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Well, a natural focal point is enterprise. I could imagine (this is pure speculation) that there are a number of fairly cumbersome features holding back some large enterprise customers, but which has been de-prioritized in favor of the cloud product where gains are more immediate and viral. In general, there are probably many teams holding back on GitHub because of some missing feature which didn't make sense to build while they were bootstrapped.

And then, yes, there's expanding into adjacent verticals. They're already there with wikis and issue tracking, so it's not a virgin territory strategy.
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Probably a bit of an overstatement on my part, but how many companies can say they're highly profitable before even getting venture capital? I can't think of any highly profitable companies off of the top of my head that were highly profitable and took VC investment, can you?
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Standard government corruption and central planning. Why do we need the government to manage taxis? Self driving cars are going to further destroy this industry.
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Ah, didn't realize the notes are searchable. Very nice.
For a couple years, Apple shipped Macs with a TPM[1] chip from Intel.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module
I think Apple has made a lot of improvements at their end. I no longer get red badges that won't go away(!) for whatever reason.
Which BigCos would be in the running? MSFT, IBM, GOOG? Anyone else on the list?
I'm not surprised that this has happened- vested interests are hardly something new in government lobbying. But I am amazed at how brazen it is- even calling it the "Uber Amendment". I suspect that they will get a rude awakening of the new realities of open government soon enough.
From my reading, this also makes Uber, Inc. non-regulated by the taxi commission itself.

What I'd do as a special DC-specific hack is charge the 5x rates, but then have Uber rebate some percentage back to the user. So if the goal is to charge $15 for the ride, charge the $50 required under the law and then the taxi company pays Uber $35 in "Special fuck-DC licensing fee" and then Uber pays $35 to the user in "DC victim's compensation fund".
Are you speaking from knowledge of the anti-competition legislation, or just from the summaries we've seen upthread? It strikes me that we're taking a car blog's throwaway description of the law as a presumed engineering constraint.
Agreed. The only KPs I've gotten since at least ~Snow Leopard have been hardware-related. Off to the Genius Bar!
Thought the same and wish I could upvote you more. HN comment readers, if you are rushed for time and don't think you'll bother even clicking through to the blog entry, here is the best takeaway from either blog or gbattle's comment:

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I actually forgot github was a business. I'm going to hate to lose their services when they get bought by yahoo or whatever is going to happen :-(
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I was looking forward to ML until I read the supported hardware and found that my 2006 Mac Pro won't be supported. This has happened in the past with other Macs, but this is the first time it has bit me.

My Pro is perfect for me, I have it maxed at 32 GB of memory, dual optical drives, and 4TB of local disk. Quad 2.66GHz cores is more than enough for me.

I understand that things like display Airplay mirroring depend on newer CPUs/GPUs, but ML should still be supported, just with fewer features.

And yes, I know this is a 6 year old system. But it's still a good solid system with a long life ahead of it. I'll keep running Lion on it until something dies (system board?) that's irreplaceable.
DC's taxis are really the worst, so it's not surprising that they are fighting back so hard to kill a perceived threat to their monopoly. Still, I haven't used Uber much due to the high prices compared to taxis, but the new lower-priced UberX could be a real game-changer if it isn't squashed by the government.
I am interested in this. Can you point me to one or more of these precedents? Thanks in advance.
The podcasts app doesn't even sync podcasts in ios 6 beta 2. It may be visually polished, but complete it is not in its current form.
You're not solving a problem.

At least, it doesn't feel like you are. As another commenter in this thread said "I hope there's more to your app than "I see them type on my screen, and they see me type on their screen"."
Is it wrong that I can't wait until taxi companies are pulverized into dust? From credit/debit machines that always seem to be "out of order" to being put in a caller queue in order to tell someone "come get me at this location", interaction with the industry somehow never seems to be the highlight of my night.
Is this the same as New York where taxis are overpriced but the money is all flowing to the rich license holders?
Check out AirParrot, it's $10. Fullscreen AirPlay audio and video.

It works fine on my 2008 Macbook but it gets a little hot and noisy. The lag is noticeable but tolerable, fine for browsing the web but not gaming. Audio/video sync is fine too for watching flash videos or whatever.
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Visually polished? They stretched a font! That’s unacceptable. A deadly sin. You don’t do that. Ever.
There was an article on here a while back about how the medallion system in NYC is making both sides lose out... anyone remember it/have the link?
Retina MBP? If so, I can vouch for things being much better in 10.8 than 10.7.
Skeumorphism is purely about looks. If it impacts functionality it’s more than that.

