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Just do what you do and be better. If you didn't see eye to eye, you'll probably end up with 2 different products.

It could be worse. I applied to a well an incubator/investor type program and made it to the final screen...only to find out several months later, the program founders launched a very similar idea with a very similar customer acquisition strategy, involving the same company we were in talks to partner with. I'm not explicitly saying the idea was stolen from us, but common courtesy would be to not pick our brain and let us know about the conflict up front. Needless to say, we weren't selected.

Needless to say, our strategy back then was a loser. Today, our products have more similarities than differences, but we've diverged enough b/c we've both had to pivot and were drawn in different directions.

Just rock what you have out of the park. Most ideas aren't right out of the gate.
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No, each person's video will be different depending on what they do.
But I don't want to use his language, I want to hack on it with him. To see how he solves problems. So, C.

Unless its something like Factor, where most of the implementation is written in Factor.
I like this solution and am definitely tempted to give it a go.

Anyone got any thoughts on the best way to do this on a page with personalisation? (and this is really simple personalisation - one section of the page changes depending on whether you're logged in or not).

My solution would probably be to have the personalised section load as an async request but then you'd need to make sure that the async request can handle the same load as the microcached content.

Any other ideas?
I learned computers on a Mac+. At two I could load the disk into the drive, load up Paint Shop Pro, "paint" a painting.

The lesson isn't that iDevice's (or apple products) are amazingly intuitive -- it's that 2 year olds are quite smart and good at learning/playing/exploring.
I like how in the picture they open the app drawer for Galaxy Tab to make it look more like iPad. The app drawer is not the default view on Galaxy Tab.
Have you used KDE at all? If so, why do you prefer XFCE? I'm asking because I really can't stand Unity and have made the switch to KDE, but I also looked at XFCE.
I love the idea that little kids who love watching garbage trucks are now getting their older siblings to go find Youtube videos of them.
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"It is on netbooks and tablets perhaps..."

And there goes the entire problem with unity. It is a touchscreen tablet UI offered for mouse based computer users. I would have applauded Ubuntu if they made a separate tablet (and perhaps netbook too) distro, but why force me to use it on my desktop?
I am asking for direction on finding a front end developer to add to my team. I offer equity but cannot offer compensation at this time. Do you think I should approach this differently and present it as a job opening or contract to hire type of position? We can pay (not a lot) but we were taking the approach that we wanted to add a founding member to the team. We just need someone to build a user interface without bankrupting us. Suggestions on this? Thanks for reply by the way.
Probably when they realized they still had to pay Microsoft to license the OS.
Is it that easy to write in C and call from Python that you don't think twice about it?
The docs, included in the download, contain install instructions. Pretty easy and quick to install.
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I've been doing essentially the same thing with my wordpress install. Went from a few hundred reqs/second on a cheap linode to over 4k reqs/second. (I think the limit was the benchmarking tool, not nginx) I've got the nginx config if anyone is interested.
You can even go back to Google with "!g search term" (without quotes). Useful also for Google images with !gi and similar things.
Some of my sites receive 10 to 100 times more traffic than reported by compete.
I am a senior in college as well and I've found that the most successful way to impress an engineer is 1) to show enthusiasm about the company, about programming and technology in general and 2) ask well thought out questions (research the company/startup prior to the fair by reading their developer blog and ask insightful questions about the technology the company uses and the design decisions they have made). This will most definitely impress the engineer/recruiter and put your resume at the top ;)
Is that the same ui view that Samsung put on the Galaxy Tab packaging?

Ex:

http://www.photokina-show.com/news_images/00812_samsung-gala...
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I agree, I rarely go on facebook anymore. Picasa + Google+ blows facebook out of the water... except it lacks users :)
Are they actually awesome, or do you just like that they are smiling at you :)
Up until a couple of weeks ago -- stocking $USD in $AUD would have had some great retuns.

But Forex risk is real - and should not be discounted.
I feel very uncomfortable with the constant comparison between Ritchie's death and Jobs' death. Even Rob Pike ended up doing this. [1] Why are we trying to create conflict and see injustice where there is none? The amount of media coverage a person gets has no correlation with his importance. Can we blame people for not knowing him? Don't give me the tired "everybody is using his software, so everybody should know about him" argument. It's so hypocritical. We use a lot of things whose inventors we don't know.

