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No, please do listen to the haters. They may well explain to you how the system is so intratcably broken that it must cause cognitive dissonance if you believe in a free Internet.

The DNS is not your friend. The sooner you recognize the lack of utility of globally unique names and the pound of flesh being extracted for this inane privilege, the sooner you will be on the side of the future.

Yes, yes.. barriers to entry are always awesome for entrenched players. I'm not even slightly interested in how your name is your competitive advantage. If you believe this lie, I do not care about your success.
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I forget where, but I once read an article suggesting that one of the big problems Microsoft has faced in the past 10 years is that, after the DoJ suit and the ruling of it as an abusive monopoly by Judge Jackson, they missed out on a lot of good new developers simply because they didn't want to work for that sort of company.

I don't think my opinions of Larry Ellison had been high for some time, but recent actions and publishing this sort of press release hardly raises them. Perhaps this will be the final downfall of Oracle; that their reputation in the tech community so precedes them that they run out of willing labour and / or partners?
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I've written a couple of papers about this (not intended for publication), and spent some time investing the project management and development arm of the organization I was with. Some of my thoughts are these:

1. Cost focus. In a cost-focused organization (as opposed to revenue-focused), such as universities and certain enterprises (mostly, IMNSHO, large SaaS enterprises), much of the development is performed by lowest-cost developers, meaning those without UX experience or training.

2. Training. Project managers don't know better. In order for the PM "customer" to evaluate good UX, (s)he must know what good UX is. Without some exposure to heuristics to evaluate a good US, it won't ever be a consideration in planning or accepting the project.

3. The larger the organization, the more likely the PM "customer" is not an actual user of the product. Corollary: the larger the organization, the greater the likely distance between the developers and the customers.

4. Inertia. Some large companies still use terminal systems or require IE6. It's more difficult to change than it should be.

5. User lock-in; lack of substitutions. In environments where users don't get to choose which system to use (e.g., students using a university's learning management or registration system) and can't turn to substitutes, the incidence of poor UX seems higher. These are also situations where users have little bargaining power relative to the developers.
Quite shocked they haven't - with a little strapline for each.
You're right, of course. So that means that while perl runs on every major OS, python and ruby run on every major OS, the JVM and the CLR (and can use the libraries from each of these).
New software license sales and renewals are both down year-over-year as a percentage of overall sales. It might just be a blip, but I read it as a weakness in their core business. I think the size of the enterprise segment is shrinking - as Andreesen pointed out recently, it was pretty common ten years ago for startups to sink tons of cash into Oracle licenses. Nowadays, it doesn't happen at all. Internet-scale is no longer equivalent to enterprise scale, and less companies are buying Oracle as a result. Elsewhere, government sales are slowing as a result of global fiscal restraint, which basically leaves Fortune 500 to carry the water for Oracle. So yeah, "struggling" might be a bit over-the-top, I certainly wouldn't be betting on Oracle as a breakout story. They are probably a business in decline, and most likely to end up in a similar spot as SGI, DEC and tons of other former enterprise powerhouses that saw their core business diminished by the relentless commoditization that comes with advances in technology.
Let's just drop the word "socialist". There is nothing socialist about free exchange of ideas without an overseeing authority.
Imagine function a calls b() and function b calls c(), and they're all sync.

Now, let's say c() changes and needs to call someAsyncFunction() and provide a callback. Which means c itself needs to take a callback. Which means b needs to provide a callback, so b needs to also take a callback, so a needs to provide a callback. And so forth.

Callbacks are infectious - once anybody in the call stack needs one, everybody needs one even if they just pass it on down the stack. Unless you don't need to do anything with return values, but that's fairly rare.
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Thanks for addressing the comment. Still, the logo is shabby. you will most likely( I would ) get rid of it post-purchase just to get the good domain name.

