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My experience 1 year into Fatherhood agrees with this. We put baby on a cyclic routine of Eat, Play, Sleep since about day 7. She was sleeping through the night at 8wks. Check out "On Becoming Babywise", Gary Ezzo.

Like all the other papas here say, BE SENSITIVE TO YOUR WIFE. Be aware that as your wife breast feeds (if she does) her hormones are still rocking to a different beat every hour. Let complaints roll off your back. Sometimes things won't make sense to you, but go with the flow. Afford her tons of generosity and selflessness. Clean the house for her, offer to take the baby so she can sleep, draw her a bath to soak in with candles and bubbles. Take her on a romantic date if she's up for it so she feels like she's still got it even though she may complain about her body often. Make her life easy and sweet and yours will be good.

Also, for a bit of relief... listen to Garrison Keilor's Fatherhood tale: http://www.publicradio.org/tools/media_player/popup.php?name...

Enjoy being daddy! It's absolutely wonderful. You will forget about working overtime. You'll want to spend any and all free time with your little one. Cheers!
Nice concept overall .. but i agree with fierarul... those links to Eric Ries, etc. almost felt as if they had some sort of an association with this project or had their blessings.

the website footnotes are wayyy too prominent .. and borderline boastful ..

and the "Yes, Build my MVP" link looks out of place as compared to the rest of the site. you might want to change the font style.

maybe you should spend some more time on it vs. using the "created in less than x hours" line.
When I saw the first pictures of the new iphone and heard about its camera, I looked at the volume buttons and automatically assumed that they would be used to take the picture; just like a real camera. The fact that you can't really baffles me. Touching a software button on the screen that you are trying to line up for a good shot is awkward and inelegant. Good for the camera+ guys for trying to include this feature. I only wish I had heard about it sooner so I could have gotten a copy. Maybe it is yet again time for me to jailbreak my phone.
OS X's text system does have per character transparency. It's not exposed by TextEdit but it is exposed by Pages's color picker.

You could retrofit smart justification onto the text system, but it would require some non-trivial code (namely an NSTypesetter subclass). It's not easy, but it's possible.
So is 170° too hot for coffee? I still don't quite get it. is that Fahrenheit, or Celsius (the latter probably physically impossible, but still)? What temperature is coffee now (at McD and at Starbucks?)?

Feeling sorry for someone doesn't appear to be beneficial to people's judgement.
I always thought Al Gore was the Father of the Internet.

This whole PR is just plain BS. Data packets with headers [cribs] routed over a digital communications network -- look beyond the mythical van in California. Look for inspirations from the C&C used in Blitzkrieg...

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Gordon_Welchm...
Mark Zuckerberg actually donated to Diaspora: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/05/zuckerberg-interview/
I couldn't figure that out either, so I asked a friend who actually worked on this code and I came away feeling just a tad dirty but smarter. :)

The last three bits of the real address are always 000.

If you ask C's malloc for enough space to store a JS string, object, or float, the address that it gives you will be aligned on a 32-bit boundary, so the last three bits of the address will be 0. SpiderMonkey has it's own allocator, mostly because they do GC, but this allocator also guarantees that any address allocated for one of these types is aligned.

Because of this, the last three bits can always be used to store the type tag and then masked away to restore the proper 000 bits.
It is probably rude, but I'm still too curious and have to ask: what part of the world are you living in, where you don't get 1080p satellite coverage?
SMS is cheap in India. You can get plans with upto 500 messages a day for 99 rupees a month.
Most developers only tend to stick around in a job for a couple of years. Going the employee route isn't a guarantee that you'll always have the original developers available.
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My question is serious and genuine. I expected answers, not votes.

Now I recognize that it is a complex question: If Google Analytics has some advantages that you can't reproduce even when you fully control your web server, I would like to know what it is. If it does not, then we may want to stop sending all our logs to Google right now.
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if both developers and end users want to circumvent the restrictions you really have to wonder as a company if you are on the right path

And most people do wonder, and then they cave. Which explains the dynamic that drives 90% of the designs out there:

CUSTOMER: "I want to be able to receive email from inside my blog."

DEVELOPER: "No, really, you don't. Email is a complex beast. It will make your blog software much bigger and more complicated and fragile. You will spend a lot more to develop it and a lot more to maintain it. It will be hard to design in such a way that it's easy to learn and understand. And you may think you need it, but you don't."

[five minutes pass]

CUSTOMER: "The most important missing feature is: I want to be able to receive email from inside my blog."

DEVELOPER: "We talked about that five minutes ago. It is a really bad idea!"

[iterate fifty times]

CUSTOMER: "I want to be able to receive email from inside my blog."

DEVELOPER: "Okay! Okay! I want that, too, so that I can charge you money to implement it instead of fending off the request every five seconds."

