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I got a $45 voucher (in the UK; £30) and I spoke to a rep on the phone. He said do this, do that, yet about 2 months later and my spent is £10 for that period! I'm actually disillusioned because I'm not getting enough clicks!

My theory is that Bing is taking more and more clicks away, so I'll have to find another way of promoting my business/projects.
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There are two different things you might mean by "coming here." Hacker News is a pretty good place to learn interesting things, and broadening your mind is always a good thing. In that sense, "coming here" is always fine.

But if we have nothing to contribute beyond ideological ax-grinding, we should just read, not comment or vote.
Let me sketch the exploit, assuming you are not that guy.

Find someone who has done more than one highly impressive thing, prefereably in approximately the same line, who seems high energy and sociable. If they have anything resembling sales experience that's a big plus. One of the best hunting grounds will be in and around universities, as they're full of people with not much money and confidence that's higher than is justified, and some of them will be much more impressive than their age mates. Find one.

Harvest startup ideas by say, looking at previous Show HN posts, or doing a Madlib generator on the Crunchbase DB for X of Y, and look for something that you can build a good story about explosive growth around, or have what you think is a good idea already.

Sell your ambitious young go-getter on your idea, or on you, somehow, and start pitching VCs with your incredible story of wild growth and fantastic riches. Meanwhile iterate on your idea. Pivot if it looks like a good idea, and hope and pray for growth while pitching VCs all the freaking time.

Basically, have an idea that could conceivably grow explosively and have a business guy with previous record of Impressiveness, capacity to Believe in your Great Idea, and the ability to Sell Stuff, including your Awesome Idea.

If you are that guy, and you can program your own mockup and iterate you might be able to get into YC as a single founder.
He has put his finger on some vital characteristics of the 2010 era. I think we could have some absolutely lovely flamewars about the causes and effects of those characteristics, but I really, really can't argue with his observations. I've observed that too, but not verbalized it.
I wouldn't say we're looking at a culture of salesmen. I'd say it's a culture of craftsmen. The salesman prizes negotiation; he does whatever he has to to get his commission. The craftsman focuses on building and presenting his product (and himself) in a way that maximizes the respect he gets from his peers. The difference between salesman and craftsman is subtle, but it's clear. And I think it's a good way to explain elements of youth culture that don't really jive with the article's point (e.g., the OWS movement).
When something goes wrong, are the folks they're reselling to going to come to them, or to you? You might end up playing a two-way game of Chinese Whispers.
I have a similar experience and is in almost exact same situation as you except I just lost my programming job because they have no work for me.
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Sorry, my mistake.

I agree with you, and disagree with all of the quoted statement. IBM did survive the PC even if they got out of the PC business. It's not clear if the "PC guys" are PC makers or those who make software for PCs, but either way they have indeed survived. Especially if you include the Mac ecosystem. And "web guys" will certainly survive the post-PC world. There will be adjustments and adaptations to new environments but great folks at Mozilla and other forward thinkers are ensuring that the web will survive and become a good platform for apps.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G

As is always the case few things ever kill the old technology, they simply provide another way to do things. Native apps are not going away on any platform, and web apps will only get better in the future as the web becomes a better platform for making them. The browser will continue to be one of the most important native apps.
I'm still slowly working my way through GEB. Also reading Ghost Story (Dresden Files #13) for some lighter fare.
This is clearly written by someone who has not interacted much with real-world entrepreneurs. "Agreeable" is not the first word that comes to mind when I think of the entrepreneurs I've met. I'm not saying all entrepreneurs are cantankerous, but I would say they're more inclined to do things "their way."

I also think entrepreneurs are a lot more threatening to the status quo than previous youth-culture archetypes. If you are a recording executive who would you fear most:
1) a drugged out punk rocker who is pissed at the world and letting everyone know it
2) a hacker entrepreneur like Sean Parker.

I think history shows us who the establishment should be more fearful of.
I'm getting increasingly convinced that AdWords is basically a scam. I worked on SEM optimization tools for two companies in the mid-2000s and ROI was great. Then ROI started to erode as the years passed as other players in our vertical entered our space, and as far we could tell, they were either a) just spending to make a huge brand play or b) had some way to monetize 150% than us because their CPCs were literally 150% higher.

