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Google is heavily involved as well, in both the client libraries and the agent development. In addition to Google, Omnition, Microsoft and others are also major contributors. All of the OpenCensus community is moving over to OpenTelemetry, Google and Omnition included.

Founder of Omnition here. We are the primary maintainers of the OpenCensus agent and collector services. OpenTelemetry which is the result of the OpenCensus and OpenTracing merger is also inheriting these. Omnition is building a distributed tracing backend. If anyone is interested to find out more you can email me directly: spiros at omnition.io. For those interested to contribute or use OpenTelemetry, checkout out: - https://opentelemetry.io/ - https://github.com/open-telemetry - https://gitter.im/open-telemetry/community

At Pattern Insight (http://patterninsight.com) we have build a source code search engine. We do not give this to our customers as a standalone tool most of the time but it's the underlying technology for our product, Code Assurance, which helps companies eliminate bugs from their releases.

We use it internally to search our code / libraries, if anyone is interested in indexing/searching his own code, especially if it's open source, I would be happy to provide a copy. Email: spiros at patterninsight.com

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I think it's fair if it's aimed at Oracle given Oracle's record in terms of "supporting" open source. It will probably hurt a lot many others though, including CentOS.

I would be happy to provide a free copy to anyone that might want to use Patch Miner (http://patterninsight.com/patchminer/) to verify patches in one of the free distros

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Many of our team members joined the company after working part-time or as interns

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Totally agree. I started my company 4 years ago. We have been pretty successful so far (several millions in revenue and big customers). There are times that people need to work a lot but there is no way you can work 7 or even 6 days a week in a sustainable fashion, not even at the beginning. I never expected people to work on the weekends although sometimes they do. Of course, I never expected people to work more than me either. Most of them are extremely productive during normal working hours. I don't think having a life means you are not motivated.

Also, hours that somebody appears to be working is definitely the wrong metric for developers.

A point with which I strongly disagree is that some public businesses are profitable so we should leave them alone. First of all, it's trivial to be profitable if you control a monopoly. Also, being profitable doesn't mean you are efficient, some things could be done much more effectively in the private sector. Also, by being overstaffed, even if profitable, you are not allowing all these people working for you to do something more productive.

Beyond that, when talking about profitability, you should consider pension plans and future obligations. Some of these businesses might have a positive balance sheet for the year but what's going to happen if you consider their future, inflated, obligations. A good example are the pensions the Public Electric Company employees get. They are mostly funded by the government.

Let's see why it screws up incentives: -- What do you think any of the people working in the public sector tries to optimize? Is it the successe of the business they are working on? Do they try to advance their careers? Or do they try to work as little as possible? -- If an employee is not good, is a government controlled company ever going to fire them? -- The guy who controls the supplies in the hospitals, does he ever have to report to somebody about that? -- Do you know a single person in the public sector that he has ever been promoted or fired because of his skills or lack there of?

Such as building their own private businesses and employing other people in the private sector.

For example, it is much more beneficial to the country to build, say a new hotel (as this is Greece's biggest industry), instead of wasting the money on more public-railroad-type of money wasting businesses.

I am not advocating tax evasion. I think, US for example, is a great place to do business, as opposed to Greece, because the letter of the law is followed and the rules are clear to everyone. I am just saying that the Greek government was so inefficient and the public sector so bloated, that in some sense tax evasion was helping put people's money at more efficient uses.

I am not advocating something that extreme here. Not sure how familiar you are with Greece. Each of these organizations is overstaffed to a great extend. Then some of them are totally useless, like the public railroad. On the top of that there are businesses that would be very healthy in the private sector (see banks) and that the government has absolutely no reason to be in. The fact that the government is actually in those businesses, profitable or not, screws up the incentives of everyone involved.

I don't think I disagree with you. My whole argument in these posts is that tax evasion, although very real, did not lead Greece to this mess neither will its reverse take it out. The problem is the bloated public sector with all its related problems. I think fixing that should be the first step towards a real solution.

Greece does not provide its citizens with more social services than other European countries, I would say that they actually provide less. And although you are right about the deficit, again, the main problem is the inflated public sector with all its associated problems, like high pensions at a young age.

The private sector should not be burdened with this, and actually, it cannot afford to pay for this burden. If collecting more taxes is the solution here, it's certain that Greece will go bankrupt.

