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Go after whatever market you can get paying customers. Worry about settling with patent trolls only after they hit you with a suit. There is really no other approach.
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Well, more power to you I suppose. I just see it as laziness on the part of the founder, and I can't overlook it.

edit: you can mod me down all you like, swombat, but I'm just stating what I think, and I doubt I am alone.
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Java is not going away anytime soon, knowledge of it would do no harm if you are looking to work as a programmer.

I was trained in COBOL and FORTRAN. I used COBOL for all of six months (more than twenty years ago) and never used FORTRAN. But knowing them got me my first programming job.
One of the more interesting bits, at least in terms of the future, rather than the past, is at the end of the article:

> Perhaps surprisingly, Mr Cooper thinks the real impact of mobile communications is yet to come. Things will get really interesting, he thinks, when consumers “get away from the concept of the cell phone—that implies talk and listen” and new applications, based on sending data to and from mobile devices, take hold. There are already glimpses of the potential for mobile data in the success of the BlackBerry e-mail device and the iPhone, with its vast selection of downloadable software. But Mr Cooper feels strongly that such applications will be more likely to flourish if the world’s mobile networks, and the applications that run over them, are developed and managed by different companies, in an open model that mimics the internet.
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In VirtualBox I use the official minimal server Ubuntu distribution - JeOS.

http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/serveredition/je...

If you don't need GUI it's fine. You only need to allow PAE/NX from VirtualBox settings.
Thank you; you pretty much echo all of my current frustrations with Mantis. :P

MantisBT appears to behave like a no-frills, late-90s bug tracker.

To be fair, Mantis was started in 2000, and the look and feel hasn't really changed since then, mainly because of no good separation between code and presentation; templates are one of the always-on-the-roadmap-but-never-implemented features simply due to having a very small developer team.

Also, I would argue that from a neutral standpoint, but bug listings have a similar level of information density. However, Redmine does a good job of hiding all the unused filters, and an even better job of not looking visually overwhelming. Part of that has been improved recently with the new colorscheme for bug statuses, but there's still a lot that could be done.

Thanks again. :)
Regarding the first part of your comment, yes :D. I take the English AP, the Economics AP, the US History AP as well. I'm not in AP math yet, but I'm taking Calculus as well. I like to think that (at least my school) has weighted all the courses pretty well.

For the second part, in my time I do the usual student stuff like going out and hanging out, but I really like Ruby and Rails, so I do that as well. I also think that's why I'm already forgetting C++ - the lack of use.

I know Java is potentially useful, but I gear my programming towards the web, mostly. I could use Java with the Google App engine, but I can use Ruby with it too with JRuby. There's my dilemma.
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I have thought about an ejection mechanism too. Maybe a combined system of ejecting small beacons and the main one, that stays in the plane, would work better. The beacons could be located in multiple locations on the plane, e.g. nose, tail, wings, and when an inevitable crash is detected they could start firing off at regular time intervals, depending on the altitude. If they are light-weight enough maybe some of them could be combined with an expandable helium balloon for easier spotting. Of course this requires having weather data available for the crash area so that one could deduct their starting position.
(Disclaimer: I'm not an engineer so I don't know if my idea is stupid.)
He actually can't downmod your original comment, because he submitted the story.

I don't much care for the name either, but in the long run, I don't think it matters much. "Google" doesn't sound very serious, "Yahoo" speaks for itself. "Micro" "soft" has been the butt of jokes for a while. Unix is a pretty awful name in its own right. And so on and so forth...
>But a credential and even the prestige of a university is rooted in its effectiveness as a learning institution. If these institutions are shown to be inferior learning environments to other alternatives their capacity to credential will surely diminish.

I think the author is blissfully unaware of the fact that universities are often judged (from the outside) on their effectiveness not as "learning institutions," but as markers of belonging to a particular social stratum.

The existence of anachronisms such as "legacy admissions" seems to merit this view.

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/arti...
Where in SF was this (feces, needles, etc)? SF is the cleanest city I've spent time in.
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One of the problems with public education is that it has to serve everyone.

Many private schools succeed because the don't have to deal with the same types of children as do public schools.

I'm sure this school will have good results, but I think the most important question is whether or not the results can be repeated.

Are there enough good teachers to serve all of the children in the U.S.? Are they just not teaching right now because of teacher pay?

The majority of these teachers were already in the educational system. This expeirimental school simply pooled the best of the best together.

