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I failed to find a reference, but I seem to remember the Python team deciding at some point that they intended to keep the name "python" for the Python 2.X binaries perpetually, and require Python 3.X to be invoked as "python3". Arch might be alone in making this change, and inconsistent with other Python distributions.

EDIT: I can't find a conclusive decision but here is one discussion on the subject: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2008-February/0...
I agree with most of the comments here: trim the fat. Hack away the unnecessary. Omit unnecessary words. And other such sage wisdom.

An idea: if you have enough of a core user base who would be willing to help fund you, consider http://kickstarter.com. You could have one helluva comeback story on your hands if you tell the story right and make it emotionally resonant. Play with the idea however you like, I don't want to be too specific as it will hinder the process.
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International tensions are rapidly increasing. With currency wars, trade wars, etc, it is going to be very interesting to see how the next few years play out.
For my entire life, I was told that if I work hard in school, bust my ass to go to a good university and graduate with quantitative degree, I should have no trouble finding work

I agree that you were lied to.

But I think you were a fool for believing that success could be prepackaged and so easily attained. You busted your ass, but did you bust your ass on the right things? There's a difference between working hard and doing work on your intelligence. You did what you were told but did you ever question whether what you were asked to do was the most optimal use of your time or talent? And if you did, why didn't you act on it?

I'm sorry but you're absolutely not entitled to anything.

I busted my ass in high school. I got semi-decent grades but more importantly I worked hard and learned and explored on my own. For me it was a gamble because even though what I was doing with my time felt like the right thing, I couldn't be sure. It's not fun having the same letter sent home to your parents: "Your son is not performing to his potential [subtext: he's lazy]" .

Now I'm a freshman in college and I already have job offers for the summer at a few well known tech firms paying really good money and they're not just McJava jobs. It's feels amazing to finally have some sort of validation that all the time I spent learning on my own gave me real value. Tech companies are hiring like crazy. Don't blame society or the market, it's your fault.
> Since angels generally don't take board seats, they don't have this constraint. They're happy to buy only a few percent of you. And although the super-angels are in most respects mini VC funds, they've retained this critical property of angels. They don't take board seats, so they don't need a big percentage of your company.

Though that means you'll get correspondingly less attention from them, it's good news in other respects.

Do many founders consider the additional attention given and influence wielded by VCs as an advantage of taking funding from them?
A cliche says that getting recognition at work is more about the attitude rather than the work; but in my experience it is a mix of both. If the quality of work is good and you have let people know that you know that your work is good, recognition is not going anywhere. Unless people know that you totally respect yourself, they treat you like no-one.
> Media is also far less complex. How do I know if my video is correct? I simply play it. If there any errors, they are all possible to detect in the minutes it takes to play the video.

There's actually a level of complexity to video well beyond what you imply. For example, making sure the colours appear the same when you watch something on your laptop screen and when you watch it in the cinema requires a lot of care and attention - and no small amount of science. Also not all video edits are realtime - some things require a lot of processing, which can take just as much time as compiling a decent sized app.
We certainly don't need to spend 3x more across the board. My kids' public schools are great; 70+% of Americans seem to believe the same.

However, we may need to triple what we're spending to teach kids in Englewood, or Harlem, or Oakland.

If we could add 100-200bn to education spending to triple the resources allocated to the bottom 10% of school systems, that might very well be worth it: those students are disproportionately likely to benefit from that spending, earn hundreds of thousands of dollars more throughout their life, secure jobs that include health insurance, avoid expensive prison terms, and draw less on welfare.
Steve's mantra is all about vertical integration. I don't think he sees a line between "iOS, the software" and "iPad, the product". That'd be a bit like looking at the chart and saying, "Hmm, they don't sell many CPUs, maybe they're not important." I think if there's one thing that Apple does get, it's that they're all a piece of the puzzle. For what it's worth, that's not new; pre-Microsoft, it was always understood that the OS was part of selling hardware.

Now, what they conceivably could do is to look at their aftermarket software and devote less resources to that -- especially in places where Apple's presence in the aftermarket doesn't make or break the platform (e.g. music sequencing -- there are half a dozen mature competitors to Logic that run on OS X). Also, I suspect some of those places Apple is in strategically because it funnels money away from companies they don't like -- Aperture cuts away from Adobe and iWorks pulls away from Microsoft, despite Photoshop and MS Office for Mac being platform-completing tools. Also their offerings there are important as leverage; Apple doesn't want to be back in the position of needing Microsoft or Adobe since they've been burned in the past.
Well http://thefunded.com may not be the most unbiased since it runs founders institute. Just like this isn't going to be the most unbiased crowd for YC.

A recent email sent out by them to Alumni of the program claimed over a 192 companies world wide. You should also know that it's a different model and you pay to be in the program.

