ambitious and treat it like your favorite editor just yet. Decide on a small task with complexity (and hence requires you to jump back and forth and rename stuff), like a 20-line script. Make plenty of use of the basic keystrokes (C-f forward, C-b backward, C-p prev line, C-n next line, C-s search, C-r reverse search). That's 6 combinations, and it's enough to witness the kind of speed you have in navigating the text.

Then use it for a real editing job. Shouldn't take long before it becomes second nature. Then, it shouldn't take long before you wished that every text entry window used the same keystrokes.

Oh yeah, type return to complete the search.
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Hm, so the functionality you describe is not possible with vim? I was planning to switch to vim in the future. I have used Emacs before, but I never became really good at it. However, the functionality you describe really seems quite important.
A pretty good article, but I heartily disagree about not using a conditional style sheet for IE.

I develop for FF and Safari on a Mac. When things are how they need to be I run through the various IE versions and make sure they work like a real browser as much as possible.

I much prefer knowing that all of my IE hacks will ONLY be shown to IE browsers and I don't run the risk of screwing up the layout for non-IE browsers because some hack has leaked through. Besides, it is much more readable to have the styles as intended be as simple as possible as opposed to ,things like..

div.middle {
min-width: 300px;
width: auto !important;
*width: 300px;
}

There is nothing dumber than wading through stuff like this when you aren't specifically building for IE.
Repackaging someone else's content and repackaging your own content are two extremely different things.
I really cannot see why this is useful at all. I don't understand the point, and the examples didn't make it clear to me either.
Ask HN: What is the fastest way for American customers to pay to a company in India?
The company doesn't have a bank account in America.

Is it possible to outsource receivables and payables to an American company?
What percentage of people buy songs from iTunes? Probably more than half. Certainly not a negligible amount.
Around $2k per year isn't unreasonable per server in a large data centre. This also roughly correlates with what a colocated server would cost.

The way fishtrain has based these figures is all around capital expenditure - most companies wouldn't actually do this.

Facebook is running order of magnitude 10k servers. So in that respect his "servers required for the load" figures are about right.

Taking $2k, then fishtrain's annual estimates for ~10k plus servers is too low - it would be more like $20m. Again, the way fishtrain has gone about it wrt to CAPEX is different.

The electricity consumption seems a bit high, but for a business plan it might not be unreasonable.

Bandwidth - well that depends totally on your application.

Commissioning a server isn't necessarily cheap - there is the cost of the server itself, the labour, networking, test, etc, etc. This can be a fairly significant one-time cost (and isn't capitalised).

People tend to worry about the ongoing cost of storage a bit too much, particularly if you're retaining a lot of data (e.g. keeping people's images). The fact is that the cost of storage steadily decreases, so this usually amortizes this in reality. So I'd say you'd only need to worry about the increments in most cases - unless your application is horrendously storage hungry.
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I would say that someone who is effective at Emacs works just the opposite way:

- No mouse;
- No GUI; most people hide even the menu bar;
- They have spent and do continue to spend a lot of time in Emacs.

Someone suggested a video recording of an Emacs session. That sounds like a good idea!
I agree that they'd use regular Google search, and not game it (there already was user backlash when knol ranking highly when it was announced). I was thinking more for once you go to knol, and search for something there -- or, better, when you arrive at a page, it has pointers on top to similar articles, and their "knol-ratings".

I've heard that point of view of Pagerank before, as a marketing device. I personally do like the idea that an algorithm can make a difference, and I absolutely believe it can. Whether it really did in this case, however, is a question of fact.

What you say about search engine complexity is true; although many of those techniques were known before pagerank (though I'm sure they're been developed further and new ones added since then). The Pagerank patent itself goes to some pains to mention other techniques being integrated. But I think the significant thing about Pagerank is that it really was something new.

Google's overall success had many factors: fast results; an uncluttered search-only webpage; no paid placements in search; and doing a good job on all those factors you mention (though I think the specific ones you state are to do with search, and not with ranking - at the time, there was no problem finding the right result; it was ranking it near the top that seemed to be the issue... at least, according to Google PR...).

