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I'd like if it worked a bit more like insynchq.com...
Stored procedures have different security semantics than bound sql statements. See the security definer attributes.

Briefly, a stored procedure can run with the calling user's permissions, or the definer's permissions. If you set up a function as a security definer, you can do things with data that protect it from disclosure in a way that you can't in a sql statement. You can do it similarly with views, but they're more of a read only case.
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Which is the reason why I'm not using it... yet!
What is this patent actually for? I was looking up wifi, and the precursor to 802.11 came out in '91. That's well over 17 years ago.
That was only one study. Another study said it is $10 under. And none of it takes into account people purchasing apps, the $29 covers, etc. The bigger risk to their bottom line would be the SNL episode newscast that disses the Fire. Apple must have seriously paid NBC off for that. See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3058207
If you follow the "how to run it on Heroku" section in the README here: https://github.com/typesafehub/webwords/tree/heroku-devcente... then you would get something like this running app here: http://webwords.herokuapp.com/

That's pretty much what it does ;-)

Some people call this a "Platform-as-a-Service" or PaaS.
to expand upon this, here are some other representative Ted Dziuba posts:

http://teddziuba.com/2010/10/taco-bell-programming.html

http://teddziuba.com/2011/02/the-case-against-queues.html

http://teddziuba.com/2011/03/osx-unsuitable-web-development....

http://teddziuba.com/2008/09/a-web-os-are-you-dense.html

if I had to sum up his philosophy in three sentences, here they are:

your job is software engineering. every bit of fancy shiny stuff that you add onto your software is another thing that can break. the most important decision you need to make in your job is determining when your tools are good enough and don't need further elaboration -- at a certain point you need to stop jerking off about your toolchain, and just ship your project.
The RAZR is still pretty much the epitome of "just a phone" in contrast with modern smartphones. Nothing really surpasses it, save for Verizon crippling them. Optimize it for what it will be used for, instead of making it do what users don't want, and it would sell well unto 6 million today.

There are plenty of us who have suitable portable computers (iPad in particular) who don't want an iPad Nano overlapping functionality.
"Many MBAs may come out of school wanting to start another Facebook, but they do have a purpose in life-" ... Actually, I'm not so sure. It's my experience that the business types that learned by the seat of their pants are much more likely to succeed than MBAs (although maybe the MBAs would be better at understanding why they failed?)

It reminds me of Rodney Dangerfield in "Back To School" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlVDGmjz7eM. Notice that everyone's taking notes on his comments?
Strategy consultants are extremely highly paid, extremely specialized temp workers. We only create as much value as the client asks us to get.

It's a time-money play. We do the work that creating or scaling a corporate strategy group would do if you had the 6-12 months to go out, hire a team, train them together, create the necessary links to the organization, and go do the work. With consultants, you can hire and fire us at any time, no severance, pensions, or hard feelings. Once our work's done, we leave.

I'm not saying it's the best thing since sliced bread. But zero net contributor it isn't.
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Three years ago I started building something because there wasn't a product on the market that did what I wanted it to do. And what was on the market that may have kept a frown off my face was so expensive or complicated that only computer savvy people would comprehend what it even does.

Today I give you SureDone - a free website builder available at www.suredone.com - it syncs with eBay, allows you to upload hundreds of images in bulk, and lets you ship multiple orders with Fedex, UPS, and more. It does products, pages, categories, and then some.

And this is just the beginning...

Tell me what you think!

I may not be able to respond right away as I packed my things, hit the road and left from a desolate startup desert to move to a startup mecca.

See you in New York,
Thanks!
I want to keep the experience the same as possible with the free episodes without losing any conveniences such as browsing the source code. If one finds the source code interesting, hopefully he will subscribe to watch the video too.
People are celebrating because the move to open standards is accelerating . When I read reviews about the Chromebook having poor Flash support, it's just a sad reminder that companies need Adobe's help/support to build another platform.

Adobe actually is a good company but they can't spend the necessary time supporting Flash on every new platform that appears. Flash is only ever going to be good on a couple of major platforms.

Building the web around open standards gives many companies a chance to build the next great Internet device.
You should now use a (not)BBB Accredited! logo of your own design and see how it performs...
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If you are having trouble subscribing, please let me know. ryan@railscasts.com

Also, PayPal support will be coming soon which should make signup easier for international.
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That's intelligent. CSS taking care of CSS.

This part was specially interesting:

/* These may not be "wrong", but let's bug you anyway.
*/

b:after,
i:after,
blink:after,
marquee:after {
background: green;
content: 'Should you be using strong or em?';
}
There might be plenty of land, but I think there will always be more desirable land. Either it is more central - better transport, trade, jobs. Or it is near a natural resource, for instance water - which provides fresh air, views, transport.

