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Well, that's an interesting side discussion in itself : what is value.

Let's leave the edge cases out of it, and rephrase : if you're pursuing a legal activity using legal means, and you've made a legitimate profit from selling honest products then you should be proud of what you have done. Think Steve Jobs rather than Pablo Escobar. Even then, some would (and do) say that Steve Jobs flogged a lot of overhyped and overpriced products to uncritical acolytes. I would answer that he did so honestly and the people purchased of their own free will, so they did receive value for it.

I'd leave morals out of that it because morals change a lot over time and between societies. As a rough meme - legality is kind of codified morals of a particular society. So if you're doing things within the legal framework then you're OK.

Of course there are douches making illicit profits doing illegal and immoral things. But these people would be conducting illicit activities no matter what the framework they operated under. At least in a free society you're able to avoid them.
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Steve Jobs might not have completed much college, but the company he created wouldn't have been successful without Woz who more closely resembles the model I wrote about.

Steve dropped out of college without any plan. That (miraculously) worked.

But it wouldn't have worked if it wasn't for Woz (and others)...Jobs really couldn't have done anything he ended up doing without others. Woz, like others, only left when it was clear something else would be a good option and that point only grudgingly.
"Every time I relate this experience, I get a lot of head nods."

o.O is what you get from me. Is everyone you relate this story to you a half-wit? Quite simply, who hires without adequate research? (apparently many more people than I realized)
My point exactly.

Dropping out isn’t an accomplishment, any more than money is a sign of achievement. Sometimes, but not always, it’s simply a symptom of success.
Funny, university helped me to find out the things I am passionate about. It also helped me to see the broader picture. Universities can help those passionate self developers immensely.
I was thinking the other day how an Android equivalent of Siri could include some mechanism for mapping spoken queries to Intents. If someone could find a user friendly way to execute on this, any app could expose itself to voice commands from a centralized interface much the way it can expose data for search, etc.

This could be implemented as a third party app on Android by using the built in speech recognition, then doing something similar to Ixoth in order to map text queries to Intents. I don't know enough about iPhone development to say whether such a thing is possible there, but if not its hard to imagine such a thing hasn't been considered as a future Siri feature.
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You can compare it to last year's Startup Lessons Learned here: http://www.slideshare.net/gueste94e4c/dropbox-startup-lesson...
As troublesome as Twitter, Facebook, and Google Plus can be, some of their epiphytes are just terrible. Personally, I harbor a surly attitude towards Klout because there's no opt-out option - there is no way (that I could find) to say to them, "count me out." I realize that they have a lot of number-crunching to do, but not having an opt-out mechanism makes them look skeezy. If they fear that too many people would use an opt-out mechanism if it were available, that in itself is a problem! They should provide the mechanism and be honest to themselves about whether their business model is viable - because if they get a lot of opt-out responses, they should probably quit or pivot.
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No I don't have any data, because no such data would exist or would be very hard to collate.

I can look at the environmental condition and record of any heavily controlled economy or region, or one where nobody has ever really made a profit anywhere. Chernobyl is a grand example. Google is another - they have the profits in order to implement best-practice environmental standards for their operations and buildings, to sponsor world-changing initiatives. Many things that wouldn't be possible without healthy corporate profits. A struggling search engine company wouldn't be trying to power their datacentres with renewable energy or doing many of their other things.

I've done enough travel to know the filthiest, most polluted places are those where profitable companies don't exist.

Your example of Nigeria just shows that countries mired in poverty and lack of productivity and wealth lack the resources and ability to implement strong environmental controls.

Any oil company involved with a leaking pipeline is not going to be as profitable as one with a pipeline that doesn't leak.

I personally know people who work in the oil industry in developing nations. The popular image of people like this is of cowboys with no regard for the environment, yet they, and the companies they work for, work hard to get things right. But it's not always possible in a corrupt environment where rewards don't go necessarily to those that work the hardest, but those who have the connections.
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Emphasis on co-founder.

Some will argue "but woz left!". Cofounders leaving is pretty common. It doesn't diminish their importance so much especially since part of what a tech cofounder can do is ensure the company can run without him.
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Just curious if we're on the right path with this. I know there are a few electrical engineers, so any pointers or info would be much appreciated.

Someone also wrote something in the comments about bypassing a secondary battery and instead using a capacitor to store the power and a resistor to regulate for the input specs of the MacBook. Does this sound viable and more efficient?

Thanks.
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As a job-seeker, I always make sure that I contact my references and give them a heads-up that the call is coming in, along with a copy of the resume I submitted for the job and the job posting. It's out of courtesy to the person I'm asking to provide me with a reference.
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What really bothers me about Siri, is how Apple makes it tied to specific hardware. Technologically, there should be no reason why Siri-style actions are not available to every PC, and every smartphone.

Native platforms have been, and still are (thanks to Apple's success), the major roadblock to innovation.
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goes all the way up to calculus and linear algebra.
My private tutoring experience leads me to believe, that there is a market for "math explained simply" material for adults.

Do you guys think there is a market for printed textbooks?

