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Ha! 5 hours is a taking-it-easy day for me =P. Seriously, find something for you that does the same thing as programming for me, something that gets you excited and passionate, and then you won't have to work for the rest of your life. You'll get paid to play.

I'm curious why you think you can't run a business OR work for someone else. What other options are there? You have to make money to live. Besides, it's like life's scorecard -- create value, get rewarded with money.

If you really are that clueless about your future that you can't see yourself as an employee or a business owner, then you probably need to be an employee until you figure out something you're passionate about, then you can think about making a business around it. Employment is for people who can't figure out how to convert value to money directly, so they sell their time for money instead. But you gotta pay the bills one way or another.
So come up with an idea that will make money and go for it!

Maybe bounce some ideas off of people in here.

It all starts with an idea.
The information is pretty vague, but seems to hint that the power draw is too high for a smartphone.

That said, apparently someone has already hacked Symbian to interact with the Wiimote, so the current smartphone hardware is already capable of supporting Bluetooth controllers. If you had S-video out to plug into a TV (or if you supported one of the newfangled wireless video protocols) you could have a gaming console that folds away into your pocket. Oh, the possibilities. :-D
He admits it's likely.

control freaks are all around us – I’m one probably
"Higher Order Perl" has a chapter on building one in Perl. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher-Order_Perl I believe the full text is available.
You'll never know if you have a good idea until you try it. And you have, props for that.

The zooming is somewhat functional, but a bit awkward and jumpy. I noticed that the scroll wheel no longer zooms out after I have zoomed in and moved around a bit. Also, I would recommend a more fluid zoom if possible, much like Android and iProducts.

From a user perspective, I would like the article to open up (in a lightbox or new tab) as soon as I click the thumbnail. The little description bubble does not provide much benefit to the user. If there were "jump to 'section'" icons at the top of the window, that would be convenient.
I get that this is a joke, but I believe it touches on an important subject. And this article was much more than the author announcing that he doesn't use FB-- That announcement was only an introduction to an article about possible downsides to sharing social information

I know it isn't a popular sentiment among hacker circles but if you stop to think, there are a lot of reasons to be cautious. Information about people has always been a precious commodity and now we're giving it away.
P.S. The print-friendly link:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=reinventing...

In photosynthesis, green leaves use the energy in sunlight to rearrange the chemical bonds of water and carbon dioxide, producing and storing fuel in the form of sugars. “We want to make something as close to a leaf as possible,” Lewis says, meaning devices that work as simply, albeit producing a different chemical output. The artificial leaf Lewis is designing requires two principal elements: a collector that converts solar energy (photons) into electrical energy (electrons) and an electrolyzer that uses the electron energy to split water into oxygen and hydrogen. A catalyst—a chemical or metal—is added to help achieve the splitting. Existing photovoltaic cells already create electricity from sunlight, and electrolyzers are used in various commercial processes, so the trick is marrying the two into cheap, efficient solar films.

<snip>

The problem is that commercial solar cells contain expensive silicon crystals. And electrolyzers are packed with the noble metal platinum, to date the best material for catalyzing the water-splitting reaction, but it costs $1,500 an ounce.

So the major hurdle for the electrolyzer component is platinum, because it is rare and expensive. But solar / photovoltaic-derived energy is the future. Ergo: investments in platinum could be very lucrative.
My takeaway:

"StackExchange did something I didn't like, so I'll write a blog post about why it will fail for (get this!) the exact same reason why it did the think that I didn't like. What are the chances?!?!"
Nearly forgot this similar effort: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/rex/
So, these are not the same people who are in charge of determining whether or not a black hole might form and persist, correct?
"...I would give a lot of credit to the 3rd party developers for getting most of those 99% of normal people on Twitter in the first place."

No, you either don't spend enough time with these 'normal' people or you are simply too biased.

As someone in University right now watching his 'normal' friends and colleagues join Twitter, and even just other 'normal' people in general -- very few to none use a Twitter client, they all use the Web. The one exception that I've seen some use are Blackberry people and ÜberTwitter.

I think one reason geeks like us use clients is to have a constant flow and connection of updates coming from Twitter. 'Normal' people on the other hand use it in a more 'get-in-and-out' sense, they get on and post what they're doing, read what the last few things their friends wrote and then get back on to Facebook or whatever.
I hate to reply to myself, but here's a product idea:

A Sheeva-plug form-factor device with video output, and Bluetooth support, sold with a set of Bluetooth controllers and a sleek carrying bag with pockets for the cables and controllers. You can carry it to your friend's house in one hand, plug it in to his/her TV set, and be gaming in under two minutes.

