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Not only is the author a troll -- as pointed out, he runs the Fake Steve Jobs blog -- his primary source, Nathan Myhyrvhvhlodold, is a troll.

Let me clarify:

Nathan might be a genius, but he's a genius whose words we can't ever risk taking seriously because of the raging conflicts of interest that imbue his every interaction with the press or social media.

His company:

> "Intellectual Ventures is a private company claiming to invest in "pure invention." Their business model has a focus on developing a large patent portfolio and licensing these to companies with infringing products."

Myhrvold brings smart scientists and thinkers into a room, picks their brains, and then he and his own very smart people sit down and come up with as many patents as they can.

They aren't driven by malice. They're driven by rational self-interest: presently, with our broken patent system, people who aren't actually going to go out there and try to solve the world's problems can sit in a room all day coming up with ideas and make money from that.

Let's run his statements through a conflict-of-interest filter:
"Silicon Valley is working on easy problems" translates to:

> Hey world, it's only cool to work on things that require large up-front investment on PATENT-FRIENDLY products, so people with lots of patents can make money by attaching ourselves to the necks of people who are actually making the world a better place instead of talking about it.

Tempting, Nate.

More to the point, it's tempting to get sucked into rebutting individual points, such as the fact that those heroes of the valley would have killed to have the resources available now to anyone with a credit card, Linode and Twilio.com. Or the fact that he's essentially complaining about low barriers to entry.

Or the fact that things that start easy and trivial, in the early stages, quickly get deep and techy. It's easy to mock things that look facebook-y, but it's hard to solve, say, 10k or 100k continuous connections, or to write fast evented code or contribute to libraries that make the whole world faster. We start simple and get smart.

But if you start rebutting these things, you've been sucked into a hole.

The issue is, he wants people to work on patent-friendly stuff. Fin.
Wrong decision?

I don't think they could compete on the cheap with Chinese clones with razor margins then as they can't today. It is simply a different business.

They are the only company that survived,Amiga, Commodore, Atari, Spectrum,all perished, so not so wrong.

If you ask the cheap product manufactures in China, all want to be Apple, life is better selling a small number of units at a high price that selling millions by weight.
I say GPL so that you can merge anyone else's improvements (including those by other companies and they make the software publicly available by same license, too), you can sell the software with warranty and/or printed documentation and/or DVD with the software on it, and everyone else can do the same. If you do not need this, you can use a simple license instead (such as MIT license)
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I think his logic is right, but the premise might not be true. I believe that many people still googling docs and answers even though they know the exact location they are. Google (or search) is just quicker.
So there's an inconsistency betw your post and this comment.

Maybe you'd like to review your post and see which parts you really believe and which parts are just hyperbole.

Seems like a good time to figure out what actually happened there, as opposed to just re-reciting the same tired myths yet again.

That's what I liked about the comment on Stack Overflow. He learned something from the way things turned out. This comment also shows that you've learned something, but your post is the same old same old.
In practice this isn't one of the big problems.

For example, here's an aggregator of a bunch of East Village blogs and news sites.

http://east-village.org

The feed titles are the text of the links. You don't see any encoding errors. The blogs use a wide variety of tools to create their feeds. Some are RSS 2.0, some are Atom 1.0. There might even be some of the older formats in there. They always seem to get the titles right. I decode them once.

There are generally more problems with descriptions as weird Windows characters pass through their CMSes, and we have to do something with them on our end. Over time my software has gotten pretty good at dealing with these.

So when someone raises this "issue" I seem it as more political than pragmatic.
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hmmm, perhaps what i'm describing is close to the idea of a lightweight web version of netnanny but only for a browser(s).
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Meditating regularly improves my quality of life and ability to think clearly by about 100%. Sometimes I stop doing it for awhile and forget how much better it is, but then I get back into it and realize, "Woa, this just makes life easier." So I've been meditating 20 minutes everyday for awhile now and highly recommend it.

Good food, karaoke, and a social life are my only other cures for stress. For me, when I feel the busiest and think I can't spare time for those things is usually when I need to do them the most.
I was able to create an app from the interface at smart.joyent.com (your profile --> your applications).

