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S3's horrendous drivers cost me months of my life, trying to get XFree86 to run on a Toshiba laptop in about '95.
This is not the right forum for homework questions. It is a tree, though.
That reminded me this. 100 rejections:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxyySRgrYsU
"...symbolic glyphs that had widespread communal and historical use"

The answer lies within your question.
I never got an email. What does this mean?
Explaining weakness of Dual EC DRBG to wider audience?
If I knew then what I know now, I'd be rich. I sometimes wonder what it would be like if I found myself transported back to the late 90's with a copy of jQuery. I'd blow their tiny minds I would.
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I hate bad APIs
> they made no guarantees about our stuff being secure from meddling by their own staff or external agencies

Short of renting a cage, how could any provider guarantee that?
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I knew I wouldn't get an interview this batch. I am single founder, with no previous success and no tech background.

But I just shipped a product that I am selling to restaurants - a SaaS loyalty program based on Facebook check-in, my current price is ~U$70/month.

Today, after one week selling it, I have 2 clients. How many clients must I have in 4 months (next batch application) to impress YC even with all my obvious red flags?
nothing would run jQuery bro.

now get transported back with a copy of Firefox...
STL != STD
PLEASE HELP ME GET 1 MILLIONS VIEWER
Loop unrolling, inlining, dead code elimination does not change the asymptotical complexity of the program. This optimisation does.
... And so is the game... Nothing to see here. Move along.
They stopped using Boehm since 3.2 release of Mono. In certain cases the new GC is 10x faster.
I agree that they're being too nice to the founders thinking if their feedback could alter their paths. I like how you draw parallels to a break-up. But even during a break-up pussyfooting around what made you break up with the other person just makes them generally sour and guarded.

I've seen a lot of people who speculate (often for a long time), at the reasons for their break-up and that ends up consuming them. It might lead to them questioning the very basis of why they started doing something in the first place.

Feedback helps there! I guess, the sheer volume of applications make it impossible for them to individually respond to every application, but, without feedback, it just seems grim and insincere.
The compiler is not required to perform RVO/NRVO and when it can be done depends on some surprising things such as the calling convention of the machine you are targeting. It's just an optimization the standard allows compilers to do (eliding copies).

What C++11 provides is a new kind of type that says "it is safe to steal the guts of this value". You can use this to overload a copy constructor or assignment operator to do "moves" instead of "copies". Because it is baked into the type system, it is guaranteed to happen when you expect it. While eliding a copy essentially has 0 cost, and the compiler will still prefer this over a move, moving a vector can have a very small cost (copying a few pointers), but it is still O(1) instead of O(n).
There still might be bias in what a wife knows of her husband.
If they said SHA-256 with salt, excuse us to think it is just that, with no iteration. If it's iterated SHA-256 it becomes a lot closer to PBKDF and one wonder why they would not use it.

Given Adobe history wrt security, let us assume the worst.
You followed another account that was renamed.
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The very different fates of Frontback and Checkthis on the App Store
It is. Actually it is in a completely different league:
1. non-generational (= low throughput)
2. imprecise (= no guarantees on freeing unreferenced memory)
3. stop-the-world (= long pauses)
4. non-compacting (= allocation is slow and fragmentation still might be a problem)
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Outsourcing your chores is a good thing
It is sometimes handy, but generally compared to GC it is slow and incurs lots of contention in multithreaded programs.

Imagine you return a reference-counted pointer from a function. Then every call to this function is a lock/unlock and CPU cache synchronization. And if the pointed object is shared between threads (even for read-only access) this might lead to lot of contended locks/unlocks, which is extremely costly.
I like both ideas, a lot. I'm a heavy FF user (usually > 100 tabs open, heavily customized, running Aurora) but never used these live updates. I didn't even know that they exist.

A decent (stable, open) xmpp client somewhere in my FF session would be much appreciated, given that GTalk's going away/moving to Hangouts and I'm migrating to my self-hosted XMPP server.
I can't draw on it.
Do not follow quack recommendations like this. memracon is not a medical doctor and is not licenced to practice medecine. That makes memracom a quack.
I managed to do both :). My statement was a generalization, but I had seen more gamer programmers than not.
Again, as investors in the company, not in the people that come out of their training, which is my question!
A thought-provoking and masterful positioning on a subject that must be dealt with the only possible peaceful way: with communication.

What if the 'net, instead of being used to commit heinous crimes against humanity, instead continues to grow, and prosper, and flourish as a peace mechanism? After all, a lot of people do want to share intimate details about themselves with anyone who wants to listen. There is a peaceful use of this, isn't there? And doesn't it hinge on the ability of the individual to make the decision, as opposed to the state yanking the privilege from you as a sovereign, hmm .. ?

