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Haha, you have the opposite opinion of me, but you also pretty-much have the exact opposite experiences too. Maybe we both know a lot in our "main" subjects and think of all the underlying knowledge/related material is required to be useful, but in reality you can just pick up the knowledge you need on its own without any background knowledge on how it all works, you'll be confused when that stuff in mentioned or brought up, but if you stay in your niche you'll be fine.
If you're willing to hack around in a phone, then a jailbroken iPhone offers very similar software functionality. At that point your tradeoff is polished user interface versus a better camera and FM radio.
Sorry to keep talking to myself. I kept the FF window open and bizarrely, after reloading the IE (since I assumed that one ought to work) the fonts showed up in the FF instance too.

Launched a few apps, and it seems that any fonts (/sizes?) that haven't been used by IE aren't visible in FF. (That's my W-A-G anyway)
disclaimer : I havent used it since I am on linux.
What about non-data related vandalism? Like someone painting the whole thing in pink? You start it one day and its blue, the next day its pink and the third day the "bold" button in some text editor application actually does italics?
Though I agree with you, I'd argue that namespaces took so long due to the fact that (as you state in your post) PHP is the most widely used scripting language today.

Like all widely used languages it evolves more slowly than those with smaller or niche communities. The PHP devs focus has clearly been stability and integrating the most widely used extensions into the core.

As you yourself said, "so goes the life of a language whose design is driven by demand and not theory."
It sounds like this guy got enormous return on his mini-retirement investment. He found true wisdom. We've all heard the things he's saying about life and happiness, but now he really grasps them. All for a somewhat unpleasant three-month trip to India.
I doubt the culture will change unless MS shifts its attitude towards open source even more (which is really doubtful). Until then, most people will only release quality stuff on a paid restricted commercial license.
Then your desktop becomes more portable, collaborative, hackable, and open. Windows or OSX could make their local scripting environments more open and universal but they have 0 incentive. So eventually the browser will do it. Inefficiencies will be squeezed out over time. Tabs aren't really windows although they will be (or vice versa).
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Still, the whole point of the service is to broadcast "you" to the world. That is, what's happening around you, affecting you etc.

To that regard, I think this guy's redesign conveys that message better to someone who has no idea what twitter is. People who already have a twitter account will almost never see this page. Thus, it should be focused entirely on acquiring new users.
I second dannyr. I too am a solo founder. I believe that the challenges of being solo are a combination of psychological and business.

From a psychological perspective. You'll have ups and downs in business. Good days where you think you're the best, bad days when you wonder why you're doing this at all, and of course, everything in between. A co-founder understands the different stages, and you get to celebrate/commiserate and continually motivate each other.

From a business perspective, I think it's easier to understand. Nobody can know everything. Different angles of how to approach the business (and sometimes but maybe to a lesser degree the technology). Is one an expert in marketing while the other is a product person? If the partnership is a strong symbiotic relationship, then you are clearly more than the sum of the parts.

Plus, two people can get more done in the same amount of time as one (not always, but usually). Two people have 1.23xxx times more network (lots of overlap), etc. etc.
listed as open source, I cannot find it anywhere. there a project/contributions page?
Given the number of lines of C code out there the number of fuckups is a lot less than you'd expect. Because C is usually used in gatekeeper situations (operating systems, compilers, servers, network stacks) when there is a breach it is serious.

I find it hard to conceive of a posix compliant OS written in a higher level language, especially because of the lack of deterministic behaviour when handling interrupts and allocating memory. C is mind numbingly simple at that level which is exactly why it is used in these situations.

But every language makes it possible to write insecure code, C has its own unique challenges:

It isn't that long ago that somebody managed to get an exploitable scenario out of UTF-8, it took me a long time looking at the code to see how it was even possible. In a higher level language that sort of thing is more difficult to achieve, that's for sure.
Wow, this is really cool! I don't know what I need it for exactly, but it's quite impressive.

Intellisense in .cs editor please. :)
The funny thing is that most languages that people use that criticize 'C' are usually at the core levels written in C.
There is probably a good case to be made for the claim that Unix would not exist if it weren't for the C language.

Check out Oberon (both the language(s) and the operating system(s)) for a look at an alternate universe in which C doesn't exist and Unix never happened. And people are happy.
And anything that can be done in C can be done. Although some mistakes are significantly more difficult to commit.
I like the new home page, but why don't I see it when I'm logged in?

It seems that someone might be confused by twitter since the search focus disappears after you create an account.
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dopplr doesnt help so much when it comes to planning. Tripadvisor is useful -- but it doesnt alleviate the problem that i still have to sift through the hundreds of posts to find the relevant info.

