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Spending a Saturday listening to Mixergy while working on a startup. Great weekend :)
What I love about this vintage illustration is that in fact the video phone setup is pretty much a clunky version of an iMac with the video camera on top and the screen below. On an interesting note Hughes current website proudly notes that "Hughes Electronics Corporation is the world's leading provider of digital television entertainment, and satellite and wireless systems and services." http://www.hughes.com
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Actually this button simply takes you to the top of the page. The modal is not closed but rather out of sight. If you scroll down, you will be able to close it.
Thanks guys I appreciate the advice.
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Dotfiles are really great in terms of portability.
Server? There's one server?
I thought their backend challenge looked reasonable, though: given a timestamped log file, return all entries since a certain time (efficiently!)
I know that at least one of the motivations for using AWS was that they didn't have to go through purchasing process of Conde Nast which was a huge roadblock.

I think that's actually one of AWS' biggest strengths. Once you get a corporate card in the account it's easy for the devs to buy what they need.
This article certainly has interesting implications for those of us hyperventilating about next-generation voice technologies. Being in the VoIP engineering consulting business (and a fixed-line centric one, at that), it does highlight an interesting point I usually ignore due to self-selecting bias; I like talking on the phone, and tend to talk to a lot of other people who do also. It's important for people like me to be reminded that overall, voice minutes are declining as a proportion of electr(ic/onic) communication.

Also, text is a big deal. In the fixed-line VoIP world, we tend to dismissively poo-poo SMS as a pre-IP anachronism that maintains its captive user base at the whim of carriers who design handset interfaces that afford vast UX preference to SMS over other means of delivering text messages, e.g. the various iPhone "free text messaging replacement" apps that have popped up that run over IP rather than the SMS portion of the mobile transport core. I usually think its days are numbered, and think 160 characters is laughably impractical in a world of mushrooming smartphone adoption. But the kinds of sociological observations raised in this article make me wonder if that's really true.
would be more useful if it were to shout measurements in sieverts/hr rather than Gray/hr, but I can understand that would be a hell of a lot more complex ;)

Interesting all the same.
I tend to find that UX is just a recent term for what use to be called art direction and interface design. I think it comes from the fact that so many IA pros can organize a complex website but can't hack a simple screen layout. By the way in graphic design circles the term "Experience Design" (XD) has gained a great deal of popularity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_design
I think Rapportive is doing this wrong though and unless they pivot or get acquired I don't think they can go anywhere like this. There is a huge gap between email and CRM, Rapportive is the perfect candidate for the job yet they only support like 3 CRMs, I don't know why. Why they throw away such a great business idea. Unless they focus on the gap between CRM and Email it's just a cool plugin, as soon as they start to solve that pain they are in business, making money and their audience will be people whose got money and happy to spend.

As a small company or just as a person I don't really care twits from whomever emailed me, I don't care twits from my customers or Facebook or any other social stuff. It's pretty much useless. Only LinkedIn information of the client is useful, rest is fun but ultimately pointless.

Maybe I'm missing something as well.
PG wrote to tell me that they couldn't accept me due to my inability to move to the bay area. (Which is exactly the result I expected.)
>That's how you reach out to inexperienced devs.

Not sure why an org like Reddit, which maintains a small team, would be interested in hiring inexperienced devs.
I find your comment even more obnoxious that what al3x wrote, just for its sheer disingenuity.

This isn't a neutral topic for you either, not in the slightest, but declaring the discussion to be as useless as /r/atheism is simply petulant.

The top level of comments in this thread (barring yours) is full of some of the most helpful and insightful comments I've ever seen on HN. A respected member of the community flames out and people are earnestly helping him figure out where the disconnect was. Given that he chopped down his blog post in response, it looks like al3x really appreciated them and is understanding that the flaminess of his argument wasn't what people were really upset about.
Apparently, they have enough money but internal politics prevent them from hiring more people (it's a different budget...) Hence AWS, which isn't that cheap but does reduce personnel costs.

See the big reddit thread on this topic, or HN's thread about that reddit thread.
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Lesswrong.com is built on reddit's codebase. I guess that's a hurray for Tricycle (http://tricycledevelopments.com/) beating it into submission.
"Space is usually considered infinitely divisible — given any two positions, there is always a position halfway between."

