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Why change the excellent printf-style string formatting syntax to the vastly inferior slf4j-style? If I want simple concatenation, i use concatenation. If I want really complex formatting I write explicit code to do it. Printf style hits a sweet spot: it formats common datatypes to common presentation formats. Python 3 adds a formatting mini-language which looks more convoluted for simple tasks and unreadable for complex ones. Why change the syntax?
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TL;DR: In almost any scenario, Sequoia still ends up making a lot of money.
COLOR got $41MM for having an all-star team, not because their investors could see the future...

In any case it shows that not only money isn't everything, but that whole "invest in the team" mantra is flawed as well, just look at Instagram: it was made by a guy who wasn't an engineer and learned to code in his spare time!

The idea matters, the market matters, throwing money at a previously successful team isn't the be-all and end-all of startup strategy.
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This is where things like 320 and up: https://github.com/malarkey/320andup and future GUI libraries (Twitter bootstrap as a single example), will start to change everything.

The main problem with what you've mentioned is the size issue. So for startups that are dire in need of building fast and getting things right but not looking stunningly beautiful - this is an option.

The people with too much money to know what to do with it, can then build things in a crazy way with agencies for the logo, different agency for web design and then a 3rd agency for build etc.
I'm not sure it's a great idea to distribute Ubuntu too widely in its current state. It's not fit for end users. Yesterday I had to fix my third broken Ubuntu installation in a year or so and it's always for the same reason: Failed upgrades. Upgrades leaving the system in an unbootable state has to be an extremely rare event and it's not.

How can this be fixed? I think the entire package management system has to be based on a more robust transactional infrastructure. Unless the user confirms the success of an upgrade, the system has to be rolled back to its original state. If the system doesn't boot, it must boot straight into the old system version on the next reboot.

Upgrades should not be something that anyone hesitates to do, but I know Ubuntu users who'd rather install new software on a separate computer instead of upgrading the fragile Ubuntu installation. The close coupling of application versions to OS versions is the main reason for that. The sources.list concept is just too complicated for most people.
It boggles my mind that $1.1 million is a seed round these days.
One this I ( and I believe everybody? ) was very worried when I first read the claims of the lawsuit was: "Oh my god, if Oracle win, it could change the whole Software industry".

The EFF is today relaying their fears over the whole open source world that could be at threat for softwares like Samba - that EFF mentionned - but many others like NTFS drivers, or interoperability layers that make deep use of the claimed "APIs" to work.

Hope that the judges will come to reason about the implications of their decision.
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I think this is very bad, security wise.
Take this URL for example: www.paypaᥣ.com Ofcourse it depends on the font used and the characters chosen, but you can trick people into opening a site they trust.

(for those who don't get it: the L of paypal is not an L)
IE market share has been going down for years, but it's still more or less 70%

That means that by not supporting IE you don't get 70% of the market. Early adopters come and go, but "hockey stick" growth like the one Pinterest got? that comes from the mainstream market that uses IE and doesn't knows what Firefox is, and thinks that by Chrome you mean actual chrome...

But as I said IE is going down, and when it hits 50% in 2 years or less that will be the time to stop supporting IE.
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You could try listening to podcasts - when I was 'commuting' (i was actually walking) to work, I'd listen to something informative and interesting, so I'd arrive at work inspired every day. For example, TED talks, or web tech stuff: http://5by5.tv/webahead
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Hi, here are a few bits of advice based on your current and previous posts.

First, please make sure to proof read your posts and find a few folks who are willing to help you do so: ability to write well counts a great deal (especially if you're serious about running a business). Good news is that you already enjoy writing and thus you are far more likely to invest in deliberate practice.

Second, I think you drew the wrong conclusions in your previous post. Big companies are rather predictable: you have (with some margin of error) a fairly good idea of what the culture, environment, et al are going to be like when you decide to join one. Startups, on the other hand, vary greatly from one to another: you're more likely to have a horrible experience, but you're also more likely to have an amazing experience. You've had an unpleasant experience at one startup, but it doesn't logically follow that your only option is to start your own company: there are plenty of companies that are actually great to work for.

