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I thought this idea was cute. I especially enjoyed the design of the application itself.

But why, oh why, would you make it so hard for me to try it out?

First I couldn't decide if I wanted to spend the time to register based on your landing page. I'm lazy. Eventually I decided to register since you guys didn't have any comments on this thread. After registering I needed to confirm my email. Sigh.

Next I signed into my email and clicked on the confirmation link. Which took me to the log in page where I had to type my info again.

I would have been much more interested if I could simply see and play with the application itself without having to fill out any forms. After playing with the app I can then decide if I want to register.
My experience after pitching to an old school VC/angel
As an FYI, I am no where located near the valley/bay area. I live in an urban city in Arizona where there's only one well known/reputable VC in town, not a lot of angel investors in here. If you are a tech startup in AZ, I guess you know what I am talking about. The culture is very different to those in SV.

I am about to launch my startup and currently is in the seed stage and have a working prototype done. My team just did a pitch an hour ago to this guy, had no high hopes as we've heard various kind of comments about him. We pitched the whole idea, first question asked was about the revenue source, second sentence that came out of his mouth is "do you have a business plan written yet"?

Just after this sentence was launched, I knew exactly that this is the wrong person to talk to. Which top VC's/angels in SV asks for a business plan during a seed stage of your startup (if there is one please let me know, then maybe my perception is wrong)? I get his point that we need to do more market analysis/research on the app, however to actually have a solid well written business plan at this stage is just ridiculous.

With regards to market research, I asked him if we created a website for user to signup, remind them when the product is launched(using service such as launchrock) and showed him we have 500k users signed up, would he be convinced enough in the market of our app? Then he sort of gives an ambiguous answer to it. Again, a ridiculous thought from my point of view. Almost every startup nowadays do use this strategy. I guess he just doesn't notice that.

Point to be made here is that, doing a startup is hard, but it's even harder when you're outside the valley. I know it's all about your effort of you to get connected/network, so you can reach Paul Graham/Dave McClure/Yuri Miler, etc. Some say that if you can't get those connections then you lose already. I don't have any connections with people in SV who can introduce me out to these great angels/VC's and that adds another challenge for me. There is a startup meetup here, but only 5-10 people is in the group and mostly they are just talking about side projects that they have, no one rarely talks about angels/VC's (another dead end for making connections to SV). Was planning to just put up my startup at angel.co and see what happens, don't know whether it's the right time or not. One concern is that most of those investors doesn't invest outside of SV. Would be way much easier if I am at SV, so to new startups out there in SV, be grateful for yourself as you're already one step ahead of us who are outside of SV.

Yet, this is just another confession from a startup founder experience. Feel free to comment
A chair is a chair. Some of the best chairs I have used are the standard plastic resin chairs. Or fail that a crappy wooden dining room chair. The best way is to mix it up so your body doesn't get too used to one position.

One of my favorite chairs is a high wooden stool while working at a bench.

I'm sure if they did a study the best chair for most people it would be the one that had the biggest price sticker on it.
I think it would be ethical, although bad business. Both price discrimination methods, by the way, are defeatable. You can drive an extra few hours to another airport (have done this many times), and you can get your packages shipped to another address.
A fair point. I don't recall how much if any I documented what I learned at that time. This was when I was still an undergraduate. We didn't have a wiki or any great documentation sharing system. I probably sent a mail to our mailing list and anyone who wasn't subscribed at that time never got it. These days I spend oodles of time writing documentation for my peers.

To be clear, my point wasn't "develop some specialized knowledge and then hide it", it was just "develop some specialized knowledeg". And yes, sharing it with your peers is a good choice, but if they were scared of the issue to begin with, they may not all be very receptive to learning about it.
Nope, exactly the type of feedback I'm after. Thanks a lot!
What is the best editor for web development?
I am used to Vim, but it just doesn't cut it for editing JS/CSS/HTML. Or perhaps I don't have the right plugins.

What do people use on Linux? Sorry, no Mac here.
I'm trying to comprehend how it is unethical to game a system that is constantly gaming its customers.
What's not ethical about it? No one is forcing you to buy.

