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Micromanagement, the new Startup culture?
Has anyone ever been micromanaged at a Startup? I'm a partial equity owner of a Startup that I've been working on for about 5 months, and I get requests from one of the co-founders for the most minute details and now they're starting to become impossible to complete.

Early on it was details like "move this popup 2 inches to the left and an inch lower and have a green blinking arrow pointing to the area that the popup is" -- positioning stuff like this never made sense to me...I don't think users will care that the popup is moved where it is, but maybe that's just my thinking

Now requests are getting to: "the page can never refresh and the content has to be 100% editable, addable, and deletable without ever refreshing" -- keep in mind that the same content is now being displayed in 3 or 4 areas of the site (as per requests), and that making everything update (now knowing about this feature after the fact) would probably take a miracle.

I've just about programmed myself into a corner taking these ridiculous requests and rolling with them, now the code-base is so confusing. Keep in mind that this is still just a PROTOTYPE that just keeps getting bigger and bigger with no end in sight. I've done a SINGLE iteration and haven't been given much time to refine anything. I think they even now are looking to LAUNCH with the PROTOTYPE which I think is a mistake. What the hell am I supposed to do in this situation?
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Hacker events in SF around Startup School time?
I am one of many who might be traveling a great distance to attend Startup School. I am glad to do so, but what other interesting events would be happening around that time to make more use of my time in SF?
Innovate or imitate? Europe: a continent of copycats? Panel discussion.
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That's a real shame. I enjoyed reading his blog, especially during his transition to Linux.
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So why is it that the US has much more expensive health care than anywhere else while not providing the best service?
From the business perspective I believe that we are talking about a whole new market, not just a feature.

I compare this business initiative with the past "e-mail managed service" market, where companies moved their own e-mail infrastructure to third parties (postini, messagelabs, mxlogic), something unthinkable (from a security or control point of view). Now security is moving to a managed service, seems strange but it can follow a similar route (new companies in this space + acquisitions by leaders).

Adding Identity Cryptography [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ID-based_cryptography] to the game it will attract a lot of corporations.
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I'm completely unsure what quality of javascript makes it suitable for writing high performance systems.

Is it single threading?
Is it the weird typeof crap you have to do to check if a variable is defined?
Is it the lack of integers?
Is it the prototyping system?

Node.js to me looks like a slightly better syntax than the horribly ugly C# async calls. (Not the new async/wait system). Javascript completely pales in comparison to F# or Haskell in terms of readability of async code.

If you prefer non-functional languages it would seem that Go would be a much better place to start for performance than Javascript. Or clojure or scala.

Sure node.js outperforms rails, but rails isn't designed around being the fastest webserver ever.
Great site, but I found the interface very confusing. It took me ages to figure out what to do next at every step. The resizing text is an ok idea, but currently it's more distracting than guiding. Hope that's helpful. :)
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I bet Cthulhu's rates are dead high ;)

Maybe you should try again in a few months...? In the UK things are looking better now, but then again, in last 3 years they were much worse than in the Eurozone.
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Especially in America, the people I hear the most talk about "when they are rich" are usually the poorest people I know. We've instilled a type of optimism and "anything is possible" attitude that most people blame themselves for their situation.
Thanks. Maybe I could make arrows appear, or something. Need to try it out.
I have a question about Node.js
I hope it's legitimate.

If I have a endless loop in some method that is supposed to generate some part of some webpage of my webapp will it stall the whole app until I restart the server?

From my tests it seems so.

What additional facilities are required to be used so that single bug won't kill the whole app for all users?

Rant mentiones putting nginx in front of node.

UPDATE:

It seems that there is a tool called monit that can restart your server when it stalls:

http://howtonode.org/deploying-node-upstart-monit
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Remembering name is harder; quiet heads? :) Maybe, Final Markdown? Markdownable? MerciMarkdown?

I need your tool frequently threading Markdown.

'Akaya now, is it more memorable?
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I neither stated, nor implied, that Amazon are doing that.
Would you think France is representative for the rest of the Eurozone in this respect? In my experience French exceptionalism is strongest in the banking sector, but I have no experience with banking for business.
Once your doing that why not just use threads and get rid of the IPC?

