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I'm not "picking a battle" or trying to belittle Sebastian, I'm just giving him my honest opinion of how he comes across, which I think 1) he can handle, and 2) is perhaps doing him a favor.

I'm not saying anything I wouldn't say to his face.
I experienced this after the Christchurch earthquake. Without electricity cordless phones are also useless. Our national communications company put a message out asking everyone to bring in their old corded phones so they could be sent down to Christchurch.
Small world. I live in East Hawaii and I felt that. It was from the Volcano, which after erupting for the past few days stopped last night and I guess it started again.
No, read the damn paper..Illinois is bankrupt they are asking for sales taxes to get them out of debt..
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"... working as a consultant to do technical due diligence. That is M&A jargon for the job of verifying that what a company says it sells and owns is actually true, and that it's all put together in a sound way to limit the risk investors and buyers are exposed to. I do this work for several renowned Venture Capital firms in Europe, and it's the most exciting and interesting work I've ever done."
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Your reasoning is sound. But a host of evidence strongly suggest they do manipulate you.

There's doing better this year (lessons learned etc), and doing less than optimal now so you can do better next year. If I recall correctly, Apple did that once with the IPhone: the case had room for a camera that wasn't there in this year's model.

On a different note, there is better and there is different. The design of cars, for instance, changes much faster than the underlying mechanics (engine, safety…) improve. As far as I can tell, Apple isn't too guilty of this. Their design though exquisitely shiny, is relatively stable.

There's also the timing of product: most goods now are designed not to last (designers actually learn at school how important this is for their future customers). The most famous example is light bulbs. They only last 1500 to 2000 hours because the biggest vendors at the time colluded to limit their lifetimes. They got sued, but since, despite numerous patents for long-lasting light bulbs, you don't find any for sale. Apple used this strategy once with irreplaceable IPods' batteries. They eventually backed off because a consumer union sued them.

Going back to the IPad, if Apple really cared about making the best product possible, they would have made the processor replaceable, and the memory extend-able, so that when they inevitably improve, customer can replace them at lower cost (both in money and in resources).

Now, I'm not willing to blame Evil Corp™ right away: they just maximize profit. So, I'd rather ask what in our society generates such profit maximizers.
He read it too literally. The point is not 10k or any magic number. The point is "don't be desperate for money". The point is to view yourself as something valuable. If you have no value for yourself, you'll be happy to get a low pay in exchange for a low-quality service. The more respect you have for yourself, the more people will respect you and the more valuable you become.

His counter argument is basically like this (he's B):

A: Doing X pays, just look at K (where K is a person)

B: No, you can't do X, and don't look at K, he's a special case.

A: Duh, he's special because he does X; he wasn't born special.

Someone should coin a name for this kind of argument ..

As JM himself notes, Linda Evangelista is not that special when it comes to prettiness or friendliness. He should've paused for a second to ponder how she became a brand.

(For the record, I have no clue who this Linda girls is).

Consider Steve Jobs. He says[1] he does not ship garbage. Why is that? Is it because he's rich and he can afford it? No, it's because this is who he is. He wasn't born rich; he got where he is because he could never ever produce garbage. A simple way to prove this is to consider: if he had shipped garbage through out his career, why would he stop now? Just look at Oracle and Microsoft.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu0qeb_rJYU
I wonder if the states realize that one of the possible outcomes involves Amazon retreating to only a few states-

which then elect to allow the practice to keep the entirety of Amazon's revenue flowing through their borders

It's not necessarily inevitable that the states will be able to muscle Amazon to their wishes.
"you might have a moral responsibility to not do exactly what you want to do"

Eh, no. Nobody has any moral responsibility to live their lives for someone else's sake.
Good blog post.

I used to get spammed to hell by recruiters until I:

1. Requested the removal of my details from their database.
2. Threatened to report them to the REC (UK-based recruitment organisation).
3. Threatened legal action, quoting relevant EU directives.
4. Named and shamed them on a blog post (or two).
5. Requested an apology from their managing director.

Seemed to work a treat.

One 'sorry' recruiter admitted that they generated an 'email blast' based on a keyboard search which was taken from data scraped from JobSite (or other similar job website) 1-2 years ago.
The Stanford iTunes U Courses should not be overlooked. They do a great job of taking you from crawling to running in no time. I enjoyed doing the homework too, it really increased my learning experience.

Winter 2010- http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/iphone-application-devel...

Spring 2009-http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/iphone-application-progr...