The poor benefit as much (or more) than the rich do by having access to this better land.
Let it be known that this is a community project, not a Canonical project.
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I think the BBB has already sustained the fatal wound, it will just take a time-frame of decades for it to play out. Their service means nothing to most of the generation that grew up on the internet. Those people tend to utilize several key data points (trusted blogger, Amazon Review, a forum, Yelp, Urbanspoon) to make decisions about businesses and products.

Where those that are rapidly becoming elderly, grew up in a generation that had to rely on these data aggregation and trust business entities. As those people become less and less of a consumer force via attrition, entities like the BBB in their current form will cease to exist. I think they sense it and are selling that last thing that they had (their credibility) in the death throws. All efforts to adapt their model has thus-far failed.
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The world does not need more Zuckerbergs.
Sounds a lot like the Yelp.com criticisms I've read.
For anyone on the fence about the claims, 20/20 did an investigation[1] of the BBB and found exactly the same thing. They worked with companies with complaints against them and low ratings that were called by BBB representatives asking them to re-up their registrations.

Without much coaxing the BBB agents clarified that the ratings could be "reinstated" or "take care of" if the signup process was completed. Once the businesses did that, in every case, the scores were re-adjusted to A or A+ for those companies.

Conversely, companies that didn't re-up would have all their past complaints re-instated on their review page and scores drop to C/D/F levels.

Not unlike the Yelp stuff we saw going on last week or the week before here on HN.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo8kfV9kONw
I wasn't criticizing anything so specific as either Yale, students, or a particular consulting firm. Everyone's going to follow the incentives.

But why are the local incentives so stupid in the larger view?
This was a thought I also had. An HD recording of the message stream, with enough of the surrounding environment to make it look / demonstrate its "liveness" and context.

Rather than trying to deliver individual fragments to all the contributors, see if the ads/messages are clocked tightly enough that you can simply post one or several videos somewhere (YouTube, Vimeo?) and then provide contributors the timestamp of the start of their particular ad/message.

Possible, the ad/message stream videos may take on a life or their own. Two results for the price of one, as it were.

P.S. Beware of liability, though. At your price point, that's a lot of content to vet. And you don't have just obscene content to worry about, but possibly also trademark infringement, accusations of hate speech, etc., etc. Some of which might be hard to catch in a cursory examination. (OTOH, one brief display might reduce the change of facing legal action. IANAL and all that.)
The likelihood of Apple giving Sprint an exclusive to their newest device this late in the game (ie, they're not an unknown quantity like they were in 2007) is highly unlikely.

Where one to entertain this crazy notion though the reasoning could center around Sprint's WiMAX deployment and the iPhone 5's need for higher bandwidth. Should the much rumored "Assistant" feature of the new iPhone require a bigger pipe to the Internet to function, then this could be plausible.

Yet in the end, why? Apple has only expanded their supported carriers since 2007. Centering on Sprint in the hope of forcing the hand of AT&T and Verizon in the US is a fools errand. They would be effectively shrinking the market they worked so hard to expand into. Seems nuts.
I've just submitted a pull request that I think really enhances this app. https://github.com/glenjamin/node-fib/pull/5/files
buzz is omnidirectional -- when people start talking about a technology, platform, or stack, people of all shapes and colors will show up and use it. and when your product pitches itself as having super amazing performance due to this programming paradigm omg!, you are responsible for making its limitations known to all and sundry who use it, rather than assuming prior knowledge.

also, the joyent node.js homepage itself claims, as a business advantage:

"• Huge JavaScript developer pool at the ready for faster development"

implying that any Javascript developer can just dig their hands right into server code and get working.
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I'll be impressed if any of them allow people already under contract to get a better price.
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To start, there are only a few dozen "core web fonts"[1] with which 99% of browsers will have. Then there are a handful of fonts specific to Windows/Mac/Linux, which commonly will be in one but not the other.

For "fancy" fonts, Google Web Fonts[2] is a great resource - you can embed a font into your page, so it isn't dependent upon it already being on the user's system.

