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The example that sticks out in my mind are the Sony NEX-series cameras. These are cameras with sensors far larger than most point and shoots, but also do not have the bulk of SLRs - high performance at a pocketable size. Sony's entry into this market came after the extremely innovative and disruptive launch of the Micro-Four Thirds format by Panasonic, Olympus, et al, which were the first products in the category.

But far from being a "me too" or a ripoff, Sony took the core concept and advanced it further. They put an even larger sensor into the machine without increasing the bulk, engineered a ground-breaking new viewfinder (generations ahead of anything Panasonic and Olympus had), and put focus into the camera's software that is unprecedented - focus peaking, touch-to-focus, etc.

Sony looked at a disruptive entry in the market, distilled it down to its core, and took it further than the incumbents. That is IMHO the difference between "copying" and "stealing".
Amazon rushed this product. Also their treating of engineers like replaceable cogs, made sure that over time the best ones left, and whats left behind is either people that don't have many options, or fresh naive engineers that don't really know what they are doing.

When I left, they had very hard time hiring new engineers. They had it easy during the 08-09 downturn, and thought that they could be going like it.

So, the product is showing it's flawed development process.

Also, this was not build by the original Kindle team. It was done on a separate building, by a completely different team, and the hardware done by a third party.
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Not every cloner wins -- but the biggest winners tend to be just that.

There are lots of examples -- but an easy one is google.

Google didn't invent search engines, webmail, web advertising, or anything else that represents their core offerings.

They just did it faster, better, cheapter, etc.
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Oh my god!

There's people out there being unproductive!

If you really think that that's a problem, you must've had a terrible life.
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I will instead answer the question you should be asking. A: "No." Q: "Should I believe to VCs who tell me what's good for me?"

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Something I'm very passionate about is explaining that "Paleo" is not a diet in the traditional sense. It's a lifestyle that promotes health and disease prevention through food choices and exercise which has the additional benefit of easy weight loss.

It's also the easiest* food/health hack that I've ever experienced.

*easiest: I don't get food cravings, can still eat amazing food (try Vietnamese without the rice/noodles), and am actually enjoying exercising 30 - 45 mins a day.

Go Paleo/Primal, do a little exercise, eat bacon, gain washboard abs.

(although that last statement is a little flippant, a paleo lifestyle will help reduce a number of inflammatory diseases, and other issues associated with lectins, omega 3/6 imbalances, etc)
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Can ideas be art? We can't attribute much of any visual aspects of the piece to the artist since the artistic merit of this display relies entirely on the idea of what the drive contains.
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Many commenters here mention that they were/are really bright but also undisciplined and miserable. This underlines something I've been thinking about a lot: that cognitive style accounts for a big chunk of life's success.

Think of the dumb-as-pigshit ladies' man or the happy-as-a-clam soccer mom who has life all figured out or the salesman who pulls in a ton of cash because he's really driven and doesn't give a fuck about rejection. Then think of the miserable yet brilliant nerd languishing in some dank cave of an apartment because he can't figure life out. Forever Alone...

Then again, if the bright people could learn to adopt better cognitive styles, then they would be unstoppable. Smart people should be winning at life, not dwelling in the shadows as a kind of misunderstood race who push society's technological progress along yet never reap the benefits in terms of happiness.

What are some cognitive styles you wish you had?
On the other hand, Zynga is actually addressing these issue. If they integrate that self-reflection into their company culture, they may end up being a better place to work than so many start-ups that only have a "cool" company culture because the owner is cool.

At a certain scale (and this comes very quickly) you need to actively maintain a company culture. So many companies forget to do that, and then fall back into old school corporate methods to manage the problems that come with growth.
"Art is anything you get away with" is my favourite definition.

