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At this stage it cannot "fail" in the traditional sense. Even if it enters a downward spiral, at any point in time it could be sold for the user base alone (and the price would still likely to be bigger than Heroku)
By all means, upvote and contribute to the discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3128997.

Personally I think that Duck Duck Go deserves more attention than it gets.

Perhaps this is getting flagged b/c folks see it as promotion/spam?
There are a couple different ways to do it. One example as I mentioned would be like eBay's search [1], where the parameters are input by text. Another good example I've seen is on the KSL Classifieds car search website [2]. There it's a single drop down, where you can select just one year, or if you input two years, it will become a range.

[1] http://imgur.com/WjkkF
[2] http://imgur.com/QutTt
I think the developers who are more like musicians [ever hear of a retired musician?] keep at until they go blind. I work in a 2 developer shop and the "kid" is in his early 40's, I'm 49 and the contractor we have in once in a while has white hair and hearing aids (he's awesome btw).
Accuracy is of course important, but perhaps more important is how we build in scaleable redundancy as the number of satellites reduce. It's very frustrating when my sat nav or run keeper can't get a good signal, this inevitably leads to people dropping services or at least using them less. They key question is at what level is the service too compromised? and what's the next best alternative?
Only if your software is aware and dealing with it correctly, I'm guessing.
It's not like MRI 2.0 is right around the corner either. A lot of work will be needed to get 2.0 out the door - potentially years. That work could instead be applied to Rubinius, and the release schedule could end up being similar.

If it's "just a dream," it's largely for human reasons rather than technical ones.
Actually, Siri is creating a calendar event, and syncing that to RTM.

They aren't claiming to have taught Siri to add events... They're claiming to have integrated with RTM.

I suspect there might be an issue with having a calendar AND a task list both, though... Like, you can't.
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much better
GLONASS uses nearly the same frequency range as GPS, so the answer is no.
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This would work (twitter via SMS) just by adding the twitter shortcode to your contacts. I was surprised that Siri doesn't support twitter natively.
That's a 25% import duty on devices imported into the Russian federal territory.
Companies and governments already did horrible things in the past few decades. That's why the laws are there. Basically the same reasons why the US has the right to bare arms.

You may want to read up on your history before you call European laws to protect the privacy, freedom and very lives of it's own citizens "draconian".

They are only draconian if you believe the rights of corporations trump those of the people. Which is basically what the US has been doing for quite a while now, not really an example other countries care to follow.
Really? It seems to me like a mostly small vocal group is pushing 3. Most people I talk to actually using it heavily in production are ambivalent or actively planning on staying on 2.

Python 3 is exactly how not to do a major language change. They broke enough that porting isn't trivial, and for many programs there just isn't any benefit. Plus the performance noticeably regressed.
Not far from every piece of tech used on the web by a fair % of servers has had holes discovered. If you're trying to say that PHP is so much worse, then just saying that the previous sentence applies to it is meaningless.
If you want to create a complete language (or just understand what would go into such a process), I cannot recommend this book highly enough:

http://www.amazon.com/Language-Construction-Kit-Mark-Rosenfe...

See also his website:

http://zompist.com/kit.html
I know that they are on a good track towards 1.9 support. My point still stands: they are not there yet. So, if you were an MRI developer: would you switch to an interpreter where would have to build that whole stuff from the last 3 years again?
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From a quick look the success of a strategy is very much dependent on the characteristics of a map. It seems that there are maps where you cannot even reach your opponent (maze_2, if I'm not mistaken.) Such maps punish defensive strategies. On the other hand, open maps with anthills not far from each other probably punish greedy strategies.
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If the kids are otherwise healthy and eat a lot of the medicines, then yes, obviously. Eating a lot of medicines is OBVIOUSLY very bad for healthy children.
It does matter in a way that by purchasing the camera and a few lenses (which are most of the time more expensive then the camera body) you are locking yourself with that vendor for the future - lenses are not interchangeable between Nikon and Canon to the best of my knowledge. This lock-in is why you must be careful what you pick.

I own a Pentax, but would never choose this company (not hardware) if I was any serious about photography.
Oh, please don't think I am hating on Ruby and implying another language. It's pretty much the only language I use these days.

