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In ten-server deployments [...] still learning to automate

That's why your original comment tipped me off.

It's hard to recover from bad patterns like the one you proposed, it's easier when you try to get as many things right as possible from the start.

In thousand-server deployments you're logging in because

I take it you have not worked in such an environment before. I can assure you nobody manually logs into hundreds of hosts to "try some experimental firmware" - or to do anything really.

Beyond a couple dozen hosts pdsh and "knife exec" simply don't work anymore (rollback? what rollback?).
I use Outlook every day too, but don't really bother with the task tools that are built into it (even if it might (might!) integrate better with my email).

It's too general-purpose. It's like giving me a full toolbox, and the only limit is my mind! I'd rather have a tool that is more purpose-built to handle my needs.

These days I track todo-s in Trello and make sure my Inbox unread count stays at 0. That's it.

The only thing I'm missing is better attachment management, but that's just a nice-to-have. It's not a problem I personally run into very often. I could imagine though if your workflow involved lots of attachments it could be frustrating that they're treated as second-class citizens.
Ah representative government in action, gotta love it.
cufon+a lot of jquery and look what happens...
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Stock options expiry: One important point that was not mentioned by OP is the typical contract clause most startups use that changes the expiry of your vested options from something like 10 years while you're employed to 30 days if you leave the startup. You took a below-market salary in exchange for equity options and if you leave your job you can't keep those options because you have to exercise them, otherwise they'll expire worthless. Basically, once you leave the company, you have to pay the company to buy its stock, otherwise your options expire and you get nothing in exchange for your sacrifice!

See http://gigaom.com/2011/06/05/5-mistakes-you-cant-afford-to-m...
As others have stated, the OP was comparing run time separately from startup time, closure was found only to be about 4 times slower than java after startup costs are a storied away, which is quite believable given the benchmarks.

For most programs that aren't compute intensive, you won't notice a penalty, but the same is true with ruby or python.
On the other hand, Bitcoinica also offered leveraged trading, which had a large destabilizing effect. There were big traders deliberately moving the price around, to force smaller traders into margin calls. That problem went away when Bitcoinica did.

Leveraged trading is trading with partially borrowed money. If you buy something with leverage and the price falls, you're forced to sell. A wealthy trader can temporarily lower the market price by dumping a bunch of coins on the market at once, knowing that the price will recover when he buys them back; this costs him money, because he gets a lower price for his coins and buys them back at a higher price. But it also forces margin traders to sell out their leveraged positions, at the lower price, which those same traders can capitalize on.

These sorts of shenanigans depend on there being unsophisticated traders using leverage (a bad idea for any non-expert trader!), and they get harder as the number of traders in the market increases. Many of the rapid price oscillations we saw were a side effect of this strategy. (Not all of them, of course; the initial rise was caused by the wave of publicity, the fall by loss of confidence when some people lost their coins by storing them on insecure computers or giving them to scammers pretending to be "online wallet services".)
Similarly, a post was submitted yesterday entitled "Why You Can't Admit Personal Mistakes on the Internet" (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4220074) regarding this whole fiasco, basically going against a lot of great posts on honesty and transparency. My reply to it is pretty aligned with your response to this one.
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I like Corkbord but I'm hesitant of any offer of "unlimited storage." How many of us have been burned by those promises from startups that can't scale and end up going under?

Still, with this, I think we finally have a drop.io replacement!
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If you are into GTD, an email workflow for handling email could be much more flexible. Example when going through your inbox:

1. Respond to/do anything that can be done in two minutes and archive the email. (It helps if you are maintaining your inbox at zero.)

2. If it takes longer than a few minutes to do, send it off to your GTD app for processing as an action step, waiting for or something else, and archive the email.
Sure thing, but my curiosity still stands. :) If you're using Closure Compiler to perform dead code elimination (100kb is the "heavily optimized" number, as far as I can tell), how is it that `console.log('hello, world!');` requires 100kb of essential (non-eliminatable) scaffolding?
The question isn't whether problems should be solved using engineering strategies -- in general, I agree that they should. Rather, it's whether everything in life is an engineering problem.

Here's an example: When I was 18 I wanted to listen to some new music. This was when we got our music on CDs, and we didn't have algorithms like iTunes Genius to help us find something we might like. I bought something just because I liked the cover art. Fortunately I ended up liking the album. (It was this one: http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/dink/dink/)
These kinds of comments aren't necessarily inappropriate here. When someone's writing about "great interaction design", it's reasonable to point out the terrible interaction design of their site. If someone were discussing "great font design" on their blog and using Comic Sans, it'd be pretty surprising if they were not attacked.
Don't waste your time reading crappy articles about crappy startup jobs.

