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I just finished this book, and it's interesting, although somewhat less targeted at startups than at small businesses. Indeed, some of the advice contained seems to actually go against how I have always seen startups. For instance, "operations manuals" are things best left until you are a Big Company - better to spend time working on the product rather than worrying about creating some kind of 'system' to make you replaceable. Indeed, reflecting on this advice is an interesting way of considering the differences between a real 'startup' and someone simply starting a business.

Anyone else read it? What'd you think?
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Sass is definitely not targeted at programmers, and it certainly doesn't just solve "a programmer's problem". As one of the users (a designer, incidentally) put it recently on the mailing list: Sass is for people who write CSS. This includes designers, programmers, and anyone in between. It has users from everywhere on this continuum who love it.
Really looking for a nice little web editor for editing a .csv config

But thx anyway :)
? but that's kinda like saying 99.9% MacBooks use MacOS - Mac have created this market, and for some reason people seem obsessed giving money to the iStore for 'apps' that are either second-rate games/novalties or that give access to information that is already completely free and accessible from the built-in web browser.

I give this iPhone fad another 6-12 months before developers get thoroughly p1ssed-off with Apple and start writing the 'quality' apps for android. The iPhone app store will become an unused repository of thousands and thousands of useless bits of software...
I believe jlong is referring to the functionality added by an abstraction layer. Sass allows people to experiment with additions to CSS, and it gives the CSS designers good insight into what people would find most useful.
Apologies - I didn't mean to sound aggressive, thanks for sharing the info !!! :-)
Loved the article when I first read it, and didn't know about the book. Thanks!

PS The OP is actually an extract from this book, which I didn't see until I read to the end.
This highlights the dilemma of social networking online. You tend to think that you're just chatting with your small circle of friends, using in-jokes and so on, whereas the audience may in fact be much bigger and be unable to judge isolated comments in their intended context.
Exactly. I can't even imagine the awkwardness of having to compile CSS. The advantage of CSS as a text file is speed.
Am I trolling? I don't think so...

In order to avoid being mistaken for trolling in the future, you might consider:

+ Cutting down on the curses, particular in titles.

+ Avoid personalizing any conflict. Your favorite sports team or the hated cross-town rival "eats dust", case studies on the other hand calmly discuss math.

+ Ratchet the sarcasm down seven notches. Eight if you're talking to people who know the people you're being sarcastic about.

+ Avoid interjections like "(ugh)" unless they are being used in a self-deprecating fashion.

Believe it or not, you can take this advice and still sound passionate, intelligent, engaging, and perhaps even hip, if you're into that sort of thing.
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He has the classic "find a loop in a linked list" question here:

http://www.mytechinterviews.com/loop-in-a-singly-linked-list

He seems to think it's the end of the story when he trots out the usual "tortoise and hare" algorithm, without mentioning that it's more efficient to use a teleporting tortoise.
I'm amazed that people are still maintaining the breathless hype about Google Wave. Look, if you have to make a comparison table, or write a book with the most frequently asked questions about it, or actually convince me that a piece of new technology is absolutely fantastic, then that technology isn't.

If it was fantastic, if it was disruptive, if it was the best thing since sliced bread, you wouldn't have to do this. All my friends would already be telling me about how fantastic it was. With Google Wave, all my friends said "meh" or "is this it?".

It might become awesome with a better client or a different client or different service sthat plug into it, but as long as it remains the way it is now, it is completely uninteresting. It's not news.

Another funny thing, this article compares Google Wave to services it explicitly distinguishes itself from. How about comparing it to other online collaboration tools that are actually in the same niche? Or would that turn out too negatively for Google Wave and spoil the hype?
Tagnova, new digg/twitter esque startup launched.
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Interestingly a lot of domain names point to Google without being owned by them. Seems mostly a way to generate rumours.
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I'm trying to find a good name for a startup I'm working on and think I've finally found one that is really good. The problem is I've only managed to secure the .net domain for it. The .com is taken by a domain squatter who is not replying to my emails. Should I proceed with the name or continue looking?
Css has been thwarted by poor implementation that has led to confusion, and elitism. With regards to abstraction I don't see why there aren't any excellent WYSIWYG editors.
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They are probably also anti-aliasing the sold color with a recursive algorithm.
Clojure was the first lisp that I could seriously get into. I have a java background and the familiarity of JVM was partly helpful when I was learning it. I guess for people who are new to both java and lisp, it may be bit harder.

