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I'm troubled by what the author says about filing in Delaware. The impression I got from reading around (particular in VC blogs) is that the Delaware C Corp is the preferred entity for investment. Just as importantly, it was suggested that if you file as something else, then becoming a Delaware C Corp can be expensive/complicated.

What are the upsides/downsides to filing as a corporation in California then? Are there alternatives such that it's easy to become a Delaware C Corp if the founders so chose? What's wrong with being a California C Corp?
IMO the only thing you can do is to start writing real code and force yourself to use it. Honestly, the vim help stuff was almost useless to me at first because I would forget it as soon as I learned it, since I didn't understand the vi mindset.

You will notice a big drop in productivity at first, but hopefully you should notice yourself getting faster in a week or so.
So much of Linux is designed and modified by committee, so change is slow and painful. Apple managed to get a seriously hot UI onto FreeBSD in a (relatively) short time. Linux has everyone and their dog bartering to make changes, so the UI goes nowhere.

Stop copying Windows, already. Start menu sucks. Dump X.
the key differentiating factor for most people is free _as in freedom_.whether they came to linux because their hard-drive crashed and they dont have permission to re_install the OS they payed for that came with their machine, or they are a geek who enjoys the power that comes from the freedom to tinker and benefit from others` tinkering.

no one is aware of the cost of their operating system anyway.
I don't think a celeb in public would fall within the gambit of trade secret protection, unless you mean the latest lactic surgery technique the celeb sports.
I definitely see a lot of truth in what you say. I enjoy him on TWiS but he barely mentions Mahalo in passing on the shows except for some metric like 10M uniques.

Mahalo has been going backwards in my opinion. About a year ago it seemed like a prettier social news site. Now it seems like a flashier/social yahoo answers clone.

The big ask a question box on the homepage has to go.
Not sure where you live, but in Australia, to do that properly (custom-build most things, the tracks, installation, etc) you'd be looking at $50k+. I recently got quoted close to $10k just for a kitchen benchtop and this guys place has all sorts of custom services and installations.
You aren't thinking of Oppenheimer?
No, thanks. IMHO, the Linux project sold its soul and that is the current problem. In particular, almost every major developer of Linux is in the payroll of some software giant with interests in only running Linux servers. Nothing wrong with that, but it doesn't fit what I'm looking for running locally.
I gave up on Linux. Not fodder; ^ if you agree.
i've had my bank of america debit card hooked up to blippy since before they launched (and the product has come a long way since then). it's actually kind of entertaining with your friends -- contrary to what you would think, 99% of your purchases are boring.

they have really good privacy controls and already addressed the concern aaron patzer brought up in this article. if aaron wants to hide his lingerie purchase, he just enables "manual mode" and shows whichever purchases he wants (they'll be hidden by default). same for price. for example, you can show you were at banana republic and bought something without revealing the price you paid.

this pretty much feels like twitter, but instead of writing stuff, it automatically gets published when you swipe your card somewhere (or you can manually approve purchases, or retroactively hide stuff already published). there's still a social component where people comment on your purchases and ask you what you bought at certain places.

just wait until the celebrities get on this thing.
> no one is aware of the cost of their operating system anyway.

Basic macroeconomics suggests this is unlikely.
Would it be unbecoming of me to suggest that some readers of this thread might be interested in visiting http://GayGeeks.org? It is a not-for-profit side venture of mine.
I don't think it's "better" per se but rather more tailored toward a different group of people. Each one has their pros.
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Hopefully someone will fix this misinformation soon, and gaddammit dude, when you're going to accuse someone of attempted murder, do a little fact check and send along a reference link or something for crissakkes
Because relentlessly resourceful hackers do their own thing.
> would gladly pay money for it

So, have you? If so, how much? I've spent $300 on software for my Windows computer in the last year, and another $100 on software for my Mac.

> So they've already 'payed' for Windows, but use a different OS anyways.

Granted, but I think far fewer people would if Linux wasn't completely free. If Linux distros were able to enforce a charge of $5 per download, I suspect consumer adoption would halve or worse.

> Android is an example

I'm not sure that's the best example considering the trouble many developers are having making money on Android. But even if we go with that, there are probably already far more people carrying Android handsets than are using Linux on the desktop.

