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I don't know, things actually seem to be trending the opposite. Who would have thought that people would spend so much time in facebook playing games that have seemingly no point.

I also disagree that HTML5 is any easier. After over 20 years of trying, it seems unlikely that browsers are ever going to converge on any kind of standard and even if they did there will probably always be people on a bad version.

Personally, I'm betting on a world with native front ends to REST web applications.
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Graceful Degradation - look it up.

The baseline compatibility should be "functional but not necessarily beautiful".

Not wasting time getting pixel-perfection in IE is wise.
Blocking IE is retarded.

The fact that you haven't even considered using Chrome Frame says a lot about your dev skills. Or, you know, lack of.
glibc sprintf supports that as something like %2$s %1$s which Python could potentially support.

I don't buy the internationalization argument however. You have to explicitly select strings for i18n anyway and run them through something that retrieves the data from a catalogue based on the current language. It's not like you will override str.__mod__ to start i18n.

And if you want to do it right, there are more complex rules that need a special formatting language. For example if you want to display {count} error/errors, then the text of error/errors will vary based on language not just based on count 0/1/more but even more wildly based on language. E.g. some have a special noun declension for 2. For example in Polish, that might be when there are 5 errors: http://blogs.transparent.com/polish/cardinal-numbers/
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Looks like very few (or none) of the people here have actually used Sortfolio as paying customers. I believe a lot of the doubt wouldn't be here if you would have done that.

As for some background information, then I run a small Ruby on Rails development agency called PerfectLine (http://www.perfectline.ee) that caters specifically to startup founders who need to create their minimum viable products.

We have been paying for Sortfolio since the beginning of 2010 and actually couldn't be any happier with the kind of leads it brings in. I can say that quite a big chunk of our customers have actually found us first on Sortfolio and they usually convert to actual sales pretty well. It might be that our price and quality of service is in the right spot but on the other hand there's a good chance that the people coming through Sortfolio usually have a decent knowledge about what they want and what to expect.

I believe that Sortfolio has actually helped quite a few small design or development teams get off ground. It worked really well for us and I don't see why anyone else should see any worse return rates. That $99 per month is so little when compared to actual return it will get you.

I noticed that Sortfolio currently has around 10,000 free users and I believe that with little upselling it would be possible to convert a good portion of them to paying customers thanks to the value it actually provides. So from that perspective it shouldn't be too hard to earn back the $480,000 37signals is asking for Sortfolio.
The user might get the wrong impression that he's being supported when he's not, and go ahead and buy some service that's not going to get support.

At least a big warning is justified.
You could probably make similar arguments about Perl 5.
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Fascinating, wonder if this can be generalized to - for any local state that has observably occured, its subset will likely occur some where in the universe.
Unfortunately I think Android is trying to follow in Apples footsteps. Anecdotally, after they upgraded the Market to Play (quite a few WTF experiences when that happened), they now ask for a lot more information (e.g. address) when updating credit card information. Also they made an unforgivable mistake for me in that the credit card entry on 4.0.3 was buggy - so I gave up and have stopped buying apps - I really have trouble trusting companies that make it hard for me to give them my money.

At least with Apple one can still get an iTunes card to purchase apps, without registering ones credit card. Especially important since an iPad sends your appleid in cleartext HTTP headers when connecting to the internet...
If they have already tried with all versions of IE, and they know it doesn't work, then why let people bump into the problems themselves.

They are going to fail either way - it's better to fail gracefully, no?
There is an analogous saying in programming: "Do not check for error conditions you don't know how to handle." Tongue-in-cheek but contains a grain of truth.
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> Suddenly email was back, and now it was our big hope.

Email wasn't "back." It had never ceased to be important.
What? Relational databases and functional programming are very much aligned, see http://thoughts.j-davis.com/2011/09/25/sql-the-successful-co... (that's the second time I link to that post [I'm not the author] on HN, because I think it's awesome).
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Yes, this hit close to home and is a very inspiring read.

