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I can't tell if your wink means you are selflessly throwing yourself on the sword of self-deprecatingly irony to help me make my point, or if you actually believe what you are saying.
When you use Go with the AppEngine SDK your program is automatically recompiled on a request if it was changed. And you don't even realize it because Go compiles blazingly fast.
I don't get the last point. It's a level playing field. If it's more work for other developers, it's more work for you too.
In Quito, you can go just about anywhere for not too much. USD is local currency, and it's a few dollars to go anywhere except to/from the airport.

And the city doesn't have a shortage of cabs.

And talking with drivers in my uneasy Spanish, I have found many are former doctors and lawyers who turned to taking cabs because it was more lucrative.

Fares are artificially high there but nobody is under any illusions who is in control. The city and the cab companies had an argument about pricing some time back and it lead to a taxi cab strike.... which meant cabs blocking traffic and the city was shut down (streets impassible) until the city backed down....

I was in Quito during a bus driver strike and everyone was talking about it. They even called in the army to tow busses.... It was amusing to see uniformed soldiers pushing busses around.... But there were fewer busses than cabs and so the streets were still passable.
Many of the companies raising good funding today are innovative and create value in the valley and in the world. I don't understand why people compare that to the dotcom bubble where 6-month old web companies with no significant value would raise tens to hundreds of millions of dollars.

Look at stripe for example, they're an excellent company that has proven their product is in demand. It's much more reasonable for a company like this to be allowed to scale versus the likes of pets.com.
I made $500 playing craps. I spent $200 on my hotel and another $200 on food and drinks. The trip to Vegas was a net positive. I made $100.

In this instance it would mean that the sum total of the economic benefits to NYC that come from rent-controlled apartments outweigh the sum total of the negatives.
This is a start: http://handleopenurl.com/scheme/ Register your URL scheme there to avoid collisions and help garner support from those who want to support your app.
The benefit is mostly to reach a bigger market without cannibalizing the existing market too much. It would be awkward to sell a cheap 10" tablet that is really 'good enough' to most people along side an expensive 10" tablet. How do you explain the differences and justify paying 30-50% more? The only reason they can get away with selling the same sizes of iPhones is due to carrier subsidies. They can make money on the low end devices. If a consumer was walking into a store to buy a 3GS off contract they would likely not pay more than $200 for it. Apple is getting more like $350-$400 from the carriers for a 3GS.
Well, they're trying to bring watches back with so-called "smart watches", but most of these require a smartphone to unlock functionality. Plus, watches still have a purpose outside of telling time. They are often used as accessories, similar to jewelry.
You'd also have to consider the magnitude of the successes and the amount invested per company. The handful of companies that make it really big pretty much dominate startup investment economics.
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If your predictions are so good, why not keep the data to yourself, get on Intrade, and make a ridiculous amount of money?
I'm not quite sure what Carreon hopes to gain from all this. Even if he wins, his life's not getting any better.
Since when is this new for Apple? The company (and don't get me wrong, I'm a fan) has an amazing ability to take older, already-existing technology and turn it into a successful product or feature. If you look at iOS for the past couple of versions, many of the things that people were excited about were features that Android already had. Whether you believe Apple has done them better or not is a matter of opinion.

Gruber has a pretty good summary of how this will likely go down. The HN thread is here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4222072
Are you sure that change is in the AOSP source? It could easily be part of the Google Apps bundle instead (in which case reversing it would be trickier).
Uber is a taxi service in many ways. Picking someone up to take them to a destination is very much how taxi's work. Fair enough you can't flag down a limousine from a sidewalk, but you can also call and arrange for a taxi to pick you up at an arranged time like Uber and a limousine. Lets not get confused here, the taxi lobbyists wouldn't feel the need to resort to these kind of tactics if they felt like Uber wasn't competition.
I think their purpose as an external display will be made obsolete when Google Glasses and other similar HUD devices take off.
I have a 7" android tablet (a really old one) and it makes a great device for reading (it has a lot of other problems, but reading is good). I think the Nexus 7 looks like a great device, and seems to already be defining the small tablet market, unlike a hypothetical apple device. This just reeks of fanboi-ism, unwilling to concede that google might have dome something good that apple doesn't already have product in that category for.
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>I don't know of any programming language that will auto-correct typos for you.

I know of many compilers that will point them out to you, and IDEs that will offer to auto-correct them (Eclipse, XCode and Visual Studio for example).

>If you don't write spaghetti code, you won't have a problem

Yes. And if you don't make any memory allocation errors you don't need a GC. Hell, if you don't make any errors period, you can just program in hex, building the executable code directly and skip assembly.

