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It's not useless. The use is not to do calculations though - it's to bring satisfaction to the owner. And I predict HP will find plenty of takers who feel they'll get at least $99 of satisfaction out of owning one.

Is it a toy? Sure, why not?
Ask HN: What do you look for in a Non-Technical Founder?
This question is aimed at Technical Founders / Developers / Engineers.

What motivates you most to partner with a Non-Technical Founder? What qualities do you seek and respect in a Non-Technical Founder? What skills do you think they need?

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated, thank you!
I still don't quite understand their market, and honestly I don't think they do either.

If you're expecting insane traffic to begin with, it makes more sense to create your own systems using a more standard stack and not tie yourself to GAE. If you're just some small to medium sized site that gets "slashdotted or tweeted by demi moore", I guess it is nice that your site will automatically scale to serve the millions of unexpected incoming users, but when you're filing for personal bankruptcy due to the unexpected and infinitely scaling GAE bill that comes along with that, how much consolation is the fact that your server stayed up during the rush going to be?
I suppose so, and there are examples of massive fallout from the public finding out about internal decisions; Elop's Nokia memo springs to mind. Is it as simple as transparency to your friends, opacity elsewhere though?

My first thought is that some of those situations reflect genuinely bad business decisions, and maybe it's better to take the public hit immediately rather than struggle on in secret doing something whose dumbness is only visible to people outside your reality distortion field.

The other thing is, how do you distinguish between people who are with you and not? As the article noted, once you tell employees the information often ends up outside the company anyway. And not all employees are necessarily with you - they might agree with the broad mission of your company but disagree with how you're executing it, like the Nokia Plan B thing (although that turned out to be a hoax). Should you try to exclude people like that?

I should clarify that I'm not sure if Apple's secretiveness is a "great business decision", merely that it seems to work for them in terms of marketing. Would a company like Apple work better or worse if they operated more in the open? Unfortunately, there's only one Apple so it's hard to know.

That Semler article was interesting. Have you read Maverick? Would you recommend it?
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XMonad is great. For anyone who finds it a bit daunting I recommend Bluetile[1]. It's a great introduction to the best window management system I've used (I really miss XMonad on OS X.)

[1] http://www.bluetile.org/
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That all sounds right but still, what kind of compelling is an android tablet without gmail? I can't imagine they expect people to put up with imap. I can understand the drive-traffic-to-our-content-ecosystem, but there's some stuff a tablet just has to do these days.

Then again, no camera, maybe they are positioning it as a fancy kindle, in which $250 is too much.
Good points.

>> That Semler article was interesting. Have you read Maverick? Would you recommend it?

Yeah, it's a great read, I do recommend it.
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I have a Linux, OS X, and Windows machines on my desk (for doing cross-platform development of Firefox). XMonad is definitely my preferred WM for getting things done. OS X and Windows both have attempts at nice features, but they feel so frustrating to use in comparison.

Lion actually improved that a lot: Fullscreen apps integrated with Spaces gives a large part of what I use X<onad for. If they'd combined that with Windows 7's snapping of windows to half-screen, that would cover 75% of my XMonad usage. It's really a shame that XMonad is Linux-only. (Or that Firefox users expect Windows&OSX ports, depending on your perspective).
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There are some really neat resources that have come out in the past little while to help beginner programmers. I would recommend http://www.codecademy.com or http://learnpythonthehardway.org - both excellent resources that teach in different ways, so if one isn't working for you the other might be worth a shot.

In my opinion (but not everyone's) it's better to start with a language like Python or Javascript that makes problems like type conversions and input pretty trivial, so that once you've learned the more structural skills you can go back and mess around with pointers.
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The basic components of a business plan are often in people's pitch deck:

- description of the market

- description of your product

- competition

- your plan for the next 12-18 months

- burn rate and runway

- team

You can probably just flesh them out (which might not be much more than having a word document with paragraphs and sentences instead of a powerpoint document with bullet points) and satisfy a significant proportion of investors.
Curiously Android doesn't offer a way to fiddle with it directly but most Android devices have a simple text file that declares the pixel density and simply by modifying it you get larger (or smaller, if you want) fonts and other UI elements. It's a pretty neat feature and baffles me why it isn't given pride of place in the settings somewhere, since developers have to basically account for all different densities anyway.
If the definition of technical (in the context of web/tech startups) means knowing how to program, then I guess any designer who can program is technical.
Agree. Even lower case. If it is suppose to look like an abbreviation of cilantro I'd be wary of using it.
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> Apple will not approve apps with it yet—I know, I've been rejected for trying to use it in an app.

Just change the Info.plist of your app (so that it looks like it was built with the non beta of XCode), re-codesign the bundle and upload it. (Have tested it with OS X apps. No guarantee for iOS.)
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It's foreseeable that GC will go the way of the dodo in one of the next OS X releases. (They didn't mention GC once at the WWDC talks. Not even in the memory management related talks.)

> I personally trust ARC or GC more than I trust myself.

