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The original idea is probably the least important thing about most startups. There are cases where the founders have been working in a domain for many years and start a company with a very specific pain point in mind. Those are the exceptions.

Most successful founders have an initial idea, talk to potential customers, and find a related and sometimes completely unrelated thing that people want more and/or that excites them more.

It may yet turn out that having an idea is an indicator of something that is currently unknown but important, and that cannot be filtered for otherwise. If this happens, it will be apparent to YC soon. Meanwhile they are innovating, taking risks, and trying new things - which is exactly what I would expect from a group of people teaching others how to build better startups.
Team Leaders. Even if a team was more smaller teams :)

C/C++ Team Lead, Web (C#/ASP) Team Lead, QA Team Lead, Design Team Lead, and The Boss (startup CEO).
Curious about that. How so?
Thanks, very informative to watch.
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Meanwhile, EU court decisions certainly do indirectly influence judgements in the US, especially on tricky areas with very little precedent.

I would say that logical arguments influence his decision, not "the EU court said this so..." As for being 23 years, it doesn't matter, a US Supreme court decision from the 1800's is precedent.
I had a similar experience myself recently (around late march, Early April 2012). Google HR approached me. I responded. Then dead air. Never heard from her again till now.
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Brazil: 44h, 30 days PTO, ~12 public holidays, 13th salary (yeah...). If you're not working as a contractor, that is, which is way too common in the IT field.
Some people become entrepreneurs because they don't really have a choice. I'm just not suited to general employment, so I started a search engine company (sold to Altavista), a high performance networking company (sold to Citrix), and Quantcast.

In each case, I sat down and said "I wonder what kind of company I should start", and followed a methodical process.

I didnt really have a choice. I would have been miserable if I'd stayed as an engineer at Apple.
Isn't that how hackerschool is making money? 20k hiring fees? You could do something similar, right?
It is not "zero": most of my colleagues in a Chinese web company have Facebook accounts and some do use them regularly. But they have to use proxies and are a minority. I think it is not unlikely that the rounded figure is 0%.
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I agree. They're just testing an idea out, let's see what the results will be.
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Isn't this just Heroku copying what cloudflare already has on offer?
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So a $100k salary actually gets you $5000/month? Is that true in practice (not on paper)?
And the results of on the file systems was...?
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So now for the elephant in the room:

If, as some claimed regularly since a few years (including Fred Wilson, implicitly[1]), we are in a tech/financial bubble, what is the probability that the Facebook IPO will be the sting popping the bubble? If so, what are the likely results?

[1] "If you are playing a game of musical chairs", http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2012/04/what-if-web-and-mobile-apps-...
that's definitely true. It seems like all those who are doing well without a degree already had the motivation, intelligence, and "street-smarts" to do well. College does bring connections and such, but it also teaches you to be resourceful and force yourself to do things you don't want to do (like write essays when you're an engineering student). I was definitely a little kid after I graduate high school but after college, I was much more mature and responsible.
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Cool! Hadn't seen that before, neat trick.

Seems to me like (as other commenters have pointed out) this wouldn't be a great idea for something that is stored as a straightforward linked list.

Where it seems really useful to me is a cheap way to store an alternate ordering on top of an existing data structure, without having to keep a separate list around. I've done this before, using next pointers to preserve an alternate ordering, but this is a nice way to allow it to be bidirectional. neat.
A better link: http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~oded/p_obfuscate.html

I always enjoy linking to this every time I see a "how do I obfuscate my .net app?" question on StackOverflow.

Always gets me downvoted, yet I keep doing it.

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Being brazilian and having lived in the UK, calling the british a "much more liberal culture" is incredibly funny :)
Are normal ruby regex expressions not available in macruby/Rubymotion? If so, why would you bother to use the above code using cocoa regex when the idiomatic ruby version is so much shorter and simpler?

