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The iPhone 4 brought FaceTime/Mobile Video Calling to "the masses" too. Granted, the iPad 2 (and eventually the Mac) got that as well - but the forward facing camera was new (though entirely expected, granted).

I now FaceTime with my Family quite regularly.

I agree though, I love my iPhone 4 and am sure the 4S with it's incremental updates will simply be more-awesome. But for better or worse, I think version number bumps are now associated with big upgrades on iPhones.

Expectations are set high, but then Apple will quite happily just ignore everyone's expectations and do what they want.
This person apparently had a $65/mo smartphone

No, they just had a $65 bill. That doesn't imply a smartphone, that could easily be racked up in minutes or text messages. Pay-as-you-go phones are only cheap if you don't use them.

But it hit me up for a $325 car payment.

That doesn't imply you got a new car. That means you got a 24 month loan on a $5000 car with 20% interest. Like I said, shady as hell, but what are you gonna do. You need a car.

it needed to be gone a long time ago.

I think a lot of people would starve before they gave up their dog. It's a living being, it's not a netflix subscription.

who doesn't have the intestinal fortitude

I don't think you understand how expensive it is to be poor. It's much cheaper to be well off, because you have the option of making the right decisions, instead of being constantly put in no-win situations like these.
Regardless of your feelings on cashing in on your social capital, it's clear that reputation goes a long way. Yes, it doesn't come cheap but the results come from long-term, compound effort. I don't doubt the 25,000 hours Matt quoted in that pitch. But the long-term, compound effort is an important catalyst. (You guys might know it as 'hustle'.)

I can second what auston (and others) have echoed about Matt. I had the pleasure of having Matt do a presentation on Price Hacking for Hack and Tell in South Florida (where he's very active in the community) and it was easily one of the best presentations we've hosted.
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This is awesome - I've been searching for somewhere to find good new SF/Fantasy for a while that doesn't just entail blindly searching Amazon.
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Windows 95 was one of the most successful product launches of all time. And Windows 2000 was a very solid product though not generally a good choice for casual users.
> HN now gets over 120k unique ips on a weekday, and serves over 1.3 million page views.

Still off just one server? What are its specs?

How up to date is the news.arc file in the Arc distribution?

I'm considering using the simpler, more functional, single server, all in memory, filesystem as a database approach in an upcoming project. Would really love to see more details from PG and others who have had success with that back-to-basics simple approach.
It's a bit of niche humor. The jokes are sort of like word puns based on CSS properties and values. If you're not familiar with CSS, it probably won't be funny at all. But thanks for the kind words!
They are, but having users find them is even more so.

We use design reviews, code reviews, unit tests, integration tests and final validation tests. Our bug rate is well below 1/kloc, but bugs still get out the door.

In the end it depends on how you calculate Cost of Quality. In some environments, having a customer experience a bug can have disastrous consequences, in others it's not a big deal at all. We're in the former category :-(
>Meanwhile, those other desktop operating systems were leapfrogging ahead.

I think this is quite fitting for how Flash is developing out of the spotlight now as well. I think that the Flash exodus - if it will mean less designers doing ridiculously processor intensive banners - ultimately is beneficial for the future of the technology itself.
Don't miss one of the best "are you sure you've got what it takes to build a start-up" posts chronicling Matthew's 7-odd year journey with SP to date:

http://wensing.tumblr.com/post/1215873671/bootstrapping-stor...

For a guy that's spent 7 YEARS building his product he does a remarkably good job talking about the market, great write-up and post Matt!
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And then I bail you out with the money from my high income tax.

You have the car.
The carmaker has it's money.
The bank has it's money.
I don't have a car.
I've paid for all this ;-)
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I don't think that's the right analogy. You're comparing tool with a technology. Adobe's tool already did all the hard part for you when you write for Flash. HTML5 can be the same too, once its tool matured enough.

Not to mention equivalent of this implementation in Flash would be equally complex. (No JS/No ActionScript.)
Interesting! I'm from Mumbai too. Developing an open source survey compiler. Perhaps we could meet up ...
And as I've read here and other places, humans significantly underestimate large quantities of things.

You should've guessed 89,000.
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The Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leader podcasts are great for this.

http://ecorner.stanford.edu/podcasts.html
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Thanks for the note - I was disagreeing with the message / sentiment of article. I meet so many first-time entrepreneurs and worked at funded startups where the founders think it is about impressing investors.

