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mixmax, these are very reassuring words for someone at a very vulnerable point in their startup. I tried, its positive, be positive and something will work fine. Or even a more realistic realization if you are failing too that it is fine to fail.

But I think the hardest problem we all founders face is to find the person who can share the views and motivate the right way. Most of the time, someone consoling would also be irritating, you just want to crib (mostly) and you will get over it and start working the next day.

It is almost ironically, sometimes, you just know what you want to hear and you are just waiting for someone to come and tell that so that you are fine.

The problem is not able to comprehend how everything would turn out as there would be tens of big and small issues at hand any given day and getting clarity is a big part of not feeling negative.

I have been fighting with all the bad vibes in office offlate and it is terrible especially as a single founder with a 7 ppl team. We haven't launched our product - it has been 1 year since our first engineer. It is already negative as you don't have anything out there and now you put in pressure things are going to break worse, ppl don't want to put in extra hours. It is hard to pump in positive energy. Fearing I will give feedback wrong way or push people too hard at this time I became reclusive. Few people own up, leaving them on their own track helps but it is almost a problem as you got to pull it off as a team and for that I have to speak up, bring them together with lots of energy. It is a hard time right now.

Hoping the system copes.
Deathsmiles is a CAVE game.

Jamestown is amazing. I really like that the player maximizes score and effectiveness by using all of the resources available in this game. In a lot of other games, like DoDonPachi or Perfect Cherry Blossom, you ruin your point run if you bomb.

To me, Jamestown alone is worth buying the bundle, but I'll also definitely enjoy Super Meat Boy.
When you go to the purchase screen you can choose between "contact me," and "don't contact me." To Louis' credit the default is "don't contact me," but I as a fan actually opted in to receive future notifications. I fully expect to be notified next time this opportunity arises (and I am probably not alone).
It's not just that Safari is excluded, but that it was only tested on Windows 7 32-bit. Why not test on at least Windows 7 64-bit? Aren't most of Intel's chips 64-bit by now (Core 2 Duo, Core iX)?

And why not Android or iOS? A quick search shows that Microsoft sold 400 million licenses of Windows 7 (32 and 64-bit combined). Apple has sold 250 million iOS devices and there have been 200 million Android devices sold.
I agree that the lack of ':' preceding a symbol is the most awkward part. Especially since it only works in object literals. It means that the expression

{ :test => 1 } == { test: 1 }

is true, but the expression

{ :test => 1 } == { test : 1 }

results in a syntax error. In other words

test:

is almost like a preprocessor directive for

:test =>

which is a strange expansion to have by default in a language.
He made the list opt in, so if you didn't want to hear from it that was the default.
"I really hope people keep buying it a lot, so I can have shitloads of money"

I'm buying it now for this.
I disagree. I like Louis CK but I haven't looked into this at all and probably in a few weeks I'll have forgotten about it without buying anything. But the model I like. I'd love if I could get all my media DRM free over the internet and be able to pay for it. Right now I torrent and PVR a lot of stuff but the continued existence of programs I like are at the whim of those with Nielsen boxes.
You can opt into getting emails from him, when you make the purchase.
Back in the early days of the internet, I was the IT Manager at Nettwerk Records. We went out of our way to put complete, high quality MP3's of every song we owned the rights to online, for free, because we were willing to let the music stand on its own. We believed that it was worth giving potential new fans the chance to hear what they were (hopefully) buying, and that really was the case.

We had so much obscure music in the back catalogue that people would browse our archives, find a band that they'd never heard before, listen to a few songs, and then buy one of their CD's. More often than not, people would buy multiple CD's.

For that matter, when Sarah McLachlan's first big album, Surfacing, came out, the day that it hit the shelves we also put the entire thing in (for the time) high quality MP3's up on our web site for people to grab copies of.

And even if they didn't buy the CD, we hoped that they'd enjoy the music enough that they'd come out to see her in concert, or at Lilith Fair.

That kind of worked out not too badly, it turns out.
It's because there's not enough work when the startup is first building their project to fill up a pure designer's time, and if one of your cofounders is sitting idle while you're trying to build a company, you have a serious problem. Same reason there are very few tech startups with legal cofounders, or accountant cofounders, or techwriter cofounders.

You do get a fair number of startups with designer/frontend-engineer cofounders (37signals?) or designer/business cofounders (Apple?). But a startup founder needs to wear many hats. If you define your specialty narrowly, you won't be able to do everything that needs to be done to get a business off the ground.
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Why are all the downvotes on comments relating to the website cost? I thought it was pretty high as well when I read that, I mean sure you pay much more for peace of mind, but that's like a 100% markup. And the red on black text wasn't a great choice IMO.
Umm, actually you can... it just requires some skills on the apache config side.
I've taken to telling people about other startup ideas I have that I may or may not ever work on because I know that they would likely approach the problem differently than I would and any idea will likely change drastically if you're doing it right.