[two months later]

CUSTOMER: "Why is my blog software so difficult for my new employees to learn, and why is it so complicated, and why does it cost so much to maintain?"

DEVELOPER: [stabs self with pen]

---

Design integrity is hard. Hard on everyone. Maybe that's why so few products have it.
If you have any exotic places you'd like to visit, do it now! Much harder logistically to manage later when you have kids.
The definition of hackers back in the 90's is (and should be) different than the definition of hackers today.
You don't bill for that stuff, though.
aha!

I interpreted "the second TIAM object" as "the new TIAM object", as opposed to the second of the original objects. Thank you for the clarification :)
PG: And without good programmers you won't get good software, no matter how many people you put on a task, or how many procedures you establish to ensure "quality"

IMHO truer words have never been spoken.
And there were a vastly larger number of Ostwals that suffered the same amount, and never succeeded. Successful revolutionaries are statistical outliers, almost by definition.
Why is that upsetting? It wasn’t given away for free under a redistribution licence, it was given away for 'what you want to pay' under a non-redistribution licence. Just because you want to redistribute it doesn’t make that legal.
They said "being screwed", not "are screwed".

If you are screwed then you're up the creek without a paddle, in a hopeless situation. If you're being screwed then someone is taking the mickey, taking advantage of their power over you to your detriment.

Now, if someone is prohibiting modifications to your motor vehicle, then you probably are being screwed, though unless you have some health issue that prevents you from driving with the standard controls (or taking steady photos via an awkward touchscreen control) then you're likely not screwed by this imposition, just inconvenienced.
Apparently this was done to "force" to close their accounts according to one former Citibank employee

So that's what is happening. This sounds similar to what Amex did last year, except they paid people to leave instead of muscling them out: http://blogs.wsj.com/wallet/2009/02/23/american-express-payi...
Heh, I wouldn't know what to do with another car or a TV, but I can measure the ways in which my shiny new iPhone 4 has made my life better; and I'd love to have a house with a project room and a garage and a yard large enough to grow all the herbs and vegetables I'd like.
The OP claims that employers don’t value the institutional knowledge that is built up by employeees. I can refute this from my direct experience, which, as I understand, is not atypical for a developer working at a startup.

I worked for five years for MetaCarta, which sold geographic search technology, primarily to government agencies and oil companies. In April we were aquired by Nokia, which runs its own search engine (http://maps.ovi.com/) and wants to improve its local search capabilities. Nokia hired all of the MetaCarta engineers, offering us retention bonuses. In July, Nokia sold the government-and-oil end of MetaCarta’s business to Qbase, a company in Ohio that I had never heard of before, licensing the technology to Qbase and keeping the engineers.

If Nokia had considered the institutional knowledge of MetaCarta’s engineering staff to be worthless, they would have just bought the IP and not given the engineers any particular incentive to stay on.
It works exactly as claimed from Sweden at least. It returns my full name a profile pic and corrects minor typos.
If you don't have a lot of money but are interested in doing something you might want to check out Kiva (http://www.kiva.org).

They give micro loans to small businesses in countries around the world. You, over the course of months, get your money back and you can then redistribute it back to another person somewhere else.

I've been a member for nearly four years now and in that time I've managed to help with 14 loans.
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She mainly mentions Ruby. Which, more so than other languages, actually does seem to be much more than just a language to the developers who use it. Knowing her husband loves Ruby to her also speaks to his programming philosophy, community involvement, etc.
I wonder how much an SMS message costs an indian farmer (it also requires an extra cell phone), it might very well be a substantial part of the cost of operation. In the end it's a convenience thing (you don't have to walk) which is worth some $ or it would have to save money or create a better yield.

Indian mobile networks are fairly well connected.
And sending local SMS messages are, for all practical purposes, free. Cell phones can be had for US$30. Possibly less.

If you want to build technology-related services that are accessible to the largest possible part of the Indian population, using SMS as a protocol is probably the right way to go.

(Edit: But from what I understood, this device involves phoning a number and using a keypad to issue commands. )
P=NP
Here is my proof that P=NP, or rather, that you can solve all O(2^n) time and space problems in O(n) time and space.

Moore's Law says that circuit density, hence memory and CPU speed, doubles roughly every 1.5 years.

Take a problem which takes 2^n time. There exist three constants, A, B, and C, such that you can do the following. First, wait for A x n years. Second, go to Best Buy (or whatever store exists after the alien invasion of 2092) and purchase the fastest computer you can buy with B dollars. Third, run the problem on the computer for C x n seconds. QED.

