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Such as?

And even if so, that wasn't Cuban's argument. He said that Americans need innovate with respect to building cars people want. My point was that they can't do that when every car has to either cost $2k more than a competitor, or have $2k less worth of features. The fact that they choose the latter is why American cars are viewed as being of shoddy quality.
^ taped up in my workspace
An end to the Google bonus fairytale?
What about someone who knows how to get people on eLance to bid to make them for $1,000, no matter how impossible, but doesn't?
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A few points..

+ On what basis does he assume java is "most popular language"[sic]?

+ What on earth is the relationship between java being the most popular language and virus attacks?

+ This article does not make sense
religion = irrational belief (like lottery)

science = rational belief (like repeatable success)
Odd that Cuban's blog has 2 different links to the same post.
We just sell merchandise -- t-shirts, posters, etc. We were thinking about doing advertising stuff, but since we're a video game site, we decided to just give our users what they wanted (swag) rather than what they go out of their way to block (ads). It's been working exceptionally well, though that's largely attributable to the talent of our designers.
Zynga FTW there.
Yah that's the next thing on the agenda, will have it done by tonight
Since it's already set up how about http://groups.google.com/group/real-world-haskell-book-club
Exactly! At least add some kind of tagline..something along the lines of "Search for developers etc". See the freelance boards (eLance / RaC) for more ideas.
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I feel like Fallout 3 and Left 4 Dead are probably moving better through retail and Steam. Amazon isn't exactly the marketplace where gamers go to order games so they can wait a few days to play it. Most games I buy are impulse purchases, and if I can't have it now then I can't be bothered to get it. World of Goo seems like the kind of game that parents and non-gamers would buy, and I would guess that that demographic shops more on Amazon.
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Too bad the shell on the cover doesn't show a fibonacci spiral.

http://www.shallowsky.com/blog/science/fibonautilus.html
You might not want to have your e.g. (iphone) return no results. Makes it obvious you have very little content (which makes me very confused what your site does).
I don't understand why this is better than any of the other 40 sites that match developers with patrons.
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1. As mentioned, there's no way to tell what this is or what it does. Very confusing.

2. Why should I register?

3. The login link doesn't work from the register page.

4. It let me register without providing a valid email address or either of the passwords. I registered with email address 'asdfasdf' and left the password blank. Interestingly, I was able to login using this :-)

5. There's no error messages on the registration form when the validation does work.

6. On the profile form, if I leave a required field blank and then submit the form, it erases any of the values I did provide.

Hard to provide more without knowing what you're going for...
CodingHorror has some discussion on this:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000157.html

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000969.html

Personally, I used ProFont (http://www.tobias-jung.de/seekingprofont/index.html) for awhile, but when I got a new computer I forgot about it and reverted back to Monaco.
Unfortunately, this is one of those things where the content really matters all that much more than the UI. Not to be overly negative, it would be a nice simple way to discover devs if it had that content. If you want to really impress me, show which developers are online right now and willing to talk to me about taking on the project.
I use Inconsolata as an alternative to Monaco: http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html
He does know that executives don't set their own pay, right? And that executive compensation is reported in proxy statements for public firms? And that firm management can be sued if it violates its fiduciary duty to the shareholders?

Maybe Phil is trying to make a point here, I just don't get it.
1. Change "iPhone" to "iPhone developer"..would make much more sense

2. Add live chat ability with devs (meebo style)

3. Add more content..so far its empty. I realize it's a chicken / egg problem, but but you need to find a solution else nobody is going to post there.

4. The green logo does not make sense

5. As mentioned before, registration form validation
Someone asked a similar question awhile back:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=375417

Some of the better comments:

Some startups and annual revenue numbers (unsourced):
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=375896

Someone who modeled 37signals revenue:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=375771

Nextproof and bigfolio.com
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=375575

Hope that helps!
I'd second that. If you are going out on your own, be a contractor, not a freelancer... i.e. find big companies who will pay you $80+/hr for 40h a week on an ongoing basis. The overhead and "bench time" (time between jobs) is more expensive than you think.
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The first point Java is a platform independent language it works any where. How it works and why C, C++ and .Net not works.

