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Can anyone else vet for this book? I don't mean to be overly cynical, but the Amazon description is awfully "salesy". Even the reviews don't really pass my sniff test [1].

I'm opening to read this sort of entrepreneurial-inspiration, but I would just like a couple other people to chime in and say what they thought of the book.

[1] One of the top rated reviews "PLEASE READ THIS BOOK! I have worked with major celebrities and athletes that have went broke on earning 1 Million a year,this is the first author to really explain why. "

(72 5-star reviews and not a single 1-star? Surely there is someone who disagrees with the author?)
These are the same guys that did the Phoenix[1] a while back, which was essentially a knock off import that didn't do very well.

The C64 looks like a refination of the Phoenix in a C64-style case. Strangely there's no CPU specs I could find.

[1] - http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_Phoenix.aspx
Where's the evidence for this one? I went googling for "hedge funds underperform" and found an article about how major hedge funds had indeed underperformed the S&P 500 over 2010, but outperformed it over the three-year-period 2008-2010.

That is, of course, how hedge funds ought to work -- smoothing out the dips (2008) at the cost of being slightly conservative in the booms.
How I wish I had a working 1541 disk drive! I've got scores of programs on floppy disk that I wrote when I was 11-14 years old that I'd love to read again.

I doubt the disks are still readable, though. They haven't always exactly been stored properly.
jsgif: a GIF player in JavaScript
Have you looked into Amazon FPS? I'm in a similar position, and considering them as an alternative to PayPal.
A terrifying website, with lots of renders, few photos, and a non-functioning store. That's pretty "meh" in my book, and it even gets a Raised Eyebrow of Questioning.
This is really cool, last week when I got bored of having lunch at the same place, I decided to write an app that picks a place for me but then it kinda got sidetracked. This gave me enough push to do it as my weekend project.
I thought at first that this was named for Raph Levien (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raph_Levien) who wrote Advogato in C, some 10+ years ago. But no mention of that in the README or RAPHT. Too bad :)
Why did this website make me agree to an agreement just in order to read a press release (containing no more information than the headline)?
Very useful. Thanks.
This is not news. A very uninteresting april fools joke article.
The PC guts seem boring and will inflate the price. Why not do a reissue with functionality closer to that of the original, based on the C64 DTV [1] which cost $20 or $25 when it was on the market, and sell it at a $50-to-$100 price point?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C64_Direct-to-TV
One Thing Well - My Linux Setup
Very cool, but what is with that video? It's worthless, 30 seconds of the same thing as the second image at the start of the post.
Why I was wrong about Microsoft
Forcing a person who is past the age of legal responsibility to take massive doses of sex/gender hormones against their will is not the same as giving kids ritalin, and it is mildly offensive to say so.

Maybe, but that's not what I said. What I did was ask the question whether a generation from now we might say that. It's perfectly ok to think that no, we will always think it's ok. It's useful to wonder about it. And I do believe it's useful to question things like this and ask whether we might be doing a similar thing.

You never know.
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I think this is a lone spark in what is always interesting corporate actions. For instance, in the film the Corporation, it is posited that the only way to really combat the problems of corporations (like environmental issues, health effects of fast food, etc) is to in fact create a great number of corporations that can find motive and the means to defend against those interests. That way the market figures out the problem.

So, in theory, issues that you may have with the Apple way of doing business, should, at least in a healthy market, be figured out in much the way this article seems to discuss.
I think you responded to the wrong comment? I wasn't talking about lanthanum, although it's slightly radioactive too.
I/o Raises $105 Million, Goes Global with Modular Data Centers
Playing of the quote in the comment I replied to:

"trying to make digital files uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet."
As a long-time TextMate user I hate to say it, but the TextMate 2 saga is a modern-day poster child for why the "throw it all out and start again, it'll be done when it's done" model of refactoring is rarely a good idea.

