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I would not use grandiose, loaded terms like "fatal flaw" or "huge mistake". I have no issue with your life choices, only your criticism of Zuckerberg.

In your very first comment at News.YC, you called Zuckerberg a "fraud", and pointed to your book as evidence. [1] I've looked at your evidence, and think you're either imagining things, or exaggerating to promote your career. That's all.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24742
Or you could pay jukebox manufacturers to put in a chip that does the same thing the radio broadcast techs do--flattens out the average volume-per-track to whatever the volume knob says it should be.

If the volume knob on my CD player actually said "mean track SPL" and had real measurements on the ticks (calibrated for a certain set of reference speakers, obviously), rather than just going "to 11", I'd be a lot happier (especially at night when I might have adjusted my volume while listening to a quiet song, and then the next song wakes up my neighbours.)
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I've investigated this for an industrial-strength, large-scale project in the past. It's technologically interesting; to collect, it "stops the world" (freezing all threads but one using, e.g., POSIX signals) and then uses the CPU registers, each thread's stack, and global variables as "roots" to be traversed to find live objects. In a way, this is even more general than just C or C++; it really works for any static language, including assembly. One caveat is that if your code represents pointers in non-obvious ways, the objects referred to will look like garbage to this collector. I'm afraid it's not as unusual as one might hope for low-level code to represent pointers in funny ways...
While I don't think it likely, I actually agree with your analysis -- that relevant, measured ads could be a net benefit to the community.
I'm going to play against the article here. If you are a completely insane entrepreneur -- in a good way -- you won't need money to create value. If you aren't, no "7 tips" or "10 things you should know" will help you get there.

Given depression, I think that there's a profitable market nowadays on telling people they can get rich without money, while living in their parents' basements, and jacking off. Of course you can do that. However, if you have to read articles to motivate you, or give you those good, warm and fuzzy tips you probably aren't ready to start business because no fuzzy article is going to save you.

Let the downmotes begin.
This is probably the most famous and widely-used C/C++ garbage collection system in the world.

(Yeah, I've used it, in a scripting language I wrote for a commercial product in the '90s. No troubles.)
Cohen is now to revision control what Tanenbaum is to free Unix clones.
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Try before you buy? Zuckerberg has a public Twitter account?
Obviously with the right amount of time and patience you can configure Emacs well enough to be an extremely powerful editor. This screencast seems a little misleading though because it makes it look like like you get all that functionality 'out of the box.'

In my experience it took me at least a couple weeks of tinkering to get Emacs working well enough to replace most of the features I constantly use in TextMate.
First: point. Second: was that foreseeable in 2004?
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I'm not sure what the nclick_check=1 bit in the submitted URL does, but this link (with that bit removed) seems to work: http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_11847980
I'm not sure how common it is for apps to be making that much, but I know one of the top apps is pulling in $5,000+ a day, and it's by an individual developer.

I was making around $150 a day from an app with 100,000 monthly active (90% were CPA ads with the rest being socialmedia), and there are a fair amount with over 5 million monthly.
But it's HACKER tabloid junk.

Surely it will appear on these pages again when xkcd makes a cartoon of it.
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do you mind sharing the names of these apps?
Though I favored emacs over vi in college, it was my friend Ian was the one that turned me on to emacs. He's the one that said to me, "emacs isn't just a text editor, it's a way of life." For lent, he gave up emacs.

Anyway, I was hoping to see other things, but they were mostly clicky plugins, rather than little hidden ways to use emacs. What I found to be pretty powerful with emacs are stuff like using search to navigate, instead of the arrows, or replacing a regex across multiple files (albeit it's a long procedure). And even more so, you can edit these behaviors with eLisp if it's not to your liking. However, I wish there was a distribution package for elisp modules, rather than just cutting and pasting them off the web.
Some burger joints do the same, but I think I'll stick to not starting my own burger joint.
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Weird, surely you noticed the TAs during undergrad? Did you think they were grading papers for fun? =P
Reminds me of some thoughts I had on how Bill Gates is the richest man in the world, and yet you or I can use an iPhone, while he, despite his wealth, is stuck with clunky Windows Mobile.
Good to hear - I am about to embark on something new, I have been watching jquery UI as I can see it saving a lot of time, but am still not committed (vs do something a bit lower level but have more control, and more pain).
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Hello,

I want to learn how to develop apps for iPhone.
Any resources would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
Exactly ! :)

Ever single (good) programmer I know is aware of Hans-Boehm GC, but doesn't use it for any projects. In fact I am yet to see a project that uses it and I've seen quite a lot of them to date.
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actually quite a modern approach
Bill Gates doesn't even strike me as a guy who would use a mobile phone much.
Has git really won?

