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I have experienced a lot of the lack of progress indicator angst you mention. I'm nowhere near rich and it isn't that important of a goal to me in itself, but since leaving college at 19 (I'm nearly 26 now), I haven't had a 9-5 job. I played online poker professionally for 4-5 years and I've been a developer for the last 2. My development work has either been a set my own hours/work from home arrangement or contract work. I'd say the struggle to live with some kind of structure while also maintaining the high level of freedom and flexibility that I can't stand to be without has been the defining challenge of my life so far.

I'm very glad that I've been able to get out of the box and do my own thing, but it's also made life a lot more difficult in many ways. It's been harder to develop consistent social circles since these tend to center around college and work. Even though I'm pretty good at making friends, at least for a fairly introverted person, I rarely feel like I really fit with whatever groups I fall in with--I tend to go back and forth between feeling insecure and being bored and annoyed by others' seeming conformity and lack of imagination. A bit of social anxiety is involved as well.

I've also never been able to maintain a consistent circadian rhythm. At this point I've just given up on worrying about it and regularly stay up for 30+ hour stretches when I'm not tired or have a lot to do. I've found it easier to just go with it than trying to force myself into the 'normal' way. This also contributes to feeling weird or different from others though--just feels like I'm on another wavelength a lot of the time.

Not sure why I decided to share this exactly. I can definitely imagine having a lot of the same issues as a billionaire. I suppose that's why it doesn't seem a particularly worthwhile goal to pursue. I'd rather focus on finding a good creative writing group or learning to meditate or finding a place/way to live that helps me find more balance and belonging. Things that would have a tangible impact on my day to day being. Making a lot of money seems beyond a point to get in the way if anything.

I don't know if there's anything in particular to blame, but our society is quite exclusionary in many ways toward folks who go off the beaten path, even if they are otherwise kind and productive people with plenty to offer. Generally reasonable people can be very judgmental about things like not having a college degree or a normal job or typical sleep patterns. I've learned to take it in stride for the most part, but it leaves sort of a bad taste in my mouth. I suppose wealthy people may have to face some irrational prejudice from others as well.
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Yes, please tell me if your kids like them. Would be good field-testing ;)
No, technology doesn't work in that way: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000018.html

Google analyzes tons of data because they have too. As the parent post said, the "NSA analogy" is wrong because it has a very wrong proposition. Users use it because it solves some real problems for them. AT&T doesn't work for NSA, they works for customers and has a fiber to NSA as by-product.

You cannot compare a for-profit organization to a research facility (e.g. MSR). Such thing as you mentioned is aresearch project, which has much limitations and some of them wouldn't possibly be commercialized. It is the same skeptical as I have to hunch.com, but hunch.com solves some real needs whereas Color from what I see, is pursuit a magic ball floating in the air. And should I remind you that selling backdoor API is not a business, it is a crime.
Agreed. Not only that - there's honestly nothing like Duke (old or new) on the market right now. We have a glut of hyper-realistic shooters (CoD, MoH, Halo, Killzone, etc) and just not enough silliness.

That alone is enough to make Duke stand out from the rest I think. I mean, how many games start off with you taking a piss in a urinal, using the right thumbstick to control your aim?
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So does the default say "out of stock"? I checked every model at every store in town and that what I got back.
Great feedback, I will check the quotes. Thanks bugsy.
I like easygit (eg). It's training wheels wrapper for git. You use "real" git commands, but easygit has safer defaults and extra sanity checks (like forgetting to stage modified files). The help messages are more verbose and use more consistent terminology than git's man pages. For example, easygit always uses the term "staged" instead of "index/staged/add/hard/soft/mixed/cached/HEAD/etc."

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Because you get locked into FOSS software due to licenses (GPL vs BSD) or system specifics that would entail more money to port than simply maintain (scripts, features, etc). Now you have to maintain the software and issues that come with the system as a whole (security, stability, etc) or you can buy a support contract and have a corporation support your FOSS lock-in. Kind of makes you think doesn't it?
I love the future. Hopefully this won't go the way of the OLED and be way too expensive for practical use. I know it's only a matter of time, but I want this now! There are so many interest problems that a technology like this one could be applied in solving.
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1. It just works - I have never encountered an issue with the bookmarklet not formatting an article correctly.

