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Investors want the companies they fund to grow fast, but they don't want to "flip" them. They'd much prefer that they grew into large, independent companies, like Google and Facebook. When companies get sold at earlier stages, it's more often because the founders wanted to than the investors.

I would never claim that starting a startup (= a company designed to grow very fast) was the only way to get rich. Anyone can see that's not how most people get rich. Most people who get rich from starting companies do it by patiently building slow growing service or niche product businesses.

A startup is the extreme end of the spectrum. It's not for everyone. It's not for 99% of people probably. But if you're Steve Jobs, or Larry Page, or Mark Zuckerberg, it turns out that you can do better than the guys patiently building service or niche product businesses.
The market url to your app is market://details?id=com.your.packagename
> They use Cassandra as a key/value store and not as the primary database though

These are orthogonal.
I downloaded polyglot earlier today and found it mostly amusing in the context of Facebook (e.g. seeing my friends speaking in broken english.) Later, I came back and forgot about polyglot and started a little unit testing. Long story short, in spanish commas are really decimal points and vice versa.
drives is a supercar is not a measure of being right

as the post mentioned, a lot of despots and autocrats have supercars, and their opponents are peasants. who is right?
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How many HAProxy server is being used? Just a main one with heartbeat for failover?
Or you can do a QR code which will link directly to the app when scanned.

Or you can make the link as a market intent so that android users who click on it, it will automatically launch the market app with the application in place.

Or wait till google release the web version of the android market rumored to be out this fall.
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"The try before you buy" strategy is baked directly into the 24 hours refund.
yup faulty memory, I tried to be more clear here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1670968

No malicious intent, after all, I did ask you for verification on twitter, linking here.
I've clicked on links in my phone's browser to download a marketplace package. Use the the "market" scheme followed by a search by package name to construct a URI clickable inside an Android phone. For instance: market://search?q=pname:<package>. This is documented at http://developer.android.com/guide/publishing/publishing.htm...
I imagine that as a late-night infomercial
> Cassandra looks to be working fine for reddit now

Yep
huh, I thought that Cloudy with a chance of meatballs was awesome. seeing the clip made me want to watch it again.

true, it had little to do with the book, but i don't fault it for that.
Since he mentioned Krav Maga:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1156838
I don't really see the use case for this. Doesn't everyone inclined to want these features have a laptop/tablet/SmartPhone within arms reach when they sit on the couch and watch TV? I can't imagine watching a video with friends and using the TV to search for something while making the video 1/8th size in the corner. Assuming I did want to browse Flickr on my TV I would want a TV friendly UI -- not the Flickr website. It makes sense to have a set top with tight integration with other devices for control, TV-centric apps make sense if you can figure out a non-clunky control method. Another demo I saw included setting up an IR blaster to a cable box with video inputs. No one wants to do that. That's exactly why Windows MCE was a failure. At this early stage Google TV doesn't seem to have moved far enough away from being an Android based HTPC. Some people undoubtably want that but I'm not sure it's a mainstream thing.
Most people who become that right are super-poor one day, and then ridiculously rich the next. You don't get to be a multi-millionaire by gradually saving every year or 'making goals'

If you are so obsessed with money, the goal should be to make something that lots of people want and pay money for, and/or in-turn sell it to somebody else who will give you a lot of money for it.
I remember learning that Mark Felt was deep throat - so unbelievably exciting, albeit momentarily, that such a generation-long mystery had been solved.

A DNF release won't quite be as well publicised, but for me it will have a similar feeling.

[Edit: Why yes, I do have a therapist, why do you ask?]
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A good approach is to do an 'active warmup' - some light cardio, maybe ~5 min of biking or jogging, followed by a series of exercises done over ~20meters or so, going out and back:

pull your knee to your chest, quad pulls, lunges, high knees, butt kicks, shuffles, drinking birds, toe touches, karaokes, leg swings, others...

takes a little time, and sometimes looks a little funny... but is great for getting you warmed up.
> In practice - Java under a heavy load is a disaster

Google's heavy use of serverside Java would indicate otherwise.

> because it was never designed for it

Yes it was. Java has a lot of problems, but one thing that isn't a problem is heavy load.

