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Very slick, nice video, and nice rendering on the final product. This reminds me of videogame demo videos which don't show actual gameplay. The lack of extra info on their main page is annoying.

In what format will the data output?

Can you save in common CAD formats?

Will you easily be able to create the fly-throughs shown in the video?

Will you be able to record those fly-throughs and send them to others?

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For the record, digital measuring systems have been out for some time. Etemplate was featured on This Old House several years ago.
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If you have an opinion, and you live in a free society, then you are entitled to freedom of speech, so you have the right to express your opinion. You also have a corresponding responsibility to maintain a high level of debate on whatever it is you want to talk about.

Let me paraphrase what Dustin is saying: "Person X is doing Y, and I think this will attract person of type Z. I'm prejudiced against people of type Z, so naturally I think Y is a bad idea."

Thanks for your opinion, Dustin.
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Even PG said that they have no idea whether or not this is going to work, or if it's a good idea. But they were willing to give it a shot, which is the most interesting part of this whole thing, since they have the guts to try.

If it doesn't work out, then no harm, no foul.
The problem, though, is that I still had to take my hands off the keyboard. This doesn't require me to.
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'cause if you aren't super successful or hardcore at it, you will reach a point of diminishing returns of things. Your peers in other professions will catch up to you in term of pay when you are 30~40. You will lose time to families, and trade that loss for more requirement for financial responsibilities. Also when it's 30~40 time, you end up facing who you really are, and some people'll have to accept the fact that they were probably better off with a degree. But truth be told, people second guess themselves all the time. The most important thing is still figuring out what you are truly passionate about, and go for it.
> talk is cheap and ideas are cheap, but people are really expensive [...] because the idea will change over time anyway.

I largely agree with this sentiment in general. However, all ideas are not created equal. Most successful companies seem to make 2nd order corrections and refinements to their ideas, but not change them all that much. Case in point, facebook hasn't changed that much in terms of vision and what it provides for its users since it started. Same for google, apple, airbnb, heroku, dropbox, reddit, mint, basecamp, ...

[i don't mean to say that those are the same type of success, just illustrating that what i said applies to a lot of very different types of successes]
These days, companies seem to care more about work you've done and skills you can demonstrate and not what degree you have. I currently work with the most amazing UX engineer I've ever met and he has degrees in opera and theology. I am a senior software engineer and I have a degree in English. These are arguably only slightly better than having no degree at all when applying for tech jobs, but our bodies of work spoke for themselves.
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Though you seem completely uninterested in anything but repeating your toxic, dogmatic, and insular refrain, I may as well add my voice to the chorus of those who see a different community than the one you do.

But I also want to respond to the somewhat more interesting portions of your argument - is ruby "technically interesting", "notable", "novel", and/or lacking in "solid applied computer science", and to what extent do those things matter? I think it is technically interesting because you can do much with little, notable because it combines the elegant OO of Smalltalk and the weak functional programming of Lisp with an intuitive syntax reminiscent of though dissimilar to Python, not at all novel because it prefers to embrace good ideas from its predecessors, and quite thankfully lacking in leakage of hard computer science into mundane programs. It is wrong for many jobs, but right for many others, and for that it is interesting. It is one of a multitude of languages for which the same can be said.
Yes - super key is like the predecessor of saying "computer:" in Star Trek. That is nice. It is part of why tools like Gnome-Do, Launchy, Kupfer, Synapse (not to mention Vim plugins like Fuzzyfinder, Command-T and CtrlP) have taken off. It's like shell auto-completion except you kicked off the search before typing anything, and it is easy to set different contexts to guide the search.

And even if Unity is doing some things wrong, it is well worth refining this launcher concept. Flying up to a 'File' menu to (say) exit an application, or Edit to search a file, is about as stupid as dragging a floppy disk onto a garbage can. Harder to decide exactly what to do instead.

I'm also quite happy that FINALLY some GUI designers are putting elements like quick keys and fuzzy searching at the foundation rather than kludging them on to an interface which is fundamentally hostile to people who have specific actions in mind and/or know what they are doing.

For now, though, the devil is in the details...
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It's not about omitting semi-colons, it is about treating special cases as special cases. I just wrote something about the goals of NPM style, and how it can help debug those nasty problems http://mattbriggs.net/blog/2012/05/03/npm-style-javascript-i...
I imagine the opportunity for Google to offer this sort of "private search" (perhaps w/ complementing premium features) via mass licenses to (nervous) big corps would be one worth perusing. I imagine also it might be worth those big corps' money.
That's a cool idea.

