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When startups don't work out (Part 4/5)
Using Fonts for Resolution Independent Assets
How much are Funded Startup Founders allowed to pay themselves
It may not help much but you'd like to think that Softlayer would at least make the effort.
Looking back on the acquisition of our first 1,000 customers (Yotpo)
Such stop was used as a trap for "patients" escaping from elderly home in a short movie Harvie Krumpet. I highly recommend to watch it, it's only 22mins long and can be found on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouyVS6HOFeo
Sad that there's no mention of the huge role Perl + CPAN play in their infrastructure:

* http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216392-a...
* https://github.com/duckduckgo/duckduckgo/wiki/DuckDuckGoPerl
* http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=848999

They've also been visible in sponsoring the Perl community.
any other feedback guys?
I think a real example might be better. I did not find the 4 lines of code difficult to read.
Pyongyang is in North Korea. Here we are talking about South Korea. It's not like United States where California and Minnesota are under the same govt. These are really two countries, like USA and Canada.
Top Down Nature
Sitting on The Fence: A Rational View on Apple vs. The World
Not entirely sure if this is legal (I'll take it down if it's not), but here's the full article (PDF warning): http://db.tt/ws6QSyVa
Same for Doctors.
My theory is that they have much bigger things to worry about than the state of their own hand-writing.
> people are so defensive of products that are simple copies of others when Google does it

You are honestly trying to say that Android is just a simple copy of iPhone? Honestly?

Frothing at the mouth fanboyism like this really detracts from the credibility of HN as a source of serious discussion.
Interesting enough I did a quick search, found hundreds of java/python jobs and 2 cobol jobs... in the entire state.
One way to trial this might be on dev servers that run automated tests. I wonder if a dynamically scaling test server could run our continuous integration tests more rapidly without significantly increasing server costs.
> disabling this is offered in the privacy settings, and it is even put in front of your face during OS install.

What's the default behavior? I think we've all had experiences (or know of) of not-entirely-reading all things and ending up with eight new IE taskbars installed.
Cartoonist Raises $1 Million For Goddamn Tesla Museum
Damn. I had bad handwriting as a kid--and haven't great handwriting now--and the bad grades did bother me. But somehow I survived w/o carrying scars into later life.
I will migrate my Macbook to Ubuntu soon :)The latest Ubuntu is ok with a few modifications.
One thing that bothers me a lot in Linux is font rendering.
The default settings in Fedora show a "compressed" font, which makes every label looks horrible, thus Gnome looks horrible.

Apart from that, Gnome 3.6 has some interesting new things, but not enough to make it "beautiful".
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OT: I keep trying to get into backbone but I just get driven crazy by `get` and `set`. Inspecting your object feels like a world of pain, which is no fun when I'm playing with code. And it also makes it feel like you're not programming js any more. Quite a few years back an old company I used to work for had a similar framework and perhaps it's just latent hatred for that rather annoying framework.

I know it's a limitation of the present js because you can't make getters and setters, but it just completely kills my enthusiasm for backbone, which otherwise seems great. Are there any alternatives out there using Object.defineProperty instead? I know it's still not really web ready, but it'd be far more fun to play with.
Looks nice, but what's the difference between Tambur.io and:

• http://www.buddy.com/
• http://js.dotcloud.com/
• https://cloudmine.me/
• http://backlift.github.com/docs/
• http://www.meteor.com/main
• https://parse.com/about/index
• http://derbyjs.com/
• http://www.kinvey.com/
• http://www.stackmob.com/
• http://www.appcelerator.com/cloud
• http://pusher.com/
• http://www.firebase.com/
• http://www.pubnub.com/
• https://www.getbridge.com/
So now you working for the devil :-)
If only it were stable, given the skeuomorphic crimes of recent releases and the whole full-screen/unified-expose&virtual-desktop debacle.

Not that Ubuntu/Unity fares better in that department, but right now, all the major players aren't really doing a swell job with their desktops.
We had a slightly less impressive professor, who erased with the right and wrote with the left. Also at the same time.
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This "virtual server resizing" and sub-second VM booting is nothing new to Solaris users, who've been quietly doing it for years with Zones. Of course, you have to use Solaris to take advantage of flexibility in dynamically changing any resource allocation, including disc, CPU, networking and memory.

It sounds like GoScale is bringing memory allocation resizing to Linux guests, which is handy. If it's done with KVM, it would be interesting to see if it can be added to the Joyent Solaris KVM port.

Free Solarish OSes for playing with Solaris Zones: http://smartos.org/ (from Joyent) and http://omnios.omniti.com/
I find it's important to have a to-do list ready before your free time arrives.

