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I'm not certain a soldier deserves more respect than a doctor, teacher, fireman, policeman or engineer. I'm not even certain a soldier gets more respect than many of those occupations listed. Soldiers do not ask for respect. It is given to them. I don't know why, but let me throw out a few possibilities:

1. It's a national holiday. This draws national attention to the sacrifices made - even in post WWII invasions. Perhaps, more than any other career, more lives have been lost, or negatively mentally/physically altered, by military members. I don't know the stats here - so it's an assumption.

2. Maybe it's related to the sacrifices made by soldiers. I'm not limiting this to just the soldiers that get killed or seriously wounded either. Are you aware that lower ranking enlisted members (the majority that will do 3 to 5 years and then get out) are at, or very near, poverty level? They don't do it for the money.

3. People admire/respect bravery. This goes for police officers and firemen too. This, I think, is why a lot of women like a "man in uniform."

4. Many American families have lost loved ones in wars dating back a long way. They recognize the sacrifices their ancestors made for the country. These memories and feelings carry forward generations.

I was writing this response before jboydyhacker chimed in.

So to address your latest comments:

1. Soldiers don't always agree with the battle they are fighting.

2. You shouldn't respect anyone unless you respect them. If your choice is to not respect a soldier, that's your right!

3. It's quite likely if an Afghani hacker who joined the Taliban wrote the article mentioned that it would get great press - somewhere. Maybe not here, but somewhere. Had I written this particular article, it would not have made front page. In fact, it would not have received 3 upvotes. People respect the GOOG as much as they respect the soldier. Combine the two, and...this is what happens. There - your engineer just got some respect! ;-) I will bet my next paycheck that if an Afghani hacker joined the Taliban and then came to America, worked for GOOG and published the article referenced - yes, it will make it to the front page of HN.

4. I am at war against my company's competition every time I try to convince someone our software solution is better than the alternative. I believe in what I try to sell. If I went to one of my competitors tomorrow, I'm sure I would fight just as hard for them. Does that translate to an answer for your Viet Cong argument?
I think you're correct in that blaming google isn't the answer, clearly there is much wrong with the device which compromised it's commercial success.

However what logitech's response is demonstrating is that Google can't get the backing of their partners to endorse the product, which is a sure sign that it's not just logitech at fault here. Google should be looking out for the hurdles which will prevent the success of the product, many of which you've listed.

- Various file formats and the likelihood that these can't all be played, google can do more to sure up content providers, similar to how apple enticed youtube to cross convert videos to mpeg4. Google can't take the attitude that "it'll all be alright".

- Google are failing at signing up studios, the main content providers and the entire reason why the average consumer would be purchasing this product.

- Launching premature products, it's arguably an attempt at being in the race rather than having a genuine interest in studio content. This car has no wheels, and google lacks experience when dealing with content providers. (Not everything can be obtained by search.)
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"Do we (or should we) unequivocally respect anyone who risks their lives for a "higher" cause?"

Sure. I think one can acknowledge the value of a sacrifice without necessarily agreeing with the cause which motivated that sacrifice.

In a more civilized time (in some ways) men used to pay their respects to fallen enemies as well as fallen friends. I remember stories where American servicemen in the navy would salute dead kamikaze pilots. On one level, they absolutly hated those pilots and with good reason. And yet, on another level, they respected that they were fellow soldiers who willing to die for their country as well. I think it's important to remember that everyone, even those who might want to harm us or we might need to harm, are human too.
Take a look at Brian's blog post that goes through what is coming on this front: http://www.brianbondy.com/blog/id/125/
I work right in the flight path of a major airport. Planes overhead all day long. Now I can tell where they're going. Too cool.
Mostly good points (except one see below). Thank you.

fwiw it was a genuine question. I am not trying to be anti American, anti US army etc. I am very pro American in real life and get flak for that attitude hereabouts.

I was just puzzled to wake up in the morning and find a fairly content-lite article on the front page of HN. It does happen occasionally, but this one felt really weird to me.It doesn't say anything particularly interesting (imo). Other cultures are different and working with a diverse set of people teaches you tolerance? Well duh.

Fwiw I suspect what Dan really learned from the war will be discussed only over drinks with his fellow soldiers and not on any public forum.

"I am at war against my company's competition every time I try to convince someone our software solution is better than the alternative."

