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Ah yes, I wrote about that yesterday - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4378546

Tripit and every other VC-backed company is in a completely different business than indie devs making apps. The product that companies like Tripit are selling, right from the beginning, is the company itself, not some free or cheap app. The app is just a marketing vehicle to increase the price of the company.

The amazing thing is that PG himself has been clearly saying this for years. And we still refuse to accept it!

Blindly copying VC-funded startups' surface tactics is the second leading cause of indie developer homelessness.

If you are in the business of business, you've got to sell. Successful entrepreneurs, whether VC-funded or bootstrapped, know how to sell.

If you are funded, it would be stupid to try and do anything that doesn't increase the valuation of your company. The best founders know how to weave a compelling story, and are always selling their company. Always.

The most successful bootstrapped entrepreneurs are always selling their product. Notice how patio11 does not miss an opportunity to somehow weave in a mention of one of his products, while still coming across as the most helpful guy ever (because he is). And when he's blogging about SEO and other useful stuff for other entrepreneurs? He's selling his consultancy services.

If you're not selling, it's not a business. It's a hobby.

ABC: Always be closing.
I'm pretty sure you wouldn't want to take an around the world trip in just 2 weeks. You'd end up spending the majority of your time on planes and barely being able to enjoy each stop.

Doesn't sound like very much fun to me.

For people who would actually book an around the world trip, 4 months is probably a much more realistic duration.
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"I'm waiting for one of these legal actions to cause a company like Facebook to just shut down their service in the local area, and leave a landing page with the email addresses of all the politicians who provoked the outage."

Same here! They'd be heroes overnight.
htsql is a next-generation query language built on top of SQL - you can express in severals lines of htsql what would be a screenful of SQL. www.htsql.org
I don't like the Facebook facial recognition thing either. Or when someone tags me on photos that they have uploaded. I think its creepy when someone else posts my photo, then I start getting comments on it. This should be opt-in, not opt-out.
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Wow, tried this out on a noodle pulling video I filmed in 2006 that went semi-viral over time ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rfu1ZHiMP8 ). In 3 mins, my campaign had 258 impressions and 112 views for a conversion rate of 43.41%. Exhausted my bid/cost per day at 12 cents/$10 a day using the coupon.
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Right, it makes it "simple to organize your life" or something. It still doesn't tell me what it does in a meaningful fashion.
oops, forgot to mention important detail. I move a lot, so everything (mostly clothes) fits into two suitcases.
A better description of the app: https://cheddarapp.com/apps
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> humans are excellent at reading cues from body language, facial expressions, etc. to understand how other humans feel.

For most people, yes. For some of the geekiest among us, I'm not sure that always holds.
So many things wrong with this article and devs I don't know where to start.

1. Contract work sucks. You know what sucks worse? Being homeless. Do some work, get paid, save some runway, then get back to your game.

2. Man I'm having trouble making money on this thing I'm giving away for free. No kidding? If your app is free you should be making it really really obvious that there is more to be paid for that is really awesome, and then maybe have a button somewhere that actually allows your customers to give you money.

3. Don't spend 2 years on an app with an ARPU of a couple of pennies. The mobile app market moves really fast and you can't expect the revenue from this game to last you for the next 2 years unless it is a huge hit.

4. This app has been out for a week. This linkbait title is a joke. 200k downloads for a free app isn't that amazing, but it's not bad for a week. Even if it had 10 million downloads, they'd still be homeless as they won't be getting a check from Apple for this until October. Their stupid decisions over the past 2 years led to them being homeless. The success or failure of their launch week has nothing to do with it.

Clicking to the article I assumed this was going to be a case of giving away something and server costs bringing them down. Nope. We just decided to not have jobs for 2 years, not do any contracting, and not having enough money saved ahead of time.
Latency is a much larger problem.
How do I insert text at beginning of a multi-line selection in Vim?
I've got lots of friends in tech startups (all programmers), and one thing I hear over and over again is how much they hate their cofounders.

A lot of the time, information like that isn't really made public through blogs and such, so reading articles like this which enumerate the ways in which your cofounder and yourself should get along are nice, as they help prevent issues in the future.

My current cofounder is great. We talk often, debate about various technical and non-technical topics, and keep each other interested in our projects and success.

I think more than anything, having a cofounder who can keep you interested in your work and daily struggles is the best kind, as motivation is one of the hardest resources to come by.
Hi _delerium, just for the record, these RTW itineraries do not contain fuel dumps. The prices have mostly come about from intelligent routing, which you rightly suggest is the work of humans better recognizing efficient combinations than websites using existing rigid algorithms and limited data sets.

