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MySQL founder's new company is "hacking business models"
This link came directly from his blog post talking about his departure from Sun:

http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2009/02/time-to-move-on.html
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I think reading the light gray is a problem.
Obviously there are other design considerations - personally I'd go a little darker!

.. or to be really geeky, add a button to darken the color in the menu bar (simply change the .css with a little javascript!)
Relative to the bailout money received, it certainly should have a say. As stated on one of the non-linkable comments:

"A loan is a contractual agreement. Banks attach conditions to loans all the time...and, usually, the riskier the loan the tougher the conditions. The same holds true here. If a failing corporation accepts a loan from the government, it must also accept its terms. Ms. Fiorina, don't forget capitalism can't exist without the freedom to contract...the same freedom that allows people and corporations in America to "decide what each job is worth."

Good comment!
Safari is customizable. It just doesn't have an "easy" framework for writing plugins like Mozilla's XUL + JS.

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/InternetWeb/Concept...
It would appear that meta was just the beginning, we now have meta-meta-posts :p

Seriously though, the meta-phase, or the crawling-up-its-own-arse phase, seems to be something a lot of sites go through. Hopefully it will die down soon because it's getting a bit boring.
Those are usually, my favorites.

The news I can get anywhere, but the intelligent discussion on said topics is harder find.
Ask HN: I need a Google calendar type GUI..But how? (dont have the skills)
So people,

I am building a staff scheduling application and I really need a GUI for adding shifts and all that sort of stuff.

Google's calendar GUI is exactly what I need but I am no good at front end design, its not something i could do.

What I need to know is, what are my best options for getting my hands of a GUI like this?

Are there business's that specialize in this sort of thing? I am willing to pay the right person to get the job done.

Any info would be great!
Cheers
Editorial: The Obama factor, revealed
GE less than $11/share? What?
Ok, I promise you I haven't been in a hole for the last 10 months. In fact, I go home for lunch everyday and watch CNBC with a tasty chicken burrito. I also have a sizable (to me) portfolio...eerr...at least it was sizable.

I know every company has taken a beating. Well, except for these guys http://tinyurl.com/2cgajd. But amidst the rubble, I'm occasionally surprised, although it happens far less now than it once did.

Today I was surprised. After warming my bagel in my GE microwave, boiling some water on my GE stove, taking out my clothes from my GE dryer, and turning off my GE lights, I biked to work. Who knows how many cars I passed with GE electrical components. Undoubtedly I passed even a few GE transformers. Tomorrow I'm leaving for Chicago. I'll probably pass through some GE security and take off in an airplane powered by GE turbines.

Twenty minutes ago I was reading an article about Jeff Immelt and saw on the sidebar that GE's stock was $10.85. A new 52 week low I think.
Forgive me, I didn't realize there was a problem with meta-discussions, and that it was my responsibility to "help" by not talking about them.
DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 73 - Pretty Good
Data is my beach house, data is my hometown. Data is my king size bed, data's where I meet my friends. Data is my hot hot bath, data is my hot hot sex. Data is my backrub, data is where I'd like you to touch.
Akamai is violating net neutrality!
Mostly:
- Group Based Access Control: login, logout, registration, etc.
- CRUD
- Built portable CRON capability
- More powerful DAL
- Read only forms
- runs on Jython and IronPython (except for web server, lack of csv module, and third party database adaptors)
It's nice to know that it's just a phase.

I'd love to share the demo, but I don't fill like spilling the beans on the details of it yet. It's one of those things where once the idea is out, it's out, and I want to be sure I'm in a position to get the most out of it.
CIOs say “No iPhone for you”
I tried to start a chain like this as a Facebook application called Four Things, One Lie. The idea was for people to post five things, one of which wasn't true, about themselves: http://www.jgc.org/blog/2007/07/stop-me-before-i-code-again-...

I guess most people have no imagination.
Know of http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/calendar/ already?

