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I agree that no single person should be jumping around between all of the languages and frameworks out there, but the diversity is a sign that there is an active community that is experimenting with new ways of doing things. If one of them is especially useful for your problem, then you should learn it as a matter of practicality (mind the cost of transition though). If you enjoy language development, then you should definitely switch to a .01 language framework, that is where the interesting research is being done. If you come up with something good, and work out the kinks, then mainstream languages will start to use it.
that's because it's shit (and closer). disclaimer: i live in perth.
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The takeaway ...

"Unlicensed spectrum is already the way the world is heading. Instead of trying to overcome their dependence on Wi-Fi and other unlicensed technologies, Thanki said, carriers and regulators need to embrace them."
Is this using an eight content model, including Antarctica, Oceania, Asia, Europe, North America, South America, Australia, and Africa?
I'd like a late-2011 venti skinny mocha chai latte please.

I really don't give a shit what you prefer. Consumers want simplicity because technology is scary. Apple provides that by anthropomorphizing their products and Apple wins because of it. Apple does it on every front: naming, hardware design, software features, voice recognition, etc.
I would somewhat agree with this. I recently wrote a completely client-side app using a variety of different micro-frameworks. I used Parse's JS API for my backend. At the end of the day, I felt that a traditional CRUD system on a LAMP stack would have probably been easier to implement and would have fit the client's requirements just as well
One of their requirements was no paging - everything on one page.
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Horace Dediu has a perfect takedown, showing the timeline: http://www.asymco.com/2012/07/10/the-poetry-of-steve-ballmer...
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There's many different ways to install Rails and those will always be available whether someone creates an installer or not as long as source code is available. However, there is a combination of Ruby, Rails, and the database choices that serve as its backend which are common for the "Make a new Rails app and ship to Heroku" workflow that should be easier for being so popular.

I'm really surprised Rails isn't just another component in the Heroku toolbelt. The default Ruby version in OS X is always outdated, the database preferred by Heroku (postgres) is also outdated in OS X, and getting the latest XCode or re-installing it to install brew to install postgres and changing the order of execution in the PATH to make sure it picks up the right version is a prescription for despair and angst. RVM only solves the Ruby and gem versioning problem.
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The root of it is that most things still assume ASCII, etc by default. I griped about this a while ago, as a whole, we should be moving all our tools to being UTF-8 by default, and ASCII being the 'odd' case instead of the other way around!
"HTTP is stateless, which means for each request client has to create a new connection with the server."

That's not what stateless means. And unless I am gravely mistaken, HTTP over SPDY is still stateless.
Just make little things. Backbone is fun, make some little backbone views/models, they'll work perfectly with any other JS you have. Want to try rails? Do another little project in rails. Is it too much? try the next one but only use sinatra. Like javascript? Do your next project in Node.js. (and remember jifasnif!) Felt like you're in callback hell? (remember use flow control and streams!) Try out gevent in python on the next project.

See my point? It doesn't mater what you use as long as you're making things. Pick something and do something. Iteration can only come after you've completed projects. Eventually you'll figure out what you prefer, and even then it wont hold a candle to what you've made.
This explains the popularity of the iPhone and the iPad right?
Let's pretend you're sending messages to your new users who have just clicked the "Sign Up" button on your fancy landing page.

The problem? They, along with a significant percentage of your other users, use text-based email clients.

This is the wrong way of sending text-only email:

<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Thanks for signing up!</title> </head> <body><h1>Thanks for signing up!</h1>Click <a href="http://new-registrants.sneakystartup.net/>here</a> to finish your registration. </body> </html>

Stripping HTML tags is also wrong:

Thanks for signing up!
Click here to finish your registration.

This is the correct way of sending text-only email:

Thanks for signing up!
======================
Click here[1] to finish your registration.

1: http://new-registrants.sneakystartup.net
Actually, there's a theory very similar to that in UI/UX design. Menus that are too large often intimidate the user and cause them to bounce out of the site.
> You are the only one choosing to frame software design decisions as lack of respect for the user.

The existence of the Free Software Foundation means this is factually incorrect.
Don't miss an opportunity to provide encouragement for people to create tempting routes. e.g., requester posts bounty for interesting trip. Pays the winning expert. Then the public can pay a smaller fee (to the requester) to piggyback on their info.

e.g., requester might've paid a $250 bounty, but they can make it back from 50 people buying the info for $5 each, less FlightFox's fee.

