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Pixar uses Perforce. Over 1000 users, 12 million ops/day, 40 million changelists, 115 million files, >20 TB data, and accessed by 12,000 cpu renderfarm. If you're dealing with large amounts of binary data it's basically a solved problem and Perforce is the answer. An expensive answer but an answer.

http://www.perforce.com/sites/default/files/storageforfilmas...
Free Software is about user rights. If you are fine with having your rights restricted by the software provider, then this kind of freedom is not for you.

But I like my own freedoms and I'll avoid buying software that prevents me from exercising them.
You make the internet a truly amazing place.
Hey, I responded there, but I'm pretty confused about what you're proposing. Email me at eric@padmapper.com?
> it's the NPR model

So for one week every six months, you'd go to your Trello projects and instead of being able to use them normally, you could use them for five minutes at a time before you had to listen to a 10 minute plea for money that wouldn't stop even if you donated right away?
My Drop Shipping Business' Fulfillment Process
US Treasury Launches Mobile App Design Challenge / $25,000.00 Total Prize Purse
For systems with a keyboard and a mouse, Windows 8 is just Windows 7 with a new, full screen start menu.

If you unplug your keyboard and mouse, you get a UI that is designed for touch.

Makes sense to me.
Data centers can usually be debt funded - the data center is the security.
I'll finish up cljs/lua and i might give a hand :)
Windows 8 is 2 operating systems for a price of one, that's one of the few positive things about it :)

Metro is nice for tablets but it's clearly inefficient as a desktop OS. Efficiency and features are more important than original and pretty UI.
I am a Mixergy fan, but I have been debating about canceling.

It is a great show, and Andrew is wonderful. That's the problem. It's easier for me to listen to other people's success stories than to write my own. I am concerned that I spend too much time learning how to be successful and not enough time actually working on being successful. Rarely at this point do I feel that the barrier is because there is some knowledge that I did not know, but rather because of failure to ship. It's possible that my perception is wrong, but obviously I do not think so, or else I would change my perception.

If I was able to contain it to one hour a week, it would be fine. But the problem is finding that one interview that is most optimal this week. He turns out too many high-quality interviews even to evaluate.

It's hard for me to evaluate objectively what is the right balance between genuinely helpful consumption and genuinely valuable production. I seem to oscillate quite a bit from week to week, and so I wonder to what extent my opinion is reactionary. But my thinking lately is that I do not make effective use of the resources I have available to me. Improving the quality of the signal is only good if it makes a net improvement at some point, it is no good if the signal runs straight into earth ground. I am not saying that consumption is non-useful at all, we are at different stages, etc. I am just wondering if I have personally been overestimating the utility of consumption to the detriment of production.

I also do not have a commute, so I do not have the "how do I make use of this dead time?" question that swombat seems to have. That may play a role in my analysis.
Oh look, copying 200GB of data across the network is slow. I wonder how long it will take.
Many people do not realize that Github has an enterprise product called github:enterprise. Aside the money they raised for this round, there are also help comes together from the VC, Andreessen Horowitz in this case.

I don't have any experience in enterprise sales. But, from what I know, enterprise isn't a market that the best product always wins. Yes, Github definitely has one of the best products out there. But, they definitely don't have the required experience to push their enterprise product to the market(look at the developers heavy team). The VC will definitely help in this case.

Now, look at another similar product in the market, Atlassion, which raised about 60 millions almost two years ago from Accel. That was also after years of bootstrapping from Atlassian itself. 2 years ago, the funding market was definitely not as good as the funding market today. Yet, Atlassian managed to raise 60 millions. So, the 100 millions Github raised today seems reasonable to me.
I bet nobody here as anything bad to say about the exceptional skills of the github team. However such a huge investment may force them to "overscale" in order to be able to reach the expected return (by the VC).

As some communities, e.g. the Ruby community, is approx. based 99% on github, I fully understand and have a strange feeling myself. Time will tell if TPW and AH can work together and make an even bigger success.
What's wrong with aspartame? I consume that every day and am a lot skinnier than most people.
Python is out for iOS
Too bad this device will run neither iOS nor OSX.
Your body reacts to the sweetness and produces insulin, which when not paired with actual sugars, turns into fat. This is known as "Insulin Resistance" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin_resistance)
What "whole anarchism thing" are you referring to?
I'd say you are wrong.

GitHub has 1,784,455 members. That alone is probably 5% of coders.

There are still many millions more people out there that have heard of GitHub, or downloaded code via GitHub, but don't have an account.
frankly, I have no idea, but win/mac users love to app-everything and except people with IT background, if you can't install and click on something it's like it doesn't exist. linux community is a bit different, and when you narrow the target: using linux + using git + using github, the probability he needs a desktop client is very low and it wouldn't get so much traction.

