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I read the first edition, and it had more than 10 pages worth of useful advice including a fair amount of stuff besides the "document processes" advice (although that was its biggest message).

One of the best was "make sure there's a head for every cap." I.e. there are a lot of necessary roles in every small business (at the highest level, things like marketing and sales, at a low level, say, backups); make sure every important role is identified and assigned to someone.

It's still on my "top 5" list of books anyone starting up a company should read.
What happens when the domain squatter decide to persuade you (to buy the .com domain) by uploading porn?

Risks should be properly taken care of when building a brand.
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The googleable phrase you want is "constructive solid geometry." The wikipedia page is probably as good a place to start as any, but there are plenty of other resources that talk about it, mostly from the perspective of ray equations.
Great points. I'll incorporate them into the post.

It's growing faster from a smaller base, though. I find more relevant that Tumblr is still much, much bigger. And I think it will stay that way.
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Looks nice! I would just make one change, that is to give a texture to the white "apples" (that's what they are in the original game I think).

Just one other comment, did you notice that all shaders mover around constantly? For example, the texture of the border of the playing field is turning anti-clockwise constantly. This also happens with the obstacles in the center.
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Hello and Happy New year!

I am an entrepreneur with no deep knowledge in tech. However, I have a good idea and most importantly startup capital. I am based between DC and NY and would love to meet developers who would like to help me build a new type of social networking platform for niche market. The site would have payment systems and other interesting features.

My real problem is finding the team with tech skills and choosing the right ones. I am willing to hire full-time employees. Please advice me on tackling this milestone. If you would like to join, please let me know - jokhta[at]gmail[dot]com.

Thank you
As long as there's money to be made, you'll still get quality apps in the app store.

It will not die just because they've pissed off a few developers. There are plenty of others ready to take their place, just as capable.
I'd recommend against it. I worked for a company that was named akin to "example.net" Nearly every week, we'd get a call from someone who went to "examplenet.com" and didn't know why we were suddenly selling skateboards.
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I was going to recommend the Hodges biography of Alan Turing, but it appears to be (sadly) out of print.

http://www.amazon.com/Alan-Turing-Enigma-Andrew-Hodges/dp/08...

[edit: In the US. Someone else posted the link to the UK edition, thanks!]
With Google Wave, all my friends said "meh" or "is this it?".

This point could not be more clearly illustrated than by the fact that I can't give away invites for love or money. I've got 40+ in a Wave right now. I don't remember Gmail letting up on being desirable until it went public.
If you're going the credits route.. why not just say "Your account has $10"? No need to rename it to credits or anything like that.

Also, desktop online casino apps seem to open a browser on the payment page. Maybe you could do something like this?
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Brilliant!

Looking at the video it feels like the black spots on the snake can be given a little bit more contrast to distinguish it from the background.
Right idea, wrong execution. If 64^N = 361^M then N log 64 = M log 361, so M = (log 64 / log 361) N ~= 0.71N. So if you could look 12 moves ahead in chess, this estimate would say you could manage 8 or 9 moves in go.

Unfortunately, it's worse than this. In practice, the effective branching factor in a chess tree-search is more like 3 than 64, roughly because lots of moves can quickly be found to be bad. I would be very surprised if the corresponding figure for go were less than, say, 30. So now your factor is log 3 / log 30, or more like 1/3.

On top of that, go games are much longer than chess games, so your search depth in go is a much smaller fraction of the whole game, so the search is a worse proxy for the final result. Slightly related to that: there's no nice simple measurement of how well you're doing that's comparable to measuring material in chess. (Your ultimate goal is to build territory, but it takes quite a while before any sort of quantitative estimate of how much territory each player has is feasible, especially if you want it to be anywhere near as cheap as a material count in chess.)
Assertion without proof.

Is there a simple explanation of Wiles' proof of Fermat's Last Theorem? Of Russel's formalism showing 1+1=2?
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Failure to secure the dot com cost us $400,000 at auction (plus legal fees over 10 years): I really can't recommend you try and build a brand without it. Even bit.ly owns bitly.com.
So? China is not a capitalist country or a free market country, and they are under no obligation to enable an American company profit for as long as it wants. Most of the money being taken in by Avatar comes from normal chinese people, and is sent straight to America. A controlled market economy is supposed to keep this outflow of cash controlled.

