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I couldn't go deeper into debt if I tried! My past kind of killed my credit. But I hear you on the American Dream. I certainly don't buy it. I just want a nice life, a loving family, and satisfying career. I do what I do out of passion, not for money. Im not about to delude myself into thinking I'll be a self-made millionaire one day. No one is really self made. Its always a team effort. But in any case, the idea is to get nice and stable, then reevaluate the situation and aim higher if it makes sense.
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Indeed. What I wonder is how they decided that they'd come out ahead on this one.

Did they really think it'd be cheaper for them to pull this shady stuff? I'm almost certain that firing the alleged under-performers, including the subsequent cost of the inevitable wrongful termination suits, would be desirable over the shit storm they chose to stir up.
What caught my eye about that story was the transpacific communications, since the dateline was Nov. 10, 1911. Looking it up on Wikipedia, the first transpacific cables were laid in 1902 (transatlantic in 1986), so getting a cable from Nanking was still a recent development. I know 1911 wasn't the stone age, but I have a healthy respect for what they were able to accomplish with the technology they had at the time.
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Meanwhile I've seen and heard of plenty of personal assistants (nobody uses the term secretary any more) share in the upside of the company through substantial annual bonuses. Often these come directly from their boss's personal funds.
A great PA, and a great person in any position, will make everyone's life better, and help the people on the front line perform to their capability.
xubuntu isn't really a perfect replacement for gnome2 for reasons I've mentioned elsewhere here.

After installing Ubuntu 11.10 I spent the best part of a day setting up my desktop and getting it to a stage with Xfce which I felt was 'only slightly more crap than my experience with 10.10'
Perhaps they should look to the legion of flash applications whose hover-based interfaces were dubious at best on desktops and would have been fully unusable on touchscreen devices.
I'd suggest learning, minimally, algorithms and complexity (for instance, at the level of Dasgupta, Papadimitriou, and Vazirani).
For anyone who's thinking of using Ruby I recommend OilyPNG instead of RMagick. It's a c extension to ChunkyPNG and is much faster if you don't need all of the fancy filters that come with ImageMagick.

https://github.com/wvanbergen/oily_png
Not trying to be rude here, but what happens when the work is no longer interesting? You abandon it? Much of the work I find needs to be done - even on "cool" projects - is decidedly uninteresting (refactor XYZ, etc).

While the offer is genuine, and I'm sure you'll get some offers, I just can't help thinking that a few weeks down the line the honeymoon will wear off. Nothing wrong with that, but everyone needs to prepare for that.
I love the Facebook stream comparison. I've thought about that before. It's something we should all remember when the going gets tough.
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I've tried it before on a previous project of mine, and the results were pretty bad. Many users walked away because it wasn't obvious why we needed access to any of their Facebook information--we weren't asking for any permissions until much later in the relationship, but users still balked.

There weren't any great ways to notify a user and it was unnecessarily hard to allow users to interact with people for whom they new an email address but weren't friends on Facebook.

I think your best bet is to encourage users to create an account on your site/app directly (perhaps with a Facebook/Google option), and then later link it to Facebook once they understand the benefit to them of doing so.
It takes a lot of effort to configure an ssh client to be sure.
"I search my e-mails every now and then, but not nearly enough to justify the large search bar. Ditto with Gchat - MMS and Facebook have replaced IM as far as I'm concerned."

Aside from disagreeing with that last sentence entirely, I see Gchat as being less obstrusive with the new look than with the old one. What used to be a semi-collapsible widget can now be reduced to a single icon on the lower-left.
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I completely agree.
And so far we are missing the two other points - fairness and fun.
It's simply the right thing to do to get everyone onto the bus, to let everyone share in the upside of a start-up. Sure the amounts of options can vary between employees, but it's just not fair to be stuck on a salary while everyone else around you gets millions from an exit.

The second reason is fun. Isn't it a whole lot more fun to come to work where everyone has a stake in the company? Wouldn't it be wild fun if your company did an exit or IPO and everyone came to work with a huge smile on their face?

For the sake of giving up a little bit of founder equity we can create an environment that is not only a lot more fun to be in, but is potentially life-changing for everyone and their families. Thinking anything else can lead to the situation that Wall Street is in now.
I probably shouldn't have used the 'left' adjective. But that expression results in an unproductive recursion (unproductive meaning that no characters are consumed through each cycle) analogous to what happens when you recursive-descent parse a context-free grammar containing left-recursive productions.
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The biggest lesson I've learned in life is that you never truly shed your fear until you've fallen to the very bottom.

