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Good point. In fact I think that those who abstain are often those who consume the most media into their adult years (what else are they doing while everyone is out having fun).
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How many 10 year olds do you know who would attend a Startup Weekend? We need more kids doing things like this.
You didn't read what I had typed.

Hold Fn and then hit Delete. Problem solved.
Did he predict what was coming? A lot of it has to do with AI, and the organization of personalized information. How long will it take for this arena to flourish?
I am talking about the "alt/option" key on the keyboard. No "esc".
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Homebrew beats apt-get any day of the week.

Great argument. I'm convinced.

By the way, apt-get is an inteface for APT, and one of many, so you should have stated that Homebrew beats APT. And of course, you wouldn't have needed to substantiate that claim either, because you are, after all, ricardobeat.
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By "the like" I mean tiling WMs. "Primitive" was the wrong word, I should have said "intrusive".

I used tiling WMs almost exclusively for quite a while. My problem with them is that they tile by default, which is fine for some things but I find it much less intrusive to add tiling actions to a "regular" WM. So I can do things like "move this window there", "make this window occupy the left half of this display", etc. I found that I really only ever wanted a handful of these kinds of commands. Your mileage will almost certainly vary.
With both Silverlight and Flex gone, the roadmap for future projects is clear: It will be HTML5. Unfortunately, what is not clear is which HTML5 runtime. In many ways, Safari enjoys the greatest reach - runs on Apples and Windows. Presumably Windows 8 will lock out Safari, which means we still have to support Safari and IE10. And we still haven't figured out where Android browsers fit in.

Perhaps Adobe's tool will be able to account for browser quirks better than humans can. We can all hope.
The halo created around some of the people that exhibit the qualities you mention is a really powerful motivator.

The only thing I would add is the fact that you have to know all the players and all the buzz and buzz words.

You don't want to say "no I don't know who Fred Wilson is or who Mike Arrington or PG is etc. Or you're not up on what's going on in the startup community. (Which could happen with someone who has a killer track record from a different industry.) In other words you know the lay of the land.
Also, the long writeup, "The King of Human Error"

http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2011/12/michael-...

I found a supposedly related video, but I haven't watched it yet (still downloading).
http://research.microsoft.com/apps/video/default.aspx?id=155...
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It might be in some implementations, but not always: Given a large enough display you could set them side by side and what could be easier then looking left/right?

Requiring scrolling is usually bad enough and only becomes worse the greater the distance.
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I suppose you'd have even fewer nice things to say about iCon, the unauthorized biography, which lacks the sugarcoating present in Isaacson.

Also, no, this isn't Startup News, this isn't Entrepreneur News, this is Hacker News, and I don't think you should discard what that implies about the community.
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As you are from the UK, I will warn you. Every news you read from a British source should be cross-checked with another source (just so you have another take on it).

Don't get me wrong, I have no animosity toward the UK or anything like this. I also find BBC's reporting to be of very high quality and I watch it daily. However there is total unfairness regarding the Europe thing at the BBC.

Basically I'd sum their coverage as "See what's going on? We told you so!".

That said, I disagree with you regarding the "stay out of the Euro". I now think that it is sad that the UK didn't get more involved in the Europe. The UK is probably the only country that could have weighed enough to get France and Germany to actually implement another management.

Europe is victim of the "small team" problem. It's a small team so it's ok if the two biggest guys manage it hand in hand because everybody's just ok with that and nobody can really challenge them. Problem arise with tougher times like we experience.

You guys should have really pushed us :) My opinion: we needed you to kick us and tell us it's not ok to just take the lead; it needs to be formalized AND democratic.
There are plenty of tools allowing manipulation of Flash too, pausing execution, changing variable values, intercepting network requests...
A low value currency is good for Germany because then Germans get to work hard and send valuable goods to other people?

Wouldn't it be better for Germans to work less and have other people send valuable goods to them?
I think the real take away should be that we are all flawed as human beings. No matter what we do, how much we achieve, how great we become, we are still human and very imperfect.

There are certainly some detestable people on this earth, I wouldn't put Steve Jobs in that category even if I didn't agree with his treatment of others. There are much worse people out there, he simply had many faults.

I think its good you don't want to be like Steve Jobs, be yourself. If you hold yourself to a high standard of morality, even better. But don't judge someone completely based off this book, its hard to know what someone felt or thought unless you walked in there shoes.

