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It's in fact LLVM 2.8 that has been released, isn't it?

I have LLVM 2.7 installed and Clang itself says this:

$ clang --version

clang version 1.1
Ask HN: young CS graduate. work for a startup or create mine straight away?
Hi,<p>Here is the deal I'm confronted to :<p>- Start my own startup : I have 5K in the bank, a cofounder from school I have worked with with who i'm confident I can build something great with. We don't have a solid idea of a product we both feel passionate enough to devote ourselves fulltime, but then again I keep reading it's not about the idea but about the execution, then should having an idea matter at that point ?<p>OR<p>- Work for a startup : its an early stage company ( 3 months ), they are 10 people, they have investors ( raised 400K in just 3 months ), they already have clients and contracts. They're working on a cool technology ( mobile payments ) that's not you typicall 2.0 webapp. The CEO already created a successful international tech company ( I had dinner with the CEO after I met him at a networking event, just to say I could have good interactions with him )<p>I feel like working for this startup would teach me about how some real business is done and let me identify possible opportunities for me to create a business later ( in an industry with more barriers to entry ).<p>But on the other hands, I keep hearing "Start now !", "There is not perfect timing, just do it ! now !" etc. They tell me I'll get used to the paycheck at the end of each month, I'll get too comfortable etc. But I also feel like if I do something now it will be another webapp or something without any real barrier to entry ( other than great coding, which I'm confident I can do ).<p>I'm asking HNers : when do you feel that the timing is right when you want to create a startup ? And for founders : did you experience help you for starting your own company ? Anyone else in the same situation as me ?<p>Thanks for reading, I appreciate any feedback.
I wildly overestimated (700) due to the emphasis you placed on telling me how much I was likely to underestimate!

Maybe move that section to after the part where you ask the readers to guess?
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Just invest more in cars that drive themselves and we can forget all of this stuff. Our grandchildren (hopefully) are going to think we must have been terrified driving around in these big metal beasts surrounded by others doing the same.
This has never happened to me before but maybe you have performance anxiety?

You said you had done well in the interviews and you're an experienced programmer. By listing these reasons you make appearent that any person with your qualities must be able to produce outstanding work.

By looking from that perspective maybe you're imposing expectations that are too high about yourself instead of just letting it go and enjoying your job.

So maybe treat yourself as a newbie programmer who's just started his career, and instead of trying to do outstanding work you should try to gain as much "experience" as possible.
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Maybe user chooses how much they pay?

Don't write this on there, but have default at 20, minimum at 1/3/5/10 and obviously no maximum. I'd pay $5 if its good :)
Hrm, I've never tried to look it up before. I know about it from someone who used to work with it, but he told me other countries (including the US) had looked at it before with an eye toward purchasing.
+1 because I feel what you are saying... but I'm with the OP on this one. Learning is free, being taught (even by a tutorial+triggers) is not.
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I've often thought this would be useful. Someone standing behind me to slap me whenever I compulsively checked email for the second time in a minute, checked a news site to see if anything interesting had happened in the last five minutes, etc.
When it comes to urban transportation, looking at this contraption I can't help wondering... why not just get a bicycle?
Or have a look at the full RFC 2822 regular expression for matching
email addresses: http://code.iamcal.com/php/rfc822/full_regexp.txt

I'd personally stick with Sephr's advice, though ;-)
SyntaxError: not a chance!
From the article:

"I wrote about two startups today ...
neither had involvement from the so called “super angels”"

...

"except Hipmunk, which took an investment from SV Angel."

It's easy to make assumptions when you only have 2 data points.

How about inDinero, who raised $1.2M, some of which was from Dave McClure?

And GazeHawk, who also raised from McClure (full disclosure: I'm with GazeHawk)?

How can 1 or 2 data points be considered enough to write a blog post about a "trend"? I don't know how people can take this stuff seriously.

Also, most valuations that are mentioned with seed-stage YC investments aren't pre-money. The YC convertible note doc has a valuation cap that is pre-money on a Series A, so technically post-money on the note itself. That means that Arrington's example actually nets the company 25%.

