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Writing maintainable code in Java, in 2011 anyway, should be a lot simpler than C# due to the shared knowledge within the Java community.

There are probably more books teaching how to write better code in Java than in C#. Even if the number of books in C# that taught better ways to code is approaching the Java counterpart, they are more likely to be newer books and not necessary preached by Microsoft.

As much as people don't like (or abusing) Spring and Dependency Injection concept, more Java projects are using it (with probably some amount of unit-testing) as opposed to C#.

When you look at Continuous Integration landscape, most of them came from Java.
HN - I can see my post only when I am logged in
A few day ago I posted a link on HN and I could see the post only when I am logged in. After I am logged out I cannot see the post while I am able to view other new posts. Is this normal?
Mark Pilgrim found and annoyed
Or just add an archival tarball to your 410 page.
I got in as a first-timer. Is anyone else from Vancouver heading down?
Annoyed someone called the police when he vanished? What a schmuck...
People can & do harm themselves.
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This is a really amusing comment if you read it w/o knowing where he worked.
Can't a dude just disappear in peace anymore?
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There are ways of dying that don't involve surprise demises.
If you're on Gmail, check your Bulk mail folder. I was waiting for an hour and it turned out it's been in my Bulk folder for a while.
The poor man's HN account delete: change email, change pass to random gibberish, logout.

You're free.

Until the next account.
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Another good method is to get the sites IP address (`nslookup` or `dig` are good tools for this. Hell, `ping` will do it for you too). Then head over to bing.com and search for ip:addr.

For example: http://www.bing.com/search?q=ip:174.132.225.106
Perhaps it is the scope of the project. Java projects seem to be bigger than that of .NET. .NET tends to be internal apps while Java app could be like some sort of mother-ship type of application (or what people used to joke as the "Command Center" software) or huge integration project.

Having said that, I agree that Java ecosystem is more difficult to learn.

Many students during my college time prefer .NET because VS.NET Express makes a lot of things easier compare to Eclipse, Java, Ant, classpath, etc (forget Maven).
Would it be a crime to send the "background" login sessions to swap?

(I suspect that might be what's happening when the wife and kids swap between 3 or 4 sessions on one of the Ubuntu machines at home -- but Linux isn't dumping actual running programs out to swap as fast as possible to make room for the 500 MB Word doc you might open, either)
Well, what did he think was going to happen? "I'm just going to 410 Gone some of the most useful pages on the Internet and all my social media accounts without saying anything about why. Ho hum. Surely there will be no consequences to this whatsoever."

Let him be annoyed. In the meantime, I'm going to be annoyed that he's pulled his content. Surely this violates some implicit social norms and the trust of the Internet community. "Here is some useful content which will educate and inform the world! Come, refer to it and rely on it. HAHAHAHA 410'd!"

I'm sure both of our Being Annoyed's will be very productive. [/snark]
> Their life is ruined either way, but a quick and painless death seems much more humane than spending 60 years living in poverty as a slave to the recording industry.

Can't they just file for bankruptcy?
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yea I did RSVP earlier as well, check your bulk/spam folder? good luck
Wow there it is. Arrive an hour and ten minutes ago. Thank you so much for that suggestion. I had checked my spam folder multiple times, but I didn't even think about the bulk mail folder.

Also, in!
Hit the Windows key, start typing - just like in Windows 7. The UI is different, but the results are the same.
Nubela,

Since I'm working on my startup too and Asian, I understand your frustration and what you're going through. Since you're a programmer, my advice would be to secure a business/marketing person ASAP because generally technical people aren't that great at pitches and meeting people. Also, when you have a team it helps you stay on track and you get great feedback, encouragement, support, and everyone helps out. I got a great team currently and I didn't have them a few weeks ago. It's a matter of winning them over slowly, building trust, good/honest communication, getting them to know you and your project/idea and making them believe that you really care about your project and that you're passionate about it.

That's how I won over my 2 mentors/advisors, the best corporate attorney in the state, and my programmer co-founder.

2nd thing I'd do in your situation is what I call back against the wall, what can I do to make some quick cash and that I can do with small short term projects? Since I'm the marketing type, my list of ideas will generately be ebay, sell stuff, affiliate marketing, promote something, do a workshop locally, or whatever I can come up with. Brainstorm a list that works for you. But avoid getting a job until it's the absolute last resort.

3rd thing I do is go to networking events to meet more people and possibly find your team. I met mine at a Startup Weekend and business functions. You just need to get out there, seriously, just do it.

