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I spent some time doing several small programming exercises in Ioke. I've also done similar exercises in several programming languages ranging from C to Java to Haskell to Ioke.

Ioke was ridiculously clean in almost every scenario. The only part I missed was that I didn't delve deep enough to really use the macros to their fullest extent. Something that would take 50 lines of idiomatic Ruby took 10 lines of Ioke. Ruby is already a very expressive language and yet Ioke could express the same thing in half the amount of code.

The author of this post is not kidding when he says that Ola designed the language with no regard for performance. The language is slow.

However, Ola is working on a language that learns from the expressiveness of Ioke but is a bit more practical. It's called Seph and is at http://www.seph-lang.org

And, finally, a small story: I was spending a few nights a week writing Ioke and trying it out about a year ago. Ola spoke about Ioke at an internal company presentation (sort of a mini-conference) and afterwards I started to talk about the language with him and Brian Guthrie. We talked about the language constructions and how we solved problems in the language, etc. etc. Finally, I get around to asking the question, "So, after writing Ioke for these past few weeks, I feel like I have no idea if I'm writing idiomatic Ioke!" Both of them look at me as if I'm a crazy person and finally Ola smiles and says, "There need to be more than 10 developers writing in a language for there to be idiomatic anything." Playing with these languages are fun but messy! Don't be afraid to make mistakes and just dive in.
Considering an enormous amount of business (you know where food, supplies, etc. comes from) is now facilitated with the Internet, I don't think this is true, especially because they won't see a vaccine for a very long time. The chance of getting the disease is also low, probably not substantially more than getting injured in an automobile crash.
Ask HN: How do you go about meeting cofounders?
Let's say I'm in a situation where I'm looking for a co-founder in the SF area. I'm highly technical myself (MS from top 3 school, years of experience at a software giant, passion for open source and bleeding edge technologies, treat software engineering as a craft), extremely ambitious and want to work on something awesome with other people who have experience and desire to make a great, hopefully innovative, product. I don't care too much about WHAT that specifically is at this point, a great team of people will make anything fun.

I unfortunately don't know many folks who have both the experience and the desire to co-found a successful start-up with me, but would love to find out where I could find them. I've been to a couple of HN meetings, very promising, but no luck so far. What other prospects do people in my situation have? It seems like most success stories are entrepreneurs meeting in college and then already pre-selecting each other, but that's not my case.

Please advise :)
WP7 needs more spotlight. It's a really nice OS, both in UI and in UX. I really hope MS keeps focusing on it!
Surely the counter argument is that a badly tested vaccine could have very bad consequences.
It might me much nicer but the market is a lot smaller. The market for WP Themes from your main website includes every website with custom design that wants a blog. I also wouldn't underestimate how many people would pay a lot of money for this. Not 20$ but more like 200$. Not ramen startups that do everything through sweat equity but normal companies that would have to pay someone to do it. 200$ doesn't get you very far if you tell a designer to create a blog template based on your website. As an added plus they can already show you the end result so if you like it there is absolutely no risk involved.

Also the two products are in no way mutually exclusive.
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I think I actually like Roboto better than Helvetica for text body. It seems to have a better balance and weight. Check it out:


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I'm sure this could easily be an artifact of antialiasing and the relatively low resolution on my mbp, but it's noticeable to me.
The real trick is that the existing cultures themselves will have to quickly reconfigure so that this doesn't simply shift the problem laterally.

For example, initiatives to dig wells in various African countries have turned out to result in other problems. Some nomadic cultures began staying put, and then they started overusing all the other resources. The scarcity of water was a control in itself, limiting how long groups stayed in a given area. Removal of that control has led to desertification of areas surrounding the wells. And it also brought disparate groups into contact with each other for longer periods of time, which led to more disease outbreaks. Nomadic groups had fewer and briefer encounters with others before, limiting the spread of disease from one group to another.

Another example is the grave humanitarian crisis in Somalia. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to starve to death in the next few months. Due to raging conflicts, humanitarian aid cannot be effectively distributed.

