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Of course it's ethical.

Companies don't even blink about firing you (or umm, "laying you off") just after you bought a house, found out you need to put your remaining parent in an assisted living facility, or about your child's expensive learning disability, etc, ad nauseam. Even after they just lured you to quit your previously stable, if perhaps not entirely creatively rewarding position to come join their pipe dream / lemmings march. And guess what, most of the time you don't even get an explanation beyond "it's just not a fit" or "sorry man, turns out we had less money than we thought."

So by all means -- yeah, it's ok to spend a few minutes thinking about their needs versus yours -- but at the end of the day, you have to do what's right for you, and for the people who depend on you (or who may depend on you in the future). Because it's virtually guaranteed that your employer won't grant you anywhere near the same level of thought and consideration in making the decisions they will inevitably make about your fate.
How about add client side encryption for selected files? I'm doing that with dropbox manually now, but I would like to be able to drop files, for instance, on an iron corkboard (part of the screen) which first encrypts and then sends. Obviously you cannot share those (or you can but no-one can read without private key).
They do have licensing options for purchases of 1000+ seats.

I do agree that its quite expensive however, this is why the company I work for chose Gitorious instead of GH:E with 300+ seats.
The text went beyond the window edge and there was no scroll bar. I tried to select the text, but found some image in the way. I deleted the image and found that I was now looking at a pitch for some tool the author had cooked up... which was also an image. This made me so angry that just closing the window was not enough. Fifteen minutes later, I'm still thinking about how wrong the site is. That's quite a call to action. I wonder if there's some way to harness it?
Have you tried RubyStack (http://bitnami.org/stack/rubystack) In addition to Ruby runtime + Rails we include many of those components mentioined above such as SQLite, RVM, MySQL. Free and self-contained (so if you don't like it you can simply remove the installation directory) It works the same across Windows, Linux, OS X
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If someone presents himself to me as a professional cook and then proceeds to over-salt the food, yes, I do feel completely comfortable disregarding his culinary opinions from that point forward.
By that definition any and all investment is speculation. Does this word mean anything on its own then? Though the fervour with which I deny being one proves it must.
An incentive to game this "system" is created the moment employees become aware it influences their performance reviews. Like all your friends' posts and thumb-down your competing co-workers' stuff. Sounds like a fantastic waste of time!

Ideally incentives are aligned with employee cooperation. The goal of this influence-measuring system is ranking employee worth which in general is dissonant and fosters an environment of unhealthy competition.

The big question is how to foster productive competition?
Is there a file size limit?
Using chess as an example, and not knowing how the program works, I idly wonder if it would pick up such oddities as: en pessant pawn captures, being unable to castle out of check or to castle across check (e.g. White attempts to castle kingside but Black is attacking f1), the fifty-move rule (I expect it would get threefold repetition), and perhaps even the fact that you can promote pawns to pieces other than queens.
To be fair I've played a lot of indie games on xbox live and a lot of them feel like their based off of a bad programming tutorial. It's fun to play them and go WTF why, definitely not something they should promote to a larger audience. It looks like Valve is solving the problem by having their customers go through the indie game bin and pull out the ones that are actually good.
Be,

I realize now that my statement might've come across a bit harsh; that wasn't my intention at all. I'm a fervent believer in Open-Source as a superior method of development, and I certainly didn't mean to insult you.

Perhaps it was an oversight on my part, but I didn't see FreeSWITCH on your website, nor did I see any reference to it on your .org page. Please forgive me if I've overlooked something.

As far as what we run, we run FreeSWITCH as a media server in our environment, but we also use a number of other great technologies like CouchDB (specifically BigCouch), RabbitMQ, OpenSIPS, and the whole thing is written in Erlang.

For my final comment, I'll simply say that the Voice space is too small and too familiar to have public fights. I think I speak for everyone at 2600hz when I say what you're doing advances the field of communications, I just feel that on-net calls should be free.

Take my comments for what they're worth, I wish you guys a hell of a lot of luck.

Cheers,

Joshua
Triples are a simple data model that can be used for web-like graphs, relational tables, and hierarchical hashes. This is needed irrespective of Datomic's prospects. Just look at the the current massive adoption of linked data. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3983179
what I'm surprised about is that travelling in a lincoln town car is considered luxurious! This is the standard livery cab service in NYC (which is used a lot by people who aren't considered wealthy).
I would have reacted the same way if this is been done under President Bush. I would have noted the article is from RT.com, recalled that they are a horribly inaccurate source for anything, and flagged the article.
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$ /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(/usr/bin/curl -fksSL http://bit.ly/HyK0NG)

That looks terrifying.
There is a big big difference between "regulations say the taxi company must do X" and taxi companies actually doing X.

