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copy of my comments:

Honestly, the problem is not finding a designer, but a good designer. And that leads to the larger problem: expectations are too high by those looking. They are expecting apple quality polish on a small budget. Good design isn't cheap. Good designers are hard to find because they are working on quality products, not your dinky startup app with a budget of 50,000 a year for a designer.

I will also add that as a designer and front end developer, its not that I am not interested in startups, it's that I either needs to be a larger part of the ownership, or payed what I am worth.
That does seem surprisingly low, but let's assume it is that correct.

According to stat counter , mobile usage in Jan 2010 was 1.56%, by Dec 2010 it was 4.1%. By Feb 2012 8.53%.

That's an astonishing growth to have roughly doubled in a year. Although the growth proportionally is less than in 2010 which might suggest that there is some slow down.

Big companies like adobe need to plan for the long term, even if "mobile" peaks at 30% + all the people running Windows 8 using Metro + all the Linux users.

That's certainly a big enough base of non-flashers for any web developer to seriously think twice about using it for anything.
Making a trip down there in 2 weeks to roll the dice for a SF-area apartment.. All these articles make the situation sound absolutely catastrophic.

If anybody's leasing a pad, help a brother out :)
I agree, but use that as a sell for why I think it's reasonable to use for business. It usually follows a technical discussion of it's benefits.
The problem is how much it'll cost us to pay for those entitlements.
10 trophies, including the champions league, in his last 9 years of management. I wish I could be that crap

He bought a new level of professionalism and analytics to management (before Mourinho), as well as his own tactical style that changed a lot of the game.

I have heard him be called a lot of things, but 'crap' definitely isn't one that fits.

Edit: see 'Rafa, footballs forgotten man': http://www.footandball.net/rafael-benitez-forgotten-man/
I switched from Blackberry 18 months ago. I got the Blackberry because of wifi calling and did not have data. They had free data in the first month and I was appalled. Despite them supposedly being so good at email, they had no concept of folders! My incoming email is sorted into IMAP folders on arrival so I essentially could not read my email.

The wifi calling was rock solid and worked well. Everything else sucked. Of the 2 phones bought on a family plan, 3 had to be replaced because the hardware failed (included one of the replacements failing). The Bluetooth had a tendency to fail just after the warranty expired, but of course RIM never stood behind their hardware despite so many users being affected.

Booting took at least 5 minutes. Normally you wouldn't care except the phone would often be locked up - completely black screen and unresponsive. It would happen about 4 times a week and required removing the battery. One of the most popular applications is QuickPull which does a software reset similar to pulling the battery. All this means you spend a lot of time waiting for the phone to boot just when you want to use it.

People complain about Android fragmentation, but BB is ludicrous. There are a whole bunch of different form factors that have to be individually supported, as well as a ludicrous number of different operating system versions. My phone never got updated despite there being many serious bugs. For example if you paused the media player then the battery would be flattened in two hours. They did fix the bug within the same version later, but it never got deployed to my phone.

And finally writing software for the phones is a royal pain. If you want to be really frustrated, time how long it takes starting from nothing to getting Hello World running on your and one other phone. (Rinse and repeat on iOS and Android for a comparison.)

So what would it take me to switch? Something way beyond a miracle.
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That's not the Kremlin, that's the iconic cathedral & the history museum.
You helped them rewrite their mail/newsletter but there are typos all over your blog post. It's worse than a TechCrunch article. This makes me question certain things about your side of the story, the only side available to us.
Great one. Hope, you'll be in. :)
In fact starting to work on startup having a hope to have some valueable stock in the future is like starting to work on your own project with some differences. While you work on your own project, you'll always have a chance to make a pivot and to change something you don't like. If you work for someone, you have to be sure that they're reasonable to pivot when it's necessary and that they will listen to your ideas and appreciate your help etc.
I think the point Jason, and others in this thread, are making is that great investors understand that how a founder dresses (especially in tech) is a poor indicator for success. Their pitch and, as YCombinator has pointed out, the intelligence and drive are much better predictors of success. This is on top of the fact that investors aren't looking for the status quo, they are looking for visionaries who are going to make next great thing. Dressing nicely because everyone else is, shows that you are buying into the status quo, not changing it.
I remember that Buckminster Fuller said he started out dressing in a shirt without a tie and nobody took his message urgently. So he started dressing like a banker. That was a long time ago, but perhaps the lesson remains.
That might be a problem for the NEXT generation, but paying back government debt isn't what is driving the numbers in these articles.
This comment is a masterpiece.
Not quite however you want. It doesn't work the way it does in Linux where you can rebind keys in arbitrary ways. The built-in modification only enables a few different common/popular rebindings, but from my brief stint with OS X, I found it maddening that I couldn't get the rebinding exactly as I wanted it.
Narrator guy is great at being terrible actor.
Looks like a druinlord.
It's the same way for developer you can't find a good developers for the same reason. You need to find both developers and designers who are willing to sacrifice. It's to find designer or developer who want to become startup founders who don't already have ideas to sacrifice for yours. I would say for a designing more so than development freelancing maybe your best option. I would freelance out development because for non-technicals it's hard to tell the difference between good and bad development. Plus looking for a designer it more of a preference based on past work where developers past work might look good and be bad or vice versa.
When the added costs of integrating a DI framework (added complexity, getting the rest of the team up to speed and debugging problems directly related to the framework) does not provide sufficient value. This could be the case for smaller projects or a system that doesn't have classes with more than 1-2 dependencies.

