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eh, I wouldn't worry so much. Bad references are /rare/ - I mean, I remember once giving one client a long list of references (I'm not exactly sure why I was so concerned with this one client? this was a long time ago) anyhow, I told the client that I'd also include another reference, one that I didn't think would be great.

I mean, that last reference was someone I worked for, and I didn't rip them off or anything, but I didn't do particularly good work. I did some sysadmin work for them, and I was also hosting their shit and, kinda sorta went out of business (well, that part is... complicated. the upshot is that I couldn't host their servers anymore.) The process was moderately messy and there were some unpleasant outages before I finally pushed them off on to a competitor of mine that I had worked with before.

but yeah, apparently that guy, in spite of my reservations, gave me a glowing recommendation.

Oddly enough, I ended up doing a less than stellar job for this person, too. I mean, I didn't rip him off, and my early work was okay, but I took several jobs from him later on when I simply didn't have the bandwidth to actually do the work. I mean, I didn't take money for the work I didn't do, but still, accepting a project and then just flaking on it is pretty rude.
Heartwarming :)

Reminds me of My Machine, an organization that takes children drawings of machines and make them come to live.

http://mymachine.be/en/node/20
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Q. Do you take adult’s drawings?

R. I personally prefer to work with children’s drawings, but occasionally, I have worked with the adult’s (inner child’s) drawings. The best thing to do is contact me with the drawing and I will let you know what I think.
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Well, if they draw something and declare "That's my friend Foo!". If you show up with a stuffed version of their drawing, they are likely to recognize that as "Foo". Kids have a way of not letting their lack of drawing skill or details get in the way of a good story.

Plus, I doubt they could turn a 3 year old's drawings into something. My kid's drawings aren't that recognizable yet... (just lines and squiggles)
I'm disappointed that HN has become such a big news site, because it is not designed responsibly to be one, so trying to get a post featured is very difficult. I think the only reason any posts do get featured is because of the 'sockpuppets' that the submitters have built up (or that follow the content), but that is legitimate upvoting (I'm not sure why someone would upvote something they aren't interested in?).

Perhaps the most important change that HN needs to make is to have topics. It isn't fair to other people and content if the stream is full of NodeJS content, but that is a legitimate interest so HN can't ban the prominent workers in that field (bizarre). The ban from HN seems to be purely a side effect of the fact that the maintainers are not interested in designing the system responsibly (they are too busy with other responsibilities). Topic channels are obviously needed.

I think the difference between HN and reddit needs to be considered well and the two should be integrated some how, I would like to see topic channels on HN.
what if the college does not offer hard classes. I am not talking about a scenario where I am brilliant and know everything, I am talking about a scenario where classes are not really hard. Everything is on a basic level and no advanced level stuff.
A university level computer games development course?

How does that follow, wouldn't it be much more practical to do a general cs curriculum and then to specialize in visualization and/or interaction rather than something so narrow as games?
I believe her broader point, but I don't really connect the dots from "diversity in a founding team is bad" to "women shouldn't start companies with men."

Ignore the gender issue for now. Having homogeneous founding team is valuable because it reduces time-wasting arguments. That's really what it boils down to -- I don't think it has anything to do with men vs. women.

A startup could just as easily be founded by two women with shared backgrounds and values, e.g., RentTheRunway, BirchBox, One Kings Lane, etc.

Gilt's founding team included both men and women. Sugar, Inc's founding team included four men and two women.

Homogeneity in values, diversity in skills is what's valuable for a founding team.
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The author, Bill, answered questions about this on Joel on Software:

http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?biz.5.665091.3...

Key comment:

"[..] when you're in your spare bedroom alone slaving away for 5-6 years, then someone comes along with deep connections to the industry (proven from asking around), who everybody in the niche knows, and who was 'part of a team' responsible for booking $100 million in sales in a single year... it is easy to not go through all that due dilligence and just accept someone like that at face value."
Also, our own Peroni (IIRC) mentioned that "is $candidate eligible for rehire by your organization" will be answered by nearly all employers. And it's quite useful.

[I have no personal experience, just passing this along.]
People drop out of school and out of university for all the wrong reasons. Laziness, unable to look past the next test to the larger picture of what being educated is all about.

The people that drop out for the right reasons may have such motivations as 'I can't learn faster or more here than elsewhere', 'the company I started needs me more than I need a degree' and so on.

Those people aren't really dropping out. They're taking a short-cut because they already accomplished what the people that stay in the program are still trying to achieve.
Throwing away all your worldly possessions in the pursuit of happiness is not always possible.

For instance, having a car to drive your 5 year old kid to school can be a lot less stressful than taking a bus or train.

But, yes, seeking to own the best car money can buy is rather unnecessary.

Overall this article offers simple, good advice. It was a good read.
Idealised, romanticaised version of what start-ups are.

Perhaps someone should burst a bubble and point out how many startups out there are very well defined, funded, with solid business cases, research and deliverables.

