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Just to be clear, I'm not disparaging anyone who has experienced success quickly, but companies like Dropbox are an aberration, even if they weren't an "overnight success". The more realistic company probably takes a few years to hit 10 employees, and a decade or more to hit 100.
I've had previous dalliances with lisp but it never really struck me as a big enough win to pursue. So it's interesting to see a decent list of distinctive features -- I've gone over it to see what features there are that don't exist in my usual work language, C#. The things off this list which I don't have, couldn't code, and actually want are macros, conditions and restarts, and generic functions. I don't understand MOP enough to comment on, either. I'm pretty sure the rest is either available as libraries, just isn't important enough, or could be coded fairly quickly -- although I'm not sure it'd be wise to try to write common lisp in C#, Greenspun's tenth rule and all. ;)

I do note the PG quote at the bottom of the page -- "the power of Lisp cannot be traced to any single one of them. It is the combination which makes Lisp programming what it is" -- and I can see that unity being very elegant.

But the real standout item is macros. I suppose it's the only unstealable feature. Or rather, those attempts to steal it, like .net DLR Expression Trees, make really ugly code and are never going to be standard programming techniques.

Anyway -- thought-provoking. Thanks.
May I ask you how you got your initial users? My site is this space is almost done and the next steps will be to get some users.
I didn't say it was impartial, but that it's categorically different in some interesting way.
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From what hear, the S&C are the primary source of "news" for a lot of the younger crowd.
>But when you consider the university’s efforts to accommodate what students and faculty are already using — and its ultimate choice of Google — it raises a larger question. Why do schools even provide an email account anyway? Gmail and most web-based clients are free. Schools — especially state school strapped for funding — could save on huge infrastructure costs by cutting the email systems and just letting student use their own accounts.

Why? Verifiability, that's why. Students still use the "I didn't get the e-mail" excuse. Having a University controlled mail system allows administrators to see that the message went out and that it arrived at destination.

When I confirmed the forwarding between my University e-mail and my GMail account, I had to click past a very stern warning saying that I was now responsible for my own e-mail and it would be my responsibility to ensure that my e-mail address was up-to-date and that official university correspondence was still getting through. In other words, I couldn't use the "I didn't get the e-mail" excuse, even when the email actually never arrived. I never had any issues, but I don't know if that was just because I was lucky.

We have to remember that e-mail is not a reliable protocol. Mail delivery can fail for any one of a number of reasons. If you're using e-mail to convey financial information (like billing reminders or due dates), you have to take that into account. Having both mailboxes under your control allows you to add a layer of verification on top of SMTP.
I don't see why every new thing that comes along has to have its own set of laws. We already have ways of deciding who owns things. In this case, it sounds like there was an agreement in place about who owned the Twitter account and the company is trying to break that agreement. I don't see any novel principle for which a precedent should be set.
While I'm just as annoyed as other frequent fliers in having to turn off my devices, it's not as simple as this article would have us believe - for example, it's not just power output, it's also the frequency of the radio emissions (do electric razors have quartz oscillators radiating in the MHz or GHz ranges?)

If you get a chance, read through this recent Ars Technica thread discussion these issues (if you don't have time, start on page 4), there's a lot of info, including links to NASA research, about this topic.

edit: to save readers some time, here are a couple of links from that thread-

http://asrs.arc.nasa.gov/publications/callback/cb_237.htm

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/2001006...
That's exactly what's happening here. No new laws are being proposed; a lawsuit will be adjudicated on the basis of exactly the existing precedent you are referencing.
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I agree, it's beyond me why they don't apply the laws that govern everything else. There is nothing new here, it's the same as if a sales person too the rolodex on the way out.
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The findings make perfect sense if you re-interpret them as

Stock Options Boost Company Performance ONLY when given to KEY INDIVIDUALS

In large public companies in most cases only senior executives are able to make an impact measurable enough to move the needle for the entire business. Therefore they are the ones you have to incentivize to make any kind of impact.

In startups a few early employees can make a tremendous contribution or sink the business. Therefore giving them incentives makes a lot of sense. As a startup grows and the impact of specific individuals becomes diluted the stock grants naturally shrink.

Do not forget non-US markets where employees often do not understand stock options at all and therefore have trouble getting excited about them as much as if you simply offer bonuses based on project completion.

