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For 1) I discovered a hard limit on image sizes a while back when I was writing an (abandoned) Phonegap App: http://bit.ly/J4CT0I
That, in fact, is something that I used to do quite a lot, but I seem to get less and less time to keep doing.
It seems I just have to keep on pushing...
Thanks for the feedback anyway.
Exactly. In a lot of things in the US, you get as much justice as you can afford.
Yes, I'm not discussing this.
I'm suggesting that social media is making it a mass, public phenomenon such that is making people be willing to make arrangements.
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Saw the same idea submitted on HN last week. Nice implementation.

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"Apple could care less about the hypothetical CEO you mention"

The old fringe player Apple could - the new $trillion corporate Apple might "think different".

Remember once upon a time Microsoft was a cool fashionable young persons software company fighting against the established corporate monopolies

I'm sure this was just a new employee who was probably still in high-school when the Appstore launched and thinks anything not on the front page of reddit is ancient.
But it does show a certain attitude inside Apple. Iconoclast thinking different and "we can do no wrong" is great when it's Jobs deciding you only need one mouse button - it's different when it becomes an unwillingness to even talk to your customers and users.
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Exactly - it was a perception issue - in that the signal strength indicator was showing 5 out of 5 bars with signal strength ranging from 60% to 100%. When you covered the antenna with your hand, the signal strength dropped ~40%. So if you were in an area with strong reception, you would get ~60%, which Apple considered so "good enough" that we might as well show Full bars. If you on the other hand were in an area with weaker reception, say 60% (which still shows as Full bars), and cover the antenna you get 60-40=20% signal strength which resulted in a lot of issues and dropped calls.

Now, about the customer satisfaction rating... did users rate the phone (calling) experience alone, or the overall experience of using a 326dpi, internet-enabled, capacitive touch screen pocket computer with 500 000 "apps" that also happens to have a GSM capability besides Wi-Fi/FaceTime/Skype-video-calling??
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The anime Ghost in the Shell approached this in a pretty interesting way. Making a superficial simulation of somebody is reasonably easy. But real people also have what GitS calls a "ghost", something similar to the concept of soul. It's the added depth of complexity which makes a simulation or a conversational AI radically different from a real person - or a real AI.
Ah, I had no idea. I'm not a musician by any means. That makes sense though. I guess a venue probably isn't willing to actively recruit unproven acts.
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The point is that small inputs can have large intermediate scratch datasets and even smaller outputs.

Edit: Even more to the point is that being able to do scalable transformations like computing top N CTR on a lot of data with little regard to available computing/network/disk resources is the reason why you would copy your input data to EC2 for processing. If the author has a point to make he failed to do so beyond making himself look like someone who enjoys labeling things he doesn't understand as a "cargo cult."
That second link is a treasure trove of 80s-era computer books. I'm surprised at how many of those I owned and/or read.
Are all the domains in your portfolio actual clients? None of the links to those domains are valid. They all point to "Parked domains" or pages with server errors, Hello from planet earth, inventingzero and Now for something new. All point to the same 403 Forbidden error page. Most of the parked domain pages are the same (namecheap), with a few others that are different.

I'm just curious...
I agree totally! Ideally we'd all find fantastic co-founders, but being a solo founder will always beat a poor team.

Cofounders for the sake of it is a mistake.
I didn't see the link to the documents quoted in the article, so here is the request and the documents provided in response.

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/open_standards_when_sp...
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I'm pretty sure that smoking a joint instantly turns you into a crack addicted prostitute with greasy hair and spots - while drinking alcohol makes you a suave and sophisticated cool dude.

Then I stopped watching TV commercials.
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As a developer, i'd really think hard about developing a native app. I know that some apps cannot go web based, but we need to push the boundaries of what is possible with mobile browsers. I can't think of any other way of keeping the mobile development open.
So many down votes? I liked the reference to the recent item "Learn to read the source, Luke"[1] quite a lot!

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3849203
The key part here is that it is tailored for any kind of content as opposed to just text, everything you'd like to "view later".

