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It's a secret code to tell blog readers that you don't know exactly how to run a webserver...
Sorry, that should have read 'in comparison with Intel'.
I am not after financial independence the easy way. I could never work for an investment bank. It's boring. And even if you're paid $200K a year at a bank, you're still a pawn. Nothing more than a mere cog in a big machine, unable to decide your own future. I don't advocate that. I am only stating that there are tradeoffs. You can trade money for freedom. You can trade excitement for safety. You can be a sheep and be bored, you can be a wolf and be lonely.

In any case, there's nothing particularly noble about empire per se. Sure, it pleases the ego. But there's always a bigger empire. And empires require HR departments and middle managers and other such distasteful things. You don't need to be the captain of an aircraft carrier. It's also fun to run a pirate ship.
Awesome work with company info. But instead of looking up the home page I feel it may be more relevant to look up the about pages. For example for orders@dynadot.com Rapportive tells me:

> Extends your domain by one year.
Time remaining on your domain will be added.
*Except .eu and .be. 3GB of bandwidth and 30MB of space.
Applies to new domain registrations only.

which happens to be the current offer for domain transfers on the Dynadot home page. I would prefer to see some info from the about page[1] though:

> Dynadot is an ICANN accredited domain name registrar and web host
located in San Mateo, California...

[1]: http://www.dynadot.com/company/about.html
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Hollywood loves to try and make us believe crazy things. Don't you think so?
Maybe I'm weird but I don't want stuff I've labelled ending up in spam. I've never seen one of these messages being actual spam, usually just a mailing list posting.
Think bigger than that. Insurance companies have the most to win here, so they'll pioneer certification.

But you don't even need offshore personel: imagine the "doctor-ATM". Now you can see a doctor 24-7 from a booth on the nearest gas station. The doc just happens to be in the big medical center two hours away.
I recently got an Android phone, ans was stumped to find that the Android Market did not support paid apps in Norway, where I live.

I'm speechless..
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Checkout hs-minor-mode as well. Great for sifting through code (or xml, html etc)
Switzerland in contrary has pretty high prices compared to other EU and smaller countries. So the competition between the carriers is also an important factor. We have 3 big carriers here and one is in big amounts owned by the government.

I pay additional 16 bucks to get 500 MB (!!!) data for my plan...that's pretty high although we're a small country
There is actually a really good reason not to start a start-up with friends, you might find that your friendship is the victim of either the success or the failure of your start-up.
> I don't know either why it stopped working.

They no longer can use one monopoly to create another. That's what landed them in trouble in the US and in the EU. Their historical model of growth is no longer possible.

I would suspect they rely too much on focus groups to drive product development. There is only so much consumers can tell you about what they need. You can't just round up a bunch of consumers and ask them what will be the Next Big Thing. Well... You can, but you will end up with a Kin or a Zune in your hand.
I think the vacation example is a typical example of journalist dumbing-down. Travel is about actually being there, not a very good candidate for telepresense. If it was, HD travelshows would be a substitute for vacation.

Think outside the box, of cases where the presense of the flesh of the practitioner is undesirable, either for safety, space, logistics, or costs. Someone mentioned taxi-drivers, which is a very good example.
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That's an exact description of the ATMs in Norway, and they have always done that.
Hey now, please don't put words in my mouth. I never claimed to have any evidence of anything. I merely made a general statement about the lack of validity of a statistically-insignificant, non-random sample. Sounds like you have an axe to grind, or something.

But yes, I would trust a bunch of blogs on the internet (at least, the ones that have proven themselves over time to be reputable) over a random anecdote from a HN poster.
Well no, if you can't declare any variable without 'var', the ' dir= "data" ' line is very explicitly assignment and not a variable declaration. You can still make the mistake but the piece of code would stand out.

The problem in javascript is that "a=12" does create a new variable, even if it's a global, and that many people just go through their code declaring only globals.

If you did get a syntax error everytime you did that, you'd soon have the habit of putting var in front of every new variable you declare.
Honestly, calling yourself an idiot is a huge turnoff. You automatically make me want to not cheer you on. It makes me feel like you deserve to fail. Bill gates, Steve Jobs, Paul Grahams and many other famous people have had failures before becoming successful but you have never heard them call themselves idiots (as far as I'm aware). If nothing else they would call those failures "early attempts at success". And the worst thing is that what you did cannot really be called a failure so what is wrong with you? Even if you think that you are no longer an idiot the title and article gives waves of no confidence. My advise, please never call yourself an idiot; your subconscious will start to believe you're an idiot and so will other people. Is difficult to describe but just remembering your article I feel repulsion. I wonder whether other people feel like this. Anybody else or do I just have issues?
Many people do follow a statistical/empirical approach when deciding whether or not to buy a particular product. If no one did, review companies like Consumer Reports wouldn't exist.

