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There is no peak age, only peak learning ability, which is tied to your capacity to continually be re-learning

So, I say, define entrepreneur. I certainly don't consider web entrepreneurs to be completely comparable to the majority of entrepreneurs.

Too many web entrepreneurs don't focus on having to learn how to make money, when almost all other entrepreneurs have to figure that out first to make businesses fly.

The entrepreneurs that you're speaking about might look at funding as their payday, or selling as their payday. They might be looking for funding to pay for some run way to find the time to build a business, or "get traction"... but traction doesn't always mean it's making money. It's a little different, imho.

I'd put this type of development akin to finding things that are popular, but not necessarily profitable, or the underpinnings of a business with a business model that can be self sustaining and profitable.

But, the entrepreneur learning how to sell something to a customer, instead of an investor..? Someone who's learnt to learn to recognize and develop opportunities to make money and do it? That's rare. I don't think you're ever old enough to fully learn that, or be past it.

Old enough to work for nothing and give your company away? maybe .. Never young enough :)
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Hi Guys, I attempted a business model around this idea about 8 years ago. It was a great idea on paper, but in the real world, people just didn't want to lease a domain name. They wanted to own it outright. It's too easy to find a substitute domain name with an alternative top level domain. Or, if you're a heavy hitter with money, just hire lawyers and claim trademark infringement. People don't "try on" domains. Thanks.
Great thoughts. Also I have been wondering if there are differences in the kinds of startups that younger and older entrepteneures can most effectively start. As we age, we think in different ways and this may both good and bad. However in the end this shouldnt sop anyone from trying.
Add Radian 6 to the "Doing it wrong" list.

You have to talk to a sales person.
Then watch a webinar.
Then take TRAINING?!?!!

Just to maybe get a demo.
The last line is a little unfortunate. It made me think of: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1528-the-bullshit-of-outage-l...
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That's...actually not very many.

(cough) http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/10/facebook-analytics-platform... (cough)
Why they are orthogonal?
When I read a news story, it affects my emotions, it makes me draw correlations with my previous experiences. This is unconciouss and barely manageable. This may even be necessary, to survive we need to learn from other people experiences. We need to feel empathy.
The DC may be likely for old-style repeaters, as Er-doped fiber amplifiers are (relatively) new.

It's my understanding that the pumping laser would be a different wavelength carried by the same fiber (just as a fiber can carry multiple data channels using different wavelengths in DWDM). The boost happens because of the special doped section.

Laser pumping is used extensively in laser physics, at places like the NIF: https://lasers.llnl.gov/about/nif/how_nif_works/injection_la...

The pumping laser essentially puts the doped medium in an energy condition where the data transmission can stimulate additional emission (similar to how lasers work in the first place). Few photons in, many out. The energy required to do so comes from the pumping laser.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_pumping
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That is entirely possible, but with over 20+ sample shipments over a year while living in Phoenix I only received samples shipped from Digikeys facilities.
I'm in San Francisco.

I've got a product that I have developed in the evenings that could be beneficial to the startups in the area. I work a fulltime as a Rails engineer, so I can only make a few contacts a night.

Thanks for the advice, I sincerely appreciate it.
I think there are peak ages. Note the plural. And we are always in transition. But then the question becomes what you can do with what you have.

Compared to when I was 20, my ability to solve highly technical problems is slowly fading. However my ability to solve most problems is still getting stronger.
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yawn. If you want to make a game, make a game. Start by writing a story, then break it down into scenes, then create a variety of opposing forces, then balance them, then create suspense, then make it all fun. This might have been notable before the onslaught of web game frameworks, but now it's just something for me to complain about. And like pilif said, where's the sound?
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I was saying that these weren't people that were just convenient to let go in one batch. It isn't that they were fire-able material, as angrycoder suggests is often the case, in this case the people who I worked with were great team members, knowledgeable and passionate about working for Blizzard. Absolute assets. That there were too many people in the department isn't surprising, or that layoffs were used to correct the overstaffing. I just suggested that from what and who I know, the "Blizzard 600" wasn't the situation angrycoder described, except for some aspects like the timing.
Fully agreed, having two open source, free compiler toolchains with which you can fully build your software stack beats having to rely on just one. And like you said competition is always good. Of course that is why it's better if both compilers continue to flourish, which is what I'm hoping/expecting will be the case.
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> Make the app zip and unzip the pictures automagically, tell people that it'll use less bandwidth than email?

