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Not very often.
Would be interesting to read of the level of performance one gets for $7.95 a month.
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This officially marks the death of manual competence. By the time somebody writes a think-piece musing that maybe we should return to some lost cultural value, that value is REALLY lost.

That said, anyone who has seen Maker Faire knows that there is such a subculture, but it's based around making things from scratch. These days it's far more difficult to learn skills by tinkering with the things you buy in the marketplace; they are far too complex and self-contained.
In fact I was thinking of implementing persistence by making mememixr aggregate itself.
If you want to dive into a budding rails ecommerce startup drop me a line (see my past posts for some hints about who we are / what we do!)

You would gain a wealth of experience in every aspect of business / being a startup... at this point everyone wears a bit of every hat (which is fun!)
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I think the techniques the writer suggests are on the right track. If you feel lazy about doing something, don't brute force yourself into getting it done; there are more clever ways to hack the situation. Transform the task you have to do into one that is much more fun, or figure out a way to accomplish your goal without doing the task.
Summize picks up more results than Tweetscan, at least in my experience. I'm not sure why.
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"But if a kid asks you "Is there a God?" or "What's a prostitute?""

I've been asked the first. I said "no", and had a long (> 1hr) conversation with my 6 yr old about the issues.

If I was asked the second, I'd say that's not something you should be thinking about at your young age. Ask me in 5 years.
It seems that this differs from Y-combinator in that "innovators" and "strategists" apply separately and parter up later on during the program after meeting each other and finding suitable matches.
Right, but I don't think the problem is people who love test ratios. It's companies that don't know what's important or why.
At around 5 my son figured out that his mother and I would one day die. He cried off and on for several months, every time he thought or was reminded of it. He was not the sort of boy to cry, either.

It was during that period of my son's life that I actually felt my mortality like a weight on my shoulders. I am definitely more keenly aware of my health and the importance of staying healthy.
I'm wondering if there is anyone here who could refute the claim in this article: that once a chronic procrastinator, always a chronic procrastinator? Someone who has managed to overcome their innate procrastinationess and can be a source of hope for the rest of us.
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I was an active community member at CH for a long time, over a year. The problem that I could surmise from their actions and meetings they posted was that they knew what they needed to do but were reluctant to do it.

They refused to work within the tech community and just tried to attract anyone who had an idea. Instead of going for the people who could execute and have ideas anyway and promoting the "contracting + equity" aspect of the ventures, they wanted to have a hand in every project.

Also, they seemed to have a clear strategy, but just not follow it. They were always hiring, when it probably would have been more prudent to contract out and actually

building the site that was supposed to make them special.

They were always hiring, but no one could figure out why they weren't improving the site like the community wanted. No one could figure out why they looked so busy on the videos, but nothing was ever completed.
How technical does a start-up founder have to be?
Does a start-up founder have to be a "hacker"? Can the business major who loves the web and has a good idea about a web based business succeed in the cut throat, competition heavy web space? Or, does one, in order to succeed in a start-up have to spend day in and day out coding in order to really understand how to differentiate and how to survive in the web start-up space? Lets here what you think...
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works great if it doesn't need to be real time...
I think its a little different. CL/Ebay was a partnership, Xobni/MSFT was a purchase.
I had the same question about a year back, and I'm sure some of you will remember it. I saw myself as the 'business major [I don't have a major] who loved the web and had a good idea about a web based business.' And there's one thing I found out through posting on web bulletins, posting flyers around school, and trying to network - it's extremely difficult to find a hacker cofounder who is willing to jump on board. How could I, a non-hacker, possibly play an equal contributory role has my hacker cofounder? And furthermor, how could I accurately convey my ideas coming from a frame of mind completely different from that of a hacker? I realized that if any sort of relationship was forged for the sake of having a team, these issues would soon arise in the future and cause much bigger problems, and would ultimately hinder the success and growth of a startup. So I started to learn how to hack, and it literally changed the way I think about ideas. I try to conceptualize how I can tackle problems with code, and how feasible it'd be to do so. And it's this newly found understanding that will help me play a more integral role in my team, and allow me to communicate with hacker cofounders on a leveled playing field. Even two of the Auctomatic founders eventually learned how to hack.

At the beginning, I was irritated by the response I got here. People told me left and right that business people are useless and that if you don't know how to hack you can't go anywhere. But, after getting my feet wet and thinking about it, I understand where they were coming from.