It's a different economic model being practised in China, and this move is perfectly in line with the stated goals of the model.

Nobody loses, it's just an American Multinational that does not profit as much.
Looks like it's to protect domestic Chinese films, as the 3-D version is still playing in theaters.

Alternate point of view:

"According to a report in the Hong Kong newspaper Apple Daily, the move was made at the urging of propaganda officials who are concerned that "Avatar" is taking too much market share from Chinese films and drawing unwanted attention to the sensitive issue of forced evictions."

Apparently only 20 foreign movies are allowed to be shown in Chinese theaters every year.

Regardless of the reasons, it's still a very fenced-in society.
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You're right, I'm dumb :) .

Even some subtitles might help, and that's a much smaller project :)
The short answer is no.

The only time you should use the .net is if you have secured all the other TLDs and the .net is the best choice for branding or marketing.
Wow, the metro dogs are particularly interesting. I can see myself "adopting" one that shared my commute.

...they definitely do clean the city. They keep the population of rats down.

I wonder if the dogs have learned to relieve themselves in places more acceptable to people or if the people just tolerate it. Piles of crap on the train is not very appealing.
why is this being down voted w/out any counter argument?

also, why i'm not surprised that IE was managed by a rejected undergrad/frustrated closet writer? jk :)
I've noticed some newer ATMs around these parts started doing that as well. However, is is of absolutely no use without associated customer education. The machines don't even say "here is what the slot should look like, please check it before entering your PIN." There were even reports of people calling the police thinking this security feature was a skimming device, since it looks so out of place and different from what's usually on the machines.
Magstripe skimmers are a solved problem here in Europe; we moved on to chip and pin (EMV technology) nearly a decade ago specifically because of this kind of attack (and, in the case of the UK, because of this: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/21/phantoms_and_rogues/ ).

There are concerns over the cryptographic integrity of PIN codes in some chip and pin implementations, but it's a much harder target for ATM skimmers, which is why organized criminals have switched to tampering with retail EPOS terminals instead. And the threshold for that is a lot higher, too. (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/3173...) Overall, the level of card crime in the UK seems to have diminished significantly since the switchover, although the general rule applies: if you build a better safe, you'll attract a better class of safe-cracker.
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An economist might say the people who don't get to watch the movie lose.
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A friend of mine is spearheading trials in some UK hospitals and the early results are ridiculously good.

There doesn't seem to be that much resistance to this idea though. When we talked about it, the only good explanation we came up with is that doctors have heard about this and know how good it can be and so are open to trying it, even begrudgingly.
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You got people to look at a random page on the 'net by advertising it on social media sites. I imagine it had very little to do with the content of the page.
See above, but the message I got was that if you're a small restaurant or a bike repair shop or something like that, the thing to work on is the 'system', which means making it so you can drop new people in to grow by handing them a manual which describes in detail how things are done.

I'm not so sure something like a tech startup is like that. What would have been the point at replacing most founders early on? The whole point is developing a product that scales with the 'hockey stick' curve, which is very different from growing, say, a bike shop into a chain of 3 or 4 bike shops.

I agree completely with documenting things, but one is documenting stuff so it doesn't get lost or have to be explained out-loud every time, to help people get up to speed with things. The other is create a system for people to work in that doesn't leave people much room to screw up, so that you can have someone new up and flipping burgers in a day.

Edit - the book makes a lot of sense in the context of a 'small business' where the goal, often enough is to extract yourself from being the business and make it run without you. Where I'm a bit more dubious is about startups...
Doesn't matter who it's "targeted" for or what the intentions were — the fact of the matter is that Sass (and basically any other programming language designed to make html/css "better") is not popular in the design community. You can argue with this as much as you like, but when you are done, the cold harsh reality will still be that designers in general don't like programming.

This should not puzzle you, nor the people behind Sass. If designers liked programming they would be programmers.
I can only add that yes, it's a good idea to get the .com as well.

