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Instead of navigating with tabs, you can try this in your .emacs:

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Very speedy buffer-changing that's hard to beat.
I can give you countless of examples in San Francisco.
My local grocery shop, run by a greek man, has always prices about %50 cheaper, than the big corp grocery store few blocks down. And more selection. Sometimes I can't believe how cheap (and good) things are.

Go anywhere in china town, and you will see rock bottom prices, on everything, grocery store, clothing, nick nacks, you name it. Even in the Mission in sf, there are plenty of cheap small grocery stores, run by family.

Go to the next door calmart, and you paying almost twice as much for the same stuff.
It is simple to ask for money. A lot of apps don't even contemplate doing that.

The hard part though is getting the person to actually give it to you. In order to do that, you need to create something they value, which means, partly, not giving it all away for free in the first place.
Well I certainly wouldn't be opposed to people posting youtube videos that show novel and unexpected consequences of youtube's technology being available.
A Librarian's Worst Nightmare: Yahoo! Answers, where 120 million users can be wrong.
If you are just browsing, reading stuff, Safari rules.
However, if you are developing a website, use Firefox.
Why municipal wireless networks have been such a flop.
For security reasons you need more than one browser anyway. One for webmail, banking and all kinds of private password-protected stuff, and the second one - for the rest. Which is which doesn't really matter, although personally I chose Safari for important stuff and Firefox for the rest.

One of the reasons I do this, in case you are not aware, is the IFRAME flaw, that allows a malicious web site to load, say, your bank's page into a hidden IFRAME, check to see if you are logged in and then - you guessed it.

(I just thought actually, could be the other way around, because vulnerabilities in Firefox are better known and more often exploited by not-so-trustworthy sites. So maybe it'd be smarter to use Safari for "the rest" and Firefox - for your banking, PayPal, eBay, webemail, etc.)
This really depends on what you consider "private".

Do I give a damn that double-click knows that I was at reddit for 20minutes and then came to YC for an hour prior to quickly checking facebook? No, not really.

Do I care that facebook will let advertisers know I live in Vancouver BC? Not all that much, unless they start spamming.

Do I care that anyone knows my cc info? Damn right I do! Do I care that companies provide info to government? Yes, again I do, although I might not be aware of this.

I don't think it's that people aren't concerned, it's just that there are different levels of concern. People freak if a company looses SIN/SSN's, but not so much if they distribute email.

You're just witnessing the effects of falling out of sync a bit with the degree that is the norm.
How YouTube stifles creativity
I'd really love it if Netflix allowed us to own and export our ratings. Even better, provide a web service so we could integrate it on other social sites. I see sites like Flixster who want me to rate movies and I think, "I have to rate these 1,500 movies AGAIN? Why can't I just import them from Netflix?"

IMDB, I'm talking to you, too.
Gears of War - The Google product that could augur the death of Microsoft
Thanks, iJigg. http://tipjoy.com/joy/2385/
No, not even close. SPF is not a spam prevention measure. It's just a way of protecting innocent senders from being impersonated by spammers. DKIM does a better job at the same purpose.
Wow. This is really enlightening; I thought that the computational method was going to open a new phase in disease treatment, but you seem to say here that the empirical method is on its way to making it useless. So the Pande group at Stanford is wasting their time. Interesting.
I would be, to be honest.

I feel the high quality content of this site is being degraded a lot.
The Best Computer Upgrade Ever
that has to be a math mistake. With only 8916 tips, that dollar amount would require each tip to average $1132668.28 which doesn't seem to hold true...
The Federal Bureau of Luddites
What the heck does your product do?

edit: scratch that, I figured it out. So, what makes you think the RIAA aren't going to knock on your doors tomorrow?
yeah its a funny looking number.

$1,132,668.28 per tip ? LOL what bs
My understanding is that people can tip someone else and pay the bill thereafter. Is there a check in place then to make sure the tips are not outrageous amounts either by mistake or as a prank?
This is pretty funny. I need to add some sanity checks. Unless a real check of that value is coming our way
New discovery proves 'selfish gene' exists
Customer Relationship Management = Job Satisfaction — Zen-Moments
I'm still sticking with Safari. Safari UX is just..nicer. To me, that is.