Off to find out more about Cyber Peace initiatives ..
The problem is not a history of killing failed product, it's a history of killing products that everyone is actually using, without giving it as much of a chance as a company of Google's resources might be expected to, for political reasons rather than practical reasons.

As a couple of good examples: Google Wave was created to give the Rasmussen brothers (creators of Google Maps) something high-profile to do. Then it was launched in a disastrously bad way (closed beta? for a new communication tool meant to replace email?). Then as adoption started to build (but not quick enough to satisfy the political needs of the project), Wave was yanked after just a year.

Google Reader became a cornerstone of the web's infrastructure, a public utility service that cost comparatively little, returned perhaps little other than good will, but ultimately served a purpose for millions of users. But that wasn't enough for Google, so they yanked it.

In both cases, there was no real alternative path offered. Google just made an internal political decision to yank a project, and that's that. The public never even got the option to try and support the project.

Based on the above and other less high-profile examples, I'm not willing to invest my time as an early adopter in a company that has the deep pockets to fund long-shot projects, but doesn't have the balls to follow them through to their exciting conclusions.

Google Wave was a very exciting development with a lot of promise. Google Reader could have been evolved further and become an even more important piece of infrastructure, with all the good will associated with that. Instead, both are now black splotches on Google's reputation, in my view at least.
I'm a huge Evernote fan and I love the look of this, but MySQL - seriously?
I wonder if it is possible to create an "ultimate" notetaking application. What I found out is that whether it is "open" is not important to me, but the GUI is. For example, organizing notes in a folder tree doesn't work for me - I need to have them in a list, tagged and instantly searchable.

So far, I settled with ResophNotes (and SimpleNote backend), since I found out that the speed of the New note dialog launch is of a great importance to me, and ResophNotes is instaneous, and generally very quick due to it's text-only nature.
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Haha so true. I remember I had an S3 Virge DX back then, and it was actually slower to enable 3D 'acceleration' in the few games that supported the card, than using software rendering. It didn't add much if anything to the quality of the visuals either ;-)
That's not what I meant. Universal was a too strong, agreed. But the sentiment I meant to express was that codepoints should not be whimsical, tied to any one particular proprietary company or sub-group.
Not homework
Just ship diaspora by default. If I had any time to donate to OSS development, I'd be there. And I think lots of other devs who want to make a difference to the world through OSS should consider it.
All valid points, many of which I have considered as well. It would just be more satisfying to hear it definitively from YC.

The same goes for specific feedback. I can think of many reasons they might have rejected us. However, I would like to know how they see it, and perhaps if they have new insights. I also happen to think we have a solid team, with a great idea/design/app, and would like to know if they strongly disagree or if we just didn't quite make the cut.

Perhaps at some point I will post my app here. Perhaps if the YC partners tell me it's a shitty idea that will never work, I might be more convinced that I don't have to be concerned about anyone stealing my idea.
We might have world class food (thanks to FCI's rathouses) but for sure that ain't reaching 600 million. The logic runs thus, they've got no place to shit, so why they need food.

Hat's off to those who stay back in this crazy country and strive hard to lift this sunken ship, and for sure the ISRO folks are among them.
"When reading phrases like these, which are used in the book routinely, readers should remember that Jeff was never interviewed for this book, [...]"

Since the subject of the book is still alive, I guess it's an unauthorized biography?
For someone so close to Amazon, you'd think she would verify her name in her profile so that the review would show the Real Name tag next to her name (adding a little more credibility). Maybe it doesn't really matter since this is just her third review on Amazon, the other two written in year 2001.
What does an XMPP client built in to FF give you that a normal stand-alone XMPP client wouldn't?
Chart of 2010 terrorism is missing a key: it looks like Britain is a hotbed or terrorist activity.

"Please demonstrate you can spot a rhetorical question when you see one". I stopped reading.
Sure, we're not certain, but giant mushrooms are our best guess.
I do not have a problem with generic dingbats that have a genuine historical authenticity. I would have a problem with something designed less than 20 years ago that seems to have very arbitrary and whimsical glyphs as is the case with Webdings which came into being in 1997. It is even more troublesome and annoying that it is the product of some corporation and not a shared cultural artifact.
What you are talking about is really just the calling convention common on many machines. When you have a function returning a struct, what really happens is that the return address for the struct is passed as an extra argument. No construction of the struct happens prior to this, its just an address. Compilers are able to take advantage of this calling convention in many cases to elide copies, and the result is RVO/NRVO.
My inbox currently contains 5800 e-mails and takes ~500mb of disk space. Doing a full text search takes a bit, even on a laptop.
Good, thanks.