You can always get away with using "sinful hacks" (in the eyes of some DI evangelists) like wrapping dependencies in a getter/setter if you just want to inject a mock version for testing.
RESTful thinking considered harmful - followup
It's not going to happen...
Why do you expect anyone to have a significant interest in marketing Windows 8? I can think of at least half a dozen reasons why they would want to studiously avoid it: For one thing, the impetus behind the original Android push has expired, because now most everyone has got both Android and iOS available as options, so there is no need to claim something new as the answer to a competitor who has something you don't. Moreover, Windows is non-exclusive, so even if it was something "new and different" it wouldn't be anything your competitors can't also provide. At the same time, Microsoft's sweetheart deal with Nokia provides a significant disincentive for non-Nokia OEMs to push Windows. In addition to that, adding a third major platform would increase costs for exactly the same reasons that everyone is always complaining about Android fragmentation. And because Windows-on-ARM doesn't run "real Windows" programs, people who bought ARM tablets expecting them to do so will be returning them in droves, creating huge headaches for anyone who sells them in quantity. There is also the problem of Microsoft being a bit of a dangerous character; if other companies allow them to claim a significant foothold in the tablet market, there is no small chance that they will eventually be able to leverage the desktop Windows monopoly into a mobile monopoly, which would leave the OEMs and carriers at Microsoft's mercy going forward.

I mean why do you think nobody is pushing WP7?
"Now these content creators have to worry about their clients on Linux platform."

The sort of content creators who care about this (ie good ones) already had to worry about the tens of millions of ios devices out there. Linux is barely a blip on the content consumption radar
I hope the baby boomers realize that the 20 somethings out there don't give a damn about their entitlements and we'll pick up and move to Africa if we have to because all we need is a solid internet connection.
I guess, it's true in a tech world. Well, in fact, I know that in Russian IT-world it's also so.
Even startups with a sizable budget can have a hard time finding designers. It's not just a question of money, but also knowing where to look and what kind of profile to look for.

Of course, the same is true for developers, but I feel that due to the recent focus on design's importance for startups, the problem might become even more present for design than development.
I think, the best "suit" for the pitch is a t-shirt with your project logo.
Well, in fact it's a best everyday clothes too. ;)
Is sugar toxic?
Because a large proportion of developers are introverts. Even if you're not an introvert, there's a good deal of evidence to suggest that you won't do well at concentration tasks when there are multiple distractions in the background.
Why is Hipmunk mentioned as an example of a site that is successful because of design?
Would have been more appropriate to release it tomorrow.
I downvoted you, multiple times, because you're being an ass.
Perhaps because a lot of high quality developers are introverts. A lot aren't as well, so we have to bend over backwards for them too. Keeping your developers happy is fundamental.
granted, but that sounds more like a micro optimization rather then significantly changing the behavior of the language
I was always taught the same thing. Most people use "I think" or "in my opinion" in a way that weakens their persuasive argument (what high school students typically have to write), so forbidding it forces them to write with confidence in their position. It's part of the formality of that type of writing.

In contrast, blogs are much more personal. I think it's ok to say that your statement is your opinion in that context, especially when you're writing a prediction like this.

Personally, I like it as it is. You took a bold stance and made a radical prediction, forcing the reader to think about how your inevitable future contrasts with their own predictions. If only that happened more on the internet.
What about when we get to the point where we have an AI capable of simulating, if imperfectly, an individual's response to a given question?

If you think that this is farfetched, it's not - it's basically like http://iwl.me , but in reverse. The catch is that you need a lot of easily classified textual data about the person. But in the Twitter age, we do have that kind of information - or soon will.

