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One thing I've learnt is that there is always room for negotiation. Call the other business owner and come up with a time-frame to rebrand your company. Get him to agree with that time-frame and move on.

That way you could use the remaining cash for a customer push and replenish your cash reserve at the same time. Prepare your rebranding peacefully and if you actually run out of cash, you won't have to rebrand (in some countries, this is costly).

Another thing: contact the domain squatter of the other brand. Ask him how much he wants for the domain. If you run out of Cash, consider selling your domain to the other business owner for half the price. Heck, you could even sell your website and design.
Hm i think email has to be in about to show public. I think...
Have your ex-partner sign a release of his interest in the LLC. He basically gives up all his rights to you for the business. You can convince him to do this by telling him that you will take on the trademark suit yourself.

Then I would wait for the C&D too, like patio11 said. Most people that have been in business have sent and received both, and many are in a position like me where I can just have my lawyer buddy change the name from the last notice he sent for me, and he does it for nothing (or a beer). So a C&D is really not that expensive either - and if he won't do that he probably doesn't think he has much of a case.

You can do a quick search at USPTO.gov for federal trademarks, but don't forget to do it at the state level too. This guy may only have a trademark at that level and thus have no case against you. If he has a non-ambiguous federal trademark for your industry, then you should bail out of the name immediately. I once spent $3000 on lawyers fees because I bought an $8 domain name with somebody's trademark on it. I had to give it to them of course, in forgiveness for them not suing me for damage. Oops. If you have to give the domain over, you may find middle ground by convincing him to let you redirect it to your site for a while so your print advertising doesn't go to waste.

One more solution comes to mind if the other company is in the exact same business as you. Team up. Figure out how you can mutually benefit from each other. It might help your business get going better, and may handle business he can't reach because of distance.
I suppose turning type errors into type warnings would satisfy both camps. That way you can experiment with incremental changes and then fix up the rest of the program when you are ready. Erlang + dialyzer works quite nicely like this.
Given that all of the graphic elements needed exist as Unicode, and that there exists code to detect specific fonts on the viewers machine, I'd like to see them used as the default rather than the somewhat sketchy drawings as shown. Just a suggestion...
Would anyone know if there's audio/video of these lectures? I keep seeing amazing classes like this and wishing that everyone could enjoy them instead of just the local students.
That was supposed to be "can't get out [of the terminal] without passing an immigration officer". Sorry. :)
> Being able to fix running programs w/o going through the whole compile cycle is a demonstrable productivity gain.

Indeed! Removing many sources of runtime failures at compile time is also a demonstrable productivity gain. So good thing that static typing is no barrier to dynamic extension or modification -- however, you must defer type checking of splice points between components until later stages. (This was my PhD thesis).
2.5 hrs, you are lucky. The last time I came in from Amsterdam to Chicago apparently 6 or 7 other planes landed as well, and they only had 6 booths open to handle the traffic. I was in line for 6 hours, luckily my layover in Chicago was 10 hours for my flight to Denver, but it was insane... people did come by with water bottles ... FOR SALE.
"To be honest, it sounds just as insane—possibly more—that children have to do this kind of thing."

That particular exercise is a way of practicing the connections between verbalization, logical reasoning about the future, and emotional desires. It sounds like an excellent way to help the top half of the IQ bell curve to work on projects bigger than will fit in their head overnight.

As to wasted time, it should not take more than a few minutes a day, a bargain compared to the time spent on the party indoctrination in history and social studies.
Wow...this is seriously cool. I like how the old threads are preserved in the newsreader interface. There is also something about having the clock advance in "realtime" that makes it more fun to run that just skimming through the old archive.

Nice work Joey.
No, you're still missing it. In Prisoner's Dilemma, if they both cooperate they still get a bad outcome. It is globally the least bad, but individually worse for each of them than defecting if the other cooperates. Look at the payoff matrix: [1]

If mutual cooperation was the best outcome, there would be no dilemma.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma#Strategy_f...
It's s shame we don't get comments on threads like this. If you want to really change the world, this is how you do it.

LED bulbs (Along with Knoll furniture) are part of that near future you saw in 2001 and all those other sci-fi movies.
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The project I'm working on right now (Rails) could certainly use the hell out of it. Hell, people were thrilled by how much faster things were after I pushed everything that didn't need to happen at request-time into the background queue.

Just having futures to keep database access would help, although I'm not sure how that would be possible with Rails' lazy querying.

