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[Pointing it out because it's way towards the end]: Second-to-last image hints at the Virgin Galactic planes being in the same area - great contrast between past and future parts.
Have you used Netflix though? When I moved from the US to the UK I had to switch to Lovefilm, and it just plain sucks compared to Netflix. Particularly the watch instantly stuff: I want all in, everything available to watch instantly should be free. But in LoveFilm, it's a mixture of pay-per-view and inclusive, which just really annoys me. Not to mention the Netflix interface is considerably better than Lovefilm.
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I saw Radialabs advertised there recently. This is instrumental in my opinion. Come what may, I can provide you with Radialabs knowledge. I couldn't say it and also radialabs needs to be like that and that's about that.
And Lego has seen this coming for years and done a lot of amazing things to reinvent itself. They had similar problems during the 90's with knockoff products and such, and was almost bankrupt at some point.

They've introduced Lego Technic and later Mindstorm, which patented or not has no good competitors right now. Lego has a good brand name and a good product in a niche! Also, Lego Land in Denmark is awesome!

I think kids for many generations will find joy in some kind of Lego products! At least I hope so, it's the best things ever!
I hate people who say cut-and-paste when they mean copy-and-paste. Pet peeve of mine, I guess.
Just got a 15" MBP, 8GB memory, 500GB 7200 RPM disk, with a Thunderbolt display. What a nice setup. I'm upgrading from a 2007 MBP that died, and the new machine is so much faster. I would have preferred a redesign without the optical drive but that's a minor complaint.
One learns a lot in a year. I said some things then that I wish I'd had more experience to back up; if I had, I probably would have tempered them more. That said, I also said this:

"Even if you absolutely have to raise prices across the board, I think three months of warning is the absolute minimum amount of time to give a customer base before you hit them with the increase."

We're doing that, with a unilateral offer to grandfather customers for 90 days.

In general, I still think grandfathering is best when possible, but when you realize your business isn't growable (and barely sustainable) at current prices then something's gotta give. We've put this price raise off too long, hoping to soften it with new features, etc., but it's a chicken and egg problem. We can't do what needs to be done without the resources to do it. So prices have gone up, and it's the next day and we're in a better spot to help all our (remaining) customers rock.
I never claimed it was better! Just that I have had a good experience with LoveFilm.

The streaming side of things is their biggest downside (although I am on the top package so most of the stuff is free) and from the descriptions Netflix is a lot better at it. Which will make me consider opening a Netflix account to compare it when they come out.

But I've always tended to use the DVD postal service more often and that has been perfectly fine for me.
So true that you can't explain to people. You can try, but they will either get the horror, or the bliss, but they'll never understand the strange and gut-bustingly hard mix of the two, and how quickly it swings from one to the other.

When they are defying you and just threw food over the kitchen, you'll get grey hairs trying to fight the urge to blow your top. You'll say things you promised yourself you would never say, because you're all out of ideas how to handle a tiny creature who is intent on riling you, just to see what it's like.

Then they'll get sick and you'll need to carry them to a doctor and entrust them to medical staff you've never met, and you'll be so anxious you won't eat or sleep.

Then the next day you'll have the most wonderful conversation where your little charge asks you about the universe and you try and explain it to them, not knowing where to start or how much understanding they really have.

One thing though, you'll learn compassion, forgiveness and patience like you never thought possible.
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From personal experience, saying "Let's have a baby!" was at least as terrifying as "Will you marry me?".
Based on Trunk's reasoning, diversity would be just as harmful to creating value for the customer as it would be to creating financial value.

Also, you are misusing the term "reducto ad absurdum". Trunk's reasoning merely shows that there is a tradeoff to be made between value creation and diversity (i.e., more diversity -> less value). This is a positive (factual) claim.

The fact that your moral values lead you to believe that startups should choose less value and more diversity does not negate this claim.
Also check out LevelDB: http://code.google.com/p/leveldb. What TokuDB and LevelDB have in common is optimizing inserts, at least if key uniqueness is not required.
Trust me, we weren't happy about having to raise the price. It was a painful, hard-fought decision to change it internally, and to not permanently grandfather existing customers. But in the end it's about having a sustainable business - the worst possible outcome for customers is for the service they were powering their billing with to disappear altogether.
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You might be able to make something based on this idea a phenomenon, but if all your suggestions were followed, the result would not be this at all.

