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Basically he says Google innovates better: not because it has lots of engineers, but because it allows (encourages) them to innovate without worrying about competing with existing inhouse software:

“There's a very good reason that Google innovated Wave, and not, for example, IBM. Google has no incumbent enterprise products to which it must pay obeisance."

And, yes, MS, Oracle, IBM do have legacy enterprise software market share to protect.
The very fact that people are struggling with it makes it a great contender for one of those things we didn't know we wanted.

People struggled to find out what twitter for 3 years but now people are starting to see the idea.
Many people still don't get it and use hotmail and similar services (Hey... they have cute icons :)

Seems to me like gmail enthusiasm is mostly the realm of geeks. Some people even dislike the automatic threading.
I think wiki style won't work for summaries (books, movies etc). The key difference is wikipedia is full of factual information (most of it anyway). so it is easy for anyone to edit, fact is a fact, after all.

How do you summarize a book, like say, outliers? It is more subjective, and when the material is subjective, it is better that one person writes it, than many. That is probably why it isn't getting critical mass.
Bizspark only costs $100 for startups, and you only pay after 3 years of usage. It's a similar package to Tech Net. You essentially get free licenses to almost everything MSFT owns for 3 years if you're a startup. http://www.microsoftstartupzone.com/BizSpark/Pages/At_a_Glan...

I've been using the service for 6 months. It's dreamy, and I haven't seen a single string attached. It's worth it just to get copies of Office Unlimited.

MSFT is the low cost option for startups.
This is just a stab in the dark but the other method would allow for metadata on individual fields, although I can't think of what kind of metadata you'd want to add to a street address.
discussion here http://browserlab.adobe.com/

flagged.
Isn't this principle the basis of agile development? Who is this post for?
May be most relevant (possible) for small-to-medium size projects, but the principles of keeping the outcomes in mind and getting feedback* regularly (whether weekly or monthly, etc) are useful for me, at least.

* whether it's feasible to get the feedback from end user or from a tester.
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Most business books are more or less easy to summarize - they have a straightforward thesis that can be condensed into a few pages. That's why there are so many of these sites. Granted, some things might be better written with one voice, but I don't think that's why people aren't going there.
Actually, if you fork() a process, the memory pages of the new process are shared with the old, using copy-on-write access rules. Obviously, that doesn't enable any kind of communication, but can be damn handy if you need a read-only chunk of memory that is initialised once but needs to be shared with all processes involved.
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Summary:

a:visited {
text-decoration: line-through;
}

sigh
Do you know of any other sites that do book summaries? How successful are they?
Conversely, some of those that think they may have, might not of.
Can anyone confirm this?
It /might/ fill your bank account if the project succeeds and you develop around it.
Ugh.

I love agile, but agile writing has a tendency to sound like Zen koans. (And yes, I include my own writings here)

It's just really tough to bridge that gap between "deliver something of value every week" and "what do I do in this team, on this project, right now?"
Well, there is a chance it will fill your bank account, since you can start several kinds of business around it (hosting, robots, gadgets), but I agree it won't whiten your teeth.
Using non-threadsafe calls with threads... yeah, that's not going to be nice.
There seem to be plenty of wikis around, though their content is of variable quality.

Wikisummaries has some - http://wikisummaries.org

Pb book outlines http://bookoutlines.pbworks.com/ is another good wiki.. there's a particularly good summary of Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational there.
Good research dude. Thanks for the link.
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Quality of sperm produced degrades quickly. I suspect few men are fertile enough to father children in old-age though your chances are probably better with a young woman(!).

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/02/030210080435.ht... is quite a good review based on a small sample size of men between 20 and 80 years.
There is also gitorious[1]. Haven't tried it myself.

[1] http://gitorious.org/
Oh boy. Someone found a hammer and quickly ran out of thumbs.

I am developing a site

Everything that followed that utterance was a bad idea. At that point, you're not using javascript for the portability, light weight OR "scripting". You should have used any "applet" RIA technology out there and you would have been fine; java, flash, silverlight.
The most successful companies in the space seem to be the ones doing executive book summaries, mostly focused on business books.

cf. http://www.summary.com & similar sites.
I can confirm that the links and downloads do not seem to work.
sorry, don't get the analogy
It's down now.