My theory is that since SEM is often a separate unit from every other marketing organization in a company, this is what happens: The SEM team sets up an AdWords campaign, get great ROI on terms that contain their company's name or whatever, and crappy ROI on everything else. But the campaigns as a whole are ROI-positive, and because they're all being evaluated on that, no one will ever suggest, "hey, I know our company name is Joe's Widgets and we get great ROI on keywords like 'joes widgets,' but maybe we shouldn't buy that keyword at all because anyone searching for that will also see us as the #1 organic Google result." Because if the SEM team did that then their campaigns would no longer be ROI positive even if the company as a whole would benefit, and working for unprofitable departments is generally not good for your career.

Now I'm working at a company that's a major AdSense publisher and at least once a quarter something happens where we get a huge clawback for "quality issues we can't disclose," or we have to change our implementation, or whatever. It's just totally infuriating and I've realized there must be a lot of people like me who have basically spent their entire career being Google's bitch on the traffic acquisition side or monetization side.

I'm not so worried about monetization, as there is more than one way to make money from the internet besides AdSense. But as far as AdWords, I'm wondering if there's going to finally be some sort of tipping point where the mid-sized companies that have gotten squeezed out of AdWords find some other paid traffic provider that isn't infested by a) huge companies just making stupid brand players and b) small players blowing their $100 credit like what is described by the OP.

What would such a traffic provider look like? They have to be search PPC (again, lots of options for non-search paid traffic), they have to have enough volume, they have to have the technology to combat things like click fraud, and they have to be called something else besides Bing/Yahoo (which unfortunately have all the problems Google does, except less volume and even more terrible advertiser tools/APIs).
Why didn't they use LaunchRock to launch LaunchRock?
Huh, I thought Quarks only existed as triplets.
I recently learned that children can learn sign language before they can even learn to speak. This tells me that, yes, the can probably speak to computers prior to learning to speak to humans.
Look, I agree with you in terms of most of this. However, if there is anything we can learn, it is that eventually the majority will impose their will if they feel ills are being perpetrated. Right now the best thing is to work with the legislators to put in some regulation around education and transparency rather. Otherwise the potential for this type of thing to eclipse Nigerian letter scams could kill the idea altogether, which nobody wants. So it needs to be steered away from sophisticated investor type rules just towards a standard pack of the sort you have to sign off on if you're going to undertake options trading.
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`tidy` also comes out of the box on OS X. It handles HTML too.

tidy -xml -q -i < in.xml | less

etc.
A more relevant link to see the book reading interface: http://www.archive.org/stream/playboybraile00nlsu
Well, not iOS yet.
Can this kind of molecular dynamics simulation by done on a simple desktop machine? What system and software do you recommend if I want to experiment with simulation, starting with this "hello world" project? Do you recommend starting from scratch or using some specialized framework? (For context, I'm a professional programmer and mathematician by training.)
Same thing here. I have felt this new "moral order" but this is the first time I've seen it linked to a salesman persona and used as a token to describe this generation.
I was really into BASIC in school but I wonder if teaching specific technologies such as iPad development or HTML5 really has the same value than sport or music. These things change so fast.
Calling our generation "sellers" has negative connotations, as if we 're super-conformists or sth. If you follow his descriptions, we are the most mature and responsible generation ever: we don't overtly express a futile belief in utopias, we lived the end of communism, we don't reject business, but instead try to infiltrate it with less greed, we don't manipulate people with emotional bullshit (love did not feed the world), we understand that you can change society by not being confrontational (hence we are "selling" ideas rather than screaming them). We don't have a dominant mass culture, which means we are open to micro-cultures, frowning upon the childishness of current-day blockbusters. I don't think Steve Jobs is an idol for us, we don't really have idols and myths, except maybe google.org or wikipedia. It's a good generation.
> The email from HR with the monthly newsletter has the same ability to disrupt your day as the email from your accountant telling you some terribly important financial news.

Was this before things like automatic filters existed?

Not every e-mail has the same interrupting power in my gmail account. Anything in my "notifications" folder is something that can wait a week. Anything in "receipts" is probably just Amazon reminding me that I bought something. "facebook" can basically be completely wiped once a day without any glaring loss.
Sadly enough "entice your friends to sign-up to get an earlier access" is now a cliche. It worked when it was a novelty, but it is something that is being frowned upon now.
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From a business perspective one challenge with reselling is that the reseller "owns" the client.

This could be a risk or not. It depends. Do you currently upsell/cros-sell your customers? Do you have any plans to do so? Would you ever be interested in reselling other companies products/services to your customer base?

How important is your brand? Having more customers can increase the perceived value of your brand. Customers can be a source of future growth through referrals, partnerships, etc.

For example, if one of your reseller's clients really likes your product is that brand value going to accrue to him or you? Or does it even matter in your space?

