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While it is true that OSX very probably accounts for more unix-on-the-desktop than linux, they are two very different desktop audiences.

While OSX is indeed a unix, it hides this so well that unless you know what you're looking for you would never use any of the things that most people mean when they refer to unix.

I write this on a iMac I use for developing iOS applications, but honestly, if I hadn't been using linux since 2006(Ubuntu, gentoo then arch for the past 2 years) I would never have learned the use of the command line(and tools such as find, sed, grep, etc...) just from using the mac.

For me, the switch to linux was mainly because I wanted an alternative to Windows(when I first heard about Vista) and I could definitely not afford a mac(I was a student at the time). I suspect that many a tinkerer/hacker has gone down this path. In fact, most linux users have met have had similar stories, while mac users have mostly been professionals and/or design/hipster-type people. I have not met a single programmer whose main unix learning experience has come from OSX while I've met tons that have learned from linux(and a few from other unices) even if they eventually ended up using OSX in their daily work.

As I said, this is all anecdotal, but I wouldn't be surprised if these trends were more general.
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I think the limiting factor is that (crazily enough) it's hard to get internet to a lot of the places that projectors are located. Internet seems ubiquitous to us in houses/apartments but it's apparently hard to get it when your theater is in the middle of a mall or in some old building.

I believe there's a push to start distributing the encrypted films over satellite but that has its own problems because now many theaters have to start negotiating "roof rights" with their landlords.
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this is crap. node.js rocks. and node.js starting with v6 can do parallel cpu as well. go node.js. go heroku cedar.
The discussion between VCs and entrepreneurs is difficult because it's handled by everyone concerned, directly.

That's why we have lawyers; that's why artists have agents. People who don't care one way or the other and for whom nothing's ever personal.

Entrepreneurs need professional pitchers -- agents who would be able to gather honest feedback and tell it like it is.
maybe.. possible.
I was hanging out at Massassi at one point, username Gandalf the Gray. Was a period of maybe 2 years around 2000 I was reasonably active. Was probably around 15 at the time.
Pierre was a Windows-only developer for 20-something years. It may not sound bright by taking that quote out of its context, but the thread itself is longer that that. You know that "you can't teach an old dog new tricks".
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Give me $100K and I'll rewrite it to you in node.js - this is bs.
it's said to be $10M per year.
You have to give them credit for coming up with the idea of selling HTTP headers.
Did Apple not just release a notebook with a 200-something dpi screen?
Jive is doing $50M in annual revenues and their public value is $1B. How come these guys are valued at a billion dollars with only $10M rumored annual revenue. bs.
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I'd reckon most of the modern web frameworks can handle that (Rails, Grails, Django, Play, ASP.NET/MVC, PHP, Joomla etc.).

Even then it's not as simple as that, because you would need to have knowledge about the interals to tweak for optimal performance.

I'd say unless you are building something rather silly or are able to use multiple open source project from codeplex, github, sourceforge etc. that's still a long shot.

You will probably be better off modifying an existing CMS or similar system you are interested in to suit your needs. Even that will take you a while to go through the documentation to figure out what to do.

So I'd say, starting from scratch with a new language and a framework, what you are suggesting would be impossible. Even with experience and knowledge, 1 week is still a long shot (40 hours?).
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guys I understand this site has a tendency to like all y combinator companies. But all other plyers in the space do already have that feature. so this is bs.
It has to be powered up all the time anyway, to detect orientation changes.
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No... generally its software like JAWS (http://www.freedomscientific.com/products/fs/jaws-product-pa...) that runs on stock windows.

No special hardware running antiquated hardware, just a stock windows system.

While I don't doubt there are solutions with a web browser embedded in them, the refresh cycle on such hardware is so old that people have moved off them on to more "generic" solutions a while ago.
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This is a little off-topic, but does it strike anybody else as weird that we're still writing this kind of code in our servers instead of using an external utility? Personally, I would probably just write something like:

sudo chpst -u gwan:gwan -o 100000 ./gwan

This uses the chpst utility from runit to do pretty much exactly what you described: set uid/gid, change the file descriptor limit, drop privileges, and execute ./gwan. For similar reasons, it feels crazy that people still manually write code to handle daemonization and pidfile handling, when there are easy tools that will handle that for you, and generally do a really good job of it. Isn't that the Unix Way?
if you're a moron, yes. LOL!
I looked at it. It's design process is not completed.
One strong negative point is that it enforces big endian integer encoding.