On the other hand, Firefox is definitely powerful and I love some of the addons, so I'll use it for development purposes - a lot of Firebug etc., have become moot with Safari's new and hot developer tools, but I still need to do some Firefox-specific things. But I don't want to spend so much time customizing how it looks/behaves.
wow. downmodded for answering his question.
I've lived and shopped in the bay area, and I honestly don't know what you're talking about. Sure, I'm sure you can find an item at one store that's cheaper than a "similar" item at another store. But to claim that your local grocer or the vendors in chinatown are getting the same upstream prices as Walmart (!) is just madness. Seriously: go to a Walmart some time (you'll obviously need to get out of SF for this; I vaguely remember there being one in Fremont) with a notepad, find some prices on whatever you want, then go find an identical item at a locally-owned place.
Never Before Seen Bill Gates Photos
"So the Pande group at Stanford is wasting their time."

I wouldn't go quite that far. The research is definitely speculative, but lots of interesting things can come from speculative research. My point is that you don't do research into protein structure prediction with the intent of finding anything useful. It's basic science.

We can (and occasionally do) learn things from computer models of proteins. But the PR in this field has been seriously exaggerating the results of a few of the more prominent researchers. We're a long way from curing diseases or designing drugs with this stuff.
As a user, I don't really care. I figure I don't have any privacy anyway, so I might as well get over it.

As a developer, I care about not being evil. And part of that is understanding that some users have different beliefs than me and it's wrong to force my standards on them. I don't have a problem with opt-in mechanisms that destroy your privacy though, eg. lifestreaming or social networking.
The main reason I stick with FF is for Firebug and the Del.icio.us plugins.
Isn't this an exploding term sheet only reverse the typical?
Oops...that third paragraph should read:

"the vast majority of proteins are much larger than 150 residues."
I don't understand what's so hard to understand about the bootstrap business plan. I'll repeat it:

(1) Consult. (2) Take a half salary. (3) Use the other half to pay for an FT dev. (4) Wean off consulting with product revenue. (5). Vary as necessary.

If you call the developers at my company "half-assed" because of the consultants who currently pay their salary, I'll take offense. Tony Wright is smart, has an awesome product, and has done this before. What's his problem?
I'm not sure why I'm responding to someone who didn't seem to actually read the post, but...

It's not a question of whether customers will pay (and that's not what the post is about). It's a question of how many customers will pay and how quickly they sign up.

No one would argue (I hope) that Basecamp doesn't solve a real problem... But it took them 12 months before they could afford to focus on it full-time.

SpanningSync looks cool and quite successful. So does PlentyOfFish, but that doesn't mean that you're any likelier to build an overnight AdSense money machine.

Most bootstrappers I meet think that SpanningSync stories are the norm. They aren't.
Why not just use different profiles and run multiple instances of Firefox?
I agree that's a great plan (so would 37s, I imagine!). But it's not the one that most people follow because of (IMO) insanely optimistic projections about organic growth/sales fueled by (presumably) word of mouth and, er, TechCrunch.

Depending on the market timing-- the half-assed effort might kill you, too. People who bet big can win big, and people who hedge can lose as a direct result of their hedging-- so I don't think your formula is perfect for all markets or goals.

The half-assed stuff is from a headline from a previous post of mine (that was syndicated on VentureHacks and in BusinessWeek). You're the first to take umbrage that I'm aware of. It was playful and tongue-in-cheek, but you're welcome to take offense if it suits you.
YouTube isn't a YCombinator startup.
Yes, the VC people have it right. It is much simpler to spend 6 months hoping for the money fairy to appear, and then give up when it doesn't.
Taking offense always suits me. My question for you: what does it matter whether your market projections are wrong if your company has cash flow? I look at the funded companies that aren't cash flow positive in their 2nd and 3rd years of operation and wonder why people think that's such an awesome plan.
FF3, here's why: 1) Add-ons. I can customize more than Safari and plugging into the cloud today is more important than ever. 2) Safari is snappy but the new release of FF puts it on par if not over the top. Safari is way better for pr0n surfing, however :P
This article simply ignores the fact that 37Signals was a thriving business before. they. launched. product. It could have taken them ten years for people to start paying for Basecamp. They would not have gone under.
Still running Safari, no reason or need to switch.
Look at any Mac software company and you will see it again and again --- the white whale of entrepreneurialism! --- companies that achieved success without taking a dime from investors.
The debate topics were supposed to be focused on tech issues.
Link to actual framework: http://www.sproutcore.com/about/

