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Guess: The reason you censored the logo but not the domain is because you don’t really have the appropriate typeface & just pasted the “F” from “Fargo”?

Idea: You could attempt to construct U, C, and K: U = top of L + bottom of O; C = mirror the top half of G; K = maybe the legs of A + the left of R? If you want me to give it a shot, ping me. Update My attempt, just for fun. Result: http://cl.ly/273o3w1z2d2B3y2A0e1y (I first did this sort of font-less logo-hacking in MS Paint, maybe 14 years ago; then 5 yrs ago in Photoshop: http://cl.ly/0p0k2H3x2V0y3s0r2v25; now, in Acorn.)
Read this., re: You're new here:
'anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity'

and this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmW6bJt6dqE
In some countries regulation will state that the bank needs to send a physical account summary to people every so often (month? quarter?) which has a mail cost to it.
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There's usually an easier way to check if a username exists - skip the login form and try the signup form. If you can't sign up with that name because its taken, then it exists :)
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maybe some combination of an IQ or programming test plus a Myers-Briggs analysis. That would probably be a great way to screen. Or just recruit at MIT/CMU/Caltech...
Minor nitpick; it's the proximity sensor which is used for this function, not the accelerometer.

I can verify that my iPhone 4S is polling the proximity sensor continuously, activating Siri whenever the phone is brought to the ear, while my 3GS only appears to poll the proximity sensor during phone calls.

[Edit] After further testing, it does seem to be a combination of gyroscope and proximity sensor, as you do need to perform the motion of bringing the phone to a position with its front facing somewhere between sideways and upwards and its bottom somewhere between straight down and sideways on its edge while covering the upper portion of the device to activate Siri. It does not work if you're laying down horizontally on your back or on your side, nor when you bring it to a straight vertical for example. It seems to have a fairly narrow tolerance for the angle to which the phone must be brought in order to activate Siri, that being the angle at which you naturally hold a phone to make a call while sitting or standing straight up. [/Edit]
Maybe for music, but is that still true for the App Store?
I'm sorry, but the images are so blurry I can hardly read them. I'm the only one?
OMG, Alan Kay is on Stack Overflow?
That's freaking awesome :)
Sony's problem there was that the PS had very expensive parts, so they had a harder choice to make on pricing to be competitive.

Nintendo, meanwhile, couldn't keep Wii in stock for more than half a day until something like 2 years after launch, so they could have raised the price about $100 and not lost a sale
The Nexus video is colour corrected as well.
The software industry may be competitive but this business environment is far more of a land rush than a gold rush. There are more opportunities out there right now than there are talented individuals and groups capable of executing on them. I'm not sure I can agree with the authors conclusion here. The early bird gets the worm is probably more cliche than truth.
And programming computers is yet harder yet gives the user even more power. I think the dichotomy between power and usability is a false one. Technology should help people with their tasks. If this can be accomplished with a touch or speech UI I see nothing wrong with that.

Ultimately, it is completing the task that matters. If I think about it, most tasks that require CLI interfaces are not necessary on an smartphone to begin with. And that might be a good thing.

We, the technocratic elite, will shape that world. We will be its masters, magicians amongst men. We will derive more power out of technology than regular users. But the price will be that in order to gain this deep knowledge we have to devote an awful lot of time to learn the arcane spells and invocations that are all but useless for most real world tasks.

We choose to master technology. Others choose to master science or stock markets or carpenting. To them, technology is a tool. In very much the same way we will be ignorant of the intricacies of their world.
First of all i'm sorry for your depression and wish you all the best on overcoming it. As many will tell you, you're are not alone in that boat and there IS a way out.
But i think advice like this is almost as useful as "Just be happy, the world has so much to offer!" to a depressed person.

This cycle you described is something almost every human being on earth goes through, day to day. For some the down-phase is way stronger, crushing and exhausting, to an extent unimaginable for the rest. But still, everyone has it.

You made a good start by reflecting on the change-cycle of your feelings. Key is now to find a way to make best use of that knowledge in order to weaken the depression.

There are many different teachings that will help you find that wisdom.

Meditation (for example) can help you weaken that clinging for and aversion to 'good times' and 'bad times', resp. Clinging/Aversion itself is a very subtle process, which we usually don't notice consciously, but adds a lot to how our feelings turn out.
Trying to be aware of it, gives you a whole new viewpoint of the status quo.
Thanks. I just googled for the font and came up with Clarendon, but it doesn't look exact. Anything you want to do I'll post. Really not interested in the domain anymore, so if anyone wants it...
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It can be hard to tease out from the fancy accounting, but marginal profit (that is presumably sustainable) should be distinguished from new investment (which can be stopped if needed) and not just added together to get a profit number.

