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I don't think he will.

He's mocked people for a long time, then tried to do what they do and bounced back with a resounding failure. I figured he's not the kind of person to take this gracefully, and his resumption of uncov is exactly what I'm talking about.

The thing that's really rich is that if uncov had been active at the time, they would have torn pressflip several new orifices because they were doing a lot of things wrong.

It's pretty hardcore hypocritical to admit you don't have the stones for the fight and then go back to making fun of people who do. No matter how bad their code is, at least they're not quitters.
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I agree. It'd be one thing if it was funny, or actually picked holes in pg's arguments, but it's not much better than the average youtube comment.

"Ah, yes. It's a crying shame that your landlord won't accept an explanation of your idea in lieu of rent. "

If you're founder material you'd sleep at your parents/friends for a year, or get a night job or do some consulting to pay the bills.
It's at times like this where people are tested and those that don't have it, fail. Which is why I guess he quit pressflip. This is just bitter rambling really.
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I feel this way as well--except I think I'm what he calls a "hacker", and as someone mentions above, I only like making money--so far in my professional career, anyway--because it represents freedom to work on stuff I care about, in some sense. Usually people call this "time"; if you have the money to keep yourself alive without working constantly on things you don't care about, then you have time for things you care about. I think of it as something more like "energy" myself, since even when I don't have a paying job at all (and thus have lots and lots of time), I still can only stand working in a few fairly short, intense bursts per day, due to the rise and fall of my inspiration and fatigue and so forth.

But back onto Mr. Graham: Since I'm a "hacker", I already know a lot of stuff he knows about software development, and in fact it's clear that I also know a lot that he doesn't address in his essays and probably isn't even aware of. I mean, I'm a video game developer who writes in Java on Windows machines, and I've got good reason to be such. Why should I pay attention to Mr. Lisp here who scorns Windows and has never used Java, and who doesn't even mention playing games, let alone programming them?* I'm sure I could learn some things from him, but he is ignorant of my world, however much he may know about his own kind of software development.

He is far from ignorant, however, about startups. And he's got interesting things to say about various other, non-technical subjects too. So let him talk about those!

* I suspect there are plenty of Mac fans and Lisp fans and C++ fans among this site's readers who could snappily answer this question. I do not have time to armor this comment against techie criticism; that would itself require an essay. Suffice to say that I claim I could if I wanted to. :)
So many more people die in car accidents than in terrorist attacks - I would say that the feeling of safety in flight is not false in any account. The article has it completely backwards - the airport security theater is what creates the false feeling of unsafety.
Oh, also, what's interesting about this whole business is that PG is actually continuing to put his own money on the line as if nothing had changed, and will presumably be able to gather some real data from how the YC startups fare in the next year or two, rather than simply writing about it. Ted bailed on his startup before the economy even really got bad, and has apparently gone back to writing nasty things about other people, which, compared to risking your money and mentoring people, is pretty easy.
Eat slower.
Youtube comments are also sort of funny for a while at first.
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I think there are people that can read and digest all his books, especially in SV, but Knuth would have known about them already or something.
Reminds me of the maxim: Be nice to people on the way up, because they're the same ones you're going to meet on the way back down again.
They might have been able to bug all the cars that went through their dock, and then recover bugs that went into cars that weren't important.
See, this is what the US needs: a secret service that doesn't destroy people's privacy or break in in the middle of the night but actually gets its job done.
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In a similar process ( but not only focused on marketing) I did a consulting job for a startup ( mostly focused on concept and social design) and joined the team after some time.

The basic thing is you can't be 100% sure, it won't work without some trust. I get shares depending on the success, first 7% after relaunch, next 5 % after 10.000 user and so on I think something like this might work in your case...
It's worse than this, my regional newspaper actually covered /b/ itself - "the place where the Internet throws up at 4 in the morning".
Cash is king. Period.
"...writing nasty things about people, which, compared to anything, is pretty easy."

