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Maybe they perceived they could win more money by selling the assets the company, one of Sparrow guys came from Apple and Amazon so I really think this was the case, or maybe they perceived that at some point in the future a single software would not be sustainable at all, and since with app stores you cannot charge for upgrades this would be on their way, that's why the majority of OS X indies I know have a couple and not a single software selling at each time.

Who knows, ultimately it probably has to do with personal projects of theirs and I think it would be paternalistic to have a say in their lives.

There are people who really do not wish to have the lifestyle business life, it's not evil to seek more money as long as it's not something immoral that they're doing.
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There needs to be a website or something to shame known patent and trolls AND THEIR ATTORNEYS.
APM was just her way of creating a power base in a large organization, in Yahoo, APM is the opposite of what she needs since she is the big cheese now.

Regardless, all the fru-fru management speak is useless unless Yahoo can figure out what their product is, which it seems to have never been clear ever since it gave up on search and being the defacto easy to use web subject directory. They lost on search. Text based subject directories as simply not sexy to management types, who chose to ignore that is what most of their traffic was for when they were more popular. At this point its just a huge product-less enterprise running on fumes and coasting to a stop.
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You're trying to give me a 15 year old application and hold it up as a shining example of Lisp engineering, when the most prominent application in that arena (Mathematica) is written in C and Java?

Reddit, too, was once written in Lisp. It was rewritten for a reason.
Business Insider... A great source for wild Apple rumors.

Also, funny top 10 lists like: http://www.businessinsider.com/10-things-science-can-teach-u...

Not much credibility there.
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I'm going off topic a little but...

An element I really like from random blog posts I've seen off of HN is using the sidebars for additional, short commentary/details. Your comment reminded me of that, but sadly this might not work well if an article were all chopped up with tons of commentary (I'm thinking of used books where 'important' parts are highlighted and comments put beside them by a random reader, which I dislike). Well, then again, perhaps for people who like to dive into subjects and really digest an article, there could be a straight text version and a feature to see it marked up w/ smart commentary.

This also reminds me of a small 'movement' a year or two ago for citing in-article links at the bottom instead of linking to them throughout the article itself.
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Once everyone is charging a recurring fee, and competition drives those margins down to a "paying for maintenance" amount you have the same problem.

Both business models can work, and both business models can fail. I haven't seen any evidence that SaaS is immune to competitive pricing, which is the issue being described in the post.
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You hit the nail in the head here. From what I saw while living in London, Singapore and now in Germany is that the problem is not with the talent, but with the right compesation. There are so many hackers out there, but "rockstars" or "ninjas" for 25K GBP is an insult.
The pub/sub thing is a great pattern and it doesn't make you write more code. In your example, would all the data the modules need to generate their templates be included with the event "loggedin"?
It might be appropriate to change the HN link to http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/04/24/functional-pr...
I'm sympathetic to the idea that requiring prompt payment for work done is a reasonable thing. But ten days doesn't work in (most of) the real world.

For many people in a position of hiring contractors to do work, there are times when an invoice can sit in an inbox -- physical or otherwise -- for more time than that before even being opened, much less acted upon via a process that often involves multiple other people.

Most companies I've experienced would respond to a demand for a 50% late fee by paying the exactly the original amount, exactly 30 days after invoice, and simply never work with you again.
Where is the expert? Ric Richardson is not an attorney, let alone a patent attorney. Ric's comments are uninformed, and probably not worth responding to.

[ http://ricrichardson.blogspot.co.uk/p/about-ric.html ]
Hi, one of the Chute founders.

It's definitely not how we describe ourselves, but I think the analogy they're gunning for is simply around exposing an infrastructure for a specific media.

User-generated is definitely a broad use of Chute but certainly not the only one. It's also being used where you have your own media (photos, etc.) that you want to publish and have a bit more flexibility in both how they're used and the info you can gather from the usage.
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You bring up an interesting point about "new."

New is fun. Exploration is fun. I think a lot of people will swear by a new language simply because it's not old and probably doesn't suffer many of the same deficiencies they're used to in their "every day," language.

