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I'll go further and say that it's the CEO's job to personally CALL as many of the first 100 users as possible (if your startup is not aimed at developers/geeks).

I've been doing what this post recommends for Cilantro. We've hit 100 signups since launching the MVP 2 months ago.

A few random things I've noticed and done in addition to what's in this post:

- My response rate is lower than I thought (below 20%). My hunch is that this partly due to a very busy user base and partly due to language barriers.

- I tried using Tout to do this but in the end, I didn't see any benefit over GMail's canned responses.

- I actually called about 1 out of 3 new users (I ask for their phone number at signup). The response rate is WAY higher and the feedback I receive is much more valuable.
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>It'd probably be useful to pick some other examples to discuss.

Maybe you can help with this, the author certainly didn't.

Let me try:

Firefox vs. Lynx

IDE vs. makefiles/make/compile

Word. vs Latex

Excel vs. ????

Outlook/Gmail vs. Pine?

Does one of those encourage expression over operation? Probably the closest is Latex, but still I don't see how it would be more expressive than what someone who spends equal time learning Word would accomplish with Word.
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No, I think the analogy is apt. I think you're looking too shallowly and only looking at GUI/CLI, and thinking that Photoshop, being a GUI, fits into that world. Whereas Photoshop has more in common with CLI tools than many GUI programmes.
well there you go. I'm on a time of use, stepped schedule.
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This sounds horrendous. I've fallen through rain clouds more than a few times, which is painful but bearable, and hail once, which is not. Don't jump through green clouds if you can avoid it.
This is excellent advice.

With every startup I've been involved with, the first iteration of our product was not the last, nor was it perfect. I see this more so as a means of ensuring your product doesn't get between you and the customer. Most startups simply do not value customer service as part of the opening strategy.

Side rant: I blame Google for the perception that you can automate your entire business, without any human interaction. (Ever try to get support from a Google rep for an application?) Even Apple, who offers products that "just work", offers very good customer support.
Unfortunately, the ord() function call overhead in Python may swamp the difference in speed between a dict lookup (hashtable) and a list lookup (ordinal index).
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I think if you use a recruiter to help find new people to put through your interview process then they can be highly effective. It doesn't make sense to trust in a recruiter to bring you the perfect fit. They bring you people and then you must determine if they are the proper fit. I see no harm in recruiters. You don't have to hire anyone they bring you.
Writing it in Cython would have been my solution. No futzing around with 8 or 9 iterations. It would just be fast, and the code would still look clean (unlike the obfuscated garbage they ended up with in the blog post).
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Interesting story.

Do you have any regrets about your decision? Were you making money before you dropped out and are you making enough to support yourself now?
With respect to the Library Problem -

Have you investigated Quicklisp[1] using SBCL? I have found Quicklisp generally a better experience than CPAN, pip, Cabal, and the other package managers I've used.

SBCL (A fork of CMUCL) is maintained monthly and recently had a very successful crowdfunding campaign.

Of course, if you find CL itself to be weaker in areas important to you than (say) Ruby, none of the above matters. But I thought you might like to know. :-)

http://www.quicklisp.org/beta/
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Why did TermKit die?
Original story: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2559734

If you check out the project on GitHub you'll see that there were no commits since July, and there are no proper forks.
BTW, I was thinking that famous people like CEOs should sign their emails, espicially after the iPhone 4 antenna/BGR fiasco. At that time iOS 4 did not support S/MIME, but now that iOS 5 do, I wonder if famous people will use it.
AFNetworking boasts really fast performance in the way that it makes concurrent requests and processes them asynchronously. That, in combination with careful tuning of the stock networking libraries makes.

There are no hard performance benchmarks, but you'll get a good sense of how fast it is if you download and run the example app--I've yet to see any apps match the table view image loading performance.

FWIW, people who have switched from ASI usually report an overall networking speedup of 2-3x.
Adding a large button to the top would certainly make it easier for those people who open the emails and want to unsubscribe. And I wouldn't worry about the increase in unsubscribers. I'd rather help people unsubscribe than have them mark my emails as spam.

I'm assuming that the majority of people are not even opening the emails though. Hitting the spam button is just too easy. I think the system is broken.
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I think the title needs to be changed to reflect the gist of the post: that for _startups_, recruiters are probably a waste of time. For a more established organizations, recruiters tend to work, I think.
My god I dislike onswipe. Slow on the iPad 1.0, brutally ugly short columns in landscape mode, ugly rerendering when flipping to portrait, and did it break the flow of the images or was that something else?

