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Ah, but to the people who may have trouble with the instructions (for whatever reason) or using the product beyond the instructions it is quite insulting. It is a direct insult to their intelligence and/or their ability for no good reason. That attitude does nothing to help our community, especially the people who are new to all this.

Let's imagine a company creates some form of hardware widget that requires some form of setup before it can be used. Initially the setup involves four steps that the company feels is "simple". Now, let's say a number of their customers have trouble with those simple instructions for different reasons. What's the proper response from that company?

A: Maybe we should think over the instructions to identify some problem spots as to why people are having trouble? Maybe we should ask some of these people what part are they having trouble with? Maybe we should consider a more in-depth explanation to people who have never used a similar device before?

B: If people aren't smart enough to figure out our simple instructions then they're too stupid to use our product. We could just ignore them but instead we'll insult them because they just don't get it. After all, if they're in our industry then they should already know how to do this.

I'm not saying that everyone should use response A, since most likely the problem has been answered somewhere. But too many people go with response B with absolutely no benefit to anyone in any way.
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Amen to this -- my parents knew that if I was deaf, that I would need to learn by other means, ergo, reading. My father read to me every day since I was a child -- it did not matter that I did not understand him, it was the association and encouragement that helped. I was behind as far as literacy, until I started taking a real interest at 8. By the time I was 11, I was reading Star Trek Giant Novels.
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This is based on somewhat worse evidence than the antivax movement. What you describe largely sound like symptoms of eye strain, probably combined with lack of proper exercise and nutrition. These are unpleasant conditions, but not really deadly in the way you seem to mean. Without clinical or scientific evidence, I don't think we should be spreading pet medical theories Jenny McCarthy-style.
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For what it's worth, I'm right in the range for a healthy weight given my height, and I exercise daily. Being able to do parkour would be pretty great, however!
Exactly so. The main issue that I have is with people who tie literacy in English as a measure of intelligence and functionality. Some of the most brilliant and eloquent orators and storytellers in American Sign Language I have met were functionally illiterate -- but through their beautiful hands, magnificent images were painted in space. It is also a failure of the education system, trying to teach English in Signed English or Spoken English. The most effective teaching of English that I've seen is by a fluent American Sign Language speaker who can explain the different parts of speech.
How exactly do they save money by not recycling air?

You don't have to pay for air during flight - it comes from the outside air and is free, it's not canisters or something.
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I'm guessing New Zealand must be in the same position - I've seen plenty of screenshots showing me where the unsub link is, but it is just plain text for me. I had to call MS and cancel over the phone, which took a lot longer than it really should.
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You can even network more than one Leap device, to create even larger interaction areas.

I imagine two units orthogonal to each other might be enough to capture ASL.
VCs are in the business of making money for their fund. Any deal that helps work towards that goal is legit. What a company receiving the money does with the money invested is secondary to getting a return on investment. For example, Elevation partners vought Facebook shares via secondary markets because they expected the shares to be worth significantly more than the initial purchase price .* The investment never went into Facebook's bank account.

* Source -- http://m.techcrunch.com/2010/04/05/source-elevation-partners....
Enjoying good food doesn't make you unhealthy. For a lot of people I know, it's that misconception that leads them to become so unhealthy. They eat and eat and eat with some yo-yo dieting thrown in for good measure, then give up because it makes them miserable. If you're conscious about how much you eat and how much you exercise, you can eat what you love and still feel great.
They were until you just mentioned it.
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I agree dm8, if you visit the blog again, I have updated point 7 and 8 there and now it better conveys what I wanted to highlight
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This might have been true about five or ten years ago, but CNC machines have really revolutionized the cheap guitar industry. The cheapest Squire strats today are on par with what you would have paid over $600 for ten years ago.

I've owned a lot of cheap guitars, starting with a plywood no-name electric, and I wish the stuff that's available today had been there 25 years ago.
For whatever it's worth, the framework I use to discuss innovation/what succeeds is the balanced breakthrough model, afaik, credited to Larry Keeley at the Doblin Group.

Basically, the gist is that to be successful,
idea/offering/product/service needs to not only be 1) technologically advanced, yet feasible, but also 2)desirable from a user perspective and 3)viable from a business perspective.

Only when you put strongly advanced yet feasible, desirable and financially viable innovations out there do you get really successful and revolutionary advances.

