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"Now if I could have only gotten this done for $100, I would have filled the whole house with competing acts that night. Great work Über and thanks for bring back a fond memory."

$100 here only gets you one song, though. This is a very good marketing idea, but not a cost effective way to hire a band for a real gig.
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Here's a fun one that the kids love:

Get a bowl of water, a salt shaker, pepper shaker, and dishwashing detergent (the liquid kind).

Imagine the bowl of water is a swimming pool. Now add some white sheep (salt), and some black sheep (pepper). Finally, add the big, bad wolf (a drop of detergent) and watch the black sheep swim away to safety!

I think this happens because the detergent spreads out a very thin film onto the surface of the water and pushes all the pepper out. The salt is only for effect/imagination purposes. To this day, this still fascinates me.
Except that it works fine for my organization, and we do use all of those tools. We use jira and confluence for everything, and the majority of the users of those products aren't explicitly software developers even though most of them can code. We're going to use fisheye because it's getting ridiculous to have multiple web servers use ViewVC for CVS and Sventon for subversion and nothing for local git repositories right now.

The last organization I worked at used a combination of mediawiki, sharepoint, VersionOne, and software from Seapine (Test Track, and Surround SCM), in addition to unofficial git repos on people's machines, and Windows Active directory for LDAP stuff.

It was horrible because we had to use it.

Maybe for small organizations their products don't make much sense, but on the enterprise scale they're much better than the alternatives.
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The brilliant and problematic property of the translation (and why I think it will catch up) is that it allows to easily make your today's problems someone else's problems five years down the road. Noone gives a ding about what happens in five years in one's network - let alone the larger internet.

BTW, next time you talk with the "address-hiding security" fans, check what result they get from http://panopticlick.eff.org/ - very curious!
Google has often contributed code to the open source world (like this). However they don't AFAIK release any data. Google drove cars around the world photographing everything. But they claim copyright on it all. If they allowed derivative works of it, then Open Street Map could bloom and benefit massively.
Skype went down for a couple days about a year or two ago, as did a few other voip services at around the same time. I suspect this is more than just a single company that is behind it, rather the US government.
What I (as a very shy person indeed) try to remember is that if the other person is alone they probably want somebody to talk to. Even when I've been to events with my wife, the both of us really want to find others to talk with. Some of the time I don't end up getting the courage up to talk to strangers but sometimes I do, which just helps build my confidence up for the next time.

The other big tip is always "Fake it til you make it". I just try to think of what somebody who's good with people will do then try to do that. The other person doesn't know you have a hard time with strangers, pretending can help move you a little ways forward.
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Aww, I guess I hurt some feelings. Sorry about that. (Not really, downvote away!)
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I tried to get into Lua, but with issues with installing LuaRocks and the library I was using, LuaFileSystem, I wasn't all that impressed. This could most likely be the library I was using or I didn't give it enough time. So, could you go into more detail about Lua's flexibility and transparency and what is it that you grokked about the few basic mechanisms? What about library support? It seemed that LuaRocks was the most popular module manager and it didn't seem to have that many libraries, and some seemed to be orphaned. My question is if you have experience with this or is this a mischaracterization of things?

I wanted to start out using Lua as a scripting language which may not be a good fit, but it seemed more compelling than other languages I was looking into.
Would you do it for $1k? Sure you would. Just think about how each connection and subsequent reactions and the ripple effect will ultimately lead to the average conversation in a business setting worth $1k.
As you add people, you'll find that you will also need to deal with some vegans (which means some form of vegetable protein at every meal) and a less well-defined set of preferences ("Joe can't stand Indian food - he just doesn't like it.", "Patty doesn't like the texture of seitan.", "Fred only eats hamburgers, hot dogs (if they've been cut up), and plain pasta with butter on it.") which will end up defining a small set of meals that will please everyone, save for the adventurous ("Let's go to DeeDee's (in Santa Clara) and see what they're serving today!") eaters on your team.

