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This is confusing b/c there are 2 javascript environments involved. Let's pretend that instead of being written in javascript, it was written in ruby/python/c. Now it would look like this: "A (client-side) javascript package manager written in ruby/python/c"

It's not for managing node.js packages, it's for managing client-side .js packages, and it just happens to be written in javascript to be run by node.js
They would still have a chance in the business market.
We use mono on linux to share logic and data structures between server and (unity) client. Works great.
#4 is why you really should be using ntpd(8): after syncronization, NTP will try to slew the clock if the difference is less than 128ms, step it if it's offset is between 128ms and 1000ms, and will exit with an error if the offset changes to be greater than 1000ms.
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From what I understand, the problem with x68 is the lack of processors that can compete with ARM on battery life, which is one of the most important aspects of a portable device.
no flash here and it (yt link) played fine

edit: no flash or silverlight, and yet both the MS video and the youtube one play fine
Microsoft invested way more in gaming division than it made.

I doubt Microsoft would ever recover that investment.
I'm not sure I follow your argument that they can't compete in the hardware/software market based on the design of their webpage. Scroll down the About page [1] and I don't see much that's different from the iPad page [2].

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en/us/about.aspx

[2] http://www.apple.com/ipad/
This is a terrible idea[see edit]. What incentive is there for any store to use this system when they're providing their data in a single easy to query location? Brick and mortar stores have custom because of brand loyalty, a large part of brand loyalty is saying "I shopped around twice and both times x was cheaper, I'll assume x is always cheaper and use them". Now imagine if every time a consumer wanted something they would just type "product" on their PC and get told "product x is cheapest at: y". Boom, brand loyalty is gone, nobody would go to their "favourite" store any more because there would be no favourites.

Yes, big stores like walmart and competitors compete on $0.01 (and openly advertise that they're $0.01 cheaper) but any store that isn't providing grocery type items doesn't, although maybe England is unique and in America it's different? I know that this idea would not work in England.

edit: when I say terrible idea I mean it's deeply flawed and has serious drawbacks for a party involved. The idea would be great if nobody were to lose out; but then if that were the case this would have already happened.
Funny that the spec sheet is a PDF, which none of Microsoft's shipping operating systems or browsers have native support for.
I don't want to be too harsh but haven't most people had this idea before?

I know I have and I immediately dismissed it because you would have to get the business co-operation of many retailers for it to be any use (and what is in it for them?).

You would have to develop your own software, ok fine.
You would have to integrate with all these retailers archaic inventory systems which you probably would not be allowed to touch, so you have to convince the retailers do make the changes...good luck.

The whole article seemed a bit "I have a $100 billion idea, make a moonbase and mine Helium 3, you just have to do X Y Z "
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> Early models of the now-famous Linksys WRT54G could
> reliably be crashed by torrenting while using stock
> firmware. A power-cycle was necessary to get it
> running again. Fun times.

I had an older Linksys model, but it would get into a state where the max bandwidth it would allow would be 32kB/s.
But if you can build a critical mass, stores won't have much choice; if they don't submit their data, they'll lose out on lots of customers.
http://milo.com/retailers/get-started

Pitch on Milo is more "share your inventory" rather than "manage your inventory with incredible easy." Subtle but important difference in the pitch's underlying meaning...

Based on Milo's integration list it sounds like there's lots of inventory software out there already. Not sure how much of it is "great". Suspect a lot of it needs to leverage RFID, handheld scanners, etc.

For anyone moving on this, think about hardware compatibility that's drop-dead-simple for storeroom, warehouse workers, and the guy who's unloading the truck to use. This is one part web app, 99 parts warehouse app from the retailer's point of view.
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The most useless QR code I saw was this movie poster http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/i/2011/08/19/Martha-Marcy-poster_... which led to a website... wait for it... in flash! (and yes, I could have flash on my Android, but I chose not to)
which redirects to http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/pixelsense/default.aspx

I see the old Surface is now known as the Samsung SUR40
It was a bug in Lotus 1-2-3 that was intentionally implemented into Excel, so technically it was a backwards-compatibility "feature". And some items from the original list aren't exactly "truths" as much as implementations or configurations, e.g.

> 19. The system clock will never be set to a time that is in the distant past or the far future.

