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>When I search for a flight, the only factor I care about is price. I don't care when it leaves, how long it takes to get there, what airline it is <...>

You may not, but there are others that definitely do
That sounds more like a "in the zone" experience than a "slow-mo" experience. Where you body and mind are some kind of hyper rhythm and things just...happen without your conscious input.
Title of this item should be changed to "Eternal September has arrived."
We’re in an economic depression...as bad as 1929
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Isn't that rather the point of opensource?
I rely version 2.xx of Blah, i want security fixes to version 2 without being forced to update to blah 7, with all it's new incompatibilities and bugs, just because somebody has a sales target
That was quite something for the mid-80's.

Yes, especially because the 100BaseT specs didn't come about until the mid-90's. Even 10BaseT wasn't really predominant until the early 90's. I seem to recall Cat5 just barely coming about in around 1995. Twisted pair of any kind was pretty rare in the 80's.

10Base2 (coax, thin Ethernet) came about in 1985, and was (AFAICR) pretty much "the standard" until about 1990(ish).

I could see driving a 10BaseT NIC at full bandwidth in the mid-80's, but don't believe there was a 100Mbs ANYTHING at that time.
Thats a pretty awesome achievement, I hope he keeps it up and does some good with it. Goes to show what 2 weeks of complete absolute immersion into something can result in.

There's always a chance that such a thing could be a fake claim, but I do think its definitely possible.
Just visit Wikileaks...
Please shoot me an email or some more information about your site. I could easily put together a few calls to have you access the information and tie in.
And by 'large portion' we are referring to 99.999999% of them
- most likely in a cubicle
- reporting to middle managers
- on a hardware and software stack selected for them
- frequently in the kinds of unsustainable scorched earth industries and overly large multinationals
- frequently in industries which centralize wealth and destroy small and local enterprises

All that and I'm not even a liberal saying it ;)
This post seems rather disconnected from the angel investing process. And this is coming from a guy whose first start up was literally stolen from him.

Try not to lump it all into programmers vs investor, because no matter what happens afterthat distinction is made someone will lose.
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"No matter what happens, one thing is clear: it's never been easier to create a piece of technology. New tools and open source code allow anyone to quit their job and start the next great Internet startup."

No they don't. Tools never have been the biggest impediment to starting a successful startup. Idiots with good tools are still idiots.
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Although the USPS is the only government service that actually makes money, it only does so because it is a monopoly. Some of your points seem like they would work and/or nice to have, but in the end, I think it would be a failure because of how inefficient they are. Plus at least half of the people want private services because they trust them more.

One recent example that I have to share - my wife and I just got back a Christmas card last week that we sent out this past December. The address/postage were correct, but it seems like the previous owner of our friends house had a forwarding address setup and it somehow screwed up delivery. My wife was angry that we just got it back and I was amazed that they hadn't lost it in the last nine month.
Not in my experience. Barking, piddling on the floor, having to interact with the dog owners when they come over to fetch the dogs, etc. Of course these were probably not the better dog owners out there, they thought everyone was delighted to have dogs in the office.

The dogs were nice when I wasn't working. I enjoyed petting them, etc. but bad for productivity.
In the UK several of the national newspapers publish university league tables - not sure if you get the same thing in the US? Might provide some inspiration for you.

See http://extras.timesonline.co.uk/stug/universityguide.php for an example.
I admit that the analogy is a bit leaky, but the point is that ants are nowhere near extinct, even though they may be much smaller than elephants. Where it breaks down is if you consider the number of ants vs elephants globally. I probably shouldn't have said "total" mass, just relative mass.
As it was done in response to a crippling patent law suit chances are the was minimal or no filing bonus at all, it was probably pitched as "file or Sun dies."
This was exactly my thought. Copyright holders might not like the results if it winds up codifying the way people currently feel about copyright law.

Of course, given how apathetic people are, it probably won't happen. I'm still amazed that the RIAA was allowed to get away with nationally sanctioned extortion.
How difficult is it to get a deal with Orbitz or ITS for access to this data? Do you need a bizdev guy to talk them out of a six figure annual commitment?

I've got a very different travel idea, and would love to be able to try it out, and send everyone to Orbitz to book it if they end up finding what they want on my site.