However when I clone repo or add the repo url to git remote of the project dir, it's asking for a password. What should i be entering there? Guessing it's because we're told to use the user git "git@git.smart... ". Anyone? the #joyent channel on freenode doesnt seem to have active staff right now.
If you have an idea and you are a great communicator who doesn't shy away from selling, cold calling, deal making, etc, you would be a very valuable co-founder for many techies. If you have some industry knowledge that would be even more valuable (but supposedly, as a recent graduate, you don't). Not all web startups are very technology centric.
Indeed. He's going on about how modern silicon valley, and to be honest much of the rest of the world, is geared around the short term. How start-ups are now light and fluffy, with a focus on making the world worse - by getting their users addicted, in their millions, to menial activities.

I have been thinking about this recently, should the start-ups - which rely heavily on user addiction - be treated as gambling outlets, and therefore be regulated and watched closely? It would at least discourage that form of start-up.
In what universe are the web GUIs of tomato and dd-wrt harder to administer than your unix system?

I'll take http://www.polarcloud.com/img/ssbn100.png running on $50 hardware any day. And yes, it does QoS (http://www.polarcloud.com/img/ssqosg108.png).
I place mine in folders and subfolders by topic and subtopic category, and synchronize them all with xmarks
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Oh yea, I use the local equivalent (prisjakt.nu) all the time before buying just about anything. Yet for some reason I've never really thought of it as a search engine.
...and seize the opportunity to feed his readership a few more affiliate links. Hehe, I still remember his post about SSDs, this one was really bad.
You need to include your local public SSH key in your account (under SSH Keys in the joynet interface). Then:

git push ssh://node@<youurname>.no.de/home/node/repo master

to ssh in you do:

ssh node@<yourname>.node.de

You are then in the /home/node directory on your machine.
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I think you've made an important distinction here, which is easy to gloss over: that UX isn't necessarily UI. I tend to think of the UI more as the layer of gloss that's put over the top; whereas UX is the actual interaction flow a user will participate in. FWIW, a product the company I work for is designing is extremely pretty to look at, but when it comes to using, it becomes painfully obvious there's been little to no external user testing. I'm not involved with the project, but it pains me to see them not stump up the cash for even a basic expert evaluation.

For the OP, while at an undergrad level those techniques might seem trivial (I can remember being an absolutely arrogant prick while we were learning them!), it quickly becomes apparent either in the workforce or at postgrad level that they're valid and necessary tools for turning out a great UX. There's no point in designing something you find pretty and easy to use, when other users (your personas) might struggle with it.

They might bore you now, and I know from experience that lecturers can take weeks to teach what can seem a simple idea, but if you are seriously interested in UX rather than UI, write them up and put them in a notebook somewhere you can refer to later. You'll almost definitely find them useful :).
Okay the implementation of this is really well done. It had everything I was expecting an automated version of this game would have.

My one complaint is that the frame for the game seemed quite slow compared to normal scrolling on Wikipedia (Just checked and yes there is a noticeable lag in scrolling in Chrome on Windows). This is some what frustrating in a game designed for speed!
A200(A250), as it allways has been. SE have never made that many symbian phones.
I live in Norway and only pay 33% of my salary in taxes. If I had bought a house instead of renting an apartment, I would have been able to deduct a lot more from my tax.
Not only that, you would be amazed at how many people who have done something wrong end up with a guilty conscience and just tell the truth. Especially if there was something wrong going on here and the FBI hangs the "first to tell me what happened won't be prosecuted".
One other piece of feedback -- maybe hide click paths in the left hand nav until the user has marked some sort of "given up" button for current race?

It would be nice to see the active players list on the home page too (I would have started a lot faster and with less hesitation had I known X amount of people were playing just then).
HN gained a lot more users recently, too. Even if they went back to the old system, it would probably still be as fast.

On the other hand, I use the RSS feed to watch the site, so I see every story that comes in, and then I visit the ones that might have something worthwhile. And then the ones that actually do, I vote up. If more people used the site like this, it would probably result in better stories making it to the main page, and possibly even that they stay there longer.
Ask HN: How to mutate a start-up into ISO 27001 compliance
How to keep start-up-like agility with all change controls, heavyweight security procedures and so on, implied by ISO 27001 compliance (requested by our main client)?
Thank you a lot - I'm certainly willing to educate myself on the issue.

