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#6 is the one that resonates most strongly with me. in my last position there was one of these tiny-dog managers that'd pop in every 15 minutes or so and ask if something was done. at which point i'd spend five minutes explaining why it wasn't. he was the single biggest hindrance to my productivity. managers, don't be that guy. watch the trac task list if you must. don't harass the developers.

#3 - i take a little issue with this one, but not much. if it's straightforward to make something a little more flexible, the payoff is generally good. this depends on a few things: how sure are you that you'll be moving in that direction, how much work is it to add in the extra flex, how difficult will it be to connect up later?

it's worth thinking about, if only for a few minutes. the payoff could be huge, and even it's not, it's rarely wasted time.
I'm not an expert but they're still printing money with DSs and Wiis and they've increased their revenue projections this year... so I would guess yes
For those of you confused like I was, that's 10e14 to 10e15 per second, not 1014 to 1015.
Where "lots of options" means advertising in different forms.

Sure they can make some money from subscriptions, but Twitter is not a $50/month or even $50/year service in my opinion.
What are your thoughts on their high taxes?
Does the same logic apply to T-Mobile? As Apple's exclusive iPhone provider in Germany, T-Mobile must already have both a sufficient voice message system and an adequate deference to Apple's sense of design. Why not allow them to be an iPhone provider in the U.S. as well?

The truth is that Apple feels it can make much more money from exclusive contracts with the carriers than it can selling the phones directly to consumers.
the 'global scope' might work well for global applications, but could just as easily serve as a hindrance for a focused social application.
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Thanks, but there's still a ton of work to do and nothing is guaranteed :).
Bah! This is The New Economy. You just don't "Get It".
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It does here....

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/wikileaks.org
I'm very interested to see this play out. Pop wisdom says with enough eyes and with low enough operating costs there will be some way to make it as a company.

But there has to be an inflection point somewhere. Look at youtube, they will never be in the black (taken on their own).

So either they turn a profit, and this piece of wisdom is strongly reinforced. Or they go under, and entrepreneurs and VCs lose a certain glint in their eye. Or they get bought... and probably no one's mind is changed.
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Looking at the screenshots, there is no evidence of government business there. She's bitching a bit about Dan Fagan (a repub. commentator in AK) in the one email, but everything looks pretty personal.

I have a work and personal account... 99% of the time I manage to keep my personal account personal-- occasionally I don't. I'd be stunned if there weren't occasional transgressions on this front in any governor's office. I'd expect that security tightens up a bit in the Executive branch.

(disclaimers: I lived in Alaska until 2 years ago and know how utterly wrong the national media is about what goes on up there. I am not a republican, but don't really consider myself a democrat, either.)
I bet you THIS is why GOOG-411 was launched. I was waiting for an announcement like this.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=306927
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Im in
Hi everyone... I have been reading HN for about six months now.. firstly I'd like to say that this is a great community from which i've got invaluable information on not only startups but also many other useful links and info about programming and web developement in general. Also off topic stuff(like the hyperbrain ownerś manual) which I could really relate to. I didn't create an account for so long as I thought(and still think) that I didn't have much to contribute. I've been interested in the internet ever since the first dial up connections came to my town(i was 11 then i think) but because I went to a residential school I didn't have a lot of access. Now that I've finally got time(and a lot of it) I am gonna start pursuing web dev.

Now for the question part. I've been learning python since past 2 months and have picked it up quite well. I plan to start with some framework for server side now(probably Django). I have very less knowledge of HTML so I plan to learn that next and then learn Javascript for client side stuff. Am i on the right path? Any suggestions and recommendations would be appreciated.
Thanks
I predict they will fail as a result. California is among the least business-friendly of states, especially if you are making a physical product. How much equipment does Cisco make in San Jose?
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this is exactly why patent reform needs to happen now. innovation-stifling patents make everyone nervous, and cause neverending hassle for tech research and development. patents were designed to keep someone from copying someone else's designs, not to get a stranglehold on a wide swath of tech landscape. as they've gotten more generalized over time, they've also gotten more abusive.

which presidential candidate is talking patent reform? there's a snippet here (http://www.industryweek.com/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=17320), but it only says the obvious. whoever is serious about it, vote for that guy.
As a Canadian, I think you Americans obsess about tax rates far too much. Sure they pay high taxes, but they also pay next to nothing for health care, schools, they get FREE university, etc etc. Point being it balances out.

