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This is pretty good. I've never seen the appeal of podcasts before but I'm enjoying http://thisdeveloperslife.com/post/1-0-9-management right now. I'm probably going to listen to the rest of them if this holds up.
This is a design patent, not a utility patent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_patent
In military lingo, it's called Span of Control. 3 reports is the minimum, 5 the ideal, 7 the max.
This is partly the reason I didn't take the CTO title when I joined a startup years ago. They gave me the flexibility to essentially pick my own title; I eventually settled on "Director, Software Development".

In addition to avoiding the friction, I had hired (and rejected) several "CEOs" for entry-level student tech-support jobs several years previous, and wanted to avoid the presumptions that went along with the title. I was young, and wanted to be taken seriously when I introduced myself. "CTO" of a company no one had heard of didn't communicate that.
Unfortunately this idea seems more widespread than most people think. I know of 2 documentaries promoting this idea [1], and it still has it's followers. Of these, the scariest is probably the former president of South Africa [2].

Of all the pseudoscience and conspiracy theories in the world, I think this one bugs me the most, primarily because it has a real cost in human lives [3] (unlike moon landing or JFK conspiracies). Hopefully if/when a reliable vaccine is found, HIV can be wiped out for good and this will no longer be an issue.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Numbers

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

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thabo_Mbeki#AIDS

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Maggiore#Eliza_Jane
Finally! Quora did have one of the cleanest, fastest web-apps out there though, but Kudos to them for finally releasing a native one.
One nice bonus is that they can get text-shadows and any other styling your normal text could.
Talk to a financial advisor?
Not only that, but what's to prevent them from caching content after the first client makes a successful direct connection? After that, they can serve the cached content quickly to other Silk users. Circumnavigating such blocks may even be one of the driving forces behind developing Silk in the first place, since it allows Amazon to access content they can't easily reach otherwise.
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I logged in and transferred my bookmarks ages ago, and it seems to be working fine for me. Obviously, they've utterly jacked the site overall, but the bookmarks part still seems to at least contain my links.

I never used the tags bundles, so I won't miss those.

Does this mean all the API is now broken?
The funniest part of the press release for me is the "About Oracle" section:

"Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems company."

Put it on every release, it will become true? Or something?
I like this, thanks. Reminds me of the plotline from the novel “Shogun,” where Toranaga has Anjin construct a ship jsut so he can burn it as a bargaining concession with the Portuguese.
It's worse to actively try to hide the other women than to bring them up. I have never done this myself, but my dad did when he was younger. He wouldn't bring up the other women on purpose, but if one of them wanted to spend some time together on Thursday and my dad had a date with a different one on Thursday, then he would be honest with her. He was honest with them all at the beginning though; you have to define what you want and expect early. Not all girls will be ok with this kind of relationship, but a surprising number will be. It probably has to do with common fears that women have concerning the guy becoming needy or too attached. Dating multiple women at the same time signals that your expectations are modest and you are not looking for anything serious, which takes the pressure off of the girl.

But beware: one of those women my dad was dating turned out to be my mom. No relationship can go forever without becoming serious or dissolving.
Ugh... I'm already lost.

Ok, so he mentions "warm" and "cool" colors. Since I burn within 30 seconds of encountering the sun, I'm "cool".

Then he mentions seasonal colors, all of which he says go with "cool" complextion, which means any color goes with cool? I think I'm missing something here.

I had someone once tell me I should wear "autumn" colors, so all of my stuff is yellow, orange, and brown, but apparently that doesn't work (or at least not always... There are some browns that work and others that don't apparently).

My eyes shift between light blue, green, and grey depending on the season. So that means I should wear those colors, right? Are my eyes considered to be "contrasting" or "non-contrasting"? How do you even decide what colors are "contrasting" or not?

Some other things:

"Blue shirt + yellow tie is pretty classic, but disastrous if done wrong. A deeper,darker yellow more akin to goldenrod and a lighter blue is the ticket here." - Is there an official matrix of acceptable color combinations available somewhere?

"Anything black at all should be a rough texture." - And yet I see so many people wearing smooth textured black things. Are they just poorly dressed?

"Grey flannel trousers are the shit" - Umm... ok. Why?

"One madras element per fit." - What's a madras element? Google didn't turn up anything useful.

"Be cohesive and holistic. The whole should be better than the sum of the parts. Build an outfit, don’t just toss together flair." - Great, but HOW do you do that?

