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No. The right response is to have two modes: on or off. A user shouldn't have to understand the difference between blank screen, sleep, hibernate and shut down. The iPad can do it, smartphones can do it. A user just wants to turn it 'off' when not in use and only very occasionally should have to turn it /off/ off.
Cute and clever. Browsing the web at 140 characters at a time.
This is tough for both. Who that is capable would want the new CEO spot? And the chairman will be in pressure to sell the firm. Perhaps a private equity firm will buy and split the pieces? In many senses, a damaged technology firm loses value at an alarming rate. It isn't like a factory where someone can wait, buy at the right price, and cut costs to the bone.
Nope.. All through forums
Thanks for posting. xkcd is great at pointing out the foibles in technology.
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Great. Now we need a way to send IP packets over a mobile voice call (using the same principles used by old-fashioned modems).
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I'm making about ~$50/hr this summer, and a little bit of googling made it seem like contracting jobs usually go for $80-200/hr depending on experience and location. I'm thinking about asking for ~50/hr since that's what I'm getting right now, but is that overvaluing myself since I'm still a student, or is it undervaluing myself since it's a lot lower than what most people charge?

(Note that this place is a small startup - 15ish people).
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The requests (which are just URLs, and any postdata/cookies if applicable) are sent to my server via SMS.

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Or one of their competitors, yes. Or figure it out themselves. Thousands of retailers from JC Penny to Sears to B&N, etc etc, figure it out. Also, you'll note that all online business already do this for the state in which they're located (with the exception of states that don't charge sales tax, but those are relatively few), so businesses can clearly do it. 50 states instead of one is a minor matter of scale, and is no more complex than figuring this out for one state. Which they already must.

Also, if Reuters has excessive profits, someone will probably make a competitor. That said, it's basically a solved problem, except when companies want to hand wring their way out of paying taxes.

BTW, don't be ridiculous about "hundreds of thousands". Unless you mean thousands. Even TR in their sales literature only mentions 13k tax authorities [1]

[1] http://onesource.thomsonreuters.com/share/solutions/41686/br...
But one of its despots, five years after the language was
first released, changed the syntax to make a catch or
finally clause compulsory, e.g

Are you the person who believes the Groovy developers are personally working to invalidate your web tutorials so they can discredit your fork of the language?

Lest HN think I'm being ungenerous, please read http://groovy.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Blog01 , which features similar language regarding "despots".

Of course, Groovy also differentiates itself from Guava
by having a dedicated language syntax, which is no doubt
why the cartel don't want to standardize it. If it was
standardized, they couldn't make some random blogger's
sample code stop working by suddenly requiring all
try-statements to have an empty finally clause.
I've just started doing freelance programming work with a brand (Sole Propietorship, d/b/a).

One reason I made that decision is that my name is very common and I want something I can tell people that they have a chance of finding with Google.

Another is that if I release iOS apps, I'd rather have my brand on display in the store than my name.

Having a d/b/a also removes on potential trouble spot for companies who are concerned about contractor vs. employee issues with the IRS. Writing a check to Joe Smith is a potential audit red flag, a check to JS Design isn't. IMHO, this is more a perception of an issue than an actual issue, but when you're trying to get business it doesn't hurt to remove even perceived roadblocks.

I try to be very clear on my website that I'm a one-man shop. I don't want anyone to think I'm trying to look bigger than I am. I avoid writing "we," etc.
I, for one, never understood what Notifo did. I tried hard, but I promise I have no idea what it did. I knew it notified people, but not how to make use of it.

That being said, I am a bit sad (really, I am) to see someone quit his startup to join an upstart. I would rather see him go through YC again and surprise us with his next idea. I am sure this Jazzy Chad has a couple of more ideas, but maybe he is a bit burned and wants to take a break.

Take your break, Mr Jazzy, but be sure to return and push something out again.
HP Labs India has created similar (same?) technology called SiteonMobile some time before.

http://www.siteonmobile.com/

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/hp_launches_siteonmobil...
Very interesting hack.

