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There are parts of this that make sense to me, and parts that seem very strange. The pervasive interruptions is true, but tying it to online vs. non-online conversation I'm more skeptical of, and seems to be some kind of nostalgia for an idealized era of intellectual discussion in the cafe that few people ever really experienced.

The article has an assumption sort of carried throughout, which I thought we had pretty much ditched in the 1990s, that online=shallow and IRL=deep, for various pop-linguistics reasons involving the supposed inability of textual conversation to carry nuance or emotion. I don't think studies have borne that out; among people who are "text fluent", i.e. regularly use real-time text chat for in-depth conversations, you find the usual range of linguistic features, including non-explicit conveyance of information, emotion, etc. There seems to be a persistent myth that text chat is equivalent to sending telegrams back and forth or something, which is only approximately true for people who have never developed any real experience or fluency with the medium (it does feel like that when I'm chatting online with my parents, who aren't really internet people, so I prefer to call/Skype them instead).

I haven't found a clear online vs. offline dividing line in terms of which supports "real" conversations in my own friendships. With some people it's more one, with others more of the other. My closest friends are people I talk to extensively via both modalities, and you tend to get different sides of people through each.

If anything, though, I would say I have somewhat more "real" conversations online. Maybe it's just who I end up being close friends with, but I find people are a little less guarded online, and actually worse at faking/masking emotion. Two of my friends in particular are very good at putting on an official face in person, such that even if you know them well it's hard to figure out what exactly they're thinking if they don't want you to. But online, when I talk to them regularly, it's nearly instantly obvious when they're in a bad mood or something is bugging them, by the way the cadence and subtleties of the conversation change, or change when specific things are mentioned. The changes are as much in what's omitted or different from usual as what's explicitly present in the text. But supposedly all those nuances don't exist!
Talk about making a mountain out of a mole hill.

Ask them to stop and then get over it. They probably didn't even expect anybody would care because it's just not that big of a deal.
How is Ubuntu on Macbook Pro? I'll be in the market for a new laptop soon, and MBP is a consideration, but I'd like to dual boot Ubuntu (using Basecamp?). Seems there was some issue with BIOS and bootstrapping, is that solved now?
Since I don't see anything at the moment I still prefer http://hckrnews.com/
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I think this misses the true hardship of non-technical founders. I'm a programmer working with a non-technical cofounder and it isn't me vs her, I don't think I'm putting in more than her because she does the pitches, meetings, e-mails, finances, etc.

If you are a non-technical founder and you can prevent your technical founder from doing anything non-technical... you are pulling your weight!

That being said, the problems I have with a non-techie is that she doesn't understand the tech things:

1. E-mail is not a todo list, we have a bug tracking system.

2. Stop talking about "Your programmer friend said...", I understand you don't know technology and want to verify what I say but how is not understanding it from 2 people instead of 1 going to help?

3. Open Source is important, so yes we will be committing to our github once in awhile on company time, that is because we are using that project for the company.

4. Alpha/Beta is different than MVP. Just because something is ready to show you doesn't mean its ready to be shown to the world.
My single largest complaint about the redesign?

When you search your messages, the buttons to go to the next page of search result are inexplicably only at the top of the results, not at the bottom.

Before I realized this design oversight, I spent a few minutes perplexedly scrolling to the bottom of search results, flabbergasted that those were all the results.

You can imagine my frustration at the design team when I finally realized: Oh, the pagination buttons are at the top...
i am faster with google. There is no Ctrl+F on a printed cheatsheet. Looking things up is no sign of ineptitude, nobody can remember everything. The question is how to look things up most efficient.
I think this is an overly simplistic dichotomy. There are definitely people who are "technical" who wouldn't be the ideal person to build out a big data startup's software (for example). As a founder, they might be more useful in shaping product vision, defining marketing strategy, doing business development etc, but not necessarily actually doing the hands on coding. Is this person technical? Certainly. Is this person building the product? No.
If anything, that describes a bias in the other direction though - a case where your Google perk (the coffee cart) is overemphasizing the importance of technology in your life than that of the average person.

Yes, it's silly to think that somehow Google's mobile strategy is inherently hindered because of corporate culture - but there's no question that the value of creating a suite of services and perks for your employees to live in has different consequences depending on what sort of products you're shipping. It's hardly noticable when you're making B2B software, or an atomic bomb - but as you start building things that creep into the fabric of everyday life, empathy instead of sympathy takes a greater role in product design.
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In my social circle of non-tech people everyone uses their phones for texting and calls. Thats about it. Most have smart phones, a few play games or use their phone as an mp3 player. That really is about it.

