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I'd love to make the transcripts more useable so please do let me know how would you imagine a better solution. Initially we've thought that synchronizing the transcript with the interview and allowing to jump to specific questions is quite innovative, but I'd definitely love to hear more ideas.
And just to avoid 'spamming' HN, you can always drop me an email: alex at infoq.
You don't, but enrolling in any kind of developer program, or buying any kind of developer software, is going to cost north of $99 a year, which any developer hoping to make even that amount of money will do.

The situation for iPhone developers have a lot of well publicized flaws, but the cost of participating in the developer program (which includes development software and publishing in the App Store) is not one of them.
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>That's terribly naive.

I don't think you understood what I meant.

There are plenty of reason for certain people to get rid of other people. Yes, the crazies exist. The key is to have a balance between making it for them really difficult (stop selling firearms at walmart) without making a 1984esque surveillance society.

With giving someone a reason, I meant bombing helpless civilans with ultra-modern bombs or supporting injustice. Why aren't these crazies you're talking about not exploding themselves everywhere in the US? And speaking of challenge, I challenge to find someone willing to stuff a bomb up his rectum to kill someone for his position on abortion..
Certainly. Where signing comes into J2ME is that it pops up dialogs asking the user before the application does certain things if it's not signed, like "hey, this app is about to use some air time - is that ok?". With signing, you can get around that.

On Blackberry, you have to pay 20$ to get code signing certificates, and without that you can still write basic apps, just not ones that access most of the 'interesting' features.

Android lets you self-sign applications.

All those platforms have free development tools, and in Android's case, I believe most of it is actually open source.
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ok, that makes good sense.

The problem is that what I've written is just one guys experience, it really helps to have many perspectives on this.
The author says that simply typed lambda calculus proves that programs terminate. That sounds to me like saying "simply typed lambda calculus is not Turing-complete". Disclaimer: I know basics of lambda calculus but don't exactly know what the "simply typed" one is.
Android apps can be self-signed and published in the Android Market.
Something I've always thought would make this classic article better is a good old s/typed/type-checked/g

Both static and dynamic type-checking can be easily implemented for most programs in nearly every language.

Plenty of statically type-checked language implementations build in support for RTTI and runtime casts (dynamic type checks galore!). Plenty of language implementations that do pervasive dynamic type-checks have modules for accessing the AST (upon which you can perform static type-checks!).

It's not always easy to add sound static type-checking, for sure. In some language implementations it's impossible to implement dynamic type-checks that make any sense without major greenspunning (eg. Haskell and type erasure). But your language's native type system is not your program's destiny!
I wish OpenCL had a different name, I keep thinking it's a CL implementation. (OpenMCL is one, and its name is very close to OpenCL.)
> Note that anyone can download libraries for XCode that let you compile and simulate iPhone apps

As far as I know you can only develop for the iphone on a mac.

Is that true?
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Any suggestions on the target ?
Nice suggestions. Thanks. I especially like the suggestion to group courses.

My logo is actually from Seth Godin's ebook on Tribes.

I plan to add more free book links. Would like to request HN readers to suggest some.
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I love the interface, very simple and no fancy features. It's awesomly simple and selfexplaining.
Very much so. Maintaining neutrality is incredibly tricky when you run a political community. You want to ban people who wave nazi flags, but then people ask you to ban the guys with the hammer & sicle flags. It's pandora's box, the horror.
Debunked:

http://www.geotimes.org/oct03/NN_pancake.html

They measured the sides of the pancake as well, which is ridiculous. In their defense the authors of the study did cite prior research showing that comparing apples and oranges is possible...
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You should build one if your customers ask for it.

And if you do well they will ask. Most iPhone apps are just web-apps w/a "phone-top" interface. Running your app through Safari on the iPhone feels too slow and looks crappy next to a native app. I think having an iPhone app is going to be as standard as having website soon, if not already.

Also agree w/ sibling poster about access to your contacts + other richness.

Otherwise, good luck! I really like how you ritually slaughtered all the BS.
There are industries where 1.4% margins are acceptable(for example, supermarkets) and they might even be acceptable for computer parts, problem is that Amazon has ~5% margins.
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In terms of actually checking bags, I'm not sure whether the old way or the new way is better. It sometimes seems like the few staff members are pretty spread thin when it comes to actually taking bags.

On the other hand, I normally travel with only carry on bags. There's often little to no line at the "no baggage" check ins, which makes it a much faster choice for getting through the airport.

