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I don't want to come across as a spelling Nazi, but since you're asking for feedback I hope you take this as constructive criticism to improve the front page copy:
"In these straightened times TUBB is cheaper as..."
Should be "straitened times"
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Just wondering, were do you live in India? A 'decent' vegetarian meal (the kind I have everyday) costs Rs 25 from a restaurant. And possibly Rs 10-15 ($0.2) if I cook myself.
You'd probably raise more money if this specific item was an online auction.
Link to donate directly (not related to the auction with pg):

https://pgnet.stanford.edu/give/home?mop=CC&gfty=G&p...
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nice article!
For those trying to do research, for research's sake... how many path-breaking PhD's in Computer Science has US produced? (For that matter, any country in the world-but let's stick with US)
I feel that the entire culture has been skewed towards incremental improvements.
I bet, 90% of papers churned out, would be having conclusions something like.. "improved the performance of X by y% under the conditions L,M,N"
where (L,M,N) might be near-impossible to occur simultaneously in real life.
You cant disregard/dismiss Gary's points- sure,Apple II might not have been the last technological innovation, but overall- he has raised a valid point.
> The biggest issue I've found with latex, is its kind of a pain to write in

For a big document certainly, but for a CV or résumé you only need a few very basic things, especially if you're using one of the numerous CV classes available out there (in which case you just follow the original template).
What happen to FOWA?

I might go to this
Agreed, but it is worth it for how nice it looks. As someone who looks at a lot of resumes, I appreciate the ones that are made with LaTex. It shows that little bit of extra effort.

Also, I make the LaTex file I use for my own resume available so that others can copy it. http://edberg.org/jeremy/Jeremy_Edberg_Resume.tex
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Careful of No True Scotsman. You also seem to confuse conservatism with libertarianism.
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In 1923, New York State passed a law repealing Prohibition, even though Prohibition was a part of the Constitution. http://bit.ly/9m0NDX
One would imagine that a law of Congress has less "power" than a Constitutional Amendment?
A Macbook as ssh client? There are cheaper and smaller options out there. I use an Asus eee 901 (and a MiFi router to use one 3g plan for all devices I carry around), it was very cheap and it's been working very well. My macbook has not left my desk since then.
There are numerous examples of using LaTeX for resumes and some templates are available,
such as this: http://rpi.edu/dept/arc/training/latex/resumes/

And again, LaTex files are still version control friendly (just as your example indicates), so using which is just a personal taste.

I am still thinking that markdown is better to be used in web context than in printing, even with the help of CSS.

However just a kind reminder, don't put your email address personal phone numbers and residential address as plain text on publicly accessible websites, they are very likely going to be picked up by spammers, etc.
That's actually a subtle-but-important distinction. Everyone so far seems to be describing this using the word "rejection", which can carry some pretty strong connotations, especially in the geek/tech crowd.

I wonder if changing the wording of the "not selected" email slightly would cause people to stop associating it with rejection?
China has its own problem now. The inflation is really which drives the living cost and labor higher. Lots of companies are trying to seek cheaper labors in countries like Vietnam. But one thing is true that mobile is really big in Asia. With great infrastructure, you can have signals anywhere including in the subways which drives mobile consumption.
It's not link-baiting when you release an article about poll-results with < 50% reporting, right? Kind of sad for the atlantic.

http://elections.nytimes.com/2010/results/california
To me India seems as precarious as it is promising. Against all this entrepreneurial spirit is the possibility that northern India will drain its aquifers and its rivers dry, and that climate change will make refugees of the entire nation of Bangladesh.
Tangent: I don't know anything about early childhood education, but now I'm interested. (Also, I'm not implying anything of your post; I agree that the rankings can get silly.) Is there any data to suggest that preschool is, in fact, less important than university? It's easy to scoff at the notion that pre-K and K are significant, but I'd guess that some high quality nurturing at this age might be the requisite experience for success. We call them the formative years for a reason, right?
Just got a 13" Air (128gb SSD, 2gb RAM) and in my limited anecdotal experience it's noticeably peppier in everyday use than my Mini, which has a much faster CPU clock and twice the RAM. Cold startup is much faster, shutdowns are much faster, starting apps that used to be real pigs on my Mini (particularly Firefox and Gimp) is now much faster as well. Oh and file copies, of course. I haven't compared build performance, nor have I done apples-to-apples benchmarks. But overall, roughly speaking, it's a big step up in performance for many common scenarios.
45% is not "little real support." That's 1 in 20 people from passing. I'd put some money that it got overwhelming support in the cities, particularly San Francisco.
His numbers are a bit on the high side (I'd probably spend that much for a meal in the food courts at some SEZ), but the basic point is valid: I believe we still see a >10% inflation rate here. For basic food commodities, the rate may be even higher.
The warranty is really convenient. If the RAM goes bad just take it to the nearest authorized Apple dealer. Every town has one, and you won't need a receipt or any other documentation.
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okeyyyyy.... if you want to be reasonable try compiling a list of successful people who went to a top ten/100/1000 pre-school. If the number is significant then we will agree if not then we will not.

