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Yes, as with most things, it can go both ways, and I painted a stark contrast to make my point. Sometimes better results come out of people who don't stick to what they're supposed to be doing. On the other hand, sometimes the results are worse, too. I can't say, I haven't seen the project, don't know anything about the assignment, and haven't heard any other view. This particular story though doesn't sound very plausible to me, though.
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Modern Warfare 3 runs on the Microsoft (Windows/Xbox) and PS3 platforms. Like Angry Birds run on the Android and iPhone.

Modern Warfare 3 didn't create their own platform, and no sane game studio will create their own platform. They'll follow what people buy. People bought xBox, okay, get that game on Xbox. People bought schelabiza to play games, okay, get that game on schelabiza.

Modern Warfare 3 made much more money because it's not Angry bird. Like GTA, Skyrim... these are games that you pay $30-$50 for and not a buck.

What Gruber meant is this: This platform is going to be huge. Really huge. He is betting on iOS. Investing your time learning/developing on iOS is good for your career because you'll be able later to create apps, work on companies, do consulting...
Ask HN: Dropping out of top tier job
I will leaving the developer job at top tier software company (MS), I have a offer from well establish top tier tech firm.

I have always longed for starting something of my own, right now I have a good idea which I think if executed correctly could make a whole lot difference and build into a excellent product.

So I am thinking of instead of taking the job, throw the towel and take the risk to start something of my own. The only problem is I have cash for next 3-4 months only.

What suggestion you would like give me for this kind of situation, should I go for the job and work for next 6 months in next job, where I can save for almost 6 months or should I start doing freelancing to support my finances.

I am based in India, so cost of living is quite cheap compare to US and European nations.
You just asked for HN's opinion, though, even though you don't care about it? That's a bit of doublethink right there.

Anyway, yes, fuck you too, but if it makes you feel better, most of the Internet is populated by tools, trolls, and fools, and HN's not somehow above that. I'm not sure why you'd think that, either. As two of our greatest philosophers once noted, the Internet's greatest purpose is slandering others anonymously.
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Another negative comment here but frankly, I don't agree with the author's logic. Gruber had made a very unsubstantiated point and the commenters on that story had pointed that out. Apart from fanboyism, Gruber's comment is on pretty thin ice.

Most commenters on the Android Open source story also raised some pretty valid concerns. It's not a lie that Google has been loose with term "open", commenters were ready to point that out.

There is no reason to get all worked up about valid negative points (most of which are not opinions).
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Many many reasons:

* Compatibility with installed base of existing code - Java is so prevalent on the server side that this is often a critical requirement

* Performance - The JVM is an amazing platform with excellent JIT compilation, very efficient garbage collection, great for concurrency etc.

* Huge library ecosystem, second to none. Most of the ecosystem is open source and if you choose your libraries and frameworks appropriately (i.e. anything but J2EE!) then you can be pretty much as agile as any other language.

* Major corporate backing (IBM, Oracle, Google, Red Hat). There's enough diversity in the supplier ecosystem that you don't need to worry about vendor lock-in too much (e.g. competing app servers).

* Java is more open and cross platform than the only credible alternative (.Net) - From a CIO perspective .Net is effectively vendor lock-in to a Microsoft stack.

* Great availability of "good enough" developers. There are also plenty of rockstars in the Java world if you look hard enough.

* Maintainable code. Java's relatively simple and concise syntax actually makes it quite easy to maintain with the medium-skill developers that most corporates have.

* It's not Java per se., but the innovation happening in the new JVM languages (especially Scala and Clojure) actually puts the JVM pretty right at the cutting edge of language development.

Note that a lot of the above reasons make Java a good choice for startup companies too, especially if you pick one of the new languages and go for "Java the platform" rather than "Java the language".
> The required time and effort are quite low: “For our measurements, we needed a DESFire MF3ICD40 card, an RFID reader, the probe and an oscilloscope to measure the power consumption”, says Oswald. This equipment only costs a few thousand euros. Having obtained knowledge on the characteristic properties of the smartcard, the attack takes three to seven hours.

So you need a few thousand Euros of equipment, some knowledge, and undetected access to a card for three to seven hours... --considering the requirements to be "quite low" is just the typical security world scare-mongering journalism.
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I guess my writing skills are not so good. I think opinions matter, I just feel we can do a little less with f*cking opinions.
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the obituary mentions he attended tulane university, the university of maryland and nyu.

was he moving around as an undergrad or was he doing a graduate degree?
It is better to be the head of a mouse than the tail of a lion.

