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I think number 7 ("Did I Enjoy Reading It") probably covers all of the rest.

If you find it boring, we all probably will; and sure, even if you enjoyed it there's a chance you might be the only person who does, but that's a low chance in a world of infinite niches.
Yeah, thats probably as close we'll get. You want to get each person to think of themselves first. This may not cover the parent with young kids scenario, but it seems pretty close/good.

Now... the researchers are going to run into issues if someone desperate for money decides to punch some old lady in the face to get out first and claim his $50...
Worse is Better is about LISP vs. C, but it fits Xanadu vs. WWW.

worse-is-better:

It is important to remember that the initial virus has to be basically good. If so, the viral spread is assured as long as it is portable. Once the virus has spread, there will be pressure to improve it, possibly by increasing its functionality closer to 90%, but users have already been conditioned to accept worse than the right thing. Therefore, the worse-is-better software first will gain acceptance, second will condition its users to expect less, and third will be improved to a point that is almost the right thing.

the-right-thing:

First, the right thing needs to be designed. Then its implementation needs to be designed. Finally it is implemented. Because it is the right thing, it has nearly 100% of desired functionality, and implementation simplicity was never a concern so it takes a long time to implement. It is large and complex. It requires complex tools to use properly. The last 20% takes 80% of the effort, and so the right thing takes a long time to get out, and it only runs satisfactorily on the most sophisticated hardware.

The Web was only half-baked, but it wasn't released prematurely.
Depends whether there means 'in virtualization' (no) or 'as a Microsoft competitor' (yes).

Judging from the moderation I think people have taken it both ways.
'Why buy Windows 7 when you can continue to run XP'

is probably it. There's no great rush of happy XP users wanting to 7 in a VM.
I think a verifiable history of open source contributions (or an active github repo) show the same sort of passion.
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Love TextMate. Also, need TextMate 2 _now_.

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I think Google writes some of their web services in C++. Some things just need to be fast. Blogs and CMS's probably don't. Is there anything wrong with having a choice?
Looks like a good idea to me.

I don't work with Excel often enough to purchase but will keep in the back of my mind in case I have a future need.

Marketing advice: invest in a copy writer and voice actor and reproduce your video.
The Spartans were not illiterate - they preferred oral history and verbal contracts to written records. Similarly they were perfectly capable of building things, yet they preferred that Sparta itself was a city of small buildings without walls. There's nothing left of it today.

Spartans, basically, eschewed possessions, apart from their personal weapons. They didn't want to grow soft and weak, so they made luxury impossible. An adult male Spartan owned some land, which was farmed by Perioikoi or Helots, and he was responsible for providing his share of food to the barracks in which he lived, but he could not "profit", ever. Perioikoi (permanent residents of Sparta but not Spartiate themselves) could and did get rich. Even Helots (slaves from conquered enemies) usually lived materially richer lives than Spartans.

What they should have done was announced that glorious deaths didn't count until a Spartan had had so many kids, that would have made everyone happy.
This is the perfect cheatsheet for a question I got during an interview at a major GPU company : "You write an OpenGL program displaying a colourful object, but you get a black screen when you launch it. What could have gone wrong in your code ?".
I painfully thought about 3 or 4 of them and am now deeply embarrassed by my lack of imagination.
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People are realizing that. Why do you need a Windows file server when a NetApp speaks CIFS? You would need some sort of storage array anyway!

Even these days, an awful lot of Windows servers are doing exactly what Netware was doing before them, file and print serving. MS obviously recognize this with the new Server Core Edition. But printers are first-class citizens too now, many of them don't need a server, they just plug directly into the network, run their own admin app over HTTP...
What VMware sells is the tools for managing large estates of virtual infrastructure. That's a problem that isn't solved just by having a virtualization layer in your OS.
Extract service into a stand-alone program; communicate with it from the proper web-wrapper in a web-language.
If I understand correctly, there may be situations where you will not be notified.

"The government can get this information with no notice to you at all, and can also get a court order forcing your service provider not to tell you or anyone else."

