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Yeah, they should be more like Apple and make it so you can install whatever you wan... oh wait...
I would say that's a bad case of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity - but unfortunately not even a well-written one.

Fun fact: the wikipedia article contains a link to Littlewood's law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littlewood%27s_law), another lesser-known piece of trivia
Thanks! We were starting to create our own custom knobs for our site (verelo.com). This saved us a lot of time. We'll definitely be contributing back.

Thanks!
I see what he's trying to do but this just seems like a ton of extra "boilerplate" code when you're trying to make an app.

I'd rather spend extra time tracking down where I've used the is_done field if I later change it to a status, than spend all this time writing a manager for every query I do. Unit tests help with catching it if you've missed somewhere.

On the other hand, if you have an extremely complicated query, then this might make sense. Maybe he chose that example for illustrative purposes but it's not really the kind of thing he's recommending you use this for?
> at that time was the most standards-compliant

Nope, IE5/Mac was better.
> Safari testing on Windows is "hard". For whatever reason Safari on Win can produce different outcomes than on Mac.

FYI, all browsers can and do. That happens on Firefox and Chrome as well (though maybe less regularly)
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What, a Microsoft vs. Netscape war? Impossible!
Well said, I'm a co-founder from Verelo.com - we knew each other for a couple years. I can't imagine doing a start-up with a stranger... it'd never last. The amount of things that come up, and the stress... you need someone you know well. It's a roller coaster of a ride
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Fiber is a hot buzzword right now. Let's rewrite Node.js in Lua and rename coroutines to "fibers" for extra hipster cred.
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The idea of a (widely adopted) Facebook OS really scares me...
The main point raised by the article is spot-on, and I'm ashamed to say that I had never recognised it as an issue before reading it. It applies even more strongly for more complex lookups (possibly involving Q objects), which I've always felt would find a better home in models.py than in views.py. And I too cringe every time I come across the django.db.models.manager source code.

Some thoughts:

The approach goes slightly against the commandment of "there should just be one way of doing it". It's probably best to apply it sparingly, only where there are very clear readability and/or DRYness improvements to be had.

The `PassThroughManager.for_queryset_class(TodoQuerySet)()` bit is a bit intimidating, especially to someone not familiar with django-model-utils. I'd probably take the time to write a `manager_with_queryset(queryset, manager=models.Manager)` function to make things more readable.

When you're trying to convince someone that the way they currently code isn't optimal, it really helps if the code you use to illustrate the current way looks like something your reader is likely to write. The strangely formatted filter chain at the start is thus really off-putting. Instead of adding three disclaimers asking the reader not to focus on the implementation details, why not just write it the way most people would:

todos = Todo.objects.filter(
owner=request.user,
is_done=False,
priority=1,
)

No need to make the current way of doing things seem unnecessarily convoluted, the point you're making still stands. Though I'll admit that when you're forced to throw an .exclude() into the chain, it starts looking a lot like your example.
Hey Michael, Cmd + X selects and removes the current line where your cursor is... but, it overwrites anything you have in the copy buffer
I can't agree more. Always wrap your ORM with your own logic that makes sense to you and your application. You'll find code reuse will go way up, readability will go way up, testing is easier. You can actually test the model without bootstrapping the whole app. I've been preaching this in my SqlAlchemy talks and tutorials for years.
That was the only sentence in the article that didn't make sense to me at all. But the rest sounds quite logic to me.

When VC descend down to Angel rounds and Angels are substituted by incubators and accelerators I can completely understand that some angels take break.
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However, there are tonnes of business people and not enough talented programmers.

What I see is:

* Tons of business people, not enough talented business people

* Tons of developers, not enough talented developers

... the thing is that it's hard for talented developers to spot talented business folk among the throng. It's also hard for talented business folk to spot talented developers.

I understand rants like this. I meet a lot of folk who don't have much of a clue about how much effort is involved on the development side.

The thing is - if you go talk to the business folk - they have just as many horror stories of developers letting them down, not putting the work in, producing shoddy work, etc. Developers that come to them with what they think is a wonderful product - with no idea about their market or channels. The folk who think "sales" are just idiots who cold call people. Etc.

Just a couple of months ago I was helping with a group who had spent £50k with what, to them, looked like a reputable development agency - and they essentially just threw that money away.
I don't remember anymore. What I do remember is that the publication seemed narrow in scope, was published monthly and cost several thousand USD per year.