I've been using it outside of a web-based context to do some more computational intensive work and just get a little bummed when I need to re-implement something in C to get the performance I need. (I'm not a C hater either! I've just come to love Ruby.)
A good language, as a good anything, is a reasonable language. Giving extremes as arguments against sensible middle positions is the way of madness, paralysis, or extremism..
> can anyone give me a good reason why it's a good idea to keep giving Diaspora money

I haven't, but from what I can see, if you want a distributed Facebook alternative Diaspora is, for all its faults, really the only game in town. In the real, non-HN world it has buzz way beyond Appleseed, Friendika et al. An impressive number of my non-tech friends are excited about Diaspora, and don't have a clue about its competitors.
That company was Javad, no?
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I love this idea. There have been (for some time now) systems that focus a laser onto the user's retina, but they never took off. I really want one. This device is, unfortunately, quite pricey. And sadly it's not likely to become mainstream enough to drop out of the expensive industrial price band into consumer pricing.
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> For a lot of folks, rubinius has already replaced MRI. At least locally while developing.

This in itself certainly is a great achievement for the rubinius team and one to be proud of. However, I personally have to see a large production deployment. I consider rbx a serious alternative to mri, just as jruby is a serious alternative. I'll call it "replacement" once heroku starts using rbx and drops mri support. I don't see that happening in the next couple of years, there's just way too much investment behind mri for it to just go away.
I asked ravaa to stop by and give his .02. He's well versed in the world of infrastructure and I highly value his opinion.
I found this part of the article a little strange. I've heard Drew present alongside Adam Smith and recall him talking about how the design of the home page started off way more complex and that it was through A/B testing they ended up with the video.

Journalistic license maybe?
There are huge technological reasons as well. MRI is included in OS X, some Linux distros and even embedded in some systems. So there is a group of people that is interested in keeping exactly this system.

Also, I have yet to see a purely technological decision of that magnitude, even in the world of compilers.

I see Rubinius and JRuby winning the race, but I don't see any of them _replacing_ MRI.
I don't understand from your table how the combined use of GPS+GLONASS would have a worse 'best case', 2.00 for GPS alone vs 2.37 for GPS+GLONASS.
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Is the low rate of condom use really related to the time demands of putting one on?

I suspect it is not related at all, this article is just a piece of very silly marketing. Condom use in developing countries seems to be hampered by several factors: most prominently religion, access to the condoms, and basic knowledge of how to use them. You'd assume the last point isn't a problem, but it turns out they do really weird stuff with free condoms in the absence of training courses, like hanging them on a wire over the bed instead of putting them on (as a kind of talisman) and re-using them multiple times.
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No worries, I wasn't thinking that :-) There's a lot of uncertainty around Ruby's performance and functionality based on people's experiences with 1.8 that no longer holds true in 1.9 (or when using implementations like JRuby). I'm just doing my little bit to put fires out before they occur ;-)
You are just flatly refusing to pay any informed attention at all to history or to read what the heck I actually wrote.

Take Gates: When Allen was still around, Microsoft was a still a small company IBM was still laughing at. Then Allen left. Gates, it was JUST Gates, went on to build Windows 3, Office, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, IE, Windows Server, SQL Server, Windows XP, and more. Gates grew his fortune from a few hundred million dollars to $50 billion or so. That growth was due to Gates. Period. And that was the significant growth that blew the doors off IBM, Sun, HP, Lotus, etc. Got it now?

For Jobs, you are really working to be brain-dead: What Woz and Jobs did with the Apple II, etc. is nearly irrelevant to what Jobs did at Next, Pixar, and after his return to Apple. Apple became for a while the most valuable company in the world due to what Jobs did, Jobs, JUST Jobs, with Woz watching from the nickel seats. Sculley? Amelio? They just helped show how bright Jobs was.

For your "would have never made it to where they got", we have no way to know that.

You are illustrating a huge point that I did make: People like to fight. Even over something really obvious, people like to fight. If you and I were cofounders, then no matter what I did and no matter what success the company was having, you'd be fighting me every way you could think of, fighting, fighting, fighting, for no good reason except you just want to be fighting. There's no way you could be effective.
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While recruiters (inside a company and those hired by the company) will try to fit you into "buzzword jail", the message to bring to potential new employers is what business problems you can help them solve--the skill that you have in translating a business need into a delivered project or stream of projects. Only a part of that is your skill in a particular stack.

I know of at least one company who hires programmers without Ruby skills, yet everyone at the company programs in Ruby after they join.

Mentally review your career and describe the leverage you have personally been to the effort and what you have accomplished.
Given the state of higher-ed funding, this is a pipe dream, but... I wish every first- and second-tier university department could make one graduate student the department’s official Wikipedia liaison, spending twentysomething hours a week adding content within his/her area of expertise and skirmishing with boneheaded editors as necessary.
Same here. I've had my email in the "invite waiting list" since they first published the form. I've had many a "You're important to us, and we promise an invite is coming soon, but in the mean time, can you donate some money?" emails, but no word of an invite.

