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Wait, do you think that there aren't already 10s, maybe even a 100+ products out there with the same basic functionality as Highrise? Because there are. There were before Highrise, and now, after. There are more every year.

The concept of a CRM is not something you can "copy" because it simply exists. And most web-based software works in roughly the same way. So far, most 37signals products have very few truly unique features, because their focus is on simplicity and less software.

Accordingly, 37signals doesn't care if somebody launches a new CRM.

They also don't seem to care when live chat apps like Hipchat have one or two features that 37signals pioneered.

Stealing a design outright, on the other hand, is not growing or improving or adopting a concept (e.g. "contact management that tracks deals", "it should x when you y") but their actual IP.
Is WebOS the Next Desktop Linux, Java or Symbian?
Side point: it really bothers me that on freebsd the ports system takes over /usr/local. I expect /usr/local to consist of things that I as admin have installed by hand, and nothing else.
Very immature!
why the people wrapping stuff in strings have to understand the limitations of RPython? It's "wrap expression in strings" vs "do nothing".
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Ask HN: What is the coolest things that have been done in/with node.js?
I am not a node.js user, but I think I would like to be. However, there seems to be no site that truly shows off what node.js can really do easily (with or without popular node.js-oriented frameworks).
Which I find is actually quite problematic; "make install" by default puts things into /usr/local, and I would prefer to distinguish between things I've installed and things ports have installed. (Specifically, I need to build my own mplayer, but I also need the ports version installed as some other ports depend on it).
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This can be the case of troubled up motherboard which generally happens when NVIDIA Motherboard Drivers for Windows go missing or get into some serious trouble. And if you face such a situation some day, check out your driver before doing anything else.
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You will find plenty of retailers in the cellphone accessories market selling different type of cellphone accessories like covers and skins to their customers. Sometimes selecting attractive cell phone covers or skins that suits your personal style becomes very challenging for you.
Top tip: Start using Linux on commodity hardware. You'll save money, learn a lot more, and won't be such a support burden on small software companies.

On the other hand, I think it's okay morally if you identify as a Linux user to this company's web site and get the discount AS LONG as you never make support requests.
Their README has "Hash Quality" section. It says there are some flaws that they consider harmless for intended use in hash tables.
Something like:

[object Object]

Glider, the smart inbox

http://glider.io

Or:

[object Object]

Glider, how it works

http://glider.io/learn-more
-1 for "follow", "like" and all the other social things.

Imho the reason why people are not using tumblr/posterous/wordpress/etc. is not only on the publishing aspect: I guess (at least that's what on MY mind) that people want just simple things, for both writing and reading, without all that unnecessary "baggage" that other services provide.

We have a bajillions of places when can we like stuff, do we have so many places where can we read a post in peace? ;)
Doesn't regulation makes them technically hard problems? (Use of technology to defy regulation)
Cringe. Please use contact cleaner for electronics (Servisol is a good brand). WD40 may well eat plastic & rubber seals (although nitrile rubber, eg. o-rings, should be safe). It's a light oil spray and water displacer. It's not a substitute for proper lubrication - it will wash grease & oil OUT of bearings for example. For brass hinges, locks etc. use graphite dust (soft pencil lead if you have nothing else, but graphite is cheap). Oil will attract dust and other crap and make the problem worse over time.
We've recently launched http://www.codecloud.io which provides a NodeJS back-end for apps, and you can start coding right away from your browser. Of course we think it's pretty cool, but you be the judge :)
>I would certainly prefer it if PyPy was 100% compatible with the CPython C API even if it was at 80% (maybe even 60%) of the CPython C API speed because then I don't even have to think. I'd be using PyPy because it's faster overall and I can do the analyses I want faster.

