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> I work at a startup, love it, and will probably work at or start another startup in the future

Doesn't that sort of prove my point though? Why not stick around and grow it then?

Isn't the 'what kind of person you are' part the whole point of what I wrote ?

Some people are good at creation and the work that comes with that small team where you can wear a whole bunch of hats, they thrive in that environment, but they find that it is much harder to maintain that attitude in larger companies.

Suddenly there are procedures and forms to be filled out and all kinds of corporate stuff that will drag you down. You can only work on weekdays, you have to work between 9 and 5 (hey, I'm a night person), and so on.

I remember that when working for a large corporation (bank) early on in my career after I switched to the IT department someone came up to me and asked me not to work so hard because I made some of the others on the team look bad. They were actually trying to slow me down, can you imagine that sort of thing in a start-up?

I'd work for any start-up that has a technically challenging idea, even without pay if the idea was worthwhile enough in my opinion, but I'd have a really hard time joining up with some 200 employee company that does the same thing, or hanging around if the idea was received well by the market and the company needed growing to that level.

Sooner or later your tech days are over and you'll find yourself to be a 'manager', and not everybody is cut out to be one. The choice then is to hang on to the start-up that you helped found and manage people or to hang on and be managed by some guy hired two years after you founded the thing.

I'd rather move on at that stage. In the past this has led to school friends of mine that had also gone in to programming to be hired by start-ups that I helped found, 20 years on and they're still working there.

I could have never done that, compared to what I've seen in the last 20 years that sounds like being tied to the same disneyland ride for two decades.
Good idea, unfortunately the hotmail team had the same one http://bit.ly/dDqCrP
I used it in a computational-media class a few years ago, where it was the main language used for the examples and projects. Since I was a CS student and already comfortable in a bunch of languages (much of the class wasn't), I wasn't really the target audience, but I thought it was reasonably well done for what it is. You can get some graphical stuff happening on screen in only a few lines of code, and the IDE automates building a Java applet that you can ship just by copying a directory to a webserver, both of which, I think, increase the satisfaction to someone just starting out with programming, because you can immediately see the effect of relatively simple programs. It's actually a lot nicer than Java for simple 2d graphics stuff, because it gets rid of a lot of the boilerplate, and includes some decent built-in primitives. And you can escape to Java if things get complex.

I've used it a few times since then as a rapid-prototyping tool for 2d graphics stuff, mostly interactive graphics toy type of stuff, and I think it's pretty good for that. HTML5 Canvas is getting to the point where it'll probably replace it for that purpose for me, but when Processing came out in the early 2000s, there wasn't much comparable when it came to getting some interactive graphics working in a web browser in <10 lines of code.
I loved Baby Rudin! It started my complicated love affair with mathematics. The book blew my mind away with its wonderful exposition. It's the one math book that I've worked out from cover to cover. The problems are high quality as well. I have fond (and frustrating!) memories of working them out.

I have his other 2 books as well - Adult Rudin & Functional Analysis. Sadly, I never really got into those (as my mathematical interests diverged somewhat from Analysis).

The only other book that I've read that comes close to Baby Rudin's exposition is Gamelin's Topology - an underrated classic.
That's really fortuitous. Congratulations.
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Does no one else think the impressive statistic here is that for every 2.5 new Firefox users there's a new Chrome user; considering how young Chrome is (and how old Firefox is)?
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We are at hypernumbers.com

Our product makes it possible for normal users to build websites and applications via a spreadsheet paradigm.

What we are selling is control, convenience and lower cost.

I walk around with my iPhone and go into shops and small businesses, small offices, anywhere there are Excel users without technical support, and do my speil. Lines that work in person are rolled back into the web offering.

We want to sell direct on the web, but you get much more real and understandable feedback from direct selling, so as long as the people you are pitching to IRL are representative of your target web demographic, it works fine.

The key things is:
* I have an opinion
* things customers tell us are facts
* things customers do are facts
* what is the cheapest and quickest way to test my opinions and replace them with customer facts

It works well.
When I Google ipad case, I don't find this site.

When I go to google keywords and check ipad case I get 165K searches per month, and that's broad, not phrase.