All that said, the core Ruby guys are probably better off spending their time on performance enhancements than removing enough of the GIL to allow that kind of multithreaded shenanigans.
For some reason it occurred to me that someone has already registered the domain names, eg http://ununquadium.com , even though these are not the official names. I checked, and someone has. Amazing.
Great points! I just wrote an article on why some startups fail (http://www.richardcastera.com/blog/why-do-some-startups-fail). I didn't list your points but, there are several reasons why a startup can fail.

Good luck!
-Richard
Article missed the important proviso "in display advertising" (Facebook are likely to overtake Google in this space this year), but they're nowhere near Google in terms of CTR or revenue for search ads.
Right. This was the first "game" that actually improved intelligence.

The article you linked doesn't have much to do with the claims about dual-n-back. It seems to be referring exclusively to traditional video games, with most of the claimed benefits relating to hand-eye coordination, spacial recognition, reaction times, stimulus processing, etc. Dual-n-back, and improving working memory, is a totally different animal.
Hadoop + Clojure + (Ring for web and Incanter for stats)?
Thanks for the amazing compilation of sequential events.
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Groupon should merge with Gilt Group and offer to both ends of the market.
Ruby is an amazingly powerful language that many, many people use every day with very little drama. To me, it seems to only be the "english" online RoR community that has issues.

Unfortunately, as a Ruby language user, I don't know why the problems exist or what would fix them. :(
The locking problems that article mentions are a perfect use-case for software transactional memory. Which Haskell and Clojure have. I would wager that someone could make a straightforward multithreaded GUI toolkit in either of those languages.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_transactional_memory
One can also have a look at the stanford course "Mining Massive Datasets". No video lectures (yet) but
course information here:

http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs246/cs246-11-mmds/handouts.h...

The book here:
http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/mmds.html
> As for the article, any commitments on the diet front? Do you find if you commit to too many new routines (gym, eating, sleeping, working, being productive) you run out of will-power-gas before the day is out, making it harder to pickup the commitments the following day?

I've found setting a 70% success target across all active goals is a good way to keep growing without getting complacent or overwhelmed.

If I'm succeeding above 70% consistently at all my current goals, targets, and routines, I add new things or increase the difficulty.

If I'm below 70% for a couple weeks in a row, I scale back and get back to fundamentals.

This is also good for getting more comfortable with failure, since I'm constantly falling short on my new initiatives, and stay towards the edge of my growth potential. 70% I picked arbitrarily, but it's pretty good - it means I'm succeeding at over 2 out of 3 things I do, which is good for motivation/momentum, but it isn't so high that I have to set goals too cautiously to reach the mark.
I see no G vs. FB charts or actual data about Google's revenue. This just sounds like complete hyperbole.
This is one of the best ways to build your site's authority/PageRank and drive visitors, especially when you are just starting out. The key is to link to your own sites at least a couple of times (to different pages each time).

Here's a post about how to build google queries to find guest post opportunities: http://ontolo.com/blog/automated-prospecting-guest-posting-o...

Tout or Buzzstream are good ways to manage all of the blog relationships you develop. Ideally, you need to have a funnel for guest post opps.
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Note: A friend just pointed out the explanation for this behaviour on Tetris Battle's help area which is helpful to understand what may have happened:

All of the games with a Facebook name and profile picture are real game plays from the actual player. If the server is unable to find a player, then the title AI will appear on the opponent’s name to tell you that it is an AI bot playing against you.

I should note - that in my screen shot, there is no indication of it being a replay though.
OK David this is cool and all, graphical Linux desktop on a USB stick, but please keep working on Elite 4 [1] , it's been a long wait so far...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_4
Not to nit-pick your joke, but the unfortunate case in the Rails world is very often. I (try to) be a good boy and run tests before every check in, as well as writing them in advance of new features. Our project has enough files that it takes ~30-40s for the environment to load.

On an average day I probably spend 30 minutes to an hour of each day waiting on environment loading, depending on the task. Big restructurings and big new features tend to take a lot of test iterations.

Now that I do the numbers my time sunk on this is simply staggering.
This. I don't think your business is doomed, but this is a good time to think about what you've discovered and ask "What kind of business do I want to start? How, where, and with whom?" You're much better informed than when you last made that decision.
It seems like that Google still has they high paying ad market while facebook has a chunk of the low paying ad market.
This of course exemplifies why it's impossible to declare almost any technique categorically "good" or "bad". Sometimes early returns make code shorter and more clear. Sometimes the opposite. To borrow from Stroustrup, experience and taste matter a lot.
I think the best thing you can take away from this is that you got a good little business education for merely $5,000. I think you mishandeld some of the ways you allocated your money, however, and think you probably could have gotten away with spending far less for the same education.