The example was supposed to illustrate that some things are easier and more concise in ruby, and thus also presumably in something like Rubymotion. The relevance to your posts is that you are ignoring some very good reasons to use ruby in your focus on the cocoa api - not all programming in ios consists of calls to the api so learning it is not the only thing required to make an iPhone app. In some apps api calls might make up half of the code, with the rest being back-end stuff. Evidently Rubymotion does not mean you can avoid learning the api, it just helps you write the rest of your code in a preferred language while painlessly calling the apis to show stuff on the screen. Not having to deal with Xcode would be a bonus too.
I wonder if IDEs like RubyMine will have a nice autocomplete for RubyMotion
Microsoft. They've never had an overarching product idea that defines their business, they just created software trying to see what would stick.
In postinst:

> virtualenv /vrmd/$APP_NAME/venv

This step could be skipped if you built different debs for different distro versions (in chroots for example, like sbuild does it).

Might be too much of a hassle, though, for a little gain. It just looks slightly wrong to me that you first install a deb and then go and overwrite many of the files the deb installed.
Visual Studio provides a suite of compilers; not just a single one.

I'm asking for their C compiler to support the C99 or C11 standard.

They're not incompatible goals unless you're suggesting that they attempt to make a single compiler support both.
Exactly the reason why I couldn't use it on my site. I would gladly pay the $300/month after the site generates decent revenue. But it is a huge barrier to entry for small projects. I wish they had a plan where you pay nothing for single-sign-on till you hit 5K or so comments every week.
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One of the ObjC examples could be more concise. He writes:

id navigationBar = [UINavigationBar appearance];
[navigationBar setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"nav-background.png"] forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];
[navigationBar setTitleTextAttributes:[[NSDictionary alloc] initWithObjectsAndKeys:
[UIFont cheddarFontWithSize:24.0f], UITextAttributeFont,
[UIColor colorWithWhite:0.0f alpha:0.4f], UITextAttributeTextShadowColor,
[UIColor whiteColor], UITextAttributeTextColor,
nil]];

which could be

id navigationBar = [UINavigationBar appearance];
[navigationBar setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"nav-background.png"] forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];
[navigationBar setTitleTextAttributes:@{
UITextAttributeFont : [UIFont cheddarFontWithSize:24],
UITextAttributeTextShadowColor : [UIColor colorWithWhite:0 alpha:0.4],
UITextAttributeTextColor : [UIColor whiteColor],
}];

as compares to the Ruby,

navigationBar = UINavigationBar.appearance
navigationBar.setBackgroundImage(UIImage.imageNamed('nav-background.png'), forBarMetrics: UIBarMetricsDefault)
navigationBar.setTitleTextAttributes({
UITextAttributeFont: UIFont.cheddarFontWithSize(24.0),
UITextAttributeTextShadowColor: UIColor.colorWithWhite(0.0, alpha:0.4),
UITextAttributeTextColor: UIColor.whiteColor
})

Also kind of wondering where he got "cheddarFont". :-)
To me, the "no idea" idea is easy to laugh at. That means it's either absurd, or brilliant. Anyone who tells you they know which of the two is guessing. In fact, I'd say anyone who makes bold claims about the result of YC's experiment is being very "un-entrepreneur"-like since an entrepreneur knows better than to write off ideas that seem ridiculous.

Ironically enough, this meta-idea might be so revolutionary that the ideas that come out of it from the entrepreneurs (since they will be forming in a different environment) could turn out to be dramatically more impactful than if left to come up with their idea on their own.
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"I work in the IT industry for 5 years now, so I guess I have a CS BS somehow."?
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true, in hindsight I really didn't "assume the worst" as much as I could, thanks for the tip
If you don't have a college degree, it's highly unlikely that you will get into a reputed company, assuming any company is willing to hire you.
This means lower experience and probably lower pay as well. So this means you will spend about 4 years not working to your maximum potential.
A person who graduates will easily catch up 6-8 years after graduating.
There are, of course, exceptions to the scenario described above, but usually I think what's described by me is most likely to happen.
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> I would say that logical arguments influence his decision, not "the EU court said this so..."

