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I agree in general. Being late, in a Western cultural context is just damn rude.

He had me until the dentist story. I don't think that a dentist actually plans to let patients wait, but it does happen. A dentist (mine at least) usually plans in contingency for emergencies, but it may still happen that he overshoots.

Question: Would you rather have your dentist hand out his cell phone # after treating you on a Friday and their may be some complexities on the weekend for the price of waiting the occasional 20 minutes or a guaranteed punctual dentist who lets you wait for three weeks while you agonize in pain?
Incanter has the $= macro for writing infix expressions, so I don't think that need be an issue.
Agreed. I wonder if it's a generational thing.
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ok, you stated this very well. It's now clear where the confusions arises: "Sampling this population ignoring any family that has no boys." Yes, with this interpretation the answer is 1/3, but it's contrary to my interpretation.

Actually, for anyone who is interested, see "Boy or Girl paradox". There is literature on this which discusses the different interpretations.
Easy. In the interview you present the candidate with scenarios and let them run with them. In an interview you are rarely looking for specific facts; rather you want to discern the candidates thought process.
I didn't mean to offend. I've worked with Indians who were punctual. In fact, I don't recall ever working with one who was not. I think parties are bit different, though.

My point was to compare cultures, not to put down one or the other.
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Well, I'd say Buffett's letters' strong points are the way it breaks down tough concepts into a language that most people can understand. While I wouldn't say that he dispenses much in the way of investment advice, they make good reading if you're looking for a broad stroke of the US economy (especially the financial sector) as well as the factors that affect his business.

It also helps that his letters tend to be free of the BS that permeates some of the annual reports I've had to read through. When a business he owns isn't doing well, he admits to it without needing to couch behind platitudes.
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Am I the only person who did not consider this a disfavorable comparison? If anything, I would suggest that Western culture is the one suffering. It is a consequence of consistent immediacy and impatience.

For reasons I probably couldn't convey to the author of this article- learning to accept time's transience can greatly improve quality of life. Or less romantically: dude... chill out... everything will be ok.
As a response to angel investing being a "bank strategy", it seems obvious to me that most of the benefit of participating goes to the founders.

YCombinator gets 6%? That is peanuts compared the benefits you already know about, hardly exploitative.

I'm applying because the "bank strategy" seems to be on the other side of the table.
Not an exact quote, but E. T. Jaynes: "If I am ignorant about a phenomenon, that is a fact about my state of mind, not a fact about the phenomenon."
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I think you are greatly overestimating the revenue multiple there. Try 2 or 3, not 50, and I'd be lucky to get either. (We'll set aside the case where the acquisition is an outsized signing bonus.)

Adjusting for the reasonable valuations, selling does not move the needle for YC, and all time spent on me would be time wasted relative to mentoring one marginal try to build the next Zynga, GroupOn, Mint, etc.

That is neither regrettable or joyous. We merely have goals not in alignment at present.
> Only one double-quote in the query? How should we interpret that?

My vote: "Syntax error on line 1" with no further hints. ;)
They never suggested that deprioritizing punctuality was a flaw of character.
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You are right that it's easy to misuse "other cultures," but my comment comes from my experiences of living in different countries.

I am not saying that one way of thought is better than the other. I just wanted people to understand that their perception concerning punctuality is perhaps mostly based on their cultural upbringing, not on some universal human truth.
I think he's talking about making an AMI for his particular packages.

This is an issue for me to. It looks like a hassle and the instructions look vague and all I want to do is just setup a VM on my machine and then run it on amazon.

Turnkey Linux seems to make this better.

I'm guessing you're just using an off the shelf Ubuntu AMI, right?
I'm in this boat. Me and my co-founder had enough to live on while we worked on the product for the last 6 months. I did do some consulting one day a week for spending cash, but it was limited to that and never really caused a huge time-suck.

YC never really entered the conversation for us, I view YC as a place for people that fall into a "I have this idea I want to try, but if I quit my job I can't pay rent" type category, which wasn't me or the people I'm working with.

(edit to say that I'm not knocking the stated category, I'm really happy that YC exists)
I was there earlier this year.