Are all startups are the same? Yah Think?

In working startupland, you get one bet at a time. pick a winner, make sure you have a ride and stop whining.
Mozilla's Mountain View office has conference rooms named after locations on the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D). The boardroom is the Bridge and the main meeting area/kitchen is Ten Forward. There's also Sickbay and Warp Core (though I feel a little uneasy about attending meetings in the Warp Core). :)
to much text for a "disruptive" idea
Nice app. But I think the name moqups is a "bad choice"
But the different versions of each model have had 'distinct' names, right?

They have distinct model numbers which generally represents a configuration, but they don't have distinct 'names'. I believe the 'Shuffle 2G' was in fact the Shuffle "second Generation" and yes some folks called it the 2G and that did confuse even more folks.

Now I don't condone this sort of naming, but I understand where Apple is coming from.
According to the recent rulings you can't copyright APIs, and if that's the case, why have their not been more open source API alternatives to these ventures? I understand money would be an issue so I imagine a non-profit or open source foundation funding servers to house such a venture would also be necessary unless you were to do it yourself.
How is Wikipedia supposed to know you'd like to be redirected to some random app downloaded from an app store?

There actually is a way to redirect from the web to a random app (intents on Android) but that's not available on iOS. Lay the blame at Apple's feet not Wikipedia's.
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Like drunkenfly mentioned, there's the Smartr Contacts app, and Rapportive as well for contact management:

http://rapportive.com/
Have a look at Rich Hickey's keynote presentation from Conj2011; http://blip.tv/clojure/rich-hickey-keynote-5970064

He pretty much starts off by talking about making Clojure "leaner", faster at starting up etc.

He mentions stuff like a "production" jar with less metadata, hoisted evaluator and even some kind of tree shaking ala ProGuard.
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I suspect xd doesn't either.
I comfortably ignore any comments about email and what it should be from anyone who hasn't used a text email client (well configured) like mutt, mh, elm, or an emacs mode for at least 100 hours.

The only real complaints I have about email with a well-configured text client are:
* HTML mail from idiots
* Syncing on multiple machines, with offline mode (IMAP is ok, but you want to keep full repositories on laptops for use without network, and ideally to process email more quickly than network access)
* Mobile clients -- Android has K9Mail, haven't found anything great on iOS yet. The keyboard-based mail workflow doesn't translate to the tablet/phone form factor, but triggers do even more so, so there should be something there
* Handling attachments well
* Global directory across organizations (FB/LinkedIn/etc. integration could help a lot)
* Multi-user mailboxes; you need some kind of ticketing/tagging/CRM on top of it, and these are all standalone, sometimes web based, and fairly universally suck. There are ways to tie them into plain email though.
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Alas the 787's expectations are too high, as the aircraft is basically an update of the Boeing 767. As with all launches, there’s a lot of hype and Boeing has certainly made a big deal out of it, but it’s not a radically different experience for passengers. While aviation buffs will know better, I think most of the flying public are expecting an improvement on the 777 and unfortunately it’s not – at least from the passenger’s seat.
Now I know I'm not the only Ruby developer in the coffee industry!
It's also worth remembering that replacing a technical employee costs something like 40-100% of a years salary. If you use an agency their fee will be 33%, then you have the lost time while they get upto speed.

Managers know this and are prepared to spend a few $ on friday afternoon beers or pissa to get people to stay
It looks like a different functionality than mail. It is risky to try solving different problems with the same tool. Though the tasks are abviously connecetd.
Lol. I shudder whenever a Techcrunch writer starts throwing around the term "NoSQL", as if NoSQL automatically makes something fast.......

Attention buzzword slinging pseudo-technologist journalists: NoSQL is a term which describes what something ISN'T, not what it is.
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Thanks filmgirlcw! We completely understand your concern. Simply put, that's why we're not offering it free. ;) Would love to hear your thoughts.
That is awesome, thanks for sharing. I'm very interested, as I'm sure many others are, to hear about the tools you've used and the development process. Great app!
After googling 'omnibar', I found the menu you speak of and I swear blind the option to email the page is not there...
The issue is that DC taxi drivers are actually a relatively important voting bloc. (I wish the DC Tech scene could get political support like that.)

But it's also a bad time to go around picking fights. Support for local government is pretty low. Two DC Council members have been forced out of office in as many months due to legal problems (and, remarkably, neither of them was Marion Barry). Just this morning I heard on the radio that one of the mayor's aides was indicted for campaign finance fraud.
Simple and to the point, exactly what I needed. Thanks guy, great work.
Don't fix email. Fix communication.