Personally I believe in the YC model and think they have a much better network.
That rule change is not about stopping someone like tomerico from submitting stories (he has a lot of karma and submits only sporadically), it’s about reducing the volume of stories on the “New” page and giving them more exposure, right?

I was already about to write a retort because at first I didn’t understand the mechanism by which this rule change would improve HN. Reducing the volume on the “New” page seems like a good idea, though.
I know a gym teacher here in NJ that makes $95k a year. Drives a 5-series BMW, indoor pool, etc. And before you ask, his wife is a teacher, also.
Why Opera (desktop) is Not a popular browser
Ok let me explain it this way. No one has the exact amount of money, talent, time etc for their startup. You may have more of one and less of another. Say you have some surplus money, wouldn't you want to invest a tiny amount in a fellow Starter that had a promising idea. That wouldn't effect your level of success one bit. I don't see YC as a competition in the sense that their can be more than one winner.
The question is who these angels are, really. More startups means hopefully more successful startups and hence more ex-founder angels. But there seems to be a weird trend of celebrities doing angel investing, and that will probably fade out of fashion.
It would be the most significant departure from their existing product line ever. It seems fantastically unlikely, as they mostly seem to build devices and software specifically meant to run on those devices. Hard to see how their core expertise in this area lines up with a Facebook acquisition.
My argument is that "Markets! Yay!" is not an argument. Most markets require some regulation, and some luck, to function optimally. This particular market needs more of both.
"It probably did not get the attention you thought it deserved because the title is just not interesting."

True. However, I don't like the trend of voting up stories because they have interesting titles. It leads to stories about iPhone developers losing out to stories about civil liberties in airports (that has nothing at all to do with hacking).
a lot of it has to do with programmers bitching about bad programs way more than users of those other programs. he has obviously never used protools or any audio editing program. protools is one of the best out there, but it is still awful, as are the rest of them. it took digidesign almost a year to add support for leopard and then they charged $150 for the update.
Sketches from Software Craftsmanship North America
You would be surprised. They are already building separate models for North America (so it is not separate for rest of the world, but separate for NA!).
Arch has done this before. They only provide Ruby 1.9, even though 1.8 was (and remains today) the norm. I tried pointing this out and they told me to use a community package, which is unreliable and a huge pain. Their package philosophy is bleeding edge to an absurd degree, as it simply doesn't work. I stopped experimenting with Arch because of it.
What, in anything I said, did you read as critical of Apple or of Apple's users? For the record, I have been a Mac user for the last five years, but do I really need to say that every time I describe Apple's profit motive?
I'm a big fan of the "defer commitment" principle. It seems speculative and dangerous to try to create new standards in a field that is evolving so rapidly. We've had a lot of form factor innovation like smartphones and tablets. Other relevant areas like online payments are ripe for innovation as well. How will these new standards respond to the need for matching innovation? Who will maintain them? Will there be versioning? What about backwards compatibility?
for me it's the same. It's just that I don't want to print something and send by snail mail to the other part of the world. Call me lazy
Release date?
The TUAW story is a summary of the original point made by All Things Digital, discussed at length here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1805839
How Much Will Currency Policies Really Affect Our Economy?
I'd bet most people's lunches aren't "on the clock". Doing personal work at the physical location of your day job and doing personal work when you're on the clock are two different things.

If you're really worried about them claiming ownership, haul your things to an outdoor seating area or sit in your car and do it there.
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You can write a program in Python that does I/O, and leaving it unmodified benchmark it running 10's of thousands of times slower on a dual core machine than on a comparably equipped single core machine. Can you do this with Ruby, Smalltalk, Lisp, or Lua? Specifically, it's the GIL that's involved.
As a result, #python has been full of people complaining their Python installs are hosed. Just like ruby1.8 -> ruby1.9, this was a bad move, and we told them (Gentoo as well) before they did it. I can only fully support my friend and very experienced Python hacker Allen when he says:

20:20 <dash> well that confirms my impression that arch was invented by a bunch of guys who thought gentoo was too stable and easy to use

(Inflammatory, tongue in cheek, but oh-so HHOS.)
I don't normally downvote or harsh on comments because there are plenty of other people around here doing that, but in this case I'm going to apply the golden rule and give you some brutally honest feedback that I wish someone would give me if I were digging myself into a hole the way you are doing:

> I challenge the name.

If, as you say, you are trying to start a company then you should have twenty thousand more important things to do than to hang out here quibbling over some terminology that doesn't matter anyway. The "super angels" are what they are. What difference does it make if they aren't "super"? Or even "angels"? How is resolving this going to help you make your customers happier?

