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I think your problem is in thinking that the list is intended to be a litmus test for opinions. For instance you said "much less accuse others who might reasonably differ on any of these points." which indicates that you want to be able to point to one of these items and tell someone they're wrong.

This list is just a starting point for you to question your own opinions. Of course it's subjective, I don't think introspection is ever intended to be objective. As a starting point for introspection the list is fine; as something you could ever apply to someone else you're right it's completely worthless.

Also, what paradoxes were there? In your first post you complained that the list was subjective (which it is) but now you're saying that it contains paradoxes without ever saying what those paradoxes are.
That's a great way of differentiating between "tech startups" and "web-based startups", and they certainly require very different skill sets to get them off the ground.

To me the "web-based business" category is definitely the area I'm more interesting in, and have the right skills to execute the idea. Cheers!

On a random note, what's your take on a CEO with no tech background heading a company of, say, chemical engineering?
Ask HN: Your Dropbox hacks?
I'm interested to hear interesting uses for Dropbox accounts outside of the normal occasional file share. Do you keep your entire working documents directory in Dropbox? In what unique ways are you using the service or have you heard of others using the service?
Ubuntu doesn't ship it by default because of FOSS-wankery in the style of debian-legal — the Microsoft Core Fonts are perfectly free to redistribute in their original compressed form.

apt-get install msttcorefonts
Okay for what? You have to know what you want out of life before asking what will work toward that.
Well if you mean Model/Controller/Route first vs View first, yes they are philosophically different. But I meant more along the lines of how friendly the API is. An additional example would also include the fact that although Lift has come a long way in providing meaningful error information, by contrast Play!'s take on it is just a breath of fresh air. This isn't to say that Lift is doing it wrong; it's error messaging is less arcane than some other web frameworks.
The biggest difference between a university and a high school is that universities are designed to create new knowledge, while high schools are designed to disseminate existing knowledge. That means universities give you far greater autonomy and in turn expect far more from you in terms of intellectual curiosity, personal interest, and maturity.

I found that this to be vary a lot from department to department. First of all, undergraduate programs across the board are largely about disseminating knowledge, as a foundation to be able to create new knowledge later as a graduate student or researcher. As far as similarity to high school, I found that business school undergraduate classes in particular were very much like high school just on a larger scale: attendance taken, assigned seats, required homework, etc. Classes in the Math or science departments were more likely to leave it all up to the student: grades were based solely on performance on exams. Humanities courses were somewhere in between those extremes.

One thing not mentioned in this piece, as an undergraduate it is much easier to establish a high GPA your first two years than it is to bring up a low GPA as a junior or senior. You don't do this so you can "coast" later, but because your 3rd and 4th year classes in your major are going to be hard, or at least quite time-consuming. If you have a high GPA coming in to your junior year, you don't have to worry so much about the stray required electives you are still finishing off, at the expense of the subjects you are really interested in.
I do want to add this-

We tried to open a nightclub a couple years into owning the bar, and we failed miserably. A nightclub is a whole different beast from a bar.

I think the three main reasons we failed were

1- We spent too little money on it. There are clubs, notably the really underground dance clubs, that can get away with being a dark room with a good sound/light system and nothing else. Pretty much any other kind fo club needs to spend a fair amount on decor.

2- The space was too small. Related to the above. Again, maybe an underground club gets away with small spaces, but most need a large space with lots of nooks and crannies.

3- We had no clue how to market a nightclub. A bar needs to feel like it's apart from the world, a sort of refuge in a way, but a club needs to have some sort of aura in addition to that. That's a complicated thing to build up, and we didn't know how and we didn't put in the effort to learn.

An opportunity came up near the end of the bar run to buy what had been one of the mega-nightclubs in town in the 70s-80s. It had gone through several failed iterations in the decade since, and was going for a relatively cheap price. The deal never solidified, and in the end it's probably a good thing it didn't. Someone could have revived the mystique, I think, but it couldn't have been us.
Funny you should mention Boston. Paul Graham used to say there were three places to start a company - Cambridge / MIT / Harvard, Berkeley / UC Berkeley, and Palo Alto / Stanford. And he commuted between Boston and Silicon Valley.

