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I've used Sparrow every day for over a year.

It's got a great UI and I love it, but it's buggy as hell. Slow, sometimes doesn't refresh, the DB grows to 10s of GBs.

As much as I like it, the fact that there's not going to be any more updates has gotten me to switch off it.

Software is fluid, not static. Any software that is not being updated, I believe any rational user should move on to ones that are.
Yes, as a lifetime cyclist I find it quite annoying that people now assume I'm riding my bike to make some sort of statement. I'm riding my bike because I like doing it and always have.
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(typo. I mean "so the price I paid last week was fair")
Yeah, the SICP in Clojure project died pretty early on.

Quite a bit of SICP would be awkward to translate into a language that doesn't support TCO, such as Clojure.
The problem with the cheap-as-anti-theft means non-theft can be replaced with vandalism.

I've seen plenty of old worthless bikes lying destroyed by vandals, sometimes still chained to a fence.
>As for "why would you assume that you can't swallow it?", I just don't even what to say. Don't just assume that you can safely swallow shit?

Because you can safely swallow things that look identical to them in every way, maybe? Would you rush your child to the emergency room because you found out they swallowed a ball bearing?
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Even at the risk of sounding like a broken record...

Public disclosure is only part of the story. The other part is to allow protecting the cost of an invention. If there was no protection there would be less incentive to invest in r&d to come up with new idea.

This is where the problem lies with software patents (IMHO): A "software invention" does not cost anything.

I will lean out and say that there is no idea in software that is worth anything by itself.
Instead it is the expression of that idea that has value, and that is protected by copyright.

(I'm still waiting to be shown a software patent of an idea that would not have seen the light of day without a legally granted monopoly)
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This looks like what they intended when they passed the JOBS Act. If it has even 10% the impact on general startups that Kickstarter has had on consumer hardware projects, it will be huge.
Why regulate toys at all while there are so many car accidents?
It is one thing porting Steam to Linux and quite another making actual games available on Linux. Take OSX for example,a platform where Steam has been available for awhile now. and yet around half of most played titles on Steam are not available on OSX. What is more - Dota2 valve's own game is not available.
Did any of you really use it or only look at the video? I agree that the UI needs much more work (the entire Swing programming is really old - and not really convenient). I really didn't like the resource-ui tool.
However, being able to write once and compile on the cloud (not needing to open 2 environments - eclipse & xcode ide like in PhoneGap is a huge plus).
If they will get their act together regarding the UI (html and css for example)they might be the winner in cross-platform development world...
Also I wonder their future support in Scala.
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The departures come at a time when Google is in transition, its becoming "old." Having worked there between the time it exited its giddily irresponsible teen years to the start of its midlife crisis, I recognized the symptoms. What was humorous to me was that I lived through that the first time at Sun (at Sun 10 years) from Sun just going public to the point where they were struggling with their identity. And for much of that time Eric Schmidt was either my boss, or my boss' boss. 'one hop' in the food chain as it were. At Google I mentioned to Eric that we'd been in this movie before :-) He pointed out the numbers were a lot bigger in the picture on this go round. From what I hear from friends who have left after I did, the movie is playing out the same way.

The last group I was in at Sun was the Java group that later was the core of JavaSoft. It had been populated with low employee number 'refugees' as one of them put it. A number of folks certainly had enough money to not work if they chose to. But an interesting thing happens.

When you suddenly have enough money in the bank so that you can quit when ever you want, you lose your fear of losing your job and trying to find another. And not having that fear to hold you back, can be tremendously empowering.

This was one of the messages in the movie Office Space which is sometimes expressed as 'Work like you don't need to work.'

The change is both subtle and dramatic. People stand up for things they value rather than things they think they should support. They sometimes stop everything they are doing to spend a couple of months to help a promising new employee get their bearings and become effective. They push back on schedule fantasies with hard nosed realities, they tell upper management when things are borked or when they are making bad calls. When you don't care if you get fired, as long as your a reasonably principled person, you can become immensely more effective.

And you learn is that it isn't that you don't like work, its that you don't like bogus things that get in your way at work. Nearly every single person I know who has 'retired' it really meant they stopped reporting to someone else and instead invested their time and energy into things they were passionate about and could make a big impact on. Sure pretty much everyone takes some time off to just breathe and think three related thoughts in succession, but once decompressed from the demands of that large organization, they engage in their vision with diligence and passion. Because of that I am not at all surprised when people who became financially independent at a company continue to work there for many more years. How they work changes, and sometimes what they work on changes, but making things happen is a powerful drug.

As for the median thing, my experience is that people I've interviewed have short stints with longer stints in the middle, so they go job A -> B -> C then at job D they find someone or something to keep their attention and work there for a longer time 5, 6, 10 years then move on. My cycle time seems to be 5 to 10 years but its really an individual thing.
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"I don't think crowdfunding is good for startups. For startups, having large numbers of investors is bad, and having inexperienced investors is bad. So having a very large number of inexperienced investors is the worst scenario possible. The right way to get money from large numbers of people is to sell them your product, like Inpulse did, not to sell them your stock."
-pg

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3893783
Yes, that's how it's supposed to work. But there are a bunch of edge cases usability-wise that it fails to handle. It is incredibly thoughtless to automatically quit an app the split second the user switches away from it, particularly if that user explicitly launched the app and has been using it for the last hour.

