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Well, I'm not sure this is true. You typically want to have a strong IPO to generate momentum for your company and shape the public's perception. Perhaps this is different because so much was trading in private markets before the IPO, but it does seem like perhaps they should have priced around the $36 range. Now the story over the weekend is

"Facebook fails to live up to the hype"
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2012/05/19/2150253/facebook-fa...

"Facebook Fails Day-One Pop, Lags Behind Google"
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-05-18/facebook-failing...

Had they priced it a bit lower and left some money on the table, you likely would have had enough positive momentum to probably maintain a 10-15% pop.

Does this matter for the company? Probably not. From my very limited experiences, the quality of people at facebook seems generally very high, and the culture seems focused on building product, not managing investor perception. Big picture, it's just a blip, but on the margin, it wasn't the ideal outcome.
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You're focussing here on something other than the point I'm trying to get to . Yes, the corners of the cube get further from the surface of the sphere, but that's not the intended point. As I said in the comment to which you're replying, the idea is that points on the surface of the high-dimensional sphere have characteristics we normally associate with a spike. As so often happens with analogies, people (and you're not the only one, so the problem is with the writing, not the audience) are concentrating or fixating on aspects other than the one the author had in mind.

Thanks for your comment.
The thing is, Apple get away with charging a premium on its products because they are very well made. I'm no Apple fan but I admit the stuff that Apple produces, especially in hardware, is extremely well built.

In my own opinion, Apple products are probably about 30% better than competitors, but probably have 20% less features, however because they're simply better, they can charge probably 70% more than competitors simply because a lot people want and are willing to pay for the quality.

(Please dont read into the figures i've just used, i pulled them out my arse, they're for illustration purposes only.)
But they still value aesthetics over quality. The lack of strain relief causes increased wear on the cable ends.

http://www.geek.com/articles/gadgets/a-kickstarter-project-a...
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> I'd like my toiler to tell me what is wrong with my diet...

Stool analysis has been available on advanced Japanese toilets for quite some time:

http://techcrunch.com/2009/04/01/japanese-toilet-analyzes-st...
yes it's true. but didn't have closure like js. did you try to make nested closures in php?
One option is to use the debug_toolbar package. You can set it up to display only when testing or only when an admin is logged in, and it will give you a convenient bar on the right side that shows exactly how long everything took, along with all SQL queries. This allowed me to greatly cut down the number of queries by judiciously using fetch_related.
More importantly, being able to put Google on your resume is a strong signaling mechanism , and the concentration of wicked intelligent, inquisitive people of your age is hard to beat.

The fact that you chose Google in favor of a number of legitimate startups signals that you are more interested in stuffing your resume than doing something actually interesting, challenging, and impactful.

I think the days of Google being the employer of choice for "wicked intelligent" people are long gone. Personally I'd rather hang out in a room of random startup employees (some of whom are probably ex-Googlers) than one full of present day Googlers.
yes i know this. but didn't strong like js. because php have got different scopping approach
Few suggestions from Interface point of view.

1.Firstly i would suggest move the task-input field to top instead of bottom. It would be much more intuitive .
2.Take the logo out of whole task window if possible. It's kind of distracting as of now.
3.Kill color from background and make it neutral. Give attention to task area as much as possible.
I just closed HN to take a nap when I saw the last tab in the browser, played with the app, and came back to tell you good job. I like the mix of simplicity and beauty.
Thanks, I'll check that out. How does it compare to johnny-cache, which is what I've been using? It has the advantage for me that I only need to include it in settings.py, and I don't need to manually plug in a manager into my models, so it's easy to enable and disable for testing. Also, it has support for different caching backends, so I can have multiple django instances using a common memcache for the models even if the models are highly mutable.
To be honest. I am not that worried if some investment bank got a problem, because Facebook manages to get so much money from the IPO. At least this time, the company which creates true value wins. Unfortunately, in most cases company in first day of trading price rise significantly so it potentially raised less then it was possible.
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Didn't they recently fix this?
You can already get smart toilet seats that measure some things, like this: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2010-08/27/content_112112....
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The '1' vs 'l' point is a good one...

For many years, I used non-antialiased 9 point Courier New in Windows. This is an ugly font at most other point sizes, but at 9 points it is strangely attractive, and perfectly functional - except for '1' and 'l' being pixel-for-pixel identical. Oh, and '0' and 'O' too...