More than that, there's a question about what type of people and for what motivation people buy Android phones. Notice how I said "buy Android phones," not "install Android". People buy Android phones explicitly because you can easily buy desirable apps on them, unlike so many other phone OSes. But the operating system is not free like beer in the sense that it is easily downloaded and installed on a device people already have on hand. You still in most cases have to go out and buy the device. So it does not suffer (as much) from the selection effect I described earlier. (The evidence I've seen so far does suggest that its demographics with respect to paying for software deviate significantly from those of the iPhone.)
Softmaker - mind you that we need it mainly for the spreadsheet, but I think the presentation software is also quite decent.Note that they dont have very good compatibility with ODF (sigh...).

The license is extremely liberal.
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All good points, and you're a good example of a lawyer who gets it. As you say, prices have dropped even as laws continue to restrict the development of cheaper alternatives. I wonder how close we are to the lowest prices achievable without having to pass new laws.

(None of this, of course, is to take away from the good roles that lawyers play, especially in non-trivial and non-routine legal matters.)
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Ummm, social signaling, it's real, it's deeply ingrained, and shopping for two teenage daughters I can guarantee that it really does come down to signaling in their choice of Apple versus any other. They really don't focus on features nor interface, nor apps, especially apps, they don't care about that stuff at all, at least not yet.
Agreed. It presumes that usage is inherently bad, which is questionable.
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What's new about this technology, or swift about this decline? The web has been around since I was a kid. I still don't even know what's changed.
How many unreleased iPhones have you lost and gotten returned using this method? I think the person who found the lost phone knew exactly who it belonged to, but decided to resell it for $5000 instead of returning it.
Slide:ology has some prominent negative reviews at Amazon complaining about the content being shallow, derivative, and ad-laden.
I was so bitter from the BSG finale I never watched Lost. Woohoo!
Sounds like a bad breakup being covered by the tabloids except this isn't being covered by a sleazy reporter.

Calcanis' reputation: minus 1.
I've seen it. It usually is the result of being trolled. The "troll" user of software A starts poking at the user of software B in a way that on the surface looks like an editor joke, but is actually about hte person. Something like "this code looks like it was written in X" or "how can an X user have completed bug #11". After a while it can get under the skin, but if the target is not paying enough attention, or is you know, working, the result can be a full on editor war.
If you're not quite ready to take investment, I would send a quick thank you note. They will remember you; when you know what you want from investors you can then reach out more formally. http://web.archive.org/web/20070406175803/blog.guykawasaki.c...
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Holy crap, Lazlo Nibble..

Been a long time since knowing you on System Exclusive.
Because you need to jumpstart the paid-apps ecosystem. I am not talking about approval processes, but something more on the lines of an Android app store than an iphone one.

What you get by that is : 1. signed software 2. small time developers dont have to worry about licensing 3. Distribution channel 4. Payment gateway

The windows or the mac system was never built on the basis of a package management system, which Linux inherently has. Dont we _already_ have an app store in Linux?

Only, there is no way for a developer to make money off Apt or Yum.
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Then spend a week doing as much as possible from within vim. You will start to get the basic hang of it. Then as you want to do other things, assume vim can do them for you and try and figure out how. #vim on freenode is good for this, although much of the help comes in the form of :he X. This means, read the documentation, the topic keyword is x. You literally type that into the editor command line :) The vim documentation is very good -- in fact just reading a few things extra every time you use vim is a good idea.

A final note: I have been using vim for my main editor for years now, and still learn new stuff all the time. Playing with new scripts, finding new bits of workflow, and getting really fast at it all take time. This is natural. I try and pick a couple new things a week an use them. Sometimes I will then forget about them for weeks, months or years because I think they are useless, but "rediscover" them only to use them all the time. Its actually quite fun.
Hindsight is 20/20. Being a lawyer didn't help him to put any contracts in place before committing to the Crunchpad project...
Looks like a great companion for my site: http://synopit.com
You can borrow my vim cheat sheet tomorrow.
Pretty much every social-web-service people use is because of other people. I started doing twitter because it was great way to follow news from people I am interested in. Same goes with Facebook as well as Blippy. Having said that Blippy is definitely weird but it's internet and weird things have succeeded here earlier. I won't be surprised if this one does too.
I thought everyone liked Haskell...

I had assumed the problem was being able to use it when we liked.
So, if i get a surrogate and we have a child, and my gay partner wants to adopt the baby so that we are both legal parents, surely it make no sense to deny the adoption?
That said, Tumblr's features seems to be a subset of posterous these days. I am a big tumblr user, but I ended to migrating to Posterous for it's much less work for even greater sharing power.
In many software companies I have seen powerpoints replace design documents and technical solutions. The most recent case I came across was in a company which needed to improve product quality and reduce testing time. As an engineer, to me thats a simple problem of doing automated testing (there is only partial automation at this point). That should be simple as the product is actually a library.