Regarding Germany vs the other European countries, what is easy to see is the direct contribution of Germany to the EU but the indirect benefits that Germany got because of the fixed currency are more difficult to see although very very important for them.

You are arguing as if the Greek government is entitled at peoples' money no questions asked.

What you are suggesting is to keep wasting the tax money to pay for the inflated public sector and all the money wasting state companies.

They should first fix the problem, stop the wasting, and then try to collect more taxes.

Reducing tax evasion, without solving the root cause, will help nobody, it will just get more money wasted.

As far as your last point goes, I am not totally against dept restructuring. As long as they make sure they solve the root case of the problem

But this is not the cause of the economic problems. The more appropriate solution would be to shut down the money-loosing public businesses (like the train org) and lay off as many people as needed from the public sector.

This way, they will reduce government spending and will also allow people to do something more productive.

More taxation will just slow down the economy even further.

The article points out many of the problems of the greek economy, like:

* The inflated public sector

* The power of the unions over the government

* The corruption in certain areas of the public sector (e.g. hospitals)

* The loose observance of laws

But it mischaracterizes several important points, as it is commons with articles that describe such complicated issues after a minimal exposure of the journalist to the situation:

* Tax evasion does not hurt the real economy. Especially not in a country like Greece where the public sector is so inefficient. It might be unfair for some but it doesn't really hurt the economy. In some cases it enables smart and motivated entrepreneurs to start their businesses.

* Most public sector workers are not corrupted but they are part of the problem simply because of the fact that they work in the public sector. Think of DMV x1000.

* The majority of Greeks are against the unions and would like to see the public sector shrink.

This looks good but does it support background updating like Chrome?

I am not aware of a win or a Linux (I mostly work on Linux) solution either

Auto updates of apps is the way to go if you have to build a native app. I expect more apps to move to that direction.

At the moment the biggest problem I see is that there is not a framework for doing this, it has to be build from the scratch every time

I disagree. Ineffective tax collection actually might be helping the greek economy. The government is so inefficient that I cannot imagine how paying more taxes would actually help in the long run. People can be more efficient and produce much more real value by spending their money.

The real big problem is the inflated public sector. This of course is a problem because is a big burden to the public finances but more importantly results in >20% of the population that is capable of working being occupied at the public sector producing minimal value for the economy overal.

I am an entrepreneur myself and I think an 1x liquidation preference makes sense. You cannot get X dollars at a 3X valuation and then turn around and sell the company for X keeping 2/3 of X and only giving 1/3 of X to the investor.

I think what most people disagree with are the 2x and 3x liquidation preference terms that are not uncommon in term sheets. They are a very effective way, for the investors, to push the founders to a more risky / bigger potential path so that they can also make money. This works well in the context of the VC model (for the VCs).

Even if Apple allowed 3rd party vendors to make IPhone OS compatible phones, Android would still be free and Google would still push it as hard as possible, so the competition would still be there (which by the way is really good). Also, it's not easy to beat "free" from the vendors' perspective.

I think the iPhone will continue having a significant market share and I think Apple will continue innovating. In the meantime, the Android market share will grow, possibly beyond the iPhone share, but I don't see why it's necessary to only have one winner that takes it all. I think both companies, along with RIM, will do fine

This is not as bad as presented, this is a good article about the situation in Greece: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/may/04/greece-d...

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Impressive work and I don't want to be discouraging but I think that transferring the Desktop paradigm to the web is probably not the best way of building powerful web interfaces

IE6 must die, anyone that tried to develop a webapp and make it compatible with IE6 knows the pain. It is broken and orders of magnitude slower than any other browser.

The are not trying to kill IE, they are just trying to fix this. Any attempt to make IE6 users upgrade is good for them and for the developers

I totally agree with what Sarah says but I think those who complain, including investors, would probably dismiss bigger ideas as not concrete enough most of the time -- at least that has been my experience

Very short-sighted. You need confidence as a sales person so that you avoid wasting your time when the customer is not going to buy but if you "manipulate" someone into buying something that is not useful for them, then go back to sell to them again...

Interesting timing, after this discussion from a couple days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=788504

I think that investments in the $50k-$150K range and possibly a bit more (~$300K) definitely match a need

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