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Unless, of course, you already knew about lazy sequences.

I can explain classes in 10 minutes and have the same effect. Assuming, of course, you've only coded FORTRAN.

In fact, you picked out the part that I mostly found mildly offensive. He's treating his readers like "less smart than him".
You cannot solve colorblind problems with these changes alone. The best way, is to change shape.

There are different types of colorblindness. The worst being the one where you are totally unable to discern colors. Hue and Value alone won't solve the problem.

For example, at first I didn't see the difference between "Alice" and "Bob" on your about page. I had to look closely to see it. And I'm only mildly color-blind.
And you'll lose the browser, which looks much better than the stock one, until Ice Cream Sandwich at least.
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Uh, no. You're thinking of BAPCPA, which sucked, but was a far cry from what you're suggesting. Chapter 7 (straight liquidation) is harder but still very possible, especially if you've just been slapped with a multimillion-dollar verdict, while Chapter 13 (individual reorg) came out mostly intact, and 13 does result in discharges (but there are limits to the amount of debt you can have and qualify for 13).

BAPCPA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy_Abuse_Prevention_and...

Chapter 7: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapter_7,_Title_11,_United_Sta...

Chapter 13: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapter_13,_Title_11,_United_St...
We don't, we haven't needed to yet.
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It's dead simple to install Launcher Pro if you don't like it.
The post reads as if investors are these unicorn creatures who hold the balance of power - they must be pitched with optimum precision otherwise you'll go no where.

The reality is investors need deal flow and want to learn about new companies, especially associates and non-partners.

"if the nicest thing they can say about your company is that it “sounds interesting”, the intro isn’t going to go anywhere."

Depends on who's writing "sounds interesting", frankly. If it is a successful founder of a portfolio company or entrepreneur who exited with a nice return for the fund, that might be a great seal of approval.

Which leads me to the main reason I still agree with the premise of not asking for introductions - and that is a VC/investor's contact network acts as a gatekeeper for good deals. And so if I'm in that privileged position, I don't want to use up my social capital helping friends with bum-deal companies get introductions. So please don't ask me to.

Sadly, that wasn't really mentioned in the article.
Oh come on. Everybody complains. All the time. Depending on who and where you are, you'll complain about hunger or about that annoying co-worker down the hall, but you'll complain.

This is all right. I'd say that taking what you have for granted and complaining about what you don't is human nature. But it does not mean that people despise their lives. It means they like to complain.

Asking people, as a stranger, about "their careers" gives them a cue to complain. This makes the results even worse.
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Honesty, most are stopping at the fundamentals and not proceeding further. I have yet to see a good JS templating engine that is rich.
> [...] those are really ugly; mine are much nicer (and more flexible).

This is a matter of personal preference. The more people you ask, the more opinions you will get. I could chip in mine, but that would serve no purpose.

You could see statements like these as a form of libel/defamation. While the statements are not necessarily false, they may cast a negative light on whomever is generating these images (in this case, gravatar.com).

I would try to avoid these statements, and simply go ahead with your project. And let the people decide for themselves which one they prefer.
Well, for what it's worth, I think you're 100% correct.

What shocked me was...

1) it's almost impossible to talk with someone about themselves, about mistakes they've made or about things they could do better (unless they brought it up).

2) almost nobody cares about "the truth". They only care about what makes them happy.

Those two may as well be laws of nature.
I'm with you about Gates/Edison.

But I think that this sentence is unfair for Einstein.
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A while ago I came across Factor¹, which calls itself "a practical stack language"; it has the same basic (lack of) syntax as Forth, but has a Common Lisp-inspired object system, garbage collection, and a standard library whose scope resembles Python's.

I haven't actually written anything in it yet.

Partially, it's because of work-flow issues - Factor doesn't lend itself to hacking on source-trees outside the Factor source tree, and I'm not sure how I'd set up a single-button "run all the tests" command, for example. Partially it's an issue of finding the right project - being a new language and a new paradigm, I'd want to start off with something simple, but not so simple that I'd be tempted to dash off a half-dozen lines of Python and move on.

A good chunk of it, however, is because of articles like this one (in fact, probably this very article I read on Hacker News some months ago) that make me despair of ever making code that will be as simple and efficient as the code-samples I've seen — the Python community calls Python code that goes with the grain of the language as "Pythonic"; I'm not sure what Factor's equivalent adjective would be ("Factorial"?).

¹: http://factorcode.org/
Smooth for Android is still jerky for iOS, ha.
I fully understand and agree with Steve's point against hiring sales people before finding the product/market fit.