So easy Palin can do it. Or to be crude, easier than Palin's daughter. Okay, have your pick.
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Great article. The notion of "short-term self" vs. "long-term self", the self which wants to blow the pay cheque on booze, and the self which wants to save some of it for a rainy day, explains much internal conflict. My complaint though is it presents the "multiple selves" idea as in some way different from Freud's "superego. vs. ego. vs. id" model. I do not believe these are contradictory. The "short-term self" can be part of the id, I would think. The "long-term self" can be manifestations of the ego or the super-ego, it seems. The Freudian model is simpler, and still valid. However in some cases, the "multiple selves" model can be used to enhance the Freudian model. To me, just as a layman's opinion, it seems the Freudian model might be like Newtonian gravity - works in most situations, except in "corner cases" like the orbit of Mercury, where we need general relativity. Similarly, the Freudian "id/ego/superego" model of personality should still work in most cases, but there might be "corner cases" where a more complex "multiple selves" model might come in handy. By the way Robert Louis Stevenson in 'Jeckyl and Hyde' comes to this same model himself. Dr. Henry Jeckyl at last realizes that in each man there are many men, not just two.
I agree, I feel safer on Amtrak than when I fly and have to go through security; I never have the opportunity to wonder if the guy behind me has a bomb in his shoes. Though I do agree with the article that airport security is designed to make you feel safe.
We write a lot of what we call "smoke tests," which are essentially integration testing in most people's parlance. It's a long story, but we have a custom web framework that's widget-based, and one thing that allows us to do is to write UI-level tests directly in-process against that widget model, rather than having to use an external client to deal with the HTML output (so they can run and be written like unit tests). Our internal language has an open type system, allowing us to essentially do type-safe metaprogramming on the set of pages and widgets, such that if someone changes the page (like removing a button) the test will cease to compile. In general, maintenance is a huge problem for UI-level tests, so that's been a huge win for us.

To test the framework itself, we mainly use Selenium to test the actual HTML and javascript output. To test things that Selenium can't easily handle, we've also used the Watir library (http://wtr.rubyforge.org/).

Our real unit tests are basically built on top of JUnit, though we have our own extensions to it that are specific to our platform.

To run the tests and report results, we have a custom application developed on our web framework and the rest of our software stack. Originally we used CruiseControl, but we outgrew that fairly quickly. It does a lot of stuff for us, but the key abilities are 1) parceling the tests out to a farm of servers and 2) assigning test breaks to users (basically a guess based on who changed what files in source control since the last successful test run); if you have more than a few people on the team, without actually making the test breaks one person's problem to resolve you end up with massive diffusion of responsibility where no one thinks it's their break.

We also have an internal performance testing harness for running load tests, which we write using the same framework as the smoke tests I described above (though in that case the clients are naturally remote).
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pry? That sentence doesn't make any sense. Does it make sense for UKers?
If it is true, it means that counterterrorism in the airport actually decreases security, as it decreases motivitation to find real solutions to the problem.
Yeah - like you are going to refuse a pay rise?

I have yet to meet someone who does not want more. However, rationalizing that you are at the perfect pay now is a good strategy for happiness.
Because they'll figure out a revenue model eventually, just like Google did.

I'm not familiar with google's early history, but I'm curious, is this a fair comparison? Was there a significant period where google looked like it'd be (or was) a popular product but had no revenue?
It's really amazing how almost any problem domain will have interesting edge cases in random areas that careful people have found and dedicated lots of effort to, yet you can still look at two superficially similar yet differently priced items in an unfamiliar space and think there can't be much between them.

I was talking to a shotgun owner recently, and his more expensive shotgun has an extra mechanism in the safety - where more basic guns stop you pulling the trigger, this one also blocks the hammer from striking so it wont fire if dropped or jolted. Not something I'd think to look for, but the sort of thing that's nice to know exists.

I think there might be a bit of QWAN about it as well - where some careful craftspersons have taken extra care over details you haven't specifically thought of, you can tell the item is better but you can't tell for sure whether it's the choice of material, fit-and-finish, the lack of an annoyance from a previous version, the luck of the draw, or possibly just your imagination.

It's also slightly offputting - to know that whatever you want to create or learn, there's a massive proverbial undersea iceberg waiting for you.

(Edit: I wonder what proportion of sentences in HN comments begin with either "I" or "It's"?)
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looking for investors..... interested?

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For me it's simple. Paul Graham is the guy with the money, the one that is "making it." I love Ted Dziuva, and for all of his humorous, scathingly accurate (most of the time) insight, he Ain't all that good a businessman.

