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I often buy my own licenses of software if I feel like it's going to be an issue asking for the company to do so.

Textmate, Propane, LittleSnapper, Things, are all software I use for work that I own the licenses to.

I use google docs over MS Office.

Photoshop is the elephant in every room though. $1000 for creative suite. Lots of people in the development cycle use it but not as a primary tool. Buying it for every seat in your office is expensive as hell.

If it were my company and we were bootstrapping, I'd probably pirate photoshop, use google docs as much as possible, buy keynote, pirate windows for the QA boxes (damn you IE!).

I think there's a line crossed if the company wont buy any software. If there's no respect for software developers, there won't be respect for you.
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Maintaining a voice is important, and style guides and guidelines are important in enforcing this; plus, most of the content herein is what _not_ to do rather than what _to_ do, so it's more about what the cookie cutter isn't cutting than what it is.
Andy, what I'm objecting to is the binary notion of living an absurdly pared down lifestyle versus starting a company. It's not a tradeoff. Apparently, it's not even currently a tradeoff if you want to take venture capital (taking VC improved my prior fulltime salary by about $40k the one time a company I founded raised it, but that was during silly season)... but I know it's not a tradeoff if you can sell.

I'm not crazy famous guy like Joshua. We bootstrapped 5 years ago. Sorry, dude, I never had to eat ramen. Or, look at Patrick. He's not living on ramen either. He flies back and forth from Nagoya to Chicago on a semiregular basis. He just launched a product. How many hours do you think he worked this week? I betcha it isn't 40. And this is his launch week.

I'm going to go way out on a limb: the $50k salary bit is just macho BS. Have at me, Andy, I can take it.
That's a tough call. Is spending $10'000 to legitimize their software use the difference between success and failure?

When you're building a company on a knife's edge.. how do you know if $1 you spent today that you didn't need to will bite you in the ass tomorrow.
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In Henery Adams's audio biography 'The Education of Henry Adams'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Education_of_Henry_Adams (i.e. Henery Adams the grandson of John Quincy Adams was a 19'th century historian). He discusses his theory of history. In his model history is driven by the law of Acceleration which discribes the exponential growth of energy consumption through the 19'th century http://www.bartleby.com/159/34.html. Exponential growth in energy consumption was viewed as unsustainable as early as the 1860's but Henry Adams noted that it continued throughout his life up until the time he wrote his biography in 1904 and he saw no end to it.
Had you asked me 6 years ago I wouldn't have thought there was a business in palettes either. But I built COLOURlovers to solve simple problems for creative folks? What color should I use for this? Does this color look good with that one? ...It was just a small idea for some creative folks I knew to play with... and it organically grew into the site it is today.

Had we raised money out of the gate on the premise that there was a business in palettes... we probably would have executed differently and killed what we were growing.

Instead it grew naturally and we took guidance from our users, creating new products and services for them. We're profitable because we're lean and don't need a lot of the large expenses some other founders have to deal with. This has been our greatest asset as we built COLOURlovers.

Now, we have a thriving community of people, a solid amount of traffic and a business model that doesn't take anything away from the experience our users love and use.

And another point about niche... when the whole world is your audience, even the most obscure interests can find a sizable market.
Unsurprising; both companies are heavily invested in web infrastructure security, both companies have many tens of full-time people working on vulnerability research.

kuzzcc, wushi, and Sergey Glazunov though; man, those guys must be machines.
We've been covered on TC before we did YC... but what is one of the most valuable things about the YC experience is the connections you make and the network you leave with. We actually met Jason at StartupSchool this year and told him about what we were working on... It was that meeting and that set this article up.

YC is just an experience, it's up to the founders to make it a great one.
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Is spending $10'000 to legitimize their software use the difference between success and failure?

yes, im sure there isn't $10k in budget to spend on photoshop for everyone etc.
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There is in Mozilla
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http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=proposals:block_expre...
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Do you really think that developers spend their 40 hours (or whatever allocated time they have) steeped over a monitor writing code??

People need variety, and sometimes a walk across an office is a welcome break to a particularly annoying problem - whether they admit it or not.
By changing some global variable in the callback and checking if it has changed in 'somethinghappened' (which only gets called after 5 seconds, giving the callback time enough to get called).
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I'm intrigued. How is the globe done? I can't dig deep enough to find the source of the globe.
So far we've been quite careful not to address that kind of use case - we don't have comments on events, for example - partly because we don't want to discourage conference organisers and speakers from using the site but also because we want to avoid negativity becoming a core part of the community we are building.