Can anyone else confirm/deny these observations?
In return when JWZ is finished hacking he hangs in his own nightclub. Not a bad trade-of IMHO ;)
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More like weekly. I have issues :-)
Or you use barrier=0 mount option for your ext4.
I'm not sure I agree: they're looking at the overall elevation gain, rather than the wiggly ups and downs. If you just look at the original article, you can see the pancake is hillier than Kansas. Not by a lot, but it is.

I, for one, would not want to live in such a "vertically homogeneous" state in any case.
A d&t report ( http://www.deloitte.com/dtt/cda/doc/content/us_tmt_2009vcrep... ) titled 'Global trends in Venture Capital 2009" has the following figures:

US: 44% of world
EU: 21% (ex uk)
UK: 7%
AP: 16%
IS: 2% (Israel)
AM: 10% (excluding US)

California being 40% of the US total leaves it with about 17.6% of the world total.
cf. http://news.ycombinator.com/
I can second this. Over the past few years I've regularly attempted to start exercising. It makes me tired, it bores me, and I just don't feel better. I know it's supposed to make you feel fit but that just isn't the case for me. I thoroughly hate it.
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I believe, you can do it on a Hackintosh, as well, although the cheapest legal platform is the old Mac Mini.
This is great news! The site played such an important role in the history of computer science, that it really deserves to be preserved. I've been there myself, and they've created a wonderful museum there.

The Colossus rebuild headed by Tony Sale is so impressive, he is such an enthousiastic character. It's worth visiting there just to meet him and see what he's done.
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Reading between the lines of Joels original article, I must say I am a bit delighted to understand to that even Joel got "frigtards" into his team (I had to look up this term in a dictionary - very funny ;o).
Despite all guerilla guides on interviewing and telephone screens etc. pp.

In preparation for my last interview I read a lot in Joels blog and found it very helpful. But in the end, the guy we hired IS a frigtard. The only difference to Joels description is, that he usually comes with a cup of tea into my office, not coffee. But the focus on useless, time consuming, elaborate bs is remarkable.

Just a side remark. And my fault of course.
I haven't seen a specific "no baggage" check-in point anywhere I've been, but that sounds like a good idea.

I remember when the check-in machines first appeared they also printed your baggage tags for you to stick around the handle yourself but they seem to have moved away from this system for some reason. That seems to me something that could speed up the drop-off.
80legs has been covered here before. The Slashdot article is nothing but a late, shallow-water ripple of the original wave.
This is extremely good news.

It's a landmark year for English computing history, first the apology, now this.
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I think BREW is some crap mostly used in the US (and even there it's not as widespread as J2ME). Phones here in Europe don't ship with it as far as I know.
They want to Fail.
So they would!
All the more reasons I don't miss the function-lookup programming that is the Microsoft platform.

If tasked with this, my first reaction would be to look at the sources of the Unix `file` command, and find out a way to rip out the guts of its main function so to wrap it as a library. Then write an FFI for the one function and call it from $FAV_LANG. But only because I don't do shell pipes.
I don't feel qualified to answer your question, but seeing as nobody else is...

Melbourne has a lot of technology meet-ups. Twitter meetups happen at least monthly, and there are also mobile tech meetups, social media meetups, The Hive for entrepreneurial talks and the like, and regular meetups for [programming language of your choice]. Sydney has a lot of similar things happening, but I'm not as familiar with the scene as I'm not there.

In terms of startup scenes we have a long way to go to match the US. Sydney and Melbourne have a friendly rivalry going -- Sydney likes to think they're more Silicon Valley-like, and Melbourne beg to differ ;) Both have good, albeit small, groups of enthusiastic hackers trying to create a tighter-knit startup culture.

This Melbourne meetup is one of the things we're doing here to try and bring everyone together and get more of a community happening.

One of the other things everyone mentions is how much harder it is to get VC funding in Aus, which is one of the reasons the startup culture is a little stifled.
I don't buy it. JWZ is a central point of control for DNA Lounge, I assume; PG is a close to a central point of control for YC news; Linus is a central point of control for Linux kernel enhancements

But the point is, JWZ is not a central point of control for all nightclubs, PG is not a central point of control for my startup, and Linus is not the central point of control for every Free operating system.