"Don’t be overly matchy. “Close enough” is more charming and better looking than fabric shade OCD." - So don't wear colors of similar shade, then?
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100% agree Nate - not a good position to be in.
a rocky week for sure, but I don't see major grounds for hate. Heavy user/dependent on Delicious for my bookmarks etc. By day 2 I was relatively running smoothly again. It was all expected and they listed the features that are still in progress and I've already seen some of the things (like FF plugin) start to work again. So..... I don't see where the ZDnet hate and user account stuff is coming from. What, all the users that didn't really use the service and then saw tech news about the relaunch and decided to visit the site again only to find their accounts gone/not migrated? The warnings for migration were borderline intense/annoying the past month or so....and that was months after the emails and notifications when AVOS jumped in.
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3.5mil? Do something interesting.

350k? Splash out on one or two fun or lavish things and put the rest into savings/etc.

35k? Put it into savings.
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Yup, that's the problem.
Writing has been on the wall for some time. Surprised anyone that uses Delicious seriously did not switch to Pinboard or equivalent. No sure Avos is to blame so much as delicious users not being proactive about the inevitable.
I can code in rails...what we are doing is a bit on the complicated side, though, as per the other comment
The proper way for them to have done it, is for you to opt-in to sharing your music, as oppose to sneakily telling your facebook friends what you're listening to.
I would like to use Google+ as a nicely integrated social feature for my organization using Google Apps. There are some seriously cool things we could do with it. But we're stuck without. The last time we had to integrate non-apps and apps accounts it was a headache, I'm not eager to join + with a non-apps account and go through all the migration hassles again.
I am going to be late for my class because of you, it was totally worth it though. If you ever need a novel to read, go read VALIS by Phillip K. Dick, your theory of schumann resonance reminded me of that novel.
It sounds to me like you're misdiagnosing the problem. The problem isn't too much hierarchy, it's too little! Your CEO friend needs to grow a pair and demote his CTO co-founder. Ideally, he would sell his co-founder on the idea of doing this voluntarily. This will not be an easy discussion.

Titles and hierarchy matter in a startup because someone has to be able to make decisions in the face of disagreement. Decision making by committee leads to a lot of really mediocre decisions--like keeping a co-founder as CTO despite being unqualified for the job!

This decision-by-committee dynamic happened early on in my current startup. Mostly, the problem was engineers having an equal say in marketing and financing decisions––a topic they were not focused on or very familiar with, yet had strong opinions about. This was dumb. It took one of the founders of Netflix giving me/us a swift kick in the ass to get over it. No longer. We now divide and conquer. The company is much better for it.

Every company needs a CEO. And if the CEO is not technical, then the company is eventually going to need a CTO as well. But that's about it in terms of C-level officers. A small company should not have 4 chiefs. What that really means is the company has NO chief.

Being a C-level person means being responsible for long term big picture shit and management and leadership, not just coding. For myself, I am extremely fortunate to have a visionary co-founder and CTO with real leadership qualities. He is a partner in the true sense of the word. I expect him to stay CTO for a long, long time––unless I decide to demote myself and make him the CEO. (Might happen, who knows?) Regardless, the buck has to stop somewhere. And that somewhere is the CEO. There can only be one.
If you would replace the logo you are not their target audience. This is for plug and play people without the time or inclination to perfect something as minor (compared to actually launching and interacting with customers) as branding, just to get a product out there.

If you were going to get another logo from the off I'm sure you could spend a few hours thinking of a great (available) name too.
Good time to be Pinboard!

I'm sympathetic to the "real names only" terms that some services run under, but for a bookmark sharing service that policy provides no end-user value. This is a service I think you should pay money for, instead of allowing yourself to be the product the company is selling to others.
I think that applies in most cases, and it may in this, but as per some of the other comments, significant video streaming experience (if not bi-directional) is sort of a prerequisite for being able to do what we are doing.
Moot: "sterile Facebook comments over provocative YouTube comments?"
It seems that Amateur Hour is over.

http://mashable.com/2011/05/06/playbook-amateur-hour/
I think the point here is that in both cases, we only get better after we practice.

And if conversation is a problem, we know what to do! Converse.. :)
Thanks for the support Jake!
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No associative strong content play means nothing to do with that shiny new piece of glass. Take the and pivot the entire product just to corporate.
To be fair, most forums I see are beyond ugly. Eyebleed and personally-offended ugly, I think, are about the right level.

