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Congratulations! The cash they raised is your free market research budget. Their VC is paying for many of the mistakes you will not have to make.
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I've both bought and rented.

The location thing rings true, you tend to underestimate it. I've rented 4 places in the past that weren't in an optional location, but cheaper, and 1 (now) in a great location, but smaller. I like the great location much more.

The money thing is also true: you tend to underestimate large costs (20K, say), if they're part of a much larger cost.

And again, the third one (pool) is also true. Pools are really rarely used. Living in the city becomes much more enjoyable once you realize this.

Light and nature, again, spot-on. As a sidenote: I'm enjoying nature almost as much now (in NYC) as when living in the mountains of Colombia. Just to say that living in the city doesn't exclude access to nature (parks!).

And finally, listening to your gut, again, spot-on.

So actually (and again, I've rented AND bought), pretty good advice.
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There's a lot of hate and prejudice cultivated in some circles vs. Apple and people who use their products. It's certainly worthy of a cultural study or analysis. I suppose this is mainly the 'us vs. the other' mentality... Linux users get that ridiculous BS, too.
I suspect it's purpose to identify hipsters in San Francisco.

They put up a page with no explanation what the site was to be out, just an email sign up form. If you signed up without any idea what you would be signing up for, but just to be the first to know what it would be then maybe you were a...hipster.
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Stop stealth'ing and start building awareness. Ride their we-were-funded marketing with your own I-am-here-too blitz.
Ubuntu is great, I have it up and running on my laptop since about 2 years. But I have WinXP, too. Just because I need Fireworks (I absolutely can't get along with PS or Gimp) and Wine is okay, but it makes the applications so slow...

That is really the only damned reason, I still have to switch between Win and Linux on my Laptop. If Adobe's products would run flawlessly on Linux, I'd never touch Windows again.
> Having to swallow upgrades to every single package on the system just to get one package ... [means] ...instability...

Just curious, have you really experienced instability by installing all updates on any mainstream distro? If so, could you share what happened? I've not had that experience but would like to know about it.
Like DevX101 I believe this was a social experiement or some kind of experiement...to see how many people would believe in hype? Maybe some kind of practical joke?
What, you don't know?
The logic here is that Ubuntu is "ready for primetime" because of what happened with another OS? For a single user?

This type of commentary simply places headwinds on Ubuntu and other Linux OSes from actually gaining desktop traction.
I believe the original site was http://usehipster.com
I used Linux (Ubuntu primarily, but I dabbled in the other distros from time to time) as my only OS on my netbook for 5 years (through college and my first few internships / job). For that atmosphere is was great: it taught me the UNIX philosophy, I can work a command line shell and vim like a beast, I knew a lot more about OSs and programming in general than if I was using Windows, and it overall prepared me excellently for software development in the future.

That said, I was young and had the time to deal with its inadequacies. I could spend a whole weekend getting a driver to work properly, and fiddling with kernel options. These days I get a few hours of free time when I come home from work, and then I have my weekend. If I am on the computer at all, I don't want to waste my time dealing with that stuff any more. It's either to sit down and knock out a sizable chunk of a personal project, or play some video games for entertainment.

I have a proper place for all three OS flavors. My desktop runs Windows (for gaming, heavy VM work, and games development), my primary development machine is a Macbook Air (running OS X), and any servers I have run Linux. I feel like these are the perfect tools for their respective jobs, now that money isn't a factor as a poor college student. Using OSX over Linux as a development environment was like night and day.

For servers, Linux is king. Having it be a usable personal OS (for the average user and programmer) will take a lot more time. While it's true that most of my time is spent either in the terminal or in the browser (I'd say about 75% of my computer usage), for the other 25% paying for a machine that runs OS X is completely worth every penny twice over. The quality of tools, utilities, and applications that aren't a browser or terminal is light-years ahead of anything that Linux offers, in terms of usability, UI, and functionality.
It redirects to http://jobs.usehipster.com/ and says that they're hiring and offering "$10,000, a year's supply of PBR, and so much more" if you refer a friend.
I can't speak for Korea, but QR code usage in Japan seems to be on the decline since 2009.

I disagree with many of your rebuttal points but sadly am on my phone so canny properly argue why.
Give up now.

I know I'm going to sound like a dick, but if your immediate reaction wasn't a strong feeling to out-smart and out-maneuver your competitor you're probably in the wrong place right now. Starting and running a company takes passion.
This is great news. Somebody is spending huge amounts of money to help you figure out how to make money. Now your problem is much reduced: instead of doing all of it, you just need to figure out what they are doing and tweak the good parts and ditch the bad parts.

