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This corroborate what I have seen happen in the CTO I had a few years ago. He worked 5 years without rest. Was called by big boss in Sunday mornings to fix things. Was a very sanguine type, shout on everyone for nothing, said no to everything. All lines of code were either quick fixes or copy paste. Absolutely not long-term view. Database tables had 300 columns, named like event1, event1time, event1who, event2, event2time, etc.

He had a team of 10 interns and only one regular, and no interns would stay. He also had a specific way to breathe, like when you suffocate after 25 meters under the water in the pool.

He was so overwhelmed he grabbed a few set of random rules as his life buoys. For instance, use of <div>s was forbidden because once a <div> did float badly when resized. So we had pages with over 20 nested <table> and not one had a raison d'être.

Then he got mad against the big boss, and I replaced him. Result: he was sick for 6 months. His body had to take a revenge.

I believe he is still looking for a job.

Maybe this could be a counter-point to the guy above saying that only work is important, and that all seconds spent not working or sleeping are lost. I think it is a dangerous way to dispose of your life.

Moreover, if the goal is to succeed, I think it is wrong that all "great achievers" are necessarily 100% focused on their one tasks. Many of them actually had hobbies, and a very wide and deep general knowledge of Humanities (which can only be gathered through extensive reading).

So I would say to the OP, just stop focusing, read books, try for example "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", feed your "gumption". (And go fishing!)
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did you see the "OK [my name]. Just to recap, we're going to send your [quantity] [product] to your place in [where I live]. Your email address is [email], just in case. You’re paying via [payment method]." thing at the end of the payment form? that blew my mind (simple as it is!).
You're interpreting it wrong; Comcast is going to provide at least /64 to each customer but they just haven't turned on prefix delegation yet.
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Yeah, I was being sloppy. There was and is malware on Windows for a long time but it only became a widely recognized "epidemic" in the late 90s - early 2000s.

as for Vista ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_and_safety_features_ne...

but the real point is that it's just nonsensical to say that Microsoft has been more focused on security as a reaction to bad press of Vista - whether you like or hate Microsoft or Windows or Vista, there's just no interpretation of the timeline under which that makes any sense.
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Only music I have bought in recent years is bands that aren't on the streaming services, like RHCP or Metallica. As a user these streaming services are a nice free alternative to buying music, but if I were a band with a well known brand (i.e. lots of money has been pumped into it over years/decades), then I would avoid streaming services like the plague.

Services like emusic are better for labels because they at least treat the music as something special and limited.
I am actually a quite competent programmer. And I have execution experience via another project I've done (Interesting Times Magazine).

My main problem is simply picking 1 idea and getting psychological traction. I honestly don't know why I haven't gotten started yet :p
I wonder how many new fans those artists got from being on spotify, how many people then paid to see them live and recommended them to their friends. It's difficult to put a price on that.
Do tell me which ones you liked :)
How are you implementing that?
Btw, you can all subscribe to this. I'm adding new ideas as I think them up.
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That's because whoever coded this page decided that it's a good idea to emulate "background-position: fixed" by updating the "background-position" of the #main element on every scroll event. Which seems quite stupid if you ask me.
People will do the minimum amount of work necessary for the maximal reward. If the minimum amount of work necessary is to just go "can't you just do it", they'll do just that.

As to lumbering employees with this stuff - really, really can't. The guys we employ we employ as developers, not 24/7 unpaid support dogsbodies, which I am, as well as developer, accountant, project manager, salesman and all the rest. It's part and parcel of being self-employed, and at the end of the day I just see it as a failing in myself that I'm not capable of the workload required and demanded of me.
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True. But it's still not a drop-in replacement for NAT.
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Yammer does a nice job of this (albeit it is full featured enough to be more like an "internal Facebook").
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So you assume the VC's only scored a 1x on this deal and had no special treatment for their preferred shares such as accrued dividends, liquidity preference, participating preferred, etc?
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Agreed, we use Trello (with the Scrum plugin for estimation) and find it really fits the bill, especially for price.

We just use one list for 'Doing' and that takes care of the current status thing. It's a pretty great way to work, best interface I've found yet to manage stuff in an Agile way with the interface really getting out of the way.

