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Well maybe the message went out wrong.

This is not what I was asking for! Infact, we are both programmers. So I wasn't trying to offense anybody!

The thing is that if we get an early investment of 10K (we also want to ask for the less possible that we could need) we dont want to blow it off inmediately on one single guy...

What I was asking is how to invest it the better way possible to finish a prototype? (that is what I meant with cheap)

What I was looking for are things like:
1. Hire a prgrammer for a month for around 5K to help you with the core. You can find them in ...
2. At the same time hire 2 trainees for 2K each and...
etc

Can someone give me an advice on that?
Great - where else?

If we're going to pick our ideal city, what should it be? Maybe podunk Texas isn't going to have the best internet service. Who does, within the list of economically thirsty locations?

That's the underlying question: What city has cheap housing, good infrastructure and is friendly to tech startups?
$499 iPad, the more I use you the more I love you.

Sent from my iPad.
IMHO the problem is Google's reliance on the pagerank algorithm. Prohibiting automatic back-linking is fighting the symptom, instead of coming up with a cure.
I was also just using Facebook as an example. The other examples you just provided are the same.

What is wrong with the current group of email standards? And why can't those problems be fixed by extending the existing standards?

Facebook is centralised. It is run by a single profit motivated company. I can't set up a Facebook messaging server. I can set up an email server. Email is distributed because anyone can set up a server.
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As one of the commenters points out, you could get a beautiful Macbook Air at that price. If it really is priced at $1199, its not just overpriced, its priced not to sell.
This guy made real changes to the genome: https://github.com/cariaso/dna

ie: removed increased risk of coronary artery disease at rs1333049

Pretty awesome
This guy is talking about thinking about further down the line for a current project/business, but sometimes my productivity is cramped by these really annoying 'meta' thoughts that aren't even remotely helpful. Like I'll be trying to concentrate, then I'll start analysing how well I'm concentrating, then thinking about things that would affect my brain, and then before you know it I'll be toying with ideas of how consciousness could be manifested in an AI. Totally ridiculous but happens quite a lot.
sure, if ones primary objective in life is climbing corporate ladder as high as possible and making as much money as possible in the process, that makes pretty good strategy.
> Update: We've heard rumblings that this is indeed just a price holder -- much like the way other companies price products they don't want to sell at ridiculous levels -- and the final price will indeed be the $800 we've heard most consistently to this point.
There was a thread on Quora recently asking what the most beautiful equation was http://www.quora.com/Mathematics/What-is-the-most-beautiful-..., which while it is obviously the Einstein field equations was nice to read through in a similar vein.
I'm comparing QNX more to WP7 (both OSes being brought in from the outside when internal development couldn't keep up with the competition).
Yes, it's a rather poor and limited statement which in the basic reading I wouldn't support - I clearly profit from others work on electricity generation, computer development, ..., etc., etc., etc..

Companies profit from their employees and some even are fair about remunerating their employees.

It is unfair remuneration or profit in which the profit shifts markedly away from content creators which I can't endorse.

In this limited scenario the GP was effectively asking why I didn't rip him off. I didn't want to get into the depths of it, in short it's because I think that it would be immoral of me to take his work and without adding any value take away any possible "profit" from him. Such profit includes the ability to spread his moral ethos with regard to copyright as well recognition as a content creator and enabler for free-libre content and of course financial benefit as well.
Even $800 is still overpriced IMHO.
> It almost seems like Google just doesn't have the technology to detect and remove spam pages

this
It's funny how people pick on Windows Desktop and Android for setting off a race to the bottom among manufacturers and then say there is no competitive advantage when one manufacturer chooses something else.
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Okay, great, points noted. Thanks for your feedback! :)

I think the critical point from your reply is that instead of there being a summary of what the essay is about, there should instead be a summary of what the essay is saying -- to basically relate the authors points quickly and succinctly as a teaser. We need to work on that.

Thanks!
From the article,

"After he had been working at Adobe for about six months, Elop told the company in June 2006 he’d be leaving, setting his departure date as Dec.5, one year to the day since he had been hired."

"At Juniper, Elop resigned on Wednesday (2008) — also one year to the day from when he started "

And then Microsoft for two years. And now Nokia. What kind of impact did he make on all these companies (given the tiny amounts of time spent in each) that made Nokia think he had the chops to rescue them? Genuine question.

