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I can understand why startups need funding to get them off the ground, but I think this indicates that the focus might change away from "investing in tech that might turn into something" towards "only investing if there is a credible business model".

There's a fundamental difference between funding great people with innovative ideas, and investing in proven business models.

I'm not saying both can't happen to coincide in the same start-up, but there is some great start-ups with really promising technology, who haven't yet reached the stage where the business model should matter, and this would be like cutting them off at the knees.

I guess this is a consequence of bad economic times, moreso than the enthusiasm fading away. At least I hope it is.
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IBM is a great company and all, but the idea that IT services will outperform all other IT related sectors is interesting..

Services are - by their nature - always related to head count. In the old days - 10 years ago - Microsoft dominated financially because they could resell shink-wrapped software better than anyone else.

Customising software can be lucratitive, but it is difficult to make it as profitable as reselling copies of the same bits over and over again.

Indeed - one could argue that Apple has simply out-Microsofted Microsoft now. They resell the same software and hardware and make almost MS-like profit margins (even taking the higher material costs of hardware ino account)
Multitouch gestures don't work on the original iPad, even though they worked for developers on iOS 4.

I guess this is either to sell more iPad 2s, or because the performance when switching apps is slower (it is), which makes the app switching gesture worse.

Either way it's quite a dubious decision IMO. iOS 5 is all about being able to do more with the iPad. I've been using it a lot while writing my dissertation, and the main issue is how slow it is to switch between safari/iBooks and the writing app. The horizontal tabs in safari are a great improvement in this sense.
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I've thought about this, and I don't really think the "early days" defence is really acceptable in this case. If Dart isn't better in some appreciable way than Javascript, it has no reason to exist whatsoever. Equally, why not just adopt C# wholesale (it's even registered with the same standards body as Javascript) and give it a new library suitable for web programming?
That link is dead.

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Whether the trend is real or not, I note two highly encouraging, closely related things:

1) A hell of a lot less money overall is being poured into "Dot Com II". Even if Dot Bomb II happens, it won't be as bad.

2) A lot more companies are being funded, logically with a lot less money each.

There might have been some "excesses" recently, but for once, people did learn.

Moreover, using valuations as a proxy for this analysis is kind of misleading. If you put a million dollars in a company and the company goes bust, you're out the million, whether it "bought" you 5% of worthless shares or 50%. It only matters if the company actually does well.
I cant believe HN is filled with so many applefanboys, its quite sad sid0 gets downvoted to oblivion for reasonable comments.

Maybe they are not just apple-fanboys but ambitious corporate asslickers, probably thinking they too will one day become like Steve Jobs and others will suckup to them due to their well-developed fashion sense mixed with "business" skills.

While real genius men such as dmr is just another hacker.
Maybe Dave wiener can provide showers and common sense to some of the protesters. Wall Street isn't the problem -- the problem is the White House. These protesters love to scream about Wall Street all while tweeting about it on their computers that were built by companies that are traded on Wall Street. Many of the people that read HN are hoping to one day have an IPO -- all handled by those same banks that are supposedly 'bad.' Perhaps they should e protesting the Solyndra loans where billions was given to a company because they bribed the right people in the White House.

I support people's right to express their opinion, but when hypocrisy such as demonstrated by these protests reaches this level, I have to call bullsh#t.

I would much rather see a 'Smaller Government Tea Party Hackathon' or perhaps an Occupy the White House Hackathon. The problem isn't the banks it's the government. A government that feels like profits are something to be punished when in fact, profits are the reason innovation happens. No one is forced to have a Bank of America account, but all Americans are forced to pay for bad policies every day. Any time the SIEU is involved in a protest you know the motives are suspect.
rant on----------

my reaction to the article: no shit! there have been books written on this subject (i.e. Last Child in the Woods). we expect children to behave like adults starting at about age 8 in the U.S. we over schedule them and expect collegiate level study discipline at about age 11.

we have built an infrastructure that serves only to make people fatter and more sedentary, moreover, we as technologists have facilitated, through such shit-shows as facebook and my_space before it, the continued decline in actual physical activity pursued by kids.

there's soo much culpability to go around on this topic that its hard to even know where to begin. as a parent i am continually disgusted by how we as adults abuse and destroy the childhood phase of life.

and we wonder why kids are so fucked these days and our obesity rates are growing in near logarithmic(ok, maybe not quite logarithmic...) fashion...

rant off----------
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Isn't it the same with scalability? You won't know if you need a product to be scalable until you have actually launched it and seen its success.