The fact that many customers seem to drool over Apple products simply because of the Apple label is regrettable (for some reasons, not all), but not that surprising.

(Hell, I love my MacBook Pro, even though I only run Linux on it. At present it'd take a lot to convince me to buy a non-Apple laptop. I won't go near the iPhone for software reasons, but that's another matter.)
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huh? Reddit is pretty much the best example of this. No real technology, just a community, sold for $10m or whatever, and now struggling because it doesn't have a business model.
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Can't speak for anyone else, but I disagree. Title notwithstanding, the article is a nice piece of self-reflection. The author clearly looked at his semi-successful past, and managed to see both what he did right, and what he did wrong. Not many people are as able (or willing) to dig deep like that, much less share those thoughts with others. I'm happy he did so so that I have a chance to learn, and I also think it takes great confidence to admit what you did wrong.
Amusingly true!
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It isn't hard to have this problem :) I am going to move to Prague soon where life is only marginally more expensive than in my current location, and you still may live pretty decent life on 1k$/month.
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Dismissing webapps isn't really fair. Facebook succeeded in building an empire. They have a massive barrier to entry via the network effect.
I don't think it matters whether the NSA can decrypt it. The 'insurance' is a contingency for releasing information to the general public and mainstream media; there is almost surely nothing of value in it as a weapon against Wikileaks. Any organization or group which will decrypt it but not release it doesn't count.

Random bloggers or citizens, on the other hand, might release it if they decrypted it - but this seems secure against them.
I don't agree. How is Google going to require that all manufacturers of Android phones continue to support each model with sometimes-major OS upgrades for X number of years? Why would they even want to?

Apple has, what... 8 devices (4 generations of iPhone, 3 of iPod Touch, and the iPad) out? Hell, at least that many new Android phones have or will come out this year alone!

And even Apple can't keep all their devices up-to-date: people with the iPhone 3G are reporting slowness and instability with iOS 4. I imagine the 1st-gen iPod Touch (and maybe even 2nd-gen) would have trouble as well. And last I read, iOS 4 isn't available yet for the iPad. So Apple's track record is (on the generous side) that 50% of their potentially-capable devices work with iOS 4.

There's an easy way to solve the "what version of Android does this phone I'm considering buying have on it?" problem -- ask a salesperson. If they don't know, ask the manufacturer. Or just google for it. I'm sure someone else has the phone and has noted it somewhere, or some reviewer has gotten a review unit and has noted the version.

And how do you know if it's going to get upgrades? You go by the manufacturer's past record with such things. The interwebs can tell you all this, and more.
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Nothing wrong with learning from your failures. I do it all the time. I Think back about the times that I screw up and that if I'd had more experience things would have turned different. But hindsight is 20-20 so calling yourself an idiot just because you had no experience and were learning is unfair to yourself. What is the necessity of calling himself an idiot and then trying to convince us that he is an idiot. It smells a lot like low confidence and I'm not sure I want to be around him if he feels that way. The paper could have been written as lessons learned from his first startup. The way he portrays himself is just completely wrong. I noticed he has other articles and I just cannot force myself to read them. He did to good a job in his article convincing me that he was an idiot. How do I know he still is not one. He probably is not because of what he did (he made a good amount of money) but emotionally I still feel like he is an idiot. Weird huh?
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If it was, HD travelshows would be a substitute for vacation.

They don't substitute for vacation. They might very well satisfy that urge to travel ... just like people watching Discovery or Nat Geo in the comfort of their homes. You can do this everyday as opposed only a few times a year .. which you can still do.
> I would be pretty annoyed if I couldn't install W7 on the laptop I bought today.

Huh? We're not talking about the laptop (phone) you bought today. We're talking about the one you bought a year (or more) ago.

And the laptop comparison is limited: new laptops generally have more than enough power to run the current OS and apps. Embedded devices usually have just enough and not much more. People don't like to buy $1000 phones, so we get a single-core 1GHz Snapdragon with 512MB of RAM instead of a dual-core 1GHz Tegra2 with 1GB of RAM.

> This is the same problem we had in the past, but it is more of an issue now. This is what Apple freed us from, no matter what carrier it is on in the world, I can upgrade my phone.

Well, unless you have an iPhone 3G -- reports are that iOS4 is unstable and slow as hell.

