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Well, it does sound like a good point for Facebook and other social media if that's true, however the pessimist inside of me was immediately reminded of this exchange in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World:

"V.P.S.?"

"Violent Passion Surrogate. Regularly once a month. We flood the whole system with adrenalin. It's the complete physiological equivalent of fear and rage. All the tonic effects of murdering Desdemona and being murdered by Othello, without any of the inconveniences."

"But I like the inconveniences."

"We don't," said the Controller. "We prefer to do things comfortably."

"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."

"In fact," said Mustapha Mond, "you're claiming the right to be unhappy."

"All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy."

From http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Brave_New_World

Fortunately, we're not there (yet).
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It is interesting to compare and contrast this article with a recent article from the NYTimes, talking about the Civil War and education:
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/23/from-the-pla...

Specifically, at the time of the Civil War, students were mostly studying the classics - even if engineering and other disciplines were available at some institutions. West Point, for example, was essentially an engineering school at the outbreak of war. I wonder what value students at the time saw in their degrees that we don't see now, and I wonder what has happened to change that perception / reality...
This is a common feature in CRM software for the recruitment industry, where they want to rewrite people's CVs into the agency's 'house standard' (and remove the candidate's contact details, too).

If your version performs better than what some of the existing players are using, you might be able to OEM/white label it for them.
The content of the /html/head/title element is indeed what was entered as the posting title.
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I assumed that they made a lot of money on that acquisition.

Care to elaborate?
> I doubt there is anyone anywhere who has taken on an english major and said "this will make me my first $1,000,000".

Well, no. Honestly, though, if your whole goal for education is maximizing your earnings potential, you're missing one of the major values of education - learning stuff to expand your mind and personal horizons. Perhaps it's just a bourgeois upbringing and lifestyle that allows me to subscribe to that kind of ideology, though.
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I make a lot better pictures since I set everything to automatic. In fact, I really love the Smart mode in my Samsung WB600. It is now basically a point-n-shoot camera.

It enables me to focus on the subject: family, animals, plants, landscape, whatever. The algorithm has a lot more patience and competence for the secondary details.
Yes I agree, his point that there are better sources could have been made without the ad hominem implication. I also think profanity doesn't help civility.
You may want to consider getting a security audit as well. If it's not a lot of code you could get this for free from a friendly developer I'm sure.
The desktop and the laptop are really good embodiments of a workstation form factor. The growth of tablets isn't at the expense of the workstation. It's more the realization that there are other niches. There are other work patterns that are better served by other form factors.

Think about it. How many work patterns actually amount to writing down information, then going to a workstation and transferring the data? Lots.
I do the same thing when using a mouse. Interestingly though, when using a touch interface for the same page, I tend to scroll less often. This includes when I'm using a touch pad for scrolling on a PC.
There is a tempering station that dissipates the heat from the water before it is released back into the sea.
IBM is not really a growth company any more either.
We understand there are a million great ideas and its all execution but whats to stop a developer from saying "wow thats a great idea, I dont need them" When you are approaching a VC you already have eyes and a revenue model. They are already too late. I hear you and we are open to sharing our ideas without NDA's through personal connections. We have shared with developers that are connected in Chicago land area and if we could get a personal connection we dont have a problem with that.
Yes it does, and HN suggests the title element as the default when submitting a link. However, most blogging products add extra stuff like the name of the blog for SEO purposes. If you look at the post itself, the title is simply "Tall and Narrow."

HN shows you the doman (tbray.org) next to the title, so there is no need to also have the title incude Tim's name or the name of his blog.

So my suggestion is to override the default, as we are not search engine bots. I contend this makes the titles easier to read and parse for humans. JM2C, of course.
The Google founders were more than simply good. They were determined to be #1. Most people aren't.
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I've been wondering the same thing at a very similar price point too. I am thinking about a monthly subscription at either £3.99 or £4.99.

Some quick user feedback over the last 2 weeks, where I showed people a slide about what the service is and then asked them how much they would pay revealed that a subscription of £5 would be too much. Most people who said they would pay replied with 'I would definitely pay £2 of £3 for that'.

Obviously this is only relevant for my startup but I wanted to ask a few people how much they would pay without giving them options.

Now that I have a ballpark figure I'll ask different people how much they would pay, but this time give them options - ie, the £3.99 vs £4 thing.
No. To do so would clearly harm the heritage site, just as removing some of the statues in a protected cathedral would.
I say it depends. For 7 to 10" tablets, the author may well be correct.

