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Pixar's technology is amazing and has been revolutionary. And it certainly conveys some competitive advantages against live-action films. But to attribute Pixar's success solely to the technology is a dangerous mistake.

Traditional screenwriting and filmmaking goes through a ton of iterations, too. Iterations (and MVP) are not the competitive differentiators you make them out to be in Pixar's case. Pixar's technology makes a huge difference, but so does its direction and, above all, its writing.

What separates Pixar from the me-toos of the world is everything it has in addition to its technology.

Finally, it's a mistake to think that Pixar and "Hollywood" are separated. Pixar was founded as a tech company, but its clients and collaborators have been Hollywood studios and filmmakers from the get-go. There were more than a few strands of Hollywood DNA in Pixar's genome even before the Disney merger.

Technology is great, but writing is still king. The dustbin of history is littered with technically brilliant, but emotionally hollow films. Be careful here. No less a titan of the business than George Lucas made the mistake of thinking pure tech trumped writing, and look at how his prequels turned out.
Interesting; I'm a CS prof., where you can sometimes get away with that, but increasingly the expectation is really that you'll be funding several students out of your grant money, and at some schools, funding a portion of your salary. Baseline to get tenure at a research-oriented university seems to be about $500k-$1m of grants during the 6-year assistant position (i.e. enough to fund an average of 2 PhD students per year over that period out of non-TA/dept money).

It could be less in math because there isn't the same "lab" concept, where to be considered a "successful" professor you're supposed to oversee a lab of 3+ (better if it's 5+) PhD students, a post-doc or two, research scientists, etc.?
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Ask HN: Should I work for a startup who's sole purpose is to be flipped?
Hi Guys,

I've been approached by a funded startup that is developing a web-app and who seem to have the sole intention of making a product so that the company will get purchased by a large corporate/whoever in a few years?

Any thoughts on working for this type of startup?

Cheers

Justin
You pay $200/ month? Maybe you meant $20?

I would be interested in what you find as a good replacement because I might consider a switch if it were good enough. I just killed my cable and that was costing me ~$70/ month.
Maybe it is the demographics of the programmers who are using the languages.
re. the VM idea. Do you have some reason to believe that their client software is more likely to be malicious than anyone else's?
I never start designing website before I get final version of all copy.

That's the rule.

No placeholders. No quick drafts either.

Web is all about type and words, I do pay a lot of attention how I present them, and I need to know what they are to do my job well.
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What are your favorite ressources for arduino related news ? Is there a HN-like website for arduino ?
It doesn't seem like a good idea at all. SSH caches those keys because computers are more capable of flawlessly comparing long strings of random characters than humans are. The cache is so that you, presumably a human, don't need to compare the reported host key to its known value each time you connect.

I understand his specific application, and why it works for him, but including it as advice for the general SSH-consuming public is nuts.
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Yes; being the focus of a salon.com article is an indicator.
> smart will warn you that the problem is close in many cases...

According to Google, about two thirds of the time, SMART will warn you.

> there's also a chance of common fault in both drives.

Never, ever trust a RAID array made from identical disks. Whenever possible use different manufacturers, different models and different batches. Whatever caused failure of one drive will eventually cause the failure of its twins. If all twins are in the same array, you won't be happy.
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I completely see the logic of what you're saying - how can you be expected to present words when you don't know what the words are - but does this hard line work in practice?

Do you demand every bit of copy or just the key bits? For instance if you were doing a travel site with 100 hotels would you want every hotel or just two or three as a template?
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Not really, but they are in the business of scanning my computer and phoning home, and they propose some weird cryptography scheme which makes them less trustworthy somehow (just a feeling). I just want to make sure they don't store anything on their servers I don't want to give them.

Anyway, I won't implement that plan because I assume it is not in the interest of that company.
Nobody feels the need to justify eating vegetables, for example,

To the contrary, almost every vegetarianism argument on the Internet has comments like "plants are living things which you slaughter for food", and they just get ignored.

I suspect because if you seriously believed killing living things for food is wrong, it would be suicide, so the only conceivable answer is to reason in such a way that it comes out with the answer you want - draw your arbitrary cutoff between important-living-things and not-important-living-things somewhere above plants and bacteria while staying comfortably below humans.

Then let the argument rage as if there was a real substantive difference between drawing the line above cow or below cow, or just diverting it around milk, or only around milk sourced in a particular way.
Why don't you wait until the first time that they user wants to post something before asking for Facebook details. I'm sure you are completely honest, and wouldn't abuse the permissions you've been granted. But I don't like giving out any more personal details (phone #/email address/Facebook profile) than I absolutely have to.