Another one is that it doesn't use the value space of tags as efficiently as message pack. I would use the unused space to encode small string size in the tag since objects (associative arrays) have generally many short identifier strings as keys.

I sent these as comments and requests for change but didn't receive any response yet. I don't know how open its design process is.
I like the way Zeus deals with their performance claims: you can test it, but you can not disclose the results. The same crap as Microsoft used to do. Although I did sign up for a trial, I didn't bother going further after reading the EULA. Long story short: nginx is powering our servers right now, without any need for changing the platform.
All that just to ensure a film doesn't get copied and pirated...and yet it still does
It's a shame the Wheel of Time game didn't become more popular. Even with the limited implementation of the Citadel mode, I still haven't seen anything like the combination of strategy and FPS action that you get when duelling. Tremulous comes pretty close when it comes to strategy when building stuff in team matches, though.
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We just don't work hard enough.

There are 24 hours in a day, and some smaller number usable for working. What percentage of them should I spend making cool stuff, and what percentage should I spend making sure that cool stuff works in six (IE7), eleven (IE6) or twelve (Opera 5) year old browsers that only a tiny percentage of potential users use?
What's V6?
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Yes exactly.

If you're going to have slug-type Urls, they should at least be unique, and if they do change, the old version should at least show a canonical link and/or 301 to the new one.

Usually this means keeping a record of every variation the Url has ever been for a piece of unique content.
>The biggest issue reddit has isn't the spam, it's how the site has become a "work safe" 4chan, it caters to the lowest common denominator.

Yeah, mainstream reddit sucks, but there's always smaller subreddits.
The grandparent said: "leave it running, work on something else, cash the checks, see what happens"

worst case you go back to your 'day job' and grease the wheels/deal with occasional support in the evening or on week-ends. Given that the original batch of customers where personal contacts re-entering the fray to continue to rub shoulders with these kind of people and evangelize the product when you can and makes sense seems like a great idea. Maybe Ryan is more of a go-big-or-go-home guy, but this is probably what I would have done.
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What? Almost the entire stack in every place I have worked, except a bank, has been open source software. And I don't think people are upset that it's not open source, they find it a joke that the author makes all these ridiculous claims and is closed source.
But sometimes it's really easy. See the YouTube channel of this Griefer who blatantly griefs and trolls teams on a variety of games on XBOX Live. Many people report him; he's still playing and griefing.

This is in a relatively walled garden - the client software and hardware is controlled; the servers are controlled.

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I stand corrected. I hadn't thought of it really. But the thought of PHP for non-web kind of makes me cringe even if it's translated into another language by an intermediary. For sanity sake I'm going to assume NO :).
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Other lightweight web servers which fall into the same category as G-WAN: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiawatha_(web_server) are still on Wikipedia. No news about any "reliable" references. However, it was not marked for speedy deletion. Don't get me wrong, Hiawatha is a lovely web server. But people on Wikipedia don't use the same measurement for all products.
Just wanted to read this piece, but killed the tab, after waiting 10 seconds for syntaxhighlighter.google... to answer. Site didn't show anything but the background.

So sorry, but maybe you should just load the script locally - or from another CDN.
Crikey, yes, I somehow misread the £ sign as $. Alas too late to edit my post now.
So it's blogspam from LifeHacker linking to Kogan's linkbait...
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I recently took on such a venture and opted for PHP with the Phalconphp framework.

It worked out in the end (I did it over a weekend, not a whole week), but I have to admit that Phalconphp is not very stable - it's only at v0.4. But it is VERY, VERY fast.

The truth is that there is no way you can learn a whole language AND build an application in a week. So pick your favorite dynamic language and then find a lightweight framework for it.

My picks for lang would be in this order:
PHP, Ruby, Python, Javascript (Node.js)
OT: There's a great bit in Neal Stephenson's Anathem where these monk-like scientists are made to copy out subtly wrong mathematics and scientific proofs as a punishment.

