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In this case, it's just a little bit conceivable that the "dirty words" in the session title could refer to "things to avoid", like over-releasing objects, excess drawing, etc.

Or the "dirty words" might be private APIs, which like actual dirty words would get your app rejected by Apple, but might be of interest to people writing for jailbroken devices.

So in the case of this session's title, there are conceivable alternate interpretations that a person might hope to be the case.

Thus, if a session is going to involve double entendres or ribald humor, it would be best to indicate so in the conference materials, so that attendees can best decide what to attend. (The problem with this would be if session presenters all wound up adding less-appropriate material)
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As Thomas brings up regularly, high end consulting engagements frequently involve spec work. When I get brought in to work with a company, that rarely just happens. Generally, I do a sales pitch which is indistinguishable from the actual work, follow it with a written proposal which would otherwise be a deliverable, and only then get a contract and start the meter. Sometimes clients decide the free portion was all they needed.

This is, to steal another tptacek quote, "life in the big leagues." (P.S. Charge more.)
Finally they came to their senses. They had good authoring tools but not-so-great flash runtime. Retain the former but use highly competitive HTML5 browsers as a standards based runtime instead.
All the articles on the subject (including this one) should be one of those honey pots they were talking the other day (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3166209)
Tech savvy people may also use the Priv3, adblocks and noscripts.
Slightly unrelated:

CNN needs to work on their "in article" link placement (don't really know what it's called). I took a screenshot in case it's different for other users.

http://i40.tinypic.com/nxt81.jpg

I re-read that section twice trying to make sense of it...
I shall give you a point for this. But too bad I can't give you a point twice...
> nobody would take the iPad seriously if it didn't support Flash

That sounds like revisionist history to me. Plenty of people complained about the lack of Flash and speculated that Apple might eventually have to give in and allow it, but I don't think any significant number of people suggested or believed that the iPad wouldn't be taken seriously without it.
Poll: Software Engineering degree vs Computer Science
For anyone with a computer science degree, if schools offered a legitimate Software Engineering degree as well as a Computer Science degree would you have chosen Software Engineering instead?

I don't have enough karma to make a real poll so I guess just say yes or no in the comments.
Just like how DVDs fundamentally do exactly the same thing as VHS tapes, with a couple of minor differences?
Cool idea. Self links are basically fine as long as they are relevant and you identify them as such.
I feel like anyone who makes an argument that Node.js is "the future" is making the same case that a polluted natural environment is "the future". A horrifying vision of what could be reality unless we make it better.

Friends don't let friends make a career out of programming in JavaScript.
Urban Airship has something like 55 employees, just acquired SimpleGeo for several million, and just closed a $15m Series C from top VCs. May we all be cursed with such a "lifestyle business."
Appeals to authority aren't necessarily fallacious if the authority is an authority in a relevant field.
>The Flash ecosystem provides one of the few forms of DRM that the big movie studios have deemed acceptable. With Flash off of the iOS web platform it makes it just a little bit harder for users to buy content from someone other than Apple.

For streaming? Netflix uses Silverlight for their DRM on PC's, and uses their own homegrown DRM schemes for iOS and Android.

For mobile devices, companies like Crunchyroll, Hulu, Comcast and AT&T all have native apps for iOS and Android. Those don't use flash either, and perform easily as well as Flash.

So no, it's not the only solution that the studios find acceptable. Plenty of other solutions exist.
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Agreed, but I would generalize it a bit more and say that web apps reduced the barrier to consumption considerably over desktop applications.

In most cases, mobile apps are close enough to web apps in regards to barrier of consumption to make the difference moot, and when you add the native advantage, the result is a net positive consumer experience for mobile apps.
I'm wondering whether this matches with the geolocation data that their non-Facebook statistics mechanisms are reporting. Are Facebook's more—or less—accurate than other options out there? Has anyone seen any studies or data of this?
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What you are describing has absolutely nothing to do with loyalty to any one or any thing. You are confusing a lot of different concepts, like pride, emotional investment, and personal loyalty with "loyalty" to a company. They are unrelated.

Ironically, this is precisely what those who seek to instill a misplaced sense of "loyalty" to a corporation want.
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Monetizing on consumer-taste startups
I hear a lot of complaining about the ways in which consumer-taste based tech companies like Facebook, Klout, or even Google monetize on their products. Most of the criticisms seem to center on the perceived notion that they turn the user into the product, and that's somehow wrong. My question: does someone have a better idea?
Worked for me, for a while anyway.
Not quite, It was pointed out it was a cited article, you called the author into question, and was shown the author is credible.

The only fallacies are coming from your posts, not from the article in question... :\
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Well, there is super-black light-absorbing material.

And then there is super black-light-absorbing material.

