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Is it possible they raised this to ensure they didn't die in the event of a bubble?
Mac OSX being UNIX based makes a huge difference. Try dropping to the windows shell and getting anything productive done.

I've seen a lot of open source programming languages that list cygwin as the windows installer option. That is a huge tell.

I would put linux & osx on their own camp and windows on another
Cool, thanks a ton for your feedback!

Maybe I live in a bubble (downtown SF), but it seems the best devs I've ever worked with on open source and consulting project tend to have a pretty weird (maybe immature) sense of humor. In most early stage startup offices here, it's not weird to see grown men (and brilliant devs) run around the office and shoot nerf guns at each other.
It's a sliding scale of one and the other. I was in the middle range of intelligence among the rest of the physics majors at my school, so had to work reasonably hard to get decent grades. Some of the brightest didn't have to work so hard. But in fact many of them did anyway, and were able to accomplish wonderful things because of that.
I'm struggling to respond to this post.

I've been reading and participating in HN for a couple months now. It's become clear, like in every social group, that HN has a "popular" crowd. It might not necessarily be specific people, but that there's an aura of an HN mainstream that bubbles to the surface on and off.

This post stinks of that popularity. For someone like me who is generally a contrarian, it puts me off. I don't have anything personally against the OP. I certainly don't want to insult him, and I'm not even sure that my feelings are correct or warranted. I don't know him and have only casual familiarity with his startup, but his list read like a list of "popular" topics on HN. PG! YC! ShowHN! git! Python! Ruby! OS X!

I apologize for being off topic like that, this post just brought it out of me.
Game of Thrones looks terrible streaming over hotel wifi (HBO Go?)
HBO thinks that showing audio-only streams of TV shows will stop piracy (yes, HBO actually shows audio-only streams of TV shows instead of allowing offline caching or the purchase of videos through iTunes or Amazong).

HBO Go is anything but a to go app without offline caching.

Look at the photos from this post; it looks like late 1990s Web video.
I don't think anyone is confused why a team raised money. I think every startup out there is going to take as much as they can for as long as they can.

The confusion is what the VC's saw in Quora which would warrant giving them so much (at such a high valuation).
I wonder if some enterprising soul could park up some old cruise liners and rent them out if the building regulations are that much of a problem.
There are a few problems here. FTC disclosure, affiliate tax laws and mostly that icky feeling people get when they get spammed, especially by friends.

But in the eyes of YCombinator, I don't think this matters, because they aren't betting on refer.ly. They're betting on the woman who's founding it. PG's been pretty open about betting on the people and not the idea. Based on the article (and Dave McClure's glowing recommendation) it seems like a pretty sound bet.
This project has tremendous potential for children with special needs. I've basically had to build a similar device from scratch in 2006 as part of my ITP (NYU) thesis project [1]. This could have saved me so much time! Backing it, and hope you will too!

[1] http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/dmal.9780262...
You should change your logo to η , otherwise you're going to be getting this question over and over. At least the hint in the logo may forestall some of it, and if not you can point people to it and give them a little test.
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I don't see it as lavish or irresponsible either -- I was just providing a data point. If I could guarantee the sales would be a non-issue, I'd certainly love to step up the production values of titles I make with more varied soundtracks.
I didn't expect this comment to get so much downvoting. My guess is merely that any mention of them is bad. I was just trying to say that they didn't spend 40$ on opening their business, they spent $4000 by getting a lawyer to make sure they opened it correctly.
Yes, I am amazed no-one else has said this. Most of my iPhone-owning friends have no idea what AirPlay is, or what an AppleTV is. They're still very much niche products.
I didn't even consider it, as I created the app for fun and just wanted to put it out there.

I looked at some of the various types of licenses but I have no idea which one I should be using.

My main concern is to prevent people from trying to profit from the software. Any suggestions?
(My work isn't in software): But, hourly works for some types of projects, and the key is to set the bar for what is your fault reasonably high, e.g. I bill at my hourly rate for driving to and from a meeting.

The projects which can be problematic are those which create death by 1000 cuts...an hour here and an hour their when no progress is made.

The most important thing is to select clients who are educated in regards to the costs going in. I will give them a fairly realistic estimate of my hours based on their description of the scope. The key is to educate the client when working hourly.

That's not to say I don't take work at fixed fee, but the project and client have to be right.
"why it's bad," followed by great reasons FOR it.
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I wasn't thinking that, but I was wondering what percentage were incremental upgrades. In other words, I install 1.0, then 1.0.1, then 1.0.2,...

