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> 3. Save. Save, save, save. 10% of your money saved on a regular basis now is a huge relief in the future. I wish I'd enforced this on myself a bit better in the 20's .. you simply cannot avoid the fact that if you save during your most productive years, your least productive years will be better off for it ..

I just got my first a few months ago and opted to save more than 20% of my gross income (tax-free, you pay taxes when you get it out later). I wasn't used to the money anyway, yet, so it was easy.

Also, if you are not saving already: I guess whenever you get a raise, you can comfortably afford to save like 50% of it--because that money isn't planned into your budget, yet.
You will only be given what you deserve after you ask for it. And never be afraid of asking for it if you deserve it.

This is true for gratitude, raises, promotions, funding, marriage, etc.
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It may imply that, if staying in your comfort zone makes you happy. Everyone comes with a different outlook on life. For some it's important to create startups. For some it's important to have a stable income, pension, benefits, etc. There is no universal truth as to what one should do in life to be "successful". I have a feeling that if Mother Teresa and Warren Buffett were transposed that each would be unhappy.

What is important is to find out what balance of friends, family, work, charity, money makes you happiest.
But perhaps if you have the knowledge of other guys' mistakes, you can spot your own mistakes earlier. Instead of having to repeat them a hundred times before it dawns on you.

Also learning from mistakes--your own and those of other people--enables you to make different mistakes.
The nice thing about being human is you only have to maintain it for about 80 years.
See also: "The Psychology Of Human Misjudgment" (http://vinvesting.com/docs/munger/human_misjudgement.html) and "Academic Economics: Strengths and Faults After Considering Interdisciplinary Needs" (http://web.ku.edu/~finmhir/FIN464/MungeronEconomicsUCSBspeec...).

Bear in mind: "The problem with Psychology is it's not the same thing as Wisdom".
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There is a difference between data portability and, potentially, a denial of service due to a large-scale import. Twitpic probably cares about all its users and given that it does not control Posterous' scraper, it can only block it.

Also, let's not forget Twitpic's terms of service:

Data mining, "scraping", and/or unauthorized crawling of Twitpic by any means is prohibited unless explicit permission is given...

I bring these up because I'm sure when it's convenient for them, Posterous would point to their ToS to block something.

Had Posterous worked with Twitpic and got denied instead of doing an arrogant marketing campaign ("rescue"?), I would be 100% behind Posterous. Right now, it's Posterous posturing for the upper hand when they don't really have a case.
the valuation is $95m now, so a positive exit has to be in the hundreds of millions...
I've written about this before actually. I hung out in a couple of supposed Meritocracy (both in real life and online) and all of them collapsed when someone asked the question "so, uh, what is merit exactly?" - because no one could agree :)
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Openmoko: 282ppi

iPhone 4: 326ppi
Lessons I'm learning:
Social protocol has a real impact on people. The quality of your reasoning doesn't provide you an excuse to ignore it.

It is incredibly easy to blow thousands of dollars, $20 at a time.

Smile.

Reserve judgement until judgement is required.

Helping people is more satisfying than helping yourself. This is true because you can feel like you've helped others enough, but you will always want more for yourself. ;)

Ambition isn't talent. Ambition isn't a moral quality.

Be prepared.

There is no substitute for good sleeping habits. Really.

Complex, irrational arguments and behavior are often explained by simple emotional factors.
I had two Samsung monitors bought during those years die almost simultaneously, after only 2 years of use, with every capacitor on their power board burst. I should've checked what brand those caps were before tossing them in the garbage.
Hi, Thanks but Wizia streams your videos, I don't want to change from Amazon. I'd like something external.
You are overestimating the power of Apple.

If Youtube uses native webm, with flash fallback for browsers that do not support webm and native application with low-resolution for iPhone (i.e. status quo on iOS), where do you see the problem?

Apple will have to provide a very good reason why they are sole platform vendor refusing to support webm in any way.
That list is fascinating.
Find a girl. Settle down. If you want, you can marry.

(Look at me - I am old, but I'm happy.)
Nobody said it is unique to flash.

The original reasoning was, that without RTMPE they would be unable to provide such content.

