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Even if you were 100% correct, hard drives aren't going anywhere. Browser cache is around 1GB and web developers are itching for vast landscapes of local storage systems.

And where do you expect the operating system and marvelous web stack where all these things are created to reside? Burned in EEPROM?

I think the consumer already can't really differentiate between what is local or over the internet, they don't know what a browser is by and large.

But if what you say is right, the pendulum, at the consumer level, will soon swing back the other way the first time that someone can't access the "cloud" on a trip or forgets to pay their "cloud access bill" (phone/internet whatever) and then gets locked out of ... well, everything.

Castrating the device and agitating the users by making everything Microsoft Palladium style will continue to be a bad idea. Remember Sun's motto, "The network is the computer"?

Nah, don't think so; the computer is the computer. Networks are pretty important, but they do not replace everything, they are fundamentally not reliable, responsive, or resilient enough to.

And every time a step is made in any of those directions, it's done because some machine or some network, somewhere else, is better off. That rising tide will lift all boats, keeping the consumer devices edging ahead; that is unless, you are harking back to the "give consumers bare minimum craptaculous cloud terminals".

That's been tried about every 3 months for the past 35 years or so and has never gone well.
We don't use as much perl as we used to but the last upgrade issue was amavisd-new (a Spamassassin wrapper). Spamassassin has perl version issues every so often as well. NetDNS used to introduce new bugs about every 4th revision but seems to have been stable for the past couple of years. GNUmp3d and many audio libraries have non-perl revision-related, backwards-compatibility issues with some regularity.
If a lot of what takes up hard disk space moves to on demand providers, 50GB may go a long way to satisfying most people.
you should some how incorporate hipster into the search site's name.
If anything I'd be more worried about thieves stealing my data. (In the literal, 'break into my house and take it.' sort of way.)

I know it's happened to at least one indie developer. And at least one youtube blogger that comes to mind.

That having been said, local hard drives aren't going to die anytime soon. Uncle McCarthy has not yet had his day, at least not on that one.
I think it's correct that (2) directly influences (1). And I think that most corporate groups are willing to hire an Oracle/MS SQL DBA with small amounts of experience but the carrying the right certifications.

To expand a bit, IMO - that scenario doesn't really exist for PostgreSQL DBAs, you are either experienced or inexperienced (with no weight-carrying certificate to complement credentials). Hence the corporate environment won't hire an entry-level DBA who has no certs to validate the hire, and they won't justify the seemingly added cost of an experienced PostgreSQL DBA.
> Did they tell you what company it was?

Yes. In fact, both appear to be internal recruiters. (Their e-mail addresses are at the company in question.)
This seems like the wrong thing to brag about...if I lived near a nuclear power plant, I would want it to have been built in a way that maximizes safety, not minimizes cost.
From my work with Taiwanese engineers, I have found that reading and writing are as much two different skills as speaking and listening are.

Almost all of them can read English remarkably well, but some of the emails I get from them... Often grammar and syntax are nowhere to be found, and the vocabulary is occasionally amusing (a couple of the memorable gems have been "USB sticker", presumably thinking of "USB stick" (and still ambiguous in the context of the message, what they were talking about was a USB WiFi dongle), and "redeploy" referring to a reboot or power cycle).
I'd be curious to know that, too.

I'd be very surprised, as the capital outlay to start even a small ASIC team is not small. A single simulator license costs considerably more than what the fine folks at YC invest in the companies they have under their wing.

(I don't think it needs to be that way, BTW).
A member of the Go team responded here: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/golang-nuts/Jd9tlNc6jUE/di...
If you are storing this kind of implementation logic in your data, I hope I never have to work with you (not aimed at parent posting, but rather the global "you"
Although nothing preventing Google from releasing a statement saying they decided not to buy Groupon.

If the story is true, it seems very strange that they wouldn't set the record straight (obviously without breaching any confidences or disclosing anything specific about Groupon).
The real question is, how their new product Kiwi going to stand for itself against other spotify apps. I know a number of music startups, and a lot of them are making apps gunning for deeper social integration on spotify, which seems what Kiwi might be.

Also, I also hope that listmaking is a passive activity, where turntable just makes playlists for me, of what my friends are listening to. Make the decisions for me so I can focus on other things, like not DJing online.
Happens already. Two examples:

1. Internet Explorer has conditional comments - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537512%28v=vs.85%2...