Apple controls devices that you own whether or not you want Apple to have that control. If I want to pay a friend to write an application for me, I have to get Apple's permission. This is a different kind of control than "if I want pg to give me free money, I have to convince pg to do so". Apple is injecting itself between parties that do not want Apple in the middle. (The word "wiretapping" comes to mind.)
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Without all those advantages you listed, the price to pick a competitor for your next flight would likely be close to zero though. So they have to provide those running incentives. The cost of switching the phone provider for my next call... way higher.
Actually, it doesn't sound too promising:

This bookstore has an Espresso Book Machine which sometimes works.
http://www.librarything.com/venue/34802/Angus-&-Robertso...
A bug is a defect. A defect is a deviation from the intended meaning of the program. To automatically detect that, you will need a formal specification of the meaning of the program.

It's the automated programming paradox. You can't automate programming because you have to tell the automaton what to program... which is called programming.
We've all read this article, it made the front page of HN. I'm sure it's swayed opinions of the Palm app. review process.
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You can not transmit information that way unfortunately.

I found this link: http://everything2.com/title/Quantum+entanglement+and+faster...
And the Earth is smoother than billiard ball:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/08/te...
I’d suggest a user stylesheet with some CSS3 multi-column trickery, but I’ve just seen that the markup is all table based :( Bang goes that idea.
video of version 1 http://www.bookshop.unimelb.edu.au/bookshop/p?Z.ebm

video of version 2 http://www.ondemandbooks.com/video2.htm

The videos have a boring start but become cool.
I grew up in the sunflower state. The eastern half of the state isn't nearly as flat as has been reputed, but the western half, especially the southwest, is just amazingly level. I mean a landscape without a single feature anywhere.

On the geophysical plus side, it has astonishingly varied weather. Live anywhere else and the weather will bore you. Tornados, hail the size of softballs (yes, literally), vast temperature swings within an hour, blizzards. Righteous stuff.
I work as a design engineer and regularly have parts I'm designing RPed so this looks really exciting and I look forward to something like this being available in the UK.

One of the things that we would usually do is have the RP firm finish our parts for us, painting and polishing, perhaps applying an overlay for the graphics on a screen or even vac casting to make a small batch of parts. I think it would be really important for you to allow people to request these services through the site as well.

I notice that you mentioned on the site that you will eventually supply laser and water-jet cutting as well. I think it would be good to also source machined components though the site.

We are increasingly finding that having parts prototyped in china is about half the price of having them produced here in the UK. For example a few months back I was looking to have a 400-300-200mm part prototyped that had been designed for injection molded. I cant remember the exact figures but our Chinese suppler quoted half the price for machining the component out of a solid block of plastic using a 5-axis milling machine than the local RP firm was quoting for an SLS. I hope you will allow oversees suppler to bid though the site as they are very competitive and very responsive!
As I say to Mac users bitching about hardware X not being available on the Mac: Were you aware that your preference was a minority position before you made the choice? Yes? Then sit down, shut up, and wait. You have no justification for your demands.
Hate to be the bearer of bad news, dude, but to my knowlege Huddle have a global trademark on the use of the word "Huddle" in relation to collaboration. Would suggest re-considering the name.

IANAL, however, just a programmer.
When my business partner and I were looking for idea of what to build we came up with the idea of building an online candidate tracking app for recruitment firms. It was going to be aimed at small 1 - 5 person agencies and would have a cut down feature set compared to the big, and expensive, desktop packages available.

I cold called around ten small recruitment agencies who I would expect to be our target audience and explained how the system would work to them. Of the ten, only one thought it was an excellent idea, whilst most of the others told me that the features we were planning to leave out of our app would be needed if the app were to be of any use.

With this advice ringing in our ears we dropped the idea and continued on to other projects. The good thing about the cold calls was that we got valuable feedback on the app without writing a single line of code. This saved us a few months of coding to get to the same conclusion.
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Instead of understanding there is a problem in the way Apple is handling this stuff, trying to exploit it creating a market that's more free and easy for developers, Palm is doing the same errors, with the difference that they are nowhere as successful as Apple, so it's even worse.
All of the communities I hang out in online, when organising a general meet up, choose bletchley park as the location.

It's good to see some money going that way :)
And the de-bunk has been de-bunked in turn.

The only people who don't like talking about why better solutions failed in the market place are free market fundamentalists. The source of all this alleged debunking was an article by economists:

http://dvorak.mwbrooks.com/dissent.html
Dvorak on the iPhone makes no sense to me.

I touch type Dvorak and I have no idea what the keyboard layout looks like. I use standard QWERTY keycaps. My fingers know, so I don't have to.

On the iPhone you're not using the home row and touch typing, you're peck typing either with one finger, or two thumbs on a soft keyboard that can reconfigure at will and guess what you're typing, but that has no physical feedback on position. Clearly something other than Qwerty or Dvorak, something designed for this technology is the way forward.