We'd rather make the great events obvious than highlight events that aren't so good. People have a limited conference budget and we want to ensure they can pick the best, most appropriate events for their interests.
"Had we raised money out of the gate on the premise that there was a business in palettes... we probably would have executed differently and killed what we were growing."

What was your reasoning for joining YC after you already had momentum?
Anyone have idea which browsers support this? And if it's worth even knowing about, for instance if it's any more performant than other techniques why doesn't Socket.IO support it as a transport fallback.
I'm just postulating. I am a cubicle monkey in medical publishing nowadays and use support staff for tasks that don't require a higher level of expertise, thereby freeing up my time to produce more value.
I know it is just your opinion but I find the nature piece to be easily on par with the 'slate' coverage (and of course that's just my opinion ;) ).

Nature typically does not go for spectacle, and the fact that they highlight the total lack of response to criticism from Wolfe et. al is quite telling. If you pick a forum to present your claim you should be willing to defend your claim in that forum.

As far as I can see this will soon be a scientific career ruined not so much by doing bad science but by crawling under a rock to avoid the fall-out, it is my guess that if they could produce the evidence from mass spectrography after isolating the dna that they would have done so by now.

That would conclusively put to rest a lot of the criticism.
Could be my preference in writing style or familiarity with the author or both.
Backend tuning also involves a lot of black magic, whereas going down the YSlow checklist and knocking things off will improve your perceived user load speed. If you don't gzip, gzip. Bam. Done. It will work. Tuning the database, on the other hand, crikey -- how many chickens does one have to sacrifice to become an expert DBA anyhow?
Norms will only keep improving if people keep complaining.

Here's an article about the forgotten tradition of they as a singular pronoun: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=723184

Also, because of the he, I assumed Ixiaus was referring to Gary Shteyngart, the author being reviewed.
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I can't be the only one that hates Android's documentation. It's nothing more than a list of methods and properties. Thanks for nothing, Google, I can use Eclipse's code completion for that. The Android docs have never helped me once. I've always had to rely on web searches when seeking help.

The iOS docs, on the other hand, is rich and full of example code, example usage and programming guides. There's a lot of hand holding, which is great. Android's SDK is definitely simpler and makes more sense than the iOS SDK "out of the box", but I feel like Apple provides enough documentation on important classes like UITableView and UINavigationController.

However, iOS is strongly MVC, so I can understand how a newbie can feel a little lost with all the ViewControllers and various project templates. (Which one do I use? How do I use Navigation Controllers without starting a Navigation Controller project template? Etc...) A "Hello world" example in iOS creates a lot more files than an Android one.
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Yeah, but clearly Joe Keane was just joking.
That's for a "User Relations" position. Not tech or bizdev.
Up until this summer I had a two-bedroom apartment in Astoria for $1545. My friend has a one-bedroom in Williamsburg for ~$1300 (which he moved to about eight years ago).
A bit off topic, but does anyone hate the way the public is being brainwashed into thinking that science is more important than creative endeavors? Why is nature more interesting than the human imagination?

And why would someone become a scientist, essentially playing a lottery that they will discover something huge even though such discoveries are extremely rare?
After reading eight or so e-mails from the thread you linked, it sounds like the vulnerability is in various proxies, not in WebSockets itself.
Absolutely. It wasn't even beta, it was just a tech preview. If they didn't have bugs of that sort, they aren't pushing things hard enough.
The title is misleading. It's an implementation of _a_ concatenative language. It's not Factor.
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Do you consider boot ROMs production environments?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware
Exactly the other way around, some man in the middle attacks get confused
in the presence of websockets: "The Upgrade-based handshake is vulnerable to attack in network
configurations involving transparent (or intercepting) proxies"

It's pretty weird that they consider this a problem with websockets.
Not strictly the same but take a look at the CPU world:

VLIW (compilers try to optimize processing based on static knowledge - e.g. Intel's Itanium) vs. the current Intel CPUs (based on P3/P4 architecture) which dynamically allocate resources depending on runtime knowledge.

Runtime information can help compilers. Just look at profile guided optimizations in current static compilers.

The real trouble in JIT compilers is usually that the target languages semantics are very high level. For example an integer in C is machine sized and is not expanded in size to fit its value -- unlike some dynamic languages.
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In my field of mathematics, there is a massive effort to unify/classify/generalize some of the mathematical structures discovered over the last 30-40 years. (for example, non-commutative geometry as presented by Alain Connes: http://www.alainconnes.org/en/).

