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If you want to use avr-gcc and emacs(or vi) & unix as your "environment", there's nothing to stop you doing that and still using Arduino hardware - it's just a ATmega328 on a board with a bunch of required/useful stuff (clock, power regulator, usb, handy "breakput" pins...), which happens to have a bootloader which you can ignore. If you're interested and capable of writing your own gcc compiled executables into the chip, you can do so, and for some of us, the ease of not having to "set up" the supporting hardware for the microcontroller is a great advantage.

There are alternatives if your idea requires more "whatever" than an AT328 (or a Mega2560) there are lots of other (perhaps less well known) options, but consider using the Arduino hardware when it's suitable, even if you don't want the "handholding" of the Arduino IDE. (Or, like me, let the ease of use that "handholding" gives you allow you to significantly lower the bar of entry to trying out random crazy ideas - I'll often grab an arduino and plug in some sensors/leds/servos/whatever, and sit on the couch in the evening seeing is a crazy idea is likely to work, rather than just thinking about it and never trying anything out...)
YC is a unique thing so any analogy will break down. The article did mention 'American Idol' which I thick is a lot closer, as A.I. has that same sense of people pinning their hope on getting in, the best talent winning out (in theory), constant all-around testing, competition, access to resources, and the large stakes for the players involved.
If you do, make it clear which parts you support and which parts need work. As they say, it's a mixed bag right now.

Or if you just want to be lazy, write them and tell them that you're encouraged by their progress on the bill, but you would like them to listen to the EFF's concerns and send them a link to the article.
Closer to being Myspace than Google
pedantic note: not larger than facebook, as pointed out in a dozen other comments on the skype deal, facebook's reported 600M+ users are _active_ users
I re-read my comment. The flaw in my reasoning seems to be that Google still needs a way to know the talent exists. So you still gotta get Google's attention somehow before they can recruit you.

Still, though, that "job shopping cart" thing is lame. As somebody that's actually tried it, having to look all around the site and find a specific job just doesn't work. In simple terms, it would be better for Google to have a form that says "Tell us everything you know", let people just write everything they know and submit it, and then let Google match the skills up with a set of jobs that might be a good fit for the candidate.
...and did you know that 78% of all statistics are made up on the spot?
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Yeah, they'll get that, not exacly unexpected though, and I wonder what the marginal cost of running huge speculative mapreduce jobs on "spare" server resources add up too?

I honestly think there's some world-changing insight hiding in data lurking idly across Googles datacenters - which just needs someone curious enough to turn the right datasets round the right way and ask the right question...

What's that old science gag? Something along the lines of "Amazing discoveries are more likely to be preceeded by 'Hmmm, that's strange' rather than 'Eureka!'"
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My best work comes to me,either through word of mouth from satisfied clients, or my reputation in the community.

When I was first starting out, I took a lot of so-so jobs. You only have to have a couple really good clients to get word-of-mouth spreading among people like them, then you can start to be more picky.
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I still need to submit a resume. How do I translate your comment onto a resume that could lead to an interview?
"Frugal", almost by definition, cannot be used as a pejorative. When it's taken to excess, like the author is complaining about, the noun is "cheapskate" or "miser" and the adjective is "cheap" or "penny-pinching".
I'm just posting this recount
because discussion on the previous article (and assertions by the tweeting police) suggested he wasn't arrested.

and I read here
http://www.news.com.au/technology/facebook-story-arrest-disp...
that the queensland police thismorning tweeted again:
"Our bad @bengrubb was arrested for questioning briefly Our tweet last night was based on information provided at the time Apologies,"
Is this a reinvention of the PLC with nicer plugs?
You're missing the point. The author has nothing against saving money or being frugal. He is just pointing out that for a variety of reasons, people who can afford better alternatives that would make them substantially happier/healthier/more productive choose cheaper alternatives for cheapness' sake.
Yet another suggestion: the teensy, which has similar specs, but a smaller form factor, native USB support (last time I checked, Arduino used a USB - RS232 adapter), and more pins (for the teensy++ version).

http://www.pjrc.com/teensy/

A drawback is that the form factor isn't compatible with the Arduino shields (hardware extensions).
The surest way to be happy is to have a large safety net in all the things you really need.

