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A few ways:

1) The "pay" might slow down the founders' progress into a proper founder mindset, i.e. "we need to make revenues, dammit". In that way, it would hurt.

2) Many incubators I've encountered think they're adding value by imposing some kind of structure... requiring milestones, etc. For some startups, this may be suitable, but for others, it's completely wrong and will slow them down, discourage them, or even lead them in the wrong direction.

3) Good advice is worth its weight - bad advice can be the opposite. Get some convincing advice by someone who has no idea what they're talking about, and it could be very costly.
I just finished "A.B.C of relativity" from Lord Bertrand R.
May be a bit old now, but this is more a philosophical book than a scientific, as what is nice in it, is to see such a great (and kind) spirit giving us a way into modernity !
I think there may be something to this. I write pattern/word generation software for use in password cracking and some of the most common English consonant vowel patterns are six characters long. For example, the CV pattern cvccvc matches these proper words and slang words (batman, defcon, summer, winter, bigboy, number, fatdad, hotmom, badguy, soccer, etc). This is just one example of a popular six character pattern, there are more.
I'm curious how this will evolve in the Groovy culture / ecosystem. Will using static type checking become a best practice, with people 'falling back' to dynamic typing only when necessary? Or will people keep using it dynamically, except for "those Java weirdos who don't know any better"?
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So Google got their product out of beta faster than Apple, then? I wonder if Siri will even lose the beta tag in iOS6, but at this point they might have to remove it either way.
I'm sorry, but at what point did I say I was refusing to "expand and learn something new"?
I'll still get there before you.
Cool story, bro.

Edit: OK, I'll bite. Um, so you're telling me, I lack self awareness because I said "fucking childishness" .. and that you understand me on some level because of it. You might want to get down of that high horse of yours.
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Please don't use Facebook as an example, the fact they gave in and built HipHop to get it into C++ spoils it. Are they coding in PHP? Sure! Are they actually using it like it's meant to be used? Not quite!
As it has been pointed out for several times: the adoption of Python 3 is doing just fine. It has never been expected that everybody will be using Python 3 today.

But look at all those current efforts at Canonical, Django, Twisted…it’s not like nothing is happening and we expect a knot to burst. Far from it! Porting started slowly and has gained a momentum by now that has surprised myself. It’s not like we changed the language completely like perl6 did.

In the result, we’ll have a better Python for it.
There is a well known fact about memory and 7: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magical_Number_Seven,_Plus_...

But i don't think it applies to words (other languages are very different)

If you want a (still speculatory) but rigorous take on this: http://www.med.nyu.edu/buzsakilab/content/PDFs/Buzsaki2010Ne...
Good points. Will be great to summ-up all possible drawbacks and make a comparison table for all interesting incubators. What are other bad factors worth considering?

ADD: the biggest drawback I can think of is requiring to have a co-founder when sole founder would do just fine.
It's known as a downlevel revealed conditional comment. You will see it in use in the HTML5 boilerplate. That said, I echo your sentiment, it is an immensely horrid syntax. For more info: http://css-tricks.com/downlevel-hidden-downlevel-revealed/
Awesome narration! Blackbird stories are always great. There is one of a Blackbird taking damage assesment photographs of Libya in 1986. There they were outrunning a SAM missile, the pilot said that its probably the time that the Blackbird was pushed to fly the fastest....
In Austria and Germany the telcos were trying to push a similar technology called "BTX" ("Bildschirmtext", German for "screen text") or "Vtx" (Videotext) but it never really caught on and died even faster when the internet came around. But similar to internet-on-your-TV boxes, there was the "MUPID[1]" supposed to give you access to BTX on your tv!

I remember when I was in France most roadhouses had minitel terminals which you could feed with coins, much like phone booths back in the day or internet-corners nowadays. This was already the time when the internet was slowly starting to spread over here, at least amongst young geeks and seeing the minitel still widely in use like that was really weird for me.

[1] http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=1112&...
"I'm not saying Clojure does the wrong thing here btw, but this thing you're talking about is a fallacy ..."

Please, read exactly.

"... unless you're working in Haskell and even there you could find ways
to screw things up by interacting with the outside world, which isn't
immutable."

The whole point is, that you're able to express immutability and pureness
in a language like Haskell _AND_ have a compiler which can verify it.

You will never be able to prohibit any screwing, but you can make it a lot
harder to screw something.
If Wallace's theory is correct, then there is no reason for me to consider it, since it is just a canned response devoid of thinking, and my response would be similar. If his theory is false, then there is no reason for me to believe it.

