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The winner from this group receives the Disrupt Cup and $50,000, taking over possession from Disrupt New York winner Getaround. Without further ado, the runners-up is Prism Skylabs. And the winner is…Shaker! Disclosure: TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington is an investor in Prism Skylabs and is a pending investor in Shaker.
I've used both tools for two start-ups now. I can't imagine using anything else (well, Redmine is a nice free tool). But you're not in the minority in startups. I personally can't understand how anyone is productive with PivotalTracker, Lighthouse, or GitHub Issues (at least the older one). But people are and to each his own.

FWIW, one of the reasons I love both of them is they're the only tools of their type that I've been able to throw a non-tech person at and they can use. When roping the spouses into helping out, that counts for a lot.
They're just examples. "Not having all the facts that time" is also a hopeful and optimistic one, because it is non-permanent (you can get more facts) and specific to the situation (implicitly, it only comments on facts for that specific task, on that specific occasion).

Note that restating "I wasn't trying hard" as "I'm a slacker" makes it permanent (being a slacker isn't a one-off thing) and universal (being a slacker is an abiding trait, someone who doesn't try at anything; it's not specific to a particular task).

One could claim this is just arguing semantics; but these different words do express different causal explanations.

People tend to see patterns (perhaps especially programmers); so that if a person claimed they "weren't trying" a few times, we would tend to generalize that into an abiding trait, or even an identity, such as being "a slacker". I think this is interesting, because it illustrates a switching point between optimism and pessimism: you could interpret those few times as isolated incidents due to circumstances ("confining them to their facts"); or you could infer a regularity. Of course, the problem of pessimism is clearer when more extreme, e.g. generalizing a single instance into a universal rule.

BTW: according to the book it's not as simple as optimists being cognitively deficient at seeing patterns: for good events, an optimistic and hopeful approach is to see the pattern. While this is certainly convenient and self-serving, it's worth noting that doing it the other way (i.e. minimizing good event as one-offs and seeing a pattern in bad events) is also self-serving - just in a self-defeating way. The book makes a compelling and nuanced argument that it's better to err on the side of optimism (unless there are serious risks involved in failure).
You'd only ask such a question if you get your tech-related news from HN, which is overwhelmingly anti-MS with sensationalist articles getting on top. If you're actually working with MS technologies, you would know what you stated is very very wrong.
If your profile is suspended, you will not be able to make full use of Google services that require an active profile such as Google+, Buzz, Reader and Picasa. This will not prevent you from using other Google services, like Gmail.

From the zdnet article, it sounds like the Gmail lockouts were unintentional.

[1] http://www.google.com/support/+/bin/answer.py?answer=1228271
In Michigan there are two things that I have observed that are done differently in Ann Arbor that have made it the states startup center:

1. Strong support for entrepreneurs by the University of Michigan

2. A pay it forward culture

I think any city that has both has a fighting chance.
I agree with you, but as a developer, I prefer these types of tools to get out of the way. Jira and Confluence seem to be written for managers that can live in them. For them, I'm sure the experience is much different.
Although the linked article on view all pages http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/09/view-all-... says they are going to try to make search results point at unpaginated content as thats what users want...
You mean evil: http://gitorious.org/evil
Presumably she wouldn't be allowed to /start/ a company, either.

No, she couldn't start a competing company.

I signed a noncompete, and am now starting a company. The only thing the noncompete prevents me from doing is a certain kind of high frequency trading.
Cool, thanks for the tip, I'll check it out.
We have that system already (at least, here in the Netherlands), where automated overhead signs urge you to decrease your speed in case of traffic jams.

In my experience, not a single person follows those signs. Everybody just keeps on going at full speed until they're forced to stop.

It would be a lot better (for everyone!) if cars were driven by machines that followed those rules properly.
SCIENCE HOBBYIST: Traffic Waves, physics for bored commuters http://trafficwaves.org/
hmmm. it's true that my text is wrong in that way, but couldn't you fix it with a "maybe" or "appear" and then explain the open question afterwards? or maybe the conditional nature of the text then becomes too complex?
You should just use a free tool like http://weebly.com. They have some decent stock designs. You don't need to code anything, just paste in your text. I recently recommended it to a friend, who can't write a word of HTML and he got a nice site up in half a day.
RavenDB http://ravendb.net/ is an excellent document database written in .NET. It leverages lots of LINQ and C# 4.0's dynamic abilities to provide a really clean API. I'm sure it'll soon be taking advantage of the new async stuff coming in C# 5.0 as well.

