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"It’s not enough just to start simple, you have to start simple with a framework designed for future evolution and growth."

Vi vs Emacs? The former lacked extensibility, so it kept being a "phone". Until the mighty Vim came along...
the psu is labelled 13.6 V, there seems to be a fair bit of the motherboard under the drives, possibly that holds a 12V to 5V DCDC convertor
One thing I liked about the military is that we were paid based on time in grade and rank. I at least knew I wasn't being cheated out of something someone else was getting.
What a fascinating woman. I especially enjoyed the fact that she is a scientist who got involved in politics.

This is what a role model looks like.
I do not believe it to be truly efficient as that would require perfect information for all parties that participate in the market. (discussion of that topic is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_information)

I do believe that it is efficient enough that the model works.
I worked there as an intern back in 2000. I did chip circuit verification, and saw that they had roadmaps for their future products up to around 2006. The group I was in was designing server chips and their interconnects to make clusters of high performance super computers.

I recall that they knew Intel was making dual and quadcore chips that would kill what they were doing, but had no solution how to turn the ship around.

It's too bad. There were some solid engineers there, especially the ones that came from Cray.
I didn't say it was wrong to consider money (after all, freelancers aren't special in exchanging time for money), just that it was not a good idea to have your clients think that you're too focused on the money.

Asking for a bonus might be arrogant, or it might be self-confident. How do you know what your prospective client will think?

The whole bonus idea sounds wrong to me. You're risking a long term relationship for a few points of profit. None of your competitors are doing it - yes, I know that sounds like a bad reason, but is your stand on this means of compensation motivated by what's good for your client?

Bonuses add complexity and misunderstanding to what should be fairly straightforward: Increase your rates as you get better at helping your clients. That's self-confidence.
Ask HN: How Much Revenue Do Your Favorite Websites Get from You?
I thought for concreteness of discussion it might be interesting to consider how much each of us pays in to some personal favorite websites, and how much it costs the website to keep us interested.

Among the websites I enjoy best, I probably provide the most revenue to Amazon.com. I spend several hundred dollars a year there, easily, and the more I come into money, probably the more I will spend there. A lot of the page views I do there turn into adding books to my wish list and eventually to my shopping cart, so the company is monetizing my browsing behavior pretty well. On the other hand, the company has to maintain warehouses and a physical inventory and pass through shipping costs, so not all of its considerable implicit revenue per page view turns into earnings per page view.

At another extreme, Hacker News gains no revenue whatsoever from my browsing behavior. It may gain for Y Combinator some kind of business reputation value insofar as I would be very likely to recommend an application for YC seed funding to any young entrepreneur who develops out of my math coaching program, and to my own children, but chance for YC to invest in the next great start-up as a result of my browsing here is quite speculative, to be sure. But then again it doesn't cost HN as much in server hardware or staff time to curate the site to draw me in for lots of page views as it does Amazon.

Where do your favorite sites fall between these extremes? (Do you have even more extreme cases among your favorite websites?) How many websites you read regularly appear to gain net earnings from your browsing behavior?
That was wonderful. Thank you.
LLVM is designed to make fast machine code. PCC is designed to make reasonable machine code in a way that's easier to verify as being correct. They address two different issues.

Also, LLVM has backing from Apple. That helps.
(not the OP) I am still trying to like it, but my impression is that it is quite messy, and the documentation for Ruby is often bad.
Concurrency: reading and writing at the same time
Branson is definitely one of my favorite entrepreneurs of all time. That said, Virgin Galactic is a long way from being a $1Bn company :)
Probably it happens when the real text encoding is different from the declared one (at least that's the problem I encountered when aggregating content from unfiltered wild web).

If it really bothers, you can use chardet [1] to try to detect the real encoding (BeautifulSoup should use it if it's installed). But even this is not 100% foolproof.

[1] http://chardet.feedparser.org/
I agree, I work in construction where there are clear, visible differences between two employees. If this kind of thing happened at one of the companies I've worked for or with then everyone would quit.

The only people this benefits are the poor employees. I have some natural advantages over the next guy, namely that I can carry about 140 lbs of equipment, while a lot of the guys I've worked with can only carry probably 70-80 lbs. Basically I spend half the time with the petty crap and end up finishing the job sooner. I don't believe I should be getting paid the same as the next guy, I also don't think I should be paid as much as a guy who can carry 200 lbs and can get things done faster than me.

