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Looking for a technical cofounder
I am a designer. I started my project with a good technical co-founder, but he is having trouble committing the project and has to focus on paying work. The product concept is pretty detailed and well-thought-out.

What I am hoping for is someone who has an interest in working with music culture. The product is really easy to be passionate about if you are a musician, a producer, or are related to, friends with, or sleeping with one. This isn't a hard requirement, but it will help you understand the customer and his or her needs and how the product solves them. Musicians I have talked to get it instantly, and non-musicians tend to need a little convincing.

From a technical point of view, there will be a lot of big data, relatively complex algorithms, and machine learning involved.

I am a lightweight coder from my UI background, so I can be a padawan coder or do unit testing when there is a lull in the design work.

It should go without saying, but I'll say it anyway: I have a good design for a good product concept, but I am looking for an actual partner, not an engineering bitch. The long-term success of this product will be based on the ingenuity and creativity we bring to the engineering. I want to build a successful partnership with someone who can take technical ownership of this and work with me to create something amazing.

So if you are looking for a project to work on or to apply with, then give me a few minutes over the phone or skype or in-person and I'll tell you what I'm up to and why I think it will be a success.

I am based in Cupertino, CA.
I am gabe kneisley at gmail -without the spaces of course :)
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I once joked that _why worked for an ASP.NET firm writing enterprisy middleware, and his employment contract forbid him from participating from open source projects, which is why he had to remain anonymous.

That now seems somewhat close to the truth.

Regardless, he obviously wanted to keep his real life (and perhaps his real job) isolated from the _why persona, and there are all sorts of perfectly legitimate and understandable reasons for wanting that separation. If some jackass started stalking me in the way the _why was stalked, I would be extremely pissed and would close up shop just like he did. Why that's so difficult for some people to understand, I'll never know.

Anyway, I enjoyed the article and I think he gave the perfect response to the reporter.
Well, y'know, back in the day, we used to say "if it's not broken, don't throw it out." Of course, that was before the current tech boom, where you absolutely must throw away anything that's older than a year (correction: older than two weeks), whether it works or not, else you'd be a social outcast - because the New And Shinier point release Sucks Less, And You NEED It. New iThisOrThat, gotta catch 'em all!

As for that 12-year old operating system I paid for and which I still keep inside of a VM: I'd drop it, but the damn IE just refuses to run anywhere else. And now I'm supposed to shell out for another Win to run alongside that? Yes, I'm aware that's MS's main business model; happiness is not currently required for purchase (IANAL of course).

Edit: I am definitely not facing a choice of food versus W7, that was some other poster; it just seems to me that I don't see that much extra benefit for me from paying MS for a new OS. (and no, XP is not my primary OS; that one was released some months ago)
Those are mostly irrelevant to this thread. Except as a matter of fact I was an employee. A googler, you say.
A good example for using the dispatch object was how views interact when we send messages out from the compose message form on Sendhub.com. When a user composes a message and submits the form (ComposeMessageFormWidget), we render the new message in the ThreadView, which is a different view object. The ThreadView object listens for new messages to be sent during render

Another, less complicated, way of achieving this is to have the view listen for model attribute changes.

Presumably the compose form generates a Message model which is part of a Messages collection. Both ComposeView and ThreadView can have access to (and listen on) this Messages collection.

Then when a Message is successfully created server-side (or when it's created client-side), a "saved" attribute on the Message model changes to true. This bubbles up through the Messages collection and ThreadView's listener gets tripped with the relevant Message as an argument.
I don't think 'good looks' matter as much as 'clean looks'.

Shave. Shower. Get a haircut. Despite the 'hoodie chic' look, make sure it's a clean hoodie. Or better yet, wear something nicer. (no, not a suit, but a step up from a hoodie will help people take you seriously).

As far as general likeability goes, usually that stems from people either complaining or saying offense things.

All of that is under your control.
This might work out. I find G+ to be much more valuable than FB, and a bit more valuable than Twitter.

