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It was hypothetical if someone with that kind of ambition could make just enough that he accomplished all these great things even if it left him middle class, he'd take it. I agree it would take a huge amount of cash to get there, but the point is the end goal wouldn't be money.

I've noticed by your responses you think everyone who thinks any entrepreneur wants anything besides profit is "muddle-headed." The world is "muddled." Not everyone is playing the same game in life, for some people, money is the game, for some people, money is just something you need to play it. I've noticed some of the former types really want everyone to be playing the same game so they can measure up.
The comment I made is hardly disputable unless you think that pursing profit is always and everywhere a good thing. I don't know anyone who can't find an example of where the pursuit of profit was evil.
First of all Congratulations on launching your first version. Looks neat.

The development partner, need not necessarily be a "partner". You should give yourself considerable time to get to know someone before you take them in as partners. My suggestion would be to identify someone who can develop it for you even for a pay. And as you build the rapport & find yourself trusting that person more, you could engage as partners later.

The big positive in your case is that you already have a version out.

Your constraint seems to be finding time. Is it possible for you to pay & get the work done? It may be much easier to find specialists for specific features (say, mobile) than finding a partner straight away.

Go to conferences whenever time permits & interact with folks. Give yourself at least 3 months to find someone you would trust. Till such time consider hiring freelancers for specific work.

Just my views based on what I have experienced & read.

I really liked the advice by Mark Suster => http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2011/05/09/the-co-founder...

And this essay from pg => http://www.paulgraham.com/really.html

Good luck with your venture.
>One of the challenges is that no one knows yet if hermit crabs will live in man-made plastic shells. And if they will, what shell designs would make the best hermit crab homes.

How come they don't print the kind of shells these crabs regularly scrounge up? I don't know about these crabs, but I imagine they have some favorite shell types they like to use. Ask a marine zoologist, no?
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What were the well-regarded elements to creating a successful product again?

Be the first.
Be the best.
Be the cheapest.

The iPad has all of these elements in the tablet space at the moment.
There could perhaps be a gap between which sort of shells hermit crabs are most commonly able to find, and which kind of shells are ideal for hermit crabs. Furthermore, the difference in material might have an effect.
Personally, I found that community college did a far better job at teaching the material; I suspect that in large part this occurred because the classes fit into a degree program with prerequisites.

Compared to universities, you're probably right. Most big universities reward faculty and grad students based on research, not on teaching. So faculty and grad students optimize what they're rewarded for, on average. (I made this point in an essay I wrote for students called "How Universities Work:" http://jseliger.com/2010/09/26/how-universities-work-or-what... ). If you want to get better teachers or instructors, the universities have to start rewarding staff for that. If they don't, they get what we have now: universities optimized mostly for research with an incidental sideline in teaching.

It doesn't help, too, that a lot of students aren't in universities for learning—they're in to party or hang out or burn time or whatever. But that's another subject: http://jseliger.com/2011/10/07/student-choice-employment-ski... .
I would also say that many that attend College do not earn more because they went to college but they were capable of doing so, they were intelligent enough to do so.

Of course there is no glory in dropping out but there is no glory in working on a startup, whatever happens it'll be tough. If you can't imagine taking the risk of dropping out then the risk of starting a company is something much bigger to overcome.

College is for a lot of people, I don't think that dropping out makes you more successful in any way. But I think that time is money and if your time could be better spent then go for it.

You have nothing to lose that this age, once you've got all this debt and as you get older you have a lot more to lose.
Not being able to provide for your kids is far more soul destroying, don't ya think?
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At one point I changed the name to Protoread, meaning Read the Original [site]. It took about 24 hours before I switched to Protopub. And then 3 days later, right back to NewsBlur.

To be honest, I used the word blur because when following dozens, if not hundreds of sites, they all start to blur together. So I hooked on to that mental picture and embraced the dilemma. Might as well know what you're getting into--NewsBlur.

The S. Jobs recommendation on the subject of naming businesses was to find a good word within the domain, then make it sexy. I'm struggling to think of the examples that would complete this anecdote, but NewsBlur is about as sexy a name as a feed reader gets.
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Many of the great inventions/discoveries in the history of science were not made for profit. Newton would not have been a better mathematician had he been paid more. Da Vinci would not have painted better had his profit margins been higher. Feynman's insights would not have been more profound had his desire to win been greater.

