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On the contrary, this is the kind of precedent I'm happy about, as a (youngish) entrepreneur.

Take me for example. I'm working on my own startup. Eventually, I'm probably going to get funding, and sign into some kind of contract. Now the fact is, I'm no legal expert, and I don't have money to hire a legal expert from day one. The fact that the law makes some contracts unenforceable makes me feel much safer about not entering into any kind of mess that will seriously screw me.

Obviously, this only goes so far. And of course I will pay for actual legal counsel before entering a contract. But anything that society can do to make it easier to start a startup, including things like not having to worry about certain legalities, is a Good Thing, since it makes startups more likely.
I sympathize with your feelings. Coming to HN can instantly humble anyone who previously believed (s)he is smart, talented, destined for greatness, etc. when you see what truly brilliant people are like. I know it gave me a good reality check and sense of my relative knowledge compared to all the potential things to learn.

But you've taken the wrong lessons out of it. Don't view it as a community of people better and smarter than you, see it as a wealth of knowledge like a library.

Don't view the people here as your competition. View them as people with something to teach you.

Intelligence is not a zero-sum game. No one will prevent your success because they are "smarter" than you. The more educated, energized, and ethical people in the world, the better for us all. Take what HN has to offer and apply it to what makes you happy and what will bring you fulfillment and success.
Just for clarity, how many hours did you lose?
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These aren't lists of ingredients, they are recipes. A typical problem with man pages is that they list the ingredients but don't give you any useful recipes. Some have an 'Examples' section but most don't. These are recipes: ingredients and parameters for them, and a short explanation of what you're going to get. Makes sense to me.
They do not use your system's address book to fill forms online.
Just remember, however many smart people there are on HN, there are just as many people who are very nice and more than willing to share what they know. And thats my favorite thing about HN; if I ever have a question about something (that I read here or otherwise), I know that I can come and ask and get an answer. If you ever have any questions about something you read, I'd strongly encourage you to ask it as well.

Or in general, really. Not just on HN. Learning and asking questions isn't something that should be scary.

As for your three points:

1. Those are three useful languages to know. Especially Javascript. Don't be so quick to put down what you do know; someone else will always know more than you. Good for them. Ask them a question, learn something from them.

My personal belief is that you have to like what you do to be good at it. And people like to talk about things they like. So, don't be surprised if someone is willing to talk to you about your question :)

2. I don't mean to be harsh, but it sounds like the only thing stopping you from having a bunch of neat ideas to show off is, well, you. It sounds like you've started a few ideas. Why not finish them up as well?

A very good friend of mine is fond of saying (something along the lines of): "If you pretend to be something long enough, you'll eventually find that you've become what you were pretending to be." If you have 80% done (or even 50%), thats a start. Keep going and you'll wind up with something to show for it. Then you'll find that you've turned into one of those people that you aspired to be like.

3. Everyone had to start somewhere. Some people started earlier and others later. Some people can pick certain things up quicker than others. Thats no reason to be so harsh on yourself. And not everyone is working on the same idea.

And even within the same idea, there's always going to be plenty of room for multiple companies. YC has funded companies in the same area before. There's hundreds of Twitter clients out there. Don't ever let "Well, someone else is doing this..." stop you.
D is the best replacement of C++. Why reinventing another language ? Many people have gone through the same process before.
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That may be, but this is more than just a case of Zuckerberg vs Ceglia. Even if Zuckerberg kept his personal knowledge of this close to the chest hoping that he would never be called out on it, Ceglia waited a long time to make this claim, all the while people were pouring money into Facebook. Now he wants to come out of the woodwork and stomp all over their claims?

Ceglia is definitely acting like a shady character and Zuckerberg is suspect of being a shady character with respect to this contract, but I feel that the interests of everyone involved with Facebook the company hold more weight then the single claim by Ceglia.
It occurs to me that the reason it doesn't work for saved information that begins with a digit is probably to protect CC numbers / CVVs from a similar attack.
Doesn't firefox autofill forms? I didn't realize that was a safari only feature.
iFart made a lot of money, too, I think.
I actually had this problem when I was reading through Steve Yegge's blogs. Here was this guy who had done so much, had so many great insights, and was routinely pushing himself to do better. It was very inspiring, but also kind of scary: how can I ever be that awesome?