(Btw, I don't think such a list would exist as it really doesn't matter.)
Very cool portfolio, I'll keep my eye out for you
One of the first things you will find out, if you attempt to write a new programming language and then use it for actual production work, is how much users of that language will miss simple, taken-for-granted things like debuggers.

Creating a programming language by itself isn't all that hard. The real work is actually making it usable with good error messages and stack traces, tools like debuggers and profilers, editor support (if you're into that sort of thing), and documentation and specs. All of that (especially good editor support) is easily an order of magnitude more work than a parser and a compiler, and that doesn't even consider libraries you might need to write if you can't interoperate with an established language. (Spoken from personal experience, for what it's worth).
Surely the type of people most likely to benefit from PG's advice are some of the least likely to have the disposable income to be able to spend (up to) $500 for his time?

That's 1/40th of the $20k most startups get from YC.

[I don't mean to detract from the good cause being raised for here - but I think society should expect people to give back to charity/good causes/etc proportionally to their wealth - surely most young startup founders that YC attracts are likely to have limited funds and putting everything into their startups? I guess I forget trust funds, "daddy's money" etc]
I really like your work for Feet First, and it's good to see a talented designer doing work for staid organizations like the FDA.
I'm sure early education is very important, yes. But ranking universities is much easier than ranking preschools, for the simple reason that universities are big and few in number while preschools are small and plentiful.
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I'm pretty sure cargo planes don't have wi-fi for the 'passengers'.
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You're both off-topic and dead wrong. Don't you know there are tons of successful people who taught themselves everything from basic literacy to advanced sciences later in their life? Not even talking about "late bloomers", rather, people who lived illiterate well into their teens and twenties. How do you explain this ability to learn?
Do you drag-and-drop to a folder on your hard drive, or to a box on your website, or to something else?

Also, do Crates, as I assume they're called, expire? As in, I can set a folder that deletes files an hour, day, week, etc after they're dropped there.
I'm glad to see EKO (http://eko.co.in/index.php) making some solid progress as this post tells. It's nice they have started to make a profit.

I should tell that they have been trying this since last few years and one of the reason why the idea worked is that this startup reached out to people personally. The same is the story of Red Bus (http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/24/yes-you-can-build-a-web-com...) which reached out to the bus companies.

The trend I am seeing is that IT companies in India have bigger challenge in making people adopt the technology than marketing or anything else.
"Agin' it" is kind of a regionalism that has a slightly added meaning, I think, to "against it". I think it implies a kind of stubborn, perhaps ignorant fist raised angry cowboy. Not saying it was appropriate necessarily, but just that it has its own connotation.
Conservatives weren't favored in CA

Results are still coming in, but given how close most of the major races were (+/- 5% points in many cases) I don't think you can say conservatives weren't favored. If it was 80/20 I think you could say they were not favored.

Looking back to previous elections, this has been a big turn out for GOP in CA

Also, some Republicans like John Dennis were actually pro 19 (http://www.baycitizen.org/elections-2010/story/san-francisco...)
One thing I really don't like about printed books is when the paper is glossy, making it tricky to get lighting that doesn't glare off the page.

Also, bookstands. Has a truly good one ever been made?

Finally, trying to work with a hardcover book, a laptop, and a paper notebook takes up a lot of space on a desk.
Next time they may ask the office to provide those data in PubSubhubbub protocol so that active polling of data is no longer a requirement.

Just a side note:

All screen-scraping techniques are vulnerable to the
“whoops, they redesigned” problem. This screen-scraping
technique was vulnerable to the “whoops, they redesigned and
we go live in a couple hours” problem.

These two sentences sound a little odd to me. Since the original page by James has no comment box, hopefully he could pick this up here.
Incidentally, does anyone know of any proper airship startups? :-) Here's one: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/AirshipVictoria
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Just to add to the other comments, don't let this bother you.

Remember, your goal is to build a solid tech business, not appease YC or anyone else. Not to take away from the value YC and PG add, but there were tech companies before YC, and its just a stepping stone to your final target.

