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You shouldn't be surprised at all. The schools don't build these things - they buy generally large-scale systems that claim to do X things, but mainly perform a smaller percentage of X things competently, leaving other features slow/broken. But with only a relatively small handful of customers out there, and a generally long sales cycle, its primarily larger vendors who can engage with customers like universities, and smaller companies which are able to provide innovative functionality often don't get to market.

I've built a registration system for a moderately large school district - it handles about 20,000 students per semester, and while it's certainly not simple to handle everything that's needed, it's not that hard to make something perform decently enough. At peak, we have hundreds of people checking or making enrollments concurrently, which always involves doing waitlist checking (and, IIRC, different waitlist policies apply to different student types and courses). All of this is standard HTML interface - if we were to build an API to serve up just raw JSON, the load would likely be a bit less.

Back to the surprise - schools are mostly just businesses - they generally outsource their foodservice too - it'd be great if there was a lot more home cooking on most campuses, but they're often overrun with processed foods. Same thing with a lot of software infrastructure - it's outsourced/off-the-shelf stuff vs stuff built with on-campus skills. Faculty/staff/students developing more campus/school-related stuff could be a game changer, no? Is the idea that most of those students won't be there in 2-4 years a big hindrance to this approach?
Being very much an obsessive over-analyzer, this data sounds terrific to me...
what if this is being made in this moment?
thank you! yes we are also big believers in the power of "quantified self" & life-logging, and we will be adding more analytics features.
I haven't bought any non-Apple computers or phones in ages, but I just succumbed to the lure of the Nexus 7.

It's fantastic, and a great all-around device. It surfs the web, does Gmail, and hooks up to bluetooth, with a great battery life.

As far as I'm concerned, that's near enough iPad functionality for half the cost.
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From the sound of it this sounds like a sort of transparent proxy service on sterioids.

Reason I say that is given "PageSpeed Service is an online service to automatically speed up loading of your web pages. PageSpeed Service fetches content from your servers, rewrites your pages by applying web performance best practices and serves them to end users via Google's servers across the globe."

It sound like it just rewrites the pages for googles servers to offer up and does not imply that they would rewrite the content of your website. So I'm intrigued in how this actualy works, but to me sounds like a transparent proxy service and in that I wonder if this only realy works out if the user uses googles DNS's. Can anybody who has used this service clarify.
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The link you posted does not "speak for itself." Can you provide some context for why you posted a link to the least authoratative reference site on the internet? Even if it was the OED I'm not sure I would understand your point.
Reasons I wouldn't join Simple as of today:

* No physical checkbook. (No matter how much it sucks, you still need one)
* Interest rate is appallingly low
* Can't have multiple accounts (ING allows you to have single checking account and unlimited savings accounts)

The only benefit I see so far of Simple over ING is their UX. That is important, but I've never really been bothered by ING's UX to begin with. And the whole benefit of Simple from what I can gather is they help you find transactions / patterns. I spend 95% of my discretionary income through my CC first. My bank account has like four transactions a month: pay off CC, pay off mortgage, etc. Unless they also got a CC or provided a service like Mint, I just don't see the big deal.
I think that bossless firms can and will replace traditional hierarchies in many areas. However the two are more different in their limitations than they are the same. Bossless systems are not drop-in replacements for hierarchical systems.

If you look at bossless firms that are successful, they come in sizes ranging from GitHub at founding to WL Gore (3B in revenue, 30k employees). Scale in terms of firm size is not an issue. However every one of these companies, is narrowly focused. Every one has a narrow mission. There is no way to replace Microsoft or Dupont with a single bossless organization any more than Gore has replaced Dupont. The scale limitation for bossless organizations is that of bredth of focus. Without a narrow focus, whether it is a specific kind of plastic or video games, there is nothing to organize around. Without this, there cannot be spontaneous order.

A way to think about this would be the difference between agriculture and permaculture. Large firms of today are like giant factory farms. They are highly ordered by human standards, but in so doing, the complexity cost is high and so productivity is reduced. In a permacultural environment, the scale may be smaller, the order is organic rather than artificial (curves instead of straight lines, multiple species together instead of monocultures, etc), but they are more productive with fewer human inputs. The complexity cost is low.

A bossless organization that works well does so because it channels human nature in the right directions. As William Gore, founder of WL Gore, said, every successful organization has a lattice structure, which may or may not be aligned with its hierarchy.

It is true that these organizations have two major challenges, namely hiring and firing, but these are not problems which don't admit of solutions. The solutions are just different than they are in a hierarchical model.