2. Day vs. night mode. You can configure it to automatically switch to white text on a black background at night.

3. Performance - even with 100+ articles the app doesn't slow down and downloads new articles in seconds. Switching between articles and scrolling long articles is liquid smooth.

Overall, you can tell just by using it that a ton of thought was put into the UI.
I'm sure you meant consumer facing applications, but I might as well point out that there exceptions in the general case.

Linux has nearly completely taken over from UNIX and it did this (at least originally) by simply being more open.
Many distributions try to provide some security assurance to users by having packages in the repo cryptographically signed. This makes it harder for naughty people to trick users into installing malicious software. As a relatively small, non-"enterprise" distribution, Arch has not implemented such a system. Some people believe this is a Bad Thing, and recently there has been some controversy about it on mailing lists, which eventually bubbled up into an article on Linux Weekly News. Some Arch developers believe the issue has been portrayed inaccurately, and that a hostile individual has framed the issue unfairly.
We are now working on the Kindle conversion, and we will have it -hopefully- by late May. And also in a print-on-demand hook so you can sell paper (or dead-tree) books in Amazon as well.
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I bought bawk.com recently but probably will use another one as it turns out. I'd sell it to you for what it cost me because I'm a fan. I'll email you details if you like it.
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> history re-writing becomes a dirty word when you re-write history that someone else may have already seen.

It seems like git (or some friendlier wrapper) could track this for you. For example, if you've pushed changes to a remote repo, then git could mark those changes as "published" in your local repo and warn you when you later try to rewrite that branch's history.
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This is a pathetic article and I'm ashamed to see it on a news site I respect. This leftist ideology is HN's Achilles heel.
Obviously incredibly cool, but at the same time, how often do you want to see what is behind your monitor? Other than storefront windows and cars I would think it would be distracting to have everything be transparent.

But it is very, very cool.
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Anyone know if LG's has solar-poweredness? This mentions nothing along those lines: http://justinireland.com/lg-transparent-lcd/ via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2266954
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The artists get half of the profits i.e. half of the money that we receive from the store. So, for a $1.99 book, Apple will get $0.59, the artist $0.70 and we get $0.70.
I think you're worried about me lumping blind faith and assured faith together as one thing. I don't think that's what I'm trying to do here. Also, I think it's erroneous to dismiss all religious faith as blind faith, and that most people haven't thought through the logic of that. But that's a lengthy debate that shouldn't be done here. This comment alone would probably be enough to get me downvoted plenty. :)
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I have to disagree with you on this one. It's not about the technology. I think this is what we techies get mixed up.

I would wager to say that by now 95% of all Twitter users don't give a crap about the technology.

They just want Twitter to work.

Twitter solves a problem that people didn't realize they had before. The ability to easily see what people are currently doing - the 140 character limitation is a godsend for brevity.

Because Twitter invented that space, it is going to be VERY difficult to unseat them.

At this point, only Twitter can unseat Twitter - quite frankly.
It appears that Apple is doing great with Ipad 2. There are even organized groups of people on line to buy and resell in China. This tells me the demand is extremely high in Asia. Since they are the real growth story it appears Ipad 2 will be a success. My brother just called to tell me he is going back to study App development. I think the creation of Apps are a huge niche for designers. While it might be difficult to have fortune 50 companies hire you eventually local businesses such as diners, clothing stores and more will need an app for their business. I smell a new cottage industry for those who have app design abilities.
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Can't help but love her authenticity and confidence.

Supposedly, Fred Wilson is investing: http://saucy.tumblr.com/post/4071475277/must-see-vc-pitch-update-fred-wilson-union
"George W. Bush: “The problem with the French is they don’t have a word for entrepreneurship.”"

see: http://www.snopes.com/quotes/bush.asp

Things like this make me question the veracity of every other statement in the article.
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As a founder of a new company and the son of a lawyer lawsuits are certainly something I think about. It seems all companies that become well known eventually face lawsuits. While it sucks and you never want to face one, many know it is a cost of doing business. You also find people who want to attack a company seeing a big dollar sign in front of them. Plus lawyers might earn hundreds of millions or dare I say billions if they win a case from a company like Facebook or Google.
It may also be rational if they aren't sure what new business model would work and figure it would be too expensive to find out themselves. Or they recognize other business models can work better, but they aren't in a strong position to capitalize on them so they take advantage of what they can while they still have some position of strength.
How quickly the tide has turned.