So how is their sales pipeline working? That's the key question. Where are leads coming from, how do they convert them, what are the major selling points.

Seriously, this is great news -- assuming you can get inside their OODA loop and wreak havoc. It's like having a big brother who made all the mistakes so that you don't have to. Requires thinking a bit differently, but you should be able to manage that. Good hunting.
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iPhone is a much better place to start toolset wise and ecosystem wise. I think android is still the secondary market now.
Sad to see him leave. Even sadder to see him so unwell. Latest pics of him are gut wrenching.
This sort of thing can have a chilling effect, but keep in mind that if they're "well-funded" they will need to have a profitable business model much sooner than you will. Hang in there!
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What does "LOL" mean in this context?

I've googled it, but it's hard to find the appropriate meaning, since search results seem to focus on the "laughing out loud" sense... "Limit of Liability" was the closest meaning I could find on the Wikipedia disambiguation page ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOL_(disambiguation) ), but it doesn't seem to fit in this context.
I would go for iPhone. Mostly because the tooling is easier, interface builder is cleaner. Android is great too but a litle more involved to get the same result. At least that is my 2 cents.
6 oct launch party? http://hipster.eventbrite.com/
I've bought and rented too. I'm on my third house. And I've learned a few things as well.

It's nice to have a modest house in an up-and-coming community with lots of light and easy access to the workplace. But then you discover that the up-and-coming community has a fire and police district that can't keep up with the growth. So either they try to get by with a shoestring municipal infrastructure, or the taxes skyrocket.

Then you discover the county has overbudgeted during the boom times and hasn't cut back on anything. Taxes are going up again to make up for the incompetent government.

Then the poster starts a family. Whoops, that home that was so close to your workplace is 10 miles from the school. Now you're driving the kids to daycare or school or paying for bus service. Or you discover that the nearby school sucks and is full of gangs but the schools in the next town over are light years better and safer. Private school time.

Then the roof goes. The power grid cuts out every time a squirrel farts on a wire. The 100-year flood plain is really a 10-year one these days.

It goes on and on. Trust me, home ownership has it's upside but a lot of it sucks as well.
Stay your course, wait for them to make a mistake, pray that they do.
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I m just going to delete this because i was under the impression it was hipster.com. Thanks, and sorry
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Alright; I did not know that. Very neat indeed; I hadn't looked into YUI for ages but it seems pretty solid, especially if it integrates MVC concepts. Was it in previous versions of YUI or was it added recently?
this is so true. theres a bunch of people banking but why divulge secrets when it only invites competition :)
In Soviet Union this kind of autopsy (but at scale 10 to 1µm) was one of the options to reverse engineer US processors to make exact clones (other option was stealing design documents). DEC even put a message in Russian on one of its chips: http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/russians.html
the paper is surprisingly readable (although i don't know enough to say whether it's correct or not) - http://arxiv.org/pdf/1108.4161v1

this is a pity - it would have been a very cool approach if true. the criticism seems quite general, unfortunately (it identifies some consequences that come from associating gravity with entropy and shows that they conflict with experimental results).

the paper / main link is a theoretical argument based on an earlier experiment using neutrons and gravity. that earlier work is critical because it ties together QM and gravity observationally (very hard to do because gravity is very weak compared to the other forces that are usually important in QM).

update: here's a better link than the slides below, which includes an explanation of the earlier experimental work - http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110418083349.ht...

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i've been poking around and this set of slides (slow to load) gives some background on the neutron / gravity observations - http://admin.triumf.ca/docs/seminars/Sem5145306260-71715-1.S... . there's a slide almost exactly half way through called "Experiment on QM and Gravity Using UCN" - that and the intro above are relevant, i think. the experiment involves increasing the height of a "passageway" until neutrons can get to the other side. the classical interpretation would expect the number to come through to vary smoothly with height, but in practice there's a minimum height, related to the QM wavefunction (which includes a term with gravity, since that is the force acting on the neutrons).]

