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TechCrunch50 Panel: Don Dodge, Paul Graham, Jason Hirschhorn, Mike Schroepfer
That's probably the reason GM is down to Chevy/GMC/Cadillac, comparable to Ford/Mercury/Lincoln or (more appropriately) Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep. Though even in this situation probably 1/3 of the brands named could be dropped no problem.
Check this out, it might come in handy: http://www.furtzdesigns.com/under/
Funny, but I actually learned the right way to open the most frustrating variety of packages a few weeks ago. It's easier than I thought: Cut a thin strip (roughly 1 mm wide) off the seam of the packaging, all the way (or at least most of the way) around. Then the halves come apart fairly easily.

I'm surprised Amazon doesn't offer, as a paid extra, to unpack any product and ship the contents in a plastic bag inside one of their usual boxes.
Don't let the 24/7 call center scare you. There are guys out there who run generic call centers that will set up a low-volume 24/7 service for cheap. real cheap...
Not sure why is that exciting. There's a simple way to not get your result manipulated.

It's... shock - not drinking before you drive!
Did I do something wrong here? Relatively new to HN. Is this how opinions are treated?
that's pretty cool I must say
Unintended Consequences for Clunkers
It's interesting that you can sometimes get a troll to drop the mask and have a genuine discussion with you.

But, other than the novelty or challenge of it, why would you want to get to know such people? Is it because they're fundamentally more available? That is, an attention-seeker may be more willing to spend time with you than a less needy person.
If you read the referred-to posts at the top of it, I suspect it will all make more sense. It did to me, and while I -am- a perl-head I'm not on #padre

However "poorly written" isn't really a useful response - I'm sure audrey would welcome some constructive criticism either here or as a comment to the blog post itself.

I'll admit the post was rather stream of consciousness and wandered back and forth a bit, but I happen to quite enjoy that style from time to time; the trick, I think, is to remember that a discussion of personal enjoyment and social interactions is a very different beast to a technical article and adjust your approach to reading accordingly.

Seriously though, if you have concerns about the writing, elaborate - the "hard to believe" part runs quite close to the sort of attack pg's "how to criticise" stuff abhors but if you were able to make sense of it -in spite- of the writing rather than -because- of it there must be something more than "poorly written" that you can contribute on the topic ...
I don't think you read the last paragraph I wrote. I said it clearly that even on projects that I am passionate about, there is a lot of miserable grunt-work, just like any startup. I think we just have different meanings for what "hell yeah" here means.
Is 7 figures really considered "pretty rich" on Wall Street?
Me too. I find that a quite cool language is hidden in Java. It is just that everyone is trying their best to make programs as annoying and soul sucking as possible with it. Unit testing and a dependency-injection framework like google guice or similar makes java much more fun.
The post you replied to appears to be referencing FogBugz specifically.
The effect of music on programming
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A better term for what Zoho does is "offshoring". Outsourcing and offshoring are orthogonal. It's only when the two go together that you get sweatshops.
Except that there are a lot of RIA twitter clients that render the tweets in a Webkit view.
That's not necessarily true. Brands which sold a lot of different models could sell a large number of cars without making it to the top 10 models.
Do note that foreign company does not mean a transfer of capital over to foreign hands. TM has a pretty large industrial footprint inside the US, and then you've got pensions and other funds that own TM paper.
One question .. which task-manager do you use ?
It costs you nothing to use phrases like "shoddy development". It costs Adobe many millions to port Photoshop to Cocoa.
Maybe someone should make an "I have an idea" site :D

http://www.halfbakery.com
Yes but if we moved off of windows then microsoft would make programs that would run on whatever we move to right? IF we didn't have windows, who would make programs that run on windows? Who would benefit from that? You're missing my point. I'm not talking about switching to linux because it's the better alternative, i'm saying that windows is impeding the advancement of free software, which has the potential to be better for everyone by making everything more competitive.
I happen to know that one particular company in this market has some sort of patent that they defend pretty aggressively. It's worth checking into the story for more detail.... http://www.hotel-online.com/News/PR2007_1st/Feb07_GolfSwitch...
Interesting. Could you provide step by step directions on how to do this? I'm not really sure where to begin.
pkrumins has an especially enriching blog

http://catonmat.net
I'd also like to throw my name in to the mix. I've actually been pursuing this idea and have talked to some golf course management companies/golf courses.

There are certainly some serious apprehensions I have about the business. It worries me that there is no one out there searching for this and that it would boil down to a 100% cold-calling sales gig. Also, most, if not all, of these golf courses have the worst looking websites, which leads me to believe that there is no one looking after any web presence or anything web-related.

