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Founder of a conference call start-up here.

This wouldn't work for conf call services as you'd still be charged from the moment a call was connected on your particular 'room' irrespective of who actually called it. Although it would certainly save time and you wouldn't have to listen to the annoying hold music.

Oh, and if you organisation is really paying 30 cents per minute, then you should get in touch as we could save them well over 12 million dollars a year! ;)

Regarding the dial-out when everyone's ready service... we're working on it.
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best. comment. ever. :)

seriously, thanks!
you should call it thebookface.com, then later shorten it to bookface after you meet one of the members of *nsync
"when I was young, we'd walk 25miles to school, in the middle of winter, uphill both ways, with our laptops open and running..."
You can also make it easier to read by minimizing the repetitive parts and designing it to look more like a list by:

* changing the "Yes" to "Yes you can:"

* turning all the "Can I"'s to bullet points

* removing the question marks.
While the Khan Academy is a great resource for teachers, parents, and self-motivated students, the idea that it is a revolutionary replacement for schools is a pipe dream. The 'Academy' boils down to a bunch of admittedly well-done videos and a chatroom. And I'll bet the vast majority of children who use it are motivated by the desire to do better in their 'real' school. Kids don't know what they don't know, and simply piling a bunch of videos in front of them with no guidance is hardly a substitute for our public (or private) school system. I think what Khan is doing is great, but it's essentially just a well-executed set of study aids.
One humble suggestion? Perhaps we would finally save some money by cutting our gargantuan military costs spent defending the rich person's interests.
I first thought this was about Blueprint the CSS framework (http://www.blueprintcss.org/).
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“Jack’s biggest insights have nothing to do with technology,” says Greg Kidd. “His insights are always social first. It’s always a democratization machine."

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Really refreshing to hear this.
HOLY CRAP! I was scared just by watching the video, it would take serious balls to ride in that car that fast. If ran off the ramp at 40mph even with airbags you'll still get hurt. And there was serious tilting when it rounded a corner.

If your self driving car hit someone, who would be liable?
This explains why recruiters become even more aggressive in trying to contact you when you actually have a job ... never understood that.
This is an amazing idea. I would love to try it. Most of customer service calls I make are with Verizon who are actually quite good, but I want to try with airlines!
Love it, wish we had Twilo in the UK, or is there something similar that anyone knows of???

Maybe I'll just have to try it out anyway, and deal with the cost - not that much to phone the US these days!
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A liquidator could sell you this kind of stuff in bulk for very cheap.

There are a bunch of them, but you may want to find one in your region to save on shipping.
Thanks boctor. I have updated the accounts now. @kovasboguta is @kovasb now.
Within consumer electronics, Nokia were good at letting customers differentiate their phones by allowing interchangeable facias. Didn't Sony also release various colours of Walkmen?

I imagine the ability to mass produce a product in multiple colours was made vastly easier with the introduction plastics.

So I could see Tupperware being a contender for one of the first?
I want my five minutes back. I'm sorry if this isn't the popular opinion, but I thought this read like whiny drivel.

You knew what you were signing up for, or if you didn't, you have had every opportunity to bail.

how wet the pillow gets at night when times get tough

I sure hope you weren't being literal here. Cry me a river, man. From where you are now, the level of fail it would require for you to even approach the realm of the suffering and the downtrodden would be truly epic.

Your point is that it makes you sad that investors don't get more emotionally invested in the ventures that they back. The backers have their own secret war to fight. It's not all rainbows and unicorns for them either. I think you are fundamentally missing something. Treating the whole experience like a game is exactly the right approach. It is the only way that you get out of this with any sanity left intact.

This is coming from someone who has been right there in the trenches, over several at bats. I know what it's like to feel as if the walls are closing in on you. Embrace those darkest of days! That is where your power comes from. There is freedom in knowing that your worst case scenario is not only survivable, but it is a blessing in disguise.

As critical as I'm being here, you know that I'm still on your side. The bind of entrepreneurship ties us and when you win, we all win. So, I'm rooting for you. I just think you will look back on this post in a couple of years and realize how sophomoric it all sounds.

But don't forget Roosevelt:

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
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Probably a combination of other page resources (images, JS, stylesheets, etc), bots and peak access times.
Is this a happy, content guy?