Package it with a bunch of casual multiplayer games, and whoever owns one will be invited to every party ever. ^_^ You could even sell it to those little businesses that operate children's birthday parties.
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Does anyone remember the early 90's where everybody and his mom's cats have their own webpage with their profile, blood type, etc available on angelfire/tripod/geocities? Well, Facebook IS the new angelfire/tripod/geocities.

Social sites? I don't think so! The only thing you socialize with in FB are the buttons and the random add friends of friends who you don't know and don't care and will never actually socialize with. And then you show off to other people your 1,284 friends list, 95% of whom you most probably will never, ever socialize with.

And then you cry yourself to sleep at night because Zuckerberg sold your info to some data mining company.
I really like this but the slow refresh after zooming really kills it for me at least. Perhaps something like Silverlight's deep zoom[1] may be useful?

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc645050(VS.95).aspx
"Google has patents on the built-in battery design,"

In 1992 we built PCs for a low noise astronomy camera with the PSU replaced by a 12V car battery to avoid the noise of a switchmode PSU
I can't upvote this simple advice enough. You need to unplug and find productive ways (read: not involving drinking, eating crap) to de-stress. The gym works for me, as does going for a long walk. Good luck.
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One specific, undeniable mechanism for this is as regards SEO. The longer your domain is up, the longer links to you are up, the more links you have accumulated, the higher your ability to rank for terms of interest is. If you get to the first page of the SERP for something, you will tend to accumulate more links over time. Winners win, and winners take most.

Even if your company gets shot out from under you, you very well might have a personal blog, portfolio site, or something which folks routinely cited when saying that you were doing X, Y, or Z. You can take that with you, as capital for your next adventure.

By the way, if you get a company shot out from under you, please don't just slap up a We're Closed sign and let the domain lapse. That makes the SEO in me want to wince. Your Internet reputation is worth money, and (modulo whatever your agreement is with investors as regards IP) you probably still own it even if the business is not functioning as a going concern. Point some links to your personal domain and, when time comes, your new project. ("Thanks for your support of MyTwitLy.er.ous, we failed to find a business model blah blah blah, the CEO Bob went on to create SellsSoftwareForMoney.com and our co-founder is currently making (linky)education done right(/linky) in Seattle.")
Yeah, but it can be pretty easy to click the wrong list or send something to the wrong list. It is too easy to make a mistake. Plus, what happens if someone else tags you in the college picture of you doing a keg stand? That's not something you have any control over and yet something that you may not want potential employers to see.
Thanks, I'll take a look - I did play with this a little (snapdragon?) but at the time couldn't find a decent API. The backend is all python, so unsure how Silverlight and managed code will fly.
Yep 5hrs is an easy day.

I cannot run a business because I'm too moral. To run a business means paying people just enough to live and not their true value (at least at the start up stage of a company) which screams of exploitation.

I have issues with accepting money and I'm assuming its a result from subconscious programming and being very poor. I also feel awkward managing and teaching people three times my age. Sometimes I just want to be a kid again and be around teens my age, ironically I tend to get along better with adults. Then there is always the risk of the venture failing.

I cannot have a boss/work for someone because I dislike authority and hate having eyes preying over me. I also like to have a bit of freedom and flexibility and see ways the organization could be more efficient which the boss doesn't see.

Great definition of employment and spot on pertaining to the bills. College also feels as if its just a machine spitting out cogs for the system.
Embarrassingly I thought he had already died - like Bill Hicks it didn't seem that the world could contain anyone this interesting anymore.
I currently have it open and playing in a tab and keep flipping back to it every so often. Every time I flip back, I crack up (mainly at the thought that a multi-billion dollar company doesn't take themselves too seriously - what a great quality to have)!
I love stack overflow, I love the idea, etc. What I don't like, and what I think is the real problem, which the author gets at, is that the site is becoming more and more fragmented. Programming is a very broad topic and it drives me NUTS when I post a question on SO, and get several replies telling me its more suitable for another SE site, then eventually someone decides to close it and I have to find the other site to re-ask. More effort gets put in by the control freaks to tell you what stack overflow is for and that you're wrong for posting your question there than to actually just answer it in the first place.
I think I can smooth the zoom, i.e. more like how Google maps resizes when you zoom.

The bubble is something I've struggled with, in that I started with just an overlay icon but it got very 'busy', what with all those thumbnails. I'll try a few more things - thanks.

Those section links are a good idea - I have the 'Overview' link but I'm not happy with the name - maybe 'Map' or 'Sections'?
Great suggestion! I am working on a start up or two but its a bit scary.
Oh it was double rainbow! So clever Google, so clever.
I completely agree. I was specifically asking krschultz why he thinks his hardcore poker-playing roommate would be interested.
I agree.

