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Be aware that the paradigm of Vaadin (known as IT Mill Toolkit) is leaning toward server-side. GWT is 100% client-side (plus RPC).

My guess is that Vaadin did a bit of UI rendering (prep-ing the HTML) on server-side then send it to client.
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Ext-GWT is a hell when it comes to widget customization. Also the API prevents it to be extensible.

From my personal experience (very very tiny data point), most of these "beautiful" GWT frameworks are good only if you want to wipe out something fast and don't mind with the default look.
I have worked a little bit with BOSH using strophe JS. It more work then it should be and it is delicate.
Actually I probably wouldn't feel like typing more than that on my phone in the middle of the street.. Maybe if you feel like writing an essay on overflowing garbage it might feel a bit tight.
Well, I think so, but I know only one, and possibly met a second one. You?
Ask HN: How many kids do you have?
Do you feel having kids makes starting a company that much harder? Or do you think it's motivating?

Personally, I find I have more focus and discipline after having kids.
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maybe one of the designers / programmers of twitvid.io is selling source code to twitvid.com on the side... :)
I have two year old twins. After working 8 hours during the day, I come home to play with the kids and help my wife out since she's a SAHM. When the kids go to bed around 7:30-8, I drink a beer or two and veg on my laptop or TV until 11. If I repurpose those three hours between 8 and 11, I could probably start a company. I've tried, and I'm just too tired/lazy to do it. It might have something to do with the beer...
I'm going to have a crack at taking this advice on board in future readings or discussions, not because of the logic behind it but because when the author "started doing that, I’ve not only been far calmer, I’ve learned much more too."

The logic seems flawed to me, in that it equates focused with clever. You can be one without the other. Of the two, I'm definitely more clever than focused. I think the value a person contributes is usually the other way around. (Which is why my focus for this year is 'be more focused'.)
FYI - my sources say this isn't going to be released until next year.
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My partner and I wrote a really great network appliance that is a great value-add and upsell to SAN solutions.

I would like to get it distributed through companies like CDW, trend-micro, etc.

What is the best way to meet with, or get in with distributors like these? All of them have forms and an address to send product demonstrations-- but it can't be that easy, can it?
Yeah, I know what you mean. I'm in about the same situation. But I save the beer for the weekends and code :)
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No, I've never used either one or even knew about them before this debate. Actually, I think I did hear about the .io here at HN a little while ago...
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After years of building web sites and web applications, I feel like producing less code and more people-friendly code. The git'r done (no pun) practice I've had for years feels less correct. Plus, it hurts.

I find myself thinking, sketching and dreaming more. I know many of you are in this phase, or more enlightened. Please describe how you play.
I'm liking RubyMine and 1.1 has support for Cucumber. It's not as polished as Textmate, but it has light years more functionality. Split window, basic refactoring, search that doesn't blow, etc.
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I think it's a joke. IBM published business models that were supposed to be widely reusable, even between companies. Didn't exactly work out.
Agreed. He's definitely not saying that life is meaningless, but that we accepted the status quo as the only way life can be lived and that we lose so much because of that.
1 child on the way, 1 startup doing ok. i selected 0 though
quantity != quality, being smarter isn't about how many smart things you say, but about how smart each of them are.
This outburst sounds universal and profound, but really has a narrow target audience. It's good for preaching to the choir, but it can only persuade minds that are already on the brink of change.

What's more, the realization that the world is a "ride" should not be the last stop of your growth. It's nice to know that others don't dictate your life, that you have the power to choose your own balance of work, personal, social, and political activity. Once you know that, you still have to choose.

And some of us choose to work a lot, because our projects are aligned with our core values and we want to change the world. Don't mistake our choice of hard work for thoughtless servitude.

There are many people like that on HN, and nobody's trying to kill us.
2 kids. 7 year old and 3 year old. Started my current company when kid #2 was born (maybe not the recommended course of action for everyone, but I survived).

People ask me what my hobbies are these days it's pretty much (1) the kids and (2) the website.

In fact, I'd say the website is almost like a 3rd kid. Once that thing went public it was 24/7 just like a kid! And it even wakes you up at the least opportune times like a kid.

But I do find that with kids I'm forced to be resourceful and disciplined. I sleep less and make do with what little "me" time I have to get things done. I also find that I'm forced to prioritize things more (triage becomes really important when faced with greater time constraints).
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To say he was from another era underestimates just how relevant his words still are, and why he is persistently quoted. I love his stand-up, but I also find it so profoundly depressing. I can't help but to think how sad he would be today if he could see how little things have changed.
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If I remember right, based on his presentation at Stanford Enterpreneur Corner, Hoffman was about to go sell jumbo juice after college, not thinking about SocialNet...
Baker told Register Hardware today that each triangular key has significantly more dead space around it than you’d find on a standard Qwerty layout. Consequently, users are more likely to press the correct key each time they tap.

