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Virtualization Will Help with Acquisitions in 2009
I expect that the current recession will last through all of 2009 and will accelerate the adoption of virtualization technology. Up until now, virtualization--especially x86 server virtualization--has been pushed forward by the huge hardware and operational savings accrued from app server consolidation. Sadly, the consolidation of whole businesses will likely become one of the main drivers of virtualization in the year ahead. For IT managers at acquiring companies, virtualization will become a tool for onboarding IT assets without bringing along old servers, murky networks and a hodgepodge of management tools.
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Something equally impressive is Facebook's growth last month, which was around 21% (according to compete). For a six-year old site as massive as Facebook to experience 20% growth in one month is tremendous.
What kind of connection, like what purpose and what environment?

Edit: Cool name :P
Thanks. It's a bit odd, because I don't think anyone thought SOA would do that much. It's been always vendor-driven. At least it's better than CORBA, the previous monstrosity in that role. But yes, with the recession, there may be an opportunity for something better and cheaper...
It took us four weeks and four rejections to get Borange approved.

The back and forth via email with the App Store people moved at a snail's pace. The most helpful thing was for us to call Apple developer relations people and discuss our issues, despite that developer relations people have no involvement with the approval process.

I heard recently that there a 10 people at Apple working to approve 700 apps a day, including new apps and updates.
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God Or Science?
Additionally, why are email programs not capable of being good RSS feeds, and how is RSS so different from email that the concepts don't apply?

I'm one of the Google Reader crowd. I have a second client (thunderbird) that I use solely for checking internal feeds. Admittedly the Google Reader UI isn't as great as a good desktop client, but it does offer one killer feature, seamless "syncing" between all of the different machines I use on a daily basis.
Because it's the standard installer on Windows and the one that millions of people who just want to use some Java-based funcationality on some website are directed to?
A Tip'd Review of Social Web CMS: SWCMS Is 
A lot of people ask Tip'd what software it runs on; actually, even more commonly, people just assume they use Pligg. But guess what it uses.
This is why Yahoo definitely needs a real shake-up from the top down. This would have made them lots of money and helped grow their service further.
Labor Dept disburses $10M to grant applicants for technology-based learning projects
i prefer framework that helps me crafting shorter code

the last time i used prototype was in 2007, now it's all jquery
Firestorm, sensational, tempest, frenzy... I think the guy's overdoing it a bit.
How much spam qualifies as a ton?
That seems a certain way to get RSI as a kid. Along with programming :-)
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Ask HN: Is this plagiarism or competition?
So I was browsing the internet and found a site that already does EXACTLY what I'm currently working on. It is pretty decently executed, but the project is young and done by a guy in his spare time.

I don't want to cancel my project, so I emailed the developer of the site to ask him if he was interested in collaborating. He politely stated that he only collaborates with his close friends.

I'm 100% sure that I can do a better job and build a site that has a wider feature set and is more rigorous in its approach, especially since I will be working on it full time and will be hiring help.

My problem is that my version 1, at its core, will be EXACTLY like his, but with a little more polish. Is there a more ethical way of going about this or should I just release my product and make a grab at his users?

I was really stoked about my project, then got discouraged when someone else made it. I then got excited to collaborate and the opportunity was denied. I feel like I should just move forward but I don't know if I'm plagiarizing or just surfacing as a healthy competitor.

Your thoughts?
I have found using a lib to process MS document formats from binary is easier then direct XML. The XML formats look more like a memory dump then a marked up document.
anyone have sparknotes for this? Quite the long read :-)
I hadn't thought of that aspect. Being public makes it worse. Personally, I've always appreciated feedback on a website - but in a discussion, I agree it's a diversion that undermines the message (and is annoying). Commenting on blogs are sort of in between those two (really, a discussion if the blogger also comments, as they often do).

Some kind of threaded comments might help. e.g. on reddit, you can compress the joke-thread and the pun-thread, to get to the on-topic commentary. A "typo thread"? Or an explicit "typo" tag (which you could hide from the public, and so disable captcha, if you wanted).

But I haven't seen threaded comments on blogs - maybe they aren't needed? It seems an obvious idea to try.
Then all we need is a picture of a giant black & white TV, 10 feet high, with a zoom in on Duke's face.

"Java Loves You"
Just do it.

You haven't plagiarized anthing, you only became aware of it after having thought up your own idea.

In fact don't even feel bad about it - good artists borrow, great artists steal - Steve Jobs.
Plagiarizing is copying without credit. You're not copying -- you came up with the same ideas independently.

Go for it.
Oh, well. There goes another theory out the window.
I disagree, I thought it was an amazing blog post.

