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To the OP, thanks for writing. I'm going to try to act on it and get out to some sort of meetup.

To you, catastrophallie, on behalf of male developers who happen to think women–ESPECIALLY women who program–are totally awesome, I'm sorry. I'm still confused on how being a woman has anything to do with writing code, and think people who pre-judge your ability do so on unfounded misconceptions.
Is blaming PowerPoint really just “shooting the messenger”?
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In the hospital where I work, most of the computers got upgraded to IE7 about 6 months ago. There's talk of upgrading to IE8, but that's probably a year off if I had to guess.

The way I see it, about half of my salary is for caring about IE7. IE7 hacks and stupidities occupy no more than 5-10% of my time, but the way I see it, 80% of my work is damn fun and I would do it for free. I am glad that there is the remaining 20% of IE7 hacking, boss-assigned-task-doing, and so on for which I (consider myself to) get paid 5x my actual salary.
Drunk-driving alone costs our country immeasurably in terms of human and economic cost. Eliminating the vast majority of infractions would be a real contribution to humanity.
I was expecting this to be a post about machine monitoring.

It's not, but the same rule applies.

Much of the past year has been tweaking Nagios and other alert settings. Some have been disabled entirely, some simply set to much more sane values (as in: if this value is hit, things are not sane).

My read:

If you can't take some action within an alert interval to change / make things better, you don't need to know about it.

If alert A means that condition B has already occurred (e.g.: site is down, whatever), then alert A is 1) useless and 2) will be polluting your (likely already overstressed) mental bandwidth / handheld device constraints at a time when it's least convenient.

E.g.: while you're trying to read a really, really crappy vendor manual in Android's PDF viewer, which helpfully resets you back to page 1 of 892 every time you navigate away from the document -- say, because a new mail/SMS alert has just arrived.

The anomalous condition should be logged for forensics, and explored for predictive ability, but if it's not triggered until the shit's already hit the fan, ditch the alerting, keep the logging.
The US is never going to fight China because both countries have nuclear weapons. That tends to put a damper on things. As a Chinese general reportedly put it back in the 90's, "You care a lot more about Los Angeles than you do about Taipei."

Even if you did compare the two, the US is a richer country (so it costs comparatively more to train and outfit the same number of men to the same amount) with a stronger cultural valuation of human life and a stronger cultural and political desire for short-term victories. If the Chinese got into a prolonged military conflict, not only would they be less sensitive to heavy losses, but if it took more than a couple years, no one would be worrying about reelection the way American politicians would. China is content with simply being able to win; the US needs to immediately overwhelm the enemy while suffering minimal friendly losses, or else the war will be lost politically if not militarily.

That's why we have things like the F-22 and F-35; in combat exercises small numbers of F-22's can singlehandedly wipe out entire wings of enemy aircraft without the enemy getting as much as a missile lock on the F-22. The US is in a weird spot--if [one telegenic fighter jock gets shot down](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_OGrady), it becomes national news for a week!
They're already losing customers. Here's a customer's comment from their blog:

"As a paying customer, I’m so happy to hear you’ve put “no effort into it in the last year. I can confirm this by the total absence of leads from Sortfolio, despite the health of our other initiatives.

Account cancelled."
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XP. I don't remember changing any options in setup.exe, but who knows. Bottom line it's fixed.
Thurn mentioned that Google's cars can't drive in snow, but they can drive through rain.
Unless I hear differently, I would assume that the buyer gets the recurring billing account.
It really depends on the site though. I get almost zero IE traffic.
Make a signup page to be part of the beta, include the disclaimer that it's free during the beta but once the service is publicly available it will be charged for and the fees are waived during the beta in exchange for bug reports, possible issues/downtime, etc. Then, whenever someone signs up, just automatically send them an invite. You don't limit the people who want to use it in the beta and can provide valuable feedback and you set expectations appropriately for leaving free status and to the state of the application. And if you think that you may get a bad rap for being in "beta" and it not being as good as Google's beta, just call it "alpha" instead.
Its not that robots can drive faster, its that they can drive more consistently. I used to drive the infamous Washington DC beltway to work and I can tell you, I'd much rather have a constant 35 than the brief periods of 80 followed but an hour of 7.

When it becomes mostly robots on the road, it will be possible to "program out" a lot of the emergent behaviors of traffic in congested areas.
Just got an email from Heroku, looks like they're not happy about that.
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>"We have no more time to take care of it..." so why are you guys saying it's generating 20k$ a month without you doing anything?

You're right, this makes no sense.

37s is just trying for the hard sell. By adding a ticking time-bomb element to the sale (buy it at our price or it's gone forever!) they're hoping to pressure a buyer into coughing up a lot of money for it.
I think you're making OP's point quite well albeit inadvertently.

