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> "I'm pretty sure i could get a half assed DIY system working for a few hundred dollars."

you think the same thing when you see an Oracle instance that cost tens of millions and think you could have done it with postgres. what these retailers are really paying for is reliability, redundancy and support - having a big brand co. to call when something goes wrong.

that isn't to say that there isn't a mysql/pgsql style opportunity within warehouse automation and supply chain management - it is just that it isn't likely that Wal-Mart and Amazon would be your customer. Similar development and deployment cycle as with mainframes and servers - what was once the territory of only large companies and governments is now an accessible technology and competitive advantage amongst small and medium businesses as well

The most interesting aspect of supply chain management to me is the concept of a completely outsourced warehouse - where it is cheaper to have a specialized company manage and run your inventory and supply chain as part of their larger infrastructure (and economies of scale etc.) rather than building your own warehouses and system. Amazon became very very good in this field because an outsource style solution didn't exist at the time and they had no choice other than to do it themselves, but you could imagine that an Amazon being started today would not have its own warehouses and would not be writing long letters to shareholders trying to justify hundreds of millions in capital expenses in order to automate warehouses and bring down margins.
my thoughts about web frameworks are actually a web framework now :) https://t.co/zLF9yXBH*

https://twitter.com/mikeal/status/174329057188642817
It's called F#. It comes with a much more succinct syntax, too.
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look at Ocamlnet and netmulticore

http://projects.camlcity.org/projects/ocamlnet.html

http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2012/02/24/whenjobs-job-lists-canc...
I'd add that Unicode support is also a problem. latin-1 isn't even good for French. My brother's name is Jérôme and the first thing I try with any language to check strings is this:

# print_endline (String.uppercase "Jérôme");;
JéRôME

Oops, two characters didn't get properly uppercased.

I really like OCaml, it's probably my favorite language, and I hope that RWO will increase its popularity and that this will in turn help improve the language. I'm reading a lot about Haskell these because of the times when I want to do some multi-programming with unicode text.
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When I saw the video my first thought was: VC money. They have to show how they're spending it, and so Evernote is more likely to develop a product could be the "next big thing" but that feels completely wrong for people outside the "VC money bubble".

Can you imagine if I had to go to a client and ask him to take a picture of him, going to "photo booth-mode"?[^1] Or a potential client, met somewhere?

[^1]: The video says the go automatically to "photo booth-mode" so I wouldn't have to ask, but still…
This is hit piece by rupert murdoch, who has some kind of insane grudge against google, which is funny when you think about - grandpa telling the kids to get off his lawn.
Nice idea, but when I meet somebody I am not going to take photos and log who I was with etc. It seems a little overboard.
No, that's not the subject. The subject is, as chancho also mentions here (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3641718), something that's explained in

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_47_0/doc/html/intrusive/intr...

Since you can write C in C++ of course everything can be written in C++ too if you don't use C++ "common" libraries and roll your own infrastructure. Once you care about "guts" of your program enough that you have to care about allocations, you'd see that as soon as you're thinking about "containers" having "pointers" to "objects" you're probably on the wrong way. Because "objects" often contain pointers that make part of more data structures but also can be of different size (you can't even "sizeof" them) and also you want to be the one who controls when and where each of them is actually stored (in a sense of the memory block).

I've done these things in C++ without boost, more "in a C way" inside of the separate modules (those that were critical) and I still wouldn't use boost monster, the amount of code dependency is much smaller that way.

Also see groby_b's: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3641890
Sort of. It is more like every function in OCaml is in IO. There is just no purity guarantee anywhere.
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With all due respect...are you trolling, or did you not read the comment you're replying to?

The original comment was, basically, an assertion that oil a globally traded commodity where prices are set for the entire market, and the price paid for any given barrel is the current market price, which will be precisely the same for all market participants (not counting the impact of taxes, subsidies, and differences in regulatory climate. (Is this true? Hint: The answer is "yes".)

Not only did your comment and links not actually disprove this assertion (not surprising, given that it's rather obviously true), but nothing you said even really disagreed with it, which leads me to believe you're not even a troll, just clueless.

Every single example you gave could well lead to lower oil prices for both American and Swedish consumers; none of them could plausibly lead to lower oil prices for American consumers but higher ones for Swedish consumers. Want to play again?
For the record, you will only get hacked work-arounds if your product is oriented at developers. Still, I'd rather spend time hacking on my projects than hacking on github's.
I'd have to say the answer to number 2 is no.