Hiring a non-engineer who brings new ideas to G+ seems like a good idea, at least for a while.
I'm snprbob86's co-founder at Thinkfuse. Here's our actual jQuery cleanData wrapper (in coffeescript): https://gist.github.com/2046371

jQuery.cleanData = _.wrap jQuery.cleanData, (cleanData, elems) ->
for elem in elems
$(elem).data('view')?.dispose()
cleanData.apply @, arguments

That lets jQuery handle garbage collecting automatically for us whenever the Backbone view's corresponding element is removed from the page. Just make sure your base view constructor sets the 'view' data attribute on it's element.
Just goes to show that the world is still human in some regards, and communication and negotiation skills are still king (pun def. intended.)
Ha, now that's comical!
So we're going through the basic shapes for payment companies?

Square = obvious
Paypal = Triangle
Stripe = Rectangle

Extrapolating, the next payment-company-cum-dongle is going to be circular. Some kind of NFC rig perhaps?
I would argue that this reputation only really applies within the tech echo chamber and that the vast majority of wider society isn't aware of this reputation, and has never heard of Square.

But these same people probably do have a PayPal account, and given that these onerous policies of PayPals are actually in place to protect the consumer I think they stand a good chance making it much more difficult for Square in this market.
The odds of beating 3 separate casinos, over a reasonable number of hands, even against a very low house edge, are quite small.

No one is writing stories about the millions of other high rollers who lost. It's entirely possible his outcome was driven entirely by chance alone. No card counting, no special expertise other than knowing the odds of the game. Just sheer luck. Unfortunately, that doesn't make for a very interesting read.
The link to the 15-day trial seems to be dead?
So you're really saying that Apple stores are going to become even MORE crowded? Those places are a mad house.

As long as they're that packed, expect the share price to continue to rise.
I was speaking generally, not to you specifically. A lot of blog posts, and more and more ostensible news articles, are placing date/time and author at the end of the post ("below the fold"), if providing them at all (i.e. not always).

Others on HN have commented on this, as well. It's an annoying distraction when a non-specific title leads e.g. to year old news that they've already absorbed and dealt with. Combine this with a "story" that withholds this and other pertinent details until e.g. paragraph 12, and such readers begin to get annoyed.

Again, this wasn't addressed to your post, where both author and date are/were "above the fold".

I'll qualify myself, again: I don't typically write copy, and my comments reflect my personal attitude and desire. They may or may not reflect what is currently considered to be desired/successful copywriting, per the Internet du jour.
Pivotal Labs in talks to be acquired
Thanks for the heads-up but I'm a little busy fundraising!
So I can't find the reason why this project exists instead of just contributing to 0MQ directly.
Or if you're sure it's gonna go to 360 you could short it, then be long again at 360 :)
One of the greatest factors that's been holding MSFT back in recent years has been its need to maintaining this backward compatibility (among other things)..

Sure, with an OS like Windows (which, let’s be honest, much of the world depends heavily on) it's somewhat necessary, but the plug has to be cut somewhere. I’d say in the case of XP that should have been a few years ago, but, at this point, 2014 makes sense as it gives Windows 8 some time to mature in the market before forcing mass enterprise adoption.

This need to maintain backwards compatibility has presented a huge competitive disadvantage for them as players like AAPL, who freely ditches compatibility in favour of performance (and sales) regularly, can produce higher quality products utilizing the latest technological developments.

MSFT seems to have finally realized this (likely in part due to looming threats to its dominance and in part from what appears to be a refreshed outlook on product development), and this is for the better.

..And come on, you're really still using XP?
What I learned from being horribly wrong about Facebook as business
Yup, exactly: Ashtray in the car is full? Well buy a new car then! (I'm exaggerating, but you get the point: most stuff is built shoddy and unrepairable - for you to buy new shoddy and unrepairable stuff to replace it)
So gross. Clicking "about" for example (from the main page) loads the about content in a pokey 1.16 seconds, plus drawing time. There's no hint that the content is loading.