What a difference a couple of hyphens makes.

-- Your Friendly Neighborhood Punctuation Person

EDIT:

Really, there are gobs of possible interpretations. The material could be super (wow, what a material!), black (its color), light (not heavy -- or maybe it's made of light?), and absorbing (soaks up water?). It could be super, black, and light-absorbing. It might absorb black light that is super. It might absorb light that is super-black.

I count 11 possible interpretations in all. For the combinatorially minded out there, it does appear that the Catalan numbers are involved. But I don't get 14 (= C_4) because 3 of the interpretations don't parse; it doesn't work for "light-absorbing" to get a modifier (how could "light-absorbing" be "black" [whether or not the result is "super"], and how could "light-absorbing" be "super-black"?).
That sounds fun - what kind of things are you going for, and what approach are you thinking of taking?
I started working on a k/v cache, primarily to learn erlang: https://github.com/capotej/nolimit
If you start without any sense of the competition, you're setting yourself up for failure. The last thing you want to do is find out after weeks/months of development that there is a well-funded competitor offering everything you've got for free. Or worse, there is NO competition, and there's no market at all.

Doing the customer-development first is (sorry to beat a dead horse here) the way to go. For a few hundred bucks spent on adwords traffic and an unbounce page, you can get a sense of what if anything you can do to beat the competition, and see if there is a demand at the same time.

For most developers, a few hundred dollars equals a few hours of billable time, and is worth the investment.
That sounds a little aggressive, but this isn't meant as a call out: I'm legitimately curious. Currently UnThink the "anti-Facebook" claims to have solves these issues, but they STILL make their users their product. Anybody got an idea on how to monetize on consumer-taste based products that doesn't involve making your free users into the product?
While the authority may not necessarily be wrong, the appeal itself is vulnerable to being issued for fallacious reasons, namely if it is made to prevent critical reasoning about the original hypothesis. The idea that authorities are infallible is a trap. Nothing should be beyond scrutiny.
It sounds like it works for those who have some credibility already either from pre-existing connections or an exit.

I seriously doubt that Angel List can maintain its sense of community and still be useful to those who don't possess those pre-existing connections/past successes.

And there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. What it does is working for its target market.

This may just be a classic example where another company needs to step in and fulfill the needs of those who don't fit the Angel List target market profile. Given the comments here I definitely think there's a market opportunity for catering to those who need intros/connections/mentoring etc but don't have the sort of assets the blog author has (pre-existing connections from earlier startups, Ivy League MBA alumni network, etc).
As a banker please recommend SEC filings that would be helpful in determining "gaming". Typically the media likes to use ridiculous numbers like average salary or average bonus per employee etc. (I've never seen a gaming loss section on a 10-K)

You do not need to take risk to make a lot of money in the United States. That is what makes us the greatest economic power house in the world. (yes, far greater than China who's average income is less than $5,000 per day) and especially Europe who is transferring all of their wealth to US treasuries to prevent loosing their money.

The rest of the world isn't even worth mentioning.
I remember the days of using "talk" (ntalk, usually) on local unix systems for character by character online chat, vs. linemode IM like current IM systems and IRC.

Watching someone think character by character is far more illustrative.
Obligatory XKCD reference for you: http://xkcd.com/806/ :)
Hi Ryan, I'm really interested in this but are there courses/badges aimed at intermediate and advanced users? If so do these become unlocked? It wasn't clear to me how much depth a certain topic gets covered. For example it would be great if you showed what's 'coming soon' or what you intend to cover at http://teamtreehouse.com/library
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Interesting. Our CEO makes a point of identifying himself by name when he jumps on a support call or email. I figured he figures it makes people feel special, or he just likes being straightforward.
The performance isn't an issue, but Google Docs still isn't anywhere near the quality of Keynote or Word. iCloud will remove the advantage of instant synchronization, so there aren't many upsides (as a user) to avoiding the native app that adheres to your platform's interface guidelines.
Problem is, the discounted work rate is what they'll expect every time they keep coming back.
Is that known to be more effective than "Ask the Docs?"
As I said many times in this thread: I called the study's conclusions into question, not the author.

> The only fallacies are coming from your posts, not from the article in question... :\

After fighting you guys for the last our without one single person agreeing with me, I'm inclined to say you're right. I should probably stop posting now. It wasn't my intention to upset anyone. I'm sorry.
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Calling the internet a "buzzword middleware stack" is underplaying the fundamental differences between the web and native apps.

Even now making a web app as opposed to a native app does not necessarily preclude quality; as mobile web browsers and technologies mature, web apps are going to afford developers more and more quality.