Cannot wait for web designers to come up with something better. Please.
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Actually, Gmail does something close to that.

When you click "Report as spam", if it detects it's a mailing list, it offers to (try to) unsubscribe properly:

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/unsubscribing-made-eas...

It's a bit strange that they don't give you the option then to unsubscribe without marking as spam (you can do it but with more clicks), but I would think that if you unsubscribe and mark as spam the overall system doesn't take the spam factor at all or as much. In that case, it's probably limited to your own account.
The contrast between the body text and background is way too low (designers, please read http://contrastrebellion.com/).

Having one scrolled window inside another scrolled window also seems to be a bad idea, but overall this is a great improvement over the old design.
Quote: You need incredible good engineers who are not already in golden handcuffs, are crazy enough to join a risky early stage company, do not want to found their own company right now, want to work at all hours, and are aligned with the culture you are trying to build.

That really is asking for everything. I hope you have figured out a way to explain your value proposition to these dream candidates.
This still conflates language with platform/framework. There's a reason PHP is big and Symfony is small - only a fraction of the PHP users have needs that are met by symfony and have the time/effort to learn symfony in the first place.

There's actually probably multiple reasons, but that's the easiest one off the top of my head. PHP's used in all kinds of web places that Ruby isn't, mostly because Ruby's not a great fit in those places.

Hello <?=$name;?> it's <?=date("h:i:s");?>.

I've never met anyone who does 'ruby pages' and drops ruby in to various files as needed for small stuff. You can do that and many people do with PHP.

All web work I've ever seen done in Ruby uses Rails or Sinatra or some framework. Only a portion of web work I've seen in PHP uses any community framework. This is just the way it is.

Your point on ecosystems is correct - the ZF system is probably the closest modern one out there (indeed, ZF should have been called PEAR2 years ago) - Symfony uses bits of ZF libraries as needed. But because of the naming, people think you use all of it. Because Rails was/is the dominant web framework in Ruby for so long, it feeds on itself, and people end up writing cool stuff for Rails, and more people use it because of the cool stuff, lather rinse repeat. The cool symfony stuff mostly can't be used outside symfony, CI stuff not usable outside CI, etc.

There's some cool stuff in Grails I use - it's not possible in PHP (maybe in the future if the language changes) so I use Grails when need be (or when I feel like it). No amount of libraries/frameworks in PHP will make up for the missing language features, and this is the heart of your last paragraph (which I agree with). I still use PHP for a lot of stuff, but have expanded out to other tools that fit other use cases better.

I do wish I'd see other camps being as broadminded as they exhort PHP users to be, though. By and large, there's stil loads of people that try to do all their projects in Rails, or J2EE, or .NET, or Django, or whatever. PHP's got its place, and sometimes really is the best choice for a project. Ultimately, there's still loads of fanboys out there in all camps. :/
Wow. Just wow. What a completely absurd redefinition of what is a CLI and what is a GUI. No true Scotsman, anyone?

It is just not an apt analogy if it requires you to claim that Photoshop is more CLI than GUI. That’s so freaking absurd.

Well, I guess I should have picked up on that when reading your last paragraph where you imply that everything that’s hard to use is also a CLI.
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Well, that's not really fair, because Siri isn't designed to try to have a conversation -- it's designed to just get a few things done easily via voice commands.

The state of the art in chatting is probably something more like Cleverbot, which is way, way better at having a conversation than Eliza.

(It occurs to me that hooking Siri up to cleverbot would be pretty awesome...)
Nope, because I've never even thought about a thermostat outside of my limited interaction with it. Which is my point.
Interesting that people seem to be interested in this issue but no explanations yet.

Maybe I should have titled this "Ask PG: ..."
Posted this over in feld.com, but I'll put it in here too cuz I actually saw the article here on Hacker News. Thanks for Posting. Absolutely love it!...

People have often criticized me for my fire. When I was young it was: "You're too competitive, can't you just take it easy?". When I set out to chase my dream of becoming a world-class independent stock trader it was: "Your ambition will end up costing you big". When I started my first and current tech company it was: "Aren't you being rash suddenly going into something with the goal of changing the world?"