AltDragonBox could be exactly that -- day and night cancel, except for symbols when its constellation is rising, in which case they divide, except for odd numbered Fridays in a leap year. Oh, and do it with numbers instead of day/night symbols.
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> Micropayments do not scale.

It's just a matter of time before it does. I'd rather say the current micro payment offerings are not good enough.
That was the direction the XFL went in, no? Turned out no-one wanted to play (entirely understandable really, most performance-enhancing drugs have negative effects on your overall health)
Business:

Hotels don't want to deal with computer networks, they just buy this service... And for 99% (made up number) of hotel guests it's sufficient that they enter their credentials once, and are able to use facebook / access hotmail.com for the remaining evening. There's no monetary incentive for anyone to go beyond this service.

Technical:

Most of these systems don't hijack DNS but rather employ a transparent proxy: Traffic to port 80 is not forwarded directly but to a proxy that replaces answers to queries from unauthenticated clients with a redirect to a authentication page. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive_portal)

These systems most often let ICMP and TCP/UDP to port 53 (DNS) through unfiltered, because of the hassle involving customers with strange DNS configurations. Even if unauthenticated. So if you can get a cheap dedicated server somewhere: Just run a VPN on port 53/UDP and have a ssh-server listen on port 53/TCP and quite often you can connect to those without any passwords or credit card details being entered anywhere...
You don't have to sell me on using the shell at all and I have seen one-liner databases (which are really only fun once you have a pretty good level of mastery)

I find that IDEs make everything so needlessly complex and inflexible - I don't want 2000 little icons in 200 drawers managed by 54 XML files that I will eventually be expected to edit.

The observation is that they are winning anyway. In fact, people even think they are easier, AND they think their IDE does things that can't even be done otherwise! These people are smart enough to develop software, yet they are opting for what we think are dumb tools. Either we are just wrong, or there is just a misunderstanding about the relative easiness of IDEs.

I think that commercial platforms and products aimed at consumers (including developers) tend to have people paying careful attention to marketing and experience, to add a layer of glitz and wow and accessibility. It isn't that it could not be done but no one is bothering, once you know the efficient way then there is no point dressing it up.

I also think we have built up a culture which is somewhat punitive to newbies. Too many people treat programming and composition of command line tools as some kind of dick swinging competition rather than the inherently simplest and most straightforward way of doing things, which is SUPPOSED TO make your life easier and let you do things you couldn't otherwise do.
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The first can be proven with the provided benchmarking tool.[1]

As for the second, I agree that the source of those "units sold" should be cited.

[1]http://gwan.ch/source/ab.c
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Look, there are two things you are saying. One is "you can't do this with Ruby/Python" -- which is a superiority-of-PHP argument -- and the other is a plea of "PHP has done a lot, so let's not be too hasty dismissing it." You made both of these arguments. In fact, you made the first one in this very comment where you say you're not arguing for PHP's superiority over other languages.

In some ways this is true but I would be hesitant. What you're really advertising is that PHP has an implicit `echo("` statement which looks like `?>` and also implicitly occurs at the beginning of the file. A lot of new folks write really hard-to-follow code. Here is the seed of badness from which such code eventually germinates and blossoms:

<ul><?php
foreach ($users as $user) {
?><li class="user"><a href="/users/<?php
echo $user['id'] . '">' . $user['name']. '</a></li>';
?><?php
}
echo '</ul>';

If you do not see why this is bad, imagine that you have a loop within a loop and they get separated by more than 20-30 lines of PHP. Notice how some of the HTML occurs within the PHP statement but pairs with tags outside of the PHP statement, and imagine functions which are producing such code. Et cetera.

Python+Flask will force you to either do it in a Jinja template, which avoids the problem because you cannot 'return back to Python' midway through:

<ul>{% for user in users %}
<li><a href="/users/{{ user.id }}">{{ user.name }}</a></li>
{% endfor %}</ul>

Or else you could define the file within Python using strings, in which case your syntax highlighter will be able to tell you exactly where these strings begin and end:

output += """
<!-- ... more code ... -->
<ul>""" + "".join(["""
<li><a href="/users/%i">%s</a></li>""" % (u['id'], u['name'])
for u in users]) + """
</ul>
'<li><a href="/users/%i">%s</a></li> % (u['id'], u['name'])
for u in users]) + """