I think studies have shown that for simple touchscreen or stylus keyboards a simple A-Z grid outperforms Qwerty. I'm hoping the Android approach lets some innovation happen here.
> Thanks to the space missions we get technology that is useful for X and Y. So why not invest that money to research solutions to X and Y in first place instead?

Technology doesn't work that way. Real life is not Sid Meier's Civilization where you pick what to research.
Hi Alex, great to see that you guys read HN. You're doing a good job with the content. That said, here's some suggestions in an irreverent tone:

1) The transcript shouldn't be a scrollable window. Scrollable windows within scrollable windows suck, especially when people use the mousewheel.

2) The transcript should take up a lot more than freaking 13% of the screen. (Just measured that in Photoshop, browser maximized, 1280x1024) It's the main content that most people come to see.

3) The "expand" buttons should not exist. Everything should be expanded, always. Ever try to read a blog post by clicking to expand each paragraph?

Those are the big issues. Try to emulate the Google Docs reading experience (see semmons's link higher up the thread). If you want little buttons next to each paragraph that skip to that place in the video, fine. I don't object to those.
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> That is exactly one of my main problems. The biggest disadvantage in Africa is that rich countries subsidise their agriculture production. Agriculture is one of the few areas where Africa can be competitive.

Absolutely We spend a lot of money on aid, and then spend orders of magnitude more to chancel that aid by killing the market for third world products. But fixing that problem will require us to make thousands of farmers unemployed, and that's political suicide. Especially in Europe, where agriculture subsidies are strongly supported by the political mainstream.
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The whole article was a back-handed compliment. The funniest part, though, is that Joel doesn't even seem to know it.
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Agreed - the Colossus is simply amazing. Last time I went the thing was actually running - chattering away, lights blinking, tape flying around, busy decrypting a German naval message from 1944.
One piece of important information I have only seen the BBC mention so far is that the Polanski settled with the victim for an unknown amount in 1993.

For that reason him ending up avoiding sentencing and extradition now makes me uneasy; it sets a dangerous precedence for paying off criminal behaviour rather than face prison.
And this is relevant to HN, how?
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Perhaps i am the only one, but i never experienced even one single crash using Flash CS4 / Fireworks CS4 (mac). I use Flash CS4 everyday. Sometimes a session last for almost a whole week. No crash yet!!

But Fireworks does have tonns of annoying bugs.
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I guess the ping pong balls are just squeezed in, then re-inflated using boiling water (which will cause the air inside to expand).
If you don't fix each and every one of them there is no way you can get the "early adopters" to use your product. And you know that you need the early adopters if you ever have the chance to cross over the chasm to the mainstream user.

Tell that to Twitter. Nothing to see here, move along.
I almost invariably travel hand-luggage only, but I frequently find that I can't check-in online because I have an "unusual passport."

Really annoying, especially when some airlines then charge for not having checked in online.
Every time some idiotic startup with no users or some 'twitter' based piggy back scheme gets funding/acquired.
It's a good article but he creates a new fallacy himself, which is that performance becomes less important over time.

It only becomes less important for the exact same things we did in the past or for equally (computationally) simple things.

But faster machines can be used to do things we couldn't do in the past, and my own opinion is that these are the interesting things. So I think, generally, the importance of performance doesn't change much over time.
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It isn't - unless the point is that he's hacked the law for 30 years
Can you clarify a little on #2? Have you been paid up to the point at which they decide to stop the job or you don't get paid for any of your time?

Along those same lines, how do you handle invoicing? Do you take any up-front payment? Bill weekly? One lump sum at the end of the job? Thanks.
Hi Jem,

I appreciate your comments and agree with you on most counts. The site is evolving and there were markup issues due to design changes which were being rectified. We are fairly new in this business, but are definitely committed to become a serious player in this market.

We regards to spamming on the web, I do not totally agree. We are just announcing to the world that we exist on public directories.

Tejas
I hope at least some of this finds its way to the computing museum there as well as the park itself. A fantastic place and I'm thrilled to have been this year.
His point, at the end, was to ignore all the naysayers, so he actually agrees with you.
I think that the czar's phrasing and choice of words were telling, and perhaps his feelings about power can be inferred from it. You can judge for yourself:

> That hasn’t stopped Kuneva from taking a strong stand in the matter:

> “I don’t need (Apple)’s permission to stop goods entering the market,” told reporters in Brussels.
Windows Mobile doesn't have/require signing. I'll wager most Symbian phones are like this as well.
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