Add to that that they have a business friendly environment, land access to the rest of the EU and are big free trade lovers and you've got a pretty good place to settle.
Valve is a great company because of the amazing games it has in its kitty. Games for PC's are not doing great and i am pretty much sure, in couple of years developers will stop making games for PC.

Steam is good content delivery system but will it be able to compete with XBOX Live, i really don't think so. Future for gaming is consoles, most of the in-game advertising will be done by the platform's like Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo.
Wow. Why did this get downmodded? Just curious. It's 100 percent apropos:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_test

...used the phrase when he accused the Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán government of being Communist. Patterson explained his reasoning as follows:

Suppose you see a bird walking around in a farm yard. This bird has no label that says 'duck'. But the bird certainly looks like a duck. Also, he goes to the pond and you notice that he swims like a duck. Then he opens his beak and quacks like a duck. Well, by this time you have probably reached the conclusion that the bird is a duck, whether he's wearing a label or not."
I'm not going to repost stuff from Wikilinks here, but it looks like you're not correct: there's a transcript of the screenshots that includes things like, "CONFIDENTIAL ETHICS INVESTIGATION" and "REQUEST FOR DOCUMENTS".

In addition to being a fuckup of spectacular proportions, it also corroborates an earlier news report of leaked emails that included specific instructions not to send sensitive government mails to Palin's work account.

Of course, none of this has been authenticated. It looks credible, but there's plenty of incentive to make something look credible in this political and news climate.

The interesting story here is the trend story. It applies to companies as well as government officials. People will attempt to use personal email accounts to avoid subpoenas. But nobody knows enough to keep those accounts secure, and the growing insecurity of the web guarantees most hosted mail accounts will eventually get popped. Meanwhile, it's hard for executives and officials to find "secure" mail providers without tacitly confirming that they're conducting business in secret. It's an interesting problem.

[Late edit: Time: it's probably real.]
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But California is one of the most aggressive alternative energy promoting states. They are motivated:

> California offered incentives worth about $15 million and possibly more. That includes waiving rent for the first 10 years of the 40-year lease on the San Jose property and waiving state sales tax on $100 million worth of equipment.
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Those options don't strike me as particularly strong. The assumption is that people won't mind ads in their updates, but that's something that has yet to be proven and could end up being a huge risk.
Here's a good guideline: in order to avoid looking like you're advocating for one particular candidate in these sorts of discussions, it's best to always use two examples: one which makes one party look bad, and another which makes the other party look bad.

So if you're going to talk about an example of dishonesty on the part of the McCain campaign, you should follow it up immediately by an example of dishonesty on the part of the Obama campaign. That way, everybody stays happy, and it stops things from degenerating into political arguments.
I hope Valve will be "Still Alive" after it gets bought by Google.
Only the fact that its google's mantra/tagline...
If you want an explanation on why GS and MS are in free fall, look at the money markets. After the Reserve Fund broke the buck yesterday, money market funds are increasingly wary of lending to investment banks in the short term repo markets. The TED spread has also spiked up to record levels (The TED spread indicates how willing banks are in lending money to one another)

This is like the 1907 money market panic. GS and MS could be solvent but cannot stay in business if it can't access funds easily in the overnight markets since they don't have a stable deposit base like commercial banks do and they are almost entirely dependent on the repo markets for funding.

Should we be expecting another bailout from the government soon?
Would we also be able to stop yard signs and bumper stickers? Because they also annoy me.

There is, of course, this pesky thing called "Freedom of speech".
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Cool man, thanks. Usually I'd delete the dupe, but in this case I'd rather have the unpaginated version in my personal archive.
I am posting this comment 69 days after the thread started. It was with this thread that I first heard of Moleskine notebooks.

"Absurd," I thought. "Just get a cheap regular notebook."

But something kept pining away at me. So I finally spent $15 to get a mid-sized Moleskine notebook and give it a try. If it was a waste, well, I've wasted way more than $15 before.

I must say I have been pleasantly surprised, and I'm not entirely sure why. The size, the durability, the rubber band around the outside all add up for nice features in a notebook, but something about it -- and it may well be the fact that it cost $15 -- makes me take journaling my thoughts more seriously.

I may will ditch it sometime, if it doesn't prove beneficial in the long-term, but at minimum, I can understand why for some people these seemingly overpriced notebooks may actually be a good thing.
I would too, but somewhat less interested because the companies are still so early stage. The story is just beginning for most of them.
422% growth in traffic is not 422% growth in registrations. There is a solid core of early adopters, but getting mainstream society to start Twittering -- especially when there are similar services offered by more popular platforms, such as Facebook -- will be a challenge.
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I agree with the conclusion, but not the logic.

