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Coolio!

Wow! I've now got Merb on my http://localhost:4000

I installed Ruby On Rails too. Will see which one of them I'm gonna love.

Now it's playtime to get some code of my own.

I also read a lot of reviews about merb. All being great. Incase if someone else wants to know why merb is good for web apps that expect to handle a lot of processing and traffic even for a small amount of users. It seems that merb has a smaller core called the merb-core while RoR has a slightly bigger core. While RoR has some features built-in merb has those too has plugins/helpers. So I don't think there's much difference as along as you want your app to be a bit faster on the processing side.
yes of course !
sorry I thought that was obvious.
Well, I too thought the same way, but was reluctant to post it since I later felt it would discourage someone from developing a better one.

Just a few weeks back I was like "heck why do people even make such apps. its all the same thing under different skin". But in a few days I found myself in a total task-war with a lot of things to do. Thats when I realized when these apps are actually useful and heck, I spent a couple of hours searching for such an app for my s60 phone.

But I do have one suggestion for these guys developing apps which are 1000-in-one. Don't make another signup form. Consider using universal logins. OpenID, Google Account, Yahoo Account, Windows Live Account, etc. The easiest thing to do is to implement something like ClickPass (http://clickpass.com).
Well, -someone- is going to jail when The Authorities find illegal content (whatever that means, the concept seems to be expanding quickly) on your computer. Would you prefer it to be you, or the one responsible for it? Unless you can solve that problem, I'm pretty sure you're going to have trouble finding people to volunteer.

As for policing the internet, I think that personal responsibility for your actions needs to apply even when you act using a computer. The consequences of your actions should to be reasonable though, and not like what we're seeing now with file sharing lawsuits.
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Selecting an offshore vendor who best meets your business needs is perhaps the most difficult decision you make as an outsourcer. There are at least a hundred issues to be sorted out before a deal can be struck.

Obviously, you need someone who has credibility and trust, the ability to work at all levels in the organization, a special knack of dealing with cross-cultural teams, a love of innovation and new ways of doing things.
I hope your contacts are aware of the forwarding. Not everyone likes to send mail to a gmail account:

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Yep. I open sourced mine after coming to the conclusion that these things are basically a commodity and aren't going anywhere in terms of making money.

http://stufftodo.dedasys.com/
I don't get that this is newsworthy.
In 2002 apple was already recommending anti-virus software:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=50569
You're implying that there is an inverse correlation between this number and job performance. That's not necessarily the case. And of course this number won't be the only factor in the decision making, but if there's a risky candidate and a less risky one in terms of that number, why would anyone choose the riskier candidate, everything else being equal? There's only one reason and that is salary. People with stained public profiles will earn less money and will be out of a job for longer.
And being a true genius I'm not worried at all ;-)
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That'd be fantastic -- we're trying to figure out which ones to support when.
The link you provided just seems to be some guy who prefers Smalltalk to Java, but does not in any way say that Java is not Object Oriented Programming, or that Java sucks at Object Oriented Programming.

OOP, at the moment, is recognized as being what C++, Java, .NET are. There are certain concepts that allow you do OOP, and Java fulfills all of these concepts pretty well. Java, as a language, is really not bad at all. As a representative of the contemporary definition of OOP, it performs very well.

Now, if you have worked a lot with OOP, and you have independently come to the conclusion that Java is a worse OO language than C++ or .NET, then you are entitled to your opinion. If, however, you are primarily a scripting language user, and you read the opinion on Slashdot or so, then I would suggest that you first read in somewhat more detail about this before making such judgements.
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" And you know what? It would have been perfectly safe to let them. In fact, the acquirer would have been better off; not only wouldn't these guys have broken anything, they'd have gotten a lot more done."

My experience as a manager of a team of programmers for many years is that for sure they would love to be able to write and release w/o a QA process, they do in fact take the site down when this is allowed!
Ask HN: Best way to implement natural language commands for todo's, reminder etc
I am working on an application that I want to allow users to enter commands in natural language, eg:

Followup in two days

Followup on November 23rd at 3pm

Remind me about my dentist appointment at 3.30pm on December 12th 2008

Clearly there can be lots of subtle variations on what exactly gets entered in these sort of scenarios which makes for a potentially tricky/interesting problem.