The goal is to understand the non-trivial connections between the areas of algebra, analysis, geometry, number theory, physics, and topology. This effort is creating an entirely new branch of mathematics - one which comprises certain parts from each of these areas.

I'm biased, but operator algebras (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operator_algebra) are (IMO) the backbone of this effort. These are a type of topological algebra that serve as useful generalizations for a great-many things (such as topological and measure spaces).
Privacy isn't about doing things wrong and getting away with them.

If that's your rhetoric, why should my wife not have every right to catch me cheating? Privacy must be a terrible thing only useful to terrorists and adulterers, right?

Just be careful when you are defending something like this. I like my private life to be private, even when I'm not at a strip club.
Darius actually wrote a blog post about our reasoning: http://whoabubs.com/should-we-do-ycombinator-were-further-al...
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I don't see how you can come to that conclusion at all. What makes you say that? I see creative achievements in the news much more often than I do science stuff.

As for your anti-science sentiment, I'm not going to comment on that.

People become scientists because they love science, they love learning about the world and they love the intellectual challenge. They don't do it to win a Nobel Prize or whatever. Science is it's own reward.
Read the header of the C program.
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Ask HN: # of Followers = function of avatar size?
I'm going to toss up a wild postulate. Over the entire Twitter ecosystem, my observation is that the larger your profile pic is (full size e.g. click on square avatar to view), the larger # of followers you have.

Anyone want to prove/disprove this?

I'll be the baseline:
http://twitter.com/grantschultz ...
pic: http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/1160716843/Day5-2.png
I personally think its a chicken and egg problem. I've been on both sides of this...

A small team of us took over a company that was failing a while back, we spent enormous amounts of time using 'warez'd software to get things rolling. We always had on our road map - "get legal - software compliance"... Guess what, we did. One year in, profits were up and we made the purchases to get everything legit. I think you could rest easier if you asked to have it put on the road map, and worked towards getting it paid off as a goal.

ALSO - when its on the road map, you start questioning if everyone really needs the software. At one point, all the Customer Support Reps had Microsoft Office. The reality is they didn't need it. We offered up openoffice if they really needed to create doc files but didn't support it (typically they would use software for "personal" things on the job) ...

Disclaimer: Company is 3rd to 5th largest in niche, 20m a year revenues, 100+ employees.
This may be a result of:

1. Higher resolution photos go hand-in-hand with professional branding. Professional branding brings a more integrated online strategy.

2. Bigger = More Handsome/Pretty

3. ....
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I think the parallels between scientific discovery and creative endeavors are bigger than the differences.

Both revolve around individuals that would rather do than talk, and both have a long tradition of passing on their knowledge to the next generation.

If you think science is a lottery then I think you are taking the word 'discovery' a bit too literally, think of it as having a hunch and then trying to find out if that hunch is correct or not.

A nice way to see the progression of arts through to science and back again is this chain: cave paintings -> oil paintings -> photograpy -> photography as art.

At ever 'stage change' science was the midwife that gave artists new tools.
Test drive a Chrome notebook.
Just in the S10 batch: Brushes, Rapportive, Simplenote all were reasonably successful before YC began.
Proxies are an issue because many corporations (and even ISPs) force all web traffic through a transparent proxy by redirecting outbound traffic to port 80 (and likely 8080 and 3128). HTTP proxies have long supported a way of establishing a raw TCP connection (though I'm unsure of the details), allowing things like corkscrew for using ssh behind a corporate firewall. As far as I know, these things use HTTP CONNECT. It seems there's another approach, HTTP Upgrade (which appears to be for switching to/from encrypted mode), which is used by WebSockets but breaks many proxies to the point of vulnerability to cache poisoning.

I suppose if there are enough broken proxies out there that can't handle WebSockets, it's better not to take the blame from all those IE6 corporate types for breaking their Intranets.
I would like to see Trader Joe's stylesheet/writing manual. You can find a lot of similarities in Trader Joe's quarterly newsletter to Groupon's tounge in cheek writing. I have always thought that Trader Joe's pioneered this sort of marketing. In fact, if you read their newsletters, you'll also see cute illustrations of animals posing questions or asides.

For example: "Much as Hemingway captured the spirit of Paris in the 20’s, Trader Joe’s Pork Roast Florentine captures the spirit of, well, roast pork on your dining table. (You didn’t think we’d compare ourselves to Hemingway, did you?)"

