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Best news i've heard about django recently. This will undoubtedly make many 'testing obsessive' developers very happy, not only from a performance view but from a django feature set view as well.
True, and this is probably the reason for media obsession with celebrity related talk.
The whole world is concerned about Apple. I’m concerned about Silicon Valley, said Mr. Perlman, the entrepreneur. I need Apple to be harrying Microsoft. We need someone stirring the pot. God forbid that there is no one stirring the pot anymore. We’ll become Detroit.

This is so true.
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I was expecting something a lot worse than stating the obvious.
Zynga FTW.
There's something unrewarding about getting a research paper accepted because three reviewers thought it was good and having it only read by a hundred people.
I suppose I should have split up the two parts of my comment. Now I can't tell if people are endorsing my brilliant and insightful contrarian analysis, or just the funny link.
Replying to comment with "Good Idea." serves no purpose.

That user's account is nearly 2 years old, they know better than to post that.

Pointless comments should be discouraged just as much as trolling should be.
I do check occasionally and usually Google has been better. YMMV.
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I'm not so sure lack of good competition is what killed Detroit. In fact, it might be the automakers inept response to competition that killed them.
The main problem I have with this potential business model, is the overt focus on adding friends as a part of the revenue stream. I think the focus should instead be on 'what we can do right now, with our userbase to make money?'. There is a large pool of current users that would gladly pay if twitter had attractive premium features. Maybe they should focus on extracting revenue out of their existing user base first and then move on to a more dynamic business model second?
Exactly what I was thinking. This entire article is unfounded MS-bashing.

> Or maybe they knew that would be the only way anybody would bother to watch the video.

That just makes no sense. This article is of poor quality.
Anyone out there with a django test suite, I'd love to hear some other performance benchmarks in the comments.
I guess there's nothing super-wrong with posting links like this, my surprise was more that it got so many upvotes.
I really should have mentioned Scheme in the title.
Is there a lesson in this for Dell, HP, and other Microsoft-friendly OEMs?

I don't know, is there? I was under the impression that Dell has successfully been distributing devices with Ubuntu installed.
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I am with Noah Weiss.
Be opportunistic rather than ambitious in the current economy.
Some more info:

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2009/01/10/ie8-in-windows-7...
I don't have a problem with the concept necessarily but I don't think it would work. If you think about this logically people on the web actually go to great lengths to avoid ads. This idea relies on people willingly staying subscribed to ad-based-twitter accounts. Doesn't seem likely to me.

The article suggests that advertisers will just "have to remain interesting" but put in traditional terms that would be the equivalent of making a new commercial each time you needed one (rather than just replaying the same one like companies do now). I'm not sure many companies have that level of creativity available to them.
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Yeah, and then what happens when Burger King comes out with something that challenges your revenue stream that is based on making connections by encouraging you to break connections?

Alternatively, if the monetary value of the network is defined by the edges, rather than the nodes, and everyone is connected to everyone else, how do you determine the valuable connections from the meaningless ones? As the number of connections goes up, their individual value would seem to go down. Beyond that being basic economics, you're setting yourself up to be limited in the kinds of additional things you can do as the meaning behind the individual connections approaches zero.

If twitter added some metadata behind the ability to create connections, like allowing users to group their connections into buckets (initially preconfigured to encourage meaningful use) like "co-workers", "friends", etc and let you filter what you publish and what you subscribe to in different ways, it could work. But then they'd have created FriendFeed.
Nothing more fun than when people who aren't even remotely in the target audience critique the quality of ads.

Though really, they couldn't get a Dell?
Why is the alexa rank so low for the kind of traffic this site gets?
Ask HN: Is it possible to get cerified in PHP, Perl, Python, C/C++, etc.?
In my resume I've listed the names of all the programming languages I know, but I don't have any hard proofs (like certifications) to back it up. (This applies esp. to languages like C/C++, Python, Ruby, LISP, ... and even though I know them inside out; I've not been able to find a certification program in them).

Some employers test their candidates, but others just believe in what you write. I know of a PHP programmer who listed in a resume a bunch of languages (LISP, Ruby, etc.) that he didn't know for a job that involved PHP programming. The employer didn't check whether he actually knew those languages, and it certainly increased his odds of success compared to his peers who had been more truthful. In the end he got the job.

