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Possibly, but eating is not just about nutrition. There's a strong cultural, social, and emotional aspect to eating.
Word. Also, I know plenty mechanical engineers who'd be somewhat offended by the article title. Tunnel vision, anyone?
It becomes pretty obvious when a person views HN as just a SEO fountain. Occasional self-posting is fine. This is extreme. Especially when you consider he seems to be involved in both componentowl and dextronet. That's blatant continuous self-promotion.
I find myself in an even stickier place. As a designer I work in HTML and CSS, borrow and implement other people's javascript to make my interfaces do nice things, and dance around in wordpress php, tumblr themeing, and the superficial code of other content management systems. Beyond that I certainly don't 'code'.

Sure I move around enough in ruby and python enough to make the pretty face I've designed work with the app and I certainly don't consider myself technical if asked, but I seem to be lightyears beyond the business or ideas person on the building side of things.

More than a superficial designer, less than a front end developer is one of the strangest places to be.
It was working a few minutes ago.

I suspect a weird bug or server misconfig, since looking at the HTML/JS it seems like the scripts/markup have been truncated.
They're not exactly spammers, per se. This company was spun off of one I was part of for a little over a month; that's how they got my resumé. However, I've never been a part of this newer company, and I'm pretty sure the contract I signed with the older one is null and void to begin with.

Also, I'm from the Philippines, where the legal system isn't exactly amenable to small claims such as this. And, in any case, I don't really have the financial means to pursue this in court (not that I want to).
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Side projects... I hit ten years with my business and felt dragged down supporting boring issues and features I didn't feel like working on.

This year is different though. I've done a new project every month and amazingly the code seems to make its way back into the real product. This month I unintentionally worked on my main product for fun...but not features that customers have been asking for. Instead, the guilty pleasures like making the admin interface twice as fast. Long time customers were really excited to hear the change.
There is a forum/website out there call "GearSlutz"[1], that has a huge & healthy community based around, well, gear.

The amazing thing I've learned from lerking there from time-to-time is that some folks are actually seeding, promoting and selling their "cottage-made" products there.

The thing is, these gear "slutz" are hungry for well-made/hand-made, "analogy" products that simply don't cost a fortune -- think Value Compressors & Amps etc. -- I think this guy could do well to go and check it out...

An example of another product that was "launched" on this site (serial #001 was sold on that very forum), is a beautiful little "8bit sound box" called Biscuit, hand-made by some guy in France:

http://www.otomachines.com/biscuit.html

[1]http://gearslutz.com
For context, here's an earlier G+ post with a bit more background: https://plus.google.com/u/0/109068543568522312611/posts/VcrF...
Can I put it on my iPad?
Music related hacks are my favorites.
Absolutely not mocking it in any way. I absolutely believe in my first paragraph (I even emphasize my agreement), completely non-ironically.

My favorite way I've heard this stated is "Napoleon didn't personally conquer northern Italy."

Now, there is something diferent and special that the blog post we're talking about is referring to, and which basically holds ONLY with software. As opposed to car company, health-care service provider, you name it, software is this thing where if you build the lines of code once, you can use them n times at a marginal cost approaching 0.

In any other business, if you go from having 10 customers to having 1000, you can't just put another couple hundred into the bank account to cover hosting bills while their monthly payments clear.

What this guy is talking about, in my opinion, is the small 2 or 3-person team that, without any money, but only time, Skype, IRC, cheap cloud hosting services (AWS stands out), and standard local and remote software-building tools, can build a complete application without convincing anyone to build it nor paying anyone to build it.

Does every team need a technical co-founder? (someone who can use git or ssh?) I personally don't think so. This guy would probably disagree.

(But, since the whole blog post is about semantics, I will say this. In my experience, people - especially associated with Y-Combinator, who use the term "technical cofonounder" expect it to mean coder. It's weird. Here's something related. The people who use this term use CTO to refer to someone who is really good at setting up the architecture of the stack, the database, the use cases, and committing actual code to create the application from scratch after selecting the language(s) and frameworks to use. To me, none of this says "CTO", since, to me, CTO says "director-level position overseeing technology", and, to me, anyone with the title of CTO would never commit a single line of code and would only use SSH to check up on other people's work - never anything else. But that's not the usage on y-combinator type startups, and this is what this blog post is talking about.)
1. Mint's relation to a color that has good associations is a good thing. Mint = green, clean, fresh. I also think it's pretty obvious that Wesabe is difficult to communicate, especially compared to Mint.

2. UnderArmour: ok, but we're talking about naming in general here. The brand positioning of your company matters no matter what market you're in. A social network targeting seniors isn't going anywhere if it's named "L33tHacke.rs".

