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(where you dont want to invest the time debating/educating them)

As a note and please don't construe this as a critique because it is valid to not want to spend time educating people, some times we are just to busy and these things can come from everywhere. But for me personally, I feel like it is my duty to the rest of you guys to educate them. I don't do it for them only, I do it for, me, them the next developer they cross paths with, educating them helps them as well as the next developer and could possible end up enriching both peoples life if they get it right.
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About the lunch hour, one always needs to be careful of the rules of the company they work for regarding intellectual property. Working from a Starbucks shields you from using company equipment/network, but I'm sure in some cases, lunch time is not exactly your own time.

But otherwise, great points!

As far as I'm concerned, my commute doesn't allow me very convenient public transportation. (though I should look into it again) Another thing is that I'd be a bit worried for my laptop since I would go through some somewhat shady areas…

And for the lunch hour, it's sometimes difficult to resist the appeal of socializing with colleagues. Sure you can do it at other times and it's a sacrifice, but it's still a temptation.
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"retired"; got tired of being "retired" after a month; started another company; took it public; tried retiring again; failed at that and started another company; sold it; hung around after sale; moved to help turn around another startup; left that and started another company; sold it; hung around a long time with the acquirer; moved to a competitor of the acquirer and hung around for a couple of years there; left the big company world to start another company; preparing for launch soon...

I guess not much :)

One thing selling did is give me a degree of financial freedom I didn't have before which is a big change. For example, my current startup (Keepskor, currently is stealth mode) is currently completely self-funded and will remain so until we open our doors publicly. I wouldn't be able to do that if I hadn't sold other companies before.
All seminal works in distributed systems, but as far as I can tell, there's little overlap with what OP is proposing.

It's a pretty cool architecture, but the major drawback is that you're making events quite expensive with ACID guarantees.

The more expensive events are, the less you can rely on them as a communication primitive. What if I want to submit a logging or tracing event? I don't really need ACID guarantees in that context, and it's a heavy burden on the system.

It might be nice if events had optional tags that defined what sort of policies to enact on them. One could say, "I don't need ACID guarantees on me."
Scientists ask public to help decode whale song
Imagine if this could be used for communication (probably not, but you never know). That means you could have communication between two mechanical entities at the opposite sides of the earth without worrying about pesky radio wave things like line of sight and increased signal strength requirements over a distance.

But a more appropriate answer is that there probably could be some sort of application, but unless we start building stuff we won't know what we're capable of and will be unable to engineer cool gizmos that use it.
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The United States government routinely does research. Some of it is actually quite good. See for example http://fpc.state.gov/c18185.htm

Of course that doesn't mean they always listen to the results.
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Yeah ditto that question. The icons are great, use the service all the time, always wondered how they were sourced/selected.
I'm not a citizen of the USA - I live in the EU.

The difference between the USA and Brazil, Kuba, Wenezuela and Peru are much bigger and irreconcilable than the difference between Europe's members.

However I could see the US joining Mexico and Canada. Canada has pretty high standards of living and I don't know if you noticed, but Hispanics are the nation's largest minority, as lots of Mexicans have migrated. If they can eradicate corruption in Mexico somehow, they could do it.
I think it is less relevant what is good for entrepreneurs compared to what is good for business angels. In my country, start-ups feel like a bit of a cargo cult, because the concept of traction is so vague, when you can't say that you have backing from angels or Andreesen/YC/Sequoia, etc. I don't get an impression that there's an endgame like flip/IPO here. An "Ask the Angels/VCs" to get an impression of what might make certain countries and their entrepreneurs more appealing would probably be more elucidating.

The EU as a union has not really imposed any counter-entrepreneurial measures that I can recall, which is more than I can say about the local politicians who tax everything, everyone, and their dog.
It’s time for startup founders to think bigger?
You are correct. Surprisingly, I even found evidence for that: http://support.apple.com/kb/TA31048:

* All the cards in a given stack must be the same size, even if there are several different backgrounds in the stack.

* Smallest card size: 64 x 64 pixels

* Largest card size: 1280 x 1280 pixels.
Last summer I had some issues getting OAuth working with the Twitter API for Android apps. I ended up using the signpost library. I posted my results with instructions here: https://github.com/adelevie/AndroidOAuth. Maybe it will help you.
I very much doubt that these bots will ever replace humans -- and certainly not near term.

