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I'm always amazed at the amount of thought that people seem to put into the handling of their bodies after they're dead. Elaborate rituals and strange requests that provide no benefit to them and only seem to inconvenience the people who are in fact still alive.
so you eat out every day? Do you live in a developed country?
Very cool. Do you think a http://www.khanacademy.org/ channel fits in?
There are seriously people like that?!
Also you need to drink beer faster, because it gets warm and stale pretty fast. With scotch (and other strong alcohols) you can take as much time as you want.
The bucket size is a small one, about 1L
Olympus has a great page for consumers to understand pixel-print size relationship:
http://www.olympus.co.uk/consumer/208_741.htm

For example, my D300s (12M) at 4288x2848 pixels can be printed at 300dpi (professional photo prints) at a maximum size of 14.3x9.5(inch) = 36.32x24.13(cm) = a little bit smaller than an A3.

The same picture can be printed @150 dpi on an A1 (84.10 cm x 59.40 cm) leaving a little bit of border.
Bruichladdich Octomore (~130 ppm) and Ardberg Supernova (~100 ppm I think) are way up there beyond the Ardberg 10. Off the top of my head I'd guess the Ardberg 10 is something like 20-40 ppm.

The "ppm", in the Scotch context, is for the amount of peat phenols, which is essentially a peatiness metric, and it is recently a competition metric, for some reason, between at least a few distillers (
http://blog.thewhiskyexchange.com/2009/03/bruichladdich-octo... as an example article but you can just google scotch ppm and get a ton of articles ).

I haven't had the Octomore but the Supernova is not that great in my opinion. It was interesting to taste a Scotch intentionally that peaty, but I'd consider it more of a novelty than a great taste improvement. That said taste is an amazing thing, so it might be precisely your cup of tea.

In terms of enjoyable smokiness I'm with you on the Ardberg, but in terms of the crazy +peatiness competition in Scotches, it isn't the winner.
Well, good libraries like those don't appear overnight, and a good environment for developers, with good tools, is proven to attract developers.
We're on borrowed time on this particular rock. I think the continued existence of the human race is a pursuit worth dying for.
Is there anything you would pay a realistic price for? You seem to vastly undervalue what things are worth. Of course you'll probably say "that's what it's worth to me", but is that correct? Is the time saving and convenience really only bringing $5 worth of value to your life? That would mean it saves you about an hour of time across the entire lifetime of the product (assuming a very low value for what your time is worth).
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Yup, tried doing that but still it comes out to be Jagged. Used Photoshop resizing option with default method of resizing. Do you have any recommendation on how to re-render it without making it look jagged?
But you already do that. Might as well reallocate some funding.
I also tried that, but I loose the icons (even in chrome).
The point about cofounders is semantics, but considering he hasn't done anything besides cheerlead since I beta launched, nor does he care about this idea except that it's mine makes him NOT a cofounder, in my opinion. I knew sone would disagree that's why I felt it only fair to mention it. I also provided 3 examples of people accepted as single founders who recieve very real help from their significant other or friends beyond cheerleading.

I also agree with PG more than I agree with most people. The dude is smart and I'm happy to learn from him. It's the premise that I shouldn't sway from his advice that I was rejecting.

My experience doesn't qualify as success yet but more as 'so far ao good' but there are plenty of single founders who are so that condition is already satisfied.
What annoys me a lot is increase in megapixels in camera phones and stagnation in tesktop\notebook screen resolution. I don't need multimegapixel camera in phone. To share photo with friends on facebook or twitter 0.3MP is more then enough but processing of multimegapixel image is not easy task for small ARM processor, so you get very slow response at all phone photo capturing and processing applications and getting annoying delays.

According to desktop screen resolution you are lucky if you can get screen with more then 2MP resolution. And this situation is same for years. It even getting worse after switching to wide screen because now you are getting less pixels on same diagonal and resolution.
"There is nothing on Mars worth dying for." And this is exactly what is wrong with society right now. We have become so accustomed to our little comforts that we have become completely risk-averse. I'll take an opposing viewpoint and say that it's worth dying for "just because it's there" to paraphrase Sir Edmund Hillary.
"good ol’ Scottish Whiskey"? It's Scottish whisky, and Irish whiskey.
I worked for a while at a Coworking space. It was great. I felt like I got a lot accomplished, but then both of the coworking spaces here in Utah shut down. Now I'm a member of a Hackerspace and it's a lot more fun, but I don't get as much done on my business.
Congrats dude!
Solitary confinement is every bit as horrific as waterboarding.
This is interesting to me. I consider what I have a startup, but what is the distinction? I'm not sure what about the $200K statement makes me an entrepreneur and not a startup. I'm assuming we are talking about scalable tech business, not consulting.