I thought it might be a fun exercise to just start a page on my blog for them, but I haven't taken the time to do that yet.
Hmm, not sure if this was intended (and if it was, why), but the title on your sign-up page seems to be off, at least for me. Maybe it's by default regionalized to a different language?

Other then that, looks amazing. If there's easy import/export features, I could see this luring me away from Pinboard, at least temporarily.
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Having started at the (US) 99th percentile and having luckily risen to the 2nd percentile, I'll say that the most difficult part was learning 'the language' of the middle class. By language, I mean all the nuanced understandings, cultural concepts, non-verbal stuff that is impossible to gain without being in it. And, as an adult I'm still learning.

One example that I've recently become frighteningly aware of is that I have a vastly different understanding of what 'property' means than those who came from middle class US cultures. It's taken many years for me to understand this because in fact I know and understand the English definition of property as well as my counterparts. But, there are subtle differences in meaning that fundamentally filter my perspective. For instance, I never understood why my college friends became upset when I borrowed things and never returned them, nor why they thought it bizzare that I'd tell them, of my stuff, to just keep it.

There are countless other examples. The article particularly makes me think of my adult friends and their relationships, in and out, rarely 'settling down' from an outsider view. But, just because they get divorced a lot and re-married, or cheat a lot, etc. It doesn't mean that their social conventions are any less valid than those of the middle class America. There are strong social consistencies and social language, unfortunately reinforcing.

My models are very different still, the semantics don't align right with my current environment, and today I have difficulty teaching my son the middle class way.
Wow! FairyPreview is cool and almost exactly what I want when previewing links from Twitter.

I'm just sad there isn't a Share option (so I can send the link to ReadItLater, Gmail, ...). If you do open the source, I'd love to help with it.
Yes, but just as an engineer rises up to wearing many hats, why cant designers? If they are ready for the plunge, they can dabble around in more places, than just design. Plus like I said if the entire app is user centric/facing, a designer (with some frontend) is very valuable. Being a designer cofounder, I imagine a designer who is ready to do more, and willing to bend/broaden him/her self.
What! my favorite open source projet is not in there it sucks!
What! "Most important" does actually means "Most important, in the eyes of the writer".

Oh dear.
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> The hashrocket itself looks bizarre and excessively noisy to people coming from JavaScript or Python or pretty much anything but PHP.

Just my experience, but I have about a decade of professional Python experience and all of 8 months of professional Ruby experience, and while the rocket syntax drives me nuts in PHP, I actually prefer it in Ruby to the 1.9 syntax.

> I'm just saying, "only one way to do it" is the Python philosophy

Well, there is a lot of effort put into not duplicating functionality in libraries and whatnot, but the actual mantra is:

> There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.

That just means if you need to accomplish a basic task, there should be one obvious solution, it doesn't mean there can't be more than one way to do it.

That's how I've always read it, anyway.
Saul Williams has always said he was very happy with the result despite 80% of downloaders taking it for free.

Trent made a point later on the nin forum that allowing people to choose how much your product is worth really devalues it, but offering it at a cheap but fair price (say $5) doesn't devalue it.

Personally I think the best model is setting a cheap bottom line that people can pay for your product, and letting them pay more if they feel it is worth more (adding extra stuff for the people who pay more is good too, like a physical copy of the CD for people who pay $20). You don't have to use your bandwidth to give it out for free, the pirates will do that and I think it's safe to say that if someone pirates your album they are probably going to turn into a fan (or be turned off).
Its been 3 months since I quit facebook. The reasons are very similar to yours, and I got some results from it.

1) I was very less popular than I thought. Even 3 months after, some people says " really, did you really quit facebook?". This shows me that maybe the 'socialization' and be friends with everybody was not true. People only care about themselves, and care if you liked their pictures and their stories.

2) I'm treated weird. "Why you don't have facebook???". And I have to come with a new story. Most of my male colleagues says that was because of my girlfriend( Here in brazil, for some reason, the man is supposed to have more than one girl).

3) I feel more free and less-overwhelmed. Man, Why do I need to know that Gabriela's Uncle in hospital? And Why do I need to know that your last trip to argentina was so amazing and you met all those beautiful girls? Well, now I don't know those things anymore, and dont miss it.

4) My friends have to reach me by the old channels. I'm receiving more email and sms messages. In facebook I had 700 friends. Now I have fewer friends ( of course!) but I'm so close to them, that I dont miss the other 680 that stayed in facebook.