Can you name any other DVCS that you believe will outpace, or even catch up with, git in the next couple of years for userbase and mindshare?
Cool, this was news to me. I found this link, if anybody else is interested:

http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Memory_management
This is the problem with engineering. People spend all of their time trying to figure out how to solve a particular problem (original RHex). Then, the context changes, so you have to go back to the drawing board. If they put some intelligence into RHex originally rather than engineered the creature, perhaps it could adapt to novel contexts. Five years from now they will wonder what happens when they put RHex into water. ;)
I find it interesting that the author refers to record companies. It's almost always the producers who make these kind of decisions. Most producers go with the current trend in terms of sound. If a producer wants to give me an 80s sound à la Bryan Adams, I'll go somewhere else. So it's the musicians as well. Everyone wants to sound "modern". Currently, this means loudness (and clipping, apparently).
I don't know of any that explicitly mention hair color, but there are broader laws where hair color would probably fit in. For example, Title VII of the Civil Rights act prohibits discrimination on traits "associated" with certain racial or ethnic groups.
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ECL (a mature, stable Lisp which compiles to C) uses it.
Huh? Folks earning around $250k and thinking about cutting back are not the folks who got subprime mortgages.
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"Geeks Bearing Gifts" was a huge disappointment. I read through it in about an hour. Not much insight for anyone on HN and in the end a waste of time.
But how about an excellent mobile browser that actually works?
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Here it is. (Gotta love modern search tools.)

Edit: couldn't figure out how to paste in pre-formatted text, so here's a link instead:

http://www.flownet.com/ron/ajp_review.txt
Based on his essays and comments I was expecting someone, for some reason, with a beard

This is probably because I often go for a while without shaving, but I feel obliged to shave for talks.
On a market a single law applies: the product that is better marketed wins out.

Eventhough I'd love to see it otherwise, any aesthetical or technical superiority would need to come in enormous figures to even challenge the position of the market leader. For a unsurprising and worn example, look at Microsoft.

On the other hand, if some company takes your code and does better both in marketing and technical aspects, you _should_ lose! The better product is better for everyone in the developer/user base, including you. The community and users don't lose anything -- instead they gain! You do gain as well because you can incorporate the other company's changes back to your own codebase -- of course you did license the software under GPL.
I meant students having to revert to TAing after losing research funding. Generally only the first year grad students would TA classes and then join a research group and get paid as a research assistant.

I, along with most of the others I knew in science/engineering grad school, didn't really think that funding would ever be an issue, but I saw far to many cases in which it was.
What dealer does oil and filter for $15? At least $35-40 is more like it for the least expensive (petroleum).

The franchises charge around $30, with occasional discounts to $25, and the independents are that.

It's easy to find oil under $2, but at $5/filter and $2/qt, a 5qt oil change costs $15. Most foreign cars take less oil and both the oil and filter price are high, so $10 is more like it.

So, we're looking at saving $15-20 after taxes for less than 30 minutes work.

If you want synthetic oil, you can save even more. Dealers charge >$10/qt for high-grade synthetics which are readily available for around $7 (and, if you pay attention, $5),

It's easy to always buy oil and filter on sale because oil changes are not a surprise. (You can take the old oil back when you buy new if your community doesn't have curb-side recycling - San Jose does.)

Is it worth it? That depends. What were you actually going to do with that 30 minutes?
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Prolog is a language where easy things are hard and hard things are easy. It will expand your mind in ways that even lisp cannot manage.
Oh, you might find this amusing too:

http://www.wikipatents.com/7126691.html
> I wish there was a distribution package for elisp modules, rather than just cutting and pasting them off the web.

http://tromey.com/elpa/
I've spent about 90 hours tweaking my emacs config to get it working exactly how I like... over the past 10 years - it is now soo well tuned to how I work I could not even begin to imagine using another editor.

I can understand how Emacs might not be right for others, but it is perfect for me.
Certainly seems to have won the popularity contest, but that doesn't map to what is actually in use across the board - businesses, universities, open source, etc etc
I started writing Asteroids in Javascript is anyone's interested: http://users.tpg.com.au/_dp//dave_asteroids.html

Still a work in progress, but it's the first thing I've written in JS.
Dear Sam,
Congratulations for the website.
After using it for couple of days, I think that you have a too long journey to make it in a beta edition!

The idea of the startup is really cool, but it's not about ideas only... as someone said before: Ideas are worthless!

The website lacks a zillion essential features, and even the existing features don't work properly!