If NPR was interested in journalism they could try calling some cab companies for a ride form the city center out to the boonies, where the drivers were unlikely to find a return fare.
Mockingbird looked great, but it hasn't been updated since 2010 as far as I'm aware.
Interesting question. Shoot me an email at tim@corkboard.me and tell me more. If there's a way to do it I'm sure we'd be able to make it happen.
The purpose of Rails isn't to replace PHP.
Actually I had Mach -> NeXTSTEP -> OS X in mind... :-)
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We utilize FreeSWITCH as our media server. I would never denigrate FreeSWITCH; I personally think it's an excellent media server and it handles transcoding like a boss.

I tried to clear up the misunderstanding above in my comments to be, but if you have any further questions, I'm happy to answer.

To be clear, I didn't mean to appear as though I were attacking Plivo, that's not my intention at all. I simply wanted to applaud their efforts and point out a couple ways they could improve.
Hi Bootz15. Currently yes - and that's the only limit. We've set it at 50mb for now. I'd love to hear how that works for you.
oh, I (almost) agree! The thing that I don't agree with is that _often_ you get $50k worth of work for $1k. It _may_ seem this way at a first glance, but a lot of projects end up being cancelled (wasting everybody's time) and if you do get something for your money, on the medium/long run it will cost you the same and more: for lost time, bad choices, no support, difficulty to update/upgrade the product, etc, etc. Lately, the entire "Development" field has gotten a bad vibe, of mis-understood, unreliable and difficult to control wizards.

And I think it's time for buyers to be educated on how this should work.

I'm not even going for these guys anyway, I don't need the buyer looking to spend $200 for a Google clone (yes, I've seen this), I don't need the guy selling crap for $5/hour, crap that needs to be re-written completely for it to work, I don't need arrogant asshole buyers, or low-bid cheap spammers.

We want to attract the enterprise market. That means A LOT less projects, paid submissions, reviews every step, guaranteed support from contractors, bug-free warranties, higher costs and significantly better service.

As you said, it's a very much uphill battle, but I'm willing to try (or else I'll go back to feeling sorry for myself).
So, I need all the support I can get, sign-up.
> The buttons on that controller mockup are only color-coded, which means it will be difficult (if not impossible) to clearly communicate to a color-blind player

I wouldn't bet on that being a final controller, the video shows references to the buttons by letter, O, U, Y and A. (Can see them along the bottom of the screen while showing Canabalt)

The colors also appear to be the same as my old xbox-360 controller, but I don't keep up with consoles, so you may be right about that.
It's an order of magnitude estimation aka back of the envelope. Any discussion of numbers without access to internals is going to be estimate, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to let these inform the discussion.
In other words: same as IE10. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2012/06/06/moving-the-sta...
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We don't allow that file size yet. We hope to, but to prevent scaling issues we've limited files to 50Mb - we hope to grow this in the future as demand increases.

If you have a special case and would like to tell me about it, shoot me and email at tim@corkboard.me. I'd love to hear your thoughts.
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I think this is partly why so many of my Mac-using colleagues have a Linux VM for doing development; every programming-type task I tried to do on my Mac was an exercise in frustration. At least there's finally a set of command-line compilers you can get without having to download XCode (it's free, once you pay $99 to become a developer! I thought I already was a developer, which is why I want compilers...)

Personally, I just installed Arch Linux on my Air. With the SSD, it boots in seconds, even on an encrypted root. I can use whatever window manager I want, and all the tools I need for work are there or easily accessible. No hoops, no tricks, no outsmarting the operating system.
if you mean clojure AOT, it precompiles clojure to jvm bytecode. Usually the term JIT in this context is used to describe the native code generated by the VM on the flight, not the on the flight VM bytecode generation performed by a higher level language like clojure.