Or less likely to press any key at all?
But to say society didn't look fondly on them is accurate. Each was a controversial figure in his time, and each was assassinated or executed. Only after they've died have they been accepted as heroes.
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Just replying to wish you good luck. It can be done, but the responsibility of a family does make it more difficult. (35, 2 kids)
This really doesn't have anything to do with the topic, but when you said you selected 0 when you have one kid on the way, I feel I had to comment. My wife was pregnant with our twins over Mother's Day. DO NOT, under any circumstances tell your 7 months pregnant wife that since she "isn't a mother yet" she doesn't get a Mother's Day gift. I was in the dog house for a while after that.
We're planning on applying next year, by which time I'll be 49.5. Like Ben Fountain in the Gladwell essay, our success will be "highly contingent on the efforts of others."
That was my impressin too. Are they trying to erase the boundary between the server and the client? If that's the case it's a terribly misguided thing to do...
The responsibility makes starting a company ... more cautious. Not so much harder but you have to be more careful. As for motivating, absolutely. You will get more done in less time, when that's all you have. ;)
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Between this and GWT (and the Google Wave app they are going to open source), I'm getting pretty interested in Java and using tools like GWT to just generate all of the javascript etc. It almost sounds like it will be /easier/ than Ruby on Rails.

Is that crazy?
This is very relevant research. I actually agree with the findings based on the people I know who have started technology companies.

I don't think it applies to the kind of people that YC is targeting - young, mobile, no dependents, able to live on very little $'s a year or the technology segment which is consumer web startups.
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Why doesn't someone just fork Safari or Firefox and put in the thing-that-replaces-CSS parsing they'd like to use? A demo is almost always more convincing, and 99% of browser hacking is standards-compliance—it would take much less effort to blue-sky a new presentation language if it was a prototype for which you were the only user.
Which society? The left loved both Ghandi and MLK. The right not so much. The left ended up winning and wrote the history, so now everyone views them as heroes. In Ghandhi's case at least, I think the right was right ( read http://history.eserver.org/ghandi-nobody-knows.txt or http://www.amazon.com/Thy-Hand-Great-Anarch-1921-1952/dp/020... )
Somehow, this makes sense - although the myspace categorization is questionable. Maybe it's the strobe lights.
My two are 25 and 20, respectively. They're directly supportive, but they're also indirectly motivating, since I'm eager to transmit to them the potential upside of the entrepreneurial mindset (along with the downsides, of course.)
Err, where do you see the same icons?
Especially since (a) Eatlime owns the copyright on the name (see comment in other stupid post about this) and (b) they both look like standard Twitter apps. Every Twitter app has those standard fields, and the terminology "copied" is general ("OMG THEY USED TWEEPS...BECAUSE NO ONE ELSE DOES").

What's next? Twitpic accused of ripping off TwitVid.io? Why aren't we seeing some stupid post like this about TwitVid.in or the other Twitter video sites.
Uh no they are not. Are you blind? They're not even close.
android is still working out the logistics, but it would be simple enough to alert users that said apps won't run on their system due to lack of hardware components touch screens etc.

people creating apps will see value in supporting multiple devices under the android umbrella, and adding in clever hacks to simulate say accelerometer functions with mouse movements or whatever.

or android itself will have some kind of built in spoofing/emulation of mobile functionality that the user can simply configure to their liking
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what's the best open source alternative to git hub? (no, I don't want to host my code on third party servers)

the best I've used so far is trac, but their git support were flaky when I last tested it (only ran well with svn at the time)
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Dude, you're just one of those who has bought the lie and you're trying to hold the rest of us down.
Then there's the problem of the person who only says 1 thing, but it is brilliant. How about quality*quantity?
Personally, having my family to take care of as well as house/car payments makes me think about revenue much earlier in the game, and that's helped tremendously.
I'm skeptical of claims without any research to back it up. But some thoughts (DISCLAIMER this is BS)

An effect of having triangular keys instead of square keys on a soft keyboard is that each key has a clearly delineated boundary rather than sharing boundaries. I wonder if that can have an effect on how well people can associate a given shape with a letter when looking at it.

