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Disclaimer: I am saying this without holding the actual device and without seeing a video.

Everyone, seems to think that we will be able to see updates on the home screen itself, which I don't think will work.

For example email: What will I see on the homescreen? who sent the email, when it was sent? will I see a brief message on the screen? How much information will I see in a tiny box/slice/tile. I don't think I will be able to see a lot of it.

Twitter: I think, I will be able to see the last tweet. A little helpful.

Facebook updates: I think it would work same as twitter.

The user has to launch an app to get the complete information. I think its bad if MS tries to make the phone into a taskbar notification system.
I think you misread the grandparent if you think Joel's point counters Patrick's. Yes, your software needs to have features. That's a given, and it's not what we're talking about here.
> Remember, all I am offering is my informed opinion and if you disagree with my advice, don't take it personally!

I took a class where we had "critique sessions." One of the huge differences between the veteran writers in the class and the inexperienced was their ability to take criticism.

One girl became particularly defensive about something she had written, so one of the more practiced writers stood up and said to her, "Look, this is just my opinion. If you don't like it, well, maybe I'm full of shit."

I always find that's a helpful way to think about it.
In case anyone is wondering (but not enough to actually call...) The number is now a generic Apple phone number (Press 1 for sales, Press 2 for tech support)
"On the other side"? Seems you're making the exact same point he is...
You don't find it absolutely bizarre that it doesn't even have a web browser? Even when a tiny DSi has a very capable browser, smart phones have browsers. And a big gaming console from a supposed software company doesn't even have a web browser?
"I would think that the real problem is Microsoft's unwillingness to become something completely new, something other than Windows and Office."

Inability, perhaps. Unwillingness? You're out of your mind.

Microsoft has had their fingers in smartphones, music players, search engines, touch computing, web mail, [you name it] for YEARS. And they are not just dabbling... they have poured billions into these areas, trying to come up with something that gains traction.

Microsoft doesn't make "the occasional try" at innovation, they are a veritable firehose of attempts to innovate. Microsoft Research is HUGE (and well respected within the research/academic community) and as I mentioned above they spend billions every year trying to develop new products and break into new markets.

The fact that Microsoft's efforts in this area have been largely unsuccessful over the past decade doesn't mean they aren't trying or aren't willing.
Hopefully this can evolve into being the canonical tool for data startups, data cleaning should not be a differentiating factor. Value extraction should be the differentiator.
Remember that cities are more expensive to live in than suburbs. That extra 10% might just be cost of living adjustment. You have to figure out what your expenses are currently, as well as what your estimated expenses will be in the new location, before you really know that you will be getting an extra 10% salary or whatever.
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Some things I never expected:

No matter how bad my day is going, I smile when my daughter walks in the room.

7th grade homework can be challenging at any time of life. I can't wait to find out how what grade I get on my son's science project.

My first-born was the first person I ever met that I would hope outlasts me here on earth. Kind of put life in perspective for me.
Ask HN: I'm meeting with a potential investor. What questions should I ask him?
My cousin, with whom I work on one of my startups, has been talking to a potential investor. I have yet to talk to, or meet, the investor, but the kinds of things my cousin has told me about him and the types of questions the investor has been asking lead me to believe that he might not really be qualified beyond just having a lot of money. I tried to find information about him online, but was unable to do so. I already see this as a red flag. I might be meeting with him today, finally, and was wondering what types of questions I should ask to properly vet him.

Here are some questions that I think might be helpful.

* What is your experience with investing in internet startups?

* In what other companies have you invested and have they been successful?

* Beyond monetary assistance, what else can you offer?

* What do you consider a successful "exit" for your investment?

* How hands-on would you want to be?

* How well do you understand our market?
Moreover, their version of "the cloud" is taking multiple bad photos of your family sitting on a couch and magically turning it into a photo where everyone is smiling. Every time I see that commercial, I just have this look of utter confusion thinking about who produced that idiotic ad. I mean the tech behind it is cool, but what the hell does it mean "to the cloud!"???
I wonder what his friends will think of him after this. I think if I had a friend doing this it would be annoying. I mean the rejection therapy idea has merit, but so aggressively pursuing rejection like this just means you're constantly asking people to give you things. A lot of it is just strange.