As somebody who uses SimpleNote I welcome competition to this area. Primarily because I've pleaded with SimpleNote crew to let me have documentation to their latest API as I maintain the simplenote.el, Emacs frontend for it. Only to be consistently ignored.

Evernote already broke the access to their app via the existing Emacs mode.

So any app eats into this market is welcome. Thanks again.
Being web-based is a blocker for me. No offline with multi-device store-forward sync means any other merits become semantic.

What I'd pay money for is OneNote with credible encryption.
It seems the account was renamed https://twitter.com/jukkan/status/397691910359625729/photo/1
Second spy law passes in New Zealand
Ah, I'm with you anyway, I did indeed spend hours and hours and hours, at one point in my life, gaming away .. for me it was Descent2 and Warcraft2, the good ol' 90's, and well .. it didn't last long. I realized I was better off writing code than running someone elses. ;)
It's usually not "high-value doctors".

Here in Uruguay, the lowest rung of doctors (which are the ones you get on call) are paid about U$ 1500/month. And they did at least 7 years of studies (which are tuition-free in Uruguay).

A lot of them are emigrating to Brazil of course.
if you've been there long enough and it's not a licensed hotel, you might be under an implicit lease agreement and could force his hand for not maintaining the property correctly.
Another fantastic example of this is the site for Space Jam -- http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/jam.htm
I don't like MySQL either. But it's probably the perfect choice. Or perhaps you think something webscale[1] is required?

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
It would be nice if they could secure communications end-to-end going through Facebook chat or Google Talk, too, but I'm not sure that's possible anymore, with both of them using pretty proprietary protocols or API's now.
The site is not loading for me, here's the Coral Cache: http://blogg.forteller.net.nyud.net/2013/first-steps/
OrientDB becomes Distributed using Hazelcast
A reaction to Rackspace's announcement (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6673558) perhaps? Gotta say, Rackspace's new servers are quite compelling compared to Amazon's standard instances.
A long, well-written review that is ultimately worthless as the author is clearly biased due to being related to the subject of the book. A good illustration of the importance of context vs content.
Not only are there plenty of applications that already do this, you could also develop a firefox plugin for it. Why on Earth would you want it in the browser core?
Surprised that there is just one mention in this entire thread of Dr. Esselstyn[1] and Dr. Dean Ornish[2] - two doctors who deserve more attention in any discussion on the topic of preventing heart disease. They have published research and studies showing that it is possible to prevent and actually reverse heart disease - even in advanced cases of artery blockage - by strict diet and lifestyle changes. President Clinton has adopted their recommended diet after his coronary bypass surgery. Highly recommend reading their research studies and books on the subject.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldwell_Esselstyn

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Ornish
Table-based layouts are indispensable for HTML emails. But then.. Outlook still uses the MS-Word rendering engine from 2007 (basically).
I definitely see what you are saying. I suppose after you've included the glyphs for the world's natural languages and common shared symbols you're going to move into more contentious areas. I'd prefer them to be a bit more conservative though but I see your point of view. What if we start having well known brand logos like the ubiquitous golden arches as codepoints. I would argue they've gone too far here and broken with the spirit of the enterprise.
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I'm a fan of relational databases, just not MySQL.
I've been administering MySQL, PostgreSQL and Oracle (not to mention a few others I'm too embarrassed to mention) for some time now and MySQL is a right pain in the ass. I'd rather see it use PostgreSQL. Love the video by the way!

http://grimoire.ca/mysql/choose-something-else
Just ordered one, and also a Dylos DC1100 particle counter. I'm often in Shanghai, and pollution can get pretty rough even if we have it better than in Beijing. I'll make sure to measure the hell out of it and see if it really works. :)

Edit: I know the particle counter ($200) is 6 times the price of the air purifier, which can seem ridiculous; but to me it makes much more sense to do that than to buy a $300 air filter and just pray for the best while having no clue at all about what's really going on.
> How many countries achieve this after having these many "core" problems.

It is a great feat! It's confusing to me how India can plan something like this, but cannot fix the problem of buying train tickets. I've heard that the queues can be quite long.

But it is exciting to see India sending things into space.
The alternative to returning a vector by value would more likely be passing an empty vector by reference and then adding elements to it, then returning void. Returning a pointer instead (or unique_ptr) would be replacing value semantics with reference semantics which would be less efficient and inconsistent in interface. That's what move semantics bring to C++, consistent interfaces and efficiency.
Why compare this to OneNote? It doesn't seem to fit the same use cases as OneNote, which is optimized for pen based input.
> If you believe such courts aren't biased, do tell me if anybody from the US chain of command was ever prosecuted in any international court for anything? It will never happen as long as the US remain what it is.

