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I wonder how much they paid for the lolcats. Can't you just imagine a sweaty MS exec shouting to his subordinates: "We must have lolcats! Cost is no object!"
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Questions:

Dave McClure at #3, Paul Graham at #943; whereas 500 Startups is at #41, and Y Combinator is at #15?

Why is 500 Startups classified as a financial firm, whereas Y Combinator is classified as a company?

Also, I'm surprised that Andreessen Horowitz is ranked #67 of financial firms (given that Marc Andreessen is ranked #14), and Elon Musk is #119 for people. I would have thought they'd both be ranked much higher.
Most likely description would be "entourage member of somebody famous". Or even better "privacy advocate" and "defender of freedom of speech" - as the only thing I know from is for having made the notorious statement I think anonymity on the Internet has to go away.
But why? Why drop the semicolons? What is the benefit? If the net result is exactly the same, why try and be tricky? What is the point, other than you can do it. But there are many tricky things we can do with programming languages, but very few we should
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Those are really useful numbers--I think a lot of it can be chalked up to virtualization, but we should definitely explore more around IRQ pinning for queues. Any good starting points / reading, are you mostly using taskset?
Most likely somebody needs to compensate for being the "underachiever" in the family.
I'd like to imagine it was Balmer himself.
are you referring to this?

‘I Want a Glass Screen’

In 2007, a little over a month before the iPhone was scheduled to appear in stores, Mr. Jobs beckoned a handful of lieutenants into an office. For weeks, he had been carrying a prototype of the device in his pocket.

Mr. Jobs angrily held up his iPhone, angling it so everyone could see the dozens of tiny scratches marring its plastic screen, according to someone who attended the meeting. He then pulled his keys from his jeans.

People will carry this phone in their pocket, he said. People also carry their keys in their pocket. “I won’t sell a product that gets scratched,” he said tensely. The only solution was using unscratchable glass instead. “I want a glass screen, and I want it perfect in six weeks.” †

This is a anecdote that now seems to be repeated as fact, but I have serious doubts about it. For starters there was a six month gap between the first demo and launch, and the iPhone was demoed with the glass screen, as evidenced by this quote from David Pogue from January 9, 2007 Apple went through numerous iterations of the glass surface, trying to find one that’s not too slick or too rough, or that shows grease and fingerprints too much. ††

† http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-and...

†† http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/01/09/some-hands-on-time-...
After rereading my comment I think maybe it may have come off harsher than I intended. But I see you understand my message. And I don't for a minute think you would intentionally try to make people look bad. But this type of assessment definitely favors a certain type of person. And as someone else pointed out is kin to tossing half the resumes straight to the trash. Maybe I'm more old school than others but I just don't see the need to have potential employers using my online interactions on forums (and whatever commenting on HN is viewed as) to asses my skill. My HN footprint is probably not something I would want included either. Not that I think it would show me in a bad way. I just don't think it adds anything about my ability to do the job. Just like I'd not really want them checking out my Facebook (also a quasi-hot issue recently). The fact that I had a debate the other day with someone here about my use of "have had" is pretty irrelevant to any job I would be looking at. I'm not sure how you could mine any useful or relevant info from my HN posts.

To be quite honest, if I found a job post that wanted me to go fill out a profile on Skills I would probably not do it unless I was getting desperate or I really wanted to work for that particular company. I would move on to the next job post.

One thing to consider: I read that you're geared to employers at the moment and that they would be funneling candidates to the site as a way to apply. I would be more inclined to fill something out if it was just me doing it as a way to make a summary of me disconnected from any particular job app. I don't know how your system works right now, but I would be hesitant to just fill in the info and hope the results are in my favor. I'd want to see my brief and have an opportunity to adjust it before letting employers see it. But I imagine that dilutes the meaningfulness of it. Obviously if a person entered all that info and found their Twitter presence is not as good as they thought it would be, they would just remove that. But you can probably see where I'm coming from.
So, it sounds like safe harbor was upheld all around, but the case got tossed back to district so Viacom could fish for evidence that YouTube was "willfully blind" to infringement (that is, "a deliberate effort to avoid guilty knowledge") despite having no obligation to police content, only an obligation to respond to DMCA notices.

Also that courts didn't decide how syndication fits into the story. The article doesn't explore it either.

Did I miss anything?
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Here's something Microsoft and Google seem to not get in a big way: iPod.

Put out a lower-cost non-phone device already! Call it whatever you want. The W7/8 "Gamester" or whatever. Offer that choice and your market just multiplied tremendously. Follow the iPhone<->iPod model.

