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Reddit. I remember when PG posted on comp.lang.lisp about this startup that he'd funded that was using Lisp. Checked it out, thought it was lame, because it was just a bunch of links with voting arrows, and the links all seemed to be submitted by the founders, spez's girlfriend, and PG. Came back a couple months later when they added comments, and stayed ever since.

HN. I joined the day after it opened for public use (it had been in beta for YC founders for about 6 months previous).

FictionAlley.org. I started lurking when they had a couple hundred members, and joined as user 1881. Joined the staff a couple months later, when we were at around 2500 registered users, and when I left the staff 3 years later, we had over 100,000.

Dropbox. Like you, I remember being super impressed by Drew's little demo on the HN forums. I actually had lunch with Drew, Arash, and Aston right after they got their Sequoia funding to discuss joining the company as employee #2. Had my own startup at the time and wouldn't leave my cofounder; I keep wondering if this'll be one of those decisions I'll regret forever, but OTOH the failure of my startup afterwards led me to Google, and that's been a pretty good experience too.

FaceBook. In September of 2004, a couple of my friends were all excited about this new social network that had just expanded to Amherst from the Ivy League. The founders had apparently just moved out to Silicon Valley, gotten some angel funding, and were shopping the company around to acquirers and VCs. I joined, found it kinda "meh", but friended all my friends (and a few people I met just once or twice at parties). At the time, they had profile photos, contact info, and the Wall, but nothing else. No private messaging, no chat, no photo-sharing, no apps, no events, no groups, etc.

Avici (remember them? They sold the massive routers that Enron Broadband and many of the major ISPs of the first dot-com boom used). Sometime in the summer of 1995 or 1996, we were sitting by the pool with the family of one of my friends from middle school, and talking computers. My friend's father said he and a bunch of his coworkers from BBN were founding a new company. They'd wanted to do these multi-terabit/second routers for years, and given how the Internet was exploding, it was now or never. They IPO'd at a market value of over a billion dollars in 2000, my friend's dad cashed out as soon as the lockup was over, and then the company promptly tanked.

Akamai. I was in a support group for gifted & talented kids with Reid Barton, the 4-time IMO gold medalist, when I was a teenager. Sometime around 1998, my dad was talking with his mom about what he was up to. He'd been working on the Cilk programming language at MIT, and one of the professors in the department was leaving to found this Akamai startup. Reid was going to join him as an intern. The irony is that I waited until the dot-com bust, after Danny Lewin was killed on 9/11, then picked up a whole bunch of Akamai shares on the open market at a price lower than the strike prices of virtually all the employees. That pretty much funded my first startup.
The front-end? The technical demo? The least existing part of Google Wave? If that's all, it's nothing like Google Wave.

Edit: I should point out that if you don't understand what buster or I am talking about, don't worry. A lot of people don't. It's Google's failed marketing of Wave that did this.

Basically, people thought Google Wave was MS Outlook, or Gmail. It wasn't. Wave was essentially email, comments, chat, communication, etc. Once you start understanding everything it could do, and understand that everyone already knew how to use Wave, you really started to appreciate what they were trying to do.
Or maybe he is chosen as CEO because he is of microsoft's largest individual shareholders. Either way, it was a stupid move by Nokia.
Nice article, but I really didn't like the ending. It seemed a lot like Republican "everything the government does is wrong and costs taxpayer dollars" propaganda.
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yeah, and Bill Gates with his mere 6.95% is totally irrelevant too. I mean, I probably could own and influence as much of MSFT trough various Vanguard ETFs!
Do we really need a deep conspiracy theory angle to explain the deprecation of a horribly lagging OS (Symbian) and a next-gen OS whose development was severely lagging even behind WP7?

The board brought on Elop to do precisely what he did - any ire should be directed squarely at them.

Say what you will about RIMM, at least they aren't striking at the prospect of QNX replacing their OS.
Part of the reason Nokia is hurting is that they have been severely disrupted at the low-end. The dumphone became an absolute commodity.

Yes. This is why they need to get out of the dumbphone business. This is precisely why having their own software ecosystem is attractive.

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.

"MediaTek is launching the MT6573 platform to address the accelerating demand for smartphones with features that can delight users at price points that meet the needs of operators in developed markets and consumers in emerging markets."