But then the testing team decides that "we have a problem that needs to be solved". It starts of as slides with "vision" with "goals" and how to achieve it we need to develop "critical thinking" and have "better recruitment practices" and what not. Now the ppt is about 50 slides with all kinds of zen pictures and 1 bullet buried inside saying we need automated tests. After a few more reviews it will be presented to the entire organization as "strategy" document.
Meh, from a source point of view, once I have a debian/ directory, with a properly set up rules file, building becomes trivial. Then it is matter of generating a package per-distro/version with the right environment. This could be very well done in an automated manner and a few vms.
The contributions of most artists and writers are correctly valued as junk worth zero. That's not a problem with society.
They may be aware, but not care. The last legal Windows CD I have seen was Windows 98. All others that I ever used were preinstalled.
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To become a vim power user, you will really need to understand how and why vim works the way it does and how you should think about editing while using vim. Once you have gone through some of the great tutorials on basic vim usage take a look at these:

Stay out of insert mode: http://cloudhead.io/2010/04/24/staying-the-hell-out-of-inser...

Good explanation of how vim commands are actually formulated (Stack Overflow answer): http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1218390/what-is-your-most...
I think posterous is really good for what it is now.

However he talks about how they raised a few million dollars, don't make any money now, but they're going to make a "pro" version for companies who need to monazite their blog and charge for it. As long as self hosted Wordpress is available I don't know why I'd ever want my "monatized" blog hosted on posterous where it would disappear and stop working if I ever stopped paying them. If I'm earning a livelihood from blogging I'm sure as hell not going to let it's fate potentially rest in the whims of Posterous.
On a more serious note, do please feel free to give any and all helpful advice on how to get started with emacs. I'm okay with vim, I've been using it more and less for about 2 years, but emacs has always seemed more esoteric and I never did quite get the hang of it.
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Thats how I started.

Following this I also made it a point to read at least a little vim documentation (:h) every day. Its very detailed and helpful.

There is also the Vim book[1] by Steve Oualline which is also available free as a PDF.

Reading Vim tips[2] was also something that I found useful.

[1] http://www.vim.org/docs.php

[2] http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Best_Vim_Tips
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On the sea of Sulu, every sunset is a a wonderful scene, but this rare galactic sky is the ocean sunset photo i like the most.
Might get something from the Mozilla Drmbeat project in a few years; maybe Google's speech recognition subtitles will be able to e port as transcript when it's properly live, too...
haha, thought so. I love using my MacBook to watch flash videos on wintery nights when I am too lazy to search for a blanket.
What's with the title? Nowhere is anybody suggesting Posterous is gonna be 'the next "big" thing'.

Also, I'm really impressed with the quality of Reuters video product.
Google acquires Labpixies, makers of the "Coolest gadgets on the web"
I have never seen the show, but I think they tipped their hand, given 1) the existence of the continuity czar that began after the show started, 2) their commentary about figuring out the best way to run the show by watching the show, and 3) the explicit acknowledgement that they may have been making it all up as they went along:

Locke is now the voice of a very large subset of the
audience who believes that when Lost is all said and
done, we will have wasted six years of our lives, that we
were making it up as we went along, and that there’s
really no purpose. And Jack is now saying, “the only
thing I have left to cling to is that there’s got to be
something really cool that’s going to happen, because I
have really, really fucking suffered.”
As a long time vim user, I have to ask: what's the appeal?I use it because I already knew vi, and I knew vi because it was the one editor I could be confident of finding on any UNIX box.

I'm curious: what's the motivation for learning it from scratch?
From what I've been told it was Gizmodo who pieced together Gray Powells identity. The finder knew part of the info, Gizmodo did some detective work to find the rest.

Again, I'm not quite sure the californian police care items left by drunk people in public places.
This struck me:

But one could also argue that pay differences among all individuals — as well as gaps between men and women — reflect differences in personality, preferences and principles as much as productivity.

If this true, then policies like executive pay restrictions and higher marginal tax rates would not necessarily lower productive contributions. They might even discourage selfish opportunism that can be counterproductive to society.
Right, what about those who claim being homosexual is a choice? To blur the line more, what about killers who are insane?
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Jailbreak solutions for iPad.
The basis of the article is that "machiavellians" who are more likely to cheat and lie are also more likely to succeed. If you believe these then maybe you don't feel the need for citations.
Sure, but staff in any part of the company should have initiative and do the right thing whether in their job description or not.
About transactional memory: I know that software TM has 2-4x performance overhead, but hardware can eliminate that. I've been working on hardware transactional memory design, and I can say with some authority: if chip-makers add proper HTM, and the software compilers and runtime environments use it in a non-braindead way, transactional memory will run at greasy fast speed. Faster than locks, usually. It's going to be great.

