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This kind of article is the reason why Apple is doing so well. Competition does not understand why Apple works so well.

They see that Apple has good design so they add colours or mimic the shape of the product they try to emulate. It comes out half-assed because design gets tacked on as an after-thought.

They see Apple as a marketing company so they put millions in marketing a product. The products are what market themselves for the most part.

At the end of the day when nothing else works they decide to add stickers to every laptop to show people how superior their laptops are over the competition. "Made for Windows 7" "Intel Inside" these stickers say. But they all look ugly and on laptops they get in the way.

Marketer: "Sir the stickers haven't been very effective!"
CEO: "I know! Emboss them so they're more apparent!"

Now competitors will start saying that it's a pricing company. I love how this is going.
The discussion usually happens in the comments, both here and on the site, like how is happening right now.

I think the real value is indeed in the discussion that is being generated after you've consumed an online resource, and I think this is the reason why we have comments here.

I thought that these videos could be helpful in some way for some fellow hackers and that's one reason why I posted the article here.

Another reason is that I'm genuinely interested in knowing about other related videos by reading the always interesting discussions here. I'm also trying to add all these contributions to the post as well.

You may be right about the fact that all these videos have been posted here before. I honestly don't remember about all of them but again I hope they can be useful to someone.
This post should be upvoted a zillion times. The correlations they report are really quite low and as such their claims are really quite bogus.
IPhone Development Costs
Two comments:

I like the idea of a "reddit for PhDs" because the community would "upvote" on the papers that are deemed important. You may need to have to have a different way of choosing which papers make the front page because papers don't necessarily follow the same trends as youtube videos.

I don't think academics want to "_easily_ host papers", they want to do research. They rely on Nature and Science to be the clearing house for quality research not the download source. Once published, the papers are downloaded, emailed, read, etc. as needed.
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All I am pointing out is the inequality of gender cannot be entirely eliminated nor can it alway be blamed on women or men. Women are not men and men are not women.

Men's role as expendable defender is not a role hoisted by women, but rather through evolution. The oppressor, if any, is nature for making us that way. In that sense, men cannot blame women.

It also work in the opposite direction, there are things that women probably should not do when she is having a baby.
Have you seen this site? http://longform.org/

I think it might be a good source for your "Great Articles" repository.
Ask HN: Any successful stories of Android development entrepreneurship?
There are a lot of iPhone development success stories. Do you know any for Android? Do you believe in Android market?
Some of us may not want to install perl or figure out how to use cpan. If this project is not useful to you, then don't comment. Please don't comment just for being sarcastic
Maturialism: September 2010 Trendwatch Briefing
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I use Instapaper all the time. When I have 5 minutes before a meeting at work or early in the morning before I leave the house. The main thing I do is when I only have a small amount of time, I scan my normal sites for interesting articles and use the "Read Later" bookmarklet to add it to my reading list. I may add 20 things to the list in a quick 5 minute scan of HN, ESPN, Ars, & my email with links from friends of things like "gotta read this" or the like. Then when I have a bunch of free time (usually at night before bed), I sit down at my computer (or iPhone/iPad) and read through things I have saved. The text-only view on the iPhone and iPad is great.

I guess if you regularly have large chunks of time throughout a day, you would not need Instapaper. But if you are regularly running around all day with little to no downtime, it is nice to be able to sit down to one place and read through the days material.
Ethercodes is a crossbreed between Etherpad and Skywriter for collaborative code
I believe the fast app switching is more or less the same, but Android lets developers write services that can do anything in the background, isn't iOS limited to just audio or VOIP? For example, I can't write an app to download new tweets every hour or something like that.

It's definitely a double edged sword on Android... some apps that use background services can turn into real battery hogs.
$ whois microsoft.com
Thanks! We also have some more advanced apis in the works, like asking multiple workers to do the same work and automatically determining the 'true' answer. From your point of view, they'll be just as easy to use though.

Pricing is still TBD. MTurk charges will be passed through directly to you with Houdini-specific charges either per task or per month.

Yeah, I'm planning on accepting non-US users.
PDFSharp is good if you are using .NET

http://www.pdfsharp.net/
http://gizmodo.com/5483539/car-locator-android-app-makes-130...
People that felt this way should have purchased the Nexus One from Google while they were generally available. If more folks had, it might have validated the carrier-less model of selling phones.
I gotcha - thanks. Yeah, I set my own schedule and I try to do things in semi-large blocks. I can see where the utility would be if I'm scheduled up with lots of things to do, cheers.
I believe that Feedback army is explicitly designed for this sort of thing. It is layered on top of MT, But takes paypal or credit cards directly, and is dead-simple to use.
Trash - Yahoo Mail
second (foo, I'm just not fast enough to post much around here ;-)
Generally correct: iOS offers a few more services than just audio and VOIP, but it is a fixed list.

