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I tried, but I couldn't watch the movie.

Even assuming for one second that their claims are true (which I highly doubt, they barely present any evidence in the first 30 minutes), why on earth would you make your movie look like a propaganda film from the 1930ies? It has pseudo flicker and a narrator voice that will haunt you in your nightmares. In. fact. the. narrator. talks. extra. slow. so. that. you. really. understand. their. crazy. theory.

Terrible. I'd be interested in an intellectually honest criticism of the reserve banking system, but this is just pure rubbish. It explains nothing. It just creates fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Just thinking about it makes me angry. Some people will undoubtedly fall for this. It is sad.

The answer to right-wing propaganda cannot be left-wing propaganda. Movies like this contribute nothing. They don't even provide a basis for discussion. They are a waste of human effort and bandwidth.

PS: I just realized I'm feeding the trolls; this has nothing to do with hacking. Sorry.
http://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt

That said, even as a hard-core C++ guy, I can't see why you'd really want to write a web application in C++. If you want C++-like syntax, you'd be better off with Java for web stuff.
And this is what it will look like being made:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=323877
The piece of OS X software I would gladly pay for is a good Typing Tutor. Make it a made-for-OS X typing app fitting the Apple keyboard layout, etc. The current typing apps on the market are horrific.
Use words folks, karma is a pretty low-information channel. What's wrong with being interested and supportive?
You... apparently haven't used a Kindle before. Because... yes. You CAN load whatever you want on it from whatever source you want.

The PDF thing: guys, I'm sorry, it's overblown. There are good converters available for Windows and Mac, and you can EMAIL the PDF to Amazon to get it converted and emailed back instantly. You can even pay a buck to have it sent there automatically. The PDF format is not necessary. Frankly, if I can load Ulysses from Gutenberg as a TXT file and have it good enough to read without distraction, then things are pretty good. If you insist on chapter indexes and hypertext, the .prc is completely fine and basically works just as the PDF would have. It even displays images, though I didn't get a Kindle for that.

HN has a habit of dismissing what they don't like offhand. The Kindle is one of those suffering products. I speak now not as a "hacker," but as somebody who loves the written language, loves novels, even loves certain poetry, and the Kindle is wonderful for people who want to read books. That's what it's for. This isn't an enterprise tool. This isn't meant to help you with work. This is for literature, for novels, for people who like reading. And it does what it does STUNNINGLY well.

The physical limitations weren't really limitations. I dunno, I love the Kindle's original design. I'll have to use this one to see if it's still just as intuitive, but if you've ever used a Kindle, it's something where the design just makes perfect sense. You fall in love with it. I know I did.

And, between getting a mobile browser that displays fairly nicely, being able to mark up texts as I see fit, and having the ability to download The Complete Shakespeare for 99 cents if I need it (oh, and I DO need it), makes the Kindle basically an extreme orgasm of a literature product. I found ebooks online for books that have been out of print for 20 years, books that I read when I was younger and couldn't find again. Think of what it would be like if we moved directly from LP to mp3 with nothing in between for music. It opens up an entire world of literature for the casual/hardcore reader.

So... please. If you're going to diss the Kindle, diss things that actually make sense to diss. Because this is an excellent product, people happen to love it, and it also happens to be selling well, and we Kindle users aren't dicks like Mac users are yet. Don't push people like me into being sarcastic and abrasive. There's still hope for our entire userbase.
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I also like the fact that you can't accidentally turn pages. That was a problem with the first model.

It looks kind of long, though. Less bookish. I dunno, maybe it's just because I haven't seen the glamor shots yet.
Came out last November.
What is wrong with "the app being the server?"

There are plenty of C/C++ HTTP libraries and frameworks out there. Just proxy your homebrew app server behind squid, lighttpd, apache, nginx, or $YOUR_FAVORITE_PROXY and you are set.

In fact, it makes it really easy to develop and test your app that way. There is no web server to configure and you can easily stick in printfs all you want. I use CherryPy (standalone HTTP framework for Python) that way exactly for these reasons. I'd do the same with C++.
Isn't it waterproof? I've certainly spilled on mine and it hasn't changed noticeably. I've even washed the screen.

There's a large-screen version coming out with this simultaneously, according to all reports.
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Why has it been, then?
Talk to the boys at 37Signals ;) Quite a bit of Basecamp is C++, not Rails.
1 - talk to a lawyer.
2 - talk to a lawyer.
3 - talk to a lawyer.