I also tried the old trick of searching for "unlikely phrases" in the abstract to look for accidental publication online, but didn't find anything.
While this has the attention of some of the best designers, I'd appreciate a real quick look at our logo for criticism, it's here: http://www.verelo.com/images/logo.png (is it using anti-aliasing?)
It's pretty funny... Back in 2003 I worked at a place which couldn't test software on Macs because they had an exclusive procurement contract with Dell.

As things turned out, I bought my first Mac, with my own money, so I could do this kind of testing.

Now today, Macbook Pros are the fashionable thing west coast developers use -- they are pretty nice machines. Except for the fact that they can only be loaded with 8 GB of RAM and for the kind of work I do, that's not enough.

So instead of being able to do the work on your local machine and have no problems with VPN, debuggers, and all that, you need to rent a machine that's $8000 a year in AWS and you don't get the benefit of turning it off when you don't need it because the Ops guy is involved with turning it on and off and god forbid another dev wants to use it and its turned off...
Interesting work. I've been thinking about doing something similar for a long time. I'm not on OSX though and I'm a Perl guy.

Someone once suggested to me an encrypted text file + dropbox. You could use pgp or gpg for encryption. Also Vim 7.3 has blowfish encryption: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Encryption

Obviously an app has the potential to be more convenient and user friendly. But a text file is a very flexible solution.
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>Are Microsoft actively trying to lose customers? Why would we use this OS when there are open alternatives around?

Oh,is that why the iPad is such a big failure compared to Android tablets?

/s
There were many rumours of forthcoming iOS/Facebook integration a while back - but then it all went silent.

I guess they couldn't agree legals, but all we have is speculation.
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I have read before that FB does not make any meaningful revenue from its mobile users. But, Instagram does not generate any revenue either.
> If a car company sells you a car engine that bursts into flames, they're still held liable for damages.

Not forever! Only for 10 years, after that they are no longer responsible. Software is the same way, only the timeframe is much shorter, and there is no set standard.

Although less than a year, like CS5.5 is too short. I would suggest double or triple the usual time between major versions as a reasonable timeframe, in this case that seems to be about yearly, so Adobe should provide support for 2 to 3 years for old versions.
Thanks for that link. I really like krschultz's parent comment and your follow up. Does anyone know how to get a single-page view of that article, though?
Another honest question, are alternative browsers allowed on Chromebooks running ChromeOS?
All that money makes novice entrepreneurs
do funny things, Hartz says. “That relentless
competition coupled with the cash tends to
train entrepreneurs to be far more
aggressive and less focused on things like
measurable results,” Hartz says. “There are
some entrepreneurs who can and should be
aggressive, but they possess a certain type
of pattern recognition, an understanding
about what’s really lifting a business.”

The investment game has got tough. Not only do you need to gamble on an uncertain business model, now you have to compete with a growing investor population. With all the noise and vying investment dollars it is not so a bad idea to sit out and hang on to your past investments.

Unfortunately not everyone has the same portfolio as Hartz....
This is one of the worst listings on Flippa. There's no information at all. No breakdown of traffic over time or by source. Nothing about how the transition to a new owner will be handled. No information about how billing is done and what information, if any, will be transferred to the new owner -- if everyone had to re-subscribe under new ownership most of that revenue is going to disappear. No information about the site architecture and what kind of resources are required to run it. No information about the customer service load generated.

It's like listing a house for sale with no photos, no description, and a fence around the property so you can't go check it out in person either. Just a lot number and a price tag. And we really are talking about the price of a house here...
Ask HN: Please critique our logo.
http://www.verelo.com/images/logo.png (if it shows up on black as its transparent, just check the main site verelo.com)

We think its good, but we've been staring at it for months. Ideally we'd like to a/b test something if its worth the time.
That might be true if by "People" you are reffering to you.
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Hackers can be great at running a business with a bit of effort. Ex: Google founders.

Now show me one "product guy" who's coded and launched a million-dollar site/app.

Both sides view the other as replaceable, only one is right.
It's not a core service for them. It might be running on its own now but at some point it's going to need some attention which means distraction.
Investors want a return on their fucking investment. That isn't just an app built by an asshole engineer who lives in a myopic world. It isn't just a spreadsheet showing projections for growth and a strategy behind it.

Investors want a return on their fucking investment. To get that you need all the parts of your startup working together, and nobody wanking on about being valuable and stupidly and pointlessly generalising the work of others.

Well done on listing a bunch of straw men.

Is it your patchy account session controller?

