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In my opinion, I think you should go for it. The way I'd look at it is like this: you will most likely always have a chance to work for some reputable valley company. However, you may never have the chance at your own start up again. This goes along the same lines as what davidw posted, but if I were in your boat and did not take the job, then I know later on down the road, I would be wondering "what if?" I wouldn't want to have to live with that.
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I think Facebook has much much bigger goals than silly gmail killing. It's trying to become the internet for all those who don't know the difference between a browser, web site and the internet. Offering email services is just a small step in that direction.
The last time I tried Debian Testing, it was still WAY behind Ubuntu. I moved to Ubuntu because it had things I wanted already in its repositories that Debian Testing didn't.

I even ran Debian Unstable for a while and still wasn't happy.

Mind you, that was my only complaint about Debian. I think it's a great distro, just a bit dated due to stability concerns.
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This is what I do -- I have one cheap GSM modem attached to an Ubuntu box, and I use stuff from the gsm-utils package to both send and receive messages. My problem is that I can't keep the system up 24x7; it's only active during working hours, five days a week.
Seems like FG was only doing systems integration and project management. Didn't see any IP that they came up with. They bascially outsource everything.

TC might as well partner up with any Taiwanese ODM. The Taiwanese ODMs are strong in engineering and manufacturing.
Very nice, and potentially very useful, but you need more servers. 5 in US and 1 in France doesn't give very much information.
>Perl is probably closest of the modern ones. But I talked about those I know.

I'm not convinced. :)

>Pity it lost out in the market place.

The games not over yet. Clojure has been coming on strong lately.

>Afaik, you don't get language extensions like a new OO system in Java...?

You're running into a "good is the enemy of the great" issue here. Perl probably has Moose because the "OO" it comes with it is awful. Java actually has a pretty workable OO system right out of the box, so no one is willing to go to the trouble to put something even better on when they could just write more code with what they have. I'll give you that modifying the language is easier in perl if you need to.

>So after comparing with CL for flexibility -- you compare amount of libraries with a system language, with roughly half the development speed (and a lot more pain) compared to scripting languages and Lisp...?

The point of that example was purely to counter the oft claimed "CPAN has more libraries than any other language!". It's not true, though the libraries it has might be easier to find than some.

>Oh, please... that was irrelevant bashing.

I just get tired of hearing about Larry's supposed linguist credentials. Perl has English behavior and it's amusing to me that a supposed linguist would pick language features that cause the most misunderstandings in real life! Why on earth would I want my programming language to be as prone to misunderstanding as spoken language? That's the exact opposite of what I actually want.
how do you send attachments?
The other day I was talking with a friend of a friend at a bar.

Him: "I do web design and computer science for major business X"

Me: (What kind of stuff do you do, etc., etc.)

Him: "It's really cool, I just found out about this new technology, A.J.A.X. (He actually spelled it out.) It lets you talk to your server without reloading your H.T.M.L. page!"

This is no lie.

In unrelated news, 90% of all business-to-business software sucks.
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Is that a conformist attitude or a "work together" attitude because it seems to me that the US system encourages an "every man for himself" attitude.
I know, I wouldn't use instagram or these filters anyways, but people seem to like this hipster stuff. Bigger problem for them is, they have to think what to offer their users before these vintage-effect photos stop being trendy.
I think the story comes from GEB, but I've heard that good chess players (not even anything-masters) can recreate boards from actual games from memory much better than non-players, but are no better than non-players when dealing with randomly arrayed pieces. The theory is that they can abstract out the few hints they need to put the majority of the board together when it comes from an actual game, but those abstractions don't exist in a random placement.

As an analogue, you and I can memorize speeches relatively easily in our native tongues (I would suppose it's fair to say we're domain experts in the languages we know), but it's not easy at all to memorize and repeat (a) random strings of sounds, or (b) sentences from languages that don't have any common base with the languages we know.
I'd say go with the startup, even if you fail you wont regret it, but if you go for a job and then let the project die, you might end up regretting that.

If the other founder is taking a job thats fair enough, support his decision but see if he can commit some time to it on his off-hours. Either that or try to find a third cofounder and see if you can reduce the other guys equity and let him become a silent partner or something.

