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Still the gamers theme, though :(
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Mortgage DDM is the leading mortgage company in Turkey providing appropriate mortgage solutions with the help of specialized credit portfolio managers.
Even cooler - you can install software in the software centre, and then find it in Unity. Remove it, and it's gone.
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Wow this is one of the cleanest demos of any product i've seen, hats off to the web guys on this they did an amazing job. I only use ubuntu on my servers but this definitely is enticing.
Agreed, but at some point asking starts to feel like badgering.

Basically every time I log on to Zipcar.com to make a reservation they throw up an interstitial asking for my phone number. It gets old. If I declined the first 5 times, what will make the next 50 times any different?
Ask HN: Any good resources on memory management in Canvas+Javascript apps?
I've found a few decent resources on Javascript and best practices in terms of memory, but not a whole lot specifically about how best to build applications using Canvas and to minimize the memory overhead. The most directly applicable knowledge I can find mainly relates to how JS and DOM elements work together in terms of memory leaks.

There are a few StackOverflow questions I've come across that address specific issues with specific implementations, but nothing in a unified resource that can be used as a point of reference for general development.

Maybe the issue is that Canvas is "too new", and such resources simply don't exist yet, but I'd be very eager to get any and all feedback on the issue from the good folks here at HN.

Thanks in advance.
Someone needs to teach them what an MVP is. I was looking forward to Diaspora, a year ago.
It didn't say it had to be grueling, just forced.
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Root cause? In the U.S.: bad values. Culturally speaking, the South has won the Civil War. That's why we remember Northern generals negatively and Southern ones as noble. That's also why we don't have universal healthcare (Truman proposed it in '48, and was shot down because Dixiecrats didn't want to desegregate the hospitals.) Now, the geographical distinction is not very meaningful (there are foaming-at-the-mouth racists in New England and enlightened, liberal people in Alabama) but the last bastion of the true North (the progressive, positive-sum mentality) is Silicon Valley and even that has its entrenched in-crowds. Getting access to VCs is still about connections and that's not very Northern.

I'm going to anger people by saying this, but New York (although it's still one of the best places to live in the US) is essentially a Southern city at this point. What's the first thing you do every month? Pay an enormous rent check to someone who's had real estate in the family for over 100 years. What's the first thing you are asked in "casual" conversation? "What do you do?" Or, "What is your position in society?" And "those who matter" still go to cotillions and keep to themselves and shoot quail in the Hamptons.

What do I mean by the South winning, culturally speaking? I mean that this is a society run according to position, authority, and entrenchment rather than the talent and courage to have and share the right ideas. The country is run by private-sector bureaucrats who've discovered ways to capture value generated from the labor of others.

We're not a "really fucked up species". Humans are not naturally good or evil. They're naturally unskilled-- ignorant, deluded, and often incompetent, but not evil. The purpose of civilization is to maintain the knowledge that helps people do the right thing. Unfortunately, societies become corrupt rapidly and develop elites that have defined themselves by doing the wrong thing, and then those wrong things begin to define the social tone and corruption sets in. Civilization is a storehouse of knowledge that helps people figure out what the right thing to do is, but societies are incentive systems that usually encourage doing the wrong thing.
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I keep hearing that computers are diverging from the kind of architecture C maps to, though. What of that?
I'm fairly sure much of both Delphi and VB are written in C.

I wonder what the Turbo Pascal compilers were written in...
To the 1940s? I'm pretty sure the tshirt as we know it didn't exist before then.
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Can anyone speak to why New York has become such a good locale for venture capital? I live in Seattle, and haven't really kept up with the state of things in New York. Is it simply that the firehose of capital available there is being turned in a new direction, or are there other structural reasons why NYC is a great place to start a business?
They do that in pretty much every state. As far as I know, California's treatment of non-competes remains unique. Everywhere else, they're fully enforceable with rare exceptions, even on grunt-level code monkeys.

Debates surface every once in a while as to just how important California law has been to the development of Silicon Valley. It's obviously had some impact, but it's impossible to strictly quantify, and muddying the waters is that it's definitely not the only place with a notable tech concentration, even if it is perhaps the biggest and highest-profile.
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Orman Clark is PremiumPixels.com, and he gives away free PSD files all the time, so I imagine he's generating most of these sales himself.

His blog is ranked very highly (& rightly so), so it's more a of a success for him than ThemeForest I would guess.
You can even enter http://www.ubuntu.com/tour/#surf-the-web in the browser found on http://www.ubuntu.com/tour/#surf-the-web!
a simple counter example to your entire rant is that you can get ahead in those companies by politicking. You don't have to work extra hard, or push yourself, just know the right people and push the right buttons to get the promotion.