I hope to earn a living from selling print-on-demand copies at lulu dot com. When people ask me "what is your startup" and I tell them that it is a math and physics textbook they laugh at me, but I think it is actually a pretty good business idea.

Am-I on brain crack?

Oh I forgot to say -- the book is really kicks ass and targeted to low-attention-span youth. I do a coherent rendition of high school math in 90 pages, calculus in 60 pages, mechanics in 50 pages, etc. The page format is half-of-letter. email me if you want to see.
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Transcripts are a bit much. You should after all have some level of trust in the people you are hiring. Sounds like you dodged a bullet.
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Okay, I'm a little confused. I thought everyone hated Mark Zuckerberg because he sold out before Facebook even existed, as in, the act of him selling out caused Facebook to magically get stolen from those guys from Harvard he knew?
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Brilliant. IOW, education is shortcut to knowledge; you can get knowledge anywhere--not just from college.
By this logic you cannot admire anyone: because each and everyone was just the guy or girl who did [some mundane stuff there].
Newton? The guy just did some math. Armstrong? He was just stuffed into a tin and sent to walk some dust ball.
Why some people refer him like some sort of computer Jesus? Because of the influence: the stuff coming from Apple influenced a lot of people, users and makers alike. Take a look at the phone market before and after iPhone, take a look at the tablet market before and after iPad, observer the influence of MacBook Air…
Not to mention ITMS.
Of course you can easily dismiss each and any of these for whatever reason and then indeed indeed there will be nothing do admire. But I guess that would say more about you, not the Jobs.

(I don't get how down voting proves your point).
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I think it highly depends on each person's work situation. It would be nice if we could all have employers who would agree to that kind of arrangement, but unfortunately, that's not always the case.

I figure, if you're bootstrapping a business on the side, you're probably looking to get out of working for your employer anyway. If your employer can't tell the difference between when you're giving them your most productive hours and your least, I wouldn't consider it to be shortchanging.
So I can hook up any web service that has a SMS offering to your service and have it interface with Siri?

Yesterday I wrote a blog post re: checking my bank balance using Siri (http://ryanspahn.com/siri-checks-bank-balance.html), as well as other services(Foursquare - though they need to simplify the process & steps).

After writing this post I thought there should be one service that interfaces with Siri(thru SMS) and all my favorite web services. If I'm not mistaken, I think you just created it?
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The touchpad alone is a dealbreaker for me. After using an MBP for a year it drives me nuts to have to use the terrible, terrible touchpads on any PC laptop.

My new 2011 13" MBA is a real pleasure to use.
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The argument being made with the apps is the sheer volume of crapware on the Toshiba, versus none on the Air.
Business wise, I wouldn't invest a dime. How do you even market something like that? Textbooks is a cutthroat business, there are thousands of textbooks on math, many of them with decades of history, improvements, fans, recommendations, teachers who use them.

You could've picked a fresh subject, like a niche of bioinformatics, or cutting edge solar technologies, but you picked one of the most generic topics with books that don't really age. Basic math doesn't really change, you could pick up a math book from 100 years ago and use it just fine.
Completely agree! Especially with the fact that good dropouts would have done well in school anyway.

Larry Summers mentioned in some interview that although both Gates and Zuckerburg dropped out, they were already better educated than most people are after the average college education when they enrolled at Harvard (studying at Lakeside School and Phillips Exeter).
No they don't. The software doesn't distinguish between posts about YC companies and other posts. The algorithm for which votes to count, the threshold for a voting ring, and the penalty applied if one is detected, is the same for every post on HN.

HN has in fact been less and less focused on YC cos as time has passed. The initial core of users were YC founders, and anything to do with YC was interesting to them. But over time that group has been diluted by large numbers of new arrivals. A lot of people now think of "Y Combinator" as a news site rather than an investment firm, which was certainly not the case a few years ago.
> I don't understand the caffeine thing

> A good cup of tea [...] does me better.

But tea has caffeine in it. Did you mean decaf tea or herbal tea (aka an infusion, since there are no tea tree leaves)?
Your post seems to suggest that you do not really understand what adgar was saying

The type of person he is calling a hero, someone like Dennis Ritchie, is someone who has created important algorithms or made advances in chip design. These technologies, Ritchie's in particular, are what make Apple products, and in Ritchie's case very near all other computer products, possible to build at all.

There is the Jobs type of innovation, where you integrate work in a useful and pleasing way. Then there is the academic version of innovation, where you are creating or extending the foundations of our collective knowledge. These are hardly comparable.

Many of us find the latter to be far more of a challenge than the former. That's not to say that doing the sort of work that Apple did was at all easy! But beyond such subjective opinions, the real discord that bothers some of us is that the academic type contributions are every bit as important as the contributions of Jobs, yet often go completely unnoticed, or worse, their successes are misattributed up the chain to people like Jobs.

These people deserve every bit as much praise, but usually get none. So Dennis Ritchie died recently. There were some mentions in the news. But by and large Jobs death is dominating the scene. Ritchie's work has arguably touched far more people. It's sad, but I suppose it's human nature to sing the praises of a few at the expense of the rest.