Either way, go for the project, i'm more most others on HN will say the same, we're biased in that way.
Start with pondicherry(some 180kms from chennai). Get in touch with Auroville Ashram and get an accommodation there. Once you have spent sometime there you can move to Chennai and then to Bangalore.
My startup issue: Do you like/love/hate comparing and choosing tools/apps?
Please send a reply whether it is like/hate, it might give me the encouragement I need to work on something.

I wish that there was an easier way (tool or service) to compare stuff, as current methods (googling for comparisons and reviews) seem to take too long and lead to 'analysis paralysis'.

If there was a better solution, what would you want it to offer? I would want it to be comprehensive enough to pick up almost everything that I would find manually (eg searching best iPhone app for task management, best note taking tool, etc).
You keep getting downvoted because it's unsubstantiated nonsense that defies logical expectations.

Why would Mac kill their own development platform? Further, look Google as they thrash around desperate to diversify their revenue stream. Do you think it's sensible for Mac to go the opposite direction and pile all their eggs in one basket? Not to mention all the effort that went into creating this new unibody form factor. Should they just throw away all the resources they've put into doing that?
I'm sorry, but every reference I've ever read to the history of Apple has only reinforced my opinion that Jobs is a marketing bully. A clever one, perhaps, but still.

PS. I'm counting seconds until I get to -5.
Either it's that or the core of the website was finished, but tons of small things needed to be fixed, which is a real pain in the ass to do. And sometimes I do feel like I have a better idea and working on the current project would be a waste of time.

Took me a while to realize that sometimes the real reason I canceled my projects were because of laziness.
Not true, in most cases.
The answer is no. This article seems to be written to help some friends getting attention. Imagine this conversation between these folks and a google exec:

For which mobile platforms is it available?
Only for iPhone, but it's got 500,000 downloads in just a few weeks.

Is it internationalized? you know we are a worldwide company.
No, but it's got 500,000 downloads in just a few weeks.

Can it scale to serve our millons of users worldwide?
No, but it's got 500,000 downloads in just a few weeks.

Do you have a plan to monetize this?
No, but it's got 500,000 downloads in just a few weeks.
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Facebook doesn't have to pay anyone for that to work. Same model as Foursquare, with a userbase orders of magnitude larger
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Yes! It may be easy to spoof outside of Facebook, but internally FB routes it's own emails, so when you use Titan to read a message from another Titan email address, Facebook can show you thatbit's genuine,

Spammers can create shell accounts, but they can't friend you, so when you receive email from someone you don't know, Facebook can shown you their friends list and public profile, or use that to prioritize your inbox.
Setting up fake Facebook accounts is trivial.

Sure, not as easy, perhaps, as some of the spammier email providers. But if the domain gets that much good karma it would be worth the effort...
I don't really like the birds ("what does this have to do with twitter?"), but the site does look nice.

Why should I go with this over, say, pingdom?
Faulkner wrote As I Lay Dying in 6 weeks. That's genius.
It's not that difficult or tedious, but it does require that you read the elf specification, or write your own "OS" from scratch.

http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.htm...

The idea is that you strip away everything that does something for you so that you are sure to completely understand the entire process with no "pushing the green compile button."
O no, please! Why do they all have to turn into I-completely-want-to-own-your-Internet-life giants? Isn't doing one thing good enough, enough? Who needs yet another email service provider?
So what sort of opportunities does this new "pat down" policy offer? Buy put options on airline stocks. The public is not like lawmakers. They are conservative in a way I believe is hard for lawmakers to identify with, and this will be too far for them. Not to mention the pilots, who feel it is ridiculous to be required to be frisked for a bomb when in a few minutes they will be in the cockpit with total control of the destiny of the plane.

And the best response to give your TSA patdown-partner when he asks if he can feel around your crotch area:

"Who do you think I am, a U.S. Senator?"
>It's a nice quote, but it physically must be the case that Feynman was not doing magic, but was doing thinking with human thought processes, within the confines of a human brain and all that entails.

Many would argue that inspiration has an external origin (indeed the word itself indicates this). Be that origin God, a spirit [of some other form] or the universe itself. In which case Feynman is effectively doing magic and as it is based on his relationship to the source of that magic it is not reproducable.

In this sense the magic is something unmeasurable and inaccessible except by being the particular person, I think it is beyond scientific discoverability but not (in a Popperian sense) unfalsifiable. For example a synthetic brain that demonstrated emergent inspiration without an external source - something like an AI network that was generally programmed but wrote entire symphonies in it's "head" or formed unprovable postulates which later took on status as well verified theories.