[1] https://plus.google.com/101960720994009339267/posts/33mmANQZ...
Christ, give it a rest. Canonical should definitely not be targeting Granny Smith, not yet anyway. Power users dissatisfied with Windows or MacOS are where the action is for now and the foreseeable future.

(Here, I use the term 'power user' to mean e.g. anyone who has looked at the device manager in Windows.)
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I don't think this is the correct way to think of things. I think there are 2 different cultures that have contributed to the computing world today. The first is from academics and big company research. This is the legacy of IBM and AT&T Bell Labs - hackers wearing ties.

The second is tha hacker culture of Woz, Gates and the rest who developed the PC, brought the rarefied computing of AT&T and IBM to the masses. I dont think its fair to say that the latter stood on the shoulders of the former, as much as they had their own unique contribution.
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DHH declared the solution in 2007 [1] - apparently nobody needs offline applications!

[1] http://37signals.com/svn/posts/347-youre-not-on-a-fucking-pl...
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Why do they need a rebrand?
Music in games is most certainly part of the branding. Think of the opening chip tune to super Mario bros. Or the song that plays while the contra logo scrolled in.

Those songs are as much a part of the brand as the characters, titles, enemies, sounds, etc.

They are almost like jingles on commercials. They belong to the brand.

The fact that they are works of art, or how they are made, or who makes them means very little once they become part of the brand.
Looking great! But unfortunately the unity framework is still no good. And no customization - that's not in the spirit of linux
My app is heavily effected as well. I have a Picasa client that auto-caches photos for users. The app manages the cache and clears it when needed, but certain albums can be manually set to cache by users so they're never deleted. I wouldn't want all these photos backed up and I don't think apple would allow it. Them going through and deleting the data themselves basically breaks the app for our users though.

The app: webalbumsapp.com
Good to know there is a per-app toggle switch for this.
Some of us make multi-MB files in the documents folder that weren't designed to be granular for backing up or syncing.
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That could just be personalization (as opposed to social graph leverage).

Personally, I don't think social graph leverage is bad though.
I was in India recently; there is a huge amount of love for Google there, so it doesn't surprise me.
Agreed. Can't we just say this has been a hard month for the tech community?
Is it fair to compare those ab benchmarks when the concurrency value is different for each (4 and 500)?

Would be curious to see how the original config handled 500 concurrent requests.
I'm just taking what you said at face value. If you come on HN, act like an asshole, and go on to say you'd behave the same in person, then the inference is pretty obvious, isn't it?
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That seems pretty far fetched.

How often has that actually happened to you? I can honestly say that in 15 years of web browsing I've never had either of those problems, and don't know anybody who has.

Seems silly to significantly slow everything down for everybody because of a one in a trillion chance somebody will lose power at an inconvenient time.

And hey, maybe if the browser were faster, you'd have time to submit the comment or bookmark the page before the power goes out...
I'm still not 100% sure on which question you would like us to answer because, at first you ask:

What is the process of getting publicity for a startup without any connections or investors to help?

However, you then go on about how,

users are needed first

I'm not sure which question you would like answering - how to get publicity or how to get users because, whilst the two are connected in that publicity can bring users it doesn't necessarily mean they will.

However, if you want a TON of publicity then just do something that will get you noticed for instance, just look at how Richard Branson does publicity for some of his brands - http://www.businessday.com.au/small-business/smallbiz-market...

Likewise, if you want a users then there are loads of methods of doing it and although you don't want us to mention it "word of mouth" is the BEST form of publicity & user signups

Nevertheless, if you can clarify which one you would like answering I'll gladly help and I'm sure the rest of HN wouldn't mind helping either. Moreover, if you can mention what your startup does or even the industry its in, we can be a little more specific because, there's no point telling you to reach out of X, Y and Z if they won't get you the users you need :)
I'm curious. Doing a startup is kind of an intense all-in undertaking. Why on earth would you even consider doing this with some non-technical stranger you met at a meetup? Isn't that like going to a swing dancing class and proposing to the first woman that catches your eye?
Unless you're under 18. And the high school demographic seems like it would be pretty relevant.
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> -A window begins to be unwieldy at 15 tabs, and is impossible to navigate at 20

Interesting. This is actually one of the big reasons why I prefer Chrome over FF. FF does the whole "make my tab bar scroll" while Chrome resizes the tabs to fit.

