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Why SXSW is awesome:

- Discovering a lot of up and coming talented musicians

- Seeing artists like Arcade Fire, Beirut, Muse, Ben Harper, and Tom Morello play at small bars.

- Catching the world premiere of a film where the director and all of the stars are in attendance

- Free day parties with free beer

- Seeing Ice Cube, Public Enemy, Talib Kweli, and Del tha Funkee Homosapien perform for free by the lake.

- Having some drinks with a bunch of business guys at some startup-of-the-month's party

- Making new friends

- Making business contacts that lead to jobs or business opportunities

I live here in Austin and SXSW is my favorite time of year. Yes there are some sucky tech panels, but there are a few gems. I saw a few great panels such as "Beyond LAMP", discussions on location based services and mobile advertising, and talks by DHH and Jason Fried. Best of all, I got to do all of this for free by volunteering, and got a free music badge for doing so. Here's my music schedule:

http://my.sxsw.com/user/schedule/larrykubin

How exactly does it suck to go to hundreds of concerts, see dozens of movies, and party with thousands of technologists and entrepreneurs?

The author should rename the article to "why SXSWi sucks" at least, because SXSW is a lot more than a tech conference.
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The problem with this is that whereas people go on facebook to network, the go on google to buy things.

The ad money is at the same place where people are spending their money.

Look at facebook ads, a lot of them are for other social networking sites, very few are for actual products or services.

Until facebook becomes a place where people go to shop, their ads will be in a completely different league.
I wonder if he's ever tried to buy orange juice.
I agree that 1) was a little flippant, I think I should put in something else.

2) I might be wrong about this but I think that would apply to a lot of the newer sites, especially the ones with a focus on mobile use. Do any of the 'check-in' sites have any use? The action -> reward loop is closer to a game. Eat.ly has a use (diet tracker), but I believe it's quickly becoming a place for foodie porn (which is its main strength regardless). I totally agree that you can't make people think too much (too much like work) but how important defined utility is is a big question for us still.

Thanks for the feedback.
Could you explain your comment?

Is there something sexist about getting laid, or using the phrase "getting laid"? Because I know lots of regular women who both use that term and enjoy getting laid.

This is a not a male/female thing; this is a conflict of attitudes about sex.

If someone gets bent out of shape because they hear people talking about getting laid they seriously need to grow up.

Or get laid.
Tropicana branding disaster: http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/pepsi_ta... and http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/23/business/media/23adcol.htm...
This story by Freedman totally goes against what I've thought US/Western attitudes towards sex were in the 40s. (I thought the US was an uber-conservative sex-only-after-marriage & sex-only-for-producing children society.)

Does anyone have any links/references to articles/papers/studies that show that the US was already laissez-faire about sex as early as the late-30s/early-40s?
I'm a bit surprised that amazon would allow their feedback section to be abused as a means to pressure publishers (especially over the back of an author), but since amazon probably profits from selling more e-books they seem to allow it.

Funny though, I think that to be allowed to 'review' a book you'd have to have read it at a minimum, and you can't really rate a book that you do not have.

Amazon really should nix those reviews, even if it helps them businesswise.

Also, I figure that it's up to the rights owners to pick a format and to set a price, if you don't like it then there are plenty of other books that you can go and buy.

This smacks of entitlement somehow.
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When to look for investors?
I'm a 1st time entrepreneur who's got a great idea, and being my 1st time, not a lot of clue.

I've developed a proof of concept and have sourced hardware for a prototype and am creating a business plan to flesh out the idea (which as an IT guy is pretty tough going).

my idea is validated by friends saying they know people (and who are people) who have been looking for this specific solution but couldnt find any.

unfortunately for me i cant fund this myself and need to approach others for funding.

my question is, when is a generally accepted good time to get out there to start finding people who would be interested in looking at what i've come up with. If it makes any difference, i'm not in the valley, but in australia.
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Interesting and entertaining article.

I imagine if the master of ceremonies gave the a physicist the same advice today (say, Brian Cox for example) I picture the guy walking around with a pimp hat etc.
I feel like I've seen pretty good evidence against a few of his points. I wish he provided more qualification and references. It makes me not want to trust anything else he says.
60 hours? Slacker. ;) Sorry, Japanese salaryman humor.

I honestly was trying to write a blog post about this last night and just couldn't sustain the mental effort required to make a good job of it. So I stopped and will take a run on it another day. That is, ironically, one of my tips.

Design your business to have smaller batch sizes. If, for example, you typically ship software every 2 work-weeks (~80 hours), you might take two months of work on your current schedule between shipping events. That can feel like staring out to the horizon and still not seeing the finish line -- it is depressing. Instead, if you were making visible progress every single night you sat down, then you'd be happier and might find that you have much larger reserves of energy.