My non-legal opinion is that if you were promised shares and you have any form of documentation the conversation took place, you should leverage your position before the VC round closes and don't sign anything prior to getting what you feel is fair. Even if you do not stay with the company, you may get a nice payoff or some severance shares to walk and let the VC deal go through. Most first round investors will walk if the founders have liabilities like the one you are describing.

oh yeah, and stop working for assholes ;) There are lots of decent company founders out there. I think you will find that turning your back on the bad ones will somehow eventually make the world just slightly a better place.
I've always wondered what the speed of Rails would be if ActiveRecord and friends was in C (or ASM for the insane).
Are you worried about investors? This is the time to take your slice of the pie(I mean in honest sense). If investors find out you own the code and can walk away with it they will be hesitant in investing since once you walk away what are the founders left with? they'll lose investor.

Also if you think they are not honest trust me it is not worth trying more, down the road they'll try something else to get back the stocks even if they give it to you now.

If they are not honest with you take your code without telling them and start you own company or if you need a job find other one. It is very difficult to get the dishonest people straight, best thing is to find your way out.
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haha keep chasing the "high end" apple. you'd think losing 50% share price would shake some sense into you. let me summarize:

2008: COMPUTERS ARE DISPOSABLE

you need to start thinking about $399 laptops, not $3999 laptops

what do i or anyone else really care if the laptop case is designed to last a decade? i am going to be using this thing 24 months, not 24 years

apple's competitors would be stupid to chase this pointless luxury. users don't know and don't care about better cases
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I can't seem to find any mention of it in their blog. Any links?
216 cubic inches, 0.098 lb/cu in, 21 pounds. Aluminum is running about $1/pound. That sounds like $20 to me. I think they can find room to bury that in the price tag. You could spend around $200 to buy a single 12"x12" plate from a metal retailer on line, but I think Apple would buy in volume.

Actual volume of a macbook is 123 cubic inches, so it is even less.

I suppose I could be wildly wrong about the price of whatever alloy they are using.
why do you want to do this??? there are plenty of c/c++ web apps written out there, i have written some myself. its pain central. you do it only when you cannot spare cycles or memory per session and cut the safety nets. just buy another server. in man-hours you will be out ahead.
The economics of starting a website are still very attractive compared to those alternatives.

which is why every superposition of possible websites has been explored eleventeen times. seriously, come up with your idea, i will point you to three people already doing it
Do not trust the internet for legal advice. Talk to your lawyer and see what they think is right/in your best interests.
How about using web/mobile technology to improve supply chain management, logistics, warehousing, shipping, transportation, and manufacturing so that as a country

salesforce.com is taking resumes now, don't delay
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obviously. the banks just want to charge higher interest rates, which they should. i would too given the debt load of the average consumer or company.

what this boils down to is the govt legislating low interest rates. they can't. even lowering the fed rate won't stop the rise in intrabank and consumer interest rates
Argentinian here... and I'd usually extend the o, not the r, so "Estuvimos allí poor un rato."
Did you get paid for the work you did? If no, then probably you still own the code.

This is really good advice here. So many people miss this one. I wish it had more upmods.

When people try to screw you like this they usually rely on keeping everything as vague as possible, hoping to get as much out of you as they can and then stiff you in the end. This vagueness cuts both ways. If there was no written agreement and no pay, what you've got is a few guys working in a room on their own stuff with a verbal agreement to trade that stuff later for more undisclosed stuff (like stock, or shares, or whatever).

YOU OWN YOUR PART and you can walk with it. Of course, check with a lawyer to determine your legal exposure before doing so and have a plan of action for dealing with some very angry guys who have just realized the upper hand they thought they had has been reversed.

All I can add to this is to be sure to tell your lawyer everything you can think of. Sometimes things that seem irrelevant to you have magical legal significance.
inside the USA, treasury notes cannot default. by a 1982 law they can just create an account at a fed member bank and assign it to the payee.

the issue is whether these dollars are worth anything

i would argue that if the US debt hits $25 trillion, its over. the dollar will die and with it the US govt.
I can't figure out who this author is going to vote for.
I was just being a nit, but the original comment asked which would be abhorred more, and he responded with A when he clearly meant B.

Let us all agree to never speak of this again.
That's the way spanish is pronounced.

Radio is "Rradio".

I've found amusing how some people who learn english as a second language end up pronouncing spanish as "espanish", since no spanish word begis with s(consonant), except for sh.
Because it's been in and out of the Apple store ever since he bought it, and generally is about as functional as a brick.
I stopped reading at "quantum cryptography is used to secure Swiss bank transactions". The highest conceivable levels of finance are protected using nothing more exotic than SSL/TLS. I'm sure there's an awesome paper buried somewhere in this story, but I'm equally sure this reporter has no idea what it means.
It's not really stealing of source if you wrote it and there's no contract saying it belongs to them.