That said, the buck should eventually stop at Free Cash Flow to prove shareholder value, which is then paid as dividend or invested sensibly.
your advice isn't much different from telling a man with no legs to 'man up' and start walking.

depression is not a sign of weakness. if anything, publicly expressing your emotions and the struggles you go through shows real strength, especially when compared to hiding from your pain.
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Yeah.

There are plenty of risks ranging from the minimal (they waste a little bit of your time and you don't get paid) to rather extreme (they waste loads of your time for years and you lose your IP to legal wrangling).

Book a competent lawyer who has dealt with this sort of problem to nail it down and make sure the risk stays minimal. Ditto in the accountancy department. Everyone does their due diligence, everyone stays happy down the road.
>since it's quicker and easier than torrenting.

That depends on your watching habits. I maintain a backlog of things to watch which I regularly refill. That also prevents me from wasting time on impulsive decisions - I plan ahead on what to watch. Besides, you can also use direct downloads to get the same advantages (almost instant playback) than streams.

>And if you have "unlimited" bandwidth, then the additional streams don't really matter.

I talking more about the big picture. The extended usage of streaming is, or at least will become, a burden on the infrastructure. It's unneeded traffic. It's the same as the push towards cloud storage - insanity, and not only from a security and privacy point of view.
You really think JeffB is walking around interviewing thousands of individual contributors and line managers, and firing the ones who are nice to each other?
Senior management creates a culture for middle management. Middle management decides how to transmute that into the lower management community.
Why did you go for Ruby instead of PHP?

Would you have had the (roughly) same database issues if you didn't have that many writes to the db?
I don't know whether it answered his questions, but allow me to thank YOU for providing so many useful details. So often, it seems, I'll stumble across a fascinating post on the topic of K-12 education, and I'll find your screen name at the top. If you have a blog, post a link; if not...(hint, hint).
That's exactly what happens at some places, from what I've heard. In some companies (the more commission-oriented ones) employees even own their "contact list" of candidates.
Amazon has never said no to paying a dollar of fixed overhead to generate $1.01 in lifetime marginal profit. Amazon is also willing to write down the first 5 years of a product's life as overhead. That is JeffB's genius (along with the ability to get the accounting right on these razor thin margins).
That reminds the "rifle nightmare" of the Russian Defense Ministry (1860s-1870s). Every new rifle system accepted was entirely obsolete the next year. By the time of Russo-Turkish war, the army had 10-20 completely different rifle systems in use.
That was over in 1891 when Mosin-Nagant was introduced. That one was in use for 60 years, including both World Wars. (Germans had highly similar Mauser rifles.)

When the paradigm is changing, investing is risky.
well with the larvae example, you can have your queens in a group and then just spam-click the hatcheries on the minimap, or use a couple other techniques

but still i agree that it's going to be annoying because it has to keep ticking in your head regardless. in fact the annoying "economy" micro is the reason i got bored of the game and stopped playing. while i know i could get pretty darn good at the game if i practiced it with some seriousness, doing that was just more work than i would ever put into something that is supposed to be fun
In another presentation of Wooga they described why they went off-cloud with the later games using cheap dedicated servers from http://hetzner.de/

Since hetzner recently upgraded the hardware but also limited the different options it would be very interesting to see what Wooga takes out of this...
Yep. Example would be having your account tied to your PayPal. It will remove regardless if you have the overdraft protection or not.
I think Star Walk is up there in terms of top apps - most people I know have it installed on their phones and iPads. It's a sensational application.
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That was an interesting read. I'd love to watch the actual presentation if it's available somewhere.

One thing that struck me as odd from a software design point of view is the "tile table". The name and the absurdly high number of I/Os per second suggest that each tile was stored in a separate database record? The game looks like a Farmville clone, so wouldn't it have been more economical to store the entire farm of a player in one blob?

Is there someone from Wooga here to shed some light on the architectural decisions that went into the game?
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You may be surprised. Amazon is expert at "ship now, pay vendors later". In many areas, Amazon maintains a negative layover from when they pay vendors to when customers pay Amazon.
In this particular case, at least, the video is short, informative, and well-made — a great way to introduce the product.
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saves me from clicking the link.
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I used to be a lot like that. But then somehow I slipped out of the cycle and started being good at things, and I've been truly consistently happy and working hard on fun projects for the past 3ish years (I'm 22 now). I saw some people asking others to share their stories, so I thought I would offer up my own life as an example. It's just a data point, take from it what you will.

