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My bullshit detector is going off so loudly, I think I best go lie down.

At my last company, we paid for a Zeus ZXTM license (which was an excellent product and very expensive for our little startup), and they didn't approach the level of arrogance here. The varnish guy is kind of opinionated, but he's got the chops to back it up, and you can, y'know, look at the source.

An obvious benefit of open source is also that if I take a large risk of running my business on your oddball web server and you get hit by a bus, I'm pretty much hosed. I'd rather buy 4 additional servers and run nginx than take that risk. Or, y'know, use a CDN.

Whatever, if the developers really are THAT much more skilled and their product is so far and away better than every other solution out there, then they should really hire someone who knows how to do marketing and PR properly, because they're not doing themselves any favors.
Surely they could create test keys that authorize X minutes of playback to test projection. That would make the cam concern moot and address the desire to test the setup prior to show time.
I have no reason to doubt your talent, but I have an aversion to the "I could do it myself" argument. What does that even mean? You could do it yourself if you had a year to work on it? 10 years? A lot of software contains code icebergs which render this "I could create this myself in a [insert short time period]" thinking moot.
This is very interesting -- my son uses cochlear implants, which currently use external batteries and induction to provide power to the internal components. I wonder if there is enough power available to enable fully implantable hearing?
> No, not even at entry-level. 90% maintenance is a disaster. 60 to 75 percent might be typical for entry-level programmers, and that's bad, but 90 is abysmal.

In my experience and from what I've gathered from friends and coworkers over the years, ratios like that are actually quite normal.

And it doesn't have to do with entry-level vs. senior. I suppose a lot of HNers are working at tech startups or otherwise companies that build software-based products. But there's a lot of custom software out there (I'd say the large majority of running software as well as the large majority of software being written is custom, though I have no data to back that up). So lots of devs are either working in-house for non-software large companies, or working for companies that build custom software for such companies, and that usually entails a lot of maintenance work.
That could be the case--I'm not going to dig deeply into it because honestly I like having my brain still work, but it could be that the insanity in loan.java is just because of the crappy C API being wedged into Java.

I'm not exactly sure how his claims of instant refreshing "scripts" works if it's a conventional JDK, though. I mean, that's just not possible, even with hot reloading (as Play Framework developers have learned to their disappointment).
Someone comes up to you and say, "I have a GREAT idea, it's going to be the next Google / Facebook / Twitter / etc. I just need a CTO / web developer to build it. Quit your job, joined me full time now."

Would you? If you've heard that a lot, you probably won't. There's nothing wrong per se - the person could be right, but it's more likely that he is wrong[1]. But something could be said about this person's approach to finding a co-founder, i.e. if he's going about his co-founder search this way, he's probably doing other more serious mistakes other battle-hardened entrepreneurs have learned the hard way.

It's a mental decision-making shortcut. Don't get hung up over little things such as the OP's actual words, like the way the interviewee answers a questions, fidgets, etc. It's just a mental shortcut signal. Sure the OP could be wrong. But he could also be right. How do you know you're not wrong? VCs take a million meetings, make a million decisions, they have LOTS of data to test how well they're doing. They are not random schmucks. Clearly they think about this day and night. Is it possible that they're all wrong and you're right?

Also - I'm not in VC so I can't comment from a position of being an insider, but consider this: if you were a stock trader with an uber stock trading algorithm, would you share it? No. I don't see why VCs would share their "algorithm" either. They're competing with the other VCs for deals in startups, and they each have their secret sauce. They also compete with each other for more investor money (from their LPs).

Lastly, consider this: would any anti-spam vendor fully disclose all their algorithms to detect spam? No, that would be dumb, because then spammers would know exactly how to circumvent them.

[1] Fact: most startups fail
No, the Vaio X series. I will most likely reinstall it this weekend for my next vacation. Hopefully it's better today, but i doubt it ;)
It has already been said, but it cannot be said enough -- Don't hire untrustworthy people.
They already are in quite a few circumstances. It hasn't collapsed the industry yet - there are other reasons to go to a movie theater than to see the movie.

As a concrete example, there are tens of thousands of seeders of Prometheus right now at a couple sites I just checked. And quite a few people I know, who know exactly how to use torrents, went to see it in the theater.
Slightly off topic but a hobby I've picked up recently is breaking web based "no copy/paste" schemes.

Usually people map onmousedown,click,oncontextmenu, etc. events or some permutation there of to return false and have an alert that say's something to the effect of "no copying!"

