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I'm just in the habit of opening tabs and forgetting about them for a few days, then coming back to them when I have time, so I guess it's more like a queue. I'm not saying it's desirable or optimal for everyone -- it's just how I work, and I find it quite effective, and I treasure my workflow a lot more than I care about "speed".

I also usually have lots of tabs with API documentation open, so it's important to maintain state such as the position of the scrollbar. Keeping tabs open is a much easier way to maintain this state than creating bookmarks for every function in the API.
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Sure, since it's definitely easier to change thousands of different email clients, twitter clients, and cellphones in use around the world than it is to write a 10-line web app that wraps a key-value store.
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Completely depends on your market and who your targeting. All the movies come out during the holidays and during the summer. The latest trapper keeper comes out in August. I think your question is one only your team can answer themselves.
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I have to disagree with you. Creating a business based around something you believe in is arguably the #1 most powerful way to change the world.

Just because people make profit does not mean profit is their "only" goal. And like Paul Graham explained in his Y-combinator speech, there are certain services to humanity that simply would not work if they didn't make profit.

I think it's ridiculous to say that people like Steve Jobs are in it for profit. If Steve Jobs was after profit he would have been a highly successful wall street CEO or something. He does what he does out of personal ambition to improve the world. It's the same for 37signals and I would argue it's the same for Y-Combinator.
All this for one question in a FAQ?
This is a fantastic idea; I hope it actually has legs. Of the three icons they show, I think the asterisk is best---it connotes "hey there's more to the story, see footnote" even if you don't know anything else about it, plus, it looks kind of like a person, which is also relevant. The other two images have one or the other of those features but not both.
I have a beef.

http://liftweb.net/docs/getting_started/mod_master.html

In their controller code for all the example stuff, they're generating HTML "snippets". In the instructional text they talk about how they are opposed to logic in the views, but how is that consistent when you are generating html in the controllers?

I know a lot of frameworks do it, but I don't understand why. We repurpose a lot of our controller code for stuff other than web (command line, api) so for it to be bound to HTML in particular seems bad practice and even worse presented in the tutorials.

I'm well aware you needn't do it when using Lift, but why start off on the wrong foot?
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That's not true.

The world of online advertising has not been rewarding to those that provide not very popular services cheaply. This has certainly never been the case for Google. The only services doing well from advertising on a large scaleare the very popular ones

This thread is awful. Every comment is completely on its own. No context. I say 'Google has the equivalent of online space and of course I have to prove that to be true in every possible context.

It is the earlier post by zedshaw that made a general claim that when the provider gets paid by an advertiser, a user cannot count on being looked after (more then in direct payments). I gave an example of industry that for decades has been proving this statement wrong. I get pounced, red herrings swinging.

If you are continuing the argument of the GGparent comment as you seem to be, you are arguing that TV is completely different from web because TV shows need to meet a certain threshold to stay on air. This is why TV people care about ratings/customer satisfaction.
Also useful for identifying actual real-life friends with semi-common names that haven't posted a picture. :)
I'm just saying, they could have at least paraphrased, or gave credit to YC. YC does have a copyright you know, and it says only the Bios are in the public domain.
All mac, no dual monitors, they honestly put some sort of flame decal on that table, and minimalism is not one of their design philosophies.

In summary, needs more Helvetica.
I'm pretty sure that's not how it works.

"Copyright notice was required under the 1976 Copyright Act. This requirement was eliminated when the United States adhered to the Berne Convention, effective March 1, 1989." (First Hit on Google, 2009, p.1)
This could be an interesting experiment: abolish taxes and have people donate whatever they think the government's services are worth to them.

It'll be a naturally graduated system, as the wealthier will be naturally inclined to donate more, and the poor, less.
Collective code ownership is a dangerous game though, I've seen its pitfalls from many angles.

Anywho, I wish there were more data for this sort of thing. Performance tuning is still somewhat of a black art, even performance testing is, to a lesser degree. My personal opinion is that a generally reliable, fast, unit-test-like performance regression testing system combined with solid profiling and making performance improvement (not just absence of regression) a priority are probably the best way to go about it. But there's so little data out there it's hard to back up any opinion with anything other than anecdotal evidence.
You don't get a page of search results?
I'd think about applying the equivalent to electricity off-hour rates before the equivalent to minute-by-minute adjusting smart meters.
Perhaps. Since I'm a non-artists mundane type, the work I would hypothetically be doing would be more important. All those pictures feel kinda tacked on, anyways.
Try a typo or a completely incorrect domain name.
Its a fair point, people like to work with different setups. However, I think this is the more important point here:

If doubling your productivity isn't worth $200 to this company, then this company may just be a really elaborate practical joke played by an eccentric billionaire.

