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How do you know did they send you an email or something?
You mess up your argument by including Uber & AirBnB in that list, both of which make good and growing revenues.
I don't think the iPhone experience is right for a limited function device. For those, a display and keys may be a better solution. It's also cheaper and the battery life is much better.
That's more to protect PayPal, and the fact that real money is involved. PayPal's customer service is not free. You do pay for it.
Yeah, I just got it.
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kyro, I would actually like to see you do a design that doesn't fall into the "web 2.0" trend. Your designs overall are nice, and flows well, but falls in the realm of "template" in my eyes.

Really push the boundary of the design to stand out from the rest.

Also don't take this as all web 2.0 sites are similar, or you can't pull inspiration from them. Just something refreshing to break the mold of mundane would be nice.
The shell, for instance. It's much easier to get things sorted out in the command line than on Windows and Remote Desktop is a pain in the back. Once you're familiar enough with the shell and shell scripting, maintaining Windows servers can get very frustrating. I know that there's Cygwin and PowerShell on Windows but in my opinion they really aren't as useful as a native Unix environment.

Another one is the easily accessible documentation in man pages. I don't think the Windows documentation and the KB articles are nearly as well organised as the man pages.

Performance-wise, there really isn't that much difference; the latest versions of the Windows, Linux, *BSD and Darwin kernels are equally capable in my experience. In fact, I wouldn't recommend against NTFS as file storage; we use it to store a very large amount of data on Windows 2008 servers and we are very happy with it.
From a technical perspective it's definitely possible. I can't remember off hand, but i'm almost certain I came across something that did this before..

A quick google turned up the following:

http://www.bytestrom.eu/blog/2009/1120a_jpeg_encoder_for_jav...

https://gist.github.com/1245476

Hope it helps
Didn't get in. Don't care, had beta :)

http://daring.is

Congrats to S12.
The left-brain/right-brain idiom is overplayed. I've been in neuroscience/brain-machine-interface research for about 8 years, and the matter-of-fact public understanding of "left-brain vs right-brain" does not in any way reflect the latest scientific understanding of how the brain works.

It's like Feynman said: If you think you understand quantum physics..
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It may be that at teaching/nursing/library science conferences, there are presentations that feature images of Chippendales dancers and fireman calendars and are met with hoots of approval. If I were a man sitting in the audience at these hypothetical conferences, I'd feel pretty uncomfortable.

The fact that a field lacks gender balance isn't the point. The point is that whatever the field, people shouldn't be made to feel uncomfortable.
All of the labor laws have been set up around the model of people with life-long careers working at a factory (or equivalent). That is no longer the norm, and the impedance mismatch between outdated laws and the modern workplace has become greater and greater.

Why is 40 hours the norm? Why is working a single job all the time the norm? Why are all of your health insurance and retirement options tied to your current employer? In every case it's due to an accident of history.
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We built a little chrome extension to bookmark and relink images this morning. Scratching and itch and all.

This has increased sarcasm on internal mailing lists by over 9000.
As LinXitoW put it, I think we need to do both. But it's a lot easier to call out what's offensive when it's right in front of you, than it is to change the demographics and training of an entire industry.
What will be really interesting is when MySQL does NUMA-aware allocation and scheduling. Anecdotally I have seen huge improvements in some of my programs when I arrange to have the data and threads related to a specific request stay on the same NUMA node. AFAIK, MySQL does not currently do this.
GMail competes but isn't dominant yet - latest numbers of total registered user puts it on par with both Yahoo and Hotmail at ~350 million users.
I read the article.

A Fifa spokesman said Bavaria had a “long history” of ambush marketing at sporting events and it was clear the girls had been put up to wearing the dresses.
I dunno. While I'm not a connoisseur of that genre, some of the imitations do seem to be deliberately designed to skirt just this side of the line that would get them sued and/or indicted.

"Yeah, we'll call ours...Moonlight, and we'll make the guy a zombie, no a mummy!, not a vampire..."

Clearly the "books" in the referenced article are way over the line, wherever it is. That's why I said "not quite as blatant". However, I don't think the position of that line is quite as firm as you're suggesting.
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I would focus on iOS.

If you can get reasonably good at that (and you should be able to), people will pay you.
It's not worth the bad publicity for them.

Also, I suspect they don't make a lot of money of those ads altogether.
I'll wear that, but also I just happen to be on support this week so it's a raw subject right now ;)
Got my rejection letter seconds ago.
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It's not always easy to tell what is and isn't offensive. But when a roomful of women suddenly applauds, I suspect that they felt it was.