I've been trying to access the voice settings to modem-dial for a while, but I didn't think to (ab)use SMS this way.

Why T-Mobile only, though? In theory, you should be able to use this to talk to any SMS gateway, but you're going to end up paying on the gateway side ;(
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Yes! Finally, now I can stop putting my data in stupid files. Back in the old days I used to hate those things, they didn't work between programs all the time and sometimes you had to run a few different programs to do the same type of work on different files.

Now tho, with apps things are great! I never have to worry about files, because my apps do it all for me and I never have to worry about stupid competing file formats again.

Anyway I gotta run to the store see if they can fix my old phone, I have a bunch of important notes on an app there that the makers aren't porting to iphone or android.
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I will not 'agree' or 'disagree'. But I have the same opinion as yours, no more programming languages please!

Help making the present language better, if you really want to!
Why is it T-Mobile only?
Reduce the attack surface area. The less features the more secure. Since you are already RESTful, isolate the nice-to-have functionality from the main application.
Full-time executive.
I would try to take contracts closely related to the product. You could add that too.
So, I looked at this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_SMS_gateways

Of the four major US providers, T-Mobile and Verizon are the only ones with MMS gateways (I use MMS to send the responses) that don't require a sign in by a customer (I only have T-Mobile myself). I tested Verizon's MMS gateway with my friend who has Verizon cell service, but it didn't seem to work for some reason.
> An empty try block allows us to repeat variable declarations with the same name in a long stretch of scripty-style code.

Either I'm missing something here, or this is really as bad as it sounds.

I understand you want nested scopes that end before the method's scope ends, but cannot for the life of me think of a defensible code example. Why not just make them into methods?
The C compiler, hands down. How much of the other stuff was written in something else ?
When we evaluated Jquery Mobile, it just seemed to fall short of promise. It seemed to be too inflexible for "skinning" and added more bloat than using plain jquery with Mobile Boilerplate which turned out to be lighter and faster.

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Man, you are clever.

Check this. If this is based on SMS/MMS, then I should be able to text you an address and have you return the pages as MMS.
I traditionally use yousendit for this sort of thing, though they've gotten awfully spammy about trying to upsell you on stuff you don't need. Dropload used to do this, but I think they're gone too.

For that matter, I used to put stuff in my Yahoo Briefcase. But I might have been the only person to do that :)
Given a blank check, I'd split it between Gilad Brachs for Newspeak development, and Alan Kay to further the work being done at VPRI.
Well if you look at it, unless you use "text" for "surfing" like in this app, it actually does not cost much to the providers. You can not type all day, can you?
So by "unlimited" text all they are saying is that you will tire yourself texting say about X SMS and thats it per day.

1000 SMS * 160 chars * 2 bytes each (arbitrary) = 320000 bytes. Thats just 320KB. Thats cheap isn't it? Can you type more than that per day?
Probably because you're awake playing Starcraft or doing an all night coding session.

Ok, maybe that's just me, but I suspect I can't be the only HN reader who uses his home PC at 3 AM more than he does at 3 PM.
Raising a small ($25k-100k) friends and family round shouldn't take you more than a couple weeks. I guess it depends on your startup, team and financial situation, but I feel it makes sense to take the dilution, and get going with your startup rather than putting it off while doing consulting.
Charge more than you think you should.

The fact that you're still a student doesn't have much to do with it. How skilled are you at the technologies they're asking you to use? Do you get things done?

You might charge on the lower end if you're going to be getting regular work, higher if the jobs are sporadic.
Sorry that was my point. I agree Japanese doesn't have more syllables, but a denser syllabic structure and less information packed into the x amount than the ambiguous standard they set.

