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I use a modified Dvorak optimized for programming, with the most important modifications being the placement of l/L, s/S, and ;/: (the last is particularly important for any programming language that uses lots of semicolons or colons, which is most of them). It's optimized more for minimizing typing load than for maximizing speed, though it is must faster that Qwerty because of the Dvorak base.

Here's the core of my layout:

q,.pylscrg/
uoeaidhtnf\
jx;k'bmwvz

Dvorak typists will find it mostly familiar.

It took a while to learn, but I was planning to learn Dvorak anyway so the marginal cost was small. Modifying my keyboard was easy: I use a programmable Kinesis as my primary keyboard, and used Ukulele (http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&...) to modify my MacBook's default keyboard.

Changing to this layout significantly improved some of my more serious RSI symptoms; in particular, my ulnar nerve problems practically disappeared once I got serious about minimizing pinky keys.
If you have children in the Iraq war, you might feel differently.

Can you explain your argument? It sounds like you're implying "If you had more information, you would reach a different conclusion," but what you're really saying is "If you were subjected to different emotional pressures, you would ignore evidence and come to a new conclusion."

I mean, if a judge is deciding a case against Philip Morris, and has all of his retirement money in Philip Morris stock, he's going to see things differently -- but it's not going to improve his decision.
What about storage? I'm worried about data integrity.
> Only two days left... thanks science! Finally, the internets will be free of American elections.

No they won't. The 2002 and 2004 elections start on Wednesday.
Always interesting to see if someone can write a great linear algebra book. I like Axler's "Linear Algebra Done Right" [1] because he puts off the determinant until it's clear why you want to define such a map. That the book continually treats the case when your field is the complex numbers slows things down at times, though.

[1] http://linear.axler.net
I'm not a techy but www.thebrain.com is the coolest visualization tool i've found and its free...but may not apply for what you're looking fore
You assume that families are able to relocate to wherever they wish. This is based on the assumption that all families have the adequate financial situation and acumen to plan for such a situation. Perfect foresight is not a realistic assumption to make.
Fascinating to see such a massive collaborative problem solving process, and don't worry, I am sure a lot of those posters are in their late teens through to early twenties, learning heaps doing this highly motivating (watch movies!) and creative thinking task.

As for the futility of protecting content, it just reinforces the impression that the media companies are run by dinosaurs. Blu-Ray's licensing scheme is designed not to bring hd movies to the customer in the most effective and marketable way, but by consensus between lawyers and middlemen.
Something about quoting the entire post that you're responding to seems wrong.
The docs do not show any details on how their object storage engine works. The API is pretty simple. It isn't hard to provide a very robust storage engine that provides such an API. Their FAQ (I think) however does state that they have been running for about a year and have never lost any data; if that means anything ;).

I would think that if appjet were to gain significant traction, you would need integration into other persistent options such as MySQL and Postgres. The easiest thing (I'm guessing) would be to just write simple js wrappers to an existing Java based ORM.

Wow, I sure am answering a lot of questions about appjet considering I just discovered it a few hours ago!!!
9. Skip getting an office and just rent conference rooms

10. Hire a good office broker who has been in business for more than a decade, they will know more and save you more than this article.

We did a series of interviews on a startup's first office that cover some additional advice.
http://www.skmurphy.com/blog/category/first-office/
I am living in one right now and it doesn't feel like it is not.

Anyway, if DOS3.3 is an OS...
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Seems like a great thing to pitch to universities and schools.

Can't see the use for general development. Hosting costs for your own slice is so low, and it gives you so much more freedom that a developer would have to be crazy to limit their options to only what appjet give them.

Plus AppJet is still a small company so its not going to have the scalability of something like EC2 or Google AppEngine.
There are a lot many problems, starting from all kinds of frauds and ending with offering $1000 support for each $5 paid, esp if you are in voip industry where connectivity problems happen just out of thin air. If I manage to find a spare minute, I'll try to put together all the things into another essay. I put my essays on http://www.gtalk2voip.com/essays, just if someone cares.
Andy Grove's executive assistants often became Intel executives.
John McCain's actions (though not his words) would place him among the best of any living politician

Well, I suppose it depends on what you mean by "best".
He certainly appeals to Americans who respect those who
avoid responsibility and act in their own self interest.
He strikes me as the kind of person who is likely to find a
way out of past promises when a better deal comes along.

How else would could you explain the way he abandoned his crippled
wife for a pretty rich lady twenty years younger then himself?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1024927/The-wife-J...

How else to explain the many ways he's changed his position since 2000 in order
to gain favor with the far right? http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=1779141
or his new position on torture? http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/20/mccain-torture-veto
I'm also near Broad Ripple. Was a YC interviewee and now a graduate student in Bloomington.
Breck

This is a good point. I'm leaving Indy at some point -- but it is very hard to move from Indy (low cost of living) to SFC or any coast (high cost of living). Especially considering the (current) lack of jobs coming on the market these days.

