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I've tried xfce a few times in the past, but the absence of certain features ended up making it too annoying. For example, I could not navigate the main menu just by typing the initial letters of menus or programs; I either had to use the mouse, or the arrow keys. I also think (but might be mistaken) there was no way to assign different backgrounds to each desktop.

Unfortunately, looking around xfce.org, I couldn't find a place where I might learn if these things were implemented or not. Is there some place people an learn, for example, how menu navigation is handled, or how multiple desktops are configured?

http://docs.xfce.org just says, "Soonish this page will contain the Xfce users and developers documentation. "
Thinking about self-motivation goes back to the 1960s:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Theory_X_and_...
i think "how will you get users?" is a great question for whittling the field. any startup entrepreneur with experience knows that "viral effect" is not the answer, and a strategy is involved...especially if you don't have the valley resources at your disposal.

i'm assuming "why did you pick this project..." is all about the passion...
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I first tried Xfce 4.2 way back in the day: I hated it. Xfce 4.4 came out, and for a long long time I was convinced that it was the best thing since sliced bread. I've since moved on to tiling window managers, but Xfce will always be special to me.

Happy 4.8, Xfce!
That's the way it works for, say, civil engineering, and there's more women in civil engineering -- or at least studying and graduating it -- than in software engineering.

It would be rare for a new engineering grad to work under a 60-year-old engineer, typically the supervisors are much younger.
The problem with women in engineering is not really in terms of jobs, but the fact that most women just do not choose the profession.

Women that do go into engineering and do well in school usually have no problems finding jobs.
stereotypically dirty and male disciplines like civil and chemical engineering

I spent 10 years as a land surveyor and GIS cartographer, and during that entire time I met one (!) woman surveyor. CE is notorious for this.
I've always been annoyed that the list doesn't include one of the foundational books of modern statistics/casual inference, such as Ronald A. Fisher's The Design of Experiments (1935). What do people think are some books from 2000-2010 that might make such a list in 2100?
Unfortunately it doesn't work that way -- users are foolish and will shoot themselves in the foot quite often, all while blaming you. If there were an option to, for example, disallow sharing of X on app Y, users would click it without understanding why. Then, months later, since X isn't shared, feature Z of app Y doesn't work. But the user doesn't understand how this works (messaging in the app might make it better, but not all apps are going to do it right and not all users will understand anyways). Since it's broken, the user will blame Facebook -- Facebook is broken!! Except the silly user did it to themselves.

This has happened. Since most things on the site are an app, Photos is an app. There used to be an option which ultimately disallowed an app to post certain kinds of stories to your stream (I don't recall the details). You could set this option on the Photos app, meaning you would never see any more photo stories in your stream. The option was very buried, so people had to specifically go to Photos and turn on the option... and silly users did this, forgot about it, and then complained that Facebook was broken since they never saw photos stories. Nevermind that it was their own fault. This option has since been removed in one of the Platform permissions revamps recently (IIRC it was simply forced to "off" for all apps, with Photos and similar internal ones special-cased to be forced "on".)
The move away from 1920x1280 to the shorter 1920x1080 is unfortunate because it forces more content below the "fold".
Going through the YC application is a great exercise to go through for any founder. Keep your answers short. It will help you find your product's focus and remove the noise.
interesting to see ~66% thus far have not. sounds like there's a great talent pool in the HN community for startups to tap into.

i'm assuming most of those that haven't, have a strong passion for startups, but just haven't come across that world changing idea?
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I applied. Didn't make it to the interview, was kind of disappointed because I heard great things about YC. Anyway it didn't really put a damper on the project :)
but its not about running power - its about cooling costs, which IMHO makes up the bulk of a data center's expenditure.

I'm not sure if there has been any innovation in this area (shut off power AND cooling for certain areas in the data center)
Where does it say that? Because Social Network won.
I've sometimes told people that I have "shipness syndrome", I start to feel uneasy the longer my code goes undeployed and used.
I don't really want to give the impression that it's this totally intimidating atmosphere all the time, because it does fade with time, and most engineers learn to ask questions abundantly, and most engineers are also really great at answering questions. One of the most commonly cited perks of being at Google is the ability to ask anything of anyone. Have a question about HTML 5? Shoot hixie an e-mail. Digging into the internals of Python? Guido works there, as do a number of other core Pythonistas. Building a Go app? Rob Pike can answer.

