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I think it's fair to say many of us start building things for fun in our spare time and hope it'll go somewhere. The risk is pretty high if you're only going zero or 100 and nothing in between.

As for what level of traction you need, this varies by project. If you need money to live, then you can fully commit yourself once you can start paying bills with it. If money isn't an issue, you may want to find another metric that's meaningful to you.

Seth Godin mentioned an initial group of 1,000 is a good starting point for getting your idea/business out there. If your startup solves a pain or is fun, this shouldn't be an issue.
To their credit... this is an example of a city trying to do the right thing. Rather than buy crappy Diebold technology, DC sponsored an open source project for their voting software and then encouraged security professionals to try to hack it. Imagine if all government software was developed this way.

Yeah, it sucks that the security was surprisingly bad. But I wonder, would any of my websites stand up to a group of high-level security researchers actively seeking to exploit them? I doubt it.
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Sad that so many people get so worked up over the loss of 5k soldiers, and not the unnecessary destruction of a state, involving hundreds of thousands of deaths of foreigners.

If it really is 'waste' that people are worried about, why not that?
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> Why would you debate putting it on your CV? It'd look a lot worse to look like you were out of work for that time

Yea, that's why I haven't removed it yet. But the thought crosses my mind all the time.
I would buy it and I do think it will hit $800 or even up to $1,000 if it doesn't split. Why? In addition to all the exciting products they're putting out, they are JUST starting to get into the iPhone 4/4S business in China. The market over there is at least as big if not slightly bigger than the market here in the U.S. So is there room for them to double their cell phone market share? Yes, definitely. Does iPhones lead people to buy other Apple products like tablets and laptops? Yes.

Whether it's sustainable in the long term or not, there is definitely room for growth in the short term.
"I don't know of any video game where you shoot another human being. ... I do know of plenty of games where you "shoot" blocks of pixels."

This reminds me of a story in Stanislaw Lem's Cyberiad (which is a fantastic book -- highly recommended).

From this[1] description of the story:

In the story "How Trurl's Own Perfection Led to No Good," Lem describes
how Trurl consoles a deposed dictator named Excelsius by building him a
simulated kingdom -- a small-scale mechanical model controlled by
computer programs -- so that his client can play at being a tyrant
without actually harming anyone. But Klapaucius objects that, because
Trurl's model is so perfect, Trurl has actually created a host of
conscious beings who are suffering under Excelsius' misrule...

"If an imperfect imitator, wishing to inflict pain, were to build
himself a crude idol of wood or wax, and further give it some
makeshift semblance of a sentient being, his torture of the thing
would be a paltry mockery indeed! But consider a succession of
improvements on this practice! Consider the next sculptor, who builds
a doll with a recording in its belly, that it may groan beneath his
blows; consider a doll which, when beaten, begs for mercy, no longer a
crude idol, but a homeostat; consider a doll that sheds tears, a doll
that bleeds, a doll that fears death, though it also longs for the
peace that only death can bring!

. . .

You say there's no way of knowing whether Excelsius' subjects groan,
when beaten, purely because of the electrons hopping about inside --
like wheels grinding out the mimicry of a voice -- or whether they
really groan, that is, because they honestly experience pain? A pretty
distinction, this! No, Trurl, a sufferer is not one who hands you his
suffering, that you may touch it, weigh it, bite it like a coin; a
sufferer is one who behaves like a sufferer!"

[1] - http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Colleges/ARHU/Depts/History/...
This is exactly why I stopped writing reviews on IMDB once they commercialized it, and why I once wrote reviews for Amazon until I thought better of it.

If these people want to make money off of my work, they should pay me.

Playing Devil's advocate, don't you benefit from other people posting reviews? And if so, is it really smart to lose those benefits just to avoid making Amazon or IMDB richer?

I mean, EE was actively making the Internet a worse place, as Jeff has put it - it makes sense to avoid helping them. But Amazon is providing a valuable service by having a place where people can easily share and read each other's reviews, and they don't exactly force anyone to buy the product from them afterwards, so what's wrong with them taking a cut from it?
That was one of the features I was most excited about in Windows Vista, and I was really sad that MS did not push them in way, shape, or form; or even make an effort to use them on their own web properties.