It's worth stating that zipping/gzipping JPEG's (the most common camera phone file format) nets almost no benefit as JPEG's are already compressed.
Are you limiting your job search to specific locales? Are you applying at top companies only?
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I tried Alphabet Blocks and Cryptose just now. Cryptose is rather fun, but the visual design could stand improvement.

It would be interesting to repackage these games with better eye-candy and compare sales figures to Insurgent's, if:
- Insurgent's sales figures were public
- one could account for the effects of more devices sold since 2009/much greater competition since 2009.
I think the advantage of being young entreprenuer is being bold, fearless, and idealist.

For the not so young, they are more cautious, and got more wisdom from the previous experiences.

The success of a business does not depend on the age of an entreprenuer. The idea, the passion, the creativity and, the determination will matter.
Apple did this to me too, without explanation. They've owed me $13,860 for over a year now.

You're 100% at their mercy.
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We should start a poll to see how common this is
How are these things happening? in Australia our Healthcare system had a bug too: http://www.itnews.com.au/News/292081,hicaps-bug-hits-health-...

I don't recall any of this occurring in 2008 or 2004.
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Are you kidding me? SFDC is $125 a month per user. Even a small company is paying $15K a year for their licenses. Salesforce is doing okay.
Today’s startups are tomorrow’s enterprises. Many of the other startup folks I know share the same expectations about how software should be sold.

They'll change their minds when they become an enterprise.

Listen: we don't do things that way because we like layers of bureaucracy, and long, tedious meetings.

Well, some of us don't.

Enterprise customers and vendors operate that way because it's the easiest, most painless way to get stuff done.

If it wasn't, we wouldn't do it that way.
Ultimately it is the product you market, not the company. But consumer services can be OK with a common name if that helps a startup cut through the clutter. (and it will just be the product name anyway after you are acquired ...)

Relatedly, you can use the company name as part of product name for products (Company ProductA, Company productB), this can help you with trademarks and avoiding problems with others when you want your product name to be descriptive but it would be otherwise generic w/o your company name as part it.
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We're using vagrant to a very limited extent. It's kinda slow (thanks RubyGems!) and overly complicated (why the hell does it use that huge COM-like API thing when it could just shell out to the command line utils?) It's been mostly replaced with two or three short bash scripts now... but they are relatively specific to our app.

In short, the world needs a Vagrant-clone that's < 500 lines of bash.
Wow, this is so well done!
Curious as to why you think documenting everything from the start is counterproductive. Are you opposed to documenting everything or documenting from the start, and why?

I mean, I hate writing documentation, but as someone who has had to come back to code I've written months prior (and I was the only one to work on the project), let alone code someone else wrote, I'm incredibly grateful when I look at old code that's actually documented. Plus I feel that writing a couple lines of documentation helps me figure out exactly what I want the code to do.
A big reason is that it's much easier to do from a legal perspective. Letting go of low performing people in a layoff is way easier than going through all the hoops of giving them warnings, putting them on probation, etc.

Also, a slow trickle of firings is just horrible for everyone. You have no idea if you are next, etc. A big layoff followed by a company meeting of "hey, we did a layoff because of X. There will be no additional layoffs as long as we hit our current goals."
This reminds me of steve blank article, where the salesforce burned his well-written datasheet about a product because it's cause too many folks to "get to no" quickly:

http://steveblank.com/2011/08/05/bonfire-of-the-vanities/

I work in the semiconductor industry which is rife with webinars, field sales/apps engineers, etc. I hate it, but in some ways it's a wacky industry where you have a garden variety of customers ranging from grad students wanting free samples for a science project, to Apple/Dell wanting to cut your margins to nothing while lying that their volumes will be huge when they're also just testing out a science project.