I do think that bossless organizations will rise up and take over large sections of the economy, but if they do they will be smaller than the companies they are replacing. We will have a more just economy in large part because it will be dominated by a larger number of players and hence it will be more competitive. Ecosystems will win out over machines in the end ;-)
really excited about this. We've been using Ember.js for a few months and I've been really impressed by the people in the community (at least in NYC).

Here are some slides from a presentation my cofounder did about our journey from first commit to production deploy in 10 days:

https://speakerdeck.com/u/jrallison/p/building-customerio-wi...
Curious, what do you think the "misunderstanding" is?
Well, I am unsure if Mint incompatibility will always be the case -- but you have to keep in mind that their goal right now is to offer budgeting tools directly to customers that are fully integrated into the Simple experience.
He's also effectively selling preferred access to classes, which is something of an ethical issue.

And many universities handle waitlisting on a department or class level so they have leeway to deal with various factors as appropriate. Ever tried to implement university, departmental, program, and class policies simultaneously, while keeping them up-to-date, while handling who can override the computer under what amalgam of policies? No? Well, that's what you'd need to do in order to get automated waitlisting working at most universities.

The fact that there's not a university-level waitlisting feature isn't an excuse to hack around policy, especially not while violating ToS and misappropriating resources for commercial resale.
True. The point however is to understand how to quantify the risk. The complicating factor in this case is surely the fact that he had received explicit assurances that his development was welcome and would be supported. The thing I don't understand is how you would go about assessing the 'distribution advantage' given the fact that the risk is evidently so hard to evaluate. DC has evidently now come to the conclusion that it is too risky for him no matter what the advantage. I am curious to better understand your thinking on how to weigh advantage against risk.
It has been 30 years of this crap.

During most of which Apple really was "beleaguered," and, as such, a crappy stock to hold.
When times are tough the guy who does the most menial tasks gets fired first and replaced with someone cheaper.

The thing about being the guy who fixes software, is that no one will hear about it if you are doing a good job at it.
Do tell.

Sticky footer - an element that sits at the bottom of either window or the content area, whichever is furtherest down.
As an Ally customer, I am thoroughly underwhelmed.

The transactions UI is cool, but you have to use your debit card to take advantage of it, which means you're leaving 2-5% of money on the table with every purchase.

The only feature that could have convinced me to switch from Ally (budgeting) is not there yet.

There are tons of basic banking features missing, like checks, joint accounts, ACH transfers.

But the top thing I miss from Ally is the awesome bill pay. I've come to rely on my bank to alert me of bills when they come, and automatically pay them for me at the right time. For credit card bills I can even specify if I want to pay the minimum, full, or custom amount.

For something that's been years in the making, I was expecting more.
> I got a letter in the mail recently that I wrote to myself almost 10 years ago.

How? Did an external organization hold your letter for you?
BTW The G2 was also an HTC phone, but without sense and only a tiny amount of carrierware. It too is a good HTC device.

My followup phone has been the GSM Galaxy Nexus which is pure Google, especially in the sense that updates come from Google and not Samsung or my carrier.
I think that the point of the article is half true. You can definitely create code that doesn't save you time, and in fact, over the long run, taxes your project with bugs and other issues.

But I agree with the general sentiment. No one who's automated a task using applied math and the power of some sort of environment, be it windows office, ios, or the web, can understand the feeling of power and understanding one gets from it.

Not only am I completely understanding a flow, a process including most if not all of it's edge cases, I'm fixing/completing a process while writing code.

I remember when going to school, everyone talked about coding as a chore for real computer science, but I always viewed it as a craft, one which takes dedication and practice, and one that can have tangible effects, like carpentry or painting. I'd also like to add that IMO any science based in the realm of computers need some form of applied math scripting for any tangible results. You can't just wish things to happen!
How does this app compare to Day One and other journal applications?
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Hmm, I get to write radio communication software, mostly TETRA stuff. Playing around with lots of awesome hardware, writing a lot of both high level management software and low level bare metal code, with many _very_ non-trivial problems. I find this incredibly interesting.
I think it's pretty clear from the pro-market critiques of Capitalism (from the Distributists, like Chesterton or Belloc) that pure, unadulterated Capitalism inherently unstable and prone to failure. Large corporations paradoxically need to pay their workers only what the market requires but also enough they have discretionary money to go out and buy the products they are manufacturing.

Socialists recognize this inherent paradox too, but their answer to it is different --- more government intervention to counter corporate control. To a Distributist, however it seems insane to try to address issues of centralized economic control by adding additional centralization.

