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> The point is that, because of the small number of available slots, professional athletes tend to be the intersection of the sets {people who work the hardest} and {people who are the most genetically gifted}.

And were born during the right months.

That's important because a couple of months of age makes a big difference when you're young. Since you're competing with other folks who also have both genes and work ethic, physical maturity differences can be significant.
SEO isn't about driving traffic. It's about optimizing your site to work best with search engines. Driving traffic is done through marketing, outreach, and advertising.
That reminds me of my old boss expecting email to be the same as an answered phone call. There was a problem in our system that he wanted me and a co-worker to solve by working late and he sent us a both an email. The was close to the end of the day. I didn't read the email until the next morning. He yelled at me for not putting in the extra effort and leaving it to my co-worker. The really funny part was that his office was only 20 steps away from my desk and he could have dialed a four digit number to reach my desk phone. And this was back in 1994.
Backblaze on a LAN can backup the whole company?
Unlimited backup storage you say? So if I put one Windows PC client connected to backblaze, all other machines can use some software to use that machine over LAN and use it as a backup server. What's to prevent that?

The single PC can cache the backup data, only download backups from backblaze when absolutely no other backup copies exist locally.

If backblaze allows this, I think this can be an interesting low cost device for backing up potentially huge amount of data cheaply.
Make your HTML output lowercase. It's the predominant style these days.

Also agreed that drawing divs from scratch (no image upload) could be useful.
If your job is mostly concerned with coordinating with other people, then this is correct, the more realtime the better. However, if mail merely supports your work, then realtime mail is unnecessary and, indeed, quite unhelpful. The great thing about email (compared to, say, the telephone) is that it works well for both cases.
Really? She conducts controlled experiments on economies? Gives stimulus money to one city and simultaneously does not give money to an identical city in the same economic climate, something like that?
There's a hierarchy of immediacy for communication methods:

* Cell Phone: Make me drop everything and talk to you

* Desk Phone: If I'm free, I'll talk to you

* IM, SMS: Maybe I'm jammed and I can't reply right this second, but I'll take a look and get back ASAP. For what it's worth, Bloomberg messaging falls into this category.

* Email: Give me a couple hours and I'll write a thoughtful response

* Physical letters: Probably something important that you need to keep a hardcopy of. Expect a response in a couple days.

Email has a very nice niche that's as much a consequence of social convention as it is of the protocol. If email became realtime and people expected responses within 30 seconds or even 5 minutes, it would lose much of its value.
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There's this weird conflation of SEO with driving traffic. SEO is the practice of optimizing your site for search engines. If you want to drive traffic, buy ads and do outreach. Once you're linked to, SEO ensures that Google indexes your pages correctly, and ranks you as highly as you deserve.
You don't discover your vision in a month and then spend years selling it. You spend years discovering what your idea should be, refining the idea, making the idea happen, and selling it.

Selling is just a single component. If you had to single anyone of them out it would be "making the idea happen" and most of that is not selling, it's a thousand concrete decisions and problems to overcome about the product and marketing.

Hiring is even less about salesmanship. Convincing someone to join (or not) takes weeks at most. Finding the right people and making them effective takes months or years.

I think outsiders probably have a very skewed perspective on Steve Jobs and most other CEOs because we only see them when they're selling. To outsiders it looks like 100% of their time is spent selling, so it's natural that people think that's primarily what they do.

What you don't see is how Jobs is spending his time during the 364 days before a Stevenote.
Holy crap I remember that plot.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=926806

Damn, we're always in the same spot, the years just keep flowing underneath us.
Perception of time is an extremely interesting area. One of my favourites was the cutaneous rabbit experiments (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutaneous_rabbit_illusion), where researchers tap the arms of a blindfolded subject. They tap several times on the wrist, then several times on the elbow, but the sensation is of a sequence of taps leading up the forearm.

What's interesting is that the taps perceived as occurring in the mid-forearm occur before the elbow is tapped. Your brain goes back and alters previous memories based on subsequent events, without your awareness.

There is an intuitive sense that the memories you have of a particular time happened at that time, but research shows that's not always the case.
Redoing the videos could be done by someone else though -- the audio is normally pretty good.
Um, I think the author needs a blackberry. Most businesses use them.

That being said, the last thing I need is to be more connected to anything other than the location and persons that are within a five foot radius to me at any given time.
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Instead of worrying about this ad copy you'd be better off wrangling up as many credit cards as possible to try to pump it into the top selling apps so people can actually find it after launch day.
What % of a startup should i offer to technical co-founder?
After paying for the building of an application with a solid business model, I realized that i need a technical co-founder going forward--The application needs some polishing and fine tuning.

