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"I just went to great length explaining what my claims are based on"

Which struck me as a lot of unconvincing verbiage to support an absurd claim.

"I just asked four non-engineer, non-technical, non-mathemetician friends"

And you have a problem with Google hits?

I really have no more time for this.
Nice, but needs more steps... get me to the point where I understand what a Monad is, because I really want to know!
"... I think you’re misreading. The author was saying that Joel’s posts would have been just as relevant before slashdot as they are today ..."

Point taken. Misleading though.
I really like the idea of adding additional value to the archive. Right now it's just a really long alphabetical list, but it would seem more valuable if it was categorized by the type of advice/information in each interview so you could listen to them in the order you felt was relevant to you. The idea of an unorganized archive just feels low value to me, which is the opposite of what I consider most of your content.
So if the screen resolution is not such a big deal, how does the HD video from youtube on the iPhone compare to the HD video resolution on the android devices?
I was a bit distracted while the interview was playing, but what I gathered is that their efficiency in converting chemical energy (specifically, so far, natural gas and oxygen) to electricity -- perhaps, per a comment I saw elsewhere, when the resulting heat can also be used and so considered part of the equation -- is about twice that of utility generated and delivered electric power.

I don't know whether my understanding is correct, but that's how I currently understand the comments regarding greater efficiency and cost savings.
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How hard would it be to manufacture a little device that plugged into the phone line (or just listened with a built-in microphone) and displayed the digits/dial-tones coming over the line on a seven-segment display? Then the CSR could just ask you to dial your information in, then read it and use it as normal.
I think often the term Startup is used in a way that confuses this kind of conversation and analysis. The term Startup, itself, really implies only that it's a new business. The word does not imply anything regarding the market or business model (i.e. how new vs. established each is). I think to many, especially in this forum, Startup implies innovative products in emerging markets using novel business models. Were this the frame of discussion, then I'd tend to agree that co-founders are important if not essential.

But, given a broader perspective of Startup types (i.e. the me-too crowd, or those with humbler aspirations than to be Googlesque) I think it's less true. That is, I think there are plenty of single-founder technology/web companies doing quite well.
Where's the Fox News at 11 story "Is your school taking pictures of your children?"

... after all, they did cover pleaserobme.com
Recipes are interesting in that most reviewers actually alter the recipe, making star reviews misleading.

So someone might post a bad recipe and have other members alter it and rate it highly after their own modifications. You can only figure this out by reading the comments.

So some kind of yes / no on whether you have modified the recipe is pretty essential.
This is from 2004.

The problem with ECC is (has been, rather) that it's covered by patents, and OpenSSL didn't have ECC APIs until very recently. I believe the implementation in the latest versions of OpenSSL are based on the work of the same authors. Unfortunately, with so much deployed code using RSA-based handshakes, it seems tough for ECC to gain traction all that soon.
I have a netbook with a camera (my laptop is 95 percent closed) and it sometimes creeps me out that it's watching me all the time (even though I'm the only person who's ever used it.) If I had a school-issued computer, spying is the first thing I would have thought of.
Exactly, multiplying two numbers and reversing a string aren't what got me interested in Ruby. TryRuby was an absolutely frictionless way to learn the basics because it had a few lessons built in.

I'll be back to this site in a few weeks to check for progress...
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How can you respect what's taught on Mixergy if you see that I'm not bringing in real revenue? You can't.

I guess PG better start charging for his essays, then! That is, if he wants us to respect him.
Are the talks really interesting? Can someone point them out to me because I can't find any that seem good.
Dropbox: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=801739
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Pretty cool app. A tutorial to go along with it would do wonders.
A post-it note is what I had in mind originally.

If my kid got expelled from school for putting a post-it note over the spycam, I would not hesitate to use my savings to sue the *&$# out of the school district.
Anonymous is going to have fun with this chap.
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I applaud the effort, but this is far from complete. As far as I can tell, you can only do standalone expressions, to the exclusion of anything interesting.

Type Haskell expressions in here.
> let x = 10
not an expression: `let x = 10'

I understand that mueval has this limitation too? It's more defensible in the irc context that "state" would be disallowed. Here, it's just crippling.

