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How about editable playlists? Allow users to make suggested revisions and additions, letting a playlist evolved without the OP...

I've longed for someone to do it... something akin to StereoMood with a little bit of TurnTable.fm activity to it.
I doubt the "weirdness" of system is to bring "tech savvy" in par with "common man". If that were the intention why provide the feature of online booking at all ?

It is not entirely true that online booking benefits the tech savvy/elite. Before the advent of the online booking one has to go to the railway station (as they were the only places where you can reserve a ticket) stand in a long queue and make reservation. With online booking now there are many authorized railway travel agents at many parts of the city to whom one can go (if one is not tech "savvy") and they will do the booking charging a small fee.
Will Y Combinator email all the applicants?
will ycombinator email all the applicants by 31 October for winter funding cycle 2012 to inform if they are invited or not? (to meet in Mountain View during November 12-16). or they just email to the applicants who they are gonna invite? Just curious to know their procedure.
Google has a lot of trouble connecting with end users, especially end users that aren't of the majority of their users (e.g. users who use more than just search and gmail). This is more confirmation.
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Some labs do lots of work in Ruby. It would be nice to stick with Ruby for analysis of your data as well. Kindof like the cas for server-side JavaScript: less friction between code in the server and browser.
You are right, Python package management is terrible. Even using an OS package manager (on Mac) like Ports or Brew it's still a nightmare.

The other problem is fragmentation. This package requires python 2.5, that one wants python 2.6, and that one wants python 3.1 but might me ok for python 3.2.

It's just a mess. And confusing.

Not to mention, even installing python on Mac can be a nightmare. One piece of advice, if you are going to use python on a mac get py-virtualenv (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv). It's as good as rvm (in ruby) and will save your life.

I miss GEM terribly.

But despite the shortcomings (maddness) I still LOVE python. :)
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There are plenty of implementations linked from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickCheck. (I'm not sure in what state they are though.)
Wow, thank you! I'm delighted at the thought that the criteria may be useful.

My feeling is that brevity is trivially automatable, as you suggest: just pick the function. Though brevity in terms of syllables might also matter. ("Wikipedia" is a little longer than its string length suggests.)

Greppability is automatable by picking a corpus to grep in, though that's easier said than done.

Googlability (including checking the availability of domain names) is plenty automatable.

But the other four (evocativity, pronounceability, spellability, and verbability) seem pretty hopeless to me.
So few people understand this. Every critique of Stallman that begins with "...but I think we need someone more reasonable" can usually be dismissed right away because it's already missed the point. I'm grateful that he's taken it upon himself to take the criticism for the sake of the rest of us.
It's not a false positive. He's hellbanned. Hellbanned users don't know they're hellbanned - their posts appear to them "not dead." If you look at his posting history, all of his posts starting 160 days ago are dead, and it seems to have started at a post from 175 days ago.
"Most location databases (such as PostgreSQL and Mongo) let you query based on all points within a certain radius, but any features requiring more advanced querying are hard to come by. For example, I don't know of any freely available database where you can provide an arbitrary polygon of geographical coordinates and it will return the points within that polygon."

PostGIS (an extension for PostgreSQL) does this really well.

The most notable thing about SimpleGeo (to me) was that they were able to build PostGIS-like features on top of Cassandra. That's certainly attractive from a scalability perspective.

I was really excited to try SimpleGeo out, but decided it was just easier--and less risky since I don't have much NoSQL experience--to use PostGIS. It also wasn't clear to me whether you could store NON-geographic data in SimpleGeo (such as user accounts). A (very) brief look at their docs seemed to suggest you couldn't, and using multiple datastores seemed messy to me...
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It doesn't, for two reasons. One, it has no particular connection to corporate personhood. Two, a case like that is called a proceeding in rem, which is literally 'against a thing.' It used to be called an 'impersonal' action, but my law dictionary says that term's deprecated.

Proceedings in rem are usually for the purpose of determining whether there's sufficient evidence to decide that a piece of property is a component in or the proceeds of crime, even if nobody has been caught. An example would be a drug bust where the criminals flee but leave behind a brick of cocaine and a suitcase full of cash. The government can't just seize the money and spend it; it has to come up with some objectively reasonable argument for why the valuables would be forfeit.

They do publish details of upcoming hearings in advance, so if you see that the government is trying to keep your stuff and you have a really good explanation for why you should get it back (eg it was stolen but you didn't call it in because you were in a coma following the robbery), then you can turn up at the hearing and get custody back.
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as is XP, etc.

"...is the new IE6." is the new "...is the new black."
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"it's likely that whatever Urban Airship is going to do with the service will most likely revolve around location-based ads, rather than SimpleGeo's original vision."

The original vision for the company was to make mobile games...

SimpleGeo's biggest problem was a lack of any vision. They sucked in a bunch of data from outside sources (Yahoo WoE, census data, weather APIs, factual.com, etc) and got a bunch of engineers to just work on whatever interested them.

