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Go at Heroku
http://blog.golang.org/2011/04/go-at-heroku.html

Why you PHP guys should learn Golang
http://www.mikespook.com/2012/08/why-you-php-guys-should-lea...

Go at CloudFlare
http://blog.cloudflare.com/go-at-cloudflare

Go at Moovweb
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-nuts/MeiTNnGh...

Go at SoundCloud
http://backstage.soundcloud.com/2012/07/go-at-soundcloud/

Go at the BBC
http://www.quora.com/Go-programming-lGetConsoleTitleanguage/...

Go at Novartis
https://plus.google.com/114945221884326152379/posts/d1SVaqkR...

Google I/O 2012: Go in production
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKQLhGZVN4A

@derekcollison: "Prediction: Go will become the dominant language for systems work in IaaS, Orchestration, and PaaS in 24 months."
https://twitter.com/derekcollison/status/245522124666716160

@tobi: "I have now completed two projects in Go. I predict that it's going to be the dominant language for server work."
https://twitter.com/tobi/status/245873677483274240

Why I went from Python to Go (and not node.js)
http://jordanorelli.tumblr.com/post/31533769172/why-i-went-f...

Packages/Libs
http://godashboard.appspot.com/
http://go.pkgdoc.org/
Better Than English: Untranslatable Words
I guess it depends on the magnitude of saving we're talking about. I have also seen people who work 12+ hours per day making a ton of money, and only give themselves tiny budgets for pursuing things they enjoy - one guy worked a full-time job and did 6+ hours of consulting every day, made well over $100k and lived in a relatively inexpensive area, but still only gave himself something like $50/month for eating out, books, entertainment, and the like. That is their call, of course, but I don't think I'd be very happy doing that.

On the other hand, though, there is an enormous amount of freedom and peace-of-mind that comes from having a healthy pile of cash and relatively liquid investments. If I look back at the 10 years or so since I started working full-time, my increase in income has been nice, but the increase in savings has improved my life substantially more.

I agree there's no point to being the richest person in the graveyard, but I'd prefer dying with a little excess money to being in a position where I was always a few paychecks away from serious financial trouble. Balance is key, I guess.
Looks pretty good actually (from the screenshot), you even have an iPhone app and everything. Why not just charge a small something, even if it's only to get you a nice side income? Somebody mentioned $5/month as a reasonable price for something like this. For me personally that would make me less hesitant to sign up as currently it would seem you could pull the plug any moment. Unless you like the idea of being able to pull the plug at any moment of course, which of course is your prerogative.
I am in the middle of moving an API over from a Google one that got shutdown recently. This has cost me a substantial chunk of time, more than it likely has cost you.

I'm viscerally aware of inverterate corporate capacity for volatility.
What a cynical view of the world.

I value my career and achievements but I'd swap it in a second for my immediate family.

It's nothing to do with depression, fear, or failing - it's absolutely the way it should be.
The answer to this question isn't going to come from the top down, I think it has to come from the bottom up. So, its not really a helpful question, except maybe interesting to reflect upon post hoc?
The mob was the specific instrument in this instance. Mobs are used regularly for similar purposes.

IMO the question at hand is whether as soon as some group threatens violence the USA kowtow. This appears to be the case here - the USA administration intervening in the free speech of a citizen in order to further the aims of a group because that group has threatened (and acted) violently.
As Aaron is a founder of http://demandprogress.org I am not surprised by this. Their campaign emails are highly critical of the current political establishment fighting SOPA, PIPA, NDAA and related issues quite effectively through social media. This is deliberate over-reaction to petty protest crime. Like WikiLeaks, I imagine he has developed enemies due to these efforts. This entire situation reminds me of the treatment of political protest punk band Pussy Riot in Russia recently.
Work to live, don't live to work. Chill.
The fact that nobody's happy with a profitable, but modest bootstrapped company is causing them to abandon these smaller companies.

The abandonment feeds into the consumer mistrust and makes it that much harder to bootstrap the next company.