I donno, but being "content" is the last thing I expect to find in entrepreneurs. And as far as happiness goes, doesn't it largely depend on what yard stick you're using to measure it?

I am not saying they don't matter. But because of their subjective nature, it is hard to really consider the role of happiness and "contentness" in such situations.
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I never meant to say communism was responsible for the country's economic growth. Clearly, liberalisation caused that, as your graphs imply. However, the growth was concentrated on the coast, and the existence of a central command economy was the direct mechanism for infrastructure development in rural areas that were not directly benefiting from liberalisation. I don't claim communism is a good approach to economic growth, I meant it as a counterexample to the claim Hong Kong brought liberalism to the countryside and poverty went away. Hong Kong brought the wealth, Beijing redistributed it (violently).

I expect I was upvoted for commentary on the charter city idea, not because I proposed communism as an alternative. Thank you for bringing up an important point though.

Edit: please include the full sentence from my post, I think the part that you removed obscures my meaning.
Yes, it does rest on that assumption, but I think the assumption is warranted. The bar for "strong enough" networking skills is pretty low, after all. An developer who's so socially inept that nobody he's worked with would recommend him for a job probably isn't in the top 1% anyway.
I felt this way for a while. Then I was cleaning my cats' litterbox one day and an idea came to me from nowhere for a writing project, something it was safe to assume no one had done before. I did it for about 12-18 months and then stopped when I had nothing more to say on that topic.

It would be nice if more people asked themselves if they had something unique to say before starting a blog or a blog entry. If you change your mind someday then go for it, but blogging isn't something you have to do for the sake of doing because a lot of other people do it.
It was a $20 tent, much despised by others in the office. The person in question thought it was hilarious when I later told him about the scalpel treatment and stays in touch 5+ years on even though he's 20 years older and works in a different field. He was just that sort of larrikin who appreciated that sometimes a scheme trumps an easily replaceable product. We frequently collaborated on other mischief around the office.
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There's nothing new under the sun (alright, some exceptions...)- that doesn't mean you can't present interesting thoughts in a unique way. If you find that you can't write, it's probably because you're putting it on a pedestal. Most posts come from everyday experiences that are worth a second thought (many are, if you pay close enough attention).
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Well I for one would rather read a few comments than such a huge long detailed page of script. But I have to say that having scanned the whole page and picked up the key points (I think), it seems to me that the key to the influence on our brains of the internet, or indeed books or any other source of information, is the content itself. I once made a series of radio features for the BBC about children's perceptions of crime. One thing has stayed in my memory - children talking about the impact of watching the news over breakfast. They told me that this left them often shaking with nerves because the focus of the news was so negative - not a good start to the day.

I know that if I start reading lots of bad news when I am feeling really good it has an instant impact on my mood. Recently when I got temporarily gripped by the news about the earthquakes in Christchurch I found myself reacting negatively to completely different things and I couldn't understand why, because I had been feeling really good. It was only the next day, when I went back to the news again and the same thing happened, that I figured out what was going on. This is not because I was worried about the news itself (however shocking it was) but because it was fundamentally bad news, and we react to that emotionally usually without even realising it.

It seems to me that it is more important to focus on what kind of material we spend time on, whether on computers,in books or elsewhere, and consequently what kind of thoughts and feelings we have during the day, rather than whether it is computers themselves that are having the effect. Although sitting looking at a screen all day definitely has an effect on other things like eyesight, so why not the brain too?

As a little aside Bruce Liptom showed that unborn babies experience all the mother's emotions, which sets up many of their main emotional patterns in life. So watch out, mothers-to-be on the internet! You may be affecting your baby's brain.
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1. Don't underestimate your contribution. Even when you write about something that's been written about a thousand times, you'll bring something of your own to it. How many times have you read blog after blog about something and it not make sense and then finally one blog nails it for you? It's not always that it's better than the other blogs, just that the blogger happens to write like you think.

2. Writing is fun. Write for the fun of it, not because you think people will read it.

3. That could have been a blog post in itself (and I suppose is :)
Here it is: http://i.imgur.com/8V7Xg.png
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Never noticed that. Strange that you can edit almost everything else.
You actually expect any company representative to be truthful in what essentially amounts to a sales presentation? The naivety in these comments is astonishing - I mean, it's not like Jobs works for a non-profit doing humanitarian work in third world countries. I'm not saying it's right but this is the world we live in.
You might check Retrobox.com if you're looking for not new stuff.

