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One thing I'll say about this essay, which was great btw, is that its comforting to hear that other programmers feel the same way in terms of actually not starting work if they have a meeting coming up, and how having their day sliced up kills productivity. I've always felt this way but also kind of suffered in silence - so thanks pg for putting this out there
Well if they can shift from IBM to Microsoft, I'm sure they can shift again if Microsoft actually embraces FLOSS to any great extent. Which further undermines the original point claiming that FSF just parrot the opposite of whatever Microsoft say.
They don't need to have a master plan. Just leaving ammo lying around when a future Microsoft could have any of a million reasons to use it is the problem.
The more eyes you have on it, the more varied the views, the weaker the bias becomes but also the more watered down the perspective. You have a solid "review board" size at 4-5. You guys & gal will minimize cognitive biases. I'm only commenting because I spent a few hours recently reading and writing about the topic, it's all new to me though (blog links are in HN).
I find the opposite. Button up Shirts of mine that are 15-20 years old are still wearable, while shirts that are 5 years old end up frayed and torn.
More info here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=719408
I submitted this to reddit as opposed to HN thinking it was too low-brow / off-topic for here. I suppose I was wrong!
Of course, if a girl didn't want you in her 20s, you certainly don't want her in her 40s.
Are the two incompatible?
On the contrary, thinking about the figures some more, I'm sure that by far the typical case of a United States person who is reported to the WHO as having starved to death is an old person with other severe medical issues who couldn't digest food, or who ordered his physicians to cease tube-feeding as a way to die "naturally." (I know of cases of each, upon further reflection.) Such deaths are an individual phenomenon, regrettable to be sure, but not a societal phenomenon in a country where eating without paying out of pocket is a charitable service enjoyed by millions each day.
This is a great sales pitch for YC, wish it was on their application sheet Jamie :).

I've been wanting to move out to San Jose anyway...
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I found a good answer on this nest of a comment page: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=715530
I was already expecting to see such tablet (basically a bigger iPod Touch) when the iPhone 3GS came out.

And I completely agree that it makes much more sense than a Netbook for Apple.
I guess the Wamp installers take care of this for you. I've been using Mysql on Windows via Wamp for years without a problem.

btw, the SQLyog product that Webyog makes is awesome. I use it all day, everyday.
Link should be http://www.isistwitterdowndown.com/

Reminds me of the old trick of typing (including quotes) 'bash: command: command not found' into bash.
Yes of course.

But dating is like marketing, not like sales. You're not trying to win one particular girl, you're exploring all the options, making yourself known, and seeing where the opportunities might be.

It's a numbers game.

I think the guys who realize this early in life get lucky a lot more than the rest of us, sadly.
No, not at all. I just meant that I don't subscribe to the 'Google are brilliant, Microsoft are evil' thing that's common these days.
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I'd have to re-read to be sure but I don't think Prof Dershowitz was commenting on salaries at all. The salary of the professors shouldn't be linked to the Uni's investments. The Prof to me was saying that if they'd been less inclined to blow all the money in the rich years then they'd have the reserves needed to tide themselves over the lean years without having to dick about with peoples salaries, etc..

Also, them overspending 100Million on a building has got to bite a bit when they then announce they're going to cut back on your breakfast. $100Mil buys a lot of breakfast.
that's witty.
Huh, somehow missed this one previously. Thanks rms
They really don't make their money selling Visual Studio either. They make their money selling Windows, which Visual Studio (and their .NET implementation) is 100% geared towards.
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I respect Dean Kamen's intelligence and creativity, but it appears to me he is trying to solve problems that may not exist. His frustration stems for this idea that he needs to create a "sustainable" world. What if he is wrong? What if the world is "sustainable" without his inventions? I agree with his premise that there is too little long term planning, but long term vision is more educated guessing than science. Look back in history and see how wrong many of the predictions have been, especially ones of doom and gloom. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Population_Bomb While things are far from perfect and could be improved, the sky isn't likely to fall.
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Clearly none of these people (the TC author or the web-it.com people) have ever been near a corporate IT department.