The bottom is scary because it's unknown. Once you know what it's like to fail in such a colossal fashion that it ruins everything you've strived towards for years, it's not so bad, and not so scary after all. And as a result, you gain a much more balanced ability to assess risk, and become quite fearless in the eyes of others who have not had such an opportunity. It's a huge advantage.
Superficially thoughtful? I grant you, that kind of stuff happens a lot, but in my opinion, that isn't what happened here. This guy makes a lot of solid points:

-There IS a lot more wasted space in the new interface. Bad.

-The new button designs ARE a lot less clear and DO take up more space. Bad.

-The information density, crucially, is much lower, without any corresponding gains to make up for it. Bad.
A bigger problem for me is not the visual separation, but that there are functional, but invisible, frames in the layout. The header doesn't scroll, while the left sidebar and the main content scroll separately. So, in the middle of the whitespace there's a place where scrolling changes from scrolling the left panel, to scrolling the main content.

Without the line delineation, I found myself with the mouse hovered over the left column trying to move the main content and wondering why my scroll wasn't working. If you have tall enough content in the left sidebar a (non-standard) scrollbar appears (sometimes). But if you don't have content there, or aren't moused-over the correct areas, you don't get any indication of what's happening.

If the page was a normally scrolling page with no frames, the whitespace is not terrible to me. The way the page functions, it needs the 1px frame that Google+ has.
You think people will not switch to ubuntu because there is a "start" menu? Something that has been present in windows since 1995?

I've said this before, but there are bigger problems than the UI of the main desktop. I think gnome2 is a surprisingly usable desktop , I remember when it was an infact that it was slow and buggy but the hard work has paid off and overall it's one of my favorite UIs on any platform due to it's speed and flexibility.

I don't think learning gnome2 would be a big put off for many people anyway, since it's similar enough to Windows XP which more people have experience with than newer UIs anyway.

Imagine if the time and resources spent developing Unity had been spent instead on more thorough hardware testing, fixing remaining issues in gnome2 or creating new applications for users that would make a Linux desktop a compelling choice.

I don't see what unity does that helps me be able to recommend Ubuntu it to less technical family & friends.
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poor analysis like this makes the mistake of observing ones own environment and then extrapolating it to the whole world.
Signed up 10 seconds in to the video, looking forward to trying it out.
I personally think that programming should be taught hand in hand with math in school so that students actually understand the logic behind what they are learning. Right now all they are doing is memorizing formulas and equations to pass their class.
It's easy to implement, removes friction if you're developing a social app. However, you become reliant on facebook, search around and you'll find stories about developers having apps banned, etc. Also, if your app is not social, and there is no clear reason to integrate with facebook, users may be hesitant to use it.
I think you should take it as an axiom that if the major labels don't have anything viable that they can lock up, there won't be anything that they stay significant in.

So long as terrestrial radio matters, they can parlay their ownership of that channel into many other offerings.

But one by one, the things that major labels maintain structural advantages in are falling into irrelevance.

One day, and it won't be long from now, the last relevant thing that major labels own will fade into irrelevance. And then all the other things that major labels "do" will be "done" by lots of other companies, more agile companies, companies that focus on just those things. And that'll be the end of the major labels.

This isn't exactly insightful stuff, is it? I feel like you can pull case studies about it from the history of 20th century business.
If I am not mistaken this was the essence of the (fictional) 'blotto box'. The recipe entailed hooking a power generator into a phone trunk line and taking out the majority of a subdivisions phone circuits. I was written up in many of the phreaker/anarchy text mags that were popular at the time, but I never heard of anyone actually trying it. I'm also pretty sure the authors were not aware of things like fuses...

Brings back fond memories though.
The labels still have one very vital function - marketing. While it's true there are great musicians out there who are also marketing geniuses, most of them aren't. There is always going to be a number of people involved in helping a musician's career. You can call that group whatever you want. Right now it's called a "label".
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It's really, really hard not to be cynical about this, given that Greenpeace's ship Rainbow Warrior (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior). Given the tiny size of the fine relative to EDF's cash flow, one could cynically guess that the two EDF "security staff" that got sacked for doing this were just losers in some weird, inside-EDF corporate power play.
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The advantage of using Ubuntu even for "power users" is the level of support available.

Since it has such a large share of the Linux desktop market it's easy to find solutions for most of your common Ubuntu problems.

I don't really want to go back to the days when everyone used a different distribution where if you had an obscure problem and used google for a solution you would come to a page describing how to fix it in another distro with a completely different package management system and where the contents of /etc were completely different.