There are no rich people and there are no poor people

That is just not true. In central Havana, there are buildings that are literally crumbling - they couldn't exist in a Western city, they'd be condemned and torn down, but there are three families crammed in there, electrical cables strung across the street, corrugated aluminium in place of glass in the windows, wooden door and window frames rotting. . But if you head out to the suburbs and have dinner at a paladar, there're people living one family in a gorgeous Spanish colonial mansion with landscaped garden, a pond and a gazebo, who want for nothing and amuse themselves by entertaining Western guests.

In a society where everyone is equal - how do you get that?
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The acquirer is quite stupid if he doesn't consider the opinions of his future customers.

Checking for stuff like this is mergers & acquisitions 101. I would be very surprised if these megacorps aren't thinking about this stuff when they buy.
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Worse, you can leave out 'compiled'. According to that logic, captain Picard programs in assembly whenever he starts a sentence with "Computer, "
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Maybe it isn't really the same concept. While playing poker, you usually take your time to calculate each move, but the reaction time is much, much less in video games (faster decisions).
Let's do this for pop music.
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The risk to reward ratio would appear to be very low, wouldn't it? Just apply.
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"And probably you should strip out the 'macro' bit there because in reality that's the pre-processor"

I disagree. Looping constructs that typically would be macros in an assembler such as 'while' and 'for' are C constructs. Also, C itself has automatic field offset computations.
Which city are you in? Knowing this would help people give you some advice.
What does a NA value become when you extract it to a float? i.e. What is the behavior of X[0]?

It is somewhat confusing that python base types and numpy differ in behavior, for instance when dealing with inf or divide by zero exceptions. I think this gets to hadley's point that it will be hard to bolt on R to an existing language.
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Don't even get me started with Google's captchas. They're unreadable even for humans.
I think the author misses the point of the phrase "C is just portable assembly". It does't literally mean that C is just like assembly, it's usually a shorthand for saying the following things:

1. C is used in most contexts where you previously had to use assembly, and would use assembly if C didn't exist.

2. C is the language with the "lowest level" code imaginable.

3. What this means is, you can map almost any command in C into a specific command or a few specific commands in assembly.

That last line is the important part. C is optimized in the sense that every command in C will give you a deterministic amount of commands in assembly. When reading C code, someone who knows assembly can usually tell you what will happen in the compiled code. You won't see an operator which doesn't have a deterministic runtime or memory footprint. In fact, most of the questions on "Why C has this"/"Why C doesn't have that" can be answered exactly like that: you can't implement it with a deterministic set of commands.

In those senses, C is just like Assembly, at least more so than any other language around.
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You cannot possibly expect an honest reply if you go in with an attitude that reeks of prejudice.

Islam's early spread included conquest, and also included very real economic aspects that were appreciated by its adherents. The religions in the middle east at the time were extremely taxing; one of the reasons there is no priesthood in Islam is the sheer amount that would be paid in tithes to the pre-Islamic religions in the area.

Furthermore, as context, many of these verses are in a historic situation where Muslims were betrayed by an entire group and were on the verge of annihilation. Please don't pretend that violence is abhorrent in that situation. Regardless of what group you belong to (or don't), the fact is that every group in that situation lashes out; whether it is burning and leveling large parts of the South or expelling / killing a group of people who had betrayed a nation. This clearly is not meant to be the behavior in an era where there is peace between various groups.

If what you say is true, you need to account for why there were any Christians or Jews or Hindus for that matter left alive in territories conquered by Muslims. I don't doubt that there were atrocities and acts of malice / evil inflicted by conquerers, but the unfortunate truth is that it is a common part of war; then and now.

I won't be bringing up the topic again, I don't think it is worth it and I doubt you are honestly interested in the issue. Still, it's sad that you choose to demonize 1/6th of the population of the world. Best of luck to you if that's how you choose to live your life.
I can't anyone else who would make the overseas (aus) + life leap.
I'm in the exact same situation, bootstrapped a business from nothing to low six figures in the first year. My company is growing steadily and profitable, but it's not really YC material and will never be a multimillion dollar breakout hit.