I'm not saying people should run around flashing a thought police badge. But if you see something you think is wrong, speak up.
There's also IntelliJ, an IDE from the guys that make Resharper. We moved from Eclipse to IntelliJ a few years ago and aren't looking back. It "just works", has (had?) more reliable and advanced refactoring, and the support for other languages (like JavaScript, Python and Ruby refactoring and debugging) is/was far ahead of Eclipse.
Is this seriously a post highlighting the heroics of being on-call?!

Wake up -- being on call sucks.

Being an on call programmer is even worse. All developers should have to work support sometime in their life to realize the pain of supporting software vs writing it. Only then will you realize why doing it "right" the first time really matters.

I kind of agree with the first comment on that post from Alice Young. Even though DHH just calls Alice out as trolling I know from experience that if you have on-call programmers it is a sign that your product is reaching a new level of complexity. Whether the complexity is coming from internal features or outside integrations it is probably time to take a second look at how you are handling your development processes.
Interesting quotes. But I find myself skeptical.

(b) and (a) seem, on the face of it, to be mutually exclusive.

Either Marc found himself being recused from meetings that happened without his knowledge, at both his own company, and at Facebook, or he -was- aware of his recusal and either didn't know ("plausible deniability"?) of the subject of discussion (which, if he was recused, seems redundant), or he -was- aware of the subject, aware of his being recused from multiple board meetings, and being "surprised" by the "Oh, hey, Facebook now owns that company your company owns a meaningful percentage of".

That, and we're also being asked to believe that Facebook makes billion dollar acquisitions not only by recusing directors with related interests, but by deceiving and misleading them.

AND that the board of Andreessen Horowitz feels that it should / can act the same way to its namesake founder, Mr Marc Andreessen, and feels it proper to accept ten digit acquisition offers without him.

As I said, color me a little skeptical that (a) and (b) of his claims are accurate.
Well, some of them are artists and designers, too, and this isn't just a web site, it's a desktop product and an online service, and the proportion changes depending on where features are in development and what sort of load we're seeing on customer-facing issues, but, yes, there have been occasions where half of our web and infrastructure staff have been doing "live" development and support.

And that's the thing: they're not "emergency on-call" events. They're simply "customer-facing issues." With a 24/7 product and 1.7M subscribers, things come up. They're not "fires." They're "live" issues. They're always there.

The 37s post is not about emergency staff, even if they're using those types of words. It's about having dedicated personnel to handle technical issues arising from a customer support ticket, so the "new feature" programmers don't have to get pulled away unless they have the only knowledge of that particular system (which doesn't happen too often here any more).
True, MeeGo failed. I assume this was due to mismanagement and political problems at Nokia and Intel, since Nokia's phone based on MeeGo/Harmattan [0] was well received [1].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N9#MeeGo
[1] http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/22/nokia-n9-review/
For me, I think the ratings agencies are useless because most of their ratings are stating the obvious after the fact. What use would a weather man be who tells you that it rained yesterday, but that the weather conditions tomorrow are still under review at the present time.
Ridiculous argument.

1) You elect your government.

2) Your government CHOOSES to participate in the Olympic bidding process and CHOOSES when and how to build infrastructure.
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YC has started sending out invitations for interviews and rejection emails...so check your email and your spam folder.

Congratulations to everyone who got invited to interview.

And everyone else, remember, YC can help you get to where you want to go faster, but isn't everything. Don't give up and you will make it anyway.
We just heard back and got an interview! Terribly exciting news.
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That's time I don't spend seeing my partner. That's time my health deteriorates because working excessive hours is unhealthy. That's time I slowly lose friends because I never see them.

There's no point in making a living without having a life.
The startup world is all about going and doing. But it is possible to go and do without hurting others' feelings.

You shouldn't devote all your energies to avoiding every possible way you could give offense. It's enough to listen when people bring up their concerns and try your best to respect them.
To all those that are doing/have done startups on .NET, do you guys mind doing a few blog posts on the subject? What was working with .NET like? What worked for you? What didn't? What's the story when it comes to licensing, hosting, deployment, scalability, etc.?

