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I find your claim odd, since I've always found his public speaking very competent.
It's more "greater fool" or possibly multi-level scheme than Ponzi.

In a true Ponzi scheme, payouts come from either investors' own deposits or those of additional investors. There's no investment income in the fund itself.

In Andreeson's case, he's been surfing on the wave of success or perceived success, by inflating subsequent hype bubbles and cashing these out. There's not a strict connection between his ventures, investment funds, and cash-outs, though arguably there would be very little market value if he were perceived as no longer being the golden boy.

I've found myself increasing unimpressed by what he's had to say about the value and credibility of his activities over the past decade or so.
I hate the new themes. My question is: why couldn't they have provided themes that at least look similar to the old ones? I tried most of the available themes and there only one that I find vaguely satisfactory is the high contrast theme. Some of them, like "Wood" are laughable -- is this an old Myspace page I'm seeing? And better yet, you'd think a company with Google's talent pool could make the themes configurable at a more granular level.

Thanks, Google, for making me contemplate abandoning gmail for the first time. (I know, I know... it's free, right? So what right do I have to complain? I guess I'm mostly angry at myself for growing so dependent on it (and recommending it to my friends/family.))
Opsware is a freaking joke.
That's selling jwz a little short, my friend. A better way to say that would be "got rich as fuck and bought a nightclub", but that doesn't really fit your angle.
I would log in a fast compact, but not limited, and heavily documented binary format

Such as ASN.1, perhaps?
I have no issue with the new design. But I think this is a fair criticism considering how polarising the change has been.
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I think craigslist is notorious for this. I remember they recently blocked my favorite posting app, Bazaar, and all they did was host the images you posted from your phone. This was the simplest most user friendly app to post to craigslist with. So basically craigslist blocked any ad that had an image hosted by Bazaar. Killing Bazaar was a huge disservice to me as I stopped posting as many things to CL and a huge disservice to their community.

These guys are doing a disservice to the American public. Imagine how much more used stuff could be sold on craigslist if their interface and experience was better. One statistic is smartphones, which can resell for as much as $200 after two years of use, yet most people leave them in their drawer. If a platform existed where selling and buying was easier, then people that are too busy to use craigslist would have an alternative to give new life to the stuff that is just sitting in their drawer. More people could own higher quality products instead of buying the cheaper new crap as an alternative. We consume way too much new crap. I bet there are >10 million used iphones sitting in drawers, while cost conscious consumer resort to buying the Motorola Triumph as that is all they can afford for $200. I know a lot of people love craigslist, but it is time for something better. It is time to create an efficient and "beautiful" consumer to consumer marketplace that everyone wants to use. Craigslist is huge, but it serves only a fraction of the potential customer base. I would bet more people would use it if some of its fundamental flaws were fixed.

End of rant... Let me know if you agree. I am actually doing something about this and am always open to input and help...
It would have been great if the focus on the Gmail UI was aimed at "making it a better experience". Making it "minimal" doesn't mean making it good or bad. Minimal design can be great in some cases and certainly bad in others. I do agree however that this UI was not an improvement over the old one and the old UI certainly could have used improvement.
I was about to chime in and say that it's a shame Dell stopped selling computers with Ubuntu, but I see that they've started to do so again!

http://dell.com/ubuntu

The specs on the Vostro 1440 don't seem much different than the Inspiron 1420N I bought with Ubuntu 5 years ago.
At what point do you actually fire people? For instance, if they go like 18 months without vacation, do you literally fire them? Wouldn't it be easier to just grab them and say "hey, next two weeks are on the house, go have some fun and I don't want to see you come into the office or make any commits"?
Redesigns of a heavily-used UI are always "usability disasters". People spend many hours perfecting their workflow in one environment and FLIP THEIR LIDS when someone changes it. It's not a rational thing (nor, frankly, an unjustified one). What surprises me is that we haven't figured this out yet and rehash the same flame war every time.

The desktop environments show this best: c.f. Gnome 3. Also Gnome 2. And Gnome 1 for that matter (vs. KDE2). And KDE4. And KDE3. And Windows Vista. And OS X Lion.
What did you find hard to read about the site? I was able to read it just fine. (just double-checked).

Nice big text with high, but not too high, contrast. What's not to like?
Ways to read source code and learn?
I've been reading through source code for various programs to get better at programming. I know that many of the people here also do this.

I'm wondering what your approach is when you're trying to learn from source code (not debug, but reading it to get better at programming). Do you go line by line, follow a top-level function call, etc? Also, if you're familiar with the syntax, do you quickly skim over boilerplate code to be more efficient?