We built Flightfox after living across 6 continents and learning this for ourselves. Often we'd save thousands just by spending a few hours on routing. Like most people who travel wide when they're young, the costs of flights became a primary expense. But even after we'd traveled for a while, it didn't get easier because for the most part, local knowledge is what makes the difference. Always traveling somewhere new meant we were always starting from scratch. Then it hit us... crowdsourcing.
But hitting someone in the face is not an act of self-defense, it is an escalation. If someone hits you and you can't get away, hitting them back is justified. But if they grope you, hitting them back is not legally justified, because a groping is not the same thing as an attack.

Just because the groper deserves to get his ass kicked doesn't mean that doing so is legal.
Well, specialized hardware is generally more efficient than general purpose hardware. (see CPU vs GPU for graphics)

So it might use a little bit more power than h264 with hardware acceleration, but probably not all that much.
At the point someone has called you out for being sexist, the relationship you should be focused on pursuing is the one with the next person, because your shot with this one is gone.
Google has had Seattle bus schedules for years, and
OneBusAway has tracking, not schedules. Schedules are useless.
Citation needed on the 1/5 power consumption thing. GDDR5 isn't that power hungry, most modern GPUs can basically turn themselves off, and PCIe isn't that power hungry either.

Anyway, Intel's in better shape than you think and in a significantly better position than AMD, especially after recent acquisitions. The big reason is that for anything above low-end, you don't want to share a die.

Hypothetical architecture: put a future Xeon Phi chip (descendant of Larrabee, formerly Knights Corner, etc) on QPI. Have its on-die memory controller be based on GDDR5 (or a GDDR5 successor--low capacity, high latency, high bandwidth). Put another standard Xeon next to it, with SDDR4 or the SDDR4 successor on its memory controller (high capacity, low latency, relatively low bandwidth). Now maybe put an InfiniBand chip from the QLogic acquisition on there, maybe some fast path to an Intel SSD as well, and voila, you've got an all-Intel HPC node with shared CPU/vector processor address space, and you don't even need PCIe.

The idea of a combined CPU/GPU for servers with high performance on either the CPU or the GPU side is a pipe dream for a few reasons:

1. The big driver of GPU performance isn't FLOPs, it's bandwidth. Most of the applications out there on GPUs today are bandwidth limited, not FLOP limited. In other words, the max performance gain you're looking at from a GPU port is on the order of the bandwidth boost, which has been ~2.5x per socket since Nehalem or so.

2. The reason GPUs can get so much bandwidth is because they throw everything else under the bus in the quest for bandwidth--GPU memory latency is an order of magnitude or two higher than CPU memory latency, capacity is painfully limited, everything's soldered down, etc. (The reason why they do this is that sufficiently data-parallel applications can get away with high latency and that GPUs can therefore be big latency-hiding machines.)

3. If you try to use memory with the wrong characteristics for a given processor, you're basically going to cripple that processor. A GPU with 128GB of memory would be cool, but it would provide no benefit for most apps, even with a very fast interconnect between the CPU and GPU. A CPU with 12 or 24GB of GDDR5 would perform terribly due to the inability to hide memory latency and be a complete joke on the marketplace. Building both also doesn't really work due to fab constraints.

So really, for anything where you're intending to use the GPU/data parallel side as an integrated accelerator rather than an endpoint (that displays graphics to the screen), you want two dies. Intel's in very, very good shape there. (In mobile/low end, you can get away with slower memory for the GPU because you can rely on shared L2/L3 cache to make up for a lot of the perf loss. That is significantly less acceptable for big GPUs dealing with much bigger datasets.)
that's the thing with gae, if you want to pretend you aren't going to use it and instead try to abstract away that fact, you are in for a world of pain. you either do gae, or not... no waffling.
Note the ' * ' on Uplink and SpaceChem: * Note that the Android version is only compatible with tablet devices.
I can see this working out better for remote workers (like so many of us are). I don't know about other people, but I can pretty easily bring myself down to part time and work on the road -- on planes, in coffee shops around the world, etc. Enough so I can still enjoy the travels and yet make some income while I'm doing it.
"embedded" is a big market and isn't always constrained to be hard-realtime. I spent years as an "embedded" developer at chumby industries and ended up having to use JSON fairly frequently.

Sometimes you don't get to choose what the source format is because you're consuming someone else's data feed, and if all they offer is JSON, you parse JSON. Also, on a 400-ish mhz ARM with 64 MB of RAM parsing reasonably sized JSON data is no big deal in native code.

You need to further qualify your comments beyond just "embedded" because what you're now talking about (very low mhz, KB of RAM) is a niche within the larger embedded world.
I've gotten nearly all the recent humble bundles. They've been increasingly good.

