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However, the expectation of easiness with computers does make one less-welling to work through and figure out things when it is necessary, I've found.
You forgot to add reasonable substitutes. I suppose you could roll that into value but it seems subtly different.
They probably think ebooks are licensed, not sold.
Posting anonymously somehow 'feels right' for this question. It was posted out of a sense of dispair, more of a dramatic scream at the universe really :)
Cheers! I'm actually based in Sydney and quite dry (How are you able to type? Haha). And unfortunately don't know sign language. But the rest are great tips. Aside from DTrejo's IRC networking startups, do you know any local ones?
The problem with this idea is that if a distinctly 'human behavior' can be calculated, it can be emulated. Also, it would require a lot of JS and other support that some people don't have. There's also the problem of false negatives when you consider auto-fillers that a lot of people use.
I'm not deaf. I have a different handicap. (I have a compromised immune system and get ill from spending time in group situations.) I have spent time looking at examples of other people who made money via the web. I think if you want to make it as an entrepreneur, you can. You just have to be realistic about what your limitations are and work with it. "Realistic" doesn't mean to me that you just can't do something. It means to me that sometimes you can do it, you just have to do it your way.

For me, my handicap is something of a "test" for other people: A lot of people don't understand and won't accommodate. They get discarded fast. I have come to view this as a kind of time saver. :-)

Good luck.
I'm profoundly deaf from birth. In an in-person group conversation, understanding is impossible with all the verbal back-and-forth. One-on-ones are vastly easier. People are initially awkward about the new way we have to communicate (repetition, paper, laptop), but they are always understanding. Access services help.

I recently was interviewed by a co-founder of a startup for an internship position. He lives in San Francisco, I'm on the East Coast. We used Skype and he was very nice, very open to instant messaging. To code, we used an EtherPad clone. But it's difficult to convey your passion like this, because there are two inputs: video and text. It's hard to appear passionate visually while you're typing, so there's a kind of disconnect.

How I handle phones: I ask them if they can text, email, or instant message instead. Never did teleconferences, but they sound like a nightmare. For in-person stuff, my college provides me access services for free. I practiced like hell with approaching people, understanding spoken language with the cochlear implant (got it three years ago), and speaking accurately, so conversations are no longer the sweat-inducing terrors they used to be. It turns out that most people didn't care I was deaf.

Consider a VP (video phone). Acts just like a phone, but a middle-person interprets both ends of the conversation. Naturally, there is a lag between translations. Be sure to let them know.

If you have any personal questions don't hesitate to contact me (see profile). You aren't alone. If you hadn't made this thread, I would have myself when I make a startup.
This article is already on the front page: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2109972
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Can anyone offer any advice on writing off the time it takes to research and develop software? Assuming that you're writing and selling your own software, this time must be worth something since it's the sole factor in turning a profit.
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So, given that the universe is mostly made up by randomness and noise, anything path to noisiness is easier than a path to order ? Is this a fair way of putting it?
I don't really have any close contacts or any friends remotely interested in joining my ambitious pursuits short of we'll try it out when you're done.

I don't know sign language though. That's an interesting idea to have ASL to speech apps but I think it would work strongly if there was gloves with tags so the software could automatically read it.
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They probably won't do it.

Somebody will come up something similar to the hack/exploit that Mozilla did: set up a for-profit corporation to receive money and a non-profit foundation (which owns 100% of corp's shares) to do the development. Then they can claim that the non-profit foundation is the one that's really using the patents and hence should not have to pay royalties.
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I'm not certain it's the answer he's looking for, but I'd probably start with 'perldoc -f keyword'. Are there better ways?
That's because Cyberduck calls the native Cocoa Objective-C APIs[1]. This is doable, but it's a lot of work and won't run on anything other than OS X. Something cross platform that uses Swing won't feel as nice. Also, it uses a third party binding to the Cocoa libraries. Apple deprecated theirs quite some time ago.