"Server Error in '/offer' Application."
I can confirm that all the webpages in the sign up process are broken! No wonder MS can't create a browser that works they don't appear to have heard of the W3C validation tools - 49 errors and a few warnings on TechNet receipt page!

I had to hack the page to hide elements just so I could enter my details ... incredible.
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Are you using the key against the installation media provided via TechNet? I've tried applying my MSDN keys with Windows Vista DVDs I've had laying about with no luck before, but then I burned the .iso provided by MS and it went off without a hitch.
They didn't register the domain a year ago. They bought it from a squatter after Twitvid launched.
Women might also be filtered out by gatekeepers: teachers, advisers, interviewers and admissions committees. In an earlier thread, I quoted a physicist who wrote about this:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=625431

(Not to mention peer pressures; it can be hard to fit in socially with your peers when you're different. For example, many hackers have complained about the abuses they suffered during highschool.)

In the _Princeton Companion to Mathematics_ (which I very much recommend for anyone interested in math), mathematician Dusa McDuff claimed:

> Very successful within this limited sphere, I was highly motivated to be a research mathematician. While in some respects I had enormous self-confidence, in other ways I grew to feel very inadequate. One basic problem was that somehow I had absorbed the message that women are second rate as far as professional life is concerned and are therefore to be ignored. I had no female friends and did not really value my kind of intelligence, thinking it boring and practical (female), and not truly creative (male). There were many ways of saying this: women keep the home fires burning while men go out into the world, women are muses not poets, women do not have the true soul needed to be a mathematician, etc. And there still are many ways of saying this. Recently an amusing letter circulated among my feminist friends: it listed various common and contradictory prejudices in different scientific fields, the message being that women are perceived to be incapable of whatever is most valued.

As a programmer, I'm very interested in meetings without common negative patriarchal traits, like ego. She claims:

> I have found meetings intended primarily for women to be unexpectedly worthwhile; the atmosphere is different when a lecture room is full of women discussing mathematics. Also, as is increasingly understood, the real question is how any young person can build a satisfying personal life while still managing to be a creative mathematician.
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> If you can easily run apps built for phones on a netbook and vice versa then I'd totally whip out Eclipse and start hammering out cheap Android apps. The problem will be if this fragments the Android SDK to a point where end user's cant tell if the application is going to work correctly on their device.

Even if it works on both, how do you design an interface that works well on both a 320x480 display and a 1024×600 one?

That's 4 times the size, totally different worlds.
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This is not true if you have good writing skills, but most people (smart and otherwise) don't.
Flagged as a dupe. This is already on the front page.
I wonder why Adobe doesn't offer anything similar.
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It's really important to set yourself a rigid coding style and rules in perl, otherwise it's all over the shop.
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getabstract ( www.getabstract.com) has the most amount of summaries...over 5,000. They come out with about 50+ a month...so you get the latest books....the most bang for your buck. They also obtain right for ALL the books.
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There's a very good reason that Google innovated Wave...Google has no incumbent enterprise products to which it must pay obeisance.

Non-software companies should heed the lesson: No obeisance to software. Big companies should have protocols and standards, which can act as a backplane for multiple applications. Competition will yield better applications.
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So it's not just me? :)
I don't really see why all the Wave articles are touting this as such a big feature (or is Google doing this, in which case seriously?). It would not surprise me if this ended up changing later anyway.
@mahmud - what a useless, unconstructive comment. There's no reason why you can't create rich webs using an Ajax framework - in fact that's the whole reason they exist.

As regards the original question, I'm sorry I can't help. You should try the ExtJS website, they have a vibrant community there.
Hm. I wrote this for our normal blog readers, who live and breathe security stuff, so I don't know how well it'll carry here.
While working at a large "high-tech" firm "X" (not listed in the article, but well-known), in 2007 I was approached through by a recruiter from one of the firms "Y" listed. After my third phone interview everything went silent. Emails stopped, phone calls not returned.

Confused, if the firm decided to not pursue me, I at least wanted closure. A friend of mine had a friend in firm "Y" recruiting and asked about my situation. The feedback was to the affect of exactly what the DOJ seems to be investigating that "Y" is not currently recruiting employees of "X".
Does this mean, that anybody who publishes summaries commercially, should obtain permission/rights from the publishers/authors?
I believe the iPhone does do this. Because of this, what is the point of having the triangular keys? I suppose changing the onscreen appearance of the keys may cause people to touch more toward the center of the key, but that would only yield better results at the expense of typing speed.
Yes, the right music can definitely help me break out of a stuck point in coding - right up there with endorphin-stimulating exercise. It certainly can be a mood booster and hence motivator when long stretches of linear/analytical thinking gets bogged down. YMMV.
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You guys are funny.