The language changing fast wasn't a concern to me then, and I was putting lot of time to keeping up with the changes by lurking in the mailing list and irc. It was fascinating to watch language design happen in front of my eyes. I think newbies would do fine with clojure (particularly at its current relatively stable state). I guess it just takes a bit of an effort.
I agree with your take on mindset. But eyeballs isn't what makes the company successful in the end, the revenue does. And who has/will have more revenue is an open question for now. Personally I'd put on Posterous.
I think the author makes the fundamental mistake of assuming his experiences are normative. Just because he watches television online doesn't mean the majority of people do. It's certainly trending that way, but for now broadband penetration isn't to the point in the US to supplant broadcast TV.
Name is somewhat confusing as it also is a popular open-source full-text search engine.
Definitely not - you misunderstood. The leaked emails and this story are just the beginning of the process of uncovering the greatest scam/racket in recent history. And I assure you Sir, that these Indian dudes are not the last to have their names dragged through the mud (and more, I expect). Too much public money and trust has been wasted by these shameless scoundrels.
This reminds me of the article posted here recently about the locations of ancient Woolworth's stores. If you'd written an article 3 months ago that led off with the compete.com graph of the two sites' traffic, you could have written about how Posterous was kicking Tumblr's ass, and used that to support an equally plausible sounding thesis about how this was because they were based in Silicon Valley.

This article is like an inverted pyramid, balanced on a couple months' trend in compete.com stats. Not actual traffic stats even, but compete.com estimates of traffic, which as anyone who runs a site knows, can be way off.
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On the premise that you are expecting your start-up to be a success you should look for another domain and you should register the .com, .net .org .info etc... Besides your application you will be building a brand don't share it with a domain squatter and don't pay for a name over what is reasonable.
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Thanks for the kind advice. For me, blogging is a conversational medium, I try to write blog posts the way I would speak, and so it's pretty unfiltered. Also I try to be engaging. And insofar as my opinion/analysis has any value, I think it's better for those concerned that it be unvarnished. I don't believe most things should be sugarcoated, and I don't think the kind of people who do startups do either.
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Somewhat off topic, but Resolver One is an interesting mix of python and spreadsheets... http://www.resolversystems.com/
Grace Murray Hopper:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0766022730/thegreatid...

Also googling her will turn up inspirational material.
You're right -- obviously this isn't a post mortem or anything. The trends could reverse, and Posterous could become wildly profitable with less users while Tumblr has plenty of traffic but no money.

Although it seems pretty obvious that both are headed for a combination of advertising/freemium model, and the revenue that comes from that seems pretty correlated to userbase size.
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Thanks for the comment.

If you have actual traffic stats I'd love to see them. ;)

Also, the estimate isn't for "a couple months", but for the past 12 months, and the trend points in one direction. Even less reliable but even more "damning" is Google Trends: http://google.com/trends?q=tumblr,+posterous&ctab=0&...

That being said, your general point is right: nothing is preordained, and the trends could switch around tomorrow, and the picture look much different a while from now. But that's why I have a blog: this is the situation as I see it today. Maybe six months from now I'll eat my words, who knows?
If you read the history of Paul Graham's Viaweb startup, you will learn that Paul created Viaweb so it can be easely selled. It documented everything.
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Moog has a pretty interesting digital guitar guitar too, a fancy midi controller:

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I thought the entire book could have been written in less than 10 pages. For years I worked as a manufacturing engineer, so documenting your processes is kind of second nature to me. On the other hand, I hated bureaucratic systems like ISO 9000, so my advice is always to do the minimum necessary.

For startups, just keep simple documentation of essential processes. For example, I rarely had to process refunds through PayPal, so I would forget how to do it. I kept overlooking the refund link. So I made a screen shot, circled the link, and saved it in my process documentation folder. Basic, but effective.

For other processes, I have written documents, flowcharts, and checklists, depending upon how complex the process is. If you have 1-2 people in your company, you're doing it for your own benefit, so there's no need to be formal.
First impressions. I get what posterous can do from the get go (faq). I don't have a clue what tumblr can do for me. I scrolled through a load of self flagellation on the about page, and it still didn't tell me. Both have stupid names.

After working at a myriad of places doing web work, people tend to skimp on the important little pieces that make a site usable. A lot of the time it's style over substance.

I'd have thought tumblr could improve by having the login on the homepage. And I'd prefer to also find a simple paragraph about what it can do.
Portraits in Silicon: http://www.amazon.com/Portraits-Silicon-Robert-Slater/dp/026... It has short bios of several computing pioneers.
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Not in the similar vein, but I would recommend "The Last Lecture" (by Randy Pausch). It was very inspirational to me.
http://www.amazon.com/Last-Lecture-Randy-Pausch/dp/140132325...
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The couple months I was referring to are the last few. The preceding months contradict your thesis.

I think you're mistaking how much license a blog gives you to write about "the situation as I see it today." It's ok to write stuff based on small amounts of data, but the conclusions you're entitled to draw from it should be correspondingly small.
The app doesn't currently attach sounds to email, but it does allow one to send an invitation with one's blipr id via email. Perhaps this is something we should consider as well. :)
There are an awful lot of people who never use the address bar - they just go to google.com and type the URL into that.

So this kind of makes sense.
With books you should mention the ISBN.
Amazon can search the ISBN, as can every bookshop and library database.

