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I've never gotten a chance to try out Play, I'm no longer doing any JVM stuff... but back when I was a Java guy, my favorite java web framework was Stripes: http://www.stripesframework.org/display/stripes/Home

I've never really understood why Stripes hasn't "caught on." It's simplicity is wonderful.
Plenty of great teams never see the light of day, and plenty of mediocre teams have huge successes. Luck matters.
> don't be a cynic, be a builder.

Beautifully put.
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Compare the photo of him from Ars Technica to this one from 2007: http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/July-2007/The-Hac...

Reading through the indictment it becomes clear that he outed himself through many statements that narrowed down his identity. Not too smart.
A terrible idea is still a terrible idea. Luck matters, but only if you don't have a terrible idea.
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There are a number of problems in academia. I'll throw out a few, just as discussion points.

* Pay disparity between professor and industry; if you optimize for money, you go more industry.

* Papers are a key metric of success, not actual results (Which are hard to quantify)

* Defunding of public universities

* Rising cost of education vs. inflation or cost of living

* Students loans leaving graduates (and non-graduates) in heinous amounts of debt. It's very hard to pay your way through school now with a part-time low-wage job.

* Worsening average quality of incoming students causes higher burden on instructors and institutions

* Increasing amount of specialization; liberal arts majors can be very smart and have broad understanding, but get shafted because paying for on-the-job training is expensive.

* Training vs. education wars.

* Entitlement issues: "I paid for this course, I should get an A".

As usual, the cream is at the top, and can bring in enough money to keep things going, and can select on more than the ability to pay tuition.
EDIT: Sorry, I realize I misread the word "fall" in your post and saw "fail."
Going to address only #2: My understanding is that what he means is that even a social totally "conversational" message is a todo item of "read me". Less "frivolous" emails tend to either contains direct action items or imply action items that must be taken.

PG wishes that aspect be more explicit in order to gain more control over it.
"If the team were worth that much, then they would have made Loopt astoundingly profitable in the last 7 years, and we'd all be using it."

Great teams can attack crappy markets or just get the timing wrong. The leadership team that brought Apple back from the brink was the same team that built NeXT. Next wasn't astoundingly profitable and none of us were using it.
At least they appear to be too high-profile and above-ground to have criminals as their main clients.
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Here's the thing though: it surprisingly also works with mouse and keyboard! You do lose some display density, mind you, but the upshot in size allocated more than makes up for it.
My issue with the active corners is that they are impossible to use with multiple monitors. Fitt's Law actively works against it; instead of being able to slam your mouse, you have to gingerly move it to the right spot.
http://www.heroku.com/pricing#0-0

Heroku's pricing can be found there. I've found their uptime to be very good.

Basically, Heroku launches instances of your application and then routes incoming requests to your application. They aren't what I would call expensive, but part of that is because of the value they add. They're managing all of their servers and making it so that you can just push your code to them and have it run. If a box goes down, your application instance just gets re-launched on another box. Of course, compared to Amazon EC2 instances, it's expensive. If you're putting out a application, chances are that it uses somewhere in the range of 50MB of RAM (really anywhere from 10-250MB doesn't matter for this comment). Amazon will give you a small instance with 1.7GB of RAM for ~$60/mo. For $71/mo, Heroku will give you three instances of your app. Of course, 1.7GB of RAM could fit more than just three instances of your app.

However, I'm not criticizing Heroku as expensive. I just want to note for you that you're really paying for great management.

Whether it's good from a business perspective depends on what you're doing. If you don't want to budget your time on managing servers, it can be wonderful to pay someone else to do that. Many sites can probably get away with 1-4 dynos and you get the benefit that even if one box goes down, your application will stay up. However, there are times when your business is more about efficiently using server capacity or requires more exotic setups (like having persistent local storage rather than storing things on S3).

They're well-liked for a reason. Personally, I like hosting things myself, but I'm also quite comfortable with systems administration and setting up environments for the languages I program in.
Further confirming my notion that social engineering is the real "hacking". When your systems are secure enough, people become the weakest link.
Cool. Hopefully more will follow and mobile devices will become content producers rather than just content consumers.
I took the part about email being a todo list to mean that, it's inherently a todo list in the sense that it's a list of messages you have to deal with. You don't have to purposefully use it as a todo list for it to effectively be one.
It sounds like working at certain types of tech companies forces insights that I usually hear from overworked Wall Street types.