If someone does 20% more than me, they should be paid 20% more. I don't believe in pay brackets and crap like what Unions use, because I've seen what unions do to people. I knew a guy who'd been in a dry waller's union for 20 years, he hadn't had a single pay rise since he got put into a foreman role, and he'd seen a lot of guys his age be canned because their wage was ridiculously high and they were too old to do the heavy lifting.
How exactly are you defining "junk"? I think Apple should allow all apps, beyond those that are malicious or overly resource intensive, and let the market decide what defines "useless crap". I suspect most of those .99 apps are developers getting their feet wet learning the system of how to put a paid app up which is why they tend to drop off rather quickly but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be there. What I find more annoying than anything about the app store is that Apple thinks it can be the arbiter of taste for their users when it comes to 3rd party applications.
I think it'll kill the market. You need that experimentation zone. We just released our app on there. But I'd never release any hobby projects to their store. It's not just the price point that stops me. I can afford that if I must. But it means there won't be any open source/hobbyist community developing. And that's what I want to be a part of.
Part of it may have been that they didn't want to cannibalize their current business so didn't really know what to do.

At that time the 3d cards were low end and not a direct threat.

A great example of the "Innovator's Dilemma"
I don't understand where Ann Arbor comes into this, but I assume you're making reference to the fact that I have lived for significant amounts of time in all three of these places (San Francisco, Chicago --- my hometown, and Ann Arbor).

Note that I'm the one asking questions here, and you're the one drawing conclusions. I haven't convicted Macy, but you've already exonerated him.
Honestly, from experience I know they hardly reject any apps. There's some serious publicity surrounding a few keys app rejections here and there (hell ours was rejected once, Last.fm), but really, they reject for technical reasons. Not due to "taste", and even then they weight it up, it doesn't happen much.
Not so different in Ruby:

for x in 1..10; print x end
On Reddit I'm not sure I ever clicked on an ad, but I went to their office and gave them an expensive bottle of vodka, so they probably monetized pretty well from me.
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"...that seems quite complicated."

That doesn't mean you shouldn't do it. I see you're a PhD student. What if I wrote a program that would let people republish your research in full without your prior consent? Yes, I could add a feature that limits this program to only working with research that's been approved for it, but that seems quite complicated.

This Readbility service is wrong. I guess that's why it's popular?
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Best thing I learned today. Thanks.
I'm nitpicking, but your range should be range(1,11).
I switched back and forth between 1U and 2U setups for the same motherboard, and I could run my system in higher ambient temperature with less airflow when using a 2U heatsink.

From the patent-looking picture in the article, it looks like the racks are 1-deep, so I don't think they're using 2-deep racks.
That's a very suspicious statement.

GCC uses the GPL to avoid "semi-proprietary forks."
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Ask HN: Why is it so hard for social media/networking sites to monetize their users?
It seems like the business plan for yet another social media / networking plan is as follows.

1. Create a interesting web app

2. Get people to use your application

3. ?????

4. Profit

Unfortunately, it seems like there isn't a method of getting to profit. When I asked the cofounders of reddit my question at pycon they said that advertisers don't understand web 2.0 companies. If that is true then maybe what is needed is a web 2.0 advertising company?
Initial iPhone was anything but simple! First gen iPhone was YEARS in the making and rests upon decades of Cocoa engineering. Gruber is completely off the mark in that regard and is overplaying his hand. Every company iterates. Even MS iterates and evolves an initial product and you can see that with Windows 7.

There are lots of reasons for success of Apple but the thing he stated isn't one of the major ones. Apple loves to work in vacuum with no user feedback whatsoever since SJ likes to say that 'people don't know what they want until they see it.' To have a truly evolving system, you need to have a user feedback loop and Apple has one of the worst feedback loops in the industry since they almost never act on feedback and when they do, it takes them years.
Perhaps using "taste" was too vague. My .99 app was rejected for being of "minimal functionality". So who decides what minimal functionality is? The app was of minimal functionality by design, but they felt it needed more options or interaction which I felt would just needlessly complicate the product. What I don't want to do is get into the case where I'm wasting development time trying to hit some kind of moving target of minimal features required to get an application accepted. The fact that it doesn't happen much isn't the issue, its the fact that it happens at all when there are no clear guidelines that I think is ridiculous.
Value of vision is enormous
1u limits airflow, probably too hot to stack HD that close, and 1u power supplies were probably cost prohibitive.
I'm not super familiar with pg's RSS feed but doesn't it just provide a link to the article? That doesn't bypass the click-through to the content provider. It encourages it, just like the HN homepage.
Every nit picked is valuable :)
I'm sorry that you mistook my description of the task difficulty as meaning that I wouldn't do something complicated. Like you said, I'm a PhD student, which incidentally means that I have many other demands on my time and do many difficult things every day.

"What if I wrote a program that would let people republish your research in full without your prior consent"

Do it.

