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I wouldn't exactly describe the comp packages flying around the Bay Area as "very little money". Honestly, this is Wall Street thinking - the belief that a person's compensation is purely a function of supply vs. demand, completely disconnected from real life.

There is a cap to supply and demand - and that's the real monetary value being created by the worker. Nobody sane will pay someone more than they will in turn make for the company.

This isn't to say that we've reached this point in SV, but I don't think we're that far off. IMO the supply side constraints are so extreme right now that we're seeing a rapid inflation of comp packages, and rapidly approaching that point where the compensation no longer makes any sense compared to the real value of work generated.

One can have a shortage of engineers and high compensation at the same time, if the supply side is sufficiently, and desperately short. I think that's where we are right now.
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So you've made more than $10k, could you give a possible range, also how long has it been on the market?

Very cool app, ho do people find out about it, have you tested different price points?

*As for a survey, I think some people have a basket of apps that perform differently, so not sure a survey would work.
There's nothing publically wrong with JDK5, unlike IE6.

Why upgrade and go through a massive QA cycle when it works? I think people have upgrade addictions these days. I still know guys using 15 year old VMS distributions.
And CS also wraps modules in closures (by default), so an outermost-scoped variable is still local to the script, whereas it would be global to all scripts in vanilla JS.
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You can have a phonetically spelt word that still is close to a real word, but that gets auto-corrected when people try and use it. And that is bad. Because auto-correction is everywhere these days.

For me this problem didn't appear until all the predictive spelling started appearing. Now it is a major problem.
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It's hard for me to evaluate Baidu as a name since it's targeted at Chinese speakers but the literal meaning is apparently just "hundreds of times" (interesting parallel with Google, come to think of it). I don't see any brilliant connection with that poem. It was just "inspired by it", like how Yahoo's name was "inspired by" by a 300-year-old book by Jonathan Swift.

You may have a point about cutesy names but it probably boils down to a warning to try to be timeless instead of trendy.

I actually think purposeful misspellings can be a good idea. To quote myself from http://messymatters.com/nominology :

Violating spellability is less of a problem than you'd think. People seem sufficiently used to alternate spellings. And mostly the name won't be conveyed by literal word-of-mouth. You see the weird spelling and it kind of sticks. Examples abound: google vs googol, youtube vs utube, digg vs dig, reddit vs readit/redit, stickk vs stick, wii vs wee (or we or oui).

Besides, it's often worth the hit to spellability to fare better on greppability and googlability. Or even the incremental bump on brevity (looking at you, vowel-droppers).

Here's StickK nailing every other criterion (the extra K even lends slightly more evocativity — K is the legal abbreviation for contract) by sacrificing spellability...
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Pretty much my experience as well.
Collaboration. Augmented reality. Having a big monitor when you need it and a more apparently spacious work environment when you don't. What it's useful for really depends on the specs of the screen.

It can be faked to some degree with a webcam, but it's usually not worth the trouble. Some augmented reality applications use a "virtual lens" or "virtual mirror" through this sort of trick. (The mirror version, not so see-through.)
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For a moment before clicking, I thaught that it might be an online editor written in Darts. Now, that would be cool.

Instead, they released Eclipse RCP application that people are not even going to bother to install, let alone play with it. Even Eclipse plugin would be better.
A lot of CoffeeScript ideas are going into the next version of the JavaScript standard. Having "JS++" languages like CS around is a good way to inform the standards process, but the browsers should all be supporting some common standard, and that happens to be JavaScript.
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I guess, to nitpick, he means "any currently existing, freely accessible POI databases which support arbitrary polygon selection". Eg. most services which support "geospatial queries" (Flickr, Yelp, etc) only support MBR or simple geometry queries rather than true polygon intersects. Which I also misinterpreted but is also true (to my knowledge anyway). He's not saying it's impossible to set one up for yourself using PostGIS etc — if anything, that's his point.