With our startup we have had multiple of those near-death experiences and currently are navigating a difficult situation. So it was good to read how others handle this. This just gave me a big boost. Thanks for sharing and the openness.
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It's probably impossible for YC to locate founders that have no ideas whatsoever, so I dont think you need to worry about them succeeding at that goal.

Especially because that isn't the goal. The experiment was to accept applications without a specific idea.

ps. As noted elsewhere, your article is linkbait because it offers no specific reasons beyond the title itself.
Off the top of my head, they're probably the most widely known brand in both consumer maps and local search. While "not-driving" people will often be online, and I imagine often searching for places to go.

Also, there's the "Bell Labs" of it. How do you know what you can do unless you push boundaries into new places, which necessitate new ideas?

The idea that companies should stick to what they know and that shareholders should expect nothing else of them, is to me akin to the idea companies should be expected to fight progression/expansion for fear of losing the market they have.

Look at the RIAA. Imagine if they had more than a legal arm, but a research group. What if they had been looking into audio compression and transfer? They may have founded the first successful online music store, and before Napster. The industry could have its own iTunes, instead now they try to herd snakes back into a pen that can't contain them, with lawsuits. That, to me, is irresponsibility.

In pushing for new fields, Google pushes for new markets. And in being the popular party doing so, they're seen as "first" in many people's eyes.
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They are not selling the product in Brazil.
Have you guys had a look at Colors latest android app, Exclusive to Verizon? I think their $41 millions funding and this app describe quite well what the Founders of Colors are: True Hustlers that can sell anything to anyone and are just focus on money, not on creating a useful product/service to the users.
Why isn't Canonical using Android?
Now that Canonical is talking to OEMs and supporting other devices there's talk of Ubuntu for phones, but wouldn't it be better to create their own Android fork and keep compatibility with that OS' apps?

One of the first problems with a new OS is the ecosystem (see webOS) and Android already has more apps than you can shake a stick at, why not use that instead of trying to port Ubuntu apps to ARM?

Amazon has been very successful by forking Android for the Fire, why not do the same?
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One of them developed Siri and the other Watson.
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Python supports `"%(name)s"`, which means you're not dependent on order at all -- in my opinion, much nicer than indexing into the parameter list:

>>> "%(name)s has %(count)d %(thing)s" % {'thing': 'bananas', 'count': 10, 'name': "Phil"}
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The only "issue" is that many functional languages don't have good database bindings, once you have the data it's very natural to work on a resultset as a list (of tuples/records/whatever you prefer to call them). Now might be a good time to plug the Oracle bindings for OCaml: http://gaiustech.github.com/ociml/
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There were several reasons for the crash, but the main cause was supersaturation of the market with hundreds of mostly low-quality games which resulted in the loss of consumer confidence.

Sound familiar?
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The difference is that Perl 5 had a ton of warts that really needed fixing but the Perl 6 cavalry never showed up.

Ruby isn't perfect but it isn't 1/10th the mess that Perl 5 is.
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Yes, there is indeed a shortage of strong developers (especially in certain niches like infrastructure, mobile, or machine learning). It also impacts big companies and not just startups.

Startups also do experience a higher degree (usually mutually agreed upon or voluntary) personnel turnover, some time well into the later stages. If you don't expect it, it can be unnerving: imagine if the person who recruited you and who you were eager to work with quits (this really shook me up first time it happened!). Nonetheless it is actually healthy: if someone believes that their personal interests and the startup's interests no longer align (either they don't think it will be as successful as they hope, or it has changed direction in a way that their technical skills are now underutilized), it is better for them to depart.

I think the article is mostly right. One place where I will disagree is in regards to "risk": traditional corporate careers (think joining GE or IBM and staying there for 10-15 years, entering management as the only possible promotion) actually offer less job security than working for younger technology companies (whether startups or Google/Facebook).