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The scary thing is Steve Ballmer looks almost exactly the same today. I think he may be fatter, though.
In regards to the facebook vs. linkedin article. I will say that while facebook does miss out in marketing a "newsfeed aggregator" with your friend's latest events, marriages, etc. Linkedin can afford to do this for a couple of reasons.

LinkedIn is business or career focused website, while facebook is personal, or social website. We are career orientated people and don't mind reading newsfeed of promotions, company failures, successes,etc. In other words, business news is an easy read, while relationships which facebook specializes in, must be handled more carefully.

So, while showing A "linkedin" style who's on top, who did well this year, etc, who got promoted --- this works well in career orientated discussions. Relationships ---who got married, dumped, friended etc, borders on personal and relationships and must be handled carefully.

WHat I would suggest, for increased " networking" or "interaction" for facebook users would be heat maps of users friends. So for example, you can view your user's friends or your friends with a us or global map showing where the most concentration of friends is, and how they moved or changed over the last 1-3 years.

Maybe that is or isnt such a good idea.. comments, feedback..
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I think my dad had that 15MB hard disk unit from Radio Shack.

It was pretty sophisticated for its day. The previous model, an 8 MB unit, was half again as big.
Wow, the early parts sound pretty much like except I eventually decided I wanted a bigger challenge beyond games and something more realistic and balanced (sometimes), reality.

I actually liked groups, I really do. You can see me sometimes chatting in groups online. Unfortunately, due to my deafness, it's keeping me back from some groups unless there's unlimited time and understanding. I even bombed some (important!) group interviews because of time constraints.

I'm guessing Florida Relay is the text-relay service? I was so excited to hear about something like this and when I tried it on two mates, the first thought it was a prank and immediately hung up. The second kind of knew it was me but said it was like talking to a cold person. This made me fear that even seeking employment is difficult since I can't do phone interviews or followup calls without creeping them out. So I try to emphasise how great I am, just have some initial difficulties with phones (I dislike how a lot of entry level jobs in IT require phone use).

I've actually been working on the MVP (prototype) for some time, it's not quite what I want it to be but I agree it's a good start.

Cheers
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He will be even cooler if he pushes for the feature to allow you to customise your Google searches and have a user-defined blacklist of sites.
The networking issue is because I'm close to finishing a MVP and need funding to take it further (especially since I'm not good in some aspects). I can only learn so much.

I am quite straight with people on my disability to the point of giving a very accurate analogy of my deafness. So I'll keep trying that!

I don't know ASL though. Thanks!
Same here on the iPad.
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The thesis of this lecture makes sense to me. I, however, think it's still possible to do a fair bit of great reading via blogs, Twitter (well, links shared via Twitter)and via Hacker News (take this very link, for example) and not just via great books, but it's certainly easier to get distracted by these.

Yes, you need time to concentrate on doing great things and introspecting, but it's important to open oneself up to different experiences, especially the ones that make you feel uncomfortable (but that won't hurt anyone, I would hope). That means breaking concentration and quite possibly even breaking your own moral values--or those set by your predecessors/institutions and peers, really. If not, how else will you know what's right from wrong or whether you truly dislike something or someone?

I'm not sure Deresiewicz would disagree with that, since he argues that original ideas come about when one can "make associations, draw connections, take [one] by surprise". But I thought it was worth expanding on this idea because in order to make new associations, you have to go out and experience something different that will add new neural connections.

Let's take our so called "war on terrorism". The key question I'd ask myself is, why are there such terrorists? Is it really that they hate our freedoms, our religion, etc? Every time I read some Opinion piece by an author who thinks (s)he knows why terrorists hate America, I am turned away. How the hell can they know if they haven't even been there and lived amongst them? So it saddens me that some of the so-called experts of our time are those who only read a lot and thus can articulate "their" ideas well. I don't care if you read the greatest novels and history books, if you don't get out in the field/real world also, then you won't truly understand an issue and thus, you're not an expert/(thought) leader.
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Link between Solitude and Creativity: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2060743

I think a good leader should be adept socially as they are alone. They must synthesize group consciousness into something that works within their own independent thought processes. It depends on the situation. The group can only want something that it doesn't already have. But everyone is their own leader, and a good leader should inspire this intra-leadership in others. Give freedom, not take it away.
> country that has been at offensive war for most of it's history cannot be named anything but an imperialist

Actually, it can.