EDIT: Updated for clarity.
Admittedly I've never verified this but one of my history professors said that the department of education (under the Bush administration) requested that the instructors present a more pro-American narrative (or rather complained of a very anti-American bias in recent scholarship).

(Obviously you should take this hearsay anecdote with the proverbial minimal quantity of sodium chloride but I'll try to verify it with some other professors in the department.)
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Congrats paras!
You have a great product, and you deserve the attention you're getting.

Btw, love the articles that you write on smashing.
With the controversy that Britains other leading scientific mind Richard Dawkins generates, Hawking is under increased pressure from journalists to define his stance on some of the more 'media friendly' topics such as aliens, gods, etc.

I personally think it's unfortunate that the publicity about his book is almost entirely focused on 'Hawking doesn't believe in god' instead of areas such as his improved thought process on the unified field theory.
Congratulations Paras, I'm glad you succeeded in getting the coverage you wanted.

That said, I'm a bit puzzled at why this coverage was important enough for you to work on it for "more than 50 days with NUMEROUS emails"

It seems like you've already accomplished a great deal by signing up companies like Microsoft and Rackspace as customers. To me, those are far more important than getting coverage in TechCrunch. While press-coverage/PR is always great, I'm curious to know what you expect the impact of the TC post to be.
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That is handy but it is not the same thing. When you close the lid things are getting written to the hard rive. This means you shouldn't move it around until the light starts "breathing" or you risk data loss (afaik this doesn't apply with an SD drive however). With the iPad there is no startup/shutdown time.
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Selecting a number of unrelated items from a list. Example: You have a folder with music files and want to select some to copy onto your portable music player. It's easier to click on the items to select them than typing all the names, even with file name completion.
> I'm not saying they won't add a front facing camera but just think about the practicalities of it.

What if the camera wasn't fixed in one direction?
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Thanks. Yep, Smashing Mag articles are fun to write!
"In the near future, we plan on adding support for your Users to login to the AWS Management Console. We also plan to extend the AWS Management Console to support IAM, providing a web-based interface to manage your Users, groups, and permissions."

Still, it's good to see that they're finally releasing it. With another company I'd wonder if "near future" means a couple of months or couple of years. Based on Amazons good track record I'm guessing 1-3 months.
What I read about VC's definitely leads me to believe that you should have an exit plan and be on the same page with them about it. If I wanted to tell them, come back in 5-10 years and I'll think about it, that would be a problem. Perhaps it is not true or perhaps a seed fund like YC is different.
FWIW, I don't really like confluence either (I do have an high opinion of other atlassian's products though), it just seems to fit the OP's wanted-list :)
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Funny, my experience is exactly 100% the opposite. I'm also a a huge whisky fan, and find that if I'm drinking whisky all night I both drink a lot more and spend a lot more than if drinking beer. Even when sipping slowly and taking my time I find that a scotch takes, a best, half as long to finish as my friends spend on their beers.
If you're not in a country where Spotify is available check out Grooveshark instead.
> I do not know of a way to "reclaim" a disowned process, though.

http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/neercs

Maybe someone can rip out the relevant parts and create "reattach" and get it in coreutils :)
Could this be accomplished by paying company management a low but reasonable wage and having them also get paid dividends? That way they'd be motivated to have more profits and get more money through dividends themselves. I suppose in the 101 semi-legit ways there's probably still a way around this.
>He's not speculating that God might exist...

I understand that. I just don't understand why he feels the need to start making these unscientific speculations about whether God does or does exist or whether aliens do or don't exist.
Yes. I don't think I'm alone in feeling more comfortable when I know what you are looking to get from me. Moreover, whatever works to lessen the cognitive load whenever I fill forms is welcome (for instance; optional fields, choice-based answers over free form ones when appropriate (albeit _optional_ comments are welcome too), delayed filling, etc.).