Is it your user View which specifies Arial before Helvetica in the stylesheet?

etc etc etc.
Amazon shows that even a public company can be highly intransparent. Nobody even knows how many Kindles they sold...
> A lot of website were working on IE only

Oh, that's why Chinese sellers don't respond to complaints about their web site not working in FF. They think you are a lunatic fringe.
Hmmm In IE9 you can switch browser mode to previous versions (back to IE7).

Seems a lot of people on HN are still stuck X years ago when things sucked and they refuse to look at things as they are today, just like you state in your "IE9 might be amazing [...]" comment. That just calls into question, though, your comments on how hard it _is_ to develop for IE. All you have said is how hard it _was_ to develop for IE.

Anyway, I don't buy the whiny bit of "I don't want to do it because it's hard to do." Seems like a cop out and more aimed to justify prejudices.
Has it occurred to you that at least you're legally allowed to virtualise Windows+IE for web development testing? On the Windows side of things, devs aren't even allowed to virtualise MacOS! And you complain about lack of options for Mac developers! Pot calling the kettle black?
He was probably referring to when people were saying that you couldn't make money on the consumer internet, thus not investing, thus leaving a lot of space to those who did. People now are mocking the valuations given to some comapanies, not saying that you can't make money with consumers on the internet... ;)
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Yes, if only Kevin Systrom existed.

Oh, no, wait, your argument is flat out wrong.
+1 on checking out the showcase page. TripLingo has a nice Android app, I would check them out in particular.

Yes, limitations in our abstraction layer is the biggest engineering challenge we face. That's true of any framework that creates a higher level API over the top of an existing API (Rails, Struts, Flex, etc). As the abstraction layer hardens, hardware gets faster, and platforms improve (Android is, IMHO, an inferior platform in terms of UI performance generally, but is getting better)... our performance across the board will improve. It's very usable and widely deployed now, but we know it still needs to get much better.
This is great.. been looking for something like this for quite some time now. It is suggesting locations for meetings between myself and the person I am meeting with... its dead on-- does it use GEO-IP?
Not my style but my opinion doesn't matter here. Its what you guys like and what your customers (TARGET audience) think that matters. As for why its not my style, I don't like the font or the check design in place of the V.
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Wow. And people wonder why software is pirated.
Got a link to the old one's APK file?
Windows 8 can run whatever programs Windows 7 can run.

We're talking about Windows RT here, which is targeted at portable ARM tablets with high battery life. Your legacy app won't run on ARM anyway.
That includes $250MM to dropbox in Q4. Imagine if they had closed in 2012 - the same statistic would show investments up like 40% or 50% quarter over quarter. It also doesn't include angels.
They sure seem to, for Windows RT. That was the point.
I could not install some version of Photoshop on my machine because some old Adobe software was still installed on my machine.

The Adobe person I chatted with told me I had to reinstall my entire OS to install their software.
But... it's from 37Signals!!

How can you possibly need any more information than that?
If I could up vote this twice I would. MS Office 'standards' are one of my biggest complaints about tech implentations in both government and enterprise. I would prefer PDFs or even just text files.
I'd like to get my start-up (Verelo.com) using this, but its more suited for technical/IT guys.. is this something that would fit in? We've been mostly going with places like Heroku Apps, Wordpress plug-ins, etc.
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And yet Microsoft did have the best engineers in the world.
And Bill Gates was also a software engineer.
> Now today, Macbook Pros are the fashionable thing west coast developers use -- they are pretty nice machines. Except for the fact that they can only be loaded with 8 GB of RAM and for the kind of work I do, that's not enough.

All 15" MBPs from Early 2011 onward support 16GB of RAM. It's not documented, but they do.
The whole situation also reminds of me of how Apple never got in trouble for doing the exact same thing with Safari in iOS in spite of the iPad dominating the tablet market.
Ha! Tell that to Zynga and Groupon - not exactly paragons of transparency and accountability during their IPOs.
It seems you missed the part where he said "hire someone to handle it".

That someone doesn't need to be in the same office.

I personally would happily take that role - I'm on a different continent and won't ask for their phone number.
I agree - It's not that people aren't using Facebook mobile, it's that they can't monetize Facebook mobile. I'm not sure how buying Instagram fixes that.
I can understand not supporting anything <IE9 but it currently doesn't make sense to target away from a browser that follows majority of the standards. Microsoft has already said sorry for the shitty browsers in the past and they have done a pretty good job with creating IE9 (minus the compatibility mode). I find just as many bugs in Chrome/Safari/Firefox as i do in IE9.
Since so many are complaining about the difficulty of developing/debugging in IE here is a couple of links that should make it easier for you

Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=1835...