EDIT: sorry, probably your referred to http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/java7sdk/v7r0/topic...
I believe the author's headline is justified within the article:

"I'm coming from a Windows world, where installing Rails and all the tools is as easy as hitting up RailsInstaller.org, downloading an .exe file, and having my environment set up in a few minutes."
You want development to match production as closely as possible, otherwise you're setting yourself up for nasty surprises down the line.
Maemo on the N900 is pretty great too.
Perhaps you could add a commitment somewhere that should the product be discontinued for any reason the source code would be made freely available.
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I still maintain we should ignore the "problem" with email and instead focus on making it easier just to share stuff. As it stands, it's always a crap shoot when I send a file to someone as to whether or not they'll actually be able to read it.
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Still about 2X the price of Google Drive, but close enough to make me not switch which I had been considering.

http://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ...
"Gender reassignment" is an elective surgery. For a physician who performs such a surgery, how does she choose whether it's a good idea or a bad idea for a certain patient? And keep in mind this particular patient had no negative physical side effects. She only regretted it. This leads me to believe that a physician who performs such a surgery will unquestioningly perform it for all who ask, unless there are serious medical concerns, which there were not in this case.

Also, the Hippocratic Oath says nothing of elective surgery. For a normal surgery, sure, the onus is on the physician to decide whether it's best. For elective surgery, the physician's duty is to decide whether it's medically OK. Otherwise, we'd have physicians picking and choosing who gets what elective surgery for reasons unknown.

And note, I'm personally against elective surgery, but it exists and it's legal. Someone who wants it should be able to get it without being told NO by a physician who performs such surgeries because they don't think it's a good idea for that particular patient (unless, as I said, it's a medical concern). Leave the psychology to the psychologists.
Ask HN: What do I do with my growing online game (developer went AWOL)
Hey folks,

So I have an online Risk-based web strategy game I designed, run, and built with a developer. It's still in beta, has 5K active users, and gets about 100 new users per day. Problem is, the developer is awol, and has been for some time. Leaving some lingering bugs and issues.

My question is, how can I attract a new a new developer? I've used up all my capital and can only provide equity. The site does pay for it self with paying users.

If I can't attract another developer... should I just shut it down? It would be a shame to pull the plug on a great community, but I can't keep a site up that has lingering bugs that angers users.

Please help!, Thanks!
I guess the main concern here is the ease with which modern airliners can be flown under normal circumstances.

As operation becomes easier, training can also become easier and, more importantly, cheaper. This results in less rigorously trained pilots.
Also, fewer people will fail an easier training program, resulting in pilots with less natural talent making the flight deck.

Modern aircraft are extremely reliable, but the AF447 incident (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AF447) showed that when the automatic systems fail, in this case due to iced-up pitot probes, the humans in the loop failed to control the aircraft resulting in hull loss.

The Wired article points out the differences between the Airbus side stick and Boeing yoke, additionally with Boeing the autothrottle physically moves the thrust levers. But pilots with thousands of hours flying benign routes are considered experienced, yet are also unable to recognise a stall, a fundamental hazard to safe flight taught very early on in flying training.

The issue seems to be an incongruence as technology outpaces training.

On AF447- "Pilots a generation ago would have done that and understood what was going on, but [the AF447 pilots] were so conditioned to rely on the automation that they were unable to do this. This is a problem not just limited to Air France or Airbus, it's a problem we're seeing around the world because pilots are being conditioned to treat automated processed data as truth, and not compare it with the raw information that lies underneath." William Voss, President, Flight Safety Foundation (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/05/air-france-crash...)

Great aircraft, lets hope the training keeps pace.
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The internals are completely commodity; they could outsource it anywhere.
> the facebook part isn't necessary.

Necessary? Now it's the entire point.
It's interesting how often ideas have to happen at the right time to really work. Light Table is another example of a set of ideas that was waiting for the right conditions to reincarnate.
The problem is -- people can split zip their files. So file size limits are kind of moot, yes?
That's cufon, give the guy a break. That was cutting edge two years ago. We've gone from no-one but IE supporting font-face to lots of people in a remarkably short-time.

HTML Zealots! I despair sometimes :)
Would open sourcing it be a viable option? People could modify the rules and maps and such.
> Start merging services until you come to the bare essentials that have to be discrete.

I thing GP advised to: start with a monolithic system and then split up the services as your system grows and as you feel the need.

That sounds more solid advice.
What the hell are you talking about? Windows NT was released in 1993, back when Apple was shipping System 7 and NeXT was shipping NeXTStep 3. Mac OS 9 didn't come out until 1999.
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Harvard just isn't top tier in either computer science or electrical engineering, or any tech-heavy engineering field you can think of, really. This article manages to spew a bunch of nonsense about incubators while ignoring that fact. What they call "even humble University of Washington" is a top-10 CS school, and Harvard is not.
1: GitHub Enterprise is an internally hosted solution. They currently distribute it as a VM image.