The legal nonsense aside, I'd have started your company while you both still had jobs and worked on it during your off hours. If things began to pick up and you got some user traction, I would have then spent the $5,000 where it was needed. For one thing, if you had done it this way you'd have come across your co-founder's money problems earlier.
The act of verifying types defeats modularity.

I think static typing is grand, but Gilad has a valid point.
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I just tried the Excel version. Is there some reason that the line graphs are so ugly? The graphs in Excel 2007/2010 are beautiful, but the 365 graphs are filled with jaggies. See: http://i.imgur.com/KOHSI.png
Wow you really did your research and took initiative on this issue! I can't understand why/how PMs don't have an outlet for this. From the links you shared it seems that PMs are still having an identity crisis in terms of who they are and what their profession means. Coming from UX, I thought that was a confused bunch (circa 2-3 yrs ago) but at least they were pretty vocal and created a variety of info sites/blog, even if not traditional forums.

Would love to chat with you about PM in general however. No office hours?
Ask any Rubyist why they love the language, and they'll most likely tell you it's because it allows them to turn their ideas into reality very quickly.

That can be a very valuable advantage. If you're exploring languages to base your startup on, and you ignore Ruby solely because it's not engineer-y enough for you, I don't rate your chances of success very highly.
Last time I tried this, after reading something microsoft wrote that specifically mentioned tablets, I wasted an hour trying to hack office web apps to run, then finally got a message asking me to install silverlight on an ipad.

So pardon me if this seems rude, but do you have an actual web office suite, or is this more bullshit?

Thanks. MS office has a great ui, and i'm looking forward to try a web version of it if such a thing ever exists.
Lack of types gives the illusion of more modularity.

As was mentioned -- there are still dependencies. The only difference is that, without types, checking whether the parts fit together is deferred until later -- but it will still be done. (All parts of software have to be connected, and all have to be consistent.)

And therefore you could argue that types are pro modular: because they allow you to write separate pieces without needing the whole to test if it is OK -- which you cannot do without types.
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If you are conflating Ruby with Rails then you are not familiar enough with either to be asking such a question.

Also, who gives a shit?
Ask HN: Would this idea help keep discussion civilized?
This may already exist, but I am the business guy on the team so please forgive my coding ignorance.

- Have a staff member or moderator go through all the posts and flag the ones that are determined to be part of the decay of the community. A few hundred flagged posts would probably do it. A few thousand would be better.
- Run a word popularity analysis and see what words are most common to each bad post. Throw out “is”, “at”, “the” etc..

- I would expect that the list would be populated with words like “Hitler, Obama, Bush, fuck you, stupid, bullshit, pedantic...” etc, a long list of curse words, political figures, notorious dictators and insults. (George Carlin could write the joke, “787 things you can’t say online”, if he was still with us)

- Make a filter that flashes up a message when a person goes to submit a post with one of the flagged words with something like *“Do you really want to post that? It has triggered our bad post filter, and we would like you to reconsider how and what you have written. We are all for civilized disagreements, but completely against attacks and name calling” to prompt them to reconsider how they have phrased their post. Hopefully with some gentle nagging, people would grow more civilized. Or leave, which would achieve the same effect.

- Maybe someone could take this idea and make a filter for my email so I could reduce my bad emails. The ones I regret later, usually with inflammatory language.
I'd review the relevant trademark laws before believing a third party. Get an attorney if you still aren't sure. Question everything.
Hi there, thanks for your comment.

Absolutely, I think it is indeed the best way to both get visitors but also to create the extremely important relationships with bloggers.

Awesome, thanks for the post, will definitely check it out, never considered that way of finding guestpost opportunities.

Great, never heard of Tour or Buzzstream either.

Thanks for the great resources!
I guess I don't believe a definition of a real technician is simply someone who looks in a manual to fix thing. I believe technicians of all stripes need knowledge and a good feel to fix things. I think your definition of technician is limited and does disservice to a wide variety of professions.

"I don't have money or healthcare and expect you to work for free" - no, the USA was paid in land via treaty, so the bill was paid.
No.