Given the market, I think the good plan is to either Move there if you know someone to crash with and try to find a job, but if you dont, try to do your own thing and build some resume credibility (read create some web apps or commit some code to something notable) and try again in 6 months.
"It may well be that many of the Urban Baby creators moved to YouBeMom, but the 90% of social media consumers, who read but don’t write, stayed"

I wonder how long that will last - if you lose most of the creators, the consumers will eventually follow because they'll run out of things to consume.

According to Trovus in the UK, only about 1% of most communities are truly active. http://www.rewardingdialogue.com/blogs/137-community-contrib...
If you lose that 1%, you're losing most of the value.

I look forward to an update post on this in 6 months, to see if the downward slide continues.
My grandmother's occupation was computer.

She calculated rocket trajectories for for the Woomera rocket range in South Australia.
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Ok, let me tell you what users actually type. 90% of Joe Random Serfers never type .com, .net or .biz or anything... they just don't have a clue about TLDs, nor what they mean. They just type company/product name right into Google search and hit enter. The others 9% type it into browser address bar, which in most cases lead to same result! So, this .biz/.com matter has some sense for you and me and to some of these insignificant 1% who happen to know some piece of technology, but not for an average user, that's for sure.
I'm also worried they are not charging money. I wouldn't want to build an app there and have them go bankrupt after a month or two.
Traffic is not everything. It's much easier to pitch to investors once you are covered by TC or some other "press that matters".
Getting pretty off topic here, but "30+ meg... for the most basic things" is a totally unrealistic assessment of cocoa.

Sizes, INSTALLED, not from the compressed DMG:

An entire quicken-like 100% cocoa app: 6 megabytes,

Seashore, a streamlined graphics editor based on the gimp: 8.4mb

And for a "truly small" example, the "wakeup your computer and play an itunes song" alarm clock I first wrote to learn Cocoa years ago: 500k.
The reason I was disappointed with Spore wasn't because it was fun at the expense of being scientifically inaccurate... it's because it wasn't all that fun period.

I enjoyed most of the Sim games because they give you a complex system with rules where every little decision has some slight impact on the way the game turns out. Part of winning is learning the rules to the system and strategizing (whether or not that system really reflect the reality of what it is ostensibly a simulation of).

There are too many things in Spore that don't make any difference in the gameplay. Most of the influence from one stage to the next is purely aesthetic or otherwise very limited. And everything except the Space stage was pretty simplistic with few opportunities for strategy.
I don't buy it. Sure you can get space at those rates in any of the suburbs -- but downtown? Really? If so, could you point me in a couple of directions? I'm not trying to be snide -- I'm honestly interested.

The rent I'm talking about for Indy is downtown (not that it matters in indy). If I went to the Indy Suburbs, I could probably get it cheaper... Almost free probably for trade of some sort.

But driving in Chicago is a real pain, and I wouldnt want to live in the suburbs and/or have to commute there.
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Yeah. I mean, I love The Sims 2. Still have it installed: it was one of the few games, other than Civ2 and Pharoah and Lords of the Realm that I moved over. And I love it because it's so incredibly detailed. So intricate. Everything combines into everything else. And Spore PROMISED that. I was expecting to have to balance different types of flora to maintain the ecological balance on my planets. At the very least, I was expecting some very intricate classes. Because that's FUN. Always has been.

Spore was one-dimensional, start to finish. (Though I didn't play too far on the space stage: from there I'd lost interest.) There was no interaction. I wanted the first stage to be the simplest. I wanted rapid iteration of complexity. Something for everybody. I got none of that.

It's a shame, because the technology was so incredible. It just went into an awful game.
This all reminds me of an interview that happened with Nintendo a year ago:

http://us.wii.com/iwata_asks_vol3_index.jsp

Mahito Yokota originally wrote the soundtrack as an homage to Mario 64: goofy and kid-friendly. Kondo told him to scrap it: he said that if you aimed for kids, you'd get a worse product than if you aimed for something with a more timeless feel. So he changed the music to a full orchestra, and the result was the brilliant soundtrack to Galaxy, which is incidentally absolutely worth owning.

Spore dumbed down and lost. It's a shame.
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Nice blog with some attractive photographs.
The Japan I live in would rather their country disappear than be filled with non-Japanese. Thus the fevered rush to develop robots that can care for the elderly.
Hm. Why'd they misspell advice as "hack"? That's just bizarre!
Great story. I'm sure quite a bit of other startups and applicants can relate to your situation and its always great hearing about the lead up to getting funded by YC.
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There's also just homeschooling, or dropping out.
Our offices are at Jackson and Federal, in the Monadnock building. I live in Oak Park; the Blue Line spits me out at the door of my office.

