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Last I remember reading ARMv7 wasn't Popek/Goldberg valid. The Cortex-A15 is touted as adding this facility, no? Regardless, a 4G box is going to be a poor resource allocation environment for virtualized hosting, which is something closer to my point.
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I'd love to have Paul Graham talk at Clojure/West. Seeing as this is HN, if anyone reading this wants to convince him, please do. :)
You probably meant 2x2TB, but yeah, Synology, QNAP, etc come with great software including iTunes sharing, DLNA, Time Machine, etc.

About the only issue with NAS devices is disk encryption, but at that point, you probably require a NetApp box or similar.
Loyal Opposition to Const, Private, Freeze, Non-Configurable, Non-Writable...
I tried downloading it just now- says the app is "no longer available."
The web will be a better web when IE6 and IE7 don't need to be supported. Think of all the time that was wasted working to support them. Following Steve Jobs' analogy of saving lives through speeding up boot time a few seconds: how many people has IE6/7 killed?
Me too. Both searching and browsing the productivity category. I wonder what gives?
I just got a message saying the item I tried to buy is no longer available.
crafting great software
takes many small commitments
like playing Jenga
i miss tipical alt+key combinations in windows whem i'm replacing or finding text strings
So what I'm suggesting is: take 200 students, and have 100 go through Khan's material, and 100 go through mine. Khan's kids would finish faster.

Then, have all 200 kids attempt to code FizzBuzz on their own, with no assistance. I think probably 60-70% of my students could get it working. I suspect less than 20% of Khan's would have understood/retained enough to get it done.

You are in the 20%, so it's hard for you to see the difference. Salman Khan is in the 1%, and he hasn't been in the trenches long enough to see the difference.

That's what I'm saying.
Looks like they removed it from the App Store:

"Update: 11/2/11: Earlier today we launched a new Gmail app for iOS. Unfortunately, it contained a bug which broke notifications and caused users to see an error message when first opening the app. We’ve removed the app while we correct the problem, and we’re working to bring you a new version soon. Everyone who’s already installed the app can continue to use it."
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The case for (or against) blog layouts
And really, a strategy that relies on you being Steve Jobs isn't exactly a strategy that necessarily works for anyone else.
The cloud went down

Cannot get to my work

Twiddling thumbs feeling dumb
Degrees are still useful for work visas! It can also help with start-a-business visas too.
This is either him reminding everyone of the hissy-fit Bitkeeper threw when Tridgell telnet'd into a bitkeeper server and typed HELP, or the hissy-fit Bitkeeper threw when Bryan O'Sullivan dared to contribute to Mercurial while his employer held a license for Bitkeeper.

Either way, the reminder that Bitkeeper's licensing terms are so utterly ridiculous that either of the above cases were considered in any way, shape, or form "nefarious" only strikes me as a good way to scare away even more potential customers from their product.
I've always been very satisfied with the iPhone mail app personally.
New Gmail App for iPhone is Unusable, Shows Errors Upon Launch
annnd...it's been yanked already, according to thenextweb: http://thenextweb.com/google/2011/11/02/google-pulls-gmail-a...
Sorry if I came across too negative. I've just got very militant about investing my time/energy/money in things which don't make financial sense.

I was also building an app based on weather data do I have some idea of the expenses involved and I quickly realised that my (admittedly niche) product couldn't be supported by small once-off payments like the app store.
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And it's not available on the Indian App Store :(
The only reason Stack remains free is because of the large cash infusions they received from VCs. As soon as they burn through it without coming up with a viable replacement that still allows free access, they will begin charging or they will disappear. One one site makes money from ads and it rhymes with Moogle.
I don't know what school you went to, but the engineering school I went to put more of a focus on problem solving using relevant technology and as a result I know how to do very intense research, strategy building, and analysis from the constant nights of trying to build something after the teacher says "Here are x, y, and z components, now build this on Tuesday."

