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I think the following two sentences:

'build something people want'
'build something that solves a problem'

became just empty trivialities by now. These were important relevations after the dot com boom: During the first dot com boom there were those overly optimistic overly financed companies which did not care about what people want. But by now I think this lesson is learned, everybody want to solve a problem and everybody cares about what people want. It is just very hard to know what people want. Or at least hard to know it better then the competition. That's why most startups fail. Honestly I would not think some years ago that these services like Foursquare will be such a big deal. I am coming from a very different social context, so I cannot really understand the needs of those kind of people who use these services. That's why I don't even try to create these kind of startups.
"What do I do with all this time on my hands?"

"How do I avoid being bored?"
You left out a big piece of information. Are you going to be setting up these servers physically (colocation?) or are you going to be going with a hosting provider?

Pick what you know, though from what you have posted I'm not sure you know either of the systems you mentioned very well. Actually, unless you are a professional systems administrator then even picking what you know may not be good enough. You can setup your own servers if you are running on a low budget, but ideally you would be paying someone to take care of all your administration needs.

So, I assume from your budget you won't be buying your own servers and even if you were interested in buying your own servers you don't have the expertise to set them up properly. You will then be looking at hosting.

You should probably be looking at a hosting provider which offers managed hosting. This will be your support. Don't worry so much about the distribution, just choose whatever that provider has available.

Arguably Solaris is superior to Linux in many ways. If you want to go that route I would suggest Joyent as a provider. Linux is wide open for hosting choices. Find one you like and is within your price range and go with them.

You probably need to start out with a VPS as opposed to a dedicated server. Done right, a dedicated server is generally much more expensive than a VPS. Also, a dedicated server requires a lot of knowledge just to know what to look for.

Your widest choice of offerings for a VPS is linux. Pick one which offers a managed plan and go with whatever that plan ships with. If you have a choice, just go with CentOS. Personally, I prefer Ubuntu, but that's not on your list.
Not sure why you've put "reduce" in the title. It's an excerpt of an article about Robert Sapolsky and stress entitled "stress", and mentions nothing about reducing it, other than it's bad for a number of reason - and hence you probably should decrease it...
And you don't get the day off either.
StartMate was announced today;

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He charges for at least four of his apps -

http://itunes.apple.com/app/wordbreaker/id322472501?mt=8

http://itunes.apple.com/app/pitch-pipe/id290029129?mt=8

http://itunes.apple.com/app/opensesame/id336671252?mt=8

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/color-identifier/id363346987?...
IMHO quite important aspect forgotten with UI is look-and-feel consistency. When native app uses OS-provided native widgets (and follows the design guidelines) it looks consistent with the rest of the desktop, but each and every web app invents its own UI, which sometimes may be quite frustrating.

Okay, some web apps actually try to look like native app to some extent (and some may even try to use system color scheme), but this is rare, except, maybe, for iPhone-oriented web apps world.
Well, no, not really. Just one example, Sun developed DTrace, a bit later Red Hat got SystemTap. Who's leading and who's following there? Sun has ZFS and Oracle has BTRFS and SGI released XFS, all of which are well in advance of ext3. So while it is fashionable to bash Unix for being old-fashioned and praise Linux for being "advanced", the reality is a lot more subtle than that.
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CentOS is binary compatible with RedHat, so it's for people who need the enterprise-ness of RedHat, but can't/won't run RedHat. An example I've heard is running RedHat in production for the support, but CentOS for devs and stating. The reason to run RedHat is usually something like needing to run Oracle or a number of other very complex software suites (the keyword is complex, not better or faster) that are only supported on specific platforms.

If you're running Oracle on Sun hardware, go for Solaris, sure, if for no other reason the support. If you're running "regular" open source software on generic hardware, just use Linux/BSD. There's nothing in Solaris that'd make Postgres faster than Linux or BSD on the same hardware.
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It's hard for local businesses to leverage technology for advertising. foursquare and other location-based services allow local businesses -- like restaurants and bars and shops -- to identify, target, and reward customers. The users benefit from deals / discounts with local businesses that are relevant to them. That seems valuable to me.
But you can validate and curate the uploads. In fact, that can be part of your community/crowd-source model, too. If someone else within your community comes along and rates/tags/categorizes the photograph, he can make a little slice of the pie.

Hell, get everyone involved in the process.