I only use texting, calls and google maps for when i am lost. Tablets i understand but this "mobile revolution" I don't understand. I find using the web / webby apps is painful on mobiles due to poor internet speeds.

Many of my friends still don't get twitter, let alone checking in at various locations.

I would agree that Google and Facebook need to get on top of mobile but from where i am at least there isn't a massive hurry.
>is either a very dedicated audiophile or just has a lot of time on his hands.

Why this passive aggressive line in an article praising how cool and pretty this amp is?
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Education Benefits of course. Tax deductible for businesses, and great compensation for employee's. I've almost obtained a second degree in Communication Design due to my job needing advanced graphics and printing industry knowledge. It was a benefit I suggested and my employers were more than happy to work with me.

That's true, some would enjoy the freedom of more flexible scheduling. I consider myself very lucky to be able to change my schedule around to make my daughters doctor appointments, tour several private schools in the area, and sometimes stack my hours at the beginning of the week, so it's 2'o clock on a Friday and I'm out the door. Not all the time of course, but every once-in-awhile it IS fantastic.
the speaker in a headphone cup works as follows: current flowing through a coil of wire that is fastened to the speaker cone generates a magnetic field, which interacts with the magnetic field of a fixed magnet, moving the cone and so generating sound.

the cone movement, and hence volume, is proportional to the strength of the magnetic field, which is, in turn, proportional to the current through the wire and the number of turns in the coil.

there is a tension here, which is not obvious. the problem is that the coil is fastened to the cone, and so moves with it. for a responsive cone, we want as light a coil as possible (a heavy coil will give the speaker cone inertia, making it less faithful to the music signal). but if we make the coil lighter by reducing the number of turns we reduce the volume; if we make it lighter by making the wire thinner we increase the resistance, lower the current, and again reduce the volume.

one way to work around this is to supply a higher voltage to the coil. that can counteract the higher resistance of a thinner wire, and so provide the same volume with, hopefully, better sound quality. but the output voltage of many sources (particularly portable players) is limited.

so, finally, all should be clear: people use amplifiers like the one here to increase the available voltage so that they can use higher impedance, and arguably better sounding, headphones.
Occam's razor says it's bigness not breakfasts.
would you give some examples got those of us who may be missing out?
Forgive me if I am wrong, but I hardly think companies like Instagram and OMGPOP were full of average people seeking out a nice cheap coffee place that really get the common man anymore than Facebookers or Googlers. Both had significant VC investments. I doubt they were hacking in Starbucks on Craiglist bought 2006 Macbooks. We are in a hit based industry now, and hits are often just a set of circumstances coming together that you can't manufacture. Luck, really, as much we don't like to say it is. Truth is you need the perks to get the top talent. If Google doesn't offer it (and they already been dinged for cutbacks), Facebook will. Or even a startup will.

The real difference is the kind of people drawn to the different risk/reward situations at small startups and large companies.
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Also, the x.04 versions are LTS releases, every two years. 10.04 and 12.04 are both LTS.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS
Not to mention the super fast compile times when compared with "#include" languages.
My startup is called Top Hat Monocle. We do education software (mainly for universities, for now.)

I can tell you that our weird name has had exactly zero impact on our success to date. If anything the weirdness has had the side benefit of making our name more memorable than the myriad of startups with generic but more literal names.
Summary: There are people that equivocate "technical" with something other than an invitation for clarification and discussion.
I think that's a much more valid argument than the one the author makes. In fact, Google definitely uses technology more extensively than any other company I've worked at. I suppose that probably wouldn't come as a shock to you though.
You say that and get downvoted..

My email client is a shell built up carefully to my needs over years. Inhabiting it has shaped me in turn. I know that it won't change without my say, and if I move to another shell one day it will be my own choice. From this perspective it's so weird to see those who have flitted from shortlived flower to flower bemoaning their passing.
Awesome, sometimes u are hanging on your friend's home listening to music and u just wanna grab what your hearing and take it home to buy/or listening the music later.
Far fewer than that would know 1) which components are capacitors, 2) be able to tell which capacitor was broken.
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Hey! it was 'about time to have something like this!!
Don't feed the trolls, just downvote and move on. If it was his intent to make the conversation productive, he would have. It's not hard.
I've been finding lately that the side projects are where I push new ground. The best part is putting those aside when I've learned enough and coming back to the main project with new skills and code to borrow from. Though it takes a good 30-40 hours. (3-4 weeks of tinkering.)
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Dear Jason Friedman and 42floors,

I am not technical by your definition. I am not one of the cool kids. I cannot build things without a checkbook.