Love the idea, BTW.
As frustrated as I am with what seems like an unnecessarily immature software industry, I am grateful for the plethora of wonderfully crafted free frameworks that I have at my disposal (http://www.jmolly.com/2012/07/01/the-wide-landscape-of-java....).

I want to solve problems that need solving. I don't want to reinvent wheels. As you grow in expertise, you get better at picking the right framework for the right job. If you're not there yet, just make your best pick and move forward. In the end you can make anything work, you can refactor, you can replace. Software is malleable.
Can I move the tabs to below the address bar? Can I give Chrome a permanent status bar?
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Ok, since my previous post, ibdknox posted a comment in the issue. It was working all along. Once you have connected with "lein light", you should then be able to reference namespaces in your project from the instarepl.
I was hoping for the 6 Continent model, which would include Antarctica! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent#Number_of_continents But no, search for "6 Continents:" (including the ":") on the submitted site:

- North America includes Central America
- South America is mostly the mainland
- Europe is borded by Istanbul (Turkey), Azerbaijan and the Caucasus in Russia
- Africa is mostly the mainland bordered by Egypt
- Asia is the Middle East, East of the Caucasus, and Indonesia (West Papua)
- Oceania is Australia, NZ and the islands
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Give them some break. Probably they are still building it. Frequently people post to HN before things are ready so that friends can review it and post feedback.
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Where do 'mistakes' fit in in your world?
In some states you are required to identify yourself and a recent court ruling showed that merely remaining silence was not enough to invoke one's right to silence. One must paradoxically, speak up to have the right to remain silent. Here are 2 relevant links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_and_Identify_statutes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_silence#United_States
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One approach would be to find a popular Python web framework and then follow the tutorials for that. Because you already have some familiarity with the language, the syntax won't distract you from absorbing the application architecture concepts.
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Because he's not going to get re-elected doing those things. Or put another way, politicians who would do more productive things are at such a disadvantage they don't get elected.
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Another cue from Apple?
I thought the standard line on Apple was that they
don't innovate, they just take existing product
ideas and make them "pretty".

Please show us when and where Ballmer stated this "standard line"?

If he never stated it, then how does this "standard line" relate to this article? Do people who state this "standard line" generally hold a high opinion of Ballmer's conclusions and must now reconcile their opinion of Ballmer's conclusions with their "standard line"?

Or do you simply want to use any opportunity to attack strawmen who believe that everyone who buys Apple's products are stupid and gullible sheeple?
Completely agree with this. However, when I talk to developers who aren't based in tech hotspots, they often tell me they are lost because they dont know what they should learn, because there's so much out there. The side effect of this (which I have seen) is that people write off every new OS project that comes out, because they feel by the time they learn it, something new will be out there. I don't agree with this philosophy but it's something that I have seen with my own eyes.
Good points all...there might be another way to rig a Nexus 7 (Wi-Di? I don't know...). People do vote with their wallets, but unfortunately on the "wrong" things sometimes (not that this is necessarily the case, but if you look at campaigns like YogVentures, it seems a bit foolish to give $500,000 to a team with little/no proven development experience). My only concern is that I feel many companies will be giving Kickstarter-funding a bad name when they can't live up to their promises.
You will also need a bunch of other things. To really get the benefit of automation in SF, you'll need the enterprise version. Then there are Gmail plugins (we use cirrus insight), billing platform integration, etc. etc.

Getting SF configured so it makes sense for you will take time and $. There are also a number of little gotcha's, like inability to gracefully deal with email aliases. Might not be a problem for you, but we find that a number of people use vanity email addresses, personal Gmail, etc. to communicate - and SF becomes exquisitely painful suddenly.

In short, unless SF solves a serious sales process automation problem for you, don't go there.

Ah - also, analytics. You'll want the Good Data analytics on top, especially if you're in SAAS space. Good stuff and greatly increases the value of SF.
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How about a phone browser where it loads but freaks out and makes a glitchy mess that can't be scrolled.