However, even if the crisis could temporarily be averted, the problem with food aid is it undermines any possibility of local production. Farmers can't compete with free food dumped on the market, so they stop farming. Not being self-sufficient, now you're looking at not only providing aid, but ever-increasing aid as the population grows, which means if you stop for any reason -- including civil war flaring up again -- now even more people die: the ones you saved, and the children they have had in the interim.

See http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,363663,00...

Cultures with high child mortality compensate by having high numbers of children. Once you get rid of the main causes of child mortality, you have to either stop having so many kids, or dramatically increase food production. Otherwise curing Malaria can result later in all the problems that accompany a lack of resources: bigger famines, increased civil strife and warfare.
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the ipchicken is not happy. Google kills yet another industry!
Of course, that is one data point. Gizmodo says "certainly responsive" (http://gizmodo.com/5851133/samsung-galaxy-nexus-the-greatest...). Engadget says "startlingly fast" and "faster than its ever been" (http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/18/samsung-galaxy-nexus-hand...).

Personally I just think it is clear that Android has gone well beyond the limits of caring (not perception) for the vast majority of users. There will always be nits for picking, but acting like this really needs to be addressed (especially considering how subjective this performance perception can be) is silly.
I agree, but with a caveat on point 3.

I think its a very compelling idea and having gone all the way through was very impressed with your execution.

As for point 3..

- Yes you should look at charging for themes. I was half expecting you to offer to charge me to download a theme and even (literally) had my CC ready to go. So, that's what I would prefer actually.. a starting point for my theme, rather than blog hosting (in my case).

However I think it is a very compelling feature not so much for people who already have a blog and need to switch but more for people who already have a website and need a blog (which is me right now).
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It'd be really interesting to know who would mod this post down, and why?
Not by IP, FWIW. I'm in Mountain View but the guy seemed to want to find me in Reykjavik, Iceland, where I'm from. (I moved to the Bay Area a month ago, but haven't update my FB)
It feels so weird to defend Canon... I'm a Nikon man all the way.

Does it matter these days? My impression for the last couple years has been that more or less any dSLR will work very well for the vast majority of what most people do. When people ask me about photography, I by and large say, "Get whatever your friends are using and/or whatever is cheap."
Too cluttered? If you can't find the camera icon on a screen with a clock and 6 icons (4 of which are in a row), how the heck are you going to find the camera icon in a grid of 12 icons that all have the exact same shape?

I find iOS's homescreen extremely cluttered and VERY frustrating to use.
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Back end technologies are becoming less and less critical in modern web development. The web is no longer chained to the server stack that is chosen. My suggestion would be to learn a RESTful API on the existing stack that you know.

Set up RESTful JSON services and build a web front end with just HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Try out Dojo and jQuery and use them to completely replace ASP.NET. Write your entire UI independent of the server stack and have it retrieve data and execute business logic via the RESTful services you stand up. Try to implement everything in HTML files with no server side scripting.

From there, you can take that knowledge to any back end stack, further once you know how to write web apps independent of the back end stack, you can learn to stand up services in other languages. Once you master this development style, it become very easy to learn a REST API on a new platform and languages so you can quickly adapt your development to whatever back end a company uses.

Further, it makes you front ends far more portable among back end architectures, Mobile becomes just another front end consuming the same REST services and HTML, CSS and JavaScript provide a far more responsive and usable application, when you liberate the UI from having to POST back to the server for every action you can create a lot of workflows that are just not possible with the old page-POST model.
Very slick navigation and a lot of fun! Would really love to see the focus on the Problems sections to keep things interesting.
You're like the people who said Dropbox wouldn't succeed, because they had no need for it, because they could just setup rsync. Fact of the matter is that mailgun seems to have empirical proof that a lot of programmers have no clue what they're doing, and would be willing to pay for something that makes their lives easier. That's like lesson #0 of hacker news: people will pay for things that make their lives easier.
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I'm always excited to meet new people. So much so that I am willing to call milk a social drink. e-mail sent.

If any SF people are out this friday at happy hour, look for me at Yuppie Friday. Eve Lounge in SOMA.
Before burying Nintendo, it may be worth taking a moment to remember that in terms of market share this generation, Nintendo Wii + Nintendo DS is about 237 million, and XBox 360 + PS3 + PSP has sold about 179 million[1], and the totals are not made up with software sales either [2].