Then he decided Boston was not a good place to raise a child and moved full-time to Silicon Valley. It's written up somewhere on his blog - I don't have the link handy. I don't know much about Boston these days, but in the early 1980s when I used to call on DSP folk with Floating Point Systems, it seemed vibrant. And the food was a lot better than anything I've ever had in Silicon Valley. ;-)
Of course its a okay. You can go through life just fine not interacting with people / not enjoying it.

But if you don't want to be that way, what you have to understand is why you "tend to be communicative with people who share similar interests" (<insert technical stuff> ).

Those people you think are highly sociable, at least more-so than you, are really just conversing about things that you either don't know anything about or don't find interesting.

So you can either:
a) learn more about those things so that when they come up you can have good points to bring up or
b) accept that those aren't the kind of people you want to interact with anyway because they don't share similar interests.

Like I can talk about music with just about anyone or the Tech Industry all day. But I'm only passable when it comes to Basketball, Football, Soccer or Hockey and in descending order.
Precisely.

I think the key with micro-finance is that investors can be diverse, and they can actively seek investments which they can then personally assist, and at the same time entrepreneurs can also try and locate the right investors who'll facilitate the growth of their system.

This is something baby-boomers would love doing, with the time, disposable income, and connections they can offer.

Furthermore, imagine being able to tell a CEO "we'll let you use our api but only if we can have equity in your system." In this case, microfinance supports systems integration.

Another benefit, is that micro-finance would allow entrepreneurs to raise funds more quickly to build more systems, with the goal of having 1 or 2 accepted into some larger system that can pay for its usage.

-- I am thinking a http://www.kiva.org but for entrepreneurs and investors. It'd have to track reputations and act as a hub for financings and subsequent distributions.
Firefox 4b6 has hardware acceleration and comparable performance on Windows. Both of them are in beta.
Isn't this basically how Scrum works in agile development?

We're doing this at work and include our direct client contacts as well (daily 15 minute conference call). It helps immensely in avoiding communication issues arising from different time zones, locations and people never having worked with each other.
Eric can't code like Johnny can't read. He has produced minor, working code (e.g. popclient)or managed certain projects (e.g. ncurses), but he's not great, or even good at it.

The problem is that Eric stomps around claiming things that aren't his. He claims to be a "core Linux developer", when in reality, the only code he has is the kernel are the speaker driver (since pushed out) and some minor use of ncurses used for vt100 emulation in thr console driver.

Eric may be boastful and loud, but he can't code.
Yes, it's a lot closer to Microsoft's Consolas than it is to Courier.
There's nothing wrong with being an introvert. However from a career perspective it's incredibly valuable to have social skills. As somebody who's pretty introverted myself by nature, I find that it's useful to get out of my comfort zone and discover situations I enjoy being social in -- and I have to keep reminding myself to do this. There's lots of great advice in this thread; experiment a little and see what works best for you.
What’s so hard about spending money for fonts you want to use? That’s what Microsoft should have done. That’s what Google should do.
How does one run this code?

I got it "running" with "gs"(ghostscript), but I don't see where i can change the port number on which the server listens to requests.
Yes, it's frustrating how this is being passed around uncritically as an example of the wonder of "HTML5", when it really just demonstrates you can do some fun things with plain old JavaScript, with all the inherent problems and arguably worse performance than Flash. It's also pretty grating to see "CSS3 Multi-background" being listed as a "feature" of HTML5.

Nice bit of marketing for IE9, though.
That may be true, but (assuming a normal distribution [1]) that would also imply that 99% of shots land within 2.6x meters (assuming I didn't mess up my arithmetic).

Whoever is doing the aiming gets a big red circle that encloses the margin of error. If you are off by 5 meters, that big red circle is in the wrong place. The pilot expects a 1% chance of error, in reality it might be 4% (i.e., 4x as many screwups).

[1] Of course it isn't a normal distribution, but this only changes the programming details.
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For some people (although tax cuts are rarely presented this way), it's about what's fair, not what motivates entrepreneurs.
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I use a development environment and language called LiveCode (http://www.runrev.com) dropbox allows me to keep my plugins and libraries for the IDE at a common place. This way, all my LiveCode instances in multiple machines in different offices are always in sync. Not unlike putting your .emacs and site-lisp in there or something similar.