The bottom-line is that you have to entertain online. No entertainment, no visitors. And people aren't entertained when they see a big wall o' text.

If you were even slightly entertained, I'll bet you give his blog another chance next time.

Really, I'm not sure what more he could have said, beyond setting the stage for a grander story.
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/application only sees the most recent available version of the runtime environment that it can run against/

Please, never implement something like this. It's hard enough to validate an app against one set of software versions. I can't think of a single time when implying forward compatibility worked right. DLL Hell on windows, and any time your libraries got upgraded while in the middle of a dev cycle in maven, just makes things hurt.

Just let the application's metadata (e.g. jar manifest) indicate what it wants, and give it exactly that. If we want efficiency, we'll delta-encode different versions against each other. When automated testing is implemented widely enough, and well enough, for us to trust forward compatibility without human intervention, then we can go down that route.
I think it's imperative. From an outsider's perspective, most start-ups look like a bunch of nuts riding the edge of sanity. From the inside, you have to convince yourself that you will succeed.

Yes, it looks a little bit like crazy.
Are you saying that blog posts need to be 5000 words to say something meaningful?
I've never heard that Buddhist story before! Pretty amazing.

Why do you think you picked this life?
You're talking about ordinary desktop applications. For that, a package manager like dpkg and apt-get will work just fine. I thought that the article was talking about applets, which aren't meant to be permanently installed on the local machine. However, they have a dependency on a Java runtime which is installed there. If the designers of Java were a little more forward thinking, they wouldn't have created this dependency. The desktop JRE would be managed by whatever mechanism on the machine, but the applet JRE would be managed separately. The entire thing could be managed by a program implemented in just about any programming language. Let's say it's the 1st version of the JRE. Combine this with a mechanism that effectively sandboxes an applet with whichever version of the JRE it needs or is most compatible with, and at worst, a user will be notified that they need to wait for a download.

In this regard, the designers of Java were thinking like programmers and not thinking of naive end users. Flash does a better job in this regard.
I recently had a game approved and the entire review process took less than 4 days. After it was approved, it took about 6 hours for it to show up in the store.

This was my first app so I figured I'd be waiting at least a few weeks. I was happy (and very surprised) to see it accepted so quickly.

I have no real idea of what causes the varying review times.
But I literally have EVERY feature he has. It's kind of freaky, but it's a very basic site he's put up. His upcoming features also have a huge overlap with mine. He has, however, gotten lifehacker coverage, as well as on a couple of other sites that drive in traffic.

It's a pretty untapped space where even the simplest ideas are a big deal at this point, so I don't want to be charged with ripping him off.

Should I delay my release until there's a substantial improvement on his?
Old media companies will probably die before they change. Then new ones will take their place. Sometimes change must occur through economic selection.
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The alarming thing is, this is less than 10x what the average teenage kid sends: 1750 messages a month. That's one text message every 16.7 waking minutes.
I'm not sure I've ever been that confident on a decent sized project. I'm starting to wonder if it explains a lot of things about me or if its just the latest convenient thing to tell myself :)
the other interesting thing is that a persons perceptions of statistics and the statistics of different situations is all kind of skewed.

the first question is how did psychologists ascertain and normalize someone's perception of the chance of success. the second question is how does the system react now that we know about it.
I've been working on an open source extension to allow this sort of functionality on firefox (all OSes). http://overstimulate.com/articles/search-results-in-firefox

If interested, the code is at http://github.com/anotherjesse/searchy - unfortunately the panel code for Firefox 3 is pretty crappy, and it is too easy to kill X11 responsiveness on linux. (firefox crashes with focus grabbed so you have to switch to another virtual console and kill firefox)
Actually, what you just said is exactly what I'm thinking about. There's no need to depend on forward compatibility, and you would be able to set metadata like "Requires exactly XX.YY.ZZ" Not all applets will be as stringent as that.

Also note that each applet is sandboxed with whatever version of the JRE the system it decides it needs. This gets you out of "DLL Hell." If the metadata is specified correctly, it will be as if the system were custom configured just for the applet. (Actually, there could be multiple applets, and they'd all think the world were made just for them!)
Not every place is bad or treats their employees badly.

