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Wait, it's not even true that he's only done 7 actions in the last month. His diggs just aren't sorted exactly chronologically

http://digg.com/kevinrose/diggs

There are 7 diggs in the past 17 days, then one from 2/8, then at least 6 more that are within the last 30 days.

And comparing to Twitter actions is dumb. The real(ish) story would be if there's been a precipitous drop in his Digging. Maybe it's been a long time since he Digged a lot because he's gotten so busy. Or maybe he's never Digged all that much and he's more of a lurker.

I'll leave figuring out if there has been a precipitous drop as an exercise for someone who cares about Digg.
http://www.appdata.com/leaderboard/developers

There's a list.

How many millions of active users do you think it'd take to make meaningful income?
It only does not preclude that if the person who received the message is mature about the whole situation. Unfortunately some people won't be mature, and that is simply not grief that the VC wants.

Furthermore when you come off as rude the first time, you discourage them from asking the second time. What if they come back with an idea that is good, and a team that rocks? Don't close doors that you don't need to close.
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Good analogy. To add to the analogy - I don't have an iPad and I very rarely use a microwave, because freshly prepared food tastes better then microwaved food, movies look better on the HD projector, and it is much more convenient to read and type on a macbook pro then on an iPad (with or without a wireless keyboard). And yet, at some point everyone will have an iPad, when it is cheap enough to replace the magazine basket.
Getting Watson to process a single natural language query in under three seconds with a reasonable degree of confidence was a huge technological accomplishment with today's technology.

I think it will probably be several years before the technology exists to be able to do the same thing with sub-second response times, on a much larger inconsistently-structured data set, with a higher degree of confidence, for millions of users.
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When I applied to YC a few years ago, I believe I put down that the quadrillionth bit of Pi is zero.
That was a pretty specific issue, with 2 complaints. One was the name, and the other was that the board layout was identical (location of bonus squares, etc). It relaunched very quickly as Lexulous with a different board. Damage done, but it wasn't an instant kill or anything.
You're right. By biggest i mean profitability, reveneue, etc. Which is, for a company, an indicator of their 'fitness'. I'm not talking about the loss making whales that had to get bailed out and for whom we are all now paying for..
Not just the next iteration: Apple has been toning down the Aqua look in every version of OS X. The original Aqua was very much an offspring of the 1990's iMac aesthetic with candy colors and pinstripes everywhere. The pinstripes were the first to go, and each update has switched some glossy element to a more flat look.
I'm not sure that he really cares if he's helping the situation or not, seeing as he's no longer employed there.

I know first-hand that when a team is working on things, and it's very publicly going wrong, and it's due to things that are out of your control, it's beyond frustrating to have everyone think that it IS your fault due to the public stance.

I'm guessing that the Reddit team that is dealing with this is more than a bit pissed that they can't be more public with what the real reasons are.

Personally, I could care less about the "professionalism" or political BS, I'd rather know the real reasons for the problems so that I could be better informed and not run into the same issues.

I'd rather see more candor and less PR.
I think it applies to tablets in general rather then to the iPad
Did you get stuck in the Fedora 8 trap as well? It was the 'starter' in 2008/2009 and it took us two years to get off it.
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I spent a week clearing this crap out of people back yards with the student army of volunteers. They estimate 200000 tonnes of the silt had to be cleared.

Here's an example of the silt coming out of the ground minutes after the quake. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_twYpUJl9o

And here's a good explanation http://mandenomusings.wordpress.com/2011/03/03/christchurch-...
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I'm not an applicant, but I know what I'd put. (And the fact that I'd put this probably makes it good that I'm not an applicant!)

In grad school I proved the following:

A polynomial that is symmetric in the roots of two other polynomials is a polynomial in the coefficients of the other two polynomials.

As an example it is easy to construct a polynomial with integer coefficients that has sqrt(2) + sqrt(3) as a root. Just take the polynomial (x-sqrt(2)-sqrt(3))(x-sqrt(2)+sqrt(3))(x+sqrt(2)-sqrt(3))(x+sqrt(2)+sqrt(3)), multiply it out, and you'll get your answer. (In this case, x^4-2x+1.)

Kind of a cute result. So I took it to multiple mathematicians. None had heard of it until I talked to an old mathematician who told me that it sounded like a very old approach, and he encouraged me to look for an introductory algebra book from the 1800s.

I did, and lo and behold! It was once well-known, and a standard part of the undergraduate curriculum. Even better, two of the mathematicians who had not known the result worked in areas of math that STARTED with that observation! (One worked with the algebraic integers - that construction was how mathematicians first proved they formed a ring, and the other worked with symmetric polynomials - and that construction was the original reason why they were studied.)

This incident opened my eyes to the truth of how easily knowledge gets lost, and how little attention mathematicians pay to their own history.
Acquisitions are never what VCs aim for. They aim for big, independent companies. They rarely hit that target, but it's always what they're aiming for.

