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The argument regarding the VM based languages is not correct. Having a JIT allows you to use dynamic compilation so you can adjust the running code depending on the context. For example you can do heavier optimization for hot code paths. This is something which might give a VM based language an edge.

Doesn't Haskell come out better on certain benchmarks as compared to C/C++?
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Is there a total published anywhere on yc with total applicant teams vs accepted during last two batches? I remember someone saying yc was more exclusive than HBS now. Is that true? (harvard accepts roughly 7% of applicants)
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You know, I don't have a horse in this race, but the sentiments you express in this comment would definitely make me think twice about hiring you if your resume ever crossed my desk.

Sometimes businesses, large or small, make questionable or even outright stupid decisions. But past a certain point it's time to bury the "I told you so"s and work to get something done. If what's being done is illegal or unethical, then that's one thing, but you're talking about setting a strategy for a game site. People get their say, and things go up the chain of command until it reaches the person whose job it is to make the decision. Then they make the decision, and everybody moves on and does the best job they can at trying to make the business successful based on the decision that was made.

When something's been shipped and/or new information is available, there may come another time when that decision is revisited or further strategic direction is necessary. At that point, making a case for a different direction is, once again, entirely appropriate. Until then, people who are on the team should be working to accomplish the team's goals, even if you fear they might be wrong.

If you disagree strongly enough with a decision, it may be appropriate to say to your management, "I'm sorry, but I can't agree with you on your strategic direction for the product" and either ask to be reassigned to something else or seek employment elsewhere. That's perfectly reasonable, and a professional way to handle a disagreement.

But if I read your post correctly, you were inciting open insurrection on a team after key decisions had been made. That's categorically inappropriate. Even if everything you said makes you look like Nostradamus in retrospect, that still makes you a bad team player.

Having people who can work as a team to accomplish a common goal is at least as important as having the right goal. There are many, many stories of teams who built the wrong thing, then adapted accordingly to produce something better. I can think of virtually no stories where a product succeeded despite a divided team that could not work toward a common goal.
What would that accomplish? If they think there's power in keeping this technology to themselves, they will.
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Eric Paley had a great post titled "The Curve of Talent" in which he said "Those who suggest that startups should only hire A players are grade inflators": http://epaley.posterous.com/the-curve-of-talent
This has turned into a "How my comment on <insert places> on my comment on techcrunch brought down my server" case. Does anyone have a cached copy? I can't find one except for an interesting looking picture... Do want to see more.
I'm afraid it's generally far worse than a freewheeling legal department. But rather a bloated law firm retained to indiscriminately "defend" the FB brand, and whose daily mission it is to continuously justify monthly billables that would dwarf most annual software developer salaries (and then some).
it's a way to free the judiciary of time consuming cases. before someone with a lot of money that wanted to harass some poor bastard would take him to court on any frivolous charge and crunch him on the weight of a legal defense. That was fine and worked just fine. but it was taking too much time of the judges. So they came up with the cease and desist letter. it works the same, the rich can continue to harass the poor, but no judge have any extra work. win-win!
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Writer admits (or seems to claim) Fortran is faster than C++. By ignoring Fortan it seems like they admit that there are things outside of what their proof is looking at to take into consideration.
I wrote my first lines in C at the age of 14. Currently I've been programming Java for 6 years in different companies and as a freelancer.
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One interesting fact: Leisure Suit Larry is pretty much directly based on the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softporn_Adventure text adventure game. If you try it, you'll find the plot and the surroundings very familiar.

Personally I discovered this while reading http://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Computer-Revolution-Anniversar... which I recommend to anyone.
You can get the same effect using a VM. Installing Linux on Mac hardware is __way__ harder than you think. After building a bootable linux usb key for a macbook, I will never do this again. It literally felt like I was using a sparc station to boot DOS.

not cool.

