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If it bothers someone to work extra they should not be doing that work. Because it means you are doing something you do not love. I do not mean to say you have to slave for 80 hours week but let's be honest when you want to create something you have to dig down and put efforts more than others that could mean working smart and putting more effort than others.

This just does not apply to developers it is same at wall street. Those who want to be at the top of their game are not there for money only they take satisfaction in their achievements and achieving goals.
No, it's not incorrect. Yours is a very defeatist attitude that doesn't help anyone.

The fact is, we don't know yet whether this will be a good or bad thing - though as noted, I believe it's likely to prove the former.

Your beliefs shape how your world evolves; if you choose to consistently interpret events negatively, as you just did, your world will move away from becoming a better, happier place.
I would extend that to Revision3.

I'm not sure how successful they are financially but just based on the fact that they're still around with many many shows going, I'd guess they're doing just fine.
You say that with authority. Care to share your reasoning? Folks went as far (in terms of travel time) to desolate places to make a future before. You are likely descended from some of them.
Alexis Ohanian isn't a developer, but he's one of the names behind reddit and hipmunk. I don't think anyone would argue he hasn't had a big role in either company's success. Clearly you can be a non-developer founder without being that "ideas guy".
it's down for me for some reason, but here's the article in the gh repo: https://github.com/iafonov/iafonov.github.com/blob/master/bl...
I'd rather see things being overlaid on a Lisp, ala http://common-lisp.net/project/clpython/.
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> A "find prior art for this patent" website, with various gamification style badges and points could be insanely popular.

It's been done. http://www.articleonepartners.com/
I listen to Rinse.fm (http://rinse.fm) incessantly for 8+ hours a day, it's got some of the best DJs in London for dubstep, house, grime, reggae, and everything in between. Always a solid listen.

Otherwise, usually anything instrumental. B.Lewis, Apollo Brown, and Pretty Lights have some great instrumental albums out now which cast a positive and productive vibe on my hack sessions.

Oh, and people apparently enjoy coding to my instrumental album! :) http://djmarmalade.com (free download, shameless plug).
I'd be careful about using the term "bulletproof" in this context. Before reading the article, I assumed it was talking about sending spam without getting blacklisted.
Or in an African village. It doesn't take distance to maroon someone with no means.
I understand and totally don't blame you for asking.
I've been taking steps to reduce my sources of news to a small group of higher quality, paid sources. I've settled on The Economist for world developments, WIRED for general entertainment, and Hacker News for technology. So far, I've noticed a pretty substantial increase in the quality of reading, and I haven't felt cut off from the new developments. The experiment is going so well that I may even replace HN with issues of Hacker Monthly.

If my experiment is anything to go by, there may be a market for paid news in the future after all.
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It's not so clear to me that a person has the right to intentionally become a public figure and then vanish at the moment of their choosing.

_Why has a perfect right not to answer questions, but having raised those questions in the most dramatic way possible, I don't think he has a right for people not to ask.
Right now, an asteroid could wipe out humanity with pretty minimal warning. There's something major to be said for at least a small self-sustaining colony somewhere else.
Banning anyone who mentioned a certain number didn't help much either. Digg's policies were terrible long before v4 came out.

Edit: 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
Except the Digg redo (which he was a part of) drove users away, so if he ever actually HAD that touch, it is as likely he lost it as anything.
Reading your PNG from the disk in the first place will be slower than reading a compact vector, rendering it and caching.

Got benchmarks for that?
Thanks,

I've been working on it for a few months now... The product had several iterations, first as a cappuccino app, then as a Mac app, then finally I decided I'd learn more by building an iPad app.

I didn't build a universal app because I didn't have the time to make it. I wanted the experience to be great, and I wanted to ship by December (I was three months late). So I can't comment on how difficult it would be.

I am a core team member for the Cappuccino Framework, so I know Cocoa (on OS X) pretty well... The transition for me wasn't too difficult... I just used the apple documentation.
Can you quickly recount what has changed in lower Manhattan since the 1920s?
I started to work on a similar project this week. This should be helpful. Thanks for sharing!
I haven't worked with external emails providers. For now we are sending around 100-150k emails/day and we are using postfix as MTA.