But without the data it is very hard to experiment in making a better travel site.
"Frozen garden hose"

It's somewhat ironic that I've repurposed a lot of old RG-58 thinnet for ham radio use. I wonder if salvaged RG-8 thicknet is still pretty useable for HF or even VHF radio if you plug the holes from vampire taps?
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Still an opportunity cost. And facebook, google and twitter are among the biggest hirers of the kind of people I'm talking about. 3 or 4 years at facebook or google makes for an even bigger opportunity cost.
I am not the developer guys who said i am the 14 years old kid :)
That probably helps more if the problem complexity is increasing linearly. If it's going up exponentially with problem size, especially if complexity increases at a faster rate than technology, then you're not going to make much progress.

ie, if emulating a human brain is only N times as hard as emulating a flatworm, Moore's Law might do the trick.

But if emulating a human brain is more like (flatworm complexity)^(number of cells in human brain - number of cells in flatworm brain) then Moore's Law is unlikely to help for a very long time indeed.
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The game doesn't seem to involve so much coding. Actually, it's not about the game, it's about how it got around 1 million download.

If you want to show us a 14 kid coding, then get it to do some coding stuff. Example, solve a math. equation or write an algorithm or hack Windows kernel... If you show us 800K downloads, it's just the app success that happens either by good planing and marketing or a sheer luck.
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Thats one half of my favorites set of words, could't help replying

"The devil is in the details..."

The other half
"God is in the details"

:)
good tip, and very true too.
My partner left a comfy management consulting job to co-found our business and we constantly argued about taking external investment at the beginning. She felt compelled to seek it, even though we didn't need it. I'm convinced it was due to the prestige of receiving investment - instead of telling her old coworkers "I've started a little company," she could say "I've raised half a million dollars for my startup." Thankfully, I talked her out of it.

Now people come knocking on our door looking to invest. When you're solidly profitable and growing, suddenly these people looking to buy a chunk of your business don't seem like such a sweet deal - unless they really have enough capital and connections to safely push you into a much larger market.
I'm pretty sure Bing doesn't have a problem with what I'm doing. But in general, I believe in this: http://redeye.firstround.com/2009/03/nothing-to-lose-or-risk...
For those of us in the US, the Constitution is the basis for the law of the land. To ignore it would be ridiculous.

Ad hominem attacks from somebody who such a strong admitted bias towards copyright just makes you look desperate. Many published writers have shown that they can get by without copyright.

The problem is not copyright, which, in and of itself, is fine. The problem is when copyright moves from a balance between the creator and society as a whole to being only favorable for the creator.

That point (which we are at, IMO) is the point the laws need to be shucked, and that will happen as a result of people ignoring the laws until government decides to make people legal again.
No, I am not saying that. And I am happy for him.

I had coded a dozen games for my own 8-bit Sinclair Spectrum by 11.
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My Hacker Newsletter (http://www.hackernewsletter.com) has been killing those averages with about a 55% open rate and 35% click rate, so it really depends on your audience I think.
A graph on relative usage was used to prove something absolute...and you offering a graph on relative mass to prove relative mass...so almost but not quite. I didn't see anyone dispute the accuracy of the graph. People balked at the notion that the graph is proof that the web is dead.
http://blogs.tedneward.com/2006/06/26/The+Vietnam+Of+Compute...

I've tried for years working on it, and I even wrote a programming language (Kira: http://www.mathgladiator.com/projects/kira/ ) to solve this problem. I can attest that the problem... well, sucks.

If you want to get off the ground, then using a RDBMS isn't the way to go. The way I would recommend is to use object graph serialization then as the problems arise, use a database to index. I wrote about this here: http://blog.mathgladiator.com/2010/08/guide-to-databases-in-...
I believe that Facebook locks down under-18 profiles by default.
Mega-volume travel agencies / search engines are their customers, not you.
Check out the newsletter http://thestartupdigest.com/. It is run by HN members Cmccann7 and silvia77 and is a great way to keep up with events in your area.
Let me google that for you...

http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/
If he did his own physics engine, that's pretty impressive.
It's not really acceptable on HN to editorialize the title like that. In fact, I believe it's explicitly forbidden.
yes i agree it is how he got around 1 million downloads
Haha, nice one. I think the USPS could provide a point-to point printing service where users would go to post offices and run their letters through a secure, encrypted scanning device, their mail could be emailed to the location their mail is addressed to and then printed out onto official stationary or special stock for cards etc... The email could then be locally distributed from regional offices, reducing delivery time, and paper; mail could be tracked easily because it could be linked to the sender's email address, and it could be re-routed easily if errors occur (as in your Christmas card example) There are so many ways the USPS could win by implementing email, and we, as mail senders would benefit immensely from the change also.