Profit is not necessarily good or necessarily bad. There are cases where it's incentives are good. There are cases where it is bad.
For people who have the smarts, supportive family structure (have the ability and will help) and already know what they want to do, they can probably do well despite dropping out. For people who haven't figured things out or need the nurturing and or guidance and don't have anyone back home as safety-net dropping out is not going to help; I don't think.

So, yeah, for super smart people institutional education might prove redundant, but for many, that's where they are going to learn how to interface with the economy with improved effectiveness, make connections and build relationships (network).
For more about the redirector interface specifically, look up the sub-functions of AH=11h and AH=12h of INT 2F. Originally undocumented, this blog article mentions why they were designed the way it is.
So the market only partially works. Perfection is an unattainable goal. Fine.

As you run a business, it should be pretty obvious to you whether you're profiting by exploiting flaws in the system. If you're not exploiting flaws in the system and you're still profiting, I don't think you need to worry a great deal about whether you're actually benefiting society. Most businesses do a small, dull, unexciting part of benefiting society, and that's fine.
Do they realize how absurdly huge the oceans are?

Not that you don't have some points, but relying on the hugeness of the ocean to dilute our trash has not worked out that well.
Have you looked into using: http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/

I have used it on two projects in the past and found it very easy to use, but incredibly powerful. If you check it out, try out one of the more recent RC builds as they contain functionality the stable release does not.
Why the repost? As sp332 pointed out, this is a REPOST! Previous conversation, from about a month ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3038296
Recently, I've been thinking very hard about dropping out of college. Here in Ireland, the education system is somewhat different to the way it is in the US and many other parts of the world. You pick a course, and then for the next three or four years, you attend only the classes that belong to that course. There's very little choice in the matter (though you can technically attend other classes, but not officially and at the lecturer's discretion).

I'm in my third year of a four year computer games development course. I absolutely love the course, the lecturers, and of course my friends at college.

I've been thinking about dropping out because I've been finding the course difficult recently and because I've got a skewed vision of myself, of my motivations and my abilities. It's so easy to think "I'll drop out and then I'll have the time to do this and this and this and this," and much harder to think "If I drop out I'll spend every day on the couch playing videogames and growing less and less as a person."

That's not the way it is for everyone, but it is the way it is for me. If you told me you were thinking about dropping out, I'd ask for the proof that you're not going to waste, because that's such an easy trap to fall into. Dropping out gives you a chance to do the best things you can do, but it gives you the chance to do nothing, too.
This is somewhat unrelated, but speaking of UBS, this video came to mind: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx4poQw1mZo It depicts the Ivy League finance-jobs-at-all-costs mentality very well.
There's definitely a cognitive indirectness here, in the same way that it's in one's long term self interest to act unselfishly, but it's rather incoherent to say that it's wrong to focus on shareholder value because it damages shareholder value. If you want to maximize shareholder value and you're smart enough to realize that focusing on product quality is the way to do that, you'll focus on product quality.
Nick, I really appreciate the info and the links -- didn't know about the AUS gossip buzzing around AWS, that is excellent news.
More and more it seems like "hacker" is a religious or ideological term and not an occupational description.
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No - being confident that your referees are going to say good things about you is always good advice.
Is this still a one-man operation? I'm very impressed with it (and even more so if it's just you) and have showed some of my coworkers.

How much time do you dedicate to developing and maintaining NewsBlur? Do you do this full time now?
What about Larry, Sergey, Jeff Bezos? Even Jerry Yang and David Filo.

None of them dropped out of or skipped undergrad college.
You might as well complain about cigarette smokers contributing to global warming.

Yeah, plastic and smoke are both issues, but at this scale? No way. Not in the slightest.
I agree with almost all your points, especially on the idea that the best dropouts are the ones are the ones who would do well in school anyways. However, I am not sure that someone who can't follow a curriculum will translate into someone doing poorly when a curriculum is not given to them in the "real world". Some people thrive on not having rules to abide by. Curriculums, especially those created in the school system, are not a one size fits all, so you might occasionally get people who do really bad under them.
Yes yes yes. We're:

A) taking small steps every day to make our exercises more and more interactive (see @jpulgarin's link below)

B) thinking about longer-term projects, simulations, whatever you want to call 'em.

We welcome anybody to step in and blow the doors off our current exercise framework with a full-fledged simulation of some sort.
> * ZFS - which is miles ahead of btrfs for production use

Can you explain in what way? btrfs is less mature, sure, but "enterprise Linux" vendors are about to start fully supporting in their next minor version update releases, and that is a good indicator of production use readiness, since they wouldn't do that if they weren't pretty sure it's not going to blow up in their face via an endless stream of bug reports.

