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I know this isn't the type of startup HN is usually interested in, but I value HN's opinion. I view this startup as a way to get a toe hold on something bigger. Something like threadless for socks. Thanks.
Cool idea. They are taking the LLVM and making more back ends. It would be cool if they could support as many back-ends as Haxe. I've developed in Haxe before and I can say I much prefer it to writing in javascript directly.

I hope these projects can continue. I look forward to the day when I can compile in any language to any platform. Different languages have different strengths. It is unfortunate that these days our choice of language is tethered to the platform we wish to deploy on.

Haxe: http://haxe.org
"There’s really only one way to solve an email reputation problem. You have to make an effort to clean up your list. Here again I was thankful for the awesome reporting built into Aweber. I was able to quickly track down which subscribers were receiving my emails via @gmail.com addresses but not opening the email."

Does this reporting use some method other than tracked image loading (which GMail disables by default)?
The key phrase is held against you. This means bad ideas were punished, giving people an incentive to not be risky. Whereas the point of Pixar's process is you don't have to punish bad ideas--they won't become consequential.
Lars Rasmussen's (of Google Maps fame) house for sale
Lars Rasmussen is moving from Sydney to San Fransisco and is selling his house. His house looks sweet and is on the market from $5million AUD
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It depends who you are. If you're an established software engineer with a name, sure. If you're a 22-year-old out of college, no chance. Most of us are between those extremes, of course, and generally realize at some point that we've moved into the with-leverage crowd. But nobody starts there.

I actually think it's best, as a general principle, not to work on side projects while employed. If the side project really is a side project (i.e. it's unrelated to your work and therefore something you justly own) you'll do a much better job of it if you work on it full-time. The side project and the day job usually both suffer if you try to serve two masters. But there are cases to which this principle doesn't apply (i.e. an iPhone app that doesn't take much time to build but becomes very popular) and it's for those that we need (in NY) better laws.
I recently took that startup genome quiz and I hit upon a truth that I sort of already realized: To launch a successful startup you need to do it full time. So yes your weekend project could be the next Facebook, but the odds are really against you.

I think the real issue with Silicon Alley (having been a part of the scene since the early 90s) is that Wall Street still swallows quite a bit of the top tech talent — that with a super high overhead can get in your way. It's better than it was years ago, but that's more of the big issue for NYC as I see it.
Receiving money costs money.
The actual corp setup should cost $1-3k assuming you use fairly standard docs to start. There are some overpriced firms which want $5k.

This is independent of deferral, although generally the more overpriced firms are more willing to defer.
And since Nokia's bailed it wouldn't really shock the world if Intel eventually gave up on Meego too.
for full disclosure, i used to work at RIM and it was a great company to work for.

i think this article nails one aspect of RIM's downfalls really well. they're stuck in the past. but the reason why this is the case isn't because their technology is outdated or that they're too stubborn to move forward. they're just slow. really REALLY slow.

even while i was working for the company (in their northern CA office), everything was slow. decision making, development, pushing a product out. for example, take the playbook. it took them over half a year to move the playbook from announcement into the hands of users. with the market for tablets heating up rapidly, that was just way too much time.

another thing that causes this slowdown is RIM's lack of silicon valley presence. they have one small contingency out in redwood shores but that's it. sure, you can argue that RIM is located in the heart of canada's engineering capital, but that's still no silicon valley.
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Pure water is used to prevent radioactive isotope contamination. It seems unlikely this will not be a problem here.
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But that's what I mean with the fleshing out of the concept...

It would mean closely working with the client to define their idea and develop detailed specs, then passing these on once the client is pretty happy with the specs/wireframes or whatever has been used. I can see rapid sketchboards / wireframe mock-ups working quite well for developing the specs wit the client, and then to get a more functional prototype you'd pass this on to Chris. Your $Fee should cover this time + some profit, as this is a service you'd provide for both Chris and the client.
Bitcoin is a tulip, not a stock:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania

Well, I suppose it could be considered the same as a penny stock being pumped and dumped. I feel slightly sorry (in advance) for the people who lose their life savings when the bubble bursts, but not hugely sorry, as it will have been greed that led to their downfall, and my capacity for empathy in such cases is limited.
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Well, the journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step. I'd consider making those baby steps - you know, walk before you run - lest you put your foot in it.

Real photographs may give you a leg up on your competitors, but that may be me just pussyfooting around. Have you dipped your toe in the waters to see what the reaction was?
Clickable: http://confered.com
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Yea, in any other case I would agree with you.