When I was a PhD student at Maryland I told this proof to the esteemed Bill Gasarch, a friend of mine. He spat out a bunch of "no, no, no, no," then paused for a second contemplatively, then more "no, no, no...". I'm certain that during that second pause he was thinking, "can I publish this?" I'm sure Bill will deny this. :-)
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When I moved to London from Adelaide, Australia six years ago there were very few places you could get a reliably good cup of coffee.

Over the following years, Flat White opened in Soho and slowly but surely more cafés with a focus on coffee followed. It has to be said that the baristas in most of them are often Australian or Kiwi.
Well, we don't even have our definition of evil straight...
Only in 2-3 hours? A small web app takes at least 5 hours (if you consider design, JavaScript, PHP, Databases).

A startup should have a problem. The solution can take weeks. How are you going to do about it? Also if the founder is non-techie, you'll need to install the website yourself and that alone can take 2-3 hours if you are setting up a dedicated server.
I think this is probably more related to the fact that the iPhone is still AT&T only. Most non tech savvy people not on AT&T are probably presented with whatever android based phone is hot and told its just like the iphone and they go ahead and purchase it. I wonder how the platforms would compare platform-wise if they were all available on all networks.
I find kids adopt to their parents way of doing things. My wife and I are rather calm, and so are our children. They fall asleep easily enough, are happy children, and calm and relaxed.

The problem some parents have with their children is they try to change the way the children behave to something other than what they learned from their parents.

If they are the type to go out, party, invite friends over and stay up late, etc, then they should expect their children to emulate that. It's when the parents want their children to behave differently that you have a problem. This is all purely my own experience.
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> If the power fails they'll come on at the wrong time.

I was assuming the timer was battery-powered and not prone to power failure, while the pumps were. This could cause the timer to turn on the pumps, not detect that the pumps were off for 40 minutes during the cycle because of power failures, and then shut off the pumps after a predetermined duration. So the timer would start/stop a one hour cycle but during those times, the pumps would only work for 20 minutes. That could cause crops to fail because the pumps didn't irrigate sufficient water.

To fix this, you'd need a timer that would also detect the duration the pumps were working and adjust accordingly, increasing the cost of the system. Plus how does the timer deal with the next cycle schedule to start at 4am-5am when it has been pumping 30-40mins extra before the cycle before it took longer? I was just trying to say that setting up a workable schedule on such a device could be a lot more complex/expensive than a human texting "pump 2 on", "pump 2 off".
No. The WebSockets API in Javascript only allows acting as a client, not as a server.
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This is a great idea, and I'm likely to use it in the near future.

One potential barrier to entry for users of this site:

What's stopping ibuildmvps.com from building an MVP for someone, and then (if the idea works well) taking that idea and developing it to the next level without them?

I'm not trying to say or imply that this is the intention of ibuildmvps.com. But (in America at least), you can't copyright an idea. Therefore, any of your clients would be opening themselves up to that risk.

Perhaps you should have a page on the site saying you'd be willing to sign a non-compete contract, in order to ease that concern (which may lower the barrier to entry for your service). Even better, maybe that non-compete agreement could be part of your TOS?

Again, I really do like this idea. I just wanted to add my two cents, in an effort to help your site become even better. Best of luck with this venture!
This is an unfalsifiable platitude unless you have data to back it up.

And do you have to be a revolutionary to be successful? Is it impossible to go about things in a calm and rational manner that minimizes damage to self, and succeed?

I'm not knocking Ostwal because I do not know his circumstances, but surely this is not true for all possible cases. This founder-as-martyr syndrome probably discourages a lot of possible inventors from trying things in cheap, accessible ways that may lead to something big.
But a human texting 'pump 2 on' suffers from the exact same problem, compounded by the delays of receiving the SMS (which in my case sometimes only appear hours or days after sending).

So it was meant as being the exact equivalent of what they have now. (I didn't see any evidence of a feedback mechanism in the article but I may have overlooked that).
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The late Tracy “Baby Whisperer” Hogg pointed out that swaddling is a neurological hack to help babies sleep. OK, she didn’t phrase it that way, but... Until they reach about 4–5 months, babies don’t really have voluntary control of their arms and legs. So imagine you’re kind of tired, lying in your crib, drifting off, when OMG THIS ARM IS FLAPPING AROUND NEXT TO MY HEAD ISN’T THAT COOL.

I didn’t read about this idea until I had my third child; when I noticing that indeed, he could sleep even in a room where his brothers were playing until his arm came out of the swaddling blanket, I got one of those special swaddling blankets with Velcro (I call them “baby straitjackets”), and that aspect of baby care, at least, became significantly easier.
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Do you agree with the OP about the values of FB?
I just want to take a moment to second the book Happiest Baby on the Block (I got the book, apparently there is a DVD). It truly is a "baby hacks" book. I read it cover to cover months before my first baby was born, and while I don't remember all of it, I retained enough that I am the goto person for baby burps and swaddling my children. My first born (now 20-months) slept well, was easy going, and is a well-behaved child. My second son (1.5 weeks old) is going the same route as his older brother. Well-behaved, good eater, good sleeper. Takes to swaddling a bit more than his older brother, but is also more active without it.

