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I believe the grandparent was referring to a product company instead of a consultancy. A software consulting company does indeed have a lot more in common with a creative agency.
Maybe gas is still cheap (relatively speaking) and so people don't care.

There is, however, a lot of lip service about both energy conservation and healthier lifestyles, and in that context, drive-throughs represent the antithesis of both.
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So are they still making a loss at that price? iSuppli seems to think so, they estimate about USD 300 in costs per Touchpad. But if that's true, why did they resume production in late August? And now a developer program for a EOL platform? It all seems sort of bizarre.
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At the end of the first video(here[1]) he says:

There is a danger here of a rift: what we don't want is separate movements... What we want is a reunification. What we really want is a return to the values that started this whole thing

Which is a criticism. Granted, it is a harder critic on the Agile movement than on the Software Craftsmanship (it essentially means that Agile forgot the Software Craftsmanship along the way, and it needs it back).

Which seems to me like a bit of a dated discussion, as those pushing Agile[2,3,4] to the next Level are well aware of this issue, and are not falling pray to it.

[1] http://cleancoder.posterous.com/stub6-restoring-the-trust

[2] http://yfrog.com/h3qqxdij

[3] http://www.slideshare.net/HackerChick/lean-startup-how-devel...

[4] http://agile.dzone.com/news/10-years-later-what%E2%80%99s-ne...
Counting each guest-visitation as a separate instance makes sense to me.

On one hand, the hosts will provide certain things for each guest. Invitations, individual decorations, etc. It's not like Rose & Billy can skimp on their flower budget because Marcie & John had nice bouquets at their wedding last month.

On the other hand, each guest will bring their own gift. In case of a themed wedding, they will probably buy something for that specific occasion.
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Ask: When do I need to think about equity among friends
My friend and I have been working on this idea, no code has hit the terminal but its about to. At what point should we have the talk about forming a company or equity split up. In other words, when do we make it official.

Also, any tips on how to start that conversation?

Thanks
Again replying here (what's up with that?!) ...

If you don't see a reply link under the comment, click on "link" next to the "n minutes ago" text at the top, and you be take to a form where you can reply directly to that comment.
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Or they did it as a hobby in their spare time?
"So what does the TouchPad cost to build? The teardown by iSuppli pegs the cost of the components used in the 16 gigabyte version, which sells for $499 at retail, at $306.65. Meanwhile, the 32GB version, which sells for $599, costs $328.65 to build. (The difference, obviously, is memory.)"

http://allthingsd.com/20110703/hps-touchpad-teardown-its-dee...
Technical debt is just that: Debt. And in a start-up that is incurring large piles of various forms of financial debt, it might very much not be rational to incur financial debt to avoid technical debt. Of course, there's a balance to be struck and it's also important to call out the fact that you're incurring technical debt and make it a conscious decision.
This is ridiculous. Mankiw's just playing dumb.
The awesome ruby developer following all tenants of Martin Fowler vs the curious Joe who hacks with nosql and clojure.

The story ends with OMG!!! Ruby is still awesome.
2.7 * 28 = 75.6

The final number itself isn't flawed, but the graphical equation on the deck does have the math symbols in the wrong places.
It's unlikely that it's more than $1K for clothes on average (estimate based on: http://www.moneyunder30.com/how-much-average-wedding-cost). So the real market for wedding clothes is under $2.7 Billion.
I worked in IT during the 90's and Win9x crashed several times a day from drivers, lack of resources, and "rundll not responding...". Maybe you've forgotten, but I haven't. I had to diagnose hundreds of machines with those symptoms, ...it was shit. It's true 95 installed on 4MB ram, but it was slower than molasses, constantly swapping.

The fact that no other OS was perfect is irrelevant. They never had a chance, no matter if the were good or great, from lowly DOS clones all the way up to modern OSs because MS didn't allow it via a bag of dirty tricks.
Clojure is not a proted Lisp. Clojure is a new language that is just as diffrent from any other Lisp as Groovy is diffrent from Ruby or Scala from ML.
I clicked the devmarketing@palm.com link, and it apparently executes some javascript to unencrypt the actual email address you're supposed to email.

