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What! That's sad. You're a victim of what I call "Everest Syndrome": http://eliasbizannes.com/blog/2011/08/everest-syndrome-is-th...

Startups in my portfolio at CRV (we're the guys that funded Twitter, Yammer, Millennial Media...) have plenty of cash and I think you'll make more money working in a startup and enjoy life more.

There is no risk, because if the startup fails, you move to the next one. Silicon Valley is like working in a big company with multiple divisions: you may change 'departments', but you're still working for something where everything loosely aligns as the same goal.
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I mostly agree. I don't understand how he got off saying "music genome project notwithstanding", considering that it's the core of Pandora's function; that's Pandora's big idea. It seems like he doesn't understand the point, and dismisses it on that basis alone.

My own use case for something like Spotify or Rdio, which let you play songs on demand, is largely the satisfaction of cravings or curiosity. Sometimes I'm curious about an artist I hear on Pandora, or just want to hear some song again. A DJ would only get in the way of that. If there's not substantive difference between the options, fine, that just means they're competing on price and execution details. Should we criticize grocery stores because they all carry much the same kinds of food?

The point that still bothers me is the circumstances of the artists. I like to think it could be solved or alleviated by technology and eliminating the middlemen, but I'm not sure. If prices need to go up a little bit to be fair to all of them, I would probably pay it. There will probably still be free options for discoverability's sake anyway.
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It depends on which app your creating, doesn't it? Google's Marketplace for Android is completely open but they don't have the users purchasing apps as they should.

Many web apps haven't proven to be financially profitable except a well-publicized few,
Yep, you're right!

"The concept behind the XMLHttpRequest object was originally created by the developers of Outlook Web Access (by Microsoft) for Microsoft Exchange Server 2000." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHttpRequest
That's voice.

Is it just me, or did he manage to attract a particularly disgusting set of sycophants dribbling all over the comments?

Possibly even worse than the f_c_book stench now emanating from comments on most any TechCrunch topic ...
The key traits of great historical leader, may it be Alexander the Great or Napolean, was that they had an Ideal. Nietzsche wrote many interesting points about it that have in the past and present proven to be the case.

A leader must have all his followers/team completly behind him, so that when the leader moves forward his "body" the team does as well without thought just like we do when we move our body. It just happens and follows our minds will.

I can think of two simple examples like when birds migrate to Africa , they fly in big swarm to live in the warmth of the African winter or the Transformer charachter Voltron who comprimises of many small Robots but join to a big one.

Both are in normal times more individual but when on quests or adversity join as one big entity. What brings them together are the Common Goals of : Prospering and to Survive 2. Defence against other enemies.

Based on this I think best is to find an Ideal for you and your team to follow where your setforth an IDeal that in your value system " will make the world a better place" and by following this ideal, prosper, survive and defend against enemies.

People are willing to work for free and pay for it as well for a good cause like you see in many charities but you wouldnt find the same passion with someone earning 10$ an hr in a shop to oversimplify the Ideals Vs Cash arguement.

Interested to know what others think make a team become 1 with the ceo and share the same vision. thanks
We're currently going through our internationalisation test phase for a major release and it's been a huge headache.

My one piece of generalised advice: DO NOT leave internationalisation testing to the end of the release. Make sure you're pumping Unicode strings through your app in unit tests. Make sure you're regularly viewing your app in other languages using mock strings if you haven't got the translations. The earlier you can find these defects, the easier it is to fix. There's a perception that internationalisation defects are easy fixes, just updating a messages file. The truth is that major parts of your app may not work unless you regularly test it. And don't rely on the Unicode abilities of your chosen framework, language or operating system. If you haven't tested it, it doesn't work
Granted, but I don't expect store employees to know that voltage is the only thing that matters, not amps. What I do care about is people knowing what software comes with the new machine, what is installed by default, how much it would cost to get an upgrade to Professional, where Office is discounted with a laptop, what kind of graphics card is in it, how many gigs of memory and other basic questions.

The guys at the Microsoft store I visited made clueless look bright. Apparently they keep getting new machines in with no training at all.
I would assume the heat would be expected to ooze out the sides of each layer... e.g like the condiments leaking out the burger when you squeeze it :-)
"real programmers" what a joke, its a fucking computer not rocket science
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I love the whole tone of the article and how Brendan Eich is painted as the hero. Because he is. He managed to make a language that, despite its simplicity, is still in its peak after 16 years of heavy mainstream usage.