I would go as far to argue that the problem solving skills I've learned in my one year of studying at a technical institute far outweigh the problem solving skills you've learned in two years of study at your school.

I think the problem is bigger then liberal arts vs STEM, and has more to do with the kind of education students receive vs. what degree they are going with. I've switched to a community college very recently to pursue a math degree, but have found the education to be very dumb and drab, with the teachers giving you exact instructions on how to do everything, as opposed to my previous school's philosophy of learning the tools and then applying them by using your own brain.
Part of the project is the fact that it looks _good_, something a A broken laptop with hd's hanging off of can never be (unless it is an art piece).
After a bit of digging, I learned that BitKeeper has, as a part of its EULA, a provision that disallows its users to contribute to other source control projects[1]. Larry McVoy (aka luckydude) has actually tried to enforce the EULA by contacting the users' employers to get them to stop contributing, but my guess is that he never took it to court because, well, he would be laughed right back out again.

As for Mercuiral, one of the early developers, Bryan O'Sullivan, apparently worked for a company that used BK, and McVoy told him that he had to stop contributing[2] to the project, which he did[3]. O'Sullivan is now showing up in the commit history again, which I presume means he's no longer working for a company that uses BK.

[1] http://yro.slashdot.org/story/02/10/06/0518220/BitKeeper-EUL...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitkeeper#Pricing_change

[3] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.mercuria...
I love Asana, and feel it's finally some worthy competition to Basecamp, which has always been way, way too slow for me.
Completely understand your situation and have heard similar stories too many times. That's why I decided to start the eBook.

If you would like some design feedback, shoot me an email. That offer stands for anyone else too, time allowing!
My class is a high-school course. Not sure if you're suggesting that Khan Academy's material is pitched at college students, but I don't think that's true.
I'm pretty sure that said hypothetical impact can't exist. The object either has far too little energy to significantly change its orbit, or alternatively has enough energy but there is nothing moon-like left after that collision.

The moon has a mass of 7.349×10²² kg. Its mean orbital velocity is 1023m/s. So, with a perfectly-aligned impact, and perfect efficiency, to add velocity, you'd need to add energy equal to difference in kinetic energy. For 1m/s, that'd be 10²⁵J (assuming the change in mass is negligible). That's an incredible amount of energy, about 20 times greater than the Chicxulub impact (believed to have triggered the mass extinctions at the K-T boundary).

That's 1 m/s. You need far more than that. Earth escape velocity is 11200m/s. So, that would seem to need 10³⁰ J. And an impact would deliver that in well under a minute. Which would be a problem, since that's an order of magnitude greater than the gravitational binding energy of the moon.

Conclusion: impact required would fully obliterate moon.

(Moon mass and velocity, and escape velocity from http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/moonfact.html. Gravitational binding energy and estimate of Chicxulub from Wolfram Alpha)
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Move, work in the bay area, get that network and then move back. If you have a house in Montana, and family there, rent it out and get your family to help you manage it. Even if you have to pay $2000/month more in rent, which you won't, you'll still come out ahead. And you'll have better weather and cheaper airfare than Montana.
Why should I have to go to the settings page to make it compact? Just make it better by default.
Product Roadmap: Features, Physics Envy, and Quick Wins
Yesterday there was a google team blog post about the new gmail interface. I went there (the blog) in my iPad and there were no scrollbars and accelerated flick to scroll didn't work at all. It definitely felt weird to have no accelerated scroll.
What's WRONG with Google Native Gmail App for Apple iPhone [REVIEW]
If I may offer David Dixon's classic?

Three things are certain:
Death, taxes, and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.
I've been at a startup that was about as far outside of the bay area as possible - North Idaho. We had a great product in a nice space and were fairly successful at selling it and making modest profit.

But the start was rough. Unless it's a one-person gig (and there aren't many of those out there) you need two things - bodies and money. The further you are away from metro areas the harder it is to find both - the people with the skills either left or are already working somewhere and the investors aren't multi-millionaires, they are angels with $10-20k each, sometimes $100k+.