Incremental updates like that could artificially inflate the download numbers. Take that and multiply it by the number of computers you have.

Big numbers are still impressive though.
You would probably want to put them off half moon bay and 12+ nm out, so you can get the immigration benefit as well.
Exactly. I'm no command line whiz but access to linux/unix command line programs makes me much more productive.

grep / sed / awk / tail / ps / cat - then you add being able to pipe output between them

Then you have command line editors like vim for quick edits.

night & day vs the windows command prompt
No one is arguing for disagreeing just for the sake of disagreeing. We're arguing for disagreeing only when it's the best option to disagree. As opposed to conforming to a worse option only out of fear of being different.

"Wrong" is subjective, but a clear consequence of conformism (as I just described) that one might want to avoid. Is that it makes you more vulnerable to sacrificing your own interests for the interest of others. And more often than not, that means being vulnerable to scammers.

Now do it like everyone else, and make me a sandwich.
It seemed to me that the fundraising is mostly to make a bunch of noise. When your company is growing by leaps and bounds, and the only limiting factor is that you're cash-strapped, a round of this size makes sense - not with the numbers/usage Quora currently has. Most of the reasoning that Adam mentions seem rather frail. Doing a funding round just to post a better-than-you valuation isn't what they should be focused on at the moment.
Ahhh, so TNW really /is/ the next TechCrunch.
That's my entire point: declaring a source does not save you from plagiarizing. It is still possible to give the reader the impression that something is your work even though it is not, yet still citing a source. I think that the revised post on TNW is just that.
It's a function of the HN echo chamber. I used Bootstrap to quick do something at work, and everyone loved it. They've never seen bootstrap, or anything like it before. These are technically inclined IT people, but they're not bleeding edge like HN.

I personally don't care about the styling, so long as there's visual flow. We can all pick Wordpress out of a lineup, but do you go "eww, Wordpress"? I think too many people try to use Bootstrap as a substitute for visuals rather than trying to leverage it to fit their content. I believe you can do that even without tweaking the stock color scheme.
The question is: why even bother, when they have the mobile HTML version?

Probably just to cross a bullet point somewhere. Still, with their warchest, they could easily dump money on a small company and get it over with. At least something basic, but usable.

Say, timeline plus chat.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3974403 (reply threshold is high enough for me to post now)
Tell HN: RubyMotion student discount 
Last week there was a question about RubyMotion discounts for students and a few complaints about the lack of answers for student license requests:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3950369

I can confirm that today I've seen an email which offers 80% discount for students (and academic personnel). Also this is reduction is cumulative with the early bird discount, basically a student can buy a RubyMotion license for about 30$ which is not a bad deal.
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I don't think since this is deeply integrated into their SCM. Git playback evolving into a time lapse view would be awesome.
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Yes, you attributed. But you very deliberately copied the article and posted it as your own work. You can't even say that you forgot to add quote marks as the text was slightly altered - evidently to give you an "out" if anyone accused you of direct copying.

Your threats afterward made things worse - much worse. Not understanding plagiarism (go look up the dictionary, or Wikipedia already!) whilst being an edito of a publication just makes this bad thing horrendous.

Make a full apology. Don't do it again.
I believe there are cases for being an outsider on purpose. For example, you may want to sacrifice being a part of particular social group (which you may happen to be born into) in order to increase your social mobility and gain future advantage. This may not be a conscious decision and does not exclude a possibility of fitting into another, desired social group later.

(Anecdotally, sometimes I have a feeling that lack of social interaction is an easy way to being if not a bit smarter, then at least more focused. However, some social interaction is still important, since 1) the lack of it isn't healthy, and 2) most of us in the end are working for the public anyway (sometimes without realizing it), so it's important to keep track that you work on the right things.)
Don't kid yourself. Some of the high price of an Apple computer includes the real price of the operating system, which is far more than $30. It also includes the majority of the price for upgrades. Apple computers are not worth $2000 in parts. A lot of that money is R&D.
"With only around 20-30k daily active users, it certainly wasn't money raised based on user adoption".

I wish people would stop throwing AppData figures out as if they're fact, they're not. Dustin Curtis has no clue as to how many daily active users Quora has (no one does), but rather how many daily active users who so happen to have connected their Facebook account.

It's not a good indicator of success, and Facebook (and in turn AppData) has proven to be incredibly inaccurate as of late in regards to user numbers.
well for me , 0mq makes ipc easy, I'm not too concerned about performance myself. though I do enjoy it. :)
As far as I know, you still can't upload pictures from the web browser, so you need a native app to interact with photos.
I hate reading things like "more than half of startups will fail in the first 5 years, so get ready to fail and change your plans".

