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I don't think your argument that this hurts startups is true. Tax rates don't impact profitability, as they are calculated on profits.
For a bright student with no programming experience their first go should be something like Learn Python the Hard Way; with a clueful person around to give guidance. (Not to answer questions, but to push the student to ask the right questions in search engines).

Once they've done that they're set up for K&R, etc. I get the impression that the development environment is invisible to programmers because it's just there. But imagine someone handed you K&R and asked to to write and compile a program. What compiler would you download? How would you install it? Where would you go for help?

---EDIT--- the child comment shows my next paragraph is pretty stupid. (In my defence I was remembering a time before Google would know what C or C++ meant; and before students had Internet access during lessons.)

The other concept that beginners have trouble with in C is "how do I know the names of the functions that I'm supposed to use to do stuff? How do I know what displays text on the screen? How do I know what reads keyboard input?".
I, too, used to suck at approaching women at bars (I still do!). Rather than polishing up my pickup game, I adopted a different strategy: be interesting. Go to fun parties. Throw some fun parties. Become known as a cool person to hang out with, which results in more invitations to more parties. Create your own momentum.

I suppose the tech-industry corollary here is to do some agenda-free networking, and build up an agenda-free network. You may have a hidden agenda, and that's fine, but push it to the way back of your mind for now. You need to spend time building up a circle. Where to start? If you're in the Bay Area and working on a startup or a personal project, I'm sure you know at least 5 or 10 other folks in the same boat. Start getting together. Set up a weekly dinner or drinks. Start finding out about other peoples' dinners and drinks. Socialize and be interesting. Help other people without any expectation that they will help you.

This is a slow game, played over a longer term than many people are comfortable with. But it's a more organic way to meet and "pitch" people. I'd much rather find a way to become friendly with Big Investor X than find a perfect 30-second pitch for a chance encounter with Big Investor X. I can always pitch a friend, after all, if a bit down the line.

"But none of my friends is interesting / knows anybody cool / has any different friends outside our group."

Time to diversify your social circle, then. Reach out and connect people from different stages of your life: childhood friends, college friends, work buddies from former and current jobs, interest-group friends, and so forth. Go to mixers and meet new people, too.

All of this may sound patently obvious to some folks here, and if you're among those folks, awesome. Just know that this stuff didn't occur naturally to me, and I bet a fair number of people are built similarly. I'd always struggled with the apparent phoniness and strain of "networking," until I learned why: I was trying to compress a long-term process into short-term transactions. It felt unnatural because it was unnatural. I was always approaching people out of the blue and asking for something. That's not a winning strategy for becoming liked and getting helped. You've got to be doing things for others before expecting others to do things for you.
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I suppose it depends what the cost of said productivity is. Slave societies were pretty productive.
It's funny that just this past weekend I was looking for something like your product. I've imagined it more to be a webapp with mobile client though. Something like http://highrisehq.com/ but more personal. (A PRM instead of CRM, one could say.)
It should keep in sync with my address book (or rather replace it at some point) and tell me not only what I know about the people in it, but also what interactions I had with them. Ideally it would augment that information with things it can find out on its own over Facebook and the web. (A bit like Gist, although I've found the information it can find to be useless most of the time.)

Does anyone know of a product, besides Met, which comes close to what I'm looking for?

Congratulations on your launch!
Sure, but they also have different meanings in different contexts, and you need to be aware of them. I can still hold a tea party for my young daughter, right? Or has that phrase been taken for ever?
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Except, from the original article, I don't get why they don't just set up in Denmark & avoid setting up in Dublin altogether. They must be doing _something_ worthwhile with those 2,000 Irish employees.

Disclaimer: I'm Irish.
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How you came about this knowledge is insignificant.

Yes, but these books teach you more than writing something that compiles. Just read the ToC of SICP: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-4.html#...
I too was a crotchety old, "get of my javascript lawn", type guy. I thought coffeescript was for lazy developers who just didn't want to write good javascript. Then I decided to use it when I was evaluating a framework, because that framework had chosen to dive fully into coffeescript. All of their examples were cs, so I figured, "what the heck." Even though I didn't stay with that framework, I am so glad I gave cs a try. It has been a huge blessing in rapid development. Having used it for five weeks now, I can definitely sing it's praises. You still need to have a good understanding of javascript, and there are obviously a few gotchas, but it has really changed my who coding experience. I'm in the minority in my office, in that I actually love javascript, but for those who hate it with a passion, introducing them to coffeescript has gotten them on the js train.
Shooting things into space remains to be very expensive going anywhere from $20M to $100M USD[1], $450M for NASA to put a space shuttle into orbit[2], or even $8K for the truly adventurous[3].

