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Wow, comparing a Taurus with a BMW? First, there's a huge price difference. Hell, these two are in two different classes of cars. BMW obviously has a nicer interior, better motor, suspension, everything. It has better performance in every area, and is a far nicer/superior vehicle. We're comparing a macbook and a PC, with relative hardware specs, if you'll read the topic. I don't have to prove anything, I only asked because you did. My remarks are unsubstantiated ? The purchase of a laptop is purely personal preference, as I stated earlier. It's my opinion. I can base my opinion on anything I want, and you cannot claim that an opinion is 'unsubstantiated'. You cannot tell me that my personal opinion is wrong. Well I guess you could, but that would be stupid. I'm not flaming anyone, and I'm not personally attacking you or anyone else for owning/liking a mac. That's your preference, your opinion. Everyone is entitled to their own, and unlike you, I'm not explicitly stating that your opinion is wrong, or 'unsubstantiated', as the popular word of choice seems to be here. I shot the facts out in the next post because you requested them. Yes, they are facts, it is widely known that PCs and operating systems such as Windows and Unix-clones are more popular than Macs and MacOS X. I used this statement to show that I'm clearly not alone in this opinion, and because you and others demanded me to 'substantiate' my opinion, which I shouldn't even be wasting my time with.
"I'm sure 98% of the IE6 users on our site know that IE6 sucks."

What are basing that on? To me, it seems like 98% of people don't even know they're using a browser.
Everyone is notorious for making bad estimates. It's just that developers make estimates more often than most other professions do.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/jg/planning_fallacy/
I've been using 1and1.com for some time, since their prices are usually comparable with GoDaddy and the website is much less obnoxious. (1and1's advertising is also classier than GoDaddy's, but it's not hard to beat zero.)

I have 30+ domain names: a combination of live projects and names reserved for ideas and names belonging to clients. The 1and1 domain management interface is adequate, certainly not anything wonderful.
There's barely 1 billion people online worldwide. Granted, there are more than that who have mobile phones and could use Twitter via SMS, and the number of people online by 2014 will probably be much higher (2 billion?), but they don't want 1 billion user accounts in their database, they want 1 billion active users who interact with Twitter at least once a week. Supposedly something like 80% of people who sign up for Twitter never return, so they'll need 5 billion signups to get 1 billion active users.

Does Google even have 1 billion users who interact with them at least once a week?
I'm not too sure how in this pattern he suggests someone would replace mysql with a distributed key value store? how would that handle foreign keys?
"Well, we'd have to do both, right?"

What I mean is that you have to decide which is worse -- dealing with IE6 until it dies naturally or doing something to help speed its death which might also annoy your customers.
I've gone 4yrs without a TV, but recently I hooked up a TV box to my 27in monitor. HD TV was only an added $20 to my Verizon FIOS bundle, but I only bother to watch the news in the morning, and sometimes music videos.
This is really cool, gives a sense for how these discussions happen at other startups. Some similarities with our startup's discussions too, makes me feel... normal.
Nobody else seems to be bothered by it.

I don't believe porn site owners really aspire to have cutting-edge designs on their sites.
But these are superficial relationships replacing non-relationships, not replacing genuine ones.
It's billed as "a lighthearted guide to valuing currencies".
If only you refused to comment on them in a self-righteous manner (see 'annoying').
you might want to read it again; either you made a typo or you aren't linking to what you think you are.

According to the linked source, exceeding the speed limit (as distinct from driving too fast for weather conditions or other 'injudicious actions') accounted for 12% of fatal accidents, 7% of serious accidents,and 4% of minor accidents, or 5% overall. Going too fast for [road] conditions accounted for approximately half as much again.

Pardon my pedantry, but I was a bit irritated to find you assertions flatly contradicted by your source.
They seem to want 25 million active, living people using Twitter. 40 million accounts is not the same thing. See this post about the difference between active and total users.