I suspect using the word "war" as a substitute for "competition" obscures the point. Reductio ad absurdum that means every investment banker (say) is a soldier and so worthy of respect.

"If I went to one of my competitors tomorrow, I'm sure I would fight just as hard for them. Does that translate to an answer for your Viet Cong argument?"

No :). Because my point was not on whether the Vietnamese soldier fought for his country as hard as the American soldier would do for his. That is a given (or close enough).

I am not sure if a Vietnamese (or Afghan or whoever) wrote such a content free article, it would get upvoted so heavily. It seemed to me ( I freely admit I could be wrong) that the upvotes for this article stemmed from some kind of patriotic impulse than because its content was intellectually stimulating, or even relevant to the community.

I am (or was) surprised at this (imo very content lite) article being on the front page of HN and getting so many upvotes and (perhaps unjustifiably) attributed it to the (imo) excess respect Americans have for their military.

Your reply helps me understand better. Thank You.
Porn isn't a killer app for anyone, it already has a saturated path to consumers.

A killer app has to be something unique that demonstrates the devices unique ability over other technology.

It's trivial to browse to a porn site on my phone, I can do it privately and without the universal access of what is essentially bookmarked porn sites on a machine located in arms reach of anyone who visits my home.
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You say you've been programming for 9 years. You're 19 or so. That does not equate to true 9 years of experience, compared to say someone who's been working professionally for that long at a 9 - 5 job.

I find it amusing how you penny pinch on day to day food purchases, keeping track of it all in a notebook, but then expect to get hundreds of thousands of dollars of VC money.

I'm far from an expert in this but I don't see how you'd get funding unless you have a really great idea. It's cool how you can create a site really quickly though.
dude, you're a hustler - somehow i don't think this minor setback is gonna slow you down.
There is quite a bit I would love to change about college including:

Not attending right out of HS, and instead working at a customer-service intensive job to increase my social skills and learn the value of money. There are too many students living off of loans, and believing that college is a 4 year vacation.

Not wasting so much time in college. 4-5 years is a humungous time investment. Some places you can get a BA/MS in almost the same time.

I would have completed an AS in math or physics first, and then tried to get into berkley/caltech/ivy.

Spending too much time talking about politics/religion/philosophy with the liberal arts kids.

Majoring in molecular biology rather than math/physics & minor in molecular biology. I have learned programming on my own time.

Trying to do a start-up the summer before I started the hardest classes.

*Not joining a (relatively sane) fraternity.

Now I am attempting to go from Life Sciences -> mathematical biology vs physics/math -> mathematical biology.
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I'm looking at the page visibility API. On one hand, I can think of a dozen ways it could be useful. On the other hand, images in my head of interstitials pausing while they are in the background is enough to kill someone. (I prefer not to use adblock, oddly enough.)
Except that it is extremely useful as a powerful calculator for students and professionals doing technical things, and in the process of being very handy teaches people mathematica notation. Just because it's not necessarily aimed at the average person doesn't mean its not aimed at anyone.

I expect Wolfram alpha has done a lot to drive sales of mathematica.
"... Some guy I've never heard of it has a secret idea ..."

Bert Rutan is one of those Apollo inspired aero-engineers. A product of the 60's space race which inspired people to become pilots, astronauts and engineers. You might not know of his work as a test pilot of the MD F4 [0] but every geek & nerd knows, or should know, he is responsible for the design & building of SpaceShipOne. [1]

Rutan is to commercial space travel what Von Braun was to Apollo.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burt_Rutan#Life_and_career

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceShipOne
Care to share some of your work? I'm curious, and your company website does not seem to be up at the moment...
flightaware.com has allowed you to do this for years...
hey thanks for your comment! so yea definitely those years of coding experience aren't the same as working full time at a job for 9 years I never claimed that it was. but I would still argue that it's significant experience given that I've consistently coded almost every week if not every day during that time.

about the penny-pinching - I think doing so means I'm more attractive as an investment because I'm unlikely to waste the money given to me.

and about the idea I think I could get funded with a good idea, but traction and revenue trumps idea. I'm not really actively looking for investment at this point anyway, just to build awesome things that people want to pay for.
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Oh. Hey, I remember you! I got rejected with you guys! (At that same bar, with the Plurchase fellow.) This is a small forum indeed.