I wanted to knock my rejection out right away so when I was at the Caltrain station, I was looking for opportunities to get rejected. Then I spied a guy eating a croissant and decided to ask if I could have some. Who gives strangers a piece of their croissant? He kind of looked at me funny and pointed at the coffeeshop where he got it, but I insisted that I wanted a piece of HIS croissant. When he asked “just a little piece?” my heart sank. He ended up giving me his croissant. I had to eat it, smile, and then slowly back away. FAILED REJECTION!

Weird..
I very impressed with level of design work of Rails Rumble winners. Are any blog posts from contestants about design process, tools, resources they used (stock images, templates) and so on?
This is very true. The variability of a benefit should certainly be taken into account. My point was just that salary alone is not your complete compensation so it shouldn't be the only number looked at.
I'm much older than that (but English is not my mother language..) and I remember it was called an IBM-PC (with DOS or Windows). Not a Microsoft-Box or anything. I'm just saying: Windows is the bigger brand name than Microsoft. That does not mean I ignore how huge, wealthy and influential the Microsoft empire once was and still is.
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As one of the largest software developers on the planet, MS has access to more cool stuff than anyone can imagine. With all that cash, I'm sure it comes across they're radar all the time -- and they do make purchases and investments.

The problem is the minute they implement new technology it gets some committee-driven marketing name that's so completely disconnected from what it does that it takes million$ to explain what should be obvious from the name.

Examples: IIS, COM, COM+, Visual Studio, .Net, BizTalk, SharePoint, MultiPoint, Windows Live, SilverLight, Zune, Bing, and now the latest -- Windows Phone 7 (dyslexic a fully name).
For what it's worth, very personal point of view ...

I'm serious and sincere. I learned to read very young, and I don't (as a rule) vocalize. Net result is that ungrammatical constructions or phonetic spellings slow me way down and cause serious cognitive dissonance. Likewise the latest idiomatic mutation - "I could care less" - makes absolutely no sense, and forces me explicitly to guess what the author may have meant. Then I need to carry forward the possibility that my guess is wrong and I'll have to backtrack. Sort of a Garden Path sentence on steroids.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_path_sentence

Your code will be read and modified far more often than theone time it was written, and hence you should take time to make it clear. Similarly anything you write will (most likely) be read far more often than the one time it was written. It is simple politeness to take time to make sure it's as correct as you can sensibly make it.

Yes, there are people who struggle, either because English is not their first language (although many of them put native speakers to shame) or because they are dyslexic, or whatever, but remember that the comparatively small amount of time it takes to get it right is paid back many-fold in the readers' time by not having to backtrack, second guess, or even, worse still, give up and ignore you completely.
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Of course it depends on the field, and for top C-level executives the bonus is pretty much the biggest chunk of compensation. My particular bonus rests on my performance, and is based on profit besides, which is the most common form of bonus I've seen in the trenches of software development.
Clickable: http://shrtn.co

What is the value proposition? If I had an affiliate link, couldn't I share the link through any shortenter? It looks like you make it easier for people who don't have their own affiliate links to share, right?

Do you think there is a spot in the market of people who don't have enough traffic to justify their own affiliate programs, but who do have enough to generate affiliate sales?

It is an interesting space you're entering, which has lots of room for growth and innovation. Good luck!
How do I take my web app from running locally to being able to serve data to users? Basically the server admin type stuff to serve my Rails/Django/Sintra app.

For a Rails app, check out Heroku, they make admin stuff insanely simple (although they cost a little more, it's well worth the benefits). I'll let others chime in on Sinatra and Django.

How do things like memcached and Varnish fit into the picture and when is it an appropriate time to start worrying about it?

I'll take the easy part of this one (when to start worrying about it): In most cases, don't worry about it yet. You can get by just fine without either of them (especially Varnish) until you get a decent amount of users. Once you start seeing slowdowns, then start looking at how Memcached can help you cache data so you're not hitting your DB (or disk) as often.
I like the idea of this post, any excuse to listen to biggie is a good one. However, I think the author misinterpreted a bunch of lyrics.

Never hold weight on you. He means never keep anything incriminating on you. e.g. don't carry drugs on your person. in entrepreneurship, i'm at a loss for what the equivalent would be.
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A bit more than a simple template. It actually lets you visualize how the UI and icons will appear on your device, in each of the positions for the screen.

I like it.
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Here you go http://212labs.com/retro/biznus.png

I've added some whitespace, rearanged some elements, and slightly changed colors to get more vibrant look and feel.

Also videos are now displayed in tabs so you can have short description about each video. I hope you like it.
Having had my first child 6 months ago, this transition is still fresh for me.