I hope this model is successful, and I hope even more that they are able to figure out how to increase the quality of education when dealing with a much larger scale.
I'm not sure Google needs to cook that book. People like faster websites, so they'll get more link love, so they'll probably rise up of their own accord.

If I'm searching for something to link to - often a news story, if I'm writing for the datablog we run - then I'm going to open five stories in tabs and probably pick whichever one finishes loading fastest.
"...we've been able to build a tool that adapts to the way they already work, rather than trying to force them into some new processes."

Good for you. Getting users to change is like trying to get them to eat an elephant. The best way to do it is one bite at a time.
You're kidding right? I guess you haven't been to the Tenderloin, Western Addition, Mission, 6th & Market, Upper Haight, Chinatown, etc...?
Any chance of having an .rpm release at some point? Or even just a plain binary .tgz? I know it's perverted but I prefer Fedora over Ubuntu.
How often does one actually switch between databases? I can see that yeah, some projects have a very slight change of migrating from mysql or postgres to oracle if they are really successful. But for many projects, the time and pain spent on using a database abstraction layer, or even worse building one is a total waste of time. Not that I mind using a well written ORM like active record, the benefits from that doesn't come mostly from that it's database agnostic.
Agreed. Using Dropbox and batch files to automate backups saves me a bunch of time.
The stock was trading at 8, so it's not really that low to pay 11.50.

It's now trading at 11.75 for some reason that I do not understand (maybe short sellers?)
We use an absolute minimum in terms of packaging (#) - after all, we don't need to don't need to go out of our way to make it easy to re-build. Packages are mostly C/C++ and python apps, so fortunately none of the extra issues with Java packaging.

Oh, and dependencies are great.

(#) Link has gone now, but available at http://web.archive.org/web/20060925094756/http://www.kclee.d...
Many problems with this, beginning with:
1) He doesn't set the price
2) If people didn't make money there wouldn't be rich people to be asked by Bill Gates to donate.
3) How would this help those in need of charity
Or go directly to the slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/bernardmoon/changethis-a-creative-...

It is downloadable - and an alternative to buying the book, it you don't need all the accompanying prose analysis from Richard Florida.

It's relevance on HN might not be so much in where you live to develop your startup as in thinking about how markets will differ in different cities/environs... with implications for how to localize marketing of an app differently to tap different sub-cultures (since they are not all filled with Florida's "creative class."
That's pretty much correct. WindRiver was gaining a lot of ground recently in the embedded linux area, especially doing baseports of the kernel to new processors.

Considering a lot of those new processors are ARM-based and Intel would like some embedded developer love for Atom, it looks like a purely strategic decision.

Considering they were part of the Android open handset alliance (I believe they helped with the first kernel on the G1), it'll be interesting to see what happens with future development in that area. Most of the new Android handsets are ARM cores (Google wrote an ARM-optimized libc especially for the system).
You should be able to install Ubuntu with no problem.

I am not sure why Vista is so terrible, but it certainly is. I loved XP and like Windows 7, but it was about time that Microsoft release another Windows ME, I guess.

I used Vista for a year, and hated it the whole while. I am a masochist is the only explanation I can think of.
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1) Microsoft had two horses in the race, MSN and Live, both redirecting to Bing now.

2) Microsoft owns the largest botnet in the world; forcing a browser update and setting the home page to a Bing query is a good way to improve your ranking ;-)

3) I trust "statcounter" as much as I trust Compete, Alexa, and the other user-side traffic analysis and statistics services taken individually. Let's get data from a bunch of them and let's average them out, etc.
As a matter of principle - I don't pay to advertise my start-up.
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Yeah, I meant luck in the sense that, if the author consciously used the first-order expansion over the true expression, the article doesn't state that only going to first order was reasonable. Hence one has to assume no such check was made.

Just stating the calculation like he did might induce others to think that the expression applies regardless of the magnitude of the result. And then it will be pure luck whether it works or not.
At the age of 17, tho', doing something not at all related to computers and academia is far more impressive on the ol' CV than yet another programming language. Why aren't you an Eagle Scout or something?

