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>> Bad part is, we don't have any money
>>left for new development. I've handled
>>a good portion of the tech issues, except
>>for the core programming of the app:
>>interface design, database design, sys admin
>> config, some bug fixing,etc. Think of it
>> more as a CTO role, than a lead dev role.
>> At the end of the day it's still 2 of us,
>> that's a troubling sign. I'm a pretty
>> motivating person, and the fact no one else
>> has really shown interest in helping out or
>> getting involved is scary.

Well... it would be unusual for other people to show interest until you're making money or demonstrating how it can be done. Even if you have a great product changing people's patterns of behavior is very difficult.

The upside of this is that once you ARE making money, you'll find it becomes a lot easier.

If you don't think your partner is pulling their weight, the first question you should ask is whether you're being realistic/fair in your expectations of them, or whether you are looking for someone to blame for some perceived failure. Your post suggests that your partner is - in fact - doing most of the core development work. In either case, bestes is dead right - you need to clear your expectations with your co-founder.

If you need money get a part-time job or let one of you focus on trying to get funding while the other continues development work. Marketing is going to take a lot of effort, and if you're complaining about not having money for development it makes me wonder how you're planning on getting the word out to prospective customers.
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"This system naturally lends itself to a pipeline approach, which the product manager organizes."

Whoever came up with "the pipeline approach", or thought it would be a good idea, had never actually worked on any part of a project before. The reason the pipeline approach fails is because the people with the most knowledge about what is possible are at the end of the pipeline, and for some reason they are kept there. The implementers need to be learning the process they are implementing, before a spec is even written. I bet the majority of everyone's career has been spent being told to implement impossible requirements, or admitting that the requirements aren't actually impossible and having to say that the company doesn't actually have the time or the money to implement it (which is the logical definition of impossible, if not the physical definition).
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"... The Samba project, like Mono, provides a cross-platform alternative to closed Microsoft technologies. It is equally vulnerable to the (increasingly toothless) Microsoft patent threats and arbitrary changes in the protocols. Yet Samba is admired ..."

It's not evil, just !C. Part of the reason I have problems with Mono is the choice of language the libs are written. The applications are first rate but I hate the fact I have to download a bucket load of extras ( "in the past - it comes standard with Ubuntu" ) to run say great bits of software like Tomboy. It rubs against the grain of gnu's C bias ( "are there mono-bindings for c-based apps?" ) Now Gnome desktop and it's libraries created by the same team thats another story.
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Taleb doesn't claim that black swans are strange; kind of the opposite, in fact. His claims is that its stupid to pretend that black swans don't exist simply because they haven't been seen before.

I don't see what the gimmick is in this line of thought, can you explain a bit more?
funny they dont mention alcohol or drunkenness explicitly anywhere in the email, yet everyone knows what this is about.
You're kidding right? with all the innovation I've been hearing about Ruby, you would think Rails might get a speed boost...
"... Linus Torvalds starts blogging ..."

He's been blogging for years in the kernel change logs. Sample ~ http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.20 for instance. Worth a read though as you can gauge what hardware is coming up that runs superior on linux. And there's more software to take a peek at ~ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/tracker
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I think you misunderstand what a "black swan" event is. It isn't necessarily an amazingly rare or complicated thing; actually, kind of the opposite. It's an event that is thought to be rare based only on the flawed reasoning that it hasn't been seen yet - the danger of a black swan comes from people betting so heavily on that perceived rarity.
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I don't understand why this is supposed to be a bad time to monetize through the customer. Maybe it's bad if you are relying on getting advertising revenue from indiscriminate advertisers in the mass market, but....

We're doing something consumer focused and are close to breaking even on content costs after about a month in beta with less than 500 users. We're planning to increase our ad spending significantly, and I couldn't care less if our customers spend less money overall as long as we are their best option for the product we sell them.

I could see this being a problem if you have to position yourself as a cheaper, better alternative to established competitors to survive, but the issue there is more about branding than business model; can you move from being a low-cost play into being a premium brand if you need to cut revenues to compete in a crowded market?

Just build your product into the best product it can be and you'll change the market. Let others worry about competing with you and focus on giving people tons of value for the money they give you. As long as the market exists, you'll do ok.
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I think coworking certainly has it benefits, in terms of networking, helping each other out etc.

but also, there is quite some overhead attached to it, especially when compared to working from home.

a) the commute. that is time essentially totally unproductive and costs you either BART tickets or gasoline.

b) the distraction: while it's fun being around other people, I've seen how much people talk to each other, in terms of productivity it is not that great. there are a lot of people coming in from everywhere, and everyone is interesting to talk to. but that's exactly the problem. while you're talking to them you're not moving your product ahead. of course you need to have a healthy balance of networking also, since you can generate sales/hire/partner leads with it. but for that, a cowork space is just not focused enough

c) equipment/food etc. if you work from home, you need everything just once, you have 24h access to your fridge, you don't have to carry laptops around or screens etc. and you will save money since you don't have to go out for lunch and can just cook or eat frozen food at home.

