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I think this can still be considered an intermediate MVP that can be tested. The goal of lean is to eliminate waste, so there is a risk that an MVP with working code has no demand whatsoever.

One drawback to this approach is that it may give you false negatives. What if you landing page copy doesn't work or your AdWords copy is wrong? As with all lean/custdev hacks ymmv. Bottom line is you need to find customers to talk to, otherwise everything is an assumption.

Some other articles that touch on this approach:

http://startupbound.com/how-i-quickly-test-and-validate-star...

http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2008/11/using-adwords-t...

http://www.cindyalvarez.com/best-practices/customer-developm...
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> There's a reason that 20% of the population are Arabs who choose to stay in Israel

Because they'd like to return to their homes one day?
Suicidal depression rarely has anything to do with how much fun you're having. It's an illness. You can't pushup your way out of cancer, jog your way out of MS, and you can't fun your way out of real depression.

You make several good points, but let's not trivialize mental illness. I doubt (a lot) that it's something endemic or "taboo" among startups, but any time we can make any group of people more aware of the signs and symptoms of clinical depression, let's do that.

(Lost several friends, one of them close, to suicide).
For me, The Mindful Way Through Depression was a good starting point. I was never really depressed, but I feel that without that book, I might have gotten to the point of real depression.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mindful-Way-Through-Depression-Unhap...

It's written by four western doctors, so there's no cultish things here. It's also about the practice of mindfulness in general, not just mindfulness meditation. There's an audio guide to meditation included.

Other books By Jon Kabat-Zinn could also be useful introductions.

Then, pretty much everything by Alan Watts is interesting. He's an excellent speaker and there's tons of his audio lectures available online. Watts has a peculiar way of being able to introduce the listener to very complex information, without being off-putting.

If one want's to read about the benefits of mindfulness meditation, there's a great number of scientific studies done in the past 30 years or so.
A blog post discussing this was submitted a few days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3256317
There is so much proliferation of javascript mvc plugins. From a user point of view, makes deciding very difficult. I basically looked at the two big contenders and went with knockout because it solved what i thought was the more pressing issue. As for model persistence, for my use case, i don't mind if it is only updated to the server with a submit, then i will push some json to the server and i can parse the complex object to save it. It is the javascript stuff that wastes the majority of my time on complex 1 page apps and is why I wanted something to help clear that up. I am sick of writing jquery onchange and other event codes for select boxes, etc. It always seems like an after thought, but if we are designing our ajax functionality from the start then we need a library which can handle it. For instance there is no standard or canonical way to do multiple depdendent cascading dropdowns in rails. For that I will roll it out by requesting a complex object once, then binding the select boxes, and it's done. No onchange events and multiple ajax requests. Anyway there are so many javascript mvc frameworks and i am really not qualified to judge their programming merits. I just have to go with what is likely to be maintained in the future, what works, and what has good documentation and user groups.
It's not a fair society. I only lived there for a year, but it was enough time to understand that those people you speak of are considered sub human second class citizens by the establishment that calls shots. Israel is fucked. I mean that with no disrespect.
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Sounds like someone felt like there was no need to fact-check whatever they were writing. Maybe it was written by some young staffer that only uses computers for YouTube and/or video games?

Otherwise it's pretty unforgivable that the writer could not imagine any other use for computers than media consumption of some sort. They were originally created for business/military as number-crunching devices.
I got a new term for this. A fake MVP. Think it's a cool concept, as long as you only fool a couple people (around 10 ~ 50 and not thousands) with it to get some feedback.
2) To combat this, I make sure my partner shows off his stuff to me all the time, and vice versa. Sometimes just showing someone who understands that something is cool and getting just some truthful criticism is really encouraging. If my partner builds something cool, even if I can figure it out... "show me".

1) If nothing exciting happens, I try to talk about something good happening in their life, try to keep focused on the happy part of your life vs the frustrating/hard part to keep spirits up.

3) You can always talk about it with your partner. Or. You can talk about it, with friends. Its good to have a friend who is willing to sit there and listen even if they don't fully get it and you know they won't backstab you.
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Where I worked, we switched from Java to Scala a few months ago, and we're all loving it. I really don't understand Stephen Colebourne's criticisms. Well, actually, sure I understand every one of his criticisms, but I could make equally damning or more damning criticisms of just about every programming language. No programming language is perfect. On the other hand, we find Scala to be much more expressive than Java. In Scala, I can write code in a natural way, rather than the way that Java wants to force me to write it. The result is cleaner, more elegant code, that is significantly shorter with much less boilerplate and code repetition, and easier to understand.