To stay motivated, I remind myself why I'm doing this. I think about what my vision is and how many millions of people I can help and the impact it will have. I also think about what I hate about the whole industry and why I'm trying to change/revamp it, that drives me. You have to find out what motivates you internally. If it's just money and fame, that's too easy because you can do that with other things so why your particular project? So for me, it's become a cause and a mission that I really believe in so it's been easy convincing people to help me and getting them to see the cause/mission and how it will help others.

I wish you luck in your project and don't give up. Take care!
Bah. Rejected.
Oh well, gives me more time to keep going forward.
Pardon my pontification/speculation, but I wonder if _why and Mark's disappearance is a symptom of a larger disease — programming just isn't as rewarding once a hacker goes public.
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Your English is far superior to my Italian, so no need to apologize.

I had forgotten about Berlusconi's ownership in the media. That does give him a lot of weight to throw around. Is there anything specific about this law (beyond its idiocy!) that frightens you, or is it just Berlusconi's ability to walk all over the Italian people?
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"Sorry Larry, the cloud can't be stopped"
He deliberately deleted some files from websites he had admin access to. Not exactly the behavior of someone in need of help from the police.
That's not necessarily the point. The most important use of a delete account functionality is to protect one's own privacy should you not want to be personally connected to statements you made anonymously.
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Never mind, I guess I just missed in the Engadget stream. Shame on me!
If you (1) are willing to pay a bit more and (2) can do with the 4GB RAM limit, and (3) can work with an external monitor when you need it, get the most expensive MBA 13" base model with an upgraded processor.

If not, get the 3rd 15" MBP and upgrade the processor, screen to hi-res and HD to SSD.

I just bought both recently.
Hum… didn't get invited this year. That's too bad because I feel like I would have benefited from it more this year than the previous ones. Disappointed but I'll survive :)

It's nice that it will be on Justin.tv, but IMO the best thing about Startup School isn't the speakers (though really great) but meeting the people.
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Well, I'm not in the iPhone app store, but I've done mobile development before...

My advice would be to not rush to release a new app every 10-15 days, just because you have 1000 downloads a day. Instead, focus on making your next app good enough to be worthy of receiving 1,500 downloads a day, and then 2,000, etc.

Increase your install base over time with good apps.

Yeah, you can release a bunch of fast puzzle games to promote apps 4+, OR, you can just try and make better apps/games from the start.

I dunno, that's what I'm thinking. I this helps some how.
I disagree - he makes a reasonable assumption. G+ allows you to share things that are public and share things that are private.

If someone was sharing things that are private (our assumption), wouldn't it follow that they are sharing things that they have indicated (via some other means) are public?

For example, David Drummond's post on the Google Blog regarding Android patents (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/when-patents-attack-a...). He has authored this post, indicated this is public but failed to share it publicly using G+. Is this not the purpose of G+?

These execs attend press events often where they openly voice their opinion in the public domain. It's a public company too and these people are actually accountable to the public.

However, it seems that although they share publicly when asked to by reporters and their open-ended questions they do not see G+ as a means to publicly share. They do not understand the value of information sharing and user generated content, the cornerstone of web 2.0. They are still stuck in a pull-based world driven by journalists asking questions. Facebook and Twitter understood the value of this change well by living through it (http://vaughan.io/post/10476571077/live-the-problem).

What we can draw from this is that its not going to be Google who jumps on the next big trend in social, if they can't even understand how to use their current product to its intended effect. They only built G+ because the concept was proven by Facebook and now they are just replicating it. Facebook will continue to lead the market here until the top executives like Larry, Sergey, Alan Eustace, etc. can understand their own product, its weaknesses and its strengths.
... and that's why you always leave a note!
Nice job, Anand!

Here's the sister site for those out of the know:
http://charmseven.com
Movie-rental company Netflix enraged many of its customers with its recent plan to split its mail-delivery and video-streaming services into two separate plans, with higher overall charges for those who want both.

Netflix has been planning on doing this for years. It has nothing to do with the economy.
Just having a (as much as possible) neutral source of information will be incredibly valuable to to the human race. History has always been rewritten by the victors, and that is generally a very bad thing. That can't happen anymore.
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Lol, seconded.
Zealotry will do less damage to your career than epistemic closure.

If you had to choose one of two faults: Nothing But Microsoft OR Anything But Microsoft -- you're going to be better off as an ABMer since (theoretically) your ecosystem of options is MUCH larger. Rejecting Microsoft still leaves you with several other marketable options. Rejecting everything that isn't Microsoft leaves you completely at the mercy of a single platform that you have no control over (and if you did have control over it, it still wouldn't be ideal)
Every site I visit uses HTML. It's making all the webapps look the same.
Oh dear. I remember using Winders 3.0/3.1. They had this thing call "Pogrom Manager" (or something like that). In it, you could make a bunch of little boxes, each of which held several things you could click on and run. It was actually fairly useful, when you weren't just using winders to switch between mess-doss apps. (and frankly, Dr. Dos did a good enough job app switching if you weren't actually running any gooey apps)

Then, out came winders 95 with its fancy pants "start" menu, and some Rolling Stones song about making a grown man cry, or at least some part of that song. I didn't really like the start menu, too much chasing things down multiple levels of moving targets.