Just one piece seems missing from this article. If you're not doing Adeptley.com - what are you doing now, and do you regret not doing Adeptley?
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There are a lot of unknown variables here that makes this question difficult to answer. As such, I'll throw out a few things that come to my and hopefully that'll help you make a decision.

You should ask yourself, which company/team/idea you like more. Ultimately if neither have an edge over the other and you like both, then you can skip this but if one has a bigger interest, it should be considered. Working for a startup for most you people is about the experience, the education that comes out of it, and being surrounded by people you love working with. And you ultimately want to be happy with the idea and culture.

Next, I think the best advice I can give is, when possible, don't make your decision base on financial weight. There are times when that matters and times when it doesn't. If $10k is negligible and having insurance isn't a big deal for you, go with the option that makes you happier. You could always negotiate the extra $10k saying you have another offer, and see what they say. Nothing wrong with that. It's more about the approach of how you bring it up to not screw up the offer.

As someone else said, what about living in a nearby city you like and commuting? Keep in mind there are a lot of other variables I'm probably not thinking about off the top of my head.

The only solid thing I can tell you is that from experience, not every career choice you make is the way you think it is. Some times something crappy turns out be great and sometimes the thing you thought was great turns out crappy. The only way to know is to experience and take your best guess. Weigh the options and if one choice seems to be bothering you more i.e. location is a huge issue, go with the lower income but stick with the happiness (of course focus on the above factors I mentioned and others I didn't mention).
These are the performance stats from the Wikipedia page for the U2 spy plane:

Maximum speed: 434 knots (500 mph, 805 km/h)

Cruise speed: 373 knots (429 mph, 690 km/h)

Range: 5,566 nmi (6,405 mi, 10,300 km)

Service ceiling: 70,000+ ft (21,300+ m)

Flight endurance: 12 hours

Not known for their affordability, cushy interiors, or convenient parking. But reaaal easy to fishbowl, and if you have the means to be commissioning Burt Rutan you can probably afford a pretty wide hangar.
If we're forcing physical metaphors, I think it's more like finding a stack of 47000 briefcases in an alley somewhere. Unattended, no signs or anything. Opening a bunch of them to just see if people's stolen documents are inside seems reasonable in that case.
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Perhaps, the best way to fight against someone stealing your idea is to release your code as open source.
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Interesting perspective on the fluidity of the chain of command. I think the stereotypical view of military life is that you "just follow orders", orders that are spelled out down to the last detail, rather than "Go solve this problem, and I trust you to figure out the best way to do it".
It would be wiser to say this about the OP, which looks around nearby and proclaims "All programming is web programming".
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At my startup, we spent months successfully developing a regression analysis based model to accurately and fairly price diamonds. With the goal of disrupting the retail diamond market, we built two free online tools that take advantage of this tech.

Our test advertising campaigns brought in a good deal of extremely high quality traffic (5minutes average time on site, <20% bounce, 10+ pages per visitor) - except that we saw little to no increase in brand awareness following the 2 month campaign. Our traffic returned to previous levels when we stopped advertising.

We've since tried improving our 'natural seo' and have moved up in the ranks for related search terms on google. While we've made progress in terms of ranking, our traffic figures still place the speedometer firmly in the 'without traction' zone.

How do we best use the technology we've built?

Do we return to the lab and pivot to a B2B based site targeting industry professionals? Raise capital to market nationwide, and hire a sales team to sell ads at rates better than adsense? Talk to search / tech / diamond industry players and attempt a direct licensing or outright sale? Keep the project on the backburner and wait for a competitor to have success and then copy what they do?

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"There's no divider between the mail contents and the navigation on either side. Too much white space in many areas."

Um, the white space is the divider. This really feels like they're complaining because something changed and no one likes change.
I think the two scenarios are similar, but in the first case, the employee's ability to leave was de-facto -- of course she can leave any time she wants. That's part of the risk the employer takes. But if you want to balance that equation the other direction, that needs to be just as explicit up front. The possibility of a company 'exploding' is precisely the possibility the employee is hoping for. If you want to put a cap on that, fine, just make that cap explicit up front.
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Is it possible to use a stylus on a capacitive touchscreen? (perhaps by ensuring it has the same capacitance as a finger - a small finger).