I also might guess with the extra space it takes longer to visually scan across the keyboard if you are looking for a key. So if there was a benefit to accuracy maybe it would be from slowing down the user enough for them to really process what they are looking at.
I don't think it's a right/left issue. MLK for example was a Republican who even endorsed Richard Nixon (though in fairness he died before Nixon ever actually took office and his opinion might have changed significanlty after seeing that)

I don't think this was a political issue. I think MLK fought against a very dedicated group of racists but I think institutional racism was something the majority of people were against in MLK's time. Both on the Right and On the Left. The sad truth about society is that evil does appear to win when good men do nothing and I think that's why people have a mis-shapen view of the majority opinion back then.

As for Ghandi he was an extreme leftist. He gave this advice to Britain during WWII...

I want you to lay down the arms you have as being useless for saving you or humanity. You will invite Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini to take what they want of the countries you call your possessions. Let them take possession of your beautiful island with your many beautiful buildings... If these gentlemen choose to occupy your homes, you will vacate them. If they do not give you free passage out, you will allow yourself, man, woman and child to be slaughtered

To me that's left of even the most extreme leftist in the modern day political arena.
Agreed. This is why I found it bizarre that the BlackBerry Storm's on-screen keboard mimics the 2-letters-per-button design of some of its hardware keyboards.

Pic: http://www.infoworld.com/infoworld/img/48TC-storm-portrait.g...

The buttons are all virtual, and the only thing that matters is the (x,y) coordinate of the screen press. so why encourage users to press the screen somewhere other than the center of the desired letter?
Eh, no. Well maybe, a little, if we're talking baby steps. If you're just lurking it's not.

Disclosure: I've been diagnosed with AS by someone with lots of experience/publications in it, and I attended a group therapy thing for most a of a year weekly.

My personal advice. Read How to Win Friends and Influence People, some pua books if you're interested in girls (The Mystery Method & Roosh V's Bang) and also as a way of developing a theory of mind, books on ettiquette and social skills, and evolutionary psychology books and apply what you learn. Keep what works.

Hanging out with communities more accepting of odd or rude behavior helps. Stay away from testosterone drenched ones unless you're good at, and like fighting. Personally I've found Goths, gamers and other assorted nerd groups the easiest to deal with. Despite the fact that excesive alcohol occasionally turns me into a total prick it was really helpful in developing my social skills, because my inhibitions were lower so I tried more shit.

Learn to do smalltalk. Practice turntaking in conversation. Do eye contact but don't hold gaze relentlessly, that's a dominance behaviour. Acting, comedy, and improv are good. Any social group built around a shared interest provides a way to start a conversation. Not all silences are awkward, some people are introverts. Most people do not share your background assumptions, and you will only get good results modelling them if you keep this in mind.

Debating clubs are awesome, because you're meant to rip people's ideas to shreds. We're social apes for whom talking has replaced grooming, animals. Keep it in mind.
Ask HN: Learning Programming - HTML question on Image Maps
I recently started to learn the basics of programming and am currently in the middle of HTML. I was wondering if any of you could help me with my HTML problem -

I'm trying to create an image map where I link the word 'home' within a large banner image to home.htm and also include styling for the word when a mouse is hovered over it.

This is what I came up with so far -

<div>
<img usemap="home" src="images/banner.png"/>
<MAP name="home">
<AREA HREF="home.htm" SHAPE=RECT COORDS="118,410,185,390">
</MAP>

</div>

The image is working perfectly in that the word 'home' within the large banner image is being hyperlinked to home. However, I'm having issues with the styling - I can't get the 'home' link to change color when I mouse over it. I tried using

STYLE="background-color: 222;"

within the map tag but it's not working.

A little help please?
That formula may still have a signals v noise issue since it rewards each equally. How about quantity^quality, which would still factoring in quantity, but exponentially reward quality?
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But the blog post wasn't funny. It's like calling something 'gay' - possibly funny but largely devoid of descriptive meaning. I hope you weren't trying to say I have no sense of humor. I love low brow humor.
He can't be too smart if he thinks that phrases like "2 times smarter" or "3 times smarter" have any meaning. 2 standard deviations above the mean, yes, "2 times smarter" no.
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After figuring Shit out, let's hope the author figures out how to scale this website.
Isn't the IP address following the post name reversed from what it should be?
I'm guessing that you're a man.
I posted this because the use of mathematics in marketing is quite interesting and can be a very powerful tool. The example given at the second half of the page uses a technique called Shapely Value Analysis and is comparable to TURF analysis. These methods are relatively unknown to most marketing professionals but they are quite powerful.
This is probably not the right place to ask HTML questions. There are forums devoted to web design which would be a better fit.
I don't think you posted the right link. Currently, the URL leads to a fluff brochure-type page.