How are so many people finding you?
That's a bit of a problem. We had a very high ranking position on that term #5 or so. Then we suddenly dissappeared on every single term. We're trying to get in touch with Google on this issue - just to make it clear - we did no spam / blackhat.
The archaeological and medical evidence (celiac disease) suggests that humans are not especially well adapted to eating cereal grains. That does not mean they are entirely bad, just that their hidden costs are relatively more likely to be whimsical and unpleasant.
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It's more established and widespread, thus easier to get converts. But at the same time, it could be argued that it's been around so long that most of the people who would have switched already have. So I think it's still an impressive statistic. But, yeah, in isolation it could be spun several different ways.
Ouch. They're pretty big, but blocking certain countries and persons just doesn't read well with the foss philosophy.

If they can't work around the issue there'll probably be a successor soon.
This could be really useful tool, but even the example page in the demo broke after it automatically applied the sprited image.

(As an aside, I think there are a lot of unnecessary steps in the demo. A demo is supposed to show the main features of the tool very quickly and not explain every nitty-gritty detail of the implementation)
Why do they "roll out" in such a weird way - why not make it available to everybody at the same time? Surely Google doesn't have bandwidth problems?

No update available on my N1 yet :-(
Throw me a mail if you want to have a chat. cdmba1 at gmail dot com
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pg, is there any possibility of expanding YC outside the US?
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Yes, it's the number of requests handled. More requests served is better.
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can I filter by country or language?
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Ask HN: Startups in Brazil?
I really would like to know about startups in Brazil, and if they are hiring. I am a polyglot myself (9 languages) and a lisper (but not uniquely so, and I learn quickly) and I would love to work at a Brazilian startup. And I am sure there are more brazilians on Hacker News that would like to know about each other.
Then just flag. If you're going to report it as a dup, please add a link.
I'd never heard of Ninite the YC company until this post..on the other hand, I think I hear the word every night , when my daughter is telling me good night.
I'm not sure I would have picked that domain name if I ere in their shoes, since to most people , the nite in Ninite might indicate that the company has something to do with night time, which it does not.
If you post a link in your tweet to Facebook from Twitter App, the links and @replies just come plain and blank.

Btw, there is a broken Facebook to generate links (Links.preview) and it hardly works, I know this cause our competitor uses this.

The whole reason behind creating sociaholic is to make some thing that works better and faster than what is out there.

We wrote our own parsers from scratch and also will be open-sourcing the code soon.
I am Gandhi tweeting about web standards.
I think before you can really pick a partner, you need to think very thoroughly about what you're very strong at, and what you could use a bit (or a lot) of improvement at.

For so many people, it's hard to be willing to identify what you are not so great at doing. Sometimes it's just a matter of admitting it. In other cases, you may actually struggle to determine where your weakest points are.

Then, once you've done that, you should look at the list and think about what you LIKE to do, and what you DON'T LIKE to do.

Prepare a final list which is composed of a cross section of what you are/aren't good at doing, and what you do/don't like to do.

Chances are, a person who is good at and likes to do what you aren't good at and don't like to do, is a good match for you.
It's the comments I find the most disturbing about that article.
You sure got a lot of coverage and link love really quickly for a fairly simple idea. I'm curious how you accomplished that.
Neat, thanks for the pointer!
In other words: If you're good at web design and programming, then perhaps you want someone who's more business and idea focused. This person would need to have some connections too.

Otherwise, if you just don't like doing the design portion, but you really like to code, then find another entrepreneurial minded person who like to design.
The aim is to post to facebook pages, and also there is an option to selectively ignore tweets by adding !fb.
It's truly common sense for anyone that has racked a server to consider heating conditions in a room. If not, they shouldn't be allowed to rack anything!
Here's the Ask MeFi thread: http://ask.metafilter.com/154334/Help-me-help-my-friend-in-D... and here's the MetaTalk thread: http://metatalk.metafilter.com/19304/The-kindness-of-strange...

It was amazing to watch this unfold, mainly because I continually get reminded of how varied and amazing MeFites are. One MeFite is at the US Department of State who works with J visas and does precisely this work.
Congratulations, you've got a live one.