I'm confused.. how is this Apple's Javascript library? It was not written by Apple and the author (and his company) don't appear to have any affliation with Apple..
2. ^ Robbery caught on JTV (justin.tv)

should be all you need to know to avoid this, if it troubles you so much. There's nothing technologically interesting about this, but I thought it was an interesting window into what sort of community justin.tv is creating.
I think caring and awareness are two different things.

Those who are aware definitely care. Unfortunately, a large percentage of the population don't understand the value of the information they share so freely.
yeah i'm wondering the same
I'm really not that impressed by it. There is nothing there that is any more impressive than Dojo, MooTools, or jQuery.
But then people just hack it so it stays on high flow.
Successful stories (bootstrapped or not) aren't the norm. Period.

Most (if not all) bootstrappers are optimistic (and thus willing to risk steady paying job) about their product(s). As are result, they think SS stories are the norm. This will sound strange but if you don't think that way, you will already have lost half the battle.
Re: 1.

If you login (top right), it'll show you the number of unique visitors.
That was very enjoyable to watch. While I have little interest in Microsoft anymore, I have a lot of respect for Bill Gates and the road they paved.
Actually, he pretty much states that fact directly. 37signals already had the money to survive long term. This article specifically addresses people who think they can work on products full time without a plan for paying the bills for 12 to 18 months (or maybe longer), because its going to take that long to start a business from scratch and generate significant revenues.
They did not have the money to survive long term. They had a business that generated cash flows. There's a huge difference. They didn't inherit it.

My point is, you can do the exact same thing. If you have the talent, consult. Tens of thousands of developers spend their entire lives freelancing. Consulting dev work is not a crazy pipe dream. Now, instead of dropping all your 1099 wages into your bank account, create an LLC, get it an ING account, and send your money there. Hire. BANG. Now you're a business. Go do something cool.
If I can run them simultaneously, then why not. Is it possible with FF?
And audiotrack, to go with the slideshow.

I enjoyed this.
A Few Thoughts on How to Improve Google Friend Connect
Apple extended and renamed the library.
Safari to surf, Firefox to develop because of Firebug.

So far though, I am very unimpressed with the interface choices they made with Firefox.
Is there some reason that alpha-males like Steve Ballmer always wear pink shirts? A play for contrast?
The author of Sproutcore is also the head of .mac UI development group at Apple. He had a previous startup (which might still exist?) that sold a corporate webmail product, built on top of Sproutcore. Apple hired him to work on .mac. Sproutcore is what's underneath the apps in Apple's forthcoming MobileMe service.
Yahoo! Auto-Resignation Tool
It could be an attempt to project an image of innocence.
Or could be a self put down. Something like: I will wear ping, so I better make it up in behaviour.
vimperator means that as much as i love webkit, i'll never leave firefox's insane quasi-native interface.
My 10 Mobile Developer Tips
You're hiding behind an anonymous account too?
Really? How would I enable this? I don't see anything in prefs for Safari 3.1.1.
I work for a bootstrapped company. Back in 1999 the guy had to borrow $50,000 from his mom because his credit card debt was too much. He was getting about $5000 a month from the sale of a small travel company he sold to the co-founder.

Once he figured out what would work (and that took awhile after a few missed tries) he had his market and intial funding based upon a really bad working demo I created (that would break when more then 1 person was using it at a time and I would have to reboot the server after about 5 minutes or so). The intial funding came from the customers who were going to use it. There were 40 and each paid $3,000. That was enough money to hire some very inexpensive "programmers" from a local trade school and we were able to upgrade the demo into a full product.