You can skimp on the things you merely want, and still be happy.

Think of all the things you really need, the things you would be really miserable without. These are the ones you should splurge on. I mean, really, spend 2x as much as you think the average person would spend on them. Totally own it. Then you will always feel like your life is good. Because you don't sweat the small stuff :)
Bed and chair manufacturers must love this post. While I agree that it's pointless to skimp on things which would make you more productive, it's not necessarily true that the really expensive ones are better.
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Same case here. If you find yourself looking into job boards all the time, you probably need to satisfy more clients, because they will have to tell their friends about the amazing job they got done. Happy clients and a good portfolio equals the ability to be pickier.
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I know it's cliche, but what I got most from this article is that traction matters most.

Growth is the lifeblood of the industry.

To get that, you have to make something people want.

Everything else is pretty insignificant.

Simple, but not easy.
Ask HN: Thinking about relocating, suggestions?
Where should I live?

I'm a single founder with a [stable] revenue generating startup (lifestyle business). I'm technical but also have business development and marketing experience so I pretty much run the whole shop.

I broke up with my long-term girlfriend a few months ago and I've still not completely recovered. I have no friends where I live, the weather is horrible, my flat is £950 a month not including council tax (£180) and other utilities for the equivalent of a trailer on a bypass.

Every month or so I read articles on HN about people who move and work from paradise locations where the weather is beautiful, the food is mouth watering and the quality of lifestyle is to die for. Best of all, it's cheap/er!

I desperately need the above and a change of scenery, even if temporary.

I have a GB passport and I can live pretty much anywhere for X amount of time, with little visa requirements. I don't mind relocating for 3, 6 or 12 months. I will very rarely need to return for meetings as most of these can be done using video conferencing and I have people on the ground who can help if needed.

I haven't done much research (apologies), this is my first point of call and I've only just decided that I need to take action.

The criteria are, good: Internet access, climate, food and rates

I welcome suggestions / experiences. Thank you.
I use the Fun Factor rationalization too, but I find it can be problematic in many cases. Mainly with bigger purchases. When you amortize that $2000 bike out per use, the difference between it and the $1500 bike can seem rather insignificant. "$1.5 v. $2 per use? Hell, I might as well get the better one." But, it's still $500. That's real money that could be used to earn more money somewhere else. Ratchet that up if we're talking about cars or boats or houses. So, I like the Fun Factor rationalization, but it can be dangerous.

As to the "lasting forever bit", I don't think it's necessary that things last literally forever; the point is more that making very long term purchases is a worthy goal. 15-20 years maybe. That said, I do try to buy things that literally will last me forever, though the list isn't very long, yet:

I try to buy tools that will last forever, or close to. With things like digital cameras (or any consumer electronics), it's silly to expect anything to last more than 10 years, on the very long end.

But, with power tools, I buy things expecting them to last forever (with routine maintenance and not heavy duty use).
I more or less expect my nice knives to last forever.
I expect most of my furniture to last forever.
I expect my weight set to last forever.
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I kind of agree with the author about willing to spend big money on things that matter. Mattresses, computers, chairs, desks, things like that are all things that you use regularly.

Though that's now that I consider being Frugal. Being frugal is not only being practical with my money (buying what I need and knowing what I won't use). I had a strong desire of buying an iPad, but really I know I won't use it. It also involves making sure I take care of my things, I check my tires and oil on my car regularly. Doing the little things to keep your stuff going and not spending frivolously is being frugal.
3 types of winning
Heres a project I read about recently that uses a Parallax Propellor to get high speed multi core computing out of a micro controller project - I'll probably give one of these a whirl if/when I need more cpu horsepower than I can get out of the regular line of Arduino hardware:

http://scanlime.org/2011/04/spdif-digital-audio-on-a-microco...
His writing is terribly mediocre, why is this on HN frontpage?
I've heard of an idiom "expensive is cheap" (kinda reminds you of "less is more").