Listening to a podcast recently, Joel Spolsky mentioned that people with no knowledge of compilers would tend to tackle a parsing problem like this the 'hard way' (ie using regexes, searching strings etc) while they may be better using a lexer/compiler approach. I have no knowledge of compilers, so my thinking right now is to scan for keywords and then things that look like dates using regexes.

Has anyone implemented anything that does this sort of this command processing and have any tips or tools to share? My application is in Rails, but I am willing to experiment - I just don't want to have many hundreds of lines of code testing for all sorts of strange conditions making for a brittle maintenance nightmare!
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Yes, I agree with your addendum. This is what we have done with Akvo.org. Nearly 3 billion people do not have clean water to drink or adequate sanitation. That is what I call a large market and a big problem. We have taken the open source approach to try to address this from an internet service point of view. Even though we haven't released any code yet, we have several big players investigating using our platform and software for boosting their efforts in the development aid space. Maybe we are doing something right.
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Calling an Ipod MyPod pretty well points to the feeling of superiority you can get by buying a expensive fashionable product. This is just one example of a critical and relevant joke which was funny enough to make me laugh.

What you call inaccuracies seemed to me just like exaggerations, something every comedian uses. Apple's beautiful posters probably did make white headphones more fashionable, and someone with white headphones probably would be embarassed not to have the corresponding Ipod. Mapple selling MyPhonies sums this up very nicely and also made me laugh.

The whole thing made me laugh more than the simpsons movie. I think this is mainly because they chose a good target. I have mixed feelings about apple which makes excellent products but is also surrounded by a consumerist hype which makes me feel uneasy. The hype is not very much criticised, at least not around me. I see people generally critical of well-marketed brands suddenly buying Ipods and Iphones. So this simpsons episode feels like a breath of fresh air.
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Some of the best Simpsons episodes succeed at being critical and funny at the same time. Putting a well deserved criticism inside a joke actually makes it funnier.

I don't find entertainment very entertaining when it's totally disconnected from reality.
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Except for mailing lists.

In my experience it seems that if To:/CC:/BCC: doesn't contain one of your addresses gmail sticks with your default rather than using the address of the mailbox it fetched the email from in the first place.
Sometimes you have to go against the grain though. After all, evolution is true, and marketing it as 'this is a great way to supplement your creationism' (which Darwin actually did) may not exactly go over well or be the most honest approach.
I'm surprised that people are confused by this. It's seems straightforward to me.

I purchased the top spot for my site for $5, but afterward I did some clicking around and couldn't find it. After taking about 10 mins to write this post, I went back to the site and it is there, however the logo didn't come through (It was there in steps 3 and 4 of the adding process while in "preview" mode). Could you look into that?

Overall, it could work, if it becomes a way for startups to show off their webapp or blog and doesn't get infiltrated by garbage. However the downfall might be the quality of the content. To get on the front page of digg, the content has to be interesting; to get on the front page of your site, all you need is $, which makes it easier on the publisher, but will make the content less interesting to the viewer (which = less viewers).
Very nice - I think another reason why companies overpay - is because they don't negotiate, they don't check out the hot companies, they allow their employees to make decisions and most have never hired a company - so they go with the best name so they can say they hired them - it looks good on their resume - companies don't realize that most executives - director level and above are doing nothing more than building their resume - and their projects go unchecked, unaudited and bascially the company gets screwed - and frankly it is the company's own fault. Once a company loses it's founding partners, the transition team runs wild with all the changes they want to make and not looking for those things that made the company successful - spending is at all time high, brand suffers because the new team is too busy spending that they lose sight of what is important - the customer - gosh does that sound like AIG?
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On a similar topic... does anyone know of a _Windows_ calendar client that works with iCal Server?
The Simpsons isn't what it used to be, that's for sure. I'd bet the old team of writers could have done a better sendup.

But the fact that this parody is immensely popular makes you and your screed look humorless, inflexible, and not exactly open to alternate points of view. The Simpsons writers have accurately identified that Apple, with it's funny product names, sterile stores, new-agey-ness, nice packaging and so on, make people feel good. And they're profiting greatly because of it. From that perspective, I find that the parody was fairly well done.
The only opinion I could form was "It looks nice, but I have no clue what it is."
That may be right, but if you build expecting the scalability problem AND you get masses of users, you can swim in the money instead of using it to solve the problem.