Solve chicken and egg problem first. Then maybe you can start thinking about cage-free organic eggs, second. ;)
cans make some kind of comeback. thez were always there for energy drinks (red bull etc) and beer (5,0 , holsten..) and i see them more and more (in small quantities) for coke/pepsi etc.
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This is a funny case: obviously the online version (http://diveintohtml5.org) is only $0 every day, but I posted it anyone since some people might really like to have a pdf or some Ebook format for reading on a device.
Apple has a total of 9 apps on the App Store out of >215k, I'll take those chances
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Apple owns the trademark for 'facetime' so obviously they won't allow an app of the same name.

Those are ludicrous statements, searching for 'rss reader' or 'web browser' returns a myriad of results on the app store.
I never said Linux was more advanced. What it is, is "good enough" and improving all the time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Disruptivetechnology.gif

Especially since it's easier to find people to work with it, more open, and not driven by a billionaire who wants you over a barrel.

Also, I think that Oracle is quickly putting paid to the sort of environment where innovations like dtrace happen, although I could be wrong.
I miss _why, I use shoes, it's the only desktop framework that I like. ;^;

We miss you _why
At the very least, he could have done something dramatic yet positive. Pulling down all his code like that, I really think he was out to spite everyone.
From http://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html

> So I said, narrow the focus. Your "use case" should be, there's a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid?
That's what we decided to do with historious [1] (bookmarking with full-text search in the content of the pages, and cached pages). You get 1000 bookmarks free, and you have to pay to get more.

This way, people who don't bookmark very much can live with 1000, and people who eventually will use more than 1000 need to subscribe...

I think it's a very good plan if your product is structured in a way that a user will eventually hit the limit, but I think Dropbox was not a very good example. If I hit the limit, I'll just delete a few files I don't need. I see your point, though, and I think you're mostly right.

[1] http://historio.us/
Seems there is a market for such a thing.
EpicWin is an RPG to-do list application for the iPhone.
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It mentions that Hackety Hack need contributions, they're still actively developing here:

http://hacketyhack.heroku.com/
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no it was all downhill after teaching first year cs really :)
Sometimes I find it hard to believe that such a cheerful character has ended up being so polarizing. People both lionize and demonize this guy, and neither one is fair. _Why is not the greatest genius who ever lived, but he inspired a lot of people to get into programming, is a very witty and creative person, and a pretty damn good hacker as well. I could think of far worse people to honor.
While I do agree that the App Engine datastore does require for some planning above what you're used to from a traditional RDBMS, I think it really just reflects a learning curve that comes with any new technology: as you use it more often, you get better at it. I think calling App Engine a pain in the ass and that you wouldn't recommend it to anyone is a bit over the top.
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the rest seems to be summarised as: don't wait for things you don't need to wait for.

$(document).ready() can be a bit of a sledgehammer in terms of latency.
Noting that each tends to have its own standard...

I found a good place to start to remember different computer languages was to quickly see if the chosen language is case sensitive, and if so are the methods upper/lower and does this depend on them being static/instance, I know you already understand this

It follows, check for variations between classes and methods...

eg C#.NET will GetKey, python will get_key, ecma/java/action script will getKey, VB.NET doesn't give a crap if you GetKey or getKey.. or even GeTkeY...

seeing as all the above (except VB, WTF V'f'n'B!) are case sensitive, so you can start to guess, this is the stuff you need to memorize right off the bat, intellisense is often case sensitive and context senstive (static v instance)

I expect you know this, but,

"javascript", id's are often cased Id not ID, but HTML not Html - document.getElementById('Id').innerHTML

".NET", myDogIsAnInstance.WithAnID, MyDogHasFleas.AndIsStatic()

So you condition yourself, you say, I'm in javascript, that's a lowercase d on Id, I'm in .NET so the acronyms Html, Dns. not as in JS where they are HTML, DNS

The answer to the memory/IDE question, yes you still need to use your memory, but I find intellisense moves the memory task from which method name, to which bit of the framework/namespace, i.e. in .NET was that Base64 function in System.String or Convert.ToBase64.. or System.Text...

