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Press release from the CNET few minutes ago:

A note from Sean
Download.com Developer Community,

My last communication to you was shortly after we launched the Download.com Installer in late summer. At that time I asked for patience as we began work to deliver a mutually beneficial model to market.

We are on the verge of fulfilling our vision of coming to market with an installer model that delivers files faster and more efficiently to users, while enabling developers to a) opt-in to the Installer, b) influence the offers tied to their files, c) gain reporting insight into the download funnel, and d) share in the revenue generated by the installer. However, due to some press that surfaced yesterday and the potential for subsequent misinformation, I am reaching out now to address that press and to provide a progress report on the upcoming launch:

First, on the press that surfaced yesterday: a developer expressed anger and frustration about our current model and how his file was being bundled. This was a mistake on our part and we apologize to the developer and user communities for the unrest it caused. As a rule, we do not bundle open source software and in addition to taking this developers file out of the installer flow, we have gone in and re-checked all open source files in our catalog. We take feedback from our developer & user communities very seriously and take pains to both act on it and respond in a timely manner.

With that, I want to share progress made thus far: This week we will launch the alpha phase of our new installer. This alpha phase is intended to test the tech and do QA, and will roll through the next few weeks to ensure that our installer is bug free. Between this week and the end of January we will be completing the necessary engineering and administrative work to roll out our beta, which will include a small group of developers who've agreed to participate in the beta launch. Our goal is to exit beta by end of February and have the necessary systems in place to enable opt-in, influence over advertising offers (for those offers that impact your product), download funnel reporting and revenue share back to you, the developers. In the weeks/months following the full release, we will continue to iterate on the model, adding more features to the Installer and bringing greater efficiency to our own download funnel (read: increased install conversion).
The initial feedback from developers on our new model has been very positive and we are excited to bring this to the broader community as soon as possible. More communication will follow as we move into Q1, and until then, thank you for continuing to work with Download.com.

Sincerely,

-- Sean
Talent acquisitions only pay for the TALENT being acquired. You were not acquired, so you got nothing. There is no reason to be upset here. The founders did not do you wrong. They aren't as rich as you think, just flashy.
Reminds me of http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103111... Which basically alludes to visualizing your success tends to de-motivate you. I can't help but wonder if the people who soak up articles/videos of other people's accomplishments aren't living out their fantasies vicariously through those people, and weakening their own potential.
Small world :) There are at least a few of us here on HN (that I know of).

Everything I need is downtown so I rarely bus anywhere. Living out by uvic would be annoying without a vehicle though.
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Debian has a habit of having manpages. To realize the peculiarity of cron.daily, you just have to read them.

Ubuntu on the other hand pushes changes before documenting them.
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Just curious to see what services you use to handle photo and video moderation, and what you like and don't like about your service?

I run a moderation team in Vietnam and am looking for ways to improve our service.
Exactly.

But to claim that is because of some "welfare state" thing.. the facts just don't back that up.
Not in Ubuntu 11.10:

% apt-cache show update-motd

...Description-en: superceded by pam_motd in libpam-modules

...The functionality formerly provided by this package is now integrated into pam_motd, in libpam-modules.
Thanks for pointing that out -- have clarified it in the story.
Translation: We go through a rigorous process to ensure that we don't give you any spyware / adware / malware...

...except, of course, our own.
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may be he can write ansi sql queries?
I happen to like being informed, when I SSH into my server, that there are some package updates available.

I happen to like a quick status check popping up for me to either look at or just ignore at my pleasure, especially since 99% of the time, the first thing I do when I log into a server is do exactly the sort of status check available in the Ubuntu MOTD.

There are benefits. That you don't consider them worthwhile is fine, but you don't need to go apoplectic about it.
I started writing notes if I thought it was worth remembering. Too often I'd read the article and then later try to discuss it with someone and forget simple facts. I realized I'm not even learning anything, just temporarily distracting my mind with 'shiny' factoids and stories. Basically the same as looking at imgur all day. I also try to focus what I read and follow only things that relate to my job, projects and 1 or 2 hobby interests.
Github is my social network. I wake up into it, i follow it, push to it during the day, and I survey it before sleep. I love Github (in fact i'm inlove with Github). I depend on Github. I don't do facebook, g+ or twitter for socializing.

I used to admire Haack aswell. He's a great guy. However I fell out of love with .net.

I am a polyglot programmer, with strong background in .net.
To understand these Haack's "accomplishments", please look at history (google).
There is nothing genious about MVC3, towards other MVC web frameworks, and its 'advanced' 3 version, it sucks really bad in testing. (I'm also an author of a .net web framework that pits against it pretty well in this regard).

