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Ask HN: How to decorate my work office?
I just started a new job and with the job I just moved into my first personal office.

The office is pictured here: http://t.co/L5Zs6Pu and http://t.co/aWzVZ2l

I've alway's either worked in an open shared environment or remotely from home. I've searched around and haven't found many resources for office decorating. They exist but most of the thing's I have found seem one step higher than spam blog's, or top ten list's for driving traffic to office supply stores.

My only idea so far is maybe a decent record player and a little vinyl collection for office listening. I also have contemplated ordering some wall decals from http://www.whatisblik.com/

Ideally I would like it to be a comfortable, cosy place where I can concentrate and be productive. It would also be nice if I could personalize it some way, so it feels more like my place to work. I don't want it to be just a random square where I will probably spend a good portion of my life over (atleast) the next few years.

So HN, if you have any idea's for how I could spruce up my space and make it feel more homey that would be amazing. I would also enjoy and encourage you to share pictures of your offices ( or work spaces ) if you have them, for inspiration of course.

Lighting, Art, Chairs, Foot Rests, Toys, Plants, what suggestions do you have?

Thanks!
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Yep. People don't like to be told they are wrong or that things are not always as simple as black and white. That's the reason politicians lie before elections and for media to broadcast dumb stories to survive. Facts of life.

Politics is a continuous flight of the egoists against the idealists. If the later quit, the former win.
The "Brand" CentOS says to me "This distribution is binary identical to RHEL - you can do all your development on it, and deploy hundreds of servers running it - and be able to run all of the software qualified for RHEL. You can also write, and test, software on this platform, and have your _customers_ then run that software on their instances of RHEL"

I don't have that level of faith in SL's distro, it will probably take a year or so of observation before I would consider it a potential replacement for CentOS.

Even convincing engineers, and developers, that they could develop on CentOS and have some assurance that their code would run fine on RHEL without extensive regression testing was a challenge.

And even with all this - Oracle won't provide you support if you run their RHEL qualified Database Server on CentOS.

I guess this is just a long way of saying, I _don't_ know that SL is a binary compatible RHEL distro, but I do know that about CentOS. That's what the brand name does for me.
these are known as "just so" stories and have plagued eve-psych since its inception.
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Once you get the early adopters you hit a tipping point and the rest of the market will follow, this is the way of the technology adoption lifecycle. This poorly written article has it exactly wrong.
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Of course I "see" this. But I also see short to medium term considerations by the CN gov't of political stability in the country. Especially at a time of imminent power transition to the next political generation.

Its called "political reality".

But yeah, I read about the theory you linked to, about 10 years ago, when I studied it.
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Except that it doesn't: His point with the example lies in the difference between going straight at it and risking ones life verus figuring out a safer alternative.

If it was just about energy, both methods would be deemed just as valid, and they'd work for both sapiens and erectus.

Also we don't really need bridges and tv and space shuttles. I'm not saying his reasoning is flawless either, but this doesn't seem to be more convincing.
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I was meant to be a short presentation to help my brother with his work, but it kindof took a life of its own. It was promoted to Slideshare's front page in less than 12 hours.
They were taking donations in the name of a fake person? At first it sounded like they just got caught doing a harmless marketing ploy, but if they were taking donations, that's way worse.
Actually, Facebook has changed how hundreds of millions of people interact with each other.

I find it curious that the haters always want to take facebook down a notch for not being innovative. I haven't logged into my account in several months, but I still respect what facebook represents in the evolution of the Internet.
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This is one of the reasons why I don't buy the whole concept of "intellectual property": the only thing that should matter is the quality and value provided to consumers; not marketing, not ideas, not strategy, but the end result, which as many have pointed out before is mostly execution, but whatever the path one gets there, only product standing on its own merits should matter.
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This is what Turing College[1] apparently aims to fulfill. I'm a bit wary since they are yet to be accredited, a process which needs at least 1 student to have graduated from their program. They are enrolling their first class ever so it should be interesting how it all turns out.

