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So what'd they buy? No team. Scrapped the old code. 500k for the name, and the ability to get a percentage of their old users to at least take a look when they launch?
Maybe test their patch properly before deploying it…

Judging from their previous behaviour it's a horrendously sloppy "company".
gmail's great, but the gmail iOS client is bad.
That section should have radio buttons for the rows, not checkboxes.
Commits don't have to end the email subject, often I receive emails like this from some automated system:

sys: commit message (issue XXX)

And in English titles never end with a period anyway.
See, I've always had the opposite effect. Whenever I accomplish one of my small goals, I don't get all jacked up. I just feel like crap. I'll probably feel like crap for the rest of the day. Honestly, I probably prefer focusing on the big goals because then I know that I will feel at least decent for a while until it's done.
To add value and broaden the appeal. The first version of Sparrow for Mac only supported Gmail. Even after adding IMAP, there was no reason anyone who didn't use Gmail would buy Sparrow, because everything it did differently from the standard Mac Mail app was oriented around Gmail.
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When I pay premium prices for apps it is under the assumption that I am helping the developers maintain and improve the application.

If you are hoping to sell, you should price your app at $.99 and hope to get as many users as possible. That also helps me know what your plan is.
Yes, you're quite right. There's also a light throttle snippet (function.prototype.throttle) here: http://supplementjs.com/
500K for an initial glut of 4million unique dailies?

Obviously that number will drop off real quick, but still.
Building an Insanely Great Team
A SURVEY. Oh this is definitely going to work.
The most common example I know is calculating shipping prices on Amazon.
A nice machine, but Ubuntu is not the only fruit. I use and like it myself but as many here have already pointed out, developers will either reconfig/reinstall everything or put something completely un-Ubuntu on it.

I also think its perhaps a tad overpriced given the hardware. For that money I could/may as well buy a Mac and stick Linux on a partition alongside OS X (one of the setups I have at present). Best of both worlds.
What the hell is a "microcloud"?
I just filled it out again and it worked. I think I got hosed because you changed the survey while I was taking it. :)
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What makes these courses look bad is the fact that many people will just sign up just take a peek at the content, rather than genuinely want to see it all the way through.

I guess this adds to the attrition rate.
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I hope that this means that they're investing in email UX. That's my optimistic take on the acquisition. My pessimistic take on it is that they're just getting talented developers and product folks and they're going to have them working on something completely different.
> if we look back at the history of Java, it offers a few "real" improvement over C++ such as garbage collection

Perhaps the problem is that it's hard to explain referential transparency, or that the problems caused by the lack of referential transparency are less obvious than those caused by the lack of GC. I mean, I've never heard of someone reading through "Out of the Tarpit" and then saying, "why bother with something like Clojure?"
He may only hire people who can do grammer, but can they recite PI to 27 places, I think now. He is a word racist as I call them. His loss.
Nonsense. I've been using Sparrow as my primary email client and I don't use GMail. I like the GMail-esque concept of archiving items out of your inbox and ultimately aiming for inbox zero. It works on third-party IMAP just as it does on GMail.

I am sad to see Sparrow go. :/
There is some code for Letters.app is on GitHub, but I don't think it got very far and the last commit was two years ago.

https://github.com/ccgus/letters

I remember thinking at the time it sounded quite interesting, so it's a shame.

I'm guessing the need for it evaporated with the improvements in Mail.app and the development of other native clients.
hah, my bad! thanks again for doing it.
Probably paid off, although he's denying that now.
This is extremely sad. I use Sparrow all day, every single day.
My gut tells me (there's a scientific statement, if ever there was one!) that it correlates mainly to people who haven't read much in print. Print publications tend to be edited better than online ones. Unfortunately, bad spelling is reinforced by spending a lot of time online and being exposed to misspellings that are not corrected.

As a child I didn't have access to TV, so I read everything in sight and I read constantly. The end result is I have a particularly sensitive eye for spelling and grammar mistakes. I find the misuse of, e.g., "loose" instead of "lose," to be tremendously irritating. The people I know who read a lot simply don't make trivial mistakes like that unless they're in a hurry and mistype.

Is it sloppy? I would say it's sloppy if writing is a large part of your job. Otherwise, it's mainly an indicator of someone who doesn't read print very much.

It is also getting worse at an increasing rate. I remember when mispelled words and bad grammar in reputable magazines and journals was rare, now it's almost expected that anything I read will have a few.
Acrylic team joins Facebook
I believe that's Apple's app, not Google's.
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PyCon India 2012 in Bangalore(28-30 September 2012)
PyCon India is the primary Python conference in India. A purely volunteer effort, it is being hosted in Bangalore this year. For more details visit the website http://in.pycon.org/2012/
Joda Time is actually a great example of a library letting you work in terms of values instead of the mutable object disaster that is java.util.Date; it just happens to be implemented in Java itself.