* MVC - monorail -> rails.
* NuGet - nupak - nu -> really rubygems.
* podcast - well, whatever.

I wouldn't like to fall out of love with Github.
This is very much how my brain works too, and I wonder if it's prevalent at all.

I'll know something is possible, and vaguely know what the technique is called, and I will be able to incorporate that knowledge into my thinking.

Then whenever it is time to build stuff, there's a lot of very specific googling to lay down a strong foundation of a solution.
I was done with them as soon as I read about the passing of Ilya Zhitomirskiy because I can't imagine the additional stresses put upon him because of how Paypal treated Diaspora. I stopped using them years ago but we need to organize a massive snub of the service until they revise their policies, make them fully transparent and stop constantly screwing people. Remember that we, as a country, were able to get the banks to scrap the $5 debit card fee. What are we waiting for with Paypal?
A comment below tickled my interest and I did some quick googling. From the information available on the web, it looks like your comment makes what happened look much worse than the reality.

So I just want to point out to others that this is one side of the story and it lacks a lot of details to draw any conclusion and ask for the names of the "guilty".

edit: since I'm getting some downvotes, let me expand a bit: it looks like said-company wasn't going anywhere, that fourk didn't work there for very long, that the founders ended up being hired by Google, and it's not clear that the company itself was really bought. So, and again I don't have the whole story either, it's not as clear-cut as "execs and investors made millions and completely screwed a key employee out of his due".
On a side note, Anders is really interesting person to listen to when he unveils new features and gives talks. He seems really modest and knows the limitations/advantages of a managed language. But, most of all, I always get the impression he is in tune with the needs/desires of the community.
You make a good point. But let's switch up the characters a bit. Let the AI be 'God' and let you be the entire human race. And instead of giving you the decision to 'let God out of the box', you have the decision to 'accept Jesus'.

Is your mind blown yet?
CNET email response regarding the bundled installer
OK. So the payment goes to Google instead of Microsoft, what's good about it?
Good point, I should have used octet, and mentioned that a byte is assumed to be equal to an octet unless otherwise stated. I should probably have also called a bit a fundamental unit and mentioned its relationship to bans.
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This post is irritating. NoSQL isn't as mature. Don't take it so personally.
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I'm not sure that Python 3 adoption is "slow", per se. We're about halfway through the original adoption timeline.

http://sayspy.blogspot.com/2011/01/my-semi-regular-reminder-...
who said Android's cheap?

Real cost of Android =

Android acquisition price +

Motorola acquisition price ($12.5 Billion) +

Lawsuits
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I got to see Kurt Vonnegut speak at Rice in '98. That would be hard to top. http://www.vonnegutweb.com/vonnegutia/commencement/rice.html if you care to read it.
I did watch many of the BUILD sessions, but never saw any indications that C# was going away or even being de-emphasized. I think you may be misunderstanding. Could you give examples of what you mean?

Microsoft isn't really "throwing everything away", they're shifting product strategies in a rather confusing and convoluted way. However, the latest stuff their pitching is C# and stuff from Silverlight (even though it's "dead") -- it's largely the same technologies. A Silverlight or WPF programmer will find a relatively painless transition to WP7 (which is essentially WPF/Silverlight) or W8 Metro apps.

I think your idea that C# is being de-emphasized or going away is a very, very incorrect statement contrary to reality.
By those standards, you'd have to be even dumber to be a founder: bad hours, lots of risk, bad pay and lots of stress.

Most good founders were employees at hot startups, where they learned what to do and joined 'networks of success.'
I read comics in a RSS reader, ads don't show up, though I've just checked and the only web comics I read that have ads are dilbert, and in linux mode[1] the only non-dilbert related ads are textual, and at the bottom of the page.

I read news, though I don't read any particular newspaper, and news links often lead to pages with ads, but those pages are not sites I visit on a regular basis.

It's very possible I visit sites with ads that I did not see. I don't look for them. If ads catch my eye it's a big sign not to visit that site anymore.

[1] http://dilbert.com/fast/
You might want to practice comparing results of calculations you make to what seems intuitively likely. I think you would find it's a very helpful in catching errors.
> (I can't remember the exact jargon)

And this is how most people are screwed. Most folks receive options and never even see the financing docs or stock plan, so they don't have a shred of knowledge about the capital structure.

(Not picking on you, except by way of example. Your situation is all-too-common.)
> What happens if the result only mostly works?

