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Is it possible for them to just write a blog post on their own blog that nobody forces you to read without prefacing it with a detailed justification? Or have they spent all their "axod tolerance" tokens?

This attitude is the reason I don't blog anymore. You don't just disagree with them. You're put out that they're writing at all. I understand where you're coming from and I sympathize but that attitude is oppressive and stifling and I wish people would dial it down. I'm one of the culprits too (hoist me up by anything I've written about pg). I hope people call me on it too.
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I've gotten this feedback a few times, so you're not alone. This was my first time doing a video like this, and I opted for the "look at the interviewer" angle -- I think I need to redo it.
Aren't most party schools "big ponds" though? But I guess being a big fish in a big pond is even better.
Yes. That is what he is saying. What's the problem with that logic?
I'm not sure about the state the article is about - but in Washington it only applies to chains, which have sophisticated supply chains that ensure a pretty narrow tolerance of serving sizes and contents.

This certainly doesn't apply to your corner mom and pop shop where serving sizes and contents vary by the plate.
Historically a lot of newspapers made their money through specialist ads (classifieds, jobs, housing) - but both in print and online they just can't compete against niche sites that cover those areas.

Many major print newspapers aren't profitable any more either.
What? Our main business is to sell collaboration and productivity software to millions of users. Sharing our opinions on running a business is what we've been doing for the last decade.

[seems like the parent poster chicken out and deleted his comment]
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I like how even though Google is a big company, every time they have something to say, it feels like it came from a regular guy wearing a t-shirt. Maybe they are just really good at their brand marketing.
I noticed too that there is no possibility to undo a vote.
People make mistake, voters too. The Stack Overflow way to do it is preferable, but I guess it cost more resource.
functional only helps when you don't have to deal with things outside of your programs memory space. Functional starts looking the same once you start grabbing stuff from databases, calling rest services, pushing stuff to files, etc
Oh, make no mistake. I'm in it for the money too. But I think there's more money to be made owning my own company for the next twenty years than there is selling it for 10-15 times today profits (the realistic, going price for profitable software companies).
Not only do they show at least some humanity (which is hard for a company of their size), but they've also got big balls.

It's interesting that while this may be a PR spin, few companies would have done it because the risks are much higher than the potential gains for shareholders.
Response to DHH's "Not For Sale"
Selling a company, whether you believe it will grow or not, is not an easy decision. You need to factor in many things including your own risk profile.
Yeah you're right. I'm just so damn tired of their constant blogging about philosophy/preaching about how right they are.

For me, it's absolutely not hacker news. I don't know what it is.

If they want some respect, write some software! Blog about some cool technology. Solve a hard problem.

edit: deleted my previous posts. I'm not going to comment on any more of these posts.
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They could just be being glib. Clipping and LOD aren't the same thing as one another. Consider the 2-D case of sampling a line (uncountably many points) for a raster display. Reimagining our favorite line drawing algorithms as search problems requires a lot of work to figure out how to best search the space. I hope these guys are doing something like that.
Yes, I agree. 37s have become a slight parody of themselves. They used to point and laugh about how web business was done in an 'enterprisey' way by their example company Enormicon (I think it was called).

Now we have a set of cliches for a small funky online company should act.

It is all about subverting the dominant X paradigm where X is anything that you don't like or don't use or don't understand.

- Only use Apple computers to subvert the dominant Windows OS paradigm

- Only use Rails to subvert the dominant PHP/Java paradigm

- Only use Textmate for editing to subvert the dominant Vim/Emacs/Notepad/Eclipse paradigm

- Use swear words in your presentations to subvert the dominant politeness-to-people-who-pay-into-conferences paradigm

I could go on. I am generalising here too! But sooner or later 37s may wake up and realise that they are the new mainstream amongst the web dev crowd.

They have slayed the monster of PHP/Java.

Perhaps its is time to stop playing the hip outsider?
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To be fair: they also got really lucky. There are 37signals outcomes wherein they would not be writing cocky posts about never wanting to sell.
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Which is another user interface issue. After doing this a few times internally a user may come to rely on this feature and be uncomfortably surprised to find that it doesn't work on emails outside the company.
Interesting language choices. I suppose they were picked to provide an introduction to various paradigms. Let's see:

Ruby - Dynamically typed, scripting language

Io - Not sure. Smalltalk-esque object orientation, I guess.