All I can say is that I kicked their butts in sports and school when I was young, ended up making huge returns and a living trading professionally for years, and now... I'm about to change the world.

And it's because of fire.

So criticize away.

FIRE GET LAST LAUGH.
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To be fair, everywhere HTC announced it, they used the same headline. It's only slightly less pompous than referring to iOS devices without an article.
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The discussion is getting nowhere because the author is not even wrong. He's conflating too many things and picking analogies that sound correct but don't make any sense once you dig deeper.
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Somebody has been listening to Trash Talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxylo30vt5A
It is true that dropouts in the past have had to work hard to point out that college is not necessary for success. However, given how many articles we have seen about not dropping out on HN in the last week, it seems the tables have actually turned. It is the graduates now working hard to restore value to their degrees.

College has no proven track record. The best we have is some loose correlation showing people who work hard to attain a degree are also likely to work hard in industry, and thus earn more money. No surprises there. Hard working people have always earned more typically.

I don't want to diminish the value of college. It comes with a lot of great experiences for personal growth. It is a wonderful passtime. However, these articles are starting to highlight that it plays no role in business else there would be no reason to argue for going to college.
Indeed, whoever wrote that article either doesn't understand the issues involved or just plain isn't thinking coherently.

Now, this technology could be useful in some places where you want to control the flow of heat -- in a climate with hot days and cold nights, you might want the walls of a building to be good at conducting heat during the night and good at insulating during the day (or possibly vice versa, if your primary challenge is keeping the building warm enough) -- and the thermoelectric effect could maybe be useful to the extent that having self-powered elements would avoid the cost of running (very small amounts of) power everywhere.

But I'm with you on the neutrino bet as far as the application suggested in the article goes.
wow, amazing I wish I had a flow chart like this 2 years ago when my startup was making money..
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What I'm wondering is if that could have some influence on other protocols, too, like NFS. I'm going to do some testing.
We went through this last week on HN but this article is far more detailed. Thanks.
>If you want car drivers to respect bikers, stop running red lights and stop signs.

As a cyclist who doesn't run red lights and stop signs, I haven't noticed any improvement in people's attitudes toward me when I tell them I'm a commuter cyclist. And why should I? I do it to get from A-to-B safely. I'm not some sort of cycling ambassador.

When a car behaves dangerously, that guy is an asshole. When a biker behaves dangerously, bikers are assholes. Let's hold everyone to the same standard, shall we? (relevant xkcd: https://www.xkcd.com/385/)
I was sad to hear(see technically) that John McCarthy died, it was people like him that really got me into computers. The idea that we can use clever programming and modern hardware to make up for what we lack, math for instance is done nearly instantly with zero's and one's. It was people like him that helped start that ball rolling.

A great read that should be shared with everyone. RIP John.
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true, true! and I apologise for sounding whingey before, I do not mean to rag on you or the OP (I know nothing about what is good/idiomatic haskell and how that relates to efficient haskell). but it still feels damn slow, multiple seconds to make that image!

to put money where my (gut's?) mouth is, the dumb transliteration of my webgl shader to C++, compiled by MSVC in release mode on my win32 machine, takes 100ms to compute a frame at 800x600, on a single core, with precisely no tuning or effort.

with #pragma omp magic, equivalent in pain to the OP's point about almost-free-parallelisation in ghc, I imagine that would drop to around 20ms on 8 cores. and if I used an SSE vector class, probably another 2x, but that could legitimately be disallowed as overly complex.

my point being, you're right, GPUs stomp over CPUs for this kind of work! but my gut told me that this image should not take long for 'even' a CPU to produce; 10 or 20ms without effort, sub millisecond with effort (bytes rather than floats, asm, etc)

maybe I'm just lamenting the abuse of our modern CPUs, which are fantastically fast machines, even for stuff that they are not designed to excel at, like this.
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It is destructive either way. And Apple is a whole different story and I won't get into it.

I think mostly my opinion is that Software Patents are destructive to the industry. It limits innovation. The tactics that Microsoft is using to compete in the Smartphone market, are smart, but evil nonetheless.

Now like you said, this won't affect Android's growth. But this is because is a a battle of giants. The problem is that these kind of tactics set the precedent for Microsoft or other company to do it again and even worse, to become the standard.