Lots of cool tech fails to make an impact because it doesn't solve a need or can't be clearly fit into a business case – and you can repeat that story for any of the three key parts of this model.

It seems obvious, right? Except you can point to an endless string of failures, big and small, that clearly didn't account for at least one of those three parts.
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I would agree completely about Dublin/Pleasanton, I moved there a year ago.

Except BART stinks. The frequency is low. There are regular break downs.
Cars are too crowded in rush hour, so you have to leave early/late to grab a seat, especially while leaving the city. Otherwise consider the hour wasted.

Above all, the seats are always filthy, and more filthy if it has been raining. (They have just started putting vinyl seats)

If anyone is imagining that they would always get a pleasant train ride, where they browse/code/read for the 45min it takes to reach the city, think twice. If Bart improves, even the furthest stations like Dublin would be awesome.

Btw 2k for three beds is a great price.. where exactly in Dublin, if I may ask?
That's one of the most insightful and wisdom-packed posts I've ever read, can't believe I missed it - thanks so much.
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Ollerac is definitely onto what I was arguing in this article. Allowing people to 'opt-in' and vote with their feet in a system with greater policy experimentation through decentralized, competing jurisdictions is perhaps the closest we can get to scientific rigor (holding culture relatively constant, for example).

Sounds like Bayesian vs. A/B testing. e.g. http://blog.custora.com/2012/05/a-bayesian-approach-to-ab-te... or http://www.mynaweb.com/blog/2011/09/13/myna-vs-ab.html Something that's not repeatable but works in an open system full of people, not experimental objects
And enough time goes by without nobody ever seeing a cigarette being smoked midair, the fear of unknown grows (="that isn't normal, what could happen if someone lights a cigarette in an airplane, it could bring the whole plane down!") and then someone freaks out for seeing a pack of cigarettes in someone's pocket, and a few years after that the TSA will require cigarette packs to be removed at the security and kiosks in lounges to only sell cigarettes in sealed containers that must not be opened prior the flight.

And after that, if there's still someone who dares to smuggle these terrorist cancer sticks onto a plane and lights one, he will bring the whole plane down because some FAA rule from 2020 requires immediate landing in that case to the nearest strip to ensure the safety of passengers.

All that, despite the fact that there's still that ashtray in the toilet, non-optionally.
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People treat diets and, to a lesser extent, exercise regimes as a transitory effort to get back to some goal weight or fitness level, at which point they seek to return to the previous behaviour. This is a mistake.

And it's perfectly understandable. Eating only rabbit food and spending your free time getting sore and sweaty is unappealing for many people. Tell them that they have to do that for the rest of their lives or they won't get any benefit, and plenty will arguably rationally decide not to bother at all.

I'd like to see more focus on improvements at the margin. No, I'm not going to cut out all sugar and bread, but if you tell me which of the foods I like to eat are the most and least unhealthy, I can probably make significant improvements while still enjoying my meals. Same thing with exercise; 10,000 steps per day is unrealistic for almost everyone, while taking stairs when feasible and grabbing the first available parking spot instead of wasting time trying to find a closer one is a much easier sell.

Completely agreed that walking to work is great if you can arrange it. Not only is it good exercise, it avoids the car commutes that studies consistently find are terrible for your general happiness.
Those look like Wordpress themes, though...my site is on Rails. Thanks for the suggestion nonetheless!
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I downvoted it because it didn't really contribute anything to the topic, not that I didn't see the humour (something along the lines of that old HN/reddit chestnut). Just to let you know.
I'm surprised by this. Tom Preston-Werner's talk at Startup School 2010, which had a strong influence on me and many of my friends (we still refer to it often), was very anti-VC.

Here is a link to the talk, and a relevant quote from the introduction:

http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/b/272031754

"But for me, I don't have to worry about these things, because GitHub has never taken any funding, ever. So I want to talk a little bit about how you can avoid this mess of VC, if you so choose, by telling you a little bit of my story."
I have kinda the inverse issue. I'm hearing, but I have a neurological disorder that causes occasional unpredictable periods of mutism, during which ASL is my primary means of communication. Sometimes that also requires emergency communication because I need immediate help, and especially in those situations I can't use a pen 'cause of spasticity; it's literally either ASL or yes/no grunts. :-/

I learned ASL just 'cause it's an awesome language, and I find it sad that this option is totally ignored by most people. As languages go it's very easy to learn, most d/Deaf people are happy to help, and it's far less clunky than cued speech or that godawful SEE.