I've now given up and moved on, not really interested in them anymore and won't take up the invite if offered.
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I can see many developers moving towards this idea of integrating Siri APIs into their apps.
But you can do the same map square, then sum in ruby 1.9:

puts (1..10).map{|x| x*x}.inject(:+)

And if you don't like writing inject(:+) all the time, it's pretty easy to monkey patch in a sum method to either array or enumerable.
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After watching a game or two, I can tell that ants should always travel two by two for warmonging. When two ants (walking together on the same front) encounter a single ant, the one ant is always destroyed.
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Err... what? Android was out well before WebOS, complete with Notifications and Multitasking.
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If this interests you, there is an entire hobby that consists of inventing constructed languages. For example, check out this guy's web page, featuring a lot of languages he personally constructed, each with really creative grammar, phonology, and writing systems: http://dedalvs.conlang.org/ That guy is so talented that the makers of the HBO series "Game of Thrones" hired him to create the "Dothraki" language used in that show. (I think James Cameron also hired a linguist to create the alien language in Avatar).

I will avoid getting into a debate about whether replacing phonemes with other phonemes really makes a new language. But I will say that taking English and coming up with replacements for English words means that you are locked into an English conceptualization of the world. In English, we have a word, "go," that stands for a huge set of concepts; other languages conceptualize the concept of movement completely differently. http://www.russianlessons.net/grammar/verbs_motion.php . If you treat creating a conlang as a creative endeavor, somewhere in the creative neighborhood of writing a sci-fi or fantasy novel, then a big part of the creativity comes from these types of decisions.
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About a year ago I've built a small weather app which detects users' location using Geolocation API: http://wthr.in
I think it's very reasonable not to value internet sources as much. With print sources usually you have at least an editor and at best some kind of peer review that strongly increases credibility. Citing blogs just doesn't cut it. With web sources you also have the problem of bit rot and broken links, print media can usually be obtained in any decent library for way longer than websites typically survive.
Could DropBox just decide to say screw you to everyone and not be liquid? I don't think the founders would have a problem receiving a nice amt of salary every year, have something fulfulling to work on everyday, and not have to answer to a boss, whether it's a parent company or Wall Street... I mean, there's NO guarantee they will be liquid if the company succeeds, right?
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I think the best thing about Ruby is the really fierce competition between implementations, which also reflects on the developers. The Ruby community is used to ensuring compatibility between JRuby and MRI(1.8 and 1.9) for a long time now and Rubinius support is getting `en vogue`. Projects like Travis will ensure that testing on 2.0 is "just" anther field on the build matrix.
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So does Google?
> If it's "just a dream," it's largely for human reasons rather than technical ones.

That may be true, but don't we all preach that "People matter, not technologies" all the time?

Nobody pretends that MRI 2.0 is round the corner, but rbx at the moment is not in a position to even replace MRI 1.9.2 (lack of windows support anyone?). Their current self-proclaimed status is 93% of the spec, so I don't think that stopping work on MRI and spending the next couple of month bringing RBX to the current MRI state is a valid alternative. Dropping MRI would also imply dropping the whole toolchain and all custom infrastructures based on MRI, lots of knowledge that people have with MRI would suddenly go worthless, etc...

I seriously don't see that coming in the next couple of years.
I agree. You also can't just pick anyone as a co-founder. Not only is it hard to find entrepreneurial people, but also people with the right skill set to complement you, and the right rapport to work with on a daily basis. That's HARD to find.
I see it the same way. It's interesting, but it's "just" an advanced transliteration mechanism. It would be even more interesting (and more fitting for this headline) to make a language generator outputting unique words that are not based on a known language.

For example, one might take an english dictionary and isolate word cores, then generate a different word for each core and apply rules to those in order to make nouns, adjectives, and verbs. Of course, it gets more complicated with custom sentence structures and grammar...
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All of my icons are SVG and my applications are rendered in vectors. Seems like a pretty damn good start.
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The article doesn't mention the huge number of adolescents using twinkle (and other tools) to make very many changes very quickly.

Seeing editors being proud of the number of articles they've had deleted, or the number of reverts they've made, is pretty sickening.
Sure. Still, what I said is on target: Gates, Jobs, etc. did the big, huge growth just from their own brains. There's no good reason to believe that they could not have done all of the success, including the first days, essentially alone also.