Incidentally, my hack isn't the original Readability service. My inspiration is http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
I should clarify how I go about introducing the idea to a client. I don't say anything about it at all or even mention it in email. There is simply space on the invoice labeled for any additional bonus if they would like to. Some people bite, some don't.

My niche is very fast-paced. Many clients come to me needing a quick project done within 3-4 hours of the point of contact, so I think it's within reason to charge a competitive rate (though still very reasonable on my part) and also let them the chance to give a reward for being ready and able to take their work on such a quick turnaround. It's a fast-paced niche, and it's not the most attractive, but it works.

The whole bonus concept might only work for someone with my personality and it could very well be that it is best (or only) suited for work that is not long term, but I figured I'd share it because I know there are plenty of similar designers and freelancers out there.
Yes, but we all know that Ruby is the haven of Devils!!
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You're thinking of a normal company. Joel has previously said no one at Fog Creek does overtime.
Is there anyone who doesn't believe that it works though? i.e. It won't lead to a reasonable positive return?

Believing that it works means simply accepting the average return of the market through index funds as you said, which sounds reasonable to me, but it is admitting defeat that you can't beat the market in the long run.

Seems to me everyone would agree it works in general and the trouble starts when you try and do better than it.

Is your reason for not looking for inefficiencies to exploit and do better the fact that it takes more time than you have to devote to it, don't believe its possible in the long run (i.e. largely luck), you require some special insight other people don't have, other?
Your whois points to Ann Arbor. Your comments indicate that you are not familiar with the internal workings of the city -- most people in your age bracket are not.

I am actually not saying you are wrong or that your questions are without merit. I'm merely observing that there is a great deal of context that cannot be communicated over this medium and thus there is a limit to the extent which this matter can be debated in this forum.
in other words: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma

But Cuban wants this legislated.
Right, so maybe that's why pg doesn't do something like this feed for the regular feed. Also, there's the fact that no heuristic will be a 100% reliable in determining the actual content area.
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That's not the point, though.

You may be ok with it, but what about all the other folks out there? Checking with each of them would be the right thing to do, but complicated.

The culture of lifting original information and data regardless of the wishes of the original creator is a bad thing.
"store" simply doesn't exist in this article
Ad...lingua?
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Let's make this a constructive debate. Do you have any thoughts on a system that could be developed to secure permissions of the original creator?
Google App Engine Blog: A Brand New Language on Google App Engine
I love this in concept, but somehow feel like it'd be better established as some sort of data blog. Perhaps you could find some aspiring young writer out there willing to work for equity?
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Yes, and don't place an ad on craigslist (or anywhere) looking for engineers if you're only going to pay equity.
Based on Joel's ladder system, you would be paid more because your skills are higher (carrying 140 pounds versus 7-80 pounds for others).
The public hates prediction markets that try and predict terrorist attacks. Ones that make Scoble look like an ass are something else entirely.
C# 3:

(1).UpTo(10).ForEach(x => Console.WriteLine(x));

Of course, "UpTo" requires first extending int, which is trivial:

public static class IntExtensions {
public static List<int> UpTo(this int start, int end) {
var range = new List<int>();
for(int i = start; i < end; i++) {
range.Add(i);
}
return range;
}
}
This is SO utterly LAME. I was hoping they were finally going to support PHP or Ruby...
If you're not technical, best thing is to learn how, or be able, to raise a lot of money.

Re: protecting IP, you'd want to write up the contract as "work for hire" -- then the code is yours. You'd also want to read up on the various open source licenses so you know what kind of open source code, if any, you'd be comfortable with the developer including in the work.
Bill Gates?

MSFT
Gates Foundation
That's not the whole story. Plentyoffish is highly profitable. Why not other social networks? Because they have a less-effective ad model but think they can spend like a search engine.

A lot of people (whether or not they "get" Web2.0) have unreasonable expectations for demographic and behavioral targeting of ads. When you advertise on Google you are targeting not only a specific word, not only a specific person who is interested in that specific word, but right at the moment they are looking for it.

For this reason I believe search advertising will always be an order of magnitude more effective than demo-targeting, and at least a few times better than the loftiest pipe-dreams of behavioral targeting.

So. Your ad model is 0.1X as lucrative as search advertising, yet your infrastructure costs are comparable to a search engine. You lose. PoF wins because Markus doesn't have 100 employees.
Twitter jilts Ruby for Scala
Well the traditional approach is to contact them and secure their permission. But as you alluded, that doesn't scale.

So perhaps there's a startup opportunity here, for a system that secures permission from people who are ok with their content being reproduced without their prior consent.