And on my desktop Javascript uses most of the browser's memory. No thanks.
He seems to be consulting his way out. It's great to read that he can afford to keep it up with consulting and his own projects!
Well actually the HTTP connections are stateless, but not the SPDY connection. SPDY connection keeps the session open between two endpoints and do have the knowledge about the other streams. That's what makes it possible to do server push or header augmentation.
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I'd pointed this out in stackoverflow a few years ago as an example of what not to do:)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1640309/c-static-members-...
It's a legitimate concern, Py3k has been a huge bungle for users.
I have a part time staff for my startup who is a close friend. We both have kids. He has a day job and a similar schedule as yours. But the difference here is that he is happy with his day job (small company where everyone is almost like family). He dedicates time to help me out between 12 to 2am. He drowns in coffee daily, and tells me about how many years he has left to push himself. I am extremely grateful for his involvement and I constantly try to pry him away from his day job.

I guess my point is that one can be happy with whatever schedule(illness) they are forced to live it. It sounds like you only have 1 problem - the day job. Change it if you need one. If you enjoy your Mondays and you can pick your wardrobe, you found the right job. Good luck!
It's a cheap fingerprint scanner, probably coupled with an access code. Unhackable? Seriously??

There is a reason those things disappeared from all the laptops over the last few years.
> ... in
programming there is a wide-spread 1st order theory that one
shouldn't build one's own tools, languages, and especially
operating systems. This is true—an incredible amount of time
and energy has gone down these ratholes. On the 2nd hand, if you
can build your own tools, languages and operating systems, then
you absolutely should because the leverage that can be obtained
(and often the time not wasted in trying to fix other people's not
quite right tools) can be incredible.

Alan Kay, "The Power Of The Context", p.8, https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.vpri.org/pdf/m...

EDIT google search (mostly) provides a "Quick View" link for pdfs - there's also addons for chrome/FF that add a right-click context menu option to open a file in google view, useful for checking out lecture notes/slides, that often are a list of pdf links.
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Sure it does. Install cygwin. (Or something else like that.) No serious computer user should be without a good shell. Powershell may be fine, too. There's probably some way to convince it to understand the JSON as a native object.
As embarrassing as it is to state, I was glancing around my apartment for my pitchfork prior to heading to the comments. As I was clicking through I was thinking...

Who is this Lamar character, and how can we stop him???

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I don't think there is a way to stop this type of manipulation. It is everywhere now and unless someone figures out a new formula, it is pointless. Trying to read comments other places than HN is a joke, filled with bipartisan opinions stated as facts. It really is tough to read anything now.
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To clarify, I mean that it does not solve a problem that cannot be easily remedied already. Buy/use a tablet with HDMI-out, hook up bluetooth controller. What part of this process requires a million dollars of funding, I am not certain. Also, I have no idea how they plan to sell the device so cheap (unless controllers are sold separate, but even still it is a stretch...). They would have to use tricky contracting deals to make up for the cost of the console, which is exactly what is wrong with modern consoles. Again, I like the idea of a new console, but I think they are just going about it the wrong way.
Um, this is the exact same guy, repurposing his site and reposting it to HN.

All of these are his:

https://wrapbootstrap.com/
http://ajkochanowicz.github.com/Kickstrap/themes.html
http://bootswatch.com/
http://builtwithbootstrap.com/

All the same themes. This shit hits HN every few weeks.
As a user there is nothing that drives me to rage more than a company arbitrarily (from my POV) marking a ticket as closed.

Having read your post I can see the merits but if I were a user who does not know about your workflow it would make me very angry.

Why can you just not have the ticket auto-close after your reply and X days have passed, you can change your internal list to only show tickets that are open and last updated to by the customer?
I wonder if it would succeed on such a game
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This comment is quite rude, but I still haven't seen an answer for this yet. How did you get all these users to donate their computers even though nobody seems to have heard of you yet? Something seems fishy, and I wish you'd answer.
For the winning intinerary, it's a moot point as both Europe and Asia are represented at different stops.

Istanbul Atatürk (TAV) airport is Europe, Sabiha Gökçen (SAW) is in Asia. The border is the straight of Bosporus.

Continents are a rather vague concept[1]. Any definition is going to be arbitrary. For the purposes of your contest, I think the spirit would be to have gone to the continents "proper", i.e. I wouldn't count Guam at all, but say the continents are the mainlands of: NA, SA, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, Antarctica. I'd be inclined to allow New Zealand as part of Australia as the only exception.

1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uBcq1x7P34
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Why the hatred ?
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The takeaway ...