Someone should take another play from Apple's playbook -- don't compete with low-cost producers overseas. Instead, position yourself higher up on the value food-chain. Note that Apple used to produce hardware domestically. Apple does the design and farms out the production to folks like Foxconn overseas. This way, instead of enemies, you gain highly capable partners instead.
Nice comment, but I really didn't like the presumption. It seemed a lot like the internet commentator "let's discard the actual content of the article and niggle around about our misinterpretation of an irrelevant tidbit" archetype.
The title "Tools to make your website mobile compatible" is misleading. Should be retitled to "Tools to make your Joomla website mobile compatible". Don't try to linkbait.
Realistically, Google or any smart competitor just wants the top 20% or so of the disaffected Nokia employees.
"i'm not sure he should be expected to sell all his microsoft shares on leaving the company" - Why not? Executive options are explicitly justified with reference to their incentive value.
It looks like even the previous gen (Maemo) of the next gen (MeeGo) has sold better than WP7
The curiosity problem is the whole problem. The only solution that I can see is to simply provide as much unambiguous information as possible, so that anybody encountering the buried waste knows exactly what it is that is buried and has all the information they need to decide for themselves that it is dangerous to proceed further.

Of course, then we have the problem of explaining nuclear physics to post-apocalyptic cave people.
I guess I don't understand your sarcasm. With only $3m in stock, even if he made the stock rise 5% with this deal, that's only an increase of $150k. I'd say his financial future is far more tied with the success of Nokia than Microsoft.
When I imply working for Microsoft damages people (often beyond repair), I tend to get heavily downvoted. I have friends there and those who aren't cynical took the corporate issued Kool Aid and really believe the partly line on Linux, Android, iPhone etc.

People say Jobs has a "reality distortion field." Instead, I think he actually sees a lot of things more clearly than the average person. We just think his view of the world is weird because we can't take off our own weird goggles.

Those folks really believed they built an iPhone killer.

In the hands of the right company, WP7 and webOS both could have been iPhone killers. It's like putting a fancy new attack in the hands of a mediocre fencer. The fancy new attack might indeed be awesome, but it won't matter if a better opponent wins anyways by exploiting your flaws in stance or basic technique.
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I've seen a lot of people carrying work relations to their new work places and continue doing(favouring?) business. Only in this case, the person is a CEO, making a really important decision for his new company, and is likely to come under the scanner.
For me, the biggest effect has been to make the idea of having a successful startup feel "real", like this is something actually achievable in my lifetime. For a lot of people, the idea of making millions of dollars is something that happens to other people, people far away that live in gated communities. But those people include parents of some of my childhood friends, teachers I had in school, and coworkers I've worked with. The idea of founding a startup and changing the world doesn't seem so remote when the guy who says "Sorry your code review is taking so long; I'd do it myself if I still understood the code" has a net worth of almost a billion dollars.

Basically, it takes away my excuses. A lot of people think "that sort of luck doesn't happen to people like me", and so they don't even try. But I've met a bunch of people that it has happened to, and they're smart and they're dedicated, but they aren't fundamentally all that different from me.
Anyone who's basing their business model on cheap programmers is doomed to fail. The reason is that he/she does not understand the inherent nature of programmers. The quality therefore productiveness of programmers follows the power law distribution, meaning that a single good programmer can not be matched by 100 average coders. So if not possible to pay him a stellar salary, try with equity options. However your idea must be worth something, and the cofounders need to be worth something, which I seriously doubt.
Not sure if i would call him a Microsoft veteran. He worked at Microsoft only between 2008-2010[1].

[1] http://www.linkedin.com/pub/stephen-elop/1/3a0/b31
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Probably because QNX is a lot more mature.
MeeGo seemed like a side project/hobby.
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But those tombs weren't actually cursed.

That was a case of relatively modern, scientifically enlightened people encountering a message from relatively primitive and superstitious people and - correctly - dismissing it. This is a case of potentially very primitive people encountering a message from us, advanced scientists who know what we're talking about. It's a decent comparison, if only to highlight the differences in the two problems.

This is why "Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture." is part of the message. If we can't convince the future that we have authority in this matter, the message will be ignored.
I'd say his financial future is far more tied with the success of Nokia than Microsoft.

and why would that be?

I guess majority of his current net worth is in MSFT, and future success of NOK is now firmly tied to MSFT as well.
I find this both article stunningly interesting and also somewhat misleading...