I discovered functional programming because of JavaScript (via Joel Spolsky, in 2006!!) and I must say something: Thank you Brendan.
I feel for Brendan Eich, he is a bit of an unsung hero when you consider what he enabled with JavaScript and it is always stressful to learn someone is trying to kill your baby.

Having said that, I really do hope it is killed. Well, not killed, but demoted to "one supported language of many". And the sooner this is started, the better, because it is a long, long process. I don't think JavaScript is bad, but I do strongly feel that the underlying engine for client side web programming should be a full-blown VM that supports many possible source languages (ala modern .net with the CLR, DLR and all), and I'll support that model regardless of who pushes it, so long as they do a good job on the technical side and don't try to use it as a lock-in mechanism. Google seems to be the most posed to do this (I can't imagine Microsoft giving up that much control of .net) and their idea to support JavaScript as an interim target is the only practical way this will ever be solved, so I hope Dart is successful -- assuming it is actually going for this and not just trying to switch one core language out with another, which remains to be seen when they announce more information.

BTW, yes, I know you can already compile many other languages to JavaScript (as Dart itself will do in the first stage), but.. why? Why not just put a proper VM down there that is truly designed to efficiently run byte-code from many different source languages, and have JavaScript be one of those languages?
Are you asking for feedback on the app idea or the landing page?

Quick comments on the landing page: in terms of SEO, it needs a lot of work. Your page title doesn't include any relevant keywords, and there is zero indexable content on the page - all the text is in images, which don't even have alt text. For a couple of quick wins, do some keyword research around your subject (use the Google Keyword Tool to find some relevant keywords with low comp / relatively ok volume) and use these in your title and page content (alt tags, if you don't want to change the page).

EDIT: Also, put Google Analytics on there, so that you can start to collect data ASAP on where your potential customers are coming from.

EDIT 2: You might want to distill the app idea down to a few key benefits on the landing page. As an example, take a look at what we did with our Mingle iPhone app: http://getmingle.com/
I just reread a bunch of the essays. There is very little that needs updating (and later essays address this).

I get the sense that PG wrote the essays and that book so they could be read many years in the future. Call it a decade for the timely ones, and much more than that for the rest. A few of the updates would be along the lines of "This needs to change from the future tense." For example, this brief review of the iPhone from 2001:

With Web-based software, most users won't have to think about anything except the applications they use. All the messy, changing stuff will be sitting on a server somewhere, maintained by the kind of people who are good at that kind of thing. And so you won't ordinarily need a computer, per se, to use software. All you'll need will be something with a keyboard, a screen, and a Web browser. Maybe it will have wireless Internet access. Maybe it will also be your cell phone. Whatever it is, it will be consumer electronics: something that costs about $200, and that people choose mostly based on how the case looks. You'll pay more for Internet services than you do for the hardware, just as you do now with telephones.
Ask HN: What are some examples of viral looping you've done? Did you succeed?
Do you use viral looping as part of your startup? How successful have you been in doing so?

I read Viral Loop by Adam L. Penenberg and tried to experiment with Viral Looping, but not sure if my approach in doing so is accurate. Feedback?

http://blog.grooovy.me/69428087 for the read on the viral experiment
The screenshot on the iPhone is very blurry. I hate text-as-an-image.
I agree with the 'release fast and often' approach. However, this is just an example of really poor testing. If a key button on your app causes it to crash, then there is no justification for that. You also pissed off a bunch of your users and many won't even bother to update.

It's all fine and good getting a very basic v.1 out to get feedback - but it shouldn't crash due to an easy to detect bug.
The design is nice, would be cool if you sped up the page a bit. It's a little slow (maybe that's just for me?). Also, it'd be nice if you made the iPhone picture a higher resolution.

It's obvious what problem your app is trying to solve, but it's not very clear how. The blog doesn't help in explaining this at all. The landing page is interesting and nice-looking, but it could do with some more explanation ("it's X for Y!" wouldn't hurt)
> Always make it ridiculously easy to switch to english, always. In many cases you probably should make english the default even though you have a localized version (this is especially true for web sites, few things are as annoying as having to change language again and again and again

Yeah, like google.com. Whatever I do it just does not seem to be possible to permanently set US version of google.com as default, not local version. Especially frustrating when traveling to other countries and getting it in language you do not understand.
Where I work, rooms on the 1st floor have numbers like 1.01, 1.02 etc., on the ground floor it's 0.01, 0.02 etc., and in the basement it's -1.01, -1.02 etc.