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/07/the-difference-between-total...
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There are a lot of people who use EDGE/3G without unlimited bandwidth plan. Also, in a lot of countries people have pay-for-traffic plans. Since Chrome autoupdates itself, and there's no way to disable this, saving kilobytes has good value.
Imagine what Techcrunch, the fence of the internet, would do.
Very interesting read. They seem pretty savvy.

It's got to be a concern to them that Facebook has done all of the things they brainstormed in the "how would Facebook kill us" meeting. I wonder what their "how would Facebook kill us" meetings since then have gone?
This is a perfect case study in the importance of choosing a good password and ensuring that everyone in your organisation thinks about security.
There is no right way to go about doing that.
But still, it's like when I would steal your own belongings, then contact you and "talking to you directly" that I will return some of them back to you, and use others for my own benefit, even if it might do harm to you. We are still talking about publishing stolen documents, whether they contacted twitter or not.
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Doesn't the JVM go all the way back to UCSD p-code and Forth ?
Just gut feeling.

It happens that our site caters to just the sort of business users who have to deal with locked-down desktops.

But perhaps you're right. It might be an interesting experiment to put a message up for a week and see how many people click through to download something else.
I'm not sure I want any closed technology owned and operated by one company to become "the pulse of the internet".
Yeah, quick translation: "We know we're in the wrong, and we're going to blackmail Twitter into saying our release is OK."
People working for equity - WHAT? I tried to find mobile phone developers / gui artists / server side programmers to do that and got laughed out of town! If there are people out there that want to be a part of a startup mobile/web app please reply. I'm in Vancouver BC. Thanks.

Newman, maybe you could instigate a webspace to connect idea types with coder types who are interested in working on a startup - even part time. Thanks.
drop me a line on my email if you want, were quite a way up north but I might be able to help
If Microsoft doesn't use Silverlight, do you expect Adobe to? Or rather they'd use something as tentative is HTML5's video tags? Sure it's annoying but it's to be expected.
Its not just me dude, millions of others share the same opinion, but here ya go: My PC is faster than my friends' macs. The UI looks better on my PC, you can even make a window fullscreen! I'm a programmer, and Apple has chosen to base their platform on Objective-c, a jumbled mess of a wanna-be C++. Honestly, I've neven even heard of another big company worth mentioning that uses the language, other than to port their software to macs. I'm part of the open source community, and while I'm sure their is some, I've never heard of an open source Apple/Mac community. Hell, Apple even discourages it for the iphone. There are vast communities for the platforms I use, Windows and Linux, and there is also plenty of free software for these platforms, while it is rarely the case on Mac. My guess its probably because software vendors have to go through the hell of using Obj-C, so they want to be paid for every program they write, as would I. As I stated I don't go looking for FOSS mac communities, but they can't be that popular, i've never heard of any at all. Is that enough for you? If not, I'm sorry but I'm tired of having to validate my own opinion. I could say that I hate mac because I don't like the color, and it would be valid because it is MY opinion. I guess I don't have the leisure of having as much free time as you all.
I thought it was self-explanatory. I revised my comment to provide context.
Again, not everybody thinks the same. It is possible to prefer a non-relationship to a superficial relationship. Some people value authenticity for its own sake.

I'm not trying to convince anyone to change their mind, I just want to explain why the appeal of the social media is not universal (not that it has to be of course). For example there are some people I would call "intentional introverts" who quite genuinely would prefer not to have a happy birthday greeting from someone they are not close to. Others obviously are delighted by the same thing. It takes all kinds to make the world, etc etc.
That's a ridiculous strawman argument.
Although English doesn't emphasize gender in nouns, in romantic languages (which are the basis for English), that class of nouns is masculine.