Angels are different. Angels are willing to invest in a startup whose only likely good outcome is an acquisition. But VCs will not even consider making a series A investment in a startup that doesn't have a credible plan for getting to the kind of revenues that would support an IPO.
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The only times when I wish for a microwave are when I am staying in a hotel room without one. Maybe tablets will replace the hotel brochure, the room service menu and the bible in the hotel rooms at some point?
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Duly noted. I started with this talk and have been using it as a guide to scaling edge cases with python as well as AWS. I thought raid10 was overkill before I started digging into the postgres/EBS mess, but now it seem almost routine enough that Amazon should have it as a configuration option.
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Also, the assumption that no unique information was provided in the airbnb founders' meeting with Fred, and email conversation contains all the information, is probably incorrect.
Reddit has always amazed me with what they can do with extremely limited resources.

But it looks like that attitude has finally caught up with them, especially since they are down to just 3 technical staff (from 5 last week), and two of them are brand new.
I tried to search google images earlier for 'map of south america in 1836'. I got a few maps and a whole lot of bird pictures. Even after busting out some google-fu, I was still getting birds. Fed up, I tried the same search in Bing -- no birds. Still no idea what all the birds were about.
That is really disturbing, and it reminds me of something I just read the other day.

For any Seattle startup folks, just remember that all of Pioneer Square (and then some...) is a liquefaction zone[1]. Also, don't forget that the Viaduct is a death trap, and you really are better off never setting foot (or wheel, I guess) on it.

[1] http://www.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2011/03/16/more-sea...
The graphics are really cool and all, but this definitely isn't what pokemon would be.
Where is the ability to walk the world and interact with non playable characters?
It's decent, but it's no pokemon as far as playability. It's just a stripped down version of pokemon with social elements added. It would be really nice if you could actually play as a character, view battle animations (like pokemon fire attacks show flames) etc.
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I've found this article on less wrong. It's written by a magician, but it's really highly relevant for startups.
"At 15, he was selling his first company for just over six figures."

7 figures?
Tangentially related (section 3 talks about this): why would you ever disable code using the && false idiom?

You could just remove it (and rely on you source management system to get it back) or you comment it out (where you will at least get syntax highlighting to help you spot the dead code).

It happened multiple times to me that I missed a tucked in &&false while I was porting older code to a new API. As the code was disabled anyways, I could have spared myself the time of patching it up.

Now sure, if you are just testing something during development, this might be a viable way to disable code, but something like this should not be committed. Please use proper comments or better, just remove the code.

In this light I don't understand why the article is even trying to suggest syntactical "improvements" (adding parentheses doesn't make it more readable IMHO), when the complicated expression should have just been rewritten to

UINT uFlags;
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No condition, more readable and less runtime overhead. And whoever committed this got the pleasure of committing "red lines" (git shows removed lines as red and being able to remove stuff always feels good)
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Most importantly, I wouldn't let the staffing levels get this low.

At this point in its life, reddit should have 6-12 programmers/system administrators + a few support staff, compared with the 3 they have at the moment.

That way they won't be agonizing over the choice between devoting their resources to keeping reddit running in the short term, or to moving reddit away from EC2 for long term stability.
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I sometimes want to avoid using floats because of the inaccuracy that sometimes arise with their use. If I recall correctly, in Haskell division requires the numerator and denominator to be of the class fractional. So how I did integer division was something like this

round (fromIntegral x / fromIntegral y)

round is one of several functions that transform numbers to integers.
I usually have about 3 or 4 plates spinning at once. Burnout really isn't an option for me, but it happens from time to time. There are two things I can do about burnout:

* Take some time off

This is my preferred option but isn't always available. My family has a small home on an island in the mediterranean, I try to make sure I go there once a year. I take no laptop and my phone is off (save a check-in at work once a week). Last year I reneged slightly on my tech ban and took an ebook reader (as it was easier on the baggage than taking a load of books) - it nearly paid for itself on that holiday alone (I got through 11 books in 14 days).

* A change can be as good as a rest

I do all kinds of things to take my mind of the thing causing me stress. I cycle, I learn how to make cocktails (although that doesn't help the burnout if I overdo it!) - at the moment I'm writing an old school demo for an 8-bit computer to help me with a private conference I'm organising.

I've had serious burnout a couple of times, mild burnout normally kicks in once or twice a year. Stress is an absolute killer, so I'd recommend that anyone facing burnout does everything they can to keep stress to a minimum. Burnout is nature's way of telling you to stop for a while, or at least change direction (in my experience, YMMV).
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I don't print anything, but the other day, someone printed a mail message to show me something <shrug>. The last page was printed because of the stupid message.
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I'm skeptical about the statement that you quoted. I don't really have the facts to back up my assertion, but I believe we will always have large companies.

If the comment is meant to mean that if everyone had the entrepreneurial drive the whole house of cards would crumble down, I still think that is misguided. The distribution of the success of businesses is somewhat similar to the distribution of programming skill among developers. There are many that are in the low mid range. There are very few that are light years ahead of 90% of the other developers.
He should go and see a qualified wealth advisor - in fact several - and try to develop a structured diverse folio of investments.

