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>The expense of Silicon Valley is largely down to growth policy, which is to say, they can’t build housing concomitant with demand.

I can't tell you how much this infuriates me. I actually heard a Mountain View city council member say, "Maybe we should tell Google that they can't hire any more people." Meanwhile, the city is full of termite-ridden rotting apartment buildings just waiting for the next earthquake to pulverize them.

Here's the zoning map for mountain view: http://www.mountainview.gov/civica/filebank/blobdload.asp?Bl... There's only a single block of high density residential on the entire map.
Well, drewblaisdell named one of the distasteful parts directly, but I can quote it in isolation to make it more clear:

> at a bachelor party making gay jokes ("no homo")
And anyone can clone it, which is the point. If Google decides to launch Gdrive, it would dwarf Dropbox instantly. Whereas even if you were given all of Facebook's hardware and software and staff, but not user accounts, you would have a hard time competing with Facebook.
I dunno. I forsee a pokemon game with creatures you have to look for to find, that can be accurately hiding behind/near/in things at various times of the day.
It is not the theme that gratify one's intellectual curiosity but how he treats it instead.
I've found that many people that tell you what you want to hear change their tune once their own money/work/happiness is involved.

Make compensation dependent on a products success and your employees will start speaking a bit more clearer.

Instead of relying on a review process to rate employees, a company might let people choose who they work with and on what projects.

If a significant portion of one's income can actually be influenced by an employee's choices, they will tend to act on what they know rather than tell you what you what to hear.

In other words, people should have a stake or actual stock in their projects, not stock in the whole company.

And if its actual stock that can be traded within the company, the stock price will tell you whether the project is going to succeed.
As a technical cofounder that also wears the CEO hat, jesus christ I agree.
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For me, it is right up there with "Europe is a country".
Never had issues. I thought I explained in the post that I did it as a challenge to not need the "liquid courage" to do all the fun stuff when partying with friends. I guess that is an issue, but would be a confidence issue... not an alcohol one.

I have plenty of friends who drink socially, have been drunk every so often and are in their 30s. I don't think any of them have drinking problems.

You mention a couple times that there is something missing from the story but I wonder if you read the post? My story explains that I did it as a challenge. To not need the social support of drinking, so I can experience a party at any time... without alcohol.

My point was not to say alcohol is bad for everybody or that if you drink you have a problem... again, I was speaking about people "partying" ie drinking 4+ drinks. If you drink in moderation or have a glass of wine here or there, then the post wasn't addressing your lifestyle.
Opa's license updated after users complained about agpl's limitations
Stallman...the uncompromising philosopher! 'Gotta love 'em!
> In a US workplace you can't tell someone directly "that's wrong" or "I don't like that".

I know this varies to some degree with region, but if you're working tech in Silicon Valley and not saying "that's wrong", you're just not doing your job.
When I saw this post on HN, the first thing I did was to search for "completion" in the page. I have been looking for this feature since I started to write my first JavaScript.

Based on your recommendation, I tried Sublime Text 2. It looks good but the code completion is partial; just like it is in the Chrome console or Visual Studio.

For example, if you type: var req = new XMLHttpRequest(); req.

the methods available for req (instance of XMLHttpRequest) do not show up.
So you want to do music? MGMT in the digital world
The Next Great Internet Disruption - Labor Efficiency
Great though that list is, I think a large part nostalgia. There are loads of great games being made these days but as adults we're more cynical and don't have the time to immerse ourselves.
Frees up more time for hacking.
An Arab Spring For IT
One could always mooch off of Gmail's spam filtering... Use SpamAssassin in conjunction with a gmail account that is only used as an attempt to attract as much spam as possible. Then just download the spam folder over IMAP and use it to teach SpamAssassin...
Email isn't secure and should not be treated as such. None of the author's suggestions change this. The only way to be sure private email communication is private is to use encryption and only communicate over email with others who will do so and will keep their system secure.
True, though I would argue that the effort involved to 'consume without personalisation' has a low reward ratio given my first comment. Though, that is through the 'do not track' glasses, of course. If there is some other goal, it could have a higher reward ratio.
Because the minimum cost is $10/mo for Rackspace email.

I personally have switched between payed google apps for domains and fastmail (those are both $50/yr and under).
Yeah yeah but how do you avoid getting grinfucked by yourself? That's what I want to know.
Most countries don't have such a low limit. Australia is considered low, and we have a national binge drinking problem.
Feature tracking on an object which stands out clearly against the background? Using morphing filters on the segmented object? Not that innovative.

Now I do like the particle trick. You see this in some video games to highlight objects of interest (e.g. World of Warcraft). It makes it much easier for players to locate them and zero in on them against background clutter. Probably useful for AR if you have a good application case.

