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I don't think this is really all that much of a bad thing. It's not like they're providing a dis-service to society.

Shouldn't the creators of the first successful decentralized currency get at least some compensation?
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This is how:

http://steveblank.com/2011/06/01/why-board-meetings-suck-%E2...

http://steveblank.com/2011/06/02/reinventing-the-board-meeti...

http://www.leanlaunchlab.com/
> Regardless, I suppose I may have a predisposition for finding an angle and considering ethics as an after thought.

Many of us have a predisposition for finding an angle. Finding an angle is, I agree, part of the joy of hacking. But you can never let ethics become a mere afterthought. You certainly can't justify unethical behavior by simply asserting you're predisposed to unethical behavior.
Please , help me choose 1k$ laptop (pc/ mac )
The budget is like 900- 1.1$ , i can't decide between apple / pc laptop. I'm comfartable with both.

The main use ruby/php scripting & debugging , mysql ( on windows i run virtual machine debian for testing , xampp sucks a little ). Yeah , i also love to watch movies , thought i have 23" dell screen

I made table for comparing - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArHpABFJkEoIdEFqZ1BKel9HblNRQ2xaVDVrU2hlUmc&hl=en_GB

thanks !
I think salaries for non-contract software engineers outside of finance in London aren't terribly impressive; and not everybody wants to work in finance (or in particular, work with the kind of people who work in finance). Salaries are even worse in the Reading / Thames valley region.
Not the original, wargaming appears throughout history.

The Prussians used it as part of training in 1812:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriegsspiel_(war-game)

Also it also appears in 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman' from 1759 (and the Steve Coogan film).
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Nothing on their short list is of any interest to me.

My list would be something like:

1) Standards compliance. Validated HTML and CSS.

2) Don't force your design on my browser. Let me set fonts; colours; sizes; margins; etc.

3) Please god let flash die.

4) Allow me to pay a subscription to opt out of ads.

5) Simplify design. I'm usually interested in the content. Design often gets in the way of the content.

There's probably a million more.
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Didn't they start doing this about 6 months ago?
Hula was killed off by Novell when it sold Netmail to Messaging Architects.

We did fork the code and have moved on quite a bit we are in dire need of front end developers to help make a great frontend for a fantastic backend system. if anyone is interested in helping out please come by the IRC channel or the mail list

EDIT:

For those that are interested the IRC channel is #bongo on irc.oftc.net

We have some bindings to allow for webui development we have a complete PHP one which we used to plug roundcube's interface onto our backend. The others are in different stages of completion, there is the start of a mono binding and a ruby one so any help with these parts would be greatly appreciated.
I might sound paranoid but some people might treat it illegal if something likes this happens if app is not open.
Rich Hickey's approach to developing software really chimes with me
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The post office themselves claim it's a congressional mandate to pre-pay 75-years worth of employee pensions and benefits in a 10-year window. They give Congress 5.5 billion dollars every year, and it's that which is driving the crisis.
This is a greatest story of how the hacker mindset evolves over time. I wish I had more cool stories like that from my teenage years - I had a friend who was always thinking up crazy moneymaking schemes or trying to hack the school's computer systems, and I was always saying "oh, if it was that easy, everyone would do it". I've been trying to erase that mindset from my brain.
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They always think ahead of time but are neither chess players nor market analysts. Some of the brightest fashion designers from Russia and overseas will show off their latest creations at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Moscow.
I think for user's that don't really understand how to open something in a new tab or new window, they might not really want to leave your site when clicking on an external link. But who knows, if they leave, they could come back.
> Since they're hard to mine, it's not like supply is increasing at a rate where it can offset that big initial pooling.

The supply increases at a constant rate of 50 bitcoins every 10 minutes, regardless of the difficulty.
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> It is possible to base the currency in commodity.

Try explaining that to the man on the street.
This is getting silly. Lock screens are the security equivalent of having a screen door. They exist to keep the mildly annoying things out, but they're not designed to prevent the real baddies.

Breaking with metaphor, I don't consider it much of a security flaw if step one is the other person has to have physical access to the device.
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If you're angry (or happy) at someone that's certainly a true feeling but is it any truer than the way you feel 10 minutes later when you've calmed down a bit and considered things?

You have made great sense and raised a thought provoking questuion here.

Ultimately though I think you have to ask yourself what am I try to achieve, how is what I'm going to say going to achieve that and am I happy..."

You have summed it up perfectly.