While 1.16s is faster than a new page load, it feels crazy slow.
"I'm sure there must be counter examples"

Measure Map was a small team acquired by google that made a pretty analytics app for blogs and they went on to overhaul Google Analytics, which at the time still look pretty rough because it was an acquired app (Urchin) that was made for power users.

That team worked pretty well. After everyone vested, Jeff Veen put the band back together and they started cranking out other apps, first WikiRank and then Typekit, which was just bought by Adobe.

I can see the parallels with Milk: 1) a small interdisciplinary team that works well together and with a kickass designer (Daniel Burka) that has a knack for making the complex look simple, and 2) an app like Google+ that's just as important to their new core mission as Analytics was to their old one and also has similar room for improvement.
Talk about Google scraping the bottom of the barrel.

"Remember, digg failed because it alienated the users, attempted to wrap too much UI around the content; limiting the consumption rate, and pandering to media channels."

Bingo. Unless users fell in lock-step with Kevin Rose's thoughts he'd institute the ban hammer.
I like that they include a cute cat as a point of reference, so I can tell how outdated IE9 is by comparing it to Peak Lolcat on Google Trends[0]. I realize this is a bit unfair to IE9, but it's not too far off.

0: http://www.google.com/trends/?q=lolcat
If folks have to use IE, I suppose I'd rather they're using IE9. So I guess I reluctantly support this site?
The funny thing about this commercial, marketing-wise, is that it isn't making fun of older IE versions. It's making fun of us geeks who hated older IE versions.

The primary message is: "you geeks who hated us, give us a chance!" But I get the feeling the subtext is more important: "normal non-geeky people have always preferred IE, and now all you normal non-geeky people have an excuse to ignore all those silly geeks who tell you to uninstall it."