3. Correlation doesn't equal causation, etc. etc. but you're probably never going to get an isolated experiment involving a name. The market is too complex and the early stages of a company are too hectic to isolate any one cause for success. If it were that easy we'd have discovered the secret to success by now.

In short: they had issues with their name; they changed their name; a lot of good things happened. Take that as you will.

--

EDIT: the article is actually titled: "How a new name HELPED grow FeeFighers' business 25x". So my comment is the only thing in error. From the article:

Problems with the name:

We kept talking to customers on the phone, or in email, and they would say things like “How do you spell your name again? What’s your domain name?” Or, “I mentioned you to one of my friends.”
We’re like, “Well, why didn’t they ever come back? We never actually heard from your friend.” It turned out that they had forgotten our name, because it wasn’t memorable enough.

After the name change:

Since we’ve changed the name [from TransFS to FeeFighters], we’ve raised a million and a half of additional capital. We have added five people to the team. We’ve grown our customer base 25X. And we’re growing like 30 percent over month to month. So it’s been a really, really good year.
Hu, i meant, you can make statistics "state" anything you want is you twist them right.

BUT STILL, WHY ARE WE DYIN YOUNGER IFF SEATED OFTEN ?
Seems more self promotional than anything. After visiting the author's site I was quite depressed. Claiming to be selling names for 25% of their market price. Stupid claims such as that one is just insulting. If there were a market price it would be selling for that. The names really weren't that good either.
It's interesting they're disallowing 008. I work at a popular webhost, and we've had problems with this crawler too (It's distributed, and can crawl things a little too fast).
I just upgraded 11.10 to 12.04 final beta yesterday, and so far I can confirm what he says about performance and stability - 11.10 was ok, but 12.04 is noticeably better.

Two problems 12.04 solved:

1. On 11.10 I was getting frequent kernel panics when watching flash in a browser (Youtube in Chrome, Chromium, Firefox), and when watching video in Movie Player. That's all gone.

2. In 11.10, Ubuntu Software Center was sluggish as hell, so much so that I never used it. It's much faster now, just a smidge away from being downright snappy, and hence useable finally.

I like how the upgrade (via sudo do-release-upgrade -d) resulted in what seems to be a really clean installation, and that I didn't have to do a fresh install to get that (still scarred from my Windows days).

I hear battery life is improved as well but haven't tested that yet. Hope that's true.

This is on an hp dm1-4050us, Intel i3-2367, HD3000, 8GB RAM, 5400rpm hdd.
What happens if you shrink the Earth to the size of a tennis ball?
> Its most striking finding was that people who sat more than 11 hours a day had a 40% higher risk of dying in the next three years than people who sat less than four hours a day.

I don't normally call bullshit on stories, but this statistic is f'ing stupid, I've spent 14 years in school and 3 years in college after that some 3 years as web designer. Its fair to say all that time, I've spent more than 11 hours a day, sitting. So, statistically speaking 40% of my schoolmates, college mates and colleagues should be dead by now, unfortunately thats is not the case.
There is a Jedi mind trick with the web. What happened to robots? HTML is nothing like real programming -- it's art. Programming a robot is real programming -- like if it has image processing.

I think there are tons of applications for image processing but the Jedi mind trick is channeling people into web shit.
As the first commenter almost an hour after posting, I just want to say it's ironic* that no one is discussing our flight from conversation.
*ironic in the Alanis Morissette way, that is.
A killing? As a long-time head-fi member I disagree. There have been plenty of cool or highly artistic as far build and casework amps and they tend to be very limited hand-built affairs (usually less than 100 units produced). At any scale, if you're selling in the hundreds to thousands, head-fiers will require that a $100 amp be at least sonically competitive with other $100 amps, $300 amps with $300 amps, etc. They might pay a 25% upcharge if something about its build or casing is unusually unique, but generally for portable amps they pay more for portability/slimness, not because it simply looks cool. Usually in these lower ranges you're competing with Chinese built stuff that is phenomenally good for the price. You can get pretty high-quality portable amp/DAC combos around the $100-200 price point from companies like iBasso/FiiO.

That this is a fully point-to-point design encased in resin is cool, but it's not $300 cool unless he's building it with top-notch components, which I don't see here.
I didn't find several of the "strong examples" to be much stronger than the bad examples.

I concur.

For example, if I see a site named "somethingly.com", I immediately associate it with a whole bunch of negative connotations, including unoriginality, lack of substance in the product/service that would lead to a more meaningful name, and a high probability of being run by 21-year-olds who are more interested in landing a good funding round or two and then getting bought out by Google before anyone notices their service isn't very good than they are in providing any real value to their customers. Needless to say, such a name is not going to win me over as a customer...
I'm sure I'm not the only one that comes to HN for the comments rather than the articles.