First of all, who is they? It seems like this is an individual woman. That's part of the appeal, that this isn't a mass market product, but a work of love made by a real person for a real person.

The uniqueness of the toy is part of the appeal as well. If other people order the same toy, first of all, what is the point? You can buy stuffed toys anywhere. What you can't do anywhere is order custom stuffed toys. But more importantly, what does duplication do to the appeal of the original toy?

Adding competition would be equally disastrous I think. It makes the whole process a game, and anything that can be gamed will be gamed. If there is any reward at all in having the most popular toy, even just recognition, then you can bet that adults will start making drawings and saying they were from children. Further, the competition will distract the children who draw from focusing on the specialness of having their drawing come to life and instead turn their focus to how well their drawing is performing.

Your ideas may make a popular and profitable business, but it would be fundamentally different from the business here. You can't scale personal connection, and you can't duplicate uniqueness.

Don't get me wrong, I think it's great that you thought up all these ideas. I just don't think this woman should apply them. What she has is special, profitable (probably even enough so to live on), and makes a positive impact on the lives of her customers.
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>"definitely do not take hormonal supplements just to fall asleep."

I'm going to partially disagree with the author here.

I take 3-5mg of oral melatonin every night, and have for years. My basic research, which includes talking to my and my girlfriend's physician, has concluded that there's no harm in taking it as a supplement. Unlike pharmaceuticals, melatonin doesn't knock you out, it creates a very natural sensation of, well, being sleepy. But you can take it in the middle of the day and not have it affect you at all with respect to drowsiness (though I wouldn't recommend warping your hormone pattern like that).

Read up on using it as a supplement. It has long list of benefits/possible benefits, and very few possible side effects. Oh, and it will help you fall asleep.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melatonin
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I agree completely, and I find the way Hacker News has become the 'Cult of Jobs' to be a bit weird really.
Off topic, I know..but the lack of capital letters is both annoying and lame.
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> I blame the IDE's

Please, please learn to write correctly. "IDEs", not "IDE's"
The instrument pack in the dashboard is connected to both buses. It needs real-time data from the drive systems to display speed and so on, so it's used as a hub.
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I personally went with productapp.com, since getproduct.com sounded a bit generic, while productapp.com implied that its a software app in some form.
Nicely written, although I have to say I don't find having a baby quite as horrible as most other parents seem to find it. Exhausting at times, yes, but nothing that gets me angry. As for my old life - maybe I wasn't partying hard enough, because I don't really miss it that much.

OK, it is terrifying, but not because the kid is a terrorist. It is terrifying because life suddenly has you by the guts. I guess I cared a little about my own survival before, but now I really want to survive to be able to be there for my kid, and I definitely want my kid to survive. Suddenly life has gained a whole new dimension.
> "but now that i'm currently uninsured (i may do a follow-up post on finding cheap health insurance packages), i'm beginning to care more about my physical and mental health."

This one really scared me. The author wants to work on his health for money reasons? I know that money is virtue in California, but isn't this taking it a little to extremes?

I find the idea to screw up your health because you're "insured anyway", well, disturbing. Not sure I'd take sleeping advice from someone with this attitude.
It is nice to see some positive words about having kids. But still what is so hard? Spending less time online? I have the impression that raising kids is much harder in the US.
Whole thing reads like an advertisement for a company's super-expensive speakers and equipment, and ends with a note that they have a new super-expensive iPod dock.
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it seems even weirder I think that will show him to make a movie about guides and products United states should not have for it.
Yeah. This doesn't seem like startling news.
For me the main discovery is that of pure bidirectional unconditional love
I think the documentation advantages of typing can be massive. Dynamic languages are great but they do place additional importance on documentation/comments, for example to tell the caller of an API what to pass in and why. In a static language, if the author has carefully thought about the naming of any abstractions, you get a lot of that documentation for free. Add in useful advantages like better tooling support and I do think a feature like optional typing could be very useful.
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That's certainly one perspective; prescience is something I wish we were better at. Another perspective is that a startup is a search for a viable business model, and each of the subscription services in turn has realized that their entry price in to the market was decidedly unviable. We were able to sustain ours for longer than most because we (a) never offered a free plan, and (b) have kept our overhead ridiculously low. But (b) has kept us from improving the service like we need to, which in turn hampers growth, which is a nasty feedback cycle.