It didn't work, though. I tried Chrome, Safari, and Firefox. I just emailed devmarketing@palm.com directly -- anyone have any insight into this? I see no errors in my Javascript console, but when I paste the JS call in directly into the console, the return value is undefined.
Probably won't see it any time soon on the store: http://twitter.com/#!/BrynaAtHP/status/132202507966496768

You have to send an email including your developer user name to request a coupon.
I am using this architecture on a new project, I would love to hear any possible drawbacks on it.
Millions of people would risk death for a chance at making 3usd an hour. People still die because they can't buy food. If westerners isolate themselves economically from the worlds poor in a misguided effort to remain morally pure, the worlds poor will suffer more, not less.
You've repeated those sentiments up and down this thread. Personally I don't see much difference between the two, even syntactically. I've seen scala starting to get a foothold at my organisation, but haven't heard of anyone discussing Kotlin. What is also interesting is doing a trends search for scala jobs at indeed.com It looks like Scala has started to get a small but very rapidly growing slice of the job market
Honestly, I'd talk about it now. It can really mess things up later if he thought he was going to have a bigger / smaller part than he was. Just make sure you're on the same page, and then you can "make it official" later.

How to start the conversation: "Lets talk about equity really quick before we start so we are both on the same page. I propose X and Y split. What are your thoughts?"
This example would be much more convincing if Foxconn wouldn't work on replacing millions of Chinese workers with robots.
The Wikipedia windows that open are the _least_ of this site's functionality. Watch the Demo linked at the top.
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Hello Hacker News,

A little about me -- I'm new to the Bay Area, and in need of a technical co-founder. I'm a self taught Ruby/PHP developer, who also does design and front end work. Even better, I've shipped actual software products to actual paying customers.

I'm looking for a fellow entrepreneur to help take a new project to the next level. I've chatted with a couple of Angel investors in recent weeks, and they are excited to see how things progress. More interestingly, I've talked with quite a few potential customers who are excited to purchase.

So, if you're in the San Francisco/Easy Bay area and looking for a co-founder spot, please send me an email. adam[dot]barber1[at]gmail[dot]com
"Spare time" is time that is left over when you've done the things you need to do. The existence of spare time is evidence that your productivity is higher than your consumption.
Are you kidding? They're airing an hour-long VHS tape in theaters? Even animated movies are longer than that.
Price discrimination. Expensive food is a mechanism for bringing people closer to their maximum willingness-to-pay by charging for a convenience: available food that you can't be thrown out of the theater for eating. The high pricing tier is patrons who buy the expensive food-- people for whom the price difference between a $15-per-person movie experience and $10-per-person is small. The low pricing tier is those who either eat before going to the movie or who bring in their own food (taking a risk, albeit a small one, of being caught and kicked out, which tends to ruin the experience).

Popcorn is especially easy to sell because of its low-volume-to-nourishment ratio. You can buy candy at a corner store and sneak it in pretty easily, but popcorn? It's less annoying just to pay the high price than to bring a large bag of popcorn in. Same goes for those disgustingly large sodas.
Anybody know which theaters this will be released in?
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I go to the 'travel' category see the Hipmunk logo, but I can't click on it?
I'm aware of Microsoft's anti trust actions and I'm not a fan of their then anti competitive stance. But still BGates, as a person has and been doing some wonderful things and people need to appreciate that instead of mindless hate and not seeing beyond an ideology.

And here are the same people who were ridiculing Richard Stallman's comments on Steve Jobs based on his ideology but hate Bill Gates because his company has done some bad in the past and he is against their ideology. I don't see any difference.

IMO, if you worship Steve Jobs and hate Bill Gates, it doesn't make any sense. They both are no Gods and they both have done plenty of good and bad.
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The difference is between shitty products crowding out competition and great products crowding out competition. Therein lies the axis of opinion I think.
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His point isn't totally wrong, but it's, like, 95% wrong.

The 1% are more educated than average, but not nearly enough to support this argument.

Education gives you a better chance at a huge jump into higher income, but not enough to support this argument.