This to me is an illusion however. One must remain skeptical and treat new, untested languages with even more scrutiny than an old one. Many of these new languages will make extraordinary claims. Discovering the evidence to support these claims is often left as an exercise to the programmer.

That being said, new has a lot of advantages. It's free to try to break away from past paradigms that perhaps limited programmers. Stability can always come later once the core ideas have been fleshed out. And it's always fun to work on fresh ideas rather than refining the same old ones that we're plagued with.

Personally I wouldn't use a language and compiler that only just reached 1.0 this year in a production system. If I was really interested in Go I'd certainly hack with it and perhaps on it, but I wouldn't trust it to be reliable. Maybe that makes me an old, stodgy fart but I trust wisdom over brilliance when it comes to building systems that are dependable and robust.
The design really is better - can you imagine pushing a western style wheelbarrow for 20km?

Try some of the other articles on the site (eg. http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2010/12/hand-powered-drilling...) and you'll see he just has a pro-cool technology bias.
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No. . . but it's going to happen anyway.

The same thing happened when (non-GC) HLLs started to overtake assembly language. And the discussions will continue to be equally context-free. And I'm sure that just like the last time around, the most vociferous participants in the debate will be people who don't have to work with terribly high performance demands anyway. On account of the people who do usually being way too overexposed to the mountains of nuance (and aware that the only reliable way to find the best option in any particular case is to do some measuring for that particular case) to feel comfortable making the kinds of categorical statements that make for good blogging.
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The next HD2? And it costs about $150.

Jelly Bean Link:

http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/24/android-jelly-bean-os-manages-speedy-launch-on-ztes-n880e-smart/

Mango Link:

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This (and another topic on HN) made me curious and got me thinking, how do we design new platforms for comments and opinion sharing - to make them more meaningful and less spiteful and agenda propoganding keep the trolls out.

So I thought I'd think it out loud !?
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Not saying this is necessarily true for Hacker News, but unfortunately a lot of sites don't have the time/resources to develop and then maintain a public API for the majority of their content. And mostly see an RSS or XML feed of their news/articles/stories as good enough.
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Depends on what you're being paid for. It's one thing to do that with ongoing payments for an ongoing service. It's another thing to code a backdoor into a program you write for hire.
20v@5a! Nice! I can't wait to see USB ports instead of the 13.8v ports we currently have in cars.

Sadly my 170w laptop still would need a separate adapter.
I just used a site with Chute for the first time yesterday (http://www.refer.ly) and it blew my mind how easy it was to grab photos from the various cloud like places I upload them to (facebook, flickr, etc) and use them right there on Referly through Chute's widget. Instead of having to do the old "Right click, save, upload" method. It is ridiculously easy and awesome. Well done, Chute.
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What would you expect from someone who thinks that nothing more than the idea of registering a demo constitutes "technology"?
Normally when I think of poachers, I think of the local problem of people taking game outside the legal season. Often for trophies, often for meat. I don't get much further than thinking that they are illegally killing wild animals.
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1. No, that statement is still true even if you don't know the higher-order strategy of your opponent: no matter what it is, it has the same payoffs as some lower-order strategy.

2. You would have to define "exploit that," especially with the understanding that this is game theory and probabilistic strategies are certainly encouraged. So for example, you might imagine a genius who can consistently outthink you, knows your entire history and how you like to play Rock-Paper-Scissors and immediately as you throw down Rock, simply is able to guess that this is what you're likely to do, and throws Paper.

You can beat this guy. Or, more precisely, you can equal him. It's very simple: before the day has begun, roll a six-sided die and memorize the sequence. As long as they are not exploiting certain "tells" (as a Japanese robot did in the news a week or two ago) -- as long as they are just making a deduction based upon the sort of person you are, they cannot produce a net win against you and you're safe. Indeed, the Nash equilibrium for RPS is not terribly interesting, it's to choose each of the options with probability 1/3rd -- I don't really have much reason to believe that this changes dramatically in iterated RPS.
Not to mention Uniloc doesn't even have technology. They do not create or sell software.
Limiting tickets alone doesn't ensure that equal number of men/women show up.

If they hadn't done all of the other stuff it may have been the case they sold 50 male tickets and zero female tickets.