Ultimately, all that matters is (a) awesome product/technology (b) users/customers.

More likely, if the problem you're solving isn't important, talk to real customers or find a friend you trust who will.
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What's happening is that the norm is rising: the same performance that scores IQ 100 now would have scored 130 100 years ago. [Read Flynn's book and original research for more]
I'll be posting about my experiences here: http://novemberstartup.posterous.com/
I don't know. I've had great luck with craigslist for local jobs. For remote jobs nothing beats making physical connections, referrals are killer.

I recommend building a cool project preferably open source, to show off your skills and to set yourself from other candidates. You'll have employers coming after you.
The key point being that Apple's strategy is the exact opposite of write-once run-anywhere
Yours isn't a dual core. The GP's Asus is dual core, but it's about $800 = 1k with a $200 SSD.

FWIW I'm not entirely certain the Air is a good value, & would appreciate a real comparison.
Closest I've ever come across is Conkeror (http://conkeror.org) That's using Gecko instead of WebKit but it's still a great project. It's my primary browser.
Up voted you because I agree that people who would really benefit this most likely don't have 500$ to spend.

However, you're implying the 20k$ startups get from YC represents all the value derived from being a YC startup. If I ever apply to YC, it will be for press coverage, the YC network and sound advice.
Yea if it were online I'd bid my life savings (around $60 at the moment).
Yeah, that's the SSD
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> there's something amazingly gratifying about ingesting huge quantities of data from semi-public sources in a time-critical way.

1) the feeling of being completely 'connected'

2) the feeling of being on the 'cutting edge'- knowing before 99% of the population hears about it
To be fair, that's more a Conkeror problem than a ymacs problem. We're sort of trying to bang the square peg of the web into the round hole of keyboard based control. It often leads to gross hacks like all the page modes we have, which are equivalent to Major modes that you could only use on one or maybe two files in emacs.
Kudos for PG opening another channel for people to talk to a guru. Even if it's a purchased avenue, that can't hurt in the long run.

But on ranking preschools...? That seems to be a stretch. All you parents out there, feel free to correct me. But my vague recollection of preschool consists of running around a playground, finger painting, and a nap.
What fragmentation? 77% of devices run Android 2.1 or 2.2
I heard a great program on This American Life on NPR this week about why the conservatives are winning the media game over the liberals...

It came down to the fact that conservatives by their nature like order, hierarchy and organization and liberals tend not to. Liberals won't come together to discuss an agree to the same media talking points where as the conservatives love to -- and more importantly they'll all stick to them which amplifies the message. This is what is leading to the total pwnage of the lib's by the cons in mainstream media.

The issue for Prop 19 is that you have a very organized and disciplined conservative movement in the NO corner and a very sparse group of liberals who all have their own perspectives with no serious critical mass in the YES corner. Paul Buchheit may have given $100k to the YES campaign, but did that group officially represent the existing legal pot growers, smokers advocacy groups, etc? I don't believe it did - they couldn't organize themselves because there are no aligned interests there.

As a European, I consider myself a liberal by US politics if that is relevant. I've never smoked marijuana but I've found this campaign to be incredibly interesting as a barometer for current political landscape

(You can listen to the program at http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/417/t... - see "Act II - Mr Hitt goes to Washington")
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That's a horrible reason.

No law will ever be perfect - it's all about steps in the right direction. If we wait for things to be perfect, nothing will ever change.

I find it very disheartening that some of the very people who want this change the most refused to vote for a 90% solution in the hopes that someone will come along with a 100% solution tomorrow. With this setback, the issue won't come up again for many years, and even when it does it STILL won't be perfect.

I just hope that in 10 years when it comes up again, people won't be going "I voted no because it's not perfect" and setting the process back ANOTHER 10 years.
I do my resume in good old HTML with microformats incase anyone in the world is parsing those. I really love being able to do a billion hyperlinks incase people are interested in specific things, or need some context.

http://paultarjan.com/resume

I use git on the server.
Why does TechCrunch seem to attract as much drama as Fandom Wank?
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They're outliers? There are physical realities that happen to your brain that make it more difficult to learn as you get older. Now, I certainly recognize that many aspects of the current education system are overblown. But you're going to have a difficult time convincing me preschool is as dispensable as college.
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I really like the way the this letter is crafted. It's sensitive to the founders, and is upfront about the reality: there are more promising groups than available spots. I'm struck not only by YC's admission that they will invariably miss good groups, but that they'd like to keep in touch to learn from their mistakes.

