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Very true! We can all learn from each other regardless of our level of experience. No one person knows everything. There's nothing wrong with making a mistake and learning from that and nothing wrong with others knowing that you have the balls to make a public mistake. No one will know your name otherwise.

Edit: Your comment reminds me of over-hearing a man make fun of another man who had asked a question in a forum. The irony of this was that he was sitting in the corner of a dark, smoky bar at night while making fun of another man who had the balls to ask a question in a public forum during the light of day. No one knows the guy who was making fun because he himself was too afraid to ask questions and always thought that someone like himself would criticize him as he criticized others. Technology could use less negative egos!
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A lot of people here seem to think that complaining about a five to six second start time is just whining. I believe you're wrong -- it is a legitimate and valid complaint and here's why:

Most software can't run for very long. A lot of high-end software can be /very/ unstable (hello, Maya! ;-). The user is not just starting that software once at the beginning of the day for a long productive day of work, they are all to often starting it again after a crash. Or after they shut it down to get enough RAM to run Excel. Or after rebooting Windows for /another/ mandatory update from IT.

I once had to restart a particular high-end compositing package thirty times in an hour. Twenty seconds of the average two minutes were spent staring at the splash screen. But I had to do it, because I needed thirty frames rendered and a particular plugin crashed after running one frame.

The user is not starting your software to admire your credits or the clever graphic design of your logo. They are starting your software to /use/ it get a job done, a job that they have in mind to do and any distraction at all (even a harmless splash screen) is a new stumbling block on their way to resuming their task.

I heard of a study done back in the mainframe days that determined that anything that took less than two seconds felt instantaneous to the user. However, anything longer (even five seconds!) took "forever". In my years of programming, I have found nothing to disprove this (possibly) apocryphal conclusion.

Your user's time is valuable. Your user's mental state and flow are valuable. As programmers on Hacker News, we all know about concentration and flow, right? Extend your users the same courtesy you expect from your tools. Help them keep things going, don't break their rhythm and don't let them lose context.
Pixelmator is pretty much a clone of Photoshop, and it starts seemingly instantly.
It's a new low for Microsoft to use MSDN as a corporate mudslinging soapbox.
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I thought your company had to have a credit history or you would have to use your personal credit to open the account. Is that just a requirement for the better banks with lower rates?
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"What actually made the startups switch away from convore?"

I don't think anyone switched away from convore as much as they just stopped using it over time. The problem with convore was that it was too focused on information, and people don't care about information, they care about people. So what started as a better version of chat/forums eventually devolved into a less good version of quora.

The best thing that convore had going for it was that all of the content was extremely lightweight, but in the end I think this is what killed it also because the emotional connection just wasn't there.
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That's true, and it's exactly what I mean. I wrote this while thinking about some of my fellow students - many don't have their own website, for example, but they deserve to have their work seen. I named twitter because it's an extremely simple service and a very large number of tech people use it, and I named github because it's one of the easiest and most popular ways to share source code.

Certainly, though, I just mean publish and advertise. The methods and services through which you do that don't matter all that much.
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Google found that moving from a 10-result page loading in
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logging, persistence, availability, API hooks.

Skype has all that, except the API hooks (which I'd expect pretty low on anyones list).

Also not sure what you mean by "availability". Skype is about as available as it gets - Everyone and their dog already has it installed.
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Sometimes, when I want to play with/benchmark a new technology stack, framework, library, etc, I run into the problem of not having a database to test out with it. As a result, I spend a non-trivial amount of time (I'm not the best coder) banging out a script that fills out a custom database with the fields and datatypes I want. However, this strikes me as an example of unnecessary 'yak shaving'. My first impulse is to make a web app that creates custom databases, but luckily I googled around a bit and found this first which already does that: http://www.generatedata.com/#generator
The experience of trying to use this website on MobileSafari (with iOS 5.0, for the inline scrolling and fixed position support) is truly "amazing". ;P (Also: is there a reason this isn't docs.emberjs.com?)
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So you're saying Pinterest only copy US created content to their servers?
Yeah, I don't believe it.

