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Yes, "the rebellion" against traditional publishing might actually work. But whose rebellion are you actually talking about? Most people that are turning to self-publishing are doing this simply because it is a cheaper way of getting their books out, not as a rebellion at traditional publishers... On the other hand, you've clearly got no choice: few are going to want to publish your work now, so how can what you're doing be considered a rebellion? It appears to be your only option.

Aside from this, I'm pretty sure what I'm looking at is an extremely weird/negative way of marketing your book. However, this might actually work. I'm honestly feeling pretty curious in what you've written...

That said, I'd like to point out:

1. Why are you attempting to market your book using your private business drama? The whole sale depends on me trusting in your personality, acumen and ethic. You're not coming across as a strategic thinker. You're coming across as a hothead. Pause and think about that.

2. Why are you picking a fight with a far stronger animal than yourself? Be realistic: settle the score and do something of value. Don't start fights that you're not resourced to fight. Don't.
IMO, piracy is theft. The way I was raised, taking something that isn't yours without permission is stealing.
If you feel bad thinkng of yourself as a thief, you come up with rationalizations as to why stealing is OK. Here are some popular ones:

"That store is overcharging/doing something bad/is a big corporation so they deserve to have their stuff stolen."

"They are using the wrong word (pirate) to describe my stealing so even though I'm still stealing and I know what they mean by that word, since I'm not doing what they say I'm doing I'm not (technically) a pirate.

"I think what they are selling should be free so it is alright for me to steal it."
I'm heading to bed. Merry Christmas everyone, thanks for all the support and for the criticism too. The former means so much to me, the latter gives me an opportunity to check my facts and sincerity and either win you over or have it out in some virtuous conflict :)
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Heck no. Google doesn't care about developers at all. Google's entire business strategy is to devalue everything outside of its core business, thus leaving Google ads as the only money-making opportunity on the internet, where it already has nearly a monopoly.

Android, Google Docs, Google Plus, it's all a giant effort to devalue iOS, Office, and Facebook.
Goodbye GoDaddy
Just kind of curious, what happens if a developer fixes something and the tester wants it immediately so that they can test that fix? Do they have to wait another day for the build to happen?

I setup builds which could be tested as soon as the build was complete. I also had to do a lot of work to optimize the build process so it would complete quickly. It started out with ~20+ minutes and I worked it down to around 3-5 minutes.
> 2. Why are you picking a fight with a far stronger animal than yourself? Be realistic: settle the score and do something of value.

You're talking about rational self-interest, I'm talking about forcing an industry that's crucial and operating badly to step their game up.

It's not rational self-interested, that's for damn sure. It's a principled stand.

(Also, this is just a hobby, I have multiple day jobs.)
Cool. Christmas trees aren't flat though, you could have made it use the whole space rather than one plane. Merry Christmas.
They added support in FF10, so it should make it to their stable release in around two months.
I had a similar experience upon moving to Palo Alto last June. Living, working, and walking in places where "the greats" work changes your perspective immensely. Yes, it humanizes them, but it also emphasizes that you could just as well create something yourself as tremendous, valuable, and worthwhile. You don't have to be a god. They weren't.
Shutdown one startup (Notifo) with one awesome cofounder and started Picplum.com with another awesome cofounder and we became roommates too. 24/7 startup bliss!
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There are two probable sets of selection bias going on -- one is that HN readers are probably much, much more likely to start a business than those from the general public (just like Fox News viewers are more likely to vote Republican) and then on top of that, people who started their own business are more likely to take the poll than those who didn't (because they are people who did start a business, clearly the topic is of more interest to them).
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Your dictionary is 20 years old.

It's officially "old" for a language that has evolved dramatically in the past few decades.
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Awesome. Merry Christmas!
I just want to provide links to the stories. No content because I'm not sure it's ok with Copyright laws and honestly it's just a pet project. Go for it, rrrewind will remain in this form basically, maybe a mobile version and that's all.

I'm happy with this project, it gives me the content I missed and I get in contact with interesting people.
Yep. We started http://backrecord.com [early days]. The driving factor for me with this is I really want to get a better handle on market efficiency. Despite studies claiming otherwise [and much scoffing by peers], my gut feel is that some aspects of some markets are not efficient. We're far enough in that we're getting some results. The data is certainly very noisy, but early indications are that there is some signal in there too.
Ask HN: Where do I get an Android app icon?
My app desperately needs a new icon but I'm having some trouble finding a good designer. Where should I look for one? Ideally the icon would be in vector format.