I think they could have caught on at least as well as BrowserID will.
Deadlines are a two-edged sword. To play safe, 'guesstimate' carefully and break big tasks into small chunks. Iterate.
So so true.

On the flipside - there is usually also a bunch of stuff that you know is freakin' awesome, but which sits way in the background, and explaining what it is and why it is nearly impossible without the context of having worked on the project.
Corollary: accept that your product has imperfections, and be forthright about it. An imperfect thing that works, that you can talk about and improve upon, is infinitely better than promises, excuses, or silence. Even if the thing you made is not the thing you meant to make, it is 100% more thing than the nothing you had before.
i have never heard of a better use of crowdsourcing. [ed: grammar]
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"It was still the same great work he had always done. Just now more people depended on what he produced. Tom was often fuzzy on his time estimates. If Tom would say a job would take one week, what he meant was it could be done in one week if everything went well."

If I could play that old record-scratch noise here, I would. Let's pause the tape for a moment and ask a question: What do you mean by if everything went well?

I'm a Tom. I've been with a startup for two years now. At first I was knocking it out of the park. Made my deadlines and even had time to work on some new things. Everyone was happy, especially the customers.

Move ahead a year. The customer base has grown, but the staff hasn't. I'm juggling 12 projects now instead of 3. By the time I get some flow going I'm interrupted for three other fires. Oh, and we need a marketing demo put together in an hour so our sales guy can make his flight.

So now my work is suffering. And I know the CEO is looking at me like he can't depend on me like before. I pad my time estimates by twice what I did before. Deja vu.

The only difference is that I'll be out of here before my CEO has a chance to figure all of this out. Did I mention I'm the only programmer in the firm, and I don't plan on giving two weeks notice? More like two hours.

I don't blame your Tom for stretching out his time estimates. I don't blame him for not showing up for your project management coaching. Everything you've written reads like a Rands article without a happy conclusion or useful advice. You're just fortunate that you had enough staff and momentum to keep things moving after you fired Tom.

(Am I projecting just a little here? Hell yes.)
For an initial launch it makes sense to go with the far and away leader in the industry. There are ruggedized cases available, so durability shouldn't be an issue. A lot of their potential customers already have iPads, which is another boost.
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We have been using Mailgun at our startup for a month now and to say that I am very satisfied with Mailgun would be an understatement.
Mailgun rocks and I would highly recommend it for any startup.
I’ve heard something like that phenomenon called a black triangle. It’s a thing that took a lot of effort to make, that’s awesome on the inside; when you run it, all the developers see the output and know it is deeply meaningful—but all anybody else sees is something as meaningless as a spinning black triangle.
VCs care about future ROI, specifically the exit. Stack Overflow needs revenues only to the extent that they enable a big exit. They might not need to be huge if the exit is a sale to a bigger company interested mostly in the traffic (see: YouTube).
I found it interesting to read the rebuttal from someone involved with EE.

It is sad that so many people downvoted this comment because they dislike EE though, making the comment annoyingly hard to read because it is grayed out.
So, it has come to this. Linux maybe?
Or, "don't judge a book by its cover?"
I read this as one of the stories about a 'mistake' which was, from another perspective, not a mistake at all.

To reverse the OP, imagine reading an article by a lottery winner on how negative the expected value of a ticket is, how bad the odds are, what 1 in millions really feels like, how many you'd have to buy before a 50% odds of winning etc, all of which is impeccably correct and inarguable - followed by a discussion of how he won anyway. 'I came out ahead, for the wrong reasons', vs the OP's 'I came out behind, for the right reasons'.

Both are interesting to read, if only for imagining whether one would have the intestinal fortitude to stand by one's arguments despite the results.
Folks should not downvote Eric just because he's from EE. He's adding substantively to the discussion.
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Lots of people probably turned down Steve Jobs for similar reasons and now have similar regrets. It can be hard to tell the difference between a skilled hustler and a bullshit artist. Perhaps the only real difference is what they choose to sell.