I know StackOverflow has a few posts on the topic but I wouldn't mind hearing from some of the other startups.
I understand the frustration with this comment, but the clincher for me on the whole anti semi-colon crowd was at this article:

http://www.wordsbyf.at/2011/10/31/i-dont-write-javascript/

He says he doesn't use semicolons, except that it caused issues for those who concatenation scripts so he adds a semicolon to the end of the js file. But, lo! This causes issues for those who use the following pattern:

(function() {
// Le code
})()

This has the potential to cause syntax errors when you execute two anonymous functions after each other. Instead of adding a semi-colon to the end, he "works around" the issue by abusing JavaScript like so:

!function() {
// Le code
}()

For fucks sake indeed!
Couldn't agree more. I left an otherwise good job just for this reason: I was hired as a programmer, built a 15+ year career as a programmer, and while I love programming, I hate late-night systems support. Most companies do not staff this way so it was easy to find other jobs where programmers are not expected to be at the company's beck-and-call 24/7.
(tl;dr I created TodoMVC and agree with many of the points @jashkenas makes above)

Whilst at present TodoMVC provides a simplified baseline for comparing JavaScript MV* frameworks, we feel that this at least gives developers an opportunity to narrow down the list of them they wish to explore further. No one should be using TodoMVC as the be all and end all of which framework they use as there's significantly more to it than that. That would be a little silly :)

With respect to the comment lower down in the page regarding the nitty gritty not being covered (auth, validation, routing etc.), it's a valid point and we currently have plans for tackling this in version 1.1 of the project. Initially Backbone.js, Spine.js, Ember and CanJS will have complete end-to-end examples offered but we hope to expand upon this as we work our way through releases.

At the end of the day, our goal is to make it as easy as possible to find the framework (or frameworks) that best fit your needs and hopefully give you some incentive to investigate one or two in more depth before making your decision on what to use.
I'm currently working 3 days a week as a programmer, 3 days a week as an English teacher here in Tokyo. Balance is really important to me.
We didn't get an interview either! Bummer..we were hoping for an interview as we both have quit our jobs + had senior software positions previously. What kind of teams/people did you guys apply with?
Also, you used to have your iphone app open sourced but it is not available on github anymore, why have you decided against opensourcing it?
Sure, and the "live" team is made up of people from the regular "new feature" team, rotated in and out so they all understand the impact their code has.

But, in a product that gets used by lots of real users, shit happens. You're never going to get everything right the first time.
Congrats and best of luck!
I used to work at a developer job where it was taboo to leave before 5:30 (even if you came in at 8:30). Management often scheduled meetings (that lasted at least an hour, sometimes more) at 5:30 on a Friday. If you wanted a personal life there, you had to fight for it. And I did - I left the job :)
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One of the joys of being a contractor is the complete lack of shame at leaving at 5pm, and being happy when asked to work later (aka get more money).

As a salaried worker I was easily pulled into working late hours as it was the status quo. In essence when you are salaried, you are owned, and will be frequently asked to work late, work weekends, and work from home at night. As a contractor, you will still get asked, but only when the reward for the company is worth the cost. As a salaried worker, the only cost for the extra time is your happiness, which isn't worth as much to them as you think.

The best jobs are ones where there is no expectation of hours though. This is where you have a significant stake in the outcome, such as an early employee or as an independent project. Where you are no longer getting paid for your time, but only for results.
You should re-read the stuff you think you know.
I sooo hope these guys survive. Its always a 'more hope than foundation' situation when your CEO's bio has this in it

"Currently, he is also an entrepreneur-in-residence with a venture capital firm in Boston, working on healthcare IT startups."

Not that health care isn't important, but it seems adjacent to the ST1080's market. To date all of the head mounted display companies have over promised and under delivered sadly.
Congrats and best of luck to the invitees!
There was a post on Gamasutra by one of the Civ IV devs talking about this very problem. It turns out that most players don't really want an enemy that makes perfect moves most of the time. The problem with AI is not making it hard enough, but making it feel good to win against. That's a much more difficult problem than making a good AI in many games.
This is a standard answer that everybody gives, but for the most part it just isn't true. People hear the occasional horror stories and assume it is difficult for everybody without trying to source it themselves. I am leaving my current job at the end of the month and will be freelancing/starting my own business. I bought health insurance with no problems. I was approved in less than 2 weeks. I am married and have 3 small children and pay a little less than 300 a month.
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Dropbox can not really have customer loyalty at all. It will take me 2 mins to switch from dropbox to Google drive if they offer more free space...
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I know from multiple experiences that this graphic is misleading. Techmeme sometimes sends more traffic than HN; it depends entirely on the slant of the story and on its positions on TM and HN.
We just received our rejection letter. Major shame, but wasn't at all unexpected. Based on Analytics and MixPanel our demo we set up wasn't actually tried, so I guess the takeaway from this was that the application wasn't as strong as we thought. Even so, the entire process of writing the application was very rewarding. It really did help focus our direction into something concrete.