Be critical about your prospective partners, and build in a trial period, if at all feasible meet in person.
Have you read the original metafilter thread? There was someone from the State Department saying this was a textbook sex trafficking setup--and the loose connection to a strip bar was far from the main reason why.
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Well, unless you exclude it, and it's pretty biased not to. I think you need a better definition.

1913 Webster has: 1. Lack of ease 2. An alteration in the state of the body or of some of its organs, interrupting or disturbing the performance of the vital functions, and causing or threatening pain and weakness

Now that does fit aging.
I'm a marketer, with basic technical knowledge. I know how to run and adjust WordPress blogs, I can dive into the code and change basic things.

I owned www.PSDtoWP.com - so I'm quite compitent. It's just the decisisions..

Do I want:
- A designer
- A coder
- Someone well connected, or versed in device peripherals
- Or another good PR / Marketing person (This is what I'd call myself)
That doesn't make sense. The larger the organization, the more often they have large system administrator teams. In fact, most large organizations have compliance requirements, which often map people with proper skills to proper titles and responsibilities in order to get the correct liability protection.

I can not imagine Google allowing some junior programmer to setup a little closet and run servers in there without contemplating cost, heat/cooling, network allocation, and priviledge management (i.e. what services are running where, why, and who's managing it).

However, the smaller the organization, I can see this happening. 8 man startups without a system administrator... Now that is certainly reality.
Indeed. It'll be smaller teams of hardware architects and administrators. Just like developers today hardly ever touch hardware.
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That goes for the planet as a whole to some extent.

The biggest ever driver for space exploration on a more than 'toy' level will come as soon as aging is no longer a factor in mortality.
Sounds like a good plan. First step is finding a partner though!
It's really quite simple actually. I know it sounds cliche, but if it's good, people will write about it (if you tell them too). Basically, I get in touch with junior writers at the sites I target, and talk to them for a while before asking them for a favour.

Usually works!
please elaborate?
Sent :-)
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From the MeTa: "If you go through the thread and click on the links for the Lux Lounge, it's a sometime-strip joint, with soft-core ads, in Brighton Beach (a Russian mafia stronghold)--that they were asked to show up at, last minute after other jobs "fell through", at midnight, from Washington DC. This has so many red flags it's a marching color guard."
Added to bug list--will fix.
thanks for the tip. reading those comments has further undermined my belief that there is intelligent life in this corner of the universe!
firefox has seen adoption on a wide scale that a lot of people were skeptical was even possible, at the best a lot of people thought it platued long ago. Chrome came along after firefox proved that market for them, and with major major backing, I see adverts for chrome everywhere online.

I think chrome is probably the better browser for the average web surfer, but I think its sad how out of favour firefox has become considering 1. their contributions 2. the awesome stuff they have in labs and 3. how great their browser still actually is, their competition have stepped up, but firefox arent out of the game by a long way.
A bit of a side-note, but Dan Reetz (the MeFite in question here) released a great album a few years back, it's free to download and well worth a listen: http://www.fakeproject.com/you_are_not_dead/

I'd also say that for anyone here that's considering it the $5 charge to join MeFi is the best money I've ever spent.
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this best simple advice I've heard/given about design for non designers includes:

* Keep it simple

* Pastel colors look good and are trivial to match

* Note alignment and white space

* As pg alludes, register/login top right

* Call to Action should be green (pg says red, shrug)

* Test the words. Patrick has a pretty great A/B testing library for Mixpanel.

what are yours?
tl;dr: The US is behind because the regulatory environment encourages duopolies instead of fierce competition like in Europe or Asia.
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This is still great news. Chrome, Firefox - I don't care what my user uses as long as it isn't IE6. IE8 is not so bad to deal with, less the loss of many HTML5/CSS3 features but that's the benefit the Firefox/Chrome users get ;-)
Well whatever we think, clearly your customers don't think it's lame :)
I'm trained with the school of thought that says "Everything before the but is ..." you can guess the rest. Read your comment with that in mind :)

I really like the voting - it's good to know when you have said something stupid. Either everyone else is wrong or you are, and the latter is pretty unlikely :)
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Yep! We're getting something like 5 page views per visit, and a bounce rate of less than 40%.
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To be sure, the original metafilter guy didn't like the look of it from the beginning.

