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I'm surprised at how quickly it runs in Firefox.
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Well, yeah, but if he hadn't run his own hedge fund he wouldn't have a TV show about the stock market.

Saying Jim Cramer doesn't make his living telling people what to do with their money is like saying Julia Child didn't make her living telling people how to cook. Nobody watches Mad Money for the antics, they watch it for the stock advice, the antics just keeps them awake.
Almost all the time I use my iPod (or iTunes), it is being used with shuffle…

This is pretty standard behaviour, from what I’ve seen. A lot of people use the shuffle feature.
For an aside, I like the comment about the developer being unapologetic about using Delphi for development.

The unfortunate thing about the argument for what makes a programming language productive (dense language or the libraries available to it), is that the argument is strongly rooted in open source, IMO, where the tools continue to be mostly deficient in the productivity department compared to working in a language environment like Delphi, where millions and millions of lines have held up to commercial rigor.

Delphi is a counter example to show that no matter what advanced language features are available to the programmer in another language, lisp, haskell, clojure, whatever, these languages still can't compete under commercial conditions with Delphi in a native win32 desktop environment. Delphi is the hemi engine of the legacy world, and would be a great candidate for integrating some advanced features to make it a good tool for ramping into a more advanced functional mindset.

I've written my share of Delphi code, and I've been sick of declaring variables, sections, typing begin/end, and writing a host of other tiresome cruft for a long time. But for development speed it really is hard to beat. Programmers who have been successful in the windows world expect the total package - language, libraries, dev environment. Maybe none of the three are perfect, but together they still make the alternative of just language and libraries mostly unacceptable under commercial conditions.
"hopefully I will have some success selling Numbrosia for the iphone/ipod touch."

Come on, you didn't just shamelessly plug your app, did you? :/
Seems like the site is down.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is5GZNHPfo0
I'm not quite proposing the exact situation that they had, but I am suggesting that adding more layers of physical security might not be the solution. And if indeed this was really a case of insurance fraud rather than a straight theft, perhaps the outcome was good for everyone except for the insurance company. To the extent that the vault was good enough for them to obtain insurance, the vault was good enough.

To obtain better security, the motivation of the participants needs to be analyzed. Perhaps this is a problem best solved through obscurity, with two competing security teams installing two totally separate alarms systems, each standing to lose if their alarm is defeated. Or perhaps skip the alarms, and rely on threats of deadly force.

But although any new insurer will properly demand the technological improvements illustrated here, it would be foolish to believe that technology alone will keep out a dedicated team of insiders with full access to the system. Real world security is not equivalent to public key encryption where security can be established by 'proof'.
These are my roommates!
Are you on Windows? I run iTunes on a pretty old G5, with currently 240 GB of music. It's never slow. Never hesitates.
Yes, Alex Andon started http://www.jellyfishart.com. They met the NYTimes reporter at an event called LaidOffCamp in San Fran.

The other company is http://www.30words.net. Send any comments/suggestions about either website my way.

Unfortunately I was at a YC Dinner the night the NYTimes came over so we didn't get a plug. :(
They met the reporter at LaidOffCamp in San Fran last week.
More, more interesting! It's like running, the more you do it the faster you're able to run and the more you want to run more often!
Symbian remains most dominant mobile OS in the world
yeah, really excited to see my startup Jellyfish Art on nytimes

I got great feedback and found a programmer from hacker news a few weeks ago

Got a new website up, keep it coming

ramen profitable!
A Moveable Fiesta - Buenos Aires is the new expat heaven
It is nothing to be ashamed of.
"I find it bizarre that people would find implementation inherently interesting. That would be like finding penmanship or grammar inherently interesting.
"

The analogies are flawed.

"Novel idea" in CS divorced from implementation would be like a non-playing musician coming up with "cool musical ideas ".

"I have this cool idea for a new musical genre but I am not interested in the actual playing of music" or "I have this cool idea for a novel but I don't want to sit down and type it up/ write it down". How much of a musician or writer would someone making such statements be? "Novelty" has to be made concrete by playing/writing/programming. It is in the process of writing/playing/programming that you discover if the "novel" idea makes any sense at all.

you say "I'm using implementation in a general way to not only include programming but also clever algorithm design, better software engineering practices, etc."

Ok if all those are "implementation" what's left? someone coming up with "cool ideas"?

"as you get older, you will find it easier to come up with novel applications and harder to come up with quality implementations"

Speak for yourself friend! I for one would be very leery of someone who has "cool ideas" but can't/won't implement them.

I encounter MBAs with this attitude every day. They all have these killer ideas they want me to "implement quickly".
Really? That repels me immensely.