However, considering the whole point is to apply for a front-end dev job, and the stuff I describe is SUPER easy to do. I think it's relevant. I'd think I'd want to "put up" so to speak, and say "check it out, I follow best practices".

This is really really low-hanging fruit, the sort of thing you should be doing by default basically.
I really enjoyed it. It's a funny site.

I would:

- Size up the buy now and learn more on the front page (I barely noticed them)

- Get a 1-800 number (look for a twilio code, then it's basically free)

Do you ship to Canada?
I suddenly have the feeling this is just opened the doors to something MASSIVE in the travel startup niche.
Check out stunnerofthemonth.com, they do a really good job with their packaging in terms of adding unexpected freebies to keep people engaged.
"Why that f*ing hipster gets laid more than you."

http://www.sotmclub.com/blog/id/2

I lost interest after reading this blog post. What does it have to do with socks? Does having weird socks make someone a hipster? Does pretending to be a hipster get someone laid and wearing weird socks somehow enables this?
Saas model for cakes, muffins, and random baked goods? Amazing
> Perhaps it was a conscious decision not to minify and concat

Yea, I thought about that, but It doesn't seem to be the case. A lot of the scripts have credits that indicate they weren't written by Loren.
Make the sign up link much more prominent, and have it available on every page.

Make pricing information available prior to asking for my email address and shipping address. If you are showing the $9 price somewhere on the site before the spreedly checkout page I couldn't find it.

If you are going to collect my personal information prior to check out you really need to pre-populate it into the check out form. Making the customer enter their data twice is irritating and adds friction to the buying process.
Beautiful.

I didn't realize the clouds at the top of the page were moving until after. Nice touch.
Pairing socks while doing laundry would become a nightmare if I signed up for this.
Good story. Reminds of when I fixed a PlayStation 2 that wouldn't turn on by replacing a blown diode in its power supply. I wonder how many complex electronics are out there Sitting in landfills just a single diode away from working perfectly.
Haha, I did the EXACT same thing on my (original 2006) macbook, 14 months owning it. My power supply died, so I clipped the cable, hooked it up to a 1A 18V variable power supply, but it wasn't charging fast enough, so I hooked it up to another that was apparently broke and sent 120V to my laptop (people at work don't throw broken things away apparently)

Anyways, I had experience soldering SMDs before so I wasn't too worried about the repair, but there were too many power mosfets and diodes and and a ton of devices at the same potential. Testing voltages and continuity with my multimeter was mostly futile (and I used datasheets the entire time). I'm glad you found the problem.
Ask HN: What note taking software do you use?
What features do you think a note-taking web/phone/tablet app should have? Do you use one already, if so what do you love about it? What would you change. What would be your perfect note taking program?
Well, you're right, I just thought it was an interesting usage.

I don't think I would ever use it in code or suggest it to anyone.
I left a "this isn't true" comment on the original thread but I think the comment will need moderator approval.
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Sucks to be Canadian...
>If ZodTTD conformed to the licensing terms, what's your point?

He apparently provides no evidence of this and is removing comments from his blog that question the claim... so i'm skeptical.
To prevent mob egging, a Stack Overflow approach might be helpful: make voting down to cost karma.

Unfortunately this works better on Stack Overflow as upvotes give you either 5 (on submissions) or 10 (on comments) karma while voting down only costs you 1 karma.
Well, launch your demo then. Once you get it in the hands of real users, their feedback will tell you much more about what to do next.
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and just spread it using the permalink. PDF download and print is also available.

I get my gigs usually through word of mouth and djangogigs (I do django at the moment). If you know python I suggest you take a look at django for web development. I have to say I compete by getting a very low, low rate, which I can afford since I'm living in a third world country (Philippines) at $15/hour. Translate that to local currency, enough spare time, working from home and learning more about python web development I could say it's pretty working good for me thus far.

BTW if you're interested for django work I can recommend you to some body, just haggle your price to him directly. Shoot me an email -> phektus at gmail dot com.

The $5000/two week deal of Mr.Granger sounds hardcore, and he does sound hardcore being able to stuff it out in Clojure.
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As mentioned, the "Buy Now" link should really stand out.

This may have been your intention, but I can only find one place (on the home page under the Exclusive section) where it mentions cost. I think you should call out how much it costs on the subscribe page.

