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You do realize the vast majority of AK-47s (at least those available in the US for less than $10k) are semi-automatic, right?
i wonder if you could do it with separate frames of a GIF? there's no reason they have to be played as an animation. (they don't even have to be the same size as each other or the logical screen, afaict.)
Um, trying not to be rude, but that's a problem you have, not a problem software developers have. Inflating reported salaries and then keeping some of the money for yourself might be a problem with people who use contractors. For normal companies using salaried employees, reporting inflated numbers make no sense. (Though note that for recruiting companies inflating salaries does make sense - but this benefits the developers as well as the recruiters.)

Get yourself on a salary with a respectable tech-oriented company. I worked for an average digital agency where none of your points applied to me, I was paid more out of school than your contractors, and to top it off I actually liked our HR.
In the past 5 months I've downloaded via BitTorrent 35 music albums, 4 game patches, and 2 full games, all acquired legally.
I know not of these "end users" of whom you speak. There is only programming. - Unknown programmer of the future

Sometimes, I wonder if we live on the same planet - me

I'm not trying to be a dick, but that "quote" at the beginning of the article is just absurd. The "end users" would form an angry mob, drag that programmer out of his Ivory Tower, and kick his ass.

I think you seriously overestimate the interest of the end users in programming. End users want that the damn thing do what it is supposed to do, and go home to their lives. They don't want an interactive programming environment - they want a button to push and be done with it.
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Perhaps the author has been sitting on said story for a while and decided to publish it at point of maximum impact? It's likely to get a lot more attention now than it would do at almost any other time.
If it were me I'd find a way to produce and sell them at a lower price. Ikea tables are sold at a comparable price, and the table top is included.
They didn't lose money on the 360 (this past quarter anyway, clearly they did for a first few years of the device's life), they lost it on winding down the remnants of Zune and ramping up Windows Phone.

Also, while the 360 is still king of the consoles in terms of overall sales and is profitable, it is selling less quickly than before because this console generation is past its peak and is riding the downward slope on new units sold until the next hardware refreshes appear.

So the 360 is still a net positive, but less positive than recent past quarters and not positive enough to offset other losses.
"Their stock price is flat only if you don't include the dividends they've paid out."

You have that backwards. If people think a company will pay out big dividends, then they bid up the price of the stock. That Microsoft's stock has remained mostly flat despite good dividend payments suggests that the stock would have plummeted without the dividend payments, and it will plummet if the dividend payments stop.

A flat stock price despite good dividends suggests weakness, not strength.
There was a quote in the Y2K days:

Mainframes are obsolete systems which decades ago all the worlds infrastructure relied on, today they are obsolete systems that all the worlds infrastructure relies on and tomorrow they will be ....
Maybe nobody is interested in GM cars...
I hear this all the time but I don't agree with it. For example, am I "the product" because I don't pay for Ubuntu when I install it on my servers?
I don't see how the client could selectively download frames. GIF isn't really the nicest file format anyway.
Comparing hacking tools to weapons might be a clever hack to get the US courts to allow you to use it, however that'll be used against the rest of the world. "Sorry we have to ban this, it's a weapon! Even the US courts think it's a weapon!"

Please consider hackers all over the globe.
LOL, and rain is wet.
The day a start-up comes with a reliable way to measure the true efficacy of online ads, no one will want to invest a penny in them.
Probably Facebook ads not working.

Two of my friends run a wedding planning business. They gave up on targeted Facebook ads because they got MUCH better results using Adwords.

The ads were targeted to a nice big radius that included Lincoln, NE (a college town) and Omaha, NE (a big city, for NE). They targeted women in a specific age range, and if I remember correctly only women with a status of Engaged or In A Relationship. I think they may have aimed for relevant keywords as well. (I personally don't know the exact details of their ads, so I'm sticking to what I know for sure.)

I can't think of a more ideal targeted advertising scenario, and they got less traction on Facebook than they did via AdWords. That's either a REALLY bad reflection on Facebook's ad platform, or a really good one for AdWords, or both.

(Their business is doing really well, for the record.)
Learning how to code has about as much real-world utility as learning how to rebuild an engine block. It's necessary to know if you're in the industry. It's interesting information if you like that sort of thing. For everyone else, it's a non-factor. They'll never be in a position where coding will solve a problem for them. Even if they are made aware of a potential solution involving code, they won't be bothered to try. Knowing how to change the oil in your car is a far cry from wanting to change the oil in your car.
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> the temperature on our server floors at a warm 80 degrees

and after ten seconds of open mouthed astonishment, my metric brain realizes they are probably talking about Fahrenheit
Good to know; I just came here to complain. :-)

On the other hand, though, I think you should have probably started with the 1.9.2/1.9.3 series rather than the ancient 1.8.7.
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My limited experience is that Facebook ads, for whatever reason, don't end up costing that much, whereas it's easy to piss tons of money away with Adsense. So I'm happier with the former.
It's close to that, but not quite. Android is a bit more centralized, so apps are pretty much guaranteed to work on all versions of Android, while on Linux you need different packages for different distros and so on.