It must be a wonderful feeling to work on software and bizdev for them, too. You know you're making money, helping developers and artists, and giving to charity. I hope the people in charge are doing well.
In GVim on Windows, ctrl-V does paste install of visual-block mode. To get around this you can hit v then ctrl-q to get into visual-block mode
I know this comment isn't really 'on-topic', but ugh--seeing URLs with 'index.php' in them just drives me crazy.

https://blog.dropbox.com/index.php/dropbox-in-space/
There's a video on the homepage that shows it in use. Showing something actually being used will resonate much better than stating a feature list.
You mean like:

SET GLOBAL sql_mode='TRADITIONAL';

?
Brilliant move to allow top contributors to link their twitter accounts to publicly posted buys. Encourages big-money contributions from those who want some exposure and builds a sense of community. I am now following Erica Joy, Gaijin Games Expired Popsicle (Cliff) and Linux Gamers
Gary Frost, the AMD person involved, was also the lead on aparapi, which seems to be in the same vein:

http://code.google.com/p/aparapi/
As usual, success will depend on having lots of scalable, indexable content with lots of Google juice. Not just tools.
And also I think it would be a good idea to put an easy link to the main site at the top of your blog, and maybe that 1 sentence elevator pitch as the subtitle.

Your main site mentions nothing about pricing. I'm assuming it's all free at the moment, will it always be, are ads part of the plan or will premium features be turning up later?

[edited to be a little less abrupt]
Pfft. If that were the case, every commenter on this site would be locked up by now. Dotcom was basically waggling his ass in the general direction of the USA.
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Hi Sam, we met a few couples traveling the world with young children. One of our friends even gave birth in Thailand and after a short break, just kept traveling. When you speak to their children, even though they're young, you sense a real difference. Anyway, just wanted to say that people do still do this. Here's a blog of the aforementioned friend: http://almostfearless.com/ (update: she's expecting a second and is currently in Lebanon).
My wife is our biggest fan, harshest critic, and our first customer. Also, she's kind of our den mother.

It's not particularly easy to spend this much time apart, but she's a champ about it. We would not be the same company without her.
The laws are "restrictive" in the sense that they don't like opt-out mechanisms. They place few if any restrictions what a company can do if the user actively opts in.

If the personal data price is such a small to pay, convincing your users of that shouldn't be too much of a problem?
Who? The politicians?
I was curious, so I found out that the Spirits was ported to android with http://www.apportable.com/

But do you know about the others? Are they just handcrafting everything or do they use some engines etc?
Damn, that really has me thinking about doing something similar. One advantage of being in Web development is I (and many others here) can work from anywhere as long as there is an an occasional Internet connection. Certainly nothing full-time (defeats the purpose of traveling), but a few hundred dollars here and there probably goes a long ways.
Absolutely, thought about this a lot. With the right apologetic message I suspect you'd cause outrage. It's a fine line, though.
I'm not a Cheddar user, but one thing I love about Sam is that he ships like crazy.
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>All she has to do to file a counter claim is submit contact information of someone authorized to act on behalf of the works submitted, be that an attorney, friend or other business agent

This actually seems like a great idea for a business: DMCA takedown protection. Register your works with us, and we'll take care of the disputes and counterclaims. You pay us a signup fee for each work, and a fee for each work we successfully defend. In return, you get peace of mind and an agent familiar with the system to wrestle with claimants on your behalf.
But what about that elusive 7th continent? Here's one possible way to check that off your list. Find a research lab that is doing Antarctic Research and apply to join them as a volunteer. There are often positions for volunteers. As you can imagine, these are quite popular so it may be a
difficult route, but it seems like there is always a need for people with electronics and computer skills. There are also job openings, eg http://www.usap.gov/jobsAndOpportunities/.

It may cost you your time, but possibly not much else. I went to Palmer Station as a volunteer on an oceanographic research cruise and was able to use my travel stipend to stay in Chile for a few weeks afterward. For all my hard work I also received the Antarctic Service Medal [1]. (Not exactly sure why since I was not affiliated with the Military!). Definitely one of the best deals of my life.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica_Service_Medal
I don't go to bars that often (at all) but isn't this typical behaviour at bars?

However they deal with it at bars is how they should deal with it here.
this is apalling.
The argumets seem to boil down to "I don't like VEC and how hash-tables are done". Oh and the usual bs about interfaces.
The result is that now there is a monstrous dependency (a c++ compiler) in place of something that an undergrad can build for a class (a basic C compiler).

I wonder what rms thinks of this. Too bad he is not calling the shots in gcc anymore.
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This is awesome stuff. I am glad that they are attacking the accuracy angle since for a lot of tasks I care a lot about accuracy and not so much on saving the last $.
Yes, because slapping someone in the face is exactly equivalent to giving them a brutal beating resulting in lasting physical harm.

WHY does this topic come up so much in hacker/geek culture? Seriously, I'm starting to believe there are guys walking around who WANT to be slapped, just so they can finally live out their "equal rights mean equal lefts" fantasy.