Also, to nitpick, I'd stick with using either "buy" or "subscribe" instead of a mix.
If you are planning to model to support various properties what about Omvious (may be more memorable)? Om from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Om
or from Omni. Domain seems to be available.

Mivious sounds simple, memorable and catchy. btw, i would have said it the same way: Meh-Vee-Us.
Hey, thanks for the advice. I appreciate it.

I read through several of your blog posts --- very informative!

How'd you get your start? (If I understand correctly, you're a freelance iPhone developer living in Austin. Awesome! That's the next city on my to-live list, if I can just scrape together a way to get out of St Louis.)

How much work did it take before you could turn a profit as a freelancer? (Whatever 'profit' happens to be to you.)

I'm so bored, a couple nights ago I wrote my own Minecraft server in C from the ground-up. I'm chomping at the bits to work on anyone else's project, but it's hard to find clients (without doing what you suggested).
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Reminds me of when I tried to fix my fried amplifier last Christmas. The amp was around 20 years old and had mysteriously stopped working in the night. Being cheap I enlisted an electrical engineering friend and together we stripped the amp down. However, the problem turned out to be 2 diodes failing hot. The short fried the micro-controller and associated eeprom thus making the fix more trouble than it was worth. Still, process of diagnosing the issue was a great learning experience for me. I almost exclusively work in software so it is always a pleasure to learn about the electrical engineering side of things.
And I was proud of not destroying my laptop when I replaced the power socket on the motherboard.
Really handy stuff and a reminder that "this product contains no user-serviceable components" is rarely true. I also liked the structure of the post. Isolating the lessons and documenting his work while still discussing the higher-level implications certainly made it more useful than just a walk-through of how he fixed the motherboard.
For anyone else wanting to know what MVP stood for (besides the MVC alternative!)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_product
Wow, $9 for a single pair of socks is steep! I was going to join because I thought it was per year, but I guess that's too good to be true.

BTW, I'd go up to $20/year for this, even just as a quirky gift for someone.
Lauren, what is it about airbnb that you love so much? There are a lot of amazing san francisco startups doing incredible things that would probably all love to have you on their team.
I'm not the OP, but I also use Clojure and feel qualified to comment.

The Lispyness is a big part of it, but Common Lisp and Scheme have that too, and I still think CL does it better in a couple places. I don't usually go crazy with macros in my own code (a few here and there, where they're really needed), but having them in library code is amazingly helpful; the DSLs for various things are amazingly rich. Have a look at ClojureQL and tell me there's a nicer way (conceptually - it isn't as feature-complete as it could be) to integrate your app with a database.

Beyond that, it's that Clojure feels like a very well designed tool for people to use. Dozens of times, programming in various languages I've thought "this task would be so much easier if only the language had X", and Clojure more often than not has the X I'm thinking of.

The community is a big help too. It's full of smart, friendly people. It's small enough that you can get an answer from someone important (Rich Hickey once optimized some code for me), but big enough that you can get an answer reasonably fast. It's thriving and innovative as well, with people trying new and interesting things all the time.
Airbnb does not have many expenses (afaik) besides payroll and low operating costs. Their profit is probably huge considering that. (Whereas a hotel must spend money on electricity for each guest, linens, toiletries, water, elevators, real estate, etc.)
I use a binder clip to bind together all the unused pages. You can instantly open it to the right spot every time.
Of course I agree with you that what you're saying is what you _should_ do. But will you be able to convince the potential client to pay for that? Not on your life. Either they already know they need a spec, in which case they're not searching for a prototyper, or they "know" they don't need one.

I mean, I suppose you could raise your fee to $7k or whatever to cover the cost to spec it out, and say "prototypes for $7k". But speccing out an arbitrary project is just so vague and has so many dependencies on the client. Will they answer your design questions in an hour? In a day? In a month? How are you going to juggle all the client's delays and that? And by the time you've thought through all that, you're no longer a turnkey prototype delivery service, but more of a traditional design/development firm. Nothing wrong with that of course, just not what the OP had in mind.
Maybe you could have a gift subscription offering, to let someone else "foot the bill" for a friend. That might kick things up a notch.

Compare your socks against the others out there - go toe to toe with them.

Darn it, I think I've run out.
yeah, it sounded like he was interested in doing another YC startup in the future. Might ask him what kind of ideas he has poking around in his head.