But I do think Google could do a lot more to centralize and standardize the platform and the app ecosystem.
Ask HN: Location-Based File Sharing
Outside of conventions, conferences, and meetings, what other use cases do you see for this Location-based file sharing product? www.doccaster.com
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The guys that do World of Warcraft? Really? This is troll bait isn't it? I'm being troll baited right now.
I click on Facebook ads FAR more often than I click on Google ads. Actually, I don't remember the last time I clicked on a Google ad. Whereas Facebook shows me things I'm interested in all the time.

Anecdotal, but that seems to be what we're doing in this thread.
You can't copyright RESTful APIs as a class, just like you can't copyright leather-bound books as a class. You can only copyright a specific expression of an idea or collection of ideas. The novel printed inside the leatherbound book is copyrightable, and I would argue strongly that Basecamp's API is also copyrightable and should be copyrightable.

It was possible at one point to patent RESTful APIs, but no longer.

It's not clear to me how declaring APIs copyrightable impacts a startup in the slightest, except of course that their own APIs are copyrightable and they will be prevented from parasitically cloning competitors' APIs.

P.S. There is in fact an company who has cloned Basecamp's API so they could instantly work with all the Basecamp Add-ons and more easily convert Basecamp customers to their own.
It's too bad debtorrent hasn't taken off. It won't happen until it's made available by default.
"Never listen to people who try to make beginners feel like losers."

I didn't see anywhere in Jeff's post where he was saying he wanted to make beginners look like losers. What he is saying is that it isn't necessary for everyone to learn how to code, that a lot of people seem to have a passing interest in it but aren't really serious about it. His example is the fact that Mike Bloomberg is using it as a cheap political stunt, that his time as Mayor would be better spent accomplishing other things. Now, that's somewhat a matter of opinion, maybe Mike Bloomberg really is serious about wanting to learn how to code, but somehow I doubt it. This is a far cry from Jeff wanting to make people feel like losers.

"He's telling other people's kids to not learn to code. He's telling adults who want to improve their lives, or just learn something new. He's telling people from other professions that no, programming won't help them. Why? Why would Jeff tell people to quit and just let the professionals do this? Because of resentment."

That's a complete assumption, in no way backed by anything Jeff said. I didn't see any "resentment" in that post, but you can read into anything you want and make any wild assumptions you want, as long as it makes your post more sensational.

He's not saying that your's or anyone's kids shouldn't learn how to code, he's saying that he doesn't see it as a basic skill we should be teaching children, along with reading, writing, and math. I don't necessarily agree with this, but I get where he is coming from and I'm not going to grossly exaggerated Jeff's position just to make my point.

So, yah, maybe Jeff is wrong, but you're post certainly didn't address what he was actually saying.
To be fair, titles should give some idea of what's in an essay or post. If you use a linkbait headline is it that unreasonable to address the more ridiculous point made by the headline?
Yes, because you have never written a post with an incendiary title.
The market does not think. It is neither efficient nor rational.

If the stock market is about the future, then how do you interpret Goldman Sachs' share price of $235 in November 2007?

1 year later it fell to $53.

A company's share price will tell you nothing about the actual financial stability or future of the company.
It's plain HTML5. That scrolling behavior isn't a freebie. The scroll bar you see is actually for an empty div. There's an attached scroll event handler that they're likely using to run the animation.
Doesn't matter. Parent post made no mention of what type of AK-47 they were using and where. The fact remains, AK-47s can be full-auto thus are capable of putting out more rounds faster. If you would like to go with the assumption that the parent post was referring to only a semi-auto AK-47 (in the US?) then we can certainly agree that it would not mess up a deer any more or less than a traditional hunting rifle. I'm cool with that. ;)
In this case, any fluffing recruiting agencies do actually works in favour of good software developers.

You could make a claim that if the salaries weren't pumped by the recruiters, the employers could hire more people, but by all accounts lack of jobs isn't currently a problem for good developers.
Clever hack of the legal system? Good luck. A similar argument was tried in the old days of ITAR v. Crypto and it never worked.
I can honestly say I learned far more about critical thinking in a single Intro to Philosophy class than all of my CS coursework combined.
it seems they have bgp route propogation problems - in the last few hours all the routes to their IP range (194.71.107.0/24) have been removed from global routing tables.