Another subtlety I noticed is this generation's concept of Self is becoming contorted into your number of 'Friends' and quantity of 'Likes'. Not really this intelligent HN crowd but, more so the other 99% of society that unconsciously uses fb.
This needs to be an ipad app. I think it would really benefit from the ipad's multi-touch interface.
This April Fool's prank is soooooo old..
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For those that missed part 1.
If you put your name to a comment on a public website, there should be some guarantee that nobody else can edit your words to say something that you didn't say and maybe disagree with. An editorial feedback system would be a more respectful way to achieve the same result.

Disclaimer: I've not spent much time on SO so I don't know how this feature works. If the comment is clearly marked as having been edited by a more senior member, that would mitigate somewhat.
What is their health insurance? It's true that Google employees don't have private offices (in general), though this isn't a big deal for me personally. Google doesn't have a discount card like Microsoft Prime, but they do have discounts with many companies. I
Pretty much all of the items (written as a sarcastic response to the article) were attempts at suggesting he's creating his own obsolescence by ditching Facebook. In the very first paragraph of the story, he's chided by a Silicon Valley CEO for not being a part of the site. Clearly people want to have him as a friend on Facebook. But he's not having it.

My problem is the gap he's creating for his magazine's journalism by doing this. It's the equivalent of covering the Washington Redskins when you have no real interest in football. It's like being a food columnist when all you eat is Taco Bell. It's like being a TV critic when you don't own a TV. It's like covering a city hall beat but deciding that you hate meetings. As an editor of Wired, he better get on Facebook, fast, because it's his job. That article isn't going to convince people to stop using it.
Yes, but would a facebook phone really appeal to them? Also, if a market is saturated (i.e. high school kids), it can't grow by definition, so growth can be a misleading statistic.
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I agree (I'm typing this on an iPad now!) but wanted to see how far I could push the web side, mainly because I could get it ready for comments quicker plus not keen on I-dev work (ptr flashbacks etc).

I've started adding touch events to the web client code, but not done yet. I'm having doubts it'll ever be as smooth as native of course.

Thanks for the comment btw...
For anyone currently involved in a startup this is trite, but sadly for many this is probably the single most important thing they need to internalize.

It reminds me of this guy I met on a flight to London a couple months ago. We had been chatting, and when I mentioned I was working for a startup his ears perked up a bit. He told me he had this idea for an app that he thought would be "huge". I asked what it was, but he didn't want to share the idea, just that it would target various mobile devices like iphones and ipads. I asked if he was working on it, "no, waiting for the right time to find a developer and get started". Meanwhile he's forty-something in a cush corporate job.

I suggested politely there's no better time to start than now. But inside I'm laughing. As if the idea is so amazing that he must guard it preciously from casual conversation, and that some guy already working for a startup has time to steal it! I wanted to say, you should come to silicon valley and be bombarded daily with ideas ten times better than yours that are still nearly impossible to execute. Ah, but you can't trade war stories with someone content to dreamer.
I was another kid reading by flashlight hidden under a blanket after bedtime.
Was anyone here let into the developer's beta program?
Control issues never struck me as significant, either on SO or Area51, and I have trouble buying the argument that correcting typos and merging similar sites are unnecessary and evidence that Jeff,Joel, and the site's users are control freaks. On the other hand, I'm surprised he didn't bring up the Community Wiki police.

The most common thing I hear about SO lately is along the lines that all the questions worth asking have been asked, or are esoteric enough that the quality/quantity of answers is low, and few points are given - if anything kills those sites, I'd imagine that'd be it. There seems to be a diminishing ROI for time spent on the site, and scores seem to be fairly biased toward those who spent time on the site early on. Maybe other subjects won't have this issue.
I'd go for Apache 2, MIT, or BSD then.
But only if they have local fulfillment. I can't see how it would be cheaper to ship boards from Italy vs. say Sparkfun for US customers.
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MIT or BSD. Whatever you do, don't use AGPL (I'm going to get a ton of people trying to convince me that a web site is considered distribution of the project, but I refuse to believe it.
oh, well, that's swell; I finally sticked to rails (finally got the knack of it) and am using mongoid for mongodb interaction, if you're interested, here's a fine example of mongodb in a simple working rails 3 app: http://github.com/fortuity/rails3-mongoid-devise
I was almost hoping they'd be upgrading to a 32-bit ARM chip vs. the 8-bit Atmel.

