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Strategically, Apple doesn't want anything on their platform that doesn't fit in. Nintendo and Sony are exactly the same with their consoles.
This is why I don't jump on bandwagons, but instead use software based on my own evaluation. I try to avoid letting hype influence my decisions.

I find a pinch of skepticism goes a long way.
I imagine SimplyHired will just tell them to use their xml-api interface...
40-60min battery life though, vs 90min on the Pico
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The presumption was that it ever did. Popular at one time, sure, but "matter"?
How does being forced to vote preclude you being informed about the issues?

Furthermore, it doesn't really sound like they're forced to vote - it sounds like they're forced to drop a piece of paper in a box that may or may not express a vote.
Although the "communication skills" shortage you refer to is well understood amongst engineering types and a real problem on its own, I don't think this is solely to blame for the article's premise. For inventions that change behavior a lot, its not even enough to show a product, that still only allows the other person to see what they see, not what you see.

Email has been around for ages (the 60s in various early form), but it wasn't widely considered a killer app until the early to mid 90s.
Lots of people vote without considering anything at all, or without being aware of proposed solutions.

Hell, I'd guess that the majority of voters yesterday were not very well informed about any of the proposed solutions.
I'll ignore the insults, and actually address the question: why am I not working on the water problem?

First, the "water problem" is solved. It is well known how to produce and deliver clean water. Proof: 5 billion people on earth DO have clean water.

So, if the water problem is solved, why doesn't everyone have clean water? There is a politics and corruption problem. If I were to attempt to deliver clean water to, e.g., Darfur, the Janjaweed (1) would try to kill me. In Nigeria, they would eat my dollars.

I'd love to help. But I'm an physicist, not a cop. I don't know how to police corruption in Zimbabwe, or make it socially unacceptable to take bribes. So instead, I focus on problems where I actually can come up with a solution.

(1) For those unfamiliar with the situation, Janjaweed are basically an Arab version of the Nazi's. No, Godwin's law doesn't apply here.
Better startup time and more intuitive to use for non freaks (just like Safari on a Mac), and we already would by at 50%.
The long-distance phone tax was instituted during the Spanish American War 110 years ago as a surtax on "luxury" good.
Tech late adopters are often better sources of revenue for ecommerce sites - they have more disposal income, pirate less, etc. "Let the unwashed masses suffer for their ignorance" loses a lot of business if your goal is to sell something.
Part of the difficulty is that there is no definition of what the CTO role will entail. Decisions on legislation that affects technology? Choosing technology strategy for government agencies?
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Taxation is not the only prerequisite of socialism, and just about any taxation can be viewed as wealth redistribution.
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of course they _can_ and don't have to, but just using threads doesn't meet the properties of the "world" construct.
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You heard it here first!

Please, let's keep it to computing and startups and other infrequent topics.
phpBB has an atrocious security record as well.
Reminds me of baggy pants.
A client of mine received a COMET grant in a previous cycle. The article gives a poor impression of what the COMET scheme was designed to do - allow small businesses with little capital to commercialise their technology so as to be able to bring it to market effectively. Grantees are required to match twenty percent of the grant they spend.

There are guidelines to how the money may be spent, but as long as it's towards commercialising your technology, they are satisfied (i.e., you have a programmer as an employee, but you can contract out a programmer to complete the work required).

I've heard most businesses in the scheme don't end up profitable, but this is no different from your typical VC fund. While some of the businesses listed may not appear innovative, there are plenty striving to serve a niche, my client being one of them. The technology platform isn't particularly innovative, but the research behind it is solid and the implementation is getting fantastic results.

If there is but a single success from this scheme, then it will have all been worth it.
Why did you stop coding in the first place?
About 25% of Internet users run IE6, representing more than all Firefox versions (assuming you trust anyone's Web browser statistics)... well, that's not small change.

Does IE6 Still Matter?

For a hobby, it's up to you.

For a business, only if you want to remain a business.
Typically a first-year grad.student has other projects around in his/her lab and can actually switch to one of them if required. I think it might be an option for you. At least, I never recommend to continue working on something that you simply don't care ...
Also, especially if you are doing CS-research: do an internship and ideally right now (I mean - find a good one, apply for, and get it; well, I know, there are not that many internships in winter time but some are certainly available). Assuming you do the internship it allows you to see the "real life" and just compare it with your academy life and other stuff.
I think you are wrong about schools. Obama repeatedly mentioned support of Charter schools (though not vouchers) in the debates. He specifically mentioned Michelle Rhee in DC as doing good work, which is highly encouraging to many of us who think Democrats have been on the wrong side of the education debate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Rhee

PS, I think you are right about "card check", which seems to me like one of the most important issues in this election which has gotten approximately zero public debate.
I haven't watched The Corner, but I have read the book, and stayed in some very ghetto places in Baltimore when I was in my hitchhiking / train-hopping phase.