I'm unsure if this can be extended to space, but I know that current theories state that there is a unit of time (the Planck time) that seems to be, in a sense, indivisible:

"Within the framework of the laws of physics as we understand them today, for times less than one Planck time apart, we can neither measure nor detect any change."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_time

Could someone more knowledgeable in physics than myself elaborate on whether this fact would also mean that spacetime, and thus space, is "indivisible"?
Well, they're supposed to know the startup beyond the i-saw-you-on-hacker-news level. Be able to argue why it's a good startup and be able to introduce them...

But yeah.. I can see a bunch of Googlers bending the rules and reaching out to unknown startups they happen to see in HN. After all, there are incentives for both the startup and the Googler.
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Is this legal? Aren't there public health laws regulating anyone who gets paid to serve food to strangers?
"For X-rays and gamma rays, these are the same units as the sievert (Sv)."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_(unit)

ADD:
"Sievert = Biological effectiveness factor unique to the type of radiation * Gray"

http://www.hicare.jp/en/09/hi03.html
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It's kind of the same here. We first have to write a design document, then get it reviewed by people all over the organisation. This reviewing has to be done in a meeting, which is impractical because it is almost impossible to find a time where everybody is available AND a room is available.

Writing a design document doesn't sound that bad, but the requirements are completely unclear when you start the project. Usually, the stakeholders don't even exactly know what they want, so it's very hard to get concrete requirements. And they change their mind all the time, so if you just scrapped something, many times you have to add it back later.

Only when it is deemed OK, it is officially allowed to start programming. If not, back to the drawing board. Worst part is that the opinions differ on how detailed this design document should be. Some people complain if it is not detailed enough, others complain if it is too detailed.

When you have the OK, the red tape only starts. You have to mail or run around asking people to grant change access to their part of the source code. In many cases, simply referring to the design document for explanation is not enough. Nope, as they generally had "no time" to go over the document, if you want to get work done, you should explain everything that you're going to change in their part.

Even the SCM system that we use is slow. Checkouts take ages, builds take ages. This way of development really doesn't work for me and many others. Luckily there is an (unofficial) way to "fork" the code, so that you can start working and experimenting while writing the design document. Without this, it'd be almost impossible to get the amount of detail required.

And when you're done coding, you need to write a document with testcases, which goes through the same review process. When you're done testing, another document with test results...

In this case, the process works because it is not very rigidly enforced. Unluckily, some people in management think that code quality will improve if and only if more checks are put in place. So every half year there are more checkboxes and process steps.
You're absolutely right about the T&Cs. Presumably AT&T are aware that some people are prepared to pay more for tethering and therefore write the T&Cs such that can price-discriminate in order to get more money out of those people for potentially the same service. The sad thing is that people probably signed up in the expectation that the T&Cs would not be enforced and are getting a rude shock.

To slightly modify your airline analogy, this is like going on a business trip and flying economy. The airline scans your baggage, notices that you have packed your suit and other work-related items and demands that you pay the business class fare. "Hold on a minute," you complain, "I am entitled to 20kg of hold baggage and 7kg of hand baggage, so long as it fits with certain dimensions and isn't dangerous!" The airline retort: "Read the small print. Business travellers with certain items in their baggage will be charge the business class fare, which will be charged to your credit card. Now, enjoy the flight and don't forget to pay attention to the safety announcement."
Anyway, it will never be like a startup again until moves are made from necessity, not whim.
A minor point: threaded view is old - jwz publicized the Netscape Mail 2.0 (!) algorithm at http://www.jwz.org/doc/threading.html, and I didn't even check whether that was the oldest appearance.
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People believe that dark background makes extensive reading from the screen easier for the eyes, and many advanced users accustomed themselves to it while working without GUI. So yes, light text on dark background is and always has been especially common among programmers.
Any beta-testers here? Do I have to use with IMAP, or is it completele web-based?
Somebody has to make the obvious Star Trek reference here so I guess it might as well be me: there was an episode of TNG once where the Enterprise kept being destroyed over and over again, and the only way they were able to "tell themselves" of impending doom was to send messages "back" informing the "new past" about the "forthcoming future." Interesting that this article should articulate this distinction of "messages" vs. even the possibility (theoretical or otherwise) of physical human time travel.
Wow, and the USA is the country that practically invented the system of 1-800-CALL-ME..
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Interesting, historical article about the ELF file format
True, but Gray is for measurement of absorption by ANY material, Sievert is for measurement of absorption by biological material, so you would also need to apply the tissue weighting factor to the gray/hr measurement.
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Coincidence strikes again. Someone should convince journalists that correlation is not causation; not even when some other random fact happens to suggest a connection to our overly enthusiastic pattern-seeking minds.
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It's probably not fake, it sounds like pretty standard (in terms of stiltedness and bombast) Soviet verbiage, probably intended for quoting or retransmission later. There's a lengthy analysis of the flight here