I have a 5" Dell Streak which I almost always use in landscape, especially when reading PDFs as the display is sufficiently wide that I don't have to scroll horizontally.
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I like the concept of compiling your app to a specialized OS that can run directly on Xen. I really hope this project succeeds.
I totally disagree about the content.

I find it to be the absolute best small business / entrepreneur magazine out there. I prefer it over Inc and others by far.

It opens your eyes beyond tech as it covers so much ground.
Interesting point - but how is it different than CloudFlare?
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If I had an english degree, rather than the usual tired excuses, I'd go around telling people:

"The study of humanities imbues us with a rich internal, emotional wealth such that graduates do not feel the compulsive need for ultimately harmful acquisitive obsessions throughout their lives, whereas holders of science degrees are condemned by their mechanistic brainwashing to toil furiously for worthless material rewards."

Fortunately I did CS though. Humanities students are free to license it from me.
How does bookmarking items save them for me?

The copy on your website says watch videos anywhere, anytime - so if I go to a youtube video that's a half hour long and bookmark it, then go to watch the video later on when I'm on the subway (with no internet connection), I can view the video? (so it is cached on my iPad and if so how? I'm not an iOS developer but aren't there any storage limitations placed upon developers? (allowing apps to store tens of large videos seem like it would take up a lot of space))

If it is saved onto my iPad, I assume the video needs to be downloaded to the device - so I can't go to a lengthy vimeo video, bookmark it, then turn the device off or go offline?
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Now for a really big leap-of-faith: maybe social media opens our eyes to how other people perceive their lives. As stated in Paul B's "open as in water" blog post, Facebook and Twitter have shown more people that they aren't alone in their miseries; and that there are lots of little joys in life!

Blogging and forums might have the effect you describe. Certainly every violent criminal takes a look at the peaceful life open to him and decides that it isn't tolerable. Whether it's a twenty year old with half a high school education working shifts at Chik-fil-A thinking, "It's shameful for a grown man to be doing this work. I can't afford a car; my apartment is a piece of shit. If I stick with this, I'm a loser and a failure. I've gotta do something" or Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold deciding that accepting their role as loser outcasts was just too painful, the decision is to reject your lot in society and go outside the rules, with little hope of actually improving your life, just the prospect of enjoying some dignity and satisfaction. Finding some anonymous fellowship online would, I think, take the edge off the shame and indignity of being at the bottom of the pack.

Facebook and Twitter, on the other hand, are the opposite because they're all about cultivating public identities. The people who post regularly on Facebook and Twitter are the ones who are happiest with themselves and most secure broadcasting themselves to intimate friends and non-acquaintances alike. Unhappy and insecure people are invisible, because if they're downers, they'll be defriended. That increases the impression of inequality -- everyone else is happier than me; I just don't measure up -- and should lead to more violence, if anything.
This is why if you're really dedicated to your idea, just learn how to code. It sounds very ominous to a non-hacker to just "learn coding," but it makes everything else easier.

Also, once you show other hackers that you are willing to do anything and you actually build the beginnings of a product, they will be much more likely to join you because they see your perseverance. This is what I did/am doing.
I appreciate anytime a founder closes down a small company or idea with an announcement rather than just letting it go silent. Thanks for sharing the lessons you learned!
I don't use a mouse either.

Not since I discovered trackballs are the way to go.
Because Miro is the client for a video publishing platform that allows content providers to publish video streams to miro using rss and then have miro distribute it via bittorrent. Users are then able to search the Miro catalog and subscribe to those feeds if they are interested. For video-podcast addicts, thats really great.

Its not a tacked on feature, this is actually the core feature of Miro - its a distributed video player/content provider. Not an iTunes replacement at all.
Today I learned about the existence of the Bavarian language.
about $100 a month, more if i update it. 100K downloads and been featured a few times in whats hot and N & N, almost got featured on the front page of itunes too. Not bad given that I think the application is relatively pointless. I just wanted to submit _anything_ so I could learn the submission process
This is a good point, but to your original point: "invest in me just because I impressed PG (plus more good reasons that may be true but the investor cannot see)" does not fall into your category of "unbreaking things" like the rest, especially at the start of YC. By now YC has certainly built institutional credibility, but even that can be broken if one day PG turns evil and sells out the brand like Pyrex or show or a grade-inflating college.
Has YC had the time to see the results of their naughtiness though? Scribd seems like a poor product based on my run-in with it this morning and the comments of a few people saying how bad it was. But personally I haven't really used it. And Dropbox had a lot of hype at first until it was realized that their security wasn't so secure after all. I see these types of things as being naughty because its somewhat underhanded, cutting corners, etc. Could the naughtiness cost them in the end? Perhaps. I guess we will see.
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Well, yes. The article is talking about the drop in violent crime, not total crime. On the other hand, I doubt that financial crimes made up for the 5.5% drop in violent crime. There are probably no conclusive figures for non-prosecuted white-collar crimes, though, so all we have is speculation.
an "open" media player that is trying to eat Apples crumbs and wants independents to join in should have some kind of decentralized market for producers and publishers.
Point of information: that's a point of information, not a point of order.