Why, on my iPhone, do I have:

1. An email app (which required a major update to unite mail boxes)

2. A "messages" app (which abstracts out two different message systems)

3. A phone app

4. A contacts app

5. Twitter

6. Facebook

7. Skype

What I want to do is (a) send messages to people (I don't care how), (b) check messages I've received (from anyone, using any method), (c) manage my messages (both incoming and outgoing), and -- as the writer of the article points out -- (d) manage my attachments.

On the iPhone (which is by no means the worst case) I might end up doing something stupid like looking up a contact, phone them, get sent to voicemail. Go back to the contact. Use a slightly different path to send an SMS. Discover it doesn't get sent. Switch to mail, and send a message.

Meanwhile the recipient gets a missed call, an empty voicemail, eventually gets the SMS, and then receives an email -- in three different apps on their iPhone.

Tiny incremental improvements to email will only nibble at the edges of the larger problem. Let me communicate with a unified UI and unified contacts.
Looking through the article, I found most of the changes to be superficial, other than 'actionsteps,' which I'm not convinced will solve any problem. Instead of trying to stop mail from becoming a separate to-do list, actionsteps encourages you to keep some to-dos in your mail client and the rest outside of your mail client in a third party app.

Also, I tried the social thing with emails, and what it looks great in theory. However, I really don't get a lot of emails from people I'm friends with on Facebook or follow on Twitter.
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This

A lot of people think following all best practices and offering a unit test sacrifice to Uncle Bob will lead to success

Shipping will put food on the table. Of course, if your system can't stand 5 simultaneous users it won't, still it's difficult to get that bad. (but yeah, some people manage to get to that level)

And some "online services" have very bad code, and still they sell millions. Get rich first, then you can improve your code.
I'm disappointed in the minimal amount of innovation we've seen in airplanes since the 70s. That's great that it is 20% more fuel efficient, but we're flying with basically the same tech that we did 40 years ago. Can Elon Musk please build us a hypersonic jet liner!?
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Your first mistake is installing Rails. You're second mistake is attempting to do so on your development machine and not in a jail or vm.
The guy's talking about getting shit done and is wasting my time with a fancy page with readability problems? Seems pretty ironic to me.

His project seems interesting, but sometimes ad hominem attacks can be relevant.
When you have the 747 on final approach it's considered a little rude to just say to the first officer - "here you are" - and leave your seat.
Moral obligation or legal obligation? Legally they would be bound by whatever terms you and they agreed upon such that they are enforceable. Morally? I dunno, that's trickier, but at inception, one surely can't account for all possible future scenarios (acquisition being one) and build that into people's expectations.

I think it's just the nature of business. Even with the best of intentions, a company (site whatever) may not be able to survive (and most people accept that). In the case of failure a mature business can go through bankruptcy proceedings. Still, in most cases, customers are probably the last ones receiving any comp, if any is left. Mostly it goes to creditors and so on.
It never showed up in the HN RSS feed, either.
I remember years ago when a commenter on Techcrunch bashed an article and called Techcrunch "the special olympics of tech journalism." At the time, I thought it was an insult to Techcrunch. Now I realize it's an insult to the fine athletes of the Special Olympics.
I have to say that this comment thread is far beyond what we expected when publishing our post.

Our original intention was to start a discussion around honing your pitch, telling your story - and to demonstrate how costly it can be when you don't do that well. By no means do we feel that we are "there" yet, but at the time of the post, we felt there was some progress from when we had interviewed.

Interestingly, this thread has now provided us with a tremendous amount of additional value (for much less of a cost) which we intend on putting to use in the coming weeks.

Thanks to all those who took the time to read the post, sit with it for a moment, and then carefully and compassionately construct their feedback in an honest and direct way.

We genuinely appreciate it.
I always flinch when I see the word "compliance" or "compliant". Those are synonyms for "checklist cargo cult engineering" to me. Sure, it's possible for someone smart, motivated and charismatic to use "compliance" to bludgeon an organization into the future, but that's a rare combination of traits for any human, much less a techie.
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SimpleDB is not an RDBMS. It has very specific use-cases where it makes sense, and most database use does not fit into those use-cases. Perhaps you're thinking of Amazon RDS, which is their managed MySQL/Oracle/SQL Server deployments. RDS is very expensive compared to running your own database, even on the very same EC2/EBS platform -- but you get reliability, replication and backups that some employee would have to be managing otherwise. In theory, at least. RDS didn't live up to its promises when I used it, so I moved back to running databases on physical servers at half the cost.
wow it's great to see the mockup space seeing some real innovtion and competition. I've had my own head down for the last six months working on my own mockup software and I agree that HTML5 is the way to go. Being able to demo a design on a mobile device is a killer feature. Also it's so heartening to see such a robust and enthusiastic response from the HN crowd... makes me feel just that little bit more confident that mockup software is a good category to be targeting.

