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I am two years ahead of you. And sometimes I feel the same. But over the years I have realized I don't really have what it takes to run a business. I mean I can code, design and do all the technical work. But business is a different beast. I don't know how to do it, and its extremely dangerous to do things which you do don't understand.

All that is besides the point, as many will tell you. Not all start ups succeed. I mean in the financial sense. Many fail. Unfortunately most of us here like to talk of the good stuff to keep ourselves motivated. We don't talk about failed start ups frequently and with harsh criticism. All this creates a sense that start ups are a sure shot way of getting rich. That seems to be hardly the case, and successful start ups end up being outliers.

Also MegaCorp work is not that bad, If you can outshine most of your peers you can make good deal of money. Everybody knows that if you can keep your focus, make good decisions, take some occasional risks and are more productive than others you are going to successful anywhere. But 'more productive' is really in your hands and that sort of really depends on your hard work.

Besides these days you can work full time and still do a lot of other stuff like app development for mobile phones and tablets. There are plenty of good open source projects to work on. So on the learning side you can do a lot even without joining a start up.
>at the same time

The thing is, sound doesn't travel all that fast when you consider the wavelengths of vocal-range soundwaves. Those spikes are not going to arrive at the same time on the different phones.

As ever with DSP, phase problems will be the ruin of you.
Because it really isn't natural at all, it only looks natural. AppleScript is a kind of COBOL. You have to know exactly what (natural-sounding) keywords and clauses you can use. Try some real natural language and the interpreter is suddenly lost.
The thing I've always felt held back these paradigms is something that is inherent in them, they are too visual.

That sounds crazy, but just look at this article and how he described what he did. He had to take a million screenshots to show it. The same is true for say, the Android app builder, or the Lego logic thing.. the way you sure code is via a screenshot.

And that just doesn't scale very well I don't think. It makes copy/pasting, the most basic way that people learn, really difficult.

HTML5 is pretty awesome, or rather WOULD be pretty awesome if we could erase the last 15 years and all start with CSS3 compliant browsers. But it is such a mess now that I feel bad for anybody starting from scratch.

But the combination of HTML for layout and Javascript for layout is pretty darn powerful, and I think pretty accessible as well. You could certainly build something on the order of the simplicity of Hypercard on that stack.

But I do like the author's comments about the shame that there are far fewer 'programmers' than back in the old days. BASIC on the AppleII is of course the other example (among others).. where it was just so easy and almost natural for ANY user to start getting a feel for things and hacking around. Losing that really IS a shame.
Don't be disappointed. Include a link to the new article.
Why would you need these scanners "everywhere"? Why not just walk into a health place and walk out again? Why not have one at home?
I got a -1 on this comment, my worst score ever, but I still stand by it. I simply do not believe that anything one voluntarily submits to Facebook can be kept "private".

The value Facebook gets from the data is _sharing_ it with others: advertisers, various organisations devoted to catching bad guys, app developers, etc. It is not "private" by any stretch of the imagination.

Even if they purport to restrict access to a profile to certain users, a determined hacker can get around that.

This is a company that is trying to get into your email inbox at every possible opportunity. The concepts of "Facebook" and "privacy" are irreconcilable in my view. Even regardless of their ethics, there is an underlying architectural problem.

The successor to Facebook, which will offer real privacy, not the imaginary kind FB is pitching, will not be another centralised public website.
I know a lot of this will be up to the architecture and specific nature of each app... but has anyone recently compared a modern MySQL and Postgresql installation on a few baseline metrics? I'd love to see the differences. I am starting to use it more and more, being a Django developer surrounded by Postgres users. But, so far the core differences are scaring me away. psql template1? It doesn't make as much sense to me.
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"So what web framework are we supposed to use now?"

Flippant answer: Whatever works

Pointed answer: I am paid to write RoR apps. When I need to get stuff done at home I use Perl, if it's for the web I recommend Dancer[1], which was inspired by (i.e. nicked from[2]) Sinatra[3].

I've found MVC to be a little bit too much architecture and scaffolding for many tasks.

edit: Not to say I don't want an architecture, but the routes and templating of Dancer are the essentials. Occasionally I will find myself missing the bloody lovely validations in Rails' ActiveRecord, but I am usually grateful for the light weight of the finished product and the fact that the entirety of it fits in my head when building with Dancer.

[1] http://perldancer.org/

[2] ;)

[3] http://www.sinatrarb.com/
I think it is mostly that video games are generally designed around quick gratification compared to most other activities, they are not usually designed to be your primary hobby (at least 1 game on it's own is not).
Throw a relative newbie into a first person shooter game and they will probably score their first kill in a matter of minutes, it just doesn't ask any long term commitment from you. I imagine very few people started out thinking they would become CS champions, more likely they found it addictive and played allot then at some point took it to the next level and joined a clan etc.

Contrast this with learning the guitar for example, first you have to buy $100+ of stuff that is only useful for that hobby. Then you will try and play some songs but most likely your going to have 10+ hours of practice under your belt doing boring stuff like learning chords and getting callouses on your fingers before you can reliably play even very basic rock songs at full speed.
The learning curve then becomes very steep, especially if you want to learn complicated solos and techniques but once you have mastered it then it is a skill that is kept for life. It is very unlikely that a new instrument will come out which renders your guitar obsolete.