This looks less like a company getting "squeezed" and more like a company that has run the board in this console generation.

I'm not a huge fan of the Wii either, and the next Nintendo generation is looking decidedly shaky, but from a business perspective I can't fault them based on present data.

[1]: Some simple math with the data from http://www.vgchartz.com/hardware_totals.php

[2]: http://www.vgchartz.com/hardware_totals.php?type=Software...
What if Arash had turned out to be a bad match? They didn't know each other, so it was a pretty big gamble.

I suppose if Drew retained control he could prevent it destroying the company, but then he doesn't really have an equal co-founder to keep him in check.

Seems like a really tough problem. Kind of amazing it worked out so well.
Remote wipe has been available for ages - there are at least five apps from well-established companies that offer it. The latest was Norton iirc. Samsung phones come with it by default, you just have to enable it (samsungdive.com)
I've still found that running multiple applications starts to cause touch-events to go unnoticed, swiping to jump around, etc. But to your credit my experience may be a fault of the device rather than the OS itself.
I know dalvik is a good resource manager and all, i just tend on the side of caution i guess. Some peoples' apps try to manipulate the OS in strange ways.
The write up sounded great right up to the point when I started reading the comments.

It reminded me of the saying by Henry Ford
"if I had asked my customers what they wanted they would have said a faster horse".

All those people are looking for a faster horse.

What worries me is that you don't mention if you have a Model T in mind.

My suggestion read those responses than destroy all record of them, they will be there somewhere in the back of your mind and that's ok. But build the first thing that comes to mind that was a real pain in the ass for you back in you agency days.

Good luck
Ask HN: Is your life your work?
I am a single, twenty-something in DC who has a huge passion for information security. I have landed a job where I can do almost whatever I want with people around me who generally share the same passion. Across the street is a supermarket, I absolutely love the area I am surrounded by, I have access to a multi-story gym, bars and restaurants across the street and more technology than I could ever want. More and more I am seeing my "home" (a couple miles away) as just a place to sleep where even that can be substituted for a cot.

This community is largely built around those that never stop working, ones that always push harder and shoot for constant improvement. This doesn't account for all of the people here, but generally I have noticed that startups and products require tender loving care much like a child would and it is up to you to foster your dreams into a healthy reality.

So is your life your work? Why or why not?
Wow!

You sure did an excellent job there.
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Shrug. Swap out cancer/heart disease with teenage drunk driving then. Or building hospitals. Or hell, training physicians in prenatal care.

The position is utter shit on numerous levels.
Doesn't matter what you use for front end. Ruby used to be a POS VM in terms of performance, but who knows now a'days, but just about anything can return json, so just grab what you can.

Your real pain point is going to be your back end. If immediate consistency isn't important, run a job queue with works in the back end hitting some kind of fast access nosql and have a worker whose job it is to write to a mysql or postgress store. raid the ebs volumes and keep a monolithic volume sister box to take snapshots off. you can have the entire environment scripted and repeatable.
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Is there really a YC list of 100 things that can kill a startup so they can be avoided ? Very interested to know
Ah, thanks. I missed that, and haven't checked in 2 months.

I actually have HTTPS Everywhere, but it didn't find it for the reasons you mention.

If anyone at HN is reading, the certificate doesn't work if you visit via news.ycombinator.org (vs .com). It would probably be better to just make that a redirect to .com, rather than what appears to be an alias.
Startups are just so much work. You need some help.

For example, if you have two founders, then one can go out and do fundraising for a month while the other keeps the company running. If you had only one founder, you'd be dead in the water for that month. (Even if you have employees -- things are going to decay if all of the founders are distracted.)

Also, I've never known YC to play founders against each other.
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Correct. I thought that was in my profile info (it wasn't has since been updated). That said, I was going out of my way to make my comment as general purpose as possible (I think evaluating the bias of anything you read on the internet is generally a Good Idea(tm) )
You are correct. My mistakes.
There's one of 18: http://paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html
You're right, any sloppy user can make a mess of the iPhone interface. But as a mobile platform, the OS shouldnt promote sloppiness and with all its tabs and panels and pages in addition to all the physical buttons already present.