While part of me agrees with this, if PyPy starts sacrificing performance for CPython compatibility then pretty soon it'll degenerate into CPython.
Serving the assets was a big mistake, but isn't this the same forum that overwhelmingly says copying isn't stealing and that no harm is done to the original creator when you duplicate their work? Now, suddenly everyone's a hard ass about IP? In this case more than all the others argued here, if you exclude the assets problem, there was zero detriment caused by using this design. It's not a competing product, and it did nothing to the value of the original work. If you can write off the assets issue as a bad mistake, and it was, I just don't see how 99% of the HN crowd can suddenly take the high road on appropriation of creative work. Have some consistency.
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Google Privacy -Great article and maybe creates opportunity
After I read this it made me think wouldn't it be great if i could use cloud storage ie. Dropbox or other cloud networks to store my email and not be reliant on google
Some other big problems:

Prisons
Retirement for not-so-rich people
High schools
Government procurement
Shipping (in developing countries)
Customs (in developing countries)
Utilities prices in Northern countries
Digital democracy (removing corporate influence on elections)
The startup I'm working on now sprung from my senior design project. In our case, our "customer" was a local startup incubator. Their goal was not only to mentor the project, but help us turn it into a business (so retaining ownership of it was critical). We investigated the IP stuff from the outset. After some informal conversations at our school and others, we determined that they mostly don't care about undergrad projects, and we can do whatever we wanted with it.

Most research universities have IP and commercialization people (our school included), but the purpose of that activity is limited mostly to faculty and grad student projects since those projects often require some non-trivial resources from the university (so they want some ROI). Nearly every undergrad project that a student might claim ownership of doesn't require any school resources beyond the standard stuff (maybe you used lab computers to host your site or code repository for a little while during the semester -- not a big deal).

I think in your situation, since you just want to use it as a portfolio piece, I agree with noahc: just post it, but take it down if asked. If you wanted to use the IP for something that might create significant value (read: you'd make enough to make it worth it for the school or the "customer" to sue), I'd ask first and get something in writing (with the help of lawyer, if possible).
After I read this it really makes me want to find an alternative to gmail, its too bad the main focus is diluting from being the best at search to becoming a social vehicle. If others feel as i do i think there are some potential great product ideas/opportunities for some of the cloud storage services to expand their product offerings, maybe other readers know of such as service?.

I find it scary relying on one company with the famous motto about evil having so much data about me and with the no opt out nature of this policy - as a result I now make an effort to ensure that I am not automatically logged into my browser when I search.
Ask HN: What are the best management texts?
I read a quote about managing a team, but I cannot remember where. Oddly enough, I remember that it was very important and thus want to look into learning about management. What are the best texts (books, posts, articles, etc.) to learn more about this area?
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I don't want anyone snooping around my medical history, except myself. My doctor should only have the right to look at my paper history or my iPad (with secure, offline data).

Don't assume governments are more or less evil than companies. Losing control of your own data is the problem here.
IC are like cats. They both have 9 lives and each time you handle it outside a protective environment it loses a life (the IC, not the cat :-)
You may not see a failure right now but you will see it later when the life-counter reaches 0.
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So he should have said 'the hard problems, that are hard for non-technological reasons'? That's quibbling semantics and does not address the message of the post: that startups cannot solve certain kinds of problems.

I think an entirely reasonable response is: so what? Different companies have different purposes and there's no shame in actually tackling one problem instead of attempting to tackle some supposedly bigger/harder problem that you are much less likely to succeed in tackling and that you perhaps don't care for.

Moreover, the examples he gives may be annoying, but the cost to society, the companies involved or price people are willing to pay to have them solved may be lower than that of problems startups are addressing, so there is no ecnonomic incentive to work on them.
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Oh yeah, I can totally see that being the case as well. I almost shared a story in my last comment about a guy I knew who, though constantly struggling to stay afloat (most likely below poverty with a wife and three kids), would do his best to buy something nice for his wife (something small, but thoughtful) and sometimes rent a movie that they could all watch when he got home from work.

My dad pointed out "Your family's wellbeing includes their morale."

Either way, only Ryan (and possibly his accountant [probably his wife]) can make that call.
How about solving small, but important problems? There are countless examples of people using tech to improve people's lives in a way that matters.

Just look at the winners of this year's Microsoft Imagine Cup: http://www.imaginecup.com/blogs/imagine_cup_finals/default.a... - Apptenders, team from Croatia, built a physical therapy app for Kinect that helps children with cerebral palsy, quote: "KiDnect is a Kinect-based solution for on-premise and remote physical therapy for children, especially those born with Cerebral Palsy. This software has the ability to monitor a child’s exercises to ensure they are being completed correctly, and then provides statistical analysis to the therapist."