On the other hand, I've never seen an app on Android that sucked down battery life, and if it did, I'd uninstall it just like any other buggy app. I've never bought into the whole "background services drain battery life" line that Apple popularized.
The big company vs a bootstrap
How to Afford Anything
And you get a free space heater!
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Shadeusa Umbrellas has a variety of Patio Umbrellas, Beach Umbrellas, Market Umbrellas & Beach Chairs. Patio umbrella and market umbrellas are the ideal way to decorate outdoor lounging areas as well as protect you.
Also, if you are married (or committed to your SO) and you have 2 incomes in the household, then $2k/month is actually a good amount of dough. It is probably getting in the zone of quit your day job money if you have further plans for your startup that require more focus and time.
I may be assuming too much based on my reading of your post, but it sounds like you could really stand to implement some (or more) A/B testing. The fact that it took two years to reach 200 customers but in only a week or so you've added another 20 customers after making some changes makes me think you should have been making (and testing!) changes like that all along. Either way, congratulations, and best of luck in the future!
Yeah, I've wondered about that while living in the Boston area for a dozen years. It would also seem to apply strongly to the SF Bay area and a bit less so to NYC.

But what about, say, the D.C. area? Chesapeake Bay isn't so big, then again there are limited number of bridges in certain critical areas (e.g. north of Chain Bridge).

What about other cities less constrained by large lakes, bays or the sea? Rivers are frequently going to be an issue since in olden times they were a major asset for a city.
Congratulations on the 220 paying customers, that's certainly no small feat. I've been running RateMyStudentRental.com for about 3 years now (well, really I stopped actively working on it about a year ago), and it only reached about half that in revenue.

Then, LeadNuke sprang forth as an internal sales tool for RMSR barely a year ago and it's approaching that level already. In hindsight, I'm really glad I didn't have this kind of success the first time around, because I have a much more realistic perspective now and I can appreciate it that much more.

In summary, mad props and respect to you.
Congrats. As other people have said - it's refreshing to see some stories like this rather than just the 'here's my web app I built in 48 hours'. Hopefully it will help people reliase the difference between building something and building a business.

At 200, you are close to what I consider to be a major inflexion point. It's often as easier (big separate post that I won't go into the full reasons why) to go from 200-2000 then it is to go from 20-200.

Well done and good luck!
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I did buy a N1 (gray import even). Too bad it has its hardware flaws: The touchscreen is really bad (choppy, inaccurate) and the button on my wired headset started working only rarely after two weeks of usage (sometimes the press isn't recognized, sometimes as "jump back" - and sometimes it even recognizes button presses even if there's no button on the headset).
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It's interesting how time has changed. I'm 25 now and I have never had much experience with such arcade games in my youth.

In my youth, when I started playing computer games (with 8 years or so, don't remember exactly), it was already our own computer (of the whole family; a 486 with 33MHz). But I had the feeling that the games I could play there were much better than what I could play on arcade game machines (which were also not that popular; at least I have never really seen much of them). When I had seen one, I always thought that I could play better games for free at home.

Games back then which I played and kept deep into my memories were: Commander Keen 1 - 6, Crime Fighter, Stunts, Sim City 1 / 2000. Well and you probably know the history of games. When I grow older, the PC games developed very fast.

Most of my friends handled this very similar. We met somewhere at home and played some of those games together (preferable some which could be played turn based or with split screen). A few years later (when we were around 15 or so), we met and organized small LAN-parties.
i've been using RK for a while.

RK pro is ranked #24 in healthcare category, which is impressive for a $9.99 app.
nike+ gps is #3 top chart and #1 healthcare.

i think your "part 3" article will be very interesting :)
Do Hackers read *other* books?
I wonder what kind of authors / flippant novels hackers around these parts read..
My favourite would probably Count of Monte Cristo (Bridge of San Louis Rey a close second + for whom the bell tolls), what are yours (non-technical)?
Yeah, it's really not much of a problem. Especially now that Google is working on their own push notification service there really shouldn't be a need for that many background services.
There is a lot more you can do, not only a blog

- A forum (Google Groups)

- A website (Google sites)

- Server Side (Google App Engine)
Who are the biggest tax evaders in India?
Trick or Treatment, because I don't need a book to tell me that is BS.
CloudBees introduces Hudson-as-a-Service
Yep. When my salary bumped up to $2k/month, I was ecstatic; I could finally start putting some money in the bank. It's the most I've ever made, in my last 5 years of financial independence.
Interface Oriented Design by Ken Pugh is pretty good (http://pragprog.com/titles/kpiod/interface-oriented-design)
(what I would change) / (why i dont actually run one) != what you you think it is.
I don't think that people use Mechanical Turk as their sole source for money. If I remember correctly, someone figured out that mechanical turk pays roughly $5/hour if you spend your whole day doing it. That's not very much.