The book The Corner is an excellent read, and is quite accurate. People who have little to no experience with real lower-class city areas and ghettos should read it. It's also very well written, and is not a dry read at all.
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Basically, Wordpress is written in PHP and this is the root of all evil.

Let's look at the roots of PHP: it was never designed as a programming language, it was a tiny script language used to create Rasmus Lerdorf's website. Thus, it has a lot of oddities like the === operaor.

Do you know why it it is there? Because they wrote a broken instr() wrapper and messed up the error handling. And instead of doing one thing right, they added another obfuscation layer. Great design.

Then, PHP was traditionally used by webdesigners, not programmers. This lead to tons of bad code and bad practices. It is not that you cannot write elegant code in PHP, but there is so much more bad code around that it is hard to find the good code.

So, why do wonder about this?
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For one of my blogs, we got fed up with IE6 compatibility... so we just made a little javascript that would forward users of IE6 to a page with screenshots of our site and a little "Dude, upgrade your browser."

This was for a corporate blog, mind you.
I think you can afford to worry less about CSS and other sorts of compatibilities at this point. Still important to make sure javascript doesn't break.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=276520
unless it competes with my business.
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If you're interested in visualization stuff, please come participate in the visualization reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/visualization/ .
fork(2) will do though.
Yes, but now there is some hope that there will be an economy to buy/use/rent your code.
As a developer of an open source bugtracker [1], I'd say without hesitation that IE6, to the pain of my fingers and eyeballs, does still matter. I can't tell you how much pain and frustration I'm going through right now trying to make even stupid things work across all browsers, and it seems every time I think I've fixed something, a swarm of IE6 users creep out of the woodwork and tell me just how wrong I am....

/me cries
Sadly, yes, unless your site is aimed solely at technologically savvy users. Or even technologically awake users.

Sad as it is, most sources indicate that IE still has 70-75% of the browser market share overall, and ~40% of IE users are still on IE6. So roughly 30% of the web browsing market is on IE6, which is a rather large subset to simply ignore.

Like it or not (and none of us do), the bulk of sites out there are stuck with supporting IE6 for the near future.
Physical fitness is also a much easier metric to estimate visually, and we are lazy, visual creatures. We like to make snap judgments and rationalize them later.
Ask HN: Anyone running a US-based non-resident LLC?
Is anyone running a US-based LLC with non-resident members? I'm thinking about registering it for my web venture. I did some research, but I cant find anything about few things..

Is it hard to do LLC book-keeping for web app on my own?

If I hire myself as a contractor in my home country, do I have to pay taxes on these incomes to US gov?

If I get paid from US-based company personally (not through company), do I have to pay taxes to US gov on these incomes?

If my company gets money from both US and non-US units, do I have to pay taxes to US gov for both or US units only?

Is it hard to run a US-based LLC from abroad in general? Paperwork etc.

Thanks!
Nintendo and Sony have formal, up-front approvals processes for their respective consoles, which - if controlling what goes on/does not go on the platform is the goal - seems a better way of going about it.

Incidentally, SCEE has quietly dropped the approvals process for PS2 games in Europe.
How to waste time on the web now that the election's over
Apple may perceive a cost in supporting developers who may be less likely (or unlikely) to contribute to their platforms. Inasmuch as charging a fee for WWDC videos, or the iPhone program (or whatever), would deter such developers, not only would it save Apple this cost but it would allow them to focus their support on those who are more likely to contribute to their platforms.
This question discomforts me coming from somewhere like 'cio'.com. To reiterate what I know most will say, IE6 still holds 1/5th of the browser share.

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
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I didn't see his victory speech this time, but I did see his victory speech in the primaries:

"...I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal..."

which at the very least suggests "humility" isn't necessarily deeply ingrained.
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Microsoft charges a lot for the Visual Studio with various enterprise/team/automation extensions, but the free version is sufficient for writing and compiling most -- if not all -- Windows programs.
Hopefully his policies will live up to the talk, but if nothing else I believe that his message alone will go a long way towards helping improve things.

Never forget: the unintended consequences of any government policy almost always wind up being far more significant than the intended consequences.

