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Just finished a Struts 2/Spring app. Hey, I had to cover tuition somehow.

The biggest problem with the entire stack is that every piece would rather overengineer a solution to a small part of the problem, instead of giving us a simple solution for the whole thing.

Look, just have a stock web.xml, and don't touch interceptors. Instead, put together a single, coherent system for dispatching a URL to the right object, and the same for security requirements. If you need more, abstract once, there for the URL. That's it.

After months of reading through crap documentation (Hibernate, I'm looking at you), it's obvious that the frameworks are 90% of the problem, and your actual set of requirements are the last 10.
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Interestingly, 2-4 people per office on a small team == an open office plan.

Everyone says that Peopleware advocates private offices (e.g. 1 per person), but their main problem seems to be with cube farms.
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I think the problem is more structural. All of USPTO's funding comes in the form of patent applicant fees, so they have an incentive to let us many through to encourage others to file ridiculous patents as well. The way the system is set up its really not in their interest to act as an effective judge.
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Thanks for the feedback.

It's just so...damn... hard to lose features.
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Yes I assumed this, and I can understand where the sentiment is coming from. But if it's a comment that is still imparting an opinion/viewpoint, i.e., it is actually saying something, then I think a little editorial freedom in terms of the commenter's on-topic humour should not be seen as dragging the site down towards digg/reddit etc.

I actually wouldn't have bothered even replying to the guys comment except that this is an issue that has irked me about this site for a while. Humour - by and large and in the right proportion - gratifies my (and I think many people's) "intellectual curiosity". Some here should take a chill pill when it comes to being the humour police.
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How about making a paste bin for screenshots?
You could simply pay them for a day of work.
PlentyOfFish.com comes to mind because of recent buzz.
Never got the chance to die in one.

You better believe that's what he was thinking about the whole time. Who wouldn't?
See, I think this question isn't as actionable as you might think it is. It is like saying "Do you know of anyone who dropped out of high school to play professional basketball and made it to the NBA?"

Yes, I do. I still really wouldn't suggest you try it. The countries' stoops and prisons are covered with was-a-sure-thing-to-go-pro. And the Internet has several million sites already hunting for that six figure AdSense check. (While boring little niche websites with subscriber numbers smaller than many people's Facebook friends list can be ramen profitable within weeks or months of launch.)
One that come to mind that might be making a profit: Mint.com
Maybe I've just gotten lucky with Dreamhost, but I've never seen the sort of problems that some people describe there. From right now:

top - 20:19:31 up 122 days, 10:00, 1 user, load average: 1.03, 1.78, 2.08
Definitely go with a MacBook. Seems perfect for you
20-30% annually? Nice.

I'm a one-man startup working to solve problems in the clinical trial and research space. The sheer number of problems can be somewhat distracting and the rules daunting, but there are a lot of doctors out there with money to throw at solutions. It is amazing.

Am I profitable? Not yet. Obviously, I'm missing some necessary traits (read: co-founder.)
there are a _ton_ of patents issued to "inventions" that aren't even developed yet.

That is in the current climate of not legally needing to reduce an invention to practice. If, instead, patent-seekers were required to actually produce working copies of their inventions (reduce to practice), we might see them regularly do that before the critical dates. I believe that that was how it was traditionally done, until recent times.
If it offered nothing better than your house then it would deserve to fail.

The point would be to offer things to your fledgling business that your house couldn't because you can't afford them or don't have the skill or time to setup, some ideas suggested above.

Or perhaps a lawyer, accountant, graphic designer, available at regular times. Perhaps a stack of servers ready for hosting virtual machines that you can make use of. Perhaps a place to work away from your house for a bit. Perhaps a social gathering spot.
For extra money (last gen ones).

The $949 model I mentioned that is refurb has a DVD-Burner.
Pretty much every web publishing company aims to make money from advertising and yes many do actually make a profit. Perhaps you have not framed your question as intended.
Thanks for the suggestion, it's just financially painful compared to a natively compatible hackbook or other idea.
As soon as a windows laptop cracks 1k, it's macbook buying time I'm afraid.
Which graphics chip?
In our capitalist society we have a pyramid shaped distribution of income. For a good portion of history, a college education has meant a place in the top triangle. However, there are only so many spots in that triangle. That is precisely why the cost of a college education will no longer (necessarily) pay for itself in future income. Wages are based on a person's relative skill, and if the whole country has a degree, than it doesn't end up differentiating anyone. Which is why the cost is now seemingly overpriced.