Really, for the "early stages of a business", that is JUST what Jobs faced at Next, Pixar, and back at Apple. What he and Woz did for the Apple II was nearly irrelevant except it did leave Jobs with the cash from his sale of all his Apple stock except one shart. So, we're not talking the value of a cofounder but the value of a founder with cash!

And for Gates, as MS/DOS took off, Microsoft was just awash in cash. About then, Allen left. So, the real building of Microsoft was due to Gates and cash. It's not the least bit clear that Gates ever really needed Allen as a cofounder. Similarly for Jobs and Woz.
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You beat me to it. But this is and advanced search I do all the time.
Could you set up an email for your app, and allow messages to be sent to your app from siri? Instead of posting to twitter directly, you send something via Siri to your contact, Twitter, which is an email that will post to twitter?

Basically, makes email act as the API.

Edit: Just realized twitter supports SMS (for a long time, didn't support Canada, at least, from what I remember).
with the more significant things like movie listings, weather..... it's about Google + the world's information. They want it to flow through them/be indexed by them/found and offered up by them
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Yeah i bought the bundle too and own a kindle keyboard... if you make a kindle version, please don't make me buy it again...
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All of the examples in the video seemed really large. Does anyone know if it also works on smaller ones too?
The maps are toroidal, i.e. the left and right sides are connected as are the top and bottom. So it is possible to reach the enemy in maze_2.
Oh, no, you were really clear. I just did not read that paragraph. Oops...
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Hello,

I'm trying to re-enter the working world, but I face the problem that my track record is mostly negative...

On the positive side there are a finished apprenticeship and a bachelor in CS.

On the negative side, I got fired from two successful companies within a year of joining them because of conflicts with my bosses (in one case I refused to work on a project, in the other case I was obviously too critical when completing the assessment questionnaire about my boss). Furthermore I left a startup after about three months because I didn't get along with one of the other co-founders. Followed by a long time with psychic and health issues.

Another obstacle is that I'm an introvert loner and hence just the opposite of the "communicative teamplayer" companies seem to be looking for.

So far all responses to my CV/resume were negative.

Any ideas on how to get back into the working world with such a track record?
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Without Woz apple would have never happened, because he designed their first flagship product. What Woz did back then is highly relevant because it was the thing that eventually enabled Jobs to start Next and buy Pixar.

Jobs and Woz to me are the ideal example of the sum being much greater than either part.

Without Paul Allen Microsoft as we know it would not have existed because he named Microsoft Microsoft.

Your insulting tone and capitals do not make you right, they're reminiscent of people raising their voice and making things personal just because they can't win an argument.

I read a bit in your comment history and this seems to be a recurring theme for you, it is almost as if you take this single founder thing personal. The way to prove that it works is to simply succeed. As a single founder myself I've been there, I've done the multiple-founder thing too (with mixed success). There are no guarantees, to pretend either way is a shoe-in is nonsense. But statistically speaking, and looking at things from the point of view of a guy or girl considering going it alone or from the point of view of an investor that has the choice to invest in a company founded by one or more people the statistics seem to point to more being the better choice. Exceptions will always happen. But the ones that you point to are not those exceptions.

We can't know anything about pasts and futures that didn't happen, but we can safely say that things that did happen and that were likely significant were at least as significant as anything that you think would have happened otherwise. Jobs, Wozniak, Gates and Allen would probably never have said what you just said, and that alone marks them as potentially more successful. How you interact with others is an important factor in your chances for success, and being able to give credit where credit is due is another.

I agree that you and I should not be involved in any business because we'd probably fight, and you are making that point very eloquently.
Lose every pop-up box announcing "OMG YOU'RE LEAVING THE PAGE! ARE YOU SURE?! DON'T YOUR WANT TO STAY ON PAGE?! LIKE WTF I'M LONELY! PLEASE STAY ON THE PAGE! YOU MAY LOSE YOUR DATA! DON'T YOUR WANT TO STAY ON PAGE?! LIKE WTF I'M LONELY! PLEASE STAY ON THE PAGE!"

I had to kill the browser session and selectively choose which tabs to restore.

We get it - you found javascript.

The site concept is great, but presentation is annoying.
If you want to use caching for multiple clients; I don't think you can use SSL. So it depends a lot about the purpose of the API.
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Yeah, I was thinking up some groups of brand names. It's not much pressure since it's for comedy, so the brands can be stereotypically lame. I picked a restriction or two for each set, such as a certain number of letters or syllables, or always starts or ends with the same letter or letters.