Speak for yourself. For me, it's more stressful to play politics and schmooze than it is to drop in and do 12 straight hours of solid work. Real work is fun. Greasing palms is a pain in the ass.

Also, it's true that these people don't "push themselves" intellectually, but you definitely have to work very hard to create the appearances of effort, performance, and (most importantly by far) shared suffering.
Yes, you can. At least in 11.04, I haven't upgraded to 11.10 yet, but I would assume it would be the same/enhanced.
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Here in Australia, I recently was trying to get in touch with the non-emergency police number (I had seen 2 kids, one maybe 2 years old, the other 4 at most, playing alone, on the median strip of a dual carriageway road, with no one else in sight), via directory assist, but was redirected to 000 (Our emergency number), so I hung up, to try and get the direct number again. Within 5 seconds I was called back by emergency services, and asked to explain in detail what had happened, why I had hung up, and what the situation was.

The operator told me that, typically, they treat people hanging up at any stage during a 000 call extremely seriously, and will follow up, and will usually send officers out if the call is from a land line and they have an address, even if the caller says no officer is needed.
Bjarne Stroustrup on Dennis Ritchie: They said it couldn't be done, & he did it
DuckDuckGo is growing
Ask HN: What toilet app do you use?
http://scipy-lectures.github.com/
Initially I though that they're using Broadway, the GTK3's HTML5 canvas backend [1]. But no, it's all done with CSS3. That's impressive.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1935499
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US should implement dividend imputation. With it, dividends are no longer taxed at both the company level and the share holder level - they are taxed only in the latter. How it works is when a company pays a dividend, it is counted as taxable income as normal; then, the shareholder will be able to claim back the part of the dividend the company has already paid tax on.

When a share market lacks dividend imputation, few companies pay a dividend, and rather resort to "share buy backs". Shareholders then are encouraged to aim for profit from capital gains (share price rising), rather than passive investment (collecting dividends). Implementing dividend imputation will neutralize this effect.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dividend_imputation laws
For some odd reason I pulled my 1978 version of The C Programming Language off the shelf and it's been on my desk for the past few weeks.

Beneath the copyright notice it reads:

"This book was set in Times Roman and Courier 12 by the authors, using a Graphic Systems phototypesetter driven by a PDP-11/70 running under the UNIX operating system."

Probably on a VT100 with drafts printed on a DECWriter.

Quiet. Brilliant. Deliberate. Influential. Modest.

May you rest in peace.
I'm by no means an expert, but from my reading of body hacking and dieting etc, it seems that higher intensity workouts lead to increased cortisol release, a hormone released in response to stress. I'm not sure if this is the hormone they're referencing though, because IIRC extended periods of elevated cortisol levels are associated with Parksinson's/Alzheimers...
The tour fits beautifully on my iPad's Safari. Do you just have a ton of tool bars?
Figures there would be a gripe about an OPERATING SYSTEM demo in a WEB BROWSER. Shame on them.

Install Ubuntu. Let that be your first impression. I'm sure it will fit your screen.
Ask HN: Would an interactive resume be good?
I'm a college student about to graduate, and I'm considering a more interactive resume/cv than the typical list of prior experience/skills/etc. Ideas I have include:

* links to my projects that I mention
* a slider to change the level of detail on the page
* an accordion text box sharing my thoughts on the various techs/tools I list

Would this be interesting to a recruiter / potential employer, or just gimmicky? Or would the features be entirely useless?
I almost orgasmed when I saw open office load.
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Ask HN: Advice for a career fair?
I will be going to this career fair on Saturday:

http://www.nextjump.com/sa500

I'm a senior in college. Any advice you have for how to interact with startups at career fairs? Is it particularly different from talking to a large company like MSFT or Google?
Don't usually question down votes, but I am genuinely confused about this one.

To me, the whole point of responsive web design is exactly that - responding/adapting to the limitations of the user's screen / browser / set up. As far as I'm concerned, the lack of JavaScript should be considered the same.
It worked fine in my browser (IE9) but horribly on my iPhone (iOS4.x), same experience as the previous poster. I would be more gentle in my critique if Pllop's main claim to fame wasn't the ability to build it once and render on any device. Did you even test it before going beta? I have to say that I DO like the idea and believe it could gain mass adoption IF one could host the Pllop engine on one's own hosting service, much like I can do with WordPress or Joomla today, rather than being tied to Pllop's domain. "Powered by Pllop" or whatever attribution, perhaps only removable when a license fee is paid (way to monetize). Good luck.
Wow props to the team.
Seems to be caching individual file info for JS, CSS, and images, regardless of the page URL...
Excellent investment. Love ddg
There are no edges on the iPad 2. Putting a speaker on any edge amounts to putting the speaker on the back.
unity... ability to install and run 32-bit apps along side with 64-bit apps - is what huge! :)
I'd suggest adding a possibility to play the first level of World of Goo after installing it. That would make it simply amazing.
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I'm very turned off by the violent imagery on the first 2 slides. I find it extremely unprofessional and it makes me have no interest in the content, and think very poorly of the people who put this together.