But then I guess I'm not really your target audience either.
You should also consider the reliability of a drive decreases at the same rate the data it holds gets more important. The more important the data, the less you should trust your disks (and do better backups, better mirroring, better checksumming...
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I suppose people are upvoting the title, which is in English ("Google buys the German Groupon competitor DailyDeal") rather than the linked web page. If I had submitted this, I would have been tempted not to submit the URL but rather to put the URL somewhere "underneath" the title (e.g., in a comment) with a note saying that the purpose of the URL is to provide evidence of the truth of the title -- much like the purpose of a citation in a scholarly article -- in an attempt to signal to the reader that I was not advising that the average reader to read the linked page. However such a submission seems to go against the implication in the instructions on http://news.ycombinator.com/submit that the purpose of a URL-less submission is "to submit a question for discussion".
Indeed :) It's what made it all possible. I wouldn't have done it if I had to style all the forms and layouts from scratch.
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Most of my emails are for customer support. If experience has taught me anything, it's best to keep them concise, so clicking the top button is more convenient for my usage. GMail gets it right not because there are two send buttons - one at the bottom and one at the top.
Yesterday I saw a car from a company that comes to your home or office to wash your car, eco friendly too (according to the slogans on the side of the car).
That's great, now you've got another crap looking website to add to your portfolio. Eventually you'll stop being paid. Just because the client's paying doesn't mean they've got a clue. It's our job to steer them towards great software, not take their money and produce mediocrity.
I've had some success using the Zhang server (I-TASSER) to generate a model for MR. The benefit ended up being finding a domain, which we hadn't known based on our amino acid sequence. Exciting times indeed.
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... and more often than I'd care to admit, it is easier and BETTER to quit and find another job rather than "re-write" or "re-factor" somebody's legacy mess. Seriously. Life is too short.
When your adversary is successfully framing the debate in radical and irrational terms ("You wouldn't steal a car, so you shouldn't steal a movie"), the only answer is to escalate your own radical rhetoric until a fair compromise can be reached; you create an incentive for your adversary to not be completely obliterated if/when you'll achieve total victory.

If you start by admitting that your adversary has a point, there is no incentive for him to come to a compromise: he's shaping your reality, so you'll never win.

At the moment we need a lot of rebalancing in terms of online rights and copyright, so the likes of PP can only be welcome.

(Besides, making the Bond franchise a feature-long advert "much more than they do already" is pretty much impossible!)
In fairness, I've actually had a good time on this little project. It's just a Wordpress site with 2 different templates, so it's not exactly complicated or high pressure, and I used it as an introduction to Compass (on which I'm still undecided).

I think I intended this post as a note to future clients on small projects, especially when they bring forth rather ambitious sitemaps and insist on drop-down menus (at the last minute (which are currently only serving to draw attention to pages "under construction")).

Thanks for reading.
I didn't intend it to be a hostile comment/attitude. It's just pragmatic. I can code, I can design and I can architect. That's great when it's me and a few others, but as a business scales up I should be able to recognise when there are better coders than me. If I refuse to get out of the way then I'm just a hindrance. Therefore I should adapt to the new business size and use my experience etc to help those better coders.
thanks will

wondering if any of the original developers stay on in the next/purchaser company ?
Nicely executed, the video is well done. Will be interesting to see if real-life examples of viral content come out of this kid of model.
IMHO, users need to choose to share content themselves in order to go viral : it's not the link-posting (which is the basis of all twitter spam) that produces the virality, but the passion and wording of the people describing the content AFTER they've seen it that gets their friends to check it out.
Unrelated question : how does an article with 0 comments get to the top of HN ? :) Would love insight into the HN algorithm on this one.
The subtitle is a better way of framing it than the title, I think. Being accessible, all else being equal, isn't really inherently bad. For example, you can increase the accessibility of a poorly written physics textbook by just making the prose better.

The more interesting question they seem to be getting at is whether he's sacrificed something that was interesting about his writing out of a desire to increase accessibility. You could even just leave accessibility out of it and ask: are Neal Stephenson's most recent novels as interesting as his older ones, and if not, why not? I do think there's something to the hypothesis that he used to build these intricate, complex worlds with a lot of depth to them, and is doing so less in his more recent novels.

edit: Come to think of it, doing it accessibly sort of is his thing to begin with. I've heard Snow Crash described as a more-accessible reimagining/retelling of Gibson/Sterling style cyberpunk, which isn't too far off.
1) This is true for YOU not necessarily for the next person, hopefully when you are rewriting the code you maintain some level of decency and leave a comment trail. If you optimize and clean the code there is a high chance that you end up with complex functionality packed into one liners.