http://www.svengrahn.pp.se/histind/Soyuz1Land/Soyanaly.htm

by someone who doesn't seem like a tinfoil hat wearer. He seems to think intercepts of some of his other communication are likely but reports are 'embellished'.
you need to spend some money on IT and get a CRM app
No you're totally right. A technology that allows easy, fast web programming in a paradigm that perfectly matches the nature of the web (event-driven design) is absolutely a fad.
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> All are valid paths in life. It's simply a matter of choosing the best option for yourself based on your risk profile and ambitions.

Unfortunately, something reasonable and uncontroversial like that doesn't get people to link to your blog.

Furthermore, the whole thing is not a zero-sum game: it's not like every person who decides to go for the VC/big route is someone "taken away" from a happy life with a small business (maybe they'd be bored by that), or that people doing small businesses are making the world poorer by not aiming for the stars (maybe they're not able to or interested).
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So you heard the part I couldn't make out.

I think I made out the entire thing, but I was fuzzy on the last word.

I hear: "K narodom nashe rodie, prakldavuyu chilvetchistvu put k Kommunizmu, bifshi cosmonaft umru?"

The first part translates roughly to: to the people of our homeland, I am laying the way for civilization to communism.

The last part to, this former cosmonaut is dead. But I could totally be mishearing that last bit (as the grammar doesn't really work if that is what he's saying).
Jobs left and was rehired with the specific mandate to make Apple profitable, at a time that Apple was in deep trouble. Google is in a very different situation.
That was awful.
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Nobody from the original team had any experience before they started there, to my knowledge.
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With a couple of caveats, iirc. There were a few idiosyncrasies with the log files that needed to be dealt with.
Also, they really need to weed people out. They were swamped with thousands of applications the first time around.
I decided it's going to be really useful, so I saved & unzipped .crx to see what code it wants to inject into pages. Looks like fine javascript, so I have it installed.
(Though, of course, it can be updated with some evilness later. Unfortunately, too much suspicion is often counterproductive.)
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well, i listened to it for the fourth time and hear the voice said:

'привет народам нашей родины, прокладывающей человечеству путь к коммунизму. летчик-космонавт Комаров'

'privet narodam nashey rodiny, prakladyvayushey chelavechestvu put k kamunizmu. lyotchik-kasmonavt Komarov'

which means 'greetings to the peoples of our motherland that makes the way to communism for the mankind. pilot-cosmonaut Komarov'

lyotchik-kosmonaut is russian cosmonauts' title.

well, first i thought it's some official radio speaker, now i admit that it's Komarov himself before or during the flight. nothing like crying.

and, this appeal is copy-pasted two times and one time pasted partially, '-munizmu', which indicates the fake.

the radio talk in between is illegible for me
I think that was his point, "genius".
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I generally look for people that have a background in either systems administration or coding. Depending on what area of security interests you (there's a lot of difference between malware analysis and, say, compliance pen testing), different specialties may come in handy. For web application testers, it makes sense to have some experience with web programming.

Although this certainly doesn't ring true everywhere, at my company we use Linux and BSD almost exclusively for our tools. Although I would never reject a candidate based on their distro of choice, being intimately familiar with linux and command line tools is a must. You'd be surprised how many people are confused by even simple tasks in other operating systems.