Faced with a similar dilemma I would ignore much of what the hustler was telling me and talk to the other people involved (i.e. the technical co-founders) and try and base much of my impression and decision on them and how much trust they have in the hustler. Since they've done so well I have a feeling if you had done this you would have gotten something like 'ya ya he's a bit over the top but he's a really smart guy and we are doing great things here' etc. This may have led you to making a different decision.
I think saying "go kill yourself" is wrong. I prefer "go fuck yourself" if someone wants something strong and rude. I think that "go kill yourself" makes a status claim, as in, "you are not worthy to live", which is too easily believed. I think that's why saying 'hari kari', which reverses that to be 'you are too honorable to continue living', is more acceptable in American culture.

Nevertheless, there are examples of people saying 'go kill yourself' in American culture, as in:

Bill Hicks, to a class of people: “If anyone here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself. ... There's no rationalization for what you do and you are Satan's little helpers. Kill yourself, seriously.” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDW_Hj2K0wo

Rush Limbaugh to a specific person: “Mr. Revkin, why don’t you just go kill yourself and help the planet by dying?” - http://www.cjr.org/the_observatory/limbaugh_suggests_nyts_re...

A court decides that it's protected speech with no implied physical threat: "Using various pseudonyms on Twitter and on blogs, Cassidy published more than 8,000 tweets and posts about Zeoli often wishing death upon her. (One tweet, for example, read, "Do the world a favor and go kill yourself. P.S. Have a nice day.") ... The judge in the case, Roger W. Titus, agreed with Cassidy's assertion, concluding that the First Amendment "protects speech even when the subject or the manner of expression is uncomfortable and challenges conventional religious beliefs, political attitudes or standards of good taste." - http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/16/tech/web/stalking-on-twitter-p...

A quick examination of these plus 40+ written by people without any influence shows that 1) it is less used by politicians and people who are actually in a position of power, and 2) it is strongly accompanied with a sense of superiority.

This leads me to wonder if that "800 Europeans" you mentioned come from a culture with strong subgroup differences, wherein people from the other group are considered 'less worthy.' While in the US, there's a relatively strong cultural desire to remove those subgroup differences.

However, a third category of people is comedians, who manage to get away with it because it comes across as a joke. Based on what I've seen by Torvalds, he quickly comes across as exaggerating to get a rise out of people. This, many people are going to ignore that asked of what he says, because they know he can't seriously mean it.
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Aren't there laws against companies making Backdoor like this? Not that I'm naive enough to think that means it won't happen.
I live in Arizona also, and I know people who would swear on a stack bibles that <insert brand> tastes better. Despite repeatedly explaining to them that it is filtered tap water, and showing it to them on the label where it says "filtered tap water" , they insist. In any convenience store there are multiple brands of water at multiple price points, each with their own fans. weird.

Discount Tire also uses the good-better-best philosophy, with the middle choice being most popular.
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This deserves posting on Hacker News because the team are some of the most passionate and determined entrepreneurs I have ever encountered. They have been working on this for years, building a proper video game is an intense marathon and I commend them for being so close to finishing.

You hear stories of companies raising money and then struggling, these guys are not in a sexy industry, I doubt any VC would touch them, they self funded themselves from pre-orders. True grit.
Hosting providers being compromised is nothing new.
"Amazon is providing a valuable service by having a place where people can easily share and read each other's reviews, and they don't exactly force anyone to buy the product from them afterwards, so what's wrong with them taking a cut from it?"

I never said there was anything wrong with it. I just said I wouldn't contribute to a for-profit site without getting paid.

"don't you benefit from other people posting reviews?"

I do benefit from other people posting reviews. But, just like Amazon doesn't force me to buy from them, I'm not forcing the reviewers to review for Amazon, nor do I force Amazon to make the reviews available to me.

"And if so, is it really smart to lose those benefits just to avoid making Amazon or IMDB richer?"

I'm not trying to avoid making Amazon or IMDB richer. I'm just saying that if they want me to contribute to a for-profit site, they should pay me.
Depends who told you to do it and who set up your device.
You probably adhere to Internet best practices

Bringing up this point might be a better thing to close with, after you communicate what happened. This is the real world, miles from best practices.

