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Hey there.

I'm sorry to hear that but I think you might have a lot of insights that would help us up and coming entrepreneurs if your willing to share.

Something else is your actual calling. Maybe its helping entrepreneurs?

PS: I'm not trying to sound trite. I mean this sincerely.
What I seriously wonder is, just how easy was it to write a virus in the days before protected memory? And by that I mean a virus that could do some pretty horrible things, I'm sure it was possible to destroy a disk or a printer or something by making them do things they should never get up to ...

Was it that before then people simply weren't writing malicious code and nobody even thought about safeguarding against it?

Furthermore, were banks and stuff ever running on OS's without protected memory? Because that ... that would've been awesome in its own little naive way.
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This made me laugh... Thanks.
I guess your audience is the backpacker type, the ones who travel for an extended period of time (3+ months). Have you thought of approaching travel agents who specialize in these sorts of holidays so you could somehow partner with them? No sure what the deal would be but I guess your audience is right there..
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Supporting a given business model in one industry doesn't mean that you must support the same business models in all industries, regardless of the different market conditions, in order to be consistent. That would be blind fundamentalism, not analysis.

ARM's business model is well matched to their market (mobile phone designers). Apple is selling to a different market (mobile phone users) with different requirements and dynamics, and so a different business model is appropriate.
Yes, his strategy is about the opposite. It relies on doing very good stock picking and then holding the stocks for a long time.

I wonder if buy and hold is as good of a strategy now as it was back when he started. He had the luck to start at a time from which there was a decades-long growth in the stock market.
This is what it looks like on my system:
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Options are:

Application and Distribution signed by: (None/Signed/Signed by Apple)

Apple ID Authentication: (iTunes, MacBuddy)

Server: (Porco, Localhost, Custom)

Show install progress in dock: (Firenze, App, App no launch,
Applications stack)
Checked out your site and as an avid backpacker found the idea pretty cool, but yes, it feels empty.

My experience is that backpackers tend to use Facebook a lot, so integrate your login with Facebook Connect for starters. Make it more social by hotels/restaurants/etc. having Like buttons that points to your site.

Create a Facebook group, where these people can get to know each other. It is also a good opportunity to advertise your page.

Try to fetch data from Google Maps/Yelp/Foursquare and put it on your site. Make badges and achievments like Foursqare does, that users can earn and show off. That makes them wanting to go back to your site and make activities.
Great post! It provides a good gedanken for sorting out how much inequality results from age and how much results from other factors.

If you made this scenario a little bit more complex, you could demonstrate how other forms of "inequality" are based, in part, on age:

1: Have everyone start with equal $50,000 salary at age 22, then get a raise of $3,000 per year until they hit 65. Everyone would still have equal lifetime earnings, but you would find significant income "inequality" when looking at the population as a whole.

2: Instead of a flat $3,000 per year raise, everyone gets a 3.5% raise each year until they hit 65. This is closer to real life than the scenario above, and would produce an even more "unequal" income distribution.
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I would suspect they could easily gain ground once they get some people working in Japan to get all the cultural "quirks". I don't use facebook myself, but everyone around me seems to use it quite a bit, Japanese as much as foreigner, but that's mostly relatively young population.
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I think the whole slice thing is great too. I didn't have time to look at slice or enlive but I will evaluate both of them for my next project.
Did you miss the bit where Jesus asserted power over death and came back to life after three days? The sacrifice was a blood sacrifice, not a soul sacrifice. Eternal suffering doesn't come into it.
When he said, quote-unquote, "retired" he most likely just meant that he is no longer forced to work for his substinance. He is still out there, he is just free to pursue exactly what he wants.
Hi jcr, thanks for the feedback, and for pulling out some positives!

Thanks for finding the bugs, I'll take a look asap.

I think you may be viewing the read-only task set, in which the checkboxes will soon allow you to download and forward the selected tasks.

The 'who' column is definitely under consideration.

I'm aware that a task management app can easily become something that's trying to cater for everyone. As this is the MVP at the moment I'll take your suggestions into consideration, so thank you I really do appreciate it.

In my eyes Google Spreadsheet is very generic, you could compare it to thousands of apps out there and argue that it is better. I'm really trying not to make another generic task manager, but one which is suited to teams working together in a multi-office environment.

To answer your question (if it is still required knowing my intentions a bit better), Google Spreadsheet requires you to sign up, it requires typing in fields such as a 'status' or a 'priority', it doesn't look as attractive, and it's always going to be branded as 'Google Docs'. Most importantly, it's not a task manager! Although it can solve a magnitude of problems, it's not exactly tailored to a specific one. Some would argue that it has more value, some would argue it has less.