> 20. Time has no beginning and no end.
OK, thanks. Updated in github and on the blog.
Actually the ”ClearType Display” makes sense if they cannot provide Retina-like screens at reasonable price and have to settle for subpixel rendering…
But they can't create critical mass without access to data from those stores. It's chicken and egg, and it's flawed in more ways than one.
I had a similar issue I raised in their forums (too lazy to Google it now) where something in my configuration led to a repeatable restart of the router each time. Denial of service, thus a security vulnerability. They were rude and arrogant. I left for Tomato.
Agreed on the warehouse app part. The only way to really do it would be to have an app that could scan in a box and add 40 umbrellas to your inventory, then subtract 1 at every checkout. Integration throughout the whole supply chain would be crucial.
Had this idea a few years ago. It would basically help local retailers to remain relevant with online retail. Hardest part is linking into a real-time inventory count of every local store... which is such a pain in the arse that it's not worth it.
Boom, brand loyalty is gone, nobody would go to their "favourite" store any more because there would be no favourites.

You are assuming a store like walmart doesn't differentiate itself from other stores by having an easier return policy, or that target doesn't differentiate itself with a nicer store.

If you could get 1 store to adopt this system, others may follow since they would be losing out to store 1. Would it take a while? Yes, Would it be really, really tough, yes. Has it happened before in other industries? Absolutely:
Airlines,
Hotels,
Its happening with cars, carwoo.
etc. etc. etc.

So, while you may think it is a terrible idea, and it very well may be a terrible idea, it could also be a very achievable idea.

To me, it is more like the steam engine concept. It may not happen exactly as the OP describes it, but my guess is it will happen in time no matter what.

[added] for those that say no store will ever agree, that is a really bold assumption. You may be right, but if you just worked on getting 1 store in 1 industry online, then got a competitor, then got another one it could work.
So we can all add value by collectively forgetting web storefronts that exisfed previously? And indeed might yet exist?
How about an idea that keeps us from having to rediscover everything once every eight years? I am being serious.
I agree that's a nice use case (to get details about a grill in a store), but it's not an example of advertising.

Even for that use case, QR codes seem like an interim solution, while we wait for better recognition apps (photo [of object or tag] -> recognition software -> search -> detailed info about object). An example of this is the Google Goggles app (which is not to be confused with Google Glass):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Goggles
I realize you're quite possibly kidding, but it's just an optional extra - quick call to TW then swapping the wifi modem for a plain old modem and it's off the bill. Easier than cancelling HBO certainly.
I don't see how it would ever get to a critical mass situation. The only stores that would take part are those already competing on price, big chain stores, stores that already take part in large price comparison sites.

Again, maybe England is different, but we have this sort of thing here for large chains, there is a site called mysupermarket.co.uk that will take your shopping list and tell you which supermarket is cheapest.

Why would a small store (the sort that aren't already engaged in this sort of thing) willingly signup to be pitched against their competitors in a race to the bottom? It's nonsensical. My mother shops at specific stores for specific goods because over the years of custom she has had a good experience with their pricing and service, she views the good experience she's had as justification for not shopping around, "they've always been good to me so spending time looking around at new shops to maybe save 2% isn't worth it" but if she could just type "umbrella" into a website and instantly be told which shop is the best for that item she'd no longer be loyal to that shop.

Retail isn't the hackernews world of SaaS, people don't choose to spend an extra 20% every time because "it's a good brand", "the founders are good people", they choose primarily based on price and service is a small part of it, a part most people will sacrifice to save 10%.
This is one of those ideas that you really have to think from both sides. On the consumer side I get this really cool App which I click "I wanna buy a foo" and Blam! every place that both sells and has a foo in stock is right there on the page. Awesomesauce!

Ok now look at it from the vendor side. I'm running my store, I need to make $2500 - $25,000 a day to make payroll. I carry a bunch of products, I don't make them, I just resell them. This kid is offering me a free inventory management service, that's really cool since inventory turns is one of the ways I manage my business, but they offer it to everyone. Now stocking X doesn't make a lot of sense if everyone stocks it, or I use the App to look for things stores around me don't stock and I add some of those, except they do the same thing. So now we're carrying the same stuff and we're in a race to the bottom in terms of margin. If I put my price on the item then the fact that there is a wall mart 2 miles left of here and sells it for 1/2 what I do will be painfully apparent. I'll get very little 'exploratory' business because people won't even come in to check on something if they know I don't have that one thing they are looking for even if I do have things that they ARE looking for but forgot they needed. Pass.

The 'big brand' stores almost all have a 'find it at a store near you' and there is probably a week of Node.js and UX work to create an App that goes out and wiggles all of those search boxes and simulates what you want. It can't tell you that Bobs Sporting Goods has an umbrella but if you're in your car and it can get you within a couple of miles you're probably ok with it.