For example, someone added me as a friend without my permission and I am trying to remove him, but noway!

Also there is a killing security hole in the website that could double or maybe trible your bills in the future, if someone "idiot" abuses it.

You have too long road... you need a developer with you!
You need someone who just can't develop the website, but also someone who has a vision to take this startup to the next stage!

If you think that you have chosen the wrong programming language, then there is no shame in choosing another easier language like PHP.

Also it's ok to code it from the scratch.... even big projects are re-coded from the scratch!

Till now... you did not even fix the "30 charachters limit" for the email addresses!

Good luck.
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Mono uses it as well.
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There is always stuff like this going on in the music industry.

Think of the old days when radio stations would play records at a higher speed to be able to play more songs per hour.

It's not the "death" of anything. It's a cycle.
That explains it. I know beard-authored text when I see it.
I want this prediction on the record, somewhere: Google will buy my company before any of these.
Or maybe it's just because they spent lots and lots of hours doing things that made PHP (and thus them) cry.

When you spend every day for months writing methods like __get and __set and so on, and try to work around the other busted aspects of the object model, it can get to you.
3-5 years ago I registered "pissesmeoff.com" with the same idea. Write about things that piss you off, vote up/down. I was in school so I never got around to it. Domain expired. Now (expectedly) is squatted.
I agree. I totally understand ojbyrne's scepticism, but after a number of conversations in the last couple months I don't have any trouble believing TechCrunch's claim. The question is whether the money is sustainable.
Netscape sold Netscape up until version 4, if I recall correctly. For $20-40. In certain situations, the browser was free. But you could walk into Computer City or CompUSA and buy it in a box.

Opera was un-free for a long time.

So were a number of Mac OS browsers. (iCab, etc.)

Perhaps you should have your memory checked ;)
Why did this get posted here?

It's a dude who thinks he wants to start a business, but he's saying "You can't do this." Is it a question, or is it an opinion?

And anyway, we all know, of course you can compete with free. Look at Microsoft. Look at Apple. Look at Adobe. Look at all the indie Mac devs and small shops. There are free alternatives to every one of their major products.
I'm going to make a new bullshit list and make sure my company is on it. Anyone else want to be on it?
> It's easy to fantasize about entrepreneurship.

Nail, head.

HN is entrepreneur-porn.
Emacs is like programming. Spend a good ten years on it and you somehow can't fathom how you could solve (your textual) problems in any other way. Anything less and you just keep comparing it to other text editors which makes as much sense as comparing practicing programming to practicing medicine or law (or some other high-profile occupation) as all of them require lots of reading and having lots of knowledge.
Best resources - the sample apps on Apple's iPhone Dev site (you need to be registered (free))

There's wide selection. Find one that you like, and play with it. Change things, add things. Turn it into something else.

Worked for me. YMMV
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Quick run down of my reactions...

Valve: This makes the least sense to me. You shouldn't enter a highly competitive market (like games) as a side project.

Twitter: I don't think all that many people care about the real time web. But even if they did the question becomes "Why couldn't Google create a search engine that crawls Twitter every few minutes?" They don't need to own Twitter to make a real time search product from Twitter's data (which is all public after all)

StumbleUpon, Last.fm & FriendFeed: In all these cases the author assumes there's some value in knowing what the users of these services find interesting. But the truth about all of them is they have a very small niche audience. Meaning if Google used them they'd be skewing their results to a small audience while possibly alientating everyone else.
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A great story. Indeed it is the large "elite" banks that took on most of those junk paper instruments (and made up some of the paper derivatives) The majority of banks did not. They should not have to pay for the errors of the Wall Street banks.

http://mast-economy.blogspot.com/2009/01/regional-banks-on-t...
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Wow, that reminds me of a lesson in humility I got once. I was doing math undergrad. The professors used to let a few of us smart-ass types hang out in their math department lounge where the order of the day was playing chess and Go, exchanging attempts at witticism, and avoiding work. One day I noticed a stranger, a shabbily-dressed little old man, hobbling around the room. I distinctly remember thinking: "What is that old guy doing in here? He obviously doesn't belong here. He looks like a bum!"