The young women, however, thought he was full of it, until they found out it was a strip bar, at which point, they were convinced he was right, and had saved them. It's this sudden about face on their part that seemed strange to me, till I reread the part of them getting off the bus and dealing with all of these people who were trying to help them. That level of unexpected attention would lead anybody to assume they had narrowly avoided something terrible.

I agree that from the story told by the original metafilter guy, these women seemed to be potentially in real danger. The women had a different opinion, however, up until they were descended upon by police and others, which surely must have freaked them out.

In the judgment of the two people who this was actually happening to, the guy was overreacting. They continued to ignore him until they were freaked out by the people who met them at the bus. Why do we assume their original assessment of the situation was wrong, while his was right? Because they were "young girls, far from home". Meanwhile, young men of that same age, are leading fire teams in Afghanistan.

My point, I guess, is that, we don't know anything about this, except what this guy is telling us.
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In any case, it's deplorable to promise two people jobs as lifeguards in Virginia Beach, only to bait-and-switch them into something that was, at best, a job in a disgusting strip club (as the google street view of the address would indicate) and at worst, enslavement as sex workers. I don't see what the point is in giving them the benefit of the doubt, given that what we already know about them indicates that they're total scumbags (and especially since experts, with years of experience in this area, posted in the thread to state with almost total confidence that it was an attempt at sex trafficking).

Also, there is a lot more info in that thread than what the one guy posted. There was at least one other Metafilter user who spent time with the girls, and it's certain that the police are going to investigate given the attention, so it's likely we'll know more soon.
My questions are:

1) Does it work (technically)?

2) What is the business model? I suspect it has something to do with collecting my phone number and tracking which companies I call, which I don't like.
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Reminds me of the logcat command.

http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/adb.html

As the presenter at my first android user group meeting said, it sounds an awful lot like "lolcat".
Yeah, same here (US west coast). I wonder if there's a difference between N1s bought outright, and N1s bought under T-Mo contract.
How many people played it?
Maybe there is no strict ordering for those technologies. Or maybe what works best depends on the individuals involved.

Also, there is the "no silver bullet" theory.
Characters are just symbol with meaning.

Again, I invite you to look at

http://www.amazon.com/Chinese-Language-Fantasy-John-DeFranci...

to see why that is not quite true. A newer book,

http://www.amazon.com/Reading-Brain-Science-Evolution-Invent...

is very good for explaining the neurological reasons why NO writing system could possibly operate that way.

To say that Chinese characters unify a nation of high illiteracy whose citizens in many cases cannot converse with one another in person or on the telephone

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-03/07/content_5812838...

is much like saying that writing in Latin unifies the continent of Europe by providing a common means of communication among scholars from Basque Country to Finland. Each statement is about equally true, and each is about equally irrelevant to current language policy.
The big news is http://blog.llvm.org/2010/05/clang-builds-boost.html ... Boost is notoriously complex C++ code. Being able to compile it to valid code is remarkable progress for Clang.
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Here's the money shot:

1. Have classes year 'round

2. Let students test out of any class in the curriculum

3. Get rid of mandatory, off-topic courses

4. Get rid of unnecessary computer labs

5. Offer all courses that can be reasonably be offered online, online

6. Make co-op mandatory, and based on ability as measured by progress through the program (see #2)

7. Reward teaching excellence rather than research excellence
I thought this was going to be about the many court cases we hear about in the news, but never hear the results of. Pity.
A list of languages I have studied before can be found at

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Suffice it to say that Chinese grammar is NOT "trivial" to anyone who digs into it deeply. No linguist would say so. Chinese grammar, being based in large part on word order and function words, rather than on inflection, is friendly to native speakers of English, and that is one of the reasons I preferred learning Chinese to learning Russian at university while I was taking courses in both. But there is plenty of grammar in Chinese, and plenty of misunderstanding of grammar among Chinese persons that impairs understanding among people who speak differing Sinitic languages.
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I thought Google usually publishes an update image that you can flash yourself if you don't want to wait for your turn in the roll out?