If we really need college degrees for everyone, then there is no choice but to go the high school route and fund it publicly.
Public service announcement to anyone who ever finds themselves writing like this: You will notice how seldom developers go to forums and say "Dang it, I have a bank account with five to six figures to commit to a project and recent expert-level experience with designing complex $FOO systems but I really need an idea for my next application. If you can provide the idea, I'll do all the work and then we can split it 50-50."
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You will have a freeloader problem - bunch of dudes hanging out and doing nothing. So then you will have to screen them somehow and have an eviction process. Slowly you will morph into a Y-combinator clone. :-)

One great advantage of this idea is ability to bump into other like-minded people, which is the primary benefit of going a university. On this aspect the idea has potential.
Bugsy, is your killer idea pink & yellow polka dot tamagotchis?
Agreed. Find a mac addict on craigslist who bought one right before the new ones came out. Spend 50 bucks at crucial to max out the memory to 4GB. Mmmm. Tasty memory.
I will work harder was the motto of the horse in Animal Farm. It didn't win.
It's not that simple. There just isn't a lot of people working on the OS X x86 situation. There was one guy making tons of progress single-handedly, but he disappeared.

There just isn't much in the way of progress. The only people out there making any (somewhat) progress is the macvidia team and they're still fundamentally reliant upon Apple's willingness to support a given chip for the Mac Pro.

It's not a matter of time if no one cares.

The problem is that people either already own a mac and don't care about people who can't afford one, or they don't care about using the OS.

I love the hardware, I really really do, but I'm not dumping that kind of money into a machine. It's not feasible on my income (meager).
you obviously want a mac, so just get a mac. you aren't going to regret it.
The last-gen $999 model for sale at the Apple Store right now contains a DVD burner. But I couldn't see getting the last-gen. $300 more and you get a big upgrade. If you keep it a while, you'll never go back and wish you had the $300.
I came to write the same thing. I tend to use one space when posting in a forum like this but two spaces when I write a paper for class.
Egads, I love textmate. Another reason I want a mac. That and darkroom and a multitude of other apps. :|

I'll poke around ebay and see if I find anything worthwhile.
some businesses that might fit the criteria are LinkedIn, digg (profitable without growth investments), gawker media, and techcrunch

that said, i consider advertisers, investment professionals, and hr recruiters "users"
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Well, their primary applications, such as AutoCad and Revit, only run on Windows. They own roughly 80% of the world market in these cad applications.
I highly recommend the last gen macbooks. I have a second to last gen one and it's a great computer besides the fact that it can only address 3gb of ram. I've recently upgraded to the new unibody macbook which is an amazing machine, but a little beyond your price point of $1000
Which makes this none the easier. :P
Most are recommending that I either get a lastgen mac or the current-gen. The current-gen is quite an upgrade, and it seems that I might just sell off some stuff to make up the difference and get a current-gen. There's just too much great software on OS X for me to pass up.
Um, that was fiction.
That element is for navigation so it's not awful to have it all set off. I don't see it as a design issue so much as GitHub just missing the common sense feature of having a link to all your repositories.
I can't believe no one has referenced Skitch yet. If you haven't tried skitch out, you owe it to yourself to do so. Super easy to grab screenshots, resize / crop, add arrows and annotation, and post online.
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Hooey. Electric cars didn't disappoint, they're sill conceptually nice, beautiful, performant and desirable:

http://www.lightningcarcompany.co.uk/gallery.php
Good company values a la Netflix
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15.4" Lenovo Thinkpad with the WUXGA+ display really really provides valuable screen real estate for code
consider adding an exponential delay for subsequent retries.

this way you only punish the guilty (forgetful), not everyone and their brother.
I'm sure there's more. E.g. http://www.softwareqatest.com/qatfaq1.html#FAQ1_3
The problem [is] the patent applicants themselves who do not disclose the prior art in their own applications. [...] Patents can and often are invalidated for the patentee's failure to include prior art; in fact, it is the leading cause of patent invalidation.

That seems to differ from this:

http://robertplattbell.blogspot.com/2009/01/prior-art-search...

Why would I need one?

The simple answer is, you don't. There is no requirement to search the Prior Art for previous inventions. And increasingly, many folks are shying away from searching. If you do have a search done, however, you are required to cite the referenced discovered to the Patent Office, should you later file a Patent on the same invention.
Maybe I'm wrong here, but what good is a laptop to a .NET developer if it doesn't have ethernet? Do you mean the wired card doesn't work, but wi-fi still works?
You may find it amusing to 'surveil' your Dominoes pizza.