Joel Spolsky wrote an article on finding office space:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/OfficeNewYork.html

If you're running up against really expensive space, you may be falling into the trap of trying to buy "class A" space, or space that's jacked up because of "amenities" you don't care about.
It seems like they could have a straightforward, profitable business model: for example, you would be able to get started for free, and once you start using more of their resources you start paying a reasonable monthly fee. the more you use, the more you pay. That way they could offer way more than 50 MB of space, and present themselves as a serious platform rather than as a toy for amateurs.
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As much as I despise Bush, that video has very little substance. It's more bashing his mistakes than exposing his not having done what he said he would.

It points out some areas where he was wrong, but not really where he didn't try to do something he said. In that video, he said he'd lower taxes and end the surplus and he did. He said he'd try to fix Social Security, and in his own way he did.

Love him or hate him, the guy did pretty much what he told us he would. The problem was he also did a lot of stuff that was clearly never discussed, like ignore Katrina or launch the Iraq war. But that's not really hypocrisy.
In unrelated news: we managed to spend almost the entire reimbursement check that night.
I'd love an email from anyone interested in attempting to organize some sort of meet-up. See my profile. (I'm down to help organize something, but I'm quite green. Does such a meet-up need an agenda?)
Sounds like you must be in the Milwaukee area. The tech market there looks like a dream from where I am (live in Appleton, work in Green Bay). All a matter of perspective, I guess.
Ignoring the first 14 years of life, I've lived in

1) Kansas City for high school

2) Annapolis for college

3) Rhode Island for six months

4) San Diego for four years

5) Annapolis for two and a half years

6) New Orleans for 5 weeks to start medical school

7a) Lived with my parents for one year in College Station, Texas after Katrina

7b) Attended classes in Houston for that year

8) Back to New Orleans with trips to San Antonio, Houston, College Station, Washington, DC, Norfolk, Virginia, and New Haven, Connecticut.

If I were going to move to one of those places for the purpose of starting a start up, first, I wouldn't. Second, I'd prioritize the list like so

1) College Station (couldn't study for all the people talking about setting up this or that, whether they had set up their S corp, when the fiber would be laid down, etc). These people are definitely still engineers.

2) San Diego

3) Washington, DC, including Annapolis (home of Wonkette)

4) New Haven (mainly due to proximity to both Boston and NY)

5) Norfolk, VA (lots of military contracts)

6) San Antonio

7) Rhode Island

8) Houston

9) Kansas City

10) New Orleans

Why is New Orleans last? I mean, I'm here, and clearly I've learned more about programming and system admin here than anywhere. I can't believe I'm saying it, but there really is an element of old world culture down here that I will miss when I leave. And it's sort of a city within a city: you meet the people you know all over the place. And really, I've learned more from the programmers I've met here than from anyone (except my brother, who lives in San Antonio). But there are two overwhelming factors working against ever trying to do a start up here: 1) Who would ever put a server in New Orleans? 2) Tulane dismissed their entire engineering college after the storm. No hacker I know is here because it's a good place for hacking. In some ways, it awesome. But there's virtually no one here. I think I've identified all the XOs in the city, and it adds up to about 6 (it was 5 until someone in Texas mailed me a spare).

Why would I rank Houston below San Antonio? Houston is much larger, 4th largest city in the US. Surely there is a greater absolute number of hackers in Houston. But having lived in Houston, you would be hard-pressed to get me to move back. It's so huge and spread out and the public transit system is so non-existent that you end up spending your life in a car. And I get the sense that most people would rather live in Austin or, if they want to stay close to the engineering, they go to College Station.
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If you'd spent the whole investment in one night I'd be impressed.
Hopefully three years from now at Robert's Steakhouse in New York City :).
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My preferred solution to this problem (bear with me for a while, since this is a pet theory I only unload very rarely):

Many democracies (e.g. the US, UK, Australia) have bicameral legislatures in which legislation must be passed by both houses, but where one of the houses no longer properly serves its original purpose. In the US and Australia the role of the Senate was to represent the voice of the individual states -- this doesn't happen any more and it just winds up filled with the same parties as the other house in slightly different numbers. In the UK the House of Lords was supposed to represent the interests of the nobility, but that's no longer seen as a desirable goal anyway. I'm not totally sure about the details of the systems in other countries.