The artist should have used the valuation usually claimed by the media companies when dragging young kids to court and he'd have gotten a valuation of somewhere in the billions.
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Yes, he's some variety of neo-Keynesian

Krugman's a vaguely center-left one

That's precisely what I meant by "built around big government manipulating the money supply"

As for partisan: I think all economists that take a definite position fall under what I meant by "partisan." I meant: advocating a niche view that is not accepted by a majority of experts. (In economics, I don't think there is currently any view that doesn't fall under this description.) That's not to say there isn't a correct view; I think there is.
Sounds like a mystical experience. Maybe something to look into?
So google has been canning several projects lately. How will you feel when your project gets canned and your work thrown away? How would you feel about a 25% pay cut or being forced to move to a different state, or free food being cut? What if you're put under a micromanager who forces you to work weekends and nights to cover his/her ineptitude? Do you think GOOG shareholders would not rather keep the money that you cost? Shareholders and management will eventually alter the deal you are currently getting in their favor. If you generate value, other people want that value and it will suck at some point in the future if you continue on as rank and file.
This article is from 2009, I'm pretty sure it's made the rounds on HN before. Please put the year in the title.
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I believe the Numpy/Scipy official repositories are on sourcefourge and it has its own website. The github page appears to be the main web presence of Spark. I think of Numpy/Scipy as more conservative library not exactly the best github match. I know that Numpy/Scipy are vastly more important/discussed/used then Spark.
any recommendations on books to get?
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Sometimes, it seems like a lot of startups end up working this hard because they aren't being realistic about their chances of survival. It feels like there are a disproportionate amount of chiefs but not enough Indians.

Lacy cites companies like Twitter and Zynga as success stories. Neither of these were created by newbies. Evan Williams spent five years at Blogger. Marc Pincus had already sold one company and has a Wharton MBA. I've seen startups created by people who haven't even seen functional companies exist. That doesn't exactly inspire confidence in VCs, employees, or customers.

If you don't have experience and connections, partner with someone who does, whether it be an incubator, a co-founder, or an angel investor. Suck it up and give them a cut disproportionate to their efforts on your project. Just make sure they have valid advice and connections, and that they actually answer your emails. This is the model YC companies take as well as what fueled Facebook (Zuck/Parker).

If there is no decision maker in or closely tied to your company with relevant experience, you will most likely have to work this hard to get anything off the ground. You will cry. You will suffer exhaustion. Why? Because you are competing against experienced people who have a vested interest in your failure. Even if you are in a different space entirely, you still compete with them for funding, mindshare and talent.

You can work yourself to death. If your model is flawed because you've never actually seen a functional company work, much of the work you do is spent simply spinning your wheels to find traction.
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Can anyone recommend some good titles? There are a lot of really generic looking reference manuals.
Rovio is an 8-year-old company, not a start-up...
Apple gets away with it because they have a fantastic brand, and produce widely admired products. If people will tattoo your logo to themselves, you can probably get them to pitch in a few extra hours. If you tell them the product they are contributing to will be a cultural icon for years, they'll work weekends.

Tobacco companies and casinos look after their staff, because they know their staff are in it for the pay and conditions.

I'm not saying that Zygna is a bad company, but it's not a great one, given the money it's making. The people in it are not there to make a difference, they want a fat paycheque, a big exit, or a relaxed working environment.
I remember an article I've read around 1983 when this regulation was first introduced. Some plane taking off suffered from instrument interferences at take off, and trouble ceased when they asked some guy to turn off his "Game & Watch". Though they tried hard to reproduce the problem, they couldn't, but the rule nonetheless applies "just in case".
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I'll throw out a random personal theory here. I think this is because buying apps is a solitary activity.

As humans we are more comfortable fitting in or following. When you go to a coffee shop or a crowded store, you're buying something because you actually see others buying it. The decision-making aspect is "taken away" from you, as it was already done by people at large. There is also the element of human interaction with the barista. It's much easier to spend $4 this way.

Yes, at the coffee shop you also might have an immediate purpose -- like chat with a friend. But even when I am alone, spending $4 doesn't seem like a big investment. It feels and seems normal. And note that this doesn't have to do with the quality of the product.