The rest of it -- click to read, click to respond, etc etc. Eh, I'm not too worried about.
It's a good opportunity to pay off debt, if you have any.
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There wasn't much real work I could do on the product in the state that we were in, because we were thinking about completely re-architecting it when he came on. Also, I agree with what you are alluding to -- if you aren't touching the product, then you probably aren't that much value-add. Personally, though I've demonstrated the ability to be value-add and was working on some key deals...we just never had the product to close them.
You're underestimating the appeal of sheer convenience. jQuery is convenient because it's terse, it's expressive and it has bloatloads of community support.

Most "standard" javascript APIs (especially the W3C DOM) are absolutely dreadful to work with, especially if you like modern javascript (a smalltalk-ish blend of "functional" and object-oriented javascript).

If IE falls under 5% of market share (not like it'll ever happen), jQuery will simply remove the now-irrelevant pieces of code. My proof for this is simple: http://zeptojs.com/

This is a 5k library aiming to implement the full jQuery API while restricting its compatibility to mobile webkit browsers.

As long as there is more than a single browser (and each Webkit port out there counts as a supplementary browser), jQuery will thrive.
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Because labels are useful for quickly making sense of random data. (Pun intended but incidental.)
Wow! Great insights!

I love the idea of a goal theme per week.

Thanks for sharing!
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I assumed it was just sort of an awkward parting of ways. I think you are spot on though in your assessment
Definitely talk to a financial advisor, but most likely he/she will tell you to start by paying off any high-interest debt, put some in savings, and invest the rest. It doesn't make sense to put that money in an investment earning 1-5% while you have a credit card at 13% and a car loan at 7%.

EDIT: What's with the downvotes without comment? Is it unreasonable to suggest that someone should pay off debt before investing?
There are only a couple of services/products I would used based on the people running them. Pinboard falls into this category. The developer is active with the service, very open and honest, and gives great customer service.

If another similar service offered significantly more features or an otherwise better product I might be convinced to switch, but it would take a lot of convincing.

The other two products that come to mind as fitting in this category are Sublime Text and Balsamiq mockups. Both are great products, but are backed by even better companies / people.

In the offline world, I feel the same way about my (State Farm) insurance agent. His office has bent over backward when necessary to ensure things are taken care of.

Great customer service, honesty, and listening to the customer goes a long ways toward building a successful business. This is why Pinboard will thrive and profit while Delicious continues to sputter.
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Yes, of course. Debt before savings.
I'd love to know more about how they cold boot cloud Windows VMs in under 40 seconds. EC2 doesn't provide suspend/resume (at least last time I looked.)
Maybe they'll go as whack crazy as Corel and buy a stadium or a football team, then forget about making phones altogether!
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So security minded they're using GPG, no wait ...
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If Amazon Fire succeeds in cannibalizing sales in the low cost tablet range (Fire being a wrapper for all of Amazon’s digital media products in the cloud), Playbook stands to offer nothing other than the device. RIM seems like a company coming more and more across as a company that has no pragmatic leadership or vision. It is both unable to draw a bead on where the market is going, or its competitor initiatives, and is increasingly made irrelevant in the smartphone market.
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This seems like a such an obvious thing to use SVG for, without needing to resort abusing fonts in a such hackish way.
I have always had issues with the Quora "more" button at the bottom - it gets stuck in an endless loop. The rest seems stable and responsive, but that issue alone (over multiple computers and browsers) has made me not bother with Quora.
The reaction of Delicious users is a product of poor communication on behalf of AVOS. They wanted it to sound like they were simply taking the reigns when, in fact, they were building a new product. Nothing from this email indicates that the old delicious is going away:

"Dear Delicious User,
This is our final notice to let you know that Delicious is transitioning to a new owner, AVOS. To continue using Delicious, you must agree to let Yahoo! transfer your bookmarks and Delicious account information to AVOS by September 23, 2011. After your bookmarks and account information have been transferred, you will be subject to the AVOS terms of service and privacy policy."
> it is kind of enjoyable watching them crash and burn.

I have very much enjoyed watching their fall...it's a strong case of schadenfreude. For some reason, their refusal or inability to innovate has me giddy. I suppose they represent (to me) a large corporation run by old guys who don't "get it" - and they're failing. Microsoft is in the same boat, but it's tougher (only slightly) to argue that they are falling.

I'm halfway through this bag of metaphorical popcorn, I hope I don't run out before RIM dies completely.
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I think people pre-judge others too much. In older, much more traditional cultures, marriages managed to remain stable in cases where the bride and groom did not even meet until shortly before their wedding. That is a completely different topic though, but my point is that the set of people who you can live with happily and the set of people who you think you can live with happily probably do not overlap as much as we would like to think.

