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So, what did YOU build today?

And why do you assume we all have to build something?

Some of us have actual paid work we like, you know, we're not all "entrepreneurs" building the next whatever...
I'm not sure that profit is relevant here; you would have to look at revenue or (even better) head-counts of moviegoers. My understanding is that domestic (US) ticket sales peaked in 2002 at 1.58B while revenue continued to rise until 2009 due to rising ticket prices. Source:

http://www.the-numbers.com/market/

Anyway, my original point was that if you assume aggregate leisure time has changed little over the last decade -- it's impossible to ignore competition from other entertainment activities vying for the same space -- especially when you've got absolutely meteoric growth in the gaming industry.
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Your cookies or location might be affecting the result order.

I'm in the SF bay area and, with a cookieless Chrome incognito window, I see GoDaddy as result #1 and NameCheap as result #4 — after three sponsored results, one of which is also GoDaddy.
Drag and Drop file uploads/downloads in HTML5:
http://tutorialzine.com/2011/09/html5-file-upload-jquery-php...

WebDAV mounts as a network share out of the box in Win/OSX/Lin

I love dropbox but I could see it being much worse than usual for a fair % of users
This is my experience as well, a friend of mine worked with the web fonts team and this matches the motivations he expressed to me regarding the project.
Regulated financial instruments are a monoculture.

Besides, what makes you think that regulators get things right? Even if you ignore regulatory capture, regulators are imperfect, have less information than market participants have, and have their own goals.
Ah, no problem. Plus you gave me the opportunity to give a shout-out to my writers.

And, I'll cop to your criticism. I assigned the story to Kravets, saying I didn't want a typical year end in review story and instead wanted to pick one theme. (That said, the Verge did a very nice year end wrap-up with a cool design).

It's inevitable in the world of journalism and blogging to overpromise in headlines and we'll always get heat for it -- probably rightly so. But I do promise that while I'm running Threat Level, we won't stoop to Business Insider's tactic of turning on the CAPS lock key.
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Interesting. I wonder if there's a way to assess the "pliability" of my customer base. To borrow your phrase: how much "abuse" will a certain customer segment take?
> My point is more that there is more you have to consider with the MS/.Net stack because it all comes as one big package.

Yes, you have to make that consideration. Which was the point of my original comment -- you have to evaluate the whole in creating any application.

> Want to port your RoR + pgSQL app from Linux over to a Windows server with IIS? Sure you can.

> Want to port your .Net + SQL Server app over from Windows to Linux + Apache? Ouch. (well maybe you can use Mono)

This type of commentary is actually a signal I use in candidate interviews. Such generalizations and their inference tells me what working experience a candidate holds.

The level of ease to which you're inferring has to do with the code that's written, not the platform. I've fixed plenty of f'd up applications in my day, and it wasn't the technology stack's problem.

In short, I find the arrows haven't so much to do with this as the archers.
Very unlikely; the SOPA bill will impose significant costs to their operations compared to the reputation loss of publicly political to protect their bottom line.
A couple minor edits to GoDaddy's first superbowl commercial and it could be repurposed as GoDaddy vs internet censorship instead of the original GoDaddy vs broadcast censorship.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DQS8mqBYOM
That's true. Would likely negate the upside of customer awareness if the first thing they learn upon researching the product is that it has 1 star.
"""Or, you know, run an ad-blocker - much easier than jailbreaking a phone and Google Search/Gmail will continue to work well with an ad-blocker running, even if they upgrade the site.""

Actually, no, Google would stop business if people used ad-blockers en masse. So that's just something that works because few people do it.

And it's not like Google is gonna decide where they want to go their services, changes, etc, with you and not the marketer's benefit in mind.

So, even if you use ad-block, you're still the product being sold (to be exact: you're just a lost sale).

You can't escape that, unless you actually pay the company whose services you use.
Ah, the good old equal-time rule. Because if the media could do whatever they wanted with their air time, that would be some sort of "freedom of the press" and we can't have that. It might be "unfair". </bitterness>
Recently in Germany many banks introduced a new "security" feature that allows you to receive your TANs per SMS in order to do online transactions. The TANs are sent in plain text.
All you need is a UMTS receiver and a way to analyze the data, e.g., a software-defined radio implemented on an FPGA.
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Me too, although my impression from one of the comments on TC implied that the client was going to fire you.
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I'm surprised this police tactics are still now widely known outside of Germany. But seeing the included GPS chips in smartphones & tablets makes me believe that this is even easier & more precise these days for other "institutions" and Online-Targeting companies without publishing this.