Aside - BC was great - loved Victoria !! More than Whistler :-)
Because a single colon is used in an alternative if/else/foreach etc syntax:

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The .ly TLD is Libya. Is it safe to use .ly domains like bit.ly does? Will Libya just jack the domain name Cuba style?
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Funny how this devolves into Apple v. Mac. Apple has gained share but I don't believe Apple has much to do with MS' decline. The real cause is the internet... it has slowly busting MS' monopoly power. It might have been inevitable but I think MS helped cause it. Way back in the 90s, every time MS saw a profitable Windows developer, they saw an opportunity to grow their own software business. They would even advise Venture Funds not to invest in certain areas. (Guess what.. venture investors want to make money, not battle MS.)

Funding and innovation for desktop development (read: Windows development) plummeted. Sure existing companies continued with their product lines and hobbyists built a huge shareware market. Meanwhile MS got fat dominating the market for software on their own platform, and with the increased PC sales for the ultimate killer app--the internet. They looked brilliant.

BUT... innovation didn't die. It moved to the web. And today, while most computers still run Windows, the dominant platform is NOT windows, it's the internet itself. Cloud computing has some real advantages but real disadvantages as well. But one of the advantages is that it was a workaround for the 80 billion pound gorilla, when every business analysis started with: Does this compete with MS?

Ironically, I see hints of Apple repeating the same mistake in its iphone... a platform that really has the legs to dominate in a way the mac never has. Financially and short term they're doing everything right and making billions. And they'll grow much more, just like MS in the 90s. But their whole app store/review approach is hostile to developers. In fact they're building a market that resembles the modern Windows market--only its 99c instead of shareware. Professional developers and capital and innovation is going away. The PageMakers and Photoshops of this stage of computing are going to happen on another platform. And Apple, like MS, a huge successful company with a strong embedded culture is unlikely to see the cause and effect and change its ways..

In the iphones case it won't take 15 years. But it will take a while. The iphone's current momentum is daunting. However, when you're a platform, your most valuable long term asset is your developers. But when your platform is a runaway success it appears to be too tempting to abuse those developers for short term gain. The absurdity of the Apple case is that Apple would seemingly make more money if they loosened up on the app restrictions. MS at least made serious money putting its developers out of business...
Some initial thoughts and answers:

1) Why: You need and want someone who can at least give thoughtful comments and critiques of ideas, plans, work, strategy, and tactics. Very, very few people do their best work in the lone-genius style, even in highly cerebral realms like academia; even Einstein had a few close friends to bounce ideas off regularly. In business, which always involves other people, a business simply can't scale without others.

2) Who: choose people with ability and ethics, and above all, a strong interest/passion in the venture. I think the essence here is trust, then right up there is ability to create/add value.

3) Terms: see Noam Wasserman's articles, http://founderresearch.blogspot.com/2007/01/topics-covered-i... where he discusses equity splits, founder relationships, compensation, etc. in useful detail. Also use Frank Demmler's Founder's Pie equity calculator, it's here with other relevant content,http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/fd0n/articles.htm

4) Stories: in process, will report on this later. :)
try it with resharper. brings it up to java ide level.
No my point is that Mac is a computer and is subject to the same shit that other computers are subject to, so if "this crap just works" stops working on a PC it will also stop working on a Mac. Mac's suffer hardware issues and software issues as well, however the perceived notion is that they don't.
What's with this trend of calling a vacation a "mini-retirement" anyway? Three months may be longer than average for a vacation, but lots of people have taken that sort of time out between jobs without needing to call it a "mini-retirement".
Don't tell me shouldibeworriedaboutscaling.com was taken?
Repeated vandalism is banned. Other conflicts are solved like on Wikipedia, where moderators step in if no consensus is found.

Furthermore, people are encouraged to add new features and create alternatives instead of modifying the existing classes, so that the popularity-based mechanisms do the job. For example, the "Filters" menu of the "Image Editor" is automatically populated with all the classes that inherit from the IFilter interface, sorted by popularity.
We use Bank of America--really easy. They handle everything for us except for the initial setup with the Federal and State governments--you still have to get your IDs and what not.

NOTE: make sure you get some accounting guidance here. It matters how you do this if you want to minimize taxes.
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JVM apps (at least if they are running in a container) aren't just portable across OS' (which is what I assume you meant), they are just plain portable.

