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I completely understand this problem, and I'm frustrated to no end that innovation in email has stagnated.

I have a standing offer at Hackers & Founders events to pay anyone who helps me fix my email problems $20 to 40 a month as their first subscription customer. My hair is on fire. I'm a motivated buyer. And, I'm convinced that there are millions of business people world wide that have this very problem. Every single business person that complains about email overload has this problem, but probably can't articulate it well.

I need an email system where a contact is considered a first class citized. GMail's innovation was proper management of the conversation (threaded view). But, I'm convinced that their engineers don't see the problems with contact management because they benefit from a universal address book, and they don't interact with random people that aren't in their global address book.

Business communication isn't about viewing a single conversation thread. It's about building a relationship with a person over time.

In my email, I need to quickly know who I'm talking to, I need to have quick and easy access to previous conversations I've had with this person. I need to be able to easily write comments and meta data about this person. I need my email to automatically recognize contact information from a new person I'm emailing, and automatically put that into my address book.

Xobni comes the closest I've seen to fixing those problems. I wish more people would innovate in this space.

I've been running H&F for 3 years, and I have close to a thousand contacts. I live out of my email, and sadly, Gmail is increasingly broken for me. In the next month, I'm going back to Outlook + Xobni for email management ( unless the Xobni plugin for gmail is fantastic), and I'm giving up my Android for a Blackberry, because they have a Xobni app. and their email platform seems much more mature. As for the back end, I might still stick with Google Apps for business, but I'm increasingly dissatisfied, and I'm thinking of migrating over to an Exchange based platform.

If anyone starts work on fixing this problem, please let me know. I'm a motivated buyer.
I took the minimal approach with my prompt. Under normal circumstances, my prompt looks like this:

~$

I only show the username and hostname in my prompt if remote or unusual: [ -n "$SSH_CONNECTION" ] || [ "$USER" != "josh" ]. If either of those, I prefix my prompt with "user@host:". Apart from that, I show the exit status of the last command run, if non-zero. In general, I try to hide all boring information and show useful information only.
Understood. People will usually regret the things they did not do e.g. not getting that girl's phone # :) If you didn't swing for the fences, you might be regretting that.
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>Electrons are thought to spin, even though they are pure point particles with no surface that can possibly rotate.

for an article related to theoretical physics and QM this opening is as bald as e2-e4. "Surface", "spin" [as in spinning wheel], "rotate" ?

Reading further:

>Space is usually considered infinitely divisible — given any two positions, there is always a position halfway between.

considered by whom?

>If the electron had a radius, the implied surface would have to be moving faster than the speed of light, violating the theory of relativity.

well, it wouldn't be the first time a QM effect wouldn't fit the SR. The SR is applicable only between medium macro scale and medium micro scale [ and only to the speeds equal or below "c" ] . Large macro scale is outside SR - during last 13B years the Universe has expanded to the size much larger than 26B of light years. And the "electron surface speed" [or whatever there may be instead of the "surface", "speed", etc...] is well below the scale where SR is still applicable.

The SR is about movement [and its "speed" as in "space"/"time" ] relative to local space in the local time with both modeled as _mathematically_ continuous. At the very large macro scales - Universe and its time - the space itself expands [ please don't mistake it for "observed" by SR "observer" expansion/contraction of the fixed local space] . At the very micro scale - the SR's models of the space and time aren't accurate enough to be used as a foundation for any conclusions about that scale.
> You now know that you don't want to work there

If the filter were genuinely indicative of that, that would be great. However, my guess is that working there is quite different from doing makework puzzles for no pay (I hope, at least!).

I don't think you get a good idea of what a place is like until you sit down and talk to the people involved and see the code. At least that much is possible.
I've used to do that, not to gain anything, but rather I was curious as to who my neighbors are. So I met this guy at the elevator, whose facebook page I've seen using firesheep. I said to him "So your name is Eduardo, right?" which scared him a little bit, but then I invited him over for a beer and explained everything and showed him how to use VPN to protect his traffic.

However, I would rather prefer it to be impossible for anyone to hack your traffic over wifi, because it would make everyone's life easier and safer.
So cotemporanrous correlation isn't enough to trade on. You need to look for a leading signal. You might also want to compare the actors to the SP500.

You can make money even with a fairly low rsq if you have a good portfolio construction and cheap execution.
My favorite bash trick is still Ctrl-O: submit command and advance history by one.

If you ever find yourself counting up-arrows to repeat a sequence of commands (that aren't worth scripting for whatever reason), next time, go to the top of the list and hit Ctrl-O. The result is the the command runs, and the one after it in the history is loaded into you prompt.
Historically picking dates isn't something you would actually be able to do. Article is poorly reasearched.