A good example of an industry that was utterly destroyed by a crisis of consumer confidence was the video game industry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_video_game_crash...

>Revenues that had peaked at around $3.2 billion in 1983,[1] fell to around $100 million by 1985 (a drop of almost 97 percent).

It would be extremely unwise to believe the startup industry couldn't be subject to the same problem. VCs are getting uncomfortable with the valuations, the constant buyouts and abandonment are burning out consumers.

Were I not working on a startup of my own, I'd be happy to take upon somebody's profitable but small red-headed stepchild business.
Which didn't prevent the other power plants in Japan from killing more people than the nuclear disaster will kill.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZYT6BjfBro
(1m15s in)

(death toll from that fire, explosions around it and people locking themselves in their homes, then getting enveloped by the smoke, was over 200. It was not the only oil disaster during the earthquake)
This will never fly... That article you linked says that the Intel based phones will only run 90% of android apps. Who would choose one of these phones over an arm based one? It would take a lot of incentive for someone choosing between them. The cost would have to be significantly cheaper or the phone significantly better. I see a non-starter here.
Not doing read locking is not a game-changer.

Firebird doesn't do read locking. Neither does Lotus Notes. Both have been around about 20 years.
Looks like the KS is going to end soon and needs some luvin to make it happen. Spread on your networks. I just donated and posted around.
Such an incredible way to make a difference! Being a part of a hacker space in Los Angeles has changed the course of my life. This is good work!
This is one of my favourites. So many nuggets in there. A very nice interview. Programmers like Thompson are the only thing that keeps me interested in computers.

It's really sad that the loudest voices in computing are no longer thinkers like Ken Thompson. Look at some of comments in this thread. Pathetic. It's like Slashdotters insulting W. Richard Stevens after his passing. Extreme stupidity.

How many programmers these days can build from the bottom up? How many can start with a blank canvas?

It's a little troubling to me that he has to work for Google (as much as I love GOOG their work is not exactly stuff of Bell Labs: how can we serve more ads?), but I guess you have to do what you have to do.

The comments about his music collection are great. "Illegal downloading!" :) The legal department just looked the other way.

He also more or less says, in this field, there are really no new ideas. This is hard for today's programmers to accept I guess: the idea it's all been done before. But oh how I wish today's self-proclaimed "productive" programmers - who are alamringly ignorant of history and even contemptuous toward any code does not meet their strange notions of "freshness" - how I wish they would take Thompson's comments to heart.

Now, here's a question: How similar is Go to Sean Dorward's Limbo? If we put them side-by-side how many similarities would we see? If no one answers, I may just do this myself. I think it would be interesting.
I already have IRC for our company.
I disagree, maybe that might have been a point that allowed more people to give it a try in the early days. A lot of companies have integrated APIs and built workflows around the github specific way of doing things.
you could start with a replacement for grove.io.

heh. can someone recommend an alternative that also supports connecting via standard IRC protocol?
So, how would one go about connecting it a password protected network?
I disagree with the other folks on this page that say that life is suffering and life in five years will be more suffering. That directly contradicts my experience. In many ways my business(es?) are the easiest job(s) I've ever had, and while six years into it I occasionally have a bad day (ask me about Thursday -- still recovering), things are in general on the up and up.

With regards to catching breaks: have you ever heard the phrase "overnight success in only X years"? That characterizes a lot of the breaks which I've personally experienced or had related to me by other people. You sometimes have oh-my-goodness-that's-absolutely-unbelievable-you-are-so-lucky happen to you, but that luck often closely resembles the predictable effects of crystallized hard work.
Why should anyone create software just so you can have it for free? You're not entitled to open source software, or the goodwill of others. If they decided that they didn't want to continue running their product, they can choose to shut it down.