Yet, every product developed at Google seems to be developed with absolute scalability in mind from the get-go, wasting lots of effort invested into scalability in the case of the product failing to get significant customer adoption.
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I have a hard time believing that Java developers would fail to understand the concept of a singleton, the most pervasive anti-pattern in Java code.
I did a variation on the bamboo blackpowder cannon, and it was the plastic pipe blackpowder pistol. It didn't end well, my friend had blackpowder speckles all over his face and eyes, and I had not much skin left on my lower right arm.

There was also the hot summer, midday trek when we got lost in the hills. Well, we found out the way back at last, but it could have been serious :)

I'm not mentioning the bad habit to illegally ( 12 y. o. aren't supposed to) drive regularly motorcycles without helmets. Fortunately nobody ever got seriously hurt.
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Sums up my feelings too. dmr is a legendary computer scientist who in all fairness had more impact on the field of computer science, and programming than any one of us can even begin to fathom. True legend.
well, arduino can only take you so far and is limited in where you could go. I've known arduino as a prototyping platform only and there's very little you can go after that.

I'd start with the EVK because it has the temperature and light sensor on the board built in. GainSpan did a demo recently to control the board over an iPhone. This is something you can only do with Wi-Fi.

Well, once the prototype is done, you should be able to buy the module and look into the module datasheet to develop your own products. Also, note that GainSpan modules currently work with Freescale MCUs so you get access to their customer support team as well. (Basically you could turn on the ARM core in the GainSpan chip or use an external MCU.)
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Interesting, these are the exact reasons I have trouble using anything but Java. I don't work off specs anymore, and I can pivot/refactor in Java like nothing else I've yet used or seen. Scala might contend with this eventually but the toolset is still not quite there yet. Can you mention a few specific areas/choices where you feel it held you back?
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Aren't you falling into the same trap? You claim it's all the governments fault. I say you're wrong: it's not all the White House's fault neither is it all Wall Street's fault. It's both.

(And it's irrelevant if the protesters "use computers" or "use banks". Should they write on parchment and exchange stone tokens with each other? No.)
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It isn't the same thing, despite the same name occasionally being used. It also gets a lot more complex than expanded upon in the other comment.

Eg. what is the eigenclass of an eigenclass?
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Easy code is easy, but intricate Ruby code is way way more complex and hard to write and understand than intricate Java code is. I reject the notion that Ruby, is in any way easier than Java.

Actually, I think the ease with which you can learn and code Java is one of the reasons for its success. The idea that Java programmers, by and large, are more experienced and skilled than those who use dynamic languages is preposterous, imho.

For years now, Java has been the first language you learn in academic settings. It's certainly isn't true that Java is something you only learn a few years into your career.

Cringely simply doesn't know his ass from his face on this topic. Who would'a thunk it.
Can't speak for PG, but I'd say you lost him by #2. I never understood this kind of lump-everything-together thinking. It's overly idealistic, totally illogical, and almost always hypocritical.

Yes, boycotting a business is a common way to demonstrate your disapproval with some of their practices. However, it doesn't follow that doing business with a company implies condoning of all of their actions. I'm sorry, but there's no logic that supports such a conclusion.

And even if the logic existed, anyone who invoked it would be a glaring hypocrite. I assume you use a bank? Pay taxes to your government? Buy food, and shelter, and other products? Well you're undoubtedly a patron to at least a few entities who've committed atrocities. By your own logic, you condone each and every one of these attrocities. And by the op's eloquent logic, fuck you.
I'd be more interested to hear whether Eric Schmidt knows how to use AdWords. After all, that's Google's main source of income.
gotta say, this was a great piece. should be required reading for every kid studying cs in college, and for most corp tech managers...
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This is an interesting story precisely because it is so ordinary. Over the past week we've heard and read so much about all of his grand accomplishments. After all of that, this is a little story that reminds us that he was a human being.

And it's not an inane story either. How often is he not recognized in public? Does he get pleasure when he sees a family using his products? You'd like to think that interactions like this made him happy, and that's what makes it sweet.
Agree on the sentiment, but I'm curious about the medium. Why Github, rather than something like Posterous or Pastebin?
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Very smooth in Windows XP with Chrome 14. If you don't see the option to enable it, make sure that you have English set as your language, or append hl=en to the URL.