Edit: Nevermind, they appear to have gone belly-up.
I wish I had to figure out how to deal with a "mere 36/sec avg" number of visitors. I'd sell my company and retire.
oh, also, when I write blog posts it forces me to get my thoughts together on something, which is invaluable (to me :)
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Yes: https://github.com/rosejn/overtone http://vimeo.com/16143967
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Likewise. I hadn't joined the dots on it though.
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The source cited is me. I think it would have value as a method of strengthening a sense of autonomy.

There's a lot of difference in the idea of land someone else reserved for you vs land you reserved for yourself.

The place where the land is will not be changing, but it's possible to change the perception of what that land represents, and thus the benefits of that land in a political sense.
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For the discontinuity at 0, off the top of my head I would point to the relative success of uncolonized Western Europeans and their descendent colonizers in the US. Japan is another example. Do you believe Western Europe and the US to be more successful than colonized countries in Africa? Within the US, do you believe that descendants of Western Europeans are more economically successful than colonized Native Americans and blacks descending from slaves?

> I'll generally ignore the "I hate descendents of people distantly related to colonisers sooo much"

You're mischaracterizing what I said. Some of my best friends are descendents of colonizers and for that matter so am I. However, if we claimed that there were benefits for the colonized, we'd be just as self-serving as you and the person in this thread who suggested that it was really in Native Americans' interests to be colonized and the guys who wrote the paper.
On the positive side, adding a yes to the bottom of the list as well as the top was a key refinement. I felt that was missing when I viewed the photo of the original and was pleasantly surprised when I scrolled down to see it added in your version.
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I didn't see you addressing the actual point I raised, which was that Techmeme looks for certain topics, covered from a certain stance. Just like Encyclopaedia Britannica demands articles inhabiting the Classic Stance[1], Techmeme demands its own stance.

But saying this is a gender problem is like saying that because doctors are more likely male than nurses are, and get paid more than nurses, we should have fewer doctors and more nurses.

[1] http://classicprose.com/csx.html
I question the truth in that article and whether they really use Razor already. It's barely out, so is MVC3 and I haven't noticed any changes that would suggest that they would have converted it all from MVC2 to MVC3. It's a major task.

They might have some Razor in there because it is backwards compatible but to have it all razor is a stretch.
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This one? I'll post other relevant finds. You might want to search YC again using keyword "ideas" and sort by points.
see: Belgian Congo. East Timor. post-colonial Africa including Biafra and Rwanda.

And even putting the genocides aside, look at South Africa under the Afrikaaners. Explain to me how this was a good thing for the colonized?
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(Also, we've really come a long, long way from a bunch of inky-fingered hunchbacks in a scriptorium, huh?)
By that logic they could have said "almost 110%".
It would have looked even more impressive, I guess.
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Thanks for mentioning the example of the Singapore zone in Suzhou. I had not previously heard of that, and its apparent initial failure is instructive.

http://www.singapore-window.org/suzhou.htm

Some more recent sources suggest that the relationship slogs on.

http://www.singapore-window.org/suzhou.htm
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I think "seemingly" is the key word here.
> Has any other company used color in such a way? (the only example that comes to my mind is the original Pokemon games)

Nintendo seems to, I have seen their DS units in a lot of colors. Related to Apple and the iPod, SanDisk offers the Sansa in a range of colors. It can be a challenge though, as Apple showed with the mythical white iPhone 4.
I'd guess this is reasonably accurate up to Jan 2011, given that most analyst companies agree within a few percentage on the market share of the various platforms.

I think most people expect Verizon to give the iPhone a boost for this quarter, and then the next quarter it to drop back some while people wait for the iPhone 5.

Android should get a boost from all the new dual-core handsets, so I think they would hope to hold market share.

I don't know what RIM has to hope for. More enterprise sales I guess?
If Apple were so serious about color, they'd let you see all the colors and black/white iPad 2 combinations.
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That's interesting, but did you know that Gabe Riveria, founder of Techmeme, is dating Alexia Tsotsis, a prominent writer from TechCrunch?