If you can imagine the same benefits of working with stable values applied across the board to all your built-in data structures, that might help.
Sparrow and Tweetie's acquisition are kind of a slap in the face of the argument for making paid and self-sustaining products that don't rely on a exit event to be in the black. Both were widely-successful paid products, and yet they both managed to get acquired by a mega-company that manages to destroy the product.
This has been submitted into digg itself:
http://digg.com/news/technology/digg_rebuilding_from_scratch...
Congrat a Viet :)
First of all, the success of postgresql and mysql are not mutually exclusive. Postgres operates in a lot of markets that MySQL doesn't (as far as I know) like telecom and finance. Postgres gets entirely new users with a variety of use cases, as well as people from Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, and even some converts from people who tried NoSQL and found it lacking in some way.

An undeniably, there is a shift happening, even in parts of the market that were a MySQL stronghold. Heroku and their customers use postgres for multi-tenancy. Instagram uses postgres for photo-sharing.

I think MySQL has been very complacent because they are the default for a lot of simple web apps, and that keeps their numbers high. They aren't really breaking into new markets -- postgres is winning the geospatial market big time, and is always coming out with new features to break into new markets (personally, I am trying to advance postgres into the temporal database space).
Oddly, Wonderlic scores have never been proven to have any positive link with future on-field performance. In fact, one study[1] actually found a negative correlation at some positions.

But as with many silly personnel evaluation techniques that are in common use, general managers will never get punished for doing what everyone else is doing.

[1]: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08959280902970401
Scientists connect seawater chemistry with ancient climate change and evolution
As someone who knows that place inside and out (not saying how) customers come first, employees come last. One of the worst work enviroments. They say they pride themselves on how they treat their customers and employees, but its one gigantic lie
Phonegap 2.0 released
Sir, did you read the article? The author makes no mention of even anecdotal evidence of problems beyond his single Nexus 7. You don't write an article about a single defect instance. A post in a forum maybe, and after there is evidence of the problem being widespread you write an article. Perhaps I should write an article about the rotten apple I bought yesterday and title it "Whole Foods Apples Rotten".

The evidence that appears herein is after the fact, and even so is hearsay and subject to selection bias.

It's funny how well your comment applies to the article author, yet you attack me.
Apropos citation. Would've been an even better one without the disclaimer.

The money speech contains the essence of the overriding philosophy in the novel at large; I'm curious what you found ridiculous in the rest of the book that isn't stated here (at least in its logical precepts).
Got it. I concede your point, but I still think it's a bit too early to issue a death certificate.
>What they didn’t mention is that we’re rebuilding it from scratch. In six weeks.

Famous last words.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
I agree on the length. Ironic how, in an article on the importance of grammar, and presumably communication, the parent while most likely using perfect grammar, fails to convince [1] simply because of the amount of the material and the way it is presented.

I've done consulting for busy people who don't want to spend time reading a long email. They want to know the bottom line, however I also find it good practice to provide backup information in case they or someone they forward the email to want to know how I came to the conclusions.

I start the email with a summary and a list of actions they can take or questions that I have. Typically no longer than a few sentences. Below that is a demarcation point to all the backup, links and further details (should they want to forward or in all honesty to CYA as well for the conclusions).

Edit: [1] Because if people don't read they won't be convinced and they won't learn anything. One of the reasons I typically avoid books by academics: to much difficult verbosity.
From their message
"We care a lot about how people communicate, and we did our best to provide you with the most intuitive and pleasurable mailing experience.
Now we're joining the Gmail team to accomplish a bigger vision — one that we think we can better achieve with Google."

I wonder if that means that they're going to work on plus. What else would Google think of as a bigger vision for how people communicate?
It sounds like a small percentage of users were affected by corrupted save data upon upgrading from the previous version.

100% test coverage is pure fantasy. You might as ask for a 100% complete specification of a product before you begin working on it.

I'm actually just being devil's advocate here, but most bugs in games are not that important, and the companies that are a little sloppy can spend less money making mostly the same product.
I wouldn't attribute to sexism what can be attributed to novelty and the bikeshed principle.

A new CEO is named to a Fortune 500 company. Do any of us really have the expertise to comment on that nomination? Likely not. It's so far out of our league that we don't even attempt to Monday-morning quarterback.

On the other hand, everyone can relate to parenting, so that (the bikeshed) is the first choice for discussion instead. It's not passing judgement--it's just the most accessible and novel topic about Marissa's nomination. Why rehash old business threads whan you can talk about something new and interesting? She's the first pregnant Fortune 500 CEO; of course it's going to come up.