Users want those "incremental features" that Allan mentioned in this post, and don't care too much what the underlying architecture looks like. It's hard to believe that it wouldn't have been possible to deliver those features whilst iteratively refactoring the underlying architecture.
Nice list. You should add The Startup Foundry too. http://www.thestartupfoundry.com

EDIT: nevermind, didn't notice there was more than one page. You should put the page navigation at the top of the page.
Helvetica: a documentary about typography and design
There's a difference between the potential to do annoying things, and actually _implementing_ annoying things. I'm sure there were non-annoying ways to use BLINK, too, but that doesn't meant that it wasn't mostly used in a bad way.
Wow, this is by far the best post I've ever seen on Techcrunch.
Any link to the problem he solved?
How NASA Recovers The Space Shuttle’s Solid Rocket Boosters
However until recently there was not significant WPF traction for desktop applications.

I'd argue there still isn't much traction for WPF. And based on Win8 rumors it sounds like MS is going to go all in on Silverlight. My bet is that WPF is their interop framework (because it works much better with legacy native apps) and Silverlight is where you do everything else.

WPF does have a decently steep learning curve, but it pays you back with interest.
This is simply not true from my experience.

One of the very reasons why I love doing startups is that I get to influence the very early stages of the product but tactically and strategically.
Displaying the Newest Entries from a Database in C#
This tutorial will show how to display the latest entries to a database using a Repeater Control in ASP.NET 4.0 and C#.
How expressive is one div?
I just found your original comment to be a bit mean. Sometimes you guys forget that people read this stuff, and words can hurt.
enter fellating.
Very interesting! WP also says, "Stepper motors are similar to switched reluctance motors (which are very large stepping motors with a reduced pole count, and generally are closed-loop commutated.)" I didn't know!
Mobile Mad Libs
For most Americans, todays batteries are more than sufficient to handle the daily commute. For outliers, they can choose to keep their ICEs or opt for hybrids like the Volt. To discount current tech for not being equivalent is just making excuses for the status quo. It's tantamount to simple FUD.
PEP 374 -- Choosing a distributed VCS for the Python project
If this had a SID chip (or multiple!) in it, I'd buy one in a heartbeat. As it stands, it's just a straight up PC with... a C64 emulator.
Who are you saying is bitching? OP or DarkShikari or me?
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Agreed. This seems like a tween product - too inauthentic to appeal to Commodore 64 fans and too ugly to appeal to anyone looking for a media PC.
Play Framework is excellent for rapid web development. The edit/compile/run cycle is very short. Just like PHP, make a change in the Java file, refresh your browser, and the compilation/deployment is done right the way automatically.

The URL request routing and handling is straight forward and powerful. Request parameters are mapped to Java objects automatically. The Groovy-based rendering template engine is very simple and powerful.

Play employs the easy to use JPA by default for DB backend layer but can use other frameworks easily. In one project I've used the JPA to interface with Oracle. In other projects I've used the Objectify library to access GAE's NoSQL Datastore when developing Play in GAE. Both work great.
I was asked, this morning, about the use of HTML div as an artistic medium; specifically, "You'd be limited to things like width, height, and either borders or [...] using those, would it be possible to make aesthetically pleasing <div> variations?"

I am always happy to act empirically with regards to art, so I gave it a few moments, and the resulting pseudo-minimalist art platform is surprisingly fun to play with.
> Realtek ALC662 6-CH HD Audio

This should totally be SID, MOS 6581!
> There's a difference between the potential to do annoying things, and actually _implementing_ annoying things.

That's exactly my point.

> I'm sure there were non-annoying ways to use BLINK, too, but that doesn't meant that it wasn't mostly used in a bad way.

Similarly, there are annoying ways to use jRumble (or jQuery.slideDown()), which shouldn't preclude it being mostly used in a good way.
Thanks! That site was built, VERY quickly. I actually created a thread in which I referred to it as the '2 hour startup', cause I built it (in Django) while I was stuck on the most boring and pointless conference call ever.

It's on the list, they're just sorted by 'reach', which is to say, the number of unique visitors they get in a month (as best I can estimate).