That said, Jobs was a hugely influential person as well and certainly deserves respect. We just need to remember that there are others that also deserve the same sort of respect. The quiet heros.
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selective reading much?

it is about the TOSHIBA crapware. those are non-Microsoft components, and it shows. same on pretty much any other big manufacturers stuff - LENOVO, HP,...

as if win7 didn't provide all these features natively - as OS X seemingly does.
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we do not see x rays, gamma rays, etc, as "pink"
I'm 34 and old enough too, yet I wouldn't call people 'kids' :)
How do you pronounce Ixoth?
So you agree with me then? The iPhone was far from the first smartphone to have these features. Thank you. Not sure you could throw the Newton series into the smartphone category though :S

Apple got a lot of inspiration from existing platforms, who in turn got inspiration from other platforms. I was amazed when I first held Palm and WinMo devices, they were the dawning of an era for me. But I don't go writing completely uninformed posts all over the interwebs about it. These articles about Steve Jobs' rant against android makes him look like a complete fool and a hypocrite.

Why was it a model of what not to do? So much of what I see in todays' android/iphone/WP7 features remind me of the power of WinMo of yesteryear. WinMo was a superb system, and seeing that it went barely unchanged for nearly a decade proves this. This was simultaneously it's biggest downfall and Microsoft left it to late to update and they got left behind.

What does microsoft abandoning WinMo tell me? That they're just like every other company and drop support for legacy systems to produce newer, better platforms. Thanks, but I already knew that.

Bit hypocritcal of you though, considering your beloved apple did the same thing with Newton...
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- uncomfortable keyboard with barely any travel

- trackpad is laggy and inaccurate

- display is TN, not IPS, and has high black levels.

Anandtech's conclusion: "if you don't care about OS X and just want a good, ultra-thin Windows machine the Zenbook is a viable alternative. If ASUS can fix the trackpad issues then it's worth considering, however the display in the MBA alone is reason to opt for it over the Zenbook, even for Windows use"

[1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/4985/asus-zenbook-ux21-review/...
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>>How do you pronounce Ixoth?

From the referenced page: It's pronounced "Icks-auth"
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"Tell Ixoth to see the top story on Hacker News. It's pronounced "Icks-auth", and Siri picks up easily once our SMS number is added as a contact."

It's probably best if you read the article before asking a question that's answered within it.
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You don't need to spend a lot for kids to learn the basics. Public school budgets in the US need to be gutted, they are way too bloated as it is.

The issue today is that the federal government in the US has made it a priority that every kid go to college, including the ones in the lower half of the bell curve. That's a recipe for diluting the value of a college degree, which historically only the top quartile of students would receive.
Don't confuse my interpretations of what Jobs was saying with what I believe.

That being said, if I had to interpret what Jobs would say to your statement, I believe he would say that the iPod was inspiring, it transformed how people listened to music. And he would be right because iTunes became the largest seller of music, to the point that artists no longer sell CDs as much anymore, it's all piecemeal mp3s.

In terms of Google search and maps, I would also intepret Jobs saying that it has good functionality, but what made it great was tying it together with the iPhone. If you watch the famous 2007 interview with Jobs and Gates at the allthingsd conference, he mentions how they showed Google Maps to the Google engineers and they were blown away at how much more useful it was using the iPhone. The iPhone completely transformed the experience, and brought it to a new level, which is what he predicted the iPhone would do. And if you listen to what Marissa Mayer said earlier this year, 2011 was the year when more mobile users used Google Maps than desktop users. Google maps is a completely different experience with a smartphone, and it's those sort of transformational, humanity-targeted aspects that I believe Jobs was going for, not just engineering functionality.
Suppose I am craving a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Suppose that a spreading knife is an essential and irreplaceable requirement to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Would you say that my first and primary motive, and fundamental purpose is obtaining a spreading knife?

I don't think it's at all deceptive or muddle-headed to say that I'm really just hungry for a sandwich.
I guess you missed his irony. "Pointless" was a straw man of his injection to make his argument seem stronger.

At the end of the day most of Google's non-search products have lacked great design, this is well publicized and not very controversial and Google has made some great strides recently towards better design (Matias Duarte's work on ICS most famously).
(Sarcasm)
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As far as I saw, the only Iphone specific detail was the ability to speak the message instead of typing it.

Or did I overlook something?
When it launched, was Google Search that much better than Yahoo Search? Was Google Maps that much better than MapQuest?

I'd say the leap from a Discman to an iPod was a bit bigger. Suddenly, you didn't have to choose which music to take with you, it was already all there in the device. Suddenly, you could take your music player when you went jogging, because the music would never skip. Suddenly, you wouldn't have to worry about damaging your CDs, you would always have a copy. You wouldn't even have to think about changing batteries or charging -- the battery would charge while you synced your iPod to iTunes.
What's the point of this? You will save neither money, nor energy. If you want to increase your mobility, why not buy a second (or third) battery?