ps this kind of work (ultra-cold neutrons + gravity) is just as interesting and important as the higgs particle work at the lhc. it's also cheaper and smarter. so it's depressing that what is reported in the popular press is so distorted (by scientists themselves, who need to drum up money and support for "big science") - we see a huge amount of coverage of the lhc and nothing on amazing work like this.
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I hate videos, and desperately wish there were a transcript, but I haven't found one. Sorry.
I am really afraid that with all the terrible stuff that keeps happening these days with the desktop environments (KDE 4, Gnome 3), Linux distros might become non-desktop-friendly again...
I think this is silly. Android download info is public (the range anyway). You can just go to the android market and easily see that the top apps are making quite a bit of money.
80k dowloads a day? really thats crazy

and this is on the android platoform?
Now that brings it home.
>Replace the post date with any year going back to ~ 2006 and it wouldn't be out of place

There have been breathless articles about this being the year Linux is ready for the desktop ever since the late 1990s.
Could this article be more wrong? I took the Linux challenge last month, making Ubuntu my main OS. The experience was terrible and I switched back to Windows. Linux is still almost awesome and I've retained a Linux install as a "work machine" to keep me away from my video games very nicely. But the fact that I can successfully use Linux as an "isolation chamber" betrays the fact that it's really not ready for prime time at all.

The first thing I'd say they need to fix is installation. There should be one install protocol to rule them all. Whether the program apt-gets, installs .sh, or just sits there and runs as is, it should be forced through a setup process to remove user confusion. That might be as simple as a Python script that asks where you want to copy files, but it just needs to be consistent for every program. I never have to read an installation instruction or ReadMe on Windows, why do I have to read one on Linux?
Why didn't he use cloc ?
If you are used to CoffeScript and python and feel like you're trudging through syrup when you work on HTML, you might check out SHPAML (http://shpaml.webfactional.com/). I found SHPAML to be more closely related to those two than HAML and friends: indented syntax, minimal angle brackets, etc. And per your wish:

div.example_class
Content here...

p#id_example
More content...

From the previous discussions here on HN there were many skeptics, but I have found that it has greatly reduced mental friction when I have to wrestle with HTML: the markup is fast to write, a joy to read, and I get warm, fuzzy feelings knowing that my HTML source is not drowning in markup soup.

Caveats:

1. It doesn't appear to be actively maintained. (But it is distributed as a single, readable python script that one can easily modify to taste. It spits out plain HTML, so if you ever want to ditch SHPAML, you will never be left high and dry.)

2. Doesn't include a round-trip translator. (Not terribly important to me.)

3. Like CoffeeScript and their ilk, the output line numbers don't line up with the source.

4. There are a few bits of gymnastics one has to do to conform to the grammar. For example, a link anchor must appear isolated on a new line to use the most absolutely tersest syntax. Since SHPAML passes HTML straight through, you can avoid this by added the standard markup.

5. SHPAML may not be automatically included in your workflow if you are using something like Rails or Django, but I believe there are a set of github projects that address this.
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The way I remember it, it was simply that men traded more and so the fees (combined with some bad choices) damaged their returns: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.145...
In VC parlance, someone else launching doing the same thing "validates the space".
This is one of the major reasons I don't suggest Linux to anyone. There was a time I'd get people to switch from Windows to Linux; now I tell them to either upgrade to Windows 7 (if they're not on Windows 7 already) or get a Mac.

I'm also concerned about three secondary issues. One, there is a lack of strong leadership in the Linux community. Shuttleworth is the only person who can shake things up, and whenever he does everyone whines as if Shuttleworth had caused them some grave personal injustice.

Second, of course, is fragmentation and the fact that Linux developers change things needlessly (see GNOME 3, KDE4, PulseAudio, etc.) The end result is different distros doing things in slightly incompatible ways. These days I see more and more people package their software for Ubuntu only, and provide a generic .tag.gz for other distros. I'm no Ubuntu fan, but I jump for joy every time I see this. Distros need to die.

Third is politics. I know people who contribute to a few high-profile open source projects and I've watched them waste their time on bikeshed discussions on mailing lists and IRC. I've even watched one guy work on a project for three months only to have the design team discard it because they had a different idea in mind. The result was a long battle between programmers and designers. I guess this is a direct result of lack of leadership.

I've been hearing talks about a GNOME OS. I sincerely hope the GNOME folks go ahead and build it. As I've said before, distros need to die. So much manpower is wasted on just packaging things for different distros. From a consumer standpoint, choice is okay if you have to choose between two or three things, each with their clear merits and demerits. Choice is fatal if you have to choose between ten things which are all nearly identical.