I think they never would have gotten past due diligence. They claimed to be generating $75k "in profit", but had no F/T devs on the project. Combine that with self-proclaimed stalled growth, and the company's a loser. I'm going to guess that a huge slice of that $75k was due to parasitic hosting -- they probably put it on infrastructure belonging to (or at very least subsidized by) their other "real" projects, so even $75k is a stretch.

Next, the codebase is hacked together (as they say in the "why we're not open-sourcing it" paragraph). People buying entire companies in a packed market like this are looking to buy something that's basically running on rails. Newsberry isn't this. Hacked together is fine for a bleeding-edge idea, but this thing had been going for 7 years.

A buyout would have landed somewhere in the 4-figures. If I were in their shoes, I would have turned it down, too.
Side note: I like it when authors include a link the the HN discussions(when they are apart of the community) in their article so I don't bookmark both. So thanks :)
Isn't this

[meta name="pinterest" content="don't infringe my copyright"]

???
Don't just talk about doing it; do it. Use DuckDuckGo.com instead. It was founded by a fellow HNer.
NYC is doing a wide array of interesting things- they've run a few hackathons and have an app creation competition running right now (http://www.nycbigapps.com) with cash prizes and the possibility of becoming a TechStars finalist. They haven't gone as far as offering up huge grants, but I wouldn't surprised if something like that happened for Cornell Tech grads.

Disclaimer: I entered an app into the BigApps competition, so I'm partly biased in publicising it.
Eitherway, I just increased the contrast on all content areas :)
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I remember there was Photoshop clone called Pixel which was doing cold startup in less than 1 second, so Photoshop slugginess is definitely not caused by technical limitations.
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What was there before the Royal Society? There were still universities, wasn't that 'Academia'? Or is there a specific meaning to the word 'academia' I don't know?
When will the IP madness stop?
If you're going with a brand name bank you'll have to jump through many more hoops than going through a small one.

There are also boards out there that scammers hang out on and share which banks currently have the easiest-to-circumvent systems. I'm not sure where they are anymore they tend to go up and down a lot and I haven't paid attention to any of this for a couple of years now.

Some of these scams can be so profitable that the scammers literally buy small banks to make sure they don't get shut down and give great rates to people with legitimate business and high enough volume so that the blended rate between their legitimate customers and their scammy cash cow looks ok. They take a loss on the legitimate customers but the cash cow is a scam and almost pure profit so they still make a huge amount of money.
Surely Windows updates are applied via some sort of transactional system that can be rolled back and re-attempted if the process fails for whatever reason?

Having a power cut during a Windows update shouldn't result in a completely trashed system.
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Ellie, don't begrudge someone because of misinformation. Sixapart acquired Pownce, and Convore is a success since the fruits of the developers labor live on in Grove. I still remember Leafy Chat, which is probably the inspiration for Convore. Regardless, they all were great products.
I find that the discussions on HN are always better than having comments on the blog itself... Also it means I don't have to curate comments on the blog.

Basically it just feeds into my being lazy ;)
pinboard, del.icio.us, ... (if other bookmarking sites still exist, please add here) is downloading title-text from other sites and hosting it on their own servers. what's the difference?
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I agree with the praise for IRC, but I don't see what you need grove for. There's mibbit, irccloud and a few other web IRC clients, all of which seem quite a bit more advanced than grove. And for the server-part; why not hop onto freenode, make a private channel - and off you go?

If you insist on private server then that shouldn't take someone linux-savvy more than 15 minutes either.

You literally type 'apt-get install inspircd', tweak two and a half values in the config file (to enable SSL and set a server-password) - and that's it. An irc-daemon is not exactly maintenance-heavy, mine has been running for over a year without a blip.
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That's not really a vicious circle. People not knowing you shouldn't prevent you from trying to do something.

Do something cool and show it to an online community related to whatever you did, or even Hacker News or Reddit if it has general appeal. If it isn't cool enough to impress them, you'll generally at least get some feedback with which you can make your next attempt better.