But it's probably not good business, since people get irritated by things like that and shop less.
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That's because sudo is a BSD tool so it's always worked with the wheel group.
1. http://www.tecnoempleo.com/

2. http://www.computrabajo.es/

3. http://www.amazon.com/Living-Working-Spain-Survival-Handbook...
The MoinMoin wiki eventually was successfully adopted by IT including backups, high availability, etc. Yes, there is pain and pushback when you do these things, but in this case hindsight has shown it to absolutely a huge win for the company. After the wiki was established, where do you think IT's internal docs were maintained? Yup. The wiki that professional services set up.
Only a fraction of what WikiLeaks receives is ever published, if my understanding is correct. Even look at cablegate: Only a fraction of all cables have been released.
This is interesting because it supports connecting a monitor and keyboard, and is designed to be used as a desktop/gaming machine, rather than as a home server.
I just tried the following route - EWR->DES->SFO on 6/10 and returning on 6/18 via the same route back. The price each way was ~$420 (which included 2 layovers).

I priced out EWR->SFO and United/Continental had a direct flight for $369. Maybe I'm the aberration but I think NYT should have done a few more case studies before publishing their results.
I agree. The Seattle startup culture reflects the city's passive agressive and cold nature. CEO's and other execs stick to their small circles.
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Well, when they're this cheap, you can give one to every kid, and it's not the end of the world if they break one.
Agreed this is somewhat debatable. But the language "bare minimum" still applies I think. Remember, this is at a large software development shop, so there will still be dozens of windows machines. Google is the only company I have heard of that drew a hard line saying no windows machines on the development network.
They get away with this kind of things all the time. This is likely just one time in many. Slap in the wrist, move along.
Any word on what they are doing with the slicehost articles after they shut slicehost down?
More detailed thoughts on Jenkins, Hudson, Eclipse, etc.
I disagree with the author:

The BlackBerry market is made up of corporate users who write emails that go on for miles. What makes the device unique is they physical keyboard, which makes it easy to write those monster emails. And in my experience of hanging out with Blackberry users that's really what they use the device for — the ability to make a phone call seems secondary (and the ability to look at the web isn't even there).

While the other brands appeal to the consumer market, corporations still love their BlackBerry in the way they love Windows. If RIM was smart they'd get acquired by Microsoft, Oracle, Dell or IBM — someone who is a top tier player in the corporate space.
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Pulling their RSS feeds to iGoogle seems to work, as they seem to be okay with referrer coming from www.google.com.
Eames molded armchair.

I've had multiple Aerons (both basic and PostureFit) but at the end of the day I tend to sit on one of my legs, where the Aeron's pellicle seat works to annoy you.
You have an intimidating signup form. You really just need email and password, everything else will be gathered when they pay you later on anyways.

Creating a system to let people build without an account yet might be hard to work into the current app workflow, so maybe create a demo account that resets every 30 minutes or something so they can login and see what they're getting themselves into without committing to anything?
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> I think it is clear that he is not opposing the _transfer_ of patents, but the transfer to people who's only planned use for the patent is in court

What other uses do you think that patents have?

The only thing that a patent gives you is the ability to sue someone. A patent doesn't let you practice anything.
Oren Etzioni (http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/etzioni/), a UW professor, and co-founder of the previous startup I worked at in Seattle is also involved with several other new startups including Decide.com that just raised a $6M round.
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How is it powered?

USB port. No, wait, that doesn't make sense, if it's supposed to be a USB host. And you certainly can't draw power from HDMI.

If only their site wasn't so uselessly spartan!
Are you in the SF Bay area? If you are, let me know and I'll throw a great opportunity your way for consideration.
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I think you got it backwards. The trick works when you're ending your trip in a hub -- you take the first leg, but skip the connection.

So, for example, say you're trying to fly to Chicago (ORD). The article's point is that it may be cheaper to buy an EWR-ORD-STL ticket, because there's actually more price competition when flying to St. Louis.
I work in iphone development as a team lead for software tied to the enterprise stack. The backend/webservice is on the .net platform. We have an android team as well. We cannot for the life of us, find developers with deep backgrounds in software for android. Mainly beginners and entry level types. In the mobile space, I am sure there are companies on the java enterprise stack looking for android developers. The mobile apps space has been lots of fun. Pays well and demand is growing. Look into it:)
Trimslice looks cool--I didn't know there was Linux support for Tegra yet. (At launch, it was WinCE-only.)

The FriendlyARM stuff looks damn cool--thanks to the grandparent for pointing this stuff out!
I think that the problem may be the other way around: it's hard to imagine his system because it's exactly the system that we're living under. There's United Nations lists 192 legal systems from which to choose. The only remaining question is whether this market is free. There's certainly outside regulatory pressure. Startups are a possibility (e.g. Tunsia, Libya), although there can be high barriers to entry (just like trying to move into the cable market). Not every country will grant you citizenship, but not every bank will loan you money. Leaving your nation can be difficult, but termination clauses are fairly common. Let me know if I'm missing something, but the market for legal systems would seem to be the least regulated market in existence.
What's the problem with RHEL 4? It looks to me like it's still supported by Red Hat, so it should have any (known) bugs if it's up to date.
I worked for airlines and one of the big 3 for many years. They have complex algorithms that try to determine the lowest price. They're competitive, and want to be the cheapest they can. They're not trying to "hide" any prices.

