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I assume nothing. I'm only wondering about the tone sneaking in. That aside:

I just notice: <programming language> is on the rise according to indeed.com trend stats.

I follow the link "watch <programming language> jobs"

I see that virtually none of the ads offer jobs where this pl is used.

What do you make of that?
It depends who you ask. The OSI have a definition (http://www.opensource.org/osd.html). It isn't the only definition, but it's probably the only definition self-important enough to have its own webpage. Some people get angry if you don't agree with that definition, but there's no real reason to consider it privileged above the lay definition ("the source is available").
Indeed you are right, in the original Mario you can change direction while jumping, in this version you can't.
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Ah, ok, so you wouldn't recommend a .co.uk for my UK-focused product then? Interesting. Oh wait, no, the other thing, useless.
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The problem is the "NC" = non-commercial. It is, when you think about it, a very strong restriction on what you can do with it. I totally get that the author doesn't want somebody to come along and go make money on the back of his work.

But let's say that you download the code, enhance it and put it on your Github for the world to see. Great, you're allowed to do that[1]. But what if you're a contractor and your Github is part of your public profile, i.e. your professional marketing material? You could very well be in breach of the NC clause.

That's why FOSS enthusiast tend to be a little purist about it. OSI and FSF approved licenses contain no such ambiguity.

Also, there's the down-watering of the term itself. RMS actively opposes the term "open source" because it's less free than his "free software" definition, the success of which he considers OSI to leech on. I'm not even sure how open source is less free than free software (although I'm sure it is), but I agree with the concern that the term open source should be protected to include the concern of absolutely free usage.

1: Although you could construct the argument that since Github is a commercial entity that benefits from showcasing code on their website, it's actually a commercial usage.
i'm currently a little pissed at webwokers (yeah, i take it personally) that i can't hand them a canvaspixelarray. so basically to use workers for canvasimagemanipulation you have to copy the canvaspixelarray into an uint8array, pass it to the work, get back a uint8array and copy that one back into the imagedata.data canvaspixelarray. oh yeah, the copy actions are of course all in the main thread - so this basically defeats the reason to have webworkers in the first place.
Textbook case of inferiority complex.
Topsites can offer a pay to leech scheme. It's often a hushed topic and people don't like to talk about it (because it is insecure). Many topsites are at it.

A lot of scene members react badly to topsites like this, and often people infiltrate such sites and public a "scene notice" about them containing siteop nicknames, hostnames, IRC/FTP details, and screenshots.

Scene notices are like the news system of the scene. They allow people to publish messages that will disseminated to all the other scene topsites.
Just to explain it: It's the "NC" (noncommercial) part. From the OSI:

The license shall not restrict any party from selling (...) the software

And the FSF:

A free program must be available for commercial use, commercial development, and commercial distribution.
You cannot patent game-play mechanics. But then... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tetris_Company#Legal_enforc...
On a per store basis it's extremely rare since only bigger stores have that.
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Very neat. I've made a few buddies from NUS while at a startup in Beijing, and been planning to head out to Sg for a weekend to check out the scene. Actually, big data has become a bigger part of my work. What kind of analytics are you working on? Are you using R?
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The BSD and MIT licenses make no mention of commercial usage? The NC clause is exactly what makes it incompatible with all FOSS licenses.
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Everyone's questioning Windows 8 because they see it as something that you're either forced to use in a tablet or forced to use in a computer, with possibly bad trade-offs in each scenario, and I didn't think much of Windows 8 either... until I saw the Lenovo Yoga.

Seeing an ultrabook that transforms into a reasonably compact, multi-touch tablet just made everything click. Windows 8 may not be the best tablet OS or the best computer OS, but it's the perfect OS for notebooks that transform into tablets or tablets that can be docked into a desktop setup.
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I tried it out as it's an interesting concept. Unfortunately, while I can register and also participate in the introductory badges, whenever I try to push to my backpack then confirm who I am, it seems to get stuck on authenticating me forever :(
I've been to quite a few conferences, speaking about my startup's software (http://pagekite.net). In my case, since we release our core product as Free Software and are very aligned with the decentralization and "cloud backlash" movements, it's been easy to get speaking slots to get up on stage and talk.

This has been an absolutely fantastic learning experience, even though it also taken a huge amount of time. Being able to get up on stage and comfortably explain to a room full of people is a very valuable skill, and one you can really only learn by doing. Even if you are just standing in a booth, you can cultivate this sort of thing by actively seeking out conversations with passers-by.