Their uncached DNS still points to addresses in those ranges, so it's unlikley to be deliberate migration - more likley hardware failure, accidental misconfiguration, or blocking by their only upstream provider.
Hmm,

I just realized that the only way in which Jeff's argument has value is the context of a large organization with managers relating to programmers.

That is, managers should not take the view that their learning to code is going to make them better managers of programmers. It just makes them capable of second guessing their programmers, not really that useful. Even here, its not really that you shouldn't know how to code but that you shouldn't assume that some small or large acquaintance with coding lets you quibble with a structure someone else has taken months to work out. But even here, it might seem like the "skill" required is "not knowing how to program" but really it's not second guessing someone (with enough ego or desperation, a completely unskilled manager may second guess you too and then things get nasty).

So that's what might inspire this unfortunate rant. But the rant itself is just plain wrong.
Yes. Make sure to adjust using cost of living info. Try my high-salary recipe if you like:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2309405
Blamer should have been gone a long time ago. They have lost some real visionaries because of him and lost site of what they are in the market to provide.
I love the idea of it. As a new startup, and and all learnigns around customer development are HUGELY valuable.
So, the best way to set up Rails on Windows is not to set up Rails directly on Windows, but in Linux VM.

Maybe it's not such a bad thing.
Entirely wrong analogy. The order counter is the interface, and the menu is the documentation.
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Thanks for taking the time to check out the app and give feedback!

Tasks should have persisted across sessions, but when I changed from the "beta" to "live" URL I forgot to update the cookie settings. It should work now.

I had thought about using local storage, but opted instead for a "guest key" stored as a cookie that ties to the tasks in the database. It's definitely important for tasks to never disappear, one way or another.

Thanks again!
Ask HN: Most common motives to adopt difficult technology and would you do that?
= Background:

I have an idea to bring Semantic Web [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web] & Linked Data [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_Data] into mainstream by creating a platform/marketplace for consumer (from ordinary users to small-medium businesses and beyond) applications. Technology proof-of-concept that this is possible to do is mostly ready.

However, one of the corner stones of such product would be technology adoption by developers, which is not very mainstream or well known. Couple of buzzwords: RDF [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework] or Turtle [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_(syntax)], SPARQL [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARQL], XML & XSLT. Below all this would be code in Java or PHP, probably other languages as well.

My main traction point for app-authors would be a continuous revenue stream (read - customer subscriptions) for them. Which, in theory, should create quite a big income for app-authors, given that they adopt technology early and their application(s) are well made & customers continuously like them. As a platform vendor I would try to lead app-authors through this endeavor in new technology.

= Question:

Is money big enough incentive to try new technology on a new platform/marketplace? What would motivate you more/less to try it out?

P.S. I would like to start a healthy discussion about this (or the topic in general) instead of providing fixed set of answers. Thank you!
Facebook excels at advertising things people don't search for (and thus for brand advertising as well).

Google excels at advertising things people do search for.
A candidate who accepts a job offer based on salary they "could" get a couple of years down the road has no one to blame but themselves.
30 million is a drop in the bucket in their marketing budget.

You'd think so, but apparently not, if they're making a big stink over pulling a $10mil marketing campaign. Apparently, $10mil matters to them.
https://www.dotcloud.com/pricing/pricing-faq/ – $1/10MB of RAM per month.
These are the average _starting_ salaries.
Miro tried to make it popular, by using it to download periodical video episodes (like news) updated using RSS with .torrent attachments.
Thanks so much for your kind words :)
Wait a minute, slow down. There's a real difference, a big one that seriously matters. I live in Canada. Stealing is a crime. You can face jail time, a permanent criminal record, and be removed from society for a very long time if you are found guilty of stealing.

None of that can happen to you if you pirate an album. Framing the issue to make it sound like you can be a criminal facing time in jail for downloading an album is absurd. It's very far removed from reality and builds a culture of hatred and fear that is not actually present.

Stealing and pirating music are very different things. It's wrong to talk about them as though they are the same. That's the only point I'm trying to make.

Pirating digital content is wrong. It's an issue that urgently needs attention. I'm not trying to justify the actions or call out in support of pirates. I am trying to make sure everyone knows that "stealing" has an important legal definition that is irrelevant to pirating music.
The better educated you are, the more likely you won't consider GM to begin with .

(purely a guess based on anecdotal evidence ... the only guy I know with a Cadillac STS was a guy who only has high school and was a well-compensated salesman; but even he is now driving Audis)
Remember that they don't have just one brand on Facebook. For example, they have 1.3 million followers on their Chevrolet page. They have 1.1 million for Cadillac. 400k for Buick. 660k for GMC. 525k for OnStar. 350k for their "TeamChevy" Chevrolet racing page. Now, there's sure to be some overlap there; but that's still easily 2 or 3 million followers.