Those are rhetorical questions by the way.
If there is 500 eyeballs per hour for the new page and 30 new submissions, each one get on average 25-30 visits (a user hits a link or two).

If we reduce new submissions 5 or 6 times, each story will get 150-200 hits and thus more coverage, enough to get it to the front page if it worths the FP.
Then you build a system that detects voting rings and other irregularities like too many votes from a certain geographic location without that geographic location being mentioned in the title (protects Hacker News Nights)
Why I quit my MTV dream job
In the thick of the global financial crisis Pip Jamieson and Matt Fayle quit their MTV dream jobs, followed their inner voice and created THELOOP.com.au.
Jonathan Edwards' Subtext programming language might be of interest to you: http://www.subtextual.org/
It depends how much of their wealth they are investing. It could be that many of them want be part of the startup scene without working on a startup of their own. Wasn't that the orignal idea of angels? So a return is a bonus.
"... The Submissions System is Broken ..."

Yes it's broken but HN has always been broken to some degree ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/398269769

But is the core functionality broken? Not really. These type of problems are edge cases, a PIA, but not killer bugs. For pg, I imagine HN is sort of a positive side effect of developing Arc & YC. Fixing this kind of broken but working feature, the downside.
The article is pretty even handed and you'd do well to respond to the contents of it rather than getting stuck on the term "super angel." pg describes the differences between angels and super angels in concrete detail; see if you have something to say about his assessment there.
After all that talk from startup school about building and running facebook for the fun, I don't think that zuckerberg is going to let facebook go.

For this situation, I'd just stick to the thought of facebook and apple having a deal for social integration.
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He doesn't mention crowdfunding at all as model, though it's clearly generating enough funding for several businesses.
Won't comment on OWC but sending anything off to anyone with "many projects" due in eight days sounds a little risky.
Is this an evil cross post? I put this on Chris' blog comments:

I use a bit of a hodge podge of rules and systems, too. When an email comes in I apply the "2 minute rule". If it's 2 minutes or less to reply or do whatever needs to be done, it gets done right away. Any longer than that and I reply to the person who sent it and BCC in my Highrise dropbox and "task" dropbox - that way a task gets added (I usually have to modify the subject line of the email so that the task looks right in Highrise) and I also have reference to the entire email through highrise in the search. When I reply, I tell the person when I will get to it, and that determines the task dropbox I use in Highrise - ie. if I'm going to get to it today, I BCC my "today" dropbox, if I'm going to get to it tomorrow, this week or next week etc.

If the task has a specific time and date I either add it in Highrise or if I'm on the move, I add it as a TODO or meeting entry on my Nokia which then uses GooSync to Sync up to my Google Calendar.

If the email is something that I can't schedule or reply to immediately, I save it in a folder with a priority, "p1", "p2" etc. If I've got a bunch of emails in p1 etc. I'll send an email to my Highrise dropbox for later on (tomorrow, thisweek, nextweek etc) to review that inbox so that I don't forget I've got stuff sitting there (I read my email in Pine so I don't have a "folder list" sitting there).

If the email is personal and one that will take longer than 2 minutes to respond to, I save it in "letters" which I usually go through once every few weeks on a weekend when I feel like doing some long form communications :)

Additionally I block off some time in my Calendar each week to ensure I review all inboxes and task lists in Highrise to ensure nothing slips through the cracks, and sometimes on a Monday I'll spend a good 2 hours getting a bunch of random inbox cruft out of the way before I start work.

This is all geared towards being able to deal with prioritisation on the fly when I'm deep in the coding zone or working to a deadline with lots of peripheral things like support requests, sales calls, proposals etc. that still have to get done.

The most important thing is having somewhere to stick anything that comes in so that you will always get to it later, and that the time you get to it is going to be appropriate to the task (ie. no point in reviewing an email 3 months down the track that was requesting a quote for a site to be deployed next week!)
I have a Nexus One which also has no crapware. I had a G1 before that. I got rid of the Sprint EVO that Google gave me at I/O for many of the reasons people are bringing up in this discussion. At this point I would doubt that less than 90% of new Android phones are crapware free, or aren't crippled in some way (wifi hotspot removal is the big one).

It's really a shame. But maybe Google is taking a longer-term view than many here give them credit for. I still believe that their goal is to commoditize carriers. They tried to push too fast with the Nexus One and google.com/phone and got burned, but that doesn't mean they've given up.
just learn to use a good text editor like emacs or vim, I use emacs and it fits me like glow whatever text based activity I am currently engaging at that moment.

And yes there can be better IDEs but I wont be using them.
You were just talking about humility and now you're talking about how they're not special to _you_?
I was just reading about this article in relation to how the submission system works here at HN...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1808884
Everyone who made a few hundred thousand $ and their sisters, turned into angel investors in the valley in the recent years.