2. Sprockets' directive processor uses directives in comments. https://github.com/sstephenson/sprockets
Nonsense.

True, companies will encourage voluntarily uploading your stuff to their computers. Why shouldn't they? Just like they solicit your email address, track your movements, snarf your smartphone address book and other neat tricks. There's value in getting that info.

That doesn't mean everyone is going to fall for it. Some will, no doubt.

But GB's are getting cheaper every day. And not just for "cloud providers". How many terbaytes does one person need? You can fit your whole life's worth of data onto today's capacities of consumer digital storage.

Are we to imagine a future where consumers cannot purchase storage media? What drugs are you on?

The web is brittle. It's but one of many things that can be run over IP. You web-fanatics crack me up.
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The issue I have with the numbers of users from these Vid Apps is that they are just vanity numbers. The numbers doesn't include just those who actually download and use the app, but also those that actually click the link to share on Viddy/Socialcam to just watch the video.

Neither are willing to disclose actual user numbers either. :(
Not to mention that the only reason for needing IE specific stylesheets is because IE doesn't follow CSS standards properly!!!
Will there be a Business Week cover story about Kevin Rose with the title "How this kid lost $60 million in three years"?

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_33/b3997002....

Nah, that title probably won't sell too many magazines.

(This is a rip on BW's inflammatory, "let's ignore facts" writing style, not Rose.)
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It makes total sense to omit comments, because JSON is optimized for machine-readability and interoperability (simple spec, simple implementation, no extension mechanism, fast to parse). Putting comments in would compromise it for that purpose.

JSON isn't a great config file format, if your config file is meant to be human-edited. But the solution is simple; use a format designed for human editing.

Config files need UI design too.

During Akka and Play 2.0 development, we approached this by starting from the hand-rolled parsers found in Akka 1.2 and Play 1.2 (both had ad-hoc parsers to support a "pretty" config file format). We took the aesthetic preferences of the hand-rolled parsers seriously, and came up with HOCON: https://github.com/typesafehub/config (scroll down to "JSON Superset"), https://github.com/typesafehub/config/blob/master/HOCON.md

The HOCON format is a superset of JSON and also happens to be mostly compatible with the Play and Akka 1.2 ad hoc parsers (which were independently developed, so two data points on what people wanted).

HOCON is roughly similar to YAML in complexity. Like YAML the spec is pretty long ( http://www.yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html ). And the Typesafe Config and SnakeYAML jars have pretty comparable amounts of bytecode in them.

HOCON or YAML would be terrible formats for an API or something like that, and they're painful to implement, but I strongly prefer them to JSON for human-maintained configuration.

Anyway, I think the genius of JSON was its focus on machine interoperability rather than trying to do everything, that's why it works so well for machine interoperability.
But it doesn't mean you have to use it for everything.
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Yeah, I'm very curious too. If the Webby Awards people ever respond to my request for them to inspect the data, I'll follow this up with any findings they share.
I've used Knockout for two applications and it's great; MVVM is definitely more relevant for JS web applications than MVC in many, tho not all, cases.
JSON Schema supports 'title' and 'description' for each field - however, there is no internationalization. Certainly, commenting on a schema is more meaningful than commenting in a regular payload-style data structure.
That reminds me of that saying I heard about XML:

"Some people have a problem and think they can solve it with XML. Then they have two problems."
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This might not just be a problem with Turntable.fm.
Maybe not, though:

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Most people don't know what they're doing. To be able to fill one's head with a script in the form of shareholder value is a godsend for such managers. It sure beats trying to understand the employee machine.
Sorry OP, just replying here so one of your commenters sees it:

schraeds, you've been hellbanned for the last 30 days, just FYI. I see you trying to post twice, but every comment you've made for the last 30 days has been auto-dead.

I honestly cannot figure out why, unless you deleted an atrocious violation of the rules or spam. Your last comment that wasn't auto-dead was about the "hippy generation", so maybe someone took offense with that?

http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=schraeds (turn showdead on)
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"Since 1980s, the decision power in US corporations started to move to the hands of shareholders. They care about short term profits, not about the employees."