Regarding server side rejects - again reading postfix logs can save you from such things. As an example recently we started seeing that we can't deliver a lot of emails to orange.fr, and the worst - if send just one email it always was accepted but when we sent bulk newsletter we had a lot of rejections - the reason was quite simple we've got rejected because of high frequency so we just had to throttle postfix on per domain basis.
Developing makes you a developer. I did a lot of math during my degree, but I never use it, and would in no way consider myself a mathematician because I've lost most of it.

Anyway, I quite like Kevin Rose from what I've seen. You need all types in the industry, not just technical people.
A good leader sets a goal that is outside of our comfort zone and little by little works towards achieving those goals. Along the way, as steady progress is made, that once lofty goal starts to become more reasonable and others start to buy in. This seems to be the approach Elon has taken with Tesla and SpaceX. From personal experience I can tell you that simply making these lofty goals has attracted a lot of young, idealistic folk that are willing to put in a lot of sweat to show that this kind of stuff is within our reach.
This doesn't make sense - it's not against the TOS to have multiple credit cards on the account. EVERYONE has multiple credit cards on their account - that way if one declines, it just rolls over to the other card.

Can you elaborate on what you mean?

And off topic, that email - what little is human written (and not copy/paste) is full of typos and bad/non-standard grammar. That's unfortunate - I'm used to better from Google when I actually do hear from/talk to them.
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> all you're really saying is that every other language should be a second-class citizen to JavaScript.

Every platform has a "native" form. On your x86 desktop, it's x86 assembly, which everything is a second-class citizen to in the sense it needs to be compiled into it. On the web, the native form is JavaScript.

It has to be something fairly high-level because the web is CPU and OS-agnostic, which JS is.

The only practical concern that can be here, is whether JS is good enough for this task - if languages compiled into it run efficiently enough. It can be, if browsers continue to improve JS and if we all improve compilers into JS. So far little work has been done on both of those, but there is starting to be effort there.

> Emscripten is a cool technical hack, but why the fuck is it 2012 and we have to compile C++ to JavaScript?

We need to compile into something platform-independent, memory-safe and standardized. There isn't currently a better option than JavaScript, because each other option has major downsides. So does JS, to be sure, but overall it's a wash, and JS is already there so it wins.
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It is so funny to see these articles in the past few days. As a long time /r/conspiracy buff among other things... people have been saying this for YEARS to deaf ears.

Especially given the catastrophic 2008 crash, which resulted in ZERO convictions (although, it did pave way for an oscar winning documentary, so there's that), as well as the fact that Greece, which has just defaulted and has been in the news for many months as to how bad their economy is doing, is exactly where they are because they hired GS to help them obfuscate financial shenanigans. And guess what -- who is the new PM of Greece? Who is the new PM of Italy?

Both fucking GS execs!! WTF.

GS should be literally drawn and quartered. They are the evil cancer.

http://digitaljournal.com/article/314642

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-feat...

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/mario-monti-italys-new-prime-m...
Yes, I must second this. The quality of conversation on HN is simply put... amazing. It boils down to the people that you choose to associate with.

Think of your Facebook friends. I seldom talk to my "friends" there so it would make sense that the content they produce is usually of very little value. Most times Facebook makes me aware of internet memes and that is about it.
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>"In practice, that means that over the next few months you will begin to see subtly different results to searches"

Every time I notice subtle changes to my search results with Google, it's because they are worse [in the sense that they are less relevant to the actual terms I have searched for].

>'"the most important thing about an artist is his greatest works."'

That doesn't mean they are the most relevant results for my search terms.
I do miss TechTV, had some classic moments with Kevin, Alex and the team

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4GYg-5AdRw
Great insights here breaking down "idea guys" and "product people". Never thought of it like that.
Though it is really good advice, it's hard to both receive and give it. The stories we usually hear are the "she believed and persevered and prevailed through sheer will...".

We rarely want to hear the: "He didn't face reality and overestimated his own ability given the situation..."
I realize that your comment was directed entirely to raganwald, but while people here are pondering to what extent private people should be reported on, nobody seems to be considering why someone might want to remain private, and how becoming public might affect them.

I write a monthly column for a local newspaper and occasionally give local talks and so on. Once in a while someone I've never met recognizes me, which at the moment is both neat and a little unsettling. Within about a 10 mile radius of my adopted home town, I'm no longer an entirely private person. One of my clients' more curious sons tracked down my contact information -- it wasn't very hard to do, but it was a personal first.