That said, I use linux VMs on my macs all the time. It feels natural, in fact it feels RIGHT. When I was mostly using desktop linux, I still did the bulk of my server side work in VMs under VMWare Workstation. So not much has changed, just that my window manager is made by apple.
I highly suspect that whatever software Obama has, it's nothing that can't be reproduced--better--within four years' time. Certainly it won't turn him into a major power broker for years to come--given the state of technology, I'd be surprised if half of it is relevant and functional in 2016.
Looks like Facebook pulled the trigger a little early on hiring their gaggle of corporate lawyers - reel 'em back in for just a couple more months
I've taken to downvoting such comments. Not because I disagree with them or think they are wrong, but simply because they are offtopic and taking the place of a better ontopic comment. We really need an 'offtopic' flagging mechanism.
He has many other books describing his techniques but that was easily the best one. I remember being able to memorize the sequence of half a deck of cards, forward and back, on my first attempt. It's amazing what you're capable of if you put the effort in (unfortunately I stopped...).
Facebook comments on Techcrunch was a bad idea from the beginning. It's the main reason why I started visiting Techcrunch a lot less at the time (and then other reasons added up,and I quit it for good).
If you want to play King's Quest I, Police Quest I, Space Quest I or a few other Sierra games legally in your browser (HTML5) right now, go here: http://sarien.net/. The blog says that they used to also have Leisure Suit Larry but had to take it down since Activision had sold the IP.

This was posted on Hacker News a couple of months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3591342
What happened to Google wallet, and why aren't merchants/users using it?
Ok.. Yes, square and paypal are doing pretty well.. buy why aren't people and smb's using google wallet? I'm in Vancouver, and have yet to see one vendor using square or google wallet. What gives
Font rant: year 2012, Windows still cannot nicely render (most) embedded web fonts.

Font rendering in my various browsers-> Chrome: horrific, Firefox: pretty bad, IE9: better, but still bad.

All MS has to do is put together a designer with good sensibility and one brainy dedicated developer, and have the developer tweak font code until the designer is satisfied and font rendering is just as good as Mac. Boom, the world on the web instantly becomes more beautiful for millions of people, or whatever. One big reason designers like Mac is the font rendering. Everything is wonderful over there.

Anywho, carry on.
There are probably a large number of people that should've put iOS or Android but just aren't aware of it.
The original document has the hard facts: Until 2011 they spent 11.7 Mio Euros on the migration and another 2.08 Mio Euros on workflow optimizations that they tackled at the same time. The calculated cost for a migration of the Windows NT environment to a newer windows version including support and the same workflow optimizations are at 15.52 Mio euros. That's a saving of 1.74 Mio Euros or roughly 11.2%. This is taking into account that most migration costs now have been paid, and savings will subsequently will rise. They also have anecdotical evidence that error rates and ongoing support costs have dropped. It's certainly anything but a canonical example for a botched project.
Sure, that depends on the government giving you your drive(s) back if they can't pin you with anything.
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I don't think they accused him in public at all
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Fastmail, Fastmail, Fastmail. I'd happily pay double what they charge.
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Yea, while the MS-IBM JDA was not very good the alternative MS chose was a lot worse.
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I am not sure the standards mentioned help make the apps more reliable, cheaper, easier to develop, at least in the traditional "higher level of the stack". Most people associate offerings like Heroku to those qualities (and they build on top of EC2). But even assuming that is the case, once the ecosystem is built around a standard platform (Windows in the 90s in my example) then no amount of technical features can effectively compete with it. You need a different approach. Microsoft in the Desktop was not beaten by a better Linux Desktop, but it will be by a combination of Google apps, the iPad, etc.
Today's equivalent would be a TI calculator. I had a similar experience coding in BASIC on a TI-89 during a road trips with the TI-BASIC manual. There is indeed a very awesome feeling about coding on a simple device with a physical manual.
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I'm not sure if startups need any more convincing that they need designers, and even at that, this page doesn't do a terribly good job at it by providing a nicely laid out collection of definitions from Wikipedia or uninformative poll results.

Also, I feel like trying to recruit designers off Dribbble is like trying to recruit novelists off Twitter. It's hard to gauge somebody's higher level product design skills by looking at 400x300 shots devoid of context. The benefits usually associated with having designers on board come from their empathy and desire to solve problems. "I just want to make pretty things" designers on Dribbble won't provide you this if they are the only designer you have.

