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The good point:

I really like the website; it's well done and look professional. I'd be confident enough to pay for the service.

The bad news:

I really don't see a reason to use this service. There's already a thousand calendar event reminder thing that will remind me when I need to call back someone. And, even if they all sucked and I wanted to use yours, I'd hate to be able to press "1" to call.. I'd prefer to call it on my own when I want during the day.

So, you say you spent 8 weeks on the project. It's very well done and seems like you thought about lots of details. BUT, imho, too much time have been spent on useless details (Like using all those jquery plugins on the signup form) instead of talking with clients that'd pay for this service. But then, I hope I'm wrong and if so, I apologize.
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Nice work and a nice idea, but I'm struggling to see how it's worth $2 per month when it offers very little over a reminder in Google Calendar.

Have you thought about tying up with Google Calendar's appointment slots and automatically connecting your user to the recipient during a free appointment slot in that day?
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Looks cool. What major element differentiate you from say http://www.appointmentreminder.org/ ?
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I'm not convinced. Jobs was incredible despite his flaws, not because of them. There are plenty of asshole liars that go nowhere, but Jobs' passion and vision was so strong people are willing to look past it

I still think you make an interesting point, and I find it compelling to look at idols when they were young and nobody cared.

Bringing such idols back to earth can help one realize that we are all in fact human, and as such all have tremendous challenges, flaws, and potential
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Fair points. I bought a theme on themeforest that had all of that jquery stuff built in :) Most of the time I spent learning rails, learning the twilio API, etc etc. I have talked to a few potential customers, but probably not enough.

Thanks!
Interesting account, but:

I wouldn't write about this. I could see this being used against you.
Am I mistaken, or in the final graph, aren't only the last two lines gmpy and c?
Hopefully they don't struggle plugging it in and accidentally rotate 3 times in that time frame, but your point is still valid. Also encrypt with truecrypt and this gets very interesting.
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Given the development of the Smallest Federated Wiki (http://wardcunningham.github.com/) won't projects like this be soon pointless?
I don't really think you should have been downvoted, but for those that did, I suspect that your original post was downvoted for the perceived tone of "Really? You used that? Why would anyone want to do that?" Not everyone would make the connection that you didn't understand the reference, since Calvin and Hobbes is a wildly popular comic, at least in North America. I don't mean to assume you're not North American if you are, but it would explain why you were unfamiliar with the subject matter.

As for your second comment - the one I'm replying to now - I still don't think you deserve the downvotes, but some people might perceive it as an attack of sorts, e.g. "How dare they downvote me for such a simple misunderstanding!"

This comment (mine, I mean) doesn't really belong on Hacker News as it's a bit meta/behind-the-scenes/inside-baseball, so I suggest we just leave well enough alone, but I wanted to let you know that I understand your perspective and I'm sorry you were downvoted for a misunderstanding like this.
Appointment Reminder is a great service but it's for businesses to automatically remind their clients about things, whereas this is for people who can't remember to call their mother regularly :)
I stand corrected ... though alienating his followers would be even more problematic then.
> Jobs [...] probably lied about having worked at Hewlett-Packard

This was the truth, wasn't it? Or at least, if it is a lie, it's one Jobs was repeating to the Cupertino City Council just this year http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtuz5OmOh_M#t=2m00s . Maybe he exaggerated his work experience with HP...
This is all a steaming pile of horseshit. It won't pass proper journalism.
That's a great idea that I hadn't even thought about, actually Does the gcal api let you see that kind of thing?
Almost all essays PG writes offer heuristics. The trouble with heuristics is that they often lead to interesting journeys, not to mention head-fakes[1].

There is unfortunately no algorithm for start-ups.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_fake
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I like that this will make the phone call for you, and connect the call for me, because yes, sometimes there are calls I know I have to make but are afraid to make.

So that's where Remindlyo could help a little bit more.

