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If we assume two things: the current cost of fuel is 1% of the total launch cost, and launching a reusable rocket is similar to operating an aircraft, then we can use numbers from commercial aviation:

- the cost of fuel is 35% of the total cost.

The total cost of the rocket launch then will be 3 times its fuel cost, or 3% of the _current_ expense. That's savings of 97%. Even if the analogy is not perfect and we make numerous allowances, the potential for cost-cutting by 80-90% is not inconceivable.

Again, this is based on the two assumptions above. If they are totally off, so are these calculations.
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It's quite usable for casual users who don't know the names of the applications and want to explore what's in the computer. KDE offers a gret solution for this; in the start menu applications are organized by category and there's a short description next to the icon explaining what it does.

If you enter a category it doesn't add a layer, it shows the applications in the same view as if you were opening a folder; and at the bottom you always have a Search bar which works great and power users can comfortably use.

So, say, you want an application to play video. You go to Applications, select the Multimedia category, and click on the icon that says "Video player".

Both Unity and Gnome3 also have solutions in which you don't have to compromise or use quirky macros to get the behaviour you want. You can have the best of both worlds. But then, as usual, many will continue bashing Linux GUIs as if they were a usability nightmare and totally inferior. C'est la vie.
Hmm, I actually really like the "Metro as an add-on" idea: If you're buying a touch based device the add-on would just be pre-installed on the device for you (since it actually makes sense on those devices), but you'd still have the option of getting the plain old Windows 8 without it being mangled with UI features that aren't relevant to a keyboard + mouse setup. Windows RT could have then simply been the most minimal core components of regular Windows to get the Metro add-on running.

In fact, with the exception of the Start menu mess up, most of the Metro UI features already do look and behave like add-ons when in desktop mode. Also, if I recall correctly, all the Windows Runtime libraries are pretty standalone and layered on top of Win32 as is.

It's unfortunate for Microsoft that they did not take this approach, it would have probably prevented most of the negative reception their new OS has gotten thus far. I understand that they wanted to force the Windows Store into every device possible, but they seem to have overlooked the obvious fact that if people don't like Metro on the PC then they wont buy Metro apps on the PC.
I preferentially book with carriers that offer wifi, and routinely pay $10+ to use it. It's not as common as I'd like, but it is available all over the place and seems to be making money. I don't understand why you appear to be posting from the assumption that it can't be done, when it is being done.
I'm one of those loud Americans (ENTJ - for what that's worth). To those who know me, they'll say that I'm one of the most talkative people they know. I'm not always proud of my talkativeness, but let me try to explain why we act the way we do.

For extroverts, social interaction energizes us. I'm almost like a vampire if I'm around introverted people. It may be the difference between tribal vs. modern relationships, but in many big families (generally with less income, but not always the case), you need to say something loudly and constantly to get what you want.

We also tend to feel noise is comfortable. I've lived in urban areas, where if there isn't noise, it is discomforting if not dangerous. You may have felt the same way at a get-together when there isn't any background music or when you meet a stranger for the first time.

For many people in this world, they have the TV on all the time or music blaring 24/7. I'm not saying it's more productive. God knows watching tv while doing anything beyond rote tasks is not a recipe for success, but it makes the task more bearable.

As to why we're loud... sometimes it's opinion, sometimes it's emotional release, while other times it's just social pruning. It doesn't mean that we're not thinkers though, it just means we think out loud. It was a key difference between me and another friend I had an argument with, where I wanted to talk it out and she wanted to run away and breathe for a bit.

For us, noise/discussion is just as important to the Quiet Ones as quiet.

P.S. one caveat, I need quiet when I'm writing, working, reading, or even watching a movie, so I'm not the typical type.
> Yes, if proven they would cease to be sexist, because they'd be discriminating based on facts, not based on his apparent prejudice. (However, since the conjecture does seem to come from a combination of sexism/ageism/confirmation bias, it would be surprising if they were proved.)

I see. It's good to know that employers are now free to throw out all applications from Ethiopians, because of the fact that the average IQ in Ethiopia is 63.

> BTW: Are you proud not to be in the politically correct "lot"? All it really amounts to is trying not to be unnecessarily hateful or demeaning to one another.

Please. Political correctness amounts to much more than that.
I completely agree with you. I think the most well-intentioned of the detractors are using race/gender as a proxy: it's one of the faster ways to initially judge the makeup of a group, and it's becoming less and less accurate as globalization increases.

For example, "Matz" could've been a "white guy" working out of Japan at the time of creating Ruby. Including this hypothetical white-Matz in a Ruby panel is totally justifiable, even if the rest of the panel is white.