At that point I'm looking to spend some time and get it done properly.
No, I think it's just that you personally were more exposed to this debate because of that incident. The debate and the uprising have been going on ever since Patrick Brown and Michael Eisen started a petition in 2001 which eventually resulted in PLoS. Many people have been slow to follow them, for many reasons, but the movement has been growing ever since.
I wonder how much it costs to build a new plant in another country and shut down and old one while transferring operations, and I would probably bet some money that they actually lost money on that.

3 years of operations probably did not offset costs.
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I rather enjoyed the chicken with the mushroom cloud on the horizon.
I give G+ 10mos before it is discontinued.
Borders Australia, may it rest in peace with it's absurd over RRP pricing policy, sold them.
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Make it even more decentralized and more P2P based. Eliminate as many points of failure as possible. Use something like the Phantom Protocol for increased freedom and security as well:

http://code.google.com/p/phantom/
This smacks of "That doctor only spent five minutes in the room, and now he wants $200?!"

There is a lot of other value you're buying here - the selection of the name, the connection of the name and an aesthetic, the skills for which don't magically appear in people overnight.

Did you look at the site? Care and consideration has been exercised in the branding of these names, from colors to typography. If the "raw materials" are indeed $99 + $7.99, then $250 is a good deal for what amounts to 1.5-2 hours of skilled work to create this finished product.
I see the main difference as whether you're making the decisions on what to build/sell, versus doing it to a specification given by a client.

It somewhat correlates in tech, but in most industries entrepreneurs aren't defined as making money while they sleep. For example, a very traditional kind of entrepreneurial activity is to open a brick-and-mortar shop. A mom-and-pop bakery doesn't make money when they aren't there, but is entrepreneurial (in fact opening a bakery is basically the economics textbook example of entrepreneurship).
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Broadening my horizons? I'm not a Ruby genius, and I really like the Python/Django mindset of "not being clever". The code is MUCH more readable, especially to laypersons, and I value very highly the capability of revisiting my code a year later and knowing exactly what I was doing with it.

I never really felt that way with Ruby, though I still like and occasionally use it. I'm actually working on a Ruby project right now, mostly due to circumstance (hosting was donated for the project, and it supports RoR but not Django or Flask).

The other main thing, at the time, was that there were a LOT of very valid options with Python. I could crank out small projects very quickly in Flask or Tornado, work on larger, more custom solutions with Django, or if it was pretty cookie-cutter, fall back to Zope. At the time, AppEngine and web2py were catching on as well. For the most part, a module written for one of those ports really easily to any of the others.

Bottom line though, learning one has really made me a better programmer and taught me to appreciate the WHY behind some of the decisions a given framework has made. If you only know one, I encourage you to look at the other side of things, even if just for perspective.
Ok, the chicken was great, I admit..
I hope so much we’ll see a Nexus tablet as well! What better way to prove that ICS is unifying form factors?
For one, Notch vs Bethesda operated at several fewer orders of magnitude.

Secondly, Notch is playfully avoiding a lawsuit. Oracle is settling a score.
I find Shaw's response to be asinine.
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I think Spolsky does this best, even though I can't quite pin down how.

His company doesn't have a trendy name, he doesn't really have a gimmick (other than being a clear and prolific and useful writer, which is not a gimmick), but he's reasonably celebrated.

In the context of this "don't just be useful, have personality" idea, what's his personality? It must exist, because the following that he's built points to it, but I can't identify it directly, sort of like a marketer who you've heard great things about but don't know where. (Obligatory xkcd comic link to be posted by someone else.)

Note: I'm not saying he has no personality, just that I can't point out what makes it come to the forefront, because it's subtle. I love the guy, but don't know why I love his site so much more than, say, jwz's. Maybe it's the implied profitability of his software business, versus the "I sell beer because I hate computers" message?
I like the concept but I'm not a fan of the domains you have now. Can I suggest you open it up to consignment for anyone with a domain? So you increase the value of my domain mydomain.com by giving it a brand / landing page and for that I agree to give you $250 or some percentage of the sale.
So, to answer your original question, "What's with Linux and margins?":

The people who don't like margins don't want to help. Now you know.
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The most interesting thing about this story is just how poor that Powerpoint presentation is.