Kudos to Stormpulse for the hard work and the cool product. I just did not like the message of the article because I was considering how it would be interpreted by other startups..
I've pretty much given up on AngelList for the time being. I'm not in in the valley (although not too far) and not in a large metro. All of my past success has been bootstrapped so I know no one in the VC community.

I did reach out to a few people I met at conferences but that got me nowhere. I thought being a TechStars finalist might help too.

Meh. I decided it's really not worth the time/effort now. Maybe I'm doing something wrong (yes, I've read all the relevant posts on "hacking angellist") but for now, I'll focus on the product and growth. Perhaps I'll try again later.
I agree wholeheartedly about the importance culture over process. I live in a process-heavy environment, but I still think that culture matters more.

Where process definitely helps is in finding those bugs that can't be found "by use of the code." i.e., the bug will be experienced by the user, but it may be invisible to the developer. In just the last year, we've uncovered two nasty race conditions that have been in our codebase for almost a decade, but only just started to show up because some unrelated code changed the timing of certain behaviors. Even having knowledge of the problem (thank heavens for good log files!!), we could not design tests to verify that the bugs were fixed: the windows of opportunity were just too small. Code inspection was the only way to verify that the fix matched the problem.
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Well, I also enjoy finding and promoting good/relevant links that escape attention "amidst the deluge".

I also take your point that the comment links and point counts are pertinent. In particular, I will often start off with the comments rather than the linked page itself. Again, I'll have to look at the revised RSS feed, but as I recall, when I looked at it in the past, I, too, found it less useful for these aspects (unless I was viewing one of the third-party feeds that I seem to recall being created, some time back).

I suppose one could view my use / time on HN as high. OTOH, I pull the pages (i.e. this "Frankenpage") once and then slowly pay attention to them. I guess one could contrast that with another user hitting the top page every 15 minutes throughout the day.

(I do also check the new/ and classic/ front pages a few times, often later in the day. I used to drill further into new/, but I've been trying to limit my time on HN somewhat. Also, new/ is so full of spam, these days, that it's kind of discouraging -- although people need to continue to hit it and aggressively kill off the spam and other crap.)

----

Completely aside, I'd like a comprehensive list of post links. I used to have some old favorites saved, but some of those were lost in a theft. I guess it might not be the healthiest thing for the HN ecosystem including system load, but I'd enjoy journeying back in time to the early days. Many of those discussions were incredibly informative and focused.

I know there are and have been a third party archives and/or views into HN, but either I didn't take the time to learn or the interface itself didn't seem to offer a simple, time-based listing.
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Should be "always kept in mind" why exactly? It's BS.

It's not about stealing a physical object or not.

It's about doing something with someone's work (his program) without respecting his wishes (to be paid before you use it).

When you plagiarize a poem as your own the original still exists. But it's still stealing.
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>...Jobs chose to eliminate Flash from the iPhone specifically so that casual games would have to be written natively and sold in the App store, and couldn't be played on the open web....

This is such an important point. And very illustrative of the attitude of Apple.

If any other company did this, they would be villified far and wide. But because we like apples products - it is overlooked.

It is a cunning business move.
So is Unix.

It is just that the end users are different people to the ones on Mac (and would indeed usually be power users or developers there).
With 120k unique IPs a day, it is really surprising how few votes stories get. Most are under 100 points, only about once a month is there one over 1000 points. Do most of the readers not have accounts? Do people with accounts not up vote?
"Its pre-mature reputation optimization. You want to build your rep after you've proven delivering value to customers.. the product should speak for itself."

There's another side to this story. Once you've built the product, have the customers, cash flow, and earnings, you're left with a vacuum in the social sphere. You don't know anybody other than your customers and vendors.

And if you try to raise money at that point( expansion, growth, acquisition, etc ), you can't get so much as a single introduction because you don't know anybody. The reality is that product does not speak for itself.
Not to mention that it canes my cpu at 73%. What a waste of time.
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A simple article of mine showing how RegExp can overcome pure Python codes.
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For actual Economic theories with a causal basis, the Austrian School wins with Von Mises the clear leader. Keynes simply can't work and never will - more Keynes means an even worse economic disaster.
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Don't want to be inflamatory, but:

PHP has already been replaced by Ruby/Rails as the good thing that should be used for new projects. Only PHP developers don't see that.

You lost me when you tried to argue that ORMs are not useful. Its easy to see why PHP developers think that, though.
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>Also, a few years ago, Nokia sued Apple based on wifi FRAND patents, how did it end up? With a settlement in favor of Nokia. If FRAND patents were impossible to enforce, do you think it would have ended with a settlement?