I've already asked some random designers I've found on dribbble, but their price suggestions have been rather unrealistic. How much should I expect to pay?

I've also tried 99designs and that was a total disaster.
Why not? I think advertising is a valid business model for sites that are focused on a specific niche.
because you have an argument list, where you can put lot's of stuff in perl6
A very well-written piece. Warranted many pauses to think
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Compared to the news sites you've mentioned, I've increasingly discovered that the primary reason I read things on HN is the page load times.
The professional commentary, snark, and community of TechCrunch are lovely - but they simply aren't worth a load time fifteen times longer than a text page full of HN comments and a quick link to the article/startup in question.
Makes me wonder what other things I would more readily consume with a primarily text driven interface...
Absurdly, people are still making money promising tickets to space...
We _can_ roll out builds faster - but as we're using multiple tiers of framework, we have to make sure that the back end is still compatible with the front end. The back end is only promoted once per day, and if there's been a breaking change since the last promotion then we can't move the front-end up until the back end is also promoted.

And as multiple front-ends use the same back-end, we can't just move the back-end up whenever we feel like it, or we break everyone else's UIs.
Totally reminded me of: http://unicodexmas.com/ <- Christmas tree made out of "valid, semantic, and imageless HTML and CSS", ornamented with Unicode characters.
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It doesn't sound like a compromise to me. The metadata is added in a way that is useless to all unzip programs except Finder.

The compromise seems to be that they made a Mac-specific derivative zip format, but in a very non-transparent way: it will work just fine for a long time, and then suddenly it doesn't work.

If you have essential metadata (such as aliases) they will still not make it across to a Windows user, and it won't have "just worked". In that case, you'd been better served by a warning when creating the zip.
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Unfortunately I don't think the Godaddy situation proves much of anything to other companies because Godaddy is so easy to boycott. Transferring a domain will cost you some fees, but it is relatively painless, you can get the same exact service from someone else with ease.

Are the people who turned their back on Godaddy as likely to not buy the next big Nintendo game if they are Nintendo fans?

I'm pretty skeptical that a godaddy style boycott will work on a company whose good/service is not so easily replaceable.

See:

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2011/11/6e4936...
Keep in mind that for some reason they default-disabled the telnet client on Vista and later.
"Native Client only works on x86 and x86_64. You can't run Native Client content on your ARM phone"

Not true: http://www.chromium.org/nativeclient/reference/arm-overview
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tldr;

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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I legitimately read this as "A note to all startups on here: HN killed TC in traffic driving to our startup." I came in to post condolences.
A post by TC has still much more "social proof" and SEO juice (stupid word). We still get converting visitors based on a two year old TC post...
How would NaCl lock the web into a particular hardware platform?

NaCl run on x86-32, ARM and x86-64.
But the question is can our modern capitalism survive a decreasing population?
eh, started, turned a profit, but didn't sell or shutter. There a category for that?
I don't know perl. I knew what the first one was doing. I wouldn't know what yours did if I didn't have the context.
I'm not 100% sure since I'm not the guy you responded to, but I think his situation is that he's listening to the audio in the same language as the subtitles, and they are different.

I've seen this happen when English subtitles were enabled for an English language movie I've been watching. Sometimes what is transcribed in the subtitles is different than what people are actually saying (though the gist is the same) even though both are in English.

In any case, this is clearly not something easily fixable by a website script.
I think concentrating on any methodology and thinking success will come is irrational.

In the end, it comes down to blood sweat and actual work put into something.
Does mechanical & electro-mechanicals cover the machined steel band/antenna/frame? Because that's not cheap and it's a difficult material to work with. In one of the iPhone4 original videos, they had a multi-axis CNC going around outside and grinding/polishing it down, which was pretty impressive for a mass produced part.
"I’ll remember how he chose to pursue ideas that inspired a man staring down death."

I've always been leery of people who are obsessed with work to this extent. If work is your only metric, then yeah, its great. I sure would love my employees to have a 'work till you die' attitude. But life != work. Or rather, life > work.

For me, Steve was an interesting curiosity. Not an example to emulate.

I live in the neighborhood. I love so many aspects of silicon valley culture. But when I hear that train late at night, I'm not thinking "alone on my journey, on the edge of chaos, exploding into the future". Hell no.

Steve authorized his biography so that his kids would know him. Inspirational? For me, it sounds like a nightmare.

Water is necessary for life, but if you drink too much water you will die. Positive traits like creativity/focus/passion are crucial, but unchecked they can become destructive.