Spring 2011 (Starting Soon)-http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p/cgi-bin/drupal/
I'd be curious as to the distribution of birthdays if January 1 was removed. Anyone have a site with a similar age verification measure they could check this on? Even anecdotally would be nice.
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Google puts Japan quake tsunami warning on their search page, kudos to them
Just thought I would point out that Google has updated their search page to show the Tsunami alert warning from the Japan quake. Nice to see them doing things like this and responding so quickly... no corporate red tape, just a quick productive action.

http://www.google.com/
From above stream, a shot of people waiting to be rescued:
http://twitpic.com/48e4r4
It doesn't have to be miserable at all. If your profits doubled this year and some employees are the reason for such an increase, then you would be a jerk to play hardball with said employees about salary increases. Now if your company took a negative hit and an employee that doesn't really create a decent amount of value asks for a raise, then he's a jerk for not having the company's best interest in mind (and if his performance is not good enough you should be thinking about letting him go anyways).

Hell the whole point of working is to advance in the world. You as an employer should be making more money with each year that passes in comparison to past years. Employees as people with goals and dreams should be making more money as time passes also. If you're making more money thanks to your employees, your employees should be making more money also. Not just because they're entitled to it, but because there's always the possibility that by letting them go could end up costing you more money than a raise of a couple of thousand dollars.

A great team is something you should strive to maintain and cherish, but is also something that becomes exponentially more expensive as years pass. If they're working like a well oiled machine and creating insane amounts of value for your company, just pay up. If by comparison they're average (or worse) and your company isn't growing one bit because of lack of innovation or performance on their part, then you're correct in playing hardball... while you look for replacements that can actually benefit your company.
Scheme is not that hard - I had some trouble internalizing call/cc, but the rest is rather straightforward or fiddly but not really difficult (macros).

That said, I sometimes get the idea that the majority of Scheme code is in Scheme implementations - which put me off the language.
The plants are right on the coast.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Japan#Nuclear_...
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Definitely a warning. Here's the most current and clearest map I've seen:

http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/2011/03/11/lhvpd9/05/wwareaslhvpd...
notifo is iPhone/android push notifications for comment replies.

showdead shows articles that have been killed by moderators

minaway is described here at the bottom: http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

delay is the delay between posting a comment and it appearing
I'm not sure I'm understanding you correctly - are you really wondering about him specifically, or are you saying that 2k is a lot of money to be paid a day?
I emailed him as soon as I got the NOAA tsunami notification email -- he's fine -- he's in California.
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I'm in this picture (the blobby looking guy) and yeah we were working under the desks while all of the aftershocks were happening. It was pretty intense as we've been having earthquakes here the last few days and thought it was going to just be another small one. It kept intensifying, however, until we were forced to go under the desks. Definitely a very long 3 minutes.
You miss the point of the article. "Don't be desperate for money" is the main point of the article.

And for me, I don't think it's appropriate to mention that I earn 2,000 Euros / day.
If you're in Hawaii or California, we're in a Tsunami Warning (which is the run-for-the-hills, highest grade warning): http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/2011/03/11/lhvpd9/04/messagelhvpd...

If you're on a coastline, here are the tsunami height predictions: http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/models/models.html
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5. Suppose you get so many orders from France that you figure it makes more sense logistically to bulk ship items to a central location in France and then drop ship from there with the French office merely acting as a forwarding location. Surely this is roughly equivalent to the previous scenario.

6. Since demand from France is fairly predictable, you figure you can actually ship based on anticipated sales, shortening fulfillment time. Surely this is roughly equivalent to the previous scenario.

7. Since you realize the drop ship location is fairly close to many of your customers, you can offer a saving to the customer by allowing them to physically travel to the warehouse and collect their goods. Surely this is roughly equivalent to the previous scenario.

8. Since customers are frequently coming to pick up their orders, you realize you can neatly and logically order the items in your warehouse to facilitate easy retrieval of pickup orders. Surely this is roughly equivalent to the previous scenario.

9. Since people are coming into the warehouse, it makes no sense to force them to do the purchasing online when they could just wander through the warehouse, decide what they want and purchase right there and then. Surely this is roughly equivalent to the previous scenario.

10. Suppose you now figure out that it makes sense to advertise this warehouse space since people in the surrounding area could come in, wander through the aisles and make impulse purchases. Also, investing money in improving the physical appearance of the warehouse will also draw people in. Surely this is roughly equivalent to the previous scenario.

11. You figure out that it makes sense to place multiple warehouses in different places around the country since this will attract more people from that local area. Surely this is roughly equivalent to the previous scenario.