According to https://ssd.eff.org/3rdparties/govt/subpoena
Although it is a good article, it is a repost.
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> What does the comma right before place in its second usage signify?

It "punches a hole" in the quote: the ` in `(setf ,place (* v v)) says "don't evaluate this, this is a litteral value/list", but then the comma indicates "actually evaluate just this expression right here within the definition context" so ,place will be replaced by the value of the place argument. It's kinda equivalent to #{} in Ruby strings.

As others have pointed out, v should probably be unquoted as well.
Anything actually working was released when only half-baked; perfectionists either never release anything or they release it so late that it never gains any traction against its already-in-use competitors. The first release of anything that is going to succeed is effectively going to be a prototype, whether the inventors intended it to be or not.
No you can't. You can access C code from just about every language; but you need to put hundreds of man-hours into bindings before you can access actual C++ classes; and you just can't use templates and stuff.
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Error is the wrong term, because you don't return after an error condition, you raise an exception. Perhaps stop condition is more appropriate?
For a long while I've thought that Randall Schwartz was the author of Higher Order Perl. Oops.
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Higher Order Perl is a fantastic book, which makes a lot of functional concepts more immediately usable for non-Lisp dynamic language programmers (the example language is Perl, but there are projects on the web to convert the examples to other languages; the concepts apply across most of the popular dynamic languages).
I'm not sure -what- drives this guy, but his drive is certainly something to admire.
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Wow, it took me about five minutes to find out what this is. The headline certainly doesn't say it. The faq doesn't answer it, the wiki has no such information. I had to fire up Acrobat Reader first, download the PDF manual, and scroll down a few pages. If it hadn't been for the upvotes on HN, I would've completely missed it...
Well there are things like SWIG and Boost Python that can make your life considerably easier. But you are right, it's much more work than C.
This expression is just convention, not something legally meaningful. The next part of that expression is "so help you God", which you can't be legally required to say. In many courts, the affirmation is just "Do you promise to tell me the truth?"

As for "the whole truth", it's up to the other side's lawyer to ask you the right questions; if you answer all the questions truthfully while you're on the stand, that is your only legal obligation. (If the questions are directly about your crime, you also have the right to refuse to answer.)

Anyway, if everyone were legally required to confess to crimes they committed, nobody would do that, and then the crime would be not admitting to a crime. By not admitting to that, ... the cycle continues, and with no evidence, there is no case against you.
"Perhaps an URL could map to an object, and making an rpc call on that URL could call a function on that object."

That seems to be what this article is advocating: http://www.sitepen.com/blog/2009/01/29/some-rpc-with-your-js...
Erm, how do you get win7 to run in a virtualized environment without "buying it"?

I think the "more natural" course of things would be to run the existing win xp installation in a virtualized environment on a non-ms os.
I second the niceness feeling.

I've also remapped almost all modifier keys (Emacs user).
Either they're at a really small company where they are the only coder and where no one has the technical background to notice that they're just playing around with a VB gui editor and cutting and pasting in lines of code they found on the web. Or they're at a really huge company where they can hide behind an army of other developers or spend all their time doing peripheral activities.
"A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain." Lazarus Long

Wikis aren't committees, but while in some ways they are better, in others they are worse, it's a toss up.
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The products that are actually useful (eg workstation) are not free. Even those products you mentioned are free only in the sense of free beer -- with obligatory registration.
I've done two startups where I took out a patent. My experience is that the only people that will ever look at your patent is your VC, and he'll only glance over it.

It's a lot of work that could be spent productively doing something else, so I've stopped patenting stuff. I think it just isn't worth it.
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On the Xanadu post http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=795155 I made the comment, which would fit as well here:

Anything actually working was released when only half-baked; perfectionists either never release anything or they release it so late that it never gains any traction against its already-in-use competitors. The first release of anything that is going to succeed is effectively going to be a prototype, whether the inventors intended it to be or not.