It's possible though. That startup eventually sold but long after a more inferior competitor sold for a lot more which had more to do with their location (Cali, I think in the valley) than how well they functioned. And the company I was with sold for less than we thought it would and long after the window in which acquisition would have been ideal.

There's just no visibility outside of major (tech hub) metro areas. You don't get any buzz even if you are in magazines and the like, and you don't have the contacts that can really help you out. It's a major negative.

Pure (somewhat educated) conjecture: if that startup would've been in Seattle or Portland it would've sold much earlier and for much more than it did, maybe in year 6 instead of year 10. If in the Bay area I think it would've sold by year 3 instead of year 10.
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There's a difference between finding a raft (here's some source on github which takes a few minutes to look at) and being enticed by a bridge (here's a homepage showing up in search results, presenting a packaged solution as an answer to the problem I'm having, which doesn't turn out to be a problem until hours or days of integration work).
The app review process isn't QA.
I'm always looking for a new environment; I recently installed Elementary OS and I'm stunned with how much better my experience has been. If you spend your planning time working backward from the UX you're going to give users a special treat. Elementary OS has done a great job of executing a really nice environment through rigorous interface guidelines and real attention to detail and user experience.

I wish you the best of luck. If I can assist in any way in the future (I'm not a software guy - more design/front-end) I would love to.
I have to wonder if STEM courses that have routinely have tests that set the curve at 40% is really a good thing or not.
NYC H1B

The most dangerous labor of all was the twelfth and final mission. Eurystheus ordered Hercules to kidnap the beast called Cerberus who guards the gates of hell - the brazed voiced hound of Hades and a monster not to be overcome and that may not be described, who eats raw flesh, fifty headed, relentless and strong. Near the gates of Acheron, a weaponless Hercules found the beast waiting for him. He resembled a retailer’s point of sale system.

You are a Hercules incarnate. Your weapons will include CoffeeScript, Ruby, JVM, Mac/Win/Lin[1], iOS, Android, maybe even a little C. Help us crush the mediocre POS industry incumbents. Multiple headed beasts, they are tired, decadent organizations and veritable deserts upon which the seeds of innovation and creativity find no purchase.

ShopKeep is fixing point of sale and becoming the “last mile” for local. A profoundly disruptive solution, we have established a beachhead in a sector in dire need of innovation. A well funded NYC based startup, we are fixing technology depressed, mind numbingly overpriced, and overly complex POS solutions and making them less expensive and highly customizable for both very large and very small customers.

Help us as we take this battle to the next level. You will lead the development of our products. Your releases will immediately be running[2] in thousands of actual brick-and-mortar stores. Like this one http://bit.ly/tEn61i. And this one http://bit.ly/w1n3vc

Contact jasonrichelson on github or david@shopkeep.com for more info...

[1]Don't worry, the Mac/Win/Lin registers consist almost entirely of cross-platform code
[2]CI + better auto-updating than Chrome!
cheers peter

the event brought so many great London tech start-ups together..
I think it's better to enroll in a 4 year university, and then take all the classes you can at a local JC and transfer them over. That way you avoid yet another admissions gauntlet and will be checking if things transfer for every class.
Another post by a different Googler:

https://plus.google.com/102053381273068034374/posts/gc4Jj4wX...

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The iOS app we launched today contained a bug which broke notifications and caused you to see an error message when first opening the app. We’ve removed the app while we correct the problem, and we’re working to bring you a new version soon. In the meantime, everyone who’s already installed the app can continue to use it.

"We want to bring you a great Gmail experience, and we're sorry we messed up here."
Uninstall: Cleaning up your mess
Glad I live to see this day. :)
Not terrible but not at all great, either.
I use VIM
Ships disappear on the horizon because of curvature, not distance.
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As a developer I often struggle with the following things:

Picking a color scheme. What colors work well together? Why do they work well together? How do I find good color schemes? Is there a formula or something?