(I use to do this professionally.)
I took a job some time ago (back around when the internet was morphing from uucp to ppp) as a consultant to an "independent agency of the United States government" which seems to enjoy placing big blue boxes all over the landscape.

It was my first real job outside of the university system, so it is safe to say that I was rather green. This job basically involved being an apprentice to someone who oversaw the code supplied by vendors that sorted a tremendous amount of non machine readable mail, i.e. it assisted humans using chord keyboards sorting mail with pneumatic arms and big chains and slots. Back then, a fair amount of mail traveled this way - stuff your grandmother wrote that couldn't be OCR'd, postcards, etc. The whole apparatus was similar in size to a semi trailer [1]. Each station dealt with a piece of mail every second (give or take), with two fifteen minute breaks and a half hour for lunch. This was around the time of the postal shootings [2].

Two weeks into the job, my boss quit. Just never showed up again. Not exactly sure what happened. Apparently, I had become the most knowledgeable person in the organization on this software which was currently being rolled out widely.

Unsurprisingly, there were some serious code quality issues. This was QNX real time sorta unix in C and ASM with RTOS daughter boards. The vendor's code jockeys, apparently, had become unavailable.

Main takeaways: Systems seem to keep working despite everything looking very fragile. Read tons of code. If it's working, don't poke it.

A year later I was able to make some form of industrial dance music by coordinating the openings and closings of the mail slots and the chain with the software. Bad situations can sometimes lead to greater clarity and new opportunities.

[1] http://www.usps.com/postalhistory/images/photogallery/equipm...

[2] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Going_postal
have you considered doing something to, uh, "educate" the "victims?" I mean, spam will exist for as long as it is profitable.

Not that I have any idea how to educate those sorts.
Doubtful. Wouldn't be much of an achievement to be able to say: "Look, we put a man on the Mars and left him to die there", now would it?
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This is wrong. All you have to do is return a "200 OK" and PayPal will stop sending IPNs. You don't even need to perform the validation postback at all. It's completely optional.
It was mentioned in the MIT OCW 16.885/ESD35J lecture series that they were likely conscious briefly while still ascending, when they turned on those PEAPs, (after the shuttle had disintegrated); but they were later unconscious, because of the high altitude and low pressures the non-airtight cockpit was subjected to.

Source: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/aeronautics-and-astronautics/16-8...
High concept pitch and tagline are meant to serve different audiences. You could say "we're building airbnb of food" to investors, but that doesn't mean your main page should say "We're building airbnb of food".

First of all I have no idea what you're talking about, and I know what Airbnb is. Second of all, I'm pretty sure less than 1% of the U.S population have even heard about AirBnB.

Come up with a message that serves your customers, not investors.
What do you gain by wrapping Objective-C around your regex?

Me being vastly more productive. Extract all the http like URL's from a string and print them:

for(id match in [searchString componentsMatchedByRegex:@"\\bhttps?://[a-zA-Z0-9\\-.]+(?:(?:/[a-zA-Z0-9\\-._?,'+\\&%$=~*!():@\\\\]*)+)?"]) {
printf("URL: %s\n", [match UTF8String]);
}

I dare you, I double dog dare you to do the same thing in three lines of code with C and PCRE.
It's not quite that simple — there's another level of 'true cloud' platform services like GAE, Heroku, Force.com, etc. that really deliver on the promise.

PaaS = Productize(VPS);
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Throughout my page I express my inability to use my hands due to RSI.
Now, some of you may be wondering how I was able to create a webpage with such a severe condition, well, I will try and explain.

I have been a web designer and developer for over 10 years now, and when I was first diagnosed in February of 2010, I was enjoying university and acting as a freelance web designer.
Unfortunately, as I mentioned, the RSI has left me with very little use of my hands.
But thankfully there is a program which translates my speech to text. This is called Dragon NaturallySpeaking.

With the use of NaturallySpeaking and Aptana Studio editor, I was able to spell out each letter of the source code below.
This process took over two weeks to complete, painstaking, but I feel worth it.
As you may guess, that way of working is fine for hobby use but is terrible for real-world applications and still leaves me without a job.