But what if Dominoes did the same to you? This is a short animation by the ACLU, imagining a zero privacy society.
http://www.aclu.org/pizza/index.html?orgid=EA071904&MX=1...
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He does, which is highly bothersome to me.
First, before I suggest anything else, I feel obligated to tell you what my real advice is -- sell every piece of sports and computer ware you are not going to use in the next three months, and if that is still not enough, get a part time job of some sort. The sooner you get a job the less you will have to compromise your startup efforts; try tutoring if your ability allows it, or seek some other position with flexible hours. Apply at Starbucks if necessary, and view it in as positive a light as possible -- if Thomas Edison could sell newspapers on a train and Lincoln split logs then you can pour coffee or whatever.

That said, have you considered prosper.com ?

If you were to post your loan request there, and then post here refering to it, perhaps you could get a number of HN folks to put up small amounts. It might be easier to convince 100 people to put up $50 each than to get one person for $5,000.

At one time I was quite interested in that model of lending, and I lent a small amount of money out over the site. I got all of it back with the interest. I only invested in businesses that sounded interesting, and only when the owner would message with me and tell me about it . . . I thought it might be a way to meet potential customers or clients, but mostly it was just enjoying hearing about other people's attempts to make money, not all that different from reading HN.

Nevermind, I was just reminded by someone that Prosper is not accepting new loans right now.

So I guess I advise getting the job.
Relatedly: You will also notice how seldom developers say "You know, while previously I've worked with very technical clients who write detailed specifications, generally costing tens of thousands of dollars and several man months to draft, just this once I want to try interpreting three sentences jotted onto a napkin with a ketchup stain on it. It should be fun!

P.S. Please make sure your napkin includes at least two technologies you will require me to use, so I know you're not one of those silly clients who would leave critical details like what database to use for a high-availability system to the guy with experience in writing high availability systems. Honestly, those kinds of clients are the worst -- no wonder they have to pay me to work for them."
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Try Lendingclub, it's similar to prosper and you will probably get a loan.

-M
Hulu.com is making money hand over fist.
Well over the mac price point. Nice machines, but not as well built as they used to be.
I'm working on a startup.
You know what would be neat? A service like Paypal where you could sign up for 30-day trials for things, and it would automatically cancel the trial on day 29.
A micropayment is less than $0.01 USD. Otherwise, it's just a "payment."
This article has already been posted here.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=431063

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=430577

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=431995

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=432996
Thanks for a great read, I was recommended this essay by a good friend of mine, and it was time well spent!
I actually think the PHP/MySQL thing isn't the craziest thing in the world to ask for; if he's smart, he probably doesn't care at all about PHP so much as he cares about the kind of developer he's going to get with that request.
google
:-)
let's not mix users and customers.
I'm not sure. Are you trying to say that your original comment was somewhat tounge-in-cheek and I misunderstood because of my lack of familiarity with your "OoO" emoticon? If so, then yes it is better, thank you. If not, then no it isn't.
http://esciencenews.com is profitable 7 months after launch, with only some ads on the backend where most users dont see them, and i put the ads there a month ago.
How's fusion?
Folks, the really great thing is that "Bugsy" is going to get even more than he bargained for.

For every sucker who (mistakenly) thinks he can get free labor out of hobbyists, there are a hundred hobbyists who (mistakenly) think their labor has a positive value.

(The not- and less-mistaken PHP hobbyists are all cranking away on open source projects.)
Hmm, to be honest, I personally don't care about the language used in apologizing for problems caused by downtime - downtimes happen to even the most technically savvy of companies (Google + Gmail anyone?) so really, this is like pissing in the wind.

Also as was mentioned on the first comment, 37signals has used almost those exact same words they're condemning in this blog post. I'm not going to say they're hypocrites... but the evidence is pretty compelling.

http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/698-downtime-notice
"We deeply apologize for any inconveniences this may have caused"

&

http://37signals.blogs.com/products/2007/11/downtime-explan....
"We apologize for any inconvenience this downtime caused your business."

I'd much rather a company that operates services for 24 hours a day to be able to let people know of the situation as it happens instead of apologizing profusely about it the next day in personalized language.