Thanks for any advice. Trying to speed up my learning process.
I won't disagree that he is competent, but at the YC talk in New York, his public speaking was filled with filler sounds where it seemed he was nervous to talk in front of a large group of people (even if that was not the case).
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I only need three programs to deal with anti-ASCII, pro-complexity JSON, XML, etc. crowd: tr, sed and lex.

All the effort these Javascripters expend putting data JSON just gets undone by my custom UNIX-style filters; then I can actually work with the text.

Are they making life easier? For who? Seems like it's just more work for everybody, translating text back and forth into myriad formats.

But what can you do?
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Um... of course it does. It's a board, not a CPU architecture. ARMv6 is still ARMv6. This is like being surprised that windows boots on your new Asus board.
FWIW I spent 6 months running Gnome 3.0 on a laptop with a core 2 duo, intel graphics, and 4GB of RAM without noticing any performance problems.
If Pinterest was worth that much, I wonder how much Reddit would be.
The 1% guy should easily, as in no conceptual difficulties, be able to write a compiler/interpreter, that clearly demonstrates whether one is simpatico with the machine, capable of thinking like one.

You do realize that compilers and programming languages are an actual realm of expertise, right? I can, and do, write a compiler, but I couldn't construct you a web framework from scratch.

Acknowledge others' expertise rather than trying to construct a mountain to stand on.
Yes! And toaster ovens work well. Get some high-temp red spray paint too, so that the hotplate/toaster oven is clearly marked and never ends up in a kitchen.
Are questions such as "How will you make money?" answerable in 15 seconds? I tried it with my personal concept, and even with trying to remain concise and to the point, I can't answer that question without it becoming a string of words that would not pass as a sentence.
Perhaps it has something to do with last year's infamous "Craigslist Airbnb scandal"?

http://davegooden.com/2011/05/how-airbnb-became-a-billion-do...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2603844
I, like the author, abhor the new GMail interface. Thankfully, I found a workaround, explained at bottom.

In fact, I found it difficult to explain to my parents how to navigate the new interface. They were quite upset at the changes and were considering about how to revert to their old providers (thankfully, I set up an email forwarding domain for them years ago so they can change any time they wish). It really is that appalling!

The contrast in usability to almost any other web mail service is shocking. Check Hotmail or Fastmail.fm or even Yahoo mail and "feel" the difference yourself!

Workaround to GMail's new interface:

0. Make sure you have a browser or plugin that supports site-selective scripting, e.g. NoScript.

1. Disable scripting for google.com

Then when you login, GMail offers a "basic html" interface. This is amazingly straightforward, fast, everything clearly delineated with strong colors, all new information extremely obvious, and just the basic design that matches closely to the old design.

If Google manage to mess up even this basic interface, then I guess, I and my family will have to find alternatives, e.g. switching to mail clients or for those who travel a lot to Hotmail.
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I use it without problems too, and so does the author, but our eyes are not happy and our brains are less relaxed. We never used importance and we don't want it cluttering up our stars. We need visual queues, like lines.
We've been logging all of our analytics data in JSON for years now.
Are you guys affiliated with http://www.backblaze.com?

If not, you should change your logo and website design fast. Possibly your name too.
"I find the (algorithmically-applied) importance marker completely useless and would remove it if I could, but I use the stars quite heavily."

You can remove the importance markers: Settings > Inbox tab > Importance Markers.
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I have been using Yahoo Mail for a number of years. I find the interface to be far superior to that of GMail. More usable and practical. In many ways it mimics Outlook. They have some nice drag-and-drop action, right click menu tools and, my favorite, an Outlook-like reading pane. Last time I touched GMail it felt clunky. Because of this I have never felt compelled to use it.
Let me translate this:

We can't compete with Google or Facebook on salary. -> We cannot raise money enough of capital from smart people with money but we think you are stupid to join us (otherwise you will be one of "smart people with money").

We can't compete with being a founder on equity -> We want to be rich ... that is pretty much the only reason why we are doing this.

So the most important thing I have left is my ability to commit to an
individual employee's personal development -> You will work min 70 hours a week.
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The gnome-panel interface (fallback mode) is going to go away eventually. Gnome developers have been working to "make gnome-shell work with software-rendering" so that "Gnome can phase out some components that are only kept alive because they are needed in the fallback mode, which allows more resources to be focused on improving Gnome 3".