I remember posting questions on the forums of various distributions relating to problems I was having just seeing them go unreplied to in perpetuity.
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I'm not suggesting that Steve Albini is suddenly going to become a merchandising genius, only that Warner Music can't monopolize music marketing talent. Small firms will have a hard time getting a foothold in retail music, but as retail music starts to matter less, more small firms will enter the market to start bidding down the price of "marketing" and "promotion".
Love how simple it is, agree on the color scheme-- the yellow is hard on the eyes, "export" button lacks contrast.

What about adding a feature to dump the data into a google doc instead of sending an email?
I do not understand this entire discussion. He joined Google, got early stock options that ended up being worth a lot. Good for him. Where is the problem? The system worked.
When I was a kid, I'd load executables into a text editor or hex editor to see what was inside.

So did I. I got stuck on a text adventure that came on a magazine's cover disk so I cracked open the executable to see what verbs I could use.

It had lots of swear words it could detect (which I recognized) including "c--t" (which I didn't recognize). In a matter of fact way I asked my parents, "What does c--t mean?" I seem to recall the magazine sending us a free copy of Wing Commander shortly thereafter ;-)
This seems like it would be a cool side project but I could never imagine myself actually using it. I'm not really into "social" things anyways (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) so this is just another solution to a problem that doesn't exist (for me at least). I'd like to see more people solving real problems like Cake Health and Farmigo out of TC Disrupt earlier this year.

It's a pretty good looking app though.
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How big is the demand for applications that run on hundreds of thousands of cores? I can think of a few things, like weather prediction, but is this really a sizable market?
I think the underlying (and completely unsolvable) problem boils down to user experience. There are myriad flash apps out there with atrocious hover-state-based interfaces that are annoying on PC, and would be completely unusable on a touch screen device. Activating flash on a mobile device would open the floodgates to countless apps that simply wouldn't work, without providing context to the user as to why they don't work. In such a situation, it is simpler to control the user experience by simply not allowing flash.
To be fair , whilst it's not the most attractive distro out there it does have allot of usability improvements over Windows 2000. For example the compiz grid which provides the 'aero snap' type functionality of windows 7 as well as decent application search as well as applets etc.
I think Windows Vista is probably closer than Windows 2000.
Yes and no. Some people call ablaut verbs irregular, but almost all of them are in fact regular. They only seem irregular because there are relatively few of them left to group together [1]. But I'm not aware of any language with a single pattern of conjugation. Many have 10 or more.

1. Ex.: Drive-drove-driven, write-wrote-written, ride-rode-ridden, etc. While they follow a different conjugation pattern, most ablaut verbs are perfectly regular.
Granted, I live by myself outside the Valley so I might be missing something but how does having a pretty room matter at all to someone working at a startup? I mean, if you're at the office 90 hours a week I'm sure a tastefully hung and well framed work of art will not help you sleep any better nor will it affect your code for better or worse. Perhaps it's just not my style, but I presume people at a startup have better things to thing about than what hooks to use on their wall.
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Well if we're looking at it like that, would it really matter if somebody did do a `rm -rf /` as root? I can't imagine it'd take him more than a few minutes to redeploy.
Much. There are no visa requirements to enter the ship.

See http://blueseed.co/faq.html#visa for more details.
I've had a DS now for a number of years, as have many people, and I observe that I've done an enormous number of things with it that would not have been possible with my big fingers. To the extent nobody sees a use for styli, is that because they are really useless, or because right now every program you use has been optimized for the fact that you're just sort of jabbing at the screen?

By no means should a cell phone require one, but there are vistas opened by styli that we may want to explore after the novelty of "holy cow, tablets! they finally work!" has worn off.
Correct. This is also detailed at http://blueseed.co/faq.html#visa

By comparison, the US granted 3.8 million business visas in 2010, vs. only 117,000 H-1Bs. (Note that H-1B visas don't let you work for your own startup.)
I really wish the media included links to the FAQs for both Blueseed and Seasteading.

http://blueseed.co/faq.html

http://www.seasteading.org/about-seasteading/frequently-aske...
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I don't know why it's taken so long to get on my nerves, but yeah, going from Gmail to native Mac apps really feels like going from a 7" netbook to a full size laptop.
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Exactly.