Case in point. Each of my kids has their own iPod. They'll don't have their own iPhones. What mother wants to hand a 3 year old their phone at a restaurant? We've done it for those unavoidable emergencies (you have to know three-year-olds). There's a huge market for non-phone devices like this and it just blows me away that these guys are battling hard over phones while ignoring the huge market that non-phone but 100% software-compatible devices represents.

As a developer I see that the iPhone + iPod ecosystem multiplies the number of devices that my apps go into by a significant and non-trivial number. Furthermore, it expands the demographics as well. These are all important factors when considering which platform to focus on. Add to that the code-compatible iPad and you have an absolute 1-2-3 punch winner.

Google and Microsoft (and everyone else trying to beat Apple at this game) seem to be blind to this for some strange reason.

Am I missing something fundamental?
Might want to revisit all those centuries of Chinese history.
There is a gap of over 300 years between the fall of Ming dynasty and the establishment of the People's Republic of China, roughly from the time Mayflower Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock to the end of WW2.
The issue isn't so much the number - I totally agree that you really don't need 500 solitaire applications in order to be a competitive platform for the user. What is important, though, is that the 15,000 to 20,000 Tier-1 Apps, and, most importantly (critically), the 1,000 or so AAA Apps are found on your platform. It's also important that the App developers show a little heart - six months in and my mother _still_ can't add her location on Path on her HTC-Desire-HD.

95% of the time, when a AAA App comes out, you can be certain that you'll have a full featured version of that application on an IOS device. That's true about 85% of the time on the Android - and it drops off a cliff immediately thereafter for the Blackberry and WP7 platform - with some Tier-1 developer who have already ported to the Blackberry starting to abandon that platform (Kayak)

Owning an Android or IOS device means, today, being reasonably certain that the App you want will be on your device.

Microsoft is showering people with money, training and hardware to make sure that will be the case for WP7. Now they just have to ship a killer phone and we'll have a horse race on our hands!
Wow, haven't played this since the CS lounge 7 years ago. We used to play all sorts of chess variations just to see how they'd work out. One of the most fun for us was reverse chess. First person with 0 pieces wins, and if you can take a piece you must. Some surprisingly complex strategies in that, at first you think that losing at chess is easy, but then you realize that losing at chess is only easy if the other player wants you to lose.

I guess it helped that the only game we could play was chess, as our tabletop was painted with a chessboard and there were 2 sets of free pieces.
prediction: by end of 2015 these will be as popular as iPhone and iPad. the future will have arrived : ) woohoo. http://clippedcomic.blogspot.ca/2012/04/google-glasses.html
It is possible. I work for a high tech manufacturing company and our minimum bid for work (especially if it's prototyping that could lead to either an ODM/JDM relationship or a more significant mass manufacturing contract) is only a couple thousand dollars. There isn't an Alibaba-type marketplace, but that doesn't mean there aren't a ton of options for hobbyists, startups, universities, or anyone else who just want to build a few of something... and do it in the US/Canada/Western Europe.
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Hehe, I said the same thing in another thread, but got majorly downvoted. But I think you're right.
I expect that running their datacenters is a larger expense than developer salaries.

"In 2011, $606 million was allocated towards total capital investment in data center infrastructure by Facebook, which includes the cost of servers, networking equipment, construction, and storage." - http://www.colocationamerica.com/blog/facebook-data-center-i...
1) There honestly are people who enjoy this kind of employment.

2) More usually, manufacturing work is appealing because it can be an easy springboard to a more rewarding role/career. It's still true today that thousands and thousands of Americans who have started (or are starting) their career as an assembler or machine operator have had the drive to improve their skills & knowledge and move far upward in the value chain.
How large is the "www" codebase?
Who do you (anyone) suggest as a reputable VPN provider?
its called "linkbait"
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If anything it's going to draw more attention to things in SV, wouldn't you think? A number of people I know had only heard of the actual Jersey Shore location before the show got big, but largely have ignored the stereotype the show provides while learning a decent amount about the area on their own.