These kind of tactics used against start-ups for example, is effectively killing them. Patents right now are being used mostly to destroy competition not to embrace it.

The tactics that Microsoft is employing, while legal, are not good for innovation, and are not good for the industry. Of course I am assuming that innovation is the fuel of the industry, but I might be wrong.
I really like this because it does make it more convenient to use vending machines by removing the need for cash and coins.

Going beyond that, I would absolutely kill to see NFC-enabled parking meters. Using credit or debit all the time means I don't accumulate coins anymore in my car. So then I have nothing to pay parking meters, and I often end up having to take a gamble on getting a ticket.
There is a big difference between agency recruiters and recruiters within a company. I have not had any bad experiences with recruiters who work for a company (that is not an agency). In fact, even agency recruiters, there are definitely some bad apples but a lot of them generally are fairly good to deal with.

If I were you, I might change the title of your post to be more specific on the type of recruiters you are referring to.
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Great writeup. Have been hacking initcwd to way back when it was just hardcoded in the kernel.
Other parameters not mentioned that control congestion:

1. net.ipv4.tcp_slow_start_after_idle
By default this is set to 1, which means, in a longer keep-alive connection, your connection will revert back to slow start (whatever you ended up setting it as per article) after "idle" (idle is 2 seconds last time i checked). Of course in a keep-alive connection you may have opened up your window from slow start to max, and you probably dont want it do default back to initcwd on subsequent requests. Especially applies on static file/cdn type servers where you probably are running longer keep-alives. You can just set this in sysctl.

2. the last time i checked (years ago) if you run conntrack and turn off tcp_no_metrics_save, you get the benefit of the window opening up to the last remembered window size from your previous connection.

The concepts on increasing initcwd are particularly advantageous in the mobile arena where the rtt is usually much higher.
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> P.S. (not directed at you, jsnell) Is there really anything that warrants downvoting my original post other than an unpopular viewpoint?

That is exactly why I don't look at the karma points. :D
> I wonder what they'd do if someone wrote a script to opt out every possible MasterCard number.

I suppose that's what that pitiful CAPTCHA is in place against!
As far as I can tell, it's like choosing between paying for display advertising or affiliate marketing. Two different mindsets and neither are a bad thing.

You either do the recruitment in-house and absorb all the risk to your business, which means lots of extra interviews, staff looking through high volumes of paperwork, etc. Or you hand it over to a third party, pay them nothing for the process (i.e. they take on the risk) but then pay highly for results.
Are Photoshop users creators?

It depends on the use-case. A majority of Photoshop users probably only use it for occasional and singular tasks, like resizing an image for sending it via email, or retouching a good photo with bad exposure.

On the other hand some users have a need to do batch processing and in that regard Photoshop is surely limited. Also, Photoshop is so god-damn effective in 80% of the tasks that most users never learn the mechanics of useful effects like smart-sharpening (just an example), which is really bad because the same techniques for doing a manual smart-sharpening can be used for lots other effects.

Do note that Photoshop does have scripting support, but I don't know if it is an afterthought or not (and this does matter).

Are Visual Studio users just operators of an IDE?

Many of them are operators and it's freaking painful to watch.

We already have Latex to substitute for Word

Well, actually Microsoft has yet to create a replacement for Latex. The layout of a Word document gets broken a lot depending on the fonts installed, on the Word version you have or even because of the printer drivers you're using. I even saw the same document rendered differently on the same machine, changed from one application instance to another. Granted it was a badly formated document, but that's just sad.

Latex is still the only general-purpose solution for producing high-quality documentation that is consistently rendered well across devices and that can be properly translated into PDF or whatever format you want without splitting hairs. It's also much more productive for expressing mathematical formulas.

Lynx to substitute for Firefox

This comparison is not fair because HTML itself was meant to be rendered, not read directly.

However, I still don't see professional designers / developers using WYSIWYG tools for writing HTML, like say, Dreamweaver. They may draw the layout in Photoshop, but writing HTML? That's done by hand, unless you're speaking about incompetents. That may change but after more than 20 years after the web was invented, the fact that no WYSIWYG editor is capable of being good enough for the task truly speaks volumes.
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Definitely... http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell

That said, after looking at the two side by side, it's not like any artwork was lifted, despite the similarities.
Click the different revisions on the right to change the syntax highlighting from C to Common Lisp...
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