StartupFoundry is currently at the bottom of Page 3, if you're looking for it.
It's the usual lemon market argument though: clients can't discern quality reliably so they go for price only, which drives quality out of the market.
I was really wondering that too. I just opened the inspector and deleted the node to read the article. I'm not accepting any legal-speak to read what's already there.
Steve Jobs would ultimately decide which typefaces were selected...
Kinda old, but interesting.

The three reasons for hg > git were quite reasonable.
As a side note, the transition is now complete:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2011-March/10873...
This is obviously an April's Fools joke, except they missed the deadline, which is typical Commodore ;-)

In other news, if you want to join 60,000+ fans of the REAL C64, there's a Facebook Page for that: http://www.facebook.com/c64.fans
What disruption feels like: former pro musician has a revelation
An Agile Pace: When is overtime okay for an Agile team?
I should. =)

I take what I know for granted too much, I think.
Then they came for my business model.

So I found a new one instead of bitching.
The more general reason to hate Wikipedia is that if you have an idea for how to do Wikipedia right, you can't launch your own Wikipediaster. Nobody will come, because they're all either on Wikipedia or burnt out on Wikipedia.
I think it's a great idea, and really well implemented so far.

Best of luck with it!
Facebook Ads: The Cheapest Traffic You'll Ever Buy
Agreed. Seems like they are wasting away what once had great potential. All my bug reports (3 over the past two years) still stand unanswered and unacknowledged.

The API is broken in many ways. Documented features just refuse to work, and forum and bug posts go unanswered. I assume that paying customers have a better experience, but if they could be a little more responsive and helpful to prospective customers like me, I'm willing to bet they'd have a lot more paying customers.
If your primary interest in the C64 is to play with the SID, why not forgo the C64 emulator and form factor and use a dedicated SID based MIDI synthesizer (e.g. http://www.midibox.org/dokuwiki/wilba_mb_6582)?
Gumroad: A Link-based Micro Paywall
Nope. They still hate post it notes.
Well, mostly because the newer idea could possibly be more worth pursuing.
In the game Heavy Rain, buttons for actions that have serious consequences will rumble slightly. In very strained or tense scenes, they rumble a lot. An analog on the web might be the hover style for a button that deletes things with no undo.
Maybe I will. ;)

A few years back, I wrote a multiplexer / tunneler similar to Sshuttle in Python for a "Go To My PC" style web service. We wanted to tunnel over ssh, but had problems automating the client key generation and first-time connection. So we went with SSL. That and the cross platform requirement (most clients were running Windows) really took the fun out of it.
The WebSocket Protocol – Past Travails Are To Be Avoided
Aussies + Brits say it.
I bought a HardSID 4U because I'm not a soldering kind of guy: http://www.hardsid.com/

Awesome little box.
Warren Buffett No. 2′s “Inside Trade” Wasn’t Illegal
You are right. I linked only to the _wishlist_ which is something not usually kept up-to-date. In the other page, there seems to be slightly more current information:
http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/extensio...
Oh, I know. There's also hardSID and all those, but this would be appealing with that one simple addition.
I can't help but not care about this. Sure it's a fun finding, but WHY is baldness considered something that is so badly in need of a 'cure'?

Of course I do understand it from a purely capitalistic viewpoint in that a 'cure' would no doubt be worth a ton of money but seriously. What's so bad about baldness?

Sometimes you really piss me off Humanity!
If it's a joke, they've been at it for a while; it was supposedly going to be ready for Xmas 2010: http://www.tgdaily.com/hardware-brief/51285-commodore-makes-...
After seeing that House of Representatives chart, I can sure believe he's in marketing.
I like the C64 laptop much more (http://benheck.com/04-05-2009/commodore-64-original-hardware... uses the actual old hardware.
Maybe this is what you looking for:
http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/trunk/contextMenus.... =)
Cramming a modern PC into a vintage C64 reproduction really is a terrible idea. But as an old Commodore / Amiga fanboy I have to admire Barry Altman (CEO of Commodore USA) for attempting to reawaken the brand.

After the sad bankruptcy spiral and eventual shutdown of Commodore the trademarks ended up in the possession of a company based in the Netherlands called Tulip Computers (Now Nedfield) who makes commodity PC workstations. The did a little cheapo licensing of the brand here and there but basically showed no intention of breathing life into the brand again.