Gracious Eloise[1] is a really cool idea, though it's going to create a nightmarish situation for forensics experts. Imagine if you combined the two - you could simulate what a person might say, and you could simulate their actual handwriting for it.

[1] http://www.graciouseloise.com/
I'd suggest this: the common language has to be English (and/or French in my case). Nothing is easy, but don't think you got burned the death only because one biz guy took advantage of you and treated you like a code-monkey (taken from you, here, yesterday). There's a lot of decent people out there which are not crooks. One thing you have for you is the commodity to supply code, something tangible (if I may say), where salespeople only throw blah blah in. Protect your belongings. You should make sure the code you write is somehow protected, remotely hosted or something. Why would a non-tech guy get to see your code anyway. Then you have the balance of power. That is if you are forming a partnership. Just my 2 cents.
Ah, the classic "If you knew what we knew, you'd be okay with torturing terrorism suspects" argument popularized by multiple US administrations. A blanket assertion that due to your secret knowledge of the situation you can declare that all the statements by ex-Googlers about the internal debate and the references by Google executives to careful consideration of the policy are false is on the face of it unproductive. What conceivable secret reason for its name policies could Google have that couldn't be revealed to the public without damage to the company, but would be convincing if it was?

I understand that you have internal knowledge of the debate within Google and the reasoning for the policy, but it doesn't contribue to the public discussion to make an unsupported statement without evidence or or argument beyond the unstated appeal to name recognition. The information content beyond "trust me" is nil. Please, you've proven you can do better than this - if you can't speak about the issue, don't speak about it.
Yep, and the new strong_parameters library from core team supports this and is a taste of things to come: moving towards consistently controller-based access-control. http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/3/21/strong-parameters/
If it is possible post links to images not to google map links because they do not work for everyone
Honest question: how have they ruined the world? I understand what baby boomers are, but I don't see how their actions have ruined everything! Was it their action or inaction? Are you referring to a specific subset of them?
BART stations are much cleaner than NYC subway stations, I find the trips much more pleasant.

Apples to oranges. BART is commuter rail, not transit. Compare BART to Metro North, New Jersey Transit, and the LIRR. NYCT's equivalent is Muni. (My experience is that Muni is pretty clean. But it's often faster to walk than to take Muni.)

Maybe if he jumps out of his building, sprints to the stop, and the subway car just happens to be waiting for him the moment you get there.

Trains on the same tracks run every 2:30 during rush hour. (If you are at a local/express station, then you get a train every minute.)

You have to factor in average wait time (since NY Subways still don't track subway cars like any other good transit system).

All the IRT lines do, as do the B-division lines that have been converted to communication-based train control. Admittedly, you have to be at the station to see the next-train times, which is annoying. But the trains actually do run close to their schedule. (Lately, I've been going home on the train that claims to be at 14th St. at 1:39AM. I've never waited more than four minutes past this time.)

Some of the B-division stations give you an idea of when the next train will come: announcements like "An uptown express train is now at W 4th St."

Even if you can possibly scrape by with less, you're in a culture that actively goes out and pays huge amounts for drinks at bars, measures class by where you live and places you shop

All people are judging you because of the possessions you choose to display. True in New York, true in San Francisco. The only way to overcome it is to not care. If you work for Goldman Sachs then there is probably some culture of pretending to be wealthy. At Google NYC, not so much.

and you'll invariable end up paying some or a lot of money for cabs because of closed subway routes or maybe you just get sick of the dirty, cold subway.

The subway seems about as clean as any other subway in the US. A $2.50 subway ticket buys a lot less cleaning than a $15 commuter rail ticket. Live in the suburbs if everything has to have the appearance of cleanliness. (Manhattan is a lot dirtier than Chicago, though. It's because there's no space for alleys to hide the garbage in.)
Because Hipmunk has been successful by mainly innovating on UI and UX in a very competitive category with strong established players. Although they also have some cool technology powering all this.
area 51, just type it in and zoom in a few times
Microsoft Research has so.cl (that's the URL), which integrates with Facebook and adds some "social search" and video chat features. It's not competing, just experimenting with different functionality.
Really awesome technology, unfortunate soundtrack to the _entire_ video.
3241 people have me in my circles and I don't know why
I don't know if this is a common occurrence, but it seems that 3241 people/(accounts) have added me to their circles, whilst my own circles consist of 12 people. I hardly use g+ but the accounts seem legit. Do I put friend-recommendation algorithms in panic mode, have I been "circled" by a very social botnet, or is there another reason why I have 3241 followers?
I don't think anyone is saying to be fake, but the same way you wouldn't show up to a wedding in ripped jeans and a t-shirt, you shouldn't show up to an investor pitch in those clothes either. Just cause you're wearing a suit to a wedding doesn't mean you're trying to be fake, it just means you understand the conventions surrounding the event; the conventions surrounding a pitch is similar. I wonder, at the YCom demo day, what do the presenting YCers wear?
I really did not enjoy that.
That sounds a lot like what we say about people who can't hire programmers.

