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Thanks for your response Amber.

Although you may be warranted, I think you are completely wrong. Many people would love to join a startup that is already accepted into an incubator, live, with customers, and fair size of users.

Anyways, we had our CTO/Co-Founder leave to emergency reasons within his immediate family, forcing him to move homes and find immediate income. Now a great situation for the business and even worse for him.

Consequently, we were put in position to find a replacement in the final several weeks. We have received dozens if not hundreds of "reach outs" for people interested, people willing to help, etc. It is a matter of selecting the correct person that is the process.

We also receive a fair share of these "downer" messages attacking the position saying things like "they just want someone to work for free" or whatever it may be. Maybe warranted, maybe not, but it is much better for everyone to think that yourself.

Thanks for your message.
Unfortunately, IE 8 won't render SVG at all. I suppose graphics could be designed in a vector-based tool like Illustrator that can export SVG for compatible browsers as well as raster for lte IE8.
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If you get someone in the door, you can upsell them _eventually_. You have a long time to go. I don't know if the relationship between company and user is the same in the current mobile app marketplace.

Also, many freemium companies are actually enterprise companies in disguise, where the pricing plans really work best for larger organizations over individuals. Free users are a loss leader to enterprise sales.

Generally, I wouldn't paint with such broad brush strokes. Free can work. Free might crater for you. Look hard at your product and market when designing your pricing.
"Combat troops" is a circumlocution that has been coined for political purposes such as the fiction of "withdrawal" from a country one is in fact still occupying with 50,000 soldiers. This is well into the realm of Orwell. I'm thinking not of 1984 but of Politics and the English Language (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_and_the_English_Langua...).
I don't know the guy but that video is pretty funny:
http://www.bnet.com/videos/voip-ready-for-prime-time/187392

the charisma of an oyster, combined with the engineering skills of my mother.
Original AP article about the "FOIA scandal":

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iz_vYVn2EG...

Basically, out of 103,000 FoIA requests last year, DHS delayed about 500 more than the customary 3 days, because Janet Napolitano's staff wanted to find out more about the people making those requests.
You are very much correct. There are users, and there are customers. Listen to your customers. Users matter too, but "please give me this feature for free, because I might sign up down the line" isn't cutting it...
I think you're wrong about being constantly flooded with information. If anything, it's having the opposite effect. I can do anything? Well, er, um, I don't know what to do.

I'd cite the famous study that showed more choice equals less action with the jams in the supermarket if I could be bothered to look it up.

I know it was much easier for me to make life choices once I had ruled out a massive amount of things.

I also don't see backpacking as drawing out childhood - if anything, the opposite. Well travelled people used to adverse circumstance and problem solving make better adults. It's the ones who never leave home, never make any choices, never do anything that are the eternal kids.
I think I first learned about Erdos when I learned a prof who taught one of my undergrad CS courses looked after Erdos for a while -- handling his finances, etc. He was the one who bet Erdos he couldn't quit amphetamines for a month (and turned out to be wrong, but Erdos blamed a month-long mathematical slump on the bet).
Not sure I buy this. I wear earplugs and deliberately avoid making eye contact to avoid being distracted. An office would be the same thing, except someone could just knock on the door to get my attention.

Offices are good for people who do work. Cubicles are good for people that want to talk about what they're "going to" work on.
I think this is a reasonable strategy. It's easier to lower prices than to raise them. This is a relatively novel experiment in publishing and as far as I can tell it's totally boot strapped. I'm happy to pay for this essentially "at cost" to participate in the experiment, but I wouldn't be likely to be taken in by a gold star to subsidize other. I think it's ok to try to grow something like this slowly, to buy time to learn without overexposure.
Windows 98 UI compatibility. It's my preferred look and feel; I use "Redmond" themes even under X.
That's a killer feature for github, because it essentially means that they have no free model. If I'm making a company project and want to collaborate using github, there is zero choice. But, since I'm already familiar with how great it is, due to the free public repos, I'm more likely to buy.

Sounds like they have their model cut out perfectly.
Really? Is this the best Apple could do?
Your comment might be on topic if it wasn't for who the writer of the article is. It's not unlikely that simply by being himself and having an email address he's going to receive that thousand emails and there is no easy way to address that short of changing identity or to stop using email altogether.

Shady lists probably are not his main problem.
yeah -- there are gradations -- I'm just saying that even the most liberal of the orthodox Jews I have known still follow this. Which is why I don't think of it as extreme -- it's a fairly common practice.

Also, think of it from this guy's case. He has a religious belief -- he knows that you might think it's odd (based on past reactions, no doubt). He's not very good at explaining it -- perhaps he's nervous because it's an interview.
PDF basically has the necessary features to do that already. Nothing actually stops you.