It is an interesting opportunity, so I'm trying it on for size.
My life's pretty cushy. I want to know how sucky your options are to choose dieing young in some horrible way. I think if it is a genuine Buddhist belief its purpose is to make you more engaged with reality by accepting it as yours. Probably more worth dwelling on that.
Making Your Valentine’s Day Memorable
Valentine’s Day is a day of celebration for all the youngsters all over the world. It is rather a day of love, joy and romance. Though there are many stories that speak about the reasons behind the celebration Valentine’s Day, the youth around the world are least bothered about it. They just consider it a day of enjoyment and a time to spend some good and romantic time with their girl friends or someone they love the most. It is a time to reveal the love you have for the special ones.
Perhaps, and graphics cards in high end boxes are power hogs (on top of the dual and quad core CPUs...though there's a reason why dual, quad, and more, core CPU came to the server market first, and always have...there are many servers working today that are dramatically larger and faster than even the fastest desktop machine from Dell)...but, servers still run 24/7, while PCs are mostly off or in low power modes for 14-16 hours out of each day. So, a desktop machine could be chewing twice the power per hour of uptime, while still using less overall.

And, of course, servers are a more efficient use of power. A modestly loaded server is doing work for hundreds or thousands of users every day, while a desktop PC is only working for one, maybe a handful if it's a communal machine.

Anyway, I don't know the precise numbers, but I would strongly suspect that the average server is using more power per year than the average desktop computer. Could I be wrong about that? Sure. I don't think I am...but even if I were, it doesn't alter the reality of environmental impact of data centers (though I suspect the production stage may be the computer industries real environmental shame).
The YouTube Government: Why Is YouTube Getting Preferential Treatment?
good ones:

* http://projects.csail.mit.edu/gsb/old-archive/gsb-archive/gs...

* http://projects.csail.mit.edu/gsb/old-archive/gsb-archive/gs...

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Re: Lisp documentation in LaTeX, the author may be referring, for example, to CLtL; see http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/clm/node3.html
To experience life in the upper class of the second to last generation of humanity, Generation Y. It's a learning experience and my post-human soul will have this life added to its knowledge along with all of the other lives it has lived.
Sadly, I was wrong about the choice I did end up making.
Final quote:

"So let me spell out my thoughts explicitly: If success is the carrot, then failure is the stick, and I think we do our best work when we are conscious of both."
My thought is that you haven't described the situation very specifically, but if you came up with an idea for a website with Feature Set {item1, item2, item3, . . . } and did all the coding yourself, you aren't plagiarizing anybody. You're just attempting to solve a problem someone else is attempting to solve too. The users will decide whom to do business with.

Trademark and copyright are distinct issues, but you haven't mentioned anything that would raise a trademark or copyright issue.
Well, that's OOXML. MS chose to employ the pure content model, so that text nodes and elements cannot be mixed as children of a root element. That leads to monstrosities like this (I forgot the actual element names, so I made them up):

<p>
<t>This is not bold.</t>
<t><b>This is.</b></t>
<t>This isn't.</t>
</p>

In a mixed content model schema, you could omit the extraneous <t> elements and just directly embed text nodes:

<p>
This is isn't bold.
<b>This is.</b>
This isn't either.
</p>

That's just one of the many ways in which MS misused XML to make things worse instead of better.
This idea of "..and I think we do our best work when we are conscious of both(success and failure)." has always intrigued me. Do we really need to know the reality of failure?

The explanation I can come up with is that the experience and knowledge of failure gives us an advantage on both sides of the 80-95% spectrum (lets ignore the validity of the numbers for a second). For the times when we feel that our chances our below 80% we get scared and if we had the experience of failure we would be better suited to handle the stress. On the 95% portion I think it keeps you honest by reminding you that you could fail and the consequences if you do.
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My personal blog site reflecting the story of my life. Contains different resources for download; graphics, wordpress themes, pixels, etc.
Its psychology. Interesting as the field is, do you seriously think that that conclusion has any scientific validity?
I imagine that it's related to the holidays.
Business Contacts & Leads Shopping - Pay Per Use Vs Pay For All? 
When it comes to sources of business contacts as leads there are a number of different options. They are among the most valuable commodities in business to business sales and marketing and when you’re out shopping for them, you’ll notice they come in different packages. Pay once for unlimited use - This is the kind of pricing model which needs a one time upfront investment usually in the form of a subscription fee or purchase amount which gives you a years access or an export file of a fairly high volume of business contacts you can use as and when you need to use those business contacts.
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BTW, Aaron's the author of one of the finest books on programming, programming Cocoa/Mac in Objective-C specifically: http://www.amazon.com/Cocoa-Programming-Mac-OS-3rd/dp/032150...

If you've ever wanted to write that little iPhone app, pick up his book and you'll be a pro in few months.
Free Press's 2009 Media & Tech Priorities: A Public Interest Agenda (pdf at bottom)
I don't want to be charged with ripping him off.