Your probably think you understand the internet and how consumers interact better than I do. Maybe you do. You probably think you know social hacking better than I do. Maybe you do. You probably know how to make consumers pain go away. maybe you do. You might even realize that selling dreams and fantasies works better than removing pain. Maybe you do.

You probably think you know why people rent office space. Maybe you do. You probably understand the importance of tenant mix. Maybe you do. You probably know that structuring leases to end in the winter will improve property value. Maybe you do. You probably know that placing companies in buildings with prospects will push them over the fence. Maybe you do. You probably know that companies like homes.org have mastered the new mover monetization system. Maybe you do. You probably know that you can rent lists of new office movers. maybe you do. you probably know that commercial real estate listings are fragmented because the syndicators are the brokers, and leasing fees are their bread and butter. (i.e. the owners are the brokers.) maybe you do. You probably know that how many day care centers are near by, would be useful info. maybe you do. You probably know all about quality of life. maybe you do. You probably understand that choosing office space is a pain because it is a huge decision with hundreds of variables. Maybe you do.

Here is what I know.
"Who is the Wise One? He Who Learns From Everyone!"

I also know... that no matter how much i think I know, I don't know anything.

Most importantly I know... that with all of my knowledge of the internet,marketing, and commercial real estate, I never would work with someone who publicly pushes a massive crowd of people (who just want to feel included,) out of the back door of the club.

Your post was exclusionary. It was classic bullying. It was a proud proclamation, of..."Coders Good. Non Coders Bad."
"Two Legs Good. Four Legs Bad."

Your post was mean spirited, published out of anger, and made me realize that you, as a founder are close minded, and self absorbed. Way too quick to anger and overall someone I would rather not know.
(p.s. mentioning that you are not technical just validates your exclusionary message, and doesnt make it ok.)
(p.p.s. While I am sure you are a fine fellow in person, and I am certainly open minded enough to change perspectives, right now my impression of you is a classic bully who doesn't empathize with others, and doesn't take the time to even give others another thought.... Feel free to prove me wrong.)
Pascal heritage is Algol not C.

Since Pascal lost, we gained buffer overflows exploits everywhere, thanks to a language that does not provide proper safer constructs coupled with bad developers everywhere.
It all depends if i plan on using it or not. If i don't plan on using it, sometimes I'll just give them away for under $100. If I do then there is a price almost always under $1000.

I do have one exception, and that is I bought sms.me which I had planned on building, but I got a good offer so that sold for many thousands, but that was their offer not mine.

On the flip side, I've bought many domains that I want to use for products ranging from $100 - $30,000 depending on a number of factors.
Not to mention that it helps stop Firefox from using up all your battery life! :-)
If you have given this any thought instead of blindly trying to find any information to mock Light Table, you would recognize the shallowness of your own question.
That is just one of many features of both of these tools, which by the way have very different purposes.
You know I liked that quote enough to look it up verbatim for my post, so I would get it right. It's from this comment on Slashdot in August 2010:

http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1764528&cid=33...

The parent comment to the comment had said this (about Steve Jobs):

"Pedantic note. He didn't revolutionalize anything. His company may have. He may have been the final say on the design and implementation decisions, but he didn't do it. The engineers did. The researchers did. The programmers did. Just because he's the one standing on the stage during a keynote doesn't mean that he really did anything (I'm not saying he didn't, but I'm saying that just because he takes credit doesn't mean he deserves to take credit)..."

And the full response to this comment (I only quoted half), was:

"Leaders are generally given credit for accomplishments. Napoleon didn't personally conquer northern Italy."

It's an interesting contrast to your statement, because although Napoleon might have been able to set up artillery and weild a sabor, Steve Jobs was not an engineer. (This is what Bill Gates said recently about him). If you really want to get into it, his deepest credentials, very early in adolescence, in engineering, came from having his buddy working the night shift developing for him, and his claiming the results. He literally could not do what he wanted/needed to, and literally had to have his friend help him.

So I don't know about whether Napoleon personally cleaned bores, or knew the intricacies of every job, but it is fair to say that Steve Jobs could not do what he wanted done early on, and for the past few decades certainly couldn't do any of the jobs the engineers were doing.

I think you also completely miss the sweet meaning of "personally", which forms a nice mental image. You say he was perfectly capable of stepping in when he needed to. But obviously, he could not have stepped in for the whole army. Just because he had the ability to do any of the jobs (even if that's true), does that mean he could do every one of the jobs all at once.