Perhaps my experience isn't an accurate depiction of the public's perception of the New Jersey coastline, but I agree that this show is an argument for how established SV has become.
Heard of the Zune?
The best players (who are on FICS).
I know early JVM garabage collectors were also "conservative", but I don't recall JVMs running into these sorts of problems. Maybe folks are just using more of the 4G address space these days than back in the day of conservative GC JVMs?
There is Galaxy Player: http://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/mp3-players/YP-G70CWY/XAA
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The "impartial algorithm" line was good for a laugh.
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The same strategy could certainly pay off here if they're willing to play the long game. They've shown a lot more courage than Google in reconceptualizing the UI and they seem to understand how important this platform is for their long-term survival so I certainly wouldn't count them out yet.
Google actually does have an iPod competitor of sorts in the Samsung Galaxy Player (in both 4.0 and 5.0 inch screens). The adoption of these hasn't been great, however this might be due to the lack of advertising for them (especially when compared with Apple's rather large marketing campaigns for the iPod touch). I would like to see a non-phone device running WP7/8 though.
>made the notorious statement I think anonymity on the Internet has to go away.

That would make her more of a "privacy opponent" than "privacy advocate", but that is just really a part of her job as Marketing Director at Facebook.
Can you go into this a bit more? errbit looks like it's airbrake compatible, and we're very happy with airbrake, even though it's JS support isn't fantastic. Can I just take errbit's notifier.js and use that? The docs dont say anything about JS...
> We use the counters to track everything from number of signups per second.

Per second... It must be quite a moment when you reach this point.
D has a nice allocation management(i loved the manual+gc approach) and in my benchmarks, optimized D was slightly faster than Go at almost anything and consumed up to 70% less memory (I assumed that was because the Go gc kicked in later and was a bit lazy) but D was weak at threading/synchronization and the documentation of the standard lib was quite messy and lacking. So I decided that in the long run Go will be better (cheap goroutines, channels, good stdlib /documentation + support from google and the prospect of a better GC, all indicated a clear winner).I really hope they fix this cause I can't throw away my atom box and ARM is becoming more and more important.
I really really want Microsoft to succeed with WP7. I know Microsoft/Windows hate is popular, and I'm not saying it hasn't been justified at times, but we need a solid third competitor to Android and iOS. More competition -> everybody wins.

But - reading this, I realized I had almost no idea what Microsoft's app store is like, or even how typical apps look. I looked up the Facebook app ( http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/82a23635-5bd9-df11-a8... ) and have to say... do they all look like that? Where almost 1/3 of the view is dead space? Even on the screen where it's partly used, it looks like they just couldn't get the layout quite right. Then there is the massive title on each "tab", and I've always kind of liked the metro look but does it have to take up so much space?
A counter-point: my fiance and her sister each recently bought a new iPhone 4S. They use them constantly all day but the only non-stock app they care about is Skype. I have a feeling there are a ton of mobile users like this that are easily satisfied by a solid foundation of Web, Email, SMS, and Facebook.
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That seems reasonable, but the only real world examples I can think of come with inconsistent outlooks. The ESRB formed when video games were at risk of being regulated. Since then video games soared past the movie industry. The counterexample to that is the CCA, which is largely credited with keeping the comic book industry from diversifying and expanding.

What is needed to make self-regulatory organizations work out as well as the ESRB?
To get started quickly, there are quite a few comprehensive uploaders on github

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It's weird, but when the Android app store hit 100,000 I don't remember being terribly overwhelmed with the offerings. It seems to me that the really great apps didn't really start to come out till sometime near the end of last year/start of this year.

Perhaps I just missed them, but there seems to be a greater maturity in the quality of the apps that I'm seeing there vs. even 12 months ago (even for AAA titles).
jpeterson didn't suggest "installing a bunch of libraries and updating things piecemeal". Instead of transferring the entire binary for every release they could generate a (likely much smaller) patch, transfer just it, then apply it. I expect they're not doing this because it's computationally intensive compared to transferring the entire binary.
I'm not sure if you're talking about their mobile apps or their website, but on the website the answer is yes. You can resize the time box by dragging the left and right edges (see the arrows at the top?) and then there is also a "Filter by Time" drop-down in the upper right that gives you a few pre-set options like "no morning departures" or "hide red-eyes".
This has been a slippery slope for the last 15-20 years, actually. If you look at the history of Acer & Asus, for example, you'll see that they both (Asus was actually started by a few ex-Acer engineers) as component suppliers to larger, western OEMs and contract manufacturers. As they got a foothold there, they expanded their offerings to include more complex manufacturing (motherboards, graphics cards, etc), which they parlayed into a lucrative ODM/JDM business, and then eventually launched their own consumer brands to compete directly with their former customers. It took a decade+ to get from point A-->B, but by the time they finished the transformation it was too late for the slow western behemoths to do anything about it.