So when it comes to picking apart shitty, business concept-less startups, Dziuva is THE man.

For all things business and big picture-ness PG is THE man.

The way I see it, people should rejoice because Ted says he will never seek funding from PG or anyone that looks like him. So one less person chasing those funds.

A true businessman and startup guy would never say "no" to funds. Ted did look a little naive right there.
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I learned to be a self-starter from a friend who was apparently born that way.

You don't have to pay for Montessori for your kids to be self-starters. There have to be other ways to go about this. In addition, I think you're focusing too much on one aspect of their lives. What about integrity? What about determination? What about curiosity? What about attention to detail? Humility? Passion? Ambition? There are too many desirable traits to focus too much on a single one.
Alas, most of us fail to disconnect even though we consciously try, so hard.

For example, YC News's procrastination feature. The override makes it useless for people like me. (Cue deep sigh.) I get used to override, and here I am. Speaking of which...
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Google uses pretty much all of their own products internally. Notably, the corporate version of gmail, and Google Calendar.

Here's a cite:
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-03-12-n39.html
The general idea is "companies exist to make money, at least enough to cover there expenses". So if you've been so succesful and have discoved how to make money yet, but you have figured out how to spend money, that does seem a situation that begs for questions. But if you don't want people to ask questions, you can always ask them that they are asking stupid questions.
Sorry but this is mostly bs.
It's not like anyone knows what gender you are online anyway.
Girls and Boys like different things regardless of society. Get over it. We're built differently, and have different strengths and weaknesses.

"We all know that most computer games are written by and for men."

Maybe true a few years ago, certainly not now - "Petz" "hamsterz" "animal crossing" "Wii fit" "Nintendogs" etc etc. Nintendo probably makes more 'girl' games than they do 'boy' games.
I think he has a small gift as a satirist but has pretty much squandered it. I no longer have any interest in reading him because the quality has gotten so spotty and he doesn't care enough about what's true.

A really good writer (or blogger) wouldn't try to pick up where he left off or act like nothing had happened. Someone whose overriding theme has been the failure of others can't ignore his own failures without becoming shallow and, worse, boring.
And the 'speaking truth to power' schtick is an evergreen.

Of course it is. But he isn't speaking truth and he isn't speaking to power.
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all_users.select(&:is_active).map(&:name).sort

isn't standard Ruby; it will (currently) only work in Rails.

It's standard in 1.9, and making it work in 1.8 is all of 3 lines:

class Symbol
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end

Or if you've got facets:

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PC or Mac? Not anymore.
A good satirist can laugh at himself. That is not the impression I get from this fellow.
I think one problem of the Web is that it can reinforce one-dimensionality in some people. People seek out only the narrow set of things they are interested in instead of taking advantage of the breadth it has to offer. So you get people complaining that pg or Joel Spolsky don't talk about what they used to talk about anymore.

That's a really bad place to put yourself. My business ideas are pretty far from what I see discussed here, but I still get a lot of useful knowledge from hanging around. I'd say that the fact that the startups here are different from what I'm likely to do is valuable in its own way: forces me to see the common technology from another perspective and that itself generates further ideas.
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the problem with this model, is that there's no value return for the people "funding".

a true investment delivers some sort of equity stake in return for investment. if say, you bought a fundware game, and got the next game free, that would be a valid fundware type argument.

here's how that would work. I need money to fund my endeavor, i release something with a slight entertainment value for more than its worth, with the guarantee that anyone who purchases it will get the product i'm developing with the money for free. sales happen and i reach the level of funding i need for the second product, i stop sales on initial product (make it free) and sell second product and let people who have "invested" receive their copies free of charge.
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Why would you gamble with your freedom? Most of Paul Graham's fans could easily do 3 years of lawschool at a top tier school and could then work 5 years and retire for life.
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Mike Leach (coach of Texas Tech and quoted in the article) employs similar tactics:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/magazine/04coach.html?page...

Edit: Never thought I'd see a sports piece atop Hacker News.
Me too. Anyone else?
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Really? My brother's a businessman, not a programmer, and uses Linux on a daily basis (in fact, he started using it before me). I have lots of friends who use Linux; many of them are not programmers/hackers. Quite often my non-technical friends mention they are thinking of trying Linux (I advise them to go with Ubuntu).