So it was time, and it was painful, but now we get to focus in on the fun stuff: making the service more awesome, and growing.
The difference is that a pilot knows far more about an aircraft than the average driver knows about their vehicle.
California and several other states have imposed legal restrictions on using credit checks in hiring decisions. See an article by two lawyers at a prominent labor-law firm: http://www.littler.com/publication-press/publication/califor...
Well said! The same situation exists in all subjects and the presented arguments can be extended to all of them. Perhaps lives are not always lost but time and money are, for sure. When a large chunk of research money has to be used up buying access to information, then less research gets done.

So these people who are in business of making money by restricting access to information that was altruistically provided by someone else are clearly promoting backwardness and ignorance.
I've got 1920x1200 on my 2007 MBP, which is the older 'higher resolution screen' option for the MBP, and OSX' resolution dependence is a serious pain in the butt. I've been holding off on upgrading my MBP until some progress is made in this department, but it looks like it won't be for another year.
Parenthood is kind of a good rehearsal for founding a company: you won't sleep much, you're very emotionally invested, you're on the hook for everything, and boy is it hard without the right partner.
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Think businesses would bite? Month-to-month, no minimum, cancel any time is so much in vogue, it's hard to imagine there would be much traction around a multi-year contract, but maybe I'm wrong.
Gmail was popular for the storage as both have mentioned and most of all the exclusivity. I certainly didn't beg my friend Bill for an invite when I found out he had Gmail because of the spam filters or ui or so I could have ads in my mail. I wanted Gmail because Google was the coolest kid on the block.
How can you be so certain of the accuracy of your statement?

Who are the users of Google's ads? Companies wishing to increase the public's awareness of their products, those who wish to supplement their income with their written works and those looking to buy something.

How many livelihoods have been built around this market? How much easier has product discovery become?

The wheel is useless without the axle. If google's search results were awful, if they did not make it easier to find information that enriched people's lives - a powerful force in combating unwilful ignorance - do you think people would be there to click the ads in the first place?

Ads serve a useful purpose as a product awareness catalyst, they are a way of connecting seekers and sellers, if they did not help anyone they would not be so profitable. That they are abused and misused is not an inherent evil of the platform. Anything can be turned to nefarious purposes.
This is almost exactly 18 months after the acquisition. Guy probably finished his earn out and is moving on. Nothing surprising for an acquired CEO.
Thanks, I appreciate the sentiment. I think it's more like this: imagine you are a house builder in a place where they make houses out of plastic spoons and masking tape. You make a great living out of building these houses, but it just doesn't feel professional, and finally you quit just because it seemed too much of a farce to continue anymore.

It's not just where I'm working, etc. -- it's all based on C. It's all a farce. (And don't mention Lisp, which is an idiot savant. Sure it can count the matches on the floor, but you can't introduce it to anyone.)
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And price, weight, ports, and thickness, among many other features. Of all the factors, I don't think 2 vs. 4 cores is the "main" factor.
> he was a friggin' VP of a $100 million company
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>But damn, I didn't think it would happen to me. I mean, I was prepared! I read a lot of books! I knew all about bad employees and how to avoid them! I was smart, dammit!

Obviously, that author didn't read Influence by Cialdini as he was deceived by one of the oldest tricks: "influence by authority"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cialdini#Influence
Of course, but all of that is within regulated limits. Only tested and approved components can be imported, and if you do a grey import of an unlicensed part and the police catch you with it, they impound the car (some regions have different regimes/exact measures I guess, that's not my point). So modifications are already controlled, it's not that everybody can just machine their own parts and put it on the road, without having it tested/centrally regulated.