You can easily defeat those by mapping whichever function to null on your javascript console. ie:

document.oncontextmenu = null

The Gwan guy's solution threw me off a bit because I was looking for another javascript version to no avail.

In an interesting twist they've actually used css. That is every vendor permutation of.

user-select: none;

To disable that use your favorite developer tools and remove those styles from whichever element you want to copy..
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And only tested with old versions of nginx.
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I think he overestimates how much life was left in Symbian. A better baseline might be RIM's performance over the last year (as another manufacturer that hadn't really figured out touchscreen smartphones), maybe plus a bit of upside for better Meego execution, but still... the carnage has been amazing.

It will be interesting to find out what today's "big announcement" in Finland will be. Probably more layoffs, but there were sale rumors recently...
I may be giving them too much credit, but I believe the author is referring to the proprietary software companies who would presumably steal G-WAN, rename it, and sell it. Their argument is still ridiculous, but I don't think they're talking about the Apache and nginx projects.
> That's why you see suckers using MacBook Pros to browse Facebook in the big malls, even when they cost about 3x what they cost in the US

Exactly, it just seems so incredibly dumb from the government to block or put VERY high taxes to imported products that WILL NEVER be produced here (they make them in Brazil, to cover the whole region, they will not start to produce them in an adjacent country). They're begging for contraband. And I bet that a nice percentage of those boys who you see, using those MacBook Pros bought them from someone who sold it without paying the proper taxes...
Just wait to you get to the part where he suggests that instead of rewriting URIs you should just use the servers cache function to cache to a static page with a very low expiry.
Hollywood's lack of trust in anybody will be the doom of the cinema, so they need to tread carefully here. If going to the cinema (differentiating that from the megaplex) means crap like this, the cinema will die. When enthusiasts are pushed away, the lifeblood dies.

If your fervent supporters lose faith, you are in trouble.
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The memo, for those who don't know it off the top of their head: http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/08/nokia-ceo-stephen-elop-ra... (just the first result I googled, feel free to suggest a better one)
In fact, many of our ancestors were often eating so little meat as to be nutritionally insignificant, which is the other major hole in the "eating meat is natural" argument.

But I really don't know why you added "heavily spiced" in there. Spices are usually more or less nutritionally neutral.
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What a ridiculous, sensationalist, witch-hunting article.

Elop's memo has about as much to do with Nokia's problems as the weather on the day it was leaked.

If Elop didn't write that memo or it didn't leak, Nokia would have been in about the same about trouble today, because their problems are not caused by Elop's wordsmanship but by Apple and Google re-defining the smartphone business in an astonishingly short time and Nokia (and RIM and Microsoft and Palm) not having a response.
I like how it claims to be provably safer than other webservers but the two claims require reading the code.
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There are a number of things in this picture that can only be done via iPhone jailbreaking, and even then, it may lead to a very unstable system. Just on this screen we have:

- App-specific status bar notification icons (note the Facebook and mail icons)
- Environment-specific status bar icons (plugged into USB, phone in vibrate mode,
headphones plugged in, etc.)
- 7 apps in the dock, with ample screen space for all of them. As a bonus, the
dock is scrollable.
- Instant access to current weather conditions
- One-tap access to toggles like WiFi, Bluetooth, and brightness.
- One-tap access to functionality like using a camera flash as a flashlight.

1 - I think that's not such a good idea.

2 - Likewise - all of those don't need an indicator so much

3 - Not a good idea for users who aren't deft enough to figure out where the tangential contact point of their fingertip is. (Which is most folks.)

4 - Unnecessary if you're outside. If you're inside, there's the window. If you're interested in somewhere else on earth, then start an app.

5+6 - These, I like.

That's 0.333 - excellent for a batting average, but not so much for a review.
That might be what he tried to mean, but that's not what he's saying. What he wrote says that anyone who wants to see the source code is an evil Snideley Whiplash software companies, and telling you to "see what they're selling" (or that they're "end users" who don't need to see anything at all, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!).
What kind of battery drain does reading the accelerometer cost? Seems a little silly.
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Let's say someone from web 2.0 startup to a data mining startup? They know nothing about data mining but the culture of their web 2.0 startup sounds like it matches with yours and they like learning.

The other choice is to get someone who has X years of experience and knowledge of data mining but has huge cultural baggage from working for Big Corp for many years of their life. This person has tons of knowledge, the only thing that needs to be done is to change their personality.
Those features activate automatically in daemon mode. The manual explains it on page 7. Can you be more specific with your question?

