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No hate -I'm in Omaha. And coming from Austin, it is a whole 'nother world trying to find developers who are willing to accept the startup lifestyle. In Austin, they complained about how "easy" it is in the Valley. In Omaha, they complain about how "easy" it is in Austin. Bottom line is you gotta make it work no matter where you are, but I'm pretty impressed with Dwolla's progress given the state of the industry in the Midwest. Not a dig, just an assessment.

I got here a year or so ago, and I've been pleasantly surprised at the level of activity in the Midwest, but it's got a long way to go in terms of depth and breadth of skill available to draw upon.
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while this debate seems to continually rear its head.... can we stop posting year old stuff to HN?
This is another reason I will always advocate local backups as well. Clouds may be soft and fluffy but sometimes they bite. We always think of a cloud data failure being extremely unlikely but so many other things can cause you not to be able to access your data as well.. among them corporate issues. I keep files in the cloud as an off-site backup but I also keep a couple copies of everything here locally. Not only is it quicker to access but I am always able to access it. Should a falling satellite hit my house then I still have that off-site copy. Never leave your backups in only one place or on one medium.

To echo everyone else here as well, LiveDrive really missed a chance to 'step up' here.
Great points. I came to Omaha from Austin, and have found that it is orders of magnitudes easier to get noticed in Omaha. There is just less noise. As the industry evolves and grows here, that effect will begin to disappear. For now, it's a benefit that local startups need to appreciate and take advantage of.
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FWIW, the holes are created using 'a chemical oxidation process' -- which I suspect can be done on a large scale. If someone can read the actual paper and check out how they made the holes, though, that'd be cool.
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This was an extensible product, it had to be able to handle extra functionality and the widgets were a way of achieving this, so it had real business value.

And to answer the original question, yes it was complex, but that was 5 years ago. People didn't really know how to build complex solutions in javascript and there were no working examples you could just copy, paste and modify.

You were also very restricted by the speed that IE6 ran javascript on old computers.
Either you start a start-up or you don't -- just being employed by an startup doesn't make you a good advisor for founders -- again Scoble never founded something, he is just blogging while having a safe job.
I love it when companies offer insight into their practices like this.
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http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Doom_music is a good place to find where the soundtrack came from.
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Except there's less money in it. There is money in payment services and membership/coupons, however.
... and a response to Apple's move into this space
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Is there a reason why the concept of "security theater" hasn't caught on in the mainstream? It seems like it should be easy to oppose things that make us feel safer but objectively make us less safe.
MagLev appears to be the holy grail for Ruby object persistence. Automatic transactional persistence that is shared across VMs sounds pretty amazing to me.

Yet the dev community seems to be only marginally interested in the project. Why is this? Because it's not 100% free? Because it's too good to be true? Because it's not 1.9?
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I believe the only reason that Apple (and the 4S) doesn't have NFC is that all the negotiations haven't been worked out yet. The technology is there and Apple has the know-how to make it a great user experience, but neither Apple nor Google live in a bubble. They need carrier support for NFC to work. Otherwise, they won't let NFC phones on their network. And don't forget Visa, Mastercard, et al. They want in on the action too.
Thanks for the offer. I've also just started using Play at work and one question has been driving me nuts: I'm trying to form a many-to-many relationship with JPA.

I have two models, with a third model to represent the relationship (can't just use @ManyToMany as the relationship has attributes).
The primary key on the relationship model is a composite primary key of two other models.
When I add a new relationship model to the @OneToMany set on one of the first models, can I get the relationship model's key to change automatically, or do I have to do it manually?

e.g. with three models like (psuedo-Java-Scala coming up)

class Order(val customerName)
@OneToMany
Set<OrderItem> items;
class Item(itemDescription)
@OneToMany
Set<OrderItem> orders;
class OrderItem(val quantity)
@Id
@PrimaryJoinColumn
@ManyToOne
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@Id
@PrimaryJoinColumn
@ManyToOne
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OrderItem oi;
oi.item = bananas;
order.items.add(oi);
order.save(); // This saves oi, but with a null value for order_id
oi.order = order; //This seems redundant, but the save is wrong without it.

It seems like I have to do it manually, but to my mind adding it to the Set should be enough information to change the keys. Is my thinking wrong or am I using JPA wrong?
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Boy, I really have a different opinion of enterprise software. The number and complexity of all of the various cases is astounding! To make it worse, they frequently come with no underlying framework, so you have to extrapolate and hope that you don't bake in something that's going to change next week.

IMO, making that software to handle the business processes IS way more valuable to the business than a drag and drop widget framework. Especially if you execute it well, it can make the business hum.
"The bottom 80% of apps split just 3% of the revenue."