I bet they are now regretting the headline: "More money than Google."

Talk about A LOT of unwanted attention.
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"Plus, now every entrepreneur who has a good idea will make sure they add Sequoia to their Sand Hill Road tours."

Really? How many entrepreneurs do you think there are who wanted to pitch other Sand Hill Road VC firms, but not Sequoia?
I totally agree -- but they seem to have a lot more on their side than simple words at this point; 40MM and their app out there...

I am sure they are a lot further along than vapor at this point.
Look at this with more of a hacker spirit: experimentation is not a waste of money, but important for discovering new ideas that can further the state of the art.

Building/construction is a sector that has been stuck innovation-wise for a very long time. Or at least goes very slow compared to other areas of tech.

It might be one step along to programmable, self-reconfiguring houses of the future.
Agreed. It's not about it being an Apple-related gadget as much as it's a classic case of entrepreneurship. Rapid/agile. Heck I wouldn't be surprised if they've only built a few units so far for prototype testing, and they won't even bother to ramp up production until they start getting real orders in. Lean manufacturing, I guess.
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I agree with zachrose, but that doesn't mean there isn't a market for power users who will appreciate this work.

My concern is that the primary multi-touch gestures choosen are two handed. Unlike pinch, stretch, and swipe, holding onw finger in place while you begin another gesture require more coordination than most people can do with one hand. In my mind, this leaves it out of the realm of phone-sized devices on the go. It probably works great when working on a table or desk, which means it is really the mouse for a tablet environment. In that market, you may have a real winner.
People want a feature, but nobody wants to code it. It's obviously either: a) not that important, or b) people don't want it that badly.
Podio is Tommy Ahlers new venture. If you wonder who he is. He sold Zyb.com (now Vodafone360) to Vodafone back in 2008.
I'm surprised there hasn't been more reaction to that comment. Maybe Nguyen wasn't actually making as big of a deal about that as the article made it seem by ending on that dramatic note, but this seems extremely creepy and I really can't see people being okay with this.

From my experience, even general people are concerned about issues of privacy with Facebook. We in the tech crowd are certainly more aware of it and wary than the average Facebook user, but I'm pretty sure a sizable majority of (potential) users have heard at least a little bit about the creepiness or have noticed it themselves (through creepily relevant ads, "memorable status updates", etc.). However, this only really became an issue after a significant number of people already relied on Facebook, and couldn't see giving up a reliable practical good to avoid the potential threat of privacy loss. But I could really see the transparency Color is showing from the start, before they've solidified any users, negatively affecting potential users. In some sense, people became hooked to the drug of Facebook before they were aware of the drug's negative side affects; Color seems to be announcing it's a harmful drug with little high and expecting people to get hooked. I have no idea how mainstream media will react, but if this ever does become the next Facebook or Twitter, I would not at all be surprised if there were news stories warning about the privacy issues, and then people might only know it as "that thing that tracks you," and at that point I can't really see people opting into it.
Isn't eco-friendly also in our own self-interest? ;)
I agree with you 100% on your definition of sensors, and I see that the app is about proximity as well as location.

What I'm curious about are how these "advanced proximity algorithms" and "sensor inaccuracies" can be used to locate co-users.

The only viable "sensor inaccuracy" example I can think of is network-based location. Mobile devices give lat/lon network location readings with error margins expressed as radii. Perhaps you could correlate users that are possibly close (e.g. users P and Q might be close, and are also experiencing a location error of X on the same cell carrier infrastructure, so let's strengthen their spatial relationship). Maybe it's another data point, but it's a pretty poor one.

Where this all falls down is with the notion that "GPS doesn't work" and implying that other non-positional sensors (e.g. accelerometers) can be used to get a location in the absence of GPS bearing.

Maybe I'm just missing an awesome, groundbreaking, (patented) aspect of their technology, or maybe there was some hyperbole involved in the article.

Anyways, sounds cool and I'll definitely try it if I get the chance.
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I think they are sitting in slightly different pieces of the market. I'm far from a design expert, but everything I see on Dribble seems like finished work (or at least polished and ready to show off). Often on Forrst I'll see stuff that people are struggling with and requesting real feedback on.