This has a lot of the same things going for it, but ya, for the price is a non-starter. Maybe I'm getting old but all the whiz bang stuff is getting tired as well. (I feel Wufoo does a great job of balancing the cute factor there, but this is is a bit in your face)
Most top actors spend 3-4 months on average per film. It's a scheduling things where you need a lot of people to film a movie some of which have offers for 3-4 movies that year. So people are working 12 hour days in one short burst and a lot of time in editing / post production but there is a ticking clock because investors want their money back ASAP. Reproduction can be slow simply because there is not a lot of money involved in the project yet.
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Just checked, it's already on Hacker Things http://hackerthings.com/product/sugru-silicone-rubber-100109
"It’s been a long journey for Hunch. The company was founded in 2008."

Knowing how long it can take for a small company with a good idea and product to launch, I wouldn't really call that a long journey.

Still, congratulations to them. I hope eBay is able to make something good out of what they have created so far.
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Seems good, but why should I use this over an .htaccess file? If anything, a redirect to your server and then back to mine would add latency.
> Canadians will conflate that into 'the banking industry shouldn't be touched' -- even though there's only six banks and they charge more in fees than American banks. (Which is saying a lot.)

There is a bigger picture here. Our fees may be more (I have no idea), but our interest rates are higher for deposits most of the time. You're not considering any other factors for the higher prices. Personally, if our banks are making a lot of money, not putting everyone in the poor house and offering some of the best financing rates and deposit interest rates in the world, why do they need to be touched? I don't understand the motivation to make changes to something that isn't broken. The banking industry will never be perfect. If you're hoping for this utopian world of low/no bank fee, open market, low interest, high deposit interest, I think you're going to be disappointed to find out that it doesn't exist. Proof of such is in abundance.

> And god forbid anyone say anything against the CMHC, which is a secretive time-bomb more leveraged than Fannie Mae ever was.

CMHC also needs restructuring, but again, not deregulation. Why do we have it in our heads that corporations are less evil than the government? The government and corporations should exist with a set of regulations so that decisions made are for the benefit of the world, not just investors. The government and corporations both fail miserably without intervention and debate. It's not okay for the CMHC to be in secrecy, but it's also not right for Fannie Mae, either.

> for all we know, our housing crisis might still be ahead of us.

> But hey, at least it's not America!

Come on, really?
5 years, no days off, one 5 day holiday per year, on call 24/7 for the duration, and I'm just fine.

You mention hard work, but I would argue you are really not working that hard. Working hard (either physically or mentally) like you say you do is simply not sustainable long term. I have known people who have put themselves in the hospital through burnout. Sleeping at the office 6 days/week, living on vending machine food, and the stress of the whole thing is physically dangerous. This doesn't even address the quality of their work which went down over time.

It's similar to the overtraining concept when weight lifting. If you are only playing with the pink weights then it's easy to workout for hours each day, every day. Start messing around with real weight on the same schedule and your body will eventually start regressing. It simply does not have time to fully recover from each workout. I believe this also happens with tough mental work.

Keep in mind this isn't talking about a crunch time or short stints of crazy work. Burnout comes from long runs of working at a non-sustainable pace.
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@derwildemomo:

I do understand your concern. However, the service isn't formally launched yet and everything is being finalized, including migration of forms and documents. We are expecting to launch in a few days.
I think there were only about 50,000 NeXT machines ever sold, so there may not be enough to go around for all the cool kids.
@bprater:

It is a web service. As we are still finalizing everything before the official launch (which happens in a few days), we are doing our best to make the membership area be as customizable as possible.
I am somewhat disappointed since Chris Dixon has said Hunch would be in it for the long-term. (I've followed Hunch since it's early days* and always wanted to see it go big.) $80m is a nice pay-out though, the systems they've built have the potential to bring an immense amount of value to eBay's offerings, and a lot of that money will trickle down to other startups via angel investments.

* http://hassy.posterous.com/my-favorite-startups-hunch
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> you gotta show up for the game (the startup game, I mean) to win it...

This type of thinking is why the valley is so full of zombie companies pumped up with capital, but with no real traction or any way of ever being profitable

PG and many speakers at startup school repeatedly said that its easy to spot the ones who are just doing it because they want to be "that guy" like Zuckerberg - the ones who want to play the game. Instead of starting a company to figure out what customers want.

What motivates you to start a company is really important. Especially during the downswings that kills most startups (google "trough of sorrows").
There's about 2 pages worth of ideas in Swedish, somewhere in the middle. ('Cause I imported this straight from my email conversations with friends).