I wonder how the weights would turn out if your algo were added as a term in his formula and run through the optimization, or even applied to his sample data standalone.
I don't have and have never used an iPad.

When I watched this video I was thinking "You mean this isn't how iPad typing works already?"

If I had an iPad, and typing worked this way, I wouldn't even notice it as a thing. Of course it would do this.
Absolutely. My friend and I wanted to quit & run a business. We kept discussing about different ideas over a period of time and then just decided to quit & get started.

Looking back, it was so naive to have written a few business plans, waiting for that 'unique' idea to come up.

I would say, talk to 50 folks (potential customers) about a problem. See if they acknowledge the pain and if they would pay for it to be solved. Try to put a number to solve that problem - how much would it cost (direct or indirect) them without that solution and just build it.

Does not matter whether competitors out there are already building it. Every business would take its own course based on customer feedback and no two businesses' vision will be the same over the years.
If you're an engineer, and you drop out and you work for 4-6 years, nobody is ever going to care, or probably know, that you don't have a degree.

My personal experience was that I got a hell of a good job when looking for a summer job, and I just kept at it. I'm in my 40s now, and in my career, not having a degree has NEVER been the slightest problem. I was in such demand that I started limiting how many interviews I'd go to-- and I'd end up going to 5 interviews and getting 4 offers and a callback (on average.) More than once, a year or so into a job it might come up that I didn't have a degree and people would be surprised, but it was never a problem-- I never put on my resume that I had a degree, I never lied.

If you're an engineer, and you have talent and 3-4 years of work history, there's no detriment to not having a degree.

I don't know about MBAs, etc.

I think a lot of people go to college and maybe they aren't' autodidacts or naturally talented and for them, they have to be trained to be programmers. I know that's not the case for me, its a talent and I am mostly self taught.

But I think a lot of people with degrees develop a prejudice against those who don't have them.

They don't want to think that they wasted those four years and all that money-- and for many of them, they probably didn't (certainly that's the case for any of them who couldn't program before college-- it wasn't a waste.) But for someone like me, it would have been-- since college CS courses were pretty much a joke compared to where my ability was. (I did go to college for a couple years, but studied Physics. Much more challenging, though the money is in programming.)

So, no, I don't think anyone worth working for gives a damn if you have a degree, if you've got several years of programming experience.

Also, working with someone just out of college (not a programmer) has led me to discover that college doesn't actually train you to be an employee-- the first 2-4 years out of college is when you really learn the skills to be a professional. College is not worthless, but it is not at all, the only route.

For some people it would be a waste of money and time, and for others totally essential to being able to solve hard CS problems. Only you can know which one you are. It is certainly not a panacea.

I personally would probably give a little more weight to someone who is self taught, but of course, I wouldn't discriminate someone with a degree. I think its wrong of people who do discriminate against those who don't have a degree-- engineering is about having the skills and the mind. Look for Attitude, mental Bandwidth and the ability to communicate. Those are what matter in hiring.
His Wikipedia article mentions he previously was "chief technology officer" at PayPal. Obviously the issue at hand is credibility, but I also wonder how someone with no tech credentials could become CTO of PayPal, where article also says he oversaw "architecture."
I think that was helpful for even fellow Americans like myself who had no idea either.
"The idea for a company is an artificial barrier to becoming an entrepreneur"

This is when I decided this must be a parody.
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I think the utility of this approach is unproven, so we'll see how successful it is. I view it completely as an code-factory type experiment.
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> (It's simple: what makes Apple or Google special, or more specifically, what made them special when they were starting out?).

A couple guys had an idea for a cheap computer and a great search engine, respectively. And they executed it well. You're kidding yourself if you think the Steves sat around and said, "what is it we should do with our lives? We need an idea." They knew what they wanted to do, and did it, and continued to believe in it (in Steve Jobs's case, for his entire life).

It was their passion for the ideas that determined how successful their respective companies were, perhaps combined with traits about themselves. Do you think Apple will ever be as successful without Jobs's dedication? Maybe successful, but not innovative, and doomed to eventually run out of steam. Google is already failing because they are losing focus on the idea that made them great.

I don't think a company can be truly successful unless the people founding it truly believe that the idea will change the world (and how can you truly believe in an idea that you haven't discovered yet, and that you have to go to an incubator to work on?). Of course, this is meaningless in today's perceived-value bubble, which might be why Y Combinator is trying it.

