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Yep. You say the magic words: "not productized yet, of course."

So Ubuntu phone is novel, except to all of us geeks and is an interesting way to break into the desktop market. Also, it doesn't use the "2 VM"-Concept: it is one operating system with 2 shells from the ground up, not tacked onto Android.

Microsoft had awesome touch devices quite a while ago (I played around with a Surface table and really liked it, int its rough state), but didn't execute. And thats the important part of it. If Canonical executes that idea, they will be first in their niche.
Interesting product, considering trying it out. A few questions

1. I gather from reading the How-it-works pages that the monitoring service is not invasive. How about the optional agent, how invasive is that and does it carry extra performance impact? I cant see anywhere explained what it does, and how much of the functionality that depends on it

2. On your demo site, in one of the alerts you slow causes of slow queries. It says "SQL query "dbo.spSlowNumbers" caused slow responses on "/Profile/Save". How does your service know the name of the stored proc? Does it hook into SQL server calls or?

3. Is it safe to install on a production webserver? Was thinking we would try it out on one of our 5 webservers.

4. Is it easy to remove the monitoring service+agent again if we dont like it?

Thanks
The big question is... GTK or QT? I'm guessing QT.
Given the very small set of programming languages they support, it's a pretty important point though...
Sounds nice, but you picked a very unfortunate name, as Twig is already a quite well known templating engine in the PHP world (http://twig.sensiolabs.org/).

Still, very cool for those of us branch-addicts who make a new one for every single new feature!
I agree with most all of this. The author only gets in trouble towards the end (when he's making his point, unfortunately)

"...In my perfect world, this reflection would lead these people to use their power to make similar levels of luck more likely for a wider variety of people. Given the chance, I bet their skills can take them from there..."

The story he left out was the one that needs to be told more: the guy who kept failing and failing until one day he was a huge success. To hear Madigral tell it, the onus is on the successful to make similar levels of luck more likely for folks.

The problem is manyfold. One, aspects of success is rarely predetermined. You don't know where it's going to happen. So where would you assist? Two, because there are way more failures than successes, the goal here is to create people who will "happily fail" -- trying as hard as they can, learning some good lessons, then moving on. This ability is an internal attribute. You can't make somebody have it. Finally, he has the model all wrong. Very rarely in these stories does some outsider come in and decide to make life better for somebody just because of his good graces. Much more likely, hard-working and resilient founders run into people who are more than happy to use them for their own purposes -- which also helps the founders along.

Yes, absolutely, it's luck. But its a special kind of luck. It's not chance. This isn't winning the lottery. It's 99% what's going on inside the head of the person combined with playing a game with 1-in-20 odds. The minute you start externalizing all of that -- saying that an external agent can directly and purposefully "make" somebody lucky? The train has left the rails. Your model is all wrong.

The reason the multiple failure story needs to be told more is that no matter how you jigger the external setup, you're never sure you're headed in the right direction. So keeping trying, pivoting, and so forth are much more indicative of success than some kind of environmental issue. Successful people do it from anywhere. Might take them 40 years, but they don't stop. They just keep playing the game. That's as big of a success factor as luck. If the odds are 1-in-20, and it takes 2 years to fail? Looks like you've got 40 years of work. Most all of us can't handle that, but that doesn't mean that it's impossible, either. You can manage your luck.

We can't change the "variety of people" that are successful by external factors. You can't engineer market efficiency by fiat. If you could, you could just skip all that messy hard work and chance stuff and just hand out some nebulous thing called "opportunity" to folks. Doesn't work that way. Can't do outcome-based entrepreneurial configuration, as much as many really smart and really rich people would like to try.
Best solution so far for me -> VirtualBox + Windows XP (or 7) + your favorite office

Or just use Mac OS X
Oh come on that's not fair. You had me thinking the code output a cipherstream and reused it.

It's using a real encryption method, the only flaw is having identical blocks encrypt the same. Since this is designed to be applied to a handful of small text files (I think?) this is not a crippling flaw, only a notable one.
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Android was made by a company far smaller then Canonical.

Canonical's OS and Android share the same Linux heritage. Canonical has proved it is able of writing a window manager. Linux is pretty advanced to support low power mobile devices. I'd say that Canonical stand a very good chance, as they stand on top of all the Android work done so far.

Edit: Anyway, Smartphone is the new desktop for 80% of users
That sound like a generalization of things like:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/libpq-pgservice.ht...
Having been in the "industry" for a large number of years now, I genuinely don't find that any of the startups are congregating around the these new areas unless they are VC funded burn-out outfits which to be honest I wouldn't poke with a stick.