But maybe there is also hope with smartphones, you could start effective "Gegenmaßnahmen" (counter-measures) by routing your calls via vpn,voip and anonymous throw-away calling cards - to cover at least your location. But don't forget to disable the "location based serives" and install an outbound firewall then ;-)
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Why leave it to the big guys to take the initiative? Larger players only jumped aboard the godaddy boycott after the grassroots push gained enough momentum that they'd look bad if they sat on their hands.

We should take the same approach here. Set a day, then gather as many companies and individuals as possible who will pledge to shut down their sites and replace them with anti-SOPA information and calls to action. Once momentum is established, then call out the big corporations and challenge them to stand up for their supposed values alongside the rest of the web. They will find this much more difficult to decline.
What is the issue with the gov watching my girlfriend and I have sex if we're not doing anything illegal?

In other words, where is the line to what is or is not the government's business, and why does the government get to determine where this line is?
Wouldn't this just invite retaliations in the form of a massive deluge of pro-SOPA television commercials? There are a lot of folks who use Facebook/Google/Wikipedia, but I'd bet there are many more who watch TV, especially among the demographic who will fall for the "we gotta stop the pirates or the terrorists/drug dealers/child molesters will win!" tactic.

I know there is a pro-SOPA commerical going around, but given that I've only seen it aired once, it doesn't seem
British would have loved to have this sort of tech back in the 18th century.

Mr. Jefferson, what do you have to hide? You're not doing anything illegal are you?
They also sell things, like the Macbook Air or iPad, that are much less expensive than what you get elsewhere (when you try to get an equivalently spec'd device).

Perhaps this is true in America but I'm pretty sure it's not in many other places. I recently looked around for a laptop to put Windows7 on and while it was discouraging to see the quality of the laptops that were available (compared, not just to a MacBook but to other laptops that existed 3 years ago) they were significantly cheaper and higher spec'd than a MacBook.
Isn't equity just payment in advance for execution, though? It makes perfect sense to me.
Maybe I am missing your point, but I think that judging comments on the basis of their authors karma is a bad idea.
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This is interesting, but why is this on Hacker News?
My expectation when I was doing some of this stuff was to expect to have flight kits for folks with a usb soundcard + mic + IFB with in-plastic tips. Theoretically it'd be "plug in the USB soundcard" and go.

Points of failure and all of that... but it was a fun thought.
You likely were saying that rhetorically, but in this particular case, Heroes of Might and Magic 5 was released pretty recently and is more or less the same game.
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You should try the King's Bounty series. Actually, I think that the HOMM series was based off of the original King's Bounty game. King's Bounty was remade and updated, and it's quite fun -- and challenging. It's different from HOMM in that you are completing quests in a large world, instead of fighting against rival leaders, and you only get one character that you move around. You recruit from various structures in the world instead of building up a castle. But the combat is the same.
"...I ended being asked for a coffee by the agent. I was not worried because I had nothing to hide."

please google : why you shouldn't talk to the police
I want to be able to infer and extrapolate from buying behavior. Suppose a customer buys at 1300hrs a certain plate, then at 1545hrs the same customer comes back for ice cream. Can I offer something specific for this customer? Can I award him for coming every day? How can I personalize his experience as a customer more? This of course, would be easier on a place that only have 2-5 customers, but alas, restaurants are usually rather crowded.

Basically it's a Basecamp style web-app that needs to get done. For poker it's called PokerTracker. I am looking for RestaurantTracker.
> despite the incredible number of faxes/calls/emails they receive the number of people who actually care are likely to be only hundredths of a percent

No. Regardless of volume, for everyone who makes a fax/call/email, there are dozens or hundreds who still care but did not contact their representative. Instead, they vote against them later.
Here is the author's response from TC:
"Oh, and the meeting in clients offices was tongue-in-cheek. in the example i provide they are about to fire you."
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Data rates are much cheaper in places where telecom companies don't have to recover the cost of old and outdated equipment. For example, the rates in India are very reasonable, even from mainstream operators
I wish their chairs were more comfortable but other than that I totally agree. I always check to see if movies are showing there first.