But in reality, Matz is ethnically Japanese, as are at least several of the core committers. So it's especially awkward in yesterday's Brit Ruby post on HN for the organizer to say that if they had brought in a minority, it would've been seen as tokenism. In Ruby's case, it would not at all seem strange to have a few ethnic-Japanese at the conference, given the language's origins.
I think it will not matter as much which company it is, as that it is a cell phone company. Having one corporation in charge of both the device and the service is something that will hurt the consumers in the long run I believe.
`module_eval` and `refinements` seem like good ideas unless you mix them. if `module_eval` wouldn't be so widely used op's arguments about what refinements do to code readability would mostly fall.

...why not simply just find way to discourage people from using these together, like having blocks of code only see refinements from their defining scope, not the one they are actually run in?(this would make it obvious for library authors that mixing these to features is "not sane to do", if the fact that they are used to solve similar when it comes to creating DSLs problems does not make it obvious)
Bare metal, the best is OVH. You get a server in 1h in France or in Canada. You can also get instances for pretty cheap but I have only used them as throw away test instances. Oh, they have free bandwidth between all their datacenters, even between Canada and France as they managed their own transatlantic links.

They have a very decent "private cloud" offer. The feedback is good but I am a bare metal + Ganeti[1] to manage my VMs kind of person.

If you like pure instances, I have also instance running on Gandi[2] infrastructure. My blog made several times the front page of HN and without special caching it handled extremely well the load (in fact, you could barely see the increase in CPU usage in the monitoring graph while seeing a huge increase of the outbound bandwidth).

Another good provider is Hetzner[3]. You need to pay attention to the server you select (ECC memory or not) but then they are reliable (I had a server with them for 4 years or so without a single issue).

In Europe, AWS is in Irland, I suppose it was for tax purpose that they selected this location, but from a latency point of view, this is stupid if you want to deliver packets in the South or East of Europe (and even part of Scandinavia because most of the time your route does IE, NL or FR, and then goes North).

Sorry for the long post... but at the end of the day, do your calculations. AWS is great if like Netflix you scale from 20% to 100% during the day[4] (the hit on the cache gives you how they scale) but if you are a normal shop without day/night activity because you are at global level or so well optimized that you just not need to scale (a single dedicated server with SSD is incredibly powerful nowadays) you simply do not need "the cloud". Just test with 1k€, do a bit of maths, then select the best choice.

[1]: http://notes.ceondo.com/ganeti/
[2]: http://www.gandi.net/
[3]: http://www.hetzner.de/
[4]: http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/01/ephemeral-volatile-cachi...
Why did you copy the [dead] post from sarvesh (hellbanned 3 years ago) without attribution? Are you him?
In my opinion, yes, it's pretty annoying. I never work in full screen, but even if I did the objects are too big and you have to move the mouse a lot more, which is a drawback on a desktop/laptop...
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how do they calculate the "worst case" numbers for chronic illnesses? are those for indefinite support?

(i'm curious because i have recently run into this. here in chile, private health insurance is unlikely to cover long term medication but, thankfully, there is a government scheme for many major illnesses. so, for example, a month's supply of interferon-beta is $250 instead of $2000.)
That's too bad. I dream of having internet access on long flights to China.

The cellular-based stuff works very nicely while over land, at least. It's not super fast, but decent.
Buy T-Mobile pump 50+ Billion into infrastructure and make the iPhone the only unlimited LTE receiver by simply buying one.

You have the best network so a lot will join with their contracts. Make tons of profit there.

I think Apple has a real problem now, the iPhone is their primary source of revenue. There is not much diversification going on there.

Edit: And btw, this would create an Arms Race for greater good, why not "Who has the best Network" than "Who has the most patents?"
You have ones listed that aren't available in the example picker. Do you still support the other languages by manually uploading? Any specifics we should know about.

I am interested in using Javascript fyi.
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The Weebly guys at the startupschool this year were awesome. They shared their experience with getting featured on TechCrunch and alike media and how their hopes were once high and then down the drain days later when realize posts on sites like that don't really mean much. What a startup really need is a bunch of people (user, media, partners) talking about it (positive talk) over certain period of time to gain traction and convert more stop-byers to users/customers. The space is getting more competitive and
thes things don't mean much these days -
- Got featured on TC
- Got 1 million users
- Got angel funding
It's not a secret - we simply don't let agents list with us!

On top of that, our properties are available to "Rent Now", this means tenants can rent the property through OpenRent. Whilst not all of our landlords use this feature, for any that do, we immediately know the property is let as we have the holding deposit.

You can see more on our info pages for landlords [1] and tenants [2].

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[2] - http://www.openrent.co.uk/find-property-to-rent-from-private...
I ended up here on accident, but I can vouch for this system's value.

I WAS freelancing at between $75-$100/hour, but having to work very hard for every contract. On the side my partner and I were building software, selling a nice amount but nothing that was going to allow us to retire in a year.