The best about this is that they aren't using images anymore in the map view, but vectors, just like in Android. Everything is faster, less data is transferred, and not everything is reloaded when you zoom in or out. This is what WebGL is about, real accelerated and smooth apps, not spinning metalic teapots :)

Now if Chrome didn't get image corruption half of the times that I open a WebGL page...
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I like watching the discussions articles like this generate. It reminds me of both the dotcom and property bubbles and before it was obvious these were unraveling how people defended their positions. The biggest thing I get reminded of is those who bought property on credit at high values with the intention to flip them quickly at a profit. This reminds me of those who raise a lot of money for a company in order to flip it to the next guy. These are the people who will attack any perceived coming decline the hardest. They will tell you that this time it's different because 1% of China is now online. That technology is here to stay and will always grow and so will the market, with mobiles etc. This is true, but so was it true during the dotcom bubble. We got the timing wrong, and we got the business models wrong for sure.

In reality, like after the dotcom bubble, there are startups that formed over the recent years that will survive all this and be as well known as the giants we have today that formed during the dotcom era. It's just that we'll have a decline of appetite to throw money at me-too ideas with unrealistic business plans apart from flipping the company to the next sucker.
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And cardboard boxes. Hint to future parents : Most kids enjoy more the packaging than the expensive toy inside.
Follow up: Are the good times over (again) for startups?
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All things die, and I consider him successful.

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I took a course with a professor who is an entrepreneur. Some tidbits of what he said:

If you have an idea stop right now. Find a problem.
Ask pointed questions, but if you get too specific you'll only cheat yourself. Example (to steal someone else's) is the dog nail clippers. If you ask "What troubling you these days?" they can say anything from the market to the weather. If you say "What's troubling you about dog maintenance?" you can probably end up with nail clippers. If you ask "What's troubling you with cutting your dog's nails?" you've shot yourself in the foot.

As far as criteria for startup goes it went something like this

1) Billion+ dollar market. 1% of a billion is still a million.

2) Growing at 5% a year. Even if you do nothing your business is growing.

3) Money is spent on it already. No one spends money on it? You're either a genius or no one cares. For instance, deodorant. Somehow some people convinced us all that we need to smell good, so we need deodorant. So while you could make the next deodorant odds are you're not. As a corollary to this there will be competition.

4) Control your own distribution. For example: Magazines are difficult to sell. It's $$$ upfront to even put your magazine on the rack in a store, and they don't guarantee sales. You don't want this.

5...) Find some criteria that you would be happy with on a personal level. It could be that you reject running a business a certain way ("It has to be moral in this way") or something like that. Don't limit yourself to one technology or revenue stream.

Now go through your list of problems and find something that matches all these criteria. Pick something that matches.

Are their multiple matches? Pick whichever you feel strongest about.

2 or more tied? Pick one at random. You made the criteria because anything that matched it would be something that you would be happy doing and would be a good business. So just pick something and go do it.

Disclaimer: Even if you do all this, you could still fail, but you've just reduced the odds compared to every guy with an idea looking for a problem.
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bingo. the small biz segment is crazy expensive from a cust. acquisition standpoint. you have to raise a fair amount of dough to get a sales beach-head established. aside from intuit and the credit card cartels there aren't a lot of folks who have succeeded in getting scale there..

square may have a good run in that space, but they really are just an optimization play on the cc processing flow..nttawwt....
Are you guys developing your products as services/platforms?
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(Oldie who happens to have just started writing a Python static type checker... ouch)
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Just read this title and got the impression that C and dmr are dead.
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It sounds like you are describing burnout. Normally being easily irritated by expected behavior means that one is tired,

Beginners are going to ask the same questions. Some of them will ask for help rather than read the documentation because they learn better through social interactions than through reading. Some will propose ideas that seem good to them but the community has already found them flawed.

When one reaches the point of being easily irritated by known normal behavior, it is time to get out of there to prevent negative behavior. Take some time off from the mailing list. It sounds like you have at least spent 5 years. It could be longer. Take a break. Rest. Ask others in the community to help out beginners.
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And yet, today, kids can have a cell phone and call from any location around - possibly even be monitored with a tracking signal as to their whereabouts. The ability to know where a kid is down to the meter is within almost everyone's reach, and yet we're more scared about letting kids go out and wander around.

Going out as a kid in the 70s and 80s, I usually had to tell someone what friend's house I'd be at, and was given times (either 'dinner' or '8pm' usually) to be home at, but usually had pretty free reign. I normally stayed within a mile or so of the house, but there were plenty of places to go - small arcades, shops, friends, school playgrounds, etc. My parents had no way of knowing if I was at place X, Y or Z, unless I called home. No cell phones, sms, etc. But we managed just fine.
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