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I'm an introvert.

Friday night I head home, cook dinner, play with my dogs, fire up the woodburning stove if it's chilly, and read a book. Maybe call a friend or an out of state family member on the phone.

Saturday night I head out to "Guy's Night" with one or two friends - grab dinner out, head home, watch a DVD.

It sounds boring as hell, but it's exactly what I want to do.
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I'm sure this wasn't 'inspired' by twitpay.me at all, released and announced here 15 days ago (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=369568)
I go to the University of Waterloo, and evidently, lots of co-op jobs are being cancelled. Some of which had already been matched up with students.

It got to the point where the co-op administrators sent out an e-mail advising people to try to hang on to the jobs that they have because they are afraid that there will be far less jobs for the next term.
If you define competing as "what language should I used for this app" then no. VB is way better then perl for desktop apps, and perl way better than VB for text processing and web apps.

But if you define competing as "what language should I learn in order to get a job" then yes, they are competing.

PS: I know, and have used, both in different jobs, so it's not really competition because you can do both. But if you are only going to learn one, then yes, they are competing.
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Too wordy. The second the words "that page doesn't exist" roll across the brain, most users are gone to the next thing.

404 requires three short sentences: Couldn't find that page. It's been reported to our developers. Here's a link that'll maybe get you closer to where you're going.
I am now styling myself as a Ruby Bionic Commando.
Well, I think I know exactly the site you're talking about, but I won't blow your cover for you. I saw it on Reddit just a few days ago and there's a suspicious Facebook icon in the corner that wasn't there a little while ago... so if this is your site, shoot me an email (in my profile) because I found a few small HTML bugs and such. It would probably be to your benefit to share the link here though.

The SEO point is a very a good one, especially for a site that is (probably) very JavaScript-heavy. More than just your site's own tagline, you can optimize for keywords such as "social music," "music sharing," "music community," etc. I just pulled these off the top of my head -- I recommend spending some time with the Google Keyword Tool ( https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal ) if you haven't already.

With a social music site that's based on upvoting, you also have a tremendous resource that sites like Last.fm don't have. Beyond just allowing people to friend each other like all the social networking sites do, you could introduce a feature along the lines of "Other people who upvoted this song also liked..." as a good way to add immediate value for a new user who has just joined and voted up a few songs, but hasn't added any friends yet.
For something like Firefox I'd stick with its built-in add-on manager. Mostly b/c there's not likely to even be many of them available through apt.
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That sounds like part of the solution!

The way to stop hoarding is through exchanges based on actual value. If one can only exchange coins for their face value (from which the real value has deviated), a rational person will hold onto as many of them as they can.
You think your line of business is web apps. It's not. You business is making tools for people. Either via web app, or whatever new tech comes along.

So pretending any language that can't be used on a web server does not exist is not a good idea.

Specializing in certain languages is OK obviously, but don't start thinking the others "don't count".
I know a few hackers who are also rock climbers.

I'm seriously considering taking it on.
I suppose, if they can find a way to monetize anonymous gay hook-ups.
Why trust money printed by the same government that just looted your private pension?

They also went through a national default and currency death not too many years ago. I've heard they don't trust the fiat money; coins, while still fiat money and made of cheap metal, are perceived to be worth more than paper. I couldn't tell you why...

At least they still hold the shared illusion that their coins have value as money, otherwise we would be hearing about gold and barter.
Yes, the more forks the merrier. Just make sure the good ones filter to the top somehow.
Pardon.

Also, I can't help but find your user name humorously ironic.
The Python LDAP and psycopg2 libraries are my biggest culprits.

My point is not that it's impossible to run 2.6; but setting it up requires a level of sophistication with Python/*nix that I can't put on the shoulders of my organization, yet.

If I were working with a couple of smart hackers, this would be a non-issue. But my feeling is my organization is like a lot of others, where anything that's not a tagged, stable "sudo apt-get install" away is not going to fly.
I think the question you need to ask yourself before - How can I increase the net traffic to my site? - is: Why do I want to increase traffic?

Building out a customer base for the sake of increasing numbers leaves too many open questions. Building one for a specific purpose, however, (e.g. increase ad revenue, subscriptions, user-relationships) can help shape the direction of the site's development. It is much easier to increase the volume and stickiness of your audience if you can give them a purpose to look forward to.

That said, the nature of your product should dictate this direction. If you are selling a specific product, consider what modifications and accessories will complement the original product, and to what extent that will draw back loyal users.