I work on linux and I often use gui tools for my hg/git repos, but it's eclipse extensions where I do my code, I can't even think of a use case for a standalone gui app.
Probably, but I'm guessing it's more convenient (and easier) to use gloves. Do you really want to haul a Kinect everywhere you might need someone to talk to you?
In case you don't know, it is extremely common, if not required, for startup types to use the services of their putative competitors. This isn't done to undermine them, but simply for market research, to see how other people are doing stuff. I don't know where you get that this would be distasteful.
Okay, that is interesting.
Does this need users to hold smartphones flat? If so, how inconvinient!
The demo in this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoWs0c5TeTA&feature=play...) seems to handle carts moving around pretty well.
That's a good question, but I don't think it's the right question.

It all depends on how secure it is. You can have a very unsecure API that no one will touch or an incredibly secure API that no one will use because it's too difficult.

Creating an API is not the problem. Finding the right balance of security and convenience is the problem.
An alternative point of view is that people are complaining on HN to warn others about scammers and unsavory companies in their mix.

Without being able to name and shame, how are we supposed to create a social stigma towards the bad players?

I realize that the author spent more effort in drafting the complaint than in entering the contest but isn't that a good thing? Many scams rely on people being unwilling to complain when they are nickle and dimed.
I suspect a good chunk of that money is secondary and going to the founders and employees.
Well... The difference between what has been show of Windows 8 and the preview versions you can download and run are small when compared to the Longhorn PDC'03 video and what was actually delivered as Vista.

In fact, the PDC'03 Longhorn is still light-years ahead of Windows 8.
There are a ton of shopping carts available for "traditional" warehouse-based merchants, but hardly any designed with the drop shipper in mind, which is crazy given the huge number of ships that utilize drop shipping.

If anyone is thinking about coding up a new cart - or a variation of an open source one - you might want to consider a drop shipping specific cart. I know I'd be really interested....
Under OSX I used a tool called KeyRemap4MacBook which adds an item to the control panel that lets you reconfigure keys. I just tested it, you can can disable the escape key, but Ctrl-[ still works like you'd expect.
Oh hey there :) How's your biz going since we last talked? We should catch up again some time ...
Drew, what's your biggest challenge with shipping?
The latter. But to be fair, only my accusation is unfounded, the OA seems legit.
I'm not sure there is a correlation between little money and making great products - that's a link people (specially incubators and accelerators) try to force-feed on everyone's throats, but I'm not convinced if having no money produces better/more companies/products than having "too much" money. Anyway, that's all unrelated to the topic here :-)

If you give someone a short enough rope, they'll never be able to get out of the hole...
"It raises the question about whether there is an opportunity for an alternative to Twitter to emerge, and what it would take for it to establish a foothold."

I'd say there certainly is an opportunity for an alternative to Twitter or any established site, just as there was room for Facebook to dethrone MySpace and Google to dethrone Yahoo! and all the rest.

The much harder part is establishing a foothold. Twitter was founded by an established player and gained initial users from the core tech people long before it gained wide acceptance. Facebook had Harvard and college campuses long before the parents of those students joined Facebook.

What group will adopt the Twitter alternative first?
Main discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4217722
This is the most accurate comment on Windows8 that I've seen so far.

I'm a developer so I had no problem playing around with Windows8 DevPreview and ConsumerPreview.

However, if you gave Windows8 to someone who doesn't even know how to navigate the filesystem properly, they will just get mad. Unfortunately this happens to be, by far, Windows' largest market.
Honestly curious here, why is stevia excluded from the list in the article? It would seem to fall under the same process and cause equal amount of harm? Or is it the naturalistic fallacy at work?
There's a permanent mirror of it: https://github.com/mirrors/linux
I realize it's a statement of praise, but I think Marc is legendary in the valley and an immensely successful investor/veteran of the business. Implying that he'd be in the running to become an employee at GitHub just felt off. Again, hard to put it into words.
Could not be timed more perfectly. Was just about to start a subscription service for the API on http://sharedcount.com

Thanks for open sourcing this!
imap jk <Esc>

Hitting jk in insert mode for escape is wonderful.
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I think he must be referring to the change of scrolling direction in 10.7. That stymied me for over ten seconds.
Ask HN: Anybody here have experience in event production? 
Especially marketing experience.

If so, I'd like to ask you some questions if you have some time.

stevenj134 at google's mail

Thanks!
This guys tried to promote their product with a "fake" contest! I really hate this types of "startups"!

As somebody already wrote - use their competitors insead!
After wrangling with some HP TouchSmarts, I agree. The hitboxes suck, the on-screen keyboard is fatiguing after a few sentences, and playing a game with touch only sounds like work.