The products they did manage to produce were intended for an audience technical enough that they could source the original data and build it themselves if they really needed to. When you play that game, you have to price requests an order of magnitude or two below what they did.
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I have to disagree with most of this except the data problem. Building out a cloud database and API specific for storing and querying geo data is not enough of a value proposition. It's just not that hard of a problem to roll your own, which is what most serious applications would do. They're the ones with money. In fact, in some cases using SimpleGeo is a limitation because it doesn't have the robustness of full databases.
The part I will agree with you on is the data problem. There's a huge amount of great geo data out there with no clean repository. I kept telling them to focus on data and sell that, not the service. Oh well. Someone (factual?) will get it instead.
I wasn't accepted and I got an email yesterday evening letting me know, so I assume they're emailing everyone.
Don't forget attachments, for me it's a real dealbreaker that you can't attach files to an email message on iOS (due to the security model limitations). Unfortunately a native app isn't going to solve this.
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So, I suppose if you experience a nuclear detonation and the chip doesn't go off, you get your money back?!
No-one is suggesting that everyone should graduate college. What Brooks is saying is that those who don't have a university degree have dramatically worse lives than they used to. There is a growing working-poor underclass, and Brooks correctly states that their plight is a more important problem than that of the 1%.
This is a major downside of interpreted languages, coupled with JS's diabolical scoping rules. Interpreted languages by their very nature, only reveal syntactic errors to you once you run them. I would like to see server side code written in compiled, statically typed languages, such as C/C++ to prevent such errors.
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Sure, blame the victim, not the idea that default variable scope is global.
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Well, for what it's worth, I quickly put up an Excel document which can help to assess a number of names quickly. I used Excel rather than Google spreadsheet since it has conditional cell formatting, which gives a nice background color. The spreadsheet can be found at http://j.mp/t2zRYQ

I think such a tool could be of great help for people picking names, similarly to the services you linked to in your article, even if one had to manually enter all the grades, simply so one could compare different ideas. A Web tool would be much better than my little spreadsheet, and If I had the time I'd build it myself; and if someone doesn't beat me to it I probably well. :)
"If your ultimate goal is to reduce inequality, then you should be furious at the doctors, bankers and C.E.O.’s. If your goal is to expand opportunity, then you have a much bigger and different agenda."

hmm..What if I want to reduce inequality && expand opportunity? What if you can't fix red without tackling blue and vice versa? Should this combined perspective be called purple inequality?
Note: it turns out the real name for "nominology" (the study of naming things) is "onomastics". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onomastics
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How is Viaweb verbable?

"I viawebbed that store." "We're going to viaweb our platform"... I think not.
Would it be possible for someone to call one of your habits unethical and you to find it palatable? If not, then palatability is probably not a good indicator of whether ethics questions directed at you are reasonable.
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He's not an activist; that's what makes him effective. The history of "social justice" movements is full of examples where some people were in favour of revolution as opposed to mere reform. There are a lot of people that want to live in a world where free software can be used and sold alongside proprietary software; Stallman and other revolutionaries envision a world where proprietary software is seen as a horrible social evil that the only common sense choice is to write free software. However, he doesn't want to force you to that; he's simply talking about and discussing his alternative and hoping that you realize that it's better than the current situation.

Stallman doesn't need to waste his breath if there are many others who want to talk about reformist approaches.
Not sure why you are downvoted here. This is a valid point and it is true that much of the web content/computer generated content that is available in local language is obtained using transliteration. Also much worse is that many of the English words are written in local language as is, where as the actual need is to translate that word to local language and use it.
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Yeah, sort of a stretch. What I thought pushed it off the fence though was that it's a whole adverbial phrase which is pretty cool and in the same spirit as verbability. "Should we sell this stuff brick-and-mortar or viaweb?"
So how do I remove those two gargantuan toolbar-like thingies taking almost a third of my screen?
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Any individual sexist practice isn't fundamentally permanent, but because of time constraints, some will turn out to be, in practice.

I think it's counterproductive for people to shift attention onto the things other "real" sexists/racists do, rather than Do Their Own Work. That's why it's productive to point out that everyone has work to be done.
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I hope you revisit some of his philosophical speeches and reconsider your position. When software runs the whole freaking world, it is entirely possible to enslave the world through onerous license, copyright, trademark, patent, etc. fees.
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Nobody's going to make any money just by aggregating & providing access to data points. Geo isn't as hard as everyone thinks it is. PostGIS absolutely does intersects with arbitrary polygons, for example.

Where people will make the money is by providing new, interpolated data layers; it's one thing to say "get the weather at location X!" and another to say "show me the best intersection to get a cab" or "show me where the closest taco truck is likely to be given today's weather & past behaviour". I understand Simplegeo was trying to provide the access to the data to enable people to answer these questions themselves; why not just sell them the answers?
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I'd like to see this question posed as a survey. How much money has your app earned: $10-$99, $100-$999, $1,000-$9,999...

