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1. Everything's a template.

Hardly unique. Microsoft's (now deprecated) ASP had this. ASP.Net can also be treated like this if this is desired, although most of the time it isn't.

2. mod_php is stupid simple. Makes deployment is a cinch.

As I have mentioned in another reply, the easy of deploying PHP solutions is hardly unique. Out of my mind I can think of perl, python, asp and asp.net which offers similar ease.

In fact it can be argued that PHP's problematic compatibility betweens, dependency on server-settings and other similar less predictable parameters when deploying on a random hosting service makes PHP deployments more problematic than those mentioned above.

My experience with Asp.net would lead me to believe that Asp.net deployments are just as easy and can be done much more reliably without encountering deployment issues.
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Finding myself in a similar situation, my answer is... "I don't know, I've spent all my attention getting this done, I'll work on what comes next now."

Most people give me the eye like "Ah ha! He has some plan that he isn't ready to divulge.", but really. I don't know. I'm working on it now.
Pay off all your bills, Take care of your family, and try to not live your life in regards to your wealth.

also, 2 chicks.
AP says this is just more evidence of Human Caused Global Warming. Just more reason to increase the price of those carbon offsets.
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You've got to be kidding me. What not to do? But at least be sure to keep some cushion of money somewhere, perhaps properly, securely invested.
Do social entrepreneurships stuff. My two main ideas are creating an mturk for non-profits (allow micro-contributions of time/work to charity) and create a careers guidance website that doesn't suck.

I realize I could do these now, but trying to juggle full-time job + part-time startups + current non-profit work + real-life is hard enough already without adding more stuff to it.
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They are really quite different jobs.

The devs on my team (at Microsoft) write their own unit tests and are responsible for the quality of their code. The testers, however, own sign off. The tests they write are significantly different: they involve testing the product as a whole instead of just a single module. Especially in large GUI applications, such as Visual Studio, testers have the extremely challenging task of automating tests for high level end-to-end scenerios.

I'm not sure if I have an opinion of what the "correct" ratio should be, but I do know that it is a good idea to have the person saying "OK, we can ship this" to be different than the person saying "Yeah, it works for me!"

When you work on web software and customers start complaining about your shoddy update, you can issue a patch before the end of your coffee break. When you press your software onto millions of disks and promise to support those bits for a decade, you better be damn sure it works and meets the requirements.
How would you validate that the developers understood the goal? You don't need 1:1 dev / testers for this but someone else needs to look at the output or your users are going to be your testers.

PS: Think about the novelist vs. editor divide.
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>All the Home Depot's in the area are price gouging, selling the generators as they come off the truck for $200 more than they're normally priced (and only allowing one per-customer). I even heard that people were driving truck-loads of generators up from further South and selling them off the back of their trucks.

I know this sucks for people in New Hampshire, but if Home Depot weren't allowed to raise prices you would not have people driving truckloads of generators in to meet demand. Plentiful and expensive generators are better than fairly priced generators that have completely run out. It's the beauty of the market.

Having said that, yes, it does suck that people in New Hampshire are being charged extra for generators, and I'd probably be pissed too.
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The letter looks very much like all of his blog posts, not sure why anyone would expect anything different from him. I'm assuming most of the people that applied to this program are frequent readers of his blog, and so hopefully the style of the letter didn't seem inappropriate to them.
hehe, well when you reply to my comment I assume that it is about my comment. This is the whole point of threaded comments
True. In the meantime, everyone loves VibrantInk, and there's ports of it to all of the above and more.
Become a professional musician, and hack on things on the side.
It's all about centralizing data. It allows Google/FB to aggregate what you do on the web, which is useful to both of them for different reasons.
Which directly breaks the Amazon Associates TOS and would allow Amazon to not pay you and delete your account.

https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/agreement

"You may not purchase products during sessions initiated through the links on your site for your own use, for resale or commercial use of any kind. This includes orders for customers or on behalf of customers or orders for products to be used by you or your friends, relatives, or associates in any manner. Such purchases may result (in our sole discretion) in the withholding of referral fees and/or the termination of this Agreement."
Athletes peak in their late 20s and early 30s. In intellectual endeavors (despite prominent counterexamples, half of whom were like Keats or Galois and died on ascent) most people peak in their late 40s or 50s. So there isn't the same call to quit after a few years of success.
because Mahalo's original dumb model wasn't working.
I always thought tribes were more in tune with brutally enforcing a hierarchy through displays of fitness and hostility towards outside people and thoughts.
Crank out a novel. Then try another startup.
May I ask why? I suppose the answer is "why not?", isn't it? :-)
That's it? If you had a million dollars, you'd do two chicks at the same time?
I don't work for a startup, and I don't own one - But to answer your question -

To me being rich is not about money, its about being able to do what I want to do, when I want to do it. Money only buys me freedom, and thats it.