Worthless article.
Wouldn't it be a blow to 4S buyers if they release it for older versions of the iPhone?
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I've never had a problem, and I suspect it's more likely to be shared hosting which ends up getting blacklisted due to people installing insecure scripts.

If you use a half-decent provider who quickly investigates any unusual traffic on their network then I can't see it being a problem.
At some point, if you're successful you're going to have to buy them out. I believe mobify started with mobify.me (hey another option!) and then later bought mobify.com after gaining traction.
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I'm surprised nobody (including the article author) has mentioned Tim Cook, particularly as this new shift to lower pricing that he talks about coincides with TC taking the helm. This is what Mr. Cook does - squeezes every last bit of optimization and efficiency out of every step in the supply line, reducing costs, hence giving them leeway to reduce their prices while keeping their enviable margins.
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This was a fun read, and what is scary is how much of this memory is fresh as newly plucked fruits with uncounted boxes full of APIs that have long gone to dust sitting besides it.

Maybe one day it will come in handy again.

In case you don't know what djgpp is: http://www.delorie.com/
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> It will be interesting if we get to where Facebook is required to send a pamphlet to your house explaining how they use the information they collect about you, who they sell it to, etc.

Actually, they are, in the EU.

Well not literally with a pamphlet, of course, they are required to send you a CD with this data on request.

Except that they're (illegally) refusing to provide most of that data under the guise of "intellectual property" (whose? not theirs, under any legal definition of IP I'm aware of) and "trade secrets" (which I'm sure won't hold up).

They just provide the profile and your comments and messages and whatnot kinds of data that are all already visible in some sense or other, on Facebook.

They do not provide the invisible data, the things they collect behind the scenes, such as what data they collect from your phonebook, what data is available about you being tagged in photos, things like that, all the data you know Facebook is collecting (due to deduction from friend suggestions, or just because it's there), but never really get to see because it's either a) buried behind some algorithms (friend suggestions) or b) just stored and not really used for anything.

These two kinds of data are EXACTLY what this EU Privacy law is intended for. The right for EU citizens to know what data about them is being stored especially when it is not immediately obvious that this data is being collected, stored or used in some manner.

These two kinds of data are also EXACTLY what Facebook is withholding from EU citizens legal requests because of "trade secrets". It won't hold up. I really hope it won't.

Their reasoning for why something is a "trade secret" is the same reason why a law exists that requires them to provide that data: because the data is not used in the open and otherwise EU citizens would not be able to know this data is being collected and stored about them.

Remember, the privacy laws protect the fact already that certain data is just stored, not even whether it is used or not.

I bet there's many kinds of data FB is simply storing about its users that it doesn't really use yet, data they should have provided on formal request but declined to do so because of "trade secrets".
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Yes, I agree that throwing all possessions isn't the best of ideas. What I was trying to suggest was that just craving for more possessions just for its own sake is avoidable. For example, if you are happy with 5 year old car, why take a new one?
From a personal perspective, I'd say choose productxapp.com, if it is an app, over getproductx.com. (Or choose a domain hack, like produc.tx, if that would be possible/available?)
But you always should keep in mind and accept the fact that some of your target audience and visitors will end up at productx.com anyway.
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It was a valid question with a straightforward and informative answer. I wouldn't worry about it, some people seem to be a bit trigger-happy with the downvotes :)
Perhaps, like mosts things in life, the truth lies somewhere between the perceived overstatements of Jobs' achievements and qualities and your "understanding".
Great point on scratch. Luckily, these things don't bother me :)
My question would be: assuming you want to, how do you scale it? There's such an individual toy-by-toy creative aspect to it.

Also, the potential for building brands seems pretty spectacular. Stuffed toy is just one step, you could add stories, games, episodes...this could be to disney what 99designs is to graphic designers :)
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Then I'm afraid you applied to the wrong college. If it was me, I'd a) work out how to demonstrate you are top of the class and b) befriend someone in the faculty who will mentor you, with the probable aim of c) transferring to another, more challenging institution or at least course at the same institution. Fortune favours the bold.
Sorry to join the haters, but this Penelope Trunk doesn't know the first thing about startups - this article was complete junk. I'm going to form another startup with the goal of going back in time to get my two minutes of wasted reading time back. I'll offer the service to others. We'll make millions.
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Reminds me of the saying "you don't own possessions they own you". This is only true if you let them own you and worry about them. When my TV breaks down I might get another one. But there are loads of people who buy another TV because they've seen a bigger/thinner/nicer one.
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Then who would it be ok to revere (in your opinion)?

I'm not sure how the downvotes prove your point. Your post was poorly worded, lacking support and derogatory.
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I've decided to hold off for a bit:

* The Kindle book costs nearly as much as the hardcover. Too much.

* I suspect most of the salient, "juicy" bits will be coming out over the next few weeks, and most of the general outline is already widely known.
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If Google goes bankrupt tomorrow nobody would give a crap. People would just use Bing or Yahoo.
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You and I cancel each other out - I always try to use a human checker.