I don't need the mtl stuff, but being able to define a basic function would be nice!

http://codepad.org/ will run full programs for you ... I guess that'll continue to be my tool of choice for online Haskell prototyping.

Still, this project does seem promising.
Seems really interesting, but I don't understand why you'd get rid of 90% of the image -- wouldn't it be much more useful to simply enhance the current images to 10x higher resolution?

That seems to be what the scientists are doing for the MRI, but the author seems to think this would be useful in that it would allow people to throw away a lot of data. I think it would be much better for extrapolating even farther from the data we have.
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With something like Twilio I don't think you have any excuse for this part of the interaction: play a recorded greeting saying "Hiya, for fastest service, type in your account number . If you don't know your account number, hit 0 and one of our operators can help you look it up." If you get their account number, pick the appropriate CSR, bring up the details directly on their screen, forward the call and drop them straight into "Thanks for calling FooCorp. This is Melinda. To whom am I speaking please?" Hears customer name, a necessary formality because many accounts have multiple people in charge of them -- the most common situation in B2C is husband and wife. "Thanks for calling Mr. Smith. What can I help you with?" If Mr. Smith says his last order didn't ship yet, Melinda is a single keystroke away from pulling it up.

Ooh, the possibilities with Twilio make me giddy. If I can only productize one of them... (Crikey, the possibilities for per-company customization are endless. Do customers ever call you? You should be using Twilio.)
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Hmmm it doesn't seem to understand the < symbol?

Compiler output:
wrapper.java:23: not a statement
for(int i =0; i++; i&lt;A.length())
^
I have lots of friends at Google that regularly use Twitter, Google Latitude, etc. If there is a policy against it, they sure don't seem to care much about it.
You can observe this same multi-factor effect in restaurant or product reviews.

When a restaurant serves one customer unsatisfactorily or a product is delivered in poor condition, the rating suffers substantially. This rating no longer represents the quality of the thing itself but also the individual's experience.

The same is true with a cook's experience preparing a recipe. Depending on the reviewer's bias, a recipe rating might describe circumstance and culinary skill better than the quality of the instructions.

As other folks here have mentioned, there's also the issue of average reviewers being not-so-great at representing their true opinions with linear rating systems, but that's a whole other topic.
Co-founders can create a feedback loop between themselves that a single founder cannot.

Comparing my "single founder" and "one of two" experiences, when there is another party the ability to talk and get feedback makes a huge difference. When you are on your own it is much easier to go down the wrong path because questions didn't get asked earlier on. It is much easier to become demoralised. It is much easier to waste time.

Having someone else around doesn't work as well as having a co-founder. While you can get some feedback, the nature of the conversations changes (at least for me), and there are some things you don't really talk about to others.
Note, this is about software development, particularly of the agile variety, focusing on Scrum and XP (and gives one explanation for why I don't hear anything about XP nowadays).

(Me, I tend to do "engine" work (and skate on UI design by having really good intuition there (or whatever you'd describe being able to see and figure out things from the user's viewpoint)) and use OOSE/Rational Process in an agile way.)
If his full-time job was writing essays then I'd hope he charge for him.

edit: After reading it again, I think this is a poor retort. Paul's essays on entrepreneurship are better written and more insightful because he's actually been an entrepreneur. Hopefully Andrew's interviews become better and more insightful as he tries to put what his interviewees preach into practice. Journalism is full of people who write about things they've only read or heard about, and I think there's really no substitute for experiencing something firsthand as a way to understand it.
It's more that you only need to collect 10% of the data to begin with, not necessarily throw away 90% of what you do have.
I think the reason I've avoided getting into Haskell is that it seems like, no matter what tutorials or references I read on it, I never make it any further into http://www.willamette.edu/~fruehr/haskell/evolution.html before I completely lose track of what's going on. Haskell seems like it has all the same stuff as most other languages, but then there's this whole other layer of knowledge (mostly mathematical problem-domain knowledge) you have to add on before you can actually claim to "know" Haskell. I'm always hoping there'll be a tutorial that covers that sort of stuff, instead of just saying "here's how to do in Haskell the stuff you already know how to do in Ruby."
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I don't believe this. Yes, short on average. But I doubt the nasty, brutish part. H-G burnt out. Farmer faded away. Overall I think there are pro/cons between types different societies: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/10/farmers-war.html

[-]http://iweb.tntech.edu/kosburn/history-444/birth_of_war.htm
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I'm happy to be corrected on this particular point. From appearances, it looked like they'd taken the Windows Mobile model and made it even worse. Good to hear that it's actually sensible.