In the YC sense of a startup, frequently the "technical cofounder" or CTO can literally go ahead and "step in" for the whole army!

With literally not a single other person having any access to the servers, the "technical cofounder" can keep the operations running and make updates "personally". In this sense, it's pretty preposterous to think of Napoleon "personally" conquering anything.
I'm only 19 years old, so I can't speak for many. However, I've found that when I (or my friends) suffer from this "the excitement is gone" bug, I recommend learning how to program web applications. They let you make something big that can instantly be deployed to millions, and some frameworks like Ruby on Rails have a veyr low barrier of entry.

Also, with web applications you get to make websites, and experience the thrill of crazy traffic, ad revenue, and making sure people have a good time.

Web apps is what brought the excitement back to me. Again, I'm 19 so I'll most likely end up finding another vehicle for my excitement in the near future.
I agree. At that point I think it's best you start looking at improving your quality of life over the course of the year rather than finding that 'immediate relief'.

And try different things. For me it was yoga. Someone else I know loves bowling with her husband. Another friend of mine enjoys hiking, another painting. And not everything has to be a masterpiece, that goes for both your hobbies, your startup, and your job.
There's another side to this story...

There's a staff leasing company promoting its services by showing off the resume of someone who does not work for it. Do the actual contractors have similar skill sets? If so, why aren't they using their resumes?

There's something pretty unethical about marketing one level of talent and delivering a lower level.
3,4 seem business and not technical. If you can't get those, you can't get software development business and shouldn't be involved with one in a leadership role.

#3 you disagree with and decide against, but you have to understand why.
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Let's not forget the concord was shut down mostly because one of them ran over a 17 inch bit of titanium that sent pounds of debris flying at the plan at 500mph rupturing a fuel tank and causing it to blow up. The next year some a-holes flew into buildings in NY and the pentagon and put the airline industry and economy into a tailspin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_4590
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Someone with the title of CTO in most startups would most definitely be expected to write code. Once a significant development team has been built, (say, more than two other full-time developers, covering at least the relevant programming domain knowledge of the CTO), then the CTO slips into a more managerial role.
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I've heard Xavier pronounced like Zavier and X-avier with about equal frequency. Also Havier somewhat less often.
Ah, I am just stupid for not recognising that as a full disclosure (I did not know NameLayer before).
The stated goal is apparently to be able to strike anywhere on earth within an hour. What's the advantage of something like this above an ICBM? I can imagine one advantage would be that the target can't be easily inferred from the flight path? Also an ICBM launch is immediately associated with a nuclear attack, while this might not be? Although I could imagine an enemy detecting multiple of these hypersonic vehicles heading towards it, wouldn't want to wait to find out.
Let me scroll the damn page and not just a viewport!!!

That's my only complain. Had to get it out of my chest. Move on.
I think the perks are fine and all, but it is clear to me that Google at least needs to keep some 15in monitors around for testing or something.

The new gmail interface is a perfect example -- all that whitespace is great when you have a 30in monitor with thousands of pixels in each direction. Clearly it was never testing at 1024x768 at 15inches though, like my mother-in-law has on her desk at home.
This makes me think of WINE. WINE takes the direct API, as in all the doSomethings(), and rewrites how it does that thing to work on a different environment than the original API call intended it to do. In the end, it may have the same exact or near exact result, but it does it in a completely different way.

I'd fear that if Oracle wins here, a huge number of open source projects like Wine and even the Gnash Flash alternative would find themselves under attack when they had previously been determined outside of court to be legitimate and fair uses of an API reimplementation.
This is why I use NoScript.
Relevant: http://blog.precipice.org/why-wesabe-lost-to-mint
One thing I didn't see mentioned was searchability - it's so much easier to gauge sentiment and help folks out if you can pick your name out of the crowd. Useful for Twitter/Facebook/G+ searches, Web searches, and not getting overwhelmed with irrelevant Google News Alerts.
Sitting is qualitatively different than standing without moving: http://www.anh-usa.org/too-much-sitting-killing-us/
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My name is Scott Mandel, I'm the Co-Founder of Snapclass. You are right we are similar to this idea. Snapclass connects teachers and students live via to exchange knowledge. Anyone can be a teacher and host classes for free or for a fee. Students can choose their teacher based reputation (reviews and rating), profile and availability.

We're launching in the next two weeks and we are looking for talented people.

- Talented backend developers in ruby on rails

- Java developers with experience in real-time video conferencing

Contact me at scott@snapclass.com.