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I wouldn't call tinkering with Pascal and C while in High School necessarily a long time. He had one CS class at Stanford, in which he didn't really excel (source: his Quora answers compiled here http://www.forbes.com/sites/limyunghui/2012/04/09/inspiring-... and foundation podcast by Kevin Rose).
Well shit. My VPS's glibc version does not have 64 bit byte-swapping functions, so I can't compile mosh for my platform. =( Can the authors update their requirements to list glibc 2.9 and perl IO::Pty module if they're compiling it themselves?

Edit: I hacked the swapping functions into mosh and built it, but my system lacks a UTF-8 locale, according to mosh (even after I copied an en_US.utf8 locale to the system). Not sure how to proceed
Meanwhile the global temperature anomaly for March 2012 came in at a searing 0.11 degrees C above normal.[1]

But of course more comprehensive data like that isn't quite as attractive.

(I still think the record US March counts more as evidence for global warming than against it. But it's not nearly as strong of evidence as some people wish it to be.)

[1]http://reason.com/blog/2012/04/04/global-temperature-trend-u...
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For anyone considering investing in bitcoins, first read this: http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/405/what-are-some...

And for the avoidance of FUD: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Myths

It is worth pointing out that Bitcoin does not require an investment to use it. Merchants can price their goods in bitcoins using a real-time exchange rate to limit their exposure to changing prices.

Since transactions propagate (without confirmations) within a few seconds the merchant can accept the payment and later cash out to, say, USD/GBP/EUR via the exchange or some other mechanism (e.g. direct to a credit card). Alternatively, if part of their supply chain takes payment in bitcoins (e.g. a hosting service for their website, or a supplier of goods) then they can simply pay their overheads with them.

Disclaimer: I am currently long on bitcoins and am using them as part of my long term retirement fund.
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"(core dumps - a common issue in PHP)"

Ummm.... I've been working with PHP for 16 years, and I could count the number of coredumps I've had in production on one hand (maybe 2). Early on, when compiling extensions by hand, I'd get some when I compiled something wrong, but that was always in test areas on dev machines.

If 'core dumps' were 'a common issue', I doubt it would be as widely used as it is now.
He also went to Stanford.
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Survivors bias, I think. We just don't see all those buildings/bridges that collapsed.

And they put bridge designers beneath the bridge when legion crossed it for the first time. If we started to do equivalent for programmers, we would have much better code quality :)

And in regard to programming language design we don't have calculus, either. We're just experimenting, and trying to repeat what works.
>>>The problem is that a lot of HR departments won't consider people without degrees.

Aren't people who are motivated to teach themselves coding the very kind of people who would want to avoid dealing with Suit HR departments? Wouldn't they be more interested in working at a smaller firm, especially a startup, if they had to work for someone else at all?
A datapoint that may give an explaination for your low conversion rate:

- The page does not say what the product does, I don't try demos just for the sake of trying demos;

- Nevertheless, I thought I should check out the demo before giving some feedback... and got an error.

Hope this helps.
Good comment, from the company that ships a market where most apps are just (paid !) links to websites.
You should be scared to use Wordpress because it's Wordpress. I don't know a single experienced PHP developer that has a good word to say about Wordpress's code quality.
I'm curious about this. Can you basically get a Stanford education via iTunes now? And how would you convince people that you actually had one? [typo edit]
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IMHO the only two PHP frameworks you need to care about are: Symfony2 (think a PHP equivalent to Django or Rails) and Silex (think a PHP equivalent to Sinatra).

I've just spent the weekend porting an old site to Silex and Twig (a PHP equivalent to HAML) and its been a breeze.

Both frameworks come from the same people and have excellent documentation and support (i.e. they are not run by a couple of geeks somewhere who might suddenly stop developing them once they get bored). See: http://symfony.com/elevator-pitches
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Also, something as simple as a short youtube video makes a world of difference.
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Developers really do complain a lot, don't they? PHP offers unparalleled flexibility if you have any notion whatsoever of how to properly develop things.

Those who think otherwise are most likely stalwart proponents of some other language, engulfed in functional programming or have read the latest post by _____ that explains a concept that should be used only rarely and will use it as an attack to state why another language is awful.

The fact is, you will never, ever, ever convince someone that your opinions are better than their own if they don't already think those things. Every language sucks and every language is awesome. Get over it. Bootstrap/CSS, HTML, jQuery and the database are easily 80% of the code of any generic site that isn't a business. The rest is Database access, AJAX functions, Auth, View rendering and hopefully security - and while important are very small in comparison to the grand scheme of things.

You don't need sockets. You don't need Duck typing. You don't need event-driven functionality to do most of the things you find on the internet. Those things are fun, but are not that important in the long run.