[1] http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070514121522AA...

[2] http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/about/information/shuttl...

[3] http://interorbital.com/TubeSat_1.htm
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Would love to see a version of this for popular music
APL/MIT/BSD/GPL are open source. GPL is the only free software though.
You can write a useful program that only uses one core. You can't write a useful program that doesn't use memory.
The Emacs book was written in 2004 and is about Emacs 21.3. Current Emacs is 23.3, with 24.0 in pre-test.

I know things are relatively stable in Emacs world, but a fair bit has changed just from 23.x to 24.0.
Emacs is a great platform. Its only weakness is as a text editor. :)
How about the server arena?
It is 2011. Even googlebot supports javascript now.

I wouldn't spend time getting a webapp to work without javascript (a webpage is another matter, as is a cms).
I can use the FreeBSD kernel in FreeBSD and Debian. Is the kernel not part of the FreeBSD OS?
yes and no. Some just don't check their balance as they don't care about 100 or 150 euros a month.

what makes it a bit more complicated too (not complete, i am sure there are other reasons as well):
we get paid at least 14 times a year, where the non-monthly payouts have a completely different taxing. my father working for a bank gets paid 16 times a year plus a bonus once or twice a year.

also, once you have paid a certain amount for your social security, you don't pay it at all anymore, skewing your net wage.

it might be that the employer miscalculated your net wage and you might have to pay the IRS at the end of the year (or if you are lucky, you get money back)
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Here's an interview with Chris Forsythe, the creator or Growl explaining the AppStore decision.

http://thechangelog.com/post/11317828888/episode-0-6-8-growl...
> Are you sure it's a good idea to systematically reward a lack of ambition?
> You proposed design will become a self-fulfilling prophesy. Putting people on a permanent wage because they will "probably never work again" will signal to those people that society considers them worthless. You will never produce anything of sufficient value for anyone to consider it worthwhile to feed you for the effort.

You provide question and the answer. The idea of universal income (which this proposed wage is a limited application of) is that you give everyone a bare minimum stipend, while encouraging people to go out and earn more if they want more.

It wouldn't be event that expensive, considering what a modern social state already spends on its citizenry.

In a sense, modern government is partially already a mechanism of universal income (many government employees are unfit for being productive in private sector).
I do appreciate the more detailed comment. I had a misconception about Fog Creek. I'd thought they had totally standardized pay grades!

I really can't speak for engineers, since my experience as an employer wasn't at a tech company. I've been an owner of a painting business and a school. In my experience, I the correlation with the aggressive negotiating and job dedication skewed the other way from yours. In a pinch, particularly at the school, a forceful negotiator could extract higher pay (aka a raise) from me, but afterwards I had very little compunctions with pushing right back or firing if necessary. Less you think I was a terrible employer, I did pay employees between 30% and 80% over the market norms. It's just that employee loyalty is particularly important in that market (children's education), and creating an environment in which negotiation is the norm would have been creating a drain on both time and morale.

Now that I'm entering the tech industry, I suppose it could be an entirely different world. There is a limit to what I'll put up with, but for now my focus is on creating value, not extracting it. That said, I'll definitely keep your comments in the back of my mind next time I have a good opportunity to discuss pay.
Related app request from Loic Le Meur: http://loiclemeur.com/english/2011/03/its-time-for-personal-...

You should contact him, you might get some endorsement :)
True. I agree that's a problem most modern legal systems are struggling to deal with.

Until they do all I can recommend for innocent parties who find themselves in that situation is to look for a lawyer who will take a quasi-pro bono retainer.

I'm currently representing such a party on a no-win no-fee basis, at the applicable court-mandated scale. If we lose I get nothing, and if we win I get the costs order (at a reduced fee).
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Ah, but how do we know that you're not a random person who's trying to discredit the OP?
No. They can be. The probability is low, but during the Epilepsy the patient can injure himself.
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Maybe I'm just old and remember the humanity of it, but isn't having your logo be reminiscent of a major human tragedy not the best move in the world? Or don't logos matter that much? Or maybe the target market doesn't even remember it? Might we see twin towers logos in 50 years, trying to evoke a 90s NY nostalgia feel in the youngsters?
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I'm talking about his blog, right? That's - a webpage. Dynamic content maybe, CMS if you like.

It's 2011 and JS is source code that you download from a couple of places on the internet, put in a bowl and execute it in a 'will it blend' kind of style on your machine. In one of a a number of different sandboxes.