I have approach a developer who is just finishing graduate school. I told him about my intention of having an arrangement whereas i can pay some cash but also have a potential developer also work for some equity. He has told me how much it would cost to do the fix the bugs and little chinks in the application. He's also indicated that he's open to other offers.
How much equity should i offer at this point? Should the equity share be contingent upon performance? Finding a co-founder is really tough... I want to do the right thing.
> shut down Congress when it panders to corporate interests.

You can replace "corporate interests" with "any factional interests" and the sentiment becomes even more true.

All sorts of organizations try to use the government to further their interest and bludgeon their enemies - religious organizations, nonprofits, world governments, state governments, unions, public companies, banks, activist groups, and so on. None of these groups should be able to use the government to their advantage against free citizens.
Thanks! Interesting, a strong brand can be a negative.

Further thought: google video was 'better' in that it had higher resolution videos, and it displayed more of them on the screen at once. While youtube had one low resolution video. It was quicker to load and to run, and more suited to slower machines (perhaps especially mobile phones, whence videos oftentimes came?) Google video has always annoyed me in this sense. I note that now, they've increased youtube video resolution (it's 'better'), and also snipe: upgrade to a "modern" browser. Although understandable, it isn't the path to max adoption, and max. network effects
| But for the rest of the country, a survey of my friends suggest that most of them do not care.

They're going to care when they find out that the latest, greatest apps spammed in Android commercials don't run on their old versions of Android.
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When you say analog, do you mean analogy?
As I see it, the real power of email comes from the inherent queuing nature - it allows you to decouple your schedule from demands of others.

Being "realtime", especially if the senders have the expectation that the message is realtime, means necessarily losing that queuing nature which greatly diminishes email's flexibility and resilience.

The biggest problem with realtime is that you _need_ to implement some sort of access control, or otherwise you'll be inundated and overwhelmed with messages. If we turn email to realtime, we'll necessarily need to build the access control (or some sort of super filter) into it, and that basically shuts down the open nature of email. You can argue that open email is good (emailing Steve Jobs) or bad (spams) but it _is_ something that has real value.
I think that's a very valuable point to make, though. None of this stuff is obvious to someone who doesn't live and breathe technology and who wants to use the web to grow a bricks-and-mortar business.
Email needs to be left alone.
Oh man I wish I lived in SF and I wish worked for them! As a mostly self-educated autodidact-hacker-math-type, I get their mission. They're one of the few websites out there for which I would drop everything to pour myself into fully. Unlike say the 5,000 hype-driven profit-driven web startups who are just copy-cloning the flavor-du-jour amongst each other, and who have no hope of any tenable business model. And they all mimic Apple or Facebook in saying "we're going to change the world", which is complete hyperbole as the true intention is for the business guys behind the curtain to extract profits.

Khan Academy will change the world!

Alas!
Isn't that what they already do with the "with Google" branding and their proprietary apps? I guess they just need to wield that club a bit more aggressively.
Maybe you could do a write-up on all your findings and how they mesh together, it would make for interesting reading.
Glad you like it! Doing node-chess has given me a ton of ideas for the dnode web framework I have planned too. The framework will provide a more structured and out-of-the-box way to organize code that spans the server and client, since it can be hard to remember which functions belong to which side of the connection. It will also have some routines to synchronize objects between the server and client since sometimes you want a low-latency mirror of an object on the browser side, as we found in node-chess.
Low-latency email carrying is awesomely variable. It's asynchronous, and I can reply quickly if I want to. If I don't want to (such as if a fast response is more a waste of time, or encouraging unnecessary queries), I can hold off for an hour or two without annoying most people.

I've been accused of turning email into instance-messaging, if the email service is low-latency enough. GMail's typical turnaround for me is under a minute, sometimes under 30 seconds, if the response doesn't need to be extensive. (It usually doesn't.)

Thanks to presence notification and expectation of synchronous communication, IM tends to be very synchronous, and almost as draining and disruptive as phone calls.
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Right, which is why I framed it in the context of UI development. A good deal of UI apps are not a deep but broad problem set. Generally there is not great depth of chaining to the point that you need deep stack logic or techniques. For many web apps it is simple format/display and update data. Even deep apps (for web apps) like mapping or trader applications are simply variations on this theme. In that context it is the closest thing to a silver bullet we have to building rapid and extensible UI's while maintaining quality controls.
Email has many many advantages over SMS. To the point where my girlfriend and I usually email each other using our phones rather than SMSing. (An Android G1 with 10 minute IMAP polls, and an iPhone with push).
I am so giddy excited for this. I'm going to do this every night for half an hour until I reclaim math as a subject I understand.
Start small. As in, hand him small assignments to do in exchange for cash.