So I guess a business guy can in fact lead a successful startup. But do I think that business savvy guy who knows a bit about hacking will have significantly higher chances of succeeding in the web world? Yes.
I second the Charlie Rose show. It's not outstanding, but I'd say it's the only TV show in America that attempts serious interviews.
It's a bit more subtle than that. Consider Wall Street Journal. It does not fit the general "decline of the news" theme, and for a good reason -- it's a great product. It is getting harder and harder to sell bad products, convenient delivery is no longer sufficient for success.
Your original interpretation was right. Perhaps I underestimated the number of physicists hanging out here. (I hope so! It would be cool to think people here know who these guys are.) In any case, the original point remains: even on Hacker News, Marie Curie is far better-known than Lev Landau, and it's not because she was the greater scientist.
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How does the point works?
how does the point works here?
sure, you want to sort corn in my basement for a month? free is better than the 12 cents i'm paying these chinese orphans.
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It's called "open source".
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Might as well link original: http://code.google.com/apis/chart/#url_format
I didn't know about this.
Not that rails doesn't scale but Dreamhost is known to disable accounts which use too much resources so I doubt you can run anything which will get any traffic...
if you'd like a serious implementation of a collabroative RSS reader thats highly customizable, join the alpha test:

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A few years ago, Paul Graham wrote: "When you find something you can't say, what do you do with it? My advice is, don't say it." This essay makes me wonder if he chose not to follow his own advice. If he did, I wonder if it will do him much good. It surely will make reading his essays even more interesting.
"How could I, a non-hacker, possibly play an equal contributory role has my hacker cofounder? And furthermore, how could I accurately convey my ideas coming from a frame of mind completely different from that of a hacker? I realized that if any sort of relationship was forged for the sake of having a team, these issues would soon arise in the future and cause much bigger problems, and would ultimately hinder the success and growth of a startup."

Indeed. I'd add that you risk being at the mercy of your staff.
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Or maybe J.G. Crowther was also fond of diversity.

BTW the most important woman in the history of science was Emmy Noether. Her theorem is central to Classical Mechanics and very important also in Quantum Field Theory.
If I could get one cent for every time I heard that....

oooo, sounds like a startup idea!
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This probably sounds fatuous, but hacking experience will make you a better business person in the same way that a daily column will make you a better writer. The reason is that while we are farting about with bits & bytes and star trek jokes, what we're really doing is translating human imagination into a system that is not capable of self-delusion. It does not believe, it does not miss details, it blows up at the smallest inconsistency. Dealing with that is unspeakably frustrating, but it trains you to think more clearly about how systems, any system, actually function. If you are really paying attention you can start using that capacity in other parts of life. The closest business-school type classes to this training would be probably logistics and quantitative analysis
Of course it is possible for a business major to succeed in the web. There are real-world examples of business majors who won't get into the way of hackers (or techies in general) and give them room to think and play and listen to their feedback and suggestions.

There are also enough who just outsource all technical stuff and only care about their very own 'core competencies'.

But in "feelings" of probability:

Mindset, theoretical background knowledge, and experience are essential to understand what is (not only technically) possible and to see what parts need more effort than others and why. To know hacker culture one should live it, otherwise one won't feel the way hackers do.
That doesn't mean that you need to code every day. Thinking about problems and trying your solutions is more important. Couple this with (formal) business knowledge and I am pretty sure an entirely new world unfolds with options unknown before that will outcompete the pure business major in most cases.
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It depends on what else you bring to the table

If you have biz dev connections that will get deals made, successful experience marketing or fundraising, a design or creative background, experience in the vertical your product serves, etc, these all can add, um, invaluable value to a company
For the last ten months, I have been working on my most recent startup, http://www.LoveMyTool.com, which in time will become an online marketplace-of-choice for network monitoring tools (sniffers, IDS, etc.). The business model is old fashioned (no Google ad here). My vision is that we will become a virtual tradeshow (a zero carbon footprint version of Interop or NXTcom, which are million dollar physical events).

In the future, our revenues will come strictly from participating vendors (same as if they were buying a booth, but now they rent the front page for an hour). We are a long way from that. For now, I am concentrating on building a community.