Where you trying to link to a paper?
Man, this kind of stuff gets tiresome. It's cliched and devoid of useful advice.

People want money for one of two things:

1) in order to spend it on enjoying life (ie enjoying the roller coaster). Most people cannot check out of their job or not worry about money and still enjoy the roller coaster. You do not get something for nothing in this world. Life is about finding a balance that suits you personally.

or
2) to spend on status posturing. For 2) the problem of status posturing does not go away if you stop worrying about money. Status posturing has afflicted every commune as badly as it afflicts corporate boardrooms.

If you want to right a useful essay, write it about the optimum way to fulfill the innate desire for status, without putting yourself on a status treadmill. That would be worth reading.

Take all that money we spend on weapons and defense each year and, instead, spend it feeding, clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would do many times over -

Meet Mr. Kevin Myers ( http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/kevin-myers/wri... ) How would one phrase this advice to Mr. Myers? What specifically would one do to solve the problem that Mr. Myers writes about?
1) This is the wrong forum to ask such questions. Go to SitePoint, W3Schools and similar.

2) Use a tool. http://www.maschek.hu/imagemap/imgmap
How much are you willing to pay? :) Seriously, though, it's probably priced beyond what most small teams could afford, but it's on a per-company basis which is why we're not posting prices.

GitHub:FI was really built with large customers in mind, places with tens to hundreds of developers bridled with restrictions that prevent them from hosting their code on GitHub.com.

There's no reason smaller companies can't use it, but for the time being we want to dedicate more attention and support to fewer well-paying customers.

We may offer a pricing model in the future that's more affordable for smaller teams, but I can't state emphatically enough that if your team doesn't have the type of restrictions mentioned earlier, you should absolutely be using GitHub.com.
For some reason I both flagged and upvoted this. Where does that fit in the diagram?
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Churchill despised Ghandi.
No it can't. Best advice I can offer you is publish a referral/affiliate reward program: choose a few good sales people, give them base prices and tell them they can add their commission on top (assuming you can't hire them directly)
Startup idea: create a billing and debt collection agency for musicians. Really. Artists get ripped off left and right, not nice.
Let's say we wanted to implement addition for a calculator. Here's a complete description:

-1 is the lowest number

-successor(N) is the successor to number N

In the first place, that is not a complete description of natural numbers. Natural numbers have to be integers. So if you're going to tell a computer program that "1 is the lowest number", you'd first have to tell it what you mean by "number" and "lowest". Also, "successor(N) is the successor to number N"? That seems rather meaningless. What is "successor" in the first place? If your generator already knows what "successor" means, why do you have to describe it again? If the generator doesn't know what "successor" means, why are you using it in your description of a successor function?

That's a complete description of the natural number system, but it's not a useful addition function in any sense.

Even assuming your description was complete, why would a description of the set of natural numbers imply the creation of an addition function? Unless we're talking about a code generator that reads minds! :)
That's just my point. It doesn't mean that.
You mean

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I'm imagining that the real HCI difference here is that which key your finger is determined to be centered on changes. Whereas before, touching the "gap" between a key above and below your finger would have an unpredictable 50/50 chance of activating either key, now the "gradient of precedence" of the keys fade out as they near the triangle point, so, assuming the triangles were pointed downward, you would always activate the key below. Making things predictable makes users happy. You could do this without the triangular display, of course; it's simply an interesting affordance to hint to users that they can use the keys this way.
So how do you figure that it sucks? And don't say "Ruby is too slow" or I really will write you off as reciting tired old myths.
It was meant to be somewhat facetious, obviously, there's no such thing as two times as smart.

Incidentally, one of the parts I cut out of that piece was predictions as to what nitpicky points would be raised in the comments and this was, indeed one of them :).
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That Hanlon was a real optimist, eh?

I think that in the super-competitive startup arena, emotions are going to run high. When you have so much at stake, it's easy to overreact. I sometimes wish I could have a mental equivalent of my ubiquitous work-email-client 1 minute delayed send rule.
I'm at a loss at this point. The server's been hit with higher loads than this and survived fine. It's running Wordpress on Apache on a 512MB slice, there's no reason it should be this slow. Just rebooted it and it's still slow.

If you want to help me debug it, my AIM username is the same as my HN one.
hah. really? when I met my now-girlfriend for the first time, she said "wow, you are a lot less articulate in person"
It can also work the other way though, relaxing during senior year could put you in the wrong frame of mind entering college and result it you not putting the effort in there either.
1 kid (2.5) and, maybe, one on the way.

I work full time and launched a new company about a month ago. I agree that it does give you focus. You want to provide something better for your kids.