Spool (http://getspool.com/) did this as well, with the twist that they actually scrape content (videos and all) to save to your devices to view offline. For some reason it doesn't seem like Spool ever took off.
So voltdb is an in memory SQL Db with some durability and replication functionality. Is there any good documents on how it compares with some of its competitors/ who are its competitors?
I should probably have them redirect to a parked page. All of them are owned by me personally (for personal projects or for friends/clients).
Well done. I kind of doubt you can monetize this app on its own (famous last words) but you can certainly gain cred for popularizing the technique.
I am also interested in the debugging part.
I am sure there is no widespread commercial interest. The privacy implications of such a service are comparable to these of GReader, and you know what they tell about you not being the customer if you are not the one paying.
For textual stuff I use instapaper and let calibre fetch an epub and drop it on my eReader. I may have to sign up for pocket for the non text stuff, especially once I upgrade phones in August.

Edit: Actually I just noticed I can "Pocket" something from feedreader on my current (but aging) WebOS phone.

Edit2: OK so I also see that Calibre can create an ePub from Pocket as well.
Great post, thanks!

First answer that gave me some motivation to look more into Clojure.
"we need to push back on the growing belief that they can eschew writing a business plan when they are too busy 'doing'"

How many startups change their business model when they realize something is not working? Most?

I suppose the only valid thing coming from a business plan is the recognition that you're not hitting your goals, you're running out of runway, and you better adjust course.

Other than that, guessing what your revenue will be 3 years from now and how many employees you'll need to satisfy those mythical customers seems to me to be a colossal waste of time when you could be busy "doing."
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Regarding b), I believe it's the MPL order you are referring to.

http://usequities.nyx.com/markets/nyse-arca-equities/order-t...

Some dark pools also allow trades at subpenny increments, although of course (being a darkpool) the orders are not displayed.
To add to (b) Midpoint orders have to be hidden though because lit markets cannot allow displayable sub-penny orders.
A lot of other people have already made the case for Clojure, and you may not be swayed by me either, but I want to add one point that hasn't been explicitly made yet.

I think irahul's point number 4 is one of the more interesting parts of Clojure, and would be beneficial for any programmer who is interested in alternatives to classical OOP, as found in Java, Ruby, Python, C++, C# and many other languages.

Clojure's approach to OOP has been described by many people as "OOP a la carte", meaning that you get to pick and choose which parts of OOP you want to leverage. Protocols, multimethods, hierarchies,... they all give you a lot of flexibility and choice to determine the kind of OOP you want to use.

I think in general, Clojure is just a fantastically well designed language, and that the underlying goals of reducing complexity in programming are things that almost any curious programmer should investigate. I think if you just went to clojure.org and read through the list of links on the left, which wouldn't take more than an hour or two, you would get a great idea if there's anything you find interesting. Alternatively, the "Clojure for Java Programmers" talk is a great intro to the language for non-Lispers, whether you're coming from Java or not. The "Clojure for Lisp programmers" is even better, if you have some experience with Lisp.
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Good day....

I really like:

- the names of your plans. 'Start up', 'Growth', and 'Scale up' are great terms.
- your overall colour scheme (though I wish you'd either change the blue in your logo, or the blue in the top headline bar)

I'm not a big fan of:

- your icons (ie - the PCI icon beside 'Highly Secure'). Some of them have shadows. Others don't have any shadows. Some of the light sources don't match up. I found this part rather jarring.
- the three email addresses in the bottom right corner. If you choose to put email addresses on your page, only go with two -- sales and service. Based on my experience, only having two choices will increase the rate at which people contact you. However, a contact form would be best!
- when you mouseover menu items, the text lightens a little bit (barely perceptible). When you mouseover an active menu item, the underline turns orange. I'm not sure why, but I found this a little jarring.
- When you enter your blog, it opens up a new tab and there are no navigation items. From a marketing point of view, I think that prevents you from doing any kind of article marketing.

Great work and congratulations on your launch!!
Whenever I step away from the keyboard, that's when solutions to the problem flood my brain. When I'm outside in the backyard walking around, listening the wind in the trees, drinking iced tea, it hits me. Then I go inside, code up the solution, and when I get stuck, visit the backyard again. It's a cycle that never fails to create solutions for problems. I find it almost magical how stepping away from the keyboard and relaxing helps me work and get things done. Same with sleep, I'll think about a hard design problem right before bed time, then wake up with a solution almost burned into my mind, run to my desk and draw it out. These are the things that taught me the importance of relaxation and breaks. So NO, I will NOT follow the "work more, work harder, bust your ass" so our social-media-analytics/project-management/mobile-ad-network startup can become successful.
Emulating the behavior of other people inside your mind is normal; there are folks who have tried to use that ability as part of the definition of human-level intelligence.