Part of the reason I got out of working in companies is that I got the sense that there's a separate caste for technical people... where it's impossible to be taken seriously as someone who can do anything but implement what other people think up.

On a slight tangent, the reason I slightly regret putting myself into a technical career path in school is that, for technical people, it's harder to move up in an organization and almost impossible to move laterally. Because even if you have multiple talents, you'll never get a chance to prove them.

There are non-technical, businessesy people that I have immense respect for. But it bugs me when I'm speaking to new, young entrepreneurs that have this attitude of entitlement, like they should be commanding other people and driving the vision.

I applaud them for extending the YC model outside of YC. And I love the idea of matching founders up. But their attitude seems to give a nod to this notion that technical ability and business skills are mutually exclusive. I find it insulting that if you're in any way technical, you're only supposed to apply for the proletariat slot.
A few months ago, I launched my pet project to the public, with some nice publicity on websites like TechCrunch, but it was incredibly difficult to capitalize on the benefits of launching a premature product.

It is incredibly different to capitalize on the benefits of launching a product on Techcrunch, unless you are selling your product to exactly the type of people who read Techcrunch. If your product is Amazon S3, they're great customers to have. If your product solves business problems for bakers, not so much.

The people who benefit most from Techcrunch are the startups where the company is the product, because "We got 100,000 users!" (who don't pay us money) and "We got on Techcrunch!" (who don't care about us) sound impressive when you're trying to sell that sort of product.
If you like davesecretary's stories, you should check out the book of poems "Mother Said" (http://www.amazon.com/Mother-Said-Hal-Sirowitz/dp/0517704978...). Here is one of the poems from the Amazon reviews:

Deformed Finger

Don't stick your finger in the ketchup bottle,
Mother said. It might get stuck, &
then you'll have to wait for your father
to get home to pull it out. He
won't be happy to find a dirty fingernail
squirming in the ketchup that he's going to use
on his hamburger. He'll yank it out so hard
that for the rest of your life you won't
be able to wear a ring on that finger.
And if you ever get a girlfriend, &
you hold hands, she's bound to ask you
why one of your fingers is deformed,
& you'll be obligated to tell her how
you didn't listen to your mother, &
insisted on playing with the ketchup bottle,
& she'll get to thinking, he probably won't
listen to me either, & she'll push your hand away.
I couldn't agree more that iTunes is a pretty horrible Windows app, I don't know anyone that ever used it as their primary music player/manager.

It's a fairly stark contrast to using it on OSX, where you pretty much don't ever think about it.

[edit 15 minutes later]

I can't help but to quote Darby Lines (aka, The Angry Drunk):

> Second, bitching that anyone is a “bad” Windows citizen is the rhetorical equivalent of arguing that one turd in a sea of shit is particularly stinky. Microsoft is a bad Windows citizen.

(re-quoted from Daring Fireball: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2008/03/21/angry)
at least for the last one, if you goto get info, then select options. there is an option called remember playback position
I do implement some of my ideas, but I don't find the implementation process particularly rewarding. It is the end result demonstrating my idea that is rewarding to me.
He just made it too fuckin' easy. What, two weeks between those two posts?
I understand from various articles I have read, that when you go to actually sell loose diamonds, you don't get much for them and find it hard to get near the "appraised value" offered.

Consider this article:

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/198202/diamond

I believe the problem the article describes, the lack of a secondary market in diamonds, still exists. However, the article was published in 1982, and the prediction of collapse in the diamond bubble didn't happen.
I know. And I don't understand why. Cash currency is fungible with energy via futures markets or even just buying and selling batteries or water at different elevations.

Why would using some inconvenient physical mechanism be better than just mentally converting your transactions into the spot price of whatever type of energy interests you?
Can Marijuana Save California's Economy?
Isn't it logical that the administration with the highest ethical standards in history has the most problems vetting?
That's not true at all. I'm guessing the last you checked was never, since a simple Wikipedia query would dispel that notion.

Despite being part of the criminal division of the DoJ (and therefore under the Attorney General who is appointed by the President) the FBI's governing body is Congress.

However he does have some pretty broad vetting tools. I believe that is generally coordinated by the Secret Service, who has access to all levels of police report. It's therefore almost inconceivable that they didn't know about this.
Thinking Big (Memory)
Citeseer is down at the moment so I can't find the paper on the big hurdles any given visual programming language has to deal with.

I've used LabView a little, wrote the backend code for a startup that was trying to create an ambitious visual language and have a friend doing a Phd in the field (which is where I got the paper reference from).

The biggest problem I've found - and it's on the list of problems from the paper - is that there's a mental cost associated with the layout and wiring in 2D. It starts off as fairly negligible but eventually becomes a huge monkey on your back. An auto-layout feature can alleviate that, but then you've got to keep track of where everything is.