It took me about a year to realize that his blogs are collectively almost a decade of work by him, his collective wisdom and insight, which wasn't even started until he had been out of college for at least 5 years. I was getting a compressed version of his long-term work.

Like robryan says in another comment: the collective knowledge of HN is vast and deep indeed, but most of these people have been hacking for years or decades. Just keep at it, and try to realize that creating useful things is not a zero-sum game.
> If you want to feel less overwhelmed, try reading the comments starting at the bottom of the page instead of the top

This should be a preference. Ego-boosting sort.
> There is a lesson here about lawsuits,

And consequently, there is a lesson here about the incredible loss of productivity caused by patent trolls on the economy. It's a percent of GDP, if you think about it.
Just curious, how do they produce them? Or is it just repackaged generic band aids? It's one thing to come up with a joke, another to come up with a production channel...
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I just feel more inspired. Imagine all the failed startups that this site collectively represents. There are so many people here who went for their dream, failed, and got back to it which eventually led to the success-stories that we get to enjoy.

There is no single person that can be an expert in every area. But widening your views just beyond one simple tool/technology is always beneficial, and thats what I primarily read this site for. I read this site for the "aha" moments. Also consider the amount of people that don't care enough to even think about the subject you talk about. Just by wanting more your getting ahead of them.
Its hard to see the power of Sproutcore as there are not many examples, whereas Ext.js has many, so u can really see its power. But, digging deeper into Sproutcore and looking at what apple has done and papercube it looks very exciting, although u have to scrounge around for examples. I guess we have to look to the future and realise that Sproutcore is still growing and in the next 12 months it will be even better. O! just remembered the other issue, is keeping up with all the additions and changes, i had to search and search to find that Greenhousse even existed, then there is three other add ons, that i have just installed that were also hard to find.
All the time, my friend, all the time. But it's much better to compare yourselves to these geniuses at HN and be threatened/inspired to do better than compare yourself to a bunch of average people and feel good about it.

HN and PG's essays are the best things that a student / aspiring entrepreneur could experience. I learn new stuff everyday. HN rocks.
> No it doesn't. The issue was never "who thought of
> Facebook first". All of this was when Myspace was at
> it's peak. Everyone had the idea to do a Myspace
> competitor.

Really? MySpace was at its peak at the end of 2003/beginning of 2004? And everyone at that time was trying to build a 'MySpace competitor?'
Agree with most parts of the article, one huge issue I didn't see mentioned.

Working with C/C++ for embedded systems often means you have to have total control of the memory layout of your objects. You sometimes want to define classes which have data members that directly map on to something in memory, and you have to know exactly how the class will be layed out in memory, and more importantly, that it won't take up extra memory without your knowledge.

Specifically, his point #5, "Automatic vtable generation.", might get in the way. C++ gets away with vtables because they aren't included by default, only included when you define a virtual method. The same needs to be true of any replacement.
I don't understand the point of launching something that is inferior to the other things that are already out there. It's one thing if there is no competition, but if there's already stiff competition my instinct is to wait until the product is 100% ready so you minimize your attrition from people who switch then realize they made a mistake.
"In light of that, we no longer have plans to charge a supplement to make calls over 3G."

I think this is huge. Mobile networks still charge 2$+ per minute for international calls. This basically makes it irrelevant.
That's EXACTLY how i feel, except i'm almost 29, live in an "undeveloped" country in eastern Europe with barely any opportunities and even though i'm the lone sysadmin of over 20 servers in one of the largest media groups around i feel like i suck badly compared to my peers.
So you're not alone :|
Maybe they oversimplified what they do for the blog post, but that doesn't really sound professional to me.
I don't get that feeling from HN, but I get the exact feeling you describe when (trying to) read MathOverflow.com. For some reason the level of math being discussed there has quickly risen to such a rarefied atmosphere that I although go there out of interest and a desire to learn, I come away feeling I can't keep up.
Kit electronics aren't dead, they're just ... resting.

