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Regarding the first question, I have been burned before by non-technical co-founders who turned the project into their own little "I want to learn how to program" experiment, while spending zero to no time actually hustling, talking to people, getting feedback, finding more early adopters, engineering requirements and so on. I have learned to be a better judge of character through that experience, and am much pickier now.

About the second one, I was actually paraphrasing something I heard Max Levchin state at one of his talks years ago. Not sure how much it's worth, given his partnership with Thiel.
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RIM's greatest issue has been LEGACY.

RIM's focus on the enterprise ensures that a large number of their staff has to build hacks to ensure their software's backwards compatibility. Forget the entire "Flash as being dated" debacle and think more to the tune of Microsoft's Exchange servers and address databases from the 80s which RIM has to be compatible with.

Naturally, companies must decide whether they want to ditch this side of the business. RIM tried to dip its toes in both. To be fair, they were trapped into supporting legacy services. Legacy isn't something that can spinned off. For RIM, they would have had to cut out a huge portion of their business to try to innovate.

By comparison, Newer players in the mobile phone space (Apple, Google etc.) didn't/don't have to deal with legacy. That's why they have such a small presence in older large enterprise. Microsoft's mobile side had similar issues to deal with but I think that their newer platform has eliminated their legacy components so there is hope.

As a Canadian, I'm very sad to see RIM die off. U Waterloo will also suffer tremendously. With SRED going away, I wonder what the Canadian tech scene will look like overall. I think I'll consolidate my thoughts on this and write a blog post or something.
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The reason Android is so successful on handsets is because Google made a conscious decision to sell their soul to the carriers to get there. They can try and gradually undo that by purchasing their own manufacturer... But it's going to take a while.
Yep. Two weeks ago. Had a great time making the video.
ANOTHER knee-jerk reaction from Google.

A product or service based on a reaction is driven by envy. not based on passion to innovate or the desire to provide a better service. it's just based on envy. all it cares about is what the other guy is doing.

This has been Google's strategy lately thanks to Larry Page.

Apple
Facebook
MS
Yelp
Groupon
the list goes on and on...
Yep submitted the final version today and saved a copy to google docs for reference.
Maybe it was an outlier, but a friend had a visceral reaction against the design aesthetics of his demos and thought the principle examples he gave were depressing. Overall, since I've evangelized in my humble ways the message from the talk, I've learned that not everyone believes that a principle based approach is the ideal path. Some are interested in solving hard problems for the sake of solving them, and others are interested in making lots of money. Nothing inherently wrong with either, but still a bit surprising for some reason.
I'll take being "Siri on Steroids".
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It's probably cheaper... It certainly results in better quality of life.

Why don't we use that rationale to justify complete regulation of food consumption? Let's have the government force all citizens to eat a vegan diet. The economies of scale would certainly make it cheaper to consume. Overall health would improve. And we would all have a better quality of life...

Except for that little word "force". What if I feel like a milkshake today or a nice juicy steak every once in a while? If I can afford it, and it doesn't hurt anyone else (humans at least), I should be free to purchase those things.

When you're required to eat things, or required to pay for things... OR GO TO PRISON, you're not really free anymore, and that's why Americans don't like government programs like ACA or socialized health care. It might make sense on paper and look just like a big insurance pool, but in reality, it looks more like a centrally planned market, where price signals and efficiencies are non-existant, because when your doctor has a guaranteed paycheck from Uncle Sam, he lacks an incentive to make sure you get the best care. When medical students realize that reimbursement rates have dropped to the point that they can't afford to repay their student loan for a very long time, we'll get fewer doctors, or standards will drop.

