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I don't really feel like signing up. Using Safari the text overlaps the input text box and the scroll bars are always showed even though I stretched the browser wide enough to show all elements.

Also your message is confusing. I'm guessing that you want to ask me: "How much can you make tweeting small ads on Twitter?" and then you'll provide the answer on the next page explaining in details how exactly.

I would re-think your strategy here, and would think about having this on the landing page:

* Headline asking "How much can you make tweeting small ads on Twitter?"
* Subtext that explains what I need to do to make money
* Testimonials of people like me showing how much they can earn with their thumbnails
* Simple form asking for my Twitter username and a big button saying something like "Tell me how much I'm worth!"

Just some random thoughts, hope it's helpful :)
That's okay, if you don't care about JIT, the laundry list of other stuff still proves the point.
does make world also builds the kernel? It's been a long time since I last used a bsd and I seem to recall that "world" was only userland, but I may be completely wrong
I'm quitting my job at the end of the month and can mercenary out for anyone here (sorry about the plug :( i'm quitting my job at the end of the month, more as a consequence of hating it rather than having a clear lineup of shit i wanna do to sustain me)

do design/dev/ux/strat/whatever/i pet my cat

http://www.lzimm.com
Nexus One Thoughts – Broken Glass and Quality
I'm getting ready to release my first real app and plan on making an appeal to HN for advice and suggestions. I'm trying to make it HN-worthy so I'll feel comfortable posting it :)
I have a strong feeling you are giving things up at the moment when you feel you 'get it'.
I guess the best advice will be to follow what Kathy said in her blog: http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2006/0...
I've been using an old mobile as an alarm clock for years. It's UI is much easier than a clock-radio (I was never able to figure those out), you can change the song and volume and it has a builtin battery. It's most well-designed not-alarm-clock alarm I've ever had.
I've always had this problem but a few months ago I borrowed a poster from my dad (career Marine, epitome of focused, determined and successful) and it's helped me keep my focus. It gets me out the door to run (I've never worked out before), it helps me pick up the statistics books I have (course I failed in college) and and it reminds me to do my best at work everyday. It's quickly becoming my mantra and maybe it will help you but you might also find it to be extremely trite so take this for what it is.

CONSISTENCY
By George H. Allen (Only NFL coach to never have a losing season)

Consistency is the truest measure of performance. Almost anyone can have a great day, or even a good year, but true success is the ability to perform day in and day out, year after year, under all kinds of conditions. Inconsistency will win some of the time; consistency will win most of the time.

Consistency requires concentration, determination, and repetition.

To be at your best all the time, you must:
Take nothing for granted. If you aren’t “up” every day, some thing, or someone, will knock you down.
Take pride in what you do. The things you do well are the things you enjoy doing.
Take setbacks in stride. Don’t brood over reverses; learn from them.
Take calculated chances. To win something, you must risk something.
Take work home. To get ahead, plan ahead.
Take the extra lap. Condition yourself for the long run. The tested can always take it.
Don’t take “no” for an answer.
You can do what you believe you can do.

PS…Celebrate after the victory!
"Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something."

Enthusiasm, like optimism, is a choice rather something that just happens to you. It requires a lot of forethought (what do I really care about?) and continual maintenance. You need to spend time discovering and remembering the fascinating parts of whatever you're doing, and the end-results you're shooting for.

I was stuck in an awful job stocking a supermarket, with no alternatives I could find. I realized I had a choice about how I approached it, I could either mope around all day or find something I liked about it. I discovered my OCD side really appreciated looking down a whole aisle and seeing every can perfectly stacked with the labels aligned. It still makes me smile thinking about it, and left me enthusiastic enough to stick with that job for years, get through college and move onto other goals.
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Ok.. when i read "N1 glass was breaking from being put in a pocket" i knew i wouldn't read any further.
I am sorry, but it is just not possible to break glass when putting it in a pocket, what the hell?

p.s.: ok, if he meant he wore tight pants and put it in the back pocket and sit down.. yeah.. what the hell.. those devices should only be sold to people with common sense.
This article is going to sound really silly when archaeologists dust off the bits in 500 years.
http://www.phonearena.com/htmls/HTC-says-broken-glass-means-...

and http://gizmodo.com/5486397/htc-dont-carry-your-nexus-one-in-...

I would be more worried, though, about wearing pants tight enough to harm electronics.
A project I work on, Android on Freerunner, ran into this issue with Google Code a while back. We had a user in iran who was unable to access our project because Google was blocking access from their country. It seems that the only alternative is to host your project on a site located outside the US.
Is your car safe from Hackers?
Sure, let me rephrase, because you're righ. I do care.