The reference to Eric Schiermeyer and the Buddhist monk is interesting because the only other time I heard about someone at an industry event talk openly about Zen and mindfulness was also from another Zynga employee, one of the M&A guys speaking at a 500 Startups event on health and well-being. He alternated between being hilarious and insightful and had the room totally cracking up at his observations about startup life.
https://twitter.com/jessenoller/statuses/173365958767935490 According to Jesse Noller the talks are being recorded
Thanks for all the great feedback. We'll get right on it.
Well, geez, don't accidentally leak things like where and when you've been arrested. This isn't subtle stuff.
Careful, the groupthink here punishes anyone who is not critical of Apple.

Witness the risible, tortuous linguistic analysis trying to prove the referenced article is wrong because it must be claiming that the iPad will be dominant for evermore. "One tablet to rule them all."
I apologize for sounding condescending.

However... the blog is for superuser.com, this is hacker news and I'd say the audience probably does know that Windows 8 and Metro do, indeed, exist :)
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Mostly my problem is that I don't use the UI properly. I hit return and don't select an option when they pop down. However, it does tend to come up with strange results:

Worbarrow Tout (has wikipedia page). If you are zoomed on the UK you get a selection of B&B's in the right general area.

Oxwich Burrows gives me a caravan park and a hall.

Both of these results have only one unambiguous meaning. Google gives me several results that are not correct.
Bob at home is probably not upgrading his 5-year-old computer to Windows 8. Upgrades are something like 10% of all Windows PC's. It's common in the tech world to upgrade, but for most people, a PC is a PC and it comes with software for its lifetime.
Or an Android phone with ICS :).
Thanks! It's refreshing to have such an open conversation and you deserve high praise for it. I can now look for an alternative.

As to Airgram, I'm worried because I don't see where they charge money. Pushover looks much more reasonable for me. I became wary of "free" — what "free" usually means is that eventually I am either a) bombarded with ads, b) the service disappears because there is no money or c) somebody acquires the startup because of their stellar subscriber growth (remember "free"?). In all cases I am left out and have to re-invest my time into looking for an alternative.

I also noticed over the years that the most stable and trouble-free services are those which I regularly pay for. I'm quite happy with SmugMug and Squarespace for example, even though there are free alternatives in each case.

Funny how this perspective is different from what you hear if you are a startup founder: as a founder, you are supposed to "build something people want", and the rest is supposed to sort itself out. But if you do build something people want, but never charge for it, you end up disappointing those people sooner or later...

jazzychad, thanks again for the frank statements and giving us the time to find another solution!
I am my DVD player's user. The copyright holder does not come to my house to operate my DVD player. It will not allow me to play discs not encoded for my region. This program is not written for my preference or use, but in opposition to me. It also does not allow me to bypass certain segments of videos. Again - it opposes me.

If it was written for me - the user - it would allow me to bypass all content and jump directly to the first title of every disc I inserted. The producers of this software have explicitly made it hostile to the user. I'm not saying this is not within their rights - I'm just saying it is.

But this is a rat hole. My point was that this is not what Linus was saying. He was merely describing the purpose of one software component. A kernel is a hardware abstraction - a platform for building applications without concern for the details of components - including the version of the kernel itself. He was arguing against breaking that contract by introducing a change which fit the whims of the contributor but would break an unknown number of binaries compiled against that contract.

tl;dr - "user" is not the same as "user-space"
I like the basic goal. The resume system is so suboptimal, it's nuts.

It incentivizes potential employees to focus so much energy on signaling and leads employers to unwittingly filter out otherwise great employees who just can't play the game well.

No idea if this solution is the answer to the problem, but good luck to them.
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I don't like it, but I don't disagree with it.

I was bringing it up as a topic of conversation, mostly in the hope that someone would argue against it convincingly, because if such an argument can be made, I'd like to hear it.
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Nick from HireArt here. I definitely agree with you that video interviews tend to be very time-consuming. One of the services we offer to employers is the grading of the interviews. We also keep the video portion very short (~2 1-minute clips per interview).

I'm the tech co-founder on our team. I do all of the development for our web app.
>> inbox is a todo list.
>No, it isn't. It's a method of asynchronous communication and file transfer. If you're using it as a TODO list, you're doing it wrong.

I don't think pg is asking for help with his email - for MANY people it IS a todo list. He's outlining opportunities for future startups - email IS an opportunity precisely because people are "doing it wrong" - you snarking like you disagree with him but it seems like you actually agree. He's saying there needs to be a better todo list system for EVERYONE email can still fill the role of asycn comms and file transfer.