And to think that when underpaid developers move frequently , they are "bad hires" e.g: "Never hire job hoppers. Never. They make terrible employees." - Mark Suster (HN discussion at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1287110)
Ah, hahahaha. I dare people to keep saying Apple can't compete on price. It's an old saw that hasn't been true for years. I also think it's the primary reason for the dearth of competitors to iPod Touch and the iPad: two massive markets that Apple seems to invented (or at least been first to get right) and managed to keep all to themselves.
I find those commits to be more fun (because they seem to be real thing): https://github.com/cariaso/dna/commits/
Yup. My other comment still applies. Maybe without the laughter at the beginning for $800. At that price (to quite John Gruber) it was doomed. At this price, it's just probably screwed.
Hmm....try checking out universities in the area ?
So the point of the blog posting is that instead of deeming the search quality to suck, one might, by having lower standards, not conclude that they suck. In fact much of the article is actually about how blogs shouldn't be filled with fluff, or with bullshit.

Yes.
Actually great new - but the should support the Android-Port of Qt. This is very important - make it easy for Qt developers to stick their head into other revenue sources.
> unless microsoft wanted to subsidize every nokia handset

I wouldn't discard that possibility. Phone makers have to pay to call their Android sets Android and to have the Gmail, Google Maps and other Google properties on their phones. Maybe Microsoft is giving them a boatload of money and saying "spend this money to make WP7 suck less, for we can't to it ourselves" on the condition they sell only WP7 phones.

We don't know what's in the package. This could give Nokia time enough so it can be carved into smaller sellable pieces before the whole thing collapses.

The whole thing would collapse anyway without an aggressive course correction. MeeGo isn't going anywhere and Symbian is doomed. They could have gone Android, but I guess the board thinks the company is doomed no matter what is done and that WP7 is what brings it more time.
Scoble Discovers Developers are Schizo About New Platforms
The value of his stock is too low for him to resort to something like this to make money.
I'm curious how The NYTimes got tipped off to this story before Matt Cutts and the Spam Team. Since this had been going on for month, I wonder how long The NYtimes had been investigating it. The article says, "Last week, The Times sent Google the evidence it had collected about the links to JCPenney.com."
This is most unfortunate for those looking for scripts, as that entire portion of the website is unreachable.

If you know which you are looking for, you can most likely find it on the github mirror: http://vim-scripts.org/
The slight angle of being egotistical was included to almost make fun of the Journal itself: it's not meant to be a serious publication, per se, in that academics and others want to read it but merely a place for undergraduates to share with one another.

It is basically meant to be a site for undergraduates to read essays on topics that are similar to their own for their own understanding at their level: it's fairly common for undergraduates to let their undergraduate friends on the same course read their essays, especially around exam times. So while I appreciate that some embittered TAs might read essays with a sense of loathing for minimum wage waiting for the sweet release of deathm viewing this site, or any for that matter, from such a tainted perspective is somewhat unfair.

I appreciate your comments regarding the verbosity and obscurity of some of the text though and I'll look into making everything a bit clearer! :)
(I'm nearly 40)

Sometimes "thinking more slowly" is just "thinking more" before diving in. And often, past experience makes it a lot easier to grasp similar new ideas.

But ignorance can also be an asset sometimes - it can allow you to evaluate ideas on their own merit without decades of baggage.

Like the OP said, you want both on your team (just like lawyers have).
I'm curious. What is next-gen about it?
FWIW, the author is a Democrat.
> Both flight and ground s/w is almost certainly in (...) Java.

Which is why we have to use chemical rockets - Java's license would prohibit it from controlling a nuclear engine ;-)

Seriously, I have seen many projects jettison good, solid, time-tested and efficient code on the grounds that it was written in a language "nobody understands" (exotic and hard-to-master things like... Python). My last problem was with someone having the bright idea of re-implementing Amazon's S3 internally because they would need to handle huge amounts of data. It turns out their "huge amounts of data" is a couple terabytes of large files.

The other was when someone said a given system was written using J2EE "(what else?)".

Sometimes I wonder if this is the dumbest generation ever to operate the smartest tools ever.
The thing is QNX alone was never the solution to RIM's problem, it's just a powerful OS. RIM did take a good look at itself and use other purchases and in house talent to build a pretty amazing UI on top of QNX.
This is not about lowering standards, Sam. This is about expectations (and indeed, bullshit on blogs - hence the article title). The one problem search has right now are content farms - like the guys who were scrapping off sites like Stackoverflow, which certainly bit many of us here by bringing actually good results down -, but that isn't to say that "search sucks". There absolutely needs to be a solution to spam and gaming search results.

That being said, the article is indeed not more about search than it is about crap supposed-high-profile blogging. Mike doesn't highlight the problems with search, doesn't mention possible solutions. He talks about Google being in shaky ground because people are paying attention to bing and other competitors. I think that's crap.
U of Iowa is also a great school. One of the things I would say is actually better about U of I than MIT is the diversity of programs that it is great at.