What one should consider instead are opportunity costs: financial (a startup might match a bigger company in base pay, but they will usually not offer RSUs that you can start selling in a year), but most importantly the non-financial ones (if the startup fails, will I still learn any unique, useful, and broadly applicable skills?)
I don't deny your right to downvote me. Don't deny my right to downvote what I don't like. Please go ahead and downvote my comments if you think they don't add to the discussion (this one is a particularly good candidate for that).
Why would a laptop running Ubuntu be for "developers"? Not to get into a distro flamewar, but (for example) many large organizations use RHEL on their servers, and developers on the back-end would want to develop there so it will run on their customer's systems. They should be clearer that it's for "web developers".
> Another example are airplanes, which are driven almost automatically these days, where the pilot is only really required for landing and, again, for safety in unexpected situations.

Actually now pilots usually don't land manually unless for training (and so on commercial flights usually only in perfect weather conditions) or when there is some serious problem (like engine not working).

BTW, very big part of recent plane crashes was related to human errors in cases which could be handled by autopilot.
No fallacy. Parent is expressing admiration of both "women" and "woman programmers".
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PHP is cheap to host, cheap to find decently priced & skilled programmers and quick to code in if you know what you’re doing and at the end of the day what does your client truly care about;

If that statement is correct (I don't know), it is an argument to not do PHP professionally if you are concerned about income. Better target a market with a lower suppy.
I'm curious now: They need a reason to pull you over in the USA? In Germany it is simply "routine check", which is a perfectly legal reason here.
The way I see it, the time cost/benefit curve of evaluating new technologies and other research-like activities is considerably risky. But there's also a definite big fat tail of rewards, however elusive..
Even worse thing they are doing is lying to all my friends.

Use case(happend to me on May 4th):

1) I watched some video on YouTube.com. Yes, just on youtube, not even on their site or app, althoug SC had access to my fb at by that time.
2) I liked that video and shared it on my FB stream from YouTube page
3) Since socialcam had access to my stream and they somehow monitored it and within a minutes posted another update to my wall:

Vladimir Gurgov watched a video on Socialcam
Video recorded with Socialcam on April 19, 2012
Release Date: Friday, May 4, 2012 at 12:53pm

This video was NOT watched on Socialcam and was NOT recorded with Socialcam. Its YT video that i watched on YouTube.com. To me its clear lying or misleading all of my fb friends.
With all the respect to fellows at Socialcam I am questioning such marketing tactics etiquette.
I am wondering what HN community think of it?
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If the hardware isn't the bottleneck, you can simply make your compression/encoding algorithms more complex, because 10% saved traffic is probably much more valuable than 10% saved CPU cycles (remember on phones traffic means a lot of energy drainage for sending/receiving). Besides that, though, FFT is old, so whatever codec you use to view HD videos on the iPhone, it probably already uses FFT or some other comparable thing like wavelets or so.
"It doesn't matter if X sucks" is a rephrasing of "It doesn't matter if Y is excellent." If it doesn't matter if a language sucks or is excellent, than what exactly does the word sucks in "PHP sucks" refer to?

It's a logical sleight of hand, but logic doesn't tolerate that. You may be willing to pay the downside cost, but that doesn't mean the downside cost doesn't matter or doesn't exist. There's no way around the fact that language quality matters.

And I for one don't have too much trouble finding non-PHP web work. I doubt I'm alone.
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They could licence the tech for serious $$$ to the car makers. They could beam 50" google ads into millions of commuters eyeballs on a screen where the windscreen was.

I'm willing to bet that they have the machine learning and AI capabilities in-house that car makers could only dream about, so it makes sense that google does this (See the Udacity course on the self driving car by Sebastian Thrun).

Asking why the shareholders don't revolt is extremely short-term thinking. Googles rate of growth from their core search business is already slowing, this would be an exciting way to speed it up again.
^ tl;dr no, it's still slow

sorry, I couldn't help myself :-)

I understand that it's semi-hard problem given MVCC but I could keep track of counts myself for each set of conditions and each table that I need. It's as simple as keeping count as record in some table, incrementing it in on insert, decrementing in on delete and adjusting on update if row begins or stops to satisfy conditions I want to count by. The only grudge I have with PostrgreSQL is that when confronted with this problem PostgreSQL fans respond with "We've got MVCC so it is supposed to be slow. Stop thinking it's supposed to be fast." not with "Hmm... Maybe we should introduce new facility similar to indexes where you could define what you want to count and the db will count by this conditions and provide results for you fast."
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I've used RunSFM (which uses bundler) to make 3D models from photos. It's cool, but you need to have lots of high quality photos for it to work.