To guide me towards success, I am following the advises given at the Startup School by Paul Graham, Paul Buchheit and David Heinemeier Hansson, which can be summarized as follows …

“Make something people want … don’t ignore [people’s] advice … listen [mainly] to yourself … don’t worry too much about money … the secret to making money … is to ask for it.”

Notice that there is nothing here that says that you have to be a hacker. It just says that you have to find a problem that is worth solving, keep solving it while listening to your instinct and when you are ready, just ask the customers to pay.

In fact, I believe there are two worst things that you can do to ensure failure of a startup which are heavy reliance on VC money and heavy reliance on technology. The focus should be on customer needs. Hacking is just another means to the end.

In my case, I use no special software and therefore have no need for a "hacker" as a co-Founder. Every piece of software that I am using are off-the-shelf (Typepad, iLife suite, Slideshare, Youtube, Blip.tv, Omnisio, etc.) and I have managed to build a site with 350 visitors a day and rising (who are interested in buying products that I am showcasing and have spending authority from tens of thousands to millions). And I did the whole thing for $180 ($150 for TypePad and $30 for URL's).

Anything is possible here. So if you have a killer idea on how to make money on the web, then go for it. Hackers will follow; they always do.
I suggest to just shut the fuck up, and just spend quiet time with your kids. Listen to them. Look them in the eye, see who they really are, and what they need. Most of what they learn is not what you say, but what you do and who you are, and how you treat them and others. Talk less and say more.
"They hate to work on routine things - they would much prefer to build complex theoretical solutions, and leave the implementation of the system to others. They are intensely interested in theory, and will put forth tremendous amounts of time and energy into finding a solution to a problem with has piqued their interest."

-Description of an INTP
I think one of the best ways that I described a similar feeling was asking others when they had questions, during their teens, nobody--including their best teachers--could answer.
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Totally agree with other posters. This is a neat interface - I like how it completely takes away the clutter, allowing you to focus on the current story.
User configurable, perhaps? No-cycling, custom feed selections, etc.

Personally, I would like longer excerpts...two to four line excerpts just don't cut it for me. However, I presume that's a function of the provider's feed settings.
Also, some of the feeds are just...meh. I don't care for Abby, Drudge, etc.

Question, why load a new page for each story?
Upmodding stuff like this should burn karma.
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Exactly. PayPal would have never succeeded without Peter Thiels' ability to close fundings left and right.

However, I do think one of the founders should be technically savvy, and it doesn't hurt to have the business guy to know some hacking either
Spam page so far ;) Need some sort of modding on it. This will get out of control very easily.
Well, he's 4 and, although he knows every bad word except "cunt," he knows better than to say them, at least in front of grown-ups. But cursing is not ruined for him - he still thinks cursing is hilarious and he frequently asks me to say a bad word.

I would say it's working out. He doesn't offend the tribal elders and I don't have to lie by simulating outrage - I've told him the real reason why he can't curse.
Too bad that most people want dumb news. It is touching that some people make a valiant effort to create something intelligent, but the fact is, they will always be a struggling minority.

Even Hacker news is no exception: I constantly click on those "The most important thing you need to know" articles, against better knowledge. It is just the way the human brain is wired - therefore we will always read the sex gossip stuff and only occasionally force ourselves to read something more demanding.
The spectrum of motivations for the pressure we put on kids to not "swear" includes "being polite" and "being polite" is related to communication skill. There is a quote attributed to Mark Twain which equates politeness with something which prevents people at the dinner table from killing each other.
I submitted the same article last night, but the eds. changed the tag:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=188346
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Knowledge work looks a lot like volunteer work, assisting a non-profit in organizing volunteer labor is a reasonable proxy for organizing work in a startup.
If you're doing a web startup, it helps to know how to hack, in the same sense that if you're a football coach, it helps to know how to play football.

I realize it's a somewhat flawed analogy, but I like to think of startups that way.
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It depends on the team, and how tight they are.

A business type alone is full of fail, but a business type with a strong technical partner (emphasis on partner, not employee) could work (if the communication is good enough).
I was about to make this comment. How ironic that a comment about being lied to used one of those lies as an example.
Why not cunt?
Oops, I downvoted this prior to reading the parent. I'd change my vote if the interface allowed...
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'Its baffling inability to do floating point calculations...'

Not so.