Prolog - Crazy logic programming!

Scala - Functional? JVM? (does he really need this and haskell and Clojure?)

Erlang - I guess this is like a demonstration of concurrency and actors? Or something?

Clojure - Woo! A lisp dialect!

Haskell - Functional, strongly-typed.

I think I would take out Scala and put in something more imperative and different, like Go, C#, or Lua. I might also replace Ruby with Python. I learned Ruby as my first language and I find myself using Python a lot more anyways (Ruby is sexier though, I admit). The idea itself might not be sound. (A language a week? Talk about a crash course!)

I'm tempted to get it anyways. It's a unique approach, so props to the author for that.
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It reminds me of that other algorithm that went around a couple of months ago, where they do similar things by combining photographs on the web. Might have been from Google, Microsoft, or some independent researchers.
That's not really what I said, is it? I said that the metaphor stands in the way of my identification, not that I can't understand the metaphor or that I've never been in situations that the metaphor tries to describe.
I always wanted to learn Prolog. Is there still a use for it these days?
What's wrong with that paradigm? If you believe that your technology or philosophy is better than the status quo, why wouldn't you argue for that? Why wouldn't you want to convince others to do the same? The progress of the world demands on the spreading of good ideas.

Also, there are still many, many, many more PHP and Java developers and shops out there than there are Rails. That shift is far from done.

Once the good ideas have become mainstream, the work on those are done, but by then I'm sure even better ideas are available and the process starts anew.

This is not bad, this is healthy.
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This can only be described one way: devil magic
True...but do we want to burden startups with the compliance requirements of public securities trading?

While grellas and I disagree upthread about the intent and ramifications of this proposed change, we concur that the alternative (of an unspecific regulatory environment) is messy, unpredictable, and expensive. Libertarians often point out that disputes are inevitable are best resolved on their individual merits in a court rather than via pre-emptive regulation. This is a fine ideal, but my limited experience as a party to a few legal disputes is that going to court erodes commercial productivity like nothing else.
Those loyal to truth are often the enemy of all. We all have secrets to hide. Watching a philosopher speak the other day, he said a quote from someone I can't remember, but goes something like this: Those who introspect and attempt to confront the demons within must have more courage than a soldier on the battle field.

In this case, if the "leader of the free world" is responsible for something so dramatic that this is happening, then it is of the utmost importance to share it with the world. We must do what we can to stop abuses of power.

If we can't stop them, then we must make each of us reflect on the injustice leveled on others in order that we may have what we have. At some point, we must recognize that the evils we perpetrate are not worth it. I would love to see a resurgence of conscience, that is so poorly absent from our modern society full of invisible ills, purple pills, and political shills.
Let's just be sure to put the waste processing and power plants over in Maine, OK?
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Blaming a whole group of very disparate people for one's own flaws is poor reasoning at best. The parallel to racism is ridiculous here.
It is indeed a great algorithm. I think similar algorithms will be used to "create" music in the future, although I shudder to think of how terrible pop music will be when they can just create "content aware" music by selecting a few bars and generating the rest.
Io - Not sure. Smalltalk-esque object orientation, I guess.

They chose/described Io as being the The minimalist prototype language

ref: http://www.pragprog.com/news/core-data-in-print-seven-langua...
I was going to say the same thing but you beet me to it.

I'd also add that Warren Buffett isn't an entrepruer in the same sense that someone running a tech startup is.
I hope not.

For them to kill Trident and move to WebKit would be a git from heaven. of course it will never happen, though. Having a top-notch browser doesn't fit their corporate plans at all. The web platform is a threat to Win32 as it always has been, more now than ever, and it would practically be disregarding shareholder interests to promote a standards based web app platform.
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And in Zsh, you could even have it show the current Vi mode (Insert or Command) in the prompt. I don't have my .zshrc handy, I'll try to get the command once I get the .zshrc.
Sorry. I decided not to comment on 37signals any more and have deleted my comments. A flag is quicker than arguing for sanity.
Absolutely amazing. Obviously this takes some cleverness on the part of the artist as well, but still.
1. In order for there to be a market, there have to be both buyers and sellers, so being a seller creates value and is a good thing.