If I wanted to make a quality app to reach even just both Android and iPhones, I would effectively have to implement it twice--first in Java and then in Objective-C, using different libraries throughout. With a web app, I could write it once. Of course, maintaining browser compatibility and overcoming potential shortcomings of current browsers probably means it would take me longer to write the web app to a similar level of quality than either the Android or iPhone app; however, it would almost definitely not take longer than both put together. Thus, I would have more time to add quality to my web app--and less maintenance headaches--than I would just supporting both Android and iPhone natively (not to mention other platforms like Blackberry or Windows Phone).

Ultimately, I think it's the people who just want to make quality products that can reach a large audience who should care about web apps.
pg,

The last time you did this was using etherpad. It was interesting to see
your write up( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=557191). It was a learning experience for an amateur like me. I haven't spoken to you, but It felt like I did just that -whilst you were writing.

So, would there be a way to save this write up? Etherpad is dead and so is the link you shared earlier.
Is there an archive to dig into to see that version again for comparison?
Lame dogma. Let the guy have his own voice.
If all the Silverlight team have been taken out and shot does XAML have a future?
I don't really see the problem with making the user the product. T.V. does it, newspapers do it, radio stations do it. Either a user pays for a service, or they get marketed to. The one variant that I think we'll be seeing a lot more of though, is instead of advertising, more direct affiliate deals.

WordPress.org, as an example, has turned their web-hosting info page into a giant affiliate ad. They provide useful info about where people can host their sites, and get a referral fee for each signup. Moving from CPM to cost-per-action is something that a lot of companies could stand to do.
How the employees choose to see it is irrelevant if the conditions are clearly spelled out.

That said, it would not be surprising for a court to force partial payment if the "cause" is particularly flimsy or the timing excessively suspicious. Good faith is an implied part of contracts in almost all jurisdictions (even if it's not explicitly called that), and evidence of a party acting in bad faith, even if the letter of the contract was adhered to, may result in damages being awarded.
FBI's Warrantless Searches Now Include Fake Cell Towers
That is a separate issue. Obviously airplanes exist. The argument that because one imagines an alternative explanation, therefore something is debunked; is fallacious. Hopefully all can understand this.
It depends what you are doing, if you just need a keyboard then I think your ordering makes perfect sense. However, for an expressive instrument to be used as a sound synthesizer, I would definitely put it well above any inexpensive keyboard controller. The cheap controllers don't offer anything good in terms of tactile response anyhow, and suffer from expressive limitations. Take a look at some YouTube videos of GeoSynth or MorphWiz on the iPad for some examples.

If the iPad also had tactile response it would surely be even better, but even now it surpasses most offerings.
Ask HN: YC send rejection letters to those who applied after deadline?
Hi, I was wondering if Y Combinator sends rejection letters to all startups who are not called up for an interview, including those who applied after deadline?
There are all sorts of ways to be passionate and authentic without swearing, just like there are all sorts of ways to be funny without relying on the pavlovian response of a shared Monty Python reference. There's still time to get in on the hipster-cred level of not-swearing before everyone else is not-doing it!
If you are facing something really cold and black - like space then the blacker your radiator is the more power you can emit at a given temperature.

In theory a perfectly reflective silver object would never cool down and a perfectly black one would cool to -270C however much power you dumped into it
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The jury is still out on exactly how bad nano-tubes are but the good news is that they are generally too small to block your lungs in the same was a soot particles and too soft to cause any mechanical damage.

Asbestos fibres are much larger and much stronger - it's like comparing steel drill swarf to chocolate flakes!
I think 6to4 is over; it's time for native dual stack.
Yes, heroku is heroku for mobile in the literal sense, but I think that it's meant to be taken more abstractly. Heroku made it drop-dead simple to get your Rails app up "on the cloud", and that's what Parse does for your iOS/Android app: It makes it drop-dead simple to get your app a backend "on the cloud".
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Ruby: +1 for Gem system and config management w/ bundler. +1 for DataMapper ORM and Active Record sucking less these days. -1 for everyone one thinking Ruby == Rails when it could be so much more. -1 for Ruby being less performant if you are not careful. +1 for nokogiri for slicing and dicing web pages.

Python: +1 for batteries included and tons of mature libraries and frameworks as well as some very mature async techology for the web. +1 for things that need to be fast have already been re-written as C extensions by now. -1 for dependency management and config stuff that is easier with Ruby and Clojure. +1 for Goggle App Engine no matter what the haters say.

PHP: +1 for everyone and their mother knows it. +1 for it fast runs on budget hosting. -1 for everyone and their mother thinks they are PHP rockstars and not everyone is. -1 for haters gonna hate startups that use it.

Java: Performant, stable, lots of mature frameworks. -1 supper verbose, not a lot of "fun" to write.