I tend to be most productive Sat eve until early Sun morn. I spend this time, building & creating. I then have a relaxing Sunday, get refreshed for the week ahead. I just do 'maintenance' work during the week, ready for the next phase at the weekend.

It's hard to get excited about an idea you don't have yet so your mind will keep pulling towards doing other stuff.

Keep a list of potential ideas, problems to solve etc and what the first step would be. When you hit on an idea exciting enough, that's when it's a great feeling to rush home and make some progress.
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The fact that the parent didn't even raise an eyebrow just makes this butthurt reaction even more hilarious. Keep on trucking, and don't worry; there's an idiot born every day, never mind silly old me. Hahaha.
Absolutely agree about realtime. Just ran into this issue. Relative timestamps on content that is live updated gets stale immediately. The user has to refresh the page to get an accurate timestamp, which sort of defeats the purpose of the realtime content. So we switched to absolute.
If your objective is to keep information secret, then keeping information secret isn't "security through obscurity". And while governments certainly do stuff they shouldn't be doing, and take advantage of the significant security apparatus at their disposal to do so, I don't buy the idea that governments don't, like most other organizations, need a shield of privacy to conduct it's business, including the significant legitimate bits of it, effectively.
What would a positive outcome of serving a group be when you know 99% of them won't buy anything from you?

I'd be very impressed if any outsider managed to sustainably serve the Chinese market, without the very hungry local competitors improving on the solution. Support by itself would be quite a challenge.
Pathod - Tormenting HTTP clients and servers
Reasoning Training Alters Structural Connectivity in Brain
> How do people feel about an answerer putting x amount
> of time into writing a free, articulate, well-explained
> answer, and having that answer repackaged and sold
> without compensation (or even correspondence)?

It says at the bottom of every page "user contributions licensed under cc-wiki"; by posting content on the site you agree to those terms. They're not being "cheated"[1]—

You are free:

to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work
to Remix — to adapt the work
to make commercial use of the work

[1] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
"The other major issue is that many of the projects such as Gnome, KDE, XFCE and others have started using so many different Linux only interfaces for which no good documentation exists to replicate the functionality..."

While this is listed a an issue with FreeBSD, it's actually an issue with Linux and why the BSDs shine in the eyes of many developers and users. Far more stable and predictable than Linux, my company uses FreeBSD exclusively and shuns Linux.
I think Udacity has it spot on. It's great to finish a project and actually have something to show for it, instead of having ticked off x number of book pages or tutorials lost in the ether.
The reason people persist with unscientific conceptions of the world even after learning the scientifically correct explanation is because scientifically correct explanations often have little benefit in our day to day lives.

The heliocentric model of the solar system, for example, has no effect on our normal lives, and thus by Pierce's Pragmatic Maxim is of little value.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatic_maxim
The text loads quickly enough, but the pictures really kill it. I clicked page 2 and got one line of text and a bunch of white, and decided to make that the extent of my user experience.
I had a similar issue a few years ago when someone from Asia had modified and resold my ecommerce application for years as his own. I lost at least $50,000 in sales to US customers who purchased this guy's copy of my software.

The big problem that I ran into is the cost to litigate international issues. I contacted a bunch of law firms and they all pretty much said it would be a six-figure cost to pursue any international action and the hopes of collecting would be almost zero. Fortunately, the copying was so blatant that I didn't have a problem getting the US web host to pull down his site.

Partially as a result of the incident I decided to open-source the code base. Other than locking up the code in a SaaS platform there isn't a 100% foolproof way to protect IP so why not embrace the copying and build a business model around reality.
I think they mean participation in that you can choose the left or the right lane of the conveyor belt to the butcher house; it's not about addressing actual stuff. You just have to keep up with the newspeak and it all makes perfect sense.
Thank you for the correction. Is there a term to describe code which although freely viewable is not open-source?
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Your post would be much better if you avoided hot-button topics and focused on political examples that don't inspire strong emotional reactions. There are plenty of these - farm subsidies, a lot of occupational licensing, patent/copyright regimes, for example.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/gw/politics_is_the_mindkiller/
I agree. You also don't need a firearm to kill. But this technology can surely bring a little revolution in the way we consume products. And I think it will have a much bigger impact than just being able to print a firearm or not (should it be possible)
If there are cases important to you as a user, file bug reports about the performance. OS developers can (and will) guess about what scenarios are most performance-critical, but feedback from developers and users ("doing X is important to me, and is slow on your system" / "why is Y slower on your system than on your competitors" / etc) is enormously valuable and quite welcome. The squeaky wheel gets the grease.