I've know of a fair amount of information theory but never thought about the fact we can use that to say that "a 6 square-cm newspaper image is worth a 1,000 words" by applying the idea of optimal encoding to both and working out the information content. It's also interesting to think that many people consider AI and data compression as highly related fields as to optimally compress data it's generally thought that you need a thorough understanding of the data.

The misleading part imho is the title of the article. It's in reference to the statement "the 6.4*1018 instructions per second that ... general-purpose computers in 2007 (are equivalent to) ... the maximum number of nerve impulses executed by one human brain per second". I wouldn't consider those two equal. A more apt comparison would be something along the lines of the number of transistors triggered per second, putting computers back onto a more reasonable playing field. Admittedly though computers are still so far away from the computation ability of the human mind that this is really a nitpick.
I totally agree! Googles search results is starting to suck. If I'm sitting with an errorcode for some sort of program, trying to search it on google, will just give me a couple of random generated botsites.
I have moved permanently to Duckduckgo. :-)
I've worked for three startups in my career so far. Besides working, a fair amount of time was spent interviewing potential new employees. All had some modicum of talent, but almost all had stars in their eyes from reading glamorous puff pieces about the allure of startup life (Foosball! Unlimited supplies of Jolt! No rules! Exclamation points everywhere!) They were so eager to leave their corporate lives that they had illusions about what they were really getting themselves into: shitty hours, cranky co-workers, and fixing your own goddamned wifi.

I wish I had been able to show them this before we hired them. Would've saved a LOT of trouble, tears, and heartache.
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Now that the internet exists, there's no reason not to communicate actual data sets

That is not always true. For many sets involving humans, data may have been collected under the express promise tat anything published will not be used for anything else and/or cannot be de-anonymized. Verifying that that is the case can take quite an effort, especially when considering that third parties can combine raw data from multiple papers building on the same data.
Not a good idea. Some times your first chance is your only chance to make an impression. If among any of these investors are people he would want to raise from (and god I hope people are choosing their investors more carefully than who is writing a check), he'll want to make sure he doesn't fund his first impression by giving a bad pitch. He should only pitch if he feels he really wants to and that he's practice his pitch to satisfaction. If he is just looking for feedback and not funding, he shouldn't be pitching, but rather approach it honestly and ASK for advice. This way it will seem less like a pitch and more like open for suggestions.
I'm interested in using Convore to host some work discussions we currently use IRC for because of the "history" aspect and the fact I can grab the messages through an API and import into my task management interface.

The only problem with it I have is the name! Maybe it's because I'm Australian. We say it like "Con-vaw". Is that right? I can't imagine telling someone in person "hey I was on CON-VAW the other night and this guy said such and such". Really weird name but a nicely executed product.
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Google loves what you guys call spam because it allows Google to generate more revenues.

When a content farm pushes first pages results this causes the real manufacturers and businesses to use Google's advertising platform to reach their customers.

When you're looking for a kitchen appliance It's better for Google to return a landing page filled with Google Adsense ads instead of the official website of one of these appliance manufactures. Again for the same reason mentioned above.

It's all about the revenues.

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As far as I know, they have an Amazon Store you can integrate into your website that allows you to do purchases off your site, so that it doesn't redirect to Amazon. However, I'm not too familiar with all the details but you should look into this. I believe the fee is or was something like $59/site or store
Travel searches, for example, are a joke, and startups like Gogobot are popping up to try to fix that.

This is how Google is finally toppled. Not by a "google killer" or another giant like Bing, but by a thousand tiny niche services that get "X" search right.
Why hide the pricing behind a link that just reveals it inline?

The pricing isn't bad... it's just unusual to hide it.
The partnership is still suspicious; any reasonable person would tell you Nokia should have picked Android instead. There's no competitive advantage picking up WP7, unless microsoft wanted to subsidize every nokia handset
But less surprising than if he was to announce, say, that Nokia is pivoting to become an oil company.

Definitely, since that'd be utterly absurd.
If you're referring to sales of the N900, it's shocking to remember that it shipped at almost the same time as the Motorola Droid (one of the first Android devices really suited to consumer needs). Consider all of the development to Android in the intervening 15 months, the dozens of models Google's partners introduced, the millions of units sold... the N900 is as relevant to this discussion as the Razr.