[1] http://turingcollege.org/
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i'm reading it currently (page 220 at the moment) i must say it's the best book about google yet.

it's actually the book about google i was waiting for. it's a book from an (ex) googler (no, i won't call them xoogerls) about google. it tells the story about the chaotic start up days, about their victories and their failures (and yes, there were failures), about the time when marketing had to "volunteer" to rewire servers, how brand and engineers fought about UX only to be overruled by sergy, how frustrating it can be to work with genius developers.

it is way better than "in the plex" (which is just "myth making" with little substance), much much better than all the "what would google do" like books, and much better than all SEO books (which are all sh#t anyway ... exception "search engine marketing incorporated")

well i'm on page 220 and there was not much about SEO yet. matt cutts and his p#rn cookies were mentioned, his fight against spam. there is a short story about "search for non PhD" which explains search engines pretty well (and holds more valuable information than you can get from an average SEO).

it also settles the question once and for all "does google uses the data from the google toolbar?" (the answer is: YES, and the green page rank bar (i call it "thought cancer bar") is indeed just a
bait to turn on the "advanced features"). nothing new, but this time it's official (kind of). i hope that all the SEOs which claim that "it's not important what the users do after the SERP clickthrough" will finally be silenced.

@matt looking forward to your book...
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You often have no choice as the photo is put online by a (or worse an acquaintance) and then helpfully tagged by someone.

I'm not sure that Google+'s circles will stop your boss from seeing a drunken photo in this scenario.
I have seen hot chicks request G+ invites on FB, so perhaps this speaks to your friend circle on FB. :P But you do have a point; the ratio of females on G+ is so far low and the few that have it are "unpopular" as the most popular users being mostly guys: http://socialstatistics.com/?number=100&kind=user-circle...

I doubt that G+ will fail for this reason, but with more well-balanced demographic it could probably get critical mass faster...
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> Not sure what SIP or XMPP are "monstrous" though.

Both SIP and XMPP are way beyond "monstrous", hundreds of specs, and most implementations are not really interoperable beyond the very basics. (XMPP is still barely at the level irc reached almost 20 years ago, and that is after ten years of and ever growing and changing list of specs, which is actually the problem).
This looks pretty cut and dried, frankly. If it's not, will the real Jake Frink please stand up?

From this[1] thread exchange, jakefrink is still keeping up the guise of the poor, trodden developer working his ass off for the community. This is either genuine and there's been a mistake, or Teevox guys are delusional and too caught up in their own web of lies.

edit: After reading your long edit, it looks like it was case number 1 and the story is genuine. You know much more about the background of this story and I sincerely apologize to Jiggity for the uproar and frenzy I caused. It was unnecessary and in hindsight really silly. Perhaps Jiggity/jakefrink can post a full update of what happened on /r/starcraft to explain with a link to this comment of yours and redeem himself and his awesome site. You have been wronged Jiggity.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/im6r4/there_is_no...
As an entrepreneur, I love early-stage convertible notes for at least two reasons. The simple and lesser reason is that it's a lot cheaper -- $0-10k in legal costs to raise $1.5mm or so in notes, vs. $50-100k for an equity A round.

The really big advantage of notes, especially START-fund style "we'll defer even pricing the note" notes, is that it reduces the number of things an early stage team needs to think/worry/stress about.

Creating a new business is inherently chaotic and stressful. Nothing is nailed down, and some decisions are lasting. I'm no better than top lawyers or salespeople at negotiating terms, and I'd rather not burn my resources on trying to win in a potentially adversarial negotiation with investors over price and other terms early on -- focus should be 100% on product, sales to early customers, and team building.

Any investor who won't let me avoid the hassle of pricing a round, paying lawyers a bunch of money, etc., can sit and do whatever it is VCs and angels do with their spare time for a while until there's enough traction and revenue to justify raising yet more money, hire someone to handle sales and development, and then founders can focus on negotiations with pricing and terms.