That said, it is intimidating starting as a Noogler, largely because of the huge volume of proprietary material you need to learn. There's one true way to store structured data, and while it's open-sourced (Protobufs), you've probably never used it. There's a unified JavaScript library (Closure), but it wasn't open-sourced until recently. There're logging, and log-processing, and monitoring, and RPC, and cluster management systems to learn. There're a bunch of storage options, some of which you may've read about in public but never used (BigTable), some of which will be completely new to you.

The scale of problems that Google tackles is also bigger than most people are accustomed to. In a lot of the industry, a few-dozen node cluster is fairly large. At Google, thousands of machines are routine. Big-O notation can be ignored at a lot of shops, but at Google-scale, anything that runs in greater than O(N log N) will usually take centuries. Most frontend web devs never worry about latency; at Google, we care very much. A/B testing has recently made a lot of headlines and had some neat libraries developed for it, but its centrally ingrained in Google's feature development processes.

When you first start out - particularly if you're used to always having the answers, as many Google engineers were - that can be intimidating. There's suddenly so much you don't know, and yet you know (through Google's public reputation) that software obviously gets written there. Once in a while, it's even good software.

For your first few weeks, you probably won't even know what questions to ask, because there's such a volume of knowledge out there. Oftentimes, somebody's already solved your problem, but you don't know about it because it might never occur to you that someone's already solved it. There're also things that Google pays attention to that many other shops don't - in many other employers, you'll never have to deal with internationalization, or handling Chinese characters, or right-to-left languages, or XSS, or managing HTTP resources when you have a large fleet of potentially-out-of-sync webservers. When I started doing code reviews for the websearch webserver, the tech lead said, "We don't expect you to know everything, but we expect that by now you've learned enough to know when you need to ask someone."
From my experiences as an intern I can say that it has been quite the opposite. You get to mingle with all the unassuming icons of CS and Machine Learning. In fact the problem for me was not that it was intimidating, but that it was too easy to put your foot in your mouth.

If you aren't paying attention to the name tags, you could well be explaining some C curiosity to Kerninghan, explaining longest common subsequence to someone who wrote the diff for unix. They would listen to you patiently and thank you. May be also subtly point out an error in your argument, while you never realize whom you were talking to, until much later.

The Kerninghan incident did not happen, but several similar incidents did.

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Yes: can't fail. They've already won. They may stop being #1, but they've entirely changed changed the game. The Google legacy will live on.

I know what you mean, and I'm not trying to start a war of semantics. My point is given what Google has already done they can only be rightly called successful. I wouldn't consider AOL a failure; nor would I consider Microsoft a failure; nor Facebook, even if something bigger a better comes along (and, in time, I think it will).
Yeah, also "died out more than 5,000 years prior." Not to mention describing the dimensions of a "working" wooly mammoth.
Sure, but you don't need to cool heat you haven't generated.
I'm not sure which of my outrageous claims you are disputing. :D

Everything you do in life involves sales skills. Getting better sales skills is going to make you more money. Even if you worked in some high-fallutin' ivory tower institution you still need to go cap in hand begging for funding. Every job interview is a sales situation, every annual review etc.

Are you disputing the claim about help desk having a high turn-over? Have you even worked in IT? Seriously.

As for programmers making such big salaries, outside of anomalies like Microsoft, Google and Facebook, good luck with that one. Try comparing against electricians, plumbers and carpenters. Or even the bloke who owns his own lawn mowing business. Yes, I know apprentice jobs are shitty and they make peanuts, but after their apprenticeship is over, they can make big bucks.

For big $ as a wage slave, try medical. Oh, you're such a delicate precious genius as a programmer, but couldn't cut it (sic) as a Doctor, Dentist or GP? Guess maybe you're not as special or smart as you think you are.

A lot of programmers who think they are God's gift to the information age need to pull their head out and go outside. Even a garbo can make good $ (and it's great for your immune system!)
I imagine there's as many reasons as there are people.

When I last co-founded something, we didn't apply to YC because we weren't at all interested in moving to Silicon Valley, even for a summer, and we could raise money on our own.

No plans to apply to YC in the future for pretty much the same reasons.
Cool, it deserved it. It was an excellent movie. The Social Network was my own personal pick for "best movie of 2010", although - to be fair - I didn't see every movie released in 2010. But I would rank it above Inception, Shutter Island, Tron:Legacy, True Grit, Harry Potter, and Red - out of the other good movies that come to mind from last year.