If it’s only looks it doesn’t matter and is only about taste.
>> Microsoft tries their best to force Metro on you in Windows 8, because that's the most convenient strategy for them, not the user

Not sure why you say that. Wouldn't it be better if the same metro UI that I see on my tablet is also on my phone and my xbox thus making it more predictable how I use them?

Wouldn't me as a developer be happier that the app I write can run on both the phone and a laptop with minor or no modifications?

What if I as a customer doesn't have to pay twice for that app?

What if by combining platforms, improvements are delivered faster and are more consistent? Would I as a user be happier with it?
Apple .0 software always has at least one showstopper.

My favorite was the way the initial release of SL hosed fonts that it decided conflicted with the system ones. Like non-Apple versions of Helvetica. Thanks Apple! ;-)
Could this point to an imminent Jelly Bean release for Nexus devices?
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IIRC they only used it for the developer preview Intel boxes, though.
Google makes some sense, at this point their Google code has lost out to github for the majority of open source projects.

Whether they could make a return on it would be another thing though.
Compress/minify everything: HTML, CSS, JS, Images. Less is more. Anyway, There are tools to help you understand the code if you take time to find it.
When it comes to mobile and browser, Microsoft probably did not prioritize properly and I think they acknowledged it too. Using that as an argument to question their technical ability is not right. IE10 can take any browser head on and so can the new mobile OS.
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The most elegant way to handle this (IMO) is to use a combination of Compass(http://compass-style.org/) and Vogue(http://aboutcode.net/vogue/).

Compass has a great command line feature called "watch" that simply watches for file system events (linux, os x) or polls (windows) your folders for changes and recompiles your stylesheets.

Vogue detects stylesheet changes right away and reloads them in your page via WebSockets.

Instead of dealing with Chrome's inspector, making changes, then copying them to your CSS (and translating if you like SASS), I simply make changes in my editor on one monitor while watching my site on the other monitor. The overhead is minimal - I see changes within about 500ms.

Compass is great even just as a build tool, and I used it before I learned SASS. It's fantastic for its simple mixins like linear-gradient and even better when you start chaining them together. One of my favorite mixins I use throughout my code:

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Then, anywhere I want a green button to be created, I use the style @include buttonGradient(green);. Or any color. Keeping a stylesheet full of site-wide colors is incredibly useful and being able to modify them via functions like darker() and lighter() really saves time. Consider that this simple include actually generates 18 lines of CSS each time I invoke it - in the words of an old boss, now you're really cookin with gas.
The problem here is that the propensity to add bugs and features is disproportionate across the user base. Some people get a kick out of adding feature requests and being 'noisy'. Some people have an important or good idea but will never take the trouble to post it.

The problem, then, is being able to sort between this and not only (a) keep the active community members on-side and (b) find a way to flesh out those hidden requirements from less-engaged people.

Of course the other issue is when community requests are not necessarily profitable for the company that provides them.
mbell - thanks for taking the time to debug this. I'm aware of what you're pointing out -- a lot of requests and rendering steps could be avoided by caching data on the server.

But what you're looking at is just the HTML/JS that comes with OxJS, and it is intended to be used locally, for development. There is no server backend. You can just put it on your local web server, and it works the same. Generating documentation, tokenizing JS, running tests, etc. all happens live, on the client. (Sooner or later, we'll put pre-generated documentation on oxjs.org. But if you're running the site locally, it's really convenient to not need any build steps.)

The examples currently reference the development version of OxJS, and explicitly don't use cached files. Again, this is nice if you're making your own changes to OxJS, and want to see how they affect a particular example. But for someone just browsing oxjs.org, it's definitely overkill, and we'll fix it ASAP.
If "these days" means since yesterday, sure, I'll give them a chance.