Of course, an investor who waits like that is going to end up paying a much higher price for the same amount of equity, since some risk will have been eliminated, other investors will be interested, and money will be less value-add (in a seed round who provides the money matters more than the terms or amount; as the venture grows, terms and valuation matter more and more, culminating in bridge/mezz or IPO where the terms are all that matter.
Sorry for my bad English. I am Ukrainian.

There is no such thing as "money for people". Money is used to account wealth, which is created by people.

If you are producing something, you can increase production or you can increase count ("money"). You propose to increase count.
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So I have a friend. For the purpose of this post, I'm going to call him Hideyuki Chikafuji. That isn't his name, but it gives the right sort of feel. He works as a well-paid professional in an industry which isn't investment banking, but could be. He has a degree from Northwestern in, well, let's call it Physics. Magna cum laude.

What question do you think he gets asked in every job interview? If your answer was "Do you even speak English?", you win a gold star.

Hideyuki recently got his first name legally changed to Frank. Whammo. No more awkward questions.

I would further note that there is at least one person widely respected on HN who does business under a name which is not their birth name, specifically to avoid pervasive problems with this issue in our industry. (His story is not mine to tell.) The practice is also endemic in journalism, acting, etc etc etc.

It probably isn't the only issue: Redditors are nortoriously anti-capitalist, too, so it's much more convenient to be a community-minded hobbyist developer than to be a corporation (gasp!) with investors (gasp!) and hundreds of thousands of dollars (gasp!).

P.S. If race is totally not an issue, it would be a wee bit instructive that people get so pissed of when someone pretends to be a white guy.
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Agreed, top business schools should and do have successful business professionals as professors.
Of course there are entrepreneurship classes, but are taught by real entrepreneurs.
Nothing is confirmed yet, so I'd be careful about jumping the gun. What is true is that the first version of Warp Prism was released by a guy named Jake Frink. He claimed it was his solo project and it was his way of giving back to the community. There was a lot of interaction with Jake on Reddit. Personally I found it really cool. People gave him feedback on Warp Prism and bug fixes and features were put out on a rolling basis based on community feedback. I guess the issue being brought up now is that Reddit suspects Jake is a fake narrative, essentially a marketing strategy for a company. And yeah, there was a donation button on the initial versions of the site.

I personally don't have a problem with some guys making money off of a product like Warp Prism. I'd pay a monthly subscription for it. But what would be an issue for me is if a story was fabricated in order to market the product. But like I said, lets not jump the gun here until we get both sides of the story.
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The problem is that on the Internet you don't have that control. How and where you post something can influence how it can spread, but nothing can control how it spreads, just ask the RIAA. The problems are mostly caused by people who "feel more comfortable" because they wrongly think they can control it. As many people have said, "If you don't want it to get out, then don't put it on the Internet."
For those who attended MicroConf, this post is by Anne Gunn, the woman who threw back the bottle of hot sauce during Kagan's presentation. Unfortunately, it didn't quite make it and landed on some audience members.

EDIT: For clarity. (Anne wasn't trying to hit Kagan. She was just trying to return the bottle the same way Kagan had been distributing them.)
There's no Jake Frink?

Next thing you'll be telling me there is no Satoshi Nakamoto!

There'll always be an Alan Smithee, though, right?
Thanks for your response! No, Google today still doesn't ask for your age when you create an account, and I'm actually not personally aware of any US bill that regulates how internet companies have to deal with teenagers. It seems like a bit of a legal gray area.

The thing is, we get that scenario that you gave with the hangouts and circles with Facebook, which teenagers use all the time. And, again, those questions you brought up are part of the legal gray area I mentioned above, of how much control the government and parents should have over how teenagers can use the internet.

I think the main frustration I have here is that I have other friends who never gave their ages to Google - i.e., who never signed up for a Youtube account - who have been able to get onto Google Plus. (I know because they keep sending me invites. It's quite aggravating.) Which just goes to show that Google's rules aren't even being evenly applied across the board.