Most of the genuinely interesting ones seem to be running out of people's houses with no specific location. They're also making cash without VC intervention.
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> VC funded burn-out outfits

Explain this term please.
Something better to do
You're missing something big here: Software support. In the past it was completely reasonable to develop all your stuff Win-only. Hence the lock-in, hence the market share. Nowadays, even in forward looking big corps, when new software projects are planned, Android and iOS support is usually not only considered but a priority. That's why we see more and more software becoming POSIX compatible. And once this is all done, the OS becomes completely interchangable, at which point MS looses big time, they basically loose their long time business model of domination through Windows market share.

Once this transition has been completed, MS will become a Software company like all the others, they won't have any home turf advantage anymore.

For this reason I'm very skeptical whether MS will allow the Office port. It would basically show that they have accepted their fate (which would be a good sign for their management however).
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Libreoffice has a much better chance (better governance etc) ... give it 5..10 years..
Take cash from VCs, burn it on shit (some of which is legally dubious such as the rise of the ticket tout startup), fold making no profit.
So, hell froze over ?!? Goodness ....
>I have a work laptop 1, 2, 3, chromebook, android phone, iPhone, desktop 1,2, Mac mini, Mac book pro, and iPad.

Your dev devices don't count. Only stuff that counts is the one that you use regularly.
I think we just topped your free GAE(Google App Engine) free quota :D
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Thanks for writing this up. Too often I hear the numbers quoted in sales and think this exact thing. How often do you buy a PC? Every 3 years or so (probably more for most families)? A phone though.. Every 2? The price points of phones and tablets allow a total upgrade a lot quicker than a desktop/laptop.
Nowadays most major analytics and ads are served asynchronously.
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I wonder if it has anything to do with mobile phones and their limited keyboards.
"Free, Open, Simple" and then a "Buy It" button with "Unfortunately, you can't … yet."

so what's up?
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I believe the point was that this would not be 16/9 ratio, not even 16/10, but 128/85.

Which would seem to be better because, frankly, 16/9 looks good on TVs but is really quite terrible on a computer. I even find 16/10 barely acceptable.
> Technically, you agree with Microsoft, not the other way around.

shrug that's much the same.

> Also, I don't see what the big problem of chocolatey installing where it does. Cygwin, MinGW, Python, Ruby and others do it, too?

They're wrong too, as mentioned in this thread http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5176323 and this one http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5176685
Wouldn't they just take it from you if you haven't had business associated with it? By take I mean sue you.
"A smartphone is used for consumption" is just a bad generalization. Is making calls, sending emails and text messages "consumption"? No. And for tablets it's an even worse generalization. But still, _most_ computer usage _is_ consumption! And most of it that is not (like word processing) can be done by attaching a keyboard to a tablet. The office workers that actually need a workstation (like graphics designers, engineers and programmers) is only a small fraction of the workforce that uses a computer today. Business use is one thing (and changes there always happen a a glacial pace). But my parents and my girlfriend now rarely uses their PC.

They either use a tablet, or their smartphone if the tablet isn't nearby! So the key here is convenience, which incidentally is why the laptop became so popular in the consumer market. When that PC dies, they will take a hard look at whether they really need to replace it.
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No backups since June 24, 2012?!
RubyMine is fantastic.

I've come to Ruby from PHP and PHPStorm (Jetbrains) and both are incredibly powerful. It marries so well with Rails and Git that I just have no need for anything else. And it runs so smoothly on my MBA 8GB.

I shall be upgrading right now!
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I say this not to brag but actually in humility: I'm quite embarrassed at my own failure to take action. When I read the article it was immediately clear to me that this was going to be a Very Big Deal, and I simply sat on it.

So you have a few tens of millions less :)

sucks, doesn't it? I did take some action and did relatively well but a better name or two would have made the difference. Sucks now, but they are some .cctld still. Dangerous and not as lucrative as .com but that's the next best thing.