EDIT: well reading your question with more attention, you more likely need the entire YUI (grids, etc)
I'm pretty sure this "experiment" will prove that quality discussion and open enrollment are mutually exclusive. I don't think there's a secret karma/ranking solution. You gotta go invite only, pay for access, or have nazi admins liberally banning accounts. These have all worked elsewhere.
GE only ever peaked around $40. once the economy went bad, people have much less money to throw around on bigger ticket things that are GE's breadbasket.
The online demographic for newspapers and magazines is quite a bit different than their ink and paper counterparts. Right now traditional journalism sources are floundering in the online environment. They've gotten so used to their name-brand advantage that they have forgotten why they became a respected name in the first place: providing a higher quality of research, analysis, and writing than others.

In order to survive the transition these organizations are going to have to build respect from scratch, once again becoming authoritative sources. Yes, aggressive editorials is an easy way to attract clicks. But it will kill your business model in the long run.

Before the web people took what these publications said for granted. Now anyone can go investigate prime sources with a few clicks. This raises the bar for journalistic integrity. It remains to be seen if the traditional publications rise to the challenge or sink to the level of tabloids.
Yeah, living in a hurricane prone area last fall made me examine my 'list' as you call it. I thought to myself: "If my apartment were obliterated and I could only take what would fit in my car (an Aveo), what would it be?"

In the end my list was: My girlfriend, my cat, a week of clothes, my computer, my magic cards, and a couple books.

All the rest of it is just stuff that takes up space.

Once you realize what really matters, you start to question purchases. For a while I thought I really wanted to start a DVD collection, but then I realized it wouldn't be something I'd save from a burning building, so what was the point in having it? Even if the cost of the DVD is only about what two movie tickets cost, at least you don't have to store the movie tickets.
Sabbaticals
What's In The Economic Recovery Bill for Scientists?
It seems like this system punishes me, the reader, for something that the poster did wrong. If the poster is supposed to write his long rants on his blog and then link them here, the software should tell him. It shouldn't subtly make his stuff harder for me to read, because if I'm interested, I'm going to push through the low contrast text anyway.

Anyway, if you want to nurture the community, I don't think it's a bad idea to make the feedback deliberate. "This is too long, don't post it," will be a lot more effective than changing the color of the text.
It's still silly to hire a "Blub Programmer", regardless of whether Blub is Haskell or Java.
the site feels like it's slowing down a lot, and this is even after the highlight name feature was removed. you guys read what happened when google made the tweaks to display more results right?
I disagree mech

With the theory bit at least

It sounds plausible
Not CDN service or delivering media. More like this proxy-type service he describes where you cut out a lot of middle-tier routing and pay for better backbone transit.

For personal use, this would be a great way to proxy your own traffic when using the Internet overseas, where accessing US-based sites can be very slow. Or even for setting up a faster coast-to-coast VPN within the US.
Besides studying database normalization (know your 3NF and your BCNF and whatnot), another excellent starting point is taking a look at existing database schemas - in web applications, for instance - and consider what they've done right and wrong. ("Right" and "wrong" are debatable, but a generally good definition is that the "right" design makes writing queries simple and running them fast, whereas a "wrong" design makes queries complicated and/or slow.)

The MediaWiki schema is an excellent example of good schema design. If you haven't seen it before, take a look: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mediawiki-database-sc...
I enjoy reading these about my friends. If you're bored by them, you should be less permissive about who you add.
Yeah I do,
Cheers anyways!
How many people are writing mission critical software? In startups, hardly any.
My impression is that Joel has no idea how this Akamai IPA thing works; he is treating it as magic. I would never buy a service that is advertised as magic, though.

There is a little technical stuff here: http://www.akamai.com/dl/feature_sheets/FS_IPA.pdf
It looks like a fancy TCP reverse proxy. I wonder if it's based on the MIT RON project.
The problem with Google is their filter also removes the most of the really high end people. I expect there are far fewer people at standard keeping a 4.0 and doing interesting work in their own time than there are people keeping a 3.5 at the same school and building cool things. Add in a insanely long interview process and poor salary's and many people they accept already have other jobs that they like.