The company is doing just fine, has 4000 monthly subscribers, I am making him a new product and I believe he will double the number of subscribers.

I did just read the article :) But I am familiar with bootstrapping. On my own I am about to release "OfficeZilla Pro" and pray that there is enough take up to at least pay the $500 a month hosting bill. I am working on versions for vertical markets and one day will see it to profitability.
I don't understand why bootstrappers are any more unrealistic than YC applicants or anyone else starting a company. Folks in the "talking to VC's" loop are often woefully unrealistic about how long it will take to raise funds (and 199 out of 200 won't). Tony writes a great headline but if it's taking longer than he anticipated to make a profit with Rescue Time perhaps he might have abridged the post to the need to focus on the profit model earlier. I find bootstrappers who are consulting in parallel with product and customer development--provided they are working with at least one other person--to be more grounded in reality than the individuals or teams who are seeking money from investors before they have a viable application with paying customers.
you ment alpha-whale?
Those two and AdBlock---though I just discovered an ad blocker on pimpmysafari.com. (For the record: I use Firefox.)
Neither, really...OmniWeb is better. Technically it is now using the Safari engine, but the browser itself is superior to Safari.

It has very nice per-site preferences, really smart privacy options, plug-in management, etc.
ZFS slated for Snow Leopard...
No.

But if you haven't learned anything new about programming since two days after you started, you're doing it wrong.
Is it the weakness of the modeling or the lack of computational horsepower that limits the research in this area? And would you mind linking to your papers?
Yeah. It was The Road Ahead that caused them trouble.
Ask HN: Charge money on top of SMS?
I have what I think is a VERY promising idea for a (geo-spatial) SMS-service.

Or at least it is promising in the sense that people would want it, however making money is always the problem :)

But if customers send an SMS to my site and I send one back then I can charge money for this service right?

Would it be reasonable to charge 10cents for an SMS that costs 70cents to send or what kind of profits are good to start with?

What services/companies do you recommend for this?

Why isnt twitter doing this?
It depends on if your a Mac person using Emacs, or an Emacs person using Mac.

What I mean by that is that Aquamacs does things in a Mac way (e.g., storing preferences in Library/Preferences/Aquamacs Emacs/ instead of .emacs, and creating key bindings similar to other Mac apps).

I started using Emacs on Linux, and when I got a Mac, I first started with Aquamacs, but eventually switched just for consistency.

Just remembered something. Another thing that I didn't like (although it's customizable) is that instead of opening a new buffer in a window, Aquamacs' default was to open it in a new frame.
Nuclear is something everyone wants, just not within a 60 mile radius of where they live.
I've lived in SF for a long time, and I don't believe this, either. The prices might be 50% cheaper than Whole Foods, but not 50% cheaper than Safeway. If Cala Foods is what is meant by "calmart" the description could be accurate - Cala Foods is overpriced. But they are like a slightly bigger, semi-franchised mom and pop shop, not a big corporate chain.
Command + F then start typing what you're looking for on the page. Command + G will proceed to the next instance of your search phrase on the page.
I'm disappointed that it doesn't encompass the "tin-smithing" letter.
Safari is a resource suck? I always thought it was more efficient than FF.
That doesn't pass the notability test in my book.
I have to agree. Bill Gates is cool; Microsoft isn't. Both have good and bad deeds, but on the whole, the former has good karma, and the latter doesn't.
I really enjoyed that. When Bill talks about growing Microsoft, and the early days, it always make me remember really great products like early Excel and Word, and the sheer excitement when MS Access (Cirrus) came out.

It's kind of a shame that BG kinda let the technical aspect get out of control. The state of current MS tools, critical stuff like VS2005, is deplorable in comparison to the tight good performing code that MS used to have. I remember laughing at early versions of NetBeans, but slightly clunky though it is, I would much rather be in NetBeans than in VS.