In short you're supposing a physical explanation. I'm not supposing a non-physical one, but certainly one that lies outside the bounds of standard models (!).
So you're saying with these scanners we're now going to get twice as much radiation? Which side are you arguing for? :)
What's especially strange about this tend is how something like gmail blows facebook messaging away in terms of UX.

A lot of users though seem to have made Facebook their web world and are willing to accept a crappier messaging system for the convenience.

And it's not early adopters making the switch. I've been using FB for well over 6 years, but I still prefer to send an email over an fb message. Most of my friends are the same.
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What about geniuses that didn't enjoy a supportive environment? Dali's father has an accountant radically opposed to his painting career. They broke relations. At 26 he had surpassed all his teachers in the most prestigious classical art academy and refused to be evaluated by them, consequently he was expelled and got into surrealism.
Err, what's the other definition? "allowing people to sell stuff and earn money?", that's a very old notion, like I already said, it's not exclusive to North America, and it's not a product of the European Renaissance, it existed more than a thousand years ago.
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Is this the 2010 equivalent of wearing a jacket and tie? It seems we worked to escape the idea that conformity to arbitrary behaviours was more important than merit, only to replace them with a fresh set of meaningless distinctions.
OCaml is used for code verification tools too (Microsoft z3, CEA Frama-C, INRIA Coq, AbsInt Astree, Facebook pfff, ...) and for system programming a lot (Citrix Xen Toolstack, MLstate OPA, MyLife.com, MLdonkey, Unison, ...). If you have heard of OCaml only for finance, you have probably not searched enough.
I hadn't thought about it before, but same for me. The only friends who contact me through email are other programmers.
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I now have, and will check it out on Monday - thanks!

edit: don't suppose you have an invite code?
Having read one of the more recent biographies, Einstein did work fairly hard for his insights.

He had a lot of time to think as a patent examiner.
Initially you needed a .edu email to register. Then they opened facebook to everyone (any email). Now you don't you need an email address to register? Or did your brother used a throw-away email (gmail?) account?
I agree. One market I'd like to see them enter is online payments and micropayments, they have enough reach that they could probably pull it off.
GPL is not designed for academic research. MIT and BSD licenses are, but the GPL is certainly not.

> Just because the people involved in FOSS are not doing this directly for money does not mean they're giving away the fruit of their labor for free, or being coerced as Soviet Communism was known for

Read my reply to PG. I wasn't trying to imply that GNU has any similarity to the USSR; that's very silly.

I actually support the ideals of GNU, but I'm not ideological about it. I'm fine with selling closed software, so long as one is not just leeching off open source without contributing anything back.
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Amazing piece of kit that would be great to own - but what would /you/ do with one?
I'm scratching my head. That's the only thing you want to comment upon? Semantics? I'm devastated by the amount of people willing to give up their rights for a group (TSA) that has shown no competence whatsoever regarding what they're supposed to be doing.

(I also don't want to be seen naked in an airport.)
Sacrificing yourself for the greater good? Doesn't sound very American to me.

The fact he made sacrifices instead of making billions to develop software is a proof of my point about GNU being very far from the ideas of capitalism.
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I don't need to send attachments to my friends very often. If I did I'd send it via MSN or email it to them.

I can see the business & college need for email but for friend to friend communication Facebook messaging is already dominant.
Consider the difference between math and engineering (at the undergrad level). Math majors learn to solve solved problems, since the solutions are instructive; that is, they could accept a solution as truth but proving it is true has a greater value. However, engineers need to accept a lot of mathematical truths since the occupation applies these truths.

Either way, both of these systems are instructive. You should be able to reverse a process and discover its discrete parts, if that's your goal.
This should have took considerable time for designing and manufacturing the modular parts taking into account not only the final state of the building but also hundreds of construction stages. The parts should have been manufactured and factory assembled with extreme detailing and with very low tolerances so that the final on-site assembly required as little work as possible. Also, the logistics should have been planned with excruciating detail and with more workers and site equipment than normally required. I think the total time from design to construction took many months or even more than a year and it cost more than conventional construction. Not that I mean to undermine the effort; this is a marvelous feat of engineering and logistics.
It seems we need a better way of tracking what existing webapps are available.
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I see this as a good thing. As others have mentioned here, FB messaging is more popular than email for a lot of people. This means I'll be able to communicate effectively with my friends who check their FB an order of magnitude more than their email (almost all of them,) using SMTP in any way that I choose rather than having to log into FB with all its attendant awfulness.