People seem to assume that if tickets are there then women show up. It takes a lot of encouragement to get that to happen.

Also I'd like to add I'd be more encouraged to join a 50/50 style hackathon than a female only one. I think they did a great job.
I think we're saying the same thing, yeah. I was remarking that any clever strategy doesn't confer any advantage to the attacker because there is no advantage to confer. They have perfect knowledge of your strategy just by knowing one previous move, and perfect knowledge is the most you can get.

Unless I'm confused again, it seems to me that there's just no advantage to them remembering more moves, since they know everything you're going to do from that last one. It's not that your strategy being stupid actively forces them to be stupid, they're not losing anything by being cleverer, they just don't gain anything because they already have it all.
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Unless your laptop is using 170W all the time, you could still charge it using just 100W. Even a very high powered laptop is probably using <10W in idle.
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Would you trust someone who put a time-bomb in your business system?

That stuff is immature and unnecessary. You handle non-payment issue through the courts, not with vigilante justice. Have a lawyer draw up your contracts, and don't transfer ownership of the intellectual property until payment is made. If they don't pay, sue them for using your property.
Break payments up into up front and milestones. Ditch any clients who are bad about payments. Worst case you are out the payment for one milestone, but you bought the business intelligence on who is a bad client to work for. I had to leave an Android startup that was at the top of the Market rankings, and getting tons of traffic due to that no matter what they did, due to issues like this and I am much better off for it.

Noom/Worksmart Labs would often "forget" to pay me some months, or "accidentally" pay me too little other months. They messed up paying my gym benefit for months once and I took over, then they argued for 10 emails and a a meeting when I asked them to contribute any amount at all. They'd frequently agree to do things like update the address I was paid at which I needed for immigration paperwork, then never do it because they wouldn't pay their accountant either. It was just hell working for them, and switching to other companies has been great. I actually get to focus on work instead of spending all my time seeing how the company is going to try to cheat me next and dealing with it.
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He says right on top that thats negotiable _upfront_. I usually have net 15 and am pretty strict on that. That means, I will call on that day and ask for the invoice to be paid. I also make it clear to clients that prolonged non-payment outside of terms will lead to a raise on the negotiation. I also make clear that if they cannot pay for whatever reason, they can just call and talk about things. The reason why the default number is low is pretty easy: clients will only go up from there.

I personally find the punishment extremely hard. 10% per week is definitely unreasonable. It would basically put that person on my "don't recommend that colleague"-list.

About companies not paying late fees: unless the contract is really beefy to start with, its also a quick way to ensure that good freelancers won't work with you again. Word goes around. I've seen more that one seemingly "big" company struggle with not having any business partners to turn to any more.
Thanks! They should disable the flyout completion for now, though. It causes the input box to lose focus, can't type a command with that.
I'm still trying, but it's demanding more discipline from me than I thought I'd need at first. It's hard to get rid of bad habits when they've already become muscle memory.
Go has been surprisingly reliable and stable, even before it hit 1.0 a few months ago quite a few people (including Google) were using it in production: http://go-lang.cat-v.org/organizations-using-go

With Go 1.0 there is an even greater focus on stability: http://golang.org/doc/go1compat.html

Go is also quite different from most 'new' languages, many people find it to be the most fun language they have used in a long time (even after using many other new languages).

This might be in part because one of the things that makes Go special (and my favorite "feature") is not just the features it has, but all the stuff it doesn't have.

Go is simple and doesn't get on the way and lets you focus on the problem, other "new" languages are often described as "powerful", but much of the work involves using their "features", when Go is more often described as productive, the focus is not in the language and its features but on the problem you are trying to solve and the language gets out of the way.
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So because they wrote it, nobody else shouldn't? :)
What are the benefits of Chute over a service like filepicker.io?
Scraping comments on HN hits the robots.txt wall rather quickly.

At a maximum 2 scrapes per minute, your cache will be 60 minutes old when you're watching 120 (single-page) comment threads. That might be tolerable. Now try 1200 or 12,000 comment threads.

You can do smart cache refreshes, but you will miss bursty activity. You can ignore articles older than X days, but you'll miss the "dupe, comments here:" resurgences.