The only logical response to his theory is to ignore it.
PHP is like the English language, full of inconsistencies but everyone speaks it.
The radar they are using is a component of the ballistic defense network. Unfortunately, there are a lot of 'mid-course radars' in those schemes. On a hunch, I think they're referring to this one http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/systems/sbx.htm.

It is mounted on a semi-submersible platform.
Almost every web stack at the scale of a Facebook at some points starts writing some part of it in C. Its a pretty consistent pattern.
As a co-founder to one of the companies (ruzuku) that went through the Triangle Startup Factory, I can't recommend the program enough.

Chris and Dave are amazing. They have lots of experience working with startups and they are well connected to the local and national startup scene.

They connected us with a couple of amazing mentors that saw some of the potential that Abe and I had missed and helped us realize that fairly quickly. We've now got a new business model and are kicking ass and taking names. :) And even though the program has ended, our mentors are still involved.

Pitch Day was great. They spent a lot of time the last couple of weeks really helping us refine our pitch -- ended up with a couple of solid pitches. One more of a story meant to generate excitement and another rooted more in the market and financials -- all the details that an investor would be looking for.

Not sure how many people showed up, but there had to have been 200 or more people -- at least, that's what it felt like up on the stage giving our pitch. We're now busy following up with potential investors and executing our new business plan. Crazy, hectic times. And we get to squat at the American Tobacco Campus in the TSF digs at least until the new class arrives.

Their application for the Fall class is tomorrow. You don't have to be located in the Triangle to get in -- at least one of the companies (Berst) was from Chicago and I know several of us had people living and working from other places in the country.

Happy to answer any questions about the program for those considering applying. Also willing to give any advice on how to get in.
To be honest I've not used jruby. It would be interesting to see how it compares to implementations PHP on the JVM such as IBM's WebSphere sMash, and Caucho's Quercus. Do you have any views on the performance of jruby vs hiphop'd PHP?
Anytime I hear microtubules I instantly think Penrose and The Emperor's New Mind
Too bad they didn't keep webOS around...
It's not six bytes patterns but six bit bytes, that can store 2^6 == 64 different values.

Computers nowadays standardized on eight bit bytes, synonymous with octet, but the definition of a byte is actually hardware-dependent.
"Finally, let's use his tool analogy. PHP is a double-clawed hammer. What if your job was to remove nails from wood all day?"

Brilliant.
For people with poor vision like myself it breaks even further. I can't ^+ to make it larger without moving words off the screen and I can't use my readability JS script because their HTML is borked.

:(
In a way, "default escaping" isn't even the way to think of it. There is everywhere functions to emit raw characters and to emit them HTML-encoded. "Default" escaping just means that the function that emits HTML-encoded characters is easy to get at and smoother to use than the raw one.

I understand the debates Django had about changing what the unspecified output function did, but nowadays if you're building a new template language of any kind it's an absolute no-brainer: Make it easier to encode than to bypass encoding. The alternative is just awful.
While this would be ideal for sellers, I don't think many buyers would want to adopt this model, as it would only serve to increase prices.
It's not too late to bring it back.
PHP gets the spear, but objective-c gets a pass? I'm not a PHP dev, but at least I can look at it and understand it.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder I guess.
const_cast and mutable, and gone is any kind of verification.
What is a good non-rules-based approach to teaching why a negative times a negative is a positive? I've seen a proof-through-absurdity showing that if -1 * -1 = -1, then you can make 0 = 2, and a proof using all three negativity permutations, and setting two different distributions equal, showing that ab = (-a)(-b), but the math for both of those approaches seems to be more advanced than the rule.
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It was dismissed as implausible at the time due to the assertion that there was no evidence for biological processes being anything other than classical. Now there has been found a wide range of quantum biological effects, from the action of chlorophyll to the mechanism of our sense of smell, so it seems a lot less implausible than it used to.
Would be cool to have this signed by a trusted-boot key that ends up in all consumer x86 BIOSes, since it will probably be used by a lot of distributions.
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While making a parody of Khan's teaching, they have become the parody of being a critic.
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Yes, I do realize that, that's why I wrote the netbook "is being replaced" and not "has been replaced."
Nobody in Redmond seems to think of a plan B in case the surface is a flop in the market.
I've seen too many multiply encoded things to be so sure this is a good idea.

Plus too many cases of extra backslashes from back in the magic quotes days.
Put Varnish in front of it, quick!
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Everyone's jumping on the PHP bashing. I don't think that's what this blog post was really about. Did you read to the end?

One of the explicit goals of my next project is to do whatever we can to
buff up a ... particular ... open source language ecosystem such that it can
truly compete with PHP in ease of installation and deployment.

Kind of a cliffhanger ending... What are you building, Jeff?
If it turns out to be true that the brain encodes in 6-bit bytes, isn't our 8-bits for a byte extravagant?

