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I think there's a major difference between 'doing' and 'experiencing'. I know e.g. that in a skydiving emergency my actions have always been automatic & fast, but the experience of the situation made it seem like it lasted for ages.
I just got a digital subscription. I think all the effort that goes into this needs to be rewarded and I also get something out of it.
Interesting to see the digital version being charged for. How does this work with content creators? Do they get a cut? I'm guessing no.

I can understand charging for a physical copy - what with dead tress, and shipping, and all. But a digital repackaging of something already available legally for free?
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I think it's sufficient to publish it as soon as you can. It then becomes prior art that can't (theoretically) be patented later.
We should probably also explain our existing child hood stories a little better. For example, when I heard "the boy who cried wolf" it was basically explained as "don't waste people's time". When I tell it to my kids I use it to explain credibility and how people react to it, and as an example of a logical fallacy (just because the boy was a liar doesn't mean what he says is always a lie).
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The guy that sells bingo apps is genuine and probably the #2 contributor to the site (the #1 being grellas) when it comes to start-up advice that actually works.
Of my numerous brushes with death, this has only happened once or twice for me. The most memorable was when I was kite-mountainboarding. I had jumped around 12ft in the air but a line had wrapped around my harness - instead of acting like a parachute, the large kite was below me and pulled me violently into the ground. Time slowed enough for me to reason about the situation and realise that I had to absorb some of the impact with my legs if this was to turn out well. I didn't get it quite right (should have taken more impact with my legs) and I broke my back, but I've recovered now.

However, what I remember as much as the slowing of time is how calm I felt during it all. Reasoning and decision-making were the only things in my mind in a really dangerous situation. It was really nice feeling! When time slows in these situations, I wonder if anyone ever panics. I guess it would be rather counter-productive.
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If I were one of the remaining founders I would offer you the following scheme: 1) Make evaluation of the company asap(say 0.5mln). 2) Define your share as fixed amount (say 125K), as you leave and don't put any more efforts for company to survive, contrary to other founders. Your shares and IP goes to company. 3) In case company gets funded/profitable, you'll get your 125K+inflation. If not - not. That would be fair, IMO.
A couple of counterpoints:

- The angels that invested in our company have jobs/companies, families, and dozens of other small investments. They don't have time to ensure we build any particular type of company, even if they wanted to.

- Every time we ask them for advice, they put exactly zero pressure on us to take the company in any given direction.

- The article assumes angel investors cunningly collaborate to craft their blogs to raise a generation of an entrepreneurs that behaves in a certain way. With all due respect, that's nonsensical. There is a similar argument that could be made about survivor bias, but the article implies conscious intent which simply isn't there.

- Most angel investors make investments because they love technology and the startup world and want to use their money to affect positive change in the world. Often times they invest in people for no reason other than that they like them.

- And finally, running a small company is almost as time consuming and stressful as running a large one, except you get no pay off. You also learn far, far less. I'd much rather get a rewarding job (of which there are plenty) - the stress is lower, the pay's much better, and there's opportunity to learn from other people.
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This is a great idea....but was a little surprised by the pricing.

Why didn't you go free on the digital and a monthly subscription on the print subscription?

Free digital copies will be great (free) lead gen for your paid product, and you can pitch the print subscription inside.

Seems like monthly subscriptions might be a lower hurdle (and price point) to get people started too.

Awesome work though!
I like this. Just sent a request.
Well, I've turned back to the paper. I can write whenever I like and don't need to have the computer with me. (And I've been keeping a journal since 2006, writing almost every day.)
Interesting that you point out the delay between your brain giving an order and your body responding. I've had similar experiences where initially there seems to be plenty of time for your mind to assess the situation & make decisions. In my experience the slow-mo effect stopped immediately after I started reacting to the danger. I guess your mind gets in a kind of detached mental state in order to build a window of opportunity to make the right decision.
Perhaps an open-source version?
Zak was linking to the "fork me" button. Best to take a test drive before you marry it.
Its interesting to see that when talking about Sunspider benchmark, he specifically pointed out that IE9 preview performs a lot better than IE8 that was shown on the benchmark and even complemented the IE team for doing a good job.