I agree with you that it's simple enough to set one up for yourself that the value offered by a service is minimal.
As a consultant I've only seen Rails increase in popularity. Rails is definitely more popular today than 2 years ago, even though all the hype has faded. More and more large companies are using it nowadays, even for critical systems.
It has full backward compatibility, but does it work?
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https://github.com/MagLev/maglev/tree/master/examples/rails/...

link to example rails 3.1 app if anyone is interested
Frankly, I am shocked to see why this story is trending on HN. A college student ranting about the biggest railways booking system ? really ?
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I think "a damn tragedy" is a pretty apt description. Well-designed languages shouldn't require reams of experience. Just a little intelligence and a reference for any questions that arise should get you pretty far.

I'm sure this guy "really understand[s] scoping in JS", but he still got bitten. The blog post isn't frivolous, its point is that javascript is a minefield. Which is an important lesson. Use JSLint or "use strict" or pay the price.
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Well he lists MongoDB and PostGIS as DBs that don't allow polygon selection, but your alternate interpretation is more truthful.

Yelp does do arbitrary polygon intersections on the backend for neighborhood queries, but I guess this isn't exposed in any API.
The Android app has its own fair share of troubles though. It's not very good in actually receiving the email. The email it gets is fine, otherwise though it has to "sync" everything. I can't just turn on email syncing and get my emails in a PUSH way, it's still delayed. When I press update it generally takes 1-2 minutes over 3G to actually update.
I think Transport For London used to be more protective of its data, but ironically budget cuts meant govt departments like TFL realised they can get much better leverage by opening up to third-party apps. The creative power of constraints.
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I think the author of the blog post understands JS scope rules. His point isn't that you shouldn't need to have a "var" in front of your declarations or that javascript is stupid and he doesn't understand it, it's that there should be a better way to find bugs like the one that bit him.

Of course, there is a way to find his particular bug (JSLint, "use strict") that he didn't know about. Still, the point about debugging being a nightmare is absolutely true.
More appropriate would have been to say that JVM 5 is the new MSVC6.

MSVC6 is the compiler that killed C++. It did not support many features from the C++98 standard. Many projects were written for MSVC6 or earlier and did not start using new language features to keep MSVC6 compatibility.
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Just because Steve Jobs says it doesn't mean it's true. He's human just like everyone else.

The thing is, NOT every project, not every product, not every service can be grown into a full blown company. It just doesn't work that way. Go to any store and look at all the bottles of shampoo you can choose from, all those brands belong mainly to 1 or 2 companies, Unilever and Johnson. Same with food products. If every little shirt, and every brand of crackers where its own company with it's own marking, and distribution, and it's own packaging plant, it's own lawyers, it's own administration offices, it's own headquarters... We'd be paying triple for everything. (although we would have a lot more jobs... correction, the Chinese would have a lot more jobs...)

Some products just can't be monetized to support themselves so they MUST be acquired by a company that can integrate them into its own profitable services (or product line) and compete better with other competitors doing the same.

If nobody flipped it would screw over entrepreneurs by forcing them to commit themselves to one industry, one company, one product line their whole lives instead of being able to create companies, sell them, repeat. Thereby going in and out of numerous industries and markets instead of just one.

Can you really see every product becoming its own corporation? On the other hand, companies like Google and facebook (who's only difference from competitors were features) grew into their own massive companies. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

Starting a company, growing it, and optimizing it are three different things. Very rarely are there people who are good at all three. Jobs is one of them, Zuckerberg another, but they're lottery stories. Their advice may not work for the majority of people.

- My 2 cents.
I don't get it. This is like complaining about the Romans at a Roman forum.
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It's built on top of GemStone/S which is an incredibly mature object database/persistance mechanism, while I can not speak for MagLev itself, if the guys at GemStone Inc, now VMware, are prepared to push this out as a v1.0, then I would be willing to bet yes.

Caveat is that while the Ruby implementation on top may not be 100% compatible with standard ruby (again I can't comment) the underlying technology is bulletproof, these guys have been doing object persistance w/ very high tps for 25+ years

This is an exciting technology, and if I worked with ruby at all, I would definitely be checking it out.
I've been saying the same thing as well. I think they'll get acquired before they go bankrupt however. Probably by Microsoft or Google (in this order).

EDIT: I wasn't clear. I meant there won't be a Blackberry device in 2013, but I don't think they'll go out of business.
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Reminds me of a time i had a similar bug.The more i tried the more i found it hard to discover the bug.One approach i usually use is to take a timeout and relax.But in your position there was no time for relaxing.
Everybody who I know (including myself) uses WhatsApp to text people who are travelling, studying abroad, or otherwise living overseas but don't want to pay an arm and leg for international SMS.