Clojure: +1 Lisp are pretty awesome. Easy to build up abstractions for the problem you are trying to solve. Frameworks tend to be manageable in size, dependecy management is at least as good as the Gem system for ruby. -1 not a lot of people know it. +/- 1 Love for Vim or Emacs required to be supper productive.

Erlang: +1 for the hard thinking about how to build something scalable and fault tolerant being done for you. -1 for the docs SUCK (still). You will need to buy many books and go to lots of meetups. -1 for the Erlang conference being so damn expensive that I can't afford a ticket. -1 for you probably having to drop in to C and write a Native Implementation Function (NIF) at some point. +1 that you can.

Nodejs: -1 for it's freaking Javascript. +1 for you are already going to be writing a tone of Javascript and context switching sucks. +1 for note package manager. +1 for having a BDFL in ryan.

Comedy option:
Cluster of mac minis running an Objective-C server (Hi Apple employees). Faster to develop web apps than C++ and very performant. -1 everything else.

But the real question is what stack are you most comfortable in. Shipping early and shipping often is more important than freaking anything! Pick whatever you are able to build a prototype in right this second.
Question: Given that you presumably charge (significantly) more than those who have equal skill (I'm assuming SEO?) but don't do free pitches, how do you do all that client education (free pitch!) quickly? Also, wouldn't it be more effective to have a portfolio/case studies, and then you could charge more granularly?
Timothy Sykes a truth teller? Now I've heard it all...
As someone who swears a lot - it's pretty easy to find a way to swear again, when you really want to make your point known. Becoming deathly serious and quiet, and then deliberately not swearing works well.
For Kaggle there is always money given out. In the design world, the could be cases that simply money are not given out.

For machine learning, you have some quantitative metrics for performance measurement, whereas there is no measurement of such in creative areas.
It would be much closer to say: All existing evidence has alternative, and much more plausible, explanations. Therefore, something is not debunked per se, but it loses much of its weight.
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Thanks for that, will keep in mind!
Ask HN: Is it okay to do part-time consulting while working a full-time job?
Background: I'm deciding between a job at Google vs. a startup. I'd really like to take the job at the startup, as I found the people and the work much more interesting, but at Google I'd be making about $100,000 more from bonuses and stock every year, and my family kind of needs the money right now. (It's possible that I'd make more money from the startup in the long run, but it's obviously uncertain. To be clear, both companies are offering a $100,000+ salary, but my family is going through some pretty severe financial troubles that eat up about $5,000 every month.)

So I'm wondering if I could take the offer at the smaller company, and simply do a small amount of consulting (5-8 hours a week) on the side to help make up the difference. Is this normal/okay? What are the rules around this?

The consulting wouldn't affect my main job, and they would be in distinct areas of work. Is this essentially "unofficially okay" (do people do this all time and no one cares as long as you don't talk a lot about it publicy)? Is it not recommended at all? Or is it even pretty officially okay (so that I could, for instance, state on my website that I'm looking for part-time consulting, without worrying about consequences)?

Update to add: in my offer letter from the startup, the non-compete clause essentially says (paraphrasing)... Duty not to compete: My work at the company requires my undivided attention. I will not, without the company's written consent, engage in any other business that directly competes with the company, uses any of the company's materials, or otherwise conflicts with the company's business interests.
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"used to"?

I certainly haven't stopped making this argument for web vs. desktop apps, as it has yet to be solved. If it even can be solved (mainly the UI/UX issues; performance probably will eventually approach "good enough" for a given app.)
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I absolutely would expect it. There's no way I'd believe they'd see that sum of money and think, "Yup, it's worth it."

Companies that DO pay me what I'm worth do so at the time, not a year later. And certainly not 5 years later.
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I don't think that's true.

Canvas tag was in safari (both desktop and mobile) and Firefox. Flash (at it's core) is just a canvas you can draw on.

2 Years ago, Flash (or Flex) was immature (for RIA), had poor tools, and poor runtime support (i.e half implemented exception handling, memory leaks etc), impossible to test.

HTML by comparison had a lot of tools for interaction models, and was only immature around canvas (animation/effects). Was easy to test etc.

They were kind of the inverse of each other. Flash was definitely not king. The company I worked at, was working on one of the largest flash apps around, and we constantly had problems with flash, to the point where a silverlight or HTML5 port was considered. (Not sure what they ended up doing).
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I know a company that did this. They found a big client, and did a small project at breakeven. Result: the client was impressed, so now one of their biggest clients is paying breakeven rates; factor in the cost of flying an account person out to the client's headquarters, dropping everything when they change their minds about something, etc., and it's a big drag on growth.

Whenever I heard about this, I fantasized about being VP of marketing at basically any big company. Being on the other side of that transaction is surely a lot of fun.
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