If you look at Slashdot, they didn't even bother with the .net (or they're struggling to get it), but they did register .org and .com
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> Brilliant!

Thanks :)

> Looking at the video it feels like the black spots on the snake can be given a little bit more contrast to distinguish it from the background.

Yes, that's true. I don't have the proper tools to make the textures I want, though, so I just went with this one :)
I thought that, by far, the most interesting bit was that some of the dogs had learned to use the transportation system. I think we underestimate the intelligence of animals.
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I'm currently typing at a speed where I can physically feel that the layout of my keyboard is slowing me down. I've played with the idea of switching to DVORAK in the past, but the fears of major slowdown has kept me back.

Is the initial slowdown worth the long time gain?
I think these recent signs of heightened sensitivity by the Chinese censor is actually a good sign. Are they panicking because it is impossible to turn the information tide?
Yahoo wasn't interested in Viaweb in terms of how they did things (the 'system'), though, but in terms of the product. If they were interested in the 'system' that PG and company had, PG would have taught a large number of Yahoo employees Lisp.

And... how do you know what they did and did not document? Obviously they documented things enough to get Yahoo people involved... but beyond that?
> Looks nice!

Thanks :)

> I would just make one change, that is to give a texture to the white "apples" (that's what they are in the original game I think).

Yes, I would like to do that. I haven't decided on how I want them to look, but apples might be a good idea. Now I just need the texture and the time to implement it ;)

> Just one other comment, did you notice that all shaders mover around constantly? For example, the texture of the border of the playing field is turning anti-clockwise constantly. This also happens with the obstacles in the center.

This is intentional, to make it less boring :)
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As long as they would have chosen to go to see the movie potential utility has been lost, from a basic economics perspective. How much exactly depends on the maximum they would have paid to see it, how much it would have cost and what alternatives (eg dvd) are available
To put this in perspective, in the UK (from http://www.plr.uk.com/):

The Rate Per Loan has now been confirmed and has increased for the first time in three years to 6.29 pence

£0.0629 is somewhat different to the £7.99 that the average paperback costs in the UK these days.

Also:

Over 23,000 writers ... receive PLR payments each year

Which seems a very small number to me.
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Wow. I meant "Objet," by the way. Apparently, I can't type it. When I wrote that first sentence, I thought it through, and slowly typed "Object."
Jeff Bezos: King of Amazon.com is a very inspirational reading:

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It could be interesting to look at Dropbox's story. Didn't they secure dropbox.com only recently?
If your product is a development tool targeted at .NET developers, then yes. Otherwise No. It looks bad, and nobody will remember it.

If you want to be a real business, you need a .com domain name. That's just the way it goes. Register the .net and .org variants of your name if they're available, but definitely run your site off a .com.
I think China is getting incredibly good at operating in an imperfect rule where they do not control all information and cannot stop information completely. They control or influence enough flow to influence public opinion, commonly accepted narratives and history.

I think that this makes them extremely robust. Sneak ten thousand satellite internet connections into North Korea and you will have a measurable impact. There is no equivalent for China.
why is this on HN? ideas for startup?
Is it, "Programmers tend to overestimate the impact of technology in the short term, and underestimate the impact in the long term"?
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that looks really great, nice going. I'm really interested in learning some high level graphics coding, and wondering if GLSL and openGL are the way to go or if a framework that sits above openGL/direct3D would be better, does anyone have any advice of where to start for a beginner?
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Cinema's lose a lucrative crowd.
I have multi-personality disorder on this question. The SEO in me says "I would take a strong, exact match .NET over a weak .COM every day of the week and twice on Sunday." For example, if you want to do restaurant scheduling, restaurantscheduling.net is better than servrschedulr.com or whatever the convention is these days.

However, I don't think exact-match domain names are the answer for everybody on this forum. I like them and swear by them, but a lot of y'all have goals which would be better served by something brandable, even if it does sound like twitpickr.ly.

PG mentions that people will always look for you at the dot com. This is true, but the dot com they're looking for you at is google.com, because direct navigation is dead. The ascendancy of search engines, broadening of the Internet away from technical Americans, increasing use of mobile devices, etc etc etc, have killed it convincingly.