It's open source as well. Well worth a look.
One thing 37S have got (in spades) is good writers. That really shows here, and generally throughout their products.
I did the same thing. Using octopress on github pages now. http://websymphony.net
Was earlier on Posterous.
If you have decent knowledge of html + css, you can have lot of flexibility in look and feel of the blog. You also get to use Compass for managing css. Code highlighting is pretty neat.

Default theme is quite readable, not like posterous low contrast themes.
And since it is hosted on github, you yourself don't have to worry about sudden surge of traffic or security stuff.
Well, there is the web interface for read-only. For write-only I suppose there is simply emailing a file to the person who owns the Dropbox. For accidental/malicious deletes there is version rollback as well as one's personal drive backups. I think in order for sharing to "just work" there must be limits to the way ordinary users can accidentally change settings. For those who absolutely require levels of access there are alternatives, just as there are alternatives for those who require something specific which Dropbox does not provide in every other aspect of file-sharing.
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We use Jira at our company and it's probably one of the best issue tracking systems I've tried. Confluence is alright but I think that there are a few open source wiki packages that are at least as good, if not better.
Even as a developer, I think that Jira and Confluence are outstanding tools. They do a great job of allowing enough customization (easily) to keep them from detracting from your workflow.

What did you find particularly horrible about them, and what tools do you think do a better job at those aspects?
All the html5 stuff is in there because of windows 8, pure and simple.

Also I don't know who in their right mind would chose to use classic ASP.Net anymore.

But compared to 3.5 there's nothing in here that I find exciting or that's looking particularly like it's going to make my life as a programmer better. Personally I find the more they work on MVC the more they seem to be giving in to the temptation to put 'magic' in there like the old forms, which sucks imo as it encourages new programmers to write very bad code.
There were dozens of subtle variations on this statement that were never committed. I hope to find some time to do a detailed post on that sometime.
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Well, not just that. I imagine browsers implementing keyboard shortcuts that automatically go to the next or previous pages.
Another way companies can stop their trade secrets from walking out the door is a confidentiality agreement. I tell all of my prospective employers that I don't sign non-competes, but I will sign a confidentiality agreement.

A non-compete is professional suicide, in my opinion. There is no upside to the employee at all.
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I am an avid vimmer, but I sometimes use Emacs. I have capslock mapped to ESC, and it works well in emacs. I am pretty comfortable with C-{some_key}. It's the M-C-{some_key} that are a pain. ESC-C-{some_key} is what I use and since I have my capslock mapped, it's convenient.
Still a bit scary... Did you see the Volvo demo video of the exact same technology you describe go full speed into the back of a truck?
Jira and FishEye are a really good combination. Love it. Haven't been really keen on Confluence but it's a decent tool too.
Another good thing is that you can integrate Jira with Eclipse via Mylyn, and manage all the tasks you're working on without even opening Jira.
The tech community deserve everything we get for letting this idiot clown rise to the top of our field. I wish I could stop hearing about him, but of course that will never happen.
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Thanks, I had no idea that bars >> pies. Now I know.
Ask HN: What are your thoughts on TC Disrupt?
I didn't see any real discussion here on TC Disrupt.

What are your thoughts on what TC Disrupt was, and has become?

Any thoughts on the winning team, Shaker [1], or what that represents?

[1] - http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/14/and-the-winner-of-techcrunch-disrupt-is-shaker/
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It's a first-world problem, sure, but I'm seriously suffering from "Arrington F*ucking fatigue".
It's cool, if I have to, I'll make my own job.
Since reading the news about the release, I thought I'd try it out on a wee project I'm working on. So today, I tried to remember the name, and guess what? I did. Good job with that. I went to Trello.com, and found out I could just click the login with Google button. Yes! No forms or anything. I'm happy. I'm now logged in and it's taken me a total of 3 minutes to get fairly comfortable and start work.

Thank you so much for this service. I hope free accounts are grandfathered in :)

p.s - Please make it so that I can invite more than one person per click.
Spend less and Save more. If you save ~18-20% starting in your early 20's you can stop caring what the stock market does. Basically plan for 4.5% ROI and deal with it. If you happen to be able to retire at 50 great, if not your still going to be ok. Don't go to an expensive school and get someone else to pay for grad school. Also don't skip out on insurance because cheap does not mean good.

PS: An Indian friend of mine saved 20k over a year while making 42k and living in an expensive area. He had no car, never eatout, and had a lot of roommates, but he wanted to save up for his sisters dowery. You can still splurge a lot more than that and still build a nest egg quickly.
Which free ones do you like? My biggest Confluence draws are rich text editor (nice for one-off pages), attachment indexing, and attachment versioning. But I'm always open to trying something else.
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The solar panel demo was actually doing something like rendering video, though I believe you're correct that the panel wasn't powering the display device.
Serious question, not rhetoric: Why do people write "f*ck" whe they mean "fuck"?