I'm aware that this market is crowded, but I appreciate you believing I have a good start, and I really hope that the simple concept I'm trying to introduce will be noticed by a small fraction of the market out there who may find my product more suited to their business need than the product they are currently using.

Cheers!
It's really nice. Easy to understand and solves a problem. Yes there's other players but the ease of using it is outstanding.

I realize you've got to test your market but my recommendation would be to get the "subscribe/buy now" buttons hooked up and mention its a 48 hour turnaround. Then when you get someone paying for it, write that functionality in those 48 hours.

Gary
I love having physical buttons. They're always in the same place, and I can find them without looking at the screen.
This is a valid point, but I think it's changing. I spent October to December in Japan, and the iPhone is HUGE there now (whereas a year ago, I didn't see one). I'd guess that 30% of the people I saw on the train used an iPhone.
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The reason deduplication won't help much with large mail archives is that it operates at the block level. In order to be effective, you need to have two copies of the same data that are also divided along the same block boundaries (the second part is arguably the bigger problem).

Also, many applications will already try avoiding duplicate data to varying degrees which makes dedup even less beneficial (backup utilities, VCSes, etc).

If you are dealing with a lot of text, though (like in a mail archive, or with lots of source code) compression really shines. It has way less memory overhead, pretty low CPU overhead, and it can significantly increase disk throughput.

You'll notice I was careful to say "under many common workloads" in my other post, it was because of all this. For most people, most of the time, there would just be no real benefit and a decent performance hit with dedup.

Edit: to clarify
Thank you, for reverting the decision. Or it could be a two other high karma, good people, voting for me. Either way, I am happy.
I really wish they'd get rid of the hardware back button.

Some apps, like the gmail app, use it to mean "go back up one level in the UI" - for example from reading a mail back up to the list of mail in your inbox. Other apps, like the browser and maps, use it to mean go back through your history (just like the back button in a desktop web browser).

It causes just enough cognitive dissonance that I frequently end up trying to use it for the wrong thing. It's very annoying.
I agree. Actually, at my age (approaching middle age), that 'retirement' word, doesn't sound right ... it may mean either 'resigned', 'lazy', 'tired' and other negatives... and success can indeed make you 'lazy' and 'fat'... so may be I read more into it. Personally, don't like that 'retirement' word. At-least not till I am actually forced to do :)

So my role models are people like Vishy Anand, who at 41, is still the world chess champion (I believe, hacking is also as energy-needing as playing chess)...
I would agree and disagree with you. Looking at just wealth inequality is, as you say, asking the wrong question. The real issue is earned wealth versus inherited wealth. Even the founding fathers were particularly wary of the problem of allowing unearned wealth to aggregate over several generations, and how that can eventually allow incompetency to rule over competency.

And, this doesn't apply simply to the issue of taxing direct inheritances, so it's not so easy to solve with taxation alone. Someone could easily not give their children a dime in direct inheritance, and just stick them high up in one of their companies with a nice, cushy multi-million dollar salary.
Somewhere deep under Cupertino, Jobs is currently beating some hapless dev with a beautifully designed baseball bat.
>Mobile will shift to commodity components at some point.

Selling tens of millions of a single hardware model doesn't count as commodity?

Even discounting that, ARM's business model doesn't preclude the emergence of 'commodity' ARM processors. Maybe such a shift might play to Intel's strengths, but then ARM has total domination of the mobile CPU market in their favour.

I have no idea where this market will go in say 10 year's time, but right here, right now ARM have a lot going for them and there are no short or medium term reasons to suspect that's likely to change.
I saw that comment and thought it was mine, so I was wondering why you were accusing me of being a spambot and was confused. Then I saw the username, I hope HN doesn't start to get overrun by spambots...
Haha, I used upvoted reddit comments for the "high quality" dataset and YouTube comments for the "low quality" one, I am sorry for the internet racism!
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Thank you, I was wondering where that 404 was coming from in the logs. I I'll change it now.
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There has been many studies for a long time (several decades) which show that as far as environment matters, what matters is not so much money, but what is called in sociology "cultural capital" (not sure it is the right expression in English). For example, in France (but I guess in other countries as well), children from teachers succeed much better than children from workers, even though income is not so much different. The ability to speak well, to dress well, manners, etc... matters a lot for getting high social status (through work, etc...), and they are valuable because of the inequality. If everybody has a certain quality, its value is almost zero, it is the same as resources in economy.