Working with him, you'll quickly learn whether or not you want him on your team. If not, it's better to make a clean break (rather than him owning 1.2% of your company, etc.) than keep equity-based ties.

If you have the cash now, work on a contracting basis. Pay him his asking rate; do not promise "future equity" in exchange for a lower rate. (Hint: that's a HUGE warning sign to good programmers to RUN... everyone wants to promise future value for coding, and few good coders are willing to do so).

After a month or two of working with him, you'll get a feel for how he operates. Is he getting the work done? On time? Of high quality? Is his communication excellent? Do you feel like you can work with him?

Those evaluations will be clear to you after a month or so, working with him on a regular basis. I'm a firm believer in having a trial period before hiring.
facepalm Not all of Africa is a cesspool. Take Egypt for example.
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Google Wave was ahead of its time. I'm sure Wave or something similar will show up and prove to be useful maybe five years from now.
this is excellent advice. a co-founder is a partnership, if you are not willing to give him half of the equity you own.. then he is not a co founder. A technical founder will do a lot more in the beginning of your tech startup more than you probably will. I'm saying this assuming you have no users, or traction and have just some random website. Provide a vesting schedule of course and treat it as a partnership.
Not sure I agree with Sachin. If I want people to be in touch real time, I give them my mobile so he or she can text me. Otherwise, I'm looking for less emailed noise, not more.

Yet, if the discussion is strictly that of the protocol's limitations, not sure it would hurt to ensure more immediate delivery, but I agree with the other commenters that IM seems to float the boat. Not sure I've ever heard anyone complain that IM isn't fast enough for them. Perhaps the discussion should be about a migration of IM to a shared, open standard, as opposed the silos of Gchat/jabber, Skype, AIM, FB chat, etc.
Emailing them to find out where they are? Your respective phones should have determined that you're meeting each other due to a calendar meeting, shared your locations, notified you that the other person is half a mile away and will arrive in 10 minutes and told the other person that you've already arrived and are waiting.
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I try to upvote/downvote based on how well a comment adds to the discussion, rather than whether or not I agree with it. Comments I am the most likely to downvote: jokes (they'd have to be really good for me to upvote); emotional responses without a shred of factual support; insults; and comments that are overwhelmingly demonstrably false and/or contain provably bad advice.
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I agree with the point that Adam makes about practice being so important.

Yet, I would also have to disagree, because that may not be the complete picture, but just part of it.

This is how I would put my reason for disagreement:

Where the inherent talent is the same between two people, the one with the higher amount of practice would have higher chances to win.

and

Where the amount of practice is the same, the one with the higher inherent talent would have higher chances to win.

What would happen, when they are more or less evenly matched in talent and practice? Someother factors must be at play.

creativity? Mental, physical and emotional stamina? Ability to perform under severe stress?

Nevertheless, a nice thought illustrated well.
thanks! 960gs sounds interesting, looking at it now.

the tool right now automatically does hierarchical nesting if a div is inside another one.

the download zip contains the sliced images and the html to display them in the layout specified, is that what you are refering to for image slicing?
Are you seeking a contractor, employee, or co-founder? Be clear, both with yourself and your prospective co-founder. You say co-founder, but it sounds like you may want a contractor or employee (i.e. you're getting a quote from this developer for the cost to fix bugs, etc).

What does "solid business model" mean? You have stable, ongoing revenue? I would suspect you mean that you have researched your target market and believe you have a solid business model, but not much real revenue yet.

If that's the case, and you are sincerely looking for a co-founder, I would suggest 25-33% equity at a salary of 65-75% of market rate as being reasonable.
It sounds like you are hiring a technical employee, not a co-founder, to be honest.
From a start up perspective, Reality Check by Guy Kawasaki is probably one of the most all around no bs start up book out there....
As a developer finishing grad school, I was approached by someone with some business ideas, for which he generously offered me an equity in the range of 10%.. He had some real business experience, but still... he never received a call back. Its a bit different from your situation, as you have a product already available.. but, first offers do mean something. Just my 2 cents...
So far, I've invested in 6 from this class. Only time will tell if that's a good thing or a bad thing :)
How odd. Your results are different (and better) now. When I looked before the first three links were great, after that it was as if they were for a different search.
I don't doubt you, but it's a lot easier when, grammatically, you don't have to include the thing you're talking about in the conversation.

