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I'm going to quote a Paul Graham quote that I came across in another item (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2423054) just a few minutes ago:

> The "next Google" is unlikely to be a search engine, however, just as the "next Microsoft" was not a desktop software company. I used competing directly with Google as an example of a problem with maximum difficulty, not maximum payoff. Maximum payoff is more likely to come from making Google irrelevant than from replacing it. How exactly? I have no more than vague ideas about that. I wouldn't expect to be able to figure out the right answer, just as I wouldn't have expected anyone to figure out in 1990 what would make Microsoft irrelevant.

Don't try to take on Oracle, try to make Oracle irrelevant. Or make the million features their huge, enterprisey systems have irrelevant. Joel Spolsky wrote an essay years ago where he argued that software has to either be cheaper than $500 (the amount a manager can put on their corporate card) or more expensive than $25,000 or so (the amount you must charge if you need to wine and dine and buy lap dances for potential customers).

Do you want to hire a salesforce (and raise the money to pay them) to give blowjobs to IT directors? No, I didn't think so.
The marketplace (like any) is based on trust, there are always untrustworthy people.
Maybe after every developer knows how to use git we can expect designers to learn it too. Until that point what you can expect from forcing someone to use a tool that is not central to their workflow is that they will use it as little as possible (if at all), and when it comes to source control, that's a bad thing.

If we programmers are so smart we'll make working "our" way easier, not harder.
The cool thing here is that since the GUIs were designed to be a part of a larger movie, they were specifically designed to advance the plot along. So when looking for a bad guy in a criminal database, for instance, the UI displays just what the audience needs to know to move the plot along -- "Bad guy just released from prison. Previously arrested for homicide"

Even when the UI is complex, it's to advance along a certain plot point -- that the actor is interfacing with or observing some hugely complicated computer system. And even then, whatever you need to know clearly stands out from the background UI art

Contrast that to the way people actually interface with computers -- all the information that is not necessary, the searching and ferreting out of little bits of data here and there that you then need to assemble, or the waste of time absorbing information that advances nothing at all (lolcats, anyone?)

At first, back when they thought a cool UI was simple text, nobody noticed. But now as computers become more immersive, it's clearer and clearer that the idea of a computer advancing along an external story is becoming tougher to dramatize -- because life isn't external to the system like it was before. The good guy doesn't do a bunch of outside, physical stuff and then type a question or two into a simple terminal and then get a simple answer. Instead stories are more about how technology melds with the person. Because of the change to immersive versus interactive relationships with technology, I think these stories are going to be much more difficult for writers and directors to master. For instance (trying to make up some example) little 10-year-old Joey may spend all his free time playing his favorite game, until he meets a killer online and over the period of several months the killer worms his way into the household, setting off a conflict between all of Joey's family. There could be a hell of a lot of drama and tension if hat happened in the real world, but trying to put that in a video format in a 2-hour slot looks really, really tough.
Even if the products are very similar, you can still compete on price or customer service - or just marketing.

If you get there first and/or make some deals with organizations (martial arts clubs tend to talk to each other a lot and organize themselves into hierarchies), you could still carve out a chunk of the market.
Going to throw my company, CrowdSavvy into this, though we are early, early stage. Been working on it since mid-2010. Launched to public beta in 2011.

http://www.crowdsavvy.com
http://www.cashierlive.com - We provide SaaS point-of-sale to retailers. We launched last February, and we're working in River North.
"They [Bing] had weekly release cycles - faster than Google back then"

Hmm. I'm gonna have to disagree with that part. :)
This is just but one example. I could give dozens more.

The reality is: using MSFT products _often_ leave one frustrated and exasperated. These little paper cuts add up.
The sites mentioned are comment sites, who may or may not be subsumed under the forum category. Usually, "forum" signifies a bulletin board.

I think Rob Sheldon just needs to revise his semantics and find out how every format has its advantages and disadvantages.

I, too, don't think comment sites are great for long discussions either. But that's not "new". Try your luck at Something Awful or another niche forum. Preferably one whose activity is so low that every thread doesn't advance with 100 posts every day.
I think that enra meant that git is a tool for people who are part of a team and modify files for the same project. Just like you know how to handle files and directories, you would know how this kind of tool works. But you are definitely right : the tool should be easy and quick to learn and understand.
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I recently went through a similar process of needing to guess what the range was for a position. However a much more important question to ask is "What do you honestly think you're worth?" I believe you'll get that amount.