So now, start menu will die. Die, start menu, die. Only to be replaced with something that looks much like Pogrom Manager, only with more pixels and bits per pixel to dress it up nice. Just goes to show you the MicroSlop can admit a mistake, even if the mistake is old enough to get a driver's license.
To be fair, back then hardly anyone had WiFi.
I actually found the Windows 7 Start Menu killed a primary bit of usability that I'd been relying on: The ability to have folders of links in the start menu.

I use nearly 20 programs on a regular basis, and another 20 I use occasionally and would like the be able to find without digging through the Program Files menu, and I don't want to clutter the task bar with all of them. The way I have it set up in six folders on the top of the Start Menu (NOT inside "Programs", but above Programs), I can pull any of them up with a Ctrl-Esc and few hits of the arrow keys.

The text search feature works great when you can remember the name of the app you're looking for. My brain doesn't always work that way, though. Since I have the various apps sorted by category, I don't have to look through more than about 6 at a time to find the one I need.

I'm actually using a "Classic Windows Start Menu" app that replaces the new Windows 7 Start Menu with one that behaves the way I've come to depend on.

Until I found the Classic Start Menu app, I was getting stuck on the search line a lot, trying to remember what some tool was called. No fun.
> Until European Union authorities began leaking the document’s text, the Obama administration was claiming the accord was a "national security" secret.

I cannot even begin to express how much this disgusts me. This is the government that I fund with my tax dollars, that is supposed to work on my behalf. There should no operation in the dark.

I hope Europe does not sign this nonsense, although I am not keeping my hopes up.
The notion that "piracy" (even that word is the result of well oiled marketing campaign) will destroy the content makers (rather than the crappy, repetitive stuff they create) is widespread among politicians.
The end of cheap oil says it all, but Stephenson seems to miss what happened. A stressed economy resulted, one which rewarded its best minds for heading to Wall St. and inventing new forms of toxic investments, instead of to industry or academia.
Given that the NYT and most major media outlets (including TV programs) covered the Fire the day it came out, you'd have to be living in a pretty deep hole (at least in the US) to have not heard about the release. Google News shows about 6,000 publications covering the release.

It seems unlikely they'll get even 10% of that much attention again before the ship date.
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Here at Eastwood we are constantly working to get new tools, chemicals, and "stuff" to help you "Do the Job Right". The other day was like Christmas in September with some sample "final production" products arriving from our factories.
yes, I much enjoyed flipcode.com back in the day, particularly Alex Champandards series - http://www.flipcode.com/archives/The_Art_of_Demomaking-Issue...

I played with Javascript sine animations as a way of introduce the idea of sine function in some intuitive way.

Eg Two Rotating Circles - http://quantblog.wordpress.com/2011/10/05/adding-circles-jav...

I think Javascript hacking in a web page is todays equivalent to hacking GW-Basic, Turbo Pascal or A86 assembler for my generation.
It sure scared a lot of people into thinking that perhaps he was going to commit suicide (or already had), which is something that cops get called about and try to stop.
I'm one of them and I don't see a compelling enough reason to upgrade at this point (iPhone or Android). Siri looks interesting, but it's not a feature worth locking myself into another 24 month contract for.

All the Australian networks are moving to 4G, so IMO it's a good time to wait for the next gen of LTE handsets. As with the original iPhone, I suspect it was just too early for Apple to switch.
That rule is for 'ordinary' people/users. Certain 'special' people are exempted from this, and are allowed fictitious names.
This isn't totally unprecedented.

In October 2004, Mark stopped blogging after a post titled "Every Exit" which read: "It’s time for me to find a new hobby. Preferably one that doesn’t involve angle brackets. Or computers. Or electricity." [1] That post sat at the top of his previously very active weblog for 18 months until he returned in April 2006. Of course, that time he only stopped posting new material; he didn't delete all his existing resources. But he did disappear from online life for a while.

[1]: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Mqb93dp...
You've got some good advice already. After you do your due diligence and varify all the stats and make sure they're accurate, there's different revenue models you can add to your site.

You need to make sure the visitors stay around longer though, so more interaction. Membership, newsletter, capture email, quizes and surveys, and improve your content on the website. Without really seeing the website, the advice here will be a bit general.