I also use it as a poor man processing queue for some of my personal tools where a machine will place a file in a specific folder and another worker machine will notice and pick it up and further process it saving it to a different place where a third machine will do its job, like an assembly line (and the machines are in different countries), quite easy to setup for very simple tasks
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If you get five investors and have a product making zero in revenue then it makes sense as a first round of sorts. If you already have revenue it's not a good valuation. I guess it depends on what sort of people they expect to be dealing with at this level.
AFAIK, the two undergraduate degrees are B.A. and B.S. I just tried looking up S.B., and it appears to be just a different name for B.S.
This is why I hated taking any marketing classes in grad school. I am being suggested to do the very things that I deplore in order to get users. Headlines like "company X releases product Y to kill company Z” are precisely why I don't read the typical tech journals and choose to visit HN. But it appears that if I want my web-app to get popular, I have to resort to the same trickery. I understand the need for a good story. If my startup is set to change X, Y, or Z, no harm in suggesting that to a blogger. However, doing things like the following seems very fake and shallow: "Get on your favorite bloggers’ radars by commenting thoughtfully on their posts, retweeting and replying to them on Twitter, and submitting promising tips to them for stories that have nothing to do with your company."

I don't care for the bloggers at tech blogs because I don't actually know them. I care about a lot of wonderful people, offline and online but not because I want their help someday. I don't want to give tech bloggers random tips just on the off-chance that they'll recognize my name some day in future when I email them about my startup. Frankly, doing all of this sounds desperate and selfish. I might as well start playing golf with the Mayor's aide.

So, if one doesn't have a social startup that could spread virally and doesn't like to "network" solely for selfish reason, what is the right way to get the word out? I know joining YC helps and having friends in high places helps but what if you're just a coder in Florida with a useful product and tight budget? Hire a PR agency? Work some Adsense magic? Devise a clever marketing campaign? I'd love to hear how others approach this subject without resorting to rubbing shoulders and kissing behinds.
I could buy that argument if people in the Valley weren't so harsh to founders from other parts of the world and so adamant that the people there were "better" in some significant way than, say, my home town of PDX. I've heard a number of stories of businesses that were told to move their HQ to Silicon Valley. That's a big part of why I wrote what I wrote - Angelgate was just the crowning example of arrogance and viciousness that seems to inhabit Silicon Valley.
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The DNA Lounge is also a nightclub, which is by all accounts a more difficult industry to be in.
I agree with Ben. I don't hire people who can't (or won't) spell the name of technologies correctly, whether it's "PERL", "Redhat", or "Postgre".
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My father has Crohn's. Or I should say he had Crohn's. My whole childhood I remember him struggling with the disease and supporting our family while working 60-70 hour weeks. When I got to college he had surgery to have a resection with the diseased portion of his intestine removed and the healthy ends re-attached. Almost 15 years later and Crohn's hasn't returned. It certainly wasn't an easy surgery but his life hasn't been the same. He eats what he wants to and if anything he's gained weight since.

Best wishes to you.
Don't forget that with respect to point a, that the more you know about something, the more interesting it is. You may find your interests change as you attempt to integrate into a new tribe.
When I first read this, it kinda surprised me. Like something one of my kids might ask, maybe. I guess it really has been such a long time since I've had to consider the impact being introverted was having on my life. After all, I have a husband, two children, a plethora of hobbies and an excellent job. Sometimes I tripped over my own introversion, sometimes other people tripped over it instead. Other times, I approached interacting with other people as a sort of experiment -- though this made me feel like a bit of a sociopath, because as it turns out, most extroverts are disturbingly easy to manipulate.