The idea being, or rather my interpretation of it is: something of high quality that's 2x the price of something else of low quality is probably wroth 10x more, so it's actually "cheap" in the sense that you get a lot more than what you pay for.
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The rule of law is only as strong as the people's opposition to it being broken. Of course the government flouts the law on a pretty regular basis: how many people are willing to stand up and say "enough!" -- and I don't mean only when there is nothing to lose?
Well the best area is the heart of it all - Silicon Valley - USA - Mountain View or Palo Alto or San Francisco. Depending if you are trying to grow your business.
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Like anything it has its high time and people just get tired of things and move to the next best thing.
Why on earth is this on the front page of Hacker News? Every day this site seems further and further away from any meaningful focus. If I wanted to read Reddit I'd read Reddit.
I have learned over the years that not spending 'enough' on tools is always a bad choice. Like mgarfias I buy Craftsman hand tools from Sears because they really do replace them no questions asked. I know a guy that would buy beat up, nicked and dingy craftsman screw drivers or socket wrenches at garage sales for a dollar and then go to Sears and get a replacement that they would put in their toolbox.

My experience of wearing out shoes was interesting. I used to buy 'cross trainers' or whatever the 'general use' canvas/plastic tennis shoe was at Big-5 when they went on sale every year. Every year I'd get a new pair of shoes for $10 to $15 and think "Wow look how much I'm saving over buying leather shoes for like $100 - $150." And then someone pointed out that they had leather shoes that they hadn't replaced in 10 years and it occurred to me that maybe I was looking at acquisition cost and not lifetime cost.

I did the math and bought my first pair of Clark's. They lasted 7 years and came out costing roughly $11/year for those 7 years. I replaced them with the same exact model that was on sale for $75. Not only did they look better than tennis shoes, they fit better, and 'wore' better. If I added the time spent shopping, the cost to get the car to/from the Big5 every year, the Clarks were 'cheaper' by being more expensive but of better durability.

So it was still being 'Frugal' but it was being a bit more intelligent about going about calculating the costs. I've long since learned to value my time more reasonably than 'free.'
Isn't it at least a little bit bad by definition?
It's simple.

Just count the number of hours you use an item in a week. Anything you use for a large part of the week should be of high quality.

Bed, office chair, desk, computer screen, computer, cooking utensils if you cook a lot, phone - in my case.

My car is 10 years old and doesn't have an a/c but I use it irregularly for Kiteboarding purposes and don't care.

In essence, it's much harder to bear a small pain for a long time than it is to bear a big pain for a small amount of time. And the mental stress from the smaller and longer pain is much much more IMHO.
Do you wish you had raised VC for Viaweb and grown it to be "bigger"? How much bigger would you have had to grow it to get a better exit personally?

Bose is at least one counterexample, it seems. However, don't the most successful private companies have little incentive to release the information you say is necessary for the comparison?
The Buddha you meet on the road is not the one you're looking for.

Consider the koan:

Does a dog have Buddha-nature?
This is the most serious question of all.
If you answer yes or no
You lose your own Buddha-nature.

What I got from this one is that the dog question is meaningless until you can answer the real questions it implies: "Do I have the Buddha-nature?", and "Does such a thing actually exist at all?"
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It depends a lot on how you define those words. Some people would consider that a contradiction in terms.

If all you want are true but unprovable statements, though, look no further than Godel.
I agree. Personally, I'm more sick of the culture of bargaining and haggling over increasingly small, pedestrian items that has gained a lot of fashion in the recession, even among people for whom it is not a financial imperative. It was a movement with a lot of momentum even before the recession, though, so there must be some other more enduring dynamics at play, too, not just cyclical stuff.

There's a social cost to making an ass of yourself arguing +/- $0.30 on a loaf of bread, so I don't do it. And--I jest not--I get chided by "frugal" people for not spending a half hour going through my pile of 50+ coupon clippings in front of the register in the express lane, ten people waiting in line behind me be damned.

Nobody in the startup scene here likes a customer that rides them about price no matter the discount, and appears to be fixated solely on price and not on value. Nobody likes the message that sends about the customer's priorities, their character, or the value they attach to the product or service. There is a moral and a psychological valence to the whole thing. It's off-putting, because it says that you don't realise that sometimes there is more to life than cold, rational economic calculus. So why do it to others?

Negotiating big-ticket items like salaries, houses and cars has always been okay in this culture, and there are considerable practical reasons to do it; thousands of dollars are on the line, and the people on the other end of the table have a pricing structure and a sales methodology designed specifically to maximise gains on people reluctant or unable to negotiate. Obviously, I'm not saying you should allow yourself to be screwed for the sake of eschewing confrontation.