As always, check your stats if you don't believe me.
-- the .net is the best choice for branding or marketing.

I agree which is why, we need more information before making a recommendation as to what is the best course of action. If you are going to rely on word of mouth and a grass roots ground swell then you need a memorable name and I would say that the .com is very important.

If you are going to rely on advertising buys and blogger who will be linking to your site then the domain name is less important.

The comment about the squatter uploading porn to strong arm you is a very valid concern. If you are in a business where there could be confusion and that could reflect poorly on you then I would avoid the name all together.
The ironic thing about Wave is that despite Google's positioning it to get everyone working on the internet this is a product that will prove its value on corporate intranets.

Enable authentication via Active Directory and Wave can be a SharePoint killer, not to mention how it could cut the volume of internal email in the corporate world. One big thing I would like to see is how hard a company-hosted Wave becomes to manage once you get a lot of content which is a big pain with systems like SharePoint.

As Wave is/will be open-source I see an opportunity for those who want to bring it inside corporate environments. I don't think Google can do that, the model needed to sell to and support the corporate world is not in its DNA.
Looks to me like a good analysis of our shameless need to look for sex everywhere.
Not to be snarky but I'm curious what you're doing that you need extremely fast typing for? I rarely find that typing is my bottleneck, it's usually my brain.

That said, why not give it a shot for a day or two? At worst, you'll realize it is going to take forever to regain speed - at best, you're well on your way to using the new layout.
I'm about 115 WPM on QWERTY. I learned Dvorak about four years ago and got to about 80 WPM. If I kept going I think I would have eventually slightly surpassed my QWERTY speed.

However, what I found was Dvorak is designed for English; it predates programming. Most programming languages are designed with QWERTY in mind. I think Dvorak made that harder, not easier.
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Great article. Reminds me of the dogs in Sri Lanka. What I couldn't work out - was whether they were being looked after and by whom. I don't think they were aggressive though.
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Wouldn't that also depend on the target audience of the site? If a site was targeted at the same people that use HN for example, I doubt they'd have a problem with the site using a .net
My inspiration is Steve Wozniak. To this day, I try to write software with the same thinking he used when he built the Apple II. Get a clear picture of what you want, keep it as simple as possible, stand on the shoulders of giants but build your own tools when you have to, and keep all the details in your head. (This last one has made a huge difference in my work.)

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You could try using Sedo (domain name buy/sell website) to make them an offer for the domain name (or they may even have it listed there), or use Namejet to try to grab it once it expires.
Coders At Work is a book about a lot of high-profile programmers (Crockford, Knuth, Peyton Jones, Thompson, among others). It's not a biography on any of these people, but it was very inspiring to me.
Check out Colemak. I don't think I type much faster with Colemak but it's much more comfortable.
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What about setting up a small recruiting site with a set of programming challenges? It has worked for me in the past.

But I guess you first need to find someone to help you out with that. You may try something like http://www.scriptlance.com/ to get this mini-site done.
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I started using dvorak some years ago. I have since switched back. I don't think it helped my speed or my hands, and there were too many other costs which made it not worth while: having to set it up every time you reload your OS or start a VM, or change window managers, etc; it made the vi editor unusable, and while I mostly use emacs the ubiquity of vi makes it inevitable; using other computers in the lab became difficult, because they are shared with other people who used querty; it sometimes confused some programs and made them unusable; and so on.

I don't think there is a long-term gain to be had. Read
http://reason.com/archives/1996/06/01/typing-errors for an account of the qwerty myth.
A blog entry comparing Tumblr with Posterous hosted on Wordpress. Hmmm.

What OP does screams much louder than what he says.
When you are a startup with no money, I would say buy the .net first only if you could foresee buying the .com in the future when you do have the money. Example of this would be if the .net was available and the .com domain was owned by a squatter and is willing to sell it for $2k to $5k.

I wouldn't by a .net domain where the .com is already owned by an established company because you probably won't be able to buy it in the future.
You're implying that schools are a stimulating environment. For me they were the exact opposite and universities perpetuate the same mind numbing system.
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