It has always been perfectly acceptable to close all of your windows and then hit Command+N or Command+O to open a new document. And that's even more important now that you must use Command+O to browse your iCloud documents. But if something happens in between those steps, say an email comes in or you need to look something up, then it breaks in a really bad way.

It also has nothing to do with iOS. iOS never tries to guess that you've finished working with an app, never prevents you from switching to an app, never removes an app icon from Springboard or task switcher. Indeed, this form of Auto Termination is the exact opposite of how iOS operates.

It also has nothing to do with conserving resources. These "terminated" apps remain running the background, consuming memory. The OS simply prevents you from switching back to an app that you were previous using.

It is strictly a Windows UI feature, and a very unwelcome one.
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That's certainly an argument that could be had but Google's position on it is not in the document you cited. It specifies that the maximum royalty Google will ever ask for a standards essential patent is 2%. Whether Google approves of asking for 2% in the case you are referring to is not clear to me.

At this point the law suit is way past the phase of negotiating licensing fees and I doubt very much that it is possible to rewind it back to there even if Google wanted to (which I don't see why they would; they know that Apple is intent on banning their devices - Apple's goal is nothing less than the complete destruction of Android as a product, not negotiating reasonable licensing fees).
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Curious, are these behavior bugs (expected) or rendering bugs (less so)?
The assumption behind any infrastructure being laid is that it will be a net positive gain. You wouldn't consider it otherwise. If everywhere in the US with a population density over around 50 persons per square mile got end to end fiber via local taxes (and to argue the supers problem, if a region can't afford it, they don't have to do it - many localities in the US are prospering just fine, while some are destitute. Its a case by case situation) the benefits to society would be massive.

Same thing with maglev trains along the east and west seaboards. They cost a ton, but in 50 years they would usher in new eras of mobility and an order of magnitude less cost to transport goods extremely quickly.
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This scares me way more than sub prime mortgages. The stories of how granny and gramps put the remains of their retirement savings into "startups" because they have like 1000x returns right? And then want their money back and discover that some large fraction of these companies are kids with no clue, no work experience, and have just burned through their 'seed' round buying a server farm that turns out overloads the circuit breakers in the garage.

Rational folks will say "Gee, that was a poor choice on their part." but the rest of the world will be screaming "Ponzi!" "Tricksters!" "Scams!" and it will be sad sad sad.

I really hope that I am wrong, but I really like the accredited investor rules, it selects from a smaller pool of victims.
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I'd like to see angels kickstart a managed fund type of deal.
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I find it rather sad to see such bitterness and cynicism. Somebody took the time to write a blog post in order to help people, and the reaction above was one of anger.
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Well, Google did buy Next New Nextworks to produce content for Youtube: http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-03-07/tech/30071069...
It's usually easy to tell when an app is faking the native look-and-feel in a webview, for example, and I doubt that this will be much different

It looks like this uses native peer controls; ie it will appear identical to a platform specific app because the compiled version is platform specific.
I think this is great. The comments here are yet another case of unnecessary HN negativity. Kickstarter has strict guidelines around what sort of companies are allowed to raise money (only creative projects) and they have left room for many competitors to fill the gaps.

The concerns about "Granny and Gramps" dumping their retirement savings into startups is overblown. As long as the commitment amounts are capped at a reasonable level ($1000-$5000), I don't see the harm. I've seen much worse decisions being made by "accredited" investors who don't have any limits.
I think a lot of how crowdfunding plays out will depend on the way it's marketed to people. If the marketing by and large ends up being signs painted "Easy money this way! ->" then it's doomed from the start.
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Can someone explain to me how the App Store model is a viable business model? It seems like, at some point, it just becomes a race to the bottom in terms of the cut of sales revenues, or an abusive oligopoly of stores that force burdening arbitrary rules and limitations down peoples' throats.

Isn't it really just a modern day record label?
"By drawing all components from scratch rather than utilizing native widgets, Codename One sets out to enable developers to avoid fragmentation. It additionally allows accurate desktop simulation of mobile apps."

Avoid fragmentation while looking awkward and not native everywhere.
I think it should probably be 'Forbidden By Proxy', just like there are separate codes for 'Proxy Authentication Required' and 'Authentication Required'.

Explicitly mentioning a proxy is helpful because it discourages the use of this code in cases where there isn't already a proxy.