You certainly don't see that humility everyday from institutions of any size. Other organizations should take note. A personal tone goes a long way.
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The 3-D printing industry now, looks a lot like the computer industry around 1976, doesn't it? We have the equivalents of big expensive mainframes, as well as cheaper, but still pretty pricey, minicomputers. Cupcake & RepRap strike me as being analogous to something like the Altair 8800 or the Aim-65: fun for seriously geeky hobbyists, but not really ready for prime time.

So the 3-D printing industry doesn't have its Apple ][ / Pet / TRS-80 yet. In the computer industry, back in '76, those were only a year away. And then in 5 years there was the IBM PC, in 6 years the Commodore 64, and in 8 years the Macintosh, and suddenly these little machines were everywhere.

Is 3-D printing going to advance that quickly? I doubt it. The technical challenges, and especially the price issues, look pretty tricky. I do think we'll get there before too long, though. It should be interesting to watch.
I advised people to vote against Prop 19: It is bad law

Given that any wikipedia article (should be) NPV, I was wondering if you could elaborate why you thought it was a bad law. You only really said:

It went too far on protecting pot and it allowed too many varying tax situations

Would you care to elaborate as these just raise more questions for me. Thanks!
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The valuation for his advice may be at $500, but it's pretty arbitrarily assigned, I suspect, and more to illustrate the perceived worth than to actually drive the auction for it to $500 or more.
I would assert that it is pure folly to attempt to build a non-trivial application in a compiled language without the assistance of a competent debugger. You simply cannot iterate quickly enough through the debugging loop of "Form theory" -> "Test theory" if you have to wait a minute for a build to complete each time. Unit tests help, but will never get you all the way there (good luck tracking down a leak with unit tests).
This has popped up a few times on HN already, I wonder if there is an upper bound to when you're allowed to repost an old article?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=224861
I always install a us keyboard configuration as well in addition to my french keyboard for those kinds of issues. There is no need for two keyboard. Then you can just switch by pressing ctrl-shift simultaneously on windows.
Worse - it's 20 million people preventing 17 million people from enjoying a leisure activity through force.

Democracy sucks.
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Sorry bash is horrid. The extensions on on posix sh are completely brain dead except for associative arrays and a few other things. Most of the extensions in bash were already built into posix sh just with a different syntax. But then again posix sh is bad as well.
I.... hate.... drama....
Glibly, because TechCrunch itself is a wank outlet for Silicon Valley business drama.
If you ever take your child to a good pre-K school (not a daycare) you will quickly learn it is really adult education- teaching the parents to be better parents, in a hands-on-environment with the kid around.

High-quality nurturing can only be done by the parents (generally speaking).
Indeed, a typical desktop computer can make a few calculations in the time it takes the light from the monitor to reach your eyeball.
I have a friend who used to use what he called "the hat system": when a creditor phoned to complain about his account, he'd explain that every month, he put the names of everyone he owed money to in a hat, and then draw names and pay them until his debt paying budget was used up -- and everyone who phones to complain doesn't go in the hat that month.
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One question which is never answered in these reviews: How long does it take to charge the battery?

My two generation old MBA takes 8 hours to fully charge -- and this is apparently normal. For my use it's not a problem, but it does require some planning to make sure it's got a full battery when taking it out for the day.
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I've never seen so many facebook like buttons in row like that. I like it.
Don't blame Apache. Use the event mpm and don't use so many modules.
China prospered without India's dummy democracy and casteism.

Indians are brainwashed to believe that (voting in elections == democracy) and a solution to all problems.
You use this "my" word a lot. I personally use debuggers for debugging other people's code, code that's possibly decades old, that doesn't have enough modularity for good unit tests, and whose bugs in any case often only show up in complex multithreaded integration scenarios. GDB only acquired multiprocessing debugging support this year; to my mind it's pretty primitive.
India has a 5000 years old hidden dark side viz http://goo.gl/K8Pg

There are 17,000 cults aka castes in India.

They're destroying India because they literally hate each other.

To strengthen India, it is better to give autonomy to FC/BC/SC/ST/Minority regions with a single passport and currency across these regions viz http://goo.gl/A8F6
That's precisely what I meant.
The problem is that keeping pot illegal at this juncture, is a joke.

Maybe 25% of the population has smoked weed, and yet these people for the most part aren't facing any penalties. If you are going to have laws, you need a force that is able to enforce those laws, otherwise those laws are a joke and the government is a joke.

Legalizing marijuana is just the state coming to grips with reality. All criminalization has done is cause most generations to thumb their noses and defy a majority of laws that are on the books.