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In high school I programmed a 1337-speak translator, a hardy-weinburg equilibrium simulator, and a spaceship game. I really loved building things.

But then in college I stopped programming for whatever reason. I guess I didn't think it would make a good 'career'. This was a huge mistake. I got a lot of advice near the end of my education to get a job that I was passionate about, where what I would be doing was something that I would do if left alone.

I looked back at my life and one of the biggest things I enjoyed doing was programming those little applications in high school. All of that programming was entirely on my own and it was one of my favorite things in school.

So, about 3 months ago, I decided to get back into programming and have been working a few really fun projects, including an API for the Stanford Parser http://nlp.naturalparsing.com

Lessons learned:

1) go after what you are passionate about (obvious)

2) its not always too late to pursue your passion and learn new things (not always obvious)
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Because all the major sites/companies were too busy fighting to be the provider everyone uses and never got around to actually accepting anyone else.
That's not entirely true. Red Hat has stuck to the Open Source and Free Software movement since its founding, and I don't think it has strayed from that or compromised, even when Microsoft offered a "patent deal" then waged a proxy IP war via the SCO lawsuit.

They've been granted some defensive patents, but publicly pledged not to use them except to defend themselves and Open Source software.

They're on track to make their fist billion in revenue at the same point as Microsoft did in its existence.
http://www.mibbit.com/ does this.

But when I last tried it I couldn't get onto Freenode and my guess is that their IPs are blocked on a lot of networks.
Should be fixed now, give it a try?
er, Asch experiment rather.
If you really want to learn to appreciate slow walks go with a couple of young kids. My wife and go walking most nights after dinner with our two daughters. We call them Zen Walks.
I understand that user doesn't share credentials but usually, with facebook connect, the only method available to connect is where the site grabs a ton of information from facebook (name, email, profile interests, etc.) .. I'm not so sure I'd want to share it unless there's a reason to it..

e.g. Huffington Post asks for basic info (name, profile pic, gender, user id, list of friends and then some), access to my newsfeed, interests and likes, and my current city .. this is only to comment on a post .. it seems like overkill to me and as a result i wouldn't really use facebook connect in this instance.
The irony is that the Nexus One failed to gain support from the major carriers. The carriers instead released competing models using Android. Users don't really know the difference between a Droid and a Nexus One. They're both Google Android phones right?

When Google released the Nexus One, I remember thinking they're competing with the carriers whom they depend on adopting Android. No way will ATT/VZN let this in their stores.

Google tried to have it both ways.
wellll ok, the real answer is:

It depends on your execution.

In general, reducing friction will increase signups. That's hard to argue against. The only situation where reducing friction will reduce signups is where you seemingly reduce perceived value by doing it, but again, that all depends on execution.

Facebook connect sign in could be executed in a couple of ways:

1) Click a Facebook button. Click approve. Boom, you're registered in your app.

2) Click a Facebook button. Click approve. Get redirected to another signup form and have to fill in more data. Click "Send". Oops, there was an error with your form input, please enter a valid email address. Fill in data. Click "Send".

I can say with confidence that (1) will increase signups, but (2) will hardly move the needle.

It depends on your execution.
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The communication part, which you alluded to in terms of reading someone else's work, is what I was referring to.
I just recently acquired a 3GS, after previously having used a 3G and a 2G. The 3GS is much faster, such that I don't feel like I experience lag in most operations. I had no idea that improving the speed could make such a difference in the entire usability of the device.

I am now using my iPhone more than I had ever used previous versions. I think because the time to accomplish a task is so much shorter, I find more opportunities to use it. I'm using the browser more, because the speed is close to a regular computer (or at least feels like it is). Sure, the screen is small for browsing, but I'm finding myself using double-tap to quickly zoom in and out of parts of the page (whereas before I used a lot of pinch zooming), and panning around the page is quick and painless now (I think it holds more of the rendered page in memory and has to re-render less).

I don't know if my next phone will be an iPhone or Android, but I do know one thing: it will be fast.