However, at least in my mind, in a bit larger organization it is the Business Development people who continues to do the customer development work while Sales is focused on 'exploiting' the first found fit (which might or might not be a big one).
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This question has been haunting me for quite some time. Was steve Jobs just the marketing guy? Or was he involved in hardware/software development of the apple devices too?

Thank you.
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Pssh, whatever man. My happiness can be modeled as: enum Boolean { TRUE, FALSE, SOCKS_NOT_FOUND };
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There are two ways to read this.

1. Google is getting overconfident that it can out-execute HTML+JS developers and get traction.

2. Google is still in a startup mode, dabbling with new ideas.
It's not better in battery life, audio quality, display resolution and sharpness, or the many ways that iOS is better (AirPlay, app selection AND quality), immediate OS updates, etc).

So there's still a good reason to choose iPhones.
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Also, what are your favorite blogs?
I think it is, but everyone's been using pinching, from the original Palm Pre to most Android phones past 2.1.

Apple also have a patent on two finger scrolling for inside forms and tables. I don't think anyone else does that.
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According to Dr. Susan Turk Charles, a psychologist at the University of California in Irvine, the opening assumption of the article is invalid.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/People-Get-Happier-as-They-Ge...
BTW articles like these demonstrate why tech-PR is still a profitable business to be in.

I know many young founders who read articles like these, "30 under 30", "most innovative founders", etc and get depressed because they're never picked.

It's because they're rarely based on merit and more on who's pushing who in the tech-press circles.
I spend a lot of time with my family rather than chasing dead ends :)
@pjg: Do you accept customers having a TPPA (Third Party Payment Aggregation) business model? What are the requirements in order to be accepted as customer?
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But libertarians that believe this believe it without evidence since there has never been an example of the ideal free market without government intervention the way libertarians imagine it.

Edit: Maybe Somalia is an example, I remember a few years ago people touting the proliferation of Somalian cell phone companies. But the instability there doesn't seem like something we should try to emulate.
Re: investors needing deal flow, I think you'll agree that investors need quality deal flow. The goal of the article is to up your company from being just deal flow in to being a part of quality deal flow.

I think your last point is that if your company is crap you shouldn't expect an introduction. I agree with that, of course, but "What do do when your company is crap" seemed a little outside the scope of this particular post!
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Tech contracts are pretty transparent by comparison.

Aside from value of options (which most people consider to be $0-$20k for the average $100-150k/yr job), all the other benefits of working in tech are straightforward and employee-favorable.

In an early stage startup, you're not likely to see worse than 2x participating, and 1x non is the standard for Series A financings now.
I worked in a M$-Shop for a long time. It was a huge problem there because Ms Outlook didn't do inline correctly. The inline text was in another color. And using a Linux Client you could only get the plaintext version without the color in it :( .

Basically I had to use a VM just to understand the mail correctly.
If Zagat gets integrated into Google Local, then there effectively won't be a Zagat to stay with.
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Google Bamshad and Wooding. There are plenty of papers that analyze Indians and show that you can probabilistically identify not just subcontinental ancestry, but caste as well from the genome.
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It only makes Google look stupid if it's bad content that gets ranked highly. I've taken several classes with Birbaum and Hammond and the goal isn't to make bad content to fool search engines, it's to make content so good it seems as if a human wrote it. If that's actually the case there's no conflict in Google -- good content gets pushed to the top.
If you intern at 23andMe, it's a "hello world" level problem to correlate genetics and ancestry/race. Or just submit a blinded set of saliva samples and see whether their ancestry painting algorithm correctly identifies the pre-1492 ancestral locations of your four grandparents.

This is about real raw data.
"Everyone wants to be part of a winning stack, but even better is to be the bottleneck in a winning stack so that everyone else can join in only on your terms—and at your price." That's one cool line!
I'm always fascinated by the way institutionalized dishonesty creeps into entire industries. From used car salesmen to film moguls, once a certain practice has ossified over the years into "everyone in the biz does it", practices that would result in jail time in other industries are simply accepted as business as usual. Even more curious, everyone to the man knows its wrong, but no one moves to change it. The emperor has no clothes and we just like him better naked.
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This is a useful payment offering. However, I'd still offer Google Checkout, Paypal, and Amazon to customers in most contexts, since they're more willing to do a transaction at all -- even if you pay a higher rate, it's better to have the transaction happen. Maybe offer this in addition, but I always feel better when I see multiple payment options.

Stripe (http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/28/stealth-payment-startup-str...) is a great option, when they launch.

Square is 2.75% and no fees for card present; 3.5% and $0.15 for card not present.