I'm in my 30s now and no-one cares that I knew Pascal once, but in job interviews I still get asked about being on the rifle team at school...
Yeah, it doesn't make a difference until the planes cover a significant area of the Earth, in which case just multiplying by the numbers of planes will be wrong for the same case that the initial calculation was wrong. Then it would be 1-(1-5.82e-13)^3500 in this case, too.
How about not bitching about higher corporate taxes then? If you think of government as a charity that does stuff like welfare and education, maybe he should have a sit-down with Ballmer re the story from a couple of days ago.
It doesn't work like that tho'. The only reason men want steady jobs is to raise families. It's the genetically-programmed provider instinct. If that is being blocked then men will revert to aggressive competition. We're all mammals.
I can't believe this doesn't get more votes.

Yann Arthus-Bertrand is one of the best photographers on the planet.

This movie belongs to the "inconvenient truth" kind of call to humanity and it is free to download and watch.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1014762/
Please please please, set your aim really high: think International. Look into project management and scheduling. Look beyond the web app, and certainly beyond the typical $5/mo "monetization". Don't hesitate to offer customized versions and certainly solicit and implement user feature requests. Look into all the industry standards, laws and regulations. The more you learn about construction the better it will reflect in the quality of your product. Reach out to industry groups that your users are members of. Read their trade publications. Attend their conferences. Befriend architects, and actually become friends with them.

That's what I want to tell my younger self when I was working on my first start up, 1999 - 2001.
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"children pictures by a professional photographer are really worth the money"

That's what I kept trying to explain to the police, but they just won't listen!
They were headed that way for a while now, chapter 11 or being acquired. From what I remember they were in deep trouble since the beginning of this year (laying off people) ....
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Bing is nice. I don't think it is such an evolutionary leap as to dethrone Google, but I could see it keeping Google from becoming complacent.

MS seems to have subdued their biggest dragon: the results are much more relevant. In fact, all three have gotten really good in that regard.

That was what always killed me about MS' search offerings: nice bells and whistles, but it was so poor at its basic function.
This is about jQuery Tools that were linked a few days ago from HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=640479

Actually the comments are more interesting and noteworthy than the article itself.

Also the author of jQuery Tools responds in the comments.
In short, no.

One swallow and summer and all that.
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Because the contribution of medicine to lifespan and quality is dwarfed by cheap, easy and well understood tech like sanitation. Because education of similar quality can be delivered for half the cost (D.C. voucher programme cost a quarter) Because if you were aiming to help the most people possible with your money you sure as hell wouldn't be spending your money in any of the members of the OECD, never mind the USA.
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In a country with no form of social security, the only retirement "savings" for families is to have sons that can support them in their old age. Selectively aborting females (or female infanticide where selective abortion becomes difficult) becomes a "rational" decision in such cases. While I disagree with the logic on how they've approached this situation, I can see it happening in most post-feudal societies that are trying to industrialize.
So what does this mean for, say, Twitter or the iPhone?
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Bing recently garnered lots of press with its release. That lead to lots of people looking at it and a sharp jump in viewers. It'll fade.
There are also a lot more humans in the northern hemisphere.
Hopefully "Smaller Cheaper Faster" resounds in the minds of Inc's readership. Perhaps they will even take the time to read some of his essays where he expands on this perspective.
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The pricing is too low. It's a niche market, people are prepared to pay more for things that work. However, you need to offer desktop clients to upload the files, because I would believe that architects work with pretty large files - uploading using a webform on a website is painful.

Also, it's easier to sell an actual piece of software to old school companies than a pure web service. Throw together a 'POST' client in C# and you're done in a day.
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What're the odds of intel trying to develop some x86 extensions (read: new instructions + other hardware optimizations) that'd be better-suited to doing hard-realtime (or at least "low latency") embedded work, and then making sure at least VxWorks + Wind River's linux flavors worked with it?

Have there been any rumors to that effect?
If it were a film about how Twitter is going to save humanity I'm sure this submission would be more popular.
Journalism isn't meant to be epic poetry.
For those of you who, like me, don't have the time to watch the entire film right now but want a glimpse, here is the trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8IozVfph7I&feature=chann...
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Comparing results on the scientific domain I'm working on, my conclusion is that google result is still far more pertinent. For some unknown reason the result obtained from bing are strongly biased toward very specific institution.

Bing is not going to replace google any time soon and throwing millions in marketing campaigns won't turn it into a more useful and efficient search engine.