I'd just like to state that I'm in no way a Krugman supporter - It wouldn't make sense anyway - since I'm not living in the US and it would be utterly insane to support someone if you don't even understand the context he is operating in. But on the limited exposure I had to his work (columns mostly) - I wasn't able to see the nearly unanimous point that most of the people here seem to hold. Thank you again.

EDIT: I went through all the linked articles - and only one mentions Paul Krugman: http://mises.org/journals/scholar/Thornton13.pdf. I guess I will still have to go through whole Krugman portfolio to figure out who the idiot is here...
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Oh no, that's the wrong site. That one is about their earlier solution they bought from Reasonably Smart.

The new Node.js solution lives under http://no.de
The correct repo is shown after you have provisioned your machine.
I use the jumplists, pinned and recent documents/files/sites for a bunch of apps in Windows 7 (Outlook, Chrome, Visual Studio, Notepad, Remote desktop, etc etc).

If websites comes to support this, I'm pretty sure I will welcome that as a feature. Not required by any means, but a nice extra.
imo this sounds like one of those situations where you learn to say, "No." Unless there is a compelling reason to be ISO-compliant with the majority of your customers, you will end up wasting so much time on getting compliant, you won't be able to do the things the rest of your customers need. That goes for pretty much any kind of standards compliance. Only do what is required to be legal to get and retain the business you need.

To answer the question at hand though, I think you'd need to grow enough where you can take the risk at persuing certifications.

Good luck.
That's what I meant. Reasoning that something is searched for less frequently, because people know where to find it and do not need to search for it, is valid -- I just do not see (and the poster I replied to did not explain) how this applies only to Rails and not to Django. Had he referred to specific attributes of Rails, that make people not need to search for it, it would be plausible. Alas, he did not.
This reminds me yet again how completely awesome the Edwardians were.
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There is a fantastic documentary about a documentary, Santiago, ( http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago_(document%C3%A1rio) , unfortunately in portuguese), that explores this very issue. When he was young, the director tried to shoot a documentary about his family's former butler, but ended up discarding the footage. Years later, after the butler was dead, he came back to the footage and realized what a dick he was during the whole process. He then edited it to tell a story of the common blindness of the documentarist. It's touching, and makes it so you will never watch a documentary in the same way after watching it. I have no idea if it was released internationally, but it's definitely worth seeing.
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Well, we can not afford to loose our main client, and the renewal of their contract is tied to ISO 27001 compliance. Moreover, a very big company just bought a part of our shares and require us to comply to their own security policies. Both go in the same direction, and we have to go this way, whatever painful the process is. But we tech team still want to be happy go to work every morning. So I'm wondering if there is a less painful way to go there.
I was in a similar situation as you and decided to leave my banking job of 5 years to study computer science full time. Now I am so glad I did. You might be able to hack something together in your spare time, but unless you really understand what's going on then you won't know what to do when it breaks. Taking the time to learn is as much a risk management strategy as it is a means to an end.
Nice video and really like the closed captioning! I was able to get the gist of it with the volume turned all the way down as I usually watch videos when the kids are watching T.V.
I think it's great. I use it to pin common folders I visit, as well as notepad, word, and excel documents. It gets me what I want quickly.
I am currently looking for a tool like that on Android. Good work. :)
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A tech and a biz founder make a great team! There are many great tech people with little interest in the business side of things. The question is how to find a tech co-founder who is interested in your idea.

Depending where you are located, you should visit the local hackerspaces, meetups and everything else to get to know tech savvy people. Talk with some people about your ideas and see how they react. Don't offer them to be co-founders at the first date, but build a network of competent people you like. After a while you will get a feeling if somebody might be the right match.

Good luck!
Excellent idea, really love the fact you've made a game out of what everyone experiences on wikipedia already. One issue, scrolling the article on the iPad doesn't work. Other than that, awesome.
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Nice idea, but results I get from a quick search seem to be more suitable for a dating website.. "24, male, 5.9ft, dark hair, brown eyes.", "I'm a good guy".