Another thing, is we've also noticed there is often a 6-month lag or even more before seeing any tangible returns - people listen, file away the ideas and then come back when they are ready.

So although I agree that it is important to carefully evaluate the costs involved in events like this, I think many of the metrics used in the article may be a bit short-sighted. Basically, "wasting time" is part of the learning experience. If you don't do it, you never learn.
I really enjoyed reading this.

I don't really remember being disappointed with toys, but my parents do remember me taking them all apart almost immediately. I had a vast assortment of parts, which I used to build and rebuild and rebuild again all sorts of little robots and Rube Goldbergish things.

Care to hazard a guess as to what I did with my first car at age 16? Yeah, pretty much the same thing. Every computer I've ever owned? Yes, those as well.

As an adult (technically) I manage to collect and routinely discard massive heaps of techno-garbage.

Actually, I may never grow up; I create video games.

I guess I'm still searching for the magic; I know it has to be in there somewhere.

Oh and James, turtles are amphibians (not reptiles) :p
I think this is misleading. Most of the apps in top paid for Android, are not the same apps as those on the Apple App Store.

Also, there's a higher percentage of free apps on Android than on iOS. I very much doubt that the average app on Android is more expensive than on iOS, especially if you count iPad apps, which are usually twice as expensive as normal iPhone apps.
Sprites are quite fun to move around, even if you're not doing it in a more interactive fashion (like Logo).
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Why not? Why pay now when you can pay later for free?
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Another source of stress is: Striving to be somewhere else. Whenever you take a shower, or eat, or lie in bed, and you feel that you ought to be somewhere else (working) that's stress. That not only applies to whereabouts, but also to situations like "I should be ready with X so I can take on Y". To reduce that, you have to establish a clear declaration of working and resting time - resting means really switching off, not allowing thoughts to pull you back into work mode.

EDIT: I think the word I would use for countering this type of stress is "dedication".
I see, an indirect cause didn't occur to me.
now imagine if only they released chrome as the default browser on android since v1.0 in 2008... I wonder how much larger would Chrome's share be now...
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I disagree.

Flash won't work on iOS or (soon) any new Android device, nor will it work in the default browser on Windows 8. Despite what Adobe may say in public, I expect Flash to be completely dead (except possibly for maintenance/security updates) by this time next year.
That's sort of what I mean.
For my work I build and run a number of websites which are almost completely unrelated to tech. These are service industry websites so there is no "product" to speak of.

I am looking for ways to improve pagerank, so let's say I was to write a few pages about how I built some of the trickier parts of these websites and hosted these on the websites themselves but perhaps did not link these through from the main pages (but did link back to the main pages from my new pages).

If I got links to my articles on reddit , HN etc then perhaps this would improve pagerank even though the pages are unrelated to the sites main content. So this would improve the search rankings for the websites on their main keywords as well?
well put. Most of the reasons can boil down to uncertainty.
I have a similarly pleased experience with my Asus 1215N (1366×768 screen), which I got for around $300 new (good bargain).

It has basically two drawbacks for me: battery life isn't amazing (roughly 4 hours of active use), and I'm sure a dedicated reader would be better for reading high-res PDFs.

Oh well, I can write code in vim on my eeePC, and you can't say that about an iPad.
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Utile, grazie.
Ahh thanks for this extra bit of info. I use an iPhone browser which lets me select my user agent, so in cases like these, I tell it to pose as Safari on a Mac. With this, I was able to read the post.
They would possibly need to redo all the levels too, as they are tile for tile taken from Super Mario Bros.
I wonder why the iPod Touch & iPhone are listed separately on that graph (the iPad isn't even listed, I'm not sure if it's included within iPhone or not). If they were combined, Mobile Safari would be ahead by a few percent.
Wow. Amazing talk.
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Technically it would be more like: "I just set it to safer defaults, since you guys won't. By the way, if your defaults are not strict enough for Github - where you trusted to host your code - gets them right, that pretty much makes them unsafe defaults."
No, it's not just that. I've played the NES and SNES versions of Mario on an emulator. The controls on Mari0 do feel rather clunky in comparsion. I can't quite put my finger on exactly what it is though.
Conferences are tricky. Here's a counter-example.

We went to MYGOSSCON (Malaysian Government Open Source Software Convention) and nailed it. Walked away with about 32 business cards, many were interesting, two solid leads (one turned into a sale), and a great deal of confidence that we were pushing for a great market. Gave away 50 business cards. This was despite the fact that we had an extremely simple booth (two banners, nothing on the walls, a desk and some marketing material).