It was Erdös.
Supercomputers in the cloud, and supercomputers (iphones/blackberrys) on our hips connected by high-speed ip based broadband lines will no doubt be significantly trans-formative in our lifetimes.
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It's interesting, characteristically Russian tabloid junk. I find it hard to imagine an equivalent thing here.
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Ask HN: how do you split up an iphone app between 3 people?
greetings! so we've been working on separate stuff, but now it seems like a good idea to converge on the iphone app, since it's our bottleneck right now.

my question is for anyone who has worked on an iphone application with 1 or more friends: how do you split the tasks up and divide the work between people?
I usually just host it off the same webserver that I host the site on. Yeah, this is terrible for security, but it's not really more terrible than having someone else host it. And you should be backing up your server anyway...
No downmoting here, Just an observation that these tips are not fuzzy. They actually are tried and true by many a successful business owner. And then asked the failed business owner and he'll tell you he failed because he tried to grow too fast by putting in processes she didn't understand, by using someone else's money...
Also, even if StumbleUpon provides targeted advertising, it's still quite likely to be very poor-performing traffic. If you're exposing people to things they were unaware of before, then, by definition, they're going to be very early in the sales process, and the conversion rate will be abysmal.
Yes! M-x install-module http://foo.com/bar would totally rock.
The headline is quite misleading, suggesting a single "developer/hacker/coder/programmer" can make $700K a month. The reality is that they don't even name the firm that they reference as bringing in that 700k...
nice call sahaj to ask for specifics. Unfortunately I doubt you will get them.
http://www.apress.com/book/view/9781430216261
and further if TechCrunch can back up it's claims with specifics
That's a tricky argument to get into... How do you determine who's worthy and who's not? Who has the power? If you let things go that way, the community becomes elitist and reactionary... Everyone should be welcome to post on this site as long as they are willing to abide by the rules: stay polite, articulate, etc.
I could never give up emacs for lent... diet pepsi, coffee, and vi, maybe, but never emacs.
It's won the mindshare of the people who typically start new projects: hackers, entrepreneurs, independent developers, freelancers.

Existing projects rarely switch VCses, because it's such a pain to move everything over. So new ones gain market share by being the choice of new projects, which then gradually displace old projects in the marketplace. This takes basically forever: a lot of people are still using CVS. But git's won the battle for folks creating new codebases, so it's basically inevitable at this point that people will eventually migrate over to it.
decide what needs to be done, delegate the tasks that people clearly have a talent or knack for. spread the remaining tasks around to those capable of doing them.

same as any project of course
He must have his fans, too. Many of his comments have high karma scores, and apparently people like this article he wrote and submitted. I can see why they might not be terribly vocal in the face of all these people willing to be negative, though.
In terms of his wrongdoing it was an open and shut case.

In terms of their information given for what he probably knew was against their TOS, they were in the wrong. I don't deny that.

My problem comes in when he was awarded the money that was 'gained' by actions that was against their TOS.

That just doesn't make any sense.
A career should be about what you want to do, not about how much money you can make.
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in the sense that if one wanted to buy web-relevant companies and simply expanding one's offering, these are the ones that stand out, i agree with this list.

as far as purchasing for making future revenue, not so much.
Bill Gates uses firefox when nobody is looking.
How about computers, then? Working as a software engineering employee or contractor is not a scalable profession: you get paid for your time, and your time is limited. However, working as a micro-ISV or startup founder is scalable: you get paid for selling a product, and it costs you nothing to produce additional copies of that product.

I think the grandparent's point is that some careers have multiple business models, some of which are scalable and some of which are not. So scalability is not a property of the career, but rather of a particular revenue stream. Heck, many firms do both, like his example of a rock band, or like the software company that both sells a product and then makes money supporting that product (eg. RedHat, 37signals, and Fog Creek).
A memorable domain name would be helpful too, even if it just redirects.
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Exactly. I basically like the concept of speedbar but it's just pretty unidiomatic for Emacs in its inefficiency with usage both with a mouse or the keyboard (via C-x 5 o).

It's zillion times more effective to navigate using find-file or just by jumping to an existing buffer.
this is simply amazingly cool stuff!
In my case, I am actually much more interested in econ. and business. CS is just something I do as well, thus my interest in banking regulation, accounting, and valuations techniques (though I am, by no means, an expert on any of those subjects...).

As it so happens, CS people are much better at computers than economists etc... though there are some excellent econ. blogs on the internet which I enjoy reading.

Its a matter of specialization. I just happen to have banks as on of the things I try to specialize in.
Disclaimer: I'm a vim guy. When I get awe-struck comments from those looking over my shoulder, it's not about any plugins or IDE-like functionality, it's about how fast I'm editing text. Let's remind ourselves, that's the core function of a text editor: to help you edit text, as quickly and unobtrusively as possible.

I was hoping to see more of that angle in this video, but instead I just saw how emacs can be an IDE. I'd be very interested to just see a couple of classes (or any substantial chunk of code) written by an emacs "power user" without the narration and tutorial.
way to stereotype... ;)
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