Edit: one other thing -

This commercial has the anti-IE guy trying to "uninstall" older versions of IE. It looks like he's dragging the icon to the trash bin. That bit was interesting primarily because, as I recall, you couldn't uninstall IE before Windows 7, particularly not by doing anything as simple as dragging it to the trash bin. I guess he's just doing what a lot of us have done: trying to make sure an unsuspecting family member doesn't just have the icon there to reflexively click on.
Anonymous operating system prompts security warnings
From the web site (http://www.crossroads.io/faq):

```Why was Crossroads I/O forked from ZeroMQ?

The contribution and trademark policies of the ZeroMQ project were, as of March 2012, incompatible with our long-term goals.

Who is behind the fork?

The main work on the fork was done by two of the original developers of ZeroMQ, Martin Sustrik and Martin Lucina, with help and advice from other members of the ZeroMQ community.'''
Crowdsourced budget deficit reduction
View and tweak federal spending and revenue. Propose your own plan to reduce the budget deficit.
Just remember: buy the rumor, sell the news
> Of course, if you make too many simplifications you risk achieving a near-useless comic-book view of reality (literally, as in the blog post here).

For a moment there, I thought you were going to invoke Rorschach as an example.
Good point, but there are flavors of fail. There is the 'you reached to high and fell off the ladder' flavors which are generally seen as a good thing, and then there is the 'selling bungee harnesses to teenagers' flavor where people say "What exactly were you thinking would happen?"

I tried to help Ed Patterman build a Golf magazine on the web in '95 it failed because it was too early. Sony tried to create an e-reader where they charged money to put out of copyright works in PDF on to it for you to read. It failed because it was a stupid idea.
Advanced tech conflict: China's rare earth stranglehold
Even "cost centers" are a net benefit, unless something is horribly broken.
If your current 12 year old car had a 2 star crash rating while the newer ones had a 4 star crash rating and you knew there were people on your daily commute actively looking to smash your car, you'd probably want to upgrade. Same as if there were people roaming with flamethrowers ready to burn down your wooden deck unless you get a fire-resistant deck installed.

Also, this car/deck costs less than $100. Security holes aren't a "just because" thing.
How do you meet people interested in doing this?
Tuin: tuinmeubelen 2012 zijn licht, duurzaam en kleurrijk
I know that the article says this is a comedy website, but are they also trying to be "funny" on their testimonials page. (Capitalisation is direct copy/paste, I'm not shouting! )

> "IE9 OFFERS FUNCTIONALITY THAT'S NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY OTHER BROWSER."

Like, lack of developer tools and the requirement to buy a new operating system?

> "IE9 is one of PCWorlds best products"

That reminds me why I haven't shopped at PCWorld ever.

> "INTERNET EXPLORER 9 TAKES THE BROWSER SECURITY CROWN."

Just no. This one won't even hard to disrepute.

> Chrome sucks, freezes on FB, back on IE and it seems to be great! #Chrome #FB #IE9

This is in the testimonials page by some randomer with 5 followers.
https://twitter.com/#!/NimanthiR

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Yeah, everything on their testimonials page is totally a bag of lies. I actually thought whoever made the site was trying to be serious, but then I saw they quoted Engadget.

> "The new IE is way better than Chrome, especially in terms of safety. You are only fooling yourself to stay loyal to one browser"

Engadget have never said this. The article they link to for this testimonial is actually,

http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/06/microsoft-expands-interne...
It is interesting how blatantly Paypal has copied Square. They don't even seem to make a secret of it.

>>"The key differentiator is that it comes from PayPal, a trusted brand in the online payments industry"

My translation: "Nothing innovative or groundbreaking. But we're a trusted name"

Perhaps it's a strategy that'd work, but really, Paypal could do better?
> Except we can defend the earth from an asteroid for probably five orders of magnitude less money than establishing a self-sustaining colony somewhere else.

If we find out about it decades or centuries out. If it's a year out when we spot it, there's very little we can do with current technology to head it off (asteroid disaster movie plots notwithstanding).

> And if self sustaining is all you need, setting up a self-sustaining colony a mile underground is also five or six orders of magnitude cheaper.

It's also much more accessible by desperate refugees trying to get in as the planetary disaster approaches.
Yeah this is not meant to be an excuse at all. But it used to be that code/innovation mattered more than words, PR etc. Certainly the oldest tech companies were of the "build it and they will come" type. If nowadays who you hang around with matters so much, does that mean that information tech has somehow already peaked?
LAN is what made Diablo 1 and 2 great, not the "battle.net".

This is a step down in features for the consumer (just like the step down in features for Starcraft 2 from 1). There's no reason to paint a rosy picture about it. Last I checked there were still more active custom Warcraft 3 games than SC2 games and that speaks volumes.

You honestly think they said "hmm, let's save money by requiring online to play so we can better serve the customer." or do you think they said "let's make more money by further ensuring the integrity of our real money auction house and giving us more control over the product."
> between 10 and 200 people. That's a fairly attractive market

That's crazy. There's not near enough granularity to infer anything about the attractiveness of the market. A firm with 10 people is probably not paying a payroll company; a firm with 200 people almost certainly is.