And trying to mentally simulate a world where those other people like and admire you is also normal: This is how we figure out what to do, and why. Yeah, it verges on the crazy fantasy sometimes, but hey, if you can't dream in your own dreams where do you dream?

You can't stop doing this, any more than you can consciously stop breathing.

What makes me want to watch that Barkley episode again, now, is that I wonder if it's really about privacy. Humans need privacy inside their own heads. They need privacy with their counselors. They need the freedom to work things out without other people taking their thoughts out of context. You need to be judged by the things that you do, because your editor needs a chance to work before the raw footage gets plastered all over Google.
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I think the odds of it are close to 0, so don't worry.
Yes. But the author makes his living in the market and is sick of having to go through the effort of determining where to invest his money. He'd like a nice gatekeeper to kick all the ones who will fail out so every single investment makes him more money for less effort.
TL;DR: python's subprocess functionality is weak, particularly when you want to send something into the stdin of your subprocess.

This is not a new observation; it's why envoy exists (as the author acknowledges). If envoy proves successful it ought to make it into the standard library in the future. This is how progress happens.
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How about rather than adding regulations, just discretize the market's clock? Would a market that performed a trade-resolution tick once every 100ms lose anything important? I believe arbitrage improves efficiency, but I'm less clear on the benefits of extremely high temporal resolution. Currently that's what the incentives encourage optimizing for, among other things. If you predict a market movement 10ms ahead of time, you can profit from that brief 10ms temporal-arbitrage window. And like any arbitrage, that does indeed improve the pricing signal in an absolute sense, in this case by taking a price change that was 10ms later than it "should've been", and moving it up in time via your trading. But it's not clear that 10ms-level pricing inefficiencies are actually something particularly important to smooth out via arbitrage, when you can just define them out of existence by going to a discrete-time market (which are fairly well-studied in the mathematical literature).
There's no counter argument here nor does this come across as informed or educated. All you've done is talk about the process with as many technical words as you could without actually saying why 15ms liquidity gives us anything.

Apart from mini-crashes. And massive profits for companies that create nothing and actually were the cause of the recent financial meltdown.

Which is why many of us sit here scratching our heads or make sarcastic comments like the op.
Good post with some great details. I hope the holdouts on Ruby 1.8.7 REE look carefully at upgrading.

Rails 3.X is still a tough upgrade though. I'd be curious to see similar benchmarks with upgrading a large code base. I've heard a few stories of abandoned upgrades because of the slowness.
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Does anyone know why String.each was cut? String.each was one of the cool things that attracted me to ruby in the first place. I loved that you could say myString.each and it would assume you meant linebreaks unless you told it some other delimiter.
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been playing with RavenDB and throwing twitter data at it... seems very stable taking about 30-50 tweets a second on a VM... think the bottleneck is CPU (hovering around 80%)... the VM only has one core dedicated to it currently...
That's an interesting reading.
I also don't get why communicate is "clumsy". I've used it in the past with no problems. Is it just because the syntax is kinda weird or it's not as simple as desired?
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Great feedback. Will work on each one. Yes the blog menu really needs rework and we had been planning on migrating to wordpress with a design same as that of website.

Thanks.
Note (b) is surprising and I'm not sure I understand. Can you add more details to your example?

If someone sells at 20.01, and I'm higher in the queue because I told the matching engine that I'm willing to accept 20.015, why would I ever not bid 20.0199...? Can someone sell at 20.02 but tell the matching engine they're willing to accept 20.015? Do we match? What does it execute at?
The idea of working more than 40 hours a weeks makes me glad I am an hourly employee rather than on salary. I don't have a choice but to work only 40 hours a week, or my company has to pay me over time. I come in at my time, do my work for my 8 hours and leave 8 hours later. No one can judge me when I leave the office. It helps create that work/life divide.
I agree that not everybody needs to be an entrepreneur, but I think you vastly overstate your point.