> * racct and jails - cgroups is a mess

Thank you for sharing your opinion, an explanation of why it is a mess would be nice.
Honestly, if you have made it to the third year of a four year degree you should stay in school. Here is the best reason most people never mention, visas. If you have a degree it is easier to move internationally. If you don't have a degree or at least a million you are pretty much stuck in the queue. It's paper and credentialism but that is what bureaucracies like immigration departments care most about.
Yep, I have been very surprised in recent weeks at how bold people will be in their lies about their professional capabilities and/or history.
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If you are hiring someone for a sales position, talk with their customers not their former employer.
You can use the HNSearch API for that type of query:

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Thanks for the feedback and links. Both provide some very good points to think about.

You are correct about the time constraint and perhaps I could pay for some of the work and perhaps that is the only way, but then I need to get into finding the correct person and are they really going to be able to do the work and such.

Having the right partner would simply things but finding one will probably not be so easy.
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I understand.

Of course you can also multiply 32 x 32 -> 64 bits in Javascript. But of course you need more than one operation to do it.
Hardly full-time. I have 45 minutes in the morning on Caltrain, and 45 minutes back. I work 3-4 hours on one of the weekend days, and occasionally an hour or two on weekday nights. For 28 months now.
It's not simply about what's "boring" and "not boring", which is subjective anyway. It's about tangible vs. intangible. Most school coursework is intangible & lacking context; grades have little to no bearing on real-world performance and book knowledge very often doesn't translate into solving problems & generating solutions for paying customers.

There are plenty of people who love learning but who just aren't interested in academia, in being told what to learn, what to spit out on some trivial assessment etc. And the fact that these people can motivate themselves enough to blaze an autodidactic path as opposed to relying on dictation from other people ought to be proof enough that those are folks who have more than enough motivation to start a company.
For me, interviewing with a company is as much about me judging whether or not the company is a good fit for me as it is them judging whether or not I'm a good fit for them. If it's clear from the interviewers that they're looking for someone with a college degree and a CS background, then not only am I not a good fit for them, they're not a good fit for me. With the ability to choose to work for the vast majority of tech companies, I'd rather err on the side of being very picky about who I spend my time with. In the case of Bloomberg, those who asked me about my education were clearly biased (not in the question itself, but in the context, tone, etc) against those who are self-educated, and that's not at all the environment I want to work in.
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Education is absolutely a boilerplate resume item. I can't even count the number of time irregularities in just that one section ended up providing deep insight into a good or bad candidate.

Everybody who has an education puts it on their resume even if it's 30 or 40 years old and they jam it at the bottom in a small font.

For example:

A weird school name - "International University of America", "University of New York City" often points to a diploma mill or a lack of degree

Missing GPA - The rule of thumb is, put it on if it's a 3.5 or higher. Don't put it on if it's lower and let the employer guess or ask during the interview. Or...if it's missing assume it's below a 3.5. It's up to you how much weight that has in the interview. You may be targeting a school or degree major that make it very hard to get a high GPA. If the school does some artsy fartsy "non-traditional" grading system and doesn't use GPAs, or they are from a foreign country with a different system, figure out what they do use and ask that during an interview. If the school is an "every one is a winner just for trying" school, they probably aren't the candidate you are looking for anyway.

"Attended xyz" or "Coursework in major abc" - means they didn't finish school. Somebody currently going will likely have a "estimated completion Spring of 20xx" or some such instead.

"Environment" - I see this often from candidates from India, and I don't know why this happens, but they'll list a perfectly good school and education credentials, then list environment and virtually every piece of hardware and software that they happened to have had in the room with them during their studies regardless of their use of it or not. Ignore this since it's obviously coming from some weird resume writing coaching and probably a result of trying to cram a CV into a resume format.

No colleges listed only a high school - no problem, if the candidate looks good, they might still be a fantastic hire. Especially if they are young and haven't decided what to do yet. You can always go back to school. You usually see this on resumes of young candidates or experienced candidates with no upper education.

There is no excuse to not have an education section on a resume. Experienced people will tend to put it at the bottom and let their work history speak for them, and inexperienced candidates will do the opposite. Resumes without that section should go straight in the shredder, same as resumes with typos, grammar errors, punctuation problems, a constantly changing font (or Comic Sans). It's like not putting your callback #, email address, home address or work history.