You can also see this in what they develop. They are good at incrementally improving something like web mail, or online maps, but you don't see them pushing into new areas.
this is a very common problem that i've seen on projects, even my own. as they grow larger, you almost inevitably lose focus on the stuff that matters. i think he has every reason to be mad that they were releasing buggy versions, and i'm glad he left.

too many people get complacent when you grow, and they forget that you can't slack off just because you've gotten somewhere. the fact that you even GOT to be one of the leading database solutions in the first place should suggest that you were doing all of the right things up to that point.

i saw this happen recently in a project i was involved with. it's funny the way people just sort of "stop caring" after a while, especially about small details.

bill gates has a point when he says "nobody is forced to buy our software, and unless we improve the next version, people won't buy it. so there's a serious incentive for us to keep innovating and pushing the software forward." i'm not taking sides, but the guy has a point. get complacent, and die. note to trolls: do not digress into debate about why microsoft sucks.
As I see it, the big difference between 'softer' (history, literature, philosophy, ...) and 'harder' (math, physics, ...) subjects is that, as an undergrad, you can 'get by' in softer subjects on very little work, especially if you are reasonably intelligent, whereas in harder subjects if you're not working to at least a certain level, you will do really badly.

However, to be a great historian is no less a task that to be a great physicist. Doing anything well is just as difficult as doing anything else well.
Facebook joins OpenID Foundation Board
best part of your post

"massive navel-gazing fest"

it's human nature
Really it's like that bridge in 'Apocalypse Now'. The sergeant is telling Martin Sheen how the bridge is always bombed and they have to come in and re-build it, "just so the generals can say the bridge is open." Well, I have done a lot of unit testing (CPPUnit), and it is like that. We do unit testing so management can say the product has been unit tested. Coals to Newcastle, to be sure, but hey, it's a job!
Nope. They don't own the lines.
HN will never succeed as long as it is a closed system. In that I mean that I have 42 karma points and I still cannot vote any article or comment down. Only being able to vote up is pretty meaningless so I never vote. Reddit is far better in this regard.
This is silly. $200K/year minus $50K/year for loan payments ($34K/year + tax) is $150K/year. The median household income in the US is $50K/year (2007). $150K is 94th percentile; these people are not only not scraping by, but are doing better than 94% of Americans even after debt.
Looks like 2009 is going to be (open) identity year? If only the big ones started to accept third party openid to login to their services...
Absolutely not. In fact, it is standard practice in most laboratories to have a research notebook that documents such things for patent purposes. This is relatively easy to do, and isn't much bother at all.
This:
http://moc.daper.net/

Is a great console music player.
i'm more worried about the other students who come in and think just because they paid a few of their friends to cheat on tests and they got a "degree" it is somehow an entitlement to a life of a high-salary job. most students actually go in with that mindset. "i'll cheat on the tests, i'll slack off, and get the degree. then i'm deserving of a job, because that's what everyone says to do."
Ask HN: Making an information site for Computer Engineers?
I'm a computer engineering student, in my 4th year. While doing some lab work the other day, my friends and I were struck yet again by how little useful information is available to CE students online. We needed schematics for a Brent-Kung adder, but we couldn't find anything. The same thing happens when you search for info on, say, VHDL.

This gave me an idea. "I've got four years worth of notes and knowledge, as do my friends in the program. Why not put them online, aimed at CE students?" All the info would be checked and approved before going online.

My question is, how should I structure things? I like simplicity--I write C, I use Plan 9, I write my papers in troff. That makes me want to write an HTML site, static, with subsections put together by myself or other approved creators. Since my intention is to provide the notes and useful information from myself and a few friends, this does not seem unreasonable.

I know what you're all thinking right now--"just make a wiki". Well, I've also considered doing that, but it just doesn't seem like the right fit, for reasons I can't quite explain.