One of the main reasons to use an IDE is debugging, the ability to set breakpoints visually and single step though the code, real coders use the debugger to actually debug, not as a code crutch

IDEs give rise to the concept of projects and structure, and several have awesome version control plugins. The source code highlighting is 'usually' heaps better than TextMate/Emacs/Notepad or whatever

IDEs often allow for click navigation to a given class/method (ctrl click)

IDEs often help you find references to/or obsolete bits of code

IDEs often automagically format your code (shitty indentations, tabs v spaces) this can be viewed as good or bad

IDEs allow for templated solutions, i.e. eclipse can set you up well on the way to a django google apps project, without any typing, the file/editor based alternatives involve copy/paste reuse...

Lastly you just practice and get it wrong a lot of times until you remember and thenyou get it right.

final thing on new programming languages, is it dynamically typed...

oh = "yeah", var oh = "yeah", oh:"yeah"

or strongly typed

string oh = "yeah", oh as string = "yeah"

If you know how the language is meant to behave and learn the suggested naming conventions for the given language, then remembering the method names becomes a whole lot easier
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Awesome link.
It reminds me of a website showing a matrix with visualizations of several sorting algorithms: http://www.sorting-algorithms.com/ (which was posted somewhere here iirc).
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When someone gives you a bunch of stuff that you are able to use for a while and then decides to retract it that's still a net positive to you.

You have no right to continue to demand he makes his work available to you.

> I really think he was out to spite everyone.

If that were the case he would have never written it in the first place.
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In the early 00s I was at an Oracle sales conference. Now I was never in Sales myself mind, I was a consultant (and actually employed by an Oracle partner) but the sales types always had the best canapes and cocktails, so we blagged our way in.

So, it's time for the main event, in the auditorium. They got smoke machines. They got lasers. They got Vanessa Mae (or a clone thereof) wearing next to nothing and playing up a storm on the electric violin. They got cheerleaders and they got MCs on stage rappin' about bringing Oracle's rivals TO THEIR KNEES. And the crowd (99% Oracle salesmen) went wild. I'm at the back wth my little clique of weapons-grade cynics and we're like, WTF have we gotten ourselves into.

Oracle ain't even a sales organization, they're a full on religious revival.
> download large files overnight

Yeah, they draw really little power, especially with the screens turned off. If you need to transfer files, or have a system up sending keep-alive pings or something that doesn't require a bunch of computation, they're really ideal.

Great link btw!
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It seems a lot of people forget just how crummy mac os was before x.

I used OS 7.x for a good while, and it was generally speaking not better than its contemporary, windows 95.

In fact it might have been even worse, at least as far as multitasking and stability go.

Windows 98 SE was actually a fairly good system as long as you didn't overtax its somewhat limited multi-tasking ability & ran it on high quality hardware (far less crash prone than Mac OS 8.x)
An SSD is internally a RAID0 that can be up to 16 wide (that's how they get their performance).

Erm. Actually they get their performance because they write to NAND instead of spinning platters. SSD controllers are also quite a bit smarter than plain RAID0.

RAID0 works very well with good quality drives.

A RAID0 over three disks has about 1/3 the MTBF of a single disk.

That can still be a worthwhile trade-off if you need the extra capacity, but if you're mostly after performance and reliability then a pair of SSDs, or even a single SSD, is the better choice.
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And finally - really, really finally... if a call is hard to remember, wrap it up in your own method with a better name.

def getNote(): return some.dark.and.really.obscure.namespace.to.get_one_note_by_googling.for_an_answer_function()
why do you dismiss the benefit to businesses?

and consumers do get some extra deals from using these services
Thing is, there was a long period in the '90s when Oracle was the best solution, period. Non-mainframe DB2 was by the mid-90s (and perhaps earlier) nice, cheaper and simpler to administer but used conventional locking instead of MVCC (works for a small group of DB engineers but doesn't scale as well with lots of developers), MySQL was a non-ACID nightmare (heck, unless my research was really off in mid-1997 Linux didn't truly impliment fsync back then), PostgresSQL wasn't ready for prime time and the less said about SQLServer the better (it's improved since them or so I'm sold). And small fry like Informix weren't particularly worth dealing with, Ingres was dying, etc. etc.

You can see how the above golfware paradigm could easily sink in when you really did have arguably the best solution, even if it cost twice as much as the next best (DB2, who's ecosystem (e.g. books) was and I'm sure still is much less rich).

However as you and many others have noted the world is very different now.
Not to be facetious, but I find it much more helpful to over-simplify it into a single, simple sound-bite: "To become a full-time entrepreneur, better your current wage with part-time entrepreneurial projects".
It is both a "4" (upright) and "f" from right almost similar to its favicon. Very creative confluence.

