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I would think you are confused. :-)

For one, I don't mind if you don't use Ruby -- I'm not out to evangelize, I'm just responding to one person's response to a simple question: why don't more startups use .NET? I barely care at all what language I use; I have absolutely no interest in what somebody else uses.

But, if I asked you why you don't use Ruby, and you said, "because I have to use Linux and I have all these issues with it", and Linux was developed and supported by the same people that developed and supported Ruby, I'd say, "Fair enough."

I was just pointing out that there's a certain guilt-by-association. I mean, this happens all the time in business. When someone talks about a brand, that brand can bring up certain positive or negative connotations in your mind. If someone were to ask me, "Why aren't you spending any time looking into buying a new GM car", I would say, "Well, for one, because my Honda works just fine, and besides, GM makes crap." Now, GM probably makes at least one really great car -- it's just that I can't be bothered to spend much effort trying to figure out which car that might be.

Branding is really something that all business owners should think about often. When people hear your name or see your brand, what do they associate with it? If you go out of your way to lie, cheat, steal, or screw over your customers now, and you put your brand behind that, what is that going to mean for your business tomorrow? Is anybody going to care if you do an about-face and produce a really great product once they get sick of your brand?

I think Microsoft's brand is irreparably tarnished among the exact crowd that's most likely to launch tech startups, and since most of that crowd already has a language and set of tools that they like, there's literally a negative incentive for most of them when it comes to considering building on the Microsoft platform.
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Ask HN: Developers, how do you find high quality freelance work?
A recent HN post got me thinking [1]...

Problem: Freelancer, elance, and similar sites appear to be crowded with foreign developers willing to work for next to nothing. In addition, many of the project listings on these sites come off as unprofessional and, at times, shady.

So how do capable, professional developers find serious freelance work? The problem becomes increasingly difficult with a small network and few industry contacts.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2540909
I actually replied to a similar object further down.

Obviously I agree that coal is a disaster. At the same time I don't think that replacing coal with nuclear power is acceptable.

However, since this thread is pretty much dead (except for us two!) I'll say this:

I'm not as anti-nuclear power as I might appear here. For example, I'll happily say that the panic associated with a nuclear leak is usually unjustified. I'll even go so far as to say that nuclear power might have a place in the future of power generation.

What I don't like is the uninformed cheerleading by many technophiles of nuclear power.

There are real risks associated with nuclear power, and they are grossly understated by those in the industry, which then gets parroted mindlessly by many. There are plenty of examples on this thread of blind acceptance of "facts" put forward by the nuclear industry (disclaimer - I'm not accusing you of this). A trivial amount of research is enough to raise pretty significant questions on them.

The trend towards blind acceptance of those claims, and the whole "nuclear is cool" thing is what I try & push back strongly against.
There is. Flagging. And before you say it's "not for that", people are clearly using it as such. I've had perfectly legit posts (that I haven't "promoted" at all) slide way lower than their votes would indicate due to flaggers. So it seems a legitimate downvote system now.
whoops! thanks for correcting me. :)
IMO that's the beauty of this arrangement. Nokia has minimal presence in US so there is no question of pissing off the carriers. This kind of arrangement is not possible with Samsung/HTC/Motorola etc.
I like to think that the lack of answer is telling. Could Android's APIs be ported to Chrome? Could Chrome live as an Android application? Could NaCl have something to do with it?
wrong Nokia division and company dude..that Nokia is a separate company not tied into handset Nokia
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Except this guy isn't even selling anything in this post, and most of the stuff sites like ProBlogger or CopyBlogger sell isn't MLM but things like ebooks, videos, etc.
Agreed. I did a quick back of the envelope financial analysis last month - http://nerdr.com/should-i-quit-my-job-and-start-a-blog/

It's a bad idea for the vast majority of people, unless of course you're selling a method to make money with a blog, in which case it becomes scammy MLM.
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I know for a fact that several european carriers have started to implement this. However, the technology to do it isn't mature.

Hell, we won't be able to deliver this exact thing to a certain carrier I won't mention until late autumn if everything goes well.

Edit: Oh, and by the way, the term for it if you want to google is 'Mobile Offloading'.
Finally we could run Linux on browser, after we did run it on a potato http://www.bbspot.com/news/2008/12/linux-on-a-potato.html :)
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The strange hate for people who are "cheap" is one of the more bizarre about Americans. I don't think I've ever heard of frugality used as a pejorative anywhere else in the English-speaking world.
One thing I like about John Kabat-Zinn's meditation instructions is that, while firmly rooted in Buddhism, he uses the techniques and insights without religious undertones. This text seems to advocate the same way. This was very helpful for me, willing to get the benefits of meditation but not looking for a religion.
would be interesting to know what features node hoster kept changing?
Only thing I have so far is some cough node hosts don't send out enough invites for some of us to get
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I accidentally up-voted a post. I was wondering if there is a way to cancel that. I guess it is different from down-voting for which I must have some amount of karma.
Its an expensive way to acquire talent but it can keep some known producers in your company for a while. Generally its good to look at how much funding went into a company before trying to analyze the per-capita numbers. Most VC's don't want to leave with just their money back or worse less than their money back (I've heard such deals being called a 'hair cut')

So company A gets 10 million in funding and then gets acquired for 25 million, all 25 million might go to the investors with may be 2 or 3 million divided up amongst all the common stock. The goal it seems is to have the big 'retention' contract where you get some chunk of stock as part of the deal (or an 'earn out') 12, 18 even 36 months later. It keeps the stars on the payroll and out of the hands of competition or worse disrupting your own market.