Mechanical Turk seems to be filled with people itching for some community to participate in -- why not get paid for it at the same time?
Interesting - thank you. I'll visit there occasionally and see if there's anything I think should be added. I've already found one.

I also found this:
http://givemesomethingtoread.com/
Give Me Something To Read: top articles bookmarked on Instapaper
The astronomer Freeman Dyson was part of the operational analysis team in WWII that worked out it made most sense to only search for and attack refuelling and resupply U-Boats (milkcows)

The Vulcan flight gear famously included hiking boots so the crews could walk to Turkey after completing their mission
It's hard for any company to try and work against the carrier-subsidized pricing of handsets. As long as carriers are supplying the access, this will continue to be the case.

To pay $500 for a phone, versus the $100 subsidized price, is a silly move—especially if you're planning to upgrade every 2-3 years.

I say this because the service from the carriers still costs the same regardless of how you obtained the handset, and in some cases you may be paying even _more_ for service if you don't have a contract.

(Of course, I'm speaking with the US/Canadian carriers in mind. I know things are better outside of North America.)
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Mockingbird, by Walter Tevis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mockingbird_(1980_novel)
The Princess Bride

Anything by Terry Pratchett
How often have you picked one product over another because of a key difference between them besides price?

Price is an important difference but not the only one and not the most important one for all people all of the time. Be different on something besides price and move on.

Before heading down the freemium path be sure to take the time upfront to build two bottom up revenue plans. One plan for freemium and one for strictly paying customers. Be sure and include a detailed breakdown of each of the channels you'll be using to acquire customers and their costs. It's ok to make educated guesses here.

It can be quite painful so see how many customer you'll need with freemium before you reach your revenue goal and what it will cost to get them vs. just charging. Are you sure you're setup for that? Does it make sense given the size of your market? Given the likely customer acquisition channels available to you and their costs. Does it work with your budget?

Not everyone is Facebook.
You need to advertise.

This is simply not true. You need to be found but that doesn't mean spending money on advertising. I hit this mark without spending a dime on advertising. A large amount of my traffic comes from owning the most important keywords for my niche. The rest from WOM and blog posts from others about my product (reviews, interviews, CSS galleries, etc.)
I use Instapaper mainly in association with my twitter client.(Ubertwitter) If I come across interesting links, I can send them to instapaper to read on my computer instead of my mobile.
Looks like an interesting article. It's too bad some of the text is hidden behind ads (Chrome 6 beta/Win7).
Maybe I missed this in the post, but are you working on this full time? If not, how many hours/week would you estimate you've invested, on average?
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PRQ, which hosts wikileaks and piratebay raided
Every suggestion I've heard from any school system has been to set up a single, quiet "homework space". And essentially anyone who's gone through said system says the same thing, without examining it - it's what they were told, it effectively worked for them, why look into it more?
Review my site: job board for hackers and friends
<http://camphireboard.com>

The original idea is to build a job board targeting passionate
developers in mailing lists, including news.yc (as an exception). It's
not rock solid, and may fail completely, but let's see. In anyway, I'll
appreciate your advices and inspirations.

If it bridges a couple of startups and hackers, then I'll feel rest and
my work being valued. If better, it makes me a living, I'll go for a
walk and appreciate the trees.

PS: I borrowed a couple of posts from last week's who's hiring thread
to initially launch with. I shoulda mail the owners for permissions, but
sorry, tell me(machese gmail com) for whatever if you feel uneasy about
it.

THANK ALL of YOU for:

* bring me courage when I'd give up;
* give me inspirations when I'd nearly burnout;
* educate my curious brain.

Best,
Yeah. I've also got an N1, and the hardware flaws suck. The touchscreen is my biggest complaint, having previously used an iPhone. That said, I'm extremely pleased with it overall, and the lack of a carrier telling me what I can and can't do with it is surprisingly awesome.
Well... some free advice.

If you try it with people, make certain the employees understand the background, otherwise they might be out the door later -- and you'll have to eat the cost of hiring again.

This might work on me even if I wasn't desperate -- and you e.g. showed me the books:

"This is a startup, we are optimizing for runway right now. If we like you, we will pay you and give you options -- but we must be thrifty for X months."
3/10 cent a gallon for water delivered straight to the home.

$1.50 gallon for a jug in isle 13 at your super market

or $1.75 for a 20oz bottle at the checkout counter.

Are these all the same product? Do they even compete?
Experience with typical large company email: regularly unavailable. Silly limits on attachment size. Limited control. Crap UI. Down regularly. Takes days to get a new email set up. Takes day to troubleshoot problems (ie. emails that become unavailable). Costs heaps, need dedicated "IT Support staff" (don't get me started on that).

