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Yes, but good coding and powerful languages are all about readability. You could write everything in assembly, after all.
Brief Q&A with the founders of Slinkset (YC Summer 08)
I think this is a great indicator of whether a language is a success: Do people learn it because its generally fun and useful? (Versus, do people learn it because of corporate PR, or because it's the accepted/official way to do [X])
But does every iPhone user visit the App Store every day? What does it look like if you have missed a month?
Blah blah blah blah blah. The entire article is just blah blah blah. The guy needs an editor to cut it to 10% of it's size. Is he paid by the word or something? He sure knows the art of saying nothing using many words.

Heck I can summarize it in 2 words:

Modified atkins.
I think much of what we see here is the media engaging in the age-old sensationalist tradition of turning on its darlings.

However, I think there is some legitimate discussion going on in these anti-YC articles.

For example, it is an interesting and open question whether it's wise or healthy for the market to develop so-called "built to flip" companies. While YC isn't exclusively in the built-to-flip business, it happens to be a vocal advocate for this model where there once was none.

Generally, PG (chief ideologist for YC) is interested in doing disruptive things in the realm of startup funding. Disruptive people tend to often be both spectacularly right and spectacularly wrong -- PG no exception -- and I think that traits make a person more polarizing.

I don't think it's necessarily a knee-jerk to dislike a company because you disagree with it's chief ideologist. Look at Apple and Steve Jobs -- it seems to me that everything about the guy permeates every nook of the company. If you don't like him, you're probably not going to love Apple products.
We try so hard to be mediocre
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Don't worry about the not selling anything bit. It's total nonsense.

He is selling a 4 DVD set for $139.95
Don't call it that.
For the amount you want to raise, I'd recommend individual angels, particularly ones with connections to the music industry.
I see. Still, "I am rich" was sold 5 times and one person was a candidate for a refund. I would be happy with those sales (4000$ after the refund), given the short amount of time.
Let me get this straight... you're claiming that after 45 minutes of moderately intense cardiovascular exercise, most people begin to see negative fitness effects?
Maintain an automated networked database? GraphOn wants to sue you
What may want to do is this (for all your search properties):

Let's say I am a user and I search for "Will Smith". I receive some results. I then search for "Will Smith Pictures". I receive more results. I then search for "Will Smith Pictures No Shirt". What has happened is that I received results that were not relevant, so I refined or changed my search till I found the item I was looking for.

So, my idea is that when you have a particular session searching, you aggregate the follow up queries for each search, and display them at the top of the search results to keep the users longer on your site and push more ads. Because in most cases, users will not click, but in about 10% of cases, the user will see something that he had not previously wanted to search for, but now wants to search for.

For example, I search for "Angelina Jolie", and as "recommended search" I see "Angelina Jolie affair with Max Klein", I would be curious to learn more about the affair Angelina had with this mysterious and probably dashingly handsome Max Klein, so I basically double my interaction with your site.
I think you give Jeff Atwood too much credit...
Bursting the Vista sales bubble: 35% of sample "downgrade" to XP
yes I agree that 6 hours is unreasonable, but 90 minutes a couple times a week would probably have people in a lot better fitness than removing all the carbs from their diet. Frankly moving up from the 0 minutes most people get to 30 minutes a couple times a week would be more beneficial to most people than a change in diet.
Here is the ultimate diet "Slow down on the food you like the most" ... you may add to this diet the (always right) corollary "never stop your diet"
Xp desktop shows "My Computer", at least it is an option to do so.

Frankly, reading this article gave me nightmarish flashbacks about the time I had to use OS X. Closing down applications was a real pain, if I remember correctly. Clicking the "X" doesn't close them, only hide them. You have to unhide them and find the "Exit" (or whatever) in the file menu to actually close them for good (not the file menu in the window, mind you, but the one in the useless "desktop transforms into application window").

So please don't refer to OS X as an usability icon, definitely not when the question is how to shut down things.
I don't know. I thought it was refreshing to read really obvious stuff like this:

So now you're ready. You're building your site fast and abstracting where you can. Brace for change. Be ready to shard, be ready to cache. React and change to what you push out which is actually popular, vs overplanning and wasting valuable time. Keeping it simple is gold here.

You're building something new and you're going to fail at it. Your design will be wrong, you will anticipate the wrong feature to be popular. Dealing with this quickly can set you apart. Being able to slap memcached into a bunch of objects in a few days (or even hours) can mean the difference between riding a load spike or riding the walrus.
You're steadfastly avoiding answering a really basic question:

If Mozilla "accepted" self-signed certs (to some definition of "accepted"), what should it do when someone browsing to onlinebanking.bankofamerica.com receives a self-signed cert that an attacker has spliced into the connection? It sounds like you want to make the warning for that condition less severe. Your browser cannot tell the difference between your personal self-signed cert on your own app, and an attacker's self-signed cert appearing on a BofA connection.
What do you have to give up with Prototype Invest?
Why would I choose AppJet over, say, Google App Engine?

