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Great visualization of population data
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I once sent him an alleged error report in which I was mistaken. He cordially wrote back and explained why I was wrong. So I sent him a check for $2.56, and he cashed it...
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Facebook should have stayed in Boston, & other quotable Startup School moments
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A big issue is that finance continues to draw the bright, ambitious and the greedy away.

Somebody who founds a company worth $5 billion is royalty in Silicon Valley. Around Wall Street you'll find fresh-faced kids with nothing more than degrees from Andover and Yale running hedge funds bigger than that. Much more money for much less work, risk and accomplishment.

You just can't make enough money from startups to impress people in NYC.

Other than that I'll say that NYC has the most formal dress code of anywhere I've been. You can show up in "hacker costume" that includes clean denim and a t-shirt that fits in any town other than NYC. In NYC, people ~will~ hold it against you if you don't wear a button down, tie and all that.

My motto is "when in rome", but it's not an attitude that's welcoming of tech talent.
In addition to this, once I get a mail server running, I'm terrified to make changes lest incoming mail end up in a black hole. One time when I made an incorrect change, the backup mail server that godaddy "helpfully" put in my DNS settings started bouncing everything coming in. Even in the absence of a broken backup server, my experience has been that errors in the process are too frequent and take too long (on the order of minutes) to discover.
Google Voice has a bunch of nice features, and integrates very well with Android phones, but I gave up on it after dealing with too many cases of dropped audio during calls. (I have a very low tolerance for any service, free or paid, that screws up communication with my clients.)

I ended up porting my Google Voice number to a commercial service, Toktumi:

http://www.toktumi.com/

There are some things Google Voice does better than Toktumi (particularly contact management and Android support), but Toktumi doesn't drop my calls, supports VOIP, and lets me completely block callers that withhold their Caller ID information. I've been switching over to iOS devices, and I've found the Toktumi "Line2" apps to be better than Google Voice on that platform.
It's built for face-to-face networking meetings with other LinkedIn users, based on location and availability. It is currently in iPhone app store, free, and wide open to feedback and suggestions. Got any?
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This is probably the most painful way to learn this, but I'd recommend writing your own highly concurrent kernel from scratch.

Once you've done that, you'll understand a ton about how to think and how design decisions will affect you later on.
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Well you obviously weren't doing what you love with viaweb if your entire goal was to sell it to turn a profit so that you'd never have to deal with it again. And Steve's assertion is not about work ethic, it's about building a "real company".
I don't think Steve would consider you to be a real entrepreneur. In his biography, it's stated several times how he doesn't want to make things just because people want them, which is directly against your beliefs in pandering to the masses.
It's easy to be overwhelmed by excitement. I'm sure everyone will appreciate the reminder.
I think it does matter. It's all a question of balancing risk with reward. For example, a new power source which emits radiation which is deadly after 100 years exposure but otherwise reasonably harmless is very different than a similar system which kills off a small percentage of the population at random.
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Funny, I don't know what NYC you experienced, but the one I live in has a much wider variety of people than the types you've mentioned.

I know plenty of people that go to work in jeans and a t-shirt, and no one holds it against them. Personally, I prefer to dress a little bit nicer; not to mention that (other than during the summer), the weather dictates the dress code to a large extent.

I could go on with more counter examples, but the point is, you have a very narrow view of what NYC is actually like.

* P.S., re: Coffee: Try the Ace Hotel lobby on 29th between Broadway and 5th. There is an independently-run Stumptown Coffee shop attached (best coffee in NYC) and I'm there virtually every Sunday working on my laptop. With their free wifi. Along with about 20 other people doing the same thing.
Even though in a certain sense there is really little difference between a salesperson and a "sales engineer" as far as their tasking, the difference in mentality is quite different. A sales engineer actually understands the underlying technology and probably has contributed to it in some way, whereas a salesperson relies on distributing hype.

I think you're combining two of his complaints. The salesperson complaint was separate from the sales engineer complaint. The company claim is that they have no services. His point was that the "forward-deployed engineers" do the same thing that "sales engineers" or "consultants" do in other companies. In other words, they have services, they just call it something else.
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The first thing that really kicks ass is that search doesn't suck. It's pretty amazing that it's a browser made by Google and that I still have to hunt for things. I really like the fact that you went with the pref UI. There were so many choices you could have made, but sticking with an established appearance really was a smart one. The only real feature request I have is thumbnails. I don't even mean live ones or anything, they could just be off browsershots or whatever.