Additionally, Arrington's math is wrong. In order to make "any money" given:

$1M investments at $4M caps
(even if it gets you 20% instead of the 25% that it should - see above)
Assuming all exits that happen are at $30M with no Series A

Each one nets you $6M, so 1/6 need to succeed to break even.

"7/10 or more" assumes $15M exits, which was the low bounds of his range.

This whole article screams "agenda", or at the very least ill-informed reporting.
That's exactly my approach. I spent a month on a project not really getting anywhere, putting things off and moving things 2/3 pixels in CSS code doing "work".
I then bought a whiteboard, itemised in root-level terms the tasks I needed to get done, how I would achieve them, and then crossed them off when done.

I not only felt accountable to myself, but as I work alone, friends or family visiting me would ensure my checklist was being ticked off and ask questions on specific points ("why haven't you done that?" "because XYZ is taking longer than expected" etc...)

The list makes you answer questions about how you'll tackle the problem, it also allows you to think without staring at a screen which is beneficial.
"Apple designs for #2. No other mass-consumer products company puts as much attention to detail into the fit and finish of the box—let alone the out-of-box experience."

I'm sorry but no they do not put as much attention to detail into their products as you would think. They didn't even have multitasking in the iPhone until recently! And what was the antenna problems all about?

All I see is just enough attention to detail to make people go "wow, shiney." and that's it.
I think it is closer than you think. It won't be in your home but there will be shops like a Kinkos where you can send a design and pick-up any number of finished products. Check out these people who will turn a design into finished boards in just a few days:

http://www.screamingcircuits.com/

There are probably a dozen companies like them right now, I would guess it will be less than 5 years until there is one in every town.
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not sure about your theory that creating an account and asking a question makes someone dodgy, you cant ask a question unless you have an account
Would be much faster if you wouldn't need to stop at red lights etc. Also probably safer and indeed more comfortable, especially during winter or when it's raining.
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My anecdotal experience is that almost everyone is oblivious to the second factor. "Yeah I drive over the speed limit/tailgate/drive a motorcycle, but I'm a much better driver than the average idiot so it's not dangerous for me."
i guess your not the right candidate thanks
Feels a lot like Segway to me - looks cool, but nothing people actually will use.
Nice, but I think game-features make sense where the actual learning perhaps is non-existant or not rewarding enough. When learning how to use a shell you have successes along the way anyway and you don't need any score or badge to feel happy.
I might be inclined to buy it if it was a "pay as you go" model where much smaller amounts of money can unlock the next set of levels.

Maybe a model like Project Euler (with paid-stages) would work better? I'd much prefer it to be free of course.
Definitely agree with Jonathan Christensen, the price will be an issue even if it worked as good as Skype.
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I think every programmer made their own task manager at least once in their life..

True. Before that it used to be "write your own Tetris".
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If I was 10Gen, it would be in my best interest to offer support to 4sq, contract or not. People (like us) are watching.
My advice will probably be counter to most people, but I would say go work someplace else first. There are thousands of little nuances to building a successful company, and it can be helpful to learn by observing, instead of learn by making your own mistakes in those cases.

You also phrased this like an "OR" question, when it could be an "AND"... Why not go to work AND starting iterating on your idea in the background?

$5K, no business plan and lots of enthusiasm is not good odds, IMO. I would wait until you are more passionate about a specific idea (and a little more experienced).

Good luck either way.
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Just to make it clear : Nintendo really got back to its roots, the Gunpei Yokoi philosophy, after the departure of its old CEO. Before Gunpei Yokoi, Nintendo was making playing cards; he conceived the first nintendo toys (Ultra hand, Ultra machine...) in the 60s, the first Nintendo electronic toys (Love tester, Light gunner ... ) in the 70s, the first Nintendo arcade systems, the Game & Watch concept in the 80s, the Game Boy, the Virtual Boy...

Gunpei Yokoi repeatedly revolutionized markets by recycling well-known technology. For instance the GameBoy went out after the Game Gear. It was obviously inferior technically : black and white, no backlight. However it crushed the competition by providing what was previously oversight : excellent battery life.
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Valid point.