It's also a fair comment that most women would prefer to raise an infant under more ideal circumstances. This is just a statement of fact. Most male CEOs have as great a powerlust (or more so) than Marissa, but they're not pregnant, so you can't as easily talk about what they're giving up to take the job, and so it doesn't come up in conversation.
So you obviously don't agree, care to elaborate? You seem to be the expert here..

(btw I don't mean that command execution is not a problem, I mean that if you configure your sql server well it should not allow command execution, there's not _that_ many ways to escape the database..)
There is no debate and there is no "other side". Facts are facts. Global warming is a crisis of global proportions, one which will have an enormous impact on all life forms. Personally, I fear we have reached the tipping point where any actions we take to mitigate the disaster will be inadequate. I am personally offended by the misrepresentations in the news which try to gloss over the problem. Worse, we have no effective way for dealing with problems of global magnitude.
Fraud? Scam? In any case, I suspect the victims could successfully get a refund from Apple.

I also suspect that the people who bought it are going to decide that the app is great, the Sparrow statement about "we will provide support and critical updates to our users" is at least something, and giving up the app for $5 is not worth it.
Did you just YOLO on HN?
Not really though, everyone knew that V4 was a terrible idea and they simply went forward without caring much for the community. I mean what kind of marketing research could you do to prove that using promoted stories is a good way to build a community?
Of course there's room for innovation
Camera and mail apps don't need to be platform-neutral simply because the content and output of those apps are platform-neutral themselves. Mail apps push and pull apps from servers which can be accessed from other outlets/apps. As for camera apps, as long as they are saving a local copy (like Camera roll), other apps will still be able to access those photos. So yes, convenient form of sharing like direct export-from-app may be lost but the real output would still be platform-neutral.
Desktop software is not going out. See Dropbox. It syncs desktop AND cloud. Does not require constant connectivity. Sparrow enables offline usage of cloud services like gmail, which is huge, as connectivity to the cloud is not a constant.
The brand is worth a fair amount, beta works launching a new news site won't get much attention but "DIGG REBUILT AND RELAUNCHED" could get some international press and at least convince old users to have a look at the new site.

It's not that much of a loss for Betaworks considering if they do it right they'll start building a huge company if not they've lost $500k and may make a fair amount of that back from the traffic.
To quote Krusty the Clown: "They drove a dump truck full of money up to my house!"
It's a standalone app, it's not going to stop functioning. $4.99 is a deal, regardless of whether there would be future versions or not.
Well devastated is (hopefully) overstating the matter, but it certainly is frustrating to see an app you use every day -- one not yet perfect, but already the best email client on iOS (or any phone OS) -- get discontinued.

Sparrow was indeed originally created for gmail, but what it is today is the very best standard IMAP mail client you can get on a phone.

Unfortunately, it won't be getting any better, though.
Here's the thing, it is actually a good question - "Why would a big dog at google, presumably one who has a pile of google stock, go to a floundering competitor?"

There are many good obvious reasons to accept a better job at a non-competitor, or a strong competitor, but on the surface, going to a struggling competitor seems odd.

It is worth exploring. One thing that keeps coming up in my mind is that Google is regularly mentioned in context of anti-trust stuff. That is a big deal. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if Google bigwigs sent Ms Mayer to Yahoo with a blessing, saying "make Yahoo good again, we need competition". Conspiratorial sounding, yeah sure. But at the same time, completely reasonable, and totally explains what would look like an otherwise conflicted loyalty/position.

A strong yahoo also helps (everyone really) on the Facebook front.

A strong yahoo also will keep Google sharp. All of their best innovations came when they weren't the clear winner, so some competition may help invigorate the innovation again.

I wouldn't put it past Sergey and Larry to grok all of this, and say to their trusted people, "look its better if some of you guys move to our competitors, it's good for all of us, you guys can actually make that happen."
New York is a "at-will" employment state. Unless otherwise specified, both parties can do as they wish (give a 1 day notice, for example. Though that would look very bad for future employers...)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment
No one is going to die

Since you brought it up...

I am a software developer for a medical device manufacturer. Poor spelling and grammar can change the meaning of a requirement, leading to a software error. Down the road someone can certainly die.

More likely, however, is that grammar and spelling errors in Requirements, Design, Procedure or other documents, or in code commit comments, or code comments themselves implies to an auditor for a Regulatory Body that our code itself is sloppy. That leads the auditor to dig deeper. Dig deep enough and you will find enough to hang someone.

For just this reason, we must pay attention to proper documentation, down to appropriate word choice. No, we don't test for usage of written English during interviewing, but it's strongly enforced during day-to-day work.
I would argue that only tech can get us out of this. According to the article, given the damage we have done up to this point, we are going to gain another 0.8C, putting us up to 1.6C above where we should be. Seeing as we are already observing real environmental damage, that should not be a satisfactory solution.