Of course there are things that I miss, like when I went to a party and met new people, I think " man, I should friend them to facebook". But I don't anymore. If I got to be friends, I will met them personally. And I miss some events, people now create an facebook event, and invite all their friend list. Of course they will not remember you, they just invited everyone!

Anyway, I feel better for quitting facebook, and once and for all, twitter is still up and is a greater communication tool for me. I'm there as www.twitter.com/dudurocha

PS. Sorry for eventual bad spelling and grammar. English not my first language, and it's 2:23 AM.
Is it just me, or is Louie sounding more and more like a part of the hn/reddit crowd? He went from "I don't know what this 'torrent' thing is" (implied: "I'm not a nerd or anything") to being excited about online distribution and avoiding DRM. I've been a fan of his for some time and this seems unlike him. I think it's pretty cool to see someone's geeky side being exposed publicly.
That would be great. I also would love to see the see the matrix.

Any change you are going to discuss in more detail how to use the js templates on client and server side?
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Exactly. This is a pretty timeless show. It won't get stale quickly. If it's already considered a success after 4 days, imagine in 4 years.
I can only imagine the overhead is much lower compared to a HBO production. Compound that against every future sale as well.
Ahh I can see the issue. I suppose that's something that would drive me nuts.
So if $5 is too much for a show, how much would you pay? $1? 25 cents?

Just curious. At those prices, only the very mass-market stuff will make any money. Anything niche just won't pay for itself.
It's not that big of a security breach but it'd absolutely be annoying is anyone could do it on the train. People don't steal your mail but as soon a firesheep came out a dozen jokers a block were logging in to people's facebook.

Make it so it doesn't interrupt your headphones and then all of a sudden it's trivial for anyone to listen to at least half of your telephone calls.

Most BT headsets already pose a serious everyday security risk to people who might be targets of surveillance by as minor players as private detectives or journalists due to both protocol and chipset weaknesses. BT security has been improving since then, but the last thing it needs to do is go backwards because you can't be bothered to pair a device with your car once(!)
I'm curious where you're getting the 20k figure from. He mentions only that he's sold over 110k copies, but not what percentage of people opted in to the mail list.
I think that ambiguity is important to the feel of ruby code. It encourages you to think about expressions in terms of their semantic meaning rather than their imperative effect^. I think python's @property decorator is a testament to the "nice"-ness of said ambiguity.

^ I realize this can also be dangerous and is the same reason '!' is encouraged as an annotation for methods which have significant side effects.
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Except vendors have shipped preinstalled linux with driver issues (a high profile early netbook had broken wifi, for example).

It generally takes a lot more distro coordination to support Linux on particular hardware, but the root issue is that the PC OEMs just don't really care to put the effort in.

Also, welcome to Linux advocacy, if you look around I'm sure you can find these types of "Linux would be more popular if X" arguments going back for years.
I paid the suggested price for this. I'm only running Linux, so it's well worth supporting it.

It's a shame about the EFF though. They're at the top of my list these days.
What, no bitcoin?
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ruby is retarded.
He's surrounded by that crowd. Remember, it was recommended to him that he release without DRM (not by the industry folks) and that he do a (wildly successful) AMA.

Also, as an artist, it has to be just pretty damned cool to see an experiment like this work, and be able to connect directly with fans who are willing to fork over money.
One assumption being made here is that hiring is a critical task. It's entirely possible that a company can achieve its objectives without hiring; if that's the case then the argument doesn't apply.
You are free! Taking the hooks out of your face feels so good.
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Forgot to mention that the underlying concept was that it was more profitable, in the long run, to make a fan than it was to make a sale.
No, there are means to handle that as well. For instance, I could just invoke their username and let the software handle the linking and notification. Perhaps it needs a trigger like @ or not to separate regular conversation from usernames, but all the primitives are there. Facebook has some pretty decent tools in this area, so does Disqus. I'd also mention that there's a difference between using a special character as a trigger and building a UI around it. Its the latter that I'd argue Twitter needs to deal with as the current presentation is overly complex and not nearly relevant enough for the vast majority of users.
You seem to be able to write so well. Just wonder, if you manage to answer 'Tomorrow I can decide again' for some good 20-30 years or so. And while doing it, if you preserve a private memoir of sorts on these thoughts. Then surely you have a bestseller, in you, which will also be useful to many in the future generation. How's that for a possibility?

And it surely will also be an interesting perspective, to look back on what how you thought of things in the early days.