Perhaps these forum threads will help.[1][2]

[1]http://forum.gwan.com/index.php?p=/discussion/393/how-to-dis...

[2]http://forum.gwan.com/index.php?p=/discussion/comment/5812/
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I can imagine an entire interface taking advantage of this; the subtle drop shadows on buttons shifting slightly based on the devices gyroscope. Heck, even based on where the sun is at your location. It could really add to the level of immersion.
Sounds great, except web servers aren't something people pay for anymore.

Nobody wants to 'steal code', its that code for a WebServer isn't something worth stealing.

As for being amazingly fast? I can write an AMAZINGLY fast server capable of serving up 'Hello, World!' at speeds that can blow everything else outta the water; of course this is of no use to anyone anywhere.
grep -E is just extended regex, which is also a million years old. grep -P, for some versions of gnu grep, will get you the experimental perl compatible regexes.
Diablo 3 is a lot better than I expected. Its a lot of fun bashing mobs in co-op mode with your friends. While its the same maps on all difficulty levels, there are random mobs and encounters quite often, and it never gets old finding nice items to sell on AH.

The only problem is that inferno is too difficult at the moment. Patch 1.03 will adjust the monster damage by about 25%. Right now, you cant kill elites with a melee character. In fact, you die to normal mobs very often because of their huge damage output. So people stay on Hell and play that content instead, which is not really intended. Inferno is supposed to be hard but doable, not impossible. Right now only ranged characters with the best gear can play that difficulty level.

Overall, I love the game and will play it for many more weeks or even months. I will never use the real money AH though. :)
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I'm not against them to license a simple, low power consumption chip. But The evil is creating proprietary and unusable software drivers. If it was only laziness the could just license enough driver code to be open sourced. The Linux ecosystem is capable enough to hand over development from there.
JCPenney is going through a similar problem now in which the incoming CEO make huge changes very quickly seemingly without understand the market or the customer[1].

It seems like new CEOs often like to try to make a name for themselves and jump in head first and try to turn a very large boat quickly without a complete understanding of the consequences.

In JCPenney's case, the CEO believed that people would prefer to know they are always getting the best price, but he didn't understand that customers actually get a rush/high from finding great "sale" deals (even if they only look like sales because regular prices are jacked up).[1]

Perhaps Elop sould have taken some time to get into the company, and understand its customers (including carriers as well as phone users) before deciding on a course correction. Once a new direction was found, keeping it internal and shocking customers will new tech when it was ready would have probably done much more for than company that telling everyone a year in advance, "Don't buy our stuff until we come out with our new Windows phone because we're not going to support it and we think it sucks".

[1] http://www.mediabistro.com/prnewser/jcpenney-discovers-the-i...
If that was truly better, then it would have won against the iPhone in the market.
Tests [1] and [2] both used the latest version of nginx at the time.

[1]http://nbonvin.wordpress.com/2011/03/24/serving-small-static...

[2]http://gwan.ch/benchmark
Indeed. Distributing source code does not mean that people can or will fork your project. You have to explicitly grant permission to distribute the software freely, and in particular to distribute modified copies, for that to happen. http://cr.yp.to/softwarelaw.html

Copyright law gives users more rights than users or developers probably realise. Personally, I am happy to release my software with source code under either a simple copyright notice, or in the public domain with my moral rights asserted.
So as a professional opinion, what do you think of intel creating unusable, proprietary software drivers for third party licensed chips?
I wonder if arbitrage trading is anywhere as feasible with the real-money auction house as with the play-money one. So far, I have probably spent more time in the auction house than in the game itself, buying low and selling high.

Currently, you need to find a way to bypass the auction search result caching and have a reaction time of about 5 seconds to grab the really good deals.
>This maybe a silly question but is HN moderated in the officially sanctioned sense?

I am not sure what you mean by "officially sanctioned", but moderation on HN is among the most heavy-handed of any site with comments and upvotes and downvotes comments that I know of. And I tend to believe that that has a lot to do with its continued high quality.
Based on the graphs, the contents, and the over-the-top design, I was wondering if this was a joke or something until seeing this thread. So I'd agree that alarm bells may be warranted.