In the meantime, when you're at alone and are browsing an app store, the burden of decision making is on you. In essence, the thought process is "am I making a good decision? is it normal to buy something like this? do I really need this?" With that, $1 can seem like quite a bit when you have time and solitude to decide.
"Copies never, ever achieve the success of the thing they copied."

Windows blatantly copied the Macintosh but in pure financial terms was a much greater success. Still, you need to bring some insight into the market besides "leveraging" your competitor's design. In Microsoft's case, they realized that by commoditizing hardware they could achieve immense market penetration.
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I often fly between two cities here in Norway, and the flight time is just 30 minutes (it takes 5 hours by train, btw). One airline insists on serving coffee to everyone, and the since the coffee is blistering hot, some people usually still have a hot cup of coffee in their hands while landing.
Google didn't invent search engines

A "search engine" is an obvious idea. Google invented a new algorithm for ranking items and made their system scale.

What Google shamelessly copied was the idea of serving ads to users based on the current context (search query or in-page content), which I think it's an idea that does have some value.

Also, in regards to webmail, the protocol itself has value and it's a true innovation. However, the actual platform used to build a client is not. Since the web happened already, a webmail interface was a natural progress.

The success of a product can't really be correlated with it being an original "invention" or a clone. Other factors are a lot more important, like quality of implementation (IMHO, the biggest one), timing, distribution and luck.
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Are you happy with this life? Serious question.

I once tried giving up alcohol, and I found it was suddenly a lot more difficult hanging around friends who were drinking.

I've also been through stages in my life where I used other less legal substances, and looking back it was one of the most fun and happy times of my life.

To me, chemicals have provided variety, fun and different and unusual states of mind. Fortunately I never got into anything that affected my health in a significant way, although I have a constant back-of-the-mind concern about my alcohol intake, given how poisonous and ever-present it is.
My most recent "meh" styled F# script had to parse 16MB of ugly XML that contained values which even unicode did not define. The goal was to create a lookup structure based on this data that could then be used from C#. I used seq expressions for cleaning up the input stream, active patterns for parsing the XML, but felt that I had no other choice than to use classes with dictionary members for the lookup data structure. With well over 100,000 items to organize and store, I did not want the overhead of creating a functional structure that would then have to be converted to nested Dictionaries for C# use. Anyway, at that point it became kind of pointless to try and avoid an imperative approach to populating the data structure.
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The "copied" ui elements are actually neither copied nor random. They are conventional elements predating both OSes. Such as the tab coloring in the spreadsheet which is from manila folders, the mail reading vertical panes from Outlook, the icons from Windows, and the keyboard, which is from the typewriter.

And that is where I stopped.
You are implying that "the team" actually reads that section of the code, and furthermore that they will actually attempt to fix any issues found in that section rather than just go find the original author and ply him with beer to get him to fix it.
I'm too stupid. Care to elaborate?
It's also only in the USA that airlines are so insistent about the lack of electronics. On Asian domestic airlines, you get the same speech to turn them off, but then the flight attendants will just ignore you while you listen to your MP3 player during take-off. Asian domestic airlines don't fall out of the sky that much more often than American ones.
CSS has its own quirks, couple that with browser's own quirks; and it might get hard.

However, here are a few pointers for people who are new to CSS, struggling to get CSS positioning:

http://www.alistapart.com/authors/s/nstokes

Another very important issue is that of "containing floats", http://complexspiral.com/publications/containing-floats/ , th that the height of a container is not expanded to fill its contents is logical from a publisher pov.

Where does one start the next paragraph if a paragraph has a long image on the right? It doesn't start when the image ends, the next paragraph starts when the text in the previous paragraph ends.

Still, though, CSS positioning is hard, and that's why people are using grid frameworks, like 960.gs.

One other major issue is CSS is that all browsers have an internal stylesheet, and those sheets are slightly different, hence people make use of CSS resets or normalizers that default properties to common values.