As someone who typically doesn't worry about the web, I'd appreciate any suggestions on how to do this, what sort of technology to use, etc.
I agree entirely. Whenever I leave out writing unit tests, I end up with a web of messy interdependencies which ends up far too hard to extend, and will always need refactored as soon as I need to add the smallest feature.

Writing unit tests up front forces me to write the code in a way where inputs & outputs can easily be stubbed out, which in turn makes writing messy interdependencies simply too hard!

Basically, if I write with unit tests, it becomes easier to write maintainable code, and harder to write unmaintainable code.
The factory settings of most LCD's is WAY too bright. Try dimming your screen a little. I have no trouble reading it at all.
This is the killer app for this sort of thing, cf. "useless use of cat", pgrep, etc.

You might want to have some sort of field for platform, since these things are going to vary from GNU/Solaris/*BSD.
That's fair enough.

It sounds like a fascinating idea, though! I'd love to chat with you about commenting online in general - maybe not about your system in particular but about how commenting works. If you ever need somebody to bounce ideas off of, drop a line!
I own usethesource.com; what would you do with it?
For years I've owned that domain and done various things with it (none successful). I think it's a great domain name. Is there someone out there who's got a great suggestion as to how to use it?
In general I agree - but for this specific issue I think it is valid. The performance of late has been terribly, about 40% of the time in my 20 minute window I have to access it are failed responses - so I am not checking back less and less.

I am not sure what else we are supposed to to - email pg and complain about its slowness ?? ;)
Are most "improvements" that are not a result of user feedback/testing generally harmful?
It seems that the founder(s) of a service are too closely connected to it to improve it in ways that are intuitive to new users. I think what happens is that these improvements simply make the service more complex and harder to understand/use.
Not at all. It's just that as you said, there's been quite an influx in the past three days, and we're all waiting for that trend to die down again.
Just put up a photoshopped image of Luke Skywalker working at a VT100 terminal.
Ask HN: Liquid simulation resources
I'm trying to find out information about simulating the motion of a blob of liquid moving on a hard surface. I know nothing about this sort of thing; where should I start reading?
There are lots of payment processors with API's. Authorize.net is one of the better ones (as is PayFlow Pro).
You're good. I saw the word "theory" and was getting ready to mock you! But in fact yours is a meta-comment about my so-called theory, and that is so in-keeping with today's theme that I should really upmod it twice.
GE Capital is really big in the finance world. GE Capital is down because the financial markets are down. GE is down because GE Capital is dragging them down. I think they're undervalued. No I don't own any shares in them.

A lot of store credit (not the cards, but installment payments for more expensive things) are the consumer part of GE Capital. A lot of companies borrow operating capital from the commercial part of GE Capital.
My opinion of Time and Newsweek has been consistently low for about 15 years. When I was in high school, I thought they were "serious" newsweeklies. I went so far as to keep a crate of them my library was discarding, with some vague idea of having them around for 'future reference' (mind you this was pre-web). Then, sometime in college, I picked one up and realized that it was essentially just a printed version of TV-caliber news. Out went the crate.

Point of story: could it be you who have changed, not Time or Newsweek?

(Though maybe they really did change -- media quality is a hard thing to deal with quantitatively or objectively.)
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No Escape From Work: Present.ly Releases AIR and Mobile Applications
The one and only reason why I use Safari is because of the smooth scrolling. I've found that Safari is the only browser that smoothly and responsively scrolls with the 2-finger trackpad scroll. Not even Firefox with smooth scrolling turned on can match it.