All of this may seem unfair to quite a few people, but guess what life is unfair. Get on with it. People do what they are incentivized to do.
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Surprised the author didn't mention WP Engine. We (along with SmartBear, Foursquare and many others) use it at Helpjuice.com for our blog and it works great.
Further, they tested executive only and worker only, but not executive+worker. It's certainly possible that worker stock options result in higher stock prices than executive alone, even if worker-only does not increase stock prices.
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Best of luck.
I completely agree with you. In particular about the sacrifice everything misconception. Ash Maurya goes even further into suggesting Keep your day job[1], until you reach product/market fit.

Nevertheless, I am always wary of absolutes. Some people can't wait, and not going all in is very harmful for them. Some people have a lot to lose, and cannot afford such approach. As always, context is king.

[1] http://www.ashmaurya.com/2010/03/bootstrapping-a-lean-startu...
Makes sense for me, but I don't really have "documents" - not on the filesystem anyway.

Definitely depends on your usage patterns :)
Fine on the iPhone 4.
I suspect running the page through a UIWebView as opposed to MobileSafari will introduce the performance issues of application sandboxing.
I don't know Java, but it's often worth trying this sort of exercise out. I'm open to the idea it might be perfectly possible.

I once took one of Peter Norvig's Python programs (a spelling corrector) and converted it into VB.NET, just to see whether VB was as succinct as Python. Turns out it is:

http://www.stevecooper.org/index.php/2010/11/10/vb-net-and-p...

Or finding out that C# anonymous functions are more concise than Haskell. Thing is, sometimes these things surprise you. Languages do get reputations that are hard to shake.
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I just spent way too much time catching and clicking all the radio buttons...
And... no answer.

I'm going to go get on a plane to Taipei now. You said you'll donate whatever I like? An even 10K would be very appreciated, and then I'll take whatever time you like walking you through proof of everything. I'll bring proof of my flights too if you want that. The next step from you is emailing me a document signed with your real name saying you're going to donate in consideration for me spending my time walking you through everything I'm doing -- and I'll actually do it. I doubt I'll hear from you, though, "stillhatin."
$2.50 per follower, per month? Does anyone know how they came to this estimate? I imagine any motivated HN reader could game Twitter in an attempt to generate a comparable number of followers.

I took up a similar challenge for myself in an attempt to prank a few of my friends and ended up with over 13,000 followers. It'd be relatively trivial to scale it up to a few dozen accounts as well.
This is an A-grade flamewar material. While it is no doubt interesting, I'd rather have it kept off HN.
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If you're interested in books published in 2011 and that are not necessarily picked by HNers:

http://www.largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2011/11/online_b...

This blogger aggregates "Best of 2011"-type book lists from all types of sources you can imagine (well, English-based ones anyway); thought it might be of interest to some of you here.
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I read your comment before viewing the page and still had a hard time figuring out what I was being shown.
The appearance of value is not the same thing as value, both products and cofounders and their contributions.

I had a cofounder who was great at generating buzz but didn't produce anything concrete. The problem was, that same ability to give off the appearance of value is what brought us together in the first place. It wasn't until 6 months later when we were out of runway and had half a product (my half) that I fully realized what had happened.
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Very much agree. I am planning to do a blog post that will touch on the idea that what investors promote as "the only way" is purely promoting and reenforcing a schema that's purely to their benefit. For me this had set very unhealthy psychological boundaries and pressures to work within. There are completely different ways though, as you state with your friend who slowly grew his venture over a couple of years. That high pressure path is addictive to many though, as you mentioned. I am okay with the slower path now - it's still a struggle but I'm currently hoping I can arrange my life to have the support I need to get me through the time and finance it on my own as I go, and perhaps smaller levels of investment from the local community. It's just not worth killing yourself over (literally or not), and you know, you still might just get lucky - it might just happen you get an opportunity for a large investment down the road.
Wanted to spell out "Thanks" for the share, look forward to going through your site.
yea this really jumped out at me. it's not just to verify receipt, it's all kinds of control (eg going into a box and deleting a message). the journalist is blindingly ignorant of the domain. i guess they were just desperate to provide some kind of insight of their own at the end.
I have to assume it's based on having experience or not. If you don't have experience and had the opportunity to make mistakes then you have to make those mistakes, and they will have cost to them.
I understand that the author was being petty, but I do believe that he almost stumbled across a good solution in the article and missed it. I was pointing out that with a little more thought on the part of the author, a platform could be developed to help deal with the need to identify good education with application to a broad amount of people.
I was there on Sakharova st. yesterday, somewhere in the crowd on the photo. It's been 3 weeks since these things started to happen. I have to say it was almost as much of a surprise to the russian opposition as it was to Kremlin.
There seems to be at least a couple of errors in the story. It says that BBM has the rights to BBM.com but I think it's actually only BBM.ca that they own (BBM.com goes to RIM).