But you don't just go to a convention or conference and expect to succeed. There is little in the way of prizes for just showing up. You have to put in legwork and you have to think through and plan your presence.

The first thing we recognized was that we had no real way to draw people to our booth with our main product (LedgerSMB). Nobody was going to come by and see what we could offer. So we decided to reinvent ourselves a bit and turn the tables a bit-- our primary exhibit was PostgreSQL (since PostgreSQL as an org wasn't going to be there and generally when PostgreSQL is going to be at a conference, we have tended to volunteer at their booth, so the arrangement wasn't unusual except that we paid for the booth) and our secondary one was LedgerSMB. We knew it was government-centric so we planned our marketing materials to be government-centric, including a case study of the use of PostgreSQL at CNAF in the French Government. We gave away probably 100 of those.

Once folks came in to talk with us about databases we'd also talk about accounting and ERP software. While others (Hitachi) were offering a raffle for a free iPad, we got folks to come by, simply offering them something that was interesting to them, and being able to talk about it.

Also we blogged about our presence in advance, and gave a report after, ensuring that people would know that we were there.

The moral of the story is this: with conferences what you get out depends a lot on what you put in. Time and attention to detail goes a long way towards success.
Because she'd point at the tower and say "the hard drive".
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You figured out our fallback plan pretty well =)
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Haven't come across this before, shame there's no ruby implementation
According to my reading of the blog commercial adoption of Clojure is low despite its popularity amongst programmers. Your comments regarding the lack of valid jobs for Clojure supports this argument rather than refutes it. Also, you noted that Scala ads on indeed.com were in fact valid (which the blog seems to argue is being adopted commercially). In both cases the data you observed was in agreement with the conclusions drawn.
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Essentially, one could simply copy the .git folder to a web visible place:

cp -r .git ~/public_html/foo.git
If you add commenting this would be a complete replacement for desktop viewing of HN for me!
Square will be in trouble if NFC takes off. That is why its coming up with what I think is its main product line, the register. The credit card reader thingy is not where it makes money. Once prople get hooked on the analytics it can hope to add the NFC functionality in and still keep going.
"there are good perks (company issued iPhone!)"

That sounds like a source of stress right there. If the company gives you a phone I assume it means they own your ass every moment of every day.
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If you are planning on doing a startup, and Singapore is a pretty awesome place to get started. But of course, once you have gotten off the ground, you should then head to the mecca of tech - Silicon Valley.
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Thanks for the comment. Feel free to contact me at varun [at] semantics3 [dot] com, if you are heading over to Singapore. We haven't yet started on our analytics. Currently we are still scaling our backend infrastructure to pull in vast amounts of semi-structured data from a multitude of sources and organize them into structured entities and map out their relations.
I had built one that allows to write counter examples also, here an example http://bit.ly/dV4nRg
I've had to wait 60-90 days for insurance at every single job I've had. This seems to be the norm in NY/NJ, at least.
Square is a POS, cash register company. Why would Apple be interested in it?
In big corporations the opposit might be true. Programming is outsourced and analysts are driving the decision-making (in the best case). The point with the programming skills stays, though. To me it seems there exists a whole corporate ecosystem with analysts who can't code and the managers around them who do not ask tough questions. It is even hard to get scored there if you can and want to code and generally to dig deeper, because it bothers them.
> A bad workman always blames his tools.

So do expert workmen when given crappy tools.
Likewise, I'd love to be able to use Opera Mobile on iOS. I do use Opera Mini when reception is bad, but it's not so great for some websites.
Hmmm, interesting that my personal results would get that and not you.
I'd rather symlink it. :-)

Of course, I'd wager not very many of us work all the time on web-visible machines, which is why adding PageKite changes things - I'm sharing repos off my laptop now.
I think you're probably suffering from the same problem I had when learning languages: you're being taught by someone whose teaching technique is optimised for "normal" people.

In my case, I was being taught by people who taught using techniques appropriate for an audience who thought in similar ways to them. I don't. When I finally found a technique that suited the way I think, and the things I already can do, suddenly I found I wasn't bad at languages - I was actually pretty good! But it was too late to gain real proficiency, and I no longer have the time I had in school to work on it. So I get by, rueing the lost opportunity.

But I've since honed my ideas into ways of teaching other stuff to people who think similarly to me, and who want to learn something quickly. I can teach you to juggle in 2 hours. Or teach you to unicycle in 2 hours. I wonder if I could teach you (the underlying rudamentary requirements of) how to drive in 2 hours.