There are valid reasons for not trusting every random script. Let me turn your response on its head instead:

It is 2011. You should be able to either give me ~something~ ('Sorry, you have no JS enabled and I won't give you any content without enabling it first') or, better because it's 2011 and all, have a site that actually shows the (Interesting! Cool! I'll come back to check that author's site again and know that this is a meta discussion here) content.
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What's your target market? Last time I checked few countries stats and I found out that the U.S market is actually using IE heavily compared to emerging markets (like North Africa, Philippine...)
What compiler would you download? How would you install it? Where would you go for help? (...) how do I know the names of the functions that I'm supposed to use to do stuff? How do I know what displays text on the screen? How do I know what reads keyboard input?

Search engines?

"How do I read keyboard input in C" → the first result is scanf()
"How do I display text on the screen in C" → returns a tutorial on how to use puts and printf
GEdit, an easy to use text editor with many advanced features
For what it's worth the original was a dumb hoax (as was heavily implied by the 10gen CTO's rebuttal comment)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3205573
This is just a guess, but if they were set up in the Netherlands, wouldn't they have to pay Dutch taxes? My impression is that they don't have to pay Dutch taxes because the money is just passing through the Netherlands, not being earned there.
I wouldn't say they're not succeeding there. They're not #1, but servers have never been one of their main focuses. I'm sure they would love to be #1, but Windows on the desktop and Microsoft Office makes them oodles of money already.
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Who is this Gladwell guy and what did he invent or made that is worth noting?

Or did he simply take someone else's opinions using someone else's language and tweaked them a little bit to make them appear as his own?
I think the article, although biased, maintains the basic assumptions really well. They are: Steve Jobs is a genius, at tweaking not inventing. Whether the reader agrees to this or not, is a different case. But this sections highlights the difference quite notably.

To think of it, the article talks about the scale of Philanthropy of Gates in fields like Malaria eradication. This is a grande project, in it's entirety. There are no existing systems that work and Gates imagination of a possible solution cannot be ignored as is done by Jobs. This does make Jobs narrow minded in the way that he is considering only Technicalities and Design as imaginative and completely denying the imagination that might go into believing in a better (and in this case malaria free) future.
Most easy programming being done nowadays probably have pre-built solutions available that you'd just have to configure. Online surveys are a great example.
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Hi Bubble, you´re welcome!

Whatever the bubble looks like, wherever it will develop, there will always be new creative ideas disrupting the status quo.

I think there´s no such thing as a free bubble. It will rearrange the system and in the fog of all pseudo entrepreneurship, the true creators and ideas will be seen.

Nobody has to be named nostradamus to be aware of cyclic movements in industries. If ever, a bubble can only be a measurement of high financial liquidity and volume of business valuations. Of course, capital remains a vehicle helping new ideas to develop. But if a bubble comes or does´t is totally unimportant, isn´t it?

I think that the money reports in the news attract a lot of spectators and streakers right now that pretend to be part of a game that they define by exit, funding and names. But ideas like Airbnb, Getaround, Square (you name it) are no a result of a movement in volume, like a statistical confidence interval or given percentile of success. They are structures that combine real need with digital supply and shape cultural aspects of society.
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It would be cool if that giant phone on your front page was interactive.
Code is pretty much explaining machine code.
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For what it's worth, I quit a bad investment banking job a couple months ago. Shortly after, a company (also in NY, the same?) approached me and gave every inclination that they wanted to hire me (not the first time the company had approached me). I did a contract for them, to see whether it was a good fit for both us of (I had doubt about the specific position). I thought I did a good job, took 3 weeks instead of 4, got positive feedback, blah blah blah. Silence.

Finally, I got the 'you are too qualified' email. Which to me is just a really rude way to say 'you aren't qualified enough'.

Anyways, I lost 2 months of not looking for a job and not focusing on the right goals. I'm obviously to blame (at least in part) because I know/knew stuff like this happens, and that's life (I'm 10 years out of school, and have seen it before).

The point though? Some people are asses. Some people aren't honest. Some people simply can't handle a bad situation. Often times, people are just really, really, poor communicators.

I hope things work out for you.
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Yes, I tried to click the buttons on the bottom of the screen :)
Unfortunately most of what's in stock has been already sold at the previous price. And we're selling new equipment, so most customers will simply delay investment until the price goes back to the normal trend.
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I believe this is actually the fault of Blogspot. It seems that Google has decided that doing everything in JS is the way to go.
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I'm guessing you've never spend half an afternoon on a holiday finding an Internet cafe, convincing them to let you run PuTTY and SSHing into your "complete control" server to fix a trivial problem that brought down your app?