All the best. I look forward to seeing what else you lot come up with :)
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This is a fairly old blog post and it is posted to HN by Kevin Systrom – he's co-founder of Instagram. Here's his post:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3306027 (223 points, 220 days ago) so I'd like to say this is a repost. Though, I have no idea how the same link can be reposted to HN.
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Also, I'd argue that BitCoin is very simple to use. Put in an address, type in the amount of money, and wait. Sure, transactions can take a while, but it's not very complex.
Go to your employer and ask for $LARGE_AMOUNT per year pay. Make $LARGE_AMOUNT be something in the range of 2x what you think someone doing your current job is worth.

But, when you ask for $LARGE_AMOUNT, you do it by asking, "What can I do for you that's worth $LARGE_AMOUNT per year to you?"

If your employer says, "Nothing." Well, then time to find someone else to ask that question to. If they counter with money but don't tell you what they want in return, that could be a good thing (you'll get paid more to do the same thing). Hopefully, a good employer will think about it and counter with some things you could do that would make you worth values near your $LARGE_VALUE and that would provide you with learning / skills / whatever that improves your career.

It's never a _bad_ time to ask. And if they don't give a good answer, it's never a _bad_ time to leave. Ethics doesn't play here, employment contracts do and most say "at will."
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This was my hangup. My eye was going towards all of the heavy red and black shapes and not the screenshots themselves.
It uses a suction cup? Really?
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I am not sure installing a full stack web framework, a version control system, and automated deployment to public hosting should be _that_ easy. Learning how to install it all is very informative as to what is going on.

e.g. Deploying to Heroku is in fact very easy. Ok you have to mess around with ssh keys, but you don't want that to be automagic - you want to have some understanding of why what you are doing is secure, and why anyone else can't access your code.
I like this idea, I had it myself. I was even discussing this yesterday with a friend of mine. Two years ago I even put together a prototype and started experimenting with it.

Our conclusions? Yes, freelance sites suck. Do providers want something else? Hell yeah! Do buyers want something else? Hell no! Simply put; being able to first try to get your project done for $100 while you know the real price is at least $20k+ is compelling apparently. I know companies who had stuff we quoted for $50k done for $1k. And it didn't even suck too badly. Why? Because there is SO much competition on those sites that 'newer' providers have to compete on price to get anywhere. So you can get occasional solid work for 1/50th of the price. Especially if you know what to look for.

Then if it doesn't work you just go 5x that, doing it for $5k and most likely you'll have your $50k project done nicely. Note that most companies under $10k price point are willing to go no-cure-no-pay, meaning if it failed so far, you didn't pay a cent yet.

If you get farther than this, yes a different method would be better, however, most don't get to that online or they already have their preferred teams, meaning this won't help them. I already know that if I pay a Ukraine team with 400 5 star projects $50k I WILL have high quality; why do I need these moderators?

I'm not against this at all mind you; like I said, we thought about this seriously ourselves but we just didn't see enough interest from companies. Basically most companies on freelance sites who want to buy something still suffer from that Elance-Digg-syndrome; pay very little for top-notch stuff. And often you do get that.

Also for that $50k the site is worth, you can for instance put 6 teams for $5k on it, having a quite high (from experience) chance of success in at least 1 or 2 of them and banking $20k 'profit'.

I wish you luck but it's a very much uphill battle!
No idea how it could be unethical. He can offer to complete the project as a freelance consultant if they're desperate enough.
As you add cars to a road, the throughput in terms of the number of people or cars per minute first increases. This should be pretty obvious: as you add cars to a nearly empty road, more people use it, but they all go just as fast as before.

As you continue to add cars, you reach a point where cars start to slow down, but throughput continues to go up. Once you reach a certain point, people begin to drive slower due to congestion. But at low levels, this is offset by the additional number of people using the road, resulting in greater total throughput.

Past that point, you reach another point where adding more cars does not increase throughput, as the added cars are balanced by the slowing of traffic as a whole. Beyond this point, adding more cars reduces the throughput of the road. Take this to the extreme, and you have a giant parking lot with people gradually inching forward, and people/cars per minute excruciatingly low.

No sources, but I'd think this is all fairly obvious.
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