This actually touches on a bigger issue which I'd love to discuss. What you have here is a very profitable niche, one in which a few early 90s web companies took over, gobbled up all the market share, and then stopped innovating. I see this in a lot of ignored niches.
I guess I just can't get past the fact that you can easily make an unwise decision this way by overlooking practicality. You see a couple options you're not very interested in, and then one you are very interested in, and you pick it without hesitation?

I know i'd like to learn Tae-Kwon Do, but I also know my primary motivation for learning a martial art (beside the art itself) is to get in shape physically. From what I understand Muay Thai is a much better cardio workout. Tae-Kwon Do might be more fun but it wouldn't benefit me as much as the Muay Thai (not to mention kickboxing is probably more useful in a real fight).

So to reiterate my original statement: I think you can end up making the wrong decision if it's based purely upon excitement in an idea and not practical information which may be less exciting. I acknowledge your point that it may make your life more fun, but as i've learned growing up, doing things that aren't fun are often more important.
There is a slight stat game going on here that may or may not be intentional. The evidence is at #10 Ford Escape FWD. Trucks and SUV's come in a variety of transmission configurations and are actually counted as unique models for these stats.

Here is normalized list from earlier this month
http://money.cnn.com/2009/08/07/autos/cash_for_clunkers_sale...
Fear of failure, hope of big success. Routine.
Bought a 2009 VW Jetta TDI in April and have yet to have a tank of diesel that will cause my average MPG curve to have a negative slope. Coming from an 1986 Mercedes 300 SDL who would soot at ever pedal stomp, I cannot find a way to make an exhaust soot cloud in the TDI, even under 0-60 race conditions. Diesel prices have been less than mid/premium unleaded in California since I bought the car.
I don't understand how a language designed for document programming can be a good choice for controlling a rover..

Is it a joke, is he really serious about this?
I'm still against the premise of this program. This was a redistribution of wealth to failing industry and to people who owned poorer cars. A couple B's in the larger scheme of things may not seem like a lot, but the underlying ideology is quite dangerous, and I'm hearing rumours that this may be expanding to appliances that are not energy efficient.

There's a much simpler way to accomplish the same effect: tax energy. You will have an economic incentive to get more efficient appliances, cars, etc while this costs the federal government very little. To combat the regressiveness of this proposal, the feds could offset this with reducing payroll taxes.

The obvious downside of this is that it doesn't have the "sexiness" of the rebate (it's a behavioral finance thing) and we wouldn't see the returns immediately.
I completely agree with the moving wave! I have pondered this very same pattern myself. I'm excited to see it documented and shared on the web.

Taking this "zen" driving a step further and imagining an ideal world of cars that never break down on the highway and where the process of merging onto and exiting from a highway could be scientifically mastered such that the speed of the nearby cars is at most nominally affected, it is not inconceivable that cars could travel at speeds far beyond what is considered safe today.
Sure - when you're about to drive, step back and undrink the drink.
So will it run seaside?
I disagree. People go to the bar when they're ready to socialize and meet people, and they'll value something that makes that easier. Making it more geo-aware makes people have to decide which parts of their day they want to be interruptible, and I think makes the app more intimidating.

I like the bar tie-in, it provides a pleasant addition to something people are already doing.
Idea time!

Another one: A mobile geo-aware "hot-or-not" site/app for fashionistas:

1. go to shop x
2. grab the prettiest/craziest/sexiest clothes you can find
3. get into a booth
4. take a phonecam pic of self thru the mirror
5. upload and show to online crowd
6. let the voting commence
7. instant feedback for user (vanity)

I think there's a lot of potential in this for marketeers.

What do you think, is this idea hot or not?
I just recently started reading that site (thanks to HN). Wow. I've never felt so inadequate as a programmer.
Wow, a very nice accomplishment for any age, but especially at 17. Congratulations Mark - this mean you're going out to NYC?
I'm curious who came up with the title "cash for clunkers" it worked quite well.
Good stuff. A word of advice, leave the Javascript to the other dude for a while until you're 'seasoned' a little. Ugly Javascript is really ugly :)
Cash for Clunkers reminds me of the Broken Window Fallacy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
Missing the point. Every "Hell yeah" project does not turn out to be easy or even fun. In fact I agree that finishing any project is usually tough, some aspect of it sucks. Why are so many things left unfinished? Doesn't matter what the project is pick one. Where I work there is unlimited demand for time and features and projects compared to finite time available to work on them. The most successful folks have learned the skill of figuring out what to say no too. In the face of unlimited demand, one might as well only choose the "Hell yeah" stuff. Life is better that way. It took me a long time to figure that out. If all of the stuff one said "Hell yeah" to was easy life would be boring. Running a 100 miles doesn't sound to easy to me. If one does survive the hard phase on a "Hell yeah" project that is what the best things life are made of. Might as well try out as many "Hell yeah" things as possible. I am pretty sure my wife wasn't saying "Hell yeah" when my 3 children were being born. But I could have missed something...
Because it was created under the server/network enterprise IT management company AdventNet (which now changed its name to Zoho Corp., and AdventNet's stuff is now under ManageEngine.)