From Dr. Dobb's interview with Guy Steele (http://www.ddj.com/java/184406029;jsessionid=S1LAIUWHYHNYGQS...):

Steele: I scribbled calculations on the back of an envelope. Okay, suppose you did the arithmetic bit serially, like the PDP-8S? A 32-bit floating-point multiply you have to multiply two 24-bit significands, that's going to take 600 time steps. For the additions, a logarithmic number of shifts, each will take 24 time steps...It turned out that a floating-point add would take about 1/2 a millisecond and a multiply a millisecond. Sounds terrible, but you've got 64,000 processors.

Dr Dobb's Journal: So you could do 64,000 of these calculations in a millisecond.

Steele: That's up in the range of 100 million operations a second, equivalent to a Cray 1, which was the supercomputer of the day. So after the lecture, I went up to Danny and said, "You said this is a terrible numeric machine, but I can tell it's approximately the equivalent of a Cray 1." And he replied, "Can we have dinner tonight?"
Here's the libertarian take:

There are lots of things we aren't free to say, such as shouting fire in a theatre, threatening others, etc. But they all come down to measurable harm. As the Wikipedia article you linked says, they are "directed to and likely to incite imminent lawless action." It's unquestionable that we as a society have a right to censor if the person's speech has no artistic value and causes physical harm to others, because in so doing, they violate other people's civil liberties, which is what the law is designed to protect. It's the same as murder, though to a lesser degree.

So for swearing on television to fall into the same category as shouting fire, it would have to be proven to harm others. There's no evidence that this is the case whatsoever, let alone proof, or even a rational argument. Thus there should be no FCC censorship.
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Ah, good line. I want such a dream.
Good article.

Procrastination is usually a sign of not being engaged with whatever is in front. Laziness that vanishes with Guitar Hero, or any other interesting activity, is not laziness.
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I majored in Business (with marketing) in 1994. The one thing I learned from business school was problem solving. When I accidentally became involved in software, and more later web apps, it was obvious to me that I needed to learn to code at least to the point where I could converse about it. This ended up being one of the best things I've done and I garnered more respect from the team by doing so. My not being able to code was an obstacle - a problem - that was overcome by rolling my sleeves up. And guess what, I enjoyed it and still do to this day.
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i learned not to click them.

so either brains aren't wired that way, or we can rewire them.
My perspective is that of a person that focuses on the business side and no longer programs but has in the past:

The thing you do in entrepreneurship is essentially 'solve problems' day in and day out. You are constantly resource constrained so you must figure out how to maximize efficiency , whatever that may be in each respective case.

You have an idea (let's assume it is a good one for simplicities sake) but lack the ability to implement. This naturally brings up the question of how to implement - you can learn to do it yourself or hire someone to do it for you. Hire may mean trading equity for the "co-founder's" time or compensating them monetarily. If you cannot afford to hire (try elance, guru, etc) you are left with trading equity. This means that you must now convince someone that you are competent to direct the implementation process ("you bring something to the table").

This is meant to be a pretty straightforward explanation because your question is vague in the sense that the situation you allude to has multitudes of variables.
I'm actually not sure if I'm using the Latin 100% correctly, I've just seen it used in that context.
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$180? does that include hosting?
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"so is it good for fast scripting but poor for real programming"

Yes to the first part, and a warning to the last part: What constitutes "real programming" is a question of definition, and here be dragons, as such discussions almost always devolve into "my [favourite] is better than [your favourite]".

There seems to be ample amounts of hatred for PHP here, leading me to believe that either a) people here have never met a GOOD php developer, or b) a minority of users here enjoy the "my favourite scripting language is more obscure than yours" circle-jerk
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Sounds like the author has a classic case of ADHD. He can't get around to things unless it's an emergency, and when it is, he gets into a hyperfocus mode. Sadly, the hyperfocus only happens when a person with ADHD truly thinks he or she is in an emergency. That, and ritalin.

Of course, a friend of mine would leave his assignments for last minute. If an essay was due at 7 a.m. before class, he'd set his alarm clock for 5 a.m. and start the essay then. He did well on them, too. What amazes me is that he knew what was best for him, despite teachers who sermonized about avoiding procrastination.
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“Does a start up founder have to be a hacker”- the answer is, NO. The purpose of the founder is to execute. The secret to a start up isn’t the “original idea”…it’s whether or not your founder can execute - never mind the idea. If the founder can’t code a page is he resourceful enough to “execute” and find someone who can…etc.