Having a baby makes you feel much more a part of the human race. It also makes your house feel more like a home instead of a simple shelter (in the utilitarian sense). There is much joy in raising a child.

Obviously, it takes a lot of time and work, but it's not the end of productivity. I work a fulltime job, home by 5:30, and have to keep myself from working on other projects until about 8pm when the baby goes to bed. That's only 2.5 hours I'm unable to work during week days nights, and I'd normally take at least 1 of those off anyway.

Weekends are a little different. There's much more time available but you have to balance it with spending time with the family, so I usually end up working random hours whenever I can (maybe 2 or 4 or 6) per weekend day.

Hours alone don't build an app. I think the consistency and discipline that my new schedule requires is helpful in itself. The hours I do have available are now more productive and focused.
"People have been sleeping this way for millions of years".

First off mattresses and the way we sleep now are only a few hundred years old. Second we don't have detailed statistics for infant deaths until very recently so we don't know how many babies were dying a long time ago and for what causes.

For evidence of the risk please see my reply below http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1839044
My basic formula runs like this - when I'm negotiating, I cite my previous salary as everything I earned - salary + all bonuses plus any other perks I can cite.

When I'm comparing, I use only money I'm guaranteed: salary plus any guaranteed or performance bonuses I am confident I can hit (with targets in writing as part of my job agreement). Bonuses that are based on nomination or any other "approval" type process are really just too risky for me to consider as part of my overall compensation package. They will only factor if all else is basically equal.
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We are about to bring in a child to this world. Our due date is literally three days away and it has changed the definition of how my free time is structured. It changed what I think about on the drive in to work and what I do with my free time at work.

Take my last week for instance. We had a list of things to get and do before labor and spent about 50% of our free time knocking off items from that list. Time between 6PM and midnight, which would be my personal free time, got re-prioritized. Instead of just sitting at the computer and mindlessly throwing myself at a project, I plan it out and almost rehearse it far in advance. In a sense, it made me more focused and taught me to squeeze productivity in the best way possible.
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Very cool, but it seems to have a fairly slow Clocks rate.
I had a similar thought: "woah a support group for people whose kids we corrupted!". So I clicked expecting to see posts like:

Hi I'm Gary, my son reads HN. On day my son mentioned he wanted to start a business. I was skeptical, but proud. I mean he's young, why not start a business -- it's the American Dream right? So I asked him about it a bit, and he started talking some website mumbo-jumbo... you know widget scripts and railmarks and all that. It was also the first time I heard the term "Hacker News". Now I know (wipes eye) it was a turning point. If only I could go back (sob).

Anyway, he goes off to SF to do his biz thing. He worked alot, but times are tough, and I was just happy to know he was independent. So we didn't talk much, but when we did it was tech stuff I didn't understand, or HN. He would babble incessantly about startup this, or founder that. Then one day he mentions money, and that he is selling his company. He wants me to come out and meet some people, and pay off my mortgage.

At this point, I felt I was losing my son. I mean, he was all valley all the time. It went from healthy interest to 100 hour weeks, and I didn't like what it was doing to him. I didn't care about the money, I just wanted my kid to be OK. So I hopped a flight to the bay area. Palo Alto is cool, those stanford women are something else... but tommy had none of it. His room in a house was all coke cans and monitors. Half of them had browsers with the damned orange bar on the top. So I tried to talk to him, but he just said "you don't 'get it'".

We went to a party and he introduced me to Paul Graham, as PG. There was this obvious case of hero worship happening. I mean, all night it was "pg says this" or "pg wrote that" or "pg...". And not just tommy, but all the other kids with companies too. So now I got it. It's a cult.

I still haven't gotten my tommy out of there yet, and I still hear about how he got x karma for y post, or how he just doesn't like the reddity directions the site is headed. Sometimes, even tho I've forbidden it, he slips and drops a "did you hear about pg's latest...". I don't know if I'll ever get him back, but you people sure have helped me deal with it.

Followed by a bunch of "Hi Gary, thanks for sharing. It's tough, but we'll get through" type responses.
The browser IS deeply important. When people think about what devices they get, how they browse is one of the most critical things they decide on. Remember, we aren't talking just computers: we are talking about smart phones and tablets too.

And as to Windows Phone 7, although a recent ChangeWave survey of potential smartphone buyers pegged interest in a Microsoft phone at 1%, the reviews have been pretty positive:

ars technica:
"Microsoft doesn't often get version one releases right, but this time, it has got the release very right indeed. Windows Phone 7 looks great, works well, and is a treat to use."