Comparing a bus arrival service for a 1/4 million population city with Reddit is .. irrelevant, at best.
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This needs to be integrated in with Siri so you can walk up to James and whisper to Siri and she'll tell you his wifes name, what he does and how his kids are doing in school ... if only there was a Siri API.
I just launched DashPoll - http://dashpoll.com - its a free API based poll/survey app.

Idea to launch was 10 hours, albeit spread over a week or so.

I'd love to get some feedback.
NeXT bought Apple for minus US$400 million and renamed itself Apple ;-)

Apple's CEO came from NeXT, as did their lead software architect. OSX is NeXT (ever wonder why so many things extend NSObject?).
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Wait, Really?

Gladwell is kinda famous, written a couple of best sellers and stuff.

That said opinions on him vary, his primary MO is to tell the audience something that contradicts common knowledge and provide enough facts to back it up, thereby making his audience feel smarter, which people love.

On the other hand it's often just enough facts, and it's often technically true but a very shallow truth.
First of all congrats Chris. As dclaysmith already said price is little high except that, it'll really help in remembering all those minute details :)
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I grew up in India. But I can't identify with "entrepreneurs in emerging markets" thing. Where are they? Who are they? What came out of my country - I want to know!
I work with databases in extremely high OLTP workload environments since 20 or so years.

We're talking enterprise products, mostly Sybase, some Postgresql and very little Oracle.

Have I encountered bugs?

Sure, tons of them. Some of them grave enough to render the specific version of the database software unusable in the context of the project I worked on.

However, in all this time I probably dealt with no more then 3 - 5 corrupt databases, none of them went corrupt due to a database bug. Usually it was related to hardware failure,

Arguing that database corruption is inherent in the design of the product is, from a database perspective, beyond the pale.

A database "breaking" is absolutely not the same as a database blasting your data into corrupt confetti.
>The Issacson Analysis (backed up by Atkinson) was that Raskin had envisioned an underpowered, less expensive system that would not have had many of the features that made the original Macintosh "Insanely Great."

Or may be if Raskin was able to had it his way, we would Apple would have brought a PC to nearly every home and has as much impact to the society as MS had. We can only guess (and not even guesstimate) what would have happened if Jobs weren't there in this particular project.

> It's amazing how valuable a function that can be, particularly in the presences of great engineers who can rise to the challenge - Yes exactly. One of the major issues is that the Engineers are been given very less credit. Jobs was the editor, the face of APPL and not the creator. The current trend is to attribute all the success of Apple to just Jobs and no one else. I am not aware if they were actually great designers, developers and engineers under him or was it him alone who single handedly guided dumb sheep into greatness. Most of the Job praises after his death tend to point towards the latter, which is unfair if not wrong.
Fortunately the world is trying to keep up with them..

* Everything is a file (/proc, /net)
* UTF-8
* WMII

I suppose that's enough for a research OS and its creators to be successful.
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Let's also drag out "I know just enough vi to compile emacs" and "at least you can run vi inside of emacs."
Ask HN: Best Practices For MongoDB with Amazon EC2+EBS?
So I am a happy MongoDB user -- with a web app that is about to go public (which means I can't predict the actual load yet and my application would have to change fast and soon). I have been doing my back up etc. Although reading all these scary MongoDB related articles have not had much impact on my architecture , I do wonder what could I be doing to prevent things from going wrong. (I can't afford paid support just yet)

Is there a set of MongoDB best practices for EC2+ EBS ? For the setup configuration and deployment architecture ? Best patterns for usage of API ? Are there any MongoDB recommended AMIs I should be using ?

I want to reiterate that I have faith in MongoDB and my application architecture.I find MongoDB to be well documented and well supported. I am merely seeking all this information in one place.
I don't know about hamburger ebooks, but the guy who runs parrotsecrets does make more than most computer programmers.

Also don't forget that you don't have to live in a rich country for you to sell ebooks. Anywhere with internet is fine.
This is not the case. GPL is the only strong copyleft license of those, but they are all free software licenses according to the FSF (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_FSF_approved_software_l...).
The thing that I was most amazed at in schools was the lack of sharing resources. There was very little sharing between teachers in the same school and even less between schools.

This seems like a massive waste of time as most of these teachers spend a large amount of time creating these resources and most of these schools teach very similar syllabuses.

Creating resources like this textbook is a great step forward, if more teachers could collaborate to create really great resources it would not only improve the education provided to students but also free up teachers from spending all of their time creating custom resources.