Eventually you forget that your PC has a touchscreen. Even when you do remember that you can just jab something with your finger, your internal context-switching brain-lobe-thing tells you to not bother because the next few micro-tasks will involve the keyboard and mouse anyway.
What trite linkbait.
If you get stuck at "waiting for server", make sure you're not using Java 7. I installed it yesterday to play with Google Collide and light table wasn't working.

Light Table is better than collide anyway :-P
There's an obvious slippery slope you don't want to go down: Just shelling out to shut up any random guy with a dropbox account or even be bullied into responding publicly to said random guy. Assuming, of course, you're sure you did everything right. We have, as you point out, only heard one side of the story.

Right now, the fallout, as in negative publicity, is pretty limited. The guy comes off as bitter and with an axe to grind. If you're in the market for the product and you come across this thread or the current five clicktivists on twitter, are you going to steer clear of the product?

Of course, they shouldn't be smug or arrogant if they happen to be forced to respond later, but ignoring at this stage is definitely the right strategy IMO.
I am sorry, but there is no such thing as a 'x86 Windows RT tablet'. Windows RT, by definition, is an ARM OS.
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Double morals are twice as good
Have you considered flagging this story?
F*ck this guys! This startup really does not deserve our attention! From what I see you are the winner!
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Always good to stumble upon fellow alums from the "best French engineering school" here on HN :)
Andrew's stuff is in a league all it's own.
enterprise sales are radically different than open source evangelism, b2c sales, and small biz sales.

The difference is (literally and metaphorically) there is are suits involved.

A few key thoughts which are likely to apply:

- Per-customer customizations

- $100K+ per sale per customer

- 3 month to 3 year sales cycles

- Usable on Windows XP and IE6 (most likely).

- Certifications/audits (e.g., ISO9001).

I can easily see hiring 20-30 guys to sell/consult/customize for the enterprise market.
I think it's a balance just like anything else.

In high school, nothing was safe from my tinkering and everything was extremely fragile but also extremely tailored to fit my usage. In college, I found myself practicing a sort of configuration asceticism where all I needed to be productive was standard bash and vim. However, now that I'm a full-time software engineer I've found that by investing some time into configuration, I've optimized my common-case workflows tremendously and am much more productive as a result of it.

I think I'm still tremendously comfortable with just the bare necessities, and I agree that having this sort of habit makes context switching a lot easier, especially on foreign machines where you can't make many assumptions about what people have.

I think the decision point is centered on how much you find yourself context switching between setups. Personally, I'm only ever on one or two
I've listened to Andrew's interviews several times. He's the best at prodding to get an answer in the nicest way possible, and sometimes that leads to the most insightful comments from the entrepreneurs.
So are you saying Microsoft should force people to use either touch or mouse on a device, but not both? What if your device supports both touch and mouse, for example a notebook with a touch screen? Windows 8 will have to approach that head-on if they are going to have tablets that simultaneously support touch, mouse, tablet, or even Kinect-like gestures via the camera.
Oops - meant to reply here. http://www.livestrong.com/article/536467-does-stevia-affect-...
I like and respect swombat, and Andrew seems like a great guy who is on a mission, but this subject is a lot more complex than just people randomly nay-saying anything that gets posted on HN (which happens).

The problem is that there is simply way too many people wanting way too much money for stuff. Everybody that has a business model that includes startups is doing some kind of Chinese Math that begins with "if we can take 1 million startups and help them make 50K per year, and then we only ask for 20% of their profit in return...."

The problem is that most startups fail, even with the super-awesome help you are providing. That means there's no money for anything. There are far too many companies selling the dream of doing X instead of X itself. So yes, I can provide you with a master class on product positioning, and hell, at the end of the day you can even feel like you've learned something and took lots of action items, but did I actually help you position your product? Or just give you stuff to do in the "product position" space? Acceptance critera has to be either "this mandatory overhead" or "this directly generated X amount of sales". That's it. Leads don't count (unless you've established a pipeline and can demonstrate it works). Being pleased with content -- even having a great feeling after consuming content and picking up things you feel are really useful -- doesn't count.

Like I said, I'm not trying to knock Andrew. For the few interviews I've seen, he's doing a bang-up job, and if the issue is just what to pay for quality entertainment, I'd much rather pay 20 bucks a month for that kind of content than something silly like a cable movie channel. I'm just saying that over a period of years I have grown exceptionally careful about spending money on anything. It's way too easy to spend more for stuff than you'll ever make back.