Engadget:
"With terrific Zune and Xbox Live integration, a fast and smart method of getting around the OS, great Office and email experiences, and a genuinely beautiful and useful user interface, Microsoft has definitely laid the foundation for the next several years of its mobile play. Now it's time to get the upper floors finished."

Unfortunately for Microsoft, though, the data shows that they are going to have a major uphill battle with the Windows Phone 7, a battle which they have dedicated half a billion dollars in marketing toward.
> I have a hunch it was the "assholes" comment that set you off, and led you to going back through a mental list of things he'd said that you disagreed with.

It was not that comment per se that "set me off", it's more the general trend at YC towards (how shall I put this to not fan the flames?) rhetoric that implies that there is something wrong with investors who exhibit reluctance, caution, or selectivity. It's been going on for some time now. I really started to notice it at the last Angel Day. The "asshole" comment was certainly the most egregious example of this, but if it had been an isolated incident I'm pretty sure I would have let it slide.
SIDS is less an actual disease, and more a convenient bucket to categorize "babies dying of asphyxiation for reasons we don't understand".

Some of those are becoming better understood (babies can't always tell if they're breathing CO2 rather than oxygen so it turns out they shouldn't sleep on their tummies) but mostly it's a fancy medical term for "we don't know". It's not even a mysterious disease and "no one knows what it's caused by"--we don't even know that a disease exists.
Thanks, but I already ruled out both of these solutions.

1. I know you can look at the value of the submitted button on the server. What you need to use is actually <input type=submit name=some_non_clashing_string_that_identifies_this_button value=ButtonText>, so my question is how do you generate those strings nicely in Rails and have the controller act on them nicely as well.

2. Of course that's what you need to do, as I said in my question. My question was, how do I make Rails do this in a nice way? fields_for helps, but I'd like to know if there is a plugin or something better.
Awesome. I hope they were helpful in some small way.
I forgot my password the other day (restarted computer and couldn't retrieve it), so I had to login as fireitup. Anyway, good call --- I didn't even think about my username when I commented.
Yea that's a really good point. Make sure you have some traction (clientele) before takin' da chedda...
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In my eyes the value proposition is that people can replace their usual URL shortener with shrtn, and potentially earn money without having to sign up to multiple affiliate schemes etc.
> How can you charge $100 dollars only to receive a CV that is essentially perfect...

Well, that case is easy. If you can't help them, don't charge.

Unfortunately, I don't have any idea about convincing your target market. I think word of mouth would be most effective, maybe you could come up with some ways to generate that (like what you're doing now!)
I checked YP on my iPhone. Some videos were available.

I'm guessing until HTML5 with <video> support is more mainstream, sites that stream/host videos will target devices rather than browsers.

I'm guessing it's a lot of work (or resources) to re-encode your old videos (assuming they've got a copy somewhere), and not all companies are fortunate enough to be YouTube.
Plus, email works on 99 44/100ths of the available hardware and software platforms, natively :-)
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FWIW, I disagree.

When MS announced support for facebook on the xBox, I thought "hmm why not just give users a browser".
Then they announced twitter integration... "Umm how about just stuff a browser on there".

It's farcical. But OTOH, it fits right with MS's plan - they detest the www. It's open. It's free. It's not a walled garden they can monetize.

Last time I heard the web division at MS still makes a huge loss. Which leads me to believe they're not in it to make money. They're in it to mess it up, stifle progress, and keep people buying their installable software. They did an absolutely fantastic job of that for 5 years or so.
A really simple version of this is on my "next hobby project" list.

Seems like it should have been done before though.

My impression is that a lot of bug tracking tools integrate with email (e.g. lighthouse, surely others), but usually it's a minor support role to the webapp, instead of being the main focus.
That certainly makes sense, but weigh salary and benefits higher than bonuses.

Anecdote: The company I work for had a particularly rough quarter years ago and couldn't make bonuses. Those that had planned on their bonuses being there were suddenly left with a deficit. Even though the company increased bonuses next quarter to make up, that didn't help those guys then.
Simply don't use some prefab CMS. The reason there are about a gazillion CMS's out there is because it's really easy to write one, opposed to e.g. writing a really good search engine, which is difficult and there is only one of those.

Use a good web application framework and separate your front facing site from your content management system.
I'm really glad you made an mp3/ogg version of the song available. It's been on repeat all morning.