Last month I was communicating with designers on Dribbble looking for full-time startup work, and I was sadly unsurprised to find out that none of them were interested in solving problems. (Note: I'm a designer myself)
Apple iPad 2 got cheaper: Price slashed by $100
De-escalation in the price of gadgets over the time is not a new practice, but if it is about Apple and particularly iPad 2 it becomes catchy and not to be forgone. If you are one of those who is looking for price tag trimming of iPad 2, then the mission is accomplished. During the launch of Apple’s new iPad in California on March 7, Apple announced the revised price of iPad 2 at $399. This opened options of getting an iPad for those consumers who are budget restraint and somehow not finding themselves eligible due to the price. The move of Apple to reduce the iPad 2 price became one of the most sought news at par with the launch of the new iPad.
I know every geek here research the hell out of everything... and so i don't trust even my doctor when he/she can't show (or i can't find later) pertinent and well controlled studies before messing something in my body. i'm pretty sure you did your research, but those articles and discussion here shouldn't be taken as 'proof' of anything as the comment i replied to sounded to imply.

also, i have a paranoia that no hormone/protein/enzyme does less then a few things in your body. if they list only one or two effects, it's because they have no clue what else they do.

prolactin was believed to only affect the milk production in mamals for a long time (and water-salt control in fishes). now there's some other dozen effects on the body including neuron fiber formation.
I've started an ios game in the spirit of SQ2, have done a lot of the code, production artwork for a few scenes, and scribbled artwork for all the rest. I'd love to finish it but my designer is too busy to continue.
> So, guilty until proven innocent, is this how things work now ?

Only works on naive people and lawyers who take advantage of them. Know your rights.
I would think twice about hiring someone that makes their resignation letter public like this. That being said, kudos for taking a stand (albeit only AFTER invading peoples privacy by reading their facebook).

My guess is that you decided you wanted to leave when the COO forced you to do this, but rather than quit then and there, you decided to teach her a lesson as a parting gift... am I wrong? :)
you forgot amazon....I think out of all those companies amazon.com offers some of the most advanced payment integration options especially for startups trying to charge marketplace fees.

our startup http://stuFFLiX.com is using amazon.com
we have found google solutions unacceptably poor, even paypal did not offer what amazon did. I am not surprised why the wallet hit the wall.
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for me, Django has the best documentation out there. You can actually learn a lot about django by just reading the documentation. which is not always the case for other projects :)

https://www.djangoproject.com/
so he took it down?

/s
1) I'd argue that downvoting is an appropriate course of action for this. As I understand it, the purpose of downvoting is to discourage the type of comment or submission being downvoted.
2) A little Javascriptiness to collapse trees of comments would do wonders to make it ignorable, too.
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Seeking the advice of an attorney is never a bad idea.

But as far as telling them to take a flying leap, even though he is well within his rights to do so, it may cost him considerably less time and money to try to find someone to talk to on their end who is willing to listen to reason.

Someone with a lot of lawyers and deep pockets could easily bankrupt a private individual over something like this. If it were me, I would consult a lawyer and get any relevant advice. Then I would contact them, either personally or through my attorney, and try to do everything I could to cooperate with them to convince them I know nothing about the program in question.

An actual fight is the worst case scenario, and a Pyrrhic victory is likely the best outcome that could be hoped for.
The idea is that people will troll less, but by default it allows hotmail and yahoo mail login, which is like firing a flare to attract trolls.
One rather obvious approach for making it a paid service: talk with a reputable registrar and get them to adopt it as their primary search-and-register mechanism.
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I'm surprised we aren't seeing more web apps using Dropbox as the datastore. Anyone know why?
As much as I appreciate Dieter Rams approach to design, I must say that favors one particular kind of design.

For a much more encompassing discussion on design (which could include software architecture) this 1972 interview with Charles Eames is mind blowing:

http://blog.gentry.io/eames-design-is-a-method-of-action
This smells of a resumé rather than a resource...

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Unfortunately, downvoting is going to do absolutely nothing because there are a plethora of people upvoting it.
Right. I'm taking the piss out of bitcoin as a whole here, I don't actually think the bitcoin market is mature enough to make shorting on a large scale feasible nor any individual put transaction advisable given the lack of clearinghouses and counterparty risk mentioned by steve8918.