And I have a Nexus One, and I can use it on whatever carrier I like, and upgrade it to whatever software I like. Granted, custom Android mods aren't for your average consumer, but I expect (ok, wishfully hope) that to change in the next few years.
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It reduces the size of the market for related goods, such as record sales, clothing, TV subscriptions, etc. by alienating poorer consumers. It hurts the brand, basically.
> Like Ballmer, Steve Jobs is also not a tech nerd

Though Jobs isn't a certified engineer, he did wrote code, soldered chips on motherboards, etc. He certainly knows what parts a computer is made of, how software works, etc.
Sure, the laptop comparison falls down in some ways, but I'd argue that your point argues in favor of mine. A phone is much more locked down and difficult to upgrade. Most customers won't upgrade unless it comes in a nice automatic OTA package from the carrier or manufacturer. With PCs you have the option to relatively easily purchase or download a major new OS version and install it yourself. PCs are commodity hardware; phones are not (yet).

The fact that unlocked multi-carrier phones aren't readily available is a problem with how the carriers and wireless service works, and has nothing to do with Android, or iOS, for that matter.
"an idea as compelling as Twitter" - proof that something is a great idea like Twitter only becomes obvious in retrospect. If you heard a description of Twitter just before it launched, you probably wouldn't think it would work (or wouldn't know one way or the other). Hence the importance of the founding team and how well they execute the idea.
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> The best thing Microsoft could do is to innovate and do something no one's done.

The last time they did so was when Allen and Gates decided there must be a market for BASIC on Altair and microcomputers in general. Maybe Traf-o-matic was an innovation, too. However none of their significant products afterwards was anything new :

* common programming languages for different systems
* MS-DOS, built from a borrowed clone of CP/M
* Xenix, an AT&T licensed Unix
* Windows, a pale copy of existing GUIs of the time
* Word, a Wordstar rip-off
* Multiplan, a VisiCalc rip-off
* Excel, a Lotus 1-2-3 rip-off
<snip some years>
* C# and .Net, an enhanced java

The list goes on and on. I really can't see any innovating product ever coming from Microsoft (there are excellent products, but these are incremental enhancements). Apple, on the contrary, has a long history of earth-shaking innovations (brought to the masses the personal computer, the GUI, the graphic printer, the IDE, the mp3 player, the touchscreen devices...) . It's simply not comparable.
Ask HN: Any possibilities of a career in proprietary trading remotely?
I traded US stocks in a proprietary trading firm during my studies. It didn't interfere with my classes, because US Exchanges operates in the afternoon my local time.

I did day trading on US Equity market as an independent contractor. After about a year I learned a little python and built a model which automatically sends orders and gives positions. It's rather a concept than successful algorithm yet, it needs far more testing.

Now I graduated and had to quit my job. I have summaries of my trading from December 2008 till March 2010, with quite stable profits.

Is it possible to continue what I did earlier through the internet? Do you know some proprietary trading firms hiring outside US? What do they require? What conditions do they offer? I'm curious your advice.

I live in a south of Poland.
The filter is already build into WL (and similar organizations): They can only publish information they get from informants. The informants are the filter.
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I love technology and progress but this is just sad IMHO: "People could use them to go on remote vacations, he said, touring the streets of a faraway country or interacting with the locals without ever leaving their bedrooms."
What they should do is to allow you to remove everything that you haven't replied back to.
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Re-read the article and take notes :)

Taking notes helps in two ways: first, it forces you to think about what you read to extract the salient points; That thinking enhance your understanding and memorisation. Second, it allows you to remember more easily by quickly checking your notes; memory is a dynamic process, and the notes will help you remember the thoughts you had writing them down, therefore the material.
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Am I missing something, or is that a story that glorifies a programmer who refused to listen to customer requirements and wrote obfuscated, unmaintainable code?
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It does look like an April Fool's joke, doesn't it? I had to check the date on the article...
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>>They no longer can use one monopoly to create another.

I tried to write that in the paragraph starting with: "Could the problem be a lack of a monopoly leverage?". :-)

>>That's what landed them in trouble in the US and in the EU.

I wonder if that is the reason. They kept ignoring the monopoly laws and paid fines ten years later, when they courts had managed to get to the (then ancient) transgression.

>>I would suspect they rely too much on focus groups to drive product development.

Hmm.. a point which seems to fit well.
This is not a giveaway, this is a lottery with the apparent goal of fattening up their facebook visibility.
Why not raise capital and start your own fund if you have the track record already?
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This is a great idea. The article just talks about taking notes on books, but it's just as worthwhile for movies, podcasts, lectures, presentations, etc.