All good things in life comes from collaboration with others as much as individual contributions, but there is nothing that says that collaboration has to be imposed by a external force, like with a company. The world has ruled before with open collaboration like science, and what we call "open source", "open hardware" today.

BTW, if I could do anything to destroy the vision that all the world is going to be controlled by oligopoly juggernauts and bureaucracies, I will, including creating new companies or helping young people to renew the landscape, as facebook or Google did(when companies success in a free market, next they want to destroy it).
Though the number of distinct bridge deals is much smaller, the same is probably true even for bridge deals. If my math's ok then there's about 2^107 distinct bridge deals, assuming identifiable players.
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Not necessarily directly. It could work by saying "Here's a list of SSIDs I can see", to which the server responds "You're probably at [<lat, long, confidence>, <lat, long, confidence>, ...]".

Under such a system, you'd have to know the SSID ahead of time, which probably means you're in close proximity to it already.
I read the comments on one of the articles he refers to. Given the potential for fanboism and holy war the topic (platform orientated career advice) inspires and that a larger fraction of readers probably feel qualified to comment on this post rather than, say, the Haskell cheat sheet I thought the comments were ok.

Comments perhaps contain more critique than glowing praise because the action is at the margin. The value to me of a 'this is wonderful' comment followed by lots of 'I agree' is less that a robust discussion.
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Ask HN: Tips/Links on how to find out what people want?
I'm looking for any resources or advice people might have on how to go about finding what people want. I'm also particularly interested in things that may not be world changing i.e. little, possibly local, things that people want and that might have a more immediate return. I know its the million dollar question and that it sounds naive but I know also that a lot of people have thought about it so it would be interesting to see if anyone has any help at all. Thanks.
Keep your top tier job and at the same time, start your own project part-time. If you can start getting income from you project, quit your full-time job and focus 100% on your project.
Which...may not be a bad thing. If I'm gonna see ads, I'd rather see ads that are relevant to me. If I'm gonna sell ads, I'd rather sell them to people who are most likely to find them useful/actionable.
I agree regarding Gruber.

And most of the top comments on the Google thread were either positive or "negative" but still informative.
Most comment threads that I see on HN, by and large, contain both sides to any argument.

They're like a conversation you might have with a friend, one person gives their opinion, the other perhaps gives the opposing argument and so on.

But of course, if you take any single comment out of context, it's usually either positive or negative. There are exceptions where commenters give a more rounded, thought out perspective, but it's mainly short opinionated comments.

And that's how conversations often are; short, off the cuff remarks. Rarely carefully worded, equal handed monologues.
Tons of useless advice from a guy who never delivered a product himself -- excuse my harsh words. Scoble was/is/stays a blogger, always blogging while having a safe job. He never raised, never started a real venture or done an exit. This guy hasn't got the vaguest idea of what it is to quit your job, start a venture and take high risks. Never experienced how the lowest points of a startup-life full of despair can feel. His words are counter-productive, destroy motivation and are just wrong in many regards (e.g. MVP, etc.).

Those who can, do -- those who can't, teach.

Why should we listen to him?
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All of academic output is an incremental improvement (it may differ for the social sciences. I don't have experience with that.) Newton famously acknowledged it in his letter to Hooke.

We also have the misfortune of struggling with the deep unknowns, as all of the trivial theorems have already been proven before (consider Feynman's definition of trivial in 'Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!', New York: W. W. Norton, pp. 69-72, 1997.)

But some improvements are greater than others. The question is where you draw the line. And I hold that most researchers' line encompass more then yours. Consider, for example, Jiří Matoušek's opinion of Computational Geometry in 2010 (to save you the reading, he called it no less than an annus mirabilis. You can read his reasoning here: http://kam.mff.cuni.cz/~matousek/mor.pdf)
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Far more limited architecture.
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The problem is structural. The spirit of a 4-year vest is that you should keep the employee (if they are good) and let them vest at the original rate. But if the company suddenly becomes massively more valuable and less risky, the incentive is to fire that employee and hire someone else, because you can.

I think it is incumbent on us, the startup world, to call this out as bad faith, which is what it is. Legal or not, companies that do this should be forced to walk down the hall of shame. Their founders, if they are around and party to it, should be unwelcome in our midst after reneging on the social contract that makes this whole thing workable.

They are shitting on the commons, and spoiling the fields for all of us, by making the decision to work for a startup that much riskier.
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You're putting words in my mouth. Please don't do that.