Why should I buy an iPod? Because I am confident that I will enjoy engaging with it, look forward to the next model, and that I will be able to relate with my friends about it (consequently encouraging friends without one to get one). Engagement is more important than ownership.

In terms of social music networking, consider what ways that you can allow your users to engage with one another through the product, and to give them some agency over the process.
I never heard of that dance before. It does look quite eclectic.

I usually go out and salsa dance once a week.
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You almost make this sound like a bad thing. While hiring someone based entirely on any single criterion is a bad idea, but someone's degree is not a horrible heuristic for doing some quick review of potential candidates, or when comparing the quality of candidates. Graduating with a Computer Science or Engineering degree from MIT does mean something, particularly if you're looking for more junior developers.
Cool. Where do I find out about these parties?
It's http://cherrypeel.com. I was trying to start a general discussion and not spam HN.
That's me, cherrypeel.com The icon is fixed;)
So how exactly should I deal with VB and Delphi? In what way do they count for me?
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Hold your horses Gregg. Maybe my language skills are not what they should be. Because that is not what I am attempting to say. I do not in any way mean to offend anyone. All I am attempting to say is that different people have different needs.

What I am saying is that there is a difference between the requirements of an OS and of a Web application. Aptitude is stricly speeking an application, but it is also system software.

My work depends on the Debian and OpenBSD guys being conservative and creating solid defaults. I want them to be so, as I don't want to deal with that.

I am fanatic about OpenBSD myself, which is way more conservative and opinionated than Debian. I have spent years working with servers, being forced to do low level work. My main dev machine was Gentoo for many years. I understand the issues.

Complex systems are based on layers. The Internet for example is based on layers. The lower the layer the more conservative it should be. The higher layers are more diverse and allow greater flexibility.

After all I didn't choose Ubuntu to run several of my servers for the sake of running Ubuntu. I choose them because I need a stable server OS that I can deploy my applications on.

For someone who is a core Debian developer that might be different. Maybe he does choose Debian for the sake of running Debian.

All I want for them to do is not break what I and 90% of other Ruby developers are doing. Also this is not just Rails. Almost all Ruby developers depend on Gem.

FUD is when you say something is dangerous without giving further reasons. So far in this debate, I have seen lots of people say RubyGem is flawed, but so far the only argument I have seen is that it doesn't follow FHS.

I can live without Debian unbreaking their RubyGem package. I am not scared to install from source. But I still don't understand the reasoning behind it.

If they don't want to support real RubyGems it would be better for Debian users to remove the package all together as opposed to the trojan horse version of ruby gems that it is.
"inspired" is probably not the right word. i think directly stolen from twitpay is probably better
Having fun on a Friday or Saturday night would be nice... :(
I am not a Chatterous user (although I signed in), but I like that they are tackling a problem that noone has truly been able to fix yet. Chatterous is a very promising company.
I'm cherrypeel.com's developer. thought i should put in a warning that the site plays music immediately.
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, so we at Twitpay are taking it as a compliment.
If you're talking about "strong" atheism (asserting that no god exists) then yes, this is an act of faith as well.

But "weak" atheism is merely a rejection of theism. It is not a proposed hypothesis, but a rebuke of unsupported hypotheses.
I used to play in a band too.

Now that I'm working on a start-up I stopped playing music.

Hopefully I will get to the position you're at now.
In light of the odd downmod, allow me briefly to elaborate. Universities have very long investment time horizons. This means that their endowments have plenty of time to recover from losses. The same goes for a 30-year-old investor: if you plan to retire at, say, 65, having your 401(k) tank is bad but not a disaster, since you have 35 years to recover. Conversely, when faced with steep losses, institutions less stable than universities (such as most corporations) and older investors (such as those nearing retirement) have much more cause for concern.
Removing remote git tags - why is it this hard?
Somewhat related: the best place to buy cheap fruits and veggies is at a Chinese or Indian market. Typically half the cost for most items.
You can't really do this on a packet-switched network. But in essence, what you have just described is called time-division multiplexing (TDM). This is how phone networks have operated for over 40 years. In fact, before the growth of the internet, this is what everyone thought of as 'switching.'

There are economic reasons this doesn't work for the consumer internet. Providers are able to hit a consumer price point by over-subscription, but they compete and advertise based on the top burstable speed they can deliver to an average customer with a low overall level of usage. Happily this corresponds to the desires of most consumers who want their short bursts of usage to be delivered quickly.
I like your roll-your-own approach. We are entrepreneurs after all.

I used to roll my own weekly salsa dance social. I was surprised how many hackers showed up regularly.

