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“SproutCore” sounds like a musical sub-genre of veggie metal.
> it leaves the increases completely up to the SEC.

Not at all - it specifies the factor to be used.

They seem to have some leeway in the initial bump, but since they've been given their marching orders, it's absurd to think that they'll deviate much. Note that there will be no legal basis for arguing for such a deviation.

> The "2.3m" figure is bullshit, the maximum that the SEC could possibly justify.

Suppose that they go with $2M instead of $2.3M. Will you regard that "yeah, I was correct, you folks were crying wolf"?

I'm serious - what's your "I was wrong" number?
I cant imagine Flash on my Droid will do me any good, sure ill be able to see some other websites, but i will also have to suffer through Flash ads in the browser,and this will slow mobile browsing even more.

The one killer app i need on my droid is an ad blocker for the browser, everything else is less critical for me.

If anybody is willing to pick that glove up and port adblock plus to the droid browser, i tell you it will be worth 10$ on the store for me without flinching.
I don't think that the deepest technical roles in computing, including programming are social enough for most women. Programming requires you to work without talking to anyone and even when you've finished many non-tech people won't understand what you did, so you can't even talk about it then.

There are clearly lots of benefits to having women in the tech industury, but if they don't want to program that cuts the number at least in half on that point alone.
I've seen CBP agents be blatantly racist, insulting, and grossly unprofessional

As with a sibling poster, I am also a US citizen. Hearing about this infuriates me, especially, perhaps, on the anniversary of the Christian White Boy's bombing of the OK City Murrah building. That was terrorism, plain and simple.

There's just no excuse for that behavior. I'm not sure what I can do about it personally, but if you have an idea I'd like to hear it.
Which state? Did you like the job they did? Want to share their names?
IIRC, journalists as a rule don't typically pay sources for information.
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But you need trained programmers to use the right language.

Also, Python is clearly a step up from English on a variety of metrics, including the reduction of the ability to monkey-patch.
Was gmail really 10x better for the average user?
I still use my hotmail address (though I use gmail provided through google apps).

I thought the success of Gmail was due mostly to the hype and the perceived rarity of having the address at the time.

People don't seem too averse to changing emails. I suspect the growth of .mac emails has increased about on par with the growth of Apple market share over the last few years.
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#haskell. I go there to ask math and compsci questions as well as stuff on Haskell itself. Sorry for not being the actual person you addressed the question to but #haskell is a really great channel, I didn't want you to miss out.
Maybe it's not "real world" to have to implement a simple but serious algorithm in a few lines.

Maybe in the "real world", the programming is just the simple gluing together of hard stuff like databases, compilers and operating system, since they have already been written. Once you have some bullet-proof method, it really is better to just be a consumer of it.

There is still some hard stuff that needs to be done, though. I suspect that to do "the hard stuff" you need to be able to implement simple-but-serious algorithms in a few lines. This makes your overall code smaller, more readable and allows optimization for the particular cases you're working with.
You confused AdWords and AdSense, but I think it's odd that you don't think spending $180k a year with a company would be enough to get you special treatment. You may not be a big fish in Google's pond, but you're definitely spending enough to get noticed and dealt with as such.

My office chair quite literally comes with better phone support than AdSense (or AdWords since I've never spent much).
Because they felt like it?
One number that I know for sure (it was publicized at the time) is Omnisio for $15 million. At that point it was about six months or so into the life of the company, which seems crazy high to me.

TechStars at least publicizes whether the exits are > or < $2million, which can be a helpful guide...
Almost certainly Apple Inc. I get to use my company laptop at home, but it's still the company's laptop. Surely this is doubly true for products in development
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I second Liquidweb. We've used them for over a year now and our servers runs like a champ. I'm actually going to test their new cloud product, Storm On Demand, soon. Hope it's also awesome.
How seriously are YC interviews taken as genuine scientific experiments to identify predictors of success? What sort of experimental methodology is used? Do you compute p-values?

And if proper experimental methodology is not used, why not?
If independence and economic autonomy work well at the state level, I wonder what it could do at the local level in resilient communities.
It was almost awesome until I noticed none of the / commands work.
This is why Net::SSH and Paramiko are so wonderful. Using the OpenSSH binaries through a pair of pipes is certainly a pain, but if you grok the protocol, either of those libraries can make it really easy to wire up secure pipes between machines.
Not at all; none; no; because we don't quantify anything.
There is of course the possibility that it's a fake. The Gizmodo article says how much work it would be to put together a fake, obviously they haven't been paying attention to all the fake iphones coming out of China, often with extra features such as USB and mini-sims.