Sure the type system is complicated, but I don't really have to understand all its nuances in order to get my program to compile and work. When you use Scala, after a short while you just develop an intuition for it.

The comparison to EJB 2 is a bit nutty, if you ask me, since writing code in Scala tends to be the antithesis of all the terrible Java monster enterprise library crap. The libraries that people use in Scala tend to be much simpler and more straight-forward.

I do agree that there's a contingent of the Scala community who seem to want to rub their fluency with category theory in your face. This is hardly representative of the entire community, however, and I'm sure they must exist in the communities for almost every functional programming language these days. The solution for this is for people to come up with more intuitive explanations for the powerful tools that category-theory inspired abstractions provide. I know that this can be done, and it will be done, when functional programming become mainstream enough that it attracts better writers.

(I, myself, have been thinking of writing up a little essay called "The Mapcat is the state monad of Massachusetts" to try to explain monads in a better way than comparing them to space suits, or whatever. Okay, okay... mapcat isn't a state monad, but I think the title's funny anyway.)
Israel has a ton of failings but in comparison with every other country in the world it's ridiculous how much attention and focus Israel is getting.
I haven’t. A blanket boycott of all Israeli products and companies seems counterproductive to me, though.
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The documentation on these frameworks isn't great. In fact, it's downright horrible. There are no conventions or standard practices and every tutorial I can find builds an application with these frameworks in a different way.
Scala is awesome, when combined with AKKA it's even better. We're much more efficient then we ever were in Java. Also, ops doesn't know it's not java since they can use all the same jvm tools.

val myList = "Jim" :: "Bob" :: Nil
myList(println)

what's hard about that?
There is a minimum circle and a viable circle so it would follow that they must both contain products.

So the circle on the left contains minimum (crappy as they indicate) products and the circle on the right contains products that are all viable - some overdone perhaps.

I'm not sure why it wouldn't make sense that something is minimal but not viable. Any product that can't sell because it is too minimal would fit there.

And the intersection that they are showing is in fact what you are describing: viable and within viable, also minimal. In other words, the most minimal of the viable.
The point of the article was that the original "study" it discusses was biased and incorrect. He suggested ways that the study could be improved. Unfortunately, the article doesn't present data for these measurements.

Your posts have not added nor taken anything away this article. Your parroting the popular opinion based on anecdotal facts is not helpful to anyone.
i don't disagree that there's value in using this stuff. a lot of value. but doing only this is not an MVP. "P" = product, something you're selling, something people are using.

there should be another name for this. MVI maybe? minimum viable idea?
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No I am not able to edit the link, am I missing something ?
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I was under the impression that Ice Cream Sandwich will require user to enter the credit card and associate it with their gmail account to activate the device? Is that true? I remember reading something about this.
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Huh? I see Egypt and Syria much more often in the media.
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Hooray for civil discussion on the internet.

I believe you are correct that people will adjust their behavior in compensation for added safety, but it appears that the compensation isn't as large as the initial safety benefit.
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One of my eyes is a good bit stronger than the other and I've never been able to see those 3D holograms and don't have true depth perception.

Interestingly enough, Avatar did work in 3D for me (though the effect did seem to depend on how close I was to the screen - closer worked better). Its the only 3D movie that has worked, but admittedly I have not went to many since I figured its a waste of time if I can't see the effects anyway. I tried a 3D TV last year and it didn't work for me at all. Avatar did though and while I don't know if the effects made the movie more immersive or anything, they were certainly interesting. It was really the simplest effects that had the most impact: sparks, rain drops, clouds - stuff like that.

Making 2D movies into 3D seems completely pointless to me.
I called out Americans specifically because the author of the post dealt specifically with Americans.

As for backing up the claim that average driving isn't safe: average driving is, by definition, how people in general drive. How people in general drive causes something like 30k fatal accidents a year. For comparison, there were zero U.S. airline fatalities in 2010. I've pulled stats before (I can dig for them if you want) that show that public ground transportation has something like a tenth the deaths of personal cars. The amount of needless deaths in the U.S. can probably be reduced by about 27k a year by improving transport safety. I think that's worth trying for. (I will agree that it is possible that all or most traffic accidents are caused by a small fraction of drivers, which would basically nullify my point about average drivers, but I have never seen any reports to this effect.)