Anyhow, this is more or less what I've told my kids: take a deep breath, listen and learn. Most introverts are excellent listeners, with an above average capacity to synthesize. People like to talk about themselves and they like to talk to people who are actively listening. You can learn a lot about how to make people happy by just listening to them. Of course, it takes a lot of discipline to not talk. I often get rabid logorrhea in social situations, even amongst people I know well. Just keep breathing, ask a few questions and let the other person do all the work.
No. Consider these as symptoms. A cough is neither necessary nor sufficient to prove you have a cold. You may have a cold without a cough; you may have a cough without a cold. Yet, you wouldn't assert that a cough is a useless piece of evidence when trying to diagnose an illness. Why then should you dismiss this list as useless just because it does not definitively answer a question for you?
Hmm, I'm not sure how we disagree. I said that being introverted is not the same thing as being socially unskilled, and you and your friends are examples of this. Still, there is a correlation in the sense that most people with poor social skills are introverts. If you disagree with this then I guess we must have very different definitions of "socially unskilled".
I would definitely consider buying something like this if it could be built into glasses to look less obnoxious. Additional bonus if a wi-fi hard drive could be added for longer recording times.
Stop posting this crap. Please.
I guess it depends on what your overall business plan is. There's nothing wrong with growing slowly if you have a niche you can defend and can keep your expenditures (of both money and time) low enough to achieve profitability.

What does your business do? Is there a link somewhere I can read?
there's plenty of fucking sites on the internet already.
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What's the implication for the current IT experts? If the industry will be revolutionised by a fundamentally new type of "computer" in 10 years.
I think each form of communicating has found its niche. For many things the phone is still the fastest way to get pieces of information, far faster than email or browsing a website. It is especially useful if I don't know what information I'm looking for, and have to bounce a lot of questions back and forth. Of course the phone carries it's own nuances, such as a certain importance to my questions. If I needed to talk to somebody important, I might email them instead, or just call a number I know will go to voicemail to wait for them to have to have free time.

Email is nice if I dont really want to talk, or if I need a long response/am speaking of something complicated, or if I don't care when my question is answered.

In short:if you need speed, use a phone and talk to somebody alive, if you have something low priority email is good, and I think the postal service is really good for things which absolutely must be read (invitations/legal documents/bills).
I'm a junior blogger. ;-) But I already asked him what his business does. ;-)
39 responses and no one's linked to Jonathan Rauch's blockbuster "Caring For Your Introvert" yet? Hold on to your butts:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2003/03/caring-f...

"It's not a choice. It's not a lifestyle. It's an orientation."
In Taoism, it is known as 'wu wei':

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_wei
Sounds too good to be true.
Ask HN: What advertising works on you?
Over the past five years I have possibly clicked on about ten contextual advertisement, mostly for my own amusement (e.g., seeing how relevant the ad was). The only online advertisements that were even close to being effective on me were the ads for Bing, Evony, and Mail-Chimp (I like the latter's 60s-esque "lets get social" ad).

Of course, advertising on the internet works on some demographics, but what about the HN demographic? What types of advertisements have worked on you? And why? What are some important principles regarding advertising to the more learned crowd?
It’s a great idea to have a comprehensive and user-friendly standard place to look for JavaScript information. Just two problems:

1. That site will naturally get links if and when it exists (natural SEO)

2. It isn’t necessarily the best idea to have it so closely tied with one browser vendor
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Ask HN: Good examples of registration ui
I did some searching and found this link: http://ui-patterns.com/explore/collections/account-registration

It has some good examples but I wanted to hear your opinions on what works and what doesn't. I personally like HN and Instapaper's simple registration forms and was wondering why there aren't more services using similar sign up forms. Wouldn't having one field for an email address and collecting all of the other cruft after validation be easier for end users?
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American commanders had little problem dealing with enemy noncombatants on the battlefield.

Did you mean combatants? Typically noncombatants would refer to medical personnel, chaplains, etc. It'd be interesting to know if people like this were routinely tried and executed.
Can you provide details of what type of promotions you implemented, specifically Sunday?
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History and journalism. The story, from a journalist's perspective, becomes too complex if a more complete analysis was included. To write, for example, that the Soviets had a detailed system of approvals which were designed to act as redundancies in the event of errors in launch detection technology or decision-making would muddy the very clear, familiar (and frightening) story that a single man saved us from disaster.

There's also an element of western propaganda and bias here too of course. It was in the interests of western nations at the time to paint a picture of an incompetent and reckless Soviet government and to showcase stories of western-style individual heroics.

All this said, if Petrov genuinely saved the day, it is absolutely worth celebrating. But we will never know for sure if he did.