Obviously, I'm just one person with one opinion, so that it for what it is worth.
There are a lot of issues that will come up through out the process that require "general" technical know-how. My cofounder and I are both technical, so we learn the biz side of things as we go and the tech just happens easily. But your tech cofounder should have a good understanding of back and front end coding. Pick a language and run with it. Also, it's not just about building the web app but also deploying. So being comfortable behind a unix terminal and utils goes a long way toward making your life easier.
Just had my very own aha! moment while searching for my name with DDG. Excellent investment.
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If the sample is small then the data will be way off. That's the point. There is low traffic so there is nominal data.

That being said comparing compete data to hundreds of parked domains that get enough traffic to have a decent data sample yes I would agree the data is off. But not anywhere near enough to make any difference in the point I was making.
Congrats, Gabriel.
the 464 was my first computer. nice
If I have to train myself to lay my phone face down, it's a design flaw. It's a design flaw because it increases the chance of damaging the screen, but more importantly because it requires the user to adapt to something that could have been done correctly in the first place.

If the user has to work around a problem with the design, that's a flaw.
Aside from the question of funding, does anybody have any opinions on the product/code itself? I'm signed up and using it, and it seems to work fine. A decent number of my (non-tech) friends seem pretty keen to move to it. Should I be en/dis-couraging them?
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I think they made around $100,000 with Kickstarter. That's a lot for a Kickstarter campaign, but it's not a whole lot to run a company. Plus, that was about a year and a half ago.
And he only got $29,140 if he was using ThemeForest exclusively. If he was selling themes elsewhere, he only got to keep $11,750 of that $47,000. ThemeForest takes an enormous cut.
Social gaming business models are built on unhealthy competition
Any reason why Ubuntu just doesn't seem to make the switch to DVD based installation ISOs?

I end up burning the CD images on DVD anyway and would definitely prefer to have a larger selection of available packages on the installation media, even if I didn't end up installing some.
Awesome demo. Best things are the Office and Apps :)
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Thanks, I appreciate those answers. It definitely makes sense to be an all-in-one team. I am leaning towards learning the additional skills I need. Another option is to complete most of it and hire a developer to complete the rest. What's your perspective on getting the product completed in DHTML and then hiring a developer (a developer friend) to build the .NET Framework with SQL Server backend?
Who's behind the Wall Steet protests?
It's turtles all the way down http://i.imgur.com/4ba4w.png
> complain that copy and paste doesn't work in X

I do complain that copy and paste don't work very well in X. There seem to be several incompatible intermediates stores for the cutted texts.
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I think its a good move. In my opinion you can only play the one-man-band card for a while and then you need to come up with other reasons why press should write about you. DDG has innovated quickly and been able to address user's needs at the right time when they were discussed in the press, picking up the loyal users on the way...
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Which of your sites are you referring to? For heytell.com compete is showing 8,265 uniques. Certainly you aren't saying that that site is getting 4,000,000 uniques are you?
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Cache link as it source appears to be down: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:EeZYEWV...

Basically, guy got inexplicably banned from the site, and is having trouble getting back on.
It's actually $47K. Here is the math
$47K x 0.7 = 32.9K

He is in the markets for less than one year, and has 1000-1999 referrals. As a CodeCanyon member, most signed referrals deposit money. Let's assume the average deposit per user is $30 for Orman. He gets $9 per user.

1999 / 12 = around 150 user per month.
150 * 9 = $1.35k

Not much compared to the actual sales, so most of his sales comes from traffic ThemeForest brings.
Ask HN: What kind of sample Vim plugin should I build in LVSTHW?
I've been working on Learn Vimscript the Hard Way[1] and I've been making pretty good progress.

I need advice on the third section of the book. In the third part I want to walk through writing a Vim plugin from scratch. I want it to be something significant that touches a lot of aspects of writing Vim plugins, but I don't want to just make something arbitrary that no one would ever use.

Right now I'm leaning toward writing a plugin for a language that doesn't already have one: Potion[2]. A plugin for a language can touch on syntax, folding, compilers, ft-specific mappings, and tons more.

If you have ideas for a good example plugin that's not too complex (it has to fit into one third of an already short book) but touches lots of aspects of Vimscript and isn't completely contrived, I'd love to hear them.