The fact that both offensive war and imperialism are bad does not mean that they're the same.

If you can't distinguish between different evils and confuse them, how do we know that you can identify evils?

In other news, imperialism is not colonialism.
Interesting ideas but several drawbacks most notably a) If you have some set of heuristics that serve as a proxy for information (in this case "humanness") then people can easily optimize on the proxy and win and b) the code would be running on the client-side and as a result super hackable
Female entrepreneur and coder situation is interesting. I will say that you do bring up the common points cited for females not choosing tech areas.

One point to also consider, which I consider fundamental to any entrepreneur, be it tech or otherwise is the concept of "challenge". I think regardless of sex, if you really are challenged in an area, and feel like you can beat someone, or a company at their game, you will succeed.

More specifically, guys are challenged at a younger age, be it in athletics, video games, neighborhood ball, or your friends telling you, you're a wimp if you don't do this.

As simple as this sounds, guys thrive on challenges, we play video games for the challenge, and girls alot of times don't get that same oppportunity to be encouraged or challenged at a young age. Because this shapes the competitive drive and spirit of entrepreneurship. Sp, what I would say to the women entrepreneur question. Challenge, challenge, challenge. Doesn't matter when you start, embrace a good challenge.
Customer development is very much like the screening of a unreleased movie. A studio will get a nearly finished product in front of movie-goers before releasing it using that feedback to tighten plot points, editing, etc. The difference with a web-based product and a movie is that continually feedback loop never ends for the web-based product.
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Perhaps in some subcultures, but I know in at least a one immigrant community girls seem to be actively dissuaded from pursuing any engineering degrees whatsoever and steered instead toward the medical field in some capacity, or business degrees. When my significant other told her family she was changing majors to an engineering field away from a business field, they were pretty upset.

In addition I noticed in the Bay Area when I lived there for a few years many of the immigrant Asians really didn't give a damn one way or the other what their daughters did. This is actually worse, in my opinion.

Ah well, here is to the hope more of the sublimely proficient women I know seek engineering careers instead of pigeonholing themselves into "touchy feely" crap fields like marketing & PR.
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I'm great at functionality and technical bits but ensuring aesthetics as part of targeting the demographics is making me quickly appreciate the efforts of UX/Graphic designers. However, to come across one without coming across as an exploiter, or to be exploited, or to be guaranteed some effort is something I lack in. So far, most are "interested but can't commit" the rest think it's too risky.

So yes, networking for me is more than seeking funding, it's to seek partners among other things.

Being deaf and not socialising means a lot of setbacks down the line. Think socially awkward misunderstandings.
I was pretty curious. Sales is nice and all but it still seems like the positions dealing with a volume proportionate to high level salaries would be just as rare as the top level software development positions.

I'm one of the MS/Google anomalies, so I guess I'm not really familiar with IT.

As far as medicine goes, I come from a family of physicians so I see the benefits and costs pretty well. That said, I could never really see myself being happy in medicine anyway, so it's never going to look terribly interesting.

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!)

Sure, there are plenty of other good jobs.
It was pretty big news here in Montreal Canada. We have a large tunisian community(they had a celebration march a few days ago downtown) so the news did cover it (french CBC did give the story a lot of time) I'd like to see how this influences the.events in Algeria.
You weren't born almost completely deaf, were you? (I ask because your writing is so good, and you said you don't know sign language) Can you speak at all? If you can speak, I'd suggest getting two phones (at least one blackberry) and fire up an IPRelay call. Have whoever you want to speak speak into the phone, then you can read the text in close to real time, and speak right back. You could let the operator know that the call is going to be a multi-person call.

I've worked with a bunch of deaf people (i.e. more than 5, most the day). Half of them could read lips, and that helped out a ton. One guy could read lips and approximate speech, although in very limited english, but it was fine communicating with him.
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Try a vibrator: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Vibrating_ale... Works for me! Lip reading can only help so much. Try mouthing "Island view" to people and they definitely misunderstand you.