Warning on the 3G and iOS4: Iif you upgrade to iOS 4 on your 3G, you may fall into the large subset of people who are experiencing extreme slowdowns. I was one of those people. I had never seen such terrible slowdowns on an iPhone. With a bit of hacking, you can downgrade back to 3.1.2 or 3.1.3, but it's not supported by Apple and requires some 3rd-party tools. There are supposed fixes for this (such as turning off spotlight), but I'd suggest waiting for this to get ironed out before moving to iOS 4. Maybe 4.1 will fix things. iOS 4 doesn't give the 3G much of value anyway.
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What do you mean "got around to updating it?" The iPod touch gets updated every year - just like the iPhone! Apple most certainly does care about the iPod touch. It sells like crazy.
People might do it for fun as they do now. No-one needs to farm anymore because you can just buy your food at the grocery store cheaper than it could be grown.
Yeah, Freenode isn't listed. I guess a service like this could allow spammers to have a field day.
The link appears to be dead? (404 on blog)
If only they would build a plugin that worked. I don't even care between eclipse, intellij, or netbeans -- just one that works. As it is, I can't sell scala when their plugin regularly hard locks eclipse for multiple minutes at a time, generates spurious compiler errors, etc. And our project isn't that big -- 2000 kloc java, 8.3k java files. We're a perfect place for scala given our extant code base, but until the tools work, it's not happening :(
They did so knowingly at the expense of long-term profit?
Obviously not. These are just a couple MIT/Ivy/Stanford kids who PG liked and decided to give 20k to spend time at summer camp. No one could bootstrap this. The technology inst hard to copy, so if it could be bootstrapped we see a lot of them. Also, it over relies peoples use of Facebook, Twitter.
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Maybe you should just quit for the sake of your family. I am not being defeatist, or else just work out some milestones that you'll obtain from here onward. If you don't meet them, then quit.
They don't seem to include a way to export Google Talk conversations.
Can I ask why you're opting out of nearshore VA options?
I'm not aware of any such clause, are you thinking of "don't be evil"? What you may be thinking of is some of the weird voting rights arrangements:

"In an unusual provision for a technology company, Google will create two classes of shares with different voting rights, a move that aims to guarantee that founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page will maintain decision-making authority"

A clause like that doesn't affect the type of lawsuits I am talking about.
why walk in the street? I walk in my house everyday, it's save and I can walk naked.
My guess is they've all got their heads down trying to hit that deadline.
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It's actually a good thing that Americans refuse to accept dollar coins. The printing costs to make paper $1 bills are really the only check & balance that the people have against the devaluing of our currency through excessive printing of money.
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Also my thought, but then I got thinking: how long does it take to pump out a single blog post with an update?
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Since I live in Brazil and this business plan pretty much prevents me from moving, I find it unlikely.

Wanna try, pg? We can always access the Pringles from a remote location.
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I've already forgotten about diaspora (such a weird word to say). Hopefully when they release it really is something amazing and they prove every naysayer wrong. And if it really is great, mainstream media needs to pick it up like they picked up twitter, then we have real competition.

I have my doubts though.
Those poor, poor guys. Nobody deserves their awful fate: To have to try to invent an audacious new startup, with a hazily defined product that is bound to let half of the audience down when it doesn't have unicorns and rainbows, all the while living in a fishbowl, surrounded on all sides by a mob six thousand strong, a mob made of people who feel that, having kicked in thirty whole US dollars, they deserve something awesome.

It's not just a bad idea. It's really cruel. I have been to a first-rate grad school. I have read Pepper White's The Idea Factory, a book which gave me nightmares and made me want to travel across the campus offering hugs to every grad student I could find. And thus I have seen some of the best minds of my generation driven into near-suicidal depression by their self-perceived inability to live up to their expectations of greatness, or their parents' expectations, or their own perception of their parents' expectations. And these are people without an audience of thousands.

So I'm really afraid for these Diaspora guys. Way too much spotlight, way too soon. Startup ideas fail; that is what they do most of the time. Are these guys going to be given room to fail a few times? Or are they ultimately going to need therapy?