Let users (anonymously) post a phone call they have to make some days in advance. Let them categorize the phone call (make a date, withdraw from class, talk to lawyer, ...) and discuss that phone call and why they have to make it, what the upside is, what the downside is, and why they are afraid of making it.

And then let others gab about it, offering advice, alternatives, strategies, moral support, their own stories, etc.

And at the end of the phone call, we can all talk about how it went.

And for the Premium users, some select invitees can make that phone call together. Remindlyo calls Jane who posted the call, and connects her audio two way, and also connects with one way audio, those she invited, Bob, Karl, Cindy, etc., and let's them listen in, and offer her advice in real time in a chat window.

Perhaps you even record the call's audio or video for later (legal, tosh 2.0) presentation.

No really, actually I am serious.
"The interview wrapped up with him asking me to estimate the annual revenue of McDonalds."

Is stuff like this becoming the norm now?
This looks a lot like the notorious "estimation" questions in consulting company interviews. Especially because it seems to be taken completely out of context and with very little relation to the actual job/company.
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Not really news, just cool.
Lots of companies will put you under an NDA if you interview with them. Be careful talking about explicit questions.
The no more hard drive and persistent ram thing should be really interesting. Completely change how we do things.

Also, application specific processing... writing instruction sets for each application will be really interesting. Cell processing et al will be a thing of the past.
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And here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3081273
This link has a target="_blank" on it. Is this some new option submitters have?
Interesting... college seniors, recent grads, and grad students have enough experience to be Product Managers at LNKD? Where do their junior analysts come from?
> They were the only significant 3rd party payment processor to make it through the dot com bubble.

Not so. We were processing millions of transactions for virtual goods (streaming ppv) before, during, and after the bubble, and balanced among multiple processors to handle the spikes. We didn't have to change any out, and were using several of the largest.

Granted, some of the best, like Payflow, got gobbled by Verisign then Paypal, but the APIs generally stayed the same, and are still worth using today.

But today you also have cheaper options by going up the food chain, like direct to FDMS.
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This, and the old "tell us about one of your weaknesses," are strong indicators of a weak interview.
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This is a very good point. I have always been a bit sceptically on the anti-virus companies. The market looks a bit odd to me - different from many other software markets. A lot of regional market domination. Norton in the US, Kaspersky in the RU or ANTIVIR in GER. Looks almost like certain nations prefer having their "own" anti-virus company structures in place.

Are there any serious anti-virus open source alternatives available?
I don't think that's possible, Jersey Shore doesn't have as much drama as HP.
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>Mac OSX has Time Machine and APIs for in built autosave and versioning. It's not perfect but any sort of backup is good, as is making sure you do not lose your work. And the ability to restore accounts from Time Machine is pretty nice. Linux has ???

TimeVault - http://lifehacker.com/275399/timevault-time-machine-for-linu...

>Mac OSX has Spotlight. I can type in something like "Canon" and get all the pictures I took on my Canon cameras. Linux has ???

Strigi - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strigi

I think that, feature-wise, Macs, Linux and Windows boxes are on about the same page. They all tend to steal ideas from each other and anything missing in the OS will be provided by a third party. I agree that Macs tend to 'just work' but this comes at the expense of only being able to work in a particular way. It's the efficiency vs robustness/flexibility tradeoff.

I've heard horror stories about laptop power management on Linux, it could definitely do with some work.
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I use a little Akai LPK25 keyboard (fits perfectly right above my computer keyboard, so I just reach up a little to play) with seq24 for editing/recording MIDI notes and zynaddsubfx as a synthesizer on Linux. It's a straightforward, simple, and clean setup. Notes in seq24 are displayed in piano-roll format, and you can compose looping patterns that you can then combine into song patterns. I'll also use an electric guitar with jack-rack to mess around with ideas on and record stuff in Ardour with, or even tab it out in tuxguitar, since I can find my way around the notes on a fretboard a bit more easily sometimes.