Think of it as evolution in action.
Most telling quote for me was “If I walk to the store, I’m back in 10 minutes, and then what?” And then what???? Man, if I had enough money to live for 2-3 years, single, and having 24/7 time to do whatever the heck I wanted, I'd for damn sure be working on some crazy-ass shit. Another quote from him "...I can adapt". He refers to adapting as taking a cut in pay. Simply put, this man has no ability to adapt, nor an understanding of what adapting means. I have zero sympathy for this guy. 10 minutes to the store and back and then what? Get on the f'ing internet and freakin learn something and get a clue.
Here is one simple threat, happened to me using VirtualBox but same applies on VMWare.

Say you got 10 Linux Machines on your startup.
Your developers are all doing their development on the linux but have to test the product on windows as well. Moreover, you need to author/edit/view some files on windows/ms office.

Since you are running your windows/ms office instance on a virtual machine, you will need to buy a single license for the product and then once you had it activated, you can simply clone the machines across the network having each one of your developer his/her own copy of this windows instance.

In this case it might or might not be legally permitted but there can be a virtual product which breaks the licensing model without breaking the law.
Ask HN: Recommended books for a sales newbie?
We're about to launch our first freemium based web app and will primarily be advertising the service via traditional online channels (organic search, adwords, banners etc) in order to generate online sales. Our application is aimed at marketing agencies, project teams and social media power users and can be used online, or the source code downloaded to work within corporate firewalls.

Although sufficiently experienced at marketing online, we don't really have any experience selling offline (face to face, conferences, cold-calls, events etc). Being based in London, it seems sensible to try and obtain sales offline as a lot of our UK target market will be based here, particularly at events and conferences.

We already have two other relatively successful websites, but have relied on our ad networks (not Google) to provide the sales expertise - our new project does not display banner ads, so this is not an option.

As with any startup, time is very very precious, so i'm looking to source a couple of powerful, practical sales books that don't take months to read or require weeks to learn a completely new vocabulary.

I've been searching around HN for recommendations, and have so far picked our the following books that have been suggested (i've already read The Secrets of Selling by Geoff King)

* Jeffrey Gitomer's Little Red Book of Selling
* How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling - by Frank Bettger
* Bag the Elephant - by Steve Kaplan

Are there any other books that you would recommend for a small startup in our situation? Any help you can offer would be appreciated.
I've been using jEdit for years now for all non .NET dev which I use Visual Studio due to code insight mainly (who can remember all the library stuff!).

jEdit is great, it works on both Windows and Linux with no visual quirks, you easily make up your own syntax for custom languages, it has a console, a file system and a project viewer plugin.

Also it has subpixel sampling for fonts which keeps my eyes not falling off the sockets after long time hacking. Finally a feature that I have not found in other editors in the custom folding modes (like the region thing in VS) which makes it easy to understand the structure of long files.

The only negative issue that I 've noticed so far is the missing character substitution for foreign languages due to the Java thing. For example if you use a monospace font other than courier new and your code/resources contains multiple languages, english, greek, japanese etc you get squary blocks all over the place. All native Windows and Linux apps do automatic font substitution!
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Very Inspiring & Interesting! Aside from that fact that I regret my college education , I think quality education (not the grade of anna university affiliated colleges :() is nevertheless an important phase of life.
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I suggest these all from personal experience and success (yes, these books have indirectly made me money):

* Tom Hopkins - How To Master The Art Of Selling (some of it is a bit American but the overall concepts learned here are priceless)

* Harry Beckwith - What Clients Want

* Leil Lowndes - How to Talk to Anyone (not directly sales, but this is a massive part of it nonetheless)

* Sam Horn - POP! Stand Out In Any Crowd (this will help you hone your message - learning to sell is good, but if your message sucks, so will the selling)

All of these are reasonably short, cpl hundred pages at most.
I was seriously expecting an "April Fools" notice at the end of the video. This has got to be the worst product I've ever seen.
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Actually even the more complicated systems don't resolve all the problems, and the problems that are left are harder to solve because of all the extra cruft you have to wade through on their systems.
Better let the developer know. In his screencast he chronicles building a blog app, in just about the most unappealing way possible.
I hereby proclaim my NY Times boycott. After reading this article, the boohoo about the former $225k/year SVP now out of a job, and that op-ed a while back whining about the iphone, it's become clear to me that the NYTimes is essentailly a troll writing about trending topics angling for unpopular opinions to gain readership.
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Signed. Bravo jgc.