Problem is, we have to subscribe to a heap of websites, and so having to provide much information every time gets old, even when such questions are legitimate. I think websites should strive to balance between what they need (information) and what the user is looking for (a service). At registration time, I don't know how much value you will provide me, and still you want me to take the hassle to register. So to speak, you should sell me the need to provide you information. For instance, I liked when I visited Ebay the first time and it allowed me to watch items _without having to register at all_. Ebay proved itself useful before asking me to register (of course, later I was _eager_ to). Ryanair offers to remember your form, _without you having to register_. OTOH, I hate whenever I'm asked to register to an e-commerce website just to order one item, while I'm unlikely to visit that site again.

Have a nice day.
Well, yes, that's the hypothesis. I expect TC to generate awareness about VWO and even a few direct sales. The followups were nothing more than gentle reminders of checking out VWO, so there wasn't a significant investment of time involved in that. But I was persistent in sending multiple reminders, if and when needed.
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I think that is where the "best for the business" disclaimer comes in. You need to make the decision based not only on your own development efficiency but those you are impacting too.

A recent example is at my current client, quite a large company with a lot of "legacy" investment. I can't work without using git as part of my workflow any more, but I need not mandate it for this new project. Instead we stick with svn, use git-svn to give us the features we need, and bananajour for sharing code easily amongst ourselves. We've in a sense sandboxed ourselves so our preferences don't impact the infrastructure team.

As tends to happen, they eventually start to wonder what all the fuss is and want a demo of why it's cool. Now others are using git-svn too, the barrier to overcome throughout the rest of the business is rapidly decreasing.

I realise it's an easy example, but with a little creativity there is often a similar solution to most problems regarding platform/framework/etc. Not always, but often.
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... mind wanders...

I see the potential to merge two great internet themes: apple fans and gold bugs. Rather than harken to yesteryear, we should use Apple products as a "store of value"!
An example would be Wolfire's upcoming game Overgrowth. Their level editor has an embedded webkit browser which is used to render their tool palettes. Everything is done in HTML/CSS.
Have to ask... what would the motivation be to use anything other than a 2d grid to represent something that, in the real world, is a 2d grid?
His PR team have already spun this as Hawking throwing down the gauntlet to religion, gleefully canvassing outrage and outright denial from Rabbis and Bishops.

Wiser theologians should take a step back, bring out that age old trick, and inquire "ah... but who created gravity?"
I would say that Yahoo Answers, answers.com, allexperts.com, wikianswer, askville, answerbag, yedda, and the hundreds of other generic "answer" sites have proven that this is a bad idea.
meta-question: why does Paras' reply to this appear as link[dead] ?
Indeed, if only someone could invent some kind of search engine to find all that information across all those websites..
It was George Mallory who allegedly replied, "Because it's there!" to the question "Why do you want to climb Mount Everest?".
1tw,

Could you share a URL to your new site? You paid your mortgage with an Amazon affiliate link... damn!

What kind of traffic are you getting now?
Considering the effort that went into getting them to do a post it didn't seem like much more than a rehash of whatever Paras has been sending them. More and more recently it seems that much of the value ycombinator gives a company is in the initial attention that they will always receive upon launch making it that much harder for smaller people wanting to bootstrap without VC money and without great industry contacts.
How is this spammier than usual linkbaiting?
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Actually I had submitted the same response twice. So, deleted one. I'm having some Internet connectively issues today.
Ask HN: open wifi?
I am considering opening up my wifi as a minor public service to my neighbors. They say you should assume that things sent over the Internet are snooped, so theoretically making that possible for those with close proximity to me should not make my life much more dangerous, right? I would have to put rate limits, which I think my router supports. But just imagine what it would be like in the city if everyone opened their wifi! I'd like to be part of that dream, but the only question is whether I am putting myself at significantly higher risk of harm by doing so.
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It all depends on how closely you're viewing them. We have a bunch of photos shot with a 5D (12MP) printed about four feet tall. They look great from a normal viewing distance. Of course, when you put your face six inches away, you can start to see some digital artifacts (stair stepping, etc.) but that's not a problem.

The maximum necessary resolution is related to the intended viewing distance.