I also bought a license for Renoise, which I use occasionally, but trackers are too involved for my tastes and I prefer a piano roll layout for editing notes. It does allow you to use your computer keyboard as a music keyboard though, and the layout isn't bad, but you're still better off using a small MIDI keyboard.

I used to use Cubase (got the full version in a box somewhere), but it's overkill for an amateur like me, and I don't even have a Windows PC or a Mac to run it on anymore. Maybe someday I'll buy a Macbook Pro or something.

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Why work for a company that would "use" a dry, factual account of their interview process against you?
Stick an accelerometer on there, and detect spikes corresponding to someone tapping the device. Then implement some sort of rhythm-based security as desired :)

Turning it around would be pretty hard if it's plugged into a PC, and it can't really do the sensing unplugged unless it's got some sort of internal power, but tap-detection should be fairly robust.

You'd probably want to have it remain in whatever secret-mode until unplugged, to stop spurious jolts from accidentally un/re-mounting it (unless you're really paranoid)
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But he went off the idea of crediting individuals at some point after the release of the Macintosh, at least in part for fairly understandable reasons. http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...
Why would I need to nit-pick patent legislation or ownership to express the opinion that the business model adopted by apple is counter productive, and a fucking joke when you compare their current business model to their 'change the world' model of 80/90s?

iTunes, Appstore and OSX being locked to a single hardware base is the most protectionism-based software development to emerge EVER.

If you want to argue that on a philosophical basis, 'come at me bro!'

I am NOT saying Steve Jobs is not a visionary, a great leader of a company, a fantastic CEO.

All I am saying is that I despise the direction that Apple has come to take and I highly dislike this new 'model' of funneling sales.

If you take the case of freedom of expression, creativity and freedom.

How can you accept a future where all software that wishes to be financially viable being vetted by 2-3 large companies?
Clicking on a couple of posts, or going to the verification link in my sign up email, I get:

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Not even Twilio? :-)
Certainly. Quite often actually.

Especially during the last years it were, for example, often the leading engineers themselves who demoed their software.

In his public appearances I followed (all post-2000) I never ever had the feeling that he was taking undue credit, I never really had the feeling that he was taking credit at all. I can’t recall any instance where he presented something as his great idea, it was always “we”, never “I”. He didn’t always specifically thank everyone who worked on the products they presented but quite often. (You know, that whole routine where he asks all the people from Apple in the audience to stand up – didn’t always happen, but sometimes.)

I’m not sure whether it makes a lot of sense to judge the 2000s Jobs based on the 70s and 80s Jobs. Humans do a lot of dumb stuff in their lives. But humans also change.
There's a guy building a USB thumb-drive type device called the ISOStick (http://blog.elegantinvention.com/?cat=5) which appears to be both a normal storage drive, but also emulates an optical drive containing a virtual disk specified by iso/file images on the usb-storage device.

http://blog.elegantinvention.com/?p=117 has a few more details, but the plan is to have a whole bunch of isos stored on there, and a bootloader/config setup to allow you to choose which appears mounted as the virtual CD.
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I think it's pretty well proven that no matter previous patents; the deepest pockets, win's the most lawsuits.
Thanks for the great feedback/long, detailed post!

If you're serious about forcing yourself into making an impact, find a bunch of target customers with a pain to be solved, talk to them, and promise them something with a deadline attached.

Oh, I wish my life were that simple. The people who most need/can benefit from one of my side projects are mostly openly hostile. I've spent a lot of time trying to make communication in-roads in the face of that situation. One of my goals is to try to start making more regular updates to the website in question in hopes that gets people thinking without getting their ire up so much (ie not as much as trying to actually talk to them tends to do). Eventually, I want to write an app for it (a simulation -- aka "game"). But a) the audience isn't ready for that and b) I don't know a progamming language. Recently, someone kind of suggested I start with a design doc to start documenting my ideas without needing to learn to program first.