Anyway, my suggestion is to keep the House of Representatives in its present form and replace the nonfunctional upper house with a "House of Taxpayers", in which the representatives are elected by voting among the nation's taxpayers with each taxpayer's vote being worth an amount proportional to the amount of tax they pay. This would ensure that any law being passed by the legislature would have to be approved both by all the people who might benefit from it (the House of Reps) and the people who would have to pay for it (the House of Tax). It might also have the added benefit of encouraging the lower classes to shift more of the tax burden onto themselves in order to have more say in how it's spent.

It's probably not practical to pioneer this kind of constitutional reform in any existing democracy, but I certainly think it should be considered by anyone setting up a constitution for a new one.
pg, will you be there? I know Y Combinator hasn't been reinventing venture capital (directly), but you've had a lot to say on the subject.
Well I'm perfectly white and I still get randomly treated like a jerk by the various US border agencies, so relax. Also, in this story:

Let me tell you the last one. A customs officer started speaking to me in Cartman-Spanish (after a brief exchange in English) making a whole scene in front of about 50 people queuing behind me. After a while my patience was gone and I answered loudly "I'm very sorry but you don't speak Spanish and I cannot understand what you want. You are speaking in infinitive and skipping words, so it isn't clear if you are asking where I've been, where am I going to be, or the reason of my stay. Migrations didn't have a problem, so either check my luggage or let me go." At that point it was 50-50 he would kick me back out, but I guess the dirty looks he got from the people in the queue convinced him to just let me get through.

it seems like the only person acting like a jerk is you. All he's trying to do is speak in Spanish, and you went and made fun of him for it.
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Use Google Alerts and Google News to track keywords related to your product. You'll pick up a lot of SEO spam with the former, but it's a decent way to make contacts with journalists writing on related subjects.
Looking at the contents of the JAR, it appears that they use Apache Derby.
You can swap the last two if you prefer.
I don't like that video either, but Bush clearly discussed having a humble foreign policy, not being the world's policeman, and not nation building. To me, that seems fairly inconsistent with what happened.
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Ok, I think the concept is interesting, the site is nice, and this could be popular in a down economy. However, here are my two concerns:

a) Selling space in your house by the night this way most likely violates one or more state/local laws. First, you're probably not operating with a business license.

Second, most cities have specific "bed taxes" (often 10% or more) for hotels. This is a significant source of revenue for touristy cities. Some cities also have specific laws about vacation rental properties (some actually don't allow rentals for less than 30 days)–even though I doubt these arrangements would qualify as a vaca rental.

b) I'm no lawyer, but once you let someone pay you to stay at your house, it seems like you put yourself at a greater risk should someone get hurt or sick at your place. The last thing I want is some dude to pay me $50 to spend the night and then slip and fall in my shower ...

I think couch surfing gets around this by acting more like a personals/ride-share/craigslist site that connects people. I'm not saying ABB will get in trouble–just that it may not catch on as quick.
There are hackers by the ton here and no worries about where you live. You could find someone here and do a quick project together to see how it goes and take it from there!

It's cheaper to live out there then in San Fran, NYC or Boston.

Don't let location and the old adage of having to be in the valley stop you from innovating! IF you make something interesting or that has perceived value your work will get noticed!
Well, I suppose it depends on what you mean by "best"

This is what he meant:

if being open-minded were your highest priority for a politician

If you had bean reading, you would have noticed this and spared us, yet another diatribe against a man that nobody here likes.
"Illogical" is vague enough to be useless, and is rarely used in conversation except by Mr Spock. "Non-sequitur" is a very specific form of illogic, appropriate in this case.

I'm sorry if there's anyone out there who doesn't understand "non-sequitur" -- admittedly a Latin phrase but one that's fairly well incorporated into the English language. But I really don't think it's obscure, especially by the standards of the kinds of obscure conversations which this site is filled with.

For what it's worth, I actually remember where I first learned the term "non-sequitur". It was in Mad Magazine when I was probably eight years old, and I was reading an article about (I think) "Parental Non-Sequiturs". If it's good enough for Mad Magazine, it's good enough for me.
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Okay, the first 3 posts were interesting, but why are we suddenly being spammed by all these 3D printer articles?
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Maybe you left Nashville a little too soon.

Right now we have a really solid community and it is growing all the time. There are quite a few startups here. We had Startup Weekend with 80 or so people a few weeks ago. Two weeks ago we had a BarCamp that had 500 attendees.

Granted, quantity is not the same as quality, but I think we have lots of talent here.

Now, most of the early stage capital that is available in Nashville is limited to health care technology. That is a problem (bootstrapping is great, but it takes all kinds).

If I was going to leave Nashville, I don't think I would go to the Bay Area. I have a nice house with a yard in a good school district that cost me well under $300k. The overall quality of life here is great, and really, isn't quality of life what it is really all about?

So what non-coast areas are strong for startups?

Denver
Chicago
Austin
Atlanta
North Carolina (research triangle)

Where else? Tallahassee?