"The standard definition of normal visual acuity (20/20 vision) is the ability to resolve a spatial pattern separated by a visual angle of one minute of arc." From that the maximum resolvable dot size can be calculated for a given viewing distance.

http://www.ndt-ed.org/EducationResources/CommunityCollege/Pe...

http://www.clarkvision.com/imagedetail/eye-resolution.html

(Sidenote: billboards usually printed at around 20-30ppi)
Right now!

Only possible because my wife saved up a bunch of money while I was working. Now we're burning through that, I'm updating my portfolio, blowing the dust and cobwebs off several startup ideas I had shelved for so long. No income yet; I'm going to start aggressively looking for consulting work as soon as the portfolio is up. I've had a couple "fell in my lap" job leads from friends but none are in my area and I can't move right now.

I'm hoping to hit some kind of rhythm where I'm able to stay just afloat with a part-time contract work, and the rest of my time I can spend time 1. with the wife and 2. exploring my experimental software ideas.

My mantra and rationale remains unchanged: even if I fail at this little adventure and go broke and have to panic and reorganize my life, that in itself will be a lot more fulfilling and exciting than the burnt-out, depressed place I was in at my former job.

I've heard that when skydiving, once you reach terminal velocity it's becomes less frightening. So it doesn't feel too bad right now. But I'm entirely aware that the ground is quite hard and only a few thousand feet, er, dollars away.

Best of luck to you!
I'd love to know what you actually do with yours. Every single use case I could come up with for the iPad was totally destroyed by the iPhone 4, which has 80% the resolution but fits in my pocket. If a new iPad came out with a reasonable screen I could totally see it being an awesome device, but at 1024x768 people really just need to learn to hold their iPhone 4 closer to their face.
You might be interested in the FON open wifi community.
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Evolution, that's where many scientists and skeptics fail to address the big question. I can't believe that life evolves, in the sense of growing organs to meet specific needs. Natural selection does not work like that: if you have organs which don't suit you, they atrophy, that's it; if they suit you, those which have them stronger will survive. That's it. You don't grow wings to fly, lungs to breath air, brains to think. OTOH, believing in a creator just moves the issue elsewhere: who created such creator? Is he/she/it alone? I've grown comfortable with not knowing for sure what the heck we are doing here.
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Not only that, but it's a monochrome sensor with a filter wheel. It takes the same shot with multiple filters and the resulting images are merged back on earth.

My friend worked on that project.

[Edit]

It has 12μm x 12μm pixels whereas the 5D has 8μm and the 5DmkII has 6μm pixels. However each pixel on the Canons contain three (RGB) photosites to the rover's one.

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Said 12:22. Also if you dont mind owning stocks of unethical companies - buy Apple. Yahoo is dead. Facebook is gonna grow because its the best story on the internet. Skype is incredible.
You cannot directly compare digital camera megapixels with display megapixels. The former uses Bayer-interpolation (except very few cameras with Foveon sensor) while the latter has true RGB pixels. In the other words, the digital camera's pixel count of two million is shared between R, G, G, B pixels (500k of each – yes, most sensors have double green pixels). A Full HD monitor has 3 * 1920 * 1080 (sub)pixels.

Because of Bayer interpolation, the true resolution of 3MP sensor roughly equals 2MP screen resolution.

(Yes; I fully agree with your point that a phone doesn't need megazillion pixels. Sensor size is more important factor when speaking of image quality. [Not to mention the optics.])
Could you please post post-TC coverage traffic and conversion rates if you don't mind? That gives a good idea of how TC traffic converts.
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What geoIP database are you using?
Why? Those sites have done pretty well. I think it's a good idea. I really am annoyed by the variety of SO sites and the juggling you get when you encounter something that requires an overlapping of disciplines. It's pretty common for sysadmins to need to do a bit of programming and programmers to do a bit (or more) of sysadminning, and the questions aren't always immediately separated.

It should all be consolidated into SO and SO should be given "super-tags" or "categories" for server admin, programming, etc., and then you don't need a bunch of different sites/designs with fewer users. In short, take the reddit approach; allow users to subscribe to categorized channels that interest them and compile the front page based on that.
And they control the medium too. If Craig gets the answers right they just can cut this part of the film. They could manufacture whatever they want just editing and putting answers out of context.

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"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."