Personal ownership of a self-driving car is a ridiculous concept. Why would the car have to wait around in the parking lot all day while you're at work? It could easily keep running around ferrying people places. And yet many people will want to own one simply because they think they should own a car.

I think the real future is a market for renting car time. Prices will be high during peak periods (morning and evening commuters) but cheap during the mid-afternoon.

The lack of a large up-front cost will likely drive adoption faster than many expect, especially given the new resistance to car ownership coming from younger people: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/03/why-dont...

I live in a city, as do pretty much all my friends. I walk almost everywhere and occasionally take a taxi when going out in the evenings. On rare occasions a friend with a ZipCar membership will ferry us out of town if we're going somewhere far. None of us actually own a car. We're the target market for the self-driving cars since we've already made the social adjustments.
... something like having every car slipstream the car in front of it?
sudo -u postgres createuser -s `whoami`

Won't this create another user named "postgres"?

EDIT: No it won't:

Ophelia ~ $ sudo -u postgres whoami
postgres
Ophelia ~ $ sudo -u postgres echo `whoami`
rich

That seems straight out of The Unix Hater's Handbook.
Aw man. As a bootstrapping web business guy, I can say I've had way more problems with supporting iPads and iPhones than IE. IE costs me $0 to support, and I don't even bother (nobody asks!). Supporting hip and popular Apple browsers can run me a grand in a fast minute. Pleasing early adopters without working really well on the iPad3 is a tough sell.

I think startups fighting to support < IE9 is a done decision (don't do it). Start worrying about mobile and tablet platforms instead. 'cause the future, it's knocking.

I'm not crazy about getting an iPad myself, but I'm starting to feel cornered into spending hundreds of $$ on one just to keep those early adopters happy. I think this is where the real browser/device compatibility discussion is, not around IE.
That's what I call support. Awesome!

EDIT: Looks to be working!
I love this argument. It gets juicy quick. Sugary, like cake. When they tell you "you can't win if you don't play", and you say, "nonsense, I can find a dropped lottery ticket on the ground that turns out to be the big one" and they say "really?? what are the chances of that happening?". Black forest, cherry on top. Just wonderful.
Guess I'll never be an elite web developer with that definition. I'm too busy actually using web features instead of depressingly fighting IE bugs.
I think it would be fairly sizeable minority. There are so many benefits to this:

- Safety. CPUs don't get distracted.
- Far less stress. You wont worry about being cut off when you're reading.
- Imaging able to go to sleep and wake up in a new city. Your ride is extremely smooth.
- More time. Your trips are much quicker, because each path around each of the corners is perfectly optimized.
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My only concern here is that the delay in pushing things out to various app stores makes iterating on A/B tests fairly difficult. However, it seems like using data-driven tests, you can hopefully pick and serve the winner without having to push out an app update.
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If these figures are legit, then this is pretty cool news for the open source / Linux community; however, wonder what real user #'s look like since this "...count also obviously doesn't count those that install Ubuntu manually or obtain Ubuntu installations via other means," which seems to be the way that most folks currently get Ubuntu. Either way, hope the trend continues so, at the very least, consumers come to realize there is an alternative to Windows (besides Mac of course).
Unfortunately, the internet is also crushing attention spans.
I think it's a really neat idea. I would add a filter to the actual searches (possibly looking for specific review lengths, key words, etc) because "This app is great because of this, this, and this; and it's not so great because of this, this, and this" is always better--to me--than "WOOT, LOVE IT!" or "DON'T BUY, SUX!!!"
If it's an open source app... where can I download the source to run it on my own server? Don't tell me it's open source, then ask me for a credit card number.
It's horrible that this is so prevalent in the tech community (and really any community, but I come from tech, so I'll just speak from what I know). It probably doesn't mean much coming from some random commenter, but I can assure you that there are a lot of great people (male and female) out there that don't think or carry on this way.

That said, my areas of knowledge are in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP. What I know in PHP could probably be translated to a lot of other languages. If you have any questions, you can certainly throw'em my way. Here are a bunch of ways to find me: http://fredhq.com/contact