Google has sucked most of the money from domains, as they have done with almost everything else online.
Unexpectedly, I moved away from PowerPoint without needing a PowerPoint clone. I started using prezi for fun, just because it's different and ended up taking all my presentations there. You have to be careful not to be too flashy, but it's a very cool application, if you can live with the lockin.
I think it's opposite. At university we've written software for tablet (like wacom) for users with Parkinson's. Because we've full information of movement (speed, pressure, trajectory), not just result (like in ocr) we could better interpret input.
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"He returned the domain and talked McDonalds into making a donation to charity"

From this comment with source https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5180693
Just as disturbing: "The attack used on the wiki was apparently the same as the one which hit Debian" [on 2012-07-25]

The exploit was out there and had been used to hit debian.org in a big way, and had been fixed. But python.org didn't update MoinMoin or check whether their MoinMoin installation hadn't been compromised until their data got deleted about half a year after the original exploit :|
Actually the opposite is true, apparently Mac users keep their computers for much longer than Windows users. A key reason is probably the price of a new Mac, another that time and OS upgrades generally don't make a Mac much slower (the exception being Lion). Many Windows PCs are simply thrown away because it's cheaper for a non-techie to buy a new one than to reinstall the OS an all their apps.
This is just up the road from my hometown. It's a breath of fresh air to see startups in the North of England, especially as it is one of the most deprived. Hopefully it's sustainable as I'm getting tired of all the Tech City talk by the government.
reminds me of steam.com
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> our most recent backup dates back to June 24 2012

And therein lies the problem of disaster recovery. Even if you have a catastrophic bug, you should not be losing 6 months of data.
True, most discrimination suits are not cut-and-dried, but a document that says "Let's fire the oldest worker that makes less than six-figures." is the smoking gun most cases salivate for.
"Why can't football fans talk about football online?"

Why indeed? Are they? Did anybody check? I suspect they may already be!

You could take that clip out use it to build the script of "This Is Spinal Tap" for UK startups.
This guy is crazy if he thinks an organisation with annual /revenues/ of $110M will spend $10M+ on a domain name.
It's not only reader engagement (and of course bounce rate which overlaps somewhat) but page speed is a factor in SEO nowadays too: so it's reader acquisition as well.
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I think you certainly have a solid shot at being successful at this. Heck, that's true even in a down market and/or in places other than SV, but I also think you're lack of interest in the field up until now might suggest that you'll end up hating it.

Build something and launch it in public (by which I mean a product). You'll prove both an aptitude and a willingness to see something to the end, which to many people will be as good as a degree, and you'll find out if you love this field or hate it.

If you start, make sure you finish. Get someone to hold you accountable to this if necessary.
Your best bet for getting companies to be willing to take a risk on you, if you have no relevant education or work experience yet, is to start working on side projects(that you can share on places like GitHub), contributing to open source, maybe work on a phone app or two and release them (depending on where your interests lie exactly in the software world). Perhaps gather these into a slick, well designed, simple web site, basically saying what you said above. Anything tangible that will make people more excited about giving you a shot.

They likely won't be willing to just take your word that you were a proficient self-study, but if your work is good, some people will be willing to look beyond just the education. While you are trying to teach yourself, take a bit of time to get a basic familiarity with Computer Science concepts (data structures, algorithms, common design patterns, and OO concepts if applicable, etc). These can often seem unnecessary and overly complicated to a self taught developer (speaking from experience), but they can really help with writing nicer, cleaner, more efficient code in the long run.

One thing that helped move me in the right direction for my career was starting a couple of web sites for ideas I had for various niche communities (I had dreams of grandeur and selling my websites for millions, ha). They both failed miserably, and never really generated a sustainable user base. However, I learned a ton in the process about web technologies from front end to the database side of things, and having that on my resume really helped in start-up interviews, as it was a mentality that people in those circles could relate to.
Yes, but that doesn't help much against the JavaScriptional (and rendering) bout of hyperactivity that that ensues shortly after the first HTTP response and later on while using the site.

The complexity of embedding all that stuff is enormous. Just block it all for a day and see what that does to the perceived speed of the site.
I agree with you that this seems silly. But Microsoft itself seems to buy it. Why have they created a "mobile" interface for Windows 8 that annoys desktop users? And now Office for Linux. That's a surprise.

Windows is everywhere, but Microsoft only gets money when they sell a new version. New computers are cheaper and cheaper, so they have to lower Windows price also.
1) Create Github account
2) Make cool things you are interested in in your off time
3) Parlay into job

This works. Really. Block Hacker News in your hosts file until you have a job.
To everybody, I highly recommend reading Nassim Taleb's book “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable”, which can be summarised (poorly) like this:

1) Things are more unpredictably random than you think

2) Yes, even if you're aware of 1)
By living in the bay, you already have access to jobs most of us can only dream of. Treasure the opportunity :)
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Super weekends, weekly event in Newcastle: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=newca...
I actually find both 6502/6510 and x86 assembly languages fun.
gotta go through the motions of putting up good readmes and documentation, not a trivial amount of effort, only worth it if I think enough people want it. open sourcing something isn't exactly free effort.
Unrelated: Dan (the guy who owns this domain) is an incredibly brilliant engineer. I had the honor of working with him during my time at Lift (he worked for Obvious at the time). Cool to see his site pop up here.
Using imo for skype is far from "ideal" -- you give your skype password to a third party, and I don't think you can call landlines with it. You might say "just use google voice", but you're out of luck if you're not in the US.