When I started high school I thought I wasn't good at anything. I was pretty rebellious and took up smoking / drinking at a young age. Then I started debating and found out I was pretty good at that, but it wasn't enough to pull me out of my slump. Turns out, winning debates is only cool to other debaters. I remember riding the bus full of idiots to school, listening to Modest Mouse on my first iPod, just wondering why life generally sucked.

When I went to college I tried to be one of those thoughtful types. My subconscious goal was to make everyone think I was tormented by deep thoughts. It was my way of trying to get people to like me and to feel special. (I was not conscious of this at the time). I smoked cigarettes a lot, became a vegetarian, and thought about how nothing matters. Reading Nietzsche for fun made me feel profound, and truly I learned a lot from it, but if I'm honest with myself I did it because I wanted people to respect me.

That's what I was missing in my life, what made me feel so bad for so long. I just didn't feel respected. I didn't think people took me seriously enough. I quit college debate, joined another student organization and became known as a friendly and smart guy there. Almost overnight everything got better. As I started getting happier and more respected by my peers, I also started becoming more ambitious. I dreamed about becoming president one day, about starting massive companies, about changing history.

That was about 3 years ago, and I've been mostly happy since that point in my life. Gradually I shed my old bad habits, like smoking, and picked up some good ones, like eating healthier and exercising. I no longer want people to think of me as someone who is tormented by his genius. I realized that people really don't relate to or respond well to that. I still want to be respected, but now I'm capable of getting respect because I learned the first step is to be a warm person towards others - not by trying to project any sort of image. The problem is that we all project an image whether we want to or not, so we have a tendency to try and control it. I've found that I'm happiest and I feel most respected when I'm focusing on the matter at hand rather than myself. Whether it's designing an interface (my job) or talking to a friend, I find I am happiest when I'm not thinking about myself.

Hope this helps somebody who's feeling like I felt 4 years ago.
It is a document released to the press by Amazon, but it isn't an ad, it is a copy/summary of their official earnings report, plus some ignorable color.
> Old ideas put together in a new way

As is pretty much everything; new ideas are far rarer than people want to admit.
A lot of what we do at http://utopic.me/ is solving exactly this issue, we do a lot of content discovery based on personalisation, tags and followed interests. Go check it out.
You should look at what Wall St did to Amazon's stock price on the 364 days previous to today.
See how the auto-tagging works in Utopic bookmarklet/extensions. Hard to get a foolproof ideal result. Sometimes it works well, sometimes not. Semantic and any other tagging or content extraction is still in its early phases.
No, it is not "evil".

An act can be "bad", or "injust", but describing it as evil is bullshit. Evil, for one, is a theological term, that doesn't explain anything. It's like saying "the satan made me do it".

Like, it wasn't because of being "evil" when people in the US discriminated (and exterminated) Indians and enslaved blacks.

They didn't do it because they were "evil people", they did it because their societal norms and prevailing ideology permitted it and even encouraged it. And the norms got such because of catering to various collective interests (like, taking away the indian land, exploiting cheap labor).
Do you say he has no insight? iPod introduced: analysis say it will fail. iPhone introduced: analysis say it will fail. iPad introduced: analysis say it will fail.
WWDC 1997 video shows that Jobs clearly had a vision for many many years into the future.
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"It's something that will go unnoticed by 99% of people. But the few who notice our attention to detail will evangelize it. They will shout their discovery. If I saw one of those gorgeous thermostats, I'd sure as hell tell someone -- about a THERMOSTAT."

When I saw this earlier today I thought the exact same thing and in fact I shared it with a few people because I was so impressed with the design and experience they created. It's just a thermostat but it looks so different and it comes with a screw driver to install it, peel off labels to label the wires when you install it and it even has a built-in level to make sure it is installed level. What an amazing design. To top it all off I really love the business model, not only are they helping their customers save money on their electric bill but they are helping a greater cause by saving the environment. I've become a huge fan of this product in just a few hours. Very well done.
The target="_blank" on your top nav links makes me want to throw my monitor at the wall. Don't force the users interaction with your website.
If you don't want legislators to get involved, then please stop promoting underhanded techniques which abuse browser features.
A few red flags (I know nothing about startup acquisition myself though).

1) Time pressure to have the deal happen quickly (that's not your fault)

2) 6m vs 2m is a big difference. I would be very careful. I think asking for a fixed price (and letting them worry about how quickly they can pay back their lenders) is better.
Their price difference is way too fuzzy.