Speaking as an OS developer, poor performance absolutely is a bug, and your bug report will be taken seriously.
I know a teeny bit of COBOL. I'd say that if I were to learn it, it would be with a view of learning to generate it from a meta-language so that all the indentation strangeness and record layouts and so on could be done more easily.
No clear winner...

I'd say there is a winner : Linux. Isn't it interesting that a software developped by a team of hacker (I'd say a chaotic, huge and ever growing) can make a monster like Ubuntu and get performances that don't pale against another OS which is designed by a very organised, super funded, super focused team of carefully selected programmers...

Ok, I assume a rather romatic view of linux development, but I'd bet I'm not that far from reality :-)
"Unfortunately, you can't vote the rascals out, because you never voted them in, in the first place." -- Noam Chomsky
You didn't understand the parent comment. Go, grab a cup of coffee, read it again and meditate about what it says for a little while.
That is pretty good. Thanks! I was thinking it is about 15$...
People can write ripoff books that are different enough to be free from recourse. In HTML5, the platform is even more narrow than natural language. A "thief" has available to them all of the approaches, quirks and libraries of the original author -- none of which is exclusive.

Together with the lack of practical enforcement, there doesn't appear to be any utility in the law. Saying an HTML5 web app should be protected by copyright is a bad joke at this point.
Proprietary.
This. I remember reading a definition of a design pattern as "a structured way of working around a language deficiency".
Inside the second: Gaming performance with today's CPUs
I guess this is one reason I'm lucky and happy to be in Canada: There is a total of 52 weeks of shared parental leave, then there's 2 weeks reserved individually for each parent. The parental leave can be split in any way the parents feel necessary.

And this isn't anything employers do; this is a governmental program. However, the first 6 months of leave are paid 70% regular salary, the rest is at 50%.

I think it's a great program, and I don't know that a lot of women have any issues returning to work after that time.
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Here's the quote I was looking for.

"A totalitarian state simply enunciates official doctrine -- clearly, explicitly. Internally, one can think what one likes, but one can only express opposition at one's peril. In a democratic system of propaganda no one is punished (in theory) for objecting to official dogma. In fact, dissidence is encouraged. What this system attempts to do is to fix the limits of possible thought: supporters of official doctrine at one end, and the critics -- vigorous, courageous, and much admired for their independence of judgment -- at the other. The hawks and the doves. But we discover that all share certain tacit assumptions, and that it is these assumptions that are really crucial. No doubt a propaganda system is more effective when its doctrines are insinuated rather than asserted, when it sets the bounds for possible thought rather than simply imposing a clear and easily identifiable doctrine that one must parrot -- or suffer the consequences. The more vigorous the debate, the more effectively the basic doctrines of the propaganda system, tacitly assumed on all sides, are instilled. Hence the elaborate pretense that the press is a critical dissenting force -- maybe even too critical for the health of democracy -- when in fact it is almost entirely subservient to the basic principles of the ideological system: in this case, the principle of the right of intervention, the unique right of the United States to serve as global judge and executioner. It is quite a marvelous system of indoctrination."

-- Noam Chomsky, "Language and Responsibility" (1977)

But of course, that was then, today it's totally different, right? Right.
Is science cool?  No.
Is this a replacement for your current offering at http://stackblaze.com/ or a new company ?
I'm the CEO of allmyapps. Needless to say I 100% agree that it is how installing & managing apps should have been on Windows 7!
We are on our way to v2 now... let me show you a screenshot of the upcoming version [1] (it is a HN exclusivity btw!)

While the current version (1.5) is .NET/WPF based, we've switched to full C++/Webkit for v2. Results are impressive: launch <2s even on the crappiest PC we could find, <40Mb of memory footprint... and, best of all, the UI is just "fast and fluid"(tm).

[1]http://static.allmyapps.com/images/uploads/allmyapps_v2.jpg
IPhone trails at No.7 in China's smartphone market, report says
Final chance for them to make money? That's a sad way of doing it though
Just over two years ago. (730+ days)

If I needed an exact date, I would do something like the following (python)

>>> import datetime
>>> datetime.date.today()-datetime.timedelta(864)
datetime.date(2010, 4, 13)
I honestly don't know of anybody who comes to code-until-dawn events that has military background. Ed Domain who started Techli was Air Force Reserves, but I don't know if hee was AFNIC.
Yes, that's exactly what my gnus does. An email I just looked at has

