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I think I am good at all of these things! (And, beyond just 'thinking' them, have had the opportunity to prove myself before). While I know a lot of flaky aspiring business-types, I still get bummed when I see articles written like those that cropped up tonight, writing off the idea of ever partnering with someone who isn't going to necessarily spend 90% of their time writing code. I think that it's great to emphasize engineering / technical talent, but not fair to just write off everyone else as a waste of time.

I'm fluent in the languages that developers speak and can serve as a liaison to the rest of the universe; I think that I have a way to be really helpful and at the same time help shape product visions. Plus I know enough code to make trouble for myself.

If / when I have something I want to pursue, I am trying to make sure I won't be beholden to all of these finicky technical types who seem to enjoy so much scowling at the idea of anyone business-focused. I don't see things as so black and white, and while I understand that some will say it is easy enough for a hacker-type to learn the ropes of what other business things they might need to do, that doesn't mean that having someone less technical is all doom and gloom! At least, it hasn't been from my experience so far.

Hopefully I'll have a chance to prove this perspective soon :)
Can't wait for the MacVim to move to 7.3
As long as you're ready to work fulltime on the startup it's not too early for us.

We can't do tours, unfortunately; we're just not set up for it.
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I like this site. Very well designed and superfast
That sounds really convoluted for a 4 person start-up. The further you stray from the "standard" ways, the more unintended consequences you'll run into.

Profit sharing is not terribly helpful when you're not profitable, and many promising startups aren't - by choice. Also, you have to figure out how "profit" is defined (or more precisely, how it can be manipulated).

So yeah, I'd be careful. Even with the best intentions, stuff like this can go sideways.
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http://bigthink.com for long, focused interviews with smart people

http://longform.org for good magazine pieces

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http://reason.com if you suspect yourself of having libertarian tendencies
http://github.com/b4winckler/macvim/downloads

More specifically, http://github.com/downloads/b4winckler/macvim/MacVim-7_3-53....

It's solid.
Sounds good. Thank you for the prompt reply.
It's pretty cool that vim has had the same lead developer running the project for nearly 20 years.

It's also pretty cool how he asks for donations to be sent to nonprofits instead of himself.

I know this is irrelevant to the new release, but I think it's great that he still keeps it going after 20 years without any monetary gain (at least directly from the project).
Not that I think we'll be all be buckling down to master Mandarin in our lifetimes but the lingua franca does sometimes change as the expression itself suggests.

as if these islands had sunken into the ocean after the bubble burst and do not still outrank every European country in trade with the US

By that measure, we should all study Canadian and Mexican as well!

http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/top/dst/current/balance....
Doing what you want to do. « Geekybuddha
youre so full of it -- you say this at the same time you have been karma whoring by submitting comments from liptons blog posts on P vs NP to this website, so which one is it, is the problem interesting and newsworthy or not?
Have you dealt with US immigration? It might be easier to move the Valley to Nigeria.
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Sweet JEBUS!!
It feels that education is next in line for disruption, right after print media.

"College product" is overpriced and is largely sustained by "parent pressure". Parents and society in general do not know yet any acceptable/established alternatives.

My bet is on "open horizontal stack". Right now, every college is a small "vertical stack": its own library, teachers, physical space, etc. I think in the future we will have one national library (e.g. Chegg.com), one network of educational spaces, one network of classes (e.g. SupercoolSchool.com), one employment system for students, one office for transfer of technology, etc.
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> A true public good (non-rivalrous and non-excludible) would in effect need to be completely subsidized.

Not necessarily. Please see "The private provision of public goods via dominant assurance contracts" (
http://mason.gmu.edu/~atabarro/PrivateProvision.pdf)
Centralized economic control by the state is not socialism. It's just centralized economics. Indeed, nearly everything you described—especially the tightly controlled, wholly un-free workforce—is antithetical to any socialist plan. The elements you've highlighted have more in common with corporatism than anything else.
I don't really care for threaded Javascript in the browser, but damn can that dude illustrate a point! Cool!

[Edit] Ooooh, it's Mark Pilgrim, of course! Great stuff!
Why do people down-vote just because they don't agree? Save the down-votes for off-topic or offensive comments.
>>> I believe what I'm saying here is what most are thinking, but won't say

I'm not thinking that, and if I was I would slit my risks for being a douche. If you think Halliburton, Goldman Sachs, or Google|Apple|Microsoft|Oracle are a step up then, well, that's stoopid
Tiny eye implant might soon make a huge difference
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The way price signalling works is through failure and bankruptcy. Capitalism doesn't assume that all participants are rational; rather, it assumes that some fraction of them are irrational (possibly all of them, as long as there are some people who happen to be right despite being irrational), and that those firms will go bust, and their assets will be picked up by the people who happened to be on the right track in the first place. As long as you let those failures occur, you have a functioning market.
I don't agree with this explanation.
Before customers even, business founders can offer the credible promise of customers. The credibility comes from some sort of market validation. They should be able to convince you that a good execution will actually get traction, and help discover discover early that product X is not what people need/will pay for, but close variant Y is what should be focused on instead.