This is exactly the same as Sparrow, TextMate, etc. None of these companies owe you anything to where they should be required, or even expected, to open source their work.
Link to the actual kickstarter page. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bilal/baghdad-community-...
I think that we have more and more access to information and this makes our brains work better, helps connect more dots and make better decisions.
I'm glad to see F# mentioned. All to often it's dismissed in my discussions with friends, because. Net is uncool in general or because they didn't know that F# is officially backed and therefor quite likely here to stay.

Seeing a link here where it is mentioned with/compared to Scala and Haskell is a refreshing change.
can you point me to Flowdock's IRC interface? I evaluated them before we started adopting Grove, and I did not see that option.

edit: dunno how I overlooked this before: https://www.flowdock.com/help/irc

thanks for making me look again, though!
I'm not talking about clinical depression. But let's say the general, "I didn't get the promotion" style of depression.

For me, you can view that problem two ways, "I'm going to work harder and prove my value to the company" or the move the goalposts approach, "I really didn't want that promotion anyway, I'll spend more time with my kids! No one will judge me as a failure if I do that."

Shifting priorities can be rational if you honestly realize your tastes and interests have changed over time, but most often it seems shifting priorties are just a manifestation of weakness - a decision to flee rather than fight.
Thanks for this. I was just curious. "Abusing trust" is exactly the type of thought I had when I first read about this case. It sounded to me like MIT is very generous with letting people use the computer labs and he really took these privileges a little too far. But being far from MIT I can only form a picture from what I read. Thanks for the color.
Could you elaborate on the problems with Tegra 3?
I second the choice of IRC server, but for some setups it may be overkill.
I personally like gobby/sobby, it has a chat module besides being a collaborative code editor. It's open-source and cross-platform.
In other news: AMD's Hondo will only support Windows 8 at launch.

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2205758/amds-hondo-...
Inception is Closer to Reality then you Think
I suppose this is saying something like this

union X{
char a;
float b;
}

If you store something in a, the other 3 bytes corresponding to b are unspecified

But I suspect this doesn't apply if a and b have the same size.
> The burn-in is the one issue where Apple dropped the ball, but it's obviously not big enough to get the attention of major media

It sounds awfully like the yellow tinge issue for the iMac screens.

I ordered a 21" on the online Apple Store, and it had the tinge. Called Apple, they sent me another and picked up the previous one. It was worse. The third one was better but still affected. The fourth one was on par with the first. All of that cost me zero money, and every Apple rep was friendly. At that point I had gathered enough info from various forums to know that about 50% of the 21" screens were affected, whereas the odds were much, much lower (maybe 15%) for the 27", and there was some dry-up effect that would make it disappear (whereas the 21" only got worse). Yet it was out of my budget (the 21" was a bargain at the time, one of the rare times where it was not 1$:1€). I called for what I thought was a final order cancellation (I was ready to buy a demo unit that I knew was not affected because I saw it in an Apple Store), and even before I mentioned anything except that the last unit was still affected, the rep called his manager to cancel the order and offer me a rebate which spanned the price difference between the 21" and the 27". That one had the tinge vanish in a few hours of use and is working fantastic to this day.
>I really meant my point to be a counter to its parent.

I don't believe I've ever seen you do anything else on HN. I know you to be a reliable person, no reason to think you'd suddenly get fickle and take something I said seriously.

Do you mean to tell me that if somebody rolled up with a check written out for your price you wouldn't light the servers on fire and run for the hills? Realistically the only people who are cared after in any acquisition are the investors so that no bad-blood is in the water for the next acqui-hire. Customers are always left in the dark.

If you want any credibility to the contrary, you'd better start presenting your customers with an SLA that guarantees a detailed transition with a timeline in the case of company failure/acquisition.

Or you can just play PR games. Whatever bare minimum your sense of honesty necessitates.

I'd rather just sit on a happy customer base, but I never thought I'd become a millionaire anyway.

I just want to help people.
Academics are completely free to submit their papers to open access journals, the reason they don't do so is because they want the brand value from publishing in prestigious closed-access journals and because submitting to those journals is free.