It's not random... you don't have 50% chance of success. The half that failed did something wrong, there is a reason they weren't successful... it's not a probability thing.
Sounds a lot like http://anyfu.com/
What specifically do you have to do to get that dev certificate? Is that for you or for the device? (Note I'm only talking about the case where you want to put you own app on your own device, not about publishing it to the general public.)

Hopefully my original post inspires someone to try this with all the platforms. I'm particularly aware of the requirements to create accounts and registrations, the size of downloads, how limited your choice of host environments is etc.

The next fun step is how do you get your hello world onto a friend's device without using a cable or requiring them to be in your presence.
Ruby Motion is so cool. Can you still edit the interface using xcode though?
Quora is amazing. I don't know if they'll disrupt Google or Wikipedia but the quality of the content there is light years ahead of any similar site. You post a legal question and get a bunch of lawyers competing to give you the best answer. Post a question about the early days of Facebook and get 12 early employees all competing to give you the best answer. You post a question about the cops and get amazing answers like this from police officers:

http://www.quora.com/Crime/What-should-you-do-if-someone-put...

Join the site and poke around a bit if you still don't understand. It's like HN. Why is HN so awesome? Because the caliber of people posting here is off-the-charts relative to every similar site. Same with Quora.
I love this. Not only will this be be great when you have those "stuck" moments, or you want to learn Ruby but wouldn't know to start by reading _why's Poignant Guide, but I bet you see some incredibly creative solutions because the expert knows he needs to deliver in a strict 20 minute window.

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There is a difference between a designer and a developer. If you are hiring for designers why do you care if they can program at all. I know dozens of designers who couldn't write a hello world in Python yet have a beautiful web portfolio and yes some of them use windows.
Photo uploading, push notifications...
How long after they reproduced did you give them to fix the issue? I looked up the thread on their mailing list and you seemingly jumped the gun a bit on your conclusions.
My how far we've come. Today, many home owners have good backups. But a little more than 10 years ago, one of the most important movies of the last few decades was almost lost forever.

I imagine that Pixar has a lot of backups and some of them are offsite. Back in the late 1990s, I don't think offsite backups of a project like this would work.
Funding is cyclic, going through ups (now, unquestionably) and downs (2008/09 for instance). I'm nothing of an expert, but the alternative approach of raising funding to last not-that-many months to develop further and likely not yet 'be there' seems unwise.
By combining the browser p2p technologies that are being introduced with the local storage stuff, you could presumably write a web app that serves itself and maintains persistent connections and functionality between users, even if the host is taken down.

Now that could be very useful...
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People prefer one-click launch versus typing URLs on mobile. And no, most do not know that you can add a bookmark to the home screen.
Interesting rant, but off target. My dad, former journalist and author of about 50 books and hundreds of articles, is a hunt-and-peck typist. He just works really hard and doesn't get distracted.
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Like BlueSeed? http://venturebeat.com/2012/05/06/blueseed-startup-ship/

(How do I create a link on HN again? The one place where a "help me with formatting" link would do some good - the reply page (http://i.imgur.com/R8oS8.png) - of course doesn't have one.)

(Edit: Turns out the "edit" page does have it, and shows that there really isn't a way.)
Possible? It's a certainty:

"We intend to use some of this funding as a cushion in case of macroeconomic changes. More than half our series A funds from two years ago are actually still in our bank account today. We could have waited longer to raise this round, but we wanted to extend our runway."
What are the reasons for not using offline caching? Was their intent to prevent piracy, or was this just an instance of a poorly coded application?
Apparently there is a way:

http://ianp.org/2012/05/07/rubymotion-and-interface-builder/
Curtis seems to be an envious person based on his blog entries I've followed through HN. That completely unnecessary snide remark was very petty.
Incorporate, so your business is involved in a lawsuit and not you.
push notification and uploading photos are probably the only reasons I use the facebook app.
I also think they have a nice UI ideas in the app, it just doesn't work that well.
but for example Twitter app is far more superior than the mobile site (I think)
Adium. Quicksilver. Homebrew. Dropbox.

Also: Chrome, Xcode, Skitch, Divvy and the basic CLI tools.
Nitro is available in UIWebViews now.

http://www.theprintlabs.com/with-ios5-the-faster-nitro-javas...
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Most of the reasons they presented for it were reasons that benefited the developer, not the user. I assume the headline is referring to why it's bad for the user.
Concur. I think this is a very volatile and potentially dangerous time to "do a startup" if you don't have a very focused and somewhat proven plan. I think it's time to ignore what the Cool Kids are doing (in 2-4 years, they won't be cool) and go away from where they are so as to avoid following them into idiocy.

