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My "Thank you" was sincere! I launched the Mini-WWW Search Engine because I SIMPLY COULD NOT READ many beautiful websites their developers still very proud of. So, that's my first criteria for the Ideal Minimal Webpage, - the one that it's EASY FOR DOWNLOADING!!! I'm also sorry that you don't like my current fonts and styles (in fact, the only serious drawback about them I know is that fonts are with fixed size). Tastes differ, and although I accept my pages may not be excellent, they are very good in emphasizing idea of SIMPLICITY! More important, - they LOAD FAST!
As someone who is not working in Google, not in the Bay area, 33 and immigrant - I would do it.

$110K is low for the valley. But, Google will be a good addition on my resume, I will be in the heart of Silicon valley. I will LIVE software for however long I stay here.

Work hard in the first year, once they like your work - ask for a raise or fat(ter) bonus.
Work hard in the second year. Move up.
Work hard in the third year. Ask for money again. Most probably they will be tired of you. Leave.....
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Having skimmed through that incoherent babbling rant, I know as a founder I will never want to do business with that guy.
What? Your Mom bakes unsafe cookies?
Why didn't you link to ww.com from that post?
Late in the evening and early in the morning are great times to work.

But neither necessarily coincides with your peak creative period.

The muse comes on her schedule and sleep is just something in the way.

When she's absent, you're just tacking more time onto a long day.
I get an error when visiting the site:

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I agree with the part about SDKs. Nearly every web developer I know (myself included) uses Notepad++ or Textmate, and test directly in browsers from a local server. The few that do use an IDE tend to be tied to Visual Studio and ASP, and as far as I can tell aren’t the target market for these SDKs.
Personally, I found his babbling rant highly coherent. That's just his style. He's a really smart guy and a good investor.
Maybe they didn't want to read about their talk in TC in the morning so they decided not to invite him.
Optima is a very famous typeface. It's probably the most famous humanist sans --- these are faces that try to capture the quirks of handwriting or calligraphy. The uppercase letters mimic carved-in-stone Roman letters. Because it has serif-y features (flared terminals in particular) it's notoriously hard to harmonize with other faces. Every designer in the world can spot it on sight.

In general, look at the contrast in weights (where do the lines get thinner and thicker) and the axis of those contrasts (is the "hand" drawing the letter positioned at an angle?). In a Sans, you can also eyeball how "geometric" the letters are; is the "o" a perfect circle, for instance?

Even if you're not a designer (I'm definitely not), it's worth it to buy a copy of Bringhurst's _Elements of Typography_; it's a beautifully written and designed little book.
The only observation I've read is that several angels in a bar didn't want to talk to Mike Arrington about why they were meeting. New fund, maybe. Shared problems about Silicon Valley deal flow and seed price inflation, likely.

Collusion is a bit of a jump, and suggests far more market power than a roomful of angels can have over state, regional, national, or global startup macro pricing trends.
Reading the developer section of the company website, I understand it's opt-in (per app).
To say that the current Mini-WWW's gradual ranking for simplicity is better that a more radical AD-FREE idea of 2008. That's all!
I've read an article on the very same subject a couple of years ago. It started with the maiden flight (and crash) of the B-17, and how it then became the first plane with a check-list. What was it? Wired? The Atlantic?
I know McClure somewhat personally, and while Arrington's speculation was fun, and I'm sure many investors are trying to counteract YC's strength, I think he is an upstanding guy, and one of the most honest, cut to the shit people in the valley.
I think it's appropriate to mention that the New York Times just ran an article covering some lawsuits related to tracking users:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/21/technology/21cookie.html?p...

I think the take-away here is that if you're going to use a trick like this, it might be in your best interest to be transparent with your users and offer a way for them to remove all of this information. Of course, if you're using this particular hack then you probably don't want your users to remove the cookie to begin with.
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Because even though we try very hard I can't guarantee that the homepage is always SFW. All it takes is one jackass and some HN'er could be out of a job.

I never realized how sensitive that is and after being corrected I've become more careful.
Don't be quick to judge. Lay back and make reasonable decision based on data not on writing.
Look at the number of companies the investor has made successful.

Sometimes people go into rants like this as a defense mechanism, so they are free to make correct choice, and not choice based on keeping everyone happy.