I haven't used either, but they seem to advertise similar use cases. As you point out, AppJet lets me use just one programming language, whereas App Engine you're going to be using Python on the backend, Javascript in the browser. Google has a proven track record in scalability.

Are there other important differences between them?
you can cut back on the calories you consume, train like a madman and still get fatter.

Could you post a link or reference for one example of someone who cut calories and "trained like a madman" and still got fatter?

There's a lot of debate about hormones, metabolism, calorie quality and optimum exercise. However it has still proven difficult to break basic laws of physics.
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I like the idea! I like it so much that our startup last year targetted the same general audience with a custom error search engine:

http://bug.gd

http://bug.gd/info/faq

We've only grabbed error codes where we can find/recommend a solution, but when it comes from crawlers we always link to the source as well to avoid copyright issues. How are you working around that in your case? Are they coming from local sources rather than websites? (Admittedly, I doubt these companies are too worried about their error documentation being quoted in full.)

Best of luck to you! I like to see more attention to this area, no doubt.
Changing the routers is probably the least of the problem.

Changing the millions of little perl scripts and legacy databases and regexps that assume \d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+ is the real problem.
I know this is a really new project, and I would love to find a better way to search for errors... but how are you going to avoid "pulling a Cuil"?

The Search For : NullPointerException did not match any document in the system

For best Result:

* Type less words
* Type Words Correct Spelling
* Try Different Word Combinations
* Search the internet
I don't see the phrase moderately intense cardiovascular exercise in my comment. Head on over to t-nation.com and read some of their articles on training.
No, it's not completely Open Source, but it is if you pay up, or if you're not making money off it. What's all the confusion?

I think it's a clever move ... the result is more economically feasible than "real" open source, and a lot more libre than secret source.
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There's no breaking of the laws of physics involved here. Firstly you are still losing mass in this scenerio - but it is muscle tissue, not fat. Secondly, lower resting metabolic rate manifests itself in forms such as lower body temperature, or general lethargy, so you are burning fewer calories just for maintenance. Your body is a survival machine. If it thinks you are under threat of starvation, it will prioritize fat storage and energy conservation. It will even cut back on your immune system to do so if it thinks starvation is the most immediate threat.

Google for "overtraining" or read the articles on t-nation.com or musclebulletin.com.
Economic transactions with strangers (beyond simple cash-and-carry interactions) require trust, and most people look to the state as the guarantor-of-trust of last resort. Which is why states have been involved with the economy ever since Sumeria.

"Separation of state and economy" is about as likely as "separation of medicine and chemistry".
"Cyberstar"... Sigh. Chicago can be rather embarrassing at times. I lived there for 8 years.
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Despite the benign assurances of the site, having to type my email address in bug.gd is annoying. I disagree with "forcing community participation" like this... how do I even know there would even be enough content on your site to make it worth my time?
Arthur asked himself what was going on here – and, basically, decided almost everything we thought we knew about diet and metabolism was wrong.

Yeah, that sounds likely.

</sarcasm>
http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/orkut.com
Please send us your search suggestion to ErrorKey at intelliverb dot com. Tell us what system you want us to research on, let’s build this together thanks.
Someone rediscovered the paleodiet.
I've been using Google for this for a very, very long time.

Can you describe to me why I would want to come to your site next time I had an error?
Or 2 other words: South Beach. (Which is a modified atkins diet - low carb, but doesn't advocate steak every meal.)
I really liked this article. In my mind the general thought was. If you don't think about what you are doing when designing your application, you will run into problems. No matter what you do, you will run into problems. So be prepared to adapt to change or "go bust out the failboat and get-a-rowin'. You're screwed."
Ask YC: What's on your "Holy Shit" list?
I read the first article listed on t-nation.com and it starts up with this poignant observation about olympic swimmers:

"I'm sorry but these dudes look like AIDS patients. Would it kill you to at least get a tan and not remind the world of the Holocaust? And could you butch up the sport a little bit? Because deep down I know the male divers I just saw are in shower right now, naked, loofahing each other's taut athletic bodies... ."

With a bit of literary magic, over the course of 2 pages, we go from the Olympics to colorful commentary about Japan:

"You gotta wonder about the Japanese some times. These are the guys who invented vending machines that distribute soiled panties that you can take home and either use as Dennis Hopper ether masks or make soup with them. And they're the ones who invented underwear that you can wear six days straight by rotating them 120 degrees each day for three days and then turning them inside out and then repeating the underwear carousel thing for another three days. And then there's the bukkake thing, which is kinda disturbing even for a preternaturally open-minded guy like me."