The first generation of kids that never knew a time without Internet access, much less computer access, has recently cleared university, and they don't know programming. Thinking they'd have learned to program had they had a £15 computer (rather than the £500-£1000 one they/their family did have) doesn't seem likely.
I've been using the beta for a while now, and look forward to it being launched. I must be in the small minority of people who prefer hosted Exchange to Gmail (but oh do I), but I've been pretty impressed so far with the functionality.
They also hired Palm's designer of the WebOS notification system last year, so perhaps they already have something in the works.

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/06/09/designer_of_no...
Great suggestion. I'll look into it. Thanks.
This feels like an argument on the wrong level of abstraction. Even if the methodology is at fault, it seems silly to say "Waterfall is the problem." That's simply too large of a point to make. You could say that you fell behind during development and couldn't tell that you were falling behind, so the problem snowballed. That's specific enough for people to discuss without resorting to politics. Otherwise you're taking the organization's dysfunctions head-on, which is a losing battle.
Are you in the same business domain as they are?

IIRC the way trademarks work is that they are issued for use in specific application area. A business that is using Xyz for a bakery does not violate an Xyz trademark of, say, a welding shop.
Um... NO. This argument applies equally to functions and constants and is equally wrong.

Types are not anti-modular: the culprit is module systems that don't allow type parameterization. Systems such as Java solve this problem for functions and constants by allowing code to be parameterized over interfaces. Bam, you can compile code using said functions and constants separately from their implementation.

The solution for types is exactly the same: move types into interfaces. Guess what, Objective Caml and Coq do this via module functors and it's glorious. If my airline scheduler module needs to compile separately from my graph module, well I can write:

module Scheduler(Graph: sig
type graph
val traverse: graph -> (string -> unit) -> unit
end) = struct
...blabla...
end

and I can compile that code without ever writing a snippet of the graph module -- not even defining the ADT!

TLDR: this problem has been solved 30 years ago by people who actually use typed languages.
Not everyone understands that scrum and agile have this heritage of coming from getting horribly managed projects worked on by extremely mediocre devs in the enterprise trenches on track.
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> The universe is continuous not discrete and those who believe otherwise are insane

Quite a bold statement.
Having been there and having done that and still being involved, I respectively disagree. It was simpler in virtually all respects. I watched people of all different levels of interest and education (house wives, grad students, math majors, art majors and so on [notice no comp sci---there wasn't such a program]) learn to program in a subset of IBM BAL---this before any of the various micros you mention existed. Later when such things became available I was lucky enough to watch a very much larger audience teach themselves what they needed to know in order to accomplish what they wanted to do. And all of this before the internet had escaped the clutches of DARPA. In most cases, all that was available was the machine and the documentation that came with. In sum, I know what it takes to be creative now and I know what it took then. I would suggest that at best, it might be a draw. My bias would like to say that the good old days were better, but given the richness of today's environment, in fairness I have to come down squarely in the middle.
Dude, you are just getting started. Someone threatening to sue you is the first sign of success. If you have cash flow fight on. Figure out your partnership issues and go for it.
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Those are first-world kids, with rich parents.

A $15 computer is obviously not targeted at that market.
>> had the police order him off the street at gun point because he was jaywalking.

I simply don't believe your friend's dad was telling the truth. There are plenty of bad cops in the US, but drawing a gun on someone because they were jaywalking? I call bullshit.
I suppose it's because HN is primarily about software startups, and the community heere seem mostly interested in growing software and online services companies quickly. Nothing wrong with that, but it would be very interesting to see a green entrepreneurial community with the same strong drive, to both help each other and make money sustainably.

Personally I am taking what I have learned from my software startups and starting sustainable food production at large scale next.
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They aren't waiting — watch the demo of Google Wallet / Google Offers from D9 last week:

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In my experience, many programmers trained in a specific lanaguge or framework, tend to become attached to it over time to the point of becoming zealous about its benefits. If you define religion as being overzealous, then it not just Ruby/ROR, but C++, .Net, PHP, Perl and most other languages. Most find it difficult to be agnostic about their choice of the language/framework they select and use regularly. Just my 2 cents :)
I'm not sure I follow what you're saying. How can you make daily deals algorithm based? They rely on third parties (merchants) agreeing to the promotions. Anything algorithm based would have to know enough about those merchants to make coupon decisions on their behalf, and be trusted to do so. I have a hard time seeing merchants in quantity going for this.
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