Let me try to help: If the Diaspora team gets together at the end of September and puts on a Youtube production of Springtime for Hitler I'll send them fifty bucks. If they ship some software as well, I'll make it sixty.
then pesters the government to condone jailbreaking and unlocking

More specifically, "pestering" the government for an exemption to a horrible law that they created. I absolutely want less government involvement in matters like that; we can start by repealing the DMCA.
I thought the closest thing in Git to Mercurial queues was Git stashes.
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this is more like it. if only everyone posted essays like this...
I took the first job I could get out of college. I am paid, like you, 1/3 of what I should be making (according to state stats). I have a mortgage, and a puppy to take care of. I barely squeeze by, but the company would be screwed if I left. I've tried to get other jobs with no success so far. I'm starting to feel like I'm stuck not only in my current job, but in New Mexico. Sorry for the rant, but I feel where you're at twidlit.
It just seems like it gets less love, because the iPod touch is updated 2-3 months after the iPhone is. Really, its just because the products were announced 2-3 months apart and thats how the release cycle works out.
I know a number of people who completed master's degrees in pure math who I suspect had not yet read a paper, and who definitely had not published one.

Personally I published my first paper in undergrad. But that was considered unusual among the people I knew.
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If I can understand the complexity classes themselves as well as the consequences of P = or != NP (which I believe I can), then it seems like I should expect (or at least hope for) a similarly-comprehensible proof.

Contrast that with, say, special relativity. I can't even really understand the consequences of special relativity (length contraction, relativity of simultaneity, time dilation, etc.) beyond accepting that my intuitions are completely errant at relativistic speeds. Because of that, I don't really expect or hope for an intuitive proof or explanation of special relativity.
That's the merit of working in good companies such as Google or Facebook. You don't struggle for the drain of talent. Great programmers just fade in the scene and work on proud project. It is also the merit of starting a company with your tech friends because you don't have to worry about good hiring for a relatively long time.
I definitely empathize with the feeling of having too much attention too soon. That said, I think there are worse predicaments to be in - at the worst, their product flops or never comes out fully-baked, but they had the funds to live on during that process and will doubtless have learned a lot.
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However there are fundamental economic reasons why the wired market should lead to natural monopolies and the wireless market should lead to more competition. Therefore there is good reason to wait.

Furthermore bandwidth is limited. The proposal is not what Google wants, it is what they were able to get Verizon to agree to. I read that clause as very much of an, "We agree to disagree, and agree that our areas of agreement are worth pursuing anyways."
I'm actually not at all, but figured that places like India and the Philippines would be cheaper. Do you think the ROI for native English speakers is higher? I'm absolutely open to all suggestions.
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> The no cell data while in a call is a CDMA issue, not a phone issue.

Yes, I have successfully browsed the web in the middle of a call, using 3G(HSPA) on my G1.
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Hi HN,

I've been working on a startup for the past few weeks to get our MVP out the door. We're ready to let the world know about our product, called HiveDesk.

HiveDesk is a solution for managing outsource/remote workers. The idea actually came from a friend who manages 5 Filipino employees on monthly salary. He was concerned that they weren't being honest about their hours worked, and didn't want to keep paying 10% fees associated with outsource portals like oDesk (who offer time tracking/screenshot capturing software). What he needed was a 3rd party service that let him manage his workers at a cheaper price. Thats where we stepped in.

HiveDesk lets employers oversee and manage remote workers through our client software. The worker installs it and "checks in" to a project whenever they're ready to work. The timer is started and automatically tracks time worked, and screenshot data is submitted every 10 minutes. It helps keep bosses in the loop as to work progress, and keeps contractors honest (no lying about hours worked, or goofing off on your dime).

You can learn more about HiveDesk at http://www.hivedesk.com

What do you think guys? We still have yet to build a proper business model / price points. Opinions and suggestions appreciated. Thanks
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This is easy to fix.

Check the account's Advanced settings, and make sure that the account's Deleted Mailbox points at the "On the Server" trash. You may also want to confirm that the Sent and Drafts mailboxes point to their Gmail equivalents.

You can archive a message by moving it to the All Mail folder.

In iOS 4, there's an option at the top level settings of accounts created as "Gmail" accounts to archive or trash messages deleted on the device, I'm not sure how this relates to the above settings.
Look into all of the bs Twitter apps that are out there on the internet. When I google my name, I see lots of random twitter apps I've never heard of that keep track of parts of my twitter account--tweets I've retweeted, who's starred which of my tweets, etc. I bet some of them keep track of who you follow as well.