Regardless, I don't like the idea of slapping someone. I think we can come up with a better idea, like the cards.
As a German, i'm glad that our governments care about privacy laws.
Besides the ridiculousness of the Street View debacle most privacy laws in Germany are right where they should be, bordering on not strong enough.

Facebook clearly behaved intransparent and outright unfriendly with regards to data protection, therefor its fair to come down that hard on the service.
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Startup E-Commerce agency in NYC seeking amazing UI/UX designer
Stealth-ish start-up e-commerce development and marketing agency is looking for an incredible Lead UI/UX Designer to collaborate with out team of expert consultants to develop stunning, original e-commerce layouts. You should be a fresh thinker and consider yourself to be one of the best designers we'll ever come across.

The founder formerly started an e-commerce agency that went to be acquired by one of the largest internet companies in existence, and he's looking to do it again. Together we'll build some of the best e-commerce sites on the web and enjoy the successes of our work together.

These are more guidelines than requirements - at the end of the day, talent and knowledge trumps all (unless you're an asshole, then we won't work with you no matter how good you are).

- 7+ years of design experience in integrative design, web, advertising and typography - e-commerce experience is absolutely mandatory.

- Expert knowledge of typography, color theory, and composition and possibly an academic background in graphic design, interaction design, or related field.

- Solid understanding and demonstration of user centered design principles and ability to develop simple and elegant design approaches to complex design problems.

- You are a perfectionist who’s obsessed with the details of the details.

- Near NYC (Vitual OK too)

To apply, send a link to your online portfolio that includes samples of ecommerce designs and your rationale behind the proposed solutions. We want to see polished, professional visuals with attention paid to structured layouts, information hierarchy, typography, color, and interplay between style and content. Reveal your thought process. We want to understand the fundamental problem and constraints you were presented with, paths you explored, and how you arrived at the final solutions.
While we're at it, can we have the same offering to African America men and Latino men?
Many others have large offices and employ lots of people, like Oracle, and (what was) Sun, and IBM and Intel.
I'm waiting for one of these legal actions to cause a company like Facebook to just shut down their service in the local area, and leave a landing page with the email addresses of all the politicians who provoked the outage.

People in the EU (and Germany in particular) don't care for massive privately held databases that can be used to target individuals. They have had enough bad experiences with secret police forces, and that's why there are strict limits on data gathering and retention.
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You're getting downvoted, but I'll reply anyway -- I agree completely.

If you're typing raw SQL for getting reports out of a database then you're probably fine, but for web apps you're not typing queries, you're constructing them as strings using another language.

I've always hated the idea of writing one language in another, it feels like a giant eval() in JavaScript/PHP/etc. Not to mention it opens you up to injection attacks.

I like programatic access like MongoDB has, it certainly has its downsides but I prefer talking to a database via an API.
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I think ceejayoz took you a little too literally. MySQL continues to scare the hell out of me. It was bad enough before Oracle go a hold of it: the designers seemed completely unconcerned with data integrity. It has many patches to deal with individual issues, but when the creators just fundamentally don't care???

The GLP-not-LGPL license sounds like a booby trap gladly left in place by Oracle from before they got it. I can't see Oracle wanting to do anything other than make it light and fast (at expense of correctness), either, since if you want "data integrity", they have a solution for you.
Many of the EU requirements (e.g. 'right to be forgotten', mandatory opt-in for cookies)

Just to note: The "right to be forgotten" is not EU law yet. There are some changes to the EU Data Protection law coming up, that's one of them, but it's not EU law now.
This.

I had to click through the blog and try really hard to find out WTF the app is/was.
"They went free because they saw a lot of profitable apps using the free + In-App-Purchase model."

I think it would be more accurate to say that they saw several well publicized stories about where that model worked. They certainly didn't read any analysis highlighting that strategy and how it worked for all that tried it that way.
Talk to your law makers, asking them to copy EU law?
I'd advise understanding your audience before deciding which comment system is best for your site.

Yes! When you frame it like that, as in "different technologies/providers may be better in different contexts", it seems so simple. Yet people get hung up on the "always do X and never do Y" approaches.
That is using Facebook, and it makes use of the implicit, non-consensual Facebook shadow accounts that Facebook creates for all anonymous users, who are extensively tracked across the internet.

Many people have blocked all domains associated with Facebook in order to maintain privacy and thwart their internet-wide tracking.
Because you're legitimately afraid that your assaulter could seriously injure you in a fight?

Because you just want to get out of there as fast as possible and escalating into violence is likely just going to draw it out?

Because you're afraid bystanders will take his side and you'll be seen as the aggressor?

Because there's a lot of cultural pressure for women to ignore sexual harassment and you don't want to "rock the boat" that badly?

Or how about because these are grown men and women in an at least semi-professional environment and the idea that they should have to resort to violence to solve their problems is completely fucking absurd?