On the other hand, I have written a few web applications in C. It's not that bad! :) The nice thing about it is that if you link statically, write CGI programs, and ignore memory management (or, rather, malloc all you care to and delegate garbage collection to the OS when your process goes away), you can get something that runs quickly with minimal hassle on a small device. I don't recommend it unless you have some bizarre constraints, but it's really not that bad! That approach doesn't seem possible with this server, sadly.
I don't see how this bill would ban your example #3. It would be as simple as getting a warrant. Similarly, for #2 police don't need a warrant when they are in "hot pursuit," so why wouldn't there be an exception for drones as well?
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Throwaway, because I'm pretty sure I will be exorcised for this but.. I've never seen a situation where any of my contributions to open source have provided me with the least amount of income. If an author doesn't want to open-source his code, I don't see the big deal.

I suppose the HN crowd that legitimately wants to read code, but the majority of the people are going to go to the trouble are going to be programmers who are being whipped mercilessly to build some 3rd rate web app for their corporate masters, or competitors who want to improve their own technology.

BTW: Can you link the license page? I am looking for it, but can't find anything.

(Mind you: I do think the author is somewhat insane and sounds like almost every bitter 1980s programmer I ever met - but I'd like to see the insane conditions he imposes)
No, i have never had problems with Intel hardware in my laptop.
The graphics drivers are extremely stable and have very few glitches. I can remember fglrx crashing my desktop or having graphics glitches oftne enough, but i can't remember one time where the intel driver wasn't working.
Can't remember having problems with Wifi either.
Also this article is full of praise for the WLAN experience: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel...

If all linux drivers would work as flawlessly as the intel graphics drivers, that would be awesome :)

(Of course it would be great if the Wifi driver would be completely open source as well!)
So, you just keep using XP.

They probably have internal interfaces that aren't forward compatible, and re-factoring anything inside the DoD has got to be stupid expensive.
That paper seems to say that the only reason the guards were abusive is because they were told to be so. But wasn't that the point?
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Ah, didn't notice the daemon mode only notice. But I suppose I also just wonder if it does the job well? I suppose you only notice once something goes wrong. It just strikes me as a strange thing to be in a server core, but the more I read the more this appears to really be a highly opinionated framework with server-y guts.
Couldn't hardly get any more ridiculous or sensationalistic than this: "which was the first in a long series of managment blunders by Nokia's new CEO, Stephen Elop, the most incompetent and damaging CEO of any Fortune 500 sized company in corporate history"

You'd have to be pretty ignorant to have never heard of Enron or Worldcom, both of which were radically more destructive (in every possible sense). If we're talking about value destruction, Long Term Capital Management completely rattled the entire US economy, causing perhaps hundreds of billions in spill over damage. Bank of America and Citi both vaporized a trillion dollars with toxic mortgages, and more than take the cake in destruction. Lehman, Countrywide, and Bear Stearns also exceed anything that has happened at Nokia. The value plunge in Lucent and Nortel after the dotcom bubble (due in part to dangerous customer leveraging), was nearly half a trillion combined, with massive sales and profit drops. Bernie Madoff didn't run a Fortune 500 size company, but the $65x billion he 'managed' might as well have qualified him.

And on and on it goes.

Keeping with the style of the article, I'll just go ahead and declare that since the author was extraordinarily wrong about that one thing, therefore the entire article is pure trash.
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Well, I have been using it since 0.6.x and helping out on freenode IRC and it has been tolerable to good English at least since then. When Igor posted the introduction documents[1] he even had them previewed on the mailing list so that the English could be corrected before posting.

[1] http://nginx.org/en/docs/introduction.html
How are drones different than the helicopters police forces already use?
The author might as well argue that Elop's memo is what sank Palm and RIM too. Would make about as much sense.
salon.com used to have T.S. Eliot reading "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" but the web page that references the audio (http://www.salon.com/2000/10/05/eliot/) no longer has a link to the audio. One of those sad losses to website redesign, I assume.

It was a pleasant reading and of my favorite things to listen to from time to time...I post the comment hoping someone can help me find the link somewhere. So far, I've not had luck.
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I think you have gone off-topic somewhere. Originally this was about whether this VC's shortcuts were tied to likelihood of a good return; now you are either saying not much works or they know what they are doing, i.e. looking for fidgeting works. Or maybe both or neither?
I've been pitched on stupid "next Facebook" ideas, tried to make one (didn't go anywhere), am now developing one as a consultant that is going somewhere and also analyzed securities professionally so I understand some of these difficulties, but my concern is that the essay author's assumption (some in-interview behaviors tend to represent bigger problems that sink startups) is recognized as the missing link between the interview behavior and declining to fund.
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