I know in Canada at least, unless otherwise stated copyright stays with the creator (in a contractor relationship, other way around for employees) and you've simply licensed them use of the code. So you're only bound to anything you've verbalized (that can be proven) and written down (think emails). I know our copyright laws are a bit different from the US though, so it's worth being prudent first (always is :).
You're being screwed. Lawyer up.

I presume you haven't assigned copyright to these fine gentlemen, yet? If not, you're in a deadly strong position, and you can shut the whole thing down.
Pretty fascinating the way self-control is a depletable resource.
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That looks like the current scrap price. Its at about $.80 at this very moment, down from a high of $1.10 earlier this year.

Pure alloys (not mixed and cast by melting scrap), even common ones like 6061 still seem to be $5-$10/pound even in large quantities. If you know of a way to get 61 or 52 for less than that we would greatly appreciate the tip.
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its not like it'll hurt you. If your business is created around your hobby you'll get a lot more satisfaction out of it. And if you are passionate about something you'll be more successful
"The rollercoaster" is often the most overlooked part in this romanticism over becoming an entrepreneur. The problem I find is that articles like this tend to fly right over the heads of those who have not experienced the sensation first hand.
As it works here in the US, you can take anything you've personally wrote and go your own way with it unless the following exists... You've signed or >>cleary<< declared that you are relinquishing ownership of it to them, they own a patent to the work you're doing for them and thus they have priority over it, or you've been paid and on the terms of payment was that you were providing them with code. The last one about being paid is still arguable but worth noting as you can argue that they were paying you for a license to the code you were writing and you just happen to be more open to share information and listen to their opinion on the matter.

In a situation like this, if the idea is stellar enough (and you understand it enough) that you could do the idea without them and it would likely be successful, I would take it and form your own company, potentially file for patents on anything new, and look immediately for investors.

In the world of business there are two key things which separate one from another, and both must be present. The first is material, code, visual/displayable proof of concept, prototype, or product. The second is money to execute and grow the material and code. With those two things, you'll have the upper hand against them at any time. Some will argue in the long run, if they manage to survive being beaten out in the beginning by product and money, that they may have a greater vision or business sense to execute it more efficiently, but the success would be unlikely. From your description of them I would think they would quickly crumble under the matter and the fact that you did what he's so scared of and he drove you to do would render him utterly useless/dysfunctional.

THAT IS JUST MY POSITION AND TAKE ON IT. I AM NOT A LAWYER AND DO NOT CLAIM TO BE CURRENT OR ABSOLUTE IN MY LAW KNOWLEDGE. THE ABOVE IS JUST MY OPINION AND VIEWPOINT ON THE TOPIC IN QUESTION.
+1 for an Apache module.

Build on a mature best-of-breed product that provides a quality programming model and all required HTTP and logging services. Also easily take advantage of other apache mods such as memcached or wackamole.

Good luck.
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Exactly. Henry Ford heard "I want a faster horse" but gave people an automobile. Because he heard "I want to go faster."
There are two approaches:

1 - build your app as an extension of an existing http server. Start with lighttpd or nginx source and build out from there. nginx has a nice module structure. Perhaps your app can be just a new module. Both of these code bases are C and use event driven sockets. You might be able write your extensions in C++.

2 - Use a known solid http C++ library to roll your own server. Depending on the complexity of your app, you may end up spending a lot more energy going this route.

My relay server for http://shellshadow.com is C++. I had my C++ programmer look at the structure and methods used in one of the two http servers named above. We ended up not re-using their source (our relay isn't http protocol) but did get some useful insight for developing our server daemon.
I would guess the reason as being Brad's phaseout (as a result of SA acquisition) more than a straight conspiracy theory. It was pretty odd that they launched Vox shortly after buying LJ, which was basically the same thing.
Premature Optimization FTL.
Wonder no more ;).

If you want to see how much better an ORM in ruby/C can be, look at datamapper http://datamapper.org. This is mainly used with merb. The new datamapper uses data_objects which has been completely rewritten with C underpinnings to be much more efficient than previous datamapper. I haven't seen any recent benchmarks against ActiveRecord. But I do believe the datamapper team met their goals of being faster.
It's not totally crazy. I think Meebo's mostly written in C++, for instance, since they're always looking for C++ and JavaScript people but they never mention scripting in their job ads: http://www.meebo.com/jobs/openings/server/ I think they mention in one of these blog posts that they wrote a lighttpd module.

I've written a C++ Apache module for a simple web app before. It's definitely harder than using a scripting framework though, not so much because of the language, but more that frameworks have functions that help you do just about anything (e.g. sanitize input, construct safe SQL). In C++ land you're more on your own since most people aren't crazy enough to build a web app in C++.