2,3) If you do not have a test suite how can you reproduce the original code 1 for 1? Similar for new features. I totally agree that code (at least functionally) should always come with a test suite. If there isn't a test suite and you are planning to rewrite the code, the priority should be in writing a test suite or a black-box tester. At the minimum you should have a list of supported features that you are going to check off.
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Your statement would be stronger with some backup argument and justification. Why is it a joke and why will it be dead in 5 years? Why isn't acquisition a winning outcome?
What is the point of this near-rant? Sure, quality of life, cost of technology and standards of living are different, but that doesn't change the economics of the situation.

Sorry it's such "obvious bullshit" to you.
I move the port after doing the stuff he notes above, but it is for reducing the junk in the log about failed logins.
When it does arrive, instead of a headline + 100 words for the little box, it's a 5 page essay.
Did they? I thought they just checked bits and pieces of the file at random.
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Or vice versa. I should've just dropped the first sentence of Lorem in for most of these pages.
I think Siegler is missing the forest for the trees. The real question is not whether Microsoft should have dumped "legacy Windows"; in many respects, for ARM-based mobile devices, it actually has. The more interesting issues are around two industry-wide trends -- the increasing commodification of software, and the re-verticalization of software and hardware -- and whether the Windows business model itself might be in danger of obsolescence.

Also worth noting: for Windows Phone 7, Microsoft did actually ditch backwards compatibility in favor of "the new thing". And despite generally favorable reviews, it's not exactly burning up the sales charts.
Yes, it's obviously been in the works for some time now. But the other problem with big companies is that once they start heading in a direction, it's almost impossible to stop, even if it's clearly the wrong direction.
"The Great Lie" is a bit over the top, no?

This isn't a problem with Lorem Ipsum, but with planning and copywriting. You can't blame LI for the fact that the copy sucks.
How is this different from your local store pointing you out as the guy who bought 3 crates of ketchup last month?
In fact, maybe this separation between work "you," private "you" and other yous is a problem.
as noted by the original article, just using your credit card already gives you that problem.
At least they are being upfront...most startups are in the game to "exit".
How does splitting them up make them each phenomenally better? Why should the customer care about Netflix's internal organization? Make the same changes, just keep the top level name and details like accounts/recommendations.

If I buy a Macbook Pro it's from Apple and if I rent a movie from the iTunes store it's from Apple... They are completely different business units internally, but to the customer it's the same company and I can use the same account for either purchase.
Companies in the past have definitely made dumb decisions you are right about that, but typically they don't just kill off their main cash cow for no apparent reason. That's all I'm saying. All of the "why would he do this?!?" posts are dumb for thinking that someone like the CEO of Netflix doesn't know that this would be a pretty stupid split of the business if he didn't have to do it to survive.
Actually with the exception of the copy, which may or may not get straightened out, it's a pretty decent little WP design. And like I said, I used the opportunity (which was basically a favor for a buddy) to take Compass for a spin, to fine tune my own little Sass library that I've been working on, and to get to know and work with a new designer. Building a cathedral was never the idea.

My main client is the one I'm obsessively steering toward great software.
It may actually work, but if it doesn't, their only option will be to fold. If you end up work there, make sure you get plenty of options to benefit from a potential acquisition. Your risk level is higher, after all.
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When I first checked this account he had 19 followers, now he's 600+. He's going to wake up this morning thinking he's still tripping.
what a hipster - "Yeah, he's ok but I prefer his early stuff"

Reamde seems like a trip back to the style of the Stephen Bury books he wrote with his uncle, The Cobweb & Interface, both enjoyable reads.
On a side note, what's the story with all these sites using blurry fonts lately? This article is completely illegible in the latest build of Chrome on Windows XP.

I see this on maybe 5% of the submissions here these days. Normally, it's a sans-serif font that's the culprit, and this is my first serif-blurry sighting. Here's the font-face:

garamond-premier-pro-1,garamond-premier-pro-2,serif;

I've got photoshop installed, so chances are I actually have one of those local. But Chrome can't render it, so if you use it on your website it will look bad for everybody except you.

Now, since I'm in developer tools, I can change that to

garamond,garamond-premier-pro-1,garamond-premier-pro-2,serif;

... and it will render in a readable form. So the question, I guess, is why would you specify a non-standard font without testing to ensure that it falls back to something that's at least readable for everybody else? Especially if you're a screen designer by trade, writing articles to show off your knowledge of screen design issues.
Nice concept - it looks pretty similar to Paywithatweet.com which (I've heard) does actually get people tweeting about the product.