As for the origin of measured intelligence, I would be surprised about 50 % of intelligence which could be attributed to genetics if you mean IQ (I don't see how it would be consistent with the Flynn effect, for once). But I would rather avoid a discussion on IQ (I don't think it is very relevant to the discussion, as its correlation with success in modern societies is pretty weak, once above a minimal threshold).
What is the loophole that coevolution provides? I didn't realize there was a loophole to NFLT.
You shouldn't have notices on in a product environment anyway. In fact it would be best if you logged errors and show the user a nice little "Oops, a problem occurred" style message.
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I never understood this rationale for learning vim. Do you really spend a lot of your development time on random Unix boxes you and all of your friends lack root access to?
Hi Gary,

I really appreciate the feedback so thank you very much. It's great to know that you can see I'm trying to address a specific problem, and not become another generic task management app.

I will follow your advice, which echoes what another startup founder has said to me, so hopefully I'll have the sign up in place this week.

Cheers
I'm pretty sure our children will be talking about how pg was thoroughly proven wrong in this. What percentage of americans go to college? pg's quote seems to assume most will but I suspect it's the exact opposite. This means you are getting a small percentage of "late bloomers" and a lot of people who's only education was appallingly bad. Your late bloomers aren't going to do you much good when the majority of all people who vote are ignorant.
Hi, I like the ability to rapidly get started and quickly share (far better than Remember The Milk on that point).

There are other apps/services in competition but that is ok - proves there is some semblance of a market out there.

I'd say you should get it infront of as many potential customers as possible ASAP so you can move from hypothesizing about customers to having validated learning about them.

You're right to release early - you need to start qualifying WHO will pay and how MUCH pretty soon (if you wish to turn this into a profitable business).

Your unique selling point may well be the speed/ease of use and ease of sharing. I'd pay at least £1 per month for that.

Hope that's useful feedback?

Matt Green
There are really two markets for processors: consumer electronics, and real computing. ARM may be the best processor (whatever that means, as it's a design you license, not a piece of hardware) for looking at ads on a 3" display, but I think Intel is still going to be relevant in the server market for a while. Think about some of Intel's key assets like being really fast and having a C++ compiler that makes C++ even faster. This is important because programmers write horrendous code that needs hardware assistance to produce answers in a reasonable amount of time. (There are also problems to solve that require a lot of CPU power, like protein folding and finding the next Mersenne prime. ARM processors are not used for this.)

Now, if you're saying, "yeah, but not for desktops", I can agree with you. Desktops are going to become less and less powerful as the average computer user becomes more and more computer illiterate ("the Facebook dumb terminal", I'll call it), and ARM may help keep the cost down. But I'm probably not going to be running Emacs on an ARM box anytime soon. (Hell, I even use x86 for my router.)
Don't you think the slow part is the link between your modem and the ISP? My guess is that the buffer you are filling is your TCP write buffer. If I make mine tiny, then scp reports what my bandwidth actually is.

I blame scp because it chooses a moving-average algorithm instead of an instantaneous rate-of-change measurement.

I don't have this problem with my UMTS dongle; ping times are about half a second, but TCP works fine at this latency. You need a big buffer to keep the data flowing, though.
>And, as bad as the US is on an absolute scale, I'm having trouble finding some place better.

Then you're either putting impossible requirements on the new place (e.g. "and my friends have to all live there") or you're simply not looking. Throw a dart at western Europe. Any of those places will provide a better quality of living for most people.
Make sense. Although given that Honeycomb (next version of Android for Tablet) mandates dual core processor how this applies?
Exactly. My point was that programming isn't too different than most other fields in this respect. This is easy to forget if the only other programmers you actually meet are top silicon valley hotshots.
The audience right now is focused on the backpacker type, but I want to eventually give it a feel as a go-to place to add your travel stories.

My idea is to eventually have backpackers in europe, a family going to disney land, or people taking a small trip who update their pics and status on facebook use the site.

And yes, I have looked in the travel agents but to no avail. At first I wanted to develop APIs that I would trade in exchange for their clients as my users. I've also pitched having them fund the development of a tool in exchange to use that tool for free. No one bit
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Yes, but to use those Vim commands your cursor already has to be at the right place. The main thing that slowed me down with Vim was moving my cursor to the right place, not executing commands. Having a mouse makes it dead easy to move your cursor to the right place. I only gave double-clicking and triple-clicking as examples because I think clicking and dragging to highlight might be what slows down many click-and-type editor users.
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That reductio ad absurdum, and most likely not what the OP meant. The idea that a fair society is one where inequalities are rather low is not exclusive to extreme left ideologies. How you articulate inequality and justice is one of the most pertinent way to describe right vs left ideologies, and economics do not preclude either view (up to a certain degree).