Sorry I can't be more specific, all I'm offering here are questions. If they prompt a thought or two that helps you negotiate a better deal then that's awesome, if not then I hope I didn't waste too much of your time.
And one cannot critique an experiment?
you can limit your own marketshare if you whitelabel too early in your product's lifecycle. You want market recognition for your product and brand, so make sure you don't shoot yourself in the foot too soon.
You can research this a bit more by googling for 'white labelling' and see what kinds of issues you may come across. I think if you have a good contract in place and work out who is going to be doing the customer service, you might be able to figure something out that works for both of you.

This is one of those instances where it isn't a zero-sum game, and you and the reseller can both benefit.
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re electron: It's probably more accurate to say "size" has no meaning at that scale. Particles turn into waves, spacetime isn't smooth, etc.
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I subscribe to this theory. My rules are: always answer a 'why' question without dismissal, unless it is repeated continuously as a game. Rule 2: always tell the truth, even if it is somewhat over the Childs ability to understand. I do not make things like fairies and magic up, except as an obvious fantasy story, and everything from gravity to stars and farming and manufacturing is explained to the best of my ability. I am constantly told how smart my son is, which I accept graciously, but in my head I like to say - that's because I don't fill his head with superstitious bullshit. One of my clearest memories of childhood was the constant disappointment of finding adults had been feeding me crap for years, either out of laziness or ignorance.
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Why does Travis do for me that Jenkins or Gerrit doesn't?
I didnt really pay much attention to the points regarding commenting style because it seemed like the real point here was the direction java was going in the late 2000's (or more importantly the ideas being sold). In this context, this posting comes together as very insightful and actually resonates with a lot of truth.
You know, as an Irish person living in England, I have to respectfully disagree. If the UK was in the euro, there might actually be a chance of meaningful finanical regulation at a global level, as the City being part of the euro would have made a huge difference to the way this crisis has unfolded.

In addition, the cultural differences are not really that large. Europe has a common fascination with arguments and alcohol, especially the Northern parts (which include Uk, Ireland, Scandanavia, Netherlands and Germany). Historically, there have been huge links between the UK (and ireland) and these countries. To claim that there are these huge differences based on the Eurovision is a little absurd.

That being said, while watching the Eurovision i often find myself regarding them with a mix or horror and bemusement, but thats mostly because they're the kind of people who go on the Eurovision, not because they are of different nationalities.
Reading code is the only way to know what the machine is doing. Good programmers choose to ignore little, because the more they do it, the better they get at it ..
The article presents it like that, but oil companies actually have a huge incentive to make better faster cheaper cleanup, as they have to pay the cleanup costs. I suspect though they are not really paying enough though to incentivise them, and they should pay higher fines for externalities like spills, eg based on amounts of non recovered oil.
Might be me, but w/ my Firefox, sitting in Tel Aviv, I end up with a disabled/grey map of the US of A and a modal dialog box that has no title / a ~crappy~ style and asks me for a US zip code. [1]

Not for me?

1: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1194203/Eventivore.png
I was part of a FIRST team in high school, I think the second year of the competitions. One other friend and I were big into RC cars at the time, and we went in with all kinds of designs for drivetrains, oil-damped suspensions, control linkages, etc.

We had a decent design voice (shock/horror none of our oil-damped suspension designs made it), but essentially zero construction was performed by students in the club. Engineers from our partner org built the chassis from whole cloth using laser-cut polycarbonate and other legit machine tools. We didn't even get to watch that happen...the first rev of the mobility platform just sort of showed up one week.

At the time, my friend and I were really disappointed by that. But we stuck around and I'm glad we did, because it took a TON of teamwork and not-infrequent heroism for all of us to use and improve the robot without destroying it.

Software would have allowed far more room for experimentation and individual tinkering, but the group-social stakes would have always been way lower. Our robot literally had cheerleaders by the time we took it to compete in NH. That mix of fragility, anthropomorphism, weirdness, size/heft...can embody weeks of teenage group effort in a way that even a wicked-sweet app just can't.