What's your native language if you don't mind me asking? Learning a second spoken language is pretty impressive. I could only grasp written languages as my understanding of spoken languages was pretty difficult.
I think you're missing the point. He's not saying that developers want to be thrilled to death every minute of their careers. He's saying that developers want autonomy and the ability to make something cool. The problem is that all but the very best managers seem to assume that management letting up on the reins means people going crazy and wreaking havoc.

The best managers understand that management is mostly a two-step process:

1. Give someone a task.
2. Let them accomplish that task.

Granted, you can't always work that way. But you might be surprised at what proper motivation can do. People will do boring work if it means accomplishing something great.
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thank-you! (i'm sorry for "dismissing" the work; i do understand the amount of effort involved, but i was trying to emphasize what was not happening; thanks for the extra info on the unordered work, etc).
That's a lot of syllables to ask, "Why are there so many assholes in this field?"

The answer is low self-esteem and/or poor social skills.
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The total cost (including revenue from advertising) is negative, otherwise google wouldn't be profitable.

Anyway, I found his transparency and links to the sources way more interesting than the actual result (which I somehow still doubt on an intuitive level)
I'm profoundly deaf too. My experience is people care less about that and more about your willingness to get stuff done.

You've already got a good start by just being on HN. That's how I ended up in my current situation working for a startup.

I've worked for other companies big and small. Nobody really cares that you're deaf, although I can imagine it'd be difficult when you're trying to get an elevator pitch across. Haven't had to do that yet. You naturally figure out methods of communicating with people, especially on a one-one basis, as you start working with them more. Group situations have always (and probably always will) suck for me, though.

As for teleconferences, we have video relay here in the US so I've used that. Probably just as painful for me as everyone else in the conference, though.

It's a good thing that so much is done over IM/email/IRC these days, that makes things a lot easier for folks like us. Good luck.
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I was brought up to pronounce pretty well although I try to say some new words as I read them. Sadly, I know so many long words but can't say it offline which makes me come across as incompetent in some cases.

The two phones sound like a impressive idea. Has it worked before?

Also where did you work with deaf people?
Should we call this estimate: 'cost of Google as measured by searches'? Similarly, you can divide the cost by number of Google employees and call it 'cost of Google search per employee'?
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Business owners generally cannot count their own time spent on their business as a business expense. Software here is no different than a restaurant owner trying to write off the time it takes him/her to develop a menu, negotiate with suppliers, or manage employees: not allowed. It's assumed that as a business owner, spending your time on the business is what you do, much like as an employee, spending your time on your job is what you do; an employee cannot write off "time spent on my job" from their taxes, and you can't write off "time spent on my business".

One possibility, however, is to pay yourself a salary. Then from the business side, you could write off the salary as a business expense. But now you will pay personal income taxes on the salary. Also, you cannot do this if you're a sole proprietor, and even if you're incorporated, should probably consult with an accountant and/or lawyer to make sure it's legit in your case.
Sounds Like a good and bad issue. It's good to have so much rich data, and then to not be able to synthesize and use the data is tough.

With our generation of data mining and aggregation, you could approach it by using a data aggregation feed, similar to feedburner, with a "smart" priority system. So think of it as a small version of a secretary. The higher up the command call or person you talk to, the default feed is seen first. You can arrange the importance in your settings.

The other way to improve massive data overload, is through visualization of data, much like www.bundle.com did with our consumer data from the government quarterly reports.
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Do you really believe that? I think MA just wants pageviews. I don't even understand the animosity. Engadget covers gadgets, TC covers start-ups and trends. It doesn't seem like they have much overlap.

MA's article accused Engadget of trolling TC's comments, twice in the article, but never once cites any examples then criticizes them for using anonymous sources. A bit hypocritical.

Honestly, at least on Engadget they never stoop this low and resort to MA's tactics for hits/pageviews. Maybe MA just wants to get fired so he can get paid for not working.