The thing is, different languages have different inherent characteristics (syntax, features) and different cultures (pertaining to libs, common practices, frameworks, etc), so one can tend to create more spaghetti code than the other, the programmer being equal.
I actually felt pretty safe walking around with a significantly larger amount than that in chips at the WSOP circuit events over the weekend in Vegas.
Great point here. I think that the Mini (if it happens, if that's the name, etc) will be another gateway drug just like the iPod touch. I remember Steve smiling kinda smugly about people who wanted the OS and the apps but didn't want the phone. The touch was how Apple got them in the door.

Now translate that to a tablet. For $200 you can get a device that has, inarguably, the best apps marketplace, at its disposal. Android tablets will have an especially difficult time keeping up with that, except for the ones that are purchased by people who simply don't like Apple and its ecosystem.
The Cyanogenmod developers have been taking CM9 development a bit differently to the past, trying to make it less hacky, so it is both more stable and easier to port features. Since Jelly Bean is a minor update, a lot of parts should have the same, or a similar API. This means the CM developers can literally forward port and backward port features between ICS and Jelly Bean with ease. So they will be releasing ICS and JB releases simultaneously.
It's on the front page of /r/programming with 551 upvotes right now. Don't know what happened herer!
It depends on the requirements of your data model. Anybody with a modicum of competence can scale a point cloud but real-world non-point geometry models is where systems like Oracle have difficulty. Polygons, lines, vectors, etc are a real problem. So-called "spatial hashing" (it had a different name in the 1970s and again in the early 1990s -- the wheel of computer science) has a number of real limitations which is why it was never really used (Oracle has patents on it that have already expired!).

Also, traditional transactional database engines are not designed for the kinds of insert/update rates that are common for many spatial applications. This is a problem for machine-generated data sources generally. It requires an architecture designed specifically for that kind of (ab)use case.
Go is advertised as feeling scripty and light but I don't think it really shakes the systems programming feel. Idiomatic Go has a lot of error checking which adds verbosity.

It would be nice to have a language you can do scripty stuff with but also build high performance systems, but I doubt Go will be it. Clojure seems closer but somewhat less performant.
The companies that regularly get covered on hackernews, techcrunch, etc. are not the sum total of technology companies in the valley or in the world. I work at one of those companies that doesn't get covered by tech crunch and it's phenomenal. The vast majority of my coworkers have some sort of prior experience at big name firms. One colleague just paid for his sons college education and mortgage from his time at Splunk. We do exist.
Classic misdirection. Apple wanted to enjoy big margins from $500+ iPads as long as possible. There was no reason for them to release a cheaper device until someone forced their hand. They still have all the momentum to make the move gracefully. This was exactly the move they were not able to make with the iPhone when it was facing increased competition. They were locked into one US carrier and had limited international reach. So they simply couldn't respond in the same way. With the 7" iPad they can follow the iPod model directly.
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For what it's worth, 30 guys at $150k per year is only $4.5MM per year.
Unless you are making a ruler app, I don't see much reason to make iPad mini apps any different than iPad apps. I can't think of anything I would change in my apps.
Gruber is arguing that there won't need to be a redesign for a smaller iPad because, if developers followed Apple's recommendations, touch target sizes on the smaller iPad will match the iPhone. Unless your app depends on the physical size of a point, no redesign is needed.

So, you still have two layouts: iPhone/iPod and iPad. You have four graphics resolutions: two for each.

Of course, as he said, we'll have to see how this plays out in reality. Maybe a smaller iPad will turn out to suck, and developers who want their apps to be usable on the thing will have to redesign them. It's hard to say without actually testing apps at that size.
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The coins are a nice finishing touch.
I think that in time, there will be an array of iOS devices at all price points from the ca. $100 to the laptop like $1k. (with some adjustments for carrier subsidies).

They did it before with the iPod, from $99, add $50 for more storage, add $50 for a different form factor, and so on, for every price point between $100 and $400.

Right now, the iPod touch is at $200, the iPad at 400, and 500-800. Phones are 400-700 w/o subsidies. Pushing the iPad down into the $200 range fills out that array of devices so that there's something for everyone who has a little bit of money to spend.
The biggest concern is maintaining a consistent and high quality service.

For example, if the market was to become saturated with drivers undercutting the market, it is plausible that some drivers would be forced out of the market as they are unable to make enough to sustain themselves. If this happens to enough 'regular' drivers the service may become irregular and the goal of providing accessible, consistent public transport (or whatever the goal is) suffers.