I've toyed with giving my parents a chromebook, but the lack of skype is always the sticking point.
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Why not just run Office in a VM?

Make a specific Vagrant box and distribute it around the office. Easy peasy.
Can some of these jobs please go somewhere else?

Pretty please?

There's no good reason all of this growth needs to be concentrated in the Bay Area, and it is hurting long-term residents in favor of people who will, in all likelihood, not be here in 5-10 years.
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"When I arrived the first thing I saw was vomit on the floor. But it was real, it was a real place."
Seems like that problem would be better solved by a superior touchpad.
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Why would Dia being open source and free make it a better diagramming tool? I am worried when those are the two main points you make as to why it would be better than Powerpoint (which I also use for diagramming, and find very smooth).
Hehe. We actually had one back in the dot com era called Attachments ;-) Oddly, the BBC seems to have disowned it and it's very hard to get a copy of now..
Well its not just any organization... the organization's sole purpose is promotion (or at least that's what I gather from the name, National Fluid Milk Processor Promotion Program) - and the internet happens to be a damn good place to promote, especially on a memorable domain like milk.com. And $110M a year revenue over 10 years is $1.1B revenue, and I think milk.com would probably still be relavent and valuable 10 years out. So $10M of $1.1B doesn't seem so bad at all.
The blogger "javascript gears" loading animation from Google is even worse.
And it's also pretty important to remember there's life outside the US of A, where software developers are in a less rosy place.
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There's hope: I know plenty of successful mostly-self-taught to entirely-self-taught engineers at great companies. One of the best engineers I know is a former nurse. You have to be incredibly dedicated, be willing to put in many many hours before it seems to click, and try to find good peers or mentors to learn from... But it's doable, and you can get very good in a few years.

Don't just do it for the pay or it'll be a hard road through. But if you love technology and think you could love programming, then try it out.

Tiny little secret: once you get good enough that you can reliably [make dynamic websites with Rails / write iOS apps / insert technology you're interested in here], try freelancing on something like elance to get experience. You'll probably mess up enough that you'll be making minimum wage or less after the time spent fixing things, but you'll grow your skillset pretty quickly.
Tech Britain maps UK startups: http://techbritain.com/ - it shows Newcastle as the 4th hottest spot after London, Manchester and Bristol.
I was working on a page the other day for optimisation - 97/100 score now.

The main issues that remain are to do with FB, Google

- serve images from a consistent domain,

- leverage browser caching,

- minify javascript (that's a Google problem, I mean, really?!),

- ga.js and plusone causing reflows

- script serialisation

Doesn't appear there's much to be done about these from an end user perspective but they're not major slow downs as the page is well above the median load speed for similar pages.
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There have been cases of generic words being UDRP-ed for insignificant use.

It all comes down to how neutrual the judges are and if they see their next paycheck coming indirectly from a corporate entity (ie. funding wipo).
Whatever mate. I love how Apple fanboys will make up any old BS to justify their biases.
I've reported a security vulnerability to the KeepassX maintainers (certain types of keysfiles would be ignored and result in an empty passphrase without the user having any way to know) and never got any answer. While digging through the file format (.kdb) I also found multiple oddities (the number of entries and the checksum of the contents being unencrypted in the header for instance) that seemed to weaken the format and leak info for no reason.

It was several months ago and I never got any reply. That being said, the last release is from 2010, so it might be abandonware.

Anyway, if you use KeepassX to store your passwords, be careful, the whole crypto behind felt a bit amateurish.
> "The only RDF involved is the one you seem to have that suggests for Android to win, Apple must lose."

That's rubbish. I don't like either the S3 nor iPhones. And I couldn't care less which platform outsells which other platforms. I just get fed up with people like yourself rewriting history to promote Apple.

You asked for citation. I provided. Now you're dismissing the evidence because it doesn't fit with your world view; which makes you beyond reason. So I'm not going to waste any more time trying.