However, the potential is heavily constrained until you get displays capable of "non-interfering annotation" - which is to say, you need a good HMD and not a phone. Not that you can go out and buy "a good HMD" by this measure, but that's a big thorny mess out to the side of the software concerns.
"No homo" isn't really making fun of gay people... it's more making fun of people who are homophobes. No offense intended to gay people. Some of the people I love and respect most in this world are.
What a waste of resources. Do they at least recycle them?
> advertising, leads to the exact same problem
> that you face with GMail.

Not necessarily. For some people that largest factor is that Gmail brings all of your email under US jurisdiction. It may be enough to just do advertising-funded Gmail clone that is solely based out of another jurisdiction.

You may even be able to convince non-US businesses that this is a better alternative.
He's responding to your first comment

I want to see the source to the ls command? ... I have no idea how to do that on MacOS.

The rest have been addressed, but as for this:

The equivalent on MacOS involves signing up for a developer account with Apple, signing a contract that promises God knows what, and downloading a multi-gigabyte disk image.

It involves running an installer from your install disc, or, admittedly, in the case of the most recent release, downloading a multi-gigabyte disk image from the app store. You don't need a developer account if you just want to install the software.
Because gmail is a good product.

Please don't tell us what not to use. Point us to a better product. (spam, uptime, ease of use, free, fast, etc) Got one?

Yeah, I figured.
The End of Cheap China
Good pointers on preparing for the end of cheap China
My thoughts exactly. Having traveled a bit, I've noticed that the stiffer the alcohol regulations, the more irresponsible people tend to be with their drinking when they come of age. The result of a whole lot of new found liberties all at once, with no real grasp of what the small prints attached really entail. I remember in my early 20s, when some of my American friends' idea of having fun was let's go out get wasted and I was puzzled by this notion.

In my opinion, being responsible with alcohol requires experience, which we all know is acquired through trials and error. I share the controversial belief that parents should be the ones to responsibly shepherd their kids' drinking habits. They shouldn't just wait for them to turn 21 and discover it in the "wild", or worse, let them go in those popular drinking safaris in Canada or Mexico, where the legal age is lower and regulations somewhat more loosely applied.
Yeah. My idea isn't great, just a frustrated response to this person who claims to have been here for a long time yet still feels it's appropriate to make offensive posts about others here.

I like the idea of an incubation period, but I've seen valuable comments posted from new accounts- I bet a ton of people lurk for months before seeing a thread they feel they can make a valuable contribution to.
Unlocking does not void your warrantee. I've had many unlocked iPhones replaced under warrantee. That said, if you brick it while unlocking (and the 4S tools are very new), you won't be covered.
I see so many consumer startups brag about vanity metrics. If you're a consumer startup doing something that's not mobile-focused, the # of unique visitors you're getting per month as viewed in Quantcast or Compete just tells the complete story. And even if you're mobile-focused too because Foursquare actually gets over a million uniques through their website. No excuses for you not to as well.
I've driven by here many times, very eerie, completely empty of people or activity of any kind. If you look closely there's a few 747's and everything.
Also no mention of how the overall economy and things like SOX have affected programmer compensation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_homo

To be clear, this isn't some White Knight thing, or a gotcha trying to call you out. I think you deserve the chance to get feedback that your words carry an apparently unintended meaning.
It is a pretty crappy setup (just my humble opinion), but if he is happy with it...
This is what we are trying to do with our kids (boys aged 8 and 6). They make their own lunches, generally entertain themselves, though we still have "family time," and do their share of chores aroubd the house. I think there is a tendency, however, among some parents to have their kids do everything for them, too. I've seen parents yell at their kids to come inside and a get snack for them. I think kids should be taught to contribute to the home economy, but treating them like little indentured servants is perhaps going a bit far.

As far aa being "friends" with your kids, I think there's a narrow line to walk. I want my kids to trust me (and therefore talk to me), and I want to enjoy their company, too. There does need to be some sort of boundry there, though, lest you lose your authority.
> US govt can always pressure the local govt

That depends. In some places, the privacy laws are better than in the US. You would just have to choose wisely.
It is a technological arms race. You'll never be able to prevent throwaway logins.

E.g. the iPhone is probably the world's most locked up device, yet it gets jailbroken after every major update.

In the end, you'll end up with the HN equivalent of the DRM measures some media companies use...

PS -
@jeffreyg: Free speech. I am guaranteed the right to be as offensive as I'd like. If you dislike that, I suggest you move to the North Korean HN.
It's sad, given that so many good startups would love to get any kind of press coverage, weekend or not. Every time I see a worthless article on TC, I think, "There's 500 words that some good startup would have loved to have, and the audience probably would have enjoyed it more, too."
http://www.desertusa.com/mag06/apr/airplane.html

Information about the Boneyard.