However, at the risk of sounding culturally chauvinist, as a Soviet immigrant, one of the things I have always liked about the US and for which I have taken pride in my adopted homeland is the fact that we're above petty bazaar culture here--haggling for the sake of haggling, or being obscenely preoccupied with price. Let's not lose that. Those of us from other cultures that have fewer compunctions about wheel-dealing in petty crap know where that leads, and it's a really detestable trait when not mandated by the necessities of poverty.
Wow, I disagree. Starting with expensive shoes. I wear flip-flops, shorts, and a t-shirt to work everyday. I'm pretty comfortable. I don't see the correlation between expensive footwear and comfort.

Beds. Yes, you spend 1/3 your life in bed. And you spend it unconscious. You spend about 0.03% of your conscious life in bed while falling asleep (30 mins a day).

But more importantly: Relax. Just because you make a certain decision doesn't mean everyone else needs to.
This is the most intelligent assessment of bitcoin I've ever read yet!
> The idea is that even moderates and other more casual observers of
> a religion tacitly support that religions fundamentalist core.

Personally, I'd like to see the violent, fundamentalist core of
Buddhism, as I've never heard of, nor encountered such a thing.

(Note, that I don't count the violence attributed to monks in SE Asia
under oppressive regimes. Fighting for your right to practice beliefs
has more to do with fighting for freedom, than it does in trying to
declare a 'victor' between religions.)
My understanding is that they do charge some fee to places like food trucks. The way it's structured, though, they encourage the users to keep some amount (c. $20) in their Venmo accounts, so that when you pay someone, it gets taken out of that first, then only falls back to your credit card or bank account when necessary. Depending on how frequently people cash out, they might even be able to make a small amount on interest by investing the amounts that people have on file, and just shifting the chits around.
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It's a word trick. He's using a word that's most commonly a pejorative to draw people in, and then as people read the article they see that he just means that someone's exhibiting the literal meaning of loser (as in a 2 player game when there isn't a draw and there's a winner and a loser).
I think they swapped the link and changed the title.

Both changes were huge improvements.
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I had my most recent "I live in the future" moment when I, between getting off of public transit and arriving at the food truck, received the menu from a friend, picked what I wanted, then paid the same friend for that food, all through my iPhone, and all the while knowing exactly where the other person was using GeoShare[1][2]

[1] http://geoshare.us/
[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2093261
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Actually, the way I see it, if the book is interesting for me to read, then it'll probably be interesting for my friends to read as well. I don't love the tactic, but I don't think it's that bad (assuming I know the book is interesting, and not a completely speculative thing).
The first blog comment somehow underlines the truth in this post:

> You’re such a dick, Scott.
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Bruce Sterling said some similar stuff in the Last Viridian Note, and he said it far better:
http://www.viridiandesign.org/notes/451-500/the_last_viridia...

It's a little unfortunate that viridiandesign.org is basically unreadable due to that terrible background image.
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Great point of view.

Although it does surprise me a little. Among my friends, I don't think we ever use email to organize things like going to see a concert. Or really, anything.

And I doubt I have more than 10 friends' emails at this point. ALL my communication with (non-business) friends happens on Facebook.

Is it very common among other people to organize things by email?
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It doesn't matter what country you are in - there is no such thing as a "friendly conversation" with any level of law enforcement - there are so many laws about everything and anything and you can be contributing to your own arrest and prosecution without even realizing it, doesn't matter if you are actually not guilty, why set yourself up?

Laws aren't necessarily logical or fair and you might never grasp the danger of that until you are on the wrong side of one. Unless you are purposely trying to get arrested to make a protest, stop chatting with cops! Their policy is typically "arrest anyway, get them in the system, let the courts sort it out later".

Cops know they can get more out of you by being non-confrontational and mirandizing you well after you've told them everything they need to know to make up a very damning arrest report - you'll never get a warning.

What's really surprising in this case is only that this particular person didn't grasp the concept. He probably got to walk away only because they knew the ipad data could make much better evidence to arrest others than forced testimony. But they obviously used his arrest to leverage him giving it up without a fight.