Where the gender is not known, the correct pronoun is "he." A spokesman is a he; a spokeswoman is a she; a spokesperson is a he.
"It reminds me about the birthdays about the people I only vaguely care about, leave them a one-line message on their wall and that's it until next year."

you could easily automate that :)
Win7 is not actually out yet, so really your options are Vista, XP, or CE. And most people think XP is the best of those options.
Nice. Could have used that thought about 9 years ago :)
Have you discovered the 'noprocast' setting yet ? It's in your profile.
One thing that wasn't clear to me until Arrington started talking about working with Twitter on this release, is that Twitter does have some non-legal leverage. I'm pretty sure they regularly give TechCrunch early or insider access to Twitter news. They could just as easily move that preferential treatment over to Mashable or GigaOm. At this point, the "news" organization that probably matters most to Twitter is CNN, not TC.

As other people have noted, the actual documents released haven't amounted to more than a gigantic press release for Twitter. Now we know that they dream big and care about their employees. I'm sure that's killing them.
Perhaps they could send some sort of harmless-seeming emissary to ask for the information they're already stealing, so Twitter will be more certain they don't have it.
For what it's worth:

ev: "@TechCrunch @arrington "we have been given the green light by Twitter to post this information" What?! By whom? That's not our understanding"

(http://twitter.com/ev/status/2676203744)
Thanks for the hysterical laughter that you just provided me. The only apt analogy here is that the Mac is the taurus, with the price of the BMW. The comparison with the laptops is hardware specs, monitor, functionality, everything. The only differentiating yet irrelevant feature is the appearance, in which they differ. The 'frilly extras' of the BMW simply don't exist on the Mac. Very funny though.
i _love_ ncat. been using nc for a while, but is shows its age. now i can ncat away over ssl. awesome.
IANAL so beware what I say.

Question: how legal savvy are you? You can write or find generic no-frills stuff yourself that can do in a pinch for small shares. Your "brief statement of understanding" is helpful - you can simply formalize that more.

I don't think you should/need to put a "monetary value on hours spent" - you're giving shares of equity and both parties agree to the deal. What else is there to say?

Words of advice:

* Vest whenever possible

* Give them as little as you can now so that you can attract them later to come on full-time (if that's what you want)

Good luck!
It's a scripting/extension language first and foremost.

Monotone (one of the DVCSs that inspired git) is scripted in Lua, too.
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For those who don't want to follow the article: It doesn't ask the question (because the answer is obviously yes, as some dog owners can testify). It asks the more interesting question of why the behaviour evolved and why is it so widespread even in species that don't obviously experience sexual climax.

I am hoping the mental image of the walrus will pass though...
Well, I would say that does change things significantly. That's what I get for trusting what TC says in their articles.
Let me second that.

With some regularity confidential stuff passes my desk or inbox, and once or twice by accident I have come into the possession of things that were not intended for me.

Do not treat others like you would not want to be treated is very much the motto in cases like this. Techcrunch is setting themselves up for a very big fall. Not only will nobody ever trust them again, if anybody will ever have a chance to give them a taste of their own medicine I'm quite sure it will be done if only to spite them.

Talking to the person whose stuff you obtained illegally is not a reason to publish and saying 'but then somebody else would do it' is not an excuse either.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Hairy_Audacious_Goal
I'd be really interested to see what this article did for their sales.
The information is out. It was sent to other people than TechCrunch, and those people will publish it. However, those people probably won't be as visible as TechCrunch. Thus, TechCrunch has decided to act as Twitter's PR department and publish, of the information they got, exactly the right subset of that information to make Twitter look good, hoping that once everyone hears the TechCrunch PR version, they won't be so interested in hearing the rest. If Twitter said "publish nothing", that's exactly what TechCrunch would do—but in this case that's not the best idea.
could the whole thing be a stunt?
A truely paranoid individual would see this as proof that google is just pretending not to know...
Has anyone thought of the possibility that Twitter leaked those documents intentionally? Do we have a statement from them dealing with the whole affair?
I'm not saying there are none, but what 'results' can you achieve from tweeting (that aren't achievable more efficiently elsewhere)?
In Canada, Blacksun which I recently migrated ALL of my business to, from the deaf, dumb and blind Webserve.
Yep, Digg was a blip for me as well. It turned to crap lightning fast.