Reserving a seat (just like on airplanes, for those who haven't seen it) is so awesome.
A lot of these jobs are not entry-level, but I believe that jobs in CA (in the Bay Area) have equal or higher entry-level salaries. Can anyone confirm that people in tech jobs are paid more in Silicon Valley than in NYC?
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I think it has a lot less to do with release delays in the App store than it does with the attention span of the typical customer. You can iterate all you want but if they've already formed an opinion of your product based on a first impression they're unlikely to give it a second look. All the apps I've released have had a big initial sales spike over the first week or so and never again climbed back anywhere close to those numbers, despite a large number of functional and aesthetic improvements.
Moved my hosting service out of Godaddy. Next is to move my domain name as well.
Here's a good paper on the subject:

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=nothing%20to%20hide%20...

(Would link you to it directly but the site appears down; the search results may find a mirror, but watch out for links that are essays about the paper rather than the paper itself.)
They are not going to be able to BS their way through an entire code base.

The problem is that a large number of coders out there simply do not have a project they can show an interviewer. This can be for a number of reasons such as only programming at work or not having much free time. The fact a coder has a project to walk someone through does not imply they are a good coder, so why would a company tailor their interview process to the minority of interview candidates out there who do have a sizable project they can demo?
Because your signal handler may get interrupted by another signal.
I keep on top of tech news and I haven't even ever heard of a couple of those. I'm sure they exist and are important in some very small niche, but if they were the "top" skills currently sought, I would have heard of them, seen them posted in articles, etc. Based on this my conclusion is that the article is up to something. Perhaps they need technology H and P people and thought that posting an article with several "real" top skills along with their pet fringe tech would result in people going back to school for training at no additional cost to the hopeful employer facing a shortage of people competent in their fringe technology.
I found it interesting. I have a Galaxy Nexus on the way, and now have a list of things I'd like to try.
Huge play if they pull this off. This could really set the stage for increased leverage as we move into 2012. There must be a show of strength that strikes at the core of the D.C. machine. This isn't just over people downloading Ashton Kutcher movies, this is about taking down startups that are in direct competition with the distribution players, this is about going for the juglar and using Congress to pick winners. Google, Facebook, Ebay, Twitter, Paypal, Wikipedia and everyone else needs to step their game up; this is going to be a long haul.
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Probably too limited, but a former colleague works for the company that's developing this:

http://www.think-a-move.com/tongue.html
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This is why you should treat Project Euler more as a way to learn mathematics and less as a way to practice code. Most of their problems can, and IMO should, be solved by pen and paper alone.
That's interesting, I've got a Core 2 Duo which I assumed would be similar to the i3 in terms of power. I guess it shows that processor versioning is more than just marketing.
I don't think the BSD/MIT licenses will stop the patent-abusers from using your code because (as I understand them) they say "Here's the code, do whatever you want with it. Just keep the copyright notice on."

If you want to stop your code from being sucked into a black hole, a more "restrictive" license like the GPL would be your best bet. I would recommend the GPL because it's well-known and a lot of people have some idea of what the terms are, as opposed to something like the Apache license, which people might have to look up.
lol, so true. I guess I should say "without consequences."
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I hope you like the article. I'm interested in how similar/different this is from engineering interviews.
I listed my existing web application on there, and while a few hundred people have installed it, they tend to skew southern European, and to the best of my knowledge, none of them has purchased the premium version.
Actually those numbers are way low for NYC.
AFAIK, Dropbox is a 'filesystem' that does not support partial file overwrites, does not do locking in a meaningful way, etc.

Because of that, anything built along the lines outlined in this post will be brittle. For example, if one updates that 'products.csv', one must be absolutely sure that one applies those updates to the last version saved. A solid tool would have to detect races and offer merging of the files. I would rather use some SQL in the cloud or, lacking that, some SCM. Those, at least, come with tools to manually/automatically handle such race conditions.
> What leverage would they have if one or two foreign companies controlled a large majority of their seed stock?

India has in the past allowed infringement of patented HIV drugs. Why wouldn't India allow infringement of seed company patents in a crisis? The whole thing falls down as soon as farmers are told it is okay to break the "pledge".
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I seriously hate your use case. The locked file is the most troublesome thing that seems to negatively impact everyone using these systems so one person can, once in a while, ensure no conflicts happen. A better solution would be smart merging. Just look at source control to see how half-assed locking is as a solution to this problem.

/end-rant
There are good arguments against some of these tips, too. For example, having your high-value founders doing menial tasks is a poor use of resources. There is a good argument for hiring an admin assistant with decent marketing coordination skills, etc. Most small teams I know who have done so say it was incredibly helpful at freeing them up for more important tasks.
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I think for all practical purposes, unless you're doing
something really weird, the likelyhood of hash function
collisions is rare enough that we don't need to think too
much about it.