On the other hand IE team spreads FUD about Chrome: http://geektechnica.com/2010/04/microsoft-continues-its-trad...

Things like this is why its easy to dislike MSFT and trust Google (despite privacy concerns). I have said this before and I will say it again, IE can be the fastest, most standard compliant and most secure browser out there and I would still not use it.
Cheers for the tips, guys. However, I was slightly put off joining Quora by the following in their privacy policy:

"Quora may share your personally identifiable information with third parties for the purpose of providing the Service to you. If we do this, such third parties' use of your information will be bound by this Privacy Policy. We may store personal information in locations outside the direct control of Quora (for instance, on servers or databases co-located with hosting providers).

As we develop our business, we may buy or sell assets or business offerings. Customer, email, and visitor information is generally one of the transferred business assets in these types of transactions. We may also transfer or assign such information in the course of corporate divestitures, mergers, or dissolution."
I think 'lifestyle' is the critical bit, rather than the hand-rubbing evilishness of angel or other investors - it's hard to imagine this has changed much, to the extent that it exists.
The popular glamorization of 'startup as lifestyle' and, worse, 'startup as self-help/self-actualization' seems like a newer and sillier thing. You can open HN on some days and it reads like some sort of Cosmo for nerds.
I find journaling about 'personal issues' is where it's most useful. It helps bring clarity to a subject inherently clouded by emotion.
Good magazine, I'd love to have it in paper, but too expensive. 10$ per issue only shipping cost.
Having a suggested $3/month subscription for having the PDF mailed to you but ALSO having the PDF available for free on the website could be the best of both worlds. Those who can afford to pay, do so, but you can still link to the free version (which could have nag pages inserted).
I find that Domainr is very good for this stuff: http://domai.nr/
>Your favorite digital format (pdf, epub, mobi)

Will we be able to get several? I could see wanting all of the above for different devices.
Anyone used a Litl? They seem kinda cool just don't know about the flash sdk.. JavaScript would be more appealing.
Don't agree, just start by charging the early adopters to cover your costs & figure out a more freemium-like pricing model later on. Congrats!
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Nokia continue to dominate in the low end market with the 1208, 1661, 1616 all in demand and subsequently increasing in price over the past month. The relatively new C5 remains the most wanted Nokia on phoneLot for the second week running with the average wholesale price now at €115.
Samsung are seeing some major interest in their new S8500 Wave, the S5230 also continues to be in demand. Supply of all Samsung models remains high and as a result the prices have fallen across the majority of the Samsung portfolio.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports

"This is where Ubuntu Backports comes in. The Backports team believes that the best update policy is a mix of Ubuntu's security-only policy AND providing new versions of some programs. Candidates for version updates are primarily desktop applications, such as your web browser, word processor, IRC client, or IM client. These programs can be updated without replacing a large part of the operating system that would affect stability of the whole system."
If this is new to you, ask yourself this question :

Why haven't I read "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" ?
I noticed yesterday that if selling apps through the Google Apps marketplace you must use google checkout to sell the app.

http://developer.googleapps.com/marketplace/fees#TOC-Selling...

If all google services start doing this, then perhaps they can tie it all together in a simple one password payment system like it is in iTunes/App Store.
A little rant:

"USD only for App developers, WWW for buyers"

I translate it to myself:

"west: place with creative smart people. rest: dumb idiot consumers"

This is what always happen with 'gaming marketplaces', and 'mobile marketplaces'. This is the case with XNA, X-Box Live, android market etc...
As someone from Hungary (Eastern Europe) I was naive enough to get excited about some of these in the past. I no longer do that. My first task is to check for this 'west-rest' rule. If I smell this I avoid the stuff like plague.

Maybe a good startup idea for someone who is reading this: create non-protectionist gaming marketplaces? I think there would be huge demand for that.
I had one of those, many years ago, and honestly it wasn't the most comfortable chair I've ever had. It didn't support my back quite right. I think my favorite was some bomb-proof thing I bought off a guy shutting down his welding business in Mountain View. It weighed a ton, but was quite comfortable.
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I think making a few of the older editions available free of charge could be a good way. There are quite a few articles that won't loose their value over time.
Looks fantastic but too expensive for anywhere in Europe other than the UK, maybe consider using Royal Mail for elsewhere in Europe too?
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If you think it's going to fail, just call it a day and walk away, signing everything over to them. 25% of nothing, is nothing so it's not like you'll loose anything.