The drawback with these sorts of concepts is that it means the product is shared before people actually use it, which makes the endorsement seem a bit forced. Having said that, people do use it to get access so maybe that doesn't put many people off.

The design looks great by the way, I didn't notice it was Bootstrap until jaryd mentioned it.
this has nothing to do with the search history.
Usually long enough to vest any shares they've might been granted by the acquisition deal, not a minute longer (and often, even a lot less). That's usually between 6 months and two years.
Maybe they're trying to figure out if they can launch it without being inundated by lawsuits... Just like the ones they've been putting out lately.
> Another thing. Not all users have a device connected to their TV that works with Netflix (like an Xbox).

Some TVs and most Blu-Ray / DVD players these days play Netflix without extra anything hooked in. Netflix has done a really good job making its streaming offering available on a TV without additional hardware or tech skill.
Like i'm sure everyone will say...

If the pay is great, and you don't get locked into chasing the dream of a big payout in 3-4 years, and it'll be technology you want to work with, why not?

If it's a good job opportunity otherwise, just don't marry yourself to the work, as its likely to burn you down the road.

If it turns out to be a bad move, or you're otherwise wary, just keep your feelers out there and don't be afraid to jump ship to a better opportunity if you see fit to do so.
I wouldn't like to be on the receiving end of this. I want to see the content first, then maybe share with my network. Putting a "sharewall" like this will put a lot of people off.
"I refuse to do anything more with Google than search and email. I am just not comfortable with one company knowing that much about me."

In that case, you'd better install some browser extensions to block Google Analytics. They could correlate the IP address from your email and search with your visits to every website using Google Analytics for metrics and extrapolate more about your from there.
tl;dr SSD failure rates are no better than most hard drives. Intel failure rates only report validated errors(returned drive fails in Intel test), real rate probably 2-3X higher. SMART doesn't work for SLC SSD (doesn't detect failures early enough to recover). Update your firmware often as failures initially were mostly bugs and not write-failures.
Disregarding the likelihood of this scenario panning out, what is special about the combination of purchase and search history? In your scenario just having purchased some toys or searched for gay sex is enough to incriminate you, they don't have to be pre-linked by Google.
In the end the purpose of almost all VC backed startups is to have some form of exit: The people providing the funding will want their money back (with a big return), and only really seldom that happens by paying back the investors from profits made.
That totally depends on the acquisition. It could go either way. Don't bet anything on it.
It's a [TypeKit](http://typekit.com/) font. Looks great on everything on a Mac, but thanks for the heads up.

edit: and I'm definitely not a screen designer, nor am I intending showing off knowledge of any sort of expertise. This was more of a "note to self". Cheers.
If it is a smart team working on an interesting/challenging problem and you think you would enjoy it, then the fact that they want to flip the business should only be a secondary consideration.

Just remember to set your expectations correctly about cash/equity incentives: http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/09/06/how-to-discuss..., http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2009/11/04/is-it-time-for...
This is pretty awesome, it's actually something I had an idea for a while back. My spin was a tad different.

If you are interested, I can email you my thoughts and you can decide to integrate them if you want.
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I've always had mixed feelings about this sort of project.

On the one hand, it _could_ turn out wonderfully for all. Spend a few years playing with some fun tech, don't have to worry too much about profits/long-term viability - just keep enough cash to operate, and exit with a nice chunk of change and move on to the next.

On the other hand, it's a VERY risky strategy -- it doesn't necessarily build a fundamentally strong business (it certainly might though) and if the exit doesn't happen (or doesn't happen quickly enough), the company could very easily vanish with nothing left to show for itself.

I personally prefer the more fundamentally sound approach - build something great, viable, and long-term successful. Maybe you exit with a huge acquisition. Maybe you exit with an IPO. Maybe you don't exit and reap profits for years to come. But that doesn't mean that the flipping approach doesn't have the potential to reward or should be avoided (heck plenty of people are doing it and making a ton of money).

I'd say the key points to consider are these:

1. Do _you_ believe this is something that one of the large corporate/whoevers will want to buy in a few years? Or do you think that's an excuse for a lack of a viable business model?

2. Do you like the project? Regardless of exist, it'll be your home for a few years, so you should enjoy the work and make sure it will help your long-term aspirations beyond the next few years.

3. Since the goal is a flip, that means that equity is key. Will you have enough equity to reap the benefits? If the flip doesn't happen, will you be paid enough to make the time spent worthwhile?

Just consider all angles and make sure your interests are looked-after. That's the best advice I can offer.
Where did you get the video done? Especially in 72 hours!