Also, never buying another Apple product is a little short sighted. Jobs, while a great visionary, is hardly everything Apple. There are many many talented, hard working, brilliantly creative people that helped Apple become what it is today. I think it is human nature to want to point to a leader, a genius, "the man". The reality is that these products were created from the collective genius of many, not one person.

Anyways, my two cents.
Despite being 50 years young or so, software still is making the transition from art to science.

You can't recruit for something you don't understand.

- They're not technical
- They're not connectors
- They don't understand the job as being beyond a list of skills
- Education doesn't come close to making up for experience
how did those monkeys get obese? :*(
After reading, I feel motivated to re-read my copy of 'Influence' by Robert Cialdini. Bill Nguyen was really really good at one thing.

Here is a guy who thrives on persuading people. I think the average founder could always use a little more of the same skillset.
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Actually, I don't think System 7 could even run on 1MB Macs.
When I first saw a fully customized WindowMaker in 2002, I thought, "Wow, HollywoodOS does exist!" Back when Linux used to come with several functional desktops, AfterStep and WindowMaker (both clones of NeXTStep) were my favorite, followed by Enlightenment (the only place I've ever seen window buttons on the side of the window).

I can't explain your downvotes...
There's a lot of criticism about raising money, having a high profile team and starting a company without actually having a product. This may turn out to be short sighted. I think Cisco started the same way.

For all his negative qualities pointed out, at least this man is thinking something freaking different than a freaking share button with a varied alias. Color didn't go hit, but its far better than 90% of photo sharing apps out there. It at least does something different.

What these guys are selling is a photo app, what these guys are doing is that they are toying around with possibilities in sensing, VR and localization on mobile. Could very well be huge.
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Hmmm, you want someone to spend 5 days coding for your browser when you could spend 1 minute to upgrade. Nice.
To put a name to it, your using the http://programming-motherfucker.com style/method.
The author should take his own advice more seriously. He links to his companies job postings, which consist of a long list of mostly boilerplate required qualifications, and little to nothing about what the company may have to offer prospective employees.

Not even a hint that they may be interested in the needs of the people they're looking to hire.
It is a lifelong marathon. If you are serious about solving the weight problem, let me suggest a viable long term solution.

Gain muscle mass. Let's say you are 250 pounds and extremely weak. You may hit the gym and burn 200 calories. Gain a large amount of strength, and you suddenly burn 400 calories in the same session.

I haven't encountered a physically fit individual who has struggled to lose weight. However many fit individuals have a hard time maintaining a comfortable weight due to eating habits/will power.

Also a huge problem with the "eat sensibly" concept is the deck is stacked against you in the US. Portions are huge and calorie dense. I would bet you could not maintain your current weight living in Asia.
Nicely done, and good analysis. It's a fascinating problem, isn't it? Simple rules, but an opportunity to approach it several ways and refine the solution.
You want to use the github fork which is still being developed.
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Germany has had a positive balance of trade (a trade surplus, i.e. it exported a lot more than it imported). If Germany had had its own currency (e.g. DM), importing nations would have had to buy DM in order to exchange them for German goods. The demand for DM would have pushed up the price of DM; this would have made importing goods from Germany more expensive.

But with the Euro, other countries in the Eurozone which have had a negative balance of trade (a trade deficit) balanced out Germany, preventing the Euro from appreciating too much. This helped Germany's export sector, helping keep them competitive.

The other issue with the Euro is that Germany's economy was already adjusted for low interest rates; but the introduction of the Euro meant low interest rates in countries which had not historically had them.

Ireland didn't have a big government deficit problem; Ireland's problem was a property bubble driven by reduced rates on mortgages. It only turned into governmental debt when the government guaranteed bank debt, having been convinced by the banking-political cabal in the middle of the 2008 crisis that the bank problem was liquidity, not solvency; but with banks holding assets formed from inflated house prices, they didn't have as much capital as they thought.
It would be interesting to see the per-capita debt additionally to the total debt.
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You raise a great point and honestly my two hypothesis are
1) People would realize that its very valuable to get the opinions of strangers before "wasting" time creating something they think they might want. One could argue that talk is cheap but I'm sure this guidance can lead to very valuable results maybe rethinking the idea or whatever the case.