How does this news represent anything other than FB rewriting its inbox/messaging tool to operate over SMTP/IMAP? And how can that be anything but good? Okay we all wish they'd used the Wave Federation Protocol, but we can't have everything we want.
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This.

The iPhone's Camera and Photos application lets you share photos the same as you might on Android.
I plan to opt for the pat-down every time I'm given the option as an alternative a body scan.

I'm male (and reasonably free of hang-ups). If being groped by a man, I plan to writhe and moan with evident enjoyment (unless he pings my gaydar). If examined by a female officer or a gay male, I will threaten to file accusations of sexual harrassment.

Why?

Call it a small scale civil rights protest, and note that if everyone does it (or even 1% of everyone in the queue) the whole stupid mess will grind to a halt sooner rather than later.

(And they haven't managed to ban feigning pleasure yet, nor do they have any insight into my actual state of mind -- who knows, maybe I am enjoying it?)
People come to the US because they hear they can make a good living over there. None of the immigrants actually believe in any of the so called "American Values" that the right-wing media is so vocal about.

Most of the immigrants don't actually uproot their origins; most immigrant communities still bond with their own country men, and they're probably more loyal to their home country than to the US. (of course, they can't show it when they're interviewed by the media; they have to pretend they've ditched their origins and became "Americans").
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The selection bias, I suspect, means that people here will tend to say you should go for it even if they actually think it sounds like it wouldn't work out for you. (I'm not making a value judgement there).

If the co-founder has left then the project is over.

That doesn't mean you can't restart it though.

How will you afford to eat and pay for accommodation? Would your new employer consider holding the job for you? Is the co-founder going to be easy to replace? Could you take the position part time and work on the startup alongside?

(I'm not asking for answers, just trying to help jog the thought process along).
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"The JS community is struggling with designing libraries that work as well on the server as well as the client."

Disagree. YUI3 was a library written for the web, but it was so well designed that it took one YUI engineer hacking around for a few days to get it fully running in Node.js. Now, some awesome stuff is happening and it's an area of focus for the YUI team. http://express.davglass.com/

Mustache.js and Underscore.js are other examples of popular JS libraries that work great server-side right off the bat.

The main one left out is jQuery, and that is a library written primarily for DOM manipulation, which isn't really the point server-side (most of the time). Once JSDOM is a bit more mature, I'm certain you'll see jQuery become more popular server-side.
They do have problems with customer numbers in stores and a fire limits. At my closest apple store on a saturday there is often a queue to get into the store with security controlling the numbers. It is one of the small store designs though
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If you have an Android phone around, you can just run your own gateway from it: http://kalsms.net

Put an unlimited SMS plan SIM card in the phone, scan the QR image, configure two settings and you're done, anywhere in the world.
Great idea. Sort of like an Appstore for webapps (without payments). http://www.appappeal.com/ was the first thing I came across - it looks awful. Anyone used it?
I think the key here, though, that the author didn't mention, is that you should cook some real food for for other people. I can make food that I think is fantastic for myself, but isn't necessarily presentable.

I can slop together pasta dish full of random fresh vegetables using homemade tomato sauce. I think it's absolutely delicious, because I don't mind dumping the whole runny mess into a mixing bowl and eating out of that. Either I have to sell that strategy to my guests, or I have to put some more thought into presentation, repeatability (I have to be able to prepare the food on their schedule rather than mine) and probably, more care needs to be taken when choosing the combination of vegetables and spices.
> they only ever state active user numbers

Yeeeeeessss...? just as anyone else, amirite?
Where did you get this notion that innovation can only happen in Silicon Valley?

Does the Silicon Valley produce anything remotely close to Japanese Anime? Do Americans produce cars that are anywhere close to German or Japanese cars? Do Americans produce desserts that are anywhere near in quality to European desserts? There are many things that Americans are simply horrible at doing.
I think your comparisons are completely wrong. Is there anything you could do with land lines that you cannot do with mobile phones? No, but there are lots of things email does that Facebook does not do (and vice versa).
I second this. With or without Auroville, Pondicherry is awesome. Have decent internet connectivity, living cost is low and peaceful with all big city facilities in a small town.

Edit:- But no start up culture or any events worth participating. You can visit Auroville, of course.
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