Do you have a better reason why he should buy new software other than, "because it's old"? Sounds like his current setup does everything he needs it to do right now. I haven't seen any compelling reason why Windows 7 is better than XP for day-to-day use. A lot of people are getting Windows 7 now only because the computers they're running XP on are slowly dying out, and you generally can't buy a new computer with XP.

Come to think of it, I have an entire shop full of all kinds of tools, many of which are more than 12 years old. Should I replace my workhorse power drill? My cylinder hone? My bench grinder? Heck, I've got a 1940's DeWalt radial arm saw with a neat feature -- I can unbolt the motor and flip it over and turn it into a router. Should I replace that with a new thing too?
Lessig does not make the case for why Goldman, in particular, was so harmed by the act of going public. The incentives he cites exist for all public companies, and many public companies have existed, and done good work, for decades.

Speaking of which, before we talk about the incentives that led to Goldman's cultural decline, how about some objective confirmation that their culture has in fact declined? The article is in response to a single executive's published opinion.
I don't know if there was a point in there or not, but...

People don't generally use a C64 with an always-on Internet connection as their main computer. C64 viruses and malware are fairly rare. Windows XP malware, on the other hand, is all too common.
> mentioned the things I liked and said so

Great. Fine.

// See, when used as one word responses, they do not indicate actual appreciation, they are dismissive.
Except XP is broken.
I cringe whenever I hear the term "Western medicine" being used to describe modern evidence-based medicine. There's little Western cultural bias to this approach; a drug, lifestyle, whatever either has significant effects on health or it doesn't.

Just as the unproven components of traditional Western medicine (leaches anyone?) are mostly bunk, so are such aspects of traditional Eastern Medicine/alternative medicine/whatever.
So instead of retro, you want rustic?
Why couldn't PayPal become more of a innovation company and stop taking ideas from entrepreneurial folks. Errr
It's because they are fans of blizzard and do not apply logic to the situation. They see what is happening, but they've already decided that Blizzard is a good company and wouldn't do it for bad reasons. So they think up facts to support their position. They think a multi-billion dollar company owned by Activision is doing it for the consumer and not for profits/real money auction house/etc.
And that everybody earns every penny that they really should. Nobody's ever born the wrong color or gender or nationality, or ever has bad luck that prevents them from fulfilling their potential.
01:34 here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoOeU1aya0o
:)

I've got an Illy cafe machine at home :)
The problem is recognizing what's low and what's high. Back when Apple was around $365, I still thought that was "high." Hence, I don't play the stock game.
I use a dedicated virtual machine for Facebook. I have another for Linkedin, and a third for Gmail. I run noscript and ghostery in Firefox, on my normal desktop. I revoke temporary permissions after I am done with the webpage.

The VM's pretty much eliminate cross site tracking where I have explicitly identified myself. The Firefox addons reduce the amount of tracking from ordinary sites.

I also am cautious with regard to linking my smartphone to sites like Facebook.
What you could do if you were Google and had their databases
"...ego is getting bigger. That usually spells failure."

Many historical counter-examples.
The Cloud isn't infalible; doesn't solve all the problems like everyone says; news at 11.

*Downvote if you have legitimate technical reason I'm wrong, not just because you throw a hissy fit that your technology of the week isn't all that and a bag of chips.
The reason developers hate working with IE isn't because they're teenage nerds with OCD. Why are they trying to ostracize the very people who are responsible for converting the home market to other browsers? It's not like soccer moms and CIOs are the audience for this video. And why focus on selling IE9/Windows 7 when IE10/Windows 8 is around the corner?
You realize that "connections" can be cultivated right?
So I heard this hundred times before and while it feels like Google (in this example) is making mistake, perhaps the second bottom here is that they wanted to shut down a competitor (at some field) and the nice way of doing it is to acquire. Then Google won't care if they find themselves behind gold cage of Google or not. They may leave or whatever. I don't think dropping $30MM is a big problem for Google either. For me or you that may be a waste, for Google it is 1) drop in the ocean 2) cheap way to shut them down.
That's exactly the issue, Kevin Rose is getting dollars for shuttering an unsuccessful web service. Why does Kevin Rose get to cash out for being a failure, simply because his name is Kevin Rose, while all the hardworking nobody engineers slave away to build successful companies without any help or millions of dollars splashing down on them for their supposed greatness which is unsupported by evidence?
Interesting. I wonder if I happened to see some test of this a long while back? You see, I was looking up the specific gravity of a whole bunch of different things for something (I couldn't find them all on Wolfram Alpha).

Then, out of the blue, Google started giving me the answers directly, saying that it had calculated some number by averaging X sources. But that's not the odd part.

The odd part? The Google search page then asked me if that number was correct. I've never seen that before or since.
Mars colonists won't need to, either.
aren't a bunch of those unsupported features in draft mode?
Nice try, Microsoft!
I've read it, and yet not understood which are those incompatibilities in the goals