2) You don't need domain experts in the beginning per se, just a bunch of minds who can quickly determine if they would use or not use a service. The motivation behind domain experts joining in the future might be just to help and give back to the entrepreneurial community (I admit this last point is kinda corny lol)
It's relative currency changes that hurt or help the economy, because that's what forces the rest of the import / export economy to adjust. A currency that increased in value substantially would have reduced global demand for German goods, which would have created unemployment in its export sector, reducing German wealth production until the German economy adjusted. If you asked these unemployed German people if they preferred this new "work less" situation, I expect they wouldn't be as happy with it as you seem to suggest.
Note to mention the infamous JavaScript cryptography and it's problems, and it happens that Flash 11 introduced a secure random number generator for crypto.
Germany wanted to unify; France demanded they give up the DM and enter into a currency union in return. They created it together.
I do think it's a will power thing, or maybe a planning thing. Losing weight is simple - weigh your food, track the calories, and don't exceed your daily calorie limits. People often refuse to do this or cheat when they do, but that doesn't mean it can't be done.

Of course, I don't think there is anything wrong with using technology to have your cake, eat it too, and not get fat.
I was wondering how they managed to get 'sunshine' into the tunnel. http://www.euronews.net/2011/09/16/belgians-trial-green-ceme....

Spoiler => UV lights.
Ask PG: Why do stories stick around longer now?
I feel like stories stick around much longer now. There is currently a 60 point story that has been on the front page for 10 hours. Did the scoring algorithm change?
Sage advice I heard somewhere: "Weeks of coding saves hours of planning."
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I've been through this questioning a few years ago. The conclusions:

1. generate a one-off .js file with a salted hashing function. keep the salt variable in a "private" scope, remove the script from the DOM as soon as it loads or use XHR

2. keep track of game progress and player history, validate scores

3. obfuscate scoring beyond the hashing (false messages, symbols, etc)

4. don't calculate scores on the client, send player positions or something else instead (not possible for most games)

You can go around all of this though. It seems impossible to prevent manipulation completely, you can only raise the effort necessary to accomplish it. In consoles this is solved by closed platforms - PC games are still victim to cheating.

For that project, we ended up doing nothing and manually deleting suspicious scores from the database. Worked fine :)
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Greece is being forced to destroy its economy through pro-cyclical austerity; right at the bottom, when the economy is doing poorly, it is being forced to reduce economic activity further by cutting government spending.

The solution is for the ECB to monetize government debt, and combine that with much tighter fiscal monitoring to ensure it isn't abused; but the ECB is forbidden by treaty from lending to governments and the German public is implacably opposed to changing this.
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Facebook started with $17,000 investment from a friend and was a dorm room project, not a company. When trying to beat someone it is probably a good idea to see how they got to where they are at. Steady growth over time works. Dumping a shit ton of money into something and saying its going to the the "X" killer doesn't.

The laughing stock is not Bill Nguyen, its the VC's that gave him the money. If you walk in a room and say Color and they laugh, they should really be embarrassed. How many of these same people wanted to get in on this deal before it launched? The really funny thing is that there will be someone else that comes in with a great deck and grand illusions of how they will be the next Facebook, the VC's will pump this person with money too.
That is why VCs never really say no, because if you do start turning into the next Facebook in the months after you meet them, they want to be able to come back and say 'ye, remember us, sure, we would love to invest!'

I had this happen to me first hand, more than once. When raising money ~5 years ago a high profile VC stopped replying to my emails. Around 2 years later when I was associated with a high-profile project he emailed me out of the blue and asked me up to lunch. As we sat down with coffee, I said to him 'I haven't talked to you in a while, this whole time I thought you thought that I suck'. He laughed and said 'ye we decided not to invest in that'.. urgh. I found it funny and we talked about VCs not saying no for the first 10 minutes.

I continued to make light of it and at the end of that meeting after talking about a number of projects, I said 'I will take 7 days of no email as a no'.
It is simple like walking from New York to Florida and back, over and over, is simple. You just put one foot in front of the other.
Here is a related link from the WSJ, essentially saying that French banks are reducing their exposure to Greek debt (and to other governments as well):

http://blogs.wsj.com/source/2011/11/08/french-banks-pleasing...
You missed my point entirely. Even if Flash has the same blacklist as Firefox/Chrome, it has a high-performance software implementation, meaning you can hit the entire market with Flash 11. Until IE gets WebGL, everyone out there updates their drivers, and the Intel GMA950 is no longer the top video card, WebGL just isn't ubiquitous enough.
maybe thats true in some cases for steve jobs, but that doesn't have to be true for you. there are no rules. start a company where people would go the length of the world making sure that they accomplished every minute detail of what you had asked, to perfection by not yelling or demeaning them . . . it's possible. move things forward. steve (and others) have shown the world that you can use aggression to motivate folks, show the world that you can use an even-temper. nothing's holding anyone back. nothings written in stone.
Of course there's always Wolfram|Alpha.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=David%2C+John
I'd bet not many, but I suspect there's a fair number of people who never amass a life's savings because of it.