Some people seem to be immune to this, so I guess the proportion of people effected (along with the average size of a logical unit in the language - function, module, program, etc) might in turn effects the potential of a visual language to get mindshare.

Talking to a number of people who've used / written / studied them about this problem over a couple of beers the best solution we've come up with is to have a visual language for beginners and a textual dataflow language for the more advanced users, and the ability to convert between the two for the people making the transition.

Thoughts?
Foreclosing on a Plane, Then Flying It Away
Well Keith Chen @ yale showed that capuchin monkeys show the same fundamental behavior as humans. By the end, they were trading jello beans for sex and creating their own bubble economy. http://tinyurl.com/au5hq

Comment from a buddy of mine Kartik, that I figured I'd share with the thread.
The whole point is that you have more RAM than data, not less. If you are trying to do queries in LDAP and all of the data (entry db and index dbs) do not fit in RAM, then forget about it. This is why you would design the system to take growth into account. Modern LDAP servers -- in conjunction with LDAP proxy servers -- are designed to do this very thing. Verison has their 75 million wireless subscriber "database" in LDAP, not a RDBMS, and the entire dataset is in memory (spread across dozens of servers).
When a Deal gets Done: A Few Minutes with Tim Draper
Sure, you can store it in a relational database, but you have to map your data to some structure that it doesn't have. That's what we call a hack.

If you use an object database, you can store your data exactly as it is represented in memory. That is much cleaner, IMO.

(Relational databases are like programming languages. Just like you can use any programming language for any task, and you can hack any data you want into the relational model. But that's not always the best way. Sometimes a key/value store, or an object store, or a document store is a better model. Using a better model means you need to write less code, which means your app will have fewer bugs.)
How should you fire someone?
It's better than a coy back-and-forth exchange of "I don't want to plug my crap" -> "Just tell us what app you're working on"
iTunes on the Mac, and iTunes on Windows are two very different animals.

With any luck iTunes 8.1 should speed things up a bit for Windows users.
If it's a web app, and you don't need/want the app store distribution, then you probably want to build it as a web app and market it as such. The app store itself is not much of a marketing tool unless you are already very popular.

But then if it has no app store presence, how would you charge the user? I might build a few more features around the web service approach to take advantage of the rapid deployment benefit you mention, but probably not as a full blown web app. I don't know of any app doing the latter, but I'm not surprised if there is.
Yes I love programming. My favorite "projects" are algorithm competitions and apps for mobile phones. Programming is a beautiful art form... imo doing enterprise IT work hides most of the artistic side just like high school math and college calculus hides much of the beauty of pure mathematics.
Cool article, maybe you should submit it. There was a similar article some months ago, but it seems to have gone unnoticed:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=248613

The NYT article you cited is way better, although I don't think there's much that one can say about either of them.
More than just solving the problem at hand, there can be an aesthetic appeal to some solutions. Similar to the way a writer can appreciate a particularly beautiful phrase, a programmer can enjoy a clever solution to a given problem. I, and many others, enjoy the art of finding these "beautiful" solutions.
How to be an architect
Engineering is about tradeoffs: How hard will you work to save 68KB of disk space?
I watched this (more from a technical interest in tools used than anything)

I'm guessing she used either Toon Boom Studio (I doubt she used Developer, there doesn't seem to be much interpolation between frames) or perhaps Flash?

I'd still bet money on Toon Boom as the phonemes in the Lip Syncs appear as if they were automated, plus the Cut-Out animation style she used is easily doable in either Toon Boom or Flash.

Anyway, Good to see more people releasing content under Creative Commons :)
For the curious, it's a reST document (http://docs.python.org/documenting/rest.html) so were you to check out the source via SVN (http://code.google.com/p/jaikuengine/source/checkout) you could use some tools to convert it to a more readable format (if you have docutils installed it probably came with some variation on rst2html or rst2pdf).

Though, looking at the Makefile it looks like you could also just run 'make api_docs'
> Every new release getting better, faster, more usable; growing market-share faster all the time...

You could be describing Windows or Mac OS X with that.

> What goes up must, must come down, at some point.

That rule doesn't really apply to software. The main thing problem in producing an operating system is coming up with a significant improvement over the previous release. For example, Windows XP was and is still good enough for almost everybody. Vista makes a lot of things easier and simpler, but for many people that isn't a compelling reason to upgrade. I'm sure Mac OS X has the same problem; except for programmers, I've never met a Mac OS X user that has upgraded Mac OS X.
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Elevator Pitch Friday: HerHotSpot Is A Social Network Merged With Cosmopolitan Magazine
Cocoa with Love: Scripted window management in Xcode
Yeah, yeah. I hear ya.