PHP is outdated, seemingly random and can let you write terrible code. It also does not get in your way if you are a competent developer and shortcomings are slowly being addressed, which is a good thing. When was the last time you wrote a site that NEEDED the things PHP is missing as a language?
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Thanks for pointing out the error. Was it a javascript error? If you have any more details about the error please share (here or support@thetaboard.com).

To be honest I'm not focusing on driving sign ups right now because the project is more a MVProject and not a MVProduct. I actually recommend Trello to people. I'm working on the collaborative portion of the site and refining the UX/UI a bit. When I release a v1.0 I'll definitely improve the copy like you recommend.

Cheers...
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I don't think that there are that much more DSLR photographers now than were in the past.

Just as journalists, photographers now start to see that what people paid for was actually distribution not for content.

Many people had SLRs in the 70s and 80s, but no access to the market or any exposure or any means to create large prints.

Now that the internet created a new market place and delivery plattform, the distribution part broke down.
But you're not multiplying the distances by 3x or 5x. That's the point. You're not replacing air travel for distances where train travel is not competitive. You're multiplying the rail networks - covering a larger number of smaller hops.

That's how it scales.

The US has a massive list of metropolitan areas far more densely populated than Norway, and far more densely populated than the Oslo-region (by far the most densely populated area of Norway) that are under-served by rail or near enough to each other for cost effective inter-city rail connections but that doesn't have viable rail links today.

I'm not arguing that coast to coast rail links are viable in the US because they are viable in Norway. That'd be stupid - the distances are far larger.

I'm arguing that the fact that Norway has viable train links from Oslo to Bergen and Trondheim (about 7-8 hours without high speed rail for both of them) - from a region with less than 1 million people to regions with less than a quarter million people each - is a pretty good demonstration that there's a multitude of stretches in the US that are short enough and between populated enough towns that they could be viable for proper rail links, or because the stretches include more populated areas (both the Oslo-Bergen and Oslo-Trondheim links are through very sparsely populated regions so the traffic is dominated by traffic between the endpoints)
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I distinctly remember seeing this on HN and, as I generally sign up for things that even remotely interest me on HN (assuming people may not have perfected their pitches yet) I was curious as to whether or not I might have been one of the three.

Then I looked at thetaboard.com, and I knew immediately that I wasn't.

If thetaboard is a project management product, I have no idea how it does that. Compared to Basecamp, which is what I use now, and basecamp's current homepage lets me know that it has todos, documents, projects, blah blah blah. For what its worth, I don't think that basecamp's current landing page is as effective as past pages have been, but it also has a lot more brand recognition and trust than a new startup.

Compared to the thetaboard landing page, and there are literally zero details as to how it makes team collaboration better. Also, its <title> attribute says "Simple Team Collaboration [...] and Product Managment[sic]", but all I can see is "Simple Team Collaboration", which to me at least, is a different product than Product Management.

There's a screenshot that looks like Outlook, and is too small to see. It appears to work on an iPad, but we don't use iPads, so that's moot. Does it work on Android? Is that really a Samsung tablet?

Again though, the main thing is that there aren't any details. There's nothing on the home page that sells me, or even tries to even the least little bit.

In short, it disheartens me when you say that your biggest mistake is not leveraging Twitter. That's not it at all. Your biggest mistake is in having worthless copy on the home page. Your signup ratio is 3/14,000, .0002. If that were even just half of a percent, you'd have a ton more signups.

Having people tweet links to a page that isn't converting means that if every person in the world saw and clicked your link, you still wouldn't have the registration or conversion of the average message board.
RIM is quite correct that the way that apps are distributed under Android is particularly insecure and risky when compared to the Apple model.

Most people don't care about rooting or jailbreaking, they want a simple interface that lets them get their whack-a-mole app as easily as possible. Apple understands this well and has ensured that they're sharing in the income from the channel that they manage.

Google has a different model. They don't care about the apps, they just want people to keep searching through them. So it makes sense for them to "let the market decide" how best to distribute the apps. The problem is that this works for geeks, not for normal people.

The fundamental problem is that after years of training, people will click "Yes" on any terms that are presented to them. Sadly RIM is not the company to solve this problem and Google won't, so IOS has a bright few years ahead of it with minimal competition.
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I was under the impression the C++ standard moves in lockstep with C so that all valid C programs should also be valid C++ programs.
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And even better, just turn on Vi style line editing in your shell. Vi was designed for editing over high latency connections.
Is it just me or does the site look optimized for Microsofts Metro interface? I brought the site up in my tablet's (ASUS Transformer) and it looked good there, too. I would say it's almost optimized for mobile devices with the exception being there are a lot of links that are tiny text and are easy to fat-finger in any phone or tablet.
The analogy wasn't particularly about PHP, it was about tools.