2. He is saying that if you are a buyer then you are doing it "for the vision", but if you are a seller then you are doing it just for "a quick flip". I doubt that very much.
Why? What would you expect it to do?
My favorite is the modifier for histories.

$ ls a b c

a b c

$ ls !$

ls c

c

$ ls a b c

a b c

$ ls !:3 !:2 !:1 !:0

ls c b a ls

ls: ls: No such file or directory

a b c

$
I use vim as my editor but never got on with "vi mode" in bash/readline or zsh/zle. However, when you have a complicated command line you can use vim (or your favorite $EDITOR) on it.

In bash type Ctrl-x-e

In zsh I press Ctrl-z, which does what I want because I have this in my .zshrc:

setopt hist_ignore_space # trick so that history doesn't get polluted
function edithist() {
local tmp=${TMPPREFIX}${$}hist
read -Erz >| "$tmp"
"$EDITOR" "$tmp"
print -Rz - "$(<$tmp)"
rm "$tmp"
}
bindkey -e '\M-q' push-input # replaces push-line in 3.0.x
bindkey -e -s '\C-z' '\M-q edithist\n'

The zsh version leaves you editing the command line after exiting the editor. The bash version executes the command after exiting the editor.
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Its the fact that so many people find it so hard to believe that they don't want to sell.

If you look at the HN thread of the TWiST video, many were claiming they're just gassing the potential buyers up by saying they're not for sale.

I don't get why its really that hard to believe. Loving what you do is the thing I strive for, and they seem to have found it. Why mess with it?

People can say you can flip it and start anew, but 37signals has (according to DHH) enough to not worry financially and if they have a great new startup idea, why would they start a new company to do it? They have a company that they own and have the freedom to implement and launch products that they think are great.
I know it's possible for a forum to do better than what you claim is all people can do, because HN itself used to do better.

There's a new batch of YC startups every 6 months. The startups were about the same quality a year ago. And yet after demo day a year ago the top comment on HN wasn't a content-free dismissal with 86 points. I know both HN and the startups very well, and what's changing here is HN, not the startups. The site has grown so much that the median user is significantly dumber and meaner than a year ago.

I've been thinking a lot over the last several months about how to deal with this. One of the solutions I'm considering is to get rid of points on comments, and that would have worked well here. Fnid2's comment, as he more or less admitted himself, was just a throwaway remark. But displaying points transformed it into a rallying cry leading a mob.
BackTweets has actually been around for a while too -- and was always a part of BackType Connect (which shows you other reactions including hacker news, digg, reddit, friendfeed). We even personalize results to show a viewer which of their friends shared a link:
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I don't care if the whole text of the treaty ends up being as innocuous as "everyone gets a cute kitten". The very thought of making commercial treaties top notch government secrets is absurd, and angering.

We don't know _where_ our tax dollars are going, and can only assume they're being stolen from us by swindlers who are using them to profit from us even more.
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GoDaddy pulls out of China too
Way to go Sergey. This reinforces in my mind, the "Do No Evil" motto that Google is famous for.

It also reinforces my opinion that Eric Schmidt is a douche. All he cares about is making a buck, and would sacrifice the motto and public good will towards the company just for quarterly results.
What exactly are they overstating and undersupporting? The video that sparked a lot of this dialogue has a lot of the reasoning and thought behind what he claimed in his post.
In absence of a clear definition of what you mean by social media, you sound like someone from the traditional world in the 90s riling against the Internet and the lack of proven ROI.

What exactly constitutes "social media" for you, Umair? You should define it and draw the boundaries before you argue against such a vague concept.

The closest guess I can make is social media equals the notion of "friending" for you. "Friending", I'd argue, is just a gimmick and not the core of social media. So you are attacking the weakest part of a huge thing.
Pretty sure that's a MUST NOT in the RFC
Always love when people show that video without the several minutes of verification, obvious tossing of the RPG, etc.
He's saying "don't be one of the sellers". Not complicated.
Why does it take big balls to pull out of a market you're losing in?
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I tried to address this in the last paragraph of my post, but it's a hard problem, and not one I know how to solve. Some of it, undoubtedly, also comes down to timing, location, and luck.