Removing drivers removes a source of revenue but charging more for a license adds one. Public transportation also adds a source of revenue at the same time as it adds costs (ideally the system would eventually break even). I'm not saying I've run the numbers. The point is just that public transportation isn't just a money sink. It's also a source.
I was already planning on leaving the US for similar reasons, and SOPA isn't doing the US's case any favors. The fact of the matter is that the US can no longer claim it holds a monopoly on a first-world quality of life the way it could in the past. The US hasn't taken itself seriously as a country for a while, and I don't see any reason to stick around and subject my family to whatever comes down the pipeline.

I'm planning to head to Australia for a number of reasons, some personal, some political. I've decided to effectively vote with my feet. I'm an intelligent, successful person and I see no reason to put up with a government that seems to take me for granted while it can't even do its most basic job. The world is getting smaller every day, and things like Skype mean that a move like this doesn't entail cutting all ties with family in the way it used to. Why put up with a country that acts like it doesn't want you?
So how is this different from Klout's "high tech super-secret ranking algorithm" that everyone knows is worthless?
You forgot my favorite TeX non-feature: completely uninformative error messages!

All kidding aside, I use (La)TeX almost every day and it's bulletproof. It's not going anywhere, so you might as well learn to love it, worts and all.
You're right. Israel does have serious human-rights issues with the Palestinians.

But: Israel also has a thriving democracy that subjects its government officials to constant, withering criticism and investigation. We have a court system that isn't afraid to punish government officials. (We just sent a former president to prison for rape, and a former prime minister is being tried for corruption.) We have a free press, with newspapers and blogs that raise every possible political idea you can imagine. We have mass rallies and protests. We allow our citizens to travel abroad wherever they want, whenever they want, and encourage them to speak with people from other countries. We invite people to come from other countries into Israel, and to travel more or less wherever they want, without government supervision.

(And yes, many of these privileges are unavailable to Palestinians. Believe me, many of us in Israel realize this, and both vote and act accordingly.)

I can understand and respect someone who says, "I'll only do business with liberal democracies like those in North America and Western Europe." That's a reasonable and consistent approach to things.

But to single Israel out for attention and boycott, when many countries have worse human-rights records and none of the positive democratic attributes I mentioned above? That seems both unfair, disingenuous, and lacking in perspective.
I read somewhere, "It doesn't matter what you write, just write."

I agree with that statement. I also suggest the book, "On Writing Well." It helped me greatly with writing.

http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Well-30th-Anniversary-Nonficti...
But exactly did the charts skew? Marketplace and App store opened around the same time frame (September and July 2008, respectively). So your saying they should disregard Android 1.5-2.1 data as well as iPhone 2.0-3.1 data because it doesn't support the narrative?

And while Apple has been very forthcoming about their numbers (when you're winning you love to tell everyone), Google has been less so.

I think what a lot of analysts are saying is that Apple and Google approach their app stores very differently. Take me for example, I don't use my credit card in the app store or market. I've been using the same $100 itunes gift card I got with my iPod 5G (~4 years ago). iTunes users treat apps like any other downloaded song (ie. "I heard this was good, I'll get it.") because they can. Google has no gift card alternative and this is killing app revenue. I don't break out a credit card for just any purchase and I feel I'm not the only one who thinks this way.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinvestment_from_South_Africa
His first population based result - "If each <truly awful crime> had one perpetrator we’d be talking about 3.3% of the population" - uses the correct population. After that he's using 208.
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> Be having sex, and regularly.

I know that hipsters and other socially capable people have invaded the technology industry in the last few years, but it should be noted that an entreaty to most technologists to "just have more sex" is extremely unhelpful. Would you tell a homeless person to "just make more money"?

As a matter of fact, telling this to someone whose depression has a large social disconnect component to it may trigger further feelings of inadequacy via the mental model of "I'm the only one who seems to be incapable of doing what is obviously so easy to this person, and everybody else."
Neither was cq's comment.

I really hope that we can leave the anti-Israel propaganda at Reddit, instead of bringing it to Hacker News.
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I don’t think Israel and South Africa are in any way comparable.
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Agreed.
Also perhaps process of leaving notes and arrows might be more intuitive:

- Make leaving text the default tool. "Click where you want to make a note about the page."