Just ask me if they sound interesting but you can't figure out the meaning.
They did better with 1990's NeXTStations, which were competitively priced with similarly-powered machines.
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@iAmSpartacus:

All rates would be available in a few days when we launch the service officially. We will keep everyone posted. Thanks.
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Why? Why is copyright different from any other area of the law? Anybody can sue anybody else right now, for example claiming that some sort of service has been performed, and the situation would be the exact same. The use of criminal law would be a gigantic drain on already scarce public resources, why waste them on something trivial? If anything, suing for IP infringement should be easier - so that everybody can do it, and not just those with 10k cash up front and several months or years time to wait out the result.

The key to an effective copyright regime is a way to enforce rights. That way needs to be cost-effective, fast, accessible to any sort of rights holder, and needs to put control into the hands of such rights holders. Leaving enforcement up to a prosecutor (who will need to weight such cases with e.g. murder and rape cases!) is or does neither of those.
+1 on the talent acquisition, although much like Slide, About.me, this shows that once you're lucky, twice you know who to speak to if you've gotten to a sizeable exit before.
Also helps that eBay is looking for its second act to avoid the fate of a crumbling Yahoo!
Hunch is now part of eBay
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That didn't work so well for Amazon, since they got the sales tax anyway. So they ended up with both a bad reputation and a sales tax. I wish they would've at least refused to take down Wikileaks. When in doubt, do the right thing.
I think Hunch was actually founded in 2009
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Not sure if I'm misunderstanding you here - but - ~/Dropbox/Public might be what you're looking for?
> everyone who has a CS background should just start something on the side if a deal like this is possible

Chris Dixon is a veteran investor and entrepreneur, with enormous visibility in the tech world. Contacts with potential acquirers are a non-issue for him.

A poor CS fellow could have created a version of Hunch that was 100x better and they still would have 1,000x less of an exit opportunity as compared to any startup Dixon founded.

Get real.
difficult balance. you still need a better mousetrap to have those 'raving fans' in the first place. only so many people will join a community (and stay) out of pity or goodwill. The product/service still has to be good to start with. Alternatively, there has to be some belief that the product/service will become good, if it's not from day 1. But that belief can only be sustained for so long without evidence.
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Note in particular how option pools dilute founders, not investors. My understanding is that is actually negotiable, but it is an easy way for unsavvy founders to have the valuation they negotiate not mean what they think it means. (Ditto not understanding what Pre- and post-money valuations mean.)

Example: suppose I, a clueless tech guy, am negotiating with a savvy and aggressive money-guy. Assume for sake of argument we're raising $1 million, and my naive thoughts are that "The company is worth $5 million."

Me: "The company is worth $5 million."

Him: "We can totally work with a $5 million post-money valuation."

Me: "Great."

Almost everyone on HN knows I screwed myself. You think I just priced the company down to $4 million, right? Yeah, even worse.

Him: "So you know, it is customary for companies in Silicon Valley to make generous equity grants to attract and retain employees."

Me: "Oh totally."

Him: "The standard is 20%. You could get a lower number, but honestly, you'd look like a greedy bastard out to screw his employees, and our firm would probably not do business with you."

Me: "Oh, I am not greedy."

Him: "Great! So, $5 million post minus $1 million investment leaves $4 million Pre, reserving 20% of the post for employees, means you have $3 million in equity in this company."

Me: "Waitwaitwait, that sounds..."

Him: "That sounds like I just made you a millionaire. Son, you don't want to be unreasonable here. This is how business has always been done in the Valley. Besides, 100% of nothing is nothing. Don't worry about a bit of dilution, it happens, worry about that huge pile of money you'll have when you IPO."