Talked to a friend of mine who worked for Microsoft few years back and the "4 testers per 1 developer" was all the rage. Code now, ship tomorrow, design next month. Obviously one of the tradeoffs. It worked wonders for the business, but engineering-wise the output is an utter crap. I spent few years writing kernel-level stuff for Windows and Linux, and the difference in quality is absolutely staggering.
Twitter / webmynd
It limits the amount of data that others can download. If you serve out too much data, they stop you. Try searching the forum.
I found Mac and OS X very appealing as a development platform. For me the most important think would be that I have a *nix system without any hardware support issue -- yes, "it just works".

Got really really tired of dealing with various driver issues on Linux as I would usually spend tens of hours trying to configure some devices and then they just became unusable again when I did an upgrade.

Oh, and the font rendering on Mac is so nice esp. when one has to face codes more than half of the day!! ClearType on Windows looks so so. Linux fonts ... well, not so many great free fonts :( This is just personal preference though ...
If cigarette and other "sin" taxes indicate, no.

I am for legalization but I wish people would talk up marijuana like its some miracle drug with great health and economical benefits.
* Privatize Profits and Assets.

* Socialize Losses and Risks.
"The last thing we need is yet another mind-altering substance to be legalized. We have enough problems with alcohol and abuse of pharmaceutical products. Do we really need to add yet another mind-altering substance to the array?"

That's a good point. Since I am not an expert on the topic, I will abstain from commenting on how mind-altering marijuana is. However, it does seem natural to conjecture that if one smokes more pot, then one's mind will be "more altered", right? Hence, why not follow the Dutch model? This would mean:

- all shops selling marijuana would require the customers to provide some identification card / document.

- a network would connect all the marijuana shops to a central database where each person's purchase would be logged. Each person would be allowed to consume a certain quantity of marijuana per day. If one exceeded this limit, the shop would NOT be allowed to sell marijuana.

That way, one could legalize the consumption of marijuana, but impose upper bounds on how much can be consumed daily.

Of course, the shops could sell pot and not register the transaction at the database, but if caught they would be closed down. There could be a limited number of licences to sell pot per county, so that no shop would have an incentive to break the rules, as that would lead to loss of the precious licence. The downside is privacy. All marijuana sales would be logged at the database.

Would this make any sense? What do you guys think?
Programming is my Passion.
I second the Elements of Computing Systems course ( http://www1.idc.ac.il/tecs/ )

There are a few complete chapters available on the website, and after completing the first, I decided to purchase the book. I will be writing up a summary of the course on my blog after I finish, but from what I've read so far, I recommend it.
Twitter is absolutely mainstream now. It's quite weird - in the last several weeks almost all my friends and family have signed up. I'm not sure what the tipping point was, but celebrities appear to have a lot to do with it.

5 million users now -- I expect this to balloon exponentially very shortly.
mwerty, good luck on dealing with items that have movie and book versions with the same name.

http://www.hashlike.com/movies

Instead of under books, "The Black Swan" was listed under movies.
Your customers don't know who Mike Arrington is, and they don't care whether he likes you, whether he hates you, whether you like him, or whether you hate him.

Incest, much? Work more.
I predict he'll make a damn good profit when he sells it, knowing his target demographic.
Yes, Amazon FPS / Simple Pay allow you to refund algorithmically. They have a Refund API which you can call.
Here's another question: What's the best way to fire multiple people. Tell them at once? One at a time and risk the rumor getting out?

It seems like every time I hear a story about a layoff people complain that the management mishandled it. I haven't put a lot of thought into it, but I don't know if there's a humane way to do it.

It's the same with romantic break-ups -- there's never a good time or place.
Kevin and Alex from Diggnation were on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon a couple nights ago talking about twitter and doing an experiment. It's seeping into the mainstream very quickly, but it'll die out just as MySpace and Facebook are.
I believe that bartenders are not allowed to serve drinks to people that are too intoxicated.

I think one could simply apply a similar thing, perhaps with subtle social pressures to smoke marijuana in public places?
Old submission:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=404504
Telling people what to do with their money

Heaven forbid anyone grow a brain and do their due diligence before shoving their money into a stock or company! Do you people really take financial advice from ANYONE and just invest away? Give me a frikkin' break, people are not the victims here.

First of all, "mad money" is the money you have left over to play with after making solid investments, so the show hardly counts as a serious investment show. Secondly, people are not idiotic pawns and are fully capable of weighing their own investment decisions independent of what Jim Cramer is telling them to do.

It's completely unfair to blame Cramer and call him an "asshat" when the show is clearly for entertainment purposes. Anyone naive enough to think it's dispensing serious financial advice should not be putting their money in the market in the first place.