I doubt it's any different with software sold at Best Buy or Target or Amazon. I doubt that it has ever been much different.
Straw man. No reasonable person has ever said that you can't have content below the fold. The point that good copywriters make is that you have to grab the visitor's attention, and the best way to do that is to have the attention grabbing material where the visitor can immediately see it. It's not complicated, controversial, or even worthy of discussion.
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Seems to me that if this proves out, and can be made affordably, the most exciting application would be electric cars -- no more range penalty vs. gasoline. Anyone know enough to comment on the likely applicability?
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How many people are "software managers" in a company, vs "managers" who happen to have people doing software in their dept? I worked someplace where they proudly stated "we're not a software shop!". They had 100+ software engineers working on stuff that managed billions of dollars in money for the company. But "they're not a software shop". OK.

They really weren't as bad as that statement makes them seem, and I think it was more a misguided "rah rah" statement than a core mentality, but there were days when I couldn't quite tell.
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Congrats guys, I've always liked Play very very much. I honestly didn't know play was part of the typesafe stack and it looks like a lot of my old sbt+Play1+Scala module issues are gone. The first time I used Play it was because I could use the Scala module, and now I'm absolutely gaga that Scala has first class support.
mmmm electric cars... 10x the range of current cars... thats what... cross country in one charge? can anyone argue with that? Ok fine 10x is not cross country... but it is 2000 miles per f-ing charge!
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I disagree with all the reasons he listed... because this is true of all careers, not just programming. I think it has more to do with our ideas about pay more than anything else.

Quite simply put, in almost all professions you're paid for being there for 9-5. If you show up and do your work poorly or not at all, you might get fired. If you do well, you will get a small raise. So to a small extent productivity is correlated. But the salaries aren't proportional to productivity; the biggest predictor of salary is if you're fulltime. You're getting paid for your time, not what you're producing.
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Note: I also worked with plenty that did enjoy their courses, realised how snobbish that sounded.
Does HN really not have any protection against comments that are very long single words that screw up the page width?
Kind of surprising to me since the arc90 team worked with Marco for the original platform effort.
If you're in London there's an event going on this evening about exactly this topic:

http://bootlaw.com/2011/10/29/november-2011-options-for-shar...
Wow, what a completely terrible name. I honestly think having an easy-to-spell/type _and_ pronounce name was a factor in Google's success.
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If "founders" are that selective and narrow about who they take advice from, they're going to have much bigger problems down the road.

That accountant they use? Never built a startup.

The lawyer who's managing all their contracts? Never built a startup.

The bankers at Goldman Sachs who's taking them public? Never built a startup.

Yeah - to hell with all of them - they've never been a "founder" so what the fuck would they know about "founding" something, right?
That's actually what he's arguing for. Instead of what he has been seeing that many people are misunderstanding the concept to be "cram everything above the fold, no matter the cost".
The subtle bit here is that he "hook" needs to be above the fold. The content, not so much.

It's not that people won't scroll. It's that they won't stick around without a reason. And if they stick around, they will scroll - so use the top of the page to get them to stick.
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It is worthy of discussion because it's still often misunderstood to mean "put everything valuable above the fold or people won't see it". A basic point, but one that still needs hammering home, especially when you get out of the silicon valley set.
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Unless it changed recently, Marco Arment, the creator of Instapaper, is an advisor to Arc90, the company behind Readability (http://www.marco.org/2011/02/01/readabilitys-new-service)
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Yep, you figured it out. JPA requires you to set it on both sides. (Well, really you only HAVE to set it on the owning side of the association, which is what Hibernate monitors, but you should do both. Otherwise, a future programmer may be surprised that the objects don't have a consistent view of the association later on.
The title of this article as posted on hacker news is "A shuffled deck of cards is unique in all human history".

Note that it does not say "If you shuffle a deck of cards, it will be unique in all of human history," which is the argument that the actual article is making.

The article title here is logically equivalent to "Any shuffled deck of cards is unique in all of human history" which is logically equivalent to "No two shuffled decks of cards in human history are equivalent". Therefore, the title of the article as it appears on hacker news needs to be changed
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Alas too many people ignore other people's objectivity and pay attention to their own feelings instead. And then they notice that many "objective" people say the security measures that make them "safer" really put them at increased "risk", and wonder what hidden agenda these "objective" people have and whose side they're really on.
Yes, really the optimal plan is to use an Amex that has higher rewards due to its higher merchant fees. Yes, the fees get passed on to the customers, but they get passed on to ALL the customers, so the people using Visa or MasterCard or cash are subsidizing my Amex fees. Not particularly nice, but optimal!
Planet Framework is designed from the ground up to be real-time and scalable, but it also uses a lot of existing open-source projects.

For Planet Framework customers, we offer "partner source". Meaning, that customers will get full access to source code and also submit their own patches.
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That's a really good point. It's worth remembering that the person picking the low hanging fruit will often fill up the baskets faster than the person who climbs up to the tall branches, But since anyone can pick the low hanging fruit, you may need to send your most talented people into lower-yield environments, since they're the only ones who can do it.