WP7 hasn't been a runaway success, but at least it's stable, polished and backed by fairly advanced web services. The bet is essentially that Nokia's 1st rate supply chain combined with a polished new OS can sell more than either could have otherwise.
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>I had to choose between MIT and the University of Iowa

You had to choose between MIT and UofIowa? Most of the people I know who are at MIT also got into other great schools. Did you get into anything better than UofIowa? What is your major? Did you graduate? If so, do you regret not going to MIT? Don't you think it would have made a difference in the long run to have graduated from MIT? This is really really interesting.
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he seems to be nothing more than a hustler, quickly jumping jobs when opportunity presents itself:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2212657
The difference in shares between the top two and all the rest is remarkable. I would have expected to see a bigger spread - clearly everyone else sold-out years ago.
Precisely, and it's why I've moved over to duckduckgo and heavily use its !bang syntax...
Interesting post. I'm very ambitious, it's in my nature and I think most of the time it feels like an advantage as it gives me motivation through the rougher times. I feel that maybe having a set ideal to what success you want to achieve may push you off course, sometimes you ignore important opportunities which may not fit perfectly into your plan even though they could be very rewarding. I've had this before and realised afterwards. It can also stop you from taking on the little opportunities which could be more powerful to you than the big goals you have in mind for a project. This is just my experience, i'm interested in others. I do feel that ambitious is a great thing and more people should think big, out of the tech world. Big, in relative terms to what they are doing.
ok, but why would (MobileSafari == WebKit view) be false?
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vim.org is having problems with its host, which I think is sourceforge. Bram has created a ticket for it, but 24 hours later it is still not working properly. The issues include that searches time out or are incomplete, and that none of the scripts are available for download.

Thread here: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vim/message/120903

ticket here:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/ticket/17514
I have a question. I see on that page the following URL:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/chrome-notebook-pilot

Recently I see the characters '#!' more often used in URLs. Why? What's the reason behind it? I know that a # in an URL denotes the 'fragment', but what's the advantage of using it in this case? The page to which the URL refers to doesn't even need the browser scroll to a certain part.
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If I were him, I'd sell/sold all my MS stocks (its just 3M), to avoid all the FUD being created around it, and all the energy going in PR and possible scrutiny by the authorities.
"I guess majority of his current net worth is in MSFT"

That would mean that his net worth is only around 4-5 million and I doubt that is the case...

What reitzensteinm means is that his stake in Microsoft is probably only a small part of his net worth. I would also guess that he owns significantly more (from a number_of_shares*share_price point of view) of Nokia than of Microsoft. That is why "his financial future is far more tied with the success of Nokia than Microsoft".
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Then I have something which will help:
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It conforms to http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0019.html and can (of course) be trivially upgraded to conform to http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0017.html also.

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While I'm not sure where the phrase itself came about, John Locke back in the 1600s endorsed copyright in "Liberty of the Press" as the "property" of the authors and proposed an amendment to British Parliament in 1695 to "secure the author's property in his copy, or his to whom he has transferred it." (See "Lockean Property Theory and Intellectual Property" in http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1457848)

This implies that the idea of intangible property has existed since at least the 1600s and was supported by one of the most important property theorists of history. I don't think you can dismiss it so easily as a simple "false analogy" or that calling patents and copyrights "property" is some sort of modern rhetorical invention.
That talks more about Nokia's brand than about Maemo or Meego. I was among the first to buy a Maemo device, the hardware rocked but the software was average.

As Nokia said, it is a war of eco-systems now; not devices. Even a low-end Android beats a better spec'ed Nokia because the software is so much better. The quality of apps on Ovi store says it all.
Shorten that to "conv".
(GPL-style) Open Source only relies on copyright because of how guarantees of reciprocal freedom are currently tacked on top of it (it is a hack).

It should not be too hard to imagine 'implementing' it in a different way.

Such as through a specific law that required giving users access to the source code (and other freedoms, possibly extending to derivative works) if a certain piece of software were marked as Open Source (or for all software, as Stallman would probably prefer it).

(yes this might make Open Source software a less attractive alternative, as it would be competing against free as in a free lunch, but as the market-landscape would be changed in favor of FOSS production models as well, by this, and FOSS has certain benefits even if produced for a fee (ability to hire competing firms for implementing fixes and modifications), there are good reasons to assume FOSS would still flourish)

It keeps surprising me how otherwise intelligent/educated people don't see this option...
I'm American and would not think to pronounce it like that. "Con-vor"/"Conv-or".
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