Now that I moved to Berkeley, I have to start from scratch again.
What prevents you from having it?
Now that's tech support. I have trouble just getting people to click on the "start" button by phone.

Hats completely off to these guys.
I would take it a step further. I think you are mistaken in your use of the word 'mature.'

So many people take it as meaning that set of behaviours & emotional states that 'should be associated with adults. They then go on & complain that adults do not display these behaviours ('men are so immature').

If it's not something we can assume people will grow into/out of, it has nothing to do with maturity.
Sorry - I tried to upmod, hit the wrong arrow, fail!

Why doesn't HN allow you to change your vote? Seems awfully arbitrary and heavy-handed.
Kudos. That's the model I'm going for, except that I'm trying to skip the first part. (Low on cash)
"Stolen", really? It's business, not super friendly fun time. Competition happens.
No it doesn't. It's still just an anecdote.
Yet another reason on the long list of why execution matters a helluva lot more than the idea, especially when it comes to easy/simple ideas.

I'm not convinced it was "stolen", and I think it's pretty crappy of you to suggest that it was unless you know something the rest of us don't.

TipJoy almost certainly has a product roadmap of some kind. Theoretically it's possible that they pushed what they were in the middle of aside 15 days ago to attack this and managed to get it done and launched by today... But I think it's just as likely that they were already working on it.

Even if they DID steal it from Twitpay, the idea certainly didn't originate there.
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/6/how-twitter-will-be-worth... (from June)
Though it makes for a nice good vs. evil story, the idea that big bad European nations got rich by exploiting resource-rich colonies has little basis in fact. If I recall my high-school European history right, historians are divided on whether colonies were even a net economic positive. In any case, wealth comes from productive capacity (the ability to produce things people want), and raw materials are only one (relatively minor) aspect of production.

The wealthiest nations are typically those that have expertise at turning raw materials into other things; in fact, historically many of the wealthiest nations (such as the Netherlands, Great Britain, and Japan) have been relatively resource-poor. European countries got rich the old-fashioned way, through technological innovation, trade, and a division-of-labor society based on private property rights.
No, makes sense. I hadn't really thought of it that way. I assume those things must freeze well or he wouldn't do it, but I am curious why.

I guess perhaps the reason you can't find frozen garlic is that refrigerated garlic lasts forever. Other stuff I'm not sure about though. There are definitely some vegetables that perish quickly yet I've never seen frozen, and some not even in a can.
Hmm, seems like a 1 peso bill would solve the problem more or less.
Here is the solution: Organic Traffic. I am not technical so excuse it if I sound naive. Ajax is beautiful, but if you have a content site and want traffic, you are going to hurt your search engine results, and that counts because sooner or later that should be your main traffic source. You need to turn those categories into more pages meaning whenever someone plays a song or creates a list, that becomes a page with a neat URL that the search engine can actually spyde. Think about it, if someone searches on Google for one of the songs you have in your DB your page can actually show up on the first page. Start indexing those playlists/channels/users pages and you will double your traffic.
Doesn't gem install path_to_gem.gem work?

(I could have sworn there was something like that.) Though, most of your complaints are very vaild. Also add on that ruby gems LOOOVES to eat all the memory on your machine if at all possible...
Cool site, but my intent for this post was more for non-romantic socialization.
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Please accept my toad as he ate my resume while performing some voodoo. Cutting his belly should reveal my crappy resume...
IMO a trusted stream should have more than PGP signatures behind it; it should have some commitment. It seems like GitTorrent is trying to eliminate that part.
Agree. I make sure I dance once a week too (salsa).

Unfortunately. (or fortunately depending on the perspective) I still don't have the time for the second one.
It's believed that women died in childbirth somewhere up to 1/4 of the time for most of our history (until a few thousand years ago, since when it's slowly but greatly improved) due to our enormous heads, which would probably be the largest reason. Plus they were rather less able than normal to fend for themselves for a few months right beforehand, and were too busy (if they wanted their little bundle of genes to survive anyway) to do so for a while after.
Kudos. I'm not in Chicago, but I applaud your effort.
Look. This is a real practical criticism of RubyGem which is absolutely valid. But these kinds of things are getting better.

Rails 2x and Merb 1.x with their support of Gem dependencies are a lot easier to manage now than they were in the past.

It would be relatively easy nowadays to manage one server with lots of different applications with different Rails and Gem dependencies purely using gems now. You would not be able to do this if Rails was installed via aptget unless a special require_aptget library was written.