A conversation I had with an entrepreneur friend who had been acquired by Cisco went like this ...

Me, "So how's the company doing?"

Them, "We were acquired by Cisco."

Me, "Oh, so how long are you in for?"

Them, "24 months but we can get out in 18 if we meet the numbers."

We both joked that if someone had over heard us and didn't know the valley they would think he was in prison or something :-)

One can always 'walk away' from these deals, generally it leaves stock and cash on the table if you do that. And there is a pretty steep drop off in benefit from the founders to the last person who was hired and had yet to reach their stock options first vesting cliff.
On one hand I kind of agree with this, there certainly is something to be said for buying nice stuff now and then, especially when it is stuff you love doing.

For play, I use a ratio I call the Fun Factor. Essentially, that's the $/hr of fun I get out of something. So if you go see a movie and it is $10, and it is the rare money that is actually fun to watch, then the fun factor is roughly $5.

So then you apply it to other things. Sure, $2,000 is a lot to spend a mountain bike, but divided out by the number of hours I've had on it, I'm way below $5 these days, so I consider it a fair deal.

A smartphone and laptop I love is always worth it in fun factor dollars.

That said, I do take issue on the 'lasting forever' bit, because wow, stuff just isn't made to last forever anymore and nor would you want to. I think it is a clever trick that we play on ourselves, oh, "This will be the last [blank] I ever have to buy", but how often is that really the case?

I can think of a few things I have that qualify, but they are few. I bought a $100 chef knife about a decade ago, still use it daily, still love it. I don't see my Ortlieb messenger bag ever breaking down, so maybe that's another. A few hand tools, but most hand tools last forever regardless of quality.

What are yours, what have you bought that you think you might keep forever?
A more detailed explanation of office hours in pg's 'At YC' article - http://ycombinator.com/atyc.html
Everything in that story could be true ($50k/month, recruiting through web sites, outsourcing, traveling with family all over the world, etc.), but I'm sure he works a lot and thinks about his business most of the time.
Ok, you win, I'm done :-)
Buddhist philosophy without the religion part is actually allowed in East Asia. You can claim to be interested in purely Buddhist philosophy and not the religion here without any problems, and there are experts and communities in such too. Nobody gets offended by that. The religion part is kept for the masses, and is considered a choice.

I suspect that, since Buddhism is relatively new to the West (and mostly Zen Buddism?), the religion part is naturally more dominant. The Buddhist philosophy/religion duality will likely develop in the West too one day. It just takes time.
Perhaps we'll have a system akin to DNS that resolves phone numbers to IPs. Dynamic DNS functionality could be built-in or layered on top by a provider like Google Voice, so that you don't give up one-number-that-follows-you.

Whichever device you happen to be using notifies you of the call.

Really though, the whole notion of calling someone and demanding their immediate attention is often rude in these modern days of async communication. I wouldn't be sad if we just used phones less, since we already have chat, im, and email that already just arrive to the device we're using (or all of them). And SMS on phones.
Maybe, but overimagination might be worse. Let's keep it concrete. How should Netflix have done things differently? Is there an adequate level of paranoia that would cover all the possible outcomes while still generating as much published original research as it did? My fear is that although (in my opinion) the contest was a stunning success, paranoia will prevent Netflix from ever running such a contest again. Do you feel this is a good thing, necessary to protect the public?
I had a relatively good interview experience with Google. I wasn't hired but I felt that the process was fair. True, it was long and I had to invest some significant time to freshen up my algorithm skills. But overall I was left with a good impression.

I do think that Google puts too much accent on algorithms and college-level CS. I consider myself a good programmer. I created two moderately successful Micro ISVs in my free time. I contributed a huge chunk to the product at my corporate job. I get things done. However I felt that this is not what Google looks for even if the say they do.
I'm not at American, but what I see about your country is that it's huge and varied. Given this, it's hard to think of things as American qualities.

I generally disagree with the post. I think fountain pens and fancy notebooks are are a waste of time, though I've been through phases with both. For me - cheap pencils, cheap graph-paper, cheap folders, and a system to keep order.

There are often ways to be smart that don't involve spending money. There's an idea of people who have more money than sense who go with an expensive option because they're hoping that this increases their chance of getting the thing they will want/need.

I have a digital watch. It has a lap timer in it, and shows the full date, cost less than USD100 and far more reliable than the swiss watch I have.

But there is some truth in the article - if you're just frugal all the time out of principle it sends bad signals.
For a relatively brief piece on YC I think it was very accurate, capturing the significance of YC, the experience of the founders, and the general excited feeling all around that imbues YC. Obviously it's for a more general audience so probably contains nothing much new content-wise for HN readers but is interesting to see it all put together.

