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"...as much as male customers might have enjoyed the eye candy..."

Statements like this, in the article, annoy me. Men aren't the only sex that prefers looking at attractive women to unattractive women. Men and women may have different motivations for our preferences of whom to look at, but we all have the preference.
It's an issue of scale.

Three years is pretty quick on the scale of a viable business.

In the early days, it is an eternity in terms of strategy when that strategy is failing.

In other words, three years may be an appropriate timeline in which to view overall sunk costs, but that doesn't mean that the business shouldn't be prepared to pivot several times within that period.
I think we crossed an important treshhold with Siri though. For the first time, we have a consumer product that uses artificial intelligence. What kind of problems are you specifically talking about.
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Totally agree. I moved close to my work (10 mins walk) and they let me start at 10am, so I can code for a couple of hours in the morning. I wish I had your motivation though... 4am, jesus :)

Can I ask, was it hard building your application 3 hours at a time? I lived off savings for about 6 months and worked full time, then after the hard parts were done I transitioned into the arrangement above. Even now I get a little frustrated as I just get into the swing of things, then I need to leave for work !

Thanks for posting by the way. I think more people need encouragement that while incubators are great, you don't need necessarily need them to be successful.
Thank you. Yeah that is where I enabled it.

Sounds like someone suggests accessing the menu using a key - F10 and not moving the mouse at all. That is not a bad solution, I will try that!
Ouch. Well, based on that and other comments, this definitely does not look like an appealing replacement for dropbox.
Well, you're right about one thing: I haven't really "Won" the argument with him. He's a bit of a stubborn guy (as am I), and until it really "clicks" for him, I know hes not going to see the benefit. Since he isn't really a developer, and he isn't using these systems day in and day out, he doesn't have nearly as much of a chance to really understand the benefit; Which is why I finally just took the tone of a stern parent and told him he was going to wash his hands before dinner whether he liked it or not, and one day hed thank me.

I honestly believe I'd be doing him a disservice to let him think it was ok to develop straight on the production machine, and that VCS just "got in the way", and so I'm happy to butt heads with him over this all day long.

About your second point, what I meant there wasn't about how Mercurial worked, it was about what I had called the "missing leg" of the table: Continuous Integration. He was upset because, when developing live on the server, he immediately got to see his changes. Now, he had to commit them, then pull them down onto the server, and copy them into the deployment directory manually. To him, this is a complete waste of time. So had I set up some kind of CI solution by which new builds could be run automatically upon checkins, and a copy of the built artifacts deployed onto the server directly, we could have a test deployment that he could access and see changes almost instantly on, before moving the approved changes over to the main site (This is still very much a work in progress, and so the deployment site is little more than a test bed in and of itself right now).

I feel if I had taken the time to set that up from the get-go, he would have had a much more positive reaction than to call VCS "needless overhead".

He is also very much "anti-cloud", and the concept of storing our repository in BitBucket gave him hives. So all in all, he's completely out of his comfort zone with this project.
Agreed, and I believe the Chromium guys have been asked for this feature and said they won't do it.

I don't think it is possible with chrome extensions either.
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> how does this fit into the "fail often, fail quickly" advice I have seen so often in this forum

Welton's rule: for each bit of trite business advice, there is an equal and opposite bit of trite business advice.
This story and the first one were both submitted by username "flmyngo" whose only activity was submitting those two stories.
When you have seen one NP-hard problem, you have seen them all...
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Wow. I'm surprised how many points this post has given the absurd premises that cryopreservation is based upon.

There are far too many easily identifiable things that could go wrong in the process for me to even consider dumping money into such hokum. These are the same type of people that were insisting the world double up on alchemy research two thousand years ago.
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This is a friendly way to losing out to that. What do you see when you first examine the puzzle? I am speaking from quite a painful experience even if you should avoid using it like the plague. Agreed, maybe not all of the credit goes to Allu Skin Care.
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amazing as it may seem - it might be in the best interests of unions, airlines and society in general to have more stable, professional jobs.
Are you honestly claiming that the person who spearheaded teams that created the Mac, NeXT, Mac OS X, the iPhone and the iPad had little effect on your computing experience? Forgive me if I don't believe you.