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If you really want to play... you could use erlang

Nitrogen - http://github.com/rklophaus/nitrogen/wikis <- quite new

Erlang web - http://www.erlang-web.org/ <- serious enterprisey guys.

Erlyweb - http://erlyweb.org/ <- ROR for Erlang

And one more for the scalability fetish - http://www.metabrew.com/article/a-million-user-comet-applica...
I’m coming to the end of a 30 day free trial of Mailplane which I use for the reason you describe, and I definitely intend to purchase it.

http://mailplaneapp.com/

Alternatively you could run multiple Fluid apps (or whatever the equivalent is for your preferred OS).

http://fluidapp.com/
Scalability has nothing to do with your choice of framework or language. In terms of scalability, Cake, Django, and RoR are more or less equivalent (the first two are RoR clones after all).
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Quite - it's like Martha Lane Fox. Lastminute.com wasn't even a dotcom in the proper sense, but she got tons and tons of press... And then vanished. Regardless of anyone's stance on gender issues, the media believes women in tech are newsworthy in their own right (and the people who buy their magazines and click their links validate this belief).
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Aquisitions for people to put them to work on something completely different rarely make sense, unless you know for a fact up front that the key players are just as bought into the acquirers idea as they are into their own.
Exactly. While it's hard to get the exact figures (as CEOs graduated over a long time period), we can make at least some approximations.

I just run quick numbers for the year 2007:

57,845 Ivy League undergraduate enrollment [1]
15,386,000 Total US undergraduate enrollment [2]

Which makes Ivy League population just 3.76 promille of the total US undergraduates.

Thus Ivy League gives you around 27x higher chance to be Fortune 500 CEO compared to what you would get if the selection was random.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_league

[2] http://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/2007/section1/table.asp?tabl...
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I'm not saying that web apps are horrible. I'm just saying that certainly not now, and probably never, can they fully supplant traditional desktop apps. There are too many times when you're on a plane or for whatever reason can't get internet.

Yes, I understand that they're toying with Internet on planes, but I don't see any time in at least 10 years that that will be as fast as current broadband, so you'd still have problems with speed.

Also, Internet goes out. It happens. There's a storm. An internal network breaks. Power goes out (but laptops still work). I don't want any of the myriad ways I can lose my connection to the Internet to render my computer completely inutile.
At analyst level I agree, but for more senior levels networking becomes a lot more important.
It's impressive it works with all the major browsers... but Windows only :-\
Oh how I wish there were a "killer meme" killer...
You can build a small consultancy into a large one by hiring more bodies, and some firms have done that. But you don't get much economy of scale.
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This is true at some point but can be dangerous if you neglect it entirely. I have worked as server admin as a part-timer in a company that stalled because they don't use grid technology for their shared plan right from beginning. We have clients complaining the server response and lots of problems with I/O etc. Converting this 500~ shared servers into grid system is painful to do when we have limited time and resources. But, this problem would less occur if we have chosen a slightly expensive but reliable for the long run grid system or the like.
We don't know evolution is true. The most you can say is that evolution is the best explanation we have for the data collected so far.

There have been pretty major revisions to the evolution since Darwin's time, and I think it still needs a lot of work to explain some of its fuzzier points ('chemical evolution', cambrian explosion, etc). It's entirely possible that a new explanation (i.e., not evolution) could better explain those and other data points.

It could be similar to how newtonian mechanics works 99% of the time, but couldn't explain the orbit of mercury. We needed relativity (which arguably disproved gravity) to explain the handful of non-conforming data points.
http://digg.com/business_finance

http://www.reddit.com/r/Economics/

FTW
nah, you could sell that. vnc/rdesktop in an applet, set up to let you test your site in any browser/os combination. Like browsershots.org, but interactive.
Cloud's proprietary application framework allows you to run client applications

ugh....
Try searching for NLP - natural language processing
> You're implying that there is an inverse correlation between this number and job performance.

No I'm not. I'm suggesting that if others actually believed this figure then it would tend to push down the wages of those who had a higher number and they would represent better value for money. Companies who essntially ignored the number and hired based on other factors would tend to get better employees and would flourish. This would tend to reduce the 'wage gap' down to whatever its true predictive power was.