(Before you say "Ewww, PDF", recall PDF is basically Postscript, and most of the reasons you would say "Ewww, PDF" would still apply. I did say "most", there are some exceptions. Now, if you want to say, "Ewww, Adobe", I'm right there with you.)
Physically, when I was stuck at SFO; ~2 months ago.
are you planing to go mobile ? i mean, a mobile fit app ? ;)
There is an interesting dynamic between feedback and permission. In some ways they are the same thing. No one needs permission to launch, but it's good to have feedback saying you can.

No one needs permission to apply solo to YC, but it's good to get feedback that says your app won't be dismissed out of hand.

Think of it as niche market research.
I'll second this notion. I know of a grown family (youngest in early 40's) and without exception, they're all adult-children, incapable of forging ahead in this world. Their parents have continually bailed them out of bad decisions, bad marriages, bad businesses for 2 decades. The only problem is now the parents made some bad business decisions so the whole family unit is in big trouble. I've seen a grown man in his 40's crying to his Mum, who comforts him with the sorts of noises you would to soothe a 5 year old. I'm not talking about 'my friend died' here - I'm talking about 'my life sucks and I hate my job'
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Doesn't DHS answer to the people and not vice versa?
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In countries outside of the US there is also trend of children leaving the nest later that before. This is especially notable in Italy and Japan for what I know.

Personally I correlate this mostly with pricing of housing that is essential and limited resource. Housing is hoarded by capital owners in purpose to lend it to people who have not amassed enough capital (yet).

Because of that price of housing raises uncontrollably to the point where almost no young people can afford not only buying a house but even renting one. In Japan when you start renting a flat you are obliged to give owner customary 'gift' that is worth two years of rent.

Because keeping house empty is small cost for owner it's better to keep it empty than sell it at lower price. This prevents prices from dropping even when there's no demand at high price. Prices of rent follow prices of houses.

Of course all of that is just my uneducated guess.
People have always been "nest huggers" - look at traditional societies like those in India. Adult children live with their parents and it is nothing new. It is new to the baby boomers in America, who grew up independent in the war and moved out to suburbia to fuel a population explosion. But not new in a biological sense. It seems that infantilization is actually a defining trait in the developed primates like humans.
Smartcameras in our future?
household grocery consumption for a zip code/town/neighborhood (or is there something out there already).

Would be interesting for consumers, manufacturers and stores.
The only long term solution is to deal with corruption.
Those are the cards you have been dealt. Now you can either complain about it or you can take action and get yourself ahead. That's part of being an adult. Part of being an adolescent is pointless raging against the machine.

Yes the unfunded social security and medicare is a disaster, but it's not going away, so all people in their 20's now will have to start working out ways around this particular problem.
The article says the drug is a muscle relaxant. I would like to see studies that use Kava as a means to treat some types of addictions...especially alcohol and smoking.
Facebook Places: Who, What, When, and Now...Where
Does the world really need another NoSQL database?
Men might be able to have children at 60, but it's not so easy for women.
I lolled at 4. Professional Human Music Reccomenders are called DJs.
>you say 'programmatically' like I'm suggesting something beyond taking a few pre-made slices and combining them into one image before serving it up. I'm not.

heh its not "hard", but its already a hell of a less convenient than what I just do now with css.
Clicky - http://synnk.com

Seems like another take on event planning and your example really explains it well. Not sure if the design (especially the colors) really works well with the type of service though... grey/black/dark red kind of seems anti-social to me.

On a side discussion, I wonder how hard it is to get traction with apps like this? How often would someone use this and remember to use it next time (assuming they found it somehow the first time).
Sounds kind of nice. Though a functional email search would be my preference...
"Maybe the battery lasts longer, but they maxed out that spec when they hit 7 hours use per charge."

My 1005HA was rated for 10+ hours; running linux I generally got 8-9, but another person on HN reported 16 hours with Windows 7. It's not like Asus has been hiding the 10+ hours figure, either; looking through their product information, it's pretty clearly advertised. Does it take too much effort to do the basic research to make sure that a statement is correct before claiming it as truth?
Yes, it does work quite well for me. I could easily be an outlier and got lucky because of the name (literally "Darts").

Note that I am not using iAd (yet?). I started with Admob, then moved to Adwhirl and noticed that Quattro worked out the best. Now Quattro is Apple.

I am kind of an ass about the ads though since they are always present, in menus and during gameplay alike. If you read any of the reviews, my users hate me and it (used to) keep me up at night. sniffle. But, it helped me bootstrap a consulting business for mostly iOS work so I have taken a pragmatic view.
No one way is right for every individual and organization, and I'm not going to be arrogant enough to tell you that you're wrong about your situation. I do feel that the "all devs must have private offices" can optimize for a perception of individual productivity at the expense of the broader team productivity.