That paragraph needs to be put on a t-shirt.
yep - good 'ol subscriptions at http://uploadthingy.com - just started 2 new thingys too....
I have that book but never got courage it read it. It is one of the books which you absolutely want to read but never have courage to do so.
If you follow through to the comments on the original Valleywag article, you'll see that this article's confusing two different bonuses. The Google holiday bonus has always been about $1000 cash, so it's a cut of "only" 60% or so. Not great, but better than the pink slips many Yahoo employees are getting. The Google performance bonuses don't come out until March or so, so nobody will know how much they've been cut until then.
I'll briefly recommend "The Black Jacobins" by CLR James: A classical quasi-Marxist study of Toussaint L'Ouverture and the Haitian Revolution (the only widely successful slave revolt). Toussaint hacked the slave trade, colonial oppression, and the pernicious influence of the French, Spanish, English, and self-interested bourgeoisie mulattoes.

I'm about half-way through it right now. Good book.
I would definitely read, I'd rather stick with programming books however. Maybe books from this list? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=348019
3 sample data points and you want a realistic review? Really, seriously?

This could have been hacked together in an hour. Should we all ask YC to check out our weekend hack sessions?

Is it a real business model? What is it? Give us some details about WHY you want us to look at the site.

This is the type of thing that turns people off from doing "check out my website" type of things.
Maybe I'm missing something, but I sure as hell don't want a 1.5 watt laser beam shining across my room to power my digital photo frame...
Or go the other way & be service provider. Saleable business, clients etc.
I think companies that are willing to comply with

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_information_in_the_U...

should be exempted from SOX so that they can raise funds through IPO.
I know this is pretty much a totally closed post, but just to play devil's advocate here, and because truly believe in the original idea here that pain is necessary for pleasure, I'm gonna argue this point. The biggest problem with pleasure in the absence of pain is that without any pain, there would only be the most intense of pleasures, for in the absolute absence of black, you have pure white, correct? Therefore in the absolute absence of pain, u have pure pleasure.

However, this leaves us with the problem that not only would there be no change in the intensity of pleasure to actually signify the difference between normal and orgasms (just for example), but absolute pleasure, being the one and only feeling, would become outrageously normal.

Which leads back to life without death. The majority of people (every single person I've ever met) have serious issues with the concept of death. Maybe they're not afraid of it, but we have created entire religions simply because not one of us can imagine being non-existant, and so we created the afterlife. However, the fact that we are is defined by the fact that there are many who aren't. The problem with this idea is not a single one of us can make a conclusion based on our behavior is there was no death, for it is impossible for us (or at least for me) to comprehend a world in which there actually is no end of life. The example given about these philosophers is true, I doubt the would be bored, however the hundreds/thousands/however many years they would have been alive is no where near infinity. Without even a concept of death, life is no longer life, it simply IS. End of story. Our goals may very well be attained, but the fact that they would even be considered goals with no pleasure at attaining them and no pain at leaving them be is a bit of a mystery to me.
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Asside from the gawd awful language, the thing is that java is nothing special.

If its platform native code vs VM, well we got:
Java (woo)

Ruby (woo-er)

Python (woo-er-er)

Haskel

Lua

Freaken' Emacs and it's lisp

tons of lisp derivitives

The list goes on. Java is not the only VM on the market. This article would have been good in 1996.
I'm selling software and books, both on-line and the old fashioned way.
I would be more inclined to do this if the book is non-technical. When you commit to reading a technical book, you're committing yourself to more than just the time spent reading: you're committing yourself to the time spent applying and fully understanding what you read -- installing tools, tinkering with syntax, coding, and so on. I've got enough of that now.

With non-technical books (literature, history, quality-of-life), most of the time will be invested into actual reading, with a bit of pondering and maybe discussing. We can have a conversation right away, and there's still knowledge and insight to be gained.

Here are some non-technical books I'd like to read:

* How to Read a Book - http://amazon.com/dp/0671212095

* Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion - http://amazon.com/dp/006124189X

* Liar's Poker - http://amazon.com/dp/0140143459

* Growing a Business - http://amazon.com/dp/0671671642
A great idea for a site. I'm not a football, basketball or baseball fan, but seeing as fans like to be up on any each play when they are away from the game, etc. I think there is great potential for your site.