Doing what the author says will get you banned from the airline. If you don't fly the itinerary listed, they will tear it up in front of your face as it's in the terms and conditions.

My point: there's no real secret - the sites like Kayak and any ITA-based search product are pretty much doing so many creative things to minimize the price that it's rare to find an exception without cheating.

Finally, the pricing is crazy, but being in the tornado there's a method to the madness.
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If you're going to be that paranoid, you should consider carefully the credibility of whoever you're leaking things to. Do they have a track record of keeping secrets? How hard are they for The Man to pressure? And so on. Wikileaks does very well by those criteria. The WSJ has less of a track record, and inspires less confidence with their privacy policy and somewhat dubious web site security.

The best thing that could happen is that the WSJ hears criticisms like this, takes them to heart, and turns into a serious competitor to Wikileaks. As it is, though, they've got a lot of catching up to do.
Both Firefox and Chrome take invalid URLs from the address bar and stick them right into Google. That's probably a huge factor.
It's a little bit tough to avoid the town that contains your target.
The airline industry has long been a money-loser, price of oil and state of economy not withstanding.
Fusion isn't so hard. What's hard is getting a reaction big enough for "breakeven", which means getting more energy out than you put in. From there, it's even harder to capture that energy in a useable form and then use that energy to continue the reaction. So, fusion isn't so hard. Useful fusion is hard.
"Screw all theories of moral relativism; I can tell whether you're a good person or not by knowing how much money it would take to tempt you to leave an entire planeload of people sitting on the tarmac for an extra ten minutes."

Lets consider a few hypothetical scenarios:

1. You can get 50 dollars but it may potentially result in 60 minutes of delay for 100 people. Would you turn it down?

2. You can get 1000 dollars but it may potentially result in 5 minutes of delay for 100 people. Would you turn it down?

3. You can get 10,000 dollars but it can potentially result in 5 minutes of delay for 100 people. Would you turn it down?

4. You can get 100 Million dollars but it can potentially result in 3 minutes of delay for 100 people. Would you turn it down?

5. What if you are broke and have a child to support?
Not sure where it is getting PHP in my profile from - pretty sure I haven't done any PHP! Link here: http://www.gitalytics.com/user/detail/jamiepenney
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But asking for the username after sign-up gets you the user's email address. If they don't create a username, you can now provide direct support and ask if they need help with the next step in the sign-up process, etc.
No, that a point, but not the point here. In this case it's irrelevant, because anyone pulling this maneuver would not check their bag.
I want the source for this claim.

I've seen this info spread before but I've never seen a source for it and it strikes me as fake. Is there even anyone compiling court house judgment rankings? And if it is true that other courts are more favorable why would patent trolls continue trying to take the cases to east Texas?
looks similar to http://pen.io/zen - but quietwrite does have more features
The author of Nginx on why V8 is not suitable for web servers
Many Linux distributions being Ubuntu & friends? Fedora or RHEL don't promote sudo like Ubuntu does.
The thinness is definitely cool! But controlling the device through bending gestures doesn't seem all that intuitive. I would rather have a thicker easy-to-use phone. Next step is to get touch screen on that.
Article 13.5 means that only article 13.2 applies to non-natural persons (ie businesses, very weird) and hence "provided that customers clearly and distinctly are given the opportunity to object, free of charge" to receipt of messages then it appears a company can spam you if you first gave them contact info in some way.

Indeed the Article only says they have to allow you to object, nothing about the company not sending you repeated emails when you do object.

Looks badly drafted and without teeth IMO.

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I have the habit of sitting on one of my legs too.

I've tried breaking the habit because I assume it's going to ruin my back, but I just can't seem to be comfortable sitting in the 'normal' position for too long.
I've gathered up the changelog entries into a gist: https://gist.github.com/958283
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At $4 a gallon, I might even challenge that. I recently calculated the cost of driving from DC to Boston, which is regularly a $240 or so ROUNDTRIP on many airlines.

It takes 2 tanks of gas each way (about a 350 mile trip, 20 miles per gallon, 15 gallons per tank). The gas cost alone is close to $240. Even if you managed to burn 3 tanks instead of 4 during the trip, you're talking 45 gallons @ $4 a gallon, which is $180... and that's just gas.