The experience appears to have left me unconcerned about such minor quibbles as being able to tell one glyph from another ;) (OK, so perhaps if '+' and '-' looked the same, I'd have an issue with that.)

Nevertheless, I stand by my "vile" comment. I mean... c'mon. Just look at it. What is this, Comic Sans? It's practically an offence against nature.
Thanks! The design started as a themeforest template, but at this point it has been very heavily modified. I used PHP and MySQL for the backend, and jQuery for the UI interaction.

I'm a chemistry major spending the summer learning to code, so this is all a learning experience. It's only been about 3 weeks so I'm happy to have gotten something functional out of it. I'm really hoping to get some good feedback from HN.

The about page on DailyDo.it genuinely describes what I set out to make. I have spent 3 years in university trying to keep track of everything I have to do; the result is usually a big mess of tasks on notepaper, my whiteboard, post-it notes, etc. I've tried using online versions, but they all seem so complicated and messy, which is the opposite of what I want. DailyDo.it is meant to be as simple as possible - the challenge of maintaining simplicity was certainly a surprise, but I think it worked out well enough.

As for the next steps, I'm aiming to have the team version (http://dailydo.it/about/team) up and running very soon. This will be a paid service that allows teams of people to share and collaborate on their tasks.
A common purpose of changing something is fixing something that was done wrong.

Consider, for example, fixing the Monad class to subclass Applicative. Or to remove the "fail" or (>>) methods.

This would incur a change to many thousands of lines of code.

Similarly, a core/base type of a whole project can be used across an entire codebase. It is possible to discover desirable changes to such a base type, and it will incur a huge change.
I'm sorry, but shit like this completely ruins the design industry. You shouldn't let people get used to getting stuff for free, especially not if it's an important profession that should be paid for. If you want to practice, fine. But don't do it at the cost of others. Garages don't fix your car for free because they need to practice.
> The fact that you chose Google in favor of a number of legitimate startups signals that you are more interested in stuffing your resume than doing something actually interesting, challenging, and impactful.

That seems...a tad judgmental? I don't know claim to what GP's reason was, but I'm interning with Google this summer because I have an opportunity to work with a team that's doing work which is relevant to the research I'm doing in grad school, and I don't think such opportunities are as easy to find in startups.
I second django-debugserver. This is one of those nifty packages you wish were included with the default Django distribution. More than once, it has helped me find and fix query-related issues.

Highly recommended.
Not necessarily the case here, but "go with the cheapest thing that doesn't violate regulations" tends to get combined with "this regulation is inconvenient, let's get rid of it - if it were actually unsafe, nobody would do it" which doesn't end well for anyone (except, maybe, the lawyers).
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Hooray for more guides on testing in python! Although there are a lot of mostly-equivalent tools to what I've grown to love in Ruby-land, I think the most lacking thing might be a sense of arbitrary "best practice".

The zen of python states "There should be one, and preferably only one, way to do it", which I see at the level of a line of code; However, at a higher level, I always feel like there are dozens of ways to pattern something, and none with any particular community buy-in. This leaves my integration balancing awkwardly across several different authors ideas of how things should work.

What can we do about it - How can we make the python community more opinionated? The desired end result is that software is less surprising, that common problems have a readily accessibly, highly compatible solution.

Maybe we need more snobs in Python? ;)
Tesla may have talked about ionizing the atmosphere in his earlier patents which required raising the termination of the antenna miles into the atmosphere, but it's clear from his later writings, especially "tesla on his work with alternating currents", that later iterations called for preventing the energy from leaking into the atmosphere as much as possible. You can see from the design of the toroid on top of the final proposed magnifying transmitter, which is covered with half spheres to increase the surface area, thus reducing the electrical tension at each point on the surface, reducing the possibility of breakdown. (ionization)

Lighting flourescent bulbs with high frequency rf energy is nothing special, and really has nothing to do with serious discussion of tesla. In tesla on his work with ac this is what he refers to as "parlor tricks" along with the opposite spectrum of rf energy, the single extremely large capacitive discharge, which he could vaporize wires and sheets of tinfoil with.