The VM that Android runs on, as is pointed out in another comment, is designed to kill off processes if it needs resources. Either way, its never been a selling point of Android for me, personally.
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I just used a Samsung Galaxy S II... didn't notice any lag. But then again, my phone is an iPhone 3G.
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Humanity is still an animal race. Our birth rates still self-regulate. If children stop dying in Africa, people will in time stop having as many children.

There will very likely be issues like you describe, but they should run their course and go away so long as outsiders don't try to meddle too much.

Unlike accelerated disease propegation between nomadic tribes, the problem of having extra people is one of the better problems to have.
You know, Windows 7 has a task bar that does everything. Most operating systems end up with 2 or 3, and somehow they do it in one.
> How is it that Android still doesn't map a user's finger movements with nearly 1:1 accuracy on the screen?

I don't have this problem at all (Samsung Galaxy S2)
Yeah, those things are all true --- I know that the satisfaction guarantee can increase conversions, so that's something I consider from a marketing perspective.

But I really do want people to tell me if the book doesn't meet their expectations and to know that they can get their money back. It just seems wrong to offer no recourse. (Hopefully the ebook samples will help people before they buy, though, so fewer people return products.)

And, yes, there's no way to return a digital copy. It's just a trust/honor thing, I guess. :) You tell me you're not satisfied, and I give you your money back. Done.
They might be thinking deeply, but they execute poorly and it still looks like crap.

Matias should be replaced ASAP and the weird fascination with black/dark themes should be tossed into the trash.
This was a Phase 3 clinical trial published today in the New England Journal of Medicine: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1102287

Not home yet or I'd likely have more to say.

Home now. Reading the article. First thoughts:

* This is a vaccine for P. falciparum, which is the nasty form that you really don't want. Good.

* Funding comes from GSK and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

* These are interim results, looking at the older kids (5mo and up) in a 2-prong study (the younger kids haven't all hit the 12mo-duration milestone needed per protocol so this largely ignores them so far with more to come later). Caution. (Because there was no clear rationale given for why this is being reported now, in pieces.)

* Treated kids had higher incidence of meningitis. Caution.

* Treated kids had higher risk of febrile seizures. Caution.

* Generally, few deaths, so these kids seem to be well looked-after in this trial. Appropriate.

So far, so good. Interested to see the final Phase 3 results and to see how this holds up in Phase 4/postmarketing.
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Economically, that only makes sense if you believe that Dropbox is overvalued by 95%. That would be a huge mistake by the investors.
How the hell do you make the emulator slower than it already is?
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Repetitive mundane task surely can be called "dedication"...

But in medical research have to try new things, adquire new knowledge, evaluate that new knowledge with all your previous researchs and don't quit your objective despite of failing for years... so yeah, i think the parent comment was talking about _that_ kind of dedication.

EDIT: missing word
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we also use ryan @ heroku's queue_classic instead of dj. doesn't poll every second like dj; uses postgres pub/sub.
I suppose my point was that iOS keeps things reasonably simply--they have a swipe-down notifications window now, you can scan back and forth through home-screen panels and you can access your apps list.

ICS now has the home-screen x666 panels, your apps list, a seperate tab for widgets and another mess of panels, the new people window, your list of recent apps, a home button, a back button, twelve-hundred other buttons (all of which can be reassigned by any running application), blah blah blah.

I know I'm obviously exaggerating, my point is the OS shouldnt promote the kind of clutter that I'm seeing in what should be a clean-cut OS-release demo.
That's a great idea. I've just submitted a new version including nickname matching to the app store for approval, so look for it within the next week or two.
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Build a seeks node, http://www.seeks-project.info/, configure it to only use Google search as backend. The both of you can then use the Seeks frontend instead of Google, and you'll get the same results.

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It sounds like other-people-hackability is the real problem for you then. i guess it's hard to convince someone from other programming paradigms to spend the effort and time required to get proficient in haskell.
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Not measuring. A "home run" to me is an exit, not a huge round at a huge valuation. But maybe it was an exit for YC/early investors, I don't know.
I am wondering how this works in low light situations..
Also i guess the "pattern to unlock" works faster, more reliable and is just as unsafe... Although it's easier to guess the finger "smears" on the display then getting hold of a picture of a phones owner..