This sounds easier than it actually is. The advice of "focus on real work and ignore the idiotic social climbing" or "build something useful" seems obvious and easy to follow, but when complete jackasses are getting funded and acq-hired for millions, it's easy to be swayed, embittered, confused, or otherwise influenced by the distractions. It's really hard for a 2x-year-old first-time founder not to find himself doing stupid stuff amid all the insanity.

Winter is coming. That doesn't mean that "the crash" is here. It might be 4 years out, or 4 weeks away. It might be a sudden drop or a slow deflation. I have no idea when or how it will come, and I don't think anyone does. Still, there are some conclusions to take away from it. First, those of us who aren't ready to be Founders properly (that means, having enough VC connections that VCs consider you a social equal and will take the time to mentor you if they don't fund you) should probably sit this bubble out. Sure, being a founder provides a unique and immensely educational "startup experience", but taking a subordinate role as employee #37 at a VC darling is not much different and rarely any better than taking a regular job. Actually, I'd argue that it's often worse for subordinate employees, because VC-istan tends to have crappy health benefits, inexperienced and unstable management, and a lack of long-term focus on peoples' careers (because the company may not exist in 5 years). If your ambition is to be a Real Founder (again that's not some guy whittling at his trust fund, but someone who VCs are actively interested in, and who could get an EIR job with a phone call) and you're not there yet, there's probably not enough gas in this bubble left to get there before the end of it. People who are out of school now have a decent shot at being Real Founder material by the start of the next startup boom, if they really crack the books and work hard starting now and right through the bust... during which the wantrepreneurs and social climbers will get discouraged and leave, making the field less congested and giving the real players a chance to shine.

Which means... it's time to take the focus away from what TechCrunch and Sequoia are doing, and back to the difficult and often obscure (if intrinsically rewarding, and often lucrative in the long term) campaign to improve one's technical skills through practice and hard work. This doesn't have to occur at a startup, although it can. But now is also a good time to go back to school, to work in a more established organization, to try out Real Technology instead of these silly social apps, and to start networking.
You have got to be joking. A Google doc that can be taken down and that isn't easily indexable to be associated with thenextweb. Why isn't this on TNW?

As for the comment "The debate on paraphrasing, rewriting and quoting we should save for another post" shows a remarkable level of cluelessness. That is the substance of the matter!!!

I can't even say that the title is not an attempt at dissembling. Making the title "Plagiarism?" indicates that you don't believe you plagiarised.

This is the worst non-apology apology I've ever seen.
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It's fair for a blogger to raise questions and not provide answers. But I'd be very interested to hear dcurtis's personal opinion on this. Why did they raise so much money?
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That post is incorrect, from what I can tell. Home screen shortcuts to "web apps" that hide the Safari UI (which are actually run in the hidden "Web.app" application) now have Nitro with iOS 5, but App Store apps do not. This is because a JIT requires memory to be both writable and executable, which is not generally allowed on iOS (without specific permissions that only Apple can use).
Brought up in China. I was NOT fortunate enough to have being a waldorf student myself. But my various experiences in life have lead me to meet many graduates and teacher of waldorf school. So far all of them I meet a incredibly intelligent and very nice to around.
Not exactly, unless you think those people will literally use their salaries from the activities you described to buy something and go out and burn it. It might be a mis-distribution, and it might spur misguided investment in an area, but it isn't all squandered to the tune of exactly $20,000 or anywhere close to that. The marginal cost is a much more accurate measure.
As an Android user, I can assure you the android facebook app is just as bad, if not worse. It seems the cross platfom support allows the same horrible issues to exist on all devices. For example I see the same buggy timeline [1] that he shows, on an almost daily basis.

I'm sure FB could increase their engagement by having a better mobile app. Often I want to see what my friends are up to, but just give up in frustration after waiting literally minutes for the timeline to display. I guess with such a large market share, they see no need to improve.

[1] - http://blog.mobtest.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/facebook-...
Let's start with the fact that mplayer is a command line only interaction program, if you want to discuss real usability, which GUI for mplayer are you using?
well, business school like wharton prohibits employers to ask about their graduate's grade anyway.
Does digital advertising need its own operating system?
Well this was awkward. I don't know how it happened.

http://i.minus.com/iyCNAFZpPgfY7.png

Did you make the game? I love that the instructions are embedded in the game. Strange color scheme and effects though. I did like the sounds.