If you ask for a lot more than you personally think you're worth during negotiations people will probably read your lack of confidence. If however you ask for more than the employer originally wanted to pay, but express that amount in a confident way then you're much more likely to get it. A good company (ie one you want to work for) isn't going to offer you the job unless they really think you're the one they want, and they wouldn't lose that for a few K, unless they feel like you're full of it.

Most importantly though YOU don't want to work for less than you honestly think you're worth. I once took a small pay cut when I really thought I was worth much more, the job was interesting but I knew there was a timer on how long I'd be there. Be honest with yourself and ask for what you need to feel comfortable with the position.
I fully agree with you. We don't get the phenomenon either. In our last job hiring, we decided to have fun with it though and put out an ad description for a marketing "ninja-wizard" http://blog.giveforward.com/giveforward-is-hiring-a-prmarket...
I agree that both the law and the corporations need to adapt to reality today, which is not the same as reality a few decades ago. However, I think the particular analogy you gave there is flawed, for a reason you mentioned yourself before: there is no "kingpin" to take down in a typical P2P network or similar system, so where do the "greater gains" come from?

In my ideal dreamworld, copyright would be updated to reflect the way the world really works today, which I think essentially means a much shorter duration for copyright protection, but with a genuine effort to make it practically enforceable during that period, and toning down some of the blanket laws that mean services that exist primarily to help copyright infringement can effectively hide behind some cheap legal shield to cover their asses.
Once you have internal groups or VPs fighting each other, it's all over. This is exactly how large companies fade and slip into obsolescence.
There's a strong perception in both China and India (mostly in China) that the future war between China and India will be triggered by none other than western countries! :-P
Why do you value your abilities so little?

The company should pay you what you're worth to them, not the minimum you need to survive comfortably.
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I skimmed the first paragraph of your application...

Listen, I hate to be a Debbie Downer, but I wouldn't have invited you to an interview either (regardless of the BS jargon in the application). Here's why.

1. You are a single founder.

Doing a startup alone is sooooo hard. The only way they would consider having a solo founder is if you're a programmer. (see #2)

2. You're are not a programmer.

It's hard to explain. Being a programmer changes the way you think of ideas. You know what is possible, what is plausible and where that intersection between the two is. Your ideas may be fantastic, but I wouldn't be surprised if they weren't plausible. It's not your fault. You just need to learn how to code if you want to understand what I'm talking about. On top of that, a startup CEO typically plays 'engineer' for at least a year or two before moving up to a lofty management position (but YC looks for hackers - the kind of guys who never stop checking in code at their companies).

3. Your attitude sucks.

You got rejected from YC. Shit happens. It's irresponsible and immature to blame YC because they didn't decide to fund you. Entrepreneurs don't sit and complain when rejection happens - they work harder to ensure it won't happen again.

This is not meant to be a mean post against you. You can continue doing your thing your way, but I will almost guarantee that you will not succeed in running your startup.
yeah the future is social media....good luck
I'm in this field because I love to code, I love to build things and I immensely enjoy technology.

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I see where you're coming from, but you must understand that a lot of people capitalize on what you just said to underpay you ... and if they do that to enough developers, they can drive down wages for every software developer in the area.
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Even more problematic is the urgent need in many families to get the girl married soon and preferably to guys who are 3-4 years older to her. While it may sit well with many girls to have an arranged marriage(just look at the huge online matrimonial industry in india), the problem is that parents give into excess peer pressure in many situations and force the girl into a situation. They even sugar coat it, they would tell you you have 1 year if you asked for time, but you must choose.
The parent's fears are somewhat elevated by the fact that all prospective grooms are looking at girls in the age bracket of <26 and preferably a age diff of 4 years. And dont even get me started on the caste angle that narrows down the choice to < 2-3% of the population(Is inter community marriage not akin to almost inbreeding? What about the poor gene pool? Not to mention the ick factor).
I am a guy and looking from the outside who has never been on any side of this system. I can say that though this system has its upsides, like more stable financial prospects etc and perhaps the fore fathers in there infinite wisdom had a method to the madness. But is this hurting India due to the people who do it all wrong?
I just wanted to point out that the link on your blog to PureSVD points to the wikipedia page for Discounted Cumulative Gain.
And the catfish would keep the cod agile.

But catfish are fresh water and cod are salt water fish?!
You're using it with Apache or Nginx though, right? Or were you able to get them working with Passenger Standalone?
Largely those are things done by developers, not by the business. Perhaps in cases where the business is on board with them (eg. Agile and rapid iterations), but mostly they'd rather handwave and hope for the best.
It's easy to see how bad military interventions are. You have bodies with a clear line of responsibility back to the war, destroyed buildings, etc.