Elecraft (http://www.elecraft.com/) is the spiritual successor of Heathkit, at least in terms of some of the Ham radio kits. They're not cheap and contain a lot of ASICs, so you're not really putting them together from bare components, but it's still a fair bit of work with the 'ol soldering iron.

Qkits also has some neat stuff, including a software-defined oscilloscope (http://store.qkits.com/moreinfo.cfm/PCSGU250).

There are sometimes similar things for other test equipment. The key indicators of whether you can find something in kit form are: 1) is it expensive to buy assembled? 2) is it expensive less because of the underlying technology than because of manufacturer markup? 3) is it something that a lot of hobbyists would want to own?

Hence a lot of oscilloscope and function-generator and counter kits, some radio kits, but not so many digital camera kits. I have seen an increasing number of MP3 player kits though, which is interesting; it suggests that the underlying parts aren't the main cost drivers anymore.
One of your problems is that you are judging yourself by your natural abilities. I think this a trap that a lot of smart people fall into, perhaps being used to being the kid who always gets the gold star. There are studies that show that children who are praised for being "smart" stop working hard, because that threatens their self-image. Children who are praised for working hard go on to greater successes.

But back to HN. Recall that people post here, in part, to feel good about themselves and appear smart to others. It may be that the real heroes are not here. They are off doing stuff, not yammering about it.

I've been lucky enough to meet a lot of successful web startup people (a different group from say, pg or other YC alumni). I can tell you that the only thing they have in common is that they Keep Doing Stuff. No matter what, Keep Doing Stuff. They often have very low tolerance for naysayers and armchair critics. This isn't so much iron determination (well it is, in part) but mostly because they are motivated by the intrinsic rewards of building and exploring. In other words: they are just trying to have fun.

Their initial prototypes are ugly and naive. They don't care because it does something they wanted. They use a language that others deride as a toy. They don't care because it gets the job done fast. At launch, the whole thing is held together with tinkertoys and chewing gum. They still don't care as long as it's making people happy. Then scaling problems happen. Then they hunker down and make even more spectacular mistakes.

And you know what? Then one day they look back on at all they've done, and the system is humming beautifully and they're experts in multiple fields. And O'Reilly starts bugging them to write a book about how they did it all so effortlessly.

Meanwhile those guys on HN are still whining about how it would have been so much better with a functional language and a NoSQL data store.

--

P.S. This is not an argument for doing anything sloppily. It's just that you have to be laser-focused on results. It's a paradox; you have to be capable of rolling out something of heart-breaking beauty but also have no concern for things that ultimately don't affect success. It's been my experience that the version 1.0 of anything really creative looks like a piece of junk. And it takes a very sharp eye to see that it's doing something new and important. I guess this is why not everybody is a successful investor.
revenge / eye-for-an-eye is a famous logical fallacy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_wrongs_make_a_right

It's not productive. It's not justice. It's just stupid.
Either I'm taking crazy pills, or there's no widget in the bottom-left of that page. (Windows/Firefox 3.6.7)

I can access the widget source at http://fezzlzuupyshh.appspot.com/zuupy/widget/pHb6pXZm1ga1dX... but something is failing to execute...
Good answer.

It's a sad story, and I feel for you, but it's a fairly predictable outcome, particularly given the way that you were trying to make money from YouTube. There's all sorts of copyrighted content from 3rd parties, eg. Disney and others, and they'd likely sue both you and YouTube if you were to put ads up. The only part I would've changed if I were them would be to let you know upfront that you were likely to be infringing the terms of use - if not directly, then at least in spirit. But perhaps there were legal reasons not to.