You fix the other parts, or revert to a previous version of your source tree.
Actually there must have been, as new poll options go to the bottom and there's no way to re-order them, so it wasn't added afterwards.

Apologies for the slightly snarky comment, thought you were for some reason complaining that your option was wider than you would have wanted it to be - not that I can think of any reason why anyone would whine about that.
I've had a similar observation with all of my RSS feeds. Afterward, I dropped about 80% of them. And wow did that feel good! Strange how it becomes a weight after a while. I also reduced my HN reading to just a few top posts a day.

What keeps me coming back to HN is my ongoing curiosity of how technology is evolving. (And also a slight paranoia of another hacker publishing exactly one of my side projects before I do :) I enjoy being engaged with other like minded strangers. And I believe this place helps you better predict, even appreciate the direction of technology.

Just so long as you have balance and it doesn't keep you from actually getting things done. As for the article's point, I do agree. Doing something is immeasurably more beneficial for you than reading about it.
Already posted it in the current discussion thread from the morning:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3322957
Rubinious (Ruby implementation) did something like this with their 2.0 release that supports MRI (CRuby) version 1.8.7 and 1.9.2 syntax.
Ah, but that's assuming something very much in debate. Humans are actually quite predictable in many ways, though not as well as springs (currently). Aggregate behavior can often be predicted to reasonable accuracy, at least as well as with other complex, non-human systems like the weather. And even individual behavior can be predicted with enough information (and neuroscientists can even predict some specific decisions seconds in advance, given the right instrumentation). Just knowing some demographic and contextual information about a person hugely reduces your error on predicting what their "choices" will be.
Yeah that's called good customer service. IME amazon kindle ebooks are similar.

However its good to know what your legally entitled to, in case you do it lots and the company stops being nice.
I think it depends more on the year the house was built. Newer houses seem to be built really cheaply, while ones from 50+ years ago here are fairly solid.
I'm a PHP developer and use HAML and SASS in PHP projects.

Why? Because to build a website with these tools speeds up my development time.
You cannot forget anymore a </b> closure. You can forget all the 'echo' calls. You can forget all that horrible "nested" css rules with tons of repetition. You can forget all that <?php ?> tags everywhere around the HTML code.
Yes the cost to pay for this is ruby. Well, it took me about 20/30 minutes to setup a ruby environment with RVM ( https://rvm.beginrescueend.com/ ).

Now my PHP project are cleaner, easier to mantain, only with a little "trick": some really good Ruby tools...
At the end, I think that the advantages are worth the costs...

This is a "templated" way to do so in wordpress projects... Why not? ^^
Well, it's not like the hard drive has to work to get that layer of air. It's just a consequence of physics, right?
Meh.

While it is certainly interesting from far away and above, very few people will see this building from that perspective. On the ground, this is going to look like a rather dull 4 story glass and concrete wall. There is nothing iconic or immense about it to the average visitor.

As far as I can tell, the wow factor is limited to those with helicopters.
There are probably processing fees and whatnot that make anything less than $10 useless or even cost them money.
I find the articles interesting, that is enough for me to justify reading HN. When I compare HN to the front page of reddit, which I used to read, I feel a lot better about reading HN.

I would also claim you want to 'relax' during breaks, that is, not actively think about something. I can't think of many better activities then reading HN.
it's called http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associative_memory (yeah, there's plenty of links spanning from that article, I know)

I think there's a whole cult that promotes learning all kinds of things by remembering by association, can't remember what it was called. My father was introduced to it when he tried to learn a new language, but it failed miserably at that (not all tools are suitable for everything).

Anyway, another good technique to recall something is to think about something else for a moment and not concentrate on a particular thing you can't recall at that moment too much.
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Depends on the subject, there's an asymptotic dropoff in usefulness as you become more and more read in it.
Phil is good in the sense of being very community-oriented, among other attributes. It's not that others are "bad", just that Phil is a great ambassador for C# developers in the world-at-large.
Until it adds Line 165: "ignore line 42".
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I think this counts as a larger accident. The one you link involved a "handful" of broken windows. This is a similar amount of property damage but came much closer to actually killing someone.
Yes, and duly noted.
full disclosure: johnny-cache author

The top commenter in OP gave a great rundown of these projects and their evaluation of them at YCharts at a Django NYC meetup a month-ish ago; I'm sure his slides are available on the nyc django site somewhere.

All of these projects "automatically" manage cache for querysets, but they do it different ways, and can be susceptible to poor performance under different usage patterns.