When PGs essays first led people away from Slashdot to Reddit, there was a noticable drop in the quality of Slashdot. And early on Reddit was a like beautiful jewel of social news sites.
Yes, but also remember that Twitter has a lot of non-web activity that would be completely invisible to Analytics
Ahhh, that makes more sense - thanks for clarifying :)
The more important question is, does Animal from The Muppet Show masturbate?
Alright, that's pretty damning. As of now, I'm jumping on the "let's ban Techcrunch links from HN" bandwagon.
The law is very clear that receiving and publishing stolen trade secret information is in itself a culpable act unless the publication is somehow protected by the first amendment.

There is generally no first amendment protection for publishing confidential information about products, partnering relationships, strategy meetings, and the like.

My guess, though, is that the first-amendment angle made it just murky enough to cause Twitter to make a judgment call to "work with" TechCrunch to limit damage and try to be done with this.

I see it as basically extortion, however, with Twitter being coerced into giving grudging permission to let this stuff come out.

What a massive embarrassment for Twitter. I have worked with literally thousands of founders and entrepreneurs over the years, and I don't know one that would not be thoroughly red-faced at watching this sort of stuff being splashed about the web (not because the information is damaging in itself but in having allowed this to happen).
Watch out - double-brace initialization is cool looking, but it's orders of magnitude slower than regular initialization as it must generate an anonymous class.

Also, the generated class is put into the permgen space, which is not garbage collected. The permgen is pretty small by default - and if you fill it up, your system is hosed.

I use them all the time in unit tests, but never in production code.
If one company can be called the pulse of the internet, it's Google.
Well, DF linked to my latest app Boxcar (http://boxcar.io) today, which does push notifications for Twitter @mentions and DMs.

As far as what it did for sales with just that short little blurb? Awesome. That's what it did. :)

I can post actual growth percentages tomorrow once I have confirmed the data from Apple vs. my own analytics. It certainly made my day!
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Oh, so I wasn't reading it right :P
Looks like there's now a timeout before replies, new feature pg?

You should probably stop shedding karma for today - your unsubstantiated, inflammatory Apple-hate has already gotten you modded into oblivion today.

But I'll bite:

- MagSafe. You cannot buy this feature anywhere, and it has saved my laptop on numerous occasions. In fact, in university I knew a guy who fixed out-of-warranty laptops for other students, and "power socket ripped off motherboard" was the most common repair he did. The fact that it snaps into place from a distance also adds that little bit of extra ease (as opposed to hunting for the hole).

- Better monitors. Seriously, do you think a $500 HP laptop can stand up to the monitor on a 15" MacBook Pro? Apple isn't the only ones offering 8-bit panels on a LED backlit screen, but if you look at any other laptops offering this you'll realize they're also in the MBP's price range. You do get what you pay for.

- Form factor and size. Your $500 Dell Inspiron is 2-3 times thicker than my MBP, and weighs 50% more. Is the size and weight savings worth it for you? I don't know, that's for you to decide, but there is a difference.

- Metal vs. plastic construction. The best keyboard I've used on a PC laptop ever is the ThinkPad keyboard (I have one right now, in fact), and even that is no match to the stiffness offered by the new aluminum-framed MacBooks. Go down to a $500 laptop and what you get is mushy crap that will twist and bend as you type. Been there done that, sick of it.

- Touchpad. The multi-touch gestures are an incredible productivity booster - two finger scrolling is the way it is meant to be. Shoving your fingers into the corner of your touchpad just to scroll is counter-productive, annoying, and just plain backwards. Being able to access any open window from a single gesture swipe has also improved my productivity.

I could go on, but go ahead and keep trolling and insisting that the "looks" is all that is different.
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Interesting. Even in Perl we cache and garbage-collect anon classes.