Also I would have to say that number 2 bakes in a position which imposes a morality and value system onto others, and singularly undervalues the complexity and edge cases(sets/groups/communities) present in the human condition.

Also its worth keeping in mind that social safety nets (i assume thats what you are referring to) may keep some people who don't pull their weight, but also keep alive people who would never had a chance to do so.
Good luck to you as well! I have followed your project on GitHub so will play with it when it's ready.
Obviously it depends on how you ask the question. If you asked "The IPhone generated $3 billion for Apple, and Android generated $250 million for Google. Who's winning?" (random numbers).

Also, if you look at the link that I provided, I don't know how you can be so "sure" that developers would agree with you.

The point is that I'm not sure how my parent is defining "winning"...or, for that matter, how Rubin defines it..but the only way I can think of is market share, which, despite your assurances, is a silly metric.
we ought to be able to provide better opportunities for the unfortunate

The trade-off of course being that the more growth we experience, the better quality-of-life gets for everybody in the future. On the one hand, everything is way better for most everybody than it was 200 years ago- on the other hand, like that did a whole lot of good for the dirt-poor of 200 years ago.
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I'm glad someone else noticed the mention of Infected Mushroom. I had many good (no Modafinil, just caffeine) coding binges listening to it years ago. After a while it gets too much and you move on to Oakenfold mixes, Daft Punks' Alive 2007, etc, but if you've never coded to Infected Mushroom's Classical Mushroom you need to try it...
And also what Bloomberg saw C++ lacking:

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2005/n185...

I'd still like to see how both these papers influenced last C++ standard at the end (I admit I didn't try to follow) -- is there finally a "standard" way to do all that?
Choice -

a)Phone with keyboard

b)One that will allow you to transfer music without a hefty itunes install

c)Phone with a large screen

d)Clamshell form factor

e)Slider form factor

f)Network effect - android phones are being sold in more places by a larger number of manufacturers. This has an effect in developing countries.

g) Network effect #2 - Till the Iphone arrived on Verizon there were some customers who had no choice but to go Android because what good is an Iphone when you know your home gets lousy coverage from AT&T. Ditto for places where Sprint or T-Mobile have a better network. The mobile network is not completely commoditised - given a particular area usually there is a single network company that provides perceptibly better coverage

h)Rate of change - something new is always launching which keeps the Android hype machine going
Ugh, who gives a shit.
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That is a modern American consumerist interpretation of the nature of life. P&L is a modern business invention; you can certainly try to interpret the world in terms of it, but it's a narrow and weak philosophy. E.g., what's the ROI on voting?
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I feel you.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3192238
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=401544
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=51451
Largely because there is no upfront marketing cost. Also while it has been inconvenient and frustrating at times I must admit that it is profitable.
It is also not type safe.
Well if you treat people as human machines, remove unionizing ability and what have you, then you can bring yourself to competitive levels with China, which has kinda made a very persuasive point that human robots are cheaper than mechanical ones.

The only issue with labor of course is the so called 'managing' aspect of it, which covers things like quality of life. Robots don't have and will never complain about, while being able to do tasks at a level that most humans wont ever be able to.
A TF article was also censored by "mistake":

http://torrentfreak.com/torrentfreaks-us-censorship-mistake-...
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I am amazed that Yahoo is resorting to patent trolling tactics. Almost everyone in the Valley hates software patents, and only builds patent portfolios defensively, but they don't expect to have to defend themselves against each other. It seems very un-Silicon Valley of Yahoo to do this.

I think their brand will take a hit in the Valley. It's not the freshest and shiniest brand anyway, but still there is a long way down for it to go, and I think this will send it down some notches.
My (admittedly short) experience writing kernel drivers with C++ was that RAII could be great help, but there's no way you can rely on any library you did not write yourself (and one that you wrote with the express intent to use for low-level work at that).

C++ code just tends to assume it's fine to do whatever crazy stuff it assumes needs to be done, like allocating 4 bytes at a time using new.
C code is usually more careful about that, and quite a few packages offer control of their memory allocation in C. (Yes, C++ does allow you to overload new and delete, and have allocator traits, and more. Come back when you've actually implemented this for a library you did not write, and we'll discuss war stories if I can remember them. It was 2001, it was ugly back then, and I'd be surprised if it is better looking now).
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And more than that, he's right: if you care enough about things the kernel cares about, you really, really don't want C++ "idioms" in kernel. And you don't want to work with the people who don't understand that. So it's really convenient to piss such people off, just as he said:

"for something where efficiency was a primary
objective the "advantages" of C++ is just a huge mistake. The fact that
we also piss off people who cannot see that is just a big additional advantage."
How is G+ different? What does it do better? Here's what I want to see: Facebook took media, Google+ should take mobile. It seems to me that it is a positioning problem.