Except that, like with PHP, the worrying part is that someone can stuff rack.request.form_hash or rack.request.query_hash (a la PHP's $_POST and $_GET).

(Unlike PHP, though, the Ruby community can head off these particular attacks by releasing a new version of Rack, while waiting for a new 1.8.x release containing a security patch.)
"Open", in this context, means open source. HTC's bootloader has always been open source, as far as I know. It's been set up to only boot signed kernels, but that's "open" as in, "customers can modify their devices" not as in, "customers can view and modify the source code we put on the device."

HTC's locking the bootloader isn't exactly an issue with Android's openness. It's an issue with the openness of HTC.
Well, the first problem you'll run into is, which SQL implementation do you use? I think pretty much all discussion of the topic stops here since there are so many differences between the actual SQL standard and what the varios modern RDBMS' actually use.

The only real way past this hurdle is to create an intermediate SQL parser that uses your own interpretation of the standard, and at this point you may as well just use OData.

I'm not sure how valuable a discussion about just using the SQL implementation that comes with your RDMBS is, as doing this defeats all the effort we put into making our front ends ignorant of the underlying schema by locking the front-end into a specific SQL implementation for queries.
It's Google's social network that they give everyone for free, they can refuse service to anyone. I don't agree with the level of censorship personally (it's a little bit too PC), but I respect Google's right to run their website how they see fit.
You do get an incoming number that would cost a lot more with localphone. You see localphone is a business and needs to make money. OVH thinks it's a charity just like Google. Maybe a little more generous. I absolutely love their kimsufi.co.uk servers.
I think they're just scratching the itch they have... a lack of those skill sets. If it catches on, I'm sure other companies will give it a try as well.

I have found the embedded industry to be a tad more conservative (That was an understatement. ;) ), so it may be a bit longer before they pick up the model.
Tried using but gave up. It doesn't support all the native API features. So starting to develop an app using Python would eventually end up just re-writing it using Java. So just used Java to begin with.
Any UGC-based site should be very, very concerned. It is beyond worrisome that something as described in the article (the UG video upload and the potential legal implications) could be made into law.

This article really brings it home.
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Ask HN: why is Johnson & Johnson listed as supporting SOPA?
I'm a regular customer of Johnson & Johnson products, so I emailed them about their support for SOPA.

To my suprise, they're denying any explicit support for the legislation:

http://cloud.github.com/downloads/duncan-bayne/duncan-bayne.github.com/Email%20Response.pdf

... and they don't appear on the official list of supporters here:

http://judiciary.house.gov/issues/issues_RogueWebsites.html

However, they do appear on this list:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmGJz_37ojoqdFZhYlBhN2hQOGRoN2R0ZGh3VDZlblE&pli=1#gid=0

... and many others like it.

Could someone familiar with this issue please explain the apparent discrepancy?
Ah, so you are a poor African villager then? It's good to have you weigh-in on the discussion. We here in the first world are mostly ignorant and think that people in the third world only expect shitty technology with no updates.
>Kids get bored quicker

I bet you walked to school uphill, in both directions, in 3ft of snow in 110 degree heat!

Kids never change. You have.
it's fun to imagine it is, and it's great advertising either way...
CM9 capitalizes on ICS changes and adds some interesting things already. For one, you can enter names "t9-style" into the dialer and it will suggest the closest contact without having to scroll. Very nice if you have hundreds of contacts.

Just a thought, if you've got a Nexus, you're 5 minutes away from having CM9.
maximizing profit from clever scheming is different from maximizing profit from innovating. maybe this is the cultural difference that was being talked about in the article
This is basically a rehash of the usual article on the topic that says the same things and is published every couple months.

One twist was notable. Rather than try to compete on basic hygenic issues and market realities, the advice is to just give up:

"[Y]ou will never beat, say, Google on perks or job security so don’t even bother to pitch those. You’ll never beat Wall Street banks or rich big companies on cash salary so don’t pitch that either"

First, this assumes you are hiring people who are choosing between your company, Google and top Wall Street jobs. That seems unlikely. Very few people want to work on Wall Street and not that many are applying simultaneously to Google and some random company that you or I are running.

Second, you absolutely can't hire top talent by not being competitive with salary, by which I mean 75th percentile or higher. The competent people are like 1% of the job pool out there and have plenty of choices.

You also can't attract top talent by not offering standard benefits. You just can't.

Advocating that you shouldn't bother with competitive pay or benefits is obviously poor advice. So one must ask what is going on here, why is this being advocated? We can't really know. Perhaps the author is trying to justify the low pay and poor benefits his company offers.