(The caching is for the very common case of creating a subclass with optional roles applied:

my $class = Some::Meta::Class->create_anon_class(
superclasses => ['Foo'],
roles => [qw/Commonly Applied Traits/],
);

There is almost no speed hit the second time you create an instance of "Foo" with "Commonly", "Applied", and "Traits" applied. Not sure this would be useful for Java, although we can achieve the same effect as in the article.)
But does that mean that Keynsianism is going to die? Not a chance. Keynsians control the entire monetary system. It does not matter how often their theories are debunked by history itself. They are the ones in power, and so they will continue to do what they do best: Rob from the poor and give to the rich through the hidden tax of inflation born of deficit spending and the centralized control of interest rates.
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The article says turtles masturbate.

But I'm not even sure how you'd really know something like that.

It's not like I've ever seen an excited turtle, much less a really, really happy one.

I mean, not to get too explicit, but if I saw a turtle shifting slowly back and forth on a rock, I'd think confused turtle. Not necessarily the other thing.
I read the article, looked around their site, and bought the app. All in 5-10 minutes.
Why would they want to get rid of a brand name like Sun?

I know a lot of people who love Sun. I can't name five that would tolerate Oracle if they had an alternative.
YMMV - but I've had small sharp things hurt a little, like sharp bits of gravel, and never had anything pierce the sole. I've also ran over small amounts of broken glass by the side of the road before, no problem.

The soles are really strong, but I wouldn't rule out a perfectly aligned spike or blade (scalpel tip or something?) going through -- but to be quite honest, something like that would probably damage a traditional running shoe; protection isn't a substitute for looking where you are going.
Classic iphone marketing strategy: make something Gruber likes.
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You can read a sensible viewpoint by Chris O'Brien of the Mercury News about the ethics of TC here: http://www.siliconbeat.com/2009/07/15/techcrunch-ethics-and-...

You may be surprised by his conclusion (I was).
Agreed, it was bad enough when IM was stuck in various closed networks, but at least then no single network had a monopoly. We need to think about how to build a distributed/federated Twitter alternative. Anyone want to get together to brainstorm how this could work?
Such a shame. They made fantastic products but just couldn't
keep up the pace as time went on.
The SDK is pretty cool ... but I get the feeling they're going to have to release something with more weight in the future lest we never see apps like Google Voice, augmented whatchahoosit, games, etc.

Does anyone know if they're planning on releasing a lower level SDK?
I'm not sure how I feel about their pricing:

The profit is split between you and The Game Crafter equally (50% each).

I would rather have this priced in to their production costs.
This is a rather fascinating series - it is worth reading the rest, if you haven't already.

While I was reading I found myself thinking 'well yeah, Dragon's Lair really sucked'...but then I remembered a time when I thought it didn't. and in fact, it was a huge financial success, so much so that it is still being ported to new systems despite its numerous flaws. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragons_Lair

Throughout the 1980s, Sierra sold a ton of games with horrible EGA craphics, but which were basically cinematic games with fairly simple decision-tree gameplay. Other high-selling games continue to include lots of cinematic material, a case in point being the Kojima Metal Gear Solid series or alve games like Half-life. Having name (or at least professional) actors lend talent to a game is common now in many genres. And in fact, CD-Rom's did revolutionize the gaming industry - not quite in the way that the company anticipated, but enough. And San Francisco's SOMA (aka multimedia gulch) is still the favored home of a lot of startups, again suggesting Rocket Science were onto something.

I wonder if Mr Blank, ruing the company's failure, is being too harsh on himself - it sounds like they went terribly astray with the design of their own games, but that's a problem of execution rather than vision.
I'm trying to find something more meaningful to say than just "neat" or "awesome", which this is.

So what other niches could somebody do this in? Where else are there frustrated amateur designers that would love to see their creations professionally produced (and sold)?

We already have design-your-own shops for books, CDs, DVDs, tshirts, skateboard decks, Lego sets, circuit boards, bobbleheads, metal machining, ...

What's left? Textiles? Clothing? Food? Wallpaper?
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