>>gmail is slow
>it isnt slow for me

Maybe I'm wrong but I assumed he was meaning this to be it takes a lot of time not it has poor performance - again seems like your are just trying to negative.

>> 5. a new apple

>Apple is still on top of the consumer market. Solve problems that need solving in the way you feel is best. Don't work hard to be something else. Apple didn't.

He's talking long term - he's talking about apple when they were in a garage - he's not saying they are dead - he's saying with Jobs no longer at the helm there is less likely to be next generation vision - so again there is an OPPORTUNITY - someone will be the next visionary - maybe it could be you.

>> 6. bring back the old moore’s law
>>...it would be great if a startup could make a lot of cpus look to the developer like 1 cpu.

>As an analogy, why don't we make Ruby look like 8086 programming? Parallel computing is different- you can't solve problems with the same mentality.

I don't understand your logic here. PG is talking about abstracting the problem away from the developer - you think the future of CS is that we will no longer make things abstract?! I think PG mentions it because it would be HUGE if this could be done - it certainly is difficult - he's not advocating any kind of mentality - he's just saying there's an opportunity here.
There's an overshoot buffer. Move past the corner and then slide back to invoke the tip in the bottom left. For the charms, move past and then swing your mouse up into the middle. Kind of like a U shape.
Firstly he probably doesn't own any IP for the work he's done at the university, PhDs and post-docs normally assign rights to their university as part of their contracts.

However this also has it's upside, any top-tier science/engineering university is going to have a department whose sole job it is to commercialize research. And they'll not only be able to sort out the IP side and help with the productization, but they'll also have the contacts with investors who understand about investing in this type of company. Find out who these guys are at his university and put him in touch with them!
Jobs had already had amazing success when previously at Apple. He had already proved himself effective.
I would disagree with #2, At work my email inbox is certainly a todo list. I use IM, SMS, Twitter, Facebook, Forums to converse. Actually 99% of my personal email is companies sending me updates (we got your online payment etc.)

It's funny that I read this now, during my lunch hour I was pondering over how email is broken and needs to be replaced I actually came up a few few innovative ideas but there's more to it. I don't however think that our curent Email system will be around forever, instead of a static thing that you receive it will will be more like a feed that can be paused and saved off to different tasks that could theoretically automatically handle the task for you. (FEED: Credit Card Statement just posted - You: Siri pay the bill from account XYZ)
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This is stupid. 1994? Star Trek: TNG "invented" tablets, too - in the late 80s.
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on a related subject:

Apple sells out of launch-day iPads

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/03/09/apple_sells_ou...
> Like Google Code Search? That didn't turn out too well.

Duckduckgo is sort of trying this approach. It isn't taking over the world, but I think it's having reasonable success.

> Occasionally I will send myself a reminder mail with a list of TODOs, but my email inbox is definitely not a todo list.

I think many people (myself included) feel their inbox is a list of things they need to respond to... which is somewhere between a conversation and a to-do list. But a full inbox can feel like a list of obligations.

> Isn't Apple famous for secrecy even inside Apple or do all 9000+ employees in Cupertino know what's in the pipeline?

His friend may be talking about the culture of Apple rather than the list of current products. I'm still skeptical of his friend's claim, but that seems a possible interpretation.
Conceivably you could even access the same files via SMB of NFS. Huh, that's pretty cool.
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>Why should Bob at home with his five year old Dell care that this MS' salvo in the Tablet Wars? Why?

Maybe Bob should stay with Windows 7? Why should MS stop (what they think is) progress for people like Bob? Will anything ever get done with thinking like that?

Also, if you take a few mins to learn your way around, Windows 8 behaves substantially like a far better Windows 7 with a glorified start menu(remove all tiles you can and you're good to go).

And it will enable many devices like these that don't exist now:

Idea Pad Yoga:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz2R9y9ZvkA&hd=1

Samsung x86 Tablet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8-K1ELv6DE&hd=1

Try doing that with an iPad.(There are iPad-like ARM Windows 8 tablets too that won't run x86 apps but which will have Office).

83inch displays:
http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/29/2833173/windows-8-82-inch-...

All these form factors tied in the with the vast Win32 ecosystem(except ARM tablets) and a single Touch-first Metro ecosystem.

It's interesting how the comments on Apple/iPad/Post-PC articles, financials of Apple/Dell/HP etc. state that "MS is dying in the Post-PC" era, but now when they come out with a solution to make a OS run on different form factors and to have tablets that are not just consumption devices, the comments on here are skewed towards "Why change something that works?". If PCs are really dying, why not attempt to fix that instead of standing by with their head in the sand(like RIMM)?