Wow, that's quite a coincidence, because I don't really give a rat's ass about them either.
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Thanks for the constructive thoughts you add to HN.
Your reasons, while important and meaningful from a developers perspective, mean little to the consumer choosing between a native app and a mobile web app. What's in it for the consumer?
That's an awesome idea. You guys should add a button to Google search results that would completely invert the result list, and show the lowest stuff first, highest stuff last. Almost like sorting a list of products by price.

Anything you can identify as pure SEO spam, exclude of course. But if it's some original content that just isn't well connected or whatever, include it.

Then just observe user behavior for a while until you can discern patterns in how people who play around with that use it to discover new and interesting stuff. Maybe a new algorithm might come of it.
This most certainly is not what I, or a lot of people want in a computing device

Most people don't even understand what a filesystem is, nevermind whether it's open or not. I agree with you that data is moving online but that's orthogonal to the native vs web app question.
Browser cache is around 1GB and web developers are itching
for vast landscapes of local storage systems.

We're moving toward a computing world where hard drives don't even exist. Within 3 years we may see devices that have only persistent RAM. And for large files, I bet we'll see some nice competition between Dropbox, Google, Microsoft, and others which may eventually lead to making hard drives obsolete.

Nah, don't think so; the computer is the computer.
Network... is not reliable, responsive, or resilient enough to.

Not yet, but I think we are steamrolling toward this conclusion.

Apple might have successfully convinced everyone into thinking that downloading software and installing it is some fancy new thing, but really just it's old-fashioned nonsense that is only necessary for their arcane software platform to work.
Thanks for the ad hominem instead of refuting my point. I attacked your comment, not you.

Digging deeper into the Jenny McCarthy hole, frankly.
I'm forced to wonder from your comments throughout this thread whether you have much real-world development experience, versus having just ingested a bunch of theoretical information on best practices. The things you're dismissing out of hand happen all the time, and while sometimes they're useless, more often they're all the documentation you'll get, and you'll feel exceedingly lucky to get even them.

Your comment about Puppet is especially troubling. Puppet doesn't "have appropriate permissions", it's a root-level tool for managing system state. The files it manages may have all kinds of ownership and permissions, some of which are not ones you can just mess with (e.g. the system will throw up its hands and bomb out if they're wrong), and all of which are still modifiable by anyone with root access. There's no way to differentiate short of comments in the files themselves.
I don't claim that addressing anxiety is the only reason to say "Signup in 30 seconds." However, data about what converts better isn't a reason. Conversion data gives you correlations, not reasons for the correlations. I prefer to work from a theory of causality when I'm deciding what to put on the page.
You need to hit F5 to refresh the cache.
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Greatly simplified the parser? It's probably 10 lines of code.
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I'm waiting for it to come full circle - the day when the browser VM is so advanced it's basically a VMWare shim and each web page is really an OS that boots up, then we can finally throw away all the development crap collectively known as web duct tape and use real tools for software development.
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I feel like it's a torture to wait apple finishes reviewing a bug-fixed version...
> Google's been indexing the web and Amazon executing bazillions of legally binding sales without a "major data loss event" for 13 years now. I don't think that's really likely. At that scale, backups aren't really a .serious problem, as you have to have redundancy in the system for reliability reasons anyway.

How do you know that there hasn't been a major data loss event for Google? Would you be able to tell the difference if, say, a quarter of their data were gone?

(I agree that it would be more visible if Amazon had a major data loss, but the fact that you don't know about it doesn't mean it didn't. In fact, can you name a major data loss of which you do know? (I can't, but that may just be because I don't follow these things.) Surely one can't conclude from the fact that there are few well publicised examples that businesses do not suffer such losses.)
I want a "cloud filesystem", but want it controlled by ME, not Apple, and not iCloud. That's the problem. Apple wants to control the filesystem, and I, and others are not willing to accept this horrific scenario.
Who needs to imagine it? It's here.

Cat is out of the bag.

What is the Alexa list good for? Answer: Filtering out the boring, money-grubbing commercial sites. A truly GREAT idea.

A return to the good 'ole days. The non-commercial web.

Many young people who love today's www never got to experience it as it was before it became overrun with Google-ization and auto-generated garbage.

Take the ball and run with it. We ca reclaim the web. This is only the beginning.
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Yes you and your techie friends care about this. Most people don't.

Current trends indicate user attention is shifting even more to native, BTW:
http://blog.flurry.com/bid/80241/Mobile-App-Usage-Further-Do...