I am lucky since a have a cofounder, I guess that makes it easier to stay and work from home.

Then again, I would seriously think about getting a cofounder, I feel it's much more productive and fun.
What was the exact error? What kind of files were open? If you want to share, I'm sure lots of us would be interested to hear the details so we know what to look out for.
There are at least 3 people from North Carolina. :-P
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"... Pack light. Lay out everything you think you need. Then put away half ..."

Pack one away, bin the other. The thing is you have to carefully think what you really need. Is this item required. Done right this is a work of art - it matters though. There are things you cannot do with out. Others are a waste of space. Take for example a mate of mine, Alessandro ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/agentilini/907130017/
>alcohol or drunkenness

From experience one has followed the other. but YMMV ;)

I think both an email client and SCM client should be integrated with a breath tester.
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No, I'd venture a guess that a good portion of the articles that get submitted to this site are from the author / owner / whatever.

The issue here is the 4 up votes that put this on the front page instead of letting it float to the bottom of the 'New' section.
I'd prefer an option where I send it and it rests on gmail's server for X amount of time I specify (minutes, hours, days).

I could then go back to it and edit it at will or delete it before the send time has passed.
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I think I saw this guy on a street corner yelling "the great visual computing era is upon us" through a traffic cone.
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How to improve quality of development?
I am co-founder of DIGICorp (www.digi-corp.com), a software development company based in India. We are doing decent amount of work for various clients across globe. We work mainly on .NET and PHP platforms and we have team of around 40 to 50 developers.

Even though we are doing some cool work (check some of our work on our website) I feel quality of development is still not good enough. We have a good team but probably we are not able to get the best output.

I am following the practices mentioned in the book "Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of great management" and I am really satisfied with the output I am getting from my project managers. Now it is the developers who need my attention.

How can I make them great developers from just good developers? I know it is in genes but I also believe that we can also train them to greatness.

any ideas? suggestions?
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Couldn't agree more.

You really need less than you might think. The whole point of traveling is that you see something new. You're never going to know exactly what you'll run into or do. Trying to prepare for everything is impossible :). Living with limited resources is interesting in itself, and can even get you into cool experiences meeting new people you have to ask for help.

And as for the software, this is actually an interesting analogy. I don't think I pack my backpack much differently from how I try to decide what goes into a program. Whether it's bloated software or a heavy bag, I use 20% of its contents 80% of the time anyway. I could probably do without the rest and find some interesting alternatives along the way.

I guess it takes traveling frequently to find out you should cut on features :)
exactly the approach i would have taken and i think their solution demonstrates, to some degree, what can happen when a company is focused on hiring engineers instead of great product people.
It's sort of a binary question, I think--if you're in a low-density job like "neurosurgeon," it's neurosurgery. If it's a high-density job like "Marine rifleman," it'll probably be something other than your basic job description. For variable density jobs, which could be anything from "rank and file code monkey" to "RMS," it's a true conundrum.

For the record, I'm still not sure of the answer, nor what I want to do when I grow up, although I'm enjoying network security.
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I saw the headline and had the exact same thought. "Oh, look, someone's invented that time-delay feature that I've wanted for years!"
No, this scenario has been seen often before and should be well understood by anyone who knows their history. Or have any common sense.
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I agree to an extent, but the problem is defining X before you send the email.

Let me put it this way: During the normal weekday, a 15 minute delay is probably sufficient. But coming home late on a Friday night, is 15 hours enough? Or, in some cases, 15 days?

So that's the question: how to define X ahead of time without knowing all conditions for which X applies? I suppose you could have date/time conditionals, but there would be instances where you probably violate your own rules.
An affinity for rules?
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move out and do not do that again. this is not beer drinking. if you are making sacrifices, why do you think other needs to do it also?
you have to overcome this (personal) issue.
the co-founder is not there for no reason - talk to him about your feelings and see if you see reality in the same way.
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Interesting point. I'm currently working on it. My impression is that it takes as much effort to design and implement the business model than to design and implement the product (idea). Another conclusion I draw from this effort is that it requires different skills and competence. It would be unusual to be good (or preferably the best) in all domains, but I believe it is possible.

My rule of thumb, to be successful in each domain, is to explore zones left in the shade (disregarded) and find something new and profitable. This applies to the idea (solving a problem) as well as to the business model.