I've generally found that taking notes during something like a lecture or presentation (anything that I can't pause, in fact) actually hinders my understanding. I think it's because I have to divide my concentration between writing and listening/watching. But for these things, writing up notes immediately afterwards is tremendously helpful.

Sometimes it's just the action of taking notes which provides the benefit, even if you never re-read them again.
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> maybe put an end to at least a tiny bit of the language religion that seems to infect the web programming world.

That alone makes it well worth it to me. I'm not going to donate because I've never used your stuff, but if that's your goal then it's a noble one. Good luck!
Either way, I think it's a good deal. I have been convincing my company to get vs2010 since its launch in April, and yet I wait for the bufget to be sanctioned. I want to use Intellitrace so badly!
Not necessarily: the good developer might be a rubbish marketer or sales person and cannot reach potential customers and those reached are not converted.
Phoneless deals in Finland: 1Mbps 10 eur ($13)/mo, unlimited speed 14 eur ($18)/mo. Both with no data caps. Phone calls 0.07 eur/min and SMS 0.06 eur apiece. Oh yeah, and you get multiple sim cards, eg for your phone and netbook.
Revamping the ATM seems a bit backwards.

I don't carry cash, haven't for 6 or 7 years now.

Electronic transaction fees with debit cards are non-existent.

My paycheck goes straight into my bank account.

Transferring money to other NZ bank accounts electronically costs nothing, and shows up within 1 day (or instantly if the same bank).

In fact, the only time I get charged is if I actually use an ATM, or go into the bank to speak to someone.

But there is no merchant in NZ who does not accept electronic transactions, so no need to use an ATM, or carry cash.

Only necessary if you want to transact without knowledge of the revenue department :)
MS used to be pretty loose with handing out MSDN subscriptions and software, maybe you could simply talk to them and see where it goes?
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Well I suppose there's more than one way to read it. You could try reading it again with your irony button switched on.
Try 3G roaming in Europe if you want to see ridiculous rates. 3 euros / MB!
Of course there are risks involved, but don't your users usually pay you because they consider your software worth paying for?

They probably don't feel like they're resigning their fate to an abusive relationship.
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IRCnet used to be fun to spend the teenage days. (late nineties and the beginning of century, hehe)

EFNet has tremendous communities devoted to music

Freenode is go-to for open-source software chatrooms.
But does it run on Linux?
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The number I've seen thrown around is that 90% of startups fails. I don't know over time period, what fail means or if it's even factual.
As I pointed out the first time this article was posted (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1559056), the article title is a truncated and distorted version of the actual quote: "We have learned nothing from the genome other than probabilities."
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Unfortunately I have to concur with this from personal experience. However saying that it doesn't seem to have stopped me from trying again. That is until I run out of friends :)
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Ask HN:Looking for blogs and real life stories about entrepreneur with family’s
Hi
i really need to read and learn how startup entrepreneur's that have family’s managing to take the big risk and do this crazy thing called "start-up" as i see it from my point of view ( 2 kids and wife + mortgage) its impossible task.
Thanks for sharing!
Same here.

Maybe because it's not so different from my own english accent. :]
tl;dr: he was doing something constructive but not making money, so he's decided to emulate a guy who sells "how to paste over online criticism" videos.

If the writer is reading this thread: please don't. Your integrity and self-respect have value too.
I'm so glad that Hacker News is now tracking the pant sizes of show business personalities and I look forward with great anticipation to learning how many pounds Oprah has lost or gained this month.
the release of the documents contains very little the enemy does not know about

They didn't know about this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1560565
As I see it, I disagree that it alienates poorer consumers.

Perhaps you were thinking along this line: that it discourages venues from offering coupon clipping discounts. It won't though: a venue has a fixed number of seats available, and will attempt to maximise its profit for this available volume of seats. If they're going to have leftovers, they'll find ways to discount out what's left.

Scalping works against a venue practice where they charge higher prices for last-minute tickets with an intent of selling less-than-all the available tickets but netting more profit due to the high charges. With scalping, they compete with the guys out the front gates and last-minute sites on the internet. It now becomes more attractive for them to try and sell all the seats, rather than charging a lot for just a few. Hence, scalping is helping reduce prices, and creates more places at the venue.

Separately, if you got into a situation where you had to choose between seeing Madonna on stage and eating you can sell your ticket and buy food with what you get.

Interesting: scalping becomes less lucrative when it's legal because venues know they are unlike to get away with things that they will do well on when it's banned. As a result, the market won't exist.

Perhaps you have other scenarios I haven't thought of though, if so I'm interested to hear.
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They're probably getting way too much money to risk killing windows. The last thing they want is a viable alternative.
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