So I can empathize with the frustration of not being able to communicate — for me it's on the other end, I can understand everyone around me but can't get them to understand me.

I kinda wish everyone would just learn some ASL. It's often useful even if you're talking hearing-to-hearing, signed mode is just plain different from spoken mode in lots of neat ways, ... but I guess most people aren't language geeks like me.
Private investors of all types have their own problems. Everyone from the local angel group to friends and family to private equity firms all have advantages and disadvantages.

A VC wants 10x, I see no better way to allow this than to let a founder take some money off the table and shoot for the moon.

As far as risk is concerned with expansion, as long as the founders and the VC want the same outcome I dont see what the big deal is with taking on more risk, particularly for founders with other peoples money. Even better after theyve taken money off the table!
I think the difference is that at most desk jobs you get up every so often to use the bathroom, have lunch, get something from the printer, go to a meeting etc. And at the beginning and end of the day you have to move to go home. The problem is sitting in a chair playing a game (or another activity) and not getting off that chair for to do anything for a very long time (the gamers I know often sit for 12 hours only getting up to use the bathroom for a few minutes).

I honestly don't know very much about this but I think those minor distinctions are very important.
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In my opinion this is how coffee shops can collectively put themselves out of business...

I have a coffee machine in my house and office. Its dirt cheap for me to make good coffee but I still occasionally go to coffee shops for the atmosphere.
Any open source language. If you are new to programming you can start with easy to learn language like Python. If you have programming experience then go for Clojure.

In open source world there are so many options, so it is better to keep learning rather than investing just in one language like people do in Proprietary world.
Given the audience, I'm surprised that this is the first mention of the Chord Buddy. I first saw it on Shark Tank (it's a helper on top of a real guitar that has you playing immediately, and removing the 'training wheels' one guitar string at a time).

I'd much rather something like this, which helps you learn how to play a real guitar...
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I run a net radio show with a live chatroom that is frequently trolled. "Troll hugging" really does work - it's amazing how fast a user can turn from troll to punter. My theory is they're bored and just want attention.

It doesn't always work. Some People Are Just Assholes.
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You do have to pay for air if you care what pressure it is at. Non-Sherpas will demand a refund of their ticket price if provided air at ambient pressure at 35000 ft.
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I don't hate it, but I have leaned away from hourly for a few reasons.

1. I prefer easing clients mind by letting them know how much they will be paying
2. I'm confident in estimating
3. I draw the line in the sand by making it clear that working outside of the contract is non-negotiable unless we mutually agree to revise/update it and the cost

Two exceptions. 1. They do not have a clear spec (or no spec). It will be hourly until that is defined. 2. Maintenance mode
Just think of what a service these people are doing to the world and to the government by raising awareness of data security issues :)
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America has a lower minimum wage than quite a few places so automation isn't as cost effective as in other places with higher wages.

Japan has loads of vending machines.

In Germany you can get cigarettes from vending machines.

Automated check out is similar.

With the continuing drop in the cost of scanners and computers it's hard not to see this kind of thing increasing.
It's worth stressing that while the c.l.t. gives a reasonable justification to using that algorithm for the mean, that justification does not extend to the median, which can diverge from the mean by as much as range/2. You'd need to be able to assume something like a connected set.
Instagram was worth $1 billion to Facebook, not in the abstract.
Why would "a more useful critique" be looking at pro-LEAP applications? Is it because this what you want to hear? LEAP is a bad idea, not bad due to software, bad due to the constraints of human beings.

You're literally arguing a logical fallacy by the way:
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Fires on planes are a little more serious. If not stopped quickly, they can spread through the space between the fuselage and the cabin, filling it with smoke. At altitude, they don't have enough oxygen to burn that well, but if it's spread far enough, as soon as you're on the ground the inrush of oxygen will turn it into an inferno in about two minutes (this is why manufacturers have to be able to show that the plane can be entirely evacuated on something like 90 seconds with half the exits blocked.)
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Pinterest's potential market is much, much bigger than Github's will ever be.
I'm all for empowering people to do useful work, but when you're empowering them to do stupid things that will have to be rewritten later, it's less good.
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I'm surprised that Github is taking on capital, they must have some pretty hefty goals in mind because my understanding is that they're quite profitable. It's like taking out a home loan after building your own home with your own cash and labour.