Well, that's what I said (I even couched my "influenced" with "indirectly"), but foreign opinions are cited as persuasive precedent at times. I have no idea what Alsup's track record is with that.

> As for being 23 years, it doesn't matter, a US Supreme court decision from the 1800's is precedent.

Certainly. As I wrote it, that was the introduction to suggesting that there has been plenty of time for applicable cases, even if none are a smoking gun for the copyrightable status of APIs.
It's too bad that you can't really make use of the GPUs in Android. It'd be tolerable if there were only differences in capabilities (that works out OK on iOS after all),
but you have to deal with the different sets of bugs in all
the GPU drivers. All (?) the OpenGL ES drivers are pretty buggy, so dealing with several at once is not pretty.
Does it really matter? My nephew and his roommates managed to download 750gig of movies in 3weeks on their comcast internet.

With the average movie size being around 750meg that's 1000 movies. (not that I would actually know the size of a ripped movie ;-) So on gigabit they'll be able to get more faster but if we're already at 1000 movies in 3 weeks what does it matter? That's more than 2x than you can actually watch on those 3 weeks if you could even manage to watch 24/7
What is the advantage? I'm neither an iOS or ruby developer, please enlighten me. It seems like this gives you a different language syntax to access the same libraries with no additional abstraction. It doesn't seem like it would speed up development much.
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Heh, this was my start up plan for last year, yeah.

Except that this version is half-assed; as long as this requires dedicated hardware, it'll never have broad-based adoption. There's no reason you can't do this with a camera alone; take the imagery with your cell-phone cam, process on the cloud.

http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~gk/PTAM/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df9WhgibCQA
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the heart connection is irrelevant, it was just something that seemed like it could work. Thank you for commenting, you helped confirmed my suspicion that the name is indeed too complicated.
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Regardless of whether they're stupid or not, they're still regulations. Unless he was breaking the laws as a form of civil disobedience, he was still basically a guy breaking the rules to make more money.
Just curious, what methodical process did you follow? Did you first test the market using tactics similar to the lean startup approach? Thanks for your advice.
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> I just refuse to believe that the love affair is based on anything other than marketing.

Sigh. Is it really so hard to believe some people prefer an iPhone because they genuinely prefer certain aspects of the device/platform? This isn't the 90's, were you could argue that the product sucked and many of the people using Macs were doing so out of some misguided emotional attachment to the company. The iPhone is a world wide phenomenon with far higher adoption than the Mac ever, or likely will ever, have.

Do you seriously believe the millions of people around the world who opt for an iPhone are doing so because of the magic pixie dust in Apple's marketing?
Wow, 278 average friends per user? That's a lot higher than I would have thought..
I've read (at least) that section of Raising the Bar -- which part of that story is false? That he wasn't actually a bakery owner and professional bicyclist but just an amateur baker and bicycle junkie?
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Those examples are huge, beyond-your-wildest-dream successes, For every one of these there are a tons of made-me-rich pivots.
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The solution is simple: an optical trackball.

The HTC Incredible has one. So do Blackberrys. It does exactly what the OP is asking for.
I don't like the feel of many such membrane keyboards, although to be fair, I haven't used one extensively. The keytops often feel less certain to me, as does as well the keys' "action" when being depressed.

IBM, now Lenovo, "traditional" laptop keyboards have had a reputation for very good feel. But the laptop industry seems to have been moving en masse towards membrane (aka "chicklet") keyboards. If Lenovo's now making the same move, I wonder whether they've managed to overcome what I perceive as these deficiencies.

Also, many of the membrane keyboards I've seen do not curve the keytops. This seems to make the center of the key less find-able by touch, and keystroke registration when hitting the edge or the corner of a key can feel and/or be less certain, in my admittedly anecdotal and limited experience.
I dropped out directly into a job offer that got me off the ground in my first quarter of college.

That was nearly six years ago, now I'm the CTO at my company.

I think we can generally trust people to follow their gut on this, as to whether school or work is a better idea. I'd been programming since I was a kid and was overall a self-directed learner. For me, school was an immense waste of time.