I definitely set unrealistic expectations for my customers, as identified below. In the past I've been bad about overpromising and then spreading our dev resources thin, which definitely contributes to this feeling that customers are pushy (because they don't get what we've promised).

This is something I've gotten better at recently, but still remains a major pain point: Keeping customers happy with the CURRENT featureset rather than promising new things.

I would say it's one of my greatest weaknesses.
Smart Keyboard Pro: text expansion, custom dictionaries, custom skins, and more. I'm not the developer even if I sound like a walking advertisement, I just love the app that much.
While there may come a point at which you have to say "no" to a customer, I would go to almost any length to not snub them. Why be rude or lose your temper if someone is that passionate about your product/service? It's a professional relationship after all...
Good call. See right above this.
i'm just curious because i heard the exact same structure used by a native speaker from the US, and on other occasions from other possibly native speakers. i speak english as a second language and don't know what to think.

as to my lack of caps... that's lazyness. i can use them, but i only do when i foresee getting judged by people i don't need judging from (professional contexts).
Kind of like this too: http://vimeo.com/10692284
Video projection mapped onto blocks.
1. Most students may not be interested in research, but my question WRT to that and the research university model is, are they best served by a facility that does real research?

I think so, at least in those fields where cargo cult science/engineering/humanities/etc. don't have a strong hold. Professors who are doing real world stuff have a variety of advantages ... then again, in too many schools too much instruction is handled by callow grad students.

2. I use MIT as an example as an example. I.e. what's your excuse for not doing this (directed at those schools that don't do it). We are talking about reform, so I'm drawing on my knowledge of what works and what doesn't.

3. We'll have to agree to disagree.

5. I'm not so sure enough of the country has it, especially if this further saturates the overloaded satellites that serve a lot of rural folks.

I don't think it's a red herring, I think you should acknowledge it's an issue that needs quantification and workarounds. E.g. satellite learning centers that have good connections that those who don't have broadband or good enough broadband (which includes more than you'd think of Silicon Valley) can go to each day when they need that much bandwidth.

However, the above compromise loses the ... immersive aspect of residential undergraduate education that I think good broadband could provide a version of.

6. If co-op is mandatory is precludes e.g. doing real research in a professor's lab during the summer. Which could be addressed by defining co-op to include that.

Let's take my major, chemistry. One friend did a co-op at Exxon working on figuring out why one of the four huge oil coking ovens they had built was producing "gunk". She learned a lot, found it valuable. I would have preferred doing academic research, since that was the path I was going on. She wasn't wrong and I probably wasn't either.

7. I'm not sure acquiring a Ph.D., or at least a Masters, is only for a tiny minority of students. There are a lot of engineering fields that need more than four years of instruction. In the sciences, not getting the Ph.D. relegates you to a dead end of lab work at the direction of others. However, in these fields you do get paid to do your post-graduate work, which tells us something.

In other fields I don't know, but we can be sure many are producing too many doctorates. Or undergraduates for that matter. But if someone wants to pay their own way, who are we to deny them? Many of the current excesses there should get rung out as the higher education bubble pops.
I used the Heisig method to learn about 2100 characters in 9 months (about an hour a day). I'm sure I would not have been able to do that by brute force.
Yeh, as I was reading it the same thoughts came to mind - not exactly trafficking but one step behind it.

If they had been trafficked they'd probably not stand a chance. It's possibly not as big a problem in the US as, really, flying girls out is pretty impossible but in the UK (and I guess the rest of Europe) there is a problem with girls being brought in from Eastern Europe etc. All with false papers. I'd say I see one, maybe two, cases a month where we are investigating visa forging. It's highly organised and "well" executed.
Thanks so much for posting this.

I wish the TC post was less, "this random circumstance happened to me," and more about what you mention above: prepaid is a good fit for MANY people. (And not to mention the growing data > voice divide that is driving some of us to prepaid.)
Is it really cheaper to turn AC off and then recool the building compared to keeping AC running?
Maybe try and grab code from developer blogs, like hypem does for music.
I'm not sure about the most part as the "?" implies, but there is more fluff in english than in chinese, scandinavian languages and hebrew. This goes for daily speech of the I need to ask someone for the butter kind.(what's up with the downvote?)
In the U.S. at least, the iPhone does not tether without jailbreaking it.
Nope, completely unrelated. Could be a work thing (website) or a new startup (website or otherwise) or a musical venture, etc.

A few things I'm noticing I don't do after reading the responses in this thread and thinking alot are:
1) Setting reasonable goals to start
2) Communicate my goals clearly w/ the others involved
3) Don't spend every waking moment thinking about it
I want A, B, and C to happen in X amount of time

Perhaps this is your problem. If A, B, and C haven't happened by X, then what? I'd examine my reaction there if I were you. If you're doing something purely as a means to an end, and the end doesn't happen when you expected it to, then you're in trouble. I've found two things make a big difference here.