All of the people that I used to play counterstrike with no longer play it at all or only play very occasionally. Contrast this with the people I know who started playing guitar instead (investing a similar number of hours) at a similar age. Almost all of them are still playing and are now very proficient. They are playing gigs and writing/releasing their own music. A few have even made careers from it.
You are NOT reading it correctly.
The number of legal immigrants in 2010 to the USA was 1,042,625

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This is a small subset of the total number.
This is made possible by the introduction of closures in PHP 5.3 which I think was long overdue. However, in this specific case it's worth noting that many times in JavaScript objects declared like this

var fido = {name: "Fido", barks: true};

are not actually used as objects but instead emulate a name-value container - and this is a piece of functionality that PHP already supports natively due to its array type. Of course it's nice that you can now assemble objects on the fly, but people coming from JavaScript should be reminded that it's not necessary to use PHP objects in this fashion most of the time.

Edit: it was PHP 5.3, not 5.2
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> # of projects that are not forks.
I think forks are important as well. The more number of active forks, the more the person is actually working with other people on a project.
You may be missing a lot of what's happening with GHC: stacktraces, fixing GHCi and cabal, polymorphic kinds

http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/k4lc4/yesod_the_lim...

http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/mm68o/ghc_74_branch...
Uh, eww. There's so much accidental complexity in those examples.

One would be better off using nodejs: JavaScript has far fewer terrible flaws than PHP.
After quitting work and tussling with the dog, I'd like to emphasize that I don't think grellas is stupid, but I do think that opinion is. : shrug : Hopefully he won't take take it as an insult.

Also, some people -- and I don't know Arrington -- have a deep conviction in nothing more than whatever gets them ahead. Being sincerely self serving shouldn't get you a pass.
What's the equivalent of template1 in mysql?
Looking back to a few years ago, I would actually say that I was addicted to CS. Playing matches in a clan is a sure fire way to drive the addiction because it becomes hard to leave without letting your teammates down.

Luckily, due to Steam's awful user account tools via the client and the website, I am unable to recover my Steam password. The only way to recover it is to deface the CD box by writing the support ticket number on it, taking a photograph of that defacement and the product key and then sending that photo to their support email address. Then they will reset your password.

You know what, I'm really not that bothered!
Very good point. I think spreadsheets are just deep enough and map well enough to the domains that use them, that it can tread water. (Not swim, mind you.) They're also quite clear about their constraints.
My out loud comment when I tried it was "Holy shit this is genius if it works".
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Yes, I think your zero-programming point was spot on (though check that spreadsheet link: I was surprised to learn that visicalc automated existing paper spreadsheets, so "programming" wasn't even an issue, at least for its initial massive success).

But note that we're not really in "support of GP's argument" anymore. ;-) That's what I was arguing against (but excellently provocative questions BTW).
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I built my startup while working full time at a corporate job. After a year and a half I quit because I was able to grow it to the point of where it was able to pay living expenses and support my family. Was it hard? Very. But there are many things you can do to make it easier for yourself.

Use your job to fund the building of your product. You rent your body out for 8 or 9 hours a day, make it work for you as much as possible and hire someone to write code while you work and sleep. This means you can spend your free time marketing (yes, before you launch) and you'll drastically increase your chances of success.
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Cool concept, fairly good execution.

I think I would advise not to just focus on concerts, but potentially other mass events, e.g. sporting events.

I guess you're using the audio stream to do some form of sync / time stamp though, so that may limit potential uses.
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Does "owning" a song makes any sense in the digital world, or is it a relic of the physical album days?

Even besides the licensing/ownership fact (you have always purchased a license to listen to the music privately), I bet there's more music released in a given day than hours in that day. I keep thinking that the model where you can just listen to whatever you want for a flat flee makes a lot more sense in this universe.
As the mighty Greg LeMond once said of bicycle racing, "It never gets easier, you just go faster".
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Correlation does not imply causation.

Also the idea that listening to a song once is worth fractions of a penny is really stupid further making your 'revelation' totally fatuous.
tl;dr - web development is changing, the frontend side of things is gaining significance, while the backend is moving to, well, the background.

No reason to be surprised there, right?
And, of course, NodeJS is available at every web hosting company on the planet for $3.99 a month, so your client will be happy about the ubiquity of the environment and the cost of getting something off the ground. Isn't it?

You can choose not to like PHP easily. Choosing not to use it is not nearly as simple. And "ew" is not much of an argument to take to a client who isn't gambling on being the Next <insert poster child>.
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nice point, but they'd synchronize with an offset. I doubt absolute time would be used to synchronize the videos anyway; they'd be matched by content.

Or do you mean that different frequencies will travel at different speeds, enough to make (e.g.) high and low frequencies arrive at different times? Whoa, apparently it does (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_sound#Effect_of_freque...) but seems to be a small effect.
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"Spending another 5 years in Java means you're preparing yourself for a 1996 job in 2016."