I've got a couple high-growth startup worthy projects I might pursue but even then, I don't think I would apply to something like YC. Honestly, I think I'm at a later stage in terms of growth than YC requires.

I'm already more than ramen profitable, and if I step it up and invest aggressively in growth for a webapp, I could probably raise an angel round fairly easily.

YC is good if you only have an idea/prototype. If you have a product with paying customers, a proven business model, and established customer acquisition channels, the value of YC is significantly less compared to the growing value of the share you would be giving up.

I would rather take the amount of equity YC asks for and divide it among my founding team/first employees.
"But more importantly, CPUs generally have many more capabilities than are exposed by C."

Hear, hear! Moreover, that has always been the case. As an example, try implementing multiple-word addition in C. On most architectures, you will learn that not having access to a carry bit makes that harder than it could be.
One of the issues with Duck Duck go is that it does filter results to the country of the user. As an UK user, when I put in the word flowers or "local programmers", I expect the results to be inclined towards UK pages as this is what will help me. Google does this well! There is no point in showing me stuff in NJ or Canada.
According to The Invisible Gorilla (very interesting book btw) there have been other experiments done with gamers that supposedly found improved cognitive abilities resulting from intense FPS gameplay. However, the authors of the book did more digging and concluded that some of those experiments on gamers were never independently confirmed by other experimenters. Here's an article on the subject: http://theinvisiblegorilla.com/blog/2010/04/20/the-limits-of...
Unfortunately companies only exit for 50 times earnings in Web 2.0 fantasy land. In the real world, it's closer to 2 or 3 times EBITDA(not revenue).

If I could build a business to $20K in revenue and flip it for a million I, and many, many others making a living online, would be a millionaire many times over.
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Maybe it's because I've been reading HN, but this seems pretty backwards-looking to me.
I wonder what is the intersection with the Petrucci Library http://imslp.org - do they have scores that IMSLP doesn't?
>My point on this query is that you can use the left-hand search bar to restrict the results to a certain time range (e.g. only results from the last week, month, or year).

I am amazed at how many users still don't know about this feature. It is one of the best features in google search (that was added recently). Google should promote it better to its users.
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I suspect it's gotten worse in the past couple of years, but also I was benchmarking against the peer countries in the region where there is destitute poverty juxtaposed with billionaires.
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It's not too much of a stretch to look at just '
FIXME' as a very sophisticated macro assembler.

s/FIXME/Ruby, or Python, or Perl, or any other language. Where does one draw the line that distinguishes a language from a sophisticated enough assembler?
It's a false dichotomy - the solution to being able to handle emergencies quickly is the same as the solution to being able to see patients on time - have some slack in your schedule. Of course, that may mean that you need to charge more for your service, but I know plenty of people that would happily pay a surcharge of 20% or so on their doctor/dentist visits if it meant that they wouldn't have to be sitting around in a waiting room for an hour.

The curious thing about it is that it would only need to be about 20% to get everyone clear, but instead of that, nearly every patient ends up needing to wait for an hour, because there is always an emergency that needs addressing each day. I wonder why we don't see doctor's surgeries or dentists doing this. Anyone have an idea?
You should try giving feedback about the query, Gabriel's usually prompt in responding to issues.
Hey man,

So I'd consider myself having a very similar skillset. Same sorts of interests, etc. What I basically do, is learn a few things to keep me going with money (I launched iPadCaseFinder.com, sold that 2 months later for $x,xxx -- and I've done this with a few different products).

I'm basically just using that to fund my ideas, like you, I have a lot of ideas. Find a designer, find a programmer, map it all out, get your informal marketing plan done. Talk to people, get them fired up, have a basecamp going to track everything.

You can be a single founder, you can get something so great, that techies WANT too be a part of.

But hey, maybe not the path you want to take ;-)
You wouldn't download a car!