It's not that FRAND patents are impossible to enforce. Nokia sued Apple after neither side could get an agreement about the licensing terms. Apple held that the terms Nokia was demanding were not fair. That was the entire reasoning about the suits.

At the end of the day, it was not about whether or not Apple would pay Nokia. That was a foregone conclusion. The entire suit was over how much Apple would pay.
> Sorry, this does mean that you are a suit

Nope, that's not true at every company. In some companies PMs are part of the business unit, at others they're part of the engineering organization, and sometimes they form their own organization that sits in between engineering and business. There's no one right way to do it.

I'd argue that the first PM hire at a startup should report directly to the CEO since it's likely that the PM will act as the proxy for the business (and by extension the customer). At the same time, I'm seeing an increasing trend toward PMs with technical skills -- my guess is that within a few years it will not be possible to succeed in a PM role without at least some hands-on technical experience.
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Ask HN: What is the best Linux laptop for software development?
I'm looking for at really good laptop for software development (Rails and Android mainly).

Most important requirements:

1) Hardware fully supported by Ubuntu (except eg. fingerprint scanner)
2) Great keyboard
3) Great antiglare monitor, preferably 15" og 17"
4) SSD of reasonable size

Disregard the price tag. What is the best machine money can buy right now?
I could comment on my sorry little life, but to what point? I'll just reiterate that, technically, the entire pull ends up in one tab. And I close the other tabs as I finish with them, one by one.

Thanks for the thought, though. :-)
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If that's true, then someone's ability to rewrite the tool is academic. And if it's academic, then this isn't impressive. My point is that it's impressive only in the sense that it rewrites the tools.

I can rewrite Adobe's tools in JS 1.5 and CSS3. I went a long way towards doing it - I wrote a whole platform. http://strikedisplay.blogspot.com. Mainly because I was scared of losing the tools I like to have around. But after gaining what I think is a pretty granular, deep understanding of which operations take longer in one or the other (pretty much everything takes longer in JS 1.5), and the trade-offs in other kinds of operations -- the only good thing about HTML5 is that you can force multithreading to suck up an even larger chunk of cycles, a fact that won't be lost on the porn/malware mafia.
Yes, and I think the prevailing wisdom is the same: Matlab for fast prototyping, C/C++ for speed and memory-efficiency in non-vectorizable contexts or pain points. Call the C/C++ from Matlab if you wish.

You can tell the same story about Python, although I've not been as happy with the graphics in Python/Matplotlib/etc.

For large-scale work (and a lot of work will always be large-scale), it's not possible to stick to a friendly managed-memory REPL environment.

People want the answer to be otherwise, hence these repeated questions.
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There was a statistic on Reddit yesterday that 90% of the people on that site did not have an account - and, 90% of the people who had an account have never voted.

Maybe it's a similar scene here.
I would say it's closer to Perl, in the same way that Perl reads unlike most other programming languages, without actually being like perl.
Your Nexus One should have very similar connections on the bottom and in that case they're a dock connector:

http://www.geardiary.com/2010/01/30/nexus-one-desktop-dock-m...
As a long time reader and infrequent commenter, I rarely vote for any stories or comments, here or reddit. When I vote, it's usually on something I find especially interesting or thought provoking.
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And those are a mess because?

Property list files: a big f*n win compared to the ad hoc mess in a Linux/BSD /etc directory.

Hacks around extended attributes: any reason not to like those? Or just because in 1977 a file was just a file, and that's the way it should be, god damn it?

XML-based init system: a sane init system. And XML added in for standardization.

OS X is a mess in several ways, but those are not it. And the "monolithic BSD kernel bolted on top of a Mach 'micro'-kernel" sounds like a win-win situation. Monstrous why? Because it doesn't fit some idealistic model?
I assume these include the obligatory "Hello, World".
That curve is telling. I wonder if this is going to be the first phone with a bendable display. Samsung has been showing off this tech for a while:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJEHp15Hoo0

http://ces.cnet.com/8301-32254_1-20027707-283.html
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Yeah, I think I'll stick with "not knowing what all that shit means, and being self aware enough to realize it".
But HAL in that context is "Hardware Abstraction Layer.
Interesting theory but personally I don't see that most normal people care about that type of stuff at all. The 2+ year old 3GS was the #2 best selling SmartPhone last month even though it's using a 3+ year old design. If anyone was really that insecure about themselves they would probably just spend the extra $100 to get the latest & greatest.
Yes, but have you considered the ALTERNATIVES?