Having said that, I would sit back, kick of my shoes for a couple of months, and spend time introspecting. What's my purpose, what do I want out of life. Then go out the pursue that.

Spending time on a quiet beach sounds great, but gets old quickly.

And yes, 2 chicks :D
I would keep enough cash so I wouldn't have to work for someone again (including investors).

Then I would continue doing things similar to now, but with no business model in mind. I would also travel more.

Sadly(?) I think thats all that would change.
For traveling around the world or working for a non-profit without a salary you need financial independence.
bah... Global Cycling
Your point about the time it takes for HAPE to set in is valid. But I'm pretty sure that times in the death zone vary greatly. Most parties camp at least one night above 8000m and weather / SNAFU's often hold them there for multiple days So the total time above 8000 varies by much more than the half day it takes to walk down.

No doubt though, the death zone could kill people playing ping pong. Yet the down-climbing problem is global to mountains of any size. The extreme altitude on Everest amplifies it. More accidents occur on the way down on mountains less than half the size of Everest. The mountaineering bible, "Freedom of the Hills" discusses the phenomenon extensively:

http://www.amazon.com/Mountaineering-Freedom-Hills-Mountaine...
I just wrote a blog post about attacking the chicken and egg problem: when users won't sign up because no one is there. Hopefully there will be some usable advice:

http://marketingstartups.com/2008/12/15/10-tips-on-attacking...

If you find it useful, pls let me know and I'll submit it to HN. I don't want to be the guy that submits everything he writes.
is anyone stuck at 'Configuring updates...' after you reboot? progress bar doesn't move for like 1/2 hr.
I think it's relatively truthful to say that they'd practically constitute a programmer if they were able to do this. If a programmer is paid $40/hr to complete something in 1 hour and it takes a "business analyst" being paid $20/hr to complete the same logic without code in 2 hours, it makes much more sense to pay the programmer overall... It's really all assumptions up until there is something to disprove the theory.
It really depends on what sort of software you are writing.

If you are writing user interface code, there are many different ways a user can screw up your program. Maybe they are holding down "alt" while right-clicking and dragging to highlight half of a misspelled word. In this situation, you really need a lot of testers. And this is a lot of what Microsoft does, local applications like Office and the operating system itself.

By contrast, websites avoid a lot of this sort of testing. You don't have to test what happens if a user clicks on a link in a strange way - that's the responsibility of the browser. Or if you work on a part of the Google search engine, you can replay query traffic to see if it crashes. That will test a heck of a lot more corner cases than any tester. With web-delivered services you can also fix glitches as you find them, which minimizes the cost of missing a bug.
maybe in another country? maybe a long time ago? altho if the person needed to fire people this way for security reasons, allowing all of them into the building at the same time sounds like a bad idea.
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Here's the pitch: free stickers, free distribution to our subscribers and we'll ship you hundreds of extras for your own efforts, all we need is 300dpi or vector art (preferred, eps, etc).

All we ask is that you be a startup that's looking for users and is working on something great. Questions inline or to my email, roddy at startupschwag dot com.

Cheers,
It's a good anti-pattern, just applied at the wrong end. Sites like Twitter and LinkedIn could kill this anti-pattern by offering a proper OAuth (or equivalent) API.
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Here is Evan Williams denying that they have joined the Google Friend Connect Party and competing against Facebook. It seems they are working closely with both.

http://twitter.com/ev/status/1059144975
Can we create a counter-meme, "Eliminate Non-Programmers." Doesn't it seem like we're entering a world where small software and web business be run profitably by small teams of programmers?
Isn't that what the startup is for?
Vidar Hokstad has written a series of blog posts about building a compiler (of sorts) in Ruby that's well worth a read: http://www.hokstad.com/compiler

There's also Jack Crenshaw's classic "Let's Build A Compiler": http://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/
spend time with my wife. walk the dog. go for hikes / ski / see the outdoors. read books on philosophy. generally, lead a life of quiet contemplation
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10 years ago I wrote my first web application. I was hooked. The ability able to write an app that ran anywhere in the world was magical. My journey since has led me to PHP4 and the LAMP stack, away to C++ and Java and back to PHP5, away to C#, Scheme, and Python, and again back to PHP5.

The truth is I have a love-hate relationship with PHP. The linguist in me abhors PHP sprawl and the pragmatist in me adores PHP’s simple execution model and practical ubiquity.