Also, if you are about to hire somebody based heavily on their education pedigree, you should absolutely use this service http://www.nslc.org/. The number of fake degrees on resumes is astonishing sometimes.
My point is: even if they'd secured a trademark on the shape of the bricks, if that trademark covered functional aspects of that shape, the protections would not apply. Lego could attempt to enforce them, but a competent defence and court would reject them.
No commercial support makes the software a non-starter in most IT environments, that's the (sad) reality. FreeBSD is a good example of why that is a problem - while technically sound, it is at risk of becoming a fringe OS used only by a couple of enthusiasts and FreeBSD developers themselves. For a project that produces an OS, that is a big issue, since you need users to make sure your OS works on various hardware configurations, or else you will become an "experimental" OS like Plan 9.
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Could we stop with the retarded cult of personality already? Seriously, celebrating the life of Steve Jobs? That's the most stupid thing since... I don't even know. This guy sold computers, nothing more. It's beyond me why people revere him like some sort of computer Jesus. Sigh...

Edit: Aaand downvotes proving my point. Thanks.
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Tell me more. Do you think that everyone that does is delusional?
Everyone making comparisons between OSes involving a BSD always picks Linux as the 'other OS'. How about a good comparison between the various BSD flavors? Why would I pick FreeBSD over OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFly BSD, or PC-BSD?
Something far too closer to the metal than your level of abstraction
Both the Gnome 3 and Unity teams seem to have completely lost the plot with regard to who their target user base is. Virtually everyone who uses a Linux desktop is a power user, after all.

Desktop computing should not be drawing so much inspiration from tablet computing. They are different use-cases, and no desktop OS is going to break into the tablet market. He talks of the safe conservatism of Windows but sadly that is headed in the same direction. But no one who uses Metro is going to use it in the way Microsoft has in mind, which is apparently either with their elbows propped up on their desk interacting with a touchscreen monitor, or on a tablet device whose manufacturer installed Windows 8 by mistake instead of iOS or Android or whatever the equivalent for Windows Phone OS will be. Windows is a mouse-and-keyboard desktop environment, as are Unity and Gnome 3, and they will remain so for as long as we have PCs sitting under desks connected to monitors sitting above desks. The use case of desktop computing used to be split between "I have shit to do" and "I'm bored and don't have shit to do" but the latter is moving quite quickly to tablets. If a desktop abandons the former to try to scoop up the latter they will lose both.
If you think about the phrase "designer" in its wider sense it's always an occupation that's multidisciplinary by the nature of the gig. It doesn't matter what type of design you are (industrial, graphic, fashion, etc.) because you are always working with people outside of your profession. Many people think of a designer as someone on a mountaintop who is going after "a vision" -- well that's real a fine artist.

Designers on the other hand are always about making something for an end purpose, and something that NEEDS to please an audience (be a client or end-consumer). Design should be style thrown on top of engineering -- that's decoration, which isn't what designers do. Designer solve problems, tell stories and give their creations personalities.
I might be hauled before the Politcal Committee for the Advancement of the Revolution for saying this, but please speak for yourself. I am a hacker and by boyhood hero was Steve. He was an artist whose medium was technology. It doesn't get more hacker-like than that to me.
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I found this somewhat uncomfortable to watch. I like Apple products, Steve Jobs is interesting, and I was bummed to hear when he got sick and of course when he died. But I didn't know him, and he definitely didn't know me. I bought products that his company made, and that's it. I like the products a hell of a lot better than, say, than 10 gallons of gas I just bought from Shell, but still the relationship between me and the company CEO was pretty distant.

Back to the video... Many of the Apple people probably didn't know Steve either, but they sure knew more about him and the idea of an Apple family and Steve as the patriarch is pretty clear. I've been in corporate "families" before and there can be real emotion between colleagues with shared passion in a company. I think it's great that they had a celebration like they did, but I felt like I shouldn't be there, even through a web video. I felt somehow like an intruder, spying in on their private event, and that the heartfelt speeches from one Apple employee to the others should have just stayed in their family.

I'm not saying it was necessarily bad to post or was in poor taste. In fact many others may be heartened to watch it. I, to my own surprise, wasn't.
Why am I being downvoted for this??
Other specialized processing boards will probably also have a place when using Thundebolt. I know a couple of people looking to use Red Rocket cards with a external chassis on their MacBooks.
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