Well, at least for me, they are still unable provide such content, so from my POV this argument could be removed from debate and nothing would change.
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Look into org-mode and the stuff you can do with it: http://orgmode.org/ http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html http://orgmode.org/talks/index.html

Then realize that you need to pick up Emacs to use it.
Look at the context for the track record: was it against all odds, or were they raised with a silver spoon? It is much easier to get ahead when having good loving parents, good teachers, good friends, but there might not be much of a fighter in those champions.

and definitely: people who bad-mouth others will bad-mouth you when you leave, no matter how noble you behave. But you still have to be noble to avoid your actions coming back and biting your ass.
Don't believe everything they tell you. If you listen to too many people too often, you will be average at best.

In other words, don't go to med school because daddy's a doctor and told you so.

There's a reason a lot of highly successful people dropped out of college or never went.
But you don't have this fear about Google? To me they're much more dangerous because it's going to be a lot harder to unseat their income source.
Once upon a time Java was a "co-equal" with its own colored box. But Apple's been pretty mercurial when it comes to languages: Clascal, Object Pascal, AppleScript, ScriptX, SK8, NewtonScript, HyperTalk, Dylan, MCL, {AppleSoft|Integer|Mac} Basic, Smalltalk, Java, Corba IDL... most of those are way more friendly than Java, but died just like desktop Java. MacRuby's a little different, I'm guessing it's a research project to see what might be compelling about a unified, llvm-based, multiple-language runtime.
It is incredibly easy to blow thousands of dollars, $20 at a time.

I'm only 22 and I already learned that the hard way. Spend less than you earn.
Following the link in the Content Protection section:
"This video is not available in your country." (I am in Russia) Feels like discrimination.

Also if the video is streamed to my computer, which I have full control of, there is always a way to capture and redistribute it. That "content protection" is cheating both publishers and viewers.
Can this scale? The problem with mturk is you can't make any QoS guarantees.
"Flash-based multiplayer platformer where users could edit the level"

http://everybodyedits.com - it's got a lot better recently now there are private rooms (although yes, that does mean it's a different concept now)
I find myself kicking me out of the zone just as it is created.
Sometimes it is tiring, working on it (working on both, that is, "being comfortable" as well as not getting out too soon :) )
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This is what Foursquare is trying to solve - correlating online advertising with long-term IRL behaviors.
I'm sorry but you're talking about trivial life issue.

Do you think one could teach you how to deal with the loss of a loved one, disease, poverty, finding out who you really are, being a good friend or a good father?

That's what matters.
I actually have to disagree with you. I think that's a terrible article. The core idea, that truly competent and motivated people are orders of magnitude more productive than others, is true. But the rest of it is a bad justification for centuries of inequality and exploitation. It confuses Is and Ought To by assuming that any market outcome is always morally good. It ignores the environment, society, and history, while claiming to be more "reality-based" than opposing views.
So true. And of course it is still better to bring problems you can not solve then nothing.
It is two sides of the same coin: you can't build wealth without exercising restraint. Look at all the professional young sport guys who earned millions in no time, and who wasted it all on senseless bling-bling.

And he says, "work on something at a loss", which is definitly not building wealth, it is anti-saving. If you are a saver, you'll always save money no matter how much or how little you earn. Spending your savings is against your nature.

Saving money is living in the possibilities, in the mind.
1. Your friends aren't your market, so don't be surprise when they don't read your blog or join your site. It's like offering a guy a skirt to wear; it's just not something they are interested in.

2. Your friends and family really want you to succeed. Even though they might say negative stuff about you trying something new, they want you to succeed. Part of the reason they say these stuff is that they want to prevent you from experiencing failure and all the emotional baggage that comes along with it. What I am saying is to take the negative statements made by families and friends lightly. My family was surprised I sold my website when I started grad school; I thought they didn't care for it.

3. Try to network as much as possible. Most investors wouldn't invest in someone who is not properly introduce. 75% of romantic relationship are established through your network. 90% of jobs are found through networks, at least the upper echelon ones.

4. Actions over words. Do something then talk about it, not the other way around. Talking is satisfying enough that it might not lead to action.
Learn by fucking up. It's as simple as that. You will gain friends and loose some too, as well as girlfriends or any other person. But in the end, you will learn what's The Right Thing and your friends will be true friends and your GF/Wife/SO will be a person who respects and love you regardless of your flaws.

Being 36, father of three, married for the second time and doing pretty well for myself these days, I can of course only relate to my own experiences of life.

But I'm pretty sure that if I've asked anyone the question you're asking 15 years ago, I would have gotten some advice on how to get by in life, but I wouldn't have understood why the advice given to me was the right way. Experience gives you that understanding.