ACH (checks) can be $0.25-0.50 flat-rate.
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I think it's compounded by confirmation bias and the like--by believing that most people are unhappy, the author notices more unhappy people reinforcing his belief.
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Where did he meet Woz? A marketing convention?
Unless you're a great writer, keep things short and snappy. It's really hard to hold a reader's attention.
Markoff once ran an article about MyWeb (yahoo's competitor to delicious) that basically took everything from PR instead of actually doing any research. No mention of competitors, let yahoo take credit for stuff other people invented, etc.

It happens more than you think.
There are lots of bad stories about Paypal, but I've made a different experience today:

Paypal: Used it for years without any problems so far. As buyer and as seller.

Dwolla: Registered an account several weeks (months?) ago. Didn't use it since then. Today I've tried to log into my account and it seems that essentially the account has been locked and I'm required to upload a photo ID in order to get my account unlocked.

So it seems that other payment providers aren't really better than Paypal. I'm glad I don't have any money stored on Dwolla - let's see how they handle the situation.
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Yea, that sentence made me wonder -- what is so special about their "5.0 ... redesign" that makes it so interesting to google?
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Ha. That article led to my first correspondence with PG. Scroll down to the bottom for the spoiler.
Agree. I illustrated VSS to someone once by printing the source out and throwing it in the bin. That got the point through.
I'm waiting for someone to disrupt the "Card Present" side of the industry. I work for a large Point of Sale software provider and the choices and for Payment Gateways are awful. We need things like Noca and Braintree for transactions in the real-world. Our NextGen product is going to be HTML5 web-based client, but we can't find good Payment Gateway partners with a Restful API. If your out there and and working on this, please let me know. Our customers process billions in transactions.
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There's a pretty big difference between a gateway and pseudo-merchant account provider.
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He is still correct, TFS marks files as read-only (one of it's "features") and yes it has an "offline" mode but that is a far cry from being a DVCS.
I'm getting a bit tired of these articles. They are all the same -- some kids finish college, and don't have a job or many practical skills. It's not the end of the world. Suck it up, keep learning, keep working. You don't have to have it all figured out yet. There is still plenty of time.

I remember trying to find a tech job when I finished school in 2002 and didn't have any luck. Worked for 10 bucks an hour for the next couple of years and read a bunch of programming books to build skills. Another friend finished with a CS degree who graduated at the same time answered phones for 12 bucks an hour for a year or two. Another friend got an engineering degree and his first job was working for the city for about 10 bucks an hour for a year or two. Eventually we got more experience, talked to more people, and got exactly what we wanted -- it just took a couple more years.
Like other comments said, any company should have a revenue forecast. Companies that don't have a steady revenue stream will have enough cash from either capital reserves or financing. If you don't then don't hire a employee.

Companies that already have employees and forecast they cannot make payroll (say) 6 months from now will typically either borrow money or start lay-offs, not hire more people and worry about later. Failing to pay wages is a serious problem.
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To work with someone like Woz in the early days implies that Steve would hold his own at least to herd a bunch of highly skilled folks forward.

Vision is not just about skills. It is something far deeper and not entirely rational or a result of 10,000 hours of training.

http://forums.appleinsider.com/archive/index.php/t-19686.htm... seems to have a good discussion on the subject.
The first part of what you talk about sounds like post purchase rationalization. It's a bias much less nefarious than mere ego.

The second part is the poisonous way most live their lives. Relatively - i.e. the core determinant of many people's happiness is relative and not absolute income.
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Exactly.

There are a lot of really good indie games out there, but most people are only aware of the famous ones, or the ones they get exposed to via stuff like the HIB or high-visibility steam sales.

If you enjoyed the HIB games I suggest you keep digging as there are many, many games out there at the same level as the average of the game in the 4 bundles.
> "I am trying to suggest that academics are deliberately trying to game the system"

Did you mean "I am not trying to suggest..."? Otherwise I'm confused.

In general, I don't think it's helpful to think of things like this from a purely rational, game-theoretic perspective. As you mention, humans are not rational & there isn't perfect information. Also, it involves too many assumptions about what might drive people (eg it's not just about publication lists).
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No, in 2002 the US and Europe were in recession. That is why you had trouble finding a job, not your skills or whatever else. That it took a couple of years is incredibly bad and that recession was comparatively minor.

I think you don't know the trouble you've seen.
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I'll ignore the fact that fake viagra sold by spammers is just a generic version of the drug that works just as well, since that wasn't the crux of your argument.

Just talked to my friend who was one of the top spammers in the world. It only takes about 3 or 4M emails to bypass the spam filter for a spammer to make $1M. You're vastly exaggerating the wasted resources in terms of sending these emails, the money spent by customers, the time wasted by people receiving these emails, and the productivity lost by the workers.

$100k given to a charity like VillageReach (http://www.givewell.org/international/top-charities/villager...) on the other hand, will avert 100 infant deaths.