Mr. Altman appears to have incorporated Commodore USA with the sole purpose of attaining trademark licenses and attempting to tap into the large and very latent Commodore enthusiast market.

It doesn't feel like he's going to succeed. But I applaud him for trying. Now that Steve Jobs' face has taken the place of Big Brother in that 1984 ad, it feels to me that the landscape needs a new "creative computing" competitor. The Commodore brand could be such a cool fit, if they only had a decent product.

They should reproduce the 4000 / Video Toaster combo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nymVNhy4dw8
It would be pretty great for replicating OS X's "shaking no" effect when you type your password in wrong on the login screen (it needs a falloff setting though).
Creative Résumé Designs
That's one hell of a cut.
Natural Disaster in Japan Forces Closure of US Toyota Plants
That's a pretty cool inductive motor hack. Personally, my favorite esoteric motor has to be the wobble motor built using electropermanent magnets (essentially, programmable permanent magnets):

http://www.hizook.com/blog/2010/12/07/electropermanent-magne...

Do you know of any other "cool" motor hacks?
One of my previous employers had the attitude "if you have time for side projects, there is always more to be done in our codebase." It didn't pan out well for them in the long run. Everyone had side projects, they just never talked about them for fear of the lame statement or the employer's IP paranoia.

Now at a place where developers openly talk about their projects, collaborate on them, and even talk with the CTO about them. Whether they have commercial intent or not. A few of my own little "it'd be nice if we had a tool for X" have actually been picked up, built upon, and used company wide.

Companies need to realize that devs hacking on side ideas or new technologies can end up helping them in the long run. Makes for happier devs, brings new ideas to the table, and creates a tighter culture.
There may be metrics available, but it's an inherently fuzzy proposition to say a design 'works' or 'doesn't work'. For developers, once features are pinned down, there are much clearer criteria for success--a feature either works as described without errors or it doesn't. Most of the subjectivity that developers deal with is actually related to design.

On the extreme end, you can say a design definitely doesn't work if a large percentage of users can't accomplish their goals or get frustrated in trying, but you can easily run into situations where half your users love a feature and will be frustrated without it, and half hate it and will have fits if you don't change it. Of course, these are the kinds of issues UI designers are paid to resolve, but there will rarely-to-never be total agreement between a designer, a client, and the client's customers on which aspects of a design work and which don't. Not so in development.
I work for 3taps. If anybody needs help getting started with our APIs/data, feel free to contact me directly.
EVs are better at everyday driving. You could make a house using a sawzall, but it will be better and faster to use a miter saw for most of the work and a sawzall for the odd chop while up on the roof.
Hardly 'tween' then - more like DOA.
Still have my original Brown-Box, with Cassette player. . . I will ONLY buy this if MR-Z comes back onto the field to crack games!
10 minute charge is not possible with the current grid. You would need 1,500A service - just for the car (most homes have 200).

The cables would be as thick as your arm.

You can do battery swaps instead, but it requires an infrastructure build out first.
> Bugs in XHR with Content-Type and passing Arrays, requiring workarounds when integrating with Rails. Arrays get sent as "( key1: value1\n key2: value2\n)\n"

Can you elaborate on this? What is the Content-Type bug? What do you mean by "passing Arrays" -- how are you serializing?
I'm not so convinced:

1) "didn't hurt anyone": Sokol learned about Lubrizol while on his duties at Berkshire. After all, that's what Berkshire pays him for, to research interesting investment opportunities. By buying before Berkshire, he front-runned the firm using Berkshire's private information (aka, what he knew as #2 in the firm).

2) "trading laws should be abolished... insider trading helps.. individual investors" There are some academics that think so, but the academic consensus is in the other way. For instance, several studies have shown that on the days were insider trading is less likely to ocurr, bid-ask spreads are lower.
OK, when in doubt about any C64 stuff, the only place to go is the Lemon64 forum, and this seems to be real...