VPC Images for XP/IE6, Vista/IE7, Win7/IE8, Win7/IE9 - you can import the images to VMware and VirtualBox
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=1157...

MS Script Debugger and how to
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2004/10/26/247912.aspx

Detecting Memory Leaks
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2007/11/29/tools-for-dete...

VS Express (free)
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-ed...

Firebug Lite
http://getfirebug.com/firebuglite

I'm sure there are more some where...
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It's a tough call for the company. They don't make money on old versions of Photoshop, they make money on selling the current version. Engineers may have long since all been assigned to working on the current version or later, or even switched companies. So if the fix required significant work you'd have to make some current product schedule slip to go fix an old product used by people who haven't bought the latest version and may never buy again. Do you put your resources into supporting your current and future buyers or put your resources into supporting old buyers who haven't upgraded and may not, just on the off chance it helps your reputation, and you get more buyers in general...it's an extra step of indirection that may lose the internal support to redirect the resources to fix the problem.
The core platform is free and open source. Paid subscriptions cover support and access to proprietary add-on modules. Pricing is unclear on the website, I'm sorry that it still has "contact sales" - but we're still finalizing pricing around per-app support, cloud services pricing, and module access. Will get REAL info out there ASAP, sorry :(
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no point. just offering a suggestion.
And yet, it makes me lose immense trust in their company. Why should I buy the current version if I'll just have to update from a security exploit in one or two years?
I'm not sure if it's what Udo meant, but the date/time widgets are in this vein. Actually, a knob that functioned like those widgets would be quite interesting.
I didn't know of his background, so I googled. He learnt to code while he was working a job and his first startup came later? Anyway, he doesn't seem to have done much of interest before his first startup.

The question rephrased: Show me a guy who has gone from being a success in management/finance to having a startup idea and then writing code for it (I think this is a fair equivalent of coder with no business experience founding a company and then continuing to run it when it becomes very profitable)
I prefer the ISO than the images for Windows 8 Consumer Preview => http://windows.microsoft.com/en-CA/windows-8/iso
“Everyone is competing for the same people, going after the same real estate, the same support services,” Hartz says. “The natural resources of the startup world are getting scarcer and scarcer, and the cost is getting higher and higher. It’s all an outgrowth of an abundance of capital.”

And largely still doing this in just a few square miles in California. Are investors so emotionally tied to one geographic area that long-term investing in other areas of the US is strictly verboten? Techstars and other programs should be demonstrating there's 'natural resources' outside of California, no?
Especially the one's that use Goog for web search! ;-P
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Did you investigate writing a PHP extension at all? I'm not sure what the speed difference would be, but most people I know say that the PHP interpreter is too hairy to really work with.
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Yeah, true. I spend too much time on Hacker News and not enough time on thedailywtf.com I guess :-) It's easy to think everyone is skilled or, at the very least, interested - and forget that a lot are just monkeys slinging code.
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True, if that's the only value someone presumes the other party is bringing, that's a problem. OTOH, I think people undervalue the value of a tech/dev's network - including developers themselves.
I'm Honduran. Zelaya was going against the constitution when he decided to be re-elected on a third consecutive term, without the vote of the people. As stated somewhere else, he was bringing over rigged votes from Venezuela.

The current president is not the result of a military coup. After Zelaya was overthrown (without violence), the military set up an interim government with a temporary president. He was president until democratic elections took place. We all voted and chose our current president (at least the majority).

I really pity how the rest of the world views this as a coup and say that our current government is not a valid one. Thanks CNN.
Yes, easily.

Take day rates for average/good Java, Ruby on Rails are at around 700+ EUR in Europe and in the US around 900 USD => 900 day rate x 20 days a month x 11 months (one month off for vacation etc) = 198 K

and demand for good Java and Ruby devs is endless ...
> The product guy, on the other hand, is the DNA of the company. He forms the vision, culture, management.

Actually, culture and management are just as likely to come from the engineering side.

As to product vision, if you really think that it's always solely from the "product guy"....
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Not entirely, we do a bit of natural language checking for partial addresses in the location field of your meetings and make some assumptions, but the better the location the easier for us to geo-code :)
Microsoft's virtual machine images work great in VirtualBox. It's a bit of a PITA setting them up manually, but it's very easy with the installer shell script at https://github.com/xdissent/ievms#readme
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