Easy to use scan/print devices could easily be made to link users to the USPS to allow faxes via email or point-to-point mail delivery without going to post offices, your local post office would have a lot more space for an Internet Cafe.

The mail system is unreliable now because its technically bankrupt, but I firmly believe if this kind of reorganization should have happened years ago, if someone there had that kind of vision earlier the USPS would be thriving today instead of talking about closing on Saturdays...

Sounds like a solidly "untapped" start-up opportunity, no?
Sure, and a shag rug has a much higher Kolmogorov complexity than the instructions for how to weave it. If measured carefully enough you'd find every individual strand of yarn in it has a unique length, orientation, curvature, amount of twist and amount of fraying that can be measured to an arbitrary degree of precision. So if you wanted to reproduce or store a description of that exact rug, you couldn't do it. That doesn't mean you can't make another rug that's just like it or close enough to serve the same purpose and be recognizable as a shag rug.

Like that rug, the brain contains oodles of complexity that doesn't matter at all for our purposes.
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As someone commented on SoundCloud, this is the first time anything on SoundCloud has gone viral. 450K hits and rising. I hope for many others!!!
The evils of angel investors aside, there's a lot to be said about bootstrapping and the ability to grow a small business and earning steady income on the web.

Maybe cause I don't live in/around SF, but the whole investor cycle was never in my mind when I worked on projects. I ended up on the hobby-turned-business track.

Now these probably aren't going to get you Facebook/YouTube-sized exits, but can do quite well. And if financial freedom and lifestyle autonomy are your ultimate goals, you can achieve that.
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What? People invest money to make money? No way!
Well, that was a waste of time.
Not everyone is Homo Economicus.

There is also a psychological cost for some. I for one tried that fat paycheck and cubicle thing for a few years, but I just can't do it now.
hmmm... aren't you afraid that this may look to some people like greed to a point of making money on dead people?
You are telling programmers to "worry about making money; don't worry about building products that can change the world."

Whatever their motives, angel investors want entrepreneurs to build big, meaningful companies. And the money they provide helps them to that.
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I know it might not be totally related but I often see that and I was wondering if anyone could explain it to me:

(quote You will become a better interviewer fast, learn more about the right requirements for the job, understand the candidate pool, and learn how to sell the role to the best candidate well before you meet (emphasis her.))

Why is "her" used there?
Why I can't afford a ticket to BoS 2010:

I'm starting a new software business, but I'm not a developer. I come from a product manager background, therefore most of the capital (my personal savings from a couple successful startups in the past) I'm using to start the business is going to the developers who are actually doing the work and the rest is being saved for marketing later. The devs are a couple of amazing guys who are building an amazing product.

What I'll do if you grant me a ticket to BoS 2010:

There is a local nonprofit here in Jacksonville that tutors adults, helping them learn to read, write, and do basic math with the aim of helping them find jobs to support their families. They need a website to help raise funding, but they don't have the funds to do it properly (catch22). If you give me a ticket to BoS 2010, I'll build them the best damn website ever.

scottmagdalein@gmail.com :)

(Honestly, I'm going to build the website for them whether you give me the ticket or not, but this is supposed to look like a "pay-it-forward" scenario.)

P.S. Due to a mishap by United Airlines, I have a free ticket anywhere in the US that I would use for this trip. Also, I have a friend in Boston who is willing to let me sleep on his couch. So, the only expense left to cover is the ticket to BoS 2010.

P.P.S I want to attend BoS 2010 because our product will be launching around that time and I want to make sure I'm positioning it properly for the most potential.

Thanks for your consideration!
Can you make the audio loop?
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Sounds like Booby McFerrin doing a rock opera.
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Even more confusing:

http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&ie=UTF-8&q=0+degre...
I wouldn't suggest ignoring it exactly. It's relevant when determining whether or not something is legal. It's just not relevant when determining whether or not something should be legal. It's a logical fallacy (called an appeal to authority).

I was not making any attack against the author personally, especially since I don't know anything about him. I also don't have a strong bias towards copyright. I believe that there has been a clear progression throughout history of protection from theft (of both the tangible and intangible) being followed by innovation and wealth creation, and therefore that the idea that copyrights as a class should be abolished is naive and shortsighted, but that's not really a bias toward copyrights as they exist currently.

I also believe that in any functioning copyright system, litigation will be the best (and for the most part, only) method of enforcement. And that the word "patent troll" is an ad hominem attack meant to discourage rather than encourage discussion about a complex topic typically used by people who don't even remotely understand it.