So merits on both sides, I guess. And hey, app-controlled robots? Boom.
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True, but if anyone at Pixar was going to experience the worst of Jobs over the years, it would probably be Ed, because he would be one of the few interacting with Jobs.
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I think his "selling ourselves" argument is overstated. Judging from me, we keep down emotions because we are more rational than previous generations, we believe in science and reason vs pointless sentimentalism. Organic-foods are just that: trying to emotionally engage people to buy products for reasons never explained.
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Yes, but that's the book value of the debt, not the real value. In reality creditors will never be remunerated with this. A political and economic fantasy persists that the creditors will not lose out of this, that they will be made whole. But each loan involves a debtor and a creditor, both will end up accepting losses. The faster this is done, the better it will be for all involved.
In Metro, IE is tied in pretty well, and currently there aren't any other browsers that work in Metro. On tablets (only Metro), the browser would have to be compiled to run on ARM processors (assumedly), so the barrier to entry is perhaps higher than now.

I think that it's likely there will be alternative browsers (assuming MS doesn't lock them out), but it may well be a similar situation to the iPad, where these browsers are really just a skinned UIWebView, rather than a different rendering engine.

Good job IE10 looks like it will be pretty good!
For now we're pretty much only targeting the US (hence the zip code thing). We originally had browser geo-location, but disabled that for a few reasons. We will re-enable it soon.
>I see this attitude of "read the library source" most often from Ruby people, but some advocates of larger PHP frameworks advocate that approach as well, and I just don't buy it.

Well, when you are looking at the results of the MS Visual Studio IDE, you're reading code, too. After all, the tab-completion lists come from good integration with the parser.

My perspective is that you should be reading sources, if you have it. Its just what a good coder does. If you don't understand what you're reading: probably thats where you'll find your bug/issue/whatever.

When you know for sure the code is running, and for sure how its running with no assumptions, because you've read and understand the code itself,f you gain masterful control over it.
Sounds like they're planning on charging a lot more (50-100%) more than you, to be able to afford you and still make a profit.

Have you considered private labeling for them? That way the billing can still go through you. They might have concerns about knowing if they're being paid fairly enough but that's something that should be able to be sorted out.

My recommendation is to date before getting married.

Start small, do a small joint venture where he sells your stuff through you to prove he has the volume. Maybe some sort of affiliate program or revenue share. If things go well you can spend time on the big deal.

Things that could change:

Positives:
- They really drive you a lot of business
- The time you spend figuring this all out was worth it

Potential negatives:
- The deal could go nowhere after all your hard work, talk, costs, agreements.
- They could go head to head against you in advertising, raising your advertising costs.
- They might already address a lot of your customers
- The time you spent on this could have better been spent elsewhere.
Much too young. The poor guy.
They only come in "colorless" sets. The "colors" (which are just suggestive names and have nothing to do with light colors) are Red, Green, and Blue, along with anti-Red, anti-Green, and anti-Blue. Therefore, there are basically two options: mesons, which contain a quark/anti-quark pair (e.g. one Green and one anti-Green) and baryons, which contain quark of each colors (RGB, or antiRGB). Tetraquarks, pentaquarks, and hexaquarks have been searched for in experiment and would not violate the colorless rule, but have never been found. Physicists would prefer to be able to calculate from first principles whether such states are possible, but it turns out that no one knows how to do the calculation because of the non-perturbative nature of the strong force.

[Many caveats. For instance, any given hadron (the collective name for things made of quarks, which to date means only mesons and baryons) is not actually made up of quarks with definite color, but rather a quantum superposition of many possibilities. I think mesons, for example, are always a balanced superposition of R-antiR, G-antiG, and B-antiB. So you could never point to a given meson in an experiment and say "that meson was blue-antiblue".]
I honestly believe YC is different. It's not just about "People"

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/24/y-combinators-paul-graham-w...
While I understand the sentiment, the reality is your company will deal with outside decision makers whether it is venture capital, vendors, or business partners, adoption a non-executive title when you are indeed the executive will set you at a distinct disadvantage when you enter a room of executives. Like it or not, many of these people are highly competitive and judgmental, they will form an immediate impression based on the fact that you are not a "C" and dismiss you. Others will follow suit, management is full of the incompetent and therefore pack mentality is rampant, any variation from the norm will give them justification to rank you in a submissive position under them. You then have to deal with all kinds of issues like external influences trying to undermine your decision making authority with your business partners. We all like to consider ourselves different and trend setters but make sure you are prepared to fight the battles for doing so. If you are not, then don't worry about the title, use it, move on and keep on doing what a start-up CTO does and that is design and build the technical products of the company.
Update: we ended up second place in the Ann Arbor Hacka2thon. GooseCast (ccgoose.com) took the top honors. Thanks for everyone's feedback so far!
And what can we say about system administrators? As a member of this category I think that probably we are lower in the (salary/st) ladder..
Anyone passing at such a young age is simply a massive tragedy.