> Repetitive, dehumanizing jobs are a means to an end for those with no privilege.

Well that's better than /no/ means to the end, of living.

> The challenge of this century is to find better means to that end.

We haven't found it yet, have we? So in the meantime you should be nice, and support humans.
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Or they could work only for rich babies? :)
Heavier: True, but only by 0.24 lbs, an 8% increase.

Thicker: I'll give you this - that said I've always wondered why this feature matters. Sure it looks nice, but from a usability standpoint - well, in my entire life of using laptops, I have found laptops too heavy, but never too thick. Honest question: why is it worth the premium - and loss of user customization - to be so thin?

Design:
Magsafe: Agreed.
Bluetooth: Agreed, but dongles are extremely cheap
Thunderbolt: An issue, but so few devices use it currently that there is a good chance it won't be that much of a problem over the life of the laptop.

Unibody: Debatable if that is even a good thing. I searched in vain for studies that show a unibody laptop is sturdier or more durable; do you know of any? I am guessing that any fall strong enough to start making a difference would already be enough to crack the screen. The huge downside is the difficulty of opening the thing up (no replaceable battery?!!)

Multi-touch: The toshiba site claims "multi touch control". I have no idea what that means, though I doubt it is to the level of what os/x offers.

Crapware: This really isn't that much - most of those are useful programs. That said, I'll admit I completely ignore such lists, as I just reformat and install Linux anyway. :)

That said, one can fault the air as well when comparing it:

-Shorter battery life

-No replaceable battery (making shorter battery life even worse)

-Significantly slower processor (1.7 versus 2.4 ghz)

-Less RAM (4GB versus 6)

-Impossible to swap hard-drives

-No dvd drive

-Based on amazon's current pricing, costs $500 more. ($800 vs. $1300). (http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-Portege-R835-P81-13-3-Inch-Lap... versus http://www.amazon.com/Apple-MacBook-MC965LL-13-3-Inch-VERSIO...)

While they aren't the same laptop, they are closely spec'd with different trade-offs. In reviews, Toshiba's is often compared to the Air. (http://reviews.cnet.com/laptops/toshiba-portege-r835-p56x/45... http://www.pcmag.com/article/print/263220). The R835 is certainly an example of a company producing a competing product to Apple without much quality loss but at a vastly lower (40% cheaper w/out SSD; 27% w/ SSD) price.
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Its unfortunate that some people didn't see, or don't remember, this transition. It was literally going from something that just plain didn't work, to magic.

The memory that stands out in my mind was typing in 3 or 4 words from a song I heard on the radio, appending "lyrics" and having Google know what I was talking about. It stands in my mind as one of those "this is the future" moments. We take it for granted now, but this new normal of never missing out on information, because you can just google it, really did start with Google in my opinion.
As an aside, it is often possible to buy laptops from competing manufacturers vastly lower than MSRP (40+% off), especially on craigslist. Apple laptops seem to not exhibit this effect.

Used ones are extremely cheap. My 2 year old (and extremely usable) Dell E4300 model can be had for ~$320 on ebay, while weaker macbook airs go for double that.
You do not want to open that door. At least as it currently stands a fair number of states aren't yet completely owned by corporate interests and so you can at least operate in some of them. Congress is. If congress got involved you would get a uniform system for sure - your business would be uniformly banned.
as an interesting tangent, the [hopkin green frog](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopkin_Green_Frog) thing that went viral some years ago, and which people assumed was a kid's typically clumsy attempt to draw his pet frog, turned out to be a pretty accurate drawing of his missing toy frog.
Judging by how badly the Chinese imitation lego bricks stick together it is apparently not quite so easy to make proper bricks. I wonder if you can achieve the right "stickiness" within the manufacturing tolerances of a 3D printer.
Her writing is provocative and contrarian but definitely not worth tossing out simply because you disagree. There's a lot of truth in this post if you care to look.
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I agree with that, however you have to consider the returns on investment, too: the difference between a personal car and public transport is that you can get to wherever you want in 15 minutes instead of 1 hour, for example, but if you have a 5 year old car that works fine, there's no reason to buy a new one, indeed.

It's even more complicated in software - while a lot of tools are good enough as they are (like Windows 98 :-)), upgrading to a new version can make a huge difference.

I do agree that having a lot of possessions is harder on your mind, and it ties you down to one place - I found that out when I had to move and leave a lot of stuff behind - in the end, it turns out I could live perfectly fine without it.
> I think this piece acts as a reductio ad absurdum of some of its premises. When your chain of reasoning leads you to the conclusion that "women are likely to bring diversity to a male founding team, and that’s not what founding teams need" it should be obvious that something has gone wrong

Nooo! Reductio ad absurdum means "obtaining two statements that contradict each other", not "obtaining a statement that sounds immoral to me". If the latter were valid reasoning, previous generations could have used it to prove the existence of god, because disbelieving in god was immoral to them. I guess we could call such arguments "reduction to enemy" instead.
Android already does more or less both of these things.