What would the repercussions be from taking cash from Andreessen Horowitz? Will the original Githubber's keep their control over the company? I'm honestly a little worried, but at the same time if they want the cash to expand and make Github better, then I am all for it.
1- Andreesen Horowitz isn't just any VC

2- They already avoided most of the problems of VCs by getting to profit.
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What does "[going] into enterprise" mean? Almost every fortune 500 company is using GitHub in some capacity. Isn't "[going] into enterprise" simply marketing jargon when you're talking about SaaS products like GitHub.
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I remember reading an interview with Pierre Omidyar (founder of Ebay) raised $5M from Benchmark, opened a separate bank account, and placed the $5M in there, untouched to this day because eBay was profitable from the very beginning.

He raised the money from Benchmark because he needed help recruiting executives to help run and expand the company. His recruitment efforts before that had been largely unsuccessful, and he openly admitted that no one took him seriously before he raised money.

Yes, the internet was a new and unproven phenomenon at the time, but there are other reasons to hitch up with a VC other than money.
Try using Bootstrap - there's plenty of resources for ensuring it no longer "looks" like Bootstrap.
re: #1 - Pinterest has dramatically more users and potential users. Will it be able to monetize them as well as GitHub? Hard to say without knowing the details.

The other factor is hype. Pinterest is the next hot social company and their comps are Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram. Easy to let your imagination go wild if you're an investor.

re: #2 - they would raise money to a) grow faster, b) acquire companies, and/or c) provide shareholder liquidity. b & c are self explanatory, so let's focus on a):

The wad of cash lets them hire faster. Let's say they have 70 employees today and they want to grow to 200 by year end (for enterprise support, for example). Hard to triple your salary expense that quickly if you're operating off cash flows. GitHub have a network-effect business, so why not lock-in every company on the planet as quickly as possible? It'll lead to a much, much greater profits in the long-run.

It's only worth the dilution if you expect your equity to be worth more than 1/(1 - n) [See PG's essay: http://paulgraham.com/equity.html]
i think the worst i've ever seen was people on slashdot saying unkind things about w. richard stevens after he passed away. apparently he preferred c to perl. of all people to disrespect, the abusive posters seem to pick the smartest ones.
If they're really looking to use the money to expand into Enterprise territory, I think it's a really different game.

I think the bootstrapped B2C game is ALL about saving money/not going broke. It's most accurately about making great decisions (it always is, at any level), but I think for what they were doing, that meant not spending. Their management/founders might have been great at that. I think it's very much an engineer's mentality, anyway.

However, B2B is a different animal, I think, and one that Tom Preston-Werner might not be geared to hunt -- at least not until someone turned him on to how much bigger GitHub could be. It's not cheap to get the attention of big companies, neither in pursuing them at all, nor in buying the people you need to pursue them -- engineers usually can't do this by themselves. You need veterans of _that_ game and it's a different game (at least from what I've seen).
Would love to see this done for "SaSS Apps" with the same approach - less "List of Doom".

Thanks for sharing your process...
Waving your hands in front of your computer is goofy too. :)

Gloves would give significantly greater control, flexibility, and functionality. Three examples:

1) Control: Since the computer is aware of my digits significantly more complex movements are possible. With two hands you'd have a ton of customization.

2) Flexibility: I can do all actions sitting comfortably from my chair. My arms don't have to leave the arm rests. Or, I can be across the room swiping through my media or photos.

3) Functionality: Fingers, or motions like raising a hand, could act like key commands. Want to submit a password? Turn your hand like a key. Want to refresh a page? Drum my fingers. Want to clear the screen? Slide my hand across the table. None of these would be possible with LEAP because each would be obscured by or outside of the field of view.

Similar tech seems to already exist in Microsoft's Kinect. It can also cover entire rooms, but would do so more usefully. And the technology is already there to identify human hands, skeletons, and faces.

I want amazing technology just like you, but we need to be willing to not trumpet bad ideas just because it could be cool given enough effort/marketing.
Oh really? I used TortoiseSVN for a long time, and switched to the command line when I switched to git. I can see why TortoiseGit kept the "revert" naming, but I disagree about the choice.
my take is different, it isn't the social interaction, but the craft. I pay for my drink to be made by a skilled hand (btw, I am not talking about starbucks - but stumptown).
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