One thing you might consider (and I can't believe you were able to get consistent names for all the teams) is to use the team logos in your lists where the user selects the teams, etc.

Clearly you've put a ton of work into the site. it looks great, it's a great idea.
Page 338, in connection with the "elementary" proof of the prime number theorem. (I searched for "Selberg" using Amazon's search-inside feature, because I don't know how that feature treats accents. But, actually, it turns out that it treats them sensibly; searching for "Erdos" turns up 17 matches.)
There is something disconcerting about that face. I can't quite put my finger on it, but when I look at that picture, something tells me "run."
Well I guess it can be done easier. Currently, the only countries not using Celsius are United States and Belize. And you are already using GeoIP.
If you don't need the things that only Lisp can do, there's not as much of a reason to use it.

True. But the Lisp programmer would reply that you need the things only Lisp can do in most non-trivial programs.
thanks for the feedback so far guys, I still have a bunch of things to improve upon
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1. Don Reisinger, come on! You can't be serious?

2. Labels are far more flexible than folders. If you want to use labels like folders, then just label + archive.

3. No, it doesn't.

4. eh.

5. Good idea.
If you want to boggle your mind this Christmas I suggest you read GEB. It's not just Math, but Philosophy, AI, programming, logic, human mind, etc. I started reading it last year, and I'm still reading it this year, probably will be next year, year...
Do you think the CMUCL team who went on to make non-sexp based Dylan are just people who suck at programming?

No, but close. They were designing a language for other people who did. The original intention with Dylan was to create a Lisp that was made more accessible for mainstream programmers.

Ditto Guy Steele on Java: "we were not out to win over the Lisp programmers;
we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them
about halfway to Lisp."
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I appreciate that...my search was the old fashioned way: reading the text, and looking in the index! I must be just going blind as well as dumb.
What's the reason for blocks not being real objects (i.e. Procs) themselves (like in JavaScript or Lisp)?

Is it simply to allow for the magic syntax of passing a block to a method so it can be called with yield?
I tried Boxee on my AppleTV about a month back, it was hard to install and it constantly crashed the box. That is to say I wasn't impressed.
It's a really good point -- not since punched cards & F77 has column number meant anything...

So why the monospaced font (I'm guilty of this as well)? Maybe it just sets our minds up for reading code instead of prose?
This article is so bad it's almost funny. It's a shame there isn't a Bulwer-Lytton contest for technology articles.
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Unfortunately, Detroit happens to be in the company of Washington as well as most labor unions and several influential interest groups. It's a disaster in progress.
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thanks - these comments help. economy is terrible (cant just say you have a great idea and you want to postpone thinking about money) and ad based revenue models arent really getting a lot of love these days...makes sense to look at examples of successful startups that dont depend on ads to see what they did right
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I think that we should do all 4 categories and create a discussion thread the first of each month for each 4 categories so everyone can talk about what they want to talk about it.

I really like 2 and 3, personally.

Can I suggest our first book be "4 Hour Workweek"? I am reading it right now, very interesting book and concepts, I would love to get everyone's opinion on it.
Great post, I had the longest time trying to figure out what blocks were. They aren't used that much in PHP and Java and stuff so it was a totally new concept for me.

I still don't understand Procs and Lambdas but my head is too full today, will finish reading your post tomorrow.

As a side note, please enable comments, I'd love to leave you some good feedback on your actual site.
It is? I thought the pixel art was pretty cool.
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Most of the problem is the `return` keyword. In a proc or lambda, it returns from the proc or lambda. In a block, it returns from whatever is enclosing the block, like a proc, lambda, or method.

If you had a block that was an actual object, it could outlive its enclosing environment. Calling return within it would reincarnate its enclosing environment. Calling return twice would fork time.

In other words, if a block was an object, the return keyword would create a continuation. This is a very expensive, very heavyweight feature in Ruby, and the whole point of blocks is to provide something cheap and lightweight.

Note that a proc or lambda has no such problem, since a return within it returns to whatever invokes the #call method of the proc or lambda.

Imagine how much simpler things would be if Matz had worked this all out and decided that the return keyword was more trouble than it was worth?
I second/third/24th the motion that you need to tell people what your site does. You can have the listings there too if you want, but higher and more prominent should be a few bullet points or something saying what you do and what makes you special.