Tesla on his work with ac was not available until the mid 90s, and the resurgence of interest in tesla in the 80s was not able to benefit from the information, thus much of the experimentation today hasn't taken into account what tesla actually said. These "parlor tricks" are what the wireless energy charger people are pushing today, and it's laughable. It's not at all what tesla was talking about.
Screenshots? I would like to see how it looks/feels before signing in with twitter.
Beautiful, but I wish the scrolling wasn't backwards. Also the watermarks are a little over the top.
I agree with nitingarg. The input at the top is going to be easier for most users to understand.
You seem to have a LOT of wasted space at the top, so use that.

I think the problem with the background is that it's messy. You could go with a solid color. Textures are very popular right now and could go well with your design for a clean look.
The 'about | team | philosophy' stuff really belongs at the bottom.

As far as login/register. I'd put a login panel (username/password) with a sign-up button on it. Don't make people go to another page to do that.

Congrats, great work. Out of curiousity, how long did you spend learning?
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Good comparison. Linq to SQL is not deprecated but it is in maintenance mode. My take is: if you're there, plan to move out; if you're building new projects, don't use it.
Dale Carnegie says that the secret to being a good conversationalist is to be a good listener. People like to talk, especially about themselves (and neither Dale nor I mean that in a bad way). As an introvert, this realization and learning how to ask good questions (such as ones that don't have binary yes/no answers) made learning to converse with new people easier.
Maybe. I'm a driver. I read it. I learned.
If you want design practice the best idea would be to just go on craigslist and do someones website for around ~$500 dollars. Or even better yet do your own website.
> I can't understand why the writer is reacting so much to the comic.

You don't understand correcting common false myths?

The rest of your post falls in line with the Cult of Tesla, claiming we've "gotten over the light bulb" (huh?) and even citing a wireless electric engine, only to admit at the end that it's disputed that it even happened.

For crying out loud.
Rackspace uses Django, Twisted, and Node for basically all development work. It would be nuts to not use frameworks. Do you also lament that companies have to build their business around operating systems?
Just an FYI re the experiment: I did get one donation, which I very much appreciate, but it falls far short of $500 and one lone nice person caring suggests the exception to the rule. When I think back on the Jonathan's Card experiment, where people donated hundreds so other upperclass folks could use expensive phones to get a free cup of coffee,( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2877779), I think I have made my point* that people mostly spend money on things that have some percieved benefit to themselves and not because they "care".

* Though technically the weekend is not over, still this is likely long gone from the front page and won't be read by too many more people.
To all the people complaining that Apple charges too much: don't buy their products! If you don't see the benefit in using Apple's peripherals or cables, there are plenty of cheaper options, albeit usually of lower quality.
Impressive article!

The blue "Y" capacitor reminded me of
http://backtothefuture.wikia.com/wiki/Flux_capacitor

Kind of adds to the magic of those charges :).
Funny. It's an empty page with NoScript.
One thought: projects "already in-progress with a real product or service" may have more of a need for incremental tuning than a "complete redesign".
First: Stop thinking of it as a short. The underwriters are not short because of the overallotment; They've sold those shares along with all the "normal" IPO shares to mutual funds, pension funds etc. They are never obligated to "cover the short", the shares are permanently issued.

> does this mean there are less total shares released into the market than there would have been if the price went up instead of dropping?

Yes. When the share price hit 38, it is likely that MS took the money earned from selling those over allotment shares and bought a bunch of shares back.

> Basically what I'm getting at is this could be viewed as a good thing right? It means that the total outstanding shares is now less than it could have been had the stock gone up. Right?

That is an optimists view. The pessimist might say "This is a bad thing: The demand was low enough that the full greenshoe was not sold along with the IPO."
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The comic is clearly intended to be facetiously educational. There is even a bibliography beneath it on the original site.
The drink you are referring to is "Rakia", not "raiki". Just so you know :)
Honest question but if your goal is to get some practice, why does it matter if it's a running startup or not?
OpenCL is going to become a big thing for games going into 2013 now that all new mobile GPU's will support it. Thew new GPU's will also support OpenGL ES 3.0, so I'm curious what kind of mobile games we'll see within a year or so.
Do note also that Apple's device contains far more filtering compared to Samsungs design.
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> It's also driven home by how the Lesbegue measure in d-dimensions assigns zero measure to all (d-1)-dimensional (or lesser) objects. Adding a dimension just makes space immensely larger.

> And so pegging the size of our unit ball to its 1-dimensional parameter, the radius, causes its volume to vanish.