It's professionally put together, but if I someone tried to use these as slides during a presentation I'd want to tear my eyes out.
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Not necessarily, for some client work I've reduced my price in exchange for full ownership (or rather, co-ownership) of the product I've developed. That way I can do with it what I want.
Yes, the action was so powerful that it sent ripples backwards in time to provoke the founding of the PLoS journals years ago!

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Except you can also scale your consulting business by hiring or tying up with other devs. This means you can still earn while others are working for you!
If you read a "much better" article on that topic, you might forget who the author is. You won't forget the giant robot dinosaur.
No, I didn't drop a link farm because I figured most people would already knew this. I mean, it doesn't even pass the common sense test: if hard work = success why aren't most, say, Mexican immigrants loaded?

I suppose it depends on what you mean by success. But by the most common definitions (e.g. being rich) hard work isn't the main factor or even required at all (e.g. inherit millions from your parents requires how much effort? Basically not dying).

I watched my dad hold down two jobs and come home and work into the night providing his family with the things we needed. The first career job I had made more than he's ever made in his life and that job was mostly standing around.

Sadly, how we really wish things were has nothing to do with how they actually are.
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They received subsidies from Romania and the EU for building the plant in Cluj that they'll likely have to return if they close down the fab early.

That's why they agreed to pay millions for closing down the plant in Bochum, because they had received subsidies for building that plant in the 1990s and the German state of Nordrhein-Westfalen claimed they didn't fulfil the conditions under which the subsidies were granted.

Here's a PDF with some details (page 12):
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/emcc/erm/templates/displaydoc...

Quote: "Nokia received German state subsidies for its production in Bochum and will be exempted from the real estate tax in Romania, while the infrastructure for its new plant in Cluj was subsidised by Romanian and EU funds."

Nokia would really hold the world record in shortsighted management if HP hadn't ousted them in that discipline this summer.
"This populist attitude has been missing from the tablet market since the iPad's release." I do not agree with this at all. Before the iPad the tablet market was ~$1500 laptops. Now amazon has come out with a tablet that they did not have to design the hardware or software. Great, but do not knock the iPad for price, as it cost something to create a design people want to buy.
It must be nice having a legal monopoly upheld for you on a whole market segment. But by all means, lets ignore Apple banning competition en-masse. Lets discuss how Microsoft is leeching money of competing platforms instead. That's just so much better.

I'm seriously looking forward to a future without all this patent bullshit. Doing any real business in this climate seems borderline impossible. And doing any kind of innovation seems even harder.
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If you look at their financials, they are still a very profitable company. Revenue is ~40 billion, net income a little under 2 billion. It seems if they continue on the path of "we can make a better smartphone!", their financial statement will be murdered in the next 2-3 years. If someone fiscally conservative took over and focused them on the niche where they do well, they can still survive in a post-smartphone world. That would require trimming jobs, cutting costs...
Wow. I am totally confused now.

"Apple is suing Samsung for patent infringement arguing the firm "slavishly" copied its iPad."

"Today in court Samsung clarified that the film is "not relied on as prior art because look and feel is not an issue [in this case] - it would be relevant to a design case"."

So... Are they suing because they copied the look and feel or not?
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These layoffs don't affect their software division. This is mostly about moving production to Asia.

They will also stop manufacturing phones in Finland. The plant in Finland won't be shutdown (yet) but they won't be manufacturing phones anymore.
Is all of that necessary? Would a model like the following work:

Have a web site where scientists can submit papers. Other scientists can then review the papers. The reviews are publicly (though optionally anonymously) published along with the papers, and the authors of the paper can submit revised versions of the paper.
I hate to seem cynical about this, it was an interesting article, but I can't help noticing that all the product examples were for a market of other web developers.