It also says that BBM has been using the name since 2001 but if it's the same company I'm thinking of, they go back at least 30 years or more when they were also known as the Bureau of Broadcast Measurement.
I wrote a coprimality test based on the same technique https://gist.github.com/1520171
It's a matter of time before Nintendo develops for iOS, as computer hardware is converging into phones and tablets. Although I love their hardware, but would never buy Nintendo hardware again, because my iPhone, iPad, Macbook, AppleTV are the center of my entertainment.

Once Apple TV starts to better integrate with the 'app' environment, imagine the possibilities. I would love to play Mario Kart with a couple friends, iPhones, and an Apple TV. I just came home for Christmas, found the N64 in the attic, dusted it off and was playing with my brother, wishing we could just download it and play each other on the TV with our iPhones, instead of actually having to plug in a cartridge into with wired remotes, although I did appreciate the nostalgia.

And about the price question, I would also gladly pay 40 dollars or more for a full ported Zelda game, and Nintendo could sell iPhone accessories that have buttons, that make the gameplay experience that much more solid.

There is no question Nintendo knows how to innovate with hardware, so I hope that they don't stop. But I would rather see them make hardware based around iOS than their own OS.
I don't see why it is so flamewar-ish, unless there are a large number of FSB sleeper agents hanging around here waiting for a chance to spread misinformation.

What's going on in Russia is pretty incredible. I have good friends there and am excited and scared for them in roughly equal measure. I am not sure it will come to "revolution" - or that anyone wants it to - but it is clear that things need to change, and change is slowly coming to the forefront of the national consciousness.

Russia is, after all, the largest country on Earth. What happens there will affect everywhere else. I'm not trying to boost this particular article, but I would say it behooves any worldly-minded entrepreneur to at least maintain a rough familiarity with world affairs.
Yes, you hear a lot of successful founders talking about how they killed themselves to get there. But thanks to survivorship bias, you don't hear from all the ones who risked everything, turned their lives and relationships and health upside down, and then lost.

You seem to be conflating the concepts of necessary and sufficient conditions. Working hard may be a necessary condition for success, but I don't think anyone has ever claimed it was a sufficient one.
More importantly, when will revolution come to America? Russia isn't any more corrupt than the henchmen in control of Washington and Wall Street.
Sabastian, this battle with S&S is nothing. The real battle is inside of you.

You are a smart and interesting person with a lot of weapons. Call a cease-fire. Refocus your mind and observe your inner space. Then make a decision that will help as many people as possible.

Happy holidays and a peaceful 2012!
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Actually - "Putting everything on the line" is the only way to get successful business.

Before the Silly Valley become synonym for a startup/business, whoever wanted to be entrepreneur needed to invest a lot of his/her money to start a business. For example, think about running a "simple" limo service - that requires a lot of investment.

In other words, you cannot assume that you will run startup and if it fails you will have great living like nothing happen. At least in software business you can easily find a job and start saving again.

Also startup is "marathon" and not "sprint" but word "marathon" does not mean you run slow - it only means it takes forever :)
I was a little disappointed that when he talked about Jekyll blogs, he didn't mention Octopress. The default theme looks pretty good, it has a decent set of plugins and the code display looks great. It was actually pretty easy to set up too.

http://octopress.org/
My blog using the default theme: http://www.trevoroakes.com
I have been saying that stock price based compensation is fundamentally flawed for a while now.
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OK, that assumption that this is how serious people normally writes REs was at least entertaining. But (still) not really contributing to the HN quality.
Exactly.