The most important thing you can do, however, is show that you're passionate about the subject. Do security related projects, stay current on news in the field, publish your work if you can. Attend conferences like DEFCON if you can, and if not at least try to catch videos of some of the talks.

The field is growing and loves to find new, bright, interested talent. It's hard to separate people with a real, keen interest in security and a background to support it from the kids that try to bullshit their way through, though. Be honest about your skillset, your interest level and your background, and it will all fall into place.
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me too, i have a startup where i need to take payments, then split them up and send out to two people, interested to know more
This hits close to home. It's unfortunately how PHX entrepreneurship seems to overlook scams like this.
Definitely no. Zoho(AdventNet) was the best thing that happened to me in my (work) life. It's an amazing company with over 1200 employees with very smart engineers and a kick-ass product culture. I owe everything that I learned in Product Management to AdventNet. It's a huge playground for people who are not afraid to try new things. I used to tell my team members that working in Zoho is like getting an MBA on how to build a Product Business.
Hmm.. Would now be a good time to build a new reddit?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_length

This seems more appropriate.
That was really uncharitable towards small businesses. The article makes a false dichotomy between wanting your freedom and helping other people. Surely my ability to do the latter is maximized once I'm free of the need to go to a soul-sucking, exhausting 9-5.
According to general relativity, spacetime is a smooth continuum. However, due to issues arising from quantum mechanics, some have proposed that spacetime should be quantised.

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And what is the next best thing in your opinion? It's one of the few places that does nested comments properly and the lightweight up/down voting always keeps it interesting. The only thing I can see replacing it is an outright clone, but no one's stepped up and done it in all the years Reddit has been around.
Without knowing this probability in absolute terms, I think it is safe to say it's higher than all of this happening _without_ these random people meeting. :)
For example for reporting fraud in the Iranian election which wasn't being reported otherwise. Enhancing free speach in 'Trafigura' situation in the UK. Numerous other examples at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_usage
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My physics teacher said that spin is not necessarily rotation, more of a mathematical metaphor.
I agree, your options both sound bad. You need to be with a company like http://konaa.posterous.com thats at the front edge of innovation. In other words, email me.
You would expect a badly architected system to have -more- security mechanisms, as it has a more complex surface to defend. You wouldn't expect it to be more secure though.
my bet is that there is some 'technical debt', so the devs leave when said 'business is over your tech details'! :)
I'm surprised by how unappealing and depressingly earnest it all sounds.
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Which sums up nicely why MS doesn't use them.
A better question than the $20m question would be: Would you sell knowing the aquirer would shut down the product, like many that sold to Facebook have for example.
Wow, that is super cool.
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muchos props to krose. he has put up with a lot of shit from people and handles it really well. pioneer in the space. he should write a book! (and then a movie)

i'm looking forward to the business week headline covering this
I would say it the other way around, they got snippy so I got snippy.

I do think there is a relationship between how over worked the are, and how friendly they are. The Regent's St. store in London is mobbed whenever it's open, hence the poor treatment. The other store I've been to is in Stamford, CT. where my interactions have been much better - not as good as yours with getting comps, but certainly I left feeling happy.

This is too bad really, as the Regent's store is more of a flagship store, and that's where things should really be working.
If you haven't seen it here's R. P. Feynman's Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle. I think the reason that additional safeguards were added was not because they begun to feel emotional about it, but rather NASA had underestimated the failure rate in the first instance. The emotional factor is what prompted the investigation.

http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/51-l/docs/roger...
I've been running a project targeted primarily at schools for about 8 years now (emusictheory.com), and I know this market exists (I attended a rich public school, actually), but I also have no idea how to target them without cutting out many of the public school teachers that have been my supporters over the years.

Can anyone point me to good writeups of how to build pricing to target the big players while still letting in the little guys? My pricing is currently too low (I know, I know), and I have some teachers who tell me to charge whatever, it's no problem, and others who it takes them 4 months to manage to push through a purchase order for $150 (and the school takes months to pay the invoice....).

I've been thinking about making an "enterprise"-level subscription that includes setting up the school's own mini-site on a subdomain, but I'm not sure what else I can offer to make the pricing jump seem non-ridiculous.