It's not a coincidence that really rich people have enormous initiative, but rarely enormous education (often including dropping out before they get a degree).
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Ever read Zizek? tl;dr: so-called charity is just the entrenchment of capitalism, which requires considerable income disparity to function. So, far from eradicating poverty, he's deepening it. Another commenter mentioned Carnegie (could add Rockefeller or any of the other robber barons), it's a good parallel (look into the history, e.g., these men where so awful they would even sell known-to-be-faulty guns to the army during the civil war, so soldiers would end up blowing off their limbs while in battle)
what? where is the promised $99 good?
None of the above. I've never tried ODesk. Tried Elance and Guru. Elance's entry test is like a Rite of passage, and I went to Guru mostly only because I wanted the Payoneer debit card and the US virtual account with it. I'm from an Euro country. So for me it's difficult to even compete with americans, due to the euro vs. dollar exchange rate, and badly high euro cost of living. Now imagine competing with India. But I still did it, I pulled it off. OK, first you have to be a great coder. Next, you have to have a viable strategy. A viable strategy, if you live in the US or in the EU, is to use those portals only to find you a solid clients, and take those clients direct, outside of the portals, once trust is established. Basically if you are good, go for a client with good stats (many completed and paid projects, good turnover, etc. whatever stats are available about them), and use Google to learn about the client BEFORE you spend hours on elaborating a proposal. Many - let me repeat that: MANY - project postings on those portals are just fishing for information. Try to find a combination of a solid client and technically difficult project - and don't look at the price too much - that way you have high chances on your bid being selected, because indians hate to work hard on complex projects (of course not all of them, but sorry, that is my overall general impression). But this is not a rule, for example I've scored this good US client by offering them to do the first project for them for free, because it was quite trivial, just adding few sounds to a charity website. So... think out of the box, and go away from those portals as soon as you can, for they try to eat your soul and skin you alive.
Infrastructure projects don't have to be profitable that is neither the goal nor does anyone care. The goal is to create a lot of jobs and a lot of income relatively fast to increase demand which helps the economy.
HP seems to have no mandatory development requirements, meaning a development such as with the Playbook is somewhat unlikely. Also I suspect that RIM wanted to push with this move more the market'ability of their devices in regards to to the availability of apps and developers than to have actually useful apps produced.
Hmmm... he says that Amazon doesn't pay publishers enough for the lending library. How much does my local library pay publishers for the same dead-tree book? Cover price, right? And nothing for each reader? Actually, they probably pay the volume discount price, not even cover price.

I like to see him argue this from the ground up. Start with the local-library model: why should Amazon pay anything for book lending? Aside from the fact that technology has made it possible?

As I recall from the three books I wrote, authors don't get crap from discount, book club, or library sales.

Is the publisher is trying to make a little extra margin for itself, by demanding a fee for loaned books? Will a standard author's contract now include an author's cut of these lending fees?
Trust that I, a programmer who cut his teeth on LISP, offer this brutal truth in a spirit of compassion:

LISP is the second-oldest HLL there is. As a syntax and a way of structuring code, S-expressions have been around since before the vast majority of software developers were born. Despite what one might be read to believe in reading the self-promoting protestations of Paul Graham, it has never gained much traction outside a few ivory tower settings. If it were going to take the world by storm, it should have done so by now.

The syntax is a major stumbling block for the vast majority of programmers, including a number of very smart people. This is not because of some failing on the part of said programmers. It is a simple by-product of the fact that its primary design goal was not to be a language in which humans can conveniently arrange and express their thoughts. It just wasn't; this was an era where coding in machine language was still common, and where the things language designers could dream up were severely limited by the rudimentary parser and compiler technology of the time.

As time passed and technology permitted, almost all the world came to settle on a certain principle in language design: Things that behave differently should look different. This is not trivial. It is a principle that is guided by the fact that human brains are designed to distinguish things by shape first and foremost. Parsing is more difficult and time-consuming, and so languages that minimize the amount of parsing that humans must perform will be easier for humans to use. There is but one remaining community which holds out against this simple truth: LISPers.

With modern technology we have a new crop of languages, ML and its descendants such as Scala, which adopt and expand on the principles that made LISP stand out so many decades ago. And they have the added advantage of being designed such that different things look different, and so people tend to have an easier time using them. And we see rapid adoption of these languages, and popular opinion agreeing that they are Good and have much to offer. Thus the key thing which makes LISP great finally sees vindication in the world at large, and the idea that LISP championed, the idea that processes are primarily composed of verbs rather than nouns, becomes transcendent.

And yet, there are still so many LISPers who continue to hold out, and refuse to accept this victory, because it is a victory that lacks S-expressions and their trademark parentheses.

And yet, they think it is everyone else who is irrationally hung up on syntax.
The stupider the people get, the more regulations and laws need to be passed to regulate them.

These individuals need to be punished, and if they don't stop, children taken away from them. I don't see this any different than harsh physical abuse.

All those participating in it, should be guilty of child endangerment as well.

In general those refusing to vaccinate their child should be forced to sign a waver form that would make it very easy to fast-track their prosecution for abuse and child endangerment if it can be shown the child has been infected and their life is in danger or has infected others.
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It seems to execute a mailto to the same email address with a subject of "Developer Device Program NA TouchPad"
...says the student to the 20 year veteran who lived this path.

If all you care about is startup work, yes this is bad advice. If you want a solid career in technology, this is a viable path. You don't have to agree, and I don't expect anyone to like it, but denying its viability is just short-sighted.
So the fact that dropouts like Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates and Steve Jobs became billionaires is due to increasing returns to education? (why did Zuck drop out? why isn't everyone getting Ph.D.s?)