Just a thought.
"Apple is a religion."

I find the "cult of apple" and "apple is a religion" memes amusing because, including myself, the majority of Apple users that I know are atheists.

Personally, I think "spectator sports" makes for more constructive analogies than religion. People develop very strong associations to their favorite rugby/football/etc team, delight in their team's victories, and bemoan their losses. Some people cheer on favorite tech companies in the same way. It's silly, but no more so than a die-hard Detroit Lions fan.
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They are probably having trouble figuring out how to deliver a legal notice over a palantír.
Nice one. Please do and I'll accept a pull request.
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> One day he proposed an idea to his boss

When I was reading up on Twitter's history, I think Evan Williams had actually told all the staff to take some time (a day?) to come up with ideas for a new direction, and Dorsey suggested Twitter
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Of course the sandbox isn't failsafe, but it's pretty decent. I don't think there have been any remotely exploitable holes found in it yet, have they?

(Thats a good link, and links to some security bugs found in the sandbox. But I don't think any of those have ever had a live remote exploit)
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Maybe a good approach would be to give a puzzle that the interviewer doesn't know the answer to. That way, they work through the problem together and the interviewer can see what it's like to work with them.

I know this will never happen but it sounds kinda nice.
ekanes--Have you looked into setting these up like freeconferencecall.com where it dead-ends the calls out of a rural area so you can collect subsidies? (Not a fan of the legislation, but if it exists you can leverage it.)

Not sure how you'd do this using Twilio, but rather than routing the user straight to the number, you could route the user to the rural number and then place an outbound call from teh rural conference number and patch the two together
Ah, good one. Completely forgot about Nintendo.

/proud owner of a Game Boy Micro with swappable color faceplates.

(Also just remembered that you could change the faceplate on the Xbox 360, at least before the slim version.)
I believe this is the one that had started it all:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2005/08/ideas_are_just...

And here are some others (more links on the same subject within each article):

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100604/0954389689.shtml

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/01/cultivate-teams-not...
It's a good day for the AOL blogs, they can just push out Apple fluff pieces and really nail those revenue per article targets.
Just awesome. Thanks for posting. Recommend for anyone interested in building graphs or knowing about how things work.

Few things I liked are:
. Geoffrey Moore's - Crossing the Chasm - start with small set of graph to be useful and then target the bigger market - video around 14min
. the way entrepreneur should classify their product in heterogeneous vs hybrid vs homogeneous wrt to a buyers/sellers - video around 17min
. Clayton Christensen's - The Innovator's Dilemma - how great things always start as a toy product then disrupt industries - video around 47min
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Answering to myself: segment name. Usually 8 spaces, but there are some named ones, like SegInit, which get unloaded when they are no longer needed.
I've only just entered the smartphone market (android phone 3 weeks ago) but before I had a horse in the race, as a neutral observer, Apple fanboys were worse than Android ones. Android fanboy bitchiness seems to be a reaction to Apple marketroid guff. It doesn't self-generate and invade your mindspace. Apple marketing and culture does. Fanboys are annoying everywhere, but in the absence of mention of competition, Apple on other people's devices demands more of my mental space than Android does.
Wasn't it just supposedly at like $70b a few weeks ago?
Most JSON frameworks are faster than binary plists on iOS. I learned it the hard way, after spending a day writing a Python module for the server side and doing some tests. However, binary plists were around 5% smaller, so they might help if your bottleneck is the bandwidth (it wasn't my case).

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"activated in December alone"

what about iPads "activated in December alone"? Probably a big month for consumer electronics, don't ya think?
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The problem seems to be that, when it comes to software, implementation, to the patent office, reduces to "with a computer".
It's worth mentioning that last year's Google I/O featured some intense competitor bashing from Vic Gundontra that actually did a lot to strengthen the Android brand, and cemented its status as the primary anti-Apple underdog (now uberdog?).

I think any harsh remarks from Steve Jobs at this event should be viewed in that context, and are a reflection of the overall shift in tone between Apple and Google. The sniping is probably good for their brands and for their 'brand advocates,' who along with the press are really the primary consumers of Apple Event streams and Google I/O conferences—the people discussing this shit ad nauseaum in forums and comment flamewars.

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Wow. What a beautiful answer that perfectly illustrates the point. Thanks.