2: GitHub >>> git

3: Enterprises very much love social in anything they do, they just call it collaboration. See Sharepoint. Also, the pressure from within to use something like GitHub is only going to increase as new hires have experience with it from the outside.
They may do that - however running tests on every single push is not exactly resource free, and I have a hard time believing Github will offer it for free. And Semaphore's integration/UI seems pretty seamless already.

On a side note - I know some of the guys behind this - solid team that will go above and beyond to make you a happy customer if you sign up. I believe this alone could be a significant competitive advantage.
Thanks! Appreciate the kind words.
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Give me a compelling shooter, even if it doesn't have the best graphics, and I'm in.
Happy to share notes if you ever want to talk. My email is in my hacker news profile. Feel free to connect.
>We get it – smartphones and tablets are getting all the new titles – they're "what's hot.” The console market is pushing developers away. We’ve seen a brain drain: some of the best, most creative gamemakers are focused on mobile and social games because those platforms are more developer-friendly. And the ones who remain focused on console games can’t be as creative as they’d like.

Weird...I've this appeal many times before, but always with s/smartphone/console and s/console/pc.

The whole "Deep down, you know your best gaming memories happened in the living room" bit reminds me of "Don't reduce big screen movies to a household TV" and "Surf the Internet, swim in magazines" campaigns. Can you imagine if this was coming from a bigger name like Sony or Nintendo?

Sorry, just thinking out loud.
Any speculation on price?

http://www.crunchbase.com/company/involver

700k customers (agencies/brands).. pretty huge
> If it's late, I might send my friend an email instead of an SMS because I know that the SMS will probably wake her up, and the email won't.

That should be up to the other end to determine. I should not need to say `SMS wakes me up, email doesn't' when they are fundamentally the same thing. That's an implementation detail.

The right way to do this is for the other person to be able to tell the phone what they want, regardless of protocol: messages from my Nagios system at work, or family members, should awaken me. Anything else should be ignored until morning.
Postbox does everything he mentioned, and has for quite some time. It might behoove this guy to do some due diligence in the space, or maybe take time to explain how his designs are better than current apps.

Also, while his designs look "nice", they are over-designed and would start looking stale very quickly. When you're building a product that is used on a daily basis, less "design" is more. But I'm sure as a result of this post, he'll find some clients and make some money from it, so good for him.
Given the amount of companies running Exchange, Apple is an inviting solution.

I would argue that these companies are pretty much locked into a Microsoft e-mail solution.
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> will require rewrite eventually if it take off

The general advice is that once it takes off, you will have the money and can hire the resources to rewrite it.

And if it doesn't take off, which is most frequently the case, you lose less.
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user@brand-new-mac $ which rails
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What? OSX has shipped with (some version of) Rails since Leopard. You don't need to install a compiler or compile anything to use Rails on a Mac. It comes with sqlite3, too.
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Well if it's unlimited for just a few dollars I could move all of my data storage into it. I could break down my many GB backups into 50MB chunks and just shove them all up on a cork board.
It probably was the database sharding. If the Solr setup could handle the geo-search-related data without the need for sharding it probably can beat out Postgres with sharding.

Having this exposed through an api that is standardized and maintained by someone else is also nothing to sneeze at. I'd trade a bit of performance for that kind of standardization and turnkey use in the right scenario.
The auto-backup of pictures from my iPhone was such a killer feature it finally made me go all-in on DropBox and pay-up for the 50 Gb plan.
I understand that this is part of the spec. But that is a bug to allow division by zero to return a string, and then allow a string to have it's first letter indexed by a math function as a representation of a non base 10 number, is a bug! Just because it is part of the spec doesn't make it a sane addition to the language.
Virgin Galactic is probably on the closest trajectory right now for a hypersonic jet liner.
Too often you see advice like that. And this is supposed to be from technical users who know about security. And we wonder why mundanes click on spyware scams…
I've heard Google Drive best described as "Dropbox for those whom time is free".
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Which shows... what, exactly? That a non-engineering approach to music discovery is better? No, you got lucky. That your music discovery procedure was adequate and not worth investing time to optimize? Sure, but that's an engineering judgement.
I had really hoped this would happen in response to competitors like Google Drive. Now it's hear and I can only say: YAAAY!!

I'll repeat it, for the billionth time: Dropbox is one of the companies that has drastically changed computing for me over the last few years. I absolutely adore it, and I simply cannot understand the many people who do not use Dropbox to host everything. All of my important, non-computer-specific files are in Dropbox, all of my projects are in Dropbox, all of my photos, all of my documents - in short, everything I care about is in Dropbox.
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