White space. How much should I have? I normally just operate in increments of 5px until I think something looks good. "Looks good" ends up being smaller than other sites when I actually compare though.

Font choices and colors. I always just use arial for body text and I'm fine with that. My headers always look very bland though. What fonts compliment what? Should my headers be darker or lighter than my body text?

Gradients and box shadows. I know they can look nice and I know some people do it well, but whenever I add this kind of stuff to my graphics I think it looks corny.

Those are some things I find frustrating when designing.
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I wish I had a recommendation for a doctor familiar with tech startups. It could be tough to find that. Have you considered looking at your diet too? Also, networking with other tech founders is helpful. As one myself, I started getting really isolated and it threw me into a depressed state. I started by making myself go to one event each week that was startup related. A lot of us experience what you're experiencing and knowing that its common (and that you're not alone) can really ease the intensity of the symptoms. I wish you a lot of luck. Also, if you wanted to connect, feel free to email me and I'm happy to chat. I hate to see someone go through depression alone.
This is interesting. Righthaven's strategy involved purchasing the right to litigate copyright infringement from the copyright holders. If Righthaven gets liquidated, what will become of that asset? Might it get so tied up in court that nobody can figure out who owns the right to sue, and thus the copyrights from those media outlets are effectively unenforceable?
Google Pulls "Bad Version" of Gmail From iTunes App store
I have, but I thought that might be more to do with the OS - my desktop takes about 5 minutes to boot these days and I really need to do a fresh install or devote an entire day to system maintenance.
Ha. Seems like it was pulled from the app store (Probably because of the push bug). Nicely done.
Not sure how useful is it as a separate app, but give me notifications about possible rain 30 minutes before a planned event, or whenever I'm more than X km from home, or just leaving and I'll be very very happy.
Do I blog or tweet about it? Oh, I really, really should. (And I enjoy doing so when I do.) I used to blog a bit, but consulting + family + my (oh-so-dragged-out) PhD work tend to eat into my time. But yeah, I really should. Maybe your comment will push me back into occasional blogging on technical subjects.

Fortunately, there are some amazing resources out there. The pgsql-general e-mail list has oodles of helpful people, and great questions (and answers!). Get it in digest format, or prepare to have your inbox inundated with PostgreSQL goodness. But I've learned a ton just from reading messages on that list.

There are some great PostgreSQL-related blogs, as well. Many are on the "Planet PostgreSQL" aggregator, at http://planet.postgresql.org/ . Between those blogs and the e-mail list, you'll have lots of good stuff to read.

Finally, Packt published two books about PostgreSQL 9.x in the last year, both of which are excellent. One is an administrative cookbook, and the other is a high-performance guide. Definitely worth reading (and re-reading).

I'm in Israel, where MySQL is the open-source database king, and where people have barely heard of PostgreSQL. But I get about a call a month from someone who needs help with their PostgreSQL usage or configuration, and besides the nice feeling of having become the local go-to guy on the subject, it's also fascinating for me to see just how many serious places are using PostgreSQL -- but under the radar, without fanfare. They know that it's a great database, but no one else knows that they know.
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I found all of them very easy except "question 6", at which I'm still failing hard to visualize the difference, and is the only one I got wrong. (I had to choose a random one)
also multiple google accounts signed in at once would be nice (and would allow me to stop using mail.app)
I agree with you that the cost of education is very high, but you need to look at the marginal cost. A person has to eat and pay rent regardless of whether they are in school. You can't count that 25K as the marginal cost of school.
And apparently this is because the app was pulled because of a bug.
Variation:

The cloud went down

Cannot get to my work

Throwing birds at pigs
Striking It Rich In The App Store: More Casino Than Gold Mine
I really hate how they just build wrappers around an existing mobile website and publish it. What's the point of building native apps then? Just Push notifications? Isn't that supposed to be against the terms of the App Store?
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You might be thinking of the List-Unsubscribe header which supposedly provides a machine-readable method of unsubscribing. But, no spam reports are all proprietary. And my guess is that they don't want actual spammers to get their hands on them lest they figure out how to tune their messages to avoid getting reported.
This is great stuff. One major hickup solved for SMB's . Good service going in hand with great support .
The shame of it all is that the Righthaven lawyers will probably find a way to avoid all personal financial liability (being protected by limited liability of the LLC) and then set up shop again under a different LLC entity to do it all over again.