Apologies for spreading bad info.
If your SSL handshaking is a performance-limiting step, you're doing something wrong. Yes, ECC can be faster than RSA... but it really doesn't matter for SSL.
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Look, it's your site. You do what you want, of course.

But getting into charging for content is a whole new game. Do you think you'd get some of the past interviewees if they'd known you were going to charge for access to the interview? Where's their cut? And others wouldn't have wanted to appear at all if their precious time was just going to a tiny paid audience.

You say you're not happy with the view rates on older interviews. I consider this a problem with your site's design, which is really not much more than a blog. Go and look at TED's site, they have an excellent idea where the front page shows highlights from the past. Implementing something similar might work really well for you.

I also think you're overestimating the ability or willingness of people here (your obvious audience) to pay anything at all. People here are trying to be "ramen profitable" and $25 is a lot of ramen. For every blowhard blustering (presumably making use of the satellite internet on their G) about how $25 is nothing and anyone who can't afford that should probably just give up, I guarantee you there's a hundred who can not just drop $25/m on a whim to watch some inspirational videos.

I just think it's a bad idea. But like I said, hey, it's your site, and congratulations on your success so far.
Here's a blog post by Terrence Tao on the subject: http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2007/04/13/compressed-sensing-...

One application he mentions is sensor networks that can withstand a loss of a large number of nodes.

As soon as I saw the article my first thought was: "real-time raytracing?"
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One reason is that several different skills are required for a successful startup, and it's rare to find aptitude for all of them in one person.

OTOH, any intelligent person can develop skills they lack, with sufficient determination, humility, courage and patience.
http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=2325

Also, the lawsuit that certicom made against Sony for ECC infringement was thrown out.

Here is a GPL implementation that claims to be patent free:

http://point-at-infinity.org/seccure/
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He does; go to amazon.com and search for paul graham and you'll get a bunch of premium-consumption options for his work.
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honeslty...an amazing site would be one were you can do the same video chat as on chatroulette but u could pick at what u are looking for....such a girls/guys who just want to talk ... girls/guys who want some webcaming pleasure...

that would be the best site :0 thx
I haven't seen anything to demonstrate incompetent IT staff. It's not like a server leaked with tons of pictures of kids at home.

It just seems like not only the competent IT staff, but also the school and district administration, felt it was OK to randomly activate and get pictures and screenshots of all of the students.
Agreed, and thanks for the link.

I think this applies to almost all online rating systems, in particular ones where it's just pick a number out of five or ten. Most will be either very high (perfect, or perfect with a slight problem), or the lowest (completely shit). Barely anybody will mark something as 2/5 because it was utterly terrible, but this one feature was good. They'll remember the bad parts. No, no data at the moment and it's just a hunch, but one I hope to be able to measure soon.

I'm hoping to apply this to webhosting, rather than simply rate out of ten and leave a 2 sentence review, it'll be much more indepth, with multiple options (support, uptime, features etc). I'm betting that the more effort that you go through to leave a thorough rating will be balanced by the fact you won't have to rate that often (at most maybe once a year once you find a good host).

Oh well, still in the idea stage but I think people should reconsider just a simple rating out of five for anything non-trivial (like rating videos). Anything important (major purchase decision) should be more detailed and have more information for the prospective user.
Unless you're providing something pretty substantial and have tremendous traffic numbers to prove it, paywalls just don't work. Rupert Murdoch is trying these now and finding out it's not working well. People just won't use you -- they'll go somewhere else.

Instead, affiliate marketing is the way to go. Try different CPA, PPC, and CPM ad network arrangements with split-testing to see which ones work best for your niche, or choose from 2 or all 3 of those types but try different vendors.

John Chow is a millionaire thanks to his blog, but also thanks to the sales funnel he gets for people who sign up on his site. I have a buddy in London who has a PC support forum with ads on it and he's earned $150,000 in ad revenue alone since 2005. So alternative means to paywalls can be very lucrative if played well.