So basically, some intrapreneurship happened, funded by the company.

The CEO's on here, so he probably can give you a better idea.
It just doesn't add anything of value to the conversation. We all know it's a great hack, so it's just white noise to post it.

Not a hugely big deal. Just try to avoid the echo chamber and instead provide unique insight on the subject.
I think the author forgets that Apple initially told all us developers to forget the idea of a native iPhone app and just deal with having only webapps for the iPhone until iPhone OS 2.0 was released.

I think the author also forgets the 30% cut, while making Apple a small profit, is also about paying for hosting the app, running the app store, providing limited support to users, credit card fees, and other such overhead. If Apple really desperately wanted that 30% cut, Mobile Safari would not be supporting HTML 5 features like geolocation that make it easier for webapps to access the same information native apps can. I expect to see further improvements to Mobile Safari that make it even easier to take advantage of the iPhone's hardware.

Plus, there is a subscription model for the app store that is not news, but is not yet commonly found on the app store yet. One example would be some of the monthly fee-based GPS navigation apps. The same model also allows for adding more content to applications for an additional fee.

I don't disagree that the app store is broken in some ways and needs fixed (wait, I don't see most consumers actually caring about it though...), but the argument is presented without sufficient research on the part of the author, even taking into consideration the date on which it was posted.
I just had my iPhone "scanned" at MSP at security as my boarding pass... So it's doable.
The lack of built-in anti-virus can probably be attributed to Microsoft's history of getting sued for being a monopoly.
Ask HN: Can you Recommend a good Recommendation Engine?
I am writing a proposal for a company that has a lot of data in all forms, text, video (youtube I think and others), mp3 and wants to index it and make it relevant to searchers. For example, if a cook signs up, they get all the data related to being a cheif including how to take care of burns, fires, or things like that that don't necessarily have the word cook in it. I need some good resources or a starting point so I can research this and put something together for them. Any help would be very very welcome!

They suggested Sitecore’s Content Management Solutions tool but I've never heard of it.
Poll: Texting while driving, an accident waiting to happen
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We're using Harvest. I don't handle the administrative end, but from a usability standpoint it's pretty awesome:

http://www.getharvest.com
> Why should inject be written in C or Java?

I agree with your point and bless you with a mighty upmod. One of my peeves about inject being written in C is that there is very little pressure to make Ruby fast enough that inject could be written in Ruby. So who cares? Well, if you want to make your own language feature that is like inject but not inject, your feature will be 100x slower.

So making Ruby fast enough that Ruby can be implemented in Ruby is a huge win for metaprogrammers :-)

> Now it is not correct to say that Matz does not use Ruby. He does, and so he does eat his own dog food. And for the domains where he uses Ruby, he has optimized Ruby to be a useful tool. But since he doesn’t use Ruby to build Ruby, he does not have the same incentive to tune Ruby for the purpose of building languages.

http://weblog.raganwald.com/2006/11/significance-of-meta-cir...
This is very useful. I started this new blog a couple of days ago and it's already first in Google but not listed in Bing yet. But Bing had other related good links. Would it be possible to combine them in one window but with a little G and B identifier next to each link?

http://knowyourcode.com/badabingle/results.php?query=habit+h...
This VW-TDI-engine-enthusiast FAQ page suggests diesel's latest engines and emissions systems are better than gasoline when all dimensions are considered -- but US regulations are still gasoline-normative:

http://www.tdiclub.com/TDIFAQ/TDiFAQ-5.html
Java was ruined for me in college. I hated it.

I then decided to conquer my hatred of it when I started my first job. I had the help of an interesting project wherein I had LOTS of freedom to learn and make stuff in a lab without the fetters of enterprise requirements... I began to love it.

Fast forward 2 years and I've changed jobs. I feel like I can hack my way out of any nasty problem. Java is more unweildy in this enterprise environment because we are leveraging several enterprisey frameworks, but we can make bigger strides. The framework is doing a lot for us. I am still making stuff. This job is a pressure-cooker, but I'm feeling very fulfilled and I'm advancing.

Fast forward 2 years and I've quit the pressure cooker to be a Rails contractor (actually, easier), I've even got a startup going. Ruby is powerful, and I tell everyone they should be using RoR instead of Java. I laugh at people who don't understand what they're missing.