What's the cost of inept Western assistance to Africa when it actively impedes them developing their own civilization, accidentally enforcing poverty and propping up terrible governments? This, too, destroys wealth and lives, up to and including killing people, but it's a lot harder to see. It is, nevertheless, real. Real people are really dying and living in nightmare states.

Which is really worse? I don't have an answer, which is my point. It's hard to tell. But it's possible to rack up death tolls with non-"military intervention" that can put most military interventions to shame.
I think people should use software like oracle and look and read (some of) its enormous amount of documentation to understand what it can do BEFORE saying it is shit.

Oracle is a very very very good database. Stop with this non sense
Groupon (grew out of ThePoint.com, 2008-ish?, in the old Monty Ward building), GrubHub, EveryBlock (we started in 2007 in the Loop, now in Ravenswood), Threadless (now in the West Loop), to name a few ...
There are many MANY old wives' tales in India about diets and techniques to guarantee male offspring, so you can be assured that there are crooks and charlatans taking advantage of a wilfully gullible populace.

I wouldn't be surprised if the more unscrupulous ones took this to a greater extreme.
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For those of you that have startups in Chicago, where do you normally hang out? Is there a HN meetup or something along those lines?
http://www.raydash.com - We provide live-video on your website.

BTW, who is going to the hackathon, todady, http://www.nuhackathon.com/
Since everyone has chimed in with a tech solution, let me offer a business solution:

Have you determined that you actually need this 500TB of media? If you're not using the data every day, do you really need it? A lot of businesses hoard data without ever analyzing why or if they should keep it. Keeping data for records retention laws is one thing, but keeping data just because you have it is a poor business decision.

After running a thorough analysis you might determine that you only need to keep 100TB or so.
The best conversations online are those in spaces that model well to how we converse as people: flat and linear in format. From the Well to Metafilter, the best conversation happens on flat sites.

Nesting and threading and sorting all solve conversation problems that don't really exist: we already know how to keep track of digressing conversations, intuitively. In the physical world, we're exceptionally good at branching and merging linear discussion threads, at weeding out noise from signal and at setting community norms. The sites that thrive are those that allow users to engage those skills, not those that try to turn it all into math.

In a lot of places, karma and scoring isn't really about making conversations easier for the participants, it's about making editing easier or hands-off for the moderators. Unfortunately, there's not really any way around the fundamental need for community stewardship and moderation beyond a certain size, and when you hit that size you find you have a site that you need to moderate anyway, but it's one that also has user-hostile conversation display and so it begins, inevitably, to suck.
Have you ever bootstrapped a startup? I've never bootstrapped a startup where we weren't hell bent on getting our shit done until our vision was complete..
Microsoft used to be able to "embrace and extend" in order to extinguish the competitor. With Bing it seems they can only "embrace", by which I mean copying and trying to decrease differentiation. But look at the trend. In the future, when/if Google search incorporates social feedback effects (ala +1), Bing won't even have the user-base to be able to copy the competitor, let alone extend and extinguish.

One look at my website statistics tells me Bing is already as good as dead.
he cost of market data and a system equipped to process it are not inconsiderable.

Not even close, if you consider the alpha for generating value. I know it's awesome on HN to think that generating 10M over 2 years entitles one to a "50M exit."... but that's not the way things work in finance.

20K is nothing... if one thinks it is than one is playing the wrong game.
Take it from someone who's been around the block, call EMC or NetApp. They are the best of breed and your data will be safe.

If you choose a home grown solution, YOU will be responsible for the quirks of the hardware, making it work with your OS and network and every failure.
Except that no two projects are ever really the same. Even with a very similar project you'll have different people, different systems to interface with and different scope.

Plus, any developer worth their salt will have built libraries as they went (or documented the existing ones), so the next similar project will take much, much less time.
Yeah it's certainly not limited to "superstar", it just strikes me as odd and I'm not exactly sure why it's used so often.

I mean I am well aware that finding good developers is hard (always has been), but now, when it's hard to find developers who can deliver period, resorting to ego stroking this early on? Can't be a good thing.
Holy crap, I had no idea that the way I work might actually be a medical condition.

In any case, I tend to work on 3 or 4 things at a time, and take a few days off a project when I need to. As long as I have the ability to switch-hit between at least three things, I generally keep up.