For example, did you know that you can get a highly scalable priority queue data structure by just using a skip list and hardware transactional memory? It's so simple that I felt almost ripped off when I realized how much easier TM makes it. If you've ever tried to make a concurrent priority queue with locks or compare-and-swap primitives, you'll be pleasantly surprised by how much easier it could have been if only we had hardware transactional memory.
The differentiating factor for me is that it's just what I've used for 12 years and what I'm most productive in.

Serious Linux users use it because it's the only thing that fits the way they work. Linux has all the interface and programs I'm used to, so of course I'd be more likely to buy software for it than any other OS. What holds me back is that there isn't any software I need that I don't have...
Not everyone is a teenage girl. Even on the internet.
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For another take on the how prohibitions don't solve anything, take a look at alcoholism in Native American reservations with an alcohol prohibition.
In most places, if the owner doesn't collect it, the item does indeed belong to you.
I just started using it do code everything I do. Found other coders I know through IRC that know how to use it, and we traded tips. Over time I found my self becoming more and more efficient with it. vimtutor, as mentioned in other comments also works really well.
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If I were Apple, I'd ask the police to get the phone back from Jason Chen, hire my own people to get his address, and let the police do what they will, knowing that likely means a raid.

I'm not sure what the alternative would be.
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vi was developed on the ADM-3A terminal, which indeed has the ESC key in the space occupied by ` these days. It also had Control in the proper place, but the arrangements of some of the punctuation keys on the right side of the keyboard always seemed rather hosed to me.
Ask HN: Where To Find Design Founders
Some founders have both the developer and designer skills, while some only have the "developer" part (and all the mixes in between). I'm a 20 year old developer, and, while I can design well enough to not embarrass myself, I'm no Tim Van Damm.

I think that having someone that specializes in design is essential to a team, as the design of an application (typically) is the application to its users. So the question:

Where do you find good designers to help co-found? Would the graphics design department at my university be a good place to start?

It is becoming more apparent to me that finding someone that can create a unique design concept and bring it to life is actually quite rare.
I started by learning ed from "The Unix Programming Environment", and then vi. By tackling vim directly, you may get swamped in the details.
Ask HN: Memresistor CPUs
So if this whole paradigm with memresistor CPUs works out how would one program them? Would I even notice? What would the compiler internals look like?
Get a friend that uses it well and will be nearby (physically) for a few months. I didn't learn until I spent a summer with Slava (coffeemug) at my side willing to answer questions.

Find ways to do as much as you can of what you normally do with your computer in emacs. If you use IRC a lot, use erc. If you use email a lot, try out gnus or rmail. Don't try to replace your web browser with w3m, that's just stupid and you'll hate it.

Also, find a mode you really like. This will keep you using emacs whether you like it or not, until you really do like it. For me, it was gdb-mode. For most, it's one of the inferior repl modes (slime for lisp or clojure or whatever, ruby, python).

I've heard good things about http://github.com/technomancy/emacs-starter-kit, but I've never tried it.
I've bought some games for Linux
Not really. The point of the article is not that only Muslims kill for religion but that their tactic is disturbingly effective in getting what they want (speech suppression.) Abortion clinic killings have not achieved anything comparable.
We have a pdf of slides with mockups and detailed specs for our product. Each page - a slide. Each facet of functionality - a set of slides. Each step and interaction a user can go through - a slide. As a visual reference for implementation, it makes life a lot easier than reading pages of textual specs, so it can definitely be useful.

On the other hand, this is not exactly the common powerpoint presentation, it's just a a deck of specs passed around in that format, so not the same thing at all in the end.
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The were making it up in the beginning because a) they didn't know how long the show would be on for/when it would end b) the core of the show has always been known, but the stuff in the middle can be whatever is needed to keep the story going. They created a series of story arcs in the beginning that weren't truly important to the core story, so they could be made up. The continuity czar was brought on to keep those storylines going and from tripping over each other because of the web that was getting more and more complex to maintain.
Is it just me or is Blippy really the multi-apex of everything that is wrong with web2.0, consumerism and what-not? I hadn't even heard about it before, and now I wish I didn't know.
I thought the YC backed firm would appreciate them being implied as 'the next "big" thing' by Reuters: http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/1013/screenshot20100427at... Screen shot from the homepage, www.reuters.com.
Well, you know the old saying, "promises of eternal free services and a dime will buy you a cup of joe" :)