If you keep at it and care enough to improve, people will start to know you.
You don't write "enormously complicated programs" in the first place, you split big app into small pieces with as little coupling as possible to keep things simple.
>>Beyond the in-your-face social issues, there is an insularity to St. Louis.

Wait, where'd you go to high school?
I attended 28c3 and from memory there was a tool called JStylo for discovering authorship and Anonymouth for defeating authorship recognition. Check the Chaos Computer Club site.
It goes much farther back than that...

Akademeia was literally the name of the grove where Plato started his Akademeia in 350 BC. Plato took these ideas of an ascetic brotherhood of ideas/mathematics from Pythagoras. No one knows exactly how Pythagoras came up with his ideas, but he did travel widely in his youth, at least as far as Egypt, seeking knowledge.
They're putting it on the Web. Traditionally, there is assumed to be a certain degree of permission involved in putting content on the Web unless you specifically indicate otherwise. If we don't assume this permission, Web browsers would be just as bad, since they download and cache your copyrighted content.

(Note to downvoters: If you believe I'm wrong, a response would do a better job of correcting the misinformation. If you believe I'm posting this is bad faith, you're mistaken. I really don't see how the Web can coexist with the assumption "A program may not download resources offered by a webserver without explicit opt-in permission.")
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"You can't just buy a startup community..."

At least, not for that amount of money. But maybe they can. The first step is to try.
No, I said the Mail's Web site is general and mass market ("the site focuses hard on mass market and celebrity stories"). It was their paper I said focuses on middle Englanders :-)
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Isnt your time more valuable than theirs, making the last statement sort of moot?
1% earnings tax if you either live in the city or work in the city. (If you both live and work in the city, it's still 1%)

Frankly, I don't mind paying it. The city is entering a tricky time where it's got some momentum going with a lot of young people, a up-and-coming arts scene, more and more local businesses. If it puts the money to good use, there's hope for revitalizing the city core.
To my mind a domain and a business premises are extremely similar in these respects - case in point, my city is suffering at the moment as there are huge gaps in the high-street with no open shops. High-street rentals are still massively high. There's very little way for even the big chains to make a profit off such high-street locations. But the rent won't go down because the owners consider that even if they're vacant it doesn't matter as the value of the premises has risen 100% over the last decade or so - eventually they can cash out if they want to, or eventually a business will want to move in paying full rent (they think; I think they're trying to cure a lame horse by hacking at it's good legs with an axe ...).

Both business real-estate and domains suffer the same problem here IMO; people want to acquire wealth without effort. Singling out domainers is unfair - but criticising the same sort of activity everywhere is something that won't pull a complaint from me ...
Thanks for the reply. Here's hoping my app will have some of the same spark...
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Haha, sorry for the pointless comment but this is on point.
Surely the proper place for this is robots.txt, maybe using something similar to Google Images:

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...

Requiring sites to update their html seems overtly obnoxious (or maybe just thoughtless!).
I get where you are coming from. I have even received high praise for the quality of my code, but I still remain quite embarrassed when publishing it. It is difficult to not judge yourself critically, and feel that everyone is going to do the same.

However, I never find myself judging others the same way. I have stumbled upon some pretty great stuff by people who, in reality, are not anywhere near the top of their field, but it doesn't matter, it remains great regardless.

I think the worst thing that can happen is that nobody finds what you have published. Marketing is difficult, even for hobby work.
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Or the more generic

X-Allow-Repost: no

But why don't they just look at EXIF data for copyright/license and respect that?
Fantastic Q2 2011 was a great one.

But in Q? 2007, aka date of the first iPhone release, success was not imminent. All I am suggesting is that you compare apples to apples instead of apples to oranges. You have to look at the market at the time they released the iPhone.

Chart of Avg selling price of Apple products:
http://www.asymco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Screen-Shot...

Graph of iPhone activations by carrier:
http://www.asymco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Screen-Shot...