Live in balance.
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Freezes my iPhone.
Incorporated a newco this year (webvio.com) which is the first new entity in awhile. Its a labs project with our first launch of todayskicks.com so far.
> Did you correct it? Nope.

I didn't need to, because you did. I haven't made the same mistake again.
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Beware: Depending on your backtracking limits, at some point the regex will start deciding numbers are prime that aren't.

http://zmievski.org/2010/08/the-prime-that-wasnt
It's cool, but it's regexp, not regular expression -- regular expressions cannot test for primeness. The proof is a simple application of pumping lemma[1]: we want to show that language { a^p: p prime } is not regular. Suppose it is. By pumping lemma we have numbers N, n >= 1, such that for every k >= 0, we have a^(N+nk) in our language. But that means that for every k, N+nk is prime, and it fails for k = N, since N+nN = N(1+n) is not a prime, since both N and 1+n are greater than 1.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumping_lemma_for_regular_langu...
That's marvelous. Good work. And Merry Christmas!
Perl6 pointy block is just a synonym for a function. So below is exactly same as my pointy block example...

my $x = sub ($a, $b) { $a + $b };

And typically with Perl TIMTOWTDI :)

my $x = -> { $^a + $^b };

Personally I prefer the pointy block especially how it (visually) fits in with other Perl6 syntax constructs, for eg:

for 1..10 -> $odd, $even { say "odd $odd, even $even" }
Sebastian, I really liked: "The book isn’t right. It’s like, 20% mine, 20% Matthew’s, 10% Jim’s, and 50% corporate clusterfuck."

This was why I'd tried to convince you to use Leanpub :) Obviously your current book is done, but if you do another book I'd encourage you to use the Lean Publishing process of publishing a small in-progress version and iterating in public with feedback from your readers...
If you have an armv7 chip, sure. But apparently nobody is motivated to fix the alignment bugs and make it work on older chips.
we did well, made a bunch of money, but our team was not all there to carry the weight. we had a good run for a few years and learned a lot, but it was unexpected and was biting hard into the paths and ambitions that the founders were already deep into. we're all still the best of friends. no sadness or regrets, just the future.
I wish I could help foster two things:

1) That you have a more beautiful life that involves somewhat less suffering than you seem to have (something I am working on and achieving for myself).

2) That you and HN get to a more peaceful place with each other. When I was more of a mess, I really hated how much drama I brought to the communities I participated in.

If there is any way I can help you (or HN) with either of those, please don't hesitate to write me.

Have a wonderful new year Sebastian.

(PS: I don't think we are of the same generation. I am 46. My understanding is you are substantially younger.)
This is often the case with language and file format standards: The working group drafts are free, and the standard is just an approval-without-change of the final draft.
If the idea that you are pursuing is out of some list of "hot trends", then you are already too late.
Isn't Google a business based on advertising revenue?
Others have pointed out that all of those services can be purchased for a flat rate, i.e. without handing over 90% of the revenue from your book.
You should do something to make links stand out imo.
TI neither makes Flash nor DRAM nor acts as a foundry service. There is no way that TI can take a single slot from Samsung.
Last I checked there was a list of eligible engineering degrees and software engineering was not on the list.
What seriously? I thought you had received funding from the World of Goo guys right? What a shame, seemed like a great game.
Don't learn the wrong lesson. You might as well be saying "never try" or "never be unlucky."

That would be the main lesson only if you somehow could assert that the failure of your business is due largely to the fact that it was based on advertising revenue.
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I the two domains I had with godaddy a long time ago b/c they were nutso back then.
Seems like Microsoft is on the list of supporters of Protect IP. Didn't they come out against SOPA? Is SOPA slightly worse than Protect IP?
There's a lot to be said for not having your registrar run your DNS. It's a nice perk to not have to worry about a second service, but having your DNS separate from your registrar means that you can switch registrars without having to suffer DNS blackout downtime.

I used to run my own DNS servers, and it worked fine. I now run all of my DNS from Linode, which also works fine. Made my recent transition from GoDaddy painless, since I didn't have to worry about GoDaddy ceasing to respond to queries before new DNS had propagated.
I have tried writing non-trivial Haskell programs in the past, but the IOMonad/lack of parameterized modules has stifled me.