Back on topic, I think your situation is precisely the one that PG was talking about and where you should turn the other cheek. You basically have two options:

1) Hate Youtube, Stephanie Kuan and Google. Get bitter and twisted, stew over it for years and years, to the point where it's consuming the bulk of your waking hours. Gollum, gollum. I've seen friends who've gone down this path after being mistreated by companies, and it's not pretty.

2) Forget it - as in, completely forget it, and go on to something else. Hard to do, but you'll free up huge amounts of time for more productive things. Take a break and do consulting/day job stuff. Maybe build something cool on the side, or just rebuild your savings, ready for next time.
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Yes, that problem is I trying to know how to solve.

This site really solve a problem (so customer pays for it), but in my opinion, the natural of this type of service is low user retenion. How to reach as much as possible customers is critical.

Some types of services will make people say: "that's good service, maybe I will use it someday", then put it into bookmarks only.

The real customer even don't know that service (after ran out of Adwords credits). I think http://www.korekt.me/ is like that.
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Now the question is: when a startup fails, how often does it turn out to be a valuable experience anyway?
They provide more type safety and not syntactic sugar. One cannot have complete type safety at runtime using type casts; if he thinks he can, he needs to take a simple programming course again.

If the OP wanted readability, he could use iterators. It's amazingly clear:

private void printCollection(Collection c) {
Iterator<String> i = c.iterator();
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He complains about Windows 7 not being instant-on. My laptop resumes from sleep in less than 2 seconds. Which isn't quite as fast as my phone, but it's not what you might call "slow".

He refuses Android on the grounds that it's "For Phones". It's not for phones any more than iOs is - it's an operating system with a simplified UX, I'm looking forward to the first pads that use it.
The way I look at it, I'm just glad that there people somewhat like me who are doing, working on, and talking about smart things, and some of them who are succeeding. You have to realize, the kind of people that hangout on this site are fairly similar: they have entrepreneurial aspirations (and drive -- or they would be reading more fun/non-practical news sites like Reddit and Digg), most of them can design or code or both, and most of them are actually working on something.

60k unique visitors does sound like a lot, but it's not a drop in the hat of the amount of people that read Reddit or Digg or TechCrunch. So in a way, I actually feel good about this being a site that is smaller and more focused than those other ones, which really are the true depressants, so to say. Nobody on HN is out here to flame anyone, and most of them are thoughtful, intelligent people -- the kind I want to be with.

What I'm trying to say is, if you find HN frightening, the world is beyond anything you can imagine. There are people who are smarter than you, work harder than you, in better/more happening places than you, and naturally more rewarded than you. So then, being on HN gives me some comfort in knowing that there are people who are sort of like me, and who are also navigating the same world I am. Instead of comparing myself to these people, I'm just glad that they exist.
Quoting the parent (emphasis mine):

They do not use your system's address book to fill forms online.
Autocomplete by other browsers works by remembering things you entered in forms previously (maybe restricted to domain?). One distinction is that you already decided you wanted to expose that information.

The most important distinction though, is that you have to still select to fill that out manually.

Of course logins are another story - those are automatically filled in. But those are restricted to the page you already entered them on, and you have to decide you want that information filled explicitly.
On the contrary, no community I've ever known in my life has ever made me feel so empowered.

The "real world" is packed with people who will belittle and disregard your achievements and abilities, you will be told again and again that people like you will simply be replaced by counterparts in a third world country willing to do what you do for sixteen hours a day at five dollars per hour. This comes from fear and ignorance but is so universal amongst the general populace that you can start wondering if they might be onto something.

A community like this is concrete evidence that they are dead wrong; That what we do matters, and that it is not wrong to take pleasure and pride in it. It betrays the attempts to sideline the work and misdirect attention to the importance of politics and salesmanship, neither of which have any spoils to be arguing over or peddling respectively in the absence of the essential process of making wealth and not just money.

Most of all it makes me not hate the world like I used to, because it shows me what humans can be and not what they seem to be when I stand in a random room in meatspace and take a look around.