X-Sent: 4 weeks, 19 hours, 13 minutes, 20 seconds ago

(Of course, it being gnus, the time updates while the message is in the article buffer.)
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I don't think I was disagreeing with you. It's purely relevant information on the other side of the story.
Wow, that's a really rude and sarcastic reaction to somebody who's just trying to be friendly. I also think his comments about your messaging were spot on.
App.Net Posts its Terms of Service, Invites User Feedback
It's a new company but the same team. StackBlaze PaaS is still up and running and serving existing customers, but no further development is being done on it.
Figure out how many hours you can work in a month. There is no standard here. In the U.S. the standard work day is 8 hours but you may only really be able to focus on coding for 4 - 6 hours per day. Multiply that number by 12 and then subtract the number of hours you will lose from vacations, sick time and any other down time you might have. Then divide that number by 12 to get your monthly average. Next come up with your preferred monthly income plus business expenses. Divide that by your average monthly working hours. The resulting number is your hourly rate.

However, don't let that be a constraining number. Depending on the client, circumstances and other variables, sometimes you can charge whatever you like. In a scenario where you are relatively busy and you get a new big client asking for you to take on an emergency project, then go ahead and throw out whatever crazy number you think the client might accept. You already have work, so it doesn't hurt if the client declines.

Also raise your rates as you get more clients lined up and you get busier. That's supply and demand. As your demand goes up and you have more opportunities than you can handle, raise your rates to bring that demand down to a level you can handle.

Your rate shouldn't be based on where you live other than the fact that you need to at least charge enough for your living expenses, and that can greatly vary based on where you live.
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It's nothing new on Linux either. OpenVz / Virtuozzo and LXC provides the same for Linux. OpenVz has been around for years.
Some of these tests are clearly testing the compiler more than the OS. Looking over the scimark tests, for example, the FFT, LU, and SOR numbers are (at least) an order of magnitude too low to be using optimized libraries that are part of the system. For these benchmarks, we're seeing the compiler quality of compiler codegen on a reference C implementation (OS tasks like malloc/free efficiency may have a small effect, but it should be essentially negligible).

No one interested in performance would actually use that code on OS X or Ubuntu; you would use a tuned library.
How incredibly simplistic. Of all of the women I know who have left (and there are quite a few), maternity leave never came up as a reason.

How about meaningful work, not being evil, and being respected?
Octane minus V8
Facebook to Employees: Use Android Phones Because Its Android App Is Awful
Reading this and the related stories of other products like Cloudstone [1] I'm immediately reminded of another, recent HN post [2] which suggested covering about half a dozen markets/languages with your initial releases.

Something to think about.

1: http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/yc02l/some_company_i...

2: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4389468
The meme is a simplification but it contains an important truth; it's all about the incentives. Any company's fundamental interest is in making money; therefore if you want it to behave in a particular way, the best and indeed only way to accomplish this is to ensure it will make more money by behaving in this way than not.
If your in the area and he can make the trip, http://www.oerm.org/ is cool.
Thanks for the great game, Stripe guys. There were a lot of fun challenges and I learned quite a few things in the process!
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No.

How is "2 hours" computed? Android does this by checking if the >120 minutes has passed. Which is mindboggingly incompetent.

Especially when it comes to days. So, I had a call to me that was made 1 day and 23 hours ago. I look in my call history and it says that it was "1 day ago", and I'm like. Wait? That can't be right, I didn't make that call yesterday.

One hour later android changes it to "2 days ago", no sentinent being in the history of the universe has ever, or will ever, think about in that way. And just by seeing "x days/hours" ago I have no idea what is actually meant.
Too radical.
You nailed it on the addictive bit. I got home from work around 6pm and started the game. I glanced at the clock after a bit and realized it was almost 2am. Oops!
So what's the magic in GoScale? Adding an API?

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But that for me doesn't capture the aspect of it being freely available to examine/read - perhaps such a term doesn't exist!
That seems like a rather strange concept.

In practice they will have to drastically undersell their hosts in order to guarantee the burst-capacity.

If you need to reserve 8G for my 256M instance because I could burst to 8G at any time - then why not just sell me the 8G instance directly?

Perhaps they have some really interesting use for this "volatile" spare-capacity (something like the EC2 spot-market?), but that seems like an awfully complex endeavor.
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Out of curiosity, what reasons did come up?

(And also, is there a possibility that reported reasons are not actual reasons?)
I don't think "simplifying" (aka removing) our choice of servers is an advantage.

There is one clear sharp line that separates cloud from non-cloud hosting: can you deploy (and undeploy) new servers via an API? If so, it's a cloud; if not, it's not. This also tells you when you should be using a cloud services.