Whatever setup you like, the company should be willing to pay a reasonable amount to get it for you.
The copyright notice is unnecessary, but the grandparent is absolutely correct on how it works. The year is date of first publication. See http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ03.pdf.
Nothing beats having lots of pixels in front of you, though. A small scrolling display isn't comparable to a large one - and having a bunch of virtual desktops isn't comparable to actually having multiple displays, either.
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How about an eyeball symbol with the word 'Spyware'?
I said the primary user, not the ONLY user. TV, search engine results, magazines, news papers, radio, pretty much anything that's ads support has two (maybe more) users. Primary is the advertisers since they actually pay for things, and secondary is the viewers. The delicate balance is satisfying the viewers while also satisfying the advertisers.

Networks cancel shows not because nobody watches them, but because nobody will advertise on them, and they sure as hell don't care if the viewers who do watch it want to keep watching.

Just ask Joss Whedon. :-)
I'm surprised anyone noticed.
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I've noticed that chrome is very fast at start up, but if I forgot it opened for some time, when I get back to it again switching tabs and repaint is very slow. Repaint take like 0.5 seconds. Could it be related to the handling on the many processes on Windows ?
Do you mean the Right-Click "View Page Info" in firefox? I'm pretty sure that still exists.

(It's there in my FF3 install on Ubuntu (that has Web Developer plugin disabled), and it's also there on an XP VM I'm running with FF3.5 and no plugins)
He is also warning that their perspective can be misleading. Like saying that Stack Overflow participants are the best developers on the planet, for example.
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All the money spent and they couldn't afford dual large monitors and at the very least cubes (not to mention private offices) for their developers?
IMHO the popularity of R is grounded on its compatibility with S/S-Plus. if they hadn't used S as language, they would have never reached the position where they are now and R wouldn't be increasingly adapted as standard statistics package---competing with and/or replacing SPSS/PASW, SAS, stata etc.

On the incanter homepage there is a link to http://www.jstatsoft.org/v13 which includes a few interesting articles.

Anyway, I find the integration with java interesting. That's a strong argument in favour of a solution like incanter.
Town heating / district heating is based on cogeneration (combined heat and power, CHP). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogeneration#History

In my home town Kuopio (pop. 93 000) 90% of all real estate is connected to district heating.

In Finland we've even had discussions about using heat from nuclear plants to town heating. But connecting Loviisa or Eurajoki (where our plants are located) would require building of heat transfer pipes. Helsinki - Loviisa is 87 km. Projected cost would be 700 million euros or 10 million euros / km. 500 million euros for building heat transfer infrastructure at the plant.

Rough estimates for 1000 MW reactor: Produces 3000 MW of heat of which 1000 MW can be converted to electricity. Remaining 2000 MW of heat is currently dumped into ocean.
They've estimated that with current heat transfer technologies they would be able to put 1500 MW of wasted heat to good use.

"In 2007, co-generation produced 74 percent of the heat needed for district heating and generated 29 percent of the Finland's electricity supply and 34 percent of production.

The total efficiency of the systems is typically more than 85 percent while the separate systems have an efficiency of only 45 percent."
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Oops, it actually doesn't work that way anymore. Updated the main page. Thanks.
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The point he's making is that it isn't all about feeding your own ego.

With the implication that that would be bad.
Knowing Imran a little I'd say it's most likely that he is doing this because he finds it interesting.
On one heavily optimized 3D CAD software that I've worked on, I've seen a hundreds of x86/PPC assembly snippets in #ifdefs, embedded in the C code. It was basically for the software to be very fast on Windows and on Mac OS X PowerPCs. Some of those were legacy optimizations, because modern C++ compilers (VS 2003 and up) are smart enough to match that speed gain with better binary generation. But some other assembly parts were truly meant to recreate a customized and fast GPU-like pipeline on the CPU, using registers for really fast per-pixel/voxel operations.