This is confusing for some people (unfamiliar with the situation), who need to go to a number in the basement but consistently turn up two floors higher.
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Based on the books I have seen a movie , the key theme is that the charachters resembles perhaps us founders a bit. They feel threatend in their current existance (user issues) and have to venture out into space (Silicion Valley) , into the unknown (the market) to usually defeat something (problems and competition) and in the end become victorious and have peace (some founders). Its Hollywood so in reality many fail.
The screenshot of the app is terrible (make it front on, and in high quality) and after looking at the webpage, I still have no clue what your app is about. Is it a food app?
We wrote a blog post about successfully finding a voice over actor - for our first screencast - using Google+. Worked out quite well ;-) http://blog.tape.io/what-a-success-why-google-is-a-plus-for-...
Java (in the browser) was a plugin that was mostly completely sandboxed from the real page DOM with its own entirely separate (and very poorly designed -- AWT was horrendous) attempt at a UI layer. That's the problem it had, not the fact that it was a byte-code based VM.

Make the byte-code VM a first class citizen and things are completely different.
I like the over-all look and feel of the page. However, it's flaws IMHO are numerous. I'm going to go from top-left to bottom-right, since it's safe to assume your visitors will do the same.

Social media links should be at the bottom of the page. They are a type of call-to-action and having folks click on them is a type of conversion. Ask them to make that decision after figuring out what your app is about.

I like the layout of the product shot on the left, but the scaling is all wrong. It looks blurry.

Your tagline should give people a general idea of what your app does.

Clicking a link to a blog article should not be the main conversion on this page. I also shouldn't have to read the blog article to understand what your app does. Instead, this page should have already taught me as much as I need to know about your app to determine whether I want to keep updated on it's progress. If I do, you should be taking my email address at this point.

After reading all the copy on the page, I still don't have any idea what the app does.

I hope that helps. :)
Pixar movies quality rendering in game play with C++ maybe.
First 3D silicon stack I saw was in the late 80s. (Back then it was a stack of 2.) The field has produced a rich string of PR announcements and funding proposals over that time though.

The problems then as now: Heat dissipation and signal integrity as you pass through the stack.
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That looks ike a pretty good idea for bars or restaurants, nothing really to spill food or drink on.

Could be some cool wireless thin-clients.

Looks like this was showcased at CES 2010.
Web apps just don't have the same fast and slick feel as native apps.

We've tried making them work, but mobile browsers just aren't good enough yet to process the JS at a reasonable speed.
We have a similar policy but even more open. The one rule is that any time-off needs to be approved by the person's team: can the team still meet their commitments?

We figure that if we need to trust teams of people to make complex technical decisions and want to have people around who are basically programming artists... Well, then we should be able to trust those teams with managing their own time.

So far, no one has ever taken advantage of this.
tptacek is a security expert with almost as many years of experience in that area as you've been alive. Arguing with him about the merits of your security system would be like you arguing with an NBA veteran about the best way to slam dunk.

To continue the basketball analogy, you're using a trampoline (Heroku) to reach the basket (a secure system) when you really should be learning how to jump (encryption, anti-intrusion, etc.).
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Is this really happening? Are they really giving up on Flash and supporting open standards?
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Standards are much higher when money is involved, especially when the sole purpose of the product/app is to manage money.

You don't get to put off adding security; for a financial application like yours, security needs to be a foundational element from the beginning. You can't just add it on later.
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The size and scale of Meebo is always a suprise, but they have massive distribution. See the Meebo bar - http://www.meebo.com/websites/. They are on some heavily trafficked sites (tmz etc...) where they sell quite a few ads.
> I've got to imagine that they can parlay their sponsored Tweet concept into a mult-billion dollar a year revenue stream.

It's worth noting that the ultimate basis of the valuation calc is based on what you "imagine".
If you stop being pedantic, a car really is a faster horse. It just doesn't the physical nature of a horse, that's all.

This is what I don't get about the regurgitation of that "quote". It's obvious that what people are asking for is something faster; "horse" is just a point of reference.

People could have asked for a smaller horse, or a horse that eats less hay, or a horse that doesn't shit so much, and if you're not a blindered literalistic you'll easily read between the lines.

The "users are clueless" meme is perplexing. If they're so clueless, what does that say about the products they choose?
I don't know about that. For me personally electronic maps have enough advantages to completely replace the printed variey. That's with existing hardware.