Of course, Jinja is more readable in this case, and that's kind of the point. For most web apps, you want a sort of preamble which calculates and formats a bunch of information, selects a template, and renders the template to the user. For PHP, this preamble is Apache, and if you want more, you probably need to generate an include() file to force yourself to stay sane. (PHP doesn't force this however, and many people write bad code which simply does the calculations in the HTML wherever they are needed -- and then you get massive code duplication and the joys of trying to match curly braces through large blocks of HTML.)
"Uber large business and government is were the users are hiding"

Agreed. About 1/3 of our users - all of whom are insurers or brokers - use IR7
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Sorry, what is a "VC"?
It's not just large businesses. About 1/3 of our users use IE7, although thankfully there's hardly anyone still on IE6. About 1/2 are still on XP (NT 5.1). Some of these are small companies with <10 employees.
Why is 1 not a good idea? Telling at a glance what sort of notification you have is really nice: takes <5 seconds to turn on the screen, glance at the top bar, make an assessment of the urgency of the notifications based on their origin, and then turn off the screen (if they aren't urgent).

3 is a good idea for the other people, and shouldn't be counted as a point against, because having the option to customise the dock doesn't mean you have to. (It is a neutral feature, at worst.)
Interestingly for certain topics there are banned users who join in by ghostposting in the archive (i.e. posting just to the archive, not to the actual thread - the archive is an independent site, so it doesn't matter if you're banned from 4chan proper) for those threads (the archive updates in realtime, so you can read threads there as they happen).
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> Edited because I couldn't get monospace text working

If you start each line with a few spaces, HN will format it as source code:

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gdb.execute('finish')
gdb.execute('shell git stash pop')
gdb.execute('call PyImport_ReloadModule(PyImport_AddModule("monospace.views"))')
gdb.execute('call PyImport_ReloadModule(PyImport_AddModule("monospace.urls"))')
gdb.execute('set $self = PyDict_GetItemString(f->f_locals, "self")')
gdb.execute('set $request = PyDict_GetItemString(f->f_locals, "request")')
gdb.execute('set $get_response = PyObject_GetAttrString($self, "get_response")')
gdb.execute('set $args = Py_BuildValue("(O)", $request)')
gdb.execute('set $rax PyObject_Call($get_response, $args, 0)')
gdb.execute('enable')
gdb.execute('c')
end
c
end
Nice move, there is no reasonable excuse to still be using IE7. If your IT department is forcing it on you they are just being slack + it's a consumer website so you probably shouldn't be shopping at work anyway.
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I saw that some comments pick-up on VCs being adamant on founder's nervousness and such.

Probably, OP should have mentioned different pointers, but still I think that such comments are missing an important point of this post by Josh - honest feedback almost never works.

I have managed up to 30 people, [colleagues and HQ people not counting] - 95% of the time honest feedback does not work, mostly because of the:

- ego, or

- hidden agenda

5% it worked with people, with whom I had working relationships, based on mutual trust AND they were all GetDone high performing individuals.

So what do you do when you know that honest feedback will not work?

Are you going to hit a brick wall with your head?

No... you come up with some nice words, etc.

You can like such people, value them, but if you feel that they can not accept your honest feedback, you don't give it.
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If they get very small prize for socially accepted behaviour, they cannot think they did sth socially accepted for that prize - that would mean they are cheap to buy. So they think they did it because they are the kind of guys, that do such things sometimes.

If I'm doing small acts of kindnes just because, it's hard to make this consistent with "fuck the others" attitude, stealing, etc. Easier to think I'm good guy overall, just made some mistakes before. Cognitive dissonance is a powerfull force.

But IANAP.
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It's not browser elitism, it's just the facts. No reasonable person is arguing that IE7 is the best browser - it's old, out of date and works poorly and there are plenty of good free browsers to choose from so why not just use one of them.

Also, where does it end? Should we still support Netscape or IE6 just because users have the right to choose to use old browsers? There has to be a limit to the support for older technology and IE7 has reached that limit.

It cuts both ways, sure you can choose to use IE7 but also I can choose not to support it, if that loses customers then so be it, if it gets them to upgrade it has done both them and the internet a service.
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Probably true