The down side is that I tend towards forgetfulness and disorganization - I have forgotten entire projects before (not for long, but long enough to be a problem).

I've quit jobs where I was working on something awesome, just because I couldn't work on something different.

Damn...
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I agree that I left out the issues you talked about. I did that on purpose though. The issues that you mentioned are absolutely needed in order to build a successful blog with a lot of traffic.

But there are many successful blogs that do not have an engaged community that comments at that volume. I was trying to explain just that aspect. I should have written that upfront. I also agree that being early and consistent helps in building the community.
How is it any different from Google Code (which you've included) which is heavily biased towards C?
I beg your parton. This is not spam. I worked hard on this. There are several companies that in the lead generation business as viable business model.

This is not spam.

I am asking for technical and design feedback, if you want to use that is up to you.

I did market research, I did design, yeah the coding part is dirt simple, but this is a real business that I am trying to start.
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Show HN: ChordFinder, the most comprehensive Mac piano chord dictionary
About a month ago I decided to quit my job and started working full time on my own Mac apps. My first app just hit the App Store.

It's called ChordFinder and my goal with this app is to create the biggest chord dictionary you'll ever see. It's not just aimed at beginning musicians, but should also appeal to jazz musicians looking to extend their musical vocabulary.

The first version is the MVP with only piano chords, but I've already started work to add support for guitar and more.

The app has a site at http://chordfinderapp.com/

I'd love to hear what you think of it!
Thank you. As someone somewhat curious about Norway (and Scandinavia in general; "it" being part of my heritage), your description provides some detail I'd not heard.

The regional dialects remind me of my time in Germany. There is considerable variation between the coastal areas and the Alps. I recall being freshly arrived in Munich and having a "genuine" (here in the U.S., if we were were joking or a bit mean, we might say "hillbilly") Bavarian as a neighbor. I couldn't understand a word he said (unless he made a conscious effort, and even then...). (He was a really nice guy, BTW, and we go along fine, despite this.)

I spent a lot of time with students in Munich, a city and university system that attracted them from all over. And there were plenty of light-hearted comments about others' accents and where they must be from. I think I was fortunate to be amongst a younger population for whom such things were more curiosity than a divisive issue. Older Germans... plenty of genuinely nice ones, but also sometimes some very entrenched feelings. Like anywhere, I guess.

I had a question for you, if you don't mind. Norway, Sweden, and Denmark seem to have so thoroughly integrated English as a second language. Where do you, and do people in general, seem to find the boundary between their native language and English in their daily interactions?

I've heard, for example, that if one attendee in a meeting is not a native speaker, the meeting switches to English and that really seems to be no problem at all. In Montreal, Canada, amongst the young technologists I visited, conversations would switch between French and English, and back again, in mid-sentence.

I don't have a compelling reason for asking; I'm just curious.
It does bring bad thing like you pointed out.
Sometimes people try too much to keep their faces.
However, it does bring good thing like they are a few or no looting in this disaster.
I do believe the concept has strong influence on that matter.

But this doesn't relate anything on why Japanse suck at English despite of all hard work on school.

It's a shame from where I see but it's ok cuz most people don't speak English.

Starting today, elementary schools has started to teach English to 5th(10 to 11 years old)graders.
So that's 2 more years to learn English which adds up 8 years all together.

We'll have to wait and see our score improve.
I doubt it.
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this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstadter%27s_law
Exactly! Teach anyone and explain the concepts to them. Go your local community college and volunteer at the math clinic, even better go to a local high school that's not been doing very well. Public school systems can use all the help they can get.

I went from sucky math guy to an awesome math guy in just 1 year - just because I was tutoring.
Not automatically. But I think it would be easy to prove there's a correlation between market cap and corruption.
Ask HN: How Much Are Bloggers At Mashable, TechCrunch Paid?
These blogs - - TechCrunch, Mashable, Gizmodo, Engadget etc - - are really popular, as you all know. I would like to know how much the bloggers at these websites are actually paid.

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PS: This is my first day at HN. I just love the community. :)
And to be perfectly clear. I will take all of your action, every day, in prediction of market movements.. You tell me what you want. I will set a price and we will play for as much money as you like [up to my assets of 20MM or so.] I have no fear that I will beat you [or any one else] before you get me broke.
http://viewtext.org/article?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmediumboss.blog...

A thought-provoking post along similar lines.
Prototype is really a dirty word in programming, but there's no reason you can't produce a small, well written app which does some of what's needed and build from there.

As opposed to a crappily written ball of mud which does most of what's needed, but poorly.
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