They ran his original, "fuck"-containing quote in the story, and "F*ck" in the headline.
Seriously, I've replaced my new book buying habit with used bookstore visits, NOT with ebooks (I've never payed for an ebook, but I do like Project Gutenberg)!

It helps that I mostly look for obscure sci-fi, which is quite under-represented in new book stores.
Wait a minute, are you saying that Science and Religion are two different magesteria? Or that religious dogmas are neither true nor false? What do you mean by "religious axioms"? Are they any different from other religious beliefs? From any other belief? And most importantly, what point does arguing about the (un)truth of religious axioms miss?

The way I see it, "religious axioms" are beliefs about our world. Like any other, they each more or less match our world. And I do see the point of arguing about their truth. I mean, it would be a pity to forsake our souls by rejecting an existent God, or forsake our lives to an non-existent one.
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Neat idea, I like the idea of a somewhat intelligent "traffic swarm", but the article doesn't address what effects a malicious player could induce on the scheme. What's to stop people from randomly broadcasting "Traffic Jam Ahead" signals to cause slowdowns, or maybe even "Traffic Jam Behind" to cause the vehicles to suddenly accelerate? Considering that, I think it would be possible to come up with an aftermarket module to regulate the behavior of the traffic swarm such that the user would reach his destination faster at the expense of slowing the rest of the swarm down. Any traffic swarming scheme needs to take this type of behavior into account, or else I don't think it would work out very well in practice.
Thanks for the feedback! Some answers:

* mouse-clickable button: APIs for handling the fullscreen state of browsers are still nascent (Chrome 15 and Firefox 9-ish?), so it's a matter of months until adding it;

* Chrome Web store: already on the to-do (plus 100% offline usage via HTML5 manifest).

Cheers.
That is an awesome website if you've not seen it before.
I'm a big fan of the site, product and logo and respect the willingness to share, and transparency of the design process
Interesting that they mention topgrading. It's a concept explained in the book Who: the 'A' Method for Hiring by Geoff Smart and Randy Street. When I first read the book, I was really skeptical, but maybe there's something to it.
New delivery mechanisms have changed the, er, game. When the audience has to get in a car, drive to a game/book store, physically peruse voluminous units, etc. just to identify and purchase the product, the practical audience is much smaller than the potential audience. When the acquisition process is simplified to tap-tap-tap-[password], the practical audience equals the potential audience.

A ballpark guess is Angry Birds is probably selling some 10x as many copies via on-a-whim instant downloads vs. the go-to-a-store-and-get-a-cardboard-box model.
I agree. The only problem is that you still need to leave room in case something catastrophic happens in front of you (deer, tire flat, etc.) Of course, if the system detects these events as slowing down of one vehicle, it could quickly slow others down, so you'd need less distance than with a human driver. But it only works so far. There are laws of physics dictating the distance needed if one vehicle has a sudden deceleration, and without sufficient distance you'd end up with one spectacular pileup.
WinRT demystified
Customers know their problems - not necessarily the solutions required to solve their problems. They may have a solution in mind for their problems. It is the job of the founder is boil down problems to their core and find solutions.

edit: grammar
It's a contortion to imagine Silverlight developers being happy. There's no point in building Silverlight web applications if they won't work in the default browser mode on PC's. So what was supposed to be a pervasive framework for rich web applications is now one of many for an unproven platform. This is such a heavy deprecation that abandoning it can't be far away.
Apple doesn't allow plugins in their web browser. Microsoft is not allowing plugins in Metro. Flash on the web has existed for years, and not having plugins hurts end users because they experience the entire web. No plugins for something that doesn't exist yet hurts no one, because apps will be designed from the ground up without plugins. See the difference?
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Very cool! fun to watch, not a big fan of the music though..
What I mean to say is, we may have hit a physical limit with our current approach (and price range).

Also, the requirement to "recharge" the batteries really decreases the energy density. Fuel cells allow more energy density, but making people "fill up" their laptops with fuel never really caught on.
I see posting this here as a mistake. You should post it somewhere where people dont know anything about it. Posting it here will result in us adding more and more detail, possibly making it more complicated.

I used to use my grandmother as a subject for testing out paper abstracts/intros for this reason. She could barely figure out scrolling.
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I've had people refuse to recognize that I was a technology person if I was wearing a suit since "only business people wear suits." That could be a issue if your role is to be recognized as a technical expert by people who might not be. It can be addressed in most situations, but it comes at an effort cost of overcoming expectations. People use variation in clothing as a queue for expectation.
It's considered bad form to have profanity in headlines. Of course, having a minced oath like f*ck in its place kinda defeats the point...