Anyone actually found a co-founder through this website?
I've see Pay As You Go (i.e. non-contract) Android phones for 89 pounds in the UK, which is 105 euros. These are fairly low-end Android phones, however.
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Start thinking, "What can I bring to the party?" In entrepreneurship, people won't partner/hire for long term development potential, because there isn't the time. That means a lot of the value of a business degree is gone if you can't show that you can deliver some value upfront.

Ideally some proven track record of doing that that you can show people helps. Organize an event, work the phones, meet more people, do some marketing, do some media purchasing, learn finance, learn how to write contracts, learn how to interview/hire/manage... things like that. The more you can prove you've got something valuable to bring to the party, the easier it'll be. Deck is already stacked against you - there's more people with business credentials that want a technical partner than vice-versa, but if you've got legit proven skills it shouldn't be too hard. Build/prove those skills out.
Thanks for sharing your insights. How much do I really need to "know" the area? Do you mean actually knowing what's going in the technology or just an understanding of industry/process?

I assume the next time you see an opportunity in the hardware business and want to jump onto it, you wouldn't be taking a 4 year undergrad course to know the drill.

And what's your experience of "learning by doing"?

Thanks!
Or you could just allow all of them. If they serve different functions in different situations, the program can just ask which function the user meant. The point is that rather than view the program as a slave that is expected to follow orders unflinchingly, the program can be viewed as something to be conversed with, and capable of asking questions of the user.
Okay, just tried the search function and it does not give me any results whatsoever... but I just flipped a few options.

oceanician, are you the founder/creator of this project? When did you start it? Could not find any information regarding that but it would be interesting to read.
ISO 27001 is actually quite flexible. The implementation details can be as 'heavy' ( or not ) as you make them. For instance change controls implies all kinds of non-agile processes that inhibit you from building software the way you do today. Change control from an ISO 27001 point of view can be as simple as stating 'when a request for a new feature comes in, we put it on a list, and discuss the impact of it'. I'm sure you would recognize this process as a SCRUM product backlog.

You can be 27001 and still be agile - we are. The biggest problem of all is training your staff to be ISO-aware (data classification, password policies etc) and making them stick to it so that you pass the audits.
Wasn't there just posted a brand new PEP discussing "web3" which does this?
Graphic UIs show you what actions are available right there, linguistic UIs rely on you to think up a valid expression in that program's particular language to do what you need. GUIs will always be easier for simpler stuff, but less expressive than LUIs.
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Geeze, does this guy understand the word prosperity?

We should be happy that "the computer problem" is solved (at least for now). Computer technology has plateaued and there is no hard engineering required right now. This is a good thing! It gives us time to experiment with software. So Silicon has gone the way of Northeast Steel. So what if the world changes?

If you want to do hard engineering, you go to the fields that require it - war inc. (looking for more efficient ways to kill our neighbors), space flight (the modern space race is exciting), industrial automation (eventually the populace of Asia will want to climb out of indentured servitude and we need to replace them with something). These fields still need smart engineers and big $ startups.
i honestly don't get these services.

the market is too insignificant. Even if you get 100% market share, you'll end up with something like 1000-10000 users, most of which will be the business type looking for a code monkey.

can anyone actually think of a single founders team that found a cofounder like that and was successful?
Actually, I think Dropbox has a network effect as well. I'm a paying user, but my account is more valuable to me because can share folders and collaborate with free users. Many of them would not use it if it wasn't free (hey, I started with the free service and later upgraded myself), but since its free they have seen how awesome it is and are 1000% more likely to upgrade to a pro plan than if they'd never started using it in the first place. In the mean time, they make my Dropbox account more valuable to me.
"In entrepreneurship, people won't partner/hire for long term development potential"

Agreed, a while ago I interviewed for a startup and got rejected even though I knew the stuff like book keeping were pretty easy to learn, but I haven't done before.

With the list of biz skills you mentioned, I've done more than half of them (I was a very active student). But you are right about "there's more people with business credentials that want a technical partner than vice-versa". The advantage I have I guess, is that not many people have as much passion to start a business as I do.
I always think of HP-UX when I hear UX, when did the people start calling this UX?
"Sure Zynga makes somewhat whimsical addictive games, but if you stop and crunch the numbers, Farmville's digital economy is probably mlarger than the real world economies of many developing nations."

Which is probably what the author of this article would consider to be part of the problem.