The web vs native debate is really just a debate about which technology is better suited to building cloud client apps. HTML5 + JS is just another UI stack like Cocoa Touch or Android.
I had never heard of this, I like it quite a bit more than Turntable so far.
Not just marketing gambit, but mind control as well - people who do this kind of voting aren't going to go for the additional hurdle of redirecting their stuff... yet AL seems to have forced a ton of them to do just that.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
In all fairness, the non-transformer part of a cord is pretty cheap.
> This might be something that UK/EU folks might not be able to empathise with

You are absolutely correct. As long as the US is unwilling to socialize its health care, there is very little sympathy for people putting up with soul-sucking jobs because they are against some half-baked notion of "socialism". (And I would argue that many Americans do not know what socialism is - they often conflate it with communism, which is entirely different).
Yep, it made me rage a bit when I found that in a project I'm working on. Comments are for people, people!
Or find a way to make the people who actually know what they are doing vote in larger numbers than those who have no idea what they are voting for (or against).
We're moving toward a computing world where hard drives don't even exist.

That will only happen when my pipe hits SATA speed.
Are we to imagine a future where consumers cannot purchase storage media?

Yes that's coming. Many countries are starting to put tariffs on hard drives. And in my country, Canada, they also slow down your internet when downloading large files and it costs $1.5 per gigabyte to exceed my 85GB/mo limit. I might as well redirect my downloads to an online service and keep all my data online until I need.

My bet is within 3 years we'll reach the threshold where it might as well be worth it to store files online rather download them and store them permanently on hard drives on a computer running constantly in your home.
What about those without Facebook accounts?
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>> Why would you even want that?

Because it's the first manned flight?

>> That's like saying ...

No it isn't at all like that.

>> I'm really getting sick of the manufactured bogeyman of government regulation.

And I'm really getting sick of this place turning into reddit.
Go read cageface's comment again. I think you are using the words "native app" wrong, or at least different than what most people think it means.

You are correct that data is moving into the cloud, and away from Apple's restricted file system (or any local file system). But that has nothing to do with native vs. web (HTML) apps. Native apps can easily store all their data in the cloud (ANY cloud, not just iCloud), and still be native apps in the usual sense of the word.

It seems to me that the trend is toward native, cloud based apps. And these two concepts are not in conflict. As cageface says, they are orthogonal.
> Great, another prophet.

Heh. "Pandora didn't get half the kicking around she deserved", as I think that R.A.Heinlein jokingly put it.

(Not that I believe that GP is that prescient.)
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Weren't pascal comments delimited by `{` and `}`, and weren't borland pascal compiler directives of the form `{$X}`?
Depicting his actions as the work of a rogue “requires putting a lot of dots together,” Mr. Milner said enigmatically Sunday before insisting again he had no comment.

It doesn't sound particularly enigmatic to me. It seems like Milner is clearly saying that Google deliberately misrepresented his behavior as a rogue action to facilitate their legal self-protection when in fact it's obvious from their choice of the author of NetStumbler to work on Street View that his designated role was likely to involve making use of his expertise with Wi-Fi networks.
Yeah, and in 2 years desktop computers will be gone, people will only use tablets, and Linux will have completely disappeared as a desktop environment (together with the fore-mentioned gone desktop computers, probably?).

I always like people who over-simplify things to the extreme. They don't seem to understand that different solutions exist because there are different needs. Ever thought about doing video editing of a More-than-HD-video on a network connection ? Ever thought of RAW images storage, taking up 30 seconds to load one image through your ISP? Ever thought of people living away from large cities, with slow internet connection ?

Obviously not. You must be living in a microcosm where everyone has 1Tb/s Net access under their tables.
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You know, encryption and a decently strong password pretty much seals the deal on somebody physically stealing your data. There is no reason to not encrypt your home computer if you are so concerned.
'When’s the last time you shopped for a software product under intense time pressure, where every second counts?'

Analytics could definitely be one of those times. If your site is being Slashdotted, your priority is going to be getting quick access to real-time data about traffic flows, and not messing about with Google Analytics (which until recently, didn't even cover real time).

I'm guessing the site in question is GoSquared (the sign up process matches, at least) - and I've worked on a couple of sites where I've installed GoSquared precisely because I knew how quick it was to install.
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Funny: I thought the exact same thing as I was writing my comment...