Nice pacing, good acting, great score, inspirational, entertaining, thought-provoking, it really had everything. It was a great trip inside the world that a lot of us live in / aspire to live in. Maybe a non-hacker wouldn't see it in quite the same light, but I really thought it was just excellent.
According to this link someone else found [1], they claim to use 0.0003 kWh electricity per amortized search, which at e.g. 0.06 USD/kWh (typical [2]) is 1.8*10^-5 USD, or 0.26% of search costs (according to the estimates in the article).

[1] http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/powering-google-searc...

[2] http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epm/table5_6_a.html
A baseline comparison is all that is needed. If a story gets about as much coverage as any random fluff piece about a star tripping on the sidewalk, then no it is not really being covered.
The subtle implication of what you said is that the problem is with the women rather than the culture.
> Javascript is a great language, way ahead of it's time.

No. Javascript is at best a nod toward better-designed languages implemented two decades ago, or more. Look at Self, and Lisp before that. It's really appalling that the sort of flexibility Javascript provides is just now reaching the mainstream, in two-thousand fucking eleven.

If I'm missing something (and you're well-versed in the history of programming language design), feel free to tell me otherwise.
Sounds like between the second and third applications you found the right idea. What changed between the third and fourth, both of which had the same idea but one of which worked?

Not that anything necessarily had to change; YC has said before that because of where they have to draw the line, they almost certainly reject some good startups.
Is it better to apply early while I look for cofounders or wait till I find them and then apply?
I've been waiting for this since I was 7 years old and read a story in National Geographic about scientists finding a well-preserved Mammoth in the arctic tundra that still had plant matter in its stomach.
I was happy to see that Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross won for the score they composed. Reznor has been one of the most forward thinking guys in the music industry, adapting to the new environment of leaks, torrents, and social networking, without resorting to legal threats against his fans (like Metallica or Gene Simmons for example).
Why do we need publishers at all? If all it takes to make an ebook is the story itself, couldn't authors publish their own work directly to ebook distributors, without anyone else needing to get involved?

My iPhone apps could have certainly benefited from marketers and QA ('editors'), but neither were pre-reqs to getting my app on the store.
Well, yeah, I'd like to see that too. Just like ruby or PHP, only with JavaScript syntax.

Sorry for pointing the obvious;
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(In a related estimate, 0.0003 kWh/search means 54 CPU-core-seconds of indexing per search, assuming (without any justification and probably wrongly) that (i) most electricity consumption is by CPUs during indexing and (ii) they are using x86 machines with about 20W/core power consumption. I'm sure someone else here can fix/improve this estimate.)
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Nope. I periodically mull it over, but I didn't have a suitable product or situation prior to quitting and starting AR.

AR could be suitable, but I'm not 100% sure that I want to commit to seeking the sort of trajectory which results in a positive outcome for YC. I couldn't in good conscience take their money without committing.

If I was prepared to commit, YC would be the first to know.
Good ole stackoverflow - close topics that may bring new ideas for turing tests.

The entire thread has a number of good ideas and relates to a thread you started the other day. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2107972 Pity that it didn't get more traction.
Of course it is outrageous, but once again the publishers are simply repeating the playbook that has served the music and movie industries so well: treat your customers like thieves, wait a few years, harvest a nice crop of actual thieves.
Oops, just noticed that typo. Too late to edit that title now though, but either of those two work.
There has been a form of innovation - in some server farms that consist of thousands of interchangeable computers, they simply don't try to cool them, and instead just exchange air with the outdoors (possibly with a bit of filtering). If your software doesn't mind having nodes frequently drop out due to overheating, then it apparently is cheaper to replace melted CPUs than to keep them all cool.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/msdatacenters/archive/2011/01/04/...
It's about time they did some work. Those lazy bastards have been sitting around doing nothing for over 5,000 years!
In theory, pg has already 'admitted' it to ben twice, now:

We realize this process is fraught with error. It's practically certain that groups we rejected will go on to create successful startups. If you do, we'd appreciate it if you'd send us an email telling us about it; we want to learn from our mistakes.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=70062
I've never really understood the fear of appearing dumb in comparison to people who are smarter or more knowledgable than you. Isn't it true in sw dev that almost everyone can be dumb relative to other people? Almost everything can be learned with dedication and effort and the better the people you sorround yourself with are, the faster you level up.