Probably not - driving is more complex than either unicycling or juggling - but I bet the same ideas would work. Wish there was a way to test this.
I love this project, and have even written a write up for linking the pogo with a roku, but am curious as to why this is being linked on HN.
When we went to MYGOSSCON, we didn't expect anything at first. We expected to come back six to eight months later and re-evaluate. We spent about $1.5k (total) on the booth plus the productivity cost. We walked away with leads that turned into $5k in sales right away, and we still aren't into the 6 month timeframe. Moreover, some of our efforts have paid off in the sense of network connections helping us more effectively market LedgerSMB to Malaysian businesses (strange since MYGOSSCON is strictly public sector).

We are now three months in and have received occasional boosts from it, but these haven't been quantifiable yet. So while it really helped... it remains too soon to tell how well it will pay off. Only 3x? More?
Related:

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This may be obvious but you can pull with ssh directly from workstation to another.
Competition forces rules to be born. Not just competition for prestige, a competition for access.

Topsites are fuelled by racers. These are the couriers, who transfer data between multiple topsites they have access to. All topsites have a multiplier. For every 1MB you upload, you can download ~3MB. If you don't each a quota or are not in the top ~15 racers by the end of the week your access will be revoked.

With access comes prestige, ability to race to other topsites, contacts, and leech access to the topsite. These things are many terabytes big and can have archives in excess of 60TB. A huge repository of constantly refreshing and up to date material.

Without rules this would become a free-for-all, with poor quality. That's no good for anyone.
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PLEASE DO NOT READ THAT ARTICLE - it is bad for you and your business.

SEO is a bullshit industry. this means that 80% of everything that is written about SEO actually reduces your knowledge of SEO, that article is in no way different.

just pick a few examples:

> A web crawler has to crawl your site (and every other site on the web)
> Indexes all the pages ..
> Organizes the indexed collection and stores ...

this one misses on of the most important steps of the google site processing pipe: Discovery is the process of discovering URLs to crawl. It is fueled by the sitemap.xml and crawling.

PageRank - is not - "another important part of authority" - pagerank is thoughtcancer. don't ever say that word, don't ever think that word. see my TC article here http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/07/startups-linking-to-your-co...

>Ensure pages render without JavaScript enabled

sadly google parses and to some degree renders JS ... badly. this tip is good, but leads to the false conclusion that google does not parse/render/"see" JS.

> you should also pay attention to how you construct links and anchor text to internal pages on your site.

internal link anchor text is mostly irrelevant.

>your own internal links use relevant keywords in the anchor text.

it's also some of the worst things, as the impact in minimal to not measurable.

>So if you load a bunch of text dynamically with Ajax, or JavaScript, create a non-JavaScript version that will show the same information.

outdated, google now even does onload-triggered POST requests if necessary. js is still bad, but the story above is only half the story.

>Put them in the URL (and even better if your domain name has your keywords)

oh god, not again. these are the SEO URL rules

#### landingpage url rules

all URLs on an a webproperty must be according to these rules
listed in priority!

1. unique (1 URL == 1 resource, 1 resource == 1 URL)
2. permanent (they do not change, no dependencies)
3. manageable (1 logic per site section, no complicated exceptions)
4. easily scalable logic
5. short
6. with a targeted keyword phrase

further down she says something about 404s and it sounds like they are bad. 404 are great. when pages are gone, they are gone - 404 or 410. if the move then 301. but do not redirect gone pages to friendly 200 pages. keep your site simple and your redirects rules as well.

>Additionally you want as many links to contain appropriate alt text.

links don't have alt text, images have alt text. in an image is linked, that alt text substitutes the anchor text.

>But SEO isn’t just about building a great site that is crawlable and has the right content – it is also about converting users.

no, that is the job of the product, onpage marketing, conversion optimization. SEO is really just about getting - targeted - visitors. (she has clearly read too much SEOmoz)

>the most defensible SEO strategy is links,

no, it's not. that is just something that SEO agencies tell you to sell you their services and useless tools.

disclaimer: i work as an SEO - i hate SEOs. my biggest success is 62 M visitors a month. i don't read SEO blogs.
(And I am not being a hater here, I am also using Rails for some hobby projects & had to double check all my code. I somehow didn't even think about foreign keys in mass assignment... sigh.)
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I'm sure he'll be left heartbroken.
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