To be honest, for me personally, I think the leanness of Google was most appealing (fast, simple, honest), together with a sense of coolness, of it being new, and by a couple of brilliant guys. It was also (virally) introduced to me by someone cool in tech. The search results themselves were "good enough". I remember doing some comparisons, and finding Google better - but it really didn't matter to me... it just confirmed the attitude I already had.

Now, regarding my "blind pontification" in your opinion: I did look for ratings/ranking - on the front page, and I tried a search, but I didn't see any ratings (That's why I said "I don't see any explicit ranking." It turns out they don't appear on the front page, or for search results; you only see them after you have selected an article. EDIT actually, they do appear in search - but that take so long to load (for me) that they didn't appear (and there's no placeholder), even when I was double-checking.

The "pontification" part bemuses me... I was suggesting/asking/wondering what a good way would be to do it. That's the opposite of pontificating (in my opinion, anyway). I like to wonder about things - it's a source of new insights, and it works for me.

A request: if you think I'm saying something silly, could you straightforwardly point it out to me? People (and I really think especially I) do make mistakes; and I (at least) appreciate being set straight.

I must say, I've got used to straightforward discussions on HN, but it seems to have shifted recently. I feel sad about that.
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Definitely not as easy with Emacs. You have to carry a .emacs around on a thumbdrive and drop it where you need.
No kidding. The Caps Lock key should never have existed on PC keyboards and the Tab key should be altered so that it is a "Cmd" key which switches fields in web-browsers, word completes as needed, indents code, and does everything it does now except for inserting an actual ascii tab character.
Revolution. Or convincing Mugabe to read an introductory macroeconomics text.
Hmmm, you mean Haskell? Erlang is not designed for that kind of job, it's far from appropriate for that kind of work.
Well, you'd need to have some way to do quick keyboard tracking with the screencast. Just seeing all of the text get highlighted and re-indented wouldn't do a lot. I'm not sure how much more it would help if you could see that "[ctrl-x], [ctrl-h], [esc], x, indent-region" was typed...
Everyone sees everything in black and white these days. Smartphones are not replacements for computers, at least, as most people use computers. People will always still have both. They might carry computers less, but they'll still have them for when they want to get things done.
They're the future of ubiquitous web surfing, not computing. There's still lots that you can do on a laptop that you cannot on a phone (and will be for quite some time) and much, much more than you maybe could do on a phone but it would be so uncomfortable that you'd rather stick a fork in your eye.
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Not when they get caught. Often they don't detonate.

And even if it were the only consequence, it would therefore be the worst (and the best).
What, too high?
When Internet Explorer was released, was your intuition that Netscape won?

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I gave up on page 12(!).

Sorry, but one sentence of text per page is not the way to intelligently discuss a serious topic. I don't know what the solution to Zimbabwe's inflation is, but I can guarantee that it won't be found from Twitter-like discussion.
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If by troubled you mean on a product quality basis, then yeah. They'll be ahead for years. (They would have been anyway.)

If you mean on an install count basis, then I'd disagree.
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how is it posssible to not say anything for 10 years and suddenly out of nowhere come with the news. well there should be some sort of proof he can show....Its sad..but if you left...hey if you don't jump in a train sometimes it will leave you behind....
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Japanese, Koreans and Chinese economies and Microsoft are the successful examples of repackaging.
techcrunch just did this to get more hits and visits to their website. suckersssssssss
has nothing to do with this what are you talking about
The loans themselves are only a tiny fraction of the problem. It's more the credit default swaps and other forms of gambling tied to the loans.
A suicide bomber doesn't need to worry about airport security at all. They just need to figure out when the airport is at its most crowded and stand in a check in line and detonate their bomb.
I think you've got your math confused. One foreclosure can wipe out the profit from multiple non-foreclosed houses. It doesn't take 50% foreclosures to wipe that out, even if housing prices don't drop. With housing prices dropping the way they are, it might only take 10%.
I've generally used wire transfers...but US banks suck for wire transfers. They look at you like you're speaking a foreign language. I've found Washington Mutual here in Mountain View to be the best about it I've ever seen (which isn't to say they're good...just better), and they're the cheapest, as well, at $20/transfer. Previous banks charged more (like $32-$40 per transfer), and acted like I was a crazy person for trying to give them a SWIFT code.