I think those that complain about 'status symbol widgets' while complaining of persecution by Apple loyalists should consider that just taking a diametric stance doesn't make you any more objective.
They're not VCs, but private equity people. Big difference. Private equity doesn't want to get their "names out there". Quite the opposite. Public-to-private deals rely on secrecy in the early stages.

I think the first article sounded very "private equity", this second one sounds a bit more VC-ish.
Throw in greying American demographics, the majority of college graduates being women, an understanding of the costs associated with hiring and training personnel, and the work environment changing from Pacific Clippers to Cattle Cars and the change is unsurprising.

Oh, and don't forget the rise of the MILF meme.
What you're seeing isn't a status thing, it's selection bias. The smart people you've mentioned generally aren't the type of people to partake in such hokum.
Wait, you can't delete photos from the iOS photostream?
I agree completely, although I do take comfort in someone claiming they cannot access my data. I wouldn't store any confidential data there in any event, but at least if they are trying to design it so that even they cannot access that data, it seems there is a slightly lower chance of it being leaked to the internet.

Dropbox already had one case where you could log in without a password. That could never happen if they actually needed the password to decrypt the data.
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I was just going to post this. I signed up, activated my account, and then immediately received my password in plaintext! What are these guys thinking? Way to subvert trust...
I understand the goals of the ethic, but I'd suggest a change to one part.

"World improvement" sounds noble, but every sane person believes they are making the world a better place -- whether dictators, telemarketers, soldiers, marketers of sugary beverages to children, or anyone. I guarantee not a single one of them, or anyone else, believes they are making the world a better place.

You might believe they are making the world worse, but then you're evaluating them by your standards. Since they have different standards, they'll view you as making the world worse too since you don't live up to their standards.

Personally I find the whole concept of making the world a better place or "world improvement" provincial and judgmental. Provincial because it assumes your standards apply to others (maybe self-important would be a more appropriate term). Judgmental because you are judging yourself and others -- "better" and "improvement" means more good, which judges.

Most insidiously, because the view makes you feel right, as opposed to humble, it motivates you to act instead of soliciting others' feedback. That is, it motivates you toward self-righteousness.

As an alternative, I would propose "do what you think is right" and "respect others". These two goals contradict each other and lead to internal conflict, but so does interacting with people.

Anyway, I blogged about this concept once at greater length than this post in case anyone wants to read more -- http://joshuaspodek.com/whats-wrong-making-world-place
It's because of sites like this that I started using unique passwords for every new login. Chrome + OSX Keychain make this reasonably easy now. Looking forward to the day when the browser will just automatically generate one for me.

Of course, I'd not trust backing up my data to a site that fails so miserably at basic security.
What is your favourite C programming trick?
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Agreeed. The reason was to ask to be excused for misspellings and sloppy abbreviations in the text of the message.
> Looking forward to the day when the browser will just automatically generate one for me.

Well, almost: https://www.pwdhash.com/
Risking to be downvoted. this article is worthless without pics.
Great post, Jacques. Thanks for your kind words.

People might even consider doing business with you, but nobody wants to be 'first' for fear of being burned.

This can also work in your favor...

It's rare, but sometimes you can find someone who does want to be your first customer. When this happens, it's solid gold and one of your fastest shortcuts. Others call them "champions"; I prefer "sugar daddies".

I have had this happen several times with great success. This is how it usually worked...

Sometimes they knew me, but sometimes I was introduced. In every case, they were desperately looking for something they couldn't find, sometimes for years. They would say, "If you could build this, you'd be my hero." (or something like that). They have offered me office space, access to their people and systems, and often an advance because it was in everyone's best interest that I'd succeed. Sometimes, but not always, they wanted equity. And all of them had peers with similar problems, so Prospects 2 thru x were already lined up.