My hat's off to you for making a go at it. I've done restaurant (catering) ordering (to make sure it gets done right) for a company of 70 people (40 local folks staying for dinner) and it's difficult to get a menu with enough variety that everyone feels included — people left out get cranky and make faces at you in the morning if you are both getting coffee at the same time. (They won't kick your dog, however.)
How soon?

I presume you mean this - http://www.webrtc.org/.

Is it just a more simple way of setting up chatroulette style sites only using browser native programming rather than relying on Flash?
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Some assembly is required for that.

MonoTouch is currently based on Mono 2.10, while C# 5.0 is based on the new codebase on Mono 2.11.

We are waiting for Microsoft to officially bless C# 5.0 as complete before we can ship it, otherwise we will break people's code.
The current version of Mono4Android and MonoTouch do not support async/await yet, but that is on the roadmap (once Mono 2.12 [currently in beta] is released).
A very interesting idea to you, but one your users couldn't care less about.

Never forget about the users.
I'm updating my resume and sending it to you post-haste. I'm a little bit in love.

Though if you were acquired by Oracle, are you still in start-up mode?
The history right now is:

Original Sharpen -> mono/ngit sharpen -> XobotOS sharpen

So the XobotOS one is the most complete, but also requires more setup than the NGit one.
you need to go with the native languages for the best experience.

With MonoTouch, you still write against the native iOS UI. Therefore, from the user's perspective, your app is native.

Since the UI is the same, the only thing that could be different between an ObjC and MonoTouch app is performance. In my experience there's no noticeable performance hit with MonoTouch except for app startup time (my MonoTouch app takes about 2 seconds to startup on a 3gs)
Well, we are working on a project that provides Hive (and Hadoop Streaming) as a service. It's http://www.hadoopondemand.com and uses amazon ec2. We have just started our private beta and you are very welcome to join. And there is also amazon's offering EMR (http://aws.amazon.com/elasticmapreduce/) which also provides an interface to Hive and Pig.

EDIT: link to amazon's offering
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As multi-racial fellow with an i.q. of 148 with out a university degree making six figures doing software development i'd like to say that I find #3 questionable.
I've had about 5 or 6 rounds of interviews with Google. All of which leave me with a bitter taste in my mouth.

Nothing like getting your hopes up that many times. The last time I even checked with the recruiter to make sure, because I've been let down so many times (phrased it much more fluffy on the phone).

At one point, I made it through 3 phone interviews and the last guy said "Ok, we'll either schedule you for an in-house or call you up for another phone interview."

That weekend... letter of rejection in my inbox.

I feel your pain.
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Teamspeak is another option, along the lines Mumble. There are others. It's a diferent concept from Skype. ONe person has to run a server. They choose who they want to be on the P2P network. Teamspeak is closed source.

Free SIP services are another option, but not easy enough for the novice who is in a hurry and just want things to work. Most people seem to use SIP servers operated by companies, not running the servers themselves. Some ISP's are selling pre-packed VOIP service (and some are deep inspecting every packet, lol).

Skype has the market now. It is ubiquitous. It's easy to use and works reasonably well.

But to think Skype will become the world's new default global communications channel, with MS in control, is just silly.

Skype is just a hint of what's possible, given today's bandwidth and a network that no one player controls.
Interesting perspective. +1 for using Mint.com for business - my partner set us up and it's a great way to get a global view of the inflows and and outflows.

I've gone the opposite route (hired an accountant) and feel I have a much better understanding of what's going on than when I did it myself. I have the accountant walk me through everything - no more guessing my way through Turbotax and having an anxiety attack each April.
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"The only exception to this is when you are first to market with something unique."