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I think the biggest difference between startups and established companies (even those that try to emulate a startup like culture) is the hunger for success. Established successful tech companies have already accomplished amazing things and may have cornered or even created the particular market they're in. They typically have several early employees who have made a fortune and many employees who are fairly well off from the company's stock purchase plan. Bill Gates lamented the fact that one of his employees wasn't quite as motivated as he used to be in the following quote (paraphrased): "something about a man changes when his net worth surpasses $100 million"
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I am at a startup currently, although it acts more like a enterprise. I worry about the longevity of the company given the way it is run. I really enjoy using tools like Ruby, rails, mongodb, mysql, postgres, sinatra, git, and practicing tdd(although no one else really does it :( ), as well as playing with cool new things like asynchronous frameworks. (Node.js etc)

The company I would be going to is SVN, oracle, old school java web framework, no tdd, talking to them about asynchronous frameworks was like I was speaking a different language. However the company is a big brand name and would be cool to say I work for.

I am really torn about what to do. I hope to go in and try to change them but they may be too successful for their own good and not be open to new ways to do things. I have a friend already there but he is old although is into things like TDD, he sees stuff like async as newfangled and "YAGNI" :/.

Meanwhile by his account their services are totally memory bound and barely use 10% cpu...

It feels like it would be insurmountable to change them and the way they do things. Perhaps I am going the wrong way and I need to find a more agile startupy startup?
REST is totally useless since no one really knows wha it means and there are few if any APIs that come close to being "RESTful". REST's proponents, including Roy, have done a dreadful job educating on what REST is. As I commented on the Rdio thread, it would be nice if the complainers actually suggested how the API in question could be designed more RESTfully.
Rarely a good answer. All of that complexity wasn't added for fun. Making a comment like this really shows ignorance in software development. While we all want to scrap and rewrite some projects, most of us know that it isn't as easy as it looks and you will be spending your time on the wrong thing.

Also, I don't have any idea what to make of your comment "...and if it is, it needs to go.". Are you just trolling or do you really suggest that they shut the site down because it's complex?
Computing should be enabling us to start teaching physics and calculus and linear algebra (among other advanced subjects) in elmentary school. When I suggest such things to educators they look at me like I'm insane. But the future is already here. It's just not evenly distributed.

In 1967 Seymore Papert was introducing elementary aged kids to LOGO. The turtle graphics in logo are differential geometry -- very advanced mathematics made completely accessible to young children. Papert's work in LOGO inspired Alan Kay and his colleagues to invent most of what we recognize in a modern computer: mice, GUIs, object-oriented programming. Kay's recent work to make computing accessable to children includes fifth-graders recreating Galileo's experiments and then building computer models of gravity to compare with their experimental data, then going on to apply their gravitational models to a simple computer game. That's physics -- newtonian mechanics to be specific -- made accessible to grade schoolers.

Here's his TED talk from 2007. Skip ahead to 9 minutes 30 seconds and watch the next 9 minutes of juicy educational ideas: http://www.ted.com/talks/alan_kay_shares_a_powerful_idea_abo...

Think about it. Fourty four years after Papert gave elementary kids a tool to understand and experiment with differential geometry, we still don't see even LOGO among educational standards, or any programming tools. The culture of education has not recognized what a huge leap turtle graphics are for teaching mathematics. In the late 1970s Apple II computers poured into many schools and LOGO became widely available in education. But those thirty plus years ago a bunch of adults saw some pretty pictures, shrugged, and ignored it as child's play instead of recognizing it for the little revolution it really could be.

Moreover, Alan Kay and company have been actively pursuing educational technology for four decades and still no traction for computing in education. Four decades by the people who brought you OOP.

Education is a big mountain to move. I'd very much love to be proved wrong, though.
If I could weigh in on the entire controversy here, in hindsight, I wish I hadn't read either of the articles - I'm none the richer after the consumption of a ton of vitriol.

And here's why, in my opinion. Both Justin Vincent and Alex Payne have different perspectives / world views, shaped obviously by their life experiences. And neither of them is entirely wrong. Or right.

But when they attempt to offer universal advice and proselytize the entire world, their opinions degenerate into religion. Which is exactly why we've had passionate commentators weigh in with an almost religious fervor... and intolerance.

Please let's put paid to this nontroversy with a simple "to each his own", and get back to what we all do best - building stuff (that may impact a handful or billions).
"I’m of the opinion there’s no reason to give away a product for free if you want it to succeed."

That depends on how you define success. Not everyone measures everything in monetary terms.
I dropped my iPhone on cement and it died. Took it in and told the guy I dropped it. He responded with "what? I didn't catch that, did you say it just stopped working? That must be what you said." and then gave me a new phone for free.
Nice move. Groupon may lose it's effectiveness in hyper-local markets after a while. It just becomes too costly for markets of such a size. OwnLocal will provide a much more sustainable option for local businesses, especially at the price points they are charging.
Nope, don't do it. You're gonna feel trapped and regretful. I only say this because it happened to me.
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My concern would tend more along the lines of "how long before they change the deal again?"

