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They have fixed the problem and updated the status page. Looks good from here.

Half my public infrastructure is down. It could have been a 100%, but I separated private and business systems last month. Lots of people use MT because their email and DNS logic is solid. So this is pretty serious for them. Media Temple was broken into a while back via a Wordpress bug and people wonder if this is related to that event (HN really needs a "related news" button). http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2462774

MT also did a hardware upgrade yesterday. So they are probably a little stressed right now. http://status.mediatemple.net/

Display percentages instead of points relative to sub-tree total. This way points are hidden but relevance stays intact. Then use colors instead of numbers to indicate "good" sub-trees so that people have to convert hexadecimal values to extract the relative karma. Then add a hidden karma-boost mode where a up-voting "short term good commenter" indicates the presence of another "short term good commenter". Add another view called "contested" where down voted links can get a second chance. This might reduce group-think and content-shaping. Let "short term good commenter" double vote on contested links. Add a content merge option to reduce or group duplicates.

I think people are mean because they get down voted a lot by people who "play" HN like WOW and everyone non-omg-erlang is a target. And lots of people here think KARMA == FREE TRAFFIC SPELL. Because spending most of your life on HN showcases how busy you are making money. Although.. nobody will ever read this comment because the thread is already two hours old and the in-crowd has already started writing meta posts that will take over the front page two hours from now.

Or maybe this is all about.. hello TechCrunch readers !

WebOS/Bada/Android(Linux), WindowsPhone(CE) and iOS(Mach) are all very different. Each platform uses its own string class, threading logic and UI layer. The lack of standardization is almost bizarre when you factor in HTML5. This results in lots of developers sitting on the fence.

Five platforms, five compilers, five api´s... yet everything runs on 32bit ARM, uses ANSI/ISO C-like syntax and reads UTF8 over HTTP.

I tried writing something that was multiplatform with HybridKit and it was almost impossible. Even stupid code generation might be too much. So solid design and custom code seems like a safe bet.

I can make a sandwich in ten seconds. Am I a baker or someone who makes a sandwich ?

I was using Photoshop to pick colors from design PSD´s and PNG´s. Then I found two nice color libraries, added my boring app framework and created this - http://teppefall.com/products/colorspace.

The problem is risk.. do you spend a $1000 on good sales copy and some Adsense when you might only get $900 back short term ? Your product is good, but is it good enough?

How does Python hook into all this ? Seems very J2EE. Jython or API? Or maybe they just use it instead of SH to set up env ?

BackType looks cool btw, got an API key a while back and started playing with it.

I think the haircut part is much stranger. The iPad is about moving people into the multitouch paradigm.

I saved a few bucks a month by upgrading my cellphone plan. Old subscription might result in old price, etc. I use this money to power an Google AppEngine instance.

I think it is because people think HN traffic is "oh shiny.." compared to other link sharing sites. And then you go too far and get banned or hated by HN members.

"The Newest Google Plane Is A Fighter Jet"

http://www.businessinsider.com/2008/10/the-newest-google-pla...

Windows and Linux users can try this one (color logic was done by smarter people than me btw): http://teppefall.com/products/colorspace

I know that the OS X build crashes. People complain about upgrades even when they are not paying.

Easier to get laid in college than in SF. And if you do get a startup job, they might cut you first to pay for some new espresso machine or something like that. Employment security is probably non-existent.

I am from another country, so this might be wrong, but SF feels like a playgroud for middleclass valley-dad-pays-for-shit children. Plus lots of homeless people and asian girls in cowboy hats.

Harmony is an alternative to OpenJDK. There is no need to fork anything unless they want to merge in some UI code or something. Suing Apache seems very counterproductive imo.

I wrote a text about this earlier today if someone is interested. Not published here since it is kinda rantish.

http://labs.teppefall.com/2010/12/calling_oracles_sco_bluff....

"So you are almost done ! Great! Here is $2000. Go build my GroupOnTwitterFacebook iPad client post haste !"

Specification Leads (JSR - 314) 1 - Oracle 2 - Oracle

Needs more Bahamas :P

Apache forks a child process with lower rights than root. App servers that run on port 80 do not without a native JNI lancher. The solution is native launcher, a router rule or iptables.

I think the parent is talking about living in a chmod 777 world. Or maybe he is tired of crazy symlink hacks so that sftp becomes an option. Some appservers put class cache in WEB-INF by default, etc.

So Microsoft is failing because Apple, Google and Nintendo is performing better in seperate markets ? What about the Nintendo Office Suite, the Apple SQL Server or the Google Zune ?

This is old school portal logic. money.cnn.com animal.discovery.com

Go.com email shut down earlier this year, btw - http://go.com/mail/help

Game developers are not aware of non-work. Also, if your game does not look like a 100 million dollars IT SUCKS! NDA, risk, OpenGL complexity == boring/dangerous, etc.

Games == Assets == IP == Millions of dollars == Risk.

C# is just like Objective C in that the vendor lock-in is in the API and resource formats rather than the code syntax. Info.plist is fine, but X/NIB is terrifying when mixed with four versions of OS X, four different CPU architectures and several Frameworks in a pear tree.

Encryption on disk/tape and CORBA endpoints to z/OS legacy.

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/tools/java/products/j...

There is no "beer" in that entire sentence. Your keyboard is obviously malfunctioning.

JRuby sounds risky on Harmony. The people behind it focus on J2EE and Rails.

The Eclipse Android plugin is solid and comes with a user interface builder. Not the best tool in the world, much worse than Microsoft Blend but on par with Samsung Bada for Eclipse. Eclipse really is a fantastic IDE.

Remember that multitouch is the big feature and that all helper API´s are Java. This might bite you in the ass later in the project if you go the "interesting" route.

Turn off email, your phone and the TV.

Try Google AppEngine, Java and JDO. Install IBM Eclipse and the Google AppEngine plugin and deploy in two clicks. Move to VPS if you need more than what Google offers.

Do LISP/RDF research when code is up and running.

So this is like Digg ?

No longer -dependent- on Qt. As in, my C++ code no longer uses QString in the core. Just read one more sentence and QT4 is listed as a supported toolkit :)