The reason in my opinion is the prestige that derives from being a startup investor. I know at least 5-6 people who do this with one semi-successful startup as their experience.

Naturally, this means more supply which results to higher valuations and more startups being funded. So, the bar gets lower and I expect that the returns are not going to be great for most.
>If three wheels have their brakes stuck, I turn the car off. I'm not going anywhere and I might as well save gas.

So you're suggesting we abandon schooling altogether, and just let all those kids wander around unable to read?

>Gluttony is the only food-related problem faced by the poor, starvation hasn't existed for a while.

Would it were so.
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No way. Zuckerberg wants to BE a Steve Jobs, not work for him.
Perhaps a standard identity/payment mechanism which reduces the marginal effort required of a user to create an account and agree to pay, say, $1/month would drive sales? Much like it's easy for Apple/Google app store users to make purchases?
That would be a really, really great avenue for The Right Android to flourish.

Except that Google discontinued the Nexus One.

There just aren't sufficient financial incentives for an unlocked, un-fucked-with Android phone, bundled with rainbows and puppy dogs, to come to market. So if even Google won't stand behind that approach, who will?

The fact remains that 99% of Android devices will ship because a carrier decrees it – especially in the United States. Academically, your approach is fine but it doesn't really apply to the reality of how people can actually buy the Android experience.
Hmm, I suppose I must have just read a selection of his comments.

As others have noted, the 'no usable area in 7 inches' idea makes absolutely no sense, considering the size of the iPhone and iPod Touch.

I think that mainly, they don't want to saddle developers with an in-between device as it would be onerous, costly and confusing for us. As much as I'd like a 7" tablet, it's smart of Apple to keep things as simple as possible for now.
Ouch, the irony.

From TFA: The company points the finger at a vulnerability in an as-yet-unnamed third-party application.

Take this as another reminder to keep ALL your libraries and modules up to date, be they PHPMyAdmin, your company Wordpress installation, or your RubyGems. And especially your OS!
On the other hand, making your software work with Ruby 1.9 is something you'll have to do anyway, sooner or later. As long as there are no release-critical bugs in Ruby-1.9 ... which I guess aren't, because otherwise I don't think Arch would provide them.
There's only 30 slots on the front page at any given time, so something has to give. I'd rather miss good stories than have a part of the front page which is consistently junk.

For what it's worth reddit tried the same strategy but they deprecated the feature.
Why? Because one player does not want to play along? If I design something in Firefox then I am able to test in most other browsers like Opera, Safari, Chromium (Chrome) at nearly the end of my production and the correction would be in a margin of 0,01%, why would I test every single step and throw away my valuable time and money? And why should I keep my mouth shut? because you tell me to? Don't let me laugh...
Next time don't ask the question if you don't like the answers...
Two of my pet hates are:

1. "I was going to email back but I thought it would be easier to call" followed by an unnecessarily long conversation that covers very little of use, and then one party having to email something to the other anyway. You can't copy and paste via the phone. You can't attach files~. Those two things are very common in my business!

2. The call which starts "I've just sent you an email. Have you got it yet?" "Nope, how long ago did you send it?" "Oh, just now. Oh wait, it's still in my outbox, wait a sec." Followed by a bland wait. This also happens far too often (1-2 times/day).

~ Last time I thought about this I got sidetracked imagining a stupid venture where you could send an attachment (emailed or via file upload) to a phone number. If the service had an email on file for that phone number, it'd just pass it on. If not, it'd robo-call the number to give a pick-up code and web address. Of course, the people that don't have email addresses (concreter needs a builders drawing, etc) are generally those who would be confused as hell by a robo-call talking about file downloads...
I used eclipse to code java every day for 5 years. I used it on windows, linux and OS X. During that time I upgraded computers a few times. Each time I upgraded I was optimistic that my shiny new machine would make eclipse run at a tolerable speed. Having a language that was succinct enough to not need a beast like eclipse was one of the main reasons I originally switched to ruby. Using something simple like textmate sometimes means I have to go the long way round when I want to perform a refactor but at least I know when it's going to be slow. With eclipse you can do something as simple as open a file and have to endure 30 seconds of freeze. When you need to get something done fast that's painful not to say stressful!
But we're really clear about what our goals are.

It seems that when the topic is Google, and someone mentions their "Don't be evil" motto, someone else points out that in the end they are a for-profit company, and the shareholders will have something to say if they are not behaving that way.

This is no less true for Apple, though it is less often pointed out.

As a money-making scheme, making good products seems a pretty good plan. However, if and when enough consumers differ with Apple as to what constitutes "good", Apple will be in the same position as every other publicly-held company: they will be required, under penalty of a stockholder lawsuit, to adjust.