This is what I fear most.
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It is definitely valid to say that packaging helps sell a product. Think about the experience of receiving a product from Apple and you see the value of packaging.

What is so interesting in this case is that it is a sign of how people's tastes are changing. These new, simple Amazon packages have more 'charm', not less. People are excited by the thought that they're being 'green'. The simple cardboard packaging speaks to the current love of simple, clean and even perhaps DIY design. Simple is charming right now, and Amazon must be keenly aware that this is a smart move both for their bottom line as well as their customer satisfaction ratings.
Eric Raymond has some great quotes in How To Become A Hacker that seem to go over a lot of heads.

"But a note of caution is in order here. The hacker community has some specific, primarily defensive political interests — two of them are defending free-speech rights and fending off "intellectual-property" power grabs that would make open source illegal...But beyond that, most hackers view attempts to systematize the hacker attitude into an explicit political program with suspicion; we've learned, the hard way, that these attempts are divisive and distracting. If someone tries to recruit you to march on your capitol in the name of the hacker attitude, they've missed the point. The right response is probably “Shut up and show them the code.”
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> Tech late adopters are often better sources of revenue for ecommerce sites - they have more disposal income, pirate less, etc.

I'd think early adopters have more disposable income. Those gadgets don't come cheap you know. iPods were $AU800 when I first got one.

Also, tech late adopters may have greater trust issues with buying items over the internet, particularly from companies they haven't heard of.
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"If on a single core machine you are using threads and it makes perfect sense for your scenario, then you are not 'doing parallelism', you are just doing multithreading."

Er, yes. We know that. However the only single core machines you can buy these days are Netbooks.

Big title, little story.
WH Gates III's 1976 letter.
Interactive map of music styles - Interesting
Flagged. Far too much politics on the front page already, and while this may be by "A VC", the VC-ness of his perspective really doesn't really come through in the article.
the calmness factor is definitely a huge deal, you can't have a guy who shoots from the hip in charge of the red button
Microsoft BizSpark Embraces Startups With Free Software, Services
'Fix' Creationism? How do you fix a belief? By keeping it out of schools?
honestly I think at this point this is a mutual bad relationship. Websites adapt themselves to IE6 because thats what corporate types use. And corporate types don't upgrade, because they have no reason to do so, since websites can be run with IE6.
Mark Cuban is bullish on America
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Don't get me wrong, I like using Python. But I prefer small compromises addressing prior mistakes, allowing for backwards compatibility, over a full rewrite.

I think we're a few years past the arguments you make against PHP. If you want to be trendy, you should rail against the people running Internals (namespace separator).
Good perspective. The next 4 years will be interesting, at the very least.
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And if your netbook has an intel Atom processor; it has hyperthreading and presents itself to the operating system as two cpus.
Yes, and Apple doesn't have nuclear weapons, either. I think his point is that, as the second-most-popular operating system provider, Apple's decisions affect more people than just those using Apple's products, and changing affiliation because of one flaw is not always feasible. In this respect, the analogy works just fine.
Disagree that no one buys clothing online. It's a massive industry.

Agree that the process is broken. I know someone who orders multiple sizes and colors of a single item and returns most of it after trying it all on. Lot of obvious inefficiency here.

I wonder how much a place like zappos (great return policy) pays for all the returns at the end of the day. I know shoes aren't clothes strictly speaking but it suffers from similar issues.
Microsoft to Give Free Software to Startups
If I hire myself as a contractor in my home country, do I have to pay taxes on these incomes to US gov?

For personal income, your country will typically have a reciprocal agreement with the US so that you don't get double-taxed. Check with your local tax body for the exact details.

(Sorry, I know nothing about the other questions.)
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I Democrat's have the young and unions, Republicans have farmers, defense contractors, and old people. It's the same thing "Protect subset X of the population at the expense of everyone else" but I think unions are less damaging to the country for now.
I'll remember that one.
This was an REAL mistake. English is not my native language.
Leo Laporte suggested that on holidays we should setup FF on relatives' computers. I will.

But the problem with that (that I'd bet most of us have) is that you're expected to become the IT department. Being "good with computers", you end up doing endless bloatware uninstalls on their "slow" computer.

But just like spring cleaning, clearing junk from computers can sometimes be cathartic.
Official Google Blog: Ending our agreement with Yahoo
Thumbs up on this list!