I think it would be good to have certifications that prove to your employers that you know the languages well. There are well-established certification programs for Java, Oracle, etc. I'm wondering if there are any reputable companies/institutes offering certification in languages like PHP, Perl, Python, C/C++, etc.
MSPaint is actually pretty powerful, Microsoft just hid its potential
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Wow, I agree. Just ran across this by chance, and it makes me wonder how much more of the best stuff is going mostly unnoticed here.
Thanks for the tip on ping tunnel, I hadn't heard of it.... Going to have fun checking it out
Ask HN: iPhone apps that didn't make money?
Recently we have been hearing a lot about the iPhone apps that are making 10-20,000 $/day, apps that shot to the top of the App Store within weeks. It seems that all you need to do is to think of a clever/neat idea, hack it in couple of weeks and start making money.

I am sure this is not the case for every app. Just like in every field, the success stories make it to the headline, but the failures usually do not, so we only see one side of the coin

So I am looking for stories of iPhone apps that didnt make money, that didnt go any where. It would also give me (and others) a good insight if this indeed is as simple as it sounds.
"Bang for the buck", your US Patent is your best value worldwide.

I didn't say you needed to file everywhere - in fact you can't. You get to nominate in the WIPO process which countries you want to execute with.

The international examiners also give a lot of good feedback as they have a lot of experience about the individual countries - e.g. This will have problems in EU, but is fine in the US.

So if you decide the US is enough, that's fine - if you decide EU, US, AU, JP, that's fine too.
Not really a fan of certificates...seems like a waste. The only time you should get one, is if your company promotes them...i.e. take so and so class and get a bonus or a raise.

Personally I think you'd be much better of making a few sample programs in each language, and showing those to the potential employers. Just throw them up on a site, and throw the url into the resume.
Is Google growing up?
Actually, French is S-O-V when you're using pronouns. Some quick testing with Google Translate suggests that Spanish might follow the same rule as well.

My first language, Bengali, an Indo-European language spoken in Bangladesh and thus distantly related to Latin, is S-O-V. I'm assuming from this that Hindi and other Indian subcontinental languages are as well.

I think S-O-V makes sense when communicating visually. Say someone kicks a ball. Initially you see a person and a ball. Then you see the person kick it. The action comes after the presence of the two objects. You don't see a person, see him kick, and only then see the ball.
You're saying that you can extend your U.S. filing date [EDIT: what I mean here by "U.S. filing date" is the deadline for filing the actual U.S. patent application] by filing a (essentially international provisional application) PCT? That doesn't sound correct, based on this: http://robertplattbell.blogspot.com/2007/10/foreign-filing-i...

[EDIT] I stand corrected. Apparently, there is an international (PCT) route to U.S. patents. http://www.wipo.int/pct/en/pct_strategies/the_third_way.pdf [PDF]

the “international route” of the PCT to U.S. patent issuance. [...] THIRD WAY IS BEST WAY This Third Way of using the PCT as a matter of domestic U.S. patenting strategy gains many advantages for the applicant to control the timing of search and examination of the U.S. application, if one begins with a Provisional Patent Application.
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The official repo is the most comprehensive resource, but that hardly means that highlighting some great plugins is unnecessary.
Sorry, I deleted my comment right after I posted it because I decided I wasn't sure about what you were saying.
Sorry, the opening paragraph (which is all that is available to non-subscribers) doesn't say much. Anyone with access care to summarize the body?
Yeah... I pretty much hate Smashing Magazine and sites like it. All they do is make lists... lists... lists... and then load the site chock full of ads.

The content is rarely original and never has any intrinsic value.
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If you'd like to get advice from other inventors there's usually an inventors association nearby. Expect every opinion under the sun, but it may help. Usually there are experienced inventors who donate their time to help out new inventors and just jawbone.
Most startups that succeed do it by getting bought, and most acquirers care about patents. Startup acquisitions are usually a build-vs-buy decision for the acquirer. Should we buy this little startup or build our own? And two things, especially, make them decide not to build their own: if you already have a large and rapidly growing user base, and if you have a fairly solid patent application on critical parts of your software.

http://www.paulgraham.com/softwarepatents.html
By lodging a provisional and having a released product that implements the invention, I believe no one else can patent that invention, even if you don't proceed with the patent. Ask your lawyer. A patent search will reveal if someone else has patented this already and would be a bit cheaper. Also shop around and get quotes from a couple of lawyers.
I don't think traditional advertising works in a twitter model. Remember, the 140 character limit doesn't look like it'll go away any time soon, so companies will have to either broadcast their message in a concise string or link to an external site; who in their right mind would actively browse to an ad.