Upon returning to PHP this September it felt both familiar and unsettling. The feeling of returning to the town you grew up in. Frameworks, like familiar faces, looked the same as when you last saw them just heavier and a bit more mature. Nowhere as spectacular as the framework heroes of other towns like of Pythonville or Rubyfordton. City council was still making unorthodox decisions like enforcing backslashes for namespaces. Yet downtown was booming- many of the greatest internet successes of the world had since established themselves here: Facebook, Flickr, Yahoo!, and others.

So I set out to create an open source framework called "Recess!" which will be available on GitHub in preview form "any day now".

I just recorded its first screencast that dives into how it Recess! handles routing. Interested to hear your thoughts:

http://www.recessframework.com/screencasts/routing/index.htm...

(disclaimer: the flash video may be slow to load - until which you'll see an empty black page)
hoard my money and not share a red cent
Update went fine for me. I'd just give it some time.

If you really want, you could try reinstalling again by downloading the update, sticking it onto an external drive and then installing it in single user mode (installer -pkg /location/of/update.pkg -target /).

But i wouldn't recommend doing that unless you've got no other choice. Restarting while its updating can be a bad thing to do.
I don't have a syntax preference, but there are some things that I don't enjoy typing or reading.

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Have we gotten any significant and unanticipated improvement in the Internet in the last 5 years?

The value of, say, a neutral 100Mbps symmetric FTTH utility is large. What is the value of the future breakthroughs of the unregulated Internet? How do we measure and compare these?
Honestly, keep it a secret. Live like I've been living and worry much less.

I've found (by other people I know actually getting rich) that there's really nothing you can say or do with your money where you won't come off as a condescending prick to someone who knew you and imagines that they are in some small (or not so small) part responsible for your current success.

Failing the "keep it a secret" part, Warren Buffet's life suggests that just implementing the second part will go a long way in itself.
Expand the basement laboratory and revolutionize the world. Again.
On a side note, in 1964 the US government sponsored an interesting project called the Nth Country Experiment to see if three graduate students in physics with no prior weapons experience could design an atomic bomb using information in the public domain. The government's goal was to try and gauge how easy it was for other countries to design a nuclear bomb. 2 1/2 years later, they were judged to have come up with a credible design.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nth_Country_Experiment
He's right. Derivatives are nothing but mathematical relationships between other things. If those other things have prices, then the derivative has a price in relation to them.

Derivatives are useful when you want to design an instrument with specific risk/return characteristics.

In the case of the derivatives that everyone is blaming for the financial crisis, they were considered low risk. But only because everyone thought that housing prices would not dip more than a few percent.

There is nothing "riskier" about such a derivative than there is about someone buying a house, also thinking that housing prices wouldn't dip more than a few percent, yet nobody is suggesting that home purchases be banned.

There is also the issue of flawed ratings given by Moody's, which resulted in derivatives whose risks were not accurately calculated and thus not accurately priced.
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You're forgetting the popularity of cheap shared hosting plans. PHP is offered on many hosting plans for $10 or less dollars a month and "just works" in that you upload a PHP file and it works with zero extra configuration. Most cheap hosts don't offer this low barrier to entry with Python, ASP, ASP.NET, RoR, etc.
Damn straight, man. I've always wanted to do that. I figure if I were a millionaire, I could hook that up. Chicks dig guys with money.

http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Office-Space.html
Non-profit work, my two main ideas are an mturk for charity work and a decent career guidance website.
HN: "start your own company".
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Okay, so I go over to my girlfriend's apartment and want to show her something I wrote.

MS Word: Buy a copy of the server-side component for my server, set it up beforehand, buy a second copy of MS Word, remember to bring it with me, install it on her machine, set up the cloud collaboration tool to read from wherever I stored the document, display it.

Google Docs: Open a browser, log into Google, click on the document.

Right now the only reason all this stuff is web-based is because browsers are everywhere. If you think about it, your cross-platform environment basically is a browser. You type in a URL, it downloads some code and runs it. It saves back the data you make to the place it downloaded the code from.

You just want a browser that's more designed for applications than documents, which is (I think) what Google was going for with Chrome, only it's not that popular yet because most of their early adopters are on Macs now.
I'm fully aware of this, but that can hardly be accounted for as a feature of the language itself, which was what I was asking about.
Mega mega rich: I would create an electromagnetic cannon to help us escape earth more cheaply and rapidly, and invest in technologies to help us colonize other planets.

Leisure rich: I would study martial arts, get personal training every day, and work on projects with my friends.
In my case, learning PHP before learning a language that (regardless of the language) was embraced by a more best/interesting-practices-oriented community would have helped me enjoy programming sooner.
Let's face it, Seth has the cult of personality working overtime for him. People will do whatever it takes to get some of the Seth magic to rub off on them. He doesn't need to suck up to anyone and this letter proves that.