With 2 children, and with 1.5 weeks left on paternity, I've been hacking away at DuctMail in short spurts. Full time job waiting for me to return, and Mommy is on her 1-year maternity leave (I love Quebec).

I'd add more, but frankly, this post (the parent) is dead-on-balls accurate. Sadly, I have but one vote to give.
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There are precious few "victory" stories over PayPal.

Unlike a credit card company, if they feel they might have to dip even 1 cent into their own profits to deal with a bad transaction, they will immediately kill an account, no matter how large or how old.

I simply do not understand why there are not more competitors to PayPal - don't these corporations see the billions PayPal has made (THREE BILLION profit per YEAR) and how they get to skirt all the rules and regulations that banks have to follow? Why not jump onboard and give consumers some choices?
I usually change mine to "Sent from my mobile" or "Sent from (xxx) xxx-xxxx"
I keep a line like this for two reasons, one of which is proofreading related, but the more important is to let them know that the reason for my terse reply is not because I don't care or I'm upset, it's because I'm in transit (or just away from my desk).
>Isn't there a contradiction here:

I don't see it as a contradiction. I don't feel that we all must be equal (as in: exactly as good at everything as each other). But I feel that deciding "hey, we're not all equal" can be used as a cop out, even if true. That is, if you strive for the possibly impossible goal of making every student a PhD student whatever it takes you probably wont achieve it but you stand a much better chance of making a breakthrough with your under achievers than you would if you just said "60% of the kids in this class have no chance, so why bother".

>If the evidence supports the conclusion, we must accept it regardless of our personal biases.

We must give it credit, but we can still believe that there is more to the story until it can be proven that there isn't.

>In fact I am very close to someone working on this very topic - determining the optimal learning strategy for children to maximize their learning rate.

Awesome. I wish you all success in this most important of endeavors. Don't take my comments personal. I don't know you so I unless you explicitly state your position I tend to address what I expect most people's to be.
As the father of a 1 year old girl who owns a gym and has a start-up, I agree with everything in this post.

ezmobius, I wish I had more votes to give you, as this is one of the best comments I've read on HN.

And an emphasis on sleeping when your baby sleeps, you may need to encourage your wife to sleep, as she'll probably want to do other things.

A friend of mine with 3 kids often says, "Mom takes care of the baby, Dad takes care of Mom." I think that's apt in the first 4 months, just do whatever you can to allow your wife to be the best mother she can be.
Well... that's interesting. A bit like my own new 'startup' DuctMail. Except rather than a plugin, DuctMail is usable from any email system. Works the same way though. Send an email, tell DuctMail when you want it to send you the email later, and it sends back the email. No plugins required. Works with email.
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Yes, but in this case the feature was dead simple, developers and users were on the same page but the vendor of the hardware (and the distributor of the software) nixed it.

Your example sounds like things I've been through multiple times, the best way we ever improved software was by leaving infrequently used features out. At some point we had blue-screening and stereo images in the webcam software, I don't think anybody ever used those except us for a demo of how cool the software was.

It made it quite difficult to get people back to 'normal' after a round of random clicking on settings to see what they do.

This sort of frustration is not just limited to the software world, in industrial design similar things happen.

Good design is usually tied to someone that knew as much or more about removing stuff than it is about adding stuff.

Personally I'm a big fan of the old 'Braun' designs. Someone ought to start using that sort of design for websites.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1 is preferable.
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Just my company... essentially it's what I do all my work through, makes life easier than doing things as a sole proprietor.
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I am not surprised by OP's response though. A number of people on Lipton's page, including some people with strong credentials, were of the opinion that the researchers were wasting their time.
The interesting thing is that Yahoo could have solved their problems by buying Google for a pittance.
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Without being even remotely familiar with the math (or, really, even the question) behind the P!=NP discussion, doesn't your argument depend on Moore's Law?

And isn't Moore's Law an observation of technological development since 1958, rather than a Law of Physics or Math?

http://xkcd.com/605/

Edit: Obviously - glad to be proved wrong or shot down for not understanding the debate.
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Bingo. The big reason why coffee sucks in the US is that the Italian immigration wave hit before the espresso machine was invented. It hit Oz afterward.

And, leading from that, coffee in Oz has been pretty damned good for a long time. I've never been anywhere that takes it as seriously as we do save for a couple pockets in the pacific northwest of the US, and even in those places it's nowhere near the consistent good quality you'll find in any Aussie Capitol city.