Any satisfactory solution would need to include some form of active cooling. These solutions are quite with are abilities. For example, prior to modern pollution regulations, we were actually cooling the planet because are pollutants reflected more heat than they trapped.

An event that I actually have figures for is 9-11. During the no-fly period following the attack, we saw a 1.8C increase in mean temperature in the USA (mean temperature tends to be consistent). Unfourtuantly, these cooling methods are short-lived and associated with long-lasting carbon, but they were accidental. I don't see any reason to believe we can not technology to actively cool the planet.
I don't think the quote is meant to be anti-money. I think a true "love of money" would be recognizes it for what it is: a vehicle.

The root of all evil is an obsessive/addictive love of money. Any addiction is classically considered evil, but love of money is the most dangerous because it is the most formless and abstract.

Workaholism is pretty abstract, but at least you need to appear to be doing something. In our times as in all others, it is possible to chase money by doing nothing of value at all.

Traditionally speaking (i.e. in the historical context of the Bible a la Dante et al) the only way for something to be bad is to take something good and twist it out of it's shape, or pull it from it's right place.
The planning right before heading out to talk to people is super super important - nice post
"Publishers pay a fee to put content into a darknet run by a consortia of libraries - if the publisher goes out of business the consortia makes all the content available for free"

So driving them into ruin collectively frees the back catalog? Since access to old papers are a major concern in every plan to cut the middlemen, that would actually be good news!
A better conspiracy would be that Google wants yahoo to be strong to avoid anti-trust issues.
I actually don't agree with the author, so I'm not going to defend him. However, I don't disagree with the author based on the fact that he made some completely understandable mistakes in his own post.
Wasn't rebuilding it from scratch and not being able to go back what caused Digg to fall in the first place?

It's kind of rare that you see a company actually make that mistake now. But I guess Digg did.
Interesting, but I'd say if one small acquisition was the tipping point then the market was already open for others.
Really nice summary, Chas ;). I hope I haven't spoiled the statistics by filling in "just started" - the same response as the last year.

I guess some of us are start over all the time. But at least this time I've read through a half of Clojure in Action and going through 4clojure exercises to "finally get started".

This time using instarepl by Chris instead of LaClojure or Emacs/Slime (where just a tiny subset works for me).

And it's fun! If only errors were not such a drag. I guess complains from 2011 will repeat on those...
If my memory serves me right, a startup that builds apps to improve the experience of a pre-existing service doesn't stay for long as an awesome company that makes awesome things. It usually either plateaus out or gets gobbled up eventually.
They'll also get a modest press bump when they roll out the "new Digg," like AVOS did when they rolled out the "new Delicious." There'll be press interest in the potential revivial of a once-huge property that there wouldn't necessarily be if they launched under a completely new brand.

I dunno if that's worth $500K, $500K can buy a fair bit of PR, but it's something.
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This advice, as with much other good advice, should be taken and understood in context. It is an essay about how to write a good essay, and there are times when you want to break some of these rules.

As one example, expressions like "I think that" and "in my opinion" can be useful if used purposefully. When reading an argument, we have a tendency to fixate on the points that we take issue with personally. By saying "I think X is true" instead of just "X is true", you make it easier for someone to disagree with your specific point rather than your entire argument. In some contexts (like HN comments), this can help to reduce animosity and get much more of your point across to people who don't fully agree with you.
Great acquisition. Best email client out there.
Thank you for that link, I'm glad to have that data point in my head now.

At first I misread your explanation of DVCS as a patch management system and was going to say that non-imperative forms of commit summaries would function similarly. Now I understand your point, and I thank you again for explaining a useful way to conceptualize what merging multiple git commits together actually accomplishes.
"Promoted Stories" myth needs to end. It wasn't the case, there was a severe bug whereby a Regular Expression only matched RSS content. The Regular Expression acted as a gateway into the Popular Algorithm. I worked at Digg and I fixed that bug.

It wasn't noticed before launch because we echoed the v3 popular stories into the beta version of v4.

Digg was never paid for stories hitting the frontpage. And for all the flack it gets for this myth, it should have been.
NASA Telescope Captures Sharpest Images of Sun’s Corona
i believe one of the main reasons for mysql's popularity is that it is available by default with many hosting providers who provide PHP based hosting for a very cheap price. These are low-medium volume sites developed by a small teams. They just don't need or care about the benefits of using a better database like 'postgres'.

IMHO, postgres developers and support organizations need to work with hosting companies to make postgres available along with myql.
It seems to be a SurveyMonkey problem.