A much more likely cause for IE supremacy is an established set of enterprise "web" applications, where these (badly written) "web" applications are so broken outside IE that they might as well be Win32.

If executives sank money into applications that now run the business, and find that IE keeps those applications running, they're more likely to establish an easy policy like "IE only". They are not likely to spend money to "fix" the "problem" that non-IE users "created".

As ideal as it would be to inform executives that it is Microsoft's broken code that actually created the problem of bringing in new browsers, I guarantee they won't see it that way.
California is one of the most aggressive alternative energy promoting states.

Not really.

http://news.google.com/news?q=fresno%20nuclear

The Fresno Nuclear Energy Group has ignored a current state ban on new nuclear power plants.
I am on twitter and use it a bit because I have found it an easier way to get the attention of some people in the Ruby community.

Anyways, I still feel like I don't really get Twitter. I read the NYT article, and i understand that many people don't subscribe to blog feeds, but I don't really get the point.

The only time I find it really useful is that it forms an impromptu chat room at any event by following the event name. Such as when I am at conferences you can view everyone's comments on the current speaker.

Anyone able to make me 'get it'?
No, I'm not. I'm just appreciating this article from a completely different looking glass.
Even more so than any commercial network. The BBC is a law unto itself, beholden neither to the government of the day nor to the viewers. They produce the programs they feel like producing, and only hire people who think like themselves.

Now this has some good points, and the BBC actually winds up producing some very good television, but it's definitely the "elite telling you what to watch" model.
"What is your motive or business case for orchestrating the rollout into your environment?"

That right there is why business IT changes at such a snail's pace. There's a tremendous difference in mindset between tech businesses, and businesses that use tech to save money, streamline processes, etc.

A lot of people in the startup community proclaim that businesses will be switching en masse from Windows and Blackberries and Office to Apples and iPhones and Google Docs, and it's exactly that sentence that they don't get. Even if newer products would be better for them (and they might) it would have to be a lot better to justify the expense.

All Microsoft has to do is remain good enough.
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Sometimes, you have to resign to win. If you want to keep these people off of education, how can they improve their own situation? Does this benefit you?

btw: what's your age now?
There's a branch of Python that removed the GIL. On single-threaded stuff, it's slower than regular Python.
Can you point to at least one "established set of enterprise "web" applications" that supports this claim?
To put it another way, the "lies" you hear in a political campaign (at least in official statements) are almost never genuine lies. Instead, you get a lot of exaggerations, things taken out of context, strictly-true things phrased misleadingly, minor points overemphasised, major points glossed over, weasel words, ambiguous phrasings and "well that depends on your interpretation"s.

Of course all of these will be called "lies" by the opposing party, but they're not really. A sensible politician will never say anything provably false -- everything he/she says will have a back door that he/she can slip out of if it's challenged.
More likely, they'd just engineer a merger between a distressed commercial bank and a solvent investment bank. You could use Goldman's asset base to shore up WaMu's balance sheet, and WaMu's deposit base to reduce Goldman's need for short-term cash.

So much for Glass-Steagall though. I could see this causing a bigger problem a few years down the line when the combined entity starts taking risks with depositors' money that lead to 1929-style bank runs.
One problem with what you're saying is how you define "beta". Everyone defines it differently (What Google considers beta is different than what I would consider beta which is different than what you consider beta.

A larger problem (you're not alone in making this mistake) is trying to lump software development into set, solid stages. Development is more fluid then "OK. we're beta. next up is final release and we're done forever." It's doubtful that you ever stop adding features or making something better. And if that is the case, I'm not entirely sure I'd want to use your product knowing it'll never be improved beyond 1.0.

As for why you might want to limit invites? Maybe you're trying to figure out how much it can scale with what you currently have before you work on it some more? Or maybe you want to try the limited scarcity thing out. Who knows the motivations.
| This is not exactly rational behavior.