I can see coupons and viral ads doing well, as well as games and novelties like the BK Whopper Sacrifice doing well, but you're right about those being hard to pump out on a large scale
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HN is still very slow for me... the top orange toolbar always loads quickly on the homepage, but then the stories take ~10seconds to load...it's annoying.
I liked A Deepness in he Sky for its unique perspective on the lifespan of civilizations.
The filing date always stays the same (ed: Sorry, I meant priority date there) - but, yes, that's my understanding:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_Cooperation_Treaty

USPTO has a diagram here:
http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/documents/1800_184...

Under their system, it the whole process (to what they call the national phase) can be 30months - it varies from country to country, but 30 seems to be common.
http://www.wipo.int/pct/en/texts/pdf/time_limits.pdf
I think that, fundamentally, a lot of startup founders don't charge money because they lack the confidence to ask people for it. Which is crazy, because the people who would be your customers spend tens of thousands of dollars a year on things they care about less than your software.

I know I was TERRIFIED of charging money 2.5 years ago. What if it breaks?! What if there is a bug?! What if no one cares about what I'm doing?! But charging money is the BEST MEDICINE for this fear because people will pay you money. And after that happens a few thousand times, you start to lose the sense of "zomg, I am totally unworthy of being compensated for improving people's lives, perhaps I could put out a tip jar in a suitably discrete location and hope some money falls into it."
great list! I especially liked the tip about sharing a screen session, been wanting a solution like that many times!

another great tip is how to list all subdomains on registered (not all dns servers allow this, many times you need to be on the same network, or it isn's allowed at all, but for solving you own dns issues it's a boon)

dig mydomain.com. axfr
I'd agree with you on the point the site is trying to make, but what I find interesting is the rationalization for this behaviour.

The meat of the article, IMO, is this paragraph: "This system breaks down, however, when products stop costing anything to produce. The cost of provisioning service to a single user of a site is effectively zero, close enough that it can seem worthwhile to give it away in order to expand your userbase. Unfortunately, in doing so, you lose the revenue stream which has supported businesses since the dawn of commerce."
You can be a Microsoft Certified Developer if you want, I think that includes Visual C++ or maybe it's all C# now. Oracle does certifications for PL/SQL too. No-one takes either of them terribly seriously.
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It's why I keep my old vinyl even though I've downloaded the albums on FLAC. The old album art is incredibly detailed at 12x12 inches and an album cover like "Blue," a patchouli-infused sleeve ("Like a Prayer"), or a working zipper to Mick Jagger's leather pants ("Sticky Fingers") are all fun parts of the experience of owning a historical artifact.
Is referring to engineers as "experimentalists" part of the joke?

In any case it was a good, light read that I'll take to heart in the next version of my insulting library.

http://insults.rubyforge.org/
Ask HN: How do you deal with alienation?
How do you deal with social alienation? Over the past couple of years of high school, I've slowly lost contact with all of my friends. Whenever I do speak with them, I constantly think about the differences between me and them, and why I'm not friends with them anymore. Despite that, I'm so alone now that I desperately want to have a peer group to be with again.
The problem is that the only people I consider to be good friends all have different interests, and all belong to different social groups. I have no social group of my own and go back and forth between their friend circles. It seems that their respective friend circles are very close knit.I always feel like the odd one out of whatever group I'm with at the time.

I don't think I could consider my close friends a social group of it's own, as they are all from different groups and aren't friends with each other.

Am I setting my standards for friends too high? I don't think I am, because I just want a friend that I can talk to on a wide variety of subjects, not just the few we have in common. I can't do that with anyone I know. I feel like when I talk to my "friends", I either have to talk all about computers, or all about music, or whatever that they're interested in, but never a mixture of everything. The peer groups I see are all so specialized and serve niche interests; none of them are generally interested in everything.