I guess what I am saying is that a completely free market _might_ actually harm the market in the end. We expect free markets to self-correct, but are we willing to accept sub-par services whilst waiting for that correction?

I have seen this concern in the taxi market in Canberra Australia. Taxis there are tightly regulated, and the numbers are kept low to make sure it is profitable. Their numbers have recently been increased to try an accommodate the increased Monday morning and Friday evening rushes as more people are flying in and out every week. The traffic during the rest of the week has remained fairly constant. This means that profits are lower and so some taxi drivers are getting out of the business. In a free market it's possible that this inflation of service providers could happen unchecked for a time, before it is realised that there is not enough consistent work to support the new drivers. The possibility for extreme fluctuation in service provision is high, and this could have terrible consequences for anyone who happens to need a taxi home on a Wednesday evening after too many drinks at the pub.

It is hard to say for sure if a free market would deal with the irregular nature of taxi business in that city better than a regulated market, but I think it is clear that the purpose of a taxi system could be at odds with the outcomes of a free market. A free market could fluctuate between too many and too few providers, removing the reliability that is essential in an effective taxi service, even though the regulated service might provision a greater than optimal service cost.
I think it's an honest assessment about the momentum the iPad has in the market. It's a lot like the iPod. Was it Sansa (Sandisk?) that had very good small digital players about a year before the iPod Nano? Apple flipped the switch on the Nano, charged more, and steam rolled them because everyone still wanted an iPod. The only big question to me is if Apple will step far enough into the 'value' market with pricing. $299 leaves the door open. $249 slams the door.
The 2012 mileage reimbursement rate set by the IRS is 55.5c/mile, and is supposed to take fuel, maintenance, insurance, depreciation, etc costs into account.

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Bits are nearly free, interface is iteratively-malleable, and improving search offers instant only-when-needed access to arbitrarily large backlogs…

I am very suspicious of this argument, although I freely admit that my instincts are colored by my old company's use of Atlassian Jira. I was generally okay with Jira, at times when the backlog was under control, but if there's an issue tracker that can manage several thousand active entries without reducing you to tears, Jira is not it.

Bits are nearly free, but human attention is not. Human attention is even smaller than a physical filing system.

Issue-tracker interfaces may in theory be "infinitely malleable" but that's a yak-shaving exercise waiting to happen. Every minute a team spends redesigning or reconfiguring the issue tracker is a minute they aren't spending working on the product. That's Spolsky's point.

Search? When there's one issue in the backlog about the color of the toolbar then search will work great. But then the toolbar acquires a "color" palette. And then two years go by, during which people keep bikeshedding aspects of the toolbar. And then one day you'll search for "toolbar + color" and up will come fifty entries. Which you will probably have to read.

If you're a talented search jockey you can probably construct a better query to whittle down that SERP page, assuming your issue tracker has a Google-quality search backend, which it probably does not. But constructing fancy searches takes time and thought. And there's a garbage-in-garbage-out problem with search: If your issues aren't written with a sufficient level of detail, precision, care, and choice of terminology (and somehow they never are), your search won't distinguish them well. Reporting bugs well takes a lot of time and care. Writing carefully-described issue descriptions with a standard terminology takes time, even if you're a trained library scientist. And, again: All that time spent refining searches, scanning SERP pages, and writing well-crafted issue descriptions for better searchability is time you're not spending on the product. You can't ship the prose in your issue tracker.
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Better yet, just allow directory indexes on /js and /css, showing the smaller files that the minified one is built from. You can do this, and also minify them using a Makefile.

zx2c4@albali ~/zx2c4.com $ cat Makefile
JS_DIR = js
CSS_DIR = css

JS_MIN = $(JS_DIR)/scripts.min.js
CSS_MIN = $(CSS_DIR)/styles.min.css

JS_MIN_FILES := $(patsubst %.js, %.min.js, $(filter-out %.min.js, $(wildcard $(JS_DIR)/*.js)))
CSS_MIN_FILES := $(patsubst %.css, %.min.css, $(filter-out %.min.css, $(wildcard $(CSS_DIR)/*.css)))

JS_COMPILER = ~/opt/bin/google-compiler --warning_level QUIET
CSS_COMPILER = ~/opt/bin/yuicompressor --type css

.PHONY: all clean

all: $(JS_MIN) $(CSS_MIN)

%.min.js: %.js
@echo "Compiling javascript" $<
@$(JS_COMPILER) --js $< --js_output_file $@