The basic principle which has allowed the Internet to be so successful has been that IP packets don't need to be deeply inspected, and that the contents of a packet between two endpoints only needs to be interpreted by those endpoints. Ideally, ISPs should try to avoid trying to speak protocols like HTTP in response to a packet destined for an IP address they don't own; they could instead, for example, send an ICMP Destination Unreachable (Host Administratively Unreachable or Communication Administratively Prohibited) packet.
Yeah, I don't remember them looking/sounding so choppy. And the download looks as bad as the stream. I googled "sicp videos highres" and there's torrent on piratebay that appears to have larger video files.
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It actually resembles Whit.li (http://www.whit.li/) a lot more than Klout.
You need to be an accredited investor to use the site. Your fear is of the Jobs act, not FundersClub.
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Brilliant.

Some are immune prior, some become immune, and others will always get sick...

This is the business model.

Spike, Plateau, drop....

I'd like to hink that those of us on HN are fairly immune...

You know what would be an interesting model: figure out the ratio of users on a site to users on HN for given things to determine a prediction of stupid adopters to smart adopters.

Then take that ration and apply it to the total adoption, and determine the real profit margin a site could get.

I am not sure how this would work, but I think we can derive the number of people that will do stupid investments of time vs those who see through the scam...

(I am positive this is what quants are masters at...)
> With the economy hurting like it is, I can't figure out why the US government would be doing something as stupid as this.

Because agency funding is dependent on the agency's relevance. If government actually worked as advertised, every solved problem would result in it shrinking. In reality, it identifies new "problems" to perpetuate its existence.
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If anybody else is curious about said talk, here are the slides: https://speakerdeck.com/u/ericf/p/advocatus-diaboli-throne-o...

if there will be a video, i'd be interested in that
I think you are wrong about Chomsky's theories being politically motivated. I don't have time right now to look up quotes but many years of debates with intellectuals on the left have made one thing very clear to me: The left hates talk of anything innate, particularly if it is even remotly connected to meaning.

I don't want to dumb this down because there are many different opinions on all sides of the political spectrum, but the left has a tendency to see everything as learned, learnable and socially induced - nurture not nature. Chomsky's theory is seen as a form of biological determinism. There are few things less popular on the left than that.
I've been in nreduce for a couple months now and I think it's a great program. The startups are very mixed in terms of goals--some are working on side projects, others are building real businesses with real customers, revenue, and all that. The community has been extremely helpful, and it's a good way to connect with people facing similar problems.

This is a bit of a glowing review, but as far as my goals of accountability and connections, it's been hugely helpful for me. And honestly, not having to give up equity or take investment is a pretty great deal.
You could believe that, and still like Funding Club, as a worthwhile experiment/hedge, or because of some faith in the founders. (For example: "this impressive team will figure something out" or "this team has some great insight on how to address my concerns with the model".)
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An interesting model would be to sel permanent discounts to your products rather than stock.

Thos discounts could be used by the "investors" to buy and then resell your products.

So, say I invest early, I can buy a perm discount of upto ~30% of a product. Then use that to resell at an overall 10% discount and make a profit - but working to kep the company selling its products....

This could be used by savvy people to setup whole businesses where they make a passive income on the sale of the company's products.
Hey Dave,

Great to hear that, as always let me know how to make your experience better!

-Joe
There have been at least a half dozen YC companies that I wished I could invest in the moment I met the founders...but, I'm not quite to "high net worth individual" status. I wasn't aware that the JOBS act would allow me to invest in startups. I had vague feelings of unease about the JOBS act (because anything with that kind of Orwellian name coming from government can't possibly be good), but I certainly would like to be able to invest like the rich folk. It's a damned dirty shame that us common folk have been pushed out of early stage investing entirely, even if we have a stomach for the risk and the money and connections to be useful.

So, this sounds cool, but I'm more excited to learn that I might be able to invest directly in startups soon (and sooner than reaching that $200k/year "high net worth" line).
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this might shed some light on the why Linux beat out BSD.
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We worked so hard over the past decade to separate the presentation code from the business logic code. And moving away from SOAP/RPC to simple REST protocol. Then come nodejs and friends like Meteor/Derby/SocketStream/Firebase now trying to undo that separation. Have we gone backward?
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Nevermind that FundersClub is itself funded by VC.

Hey, we're all just a bunch of haters who think VC is a con game. See thread about TechCrunch article on YC.

These guys are not doing self-promotion of another copycat idea, via a channel owned and controlled by the VC firm that is funding them, they want to help the common man bypass VC. They are heros. Go easy on them.
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> Its interesting how most of the major pre-computer fantasy universes with big fan-bases (Battletech, Dungeons and Dragons, Warhammer, Star Wars etc.) never managed to really transition seriously into computer games (a few hits but lots of misses and certainly no dominant series like warcraft and starcraft).

Don't think that is entirely accurate. Star Wars: The Old Republic is the fastest growing MMO ever, achieving 1 million users in 3 days. It might never be WOW but it is definitely a major game.
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A tool like this, with enough support, could allow you to easily convert large chunks of slower, PHP code (like object graph hydration) into JS, run in V8 for speed, and use the result in PHP without manually converting libraries.
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I think he means that Microsoft can change that requirement.
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