> Cassandra is a just a hype and propaganda

Facebook seems to be using it ok.
Yes you are totally right. Furthermore: In relativity there is no "right now" moment. Two simultaneous events in one reference frame can be one after the other in another reference frame. (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_of_simultaneity) This concept is even true in special relativity and has been tested and a basic principle why GPS is working.
or if you don't want a Corvette, get a caterham or another 7-series based car

they flyyyyyyyyyyyyy (had one, almost died many times)
I guess the zonda 'drives' home dhh's 'lifestyle business' philosophy probably more than anything else.
You could tell him the article has a typo and it's a Honda.
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To be fair, memory bandwidth was relatively better and pipelines were nonexistent, so there was little reason to inline a function unless the call setup was literally longer than the body.

My favorite monstrosity was the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlay_(programming). When your OS couldn't page functions from disk for you, you damn well did it yourself. They even started building it into linkers....
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It doesn't seem to be too typical outside of Fortune 500 companies. It's actually nice to see a 'hacker' entrepreneur spending his wealth.
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That is a completely ridiculous reason to not let people give away apps. Just change the frickin' counter system.
That reads like sour grapes.
Well this is one way to make sure you spam the right people: link to a Google Docs spreadsheet and harvest the emails. I should probably start reading HN in incognito mode.
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Hehe, well, I should probably elaborate that a bit more.

The thing about limiting the things you're supposed to give your attention to in a single day is that it begins leaving a lot of room for doing whatever you might feel like doing throughout the day. And by controlling the things you're most likely to spend time on, you create an opportunity for new activities to find their place in your schedule. Like spending time outdoors, learning a new language, all those things you always wanted to do but never "had the time".
Everyone has hobbies. Auto-racing just happens to be one where the cost can range from a few thousand to a realm of unlimited funds. I'm sure John Carmack's rocketry escapades aren't cheap either.

I'm not sure what's self-indulgent or flashy about it. The costs involved are perhaps at a scale that you and I are not use to, but its just another level up. And then there's the Jeff Bezos's and Richard Bransons, who have their own hobbies, done at the stratospheric cost scale.

You're talking about conspicuous consumption, buying things for the express purpose of displaying wealth. You don't exactly buy a bespoke 680hp barely street-legal race car that can't even be driven in your own country for that purpose.
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How do you have fun? DHH will actually be getting some use out of this car on a track, not (just) using it as a status symbol. Furthermore, he did his best to remain anonymous as the purchaser of this car and was apparently quite unhappy when his identity was revealed.
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since you asked, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACID explains ACID is about - all about - reliability. It is scary if you're the author of the article and you don't grasp this.
There's other schools besides MVC, including "component-oriented."
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It used to be $60,000, but now after adjusted for inflation, your happiness is priced at $75,000.
Can you trust a site that sends you a welcome email with your password in it?
This is a pet peeve! When Jeff@xyzsite.com sends me a welcome mail with my username & password mentioned in it, I have basic doubts about the site's security measures & privacy policy. Especially when (foolish, I know) I've used the same password on half a dozen other sites. Am I being paranoid?
There definitely is something that bothers me about using fibers in order to hide an important optimization detail from the developer, and I agree it would be better to have explicit control.

However I see the core team's point that they don't want to completely overhaul the API in a way that's going to break arguably a majority of existing apps, and at the same require the developer to pay attention to more details than may be necessary.

However on the topic of breaking expectations about processing times, I couldn't disagree more. To me, the main benefit of MVC (or any architecture choice) is in isolating responsibilities, not isolating code execution. It's not a big mental leap to conceive of a ActiveRecord relation as declaring some data that's needed that may or may not be actually queried, depending on if the view needs it. This helps your MVC separation, because it means you don't need to extract view logic from your template just to make sure the controller doesn't load something unnecessarily. Lazy execution of this form is a very powerful optimization technique, just ask any Haskeller.
Oh, one other thought. Add Korean dramas and you will OWN the entire female asian market. They're easy to find on several sites, but completely non-existent on internet/tv solutions. Additionally, it's next to impossible to explain to our Asian mothers how to load up a webpage, select a tv show with a drop-down or in a list, and then click through the episodes. It's information overload to them and they simply don't do it. But if they had this on a simplified internet/tv interface ala XBMC or Boxee, it just might do the trick.
If the laser emits all photons constituting the dot at the same time, in pulses... I was thinking of the photons that make up the dot arriving at random intervals, but I'm probably making things too complicated.
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HN is build around the web startup community. So, almost all stuff you read here geared towards web stuff.

> At the end of the day it is about the percentage return on investment, correct?

For me, at the end of the day it is about the satisfaction and happiness I get from my startup. Money certainly matters but it's not primary for me. That said, I'm not saying it's OK to do unprofitable startup. Put a balance to that.