/edit to clarify, 99.9% of the software they ship has at least a few interesting bugs. Just have a look at their changelogs for 10.x.1 :-)
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2012/06/taxi...
Is it definitely clear that it would be legal for a startup based in the U.S. and with American founders to use Betable? It wasn't until "Black Friday" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(2011)) that it became clear the U.S. government viewed NLH poker as a game of chance, and Googling I've done in the past suggests that certain aspects of the government's intrepretation of online poker's legality remain vague. So is it a definite that what the U.S. government viewed as criminal money laundering was not that Americans were taking income from running online casinos but rather that those three casinos were allowing Americans to gamble? Or was it that those casinos made money off of their American customers? I.e. would a gambling site that didn't take a rake and just ran on ad revenue be allowed to have American customers? (I assume not, but then I'm unclear what the alleged money laundering charges were.)

So to make a medium-length post short, I'm an American citizen. Would I definitely be allowed to use Betable? If so, this is great news for me.
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'Growing exponentially' is an overused phrase, and people actually forget what it means. Exponential growth makes a lot more sense when you're describing the number your user base, where generally speaking each user is worth the same to you. How sustainable is actual exponential monetary growth? I mean, I can't speak for Stripe, but I seriously don't think they're getting exponential growth in transaction.
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Try http://rentscoper.com instead. With heat maps that tell you if you are paying too much and Yelp ratings, it makes more sense.
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Yeah but look at Windows Phone, Xbox, and Zune. I think they're very capable of evolving and innovating when their product has competition. Balmer and his management style still needs to go but the main reason they didn't innovate with Windows is because they had no reason to.

They didn't change Windows because there was no serious competitor to it and they were in a position of "there's no reason to change we're not losing sales". Now that there's competition they're in a position of "If we don't change we will lose sales" which is a huge motivation.

Just look at their Xbox brand which they grew so well they surpassed Sony's PS3. Having competition has motivated Microsoft to innovate incredibly well. No one can deny that the Xbox brand, especially Xbox live, is a huge success in both sales and in innovation. Just look at how much they've changed the Xbox 360 alone. From the dashboard, the the UI, the target demographic, the addition of the Kinect controller, gamer tags, avatars, and the look and style of the console itself. Xbox live did so well it forced Sony & now Nintendo to finally innovate their own online services.

Same with the Zune. It was a commercial failure because they launched at a time when stand alone mp3 players where on their way out and smart phones were in. But everyone I know who had a Zune loved it. When it started it wasn't anything worth mentioning but MS evolved it into an elegant, sleek, beautifully creative device and (its few) users loved and praised it.

So Microsoft is definitely starting to change and evolve. They're surrounded by competition and have no choice but to get the creativity flowing AND shipping.
Here's a very early port (from the Galaxy Nexus build): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1753287
Do you have any third-party drivers installed? I've been using Lion on a MacBook Pro since release and I've never had a kernel panic.

You might also look into hardware diagnostics — not sure if Apple Hardware Test is still available, but the Genius Bars certainly have something — as intermittent kernel panics from flaky hardware aren't unusual.
Reminds me of when Microsoft's marketing-based product management crazily shoehorned the ".Net" moniker onto everything that the company sold whether it made sense or not. Now the actual .Net technology was pretty nice when everything settled down - but I don't understand now that Microsoft finally managed to make decent virtual machine technology foundation, why they're pushing forward with a path with Windows 8 (ARM) incompatible with Win 8 (x08) why not something a bit closer to run everywhere on a VM?
The other main site for jobs in NZ is the Jobs section of trademe.co.nz (who themselves are a pretty cool little company to work far, or so I hear). As far as startups in particular I don't know of any particular website or anything that NZ startups accumulate around, although you might find the NZ Startup Digest interesting (I found it on HN at some stage): http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=92be899ef5a892c60b4a6cd9...

I would recommend you also look more specifically into where in New Zealand you want to live, or at least what sort of lifestyle you want. You can easily find a technology job in Auckland or Wellington (startups also tend to gravitate towards these cities), but that comes with higher costs and a certain degree of the rat-race lifestyle. There are small local companies and startups in the provinces, but pay (and costs) will be lower and opportunities are much fewer and far between.

I myself just moved out of the provinces into Wellington, and so far i'm enjoying being in a bigger pool of developers and having more things to see and do in general, but I know people who have made the opposite move as well.

Feel free to contact me if you need more info.

EDIT: Of course if you manage to get a remote job, it won't matter much where you live, provinces or otherwise :-)
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No one is ever asking why.

That's not to imply that the transgressors have an excuse for their bad behaviour, just that castigation gets us nowhere, particularly in an pseudo-anonymous environment.
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Free time at home is much more valuable than free time on the bus.
I did not consider the growth opportunity represented by the enterprise market. Sorry for being dense!