The problem is that, as a private individual, I have made decisions that are nuanced and not easily explained in three sentences. They are decisions that would be polarizing to others; if they became public, it could do a lot of damage.

I have family members and friends to consider. I am rarely entirely anonymous anymore, so I rarely get to talk about some subjects that I would dearly love to talk about. Part of my thought process behind every comment I leave on HN now is, "What if one of my clients read this?"

We have no idea what _why's personal life looks like. We have no idea what his motivations are behind wishing to remain private. It is entirely possible -- I would even say likely -- that he has very good reasons for wishing to remain private, which are known only to him and perhaps a couple of other people.

By attempting to treat him as a public figure, or as a private citizen which we have some "right" to report on, we are risking doing real, measurable, and possibly serious harm either to him or to his property or to his life, and all for the sake of nothing more than our own idle morbid curiosity.

I'm quite surprised there are so many people here that are defending that calculus.
I'm interested in your assertion that creating a very public persona doesn't make you a public figure. Could you say more about your theory behind that?
Tumblr and Twitter have both raised a lot of money and haven't had to focus on revenue. It is more about who your investors are rather than how much you raise.

The 'focus on revenue' part of later Digg is what killed it.
I agree. I hope this isn't the start of those weird campaigns where an organisation start picking up recognizable names rather than deal with fundamental failures. Google of course is no failure but it seems like I roll my eyes at Google decisions more than ever before.

Like you I have no clue what this guy brings to a company as big as Google and their products.
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When a uiview renders, it does so to a layer. Calayer caches its bitmap content. So, moving something on screen doesn't require redrawing. Most implicitly animated properties (opacity, transforms, etc) won't require a redraw. As mentioned below, it's fairly trivial to save a context to a png file if you must.
I feel for you. I have felt the same way. Not so long ago, someone resubmitted an old essay of mine about coffee machines and open source.

In that essay, I called myself a small-s socialist.

What do you suppose was the top comment on the HN discussion? A long diatribe about someone’s pet subject, Libertarianism, which generated more than half of the ensuing comments.

It seems that on Hacker News, one man’s signal is another man’s noise.
I agree, the sample controls shown in the screenshots look very windows-y
I think he means that Google is like "Happy Days" at their peak, and hiring Kevin Rose is a desperate attempt to still look cool like the Fonz, but in fact are foreshadowing that their market capitalization will probably now decline.
Would be interesting to see a similar study of successful startups, or for that matter, sports teams. Are "close but not too close" connections as important there, too?
+1000. I've run into this phone call game for other kinds of services as well, and I hate it. Just tell me what the price is.
It would be more efficient to collect donations from like-minded people and pay, er, "donate" (wink, wink) to politicians who can reform patent law.
I've thought about this problem a lot, and I think the problem is recommendation systems (e.g. for feeds) are not optimizing for awesome. They optimize for having an endless amount of decent.

Bob Carpenter of Alias-I wrote a blog post about a particular NLP task he was working on, and he decided that the correct evaluation measure was to insist on 95% precision (must be awesome), and only then optimize recall (amount of awesome discovered).

In the real world, I have a few friends that don't make recommendations really often. But when they do, I jump. Their recommendations are always solid gold.

The problem with recommendation on the web is that there is no built in notion of economy. Economy in the sense of "frugality in expenditure or consumption". There is an inherent economy on the amount of time I have to consume content. So why shouldn't there be an economy on the amount of things I can endorse? Perhaps that would guide content sharers at large to only share awesome. (And I get more endorsements based upon how much people value my previous endorsements.)

I'm toying with calling this idea "the economy of awesome" or "the economy of cool".
Hardly anyone knows the details, but the amount of jealousy and hatred that comes out on HN on these stories is shocking.
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> So to make convenient use of Python in the browser (or even to be able to run currently existing Python code), you wouldn't just have to embed the interpreter – you would have to ship this huge library.

You would ship it once. Websites already do not download jquery etc. more than once. In fact websites can use those libraries from standard locations on the web so that multiple websites don't need multiple downloads of large libraries.
Give your phone an email address.(www.mailbliss.com)
MailBliss is an email service that allows you to get an email address for your phone. Any emails sent to your new mailbliss email address will be forwarded to your phone as a text message. This allows you to receive emails without the need for a data plan, and it also allows you to protect your phone number and create an anonymous SMS email address when you want to text with others.
Well, my comment was also meant generally and not overly specifically. Your post did take a bit to get to the point, but was not that long in total.