Can anyone recommend ARM boards with similar I/O capabilities to the Arduino? I'm interested in something that you could use for embedded robotics but powerful enough to run a real OS so that you could do real-time image processing.
Stop thinking like a poor person. Seriously. It will comprehensively undermine your efforts to not be poor. (Learning how to fake being upper class is one of the best reasons to go to college, by the way. I didn't exactly do polo when I was younger, but I've learned enough to hide obvious traces of that in professional situations. Simplest possible example: watch how successful businessmen act when told "No" by someone in a position of momentary authority versus how poor people act. The magic word is "options", as in "OK, what are my options?" There are almost always options, no matter how much the DMV clerk/airline CS drone/etc is saying policy this and rules that.)

Running a business is not coextensive with underpaying people. Heck, running a business isn't coextensive with having employees. I've been doing this for a couple of years and nobody but myself goes hungry if I don't make payroll -- when I need something done, I buy it from another small business and at the end of the day I pay them what we agreed on and we're even. On the other end of the scale, there are many people on HN who pay their employees quite well indeed and who still do quite well for themselves. (While they're not exactly as prevalent on HN as they are in the real world, there are a lot of 5 man software companies busy cranking out boring systems which do boring things that make boring seven figures a year in profit and have boring sharing arrangements where the employees make boring bonuses and the principals sleep on boring piles of gold coins.)

A talent for obsessive optimization is a gift in running your own business, as long as you also get stuff done. I have known people who are born optimizers and I also know people who are just lazy. If you're just lazy, business may not be for you.
You realize they can use other materials as catalyst beside platinum as electrolyzers?
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Yeah I was thinking about this. The obvious counter-example where control-freakism works is wikipedia. But it works there because there is only one wikipedia, and it is supposed to be about anything that's important. So there's no fragmentation, and there's no higher ambition for the site creators.

Stack Overflow is a great site, but I don't see the value of a federated series of sites for all manner of topics... at least not on a mass scale. I get the feeling that SO was just a bit too easy for Joel and Jeff, what with the sad state of the competition, and their mindshare amongst the target audience. So they needed to find a bigger challenge. I guess more power to them in their entrepreneurial efforts, but I think success will be elusive.
The mere learning of the 2 facts, which may have been completely accidental, didn't consitute invasion of privacy. The act of analysis of the information, ie. an act of thinking, is the offense here.

DMCA comes to mind here - a law which explicitly (i think first, yet definitely not last, time in human history) made analysis of information, ie. an act of thinking, a crime.
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This is great! However, I would argue this is how browsers should by default treat multi select boxes, they are a UI nightmare for non technical users.
That's from 2009, I'm sure they've since switched to different motherboards / cpus.
I think the google patent is on their implementation of the battery design not _All_ implementation of built-in battery design.
I have all my work contacts blacklisted from seeing photos I'm tagged in.
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If I don't watch TV, it doesn't matter much to me if all my friends are. If I'm not on Facebook and all my friends are, I may miss out a lot of social interaction I'd otherwise participate in, and which might occur somewhere elsewhere from Facebook if more people from my social circle weren't on it. So it looks like it'll benefit me more if I can make other people not do the thing by announcing I'm not doing it for Facebook than for TV.
No.

You, among others, saved him from lots of trouble.
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Peta would be all over that.
You know, Zuckerberg gets a lot of flak for the "idiots" comment he made five years ago. It's MSM material now. You might say it contributes to public perception of his company, which is a big deal for the value and future success of his brand. The situation you brush off happens all too often. (also, see any political campaign, ever.)
What a neat idea.

Suggestion: Sub-segments that are visible as transparent overlays on the next two levels down so you can zoom in on a particular kind of content, rather than just the 9 categories. I understand that would take a lot more tagging of content.

Lowest level could be a frame with the actual article so links and such would work.
Obviously you're joking, but I cringe at the thought of a pig carcass anywhere near a 6 billion dollar (USD)[1] machine.

[1] http://askanexpert.web.cern.ch/AskAnExpert/en/Accelerators/L...
>there needs to be a way to separate these groups

I was on Facebook when there were only a few schools on it, and it was very useful and very relevant. Because there were no other schools on it, I was only friends with friends from college and there were certainly no high schoolers or parents on it; you had to have a university address.

Facebook essentially got to where they were because that privacy made it awesome, and then promptly lost the very thing that made people trust them with their data to begin with, which was a limited user base.
Might I suggest exercises that require grip? I've noticed that when I do a lot of weight training, which means pull-ups, deadlifts, and handstand pushups, that my wrist pain from typing is reduced quite noticeably.
I shall await a spoofed google.com with cyrilic o's instead of unicode o's and cackle with glee when people visit it
The Javascript is only for demonstrating the functionality. It does not effect the styling in anyway, this is the job of the CSS.

It is also worth mentioning that in any application which would use a progress bar, it would require JS to calculate progress, or update the DOM to display it.

As far as being a pure CSS progress bar, it is.
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Thanks, I should have seen it that way.