Iowa has the world famous Writer's Workshop, one of the top medical schools in the country, the largest Dada art collection outside of Zurich, and an amazing media school, just to name a few.

The issue was one of cost, but I'm glad I chose the school I did.

I was in Boston last weekend, and spent the day at the MIT museum. It was inspiring, and I'd be lying if I didn't say I felt a bit of regret, looking at all the accomplishments of MIT students.

When I was a kid, I must have read Steven Levy's "Hackers" half a dozen times. To me, the MIT hackers spending days on end cloistered in a basement with Chinese takeout and soldering guns was about the most exciting thing I could imagine. That's what I wanted to be.

I started out majoring in mathematics, but I was drawn to the equipment in the media department. I ended up with a major that I created with my advisor (Iowa was starting to experiment with customized majors) which combined communications with multimedia art.

In my junior year, I started a 'zine, thanks to the computer lab with its desktop publishing software and scanners. By the end of the year, it was making money, and my best friend and I had started a store. We both dropped out, and I went on to publish the magazine as an actual business. It lasted long enough to get me into web design in 1995, and my career took a completely different turn. I'm now the national head of a UX department for a large agency based in New York.

I wish I had been able to go to MIT. I imagine that I would have been someone like Jeff Han or Marc Andreesen, but the reality is that going to MIT wouldn't have been an automatic ticket to brilliance. It still would have been me, with my lack of focus and direction at the time. Jeff Han and Marc Andreesen didn't go to MIT, nor did Steve Jobs, or Woz, or Dean Kamen... it's all about the person, not the school.
Ask HN: What mobile SDK should I learn
I am starting to digg my head into mobile development. After the events of friday i don't know anymore which mobile SDK i should investigate.

Originally i wanted to learn Qt mobility. My thinking was like this:
* open source
* cross-plattform
* very easy to use
* not so much crowded with developers => less competition

Now I am not so sure anymore if it is better to learn another platform like Android or WebOS.

What are your thoughts about this? Any advice welcome.
I flagged this entry.

I fail to see why you submitted this as an "Ask". You could have just as easily submitted the original link. I'm not against self promotion, especially when it leads to valuable feedback (as most Show HN posts do), but this just seems overly vain.
According to your twitter account, you launched 5 days ago. What did you expect to happen in that timeframe? Did you set yourself any specific goals in terms of, e.g. submitted essays?

Regarding StumpleUpon and the likes: is this where you expect your targeted userbase to be? I'd guess that people on SU are their primarily for entertainment... Maybe it would be better to promote your site elsewhere. Have you thought about getting in touch with some of your university's professors, political debating clubs, Facebook groups etc.?

Before you do this, you should have more content, though. At the moment you only have five essays. As far as I understood, the site is run by you and another undergrad. Why don't you two put up more of your own essays on the site before you expect other people (friends of friends) to do so?

I hope this helps and did not come across too harsh. Good luck with your endeavour!

/edit: why do all the essays have the same icon? Moreover you should really work on your introduction. At the moment you seem to need content, so explain to your potential writers the benefits of putting up their essays on your site.
The complains are about Apples iMacs and Notebooks, which are still pretty pricey for the hardware thats in there. All the iOS devices are very competitive priced.
7th largest publicly disclosed shareholder. There are thousands of private shareholders that own more.
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I wouldn't go because I'm not into cannibalism and I'm aware of the less glamorous side of history. Jamestown, Plymouth, Donner Party, Roanoke...unfortunately this repeats itself way too often.

It's much different from Disney's Pocahontas and the story book Pilgrims we remember from child.
'Search still sucks' seems like quite an exaggeration when the average user (whoever that is) isn't even noticing any 'decline'.

I usually always find what I am looking for when using Google and haven't noticed any major changes recently when it comes to the search results. Maybe because I am taking some of my searches straight to respective sites like Wikipedia, IMDB, Discogs but still.

Also, ever since day one a bit of 'common sense' helps determining which results are actually useful (and I am all right with that).
You've checked the specs, haven't you? Ipad with such hardware specs would cost a lot more, in my opinion. It's a question whether ipad2 will be able to match the specs of xoom. For me, hdmi port is a great feature.
"They should take a play from Apple's playbook -- create your own product category. Instead of taking on Apple, Blackberry, Android directly, they should undercut them. Produce something which can run on cheaper hardware than iOS, WP7, or Android, and market these to provide better interfaces for developing world services now running over SMS. Do this with a software ecosystem, so that the telcos can't strangle the real software market."