This sloppiness is all over the most recent versions of Office also, and it seems pretty clear that the race to the bottom in software hiring has really hurt Microsoft, especially with the devastating mess that was the Longhorn 'reboot' and Vista mess.
It is, however, hilarious.
It makes sense to not be cash flow positive in the 2nd and 3rd year if you can show that investing in R&D or sales/marketing will accelerate growth by a nice factor. I think you're oversimplifying.
Unless I'm mistaken, Safari can't do this:

There's the "logout" link on this page, I just start typing l-o-g..., and once it gets highlighted, I can hit return and it'll click the link for me. Or if I need to go to the next word, I can still hit command+G. I don't have to invoke Find either, I can just start typing.
That's a matter of debate. Some people think that the problem is search limited, others think that the current models are bad. In my opinion, the bulk of the evidence supports the latter conclusion.

Backchannel me, and I'll be happy to provide you with references to the papers I wrote/helped write. Most of them aren't open access, unfortunately.
Multiple Ruby security vulnerabilities
Get Cooking with the Webmaster Tools API
Build your own webmaster tools with Google’s APIs
YHOO - a contrarian view
Yahoo The Failure: Myth Versus Reality
More startups fail than exit successfully. "Investment years" are a gamble.
Erm... sorry, missed the point, why article from Sept. 12, 2006 was posted?..
Ion Microprobe Technology Reveals Earth was Habitable 4.3 Billion Years Ago
I know from experience that such shirts tend to come as gifts from hot girlfriends. So if there is any correlation between alpha-males and such shirts it is probably related to a correlation between alpha-males and hot girlfriends.
Will do. And thanks for the info, you may have spared me a decade or so of wasted effort.
Andrew Morton on kernel development
Type Inference vs. Static/Dynamic Typing
I worry that votes based on hilarity alone are the downfall of social sites everywhere.
Hmm, a compiler it may not be, but I doubt many college freshmen could do this as a first project.
... and is that Jerry's real email?
Java 7 should add closures. And in the mean time, most of the times you would be using closures, you can use anonymous inner classes.
Clarification: The upside of nuclear is obvious, but Joe sixpack is afraid of the China Syndrome, Three Mile Island scenarios and fears it being anywhere near them. Nuclear is far more environmentally safe and less life-threatening than any other form of energy production we have. The only referents we have of nuclear deaths we have are intentional (WWII) or communist idoicy (Chernobyl).

For comparison, coal-related deaths:
http://frankwarner.typepad.com/free_frank_warner/2006/01/us_...

Pollution:
http://www.ucsusa.org/clean_energy/coalvswind/c02c.html

Oil:
http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCEAN_PLANET/HTML/peril_oil_pol...
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN07427618

Pick your poison.
Twistori -- an experiment: discovering the feelings of our global consciousness (using twitter)
We Feel Fine: An exploration of human emotion, in six movements
Former Apple Dev Community Lead discusses Jaspersoft & how to build an open-source community
Birthday Party Themes
Kids birthday party themes
It's fine on its own, but any time a site is using Flash or, heaven forbid, an applet, it would jump right to the head of the line, even with 70 or 80 tabs open in FF2.
Unveiling Topspin
Thanks for the very detailed answer. Amazingly, I can follow the gist of it after over 10 years.

But, you still don't answer the question. What problems in compiler optimization are more important than problems in protein folding? You seems to indicate that protein folding is a basic science problem and not a "practically useful discipline". In fact, your statement "It would be great if we could predict protein structure accurately, but we can't, and until we can, it's not a practically useful discipline" says that the because the problem isn't solved, it's not important, but it will be important when it's solved. So, trying to solve the problem is important, no?

But, you don't say anything about compiler research, and specifically compiler optimization research and development, which you claimed is much more important. What specific areas in compiler optimization (or just in compiler design) are more important than protein structure prediction and modeling?
FF3. Apple developers succeeded in make Safari FEEL more solid but it crashes too often. I also wish Safari was as configurable as FF.
I wonder if they submitted this patent application in crayon. The abstract reads like it was written by a third grader.
Yeah, closures and anonymous inner classes would really redeem Java in the eyes of the masses.

Java is going, going, ...
This puts a huge smile on a guy who invented something brand new and either hears awesome or WTF? I work for those who say awesome and to the WTFs I will now send them this article :)