Books and MIT OpenCourseWare were a much better use of my time.
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I'd love to know if you're correct on this. Because if you are, then the OP has a flair for subtle, yet relevant visual cues that borders on the precient.
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If you're storing references to larger objects, your larger objects are what's taking up the space, which I think was the point (66% more pointers are useless if you can't also store 66% more of the objects they point to).

Also, I think on a 64-bit machine with common DDR SDRAM, a memory location is 64 bits wide, no matter the size of the integer contained there. Not sure about this, however.
I assume you get other benefits of working with Ruby, like it's functional programming aspects, (nicer) dynamic typing, data structures, etc. Plus if you were a ruby developer, like the author here seems to be, it would feel more familiar.
Good points, though I don't agree that Metaphore is an important criteria. It's intuition that's important, and metaphore is just one way to aid intuition. Metro design guidelines even advise against using metaphore in favor of being authentically digital.
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A company without an idea sounds as bad as mortgage without a downpayment.

I think that this will be quoted in the future to indicate when bubble became obvious. I mean, come on, how much money must be flying around there for free, if they are willing to fund a band of 18 year olds who don't even know what they want.
Absolutely. After all, that is what most employers will do when the pendulum swings their way.
> "very little precedent"? Judge Alsup specifically told Google's counsel to address the Johnson Controls decision.

Yes, and Alsup just asked Google and Oracle to address the EU decision on SAS v. WPL. They've both addressed many other relevant cases. Is this what we're going on?

> You are simply wrong on this. Why is a similar case not considered prior applicable precedent?

That was not what I wrote. What I said was that Johnson is not the only applicable precedent and that it was ridiculous to suggest otherwise.
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If you're dealing with people's names, there's also the soundex algorithm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundex
2nd this, that would be awesome. I am very tempted to give Rubymotion a try, but not sure I am ready at the moment to shell out the cash for it.
Stay in school, it's not much time in the scheme of things.
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Well, its hard to say its a shortcut kind of hack to have to have been such an achiever before going to law school...
Like I said, there are always exceptions.
The point is to attack the straw man of the oft-repeated "failing" of an all-caps virtual keyboard. You often see the claim that this is some obvious, horrible design flaw or even - bizarrely - confusing. I hate to say it, but usually you hear this from anti-Apple types.

It clearly is not confusing, as it is the same as every physical keyboard, and that is the point made in the parent. The claim is not "virtual keyboards should be identical to physical keyboards" any more than others are claiming "virtual keyboards should have nothing in common with physical keyboards".

Possibly shifting the case would be better, possibly not (is having the text jumping around helpful? Isn't the keyboard doing the minimal number of UI changes required to indicate what will happen? Does the international keyboard key literally print a globe?)
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I agree that the coverage Apple gets can seem over-the-top at times, however, I'm not sure why it seems to personally upset you to this degree.

> Ultimately sales are what matter

If I were running a company I'd argue it's profits. Nokia had (still has?) higher sales volume that anyone else in the market and look where they're at.
Your comparison to politics has me wondering how he could blame this lie on his competitors or their CEOs.
The kind of video I'd send to my family when they asks why I invested in Facebook :)
The domain name made me look thrice, looked like a fake at first ...
I agree with you, however my love afar with their quality faded when my MacBook Pro fried from spilling some coffee on the keyboard.

Right now I have a shitty laptop I bought for $400 that has sipped coffee, water and soda. I did have to clean its keyboard as it got sticky, but it's running just fine.

It's the same with my iPhone 3GS ... my son dropped it on the floor, and the screen cracked. He's 2 years old and he likes to throw things ... he did the same with my Galaxy S1, like 3 times already and it isn't even scratched.

The point I'm trying to make here is that Apple's products look and feel great, but I'm kind of disappointed about their fragility.
In every scenario I see facebook involved in the future of the internet. So, not to sound too much like a fanboy, but isn't it almost a sure bet to buy facebook stock? If they initially offer the shares for around $30 it seems like a no brainer to get in on that.
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