Of course as you have mentioned this whole notion of one all-powerfull number is unlikely.
8 upmods for that? #1 how the hell do I know what country you're in? #2 Use a proxy.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2550

Egad, they actually are recommending Norton/McAfee

Poor MAC users, at least there's an option for Avast.
It always irks me a bit when science is pushed out of its comfort zone to make some non-scientific point. Subtlety is lost, misconception introduced. And language like "just a theory" suggests that scientific theory is much less rigorous than it actually is.
Because it's like creative, maaaan, and the commons is like the people. Don't you know it's a bold new vision that you can believe in?
From the article "In a technical note quietly published to its support site on Nov. 21"

So I would assume there was no recommendation before for OSX, as your link is for OS9.
I disagree that scalability has nothing to do with choice of framework. It happens that none of these frameworks address common scaling issues to a great extent, but that doesn't mean a framework could not do so.

Regarding the "RoR clones" claim, citation, please. Django was publicly released very shortly after RoR, having been developed privately for a couple years. I don't know about CakePHP.
And I have to disagree with this, I think it looks nicely bad. It's bland and each link takes up too much screen real estate.
Eh, it wasn't that funny, mostly because it utterly misses the point. The Spudworks one was OK.
There are plenty of extraordinarily capable people outside of elite colleges.

In The Bell Curve they mention SAT statistics for top verbal scores. Although their point was to show extreme concentration of talented people at the elite schools, it also shows how many are outside of them:

90% of the top scorers were not in Harvard/Yale
69% were outside of the top ten universities
40% were outside of the top fifty universities
And on top of that, why would I visit your site to see who is paying the most for my attention? That's called advertising and this is a site devoted to mixing in paid placement with the voting public.

Why does this make it better than Digg / Reddit / Mixx / HN? I just don't get it and have no inclination to try hard to understand it.
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I'm not saying to remove the Requests for reviews from the main body, but I admit I like looking at these apps and would like an easier way to find them. Just like we have a jobs page, is there enough interest to convince PG that we might get a 'Reviews' page?
And I don't even mean to say that I would never use this OS. A fast-loading OS that will get me to my web apps easily has its place.
What I am saying is that I will never--at least in the at all near future--exclusively have this on a computer. It's too limiting for me.
DateJS (http://www.datejs.com/) might have some interesting ideas you can borrow.
At 55mm thick (over 2" for those that use the old imperial measure) it sounds less than svelte - still at 17.9 mm wide they certainly did well to pack in a near VGA screen. Some confusion here surely.

Quite an enthusiastic review earlier at http://scobleizer.com/2008/12/02/nokia-n97-the-ultimate-face... so maybe Nokia are still in the game.
Actually I think that GPL almost goes as far to encourage this hosting model. If you want to incorporate non open source code or libraries then you actually CAN'T release that code to the world. The only way to offer people that functionality is to host it.. and nobody else can offer a non-hosted solution. I can see a lot of startups following this model with GPL in particular.
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Slightly different, my current project will be like: 50% for me, 10% for charity and 40% for website members through revenue sharing :)
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I've been using Sophos for a long time on my Mac. You don't have to fall into the Norton/McAfee trap.
Turns out that there are lots of people not from America. Who would have thought?
granted. perhaps 'a better theory than what came before it' might be a better description.
> Also, this isn't at all relevant hacker news, and it's not that intellectually interesting.

It is actually. It shows the effects of Apple maturing into more than just a niche player and the different pressures that can bring. It comes at the same time as an article about Apple starting to recommend virus software for OSX. IMHO The dynamics of being a small player are different to those of being a mainstream company and it will be interesting to see what effects this has.
The old unix reminder system, "remind", is what I use as the core of my calendar system. It's very good at parsing dates in different formats and is based on text files with lines such as "REM <date string> MSG <text relevant to event>".

The reason I like it is the fact systems such as your idea there could possibly be built on top of it. Say you parsed out any portion you saw as a date string and put that at the front, it might be smart enough to handle several date string formats.
I can't imagine it's a surprise to them though... and since I know many people who bought Spanning Sync, I imagine they made a pretty penny on sales up until now. If they bet the farm on future sales, that'd be quite a strategic mistake.
I've been thinking of picking up an anti-virus app for a while, but I really hated mcafee / norton etc when I used a PC. What's the best "mac-like" antivirus application? Something with a good interface and doesn't feel too bloated, but is also powerful?
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