As someone who is about 95% developer and 5% designer I'm well aware that there is no place for me on Dribble, but Forrst users are happy to critique and offer solid suggestions on how to improve my limited design skills (which is something I'm really grateful for).
Josh,

Absolutely - I'd love to show you what I'm running under the hood. My email is aaron AT aaronstannard.com - what's the best way to get in touch?
I'm not quite sure that's entirely true, as is pointed out in the article.

In the NL Apple Store, polyurethane Smart Covers costs €39 each while a leather one costs €69 (in Apple's eyes €1 = $1).

This wooden cover costs €50.

I don't think it's fair to compare wood to polyurethane, but feel free to do so in order to make your argument stand.
$100k/mo is high? They have 7 founders and a 400k domain name.. I bet they burn more than that.

Edited: I should add that yes, 100k/mo is high for a normal startup. :-)
Maybe you could have thin LED strips on the sides to side-light it?
Read the about page and watched the video. Still don't know what podio actually does or how it is useful.
You could have such a sweet GPS interface in your car with this in the windshield.
True, that guy is so far out. The poor aren't responsible for production, they can afford more than a needle and a hammer.

When was the last time a poor person build a railroad, a factory or a library?

Edit: cleaned up.
That looks great if they can make it into windows panes - the outside of the glass is the solar panel and the inside can play video. Make it transparent on whim. Make it opaque to block out the sun.
It's not possible to deduce where this comes from:

a) the talk / book b) added by the blog author

On top of that, even if it was from talk, you don't know whether it was added in jest or in earnest..
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It already posts updates to your twitter feed if you sign in with that account and I've heard they'll be adding that feature to standard accounts soon.
One flaw I see in this big idea that nobody seems to see is the total anonymity of the process of sharing and the inability to select/delete the content you see (or at least, I tried and I could not find one).

This sounds to me like Chatroulette: there was much hype about it at the beginning and then it started filling with guys showing their genitals.

How long will it take before people start uploading questionable content? Even if not done on purpose, just think about using the app in a 100 ft. radius from a swingers club/gay bar. Something probably you don't want to have on your phone.
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When the Twitter strategy docs got leaked a while back, there was a specific section that dealt with potential lawsuits.

http://techcrunch.com/2009/07/16/twitters-internal-strategy-... (see Defensive Strategy section)

Legal

- We will be sued for patent infringement, repeatedly and often

- Should we get a great patent attorney to proactively go after these patents (We need to talk about this more, we are unsatisfied)
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This is what "airplane mode" is for.
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Just like communism, capitalism is mainly a lofty idea which breaks down as soon as it is confronted with reality. This is true for every sociological model, including capitalism. Just like "real socialism" there is the de facto "real capitalism" which clashes with the theoretical model proposed by the theoreticians and its proponents.
Ok Color. How about solving the more basic (and important) problem with photos?
Pending any safety issues being resolved.
In my experience, Mercurial is a little bit more friendly in this regard. You usually have to add a force argument for it to do anything that can cause irreversible damage.

Which can be frustrating as well, at least with git the commands work the first time :)

A better approach (as long as no external pushing/pulling is done) IMO would be to execute the command immediately, but allow undo functionality.
I have to admit I didn't get it at first until I started playing with it while some friends at the same location did as well. I'm not sure how much of this will be blocked out by the fading social graph but I thought of some pretty cool examples that make this app more interesting than I thought:
1. Photos from a house party, I'm sure you could see some entertainig pics.
2. Buying a house, it would be cool if you could actually get a ton of pics and videos from the previous family to see if you'll enjoy the house and if they appeared to take care of it.
3. I've never been extremely drawn to social media or even taking tons of pictures all the time. This, however, finally made it interesting to me and I will use it. Assuming there are others like me, there is a market for that.

I really have nothing to hide that would cause me to fear the data from this app. Perhaps ignorant of what they could do (I can think of a lot of kind of creepy things) but it doesn't bother me if they know about my location surroundings, etc... Someone did say privacy matters much more when you have kids, I guess that mint be the case down the road.
Now that was fun, just raced a few people, it is kinda of addicting! Thanks for the nice link. (funny, just typed this really fast...).