I don't. Reference counted memory management is so easy that I never had the problem of leaking/crashing apps because of forgotten retain/releases. The most common memory management related bug for me are hidden retain cycles. (Which ARC doesn't really address.)

But ARC is pretty nice for the stupid UI boilerplate code which saves you from writing huge -dealloc methods. For critical code (Obj-C and C intermixing) I tend to disable ARC.
Would love to hear any feedback on this.

Disclaimer: I'm the founder of Live My Journey.
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This will add a color selector:

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That quantity of hard links takes up quite a bit of space though!
The references to Clarke and Friedman in the same blog post makes me cringe. One is a writer, the other one isn't, by any critical metric.
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Actual link (grrr):
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Yes sure. But it can be used by dataset input too.
Denormalize. Match your data rows to your access pattern (i.e. your UI). Naive example: if you have a webpage that displays a list of employees, and it must have their department name and boss in that list, you put that data in the employee row. What is the probability that a boss will change his or her name causing you to have update a ton of records? Very low. (not zero mind you, so you have to be able to do it). So why pay for the join every query?

There are no longer, in my view, any situations where a SQL db is the best idea. You either want a giant NoSQL database, or you want a massive in-memory object-graph using pointers. Or you want something for $20m from Oracle or IBM.
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exactly :) - hence the point "Lesson #3: Don't put all your eggs in one basket"
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> I should have read it before writing my first 4 apps through trial and error.

I wouldn't say that. I consider learning by trial and error far more valuable than reading the best books on a topic.

If you read the guide now you get more out of it. You have done the groundwork yourself - now it's time to hone your skills :)
tl;dr: Just give them the same slides/documents that you'd give an investor who doesn't ask for the business plan. (And, a VC asking for a 30 pages business plan might not be what you're looking for.)
Horrible, horrible corporatism. That's not the stuff the American dream is made of.
Only around Helsinki it seems. Although that's not much of a problem since Matkahuolto has the next best thing already (delivery to a store nearby).
Though it would be nice to have some understanding of OpenGL. It's gold worth if your UI runs sluggish and you try to fix that. Understanding how OpenGL handles things helps a lot.
Ask HN: Am I getting a fair deal?
I am being offered a developer position at a pre-funded startup and the salary being offered right now is 1/3rd of the market rate(based on my previous employment) for the first six months.
The next 6 months however I will be paid back the diff and also get my market salary, provided there is money.
I will be the first employee who's a developer. (The CTO is a fairly awesome coder, so its not like I am the first developer or building stuff from scratch.) However the development work wll be non-trivial.
The only thing which is bothering my is that there is NO EQUITY being offered. The reason being that the company is based in U.S.A while I will be working in its office at a foreign location.

To be fair, It will be a new domain I will be working on, with really smart people on a really interesting problem.

So am I getting a bad deal or am I over thinking this? Badly need some advice.

UPDATE1:
Should highlight the fact that after six months, they plan to pay my lost wages subject to the availability of capital.

Market Rate: y
FIRST SIX MONTHS SALARY: x
NEXT SIX MONTHS SALARY: y+ (y-x) + z
AFTER ONE YEAR SALARY: y + z

z being equal to a measure of the risk I am taking

My opinion of the co founders is that they are really smart and honest people.

UPDATE2 :
Just got a call from one of the co-founders. He has very kindly explained to me that the deal they have offered me is taking into consideration the fact that any equity I have will be enforceable in U.S. Their idea of this structure is a cash payout in lieu of an equity.
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I run xmonad and was under the impression bluetile had been merged back into xmonad proper... no?
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15 years into the web and still we see new sites coming out with the "Go Away" pattern. I just don't understand it.

If a potential user has somehow managed to find his way onto your homepage, that's a big win for you. You need to take that opportunity to hook him as quickly and effectively as possible. Given the average attention span on the internet, you've got at most 5 seconds to avert the Back Button, then maybe 10 more to convince that user that your thing is worth investing some time in.

Know the absolute worst thing you can do at that point? Stick that user on a page with absolutely no information about your product, then assign him some chores to do so before you'll let him even find out. Like this:

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That would be true is Basecamp was a $500 a month product, but since the price is so low it falls within being a cost that can be expensed. That expense level is usually a few hundred dollar per month, before it needs approval.

Joel Spolsky wrote a post about this[1]. He had a great point - either price your product under the expense level, or if you prive it higher - go all the way and price it as an enterprise product, since it will involve a chain-of-approval, a sales cycle etc.

The other good example is Atlassian. They prices their products so that they can sneak in as expenses. The founders talk about how with a lot of their customers the bosses do not know that their products are being used. It is a way to sneak into an organization through developer love and being a line-item in an expense report rather than something that is bought and procured.