I'll echo your points about discovery. Lots of amazing products occupy the long tail that I just don't know about. Amazon does a decent job with their "you may also be interested in" algorithm but they could make the process a lot more fun.
Seems like a cool offering if you REALLY need Windows, the $100 dropout fee seems kind of strange though. I might hop in just to get access to some of the technology -- some of those things are simply too expensive to try otherwise.
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I agree with Mark. The promise of hope in America trumps virtually all policy decisions. I didn't even vote for the guy and I'm actually happy he won. I really hope the next four years will be an amazing time to be an American and that President Elect Obama can deliver on his message of change.
I wish I could upmode you more. And I'm super happy Obama won.
When you look at the numbers, math scores in the U.S. are much more influenced by demographics than by teaching styles.
He was still trying to get elected at that point in time and it's hard to drum up support when you say "aww shucks" (?sp) when your given the spot light.
If I hire myself as a contractor in my home country, do I have to pay taxes on these incomes to US gov?

If I get paid from US-based company personally (not through company), do I have to pay taxes to US gov on these incomes?

You don't pay taxes to US gov unless any of the following two things are true: (1) you are a US resident (2) your income is produced in the US.

There is a precise definition of being a US resident for tax purposes but it basically boils down to you staying in the US for the majority of the time.

The production of income is a bit more tricky. It basically says that if you use US "infrastructure" to produce your income then you have to pay taxes. The common example of this situation would be rental income from a property in the US.
An example when this does not apply would be sitting in front of a computer in another country and writing a web app.
Songkick's most common feature request? Listings for countries other than US/UK.
Good Article.... I completely agree with Fred's positions and beliefs in this article. I especially agree on points 1,4, and 5. In government especially, and as President of the United States, its critical that you surround yourself with intelligent people. The President is not the sole authority and there is no way one person could handle all that. It's important that you surround yourself with "the best in the business." In all fairness, it works much the same in business. As a founder/owner and CEO, its important to surround yourself at that level with qualified people to manage the technology, to manage capital, etc.
Gotta give it to Eric R for his convictions. His wife must get tired of his stubbornness though. Geese.
A manager is only as good as his staff.
Finally gave in and went back to start-up land
I've been off writing a book (will come out in April 2009 courtesy of O'Reilly) and have spent the last three years doing consulting work. This past Monday I ended my three years of non-start-up work and returned to full time work in London as CTO of a new company with lots of VC money.

We are actively hiring RIA developers and hoping for an early 2009 product launch. It's good to be back in the pilot's seat.
Please, less politics on HN.
Obama won. We all think it is great. Now please can we take these endless political posts and arguments off HN?
I'm sick of seeming posts like this. No one else can tell you if IE matters to your site. You (I hope) have statistics on who uses your site you can see if a significant part of your community uses IE6. If it's less than 10% maybe you could consider running an upgrade message, if it isn't suck it up.

Posts like this that try to generalise the web together are nonsense. They can suggest trends, but then Yahoo still supports IE6 and they have a pretty large % of the web using Yahoo.com.

Mostly it seems like a bunch of people moaning because Web development is hard. That's true. IE6 does not make me happy, that's not an excuse to shaft users. If CIO magazine can give CIOs a compelling reason to upgrade all their legacy machines, now that is something I'd like to read about.
but, then you need to add some sort of IPC to the mix, because there's still a notion of "commit" for the mutation of state.
I love the idea, but I'd prefer to be able to use my own images and music. I suppose the hard part is the categorization of the content, but perhaps that could be crowdsourced.
Why is this getting modded down? He's got a legitimate gripe. This is just some random person's thoughts on the election results. Does the fact that he is a VC somehow make this on-topic for HN?

I could understand this being posted here if it was an opinion on how the election will affect startups and small businesses. Or maybe if, as a VC, the author could offer some kind of insight that might be relevant to HN readers. The article offers none of that.

There are plenty of election discussions on Slashdot, Reddit and Digg. I think it's perfectly understandable to want to keep these discussions off HN.
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Apparently Cuban's reasoning is that with a black President, suddenly inner-city wannabe gangsters will start writing Rails apps.
"""One of the concepts that has run through phone regulation for years was that the price of local service should relate to how many people you can reach in your local calling area. So the people in cities where it is cheap to offer phone service have been paying high bills to subsidize low rates for people in the country."""

The original rationale for this was to help spread telephone service to those parts of the country where it was more expensive to build out. This actually made sense since phones are much less useful if significant portions of the population don't have access to them. That this policy outlived it's usefulness to the extent it did is somewhat surprising.
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