That's kind of the point of the Node.JS bashing, once you work around all it's pitfalls you're right back where you started except your now writing your app in a language unsuited for the purpose.

Node solves the problem of needing to write evented servers in javascript. Beyond that I can't see much advantage in it vs. existing languages. If I wrote something called "Node.NET" which was a JScript wrapper around completion ports and went around telling everyone that this was the future of webdev... what do you think the reaction would be?
I'm a great fan of his software design philosophies, as well as his software - SQLite in particular.
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Quasicrystals are an interesting thing. Basically all common crystals can be represented by translation of a small unit cell in 3D space. OTOH quasicrystals are structured forms of matter which cannot be represented by repetition of such unit cell. These materials show some interesting elastic properties and diffraction patterns. Quasicrystalline coatings have low friction coefficient (similar to Teflon) and can be potentially used in cookware [1].

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Empire Avenue, Putting a price tag on social
It may not matter whether everyone got the joke or not. In fact, the guy's behavior suggests it wasn't a joke to him at all - it was intended to be a somewhat serious (and passive aggressive) statement. I think what happened is akin to a guy who hates Impressionism and one day he decides to just smear some meaningless colors on a canvas - just to make a statement about how meaningless that artform is. Then along come people and find themselves attracted to the artwork he created, whether they realize he did it to make a point or not, they simply like it.

Now I never "played" Cow Clicker but I assume there were some players who genuinely liked visiting that page and clicking on their cow. As stupid as that sounds, they had some kind of relationship with the artwork, even if that was never intended by the artist. Also, I believe the concept of Cow Clicker is a whole lot more honest than any of the Zynga "games" so I can see how people might prefer the Cow as their web Tamagotchi...

What I find really sad is that Ian Bogost actually feels tormented by the state of gaming general and the reception of Cow Clicker in particular. If you make a satirical work like this, you probably should have some healthy mental distance to the subject.
got accepted too! any tools we can use to see a list of participants coming?
Ask HN: Why did I just get a new password emailed to me?
About 4 hours after the startup school email, I got an email from info@ with a "New Hacker News pw". I'm still logged in to HN (my session wasn't killed in the process)... did something happen that necessitated regenerating passwords for people?
Reading this tutorial reminded me of the first time I realized how handy a bit of math can be for animation. I think it was this little ease-out snippet that opened my eyes (served me well for years to come):

posX += (destX - posX)/ slowdownRate

Moves an item like so:
X....X...X..X.X
I'm not many people but I did switch for Gnome 3. I miss APT but now I know yum so it's not a massive loss.

I've also switched my family, who were using ubuntu, over as well - mainly as none of them got on well with Unity and that if I've got to support something - it may as well be something I'm using!
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I doubt a patent troll cares about what people think.
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You know what's weird? I'm brazilian, I follow up this kind of content and I just found out about this here on Hacker News. I haven't seem an article about this in any of the big portals.

Anyway, IMHO, one of the most important parts of the bill are the Article 14 and Article 15. I've seen some increase in bloggers getting sued because of other people's comments on their blog, and the problem also spits out on social networks and other user generated content sites every now and then. Finally we get a sign that someone is looking into that.
Not sure if this is the right place to tell you this, but no one wants to buy a pdf of a star chart. If I want a computer star chart I'll use a program to generate one live. It might not be as pretty as yours, but it's interactive.

Less space than a Nomad, no wireless. Lame.

For those who don't get it, this is the slashdot review when Apple released the iPod. It's fair to say that the techies with their feature lists completely mispredicted the biggest music player of the decade.

Likewise, just because you as a programmer can do something like "just use a programme", doesn't mean that everyone can do it. There are people out there who can't "just use a programme"
I like the confidence that the employees had to get the stopwatches out for the 8 second test.
I don't see how this can work at all if Amazon has access to your keys but doesn't sign a Business Associate Agreement under HIPAA. They've refused to do this for us.

It might be viable to encrypt yourself and keep the keys, because then you're not giving them PHI---just goblety gook.
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But why couldn't you just do apt-get install gnome-shell?
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(Disclaimer: Fedora user here)

Do you happen to know a couple of examples for differences in the relevant repositories? I mean - I agree that they are probably not equal and w/o checking I'd even agree that probably Debian + Ubuntu + PPA > Fedora in terms of numbers. But I've yet to stumble upon a problem.

apt-get (did you mean aptitude? What's the difference?) and yum are ~comparable~ for most use cases. End users probably care more about a decent UI instead of the underlying package format. One point for Ubuntu here, the 'Store' thing looks nifty.