Edit: In fact the flat plastic back makes it seem similar to the fake covered in:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_TZfpEvzrQ&feature=playe...
When Gmail first came out, Hotmail had a piddly inbox size limit of 4MB. I remember having to clean out email quite frequently.

So, for me, Gmail was more than 10x better, just because of the 1GB size limit.
Andrew, may I suggest a bit of lighting for you? You look a bit like you're interrogating (in a bad way) or sitting on a can. Simple LED flood fill from the center or key light from one side and flood from the other will do (rim light from back and above would be cool too, but not necessary).

Otherwise, keep up the good work!
What the article doesn't explain is why Texas is able to sustain 700,000 jobs geared toward export manufacturing, or why Texas continues to attract engineering talent.

At least part of it is Texas' business-friendly and employee-friendly tax climate.
My how far you have come, Apple.
One interesting tip I noticed from Jessica is on demos.
I had originally (and probably incorrectly!) thought that the demo link on the application didn't matter, as they generally don't look at the demo during selection.

When I applied, I used a custom link on the website, to redirect to the demo/mock-up when it was completed.

I found out that somebody from YC visited that link, only once, when there was nothing there, so I was probably mistaken in my belief that the demo link wasn't important.
Maybe it's not "real world" to have to implement a simple but serious algorithm in a few lines.

I don't think the parent was objecting to implementing a simple but serious algorithm in a few lines, but to doing so without performing any testing at all.

There is still some hard stuff that needs to be done, though.

Yes, and I'm pretty sure the people doing that hard stuff do some testing ;)
But perhaps you would make more money if you did?
I know my personal wording along those lines, untested, comes from this Dustin Curtis article - http://dustincurtis.com/you_should_follow_me_on_twitter.html

I suspect you may be right - reasons work better than 'just because', and I note Dustin didn't test that in his experiment.
First off, Jessica is awesome. Second, this interview gives a rare glimpse of the YCombinator through the eyes of a non-pg founder.

In particular, I was surprised to hear that Jessica didn't see a "vision" in the early days and that it was more of a try-and-see type of thing to learn quickly about angel investing. Not sure pg's ever admitted that fact (or maybe just doesn't see it that way?).
Step one is hard. Some way of meeting people with whom I share peculiar mutual interests, but not peculiar mutual friends, is hard.

Instead of a social networking app that tells me, "These are your friends, we'll help you keep in touch", I want an app that says, "These are people that might be your friends". The current social networking applications do a good job of telling me all about my current friends, and allowing me to keep in touch in a passive way. The issue is, most people have a hard time meeting new people after college.
This article is pretty vacuous, read Joel's Strategy Letter 3 for an actual article on barriers to entry.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000052.html
The reason they try harder is because there is far less money to be made on Android. I have the 6th top paid app in the store, Newsroom,(app, not game) and the revenue is nowhere near enough to live on. If I had the 6th top paid app in the iPhone catalog, I'd be writing this on my solid gold Macbook Pro.

There's a reason they are giving away handsets like mad (we've gotten two droids free in the past month).. Money is not enough of a draw yet.
when you're looking back at there's usually a vision, when you're looking forward there rarely is. It's the way the mind works - we like to connect the dots.
From what I gathered from both this and pg interview it's more like a casting call where everyone compares (mental) notes in the end, but only one is the casting director (jessica) where director (pg) can have input on the call, but he believes more in hers capability to judge than his on that call. Actually, that IS a casting call.
Wow. They could never run an ad like this now. And yet this was just a few years ago. It reminds me why I used to like them so much. They made beautiful things and seemed like cool people. Now they just make beautiful things.
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I started writing a solution and then stopped partway through because the pressure of getting it right in one shot was incredibly stressful.

If this were given to me for an interview question, I'd be incredibly meticulous and build a series of algorithms for len=0, len=1, len=2, etc., including various permutations of values, until I establish a general solution, which I would then submit for the final answer.

I would hardly ever do that in actual coding, though, because I could rely on hammering it with tests instead.
While interesting, I think that this is more of a mathematical proof for something that people doing any sort of testing should remember:

Don't stop before the test is complete, just because you've gotten an answer.

I generally leave my A/B tests up well after I've gotten a significance report, mostly because I'm lazy but also because I know that given enough time and enough entries, the significance reports can change.

Especially in the multi-variate tests that Evan wrote about, just because you get one result as significant doesn't preclude other possibilities from also being significant.
Why not subject whatever techniques Jessica (and others) is using during interviews to scientific scrutiny? Some methods might be more effective than others.
To most employees, Texas's much lower property values and more stable property market (as this article analyzes) have a lot bigger impact on the economics than the taxes, which are only marginally lower than California's when you add all the different taxes up (TX collects about $8k per resident in state&local, while CA collects about $9.5k).