In my very limited experience, non-technical partners have vaguely done this, but haven't clearly communicated what they're doing or how it contributes value. I think they imagine that I share their background, and automatically understand and value their actions. With no shared background, poor communication, and only a short relationship with them so far, the trust isn't there to really value their work.

My mistake has been looking forward too much to what a product will be, and thus aiming for more than is reasonable in a small, fixed timespan. This inevitably means I can't achieve what I aim for without investing significantly more of my time than the non-technical partner, which makes me feel like I'm getting a bad deal. I have to learn to aim more minimally, and estimate more generously.

It seems that both types of founders need to communicate a lot, and invest more in the personal relationships outside the venture. All that communication will build the trust which eventually makes things flow well and happen efficiently.
I think the main reasons Africa hasn't produced global scale startups is that they (global scale startups) are so rare you really need everything to be in your favor AND to have a lot of luck for a startup to become a global success.

What unique advantage does being from Africa give you? I'm assuming you are clever and lucky - but there are a lot of clever, lucky people around who also have access to friends with huge amounts of capital (eg, Silicon Valley) or cheap programming talent (Bangalore) or a positive start-up culture (Israel) or government backing (endless incubators around the world).

Some advantages I could see being in Africa (and I'm hardly an expert!):

There appear to be a large number of state-run monopoly businesses that could be undercut by a cheaper, faster startup. My understanding is that this is how a lot of the successful African telecom businesses got their start. That's a good advantage, because state monopolies are very slow to react.

Cheap natural resources. I'm from Australia, and a large amount of custom software development here is related to what is essentially counting rocks being pulled out of the ground or wool of sheep (etc etc) and making sure it does to the correct places. I'd expect it is the same in Africa, and there maybe local opportunities there that give you a big advantage.

Anyway - I don't know, but I am really interested. Why would PG be interested in African startups? What advantage do they have that would make them worth investing in?
Dubai's culture is so openly shallow and materialistic, and its social structure is so patently corrupt—its once-vaunted development and luxury are so directly built on the backs of slaves and oppressed people—that I must confess, I think it's the only place in the world that I think less of people for living in. China, Israel—of all the places whose governments I disapprove of, I would never morally judge someone simply for moving to that state or living in that city. But when I meet people, personally or in my business, who live in Dubai, I really do immediately think less of them as people. I am worse inclined to them; I find myself thinking it a moral failure to participate in the waste and vanity that that city produces. It's probably not fully defensible, but there you have it.
Yeah -- not really sure why we had the outage, and we may go down again tomorrow to figure out what went wrong -- we are running in debug mode right now, so it might be slower than it should be.
If I remember correctly, and this was a long time ago, J++ also didn't support .JAR files, and only was compatible with .CAB files for compressed sets of files.
Java has always had "write once, run anywhere" as it's motto.

Have you found that to be true? I found it to _often_ be the case, but no assurances; you had to pick wisely.

Java has had its own problems with fragmentation, despite the motto.

If you're going to allow for the variation and variety needed for robust development and platform progress you have to allow for the risk that not all code will always play nice together. That's life.

I'd like to see a Microsoft Android. I've few worries about some heavy-handed market dominance, though, since there are few barriers to entry for anyone else to jump in and try the same thing (unlike what was the case with Java when Microsoft was interested).
I see nothing but agreement on the only substantive point in this thread. You don't really address my questions, so I think you and I are now talking past each other; it's time for us to discontinue this discussion.
Isn't Spanish the most learned foreign language by far in the States?

http://www.vistawide.com/languages/us_languages.htm
I wondered that too.

There's widely varying opinions on how much debt is bad. Unfortunately the argument gets reduced to "debt is bad" which is frankly stupid.
I am Nigerian now living in NY. I used to run a successful Internet Cafe at Yaba,Lagos. Before Nigeria and most other African countries can join the tech startup world some big infrastructure issues needs to be addressed.

While I was running the internet cafe, the bigger problems I had to deal with had nothing to do with my line of business.