Also, if you go down this route and you're particular about C vs. C++, check out mod_cpp for building Apache modules: http://sourceforge.net/projects/modcpp/

I echo the advice that if you have something performance-sensitive, build it in C/C++, but proxy it through something built with a better-known framework. Thrift is great for this: http://incubator.apache.org/thrift/
It doesn't matter if there's a written contract... if you are working on a venture together with some sort of verbal understanding, in California (I'm assuming in the rest of the USA too) that is just as legally binding as a written contract (At least according to the two lawyers I've talked to... you should obviously talk to your lawyer about your options as circumstances may be different).
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It seems to have been Thomas Hart Benton speaking about John C. Calhoun:

http://books.google.com/books?id=JLpYAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA34...

And you actually got the quote pretty close to correct:

"No, sir. When God Almighty lays his hand upon a man, sir, I take mine off, sir."
Didn't Livejournal create Memcached?
> Advice ?

Run.
So true. Probably the first lesson I learnt as a product manager was how to take what users asked for in terms of features and then try and understand "why" they wanted it. Especially useful when you listen to a number of feature requests and try and distill them down to the reasons underlying them. Many disparate ones can often be coalesced down to a few actual requirements/issues which you can then try and address instead of just implementing features
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What is the going hourly rate for an iPhone app developer?
Someone I asked threw out the rate of between $250 and $500 / hour.
I think the founders are trying to manipulate and use you.
You may want to check http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html
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That is a strange list. There seems to be a misplaced sense of priorities, which is somewhat alarming. The focus should, as you say, be on building platforms/libraries which can be used to build apps and services, either free or otherwise, instead of just focusing on providing free alternatives to existing commercial software
Please lay down for a while and it will pass.
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I also feel it a bit disappointing that there were so many "replacements" on this list.

How about something completely original? How about we start racing the commercial sector to a worthwhile goal like computer vision, or decent speech recognition. Anything more inspiring than a "Skype replacement" will do fine.

We just need a few more things where the open source version is the dominate player, instead of a clunky, half working "free replacement" for commercial software that wasn't very good to begin with.
Energy is the big challenge of our generation, not computer technology. Climate change is part of it, but it's not the main issue. At some time during the next few decades we're going to hit crunch point in terms of oil and gas reserves. Not only because few new resources are being found, but also because their depletion is accelerating, especially due to China and India's stellar economic growth.

Humanity will get through the energy crunch, probably with a 20-year depression and government commandeering of manufacturing resources to build renewable energy capacity. During that time there will be huge unemployment, war, and for many poorer countries, likely starvation. The food chain is deeply dependent on fertilizer, made from oil.

So the key for the next two decades is to do as much as we can to prepare for this period. Ideally we'd completely wean ourselves off oil and gas, like Sweden or Norway, but that seems unlikely to happen. But at least, it means investing in renewable energy capacity and technology, so that things don't completely grind to a halt.

Trouble is, this isn't really a computer problem, so how to help?
Maybe michael_nielsen can give us some insight on this story.
Good point.

Using a credit card is important to establish credit. What's more important is NEVER GETTING INTO DEBT.
Sounds dubious. But if the founder is the sort of person you'd never have worked for if you'd known what he was like, why do you care? It sounds like you ought to work somewhere else anyway.
You have a great deal of leverage that you don't seem to be using here. If you haven't signed anything, and haven't been paid for anything, then the code is yours, and you can walk with it. Understand that contracts don't require papers, but it helps when things go wrong.

The key here is consideration. It's what you've given up and what the other person has given up in return. You've given up the code (IP, time, development), and what have you gotten in return? If you've been paid, that may be all that matters in court. If you haven't been paid, and if you've been promised equity and haven't received it yet, the contract is unenforceable and you can walk with your code.

I would use that last bit if applicable to leverage your position and make your case to the founder. You want the equity up front, before an NDA. The NDA keeps you from taking your code elsewhere, which is probably what the founder, his lawyer, and the investors want to keep you from doing.

Also, don't settle for a wimpy stock agreement. If you're in a position to take your year's worth of work and bring it somewhere else, and that year's worth of work is substantial, use that to get a substantial bit of equity. I would be ready to take my work too. In fact, it might be better to go ahead and do that since things are pretty shaky with this founder.

Disclaimer: Like most other people here I'm not a lawyer, so don't sue me after taking my advice.
DataMapper is about 60% faster overall than ActiveRecord, and as much as 20x faster in a few key benchmarks at the moment: http://is.gd/3xwR

In fact we, the core DM contributors, have spent very little time optimizing the library. Up until now we've been mostly focused on creating a clean API, and keeping the internals simplified. I would expect the gap to widen much further once the API stabilizes, and the spec coverage gets nearer 100% (it was in the low 90's last I checked).