Employee-friendliness overall varies. I'd say the employment laws are generally worse for employee freedom than California's, mainly because TX courts are more willing to enforce noncompete clauses (though they aren't as willing to as some states).
California. Alan Lewis is our lawyer (alan@alanlewislaw.com) and Alan Watters is our CPA (awatters@krohngodby.com). No complaints working with these guys and they're not terribly expensive (relatively speaking).
There's no SVG or no PDF support in UIImage; the only
part of the SDK that supports SVG is UIWebView. And
Quartz PDF support is more suited for displaying pages
of PDF's, not small images in a button.

This.

I'm currently working on an iP* app, and I had to roll my own UIView class to handle PDF pages to provide vector imaging without resorting to a heavyweight web view.
Hi, I'm the co-owner of CrossFit Quantum in Toronto, and co-author of As Rx'd, which is still under going development, just really slowly. Combine that with the iPad and there are so many tempting avenues to follow.

There are certainly a number of interesting services to talk to nowadays, location-based ones would have been a no-brainer if they were around when we were writing As Rx'd.

If you'd like to chat about anything my email is in my profile.
Are you comparing StarBucks to other big chains, or a local place that serves coffee roasted in the past 3-10 days?
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Why is that to be expected?
Does anyone know what startup times are like for apps using these bindings?

When I tried CocoaTouch, admittedly several years ago, "Hello World" applications took ~10 seconds to launch (I lost count of the 'number of bounces'.)

I think that after that point performance probably scaled quite well, but just that alone was enough to make me look elsewhere for desktop OS X programming.
Texas really did behave entirely differently during the recession (employment-wise) than the rest of the country. Not only did the state start adding jobs in the middle of last year, there are now more jobs today than before the recession:

http://www.deptofnumbers.com/unemployment/texas/#employment

(Note: link is to a site I maintain)
Like DeviceAnywhere? Or do you mean a service that actually tests and reviews your app's functionality on different devices for you?
If you think about Apple from the perspective of their customers, without bias toward iPhone developers, they still seem like cool people.
Unless you have something supporting an estimate, I wouldn't put anything in at all.

If your guess is no better than the reader's, I think it's best to provide the relevant information you know, and let us draw our own conclusions.
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> This whole premise is stupid. We don't seem to have a problem with the lack of female linesmen, plumbers, construction workers, electricians, HVAC specialists, or garbage men.

So why do you think that is?

It sounds to me like evidence that women don't want those jobs! Which would imply that the jobs that people make a fuss about - e.g. programming and other tech jobs - are ones that a significant portion of women do want, and feel discouraged from.
1.5x would indeed look bad for "legacy" apps, but I think even this fits in to Apple's current developer strategy: Update or get left behind.

I mean, remember, Apple was willing just recently here to risk the incredible backlash of 3.3.1 for the sake of platform direction. I think they'll gladly risk developers complaining about redrawing UI bitmaps.
This is the thought process and slippery slope that leads to sites like experts-exchange - with a large userbase, it's easy to create and demonstrate changes that result in bags of money in the medium term, yet destroy the long-term value and usage of your site.
Another article backward engineering 'observations' to fit sex drive and evolutionary musings. But I found it enjoyable in a smug kind of way.
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Got it: http://github.com/jrockway/dotfiles/blob/master/emacs
Ugh. don't do that. if you /must/ have a system like that (and it's never a great idea) keep your private keys on one box, and enable agent forwarding. It's not as good as just enabling the one-way ssh, but it's not nearly as bad as scattering your keys.

Why does everyone seem to think it's okay to build a system where any one compromised box can compromise the rest of the system? this 'jelly doughnut security' is really popular among the PHB types, because it's easy, but it just seems really, really dangerous.
Or at the federal level.
Rockefeller's achievements as an entrepreneur are inspiring. We can learn alot from his success. I think that the principles of building a successful business are the same today as they were in 1865 when Rockefeller bought control of "Excelsior Oil Works," the predecessor of Standard Oil.

If you want to read more about Rockefeller, I recommend the biography "Study in Power" by Allan Nevins. It's out of print, but you can find used copies on Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dap...). You could also check it out from the library (but don't check it out if you go to school at A&M -- I'm not done with it).
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Two months isn't enough time for anybody to do anything significant, except perhaps for the chinese knockoffs to make it to market faster.

Two months is more than enough time, though, to plot a "leak" that buries your competitor's marketing in the noise floor. I wonder if any other major phone manufacturers were planning to announce anything this week?
Because "social radar" can't be quantified. Instinct can't be quantified.
I remember reading the linked post on the Google blog. Ah, here it is: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1130463 (Wow, that was only 60 days ago?)