IN 1982, BOTH THE ORIGINAL COMMODORE "C64" & DISNEY'S BLOCKBUSTER "TRON" WERE RELEASED. ALMOST 30 YEARS LATER, THEY BOTH SIMULTANEOUSLY RE APPEAR ON APRIL 5, 2011.

http://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=37431&highl...

And if you are like me an Unbeliever, check out Disney's TRON partners page:

http://disney.go.com/tron/index_flash.html#/partners
Ask HN: How do I improve marketing without being a domain expert?
http://knottablenecklaces.com is my site. I'm working with a company owner who distributes locally.

I've setup adwords and have been tweaking SEO over time. Between the SEO improvements, the site being live for a few months and the adwords our sales have been slowly but steadily increasing. I've tried contacting blogs and magazines that I think would be interested in this product but haven't received a response from anyone. I've tried social media based giveaways but haven't reaped any benefits from it.

I know the normal answer here is "engage". Start a blog, get into the social pieces, start talking to customers. The problem is that I'm not knowledgable at all about jewelry and I don't use the product other than for a desk toy (I'm male).

My question is, what other marketing should I be looking into?

Past month stats:
415 visits.
350 uniques.
1276 pageviews.
It doesn't seem like you read the article.

The author doesn't suggest offshoring at all, just whether or not he can use an outside agency for design or UX.

In the short term, outsourcing in this sense is generally more expensive than handling it in-house, though in the long term, obviously the costs of maintaining a dedicated employee can tip the scales on the overall cost.
Hey so there are two reasons we actually opted not to do this:

1) The Twitter TOS does sort of prohibit this. We know this empirically because some apps that have done this before have been cut-off by Twitter.

2) It would not be scalable to users with huge numbers of friends and also it would take a much longer time to load and sort.
> the landscape needs a new "creative computing" competitor

I hadn't really thought of it this way before, but there is one. Arduino.
Do you have any resources as to what XMPP actually is? I've only seen it mentioned in the chat protocol context.
Brusa has an induction motor with magnets embedded in the rotor. At high torque, the induction overrides the permanent magnets. At lighter loads, the permanent field dominates and turns it into a synchronous motor.

http://www.diyelectriccar.com/forums/showthread.php/evdl-syn...
The concept of Outlet was very strange to understand at first, I never knew what should I connect to what (iboutlet, ibactions), then, the cocoa classes methods are big and enigmatic sometimes. I also found that creating a simple tableview with simple content is frustrating, because you have to link so many different steps, you have to create an object for table view, create delegated functions for counting and adding items, create a mutablearray, link it to the tableview, reload it everytime you need to display...and I'm not talking about adding images and stuff.

I'm pretty noob at cocoa, but it's a very hard learning curve because Objc and cocoa have so many specific standards that are strange if you came from other languages.
‘Paranoia Meter’ Is HBGary’s Plot to Find the Pentagon’s Next WikiLeaker
Well, I agree that a drastic difference in quality between the two versions of the app invalidates the data from MLB, the grand parent of my post asked why the quality is different between the two. Specifically, wether it is MLB's fault or a deficiency in Android. I think my answer is relevant, and the question, while a diversion from the question here as to wether users from the two platforms approach paying for apps differently, is especially relevant to the deeper question of "which platform should I work on."
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Twitter Announces Fire Hose Marketplace: Up to 10k Keyword Filters for 30 Cents
I've wanted to rekindle "Startup Schwag" as I didn't get to get on it for very long prior to its close down.
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1. Scientists tend to be men.

2. Men like to have sex with younger women.

3. Young women tend to not like men who look old.

So yeah, baldness research is going to happen.
You mean it's a hipster product.
Thanks. I have not touched this app since last October. I did some rough calculations on the number of hours I will put in and a possible return.
I will give it one more shot and do a complete revamp of the interface etc. when I find the time. I will implement the features people are asking for. This time I will try to build what the users want based on the feedback I received and see what happens.
Xibition: Readable git diffs for Cocoa XIB files
Wasn't the (or a) problem with the great depression that they started to decouple money from gold? Although I guess there is any number of theories about what caused the great depression.