There is a line though that I need to be careful not to cross.

Someone elsewhere on this thread made the point that technical understanding doesn't automatically equate to an excellent technical recruiter as sales/communication ability is just as important.

As much as I want my clients to understand that I'm not a wannabe who drops in a few buzz words to sound knowledgeable I am also not just a code monkey dressed up in a suit.
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500, after being primed by estimates in the article
Consider a complete change of career, if that is at all an option.

While this may be a huge change to think about, don't underestimate it as a real viable option.

I actually was having the same problem as OP and have been in the process of switching careers to screen printing of all things. I've noticed myself having more energy both in and outside of work and a feeling of accomplishment that I'm actually getting shit done in a measurable way. When I actually do sit down to write some code in my off-time, I've felt much more inspired and have actually had the drive to finish the things I start.

Obviously this is all heavily YMMV, but certainly something to consider.
I can't imagine any co with that much investment money betting on a platform that they can never take ownership of.
That's a cool idea, especially as lots of people wouldn't need the basics, just the advanced stuff.
How can this replace a crowded subway; that is, how can this move more than 1 million people in roughly the same direction at peak time?

It certainly seems more suited to leisure than the common scenario of lots of people commuting in the same direction.
You can go directly to where you need to go, there is zero chance of getting run down by a car, it is better in the event of bad weather.

Oh and the view is better.
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Well, the truth is in somewhere in the middle - I suppose it's not that Spotify doesn't want Tallest Man on Earth to be in its' catalog, nor that Tallest Man on Earth doesn't want to be in Spotify.

(Worth to note: Spotify actually has Tallest Man on Earth in its' catalog, I'm now listening to the guy)
Lighter users are subsidising you :-)
Good example for an argument with anyone who doesn't believe in evolution.
Fixed in the article, sorry I was not aware that the "Varnish guy" was a well known programmer.
To me, the most important part of this (great) post was that Apple doesn't do market research. It reminds me of a recent episode of Mad Men ("The Rejected", season 4, episode 4).

In this episode, the agency explores the idea of a cream being part of a beauty ritual rather than the traditional approach of linking beauty to matrimony. Near the end there was this exchange:

> Dr Miller: Well, turns out the hypothesis was rejected. I'd recommend a strategy that linked Ponds cold cream to matrimony... a veiled promise.

> Don Draper: A la 1925. I'm not going to do that. So... what are we going to tell the client?

> Dr Miller: I can't change the truth.

> Don Draper: How do you know that's the truth? A new idea is something they don't know yet so of course it's not going to come up as an option. Put my campaign on TV for a year then hold your group again. Maybe it'll show up.

To me this so succinctly sums up the disconnect between market research and the best products.

Take the iPad: I don't know why they decided to do a 10" tablet but I would bet money that they came up with several form factors then Steve Jobs walked into a room, picked one and said that's the one they're doing. This may be an oversimplification but I'm sure it's not far from the truth.
How can a subway be build in an economic manner in a city of 10000 people?
It's widely understood that you don't pay interns. It interferes with their learning experience, and undermines our institutional right to youth slavery.
What about using something like kickstarter to raise money?
I can see your point but unfortunately that's absolute rubbish.

There is a ridiculously small number of people who pay silly money to recruiters to cover nepotism but the reality is that employers hand over five figure sums to recruiters because they don't want to trawl through hundreds of CV's in the hope of finding the right candidate over the space of a few weeks.

Sit with me for an hour discussing a senior level role and I will have three incredible CV's sitting on your desk within a week. If the right person for the job is one of those three, great, now pay me ridiculous money, otherwise it hasn't cost you a penny.
On this topic- any recommendations good books/articles on Maths/statistics, or how the mind does estimation, and how to improve the same?

Back when I was in high school, I had read this book "How to develop a super power memory", by Harry Lorayne. I daresay, it was not a complete success for me :)

But you could pull-off some pretty neat memory tricks, like remembering lists of items, phone numbers. The reason I quote this-the author's reasoning was that the "memory" of human mind works best when it is irrational. For instance,if you have a list of unconnected items like carpet,guitar,laptop- make an illogical association of one item to the next.For instance, in your mind's eye,"see" something ridiculous like you strumming a carpet, and so on. This actually did work for me, back then.