The "first mover" advantage is largely a myth. Many successful companies that dominate their market segments weren't the first entrants in that segment.
Haha. You'd think. Many people identify themselves as "Organ Donors" to represent that they've pledged to donate after death. Proper english? Nah, but it's a typical way of putting it. "Living Donation" is a common way to make the distinction. If I'd said 'kidney donor' then some folks might have been under the impression that I'd made such a pledge as opposed to having already donated.
It would be an interesting idea to them if they have an Android phone and I wouldn't have the time to code for two platforms otherwise.

I get that there is a tradeoff involved, but the Mono-x products are in an interesting space. They aren't webviews (like PhoneGap), they aren't a weird JS hybrid (like Titanium)- they're full native experiences. You'll get some newly released features later (I imagine), but the user experience really shouldn't be affected that much.
But they made it an open standard (and are regularly updating it), which goes against the general perception of "M$".
You're right, that's a downer and a complete lack of understanding of what it takes to get the public's attention. The best, most perfect app in the world would not stand a chance against Uber's very good app and brilliant marketing.

Every ride I've taken with Uber has been exactly the fee presented before getting in the vehicle and with no tip expected. I'm not sure how much more transparent that needs to be. If you are referring to people who unexpectedly paid more on NYE, I can only sympathize a little. It's NEW YEARS EVE!!
Interesting; this is the first I've heard of automatic differentiation and it's quite elegant and exact. Do you know why it's not covered more in academia?
What reason would you have to switch because of this? It seems like an enormous improvement.
Do you have evidence of this? It sounds like bullshit. In addition to not being denied insurance in the ten years since donating an organ, it's also the case that just to become a living donor the battery of tests you end up going through for approval essentially ensures that you're statistically healthy enough to be an amazing bet from the point of view of the insurance company.
I'll believe it when I see it, seems very unlikely though. BGR is on a role, this has to be the second or third horrible article I've read from them this week.
That's what I'd like to know. How did they get so many people interested in yet another project management app (I swear I hear about a new one every month)? That's the most crucial piece of info they could possibly share, anything else is not really useful at all, frankly.
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I have to think we've all been tempted at some point. This is a succinct and persuasive prophylactic. Bookmarked.
Regular Java is currently faster (up to 3x) than C# on mono:
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?test=al...
...but obviously on a phone it's going to be Dalvik not regular JVM

We need to consider memory consumption too. Dalvik obviously uses less memory than regular JVM, and probably less than mono if I were to guess.
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It might seems like a time consuming step right now but will certainly help thwart illegitimate use of your service in the long run. It sort of depends on the service you provide. If it is something like signup and get discount coupons in email then I guess its ok. In most cases, IMHO, it will be better in the long run. Will save you in many ways:

1. Have verified users therefore less hacking your system through TOS type loopholes.

2. Your email server will bounce lesser number of emails therefore faster email delivery and reduced costs.

3. Once your service gathers customers, it will give them a sense of security.
Check this out: http://blinkdb.org/

A new research collaboration between UC Berkeley and MIT on probabilistic query answering. It allows users to specify trade-off between error confidence bound vs time.
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How is this bad for 'the users'?
I'm disappointed that this did not generate a discussion on HN. About two years ago, I was made accurately aware that methodology is one of the most -- if not the most -- important factor in conducting research, and that my methodology was shit. I've spent that time almost obsessed with methodology, hoping to strengthen this weakness.

This is the first post I've seen about the importance of methodology in A/B testing. Given that the underlying distributions can be difficult to estimate, there is a susceptibility to both Type-I and Type-II statistical errors. Consequently, I think this post was much more important then it seemed when looking at the lack of discussion.
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I don't know of any truly distributed encrypted voice systems you can trust out there. Hosting your own server for a service seemed like the next rational way to solve the persons question.
GP was talking about built in modules in the standard library. I don't think they use distutils, but many of them still have some sort of version number.
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It's an app that matches a number of pentatonic scales to chords. More importantly, I learned that prototyping everything in Python first cut development time in half!