http://www.apdaweb.org/guide/rules
Maybe i can learn to hack it.
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The counter argument to that is "Great idea - what other value are you going to bring to the table?" For me, being asked to sign an NDA is often a signal that they don't have anything else unique to bring to the table, which is usually a recipe for failure. Instead, there should be some other reason why this idea will only succeed if you do it. Some good ones are personal domain expertise, access to partnerships, access to distribution channels, design/marketing skills, etc.

If all you bring to the table is an idea, than to be honest, the developer probably doesn't need you.
At the time of the Civil War college students were from wealthy families. They didn't go to college to get a well paying job.
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They used the content. DNF's last project manager when it was still with 3dRealms said something along the lines of:

"these guys have made about six or seven games over the past few years but have never got round to releasing any of them."

He basically just found a ton of fun products that were just a little ways off completion.

The final 6 million they asked for (and didn't get) was to release the last game they had "made". Considering Gearbox's timeframe I would expect they've taken the last game and polished it. I.E. done what 3dRealms would have done with that 6 million.
That's why many studies only track the murder rate (it's hard to fudge). Just making people wait an extra hour before they can report a crime has a miraculous effect on the reported crime rate.
For me it was more a matter of personal curiosity, since you don't really see much Lisp applications around.
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With coderwall, there's no way I'm going to alter my behavior in order to get badges on it. But it's fun - very fun - to see what badges appear, and to compare myself to other people.

You're already altering your behaviour by checking out badges and comparing yourself to other people.

This is like adding points and badges to brushing your teeth. You're still going to brush your teeth but now you get a notification that you earned some points and a badge and hey do you wanna compare yourself to your friends and create an artificially competitive atmosphere? It isn't FUN to view stats and numbers unless you're the type of technocrat who believes in the supremacy of quantification.
I've done this before, but on Windows. There was a setting with an older version of iTunes on Windows where it would automatically manage your music, which means that it moves it around and takes ownership of it. If you try to delete something from your itunes library, that you thought you copied, it would actually delete your music, not the link between itunes and your music.
I agree, "8" would be better for their new mobile platform which desperately needs hype. And it'd be appropriate, too!

Guess they've got the idea that users associate Windows for PCs 7 with Windows Phone 7 which seems to me ought to only be a minor consideration.
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Anyone aware of something which does the exact opposite: given a list of strings generate a regex which matches all, and only those strings? The shorter the regex the better.
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Wow whoever put this together for Adobe knows a lot about the industry, the information looks current and correct.
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Somehow, "boil all the oceans" takes on renewed, if still speculative/imaginative, significance.
I generally agree, but this instance is an example of the one situation in which it is reasonable, namely, trends. There really should be a zoomed-out view as well for people who aren't familiar with past developments, but it's okay to put the main focus on the small detail.
Checkout this interview of Avinash Kaushik By Andrew @Mixerbery on Web Analytics. It should help you understand what you need to do and what tool you can use.

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Most pages of apps: 6
Least pages of apps: 1

+ no DHH there.
I like that idea of treating raters as candidate black-box predictors.
Strange, mine (4.0.1) doesn't. There's something broken either in the update routine or in your Firefox. The beta is not supposed to be recommended to users of a release version.
I understand the positive qualities of being Kirk-esque and creating one's own rules (see Kobayashi Maru). I also understand the qualities of being single-minded in purpose, determination and the will to succeed. These are qualities needed to survive in the uncertain, risky and scary environment of an entrepreneur.

However, I wonder when we begin to cross the fine-line between naughtiness, white-lies, small-rule breaking and moral flexibility to privacy-violating, scamming, propaganda spreading and even law-breaking actions.