Some people will make that claim whatever you do. I wouldn't worry about it too much if I were you.
I like the idea of reading on the iphone or a netbook, but the eyestrain feels like pouring salt in my eyes while pushing on the sockets.
what do ya'll think about couch surfing?
http://www.couchsurfing.com/
"creating a better world, one couch at a time"

not entrepreneurial enough?
...but it would be better if it were.
Yeah, their web rendering is an absolute pain. The site I'm working on is nearly all text, and we've put a lot of focus on making it look beautiful on every OS, every browser. With Windows we had to give up: the only say to get gorgeous typography is to either use SIFR or to make the fonts ridiculously big.
with the recession, there may be an opportunity for something better and cheaper...

Maybe, but I doubt it. When it comes to big companies, there are too many people making money off software development not getting better or cheaper. There's still too much of a culture gap between the execs who write the cheques and competent hackers. This creates opportunity for the incompetent-but-slick to step in as parasites. When I say incompetent, of course, I mean incompetent at software; they're quite competent at getting execs to write cheques. And that would be fine, except they're not adding any value (or at least not any value commensurate with what's spent). In other words, the market is simply inefficient.

Even when competent hackers work for such companies they are paid far less and have far less influence than the slickees. Moreover, the population of the competent is small, so they are drowned out demographically.

It will take a long time before the market rationalizes. I do believe this is happening, but slowly. One economic cycle won't turn it around, but I agree with you that it may help!
This would be very useful hacker news if it was posted before the grants were given when you could still apply. Its just history now.
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Have you tried Kindle reading? It's really in a class of its own.
Google releases The Quick Search Box for Mac
This looks awesome!

Glancing at the documentation I can tell it will easily solve a lot of the reoccurring issues I usually deal with on small projects. I'm definitely going to give it a try.

Thanks!
It's dangerous to think that science can never equal irrational belief.

In fact, most scientific progress begins with a person's slightly irrational belief. The crazies move us forward because they constantly challenge the common wisdom.

That being said, this comment is not a defense of religion.
"the professor covered multiple blackboards with mathematical formulas and explained the principles of Newtonian mechanics and electromagnetism."

Walter Lewin did a lot more than just that.
I did some reading on this. Some practitioners claim they can bring about recovery of severe RSI in 3-5 visits. Does this sound realistic based on your experience?
Android on x86 devices: the fabled Google OS?
It's a hypothesis that's no use in understanding the world.

It really depends on how you define "understanding". If the wonder of existence is such that you cannot believe it is anything but purposely created, so be it. There's nothing that conflicts with science in that belief.
strange ideas about the nature of the world

You mean like string theory?
Yeah, sorry, I forgot any attempt at humour on Hacker News will be assimilated, resistance is futile. o_0
There is some evidence of an unidentified OS being used internally at Google:

http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3788821

It would be interesting if it is actually Android. Could be a silver lining for Motorola now that they are focusing on Android single-mindedly:

http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/11/motorola-laying-off-thron...
I find plenty of quality news in text form. What I want is better stuff for when I'm on the go. Radio fails - it's mostly ads and the banal.

I'm pretty satisfied with Minnesota Public Radio and its all-news nework, exemplified by KNOW FM in St. Paul.

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/radio/services/nis/

I'm still learning about Minnesota Public Radio's availability as a stream on the Internet or as podcasts, but in general that radio network tries to keep up to date with the latest technology. This is, of course, not commercial radio but rather "listener supported" radio that will hit you up with fundraising drives every once in a while.
PG:

(1) Linkbait? Egregious? Come on. I'm a fan (of YC) and have no need for, interest in or motive to linkbait. Read my blog, dude.

(2) Naivete? You've given thousands of interviews. I've given hundreds. Seriously, when did you not know the angle the reporter was pursuing? I can say zero (but then I've not been the target of 60 Minutes). At best Alex was naive and at worst he was abetting a greenmailer.

(3) CO2stats has the right goal. I have no beef with, in fact I emphatically support, the objective. My job is to support green issues. That said, we have to be conscious of our means and greenmail can't be one of them.

'nuf said.
Walter Lewin did a lot more than just that.

Please tell us more. I've never had the privilege of seeing Walter Lewin in action.
That's possibly more likely.
The bottom-line is that you have to entertain online. No entertainment, no visitors. And people aren't entertained when they see a big wall o' text.

I wouldn't even say that. Blogs are blogs. They are a certain medium with certain styles & certain breakable 'rules.' Evolution & survivor bias ensure that most blog posts read are the types of blog posts that are appealing to the the people reading them. I see no problem with that. Same goes for novels, biographies, essays, magazine articles or pretty much any category of writing. Nothing wrong with that. A blog within the framework of the style is definitely a useful one to have out there.
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