To be honest, I don't think this is the right time for you to do a startup: looking at your previous posts and comments on this site, it sounds like you need to build your technical skill-set (looks like the last company you've worked for didn't even use source control!), confidence, and a network of like minded people. If somebody asks you "why would I want to move to Silicon Valley to start a company if I already have a great job?", they have a very different set of values from somebody you'd want as a founder. Great engineers (or product managers, designers, and so on) always have many options available to them besides starting their own company: it's a matter of choice and not a last resort.

Spend some time improving your online presence: at the least fix the gramatical errors (e.g., its/it's and build/built), build a few web or mobile applications (assuming that's what you're interested in), put up a few projects on GitHub/Bitbucket (but have a few strong programmers review them before making the repositories public). This will make it easier for you to show people (potential co-founders, clients, customers, employers, coworkers, or just like-like minded folks) that you're serious and have potential.

Essentially I feel you're running from something (in this case a job you didn't enjoy and the experience of being laid off). Instead, put yourself into a situation where a startup is something you run to.

[Edit: corrected a few grammatical errors of my own]
You may also want to visit http://www.trejdify.com to find more articles - but no breaking news. It's similar to Hacker News and hopefully it will stay clean from crap
Therefore the conversion rate is the challenge.

How can Facebook turn this userbase and technology into driving revenue?

Most Instagram users are likely to be Facebook users. So the userbase argument is not strong (ie they are not gaining many new users).

However you could argue time spent is of value. Users spending time on FB instead of instragram.

The technology may encourage FB users to stay longer on FB. It may gain some new users.

Is this worth $1b? FB do generate significant advertising revenue ($1.06bn last 3 months). Revenue has been dropping off. Can Instagram fill the gap?
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If you are in India and TVS Gold mechanical keyboard is also a very good keyboard. I have been using mine for past 6 years without a problem and I tend to bang on keys a bit harder than normal.

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Looks useful. Wish there was a magic box like this that did the same sort of thing on my PC. e.g., movie file over 600MB, put it on external storage Vega next time it's connected, categorised by starting letter; MP3 extension, add to iTunes database without having to load slug iTunes.
That doesn't seem to be an issue for them. From the article:

> Originally, we feared that we'd receive a torrent of angry emails from avid IE users. In reality we've received exactly zero requests for IE support,

More generally, the "market share" depends very much on what you consider to be "the market". If your target audience are big companies stuck into MS support contracts then yes, IE market share is huge. If your target audience are mostly individuals with some basic knowledge on computers, they are almost certainly already using a sensible browser.
The main problem with cars in the US is suburban sprawl. A large percentage of the population live in places where a car is required to go anywhere. It's a mess, a disaster of urban planning that's probably impossible to fix.

In Germany, even in the more rural areas, you can typically walk 15-20 minutes to a town with shops, or get a bus even closer than that. That's not so in much of the US. If you don't live in one of the few walkable cities with decent public transit, you're gonna need a car.
Living and working in your parents' basement (or other ways of bootstrapping) week after week, year after year will also wear on you. And knowing how projects can fork pivot and drag on, a change of scenery is a good way to start fresh (plenty of research on how habits bad and good are triggered by environmental cues).

As for schlepping through traffic, that wouldn't bother me so much if I wasn't trying to get to the office on a strict time schedule. Flexible office hours with work-from-home days sounds comparatively paradisal.
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I'm in the same boat. It's an old joke that Java tried to kill off printf style formatting but had to bring it back because it's a really great idea:

1980: C

printf("%10.2f", x);

1988: C++

cout << setw(10) << setprecision(2) << showpoint << x;

1996: Java

java.text.NumberFormat formatter = java.text.NumberFormat.getNumberInstance();
formatter.setMinimumFractionDigits(2);
formatter.setMaximumFractionDigits(2);
String s = formatter.format(x);
for (int i = s.length(); i < 10; i++) System.out.print(' ');
System.out.print(s);

2004: Java

System.out.printf("%10.2f", x);

2008: Scala and Groovy

printf("%10.2f", x)

(from http://www.horstmann.com)

To complete the circle I'd add:

2009: Go

fmt.Printf("%10.2f", x)
How do you go from a 4" screen to a 7" screen?
In our defence, we do our best to keep the standard zoom gesture working and we use a reasonable default font size. We're not 21 any more either. ;-)

However, for most of our users, a zoomed single-column layout is going to be less useful than switching to two columns when in landscape mode on an iPad.