There's a lot of reading you can do on typography, but I'd recommend experimenting with different fonts (serif & sans-serif), sizes, letter spacing, line height, and other parameters to get a feel for what makes text readable. Try a few ideas you like, then stand a foot farther from your monitor and see if it still looks good.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_fonts_for_the_Web

[2] http://www.google.com/webfonts
Does Google want Amazon's fork to succeed? They sure haven't welcomed them to the family...
I guess the question that I still see unanswered in my readings is why are the founders so keen to pay themselves upwards of $20M in investor cash when they've really just begun. They're not investing that cash into the company, their sweat equity is nowhere near that number and their talent is going to prickle at the sight of soon to be purchased baubles parked in reserved spots outside the office. What do they have to gain from what appears to be pocket money in comparison to what they think the company is worth? Or do they not think the company is worth the after-money price, somewhat a la Groupon?
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Other than the score of legal agreements (NDAs, work for hire, security policies, background checks) and physical/data security (restricted access, encryption, etc.), what are some practical ways to deal with running a startup while maintaining trade secrets?

For instance, I can make sure that only developers who absolutely need access to certain data for their work have such access, but are more "clever" methods often employed, such as somehow splitting up crucial algorithms (if possible) and data so that only partial information is available to any individual or group? Something akin to the security that highly anticipated movie productions use to protect scripts or stories before they are released as movies by splitting the scripts into sections and restricting access?

How does a company like Google deal with access to its page-rank algorithm? Do certain high-level developers and managers get access to the algorithm completely, or is it more convoluted than that? Or are the legal agreements enough to maintain the necessary secrecy?

I'm at the beginning of a startup that will depend on trade secrets for some algorithmic stuff and I'm curious what other companies have implemented practically to deal with this.
To which the response is the same: simply don't block the event loop and use setTimeout.

The whole cancer thing is based on the premise that blocking the event loop is unavoidable. I'm attempting to say that it isn't. Jerf's points about how it can happen accidentally are perfectly valid, it's up to the developer not to do something stupid and to actually have decent tests and benchmarks in place - as it would be with any approach.

Its certainly true that significantly poor performance in code which doesn't release the loop will degrade a single-threaded event loop far more than a threaded approach.
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That seems very unlikely, although it would certainly make me consider switching to Sprint (after doing lots of research into their network quality in my area, etc.).
Great to see bitbucket expanding the offering.

A while back I had chosen bitbucket over GitHub because of the free private repository. And Git was not an absolute requirement, non-Git source control was absolutely fine.

GitHub still does not offer a private repo for free (currently private is $7/month), I imagine this may change at some point soon now.
Interesting how IE usage falls and Chrome's rises on weekends...
Hype and promotion to the contrary, the place Daily Deals make the most sense isn't in driving more people through a lower-margin but still-profitable offering. It's as a substitute for local advertising, which is for many businesses akin to just flushing money down the toilet.

Sensible Groupon offerings don't have to make money, or even fail to lose money. They just have to do so within the bounds of a marketing budget, and provide a better ROI than what the budget would have gone to otherwise.
Minor correction - Scala does not have the Hindley-Milner type inference method and for technical reasons it would be very hard to have something similar. Languages that do have Hindley-Milner are those from the ML family, like Ocaml, Haskell and F#.

That said, the linked article is pretty cool.
I'll early-term my contract to get away from AT&T. A new iPhone rev would be gravy.
The L1 carrier is spread over a 2 MHz bandwidth and its strength at the Earth's surface is -130 dBm. Thermal noise power in the same bandwidth is -111 dBm, so a GPS signal at the receiving antenna is ~ 20 dB below the noise floor.

This is slightly misleading; the bandwidth of the entire signal is 2MHz (it's a 1MHz chip). The bandwidth of the carrier is much narrower - it is above the noise floor typically by somewhere between about 15 and 50dBHz (you can see this quite easily on a spectrum analyser). The spread-spectrum part of the signal is indeed well below the noise floor.

That minor quibble aside, this is a pretty awesome effort for one guy to do end-to-end.
It depends how hard the problem is. In an introductory writing class, you get maximum utility by letting anyone in. Whereas a graduate math class will usually have pretty stiff prerequisites; the median undergraduate would get zero benefit from such a class.

Startups are more like a graduate math class. Most people aren't suited to it.

Also, I think your numbers are off. We're not funding people whose chance of succeeding is 90%. I doubt anyone starting a startup has a 90% chance of succeeding. We'd be delighted if our success rate was as high as 50%. Maybe we're bumping people's chances up from 30% to 40%.
If you do lose your BBB accreditation and want it back again, all you have to do is re-register (and pay the $600 or so) under a new name and you'll be back to square one. It sounds like a joke, but completely true.

One of my clients has a competitor who had an F rating due to numerous consumer complaints. They simply did the above and presto they were back to A- again.
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Accept that it's more like taking someone that has a 10% chance of success and moving them to 20%.