Combining your two statements above is quite an insight. A great one. Thanks :)
Uh, with that kind of money coming in, you could save it and do whatever the hell you want later on, no? It's enough money that you could probably invest in tech startups to stay close to that environment.
I didn't know the difference between an IOU and a bond is that IOUs can't be sold. I'll need a reference to IOU law for that, because I always thought that they only existed as a talking point from the Heritage Foundation dating from somewhere around the beginning of the Bush administration.

edit: You know what functions of government don't hold any bonds? Almost all of them. Are the roads a pyramid scheme? Is all government a pyramid scheme? I still find it tough to believe that there's a group of people who say that:

1. Because the government can selectively default on the bonds held by Social Security if it votes to selectively default on the bonds held by Social Security.

2. Therefore, Social Security is an unsustainable pyramid scheme,

3. Therefore, the government should default on the bonds held by Social Security.

The government can also selectively default on the bonds held by me personally, or by China, or by anyone not named Todd. I can also collect their shares of the rent from all of my roommates, deposit it into my general fund at the bank, spend all the money on crack, then set the house on fire. The point of view of the "IOU" people is that my roommates should vote for me to do that, because once the money was in my bank account it transformed into whimsy and unicorns and at least the commitment to the crack binge and imminent homelessness gives them the certainty to plan for the future.

If the government is defaulting on any bonds, as an American, you have more to worry about than your retirement, namely roving bands of cannibals in the street and nuclear fallout, or that the Peter Peterson Foundation has finally taken back the White House.
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Hey, Wesley. I didn't know you were on HN. Small internet.
Release notes:

http://docs.couchbase.org/couchbase-single-server-1.2/couchb...
We embed Lua and make use of it to act as rich glue on Windows. We wrote our own COM binding which is much simpler and faster than something like LuaCOM because we don't use all of the features of COM (no installed classes / CoCreateInstance). It sounds simple on its face, but once you have a rich binding it can become complicated quickly as more and more code is written in the system and parts of code do things that you wouldn't expect or can't easily detect. We wound up writing our own debugger built into the embedding so that at any time we could pull up a console and interact with the engine and trace what was going on. Tools like that should be considered a necessity whenever you're creating an embedded script system inside a native code app.

When you're wrapping any ref-counted system into a GC system (e.g. Javascript wrapping gobject) there is the potential for great disaster, either ref loops or mem corruption as discussed in other posts here. It just takes training and discipline to make sure something you're working on is built correctly according to the rules of the system.

GC time has come up a bit as an issue, but it is mostly because our system is not linear in the sense that a game is. There are distinct states and times when the user is waiting and when they are not and it is an inopportune time to GC while in some specific states because it is perceived more by the end user. It is a balancing act to determine whether running the GC manually in the desired states provides a perceived or real difference than letting the engine run it whenever.
On a team of lions, the donkey is lunch.
The report may have been secret, but the fact hasn't been anymore for quite a few years. Greenspan already mentioned it in his autobiography.
Location matters. Even if you're boot strapping. I'm boot strapping Hackers & Founders.

In the past three months, I've met a CEO of a 300 person gaming company, M&A execs from Fortune 500's, Engineer[0] from Google Finance, the head of the Singularity Institute, artists that make 2 story flaming sculptures, an architect that works on computational architecture, a man who built a battery that charges in 10 minutes that is currently in use by Special Forces in Afghanistan, a former Yahoo VP, a VP from AT&T, the CTO of America and the man who wrote the Jobs bill... a person on the US Council of Foreign Relations, a man who helped the Arab spring flower in Egypt...

That's not to brag. I've simply been extremely deliberate about networking over the past 5 years.

In Silicon Valley, even after being here for 6 months. You probably don't realize it, but you're only 2 or 3 degrees of separation from everyone else who's really, really impressive in town.

To that density, add a culture that places an extremely high value on helping others out, and you have something amazing.
+1

I actually found the shows entertaining. Then again I feel I'm competent enough to understand the difference between the bits that were added for drama and the bits covering the real startup process.

Speaking of which, chracterisations aside, I feel the show did a good job of explaining the highs and lows of the startup process to non-startup people I.e. it's not all about ripping an idea off a couple of brothers, building a site in a night, serendipitously running into a former tech startup superstar who helps you rip off your friends before creating a multi-billion dollar business, all while wearing a hoodie with secret symbols sewn into the lining and wearing flip flops.