In a world where one will do anything to win, it seems all too easy to fall by the wayside towards morally-questionable deeds.
I'm interested to see what you think about coming on board as a co-founder if you believe in the idea. I believe I'm an "idea" guy, but definitely don't undervalue a developer's skills or time, hence why I'm beginning to learn as well.

From reading the article, it seems that you think that developers don't get compensated accordingly, and that's your main concern. If co-founders, for the most part, no one gets paid unless everyone works their role, plus more, which includes a lot of non-technical things that the "idea" guy would need to take responsibility for.
I'll also plug www.gitalytics.com ;)
If you play it at logarithmic and slow, you will see actual plateaus and pulses of activity in the smaller languages. That was pretty interesting, to me.
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Watching all the Disrupt videos, I'm blown away at how similar the format is to The Gong Show. The entrepreneurs look rushed and scared. Even a meeting with most intimidating VC meeting wouldn't be this awkward.

The demeaning attitude of the TC panelists, staff, and overall feel of the conference in general leaves me feeling pity for these companies, instead of being excited about them.

If the companies really are this crappy, pick five instead of twenty, and give them the time they deserve to get their message across.

The panelists don't even know why they're supposed to be there. In the 'Arrived' demo, one of the panelists said something along the lines of "we're pretending to be potential investors and you're pitching us... I think... they never told us what we're supposed to be doing." What's up with that? How can a company give an adequate pitch if they don't know who they're pitching to?
You're confusing naughtiness with evil. Naughtiness has to do with breaking conventions, evil with hurting others.

If you followed PG's record, you'd know how strong an advocate he is that startups be good.
I've got some test deployments on DotCloud, the only thing I don't like is that I have no idea how much resources are going to cost, I can't find prices ANYWHERE on the website.

I love how it all works, I love how fast it is and the deployment stuff couldn't have been easier (using it with git).

Is there any word on pricing?
Maybe I didn't spend enough time in humanities courses (my engineering degree allowed for only 1 humanities course in 4 years), but let's be honest - there's a remarkably large number of really stupid engineers. I don't mean stupid in the classic sense, since they can understand their discipline and perform their work, but they have zero intellectual interests or pursuits outside of their field. Try starting a discussion on politics or history or any of the other humanities topic, and you're not likely to get very far.
Very eye-opening. If you're involved in a startup, this is definitely worth a read.
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Well we were trying to stay modest but heres why we make great parnters.

1 - Our Education. MBA Students from University of Chicago Booth. Ranked top 5 MBA every year. The network is extremely strong and we have all the connections a startup could need.

2 - We have seed $. We can pay you to bang out the MVP in no more than 6 weeks with a nice equity bonus. We are looking for a partner.

3 - We are good guys. We want to make it and we think this is it. Simple as that. Its not this is my idea, do this or do that. The developer will be a partner and have insight and say. We hope to sell and then move on as a team to the next job.
Who remembers google's patent from a couple of years ago for floating data centers? Using the sea to cool it was a big part of that idea, alongside tidal power. I'm kinda disappointed to see that this isn't the complete realisation of that stuff, but its still a move in the right direction.

Original patent link: http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Se...

I wonder if you could start a tropical reef around the outlets?
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You don't need both modules and files. Decades of Smalltalk development experience backs this up.

Files should be an implementation detail. It should be just one back-end option out of many for persisting code.

There needs to be some way of conceptualizing a set of code. The programmer needs to perform operations on sets of code. (Merging, diffs, patches, etc...) Programmers need to store code and share it with other programmers. Files are good at doing all of these things, but none of these have anything to do with some special inherent quality only files possess.

Smalltalkers have been operating on the level of granularity of individual methods for quite awhile. It brings a lot of nice flexibility.

I would suggest that Namespaces have enough overlapping functionality with other "set of code" type entities, that they can just subsume the role of those other entities. The Java community has shown that it's workable for every project to have its own namespace. Namespaces also resolve a lot of name collision problems that keep cropping up. (Isn't that dandy?)

EDIT: The entire set of libraries for a variety of programming languages is readily available. It would be a cool project to re-granulize the commonly used library corpus for a particular programming language at the level of individual functions. There would be a lot of small-granularity dependency information that wouldn't be available but some of it could be inferred. Statically typed languages could have more of it inferred than dynamically typed languages, but there could still be a lot for the latter.
One would wonder if there were any code reviews in place or not? Any code that has monetary effects has to go through a series of code reviews (saying from my experience working with a client in banking industry) and tests. I would be curious as to how the 'bug' went undetected until deployment!