If icons are the answer, why don't we use hieroglyphics everywhere?
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In a world where the web exists, YouTube, all these video and audio sharing websites and tools, I'm not sure the notion of a major music company is needed anymore. Make music, record it, put it out there, be findable, if it's any good, people will like it, share it, trade it and generally find out about it. At most, artists may want to sign up with some company to help promote themselves, but as a general rule, quality will win out in the end. May just take time. On the other hand, if you get lucky you can go viral quickly. Just have a monetization channel active and ready. And there are tons of self-service ones now, not just for the music itself but for related products/media like posters, t-shirts, etc.
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It would still be nice to be come back, say, a year later, and see if the UI concerns still hold up. There were a lot of solid complaints about the Facebook news feed right when it launched, too.
Hard not to be cynical given that the Rainbow Warrior...what? More generally what is there to be cynical about? Should we be cynical about the integrity of the french court?

In France are damages related to the cash flow of an organization? If not what is the connection between the fine and the cash flow?

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I think "multiple machines" may also mean your friend's computer. Are you going to insist that he install PuTTY just so you can check your mail? Because god forbid you'd want to use a browser there, or at the library, or at work where SSH outbound is blocked, etc.
> This same reasoning, I think, applies to the question of why CEOs get paid such astronomical salaries.

That I'm much more skeptical of, especially seeing how things have transformed recently. I think a lot of it boils down towards a principal/agent problem, where top executive ranks have been captured by an in-group that hires each other. This is true even in universities; when a university is looking for a President, the search committee, made up of high-up university execs, looks at other university execs. This leads to an artificially restricted supply pool as execs hire each other (often, literally, since the execs are on each others' boards). Sometimes the pay is even formalized; they want to pay "competitive market rate", often defined as something like 10% above average, which leads inevitably to an upward wage spiral, since by definition everyone can't pay 10% above average. When political backlash results, they just quote the policy.

I don't think it's necessarily conscious nefariousness, either, but more of a cultural thing: they really do think that their social peers are the only people who could possibly do the job, regardless of whether they have evidence for that, and they really do think that they and their peers are worth the money that they're voting themselves.

At the very least, the opposite hypothesis---that they earn their pay by providing shareholder value---has been extremely hard to show empirically. There is, if anything, a slight negative correlation between CEO pay and shareholder returns. Tellingly, at closely held companies where a family or relatively few people personally control the company rather than diffuse set of shareholders, CEO pay tends to be much lower, after adjusting for the company's size. The hypothesis of what to make of that correlation is that when owners are vigilant, as in closely held firms, they don't pay CEOs as much, because they don't believe that the CEOs aren't worth that much. When owners are asleep at the wheel, though, you get the HP case--- pissing away tens of millions on ineffective CEOs' golden parachutes.
Wow. Why in the world would you post this as a founder? It's like saying, "Watch out, anyone who works for Earbits, I'm a big fan of screwing people out of options!"
Well-written and concise. And not a typical topic for HN. Yet still related.
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You're seriously proposing writing string manipulation code in C and plugging that into Erlang? And then telling other people (after quite well reasoned answers obviously based on actual experience) that they don't know what they're doing?

Have a downvote.

There are plenty of good solutions for concurrency. Erlang is one of them. Other message passing actor model solutions are another. Clojure would be another. Using Java's excellent concurrency libraries would be another. Go is reputedly another, although I haven't used it. There is no magic bullet, but there are plenty of good tools of different types.
They really need to get game makers on board. Having the ability to transfer and play games from a phone to the tv would be a pretty awesome thing.
I don't really like the idea of buying another external box. When I heard they were building these boxes I scratched my head and said, why? That is so 1990's. I already have a computer for that and can hook it up to my flat screen TV.

Now, Google TV embedded on a flat screen TV, that is interesting, no external components/boxes to deal with. My next Flat screen TV will have Google TV. Is like buying a computer and a TV. I will certainly be looking to build Apps for it once I get one.

A huge market for this will be for people that just want to chat/interface (or play games) with other people and for that they don't really need a computer.
Good luck with that. Has there ever been a case of successfully suing a VC for idea theft?
Any chance of seeing some of the source, or maybe just a quick technical blurb on what kind of things you've used and how?
This is really neat. It would be great to see things like this integrated into tools like codecademy so they could spread.
I should clarify a bit, all of the pre-IPO, pre-exit companies I worked for. With Marriott it followed a typical vesting schedule but that is a totally different animal. A fortune 100 and a start-up are apples to oranges when it comes to how options are dealt with. But it sounds to me like some companies are using a more "big company" traditional option grant scheme. I would never sign up for the same contract I took with Marriott with a start-up, totally different issues and risks to use an options contract like that.
Canonical should just start a new parallel line, GNUbuntu for the GNOME desktop (not to be confused with anything GNU-related).