What about Chrome's implementation do you find more unwieldy than Firefox's?
A national radio campaign is likely to bring hundreds or thousands of visitors spread over hours, not hundreds of thousands of visitors spread over seconds, so I probably would not take any particular action to harden a site in anticipation of it. It is a poor use of engineering resources and adds technical risk with no corresponding benefit. (n.b. Pasting code you got from a blog post, particularly code marked as kinda broken, is not a risk-free endeavor! I love nginx, don't get me wrong, but paste in snippets from two different blog posts and watch the sparks fly if you don't understand how nginx handles, e.g., location priority.)
That seems nuts from the outside, I wonder how they plan on maintaining Angry Birds popularity (and revenue) for 20 years. The article references Nintendo's 26-year Mario brand, but it's not like that was their only schtick.
So, in addition to the existing advice, the one thing I'm not seeing that I would suggest is kind of novel...

Keep the app. Keep the name. Release it on the Android market.
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Is there a way you could bring others onto your side project? I'm sure a multitude of people here would gladly help you if you have a good project.

You shouldn't give up the job yet, especially if you have to support others. You dont want to sabotage yourself trying to become profitable too early (before building the business)
For technical writing, I've always liked Kevin Kelly[1].

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Oh well, I've been using Firefox since it's pheonix, firebird days!

I've never evangalised so hard about a piece of software, and every Linux and Apple user owe it a debt of gratitude, in as much that it was a good cross platform browser.

Performance wise, some upgrades have been for the better some for the worst. But don't get too sentimental about past incarnations. I remember there being memory issues in the 2.x line. I saw the browser eating over a half gig of ram once - and I nearly fell off my chair.

Those that have dozens of tabs open - I do think you need to ask yourself why? It just slows your computer down. I think we use them as replacement for bookmarks, which says something about the browser UI.

I've only recently left 3.6 to try out TenFourFox on my power pc - which at first felt a million times better, but after my initial excitement, I noticed it's a bit of a cpu hog. Idling with Gmail open, it seems to be quite greedy. Which suggests to me that there is an inherent problem with the browser - imagine if I had a handful of web apps open.

To say Firefox is broken is a bit strong. It would be better to say it has it's faults and could be faster. If it's DB is a bottleneck - could it be swapped for something else?

I do however think the browser UI is in serious need of some love, and could do with some innovation. It's barely changed. For example tab management is dire.
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tl;dr: don't believe it, at least not for any recent Intel ThinkPads.

Counterpoint: I chose the ThinkPad X220 because it was on that list and it works (nearly) flawlessly under Linux. The only problem I know of is that the mic mute button doesn't work. That's it.
I'm not sure if anyone else had this problem, but using Chrome (14.0.835.202) on OSX, I had my CPU shoot to 100% and pretty much become unresponsive. YMMV.
Upon hitting his website, you were one single click away (the "software" link, next to "about") from learning that he's the co-maintainer of Guile, a C implementation of Scheme.
Isn't it pretty significant that most high schoolers (under 18) can't even sign up yet?
Tim Gowers explains aspects about functions in a very clear way. Much of the stuff can be applied wholesale to many programming concepts. Every programmer, actually every job remotely involving math should really know this stuff.

As an abstraction tool the concept of function is powerful. It basically came into its modern form hand in hand with Calculus and not surprisingly was popularized by Euler.

Even as a programmer having a firm understanding of the function abstraction from Math will have real benefits in terms of reasoning about basic structure of code.
I'd recommend either using PhoneGap or just implementing something like - http://www.luscarpa.com/development/make-your-website-an-iph...
Mainly by using the "new window" function in the program itself; IIRC though, the context menu has a "Open new" option as well.
There is no tablet market, only an iPad market.

You can't just chain together as many markets as you wish with the word "and" to the smartphone market.

Why not say they are also "jostling" in the online services, advertising, flat screen, and whatever else market while you're at it?

It's a completely disingenuous statement.