If you're really curious, my iOS app Twang was featured by Apple for 3 weeks. Revenue-wise, it does not belong to the choices I listed above: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/twang/id353688232?mt=8
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> If the only way, in this infinite plain of possibility that is the entire deleted English language, for you to find an unregistered domain is to misspell already-existing words, I feel supremely sorry for you and your business.

Sounds like something that should be testable, given a dictionary and some time to write a script that look up domain names. Any takers?
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Does anybody know which database was powering SimpleGeo, the tech/stats etc. behind it and if they wrote any of it themselves?
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I think the sharing complaints are overblown (although common sense would have said that they should be ported over into a new G+ circle or something similar). I do think that Reader was badly in need of an overhaul and that bridging it with G+ will turn out to be a winner.

But damn, that color scheme is oppressive. It's the New Web Brutalism. I hope that once everything Google is using the same design template they'll offer themes again and let you have one look across all Google products. This whitewash-and-grey with carefully rationed rectangles of primaries is depressing, like a grand opening in North Korea. I'm not saying that to be funny: looking at it makes me feel gloomy and want to do...something else. I'm using Google Docs less as well, for the same reason.
Well.. True that ONE programmer cant scale. But we are not talking here just about scaling. The way the current site works, I doubt if any one with a decent programming experience is working on it. The current site is clearly not user friendly. Takes huge efforts to book a simple ticket and if you havent experienced being logged out constantly now and then, just cos you did some thing wrong, I refuse to believe anyone sane is working on the other side of the website !
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Worked for mint.com though. Maybe it's more appropriate for a finance service than a kewl social network. I'm sure there's some advantage for a b2b service having an official-sounding one-word domain.
IMO it's not reasonable at all. It might be boring but it doesn't take much time at all and forcing your users to login with facebook is just lazy and irresponsible.

A social experience might be nice but make sure it's optional, having only facebook as a means to login makes you look fraudulent.
This post is attracting way too much attention just for the simple reason that so many people are pissed off at the service. I refuse to believe that lack of money is the cause for all this. For all that we know, more than half of funds are being eaten by politicians.
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There are libraries in other languages providing node-like capabilities. He could use those and not have the global scope problem. Not saying that the idea makes any sense either...
You will probably get hundreds of comments with unsolocited advice, but let me just say to checkout and setup JSLint:

https://github.com/douglascrockford/JSLint

Setup and how you use it is more important than just using it. I run it in three places:

1) In my IDE (bound in vim on save, same in TextMate)

2) As a Git checking hook

3) In deployment / build scripts

Turn all the warnings way up and it always catches redeclaration bugs.

Set it up once and don't allow any code to get checked in or deployed with even a single warning present.

I also pass all Javascript through the Google Closure Compiler, but with the lowest compilation setting, because it is very good at picking up small errors as well.

(if anybody is interested in how to set this all up I can publish my configs and scripts)
Does anyone have any experience with this? Is it stable and fast enough for serious work?
This isn't really a new issue. Inequity between classes, races, genders, religions (and lack of), sexuality and upbringing has existed for at least as long as economic and cultural analysis has. There is a more fundamental question which society has avoided answering: how do you pay people by merit when some people's work is devoid of merit. Many comedian have responded with "soylent green" style answers which is appalling but more of an answer than most people can provide (the usual response is, "I don't know").

If you have a society of winners where winners take all, what happens to the losers? What do the hundred million or so people who aren't rockstars of their domain do?
I was talking about the Dutch population as a whole, not the subset who live in Amsterdam.

Yes, it's a safe city although late at night there can be some dodgy characters walking around looking for stoned tourists to relieve of cash whether by scam or by force.

Speak to a dutch person about going there, you'll soon understand what I mean. Most don't go anywhere near it. It's not that it's taboo, it's more that it is seriously uncool. Think about it - who hangs around in obviously touristy bars in their own city?
I don't understand why we are still using JavaScript at all now that we have CoffeeScript.

Seriously, can someone please explain this to me?
For real. It's even worse in Google groups. I realized this a few months ago during the Chromebook beta test; Everything is a toolbar, and Chrome is giving me UI fatigue.
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But isn't there actually a shortage of engineers, based on the lamentations of startup CEOs?
> The paradox of choosing a domain is that you buy it when your company is small but you live with it when your company is big.

thefacebook.com didn't, to pick one example.
Great idea and something that will definitely be highly used (I'm downloading it now!), but I really would be cautious attempting to provide what R provides, 'but better'.

R's power comes from the fact that hundreds of scientists have written packages for it when they have a new method - you won't be able to get that overnight. Also, R has strong links with other languages like C.

Finally, while I agree that sometimes R's syntax can be slightly obfusicated, I don't really think the examples on their site are fair... You can 'plot(y~x)' guys :p
There are many popular languages for which this is the case (C#, Ruby, PHP even), and I haven't heard anyone panic yet.

The deal is that if you implement a property getter, you promise no side effects and fast execution (for some value of "fast"). If you don't do this, your code is broken.
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