Experience with Gmail: pay 20$ for heaps of storage. Very large attachments no problem. Almost never down, and when it is, it's taken care of pretty soon.
That's only true if you use the distribution provided by your carrier.

If you don't like the OS the way they provide it, then wipe it and use Cyanogen or some other ROM that is set up exactly how you like it.

Cyanogen may not work on every Android phones, but there are still a lot more phones out there that can run Cyanogen than can run iOS.
For me this comes out as dark blue print on a dark blue background - I have to highight text to make it visible, let alone readable.

That can't be what was intended ...
Could mean evil in terms of 'destroying long term opportunity for short term profit'.
Websites with the most backlinks
Apple's AirPlay: Bring the walled garden home
It's not a perpetual-motion machine; it uses a "kinetic energy" input. Could be an electric motor, or a hand-crank.

But, then, that technology's been around for quite a while: http://www.cleanairgardening.com/portable-washing-machine.ht...
For anyone else interested in this "quick, cheap, feedback" cycle, PickFu is another service that does this: http://pickfu.com/

I spent about $20 to get 200 responses for my question, but only ended up collecting 103 answers before the question expired.

None of this stuff is perfect, but employing a few of these approaches all at the same time will generate results that can be handy to correlate.
1. You can have gmail offline easily, using a variety of clients.

2. You can have x@yourdomain.com, no problem with gmail for business.
What is so difficult about scheduling an appointment?
The Pac-Man doodle triggered hundreds of support calls and problem tickets for the makers of browsers and antivirus software. A big part of that, though, was the fact that it played sound (even when the Google search page was loaded on a background tab).

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9177261/Google_s_Pac_...
What about: Service-Oriented Design with Ruby on Rails?

Any comments?

http://www.amazon.com/Service-Oriented-Design-Ruby-Rails-Pau...
We've just launched our new web app seoprofiler.com after crawling the web for over a year (own crawler using the Amazon EC2 infrastructure). The submitted page shows some statistics that we've gained.
Stowe Boyd - Surprise Twitter Ecosystem Attracting Less Investment
That's an excellent resource - I particularly like how they use examples from early versions of their own APIs of what not to do.
Startup CEOs - The Panhandlers Of The Internet
a few off the top of my head in the fiction genre: Joyce's Dubliner, Ulysses & Finnegans Wake. Cervantes' Don Quixote. Borges. Dashiell Hammet. William Burroughs. Bukowski. Faulkner. Jim Thompson. Stewart O'Nan. Nabakov. Philip K Dick's more schizophrenic works ( Scanner Darkly, Do Andriods Dream of Electric Sheep, We Can Remember It For You Wholesale ). Henry Miller. Gogol. Mary Karr's The Liars' Club. Flannery O'Connor. Denis Johnson. Hunter S. Thompson. Italo Calvino. T Coraghessan Boyle.

I reread Finnegans Wake and Don Quixote every couple years.

EDIT: and I have to admit to an odd attraction to and repeated returns to reading Henry Fielding's The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Twitter accounts for a substantial portion of our traffic and sign ups. Social media marketing feels fluffy, but it does help to generate awareness at the very least. Do your customers use Twitter/Facebook? If they do, it seems like a good opportunity to try to engage and understand them better.
Google doodle balls bounce on Google home page today
I've also found that Opera is annoying about caching stuff that it thinks is local (192.168.. or file:///). It aggressively caches, and is reluctant to reload, certain pages on our Django site on our local dev machines - but the problem doesn't repro on production. I don't know if it's a bug, or a setting I can turn off, but if I work it out I'll let you know.
Recreating Google's Bouncing Balls Logo In HTML5 Canvas
10 years ago, a friend worked his way through school making 7.50$ an hour working as a cook at Shonies, by the time he graduated he had a stay at home wife, two kids and almost zero debt. In the summer he worked 80 hours a week and during school he worked 40.

PS: He did get an internship that played 13.50 his senior year, but he did not quit Shonies until he graduated.
What does it mean? Three sad tigers...
I read mostly fantasy and sci-fi - some favorites:

"Lord of the Rings" J.R.R.Tolkien

"The Last Wish", "The Sword of Destiny" A.Sapkowski

"The Last Unicorn" P.Beagle

almost anything by S.Lem.

My favorite mainstream book is

"Wielki Las" Zbigniew Nienacki (unfortunately no English translation available).
What does it take to be happy? About $75,000
I've heard Slough is tough enough to go through even without snow :P
Don Quixote? re-read? very impressive. I have to say I gave up after following him and his horse around for a few days. I probably just didnt get it..
I would check that last statement before counting on it.
Sorry, but I don't see the big deal with Instapaper, using Chrome and syncing my bookmarks is simple enough.

It doesn't warrant me using another service, just simply creating a new bookmark folder to access from my work, home and laptop pcs