The long-term vision of Khan academy is also most interesting.
what i love about these types of sites is that the individuals applying realize they have to step out in front of the pack to distinguish themselves, and are showing true initiative. Far cry from the monster.com droves which send HR departments generic cover letters + resumes.
Seems like the type of work you do is probably not something (good paying) companies often hire freelancers to do (though I may be wrong). Seems like you would be better off working towards finding a job with a company that does what you enjoy (I assume game programming).

Also you might try breaking into the mobile game development world (iPhone, Android). Mobile app development is pretty fertile ground still and you can use your current skills to develop you own products and sell them easily. Even if the games you develop do not gain great success on their own they at least make great portfolio pieces and could help you get noticed and find better work in the future. Just a thought.
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The link that wahnfrieden posted talks about an SDL/JavaScript port, so presumably yes that's how they are doing it. OpenGL wouldn't be involved, though, Doom is old-school 2.5D raycasting to a simple framebuffer.

Unfortunately in keeping with the recent theme of cool web demos not actually working for most web users, none of the browsers I tried even run the demo. Tried it on IE9, Chrome and Firefox (obviously Firefox is supported, but it seems like you need a bleeding edge Nightly version).
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I have personally developed this web app over the last couple of years. I have a few serious users but it is only by luck that I have any at all. I have done 0 marketing. I am looking for someone with some mad biz-dev skills to partner with me in turing this project into a revenue generating business. I would even consider selling it outright if the situation was good. My email address is on the front page of www.timeoffhq.com
How are they going to monetize this?
I'd love to see them buy http://pikchur.com (disclaimer: founders are very good friends of mine)
>So when you say "describing" you don't actually mean "describing", you mean "running the simulation"

I mean absolutely nothing of the sort. What I am talking about is the ordinary use of the word "beach" in the ordinary grammar of the English language not its use in some game in which one attempts to translate ordinary terms with "scientific" propositions based a set of logical transformations which ignore the implications of context and connotation.

So long as one insists that the computer simulation is isomorphic to what it simulates, one is doomed to stay in the cave.
I hope it is some kind of a joke.

It is not responsibility of a compiler to recognize specific problems in specific domains and perform optimizations, it is a job for a human programmer. Sure, you can make compiler aware of Riemann zeta function values in specific ranges, but what's the use of that outside of very specialized programs? Optimizations mentioned in the article could be programmed in C and compiler would happily translate these savings into assembly.

The reasons why we don't really program assembly anymore is that _on average and on a large scale_ compilers generate vastly better machine code than humans. Take for example register allocation problem which is proven to be NP-complete. Obviously compiler does an approximated algorithm but save for a case of few registers, no human can match it.

Some architectures, like VLIW, actually rely on the compiler to generate well-performing machine code.
Not for racing - just track days. The whole idea of a track day is to have fun, go fast, and improve your driving (or riding) with the car (or bike) you use every day. You shouldn't have to spend any money modifying your vehicle.

Here's an example in Australia: http://wakefieldpark.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&...
I'm a physicist. Care to clarify exactly what you mean there?
I saved a hard drive with some very important stuff on it exactly the same way. I had ham fisted the power connector in backwards and the sacred smoke had escaped. Lucky for me, I had an o-scope and was able to trace to a capacitor that had shorted in the 5 volt path. I wired up a new one and all was well.

You know that awful sinking feeling you feel when you've just done something monumentally stupid and embarrassing that you're going to have to fess up to? It feels twice as good +5 when you rescue yourself from it with your geek super-powers.
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I'm learning rails and pushing my way through Hartl's tutorial. My localhost is displaying properly but when pushed to heroku one of the links no longer works. All my tests are green as well. Thoughts or suggestions? Any tips would be great. Thanks!

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That's a really good idea. I wish I could afford the $100 to join the iPhone developer program. Alternatively, I wish I had an Android phone. I only have $850 of savings left.
Why the surprise over Android data usage?
Note also the Unix tool of the same name (cdecl).
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Does it integrate with any HRMS or payroll systems? It may be a nice bolt-on to such systems which have rather dated interfaces, and would allow you to target past the small business focus you have at the moment.
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One time, when I was around 9 or 10, I was installing an old CD drive into one of my old computers. ... But I forgot to shut down the computer first.

As I was plugging in the molex, Zap! Big blue spark, and the computer was never to boot again.
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He claims to have a private licensing agreement in place with the copyright holder(s). Until the latter comes forward to claim otherwise, I guess we have to give him the benefit of the doubt. For now, this isn't really any of our business.