However, suddenly people starting emailing us after purchase, asking if we could build custom versions for them. Most turned out to be duds, at first, and then something changed. Suddenly we're charging weekly retainers and working on near six-figure projects, all on business that sought us out because of our software.

Will this work for everyone? I'm not sure, but it did for us, and we didn't even see it coming.
This. TechCrunch can be useful but it's almost Twitter-like in its update speed, so even a positive write-up gets drowned out by the next hundred blurbs.
This is what you need: http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fj...
You're forgetting a lesson we learned from Microsoft. When people in developing countries were pirating Microsoft software (Windows, Office, etc), Microsoft released lower-cost versions of their software to save some face, but in reality Microsoft just didn't care. Let developing countries pirate our software, the important thing is they're using our software. Which means they're not using competitors software. Which means Microsoft stays on top, in the mindset of the people, and when those countries become developed the people will buy legitimate copies of Windows/Office.

Google has this even better on Android. People aren't pirating Android, they're using open source software. And even if that software runs Bing or Yahoo search and the users like Word to Go rather than Google Docs and Outlook.com rather than Gmail, they're still using Android. Which means they're not using iOS. And chances are, they'll want to stick with the OS they know, so in the future they might end up with a more Google-ified device. Keeping them off iOS is the first step to having them as lifelong customers. Microsoft knew this, and Google knows this.
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I'm in the "99% mobile" case.

It seems Parse offers many nice features in addition to transparent-ish "cloud" persistence, e.g Push notifications, etc.

Heroku's approach is really interesting. The idea of building a db model from the CoreData model is (I think) really elegant, but:
- I'll also need to write an Android app
- AFIncrementalStore is more generic but Parse's specialized classes seem more "plug-and-play".

I'll try Parse first.
I just read the entire thing and this is what stuck out most to me. The last line of the post you're talking about:

P.S. No-one at the house, including the staff, know that
I am nearby. If the police are reading this, do not
randomly round up everyone for harboring a fugitive. Please.

This does not read like a serious comment, maybe he turns to humour in times of desperation but this just seems... either it's fabricated or he's taunting the authorities.

Also he mentions in one post he's short on time and internet access but then in the second latest post it states:

If I am captured, this blog will continue. I have pre-
written enough material to keep this blog alive for at
least a year.

What's the material about? The attempted capture? The murder? His dealings with the government? Surely he hasn't been expecting this for a long and is only now publishing? If that's the case I might be as crazy as to suggest maybe the murder is his attempt at bringing attention to the corruption. If the corruption is proven true and then the murder may be swept aside as part of it, even if he did it to get the attention he thinks the issue needs.
i too find it funny. in the states i'm just a white guy(a good thing tbh), but where i grew, i'm everything but a white guy.

I think Americans are taking this white/minority thing a bit too far. Granted other countries do it too little, but you can exaggerate.

I know first hand that people get funding for inviting minorities to speak in the united states. If that ain't messed up I don't know what is.
>There is. A rational person pursuing his own good simply wants to be protected from the initiation of force, whence arises "negative rights," such as property rights, and any other legitimate right (this was the original meaning of the word "right" in this context).

It takes a perverse definition of force to say that when person B is living on land that person A claims ownership of, and person A has him forcibly thrown off it, that person B was the one who initiated force.

>That's quite obviously untrue, unless you think that Time Warner owning Harry Potter counts as "control" or "oppression

They have the power to prevent me, privately, behind closed doors, from writing my own stories with Harry Potter in and giving them to my friends.
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Having a support group definitely helps to get stuff done.

We make private groups for founders and provide tools to help them communicate, most notably weekly/monthly video chats.

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That is step one.

Step two is that the best workers move out to cheaper locations -- after all why not command mostly the same salary from some tropical location? Look at how the people who take outsourced work in India live and compare it to your standard of living. Do you have a driver? Chef?

Anyway this is basically rehearsing the decades old arguments about outsourcing -- which didn't exactly kill software development in expensive countries.
>Boom. A tweet every 5 minutes. People are re-tweeting the TechCrunch article covering your startup’s launch.

This is something I don't "get" about Twitter or the people who seem to care about it.

There's an awful lot of tweeting and re-tweeting of completely generic "news" like a new post on Techcrunch with nothing added in the way of context or even opinion.

It's pure noise.

Using the social buttons as an indicator, everything on TC gets tweeted hundreds of times while collecting at best a few dozen shares to other services and a small handful of direct comments.

Given that, I'd interpret the "tweet every 5 minutes" to be something like "three meaningful tweets in a day".

>Why didn’t more people sign-up? Why didn’t people complete the sign-up flow? Why weren’t people coming back?