I'd rather not have sensationalized headlines, but oh well.
Clbuttic problem of different (and sometimes hard to understand/judge) case of NSFW regulations maybe?

It makes no sense to me either, though.
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You guys are slowly walking away from the main stream concept of programming. Not that you're not right, but what's the point of the article then?

So, using boolean syntax on google, is that programming too? I wouldn't say it isn't, but if we're talking about that than that already happened and the use of the word 'coding' becomes hilarious.
I've used the "Link Widgets" plugin for Firefox, which does a very good job of guessing and setting alt+pgup/pgdn to forward and back.
The documentation for WordPress is great (unlike many other open source projects), and the more time you spend with it the easier it becomes (like anything I guess). Theme development is drop dead easy. My best advice would be to not start with the default theme as your guide, but rather something much more stripped down. The default theme includes a lot of features simply to show them off and most aren't needed. Once you strip WP to it's core theme components building what you want back in is rewarding and really allows you to witness the power of this CMS. Most free plugins and themes are crap, but the richness of the environment means that usually someone somewhere has done or tried what you want as well. You can then use their knowledge to make your code even better (which you then maintain as opposed to relying on some student or freelancer who may or may not continue suppport)

Building your WP site, installing a free theme and a dozen plugins is definitely not the way a geek or true hacker should experience WP.
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I'm not some Arrington fan, and I try to stay away from Beta's posts; but, if you watched the TCDisrupt coverage, Arrington was trying to invest in just about everything.
Yes, I plan on doing the same thing with my blog (zappable.com). I didn't really see the point in Posterous as a blogging platform, so I guess it makes sense they're changing focus. However, there a re a couple of issues with a self-hosted blog, such as expense, security and ability to handle traffic spikes.
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Amazon subscription service could rewrite book industry
More TechCrunch drama as Arrington-backed startup wins blog's contest
I think the really cool potential for traffic jam abatement is when basically everyone uses on-line GPS routing (like Google maps), which can dynamically route vehicles based on the traffic density to approach a global minimum.

There is actually research about this, like http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=577201
Apple drops 'Jew or not Jew' app in France
Any discussion of Vim that lacks mention of text objects is under serving the editor. Text objects and repeat are by far the best features of the editor.
The article states that NCAs are contracts, but doesn't contract law stipulate that there must be some amount of equity between the consideration offered by the parties involved? Could a company really quantify the benefit of employment at that company, on a non-pro-rata basis (since you're held to the NCA whether you work there for an hour or a decade), to be worth an entire year's salary? That seems a tough bite to swallow.
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Interesting, so they are comparing to the OnDemand pricing of AWS, not including that 3-year reserved instances on AWS are somewhere in the ballpark of 48% cheaper, BUT, they have this footnote at the bottom of the pricing page that seems like a really interesting differentiating approach[1]:

No Charge For Data Transfer Up To 20TB Per Month Per
Account. 100TB free data transfer for customers over
500GB memory

On AWS, 20TB == 2,000GB * $0.10/GB (avg) = $200

and I suppose if you have enough SmartMachines on lease that you are pushing 500GB+ total of memory in your account, they up that to 100TB of transfer.

It looks like overages are a fairly reasonable $0.08/GB[2]

I think we are finally witnessing bandwidth becoming a race-to-0 for big cloud providers and I love it (I know there have been prediction-papers here on HN before about how it will eventually become free or near-free, it is just interesting to see the different ways we can get there). Best of luck to Joyent and it's great to see another strong competitor in this area!

ASIDE: Anyone have a geographical map of the data center locations you can deploy in the Joyent Cloud? One of the big appeals of AWS is having decent global coverage and I am trying to find more information about that form their site with no luck at the moment...

UPDATE: For anyone interested, just got this back from the Joyent team about the location of the data centers:

We launched today with two datacenters. WEST is in
Emeryville CA and SW is Las Vegas NV.

Inside of my.joyentcloud.com you will have a choice of
datacenters when provisioning a server.

[1] http://www.joyentcloud.com/products/pricing-comparison/smart...

[2] http://www.joyentcloud.com/products/smartmachines-2/options/
What part of rising house prices did Boomers have to fight? Surely that's a burden you've handballed to X/Y.

// Says a Gen Y from Australia where house prices haven't crashed yet.
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I wish them luck .. realistic games based on space exploration have been few and far between ("Buzz Aldrin's Race to Space", which is more of a strategy/management game) and have questionable marketability (Maxis scrapped "SimMars" to concentrate "The Sims").