(that is, not only "not having anything like them").
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I've been at single-digit startups and *500 companies and entrepreneurial role fits the bill. I'd say in some cases they are the CEO of their own business unit with capacity for setting the product direction, selecting the team and establishing/punishing timetables. Usually in that case, they'll have X project managers under them carrying out instructions, but in the case of a small company they do usually sit somewhere between ops/tech/mktg and somehow guide with diplomacy.
This actually comes back to something I have been thinking about for a long time. One can build a minimum viable product because it is then easier to change and one can reasonably expect to improve it, if it is a good market fit.

On the other hand, blog posts are seldom changed once they have been written. Why not combine blogpost with a wiki style editing process? That way those who read it will be able to read the most uptodate version of whatever advice your post contains (even if it just "this article is very old and you should use version 4.8 for $PRODUCT instead")? It seems to me that blogs are written under then assumption that they were supposed to host a diary of sorts (where you would never have to update it once it has been written).
I won't argue that PHP is getting long in the tooth, has a somewhat unclear future, and some of the standard lib is hella inconsistent, but these points:

then what PHP is lacking is lambdas and method chaining.

Does the author know anything about PHP at all? As far as I can tell method chaining has been available as long as PHP supported OOP and Anonymous functions have been supported for several years since PHP 5.3 was released.

This makes it really hard to take the author and the article seriously.
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Speak for yourself. Serious lifting at the gym works wonders for me. And the posterior chain work I do (squats, deads, GHRs, GMs), as well as my typical cardio (erging, other than walking around) helps with the flexor/extensor imbalances many people have. Used to do some kettlebell work, not so much these days but just for lack of KBs at the gym.

I've done various physical activity through the years, and I've found that virtually any of it provides real benefits: strength training, as mentioned, also HIIT cardio, long-duration cardio, stretching and flexibility work, foam rolling / myofascial release. You want to work each system in balance.

Pilates (or any other single practice) may be fine of itself but it's not a One True Solution either.
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Closed aperture issue should be fixed now.. (was an issue with the analytics platform going down due to traffic, not the size of images (though that is of course pretty big))

And thanks for all your feedback!
I'm convinced that PHP is just too big, too popular, and, as the author realizes and points out, too fast and utility-wise too well-equipped to die at this point in time. Whatever may be able to kill it off surely won't be Ruby, Perl nor Python.
I understand why rails continues its ascent but the LAMP framework is still very popular - you can get to hello world on your home computer or free hosting account extremely quickly, that's pretty powerful when your're starting out. Services like codecademy may change that but we're a ways off imo.
I've heard good things about system76, and one of their laptops is high on my list of toys I'd like to own.
why does one language have to die for another to become more popular?

if you don't like php, don't use it.
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Given a philosophy that says your top hackers should be creating DSLs that facilitate dev in the problem space, this might be common at companies in well-defined problem spaces.

So, it might be quite exciting to dive into. If you are well-versed in maybe three programming paradigms (imperative, logical, functional?), you should probably be able to pretty quickly make some good guesses about how the code works and what it does.

But, and it is a big but - are you looking at a position that puts you in place to work with (and learn from) the top hackers or are you going to be just another drone in a large faceless organization? These are continuums in reality, but I think you need to take care that you don't become pigeon-holed in your hacking career.

So while I'd try hard to really dive into the test language, I might have a much harder time deciding about accepting an offer or not (ignoring other aspects that would of course affect any job decision).
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You should move to Australia. The Reserve Bank not changing the cash rate is front page news.
Nope, I take 0%. The only way I make money is by being an affiliate; thats why I am only using amazon right now.
Are you sure that most old German people don't now what the inflation rate is?
As the author points out, Rails is a framework and PHP is a language. There are countless (great) frameworks for PHP - my current favorite is Symfony 2. And PHP developers do in fact know and value ORMs, hence the existence of Doctrine 2.
You're being inflammatory. Rails has nowhere near the install base that PHP has, and furthermore, it's a framework, not a language, so the comparison is unequal. Further, setting up and installing Rails is nowhere near as frictionless as installing, for instance, CodeIgniter. Until that can be said, Rails is not a viable alternative.

I'm all for a PHP alternative. I use it because it's ubiquitous, but I have no love for the syntax or the internals. But the only way you can compete with it is to have the same kind of momentum mixed with the kind of frictionless use that comes standard.
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I cant believe I missed that. Thats a very good idea.