Facebook has made big moves recently to be the place to share all media (news papers, music, movies, tv etc) through their announced partnerships. Sharing media is something we've been waiting for and users have been doing themselves for years. For all the complaints, privacy concerns, user experience changes -- it seems to be going quite well.

However, Facebook's mobile apps have been atrocious. They are just recently approaching usable. How long did we have to wait for an iPad version of the Facebook app? Considering how often and how long people access Facebook from mobile devices it is astonishing that the mobile experience is what it is. Where is the innovation?

Google has an army of Android devices -- just take mobile and make the most awesome, seamless, integrated mobile experience ever. Partner with everything that's cool in the physical world. Social people get out and do things. Google+ should bridge the gap between offline and online social experiences. Android android android.
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Not just for you: if your networking makes people hire you and you subsequently add value, then the time invested in networking was an integral part of 'adding value'. If you add more value than someone else would have, it's even a net win for society as a whole.
Is it really a question of trust? Google go off the rails and the other manufacturers get together to fork android or stop using it. Consumers continue to not care.

The only way a good outcome can come from this acquisition is if Google go full-tilt with Motorola instead of this weird half-hand approach.
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I agree with the bits about how coding to gain watchers is silly, but I disagree about how people watching loads of stuff is bad. I follow interesting people, and my number one source of finding cool new things is looking at the stuff they follow. It has nothing to do with fanboyism, and everything to do with discovery
If your goal is to prevent AT&T from throttling, this kind of court case won't do any good. By going to a small claims court, you will need to show some damages and ask for a monetary remedy. I don't think courts can order private companies like AT&T not to throttle. As much as we don't like it, it's a business decision. If throttling is a violation of the contract between AT&T and the customers, it will be voided. Then, with the new contract AT&T can very well explicitly mention the right of throttling. Then, what??? There was a recent case in California where a consumer was awarded $850 so he can get out of his current contract. http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/02/24/iphone_user_su...
So you're really arguing that the size of the textbox is what distinguishes it from the other services? Most people post to their blog and distribute the links if they want to share something longer form.
Very cool, thank you. I watched the openmirage talk since I'm interested in distributed computing -- this is great work. I like anything that gets rid of excessive layers, and the typical cloud stack is really suffering from this.

I have been meaning to give OCaml a try for awhile but it's bumped on my list now. (Though it seems that the thing that people keep complaining about is lack of a polymorphic print...)
+1, git rebase -i is amazing for this
I don't see it as if Wikileaks were fooled, they have debunked Stratfor, the "money-making scheme". They sell nothing for a fortune, I hope their subscribers will leave them.
Forget ill intent. Just make it punishable. The same way they wanted to make sites responsible for what users post, by taking down the entire (DNS removal). It should be equally as dangerous for them to make those accusations with such harsh consequences.
This app has been around for a couple of months ... why the HN love now?
This is OK for random networking. If you're looking for a proper CRM manager on iOS, try out Contacts Journal.
Everyone knows G+ is using better and cleaner tech than facebook or twitter, but social networks are defined by, and made vastly more valuable by their total network size and so facebook with its billions of users will probably be on top for some time to come.
Thanks! Refactoring redraw() is high up on my list of priorities now that other people can see the code ;)
Ask HN: Relocating from Europe to Silicon Valley
Hi,

Discalimer: I'm using a throwaway account to post this.

lt;dr: After paying tax and rent, how viable is living on $4800/mo (in total, for two people) in Silicon Valley?

I have recently been offered by the company I work for to relocate to our Silicon Valley office to lead a growing engineering team. I currently live in Europe, and I'm trying to get to grips with the standard of living I could expect.

I have a spouse who would relocate with me, but not get a working visa. This means I would have to support her fully.

The offer I received was for $90K + $2K/mo housing aid. We are planning to rent a 2 bedroom place in the valley, and we would also need to get a car.