From what I can tell, JC adds the lowest amt of overhead to cache misses and hits, and uses the simplest (it's mildly sophisticated, but still straightforward) management algorithm. It's the only one that works fine when using UPDATE queries that do not mention row ids, and (as a result) is the one that most greedily invalidates on writes.

The others are fine projects run by smart people, and depending on your site's situation, I'd recommend some of them over johnny-cache. It's a good idea to evaluate them all, as they certainly did at YCharts (his section on JC was very accurate), and as OP seems to have done.
Python has broken backwards compatibility with Python 3 and tools were written to translate 2.x code to 3.x but that is not at all a regular thing.
During TechBubbleV1, many people got completely burned by AMT after exercise.

Several were bankrupted because the stock deflated. Oh, and IRS bills are not dischargable in bankruptcy, so those poor bastards had their pay attached.
'Paid for my options before leaving the company.' means #1 is irrelevant.

Chances are there was some issue with preferred vs common stock.
I installed sc on my Android phone.

I used it to take a 3 second video of my keyboard.

It uploaded to sc, where I can see the video just fine.

On my Android phone, I cannot find the video anywhere -- It does not show up in gallery.

None of the other videos I see in my Android Gallery show up in the socialcam app to share them, and socialcam does not show up in the typical Android share menus.

At socialcam.com, I can see the video I took, and can share it, but there seems to be no way to delete it, modify it, or download it.
I'll downvote you because I think you're missing the point.

Android makes Google $2.5B/yr (that's a run rate, up from $1B this time last year). Google's total run-rate is about $35B by comparison.

Given that it's in land-grab mode, I imagine they are re-investing like crazy in Android-- they realize that the dominant smartphone operating system has a lot of market power. As an example, Microsoft makes more on Office/Server stuff than they do on Windows.

tl;dr Comparing a dominant operating system (Android to a hardware company that grudgingly made software (Nokia) isn't really valid.
Why would it be sleazy? What if the investors got their money back and nothing more? Even if they got more based on preference, I don't see the problem.

That TechCrunch article doesn't really present the event as a great exit, but more that the founders were hired to move on from a startup that wasn't really going anywhere. (the post specifically says that Google didn't technically acquire the company)
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Is this not due to the fact that those with cancer and chronic illnesses tend to skew the death rate for the skinniest?
I'd prefer to be the better person here rather than defame them publicly

Idly allowing bad and potentially evil behavior to go unrecognized and unchallenged is by no means being a good person. Not to Godwin the thread, but your attitude is why evil flourishes, and on much grander scales than stock allocation.
Of course the welfare system is sustainable.

Welfare is sustainable. Until you have more people on the roles than are working.

Then .. not so much.

I would say that welfare is sustainable at the time it was enacted, and for that time period.

A good example might be US Social Security. At the time, relatively few people lived more than a few years past retirement age. This is sustainable.

Time passes.

People live a lot longer, there are more people drawing on the system. There are more benefits _in_ the system than originally imagined: old people vote and they vote (as a block) for pols who will give them stuff. And then more stuff.

I'm simplifying of course but .. welfare is not sustainable because people want more stuff and initial conditions change.
Motorola acquisition price ($12.5 Billion)

Android has been successful already, even without that.

Lawsuits

Only Oracle has sued Google over Android, and the outcome of that is far from settled.
I don't see a serious problem with a low retention rate from reading HN articles. I do not come here to memorize every item that flies through... I probably read 50 items a week on HN, but the reason I come back is for the 2-3 items per week that make me re-evaluate what I am doing, and cause me to do it better.
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> On top of the annoyance of simply having two applications to deal with, the separate applications, plus iOS sandboxing rules, mean that data from the trial application cannot be transferred to the full application in most circumstances.

I could hack this using URL schemes within a couple hours, but admittedly it was not too much data (1kb? :)). I guess iCloud could make it even easier.

It still is a nightmare, usability wise. When you have an iPhone and iPad, iTunes is terrible enough even without application duplicates (Lite/Full and even HD sometimes).
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Ask HN: Magic Ticket for University
If you had all expenses and tuition paid to go to university (again), what would you study and why?

Would you enhance your existing skills, or do something entirely different?
An over-loaded RSS feed, or being subscribed to too many mailing lists has an effect similar to what PG is talking about in his "stuff" essay.

http://www.paulgraham.com/stuff.html
Your claims aren't to the point at all. Even if he didn't come up with those things originally, he introduced them to a massive community of developers, that's already one great step!.

Being a great guy as he is, I'm sure he'll push to positive in anything he'd do!.