Expecting a connection at first is unreasonable too. Connections are built by shared experiences, not magical "love at first sight" moments. If you dismiss someone immediately, you'll never have a chance to share experiences.

I'm not saying that you should set the pass band on your filter to infinity, but the worst case scenario in talking to an artsy girl (or any other type of girl who you don't expect to forge a long term relationship with) is that you have a friendly conversation and learn a little.

At least, that's how it works for me. I've never dated a girl that was "my type". I have an idea of what I'd like in a girl, but for some reason I seem to meet (and enjoy being with) girls who don't fit that mold.
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Always amused when I am unable to read an article about the new best practices in web design because the page renders with strange overlapping text. I think the table of short terms near the top is supposed to be an example of icons, but I see nothing in Linux Chrome.
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True. I should probably generalize what I said to, understand the costs and opportunity costs of time, lost salary and savings for a few years, and the low odds of startup success, and then weigh whether your idea is worth it, based on whatever scale is meaningful to you - money, improve the world, solve problems, etc.
But re-inventing things that already exist is also sub-optimal. Why create a font, why not use an existing standard?

Also, having a list of the icons together with their labels made it easy for me to know what they meant. Some of those icons would be baffling to me if they didn't have a label. I could be convinced that extra visual clutter is a good thing, but some designer is going to have to give a nice example.
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What did Google steal from Microsoft? Has it been proven in a Court?

Look around you, all products in a "product category" are alike. It's how competition works. You don't think Microsoft build similar stuff to others? What about their multi-tasking in Mango?
I know you can't reasonably say what % you offered (you're still apparently a going concern), but know that people on HN are pretty accustomed to b-school types and their notions of what "significant equity" are.

Again though, the top line here is, we're in the middle of a tech bubble, there are a lot of venture-backed companies, most of them are going to fail, tech comp packages have never ever been higher, competition is fierce, aggressive, and protracted. There has never been a worse time to assume you've got talent locked up.

I'm sympathetic to the idea that someone who isn't 100% sold shouldn't represent themselves as 100% sold. BUT. Oftentimes, we don't demand of others the frank answers we don't want to hear. How many serious sit-down conversations did you have with your potential partner about his commitment level? Your post is "Red flag!" "Red Flag!" "Warning sign!". Well, did you react to any of those flags?

If you didn't: I appreciate the idea of writing a post about the warning signs you've learned people should be looking for. However, if you ignored warning signs that the guy wasn't committed, it becomes harder to sympathize with the idea of a blog post designed to slag one guy for not signing on with your company.

If you did react to the warning signs and diligently qualified and re-qualified this guy and he kept coming back saying "absolutely I am one hundred fifty percent behind you": I agree you got shafted a bit, but again remind you that tech people mostly don't give a shit. A guy who can execute on the level you're saying you needed can simply write his own ticket. The game theory suggests that you have little to gain by lashing out.

((I'm having a really procrastinate-y morning, which comes from knowing I'm working super late tonight, so sorry I'm being so noisy. At least you're not on the logo design thread I'm howling at.*)
Yup. I don't think treating your home like an office works for everyone. I feel more productive in shorts and a T-shirt. I work on my desk, but mostly on my bed actually. I work lying down and propping up the laptop+stand on my knees. I work sitting down or even standing at times, basically whatever gets me working.

I can probably not work in a normal office anymore!

What is more important is to be organized.

- Figure out a system that works for you and concentrate on striking off stuff from your task list.
My system involves pivotal tracker + Gnome Pomodorro applet timer.

- Manage your notes/references/bookmarks better. Eg. Evernote + pinboard

- Make repetitive tasks automated

- Drink sufficient water!
Java's library collection dwarfs it easily.

I've seen (and track) CPAN's numbers. Where can I see similar statistics for Java's library collection?
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“The people who could possibly do these jobs realize it would be easier to create a new company rather than try to get an old stodgy one to adopt new ideas”

Interesting theory, but I feel like the article's other point that company boards have an aversion to hiring the right people is the more accurate criticism.
Too late. I deactivated my FaceBook account yesterday following that Huffington Post article about "gestures" and streams and whatnot.

I was never vulnerable as I've been using the Facebook Disconnect extension for Chrome, but enough is enough. I considered what I get out of Facebook vs what kind of information they derive from me, and despite being a very heavy FBer, I pulled the plug.
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In this case, they seem to be testing the blood for markers that should indicate an ability to repulse an HIV infection. Not the most scientifically informative experiment one can imagine, but also pretty straightforward ethically.