In other words, I can tar up a Java appserver, copy it to another machine, untar it, and run it. No GAC, no registry, no caspol, no mysterious .dlls. It's all right there. Usually ;)
Do you really think all the carriers are going to use the fully open version of the Android? Keep in mind, there are three versions of it: 1-Minimal / non-branded, 2-Semi open / semi google branded, and 3-fully open / full google branded.

So far, we've only seen the third and most open version of the platform...
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Can someone explain their business model?
Umm... Like a travel agent? Anyone under 30 might not have ever had to use one. I don't even know how people made travel plans at all without an agent before all these travel sites existed. I think you had to show up at the ticket counter at the airport or something to buy a ticket. The alternative was to go to an agent's office where they were hooked into some system that let them sell you all kinds of tickets. I never had to deal with that mess, but my parents still use agents from time to time.

I agree that travel planning is a drag, but there are a couple reasons people hardly use agents anymore. They're expensive and most travelers want things fast and cheap. It's how airlines like Spirit (who I like to refer to as the "Greyhound of the Skies") manage to stay in business.

You've got your work cut out for you. There's already a solution to this problem. The only real opening you've got is the ability to provide something comparable at a very low cost.
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They wanted too much $$ for it :)

It's not funny enough to warrant $10

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This is the feedback we were looking for -- and you're right, the most interest in the concept has, so far, come from site owners looking to take back control of their content. BitsyBox was built with them in mind, but from a developers perspective (that's our background).

We showed the video to just a handful of freelance developers, so we really didn't focus too much on the perspective of the clients.

We're planning to make some changes to the video this weekend. Thanks guys.
Like Mystalic said above, Twitter is purposely trying to get away from the status updates.
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Not even a petabyte?

So when the iPhone v15 comes out with 1PB of storage we will be carrying more info in one device than our whole brain.

Interesting times ahead...
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not surprising. i had a friend back home whose father ran a pig farm, and he was recapturing methane and using it for power back in the early 90's.
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Have you looked into Rearden Commerce? It is popular with corporate clients.

http://www.reardencommerce.com/products/overviews/travel.php
Er, not exactly "NO".

There are 2 kinds of scaling.

If you're worried about being able to handle a volume of 10,000 on the first day, then the answer is probably "NO".

OTOH, if you're concerned about designing something industrial strength from the inside out, then the answer is probably "YES".

YES, you might as well build reuseable components now if you know you'll need them. If you know what you're doing, that shouldn't take any longer that writing the same code multiple times.

YES, you should write processor intensive code at a low level if you know you'll only have to rewrite it later. Again, doing it right in the first place shouldn't take any longer.

YES, you should build a flexible enough architecture if your specs and design aren't yet frozen in stone (whose are?)

YES, you should probably be doing lots of things right now to avoid doing them twice. You must use your professional judgement about which ones.

A blanket NO bypasses that judgement. That's not being fair to yourself.
Train a workforce in India and provide services for say 9.99 for single destination ? 4.99 for each additional destination ?

just thinking out loud !
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isnt it only for corporations to offer to their employees ?
We use Quickbooks. It's painless. Except for the Intuit part. But what are you gonna do? It's nice to have one tool for all accounting and payroll.
I have "mini-retired" several times and I have to say that OP just glossed over the most important thing: you must do your numbers!

Most people have no idea how much they spend. As long as $ is coming in, everything's OK. But you will probably be stunned at how fast it goes away if nothing is coming in.

Figure out how much you need to live each month, then double it. Better yet, triple it. Then give yourself at least 3 months to find your next gig. If you don't, you'll probably be sorry. Running out of money changes a mini-retirement into an emergency, believe me.
So will eating fewer calories and whole foods and grains.
"loud computing makes skills in setting up dedicated hardware from OS up and then engaging in smart capacity planning and proper deployment schemes so as to make horizontal (or vertical) scaling as painless as possible without the advantages provided by virtualization less necessary in today's computing landscape"

That makes for a great title doesn't it? LOL
I write iPhone applications for a living.

I don't see the App Store process as being developer hostile, at all. Yes there are a few specific areas where it's basically a hostile environment for development. But there is a far wider range of categories where the space is wide open. And that space is wider still now that Apple is finally letting people go hog wild with live video overlays in 3.1 (augmented reality stuff). You only see the contractions, but it's more than offset by expansion... and the contractions we do see, are bound to be temporary if other phones end up having compelling things the iPhone does not because of them (and the inevitable loss of AT&T exclusivity). That's far sooner than the 15 years you give them...
We're using PayChex and paying about $50/paycheck. But they take care of all tax withholding, etc.