The underlying problem is a system that doesn't punish this type of behavior strongly enough. I'd endorse serious jail time (in ghetto "don't drop the soap in the shower" type jails) for these types of offenses in order to disincentivize this harmful parasitic behavior.
Go easy on the ellipses and em dashes.
Why we dropped out of Yale to start a dating website
Thanks so much for the list. I'll make sure it's covered.
my barracuda Web Content Filter says this is Pornography...
Personally, I get more work done at the office where I have two screens. When I'm at home on my laptop, I notice a difference in productivity. It's not a huge difference, but it's noticeable enough for me to want to buy a nice 27" the next paycheck.
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i agree that that kind of transparency would be amazing for candidates. tough to get all startups to sign up to a public declaration of their runways, however!

but it's usually possible to get a straight answer if you ask as part of the interview process

at songkick we've always been honest about runway, certainly with later-stage interviewees

if a startup who is making you a job offer refuses to answer the runway question, that says something about their general attitude to transparency across the whole team
Do you mind explaining "theoretical"? For example, of the talks listed this year are there any that you would say are theoretical?
Google has already pulled the iOS Gmail app
My team (aestasit.com) has also been using Asana for the last 3 months and, overall, we are satisfied.
I'm not going to summarize the good and bad aspects because the previous comment does it egregiously. Asana is fast and it feels like a native application on both my Mac and Win box.

The feature I miss more is the possibility to assign tasks to multiple team members.
I'd also love to see a native iOS application. Asana team recently released a mobile-compatible version of the site that works great but I'd still prefer a native app.

I have also tried out Trello but it has a "toysh" feeling to it and Asana just has more features.
If you work for a living, why kill yourself working
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I would like to have seen a more detailed breakdown of that $36,000-$89,000 salary range. It is slightly lower (28%) than below $36,000 or above $89,000 (30%), but I wonder how much variation there is inside that big range.
I have to admit I was really blown away. I had no idea what to expect or what Pakistan would look like and I've been so impressed by the talent here.
They have officially pulled it and are working on a fix. Check the update on the blog post.
The current status is: app design and mark-up (html + less) 90% done, front end (js with backbone) 40%, back end (node.js + mongoDB) 20%, product page design and mark up 70%.

I'm so happy you feel like testing it :) you (or anybody that wants to) can contact me. My gmail is jackjackbach.
really like this. I think one trend we will see is that power is not ownership, but rather "access" to internet learning
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This Web page defines "lean" as "small, tight code that won't waste your time or resources".

But lean as defined by Ries is not about code as much as it is about using validated learning to test market assumptions and only build what customers have verified that they want.

I'm not saying that lean startup methodology is a panacea for guaranteeing startup success; but it isn't about a style of coding, or minimizing how much you spend on your startup.
they pulled ti due to the notification bug:

https://twitter.com/#!/jdalrymple/status/131795707295309824
http://m.readwriteweb.com/archives/sparrow_gmail_app_for_iph...

I think they can do better than Google's recent official app.
Aaaaaand they just pulled it, confirmed on Twitter 20 minutes ago:

https://twitter.com/#!/gmail/status/131794997308690434

Apparently they code-signed it with an improper distribution profile that doesn't allow for push notifications. How does someone mess up something so important, especially when it's the official Gmail app?
great to hear it!

do you think you'll find a new job as a result?