A quick back-of-envelope calculation shows my mom having spent at least 100 grand on lottery tickets (and that's just 20 years of playing), and she's still basically living paycheck to paycheck.
This article is a bit of an emotional roller-coaster. Some parts make me laugh, other parts make me want to cry. Lol.
No, he is implying some startup will do what IBM, Microsoft and Facebook can't. Historically speaking, this is a decent analogy. After all, Facebook did what Microsoft and Google couldn't. Apple did what IBM couldn't.
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Do you really think Steve Jobs, a man obsessed with his legacy, would authorize a hatchet job?
While I strongly support the crowdfunding bill, I do get nervous about the argument that says "regulations should not protect people from the risks of their own decisions." Because as we well know, people are not perfect (or even good) reasoners; and in particular, investments are a case where, absent regulation, there is one set of people with a huge financial incentive to deceive a second set of people by any means necessary. And in such cases I think one has to be careful about "allowing" the second set of people to act freely on the bad information the incentives will ensure they receive.
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There are devices I may want to access email on.

And there are the devices on which I get shit done.

Mail app on my phone, with filter rules, keeps most of the useful stuff front and center.

It's trivial enough to copy an ~/.offlineimaprc and ~/.muttrc across Linux systems (or Macs FWIW) for everything else.

Sure, if I absolutely need to I can log into Gmail through a web interface on another system. With user/pass auth, that means, though, that I'm extending my security envelope to include whatever exploits that machine may have. Given I've got the Internets in my pocket these days, that's pretty much never necessary.
When I started out, a Hacker was an electronics or computer enthusiast. Steve Jobs was a hacker, though overshadowed by Woz, of course. I am as well. I watched as the media took that innocent word, with its origins in the MIT student railroad club (see Steven Levy's Hackers) and twisted it to mean "people who break into computers and cause chaos". From reading PG's writings, it appears to him the word means technology enthusiasts, and I'm fine with that expansion. I'm well aware that there's an ideological movement out there that has been around for about a century that sees the labor of muscles as the only thing to value and that devalues the labors of the mind. This movement is incompatible with hacking, which is intrinsically an effort of the mind.
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You're saying his way was the only to motivate people?
Pretty funny how the ones that didn't hit big are the ones that are still hard to explain in 10 seconds. Attention economy and semantic web.
Interesting. The assertion here is that violent crimes is a coercive measure used by gangs to maintain a monopoly, when enables them to become price setters through inducing artificial scarcity.
He should stay in sales then. Without a meaningful vision, all the sales in the world is just bullshit talking.
And the "yellow box" stuff had already been ported to run on top of Windows NT, which probably suggested those layers were pretty loosely coupled to the rest of the NeXT OS, and might be easier to integrate with Mac OS or whatever they came up with.
Honestly, I don't really care about how good Apple products are or how innovative are. I don't use them, I don't hate them either. It's just not for me. My beef with apple is how they felt entitled to control the devices that apple made but consumers own, making them unhackable.

When I buy something, I own it, period. I should be able to reverse engineer anything on the market, because I obtained the copy.

I don't give a damn about how much Apple have in its bank. Google is fucking rich too. But, if Apple win the mobile war, we are screwed as far as freedom and ownership is concerned.

I very much respect Steve Job for his ability to build a company and innovate, but it doesn't mean that he get to choose the models that damage our freedom in the long run.

I don't really care about how inferior Android is to the Iphone. I use it, and if necessary, I can extend it without permission from Google.

We are hackers. What is it that we do? We hack things and make it better. Apple doesn't want us to modify the phone that we own and make it better. Excuse me?

Does it not concern you that Apple exhibit control freak behaviors regarding iphone? What if it dominate the market and crush all competitors? This is the kind of level that you don't even see in microsoft regarding window operating system.

If android dominate and crush iphone and apple tomorrow, that is fine with me. Somebody can alway polish their own android version and make it like the magical apple products that I hear so much about.

Steve Job was not a hacker.