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Ask HN: REST API Design Guidelines?
I'm about to embark on designing an API for my startup. Are there any guidelines available online regarding things like:

- Which response codes should be returned
- How errors should be handled
- How the xml/json should be structured
- How to handle authentication

Or can someone point me in the direction of a particularly well thought out REST API in the wild, that I can learn from?
Such a fundamental changes like unladen swallow in python or migrating to LLVM-based VM in ruby must be backed by very powerful and resourceful entity. Good news!
Hardly, Apple need a compiled language for its mobile platform that does not do managed memory. But it may replace applescript.
Before I clicked the link I bet myself I would not see a single criticism and Gruber was predictable in his praise.

So you just skipped the parts where he brought up criticisms and pointed out things he thinks are missing and speculated on ways Apple could resolve them?
Weird, isn't your comment a bit self-contradicting?

Above the <hr> fold: "Stop the loser talk. You can learn from others' mistakes. Your fate is not sealed."

Below the fold: "Track record is king. It's all DNA. People don't change. Your fate is sealed."

FWIW, I tend to agree more with your below-the-fold views based on most people I've met.
Stating that Apple 'gives nothing away for free' is quite hyperbolic. Apple certainly contribute to open source in more ways than you're giving them credit.

See http://www.macosforge.org/ for some examples.
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1473239
He does this a lot. I've called him out on before but he seems to have such an irrational hate (hinted at in his post with the "moral objection" bit) that he doesn't even realize it.
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Two things:

1.) Save money while you're young. Keep living like a college student for 5 years after you leave college and sack away at least $10k/year. Put it into the market and don't touch it again until you retire.

Compound interest is quite a thing to behold, and 5% returns over 40 years will do some amazing things to your money. Start with 100k when you're under 30 and you probably won't ever need to worry about retirement savings.

2. Get to the point where you are provably good at what you do as fast as possible. This will mean switching jobs several times. Build things that are noteworthy and get to the point where people are recommending you to their friends.

Once you've done that, you get secret point 3:

3. You are more valuable to your employer than they are to you.

Companies spend a lot of effort making you think your job is precarious and could be taken away at any minute. In reality it will take six months to find a decent replacement for you. Once you're in and demonstrating that you can find your arse with both hands, they're not going to want to lose you.

That gives you lots of room to explore, and is the reason that I love this industry so much. I can't think of another profession where you can take nine months off every year and still make a good living.

More here:

http://www.expatsoftware.com/articles/2007/02/two-weeks-vaca...
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One of my "naiveties" was to believe others' post-hoc explanations of their success or failure. People usually overestimate their own impact or effectiveness in influencing their life, and that's probably a good misperception to have in order to "take control" or "be proactive", good attitudes to life. But it's a mistake to carry this bias over to interpreting other people's life. Life is usually too complex to figure out from the outside what went down and what was the kicker. Many times, I figure, people themselves don't know much about what ultimately determined their life outcome. I'm not exactly sure what conclusion to draw from this. But just be careful in mimicking other people, or even asking questions like this. It's only superficially smart. The best ways to learn from others may be to read literature or poetry, i.e. to learn from fictive others; good writers are not good writers because they write well but because of their perceptive power.
Interesting. Reminds me of my rant against a statistical analysis of the Iranian election results some time back: http://blog.jgc.org/2009/06/scaccobeber-analysis-of-iranian....
I agree with the track record thing but it is important to compartmentalize here. Somebody might have a track record of being a womanizer but might be good at what they do eg. Bill Clinton, Tiger Woods, JFK, or they might have a gambling problem, reference Michael Jordon. With that said, only judge people on track record in the category you need them to perform in.
As an ex-DSP wonk, it vaguely looks like a quantisation error in R2K's numerical processes. Vaguely.
I couldn't find the original quote, but if I can paraphrase it:

Spend two pence less than you make and you'll be content, maybe even happy. Spend two pence more than you make and you'll be miserable.
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Ask HN: Resources for creating a programming language
I've had an ever growing desire to learn how to create my own programming language for some time now. Although I do know there are mature and more than capable languages available, I'd really love to learn how to do it and understand the processes involved.

I'm just wondering if any one had any suggestions for resources and literature, which would be useful and beneficial for learning this sort of stuff. Also, if you have any general advice or suggestions to help me a long the way, that'd be much appreciated too.