There is no need for them to upgrade IE6 (they definitely wont want to go to IE8 because it would require mass retraining, welcome to the corporate world).

IE6 does what they want - if their employee's cant access youtube, well, it's hardly high on their list of priorities right?
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The 'create your event now' button on sub-pages appears to go nowhere. I didn't sign up but otherwise, love the design.
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The UK government have been trying this for some time with no joy - people are dead against it (I'm ambivalant myself).

I suspect getting it done in the US will be even harder - how many people dont even have/want/need passports (I know it used to be 60% but that could well have changed)?
What do you mean? Do you see a dozen stack frames? It's not embedded in 10 iFrames, is it?
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It does appear that the signup button on the tour page is dysfunctional. Thanks!
"And mutual compatibility"

Depends on what you are looking for, of course. One great thing about being single is that you have the opportunity to temporarily wrap your life together with someone who isn't necessarily much like you at all. It's like traveling. You can visit many places that you wouldn't want to call home.
it would be interesting to know how google manages all their little easter eggs.
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Hi,

I will be visiting Berlin for a week, arriving on the 28/7 and I was wondering if there are any startup people in town who'd like to meet up sometime for dinner or drinks. I've heard great things about Berlin and will spend half my time exploring the town and the rest doing some recreational hacking to charge my mental batteries. Guess, I should introduce myself as well, I'm currently living in Gothenburg (Sweden) working for a medical startup doing research on how to use haptics for stroke rehabilitation. At work we mostly do stuff in C++ and Python and at home I like to code Haskell and CL.

BTW, Does anybody have recommendations for nice cafe´s for some recreational coding (with good coffee and WIFI)?

Cheers,
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> "In fact, if anyone earns over 10%, that means that someone else must be earning less than 10%. So, maybe it's a 10-sum game, but most people still use the term "zero-sum game" to describe the situation."

You fixed the rate of increase. Jesus. Obviously it'll look zero-sum under those circumstances. The point is, the more efficiently the stock market's played, the faster it grows overall (in theory). It's not zero-sum.
I wish he would have included a chapter on the condition system. I've had a hard time wrapping my head around it. Everyone says "It's great, but you have to see it in action."
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What tech did you use to create the app?
And, apparently, they both got what they wanted.
No, but the back button still works :]
So that is how I wrote all that code yesterday...
did you mean http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=719408 ?
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Nice job on putting this together. I recently used http://eventbrite.com to plan an event. Seems to be quite similar to what you've put together and has a pretty nice UI (a big improvement over evite anyway) - they also have the ability to charge for tickets, manage your event, etc. Are you thinking the field for "beautiful" event management apps is still small and you're going to go after some of that?
I try to avoid taking stories from Reddit, but this merited an exception. Nice find!
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Look at the URL it changes after every click.
I think the handwritten points on the flipchart are an excellent touch by Bezos and likely resonated with the Zappos employees. Even better if it was organic rather than by design.

For those that missed the video, Bezos's points:
- Obsess over customers
- Invent
- Think long term
- It's always Day 1
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I'm impressed by your landing page. You often see sites put up for review on YC that give little attention to the landing page, even though any PPC advertiser will tell you it can often mean the difference between a user clicking 'Signup' or 'Back'

Your landing page let's me know what the app does, how much it costs (kind of) and the benefits to me of using it. Building on that last point, the only thing I'd consider changing is renaming "Manage your event" to "Why use guestlist" and listing the benefits in a bullet list.

Well done on a great design and landing page. Good luck with it
A lot of these ITWorld posts are just link bait... (they all come from one user too). Grr.

Anyway - I submitted the original source of this to save a few clicks :) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=719496
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I can only exist in this state for a very short period. Then it's time to pull out the resume and hit the bricks.
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I always thought that to beat google you would have to be better by a huge margin. So even if its true that this searchengine performs 5% better (whatever that measures) it's not enough to convince people to switch.
Starving children, vs children working 16 hours a day in a tomato field? That's not a good choice to have to make.