So yes, I'd like to put in another vote for a perfect OSX browser.
26 Years, 85 Notebooks
I believe that this form submits to a process on a server that could limit the number of characters that are allowed in the textarea.
Have you tried ExtJS? http://extjs.com/deploy/dev/examples/samples.html

You can actually contact me through the site listed on my HN profile, and I can build it for you.
I always thought Mahalo was a sort of fameballer site. The only people I know who've heard of it know it because of Jason Calcanis' reputation as "most obnoxious person in the world". I used to like it, but half a year ago it turned cluttered and ugly. Is that really a popular web site, or does it just get attention from Media 2.0?
Or shunt them to a separate silo, like Metafilter does with Ask Metafilter and MetaTalk.
Dell XT2 release probaly on 11 of feb
Technically, I think it would be Linux, Apache, PostgreSQL, Perl/Python/PHP
Better question, why are taxpayers willing to foot the bill in hundreds of billions in toxic assets for the right determine executive pay and bonuses?

Considering almost all Post-TARP financial institution are worth less than the amount of TARP accepted, if taxpayers are in a punishing mood they should just let them go bankrupt.

Now that these companies are no longer "too big to fail", that in my opinion is a viable option.
Being able to write a "hello, world" in Haskell certainly doesn't make you a good programmer. However, I would say that anyone who has already written a sizable Haskell program (5K+ LOC) is almost certainly a good programmer.

The reason is that it's more work to grok Haskell than almost any other existing language, and the job market for Haskell hackers is practically nonexistent. You have to really love programming to become a proficient Haskell hacker.
I would love to see Google Health take off, and provide an ecosystem for small guys like me to provide integration around it, but NYT's Tech Section has a less flattering review of the announcement:

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/05/google-helped-by-ib...
dwm, dmenu, vim, xzgv, uxterm, ncmpc + mpc + mpd, sftp, vimperator, and fetch.

I also have an addon for firefox called mozex which will allow me to export a text feild to vim for editing.

Life is good. I will occasionally use my mouse, particuarlly if I'm at my desktop, where I will have a firefox window open but even then thats rare.
OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard to be more iPhone OS-like
We use the Google Web Toolkit to defer loading large pieces of data that compose slots around the page. The result, which you could achieve with any asynchronous mechanism, is that the page is up fast, and then details pop in as they're ready. If we waited to retrieve all of the data and render the HTML on our server, pages that currently start presenting on the browser in one second or less would take 4 or more seconds. Basically, if it's below the fold for most of our users, we defer loading it.
The web in the world
Until you have friends over and you're trying to explain how the he'll you're meant to find and play a track ;)
HackLabTO’s Lisp Machine Keyboard
I cannot be sure

but it would appear to me

this is not haiku :)
This article seemed to be the carrier for a bunch of link bait
GE Capital is also the engine behind a lot of other GE revenue (e.g. they bankroll large projects / infrastructure / plant equipment).
If you only want to share this with a few people, try Google sites or docs.

If you want many people to find and use your information, put it on Wikipedia.

Both of these are free, easy and the information won't disappear when you get bored of the project.
The only sentence in the article* that quantifies the magnitude of a color dependent effect is:

And while red guests reported feeling hungry and thirsty, yellow guests ate twice as much.

This is a pattern in science journalism:

1) scientists show statistically significant effect (sometimes minuscule in magnitude)

2) science writers describe the sign of the result without magnitude, and get some 'experts' to pontificate

3) public worries/speculates/exclaims about some new factor to think about in daily life

Yadda yadda.

[edit:
*only sentence I saw after skimming
]
This reads like a long list of "employees should GET x, employees should GET y, employees should GET z".

...and there's absolutely nothing in there about how employees GENERATE utility.

It's always fun to sit around and speculate on how you'd like to SPEND your wealth, but it's a lot more work to actually figure out HOW TO GENERATE it.

When I read "business model" in the title, I assumed that there'd be something in here about new ideas on how to deliver utility to customers (and thus capture some revenue).

There's not a single word on that topic.

The blog post subject line and the HN subject line are both wrong. This isn't "hacking business models", it's "having a wet dream about compensation packages".

Amusing enough to some, I guess, but entirely uninteresting to me.
Check for yourself. Here are about 9 months of Hacker News front pages:

http://www.kirubakaran.com/phr0zen/