3) "something they said was very unlikely given their current projections" yeah... Look, then they should be fine accepting a deal of say 4.5m (or whatever), because according to their current projections, they will end up paying that amount anyway.

If they refuse, then you need to ask yourself why they are doing so (perhaps they really do expect to later buy your company for $1).

4) Get your own lawyer. Their lawyers are for their interests, not yours.
Personally, the thought of not even knowing how much you are being bought for (and that it could be dramatically less based on "X reason") is very bad to me.
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What was the original title on the HN post?
I've posted some updated stats on my blog: https://www.dlitz.net/blog/2011/10/most-common-losenord/
I'm really not sure if that is true for those in technical majors like comp sci. While I've never had a full time job working for someone else, I definitely had more free time during summer internships (40 hour workweek) than while in school. YMMV.
"Ramblings of a depressed teenager"
I don't think it's a bad thing that people no longer need to understand technology to reap its benefits. If I would have to understand all things I interact with daily at the same level as I understand how computers work, I wouldn't have time to learn anything that actually interests me.
What might be cool is if I can direct my prospective tenant to you to fill out a digital version of my rental application (standard form), then I get a copy of that 'signed' application, and how they answered all the questions on rental history, employment history, references, key questions on bankruptcy, felonies, etc, as well as your credit screening result.

Otherwise it seems I'm still managing a paper-based application for the info I need, then applicant has to redo part of that effort directly with you to get the credit screen.
But depreciation is an expense, yes? So Amazon gets to average their investments for a 7-year rolling window or whatever, not postpone them indefinitely. Unless there is a way to claim that the software/IP has some resale value remotely approaching its cost to build?
I's suggest that Siri really is something new under the sun: it is the first large-scale, distributed AI system interacting with the 'real world' in an uncontrolled manner. It would not surprise me if somewhere in the back end queries are being looked at and humans are fine-tuning or making suggestions of possible responses. There is a scale here that's never been seen before. And Apple can afford a legion of unseen human beings helping in the background if it wants to experiment with this.
Apps is a special case were they make a nice profit from both selling apps that they haven't created and selling devices that run said apps.
My bank charges me for that.
> Hopefully I'll be able to explain myself better

You might print out your posting and bring it in.
Do you know how it works? I mean, how can the camera even see the stars? Usually, the lense must be open for quite a while to take a picture of the night sky, no?
By then it will be too late. It is right now legal advice can help you. The term sheet you have in your hand looks good to you, but only someone with experience from a hundred deals that went awry can look at that term sheet and see what is missing. You have the wrong view of how you use lawyers.

Your process is basically the same as having a lawyer write the code for your web app and then have a programmer review the code just before you launch. Now you are probably thinking "no that's not the same because that won't work". Well, exactly. It won't work.

Reading all your answers here you come across as either very inexperienced or drunk with the prospect of striking it rich or both.
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Yes but can it get the princess to tell you where the rebel base is?

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I believe that "everyone" just upvoted your first comment. A small bunch of weirdos disagree with you by vehemently agreeing with you :-)
I found, over time, that the simple knowledge there's a cycle means that a) when I'm up, remember what it's like and b) when I'm down, remember that it's temporary, and likely chemical. This is not you, it's just how you're feeling for a bit. Know that it will go up, and don't fight it up. Accept it, which helps. Don't be scared of being down.

Look for environmental issues like exams coming up or work pressures, or anything that if a friend were experiencing, you'd be more understanding of. And if you can't find any, at least you have the knowledge that it's a cycle and not permanent.

Also, make your decisions when you're up. Do the work on yourself you need to do when you're up. Call the social worker, the therapist, plan to meditate. Because you have the energy. Remember the highs and the lows, use the highs to help the lows. Think of it as integrating two aspects of yourself, rather than trying to get rid of the one that is down.
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Well, I knew that Jobs was "supposed to have been a difficult man". But after reading the biography it's pretty clear that this guy had some serious, deep running flaws, character traits that other people could never get away with. Just to name a few, based on the biography, he was pathologically self-centered, a habitual liar, he belittled people in public for his own personal gratification and so on.

Now, not just from a management perspective - Is this something to emulate? Do we want a society where everyone is like this?

In my opinion, people like Jobs need level-headed, strong people around them. Without people who are willing to work with them despite their flaws, guys like Jobs would probably end up in the gutter with a knife in their back.
I just notified @jrirei of this discussion.
Yep. Since I have an MBP, it is engineered to survive more than 4 years (after warranty and class action mandated repairs). Mine is pre-unibody.