Productivity really is difficult to measure, especially in software development.
In reddit, these type of threads go on forever. Good thing this site doesn't tolerate that kind of silliness.
I'd rather have 200 miles and lighter/cheaper(? at least in terms of environmental costs) batteries.
Not stressing too much the above-the-fold concept does not mean there is no difference between up and down the conceptual line of the average screen height resolution of your visitors.

You can use the content that has no need to scroll to capture the attention, but there is no need to stuff everything there. I think that 37 signals is an example about that as they don't try to put too many "information" above the fold, but only a few important stuff, and many other info is distributed across all the page.
Seven syllables is too many. But you're right, the article glosses over the bigger issue than the two it mentioned: these measures don't help security and very strong cases can and have been made that it actually hurts security.
Yeah I was going to respond with a point based on economics, but I think you have me here. The point I was responding to was about value for the engineer. If the engineer creates a lot of value from working for themselves, it would just take that many more dollars to pull them away from it. (This has applied to me as well.)
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I couldn't remember seeing many (if any) x-ray scanners in European airports - it's almost always regular metal detector gates.
X-rays do cause cancer and must not be used in airports. Enough using terrorists as an excuse, there are much easier targets - but it's been quiet for a while and hopefully continues that way.
There are very few good managers, and when you think about it very few programmers work in software companies. Instead they work for trading firms, utilities, banks, government agencies, etc.

When the business of the company isn't software, there is a good chance that the manager won't be a software developer. The criteria the developer is judged by will have nothing to do with the complexity of the software or the time it takes to create. Instead, their work will be judged and compensated by the value it delivers to the organization. Even if it's crappy software.
I've used Gemstone/S with Smalltalk in a production environment and loved what it did for us in terms of productivity. Not having to worry about persistence is awesome. All you have to worry about is getting your data out into other formats if you need to. That for me is a much easier problem to solve than mapping OO concepts to a Relational persistence model.

The GLASS environment we were using is close Maglev. Its just swapping Smalltalk for Ruby. For the vast majority of sites that would consider using Maglev, scaling shouldn't be an issue and the Gemstone OODB at that level is very easy to administer and maintain once you learn a few basic concepts.

If you want to get a strong understanding of how the OODB works, I strongly suggest you check out James Foster's lengthy 2 part presentation from Smalltalks 2009.

http://gemstonesoup.wordpress.com/2009/12/02/james-fosters-i...

If anyone has any questions about working with the Gemstone OODB, I'd be happy to have a conversation with you, my email address is in the contact info for my account.
A lot of it is that the people build things they know will work (rather than things they think will work) tend to succeed more often. (At least in my own admittedly anecdotal experience) The hard work of research, initial sales and market validation is later retroactively glossed over as "vision" by onlookers.
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That's one of the biggest issues with "experts": those that appear "successful" are just the ones that can get the most media.

I'm not suggesting you ignore the media, but put it into perspective: The guys actually creating things don't have time to be writing about creating things on Google+.
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Yeah, we see eye to eye with the commitment period and have agreed on that. It's just how to arrange a scheme that would allow me to keep a fair share of the company and make profit out if as I would be a key component of building the product. Actually I completely trust on the founders, but seed-a VCs might not agree with our arrangement.
We use Play heavily at work (eg. 50k SLOC). I love it.

However, I'm pretty nervous about 2.0, due to the tight coupling with Scala. I still have a bad taste in my mouth from trying to use Lift, and I did not care for sbt at all.

While typesafe templates seem like a good thing, I can't recall ever having bugs that would have been caught by them, and it looks like it will eliminate the magical boilerplate-free parameter passing from the current version of Play.
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I feel that we must have exhausted social media for the time being , how many different ways do we need to share stuff with each other?

Wouldn't it be more interesting to find new stuff that people can do with computers. We have all of these "Post PC" devices now, but to be honest I feel I have yet to see a killer application for them.

From what I remember in the early 2000s these social websites mostly started out as some geeks spare time project to show off their mad php skillz , some of them gained traction and become fulltime businesses some didn't.
Now everybody seems to want massive financial backing and rockstar MIT programmers to build them.

I remember using late 90s versions of ICQ which was remarkably ahead of it's time and I'm surprised it never gained more traction although later versions seemed like a regression.
Doesn't seem incredibly surprising; Marco isn't really innovating effectively, and it's time to see the space build via competition.
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The goal of the 37signals fold is to grab attention and try to lock in interest. They are fully embracing the concept and importance of the fold.

People aren't arguing that ALL of you content needs to be above the fold. The argument is that the fold gets the most attention from your audience. When you're optimizing, you should optimize the things that will have the biggest impact first. Many times that is the content above the fold.

And let's not forget that a general web page is going to attract different audience. This article seems to be saying that since you went below the fold on their article, that you will go below the fold on everything. That's false. I went below the fold on this article because I went to the page specifically to read the article.
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