I'd like to play with using a Kinect or simular 'depth camera', it might give better results.
Unbelievable....
I don't like "my tool sucks, but clients care about the result". If architects thought that, we'd still be living in huts. Improving your tool improves the result. Clients are also not the only benchmark: mostly, they just want a faster horse.

Either PHP doesn't suck because it does the job better then others in certain areas (which I'd happily admit). Or it sucks and should be replaced. Everything else is a programmers Stockholm Syndrome.
> While you all bitch and moan about how bad PHP... I’ll be making easy money and stealing your clients.

Someone tell this guy to stop embarrassing himself, seriously.
Yes, there has to be a reason. Of course, it's very easy for an officer to say "He was weaving in traffic", or claiming you were speeding when you were not, or simply lie about you using a turn signal.

I'll bet most people have a story like that. Probably from when they were younger, but not necessarily. And that's not even getting into "driving while black" and the likes.
Proper solution (not fake with triggers) should be at most as costly as having partial index on the table.
It maybe worked for him but I found it hard that it can be applied to every startups

1. Invite-Only Access. Depending the service your startup offer ( Storage & bandwidth heavy ), you will have to offer to do invite only because you can't just spend all the money you don't have on this. Invites will allow you to control the cost of it all.

2. & 3. Real-time traffic measurement & User admin dashboard
Those are the only one I agree :)

4. Experimenting with ads too early.
Using ads early can be a really asset. For example, It can allow you to A/B test some new messages or value proposition. It can also help you see if you product can appeal to a certain niche by hyper targeting your ads ( Does 20-25 old people living in New jersey and who likes Soccer and BBQ will be interested in my product? )

5. Amazon Affiliate links
I think its great he took the time to try it out. The goal is not to make loads of $$ with "a few thousands uniques/day" It's to see the conversion rate. It didn't work out in his case so that "business model idea" he can write off of his list.

6. Techcrunch
TC offer you so much more than traffic & SEO. It will be let the world you exist to important people ( angels, VC, etc )

7. One-off partnership projects.
His experience isn't a good one. Probably didn't negotiate hard enough with his partner. BizDev / Partnership can bring tremendous traction to your startup if done right. Just don't get screwed up by the other guy and don't waste time "building a prototype" for him without a signed contract.

8. coffee Meetings
Sure the productivity can take a hit if you do it "too much". But think about the social aspect of it. Wether it with coworker or external people to network. it will help build a strong relationship.

9.Excessive side projects
As a manager you have the duty to keep everyone happy and productive. The coders will always have side project. Better to have them work on a side project for your company and under your supervision than to pissed them off and make them work on the side project during the Weekend.

10. Working from home
Working in an open space can be a pain in the ass for some people. Because people will interrupt them all the time because of a bugs / ideas / whatever. If they are to introvert to say no, their productivity will go down the drain. So better for them to work some times from home to be truly focus on their work.

Cheers,
So, use something less shit.

Python and Ruby are exactly as easy to host and arguably easier to find skilled programmers for.
> Is there anything in nature that isn't beautiful?

Yes.

I vote for the fruit of the doll's eyes plant personally, though bleeding tooth fungus is none too pleasant to look at, either.
PHP Sucks: So What?

We all should try to improve it.
No but idiocy is directly proportional to ignorance.
I really want Web Intents to take off. It's like assigning programs to certain file extensions, but instead assigning intents to web services. So you could take a photo, edit the image, and share it to your social network of choice. The websites would use a common API, they don't need to program exceptions for each-other like we do with iOS apps. Android does it a lot better, but this could really work on the web.

Hopefully Google and Mozilla will put enough resources behind this that it becomes standardized on, and maybe even Microsoft will get on board.

Apple, well, probably not.
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