I'm pretty sure it IS an easy choice. B is clearly the correct answer. Over time it will get better but even if it DOESN'T, even if it onlways comes down to: A) Starve or B) 16hrs in a farm field. B is the easy right answer.

Now option C is something that's going to take a lot more then simply buying more expensive tomatoes.
I think the parent was downvoted for asking people to explain it to him, versus typing "Zappos" into Google, and then clicking "Search".
Why can't you enjoy the comics ? always trying to add a feature to a bug :D author has the credit to the comics in the blog post. care to see it ?
flagged as this is article is riddled with affiliate links for mancuso5 - same user who submitted this article.
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I checked out your app yesterday, after seeing that you'll be presenting at DemoCamp. I was very interested in this idea, because I've needed or been asked to develop this type of app in the past.

I'm very impressed with everything I've seen so far. I played around with it as much as I could, stopping short of making any actual payments, and it all looks great.

Best of luck!

P.S. I'd also be interested in hearing about what tools you used, particularly on the front end.

Edit: just remembered one tiny thing that bugged me: I couldn't immediately figure out what the "Quantity" field referred to. I thought it might mean that tickets could be sold in sets. Maybe you could fit in a less ambiguous description like "Number of tickets for sale".
Video games are entertainment, but not the only kind and so not themselves essential. Water is the only water.

There is an actual value scale here for people, and belittling or denying it shouldn't be part of choosing to be a game maker.
Pfft - why would people downvote this? Come on, people...
Hmmm....I like the idea of having two goals to switch back and forth from, but I'm not seeing how your app is any different than putting a post-it note on my computer screen. In fact, a post-it note on the computer screen might be a little bit better about keeping me focused, simply because it would always be there, staring me in the face accusingly as I procrastinate by reading HN.

Of course, the fact that I have to babysit myself may be more of a reflection on me than on your app...
We are definitely going after the "beautiful" market. But it is not just about beauty. It is very much about usability. Apps like Eventbrite and Amiando are very feature rich, but their aesthetics and user experience is not for everybody. If you just want to host a simple event you can get lost in all their options and may not even find the few options you do want.
There's another more fundamental issue with education at the high school level in the US: scheduling. Usually high school students go through 6 periods of 50 minutes each daily, often with one of them being a study period alternating with physical education.

Putting the students truly curious about math, who usually make up a small percent of the students in the college bound math classes, and aligning them with a teacher capable of keeping them engaged is possible. The problem lies in having them attend their other subjects at a level appropriate to them. Keep in mind that each member of this subset of students may not be at the same level as their peers in other subjects.

If these curious math students are not segregated out, which often happens, then a teacher has 20-30 good math students with a few being curious enough to be elite. Keeping the two distinct groups of that class engaged requires distinct lesson plans for each group. The goals of each day's lesson plan need to be met within no more than a 40 minute window - I'm being generous that taking attendance and assigning home work take up no more than 10 minutes of class time.

I admit it's a worthwhile goal to have the curious math students more engaged. However, I don't see it being possible unless a more fundamental restructuring of high school education occurs. Perhaps have it structured more like a university schedule in which students take 3 subjects daily with each class being 1-1.5 hours.
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They competitors boat is a feat of engineering as well:

http://www.alinghi.com/en/

The rules are basically unrestricted, build a 90'x90' boat, no matter the budget, a very interesting engineering challenge and both teams went in different directions.
I think this probably has to do with attractive people thinking that they should be approached. If you're beautiful, especially for women, you're asked to do less for attention and reward. So you get used to doing little, and expect others to come to you.
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The first example in the article would push me away, but for a different reason: Every site that uses Stockphotography so ovious and in such a huge format is most likely scam of some sort. It's like the blinking banners of old times.
My students forged the notes. I turned them into a lesson plan.
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Because it's obviously the same as the link 30 pixels away. Which also damages the "hrm... Oh!" factor of the original.
I actual appreciated the historical background, the information about the Management Company, the loose focus on the main issue, the commentary and evidence gathering.