Exactly what behavioral finance has found. IMO, investing well is less about making the right picks (buy x now, sell y now) and more about saving yourself from yourself. After the market has been down for 8 months, people get scared and feel the need to get out of stocks. But that's exactly the wrong time to get out.
I wish people stop using "least common denominator" outside its original context. I think the term "median" would be appropriate here.
It is to some people, the 'Internet celebrity' (Calacanis etc.) crowd would gladly throw thousands/year at Twitter as it allows them to grow their image/social circle.
The final exam of one of my friend's electrical engineering courses required students to program an elevator system (or at least part of one) - he received extra marks from the professor, because he factored in a significant delay when someone hit the button too many times in a short period (7 times within 2 seconds, I think). I guess the professor found the concept very amusing in an actual application. Nonetheless, very cool story in its simplicity.
the patent system is the main reason why the Chinese will eventually overtake us.
THe three main points I was able to extract were reflected in the title:

Innovate or die.
Consultants suck.
Digg sucks because they didn't cash out .. and er tried to innovate but failed?

I'd agree with 2/3
Every enterprise has their own. It's called their "intranet". Many written for ie only (they may not have even realized it at the time).

No one wants to rewrite their intranet just to support a marginally better browser.
There's an 'edit' link for a reason, replying to your own reply is just silly.
What happens to them if they fail to pay it off?
I hope so too. And I think that's hilarious. Almost poetic.
The fact that IE is still pulling in big numbers is simply a sign of the times, and I believe it's volume of use and prevalence will eventually die off in the years to come. In short, the majority of computer users i.e. people are technically irrational and old, aka your typical Baby Boomer. I speak in stereotypes only to illustrate my point. sighs
People will just move to whatever twitter like service there is that doesn't have ads.
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established internal projects, in my experience, tend to target the browsers used by the employees of the company. a lot of shops are still windows-only shops, and so there is no cost-savings gained from worrying about support for other browsers.
Citation? I don't necessarily disbelieve, but I want to read more.
oh lawl;
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/17/google-to-acquire-valve... deals an uppercut to TechCrunch and their staff.
And the money to pay back the bonds comes from only one source - taxes. So yeah, we can borrow it now and make the grandkids pay it off.
Context sensitive to your text and voice chats, no doubt.

EDIT: just saw this. perfect. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=307061

FWIW I'm calling bullshit on this story.
Given that the parent post chose his examples to make one side look good, I don't think my response was inappropriate (in fact, all really did was counter his primary argument using his own example).

It's important to be civil and logical; it's not important for every participant in a debate to make the other side's arguments for them.
That's very true, but that's also what's so exciting about this whole movement. We're in the middle of something pretty special. An all YC Founders at Work would tell the story of a few exits, but it could also get into the details of some still-growing companies. Those are the companies that will to continue to hold us in suspense even after we finish the book. We get to watch those stories come to an end in real time.

Jessica would be in a pretty good position to tell those tales.
Actually, that works even if you don't change read-default-float-format. I think + should coerce single-floats to double-floats when appropriate, though.

CL-USER> (+ 1203981239.123d0 129381723987498237492138461293238947239847293848923)
==> 1.2938172398749823d50

CL-USER> (+ 1203981239.123f0 129381723987498237492138461293238947239847293848923)
debugger invoked on a SIMPLE-TYPE-ERROR ...

(note ...f0 vs ...d0)

Admittedly, this is not a problem I'd expect to encounter in real life, so I'm not losing much sleep over it. CL is weird and I accept that ;)
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There's a beauty comment there (top of the list when I checked) about how the author is measuring from the peak of the dot-com bubble to our current, pretty awful trough (though I guess likely to proceed still lower).

"Looking back 6 years (to mid-September 2002), counting the recent turmoils, the S&P500 has had average non-inflation-adjusted growth of 4.9% per year. Looking back 12 years (to 1996) the growth is 4.6%."

Lies, damned lies, and statistics.
They weren't doing too badly but it is worth noting that their revenue grew by 89.8% in 2007 (http://www.i4u.com/article17075.html).

This is in part due to the unexpected roaring success of the Wii. Such a feat will be difficult to pull off in the future (although Nintendo is remarkably left-field thinking and might surprise us).

So before the Wii and DS, I bet that the profit-per-employee was probably less than that of a Goldman employee.

I would be really interested in a 10 or 20 year profit-per-employee comparison between Goldman and Nintendo.
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Haven't tried TextMate, but I hear it's all the rave. Does it follow the emacs/vim design paradigm of keyboard shortcuts?
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How interested would users be in a $0.10/message Twitter clone with (however many nines) guaranteed uptime? Twitter should limit the number of messages a regular user can send (over a given period, possibly) and charge a nominal premium fee or rate for the heaviest users. It's an obvious business model, and everybody wins (except for the heavy users who expect the service to be free of charge, who are thus kinda cheap).