As I said, I know that it seems like I'm reinventing the wheel but this is my idea of fun and I'm sure most of you are the same (I'm assuming a lot there though)! Nothing beats getting home at night and having an all-night hacking session in my opinion!

Anyway, much thanks for taking notice and thanks in advance for any replies. Also, I apologise for any spelling, grammar and/or punctuation mistakes. I've been up all night playing around in C, so I guess it's understandable haha!<p>James.
Since C has been around 1972, it follows that a lot of software is going to be written in C.

I agree with your conclusion but not your reasoning. Try substituting "Lisp" and "1958".
Either there's a cognitive bias to pick both-even or both-odd numbers when making things up, or they generated random numbers in [0..50] and multiplied by 2.
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Unlike (I suspect) a lot of people here I don't mind Objective-C and I really dislike Ruby.

Would this effect my decision as to whether I develop for the iOS/OSX platform. No of course not.

At the end of the day I actually dislike all languages, just to varying degrees. Python is the one I dislike the least. As soon as I can get my programming job done without the need for programming I will do it.
I live in Cork, Ireland, location of Apple's European Corporate HQ, and I know from friends that they've been running Ruby on Rails courses there. It might be inconsequential, but you have to ask yourself why? ... it shows at least that they consider Ruby, and Rails to be significant in some way.
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This took some finding but I read your question and remembered coming across one particular article which made a lot of things clear for me when I was looking into building the API for my startup.

Check out "Get Your API Right" by Trek - http://wonderfullyflawed.com/2009/07/02/get-your-api-right.h...
He has a point, especially cause the rules can change.

http://www.jsoftware.com/help/primer/order_of_eval.htm
We are all born with a fatal disease called life. It will kill you eventually. Use your time wisely. Wisely does not mean always working, nor always playing, but probably some kind of balance. Combine work and play for the win.
Would be interesting to hear about how he stumbled on the position. Startup recruiting just doesn't happen the way corporate recruiting does. Does that mean being up in the bay area (or other startup hub) is crucial to landing a great startup experience? Outside of co-founding your own...
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This didn't help at all!
I studied engineering because daddy's an engineer. At a young age I didn't comprehend how fulfilling math and science could be, I didn't understand the creativity and depth and purpose it could bring to me. It turns out daddy has been right a lot of the time.

Also, sure some highly successful people dropped out of college, but perhaps even more highly successful people stuck with it so I'm not sure I agree with "a lot". How often does impulsiveness and ego result in one's downfall as opposed to one's success? I certainly think taking the jump is much more interesting, but we also mostly hear about the success stories. After watching plenty of crappy actresses on screen one could conclude it's easy to earn millions smiling in front of a camera, but that's not the case.
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Yes I realized it later. Unfortunately, I have no idea how HN let it through. I was under the impression that there is a dupe detector and I think the URLs are same :-/
> Below the fold: "Track record is king. It's all DNA. People don't change. Your fate is sealed."

You read it wrong - it's not about DNA or fate. It's about what a person has done recently. It's a good predictor of what they're going to do next. As soon as someone changes for real, they build a new and healthy track record.

In general, you should weight a person's actions - track record - over what they say. It's a people skills thing more than a destiny-predicting thing.

> FWIW, I tend to agree more with your below-the-fold views based on most people I've met.

Huh, well, I admire you saying that, it's not a fashionable viewpoint these days. I'd predict a person's actions 95% by what they've done recently and 5% what they talk about, but I think it's possible for anyone to change through incremental improvement. Many people won't, but everyone could. There's always some little incremental improvement you could make. But for important roles in your life, you can't gamble - look for someone with a good track unless you're in a position to make a good evaluation, and be careful even then.
What's wrong with it is that companies come and go. Sometimes they do well for a while and sometimes they do well for a lifetime, but they all eventually fizzle out. And, even if your company does well, the money is nice, but no matter how much money you make, it is not worth selling 1-2 years or more of happiness with your potential spouse and children. That enjoyment and happiness is the best thing in life, and is in fact a major part of its purpose, and no amount of money can compensate for its absence.

Family is number one and always must be. I have heard of extremely few situations in my life that justified the postponement of the formation of family. People think of it like an extra burden, and there is some extra burden, but it's absolutely nothing compared to the extra joy, the extra sharing, and all the other awesome extras that come with family life.

It's not worth putting family off for years to finish school, it's not worth it to become rich, there's basically nothing that is worth postponing the formation of a family for.
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