If you read serious works about how fairness and inequality relate in modern democracy (for example John Rawls), you will realize that the concept is certainly worth of consideration. Being of a normative nature, it is obviously a matter of personal judgement and opinion, but the idea that inequalities are mostly bad by nature cannot be dismissed as naive, stupid or both.

Finally, I have never seen any serious economic work which claim that inequality was necessary for an health economy. There is a lot of studies about policies which tried to decrease inequalities with disastrous consequences, of course, but that's different.
Theologically Jesus is to have suffered all that humans can suffer. So, even though He resurrected in 3 days, that doesn't mean He couldn't have experienced an eternity of torment. By His own account, He experienced complete abandonment by God.
Is that what you plan to do with flotype.com...?
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Facebook Connect is in the works. I was thinking of having an internal like button to use with the internal point system each user gets for being active.

facebook group already exists and it has supporters.

I will look into those sources to populate the site with info.

Aside from it being new and empty, is there anything off the top of your head, as a backpacker, that would make you not want to use the site?
thank you, will look into this
Thanks, I had no idea how to do that
> but I find it fairly meaningless

Why? I don't find your hint helpful; I have a pretty good idea what an epistemological state is but no idea what an "ethical state" or "aesthetical state" would be.

The meaning seems perfectly clear to me: human nature, with all its cognitive biases and imperfections of memory and perception and limited thinking speed and imagination and so forth, makes it very unlikely that you will ever really be in the situation of having to choose between definitely-for-certain killing one person and definitely-for-certain letting one die, with definitely-for-certain no other options.

Now, that isn't (as jerf already pointed out) EY's actual argument, it's a hypothetical argument he put in someone's mouth and described as a dodge. He is, I think, endorsing something along the same lines:

It is unlikely that you will ever be in such a situation and, empirically, situations at all like that are very rare. So quite likely, even if you think you are in such a situation the probability that you actually are is low. On the other hand, you're extremely likely to encounter situations where you have the opportunity to harm people while convincing yourself you're doing good overall.

Accordingly, it may very well be that net expected utility is optimized by having you follow principles like "the end justifies the means". Even when it seems to you that you're in an exceptional case where you shouldn't. In other words, consequentialists should sometimes behave like deontologists.

But some hypothetical superintelligence (EY isn't AIUI talking about a perfected future hypothetical self, by the way) might well have a much better ability to tell what situation it's in and what options it has, and much less tendency to be corrupted and self-deceiving in the same ways as we are. If so, it would not be appropriate for it to operate on the principle that the ends don't justify the means -- at least, not if the ultimate goal is to maximize net expected utility. Consequentialist AI-designers might not do best to program their AIs to act like deontologists.

I have no idea what makes you think that EY's aim is to say "look at me, I'm so clever"; for what it's worth, I find his argument clearer and less word-salad-y than yours. (Especially the weird paragraph about Jesus.)

And no, your purported summary is not accurate, for at least the following reasons: (1) EY didn't say anything about hypothetical future versions of himself, and (2) as jerf pointed out EY said in so many words that the "I refuse to answer your question because I couldn't in that epistemological state" response is "a dodge" and that one ought to have better answers to such questions. (Though he does think -- as AIUI you do too -- that this specific question may not deserve a more serious answer.)
No, when people say the ends don't justify the means, they mean that even if certain means lead to a very good outcome, they should still never be done. So, these means could be justified in some sense, yet they are still unacceptable.
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Between switching to Windows and switching to tea, I would go with tea. Switching to *BSD, OTOH, would probably be better than tea.
I am apparently one of the few developers that doesn't find it boring to write tests after the code. I actually find it more tedious to write it beforehand, in many cases.

Generally, any time that I know exactly where the code is going and how it's going to do it, I write the tests afterwards to actually test the code, instead of the time-honored practice of fiddling with it manually and hoping nothing gets missed. Any time that I am at all unsure where the code is going, writing the tests beforehand is usually better.
Good to see you know your target users. Maybe you can outline example use cases somewhere in the copy. It might be be enough to persuade potential customers that they need your product. =)
De-ontological ethics are hierarchically ordered. If one must choose between a lesser and greater good, one must choose the greater good. But, that doesn't make the action ontologically right.

I.e. stealing qua stealing is always wrong, but it is right to steal to feed a starving family, if stealing is necessary. However, stealing is still wrong.
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