If you don't think it's going to fail, take a week off, get your shit together and get back in the game.
Yeah, shipping was the killer for me as well. That's why I went with the digital edition. If needed I can even (selectively) print it myself but I assume I will be quite happy with it in digital form only.
This seems like the right split. Also the founders would have the capacity to issue more shares - so if it takes longer than 4 years then they can issue stocks to whoever sticks around after that.
AFAIK not for commercial applications. But if it's for a web server application, how would Microsoft know ?
Yeah, I would order it instantly if the shipping would be cheaper... 10$ per issue? Come on, that's 120$ for a year.

edit: just ordered the digital subscription. Please try to find cheaper shipping option to europe, and you will have one customer more :) I order several magazines from US/US to Finland, and they never are more expensive than 80 bucks, including shipping...
It's missing the hundred, an old English measure of area.
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Interesting how the brain is "much more active than during reasoning with a complex problem." I think we have found de-focusing etc can help anyway. For instance, often when working on a problem, such as a piece of code it helps to stop if you're not making progress and just chill for a while. Take a walk. I wonder if gaming/watching IT Crowd counts? ;)
If we're going with these...

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That's some prompt paid advertisement to reply to PG.

I hope they take it seriously though.
So in India, the print will cost me about 10 grand per year and the pdf a grand. I wish I were in college. I could just get my library to subscribe to it.
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3$ per month for something you can read for free online. It's not so much, but makes me think if I really need it.
Just from the description in the Wikipedia this is how I read Ray.

He is excellent in marketing, in sales, in networking & as an overall promoter. All qualities we hackers need to cultivate as long as we control ourselves & avoid pitching any vapor-ware.

Some examples of him promoting his product or himself.
1. At 17, appeared on the CBS television program I've Got a Secret - showed off software that composed piano music
2. International Science Fair, first prize for the same.
3. Recognized by the Westinghouse Talent Search
4. Personally congratulated by President Lyndon B. Johnson during a White House ceremony.
...
Incredibly, it goes on and on. Very fascinating, if read with the heart of an entrepreneur. His whole life seems to be a chain of fantastic promotions.
The express edition is free for any application. The pro version does cost money, but a lot of people can get by without it.

Also, there's the Bizspark program, which means a startup can get pretty much every Microsoft tool they need for free, for 3 years.
Just came to reiterate and agree with you.

As developer friendly Google generally is, i find this kind of attitude very annoying. The fact that the android marketplace is closed to lots of countries even two years (!!) after launch certainly tames any optimistic posture one might take regarding Google's attitude towards rest of the world developers.
It's also missing the batman unit - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_(unit)
Seriously? "Join a startup."?

Here's how to actually be good at JavaScript, or anything. Practice.
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They're available for free online aren't they? On this very site.
I remember reading that article, I remember downloading that Pointcast thingie & I also remember being completely left in the cold because the only crap being pushed down my throat was US-centric.
Put it simple - in a very stressful situation your brain use less deletion and distortion, or even more simple - the internal spam filtering turns off. ^_^
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I think we will see flash games continue to spread, because it's a very good platform for games.

I think we will see a lot more of HTML5 games. Time is needed so JavaScript engines still enhance a bit, as well as browser's rendering engines. Everything else will be palliated by libraries providing a good game development environment for games in JavaScript.

For the moment flash has an enormous edge, but i don't see anything preventing canvas+JavaScript to become a very good platform for gaming in the next 3 or 4 years. Whether it will be used or not is another question.

On the other hand i don't see Native Client having a big success. I could very well be wrong about that, and it's really just a feeling, since with proper ecosystem and integration, it could become a lot better than flash for web game development.
Titles are misleading, bottom line, algotrade companies are doing such calculations with Intel (or AMD), aren't they?
Before you hire your first person, decide when your company's "day" starts (i.e. what time you are going to open the office each day). Stick to the time and expect your first colleagues to join you. It's a tone-setting decision that's hard to change later.