I read that Andrew says he's all excited about seeing traffic numbers of 10,000. And I'm thinking, "10,000? That's pathetic. It's a good start, but not something as proof that I need to build a paywall."

But don't get me wrong -- sometimes paywalls work really well. For instance, stock investors and daytraders pay for membership sites to get access to daily stock tips from pros. But the numbers, and the unique-ness of the content, justify that paywall.
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Business opportunity: ant-spycam stickers with Post-It Note (TM) type adhesive that have relevant for the environment graphics. I.e. I'm thinking of the before my time IBM "Think", something small enough to fit the form factor and that should be unobjectionable in a school setting.

Any zero tolerance policy for "stickers" ought to fail in the aftermath of this Charlie Foxtrot, especially as the nasty details come out or are blatantly suppressed.
So readers should, after reading the essays, go and look up whether he has any other jobs before deciding whether or not to respect them?

Ridiculous.
The lean startup crowd exalts the power of data to overturn shadow beliefs about what is good for the business that more reflect the personal opinions of the people in charge rather than the reality on the ground.

I say this with the utmost respect: "diversity leads to innovation/meritocracy" is a shadow belief (just like "all good programmers are geeky white males from MIT or Stanford" is a shadow belief). It may be true. It may also be catastrophically untrue. I'm agnostic. I can afford to be agnostic about this since I'm one guy in a rice field and nobody's opinions on diversity will change the race/gender/etc composition of my business (kinda hard to do with a one-man team), but if you're making hiring decisions based on this, you might want to start thinking of process design decisions which place more emphasis on the data and less on shadow beliefs.

(Possible solution not accounted for above: I suppose if you value diversity as an end goal to itself, then you could run your business in such a way as to maximize it even if it was not optimal among other axes.)
So I don't understand why this guy specifically is targeted. He posted some scripts to disable the webcam for normal users, he talked about using the software to do what it was intended to do. I'm not convinced that because he didn't mention "theft recovery" until the middle of the podcast (granted, I did not listen to the podcast), he must have been remotely controlling users' computers. I don't see any evidence that incriminates Mr. Pibrix as anything more than IT guy taking orders, and I think it's irresponsible to post information like this without due process or at least offering Pibrix a chance to respond.
I think your are on to something. Report how many people saved a recipe (and unsaved it?), how many printed it and how many views it received.

Additionally, I think the mentioned websites ignore an important fact about recipes: they are not static. Most recipes have variations in technique or ingredients. Many cooks, as you stated, substitute ingredients that subtly, or not so subtly, change a recipe. If a mechanism exists to capture those variations (wiki style, maybe?), those people might have an incentive to come back and share their experience rather than their impressions.
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This is very relevant to my interests. Please post or write an article about this.
This article on Charlie Rose is fascinating:

http://money.cnn.com/2009/09/25/magazines/fortune/charlie_ro...

He actually doesn't make a huge ton of money (he'd do well to hire sponsorship sales staff IMO).
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The Walmart almonds were described as aromatic, mellow, pure, and yummy, the Whole Foods almonds as raw, though also more natural; they were in fact fresher, though duller in flavor.

LaLanne said his two simple rules of nutrition are: "if man made it, don't eat it", and "if it tastes good, spit it out"

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And hence the motivation for my "pretty please."
Not loving this idea....

Keep in mind your target audience may be struggling entrepreneurs who are broke (like me).

Or perhaps you're targeting the free site for us, and targeting the paid archive for more well to do folks.
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No, this is absolutely not the case.

There are plenty of large sites e.g., yellowpages.com and urbandictionary.com (which switched from PHP) which are built using Rails.

Even if you have scaling problems that are around that of, say, Twitter, your application code still isn't your bottleneck; talking to your database is. No amount of framework (or lack thereof, as you propose/promote) will save you from the ramifications of poorly-constructed SQL.
> My idea is different from what others have done

It's not entirely new, of course. I call it the "This American Life" model.
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I think YAHT is sorta decent in that regard. In the fourth chapter it teaches you enough to do something, and then it ramps you up a bit. It's still really confusing, but it's better than usual.
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