I would argue that the problems of the world are solved by solving small important problems, one at a time. And there's a world of opportunity for every startup to do just that!
Firefox (Aurora) and I get this:

Your browser's cookies seem to be disabled. Ads Preferences will not work until you enable cookies in your browser. How do I enable cookies?

No, cookies are not disabled. I am even logged in on the Google website.

Maybe because I don't live in the US?
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O2 are saying the intent wasn't there.
Ask HN: Shall I buy an 'ultrabook' or a MB Air?
What I really want to know is are there any ultrabooks that can compete with the MacBook Air on the key features:

- size/weight
- battery life
- quick on (since Lion, instant on is a thing of the past)
- SSD (how is this not standard in the feature spec...)
- backlit keyboard (incredibly important)

Any suggestions of ones that people have tried/reviewed?
I doubt very many people find it strange -- just because you have revenue, or are profitable, does not mean you're "in the clear". Companies typically raise additional capital so they can accelerate their growth. Your assumption that companies only raise because they aren't cash-flow positive is misguided.
On the one hand I don't understand how this guy can be considered an expert on the subject. On the other hand, legalizing drug use is not a panacea, just a tiny step in a better direction, as the data shows.
In my opinion BDD has some extra overhead (that can be useful in the right scenarios). BDD is best suited when you have specs and external stakeholders. We don't have that in my company / startup.
I think anyone capable of doing this will display a lower support requirement anyway - problem solved ;)
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People aggregate free learning on management into 'Mixes' - I found it useful when studying for my MBA and before pitching to investors.
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There is a gap between inventors and innovators. Innovators and those who step on people to succeed financially are the ones heralded in society. It's nice to see the pure genius side of innovation.
What is worrying is not what they (don't) say, but that they all hunch over their tiny screen laptops all day. For the love of Code g(uy|al)s, get a decent pair of peripherals!
It entirely depends on how easy to develop for Windows 8 is - if it is rubbish and not portable across platforms, I think WebOS may get some developer attention.

From what I can see, HP have some work to do to make WebOS a little less hard work.
It's quite straightforward to dump the entire header in a database, but most sites don't. None of my sites do. Apache, lighttpd, thttpd, etc don't (maybe they do with an appropriate plug-in).

People seemed to be reacting as if every website an O2 customer visited was going to add their phone number to their files, and that's not the case.
Facebook can be the next big thing. Bigger than it is now, much more bigger. Facebook have a competitive edge: influence.

Facebook is like a drug. It's addictive because it makes you live in an idealized life. You feel like a celebrity and getting 5 likes on a status update is like consuming nicotine. So you keep updating, commenting and liking. And you keep getting delighted.

The next big thing that Facebook can do is to integrate with businesses (like restaurants, shops...). Since they can influence people, they can generate strong and massive leads.

I can see Facebook a trillion dollars business with that. It'll need a genuine organization to do that, but they already did a good progress.

*[I'm talking here about my Facebook friends (100% of my friends use Facebook on a daily basis)]
I think there is a difference about being inspired by ideas or concepts in a design and plain ripping it off completely. That for me is the big difference.

As for no harm done, I don't agree with that. A lot of 37signals audience and marketing is through their audience that loves to hear what they say about design amongst other things. Having a cutting edge marketing website and blogging about it helps to generate interest in what they do. For someone that didn't know 37signals is the original designer of that style of site, no credit would go to them. The guy from Curebit even stated that he was planning to write up a blog about how the testing goes... why should they get the credit and pageviews for reviewing the a/b testing on someones elses design?

Go read @allangrant recent twitter posts and see if you still feel sympathetic.
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"and a GUI is used to provide easy access to the application" How do you think the GUI finds the application? There is a PATH. Open up a cmd and type the name of any installed program.

1) Programs put themselves in various directories on my windows 7 machine, some are under \Program Files, some are under \Program filees (x86), some are \Programs and so on, variations and variations.

2) to locate a program you need to know its corporation, which people often dont know. There are setup.exe start.exe fireup.exe and run.exe and variations, which one should the user use to start the program?