[1] Camels and Rubber Duckies - http://joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckies.ht...
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Hacker is fine, all job descriptions looking for a "ninja hacker" or for that matter any job descriptions prefixed with the word ninja should be ignored. I have never met someone serious about programming that liked to be called a ninja or thought of themselves as such. I have met many people who were very into start-ups but had no CS or Engineering background that loved to give themselves and others silly prefixes though. In a nut shell call yourself what you like, but be wary of those too interested in titles as they are probably trying to make up for something.
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Yea, SEC should allow tweets and forum posts etc. to be considered fair disclosure under Reg FD. And how about direct response instead of firing in response to criticism by employees?
"without proof that those investments have paid off" <-- Are you serious? You cannot think of SV VC funded companies that have paid off?
It's also not healthy for your eyes to stare at a lamp... we already do it long hours in front of a pc. Better not to do so also for reading books...
Hopefully coming to the UK soon. This (well, ideally a generic multi-retailer version) has been to me an obvious business opportunity for years; if I had the slightest of relevant contacts I'd have been trying to set it up. Hopefully it will take off and we'll begin to see the real possibility of online retail.
When I learned assembly years ago, my favorite assignment was a binary bomb. The goal was to "defuse" the binary bomb, which you did by using gdb to disassemble and step through the code in order to figure out how to get to the next phase. There were 10-12 phases, IIRC. It was a great assignment - it helped you understand assembly better while learning how to use gdb - all in the form of a puzzle.

If anyone is interested, below is the first one I found via Google.

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Yes. You should be getting equity commensurate with the risk and role you're taking.
Personally, I think multi-monitor support is quite good, at least with my window manager (awesomewm). Xrandr stretches the X session accross both screens, and awesome will clone it's interface for the other screen. Each screen has independent workspaces, and you can move windows between the screens by dragging them or using keyboard shortcuts. The only downsides are wallpaper stretching doesn't work well (but it may just be the application I'm using to set it) and the fact that there is a 'space' where the mouse will disappear into if you use two non-conforming screen heights next to eachother. If you find that the default screen settings isn't very good, or don't want to figure out xrandr, try arandr, a very good xrandr gui.
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My goodness!! I so need this!! I saw it's just $29 for a license. Just spoke with my boss and she said lets buy for the team. I’m looking for a group license (not every employee will use a CC for a license). By the way, she and I are both shocked by how cheap this is. We would have even paid you more than twice that much for each license.
Also, we would want to pay once, and then use for many, for example, we would need 7 or 8 licenses and make it available to 6 people so they can, if they so choose, use the service.

This is corporate America speaking btw.
I'm buying.
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Not a good idea they want u to do all the work and Only pay you if it takes off. Scam
rank is a direct measurement of total downloads, so it's straightforward to extrapolate.
Sex toys from Amazon come in the same packaging that your vitamin pills and toilet paper do. Nobody would know what you're getting unless they opened the outer box, which is something they're not allowed to do.

I kind of like this service because it doesn't involve any human interaction, which I hate. Whenever I get a package at my house, it goes to the mail room, where I have to make small talk with the package guy. Since I get something from Amazon nearly every day (yay for subscribe & save), this is awkward. Having some magical locker where I could get packages would be amazing.
You haven't shown HN a thing. It's vapourware at the moment.
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thanks for the clarification. it would have been nice to mention that in the original post, that's where my confusion came from.
Based on what you've said it sounds like given the early-stage development you're involved in ("development work will be non-trivial") and the risk involved ("provided there is money") and the fact that you are one of the earliest (first?) employees, you should be in line for at least some equity--obviously it varies company-to-company, but based on an earlier HN discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=973060, it seems there wouldn't be (too) many startups that wouldn't provide at least SOME equity <3% for someone in your position who's taking a fairly large amount of financial risk.

And as a sidenote: if you're uneasy about the terms offered, maybe you already have your answer.
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A terrible deal, you're seeing a bunch of downsides and no upsides.

Unless the work is absolutely fascinating to you then you shouldn't even be considering this. I'm impressed that someone had the balls to put an offer like this on the table. Honestly, even if you loved the work I'd suggest telling them off because it's kind of an insulting trick when some people try to get geeks to work cheaply on "interesting" projects.

If they're somewhere where giving you shares triggers auditing requirements, which is the only reason I can think of them giving for this, there should still be plenty of workarounds. Significantly increased pay back over the following few months at least being the immediately obvious one.
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Quirky vs. a-holish are two things. If your team cannot get over minor quirks, they are the ones with something stuck up them. If the guy is an a-hole, show him the door. If he is just loud and talks too much and it becomes a problem: make quiet zones and hours in the office.

Also, I am getting that you are judging based on an interview, so you pretty much know that you have no idea what kind of an employee he will be yet.
I think you need to look at the positives and the negatives. Work out what risk you are taking, and how that risk can be compensated.

In this case your risk is that after 6 months of working far below market rate you will have nothing to show for it and then be out of a job.

Paying you back market rate at a later date isn't really compensating for it, unless there is some sort of bonus. Sometimes this bonus is equity, but it could just as easily be monetary (often this is how sales people are motivated - work for cheap, but if you sell then you get a large reward).

It's hard to say what compensation you should ask for. The most important factor is that you don't feel like you're being screwed, you should feel happy with the deal. Because if you are unhappy, then that unhappiness will leak through the stress of a startup and probably result in fighting, you hating your job and depression.
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