I've heard that Photoshop is also riddled with assembly code, that's why it took so long for Adobe to port it full-performance for the new Intel-based Macs in 2006. (Lots of PPC -> x86 mini-ports)
Damn. I just reread your original post and now I feel stupid. slaps forehead
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If you don't understand the benefits of static typing, it's likely that you won't understand why generics can be preferable to polymorphism in containers.

Well, thanks. I do understand the benefits modulo refactoring. How about answering the question?

It also stops you (or more likely, someone else on the team) from adding the wrong kind of thing to the collection.

I just don't see this sort of thing. Maybe I've been lucky. But I've worked as a consultant for the vendor of a couple of Smalltalk implementations. I've been at many dozens of sites. I've worked as a programmer in 5 different development shops. I just don't see this happening a whole lot. If anything, I see unexpected things shoved into instance variables sometimes, but that's it, and it's just not that common.

It's not that I don't see the potential benefits of static typing. I just don't see the cost-benefit being that compelling.

Now, back to refactoring. I've often cursed not having the type annotations in the middle of a refactoring. But that's always been not knowing what's in some instance variable or temporary. With one exception, I've never cursed about not knowing what's in some collection -- and that had nothing to do with the collection! Maybe I've just been lucky and worked in shops where everyone knew heterogeneous collections aren't that great an idea?
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No it wouldn't, since there already is a functioning heat transfer network and the server room heat will be lead into it.

District heating has been functional in Helsinki since 1953.

"Helsinki district heating covers more than 93 percent of the heating energy demand. More than 90 percent of buildings are heated with co-generated district heat."

http://www.energy-enviro.fi/index.php?PAGE=2298&NODE_ID=...
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It looks much more natural in fixed-width fonts too, using quotes like that here kind of defeats the purpose.
That's such a great bite-sized tale. Reminds me of http://folklore.org/.
I don't really understand the benefits of Chargify versus using Authorize's Automated Recurring Billing. Authorize's ARB is only $20 a month, no matter how many customers you have. If one needs an Authorize account to use Chargify why wouldn't I just use Authorize's solution?
I like the idea of doing an analysis like this, however deficient the data. It makes people think about it.

That said, why not have a status line next to each startup in the list on the YC page, that fetches updates from the startup website? Limit it to n characters and show the text and update time. This will also provide an automatic measure of when they last showed signs of life.
There's a difference between sharing your "perspective" and sharing "untruths."
I think there's too much arguement over active and inactive in this thread when the real discussion should be around the rates of return versus traditional angel investors.
My lessons from his writeup seem to be completely different:

1) Get a paycheck I can live on.

2) Get a mentor.

3) You don't have to finish a job before moving on if things aren't working out.

(not that I'd agree with #3, that just seems to be my takeaway from the story).
Maybe you're right, in which case I still have a lot to learn.
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I've seen it for parts of code that need to be particularly performant. In the old days, when clock cycles were at a premium and compiler optimizers stunk, great hackers could squeeze an extra 10-30% out of a piece of code by rebuilding certain expensive parts of code in asm instead of relying on the compiler's version. Usually it involved a particularly arcade knowledge of the chip's timing or pipelining rules so that there were no wasted clock cycles, cache misses, or minimizing branch prediction errors....that kind of thing.
In chrome each tab is its own process. If you don't have much ram then leaving a tab idle for a long time will cause its resources to be swapped out to disk so reactivating it might be slow. Same as any other application you leave idle on a machine with low ram.
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Warren Buffet is not talking about "Personal Financial Management" - He's talking about making use of the utility of money when it has value - and not holding onto it for the sake of holding onto it - until you have it a time when it might not be useful anymore.

The money you are talking about is consumption spending, not investment spending. (And I suspect, even in your case, you wouldn't just "hold onto/save the money" - you'd probably invest/"Buy" something instead - T-Bills, Equities, etc...)

In general - disagreeing with Warren Buffet with regards to Investment Advice is like disagreeing with Plato with regards to Philosophy - You may _feel_ like you know more than them, but you don't. You really don't.
I've noticed the same thing, and that I seem to have less of a problem with that on other platforms.
I once calculated the amount of power that could be generated by solar cells on the wings of a small light plane. 3hp, at 100% efficiency.