And that goes for anyone reading this. I'm not always available (obviously), and I may not have the answer, but I can bounce ideas back and forth which sometimes is just what is needed.
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If 1/12th of the overall population thinks that way, it does not seem unreasonable for a jury of 12 to be a fair cross-section of the population. In fact, the opposite seems unreasonable to me.
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This is a sentence. That fragments.
Useful device.
Why do you think the buyer would need a new billing solution?
Wait ... is that in reference to the article ... or your own post ;-)
I think this is a smart move by MS. The name Azure didn't cause people to immediately think of cloud services, while this renaming makes it much more clear.
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I agree with not supporting IE, but calling it a feature is just a rationalization on not providing support for it, and a nice spin at it.
Some people shouldn't code alone.
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The good news is that, at least at the time, we still had someone like General Van Riper on our side. If you look at military history, many major wars have an opening stage where outdated doctrines are conclusively beaten and the military suddenly gets really interested in out-of-the-box thinking.
Not terribly shocking, since you probably just created more apps than their entire customer base this week. From their perspective it looks like a huge resource hit from a very, very costly action by an account which has not given them many reason$ to trust with anomalous behavior yet. Count yourself lucky: a less hacker friendly company would ban first and email later.

I'd suggest apologizing for a somewhat poor architecture choice, turning off that button temporarily, and then round-robinning folks into 10 demo instances which are reset daily with a big Do Not Put Student Data In Here warning at top in red. This may be easier than rearchitecturing the demo to be multi-tenant, though that is a good idea long-term.
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This is one of the most interesting companies I've seen posted on HN in a while. Good luck achieving market penetration.

I'd put up a pdf of a generated assignment that can be scan/fax graded online right away in an easy to access fashion. That is what I most wanted to take a look at, and it looks like the demo won't render the document.

Do you put a QR code on each assignment to uniquely identify a student? So papers have to be handed out precisely to each student? Or do you have students bubble in names/identification numbers?

How are you going to handle the kind of problems that would be created by using this technology in a class of <8th graders? Crumpled/dog eared papers, intentional attempts to make forms hard to computer read. Have you thought about linking to Amazon's Mechanical Turk to have human grading of difficult to parse entries?

Is your product going to be crushed by computers/tablets for every student in future classroom environments? If assignments are all digital (i.e some college textbook environments like 'Mastering Physics') the scan to grade edge slips out. Especially when providers can offer prewritten educational material questions/exams/content as part of their platform.
PDFs should be generating now. Thanks! :)
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It seems to me that the complaint you are making is rooted in a decline of the community. I do not at the moment have any suggestions for what to do about that but I think it is worth pointing out anyway. I think HN is remarkably well handled for such a large public forum. But it seems to have passed some threshold. I occasionally wonder what can be done about that but I usually do not participate enough to have any clear sense of the underlying dynamic behind it.
Yeah. That button is gone now. Took it down. We'll figure something out later.
I'm sorry about your dad having Parkinsons.

As a father and son, I can relate to how you feel. Your idea is good. Maybe someone will take up the offer.

Good luck and good health to both of you.
I think the figure of added costs is sensationalist at best. The Velodyne LiDAR sensor alone that Google uses is $85,000.

I think we'll see self-driving cars soon enough, but I'd be surprised if the Old Guard of car manufacturers will lead the way there.
Well done! I expect the contrarians to pour in screaming about not leaving anyone out and elitism and corporate users and blah blah blah... But seriously, fuck IE. if you don't have to support it then don't! More power to you! My biggest wish as a developer is for some major site to stop supporting IE. I do feel for the users but I feel it's a necessary evil to get the IE team to either ditch or fix Trident or whatever engine they use nowadays. There is no other browser that is more fragmented, unpredictable, or harder to get anything rendered correctly in than IE. if just one major site stopped supporting it then just maybe Microsoft would finally fix their broken browser. We are forced to write far too many unnecessary lines of code just to support a single browser when the rest of our front end code pretty much works effortlessly in the other browsers.

But we live in the real world and my wish isn't likely to come true. We do, after all, still have to think of the poor users who are either ignorant of the alternatives, still using IE due to inertia, or couldn't even upgrade to a version of IE that worked nicely (that is, if it existed)if they wanted to due to being stuck with their version of Windows Vista Home Office Extended Premium Plus which can't be upgraded to the new Windows 7 Midgrade Basic Premium Exclusive Edition Service Pack 10million which is the minimum version of Windows that'd run such a browser for less than the cost of sacrificing their first born child. Internet Explorer 9 was a noticeable improvement by far but not good enough still. Version 10 looks even more promising. Too bad they make it so that only the smallest fraction of Windows users can upgrade to them.
Thanks for such a candid telling of the Adioso story. Certain parts ring so familiar it's uncanny. Just as you got a boost from hearing that Airbnb had some tough times before the tide came in, we find it encouraging to hear how you've had to battle the odds. Staying tuned for part 2...
... ESPECIALLY women who program–are totally awesome...

... how being a woman has anything to do with writing code...

I agree with you in spirit, but, logically I think you have a fallacy here.
3 good questions that have been overlooked, that I hope Jason will answer. Plus 1 question from me.