And that, as they say, is the rest of the story [of how the global supply chain got Asia-heavy, causing eventual movement of manufacturing & logistics to the region, too]. It hasn't just been labor costs -- not at all; it's that unless there are extenuating circumstances (e.g. Brazilian import tariffs) there is almost always more savings to be had via supply chain refinement than via direct labor cost reduction.
I read through your entire chain of comments and can't fathom why you've gone to such great lengths to tell other people how to spend their break time. If it works, and they like it, what's the problem?
Thanks! We like to keep it clean.

In the data source, TechCrunch's Crunchbase, the influence of Paul Graham, Jessica Livingston, et al. is captured in YC the company, and Marc Andreessen is split between his personal identity and AH. So you get a lot of odd things like that.

As for why YC got classified a company, who knows? It's accident of history. They should change it.
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Coincidentally, this is also why "vertical" integration almost never works when the various horizontals are not colocated. The supply chain complexity often introduces enough extra cost (whether time or money) that it's more efficient to just purchase components locally rather than ship things around within a global corporation.
It's impartial. Did you click thru to Wikipedia?
What percentage of processing power is spent on making me look like a hipster?
It's interesting you bring that up, as my Xbox and ICS Galaxy S started somewhat converging on a boxy layout style at around the same time not long ago.

While I am obviously biased, I feel like the changes were a big UI improvement in Android, as, while the layouts are definitely boxy, they fit together well, and do a great job of highlighting action items and guiding my interactions.

On my Xbox, I've found that it often leads to extra clicks being necessary where they weren't before. I quit questioning the design decisions when I (not too irrationally) concluded that they must have done it to assist with Kinect users, dragging a large virtual hand around the screen... that is, until you posted those screenshots, and the layout really, really looks about as busted as it does on the Xbox.

It's somewhat visually appealing, and while I think that, generally, it still looks like a better alternative to the usual Microsoftian clutter, it's definitely a long way from being good (IMHO).
> "Am I missing something fundamental?"

Price.

Apple's supply chain, the one that's turning out tablets that no-one can match on price, has been doing the same thing to the PMP market with the iPod Touch. Android PMPs either have a price premium over a stock iPod Touch or they simply don't run well enough to meet consumer expectations.

Microsoft is in largely the same place price-wise. Though their more-controlled product should be easier to optimize for cheaper/slower hardware and their services/brands have found a better reception in the market. (XBox, Live, Marketplace, Zune)

I think Microsoft is just too focused on the phone market to give it a serious try.

Though a Phone 7 PMP could also be a victim of Microsoft's strategy crisis: the bit where they seem to be so hell-bent on pushing Windows onto everything, that despite the critical reception, putting Phone 7 on anything that isn't a phone is still anathema.
Looks like 'Blecki' checked in a repo at the same time of another C like language:

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Just to give you one piece of data, we build the same product on both a fully automated line and a manual line. The manual line requires 22 people to run, the automated line requires 8. It doesn't take much time (12-18mo for the kind of product we're building there) to recoup the cost of the robotics.

However, there are some very good reasons for not automating everything. Manual intervention at the process level is extremely important for the NPI process and any time an ECO is being introduced for mass manufacturing. Generally speaking, too, you don't want to have a bunch of expensive capital equipment sitting idle just to handle occasional overflow, either.
Great idea!

For those not willing to wait, its rather easy to buy a used Android phone on craigslist and simply not sign up with a carrier. I'm a developer who needs various Android phones for testing. I use them WiFi and everything works - including Google Play and Amazon Marketplace - but no data plan and no phone calls.

For example, I bought a used HTC Evo 4G for Sprint for only $150. It had the micro SD card removed so I bought one of those and put it in. Still way less than what the phone cost would have cost at non-subsidized retail.
This is an idiotic post and you have absolutely no idea what you're saying. If you'd like to discuss the situation, email me and we can talk.

....

Actually, after thinking about it a little more you may be more accurate than I thought, if I read your statement literally. Thankfully, the US manufacturing industry is building good enough automation software.
Thanks for the additional context. Will look into this and get back in touch via email.
Having just had a series of incredibly frustrating experiences trying to ship a WP7 app, and given the awful support (or lack thereof) from MS throughout their buggy-as-all-hell app submission process, my sympathies are quite limited.

What I found particularly absurd is that while there were some technical issues with the platform, they were pretty minor in the grand scheme of things - bugginess-wise, nothing worse than what you encounter on Android... but the App Marketplace submission and approval process was an unmitigated disaster, and is of course the thing that you have the least control of.