Ugh. The Asses In Seats syndrome. This article is old, I hope.
Do I have to know the airport codes? It didn't recognize San Diego at all.
You don't need to cite a study but describing contrived and hypothetical counter-examples isn't the proper way to criticize empirical research either.
Why would he bother writing his own physics engine if there are free and easy solutions already? People who invent their bicycles don't end up shipping stuff in two weeks with no prior programming experience.

http://cocos2d-iphone.org (which uses:)

* http://code.google.com/p/chipmunk-physics/

* http://www.box2d.org/
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I think wikileaks host those that are missing in the .mil ...
The thing I find funny about this article is they are all "due later this year" or "coming soon". So they really are not the best alternatives are they. If they are not available they really are not an alternative at all. And before you touch them, you cant really say that they are "the best".
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All of those are fun.

Unfortunately, I am yet to see Dotomator produce a name whose .com is not taken.. Seems some squatter just run through whatever they generate and got most of them. Silly, if you ask me.
No, but I did rip my eyeballs out at one point.

Seriously, though I can't see much to be gained my doing that. HN is written in Arc and the source code has been released and used by a number of people to create sites (including my http://usethesource.com/).

If you want to implement a HN-like site I'd suggest simply getting the Arc code and using it. There's a learning curve to understanding Arc (especially if you've never programmed in a functional language), but it's quite hackable. I imagine it would be quicker to do that than to reproduce the entire functionality in PHP.
Indeed. Unfortunately, it started off at "Terrible".

I think it's finally moved past "Embarrassing", but it's still a long way from "Ready to use."

Give them another couple years, and maybe they'll make it all the way to "Good". Unfortunately, lots of us got burned by it in the early days and we probably won't be coming back.
are there any search engines out there that ignore robots.txt, that this could be done with?
I was thinking 'Farmville'.
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No, the number on reason devs like the iphone app store is because it lets people use their software. If it's not on the app store then anyone who hasn't jailbroken their phone (the majority of iphone users), don't see your software at all.
What are the possible ways a service like this can be monetized?
> Seriously, though I can't see much to be gained my doing that.

Someone might do that to gain proficiency in PHP.
Ask HN: How do large sites manage outbound emails/queueing
How do large sites like fb/myspace/amazon/ <insert large email sender> manage to send millions of emails a day. What kind of infrastructure is used. How are the IPs warmed, how are the messages queued. How do they manage connections?

Any interesting reads on this topic?
if you guys don't already have an ad out in 2600, i'd suggest it. they'd probably be into it (they take ads from "competing" mags all the time) and ads are free for subscribers.
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yep. and each cubicle has a number on it. Guess where my username comes from?
A good compromise, I'd think, would be to divide the piece into modular components with a repetitive (or narrative) structure, and publish them serially as a sort of "miniseries" feature in a magazine. This is how many pieces of novella-length genre fiction were originally published, for instance.
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Yes, that's exactly what LTS releases are for. I wouldn't use one on my personal desktop machine, but for a production server platform I specifically WANT three years out of date versions of software, since the latest and greatest may behave differently and break everything.

If you were deploying Ubuntu company-wide and had custom desktop software, you'd want an LTS release on the desktop too, for the same reason.

Stability versus agility is a trade-off. In some cases it makes sense to pick a fast-moving platform. In others it makes sense to pick a slow-moving one. With the combination of a six-monthly release cycle and three year support on LTS releases, Ubuntu gives you both platforms to pick from.
Ask HN: What stops you from starting today?
Why wait? I'd like to hear what exactly delays YOU from starting your dream company TODAY? Right now I am launching my third company and that makes me very excited! So why wait? I'd like to hear your excuses!
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It's more likely due to Checkout's limitations.
sorry but these prices are way out of line. It's a monthly and with all due respect, I've read a couple issues, it doesn't compare to something like Harpers which if I recall is about 17/yr. for high quality print and incredible content.
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Figure out what you want for your stake, ask the other party(s) to do the same.

Whoever offers the highest valuation for their own shares gets to buy the other party out at that same valuation.

Simple.
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