We should all be building stuff people want. When you find one of them with their checkbook open, take a good hard look. It doesn't happen often, but when it does, it can save you a lot of runway.
Perhaps FF devs have super-beefed-up machines (required to compile FF) that average users don't, and therefore don't see many of the performance problems that average users do?
Electronic Surveillance Scandal Hits Germany
Let me sum this article up: A vapid rant from someone who misunderstands the intent of the technology.
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Yep, balls are already used in hostile environments -- and there's a camera-ball grenade launcher, too!
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Apple - iCloud - Your content. On all your devices.

That is the title of Apple's main iCloud page at http://www.apple.com/icloud/.

iCloud is seamlessly integrated into your apps, so you can access your content on all your devices.

This is Apple's definition for the iCloud service. It doesn't matter what the data is, it's your data and Apple is promising to sync it between your devices, to preserve your experience.

In the case of Instapaper, the solution is obvious: Put the files in Documents. That is Instapaper's content and part of the experience that users want synced between devices.

If Apple penalizes developers and undermines the promise it is making to users because it decides to be miserly about bandwidth, then it has to admit it launched iCloud before it was ready.
"Especially in light of how snappy Chrome manages to be with a big stack of tabs open."

Numerous benchmarks show that since 5 FF performs far better with a large number of tabs (100+ for example) compared to Chrome. This happens to be my use case so FF is my choice. Tab groups is also a must with so many tabs.
Wireless bike break demonstrates bulletproof wireless communications
The science is awesome and terrifying. It brings us one step closer to the grey goo doomsday outcome.
I suppose the question is over the nature of forced.

I have a rowing machine which gives me a readout of speed/distance/cadence etc.

I 'force' myself to maintain a certain speed for a certain time even when it is quite uncomfortable. Is that sufficient for the 'forced' effect to come into play. I suspect it is.
Umm. I do not think it does what you think it does. (sorry Inigo)

This is like being upset that your bicycle doesn't cut the grass.

Edit: if people generally do want grass-cutting bikes, it's not unreasonable to think that Apple with update this feature in the future. At first it seemed like a ridiculous (that's not what that's for!...) request, but I do kind of see his point.
Ah, well you seemed most concerned about the sheer quantity of foot-shot-off type bugs you put in, so I thought I'd put your mind at rest about that first. Sadly, that part is inevitable.

As for finding them before anybody else does, I suggest all of the following, which is what I do, because I've found it to work for me:

* Never run outside debugger unless you have previously verified inside the debugger that the run will work - this ensures that you are in a position to fully investigate any problems that might occur. (Some programs can't be verified ahead of time, because they're non-deterministic. (Hopefully due to non-deterministic sources of input, rather than anything in the code!) You just never run these outside the debugger.)

* Never run optimised build if you can help it (this is what the QA department and your users are for :) - again, this ensures you are in a good position to investigate any issues you discover. (Note - you should feel confident about using the debugger with an optimised build, most likely using the disassembly view, but I figure life is too short to be doing this all the time.)

* assert, lots, about everything, particularly pointers into buffers and indexes into arrays.

* -Wall, -W4, -Whatever

* Investigate memory manager's maximally-anally-retentive mode. If it doesn't have one, find a memory manager that does, and use that one instead. Switch it on and fix every complaint it might have.

* Find every debug option and #define for every library you use, and switch all of them on.

* Try to avoid having any multithreading.

* Make sure you know as many dark corners of the language as possible, and commit them to memory, so that you'll be able to spot them when people start making use of them accidentally.

* Add in some kind of crash dump/stack trace/etc. display to your program, so if it should crash during actual use then you stand some chance of getting some useful information back. (Avoid frame pointer omission for this reason.)

Unfortunately I can't guarantee that this will necessarily work, but I've found the above to at least have helped me minimise the sort of creepy, freakish bugs that you only get in C and its ilk.
I agree. Define-wrapping is a pain to do manually.