Now, even after doing some research I am having trouble figuring out what kind of standard of living we would get out of my salary. Seems ~1/3 of the pay would leap into the pockets of Uncle Sam and the state of CA, so given that we rent a place for $2200/mo that would leave around $4800 to cover food, utilities, car, gas, insurance, phone, cable and all other expenses. This would also need to cover some savings to counter the fact that working in the US for a period of time will effectively halt our pension savings in Europe for that time.

So, my question is: What kind of standard of living does this get us?
I'm guessing here about a possible connection, although it's certainly not sudden (nor guaranteed to work):

Android Market gift cards => more money being spent buying apps => more incentive for developers to write apps => more great apps => more incentive to buy an Android Tablet.
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Yahoo's new management in action. They must be really desperate.

Yahoo refuses to innovate their way out of ten years of stagnation, despite the opportunities. So they're going for the fast profits. In reality, this kind of thing will destroy whatever relationships Yahoo has, isolate them, and make their situation worse.

Facebook was no threat to Yahoo, and they could have benefited eachother long term. Instead, Yahoo just got unfriended.
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"Pfft, who pays for information you could find free on the Internet."

I'm in exactly that boat, as I run a magazine as well and have been thinking those thoughts. I even use the same print on demand company as HNM (Magcloud).

Seeing this I'm much more interested in trying to make some money. Any ideas are much welcome! :)
You should be paid to do a fixed amount of work (generate a certain amount of value for your employer), not work a fixed number of hours. If you can get that work done in 10 hours a week, everybody wins. If you need to work 70 hours a week to do that work, well, maybe you're not a good fit for the job.
Yeah I agree - I am only on one social network site - twitter. I can't be bothered with FB.
"More importantly, what can Google do?"

That really goes a bit too far. Oh dear, oh dear, you can almost hear the handwringing going on in Mountain View, because Google are worried (!) about iOS!
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This is a cherry-picked email that, while abrasive, does not single out any particular person for abuse. Messages about individual people on the linux-kernel mailing list are usually pretty professional. (Mind you, they rarely get as downright friendly as the Perl or Python people.)
Last time I checked G+ my feed looks like a mix of photo gallery and Google fan club.

It is really really weird. All social groups have circle-jerky tendency, none is as apparent at the scale as G+
I think we agree that the people who issued this DMCA notice have taken action to suppress content they find objectionable. I can also understand that 'censorship' is a Bad Thing (TM) and people want to limit its use to only the most extreme cases.

But that leaves a problem: what do you call behavior like this?
How do you consider the factor "good work"? You can finish a job quickly, but it'll bite you (or a coworker) in the ass later, or you can do the job well, but take you longer.

As a programmer, I can't thing of a worse way of management than the former. You'd have to start defining criteria for "good work", and then spend tons of time reviewing. Nightmare.
which is not all that common in this industry

In context, it sounds like he means "which is not uncommon in this industry."
^I'm inclined to agree with you. There's definitely NOT an economy of scale when it comes to developer productivity. Sure, my company has some guys making $60K a year, but they certainly get a lot less than half or a third as much as the senior-level folks. I've got a lot more to say on this, perhaps a blog entry is in order.
I've found the (somewhat public-facing) science and (academic) math content and discussion to be great on google+. Not being more popular might hurt the service long term if it gets shut down, but I really enjoy it right now, so I don't particularly care.

Facebook I use mostly to keep up with family members and friends getting married and having kids, which is fine. Twitter continues to be a great pseudo-rss feed, streaming in tons of content in such easily digestible bite-sized pieces (but every time I try to figure out the course of conversation between other people I remember why I hate their interface). Google's plan may have been to be all things to all people and they haven't been able to, but it's good for me right now for finding interesting stories and very interesting people to talk with and learn from in the niches I care about. The interface is designed for back and forth conversation, and the signal to noise ratio is such that I actually enjoy it. Again, for now, why would I care about more than that?

> While Intel gets dozens of responses to its posts on Google+ Ms. Walter said the company has nine million "fans" on Facebook and gets thousands of comments there.

This (and the trending-twitter-content/youtube-comment quality of the thousands of comments you get on those posts) is exactly the problem with public discussions on Facebook. Really it's a problem that no social network has been able to solve as it scales up as far as I know. 100s of millions of people are going to cause serious tragedies of the commons, of course, but we also get the growing pains of reddit and, to a lesser extent, HN. Hopefully google+ can maintain it's comfortable minuses for a little while longer.
Would you rather be idling excess machines or firing workers?
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