And that's how you have to think if you're supported by advertising dollars.
Because when I tried to open your page on my iPad using an acclaimed 3rd party browser (that I 'underpaid' for)...it crashed. And when I relaunched and attempted a gesture that I thought would get me back to your page it instead loaded 5 blank tabs. Generally my coffee doesn't explode and Brokeback Mountain was ... Ok. I finally got back to your site on my desktop, but generally the apps themselves are the best explanation for their cost. If you want a mildly theoretic explanation, usability and programing languages are probably where you should look... despite the sun never seeming to set on the behavioral economics empire...
They are on the list probably exactly because they look like weird addition. Electric shavers were probably first consumer devices that look simple (and thus not relevant for EMI/EMC) but often contain surprisingly complex switched mode power supplies.
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Yeah this has worked pretty well in the daily/ group deals space as you really need people on the ground in each locale to push it to business there. Only so many people in so many countries someone like groupon on living social can hire.
Regarding your aside: I don't suppose you're also looking for an intern for the summer?
They needed a number greater than $75,000 to meet jurisdictional requirements in federal court. I'm guessing that was a primary factor in calculating a damages number.
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I think the ego thing from founders is a huge part of what feeds them... pride is a very powerful emotion that can cause us to work 14 hour days, 7 days a week, and sacrifice relationships and health. It's our fear not being like other "normal" people that drives us... it's not actually money or any logical reason. It's similar to what sports coaches do to motivate players by preaching the "us vs them" mentality.
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I'm not talking about working hard at all; I think success pretty much always requires hard work of some kind. My friend definitely worked hard to get his business up and running and to the point where it supports him.

I'm talking about the idea that you have to work so hard that it threatens or consumes everything else in your life. And no one claims that doing that is sufficient, but a lot of people claim it's necessary.

It probably is necessary if the plan is to hit a billion-dollar exit in a few years. I just think that path entails a lot of extra risk that investors overwhelmingly benefit from, and founders end up paying for in the event that things go south. And sadly, I feel that a lot of investors essentially exploit young founders who don't know enough yet to know that they're paying a very high price for a 1/10000 chance at a grand slam (making $20m in 2-5 years), when they'd be better off in almost every way by going for the 1/10 or 1/100 base hit (making $2m in 5-10 years).

And to be clear, I'm not lumping YC in with most investors here. However, YC does place a little too much emphasis on raising VC and not enough on building revenues. But that's a bubble for you :)
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Russia isn't any more corrupt than the henchmen in control of Washington and Wall Street.

Having just been to Russia for six weeks this summer, I am so glad I'm living in America and not Russia. That said, I agree America is overdue for a revolution.
People with basic blogging needs are spoiled beyond belief with services like Tumblr, but if you need more advanced things to play with, it becomes a little overwhelming.

ExpressionEngine understood the need for people with a lot of needs, but I think everyone eventually have to roll their own (using some sort of framework), if they want something that satisfies their perfectionism.
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Surprisingly, this was usable on my iPhone 3G.
Perl regular expressions probably accept more than just context-free grammars since the language that accepts prime numbers is not Context-Free, you can't build a pushdown automaton for such a language, there is a relatively trivial proof of this using the pumping lemma for context-free languages.
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I'm not. I said I was tempted to.. but I'm too lazy to do it =)
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Anyone can call themselves Anonmyous, and use its name for anything.
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Why do I get the feeling that the people who designed this study are/aspire to be executive compensation consultants?
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Services like this makes a lot more sense, IMO, than building a $100b high speed rail which won't be ready until 2035.

If you had 2-4 passengers in a fuel efficient car (easily 40-60 mpg on the freeway using current technology), operating on existing roads, you would have much better efficiency and lower cost than flights or rail (which wouldn't operate full most of the time). There's also the end to end benefit, flexibility on scheduling, increased comfort, lack of TSA, and then all the construction costs for the new infrastructure.

I probably wouldn't rideshare SF to NYC, but for SF to LA, SF to Vegas, SF to Tahoe, etc., it's pretty ideal.
NearlyFreeSpeech was the cloud before it became popular.

The other services are just hosting many websites on a server.
If you believe in free speech, except for the speech you don't agree with, you don't believe in free speech. "Propaganda" and "hate speech" are just ways of trying to avoid making it obvious you mean "speech I don't agree with", especially the word "propaganda", which in practice simply straight-up means "speech I don't agree with".
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