On an iPhone, you should see a single-column layout in either orientation using the design we're currently testing.
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One thing you have to realize about Hacker News is that people can accumulate pretty good karma points for postings that have a definitive/authoritative tone blended with some truisms. Not to bludgeon the equine or anything, but I think people find them comforting.
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That offer is worse than you think it is, for a variety of reasons. You're going to get diluted by every subsequent capital raise. The 0.3% you are being offered could be 0.2% or less by the time of exit. 0.2% of a $100 million acquisition is $200k. If your startup does not hit about a billion dollar valuation and then exit at that valuation you don't get a motivational amount of upside out of the equity.

Additionally, there are a variety of ways where an exit can happen but your 0.2% ends up evaluating to 0%. One is liquidation preferences. (e.g. Let's say that your company takes $20 million of investment at a 2x liquidation preference, then you exit for $40 million, which your friend thinks you break even at. You will receive a check for $0. Your four founder friends may simultaneously receive checks from a side-pot, because they actually matter to getting the deal done.)

Then there's just the numerically most common outcome, under which your startup never successfully exits and you took a pay-cut to work overly hard for a few years with no upside but a resume strongly suggesting to your next employer that you enjoy overwork and underpay.

You're an intermediate engineer, at minimum. Salaries in the Valley for people in your bracket are creeping to $140k+ plus (smaller amounts of) equity. Seriously. They're DYING for people right now. Salaries for engineers in other big metropolitan areas, including Seattle, are going up as well. I guarantee you that you can find offers substantially more compelling in Seattle if you love living there. (Including remoting arrangements.)
Here are the stats from my MacBook Pro (also mid 2009, 13-inch, original battery):

Temperature = 2990
CycleCount = 488
DesignCycleCount9C = 1000
DesignCapacity = 5450
MaxCapacity = 4804
WearRatio = 88%
CurrentCapacity = 4804
ChargeRatio = 100%
Voltage = 12568
Amperage = 253
InstantAmperage = 88
TimeRemaining = 0:8
AvgTimeToFull = 0:8

I seem to be missing the InstantTimeToEmpty and FullToEmptyTime data. Reading your script, that tells me the values are "None" but not why that is. I'm also apparently 8 minutes from an empty battery, even though it's fully charged. Do you know why this is?
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The "Marching Cubes"[1] algorithm got patented ages ago and the patent was enforced. Some clever people had to come up with a similar solution called "Marching Tetrahedrons" to work around the patent.

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The irony of the first few sentences here...

"your advise" -> "advice"

"proof read" -> "proofread"

"invest" -> "invested"

Misplaced comma, missing "a" and "the" in a few places, awkward wording, unusual omitted/implied words...

I don't disagree with the content, but what's that saying? "Take the log out of your own eye first?"
I thought about doing some tiling ala isotope, but really wanted a bar chart to form (this is related to some work stuff that I want to try out)
You still can put a big red sign with "This browser is not supported, here's why.", and let the user decide if they want to try it with IE just to see if is worth it the browser change.
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Good point: I'll go through and do a second round of proofreading.

That said, there's a different standard for blog posts as opposed to comments. The few posts on my own blog take took several days to write and edit.
If it serves any consolation, Mark Zuckerberg's sister was unselected as well: http://www.businessinsider.com/y-combinator-arielle-zuckerbe...
Ever seen the average user for Pinterest's? do you picture a +40-yr old woman mailing some devs because the page she's looking at didn't load? They don't bother, just leave and never come back, simple as that.

Just like IE users don't bother to find out which browser is the best they don't bother to email some unknown no-name startup they stumbled upon because the page didn't load.

And again I'm talking about a different and much bigger market than early adopters.
There is always the third option -- quitting (or doing a pure talent acquisition) and going to a successful later stage company in an easier market.

Especially if you're approaching burnout, a purely-technical role in a "safe" place (where there's great technology, but the business itself is largely derisked, at least on a short timescale) is probably going to be a good way to recover.

Especially if you're covered in preference, for founders, it's probably relatively better to go to the best new role vs. maximizing sale price in a talent acquisition but going to a less interesting company or position.
I am not affiliated with Adioso in any way and this is what I can remember about them but, I hope it answers some of your questions.

Adioso quietly launched to Australian discount travellers in early 2008 which had a simple interface and the ability to search over broad terms.

It was initially a side-project but they ended up pursuing it further - and got into YC W'09 program. They had a major global launch in 2010.