So basically, for me it's missing the only feature that makes HN worth reading.
Chart.io, Like.fm (Extreme obviousness meets extreme brandability): I know exactly what these companies do before I even visit their sites.

Really? Cause I have no idea what Like.fm does. Chart.io? It's a place to input/output charts or something?

This post is pure pseudoscience.
Macro is okay. Procedure is not okay. Break is a procedure.
my thoughts exactly. Lucky for linux/ubuntu users, there's lots of choices for your desktop environment.
The 'checkbook is certainly important to any startup. However, let's look closer. When the money runs out, a non-technical founder can no longer afford to run the startup, and it effectively shuts down. However, even with no money, a technical founder can continue to build the business on their own. I think that's a core difference: even in the worst case (no money, no employees, no traction), technical founders can still work on actually building something.
I'd argue that a consistently poor interface is preferable to an inconsistently well-designed interface. I can get used to a poorly-designed UI if I only have to learn how to do so once. It's when I have to learn different ways to do the same thing that it becomes annoying.
Hmm.

You can be technical without being a coder - the problem is most people confuse being technical with having some technical knowledge.
Just read this the other day, and it was humbling. I’m working on a game with the intent of launching a funding campaign via Kickstarter. Basically, whenever you’re dealing with any non-trivial amount of money, there are going to be unpleasant complexities to deal with. I sat down and factored in all the fees, taxes, deductions, and hidden costs I could think of. Thanks to this article, my budget is now a lot more realistic and a lot less hand-wavey.
The X in "LaTeX" is not an English X but a Greek X (chi). I can't think of any actual English word where the X is pronounced like that.

(But yeah, it's not obvious to me whether "xort" should be pronounced "zort" or "ksort".)
Some food for thought:

The really important thing is not to live but to live well. -Socrates
yup, nothing is proven here.
Unless I get access to their clients list/information, and can positively identify clients that joined them largely (or even solely) because of the (relative) strength of my resumé, it'd be kind of hard to prove that their misuse of my brag sheet actively harms me, no?

Mostly, I'm interested in stories of others who've been in similar situations. Also, your suggestion implies enlisting the help of a lawyer; if so, I'd really rather have other options, since I don't have the... er, required financial capacity to do that at the moment. (Plus, is it even worth it to involve lawyers in something like this?)
i personnaly think it's a "standup desk" seller conspiracy
It comes down to the question asked. He just needs to ask for coders outright.
I've never used mutt, but I depend on Gmail's conversation view (a smoother experience than going through messages one by one) and easy searching of gigabytes of email; a proportional font, auto-linkification, and built-in video chat don't hurt either.
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Depression and addiction are both medically recognised conditions. Burnout, it appears, can mean almost anything.
That's a "40% higher risk", not a 40% risk.
I think we're still in the infancy of crowdfunding. Backers are donating real dollars into crowdfunded projects, and they're obviously going to want to see a finished product. It's going to be interesting to see how crowdfunding evolves over the next 10 years.
How about "semi-technical" or "almost-technical"?
True to some extent. I'm a mechanical engineer and every engineering I know would answer 'yes' when asked if they were technical. I'd be shocked if anyone out there defined 'non-technical' in such a broad way that an engineer wouldn't count just because they were laying out a circuit board or designing a biomedical device instead of writing Ruby on Rails code..
Full HTML5 Game demo using EaselJS
It's a Sunday. HN is usually slow on a Sunday. On one hand it's nice to see stories that wouldn't make it to the front page, on the other there isn't the same amount of conversation as on a weekday.
Eclipse needs a good amount of memory and recently, unfortunately, has a tendency to crash. Most of the features can be disabled; the UI can be reconfigured to your liking. Btw, I generally disable the javadoc view and just F3 to the location to see the code and docs together (docs are often wrong anyways).

The problem with mockups is that they haven't touched reality yet: there is always so much detail you don't see at the start.
I'm wondering exactly the same as I do it quite often.
Fake Call Free Application for iPhone 3Gs,iPhone 4s,iPod touch and iPad
Apple Sued for their Entire Line-up of Touch Related Products
Hm, that is interesting.
Guile is under active development again.
On one hand, you're absolutely correct. On the other, if I were interested in running a one man show, I'd have become a programmer!