12. Given how logistically complicated this has become, you hire an entire French team who operate largely independently of the US parent office and manage the roll out of these fulfillment centers (they call them le store). Surely, but surely, this is roughly equivalent to the previous scenario!
Seeking about extramarital affairs
Emotional connections may be just as damaging as physical ones if the other party finds out, and for many extramarital affairs between two individuals who have never met in person.
Please don't write code for others for free unless there's a good reason. There is already a shortage of good programmers available for _hire_ [1].

If you want to code for fun, or to increase your profile as a developer, either get involved in an open source project, or start your own.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2312766
Have we all forgotten what the word broadcast means? If sending everyone the same signal at the same time is hard, you're doing it wrong.
"Rings Around Saturn"

Interesting, haven't heard of it.
http://www.zx81stuff.org.uk/zx81/generated/tapeinfo/s/SuperP... -- Listing and play it online.
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It's more dramatic comedy than factual. On the other hand it is very entertaining and well worth watching if you can get your hands on a copy. (Also has Martin Freeman of The Office fame, and Alexander Armstrong who is a well-known British comedian).
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Ask HN: Tech and Uni events in SF area during April?
Which events should I go to?

I will be there from the 10th to the 16th of April, roughly.

And if anyone wants to show around an Australian interested in startups, please let me know :)
I have an app, called Printful, which kind of merges Instapaper and Reeder. Email me if you're interested in trying it, I'll send you a promo code as soon as the next release is approved.
Although it may not have happened in this instance, cell towers are prone to fall down if shaken violently.
Why not use XCode to compile GCC, Binutils and provide an installable GCC package to end users - apart from Fink and Macports?
and BTW, you get PHP on Windows from Microsoft through the Web Platform Installer
To that note, I want to add there are legal implications to using someone's free help in a for profit business in certain states.
Looks Great! Marco Arment, developer of Instapaper, has a weekly podcast about iOS App Development called "Build and Analyze". Great resource for any level iOS hacker. http://5by5.tv/buildanalyze
It all really boils down to a question of what your preferences are. Do you want to save 9 peoples' lives each day or do you want to have a somewhat more enjoyable work environment?

"There will always be something more you could do for others no matter how much you give away." This argument becomes irrelevant once you boil things down to a question of preferences.
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Yes – programming is fun to hop into, but just a heads up: the most difficult process to learn and master is the marketing and promotion part of releasing an app.

I feel that two blog posts linked in this article touches this subject in an interesting way: http://struct.ca/2010/the-story-so-far/ and http://blog.endloop.ca/blog/2010/08/12/100k-in-4-months-a-ni...

That said, I would recommend Corona - http://www.anscamobile.com/corona/ - for anyone wanting to give iPhone app development a shot. Much easier and fun to jump into than objective-c, especially if you want to make games, and still pretty damn powerful!
Where did you graduate from and what codes are you familiar with? We're looking to hire qualified interns/engineers.
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It is funny that most people think that gamers are under 25 years old. In fact, the average gamer age in the US was, in 2010, 34 years old. And only 25% of them were under 18. Those numbers are from a 2010 study from Entertainment Software Association (www.theesa.com), you can find it there. Another fact is that gamers have been playing games on average for at 12 years.

comScore also released an announcement a while ago saying that gamers actually represent all markets segments, showing the potential of in-game advertising (which has been growing both in revenue and number of advertising in the past years).

So Gabe's target market should be a very broad one not only gamers "under 25 years old", specially since his main product is a platform (Steam).
Hmm I am pretty sure that was what it said when I commented. But I might be wrong
Didn't even occur to me to look for it. Thanks for that!

Looks even simpler than I expected. I was looking for an idea for a simple iOS game to get started. This may be it :)
Craiglist should be your cheapest and most sure fire bet.
Maebashi, Gunma here. I was on the 10th floor of city hall when it happened and bookcases were falling all over; we were trying to hold them up and not really getting how serious it was. That was a few hours ago and we're still getting periodic aftershocks. No sea here, so we don't have to worry about tsunami, luckily.

I was fine during the quake itself and now I'm having an attack of the nerves; it still feels like the ground is moving and I can't stop eating, heh.

Malls and grocery stores are closed, so the local convenience stores are being stripped of absolutely everything.
Yes. http://www.theage.com.au/national/victorians-receive-fire-te...