Relatedly: cut scope, cut scope, cut scope. The less you need to write, the less you need to test and the less you need to maintain. Every line of code you write is an implicit claim on your time every day from here to eternity, ensuring that that code doesn't break. Try to write as few time-debts into your life as possible.

Process and systems: time invested in making yourself more efficient is some of the best time you'll ever spend. Systems which work without your personal intervention -- for example, any sort of self-help option for customers that resolves a common support issue, or automation of recurring tasks like backups, etc -- are worth their weight in gold. Formalized processes which turn "Sit down at the computer for an hour and bang out something that might or might not work" into "Follow the freaking checklist and have something which absolutely will not break in 27 minutes" save you time and sanity. (If you think you're tired now, wait until the system goes down at 3 AM and you have work in 4 hours.)

Mix tasks which require your personal attention with those which require calendar time, so that you can fire one of the longer tasks off, go away for a week (Saturday through Saturday), and then come back and see what happened. A/B tests work great for this. So does certain flavors working with freelancers, if you're working with the right ones and have a habit of giving them sufficient direction in advance. (Hold on to anybody who can work without constant direction -- they're worth their weight in gold.)

I have found that exercise, church, and social activities are all net-positives in terms of the amount of work I can get done, simply because feeling like I'm actually living tends to improve my physical and mental energy levels. By comparison, TV/games are generally a net negative. Adjust appropriately for things which matter to you.

If you want to work, and you feel like you can't work, try doing another flavor of task. Planning on programming but can't? Go work on e.g. marketing or drafting the newsletter or what have you. If you still can't work, clock out. There is no profit in throwing good time after bad, and your systems will still be around tomorrow.
"Database schema upgrades are done by hand."

Cool, I thought I was just a total newb for doing schema upgrades by hand! (Well, I am a total newb but anyway)
Ironically this probably increases your chances of getting into YC. Showing a history of assertiveness and getting what you want, Sam Altman-style!
I think it's important not to understate the fact that a young Feynman was just inherently really sexy. (Talking as a straight man.)
I know a number of web designers who refer to SXSW as "geek spring break", and could never quite figure out just what was so geeky about the event. Outside of the music/film part, it's a marketing schmooze fest for "Web 2.0" types.
I wasn't dismissing it. For 90% of people who would consider this app, it's great! I really just posted this because someone previously said that this could replace sheet music.

The highlighting of the keys is also an amazing feature. I've posted YouTube videos of me playing the piano with the camera angled unintentionally over my shoulder.. and actually used the video to see what keys I was playing and copied what I was doing.

There should definitely be a "no sheetmusic" mode in this app for people who previously copied people's finger position on youtube... for people who have no desire to learn how to read sheet music.

Good luck.
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That's just good old day syndrome. I've had some very interesting talks with older folks about this very subject. They all agree that the prevalence of sex in the culture is certainly a bit more front and center today. However, men have always been men and women have always been women.

Teen birth rates where at their highest in 40's, 50's and 60's after all. Contraception certainly has played a role in reducing that, but it does demonstrate that conservative America has always been a myth propagated by a certain sect of older conservatives.
Eh, if anything it'll help you.

It shows that you're not a wimp and that you're willing to experiment, both good things.

And they're all human, you know. They realize that people do sexual things, even successful startup founders. And PG and JL have a baby. I'll let you draw your own conclusions based on that.
Why not? Caffeine works more efficiently when taken in more frequent and smaller doses. Furthermore constantly taking in caffeine will suppress hunger. If you're concerned about the sugar in many drinks, you should call that out.
Yeah from what the article describes it sounds like at is simplest form a nested for loop varing across a number of variables. I assume it is quite a bit more complex than that but artificial intelligence?
"I bought her $1.10 worth of sandwiches,"

how old is this story?
Good for them. I wonder what Garmin thinks in terms of competitors now easily finding a large group of ex-employees.
Indeed. I've had great success with simple, blunt solicitation.
Sorry dude you are totally wrong. Bodybuilders are not natural. It is impossible to achieve even 20% of the mass that they have accumulated naturally. Being in the industry and meeting/knowing numerous professional bodybuilders the reality is JUICE. Natural growth is a rare phenomenon unless you are deficient in myostatin. Or first time weight lifters can achieve noticeable increases in mass but the drop off rate is huge and maintenance is nearly impossible. Every physical body that you see and say ohh man I wish I looked like that is probably a product of steroid use.I'm not talking about Brad Pitt in fight club because thats just a function of low bodyfat (even then he could have took a cutter like winstrol or anavar, who knows with hollywood. Go talk to the 300 cast about juice) The silly thing is a lot of people do not know they may have used steroids. For the past 12-15 years many supplements marked as pro-hormones (think andro, poor mark mcgwire) were sold as legal products and once the slow ass FDA catches on it gets added to the wonderful reference book of anabolic steroids. Many legal supplements are still in the pipeline and on their way over to the illegal garbage bin. Another reason why following bodybuilders is pointless b/c the workouts they throw in Flex magazine are too difficult and can result in over-training for the average/normal person.

ultimately its about incentives. The fitness industry is a SHAM. Most supplements will not work unless they are some form of endogenous test. Creatine what a joke.