I was quite ill for a very long time. So I spent a lot of time piddling around on the computer to occupy myself so I wouldn't go nuts but was unable to be very focused/productive. Now that I am healthier, I am trying to break some of those habits and figure out how to structure my time so I can gradually start accomplishing more.
I interviewed for a pm position there a while back - my experience wasn't anything like the blog post. So it's not even the norm (probably) at linked in.
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It has water, birds, reeds, fish, the whole bit. You'd never expect it with places like Tivo and Marvell right there by the freeway, but there it is. It gives you a wider sense of what is actually going on around here.
I agree. Also no need to categorically defend Apple just because you happen to be a fan of their products, former CEO etc.

I know Apple, and especially Steve Jobs (RIP) cannot do anything wrong. But seriously, what evidence is there that Apple somehow practices some form of 'Pro Bono' pre-emptive service in filing for patents just for 'the greater good of mankind'?
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I'm sure they are, also judging from the pics on Amazon. Like the TAOCP of cooking. My response was more about the karma Myrvold has engendered for himself.
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I'm not really sure what you would use this for. I'm a musician and I can't possibly find any use for this. It would take forever to write a song in this and then you would have to mess with the timings just to make it not sound like a programmed piece of music and give it some feel.
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1 right, does not cancel out 1 wrong. I absolutely agree with the fact that Apple now and then comes to the aid of 'independent developers'.

You have to realize though that these 'independent developers' are always the bread and butter that Apple relies on to fill their IOS and OSX app stores.

I cannot help but smirk when people defend Apple for being some Altruistic entity that 'for the greater good' defends the 'little people'.

Seriously. I am not saying they are malicious, but please, realize that Apple is not 'Your friendly mom and pop computer shop'.

Appple is one of the most profitable and largest businesses in the world. On a scale from 'My mom's shop' to Lehman Brothers, they are WAY closer to Lehman Brothers!!
In a similar vein of "alternative ways to maximally leverage JSON" there is the Universal Binary JSON Specification http://ubjson.org

Unlike BSON or BJSON, UBJSON is 1:1 compatible with the original JSON spec, it doesn't introduce any incompatible data types that have no ancillary in JSON.

Simple is similar, but utilizes more complex data structures for the purpose of further data compression which is great, but introduces complexities in generation and parsing while UBJSON is intended to be a binary JSON representation as simple as JSON.

"as simple as" defined here as you being able to open the files in a HEX editor and read through it easily in addition to being able to grok the spec in under 10 mins (and generate or parse it just as easily as JSON itself).

Because it has 1:1 compatibility with JSON, the general parsing and generation logic stays the same, it is just the format of the bytes written out that change.

There has been a lot of great community collaboration on this spec from the JSON specification group and more recently the CouchDB team that has improved the performance and usability quite a bit.

There is a Java and .NET impl with a handful of people working on implementations in Node.JS, Erlang and C but I don't have much info on the status of those impls yet.

[1] https://github.com/thebuzzmedia/universal-binary-json-java/b...

[2] https://github.com/eishay/jvm-serializers/wiki
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Very nice. I tend to go to web dingus and copy and paste my markdown in, so this is much handier.

Some comments:

* It doesn't seem to be working on Safari (v. 5.1, OS X Lion) for me. When I drop the file in, the blue bar stays properly, but the content area below that goes blank.

* The option to upload via a standard file input would be nice as well. I like that the primary usage is dropping, but sometimes I run my windows in full screen and it'd be nice to not have to exit out of that, open Finder, find the folder, and the drag.

* Maybe indicate that this is indeed the page on which you are supposed to drag. At first, I was unsure about that, but decided to go for it anyway. You could give a visual indication with a dotted box suggesting they drop there (but letting them drop anywhere, if they decide).

* Under instructions, I was left hanging. I get that you're showing that it's only two steps, but you showed a picture of it dropping onto the page and the instructions ended there. A "You're done!" with a small clipping of what the page with the rendered markup looks like might be nice.
Awesome! I'll be using this. Have you submitted it for contrib?
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