Essentially, I start with basic code and possibly use some constants in the beginning. Eventually, I need the constants to be loaded from a config file or command line and now a huge swath of my code, which was perfectly pure, needs to be dragged into the IO Monad and the refactoring effort involved is huge, as no function that is even indirectly touching the so-called constant is now pure. This ends up being extremely painful. I have asked around and 2 suggestions I received, dump all my refactored functions inside a giant let clause, or wait for parameterized modules. How did you deal with this issue?
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Comments like this are the reason I read HN, which is really an oasis in a desert of confident ignorance.
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I think Sebastian really is the next Tim Ferriss, but not at all in a good way. I think he's all talk and almost no results, and he's trying to spin that into a success that then justifies him tooting his own horn as a "strategist" (what the fuck?). All over his blog, all over his comments on HN, he makes himself out to be this amazing business guru, juggling 27 world-changing projects at a time, upending major industries with a stroke of his pen. This is from a comment in this thread:

In the last four weeks, I was able to hire like 30-40 people or so, keep six or so projects running, do a deal with a top hotel chain and top jeweler, put out a book in a week, lead a struggle for reform against traditional publishing, made $38,500, shot a bunch of videos, had a bunch of fun, hired an architect to build an orphanage in Ulaanbaatar, and so on.

I call bullshit on all of it. Well, almost all of it; maybe he had fun. Sebastian is always waving his hands and declaring things like this, but there's just no evidence. None. Zip, zilch. Why doesn't he ever post any proof of his results? Why no links to any of these projects, no naming of the major companies he's helping change? He clearly has no problem with self-promotion, so it's not out of a sense of modesty. Anyone who has ever hired knows that if you managed to hire 30-40 people in a month, you don't have time for anything else. My guess is that he emailed 30-40 people on the internet and maybe hired one or two for some small contract work.

Even in this whole thing with S&S, he seems to miss the possibility that not only might they not really care that they lost him, they might be glad. Maybe they took a hard look at the drivel he was churning out and realized that they were better off with the relationship severed.

Enough talking, Sebastian. Put your head down and fucking build something, then you can write a book in ten or twenty years and tell us about it. We don't need another vapid self-promoter selling books exhorting people to manifest themselves to greatness.

And if I'm way off and you really are what you portray yourself as, post some fucking proof. Don't just give us the old "you're free to believe me or not" bullshit that every scammer says. You want some real personal brand equity? All it takes is some proof of the results you're constantly harping on.
Exactly. So we get our present on time :)
I think that you can count on that. A leading edge semiconductor plant is probably the most expensive factory you can buy. I think I have heard somewhere around $4b for a 28nm line +/- a tech node. Compare that to $0.5b for an automobile line with a bunch of multiple axis heavy duty CNC machines (I know, citation needed).
Posts like this and comments like this (the GF) are the reason I read HN, so I can discover how stupid I am in comparison. It's an important reminder.
Yeah, if the title wasn't clear enough, this isn't a "regular expression" in the Computer Science definition (type-3 in the Chomsky hierarchy). It's a Perl regular expression, so it supports context-free grammars (type-2) I think. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomsky_hierarchy
I did not shutter a startup during 2011.

My biggest lesson is that the word "no" does not mean "no", it just means "not right now." Sometimes you have to stick with it before you see profound growth.
Continue to better your programming skills, it's a challenging but worthwhile endevour.

Being as though I was in the same boat as you (and my programming skills are still laughable!), what I found to be really helpful is while you're learning how to program, using other skills (maybe you know how to make a webpage, or animate)to create a mock-up to more quickly and easily translate your idea into something concrete and more understandable that could attract people (read: potential co-founders) into at least looking at your idea--at the very worst they can see that you've put some time and effort into your raw idea and as I'm sure any technical co-founder here would say, that's a good start. Good luck Meng. :)
Incidentally it supports quite a bit more. Even the less powerful Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE), which are used by PHP, can also easily handle context sensitive grammars (type 1): http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7434272/match-an-bn-cn-e-...
That argument is theoretically sound, and I've upvoted you for bringing up such a helpful contribution, but it's practically nonsense.

We are all running computers that are finite-state machines: if you have roughly a trillion bits of storage, you can have up to 2^1T states.

For most numbers that are interesting to humans, we are able to test their primality with regular languages, which are detectable by finite-state machines. The number of states might be quite large indeed.
> Steve authorized his biography so that his kids would know him. Inspirational? For me, it sounds like a nightmare.

My father lived most of his life long before I was born, and while he always told stories, the simple fact is, you never really know what your parents were like before you were born. If you can get a biography professionally written, no matter how much time you spent with them, your kids will probably appreciate it, whoever you are.
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