I think it's one of the biggest hindrances to being successful is trying to make everyone happy. I don't agree with the methodology, but I encourage people to dig deeper.
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Earlier this summer when LeBron James decided to go to Miami to play with Dwyane Wade, there was a lot of discussion over the next week about the fact that many players have basically grown up together in the countless shoe company basketball camps and all-everything teams that top recruits go through these days. The lament was that you don't compete against your friends the same way you compete against rivals you have some distance from, and it was starting to affect the league, even to the point where players who you'd expect would want to carry their own teams instead decide to play together.
It's a continuous process. People find ways to exploit the ranking algorithms, other people improve the algorithms, and so on, ad infinitum.
You know, what bugs me is, people talk and talk about this, write articles and posts, but nobody GOES OUTSIDE AND LOOKS! You think writing an article about it would be worth investing in an afternoon driving out of town to where it gets dark, tilting your head up at the sky, and squinting. But no, decades go by with no new info on the topic, people just repeating what amount to urban legends.
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> Arrington has said that many who attended this event were friends of his.

How apt.
I only restart Firefox 1 or 2 times a month. Keeping all those tabs open really is far more useful than having the same sites bookmarked.
Movie is confusing - do the wires change length? How is the leverage applied to the hub? Why not a movie of the bloody bike?
Your examples of Series A auctions help this conversation a lot, shedding light on how competitive the 2010 startup investment market is.

Your disparagement of pg's view of raising capital doesn't help. Regardless of its merits, it comes across as ad-hominem. Regarding its merits, you ignore several things: His experience raising capital did not start with YC; it started with viaweb. The essay quoted has a paragraph at the bottom thanking people for reading drafts of the essay. Surely that list includes people whose opinions you respect, who would have said something if the essay was baloney. You ignore the phrase "as of this writing" that refers to April 2007, when from the perspective of someone considering a startup, the Series A auctions for Stack Exchange and Quora were indeed "in the distant future".

I'm as against fanboyism as anyone, but you have to be careful and factual when you criticize, else you'll fan the flames rather than quench them.
Not sure I see the advantage of this design. I'd try a belt driven bike first: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt-driven_bicycle.
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He tries to come off as some sort of "angel from the hood". I wouldn't be surprised to hear him say "yo boyyyyy, I be funding companiez."

His money's as green as the next guy's though.
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Angel funding, on the other hand, generally comes without strings. If you take $1M of convertible debt, you don't have to give up a board seat, special rights, etc. If you do it right, you get some runway and some awesome advisors. That's it.

Pros and cons, of course, but VC funding (especially when the VC gets to set the terms) is a world apart from angel funding.
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Hey, jacquesm, honestly, - have you EVER VISITED the http://mini- news.com/ (url messed up on purpose) you mentioned so angry? Does it look like a spam site full of ads? Absolutely not! The spam is to tell people you don't know for sure!
Yeah I'm confused too. Looking at it, it seems like the string is elastic and pedaling builds tension or some thing like that.
I'd love to work somewhere linux was the standard.

I will not however, work anywhere that requires me to use a mac. I did my time on one for a job once, never again.
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ok, someone has to point that out: POOP'R?
Coherent, yes. And so busy, there's no time for the shift key.

I think this came in vogue among the tech affluent during the era of Crackberry supremacy -- easier to just thumb in all lowercase, and a significant portion of communication done from that device made staccato lowercase brevity socially acceptable.
I can't wait until I have enough money to have a style!
Neat. I wonder if creating a vertical elliptical pedal path, or even a linear path would be an improvement. That way the cyclist would have more leverage on the down stroke, since at the bottom of a circular stroke you are forcing the pedal mostly rearwards, not downwards.

Also, to me it looks like the two rotating cylinders next to the rear wheel are ratchets, like a socket wrench.
Jørgen was wrong (he did it)
There weren't any rumors that I was aware of, but I also wasn't one of those guys who spent a lot of time gossiping about that kind of thing. I think it happened extremely fast with the one-on-one meetings in the morning and the group meeting right before lunch. There wasn't much time for rumors to spread.
Windows and Mac do have better fonts available, so that can't be the sole reason. What both fonts have in common, is that they don't look professional. So they are intended to convey a different mood by their user – which gets somewhat ironic when you consider the amount of passive-agressive notes written in Comic Sans.

Just like deliberate spelling mistakes (flickr, tumblr etc.) are used to convey a certain non-chalance, using "bad" fonts might be used as a tool. It's probably not good for long-standing branding, but for cheap one-off mass market communication, it might fly. Personally, I probably wouldn't, but then again, I'm one of those who considers sans-serif fonts necessary evils in this low-DPI world, not much more.
Good question. My guess: age helps put other accomplishments in context. "Worked at Google for 6 years" means different things if you're 35 than if you're 21.
I say take it, it will likely be a great experience. Regarding salary: If you feel it is a bit low see if they can increase a bit (especially if this is the first number they're approached you with) Worse comes to worse, they say they cannot give you more, and you still take it.