You end up with a problem where you don't know how much effort your apps engineers will have to spend working with a customer and whether their time was worth working with them. So you end up with negotiators called sales people/field engineers. In theory it works unless those negotiators are bent on extracting as many commissions as possible, and/or don't walk into the right markets.
Contrast Microsoft's wishy washy "any inconvenience this may have caused" with Amazon's sincere apology.

http://aws.amazon.com/message/65648/

(Scroll to last paragraph.)
I'm applying where ever there are openings, and the only restriction is that it's in the Saint Louis area. I live in Fenton, MO.
though after looking im not sure how to do so
Ah, I was under the impression that the EFF preferred the GPL, and primarily enforced the GPL. My mistake.
What does that mean? I can't think of any graph-editing GUI that I'd want to use to write code.

There's a reason I still do my graphs in dot, and not in some WYSIWYG editor -- it's much easier to manipulate them.
The same could be said about Japan (while government connections are certainly more critical in China, I reckon). But Google has been pretty successful in Japan, for example. They are now market leaders in search here, whereas it used to be Yahoo Japan still a few years ago (note that Yahoo Japan was a different company than the global Yahoo - they operate separately and are purely local).
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My bad, I got that wrong.

The translated array should be:

1 0 2 3 0 3.

I am correcting the article now. For a non-rushed, accurate description please look at:

http://www.alexbowe.com/wavelet-trees

Edit: Got it wrong again... I guess this is why we have computers and debuggers!
The original poster was going on about how when his startup is an enterprise he won't do things 'that way'.

But enterprises work best when you have those parts that you hate in play.
For me the main issue is that as you get older the barrier to entry for you to move from Job -> Startup gets greater.

I'm 29, have 2 mortgages & an amazing son (that my wife looks after - therefore she isn't working anymore). So my responsibilities as a husband & father are to ensure I can continue to provide for my family.

This hasn't stopped my entrepreneurial side at all, but it means that in order for my company to support myself & my cofounder we have to pay ourselves a significant salary compared to renting/working in a house together & not worrying too much about bills/salary.
Probably right, but on the other hand there are plenty of people who know "important" people via a small network or family ties, but wouldn't fit the bill for CEO of a company. I was more talking about the types that have a few connections through dumb luck vs actually putting themselves out there. also, hustle: "to sell or promote energetically and aggressively," via Merriam-Webster.
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I live in a different timezone, so luckily by the time I arrive the conversation has been curated somewhat. Reddit does a great job of taking 10000 comments and giving me 100 to read!

I guess if you're mainly scanning, read it tomorrow and you'll probably enjoy doing so more.
yes E A is up there and seems to recruit a bunch ...
"No one is getting paid"

Sounds like a really cool project! Have another upvote in hopes it gets his attention.
If you're an entrepreneur, you're an entrepreneur.

In your 20s you've got nothing to lose and that's the time to cut your teeth and shoot for the moon. If you fail, it's ok.

In your 30s you'll likely be married with a young family and either have made it far enough to keep on swinging for the fences, or you'll have to take a job and dabble on "side projects". If you fail, it's ok.

But man do I know a lot of people kicking ass in their 40s that just came out of 10 years of "working for the man" with slightly older kids, maybe a spouse back at work, and some savings to prop themselves up on.

By leaping off the cliff you're officially part of the club and there's nothing better in the world.
Of course, excuse my Amero-centrism. I should've written that the Schengen Zone does not have exit checks, which is what I meant when I mistakenly wrote "EU."

I miss my time in Europe. Flying around Schengen nations is so much easier than between states these days.
You need a certain amount of karma to make polls. Not sure how much - but it's more than 465, which is what I have.
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This is the same Apple that plans for GateKeeper to check a certificate server for blacklisted apps and developers in OS X 10.8.