In the end, and I hope I'm wrong, I suspect this will draw out people who are just looking for a cash-out vehicle. "I heard there was money to be made in Silicon Valley, but I don't know what company to start. Help me find an idea!"
I think "no idea" is a poor choice of language for the YCombinator application in my opinion. The first bit of the introduction was much better: > We're going to have a separate application track for groups that don't have AN idea yet.

If this was all they said it wouldn't take much clarification to show another (more likely) meaning... you [your team] does in fact have ideas, but none of them are the one. You have a demonstrated ability to see problems and invent creative solutions, but in this case you're looking to find the problem that can best use your talents– YC being one of the best places to do that.
if comma first confuses a dev more then half a second or so, they really aren't that good. First time I saw comma first was from a DBA about 10 years ago who swore by it, and it has been my go to technique for writing maintainable code in languages where you end up with huge comma separated lists.

I freely remove, add, and move things to the bottom of my js classes without ever hitting trailing semis, or hitting a missing semi. I think that is more maintainable then the alternative
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What do you mean by "passthrough mode"? External keyboards (Bluetooth or USB) already work with any text field.
> The idea for a company is an artificial barrier to becoming an entrepreneur

Oh really? How many successful entrepreneurs have you heard of without ideas, just totally empty heads and whole bunch of hustle? Do they just hack away at nothing? Do they hustle without any purpose at all? And how many companies have you heard of without any ideas behind them? Don't be silly.. of course ideas matter. YC recognizes that individuals that work hard can come up with great ideas. Of course an entrepreneur must have an idea before they start working on something. Can that idea fail miserably? Sure, but great entrepreneurs will keep going. The failed idea/company will be ripped into bits, and the good parts will be funneled into a new idea. Over and over and over again. YC is banking on their ability to identify people who can come up with ideas and execute them.

> It's simple: what makes Apple or Google special, or more specifically, what made them special when they were starting out? It almost always boils down to their approach to a problem instead of just the problem they were trying to solve.

An "approach to a problem"? Oh, you mean an... idea for a solution to a problem? Yeah. Ideas matter.
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You shouldn't need to lie about your credentials if you can do the work.

I have a degree in International Relations and a minor in Latin American Studies. I'm a software engineer. I still put my degree and qualifications on my resume but have never felt the need to lie or stretch the truth because I feel my skills speak for themselves. I was hired at my current job because I was able to demonstrate skill regardless of my limited previous experience and lack of C.S. degree.
Finally, a semi-relevent excuse to post the titles of Pando's last 7 articles, their misspellings included.

"Dustin Moskovitz Doesn’t Plan to Leave His Wealth to the Next Generation"

"Dustin Moskovitz: Asana Could “Certainly” Be a $100 Billion Business"

"Dustin Moskvitz: Y Combinator’s “No Idea” Round Bad for Silicon Valley"

"Dustin Moskvitz: Leaving Facebook One of the Hardest Things I’ve Ever Done"

"Key To Facebook’s Early Success? Slow Growth, Moskovitz Says"

"Dustin Moskovitz’s Worst Grade at Harvard Was a B+ in Intro to Computer Science"

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I wonder how big a deal this will be. Relying on GC feels like it goes hand in hand with dynamic languages. I'm used to not having to worry about cycles.

Of course, I guess I'm use to not having to worry too much about memory, either ...

Weak references aren't a panacea. It's not that uncommon to have cycles where all edges are equally strong. Any social graph ...

I use use counts to collect those cycles. ARC doesn't let you use use counts, but you don't have to use ARC everywhere. You do have to access to the underlying use counts ... MacRuby should allow access to that (it's just a standard Cocoa call) as long as it doesn't keep stray retains around that screw up my count balances ...
> As for the superconducting supercollider: meh, I'd rather see a thousand small scientific projects than one ridiculously expensive one.

It's perfectly fine to not think the SCC is worth the money, but it doesn't make much sense to me to have an a-priori preference about the size distribution of your scientific projects. The optimal size distribution should be very sensitive to open scientific questions and the expected returns on investment.

The reason the LHC exists is because the question it intends to answer is profound, not because $6 billion is a roughly the right amount that should be spent on the largest particle physics project. The reason the ISS was a waste is because the science was fantastically uninteresting for the money, not because $100 billion is too much to have concentrated in one place.
I think it's a fine idea. In my experience the start up mindset is something some people have and is not necessarily tied to a particular idea. Also, programmers aren't usually the best at networking. So why not let YC do it for them and tack them on as a founder to a company with massive potential?
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If he never claimed the credential then I would be more than willing to judge him on his accomplishments.