So... I guess thanks for the exercise tips and the obviously credible reference but I think I'll stick with training like a madman and not eating as much.
VMWare was on my "holy shit" list when I saw how well they did virtualization
I wonder what their stats are like so far. Are people using it to chat?
I know it's fashionable to shit on Vista these days, but come on.

we had to find our own source of comparison data. Fortunately, one of the parameters we collect from the several thousand members of the exo.performance.network community using the Windows Sentinel monitoring tool is the name of the system manufacturer.

So basically they have taken a completely irrelevant part of the market, definitely thrown that whole "representative selection" thing which is crucial to proper statistic out the window, and extrapolated their way to a conclusion.

Has anyone here even heard about the Windows Sentinel monitoring tool until now? I know for sure I haven't, and I am pretty invested in the Windows platform.

[ Join the exo.performance.network community, and monitor your PC's performance with the InfoWorld Windows Sentinel tool. ]

So a quick read reveals its something you have to install. Something you have to be an active participant in.

If not even techies have heard about it, you can be damned sure that your average Joe haven't, and that these data are worthless for making conclusions on any wider audience.
I think you read too much into that . . . I think Ruby is a fantastic language, and my point is merely that people don't use IDEs for languages like Ruby and Python because the IDEs for those languages are comparatively poor.

If there was an IDE for Ruby that reliably did refactorings like "rename method", found usages, had auto-complete, and could pull up documentation for the particular type/method in question, I honestly think it would be helpful and that it would make people more productive than they already are with Ruby.

To me the author is incorrect in essentially arguing that people don't use IDEs with Ruby because they're too limiting: it's just that the IDEs for Ruby aren't good enough to make it worthwhile to deal with those limitations. For technical reasons I don't really think that's possible, but if it was possible to craft an IDE for Ruby that was as good as IntelliJ IDEA, I really do think it would improve people's productivity.
I don't agree. Calories are not treated equal and it's not only about staying not-fat eather but also promoting health. Calories are not just some unified fuel that you put in to your system. Your body needs to process different foods differently.
I agree with you on that his article requires editing.

But is this method a modified Atkins one? It requires dieters to experience not only the food that paleolithic human ates, but also the frequency of insecurity of hunger and periodic exposure to unaware danger in life. I had an old boss before who stuck to Atkins after coronary artery bypass to lose 40 lbs, but he still ate a lot, ate frequently and he hated the feeling of being hungry. The method in the article actually wants you to experience randomly meal skipping and hunger to get into the zone. I think at this point, it is different.
The X-Prize, because of the economic model.
Well, you've gotta figure out what works for you. This works for me (30% to 20% bodyfat in 6 months and 25% improvement in deadlift and bench press). I'm eating more than I did and exercising less - in terms of time, anyway. Whatever you decide, good luck :-)
As much as I love hearing feedback (thanks!), I don't really want to get a side thread going about our site in this other team's thread. Not really fair to them.

As briefly as I can: The Firefox extension allows anonymous search/contribution. Stay tuned for changes more to your liking in our next site release.
Error codes, without all the other crap (bullshit paid forums, AOL nation posts) is reason enough for me.
I'm a fan of YC and I don't need convincing that YC provides great value to a young startup -- more than the 6% equity it takes. However, I just don't believe that PG & co are capable of separating the potential winners from the losers based on a short application and a 10 minute interview. So many factors affect the success of a startup and I don't think that anyone can have such predictive abilities based on so little input. Maybe YC knows is good at filtering out the lowest 40% or so, but between the teams that have some viability I believe it's simply impossible to call which will succeed and which won't using YC's selection method.

The only way to measure YC's ability in picking winners is to to have PG & co rate a bunch of non-YC founding teams at the early stage of their startups, wait a few years, and see how well their predictions held up against more or less random predictions. The experiment must involve non YC startups is that YC enhances their startups' chances of success, which can create the likely false impression that YC excels at picking successful teams rather than at guiding the teams it happens to pick to success.
I have nothing to do with the site or author, but I can suggest the following:

-Google defaults to under-emphasizing results related to errors specific in newer versions of software. So when a bug in a new release comes out, info is often no where to be seen--it is obscured by older items with higher rank.

-Google includes links to both questions, and answers. I only want answers.

-Google's results are across multiple pages and obscured in forum discussions. I want one page with all the answers and info.

-Google frequently returns results from experts exchange, which involves scrolling to the bottom. Additionally, I've talked to developers who don't even realize the unobscured answer is at the bottom.

-Some code queries do not translate well into regular searches because the characters have meaning. Off the top of my head example: select * from blah

-There is not always a nice centralized place to go to share it with the world know when you have a fix.