What they will properly do is become what computers are to us -- a tool which helps humans.

While most technical obstacles will be overcome the limitation of these robots are their use of energy -- lifting something up in the air is so much less efficient that almost any other method of transportation.
Right, it's not just for seed capital, it's for ramping up. Like Case said, most job creation doesn't come from a couple founders in a small office or a 50,000 person multinational company. It comes from getting out of the small office.
With all the negative publicity focued at RIM these days, you'd think an SVP and VP would know a little better. SMH
This is one thing I love about free software: the ability to extend a set of code to other devices and purposes. Somebody has an itch to scratch, shares those changes, and other people benefit as well. :) I just wish that hardware manufacturers in general would release the specifications for their devices, so that hackers could write more free firmware blobs and drivers without having to split hairs. Ideally, the manufacturers would release the code themselves, so that there would be wider support for hardware, and you wouldn't see things like "sound isn't working yet" in the known issues list.

P.S. While this project describes themselves as "open source", it is also a free software project since they use a free license. Otherwise, what would be the point, if hackers couldn't share their contributions with each other and the world?
Given the people who bought Blackberries, it would seem like an ARM-based netbook with a really awesome keyboard and 3G would have been a better idea for a first step outside the cellphone market. It really seems like the Storm and Playbook were me-toos instead of looking at what makes RIM great and pushing that.
Cute. I found it a bit annoying that P1 couldn't be dragged left, but the demo was otherwise very cool.
Teaching people to use Git incorrectly is a bad UI design decision.
Yeah, I agree, I was just responding to the article, "But the hack may not last long, with Mr Schappi predicting Apple would want to close the hole he exploited."

On the other hand, Apple gets uppity in sometimes unpredictable ways.
Regarding your SO, I agree that it's important to have someone that understands how you make money and what's required to build a business.

The question I have is, how much more beneficial was it to have your SO involved at some meaningful level? Sales is an interesting spot because it makes a case for itself to justify the time required.

Are there any pros / cons of involving your SO directly and at the core of your business that you'd be able/willing to share? I'd be really interested to know. Thanks for sharing.
There's a reason the client libraries are lacking though.

In my experience with both OAuth 1.0 and 2.0 libraries for iOS, Node.js, and Ruby (among others), OAuth 1.0 is just a lot harder to implement. It's not fun in any way...
This is all it took for me to implement Tumblr's API with OAUTH on Android 1.6 and up: https://github.com/RobertSzkutak/AndroidExamples/blob/master... . I've personally never had a problem working with OAUTH (1.0 or 2.0) on Android. Does iOS development really complicate writing clients for web services that much more?
Or you could choose a sane interpretation that does not require amendment every time a larger object is shown 'entanglible', but still preserves locality?

See macroscopic decoherence.
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why, why at all?
Good question...
my original thought was that it would be a great place to forge partnerships, link exchange programs, meet suppliers, technology providers and infrastructure providers and even end customers in the field for web services.

I find that very difficult to do currently as the data and secure access is scattered all over the place.

I am willing to challenged in this assumption of mine and I agree that I am just starting with tools for only a fraction of that vision and will have to figure out the rest as I go along.

I agree with the need for the filter... I thought about that too.. but I want to start off with the easier definition to begin with just so I can get something off the ground.

Bloggers will be a very important part of the whole thing and is included in my definition of website owners. When the site is fully ready, they will be handled as a special case.

This was thought provoking. Thanks a lot.
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It "worked" for HP's TouchPad. They lost $500 on every device, but at least they finally sold those tablets.

So how about giving those PlayBooks away with a box of Cracker Jack's? There must be some kids who want a tablet that can't send email and doesn't have any games.
If you're worried about legal issues with working on your own projects during lunch time you can easily sidestep that problem by spending that time learning instead of making.
Wow, this is amazing! Much more detailed than my own interactive Bézier curves demo:

http://www.jasondavies.com/animated-bezier/
For convenience of argument I will retract the child porn example, but "conspiring", "shouting" and "advocating" are much closer to a common-sense understanding of the word "speech" than is "walking around with [any particular symbol] on your arm".