(I considered deleting my comment, but my hand was stayed by its having gotten an upvote.)
I'll leave it to the company to describe what they are going to do (and they talk about some of that in their blog post today). I can say that my partner Peter and I have spent a lot of time with the guys over the last several months, and there is no daylight between their vision of what they want to do, and what we would want them to do.
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None of what you said is true :-).
Interestingly I had a friend who had a business in the bulk flour business.

They were moving enough stock but profits weren't coming through.

We did some analysis on cashflow and stock and found that the sitting costs of too much flour were eating cashflow. Basically he was paying upfront for bulk flour and then receiving the cash from customers over 60 and 90 days. One of the costs of holding too much inventory is real estate - bulk flour costs floorspace to store. In a low-margin business, just a few percent here and there can turn something from profitable to loss making pretty easy.

That's not really applicable to software, which is generally a high margin business, but having too much inventory is definitely a problem.

It's not about reducing or increasing revenue, it's about trimming down the size of the balance sheet.
I think they mean if you'd had a second chance prior to reading the comments (on HN or your blog). Just based on the blog entry, I agree. I read through a couple of times and still didn't know what the product was or if I needed it.

I did like the design though. Would've liked to have seen product screenshots to see how that carried through to the interface.
I really like what Stripe is doing and am trying to get my girlfriend to use it instead of PayPal on her ebook.
Your argument is contradictory. If they only need to beat those 2%, they are not under pressure to deliver spectacular returns.
I found it to be very flattering :-).
Congrats to the Stripe team - this will hopefully allow them to expand their platform outside of the US. I am one of those "anti-funding" guys, but I also understand cases where capital is needed to take it to the next level. This would be a classic example.

I am spinning off a portion of my business into a new startup this year and Stripe is at the top of our list as our subscription/payment provider. We've been playing in their sandbox and cannot wait to get going to production.
However you feel about it, this is entirely expected. The government has chosen to regulate taxis; there's a whole bureaucracy around that; there are a bunch of providers operating within the system. Uber enters and claims the rules do not apply to it, and threatens to replace the regulated market entirely. The regulators are now faced with the choice between ending all taxi regulation, regulating Uber like a taxi, or simply excluding Uber from the market entirely. If they do nothing, they know that Uber will likely replace taxis, leaving an unregulated market. If they wanted an unregulated market, they wouldn't have regulated it in the first place.

When your business is based around regulatory arbitrage, you have to know that you will only enjoy that advantage for a limited window.
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Give me a break. Is knowing what version your iPhone is a burden when you want to purchase an aftermarket accessory? How is knowing a name a burden to the customer? Under a named system, even if the customer forgets the model number, he's still no worse off than if he were under Apple's lack-of-naming scheme.

Intentionally making naming confusing is not a benefit to the consumer AFAICT; it only potentially benefits Apple.
Uber is amazing. It's one of my favorite pockets of the unevenly distributed future that I've come to rely on since moving to SF. Tracking the progress of my ride on my smartphone as it makes the usually less than 3 minute journey to me is still a thrill.

Uber is maybe 10% more expensive, yet 500% more reliable. I don't know if you've ever tried to hail a cab in SF, but it's a huge exercise in frustration. Calling a dispatch service is equally vexing. I'm with you, the doom of the Taxi business can't come soon enough for me.
That would make AH look like complete fools, judging by the blog post. Not happening.
What do you see as the Clearcase wins vs. github? (I can't think of any, sorry! :) )
I don't get what the fuss is about here.

I think that the statement you quoted is explicitly saying that for-profit software isn't a charitable act. Instead, in an implicit comparison to charitable acts, it's saying that for-profit software can also make life better for users.
Which is fine for SQL injection, but completely ignores every other context, of which there are many, and which don't have PDO-like APIs. That's what I meant by PHP getting it wrong. The entire filter pipeline is built to assume you're outputting only to HTML, and it's useless for making data safe for other contexts without completely destroying it.
Have you been somewhere that Taxi's are unregulated? After they refuse to give you your luggage until you pay $20 over what was agreed, rob you, leave you at the wrong destination, etc... is when you realize taxi regulation was setup to protect consumers.

edit To clarify, I'm not saying there are no problems with the current cab systems, only that public safety and consistent fares are one of the main reasons cabs are regulated by the government