The tolls are around $20 each way. So, now you're up to $220. And what about food? Add another $20 or so. More maybe.

So, now it costs the same to drive as it does to fly. And that's not even factoring in the cost of your TIME. It takes about 7 hours to drive from DC to Boston. It takes just over 1 hour by plane. Even factoring in the airport wait and transport, you're doing better... and you can do stuff while the plane flies while you can't do anything while you're driving. And then there's traffic. And the wear and tear on your vehicle.

And this is for a relatively short trip.

So, is driving really economically better? I did the math. I did the trip. It often doesn't make sense. Do the math yourself. Only for short trips does driving beat the cost of flying, and in which case, why you would be flying anyways? On the east coast, I just take the train or a bus. $20 gets you from DC to New York. Another $15 gets you to Boston. You can't beat THAT.

So, the cost of gas has completely changed the economics and argument of drive vs. fly. Flying is almost always going to be cheaper, if you can book your flight early enough to get the discounted fares.
Weird. Think you might have been on a commit that had a php in it?

Or maybe it knows that you secretly yearn to write wordpress plugins?;)
That's definitely something giving us some heartburn thinking about. We're going to try and avoid it unless we get lots of customer contacts (and our development schedule is empty), since we're probably going to have to come up with a solution that links accounts at some point.

But, at the moment since we support only two providers, and those providers tend to be pretty divisive with little overlap, we haven't noticed any real problems yet.
I want to buy one, hook it to a big monitor, and work on it whole day via SSH. Perfect! :D
I personally don't like the postit, poloroid, etc. that the quotes are overlaid on. It doesn't seem to add any value to the experience. It actually detracts if you ask me. The rest of the site quite nice looking, but the postits and other images just seem gaudy.

Also, when I think quotes, I think typography. The way a short quote bunches up at top, leaving most of the background empty looks weird. Also, I think a serif typeface is much better suited for this role.
And there's those of us who prefer lowercase unix_case_for_variable_names and function names over camel case.
Just so long as they don't learn to open doors...
Is it just me or have there been a lot of "check out how minimalistic ally I can implement a text editor on the web that saves" lately? Personally not seeing too much value here, though the design direction is nice.
Breaks my back button.

And I'll join in the chorus of "what's the point?".
This is exactly what I do with my Cr-48. I hope these hit stateside, I would be all for an SSH machine for $25!
That argument doesn't hold much water anymore. I have friends who work at some of the top investment banks - JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank are two of which I know are offering the iPhone as a choice instead of the blackberry.

Also, a lawyer friend at a top tier law firm was offered the iPhone as an alternative as well - granted he didn't take it. A decision he regrets.

It's only a matter of time - no one wants to carry 2 devices and their employers are keen to it.
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If you look in the picture you can see that is exactly what he is doing.
I wonder what that other box is though.
sounds like an excellent device for wall-mounted dashboard monitors
Every display looks better if you have a less-than-perfect eyesight. Without glasses and from where I am sitting, I can't tell whether my TV is or not HD, therefore, it looks every bit as good as a 2160p device would look from the same distance. In fact, if the podcast I am watching right now were in HD, it would look exactly the way it looks right now.

I would be as unable to read small print in the slides as if I were there on the front row.
For those that are overwhelmed by the features of google docs, just open gmail, hit compose and start typing. Your message will get auto-saved as a draft. I've been using this as my "minimalist text editor" for a while now.
not-cheap HDMI display

As a few people have pointed out, their site says Composite or HDMI.
My point is that it should be shared before the planning process starts, not after the plan is complete.

As for the idea that such information would be late-breaking, I find that to be incredibly implausible for the CIA's analysis of the mood of a nation's leadership to swing wildly in such a short amount of time.

Ultimately, I don't think that such a decision would have been based on a single element like, "The Pakistani military might interfere." I think that hugh3 had it right: there is no way that the SEALs wouldn't have built significant redundancy into their plan from the very beginning. His Simpsons analogy is spot-on: the President telling the SEALs how to plan a military mission is like a spectator telling a pro athlete how to make the next play.
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There is no mention of missing firewall in the report.

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Quote:

In the Sony case, the majority of the victims are likely young people whose sense of risk, privacy and
consequence are not yet fully developed, and thus they may also not understand the full
ramiﬁcations of what has happened. Presumably, both companies are large enough that they
could have aﬀorded to spend an appropriate amount on security and privacy protections of
their data; I have no information about what protections they had in place, although some
news reports indicate that Sony was running software that was badly out of date, and had
been warned about that risk.
Big popup balloon?

Also chrome doesn't fade away. False title.