That's just me though.
This may not be popular, but, I use HP laptops almost exclusively, I'm a Python and PHP mostly programmer (I have been learning Java for about a year), and I have three HP laptops. A dv2300 pavilion, an HDX 16, and an older one, can't remember series, that still works. They all dual boot windows and linux (sorry, no OSX, just doesn't appeal to me). As long as you can easily add ram and HDD's (one of the reasons apple doesn't appeal to me), almost any mainstream laptop will suit your needs
Genius. I had never thought of education this way.
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Good idea or not: freecycle for domain names
I have two domains that are expiring in a month that I bought thinking something was a great idea. Domain names are inexpensive, so why not? Now it's been a year and I don't really remember why I bought these domain names (pseudoactuality and questionablyvalid, fyi) and I'm not going to be using them for myself. I'd like it if there were a service where I could transfer them for free to someone who wants them. Would that be something worth making?
I enjoyed reading this. I specifically searched for anything pertaining to "when parents lie to kids", and this popped up. I do not have children (by choice), and I have completed a master in education, so I have researched learning theory. I see my sister and her husband lying to their children, and I abhor such practice; children are merely young adults who need to learn efficiently and effectively, so that they may comprehend what it takes to survive independently. I see your point about keeping reality from children until they are learned enough to make their own determinations about when enough is enough with respect to education, yet I still believe that, regardless of the measure of hardened reality to which they are exposed, they are ultimately responsible for their own learning motivation, save for the very early prompts that parents are responsible for instilling in them during the behaviorism years.

I have believed for many years that lying to children about Santa Claus, among other things, causes children to distrust parents and other adults, which is likely not intended by parents, but which is a very real effect of misguiding their concepts by deceit so early. To effectuate a lifelong positive result, parents and teachers should strive to ALWAYS tell the truth, so that the child (young adult) will NOT be shocked later in life by simple, inevitable realities such as death, disease, or inconsistencies in human behaviors. The truth is ALWAYS the best policy at any age. It is too bad that parents are so selfish as to hope or believe that they are doing their children favors by false lights, false hopes, and false expressions. If the truth sets us free, then what are parents doing when they lie, but creating a virtual prison for their offspring?
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If you're a student (it doesn't sounds like you are, but...) you can get the student discount, which can be around ~$200 for most laptops that apple sells. Maybe you know a student who can actually make the purchase for you? Just a thought.
I've used HPs, they feel like they're made of the plastic they make trash cans out of. Keyboards are just as bad. They make me want to cry because I know what kind of hardware HP is capable of making.
The student thing is a good idea, and no I'm not a student. I've already made a post looking for ideas on how to get back into school. :P
You're joking! $70-100?
The word he's looking for is "gestalt". Objects that are grouped together are perceived to be related.

Personally, I would not have put those global navigation links anywhere near the user-specific links. Put global navs next to the GitHub logo, which is the global signifier supreme. All the variations Ryan proposes are merely slight improvements on a fundamentally flawed design. It's like trying to sharpen a spoon when what you need a knife.

The user-specific navigation choices are: all | public | private | sources | forks . You can put these in the upper right block instead.

By the way, you can learn the underlying principles behind this stuff very quickly by flipping through an HCI textbook. Just find a cheap, used copy of a well reviewed textbook online. Ryan's post has nice mockups of a real world example, but barely scratches the surface of the theory. More to the point, he entertains a totally flawed approach all throughout.
Well over the macbook (not mbpro) price point - and for a reason.

I don't think Macbook could ever compare to Thinkpad T61/T500 for some serious development. Ever.

Macbook Pro is another story, with another price tag too :)
That happened to me. At my current job the lead engineer and I have shared a lot of past experience (me:failed entrepreneur, him:talented but bored engineer). After a few months of lunching together he told me we could work together. We will both bring several problems to the table and pick which one to solve. He is the architect. I am the salesman/marketer. Nevertheless I also decided to learn how to code, myself.
I've been happy with it. I've run a variety of operating systems on it, and haven't run into any problems. Other people's mileage may vary compared to mine.

If you want to comparison shop, Parallels and VirtualBox are also options. Others I know have been happy with both, but I haven't played much with either.
This is why I always make a point to ask my attorneys about their experience in seeking preliminary injunctions. Not because they'll necessarily need to on my behalf, mind you -- just so that I know they're not those riffraff legal experts who wouldn't know how to do it if they needed to.

Because, while I'm not a legal expert, I have watched a Law and Order episode or two, and I like using words that I recognize to let them know that they can't just B.S. me with their domain expertise, education, and years of professional experience.
good to see some other people in the same space. I'm at an established small/medium sized company in the health industry. The health stuff is fulfilling and concrete (ie you're really solving someone's problem). There's plenty of scope for "cool stuff".
In this scenario, the longer a company goes without succeeding, the more money they cost you. If the equity cost were recurring it might work, but if the company doesn't steadily grow you'll just consume it all until there's nothing left.

At the end of it all, you'd be left with 100% of a worthless company, and out the cost of all those meals and games. I dunno if your potential successes would offset all that.