Anyways, that's my 2¢.
You're right - it's getting better. We still can't get fiber at our new office in TriBeCa, though, which is a real bummer.
Yeah I have verizon fios in the lower east side(albeit a new building) its probably the fastest internet i've seen. You can either move to a building with it or get a virtual office in the city that has fiber. Don't think its a big limiting factor in nyc.
Based in LA but would relocate for the right opportunity and am very comfortable with working remotely.
Europe has about 400m people, more than the US. It's Russia that's thinly populated for its size (because a lot of it is frozen).
There are times where it seems like my travel abroad exceeds the value of my college education.

Combining the two would provide some life-altering value, I'm sure.
definitely a must read for anyone with an app in iTunes. it got a great response from the rest of the crowd at general assembly.
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excellent advice
Ha, he must have forgotten offering to sell Apple to Commodore back in the Apple I days for a few hundred thousand dollars. Not to say that we should punish people whose views change, but it does seem that a lot of his success in Apple's early days was based on quickly and smartly capitalizing on small projects (eg quickly bringing Woz's engineering feats to market), not necessarily building the enduring platform that became his mission. From the Isaacson bio, he strikes me as a gambler/experimenter whose first company (thanks to much skill, foresight and luck) just so happened to make sense as a long term concern.
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No worries, thanks a lot!
Re: "Coffee Klatch."

Sure, we need more of these around. I'm just happy there's a place like this that fits the bill right in my neighborhood. It's more of a cafe than a coffee shop, but that didn't stop the owner from putting dual power plugs in between every couple of seats at the bar. And getting a darn fast wifi connection.

That they make some of the best drip coffee in the area, and serve brunch 7 days a week, combined with affordable prices...

The owner has a coffee shop too, but it's too cramped to work in all day. He recognized that people were starting to try to do that there - and kept it in mind when he opened up this cafe. During a typical weekday, the bar is filled with people with laptops open.
Interesting feedback. I could also market it to smaller agencies that have more clients too.
I totally agree that finance draws top talent (and that I really wish it wouldn't), but I wouldn't say that a lot of those folks work less hard. I spent 4 years on Wall Street (loosely construed) and spent time with some of the hardest workers I've ever encountered. The earnings they generate, however, are definitely far above startup folks, on average.

It is interesting, though, to look at the tails of that distribution. That's where you find the massive wealth generation. And, instructively, at those outer limits, you'll find that the top of the top is populated by entrepreneurs as much as it is by finance guys. Bill Gates, Ellison, Zuck, etc. compare to the Warren Buffets, John Paulsons, and their compatriots.
If a piece of software is looking for other mountable partitions, mounting them, and reading data off of them, I would think that would be looked at as incredibly suspicious.
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I have indeed configured my mail server. Maybe it's my bad choice in server software (Exim), but setting it up (also for receiving messages and exposing them using IMAP) was really not hard[1]

The Exim that comes per default in Ubuntu server has a default configuration that works as an SMTP server for a web application - no tweaks needed.

As I said: Your SMTP server needs two things:

1) You need an IP address in good standing. If you don't have that (if you are on EC2), you might need to sign up for an SMTP service (or sendgrid, but my concerns of using a nonstandard JSON API over the SMTP standard still stand).

2) If you have an IP address in good standing, you need a valid PTR record. You probably can't do that for yourself (unless you have an octet on your own or your provider goes really great lenghts), but all providers I have dealt with set this up for you no questions asked and without charging extra.

Then, getting the mail through through spam filters closer to the users is another problem, but Sendgrid wouldn't help you there either as this is largely dependent on the content of the email (and maybe a header or two like Message-ID).

1) http://www.pilif.ch/mail.txt is documenting the configuration. It's based on a newsgroup posting in 2001 - and it's in German.

Later on, Oliver Siegmar took my configuration and built http://www.xams.org/pages/home/home.php

This configuration plus the PTR record have lead to a configuration that is sending out 10000s of messages per day and we never had a blacklisting or spam filtering incident.
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If you submit a repeat URL it normally upvotes the first submission and redirects you their. This only happens for about a week though.