Community is too broad to comment. Look at the fedoraproject site, there seem to be lots of passionate people over there (no clue, I tend to live on my own island here).

"Fit and polish" is where you lost me. This is just too subjective a claim to make.

So - up until this point I'd say "Both are the same".

Now I happen to use Fedora. Why?

- I was turned off by Ubuntu's polish in the past. Purely personal and matter of taste:

* Most early themes (brown? really?)

* Crappy release names

* A 'better than Debian/the rest' attitude (regarding backports, crying for an 'Ubuntu' SO subsite instead of a 'Linux' one etc..)

- I disliked design decisions

* Multiple patches (most famous: The notification area) to Gnome just didn't sit right with me. I wanted a "vanilla" Gnome experience

* Now: Creating an in-house shell replacement that disconnects Ubuntu from all the rest.

* Future: Wayland, pressed forward instead of offering it and letting competition decide if it's a project worth looking at
10/4 - never forget. the gayest day on the interwebs. everyone acting like old ladies towards a grown man. [eagle_cries]
I had to double-check the author of the article.

For a second I thought Eddard Stark was freelancing for the Wall Street Journal.
I like GNOME 3 a lot better than Unity, but until it can give me multiple independent virtual desktops on all my monitors, I'll be sticking with one of the few window managers that can: Enlightenment (0.17 from the Bodhi Linux repositories running on 11.10).
Me too! the mainstream midia in Brasil is in really bad shape.
"Menus now follow your windows" so there's less need to move across a laptop screen and a full Cinema Display to find the menu.

Maybe you're looking for SecondBar: http://blog.boastr.net/?page_id=79 ?
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Essas duas belas mesas de jantar são de estilos bem diferentes, a primeira é meio classica, e a segunda um estilo mais moderno, a primeira sai por RS 1,740,00 e a segunda por R$ 960,00 só a base
There is a problem solving perspective in which one is searching a tree of sub-goals. Nodes that are a conjunction of sub-goals are straight forward. You have to solve all the sub-goals, so if you get stuck on one of them you mustn't quit.

Nodes that are a disjunction of sub-goals are much harder to manage. Sometimes the problem is solvable (because, say, the 10th sub-goal is solvable) but the first 9 sub-goals are insoluble. You cannot solve the problem without quitting on nine of the sub-goals (or quitting on your original choice of search order).

Life often throws you problems that you cannot solve if you refuse to quit (from failing sub-goals). Sometimes, taking the attitude that "a winner never quits" guarantees failure.
My morning routine looks like this:

Wake up, surf HN, eat breakfast (if TWR, exercise), shower, get dressed, make lunch, go to work.

I'm working on doing exercise every day of the workweek, but it's a start. I never want to when I come home because I just want to relax, maybe make dinner or something, and work on a side project.

Fridays look like this:
Wake up, shower, get dressed, go to work. It's free bagel Friday :)
I can go to the login page, attempt and fail to login, then click the "email yourself a new password link". Asking the user to confirm the email address used for registration will avoid this problem.
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I'd call BS on anyone saying the investment climate is going to be markedly different 3 to 6 months from now. no one has a crystal ball, and neither does he have inside information unavailable to everyone else.
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I totally agree with every word of it. Buying good stuff (good as in quality, not in fancy) is crucial to make your life better and easier as a professional programmer and I bet one of my fingers that this holds true for other professions too.

I'm just sad that most of this (best chair in the world, motorized desk) are not available (at least not close to an affordable price) in most countries, being Brazil one of them :(
B-b-but team! Track record! Pedigree!