Funny. I was just going to enter a comment how that was the most useful intuition in the whole thread.
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- if you're in Croatia, Tesla was a Croatian (and a god)

Don't be so sure.

During the recent war they burned his memorial house and destroyed the monument in front of it. They also demolished his monument in the nearby town of Gospic at the beginning of the recent war and it appears they don't want it back: http://bit.ly/JnSQkg
Having had piles of apple kit over the years, I can assure you that the quality is an illusion generated by the high price.

Here's what has died on me just outside a year since 2006 MacBook pro (logic board failure), iMac (won't boot), a MacBook (won't charge), just about every damn usb cable they've ever given me (broken at type a connector), airport express (melted). A friend of mine's MacBook pro caught fire. I won't even bother to catalogue the 22 dead iPhones my company has...

My iPod nano and a 2009 macbook are still fine.

conversely, my circa 2007 Lenovo t61 cost around $100 2 years ago and has been dropped, yanked off tables and has a couple of drinks in it and it just stares at you and takes it. It had a new battery last year and a new power connector (self installed) with no problems as they have full service manuals available.

That's engineering and service.

(I am a qualified EE so will not comment on the initial article as it makes me squirm a bit)
they are mightily important concerns but not relevant to "create a quality game under time constraints".

Take flash, which is evil in a plugin and controlled by a cruel corporation and runs on unicorn blood.
You will still be able to create a game in 24 hours and put it on the market, people do it all the time.
No ipad? Sure, read the end of my previous comment.

Also, while this is still irrelevant (cause the statement is that html5 is better than all the others, but there are plenty of open source things), I don't see how finding a bug in the iOS sdk is any different than finding a bug in a browser's canvas implementation.
You work around it in both cases cause you can't control your users software setup.

And the fact that iOS apps have to go through an approval process bears no weight in the generic statement that a proprietary platform causes slow time to market.
“Bicycle riders on public roads have the same rights and responsibilities as motorists, and are subject to the same rules and regulations.”

Imagine a car, coming to a red light in the right lane. It then turns right on red, but rather than driving on in the new road, it makes a sudden u-turn, coming back to the intersection. Then makes a right on green, and continues on in the original direction.

If you're a rider, discourage your colleagues from this practice. It's a violation of the responsibilities listed in the quote above, but worse, it promotes contempt for cyclists among us drivers.

It's easier to promote cross-community cooperation when you're not cherry picking your responsibilities.
Some people take years between learning coding basics and having something to show for it, so congrats.. in my opinion the ability to ship is equal or more important than coding knowledge.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8DxGsR6NLs you can see here the ground is required. Losses fall off by the square of the distance through the atmosphere with rf radiation, but not with the tesla magnifying transmitter with the receiver at a nodal point. (a point where the traveling waves around the sphere of the earth interact to create a standing wave)
But the cube isn't pegged like that at all. The cube is the set of points where any element of the coordinate vector has a magnitude less than a specified value, whereas the sphere is the set of points where the magnitude of the vector is less than a specified value. Hence the cube gets 'larger' as you make space itself larger by adding dimensions, but the sphere doesn't.
Reminds me of zedshaw's post last week.
One thing that confused me was the "Team" link at the top. Having it placed between "Philosophy" and "Contact" made me expect that it was going to be a page about the people that made the site, not a signup page about a future featureset.

Anyway, you might want to make the "team" thing stand out in a different way, if you're hoping to capture people interested in group features.
Corporations don't have to worry about a clear conscience. They have to worry about support costs and customer happiness affecting repeat business.

When Apple ships a charger that makes iPhone touchscreens work poorly, customers get irritated and either figure it out and cost Apple money at the Genius Bar or don't figure it out and don't buy iPhones.

The higher price is because people are willing to pay it.
I don't care how overdone to-do lists are, I never get sick of them. Putting this together in 3 weeks is impressive considering your background. The UI is really what makes it. Todo lists are really straightforward from an under-the-hood perspective which is probably why everyone makes them (myself included). That's why I think the design is really the most important part of it and you nailed it. I've been developing professionally for 2 years now and before that I was coding front end stuff since I was 10 and you totally put me to shame in just 3 weeks. I think you have a real talent and a great eye for design. Plus, from what I understand, you're a chemistry major and I'm assuming you don't plan to code professionally. All that considered, you're fucking awesome and I'm actually jealous. Good job.
Is this another way of saying that Facebook isnt really worth $38?