HN gets about 150 posts per day that hit the top 60, at least briefly, as a point of reference.

This is a neat thing, but if it gets popular you will have a problem. On the plus side, it's self-limiting. As the usage gets higher, the experience will degrade and usage will decline. No intervention required by you. :)

I've wished for a policy-compliant way to cache comments in a timely manner, but there's just no way to stay current under the existing rules.
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I expect them to have a successful career in the Patent Office.

(Sorry about the "cheap shot"... I realize that the problems are with the laws, not the patent examiners. But humor is the only way I can approach this subject without tears.)
Patent infringement is a civil matter, and a variety of those don't require intent. Criminal cases are much more likely to require intent, though there are plenty that don't.
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Is it really helpful to judge a language by its version number? Go is a very conservative language, in that it only uses well known and studied language features, and has been in production at many companies, including Google, Canonical, CloudFlare, etc.

Certainly it deserves more faith than any random language designed for the exploration of new paradigms and features and which is only used by its maker?
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I think I like the idea, in a novelty sense, but I can't see an obvious business model? Maybe it doesn't matter and it's just for fun.

I presume there's no data for any other cities because there's no one using the app anywhere else? I'll try and download it and use it on my way home.
I keep on hearing about the Eastern Texas courts that are consistently plaintiff friendly. Just seems messed up that you could sue someone wherever it's most convenient for you.
This is exactly what I'm afraid of, when I see products like this. Ugh.
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the idea is to capture your real intent and formulate it as an expression which can then be evaluated (on demand or lazy) and chained with others ...

this requires you to focus on how to solve the problem succinctly rather than blindly wiring up factories that eventually get you to the 2m line codebase mentioned below....

if that looks like a ghetto to you i wonder what other crazy ideas you have...
Yes it was built for a forum site I ran. But any kind of site that generates more than 1 page a day would benefit from automated newsletters. Any site that generates more than around 10 pages or so a day would benefit from automated social sharing.
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>Although many websites and blogs have a comment system, the quality of the discussion on Hacker News tends to be much better.

Probably because your random internet stranger has never heard of HN.

It's a shame, for instance, that I was ever allowed to find this place.
Great article. I think the one hook in here for me was: This is about being a professional, and being treated as a professional.

One of the big things that has helped me is to include a clause in my contract that says "I'll deliver code when final payment is received." This mitigates a lot of trouble and usually helps to secure payment a lot quicker. The only caveat on this is that for client's whom I've developed a relationship with, I tend to ship code before final payment with a net fifteen window on the invoice.
Even if someone put every single story they write on HN, that's not a guarantee that it will get comments, since it might not get up-voted.

I think if I were to implement this on my own page, I would probably have two tabs that expand if clicked.
Something like this:

Show [your site's name] comments | Show HN comments

And then for the HN comment tab, you would use the OP's awesome submission.
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I think that's why the guy proposing the deal ended up splitting. If the other guy did steal to spite him, the fact he split would show that he was acting in good faith and would increase the chance of a split after the show.
Yesterday I used the ipfw command to run our product in "slow motion" to spot loading order and if animations started at the right places. Discovered alot of stuff that needs fixing. The ipfw command is for trottling bandwidth, and great for product designers like myself :) I'm sure it has other uses as well.
If the cash carrot works for you, then great. On the converse side, one of the main things i look for when building teams, above developer skill is craft and commitment. I try to say away from gunslingers as much as possible.

Which is why I can get away with my minimally adequate rules as you've put it. I certainly dont pat myself in the back about my rules. Its all about sharing the pain. I also forgot my 3rd rule. Only developers set deadlines so I can ask them to commit to it. If we have a date to hit, then we work on scope.
I read "progressive" as an ethical statement. Unless you can demonstrate a "scientific default" ethical system that all scientists should adhere to, this seems like valid distinction
I've found that I get dramatically better clients by requiring 50% payment up-front, and then invoicing weekly. People who balk at the 50% terms are likely to be problem customers, and are best avoided anyway. The weekly invoicing helps new clients understand how much software costs, and prevents sticker shock weeks after the project has begun. Once I have an established relationship with a client that I trust, I'm happy to relax the terms for everyone's benefit.