That's what good VCs are supposed to look for right ? Not just ideas/market fit.
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Haven't used e for a long time. Is that feature the single criteria for you? If not, can you list some more ~nice~ things here to lure potential candidates (me) into giving it a try again?
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I've heard this a lot, and tried it a lot. It's never worked for me. Which elevators does it work with?
He laid out his reasoning quite clearly - do you disagree with his points? If so, which ones and why?
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.. and until the time that it is otherwise proven, an atheist doesn't believe in a deity.
Samsung wants to block Apple selling the iPhone 4S in France and Italy
Shows one downside of digital publishing, where the author can just throw a fit and delete all their good content. If it was on books, they couldn't do a thing.
"In Brazil we have Colombian drug lords associated with the ruling party."
I'm also from Brasil.
Whhaaat?? from where did you take this man? there is no evidence or anything about that, don't just say things you can't prove. Thats not even on the good media.
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Frank Lantz on Cow Clicker
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Wow, that's pretty brilliant. I wish it actually worked. At least it would make a great parody though - it would be cool to start a fake business front to go about suing patent trolls for infringing on your patent trolling patent just to raise awareness about the insanity of it all.
I already live in San Francisco
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I definitely want to move there
I would be willing to move there for the perfect opportunity
* "super-intuitive CMD-Tab that will let you switch
through all you *windows* in the order the were last
used" and

Ugh! Please no! Switching between application rather than window is my main reason of switching to Mac back in PowerPC days.

You may love Witch[1] though. Or a good-ol' Ctrl+(fn)+F4.

[1] http://manytricks.com/witch/
I wouldn't move there
It's a strange situation.

My take on the startup "bubble" is that the stock market, bonds, and hedge funds have done poorly lately.

People with money are looking for alternative investments, and often that means startups. If money gets pulled out of startups, where is it going to go?
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No one is forced to use anything. Two companies offer a ~primary~ (ignoring Kubuntu, Xubuntu et al and you can get KDE etc. on Fedora as well) desktop experience. You take it or leave it. For some the difference is that one offers something created in-house while the others offer something created in public.

Fedora 15 has a classic mode. I'm not sure about 16, but I'd expect the same.

You could replace the sentence about Gnome with one putting Canonical/Ubuntu as a subject and it would be just as misplaced and just as (..) correct.

You are really the first guy (no kidding) that I heard describing the spinning cube as a worthy feature. I don't understand your usecase, but you have to agree that you're in a minority here, no?
The difference between US and UK culture is jarring. In the U.S. if we don't like something we just shrug our shoulders and walk away. In the UK they openly decry the product's existence. And their politicians love to verbally spar. Here politicians passive-aggressively don't clap during state of the union speeches. I love it.
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Hm i get an 404 on wordpress :-|
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Ocean, terrain, climate seem like a great combo (being from the Midwest).
If this will happen, thing may still be good (or even better) for bootstrapped startups, or those that try to get to break even early...
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Slava is a googler these days; I wonder what they have him hacking on.
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You completely miss the point.

You can configure those in the usual place. With unity you can't.

Also, paid advertisement. I only see ppl going to debian from Ubuntu
Thanks for the example! I've pushed the fix so the Grab it button has maximum Zzz's and it's working well on this page now. :-)
My guess is he must be the firstborn. I can't think of any other way that sentence makes sense.
How do I find the right chair for me? I have visited those expensive chair stores and tried a bunch, but it seems like none of them really clicked with me. Or at least, in the time while I was at the store.

Also, is there anyone/anywhere I can talk about setting up my desk properly? I've reviewed a lot of the literature online but still seem to deal with my desk setup triggering flareups after using for a long time...especially with something like Starcraft. I'm starting to think the fact that I took the arms off my chair is making my forearms tense up since they have to both flex (to move my fingers) and hold themselves up.
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That's really cool man.

Perhaps you could make a few dollars if you had a paid version where the applicant can remove any references to dreamjobapp and have their own domain name. Just make it look more professional/serious. It could be a combination of

* per application fees ("I just want to use it once for company X"), let's say $5

* monthly fees ("There are a few companies that I want to work for"), let's say $18
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There is a "classic" mode in Gnome 3 as well. It appears to me it didn't receive much love, but it's functional.
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You are probably from sao paulo, like me.

Original poster is probably from rio.
Awesome project! I do have one feature request (preferably before my wife's birthday...), which is the ability to add custom text as a heading of some kind.

For example, I would be ordering a picture of the night sky over Rome on a particular night, and it would be nice if the poster said so - not everyone knows Rome's lat./long. off by heart.