Oh yeah...and congratulations on the offer.
SmashingMagazine.com is great to start with.

They have great tutorials as well as a plethora of other things useful in learning graphic design.
Request for fact check:
If you agree that the definition of collusion is that "collusion takes place within an industry when rival companies cooperate for their mutual benefit." Wikipedia.

And you read McClure's post that admits to discussing pricing amongst these industry competitors: "at the dinner, there was a fair amount of kvetching about convertible notes, capped or not, hi/lo valuation, optimal structure of term sheets, where the industry was headed, who was innovating and who wasn't, and 10 million other things of which 3 were kind of interesting and 9,999,997 weren't unless you like arguing about 409a stock option pricing. However, in addition to pricing & valuation..."

then how can you not conclude that collusion (which is illegal) did not take place?

Where is this argument off-base?
(Not sure if this is a joke, so I'm not going to vote up or down. I hope it's a joke.)
So Mike does some investigative work and finds something amiss, people flock and agree (which I still agree) amid some suspicious actions online, then one of those involved deny anything amiss in a horribly written blog post and everyone says, "Oh, Mike, you're so wrong!"

Really? Yes, 10 people that are purely angel investors and no one else get together to discuss "stock options" and pretty much give Mike a big F-U when he shows up and jokingly says stuff about sitting down for a drink. This guy doesn't even deny that Mike showed up and they all were silent: that alone is worrisome to me. Furthermore, Mike lead us to believe he got this information from a few of those attending: not anonymous sources as some try to portray.
I'm in my 40s and aligning things to apply for YC, so, YES, I would not only read that article but print and frame it!
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Not really. In theory though, some of this self-limiting SHOULD happen. After 100 comments, the chances that I (or any other user) have something new and unique to add is diminished. So, I think it becomes a natural throttle. If I still think my comment adds value to the conversation, I'll jump in.

Maybe my comment is upvoted, maybe not. Maybe it is not even read at that point, but either way my cost is a few minutes of my time to potentially share knowledge or info. I try to contribute where I can, if my input is lost in the shuffle, I don't take it personal.
Also, there's no explanation of the symmetrical aspect of the design. I'm intrigued by it, but other than vague allusions to its superiority over asymmetrical designs no analysis is given.

So, I ask HN: why aren't chain/belt bike designs symmetrical?
Off-topic, but maybe mention that in your initial posting too. I never think twice about copying/pasting if there isn't a URL in the main posting (but I'm in a home office and don't have the work office issues you're trying to help people avoid). If I didn't already know who you are and what ww.com is, I wouldn't have any way to know that it might be NSFW.
That's been done on regular gears, I'd imagine it would work much the same:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biopace
Original discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1323607

He's got a book coming out too, which hopefully will pay for some of the time he put into the project.

Just goes to show you that Seth Godin is on to something in Tribes (http://www.amazon.com/dp/1591842336). Be passionate, be a leader, be successful.
Doesn't matter what you or anyone else thinks about religion. The majority of the people on this planet believe in some for of religion.

And if the only thing that you don't like about my post is religion than you can piss off too. Because you've completely missed the point.
I'm more curious if the AMEX concierge was able to find it.
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I develop at a Linux only shop.

I would use whatever OS the job requires. Most jobs [that provide hardware ] don't give you a choice on OS.

If I was a .NET developer, my boss would not let me be the only guy using Mono, while every one else used VS.
Ok, I've added a little pre-amble to that effect.
It depends on the level of risk you want to take on. A lawyer will tell you to incorporate ASAP. Personally, I feel comfortable going without incorporating right up until I start taking people's money. Just my own comfort level though. It's not particularly hard to incorporate, so there's no real reason not to do it sooner rather than later. It's nice to do it before you take any money because then you can open a checking account in the company's name and your finances will all be in order from day one. That's probably the biggest reason to incorporate early. The chances of being sued when you only have 10 visitors/day is extremely close to zero. IANAL though...
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He did, in the second paragraph of his post.

I kind of hope it catches on, just so I can tell people with a straight face that I'm familiar with "Pee Aytch Pooper".
How one can use Readability for the cluttered site like Digg, if the latter practically stops low powered PCs at the very first stage, - downloading!!!
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* yawn *

Chrome Incognito mode.

New cookie every F5.