It's often true: Perfect feature parity is not necessary to replace something. (Cars certainly don't have all the features of horses.) A few features that blow the old vareity out of the water are often enough. (I can think of a few: Price, accesibility, flexibilit, compactness.)
Don't use a bazillion png's. Use Google Web Fonts[1] or Typekit[2]. iphone.png just sucks massive balls. No fing clue what grooovy is about from your landing page. "Read the full post here" links to http://www.grooovy.me/, not the actual post[3].

The sun’s rising. The air is silent except for the low monotonous hum of the laptop and occasional chirping of the birds. You lean back into your chair; life is great. Glancing across the empty room, you spot your phone underneath the bed. You check your phone for missed messages but there are none. Something is amiss. It takes a while but you realize it- you’re feeling pretty lonely.*

Terrible. Who is your target audience? Forever alone meme?

[1] http://www.google.com/webfonts#
[2] http://typekit.com/
[3] http://blog.grooovy.me/69425327

Fix your page, and your copy.
That's just one of many essays in the book. I would hardly call the book as a whole populistic - if anything it's contrarian.

Also, the linked blog post didn't strike me as very convincing. The points that were potentially valid ("Start with purpose" paragraph and reference 4) were underdeveloped and most of it read like a rant.
The homepage crashes in IE8 for you?
Sorta funny how things work out.

Berners-Lee probably had no idea that his little invention could end up making the Internet relevant to billions and basically sidelining Microsoft.
XHR was introduced many years after js was extremely popular.
Also XHR doesn't add anything technically. The same thing can be achieved with dynamically adding <script> tags, or using an iframe, or a number of other methods.

The introduction of the buzzword 'ajax' certainly popularized what people had already been doing for years though.
Actually, in the US and Europe, there are laws governing Bitcoin transactions as securities or future. It's simply that the enforcing agencies haven't yet decided which of them has jurisdiction over Bitcoin.

By the way, did you know that by registering your company in the US, you became subject to all of these laws, plus US tax laws, US accounting laws, etc.?
I just looked through a copy. There's not much I'd change if I were writing those essays today. Obviously e.g. "A Plan for Spam" is obsolete in the sense that the state of the art has moved way past such techniques. Ditto for "The other Road Ahead." But the rest I'd write much the same today.
"Hackers gonna hack!" :D
http://blog.holler.com/ crashed IE8 (using Vista SP1).
The point with 3d layout is that you can have shorter interconnects, which means far less resistive heating, and less junction loss. It also means that your path lengths can be shortened, possibly allowing you to bump up the frequency.

Stacking stuff means you should be able to run cooler for the same amount of processing power.

1000x? I think that's probably BS. But I can see this being a significant win.
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Also check out their Light Speed, a pretty cool product for cars: http://lightblueoptics.com/products/light-speed/
I think question here is if Paper or Digital Format is better. The majority of arguements we know, but there is also one more interesting question. Online and Offline?

No matter currently how good digital copies of a map are, items like mobiles have technical issues and if i m stuck somewhere without signal or the battery is dead, a paper map is all we can use. Thinking of being stuck in the middle of nowhere with a potentially default phone , i would still always have a paper map in the car cause the pain of being without one when something like that happens is worse then the convience of it being on my phone all other times.
If you have a small team and everyone is passionate and good at their jobs, does it really matter what the policies are?

The real challenge is in a larger company, where that assumption may not hold. Are there any existing examples of anywhere near as liberal a policy in such a company?
A standard VM/Runtime specification for all the browser would be awesome. We got plenty of them; CLR, DLR, JVM, Parrot, etc. Can you imagine? I can see those mime types already: application/csharp, application/perl, application/ruby, application/IL.
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They use tools to help them, but WYSIWYG design tools like Dreamweaver tend to be strictly amateur-level. Once you know what you're doing, Dreamweaver doesn't make things that much faster, and it does produce a vastly inferior product (from a standpoint of code quality and maintainability).
information expressed in physical form is always better than digital.

especially if it's aged.

maybe this is me getting old, but I feel like younger people dont see this anymore, unfortunately.
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Firstly kudos for having the balls to post it on here for people to bitch about but...

I'm really not sure what it's about? I gather it's something to do with meeting people but really I think I need a bit more than that.

And I'm not really sure I like the wording of the main tagline, something like "Helping you connect with people outside of work and school" would be better, for me anyway.

Oh and the link saying "Read full post here" doesn't seem to link to anything meaningful.