How much of Mankiw's wealth is due to his education, and how much to the industry structure's ability to make people pay $233 for his textbook?

http://crookedtimber.org/2011/11/04/occupy-greg-mankiw/

http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Economics-N-Gregory-Mankiw/...

It should not be that hard to take income (or labor income) and regress against educational level and get a pretty good sense of how much inequality is related to educational achievement, and how returns to education have changed. My gut feeling is it explains some of it, but education has not that much to do with the vastly increasing income share of the top 1%. One man's 'stochastic' is another's 'uncorrelated'.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/03/inequality-trend...
The JavaScript turns it into the address "mailto:devmarketing@palm.com?subject=Developer%20Device%20Program%20NA%20TouchPad" (the same email address, but auto-sets the Subject line). It then immediately sets the page location to this link, and the function returns nothing (aka undefined) which should trigger the browser to do what it would ordinarily do when you click an email link but with the revised address.
Nice discussion. Remined me of what Github's Founder Tom Preston Werner said last year on Startup School[1].

And remined me of the great article recently mentioned[2] by Duck Duck Go's founder Gabriel Weinberg: How to Increase Your Luck Surface Area [3]

[1] http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/b/272178966

[2] http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2011/10/what-i-learned-f...

[3] http://www.codusoperandi.com/posts/increasing-your-luck-surf...
That's not the same thing. You obviously use partial application only if the function takes params. And I just can't see why you'd like to pass a reference on a parameter-less function.
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And when they don't make any money, they'll blame the pirates.
We have a poll/conversation going here: http://hall.com/apple
Actually, I really am sure Clojure will fit in all of those problem domains. Indeed, I'm pretty sure that if you experienced a well-written Clojure accounting app, you'd wonder why people bothered with Java.
I never thought that. YC applications take hn handles. People have karma they are trying to protect. It is entirely possible that someone with high karma or some other motive would want to say something and not have it tied to them whether it be their HN identity or real identity (for those with links to a website in their profile). An anonymous comment. PG is "the boss" in more ways than one to the HN community.

A similar situation happened the other day. There was a thread about race and somebody commented that none of the "leaders" had anything to say. I wonder why that was?

While apparently this is not what you did, the fact is, it wasn't a stretch to think that is what had happened.

I wasn't disagreeing with what you were saying by the way.
The point is removing them accomplishes little and adds ambiguity. There's something to be said about not changing things that adds no value; momentum and familiarity are valuable features, even if technically they're not needed.

This trend of trying to strip programming languages down to their "essence" is a fools errand and the pendulum will swing back eventually (not fast enough in my opinion).
There are billions of new consumers of everything, but the price of cars/computers/milk hasn't quadrupled in the last twenty years.
Great job. Needs a "pause" button IMO.
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"I'm not even sure to which of us you are ascribing fell motives"

Neither of you. PG can't be blamed for people feeling a need to suck up to him. You can't be blamed for having a motive (if that was the case) to protect your identity.
Huh? Aren't government employees paid in the same currency as employees in the private sector? Don't those employees spend that currency largely in the private sector? If those people wouldn't otherwise be employed, how are their jobs not "helping the economy"?
Noted for the next time I submit a space related article. Thanks for the heads up.
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You've offered no proof or even speculation people wouldn't switch if 95 didn't exist. OS/2 Warp was a modest hit the same year and was advocated by technical people for years. It was much more solid yet still user friendly. There were other decent choices as we've mentioned.

I like XP and still use it, but it doesn't fit into the thread about MS halting innovation during the 90's.
Thanks. I didn't even see the tabs at the top.
Technology, economics, and society don't develop independent of each other. Due to physical distribution constraints, there were artificial limits on how widely a single book copy could be distributed. Hence, simplest system that compensated all parties appropriately, was the the policy of a fixed fee to individual buyer and library (the "first sale doctrine" may also apply here).

Now, with the Internet allowing practically infinite lending, should the policy be different? Probably.

Think about it the dual of your though experiment: if lending libraries were invented in a world with effortless, almost-infinite lending among a 25-million-or-so "library", don't you think per-usage charges would be an automatic feature?

Btw,AFAIK DVD rentals work this way: Netflix can't rent out more than 100 times or so before paying for a new copy. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Worshiping either Jobs or Gates is silly, and hating Gates requires ignoring his philanthropic work. But I also don't think you should admire Gates unless you think he believes that his riches are at least in part ill-gotten. If he thinks he earned or deserves to be so rich, then he's just a jerk who's now using his money to rehabilitate his public image - a mixed bag not worth using as a role model of good or bad.
That's only looking at it through one particular lens. The cultural value and historical context of these writings are useful to explore. Also, as a forerunner of modern astronomy, astrologers' observations were incredibly accurate and are still relevant to the field.