And isn't being the dumbest person in the room/company a blessing? This just means that people are paying you to increase your skills and learn from people better than you. How much better can a job get?

I have no intention of ever working for Google but the "lots of people there are way smarter than you" would be the biggest draw if I did.

edit: Now that I think about it, my habit of asking "stupid" questions (not only about technology) and the fact that I don't really care what people think of me when I do so have stood me in good stead especially with advancing age.

I've seen many friends get stuck trying to maintain the illusion of knowledge or understanding and "live in fear" of "being exposed for the ignoramus I am". I don't really care if someone thinks I am an idiot as long as I learn something. Attaching your ego to the perception of others is a dangerous hang up imho
Even if it "encourages" it hardly justifies it. It is breaking the law, plain and simple. I'm rather tired of people shifting the blame to the content producers or publishers. If you're going to break the law, at least own up to it and don't try to shift the blame.
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Of course they can miss stuff for a whole stack of reasons, and it's not even certain they have made a mistake - I just assume they have and everyone who's not accepted should do so too, to think otherwise about your own startup would be retarded heh.
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I'm almost completely deaf and it severely inhibits my ability to meet groups of people to the point that I avoid groups. Despite this, I'm still willing meet people or at least understand the transition process of making ideas reality.

Is anyone deaf or met one that is deaf as well? How deaf are you? What was the experience like? As in, were you able to understand in groups? And also able to pitch ideas well? How do you handle using phones/teleconferences?

Ask any question of me if you want. I don't mind any questions.

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Can someone with experience point out the major gnome vs xfce differences? Other than performance, I haven't really had too much of an issue with that.
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A solution might be to have the CarKit wired in to disarm the engine immobilizer, much like car key security fobs do already. This would let you then leave a "normal" non-security ignition key in the car without too much worry.
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>One of the most commonly cited perks of being at Google is the ability to ask anything of anyone. Have a question about HTML 5? Shoot hixie an e-mail. Digging into the internals of Python? Guido works there, as do a number of other core Pythonistas. Building a Go app? Rob Pike can answer.

I think you make some really good points - but I would like to mention that you can also get feedback from really smart people in our field and lots of people working on projects like these by participating in mailing lists and hanging out on IRC.
Robotic construction will eventually take over the construction industry. Especially once robotic transportation becomes possible.

There are many complex processes being performed at construction sites. Many steps take highly optimized machines to perform robotically but that a single human can do just by changing tools.

Because of these processes, automating the entire construction process would be very expensive to do right at the site.

All parts would have be modularized so they could be snapped together. Or robots will have to be able to change tools. Or parts will have to be moved from robot to robot, with as much work being done before parts are actually brought to the site.

Either way, it will be interesting to see how it works out.
I don't understand how my data is safeguarded by my home server when it's data I'm sharing with users who aren't on that same server. Once the data is shared, it's no longer under my control. I've wondered if there is a way to protect it, but I've yet to figure it out.

Of course, I'd love to find that there is someone who has a solution. I was unable to determine if buddycloud has figured it out.
Why would I? Compared to getting a paycheck, the startup path sounds like it would be significantly higher pressure, extraordinarily higher risk, and only slightly higher expected financial return (certainly not enough to make up for those first two items).

The "weekend side project" option sounds much better, and is something I've been gradually moving towards.
I said "bootstrap", you described the "bootstrap", but as you may have guessed from the fact I distinguished the bootstrap case, what I'm really asking about is the eventual steady-state.

The cases you come up with are, to my understanding, management being hired out by a collective, not the management creating the collective in the first place. You also talk about a lot of entities who can obtain advantages of scale by bundling a lot of cars together. I submit that despite the fact you think you are arguing against me, you're actually arguing for my point. This startup in the long haul is going to look more like the central owner of the vehicles from an economic point of view than a neutral aggregator. It's the one in the position to make the most of all those issues and I just do not see how it can possibly be more economically efficient for little bits of rental here and there in the long term. They'll be used to bootstrap, then bumped out of the way when it's finally economical. Though hopefully they'll make some sort of profit in the meantime.
As a programmer who utilizes type inferred languages (F#) it's always a bit of a personal challenge as where is the best place to seed types so that the rest of the program can be inferred and the minimal amount of types will need to be changed upon refactoring.

Although this is the first time I've heard this problem expressed I always imagined it existed as type inference always seemed to be a little bit 'magic'. I'm a little bit relieved to know that it IS magic (no clean solution exists).