The sad thing is that he's only had one hit -- the idea of permission marketing. From there on, everything he has done is vaporous Seth brand building. I once sat in on a social media webinar with Seth and all he talked about was permission marketing. I wasn't impressed. Same old stuff.
I know this isn't the sense of "now" the question intended, but what I'd recommend is taking a long vacation, to clear your head. You can't usually do this immediately after selling, because you have to work for the acquirer for a while. But when you finally leave the acquirer the best thing you can do is go somewhere far away for at least a month.
This article seems a bit over the top. I implemented the MySQL interface to libevent for mysql 6.0, and we got really good performance numbers vs. thread per connection:
http://krow.livejournal.com/572937.html

I've spent a fair amount of time inside the libevent library source, and I'm pretty sure adding new connections is constant time as far as the library goes. There is however the underlying cost of the event struct memory allocation and the cost of the low level apis, but otherwise, IIRC, they keep it down to a single memalloc and link it into the head of internal linked lists for fixed cost insertion.

The observed log(N) insertion cost comes likely from the low level poll apis, and there is pretty much nothing libevent can do to make that faster. However you can choose the low level api used on some platforms via build options, so theoretically you can use a poll api better suited to your workload.
At least there is one thing we can count on, no matter what the climate news, it is always evidence of Global Warming.
It's hard to be modest when you truly are that awesome.
Google Docs: Open a browser, log into Google, click on the document.

At the cost of being basically a Notepad with fonts. Which is probably less than 1% of what MS Office can do. Oh, and if your favorite Starbucks loses Internet connection you're fucked. During startup school 2008 Paul Graham was asking the audience to "stop using the Internet" because his freaking presentation wouldn't load.

I think the "dream runtime" I envisioned above beats this nightmare hands down.

If you think about it, your cross-platform environment basically is a browser

Yes, the browser is the runtime stack, albeit a very crappy one with big limitations and huge legacy, which is why, I believe, browser-based apps are not the future.

JavaFX, Gears, Flash, Silverlight - they don't exist because someone was bored. The pressure of going back to desktop-style development is growing.
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It monopolizes these functions by crowding out any private investment there might have been. Private companies like AT&T/Bell Labs and IBM used to do LOTS of research. Now it's all in the realm of the government, thanks to their massive expenditures in the area.

Business innovates because there are huge profits to be made in making people's lives easier and better off. Government doesn't innovate. It merely saps innovation that would have occurred in the private sector.
I've always either gotten either "We are pleased you interviewed but we are continuing the search" or no response at all.

The no response at all shit is lame. I've had that happen to me twice, and it's just rude. Even a curt form letter is better than simply discarding a person once a company decides they have no use for someone.
This free online book might hopefully answer your question.

http://mises.org/rothbard/ethics/ethics.asp
That's the thing - the choice isn't between languages, but between tools. For example, having a lot of libraries is not strictly a language feature, but it does effect choosing one over the other.

On its own, as a language, PHP doesn't have much going for it. You can clean up PHP and break compatibility, but then you've lost much of its value (and what you'd get wouldn't be better than Ruby or Python anyway). I'd bet most PHP users don't even know PHP, they just install Wordpress or Drupal to run their site and maybe modified some templates etc.

As for deployment, it's easier because it's already there. Almost all hosting companies support it. Most (I think) Apache installs have it on (or easily activated) by default. This is the reason other languages don't have anything comparable (in popularity, not in features) to the above CMS.
only the code is not accessible to the busines owner to audit, validate or change. Presumably the business analyst would produce something more accessible. Also, the 'extra bits' [aka. modeling bias] added by the programmer may or may not have been vetted by the owner.

I do not believe that today's business analysts are what is needed and I agree that programmers have to step in many times to do their work. I am just saying that in principle, that is what the BA should do. If these are core skills of programmers, maybe that is our future vocation, when a language hi-level enough comes around.
You're right. There are rarely referring urls for it, which implies that it spreads primarily by email.
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"Most of Europe is simply too crowded and expensive to be attractive to the average North American."

Who is this Greenspun fella?!
If they're simply doing what Akamai is, then they're not degrading my service, which is fine by me. If a user is getting the same quality they get from everyone who is not through a major CDN when they use my site, that's fine. I can still win.
Hey man - thanks for taking the time to put this post together. I work for MS and use the products on a daily basis, and while I don't completely agree with all the conclusions, I appreciate the spirit of trying to provide suggestions for improvements. One thing you may want to check out is the XNA studio software (www.xna.com) that allows you to write your own games for the Xbox. If you're a student you can get this for free via the DreamSpark program (www.dreamspark.com). Feel free to shoot me a mail at kleneway@hotmail.com if you want to chat about this.