The dry desert serves as a great location to store planes for a long time, either for future use or for spare parts.
I probably was projecting a bit... as I was telling my story. The experiences, the reasons to change, etc. Were all personal reasons. And yes the focus on juvenile behavior was because I was writing to the people who party this way. What I didn't expect was so many casual drinkers to think I was speaking to them to to take offense.
Interesting. How on earth did that work? Did browsers have built in SMTP clients?
I liked your post and it didn't come across to me that you were trying to convince anyone else to do anything. Seemed more like you were just sharing your own personal experiences and realizations.
It's the "I've been partying way more than you" part of your title in conjunction with the alternates that makes you come off as pushy or at the very least sanctimonious.
Chrome browser issues with zoom.it (Deep Zoom/Seadragon)?
I created a Deep Zoom image of my map (http://www.wellingtonstravel.com) using Deep Zoom Composer. However when I view it on Chrome, it's not very smooth and it has black squares that show up for a few seconds or flickers... I don't know why. It's fine on safari and FF and opera. It even works on IE. Also I'm not sure why the external links aren't working...

Do you have any suggestions? Or advice on how to do this better? Thanks!
I wrote the post for people that use drinking as a way to enjoy an experience more. Those are the kind of people who often slide down that slope.

And I think that's completely a false assumption to make about people. I myself might drink because I enjoy the element that the feeling of warmth and relaxation adds to a conversation with friends. So, I may be using it to enjoy an experience 'more' but that has nothing to do with sliding down a slope. Friends and I may sometimes enjoy drinking as the social setting, the activity for the night. The actual entertainment comes not from the drinking itself, but from the social interaction and camaraderie. It's a shared experience, and that's what human interaction is largely about.

It sounds like you're trying to address an audience of unaware alcoholics. Or extremely dull people who rely exclusively on drinking as sole entertainment.
Yea that is true. That's when I would normally open the Chrome console, set a break point, and click through the local variable to see what might work for me, then try it out in the console until I get what I want, then paste it into sublime.

Sublime's auto completion just helps me a lot when I have to repeat things or if I have to change lots of text in different places all at once (tip: hold down command when clicking when you have your cursor somewhere else on the page)
That's a a fairly redundant statement if you don't explore the reasons behind why they decided to start it.
I believe that they use them the same way as a car junk yard, for spare parts...
I hosted my own e-mail on a VPS for a few months before going back to Google Hosted e-mail, mainly for the two reasons you list here. I do want to go back to hosting it myself though.
If you force the user to only have one page layout, please offer one that provides the best readability. Black font on grey background is not the best choice for that.
When it comes to investing though you invest in a management team and not a product. The rate of change is increasing, all the products on the market today will be well and truly obsolete in a few years, even the market opportunities themselves could change

It's things like Facebook putting 'the hacker way' into their DNA and being able to retain top talent that makes the company worth anything. If you took the facebook source code and all their customers away they'd probably have a pretty good chance of making something else that's quite good. Today anyway, but if tomorrow they can't it'll be because they somehow lost their way and let the MBA's in. Kodak had a great place in the market but they just couldn't successfully adapt

I haven't looked at the price but if I was in the USA I'd probably buy some shares, the google float of $100 seemed outrageous at the time, and unless they get further involved with Microsoft I'm pretty bullish that they'll keep going up
gmail's POP server doesn't delete mail. What it does do is disappear them from the POP listing (ignoring any client "leave messages on server" config), although even this is resettable through the web interface.
1. Signed up, tried to create a blog called "test" - nothing happens.

2. Trying again - nothing.

3. Probably occupied already I think and try with "testing" - some red-letter angry error.

4. Changing URL to Brytter.com, clicking on "my blogs" - barely visible in the top right corner despite being logged in - getting prompted with a "which blog would you like to do write on" dropdown.

5. No "test" nor "testing" there - and no way to create a new blog.

I think you just forgot the V and the P in MVP.
Except to me the taste is absolutely vile. I don't drink any alcohol whatsoever simply because it dislike the taste. Even a whiff is enough to turn me off.

I don't have any objections to others drinking (within safe limits), but really hate the notion (fortunately not widespread among my friends) that if you're not drinking alcohol in a social setting you're somehow weird or even spoiling everyone's fun.
You're not alone. I personally experienced in many of the different places I lived in as a teenager, from places where you almost never get carded at all, to places where the threshold is 15/16.
It appears that you have committed the fallacy of composition here. The claim that Jobs and Stallaman have some similar characteristics is not the same as saying that they are the same.

For example, you can objectively say that Hitler was an influential head of state (e.g. starting WW II) and FDR was an influential head of state. These are both true statements, while at the same time, these were two very different men.
I don't disagree about the issues surrounding licensing.

But it is worth noting that there are as many web based music broadcasters as radio stations. Almost all radio stations do shoutcast-based streaming themselves, and additionlly there are internet-only stations. Innovative: no. Available: yes.
Running out of the home may be seem a bit asinine but the home is still somewhat sacred with respect to search warrants in the US and moving email around is insanely fast if you work out of the home.