// Although that was a warning message -- not an emergency one.
This model sounds like SimpleNote
There are push notifications of major earthquakes, though I think they're opt-out-able, which kind of defeats the purpose.
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You try that command in a base Arch install and get back to me. You're basically blaming Apple for not having a package manager, even though that's clearly the responsibility of the community.
In the U.S. it is not uncommon for software developers working as employees to make between 90k and 120k per year. In fact, AFAIK that's THE salary for experienced devs in Silicon Valley; and independent contractors can make much more than that.

Indeed cops, teachers, and social workers make much less, but salary is usually a function of how much profit you can produce + a function of supply and demand.

The demand right now for capable software engineers is pretty high, even with this economic recession. And the supply is very low - so if you live in the U.S. and are making 20000 USD per year, you're doing something wrong ;-)
Heck, that's not enough to pay the rent in San Francisco.

Even junior developers coming fresh out of college are making more than 20k.

In that light, yes 55k is much lower than I could earn if I were located at the heart of the software industry, but I'm pretty happy and feel fortunate about it anyway; although my target is 120k.

So again, if you live in the U.S. 20000 is way low without having extra benefits - like being a co-founder in a startup that will make you rich one day. Even if the projects you're working on are fun, don't sell yourself for pennies. In the long run you'll suffer; not to mention, have you noticed the ageism going on in this industry?
I wonder if this would work as an investment strategy:

A month after I buy a product, if I still love what I bought, buy the same amount in stock of that company (or a fixed multiple/divisor of the amount spent).
so, whats your startup then? :)
It's pretty nice, but you might want to look at the edge refine too in Photoshop CS5 to get the cutouts a bit neater.
Fellow Israeli immigrant here. Feel free to ping me. email in profile.

You should seriously consider applying to YC.

Be'hatzlacha
When you will be destroyed:

http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/2011/03/11/lhvpd9/01/webetalhvpd9...

Who will be destroyed:

http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2009/12/san_franciscos_ts...
So a few months ago, I started a similar site in Hebrew[1].

My rationale was similiar to the OP's: most Israeli techies have no problem reading English, but when it comes to posting comments or writing blogs, lots would prefer Hebrew.
Still, there are differences between the two sites: a site in Spanish has lots more potential HNers, but on the other hand, a site in Heberw has the benefit of supplying Israeli-specific news.

While my site hasn't yet taken off, I'm certainly encouraged by similar efforts that do succeed. So kudos to the OP, and good luck!

[1] http://bitorama.com
I cant believe this particular post made the homepage.

it is a stupid response to a wonderful post (the original 10k post)
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If you're already making 15k a month, I would say just bootstrap. How much faster do you need to scale? All the YC startups this round got 150k, but you're looking at 15k*12=180k a year, that's already more than YC can offer you.

If you really need next level funding, then I would think just emailing/tweeting around would easily get you some good responses esp with your story and already proven market for your product.
Red Cross and others will likely be jumping to the aide of those who have been affected by this disaster.

If you have a website, please consider adding a message and link to the Red Cross donation website or the link to the donation page of any other website.

To get it up ASAP, I've used the HelloBar (http://www.hellobar.com) on my site. You can see a working version of it at http://www.webdesigncompany.net but really any way that grabs attention would be a good way.

PS: I'm not associated with the HelloBar product but I've sent them an email requesting that they allow those who want to use their product to participate to get an invite to their beta. Hopefully they'll reply here soon.

If you don't want to setup an account or don't have an invite yet, you could copy/paste the following code:

<script type="text/javascript" src="//www.hellobar.com/hellobar.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
new HelloBar(3823,9104);
</script>

The text and link will never change.
Tsunami warning for California: http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=usa&...
Hijack apps.

Click on harmless looking "Login with Facebook" link to comment or access extra content on a harmless looking blog or trojan app, speed through standard dialog, sign away permission for them to update statuses, post on walls and send messages on your behalf through the Facebook API.

I've noticed Facebook getting quicker at deleting this garbage though.
The technology we have these days and the power of the social web is mind blowing. I hope these links go "viral".
Coming from Python, web development and Android, I found interface Builder to be the trickiest part of iOS to learn. The way it instantiates some of your classes requires you to build up a really odd mental model; I still don't fully understand it after a couple of months.

You're welcome to do it all in code, but it seems to be discouraged by many.
Seriously, can you give me any example of their love of Unix. They strongly preferred Lisp machines. Please don't make up random "facts".

It is irritating to find false statements being upvoted just because noone bothers to double check them.
Great to see some one from Russia dude! Privet! Best regards. I hope Yuri Milner presense in YC will give more chanches for russian talents to make a big jump!