But... the guy has made it clear he believed bitcoin's value would rise, so selling a put option at - say - current value would be advantageous to him. Offer a low enough strike price, high enough premium, and word your offer in layman's terms ("you get money now and might get money later if bitcoin rises or might have to pay money if it falls") and he could be tempted to enter in an appropriate contract.
If amazing adventure game developers of yesteryear continue to start Kickstarter projects, I am going to end up seriously broke.
i'm digging all these new long-name-urls actually. they're easier to remember then the ones with randomly missing characters.
There is no way they can get away with bullying you. Contact the EFF:

https://www.eff.org/pages/legal-assistance

Very good chance they will help you with this.
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previous discussion here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3791281

Why are these threads getting killed so often ?
I don't agree that he was but I think Nixon honestly believed he was behaving ethically.

Both involved intrusions into people's personal lives by an employer. In Raganwald's case, digging through someone's Facebook files. In Nixon's case, breaking in to steal Ellsberg's psychiatrist file.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg#Fielding_break...

Facebook, psychiatrist -- same thing, right? :-)
now even kickstarters are going for the 'sequel' trap?

LSL is dated now. it was fresh when it was made.

how much more time they could have put into an ORIGINAL product if they haven't filled the pockets of big-game-studio?

hint: to people that actually likes games, a title that sports some well know adaptation is often associated with a bad experience to come. It's often the cheap game made to cater to parents buying xmas gifts without a clue.
Then in addition to incurring further pain for Rick, he will likely have a libel case against you.

Unfortunately, the lawyers rule the day. Along with those powerful interests with the most money to hire the most lawyers. Yet another reminder why significant tort reform in the US is well overdue.
Started when I was 5 (well, sort of).
The German variant is aptly called "Elster" and while it uses ssl it lacks authentication. I could file a bogus tax return for you if I know your tax number. It's also mandatory for businesses when you need to file a VAT statement. Oh, and last time I checked, the client software required windows - there's a less comfortable online version though.
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> For example instead of TinyMCE you could use YUI's editor which did almost the same thing

that's like saying glibc is worthless because you can run your ISO C programs the same. and you are ignoring all the POSIX work done to it.

YUI widgets, i agree, are a little meh.

but YUI did wonders to save us from java and OO programmers that didn't want to "get" javascript but wanted to publish code anyway. it was a library for OO in javascript like no other. now YUI3 is mixing all concepts and going nowhere in particular. sad.
My guess is that Foursquare banned this application from receiving data from the API due to its aggregating data with Facebook which is a violation of Foursquare's TOS. I could be wrong but I have seen other applications do similiar things functionally and they haven't' received such a privacy backlash. Any other thoughts?
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They're remaking the original Leisure Suit Larry games (at least the first one), not creating a sequel (although they said they might also create the nonexistent Leisure Suit Larry 4: The Case Of The Missing Floppies if they are successful.)

Also, I don't think these particular games are a good example of games made to cater to parents buying xmas gifts. :)

I do agree that the games feel dated though (even if they update them slightly as they suggest.)
I'm finding it somewhat ironic that the website isn't responsive and gives me a horizontal scrollbar on a 1024*768 screen.
I'm confident that the vast majority of those who agree with this decision are white, and therefore believe (probably correctly) that it will never happen to them.

But if you're a darker-hued, equally law-abiding citizen ...
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> The problem is that Unicode doesn't know about language. Unicode is just characters.

I won't blame you for this, it is a common mistake, but Unicode goes far beyond merely mapping characters to integers. The Standard Annexes, Technical Reports and Technical Specifications cover pretty much all things localization from line breaking [UAX14] to regular expressions [UTS18] through date and time formatting [UTS35] or sorting [UTS10].

And as it turns out, both uppercasing and titlecasing are covered by [UAX44] as part of the SpecialCasing.txt file which provides lower, upper and title-casing (along with optional conditions) for characters with non-trivial mappings (trivial 1:1 mappings are covered in the base UnicodeData.txt file)

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[UTS18] http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr18/

[UTS35] http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/

[UTS10] http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr10/

[UAX44] http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr44/
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Can anyone comment on the main difference between this and Cloud Foundry?
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