A good strategy to be creative is to identify the assumptions we make, check their validity and see what comes out when you change them. Combine this with the appropriate combination and exploitation of the fundamental forces in play (assuming one has taken the time to properly identify them), and you can come up with a revolutionary and disruptive business model. If you manage to be very objective, rational and exhaustive in the exploration and evaluation process, this can work. (I hope I can prove it soon :] )

I see the startup community as an ant colony, following main tracks as a flock and just explore a bit away from the main paths. If one wants to increase the chance to discover something really new and disruptive, one has to follow orthogonal paths which means calling back into question common assumptions and habits. Otherwise you'll be in competition with zillions other ants, most of them being much more efficient and competent than we are.
This black swan stuff is like that Web 2.0 - everyone can have his own definition.
It's a shame how little Nobel gold there is to go around - so many deserving people get left out. For every winner there's a long line of those equally worthy IMHO.

In this case, I'm surprised they didn't give some of the prize to Goldstone.

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Heh, let it depend on how many maths questions you get right.
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I too find this man unnecessary finicky. But why has this post got so many upvotes here on Hacker News?
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Surely google can correlate the contents of your mail with blogs on getting fired/splitting up with your partner/falling out with your relatives and advise you whether or not you should send it.
Exactly. Thinking outside the box is usually not easy; you have to be able to abstract yourself from the domain you are considering, otherwise you are biased from start and might miss obvious information.
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I was going to say the same thing. I probably edit at least 50 percent of my comments here and on reddit within a minute, and delete about 25 percent. Presumably a pause in mail sending would have a similar effect.
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Taleb's book deals (among other subjects) with the reasons why, in the real world, nearly all of us - regardless of common sense and knowledge of history - continue to be surprised with such events.
This article finally made me understand why I don't always learn from Rands' essays: he's not a detail person.

When he talks about technical stuff - the Free Electron, Nerd Attention Deficit Disorder - I'm nodding along and he's explaining a ton of reasons for phenomena that I had noticed but didn't understand.

When he talks about manager stuff - I'm the boss for now, What to do when screwed - I don't get it. Because I have only just started doing some management, I can't fill in the blanks of most of the situations he's talking about because I haven't experienced them as a manager.

So, he's kind of like one of those automap things in a computer game - you can see the structure and reasoning to your journey and experiences, but only once you've fucking got there.
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I also liked their rationale for Chrome's "incognito mode": "For times when you want to browse in stealth mode, for example, to plan surprises like gifts or birthdays, Google Chrome offers the incognito browsing mode."

Google enables our vices without actually identifying them. :)
Nowhere is this worse than Google Groups.

Once the best source of timely technical information from USENET, Google Groups is now completely polluted by spammers. The situation was radically worsened by Google's misstep in allowing user to create "Google Groups" (user-defined non-USENET sites which are searched by the Google Groups service), Spammers have used Google Groups to create tens of thousands of spam groups and links. Google pays for support of the spam and the user gets buried in it.

Google could, at the very least, partition Google Groups into USENET and "Google Groups" per se. Or they could provide a separate search option for USENET only.

Is there any internal Google discussion of these problems? I have been unable to find any evidence of interest, yet it is unbelievable that Google is unaware.
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how can you be sure it's him?
from the tone of the writing, I am skeptical!
whoopsies, thats what i meant
great analogy for software

but how many people really need this advice for traveling?

instead of this over-generalized "half of what you need" and then "lose another half" make a short list of the bare necessities -- and why you need it.

but I guess this is advice for tourists? not sure who has three bags going down cobble stone roads.
WTF? Looks like GMail is feature complete and they dunno what to do... I bet the next thing we'll see is random signatures. Looks like the are implementing a bunch of useless features that all got mentioned in Usenet 15 years ago.
bootload, the gear in the photo wasn't enough and I needed more stuff for a four day "hut-hopping" hike: it's a long way to the enlightenment.

so, under the 37 signals great advice, this is what this guy needed for National Outdoor Leadership School, and he should have taken half?

when in reality, he needed more gear than presented here.

as usual, the signal is too weak, even if they try to filter out the noise.
I've been hanging around on the mailing list for a while, and it's clear to me that there has been very little work going on in Io in past months. (E.g.: There are obvious bugs in the Range addon that they've known about for as long as I've been using Io.) I'd be very doubtful that we've seen any performance increases, even small ones.

The vector benchmarks show off the sort of code you wouldn't really write with Io anyway, are three years old, against Python three versions ago.

You're right that Bini doesn't seem to care about performance here, and that's fine. But it's certainly a huge problem for Io, obvious even in small scripts, that would be reason enough to fork it.
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Beautiful. Now they just need one for texts, since that's where I usually get myself into late night trouble...
Coworking is different from say going to a coffee shop because if you have to go to the bathroom - you don't have to ask some random stranger to watch your laptop or take your laptop to the loo. It's a community more than a Starbucks because there is a sense that it's cool to cowork (otherwise, you wouldn't be there). Self-selecting bias. I've only been to a co-working spot about once a month on average (because my employer doesn't like me working remote) but everytime I go its like a vacation - get to hang out with freelancers/entrepreneurs/creatives (or all of the above). I highly recommend at least trying it out once.
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