Personally, I find that being alone in an office is best when I've got a very clear understanding of the problem to be solved, my stakeholders have a very clear understanding of how I'm going to solve the problem, and I don't need to help anyone else with what they're trying to get done.

That's to say, almost never.
The banned an app called facetime, just for the name.

They banned rss viewers for a while.

They have not allowed in alternate browsers.

What difference does it make if they charge for it or not?
There are 2 SRB's, one on each side.
When I tried it (earlier this year), it wasn't quite like RVM. RVM is very versatile, powerful and polished. Perlbrew is getting there, but seems good only for particular limited ranges of use. Things I got used to with RVM weren't ready yet in Perlbrew. Various Perl versions wouldn't compile for me successfully. You can also compare the Synopsis of Perlbrew with the range of rvm commands and switches to get a feel for how much is missing in Perlbrew. I really wish Perlbrew gave me a good out-of-the-box experience, because it would be very handy for me, but that wasn't the case.
Not always true, though. History is littered with examples of products that gained traction not because they were better, but because they were free. (See: BIND vs Jeeves, Stanford's Unix vs Berkeley's Unix, Minix vs Linux, Apache vs Microsoft/Netscape)

At one point in all these product's lives they were lousier and smaller as compared to their competitors. But they won out because the low barrier to adoption (read: free) drove usage, and from usage, more improvements.
To me that sounds like the hedonic treadmill rather than a contradiction. Fat and sugar increase dopamine, the extra dopamine reduces the number and/or sensitivity of D2 receptors over time to compensate, and so your baseline declines until you need that extra dopamine hit just to get back to normal.

And it sounds more useful for designing drug treatment than diet. If your eating isn't out of control, you don't have much of the problem the article is about.
What type of music are you looking for? Tag-based radio on last.fm doesn't work? Allmusic.com doesn't work?

If you happen to like electronic it couldn't be easier, just listen to Internet radio like www.di.fm where there are like 30 radio stations for every subgenre of electronic imaginable with all good tracks cycling selected by a director or actual DJs who almost always give a list of every song and artist used in their set.
Just about any netbook is infinitely more useful and usable than an iPad; in that sense, Asus is not blowing anything.
My first program was a curses-like Yahtzee written in QBasic when I was 16. I recall learning about particle systems about that time. If you got a Yahtzee in the game, gratuitous explosions congratulated you. It was utterly ridiculous but fun as hell.
To me this is like the guy who spent all his money and had to be bailed out by his neighbors complaining that his neighbors aren't doing enough for him.

Arguably it's not merely like that, it is exactly that.
What I'd really like though is the ability to attach a file in my Google Docs a/c to an email I am composing in Gmail
only when pg will use it.. =)
"Helicopter parent" is a slang term for a parent who always hovers over their children to "help out" and potentially make their lives easier: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicopter_parent
He was embarrassed enough to try and purge all history connecting him to his company's apps. I think that says enough. I'm not offended, but I think that it is pretty low class.

That being said, I don't know if this character assassination by Wired is warranted. It is just some idiot selling fart apps. Not exactly newsworthy.
I read this and found it fascinating...

But I think Feynman might have been incorrect in regard to number bases:

"Translating from one base to another is an utterly useless thing."

I use number bases (base 2 and base 16) every day.
reduced release sounds bad. but reduced reuptake sounds good!
Why getting 10 customers is all that matters
and even now, it lacks the beauty of OS X, which is rather unfortunate.

I use Xubuntu, and it's the best damn work station I've ever used, but sometimes I wish gtk apps were a bit more beautiful.
Honestly, what's the difference? I'd kill for a netbook's performance ten years ago, even if it was in a desktop form factor. I laugh at what is considered "underpowered" nowadays.
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I guess that would explain why Cain killed Abel.

Hehe, not really :)
there is always this point at which you start automating things, you have 1 or 2 "discount stickers" or whatever. then you start using them a lot, and at some point it becomes worth it to build a tool to automate it rather than do it by hand.

with css you do it once and its pretty much already automated, you just add a class to each "discount" or "tag" button you want.

On a side note I really despise the "you are doing it wrong" meme, it virtually always means "you arent doing it with the same concerns I have".
Haven't built in much monitoring yet, but watching the resque web interface, most of the delay is in actually finding the new page - from there to it showing up on your screen is no more than a second or two. For subscribed users, we do email notifications and we almost always beat google news alerts, often by around 15 minutes.
The people in the 20'S are the ones that we've asked to fight two expensive, difficult ground wars for us in a decade, and they've stepped up.