So, has anyone tried out/read something similar for improving number estimation?
> I'd be interested what the lowest number of employees was that Apple has had since Jobs's return

It probably grew steadily through his tenure, especially with the retail extension as that requires a number of employees (Apple staff grew from ~22000 to ~32000 in 2008, as they opened 50 stores, and their temps staff grew from 2100 to 3100)

> and how big NeXT was compared to Apple at the time of or shortly after acquisition (in terms of headcount).

According to wikipedia, NeXT had 520 employees in 1992, before they switched to a mostly software-based model.
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> How did Nintendo respond? Not by trying to be more like Sony but by being more like Nintendo.

Erm… how? Since the NES and the GB, Nintendo had been following a pretty "normal" path of giving more power each time. You could argue that they always had something of an interesting approach to controllers (see N64 and GC controllers), but they'd never entirely opted out of the current/existing performance races and picked "wacko" control schemes before the DS.
> I can speak as intelligently about code as any HNer

The level of technical discussion in HN is very low. Either HNers are not knowledgeable or is just that they/we don't use this forum for in deep technical discussion.
Out of curiosity, did you look into using something like IETab? You can configure it to render specific sites in IE's Trident engine, and all other sites using the usual Gecko engine.

However, I'm not certain how easy it is to push a Firefox extension + configuration to a large number of Windows machines.
As others said above I'd also suggest you try out pair programming (with a friend of yours). I find myself more relaxed when I'm with someone I can talk to, make jokes or just bitch about the things not working. When I feel stressed I change place with my friend and he continues with the code while I calm down. Also he might see mistakes you don't and helps you fix them right away avoiding the stress.

Another good strategy is to break everything down to small tasks. Tasks you can do in 30 minutes or less. Watching the list getting shorter makes you feel like you're doing something. I think this is part of the agile approach.
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Not if you're a programmer.
I believe the law in the UK allows for a jail sentence of up to two years for not revealing a password or encryption key.

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Sounds similar, been in the same situation, to understand yours better one question that needs a honest answer - do you like what you are coding? Are you interested in the end result? In my case, switching over to a project that I was really interested in brought back the enthusiasm I started lacking. And losing enthusiasm leads to subconscious delays - it's as if your brain tries to avoid doing the work it does not get direct stimulation for.
But if you (deep inside) do love what you are doing, then it probably does not apply to you. Do you have any side projects? Are they any different? Maybe you just avoid admitting to yourself that you are not doing what you want to be doing, really.
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> For instance the GameBoy went out after the Game Gear.

Yes, right, the GB (released in April 1989) went after the Game Gear (released in October 1990). The Game Gear project had barely even started (if that) when the GB was released.

You also overlooked the GB being about half the price of the Game Gear and it being nigh-indestructible (where the Game Gear was plagued by hardware problems, especially early on) and thus a much better fit for handheld, especially children handheld.
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http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,1085543,00.html

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Really? Police in the rest of the world must beat down old ladies for quarters.
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How can you not go directly to where you need to go on a bicycle? How can you go directly to where you need to go if there's a jam on the MONO-rail or if there's a slowpoke on the lane? What if there is no rail at all leading anywhere close to where you need to go?

This thing is trying to reinvent the road and coupling it with a single, proprietary vehicle. We already have roads, and we have bicycles (and feet) that are "compatible" with those roads and pretty much any other urban terrain.
Reminds me of Osmos. Neat game for the iOS.
I'm a single founder and I had the same doubts as you before applying. But then I decided to apply anyway. Just filling out the application was really useful in terms of thinking how to present my startup. I also reached out to the YC alumni network for feedback on my application and boy are they helpful! Some of the best founders out there helping you pitch your startup even before you are officially part of the network - couldn't ask for more.

My email's in my profile if you want to have a chat.
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That attitude of yours isn't going to help either. Giving a little more information isn't going to hurt anyone.
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