You never get coherent arguments like that from people who support the abolition of all IP. All you get are appeals to authority, name calling, and the occasional "Cory Doctorow makes his books free and still makes money."
This allows you to easily serve the same app to multiple different customers, with each customer seeing their own unique copy of the app.

I'm a bit confused by what this means exactly. Is it still 1 code base that you upload and manage or are you now just given the ability to upload different versions of code for each tenant?

he API works will all of the relevant App Engine APIs (Datastore, Memcache, and Task Queues).

Now thats cool. Each tenant basically gets their own set of data, cache and queues?

I can only hope that Windows Azure will step up and provide some similar functionality.
I feel about this like I felt about the Java app store: there is an obvious win for customers in the iP* App Store, because it is the only way to get apps on your device, but I doubt Sun/Google will be able to attract a large audience to their own app stores. What is the value proposition for users? A newer, marginally more convenient way to spend your money, with a large learning curve before you can actually consummate transactions?

Without the large built-in distribution there is nothing to recommend me using this instead of just putting my app on the public Internet.
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Because in English (at least speaking formally) there is no singular gender-neutral pronoun that can be used to describe people. Many people (including me) incorrectly use "they", which is actually a plural. "Her" was used in place of "his" more in the interests of political correctness than anything else. Some authors will switch genders between examples, some will use "his or hers" (which seems overly formal to me), and some just use "they".

I'm of the opinion that English will evolve over the next few decades to include "they" as a formally recognized singular pronoun. Languages exist to serve the culture they're a part of, not the other way around - and many (most?) of us are already using "they" incorrectly.

More information available at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-neutral_pronoun#Modern_E...
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"Child." I love it! Oh how they think they know everything and have a monopoly on that information.
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What are characteristics of truly successful people; people who innovate in their fields?

Here (by Paul Graham) is what Richard Hamming says:

http://www.paulgraham.com/hamming.html
What's your company?
Why is a small company not meaningful?
The VMware deal fell through...they couldn't get Engine Yard, so they'll just have to settle for you. Sound about right?
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did anyone else think this was really smirky at the end?
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I would love to have Appengine as an alternative to AWS, but what's a poor boy to do without his nodejs & cassandra?
Replace with "the place where you sleep at night" for the general case, in the developed world. (Roof, kitchen, livingroom, bedroom, etc.) Possibly shared with family. The point is, even if you don't own a business, you're going to want a place to live, and you'll have to pay for that anyway so, assuming no other complicating factors, it seems like a smart idea to also consider using that space to work on your new business. Home != house != ownership. Home is where you sleep on a regular basis, where you store your stuff, etc.
That just tells me that you've missed my point about missing Loopt's early days on the list. If you've been an active member of the HN community (judging by how long you've been on HN - probably a throwaway account for downvoting?) or know about Loopt's early days, they did exactly what this app is trying to solve, which was to solve the problem of "Where you at?".

Yes, I agree Loopt and the sort are more social/community oriented these days. But, back in the day before Foursquare, Gowalla and even the iPhone (and Android) were alive, Loopt did this first and did it rather gosh darn well.

That aside, the app is pretty neat. It'd be nice to have an embeddable version in the future so let's say you arrive at a restaurant or whatever, and your location could be broadcasted or narrowcasted to the rest of the group. I could see this working with maybe a facebook group or whatever.
Do you know of anyone that is making money with a google extension
Can a monthly subscription business be build on a Google extension plugin. I have an idea for a google extension i wanted to know if you have seen any one charging a monthly service fee for extension.
No, that’s just wrong.

Ok, I couldn’t resist.
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I saw a job ad last week where the company said they wanted a "dynamic" sales professional who was "reliable and consistent".

"Dynamic" means constantly changing.

"Reliable and consistent" means the opposite.

My point: it's just one of those buzzwords that people like to throw around. "Hyper" and "dynamic" are like the packing peanuts of the English language.
You're reading that backwards. He's encouraging people to build something rather than attempt to build something for the sole purpose of selling it.
I'm afraid that it's mostly just a human tendency to embrace "the way things are/should/will always be".

Tradition over ambition!
3 or 4 years at facebook or google makes for an even bigger opportunity cost.

Can you elaborate on that?
Exactly. About 95% of the DotComs who bought Aeron chairs are gone. But probably 95% of the Aeron chairs they bought are still in use, somewhere, by somebody. Something to think about when deciding what's a wise thing for a business to spend money on. Spend money on assets or things that last a long time and have decent resell value.
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