300k isn't a lot now, but it can make his retirement a lot more comfortable.
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The 2011 Japanese tsunami has killed at least 7000 people. The Chernobyl accident killed up to 4000 people. Problems at the Fukushima power plant are far less severe than Chernobyl (see the article) so they are relatively minor.

Or do you feel that a life taken by cancer is worth more than a life taken by drowning??
The good news is that it seems they have some leverage on Amazon now.

"Hi Mr. CIO of Amazon. You realize we had a 6 hour outage on one of the largest sites in the US because of you. We don't want to badmouth your service but we can. Care to pay more attention now?"
Any idea if PageRank was named after Larry rather than Web Pages?
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I appreciate the comments. After thinking about it myself, I have decided I am going to write a list of successful startups/companies that I admire and why. Perhaps this will give me insight into which idea I would like to succeed the most/gravitate towards.
I interpreted that to mean something in the range $100-125k
I could care less about the environmental impact of printing emails on paper. Using up one of our renewable resources? Go for it. What bothers me is the sheer inefficiency of a paper-based office. Why in the world do we need to print out emails, websites, or other bits of information to act on it? For archival or reference? And emergency backup? It certainly doesn't make information workflow any easier. In fact, it's a wasteful duplication of effort. Does anyone have any good modern reasons for why paper is necessary in today's office? Assume that the employees are information workers who know how to effectively use computers.

P.S. I understand the creative appeal of pen(cil) and paper. I It's great for brainstorming, rough-drafting, and early prototyping. Beyond that, I can't imagine a good reason for it.
I've definitely spent a good while in the past trying to decipher the intent of someone who used &&alwaysFalseExpression - Is it a bug? Am I overlooking some subtle side-effect somewhere? If they just wanted to turn the code off, they would have just commented it out...right?
I like thunderbird. It's probably my second favourite email client after Mutt.

I switched from Firefox to Chrome as I found Firefox too slow and bloated. I hope that in the process of integrating Firefox technology, thunderbird doesn't suffer the same fate.
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A paragraph and a half in, this rant turns away from "This page doesn't validate" to "Apple is doing it wrong." It sounds a bit like you're being anti-Apple for the sake of having something to rant about.

Pretty much every one of the errors is either "This doesn't always exist in some browser" or parse errors. Aren't these properties either A. ignored or B. actually parsed correctly by the browser they're intended for?

And so what? Google.com doesn't validate, nor does Microsoft.com.
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"you need a new version of keynote to view this presentation" notice. I think what I have is new enough...

how about a pdf?
Hilarious, but not HN material.
ISO14000 is a set of environmental management standards. One of the things that you have to do to be certified is to promote environmental awareness. The easiest (and most commonly implemented) way of doing this is to put a little statement in the email footer.

So there you go, it's mostly a box ticking exercise, just like the 'If you received this email in error you must delete it'.
Bash is probably the second worst thing unix has to offer, right after vi.

The command you demonstrated is only slightly faster than sorting the directory by type in a file explorer and selecting them with mouse and selecting delete from context menu, and much more dangerous, ie. when you mistype it as rm * .bak you just deleted everything in that folder permanently, whereas in a GUI you would've seen what you actually selected, and most likely only moved them to trash, not permanently deleted them right away.
Quite a remarkable video... a little less so when you get to the end and he informs you of the history of Tokyo Central Park (reclaimed land). Still... unbelievable. Much less dramatic that the Google images of entire communities washed from the Earth... devastating.
As a principal of one of the firms you might have contacted, I do want to applaud your perseverance and attitude. Let's face it, a lot of folks in your position would call in with the assumption that engagement selection is a one sided process (because they are the client, like at McDonalds). They then get offended when people don't want to drop what they're doing to help an unprepared client work through their design and business plan (for free of course, in the name of sales) just in time to turn them down.

It can be very difficult to schedule the right resources even on a team large enough to work on several projects simultaneously. The demand right now is unprecedented. Most studios are getting cold called and emailed 5-8 times a week by people with vague ideas and $25k budgets. Obviously, we'd help if we could but we have a responsibility to the people we work with to be incredibly diligent about working with clients that seem like good bets. After all, in all of the videos you've seen you'll be bombarded with the notion that ideas are cheap, while execution is everything.

One of the strangest things I deal with at Unspace is people who are confused as to why we charge what we charge, or folks that can't imagine why a multi-person, four month engagement might run over $100k.

You know, you can't open a dollar store in a strip mall for $100k, so why would a top team build you a sophisticated infrastructure to run your entire business on for less?

That all said, these are gripes. We love learning new things and working on new client engagements is a great way to get thrown into the deep end in domains we'd otherwise never get to touch. It can be hard to give everyone your time — most folks don't understand that I'm a developer, not a salesman — but I recently hired our first business development manager specifically so that we could give everyone that contacted us the benefit of the doubt. It's a courtesy and respect thing that is all too easily forgotten.
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