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Gnome_shell_software_...
The price of the metals is based on Earth's supplies. If the expedition was successful, the supply would increase dramatically and the equilibrium would shift.
Logo and name, yes. Website design? I see two generic landing pages; they all look alike these days.
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For the past year, my co founder and I have been working out our startup, www.tersetag.com

It's been really fun, and we've essentially kept the site running off underpants (0 dollars). We've had great support from our family, friends, and cloud host dotcloud.

The story/problem:
While hunting for a decent used car using the usual methods: craigslist, ebay, etc. I was on the freeway when a car drove by me with a For Sale sign in the window. The make and model were what I was looking for, but how would I ever be able to find out more (mileage, condition, etc) and contact this person? We’d both have to be parked to safely get all that info from the For Sale sign. Or try some good old fashioned tail-gaiting.. but didn’t want to risk denting my future car! A similar situation happened when I was apartment hunting and seeing For Rent signs in home windows as I drove around. What if the world ran on short-tags, what if I could spot a huge printed #2N, know to go to a website, and look it up for more info?

The solution:
We came up with TerseTag as the solution, allowing people to say everything they want with a QR code and short tag.

Is it just another QR code creator? Sure, you could say that. Is it just another URL shortener? Sure, you could say that too.

We love how QR codes provide a way to get from the real world to digital content, but studies show using QR codes is a mixed bag. Some people never bother learning how to scan them, possibly because it can be technologically intimidating and unfamiliar. That is why TerseTag offers short, memorable tags that people can quickly write down and lookup later, tapping into a simple and familiar act that we all have done by writing down someone’s phone number or email address.

Please check it out and let us know what you think, thanks!
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The thing that drives me crazy with the new design is the separate scrolling areas, when I use the mouse wheel or hit the up/down arrow keys I want the entire thing to scroll, not whatever chunk I happen to my mouse in. This is especially annoying as I have a low res screen (old computers) and thus I can't much of any of the chat list, I used to just be able to scroll down to see it. I wish knew CSS magics to try and fix it with stylish or something (I'm a c programmer all the way)
I'm not knocking the guy's talents. I'm knocking what is considered "a few companies".
This only true the first time. The thrill of being a published author wears off quickly when you realize that this doesn't pay the rent. (In my case, the second time 'round I figured out how to get it to pay the rent as well. Believe me, it's very satisfying.)
Mac OS uses bash as default shell right? Google for "bash tutorial" and start with basic commands, like

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use the --help switch before running them:

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ls --help

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Page view journalism. "Hmm...that article on how AH should have made more from the Instagram deal blew up. What other negative angle can I take on these guys while their 'hot' to juice some page views?"
Sooner or later, this sort of money is just going to become completely meaningless. There is no "$20tril check waiting to be cashed", there is an economic bomb in the form of a massive space rock. I'm still very excited and hope they get results but there going to be some pretty large, unforeseen consequences if they succeed.
Another way of looking at it, and probably what WIRED people would say, is that they don't run badmouth stories, ergo if the story was going to have a negative tone they simply might not run it at all.
If needed, you can make Kubuntu use even less by installing kubuntu-low-fat-settings
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OK. I'll call them inept and pan their design based on months of USE. As far as I'm concerned, there's only one example needed to prove the failure of this new design:

http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6034/6310566055_4a5f5d4a53_b.j...
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There seem to be more than just a few pro-Oracle people on this thread. Why?
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I usually pick something interesting on github and do the following:

1. pick a feature that i find interesting
2. trace it all the way through, line by line (like stepping into a call with a debugger)
3. using an IDE is really helpful because you can click into methods and jump around sources. (especially if docs are attached to sources)

look up every function and keyword you do not understand

I try to pick a simpler feature first, then if i am still hungry for knowledge I'll pick a more complex one that is related to the first feature.
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> "Exists" doesn't necessarily mean "you can point your finger at it."

I agree with this if you allow mathematicians to use the word 'exists' in their usual way.

> You can't point your finger at these nebulous "thought" things, either.

Again, largely correct, in much the same way you can't really point at a specific wind.

> It's just that "exist" is a pretty generic operator - the conditions for one thing to exist can be radically different from the conditions for another thing to exist; they don't have any clear shared "flavor of existing"

And this leads into a massive philosophical issue that we've probably been going around and around with since even before the Ancient Greeks.

My point, though, is that saying "the supernatural exists" is either a null statement (because the "supernatural" being talked about doesn't do anything) or demonstrably false (because someone makes a testable claim and it's proven that the phenomenon under discussion has a natural cause).
This is true at all levels.