P.S. A recent story put iPad at about 97% of tablet browsing share. I can't get to it right now on my iPhone. Preorders are nice but just about any objective measure (including those that include channel stuffing on behalf of the rest of the industry) we've seen so far has shown total iPad dominance of the tablet space.
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The best part of this was when she tested to see if her finger was still working. This kid is awesome.
Not to mention that Steve Jobs was so much younger than Ritchie. It's always sad when a great innovator dies but its doubly sad when he dies young. Steve's kids are much younger than Daniel's and are unfortunate to have lost their father at such a young age. Same goes for his wife.
Early Apple computers used BASIC and assembly, Apple Lisa and early Apple Macintosh were Pascal oriented... Steve Jobs did just fine without C and Unix. It's true that there's Unix in OS X and iOS, but there there's Linux which powers Google and most of the datacenters today, it's in Android and almost any gadget you look at... and the article authors don't mention it because then it wouldn't be in any way anything specific to Steve Jobs...
Don't quit your day job, yet. Like everyone is saying, keep working on your side project. Stick with it. Keep it small/simple and get it out there. See if people like it and are willing to pay for it. If people are willing to pay for it (even if you're only making $50/month) that's a huge win for your morale. If your side project goes well, eventually you can transition to working on it full time. Good luck!
Exploratory trying is a form of discoverability. Plus the whole social context of learning new gestures through friends using similar devices.

I looked at a Blackberry Playbook at the store and tried to use it without having ever seen anyone else use one before. I spent a good 10 minutes trying to figure out how to close an app before finally looking it up online with my iPhone.
Turing's destruction is more complicated than just prosecution by conservatives. He had access to extremely secure information over a period of years, this is what drew attention to his homosexuality.

When someone gets a security clearance, what do you think is looked for? Not many spies or people who eventually divulge information to an enemy country have explicit ties, eg. they aren't a member of a communist party. What is investigated are characteristics that would make a person likely to be influenced: debts, addictions, gambling problems or, as in Turing's case, some sort of socially unaccepted lifestyle.

Around the time of Turing's conviction, several other homosexuals had been convinced by the soviets to become double agents, eg. Anthony Blunt and Guy Burgess. Turing also made regular trips to the continent to pursue sexual relationships. This is what inspired the indecency charges. That's my understanding at least.

Please understand, what happened to Turing was terrible. No one deserves that fate. I really do wish he could have escaped somehow. That said I don't think the situation was as simple as social conservatives destroying people.
This. It's completely nonsensical to chastise the public for mourning someone disproportionately. Had Dennis passed a year from now, would this article have been written? This reasoning slips into the unproductive paradigms that elitists subscribe to to feel better about themselves. Are Ritchie's and Job's legacies inseparable? Yes. Does that mean their work is to be valued by precedence? No more than the likes of Tesla and Edison.

I appreciate the insight to Ritchie's immortal legacy. But basing legacies on such logic quickly deteriorates into gibberish.
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The fact is, different people experience different things.

Many people report that Firefox holds up better with many tabs open than Chrome. Perhaps since Chrome has one process per tab, which ends up straining some OSes. And many people report the opposite. It probably depends a lot on the OS, the specific tabs, their number, what addons they have, etc.

There are definitely a variety of bugs that some Firefox users hit, and those users get a frustrating experience. I don't think anyone is denying that. But there are also plenty of users that are clearly very happy. And there are users of other browsers that also hit bugs - for example I recently noticed that Opera was churning my HD for no reason. Never seen that on any browser until then. I had to stop using Opera because of it.
My experience doing something very similar is that the original config would not handle 500 concurrent requests. It's a fair comparison insofar as the uncached app probably couldn't serve that many concurrent requests in a reasonable amount of time.
It's not just that he was younger, he arguably also died at the peak of his innovative career.
The fact that high-schoolers couldn't join Facebook for years didn't seem to hurt it too much.

Edit: downvoted?

To quote Wikipedia:

The Web site's membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It gradually added support for students at various other universities before opening to high school students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over. However, based on ConsumersReports.org on May 2011, there are 7.5 million children under 13 with accounts, violating the site's terms.

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It seems unlikely that Chrome will get tree style tabs any time soon, despite some popular interest:

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=99332&...

"If I stop using the dev version, and switch to beta or (shudder) released, and turn off updating, will that give me the tabs back, or is it too late?"
If "leave without pay" is an option try that. You can then take 2 weeks or maybe even a month to get your product to a working state. From there you can try to recruit a team and raise angel money before you quit your day job.
That's how I've done it in the past. Depending on how many personalized requests you are doing, compared to the resource utilization savings you'll get from caching the rest of your content, you'll probably come out ahead.
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ianal, but i believe that using it to connect to your service would not require you to release the code of your service. You'd only be required to release the code of any modifications to the Gate One software. (that is, i personally would not interpret it as making your service a "derivative" of the terminal emulator.. Maybe a lawyer could make that case though.) either way though, nothing stops you from making him an offer, provided he has the full rights to relicense it for you.
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