Just sayin...
To be clear, I would not be a majority owner in the pharmacy. I would be paid salary (low 6 figures) + equity in the realm of 5%. The main benefit would be the experience of opening a business from scratch with low risk, a decent salary, and a little equity.
>>if your labour is only worth $26K this means you're
>>contributing very little of any value to society

>This is way, way wrong. This is a very pervasive error in
>reasoning. Just because someone is only willing to pay X
>amount for your labor, doesn't mean that labor is worth X
>amount to society. When there are a lot of people willing
>to perform said labor, that pushes down the monetary value
>of that labor. This is completely independent of its value
>to society

bzzt, wrong - if you're paid less it means your skill is of less value to society - supply is just a part of the equation. No one wants a cat chef - the skill is worthless to society - even if you are the only one that can fillet a cat.

Your last paragraph is dead-on, though. Societal worth does not equate to moral worth - on a moral scale, all men are equal. On a societal scale, not so much.
I suspect that over the next year a tin of Campbell's soup would prove to be a better investment than Groupon.
It would have to be with the expressed permission of the user and not on by default. If it were on by default, the features would have to be extremely limited so as to protect user privacy. That said, there will be further issues down the road that will have to be figured out such as the gathering of location data.
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Don't be like that.
D.E Shaw was starting Internet startups in the early 90s, Bezos pitched them Amazon and they did Netzero instead so he headed west
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I'd like to suggest that is should read "Groupon to TRY to sell 30M shares at $18 - $18 a pop" as I really don't think anyone in their right mind should buy them.

Sadly much as I'd like to believe that this IPO will fall on stony ground I suspect that there are enough people out there who'll snap it up that they'll get their money.

Odd how we can be in a global economic crisis and a bubble at the same time. Strange times.
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Lots of things get promised in IE that don't wind up being very complete, and it'll be quite some time until the IE7/8/9ers fade away.
There's a dangerous flip side to this: In my experience just about all programmers want to remove things from code that they don't understand or see the reason for. Why is that weird check there? Who thought it was a good idea to allocate memory that way? Very often there ARE good reasons for those decisions, and they can stem from bug fixes or odd special cases that may not be obvious..

Moral: Be careful.
If the poster is gratuitously sensationalizing to get clicks, I’d also frown on it. But if the person is genuinely delighted... I’m ok with that. I’m also ok with you not being genuinely delighted.

This is one of those things that is going to provoke a “wow” from some folks, a “meh” from others, and a “dystopia” from yet others again.

The day my iPhone starts whispering in my ear about the daily specials when I walk by a store... That day I will not be saying “sweet!"
The single biggest thing that I could think of: Forms!

HTML badly needs native DatePickers, ComboBoxes, Sliders, Tabs, Multi-Buttons, DropDowns etc.

In 2011 we shouldn't have to deal with less-than-half-baked javascript monstrosities to display a basic input widget.
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Lots of arguments on why not to hire this way, but if it works for you, all the best.

However, do you find a pattern with candidates hitting snags that aren't really technical? Like, environmental issues etc?

Think really the only way to do this right is to control it as much as possible, possibly providing a failing unit test, or extremely detailed instructions. I can see a lot of wasted time trying to figure out dependencies, system path problems, etc
I've been dying for something like this - but in stores like Walmart. Sometimes, it's not enough to know where "housewares" is, but where a specific product might be.

I know this goes a bit beyond what Apple is doing here, but I think these types of apps are coming and hopefully sooner.
Comments on Growl issues and forking, from the project lead:
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2486370&cid=37...
http://microjs.com/ has a nice collection of js libs.
yeah, I am having this issue as well. I wouldn't call my engine the most solid thing in the world, and I set out with the expressed intent of writing my game as much in lua as possible.

I have resorted to having a lua repl that can execute in realtime so I can just chuck in data and examine my objects that way. It would be nice to have a breakpoint debugger though.
tl;dr: 30M shares at 16-18/share, comprising 5% of company, valuation around 11B, founders control 58% of voting rights
But yet, you never see him up on stage... There's a cult of personality around Ive on the Internet—everyone wants him to replace Jobs as CEO, but is that even realistic? Sure, he can design, but can he run a company?
An IPO gets underwritten by investment banks, so the Groupon founders will get their money anyway.
At this point I'm not sure most web developers consider jQuery an external library. Heh.
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Cute litte story, but the moral the author takes away from it is actually wrong.

The factory didn't remove the onions from the recipe because no one could remember why they were there. They were removed because Levi asked why they were there, and when no one remembered, he investigated the original purpose of the onions and determined after that investigation that they were no longer needed.

I'm sure many of us have been bitten by this as developers. You see a few lines of codes or a feature and you have no idea why it's there, so you remove it. What happens? Random, seemingly unrelated application starts failing or angry customer calls wondering why some feature is no longer available. Whoops...