Lying about the credential wipes out his accomplishments, at least as a C level steward of shareholder value and employee well being. He is demonstrably unethical and I would not feel safe working for him. I would never give him my money, because while he may be able to demonstrate past success, that does not imply that he won't fabricate a ponzi scheme in the future to prop up stock prices and options.
I think there are two competing schools of thought and neither is completely right or wrong.

One believes that an entrepreneur needs to serve a cause and do something to better the world and success will come proportionally to how much they have enriched others' lives.

The other believes that an entrepreneur just needs to make a boatload of cash.

There are countless examples of successful entrepreneurs that pursued both routes, but I do believe that those in one camp probably wouldn't do well if they tried the other. Some people are just very smart, and sometimes smarts, hard work, and some luck is all you need.
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People who skip college start out financially ahead of those who get a degree-- they spend 4 years getting work experience and hopefully saving that money. One of the major things about compounding is that the more you save early on, the bigger the impact than saving the same amount later.

So, you avoid-- what $200k?-- in college tuition cost and instead earn something like $200k over those four years, and if you're wise, you might save half or a quarter of that.

And after 4 years you have 4 years of experience and could be a senior software developer while your peers who went to college would be still be entry level. So in the 5th year, I think you'll get a significantly better salary than a newly minted college graduate.

At least that's my experience.
Your application is something that doesn't lend itself to the problem that this solves. With UI related things, it is often very helpful to be able to tweak UI elements while the program runs, instead of the tweak, compile, run cyle.
When I dropped out it was for an "offer I couldn't refuse"- I went in looking for a summer job and got a hell of a gig. I was working (as peers) with several people who'd just graduated from college.

None of those people have had the success in life that I have.

Small sample size, of course, but they were more conventional people and are still working for companies, some tech companies, and are generally employees. They haven't taken the risks I have, and haven't had the failures I've had, but also haven't had the rewards either.
As someone in "the media" I often have to get in touch with people at companies to see if they want to speak at things or because I need to do some coverage of them and.. perhaps 9 times out of 10 if there's no address, detailed "About Us" page, or bio pics on the site, the company is very unlikely to be located in the US, while attempting to look like they are. I think it's sad they have to do this, though.
Probably to be replaced by something worse still. I'm already feeling nostalgic about Microsoft who only wanted my money without choice.
I'm one of the ones who decided not to go to college to begin with. I think I'm just a lucky person because I've had a lot of great opportunities the past year. It's now almost a year later from when I graduated high school. I got experience right out of high school with a big startup in DC. From there I struggled a little bit and found a little gig to last me a little while.

Meanwhile I got to fly to San Francisco (which was my first flying experience) and do a StartupBus hackathon sponsored by Intel and won 2nd place.

Money got really tight for awhile and then I got desperate and somehow (thanks to HN) an awesome job with a Harvard startup popped up and I've been doing that going on 6 months now. Meanwhile I got in the door of an awesome local development firm and have been doing projects with them on the side.

On top of that I stumbled into a guy looking to build out an app he had in mind and for the past two months we've been working with that on the side and just got accepted into an incubator for the summer term (TechStars in my local city.)

Now whether you drop out and never go back, or take a year off or whatever, I've gotten real world experience and have an excellent job and I'm just 18. I committed this time that I didn't go to college to doing what I love and learning all I can. That was my goal. And now it's paid off. I can't stress this enough. College gives you some connections (depending on the college) and a lot of book knowledge but I just said you know what I'm just going out there and doing it and it's worked well for me so far. I don't know how this will treat me 20 years from now, but I can say one thing, I'm happy doing what I'm doing and I try not to take that for granted.
I haven't used an XOR linked list since my Amstrad 6128. I think probably independently discovered but not sure. It is a pretty obvious thing to do on a memory limited machine. Nice to know people still know about this stuff post the 8 bit micro era but outside of embedded systems why would anyone use this today?
Which makes me wonder.. is it possible to rig up such an environment for standard Objective C iOS app development? It could be huge.
Is this guy for real? "More impact"? Did he really say that?

Facebook has to be the creepiest company in the history of business. It really shouldn't even be a company.

It's just a website that an enormous number of people have decided to simultaneous use, thereby creating connections. (Which is a great thing, but I would not give Mark Zuckerberg or this guy any more credit than any other web developer. They were lucky, not brilliant.) People could choose any website to make such connections. And there are hundreds of thousands of kids who could create such a site. Zuckerberg himself had to take the FB idea from someone else- his HotOrNOt clone (FaceMash) or filesharing application (WireHog) would never have made it- he did not even have a solid idea. If this kid had his way, he'd ensure they were all his under his employ. And all their ideas would be property of FB. Nice try.