- "Type your message now" appears there, and disappears when they start typing. (Or at least a blinking cursor.)

- Hovering over the textbox reveals an fadded arrow that, that when dragged away turns into an opaque arrow that extends to wherever dragged. (Arrow and text box can be moved independently. Arrow can be deleted with delete key or dragging it to the text box. (Or have a trash icon that elements can be dragged to, or when clicked, the next item clicked is deleted.) )

Or instead of the text default perhaps have the more familiar contact us text box also next to the editor, so they can write, then place arrows to what they are writing about.

Interesting project. Nice work!
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...but the hold itself is an opportunity for publicity. I don't understand what could be confusing about that.
The conversation is around whether and how Israel became a high-tech hub. Please let's keep politics out of it.
So, 41.76% users used Mac but only 14.84% used safari. 29.94% were on windows but only 1.18% used IE. Interesting.
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Fact: 77 percent of Arab citizens would rather live in Israel than in any other country in the world. http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2008/05/study-israeli-...
Hell, without copyright there would probably be no breasts or genitals either, their only purpose being to film pornographic movies and take pornographic pictures.

Yeah I heard about this "reproduction" fable, never found a picture of it on google image either.
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There needs to be promoting this to venues outside of HN then to get robotics/biotech interest. Otherwise this sounds fairly similar to "startup weekend" events.
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hmmm, seems I'm entirely irrelevant, with a GitRank of: N/A. Better not tell my employer.

I'm not sure whether this is due to my profile not being indexed or that its rank is so low so as to be negligible.

Would be nice if they explained their ranking system better. (On the site itself)
The article seems very fear driven, many of his arguments simply do not gel with my experience.

We have been using Scala for 4 months now and have the first cut of our product released:

The Scala community have been great - we have had insightful answers on the Lift, Akka, Dispatch and Scala users list and on stack exchange.

We have used parallel collections and Akka actors to get good scalability without the usual pain. We do have some mutable data structures where it makes sense - we appreciate the flexibility to do that. The distinction between mutable and immutable data structures is pretty easy to read in the code.

Our code base is very concise, and i think readable for the breath of functionality we have implemented. We have not used type level programming, simple Scala constructs like pattern matching, collections and closures make a huge difference.
You can write obtuse code in Scala - we choose not to.

In short we see Scala as a competitive advantage going forward.
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The docs are ok, but example code and tutorials are lacking. Peepcode showed me the way, but it's not free.
Excellent info Benl. Having been on the startup ropes many times, your above points are key. I find that exercise has been a real boost to my mental health and allowing me new clarity of focus to problems.
Startups are very, very hard, the percentage of success is very small. The media and techcrunch make it look so easy...but there are many that do not make it any where close to the big liquidity. Mix in questionable investors, that are motivated by greed, salaries that need to be paid and a girlfriend that needs to get....
That's a hacker point of view, sure. But lots of jobs you just have to do the regular thing, adequately. Build cabinets. Plant trees. Cut hair.
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This post embodies so much that is wrong with tech blogs. A false, inaccurate narrative to fit the conflated ideas of app UX with browser/OS use case. He's been called out by myself and others in the comments and doesn't care that he's wrong or misleading. Totally senseless.
200 * 20 minutes = 40 hours. @ 500$/hour your only up to 20,000$ which suggests you expect to waste 20k from picking the wrong person. But, the reality is the first year is just a long interview and if you don't get the bonus you where fairly cheap labor (relative to the market).
Basing my judgement off of implementing a todo list in each, I found Sproutcore's handlebars.js templates with data-binding even nicer than Knockout. Unfortunately it's not clear yet what's happening with Sproutcore 2.0 or whether you could just extract the view layer.
LaTeX as a service. LaaS has a nice ring to it.
Israel's rise as a tech hub has quite a few similarities to Silicon Valley's early history. Having good schools and a frontier spirit seem like key ingredients. Perhaps most important is the involvement of military spending in seeding research which leads to new technologies, which in turn spin off from their government-funded roots and form new private companies, which then seed other new companies, venture capitalists move in, more companies are seeded, the cycle continues. Another 50 years and continued military support from the US, and Israel will surely be an excellent complement to the valley.
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had to check the comments to see how quickly this would get off topic. this is tech news. it's getting as ridiculous as slashdot around here.
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