At the end of all this I am not promoting living a non-healthy life style. There are wonderful benefits to moderate cardio and low calorie diets.

I can go on and on and on. But I just hate not having the truth out there and the whole world fooled.

Lyle mcdonald at www.bodyrecomposition.com is the real deal. The guy has great advice and he is a no nonsense dude. The only thing we disagree on is natural growth. I feel as if his assumptions for growth are too high. www.steroidology.com is another great site for users and non. I work with a few natural folks and some add 20 lbs but it is not that noticeable (b/c its never pure lean body mass). The only way to naturally mimic roid effects is through protein timing which has a 1% success rate.

Reality is, what you want to look like is impossible. If you want to shed 20 lbs of fat sure thats doable naturally but achieving a sick looking fitness cover body requires 250 mgs of test to the upper right glute area twice a week. Good luck folks.
I figure that my 'i know i'll be downmodded for this' aside zeros things out ;)
"I’ve worn many hats, and enjoyed everyone."

http://thegcteam.com/team

yeah, that's not gonna fly in Olathe, Kansas.
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Hair is naturally shiny if it is not dry.
Can you send the e-mail address you tried to use to bugs@quora.com? Our validator allows for domains that start with numbers so I think it was rejecting the e-mail based on something else.
I know a Welsh guy named Ed (very short guy) who never leaves a pub without a girl on his arm.

I always wondered how he did it so I asked him and he told me his pickup line.

He said:

"I go up to a girl and I start off with saying hi, introducing myself as Ed, I then say to them this line"

"Look, girls are into honesty right? Well the truth is I have a big d!&k and want to put it in you"

He told me that the secret to it is that you have to sell it like it was the most normal thing to say in the world.

As you can imagine, I was completely stunned, but he swore it was the truth.

It's a little more crude than feynman's article, but the principle is similar.

Strange huh?
I am th only one who hate the idea of generic top-level domains? Will their web site be accessible just as http://.canon? .
I know a Welsh guy named Ed (very short guy) who never leaves a pub without a girl on his arm.

I always wondered how he did it so I asked him and he told me his pickup line.

He said:

"I go up to a girl and I start off with saying hi, introducing myself as Ed, I then say to them this line"

"Look, girls are into honesty right? Well the truth is I have a big d!&k and want to put it in you"

He told me that the secret to it is that you have to sell it like it was the most normal thing to say in the world.

As you can imagine, I was completely stunned, but he swore it was the truth.

It's a little more crude than feynman's article, but the principle is similar.
Sounds a lot like what CrossFit teaches.
"When I was first at Cornell I corresponded with a girl I had met in New Mexico while I was working on the bomb."

Considering the first sentence in the story, I'd say 65 years.
<troll>It's kind of like Japanese RPG games, but without the inane story line or 30 minutes of cut scenes between interaction.</troll>
"I’ve also learned that, if it’s your birthday, you can ask a very nice Ethiopian man very nicely and he will drive you and 9 of your friends 300 miles from Seattle to Portland and then back to Seattle in a H3 stretch limousine for the cost of gas, a lap dance and a steak."

Now this is a story worth hearing...
Impressive Dan! Nothing but praise for your app. Currently practicing Moonlight Sonata. ;)
Shoot, was it MyWedding.canon or MyWedding.nikon?
He already sent it back.
CSS3 isn't a finalised standard, and the test only tests a few things. You do realise there is a lot which this doesn't test too right? That's why some browsers took so quick passing ACID3 (because they focused on fixing the cases tested by ACID3 only)

And as mentioned, one of them is a speed test which is affected by external circumstances.

I'm not saying its irrelevent, but I am saying that a 100% pass rate doesn't mean its 100% compliant with the things being tested. Furthermore, we shouldn't be punishing companies which aren't willing to implement support for standards which are drafts.

ACID2 was genuinely useful because it was all finalised standards. ACID3 though I think could have done better.. So its nice to pass, but a 100% pass just says you are compliant with 100 tests. I'm betting the compliance testing suites used by browsers are a LOT more comprehensive..
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Doesn't really surprise me. (I wonder what % of searches on google are for google?)

:)
My firefox plugin to search the intranet (originally one I built myself - now just the supplied one), means that I occasionally do very strange intranet searches. (And very strange google searches at points)
Are you upset because a man said it? "Math is too male and we need to come up with more female ways of teaching it" is a pretty standard feminist idea. In fact, replace "math" with a wide variety of things.