They really need to provide a few more details as to why they believe the database was compromised, not much of an explanation offered here.
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"The line you quote is talking about paying the contributers, not the owners."

I didn't realize that. But, now that you point that out, I should say that I'm all for contributors getting paid for their contributions -- as long as there were some effective safeguards put in place to keep them from gaming the system.

"You might want to know that wikipedia has paid staff as well."

If they are paid a reasonable wage to maintain the system, from a site that subsists on the donation model, I have no problem with that at all.

A for-profit entity that makes its money from my work is something quite different, however.
For someone who is well versed in solr usage, but not in typeahead implementations, why would I use Cleo rather than something based on top of solr ?

Have to get something similar up and running for a client.
> You probably adhere to Internet best practices

To me that read like an attempt to shift a bit of blame and some subtle framing.
No, I'm pretty sure he's referring to the "theme" component of jQuery Mobile (http://jquerymobile.com/themeroller/) which isn't "taken care of" with this combo. That said, since it's just markup and CSS it shouldn't be too difficult to roll in.
Hey quit being a letdown, this really amazing stuff. You should reword it more like:

"The video is showing amazing new thingamabobs that will get less expensive over the next few years, and pretty soon you will all be able to use robots like this in your everyday life".
Sorry - I wasn't being clear. I am looking for some kind of CSS framework that will do Android/iOS styles for buttons, tabs, transitions, etc. You get this kind of stuff with jQuery Mobile - but I didn't see how it was done with the Backbone/Zepto stack (aside from the kind of hacky animations in the demo).
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Where can I find a list of successful self-funded one-person businesses for inspiration?

Thanks in advance!
I see this all the time with clients & projects and it's quite simple:

- The familiar becomes common quickly, thus losing the shine & new car smell.

- Your imagination will always outpace your productivity and imagination is where the fun is...
Google has already decided that anyone who tries to take the content and launch a SO a like is going to get penalized to death, so good luck on forking if they go evil.

Did they really say that? I am a bit skeptical that they would do that, but maybe they made an exception with the "Panda" update thing.
A friend of mine always tells me how buggy and terrible the software he works on is. He says it's amazing that people even pay money for it.

I've used the software, and it's pretty great. It's easy to use, powerful, and nothing else really compares to it, but he still thinks it's shit.

It's funny how spending your days making your product awesome will warp your mind into thinking it's terrible.
> If you don't have something strong in you to guide you and keep you under control, you'll go wild, in his opinion.

ethics and empathy is enough. no need to have religion.
Me too.

Its not the hardware, but the nut behind it that matters.
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> What is the underlying reason to preserve a random state of nature? Change is natural, things come and go, so do species - nothing out of the ordinary about it.

I can't speak for the OP, obviously, but I'm in favor of preserving particular states of nature for essentially aesthetic reasons: I want to keep a copy around for when evolution moves on and species change niches or go extinct. I like keeping track of the information, too.

I won't pretend that's "natural" though. If it's anything it's pretty explicitly anti-natural. I wouldn't necessarily recommend reintroducing them into their original environment either, unless said reintroduction wasn't disruptive (to either the environment or the locals).

Some species also need to be kept around for reasons of ecosystem integrity (system being the operative word there), but these particular insects don't appear to fall under that heading.
Here's a great blog post about designing Github For Mac. http://warpspire.com/posts/designing-github-mac/
Basically they didn't want to build an app that maps git commands to buttons. That doesn't make things any easier for anyone.

I think the GitHub app is fantastic, but the stability was definitely an issue. I love that I can use it without having to really know how to use git. (I can use git from the command line just fine, but find the app much nicer when it works)
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My idea for this summer YC is a augmented reality platform to sell and advertise products. Basically giving regular 2D ads added interactivity. My problem is here in New York i been pitching the idea at events and it seems no one is interested. I thought it would of been a fun idea to be able interact with your favorite product or new products as well as have the ability to purchase them afterwards. I have been spending the past few months building this thing, but no one here seems interested is this a good idea?
Yeah the app was TERRIBLE at handling merge conflicts and errors. I loved the app until that happened and it would get in a bizarre state and stop working for awhile. Hopefully this fixes it.