IMHO (and experience) 'time changes everything' ... and I really mean everything. The only way to test this is by giving more time. As you are rightly giving yourself.
Would OpenDNS be any better in that regard?
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Actually, one of my apps was just part of that promo...

https://market.android.com/details?id=cloudtv.hdwidgets

Part of why I was curious about the other playground.
I'm still working on that.
There is a second meetup tomorrow, as far as I can tell:
https://www.facebook.com/maltman23/posts/10150415871850918

Mitch's Google Group for the meetups is here: http://groups.google.com/group/geeksanddepression
Its a guesstimate based on what clients of mine or I get for opt-in in similar situations, with a discount based on his customer population disproportionately being Redditors or demographically similar to them. I figured "Meh, 20% sounds about right."
Unless he likes the business model, and it meets his needs. The novelty of the model is unrelated to it's efficacy.
I'd argue that that is the big omission. Wherever you come down on Android itself, Cyanogenmod clearly meets the author's criteria for openness, is a technical standout in a new area and it has had a very big 2011.
Particularly interesting for business software: "Generating PDF invoices from HTML, displaying PDF menus as HTML or extracting text from images using OCR is now as simple as an API call."
I've seen terrible assembly but I've seen much worse C. Most programmers have relatively no sense of organization, and when unleashed with C create things far more nasty than their assembly counterparts.

nasty: https://github.com/mirrors/gcc/blob/master/gcc/c-family/c-co...

nasty: https://github.com/mirrors/gcc/blob/master/gcc/c-family/c-le...

But you get the idea. I'm merely pointing out that compilers are tricky and complicated beasts. And especially in the rewriter CS has to jump through hoops to disambiguate.
What do you mean “isn't actually bound”? The function being defined using colon syntax doesn't close over self, since it's a parameter—but functions defined within that function will close over the self parameter, since it's a local from an enclosing scope:

foo = { x = 3 }
function foo:bar(baz)
return function(thud)
return thud + baz + self.x
end
end

womble = foo:bar(4)
womble(7) --> 14

Python I believe also closes over self as a variable, and Ruby has similar behavior for local procs, even though « self » is a special form in Ruby.

This is in distinct contrast to JavaScript, where the value of the special form « this » goes nuts inside closures because it's attached to the function:

foo = { x: 3 };
foo.bar = function(baz) {
return function(thud) {
return thud + baz + this.x;
};
};

womble = foo.bar(4);
womble(7) # --> NaN

So in what way are you placing Lua and JavaScript together, and Python and Ruby together?

[slightly rearranged for clarity]
Time of day would be an excellent addition if you can do it in a clean way, UI-wise.
I like the site and the idea. Great job. Just be careful about over-doing the UX effects. The auto-scroll animation effects makes me want to stay away from the pages that do it.

How long did it take you from conception to launching the site?
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The web will prevail. It's just question of time.

Just be smart and make profit with the app fever while you can.
So what day does PayPal freeze his account?
That's what I want to know.
You should look at Lua. Yes, if you want a notion of "self" or "this" with prototypal inheritance, then it must be dynamically bound. However, this does not have to be a burden on, or even be noticeable by, the programmer. Good language design can avoid most of the pitfalls in JavaScript...
Conversion API (Experimental) - Converting between formats within your application can be a pain, but with the experimental Conversion API you can now easily convert between PDF, HTML, text and images. Generating PDF invoices from HTML, displaying PDF menus as HTML or extracting text from images using OCR is now as simple as an API call.

There was some discussion of this during the Q&A in a session at Google DevDay. It sounds pretty interesting.
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There's a lot that goes into product & marketing that a "pure" designer can handle. UI/UX, user feedback, website, marketing material, press material, the deck, logo...

But if they're really a founder, they're probably expecting to don a biz-dev hat too, at least.
They've made the "too complex" argument in the past, but I believe their real bottom line is they don't want to be at a disadvantage vs their online competitors.
Goodbye Google account
1. create one blog for your company.

2. use google for domains.

3. ????

4. next signup, google will insist that your blog is
at your personal account and you have to merge
with company account, you agree to merge. now
you will have to login EVERYTIME using
oldaccount%domain.com@gtempaccount.com as your login!

really.

I have no idea what goes in step 3, but it surely involve a lot of drugs at google campus.

those are the products that will have fucked up logins if you agree with the migration:

Blogger

Google App Engine

Google Docs

Google Sites

Google Wallet/Checkout

iGoogle

Voice
Again I say, you should have caught that I missed the `key` every bit as much as I forgot it ;)
>If both Korn Shell nor Bash are available on your platform

Conditionals in BASIC aren't that hard...
I'd be curious to know if you've looked at the Harlem Children's Zone project, and what your take on it would be.