So, I hate doing wire transfers, but when PayPal and a US bank check is not an option, I've bucked up and done it. I've heard that Western Union is a reasonable option, as well, for many overseas destinations. I'm not sure if India is one of them.
Quite. Surely we would be better improving the curriculum so that children have a better chance of learning to think critically and imaginatively about all classes of problems, rather than adding narrow vocational studies. A world where everyone is an entrepreneur in spirit may be utopian; a world where everyone is an entrepreneur in the limited sense that governments and educational systems think of them sounds utterly dystopian.
Play is probably per-station. Seems to work fine for me in .au.
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Probably regime change. Echo complaints about poor formatting.
I think Moon is a safer place to conduct this experiment.
I think it depends on your priorities.
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Is there a way to actually search for radio stations by name?
Then you need to ask whether this partisanship was formed due to out dual election system, or whether because of this partisanship this dual election system was formed.

As far as the article is concerned, I think people are not bothered about institutional reforms because they feel that someone who can actually do something about it will be bothered in their behalf.

Let's none forget, people are sheep and without guidance they remain blind.
Mugabe I suspect is perfectly well aware of the situation and what to do about it. But it suits him down to the ground; this is a man who engineered a famine to starve his political opponents, remember. Of course he wants to be the only one in Zimbabwe who can even consider capital-intensive projects. So he can sit there and not do them.

Solution is for Zimbabwe to scrap its own currency and just use one of Dollars/Pounds/Swiss Francs/Yen/Euros.
Learn something useful -> Learn Scala or Erlang on the side.

P. T. Barnum just turned in his grave! He said USEFUL! If you said "learn to write SQL instead of abstracting stuff through a framework" or even "learn to mix cement and lay formwork" - THAT would be useful.

Erlang, Scala (or dare i say it), Lisp - possibly not so much 'useful' as an academic pursuit.
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Think about it this way, you can crank out 10 apps a month and your bills get paid OR you can work on one app for 6 months and risk crashing and burning or even getting rejected. Its not to hard to see why the apps are low quality. Its a symptom of the iphone app market.

The console game industry has the cure to this but it isn't pretty: $30k dev kits, minimum funding/budget requirements, and long approval processes

Personally I would rather stick with the current apple approach. The crap apps are cheap (or free) and if you have the guts to make a serious app its easier to stand out.
The beauty of this kind of job is that they are throwaways. You don't put them on your resume, and you don't care if the pay sucks, as long as the hours are good for you, and you can leave when you've had enough of it. Since you'd probably be willing to work weekends (since your real job keeps you occupied during the week), you'll likely be able to take your pick...and since everybody is more leisurely and chatty on the weekends, that is likely to work in your favor.

If it were me (and I were your age), I think I'd try for a coffee shop, bookstore, or Apple store, around the school. I've heard that bicycle couriers are "swimmin' in women", but it seems like it'd be hard to get enough daily interactions with women your age to make it worthwhile...I think maybe there's some fantasy element at work there. It'd get you in great shape, though, so it's got that going for it. Which is nice.

Also, don't rule out non-work type situations that get you into crowds. Volunteering is a great option, for example. If the money isn't a big deal to you, volunteering will crank up your real world karma, at the very least, and that's always a win.

In any of these situations, you're expected to be friendly and chatty and you have numerous stock lines that always work and are not considered trite, which helps with the introversion (I'm guessing you're an introvert, since you've made it through high school and some college and don't really know how to meet girls--I've been there). All you then have to do is hone your senses for when the friendliness being returned is greater than the usual. I've always been much better at detecting the cues in face to face conversation than from across the room or in large group situations, perhaps it'll be the same for you. And you'll get better at it every time you meet someone new.