I'd rather pay a little bit extra for poor people to get free care than to force me into a one-size fits all plan with long wait times for special procedures. Let's at least fix the problem of poor people not being able to afford a decent level of care before we force everyone into a one-size fits all government program with promises it can't keep, like Social Security and Medicare.
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I actually wouldn't mind doing away with coins altogether and going with whole dollar amounts. I hate having to carry around change!
A cashless society is also a society where there is no longer any anonymity

This is what concerns me the most. I think most of what this article proposes is great, but knowing that absolutely everything I buy can be traced back to me makes me uncomfortable.
What about Thin? Is doesn't seem to have been considered in the comparisons. Any reason for that?
Great intro video. It really explained the app well and was in no way irritating (a rare feat for demo videos!).
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Rust seems very similar to Go. Anyone looked at/played with both enough to offer some wisdom on the pros/cons of each language?
I agree with what you say for later rounds of VC funding (and this is valuable advice for naïve founders!), but I'm talking about YC and other seed rounds/incubators. The idea of this seed stage is to validate the business, getting it to the point where the founders can get more funding from elsewhere. If YC paid much more than $20k then the three months of hacking around might start to look like quite an attractive job. By keeping the funding fairly low, they ensure the ideas aren't overvalued straight away, and that the incentives are aligned. Only founders who back their ideas/team enough to walk away from their jobs for three months, splitting a mere $20k between the team and product, will apply.
Sure did. Got ours in a couple of days ago. So excited! And I agree, our video could have been so much better. There are three of us and unfortunately we couldn't be together for the filming, which makes it look even funkier.
I have another possible explanation for that first question, and I am making the assumption that I'm not the only person that has had to work on not feeling this way:

Even though we really shouldn't feel this way, a lot of us developer sorts wrestle with the idea that we're the only ones ever really working, specifically in the pure development phase of a project.

Granted, I'm sure everybody feels that way at least once during a given venture. I've forced myself to stop thinking that way, but it seems a fairly human thing to think.
"Broken doesn't begin to describe US Immigration for startups"
"resulting in over $8 billion in transactions that never would have occurred otherwise."

Yeah, sure! Am I the only one who thinks this article feels a little like pro-fiat PR for an era where central banks are "printing" ad-infinitum to indebt future generations to address the current political expediency? Something real to back your wealth? Bah! Promises to repay stored in a computer system is the only way.

Someone should post this on zerohedge and see what kind of responses you get!
I think I've been seeing that for more than a year. Maybe not, but definitely quite a while.
Very true. I guess one would have to have some grudge against the company(s) that made this drug in the future and want to prove that it's dangerous with a zombie apocalypse.
Like I keep saying, the descriptions she's writing about were not meant to sell people on the company's vision, but simply to help investors remember which was which.
At least a couple months. Do you have history (google.com/history) turned on?
If they don’t share that view, I think they fail to understand what the FSF is all about.

I’m fairly certain RMS itself would agree that the ideal of freedom they fight and advocate for is to be followed without compromising to practical inconveniences.
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Submitted early yesterday, after revising it in a Google Doc for a while. Then spent the last day continuing to work on our web app. This is going to happen; whether YC is a part of it is now out of our hands.
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Yeah, I thought something similar-- translating to put one vertex at the origin. But at that point, aren't you pretty close to just using the triangles, anyway (since it's a convex polygon)?
That’s a fair point. However, there could also be front loading in the business role. Sounding out the market, figuring out who your customers are and what they want - the sort of stuff that should be done before writing any code. Isn't that still a significant amount of work?
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At this point I want and value all advice, so thanks very much. Good points, all of them. I also need to work on figuring out how long an app idea will take for me to implement, or maybe just build the smallest possible app idea I can conceive of having any potential market and try my best to finish it in under a month?
Thanks a lot, that's great feedback. I've ha trouble getting people to give me honest opinions like those because most people who will give me any opinion just lie to me because they don't want to hurt me, even though I (try to) explain that if they're not honest then they only hurt my chances for success.
Strong disagree. As evidence for my argument: the extremely short duration of YC sessions, and the fact that so many YC companies immediately proceed to grab follow-on funding and market salaries.
And are any of those features not available in Gingerbread?
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Submitted a few days ago, video took way to long to make! My co-founders and I are all in different locations across the world so we had to use a screen recorder to capture a Google+ Hangout lol
No, you repeated my solution. I stated I would rather it be that I have to type in "ruby", just as you state. You are ignoring what I said about getting accustomed to the system and forgetting to put in the "ruby" part. Then I have to repeat the search. Then Google suddenly thinks I'm a ruby developer. Then I have to convince it yet again for another example. It never ends.