That said, I'm not sure this site implements solutions to all these problems, but a wiki-type site could. Isn't Jeff Atwood doing something with a similar idea?
And if you read the article, you would have seen:

"You must have a playful, intermittent form of exercise. And you must exercise. The benefits are profound. Make it fun, intense according to your own fitness and goals, and brief. Brevity and intensity are keys. Intensity means a little burn in the muscle, not heaving and straining. Brevity means you do not release stress hormones."

He agrees with you.
I hereby nominate timesonline.co.uk for temporary suspension from Hacker News.

Too many articles submitted recently that were poorly researched and written.
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Diet doesn't really matter, I have a horrible diet I eat anything I want, I don't deny myself anything(junk food, fast food) but I'm in good shape because I work out an hour every day and burn off the calories I gain during the day.
That's like an American saying in London they drive on the "wrong" side of the road.
I considered Java too slow, Python too wordy

OK, I was already feeling pretty leery of advice given by someone that rambles endlessly on about himself long before getting to the subject...but then we get this gem. Java is too slow, and Python is too wordy. Words fail.
Quake 2 was pretty tits when I first saw it. Half-Life too.

Sub7 was definitely a holy shit moment for me in the late 90's.
No "Retry?"
BTW, if anyone is wondering why Arrington is making a big deal over a moderately negative article, it's been rewritten since it was originally posted and most of the more egregious mistakes removed.
it begins to rattle and break down when you push it about 90r/s

Can you explain more about this? What were the main bottlenecks?
Rails.

"Holy shit, I can build the same stuff that I used to build, except it will take me less time than PHP and be more stable, clean, and maintainable than Java. How the hell did I live without has_many :through before???"
"enterprise-class users" are generally clueless and very stuck in their ways.

This survey means nothing, and is classic (and tired) link/flame bait.
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Wait until you hit your mid-thirties and let's talk again.
you can read more about the documentary here:

http://singinst.org/donate/singularitydocumentary
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I'm having miserable performance. Vista takes ages to load, and even then the system will not infrequently "freeze" (turn a zonked-out white and spin internal wheels) while I'm doing nothing more complex than surf the Internet. It takes about a minute after systems load until the cable modem is usable.

In terms of basic usability, Vista is hands-down the worst-performing OS I've ever had. I am genuinely curious how a company like Microsoft could let a stinker like this out the door.

I would downgrade if I could, but have a dual-boot machine and - frankly - don't want to risk letting anything coming out of Redmond screw around with my harddrive and systems while at least 50% (the Ubuntu portion I use most of the time) is the most powerful and stable system I've ever used. The only reason I'm ever in Vista is for audio editing work, so it is tolerable in that sense too.
Hardly. "Slow down on the unhealthiest foods," perhaps. I love fruit. Should I slow down on fruit?
No mention of the equivalent, cheaper, but more polished MobileFinder? (More polished than Caravan, doesn't leave Windows users in the lurch like FileMagnet.)

Also, there is another RSS Reader that syncs with your Google Reader account. I suspect that research was a little less than comprehensive here.
It's easy to criticize 'blah blah blah'. But the style of the article is personal testimonial plus character study. It's going to include discursive storytelling, and it's not trying to boil down a diet/lifestyle/person to the fewest possible words. The cheapest form of criticism is to skewer a work for not meeting some ideal it wasn't even aiming for.

DeVany is a very interesting and credible guy with a different spin on eating and training than you'll usually find.

Check out especially his warnings about marathon/endurance running [1] compared to the typical media celebration of marathon running as some ideal of fitness [2].

[1] "Top Ten Reasons Not To Run Marathons", http://www.arthurdevany.com/2005/08/top_ten_reasons.html

[2] "The Perfect Human", http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.01/ultraman.html
Paul also advises that entrepreneurs not "cut corners" on their brand and image. "Appearances account for everything," he said.

+1, couldn't agree more with that statement. :)
FWIW, this is just a republication of a 3-month-old blog post: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=14218138919&id=...
When I discovered I could talk to people on IRC on the other side of the world, sometime in 1993, that was a holy shit moment.

Linux was pretty incredible too: I realized that with open source, the only thing limiting me was my own ability to hack it, which is a really great feeling.
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It started out steeper with terms, but I negotiated to 35 percent.

I do not have any upfront costs, just sever costs for when the beta launches.

Also, due to complexity of software and databases, the development costs are a multimillion dollar project and will utilize several developers. I felt 35 percent was justified.
Most likely yes if you're eating tons of it a day.
Wikipedia - when I first saw the potential for the ability to share and edit knowledge freely in what felt like a limitless way (that is gone now because of the deletionists)

HD TV - the first time you get to fully see actors with all their flaws gave me one of those moments, and you realise they don't look as good as they used too.

Adsense/Adwords - basically just a license for Google to print money really...

Virgin Galactic - wow.

Water on Mars - Double wow.

The LHC

EDIT - hmm, article is from 2002...