Oh, please. Proportionally, that's nowhere near the number of young people sent to Vietnam, much less WWII. The expense of those wars is again, nowhere near the expense of Vietnam, much less WWII. The casualty rates are at least an order of magnitude lower than Vietnam, which themselves were lower than WWII.
Verizon will stream live FiOS TV over home Wi-Fi to Apple's iPad
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That is a false choice. You can complain while at the same time taking action.
How does this compare to what Navia Systems is working on?
I'm surprised that so many people here are saying that pure-CSS buttons are actually a good thing, because they're programmatic. Sure, they're programmatic, but the code behind them is really confusing. I'd much prefer to use a sane drawing environment like an HTML5 canvas or the Raphaël library. Raphaël is perfectly suited to this sort of thing. Anything you make in Illustrator, you can make with Raphaël, and you get nice, clean code.
Twitter does not do any outright advertising but they put an incredible amount of time into their PR management, as well as making sure that their coverage in the news was kept high and positive all through 2009.

Their early claim to fame also was when they broadcasted the #sxsw Tweetstream in a hallway during SXSW 2007, after which their traffic launched substantially and effectively bootstrapped the service into the powerhouse it is today. They most certainly didn't sit on their asses hoping that the merits of their product would grant them traffic.
If you're concerned, use a "+" suffixed address as your "main" address and consider email to your "bare" address to be spam too. Though this might be difficult if your "bare" address is already well-established with a lot of your contacts.
I am sure when they were looking to raise money they spent a good amount of time selling themselves, their product and getting known. This is not about spending money on advertising, rather, its about 'getting noticed.'
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True, but I think maybe rphlx didn't so much mean to rant himself as explain the questions the article raised. As a 20-something who agrees with him, it is annoying to see these articles which paint my generation in this negative light by members of the older generation who have dealt us a pretty crappy hand.
Question of the day;

Is opting out becoming easier, or is the beaten path simply becoming so hard that opting out is easier by comparison?

Full disclosure: Perpetual traveller, about as far as it is possible to opt out of the expectations discussed in the article.
He's talking about the satellite photo story from a while back in which Greeks had many more (taxable) private pools than were reported to the government.

I assure you, that is the least of it.

The fundamental problem in Greece is, as I said, ineffective tax collection and a corrupt machinery of state.

Since people are clearly having trouble understanding what ineffective tax collection actually means, let me explain: the government is unable to tax income or other forms of revenue. There is a huge cash (grey) economy that means that income tax, the primary revenue raising tool for most Western economies, is useless.

If you go into a taverna with your family and blow 100 euros on a big meal, the bill will arrive and only cash will be accepted. At the end of a busy night that brought in maybe 2,000 euros, the proprietor will report to the tax authority an income of 200 - hey, slow night, eh.

Now I realise this may be a struggle for those of you with a certain kind of politics, but believe me - a lack of an effective income tax is a terrible thing. For starters, the state needs revenues somehow - so since they can't reliably tax income, they have to tax secondary things - which unfortunately are things like fuel tax, and goods taxes that hit the poor much more than the rich. Hence a lot of the social tension that you see in the news.

This is why the swimming pools are a big deal. Yes it may sound insane that anybody wants to tax pools - but when the person who owns the beautiful pool in the house by the ocean claims he only earned $10,000 last year, and you are unable to actually bust him on such an atrocious claim, then taxing his easy-to-find pool is the only thing you can do.

This is a country than until very recently didn't even have a land registry; yes, the state had no idea who owned a piece of land.

The point is that Greece is a bad example to use in a debate of fiscal policy, because it works nothing like you US/UK/{Insert your big Western economy here} people think it does.
With regard to #2, if your friends aren't on Facebook or Twitter, they are probably even more unlikely be on this new service.

I think that this problem is pretty much solved by mobile phones (sms, call).

In terms of discovery of casual events, there might be something there though.
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This is why I've switched to third-party search engines, and resort to Google when I can't find a result that works.
The 9inch that I had might be the sweet spot for me. Although it was the keyboard that killed it for me, slightly small and the tilde key was removed an all the numbers pushed left as a consequence. Could never really get used to it.

If they could somehow get a bit more key space on the 9inch that would be good but otherwise I'd probably need a 10inch. That said very happy with the mobility vs size tradeoff that my 13inch bmp has.
Could someone explain or expand on that particular point, for those of us who are just plain inexperienced or ignorant?
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Thanks for the link.

As for the question about traction, I guess I'll find out? There certainly have been a number of attempts to knock off Evite, so I'm guessing it's not that easy. This isn't quite the same idea, but it's obviously close.

I personally find it's nice to be able to create an event by just sending an email. I have plan@synnk.com in my contact list, so maybe that will provide some stickiness.
For those on OSX, I just hacked together a homebrew forumla for membase beta 2 yesterday:

http://groups.google.com/group/membase/t/69a47f80a2b772b8
I propose we start an anonymous hate Agile haters organization.