So to pursue something like this you have to make it at least marginally useful for the people who sell stuff. And to understand them you have to 'walk a mile' in their shoes. That is the hard part, getting honest feedback about what they are going through.

That said, if you do spend the time to find their problems there are easily a dozen $100M ideas lurking in there to be solved.
IMHO you will change your tune with more time and experience; numerics are often more portable and unambiguous than string or serialized-object alternatives... e.g., if you pass around datetimes as "int64 count of 100-ns intervals since 1-1-1601 UTC" there is little opportunity for someone who doesn't know how to use it to get a quasi-usable yet incorrect datetime out of it.

Also note, there are plenty of database systems that either have no proper datetime datatype, or have primarily datetimes that include no TZ info.
For people who want productivity software suits like Office from lighter computers, they have online versions of Office.
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And I think it makes a big difference that they're meaningfully aiming to transcend the iPad, not just imitate it.
Actually, Windows 95 looked better than KDE does today. So... yeah, I probably wouldn't mind if my current desktop looked like win95.
Bugs happen. Especially thoughtless ones.

The title might better have been "Things programmers have tried to do with time."
$80-100m is far far too cheap. I think face.com made a poor decision here. Facebook will now be able to develop a system that will be able to recognize faces in any future or past photos (obviously including the 100s of billions they already have) and to link that face to a name and a bunch of demographic data. 3-5 years down the line, this ability will be incredibly powerful (think Minority Report, HUD overlays etc).
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And if the corporate world is a large target for the Surface, then it'll be expected to run with A/V software from the big vendors, regardless of what MS bundles with it. I have to run McAfee on each and everyone of my RHEL servers, despite the majority of them not having unfettered access to the Internet nor an email client.
The technology discussion on reddit is almost always anti-Apple to the point where I would consider them obsessed. Coupled with the memes and jokes, there's just no comparison to HN discussion when new tech is announced.
This is a good idea, but maybe not a billion dollar idea. When was the last time you needed to find a product immediately, regardless of store (and had trouble doing it)? It couldn't be more than once or twice in the last week. It sounds like a novelty, not a necessity.

You are 100% prepared to pursue this idea. Build the best inventory software that you can and give it away for free. If what you make is easier to use than the current average solution, you'll be able to find someone to use it. You don't need anyone's permission or approval.
It's possible they missed the wisdom in it -- this is one of the great talks.
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All that experiment proved is early 90s was not a right time for technology like Newton. Nothing more.
Thanks for sharing. I did not have the same prejudices against Asus' other products, but I did for their routers. (Twice bitten anecdotal evidence re: routers)
It's not just that you're "not ready" to commit. If it really is a 10 year idea as you believe, that's a huge risk and opportunity cost especially since the quality of the idea often doesn't determine success but rather the execution, the competition, and "luck" (aka. the tons of tiny little factors you can't plan for).

I commend you for not committing to such a huge idea. You need to start with something way smaller, probably fail, learn from it, start again, fail, learn, fail,... succeed (maybe).
Have you ever tried to sell anything to a brick-and-mortar chain? Price is not a concern, they have money. The sales process involves convincing a number of stakeholders, and this is much costlier (to them) than whatever they end up paying for your product.

Regardless of what you intend to charge for your software, your first customer would be "chartered" (they wouldn't pay much, if at all). You'd get in the door because your wife is friends with the daughter of the CFO of BigBoxChain, or something like that.

All of the above is doable of course, but the idea itself is worth nothing. It's 100% sweat. All about execution, in other words.
Lol. This is the kind of shit I'm talking about. In my head jashkenas looks just like this guy when he writes like this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7c/Lulz_Sec...
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The product is demanded in the departmental stores and on the web site to the product is not available in the drug stores for the customers. The particular brand is not sold in any discount rate so it can’t be found in the discount outlets too.
I might need to clarify my point, I don't mean companies like Target or Walmart that have huge numbers of outlets, these companies already compete on $0.01 differences, these companies (in England at least) already do the sort of thing the post describes.

I'm talking about the "normal" stores, the ones that might have 1 or 2 locations in one city, or have 2 or 3 locations across the country, the stores that rely on brand loyalty and don't compete with their competitors on $0.01 difference.

No small business would ever choose to compete on $0.01 price differences; the idea the OP is proposing would cause exactly this.
Odd. I've never had any trouble scanning them, even on my old G1. The camera on that thing had trouble with normal UPCs at times.
The same was true of the original iPhone. No 3g. $600 with a contract. No third party apps. Yet people routinely quote everyone (me included) who said it sucked and wouldn't sell well, even though it did miss its sales targets even after price drops.