Browserify is great with Node.
For a slightly different take on how to share code with the server, you might also want to check out https://github.com/clux/modul8 : )
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The most dangerous managers can be the ones that are able to code, but never had to maintain their code for long periods of time. So you cannot ever talk refactoring with them.
It is entirely normal to feel the way you do at the moment. Chalk it up to learning.

Try to remember what didn't happen to you:

1. You didn't join the army and your leg got blown off.

2. You didn't work in an asbestos factory and now you are worried about getting cancer.

3. You didn't get thrown in jail and have a criminal record for life.

You quit your job, and the other plans didn't come off. That is it. The damage is monetary and can be fixed with money.

Wear your mistakes as a badge of honour, because it is what informs you of who you are.

Sit down, clear your head and a plan will come together.
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I run Firefox on Arch Linux on an old Atom-based netbook and on LMDE an old AMD 3200+. Neither have had issues, so it's not the case that Firefox is generically broken on all of Linux.
> With free software, you have the option to do whatever you like to it, but no-one has the obligation to work on it on your behalf.

Absolutely and that's the problem. Say my wife (not a programmer) doesn't like it, she isn't going to learn to program, understand the code, make the changes she wants and implement them.

While it's theoretically possible, it's so impractical as to effectively be impossible.

The number of people for whom free as in speech software is actually freer than close software is a very small percentage - for others, such as my wife, Android or Linux is no freer (as in speech) than iOS or Windows.
It doesn't work yet =)

Because I like to work to specification, I wrote a readme before I started the project, which might show the general direction I'm trying to go with it. When I get home tonight I'll stick it on a gist and link it
phpMyAdmin shouldn't be accesible from the outside, under any circumstances, ever. This was a disaster waiting to happen.
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I thought he'd stopped reading HN?

The original guy he's talking about was just freelancing. I'm a freelancer and I made money from day one. A friend of mine quit his job 2 months back. Again, made money from day one. Difference between us and the guy in the story? We had contacts and relationships already built from working a few years.

What I'm saying is that most of this article is way off the mark for freelancing, you won't lose money the first year as long as:

1. You know how to network and get business

2. See 1

I'm not even very good at it and I still make money.

Also my old company's MD loved recounting how they were profitable within 8 months. The way they did this as a software vendor was to land a big juicy enterprise contract and get paid 30% up front. Just as a counterpoint to the 3 years thing.

There are plenty of businesses you can found which can make money very quickly. It all depends on whether that's the company you want to build, larger vision, longer lag.
How is this done on blogger?
I am just asking for an example in A.I world that is an N.P. hard problem which makes real world applications of A.I. difficult?
"since I'm betting most people who respected Ritchie also respected Jobs"

I wouldn't bet on that
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We avoided middlemen/agencies. Searched for actual teams relatively near us (via google/recommendations). I would recommend companies/teams in Baltic states if you're from US/EU (good quality, relatively cheap, less cultural issues). After that: Eastern Europe (more cultural issues that might make you feel that the entire team has the total IQ/motivation below average), Pakistan, India. No idea about AS3 :( !
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I give my developers a week of refactoring (ie. no new features or improvements, let's just focus on refactoring a few things) every month or so. That plus refactoring-as-you-go, of course. It's not much but it makes them happy :) I may not know much about coding, but I know happy developers matter.
Really good post Jack. It will help to plan your future in accordance to your startup.
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I don’t quite understand what your issue is. The language in the video doesn’t seem at odd with your statements.
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Do you have any advice for finding such people and the problems they face? Do you have examples of the things they wanted built?

I think that if you wrote an article detailing your experiences and what you learned/inferred from the experiences, that it could be quite a popular article.

It is basic economics, "build stuff people want", and every time I think about things that I should do for money, I think I should be an auto mechanic, because lots of people have cars that need being fixed (or plumber, or other slightly-skilled-but-not-everyone-does-that-but-everyone-needs-that type profession). While logic may take me there, I am not sure if that is the best way for me to go and while it isn't a glamorous "build the next facebook"-type starting business, it is not even a "build something no one else has" type business.

Thanks,
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