Incidentally, the incident I was thinking about wasn't an argument at all. Kklein posted a funny one to Slashdot ages ago about his Japanese wife continuing a conversation from they day before (using the topic of their old conversation without stating it), but I can't seem to drag it out of Google right now.
"Should the equity share be contingent upon performance?"

Absolutely; it's hard enough for us experienced programmers to have much confidence that a technical hire will work out, you are presumably in much worse shape. That said, don't torture him about estimates and deadlines until he's really gotten his teeth into the project, who knows what monsters might hiding in an innocent corner of the code, especially as you stress it with the diverse demands of the real world.

As for how much equity: if he really works out it should be quite a bit. You need someone you really trust to make the technical side of things work and that's harder than it appears to most non-technical people (and the less drama you experience, the better he's doing his job).

As you note, finding a technical co-founder of any quality is indeed really tough; plan for compensation based on that.
Works in safari 5.0.1
Is anyone of note using this in production? (Not hating, just curious)
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Interesting idea, but that would be too much of an invasion of privacy for my taste. It's one thing to tell someone where you are when they call (or email), but a completely different thing for your phone to update someone on your exact location just because you're meeting with them.
The Hawkboard has a Fast Ethernet port, and also ships with 128MB RAM (versus 64). Haven't tried it yet, but we're going to order one soonish to build a prototype for a device potentially leading to a startup (currently prototyping on old PC hardware).
It is more like Riak or Cassandra's sharding.
Just a note on your image file extension. It doesn't accept .tif (only .tiff). Some programs will save it as *.tif by default.

Might want to check other possible formats too.
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Negative. However I am going this year and will be very interested to hear someone answer the parent.
I think this is good advice for some programs and professors, but not necessarily all. Some professors really are looking mainly for hardworking, competent research assistants, and all professors do want students who will produce research. But there's a large gradient from professors who emphasize the "student is an assistant" part, to professors who emphasize the "I am an advisor" part, and I think that's where the job analogy isn't always good.

Some professors have a huge, grant-funded project with deliverables already looming 3 years out, and they really are looking for something like employees. But some professors are looking primarily to mentor students who are capable of mostly-independent research, and in that case, things of the well-roundedness variety play some role, and your proposal of what exactly it is you want to do plays a big role as well (do you sound like you have an idea for a project, and will be able to pursue it, or are you waiting to be assigned one?). One heuristic is that professors who run large "labs" tend to want more employees, while professors who have 2-3 students want more independent researchers (often such professors are senior, and have their time taken up by all sorts of things that leads to them not having time to manage employee-type students).

Disclaimer: This might apply more to CS than to the natural sciences, due to the relatively lower cost of independent research in CS (your advisor usually doesn't have to buy you much in the way of equipment or experimental materials). Postdoc positions are also less mandatory in CS, so a bigger emphasis is placed on getting students who will be able to be independent, prof-position-worthy researchers within 4-6 years, since placing students in professorships brings prestige to the advisor. There's still definitely incentives tilting towards profs wanting employees, but there are also incentives for wanting to have proteges, since often that's how you really put your stamp on a field.
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I know someone who puts a warning in her .sig file: “I do not read my email every day, or even every other day.” I assume she was fed up with people who sent her an email question and then bugged her an hour later asking her when she would respond.
Exactly. This style suits the UI very well because of te nature of it. At the end, the UI responds to events whether they are user driven or system driven ex. Notifications. One of my favorites is the ability for the UI to degrade gracefully even if a component has been removed because nothing calls it directly, just publishes to it.
Probably, but what does that have to do with his point? I doubt he wants to force other people to change their habits so that he can get information faster.
Going to a startup camp what should I expect?
Hi All,

I'm going to be attending a startup camp in the next 2 months, http://sydneystartupcamp.eventbrite.com/ and I am curious about what I should expect from it?

I tried looking around but couldn't find anyone talking about that specific one so I though I would throw the question out here for the collective wisdom of the hacker news crowd.
Cloudant has a number of big customers who have been in production for about a year on it. Here is a page where they list a few: https://cloudant.com/#!/company/customers
obviously, judging people by surface characteristics is stupid. to some extent, we can't help it... but I think that a good interviewer has learned to look past his or her biases. There are better ways to figure out if a technical person knows what they are doing than looking at their surface characteristics. (really, I think getting some idea of a candidates actual skill is easier to do in a technical interview than when, say, interviewing a manager type. Of course, this might just be a result of where my experience lies.)

I was just trying to explain why the surface characteristic of wearing a suit and generally looking good is sometimes seen as a negative in the computer industry, even though it is a positive characteristic elsewhere.
Try this (lectures from the man himself):

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