I'm reminded that "nature is lazy" and always goes for the easiest and quickest route for efficiency.
I hope they pick Linux based distributions or develop their own. That would be the start of something great.
filiosofor!!!! is one who thinks
If I make a string: '<P>' . $var . '</P>' - does it know to encode the variable, and not the entire string?

What if I assign that string in a variable, and then output it later?

I'm not convinced this can be done well. Maybe if all you do is make some templates and fill them in you could do it. But I do a lot more than that, I output dynamically built html all the time.

Just give people a very easy and shortly named function for escaping.
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I think the price difference is not a small point. The Apple store has the 11" MacBook Air starting at $999. My netbook was around $280 and is a device that does exactly what I need.
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Considering RIM was among the first to open their servers to enforcement agencies the world over, that "security certification" gets quite a sinister double-speak overtone.
I completely agree with you. The problem with PHP (besides the myriad warts of the language and libraries) is the average kind of programmers that use it: 0 code reuse, lots of cut & paste, insecure-by-design philosophy and the culture of 'immediate results': if there's an error fix it fix it for the current page so that the next time you refresh it'll be gone; then fix it on the other pages later. Rinse, repeat.
I went to a government high school in the 90's in South Africa. Experienced teachers were given early retirement and replaced by younger teachers who, through a combination of ineptitude and inexperience, struggled to teach.

My grade 10 and 11 maths teacher couldn't factorise polynomials consistently. She'd often get stuck while halfway through a problem while working on the blackboard. Euclidian geometry was a challenge, and she failed to communicate theorem proving techniques. My Grade 12 (final year) maths teacher was promoted out after 3 months, and replaced by someone who didn't appear in class regularly.

I went for additional after-school maths tution, and I did very well during the exams in the topics that were covered there, but unfortunately we couldn't redo the whole syllabus. So my Higher Grade C for maths, although better than the majority of students in my school (and the country I guess, which has very low, and still-dropping educational standards) was disappointing.

We also had serious problems with our science teacher - retired, and replaced with someone who also never really used to pitch up. My parents bought me physics videos from the Learning Channel, a video-based system, and I managed to get an A. Unfortunately their budget didn't stretch far enough to buy the maths videos as well.

I have watched Khan's videos and I always wish that that sort of service was around back when I was in school. Yes, I, and most of my friends may have been deprived of some conceptual understanding, but at least we would have gotten some teaching. Something is better than nothing, at least for those of us who don't live in US College towns.
The mapping application is simply an app, having been decoupled from the OS back in, I think, 2.3? The labs functionality for offline access has been around for a while, but has been baked into the core app now.

The point being that it isn't an 2.3, 3.0, 4.0, or 4.1 feature. It's a Google Maps feature.
I believe you accidentally the byte?
Apparently Ubuntu is catching on fast in India, and Dell is selling Ubuntu laptops at 850 retail stores in India now, so that might not be such a bad plan for HP either.

http://news.efytimes.com/e1/86247/Ubuntu-Adoption-Grew--Per-...

With publishing houses like EA and Valve joining Ubuntu, and changing the perception that "Linux/Ubuntu is not for mainstream users", and the potential rejection of Windows 8 by the market, this could get interesting fast.
That "single box" needs to be able to support enough instances for our entire development team. This is more hardware and IT maintenance costs. Also, if we are doing network maintenance and wifi goes down, developers have to stop working.

The point is - even that solution costs time and money.
Newer SOC's have hardware support for it.

OMAP4470 supports it in hardware (so galaxy nexus like phones).

OMAP54XX supports it in hardware.

Tegra 3 supports it in hardware.

So just in time for this development ;)
I was going to post that this seems like mere sensationalism, then I noticed the blog's URL.
The concept is interesting, no doubt about it. More and more activities are outsourced (your hosting, your WP site, your customer service, your landing page optimization, etc, etc). When it comes to selling, mostly B2B as they mention, I believe there are long funnels in order to get new customers to pay the bills. Let's see how the concept evolves. Good luck!
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Amen brother. Too many young people these days who have contributed nothing to the building of these major sites think they are entitled to access to them (however they like) and they then cry and moan about it when they do not get what they want, when they want it and how they want it.

I'm sure this will be voted down, but every bit of it is true.
Website is still down, that's a shame - OP can't even get the homepage back online before showing HN.

30 minutes to bring back a homepage is pretty bad man, also your personal homepage http://paulbjensen.co.uk is returning NO CONTENT, is that on the same (bricked) server?
When I read a question that gets into what or is not a "true entrepreneur" all I can think of is:

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

which suggests to me that debating over labels like "true entrepreneur" (or not) or "serial entrepreneur" (or not) is a waste of time.