Less information is space x and equal time to convey information = seemingly faster speech. Fairly intuitive.
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I have done so, am doing so and will do so again. At the end of the day, I'm a coder. If I can avoid dealing with investors and still make a good product, I will. It's hard, but at the end of the day that feeling of 'we built this from nothing, all on our own' is very much worth it.
Full Time Employee.
That and the slow booting BIOS. In a legacy PC, there is very little need for most of what the BIOS does, and that firmware code is usually not well-optimized by the OEMs... I wonder what's taking EFI so long.
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Yes, absolutely. As a rule of thumb, you should only seek investment as the last resort. Also there's a big difference between business angels and venture capital. Imo too many new startup goes thru the rounds just because "it's what you are suppose to do to become legit".
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I love twitter, but if that's all I was getting from it, I wouldn't use it if they paid me. Why do you bother following sources who show you a lot of stuff you don't like?
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None of the current tablets and smartphones do boot, sleep, or hibernate. They go into a low-power state.
>1. It's nice in that I live in Oregon and there is no sales tax. :P

Have you looked at your paycheck and see how much they take out on state income tax?

I spent half a year working in Oregon then another half in CA and when I got my first paycheck in CA after 6 months in Oregon I thought there was a mistake with payroll because we are talking about a few hundred more a paycheck for 2 weeks of work. The difference being state tax level between OR and CA.

So in CA I have a couple thousand more in cash to spend (or invest in savings roth ira/401k etc) as compared to making the same salary in Oregon.
Full Time Equivalent actually.
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Needs to be a "Yes and No. I would raise money. From employers and customers. So I retain 100% of equity, take on no debt, and minimize legal bullshit and risk."
This is completely dependent on the hardware and how well the OEM (in your case, Apple) optimized it. My Thinkpad used to get 2 weeks on standby (nowadays it just wakes up and hibernates after a while).
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Agreed, and chances are that you won't create a $10M company on your own. Include a reasonable ESOP, a chunk for investors, etc., you're at a lot less than $10M.

Also, building a $10M startup isn't exactly guaranteed. When you factor in the future value, expected exit, dilution and the risk, I think it'll work out to a lot less than $1000/hour. But I don't think that's such a bad thing. I'd bet if you talk to most founders, they'd tell you that they didn't start their company with a big number in their head - they started it because of passion, drive and the desire to make a difference. $1000/hour consulting doesn't equal that sort of lifestyle.
Slightly related - twitter is much more verbose in Japanese purely due to the fact that 140 chars can pack in a lot more information than in English
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But bootstrapping != contracting?
This looks really interesting. It appears to be designed specifically to do HDMI passthough, with the idea you run apps on top of video that is passing through the device (or that's how I read it anyway).

Combine that with the FPGA... I can imagine some really nice apps.
Hi andrewflnr, thank you for your kind comment.

Nearly everything in the software/computer science world can be an area of active research if you start looking into it. It takes a lot of digging to get to the point of active research in some areas, particularly in the ones that have been well studied. Most of a typical undergraduate course will only prepare you for reading the research; most of a master's is about getting you ready to actually contribute something (the thesis). The PhD is where the real action starts happening for most people.

Why is that? The '10000 hours' in computer science is usually needed to get you to the point where you can start contributing significant work. It is absolutely worth your time to spend time working on real research. The caveat is the place of research determines the coolness. Some places... you run tests. Some places... you do some really awesome work. Look into REUs if you're still an undergraduate. Those are essentially internships for academics. They are paid. :-)

I would be happy to communicate further with you; my email address is in my profile.
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Either 'Full Time Equivalent' or 'Full Time Employee'.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full-time_equivalent and/or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full-time
That's surprisingly hard to do ;( Neither android nor iPhone give access to the voice stream.
I found this quote very interesting: "scarcity brings clarity" (attributed to Sergey Brin), in the sense that when teams are limited by resources, they tend to concentrate on the most important things and thus become clear in their goals.
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I use NoScript, but I have it set up to allow embeds and top-level references. Denying those is a stone's throw away from just turning off javascript completely, which would be tiring.
if i'm not mistaken, as long as you don't open the folder in Finder, they shouldn't be created. obviously not an ideal solution, so maybe periodic housekeeping is in order:

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Point taken - I can't see myself using such a service personally, but my startup's not at a stage where my twenty minutes is worth that much. :)

You're right about the parties involved - I also forgot to mention our location/jurisdiction. Thanks for the feedback!
Well, you could set up a temporary client blacklist based on cookies or IP addresses.
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I saw this when I was googling around to see if anyone had already done this, but I was kind of confused by what exactly it is. I don't think it's the same thing.
I've been living in Vietnam and trying to learn the language for a while now and this confirms my impression that Vietnamese is very information dense. Most words are monosyllabic and the same syllable pronounced with different tones has completely different meanings. Also, a lot of things we state explicitly in English are left implicit in Vietnamese.

You'd expect that a language with greater information density would lead to higher rates of transmission error but people here don't seem to have any more trouble understanding each other on the phone or in noisy environments than we do in English.
Given the media frenzy around every new Mac product, I thought Apple needed no marketing at all by now =).
I would request you to write about this in a separate post.
Yes, I would be a lot more into social networking if there was an opportunity to actually meet new people. However, I am still confused by the gender requirements.

What exactly is this if it's not a date? Or kinda a date? Or "something that might be possibly misconstrued as a date"?
I still use e-mail for sending something to myself, or sharing it with a friend.
I suppose the term bootstrapping in the poll title could mean your startup is self funded from previous savings. But I'm referring to finding a short-term contracting gig to keep your startup afloat rather than raising money.
That's even more horribly wonderful than I expected! I suspect you'd get a 4.0 if you went for a degree in Southern Engineering.
Google Plus is not distributed, and they gained most of their users rolling over from gmail.
$7900 for 10 full days of hosted training for an entire team seems somewhat cheap. Be conservative and say that each day they had two designers helping them out at a cost of $50/hr for 6 hours ($6000) and then add whatever costs and overhead is involved in hosting a team for 10 days. Top-notch designers who are good enough and prepared enough to train are normally well more than that hourly.
Haha! Dude, you are an evil genius.
You should make an entertaining mini-game to play every time the page is loading. Since you can consistently count on long load times, make the best of it :)
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I don't know about the op, but I'm in a similar boat. Here's why I do it.

1) I don't know of any source that likes exactly the same things as I do. Think venn diagrams.

2) It's very easy to skim over the things that aren't interesting. I usually see tweets through flipboard and it's like a magazine. I scan for interesting things, and skip most of it.

This is the only way I know how to get the variety I want. I've thought about writing a statistical classifier to filter out a lot of it. I should get off my ass and do that.
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pStr++;
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See about:about for all of them.
If you read the article, most users don't like sleep mode (which is what iPads and smartphones do). When they start up, they want a clean boot. I'm one of those people, I shut off my computer every night and have it auto-start on a timer in the morning.
The downstream is sent by MMS, which is just a file download over the internet, so it's not bad. Though, when I first saw it I thought he was base-64 encoding entire requests and stuffing them into 160-char text messages, which really would be crazy.
How about http://ge.tt/ ? Their service is almost instant, no login. Your friends can download while you are still uploading the file.
As others have pointed out, a $10 million exit will tend to require a lot more man hours and dilution for a much lower effective hourly rate

But even if we take your figures, assuming like the original question that you actually need the money, you're choosing between giving away time or giving away equity.

Assuming that delaying a couple of months doesn't diminish the value of your $10 million exit, then giving away even a only couple of percentage points in equity instead is giving away the difference between the ramen money and $200,000 in five years' time; that's the nominal gross return to the investor if you succeed.

Taking it further, if you take a ~$20,000 investment for ~5% of the company to save you ~200 billable hours of contract work at ~$100 per hour, in the event of a $10 million exit the opportunity cost of giving away equity instead of contracting (without any additional funding it's approx $500,000-$20,000 in this example) will have most likely been well in excess of $1000 per hour.

That's why people's chief motivation for joining incubators is seldom the seed money.
>average of 10 seconds on PCs

Got a citation for that? My PC seems to connect instantly.