The "descriptive story" format (I'm sure there's probably a better, more precise and pre-defined term for it) has become prevalent in today's communication, in "official" news as well as e.g. blog posts.

To some extent, it may reflect today's training in writing, and/or the desire of authors to scratch a "creative", "tell a story" itch.

To some extent, it may reflect the desire to retain eyeballs (e.g. in front of ads) and to lead the reader to subsequent page turns for a multi-page article.

In the case of the latter, perhaps my argument would decrease revenue. On the other hand, I'm more likely to return to a site and a writer who effectively communicates. (Meaning, in my case, clearly and concisely, with details, background, documentation, and further argument following as appropriate.)
It sounds like there needs to be a garbage collector for backbone. Is there any projects out there dealing with 'Zombie' objects?
If you ever worked at a company that uses a shared server for development, you know that even 20 concurrent developers can bring a sizable machine (not top, but also not bad) down to its knees if they run some sizable framework in dev mode. Code running amok (oops, infinite loop again), test suites running all the time, databases being overloaded by people doing 'some load testing'.

I don't believe that koding will give you an environment that is in any way better than your local stuff (except when they ask the full hosting costs per developer). So the idea that they continuously run your test suite in any way better than a proper setup on your local machine is wishful thinking.
Sparks in Google+ seem like a step in the right direction, but it seems lacking. Though I cannot pinpoint exactly how I would improve it.
I'm not sure if you're having a rhetorical meow or just want to know what's going on here, so I'll offer an explanation.

It's not about exchange rates and never ever will be. It's about purchasing power. It's just normal market segmentation, like how textbooks are cheaper in India/China than in the U.S.

Whats the average purchasing power of an Australain versus an American?

The Australian dollar is worth more than the US Dollar, and what's Australia's minimum wage? What's America's? They're about $15 and $7 respectively. If anything, Blizzard could probably stand to charge Australians even more.

But I'm sure they've done the math on this, and there might be other factors, but I'd gander that in terms of purchasing power the costs of the game to an American and Australian are probably pretty similar.

Now if you were making money in the U.S. and had to spend it in Australia, then you'd be very right to meow about exchange rates, since they don't take into account purchasing power, but very very few people who buy the Australian game are going to be in that position.
This is a great resource for those that want to roll their own email infrastructure.

We also have some tips about email content in our FAQs: http://documentation.mailgun.net/faqs.html#does-the-content-...

The Mailchimp resource mentioned in the OP is also highly recommended reading.
It would just run on Chrome, and it would just run on x86 and x86_64 machines.
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If math is essential for learning computers why not let the computers teach us math then.
The Packers recently sold new shares for $250 each, so by buying one share you could claim to be a co-owner.

See: http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/7633420/green-bay-packers-...
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The last time I saw a Ceridian payroll system it was fucking broken. Their web interface was written in ASP VBScript and looked it. It was so stunningly well-coded that if you closed the browser window without explicitly clicking the "Log off" button, it will count you as still logged in but lose critical state, meaning you couldn't get back onto your timesheet without calling someone down from HR who knew the voodoo chicken dance it took to get Ceridian unwedged.

I hope they've improved since then. Otherwise this person is in for a bit of a hassle.
I just don't see the point of finding his name, place of work and throwing that in the article, when it was pretty clear that he wouldn't want that information to be public. It doesn't really add anything to the article and it just seems (to me) like it was done for no other reason than curry favor with the hacker crowd.

Left a bad taste in my mouth.
Read the article's disclaimer:) I think even if you'll have all possible things setup super-correctly and you'll put word `viagra` into the Subject field - nothing will help you.
> Ideally, the language runtimes would be installed transparently. That's the big potential of a project like Native Client - if it lives up to its billing, it makes downloading the latest version of a language runtime to a browser safe, while giving near-native speed and abstract machine.

Native Client works behind a plugin API. That means all the languages you implement in it don't integrate as well with the web as JS does. For example, holding references to DOM notes, cycles etc. would work differently.
It's really tough to hit two home runs in the entrepreneurial game, but one home run is really all you need to get investors to think you will come up with another success. Kevin may be an "idea guy" but he is also a "product guy" and I think this will be his role within Google. Google's main mobile app is terrible so maybe they think he can help with this product. I personally wish Google would go back to their roots and build a simple mobile app that just has a search box.