I'd guess it's the same reason behind all the fake emails described in the sign-ups that were completed.

The landing page doesn't adequately or engagingly describe / demo the service and why it's worth a damn. Do that first, then make it trivial to sign-up honestly.
Fixed - the OS X guide is actually combined with the iOS guide. Try again, from the link at https://parse.com/apps/quickstart#osx/blank !
The same thing also happens with OpenOffice/LibreOffice and the ISO ODF spec. In practice, this is not a big problem with either OpenOffice/LibreOffice and ODF, or Microsoft Office and OOXML, because the deviations from the spec are minor. For instance, almost all the deviations in Office from OOXML transitional are due to last minute changes in the values of some attributes.

BTW, don't cite techrights.org. They are one of the most unreliable sources of information on the net.
First of all, this is not remotely technology-related, and does not belong on HN.

Second, according to the IDF, this soccer field has been used to fire long-range rockets towards Israel, and served as a weapons cache.
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To be very honest, this reads like the typical Shoemoney "how to earn $100k within x weeks" article.
It's not a big secret that SEO and conversion optimisation can generate a lot of value, and I guess you consult a lot about these topics?
Despite the preconceived opinion you may have of me because of my user name, I am more than happy to discuss the pros and cons of Apple as a company based on real-world analysis, but what you are saying is emotionally driven and not based on anything concrete.
Did you guys look at the AI Challenge that was done by the guys over at the University of Waterloo (aichallenge.org)? I thought those competitions were extremely well done, and have been disappointed that they haven't come out with any new ones recently.
This blogpost is old and the EC2 instance is not there anymore. I guess this was posted to give attention to the code.
Don't forget Julian Assange, Gary Mckinnon, and Satoshi Nakamoto.
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You can use the JavaScript SDK[1] to build a webapp companion quite easily. This is how we implemented the mobile webapp version of our Anypic app[2].

Parse also has a REST API[3] which can be used from your web application backend of choice.

[1]: https://parse.com/docs/js_guide
[2]: https://anypic.org
[3]: https://parse.com/docs/rest
And what about diversity of species? Personally, I find the prevalance of homo sapiens in the list of speakers absolutely alarming and unacceptable. Where are the dolphins?
Make contact with a business attorney you think you can trust -- not necessarily to retain them now, but so that you'll be acquainted when your business gets going.

Add a little extra to the margin in your pricing for a legal war chest. Make sure that money stays liquid.

If you receive a patent threat from someone, call up your attorney friend and pay him to respond with a letter.
I'm a web developer, but am just about to jump into making a multiplayer HTML5 game, just for fun.

But after reading this post, and the one linked at the bottom [1], I'm thinking maybe this is going to be pretty valuable professionally. It should give insight from a completely different vantage point on what it means to write good code. By the way, you really should read that other post, too. It offers some interesting ideas to think about.

[1] http://codeofrob.com/entries/a-relaxed-attitude-towards-the-...
I clicked on the website, yipit. didn't make it any further then the first screen.

The problem is you want a lot of work and personal info from me up front. I have no idea who you are, but you expect me to give you my email right away? Nope sorry I don't trust you.

This is kind of like going to a restaurant you've never heard about, that has no yelp reviews, but is just a giant door. Then before you walk in a guy in a black suit says "There's a $10 cover charge". You ask "What kind of music do you play?" "what kind of food do you serve". You receive no answer. So you turn around, and go next door.

Your start up is special to you, and your mom. Not to me, don't expect me to put any effort into it or trust into you.

Once I love you, then i'll try you.
I have heard these things about C#. Too bad, because I think this is one thing Microsoft nailed. Sure, it has its warts, some parts of the library have to be improved, etc, still.

Also for new projects MS recommends JavaScript or C++.
This was one of the clashes between Microsoft divisions, the division between the new Metro (JS) and the rest, can't remember which side Sinofsky was on this.

Of course, to work at MS you have to know C++

" Google does not allow Python code in anything that can be seen by end user" really?! Didn't know that, maybe it has to do with their infrastructure and the way it scales. Can't say I blame them (still, GAE runs python)
Among other things, MyModule.camelize doesn't provide an extension point for polymorphism. Consider a serialization library in which different classes should be able to have separate freeze/thaw behavior. It's possible to do this in current-day Ruby without easy collisions, but it tends to involve cumbersome manual prefixing or emulating method dispatch yourself.

Methods being namespaced in packages separately from the class hierarchy is something CLOS has that I miss in almost all the more Smalltalk-y languages.
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Midwestern rates for a decent programmer should not be lower than $80/hr. If you're finding good programmers in the midwest that are less than that, they don't understand their value in the local market.

Source: I work in an office co-share with a dozen or so web developers in Minneapolis.
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