:)
Yes it is his normal style I get that but given the amount of attention the post was going to get, and the likely way people reading have taken the situation you'd think he would have toned it down a little.
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Seems there was a slight error. Today's lesson: Never run off for a bathroom break when there might be errors on a page.
Sorry if you posted this earlier, but by how much did you improve the SEO performance? Any numbers?
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But there are other non-programming things to do like clean the house, buy groceries, pay bills, etc that need to be done that should be higher priority than watching a movie. Movies are for the weekends and for people who get a fat paycheck every two weeks and need to unwind after a long day at work.
I did mention that it was kind of unfortunate.. ;-)
This will likely get lost in the ether, but I'm presuming you work a day job. I do the same, and now I'm going back to school to get a Masters degree. Funny thing about it, though, is that somehow my drive to learn and build has grown. I'm not saying I have more time, or that I don't feel burnt out. I just feel less burnt out about building applications. That said, my job has me on sort of an educational documentation rotation wherein I haven't had the chance to write code in awhile so that may also be why.

My point is, focus on everything else and somehow, the time will manifest itself. Whether it happens because you're avoiding something else, or just because you're not used to doing nothing (like I used to do, and still do, a lot) in your downtime. Just be sure you aren't avoiding the family. :)
This is exactly why I browse with telnet.
Oh, she was lucky, all right. She didn't have to go to the BMV to replace her driver license.
BusinessWeek: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_08/b41670780...

More about the B-17 history: How the Pilot's Checklist Came About: http://www.atchistory.org/History/checklst.htm
It was difficult for me to read this too; I have a really hard time reading multi-colored text with italics and underlines and font size differences. It kind of reminds me of highschool myspace accounts where GiRlS wOuLd tYpE lYkE ThIs.
After a few minutes of someone spouting profanities, you mostly become inured to it and it ceases to have much of an effect. In some cases you wonder if it's simply a verbal crutch.

You get a much greater effect if you rarely use that sort of language: when you do, it's quite powerful.
File this under "problems that I wish I had".
Trucking is hidelously expensive on the continent. No idea why. Shipping will be WAY cheaper in any port city. You'd be better off probably getting rid of your stuff and just getting new stuff (used, Ikea, whatever).
I read this after seeing the retweet from Zed. If you haven't checked out Learning Python the Hard Way, you should. I consider myself a decent, experienced developer and this tutorial was awesome. I learned things about Python that you just can't learn anywhere else. It's the details that really make this one the best.
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This is a tax incentive in Louisiana that makes software development 35% cheaper than other states. Is this compelling enough to locate your software development activities in New Orleans or Lafayette? Any other thoughts?

http://www.opportunitylouisiana.com/digital_slidedeck

(Full disclosure: my day job is with LED.)
It's my understanding that the pros don't use this. If you don't have enough torque, you're probably doing it wrong, and would soon be out of gas even with more mechanical advantage. Shift down, pedal faster.
Concretely, 100K more pages indexed (the effect of which remains to be seen), the cumulative changes to the site have increased in a tripling of the signup rate.

So colour me very happy so far.
Thanks for the link.

It's funny how people are so resistant to innovation.
"Biopace chainrings are often cited as the epitome of a solution looking for a problem among the biking press."
While typing on a computer that likely contains a mechanical hard drive spinning at close to 10krpm, the author complains of a slight increase in mechanical complexity that will allow him/her to generate more power. The real question is whether or not the complexity is manageable, will it break down frequently? etc.
inerte, your "crawl webpages, remove html tags from source, wrap blocks of newlines" means STEALING other people's content, while Mini-WWW's way does not! It only points to EXISTING simple pages! And yes, I do want such pages. To be able to read them effortlessly.
The chain goes on one side of the bike.
This is exactly what I do. I spend my evenings relaxing with my family, and get up early when the house is quiet and I am fresh from a night's rest.
Try this one: http://mini-www.com/search/?find=anything
All you hear is a sheep vigorously protesting a meat filled dinner. What do the two wolves think?
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Then surely you could come up with a little script which translate a source CV in HTML, in LaTeX, and in nicely formatted plain text. You could also avoid some work by using something like Markdown.
There is no justification for any of these fonts. He could've simply spun the wheel'o fonts and picked 25 of these. Most fonts have a real designer behind them that designed the font for a reason. The font depicts a mood and should be used for specific situations. This just makes it seem like you should pick any font of your choosing and run wild with it.

Since there are 25 I surely can't run out right?
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> have you EVER VISITED the http://mini- news.com/ (url messed up on purpose) you mentioned so angry?

Actually, yes, I looked at it before I wrote that.
I think he's saying that the way you keep repeating "iPad" on that page is very spammy and seems to be designed to game SEO.

Also, your site needs something. It looks kind of drab. Have you ever considered throwing some AdMob ads on there? :P
It is odd what the eye is drawn to in these situations. Fixed and thank you.