But there is room for improvement though, and more"competition" and valid alternatives would be beneficial for everybody. We are totally dependent on the answer returned by google who can the strongly bias the data we "find" on the web.
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I find that my smartest clients have the capability of being the most annoying but usually just demand more explanation out of me. And while sometimes they take that to the extreme (where it's smarter to limit your interaction) its usually for the best because in teaching I find I learn a lot more.
VxWorks had a reputation of being extremely expensive. Long time back we asked for a quote to use Vx in a casino gaming system. They asked what our annual revenue was before giving us a quote. We decided at that moment to write our own RTOS.

I wonder if things like that eventually came back to haunt them as the OS world went open source.
the difference between crunchbang and Debris is gnome. I like being on the mainstream desktop environment and being able to run it on older machines
I find it very much easier to just enter irb or run ruby with -e and hack around with backquoted strings instead of using bash to loop through and manipulate filenames.

a silly usecase would be reversing all the file names:

ruby -e '`ls -1`.each_line { |x| `mv #{x.chomp} #{x.chomp.reverse}` }'

pbcopy is pretty cool feature though.
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Microsoft owns the largest botnet in the world

:D
This is off the deep end. I personally find the premise a little silly but the least you could've done is shown the two screenshots without injecting your own commentary.

And to answer the question posed in your last paragraph: Yes, you can do all of that. Kayak didn't invent that interface, that is, it's not patentable. Nor is most of what was done by Amazon, Ebay, etc. You can indeed create an identical copy of Amazon, as long as you leave off 1-click :)
I think Python has pretty good marketing, actually. Whoever does their webpage does a great job of making it look mature, stable, widespread, and approachable, IMHO. (If you want to see a language which is actually really cool, but historically hasn't done a good job of marketing itself, look at OCaml. Maybe it's had better marketing in French, though.)

Also, Lua is in a bit of a unique situation, because probably half the people using it (give or take) are using it inside of an existing project, which would provide most of the libraries they need. Also, the Lua team has intentionally made it easy to fork local dialects of the language, which in many cases are probably too nuanced to be of general use. (It's MIT licensed, so there's no requirement to contribute back.)
That is a great article, answered my question.
The part I don't understand is: twice or thrice as smart as what? What are you doing if you're not talking or writing? If you're not doing those, then no one can test your intelligence against when you are.
good point, I am always curious about how the Musilm solve the problem of male/female inbalance given the fact that one man can marry 4 wives.
Is there any way to give grep some context? It's great knowing what file a word came from, but I've never figured out how to get grep to spit out the leading and following lines too.
Hi, I'm the founder of Woobius. Firstly, thanks for your kind words on the user interface. We are fortunate to have Cliff Rowley who been a key driving force behind it.

With respect to the body of your comment. The reason Woobius is useful to architects and engineers is that it fits into their existing workflow - e.g. they produce a 2D drawing that forms part of their legal documentation. While this process is (for all intent and purposes), basic, it's often neglected. Being practicing architects ourselves, we realised that by making this easy and efficient, our collaboration cost can be dramatically reduced.

I believe that once we have achieved this first step, we can start to tackle the more complex issue of allowing collaborative annotation on drawings themselves. Hopefully, by which time we would be in position to annotate a 3D model even!
Does it have to dethrone Google to be a success? I don't think so. If they can take away 5 points in marketshare from from Google that is a huge success and will draw in a lot more money for Microsoft. If they take five points from Google, they are also likely to take away 5 points from yahoo and that is a huge gain. I think Bing is a good search engine, nothing revolutionary, but every product doesn't need to be revolutionary to be successful.
> my GPA, and my college achievements

That'll give you an edge against other college students without experience. Try to get a good internship.
Niche market? The construction related part of the economy is huge! I think their pricing is just right. By charging more for additional storage space, they have an ideal "try before you buy" situation.

Mobile clients might be very useful. Missed collaboration in construction often results in stuff that cost money to put there and more money to correct. The ability for those in the field to get clarification quickly could save lots of money.
from `man grep`:

-A NUM, --after-context=NUM
Print NUM lines of trailing context after matching lines. Places a
line containing a group separator (--) between contiguous groups of
matches. With the -o or --only-matching option, this has no effect and
a warning is given.

-B NUM, --before-context=NUM
Print NUM lines of leading context before matching lines. Places a
line containing a group separator (--) between contiguous groups of
matches. With the -o or --only-matching option, this has no effect and
a warning is given.

-C NUM, -NUM, --context=NUM
Print NUM lines of output context. Places a line containing a group
separator (--) between contiguous groups of matches. With the -o or
--only-matching option, this has no effect and a warning is given.