I had to bribe employees of the electric company (NEPA) to hook me up to a more reliable power line where electricity is more stable. Stable electricity in Lagos means you get it like 6 hours a day. The rest of day, you had to power your business with Generators. For the Generators, we had to buy drums of diesel to keep them running. Buying diesel was something else because Lagos always had a fuel shortage going on. We had to buy tank loads of water to keep the business location clean because otherwise we had no running tap water. I had to deal with thugs showing up every now and then, asking me to pay for street protection. With all these problems how do you focus on your startup and grow your business.

My wishlist for Nigeria will be a wireless internet solution that is cheap and can reach the whole country, the type that the company Teledesic tried to provide. Also an Energy solution that will free us from evil Oil companies and evil electric company. Something you could just plug in and get cheap, clean, efficient enegry to run your entire business. But thats just what my wishful thinking. When we can have that, we will see more startups from Africa.
Here's my strategy to learn a new framework/technology/language:

Start a dummy project while reading a great book on the subject. This way, you understand the book better because you're using the concepts you've just read.

Sometime, if it's a big framework/language, I like to start with a really small tutorial (See python or Arc tutorial for examples of what I'm talking).
Awesome feedback. Had a problem with port 443, and so the experience was broken. Would you mind trying again and re-evaluate?
" ... that would impede freedom of travel. "

No, it would impede ease or convenience of travel. Not freedom.
This is so easy to game and screw the employees. All they have to do is reinvest the profits back into the business (by, say, hiring more employees) and that net income vanishes back into expenses. Meanwhile, the value of the business increases through all that reinvestment, so the co-founders stand to make a big buck when they sell out - at which point, you're left with nothing.
as a chilean I don't like very much the idea, here we have to figth the banks for funding, and the state gives away tax money
The server on port 443 was down, which affected the experience ( broken links). Try that again if you can.
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It's in fashion to bash Dubai, but the article isn't exactly well written. The author just grabs at everything potentially unappealing he can and throws it in a pot:

> (The UAE was one of only three nations—the others were Saudi Arabia and Pakistan—to recognize the Islamic fundamentalist government in Afghanistan.)

There's no analysis of why there - notice how Dubai is one of the most progressive countries in the Middle East about dress, culture, and women working, and yet gets no trouble/bombings from fundamentalists? They kind of have to appease knuckleheads geopolitically. Saudi Arabia do the same thing because they control Mecca and Medina and want to recognize all even nominally Muslim countries. Pakistan shares a really large, poorly guarded border with Afghanistan and a lot of citizens live along that border with no particular loyalty to either country's government - again, not rocking the boat for geopolitical reasons.

A lot of world nations recognize backwards places, which just means they'll negotiate with them - most of the world countries recognize North Korea, for instance, where the rampant abuses are 1000x worse than anything you could imagine in Dubai. That's not to say nothing is wrong in Dubai, but its demise has been greatly exaggerated, and this particular article isn't particularly well written.
You'll be taxed internationally as a US citizen/PR for an income over a typical worker even if you don't live there anymore, so do beware. The USA is pretty much the only significant country does that.
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Hi, I was interested in knowing how the 3month funding period is structured? Since, each group might be at a different level of startup cycle (fresh epiphany for an idea, idea->bplan, idea->bplan->dev, etc), will each group be assigned a mentor or scheduled topics are discussed on tues. meetups? Thanks!
Great article, I'm happy to see that I have experience succeeding at many of these attributes, and am studying many others. I'm eagerly looking forward to the second half.

Aside from these, I can't emphasize enough how important it is for the business guy to have some technical knowledge/ability, at least enough to be able to make reasonable demands of developers and determine project scope, expense, etc. If they've at least managed a technical team before, they'll know better than to ask you to build the next Google in a week on shared hosting.

I was doing consulting recently for a B2C Web 2.0 tech startup where both cofounders were great at fundraising, talking to customers, etc but were completely nontechnical. Even making a small change to their site, like adding analytics code or uploading a new landing page involved an email to their outsourced dev team in India and 24 hours of waiting. Needless to say, the job was a nightmare.
You could still have used big O notation:

"what if some NP-hard problems could be solved in O(n^(1000^1000))?"

That is polynomial time so those problems would be in P, but in practice they would be intractable.
Python 3 interface FTW :)
You could always read http://shortformblog.com </shamelessselfpromotion>

But in all seriousness, I find myself here a lot, along with:

http://mediaite.com/ <-- Good, video-heavy political coverage

http://reuters.com/ <-- News is good. And as wire services go, they're the most underrated.