So while many, perhaps even most Linux users are hackers, many are just "normal" people using it to get a job done.
I noticed that too. But I remember that several hours before 10pm PST on my "Y Combinator Funding Page", the application deadline was still shown as 10PM PST.
Definitely something to think about.

The article's amazingly well-written. Smooth to read, but communicates a huge amount of information with a minimum of fluff. I want more journalism like this.
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It took days of forum diving to get Ubuntu up and running on my desktop. My wireless networking still doesn't work after following a handful of 20-step installation guides, compiling a few kernel modules, editing a few configuration files and the like. Eventually I gave up and strung a 100 ft. Cat 5 cable to the house router. If I weren't already so determined to use it, I would have given up and spent $99 on an XP disk a long time ago.

That said, Ubuntu works great on my Lenovo laptop, not that you would know that from the gargantuan and labyrinthine hardware compatibility lists.

Linux is hard. It takes commitment or an IT guy.
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There are probably many women in computing, just not that much famous ones, i guess.
Sounds like some fun disruptive innovation at work, but as a european who doesn't give a flying fuck about "american football" and doesn't know any of the jargon, this was mostly unintelligible.
It's not like anyone knows what gender you are online anyway.

But.. you still HAVE a gender. Just because you don't know who you're offending doesn't mean you aren't being offensive.

We're built differently, and have different strengths and weaknesses.

I tend to agree. Part of me doubts that linux/hacker/computer/nerd culture will ever be 50/50, but I've seen some of the do's and don'ts in the real world.

Maybe true a few years ago, certainly not now

Well, it was written in 2002.
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" The Freudian model is simpler, and still valid. "

Is there any actual evidence, any reproducible tests to validate Freud's conjectures about the mind?

(For that matter, has any of Freud's work been scientifically validated?)
China's growth has been about 9% per annum fairly steadily for the last quarter-century. America's growth has been about 3% over the same period. So it's not as if I'm using just one year's figures.
Basically, there are normally rules preventing most of the offensive players from receiving a pass; by switching the starting formation they make everyone eligible and explode the number of possible passes they can make.

It's an extremely clever hack; I don't care about football either but I'm impressed by the thinking.
"Speaking truth to power"? More like, flinging feces at productive people.
I don't think you can truely learn to be a self-starters. Being a self-starter myself, I have friends who just don't have the drive to do it themselves, even after knowing/seeing that it's the only way to get things done.
Thus I'm convinced that this drive is mostly genetic. Plus, isn't the definition of a self-starter someone who accomplishes things on his own without prior instruction? Then being a self-starter is independent of the amount of instructions. If anything I'd throw my kids in public school to make them better self-starters, because self-starters have to learn to keep that drive going even when the mainstream population are followers.

That is not to say you can't learn the trades of being a self-starters, such as discipline, progress logging, mini-goal management, lauch-then-iterate, etc. But that comes with experience. I won't even attempt to teach these things to kids under 12.
0. Don't believe that you know what's best for others.

I check and send email first thing. Starting the flow of communication starts me, personally, on the right foot, and gives the addressee more time to respond.

I most always have a cell phone on me. I like people and have no problem ignoring a call if need be. And as for not answering unknown numbers, give me a break. People are shy and often don't like leaving voicemail.
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I want more journalism like this

The author is a professor of psychology at Yale. It's sad to say it, but he'd be wasted as a journalist.
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I love this part: "Don't treat women stereotypically" ...and yet further up the article: "since they have low self-confidence to begin with".

Total crap. I can't believe this was written by a woman.
There are a couple thing I wonder about:

1) Is sample size large enough to draw conclusions? They have people at bus stops, rail stop, people from the north. from London, etc but only 409 total? And not everyone agreed to have their hands swabbed, so is it possible that the "dirtier" hands from London just turned down the swabbing?

And these are people who may also have just come off the rail or bus from elsewhere. If they all touched some common thing on the way out of the vehicle, they could be otherwise clean people who just got swabbed after picking up pathogens.

Still, half the people is really high. They should redo the experiment and see if they reach the same conclusions.