That's exactly what they've been doing for the past decade with Symbian and various Mae/Mee OSes and the technology commentators and the market haven't been exactly impressed lately.

It takes some strength to say "this isn't going to work out, what's the next best thing we can do."
Because a passing test suite is proof of correctness, right?
I do wonder what Fred Wilson and other VCs perceive as "difficult," even from brilliant people. A founder demanding to retain control after a series A might be seen as difficult from the VC's eyes. A founder who has a great vision that's not easily understood and is strong-willed might be seen as difficult, but that's the kind of brilliance and persistence that's also seen as the means to success.

Then again, someone who just makes outrageous demands with no reason can be worthless to just about everyone.
Maybe this would be a good starting point: http://docs.google.com/viewer
From the article: "The management world has tried to develop software engineering processes that allow people to be plugged into them like interchangeable components. < . . . > To my mind, the hallmark of the interchangeable component model of software engineers is Java."

I hate that attitude in management. I've been surprised to find that at higher levels (think C-level) of management leaders who completely don't think of engineers as plug-and-play. I wonder if it is an attitude or viewpoint more common in lower level management in large organizations.

Regardless, I kind of gave up on Java simply because I felt it seemed to get me into environments where people were treated as cogs.
First of all, you're missing an R in the title. And if it is the last one you are missing, well, that's not good.

AARRR is a nice conceptual schema for organizing activities-- I don't really see it is as something that is "applied", as much as a reminder that: a) each of the five areas is important in its own right, b) each of the five areas has separate goals, and c) each of the five areas has separate metrics.

At least, that's the way I'm using it.
Define "better."
I assume you include every manufacturer of goods that has a patent as "IP-based startups"as well? Patents are IP. Just because you don't like Angry Birds or some other app maker getting rich doesn't mean IP is bad.

Could it use reform? Heck yeah. But your view is no better than the supposed lawyers you hate against.
The titles on each item blend in too much, and my eye kept looking around for some idea of what I was looking at.

I'd also use alternating background colors for each item (like white and some light color) to help them stand out from each other. That's also helpful because people are used to alternating colors indicating a list of items (like in webmail and forums), so you can lean on user expectations a bit.

Other people have already commented on the copy.
Yes, but after 1 year cliff, it would/should be much more than $3M.
Oh come on, no sane person is arguing that Elop went the Microsoft route _because_ he's a big shareholder. The reason people bring up the issue of the stock he owns is to point out that not only his decisions at Nokia are mostly consequence free for him personally, but he also stands to benefit handsomely form this decision that many argue is very bad for Nokia and very good for Microsoft.

The scrutiny in this case comes directly from the fact that Elop's actions at Nokia are very much Microsoft centric, and arguably Microsoft serving.
Seriously? This is a clear case of conflict of interest. The scary thing is that you might be right about

'So now Nokia's decision to replace Symbian has nothing to do with a careful analysis of the situation, but everything to do with keeping $3 million dollars worth of Microsoft stock on the up for 1 man'
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> As any teaching assistant could inform you, nobody wants to read essays by undergraduates. Nobody wants to read international relations essays by undergraduates.

Speak for yourself --and or other TAs.
I'd be worried about Google if they based acquisitions on buzzword soup.
Sorry about that... fixed the title (oops.) Agree that that last R is pretty important! Thanks for the feedback!
Why all the hate?

/edit: Would you like people to talk about you like this just because you switched jobs after 2 years time?
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Reminded me of an article from Harvard Business Review (http://hbr.org/product/competent-jerks-lovable-fools-and-the..., accessible excerpt http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/4916.html) about the same matrix. The authors found that team members tend to prefer "lovable fools" over "competent jerks" due simply to the difficulty of working with the latter. Of course, employees working on a team don't have the same interests that investors do.
I might have something to do with Total Recall.
The one users actually want?
Detroit is a kleptocracy. The UAW will come in and demand you overpay your workers and (probably more importantly) impose work rules that prevent you from becoming more efficient. The city will tax you to death, since you will be the only source of revenue within the city limits.

Toyota had very good reasons for building their Prius factory in Mississippi rather than Detroit. It's a low tax, right to work state, with no historical tendency toward killing the golden goose.

Detroit is dead, and it's the fault of the people who live there. The only way to save Detroit is to fix the people. Good luck with that.
It's likely those folks weren't into cannibalism either before it was required to survive.
I'm neither a fanboy of MS nor of Windows Phone 7 (Android User here), but let me pose one question nevertheless:

Should he have excluded going with MS as an option just because he worked there?
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