We are also looking at ambrose (http://www.ambrosegroup.com/services/payroll_admin.html) to do both payroll and benefits administration for us soon.
That's where you see Apple's design prowess. Tough, decent battery life, good performance, thin and light, decent screen size and resolution and graphics card, nice keyboard, in one package. PC laptops tend to emphasize one of these, not too good in the others. Like the classic Slashdot post on the iPod, just comparing one specific feature or the other ignores the trade offs that good design is all about.

http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23/1816257...
One of my previous employers used PayChex. Seemed to work fine from an employee perspective...I never had a problem getting paid, at least.
Ask HN: Where do I turn for help developing an invention?
I've had a few ideas over the years for various household gadgets that I think might have had real marketability. The problem is, I'm not an engineer and I have no idea where to turn for help developing my ideas. I would just take the first step of submitting a patent application, but I suspect that my amateur drawings would in themselves be grounds to reject the application.

I know that organizations that market services for inventors are, by and large, scams, and I don't know any friendly engineers who might lend a hand. So, any advice would be appreciated.
All this is true, however there is still a non-zero risk involved. Especially when human life is involved.
The author has some pretty wide ranging experience. The value I got from the read is that his preferred coding languages are scala and c# for features he describes.

Thanks for the share fogus.
Clearly you have good points.

But the URL wasn't ShouldIBeUsingProfessionalJudgmentAboutScaling.info, it was "worry"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worry
This new quote from Gruber underlies exactly where the decline really matters most:

"It’s not that they need those customers, but that they used to drive the industry’s technical agenda, but now they don’t."

Where is Microsoft really driving anything at this point? It's not on the desktop. It's not in the mobile space. It's not even really in the enterprise.

The whole video tag argument in HTML 4 for example, is really between Apple and Mozilla. Microsoft is not really even a consideration.

If Microsoft is not really driving anything anymore, then they are just another company trying to comply with standards - and that means the inevitable (although slow) end of dominance they once enjoyed. For the computer industry, this is a good thing...
A wealth of links for further background, if anyone is interested on the original issue.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=344198
I doubt you could sell anything like that without at least being able to build a prototype, so perhaps that'd make a better first step than a patent application: Learn how to work with thermoplastic, rent some time with a CNC machine, teach yourself to whittle--whatever it takes.
I have great admiration for the amount of time and precision put into this article--as well as Amazon's relentless, cold, uncool devotion to optimization.

These meditations on A/B optimization reminded me of a genetic algorithm-based A/B testing framework mentioned not too long ago: http://ejohn.org/blog/genetic-ab-testing-with-javascript/ (I'd link to Genetify itself, but there's no homepage, just the demo)

An interesting thought: Why hasn't this caught on? Machines are good at exactly the things A/B testing aims at: measuring performance, permuting a test-matrix, and reporting on the results. This is not to say Genetify is the answer, but rather that I rarely hear of conversion optimization from developers.
If what counts is that they're well rounded why do they give you the ability to customize to be less rounded, ie, 17" Inch MBP which is supposed to be a workstation replacement?

Out of what you mentioned: Tough, decent battery life, good performance, thin and light, decent screen size and resolution and graphics card, nice keyboard, in one package.

A t400 does the same, it's arguably as tough as a MBP, it's got better battery life (compare 10.5 hours vs Apple's advertised 7), the t400 is already thin and light, but the t400s takes it a bit further(albiet costing battery), screen size and resolution is the same even with LED, and switchable graphics are on all high-end laptops. Keyboard just depends on what you like anyway. Not to mention, with a Mac your portability and serviceability for your machine is greatly affected, ie, I can hibernate most modern PC's and change the battery while you can't. I can replace the battery when it dies and you can't without voiding warranty. You can't replace ram, keyboard, or anything without Apple service or risking a void warranty.
Out of curiousity icey, where would these languages fall on your chart:
ruby on rails?
scala?
python?
I'm attempting to "download" web programming languages in an exceptionally short time but I'd prefer focusing on high end producers. I can see advantages and pains to various syntax and functionality, and have been fairly liberal in my choices so far to focus on existing libraries.
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"It lasts a relatively long time and doesn't change very often."

"It's also an intensely cyclical business, which is no doubt a big reason why Microsoft's financials are so screwed."

This is exactly why people staying on XP is such a huge problem for them. If people only "upgrade" when a computer breaks or buy another license when they get a new employee, then the the office furniture business fits Microsoft pretty well.
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Thanks for posting this.
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Somehow I feel that eating less food and higher quality food, paired with an active lifestyle may be a better treatment for obesity than trying to control proteins which turn on/off cellular fat types.