[Learn Vimscript the Hard Way]: http://learnvimscriptthehardway.stevelosh.com/

[Potion]: http://www.runciter.net/potion/
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Clickable:

[Learn Vimscript the Hard Way]: http://learnvimscriptthehardway.stevelosh.com/

[Potion]: http://www.runciter.net/potion/
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So I go to do a tour of the new Ubuntu release and I can't click the buttons to start the tour because I can't read what's written on them.

What the tour is demoing doesn't come into it.
This. The main thing to look for in a co-founder is someone who can do everything you can't.

You CAN have multiple co-founders obviously, but that raises more questions than anything.

You CAN pay a developer as well, but are they going to care as much as a founder? Probably not.

To me, it doesn't sound like you have a Catch 22, you just have picked the wrong co-founder. That said, it sounds like, from the position you're in, you might not be able to get away with less than 3 founders. If you're front-end, and she's marketing/business, you obviously lack a backend developer.

You either need to find someone else who fits that need, or start learning it yourself. If you already know frontend, Node might present the lowest barrier to entry. The only real alternative is to find someone with business, marketing AND backend dev experience, which is likely going to be a very hard find.
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I do. Surely the problem there was the non-appearance of any product, not the initial hype? Diaspora has a product.

Also as I recall Okopipi failed to materialise because somehow it had lots of enthusiasts, but nobody actually working on it. You can see work happening on diaspora on github, by the four full time coders and many others.
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I have standard Firefox (plus the bookmarks bar).
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Everyone from Reddit and HN tries to view that site and brings it down adding to his woes.
Hey, somehow my reply didn't worked a few days ago; I'll rewrite it then.

I've been using vim-mode which I find quite nice. Of course, nothing is perfect but this is far from being clunky. I like the philosophy behind it of taking the good part of vim but letting the good things of emacs. Also, everything from that mode is customezable. For instance, you can bind new stuff in virtual mode, normal mode, insert mode.. so you really get back in the vim philosophy.

Seriously, without that plugin, I wouldn't have made it to emacs. For some reasons, I was writing "j" and "k"s everywhere and was highly unproductive without it. Now, I really like the feel of it. I've got my vim keybinding but I still feel like using emacs with its philosophy.
The company is now working to port the Hadoop platform to Windows — it was built for use atop Linux — and Doug Leland, general manager of product management for SQL Server, told Wired that the company plans to eventually release its work back to the open source community.

Haha, some things never change. A code dump of major changes developed in isolation. I'm sure the Hadoop commuity will love that.
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I'm guessing it's the combination of firehose of capital and huge, densely packed population. And due to the computing needs of wallstreet there are quite a few skilled programmers around. Basically $ + hackers.
Show HN: a tool for collaborative project growth
Hi HN! I'd love for you guys to take a look at my lean-style project growth tool, Feature Pop! It's is a side-project I've been developing over the last month and a half (in between working on my primary startup project, trying to find a job at a law firm, and surfing a lot). It aims to help users vocalize their desires about the direction an application takes, so that you can grow your product based on what's actually popular with your users rather than guesses at what they might want. It was the result of wondering how I can easily validate my assumptions about where to take my main project after we release it, as well as experience at another startup watching overly vocal users steer the product in a direction that's probably not where it should have gone.

It basically operates as follows: a single page is given to users, where they can order preferences in sets of 10, which are then merged into an overall ordering. Project owners have a page that shows them this popularity based ordering and some data about its accuracy. There are a lot of features I plan to build into it as it matures, but I thought I'd get meta about it and ask you guys to check out the FP page for FP itself to suggest the right direct: http://www.featurepop.com/feature_pop. I've also posted an FP page for Hacker News, just so you guys can play around with something familiar (I'm not sure I agree with all the feature suggestions I've posted, but that's the whole point - the crap filters to the bottom): http://www.featurepop.com/hacker_news

If you like it, tell me. If you don't like it, tell me why. I'd love to hear some insight about the UI - if you view the (poorly recorded) screencast at http://www.featurepop.com, you'll see that I've already tried to improve it, but visual design is not one of my strongsuits. Also, do you guys think there might be a way to monetize this at some point? I'm a flat broke recent grad, so I can't really afford to keep it running if it gets popular (I'm on the free plan at Heroku right now).

Thanks guys/gals!
IMO Ubuntu is poised to make a serious dent in the desktop market share. Maybe next year is finally going to be the year of the Linux desktop :).
Nice to see something new in the mapping space, MapQuest Vibe Beta
Worse than murder: 121 years potentially vs ~20-40 if he killed a celebrity, or two in a fit of rage.
The figure quoted is take-home earnings, according to:

http://twitter.com/#!/collis/status/123630165199831040
It sure would be nice if he actually said what his username was.