Unless you totally missed the words "conspire" and "advocate" in my post, I'm not at all sure what you're trying to say.
In general, the code is still impressively verbose. OTOH, it's incredibly short for Java code. I suspect that line/feature added count will increase more quickly than it would with Python or Ruby and it will quickly become a nightmare scenario indistinguishable from a more traditional Java web approach.
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That's impressive. What were all your startups, if you don't mind sharing?
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It would be ok for a 2 second delay. I want to sound like Darth vader.
Amateur hour really is over:

http://blogs-images.forbes.com/marcwebertobias/files/2011/05...

Amateurs could not possibly lose a half a billion dollars competing head-on with a juggernaut and ignoring the obvious time and time again.

UPDATE: Enough snark. Here’s my post-moretm: They drank their own kool-aid. Every single thing about it strikes me as the work of a team trying to sell to their management rather than to the market. Or, the work of a team that was only allowed to build what their management wanted to succeed rather than what the market would reward with success.

Their advertising brags and boast of how awesome it is, but nobody who actually talks to customers would believe that this is true or believable. Management, on the other hand, might believe it is awesome if they were reading the ad copy while looking at some incomprehensible PowerPoint with fancy graphics.

Their choice of technologies and features hits the sweet spot of what the company is prepared to fund rather than what customers are prepared to buy.

The whole thing seems inward-facing, a little like certain start-ups that are buzzword compliant because that’s what VCs want to fund rather than because that’s what markets want to buy.
One thing you might want to look at is putting in some time in the mornings with your best energy instead of at the end of a long, long day. Early to bed, and early to rise might work for you.
I didn't know about humans.txt. Thanks for pointing that out. I will study it.

From the first look I feel it means to do something different from what I intend to do.

In my answer to bsenftner's question below I have explained what I want to accomplish(don't want to repeat it here and clutter the thread). I wonder what you think.
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I am tired to see everybody trying to publish articles on how to get more traffic online and everybody just republishing old ideas. These 7 ways are new for many and if they are done correctly you can get quite some good traffic.
But that "X Sucks" title sure gets the hits...
Not a game-theoretic name, but in evolutionary theory such behaviours with similar outcomes are called "kin selection" or "group selection". IMHO, the former is more on the point.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kin_selection
> Given the people who bought Blackberries

Depends on the country, Blackberries are mostly (to solely) corporate in the US, but in Europe it tends to be used a lot by teenagers and young adults for extensive messaging thanks to BBM + good keyboard.

On the other hand, I don't see how they'd get that demographic a BB tablet, so you probably have a good point.
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Can you put up a warning dialog, at least, when doing a force push?
Phillip Torrone of MAKE has a radical suggestion for libraries' "next big thing" -- provide resources for building things.

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/03/is-it-time-to-rebui...
People buy the RIM devices for their keyboards. To go and make a touchscreen tablet without one is misguided and blind to their customers.

That being said, the utility of a keyboarded-tablet is somewhat dubious at best. It'd feel like a hobbled netbook.
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Sorry, but that's like looking at Hawaii and saying the US is a tropical country. You're ignoring 90% of the money spent by organizations to influence Congress.

Donations are only one small way that money influences the hill. If they were as effective as lobbying, you wouldn't see 10X the money being spent on that.
Make a schedule where every minute of every day goes for 2 weeks and you'll know what to cut. Having joint family support to do everything for you is a big help already.
financial freedom, but other than that... no. would like to try it again to see if what happened was luck or skill.
Would it be all right if I asked you some questions on the lead gen front? My email is in my profile.

Thanks
Their new market is heavy texters. Corporate US has all but given up on the platform, with an avalanche of switching to Android and iOS.

If you want a cheap phone with an inexpensive text-messaging plan, RIM is your go-to device.
Actually, this attitude is the traditional one, and your's is the more radical.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patronage
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I own a Playbook and it's really, really a nice device. It's fast, browsing is convenient, it can multi tasks, the form factor is better than the iPad and it can be used as a mass storage on my PC. I've played with the iPad, the iPad2 and the Samsung Galaxy but I prefer the PlayBook.