Acute damage gains much more attention than diffuse damage. Thus you have a common problem of developers taking "shortcuts" and accruing huge amounts of long-term technical debt in exchange for temporary short-term advantages, and you have the equally common problem of internal tooling that just barely gets the job done but also introduces massive amounts of waste of time and effort across the entire institution.
>Either this logic, that profit is evidence of value destruction, is flawed or capitalism doesn't work.

Strawman. That's not at all what I said.

In this particular case the only time the market really benefits is when the HFT isn't making money. And I didn't say that "because he's making money it's evidence of value destruction." Just that the only example OP was able to point out that was an advantage to the consumer was when the HFT was losing money.
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The dollar amount might become meaningless, were it to happen, but they might still be called the "richest company" merely by virtue of controlling such a huge amount of valuable resources.
Well here's where they are very well represented - marketing and design. Two very important fields. Without those you just have a lonely little application or website. Never mind management where they are rising very fast. Programmers aren't an island.
On this topic, wikipedia says

"After launching the architecture under the "x86-64" name, AMD renamed it AMD64 in 2003; Intel initially used the names IA-32e and EM64T before finally settling on Intel 64 for their implementation. x86-64 is still used by many in the industry as a vendor-neutral term, while others, notably Sun Microsystems (now Oracle Corporation) and Microsoft, use x64."
All of the things that he's complaining about are changeable in settings. And not even buried three levels deep -- they're right on the first settings page!

1. Pick a different theme. I have one with a blue background, not the default light/white one.

2. Go into the general settings, and change your star to a different colour, ie. enable the red, or blue one, or the green checkbox. Now they stand out.

3. Go into the general settings. Change the 'Button Labels' radio from 'Icons' to 'Text'.

If you're going to bag someone's interface, you should at least spend some time figuring out how you can change it...
Perhaps you should take a look at Rust.[1] It's a pretty compelling union of functional and procedural paradigms, plus: immutability by default, the ability to annotate functions as pure, pattern matching, option types, good C compatibility, strong support for concurrency, high-level memory management that guarantees memory safety and that doesn't require tedious memory micromanagement (while retaining the option to just GC everything and forget about it), and a lot more. Still alpha software at the moment, though.

[1] http://www.rust-lang.org/
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Does anyone know of any good hard science fiction that deals with such "first generation of space exploration" themes?

This might be way off base, but something like the future East India Company of space, where corporations end up colonizing planets and asteroids and get immensely wealthy and powerful in the process.
Soldering BGA packages "by hand" isn't really that hard. I've done lots of that. I placed it in quotes because, well, it really isn't done by hand ball-by-ball of course. All you need is suitable magnifier or inspection microscope, a stencil, solder paste, a temperature probe and a hot plate or toaster over.

- Apply the paste to the PCB using the stencil
- Carefully place all the components using the magnifier
and appropriate tweezers or vacuum pickup pencils
- Place in the oven or hot plate
- Carefully ramp up and down the temperature as required

I've built many high-speed (200MHz to 1.6GHz logic) prototype boards this way. Not the most fun and time-consuming but definitely do-able.
TDM machines can be setup for a tiny fraction of a CNC, and the running costs printng ABS are still way below the cheapest metal stocks for CNC.

The only advantage CNC has right now is accuracy (thousandths vs tenths of an inch).

What has changed is that TDM machines are cheap enough for almost every home with a large screen TV could also have a printer.
This article was interesting, having only used frameworks that either do everything or just the minimum (think Rails vs Sinatra, or Django vs Tornado). I was beginning to wonder if there was a middle ground in web frameworks. The idea of a web library, not a framework, really appeals to me. Is there anything like Snap for Python or Ruby?
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Critical Analysis and badmouthing aren't the same thing. Plenty of publications get good interviews with polarising figures while critically analysing their achievements.
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Nope. The asinine hiding of most of your mail folders makes it way slower to navigate. And there's no indication that they exist. No control with which to reveal them.

This regression in UI standards that evolved and stayed in place for decades reveals that there aren't enough decent designers to do the required work today. And they don't have even a moderate level of experience or common sense, or they wouldn't make such glaring errors.
It seems like Steve Jobs was aware of this pattern and actively worked to prepare Apple for a post-Jobs era.

The fact is that Apple is in uncharted territory from a business perspective so I'd be cautious about any sort of prediction (good or bad) about the 'ultimate' fate of Apple.