I was under the impression that because the US has not ratified the statute of the court, their citizens cannot be tried in the court. It might be more subtle than that - perhaps someone with more knowledge can expand.

My opinion is that a body like the International Criminal Court is valuable to world stability, and I hope that accusations of partiality will, over time, be shown to be incorrect.
The founder of a whistleblower site using Skype? Did the journalist get it wrong?
Or doesn't Assange give a clippy about security?
I disagree. As commenter K. Mitnick put it:

The authors are entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to "their own facts".
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Can you guess which country is the 6th highest in remittances?

France.

Do you want to guess what number 8 is? Germany. Are these poor countries? Are remittances "international aid"? No, not necessarily. They're just an example of extended families spread out across different countries sending different parts of the family money. Should we begrudge France or Germany their remittances? Or their space programs?
Religious rituals are meant to connect with the divine. The idea being they are not inventions of ordinary people. Some created superstition just gives some order in someone's life and is just a shadow of a proper ritual.
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It gives you a huge network/user base who would never install a stand-alone client, but who let Facebook lock them in to their chat system because it's dead simple.

Remember, this is not about making life easier for geeks like us, people who actually know what XMPP is. It's about making it just as seamless to use Open web technologies/social networks for normal people as it is to use closed/private systems like Facebook.
Why don't you contribute (more) to open source projects?
You listed mostly desktop apps and games = exactly what I said. And even in this area, C++ is not used exclusively - see Minecraft (Java), Azureus (Java), Gimp (C), VisualStudio (new code mostly C#). So no, not every.

BTW: There are many interesting and successful complex applications really pushing the hardware that were not written in C++: Cassandra (Java), Hadoop (Java), PostgreSQL (C), Netty (Java), Nginx (C), TeX/LaTeX (uh, this one is really interesting). So, again, C++ is not the only reasonable choice when performance matters.
"Todd Carlisle, director of staffing at Google, told a panel at the Inforum conference...that no job applicants ask about work perks, and no one turns down a job based on what perks are available."

That's not true at all. I terminated my interview process with Google because they would not commit to very simple benefit requirements (ie: would I keep my same level of benefits if I change product teams; am I required to use the doctor office closest to the job site or am I free to choose my own; who pays for the hardware/software to do the job; can I roll a 401k into the company provided 401k and does the company 401k allow to be transferred if I leave Google).

As for Google "gourmet" food - nobody in their right mind cares if HR hands out vending machine token for muffins with "gourmet" on the wrapper. But show me a company that can successfully respond to the above issues and they'll have no problem hiring - and no one terminating the process.
Firefox was founded to replace bloated Mozilla. Adding a chat client won't help.
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Are you alluding to some sort of hardware mechanism by mentioning machines? In what context are calling conventions machine dependent?

The reason it's notable in C++ is because the code that would normally be called in the constructor is not called as many times as the person writing the code might expect.

In C++ structs can have constructors, but usually have an empty default constructor supplied by the compiler, this is more of an issue when structs/classes have user supplied constructors.

Here's an article giving more specifics of the history of NVRO from Stan Lipmann. Interestingly, NVRO was not added to Visual C++ til 2003, and Lipmann prefers NVRO off by default. I think I recall an NVRO flag in that compiler. NVRO was available in cfront and Zortech compilers in the early nineties. [1]

[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/slippman/archive/2004/02/03/66739.as...
I couldn't see from a scan through the docs- does any-one know if it does attachments?
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This reminded me of the biblical story of Job [1]!

[1] http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job+1&version=NI...
Because it seems like the developer never used it, otherwise he would not write thank Microsoft "For making terrible products" in the credits.
Exactly. OneNote is the only piece of software I've used that does stylus-based notetaking right. And Microsoft has been supporting this stuff all the way along, which means notes you take today won't be obsolete tomorrow.
> commenter K. Mitnick

"Ken Mitnick" btw, not Kevin. Just in case anyone wondered. Like I did-
Well, as I say in the blog post: «I’m sure there are some extensions out there doing all this already. But that’s just not good enough. It needs to be built into the browser to make it easy and visible enough.»

What do I mean not visible enough? For people to use it, they need to know about it. Most people don't even know they can use extensions (or even what a browser is), but they do know that Facebook has a chat function, because it's right there.

Remember, this is not about making life easier for geeks like us. It's about making it just as seamless to use Open web technologies/social networks for normal people as it is to use closed/private systems like Facebook.
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I was pleased to see that you can copy and paste images into the text editor - so it can certainly handle image attachments.

Dragging and dropping a file into the editor doesn't seem to work - the link is there when you save the note but the file doesn't seem to get uploaded.
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