I suppose it's part of this start up culture that the "money runs out". I also understand that that can happen anywhere. However, part of being a good business guy is making sure that doesn't happen, through careful planning and implementation. Really, that's the business guy's job.
Having a personal project, or even something I'm just studying on the side, gives me a feeling of freedom and control over my life which I increasingly feel less of in other areas, with marriage, a mortgage, children, and especially a job with projects that I hate. Not that those things aren't all fine (well maybe not the bad job), but not being beholden to anyone else, having the pleasure to mess up or explore dead ends without worrying about the cost, are very nice in the face of all of life's other responsibilities. I think this goes back to Feynman's spirit of play, but there is more to it than just "having fun" in my opinion, at least it's a lot more complex than that for me personally.
Sounds nice!, When I'm listening to online radio, I tend to forget the name of a song I liked (so I can download it later). If this does it automatically, it'll solve a huge pain for me.
Can't wait to use it!
A million dollars isn't cool.
Yep, this is exactly what we are doing, we have a very good proof of concept/very small MVP going on and working really hard to have a v1!
When I tried to tell my browser to scroll slightly to the right by pressing my right arrow key, the site hijacked the keypress and took me to an unrelated page. Wtf? FAIL.

Edit: AND it keeps reloading itself every couple minutes. Who designs this?
I´m actually quite amazed this did not exist.
Yey! :D help us to spread the word!
Why a lot more startups are going to get acquired this year
How's your physical health, weight, blood pressure, etc?
"Napoleon didn't personally conquer northern Italy."

Said by someone who should read up a bit more on how Napoleon conquered northern Italy. The man was everywhere with his nose in everything. While he didn't literally do every job, he knew how every job was done and was perfectly capable of stepping in when he needed to.

There's a case to be made for that in the world of startup leaders as well.
> If you're getting only 2 or 3K RMB per month, I think that's seriously robbery

Agreed. Even english teachers get 8k minimum, AND they often have the majority of their expenses (rent, utilities, food allowances, etc) covered.
Honestly, I'd like to see more studies like this to the point where it is irrefutable that sitting all day causes harm because the way it is now, I feel like a lot of companies basically force their workers to sit all day. They don't allow work from home, or allow it only one day a week, etc, yet they also don't provide any sort of office environment that enables sitting. At the office I work at now, for example, there is no one who stands and it would take a re-working of the entire office to allow it, as there are dividers that can be seen over when standing, so it would be rather awkward, I think, to be standing as you would then be staring down at the person across from you. It would be interesting to hear a case where a company is held liable for forcing someone to sit all day, year after year, I think that could at least nudge a lot of organizations in the right direction towards allowing more remote work options where a person can better control / configure their work environment.
Iran says it's building copy of captured US drone
For pete's sake, he's Richard effing Feynman!
Tetris in one line of BASIC: http://survex.com/~olly/rheolism/dsm_rheolism/

(This is BBC BASIC V as found on the Acorn Archimedes machines from way back when. Don't expect it to work in, say, Visual Basic.)

The description calls it "a Tetris-like game". I don't now remember how it diverges from strict Tetris (and don't have a machine handy on which I can check). I think it's very close.
Even Microsoft Windows Vista was successful.

(I have absolutely nothing against penny arcade, just against the selection of foreground and background color. What it has to do with how successful penny arcade is?)

Mine was not constructive criticism. It was pure criticism. Mine was strong opinion that I hold ( so it do not need any research or facts.) that texts on web should have better readability which can in some part be achieved using better contrast.

IMHO opinions are useful to community.
I can see the trend of file sharing size as the internet speed also increase. I'm pretty sure that it will still evolve as the internet gets more faster.
Maybe the lack of comments is because the topic hits a little too close to home.

I would also venture that, for HN folks around these parts, the more people looking at their smartphones and not engaging in real conversation, is well, good for business.

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Do you know how much of a nightmare it would be for a small startup to deal with thousands of effectively anonymous investors, each of whom has only invested a few tens or hundreds of dollars? You have to deal with voting rights, transfer of equity, shareholder lawsuits, etc, of people who you have no previous contact with and no way to vet. What's to stop a competitor from "investing" in your company to gain access to your financials? It just doesn't seem like the risks and costs are worth the reward.
This is literally the field I'm preparing to go into after I get my PhD in systems bio. The absolute best way to develop models for markers is to study metabolomics data for a huge sample size.

Take, for example, urine samples from a large number of at-risk persons and see how a specific type of cancer manifests within the group. Run the samples on GCxGC-MS and do high-order statistical comparisons or train an ML model to pick up on the markers. Given the proper treatment, these may correlate to breakdown products attributable to the development of cancerous cells.

You can model any metabolome too: blood, breath, sweat, biopsy... Urine is probably the least invasive. You should learn a thing or two about how elimination works: glucuronidation and other reactions that modify substrates to be polar enough.