Chalk it up to another thing that could be improved but won't because news.arc is designed more for elegance and showing off arc.
I think the guts of what he's saying is just "I hate when people call themselves 'entrepreneurs', when really they just want to get rich quick."

edit: quotes like this make me feel like I better understand how Jobs really might have thought (as opposed to how some of his fanboys think, which is what I kind of assume he would think like). Another quote I like is this one:

> We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.
yeah, that seems to be accurate. that's the thing about these "best book ever for all software engineers" posts -- anyone reading even just a few industry books a year already knows this stuff.
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If it wasn't for the specific wording in the ToS allowing them to sell your info to marketers, I would be happy giving them that benefit of the doubt.
Looks cool and I could see this being used if you don't have this in a build process.

One thing I did notice is it doesn't check for dupes - I dragged the same file onto your page 2x and it naturally included it 2x.

This is probably an edge case as I know users would be dragging separate css files which are mostly all contained in the same folder and there probably wouldn't be duplicate files, but it's just something I noticed.
while i suspect you are passing this on a a whimsical reference to an apparently-ridiculous cassandra from the past, ancient peoples did not have modern technologies for processing and preserving food and energy. one mean season or prolonged drought could have serious consequences for large swaths of the population. look throughout history and you'll see starvation and food shortages even when the natural capacity of the biosphere would normally support much larger populations

tertullian was likely responding to the inability of the near italian countryside to support the booming roman population when conditions weren't optimal...not all ancient people were idiots
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lousy pirates care about lousy pirates.
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Staying hungry post-ramen
In his Startup School talk, Matt Mullenweg mentioned a point where Automattic was doing well and he said to himself "I can just watch TV all day and make a thousand dollars!" How do you stay hungry at this point?

It's easy to stay hungry when you're not ramen-profitable yet; you're always looking at your runway saying "we need to build faster so that we can get this thing off the ground". Then there's a period where you can say "we need to make more money so that we can pay off credit card bills / buy the health insurance we skipped earlier / etc".

But once you're past that point, and while you're not rich yet you have plenty of income... what keeps you hungry?

(Yes, this is a throwaway account.)
you better hope the world doesn't advance to g8 levels of consumption, because if they do, the amount of co2 they will deposit into the atmosphere will dramatically alter the biosphere, and not for the better

we all understand that green technology may address pollution, but you won't find much of it in the developing world...they're the ones buying american coal
You could follow in the footsteps of real productivity whizzes like Paul Erdos and replace (most of) your time spent sleeping with amphetamine use.

"Drugs!?" hey, don't make the mistake of assuming that your values are universally held by everyone else...
My guess is that we hear disproportionally much about those companies that are built to flip.
Really, I wouldn't know where to start. I think that approach would be unfeasible to almost anyone.
One month of doing this in my spare time has cost me 196 hours of my spare time. At $75 an hour, that's $14,700. I do have 196 hours of spare time, I do not have $14,700.
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Not too bad a configuration, except for the limited screen.
I've spent many hours screwing with Exim on ded server I was using to do shared hosting. Every few weeks I had to worry about open relays and spam blacklists. I know if I spent more time I could learn how to stop those, but I would rather spend my time coding instead of admin'ing a mail server.
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I think this quotation (which I liked when I read it at the end of the biography, and which made me think of you at the time) strikes a bit of a sore point.

In the end, some things we do for money and others for love. I think Steve Jobs saw himself as someone who almost always did things for love. He saw making money as simply being a way to fund the next project (which is how artists in general feel).

It's interesting that your response to this quotation is:

"Steve's problem with selling seemed to be that you're shirking work by doing it."

I think that's part of it, but the other part is that you're not doing what you're doing with the right frame of mind.

"A lot of people who sell startups go on to do other things, and often bigger things."

Why is "bigger" in this sentence rather than some other word? "Better" for example.

One of my favorite quotations in the book comes from Larry Ellison. He says he was complaining to Steve Jobs that his plan for turning Apple around (the reverse takeover of NeXT) wasn't going to make either of them nearly as much money as his plan (buying Apple and giving Steve 25%) would and Jobs replied (from memory, so it's probably inaccurate): "That's why you need to have me as a friend, Larry. You don't need any more money."
Also do they email the whole team?
There wouldn't really be a refund for Windows cost as most OEMs are making money off of windows by deals with software companies like norton and nero to install their trial software by default to new computers.
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Not to detract from your position too much, but teachers aren't paid just for their lecturing time. They should also be paid for their planning time and their grading papers time. And where is your stat for 65k a year. I understood it to be, in states like Florida, substantially lower. More like 40. I don't have numbers either, though.
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I find it interesting that you react so strongly to this. Is it your belief that everybody should be working a 40 hour work week, and spending the rest of the time with their family? If so I suspect you're in the minority on HN.
I like the topics ideas, as someone who is very interested in the ASK HN threads. I think this is a great start and a way to get new people more involved.
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AFAIK, no. just the main contact..
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Here's a link to the actual talks:

http://www.justin.tv/startupschool

This guide is meant more as a supplement than a replacement, since a lot of things don't make total sense out of context. But there's still a ton of awesome quotes from people that work fine on their own.
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1. This is really well done, especially since it says it was done in realtime. Nice work!

2. I'd love to see notes like this done for more conferences. I'm not sure if it'd be best as a startup that works with conference organizers, or if tech publications like Engadget, Gizmodo, etc. hired artists to do this, or if conference attendees simply submitted tweeted their favorite quotes with hashtags and it gets compiled into a really nice infographic--but there is something here that I really like and wish there was more of.
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I'm at about 6 weeks now, and counting. Part of the reason I need to do this is that I'm a relatively novice coder so it takes me 2-4x as long to do anything as a 'good' coder would. I understand, this kind of work is not sustainable, but it's very satisfying to get so much done while still working a day job.
And of course, this has a ton to do with my life situation... single, living a long way from family, few friends - this would clearly not work for most people.
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Your response is valid, as I think the suggestion was too aggressive. But I do endorse (what I think is) his main point: understanding how to design systems comes from working on them, not reading about them. So it's better to work on problems than to read about them.

More specific advice depends on what your background is and what you're doing now. (For example, are you a student? A CS student? How much of a CS background to you have? Are you working full-time? If so, does your job involve programming? Do you have time to hack on the side?)
Of course there are people that can handle setting up and maintaining high volume mail servers with analytics, etc themselves, and have the time and resources to do it. If a capable sysadmin is outsourcing sysadmin duties... well that just doesn't make sense.

I could probably figure out how to rebuild a transmission, and I've even got the tools and an engine hoist to do it, but it's not exactly high on my list of things to do and I'd rather take it to my friend that does it for a living so I can focus on driving the car.
Steve Jobs and coming home to Silicon Valley
I did indeed receive a liberal arts education, and I'm confident it helped broaden my mind. But I'm not sure it's required or sufficient to find one's passion.

Many people graduate with liberals arts degrees and find themselves utterly directionless, perhaps because they've spent so much time avoiding specialization. It's truly important to get exposed to a range of disciplines but it's just as important to sort through which of those resonate with you and which don't. Many people don't go through the latter process very effectively and they end up with indecisiveness.

I'm honestly not sure what the "answer" is here to helping people find their passions; I think it's worthy of an ongoing discussion. But I will say, I doubt hanging out on HN will help to inspire your passion unless it's creating something for technical people.
Aw c'mon, I got downmodded to -3 for being cynical yet realistic on HN? I really do think that "massive injections of painkillers is the most likely context in which someone a few hours of dying of cancer is likely to say "oh wow oh wow oh wow".
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My impression* has never been that you're expected dress nicely, just presentable. You might not be able to get away with wearing that ragged pair of jeans and old tshirt that you happen to really like, but that doesn't mean button-up shirts and slacks. Just something that, you know, isn't fraying at the seams.

* From growing up just next to NYC and making my way into the city pretty often.
He didn't say "Facebook should have stayed in Boston." Quite the opposite, actually.
There's a typo down in the credits (Jessica's name).
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So is HN forum software? or did they just make a lookalike?
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The negative feedback is because you called the story nonsense. The story is about the TOS.
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This exactly how I view time. Freaky. If I zoom into one small period of time however the view often feels more like standing on a small ring-world planet. I can see waaay off into the distance, but only big things are visible.
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Very cool, this is the first collection of info I've seen on this topic.
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Ask HN: Is Techcrunch better post-Arrington?
Is it me or Techcrunch became less tabloid-y lately and amped up the quality of writing since Arrington got pushed out? How do you find the blog's quality now?
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I don't think Steve Jobs would ever say anything of sorts. Jobs did the exact same thing with NeXT. Does that mean that he didn't consider himself an entrepreneur? Human emotion plays a big role in our decision making and you can't have the same feelings for every project you start.