The big problem: no apps.
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HDMI connect/disconnect does not work on a laptop

Yes, it's annoying having to live with this. However, I don't ever have to restart X. I can use the nvidia-settings app to switch it manually.

The ability for me to script the monitor configuration is missing though. I have to click around with the mouse like a lame MS Windows UI.
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could it be related to this:

"After a series of one-sided hearings, luxury goods maker Chanel has won recent court orders against hundreds of websites trafficking in counterfeit luxury goods. A federal judge in Nevada has agreed that Chanel can seize the domain names in question and transfer them all to US-based registrar GoDaddy. The judge also ordered "all Internet search engines" and "all social media websites"—explicitly naming Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Bing, Yahoo, and Google—to "de-index" the domain names and to remove them from any search results."

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/11/us-judge-ord...
The argument is that the music labels have basically thrown in the towel against piracy and are resorting to an extremely un-lucrative streaming model supported primarily by advertising (free Spotify is still an amazing service for consumers), because at least they'll be getting SOME earnings from people who refuse to pay for the music they listen to (previously, pirates). It's sad for the labels, and even sadder for the musicians who get virtually nothing.

Spotify would be going nowhere fast if it wasn't for the enormous piracy problem.
How would these be any shorter in Python or Ruby?

@GET
public Collection<Integer> listStudentIds() {
return STUDENTS.keySet();
}

or

@DELETE
@Path("{uid: [0-9]+}")
public boolean deleteStudent(@PathParam("uid") int uid) {
final Student deletedStudent = STUDENTS.remove(uid);

if (deletedStudent == null) {
throw new WebApplicationException(Response.Status.NOT_FOUND);
} else {
return true;
}
}

I'll grant that Java programs often become more verbose than their Python/Ruby counterparts - but I would argue that trait can be held to a minimum with the proper libraries and coding style.
German taxes, more than 1000 pages of new rules written each month, nobody can follow, not even the state employees taking care of checking the submissions. For the tax part, I have a very good German accountant with a very good knowledge of all the cross border rules. Everything is done through chartered accountants both in UK and Germany to avoid issues.
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Because they import most of their entertainment form America, maybe?
This is such a brilliant point. I find the coder "puritanism" leaking into startups and I can't say I agree with it.

Starting a business has been done in many ways. Having been in business for 15 years I have gotten to meet a lot of other small business owners and there is as much variety in how established businesses came to be.

Having this delusion of its only a "real" startup if you do it this way is hogwash. So many great businesses were built on hard work, sacrifice, long hours, juggling more than one thing at once, until the new business could stand on it's own two feet.

Knowing when, and what your new business needs (more time, stepping away from other obligations) is a critical skill. Simply committing all of your time to one thing without a wider business, or varied experience can in some cases be a detriment.
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Server side OAuth is easy to implement, even without any library: you just send login parameters and callback-url where you get actual token that can be used to authenticate user. Problem with natice client is that, well, you cannot give callback url that will always work (having http-server at client? clumsy, hotspots will block, etc.).

Only way (even with OAuth2, if I recall right Google documentation) to get "working" flow with natice apps is to give special parameter as callback-url, which will return validation token in html-page. From where you need scrape it. Maybe there will be something better after OAuth2 is finished, but for now: easier to make own authentication server and API to talk with it.
Hi guys, I'm the developer of the application.
Thank you for all your comments. I'll take them into consideration while trying to improve the rough edges and missing features of Slowy for the next update.
I'll update the website soon (http://slowyapp.com), completing the FAQ section and adding a new blog section.
This article reads more like "XAuth sucks". I've done more Windows Phone dev than iOS dev - and apparently I've taken the "native code listening for a Javascript event" functionality for granted. OAuth via a web view is dead simple.
"I have yet to see any concrete evidence of this."

Did you read the article?
Judging from the comments on his website, it sounds like everybody and their grandma hates GoDaddy. I've recently been looking into getting a domain name and starting a website, can anyone point me towards a more reputable site to acquire a domain and host a site? (Yeah, I know, I read HN daily, and I'm still clueless when it comes to actually putting up a website)
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Secret communication channel? I don't know how easy to intercept quantum entanglement. I seem to remember the quantum state would collapse if it's eavesdropped.