Recall he's not working under modern PC strictures, not that he necessarily would have subjected himself to them anyhow. He gets to say it directly, not cloak it in endless verbiage.

That said, I actually disagree. Math is what it is and everybody regardless of gender must bend their brain to the subject and not the other way around. I think its fundamental inhumanity is dominant. But you seem to me to be casually implying that his statement is un-PC, and I think it's actually rather shockingly PC, just also very blunt.
Water works the same as you mention about caffeine without any side effects or potential thereof: energy leveler and producer + appetite suppressant.

I'm not calling sugar out what-so-ever. I said avoid diet and low-fat anything... normally things are low fat and diet because they have a sugar substitute. Maybe you missed that? What I was calling out is stay away from artificial.
Thanks for the story, that was really neat.

Lots of wisdom in old cultures.
Also, what's the main diff between this and Stack Exchange other than that this is all-purpose? Are you gonna let search engines index answers?
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There is lots of venture capital in the bay area, but there are successful companies all over the world, not just in the bay area.

And success can be defined in many ways, I think that 'what makes the founder of the company happy' should be a good start.
Did you actually read the article? You don't sound like you did.
That will be soon, and then we should see some very exciting things. Given the way the Droid has sold I expect the Verizon edition of the N1 to do pretty well, even without much marketing from Google.
Yes, but it will redirect. It won't be canonical.
There's nothing technical DNS-wise that would prevent the name 'canon' from resolving to an IP address, so http://canon could work. They could also add a MX record for the name 'canon' so @canon e-mail addresses would work too. Maybe ICANN has rules around gTLDs that would prevent this type of use?
The whole point is that browsers should stand on their own and not be part of the OS, no?

If IE becomes really good, it should be judged on its own merit and maybe some people on the Mac platform would want to use it.

I dislike Microsoft as much as the next guy, but I know that when there's healthy competition on a platform, everybody wins. I'd love to see the IE guys try to make a better browser than others, and not just on windows.
Great article - this is why I read HN.

I think that Bradford Cross is right on: as more data becomes available, the challenge is not building 'cookie cutter' applications, but rather using some combination of ML, text mining, statistics, etc. to create new ideas and systems.
The Internet needs a better API, architecture.
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Here's more insight from a Garmin Connect customer with thorough speculation and confirmation from insiders - http://dcrainmaker.blogspot.com/2010/03/garmin-connect-devel...
I agree, but I think you're still conceding too much to "fairness". I'm all for minimum wage being livable and basic working condition standards, but beyond that I don't believe anyone in the professional class is overcompensated or undercompensated. A person is only worth as much as A) someone is willing to pay them, or B) the amount of money they can make from starting their own business.

People can cry 'til their blue in the face about how undercompensated they are, but if that's really true they should take their skills and build a profitable business. I say this because engineers do create tons of value, but we need to put our money where our mouth is and do it ourselves to increase our market value rather than whining about history.
really basic? score following is hard.
The Manhattan Project was 1942-1945, well into the war, when condoms were fairly widely available. They only became more available after that, of course.
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Lifting weights is great and most people could benefit from a sensible diet and a regime of weightlifting involving correctly performed compound exercises (ie squats, deadlifts, military press, bench press, pull/chin ups).

Can't say I agree with listening to bodybuilders though. Bodybuilders are (generally speaking) genetic freaks who are taking exogenous testosterone, HGH and insulin. They're also using training/diet programs appropriate for people who're in their circumstances.
This post teaches us all a valuable lesson: always frame the question before, not after, asking it. People stop reading after the '?'
Feynman had good karma enough to die twice of cancer
I think he's confusing anti-stupid with experiencing new things and deciding on the merits of the experience.
Its a domain squatter's dream come true.
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No, I'm "upset" because the rest of the article makes it clear that Feynman really did think that women were inherently useless as math -- and even "rational thought" in general:

>Those people who have for years been insisting (in the face of all obvious evidence to the contrary) that the male and female are equally capable of rational thought may have something.

This is a bit rich for my tastes (but it will no doubt go down very well on this forum). I just don't see why it would be someone's favorite quote, unless they liked making fun of women's intellectual abilities.
And I can't understand how this advice (at least as phrased in the title) is specific to one gender.

(And if that's not your problem—why should women be more uncomfortable than men around sexual statements in general? That's almost the opposite of feminism.)
was, not has.

You do realise that Australia was originally founded as a penal colony. And that about 50% of the First Fleet (thus 50% of the entire colony/city) were convicts. Wiki tells me that about 165,000 convicts were sent here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convicts_in_Australia

Every city on the list has a prison. Not many of them were originally intended to be a prison.