It is a complicated situation with multiple reasons for the failure and with wide ranging repercussions, I paragraph wouldn't real do it.

If you want the executive summary then - Uni financial managers got rich, bailed, made greed based short term decisions which when recessions came wiped out most of the financial reserve; other managers locked up the rest in assets with poor liquidity.
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This is an excellent little feature.

I do wonder though, that if you send the unsubscribe request via this feature if Google lowers the weight of your spam report. As someone that runs a few mailing lists I know that many users will click the 'spam' button in their email client instead of sending an unsubsribe request. They don't realize it, but if enough people do that on gmail, yahoo or hotmail the mailing list is marked as spam and its almost impossible to get unmarked as spam.
Call me crazy, but I just can't help but keep clicking that damn link, hoping to find the real Easter egg when I "blow the stack"...

Only hit the first few magic numbers so far, but I'm kinda nervous about bombing Google with too many requests in a short period of time, I doubt they look kindly on that...ah well, better things to do with my time anyhow.
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Overall this is a very clear and concise first page to land on. It explains clearly what your app does and why I should sign up.

Once I did those things I like the step-by-step flow of filling out details of my event.

Sites like eventbrite have endless options, but I find that I do not use most of them. When I need to find something it is usually hidden, but this is not the case.

Beautiful and simple design with a quality backend usually work best.
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Thanks for the downlinks I'll be here all day.
how is it superior to simple bleach based purification?
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I wonder if this will lead to unsubscribe links containing captchas. Oh the irony...
Here in Denver, the public transportation is heavily subsidized by sales taxes. Depending on whose statistics you listen to, 20-40% of the cost of running RTD comes from farebox revenue (the rest comes from mostly a sales tax levy and some from federal grants). City route buses get about 4mpg, and they use so much fuel that every 1/10 of a cent rise in diesel comes out to $100,000 annually.

The worst waste is required by ADA. AccessiRide (those short buses for the severly handicapped) cost RTD about $45 per trip.
The slingshot is about 1,000 british pounds. For all its technology, that is really high. I work with engineers without borders and my team has gone the opposite route. Some water purification for all is better than perfect water purification for few. Our water purifier is basically a giant Brita filter. A concrete form for a tank, about a meter of sand, a plastic top, some piping, and you can have decent water purification for under $200 per village. The slingshot is technically superior but economically unfeasible.
The results change a bit every once in a while, too, but that may just be some internal pseudo-randomness in the search results algorithm, I'm not sure.
Moreover, the posting guidelines FORBID "N most awesomest..." kind of articles
They might throw you the odd CAPTCHA but apart from that I doubt they'd do anything.
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Oh wow! What a revolutionary development in software engineering! I can see this being used at least twenty years in the future.
I also suggest:

* Ardour (http://ardour.org/) - a digital audio workstation

* Cinelerra (http://cinelerra.org/) - for video editing

* Snd (http://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/snd/snd/snd.html) - a sound editor scriptable in scheme, ruby or forth.
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They should just offer this directly. You shouldn't have to first declare it "spam" (which I would feel bad about if it was something I'd signed up for), nor should I have to scrabble about in the small print for a link that might then expect me to log in with a password.

Maybe Google could push for a standard unsubscribe mechanism with the driver being that you're more likely to get falsely accused of being spam if you don't offer people an easy way out.
They should let you unsubscribe without reporting as spam. As far as I'm concerned, anyone whose mailing list I ended up on as a result of a purchase and who lets me end it with one click shouldn't have their email delivery system damaged by spam reports. Those should be left for the non-opt-in and non-unsubscribable lists.
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It boggles my mind that anyone is impressed by such trivial things.
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