You can sign it too: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/turing/
We decided to keep our project in stealth for the last two years until we had our patent filed. We thought that this plan suited our project as we have unique IP with hardly any conflicts in the patent searches.
This path has meant it's taken more time to get to the point of having a demo, which is crucial of course, but means that all IP elements of our project are protected before we go live.
I think in the end, it comes down to - can you afford to fight any infringement of your patent should someone try a similar product.
In my case, being depressed means much deeper understanding and much more sharper mind. I even have an impression that the hard period I had few years ago, when I was only working and reading books, formed me intellectually.

On the other hand, I quickly realize that consequences of my thoughts are rather pointless. Not that my thoughts are pointless; far from it. The catch is that, actually, I couldn't care less about consequences of my thoughts, as they have little impact on the world.

Most of the time, I even don't care about sharing my thoughts with the world. I speak a lot with my girlfriend and a couple of friends but, for example, writing articles is pointless because I will have to deal with not understanding people.

The paradoxical consequence of thinking too much is mistrusting yourself. If you have an opinion which is very solid logically but is against 99% of the population, it is easy to wonder whom is wrong: the whole society or you.

That's why coding helps me a lot. The logical framework of code points me out that my thoughts are not pointless and my mind is not disorted anyhow. Coding helps me to get peace of mind. I'm much more relaxed when I write code.

I believe this is one of the reasons why a lot of people went to mathematics as well. If you mistrust yourself, you have to have a framework that keeps you in touch with the real world. Logic ensures that you are not crazy, yet.

Also, that's why coding is so addictive. It takes a week without coding to get me anxious. Without coding, I feel that my brain lacks some chemistry.

Personally I believe that depression, or any other unusual state of mind, is just a filter that disorts the output of your mind. It gives you a very different perspective, but if you're blind, it won't help you anyhow.

This is partially the reason why it is hard to decide whether depression is a problem, or not. Smart people might gain a lot from different states of mind; regular folks, well, not much.

To be honest, I'm not sure whether depression is actually a cause or a result, in case of some people. If you start thinking too much and realize how the world actually looks, it is easy to get depressed a bit.

PS. I've created a separate account for purpose of this comment; I feel this is too personal. Sorry that this is a bit chaotic but I don't have enough time to write the shorter comment so I wrote the longer one.
Yeah, I started sometime after the LinuxWorld Expo. Roger later got let go by the guy they brought in to be a 'CTO' sort of guy, Sal Meola (who was in turn let go, and subsequently replaced by the infamous Doug Nassaur: http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4883&cid=11425... )
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As silly as this seems to me at first, I gotta admit, even though this is the solution to no problems I currently know of, who the hell really knows. Its probably unique, and because of that it might find its way into god knows what application.

How come erlang web frameworks get a pass but this is trashed? Lets take a language, not renown for performance, relatively a pain in the ass to code in (which I do), and its biggest claim to fame is easy and lightweight threading, and lets apply it to a problem of web apps, that are naturally distributed and threaded no matter what you make them out of. Oh and lets try to sell a few books to suckers on the subject.
I have the very greatest respect for Alan Turing and his achievements - fantastic guy and should have got proper recognition for both his war work and his contributions to maths and the emerging science of computing.

OK - here comes the however. You can't apologise to just one person for the persecution of homosexuals during that era. What was done to Turing was disgusting and probably we should be ashamed of it as a nation but it was done to so many - any apology must be to them all.
Many successful people, when trying to be modest or polite will attribute much of their success to luck. How much of that is modesty? I don't know, but in this case, the guy is clearly being humble and letting the reporter talk him up.
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