It's just a text message replacement. It's essentially iMessage but cross-platform.
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The whole platform obsession is definitely hurting CouchDB. Attempt to investigate it's suitability as a data store and you're left with the impression that it's only appropriate for some vaguely defined couchapp ideal.
Why the hate? Its an interesting read. Thinking about and discussing awful systems like this can help in figuribg out how to better make non-awful systems.

And why exactly is it relavant that he is a college student?
Indeed, very annoying. I want to share stuff with my friends and love the granular approach I can now take but if it means I publicly have to +1 it. I have no idea how public that is, can people see a list of all things I +1'd? Can friends?
Some people think this, but why then, don't we buy our shirts at shirts.com? Why do they not register on alexa/quantcast/etc?

The fact is domains like that get no real traffic unless you promote them massively. Their main worth is in selling them on to other domain whores.
Sorry thought I'd throw in a link to the GemStone/S product site

http://www.gemstone.com/products/gemstone

My specific experience is with GLASS

http://seaside.gemstone.com/
Unforunately the 404 page itself is protected but the rss.xml request leads you to the 404 page where you can find the categories. Can anyone else do some probing in? I tried using curl to bypass stuff but it kept redirecting me to the password redirect url
yup, that is what "backward compatibility" stands for...
Unless you use backticks, coffee will always pass jslint tests.
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but a professor can’t just teach a few calculus courses without being affiliated with a university?

There's nothing stopping a professor from doing just that; there's no legal requirement that all calculus courses be affiliated with a university.

However, there seem to be some very good reasons (some market-based, in fact) why this is not the business model most professors choose.
This is true until you realize you'll need to support keepalive and chunked encoding to write a reasonbly good driver. Two things that often require significant effort, if not custom coding, to make work with http libraries.
What do you mean by editable playlist? Are you suggesting to let users update each other's playlist?

My app will have a global song database with emo-tags(user generated) attached to songs. It will let user maintain their own playlist, import songs from other public playlists or site's global playlists.
Looks good. I'm a big fan of narray to get decent performance for array operations, interesting to see how the rewrite of that will perform. Narray is pretty damn close to realtime compared to native ruby implementations.
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- There used to be an option to share a folder or a tag. If you do this, you get public url for that folder or tag that you can access to. This was useful to me because I could tag posts with tag (tag that was already shared publicly), and by doing it I’m sharing post on my special atom public feed. I might use that tag to read it later on the phone, or pull that feed on some web page. Google Reader was a publishing tool, now it’s Google+ only publishing tool.

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It was an unfortunate (and terrible) bug, but you have to admit the Dolphin team's response has at least been open and efficient.
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This was pretty interesting when announced back in 2008, but I thought the project was dead. Are there plans to update it to 1.9? They posted some optimistic benchmarks back then, how do they compare to modern VM competition? I'm interested to know more, but I'd like to see a bit more info and context.
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No it's not.

At least it is not anymore officially supported by Sun/Oracle, and it hasn't been for quite some time.

The problem with IE6 is that it was the latest MS browser for too many years.
Definitely. You wouldn't buy shirts.com because the price of shirts.com is roughly equal to advantage you'd get using it, except for the fact that you had to pay upfront.

The only time you'd buy a domain like that is when the benefit you'd derive from it is greater than the price; However when the seller hears of your offer to buy it, goes to your website, finds out how much you'd benefit from the domain, the price would go up accordingly. In other words, only when the seller is clueless.

Same reason why Groupon in Australia was called "Stardeals" once upon a time, on a domain called stardeals.com.au.
Exactly my first thought: "This wouldn't happen with Python".
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I'm guessing that smart startup didn't have too many married workers.
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Geo-data is effectively 'read-only', it seems to me..

There are things local people know about, which still diffuse by word of mouth - and I still see paper notices posted on lamp-posts and at supermarket boards. This is why I did an experiment and built lokenote.com

I havent nailed it with lokenote, but it hints theres something there... Im aware this is a first, imperfect approximation of the kind of tool that will enable people to annotate locations. Sometimes you need to build these experiments to see what works or doesn't.