With regards to the technology behind the site, Adioso use NLP rather than the traditional stuff you find on other travel type sites entering the origin dates etc in forms, with Adioso, you can enter stuff like "Europe In July" etc.

They also have a routing engine which links flights from low-cost airlines to create long-haul itineraries to help their users save $$$.

Essentially the value proposition for Adioso is to:

- allow travellers with flexible dates & destinations to see where they can go/look for alternatives they never may have thought of

- Use low-cost airlines to make long-haul flights - saving you $$$

With regards to their revenue model - even if it happens on a third party site - they can still take referral fees from both airlines and accomodation.

Similarly, I believe for all of these travel search engines etc that there is the potential to develop a new method for airlines to advertise their services and acquire new customers - there would also be some referal fees (and potentially an upfront fee) for this as well.
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This discussion just shows how change (even just profiling something) gets stalled. Lots of speculation, and then arguments about speculation. Meanwhile...

Bram Cohen is lucky because he has a platform, his own platform, that he can use uTP on and he doesn't need anyone's approval. It's working so far ("mature") and that's that. I just wish he'd have given some other protocols a try, a little benchmarking exercise that we could in turn replicate ourselves, so we could see how they compare. That said, I admire the irreverence. We need more of that.

As for these arguments, it's like when VJ "saved the internet", if it works, then we're done. Miller Time.

Instead here we have a looped version of "Less Filling, Tastes Great."

You want dropped packets? Use UDP.

Is that acceptable? Acceptable to who? All depends on what you're trying to do. What you're trying to do, not what someone else is trying to do.

Don't wait for approval. It may never come. You just get endless debate. If you got something that works, use it.
That's true—blog posts should definitely be held to a higher standard. But so should comments that correct others' writing. :)
Isn't that pretty much re-inventing the post office, except that you don't ship the item through the postal system? This seems like an indication that we need to fix our postal systems...
Would students in the class be able to login and see their grades? It would be awesome to integrate this with LMS platforms like Blackboard.
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That doesn't really fix either problem, IMO.
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If someone European did it, that's great. The point is that Stripe are a long way down the road of working out how to achieve this. As for the comment below that the US just gets things done - well it's a whole lot easier when there's just one currency and one country's regulations to deal with.
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> That survey isn't particularly good data. For one thing, it conflates Fund of Funds with other hedge funds, which is pretty questionable given that they're really a separate class with different fee and performance expectations.

DeutscheBank is a bunch of kids and that particular report is questionable??? I hope you don't work in funds management.

> Effectively, SEC regulations like Dodd-Frank impact large funds worldwide, because you're subject to them if you have more than a small number of US investors. (I think it's 15.)

See http://www.google.com/?q=master+feeder. Hedge funds that want to accept money from US and EU investors are structured to avoid the US regulations for the EU investors (for many more reasons than lock-up periods - e.g. look at the graphs of lockup periods broken down by investor country???!).

It is almost the defining feature of hedge funds that every fund is different. A hedge fund is defined by the class of investor it aims at (institutional and/or qualified investors) - everything else is variable - hedge funds are diverse in almost all other dimensions (although some things are common e.g. 2 and 20).

Returning back to the original point:

"You could swap out VC funds with hedge funds and the article would pretty much be the same."

Very true. The variation within the hedge fund industry is more than the variation between a VC fund and any average hedge fund. IMHO 90% of the article applies to hedge fund investors. The issues of the 2% management fee, the human factors of the fund managers, and the issues to do with transparency (black box) are all relevant to many hedge funds.

The only reason I am answering you is because I hate seeing the standard misconceptions about hedge funds being promulgated.
One-make or control racing series ostensibly pit equal machinery, with only the drivers brain making the difference. Presumably in an autonomous series, there would be little technical rules to force equivalent vehicles. Thus one car would be optimised for a certain type of track, and one for another. Different teams can come up with different strategies, and there is always the element of chance.

It's near-impossible for a motor race to end in a tie because there is only one optimum racing line, and only one car can occupy it at a time. Just removing the drivers wouldn't be enough to change the results.

Yes, you'd get one team dominating as you do in any motorsport, but the methods to temper this are well known.

Basically it would be like current motorsport but with the element of risk for the driver removed, which would result in higher speeds and greater risks being taken. I think it would be exciting to watch.
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