One post talks about not wanting Apple Rejects on HackerNews, and another talks about how Apple is censoring applications.

First Apple, then HackerNews, next we'll be claiming that our own mother's try to influence us! I won't believe it.
Actually, no, that's not free speech. (BTW - That's not the employee's data, so it isn't their call.)

As to financial information, if a company doesn't provide the information that you want, don't do whatever it is that you're considering doing with them. You're free to not deal with a company for any reason that you please, including lack of info, bad info, dice rolls, or even no reason.

Same with people. I have no "free speech" right to information about you but I'm also not obligated to deal with you if I don't like what I hear or don't hear.
Not surprising, I was an active user for a month or two when I first signed up but I quickly lost interest. I haven't posted or read anything from twitter for months now and I dont miss it.
Small browsers implementing cool features always makes it painfully obvious how poor and inextensible HTML and CSS really are. There's no way you can use CSS3 for the next 4-8 years.
I don't know. Nicotine is an ugly addiction that I read somewhere is almost as strong as crack. And crackheads don't seem to need any rationalization for what they do other than the high. I think the same mechanism, for most smokers, is at work here, given the power of the habit.
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Where is this "Wave is difficult to understand" meme coming from? It's a protocol for real-time collaborative document editing. Done.

The fact that there are a ton of features building on this concept doesn't detract from its underlying simplicity. Even if Google's client is overwhelming, it's a protocol - there are plenty of opportunities for others to come in and compete on simplicity.
The quality of the argument against mutlithreading is undermined quite a bit by choosing one of the most poorly written networking library functions around. If you want to do this right, use libevent or Boost.Asio asynchronous resolvers.

I do have to admit that I didn't bother to dig through the final example looking for the errors, so perhaps the author did have a better argument in there but didn't bother to pursue it more aggressively.
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That's a summary of the Wave client Google demoed. It's not a summary of Wave itself.
Really? The spell checking and translation demos didn't strike you as useful?
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I bet Adobe get a larger proportion of their income from small businesses and freelancers for their products than Microsoft do for Office.
Neither Flash, Java or Silverlight will work with Selenium either. In fact, it's pretty hard to get any form of automated acceptance testing working with any of the RIA technologies.
I think it's because Adobe doesn't really have any competitors in its marketspace (aside from Flash).

Adobe's bread and butter is still the Creative Suite. It doesn't view GIMP, Inkspace, etc. as a big enough threat, so why give it away for free?

Microsoft on the other hand, is competing with Java for most developer mindshare (in the "conventional" space) and RoR, Django, PHP (in the "unconventional" space). Microsoft also knows that the GNU C++ compiler isn't half-bad, and additionally with the license change in Qt, it's even easier.

Microsoft wants to nurture small microsoft shops in case they become big microsoft shops one day. It's a way to keep the ecosystem thriving!

Once Adobe has a competitor that can compete on technical merit (and not just, "use this b/c it's free!"), then maybe Adobe can consider something similar.

It's very, very, hard to compete on price. If that's your business strategy, you're going to fail in the long-run. You have to have some amount of technical innovation in your product.
Also Adobe products are sold to a subset of a company where MS tends to endup on everyones desk. So getting a startup hooked is far more valueble for MS than it is for Adobe.
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Ayn Rand is the most overrated "philosopher" although I wouldn't even call her a philosopher. That actually requires at least some careful thinking.

If that book is on the rise, then rationality is for sure on descend.

Sad
I can confirm that the downloads seem to work (but only in IE) but the keys do not work, you cannot generate any keys.
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Is there a way to actually try it out?

I see a long loading screen, followed by splash screen with a "Get Started" link. Clicking the link shows me a login screen, with no option to sign up. There's no way out and the back button is disabled.

I still have no idea what this is, but now I don't have any urge to find out.

This is a terrible user experience. It could be used as an example of what not to do when launching a new product.
> Legal (copyright) implications of this?