Sometimes I feel Linus is the only guy who knows how to run a project properly. He knows how to say "no". If only we could coax him into building a distro ...
this is on iPhone. SP was top 10 overall paid at one point so not surprised free version gets that much.
Googoorola maybe?
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I'm one of those guys, who gets new ideas frequently and gets excited about it. I have many ideas in my spreadsheet. Now, I've narrowed it down to two ideas. I want to use both of those products myself.

I hope most of you agree, the best way to know what works, is to launch it (if its possible), Both of my ideas are simple and powerful.

So, Can I build and launch both my products, to see what works? or, should I need to narrow down to one, and focus on it?
Totally agree. I'm in a similar situation as the OP, and after the initial despondency found that the existence of a competitor is actually incredibly motivating.

Not only are things moving along faster now I have someone to benchmark myself against, it has really brought into sharp focus the areas I need to concentrate on. I've been able to learn from mistakes that they're making, rather than suffer the cost of making those mistakes myself. Overall the project is absolutely stronger as a consequence.

In fact, I'm probably more excited when they release a new feature than their average customer is.
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you said you are ranking 250ish on android right now.

what is the best way to find your ranking on android? is their a website or tool or did you just go on the market and scroll down and counted till you saw your app?

awesome numbers btw! thanks!!
As a .NET developer on a Macbook Pro, I share his frustration. I code .NET at work, but live in Ruby and Node.js land when I'm at home. It's just so much easier to get git, svn, Ruby, Python or Node.js up and running on OSX than Windows. The only thing Windows does better/easier is WAMP thanks to the proliferation of free all-in-one installers. Windows is probably why PHP remains so popular. (I wonder how many companies develop PHP on Windows and deploy to cheap Linux hosts)

As for the tools, Visual Studio feels like a walled garden and I'm too scared to edit the defaults because I might break something. Why did it create so many files and reference all these DLLs? Do I need all of them?! How do I edit this web.config file? Compare this with Rails where I know exactly why it creates the files that it does and have no fear in going in a ripping out the defaults and deleting files.

While you're at it, let's talk community. The difference between the OSS and Windows developer community is striking. On one side, you have passionate Rubyists going on and on about how Ruby, Gems, etc are all so great. The same for Python and Node.js. These guys also code in their spare time and are active on GitHub. On the other side, you have the stereotypical .NET programmer who only codes from 9-5 making boring "enterprise" LOB software and only uses technology from MS. You know them, the programmers who only started using jQuery because it now comes bundled with ASP.NET. Programmers who probably can't even create a .NET project from scratch and build on the command line, but rely on the voodoo magic of File->New->Project and Build->Build Solution (F6) in Visual Studio. Does MS really want to woo these developers?

When all the hobbyist programmers that can't afford Visual Studio ($550+) or like .NET jumps ship to OSX/Linux, learns free open source tools and creates billion dollar startups on the OSS stack, MS is fucked. They lose developer mind share. The next Facebook or Google won't be made on Windows systems and MS will be left supporting dinosaurs. Windows and VS doesn't matter in a world where we live in a web browser. Developers can now develop on Linux and 'deploy' to Windows via Chrome and Firefox.

I think MS is finally seeing the light. NuGet is a trojan horse of change in the .NET world if MS lets it. We might actually start seeing a true open source community around .NET technology.
I've often been told that Linux will work well on old hardware. I can confirm this is true with distros like ArchLinux but I've never had Ubuntu run well on old hardware.

A year ago I got a free PC. A P2 with 128MB of RAM. Attempted to install and run Ubuntu. Incredibly slow. I also attempted a windows XP install and I was amazed to see that it ran just fine. Heck, I could even fire up VLC and watch a video. Yes, it was slow but it was certainly more usable than default Ubuntu.

Now my latest experience with Ubuntu comes from a new purchase of a netbook. Samsung N150. It was cheap, it has 1GB RAM and an Intel Atom 1.66Ghz. I decided to do a dual install of Windows 7 Starter and Ubuntu 11.04. Ubuntu just chokes. Windows 7 fares better. Both are slow but windows is not unbearably slow.

I've tried many distros and WMs and so far stock Ubuntu has provided me with the simplest install but the worst performance.

Anyway, just my experiences.
I'm happy with Lubuntu and Xubuntu variants. Maybe give those a try.
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Like when TiVo launched and spent millions trying to educate the market on why someone would want to record live TV (i.e., just use a VCR, silly), the main benefit you could get from them entering the space is they spend a lot of their funding on education and you spend your money on customer acquisition. A bit different, granted, but an analogy nonetheless.