You could also try google cache. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:McZbpn8... has 20 of the people you follow(ed). You might be able to get some more if you can find the caches of the followers pages
I hate to say it, but this is what happens when you have a bunch of people, who have no idea what early stage investing is like, and have them invest in an early stage company. It results in:

* the wrong amount of money being given

* extremely high expectations

* 24 / 7 monitoring, with anger if any tiny mistake is made
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OmniGraffle is also a great tool for wireframing and simple web graphics. Every time I complete a task without opening Photoshop, I want to give OmniGraffle a high five.
How much more would you be delayed if did contract work 2 days a week? Would your startup be more at risk of failing if you freelanced those two days a week, or if you risked surviving without it?
You just reminded me of my own awakening with hyper card in early high school. Until reading this, I considered my first "wow, this is awesome" experience with programming was simple VB6 apps in late high school. Hyper card rocked my world.
Is my entrepreneurial spirit of the 15-year-old still alive.
This is not more like a question, but an expression of my foremost thought.

I designed/developed this web site when I was 15 (5 years ago): http://web.archive.org/web/20051215081101/http://viewhtml.net/

I was very entrepreneurial at the time. I was thinking about making big things happen. Then I did not have success as I originally perceived.

I gave up my dreams. I found applying to Ive League schools more thrilling.

My hosting expired I was careless to create a backup. Needless to say I lost months of my hard work.

I could have achieved my desired success if I had not given up. I cannot tell for sure.

I am 20 now, and still aspiring to be the best.

Any similar stories?
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Yeh same here. Typically graph x-axis are time, totally threw me off.

So seeing that in reverse I was like "Well because we have more family and less Rated R movies nowadays that are blockbusters". Even rated R movies are not the same as the top grossing one is 'Passion of the Christ'.

Not sure what is worse graphs with time in the wrong direction or that more family movies are being made now with killing in them.
I have had some horrible PhD teachers. that's because the PhD is on top of a mountain that they have made a great effort to climb and have forgotten what its like to be in the foot hills of that mountain.

I think advanced pupils make better teachers as they remember the foothills.
Additionally, 3 of the 4 had major PR behind them. Kevin Rose was on ZDTV/TechTV where he publicly talked about (and where I first heard about) Digg; the Quora guys got famous as the "ex-FB executives" who left to form their company; and Stack Overflow was huge because Joel is one of the most famous programmer-bloggers in the world.
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Go do something else BUT let others evaluate your product in the meantime.

Open it up to discussion; why you designed the UI a certain way or why it contains features XYZ vs ABC. Allow yourself to be critiqued.
I don't do everything in one place, but I don't avoid specific stores or brands for fear of "entrusting everything to them" either. I go to whatever store is best for the things I want and most convenient for me at the time.

In practice, I do about 80% of my grocery shopping at Fresh & Easy, because its goods are high-quality, its prices on most things are amazing and it is literally right around the corner from my apartment.

Similarly, I use Google for most of my searching and email because it has the best products in these areas.
I dunno, no one made them set out the promises they chose to make, that was their own decision.

Still, I suspect that Kickstarter will suffer more than the Diaspora guys if Diaspora fails.
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I dono, man. I mean, I'm making between 1/3rd and 1/4th what I'd be making normally, and I'm feeling pretty good about things because my net worth is increasing quickly.

I mean, things have been much worse. At its worst, I was personally on the hook for tens of thousands of dollars of company debit, and making even less money than I am now. failure is something that I've faced before and that I'll probably face again. But, the thing is, I've never had any real financial responsibilities. If failed, really, my creditors would have been the only people who were hurt. Hell, even now, yeah, I'm living with someone, but she's another bay area nerd and doesn't need my money.

I personally would feel very different about taking the risks I take if others were depending on me. Would I do it anyhow? I don't know. but I'd think much harder about it. (and yeah, this is part of why I've avoided taking on those responsibilities.)

On the other hand, I do know other very successful entrepreneurs who made their money while supporting families. But most of those took the lower-risk 'productize your consulting business' route.