I dont think the storing/retrieving of geo-data is that hard a problem, you can roll your own nested squares approach, or reuse whats there now, eg. Mongo 2d indexes.

Rather, I think the problem is making a nice way to integrate the location dimension into our tools/web apps more seamlessly. eg. a dating chat app might just favour partners close to your location without being told what postcodes to look in. I see this as a 'too many knobs' type problem ( a bit like those search forms you see that have options for 10 different dimensions to filter on, which are better replaced by a single text search field, with hidden smarts. )

So how to bring location to the people, so its useful, effective, un-intrusive and read-write ? I dont think that question has been answered.

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I'd have thought nomenclature was a better fit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomenclature
I develop one called Lilina which aims to be themable and pluggable, and offers APIs to that effect. I'd love to have feedback on it and see if it suits your needs.

http://getlilina.org/
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the point of the article is that, whether its supported or not, enterprises still continue to use it. It is similar in regards to IE 6 that MS itself has campaigns to tell enterprises to switch from IE 6 (http://www.ie6countdown.com/), but they still continue using it.
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FYI the website is not developed and maintained by Indian Railways. It's outsourced to an IT services provider. As far as I recall, TCS, which is an IT Major, currently has the contract. All the Indian Railways needs to do is have a couple of competent people, who can supervise the project to ensure quality.
I imagine companies that do this also have an unspoken policy to not hire people with spouses/children.
First of all, I do not use any of these terms in a non-specific non-technical 'buzz' fashion. I am actively working on implementing this system and the technology choices I made are not simply following trends, there are real advantages to working with things like Node.JS, NPM and CoffeeScript.

And just because I didn't get into detail in regards to the advantages doesn't mean that wasn't the an important part of the motivation.

For a platform like this, there are two sets of users: the non-technical users and the software developers building plugins and components for the system (not buzzwords).

Let me explain exactly what each of these words means technically in this context so that they cannot be mistaken for buzzwords. I will admit that 'plugins' and 'components' can often mean different things to different people, but I don't believe there are better words to describe what I am building.

Plugins are extensions to the system which are easily added, integrated and configured. This is a feature which is missing from a number of sophisticated web frameworks, but not missing from WordPress. The biggest problem with WordPress is the language it is built on (PHP) and the architecture of the system.

I think that many web developers would welcome a system with something like the types of plugins offered by WordPress, but built on a much cleaner language like CoffeeScript, Node.JS, BDD (not a buzzword, I mean specifically developing starting with Vows and Jasmine, those are actual specific libraries for BDD as per examples such as here http://vowsjs.org/) and a component architecture (I will explain exactly what I mean by that).

Components are reusable, interact on the basis of known interfaces, cohesive but decoupled, and substitutable pieces of software, which often, as in this case, present graphical user interfaces. I intended to use them primarily (but not exclusively) to compose the user interface screens and to provide easy configuration and integration for different aspects of the system.

Building the screens from drag-and-drop, composed components with on-screen configuration rather than using mixed PHP, HTML and CSS code provides a major advantage (obviously) for end users and also (perhaps less obviously for many, unfortunately) developers.

Having reusable, easily configurable components available with built-in UIs could make plugin and application development much more efficient for developers than it is with just (for example) libraries of modules.
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That fits to the well known quote of Steve Jobs: "It comes from saying no to 1000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much."
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Good luck. I'll definitely use it.

I've also thought about working on something similar. I even designed few pages but eventually dropped the idea to work on other interesting projects. Here are the designs(you can use it if it is of any help) -

Home Page - http://anujkumar.com/ideaproject/index.png

Profile Page - http://anujkumar.com/ideaproject/user.png
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Or the job you're hiring for sounds really boring or the working condition sound really harsh. Most engineer I know would happily trade a bit of money for more fun challenges, better R&D opportunities and more autonomy.
I used to think a Microsoft acquisition of RIM was near inevitable, but now with the seeming non-suckiness of WP7 and the partnership with Nokia, it seems like MS is doing relatively well on their own - or at least better than they ever have been - with mobile devices.

On the other hand if the current legal climate persists, someone could buy RIM for its patents, and in that case Google or Apple - or an Android user - seems more likely since MS has already been able to use its existing portfolio against Android users.