Incidentally, since it's all over, here's what we posted for "tell us something interesting". (I think that was the question). I posted how 1/998001 is an awesome number!

http://rentivo.com/ycombinator/divide

(Perhaps I shouldn't have shown the PHP code! Ha. It's hard to make something so hacky not look so ugly).
our demo got looked at 4 times - but we were rejected after all! Oh well - another time :)
It's been on HN, but the same tech has been used extensively for a couple years now to produce Vocaloid concerts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzYssX-CcSY#t=1m37s

It really is quite amazing unless you're at a pretty significant angle to the screen, like in the nosebleed seats or to the extreme left/right.
Yeah...got our rejection.

Probably the nicest rejection letter I've ever seen, YC is definitely astute at winning hearts and minds.

We are getting involved in another incubator however it would have been great validation to get into YC. The caveat one has to hold onto is that it's your customers and users you have to be validated by, and not YC.

Great process, just building the application helped to develop insights into many of our assumptions, and product market fit. I'd encourage everyone to apply just for that reason.
Actually, you are all missing Crockford's real point, which is that they are considering making ! a binding deference of function objects. If they do, then this:

clearMenus()
!isActive && $parent.toggleClass('open')

Becomes this:

clearMenus()!isActive && $parent.toggleClass('open');

And not this:

clearMenus();
!isActive && $parent.toggleClass('open');

The no semi-colon crowd is ridiculous. There are no good arguments for omitting semicolons!
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I still think you're confused. Making a Twilight knockoff about mummies isn't going to get you sued or indicted. The content, in fact, really doesn't matter. The point is are you deliberately trying to confuse buyers who want Twilight into buying your book instead by mistake?

That's just not a feasible attack vector with brick & mortar stores, where you can't draw eyeballs without paying for very expensive off-shelf displays. But on Amazon, you can game the search results to put up a page that looks to an uninformed buyer like the genuine product. That's fraud, or nearly so, and it's absolutely not what the me-too publishing world does.
Even if they don't obfuscate the library's license will often have an anti-reverse engineering clauses.
More like a funding tsunami, where there's a lot of easy money floating around from all those finance guys and tech vets who cashed out last time around. I'm sorry, but when you start talking about how many users a site has and then using that metric as a comparison for the valuation of the site that acquires it... you're in a bubble. Why? Because nowhere in that thought process does revenue come into play.
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Completely agree. The application form makes you think really hard about what you are doing. Every startup founder should try those questions to understand his work better.
How can they be the least famous if they are the only ones?
Got our rejection letter. That wasn't unexpected, but a bit sad: we had a couple of access to our demo page which made us hope for the best. Anyway, for us the application was a great opportunity to ask ourselves the right questions.
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But you'd be awesome at writing code for agricultural applications! My point is that there is value in acting as a conduit for knowledge between disciplines. In fact, most "breakthroughs" consist of someone porting an existing technique from one discipline to another.
Ask HN: Rejected from YC? Who are you?
I applied as a solo founder with my project http://www.quipvideo.com, but alas I didn't get an offer for an interview. I think a big part of that is the fact that I don't have a team behind me. I don't know too many other awesome hacker types, but maybe you - failed YC applicant - are such a person, or suffer from the same problem. Perhaps we should get to know each other better?

Let's turn this unfortunate news into an opportunity to share ideas, brainstorm and meet like-minded folk. Share your thoughts in the comments.
Rejection.
They not even watch our demo and video.
Interesting.
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ayoutube.com+bookshop+j...

Brilliant. Is there a subculture of collectors of "fake" products sold on Amazon? Surely some people prefer fakes...
Also worth noting, when a bubble forms people are yelling BUBBLE the whole time. It goes on for quite a while, more and more people screaming about the BUBBLE until pretty much everyone agrees it's a bubble. Then it goes on a little longer still. Then suddenly it pops and everyone says "who could have known???"
Got rejected as well. Disappointing, but not giving up. Just the beginning.
You should just use something such as AWS/AppHarbor. You can use .NET natively on Windows instances and use any Linux tools on separate instances still on AWS. Better architecture for free.
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I wouldn't class either as tsunamis and doubt they will ever be in the league of an Apple, Google or Microsoft.
Is the whole industry heading toward day labor?
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