Sadly it can also be seen as facebook nailing down the 4 in a square.
Demo day in SF will be helpful, and as for experience, the Atlassian founders are involved. I've seen other attempts to do this, usually by cities/states, that capture only the superficial form of YC.

I'm going to be in Sydney on 6 & 7 Sept.--any startup folks in Sydney available & willing to meet up and tell me about starting a company in Australia?
I started studying marketing in order to start my own company some time ago and from the very beginning I remember one maxim that stuck with me: "If you cant be the best in a category, invent a new category."

I think that makes sense and it's exactly what Foursquare and Gowalla do. Besides, if people only had invented what other people said their need was in history, perhaps we wouldn't have many things we take for granted today.

Also: Entertainment is a huge deal. Look at the gaming industry.
It creates a better platform for rewarding regulars and, on the places' side, to turn them into advocates for the place - with reference to the classic article about what the 5-10% diehard fans can do for spreading the word compared to regular users (the details and link escape me).

It has the potential to facilitate the bond between person and place (business, shop, gym, bar, etc.) in a manner that is much more convenient than coupons, ticket coupons, remembering their faces and names, etc.

In this case, everyone wins.
A customer is someone that you are making money of, or maybe even someone that you intend to make money of.

Where I come from, we call the later a "prospect."

Not someone that pays for your apps, and where would that leave services, goods and other things that people pay for?

I was speaking in the context of app development. Obviously, if you are a shoe retailer, your customers are the people who buy your shoes. If you are a publisher, your customers are the people who buy your books. Note that the people who read your books in libraries are not, strictly speaking, your customers-- although the acquisition librarians are.

So, technically the guy has a sales funnel with 1 million people in it that need to be converted to paying customers.
If that distinction did not exist we'd never have to use the word 'paying' attached to customers in that context.

I'd argue that the "paying" in "paying customers" is pleonastic-- it is used as an intensifier, as in "my personal friend".
Has it really been a year?

Has it only been a year?
Because they want to sell complete systems that provide more power than the x86 ecosystem can?
> You have some interesting speculation here but no evidence at all.

And you follow this assertion with more speculation without evidence. Interesting...
Exactly - just like every game company, film production company or musician.
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Legacy and inertia.
I wonder how many patents Oracle has on this one.
Many "big" companies are using Solaris (and other UNIXes) because they have been for a long time, and there is a cost to switching.

Upgrades to the kind of systems Solaris is being used (core systems and databases) tend to stay in the same course, not only because there is a lower risk in staying on the same OS/architecture combo, but also because most of those systems are old and tied to Solaris/SPARC. Unless there is a sufficiently strong reason to switch, most "big" companies prefer to pay the premium (in SW and HW) than assume the risk.

Solaris on commodity funcions is dying rapidly, if one can't already consider it dead.

The notion that Linux is less advanced is bogus. In some aspects Solaris is more advanced, in others Linux has the lead. What matters is what's the best choice for a each task given constraints of cost, reliability and availability of skilled technicians.
Geo has so much potential and it looks like Facebook is working super hard to integrate this in a useful way. Checking in just to say "I'm at X" is just not interesting. Making location a part of a story (party, vacation, location where picture was taken...) is much more interesting and I can see it work out great if they find out how to tackle that. Their approach is very good, IMHO.

That being said, it seems like Facebook is building a record of me without me knowing, that I have no insight in. Friends tag me in pictures and tag my location now, too. That information is shown to various circles of friends. Now I'm not sure who knows what about me know since I neither created the information, nor had any part in sharing it. I suppose this reflects the real world in some way (people can talk about you whenever they want), it's just amplified in a major way.

Very interesting and intriguing indeed.
You're right about aesthetics being terrible, shallow grounds for dismissal but there is one instance I can't bring myself to be sensible about: old math books that are typewritten with hand-written formulas. I've managed to read papers that are like but so far refuse to read entire books...
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Why would they do this? It seemed obvious to me than in 5-10 years Antivirus software would be obsolete and unnecessary. I hear people every day recommending Windows 7 users get Microsoft Security Essentials and nothing else. And personally I run Ubuntu, so I haven't thought about antivirus software in years...

This seems like a very odd decision to me. Intel, a world leader in processor design, does not need to get into such a sleazy business as antivirus software.

Why not spend that $7.7 billion helping the world write better code?