Well, now you can. And so the same issues that have affected music and movies are now going to start making themselves felt elsewhere in the economy. If you're counting on design patents and incompatible shapes to raise the switching costs for your customers (Steve Jobs I'm looking in the direction of that stupid proprietary connector) you won't be able to count on maximising profits by preventing copycats. The most draconian anti-counterfeiting laws you can imagine will not be sufficient to keep people from building things they want.
I can't think of one time in the 100's of times I've used image search that I cared at all about the actual web sites that the images are from. I wish it was even more direct, right to the images, than it still is, with a small link to the site if I'm interested.
I think YC is an amazing value for the talented hacker in the Midwest looking to break into the Valley. On the other hand, if you're already here and connected into SV, it's really expensive equity.
I appreciate it when people whom I am waiting for let me know that there will be a delay and that I have not been completely forgotten. Dentists, restaurant servers, girlfriends contemplating marriage proposals, etc.
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>When the telephone and telegraph came around did we suddenly stop hiring people because we could check their references without so much as lifting a hand to dial the number or send a telegram?

I don't understand how this is as dangerous as online records.
People get caught up on this "I don't need 20k." YC is like the best university in the world paying you to go to it.

Secondly, people make all kinds of assumptions about "I don't fit their model." The best way to determine if you fit their model is to apply.

If you have an inkling to apply, do it.

Finally, saying there are far too many one sided arguments in favor of YC is like saying "There are far too many people who are happy with their lives."
I don't code, but I have a project?
Details:

1. I'm not very experienced with coding at all, and I don’t really like it after trying to learn on several different occasions and dedicating a good number of hours to it. I’m just familiar with a handful of PHP, HTML, and CSS.

2. I used WordPress in a bizarre way with appropriately licensed plugins and some of my own modifications with the WordPress core and plugin files. It’s not a blog.

3. I've compiled what I think is a decent prototype. That is, it's a site that does exactly what it's supposed to do and it has some nice features. I’m just sure its source is incredibly atrocious and wasteful.

Questions:

So, given my inexperience and coding displeasure do you think any technical co-founder could be interested in working with me? They would want to ditch WordPress right? So what would be the point if they could just come up with their own similar project with their own neat and appropriate code? Would any investors be interested once I find a technical co-founder? They wouldn't be interested if I didn’t have one, right?

Just wondering if my work on such a project is meaningful in any way or if it’s mostly been a waste of time as far as serious business goes. I suppose I may just stick entirely with law school if that’s the case.

Thanks for your time. I really appreciate it.

Edit: Just stumbled across this recent submission and found it enlightening: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1689751
It sounds like you could do well in sales (software companies typically only have two substantial departments: engineering and sales), or if you come up with a good enough idea, you could probably run your own startup.

Feel free to send me an e-mail (see my profile) if you'd like to talk more.
"If bootstrapping is the better way, awesome – 37signals will enjoy the bathtubs full of money they get at the end of the rainbow, etc"

That's the problem. 37 Signals says it's the better way, but not obviously better for the founders. You won't get rich, but the world will be better off for having a better company.
I think sometimes these Megacorps buy out some one just so some one else cant do that and challenge them. Of course some of these could just be bad decisions.
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Then call me hopelessly, curmudgeonly Western. I like people who say what they mean, including when they say they'll be somewhere at a certain time(+).

Context is everything. Parties, many types of social situations are different. But if someone plans e.g. a meeting and it's important for everyone to be there (otherwise, why are they invited?) then you'd better (1) be on time or (2) suggest an alternate time when you know you can make it. If there's some question, there's no shame in saying so. Do that so that the other people can make their plans. If you can't make plans and stick to them, WTF are you doing?

(+) Mobile phones have made everybody commitment-shy losers.
>You have discovered the Fully General Social Conservative Argument.

I'm not arguing against any change. I'm questioning the validity of Zuckerberg's claim that he just wants to make the world a better place. Anyone should want to change the world and make it a better place, but to do that we need to investigate what would actually make things better. Zuckerberg offers no reasoning as to why giving up all privacy would make anything even slightly better. I don't personally see how this would intuitively make the world a better place, but I do see very clearly how it would benefit Zuckerberg personally.
See also the "shut up and calculate" interpretation of quantum mechanics.
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I would love to, but I really don't feel like they would take me seriously. I've been working on my indie MMO for over 5 years now. Not like that is exactly a new groundbreaking idea, though I do think it's an amazing game and so do my users judging by the consistently low and ever lowering churn rate.