They have the right to do so, but it makes building on top of their platform unappealing, and really downright dangerous. It's the same reason building on top of iOS is tricky since you can be denied a way to make money off of your work at any moment by a whim from apple.
You can, however hit 'Esc' to go back to the page. (I know, it's not how it should work, but at least you can access your page again)
>But such is the plight of man setting out on new frontiers of exploration: from Francisco and Columbus setting out across the seas,

Columbus sent across the ocean on a wood rotten ship just to make it right on time to the celebration of 50 years of Revolut... err.. coronation. I guess, Columbia would have some another name and it would be some other, not 1492, year of America discovery.
Did you get in? If not, were you invited for an interview?
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From the way you describe these two companies, it sounds like the best alternative would be neither. It's a seller's market for hackers right now. You should be able to find somewhere you really like.
Kudos to the Google folks for releasing this.

It took 5 minutes to figure out and setup and the price is very right. Looking forward to seeing this get improved.
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This still doesn't protect you from UPDATE statements. I suppose you could pull it off if you could be absolutely certain that you were only CREATEing. You still have the problem that replication is single threaded, so this doesn't scale your writes beyond one thread.
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In view of the bashing Alex Payne is being subjected to on another thread for advocating larger than "lifestyle" startups I found this bit interesting (emphasis mine)

"A few ingredients in Larry Page’s stew of traits stand out unmistakably. He is brainy, he is confident, he is parsimonious with social interaction. But the dominant flavor in the dish is his boundless ambition, both to excel individually and to improve the conditions of the planet at large.

He sees the historic technology boom as a chance to realize such ambitions and sees those who fail to do so as shamelessly squandering the opportunity. To Page, the only true failure is not attempting the audacious. “Even if you fail at your ambitious thing, it’s very hard to fail completely,” he says. “That’s the thing that people don’t get.”

Also,

"(Page’s fixation on speed probably drives his notorious bias toward utilitarian—some say boring—design. He maintains a militant opposition to eye-catching animations, transitions, or anything that veers from stark simplicity.)"

gives me hope he'll undo or at the least discourage some of the new bing-ification redesigns of Google Search and news. [rant] A bit of javascript hacking removed the new sidebar from the search page and restored the old classic "just a searchbar" look for me, but the new Google News redesign is terrible and close to unusable (and I don't have the time these days to attempt a JS hack restoration). I would pay to have the old design back.[/rant]
...I'm 18 going to University of Minnesota Duluth

...I'm scratching my head thinking "Why don't you just do it?"

You have the wrong angle.

Probably my favorite influence leading to startups would be these videos from huge silicon valley companies: http://ecorner.stanford.edu/popularVideos.html
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I had one experience where I was sending a new project (YouTubeAdBlock.com) to EVERYONE in my contact list.

Somehow, gmail had found my instructors personal email, added it to my contact list. For some reason my instructor was really mad about me sending him it...
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I don't know if this is good or not, but I spill my ideas all over the place. You could call it fertilizer.
Nice rhetoric, but exploration looks like setting out westward with three fairly decent ships to see if you can find something - it doesn't look like giving a man a canoe and telling him to paddle that way, or else.
i am russian and i bothered to press the play button. what i heard was an obvious, poorly composed fake.

the calm and proud voice repeats about Komarov making the way to Comminism for the whole mankind [edit: apparently Komarov himself in official radio appeal]. this is intersected with some voices that could not be understood.

the way to communism mantra is obviously copy-pasted several times, some times partially, just to make some russian soudns, like this: "Komarov prokladyvaet put k Kommunizmu!" - "phshphs-bla!-bla!" - "-mmunizmu!" - pshshsh!blabla! - "prokladyvaet put k Kommunizmu!"

imagine how Russians watch movies where Hollywood tries to show something Russian, labels or written names. mostly it is just a meaningless set of letters. this is also looks like a bullshit that some CIA guys presented to their local Brezhnevs to justify their work
A.) Amazon isn't a startup.
B.) A lot of Bay Area companies (Zynga, Facebook, Salesforce) are opening Seattle offices to take advantage of the Amazon and Microsoft talent pools.
C.) They already have a Bay Area office. http://public.a2z.com/index.html I believe some core SimpleDB guys (Jim Larson) were based out of there.
Rapportive is doing a great job for me. Whenever I get an email from an unknown person, it's great to have some context. For example, I got a couple of bug reports via mail last month regarding a piece of software I wrote. By having the twitter and github account I could easily see what skill level the person had.
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With w3, you can start doing things without knowing how. (You learn when you start modifying the code.)
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