I found editing maddening on an iPad because of the inaccuracy. You can roll your finger to adjust the cursor position, and the magnifying window helps, but it's not as good as simple cursor keys (disclaimer I was just trying it out in an apple store, so there may be ways around this problem that I don't know of).
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You can also query Wolfram by just saying "Wolfram," e.g. "Wolfram planes overhead". See http://www.tuaw.com/2011/10/28/10-cool-things-you-can-do-wit... for more things you can do with Wolfram and Siri.
Right. I'll start by saying that Foursquare's data team uses Scala. Might be a good fit for you there.
To be honest, I went digging through the "New" tab and found your app. There's a nonzero chance I helped you get to the front page. :P

Anyway, good luck!
Nope, I've started building a procedure solar system generator, and I've found myself on it on a regular basis lately.

Its an amazing resource if you need what it has. So I assume as it keeps expanding I'll use it more and more.
I think it's actually better that it isn't run by the school. Very few teachers would be cool enough to allow their kids to make fun or extremely random stuff (or if a curriculum was designed, it probably wouldn't involve celebrity-inspired Whack-A-Mole). Most programming curricula use contrived exercises and aren't nearly engaging enough for elementary school students. A student-led club on the other hand has the freedom to do anything the kids want.
Hah. Also, the US won't sell you a U2 spy plane (and, even if they would, you might as well get a Gulfstream for that kind of money).

I once saw a quote for an old NASA supersonic trainer (a T-38 Talon) at around $300k, and the civilian very light jets price out around $1-$1.8M, notwithstanding the fact that they aren't actually shipping yet. The problem is that they all have a 1,500 mi range!
I think the biggest problem with wolframalpha.com (besides its hard and long name) is functionality discovery. How am I supposed to know it's possible to measure "plane overheads", even if I am on their site?

Anyhow, from the website usage, it looks like it never took off: http://trends.google.com/websites?q=wolframalpha.com&geo...
0 click install seems to be a pretty good feature to me, you don't have to carry around an .exe file. You can make your web app run as fast as your native app, if most of the data processing happens on a central server anyway.

Of course you can provide more sugar with native apps, no doubt about it, but nowadays web apps can be pretty good, there are exceptionally good tools out there and portability of your app is a really good selling point.
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I was referring to the OP :)

I realize now that my comment may not have come across properly since I replied to a nice rebuttal to OP
This seems ridiculous and unenforceable. Has anybody ever been arrested or charged with working for free?

Apparently Obama is working toward allowing people to work for free in Georgia, at least. I imagine there is some kind of slippery slope toward abuse that is of concern to some people.
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Is just whitespace enough to be considered a real divider? You're eyes can't track it every well in a complicated interface. You need a huge amount of whitespace to work like real dividing line.
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You can. For example, this one by Wacom: http://www.amazon.com/Bamboo-Stylus-for-iPad-CS100K/dp/B004V...

(Disclaimer: I haven't tried it yet. Would be interesting to hear others' feedback.)
I genuinely hope that "someone actually interested in this new phase of water" is on your business card, resume, or at least your Twitter profile.
I'm dying for an accurate stylus for my iPad. I do too many notes and visual mockups that upi epwant more precise that the big rubber blobs give. I'd be willing to pay $50 for this if it lasts and works as advertised.

No luck so far!
I like wolfram but except for a few circumstances it isn't the fastest way of doing anything, for me. It doesn't make the connection that if it has to throw away 90% of the input because it doesn't understand it, then giving a definition of and some charts related to the one word it did understand is not useful. This is especially painful when I'm waiting 30 seconds for the page to load over a slow 3G connection. An "I didn't understand what you asked" box that pops up almost instantly would make wolfram orders of magnitude better, for me at least.
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interesting idea but I am skeptical...the diamond busy is a cartel, market based pricing isn't part of the business model. Not to mention people buy diamonds for aspirational reason so price comparison defeats that purpose. Again, there really is no retail diamond market, there is only the appearance of one. All dealers ultimately answer to de beers!
The smartphone N900 has a very sensitive touch screen and a stylus.
Altough it would be possible to live without it, it would be a big regression.
People just said ohhh that's so old fashioned.
Sinve my phone is not a fashion item but a work horse, I never understood the irrational fashion the drop of the stylus by the fashion industry.
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