The same discussion also smacks of a sort of elitism that I associate with the idiots to run around talking about what metal bands are or aren't "tr00 kvlt". None of this strikes me as very productive.
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Microsoft management may have destroyed their partnerships, but they're certainly not imcompetent.

The Surface is the exact thing Microsoft needs to stay relevant for consumers. And if Microsoft can start selling their own hardware, in the end they'll be better and more profitable for it.

What does SemiArrucate thing Microsoft should do? Stay the same course that has seen them losing marketshare for a decade?
Yes, that's what I've been doing (aiming for Consultant instead of manager).

Another issue which is largely unsaid, but was in one interview when I made final round interview with the Partner, was that I was possibly "too old" for Consultant level for most of the larger firms doing the international work I'm most interested in. I was older than all of their managers and he had concerns they wouldn't be able to give me instructions. My reply was that I was willingly going in at that level to learn and if feel intimidated to give me instructions, that says more about their own potential and level of confidence.
Reopen closed tab? Google Chrome for iOS.
Anonymous hackers targeted wrong website
Sometimes nature takes the hard path.
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Not brilliant. You can use a regular hammer just fine to pull nails out of wood all day AND to nail the occasional one in should the need arise.
It surprised me, considering the original developers of facebook (Zuckerberg, Moskovitz) were doing Computer Science degrees why they chose PHP to build it in initially. Did they consider other languages, or frameworks.

I'd be surprised if they chose PHP because of future hireability / scaling up. I'd guess they didn't give it much thought and PHP was just there.
Time to file a bunch of "Corporate culture in rapid decline/freefall" bugs...
http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=4164025
GWT too. Not having escaping by default by now, in 2012, is just plain backward.
I think I found the answer to my question.

`openssl engine -t` seems to do the trick.

This is useful for configuring nginx with aes-ni http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,181676
It's a mindset that is prevalent in all provincial markets (not the geographic type). There is zero that is special about Canada.

I see these same comments each time and it kind of burns me. Nortel went to conquer much of the world. Under that Canadian management. Then they passed their zenith and failed, like countless companies before. RIM conquered much of the world. Under that Canadian management. Then they passed their zenith and failed, like countless companies before.

To see the same boring comments every time that imagines that only the latter part happened -- completely ignoring the events that led to that even being possible -- someone showing the chip on their shoulder (e.g. someone didn't listen to their ideas. Damn Canadian management!)...it's just such garbage analysis. It is so shallow and instantly discardable.
They've been losing market share for over a decade? I would love to see some real numbers on that.
For me, it has everything to do with avoiding pain points on the consumers end. Keeping a consistant design/feel means Apple doesn't have to teach consumers new skills. Other platforms have to differentiate with size, shape, and OS. Each one requeres a transitional learning period.

Take siri for example. Apple is running a ton of celebrity ads just to show people how to use it, because siri is too different for the average person. Luckily for Apple, its just a feature, not the core product. Just like a new Android device, people will get used to siri eventually. The difference is the iPhone consistency makes the essential phone experience seamless.
I get your point, and it's important to get s¤% done. But you have to at least consider that what's easy right now might not be the easiest in the long run.

Maybe a little OT, but I can't shake the feeling that he's going to introduce some nasty security bugs if he's hacking on php code without knowing what he's doing. Might not matter, but then again someone could find it and completely ruin his small business.

(of course you can write "secure" code in php, but you need some knowledge to do so..)
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Seriously, Flash just needs to die and the sooner the better. It's horrible. I'm not even talking programming here (I know nothing about Flash programming). It's a horrible user experience.

One of the things I'm thankful to Apple for is in them taking a stand against this horrible experience and hastening its demise. Lack of Flash on iOS is a feature.

Flash isn't horrible per se. It's horrible because Adobe is completely incompetent in making it run stably and on platforms other than Windows (and even there it's a stretch). Were they competent and the Flash experience just worked, I'd be fine with it.

The suckiness of Flash is what's driving the adoption of HTML5/JS because, let's face it, HTML5/JS isn't exactly a mature platform yet.

I just wish there was a way I could run a browser with Flash even installed without being bugged by "You're missing plugins. Would you like to install them?" Flashblock, Click-to-Flash and the like help but I'd rather not have the software installed at all.

It makes me sad that Chrome bundles Flash and can't have it conveniently extracted either.

To be fair, Apple didn't kill Flash (much as I'd like to give them credit for it). Adobe did.
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What makes you say that? I mean, what kind of signals would you expect to hear from Redmond in case they did have a plan B? Obviously they do and just as obviously plan B's are almost never public.