Want to know where I feel like I've picked up the most value? Serendipity. Some guy posts a random link on HN. I'm doing a Google search on one thing and come across something else. Those kinds of things only happen once every year or two for me. If I had my way I'd make a big house and invite the top 100 scrappy entrepreneurs to live there while I just hung out. Now that would be worth making a sacrifice and taking a gamble. Once again, this has nothing to do with this particular offer. Some kinds of information transfer work best in an interview/publish-subscribe format. Some work best in a P2P, informal, indirect setting. To me at least, important startup lessons seem to fall into the second category.
Disintermediation -- getting your users used to coming to my site to look at your data is the first step to making you irrelevant and forgettable. PM knows who the renters and the listers are; it's a small step to convince some listers to list with PM first. Maybe PM will agree to repost on CL as well, but as long as listers come to PM first, the relationship between PM and CL is flipped.

Eric might protest that all he wants is to save apartment hunters from minutes of work. The reality is that PM's long-term viability depends on him getting acces to some of that listing fee cash, which almost defintely means reducing CL's revenue. Unless you think he's going to convince agents to pay twice to get in front of an overlapping set of viewers.
From what I remember of the demo, the desktop is for the Intel version only and the arm version is 100% metro. Just google'd this though and couldn't find anything confirming either way.

If this is confusing people on HN, think what it will be like for consumers since the two devices look very similar. Imagine trying to explain to someone that their laptop can't run software X that someone else's otherwise identical (or near enough) laptop can because "it has an ARM chip not an intel one".

Instead of saying " Supports Windows 8 " , non metro software will now have to say " Supports Windows8* "

I wonder how many developers will bother with metro since we already have a bewilderingly huge choices of platforms to support with our software, including "Just give up and do a web app".
It's a lot easier for some people to avoid what they think are everything processed than some processed things.

In reality, they're surely still eating processed things, but they THINK they aren't, and placebo is all it takes sometimes.
Sounds like the makings of a YC W12 Company.

loud.ly - Complain with the crowd.
According to the rules you were supposed to add a few words to the default tweet which you didn't...

I still think it is unfair that they weren't honest - the least they could have done was post a ladder with ranking so you could where you sat. It might have cleared the air a bit? If they say you were disqualified then you would have realised much earlier...
Comes with the danger of a popularity contest... part of Steam's existing brand is its fairly strict curation.
How terrible third-party Windows applications were. Writing cooperative multitasking applications is hard and much blame was assigned to Windows when it should be on applications.
I'm not sure what are the terms that dictate the OEM price companies like HP, ASUS, , Dell, Lenovo and Toshiba pay, but I wouldn't be surprised its tiered according to some criteria. It's reasonable to assume OEM's pay more or less according to their compliance to the Windows brand guidelines and so on.

Until recently, I could observe that many PC manufacturers had a "X recommends Windows Y for your PCs". Digging a little has shown they paid less for each license if they put that notice on every page of their website.

I would not be surprised if selling too many computers without Windows would make the OEM license price prohibitively high to compete in the mainstream PC segment (the ones that consider Windows a feature, rather than something you have to remove before you install the right OS)
First you say "you are a competitor in the Voice API space", "and then you have a few issues with the way we do business", I didn't expect that at all ;)

Anyways, next time please do your homework first, we have openly announced on Techcrunch that FreeSWITCH powers our backend and we are also sponsors for Cluecon this year to give back in our own way.

Best of luck for your attempts in future.
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So 70%-80% (taking a guess) of their user base will not like the new Windows or want to bother with learning it. That doesn't sound like great news for Microsoft.

I don't think the best way to deal with disruptions is to force most of your current customers into the new paradigm. You need to convince them, one at a time, that they should use the new one. It should all be organic. Instead what Microsoft is doing feels a lot like Google+, where Google just tries to force a social network on everyone. Facebook and Twitter grew organically, not by getting AOL or whoever, to force them on their existing database of users.

Microsoft tries their best to force Metro on you in Windows 8, because that's the most convenient strategy for them, not the user.
I'm not sure the two are mutually exclusive there. Commercial doesn't negate committees (I've been involved in a fair few), and open source doesn't have to be a committee effort.

I blogged about the problem as I perceive it with existing efforts - they always touted themselves as 'the open source version' and most non-developers and non-technologists don't care about that.

They care if it's easy to use and has reached critical mass amongst their networks.
Thanks for sharing, I can't believe all this time I wasn't aware templates have {% extends %} and {%block ...%}.

Compared to the Candy Japan codebase, this code is cleaner, but seems only to be the sign-up part? I wonder if you have some extra scripts you run when fulfillment day comes.
Actually, the reason is that aspartame has a high glycemic index, so your body reacts to it roughly the same way it reacts to sugar.

http://www.glycemicindex.com/
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Or: "How to appear strong when you are weak." There's a word for people who never admit to a mistake: liars.