So my takeaway from this story was actually quite different from the author's. I took: "Before you remove the onions, make sure you understand why they were added in the first place."
This piece of advice is quite at odds with another classic piece:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

Back to that two page function. Yes, I know, it's just a simple function to display a window, but it has grown little hairs and stuff on it and nobody knows why. Well, I'll tell you why: those are bug fixes. One of them fixes that bug that Nancy had when she tried to install the thing on a computer that didn't have Internet Explorer. Another one fixes that bug that occurs in low memory conditions. Another one fixes that bug that occurred when the file is on a floppy disk and the user yanks out the disk in the middle. That LoadLibrary call is ugly but it makes the code work on old versions of Windows 95.
Also, the title is misleading for another reason. iOS doesn't "know when you walk into an Apple Store", you have to manually open the app, which removes most of the "wow" factor IMHO.
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Anyone thinking about buying Groupon stock - check LinkedIn's after November when the lock-up agreement expires.

LinkedIn, like many IPOs, had a lock-up agreement. That means that insiders and venture capitalists (or investors who bought the stock pre-IPO on a secondary marketplace like SharesPost) can’t sell stock for six months following an IPO. This helps stabilize the stock in its early days. It also leads to possible dips in stock value around the time of expiration. The agreements for LinkedIn will expire in November.

http://www.investmentu.com/2011/August/linkedin-good-company...

In Matt Taibbi's book, Griftopia, most of these stocks are little more than pump & dump operations by finance industry, who collect some fees on the side.

Here’s how it works: Say you’re Goldman Sachs and Worthless.com comes to you and asks you to take their company public. You agree on the usual terms: you’ll price the stock, determine how many shares should be released, and take the Worthless.com CEO on a “road tour” to meet and schmooze investors, in exchange for a substantial fee (typically 6–7 percent of the amount raised, which added up to enormous sums in the tens if not hundreds of millions).

You then promise your best clients the right to buy big chunks of the IPO at the low offering price—let’s say Worthless.com’s starting share price is 15—in exchange for a promise to reenter the bidding later, buying the shares on the open market. Now you’ve got inside knowledge of the IPO’s future, knowledge that wasn’t disclosed to the day-trader schmucks who only had the prospectus to go by: you know that certain of your clients who bought X amount of shares at 15 are also going to buy Y more shares at 20 or 25, virtually guaranteeing that the price is going to go past 25 and beyond. In this way the bank could artificially jack up the new company’s price, which of course was to the bank’s benefit—a 6 percent fee of a $500 million or $750 million IPO was serious money.

Taibbi, Matt (2010-11-02). Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America (pp. 213-214). Spiegel & Grau. Kindle Edition.
Last one looks similar to Lean Startup Canvas - http://leancanvas.com. Though not sure how is it helpful in this case.
Whatever one thinks of unity, taking away the ability to keep the old desktop environment seems extremely misguided. One of the best things about open source is the knowledge that once you get a working setup, you'll always be able to keep it.

I'll soon be returning to using a linux box as my primary machine after a year stuck on laptop-only. I'll give Ubuntu a first shot out of loyalty, but if my experience is anything like this guy's, it'll be back to Debian for me...
Finding a business's wifi automatically - which allows you and the business to know when you're actually in the store (or really close enough) is a really good concept. Eventually, more and more businesses will have wifi and this type of recognition (with user approval of course) could make for an accurate passive experience (i.e. don't have to take your phone out and perform actions to get benefits). Interesting possibilities...
You know what this is going to mean right? All stores are going to launch apps like this.
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As I said, if you put the comment in context, the fact that they are even suggesting that some girls might like it is a little bit of emancipation.

Full women's suffrage was still 15 years away, the feminism movement over forty years away. The suffragette movement was at its most active at this time: this book was published the same year that Emily Davison died trying to throw a suffragette banner over the King's horse.

HG Wells was probably a feminist: he certainly had affairs (and fathered children) with a number of prominent feminists of the time. He was certainly a socialist and a member of The Fabian Society: his books tackle many of the political problems of the time.

Once you factor this in, the meaning of "the better sort" of girl and "rare gifted women" becomes far more interesting.
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I can see how this works in this particular case, with only Apple stores and while running a special app, but in the general case, how will they know that you're in their store and not the one next to them?
Do you think that something like the deck ( the ad network for designers ) would make sense for developers?

Ads are not uninteresting by design.
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If you can't remember why onions are in there, you probably need better documentation.