But hey, fair enough. As I said at the end, I just hope they get out of the field trial stage soon. And for now, I'm off to make a new anonymous Google account. :)
Gamers can be really sensitive to this stuff. Most games are easy to pirate, and game communities tend to grow out of faith in the developers and a desire to be "included" in their story, at a level beyond the typical customer relationship. Add to that the fact that gamers are usually pretty smart and motivated, and you set yourself up for a shitstorm if there's a hint of betrayal.

In this instance, the company received _donations_. That is one serious perversion of karma.
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I think you're mistaken about the issue at hand here, patio11. This has nothing to do with being anti-capitalist or having an Asian sounding name.

This has to do with lying to the community about your story, playing up the good parts and running under a false narrative for no good reason. As pointed out in the linked thread, a competitor to Teevox, WellPlayed.tv has been completely transparent about the fact that it's a company that runs it, not some unemployed dude fantasy, it lists the exact users who represent it, and doesn't do things like violate Paypal TOS and solicit donations under a false name for a corporation. Also, this is not OSS Teevox is peddling here. They were actively receiving funds for profit and nothing was Open Source about it in the least.
I'd be thrilled if what you describe is what happened here. All it would take I think would be the actual developer speaking up and clarifying. However, the situation does have the potential to be a bit more complex. If Warp Prism was a commercial venture from the start, I think people will have a problem with that. It was marketed as the effort of a community-minded developer who was soliciting donations. If such marketing was a scam, clearly it was being done to play on the personality quirks of Reddit that you describe.

It's also a mistake to assume that Starcraft fans of Reddit have have a problem with for profit companies; they don't. The entire former moderation staff started a for-profit company (http://wellplayed.org) and they are still on great terms with the community. I think the problem alleged here is the misleading marketing. We just need to wait and get some clarifying remarks from the developers of Warp Prism in order to determine what has actually happened.
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In your example of 'an investor who waits like that is going to end up paying a much higher price', the visionary investors who said yes to the convertible note will get a very similar price (20% discount?) for taking all that risk.

Put yourself in an investors shoes: Which round would you want to invest in? Wait and see all the progress and pay 20% more or invest early and in a great scenario pay 20% less or in a worse case scenario see it go nowhere?
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Thanks for your valuable feedback! Its quite true, that just because I haven't found anybody _yet_ who say they will pay for my product, that those people are not out there. I guess it always comes down to a very subjective decision as to if you should continue with a product.

However, as the man with the 30k of code and no customers said in his post, its easy to find people who say they will pay for something. So when I started asking my target market if they would buy my app, I expected at least a few "yes's". I was surprised by the strength of the negative reaction. It seems that while there a small unmet need in my area, my features and proposed MVP are way off. Instead I would have to create something that doesn't quite suit me, and would be a much more difficult product to create - all to capture a market that suddenly looks a lot smaller that I thought it was.

BTW, I really like the idea of a MVP. My next step, if I had received a positive response, would have been to create mockups and then re-confirm with my target market that it's what they are after. After that I would take a week or two to create a MVP and then iterate fast from there.

As it is, I have a few other ideas apart from my photo app. Next I'm going to try looking for people who want to integrate google analytics with paypal "buy now" buttons and seeing if any of them would consider paying for an easy solution.

Also: Patio11. Wow, now I am all star struck :-) Your feedback does mean a lot to me!
If you're not a top top tier investor, you won't even get in in a successful company's A round at the market price. Especially if you're looking to invest $10-25k. Why should someone bother taking ~10 x $15-100k from random people when KPCB or Sequoia would be happier if they could add an extra $1mm to their investment to bump themselves up 5-10% percent in ownership?

If you approach a company with which you have some connection early on (especially as an angel, especially in the same domain you are an expert, especially if you know the founders), you might be able to get in by offering favorable, no-hassle note terms early on.

Steve Jobs can always buy at the market price (or even at a discount), but even though I narrowly qualify as an accredited investor, there is no chance I'd get into a hot deal for $15k myself once it's at the A round stage.
Oops, missed that whole discussion. I guess interpreted it wrong: Google has tons of tricks, but only one makes money.
Hopefully the Justin.tv story arc won't follow the same trend.