That's just the way pontificating works in the internet age.
Why can't those conversations occur normally? Is it that they aren't considered real work?
> for reasons other than their gaming knowledge.

Well said. It's fairly obvious when you see some of the women reviewing games online for famous publications/websites : they play by the looks. That Kotaku writer may be an exception. People reason with rules of thumbs, and the rule of thumbs is that women involved in gaming professionally are not all hired because of their skills and knowledge as gamers.
I think every entrepreneur has had this idea. They did not pursue for the same reason why you did. Besides, your never ends up the way you initially planned.
This sounds like http://shopping.google.com/ . Type in fitbit for example and you'll see local store listings.
Let's keep some perspective. The vast majority of software applications don't use dates from the 18th century so it's fine to for your app to assume that the Gregorian calendar always was and always will be.
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Ok, your argument is that this stuff works for the other 95% but it won’t appeal to us hackers. My question to you is, how does Apple make ads that appeal to the rest of the world and something like 75% of the hackers?

When the iPhone first came out, there was no nonsense about the brand and emotion without substance. They made EVERYONE want one.

Microsoft may have chosen not to appeal to us. But Apple has shown that you can do both.
One recommendation I have is to try to get a security guru on your team. LedgerSMB would be nowhere near as secure if it weren't for the efforts of Seneca Cunningham early on in the project. My coding and sensitivity to these issues has greatly improved.
One thing to think about is, as a brick and mortar store, you might not want to move all your products from your inventory storage of 15 years, over to a new inventory system. Free or not, it's a PITA. It's especially painful if you're the store with the higher product pricing.

Another thing to consider is, many people shop by convenience, not by price. I always pay for convenience. Not worth it to drive 5 miles out of my way to save $1.

Not to say the idea couldn't work, and most startups are 3-4 years in the making before most people even hear about them.
Ah, my apologies. Somehow I managed to miss that part despite reading that comment and the replies several times over.

At any rate, jrockway is a known troll. Should've known better than to enter this fight.
Cool story bro.

Did you look at the actual main aspect of this simple tool, or just the one folder with the server-script? As previously mentioned. The main aspect of this is the automatic _Django Project Builder_, not "a collection of fragile scripts to get basic stuff done".
Or perhaps her blog post is her attempt to begin thinking things through.

I am 47, a good bit older than most people posting on HN or writing tech blogs. I did a lot of journalling pre-internet, thus only read by me and sometimes my therapist. I now routinely examine my belly button in public, but a lot of what I write is stuff I have thought about deeply for many years. I assure you I threw myself plenty of pity parties when I was younger. In fact, I eventually stopped doing therapy because I reached a point where I felt that whining and crying to a therapist was helping me to keep alive a victim mentality and victim self image and I wanted to genuinely move on. But first I had to go through all that.

Both sexes are struggling to leave behind old paradigms. We all have a growth process to go through.

But certainly have an upvote for furthering the discussion.
Ahh, too bad. Thanks though :)
I think there should just be a font and border standard that is easily isolated and orc'd. That would make the human readable url and the device scannable URL one in the the same.

But I realized something about QR codes. Though they can contain any text, the vast majority of the time they're URLs. But they're not just base URLs. They contain query variables that people couldn't be bothered to type in, but which let the advertiser know which exact code (or which print run at least) was scanned.
The better replacement will just be NFC once it becomes popular.
This looks like you put a lot of work into this. Thanks for open sourcing it.
Whenever I do a fresh windows install, it's a race to turn off cleartype before I get a headache.
Isn't Red Laser working on this problem?
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Really disappointing to see someone's work get trashed. Rock on for open sourcing it.
You could argue that EBay has something like this already, including the ability to search within your location. Its just that the majority of their products are second hand, but there is commercial sellers of new products on there too.

The main impediment to ideas like this are getting the critical mass of users to make it worthwhile for both the buyers and the sellers.
I´m not necessarily defending the movie, but I don´t think that Janek actually "solved" it, but I do think that that´s what they want us to believe. The black goo is not an weapon IMHO, but a way to accelerate the evolutionary process in a planet, bringing forth more adaptable lifeforms (without preserving the previous ones). That´s what is shown in the beginning of the movie. The engineers could be responsible for rapid evolutionary bursts throughout the history of our and other worlds.

Perhaps we, as a species, weren´t simply done yet. Something still had to burst out our collective chests in order for us to actualize our genetic potential. Maybe the xenomorphs were the ultimate monkeys out of which the definitive mankind would evolve from.

Piss poor execution though.