I think it should be a given that it's frustrating when a computer doesn't do what you tell it. That doesn't mean that the cost of that frustration isn't offset by the added convenience for many users. In my case it isn't, and those (relatively frequent) times when it does frustrate me, I seriously consider switching search engines.
I remember ordering 65 of these calculators from the states (I'm in SA). They worked out to be about $200 each. If the varsity students knew about this app, the benefit for them would've been insane.
This just in: properly chosen random numbers with lots of bits are probably unique
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No. You realize the market no longer values your product enough to pay for it, so you drop it and move to something else. When enough farmers do that the price will come up again.

If a software company can't get enough value out of software developers to make it worthwhile then either they need to find a way to charge more or maybe the market doesn't see the need for them to exist.

Whatever pay is required to attract engineers is the right price. The only question is; is your idea good enough to still be profitable given the price floor?
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I'm not sure I get it -- it sound's like he wanted to create a national carrier, but bypass all of the FCC licensing requirements by utilizing unlicensed spectrum. This obviously wouldn't work --- nor should it, given the havoc which this would cause if people could just setup national networks on the WiFi spectrum.

More information is needed to really determine what was really in the pipe at the time.
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Not going to discuss what he had to say, just the logic of your statement. Because those who can teach well, teach well. There's a reason why many superstar athletes turn out to be horrible coaches, but many non-superstars turn out to be amazing coaches. I imagine the same isn't impossible in the startup world. If one is a good teacher, why not listen to him, whether or not he's had personal success?
"You're putting words in my mouth. Please don't do that."

You're right. I'm sorry.

For the record, most of my comment was addressed to everyone in this thread, not just to you.
But still, the problem needs to exist, even if it takes work to make people realize they have it.
If you're on HN and haven't read all of the following, it's worth your time and effort to do so:

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/trolls.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html

Though far less important that the above, there are plenty people on HN who are counter examples to the points of the article author (vanelsas). I just had a exchange which was counter example:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3241478

It's fine to disagree, and it's good suggest improvements, but also taking the time to note the good stuff created by the original author helps and encourages civility.
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Well I think its only cheaper at first and even if people know better they are forced to use a stupid java framework (that abstracts away the network) even if the know that it will end up badly.

A other problem is that people often get tought that you need <input some bad framework>. You can't do distributed computing if you done use some kind of framework. At least the places I know they would never tell you something like "just send json from one node to the other if thats all you need".

At clojure conj there where some talks about this, but the videos are not out jet. See these presentation on Concurrent Stream Processing (https://github.com/relevance/clojure-conj/blob/master/2011-s...) or this on Logs as Data (https://github.com/relevance/clojure-conj/blob/master/2011-s...)

For a other example that works in quite simular ways look at Storm (in use at twitter. Its all sequential abstractions. See this video by Nathan Marz (look all videos you can find):
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Storm

For a more philospical perspective look at the videos by rich hickey:
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy
It's a self-serving argument. A bigger overall impact is more likely when there are tons and tons of smaller companies out there trying ideas (i.e. the chance of one of them hitting the next big thing). If all these engineers just go work at Facebook instead, Parker will feel the biggest impact in his stock value. Individual engineers might do better at FB than they would have failing at their own company, but on the whole the economy lost whatever some of them would have made.
This kind of story always reads like a financial fail. He should pay himself a normal programmers salary (something around 50k/year for a beginner might be fine, also he is not a beginner, because he knows a lot about presentation and UX design) and THEN calculate his profits. Probably this App is way in the minus.
Also you must consider that he just has around 1k customers and all of them on the same plattform. Also these customers only paid him once and not regularily. That are 4 big risks: low number of customers, no guaranty to get any dollar next month and a high dependence on one plattform and high dependence on the success of this one app.
Another risk, I nearly forgot about, is that the core feature of his app, the speach engine, is not even his own. What if Acapela decides they make their own App in this direction.

Concluding everything I think he has a low income, unprofitable, high risk business. Not the position I want to be in, when I quit my dayjob.

edit I just now see that you posted the link yourself, Nathan. Please read all "he"s as "you". ;-)
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Sure. But I'll accept that risk if I have to, so that I can use a more open platform.
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People are stupid, but exploiting that stupidity is still evil. (I'm lousy at analogy, but here's an attempt: People dis-enrobing with no curtains are stupid, but it's the pervs who post pictures to the Internet; polite people glance and walk on.)

Even Google disagrees with you.

(http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/may/15/google-admi...)

> "As soon as we became aware of this problem, we grounded our Street View cars and segregated the data on our network, which we then disconnected to make it inaccessible. We want to delete this data as soon as possible, and are currently reaching out to regulators in the relevant countries about how to quickly dispose of it."

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Having said all that, this German case says that people shouldn't be stupid and they are responsible for the security of their networks:

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