Building that brand value has risks and cost money to produce (due to editorial, etc costs) hence the publishers need to recoup that value. Open-access journals to recoup that cost either charge the authors or rely upon a subsidies from wealthy benefactors (universities, industrial sponsors).
Free Android App - Accounting Job Search
Webservice With Groovy and Restlet - Example
These things are not really on the same level. Google usually gives more than a years notice, and always has a way to export your data. These guys are shutting down in the month and it looks like the only help you get with your data is a link to a gist on github.
1. Put your vim config on GitHub

2. Write a clean README.md with "cool" IDE-like screenshots

3. ?

4. Profit?

And the usual suspects:

* set nocompatible is not needed at all

* matchit is already included in Vim
http://www.quora.com/What-are-alternatives-to-pusher-com
I love the project but I hope they've been really serious about security
> Google usually gives more than a years notice, and always has a way to export your data.

Hahahahaha no. They don't. If only they did anything remotely as nice as that.
When your favorite restaurant closes down, do you demand they post all their recipes?
This useful data structure confusingly goes by several different names.

Binary indexed tree: https://community.topcoder.com/tc?module=Static&d1=tutor...

Cumulative frequency table (which interestingly enough Simon Tatham claims to have independently invented): http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/algorithms/cumul...
I never said anything about building tools for programmers. I'm actually a major proponent of building apps and tools that scratch non-technical itches, or more specifically, intersecting your development skills with your hobbies or interests.
The case for Go
I disagree about trust and reliability being orthogonal. Unreliable products burn their bridges rapidly. Social proof can take many forms, from raw total user numbers to user testimonials. You're not going to collect testimonials if you have a shitty product.
ktizo's reply is spot on.

But since you like the free market so much, isn't unionization part of a free market? Aren't strikes a perfectly valid free market way to achieve the goals of the members of the union? Or is a collection of workers, organized into a union, not part of the same free market as a collection of owners, organized into a company which protects them from personal liability claims?

And therefore aren't laws preventing certain labor actions, like Taft–Hartley's prohibitions on certain types of strikes, also a piece of anti-free-market legislation?
Google wants 'better compatibility' for Android
noooo! this feels like arrested development.
It's both scary and awesome that we need an International Center for Brainwave Ethics. But as a wise man once said: "With great power comes great responsibility." - Spiderman.
Ok I give you that. To be honest I stopped reading right at about Palm Touch Mute Pause.
Wait, you expect any low-cost ISPs to offer IPv6-only, and have any customers at all? And that IPv4-only sites will say "gee, better support those IPv6-only users" instead of saying "get a better ISP" (or more likely "We have no idea what's wrong, but it works from Comcast, complain to your ISP")?

I don't think you understand how the Internet works. Or business. There is no foreseeable point at which it makes sense to bill an "Internet" service that's IPv6-only. That's doable _after_ the transition, but expecting that to happen now is not a transition.
Vintage Apple Lisa II Computer
Not my sale, but I thought others might be interested.

Note: is not in working order.
I know you're leaning against it but I thought I'd say anyway that we use IRC for everything since it's easy to hook into from anywhere. We don't even use a full-fledged server, just a single file python script. There's plenty of options for graphical notifications and you can hook into from PHP if you want.
Although PostgreSQL is featured database enterprises still using mainly SQL Server or Oracle. http://blog.protegra.com/2012/06/22/sql-server-2012-cheaper-... What can we do for wider adoptation of PostgreSQL?
3000 texts is the fair usage cap on texts with most UK networks
We use Google Talk (it's just XMPP, so you can use an OSS client like Pidgin) and email. But you shouldn't discount IRC just because of that: many clients offer or at least let you add graphical notifications: my favorite client, Weechat[1], has plugins for libnotify/dbus, Growl and OS X Notification Center. I'm sure other clients offer similar functionality.

[1]: http://www.weechat.org/
I don't demand anything of them, but they won't create a dependency where I previously had none and expect to be rewarded with money for it.