1) Do you have (and are willing to share) the credit card information on file for each customer? Or is the new Sortfolio owner expected to contact or otherwise prompt existing customers to re-enter their payment information?

2) I think it would be useful to know how much traffic / new signups come from other 37s sites vs SEO or links from other sites.

3) I am very curious if there is more information they'd be willing to release. For example, how many of those $99 customers are happy, how many have garnered business they can confirm came from Sortfolio, etc.

4) "If we can sell it for a fair price (we consider $480,000 fair), then we'll sell it. " What thought process did you use to arrive at an asking price equal to roughly 28x monthly revenue?
Someone must be able to make a viable business model out of selling Ubuntu on Ultrabooks.
i'd rather pay an ubuntu tax than a microsoft tax so i really look forward to buying a new machine with the option of ubuntu even if it costs a little more.

but my main concern will be the those who buy an ubuntu machine and then expect to run ms office or other windows only piece of software on it. i will be getting those calls. thankfully most of the home users aren't as dependent on windows only apps anymore.
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Actually, Buffett simply says he doesn't know how to value them.

This is the farthest thing from a value judgment. Buffett invests based on an understanding of the fundamental value of his businesses.
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That's not necessarily true. The Kauffman Foundation is a non-profit whose purpose is to support entrepreneurship. Investing in VC may accomplish that goal, even if the investment loses money. Heck, it may have been worth it from a research point of view, just to gather the data that went into this report.
As someone who occasionally needs to hire webdesigners, IMHO Sortfolio is the best tool to do that. I've already hired one designer I found through the site this year, and talked with five or six others. I certainly hope that someone actually buys this and keeps developing it.
I just had a somewhat closer look at the MIT Technology review list of emerging technologies, and in particular the people behind them. I made a rather sad discovery. Please take a look at the following list:

- Jonathan Tilly (stem cell research)

- John A. Rogers, Ralph Nuzzo, George M. Whitesides, Etienne Menard (Semprius founders)

- Ren Ng (light field photography, Lytro founder)

- Nikhil Jaisinghani, Brian Shaad (solar-powered microgrids, Mera Gao Power founders)

- Mark Bohr (3D transistors, head of Intel's process technology)

- Piotr Indyk, Dina Katabi, Eric Price, Haitham Hassanieh (Sparse Fourier transform)

- Gordon Sanghera, Spike Willcocks, Hagan Bayley (DNA sequencing, Oxford Nanopore founders)

- Perry Chen, Yancey Strickler, Charles Adler (Kickstarter founders)

- Peter Schultz, Robert Downs, Donald Murphy (Wildcat Discovery Technologies founders)

- Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook founder)

This is the list of the people behind all of the ten emerging technologies, as listed on http://www.technologyreview.com/tr10/

Number of people on the list: 23
Number of women on the list: 1

At least for Intels 3D transistor team and Facebook's timeline, I was not able to dig up the list of people on the team who develop these technologies, so there is still some hope that there are a few more women on these teams at least. The same should hold for the research on egg stem cell research.
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Can someone at MSFT comment? How is the IE team composed? Is it a threat at MSFT, to be placed on the IE team? "If you don't start performing, we're sending you to work on IE"?
Tom - I have read hundreds of founder stories and you write like a skilled novelist and from the heart. Good luck, the numbers will keep going up..
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There's no excuse for "that's okay, you're a girl", but FWIW I'm a guy and I get "Why would you need to know that?" all the time.
> Javascript was a success because of its dynamism and simplicity.

Javascript was a success only because of its ubiquity, and by the time that happened, most implementations still couldn't even agree on fundamental properties of its implementation (is there really such a thing as a simple, while still practical programming language?).

It basically lived under a rock for the first 10 years of life, until rich web clients really started getting pushed, at which point it was the only even vaguely vendor-neutral plugin-free option around.
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If she chooses to start a small (micro) business I will do the marketing stuff for her. No charge.

No strings attached. Just paying it forward.
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Actually a bigger question is how are people migrating from their Mysql databases to postgresql. I'm quite surprised on the lack of a standard, production grade, defacto mysql2pg tool (and sql server as well).
This article is tangentially related to a question I've been thinking a lot about lately.

At many organizations, the amount of time you spend programming is inversely proportional to your skill as a developer. As you become a better developer, you end up spending more time mentoring less experienced developers, fighting fires, dealing with management, dealing with customers, and dealing with other tasks that are not programming. Not only are you spending less time programming, but you're also in a state of perpetual interruption. Maybe this is good for the team in the short term, but in the long term, I am convinced this approach will cause the talent level of your organization to converge to a pretty mediocre level.

What is the best solution to this problem?