Edit: I originally wrote it as 20% of the Pre, but checking with VentureHacks suggests that it would probably be calculated as 20% of the post. Easy to screw this stuff up, right? It's almost like it is designed that way...
It wouldn't really add latency

Here is a sequence diagram depicting the flow:

- With RedirectApp: http://i.imgur.com/kej9j.png

Client(Browser)->RedirectApp: Makes a get request
RedirectApp->Client(Browser): Returns an http redirect response
Client(Browser)->Your Website: Makes the final request

- With .htaaccess: http://i.imgur.com/LyvZs.png

Client(Browser)->Your Website: Makes a get request
Your Website->Client(Browser): Returns an http redirect response
Client(Browser)->Your Website: Makes the final request

The advantage of using RedirectApp is that you don't have to mess with your .htaccess file. This might not seem very helpful for one app, but when you have dozens of apps/websites, RedirectApp makes this very simple.
That makes a lot of sense. We need more responses like that.
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Yeah I just threw in the default 'twitter bootstrap' zebra-sorted table. http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/#tables

Again, just a weekend project so all the bells and whistles aren't really there.
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This sounds a lot like the "discipline and method" approach taken by David Korn, Kiem-Phong Vo and Glenn Fowler in SFIO (http://www2.research.att.com/~gsf/download/ref/sfio/sfio.htm...), vmalloc (http://www2.research.att.com/~gsf/download/ref/vmalloc/vmall...), and Cdt (http://www2.research.att.com/~gsf/download/ref/cdt/cdt.html)
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"...that sounds like..."
Also forget what you learned about that sound ;)
My gut has been that it is backed (and would be exploited) by corporations, specifically big media. Combine this with poor IP laws and you've got a scenario in which corporate censorship can thrive.
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To be honest, given that most people load jQuery from a CDN anyway, all this does is make you trust the library you're using less – the beautiful thing about jQuery is that it works, and you never have to worry about what methods are made available to you.
Beware! I have the volume on my soundcard turned down (windows xp), but the 'Play sound' button didn't seem to honour that, and blasted out the synthesized sound extremely loudly into my headphones.
One major issue I have: thinking that all of my ideas suck balls, and that I need to keep churning out ideas until I find something good. Hence why I'm posting here: you guys can help me see the value in the ideas that I do have.

There are several ideas that are not on this list, simply because someone else came up with them and implemented them (Verbling and LikeALittle come to mind as two startups whose basic ideas I thought of like 1 year ago yet didn't consider good enough).
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Does anyone notice that the image with the rover and its chem cam is straight out of H. G. Wells?

Compare and contrast:

http://i.space.com/images/i/13468/i02/nasa-curiosity-rover-m...

with

http://i.imgur.com/kYofe.jpg

This leads me to believe that our Martian rover needs some sort of acoustic imaging devices.
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A lot more rocket failures are recoverable than you might think, though.

Engines can fail in many ways that don't destroy everything. Apollo 13 nearly became famous for exploding on launch due to massive resonant vibration, but a premature shutdown of the affected engine saved it. (Oddly, that shutdown was due to a mistaken fuel level reading, not the vibrations directly, so the save was something of an accident.) At least one Shuttle launch experienced an engine failure/shutdown as well. These engines didn't explode, of course, but there's a whole range of failures and many can be planned for.

Even when the entire thing does explode, you can still save your crew if you've planned properly. A Soyuz capsule's escape system saved its crew when the rocket exploded in 1983.

It appears to me that NASA's approach is to prefer systems which can't fail over systems which can fail safely. On the surface, this seems better, but when your foolproof system still fails and you haven't built it to withstand that, then you're in serious trouble.

I don't think there's any inherent reason why shedding a turbine blade during a rocket launch has to destroy the entire vehicle. Designing the system to withstand that makes it heavier and not perform as well, of course, but it seems like an overemphasis on performance while disregarding nearly everything else has really hurt space technology.
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The could also be thinking of building an in-house product similar to Spotify.

Every label is probably thinking, "we can pay some web dev to build us this". Well, I hope they all do and see what happens.
Work is life? That is a recipe for either 1) burnout and depression or 2) an early death.

You're literally killing yourself. You just don't know it yet.
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This week congress failed to come to an agreement on how to cut 1.2 trillion dollars from the budget which means that automatic cuts will go into affect. One such automatic cut is $590 billion (10%) of defense spending. I know there are at least a few people on HN who work for defense contractors so I'm curious if this will have an impact on anyone?
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IMO, one thing this article seems to paint inadvertently and incorrectly is that the problem, if there is any, (likely) lies entirely at the feet of management.

It takes two to tango.

The article isn't wrong, but it's only the elephant's leg that the blind man is looking at.
if anyone ever need, http://www.logoturn.com/ is a great place to start, http://www.dribbble.com as well.

http://www.crowdspring.com/ seems quite similar to 99designs