In the type of environments where I work, five years experience shipping successful software will advance your career further than five years experience in one particular language.

If you choose a bleeding edge language, what is the risk you will spend time solving edge cases with the language instead of delivering great software? Given everyone's lack of experience in a language, what is the risk you will write something unmaintainable? If your bleeding edge runtime is slower, what is the risk that it will fall apart under load?

It's possible these are acceptable risks for the gains in programmer productivity. That risk to gain ratio would have to be massive to persuade me.

Yes, picking bleeding edge technology will filter out bozos during hiring. You'll also filter out engineers who are more passionate about shipping than new technology. You're left with an high concentration of engineers who have never seen bleeding edge technology blow up in their face.
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I agree about Clojure, not so much about Scala.
Clojure built on solid proven foundations of LISP and JVM.
While Scala is also built on JVM, it's semantics are completely new and unproven. And b/c Scala's semantics are complex (unlike LISP), it will be very hard to prove and make it mature.

My other choice is Erlang/OTP, which is 20+ y/o dinosaur, controlled by Ericsson, not a modern language, but very stable and mature.
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Or you could just use java...

The title says only fast languages are interesting, then rules out using Java because it's not lispy enough :/

Either you want speed, or you want your favorite syntax and high level stuff. You can't have both.

FWIW My favorite syntax happens to be c/java/assembly type stuff. I'd hate to be one of the developers who hates those, must put you at a big disadvantage - as shown in the original post.
I think it'd be interesting to re-write HyperCard in javascript and HTML5, as a way to get kids interested in coding (and maybe use javascript instead of apple script as the card language?). Not sure how difficult this would be as I've never actually used it, only heard of it's majesty and wonder. Cool that you can still run it on an emulator. I'll have to try it out.
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They are introducing shorthand notation for arrays in PHP 5.4 using the [] syntax. For whatever crazy reason using {} notation hasnt been implemented for objects. I really wonder what the phpinternals team are doing sometimes.
Getting involved in clan gaming certainly takes things to a whole new level. I remember trying to organize teams and enter various leagues as well as playing friendlies against other clans.

Not only that but you have to manage a geographically dispersed set of people over the Internet who have their own schedules and priorities. Some of the politics got very heated and of course you would always get somebody who was an incredible played but would always drop out of playing matches at the last minute or would find some minutiae to throw their toys out of the pram over.

Still an excellent lesson in management though, as well as having to plan tactics and be able to change these on the fly as the other team adapted to them and trying to close the gap when your team is losing and you cannot afford the weapon setup that you have based your strategy around. Very satisfying getting 3 frags in 1 clip with the USP and winning the round for your team :)

I do remember the public servers being utter every man for himself bedlam though, not to mention being accused of cheating when you are 30 kills to 1 death.
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Probably should have added "for large-scale numeric computations" to the title :P
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I lose a bit of interest in artists who complain about not making money on people listening to their music. It then seems that they make music to make money, instead of making money because they make music.
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It's not so true for C and/or C++, because some of their niches are cutting-edge, like gaming and VMs.

Where it is true is for languages like Visual Basic, or heaven forbid COBOL. If you are working with COBOL today, or even ten years ago, you're probably maintaining a 1980's mainframe for a 1980's company (VB is probably 90's).

If I were to pull a prediction completely out of my ass, then my complete lack of experience or expertise in the matter says that Java is more likely to end up the VB of tomorrow than the C++ of tomorrow.
Nitpick: Closures are a 5.3 feature.

The fact is, this is a fancy, but horrible way to construct your objects if you care about performance at all. It also breaks things like typehints, instanceof, inheritance etc.
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This is very well said. I was on H1B and was suffocating due to lack of freedom (oh, the irony). Moved to UK 5 years ago on a points based system, a british citizen now, working on my first startup.
NoiseTrade, referenced in the original post, seems to be exactly that:

http://www.noisetrade.com/info/about
I was a fan of Hypercard all those years ago. But, in my opinion, that combination: lack of depth + poor syntax, it just wasn't a strong enough contender. It could be kept as an introductory technology, but even there, we can do better. The same fate happened to VB, Actor, Object Vision, Omnis, and so many others. It's a cold world if you can't keep up.

But notice that list. It's all efforts from the 80's and early 90's. We gave up at some point. There's no excuse for that. Shame on Apple, and everyone, for that.

Maybe I'm being too hard on Hypercard, but that criticism is only about that particular technology -- certainly not the effort as a whole.
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Except if you're like 99% of engineers whose favorite syntax is C/C++-ish and are happily using C, C++, C#, Java or maybe Python.
Hah, that's a better idea. Unless it only transfers the data through a cell data connection (I don't really see any good reason why that would be the case but it's a remote possibility).
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Why not? Apparently lush gets it right: C-like speed on numerics with a Lisp-ish syntax this guy likes. Yes, C-style stacks are going to beat Lisp-style closures; but there is no reason why a "fancy" language can't do fast matrix operations, which is 99.9% of numerical code anyway.

Even Scheme has (rather un-Lisp-ish) vectors in addition to the standard linked lists.