Of course you'll likely need a business class connection with static IP and configurable rDNS and no port 25 block so not everyone will be lucky enough to be able to do it. But something like a plug computer will keep the cost pretty reasonable if you don't currently have a home server and for me it's cheaper than a VPS + consumer cable connection.
Music lovers pursue technologies to return to high fidelity
We don't have (or, really, want) to prevent the use of quasi-anonymous logins. All we need is to make life more miserable to trolls than they make it for everyone else. With enough frustration, trolls will gravitate towards places where they can sublimate their frustrations more easily and, hopefully, leave HN for those who really want to engage in civil conversation.
Watched a documentary on it today - the dry heat is good for everything BUT the electronics. So, they spray a black rubber seal around planes with complicated electronics (that can be used in the future), and then spray that rubber seal white to keep the temperature lower. When the parts are needed, or the plane needs to fly again, they just peel it off.
I believe grand-parent was using the term "properly" like it is used in math, i.e. "strictly greater than".
I followed these directions: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff742219.aspx
I'm British, I've been crazy drunk 3 times. I don't do that often, I don't really even go clubbing anymore (last time was 6 months ago - in Hungary, gotta go back 10 months for UK clubbing).

I think the drinking culture in the UK is really bad. The French will happily drink a bottle of wine... but with a meal. I definitely drink most people get bored of it pretty quickly. I think it's insane that people get "pissed" weekly. Hangovers are not fun.

However, I have a (mini) fridge just for botted lager, which I dip into when watching football. I have a collection of 8-16year single malt whiskys which I slowly sip of occasionally. I often buy a nice bottle of ale, which goes well with a steak.

No clue why people would continue getting very drunk behond the age of 25. (I'm 21 and mostly bored of it)
I suppose that would work for some trolls. Then again, trolls here tend to have advanced degrees in Computer Science, so might be more difficult to keep them out.

PS - No, I'm not alleging that I have an advanced degree in CS. Nor am I denying it.
I'm the one who made that 3D printed Tesla Valve shown in the pictures and video. I'm currently inventing a jet engine with no moving parts. If anyone wants to ask questions about the valve's workings or about Tesla, go right ahead.
>"By Dec, goal is to get first client and make $2k from web dev. After taxes, that $2k will cover Jan expenses, buying another month to find the next client, then the next."

That's not a very workable strategy.

Work for your December client will interfere with finding your January client - or your January client will show up in October promising to be your December client.

Then your March client shows up, only he wants it done January, too.

Or you start looking for clients in December and you land three in April and three in May.

And your December client holds your invoice for 90 days and your March client doesn't pay you so in May you have to decide if it's worth taking them to small claims court for $2500 - hopefully you've learned enough to write a contract by that point.

Then, May changes the scope of the work and refuses to pay until you do it all over again.

In other words, finding clients is hard work. Getting paid is hard work. Doing what you know how to do is the easy part.

Good Luck.
IMAP is just a protocol. You're talking about syncing over IMAP. You can just fetch over IMAP too.

Also, POP3 is not folder-aware. You can only access your inbox over POP3. If you want to backup anything (e.g. drafts, sent mail, etc), then you need more than POP3.
Slavery, Torture as a judical tool and blood feuds are also literally as old as human civilization and yet have recently fallen out of favor.

As for mixed research results - no surprise when there's a huge industry and status quo bias funding one side of it.
See, and I agree with OP on this. The only times I've ever said "no homo" with my friends were in a good natured, making fun of ourselves sort of way. None of my friends are homphobic; we've gone skinny dipping, had wrestling matches with naught but boxers, and it's all fun and games. Maybe there are those frat types for whom any expression of male bonding must be prefaced by "no homo" lest they feel their manhood challenged, but it just hasn't been my experience. It's always said as a way to crack a joke, usually at ourselves, rather than to distance ourselves from some perceived homoerotic threat.
He has that same drive, the unwillingness to compromise, Steve Jobs had. I don't find the comparison inadequate at all - not all people with notable stature have that lack of pragmatism both Stallman and Jobs present.
I self hosted mail til 2008.. Sometime in 2008 we were travelling more than at home so I moved to a virtual private server. During those travels, the VPS had catastrophic failures so I bit the bullet and moved the domain to google apps and it worked quite well. The intention was to move back to my own hosting when settled again, the gmail keyboard shortcuts are so good (not quite mutt) which has kept me there.

I use offlineimap to keep a local backup of my email, and like anyone should, I think of emails as postcards. If its only to be read by the recipient use encryption!
I find that device fascinating too. That's why I designed the 3D printed Tesla Valve in the article. Things with no moving parts are amazing. Especially the esoteric ones that seem forgotten by time because other technologies progressed ahead of them.