Imagine not even being in the App Store and your app's mainstream customers with default settings seeing a scary warning message because your certificate was accidentally blacklisted. Coming to the HN front page later this year..? :-)

Orienting your business around the ecosystem of a corporation with an itchy trigger finger is a tricky game of dice.
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I think it will be a good start. The lectures won't take long at all since you'll already be familiar with computation.

I've been learning programming with K & R. I enrolled in cs 101 as a supplement and found I was able to quickly transfer my knowledge of c over to python as a result.

It is basic, but you'll be able to move through it quickly.
FWIW Emacs's core is C and extensions (the vast majority of the code) are in Lisp. This is a common model for dividing up the work between "engine" and personalization/customization stuff and I think it works well. But it's not true that it's a "Lisp program", or not solely one anyway. Not unlike AutoCAD...
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In the situation you are describing, computers are used as tools in the sciences of biology and physics. Just because something is used to aid another science does not make itself a science.
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I wanted to know what kind of features HN users would like to see in the education space. I'm interested in all kinds of ideas and may pick one off to try and build it. For instance, one I've heard of before is an iPad companion app to online classes where you can create/record lessons with audio and a whiteboard (a la showme.com). Something that's already been done, but captures the essence of what I'm looking for is a good circuit simulator, or online code tutors like code academy.

Any/all ideas welcome. Thanks!
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Hm... I briefly glanced over the graphs, and the results don't make sense to me. Every single server he tested must do a C accept call at some point, plus some (a lot of) extra stuff. If those servers take less time then plain accept call, doesn't it just indicate that the benchmark is flawed? Am I missing something?
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Actually, I'd say one 3.75rd of facebook qualifies as very many.
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So we can steer our dollars away from them.

How would that work? Most cities only _have_ one airport.

If I live in Tulsa, I use the airport there. It's that or drive two hours to Oklahoma City.
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I'm amazed anyone decides to develop for the Apple app stores. This is not the first time this sort of thing has happened, by a long shot. Due diligence means not putting all your eggs in the Apple basket.
"Coming to the HN front page later this year..?"

I assume this may be a theme in the making.. I wonder if App Store like ecosystems have similar issues. I havnt heared of any in the android market, but im sure similar cases can be found.
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Oh, but Blizzard does schedule, of course, it's just that following that schedule is often not their #1 priority. Look at this from back in 2010

http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/10/leaked-blizzard-roadmap-sho...

(Diablo 3 has already deviated from that, of course) However, even if the cuts are not going to cause schedule changes, that doesn't mean they do not reflect scope changes.
Cool, WT and succinct data structures are definitely an interesting field these days.

I'm primarily using as a compact order preserving structure to support fast lookups for both (token -> position) and (position -> token). I'm using an updatable variant to support O(1) appends, and then use it for realtime indexing/compression. I probably should do a blog post at one point...

Would be interesting to hear about faster ways to do rank/select without using support structures... I'll keep an eye on your blog :-)
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That was 4 years and many many many HTML5 APIs ago. And Javascript engine improvements.
Isn't it still the IE7 rendering engine? Does it surprise anyone?

edit: this information is outdated and incorrect, my apologies. Thanks for the correction.
Ha! Thanks man -- will do :)
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Here is a true story. I've curated the hell out of my reddit frontpage.

I went to reddit just now and while it was loading I thought "I'm so sick of the downward trend in my enjoyment of the unstoppable march towards extreme mediocrity in every corner of reddit... if I don't see anything on my frontpage that interests me this time, I'm going to add it to my hosts file"

I scanned the page, saw nothing that interested me (including this AMA... I don't even know who he is) and added reddit to my hosts file.

Then I opened Hacker News. Top link? This reddit AMA. Sigh.
That's the Free Software Foundation (FSF).
As a back-formation from "performance" it does make some sense. On the other hand, the alternatives "fast" and "efficient" are much more common, at least in the circles I travel in.