Also a big fan of http://longform.org, which is ironic because of my own site's name.

http://apple.copydesk.org/ <-- Visual journalism blogger Charles Apple, who I read daily and who inspired me to do my own blog

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/ <-- An always-interesting aggregator of political opinion. The bloggers on The Atlantic proper, esp. Andrew Sullivan, I'm a huge fan of.
If Microsoft had stuck with "embrace and extend" (rather than embrace and distend), it wouldn't have been a problem. I was (attempting) to write desktop Java during the MS/Sun wars, and it was beyond annoying. MS had a habit of slightly altering the behavior or syntax of things.

You were usually OK (but annoyed) if you developed using the Sun VM and then ported (yes, it was a port) to MS. If you started on MS, it was a horrid process to get to Sun's VM.

What really sucked was, as part of the embrace, their tools were the best tools at the time (compiler, debugger, vm). The "extend" part was even OK (sometimes it was handy to have easy COM access). It just sucked when the distend part came.

(Just don't ask about the time my company was partnering with Microsoft on a project and I built the software using Netscape's foundation classes. Stupid little dot on their scroll bars...)
How vulnerable are the cables to physical attack (i.e., drag something heavy and sharp along the ocean floor)?
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Vibrant countries seem to have "started again" more recently than more stagnant ones. E.g. Gernamy and Japan were "re-started" after conquest, China was restarted after a takeover by new people from the PLA and Communist Party, Georgia after a new police force. Startups and successful businesses thrive in countries with more lenient bankrupcy laws. This ensures the decay-death-rebirth rolls around quicker.
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I feel that your two statements do not agree well with one another. On the one hand, I do agree with you about the eventual future of education.

However, I feel the timeline on that is fairly long, and it doesn't seem likely nothing else will be disrupted before that.
How do you check if domains are available? I searched a little for a domain name API not too long ago, but all I found were things that required you to sign up (and almost always pay money, I think).
I think the asker is making the classic error of "the exception does not invalidate the rule". Is it possible to do such a thing out of Africa/Nigeria? Probably. Would it be much harder to do so than in many other more developed/western countries? Most definitely. But this doesn't mean an entrepreneur or investor should be dissuaded from doing such a thing, especially if you are a native of such a country. Instead, probably the more that native residents of any country try to build something new and innovative and bootstrap a new empire, the better -- for everybody concerned.
The intended way to make money at first is through affiliates program at Amazon. We did wanted to expand selection to other sites and even for items freely created by the user. That's in the future, there was enough to do just getting the Amazon content.

The idea is that as a login user you can create your own outfit. Other users can suggest better items either in lieu of existing ones or additional ones. As a set owner you can choose to show the suggested items.

Some of the features are not visible until you log in. I'm thinking that this should change, and instead make the non-logged user conted ephemeral, with a reasonable TTL.

Regarding the cross hair cursor, it was intended to make the user think the area was actionable, but perhaps that is a turnoff. It's hard to add a link to the set there without making the display more crowded and clutter the display.
Ask HN: Do you incorporate your web apps or register them as trademarks?
Hey guys,

Let's say I have a company that has a portfolio of web apps like 37signals, do I need to incorporate every single app that I develop? Can I just register them as trademarks that belong to my company?

In other words, is it preferable to incorporate each web app as a distinct company/subsidiary, owned by my "main company" or is it better to just register them individually as trademarks that belong to my company?

What are the advantages/disadvantages?

thank you.
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Yeah, all they did was interrupt the correction, not stop it. And they're using the same unsound policies that created the bubble, trading our longterm economic health to get short term consumption-driven phony growth.

And its not just in the US:

http://seekingalpha.com/article/219542-china-the-mother-of-all-bubbles?source=article_sb_popular
I'm always amazed how many U.S. Supreme Court decisions are passed by a 5-to-4 vote. Government power in the U.S. is limited by the beliefs of the 9 lifelong Supreme Court judges, interpreting written laws and precedents according to their own subjective belief systems.
I agree, except that it would free up brainpower to work on other problems, and that it would allow more confidence in cryptosystems that rely on an NP-hard problem being exponential time (but I don't think factoring a large product of two primes like could break RSA, is NP-hard).

A resolution P=NP would likely have a huge practical effect, but most people don't expect that to happen.
And has been for decades... so?
miami is freaking huge. I'm not really sure what point you're trying to make about it.

also, it's more than just Miami -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Florida_metropolitan_area
Well, MTBF could be tested manufacturer-side too. I'm not sure why HP/Lenovo/et. al. have not come out and said "After exhaustive testing, we've shown our netbooks last the wear-equivalent of X years of average usage, which is Y years/months more than that of competitors Z, A, and B."

My feeling is that they consider netbooks disposable and their "real" notebooks to be the focus of QC.