Small businesses can be inefficient, but so can large companies. Indeed, because large companies are larger, so are their opportunities for waste. Worse, large companies are much more insulated from market forces, allowing them to be wasteful for much longer. And it's literally impossible for anybody to understand what a large company is doing, making it very hard to pursue systemic efficiency.

The real efficiency wins may be somewhere in the middle. Consider the German Mittelstand, a major engine in Germany's economy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittelstand

But to get those companies, you have to have a lot of small ones. Everyone might not be an entrepreneur, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't encourage people to try if they feel called. (Not subsidize; encourage.) Worst case is that they learn something about themselves and about business, and those are lessons anybody can use.
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This is less descriptive to me than read it later, but then again in some respects read it later may be the wrong call to action.

I hope these guys get a better uptake, but I've been with Instapaper Pro for so long I'm entrenched.
It's just classic workplace envy. The primitive instinct of hate that humans feel when they see colleagues (or, worse, bosses) walking out, apparently done for the day, while they are stuck at work, instead. These people makes us feel as losers, and we react by despising them.

Sandberg is obviously right, both in leaving the office according to her personal priorities and criticizing the practice of sending late emails to show off workaholism like it was a quality. It's very naive to think she works less just because she leaves at 5:30. She's probably just more efficient, better in setting priorities: and that's the best quality for a startup person. Plus, I'm pretty sure that she'll pick up the phone even at 4am, if necessary.
It's pretty much the definition of "disruptive innovation". The TV manufacturers compete amongst themselves and keep adding bells and whistles to their TVs that aren't really wanted by the customer meanwhile the cost of providing the core product of "an average TV" plummets so much that an outsider can come in with a cheap alternative approach that solves a real problem, in this case by integration of the smart TV, DVD player, remote, wired speakers, wireless subwoofer, stand and general decor (i.e. replaceable color trim).

Considering the recent success of fashion headphones and fashion smartphones against incumbents who didn't seem to realise they were selling fashion items I can see this being big.
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With Sandberg's announcement of her schedule there is an opportunity to overhaul the incumbent overworking philosophy. I think writers who align should propagate what's right and healthy about this rather than dismissing the notion in its infancy.

The more support (or perceived support) there is for balance, the more likely it is to be tolerated.

I'm not sure top software engineers are worried. Despite a rough economy and the poetic justice of hubris, most software engineers can probably afford to set their own hours, to a reasonable extent. If it isn't tolerated they can start their own company, perhaps with a relatively better work-life balance for themselves and their employees.
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Yup, makes sense.

I have written exactly 15 lines of prolog but I'm somewhat aware of how they work. This is great stuff, but as you said the devil is in the details. Please consider writing up your experiences and sharing it on HN.
> Assessing the quality of an app is what users' ratings are for

As an app store user I disagree. User ratings in the app store are not really a useful guideline in my experience - and it often takes trying several (reasonably well rated) apps to find one that is actually usable.

For example; it took me the best part of 10 tries to find a working tourist map of a city I was visiting a few weeks ago.

The app store review process is currently broken; as you say this decision is prudish, and other review decisions are idiotic.

But I think it is generally broken too in letting too much cruft go live.

In fact, I'd happily pay a premium for a "curated" store where reviewers judged the utility of apps more strictly.
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I'm with you on the importance of the CCD, but isn't it the whole point of lossless compression to fix your banding problem? I thought banding was because of the information thrown out by h264. When you color grade, you're smearing the darker pixels out over the whole range, and digits that h264 considered insignificant all of a sudden become significant again ...
I'm not a UK citizen, but doesn't this Cabinet Office make its own decisions?

The article focused so much on what Microsoft is lobbying for and Microsoft's use of rhetoric for its own ends, but seemed to place little blame on the Cabinet Office itself.

What does the author expect Microsoft to argue for besides use of its own products and standards?

Really, it would be far more valuable to call out the Cabinet Office's decision makers and the process they use for coming to these kinds of decisions.
I agree. I think there is currently a balance to be struck between accuracy of the price determined by the algorithm and the speed at which it obtains that price. I think removing the subpenny rule would just reduce the importance of speed and increase the importance of accuracy. I'd imagine trades would still happen extremely fast though.