Maybe that's why when I did this in C just now, my version ended up almost identical to the Java version. (Mine does the more correct "int middle = low + (high - low) / 2;", and I wasn't even thinking about the possibility of integer overflow the other way.) So yes, but only from benefit of having to have written it numerous times in school and in teaching newbies to use it.
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The really interesting thing is the market capitalization: http://www.google.com/finance?q=goog,+aapl,+msft

Apple is less than $50 billion ( < 20%) behind Microsoft in total valuation. If you compare the P/E ratio of Apple & Microsoft then you can see there is some expectation that Apple could overtake Microsoft in market cap sometime comparatively soon.

Who'd have predicted that in 2000? Or even 2005?

(Speaking of historical predictions, who would have predicated that Microsoft, Apple and Google would all be bigger than IBM in market cap?)
I don't know. I think the locked-downness of the iPhone and iPad are probably noticeable to a lot of more sophisticated users too.

These products are impressive, but they don't seem in any way like they're aimed at rebels or rule-breakers.
This would be people posting their private key by mistake when someone asked for their public key to put in an authorized_keys file. Hopefully the geek on the other end told them "WTF go burn your key and start again".
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Speaking of doubling the resolution cheaply, see Apple's "iFrame" format notes:

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3905

Apple likes 960 width x 540 height (see AppleTV), because it's easy to get to 1/4 1080p by dropping every other line and every other pixel, or to line double back up to 1080p from iFrame.
I know, because I run a free shell server and I used to ask people to provide public keys, maybe 1/20 would send me the private key instead.
Or they can just wait until it's released, and then press criminal charges.
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Someone should do some sort of writeup of these minimalist webkit browsers. I like the idea, but between dwb, xxxterm, surf, uzbl, vimprobable, etc., I have no idea where to start.
seemed like cool people

That's exactly the response the ad was designed to invoke. Wasn't grounded in reality then either. As Apple has become more successful it's increasingly difficult for them to play the underdog/outsider role and their advertising has changed to reflect that. I don't really see much of a difference in the company other than the fact it's more successful and that success has largely come from their consumer electronics products. The Mac/OSX side of Apple hasn't changed much at all.
Actually, with Android Scripting (http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/) you can use other languages that run on jvm, such as ruby, python, javascript and others. Charles Nutter even supports a ruby version on Android directly: http://blog.headius.com/2010/01/busy-week-jruby-with-android....

If you like static typed languages, you can even use Scala on Android (http://www.scala-lang.org/node/160).

Many possibilities beyond plain old java.
Accountants almost always make bad decisions. Because they measure only the money. Its takes real leadership in the company to consider the import of each choice. Add another column to the ledger, so to speak, such as Quality or Customer Satisfaction.
This is interesting, a somewhat related post can be found here:

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/06/extra-extra-read-...

The gist of this is that version of BSearch implemented in the JDK contained a bug due to an overflow error. I recall reading about it some time ago, funny to see it come up again.
I don't know, as a developer Apple's OS install and development policies hurt and Apple's refusal to let you do things like hack their hardware hurts. And sure I wish Apple was being even more progressive by doing things like selling the iPhone unlocked and open for all networks, thus pushing phone carriers to compete a bit more.

But that said, Apple has done a lot. They push design and refuse to let feature complexity compromise the beauty and simplicity of their machines. Arguably the iTunes music store single-handedly pushed the music industry to drop DRM. The Webkit project has led to a highly advanced and open-sourced HTML5 platform. And Apple has focused their build and packaging process to be more environmentally "friendly".

They are not infallible, and I'm sure many people here would argue that their contributions to the good are far outweighed by the bad, but the point is that it's easy to forget these positive things amongst all the bad press.
Hmm, you could be right. It could be I was fooled into believing that Apple was still the cool company that I originally knew, back in the 1980s. Then it really was cool.

So when did Apple actually cross over into badness? Or whatever-ness would make running ads about rebels a deliberate imposture? Before Steve came back? Between then and now?
For consumers, they get a wider selection of products at lower price points

Lower price points, but a Windows PC is cheaper than a Mac only if your time and frustration is worth nothing.

Actually, if you want a quality desktop (quality meaning zippy specs and at least a 27" 2500x1500 bright high quality monitor) you might find Apple cheaper.

Nobody else is really in Apple's market right now because selling high quality hardware and a great experience is impossible when you're wedded to Microsoft garbage. It's probably a worthwhile market, though, if you could get the millions necessary to start up.

Even though Apple was in trouble in the 90's, it was and is and has been since the 1970's the most profitable computer manufacturer in the world almost every year.
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