It might be true that the choice of tool is irrelevant to an end user, investor or other person that's not capable of or interested in judging the tool's merits, but if you're actually trying to build something the choice of tool matters quite a lot. The fact ryannielson doesn't know or care what I do all day doesn't help me get stuff done.

Epilogue: The company I work for recently bought a Content Management System / web framework for half a million bucks, then spent another half a million bucks trying to make it work, then abandoned it in favour of the system we were running before. I think the decision to go with that tool was a poor one.
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They still haven't beaten PHP in ease-of-deployment. I've been writing for the web in Python for 2 years. Deploying your own server is a full-time job.

The only thing that's getting better is that things like Heroku now exist. Heroku makes it insanely easy to deploy Python, compared to deploying on your own server. It's still harder to do than FTP + copy files, which most people know how to do.
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I think your website was simply too busy, got a socket error.
I would leave MATLAB's IDE in a heartbeat for something that ran in the browser. In my experience, MATLAB's IDE is a terrible piece of crap. It's slow. It's particularly slow when accessed via X11 forwarding, even from the same network. It's memory-hungry. It crashes randomly on OS X (and semi-randomly on Linux). The plots aren't anti-aliased. If you open too many plots, it runs out of Java heap space and crashes. The only thing it has going for it is the tight integration with mlint, but even that's kinda stupid because they could have just written a better optimizing compiler.
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I agree with everything you've said. It's really not-ready-for-prime time--I really didn't expect as much traffic as it's gotten at this point. As I'm not ready to really push signups--I haven't put much energy into copy, enumerating features, convincing people to use it.

My goal is to create something that is a process/system agnostic tool that people can use for any number of uses. That sort of flexibility makes it difficult to succinctly express what the product is. When I get it to that point--I'll reread this comment and fix some of the issues you've brought up.

(I have a day job so development is slow going).
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I genuinely don't get that. nargin is equivalent to length(x) in this scenario, and Julia's overall handling of default/variable arguments seems significantly more convenient than MATLAB's

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They pointed out the thinking behind it. If you check out Eric Hammond's blog at Alestic, it expands on what was mentioned here:

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I think it's great some many people are interested, even I wrote a disassembler and an assembler.
The effort required to learn something better than PHP is not equivalent to learning everything about automobile engineering, its more like reading a maintenance manual. Sooner or later, the guy who fixes his car in the middle of the road without knowing anything is going to replace his brake-pads with bits of wood he found on the sidewalk (Not really his fault, someone on a PHP forum has already labeled all the bits of wood as "brake pads")...
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I agree - but there is a catch: Gatekeeper will help to prevent things like that. The default mode in Mountain Lion is only to allow to run apps downloaded from the App Store and/or signed by a developer whose certificate can be revoked by Apple at any time. This will prevent at least the spreading of malicious software components after it has been discovered. And this is the point... Apple needs to react faster and malicious software has to be detected first - otherwise a revoking system makes little sense...
Why is PHP more likely than others to be vulnerable to SQL injection attacks? Most people (and likely All newbies) will be using PDO which automatically protects them.
Maybe we should see a post moterm post mortem :)

I'd like to see what amount of new users this blog post has generated.
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wow... does everyone do this? I was hoping it would give a little uniqueness to my submission... oh well. It was a blast to write though.
Very cool that these guys are from Canada and friends with someone I know. Reminds me of PGs ambitious startup ideas, the more ambitious and far fetched the less competition as people write off what is possible before they even begin.
I think that the legal theory is that possession of certain items is indicative of bad intent.

If I carry x quantity of illegal drugs, I'm a user getting charged with a misdemeanor. If I carry x + y quantity of illegal drugs, I'm presumed to be a drug dealer.

I'm just explaining the thought process -- not agreeing with it. Unlike drug sales or burglary, the most important tool for hacking is whatever is in your head.
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The same network technology that makes the internet and applications on it possible enable mass surveillance, the intelligent processing of that data, and efficient execution on it as well. It isn't an either or question but an and one.

Thus, it isn't that one can choose not to use technology and thus avoid its Orwellian repercussions as much as the existence of the choice in the first place implies both use cases (promoting freedom/connectivity and facilitating surveillance/oppression) exist. Your decision to participate or abstain has little bearing on an ambitious dictator's.
> most 1st world gov'ts are pretty honest

This is true, in the same way that I'd be honest if you were to ask me a simple yes/no question, and I responded with a page-long expression that took a day to evaluate to the actual answer. Which is why ...

> you can just become one of "them" and do it better

... is doomed to fail. The problem isn't morals, it's unbounded complexity. People are just the substrate that the bureaucracy runs on. Feeding it ever-more people and resources (exponential technological growth) only compounds the fundamental problem - when something is not understandable, it's completely unaccountable.
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