The existence of large corporations introduces inherent instability into our system. We'd all be better off if there were more self-employed and more small corporations out there.
The linked video of Cory Doctorow's keynote at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin, "The Coming War on General Computation" is very interesting, insightful, and worrying. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg
This looks sick. Is this all native? Did you guys design and build this in-house?
What prevents UCF from enabling it?
I've seen, in the past few years, a lot of startups websites that are just basically simple apps that does a simple task. That's fine and all. Even encouraged. Google started out as a "simple" search app.

Like the article said, this is where the focus seems to be; in the tail. What separated Google from a lot of other startups were that it expanded on its idea of what search can be. Google eventually expanded to different markets.They weren't looking to make a big buck. They were looking to change the world.

The big problem is, a lot of people would rather make the big buck and just live life. Its easier that way. You make your tech and then don't have to worry about longevity.

It is interesting, in the article the author mentions that we need to join forces with experts in other industries. That could work, but the expert has to know what he is talking about. The developer also has to know a little about what the expert is talking about. These visions have come together in a way that they can feed off of each other.

Look at Apple. Jobs and Woz both had backgrounds building things. Woz was the expert, while Jobs was the visionary. They created a great company with innovative products, because they fed off of each other(well at least the initial projects). We all know what happened when Jobs was fired from Apple. The CEO was a "guy who sold sugar water". He had no idea, really, what technology was or could do. Instead, the products were lackluster, uninspiring, generic.

As for me, this article seems inspiring to me. I'm not "genius" but I can code very well. I'm also chasing after an industry that I know pretty well and want to disrupt for the better (art and art education). I want to change the world. So, I believe I'm on the right path. If only I can code the damn thing faster. But that's another subject entirely.
Stupid question maybe, but has coffeescript support been talked about at all?

I've had issues with ember and coffeescript before because of some of the choices they've made on how to declare models.
The digital imprimature of John Walker is even more worrying, as he saw this coming nearly 10 years ago.

http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/
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Perception is the key, statistically the DC-10 was not an unsafe aircraft. Its hull loss and fatality rates are not much different from the 747.
I don't think that the key message is that FB's negotiating tactics are surprising. Whilst he was certainly surprised the point is surely that he was shocked because their behavior at the meeting was so at variance with what he had previously been led to believe. You say that FB's tactics are 'ruthlessly consistent' and 'well known' but this is surely a simplification. For example, the FB platform supports games but I am not aware of any instances in which FB has muscled in on a games dev.

I agree that it is helpful to point out that there are major risks when you develop for an alleged platform. But isn't that the point of his post?

I think the point of the app.net initiative is to create a platform that because of its different business model (subscription for infrastructure/service) will not suffer the conflicts that are inevitable when the business model is ads. And whilst this is indeed unusual lately, it is not long ago that such for-profit platforms were the norm. Older examples include, DOS, Windows, UNIX, Linux, X-Windows... More recently there is a profusion of companies providing commercial support for open source software or providing such software as a service.
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Meanwhile at UNSW: http://mahler.cse.unsw.edu.au/rectangles/
I love my iPhone, but calling it the first commercially successful smartphone is willfully ignorant of the Blackberry.
It is embarrassing to see basic grammatical mistakes in a letter from a university:

Type a 5-6 research paper...

What is a "5-6" research paper? Even sadder is the officious and petty tone:

The paper must be in 12 point font, Times New Roman, double-spaced with one-inch margins...

I know what my response would be: two words, one page, 150 pt font.
According to the student's slide deck, the service checked only courses users had signed up for, cached the information, and averaged 814 requests per day.
Remember the space shuttle is a 1970s design. I'd certainly expect that a 21st century design would fare better in nearly every regard.
How are you installing this over the air? Are you using an enterprise license?
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The iPad was released less than three years ago. What's your definition of 'a long time'?
It would be useful to tie this in with something like YouTube, where the pie graph represents how much of the video has been buffered.

Similarly for a page that auto-refreshes, it could indicate that interval.
Which should be a very small number of them as long as they've followed the restrictions that Microsoft places on OEMs to ship Windows 8 certified devices.

(Not to get in the way of anyone's pitchfork of course.)
I would love that. I've never been able to get the workflow right with mobileorg...
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I honestly don't understand how this can be legal. There's precedent, at least in the US. The Bell system was forced to allow non-AT&T hardware on their network. Automobile manufacturers were required to allow third parties to service vehicles.

Also, I don't understand the need. I've heard the excuses about malware, but is that even a significant problem? I know I've never booted up a machine and said to myself, "You know what I need? An upgrade to my BIOS."