Google trying to learn what it "thinks" people want creates the filter bubble, which is the point of the discussion. It will not always give the most relevant result on the topic but what it "thinks" is the most relevant to you; but it could be wrong, a lot.

Plus, has anybody discussed how this stuff might affect traffic for websites in general? If Google is sending different people with the same search query to completely different websites then being the most relevant on a topic might not be as helpful anymore.
I don't see it, maybe it's location related?
And probably Unicorn as well? Will definitely give this a look for my next app.
Just got mine in today. Had a crazy problem with submitting the video, hope we made the deadline. Just glad I finally found the stones to actually apply.
I don't have a lot of experience with systems programming but want to play around with Rust.

Would the best route be to learn C then move onto the untread waters of Rust? I'm just looking for some guidance, this seems really cool to learn.
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I never got one of the Chromebooks (I don't believe they're even available in my country), but I can understand why they failed at that price point and feature set.

If they were $200-300, then they not only are a great value for a laptop, but would provide fair competition against tablets, which many people want just as a cheap laptop.

But when you get to the $500 price point, you lose any advantage over the ipad, and start to encroach on the $900 price point of the macbook air, who's ssd and battery life is just as amazing as the chromebook, with better support and better specs.
They should really define what "effective" means.
It makes fewer compromises than Go. It'd be more appropriate for concurrent, high performance systems projects, whereas Go is a way to rapid-dev high(er) performance networked services.
Just learn C.
That would be trading risk for gain.

Remember, if you pick a correct letter you will not loose any guesses, in other words you get another guess if your guess is right. It's not about finding the word in a fixed number of guesses.

But otherwise you could also extend your method to increase the weight of letters appearing more than once in a word since that gives even more information gain.
No one in this thread has claimed this. Stop trying to invent a polemic.

Note that this comment was posted before raganwald wrote "and possibly deliberately so," above. So it's not as obtuse as it looks.
No, no. We all know that printing money is the secret to prosperity. OTOH, going completely cashless will make it a lot easier to do just that, so maybe it will help.

Oh, I didn't mention for whom it is the secret to prosperity, did I?

Details, details.
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Am I reading this right? DDG does ~6 times as much traffic in API requests compared to search requests?

That makes a pretty significant difference to the monetisation strategy!
Not to be too self promotional, but we're probably the closest to what you are describing. The biggest limitation is our course catalog is very small to start (bootstrapping). Over the next 12-18 months we should have a much more complete curriculum (Masters in CS/SE focused) as we prep for regional accreditation.

Flexibility? All classes are truly self paced (start immediately, work through the material as fast as you are capable) and include genuine interaction with the professor and real human grading.

Expensive? Basically, $50/$100 per credit depending on whether you need the credentialing and human grading portion. In your situation, our MSE program would end up being less than $4,000 plus books.

We're also Silicon Valley based, and are building the program to exceed the very high standards in the area.

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If they are even mildly successful in this one niche they are going to see four me-too startups in three months (one of which will be bought by a national auto parts chain before the year is out) and see the core idea applied to five other niches before they close an A round.
Whatever one may think of systems like ecash or bitcoin, it's disappointing to see a journalist writing as if nothing like that has even been conceived.
1) Use unit tests.

2) It isn't that ugly! If you know what the code is supposed to do (which should be clear from documentation or just the purpose of the program) and it fails in some cases, take that failing case and go through the if-else statements manually.

If this is machine-generated code the real program is the one outputting this script. The big machine-generated statements are just data from that program. That program may be much better structured.
What sorts of compromises does Go make (that Rust does not)?
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We submitted today too... Hoping for the best. =)
Perhaps this assumption is wrong. Is it really impossible to create an electronic currency that guarantees anonymity?
Maybe they even shipped this to users automatically through an already existing (Python-supporting) system?
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People could just use other currencies (like USD) for their cash transactions then. I imagine this could be made illegal too, which only gets more alarming.