Perhaps there could be a service that creates a list of web sites where the content is licensed Creative Commons. Then, if someone was going to create a web app like this, they could filter that list against their web app to only include sites that have been licensed creative commons.
The difference is that with blackberry, the app market isn't the exclusive distribution channel. Open source/hobbyist stuff is best left to other channels anyway.
Thanks for the reply. I imagine you're an exceptional user among the Reddit user base when you make trips to the office with fine liquor.
Palm granting some developers access to webOS SDK
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Ha ha. I loved the part about Webrick and lighttpd coming next :)
If Apple has learned anything with the iPhone, they've learned it from Nintendo's Game Boy strategy.

When the Lynx and Game Gear came out, it had to have a bigger, color screen. It had to have more buttons. It had to have a bigger storage unit.

And yet, Nintendo made calls - we could do these things, but battery life would suffer. And no one can play something that's dead.

And then, when Sony decided to go after the Game Boy Advance with the PSP, Nintendo said "let's make a new device, not a better Game Boy." Even now, I submit only two games get everything out of the hardware: Phantom Hourglass and Chinatown Wars. But things like Nintendogs and Brain Age make such good use of the touch screen - the zigging when the obvious zag was to support more colors, more storage, and more functionality (MP3 playing, Skype support, etc) to compete with the PSP - that they've outsold the PSP 2-to-1. (And let it be said, the PSP is a massive, massive success that no one talks about - you try selling 40 million of anything.)

I'm really excited about the Pre, but if its battery life isn't better than the iPhone's, it'll die and it'll die quickly. Users can live with well-designed compromises.
Which companies/products were those?
It is very important that you recognize a simple fact here:

Nothing -- absolutely NOTHING -- can stop an unethical coder from stealing the code you've hired him to write. A contract will never prevent a dishonest person from doing what he wants to do. After all, it's only paper.

Therefore your primary focus should be to find someone you are absolutely sure you can trust. Only this type of person will stick to his legal agreements.
Another Chicago institution bites the dust. ;_;
agreed, this is not a good metaphor
Prior to the unveiling of the iPhone there were a large number of people who attempted to guess what an Apple phone would be like. Loads of high quality art was produced by lots of very talented people.

And guess what? Nobody foresaw anything like what the iPhone ended up being. Most people couldn't get past trying to fit a phone into a click-wheel iPod.

Do you seriously think the iPhone would have been better if Apple had asked people what they wanted?
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If you ask any blogger what metric they would like to increase on their blog, it’s likely that their first answer will be feed subscribers.Increasing the number of your blog’s feed subscribers is just like increasing the number of your loyal readers and fans.
Hence the 'lore' comment... thanks for setting me straight!
I wonder why they're using Hype Machine's logo on their front page..
I think I misunderstood you; I thought you meant mathematical logic (the kind that can be generated mechanically from axioms and rules) and not the kind of logic that requires judgment and applies to words and concepts. If you meant the second kind, then I retract what I said. But you did say, "formal logic, with symbols," and that kind of logic is a pretty weak tool to apply to arguments and ideas.

As for what a philosopher is, we're all philosophers, but not all of us get paid for it.
If you're asking $175 for a landing page, you probably do need to ask for more.
I suspect (from nothing more than your writing skills) that you are quite a skilled tradesman.* Why don't construction companies hire strong but unskilled guys to haul stuff and let you be the guy who does the more technical stuff?

* People who write well generally think well. Construction, beyond brute strength, requires mechanical thought. Therefore,...
Palm Opens Early Access Program For Pre SDK
What I really find remarkable was that all 25,000 images were collected by three guys with day jobs, in one season.

http://seatdata.com/html/home/faq.htm

http://seatdata.com/html/home/adventures.htm
Agreed. I think there are multiple factors but I'm positive that is the largest single factor. Basically they get that much because they can.

I actually have a more complex and subtle theory to explain it involving a system to keep feudal aristocracy alive in the modern age, but I'm afraid it is too involved to describe in the tiny page margin space I have remaining.

(Only half-joking!)
That's pretty funny.

Django can also do this very easily without the redirect.
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That defeats the whole point, unless the virtual currency is worth something in the real world - at the very least considerable social currency or (ideally) it should be exchangeable for real goods and services.

People bet differently when they have something real at stake - ever tried to play poker with no money behind the chips? It's a completely different (and completely boring) game. It's the reason the market instantly knew who was responsible for the Challenger crash (when it took Richard Feynman and the rest of genius scientists on the panel months to even have a plausible idea).
Well, it was simple relative to other smart phones. Not simple relative to a phone phone, sure.
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Agreed. Their $10 membership is truly a bargain.
"Macros are a net drawback"
Advanced hover states using CSS
Advanced demonstration of using the hover pseudo-element to add some clever functionality when a user hovers over an image.
I take a nap.