I mean, it is purely and transparently anti-competitive. But why now? This is something the 90s, we're-deathly-afraid-of-linux Microsoft would do. So why now and not then?
>>I am almost obsessing over web security ..

If you need more security why not use https all the time and better use two factor authentication?

BTW, would you mind explaining what is a client side session? Share a link may be? Really, I have never heard of them-
Small piece of feedback: if you are going to connect with facebook anyway, instragram and whatever else, why are you making me write my name, email address, etc.? Nitpicking here.

Also, I'm just testing the app, but if I were to use it for real, I would like to know who I'm going to be trusting my most private thoughts and activities to. I didn't see much about that in your page, the "who am I and why I am here" question would be extremely important for your users to trust you, so including information about where you want to take everyday.me is important (how will you monetize it? there are many black hat monetization schemes you could pull with this kind of data which wouldn't be ok so we want to know what your plans are).

Thanks for sharing!
Depending on the situation you would want database inserts to reflect the passage of time, and not always stick to a 'start of request/job' time. I can see the desire of the parent to want to have all the HTML generated with the same understanding of time, but as a general practice I still think its a bad one to fix time.
Probably because it came in fairly late (Froyo, I think).
Ask HN: Why don't more web startups open-source their applications?
This is something I've been thinking about a bit recently, but decided to look into it a bit more. One of the only ones I could find (apart from the obvious such as diaspora, though they don't seem to have a business model as far as I've seen/googling tells me) is SugarCRM, who seem to be doing quite well with a combo of GPL'd code and a commercial SaaS product built off that code.

I guess what I want to know is why is this such a bad idea that a lot of us, who are OSS advocates, don't follow this sort of business model (or another OSS biz model)? Also I was wondering if there are any famous casualties of companies trying this and it failing on them?
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Agreed. My goal used to be to create something that my friends would use. I hated "enterprise" software. Thought it was bloated and ugly. Then I saw 37s. I grew tired of B2C software. Now I'm working on software I want all my peers to use. My friends wouldn't get value from it.

But, I can tell you it is the most fun I've ever had building software. We get to choose our technology. And we're using technology I consider sexy - like Ember.js and some great database technologies that make the hard stuff our app is doing ridiculously fast.

I get excited about things like making our queue tremendously fast by switching from resque to sidekiq.

There's nothing I'd rather be doing than building B2B software.
I think the guy needs to contact F.I.R.E. http://thefire.org/
I think they appeal to different audiences.
I guess, because Microsoft now realized that they lost the age of internet, they lost the browser war, the search engine war, and the mobile phone war. They know that Windows 8 sucks that much, that people want to install Windows 7 or Linux, and they need to prevent us doing this.

Its similar like a dictator shooting at civilians at the moment he realized that he lost the love of his people.
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those are both excellent use cases. file uploads too
This is the big challenge when it comes to quantified self -- passive tracking can be creepy, but manual track has such high adoption costs. Seems like it would be hard for manual tracking to go extreme, bc few people care as much about quantifying everything as this community does. Any form of passive tracking has higher upside but also must be treated carefully so it seems trustworthy.
Can GPS find you a mate?
I am not sure about the Youtube since they have stopped buffering the whole video in one go. It just waits at the 30sec mark for you to cover the first 10sec and then jumps another 30sec, so on. Guess, its some bandwidth saving technique.
The problem is not rootkit embedded in the BIOS, the problem is rootkits embedded in the boot sector.
Before this ignorant meme gets too much of a footing here, why don't you Betteridge your flapjacks off with this one:

Why is Apple losing its shine after Steve Jobs?
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Fantastic. Can't wait to see how it turns out, either way.
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I'm pretty sure most people don't even realize Windows 8 exists yet, let alone that its interface is called "Metro".
Go with landscape mode, and you can bump the point size up to 200.

That's about the only thing I'd do differently.
Start right now. Don't waste time deciding. Write a short list of applications that you would like to build. Then pick the one you like best. You might not finish it entirely, but you will find something that will look more attractive. Keep moving. Start a new application every week. Do differents things. Focus on learning the flow of code and dont worry about optimizing too much. Also, forget what you were taught in school about speed. In the real world, people focus on how stable the program is, how safe it is, how easy it is to use, and how fast it is.
I also reccomend that you find a local startups/tech group and join them. Start talking. Tell them that you are studying and want to get your feet wet. I'm sure someone will give you a chance to learn.
I got a couple of good sugestions for my project. Other than that its a social media to me. Why shoudl I try to value it in terms of money? I like ideas, talks about those ideas. Thats good enough for me.