This is something I'll email my dad, who when I mentioned I mentioned I applied for an incubator asked "What do you need office space for?"
imho its because this simply isn't an actual problem worth spending time and resources on solving. It irks critics because it doesn't fit into the narrative of trying to discern the internal rational-actor brain of a anthropomorphized corporation. It irks engineers because we like to pick one and make it the best. But for google... shrug... let them both keep going, see what happens. They've got plenty of money to pay for both teams, and consider what they're working on important enough that it doesn't hurt to have a plan b. Even if you're not sure which is A and which is B.
I went back into tech interviews recently after a 4 year break. It only took two weekends of skimming my old books to get enough up to speed to pass some whiteboard tech interviews, although I don't think I was quite ready for Google level challenges, I'd have probably wanted another week of brushing up for that. If you don't have a few weekends, the quick course is give yourself a graph problem and code it in 30 minutes, critique yourself for 30 minutes, repeat 4 times, go interview. You won't find anything harder on a whiteboard than a graph search, and the practice will be good for you on easier problems.
Chatbox stores data in Dropbox folder in user's local drive and watch for new files in that folder for incoming messages. It didn't access to user's Dropbox account nor send data to other service
- I'm not aware of any similar websites, but then, I'm not their target demographic, so I probably wouldn't.

- Keep at it with the programming, it'll click eventually. Start simple and give yourself lots of little goals. I'm a Python fan, but I'd suggest sticking with Ruby+Rails: Ruby's a good choice for your task, and learning both won't help you accomplish it as much as learning one well.

- Help people help you - People are less likely to read walls of text, especially if most of the information is extraneous: try to be concise.

- Don't dissuade people from helping you - You're more likely to be taken seriously, especially on HN, if you use proper capitalization, punctuation, etc., and avoid non-standard abbreviations.
For those of you that have a VPS in Europe, you can also do this via ssh tunneling. (see lowendbox.com for European servers, all around or under $5/month)

I have a server in London which serves as a dev box & proxy/ssh tunneling.

If you need help setting up ssh tunnels, I made a quick guide here http://public.dwang.org/ssh. Of course, for the guides I made swap the given server name and usernames with yours.
> The strange hate for people who are "cheap" is one of the more bizarre about Americans.

I also find strange the stigma attached to being a "loser".
Did they turn off the Internet in Hawaii?

You can always get meaningful conversation on the Internet.
If she doesn't call back, it means she's not interested...
I don't understand all this skepticism. Every other success story on HN is about "outliers", whether is about webapp or iphone apps. Just because this guy writes blogs instead of coding everyone is calling bullshit on him?!!

I am not a programmer nor a blogger and I don't see much difference between this guy and most of the stories I read on HN.
There's a specific name for these types of posts but I forget exactly what.

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Yes I was surprised that despite his handicap he's still doing all those things and living a nice life. He's not Stephen Hawking material but I do admire him.

And the thing is that each one of us could make the step too. You don't have to be rich or hugely successful at all. As a hacker we could just as well move to a nice sunny country and work from the beach there. The internet makes it all possible.

Still I'm not sure whether I would have the willpower and determination to do it.
Boot Camp : Military :: Y Combinator : Startups

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1. A comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification.

Should the readers of Wired not be familiar with Y Combinator, the analogy implied in the article's title should actually give them a good idea of what YC is all about.

I don't think anyone (or at least many) will take the analogy literally and expect to see photos of YC founders going through the rigors of military boot camp. Instead, I bet most people who read that title will get the comparison right off the bat: Y Combinator is a short, intensive, exhaustive program focused on preparing new founders to be more successful in the business world. Just as military boot camp is a short, intensive, exhaustive program focused on preparing new recruits to be more successful on the battlefield.
... selling books and videos like "Get Rich Quick"?

By the way, good selling process is not covered just by one article. So not every page sells stuff directly.
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I think the moral of the story with this post is, "buy nice things for stuff that matters." I don't think $100 pens are important to most people who post here, but $2,000 mac laptops or cinema displays are. I spent $100 on a Timbuk2 bag because I use it nearly every day when I go to work and don't want to buy a $40 Swatch laptop bag from Target that will last me 6 months to a year before it breaks while going through security at Seatac. It's just not worth it.
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I see it not being distancing language so much as an attempt on his part to emphasize that he's a strong proponent at the highest possible level. Besides, who's a strong proponent for something at the board level but tries to fight against it at lower levels? No way Gates doesn't feel like he can say what he wants at the board level.
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My 2001 Z06 Corvette that I bought new in 2000. Hand tools only last forever if you don't use them; I beat the heck out of mine. I buy craftsman tools at sears, at least the basic hand tools. They replace them free when they break/wear out, no questions asked. For more complex tools (torque wrenches and the like), I spend the money and buy Snap-On (or equivalent).

Other things I've spent money on (that I'm happy with): heated slate floors for my bathroom - nothing like 85deg toasty floors when you get up in the morning; Benchmade knives; our latex foam mattress. Probably more things I can't think of at the moment.