The bottom line is to look for what you're passionate about & what is meaningful to you, whether it's web apps, software, selling stuff, etc and make a startup out of it.

Guy Kawasaki once said: "It's been my observation that most companies founded on this concept of making money pretty much fail. They attract the wrong kind of co-founders and early employees. Entrepreneurs should focus on making their product or service mean something beyond the sum of its components -- and the money may very well follow"
I learned Mercurial first and found the vast majority of its commands to be highly intuitive for the 4 core actions of a distributed version control system

1) Check-pointing code
2) Jumping back (or sideways) in time
3) Sending code to others
4) Receiving code from others

However, once I really understood the distributed version control model, I found myself thinking in terms of the DAG and wanting more control over it. I started viewing my version control system as a tool for more than just version control. I started viewing it as a tool for understanding and communicating about my code. I started using it as a tool to manipulate my code.

Then, for one small project, I tried Git. It drove me NUTS for about a week. I was going to smash things. I was so angry about it using stupid cryptic terms for simple things. I was annoyed by the complexity of overloaded, highly flexible commands. But once I translated the vocabulary, the commands stopped seeming so complex. Instead, they seemed like a reasonable abstractions. Each of the sub-operations they can perform are really just specializations of one kind of operation. It became second nature. I started doing swiss-army-knife voodoo with Git that Mercurial could only accomplish with a giant pile of half-baked plugins, blood, sweat, and tears.

Now, I only use Git.

tldr: Git is a more abstract, more powerful tool than any mere version control system. This is only something you come to appreciate with experience.
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That has photos of the car under construction
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Is there really any place where floating point is the right solution or default? I mean, all general purpose languages generally use floating point, but for general purposes, floating point isn't what you want. Or maybe it is, but it certainly isn't what I want.
Well, that's not very helpful, because he's not talking about the standard atmosphere, but about a particularly humid atmosphere.
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Came to know quite a while ago that yellow pages is offering a microsite building and maintaining service for small businesses. You may want to check it out to see if you are competing against them and if so, then you may have to come up with a USP to be competitive against them.

Good luck.
Nice summary on DNF from Ars. The best in-depth best on DNF is this one by Wired:

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/12/fail_duke_nukem/all/1

One of the most interesting saga's in software dev
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The user limits are a good thing: Let teams and individuals fork the projects. Favor more, smaller projects of better factored code, each with key trusted contributors. If your teams are large enough, you should have lieutenants performing code reviews upon pull request. Embrace the distributed model.
I just got an android yesterday, first negative experience within 20 minutes of opening the box, to play around with the turn-by-turn navigation you have to download an app which is free, but which requires you to set up a gmail account, which has nothing whatsoever to do with the task at hand.

Other than that amazing tech. The app download process was pretty painless after the google account was created.

I can see why the 'free to paid' switch would require a new application ID, after all people would feel tricked if they sent the name of the app to their friends on recommendation only to find that the one your friend downloaded for free is now suddenly a paid app.
I dont know how they do it but the longest range wifi link is 382km[1]. And 10 km with good directional antennas is not that special, really.

[1] http://www.slideshare.net/1ereposition/long-distance-wifi-tr...
We used to call this "Hemoglobin". It's something scary complicated, created by elves (as far as you're concerned); no one knows how it works, but it does (barely), and only if occasional offerings of live virgins are made at its altar.

Another appropriate term is "Happy Fun Ball" (google it)
I'm surprised they're even trying. There's little obvious overlap between HP's hardware business and Oracle's software business. I presume they're primarily worried about Oracle HP's consulting/managed services contract business, which I understand is quite lucrative; but I find it hard to see any more overlap between HP and Oracle than there was between HP and NCR (Hurd's previous employer, potential conflicts with whom were deemed adequately addressed by a boilerplate paragraph in his agreement with HP about 'respecting rights of former employers'), notwithstanding Oracle's general remarks about HP being a competitor in the July 10-k (complaint p.44).

I guess it's normal practice and/or required for compliance with California or federal law, but I can't help noticing in the attached suit that neither the confidentiality nor separation agreements make Hurd's severance payments contingent on his honoring the non-compete clause - that is, they can seek redress for their loss (A/B/C p.8), but it's not keyed to his compensation. Obviously a company wouldn't want to put a ceiling on their potential damages if someone truly abused their confidentiality, but I had expected to see a clawback for the specific amount of his severance before the more open-ended remedies.