There will always be people unhappy with anything you build or change. They should just go with their vision of what they think is right and that's what they did. They envision that with Windows 8, most new monitors will be touch enabled because of the demand so that for some functions(like clicking on links), people can use touch.

You may disagree with the vision, but you can't disagree that there is a method behind the madness.
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I'm not proficient at law either, but I don't think selling exploits is illegal. Unauthorized computer access is, but as long as they aren't doing that access themselves, I think they're in the clear. The analogy I first think of would be a gun store owner not being responsible for the crimes his customers commit. Although perhaps he'd be an accessory if he knew they had criminal intentions? I'm not sure.
The bug that breaks Tor for a hostile government is not going to be disclosed in an indictment or in unsealed court proceedings.
Apple up to the Mac is practically the prototype of the Silicon Valley young-founders-in-a-garage startup. To depict Steve Jobs as a late bloomer who did nothing big before 40 is silly.
Ok, so having tried the app — I won't actually use it until there is a "quiet hours" setting. Notifo got that perfectly right: there are certain hours where I do not want to be interrupted by notification sounds from the service (but I might want to keep other sounds on).
Small suggestion: you're essentially using Candor's github repo as your landing page. You only have a few seconds to grab someone's attention. I would add a section to the very top of your readme that asks "What is Candor?" and then explains:

- What it is

- Why it's better

So far, I get that it's kinda like Dart, but not. As a "web skimmer", I'll need a bit more incentive right up front to dig deeper, or you've lost me.

From one language geek to another, I wish you the best of luck on your project!
Re Wicket: have a look at PropertyModel and CompoundPropertyModel. You'll lose a bit of type safety, but it will seriously cut down on boilerplate code. In particular it helps map wicket:ids to your Java bean hierarchies by following simple conventions.

Somehow I managed to use Wicket for well over a year before realizing the benefit to this approach.
There are a lot of new shortcut keys alleviate that problem a lot.
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The purpose of business is profit?
The FBI?? You realize this is taking place in Sweden right?

Fucking hell, talk about America world police :(
For "thick-client" type: JAX-RS or Servlet 3.0 along with JS or GWT

For MVC type (like ASP.NET MVC not Rails): SpringMVC

For ASP.NET type: JSF 2.0 (I heard they simplify it greatly)
Woohoo. Great timing. Just started re-doing this to learn 3.2. Do you inject bootstrap into the app or use Seyhunak's twitter-bootstrap-rails gem?
I can believe that we'll develop software on tablets in future, but I find it hard to believe that that future looks like a heavily cut down version of the eclipse text editor.
> The White House, Capitol, and Supreme Court should not be placed in any state.

Yes, that's what I was saying. You don't need to change anything; they are already carved out. The White House, Capitol, Supreme Court, along with most of the museums, monuments and parks are already in federal jurisdiction.

> The founders created the District of Columbia in the first place; did they not intend anyone to live there?

Eh, it's complicated. Congress was in a reactionary mood, having recently been chased out of Pennsylvania by an angry armed militia.

> Statehood would still create 2 new Democratic senators out of 102, so giving the Republicans 1 extra Representative out of over 400 is hardly a "decent plan".

Well, it wasn't a plan for statehood. It did not award the district any Senators. It was just for a single voting member of the House.

> You'd have to make up the 2 senators somehow.

This is the part that drives me nuts. No. You really don't. For the same reason that you don't need to offset the end of Jim Crow laws by giving white people extra votes.

First, not everyone in DC is a Democrat. But even if they were, giving them a voice in Congress is not a gift to the DNC -- these are seats that should have been there all along.

> The fact that people don't accept retrocession just shows that people really want more Democrats in the Senate.

That's totally false. We're talking about local politics here and there are local political reasons why DC would not want to be in MD or VA and why VA and MD would not want DC. Here's a fun fact: the DC Republican Party supports statehood. And of course the DC Green/Statehood Party does. (Also consider that adding another chunk of DC residents to VA would likely turn that state from purple to blue.) This is not a partisan issue; it's about basic fairness.
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>Why should Bob at home with his five year old Dell care that this MS' salvo in the Tablet Wars? Why?

Because according to Apple and articles, blogs and comments I read here, in the Post-PC world we are now living in, Bob is replacing that Dell with an iPad.
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No man. I am not saying Loopt was a mistake. I reiterate that the exclusivity with the carriers was a mistake.

I was in the UK 2008-2010 and you could only get Loopt through American carriers. BTW, far back early 2000s, you could get mobile software from getjar.