"In the long run, Nokia's contract with Microsoft -- to be Windows Phone system exclusive and in return to get funded from Microsoft -- makes it impossible to be a takeover target. Big players like Apple (AAPL) or Samsung will not purchase Nokia, because their bid will be deemed as anti-competitive. Small or new players such as Amazon (AMZN), Huawei, or ZTE, will not purchase Nokia, because they cannot easily get out of the exclusive contract with Microsoft. And they perhaps wouldn't want to have a confrontation with Microsoft either."
I agree to a point, but a satisfied customer is less likely to come back to close a ticket. I prefer a system the automatically closes a ticket after a period of inactivity.
Is it possible for someone to lend the idle time of their VPS / dedicated web Servers in return for cash ?
People could run their websites without issue as most of the time, they may not be using it to full capacity. And you will get better connection (better than DSL speed) and better performance machines (server grade). Could be a win win for everyone.
I should've used "throughput" as the metric of discussion.
There were also inconsistent stall warnings. If the pitot tubes freeze over, I expect windspeed will be underreported, which will make it look like a stall. IIRC, the pitot tubes were only out of commission for a minute or two, but the co-pilots ignored the (now correct) stall warning all the way into the ocean (until the pilot woke up and came back, but then it was too late).

I guess the real problem here is having only a single modality for detecting windspeed. It doesn't matter how many pitot tubes you have if they all have the same failure mode; quantitative redundancy isn't as good as qualitative.
Agreed. I didn't imply to burn the price but if you can operate at a lower cost then reflecting that in the prices can bring along more customers.
I don't think someone asking for a million-plus dollars of the public's money for their project deserves protection from slightly harsh critique. I made no personal assaults on the developers in question and provided a short list of detailed critiques about the project and apparently the only thing you read was the first sentence. What do you think is harmful about that? Do you think the critique would be more useful if I prefaced it with glowing praise that I didn't actually mean?

If you went and pitched your project to an angel asking for $50-100k of money, or went and pitched to a VC, would you expect them to be all rainbows and sunshine? Or would you expect them to be honest and tell you why they aren't interested in giving you money so that you can improve and address issues?
The takeaway ...

"Since these [current Lumia] devices won't be upgradable to Microsoft (NAS: MSFT) Windows Phone 8, but will instead receive a topical upgrade to Windows Phone 7.8, [Mark] Sue expects customers to hold off until they can get their hands on the newer devices once they're released. That's leading him to slash his estimates across the board."
All well and good.

But you can go a long way -- a very long way these days -- with vertical scaling alone. As Stack Overflow have pretty convincingly demonstrated.
Not necessarily. I don't know if it applies to products. I feel for products, since you get to hold them in your hands, its a much more subjective decision. With a website, you are only relying on your sense of sight to make decisions. With a product, you can use all 5 senses (maybe not taste, haha!). Does that make sense?
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Then just built it one step at a time. "how to do a thing python" in Google will give you the thing you're looking for 8/10 times.
You're exactly right. In grad school, a friend of mine working on a PhD. in biological sciences once casually told me he'd discovered 4 new antibiotics in the course of his research. Of course, I was floored, until I thought to ask what his definition of "antibiotic" was. Turns out that at the stage he was working on, all it meant was the compound killed bacteria, not that it was at all useful for treating infections.
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Not sure why this is down voted, it is a very legitimate point.
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WrapBootstrap guy here. Only WrapBootstrap is mine. Each of those are owned by different people. In fact they're all members of HN.
Considering that at first they had just enough slots to reach their goal I think they are managing the launch to maximize unit sales and hype.

What I am surprised about is that they did not raise the price above $99 with the second top up (20,000 @ $99). Thus $99 must not be a below cost loss leader. My guess is that they will offer as many $99 units as possible. Their balancing act is to offer an unbounded number of units while maintaining the air of exclusivity. Offer too many units at one time and people might thing they are missing their sales target.

With this much hype and sales they should have decent leverage with developers. I got the impression that a few developers they talked to were on the fence. Their first update could be interesting.

Exciting times eh?
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Getting blown from one framework to another so easily means you're not doing a good job of getting traction on your project. Build some positive momentum and then staying the course will become natural.
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Flattr won't work for the same reason as every other tipjar system has failed. It imposes a transaction cost on the tipper -- "is this work the click?" -- that users simply don't like.

My current startup work is aimed at avoiding that cost entirely.
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I was expecting mmap(1, ...).

Of course, I don't think that works on modern systems anymore, with vm.mmap_min_addr and friends.