Fast forward 2 years and I am back in a corporation. Using Java very sparingly to maintain lots of integrated systems. The problems are nasty, there is no feeling of 'making' anything. I resign myself to being the best maintainer I can be. I keep my sanity with side projects. It's easiest to use Python on App Engine, because I don't have to be a sys admin.

The more interesting problems you are solving the better the language you are using seems to be. I would even go so far as to say that if you find someone who loves a particular language, it's because they are using it to solve interesting problems.
Search engine blind taste test: Google leads, but brand matters a lot
> It is that the more we degrade the human and natural environment by creating ugly, depressing, inhumane spaces, places and practices, the less capital (natural, human, etc.) our children, their children and their children will have live on.

How about some evidence instead of merely restating your claim.

I drove butt-ugly cars for several years. Did that do bad things to me? How about the people who were on the road with me? Again - some useful evidence would be nice. (You can argue that seeing ugly houses is different from seeing ugly cars, provided you have evidence supporting that proposition.)

I note that to the extent aesthetics cost money, they use capital that we might otherwise use to live on.
My Search Engine Taste Test
Will Virtualization Neuter the Network?
You forgot Buick.

GM also has Saab, Opel, Daewoo, Holden, and Vauxhall, but is selling Saab, Opel, and Vauxhall.
I don't understand the article's logic. It starts by describing App Store complaints, then it goes on to argue that Android will win over the iPhone because the future of phone applications is web apps... while ignoring that iPhone is no more restrictive toward web apps than Android is.

The assumption that Android will eventually expose all of the phone hardware to web apps is questionable, as is the assumption that Apple will not modify their platform to stay competitive.

It would have been better to simply argue that the App Store will eventually become irrelevant, and leave out the whole iPhone vs. Android argument.
Seaside is developed in Pharo, so yes.
All of Adobe products are based on Carbon. Of course they had started working towards porting all of their products in Cocoa, but that'll happen in CS6 probably. The fundamental mistake Adobe made was to keep on developing their products upon deprecated APIs.
However I'm interested in the fact that is developing on Carbon API is fruitful even ? Apple encourages Cocoa and obj. C after all and I have not met any linux/windows developer who knows Obj. C.
Undrinking happens automatically after a dozen or so more drinks.
> with low availability of diesel pumps/stations

There are fewer stations that have diesel than have gas in many places, but where is diesel availability low enough to matter?

Trucks get diesel somewhere.
An easy way to get an iPhone killer:

1) Get a darn good smartphone
2) Offer phone & network that *doesn't suck*

1 - is out there already. 2 - The carriers are basically shooting themselves in the foot! Apple carries AT&T. All the others flounder because they don't have Apple to carry them.
I love this library. Really well implemented, and fast. Great to unload this from the backend of a webapp into js too.
I am in agreement that this program was misplaced and complete abuse of taxpayer's money. I take public transportation to work but my taxes have been used so that someone can buy a brand new car. And why do we think that 3 billion dollars is not a lot just because Government is spending it? E.g. if Exxon waste 3 billion dollars, do you think shareholders should not complain becaue Exxon earns billions of dollars in profit? Waste is a waste, no matter how small.

Also, I disagree with your alternate plan. Why do you think that taxing energy will helpful? Government will spend (and waste) all the tax money you give to them and then some. Why not propose a minimal government and minimal taxes and let the free market workout how resources should be allocated?
Sd - a peer to peer bugtracker I actually like
Depending on the size of the project, step 7 can (and should) easily be the most time and labor intensive part of development. By all rights, this step ought to be called Design, and may well generate the documentation and a plan for testing of some kind.

UML becomes very important if your project generates its code from it, as quite a few companies do. This means you may not be able to start coding at all until the design is in some state of finality.
I've been using this for crosstalk with rt and trac installs for some time - being something of a command line addict I find that the simple but relatively sane UI provided is not only rather good but very easy to shell script around for custom stuff.

Plus the "wget <url> | perl" installation is so wonderfully trivial it makes me incredibly happy (and I have some truly weird and hacked up perl installs on certain dev boxes and none of them have managed to fsck up the installer yet :)
Idea #2 is definitely already being explored. I know of a couple CS students at Ohio State who are trying to build similar features for the university online and on mobile phones.
I don't think a naive search would even be useful because finding globally minimal energy configurations isn't the goal. It's pretty unlikely that nature would happen to put such large systems as whole proteins in their lowest possible energy configurations when all that is really necessary is that they be stable (ie., locally minimal configurations). Especially if nature uses the tightly controlled folding process biohacker42 describes:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=787731