1. Do something that isn't just a stepping-stone to a desired goal, but which you also enjoy doing for its own sake. It's ok if there are extrinsic goals too, as long as they don't dominate.

2. Multiply your time frame by an order of magnitude. That is, accept that it may take 5 years to do anything worthwhile. It doesn't have to, of course, but psychologically the point is fundamental. If you're not ok with it, I'd try to find out why, since the answer to your question is probably in the vicinity.
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Learning to do all of this properly would take a few years at least... Why don't you focus on one aspect (say, getting great at photoshop) and master that first?
Just have a nice website ready explaining the app, because not everybody has an iPhone or is willing to pay for an app.
You can still buy N1s, just not through Google. I think/hope they'll keep making reference phones, too.
I have a job that lets me be this way. The development style is rapid application development. We spend 6-9 months on a certain module for a larger software suite, and once it is released we may enhance it, but usually we move on to building the next module. Its all part of the same overarching project but the needs of each specific module differ significantly.

The places you will find this kind of project are in emerging markets. The market doesn't know what it wants yet and you can help shape it.
Thanks everyone for your comments via my website feedback and email!

Oddly nobody posted on this thread?
Clock with simulated Game of Life around numbers
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30 cm is pretty small. I bet they meant 30 inches. Anyway, plenty of things it could be: weasel, fisher, otter, wolverine. The most mysterious thing is the skinny little paws, so I'm leaning toward some kind of weasel or fisher. (It also doesn't look robust enough to be a wolverine, but it could be a juvenile.) Nothing to see here.
A little bit cheeky, but I suppose his heart's in the right place.

I had assumed that Google would standardize WebM eventually but the last thing they want to do is get pulled into the political quagmire of MPEG right now. That would be a kiss of death.

This guy's been fighting for years to get MPEG to deliver on their promise of a royalty-free profile of H.264 and rumours suggest that Apple and Google applied pressure in a previous attempt to break the HTML5 codec deadlock. Even if they got baseline (or less) for free it's basically a bait and switch for the better profiles, and they still got knocked back. A couple of years later and even with China applying pressure on this issue he's got nothing to show but a half-hearted agreement that they'd think about looking into royalty-free codecs as long as more than five national standards bodies signed up, otherwise they'd drop the idea.

Not particularly classy the way he held up his own failed OMS project as something to emulate without mentioning that it was his project (and a complete failure).

It's amazing how much static has been thrown up in the IETF in their attempt to standardize a royalty free Internet wideband audio codec. In fact I don't think they even got the charter to explicitly mention royalty-free as a goal, despite strong industry support from folk like Broadcom and Skype (both of whom signed on for WebM too). A lot of the politics seems to involve people trying to link up with MPEG because they know the whole project will die if they do and other folks trying to fight off these procedural antics.
actually, it's a reference to asimov's "last question".
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I'm exactly the same way and it's been irritating me since I can remember. I think the issue for me is being so convinced initially that the idea I'm executing is my ticket to billionaire-dom, that by the time a product is built and the real work is required, finding customers, reality sets in that maybe your idea isn't as amazing as you once thought, lowering my level enthusiasm and making me less willing to really put in the effort to see if the idea has a chance.

I don't know how to fix it, but what has helped is waiting some time after I've come up with an idea to let whatever get-rich giddy emotions subside, allowing me to arrive at more realistic projections of how far an idea can be taken (with proper research of course). And like edw519 says, find a customer that is really interested in your idea. Having that validation from an already-acquired customer will probably give you the motivation to continue since your idea has been validated by someone other than you.
I just got this book as an interlibrary loan based on this recommendation, and so far I'm not finding it that helpful. This isn't because it's a bad book: to the contrary, just as you say it's very readable. But it's also very strongly a book about concurrency in Java.

My first thought was that this wouldn't matter --- an algorithm is an algorithm. But for the purposes I'm interested in (multiprocessor malloc replacements, fast userspace read-write locks, generally low-level Linux on x86) I'm finding the high-level theoretical view to be impractical.

It's not that that using Java for the examples is a problem, but that apart from the appendices there is very little discussion of what I find are the real performance issues: cache misses, memory bandwidth, and processor pipelines. All of which could be considered hardware specific implementation details, but all of which make the difference between a 'provably correct solution' and one that actually performs well in the real world.