While if anybody could just modify the firmware in their car, there would be no way to check if that version is safe. The only option would be to allow only (a) certain, manufacturer-approved version(s), which is the exact point I was making. And by making it difficult to upload custom firmware, we (as in, regular citizens who have no interest whatsoever in changing the software in our cars, but who are put in jeopardy by morons who think they are capable of making something better but really can't) can protect ourselves (to a certain degree) against the hackery of said morons.
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1. Mmmm we should probably change de stars' color when hovering over them, to make people understand that they're in charge atm
2. Yes, I've read that a lot today. My engrish isn't so bad I guess, but it seems like after countless sneezy testings, I've missed a few trads...
3. Again, problem is that we've already focused a lot on movies not people; if we focus even less on the people, then they will almost disappear, and deegr will lose its special ingredient (ie. finding people that are like you).

Maybe you will actually find it useful to find people like you when you can find people like you from your town/age/sex/opposite sex... See what I mean? ^^
So 13.9% of community college students get a degree in 3 years. To me that says the system is trying to fit square pegs into round holes. Everyone doesn't need to have a college degree. Everyone needs advanced training but that doesn't always mean college. High schools should return to offering vocational training as well as academic paths.
Yes. And also developers/testers of other electronic control units in the vehicle. The early phase development is always in simulators and on test tracks, but typically car manufacturers have deals with the governments which allow them to drive on regular roads with systems under development.

Of course, should something happen, there's a number to call to get towed away quickly.
This makes me chuckle - the funny thing is that we were actually the first "small business" subscription service - Chargify, Recurly, etc., all launched well after us. That said, it also meant we didn't have any point of reference when we initially set pricing. I think we actually did surprisingly well four (4!) years ago, given the lack of information we were working with.
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True, but watching videos can be done entirely in passive mode. It is also very clumsy to flick forward and backward to rewatch a fact you didn't catch the first time you watched it.

Actually come to think of it, that might be really interesting data the Khan Academy is sitting on: how often people try to rewatch a part of the video. Could be an indicator if they are really learning, or pseudo learning. Or maybe it is only me who sometimes needs to rewatch parts.
Here is what I did. Perhaps it would work for you:

- Create a todo list. Each thing must be specific, measurable and unambiguous. Update it every day, first thing.
- Grab a copy of "Will Power": http://www.amazon.com/Willpower-Rediscovering-Greatest-Human... Awesome book.
- Find someone to work with, or an accountability group. Working with someone is a great motivator for me.
- Track your time. See how much time you're spending on which thing, (or nothing).
- If you've been procrastinating on something or more than a month, then maybe you should remove it from your list.
- Have a clear understanding of where you're going and why. Perhaps your expectations of yourself are too high?
In theory, theory and practice are the same.
Yes! the guestbook! it was so popular back then. When forums started to appear, webmasters stopped using them because they didn't see the need to have a guestbook anymore, messages could be posted in a section of the forum.
Messages in a guestbook and in a forum were actually displayed the same way: one message per line, with a lot of useless stuff around.

We think we made a better user experience with Plumpl, which you are right, can be used as a guestbook.
But with a way improved UI/UX, different format submission (text/image/...), social integration, etc: we think guestbook should come back.
I've saved a few searches where autocorrect gets too aggressive. I've run in to more than this but I don't save all since usually I just want results for my search immediately and don't feel like recording them:

I needed `+pyinotify` on this one to get the results I requested. I've come across this problem with quite a few other python packages but I can't recall them at the moment.:

Search: pyinotify thread
Result: Aggressive correction; wrong
`Showing results for inotify thread. Search instead for pyinotify thread`

This one isn't exactly related but automatically changing negated terms is frustrating:

Search: win 7 processor not +downclocking -gpu
Result: bad autocorrect
"""
Showing results for win 7 processor not +downclocking -cpu.
Search instead for win 7 processor not +downclocking -gpu.
"""
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Brings to mind this classic 60's Mad Magazine article "If kids designed their own Xmas toys." http://thatsmyskull.blogspot.com/2005/12/mad-magazine-if-kid...

This is great!
Only a very small part of the firmware, or more specifically, not really the firmware but just some chips that control the ignition timing and gas mixture. None of which puts other drivers at risk; at worst they blow up the engine of their own car (I don't know if that's possible with chip tuning, just saying). Many 'types' of car tuning that cause danger are already prohibited on most places.

But if somebody could rewrite the firmware so that the car stereo controls all of a sudden are the only way to actuate the brakes, that could create very dangerous situations. Which I why I hope that there will remain strong regulations on what firmware people can load onto their cars, at least in as far as they use that car on public roads.