That's a factor of 10 more than you were estimating; and that's just based on a quick poll of brands that I took a look at.
Who is to say that GM didn't pull ads from Facebook so they could short sell the Facebook stock and earn their $10 million back? Why not?
This seems like it could have easily been a bug. I don't think that SocialCam is intentionally deceiving their users.
Perhaps Facebook is populated by more intelligent discerning users than I had imagined!
You could also say that you get 6-12 months to develop for the new version once it's launched, without the users crying foul for not getting it early.
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Good luck hitting a whitetail at 400 yards with one of those.
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Facebook's root problem is intent. Users who are googling something and seeing AdWords ads are looking for something and often the thing they're looking for shows up as an ad so they - suprise! - click the ad and often become a conversion once on the site.

With Facebook there is zero helpful intent. The only intent when you're on Facebook is to use Facebook. And if you do click an ad, you're less likely to become a conversion because your intent is still to get back to Facebook as soon as possible and see the rest of Dave's party photos or whatever.
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I also think math classes could be better if they were built around an interactive interpreter.

perhaps all sciences?
End users want that the damn thing do what it is supposed to do

Which often requires programming, in some form or another. The need for end-user extensibility is documented¹, and remember that VisiCalc was one of the reasons for the uptake of the PC.

¹ http://ccs.mit.edu/papers/CCSWP181/
2nd this.
Even both were out of the way: where will you deploy? Heroku? EC2? Your own server somewhere else? Chances are high that it will be Linux, so its great to start with it.
The calculator might assume that your goal is to have a non-overweight physique, so that if you tell it your goal weight is 290, it will assume that you're shooting for a pretty lean 290, not an obese 290. Naturally it recommends more calories for someone who is lean at 290 as opposed to someone who is lean at 190.

For example, suppose it assumes you'll have 15% body fat at your goal weight. If you told it your goal weight was 290 as opposed to 190, it would factor in 85 addition pounds of lean body mass and recommend extra calories to sustain that lean body mass. The article says something different: that the same person lean at 190 will gain less weight from an extra 10 calories per day than the same person obese at 290.
Your blog post blames a bug on Android fragmentation, but it sounds like it was your fault. You were not calling Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory(), which is the portable way of accessing the storage area where users saves file via USB mount.
Neither is it entirely non-efficient nor non-rational.

Obviously, the stock market isn't about the actual future -- nobody knows that.

It's about the expected future, calculated in a pure informational way.

The price = the market's overall evaluation of all currently available information. Obviously it's not perfect, but the point is that if you know better, then you ought to be in investing, not programming, because you'll make a lot more money.
That would be very odd considering the large number of brand new GM cars and trucks I keep seeing...
This is also like saying that making food widely and cheaply available encourages overeating which causes obesity, which is bad, so we should ration food.
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Do they implement it properly, e.g. <video src="torrent:..."> or is is just for downloading?
I find it courageous to write a web app that competes in such a crowded market such as task management. I'm not saying it's impossible to find a spot there, but it's certainly difficult.

In order for hesitant users to start using it, perhaps it would be useful that you could easily get back to it. Perhaps by picking an easy-to-remember URL for your list?

Also, I'd decide early in the product development process whether you want to target advanced users or a more broad audience. I'd ask for shortcuts, labels, sublists, ... but that's not what other type of users would necessarily appreciate.
I've actually been interested in a handful of things I've seen as Facebook ads. They are generally things that I didn't know existed, wasn't actively shopping for, and sure as heck wasn't searching for. Example: http://www.mushroomnetworks.com

If anyone is going to get any sort of value out of the wealth of information I've given away about myself, it's going to be the person who opens my eyes to something new and awesome that speaks to my... unique tastes.

GM can't really be new or awesome anymore, and that's OK.
That's funny, given that your entire article betrays a spectacular lack of reading comprehension on your part.

Hint: other people's articles, just like yours, consist of more than a title.
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Clickable: http://dailydo.it/

Looks nice and clean. I might use this.

PS: I like your HN handle. Mine should have been Michele but it was taken and I was not clever enough to think to add an underscore or some such.
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Although I agree with your post in general terms, I want to highlight is not great content gets seeded, its popular content. There is a diference. Specially since great old content decreases in popularity.
My experiences with gmail are very positive. I have about about 10GB of mail across 4 gmail/apps accounts with about 100k messages, and the performance is almost always instant (search, send, read, file). Furthermore if I travel to the other side of the world (which I do 3-4 times a year) then it continues to offer a quality level of service.
I've never seen any in-house system get close to what I get from gmail.