I feel even worse about this, because I think that because I am feeling like this, that it makes me a walking adolescent stereotype. I feel like just another Holden, which probably makes the entire situation worse. I'm being self-conscious about myself being self-conscious, so that probably doesn't help.

I feel like I can recognize the flaws in how I handle friendships, but I have no idea of how to solve them.

The only thing that feels like a solution is waiting until I am out of high school to find new people. Everyone has told me to wait until college, and then I will find new people, but everyone I know in college generally sticks with the same friend group that they had in high school (hence why I would know), so I don't have much hope in that.

How do you go about meeting new interesting people? How do you stop yourself from over-analyzing your current friendships? I never post here on HN, but I love reading the articles and discussions, and you seem like a wise and interesting bunch of people. Please give me your advice. Whenever I try to talk to people in person about this, they just tell me that they don't know what to say, and I can't stand talking to psychologists because they seem to just regurgitate what you want to hear repeatedly.

Where are the truly interesting people in life?
There is some (limited) potential for advertising on the google reader site itself, but I think the biggest two gains for google are user analysis and blog search.

Your OPML list gives google a pretty good indication of what your primary interests are, which they can use to deliver better targeted ads throughout the ecosystem.

Google likely has fairly strong integration between blog search and reader; it's likely they'd be doing a fair amount of analysis and caching of this data in the first place, so why not build it into a full on service?
The Palmerston Group explores the amazing social phenomenon that is Facebook.
11. Mibbit (From advertising so far)

Although I have no idea if it's even classed as a 'startup'.

I wonder if some of the reason for the recent backlash against advertising supported models is that some techie types install adblock, and perhaps assume everyone does? In my measurements only 6% had adblock installed, and that's for a very techie early adopter crowd.

The truth is, there are millions of websites out there, making millions from advertising. It's so much more scalable than charging users.

If facebook+digg etc cut back spending, they'd be making millions in profit from advertising. I expect they have bigger plans though.
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Excellent points. My experience is no further than a DIY provisional patent, using "Patent It Yourself" (which seems a little bit unreliable to me).

A danger I've found with patenting is that it encourages a competitor-focus (attack and defend), instead of a customer-focus (making a difference, creating something needed).

Patenting has similarities to a research thesis - articulating the idea helps you understand it; researching prior art contributes to your store of ideas.
Don’t Worry about Apple
The author seems to be confusing social media with the entire web industry. Zappos, Threadless, Etsy, Basecamp... there are plenty of newer sites making money by charging for goods or services.

As far as innovative revenue models go for social sites, I've always held LiveJournal in high esteem. I don't know the status of the site today, but five or so years ago you could buy a premium account then pay for add-ons: more photos, privacy features, and the like. Last time I checked out WordPress they did something similar (pay $5 to get custom css, etc).
Oh no you groan - not another Steve Jobs/Apple story - but this is quite nicely balanced and sane.

There is plenty of talent around to keep Apple innovating in it's corner of the market - just look at the new Palm phone for instance. Apple will thrive this time around I am sure.
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a human can learn anything, just tell him about the subject.

There has never been any evidence of any human not being able to learn a given subject or concept or rule, given ample time and resources to learn it? Have you heard of Piaget? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_(psychology)

Preoperational children have an inability to conserve liquid volume. If you give a preoperational child a glass of milk in a tall, thin glass, they will think they have more milk than if it were in a short, fat glass. The child will focus only on the dimensions of the glass, not on the volume of the liquid inside. [...] this confusion [is] born from a pre-operational child’s inability to understand the notion of reversibility; the ability to see the reversal of a physical transformation as well as the transformation itself.
I am reading the book right now - well in half hour chunks every day anyway. It's very good.

OK, I find a few of the worked examples a little overworked (if you get me) and a few of the dialogues the same - the occasional "OK, I get it, now can we move on?" escapes my lips but I am a programmer so I suppose that pre-disposes me to certain ways of thinking - so perhaps that's not a fair criticism.

I am looking forward to seeing how the plot works out though...
So that's why I love programming.
yeah, group think ROCKS!!

nah, I know what you mean ;), it is mostly good for now.
Where are the truly interesting people in life?

If you haven't already - Travel, move overseas, etc - the world is a big place.

Sounds trite, but broad horizons help.
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New Scientist is weird. They're like 90% groovy scientific journalism and 10% shitty tabloid.