But you're right, I should have a better answer to this question. I should discuss it with my friends sometime and try to get a handle on it.
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I applaud Google's announcement that it will be hosting a Wikileaks server to help stop internet censorship.

(yeah right... if Google actually cared about censorship it would host one... the China stuff is just a graceful way for Google to exit a market that it has failed in).
Steve was ejecting from Apple, there is nothing to say he would have left he wasn't kicked out.
How important are the UI design skills? I can build about anything you could imagine, but, probably like most engineers, my design skills leave something to be desired.
I'm curious what you mean with the Warren Buffet comment. Running a tech startup and running Berkshire are completely different, so I'm not sure what sort of comparison you are making.
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Ask HN: Facebook app promotion techniques?
Hey guys,

Curious to know if anyone had any FB app promotion techniques to share. Promoting on FB is a pretty different dynamic than on web apps. Aside from assuring your product takes advantage of viral features, how else do you grind out getting those first thousand users to actually use your app?

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this sounds entirely like 'connecting the dots' from Steve Jobs famous speech.
And just about the entire planet's population could fit into the state of California at that Brooklyn density.

Texas would have plenty of space left over.

Alaska could fit three earth populations at Brooklyn density.
At the risk of making judgment out of context, I think it's pretty obvious which of the two wants to Invest in the founders as much as the idea.
Spoken like an engineer...
Was it Sketch2Photo from Siggraph Asia 2009 ( http://cg.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn/papers/SiggraphAsia_2009_sketch... )? If so, the authors are academics.
At times like this I'm thankful that my current employer is on the flextime wagon. I still have my alloted time per week (mostly more than that, but well...), yet it doesn't really matter that much when I take it. So I don't have to fit my natural rhythm around my work schedule. Talking to your employer might be a decent alternative to this. It has the added benefit that in the evening the office is pretty empty -- and that's when I usually get more productive. For people who have their highest productivity in the morning, being the first in the office would be better, though.
Why VCs Say No To Good Ideas
> Almost everything is for sale at the right price. If someone offered 37signals one trillion dollars would the sell? Of course.

The fact is, nobody is offering 37Signals a trillion dollars with no strings attached. Actual offers would involve non-competes, possibly demands the founders stay on for a year or more, the right to fire employees, the right to raise prices or otherwise make things unpleasant for customers the founders like, and so on.

We can't say "Everyone's soul is for sale at the right price," get a yes, and then come back to reality and pull out a two hundred page term sheet and demand that they consider it since "We've established that they're for sale."

This is roughly akin to asking me if I would work for Microsoft if given a million dollar signing bonus. Does that mean I'm open to working for Micosoft? Or can I stick to my assertion that I'm not interested in working for Micosoft now or in the foreseeable future?
There doesn't have to be a market in startups. What is a startup trying to sell, their product or their shares? The lines can blur a bit, but ultimately it's the buyer that's going to take the product forward in the market and generate the value.
it doesn't work all that great on my corp intranet.
I applaud 37s. I wish their voice was even louder! They are constantly drowned out by the VC rush that I've seen destroy really great companies with really great products that aren't around anymore because an investor wasn't satisfied with the growth rate.

If the companies, many who were my clients with VC, had gone a little slower and taken a little more time they would have been long time established players. Instead, another company years later -- also backed by VC -- comes in and takes the market that, years prior, wasn't big enough to support investor expectations.

During the dotcom boom, I saw multiple layoffs at multiple companies. I saw people crying. I saw founders of companies let go. I heard people say, "Just let me stay. I love working here. You don't have to pay me!" Sorry, that isn't an option in a VC backed company.

Yet, I don't know one bootstrapped startup who would say no to a loyal team mate who wants to work and build something without needing a salary.
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I'm not blaming the whole group of women. I'm blaming the intolerant women for being turned away by their own distaste for geeks, which is what dkarl was hypothesizing.

"I may have personally turned a few women away from technical fields by being the shining, shambling, pimply...face of math and science at my school."

Similarly, I don't blame all whites if a few of them avoid computing in a effort not to talk to minorities, just the intolerant ones. And in my opinion, we are better off without them.
Not an "opposite" so much as another way of thinking about Fitts', but this is definitely important when designing interfaces.