That, and "pony up, you pay peanuts and get monkeys".
No, but they have a Madison dev office:

http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/uslocations/madison/swe/i...
Xonses
By the way, I see at least 5 different incredible business opportunities rising from this thread alone. The only thing that makes me worried in hiring a good coder to help me starting these is: lack of trust and lack of funds. That could be solved if: I'm coding myself, at least enough to only sub-contract insignificant bits, OR if I'm "engaged" (that's the word) in a trustworthy relationship with a technical co-founder.
The "weird building in LA" is the Eames House. Kids today.
Anyone else noticed the "distribited" typo?
And iOS has a smaller set of GPUs, and a common compression scheme (PVR)
I know SF is great for startups and all..but $600,000 for a condo??
It could be argued that it is you who needs to read the HN Guidelines.

If anything, your comment directly contradicts the Guidelines, while the OP's post does not and has clearly garnered significant interest based on its content otherwise it would not have been upvoted to the front page. Here is the relevant Guidelines entry:

"Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did."
I was referring primarily to the wanton exploitation of finite natural resources without regard for the consequences: they know that there will be no consequences because they will be dead.

Then there was the entrenchment of the cult of the market into every corner of human thought, the sacrifice of compassion on the altar of misread darwinism and thermonuclear psychosis which now dictates every aspect of existence as a matter of presumed necessity. The deliberate development and adoption of a pseudomathematical framework to justify and rationalise absolute contempt for one's fellow man. Nothing short of the death of enlightenment ideals.

I freely admit that I cannot rigorously justify every aspect of my views in the manner that HN usually demands, but IMO pretty much anything that happened in the world during the period of time that the boomers had/have geopolitical, financial and cultural power is fair game to blame them for to some extent.

TBH I'm just trying to express how I feel when I think about my future and that of my friends. This probably isn't the best place for it, and so I'll leave it here before I say anything even more ill-thought-out.
Generally I find with programming and problem solving problems I work well with a mix of time alone to implement and try ideas followed by some time discussing the problem with others. Often just talking through a problem leads to a solution you hadn't considered, or someone else's input forces you to think about other aspects of the problem. However, trying to actually implement the solution with someone looking over your shoulder definitely doesn't help.
> . I and a lot of my peers are planning to leave our home countries specifically so we don't have to spend a single penny supporting...

I have a friend who's planning on doing exactly that. If the US ever stopped taxing income earned by US citizens living in foreign countries, the number of expatriates flocking to Scandanavia, England, and the Netherlands would be astounding. You'd get the best of both worlds.

The problem is that the people complaining when their benefits are cut are often the same ones complaining that our tax rate is 'too high' compared to the 92% (!) marginal tax rate during Eisenhower's administration. But of course, that's around the time that the baby boomers were born, so they don't remember that.
It's true that the mechanism and value of "(succesful group) privilege" are difficult to quantify in a way that explicitly engineered (counter-)measures aren't.

That's exactly right! Moreover, there's a very important reason your N-rays are so hard to detect...

Look at it another way. You step into a time machine and emerge in 1938 Berlin - speaking German. Your task: to explain and convince, by pure reason alone, that there is actually no such thing as the international Jewish conspiracy. Expect some downvotes!

Or we could go all science-fiction. The Federation selects you as the first Federation Ambassador to the ice planet of Goth. The people of Goth come in two categories - Ostrogoth and Visigoth. Conventional wisdom among the Ostrogoths is that they are generally oppressed by the Visigoths - and vice versa.

They can't be right. It's your first task, as Federation Ambassador, to construct objective tests that accurately measure whether the Visigoths are sticking it to the Ostrogoths or vice versa.

For instance, you might ask: how many Visigoths are killed extralegally by Ostrogoths? And vice versa? Are young Visigoths, or young Ostrogoths, subjected to the numerus clausus? Etc, etc, etc.

You could build up a spreadsheet of these types of human-rights violations - which would greatly assist you in deciding, as a mere neutral observer, which faction of Goths is holding the whip and which taking it in the tail.

Of course, you're not the Federation Ambassador and neither am I. But even if you're a Goth yourself, why not think this way? Isn't it, at the very least, refreshingly different?
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