From this information it is clear that the iPhone was not imminent threat to the iPod, at the time of its release. It took a full year for activations to pick up.

None of this takes into account, as I said earlier, the iPod was valuable to Apple because of the iTunes Music Store.

The iPhone was too expensive in its early stages to replace the iPod as a music player. Apple took an enormous risk with the iPhone.
The icons will become smaller, but font sizes are already keyed off of the DPI.
Yes, it's perfect for building templates in code based on an object defining your templating API - code which is run once at startup with little or no assignment and no ambiguity between the contents of the context object and anything else, e.g.: https://github.com/insin/sacrum/blob/master/fragile/lib/frag...

You could easily go back and plug in use of a single-letter variable instead of the implicit context object after the fact, but it's nicer to work with while you're building stuff up.
I don't think you get it. The right way to require a module in commonjs is var baz = require('baz'). The reason its better is because I can accomplish just as much as the ridiculous ES6 modules and its simple. We don't need to add complexity if it doesn't get us anywhere. I'm not convinced that static analysis is worth it. Existing module systems work just fine without this shit.
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While I'm not a fan of Leah Culver at all (I view her as Eric Raymond^2, better at selling the image of geekiness than at actual coding), most startups fail even with good founders.

Besides, don't we pride ourselves on accepting failure and treating it as a learning experience?
There have been a lot of places that have tried it recently. There have been startup "accelerators" and seed funding thingers in non-hub cities popping up like wildfire. I know of programs that have run in Toronto, DC, Chicago, Atlanta, Edinburgh, Santiago and there are many others that I've forgotten. Some of those had public funding.

I think the key bit in tptacek's comment is, "not for any amount we've seen spent to date". You probably could buy a startup scene. But not for a laughable $500k. Both pg and Brad Feld have written on such. The gist, from memory, is that it'd take a whole lot more money and a couple decades.
OK, I'll accept for the sake of argument that domain names and buildings are very similar. The thing is, nobody can afford to buy thousands of storefronts that they don't plan to use except to extort people who aren't as cynical. Domainers are exploiting the cheapness of domain names, which is not a weakness that physical property generally shares with the Web. If domain names cost, say, $500 per year, I suspect you'd wind up with an economy much more closely resembling a functioning real estate market.
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Also using underscore, with sortBy:

_.chain(people)
.sortBy(function(person) {
return person.firstName.length + person.lastName.length; })
.last()
.value()
The Job market does not clear because it is not a market. The information is hoarded by one group and hidden from the other.

Creative souls can come up with tools to address issues raised here.

Workers can pay for the ability to prove themselves, by accepting lower wages for a period in return for marketable experience, and the right to publish some of the results as open source.

And longer term salary contracts are available, for example bonus schemes where the worker has to stay a certain number of years to collect.
Thanks - I was estimating off the top of my head - the site was in flux for a while at the time. They also went back and forward with keeping the story sidebar at fixed positioning and it seems they settled on it not floating.

I check the site every couple of weeks because I was interested in how the redesign would work out. It seems they eventually got it right, I like it. A lot of the other blogs have home and article pages that are just too heavy and slow.
Haha, so true. I was actually going to include the "where did you go to high school?" question as an example, but thought it would be tl;dr.

To those not from St. Louis, take heed: you're measure in "class" is determined by your answer to this question. If you're an outsider, you're relegated to lesser-than status.
When you run a program the OS will usually just map the code into address space, it won't necessarily actually load the code from the disk until it needs to.

It's possible that what the program is doing at initialization is not loading code from the disk but doing something else, like perhaps checking it has a nice big contiguous area of disk to use for temporary storage or for loading some type of cache into.

There are many times in programming where you make a choice between taking a one-off up front cost to optimise something for faster overall performance vs slower overall performance without the setup cost.

For example with a DBMS you can lose some write performance by having an index on a table and rebalancing when you are writing but the advantage is much faster read performance.

Also A Java program can take longer to run the first time by JIT compiling the program for the platform it is run on but this will mean faster performance of the program itself.