I am making founders aware of this attitude so that they can

1. Realize that there's a problem

2. Distinguish themselves among their competitors by addressing this concern

I'm not aiming to prescribe solutions, just describing the heuristics I presently rely on to determine if a service is likely to become a liability. I always do a fluid cost-benefit analysis beyond the black-and-white I described in my top comment.

That you believed what I said had anything to do with "demanding" free labor of anyone is telling and indicates a defensive posture on the subject.

Not a surprising reaction to have, given that Sentry (your errors-as-a-service project) depends on people trusting you not to just shut it down tomorrow.
unfortunately for those of us who don't have any non-programming/tech interests that doesn't leave much left. :)

(uber, taskrabbit notwithstanding..)
The Google API I was using had a 6 month lead time, no recommendations for graceful transition, no offer of data dumps, and the final shutdown date was never communicated.
Yes, he's complaining about the transition, not the protocol. One perfectly acceptable transition method, from a technical viewpoint (though probably not a political one), is the one that got us on IPv4 in the first place: a declaration that the Internet's core routers will stop routing the old protocol come January 1. Another transition method would be to write a protocol that doesn't need such tactics to get people to switch to.

If it's been "being solved" over the last ten years, neither you or I will see the end of IPv4 on the public Internet within our lifetimes. Or, if we do, it's because something bigger and better will come along, obsoleting every version of IP. The debate over whether to switch to IPv6 will sound as silly as a debate about Morse code in the 1960s.

The future will come up with their protocols. IPv6, or maybe something other than IPv6, needs to be a protocol we can start using now (and not just because it's cool, but because it's useful) and not feel like it's wasted if it becomes irrelevant in 2025.
Escrow clauses are perfectly normal for commercial software and services, for enterprise contracts.

It probably needs to be a contract, as the liquidators might ignore it if it is just a statement, depending what happens to the company.
that's a hell of a "start."

great work.
3D street view for Mashhad (Iran)...No Google, no problem
smart stay works really well btw as long as you are in a well lit room.
I wonder if it can be paired to multiple phones? Otherwise you'll end up with only one person who can turn the lights on or off.
>If they open sourced it, they'd likely feel obligated to support it.

That's their psychological bugaboo, not mine.
@title: Why does it explicitely mention the iPhone alone... like it was the only important gadget.. (yes the page says iPhone and Android). "from your smartphone" would have been better
You got lucky.

The API I was using, was shutdown without any communication. (Adsense for ajax - announced at Google I/O 2010). They simply closed my account without paying the money I was owed (substancial sum). I later found out from a Gooler "yeah they decided to shutdown the product".

Beware of relying on anyone, even a big company who says they won't be evil.
They claim that one can still use the existing switches in addition to controlling the bulbs via WiFi, and this is a feature that seems somewhat important for e.g. guests, situations when you don't have your phone on you, etc.

But I'm curious how it would work, switching of the light switch would also kill any fancy WiFi interface to the bulb.
We should take bets on how far the, "we're gone, but here's our new thing!" chain will go.
Would like your opinion: do you think this is still a viable opportunity- serving this niche? (paid team chat)

..or is Campfire/HipChat/whatever-else-is-left "good enough" to make it not worthwhile?
Does anyone have accompanying video of the talk?
Get more billion-dollar companies to use PostgreSQL. How? Use PostgreSQL in our own startup, and build it into another billion-dollar company.
You could not live up to your "hottest startup" (often a curse) hype. You were over-rated... end of story.
What's with the hagiography? Culver made things people came to depend on, then those things disappeared.

I don't see how this is any different than picking up women and telling them you think they're serious girlfriend material in a context (business services) where that's the expected standard, then dropping them for the new hot thing.

Why is it suddenly acceptable to do this just because they called themselves a startup?
Google is notoriously bad about this by now, though. There isn't much excuse anymore after the last 3-4 years.
Only if they demand I make them my sole source of food and stop cooking for myself while I'm their customer.