Also, your search box doesn't show up at all when I have you noscripted.
I downloaded it and they date back to 2006. I guess users who only posted a few times have all their old tweets indexed, whereas those with many tweets only have the latest ones in there (i.e. X tweets each collected max).
Want the same sort of effect on a Web page? Check out jGrowl: http://stanlemon.net/projects/jgrowl.html - it's a jQuery plugin I saw recently that seems pretty slick.
Given that there are so many, it seems like what will probably happen is that some will finish on time, and others will trickle in over the week. Keep the discussion open ^_^
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Conroy's "blog post" where he and his staff provide "information" on this whacky filtering scheme and "address" concerns:
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They're closing comments tomorrow, so if you want to comment, get in quick.
Krugman proves that you can be a NY Times columnist, Princeton professor, and Nobel laureate, all without (apparently) understanding some very basic economics. Repeat after me:

* Going into debt to buy foreign goods is bad.
* Going into debt to buy domestic goods is bad.
* Not going into debt to buy foreign goods is fine.
* Not going into debt to buy domestic goods is fine. Hence
* The "trade deficit" is entirely beside the point. Moreover,
* Consumer spending is not the cause of prosperity.
* The collapse in consumer demand reflects people realizing they were spending beyond their means.
* Having the government "stimulate" the economy with demand only postpones the inevitable, because
* There are too many companies making too many consumer goods, and
* This has to change.

Recession is the cure, not the disease. Why can't people understand that?
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I respectfully disagree that the return keyword is more trouble than it is worth.

"return false if simple_question?"
... rest of the body

is a very useful thing to do. granted, you might say it is "programming by GOTO", but it lowers the indentation level, and so keeps me happy.

To the GP: we can also .to_proc on blocks.
Excellent response. Public firms report all of their expenses so it shouldn't be hard to see how their money is spent - just look at their income statements and statement of cash flows.

I think the real reason why banks aren't reporting how the TARP money is spent is because they don't know.

Cash comes in, cash goes out. But it's hard to match specific cash outflows (besides variable costs - and even those can be tough) to specific cash inflows.
seems pretty self explanatory, just type in iphone like it says ;)
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Why can't Science and Religion complement each other? I don't believe in the 7-day creation, but that doesn't mean there's no higher power that played a role in the big bang, creation of life, and subsequent evolution.

Doesn't mean there is either. You can't disprove it & you won't prove it. It's a hypothesis that's no use in understanding the world.
LOL, So like what, you've taken the first paragraph of your article away now? That was the best one! Are you planning on keeping it for your own t-shirt line?

Seriously though, all in good fun dude. I certainly don't expect people whose first language is not English to write perfect English. It's none the less amusing - from the point of view of the native speaker - to see what people come up with sometimes.

One of my favorite non-native English snippets from another forum (in the context of something bad possibly befalling one of the conversation participants):

You know this happen, this happen you.
laptop with unlimited battery power, water, and food.

I have basically everything that I need on the laptop.
Glass at normal temperature flows, but incredibly slowly, you can see from old window glass which is thin at the top and thicker at the bottom.
"The more deeply scientists see into the secrets of the universe, you'd expect, the more God would fade away from their hearts and minds. But that's not how it went for..."

That's misleading. It does go that way for scientists as a group.

Such a worthless article. I coudn't continue reading after the first mention of quantum physics
I tried Jaxer but it seems to not follow the usual MVC pattern we all know and love. I don't know if it supports method chaining goodness ala jQuery though.
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No offense to the folks working on this, but this article makes it sound really dumb. Shine a 1.5 watt laser across the room at a receiver to charge your cell phone? Really? What's the advantage? Is the market for this thing solely folks who like to keep their cell phone sitting on the side of the room that doesn't have any outlets? ;-)

The competitors like Powercast and Powermat sound a lot more interesting. Can someone please provide me with the imagination that I'm clearly missing?
I hope they can use this technology to make lightsabers, I would want the lightsaber over wireless electricity.
Glass at normal temperature flows, but incredibly slowly, you can see from old window glass which is thin at the top and thicker at the bottom.

.

Urban legend.
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