3) all the applications components are not in a single place but are spread out over \Program-Files, \Windows\system, \windows\xx\xx and the registry at the least. Then they put stuff in \users\application data\ and \users\xx\applications or whatever.

You and many people dont understand where anything goes because unlike for Windows, GNU/Linux systems actually make sense and actually have a structure (that is different from windows) which you need to learn to operate the system, just as you learned to navigate the mess of windows.
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At the civic level, check out some of the projects that the Code for America folks are up to: http://codeforamerica.org/projects/
Revenue is not the same as profit, they could very easily be running at a loss even with that amount of revenue. We have seen this in extremes with companies like Groupon lately.
My main interest for 'quick technical blogging' would be nice and easy code formatting (C++ in my case), which seems to be irritatingly difficult in my blogging systems.

Not sure if that is the kind of comment you are interested in. How would I put some C++ code into a blog post?
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During my army service, I spent 3-4 years being an AN/TPQ-37 tech. Its a high-voltage, high power, immensely complex Radar.
Even though it is such a beast, and could take a lot of mistreatment, we had one "do not use WD-40" rule tattooed into our brain. On the long run it always caused much more damage than help!

DO NOT USE WD-40 WITH ELECTRONICS.

We used to use Freon and silicon based lubricants - but I'm not sure these substances are legal anymore.
I think the more interesting thing is that the bureaucratic problems not solvable by startups still do get solved over time, just not with a grand launch day flourish or ample press coverage. They generally have to be solved by the people in the thick of the bureaucracy who are willing to fight for improvement. And when they win and the problem is taken care of, it won't manifest in an impressive product, it'll be nearly invisible.

All of which reinforces the idea that business is not always the model for success - it's just the most common one.
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Or it could just be that Linux users are better problem solvers in general and don't need as much hand holding as others.

Having fought against both Windows and Mac about what my work machine should be, I can certainly see why a developer may need less support on a Linux machine. Linux (and traditional unixes in general) allow the owner to make everything work the way he/she thinks would be more appropriate.
I actually don't care that they copied the design, but that YC actually funded people who thought that was a professional thing to do.
Look, downloading any app starting with "Sexy girls" is stupid to begin with.

You can sit on the sidewalk and watch them and not get a virus, if you keep your hands to yourself.
You dont stick things that are custom to that machine in /srv, thats not what the article you linked to says.

Its for serving using various services, so you would have /srv/http /srv/ftp and so on, you dont put packages/programs into /srv
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From the comments:

> I went into the Apple store, they at first thought it was a software problem (just bs the were told to say apparently) and then wanted $150 for an out-of-warranty replacment.

That's why it might not be worth it.
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> Easily testable tends to mean that the class knows to little.

No it doesn't. You've got a pretty big job proving that ALL TDD does that.

Have you ever read python doctests? They are a perfect example of tests that describe both functionality and usage.
Don't mistake governments with the state, or public institutions.

For instance, here in Germany, we have what U.S. people would probably call 'socialized health care'. We invented it, basically.

But this doesn't mean it's one gigantic insurance for all people. Actually, it's a system with hundreds of insurances, and you can pick the one you'd like (with some exceptions). The only thing you can not do is to not pick any of them. And no insurances is able to reject you.

The insurances may be companies, but there are also non-profit entities. Either way, they are separate from government. Strictly speaking, they aren't even part of the state. As far as I know no one from the government is allowed to request their files without a court order.

Additionally, there's a parallel 'free' system for people with sufficient income, and some special groups. Interestingly, civil servants seem to be one of these special groups. They may opt-in into the social system, but most of them seem to use the 'free' system -- not because of fear but because it's cheaper for them.
Personally I feel if people like the WSJ want to stay out of the linked web we should just leave them there. We should not encourage "rewrites" either, thats not real journalism.
Partly off-topic, but it isn't illegal to mention or discuss or openly talk about national socialism in Germany and Austria. It is illegal to glorify the Third Reich or deny the Holocaust. The only people getting convicted for this stuff are neo-nazis and related assholes.
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> Windows was a "worse is better" MacOS

Bad example, MacOS was out years before windows. Microsoft just got a massive market hack. It had nothing to do with solving a problem directly and then iterating...