Most of the applicants to YC have a near zero percent chance of success. With or without help.
Note well that this post is from a service that (a) competes with Groupon's value proposition and (b) appears to exist to provide the market intelligence they're arguing from in this post.
If Apple made the iphone5 a Sprint exclusive, it would be unavailable to every single one of their existing customers. Literally...Every...Single...One.

There's a better chance that Tim Cook will eat an iPhone than announce a Sprint exclusive.
I gave the Windows 8 developer release a try for a week and the interface, while interesting, is just plain disappointing. I really hope Microsoft is not finished with the user interface.
Flashback to 24 months ago, when Sprint "bet the company" on the Palm Pre. Something tells me this is going to go just as well.
Success isn't binary. YCombinator is more like a multiplier on your success than anything else. It's like if you were going to be a 50 million dollar company, YCombinator can make you a 100 or 200 million dollar company. If you weren't going to succeed in the first place, YCombinator isn't likely to make a difference.
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You're right, utterly ridiculous.

On the other hand, when your business is corrupt to the point that it was investigated for pay-to-play practices by a third party, well, completely expected.

I don't think anyone at the BBB is thinking about the outcome; rather they're protecting their (stupid) business model.
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I think you don't get it. He is talking about his personal expenses. Things that are shared between the couple are paid by them both.

For example, the total cost might be 2200Eur because the husband spends more money on Gadgets, Laptops...
Does anyone know what these patents claim to cover? "wifi" seems a bit broad
Thank you. Btw, Do you use font stacks and @fontface kits? Also, what are your favorite fonts?
From DHH: "Here's the Rails gospel: Promote good ideas and technologies. See Ajax, REST, Atom, testing. Rails is a curated set of tech choices."

I think Rails 3.x continues to live up to that gospel. You're right that Rails 3 is more complicated than Rails 2 (although it is also much cleaner than Rails 2), which was more complicated than Rails 1. However, the world of web development is also steadily more complicated. There was a time when knowing how to create a webpage with CSS put you at the forefront of web technology. That time is long gone.
It is true that modern Economics is not just too idealized but also too mathematical. Economics has math envy toward Physics so they mimic the supposed "rigor" of mathematical analysis to give it a veneer of precision and respectability. That said, there are crucial principles you probably should know (Supply and Demand, Division of Labor, Comparative Advantage, etc). The college classes may be better than your HS AP course as it depends on the teacher more than anything. The intro classes tend to avoid the more advanced and abstract and do try to tie it to real life examples, especially Micro-Economics.
The thing is, if it was as simple as you make out, iTunes would never have worked, no-one would be running massively profitable stock photo sites, etc.

High quality fonts are difficult to make, but I suspect enough people who know enough to take advantage of those good fonts appreciate that and would be willing to pay for them in return. (I have put plenty of my own money where my mouth is on this point.) As a consequence those who use premium fonts well would wind up with better looking sites, and the foundries would wind up with more money.

If those foundries paid attention to other markets, everything from software to music, they could surely find a far more lucrative business model than the mess they've created now where everything is available but most of us can't buy it for most projects. But first they have to get the basic fact that most creative industries have realised by now: in the age of the Internet, when copying is free, the market will not accept your masterpiece at its traditional price, but a lot more people might buy it for a lot less money due to some combination of convenience and sense of fairness.

Funnily enough, services like Typekit almost seem to be aiming for that model, except that they've kind of got the worst of both worlds: prices so cheap for the average small/non-commercial site that they aren't really worth much in aggregate, but legal terms that mean they can't be used for a large proportion of otherwise potentially lucrative commercial sites.
Another great resource with that ecorner link and book recommendations, thanks. I've already got the books on my kindle now.

I will keep the landing page simple. Although, I'm not testing a feature with the landing page, but more the concept... to see the interest and perhaps even get suggestions based on what potential customers want.

Quick question in regards to the landing page for you (or anyone else reading this thread):

Would it work to have successive landing pages?

Essentially, the first is signing up to show interest for those who want to get notifications, be part of future testing and perhaps give suggestions.

Once you have submitted your email address, there will be a confirmation page. For those willing to go a step further, I'd have an additional CTA, linking you to a short survey.

I know that having both on the first landing page would probably deter people from signing up in the first place. Yet is having the survey on the confirmation page going to guarantee no one will answer the survey?

Just looking for some conventional wisdom on landing pages. That's the best approach I could think of, but I'm open to advice/suggestions. Thanks!
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Sure, there's no disputing that the fixed pie fallacy exists, but you have not made a convincing argument that this situation is an instance of the fallacy.
Is that drop down in-your-face share menu a Wordpress plugin or something? Fantastic way to get your attention. I think I've seen it before, not sure where though.