It depends on how the "condensed ideas" are expressed. If they're expressed using too much of the expression of the original work, they're a derived work and it can be a copyright problem. (Some amount of quoting is allowed - the relevant concept is called "fair use".)

If, however, these summaries are just the ideas, expressed in a different way, there's no copyright problem at all.

Remember, copyright covers expression, not ideas or facts. Expression includes translation and minor edits.
Isn't the EFF just guessing at what Apple found "objectionable"? I mean, Apple doesn't usually tell you....
Just flag it. Articles like this have no place on HN.

PS: A linkbait title. Suggesting Income Tax numbers are meaningful without including SS, or Medicare numbers is effectively a lie. Which is why I feel this is pure political spin and is not worth discussing.
I agree with you, but to use your Mumbai attack example, "everyone" (everyone I've read) basically believes that the Pakistan CIA-equivalent helped sponsor the attacks. An organization taking responsibility for the attack would lead back to this organization, which would involve a lot of political drama.

As long as Pakistan doesn't openly claim responsibility, there's no real loss in political capital to them- Indians hate them anyway, and any time an attack happens, India seems to rattle its sabers for a few months before backing down and they remember that Pakistan is also nuclear capable.

Then business returns as usual.
Another similar solution: BrowserShots http://browsershots.org/ (it's free).

From the website: Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers. It is a free open-source online service created by Johann C. Rocholl. When you submit your web address, it will be added to the job queue. A number of distributed computers will open your website in their browser. Then they will make screenshots and upload them to the central server here.

(I'm not affilated with them, just find it useful & well-done. Also, huge list of browsers to test with.)
But that's exactly what I said. The Simpsons implemented an idea, then, as other people implemented as well, their original triumph became dated.

That doesn't always happen, because if the end result is really labored away on, then it lasts the test of time, at least to some degree. South Park is actually a good example, where even as it's no longer the most offensive thing out there, you can still get a big kick out of Season 3 because they were putting in some genuinely brilliant jokes.
I don't have any experience with either.
What I simply cannot understand, is why twitvid.io would launch, knowing that twitvid.com was out there. What did they think it would be used for? Selling flowers?

It's obvious that twitvid.com would become a competitor, and due to the service they both copied - twitpic.com - would look very similar to twitvid.io.
You just babbled a lot.

I don't think how poorly a skit is done affects its quality.

There's a difference between idea and execution. You can have a good idea and pull it off shittily, or you can take a bad idea and make it work brilliantly.

Most of original comedy comes from the cheap early times when the team was on a low budget and nobody but them really believed in the show. Fame probably has a negative effect since once you got something you start worrying about losing it and then you're likely to stop being original.

Do your research a bit more. This is not at all a common trend. Comedians are like normal people: Most of them don't feel the need to innovate at all. But the ones that do tend to be unaffected by fame insofar as it affects their comedy. George Carlin, Ricky Gervais. Gervais especially, as he possibly outdid his original work in response to becoming famous.
I believe it was James Coplien who first used this analogy. It's a funny analogy, indeed.

Agility is really all about realising the 'Use Case' as fast as possible. Thats it!

ref.
http://blog.jaoo.dk/2008/09/30/object-oriented-architecture-...
(DOM structures in) Vaadin has been designed to be easily themeable. Just look at the iTunes Mockup example:

http://demo.vaadin.com/VaadinTunesLayout/
Cool comparison table, and hopefully that would be a good defence if iStockPhoto ever came to annoy anyone, but still.. that table doesn't quite match with what the actual license text says :-( (which is, I suspect, the legal version of events)
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It's a fun read. Makes me realize there's a HELLUVA lot more to security than meets the eye, even the eye of someone who's pored over some authentication code. Good submission for HN.
what he is doing, is summarizing the books in his own words. I guess it shouldn't be a problem then.
In Vaadin you do not have to compile Java to JavaScript. Instead you are using native Java on server-side. GWT is used only for compiling "client-side thinclient". This is only needed when you want to add more widets to Vaadin - if you are happy with the default widgets you do not have to worry about GWT/browsers/compilation.
I wonder what China would do if we started randomly banning products from China for a few days at a time?
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No matter how tired your hands get, you keep on going.

You know it's going to be messy, but you can always clean it up later.

You're not sure always sure what you're trying for, but you definitely know when you're done.
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