I doubt this is a sustainable market; surely, all web developers can't just sell to each other. The market for web development products can only be created and paid for by having a sustainable web product market for non web developers.

patio11's Bingo Cards feels a lot more 'real' to me as a product business, and I would be interested in hearing other examples done by small teams.
"I like developers, and letting PHBs put devs in a dungeon is bad"? More to it, but that seems to be a recurring theme in Joel's writing.

He makes things that explicitly help developers, whether its a bug tracking system, or a Q&A board for devs. In one column he says that a small software company or startup manager's job is to provide the illusion that developing software is all there is to do (all that matters).
Because EDA tools and their authors are stuck in a 1990s mentality. Usability outside of improved autorouters has not significantly improved in many years. I fear that the tool authors just don't "get" the development processes that have emerged in the last 20 years.
Is this true? If it is, why don't the RIAA and MPAA just buy the information they seem so desperate to get so they can sue you with it?
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(me == author) and I completely agree. And you're just spoiled because you're from Seattle :-D. Compared to better indy coffee shops, the chains aren't great, but they are consistent (the wireless may not be great, but it doesn't go down). But you definitely want to find a place with soul if you can.
Ask a university or a library if they are the same thing as a music label or a film studio. They'll give you a list as long as your arm of the differences.
>>They know what you're doing but not why

I am having trouble understanding this. Isn't "why" trivial, if not obvious? I think "what" and "how" are far more important than "why".
well, i would guess that the monitoring s/w etc. that was mentioned in the article, was part of the various gateway nodes that make up the entire 2g/3g/4g network. 3gpp has standardized on well defined interfaces for "lawful interception". most likely, if you are using any of the above wireless technologies, you may be subjected to them as well, and of course you would never know.

another point-of-view, would you also blame cisco aiding and suppressing dissident movement in china just because their equipment was/is the one being used to do so ? on the same lines, i think, the hand wielding the knife should be taken to task, rather than it's manufacturer...
I'm totally unaffiliated with stylate. I saw this (http://twitter.com/#!/ormanclark/status/119324718527553536) tweet from @ormanclark & decided it might appeal to people on HN.
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I moved to an xmonad based environment but I still keep a gnome-panel on screen, so it's kind of a hybrid environment.
These quotes are taken out of context. When displayed later in the piece they paint the full picture – Apple believes the Galaxy Tab 2 is infringing on its creative work in hopes to steal customers.

Boring article that relies on hyperbole for clicks. I feel used.
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I am reminded of "Thag the Caveman" asking for help on network printing or some such thing, or perhaps of the "Hulk Feminist" tweeter. Sometimes, bad form is a form. Lighten up?

I guess the point is to be memorable to at least a small group of people, rather than correct and bland and forgotten by all.
I meant that you're better off setting those boundaries when you start your employment than after people have become accustomed to your behavior.
The devices are fast enough, but with that speed came massive battery life problems. Therefore, the same problem exists, its effects have just moved somewhere else. It is therefore not comparable with the desktop.
The current release is included in VS Professional, Ultimate isn't required. It seems like the last recent installer for VS Shell is the CTP, so expect some difficulties if you want to go the free route on windows, although it's possible that SharpDevelop integrates with the latest source drop.

Anyway, it shouldn't be too difficult to build the compiler yourself and set up a basic emacs/vim + mono environment for linux.
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Just playing devil's advocate here: They mention "aggregate user behavior", so they could be building a large, aggregated Markov chain that stores no user data whatsoever -- just site transition data for the world.

I haven't read in-depth analysis of how they do their stuff, though.
Ask HN: managing clients, contacts and leads
What software, or other methods, do you use to manage your client contacts and your sales leads. I find it difficult with to work effectively when we don't really have a holistic system for recording customer communications.

Obviously one needs to record the basic details, email address, phone number, etc.. But then also details of each call made with them, perhaps copies of all emails from/to the client, etc..

How you're actually managing all this now and how well it's working. How would you do things differently if you were starting fresh. Thanks.