Link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pentatonica/id522252296?ls=1&mt=8
I did something similar to this a couple of months ago, but I did a few variants of it:

http://coffeepowered.net/projects/timer.html

I think I used two half-circles plus a half-circle mask for mine.
Major redo of http://www.onehandkeyboard.org/ ... Wordpress, blog posts for patio11-style content generation, etc.

Also shipped a much-improved version of the Mac app itself... but that's still waiting for review from Apple. So I suppose that doesn't count for April :0
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I wrote my own. It basically imposes some restrictions on the way you are allowed to use Lua with respect to globals (with escape hatches). It also hooked into our Python-like import system. It checked illegal global writes and reads, illegal imports, unused imports and unused locals.
Older code still runs in newer CLR vms -- which is the important part.

This translates to "compatible, except in the case most people would and should not care about" (running newer code in older vms).

This is far better than SUN's idea of Java forever keeping compatibility with old VMs with makes the language stagnate.
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> Dalvik in particular makes some fairly severe tradeoffs to reduce memory usage.

Out of curiosity, would you be willing to write a little blurb (or post a link) about those tradeoffs?
Am I only one having this question: what is 500k states for? Is it 500k/month /year or total revenue? If its not montly, how can they hire 10 ppl?
This is categorically untrue. Private health insurance in Ireland is a few thousand Euro a year at most. Both my (retired) parents have it, and while they're not poor they're nowhere near rich, unless you count owning your own home and one car as 'very very rich'. See for yourself: http://www.hia.ie/ci/health-insurance-comparison/search-form...

I'm sure you could find some equivalent comparison page for health insurance in the UK, or examine offerings from BUPA, the leading firm in that market.
Congrats to Rand and the SEOmoz team.

I can't wait until SEOmoz eventually re-brands to "Moz", dropping the "SEO" part of the equation.
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Thx to everyone for overwhelming support and feedback. We lauched V2 today on Day 2.

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For some reason, I have been thinking that Facebook membership was restricted to users over eighteen. I am obviously mistaken, but it occurs to me that this was their policy at some point. Does anyone know?
I'm going to assume by your naive indifference you are not female, and quite likely are white, because you exhibit the ignorance of someone who's never suffered any type of indignity worse than the label of "dorky programmer".

I don't suggest you complain to your non-white, non-male friends about that...

#IngrainedPrejudice
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Love it. Their software is pretty damn good, I hope they become the de facto SEO package and make scads of money.

Rand's writing about marketing and the inner machinations of growing a company are always worth reading.
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> The "first mover" advantage is largely a myth. Many successful companies that dominate their market segments weren't the first entrants in that segment.

I think this depends upon how granularly you bucket the different companies. If you just use broad strokes and say "Apple wasn't the first to make a cell phone", then what you are saying is true, albeit at ignoring the fact that they were the first to make a cell phone with a glass touchscreen, advanced software, app store integration, and sustained improvements. Now if you put companies into that bucket, you basically end up with Apple. Samsung followed, and makes outstanding products in the exact same space, but in that bucket, Apple is the leader.

Apple is an oft-cited example, but I'll bet that if you look at any product that leads its space, it was the first to do what it does in exactly the way it does it. The reason I'm skeptical about how well this can work for project management saas companies is that there are only so many pixels to manipulate on a screen, and only so many ways to organize a project. If you are making a "me-too" product you will lose out in the long run. That's all I was saying. Not sure why people get so upset with facts.
>As a pay service focused on businesses, I think they would keep it going.

Unless if not enough businesses end up paying for it, so if yours does use it and they cancel it, you're screwed. Or if Google decides that while it makes a nice revenue, they'd rather killer to concentrate on something else...

That's the problem with putting out tons of products (including highly touted stuff like Wave) and then killing them, nobody trust you to maintain a product their business will depend on anymore... Contrast that with Amazon AWS.
> By the time we launched, the pricetag on Flow came in around $300,000.

can someone explain what that means? Who did and how was the company evaluated?