RubyGem is improving a lot with every release. Poolparty and other similar tools for remote management look like they would be able to deal with many of these kinds of issues in the future.

I believe EngineYard maintain their own local gem server for speeding this up.
The case of the 500-year anecdote.
Which in turn, I'm sure wasn't inspired by this post here (June):

http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/6/how-twitter-will-be-worth...

Or maybe it came from one of the 1.2 million pages that has the phrase "twitter and payment" somewhere in it but no mention of twitpay:

http://www.google.com/search?q=twitter+payment+-twitpay

Or inspired by TextPayMe, which did the exact same thing with phone numbers instead of twitter usernames?

http://www.askdavetaylor.com/0-blog-pics/textpayme-welcome.p...
I've been in Buenos Aires for about 2 months now, and it's still hard for me to believe how ridiculous this situation is. Two examples from my daily life:

1) I take the bus every day, which only accepts coins. So, everyday I have to figure out how to get more coins. One strategy I tried was to forgo the convenient subway card and actually stand on line to pay for a single fare card every time I happened to take the subway. A huge pain, but in exchange for a 2 peso bill, I would get a subway ticket and a precious $1.10 in coins.

Only the ticket clerk at the subway stop I most often frequent stopped selling me single tickets. I would show my 2 peso bill and ask for 1 ticket, and he would say "No monedas" and wave me through the gate for free. Every day, the same thing would happen. Same clerk. Same 2 peso bill. No coins, and he would wave me through for free. This went on for 2 weeks.

You would think that I'd be pretty happy about this, but actually, it infuriated me. I really want the coins instead! Sure, I get a free ride, but now I've got to go buy a bottle of water and tangle with a kiosk owner to try and get change.

2) Paying cash at the supermarket can be glacial. They keep very few coins in the cash registers, so every time they run out of coins, the checkout clerk has to call for a manager, who has to go to the safe to get more coins, who then exchanges 2 pesos worth of coins for a 2 peso bill. Yes, that's right...they restock the coins in the register the equivalent of 60 US cents at a time!
How about LinkedIn ? Anybody try that for finding potential candidates ?

I have started receiving increasing mail from recruiters/startups there.
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So, neither DHTML nor Rape are hyped in the media anymore. The reason the original post is so poignant is that it takes the current trends and out-trendies them, whereas your post is a regression of the current trends, and so is just annoying.

That being said, I hate internet explorer enough to upmod you.
Nice feature. I would use this if I frequented Twitter. I have sick friends who would throw money around like that for fun though.
This is anecdotal, but I found out about imeem through their android app. I know Pandora has gained a lot of users through their iPhone app too.
I would imagine a feature like this would take more than 15 days to go from concept to launch, though perhaps not. They are a startup.
Idk, the feature is definitely a little too obvious to call theft. Also, when you see someone launch 15 days after someone else, you can't assume copying. Features often take longer than that to develop, especially on sites that involve money transfers.

Not saying it's impossible, just saying it's far from a slam dunk.
That's called fair queuing; it's pretty cool: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_queuing

It's actually possible to implement fair queuing without knowing bandwidth demands or even the lengths of the queues using deficit round robin.

AFAIK there hasn't been good fair queuing equipment for ISPs to use until very recently, and many ISPs have been suckered into buying much more expensive DPI equipment instead.
I read about this a few months ago while Googling, is truly fascinating. I tried spreading my own but couldn't seem to get it going. Wish I spent as much time in airports as I used to.
Wow. I'm not going to claim that rubygems is the best package management system, or that it's better than debian's packaging system. But, some of your frustration comes from the fact that you know apt very well and you don't seem to know rubygems very well.

For example, you can setup your own local gem server. You can load it with only the gems you want to install on your fleet of machines and use 'gem install --source your-local-server fastthread', for example. You might even get around your "pick the right gem" problem by installing only the fastthread gem you need on your local server.

But, I think the real problem you have with rubygems is that you don't want to learn another package management system. I really don't think the rubygems devs can do anything to remedy that problem.
The user has to try to connect to the AP in order to be "infected", so presumably this one became popular because so many people actually believed they would get "free public WiFi".

The SSID in your viral marketing scheme would have to lure people into connecting to it while at the same time advertising your product.

Sounds hard... anyone have any ideas?
Sorry, I should've defined "work". In the web world, work is the designs you've done, the projects you've developed, and the communities you've helped. I'm sure building a financial library would fit perfectly in that category.
That's pretty awesome.

Can Mac's with WiFi infect Windows machines, or only other Windows machines? I might have to try this...