Is there no value in a government that knows less than everything about their citizens?
If there were now 10X more startups, but only 2X more ideas per year, would that account for your depression?
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As has been said many times before, Bitcoin is not anonymous either. It is at best weakly pseudonymous.

Where Bitcoin does improve over the centralised system described is that you cannot arbitrarily lock someone out of Bitcoin.
Although I don't mean that the other ones aren't worth working for, I'd say I'm surprised that you don't think Flutter is an interesting company to work for.

It seems like it could be a very exciting playground for an engineer.
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When I, and Ron Johnson, still worked for Apple, he told a story that has stuck with me. As he told it, he was talking with the CEO of Williams Sonoma who was complaining about the difficulty of getting people to make return visits. "If you need a pot, you come in to the Williams Sonoma, buy a pot and leave. You don't come back unless you need another pot or something else for the kitchen...and how often is that?"

Johnson's replied that the key to return visits is to make each visit an experience. "Put on cooking demonstrations, teach classes, provide samples. Then people will go to the mall just to visit the Williams Sonoma."

Sure enough, every time I'm near a Williams Sonoma, I make sure to stop inside.

Of course, it's easy to follow the MBA handbook and talk to investors about "changing compensation schemes" and "reducing cost, improving product mix, blah, blah, blah". To get ahead, you have to be daring...a little crazy even.

For example, the "Apple Creative" program was one of Johnson's ideas: hire top-notch trainers, and charge people $99/yr for weekly lessons.

What?!? That's positively INSANE! Have you ever looked at what it costs to take lessons with a certified Final Cut Pro trainer? And yet every Apple Creative was certified in at least one of the pro products. How on earth could such a plan make any money?

How on earth could such a plan result in a $100 billion bank balance?

How indeed...
Maybe that's true in some sort of a common sense perspective, but the closing of those stores still translates to diminished growth from an investor's perspective which will tend to really punish the stock price and put more pressure on the leadership for cost cutting and/or restructuring.
1. Whether they're "no less hard" depends on who's doing it.

2. Many people claim they can do these things (at least, the "business" and "marketing" parts) - hence the surfeit of "nontechnical cofounders". But not all of them can.

3. There are fewer potential technical cofounders available in most areas.

4. Therefore, as a technical cofounder, you should pick only the best nontechnical partners, who will justify an even split of the equity. If you really don't find anyone who measures up in terms of demonstrated ability to hustle, connections that can actually be used, great business plans/prototypes and/or an impressive work ethic, then is it really worth starting up with a mediocre-or-worse cofounder?

5. If you insist on taking a nontech cofounder and you have only multiple mediocre suitors to pick from, it makes sense to me to offer less equity. If your potential partner feels it isn't fair, then look for someone else who understands that the product makers have precedence in this market.

Personally, I think making a good business plan and doing marketing may be as hard as programming at times, but at this time, more people claim to be able to do business-side things than coding. That fact in itself justifies the tech cofounders' being picky with their partners.

I think tech cofounders shouldn't let the thought that "oh, they work as hard as me" mislead them into partnering with someone who doesn't have capabilities that equal theirs, adjusted for supply and demand.
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Already said (far) below in this post, but the work on the part of the technical team to produce an MVP is often front-loaded, which means that the technical person (team) assumes most of the initial execution risk. Equity distribution should recognize the assumed risk.

If the technical person does not execute on the MVP, the idea guy mostly out only lost time-to-market. On the other hand, if the technical person delivers, he/she is now "all-in" before the idea person typically contributes meaningful execution-value towards the business.

Its probably most fair to view the first "execution" contributors (technical team building MVP) as the first investors in the business, and therefore should be recognized with more favorable terms (equity distribution). If the idea person can create actual execution value in tandem with the MVP, then an initial 50/50 split is fair.
The one that everyone complains about is Go not having generics. I think you have to play around with both languages for long enough to know if it's a real issue; people just seem to look at the spec and decide the lack of generics is a dealbreaker.
I also think an 'Angry-Birds-like' big grid of levels would be more addicting than the current high-score based gameplay mechanic.

High scores don't do much for me. Finishing a really hard level definitely does. Give us finite levels to beat and master, not infinite scrolling.