Anyway, a fine book, but perhaps better titled "The Theory of Concurrency in Java". I'll keep reading it, and I'm sure I'll learn from it, but I'll also keep looking for something more nitty and gritty.
The haughtiness is really unhelpful in gaining insight from a dilemma that many people encounter to various degrees. He's mentioned that this issue is applicable to his endeavors in general, not just startups. People can be involved in business and startups for various reasons, not just a personal sense of ideological purity.
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Design your ideal business operation setup then reverse intothe tax constraints. That is a much more efficient process at your stage. Pretend paperwork and taxes don't exist for your Investors. You will manage that later. Tax and paperwork are overhead costs to be controlled, not key determinants for how you do business.

And don't use a trust to hold IP. There are exceptional use cases for trusts in a business context. It is probable that they don't apply to you. Use regular business entities. You are a business. Some day you will grow big and go public or get sold. Build accordingly. Don't do stuff where people say "WTF this is amateur hour"
and start to doubt your judgment in other arenas.
It's not if I care about JIT or not. It's that you put JIT in a list for direct comparison, and it has no business being there.
I have this same problem often - maybe not even six months. I have several techniques that seem to work to combat this well

1. When you do have the enthusiasm for the project try to do the "dull" or "chore" work first. That way the fun and exciting bit will keep you going for longer - they lose their motivational benefits once they are done after all.

2. Make sure you can come back to the project and work on it later - this way taking a two week break won't be fatal, and it is necessary to take breaks to refresh your enthusiasm for the project and avoid burnout. Some of this is design, some is management and some of it is attitude.

3. Make promises to other people. I find it so much easier to finish something that I told someone I would finish for them, than something I want to make for myself. Be careful not to promise too much though...

4. Learn how to force yourself to do work. I find when I start doing even a small piece of work on a project, a good proportion of the time the rest of the project will "draw me in" and I end up doing more than I intended.

Hope it helps. :)
The background Game of Life is too faint.

I would have liked to see it set up so at the head of each minute/15 minute/hour, the numbers themselves briefly enter the CA.

Or, perhaps for ubergeekishness, a vertically-scrolling binary clock in which each second, the previous configuration (above the current one) enters the CA.
I agree with you. Participatory design is not the same as testing a Hypothesis, which is what CD is about. The easiest way of thinking about it is what Henry Ford said "If had listened to my customers I would have bread faster horses". What Ford did was look at the Activities of his customers (need to go from a to b faster), and their needs and then came up with a Hypothesis which was the car.

He still researched the market, he still listened to his customers, but he did not use the customers solution, which is what Participatory design is about.
TRIED TO STRANGLE family farms with insane Soviet-Style regulation

Seems pretty alarmist to me. STRANGLE, insane, Soviet.

I'm not for or against Mr. David, but maybe instead of using scary words and saying how awful he thinks his opponent is, might he consider running on his own positive merits and achievements?
Could have some interesting uses for Rhythm games.
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Here are comments from the previous time this was posted here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1055968
I found a really easy way to setup a local version control.

1. Install VisualSVN Server
2. Install TortoiseSVN

Use VisualSVN Server to create a repository and set permissions and TortoiseSVN to manage your files and commits.

For someone that hasn't use version control before, I think it's a really simple solution.
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We are just about to start designing our textbook buy-back company's website. We've come up with the following list of ideas, but we can't narrow it down to just one.

We are a online textbook buy-back company. So obviously we need a memorable name, a name that would appeal to college students, and something that sounds reliable.

We want you, HNers, to help us. Vote! And let us know why in the comments
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You can't blame Apple for trying to keep the App Store free of negative political campaigning. If it was me, I would keep it free from politics altogether.
Yeah, his "facts" are pretty weak. "Would have" caused gas to be $7 a gallon? Last time I checked, there is no time machine that predicts the future, and this is speculation, not fact.

This guy is filled with nothing but negativity, so I don't really blame Apple for rejecting the app. It provides no value to the platform. But, to be fair, censorship is pretty bad too. (Arguably, to be censorship, you have to be trying to say something, where clearly this guy has nothing to say. He just uses words with negative connotations and relates them to an opponent. Yawn. People caught onto this like 20 years ago, dude.)

Also, perhaps a more relevant question: who the fuck downloads a cell phone app to read about a specific politician?
Having a hyper interest for 6 months is a feature not a bug. I see it as strength. In a span of 6 months you can contribute more and then later find some one who is excited about it, transfer it and move on.
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He also didn't even pause to consider that Apple might not like politics and started accusing them of supporting the Democrats. This guy is a nutjob.
Agreed...I'm surprised Rails is SOOOO far behind everyone else.
Sure they do. It's called R&D.
Yes, thats what i meant.. the picture pooks like the N1 was bent.. i wear it all day in my pocket but apparently i am careful enough not to bent an eletronic device.