Are such clauses illegal, or were they just too trusting? I can't imagine HP wants a protracted legal fight with Oracle, but I'm betting that for the sake of appearances they would like to snatch back the $12m + ~40m in stock options Hurd took out the door with him.
5GHz opened up pretty recently. This along with high of cost of making a 5GHz radio and wider acceptance of 802.11ng is reason for Wifi still sticking to 2.4 ISM band.
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It amazes me how stress can have physical, not just mental, effects. At the peaks of the stressful times I would get these really weird vague aches and pains. I saw my doctor (in the valley) and when I told her I was founding a startup she told me these were very common symptoms among our kind...

(granted my company was probably nowhere near as stressful as Twitter circa 2008-2009)
Yes, but DECT is not free-for-all, you have to pay licensing fees. And those were fairly high until 2005.
I think a fixed point attractor would be a word or phrase where it goes naturally but then doesn't have any more suggestions: a dead end.

This is more of a periodic-solution attractor.
One of the attractions for me of doing contracting, telecommuting and/or startup work is the greater freedom to work from home or wherever, untethered, and having a zero-commute job. It's a great lifestyle.

I figure if I can get my total weekday required commute down from say 2 hours to 0-0.25 hours I save roughly 500 hours a year. All of which become hours spent on things which give me a better quality of life (more sleep, more exercise, more meditation, more relaxation, more friend time, family time, etc.)

I hope an increasing percentage of folks do it in the future, because I truly think it will help make the world a better place, especially through the indirect benefits of reduced traffic, reduced pollution, reduced vehicle accidents, fossil fuel consumption, miles-o-asphalt-culture, etc.
Exercise (physical work) + diet (same organic food each day) + meditation + regime (the same routines each day) = monastery or village life in Asia. Why 174 up-votes for a turning back to the basics?
That's what I use the feature-xyz branch for. I make "incomplete" commits, by logic only (refactor this, add new function...) and then at the merge into the develop branch, the commit must be in a working state. That way my development branch is always in a working state and each commit there adds one thing at a time (and still I have the detailled look because I use --no-ff commit).
The madness still exists today. I'm developing an app that runs on a 8-bit 8051 CPU with a 16 bit address bus and 1MB of code Flash... Let's just say that segmentation and function pointers isn't a perfect match. Luckily the next revision of the hardware runs an AVR32 instead, I'm just hoping that the hardware will be ready for the world before the app is!
oh wow, flattered to see opensourcefood.com get name-dropped on HN!

(disclosure: I was the founder, but sold it in 2009 - it is basically unchanged though)

Setting the standard from the start is something any founder of a UGC site needs to be actively involved in.

In the case of OSF I was responsible for much of the early content, armed with my dSLR. I then invited friends who were similarly equipped and they added awesome photos/recipes, which really helped set the tone.

I also actively deleted crappy content. I felt like a douchebag for doing it, but there was a standard I wanted to maintain. People who got their content removed would receive a list of tips to help them take better photos for next time :)

Eventually this scales out of control. You can see the content from the early days is still the most popular:
http://www.opensourcefood.com/recipes/all_time_best

And it's all pretty high quality. But you can't keep that going forever as you community grows from hundreds to thousands to tens of thousands and beyond.

It's super important for early adoption though. Visitors have to visit your site and go "wow, I want to be part of this!".
Good to know but about the free thing but the rest of your issues aren't issues at all. The guides explain all this stuff. How did you ever get your app uploaded and approved for the apple app store if you can't follow simple instructions like the ones that explain how to publish your app to the android market?
"Streak.ly is coming soon."

Maybe you should promote it after it launches.
I don't think this is a "review my startup" type post.
Another serious annoyance is that users can return your app in 24 hrs and get a full refund. Wipes out an entire ecosystem of cheap games that go for under $5. I understand that this is good for the consumer in a short-sighted way, but really, return a 99c app?
When they hit 2/4/6 or 4/6/8 I'll be curious if you'll say the same thing. :) I know there are many parents who, after having to put up with kids and their behavior/mindsets long enough, without break, feel like they are starting to go crazy from the stress, headaches and heartaches they cause. Plus the guilt from having those negative feelings and reactions from their own children, so it snowballs and yo-yos even.
Keeping unrelated projects in a single repo is every bit as bad as keeping all the source code for one project in a single 500k-line C file. CVS modules are a nightmare to work with, and I consider the lack of such abominations a feature of git et al, not a shortcoming.

The author's straw man of a git repo per file is also quite unconvincing.

Git may have some shortcoming, but this is not one of them.