I'm totally unsurprised that they had to make something with the wingspan of an Airbus to get this to work.
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I quite enjoy trac as it plays nicely with SVN and is fairly simple to set up (and free). I'd start with that and look to other things if it doesn't do what you want.
The time I sometimes lose reading HN pays off when I find stuff like this. BTW the type heuristics is good enough to look inside of files to determine the type: doing 'ack --python pattern' WILL DO look into python files that have no extension (like the toplevel module for instance).
Google is going for a belt and suspenders approach here. On the one hand they are encouraging people to dump DNS servers from crappy ISPs (of which there are many). This benefits everybody regardless of their browser. On the other hand google is implementing and promoting dns prefetching in the browser in order to sidestep the problem of page load overhead due to dns lookups. Though neither method is perfect they complement each other well.
When is eliminating a stack frame a sensible optimization? Only when you intend to go hundreds of calls deep. And there are only two types of code that do that: heavily factored "threaded" code in the Forth style, and recursion.
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I don't think it's useful to label journalists as lazy or beta users as lab rats. I am not trying to be politically correct: I think these terms can introduce an unconscious framing that's harmful, and these are not labels members of these groups would adopt for themselves.
It's unfortunate that they are one the first starters to social networks yet they lost their lead early too.
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If you want an overly complicated and busy (with no regard to usability) UI, just go for Enlightenment ;)

In other regards, I like the choice of Ulrich Schnauss on his film reel. Big fan. Good coding 'tunes.
This is silly. There are thousands of websites that make money. The difference is, they don't go on and on and on about it.

The unique part is 37Signals seems to concentrate mainly on PR. They're not the biggest or best, they just shout the loudest.
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Why is this a given? What are the forces which prevent the pay getting commensurate with ability? Is this unique to programming profession, or is this widely observed in other fields too?
Yeah, I recall people doing similar with 'fistp' to get quicker float->int conversions. (There are quicker tricks using direct manipulation of the fp representation, but those have always had the decency to be hidden in macros).

Also, I recall assembler code (65816) where the programmers had directly encoded instructions (DB $aa,$bb) since an earlier (probably 6502) assembler had not supported them.

In those days, gamers programmers had more in common with scientists in their attitude to programming - they made games, programming was simply a means to that end. Also, games had pretty much zero maintenance after release.
Err... sorry - let's chalk that up to flu leftovers in my head. I was thinking of a Google DNS service for one's own domains ala EveryDNS.
"People are natural hackers, we've just got out of the habit of it"

This is put so well I don't know what to add to it.
I just use 'git grep' to only grep in tracked files. It's worthwhile to learn that tool, for example to learn how you can grep in older revisions.
Yeah, the lack of some massive displays struck me as odd too. Our offices are plain and boring but the walls of screens lit them up.
So far, yes it seems
I'm the original author. I'll make corrections to the article later today but in response:

1) I marked a startup as closed if it's publicly declared as closed, if the founders now list their employer as someone else (on linkedin, HN, etc) or if there's been no activity in the six months. In the case where it seemed ambiguous I've marked it as unknown.

2) I'll need to check my notes, Innovation fuels I checked several sources which named it as a YC company as it seemed weird as it falls outside YC's normal investment categories. Removed now.

3) YouOs / WebShaka I should have spotted as WebShaka is listed as the creator of project wedding in several places. Boso / Auctomatic I was aware that the founding teams were the same, but thought they were two separately funded YC startups as several news articles referred to them as such.

4) Chatterous blog hasn't been updated since March, their front page has a 2008 copyright, and their "featured groups" on the homepage seem both static and dead. IJigg and ididwork I marked as dead as because their public blogs (blog.ijigg.com and www.ididwork.com/blog/) are returning technical errors which suggest abandonment.

5) Transparency-wise, it's understandable you don't chose to disclose outside investment/acquisitions. However the later generally become public sooner or later anyway. The list of YC's FAQ page doesn't seem to be complete (including the ones commented out in the source code), presumably because you remove ones which have closed ?. Also there's no disclosure in terms of how many companies YC funds but fail to launch.

But thanks for the feedback, one of the reasons for early disclosure of this list is so that I can get feedback and remove mistakes from the list.
I've looked at them and tried to use them before, but the problem with any bookmarking technology is that I always get the feeling that bookmarks are permanent. (When was the last time you deleted a bookmark?) I really don't want most of the links I open to be permanent. With tabs, it feels good to know that there's always an out -- the red X in the top right corner.