In fact Amazon use the ISBN as part of the url for books.
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> Am I trolling? I don't think so, insofar as I use a provocative example...

Here's UrbanDictionary's definition of "troll":

> One who posts a deliberately provocative message to a newsgroup or message board with the intention of causing maximum disruption and argument

It's hard to be disruptive on your own blog, but you can see how if you fit the first half of the definition, you might be mistaken for the whole definition.

I personally don't think that you're being a troll, as there's nobody to really upset or disrupt. Maybe the Posterous devs aren't going to like you anymore? But it does come across as a little linkbait-y. I agree with my sibling comment's advice on how to rectify this in the future.
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> I thought the entire book could have been written in less than 10 pages.

That's true of a lot of business books - even some really good ones.

I think the difference, in terms of documentation, is that you're more or less describing "stuff that's useful for us to remember and keep in a specified place", as opposed to "let's document how people work here in detail in order to be able to plug people in". I think it's certainly a valid idea for many fields; I'm just not sure how or where it's applicable to high tech startups at an early stage: most everything is going into the product itself, which is what's going to grow the company, rather than the systems that surround it, although of course you have to increase efficiency where you can...
Apparently, the wiki on bitbucket won't work if you are not logged in :(

Anyway, the video works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBy6sxSB8vw

Edit: Hm. Now it seems to work.
They don't contradict my thesis since Tumblr was always much bigger than Posterous and while they may have had faster growth it was never enough to catch up.

Again -- I may be proven wrong in six months or a year, and if so I admit it publicly right here (in fact, do you want to make a bet?). But I think at this stage the data warrants the trend I extrapolate from it.
Here at the Metalab in Vienna, Austria, there is quite a MakerBot clique doing very interesting things .. OpenSCAD integration with MakerBot is also very intriguing, in that OpenSCAD gives you a platform to design things on the basis of formula, and then quickly print it out .. so the screw-lock boxs and other mathematically integrated devices are all the rage around these parts, lately. Good for stash-boxes! :)

It has been very fun to see the MakerBot rise in Metalab, from the mad-cap getting-ready-for Roboexotica days to the 'hmm, if I make one small tweak this will become that' enthusiasm to be had in Metalab late on a Friday night ..

Best use of a Makerbot/RepRap yet: printing replacement parts for Nintendo Game & Watch battery covers! :P
I propose "worms". As in bookworms.
I discourage it. People will always look for you (and worse still, send you mail) at the dot com. And there are lots of decent dot com names still available.
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"Operations manuals" sound like a scary bureaucratic thing that only big companies have, but personally I think everybody needs them. It doesn't have to be big and formal, it could simply be a wiki on the internal web site, but somewhere all important steps and procedures should be documented. Even if no one gets hit by a bus, having a check list on how important things work is always handy to refresh your memory, especially if it's something you only do a couple of times a year.

Also if you hire a new person, being able to point them to a place which explains exactly how your company does version control or how your build process works will save everyone a lot of time.
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I disagreed with this statement because there are plenty of successful sites that has other dots besides .com. It's all depend on your application. If your application is useful, then people will come. For example, when I registered my website, http://www.mathmaster.org, the .dot com and everything else were taken but now I am still doing ok in term of visitor counts. Majority of my users come from either bookmarked or search engine anyway.
Sass is DRY applied to CSS. While that is not a very revolutionary concept (we have had preprocessors for many, many years), it has a revolutionary effect on CSS. Its effect on the effort to generate CSS and especially the effort it takes to maintain CSS is revolutionary.
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From Compete - yearly change:

tumblr: +184.36%

posterous: +297.36%

So, uh, even with the last 3 months in posterous is still growing faster than tumblr. If it were a stock its valuation would have increased more than tumblr. Also, wouldn't there definitely be less hits to posterous based on the fact that you EMAIL posts in rather than sign in? That being said, the tumblr landing experience is probably one of the reasons I blog with them and not posterous.
In Brazil almost all ATMs have negative inserts instead of positive ones.

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The most common instance is of course in keyboards, which seems somewhat natural since it's an interface that was an abstraction far before the digital age -- having been used to such disparate instruments as pianos and pipe organs.

For stringed instruments, what's been common for some time is MIDI pickups on either guitars or (less frequently) on basses. Then they can either be used to drive a synth or you can take the normal analog out.

MIDI drum pads or MIDI triggers on acoustic drums are also common.

I think much of the appeal for musicians with many years of playing behind them is that they don't have to master a new interface for music input. I've played bass for 15 years; I can do a lot of phrasing intuitively that's much more tedious to enter by hand into a sequencer or to play on an electronic-specialized instrument that I don't have mastery of. Granted, I don't actually have a MIDI bass pickup, but I've been tempted.

In Squarepusher's music, for example, you can often hear in his synth lines that they were played on an electric bass (which he's exceptional at) because the phrasing is much more idiomatic to an electric bass than to a keyboard.
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