%.min.css: %.css
@echo "Compiling stylesheet" $<
@$(CSS_COMPILER) -o $@ $<

$(JS_MIN): $(JS_MIN_FILES)
@echo "Assembling compiled javascripts"
@cat $^ > $@

$(CSS_MIN): $(CSS_MIN_FILES)
@echo "Assembling compiled stylesheets"
@cat $^ > $@

clean:
@rm -fv $(JS_MIN) $(JS_MIN_FILES) $(CSS_MIN) $(CSS_MIN_FILES)

You prefix the js/css files with an order number.

js/000-jquery-1.2.3.js
js/001-silly-jquery-plugin.js
js/002-another-silly-jquery-plugin.js
js/010-something-else.js
js/100-fetcher.js

or whatever kind of ordered number scheme you like. This way, the Makefile's auto-discovery of the js/.js and css/.css contents will maintain order.
I am so done with this "This is good" or "that is good" as far as programming languages go. It's all about right toolset for the job.

If you need a small site/Blog/small ecommerce/small donation platform/small real estate website etc, PHP seems to tick just the right boxes since it has tools like Wordpress on it's side.

You are building next Pinterest OR Facebook ? Then I think you should look at other alternatives.
As has been said by jessedhillon above http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=4220812

> "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."
That's really just two sizes, 1024x768 and 320x480, which you create at 2x resolution. And these are separate apps most of the time.

There is no expectation that controls will be the same physical size on the rumored iPad mini; what happens is that scaled down they already have the same hit area as an iPhone, so you don't need separate graphics for it.

It all fits beautifully, and one has to wonder if this was all planned from the start or just luck + sensible decisions.
Ask HN: What are you hacking these days?
Just curious to know what you guys are hacking these days.
I heard of it, but never used it. I currently use delicious & google bookmarks. This sounds amazing, but site fails to show what export methods it has unless I sign up first. All it says is "You can export your bookmarks in a variety of formats". Could I import back to Google bookmarks or back to Delicious?
I would imagine I'm about as much of a "power user" as anyone else on here and I couldn't care less about either of the things you just mentioned. Making a big deal out of the file copy dialog on a new OS does seem a bit over the top.
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'When people walk into the room with a predetermined pitch that they're determined to stick to, things usually end badly.'

Yes and no depending on where you place the emphasis. Predetermined pitches are not a bad thing... know what you do, your strengths, think it through and plan it ahead of time. Nothing wrong with that.

The key part is "...that they're determined to stick to...". You have to know your material well enough to be willing and able to go off "course" wherever the client leads you to. That is where a successful presentation lies, in being able to adapt to the needs presented, not just spell them out as you see them.
Even if we assume my predictions are very accurate, I'm not familiar enough with Intrade to know whether it's mostly guided by fundamentals vs technical analysis.

That is, Obama's value may go up because many people think it will go up, due to some technical indicators, and not necessarily because Obama's probability of winning went up.
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I'm enjoying seeing all the Bangkok locations mentioned on HN. We should have a Bangkok HN meetup sometime!
> so you may as well just turn on Nitro in Chrome (which is easy to do on a jailbroken device).

I know you may mean that it is easy to implement this but just checking if there already exists something which can do this. I searched Google and Cydia with no results. This definitely can be very very useful to a lot of people, esp hackers.
Its a sign of times that "leading" magazines publish such crappy articles. the author doesn't have a frigging clue about ad business models - I guess his objective is just to meet the word count.
Anyone who thinks Democrats have a monopoly on MAFIAA-corrupted legislators needs to seriously examine this Republican.

A truly corrupt individual.
Can someone please explain why government intervention is necessary here, or how any of this proposed legislature is even legal? When new competitors are forced to set prices to 5x the incumbents, who is winning? How does that benefit the customers? I thought the government was supposed to serve the people, not dying taxi companies that refuse to innovate...
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I'm curious - what was the end game for the padmapper and CL relationship that you foresaw?

And by extension - the relation between CL and many other people who want to disintermediate CL away?

Genuinely curious.
Ask HN: Is it fair if my employer pays me less if I don't have a degree?
I dropped out of college my second year to work at a startup. After a few months, I was offered a full time position. When I was negotiating my salary the main reason my pay was stunted is because I don't have a college degree. I know my contribution to the project is no less than the other devs. Is this something common?
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- I am interested in learning how people manage their time between official commitments and their side projects
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Isn't this how it's done in the Android world (and chastised by iOS developers)? Really, I'd like to know.
The software on the iPod wasn't much of a problem, though. For iOS devices they need to keep supporting the older hardware, and I don't think they can do that for hardware that is older than 3 generations/years. We're already seeing how some major features are not landing on even newer than 3 generations devices, like Maps and Navigation on iPad 1 and iPhone 4.