As a sidenote: To see how one can use CSS to build quality documents, look at PrinceXML: http://www.princexml.com/samples/
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If you prefer not to move, there are many remote opportunities to be found on the net. It depends on what type of work you are looking for.

I've had great success freelancing on elance. It's usually not the most glamorous work, but in spite of what people say, you can get good clients there that pay a correct salary. iPhone development is in hot demand. Just don't start underbidding every one, you can't compete on price with Asian providers. It's a great way to add a little to your bottom line while doing the things that matter.

If you're looking for longer term work, I would go search for job boards in whatever technology you want to work. I don't have much experience there though.
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I find areas which hold promise, i.e. big impact for society, environment, human happiness etc., where there aren't a lot of others working right now, and where I would like to work. Then I look for a place / market where a standard business model would give a decent to good return on investment. Then I recruit a team. Then we start raising money.

I have done the last three startups this way, since '99, and it is a fairly slow process for me.

Edit: added last sentence
From her LinkedIn profile it looks like she is no longer there.
I built a minimum viable web app that tracks my daily nutritional intake. Using it Ive lost about 40lbs in a few months. Im also adding a part that tracks what I do in the gym. I have some real good ideas but im scared the market might already be flooded with similar tools. Should I pursue it further?
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I agree, this is also mentioned somewhere in one of the last slides.

As a designer I know about MySQL, the terminal, PHP, Javascript, jQuery, RoR, Sass, HTML, CSS etc.; if a developer knows the basics about color, typography and alignment and knows why the designer in his team does the things he/she does it's probably going to be much easier working together.
If I had a four year old, I would totally want her to be like that.
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I don't think you understand...let me give you a link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergodic_theorem

The relevant portion:

> For the special class of ergodic systems, the time average is the same for almost all initial points: statistically speaking, the system that evolves for a long time "forgets" its initial state.

Water, at room temperature, is a member of this special class of ergodic systems. In that sentence, "statistically speaking" refers to the fact that we describe water on a molecular scale as a statistical system (it does not mean that sometimes the system remembers). Also, "a long time" in statistical mechanics is taken as a time period much greater than the average time it takes for any two random water molecules to collide...in other words: "a long time" == nanoseconds.

By the ergodic theorem, once you remove a molecule from water, it forgets that molecule was ever present within nanoseconds. There is nothing in the spatial organization, the molecular translations, or any of the modes of vibration that would give you any clue that molecule had been present. In essence, the information of that molecules presence is erased. We call this entropy.

Ergodic theory is a mathematical theory that is key in describing systems in statistical mechanics. This is not a question of better scientific instruments. You would need to invalidate 100+ years of scientific knowledge for homeopathy to work as advertised.

Edit: In all fairness, I guess I should clarify the "statistically speaking" bit. Technically, there is a non-zero probability that some bit of water will "remember" a molecule that was previously disolved in it. The nice thing about statistical mechanics is that it allows you to calculate exactly how frequently this would be expected to occur. The answer is that you would expect a volume of 1ml of water to "remember" for at least 1 second somewhere in the universe less than once...not once per minute or once per hour, but once per the lifetime of the universe. So, yeah, homeopathy is complete BS.
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Presumably you could just take street methamphetamine (or illegally imported pharmaceutical amphetamine), saving money and preserving the nation's critical legal amphetamine supplies for authorized users.

There's some pharmacological difference between methamphetamine and methamphetamine, but IMO the much bigger difference is perception and the context in which they're used, vs. the chemical itself.
> So what you're saying is basically that if a kid is
> smart then he will be smart even without verbal
> acknowledgement of it

You basically want to pour all of the positive feedback into the tools that will help the child in the future. No matter how 'smart' the child is, they will need to learn discipline, study skills, etc.

Even if the child has a natural knack for picking things up quickly, that won't always be the case. Those sort of abilities tend to plateau after high school, which can make university a challenge.

It's possible that you could get away with calling your child smart, so long as you worked to instill the idea that the only way to 'stay smart' is through hard work and discipline.