So if it were me, and since I don't think I know everything and I believe that there are smarter people out there and experts, if I bought the site, I'd find a really successful internet marketer and pay him a fee to review the website and offer advice/consultation. That would pay for itself quickly once the ideas and strategies are implemented. Or you can pay a percentage of the extra profits generated from their advice and help that you wouldn't have gotten otherwise.

Read up more on online marketing. Join a few online marketing forums. Split tests and tweak things. Good luck.
That's the great thing about the internet and pseudonyms :)
Hey guys, let's please stop posting all those trivial WebGL and CSS3 demos on HN, ok?
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On the front page? Really? I'd expect that on a more detailed tutorial, but to get people interested in a technology, I completely disagree.

You don't see Apple plastering "ONLY AVAILABLE IN THE USA" on their pages about iCloud music storage for exactly this reason - you want to get people to say "Hmm, that sounds cool" before introducing them to the caveats.
Probably.

The Big New Feature is the voice thing, and it really needs to prove itself in the field -- it risks being written off as a gimmick, and one that'll make you self-conscious whenever you try to use it.

The potential excitement is clouded by skepticism.

Without that, what's left? International roaming is something a small fraction of us will use. Sprint as a carrier is hardly a fundamental transformation. I mean, don't get me wrong, I'll take the incremental improvements to CPU and camera and software (I'm about to replace an Android on its last legs) but they fail to fascinate.
I decided to take it a step further and add fibonacci generation as an Express Middleware.

https://github.com/nuckchorris/express-fibonacci
Mark is annoyed? How about Mark is goddamn lucky and should be both embarrassed and grateful that he's enough of a character that a chunk of the internet cares about him.

Mark is annoyed?

It is Mark Pilgrim's right to disappear, but to disappear in a puff of greasy black smoke and 4̶0̶4̶s̶ 410s is just attention whoring and begging people to look for him and call the police.

There is no reason for Mark to be annoyed that some caring people looked for him. There is every reason for him to count his blessings.

I sincerely wish him the best and hope he recovers from whatever ails him, but please don't tell me how annoyed he is.
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Perhaps he read this

http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/09/30/the-upside-of-quittin...

(discussion at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3071854 )
Considering that Apple says they barely break even on their content sales (i.e., iTunes/AppStore), I think the strategy is more about staking ground in the tablet space.

Kindle Fire is establishing beachhead for it's bigger 10" sibling who will arrive next year... Fire competes and compares favorably against iPod Touch and not iPad. Next year we'll see a real iPad competitor from Amazon.
Got rejected this year. To next!
I would agree with you. First of all, proximity does matter. I'm working via Skype with my co-founder and technology makes this a pretty painless process, but there is nothing like good old-fashioned face-to-face interaction. Second, you're right - networking opportunities are important and your chance of finding the right ones increases greatly. Congrats
His GitHub projects have been mirrored:
https://github.com/diveintomark/

Dive Into Python 3: http://diveintopython3.ep.io/
GitHub: https://github.com/diveintomark/diveintopython3

Dive Into HTML5: http://diveintohtml5.ep.io/
GitHub: https://github.com/diveintomark/diveintohtml5
And yet you describe something which sounds ideally suited to Node (or any evented system) and call it infeasible. Node actually has pretty nice bindings to C (well, really C++), and I see nothing in your post that it would be incapable of.

If it was because you don't know (and didn't want to learn) Javascript I could understand, but in terms of your comment above it seems like you just didn't look hard enough.
Amazon Prime isn't free shipping (as far as I know >$25 standard shipping is still a thing). It's a flat rate for unlimited 2 day shipping. Two day shipping is expensive, but the combination of an annual fee and the increased likelihood of purchases for subscribers is good for Amazon's bottom line. Subscribers get faster shipping and pay less as long as they order more than four or five things a year. It seems like a pretty decent win for both consumers and Amazon. I imagine Amazon's brick and mortar competitors are somewhat less amused.
Maybe Orson Scott Card is right. Maybe Brazil will be a place of great influence in the future. I would very seriously consider moving to a country that actually focused on governing its people while allowing business to continue in an intelligent fashion.

Sadly, I don't know where that would be at the moment, but I wouldn't feel bad about learning Portuguese if it turned out to be Brazil.
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From the article:

In a study published this year, consultancy McKinsey found the
Internet accounted for 21 percent of GDP growth in mature
countries

Here's the study they are referring to: http://www.mckinsey.com/features/sizing_the_internet_economy...

It states that, between 2004 and 2009, the internet was responsible for 21% of total GDP growth. If this is broadly accepted, given the state of the economy, why isn't there more of a push to make better broadband an election campaign issue?

Are there any politicians that have embraced this as a core principle or is the carrier lobby too influential?