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If your property is defined as retain in your header, you are claiming ownership for it and so it needs to be released in your dealloc method.

This is covered in the basic Memory Management doc http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/...
I'd say that Photoshop and Illustrator are the wrong tools for doing product flows. dot, omnigraffle or a sharpie are all better suited to the task.

I guess if you have some in-house artists using Photoshop they should have a copy, I guess. But they could probably get by with Paint.NET[1] on Windows. petercooper mentioned two good mac image editing programs. Inkscape[2] is very capable for vector graphics. Sure Paint.NET and Inkscape aren't as good as photoshop, but people are using them to make amazing art so.

coffeenut/Locke1689 mentioned BizSpark, which includes MS expression studio. Really if you're working in a start up using Windows that isn't using BizSpark that's more than just a little odd.

I find it a little hard to believe that Keynote and/or Powerpoint are necessary. OO.o Impress[3] works just fine for everything I've ever thrown at it, including shoehorning it into making posters. Even google docs presentations are generally sufficient. But I also don't use the typewriter animation with the sound effect.

You mentioned Office, to which I would have two questions. The first being "Why?" And the second being "Why is OO.o inadequate?" I mean, are you writing .docx files, converting them to .doc, printing them to pdf, zipping them and then mailing them about for documentation? And even if you are, OpenOffice would probably work fine. It works especially well when you set the default to save as .doc/.docx (etc).

Finally, if it makes you uncomfortable I think you have to bring it up. Not because it's evil or incompetent or anything, but because it clearly bothers you. If it bothers you, your work output will decrease, you'll hate working, start eating bacon mushroom bacon cheddar bacon burgers for lunch and dinner to make yourself feel better and then have a massive myocardial infarction. All because of a little software piracy.

[1] http://www.getpaint.net/
[2] http://inkscape.org/
[3] http://www.openoffice.org/product/impress.html
Features like the "Host" header and built in support for proxies are important to the infrastructure of the web, I believe websockets are an attempt to preserve these feature among others while allowing a socket like connection. This idea seems supported by the fact that Websockets use an intial handshake over HTTP which allows the same server that handles HTTP request to handle websocket request.
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I say post it. The community will decide if they continue to find them interesting or not. If your links stop landing on the front page, or someone creates a "bitch" thread about your posts, then you'll know to consider stopping. But those are the right topics for this community. Do it, ask permission later ;)
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Have you considered taking up playing a wind instrument ?

This might help you to maintain that extra lung capacity or even to build it out further.

I've had a collapsed lung about two years ago and it was my years and years of sax playing that probably saved the day (that and a helpful neighbor that figured out that something serious over and beyond serious chest pain when inhaling was amiss, I'm off the 'if it came by itself it will go by itself' persuasion, which is ok most of the times but not always).
Absolutely. I hadn't used one of my PCs for a couple of months and turned it on earlier today to find Chrome was two versions behind (7 vs 9).
Any countermeasures, besides not using a kernel supporting the Econet protocol? I.e., does there exist a fix for the first CVE addressed in the exploit's comment?
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I wanted to place a long bet about 10 years ago that Lance Armstrong would be exposed for using performance-enhancing drugs. It was after reading a New Yorker article on cycling that made it pretty clear that cheating was the rule. Even though evidence has emerged since then that he did cheat, I suspect I may have lost the bet based on the deadline.

I noticed the Ted Danson bet at that time (he hadn't won it yet!) and was amused.
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When N+1 is good, they are really good.

When N+1 hosts writers just out of college, this is what we get. It happens.

This is your typical "we're special because of xyz" conceit.

We all know what that is. We've all been there, and fortunately many of of have noticed and the next time is less severe.

The "we're special because humans never before did x" has been around since the beginning of time, and it's always right on some vapid level. The exciting thing is, we all still have blood, and thin skins, and bacteria who want to live in us but also want to eat us, and viruses who just want to subvert us. That doesn't change that much. Sure, lifespan doubles, hurrah.

This conceit is a cousin of ludditism, a 1st cousin that is, just with a different twist.

Enjoy your college writers. They are great entertainment. Nothing more.
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I'm amazed at some of these comments. People seem to be more upset at the article's headline than a government which routinely wastes money and creates problems. After all, the government can't exactly chalk up its (our) $12 trillion debt to tax cheats! Boondoggles like this must be happening on a daily basis.